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Peter Vickery
Peter Norman Vickery (1949/1950 – 26 April 2022 ) was an Australian judge. He was a Trials Division justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria and sat as a judge of the Commercial Court for Victoria. Prior to his appointment, Vickery was an international human rights lawyer and also taught at La Trobe University.
In 2017 the Recognition in Anthem Project was established and began work on a new version, with lyrics written by poet and former Victorian Supreme Court judge Peter Vickery following consultation with Indigenous communities and others. Vickery's proposed lyrics replaced "we are young and free" with "we are one and free" in the first verse, deleted the second and added two new ones; the second verse acknowledging Indigenous history, immigration and calls for unity and respect, and the third adapting lines from the official second verse. It was debuted at the Desert Song Festival in Alice Springs by an Aboriginal choir. Former prime minister Bob Hawke endorsed Vickery's alternative lyrics in 2018. In 2017, the federal government under then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull granted permission for Vickery's lyrics to be sung at certain occasions as a "patriotic song", but said that before making any official change to the anthem, "The Government would need to be convinced of a sufficient groundswell of support in the wider community". | WIKI |
James Neff
James Neff is an American nonfiction author and investigative journalist. He is deputy managing editor for the Philadelphia Media Network. His most recent work, Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa, was published by Little, Brown and Company in July 2015.
Early life and education
Neff is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has a master's degree in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
Neff was a reporter at the Austin American-Statesman and at the Cleveland Plain Dealer in his hometown. He was a local columnist at the Plain Dealer from 1981 to 1986. Some of his columns were collected into City Beat: Stories from the Heart of Cleveland.
His 1989 biography of Teamsters president Jackie Presser, Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI, was adapted into the HBO movie Teamster Boss.
In 1995, Neff's third book, Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist was published. This account of the investigation, capture, and conviction of serial rapist Ronnie Shelton, known in Cleveland as the West Side Rapist, was praised for its insight into the damage inflicted upon the victims of this violent man.
Neff was the Willard M. Kiplinger Chair in Public Affairs Reporting in Ohio State University School of Journalism and Communication from 1994 to 1999. In this position, he supervised the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting, an interdisciplinary year-long program awarding master's degrees to journalists who break from their careers for an intensive study of public affairs reporting.
Neff spent several years re-investigating the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case for his next book, The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case. He located police reports and grand jury transcripts from the 1950s that were previously unavailable. He concluded that Dr. Sam Sheppard did not kill his wife Marilyn in July 1954.
When, in 2000, Sam Reese Sheppard, son of the late Dr. Sheppard, sued the state of Ohio claiming his father was wrongfully imprisoned for Marilyn Sheppard's murder, county prosecutors in Cleveland, Ohio, subpoenaed all of Neff's research for his book in an attempt to shore up its case that Sheppard was guilty. The subpoena was successfully defeated with the help of First Amendment lawyer David Marburger.
Neff was interviewed on the cable program, "A Crime to Remember: The Wrong Man," a retrospective look at the Marilyn Sheppard murder which aired in December, 2015, on the Investigations Discovery Channel.
Neff has been a board member and past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) from 1991 through 2002. Through IRE, he has published several "tip sheets" for investigative reporters on finding information in a hurry, backgrounding, and finding and using archival documents.
In 2001, Neff became the investigations editor at the Seattle Times. In March, 2016, Neff was named assistant managing editor of investigations.
On June 1, 2016, Neff became the assistant managing editor for Investigations/Projects for the Philadelphia Media Network. In 2017, Neff was named deputy managing editor.
In 2016, Neff served on the jury selecting the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service reporting. In 2017, Neff served as chair of the jurors selecting the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
Personal life
James Neff lives in the Philadelphia area with his family.
Works
* City Beat: Stories from the Heart of Cleveland (Zubal, 1984) ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>557
* Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989) ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>441
* Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist (Pocket Books, 1995) ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>552
* The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case (Random House, 2001) ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>190
* Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>347
Awards
Mobbed Up, published by Atlantic Monthly Press (1989), won the Thomas Renner award from Investigative Reporters & Editors for the year's best reporting on organized crime.
In 1996, Neff was an Edgar Award nominee for Best Fact Crime Book for Unfinished Murder.
Neff was lead writer for the 18-part series, “The Terrorist Within", which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2003. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Alan Wilson
The result was merge to Tyler courthouse shooting. (non-admin closure) buidhe 05:48, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Mark Alan Wilson
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The victim of a "minor" by American standards mass shooting only notable for attempting to intervene. While his actions were certainly brave and his death was certainly tragic, since the names of the victims of much more prominent mass shootings (some of whom were shot while doing similarly heroic things) redirect to the page of the incident in which they were killed, I suggest this page be merged with Tyler courthouse shooting, which has a section on Wilson almost as long as his own article does. HawthOffHead (talk) 02:30, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (talk) 03:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (talk) 03:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
* Merge to Tyler courthouse shooting per WP:BLP1E and nom. Only notable for this event (and subsequent resolution honouring him, which was part of the same event). FOARP (talk) 07:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
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Talk:Autocollimator
Proposed merge with Electronic autocollimators
Hi. This article lacks citations and could easily be merged into the Autocollimator article due to this. Just a suggestion! SarahStierch (talk) 21:42, 25 June 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute
The Franklin Laboratory
The Franklin Lab Cardiovascular Research Team at CVRTI Fall BBQ
The Franklin Laboratory’s research is focused on the nucleus, DNA is wrapped around histone proteins (i.e. nucleosomes). This combination of DNA, histones and other proteins is referred to as chromatin. Both the DNA and proteins in this complex are susceptible to modifications which can alter the chromatin structure and consequently influence gene transcription. Changes in gene transcription can influence cell fate and physiology and have been shown to be altered in diseases such as heart failure. Because more people die from heart disease than any other pathology, the Franklin lab is interested in identifying the epigenetic factors that regulate gene transcription in the heart during disease progression. To do this, the lab uses a combination of proteomics, mass spectrometry, biochemistry and molecular biology to elucidate the role of histone isoforms, post-translational modifications and other chromatin binding proteins on chromatin structure and gene accessibility. Additionally, the Franklin lab also determines how these factors contribute to the regulation of heart morphology and physiology.
Investigating the Role of Chromation Structure in Heart Disease Image
Featured Publications
Transcriptional regulation by methyltransferases and their role in the heart: highlighting novel emerging functionality
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32822544/
we focused our analysis on the largest subgroup, that of protein methyltransferases, and present a newly emerging phenomenon in which 16 of these enzymes have been shown to play dual roles in regulating transcription by maintaining the ability to both activate and repress transcription through methyltransferase-dependent or -independent mechanisms.
Szulik MW, Davis K, Bakhtina A, Azarcon P, Bia R, Horiuchi E, Franklin S. (2020) Transcriptional regulation by methyltransferases and their role in the heart: highlighting novel emerging functionality
Reductive Stress Causes Pathological Cardiac Remodeling and Diastolic Dysfunction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695986/
Formation of new neurons (neurogenesis), maturation (i.e. dendritic and axonal development) and integration into the entire neuronal network are central for gaining the functional plasticity. While there are limited therapeutic options currently available for neurodegenerative diseases, healing chronically injured neurons is still challenging
Shanmugam G, Wang D, Gounder SS, Fernandes J, Litovsky SH, Whitehead K, Radhakrishnan RK, Franklin S, Hoidal J, Kensler TW, Dell’Italia L, Darley-Usmar V, Abel ED, Jones DP, Ping P. Namakkal Soorappan R. (2020) Reductive Stress Causes Pathological Cardiac Remodeling and Diastolic Dysfunction. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling.
Molecular architecture of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome protein 2-7-9 subcomplex
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31530639/
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetic disorder characterized by malfunctions in primary cilia resulting from mutations that disrupt the function of the BBSome, an 8-subunit complex that plays an important role in protein transport in primary cilia. To better understand the molecular basis of BBS, here we used an integrative structural modeling approach consisting of EM and chemical cross-linking coupled with MS analyses, to analyze the structure of a BBSome 2-7-9 subcomplex consisting of three homologous BBS proteins, BBS2, BBS7, and BBS9.
Ludlam WG, Aoba T, Cuéllar J, Bueno-Carrasco MT, Makaju A, Moody JD, Franklin S, Valpuesta JM, Willardson BM. (2019) Molecular architecture of the Bardet-Biedl Syndrome protein core complex.
The Franklin Lab Research Team
SARAH FRANKLIN, PH.D
Associate Professor
Katie Davis
Graduate Research Assistant
Marta Szulik
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Emilee Horiuchi
Lab Manager
Sam Hickenlooper
Graduate Research Assistant
Magnus Creed
Graduate Research Assistant
Ryan Bia
Research Associate
Kylie Beach
Graduate Research Assistant | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
#include "fabryka.h" #include int main () { ManagerFabryki manager; Fabryka * fabryka; fabryka = new Fabryka(); fabryka->dodajElement("Procesor", new ProcesorIntel("Core i5", 2400)); fabryka->dodajElement("Karta", new KartaGraficznaNVidia("GFX260", 2048, true)); fabryka->dodajElement("Naped", new NapedBluRay("BH10LS30Box", 8)); manager.dodajFabryke("Zestaw 1", fabryka); fabryka = new Fabryka(); fabryka->dodajElement("Procesor", new ProcesorAMD("Phenom II X4", 2000)); fabryka->dodajElement("Karta", new KartaGraficznaNVidia("GF9800", 512, false)); fabryka->dodajElement("Naped", new NapedDVD("iHAS624", 8)); manager.dodajFabryke("Zestaw 2", fabryka); fabryka = new Fabryka(); fabryka->dodajElement("Procesor", new ProcesorIntel("Core2Quad Q9650", 3000)); fabryka->dodajElement("Karta", new KartaGraficznaATI("HD5870", 512)); fabryka->dodajElement("Naped", new NapedDVD("SE-084F", 48)); fabryka->dodajElement("Naped 2", new NapedBluRay("BH10LS30Box", 8)); manager.dodajFabryke("Zestaw 3", fabryka); try { std::string zestaw = "Zestaw 3"; Element * procesor = manager.zwrocFabryke(zestaw)->podajElement("Procesor"); Element * karta = manager.zwrocFabryke(zestaw)->podajElement("Karta"); Element * naped = manager.zwrocFabryke(zestaw)->podajElement("Naped"); std::clog << procesor->opis() << std::endl; std::clog << karta->opis() << std::endl; std::clog << naped->opis() << std::endl; delete procesor; delete karta; delete naped; } catch (const std::exception & e) { std::clog << "Wyjatek : " << e.what(); } return 0; } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Maurice Davidson
Maurice Davidson (1883-8 November 1967) was a British chest physician and historian of several medical societies. He delivered the Fitzpatrick Lecture in 1952–1953 at the Royal College of Physicians. His books include one on the history of the Royal Society of Medicine for the years 1905 to 1955. | WIKI |
Brazil Edges Toward Bolsonaro as a ‘Last Resort’ Leader
RIO DE JANEIRO — By the time Brazilians were done voting Sunday, mighty power brokers had been tossed out of office, long-dominant political parties had been humbled, and a far-right populist suddenly looked like he just might be the most powerful man in the country. It was, in short, the most sweeping political shift Brazil had ever seen in a single election since democracy was restored in 1985. “What we are watching today is the collapse of our current system,” said Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, a political scientist at the University of São Paulo. The near-winner in the first round of voting in the presidential race was Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. He offered few detailed policies. But his draconian approach toward fighting violence — he would make it easier to for the police to kill suspected criminals and imprison more people for longer — appealed to many in a nation traumatized by rising crime, a dispiriting economy and a political class widely regarded as venal and unresponsive. Mr. Bolsonaro’s show of “discipline and strength” has attracted middle-class voters, said Thiago Aragão, a political consultant based in Brasília. “They treat Bolsonaro as a last resort, as someone who could contain the growth of violence in Brazil,” he said. When they embraced him, sending him to the second round with 46 percent of the vote, Brazilians sent an unmistakable message: They want a drastic course correction. And if a measure of authoritarianism is required, so be it. This is a shocking reversal for Brazil. When the country emerged from two decades of military rule in 1985, the population celebrated the end of a regime that had killed or disappeared 434 people and tortured thousands. In 2002 Brazilians elected as president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metal worker who rose through union ranks as he fought to bring down the dictatorship. He was followed in office by Dilma Rousseff, his handpicked successor and a former guerrilla who was tortured under the dictatorship. The Workers’ Party governed until 2016, when it was swept out of office after the impeachment of Ms. Rousseff amid a painful recession and a widespread investigation into graft that tainted much of the country’s political leadership. That series of traumas has made some older Brazilians look back to the military years with nostalgia — a sentiment openly embraced by Mr. Bolsonaro, who says he intends to name military officers to his cabinet. This is a huge shift in a country where the military has largely stayed out of politics for 30 years. Brazilians are not alone in their demand for radical change. Support for democracy in Latin America is at its lowest level in more than a decade, according to the pollster Latinobarómetro. In Brazil in 2017, only 13 percent of the population said they were very satisfied democracy — far below the average of 30 percent for the region. Elsewhere in the world, frustration with the status quo has fueled the rise of populists with open disdain for democratic institutions like a free press and an independent judiciary. As Mr. Bolsonaro and his opponent in the election, Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party, geared up on Monday for the second round of votes on Oct. 28, Brazil’s political establishment was struggling to make sense of the political earthquake that had just rattled the nation. Candidates affiliated with Mr. Bolsonaro performed far better than polls had suggested, an indication he could have robust support in Congress and among elected officials across the country if he becomes president. The Social Liberal Party, which Mr. Bolsonaro joined earlier this year to launch his presidential bid, became a behemoth overnight, expanding its footprint in the lower House of Congress from eight seats to 52. That makes it the second-largest party in that chamber, trailing only the Workers’ Party, which lost five seats. There was also shock over the success of a regional candidate who was virtually unknown until Mr. Bolsonaro threw his weight behind him in the last days of the race. Polls had suggested that the candidate, Wilson Witzel, a retired federal judge and military veteran running for governor of Rio de Janeiro, had no shot at victory over his better-known opponent. But with Mr. Bolsonaro’s backing, Mr. Witzel won 41 percent of the vote, more than twice his opponent’s tally. As they took stock of the new political landscape, political scientists and academics said Monday that the Bolsonaro phenomenon may have forever changed how campaigns are run in Brazil. Unlike rivals who had far more time on national television — which is awarded based on party size — and who bought polished ads, Mr. Bolsonaro ran a scrappy, inexpensive campaign powered mainly by social media. Supporters created hundreds of group chats on the messaging app WhatsApp, which the vast majority of Brazilians use, sharing campaign information, jokes, memes and conspiracy theories. Victor Piaia, a sociologist who studies political communication at the State University in Rio de Janeiro, said it was unclear how much the campaign had coordinated with chat groups. But he said it was clear it had played a role in steering the narratives and benefited from the platform’s message-amplifying effect. “This type of communication is less top-down,” said Mr. Piaia. “Everyone is the curator of their own content, and this makes the information distributed there more appealing.” Mr. Piaia said he was especially surprised at how successful the Bolsonaro campaign was in directing down-ballot votes. While other political parties were handing out pamphlets on the streets, it spent weeks distributing a message with the names of candidates it supported through WhatsApp groups. Among the biggest losers on Sunday were elected officials who have been embroiled in the far-ranging corruption investigation known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash. According to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, 47 politicians who have been charged with corruption, or are being investigated, were not re-elected. Among them was the president of the Senate, who is being investigated for corruption and money laundering, and a former governor and minister who was caught on a wiretap telling a colleague they needed to find a way to “stop the bleeding,” an apparent reference to the toll the corruption investigation was taking on the political elite. Mr. Bolsonaro’s promise to take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption has extraordinary appeal for some voters who have come to see their leaders as kleptocrats. But on Monday, some of the candidate’s supporters said fears that he could be despotic were overblown. And some suggested that law-abiding Brazilians need not worry. Adriana Giotto, 77, a retired lawyer, said she had no traumatic memories of the military dictatorship. “Those who are good citizens were not affected by the dictatorship in a negative way,” she said. “The dictatorship made mistakes and killed many people, but it was those who choose to live outside the rules of social harmony who set the stage for that to happen.” Carolina Cremonez da Silva, 31, said that kind of mind-set terrified her. “Bolsonaro legitimizes violence, authoritarianism” said Ms. da Silva, a psychologist. “He ends up getting many supporters because people are afraid. They are people who want that iron fist, that authoritarian regime, without understanding what that represents for society.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
/* * Copyright (C) 2002 Michael Niedermayer * * This file is part of FFmpeg. * * FFmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * FFmpeg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ #include #include /* for memset() */ #include #include #include #include "swscale.h" #include "rgb2rgb.h" #define SIZE 1000 #define srcByte 0x55 #define dstByte 0xBB #define FUNC(s,d,n) {s,d,#n,n} static int cpu_caps; static char *args_parse(int argc, char *argv[]) { int o; while ((o = getopt(argc, argv, "m23")) != -1) { switch (o) { case 'm': cpu_caps |= SWS_CPU_CAPS_MMX; break; case '2': cpu_caps |= SWS_CPU_CAPS_MMX2; break; case '3': cpu_caps |= SWS_CPU_CAPS_3DNOW; break; default: av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Unknown option %c\n", o); } } return argv[optind]; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i, funcNum; uint8_t *srcBuffer= (uint8_t*)av_malloc(SIZE); uint8_t *dstBuffer= (uint8_t*)av_malloc(SIZE); int failedNum=0; int passedNum=0; av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_INFO, "memory corruption test ...\n"); args_parse(argc, argv); av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_INFO, "CPU capabilities forced to %x\n", cpu_caps); sws_rgb2rgb_init(cpu_caps); for(funcNum=0; ; funcNum++){ struct func_info_s { int src_bpp; int dst_bpp; char *name; void (*func)(const uint8_t *src, uint8_t *dst, long src_size); } func_info[] = { FUNC(2, 2, rgb15to16), FUNC(2, 3, rgb15to24), FUNC(2, 4, rgb15to32), FUNC(2, 3, rgb16to24), FUNC(2, 4, rgb16to32), FUNC(3, 2, rgb24to15), FUNC(3, 2, rgb24to16), FUNC(3, 4, rgb24to32), FUNC(4, 2, rgb32to15), FUNC(4, 2, rgb32to16), FUNC(4, 3, rgb32to24), FUNC(2, 2, rgb16to15), FUNC(2, 2, rgb15tobgr15), FUNC(2, 2, rgb15tobgr16), FUNC(2, 3, rgb15tobgr24), FUNC(2, 4, rgb15tobgr32), FUNC(2, 2, rgb16tobgr15), FUNC(2, 2, rgb16tobgr16), FUNC(2, 3, rgb16tobgr24), FUNC(2, 4, rgb16tobgr32), FUNC(3, 2, rgb24tobgr15), FUNC(3, 2, rgb24tobgr16), FUNC(3, 3, rgb24tobgr24), FUNC(3, 4, rgb24tobgr32), FUNC(4, 2, rgb32tobgr15), FUNC(4, 2, rgb32tobgr16), FUNC(4, 3, rgb32tobgr24), FUNC(4, 4, rgb32tobgr32), FUNC(0, 0, NULL) }; int width; int failed=0; int srcBpp=0; int dstBpp=0; if (!func_info[funcNum].func) break; av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_INFO,"."); memset(srcBuffer, srcByte, SIZE); for(width=63; width>0; width--){ int dstOffset; for(dstOffset=128; dstOffset<196; dstOffset+=4){ int srcOffset; memset(dstBuffer, dstByte, SIZE); for(srcOffset=128; srcOffset<196; srcOffset+=4){ uint8_t *src= srcBuffer+srcOffset; uint8_t *dst= dstBuffer+dstOffset; char *name=NULL; if(failed) break; //don't fill the screen with shit ... srcBpp = func_info[funcNum].src_bpp; dstBpp = func_info[funcNum].dst_bpp; name = func_info[funcNum].name; func_info[funcNum].func(src, dst, width*srcBpp); if(!srcBpp) break; for(i=0; i | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The Reluctant Duchess/Part 1
ACQUELINE McMANNIS was walking down Fifth Avenue, busily engaged in hating her governess. It was one of those mornings in early October which make Americans so particularly offensive about their climate—that is to say, it was as clear as rock crystal, as bright as a Spanish shawl and as still as a church. Later in the day probably a wind would rise and great white clouds come ballooning up from the west, but now not a leaf stirred in the green-and-gold foliage, and jets of white steam and plumes of black smoke rose straight into the motionless air.
The Avenue was almost empty. It was too early for babies to be out, their perambulators spreading in magnificent insolence across the sidewalk. A few children were on their way to school; the boys—dangerous projectiles—flying along on roller skates; the girls leading long-haired white terriers that looked up at Jacqueline out of shrewd bright eyes and pranced a little, like small hobbyhorses, as an indication that the weather had gone even to their dignified Scotch heads. A few young men strode by with pipes in their mouths and soft hats well down on their heads, trying to perpetuate as clerks the traditions of their so recent college days.
Jacqueline looked down the long vista of the Avenue and felt that, with just one more breath of this fresh pure air, her feet might leave the ground and she go floating to school six feet above the earth, as in her dreams she so often did. A verse—for she secretly wrote poetry—began to form itself in her mind without any apparent assistance from her consciousness:
The inevitable hitch had arrived. “So very tall”—“so high.” “From thence a fay—or no, an angel—from those tall tops” Ah, there it was:
She felt excited and surprised, as every creator does; not at the beauty of the creation, but at the mere act. And then she became aware that Miss Salisbury was raising her eyebrows, flickering her eyelids and remarking, “Oh, this glare—this terrible glare!” In Jacqueline's ears it sounded as if she said “Glay-ah.” Instantly the girl became transformed. The look of peace left her smooth forehead, her brows contracted, her mouth grew sullen, and she said quite rudely, “Oh, you don't like the sun?”
“Oh, in moderation; one likes it in moderation,” said Miss Salisbury. “But not this glay-ah. The English climate is the only one. In England it is possible to be out-of-doors all the year round.” And Miss Salisbury sighed, recalling the equable moisture cf her native island.
“If you don't mind being soaked to the skin,” answered Jacqueline, a little hampered in her attack by the fact that she had never been in England and knew its climate only from hearsay.
“Better,” replied her governess, “than being alternately parched and frozen as in America.”
And so they fell to quarreling.
lt was quite extraordinary the number of subjects which these two found to quarrel about, besides these questions of manners and pronunciation about which every girl naturally quarrels with her governess. Last week, for instance, they had quarreled about whether or not George Washington was an Englishman. The worst of this discussion had been that Miss Salisbury, defending the affirmative, had had a good deal the best of it. Jacqueline had been obliged to shift to other grounds, such as the conduct of the Hessians during the Revolution, the burning of the city of Washington during the War of 1812, and the hostile attitude of the British cabinet toward the North during the Civil War. But even here Miss Salisbury did net yield, She regarded the Revolution as having been not won but conceded by a generous government, She seemed never to have heard of the War of 1812, and made it clear that she rather doubted its existence, while she remembered a great deal more about the magnificent friendliness of John Bright and the cotton spinners than she did of the insolence of Palmerston.
And only two days before this they had had a particularly bitter disagreement. At breakfast they had found letters—an English mail. Mr. and Mrs. McMannis had been spending the summer in England. Jacqueline, looking up from a short two pages from her father, containing nothing but a perfunctory description of St. Paul's, had heard a little cry from Miss Salisbury, who was engaged with a letter from Mrs. McMannis, longer and more closely written,
“Only fancy!” she exclaimed. “The Duke of Dormier is coming over with your parents!”
Everything about this announcement was repugnant to Jacqueline. In the first place they were not her parents, for Mrs. McMannis was her stepmother; in the second place, she noticed, and loathed, a certain note of tremulous excitement in her governess' voice, as if a duke were something of supreme importance; and third, she was bruised in an old wound at not having been told directly. She never was told. The butler, the chauffeur, Mr. Williams, her father's secretary, always knew the family plans before she did. But stronger than all these emotions was her aching humiliation at each fresh proof that her family—even her great democratic practical father—were subject to ambition which seemed to Jacqueline the most contemptible in all human experience—social ambition.
Besides which, she had heard the news already—had learned it most painfully on the opening day of school. A certain weekly publication which she was strictly forbidden to read—and in which, as a matter of fact, she took no interest whatsoever—had been smuggled into her hands by her friend, Lucy Traver, and the action had been accompanied by a giggle—a giggle Jacqueline could still hear. She had read the following paragraph:
“The Peter McMannises—we beg their pardon, the P. Leslie McMannises—are, we understand, even now returning to their more or less native shores with a certain great peer in tow. The McMannises, having failed to conspicuously to make good their social ambitions in these United States, have met, so we are told, with great success in England, where so little is expected of Americans except quaint speech and an ability to pay the bills. We understand that the enormous new Italian palace in the East Eighties—so strangely out of harmony with the background of the McMannises—is to be opened for a series of entertainments in the hope that many people will go there to meet a duke who have been obdurate heretofore.”
To be wroth with those we love is, as the poet has said, maddening; but to be ashamed of them is almost worse. Jacqueline dropped the paper on the floor by the simple method of unclosing her long fingers.
“Don't ever give me such stuff as that to read again,” she said severely.
“But is it true?” asked Lucy. “Are you really going to have a tame duke in the house?”
Jacqueline would not even answer. As a matter of fact, she did not know whether it was true or not, but she feared the worst. She knew only too well the joy it would be to Mrs. McMannis to bring home a duke, for the girl had a terrible detached clarity of vision. She had seen her stepmother's eyes lighten at reading her name in the right list of names, and had heard her father roll a great name under his tongue, telling a story that had no point except the friendliness of some foreign celebrity toward Peter Leslie McMannis.
All through the summer their letters from England had been full of a high clear note of triumph—yes, even her father's letters. Names were mentioned which one still in the process of studying English history could not help knowing were historic names. They stayed at castles in Scotland, steel engravings of which were in the edition of the Waverley Novels which Mr. McMannis had given his daughter the Christmas she was fourteen. They had even spent the night at St. Giles's Grange, where, as every child knows, Charles II had lain concealed in a secret room between the walls. Jacqueline felt an emotion of envy when she read the letter that described that visit. She longed to see the mysterious sliding panel and the tiny circular stair behind the chimney piece.
She could have understood an interest in the English aristocracy from this romantic, historical point of view. But her parents' interest was not like that, nor was Miss Salisbury's. So the girl had not taken the slightest notice of her governess' announcement, but had gone on reading about the dangerous condition of the dome of St. Paul's—a subject, it must be owned, in which she took no interest at all; and when Miss Salisbury exclaimed “Won't it be delightful?” Jacqueline looked up and said, “Won't what be delightful?”
“To watch the duke over here—to see what he thinks of it all.”
“Not to me,” answered the girl; “because, you see, I don't care what he thinks. Is he particularly clever, that we should want to know what he thinks?”
No, Miss Salisbury had never heard that the duke was brilliant. She said it as if it were hardly the function of the aristocracy to be brilliant.
So they had fallen to arguing. Whenever their conversation began, whether with English dukes or American weather, they always ended with an argument.
Now, as they passed the little round pond in the park, upon which already eager shipowners were launching their craft, Miss. Salisbury was asserting with calm finality, “As a matter of fact, England is a far more democratic country than the United States.”
“A queer kind of democracy that has a House of Lords, if you ask me,” replied Jacqueline, with a most irritating sort of crow in her voice.
“Better than a plutocracy—an irresponsible plutocracy like this,” said Miss Salisbury. “Our aristocracy has its recognized responsibilities.”
“What are they?” asked the girl. “Opening bazaars—isn't that it?”
“Charity is certainly one of their duties,” replied Miss Salisbury with dignity. “Upholding traditions is another.”
“How you all do bow down to them!” cried Jacqueline, feeling as usual a certain lack of first-hand information.
“Indeed, we don't make half such fools of ourselves as you do over here,” answered Miss Salisbury; and Jacqueline, conscious of her parents' ignominy, did not reply, but sank into a remoteness of sulky pain.
They passed the bust of Richard Hunt, late architect of the late Lenox Library. On that great pile of granite it was optimistically supposed that the sightless eyes of the bust would gaze as long as New York stood; but now, by one of those rapid changes so characteristic of Manhattan, those eyes are fixed upon a long low private house, the creation of quite a different architect.
Jacqueline glanced at the apartment houses and marble palaces about her—not a sliding panel or secret stairway in the whole lot probably. She began to plan a castle of her own, and by this means regained her inner poise before they turned east again and reached the Montross School.
At the door Miss Salisbury left her charge and returned to the McMannis house, secure of an uninterrupted morn- ing for that occupation upon which the British Empire has been so largely built—the letter home. Every week she wrote sixteen pages in her clear handsome handwriting to the Rev. Ethelbert Salisbury, rector of St. Margaret's Church, in a small Kentish village, where he lived with wife, two sisters and his remaining five daughters.
Meantime the locker room at school was filled with short-haired, straight-backed girls, big and little, from seven to eighteen—all engaged in snatching off their hats and coats and exchanging greetings.
“Done your algebra?”
“Haven't tried.”
“Is it true Grigsby has had a bob?”
“I thought not.”
“Who was that sheik you were with at the movies?”
“An uncle My cricks!”
“That's new, isn't it?”
“No; the old one with a new collar.”
“It makes you look just like that last picture of Constance's.”
“Oh, you dear, isn't she divine—simply divine?”
Jacqueline took off her things in silence and alone—she was a person of importance, but not exactly popular. She had two qualities which her schoolmates valued—beauty and maturity. Her beauty was obvious, a matter of deep-gray eyes, fringed with black, a little short face on a long throat—almost too long. But her maturity was harder to explain, for of course she had been protected from life by riches and comfort and nurses and governesses and an ordered routine; but that other protection—the irrational and unchanging love of parents—Jacqueline had not had. She had learned to judge for herself, to think for herself, to find methods of calming her own spirits, a technic of self-control that children who know there is always an adult bosom to weep upon never discover. She led her own inner life; which gave her preëminence among the other girls, who were all thinking and acting in instinctive accord with their families' wishes or in equally instinctive opposition to them.
The dark sullenness on Jacqueline's brow justified the greeting of her friend Lucy:
“Hullo, my little local thunderstorm, what's wrong with you?”
“I hate the English,” said Jacqueline. “I leave the house every morning enjoying the weather and my own thoughts, and I never get ten blocks before this rabbit-toothed creature whom my family have imported for me says something to enrage me.” And Jacqueline obliged with a representation of Miss Salisbury's enunciation, her slight difficulty in getting her lips to close over her projecting teeth.
Lucy enjoyed the show, but her mind was on something more serious. She had not as yet looked at her English poetry, which she was almost certain to be called upon to recite. “Puss-Puss is certain to call on me,” she said, thus referring to Miss Grigsby, she who was falsely reported to have had a bob, “for she's let me alone for a week. Put the great bean to work on that, Jackie, and see what can be done.”
Jacqueline nodded silently, meaning that she would give the matter her full attention during the opening exercises.
It was no empty promise. When the senior class in English Poetry since Pope—“And what's wrong with Pope?” as Lucy had inquired—took its place in the class-room, Miss Grigsby—alias Puss-Puss—had actually opened her mouth to say “Lucy, will you recite the first stanza of the Intimations of Immortality?” when Jacqueline's long thin arm shot up with her hand fluttering at the end of it like a tiny banner.
“Oh, Miss Grigsby, I do want to ask you something.”
Miss Grigsby had the sort of grateful affection for Jacqueline that every teacher has for a pupil who takes an independent interest in a subject. Jacqueline actually read more of a poet sometimes than the prescribed amount. She was allowed to go on:
“I heard a discussion the other day—awfully interesting. But is it true that no poet has ever been a good man?”
For a hasty composition, this was not bad—a teacher of English verse really was obliged to take note of this.
“I should rather say,” replied Miss Grigsby, smiling with a false sweetness which she herself was the last person to know was false, “that no great poet had ever been anything but a good man. Milton”
“was horrid to his daughters, Miss Grigsby.”
“We have very little evidence on that point. Tennyson”
“Oh, but not a great poet, Miss Grigsby.”
“There I disagree with you, Jacqueline—most humbly, of course.”
The girls' thoughts:
“Why does she try being sarcastic, when Jackie can write poetry and she can't?”
“How about Swinburne, Miss Grigsby?”
Swinburne was the curse of Miss Grigsby's existence. She admired him extravagantly; not only A Forsaken Garden and Proserpine but other poems less respectable. It annoyed her unspeakably that the modern generation did not care for him; yet what could she do? She could not go about recommending him to growing girls. She simply ignored the name.
“Except for the boyish peccadillo with Justice Shallow,” she said, a little less sugary than before, “we have in Shakspere”
“If he isn't really Bacon,” said Jacqueline reflectively. “If he is, why, then we know a good deal against his moral character.”
Nothing more was necessary, and Jacqueline sat back, conscious of a friend well served. Miss Grigsby explained that Shakspere was not Bacon—could not have been Bacon; the moral characters of the two men were so different. Could anyone imagine that the author of Hamlet had ever accepted a bribe?
Lucy, under cover of a rather large sleeve, was able to learn her verse very comfortably, before at last, in the final minutes of the period, she was called on to recite. The girls admired the art of Jacqueline's performance. Miss Grigsby herself was dimly aware of what was happening, but the Bacon-Shakspere controversy so maddened her, she could not have resisted replying even if the whole plot had been made clear to her eyes.
Lucy, full of gratitude, went home to lunch with Jacqueline. She was one of the friends approved of by the McMannises, and even Miss Salisbury, who had said, “I confess that Lucy seems to me to have been very nicely brought up.”
The use of “I confess” annoyed Jacqueline.
“Why should she confess approving of you, Lucy?” she demanded fiercely. “As if it were something to her discredit!'
Lucy, who had Dutch ancestors, was of a calm imperturbable nature, disturbed only by occasional attacks of the giggles. Her friend's deep though concealed storminess took her by surprise. They had met first as little girls at the Montross School. In the Roman History class, during some story of Roman courage, Lucy had observed that Jacqueline was crying. She looked at her in wonder and then whispered, “It isn't sad—he wasn't killed.”
To which Jacqueline had replied, “Idiot! If it were a sad story I wouldn't cry! It's his being so brave.”
To this day Lucy pondered over this incident without understanding it. The friendship was cemented by the fact that the next year Jacqueline, then eleven, had fallen deeply in love with Lucy's brother—an older man of eighteen—a college man; to speak accurately, a god. It began one day by Mrs. Traver's making him, much against his inclination, take the two children to the theater in her place. He was kind, but he did not allow them to imagine he enjoyed their society. He left them in the entr'acte, saying, “Now you two kids behave yourselves while I go and have a cigarette.” To Jacqueline this, like everything else he did, appeared romantic; and as the play was a romantic drama in which a beautiful young man disguised as an Indian maharaja stole jewels and maidens, only to return them unharmed to their rightful guardians, Paul Traver became inextricably enmeshed in her mind with romance. He did not directly address her during the afternoon, but Lucy reported the next day that he had said “The kid has great eyes.” Jacqueline lived entirely nourished by this for months. She even began a sonnet:
It never went very well. The necessity of “”gull”—sea gull, of course—with “beautiful” rather spoiled it as a sonnet.
Paul had been succeeded by a handsome young officer with only one arm, who gave a course of lectures to the whole school on the military history of the Great War, and then by a tenor at the Metropolitan, and then by a wonderful young violinist, with none of whom did Jacqueline ever exchange a word. For the next six years she hardly saw Paul, who went through the law school and the first years in a law office. Yet when they met occasionally a spark of the old fire would flash up again. The summer before this Lucy had told her that Paul was in love with her. The news created a distinct flutter, but not the wild surge of emotion that she had felt years before at hearing he had praised her eyes.
“He keeps it to himself,” she had answered, Lucy nodded.
“He probably would never propose to a rich girl—certainly not until he had made his own mark in the world.”
“How about the rich girl?” said Jacqueline. “It would be rather hard on her if she cared.”
Her interest was academic, but she saw that Lucy took it seriously.
But it wasn't about Paul that Lucy wanted to talk this day. She was profoundly interested in the idea of the duke. She wanted to question Miss Salisbury, but Jacqueline forbade it. Her governess would take it as a sign of American hysteria—the snobbish American interest in titles.
“And anyhow,” Jacqueline added bitterly, “what does it matter to me? I shall probably never be allowed even to speak to him. I shall be kept out of the way, as usual. My stepmother will contrive it somehow.”
But like many placid people, Lucy was persistent; and after luncheon, under pretense of looking up an article on William Blake in an encyclopedia, the two girls went down to the library to see what they could find out about the Duke of Dormier. Lucy knew that there was a book called a Peerage, and owing to the fact that the McMannis books were well classified and seldom disturbed, they soon found among the reference books that broad red-and-gold back.
The library was a beautiful room in dark paneled wood, lined from top to bottom with books. The whole second floor of the house was kept shut up during the absence of the elder members of the family, but when Jacqueline opened the inner shutters the afternoon sun came flooding in. The two girls sat down side by side on the window seat; and Jacqueline, more expert with books than Lucy, soon found the name the were looking for and began to read aloud, as follows:
“'Dormier, Duke of; Fitzgrady-Stewart; sits as Marquess—'”
Lucy gave a faint hoot at this—Lucy was by nature a giggler—but Jacqueline, endlessly capable of taking an interest in the printed page, began to feel something ancient and romantic and suggestive. She read on:
“'Patrick Albert Edward Shawmus Fitzgrady-Stewart, fourth duke and thirteenth baron, born July 2, 1850'”
“That's 'nuff!” cried Lucy. “The man is seventy-five years old. Let's go and do our Latin prose.”
“I don't care if he's a thousand,” answered Jacqueline. “Just listen to the things he is, Lucy: 'Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, lord lieutenant of the county and president of its Territorial Forces Association. J. P.' Do you happen to know what a J. P. is?”
Lucy absolutely declined to put her mind on the problem, and Jacqueline continued:
“Well, don't strain your mind, for if you knew what that was we'd then have to meet the problem that he's a D. L. too. 'Patron of seven livings, formerly lieutenant colonel and honorable colonel of the King's Own Seventeenth Balliecouchan (Civil Ser.) Light Dragoons'”
“You're making it up,” said Lucy.
“Flatterer!” answered Jacqueline. “'Was honorable equerry to Edward VII and president and gold stick'”
“I shall simply die if you go on!” cried Lucy, but Jacqueline went on:
“'Married, first, in 1880, died in 1888, the Honorable Pamela Georgina Sybil Pitts-Cave, eighth daughter of Viscount Bunbury of Brede; and second, in 1895, Lady Imogen Augusta Lettice'”
“Let me see!” cried Lucy. “Let me see if it is really there!”
“It is, and more,” said Jacqueline. “'Augusta Lettice Alice Leath-Meadows, fifth daughter of the eleventh duke of Clamborough, by whom he has issue.'”
“What an awful word for children!”
“I think it has a lot of style,” answered Jacqueline. “Shall I read on?” Lucy said no and Jacqueline went on: “'Arms: Quarterly, first and fourth quarters counterquartered; a fesse wavy”
“Come, come,” said Lucy, “this is going too far.”
“Well,” said her friend, “perhaps that bit is a trifle obscure. 'Seats'”
“Where he sits as a marquess?”
“*Seats: Fitzgrady Castle, Balliecouchan. Coney House, near Crumbelly, Hants, The ge, Bonny Brigg, Midlothian. Town residence: Dormier House, Grosvenor Square.' As a special favor, Lucy, I'll omit his clubs, which are simply thrilling, and pass to: 'Son, living: Thomas Aubrey Cecil Edward, Lord Fitzgrady, born May 25, 1897; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; was captain of Grenadier Guards and served throughout European war; wounded three times'”
Lucy, who had been counting on her fingers, now interrupted.
“That sounds more like it,” she said. “He's young.”
Jacqueline demurred a little.
“He's almost thirty,” she said.
“Better than seventy-five.”
They examined the date of the Peerage and found that it was 1918. They agreed that a good deal might have happened since then. Thomas Aubrey Cecil Edward might well have succeeded in place of Patrick Albert Edward Shawmus.
Before long, Lucy was called for and went away, but Jacqueline stayed, sitting on one foot, dangling the other, and staring down into what in space was a small back yard, but in latticework, marble seats and busts of Roman emperors was an Italian garden.
Balliecouchan Castle! That would have a secret passage, leading perhaps into a ruined abbey, a ruined tower with a stairway that broke off short like the stair in Kidnapped. And a ghost—a pale queen—a pale queen on a ruined stair that begins at naught and leads nowhere and vanishes in empty air.
Then she thought of a ballad about the young lord going away to fight, with fifty henchmen at his back, though she was not clear as to what henchmen were.
The library door opened and Miss Salisbury came in.
“Ah, there you are,” she said. “Doing your Latin prose, I hope.”
Jacqueline turned her head slowly and stared at her governess as if she saw her for the first time. She was coming back from distant places. After an appreciable pause she said she had not been doing her Latin prose. Miss Salisbury, after expressing great surprise at this, volunteered a piece of information:
“Your father's office has telephoned. I've good news for you. The boat will arrive about ten on Saturday morning.”
A cloud descended on Jacqueline's brow.
“Wouldn't you know it?” she said. “Of course they'd get in on a holiday, when a morning off doesn't do me any good.”
Miss Salisbury, not gifted with an instinctive knowledge of the human heart, was shocked at this example of filial cold-heartedness. She thought how she would have felt if she had had word that the Reverend Ethelbert was approaching these shores. She expressed her opinion that that was no way to receive news of her family's return. Jacqueline hardly heard her, She was thinking:
“Must he always wireless the office? Does he think I'm not old enough to read? Does he forget I exist, or is it that woman who won't let him admit that I am more interested in his return than anyone else?”
She thought about not going to the pier to meet them. And when he asked her at the house, as she kissed him coldly, “Why were you not at the pier, Jacqueline?” she would answer with dignity, “I had no knowledge that you were coming, father.” “What? Did not Williams let you know?” “Why did not you yourself let me know?” But then perhaps he wouldn't ask her. That was the worst of these rehearsed scenes—so often the other person did not ask the right question.
She went to bed resolved to administer this well-deserved rebuke to her parent; but when she woke up to another glorious clear morning she felt differently about the whole problem. She was so glad her father was coming home, and there was no question that it was fun to meet a boat. She had almost forgotten about the duke until she discovered that Miss Salisbury was in a flutter about him.
“Aren't you interested to see the duke?” she asked with quite a girlish enthusiasm.
Jacqueline turned a dark glance upon her.
“No,” she answered. “I can't say I am particularly interested in dukes.”
By half past nine they were on the pier. Miss Salisbury's long slender nose, which betrayed so many different intentions between the bridge and the tip, was a decided pink—just the shade that fresh air and excitement had put into Jacqueline's cheeks. The great vessel was already pushing its nose past the openings in the walls of the pier like some prehistoric animal looking into a cave.
Williams, Mr. McMannis' secretary, was there, talking to the reporters. Almost immediately Jacqueline caught sight of her father standing at the railing.
McMannis was rather a heavy figure in a large dark-blue overcoat. His hair was white for fifty. He was clean-shaven and the lower part of his face was thrust forward pugnaciously. He was a man who presented many manners to the world—a genial manner, a blustering manner, ancient business man's manner, a paternal manner. His daughter's heart gave a great bound and then seemed to melt with love at the sight of him.
One of her happiest—and perhaps least likely—dreams was that some day a real vital relation was going to be established between her and her father; not this smooth impersonal affection, but something honest and intimate....
Then, glancing a little farther along the ship's rail, she saw her stepmother, and her heart hardened again.
“New sables, if I'm not mistaken,” she observed to Miss Salisbury.
“And very nice too,” said Miss Salisbury; and then, fearing that this might be interpreted as an envy of American luxury, she added, “That is, if one can wear fur. I find wool keeps one warmer.” And she wrapped a striped muffler, brought her from Scotland by a friend, closer about her neck.
Standing beside her parents was an enormously tall man with a red face, a mustache and prominent blue eyes—a man more than twenty-eight and yet obviously less than seventy-five, unless there was some truth in the story of the vigorous preservation of elderly Englishmen. If that were the duke romance was dead.
A very young man in a high hat and cutaway rushed up to Mr. Williams and announced himself as a representative from the embassy to meet the duke. Jacqueline began to look sullen.
“Why must a duke be met?” she said.
“Of course he must be met,” said Miss Salisbury.
Her tone admitted of no argument; and so Jacqueline at once fell to arguing the point, which led to a more general argument on the subject of whether there was or was not an inherent right way to do things. This occupied all the time until the gangway was lowered and the passengers began to descend; and Jacqueline, forgetting her grievances, flung herself into her father's arms. She received a bright bland smile from her stepmother and was allowed to bury her nose for an instant in the sables. They smelled delicious, as everything about Mrs. McMannis always did.
Then she had a second to turn her head and look more closely at the third member of the party, who in a search for his keys was unbuttoning layer upon layer of slightly different tweeds, and saying, “Yes—yes—yes—quite—quite—your American customs—oh, yes—quite so.”
Then her father, holding her by the arm, as if she were likely to escape, said, “This is my little daughter. Major Pitts-Cave, Jacqueline.”
Not the duke! Good!
“Ah?” said Mr. Pitts-Cave, putting a lot of cordiality into the monosyllable. Then deciding it had been successful, he said it again: “Ah!”
A faint sound was heard from Miss Salisbury recalling her existence, and Mr. McMannis continued: “And Miss Salisbury, a countrywoman of yours.”
“Oh!” said Mr. Pitts-Cave, not quite so cordial, but still very nice indeed. “Oh!”
Jacqueline felt glad Lucy was not there—she would have giggled.
Mrs. McMannis looked about her.
“What's become of the duke?” she said.
So that was how you spoke of him, was it? Jacqueline looked about too.
“Hiding from your American reporters, prolly,” said Pitts-Cave.
At the time Jacqueline thought “prolly” was the name of an American reporter, but later was to become familiar with it as the English equivalent of the American word “probably.”
“Not on your tintype, Pittsy,” said the duke, and he emerged from behind the great bulk of his cousin's loosened outer garments
Jacqueline saw a slender and not very tall figure in a distinctly shabby tweed overcoat, with the collar turned up, and a felt hat not in its first youth, pulled well down, If she had looked down, she would have seen the most beautiful pair of brown boots which that fellow in St. James's Street had ever made, But she didn't look down; she looked up and saw a long narrow face, not at ail handsome, but delicately modeled—a job which it had taken several centuries to accomplish—a pale clear skin, a penetrating blue eye—enough to assure her that this was Thomas Aubrey Cecil Edward, and not Patrick Albert Edward Shawmus. Oh, no!
Her father laughed.
“Not on your tintype!” That's old stuff, Dormier. You can do better than that.”
“I learned it last night in the smoking room,” said the duke gently, “from a lad who called me Say-Duke, as if it were my name.” He turned civilly as a representative of the press approached him and said, “”Say-Duke.”
“Here you are, Pittsy,” said the duke, again slipping behind his cousin's ample back. “My cousin, Major Pitts-Cave—simply full of good things for the papers eager to tell you what he thinks of the Woolworth Building.”
The giant form of Pitts-Cave was instantly surrounded by notebooks and from the midst came the sound, “Ah—ah—quite—quite”
The valet and the maid and the secretary were left to attend to declarations and customs duties; and the McMannis party, as free from care and even from hand luggage as if they were stepping off e ferry-boat, moved toward the entrance of the pier. Jacqueline's heart was swelling within her.
She knew it would be like that—she had not even been introduced. If she had been a maid they could not have more completely ignored her. The duke must think she was half-witted.
Mrs. McMannis and Pitts-Cave and the duke and the young man from the embassy al! disappeared into one of the McMannis motors, and Mr. McMannis and his daughter and Miss Salisbury got into the other—the older car, driven by the second chauffeur.
“How handsome His Grace is!” exclaimed Miss Salisbury, and her voice shook with emotion.
“He's a nice young fellow,” said Mr. McMannis. “But I shouldn't call him handsome. Would you, Jacqueline?”
There was a chance and Jacqueline took it.
“I'm not sure I knew which one he was,” she answered haughtily.
Quite unnecessarily, they described him to her, while she maintained a baffling silence.
“His mother,” said Miss Salisbury, “was a celebrated beauty in her day—Lady Augusta Leath-Meadows. She came down to Shrewsbury-Crewe once as a bride to open a bazaar.”
“Surely,” said Mr. McMannis politely, “you can't remember his mother as a bride.”
“Oh, no,” answered the governess; “but my father has often told us about it—her graciousness and beauty”
For some reason the picture of the rector, with that same tremolo in his voice, describing to his children gathered about his knee the arrival of the young duchess to open his bazaar was repugnant to Jacqueline. She flung herself back in the car until her head against her father's shoulder. She felt a sudden need of her own country, her own family.
“Well,” said her father, “have you been a good girl?”
That was what he always did to her. When they were apart she could imagine herself pouring her soul out to him, telling him everything she had ever done or thought; but as soon as they were together he said something like this:
“Haven't you grown a little? Have you been a good girl? Have you been learning your lesson? Where are the roses in those cheeks?”—harmless, well-intended phrases which seemed to raise a partition like a wall of glass between them, through which she could see him without being able to communicate with him.
She attributed this in some way to the evil influence of her stepmother. It never crossed her mind that her father was embarrassed in her society. He loved her deeply, but he had an ideal of what a young girl should be; and this did not include her knowing anything, or feeling anything, or having anything to confide. He wanted her always near him. It hurt him to leave her, but it would have shocked him slightly to know that she had a turbulent inner life of her own. His affection for her was no more dependent on understanding her than a mother's love for an infant is chilled by the a that that infant cannot converse with her.
When they reached the house, there was no sign of the other party. Mr. McMannis moved toward his own office on the ground floor, but a reproachful “Oh, father, aren't you coming to sit with me?” made him change his direction.
“Oh, of course, of course,” he answered guiltily.
Jacqueline had a tiny sitting room on the third story, next to her room. The rooms of her parents were on the same floor, but in the front of the house. It was a pretty room, done over by Mrs. McMannis with faultless taste in pale blues and pinks, with old prints and aquatints in black-and-gold frames, and a gay chintz.
The girl pulled forward a comfortable armchair and put her father into it, and then herself sat down at his feet on the floor.
“Now,” she said, “we can have a good talk before the others get here.” And as she spoke, a despairing knowledge came over her that they had nothing whatever to say to each other.
He was not so clear-sighted.
“Yes, indeed,” he answered; “you must tell me all about what you did this summer.”
But there was nothing to tell. Of course, there had really been a hundred incidents each day which it would have interested her to repeat; but now she could not think of one of them.
She and Miss Salisbury had spent the summer at the McMannis place in the Adirondacks, swimming and camping and climbing mountains, She tried to say this, hoping that something would revive as she talked; but after a few minutes she saw that he was not even listening, and she did not blame him; what she was saying was dull. She broke off.
“But all that isn't interesting,” she said, “compared to what you've been doing and seeing. Tell me about that, father.”
He answered with a careful list of places and dates. In the middle a faint bell began to buzz. It was a private telephone in his own room, and he rose with an alacrity that did not suggest regret. When he had gone Jacqueline put her head down in the chair and cried. Why did she always look forward to his return when it was always like this when he came?
Perhaps one of the things that were wrong from Jacqueline's point of view—one of the things so difficult for a child to understand in a parent—was that he was still very busy with his own career, still excited and surprised and occupied by success.
He was the son of Irish immigrant parents. After a high-school education he had gone to work as a clerk in a small shop in a town on the bye of the West. There, in a moment of tribal generosity, he had lent one hundred dollars, carefully saved, to a fellow clerk who had come from the same county in Ireland. He had received in lieu of payment an interest in a building lot at the edge of the town. This consideration, apparently valueless, had turned out to contain the only sand in the neighborhood. By selling sand McMannis had been repaid many times the amount of the original debt. Hardly had the sand been exhausted when an oil fever struck the town, and McMannis had rented his lot for a high price to prospective drillers. The oil had never materialized, but by the time the excitement was over the town had begun to grow in the right direction, and McMannis sold his lot as a fashionable building site for the colossal sum of two thousand dollars.
On this capital he had married—married, like Napoleon, a little above him—a young school-teacher of good New England family. Unlike Josephine, she had the tact to die before McMannis' growing greatness rendered her a detriment instead of an advantage. His wild grief at her loss was a new element in his success. Hard work and speculation became his only distractions. By a combination of these he made his fortune, principally in copper stocks. He had been eight years a widower and Jacqueline was a child of nine, when, in the city of Mobile, he fell under the domination of his present wife.
She was a remarkable woman. Ten years before she had been beautiful, and even now, though nearing fifty, not a single line was written on that camellia-white brow—perhaps because, although she had been known to weep, she never worried. Her will and her beauty had carried her steadily upward without one stain upon her moral character.
Her career in its way had been more remarkable than McMannis'. As a young girl in a small Southern town, she had married a handsome shifty young lawyer and had pushed him into politics, until finally he was sent to Washington as a congressman. Here he behaved so badly, particularly to her, that, under the advice of her senator, she had little trouble in obtaining a divorce from him; and no one was astonished when a year later she married the senator, a man thirty years her senior. He died promptly and left his widow in a position to condescend to McMannis. From the moment of their meeting she became the dominant member of the partnership. It was not perhaps that she was cleverer than he; but she was clearer-sighted, unhampered by sentiments and tribal loyalties. Yet she was not unkind, except to those who stood in her path. She was just, and even generous. She had in all probability deliberately destroyed her first husband; but he was hardly worth saving; and she still supported his old mother—an obligation which he on his downward path had long since repudiated. She had made the senator perfectly happy during their brief marriage. Her care of Jacqueline was carefully thought out and wise—exactly what she would have given her own daughter if she had had one. But to a child who for the first ten years of her life had been neglected, but free, the succeeding years under Mrs. McMannis' routine had seemed nothing short of tyranny, and cold tyranny at that. She was the only person of whom the child had ever been afraid—afraid, as of some great engine moving slowly upon its appointed way.
She was frightened now, when, raising her head from the seat of the chair, she saw that her stepmother had come silently into the room.
Mrs. McMannis was one of those calm smooth women who look like blancmange and possessed of wills of iron. She looked all about the room now with a steady competent glance, and Jacqueline became aware that she had changed the arrangement of the furniture without permission.
“You've changed things,” said Mrs. MecMannis, and then added, “It's better—much better.”
Jacqueline was a little ashamed of breathing a sigh of relief. She had a right to arrange her own room her own way, she thought. Her stepmother's eyes flashed across her once and saw, the girl knew, that her eyes were red. Unlike her father, her stepmother saw everything.
Mrs. McMannis did not comment on what she saw. She said, “I've brought you some clothes—when the trunks come.”
It was useless to pretend that this was not good news—surprising too.
“Clothes?” she cried.
“Quantities,” said Mrs. McMannis; and then, as if she did not want to be questioned, she left the room as suddenly as she had entered.
So the girl was left thinking not about tragedy but about clothes. Those dresses selected by Mrs. McMannis would be right; Jacqueline knew that. But why had they been bought—and quantities too? Could it be she was to be allowed to come out this winter?
She wished that some of these new garments were already in her wardrobe. She wanted something beautiful and mature for the inevitable meeting with the duke at luncheon. Then certainly the family would be obliged to recognize her existence.
She stood in front of her looking-glass, staring into it with a stern concentrated gaze. Sometimes she could get a certain wave of the hair at her left temple, but the air was too dry and clear today.
When she went downstairs she found the duke had gone off to Washington with the young attaché and would not be back for several days. Jacqueline felt bored and flat, and threatened the duke in her own mind with never being able to rouse any interest in her again.
“It's rather a bore for the poor lad,” Pitts-Cave said civilly.
On Monday morning at school Jacqueline did not admit generally that she had not even spoken to him.
“What's he like?” she said, with a slight shrug of the shoulders. “About like every other pale thin young man you ever saw, only he speaks in a funny sort of way.”
“What do you call him?” asked one of the girls.
This, too, Jacqueline skillfully avoided.
“Well, his servant calls him Your Grace and my father calls him Dormier and his cousin calls him Tac, and I guess I shall call him just 'you.'”
But to Lucy she was more communicative.
“It isn't that I want to be introduced to the creature, or have anything to do with him,” she explained, “but it's so insolent to ignore me, as if she were ashamed of me. I dare say she is. I'm too American for her taste perhaps. Perhaps he hasn't even been told that there is a stepdaughter. It makes me feel like a fool that I have not even spoken to him. I believe she does it on purpose.” There was never any doubt in these conversations as to who “she” was. She added presently, as if Lucy were now to hear the very depth of human infamy, “She's going to have a party for him as soon as he gets back.”
“Maybe he'll never come back,” said Lucy gayly.
“Wouldn't it serve her right if he didn't?” said Jacqueline, and yet the idea was not entirely satisfactory to her either.
Lucy thought the party itself would be fun, but Jacqueline corrected her:
“Don't suppose, you poor innocent, that I shall be allowed down, to contaminate the festivities with my presence. Oh, no! I've known her to send up for Salisbury in a tight place, but never for me.”
Mrs. McMannis was putting into the arrangement of that dinner an executive genius which, if she had been a man, would have gone to the building of an empire or a business corporation. She knew very few people in New York—hardly any of those whom she intended to have at her party, for the detestable weekly had been right when it said that the social campaign of the McMannises in New York had been a failure. She knew none of these people personally; but by some instinctive perception she knew exactly which twenty-four people out of the million she must have about her table. More than that, she knew how to get them.
The first point was to prevent any of them first getting the duke for themselves. She was wise enough to foresee that each one of the ladies whom she was inviting to her party would attempt to give the duke a smarter, smaller party than hers, to which they would not dream of inviting her. She was safeguarded in this by Dormier's dislike of parties. He had given positive instructions to Pitts-Cave that everything was to be refused.
The preparations for this dinner were a long agony of humiliation to Jacqueline. She did not care so much to what depths her stepmother sank, but to see her father interested—even elated at some of the names on the list—that was intolerable. She stood scowling in a corner, with folded arms like a young Napoleon, at hearing him cry, “What? You are asking Mrs. Emden?” His wife nodded.
“Do you think she'll come?”
The corner of Mrs. McMannis' mouth moved upward in a contemptuous little smile.
“I know she'll come as soon as she finds she can't get at Dormier in any other way.”
“Has she tried?”
His wife waved toward the mantelpiece, where a bundle of letters and telegrams for the duke were standing.
“Five telegrams from her, Pittsy says. She's waiting to answer my invitation until she's sure.”
“I should be tempted to tell her I had filled her place.”
“I am tempted,” answered Mrs. McMannis. “But I need her.”
A new secretary had been engaged; a stout, solemn, middle-aged woman, who was recommended as knowing that most subtle and ephemeral of all categories—the social grades in the metropolis of a great republic. She had seen many new fortunes through their first social adventures and came prepared to advise and admonish. But a far wiser head than hers was in control, and she found herself permitted to do nothing but the routine work of looking up addresses and directing envelopes. She was amazed at the success of methods of which she often disapproved, and confided to a former employer that Mrs. McMannis was a great personality—almost a genius.
Two days before the dinner an evening dress appeared in Jacqueline's room. She walked in late one afternoon, and there it was extended on her bed, simple, shimmering, soft; the sort of garment a smart young archangel might have worn to a celestial garden. Jacqueline had wondered many times what had become of those quantities of clothes, but she was too proud and too alienated from her stepmother to inquire for them. But this dress, prone upon the bed, was not to be viewed without emotion.
She was holding it up at arm's length, feasting on it, when her stepmother and Miss Salisbury entered together.
“I think that's what she had better wear tomorrow night,” said Mrs. McMannis.
Jacqueline's heart gave a bound, but remembering her disapproval, she said, “I don't want to come to your dinner party, thank you.”
“Oh, dear, we are very indifferent!” said Miss Salisbury, rather foolishly.
“There are some silver slippers that go with it,” said Mrs. McMannis to Miss Salisbury.
“I tell you I don't want to come,” said Jacqueline. “Do I have to come if I don't want to?”
“And nothing in the hair,” said Mrs. McMannis. “No bands, you know.”
“Ah, no; so much more girlish without,” said the governess.
Mrs. McMannis did not answer this, feeling that it was not necessary for her to listen to Miss Salisbury's views on dress.
Jacqueline broke out as the door closed behind her stepmother. She hated her—she hated society—a lot of false people trying to knife one another—she wished she were free—she'd rather go into a convent or work in a shop—she'd like to go West and teach school as her mother had done—she hated the English—little grafting noblemen who took advantage of American kindness and generosity and thought they were doing you a favor by accepting your hospitality
Miss Salisbury, not unnaturally irritated by this description of a class she had been brought up to revere, from the lips of a young barbarian, was ill-advised enough to say at this point that the Duke of Dormier wass doing anyone he stayed with a great honor.
“An honor? What honor?” cried Jacqueline. “What has he ever done but be born? My father has done something in the world—has created a great company—a great fortune.”
“I don't say no to that,” Miss Salisbury began, but was interrupted.
“You can't,” shouted Jacqueline, “because it's true. My father is known all the world over for his ability; but if you took oer, this boy's title, what would he be? Nothing at all—no one! That's what your aristocracy is—a title and nothing else. And I won't be tied to his chariot wheels like Cleopatra! I won't come down to this dinner party!”
But, of course, she knew she would come down; more ignominious still, she knew she wanted to.
Quite independent of the duke, she had never been to a real party and she wanted to wear that white dress. | WIKI |
Réseau Morhange
Réseau Morhange ("Morhange network") was a French resistance group created in 1943 by Marcel Taillandier in Toulouse. The group organised direct action and counterintelligence against the German occupiers and collaborators of Vichy France.
The Morhange Group
The group was constituted of 82 agents officially engaged in the conflict against Nazi Germany. Morhange was a Counterintelligence organisation against the counterintelligence of the Gestapo and the Abwehr. In 1940, Commandeur Paillole was responsible for the counterintelligence services of the Vichy army. However he continued to work with the British services against the German intelligence Abwehr whose objective was to track down French resistance fighters. In November 1942, when Nazi Germany invaded Vichy France, Paillole fled to Spain before reaching London where he was welcomed by members of the Secret Intelligence Service before being transferred to Algiers. Paillole orders reached Marchel Taillandier who led the Morhange group and the French resistance in Toulouse against the German occupier.
Connections with other groups
The Morhange Group operated with other groups in the Toulouse area:
* The groups of Marie Dissard and of Albert Guérisse who hid and smuggled allied soldiers all across France into Spain via the Pyrenees
* The socialist group "Libérer Fédérer" of Silvio Trentin, an anti-fascist Italian.
* The VIRA group.
* The Franc-Tireur movement.
* Libération-sud.
* The Combat French resistance group.
* The Armée secrète.
The Lost Airman
Seth Meyerowitz in his book The Lost Airman (Atlantic Books, London) writes about his grandfather Arthur Meyerowitz, who was in the crew of a B-24 bomber Harmful Lil Armful during a bombing run over occupied France. The B-24 was badly damaged by German anti-aircraft 88mm cannons and Arthur parachuted out of his stricken plane over Nazi-German-occupied France, eventually escaping with the help of the resistance through Spain and Gibraltar back via Bristol, England to the United States. Arthur was indebted to many that helped him and the Morhange resistance, especially Marcel Taillandier. The book ends with 18 pages of carefully researched notes relating to France during the period December 1943 to June 1944. | WIKI |
Influences
Influences is the debut solo album by English musician Mark King, singer and bass player with Level 42. It was released by Polydor Records in July 1984.
The album features a cover of the song "I Feel Free" by Cream, which was released as a single. King played most of the instruments on the album. Guest musicians include Level 42 keyboardist Mike Lindup and Drummie Zeb from Aswad, the latter of whom played drums on "Clocks Go Forward".
The album charted at number 77 in the UK.
Track listing
* 1) "The Essential" (Mark King) – 18:32
* 2) "Clocks Go Forward" (Mark King, R. Gould) – 5:20
* 3) "I Feel Free" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) – 4:37
* 4) "Pictures on the Wall" (Mark King, R. Gould) – 4:51
* 5) "There Is a Dog" (Mark King) – 6:26
Personnel
* Mark King – vocals, basses, guitar, keyboards, percussion and drums
* Mike Lindup – Fender Rhodes, Yamaha DX7 and backing vocals
* Gary Barnacle – electric sax, saxophone and flute
* Steve Sidwell – trumpet
* Adrian Lee – Wave PPG synthesiser
* Drummie – drums on "Clocks Go Forward"
* Bruce Dukov – violins
* Francis Mitchell – cello
* Mike Vernon, Jeremy Green and Linda Richardson – the choir on "The Essential" | WIKI |
puntina
Noun
* 1) drawing pin
* 2) needle, stylus (on a record player)
* 3) points (in an engine)
Etymology
Diminutive of. | WIKI |
Steve Marriott discography
Steve Marriott (1947–1991) was a successful and versatile English blue-eyed soul, singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his uniquely powerful voice and aggressive guitar in groups Small Faces (1965–1969) and Humble Pie (1969–1975). In England, Marriott became a popular often photographed mod style icon through his role as lead singer and guitarist with the Small Faces in the mid to late sixties. Marriott's music was influenced from an early age by his heroes Buddy Holly, Booker T & the MG's, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and later the Rolling Stones. Marriott posthumously received an Ivor Novello Award in 1996 for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music and listed in Mojo magazine (sister magazine to Q) as one of the top 100 greatest singers of all time.
Pre-Small Faces single
* 1) "Give Her My Regards"/"Imaginary Love" (Label Decca) 7" released 1963
Post-Humble Pie singles
* 1) "Star in my Life"/"Midnight Rolling" (Label:A&M) 7" Released:1976
* 2) "Star in my Life"/"East Side Strutting" (Label:A&M) 7" Released:1976 Netherlands
* 3) "Star in my Life" (one side mono/one side stereo) (Label:A&M) 7" Released:1976 USA
* 4) "Lookin' for a Love"/"Kayoed by Love" (Label:Atlantic) 7" Released:1977 - Small Faces MK II
* 5) "Stand by Me (Stand by You)"/"Hungry and Looking" (Label:Atlantic) 7" Released:1977 – Small Faces MK II
* 6) "Filthy Rich"/"Over too Soon" (Label:Atlantic) 7" Released:1978 – Small Faces MK II
* 7) "Whatcha Gonna Do About It"/"All Shook Up" (Label:Aura) 7" Released:1985 – Packet of Three
* 8) "All or Nothing"/"Clapping Song" (Label:Possum) 7" Released:1989 Australia
* 9) "The Um Um Um Um Um Song (The Um Um Song)"/"I Never Loved a Woman (The Way I Love You)" (Label:Trax) 7" Released:1989
* 10) "Poll Tax Blues" (Label:Celtic) 7" (Released:1990) – The Pollcats
Steve Marriott Interview
Released: 2002 MOLCD45 Rare interview with Steve Marriott conducted in April 1976.
References/Notes
Notes:
References:
* Paolo Hewitt John Hellier (2004). Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN 1-900924-44-7.
* Paolo Hewitt/Kenney Jones (1995) small faces the young mods' forgotten story – Acid Jazz ISBN 0-9523935-0-6 | WIKI |
User:Peter Bright
Peter Bright
Welcome.
Peter Bright on occasion contributes content to Wikipedia.
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Suguru Ino
Suguru Ino (井野 卓) is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, Yomiuri Giants and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
On November 2, Ino announced his retirement. | WIKI |
Devil's Triangle Wikipedia page changed during Kavanaugh hearing
During Thursday's emotional hearing with Brett Kavanaugh, the Wikipedia page for Devil's Triangle briefly changed to reflect the Supreme Court nominee's answer. The hearing about the sexual assault allegations Christine Blasey Ford brought against Kavanaugh prompted a line of questions about Kavanaugh's high school behavior. Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Kavanaugh a series of questions about "Devil's Triangle," because the term is mentioned in Kavanaugh's senior high school yearbook. When asked, what it meant, Kavanaugh said it was a "drinking game" played with "three glasses in a triangle." Whitehouse asked an unamused Kavanaugh to expand. "You ever played quarters?" asked Kavanaugh. "No," said Whitehouse. "OK, it's a quarters game," said Kavanaugh. In the drinking game of quarters, players bounce 25-cent pieces off of a table into cups of beer. As the conversation continued, people began searching for more on the reported drinking game. Most searches refer to the term as another name for the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where some ships and airplanes have disappeared. Soon, the Wikipedia page for Devil's Triangle had a new definition: "a popular drinking game enjoyed by friends of judge Brett Kavanaugh." The entry was later removed, and at least one revision appears removed from the public archives. Another entry on the Wikipedia page showing a history of revisions reads: "Do not add the hoax about a 'drinking game,' especially as related by Brett Kavanaugh." Wikipedia also lists TV episodes, songs, a short story and a few games that have been titled Devil's Triangle. It also lists the slang term for Devil's Triangle, which is sexual in nature. Attorney Michael Avenatti has suggested the term in Kavanaugh's yearbook was related to sexual behavior. Thursday, Kavanaugh again strongly denied all sexual assault allegations against him, saying he never attending the gathering Ford described. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Object Lifetime View
Object Lifetime View
The Object Lifetime view is available when Also collect .NET object lifetime data is checked on the Performance Session property pages.
The garbage collector of the .NET Framework manages the allocation and release of memory for your application. To optimize the performance of the garbage collector, the managed heap is divided into three generations: 0, 1, and 2. The garbage collector of the runtime stores new objects in generation 0. Objects that survive collections are promoted and stored in generations 1 and 2.
The garbage collector reclaims memory by deallocating a whole generation of objects. For objects that were created by the profiled application, the Object Lifetime view displays the number and size of the objects and the generation in which they are reclaimed.
Column
Description
Class Name
The class name of the allocated type.
Process ID
The process ID of the profiling run.
Process Name
The name of the process.
Module Name
The name of the module that contains the function.
Module Path
The path of the module that contains the function.
Instance data indicates the number of objects of the type that were created in the profiling run, and the generation in which the objects were deallocated by the garbage collector.
Column
Description
Instances
The number of allocations of objects of this type.
Total Instances %
The percentage of the total number of allocations that were made in the profiling run.
Gen 0 Instances Collected
The number of instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 0 of the garbage collection algorithm.
Gen 1 Instances Collected
The number of instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 1 of the garbage collection algorithm.
Gen 2 Instances Collected
The number of instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 2 of the garbage collection algorithm.
Instances Alive At End
The number of instances of the type that were not deallocated until the end of the profiling run.
Size (byte) data indicates the size of objects of the type that were created in the profiling run, and the amount of memory that was reclaimed in each generation in which the objects were deallocated.
Column
Description
Total Bytes Allocated
The total number of bytes for all instances of the type.
Total Bytes %
The percentage of the total number of allocated bytes in the profiling run that were allocated for the instances of this type.
Gen 0 Bytes Collected
The size of the instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 0 of the garbage collection algorithm.
Gen 1 Bytes Collected
The size of the instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 1 of the garbage collection algorithm.
Gen 2 Bytes Collected
The size of the instances of the type that were deallocated in generation 2 of the garbage collection algorithm.
The .NET memory allocator manages very large objects in a location that is separate from the standard managed heap. Large object heap data indicates the number and size of objects of the type that were managed in this location.
Column
Description
Large Object Heap Instances Collected
The number of instances of this type that were located in the large object heap and that were collected in the profiling run.
Large Object Heap Bytes Collected
The size, in bytes, of the instances of this type that were located in the large object heap and that were collected in the profiling run.
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Effects of Body Mass Index on Outcome Measures of the Patients with Penetrating Injuries; A Single Center Experience
Farris Serio, Quinn Fujii, Keval Shah, Andrew McCague
Abstract
Objective: To determine if there was any decrease in measures of injury severity or outcome with obese patients (body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2) as compared to non-obese patients (body mass index less than 30 kg/m2).
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the trauma database maintained by Natividad Medical Center's Level 2-Trauma program. From July 1st, 2014 to July 1st, 2017 there were 371 cases of penetrating trauma in adults between the ages of 18-80 years old. Overall 311 patients had BMI data recorded. We divided these 311 patients into two groups: penetrating injury due to firearm (n= 198) and penetrating injury due to stabbing or piercing (n=113). We compared non-obese patients against obese patients for age, gender, Injury Severity Score (ISS), length of stay (LOS), Intensive Care Unit LOS, units of blood given, direct transfer from ED to operating room, and mortality.
Results: A total of 311 patients were included in the study, 198 (63.6%) patients suffered from gunshot wounds and 113 (36.4) from stab or piercing wounds. The mean age was 33.6 ± 12.8 and there were 283 (91%) men among the victims. Overall 87 (28%) required emergent surgery and a 19 (6.1%) mortality rate was recorded. In the gunshot wound group there was no significant difference between non-obese and obese patients for age (p=0.400), gender (p=0.900), ISS (p=0.544), LOS (p=0.273), Intensive Care Unit LOS (p=0.729), units of blood given (p=0.300), or mortality (p=0.855). We found that in the stab or piercing group there was no significant difference between non-obese and obese patients for age (p=0.900), gender (p=0.900), ISS (p=0.580), LOS (p=0.839), Intensive Care Unit LOS (p=0.305), units of blood given (p=0.431), or mortality (p=0.321).
Conclusion: Our findings indicate that in our patient population, there was no significant difference in markers of injury severity, morbidity, or mortality in adult non-obese patients as comparted with obese patients. Furthermore, there was no significant difference between the two groups in operative rates, suggesting that obesity may not confer a protective effect in penetrating trauma.
Keywords
Trauma; Obesity; Penetrating injury; Gunshot injury; Stab wound; Risk factors
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Kneel to the Prettiest
Kneel to the Prettiest may refer to:
* Kneel to the Prettiest, a 1925 novel by Berta Ruck
* The Looking-Glass, a 1943 novel by William March, originally titled Kneel to the Prettiest | WIKI |
The number of genes having different alleles between rice cultivars estimated by SNP analysis
Kenta Shirasawa, Hiroaki Maeda, Lisa Monna, Sachie Kishitani, Takeshi Nishio
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
16 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a large number of genes will enable estimation of the number of genes having different alleles in a population. In the present study, SNPs between 21 rice cultivars including 17 Japanese cultivars, one upland rice, and three indica cultivars were analyzed by PCR-RF-SSCP. PCR-RF-SSCP analysis was found to be a more efficient method for detecting SNPs than mismatch-cleavage analysis, though both PCR-RF-SSCP and mismatch-cleavage are useful for screening SNPs. The number of DNA fragments showing polymorphism between Japanese cultivars was 134 in the 1,036 genes analyzed. In 137 genes, 638 DNA polymorphisms were identified. Out of 52 genes having polymorphisms in the exons, one had a frame-shift mutation, three had polymorphism causing amino acid insertions or deletions, and 16 genes had missense polymorphisms. The number of genes having frame-shift mutations and missense polymorphisms between the 17 Japanese cultivars was estimated to be 41 and 677 on average, respectively, and those between japonica and indica to be 425 and 6,977, respectively. Chromosomal regions of cultivars selected in rice breeding processes were identified by SNP analysis of genes.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1067-1074
Number of pages8
JournalTheoretical and Applied Genetics
Volume115
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007 Nov 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Agronomy and Crop Science
• Horticulture
• Plant Science
• Genetics
• Genetics(clinical)
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Author Topic: Average color (Read 172 times)
Hi!
Is there a function for getting the average color of an image? It's quite resource intensive to blur it an insane amount.
Furthermore, can I get the average color within a mask?
Thanks
"Better than some, no worse than others."
To get the average color set the output size of your image to 1 pixel.
That's god damn genius. I guess I should be getting in the habit of downscaling for blurs anyway. Thanks a lot!
"Better than some, no worse than others."
No problem. I also found a way to get average colors within a mask working by translating the method described on stackoverflow to SD:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46907736/how-to-find-out-the-average-color-rgb-of-masked-area-of-an-image
Kudos to fmw42!
Now for the result:
We can have the average color of the masked area and it's inversion.
Increasing and decreasing the mask shape size:
Additionally, with a switch one could blend the input image and the averaged results together, if desired.
Grayscale version would be no problem either.
I do get the same result as you with this setup, so it's been super helpful. Both the mask and inverse mask behave as expected.
However, when I try to sample areas of an image, it seems to fall flat. Here I am generating masks for six different luminance values in the image. You'd expect the average color of each sample to get progressively lighter, but they don't:
And to confirm with a bit of a resource intensive solution, here is the same setup with another masking method:
Can you tell what's going on here? To me it seems like the mask isn't registering, and it's averaging the whole image.
"Better than some, no worse than others."
I whipped up a node and it seems to work fine here. Can you check with my node?
https://mega.nz/#!IVxVyAKC!hCim8DRCk7V7S7pFXZvkRfVt7s5cuXQHyLFyXjUDpYw
Last Edit: March 17, 2019, 03:51:44 pm
you can also use the transform nodes mipmap settings. same result really, so unless you absolutely do not want to deal with node sizes after the 1x1 there is not really any reason to use that approach over the 1x1 px node
The finished node is now on substance share: https://share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/5258
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Tavazzano con Villavesco
Tavazzano con Villavesco (Lodigiano: Tavasàn cun Vilavésch) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km southeast of Milan and about 9 km northwest of Lodi.
Tavazzano con Villavesco borders the following municipalities: Mulazzano, Casalmaiocco, Lodi, Montanaso Lombardo, Sordio, San Zenone al Lambro and Lodi Vecchio. It is served by Tavazzano railway station. | WIKI |
Talk:HDMS Niels Juel (1918)/GA1
GA Review
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Reviewer: Peacemaker67 (talk · contribs) 08:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
This article is in good shape. I have a few comments: That's me done, placing on hold for the above comments to be addressed. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:30, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
* I've made a few tweaks, feel free to revert or further improve
* HDMS needs some sort of explanation/note. What does it stand for? Perhaps something like what is commonly done for SMS?
* should Nordland be bolded in the lead as an alternative name?
* I never bother.
* suggest "Like the preceding that class" if that is what is being referred to.
* "but was intended" is but the right word here? Perhaps "and"?
* "eight 10.5-centimeter (4.1 in) guns?
* "the main armament to 15-centimeter"?
* displacement doesn't match between infobox and body
* 50 millimeter s
* 10–20 millimeter s
* link flagship at first mention in the body
* add a sentence explaining what happened with her between the German invasion and 1943
* Source doesn't say other than she was training in 1943.
* File:Niels Juel artilleriskib 1923-1943.jpg needs a publication date for the US PD tag
* same for File:Niels Juel (1918) Plan.jpg
* same for File:Niels Juel 1918 420.jpg
* same for File:Niels Iuel attacked by German planes 29 August 1943.jpg
* same for File:Nordland.jpg
* Shit, I always forget that I need to meet all three bullet requirements for the URAA license. I'm gonna claim though that the diagram, as a government doc, doesn't need to be formally published, so we have to use date of creation which was, I suspect, was around 1922.
* Everything done except the pics which I'll do shortly. Thanks for the thorough review.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:37, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
* Found a good pic.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:27, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
* Great, those images look fine now. This article is well-written, verifiable using reliable sources, covers the subject well, is neutral and stable, contains no plagiarism, and is illustrated by appropriately licensed images with appropriate captions. Passing. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 00:21, 27 August 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Helli Stehle
Notability
I am happy for her she is going to be 110 in December. made it to 109 years and three quarters but that alone does not make her notable. Her career as described in her article on Wikipedia, most assuredly does not make her notable. As far as her references:
IMDb is not considered a reliable source per se and cannot be the only source for any article, although a link to it is placed in the article of every individual who has an entry there. Stehle has all of two credits but to be fair I have seen entries on IMDb for people who don't even have any credits at all!! *Todesanzeigen, this German language article does not seem to contain an obituary as it was originally captioned, translates to "Obituaries" but only contains names and dates/places of birth and death for a list of names. Stehle's read as follows: Stehle, Helene Louise von Basel/BS 06.12.1907 - 27.08.2017 Mittlere Str. 15, Basel wurde bestattet. This does not remotely indicate notability. The other two links are in German, and while this does not disqualify them, without a translation their importance has yet to be determined. I will check German Wikipedia and see if there is an article on Helli Stehle, and, if so, I'll add a transclusion hatnote. Quis separabit? 14:23, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
* Erste Radiosprecherin der Schweiz feiert ihren 100. Geburtstag
* Helli Stehle IMDb
* Eine Radiopionierin feiert ihren 109. Geburtstag telebasel
* Todesanzeigen
* Hatnote added. Removed notability tag based solely on substantive-looking article in German-language Wikipedia. Added reflinks from German language article (all are in German, naturally). Quis separabit? 14:36, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
* @Derek R Bullamore -- thanks! Quis separabit? 14:44, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Name Change
Can we change the name of this article to Helene Stehle as Helli was just a nickname?--Dorglorg (talk) 21:52, 29 August 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
From dc0556443541d2825cb507a70161128aaaf0a559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rico Lin Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 01:16:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add traits for viommu model * Add iommu model trait for viommu model * Add ``hw_viommu_model`` to request_filter, this will extend the transform_image_metadata prefilter to select host with the correct model. * Provide new compute ``COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_*`` capablity trait for each model it supports in driver. Implements: blueprint libvirt-viommu-device Depends-On: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/os-traits/+/844336 Change-Id: I2caa1a9c473a2b11c287061280b4a78edb96f859 --- nova/scheduler/request_filter.py | 1 + nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_config.py | 3 ++- nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py | 20 +++++++++++++---- nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/nova/scheduler/request_filter.py b/nova/scheduler/request_filter.py index 2a701facb5a1..bf5c32f37201 100644 --- a/nova/scheduler/request_filter.py +++ b/nova/scheduler/request_filter.py @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ def transform_image_metadata(ctxt, request_spec): 'hw_vif_model': 'COMPUTE_NET_VIF_MODEL', 'hw_architecture': 'HW_ARCH', 'hw_emulation_architecture': 'COMPUTE_ARCH', + 'hw_viommu_model': 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU', } trait_names = [] diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_config.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_config.py index 6cc67fba54b0..c4c9359dd838 100644 --- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_config.py +++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_config.py @@ -4156,7 +4156,8 @@ class LibvirtConfigDomainCapsDevicesTests(LibvirtConfigBaseTest): obj.parse_str(xml) # we only use the video and disk devices today. device_types = [config.LibvirtConfigDomainCapsDiskBuses, - config.LibvirtConfigDomainCapsVideoModels] + config.LibvirtConfigDomainCapsVideoModels, + ] # so we assert there are only two device types parsed self.assertEqual(2, len(obj.devices)) # we then assert that the parsed devices are of the correct type diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py index 1b349205ccab..bbd4a9a20fac 100644 --- a/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py +++ b/nova/tests/unit/virt/libvirt/test_driver.py @@ -961,9 +961,10 @@ class LibvirtConnTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase, @mock.patch.object(libvirt_driver.LibvirtDriver, '_get_storage_bus_traits') @mock.patch.object(libvirt_driver.LibvirtDriver, '_get_video_model_traits') @mock.patch.object(libvirt_driver.LibvirtDriver, '_get_vif_model_traits') + @mock.patch.object(host.Host, "has_min_version") def test_static_traits( - self, mock_vif_traits, mock_video_traits, mock_storage_traits, - mock_cpu_traits, + self, mock_version, mock_vif_traits, mock_video_traits, + mock_storage_traits, mock_cpu_traits, ): """Ensure driver capabilities are correctly retrieved and cached.""" @@ -974,14 +975,21 @@ class LibvirtConnTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase, mock_video_traits.return_value = {'COMPUTE_GRAPHICS_MODEL_VGA': True} mock_vif_traits.return_value = {'COMPUTE_NET_VIF_MODEL_VIRTIO': True} + # for support COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_VIRTIO + mock_version.return_value = True + drvr = libvirt_driver.LibvirtDriver(fake.FakeVirtAPI(), False) expected = { - 'HW_CPU_HYPERTHREADING': True, - 'COMPUTE_STORAGE_BUS_VIRTIO': True, 'COMPUTE_GRAPHICS_MODEL_VGA': True, 'COMPUTE_NET_VIF_MODEL_VIRTIO': True, 'COMPUTE_SECURITY_TPM_1_2': False, 'COMPUTE_SECURITY_TPM_2_0': False, + 'COMPUTE_STORAGE_BUS_VIRTIO': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_AUTO': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_INTEL': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_SMMUV3': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_VIRTIO': True, + 'HW_CPU_HYPERTHREADING': True } static_traits = drvr.static_traits @@ -1027,6 +1035,10 @@ class LibvirtConnTestCase(test.NoDBTestCase, 'COMPUTE_NET_VIF_MODEL_VIRTIO': True, 'COMPUTE_SECURITY_TPM_1_2': False, 'COMPUTE_SECURITY_TPM_2_0': False, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_AUTO': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_INTEL': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_SMMUV3': True, + 'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_VIRTIO': False } static_traits = drvr.static_traits diff --git a/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py b/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py index cf3c4464e8b3..252d7d027bdb 100644 --- a/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py +++ b/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py @@ -8922,6 +8922,7 @@ class LibvirtDriver(driver.ComputeDriver): traits.update(self._get_storage_bus_traits()) traits.update(self._get_video_model_traits()) traits.update(self._get_vif_model_traits()) + traits.update(self._get_iommu_model_traits()) traits.update(self._get_tpm_traits()) _, invalid_traits = ot.check_traits(traits) @@ -12198,6 +12199,30 @@ class LibvirtDriver(driver.ComputeDriver): in supported_models for model in all_models } + def _get_iommu_model_traits(self) -> ty.Dict[str, bool]: + """Get iommu model traits based on the currently enabled virt_type. + Not all traits generated by this function may be valid and the result + should be validated. + :return: A dict of trait names mapped to boolean values. + """ + dom_caps = self._host.get_domain_capabilities() + supported_models: ty.Set[str] = {fields.VIOMMUModel.AUTO} + # our min version of qemu/libvirt supprot q35 and virt machine types. + # They also support the smmuv3 and intel iommu modeles so if the qemu + # binary is avaiable we can report the trait. + if fields.Architecture.AARCH64 in dom_caps: + supported_models.add(fields.VIOMMUModel.SMMUV3) + if fields.Architecture.X86_64 in dom_caps: + supported_models.add(fields.VIOMMUModel.INTEL) + # the virtio iommu model requires a newer libvirt then our min + # libvirt so we need to check the version explcitly. + if self._host.has_min_version(MIN_LIBVIRT_VIOMMU_VIRTIO_MODEL): + supported_models.add(fields.VIOMMUModel.VIRTIO) + return { + f'COMPUTE_VIOMMU_MODEL_{model.replace("-", "_").upper()}': model + in supported_models for model in fields.VIOMMUModel.ALL + } + def _get_storage_bus_traits(self) -> ty.Dict[str, bool]: """Get storage bus traits based on the currently enabled virt_type. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Restorative Dentistry
Family Dentist Near You - Restorative Dentistry - Brooklyn Blvd Dental MNWhat is Restorative Dentistry?
The term “restorative dentistry” refers to the process of addressing oral health issues causing a challenge in your oral operation and restoring your mouth to a useful yet aesthetic state. Our dentists are very capable of performing just about any of the procedures required to restore ones oral health back to full operation and with a beautiful smile to boot. Restorative dentistry procedures can include fillings, veneers, crowns, bridges, full and partial dentures, and dental implants or a combination thereof.
Replacing Missing Teeth
Whether our dentist uses the term “restorative dentistry” or “prosthodontic dentistry,” the mission is to preserve as much and as many of your natural teeth as possible. Replacing a missing tooth or teeth with a dental implant, bridge, full or partial denture helps promote dental health as well. Example: if you have gaps in your teeth filling the empty spaces can be helpful in preventing cavities in the surrounding teeth because gaps can cause vulnerable spots for plaque and the bacteria in plaque to have a place to build up. Missing teeth can also put extra stress on the surrounding natural teeth because there is less surface to use for chewing, hence, more pressure.
Things To Consider
When considering a strategy for dental care that could include restorative dentistry, it is wise to consider both physical and fiscal factors which mean both your health and your budget. Our dentists will try to preserve as much of your natural teeth if possible before turning to full or partial dentures so you won’t have to remove and clean the devices regularly. But sometimes full or partial dentures are the better option if you have many missing teeth and you’re not a good candidate for dental implants due to other health issues. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Rh "Nay, that were a shame," muttered the other fellow; "and yet, when I served in the band of stout old Gandelyn, we had no such scruples of conscience. And this insolent peasant,—he too, I warrant me, is to be dismissed scatheless?"
"Not if thou canst scathe him," replied the Captain. "Here, fellow," continued he, addressing Gurth, "canst thou use the staff, that thou starts to it so readily?"
"I think," said Gurth, "thou should be best able to reply to that question."
"Nay, by my troth, thou gavest me a round knock," replied the Captain; "do as much for this fellow, and thou shalt pass scot-free; and if thou dost not—why, by my faith, as thou art such a sturdy knave, I think I must pay thy ransom myself.—Take thy staff, Miller," he added, "and keep thy head; and do you others let the fellow go, and give him a staff—there is light enough to lay on load by."
The two champions being alike armed with quarter-staves, stepped forward into the centre of the open space, in order to have the full be- | WIKI |
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332 In 1884-86 I brought forward a scheme for bringing part of the college cricket to the Parks, under the above agreement. The scheme received support from most of the colleges, but in presence of the complicated difficulties, especially of finance, I thought better not to press it, but to await further developments. Time has shown that there are two opposed tendencies going forward in Oxford: on the one hand, unfortunately and unnecessarily, the town is constantly growing; but, on the other hand, the colleges rightly become more anxious to play cricket as near as possible to their work. Even before the O.U.C.C. came to the Parks, Merton had made a ground hard by. Since that time Hertford uses the athletic ground next to Christ Church, and Keble has made a ground to the north of Oxford. Brasenose has—unwisely, I fear—made a ground on the marshy river-bank opposite the Barges. But the most important new grounds are in the vicinity of the Parks. Jowett, who always said that bringing the university ground to the Parks was one of the best things which had been done for Oxford, imitated the policy by founding the new Balliol ground at the back of Holywell Street. Alfred Robinson, in the same spirit, brought the New College ground to the same neighbourhood. The result is, that the university ground in the Parks is becoming a nucleus about which college cricket is slowly gathering. Meanwhile, Oxford cricket suffers one disadvantage, too considerable to be overlooked. When Cowley was the common place for cricket all the cricket was together, and the captain of the O.U.C.C. was able to go about from ground to ground to see promising college cricketers who might be drafted into the University Eleven. Nowadays Oxford cricket is, it must be confessed, too scattered. Further, as colleges get nearer grounds, their members do not subscribe so much to the O.U.C.C. as they did in 1881. What is really wanted is a determined and combined effort of all Oxford cricketers to induce all the colleges, which still linger at Cowley or have not satisfactory grounds near Oxford, to gather under the wing of the O.U.C.C, and as far as possible in the Parks, with such a financial scheme as will satisfy the colleges without impoverishing the University Cricket Club.
Returning now to the university matches, for which since 1881 Oxford Elevens have been trained on the new ground in the Parks, we find that Oxford has, on the whole, made a gallant, though not altogether successful, fight to recover the equality | WIKI |
Progressive Web Application (PWA) A Beginner’s guide
Abhishek Ankush
7 min readSep 23, 2020
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Progressive Web Apps(PWA) could be next big thing for Mobile web development. Introduced by Google in 2015, PWA have shown great potential using best of capabilities from Native apps and Mobile web applications providing a massive win for the application’s user experience.
What is PWA ?
A PWA is a mobile web application build with common web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript with capabilities like working offline, Push notification, Device Hardware access, easy access from Native apps.
In other words PWA is a web application but better:
1. Progressive and Responsive: Every User, Every Browser, Every Device
2. Connectivity Independent: Offline and low quality network mode
3. App like experience: App style navigation and easy home screen launch
4. Fast & Fresh Data: Always up-to-date
5. Device Hardware access: Camera and geolocation api access
6. Linkable and Discoverable: Sharing possible with URL & indexed by SEO
7. Engaging: Push-notification support for user engagement
Feature Comparison between PWA, Native App & Responsive web application
Core Building Blocks for PWA
1. Service Workers: For Offline Support
2. Web App Manifest file: For Home screen access
3. Application Shell Architecture: For different screen/device support
4. Push Notification: For keeping user engaged
Service Workers: The Brain of PWA
A service worker is an event-driven worker registered against an origin and a path. It takes the form of a JavaScript file that can control the web-page/site that it is associated with, intercepting and modifying navigation and resource requests, and caching resources in a very granular fashion to give you complete control over how your app behaves in certain situations helping the application to work offline or in low network.
Web page make a request service worker intercepts the same and check if the response is already avaiable in cache and respond
Service worker Placement
Service worker behaviors:
1. Runs in different threads from the main JavaScript that empowers your app
2. Runs in its own global context
3. Designed to be fully asynchronous; therefore, it doesn’t have access to things such as synchronous XHR and Local Storage
4. Runs in worker context — thus, it doesn’t have access to DOM
5. Runs HTTPS-Only in production, in addition to Localhost for development
6. Runs in 1:1 scope, meaning there can be only one Service Worker per scope
7. Can be terminated any time
Service Workers Lifecycle:
1. Register — when the user navigates to the website, by calling the register() function , the browser detects the Service Worker JavaScript file; therefore, it downloads, parses, and the execution phase begins
2. Install — This is the best place to precache all of the static assets. Keep in mind that an install event happens only the first time after registration.
3. Activate — This event activates the newly registered Service worker and start using the same for the application. This is also the good time to clean up old caches and other things associated with the previous version of your service worker
4. Idle — once install and activate events are completed with no errors, Service Worker will be effective. However, if it fails during installation, activation, or is replaced by a new one, it remains redundant and does not affect the app
Service worker Lifecycle
Service workers can be configured to work in a certain way. When a certain request in not cached Service worker can be told to cache the request response after fetching the same from Server. This will help in reducing the duplicate calls for same request for next time.
const CACHE_NAME = ‘My PWA cache’;
const FILES_TO_CACHE = [
‘/index.html’,
‘/main.js’,
‘/main.css’,
‘/delete.svg’,
‘/404.html’,
‘/offline.html’
];
self.addEventListener(‘install’, event => {
console.log(‘attempting to install service worker and cache static assets’);
event.waitUntil(
caches.open(CACHE_NAME).then(cache => {
console.log(‘Opened cache’);
return cache.addAll(FILES_TO_CACHE)
})
)
});
self.addEventListener(‘activate’, event => {
console.log(`activating a new service worker`);
const cacheWhiteList = [FILES_TO_CACHE];
event.waitUntil(
caches.keys().then(cacheNames => {
return Promise.all(
cacheNames.map(cacheName => {
if (cacheWhiteList.indexOf(cacheName) === -1) {
return caches.delete(cacheName);
}
})
)
})
)
})
self.addEventListener(‘fetch’, event => {
console.log(`fetch event for ${event.request.url}`);
event.respondWith(
caches.match(event.request.url).then(
response => {
if (response) {
console.log(`found ${event.request.url} in cache`);
return response;
}
console.log(‘network request for ‘, event.request.url);
return fetch(event.request).then(response => {
if (response.status === 404) {
return caches.match(‘404.html’);
}
return caches.open(CACHE_NAME).then(cache => {
cache.put(event.request.url, response.clone());
return response;
})
}).catch( error => {
console.error(‘error in fetching’, error);
return caches.match(‘offline.html’);
}
);
}
).catch(error => {
console.error(error);
})
)
})
Web App Manifest file
Web App Manifest file helps the web application to enable the functionality of add to Home screen. This is a JSON text file following Web App Manifest specification that provides information about an application such as its name, author, icons, and description. This file enables an application to be installed by a user on their device and allows us to modify the theme, URL that should be opened, splash screen, icons on home page etc. Below are few important attributes from the same:
name: a readable name for the app displayed to user or as a label for an icon
short_name: short name that replaces name if that doesn’t fit due to insufficient space
theme_color: defines the default theme color
background_color: defines the expected background color for the app even before user agent loads website style sheets
display: preferred display mode for the website
scope: Defines the scope for PWA
start_url: the URL that loads when a user launches the application
Icons: an array of image files that specifics the app icons depending on the context
{
“name”: “Basic PWA”,
“short_name”: “PWA”,
“lang”: “en”,
“start_url”: “/”,
“display”: “fullscreen”,
“theme_color”: “#c2f442”,
“background_color”: “#c2f442”,
“icons”: [{
“src”: “delete.svg”,
“sizes”:”150x150"
}]
}
Application Shell Architecture
An Application Shell(or app shell) Architecture is one way to build a Progressive Web App that reliably and instantly loads on your users’ screens, similar to what you see in native applications.
The app “shell” is the minimal HTML, CSS and JavaScript required to power the user interface and when cached offline can ensure instant, reliably good performance to users on repeat visits. This means the application shell is not loaded from the network every time the user visits. Only the necessary content is needed from the network
Benefits:
• Reliable performance that is consistently fast
• Native-like interactions
• Economical use of data
So Put another way, the app shell is similar to the bundle of code that you’d publish to an app store when building a native app. It is the skeleton of your UI and the core components necessary to get your app off the ground, but likely does not contain the data.
Push Notification Architecture
A notification is a message that pops up on the user’s device. Notifications can be triggered locally by an open application, or they can be “pushed” from the server to the user even when the app is not running. They allow your users to opt-in to timely updates and allow you to effectively re-engage users with customized content.
Push notification examples
Push Notifications are assembled using two APIs:
Notifications API: Lets the app display system notifications to the user.
Push API: This allows a service worker to handle Push Messages from a server, even while the app is not active.
The Notification and Push API’s are built on top of the Service Worker API, which responds to push message events in the background and relays them to the application.
Subscription workflow steps:
Grant: User Grants permission
Application ask for subscription: The app asks a web push service for a PushSubscription object
Web push service returns subscription object: The web push service returns the PushSubscription object
App sends push notification: We define actions triggering push notification and app server pushes notification based on subscription
Service worker receives notification: Service worker on client receives notifications and show it to user.
Push Notification Subscription
Offline mode support:
Service worker uses different offline storage on user’s device to serve request in offline mode:
sessionStorage: maintains a separate storage area for each given origin for the duration of Session
localStorage: maintains a separate storage area for each given origin even when browser is closed and reopened
Cache: for the network resources necessary
IndexedDB: to store application state and data set
Offline mode support
Criteria’s for Adding to Home screen (A2HS):
1. Serve over HTTPS (this was one of the PWA core concepts and required for Service Worker).
2. Web Manifest file has “name” or “short_name”, “Icon” of 192px and a 512px sizes icons, “start_url”, “display” must be fullscreen, standalone, or minimal-ui
3. The web app is not already installed
4. App has a registered Service Worker with a fetch event handler
Debugging and Measurement tools
Debugging of PWA application can be done with below two good tools:
Chrome Dev tools:
Google Lighthouse:
Google Lighthouse
Thankyou !! Happy Learning
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The Malolotsha Klippe: Large-scale subhorizontal tectonics along the southern margin of the Archean Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini
Whether Archean tectonics were horizontally or vertically dominated is debated because arguments bear on the kinematics and thermal state of the Archean mantle and constrain the formation of the earliest continental crust. Deformed strata of greenstone belts figure prominently in this debate because they record long periods and multiple deformation phases. Among the best-preserved belts counts the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) of southern Africa. Geological mapping of its southern part in Eswatini (Swaziland), combined with U-Pb zircon dating, show that the region preserves a tightly re-folded imbricate thrust stack in which metavolcanic and -volcaniclastic strata of the Onverwacht Group, deposited at 3.34-3.29 Ga, have been thrust on top of ca. 3.22 Ga siliciclastic strata of the Moodies Group. The structurally highest element, the Malolotsha Syncline, forms a tectonic klippe of substantial size and is >1450 m thick. Forward modelling of a balanced cross section indicates that this thrust stack was part of a northwestward-verging orogen along the southern margin of the BGB and records a minimum horizontal displacement of 33 km perpendicular to its present-day faulted, ductily strained and multiply metamorphosed margin. Because conglomerate clasts indicate a significantly higher degree of prolate strain which extends further into the BGB than at its northern margin, the late-stage tectonic architecture of the BGB may be highly asymmetrical. Our study documents that the BGB, and perhaps other Archean greenstone belts, preserves a complex array of both vertically- and horizontally-dominated deformation styles that interfered with each other at small regional and short temporal scales.
Details
Author
Christoph Heubeck1, Benjamin Heredia2, Tonny Thomsen2, Armin Zeh3, Philipp Balling1
Institutionen
1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; 2Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS); 3Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Veranstaltung
GeoMinKöln 2022
Datum
2022
DOI
10.48380/wcgf-hy60
Geolocation
Southern Africa | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Solar panel glossary: kW, kWh, and mWh defined
If you're getting quotes for home solar, the electrical terminology can get pretty confusing. Here's some simple explanations.
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If you’re doing research into home solar, you may come across some terminology that you’re unfamiliar with.
A few common ones are kilowatts and kilowatt-hours. They’re confusing because of the similar names, but they refer to distinct things. Here’s an attempt at some simple explanations.
What is a kilowatt?
A watt is a measure of electrical power. A kilowatt is equal to 1,000 watts. The abbreviation for kilowatt is kW. (The W is capitalized because it is named after the Scottish inventor James Watt.)
Power, in this context, refers to the rate of flow of electricity. To give you a sense of scale, a hair dryer on its low setting is using roughly 1 kW of power. If you switch the hair dryer to high, the flow of electricity will increase to approximately 1.8 kW.
What is a kilowatt-hour?
A kilowatt-hour is a measure of energy. The abbreviation for kilowatt-hour is kWh.
“Energy” means a quantity of electricity. That hair dryer on low uses about 1 kW of power. If you leave it running for one hour, it will have consumed about 1 kWh.
Some more examples of kW and kWh to help make sense of it
Your monthly electricity bill measures the quantity of electricity you consumed during the previous month. This is why your bill is based on kilowatt-hours.
When talking about the power requirements of appliances like your hair dryer, we use watts or kilowatts. A refrigerator uses perhaps 100 or 200 watts (0.1 kW or 0.2 kW).
A large central air conditioner might use 3 kW. If that A/C runs for one hour, it will have used 3 kWh. After 2 hours it would be 6 kWh, and 9 kWh after three hours. Make sense?
What is a megawatt-hour?
A megawatt is a 1,000 kilowatts. This means that one megawatt-hour is equal to 1,000 kWh. Its abbreviation is MWh (with a capital M).
When it comes to household electricity usage, you usually don’t use megawatt-hours as the unit of measure. An exception is when you’re talking about annual usage or annual power generation of a solar array.
What does kW, kWh, and MWh mean with home solar?
When it comes to home solar, you’ll see kW and kWh frequently mentioned.
Kilowatts are used when discussing the size of your system. For example, my home solar installation is relatively small: 18 panels that are 260 watts each, for a total of 4.6 kW. Because of better panel efficiency these days, the average system is slowly increasing in size and is now close to 7 kW.
You’ll see kilowatt-hours mentioned when it comes to how much electricity your system generates. That’s a function of its size in kW, but also how much sunlight they receive during the year. No shading, a south-facing roof, and a sunny climate will help your system generate more kWh during a year.
When working with a solar installer to design your system, they’ll need to know how much electricity you use in an average year, which is measured in kilowatt-hours. To find that out, look at your most recent utility bill. Most bills will have a summary of your past 12 months of usage. If not, you’ll need to add up the total number of kWh from your previous 12 bills.
Give that info to your solar installer, and they’ll be able to design a system that generate enough electricity to meet your annual needs.
Once you have a system installed, you’ll have access to monitoring that will tell you how much electricity you generate. Daily generation is measured in kWh, but your annual generation will be multiple megawatt-hours. For example, in an average year my system generates around 5 MWh.
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Robert Hutchings and Grace Newman
One Robert Hutchings and Grace Newman got married in Dittisham, Devon on 20 May 1802 (source: England, Marriages, 1538–1973. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013). As I haven't been able to determine whether this is Robert Sparke Hutchings, I've left it out of the article. It might be a cousin of his, for instance. Ni'jluuseger (talk) 19:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Why Hutchings went to Penang specifically
It's not in the article because it's speculative / original research, but it's rather self-evident that Robert Sparke Hutchings went to Penang specifically (and not to another British possession) because George Caunter, the husband of his sister Harriett Georgina Hutchings, went there before him. Caunter died in 1811 while Robert arrived in Penang in 1814, but by that time there was a wider network of relations established in Penang. For instance, Richard Caunter (George Caunter's nephew) was acting superintendent of police at Penang in 1812 (Langdon, Vol. 2, p. 188). Robert Ibbetson, the later Penang governor with whom Hutchings went to Sumatra on a trade mission, married a daughter of George Caunter, Harriet Georgina Hutchings Caunter, in Penang in 1817.
To be clear, this addresses why Hutchings went to Penang rather than to another destination, but does not address the reason(s) he went there at all or gave up the Dittisham rectorate (for which I haven't found a primary source). Ni'jluuseger (talk) 19:59, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
* Incidentally, Robert Ibbetson and his wife Harriet had a daughter Elvira in 1820, who may have been named after Robert Sparke Hutchings's wife Elvira. The following year, Robert and Elvira named a daughter of their own Elvira. Ni'jluuseger (talk) 20:06, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Hutchings and the Malay language
Some secondary sources state that Hutchings "produced one of the first books and dictionaries on Malay grammar" and "translated elementary textbooks". I haven't found anything about his writings in or about Malay beyond his revision of the Old and New Testament in Malay, so if anyone has more information about this, that would be welcome. Ni'jluuseger (talk) 10:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PEIC or PACEI), also called the Voter Fraud Commission, was a Presidential Commission established by Donald Trump that ran from May 11, 2017, to January 3, 2018. The Trump administration said the commission would review claims of voter fraud, improper registration, and voter suppression. The establishment of the commission followed Trump's false claim that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 presidential election, costing him the popular vote. Vice President Mike Pence was chosen as chair of the commission and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was its vice chair and day-to-day administrator.
On June 28, 2017, Kobach, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, asked every state for personal voter information. The request was met with significant bipartisan backlash; 44 states and the District of Columbia declined to supply some or all of the information, citing privacy concerns or state laws.
Trump's creation of the commission was criticized by voting rights advocates, scholars and experts, and newspaper editorial boards as a pretext for, and prelude to, voter suppression. At least eight lawsuits were filed accusing the Commission of violating the law.
On January 3, 2018, Trump abruptly disbanded the commission; he stated the claims of election fraud and cited many states' refusal to turn over information as well as the pending lawsuits. The commission found no evidence of voter fraud. At that time, Trump asked that the investigation be transferred to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which already holds much of the requested state voter data and oversees immigration records. The acting DHS press secretary said that Kobach would not be advising or working with DHS, and the White House said it would destroy all the state voter data collected by the commission.
2016 campaign
During his campaign for President, Trump made numerous claims of voter fraud occurring in the United States.
In the weeks before the election, Trump urged his supporters to volunteer as poll watchers on Election Day, saying they were needed to guard against "voter fraud" and a "rigged" outcome. The rhetoric was seen by some as a call to intimidate minority voters or challenge their credentials to prevent them from voting. Numerous organizations, including the Democratic Party officials and affiliates sued Trump accusing him of voter intimidation, in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.
Post-election
On November 8, 2016, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election, but lost the popular vote to opponent Hillary Clinton by about 2.9 million votes. Trump falsely claimed that he won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" and that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election.
Kris Kobach proposal
On November 22, 2016, Kobach met with then President-elect Trump in his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey in consideration for Secretary of Homeland Security position. The Associated Press photographed Kobach taking into his meeting with Trump a document entitled "Department of Homeland Security, Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days" referencing a possible amendment to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
The American Civil Liberties Union, representing plaintiffs in a voting rights case, asked the federal judge to prevent Kobach from withholding from the public documents he presented to Trump by virtue of marking them "confidential". The plaintiffs demanded the public release of those documents that had been prepared with state funds, claiming Kobach "made statements to the public, the Court, and the President, suggesting that noncitizen registration fraud is a serious, widespread problem," while at the same time trying to hide those same documents that reject his claim, to prevent having to testify in open court about those materials. In June 2017, the federal magistrate judge found that Kobach had made "patently misleading representations" to the court in the course of the document dispute. Kobach was fined $1,000 for "deceptive conduct and lack of candor" and ordered to submit to questioning under oath by the ACLU about the documents and about a draft amendment to the National Voter Registration Act "which would have added a line to the federal voter law that said states could request any information from voters they deem necessary."
Voter impersonation
Only US citizens have the right to vote in federal elections. While the United States Congress has jurisdiction over laws applying to federal elections, it has deferred the making of most aspects of election laws to the states. Therefore, the administration of voter registration requirements, voting requirements, and elections vary widely across jurisdictions.
Voter impersonation (also sometimes called in-person voter fraud) is a form of electoral fraud in which a person who is eligible to vote in an election votes more than once, or a person who is not eligible to vote does so by voting under the name of an eligible voter. In the United States, voter ID laws have been enacted in a number of states since 2010 with the aim of preventing voter impersonation. Research has shown that voter impersonation is extremely rare. There is no evidence that in-person voter fraud has changed the result of any election.
In a few cases, permanent residents ("green card" holders) have registered to vote and have cast ballots without realizing that doing so was illegal. Non-citizens convicted in criminal court of having made a false claim of citizenship for the purpose of registering to vote in a federal election can be fined and imprisoned for up to a year. Deportation and removal proceedings have resulted from several such cases.
In an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law looked at 42 jurisdictions, focusing on ones with large population of noncitizens. Of 23.5 million votes surveyed, election officials referred an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting for further investigation, or about 0.0001% of votes cast. Douglas Keith, the counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program and co-author of the analysis, said, "President Trump has said repeatedly that millions of people voted illegally in 2016, but our interviews with local election administrators made clear that rampant noncitizen voting simply did not occur. Any claims to the contrary make their job harder and distract from progress toward needed improvements like automatic voter registration."
Voter registration irregularities
Voter registration is the process of collecting applications to vote, adjudicating those applications, and maintaining the rolls of qualified voters. The process of voter registration is generally left to the states. In an effort to increase voter turnout, a state may adopt less restrictive policies, including motor voter registration and same day registration. In an effort to decrease in-person voter fraud, a state may adopt stricter policies for registration, including proof of citizenship at the time of registration. Federal elections do not require proof of citizenship, only a statement on the signed application.
Voter rolls have high rates of inaccuracy. Voters move, die, and are incarcerated. Voter rolls may include erroneous superfluous entries as a result of fraudulent registration or failure to purge the roll when a voter dies, moves, or is sent to prison. A qualified voter may be legally registered in only one precinct. This is a matter of state law. In 2012, the Pew Trust estimated that 24 million voter records were inaccurate or invalid, including approximately 1.8 million records of deceased people who remained on voter rolls. In October 2016, Trump conflated these irregularities with voter fraud and wrongly cited the Pew report as evidence that 1.8 million people were fraudulently voting against him. Voting twice is a third degree felony in most states. Superfluous entries on a voter roll do not affect elections.
Erroneous deletions from a voter roll can potentially affect an election outcome by preventing qualified voters from casting ballots. In November 2016, the New York City Board of Elections was ordered by a federal judge to make affidavit ballots available to people who believed their registrations were improperly purged. A computer analysis by The Palm Beach Post found that at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly purged from the Florida Central Voter File before the 2000 US presidential election, causing some eligible voters to be turned away at polling stations. Some commentators and courts have concluded that improperly conducted purges affect political parties differently and disenfranchise racial minorities. For instance, the 2000 Florida purge led to thousands of voters being wrongly disenfranchised, a disproportionate number of them black.
Commission
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was a temporary commission established by President Donald Trump's executive order (E.O. 13799, 82 FR 22389) on May 11, 2017. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the commission would provide the president with a report on their findings by 2018.
Provisions:
* Vice president shall chair the commission
* President appoints members to the commission, the vice president may select the vice chair
* The commission will report on laws, rules, policies, activities, strategies, and practices that enhance and undermine people's confidence in the integrity of the voting processes used in federal elections
* The report should also identify voting systems and practices used for federal elections that could lead to improper voter registrations and improper voting, including fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting
* The commission will terminate 30 days after it submits its report to the president
Members
* Commission members at time of disbandment :
* Chair: Mike Pence, Republican, Vice President of the United States, former Governor of Indiana
* Vice Chair: Kris Kobach, Republican, Secretary of State of Kansas, Of Counsel, Immigration Reform Law Institute
* J. Christian Adams, Republican, former Department of Justice Civil Rights Division attorney
* Ken Blackwell, Republican, former Ohio Secretary of State and previously state Treasurer
* Matthew Dunlap, Democrat, Secretary of State of Maine
* Bill Gardner, Democrat, New Hampshire Secretary of State
* Alan Lamar King, Democrat, probate judge of Jefferson County, Alabama
* Connie Lawson, Republican, Secretary of State of Indiana
* Christy McCormick, Republican, Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission
* Mark Rhodes, Democrat, Wood County, West Virginia county clerk
* Hans von Spakovsky, Republican, former member Federal Election Commission, senior legal fellow, The Heritage Foundation and director, Public Interest Legal Foundation
* Commission who left prior to disbandment
* Luis Borunda, Republican, Maryland deputy secretary of state, resigned July 3, 2017 (prior to the commission's first meeting, but after the controversial letter by Kris Kobach to election officials in the different states)
* David K. Dunn, Democrat, former Arkansas state representative, died October 17, 2017
Vice President Pence has been described as the titular head of the Commission on Voter Integrity with Kris Kobach, who also serves on the elections committee of the National Secretaries of States Association (NSOS), as its operational leader. According to the executive order, the commission can have up to sixteen members.
Dunlap and Gardner, the two Democratic secretaries of state on the commission, said they hoped the commission would look into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but Kobach said he did not think that the commission's investigation would go in that direction.
Unlike past presidential commissions on elections and voting (such as the Carter-Baker in 2001, Carter-Ford in 2004, and Bauer-Ginsburg in 2013), the leadership of the panel is not bipartisan and the makeup of the panel is not evenly split. Rather, Pence and Kobach, the chair and vice chair of the commission, are both Republicans, and Republicans hold a 7 to 5 (originally 8 to 5) advantage in membership for the commission as a whole. The ratio favoring the Republicans increased to 7 to 4 when David K. Dunn died in October 2017. Also in October 2017, two of the four Democrats on the commission, Dunlap and King, sent separate letters to commission staff complaining that they are not being kept informed of commission activities.
Commission member Hans von Spakovsky, director of The Heritage Foundation's Election Law Reform Initiative, is said to have promoted "the myth that Democratic voter fraud is common, and that it helps Democrats win elections" according to a magazine article in The New Yorker. He has supported his claims about the extent of voter fraud by citing a 2000 investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which purported to find 5400 instances of deceased people in Georgia voting in the last twenty years. The Journal-Constitution later revised its findings, noting that it had no evidence of even a single ballot purportedly being cast by a deceased person and that the vast majority of the instances in question were due to clerical errors. In an interview with the New Yorker, von Spakovsky cited two scholars who he said could substantiate that voter-impersonation fraud was rampant: Robert Pastor of American University and Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. Pastor and Sabato both said they would only support voter ID laws if those IDs were issued without cost to the voters, and acquired without substantial difficulty.
It is Sabato's belief that voter impersonation is "relatively rare today," yet in a 2011 Heritage Foundation article, von Spakovsky referred to Sabato once more as a researcher whose studies established the existence of widespread voter fraud. He also has cited conservative columnist John Fund's Stealing Elections, a book whose assertions of election fraud have been extensively debunked. Fund also co-authored a book with von Spakovsky. In an email, von Spakovsky urged Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to appoint any Democrats, "moderate Republicans and/or academics" to the commission. According to Richard L. Hasen, an election-law expert at the University of California at Irvine, "there are number of people who have been active in promoting false and exaggerated claims of voter fraud and using that as a pretext to argue for stricter voting and registration rules. And von Spakovsky is at the top of the list." Hasen said that Trump's appointment of Spakovsky's was "a big middle finger" to people who are "serious about fixing problems with our elections."
One of Trump's appointees to the commission, Ken Blackwell, was Ohio Secretary of State for two terms beset with controversy, lawsuits, and accusations that he had created impediments to voting. During the 2004 presidential election, Blackwell attempted to throw out voter registrations in Ohio that were not printed on "white, uncoated paper of not less than 80-pound text weight" (a heavy card-stock paper) and the 2004 election in the state was marred by "controversies over topics ranging from voting devices to long lines on Election Day." Blackwell revoked the order after county clerks said it was unnecessary, and voting rights advocates called in any attempt at voter suppression. Also in 2004, Blackwell ordered clerks to toss out provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, a policy criticized by voting rights advocates but ultimately permitted by a federal appeals court. In March 2006, Blackwell's office also inadvertently released the Social Security numbers of 5.7 million voters.
First request
On June 28, 2017, Kris Kobach, in his capacity as vice chair of the commission, wrote a letter along with the Department of Justice to the top election official in every state requesting they turn over voter data ostensibly to aid a countrywide search for evidence of election irregularities. Besides information such as the names, addresses and party affiliations of all registered voters, Kobach sought birth dates, felony conviction records, voting histories for the past decade and the last four digits of all voters' Social Security numbers. Many states' election officials claim they never received the request and some said they only forward the request from another state's secretary of state.
The letter was not made public, and it became publicly known only after Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, tweeted out an image of the letter the day after the letter was written. Along with the image of the letter, she wrote "Pence and Kobach are laying the groundwork for voter suppression, plain & simple." A few hours after Gupta's tweet, Kobach confirmed to The Kansas City Star that the letter was authentic.
Kobach provided an e-mail address and a website for the election official to electronically submit the personal voter data. The e-mail address lacked basic encryption technology and was found to be insecure.
The request may have violated the federal Paperwork Reduction Act because it was not submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) prior to being made to the states. The submission to the OIRA would have required a justification and an explanation of how the data would be used and protected. Additionally, the request did not come with an estimate of how many hours it would take the states to respond. Regulatory experts opined that the consequence of a violation would be that states would not be required to respond.
In January 2018, it was reported that the commission had, in its requests for Texas voter data, specifically asked for data that identifies voters with Hispanic surnames.
Second request
On July 25, 2017, Kobach told the Kansas City Star that he intended to send another request for voter data, after receiving a favorable ruling in a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The court had ruled against the center's motion to stop the commission from trying to collect the data, stating that the commission had only made a request, not a demand or an attempt to force. The letter was sent the following day, and it differed from the first request by the addition "if state law allows [the] information to be public". The California Secretary of State announced that it would refuse to comply with the second request.
State responses
There was an immediate bipartisan backlash and rejection of the inquiries with a majority of states quickly rejecting the requests. Notably, commissioners Kobach, Dunlap, and Lawson (who also serve as the secretaries of state for Kansas, Maine, and Indiana respectively, with Indiana being Mike Pence's home state) indicated that their state laws forbade them from complying. Some states offered to only provide information that is already made public or available for purchase. No state has said they will fully comply with the list of demands. In response, Trump made a statement on Twitter, "Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?"
Impact on voter registration
In Colorado, the Secretary of State confirmed that 3,394 voters (0.09 percent of all registered voters in Colorado) cancelled their voter registration in response to the request for voter registration information sent out by Kris Kobach. After receiving a few requests for voter registration cancellations, election officials in Flagler County, Florida published an open letter to voters urging voters not to cancel their registration in response to the commission's request for voter information. In Arkansas, an alderwoman in Eureka Springs requested to cancel her voter registration, but then re-registered within 24 hours because the law requires her to be a registered voter in order to serve in an elected office.
First official meeting, July 19, 2017
The committee held its first official meeting on July 19, 2017, in Washington D.C. Breaking with tradition of open meetings for such commissions, the meeting was not open to the public, but it was live streamed in lieu. Trump addressed the commission at its inaugural meeting and criticized states that did not comply with the request for data issued by Kobach (saying "One has to wonder what they're worried about"). The committee members talked largely of voter fraud, and mentioned themes included 'One Citizen, One Vote', anecdotes about specific incidents of election misconduct, and additional funding for voting equipment.
New Hampshire meeting, September 12, 2017
On August 24, 2017, the White House announced that the commission would meet on September 12, 2017, at St. Anselm College near Manchester, New Hampshire. In February, Trump had told a meeting of senators that he lost New Hampshire because thousands of people had been brought in from Massachusetts on buses to vote, a claim disputed by the state's two senators, an FEC commissioner, and Bill Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state and later a member of the integrity commission. On September 7, Kobach alleged in his Breitbart News column that voter fraud had "likely" swung the election in the New Hampshire 2016 presidential race and 2016 Senate race. Kobach wrote that while "anecdotally" it was well known that out-of-state voters take advantage of New Hampshire's same-day registration law to come in on Election Day and vote, "Now there's proof": of the 6,540 voters who had registered to vote on Election Day using out-of-state driver's licenses as identification, only 1,014 of those voters had obtained a New Hampshire driver's license by August 30, 2017. The rest never obtained a New Hampshire license and only a few had registered vehicles in the state, leaving 5,513, "a big number - more than enough to swing two very important elections." Kobach, calling all 5,513 of the votes "fraudulent votes", wrote that in the senate race, "if 59.2% or more of them went for Hassan, then the election was stolen by voter fraud" and "if 74.8% of the fraudulent votes were cast for Clinton, then the presidential election was tipped as well." Another commission member, J. Christian Adams, published a similar op-ed at PJ Media on the same day, stating that "the overwhelming majority of them [the 5,513 voters] can no longer be found in New Hampshire." Kobach and Adams based the allegations on statistics reported by Shawn Jasper, Republican speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The statistics were released to Jasper by Secretary of State Gardner and the commissioner of the state department of safety in response to his request. A spokesman for the speaker said that the statistics were raw data and that Jasper "did not know which states issued the 6,540 licenses and acknowledged that the numbers could include some college students." The Washington Post, noting that Kobach apparently had not tried to contact voters with out-of-state ID for his Breitbart article, was able to quickly contact three voters who did not obtain New Hampshire driver's licenses. The three said that they were college students and had used the driver's licenses from their home states as their identification. The day after Kobach's op-ed was published, the New Hampshire congressional delegation unanimously urged Gardner to resign, so as to deny the commission the appearance of credibility. Gardner said it was his civic duty to remain.
The meeting was hosted by Gardner and chaired by Vice Chair Kobach, since the chairman, Mike Pence, would not be in attendance. At the meeting, both Gardner and fellow commissioner and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap rejected the allegation that voter fraud affected the election in New Hampshire in 2016. Dunlap called the charge "reckless" and pointed out that voters in New Hampshire need not be residents of the state to vote, as it is sufficient to be "domiciled" in the state. Dunlap said, "I think it's really reckless to make an allegation like that based on how I know licenses are issued around the country and how elections are conducted. It's an amazing leap to make."
The meeting continued for six hours, during which time Kobach answered questions for thirty minutes. He told reporters, "If you drive in and then drive out on the same day, that is fraudulent....My point is that among the 5,313, you can probably assume that at least one of those individuals" voted fraudulently. When reminded that he had written "Now there's proof", he said, "I think when you have 5,300 cases, it's virtual proof that at least one of those individuals probably didn't stay." He added, "Let's just get the numbers and see where the numbers take us, and I certainly don't have any preconceived notions about that issue or a whole host of issues."
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, made a presentation to the commission, proposing that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System be used for voter verification. Dunlap responded by saying the system "was never intended to be used as an elections tool" and using it as such would have "unintended consequences".
Response
Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine, an expert on election law, stated that the commission was "a pretext to pass legislation that will make it harder for people to register to vote" and that there could be no confidence in whatever the committee produced. In a June 2017 editorial, Hasen ridiculed the commission as a "faux commission".
Lawsuits
At least eight lawsuits were filed challenging the commission, alleging that its activities violated the law. Five of the plaintiffs in the different lawsuits were non-profit organizations that included: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU v. Trump and Pence and Joyner v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity), the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP (NAACP v. Trump), Public Citizen, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The lawsuits by the first two groups involved the lack of transparency of the commission's meetings, whereas the lawsuits by the last two groups involved the collection by the commission of personal private data. In addition to the lawsuits, complaints have been filed with federal agencies against two of the commission's members.
In response to the lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the commission abandoned plans to accept responses through the Department of Defense safe access file exchange website and announced plans to use an existing White House system. The commission asked states to refrain from submitting data while the case was pending. The commission also stated its intention of deleting voter information from Arkansas, the only state to officially submit voter data on the Department of Defense website. On July 24, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied EPIC's request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the commission, ruling that the commission was not required to conduct a privacy review before gathering data. On August 29, the government's attorney told the judge that confusion at the Department of Justice had resulted in the failure to disclose relevant documents to the plaintiffs, and Kollar-Kotelly ordered the government to provide a list of documents it wanted to withhold, and how it would comply with disclosure rules.
In November 2017, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, a Democratic member of the commission, said that Kobach was refusing to share working documents and scheduling information with him and the other Democrats on the commission. He filed suit, and in December a federal judge ordered the commission to hand over the documents. Two weeks later, in January 2018, Trump disbanded the commission, and his administration informed Dunlap that it would not obey the court order to provide the documents because the commission no longer existed. On August 3, 2018, Dunlap wrote that the documents available to him did not support claims of widespread voter fraud. He described the investigation as the "most bizarre thing I've ever been a part of....After reading this, I see that it wasn't just a matter of investigating President Trump's claims that three to five million people voted illegally, but the goal of the commission seems to have been to validate those claims."
In January 2018, in the Joyner case, the Department of Justice disclosed that the White House would not be turning over any state voter data to the Department of Homeland Security, despite the White House's and Kris Kobach's earlier statements to the contrary.
Calls for defunding and disbandment
On June 22, 2017, Representative Marc Veasey of Texas's 33rd congressional district introduced H.R. 3029 to deny funding for the commission. In August 2017, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer wrote an editorial calling on Trump to disband the commission. He also threatened that if Trump did not disband the commission, he would try to deny the commission money in a funding bill.
Disbanding
On January 3, 2018, two weeks after the court order instructing the commission to share its working documents with its Democratic members, the Trump administration disbanded the commission. The panel disbanded without making any findings of fraud.
In announcing that he had dissolved the commission, Trump blamed states for not handing over requested voter information to the commission, and still maintained that there was "substantial evidence of voter fraud". Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that "rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense," Trump abolished the panel and turned the matter over to the Department of Homeland Security. Election integrity experts argued that the commission was disbanded because of the lawsuits, which would have led to greater transparency and accountability in the commission and thus prevented the Republican members of the commission from producing a sham report to justify restrictions on voting rights, and that oversight by a cabinet-level agency such as DHS could preclude open meetings and requests for compliance with public records laws.
Transfer to Department of Homeland Security
After Trump shut down the commission, Kobach pointed out in an interview that "DHS knows the identity of everyone who has green cards" and temporary visas, and that to compare those names to state voter rolls would be "immensely valuable." He stated, "This is a tactical shift by the president who remains very committed to finding the scope of voter fraud." He told several interviewers that he would "be working closely with the White House and DHS to ensure the investigations continue," but the acting DHS press secretary said that Kobach would not be advising or working with the department. On January 9, the director of White House information technology stated, in a declaration appended to a motion in Commissioner Dunlap's suit against the commission, that the state voter data the commission had collected would not be sent to DHS or any other agency except the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), pursuant to federal law and pending the outcome of lawsuits, and that pursuant to federal law and upon consultation with NARA the White House intended to destroy all the state voter data held by the dissolved Commission. The DHS already has access to the state voter data the commission requested from the states. Voting rights and civil rights advocates were alarmed at moves by the Trump administration to task the DHS with fighting "voter fraud" despite multiple studies showing that voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the U.S., fearing that Trump's directive would give impetus to purges of eligible voters from the voter rolls. | WIKI |
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مجس
Etymology 1
from the root.
Noun
* 1) place which one touches to make a judgment from it
Etymology 2
from the root.
Noun
* 1) sensor, probe
Etymology 3
, forming the root.
Verb
* 1) to Zoroastrianize, to teach someone Zoroastrianism
Etymology
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22. Another time being awake, there was a voice ſpoke to me, aying, That the iſle betwixt Kintyre and Carrick, which ſhould occaſion great blood both in the eaſt and weſt of Scotland and particularly in the ſouth of Carrick; then I perceived four hips which received a commiſſion to come to Lochkillicran, called the ſhips of Tarſhiſh, which was to raze this place by burning houſes, which ſhould make the inhabitants to flee to the mountains, they that take hold of me by prayer for their refuge, will be ſafe; but thoſe that take not hold of me for their ſhelter, though the common enemy ſhould not purſue them, yet they ſhall not eſcape my judgments which I will inflict upon them, whether by peſtilence or any other ſtroke; for there are many hips gathered hither, ſome for plunder, ſome for accomplihing the ſtroke, yet they ſhall be all broken and ſcattered by very mall means, particularly I apprehended one ſmall ſhip, which fought a great parcel of theſe ſhips.
23. In the ſame month, as I was itting in my bed, I ſaw as it had been the shape of an ax, laid before me in the bed all crushed together into one lump, and the houſſel of it out of all shape, and while I looked upon it, it was ſaid unto me, I will shew thee the meaning, This is the king of France his armies which shall be made that they shall neither cut nor fell in the time when he hath moſt ado with them, a little thereafter in the morning in a ſurprizing manner, it was ſaid to me, I have got more loſs in my church by the king of France than by any prince in Europe, for he hath brought my church in that land to a very ſmall remnant, (if any,) for which I will make him as the top of a rock, that hath neither graſs nor earth.
24. Being aſleep, I apprehended I ſaw a man, as I was walking in the fields, coming to me, I asked him, What he had in his hand? he anſwered, it is a crown, I have often made offer of it to thecthee [sic] and thou refuſed it; I ſaid, I do not deſire a crown, neither would take it, he replied, Go on in revealing what I have laid before thee, and thou shalt not want thy reward: but if thou refuſe to declare | WIKI |
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The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) was a series of dynastic conflicts between the monarchy and the nobility of England. The ‘wars’ were a series of intermittent, often small-scale battles, executions, murders, and failed plots as the political class of England fractured into two groups which formed around two branches of Edward III of England’s descendants (r. 1327-1377 CE): the Yorks and Lancasters. Although there were several reasons why the wars continued over four decades, the main causes for the initial outbreak were the incompetent rule of Henry VI of England (r. 1422-61 & 1470-71 CE) and the ambition of Richard, Duke, of York (b. 1411 CE) and then his son Edward (b. 1442 CE). Mixed in were additional motives such as the rivalry for wealth amongst the nobility, disagreements over relations with France, the impoverished economy, the alleged crimes of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1452 CE), and finally, the ambition of Henry Tudor (b. 1457 CE) to become king.
A Rose by Any Other Name
The popular name for England’s 15th-century CE dynastic conflicts, the ‘War of the Roses’, was first coined by the novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832 CE) after the later badges of the two main families involved (neither of which were actually the favoured liveries at the time): a white rose for York and a red rose for Lancaster. The division was a little more complex than merely these two families as each one garnered allies amongst England’s other noble families, thus creating two broad groups: the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. Allies of either side were also liable to switch allegiances over the course of the conflict depending on favours, deaths, and opportunities.
Neither were the wars a continuous conflict but were rather a series of battles, skirmishes, a few minor sieges, and several dynastic struggles, which continued intermittently over four decades. Indeed, so fragmented were the pieces that it is difficult to imagine the participants ever had a concept they were fighting in a coherent series of historical events we today handily label with a flower.
The precise nature of the conflict may be difficult to categorise but the competition prize was clear for all to see: the undisputed right to rule England. After the reign of the Lancaster king Henry VI of England and the Yorkist kings Edward IV of England (1461-70 & 1471-83 CE) and Richard III of England (r. 1483-85 CE), the ‘wars’ were finally won by the Lancastrian Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE). Henry VII then reunited the two rival houses by marrying Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV in 1486 CE, thus creating the new house of Tudor. The mark of his success is that Henry’s son Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) became king without any wrangling and that the Tudors went on to provide the next three monarchs after him in a period of English history seen as its Golden Age.
A Summary of Causes
The multiple initial causes of the Wars of the Roses, and the reasons why they continued, may be briefly summarised as:
- the increasing tendency to murder kings and their young heirs, a strategy begun by Henry Bolingbroke in 1399 CE.
- the incapacity to rule and then illness of Henry VI of England.
- popular discontent with Henry VI’s governance at a local level and the economic slump of the period.
- disagreement amongst the nobility on how to conduct the war with France.
- the phenomenon of ‘bastard feudalism’ where rich landowners were able to possess private armies of retainers, accumulate wealth and diminish the power of the Crown at a local level.
- in the absence of campaigns in France, nobles with private armies could gain an advantage over rivals and settle old scores in England.
- the ambition of Richard, Duke of York to become king.
- the ambition of Edward of York to avenge his father and become king.
- the ambition of Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the murder of his nephews.
- the ambition of Henry Tudor to restore the Lancastrian line of monarchs.
Might Is Right
One of the first causes of the Wars of the Roses was the precedent that stealing the throne of England by war and murder was an acceptable strategy for a future king. Henry IV of England (previously known as Henry Bolingbroke, r. 1399-1413 CE), the first Lancaster king, had done just that: usurped the throne and murdered his predecessor Richard II of England (r. 1377-1399 CE). Kings were supposed to have been born into the role and so been chosen by God to rule. They were not supposed to steal it on the battlefield. Certainly, there had been a few dynastic hiccups along the way, but not since William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087 CE) in 1066 CE, had any king won his throne by murdering the incumbent monarch. Once this line had been crossed by Henry IV, all of his successors had to watch their backs to check the same fate did not befall them. In effect, the throne now belonged to he who had the strongest army and most baronial support.
In addition to these intrigues at the very top of the pyramid of power, the 15th century CE saw the arrival of what historians have called ‘bastard feudalism’. This phenomenon, the partial degradation of medieval feudalism, allowed estate owners to call on their retainers, who sometimes numbered in the hundreds, to serve them in any capacity they saw fit, including military service. Such retainers often wore a badge, such as a boar, swan or flower, to identify themselves as the servants of a particular lord. Consequently, local barons became very powerful and their word was often law. Loyalties were thus transferred from the Crown to the local baron. In addition, these barons could become extremely rich and the king correspondingly poorer as they kept local revenues which the king could not tax without the permission of Parliament. In effect, then, the most powerful barons, whom historians have sometimes labelled ‘over-mighty’, were able to take over many of the functions of the royal government, further weakening both the role and power of the king. Some barons might even consider themselves worthy of becoming the next king and they could achieve this ambition by forming an alliance of like-minded barons keen to follow someone with a trace of royal blood in their veins. In short, for ambitious and ruthless men, the window of opportunity was wide open in 15th-century CE England.
The Weakness of Henry VI
Another early problem that we may trace the Wars of the Roses’ origins to, is the early death of Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422 CE). When Henry died of illness in 1422 CE, he left his son as heir but the young Henry VI was not even one year old. This meant a ruling council governed England and two regents, appointed by Henry V, ruled England and the Crown’s French territories respectively: Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (l. 1390-1447 CE) and John, Duke of Bedford (l. 1389-1435 CE). Both were uncles of the infant King Henry, and a third important figure in this period was Henry’s great-uncle, Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester. Such a situation of divided power was ripe for exploitation by any baron eager to promote his own position at the expense of any rivals.
The king, even when he reached adulthood, proved eager to please but was easily swayed by whoever caught his ear. Henry unwisely involved himself in disputes between nobles, and this only further polarised loyalties. In addition, the English barons disagreed over the policy in France as the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453 CE) reached its closing stages. Some favoured the direct approach Henry V had taken in meeting the French in big set-piece battles, others baulked at the vast expense of such a strategy, while still others wanted a complete withdrawal. Another consequence of the lack of military activity in France was that English barons could use their private armies - often drawn from militia on their estates - to pursue their own interests at home instead of the Crown’s abroad.
In 1445 CE, the marriage of Henry to Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482 CE), niece of Charles VII was yet another cause of discontent. Some war-hungry barons thought this a capitulation while others lamented the lack of a lasting peace from the union. Queen Margaret was thought to have an undue influence on the king, and Henry seemed totally uninterested in warfare. The king further alienated some barons by his support of unpopular figures at court, notably William de la Pole, the Earl of Suffolk. The rebellion of 1450 CE led by Jack Cade only brought further attention to Henry’s misrule at both home and abroad as commoners protested at high taxes, perceived corruption at court, an absence of justice at local level, and the economic slump which saw a reduction in trade because of the Hundred Years’ War with France. The commoners might not have had any direct influence on government but the discord did perhaps give those nobles keen to overthrow the regime another excuse to do so beyond merely extending their own interests.
When Henry VI of England had his first episode of insanity in 1453 CE those powerful barons around him saw an opportunity to improve their own position at court, perhaps even take the throne itself. Henry’s illness may have been inherited from his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France (r. 1422-1461 CE), and the factor which tipped Henry’s mind over the edge might have been the loss of the Hundred Years’ War. The result of this debacle was that the English Crown had lost all its territory in France except Calais. Henry became so ill that he could not move, speak or recognise anyone. In this situation, the kingdom needed a regent and, in 1454 CE, the man chosen was Richard, Duke of York, then perhaps the most powerful and talented of the English barons.
The Great Pretender: Richard, Duke of York
Richard, the Duke of York was now the Protector of the Realm but he wanted more. The duke wanted to be nominated as Henry VI’s heir (at the time he had no children). Richard did have some pedigree as he was the great-grandson of Edward III of England and the nephew of the Earl of March who himself had claimed he was the legitimate heir to Richard II of England (r. 1377-1399 CE). Richard was also seen by some as a representative of reform, a man who could sort out the corrupt government of Henry VI and restore England’s waning economic and military fortunes. Richard, too, had the support of such powerful families as the Nevilles of Middleham who sought allies in their own struggles with the Percy family and others.
The problem was that Henry's wife, Queen Margaret, hated Richard and there was a rival candidate, also keen to be the next king. This was the Earl of Somerset who was also a descendant of Edward III but through that king’s son John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV of England (r. 1399-1413 CE), first ruler of the House of Lancaster. These two men would become great rivals, and their battle at St. Albans on 22 May 1455 CE, which Richard won, was the first of the Wars of the Roses.
When Richard, Duke of York died at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 CE against an army loyal to Henry VI, it seemed the Wars of the Roses would end there. However, Edward, the Duke of York’s son, backed by the powerful and immensely rich Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (1428-71 CE), was promoted as a replacement to his father and to King Henry. When Edward won the bloody Battle of Towton in March 1461 CE, the largest and longest battle in English history, this is indeed what transpired. Henry VI was deposed while Edward of York became Edward IV, the first Yorkist king.
Musical Thrones: Edward IV
Edward IV’s reign was briefly interrupted when his old ally the Earl of Warwick turned against him and, justifying his reputation as 'the kingmaker', reinstated Henry VI in 1470 CE. Edward won back his throne on the battlefield the next year and murdered Henry in the Tower of London. The Earl of Warwick and Henry VI’s only son were killed in battle, and Queen Margaret was imprisoned. It seemed the Yorkists had won the Wars of the Roses, and Edward consolidated his victory by purging any remaining powerful Lancastrians and anyone else who had been disloyal. The king, believing him guilty of treason, even murdered his own brother, George, Duke of Clarence (l. 1449-1478 CE). Edward’s reign was largely peaceful, and the much-needed stability and absence of expensive campaigns in France meant the economy recovered, too.
Richard III: Murder Most Horrid
Richard, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1452 CE) was the younger brother of Edward IV. Richard had helped his brother in several significant battles against the Lancastrians but he, like his namesake father, was ambitious for the biggest prize of all. Richard was not convinced that peace with France was the best policy and may have disagreed with Edward over his treatment of George, Duke of Clarence. Another reason for the division in the Yorkist camp was Edward’s wife, Elizabeth Woodville (l. c. 1437-1492 CE) who was seen as scheming against George and guilty of favouring her own relatives above all others.
Richard’s opportunity came when Edward died unexpectedly, perhaps of a stroke, in 1483 CE. The king was succeeded by his son Edward (b. 1470 CE), but he was only 12 years old. Yet again, the barons hovered around a juvenile monarch, jostling for supremacy. The young Edward V of England would only reign from April to June, and he never even had time to have a coronation. Edward and his younger brother Richard (b. 1473 CE) were imprisoned in the Tower of London where they became known as the ‘Princes in the Tower’. It was not Lancastrian conspiracists who put them there, though, but their own uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. Richard had been nominated by Edward IV as the Protector of the Realm, but when the two princes disappeared, it was widely thought that Richard had murdered them - a general accusation adopted by later Tudor historians and William Shakespeare (1564-1616 CE). In 1483 CE the Duke made himself king, Richard III, but to take the throne via such a terrible crime was only asking for trouble as even pro-Yorkists were alarmed at the act. The Lancastrians, now led by Henry Tudor, were severely weakened but still a threat, and they saw their chance to grab back the crown.
The Roses Unite: Henry Tudor
Henry Tudor did have some royal blood in his veins via the illegitimate Beaufort line which descended from John of Gaunt, a son of Edward III (r. 1327-1377 CE). This was not much of a royal connection, despite the legitimisation of the Beaufort line in 1407 CE, but it was the best the Lancastrians could hope for after Henry VI had left no surviving heir. Henry Tudor allied himself with the alienated Woodvilles, such powerful lords as the Duke of Buckingham who were not happy with Richard’s distribution of estates, and anyone else keen to see the king receive his just deserts. Another important ally was the new king across the Channel, Charles VIII of France (r. 1483-1498 CE).
1484 CE then saw the death of Edward, Richard III’s son and heir, and once more the Lancastrians saw a glimmer of opportunity. In August 1485 CE Henry Tudor landed with an army of French mercenaries at Milford Haven in South Wales and marched to face Richard’s army at Bosworth Field in Lancashire on 22 August 1485 CE. Richard was deserted by some of his key allies, and the king was killed when he made a rash charge at Henry Tudor himself. The new king was crowned Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE) on 30 October 1485 CE, and although there would still be a few minor challenges, the Tudor dynasty went on to rule England uninterrupted until 1603 CE. | FINEWEB-EDU |
U.S. stocks end higher; Dow snaps 5-week winning streak
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- U.S stocks ended higher Friday, buoyed by a raft of positive corporate news, including a raised earnings outlook from Ford, but a near 4 percent rise in crude-oil prices kept a lid on gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 42 points, or 0.4 percent at 10,286 on the session, but snapped a five-week winning streak. The Nasdaq Composite rose 6 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,910.09 while the S&P 500 index rose 5 points to 1,128.52, putting in a sixth straight week of gains. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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flies on a cantaloupe rind; and the sound of their hammers, heard from a distance as I approached, suggested that Senorita Goliath was engaged in doing a castanet dance. The rooms were partitioned off by timbers, in readiness for lathing. Gradually the roof spread over me the protection of shingle blessedness. It was a scene of magnificent industry and diligence, upon which I was content to gaze for hours, as if I had been one entranced. There was but one small cloud upon the firmament of my satisfaction.
Although she lived a mile away, I soon found that Miss Susie Berrith was as prone to running over as a drinking-trough. She was constantly on the scene, leaning against a red cedar which stood near to the piazza, and observing operations with an attentive eye. No doubt she was a very nice girl in her way, but she was also in mine, and I resented it. After all, a promising house is not a performing bear. I am afraid I was not overcordial | WIKI |
Algorithm Implementation/Mathematics/Extended Euclidean algorithm
< Algorithm Implementation | Mathematics
Contents
PythonEdit
Both functions take positive integers a, b as input, and return a triple (g, x, y), such that ax + by = g = gcd(a, b).
Iterative algorithmEdit
def xgcd(b, n):
x0, x1, y0, y1 = 1, 0, 0, 1
while n != 0:
q, b, n = b // n, n, b % n
x0, x1 = x1, x0 - q * x1
y0, y1 = y1, y0 - q * y1
return b, x0, y0
Recursive algorithmEdit
import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(1000000) # long type,32bit OS 4B,64bit OS 8B(1bit for sign)
# return (g, x, y) a*x + b*y = gcd(x, y)
def egcd(a, b):
if a == 0:
return (b, 0, 1)
else:
g, x, y = egcd(b % a, a)
return (g, y - (b // a) * x, x)
Modular inverseEdit
An application of extended GCD algorithm to finding modular inverses:
# x = mulinv(b) mod n, (x * b) % n == 1
def mulinv(b, n):
g, x, _ = egcd(b, n)
if g == 1:
return x % n
HaskellEdit
UnextendedEdit
euclid :: Integral a => a -> a -> a
euclid 0 b = abs b
euclid a 0 = abs a
euclid a b = euclid b $ rem a b
ExtendedEdit
eGCD :: Integer -> Integer -> (Integer,Integer,Integer)
eGCD 0 b = (b, 0, 1)
eGCD a b = let (g, s, t) = eGCD (b `mod` a) a
in (g, t - (b `div` a) * s, s) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
How to animate scroll in jQuery
• by Tyler (236)
• Time to complete: 5 minutes
In this guide, I'll provide sample code for animating scroll in jQuery, and for those looking for more I'll break down each component.
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Assume we have a simple button at the bottom of our page that when clicked scrolls the user to the top of the page.
The markup is simple. Here's the JavaScript.
$(function() { $("#top").on('click', function() { $("HTML, BODY").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, 1000); }); });
Note that the first line, $(function() { is shorthand for $(document).ready(function() {. This simply means we are passing a callback function to the document ready event. It's necessary to do this when our code is expecting DOM elements to exist. Next we are creating a click event handler for our button, $("#top").on('click', function() {. First we specify which element we are listening to, which in our case is #top. The on('click' is very readable - simple means when the user clicks on the #top element. And as before, the anonymous function we create is being passing in as a callback function. So whenever the user clicks on the #top element this function will get fired. Now for the animation. First it should be noted that we are targeting both HTML and BODY for browser compatibility. Some browsers scroll by settings scrollTop on BODY and other on HTML. No, I don't know which ones, and it will probably be unnecessary soon if it isn't already. jQuery provides an animate function that takes a dictionary of CSS properties and values as the first parameter, and an integer representing the animation duration in milliseconds as the second parameter. In our case we are passing in only one css property: scrollTop. And since we are scrolling to the top, we'll set scrollTop to 0. Then as the second parameter we're setting the duration to 1000 milliseconds or if you're really good at math: 1 second. This should give us plenty of time to watch our animation.
2
Now suppose we have an element on the page and we want to scroll to the top of it.
We first need to find out the offset of the image.
var position = $("#image").offset().top;
jQuery's offset() function returns an object containing properties top and left. We're only interested in top because we want to scroll to the top of this element. So using what we've already learned about scroll, we can use our new position as the value of scrollTop:
$(function() { $("#top").on('click', function() { var position = $("#image").offset().top; $("HTML, BODY").animate({ scrollTop: position }, 1000); }); });
This will scroll you to the top of the element with the animation lasting 1 second.
3
Since scrollTop is the position on the page that should land at the top of the window, scrolling to the bottom of the page requires a little bit of math. The position we want to know is the document height - window height. document height will give us the height of the entire web page, while window height just gives us the height of the scrollable area.
var bottom = $(document).height() - $(window).height();
Now we can just use this value in our animation.
$(function() { $("#top").on('click', function() { var bottom = $(document).height() - $(window).height(); $("HTML, BODY").animate({ scrollTop: bottom }, 1000); }); });
4
If you've been experimenting with animating scroll, you've probably noticed that if the scroll distance is small it scrolls very slowly and if the scroll distance is large is scrolls more quickly. This is because we are specifying a duration for the animation, and it doesn't care about distance. In most cases, when your scroll distance can vary you'll want to normalize the scroll rate. So instead of always passing in 1000 for the duration, we want to take our scroll distance into account. First, we have to decide the rate we want to scroll. Let's pick something easy - 1000px/500ms or 1000px/0.5s. We need to write a function that takes the target scroll position, that is the position we are scrolling to, and returns the new duration in milliseconds.
function getDuration(target) { var currentTop = $(window).scrollTop(), rate = 0.5, // 1000px/500ms distance; distance = Math.abs(currentTop - target); return distance * rate; }
First we set our variables. We need to get our current scrollTop position and store that value as currentTop. This allows us to properly calculate the distance between our current position and the target position. Then we specify our rate, which in our case is 0.5 or 1000px/500ms. Finally, we declare our distance variable which will be set soon. Calculating the distance is as simple as subtracting the target from the currentTop. We need to take the absolute value of the result to ensure this works for both directions. Finally we return the new distance we calculated multiplied by the rate. Now let's put our function to use in an example that scrolls us to the bottom of the page at our newly calculated rate.
$(function() { $("#top").on('click', function() { var bottom = $(document).height() - $(window).height(); var duration = getDuration(bottom); $("HTML, BODY").animate({ scrollTop: bottom }, duration); }); });
As you can see the only changes are calling the getDuration function and using the newly calculated duration as the second parameter of the animate function. This method is beneficial because if all of your scrolls will animate at the same speed. If you want to change the speed, all you have to do is modify the rate in our getDuration function. Adjusting the rate to 0.2 will make it go much faster, whereas changing it to 1.5 will slow it down significantly. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Charlamagne tha God/Archive 1
Breakfast Club
I'm taking out the breakfast club redirect because it is about a movie or play & the breakfast club on power 105.1 in NYC is different. KurtWags3 (talk) 06:17, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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Article needs an additional section
It seems appropriate to add a summation section to the end of this article, with the single sentence,
"Zzzzzzzzzz....." — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarvinLuse (talk • contribs) 20:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Transgender comments controversy
There should be a section on the Transgender Comments controversy and the fallout and apology he had to do.
considering all the media coverage it is noteworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:17, 7 August 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Signs of Ships in the Clouds
Ships churning through the Atlantic Ocean produced this patchwork of bright, criss-crossing cloud trails off the coast of Portugal and Spain. The narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships emit as exhaust or that form from gases in the exhaust. Ship tracks typically form in areas where low-lying stratus and cumulus clouds are present.
Some of the pollution particles generated by ships (especially sulfates) are soluble in water and serve as the seeds around which cloud droplets form. Clouds infused with ship exhaust have more and smaller droplets than unpolluted clouds. As a result, the light hitting the polluted clouds scatters in many directions, making them appear brighter and thicker than unpolluted marine clouds, which are typically seeded by larger, naturally occurring particles such as sea salt.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on January 16, 2018. Some of the criss-crossing clouds stretch hundreds of kilometers from end to end. The narrow ends of the clouds are youngest, while the broader, wavier ends are older.
Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response
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‘Confidence in our country is back,’ Trump tells crowd in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump took a victory lap in Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, touting strong economic numbers as proof of his administration’s success, and calling on Congress to pass major tax reform to continue to spur growth. The Trump White House has delivered “incredible results and results that in many cases the media hates to report,” the president declared, ticking off numbers such as low unemployment, growing GDP and a surging stock market — trends that were well under way during President Barack Obama’s second term. The dig at the media came after Trump suggested earlier Wednesday that the government crack down on certain media outlets. “The confidence in our country is back like it hasn’t been in many, many years,” the president told a crowd of about 1,000 at an event for truckers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “The fact is, America is finally back on the right track but our country and our economy cannot take off like they should” without tax reform. Trump largely hewed to his script, avoiding lengthy riffs on other topics and promising expansive benefits from a tax plan that has yet to be fully detailed by the White House or tax writers in Congress. “You better get it passed,” Trump said of Congress. “They will, I know.” The speech marked a continuation of the president’s road show to promote tax reform and turn up the heat on Senate Democrats seeking re-election in 2018 in states he carried last November. Trump was joined last month in North Dakota by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and in Indiana by Sen. Joe Donnelly, two of the most vulnerable Democrats in states where Trump remains popular. However, Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator, Bob Casey, did not appear with Trump on Wednesday. He received his invitation only on Tuesday, and his office said he couldn’t attend because of a scheduling conflict. “Our framework ensures that the benefits of tax reform go to the middle class, not to the highest earners,” Trump declared at one point. “It’s a middle-class bill.” Independent analyses have shown highest-income households would reap the largest benefits from the president’s proposal. “I’ve had rich friends of mine come up to me and say, ‘Donald you’re doing this tax plan, we don’t want anything, we don’t,’” Trump said. “So many people have come up to me and said, ‘Give it to the middle class, give it to the people that need it.’” He specifically cited New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who Trump noted had given him a Super Bowl ring. Kraft encouraged Trump to focus his tax plan on the middle class, Trump told the crowd. The speech included vague promises of fulfilling “great American dreams” and a pledge to repair U.S. infrastructure, though the president did not get into the details. He also took a moment to reflect on his new line of work. “I had a very good life, but you know what? I’m having a better life now and I’m helping a lot of people,” Trump told the crowd, which roared its approval. The speech did not include any sustained appeal to Democrats, even though the White House insists Trump is serious about winning bipartisan support for the approach on taxes. Trump has at times sought to woo Democrats — “good woman,” he said of Heitkamp as she joined him onstage last month — while at times opting for threats. “And your Senator, Claire McCaskill, she must do this for you,” he told a Missouri crowd in August. “And if she doesn’t do it for you, you have to vote her out of office.” Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania seems far less likely than other Trump-state Democrats to come on board with the tax-reform push. Casey has not sought to strike a cooperative posture toward the president, as Heitkamp and Donnelly have, instead taking on the role of a vocal and frequent critic. He showed as much Wednesday, releasing a statement slamming Trump’s tax proposals. “Congressional Republicans are not pursuing tax reform, just a massive tax giveaway to the super-rich at the expense of the middle class,” Casey said. “80% of the Republican tax plan goes to the top 1% by 2027— that’s a bad deal for middle class families and workers.” His race is expected to have echoes of 2016, particularly if his opponent is Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Penn.), an early Trump supporter and an immigration hard-liner who joined the president on Wednesday’s trip. Casey is still viewed as the favorite, even after Trump became the first Republican to carry the Keystone State since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Casey had a 46 percent approval rating in a Morning Consult poll conducted this past spring, with 21 percent of voters disapproving of his performance. Trump won a narrow victory over Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania in 2016, beating her by about 44,000 votes out of more than 6 million ballots cast. “He’s moved to the left as his party and the voters in his party have moved to the left,” said G. Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin & Marshall College poll. Still, “Casey is not your quintessential urban Democrat. Casey has not in some sense forgotten his working-class roots, where Republicans have made their biggest gains.” Madonna sees the race as Casey’s to lose — especially if the 2018 midterms shape up broadly to be a referendum on Trump, as many analysts expect. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Circuit Idea/Using Cause and Effect Relationships
Revealing causality
Classical electronics courses do not reveal cause and effect relations in electronic circuits. For example, who cares if there is a causality and what causes what (what quantity is an input and what an output) in Ohm's law? Authors just suppose that voltage and current change simultaneously; they do not mind how the famous rule is written (I = V/R, V = I.R or R = V/I).
Also, the classical approach considers active elements as proportional, inertialess devices where the input and output quantities change simultaneously. For example, it is believed that the collector current of a transistor changes simultaneously with its base current, the output voltage of an operational amplifier changes simultaneously with the input its voltage etc. Viewed in this way, the operation of the devices can hardly be understood because the cause-and-effect relationship between the input and output quantities is not visible.
Only, we human beings consider every change in this world as a result of some cause (in electronics that means the output quantity is a result of the input quantity). We cannot imagine that the input and output quantities can change simultaneously. We know that always the input is first and the output is second; so, the output always follows (delays) the input. So, in order to understand the operation of electronic devices, cause and effect relations must be seen.
Introducing causality
In the case when apparently there is no causality in electronic circuits, we can introduce it. Let's for concreteness consider the example above of Ohm's law. There, we first assume that voltage causes current (I = V/R) in a voltage supplied Ohm's circuit; thus we "invent" the simplest voltage-to-current converter.
Changing causality
But we know that this cause and effect relation is an arbitrary choice; so, we can change (reverse) it. This means we can assume with the same success that current causes voltage (V = I.R) in a current supplied Ohm's circuit; thus we "invent" the reverse current-to-voltage converter.
Evolving this powerful idea we will (re)invent a lot of useful and original circuits by using any accessible circuit points (including circuit outputs, supply terminals, etc.) and component parameters as an input. For example, varying with resistance as an input quantity we will obtain a resistance-to-current converter (in the case of a voltage supplied Ohm's circuit) and a resistance-to-voltage converter (in the case of a current supplied Ohm's circuit). Then, applying an input voltage to the output of an emitter follower we will "invent" the odd common-base transistor amplifying stage. Later, changing causality, we will transmute a digital-to-analog converter into a digital controlled amplifier. | WIKI |
Mofezolac
Mofezolac (INN), sold under the name Disopain in Japan, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used for its analgesic and anti-inflammatory actions. It is often prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis, lower back pain, frozen shoulder, and pain management after surgery or trauma. It is also being investigated for potential use in the treatment of neuroinflammation.
Common side effects include abdominal pain, stomach discomfort, nausea, sleepiness, itch, hives, rash, erythema, and edema. Serious side effects include peptic ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, asthma attack, jaundice, acute liver failure, and thrombocytopenia. Use is not recommended during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Mofezolac acts via selective inhibition of the cyclooxygenase COX-1 and consequent suppression of prostaglandin synthesis. It is the most potent and selective reversible COX-1 inhibitor. Studies of ovine COX-1 in complex with mofezolac indicate that the drug forms a combination of electrostatic, H-bond, hydrophobic, and van der Waals contacts with the enzyme active site channel, contributing to mofezolac's high binding affinity.
Mofezolac belongs to the class of isoxazoles and is a substrate of CYP2C9.
It is manufactured and marketed by Nipro ES Pharma Co., Ltd. | WIKI |
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class template
<list>
std::list
template < class T, class Alloc = allocator<T> > class list;
List
Lists are sequence containers that allow constant time insert and erase operations anywhere within the sequence, and iteration in both directions.
List containers are implemented as doubly-linked lists; Doubly linked lists can store each of the elements they contain in different and unrelated storage locations. The ordering is kept internally by the association to each element of a link to the element preceding it and a link to the element following it.
They are very similar to forward_list: The main difference being that forward_list objects are single-linked lists, and thus they can only be iterated forwards, in exchange for being somewhat smaller and more efficient.
Compared to other base standard sequence containers (array, vector and deque), lists perform generally better in inserting, extracting and moving elements in any position within the container for which an iterator has already been obtained, and therefore also in algorithms that make intensive use of these, like sorting algorithms.
The main drawback of lists and forward_lists compared to these other sequence containers is that they lack direct access to the elements by their position; For example, to access the sixth element in a list, one has to iterate from a known position (like the beginning or the end) to that position, which takes linear time in the distance between these. They also consume some extra memory to keep the linking information associated to each element (which may be an important factor for large lists of small-sized elements).
Container properties
Sequence
Elements in sequence containers are ordered in a strict linear sequence. Individual elements are accessed by their position in this sequence.
Doubly-linked list
Each element keeps information on how to locate the next and the previous elements, allowing constant time insert and erase operations before or after a specific element (even of entire ranges), but no direct random access.
Allocator-aware
The container uses an allocator object to dynamically handle its storage needs.
Template parameters
T
Type of the elements.
Aliased as member type list::value_type.
Alloc
Type of the allocator object used to define the storage allocation model. By default, the allocator class template is used, which defines the simplest memory allocation model and is value-independent.
Aliased as member type list::allocator_type.
Member types
member typedefinitionnotes
value_typeThe first template parameter (T)
allocator_typeThe second template parameter (Alloc)defaults to: allocator<value_type>
referenceallocator_type::referencefor the default allocator: value_type&
const_referenceallocator_type::const_referencefor the default allocator: const value_type&
pointerallocator_type::pointerfor the default allocator: value_type*
const_pointerallocator_type::const_pointerfor the default allocator: const value_type*
iteratora bidirectional iterator to value_typeconvertible to const_iterator
const_iteratora bidirectional iterator to const value_type
reverse_iteratorreverse_iterator<iterator>
const_reverse_iteratorreverse_iterator<const_iterator>
difference_typea signed integral type, identical to: iterator_traits<iterator>::difference_typeusually the same as ptrdiff_t
size_typean unsigned integral type that can represent any non-negative value of difference_typeusually the same as size_t
member typedefinitionnotes
value_typeThe first template parameter (T)
allocator_typeThe second template parameter (Alloc)defaults to: allocator<value_type>
referencevalue_type&
const_referenceconst value_type&
pointerallocator_traits<allocator_type>::pointerfor the default allocator: value_type*
const_pointerallocator_traits<allocator_type>::const_pointerfor the default allocator: const value_type*
iteratora bidirectional iterator to value_typeconvertible to const_iterator
const_iteratora bidirectional iterator to const value_type
reverse_iteratorreverse_iterator<iterator>
const_reverse_iteratorreverse_iterator<const_iterator>
difference_typea signed integral type, identical to:
iterator_traits<iterator>::difference_type
usually the same as ptrdiff_t
size_typean unsigned integral type that can represent any non-negative value of difference_typeusually the same as size_t
Member functions
Iterators:
Capacity:
Element access:
Modifiers:
Operations:
Observers:
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Fort Griswold
Fort Griswold is a former American defensive fortification in Groton, Connecticut named after Deputy Governor Matthew Griswold. The fort played a key role in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, in correspondence with Fort Trumbull on the opposite side of the Thames River. Griswold defended the port of New London, Connecticut, a supply center for the Continental Army and friendly port for Connecticut-based privateers who targeted British shipping. The 17-acre site is maintained as Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
History
Construction of the fort was begun on December 5, 1775 in response to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. It was completed in 1778 and was also called Groton Fort. It is located on a hill with the ability to bombard ships entering the Thames River. About 100 feet below the main fort is a battery for additional guns which was built during the Revolutionary War and improved in the late 19th century.
In September 1781, British forces under Benedict Arnold successfully captured Fort Griswold. The British were well informed of the layout of Fort Griswold, and Arnold approached the river from such an angle that its guns could not engage his ships. Arnold's forces split up, some to burn New London and the rest to attack the fort in the Battle of Groton Heights. The British eventually overran the American defenders, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Ledyard surrendered by handing his sword hilt-first to Loyalist officer Major Bromfield, who took it and thrust it through Ledyard. Arnold abandoned the fort soon after, and American forces eventually retook possession of it.
Later use
The fort was rebuilt and manned in several other conflicts, but the Battle of Groton Heights was its most prominent use. It was used during the War of 1812 by sailors commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur when Decatur's three-ship squadron was blockaded by a larger Royal Navy force in 1814. In the 1840s, the fort's lower battery was rebuilt for 20 guns, initially 32-pounder and 24-pounder cannons.
After the American Civil War, the lower battery was redesigned to mount 10-inch Rodman guns. It was a sub-post of Fort Trumbull for most of its use by the Army, although it was never actively garrisoned after the Civil War and had an ordnance sergeant as caretaker. It was in the care of Ordnance Sergeant Mark Wentworth Smith from 1863 to 1879, a Mexican–American War veteran who was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. Sergeant Smith died in 1879 at age 76, the oldest active duty enlisted soldier in the history of the Army. Fort Griswold became obsolete after the Spanish–American War, when Fort H. G. Wright was completed in 1906 on Fishers Island as part of the Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound.
State park
The State of Connecticut has owned and operated the site as Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park since 1953. This includes the restored earthwork battery, cannons, and a shot furnace and powder magazine. The grounds include several monuments and memorials to state residents who fought in different wars:
* The Groton Monument is a granite obelisk dedicated to the defenders who fell during the Battle of Groton Heights. It was built between 1826 and 1830 and stands 135 ft tall with 166 steps.
* The adjacent Monument House Museum features exhibits about the Revolutionary War and is operated by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Visitors can climb the monument and visit the museum from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
* The Ebenezer Avery House sheltered the wounded after the Battle of Groton Heights. It is a Revolutionary-period historic house museum that is open for tours on summer weekends. | WIKI |
Talk:Ataroth
TWo Ataroths on Mesha Stele?!
Ataroth is identified as TWO places?! The paragraph makes a distinction between a place and massacre at Ataroth, and one at "Nebo (Ataroth)". Why? Also, where does Nebo come in? Arminden (talk) 14:38, 1 July 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/127
"P.S. The half pipe of Port wine I told you of is come in, and I think it promises to be as good, sterling, stuff as ever you need wish to taste—some body in it—none of your French vinegary slip-slop. Depend on 't, Port's the wine for Englishmen—there's some stamina in it: that's the ground I stand upon."
Hargrave Grey, Esq., to Vivian Grey, Esq.
" October—, 18—
"You ought not to expect a letter from me. I cannot conceive why you do not occasionally answer your correspondent's letters, if correspondents they may be called. It is really a most unreasonable habit of yours; any one but myself would quarrel with you.
"A letter from Baker met me at this place, and I find that the whole of that most disagreeable, and annoying, business is arranged. From the promptitude skill, and energy, which | WIKI |
User:Yogianoop
Yogi Anoop (Anoop Shukla) was born in a Brahmin family of Allahabad and finished his formal education with an M.A. in Yoga. He is strongly influenced by the writings of the great poet-saint Kabir. Spiritual Guru Sh. Abhilash Sahil of Allahabad introduced him to the various schools of yoga. He has taken many elements from each of them and uses it in his daily practice, which helps him in leading a happy, health and harmonious life.
In his 32 years of yoga and meditation, he has been able to help many people who were suffering from contemporary diseases lie hypertension, diabetes and problems related to the spine. His own practice of yoga and meditation, which has led him to be keen and compassionate observer of the human condition, has helped him in bringing respite to many, who could not be helped by modern medicine.
He has famous centre named MediYOga. www.mediyoga.in | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N&k Technology
The result was Delete. Keilana | Parlez ici 03:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
N&k Technology
AfDs for this article:
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Article about a company written by User:Nktechnology. Are they notable. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 20:26, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
* Exterminate Weak Keep with Eastmain's sources, it does help establish notability. The article still reads a bit like an ad, though, and may still be axed just for that. Red Zion X 14:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete as insufficiently notable per WP:CORP. — Satori Son 21:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
* Comment: I looked over the new links, but I still don't see enough to meet any of the various criteria at WP:CORP. Staying with "Delete" for now. — Satori Son 14:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
* Keep. I added some references (magazine articles). The journal articles published in Physical Review B which presumably relate to technologies used in this company's products tend to establish notability because research has to be quite good to be published there. Even though the article started out as a self-advertisement, I think the company is notable. --Eastmain (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete WP:CORP and looks like somewhat of an advert. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
* Send to cleanup: The top half of the article is the only part we would want, and yet it is spectacularly uninformative. One assumes that such a manufacturer is important, as it's a particularly interesting and cutting edge industry, but the article is all about the director (something a stock investor might want to read) and not about the company. I.e. it looks like a press release with a Wikipedia article squatting on it. Utgard Loki (talk) 18:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete as fails WP:CORP; the source cited are either the company's own press releases or are directories, and there are no reliable secondary sources in evidence here. I agree with Milk's Favorite Cookie that this article reads like an advertorial, and this may fail WP:SPAM as well. --Gavin Collins (talk) 16:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- Gavin Collins (talk) 16:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete fails WP:CORP. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 16:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete The creator of the entry is "Nktechnology." Yeah, good try. TheAsianGURU (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
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User:Shahzadaazad
The Founder of Jamiat Al Quraish
(Moulana Shahzada Azad was born in 17th 1898 at village Samberial distt,Sialkot Punjab)
BIOGRAPHY:
Moulana Shahzada Azad Barkat Ali, Samberialy was the founder of Jamiat. Jamiat was formed in 1922 at Village Samberial District. Sialkot Punjab ( Presently in Pakistan) and gradually spreaded in all over the in India. Moulana Shahzada Azad was born in 17th 1898 at village Samberial distt,Sialkot Punjab. He Formed the jamiat for the welfare of his Quraish Community. in his younger age he felt that his commuinty is not well established. there was lake of education. the employment in army and police was prohibited and there was ban on buying the agricultural land aslo. the main subject was the entry of names of caste of the clans as per their ancectors. Moulana Shahzada Azad exchanged his views with the Census Ministry and many times he was preseneted in front of Simon comission also. he was the president of Union of all India depressed communities. he gave the constructive approch and consiousness by his writings to the non-agriculturist communities to awake up and fight against the injustice rules. he preached to depressed communities to get the education and get the rid of libelous and affront professions. Nowdays all the costs are non-agriculturist clans are being written in the legal documents bu their ancectors. This is all credit goes to Moulana Shahzada Azad. He was Ameer of his Quraish commuinity. Many organizations are working by the different names to procead his mission all over the world. (The main offices are in Dheli run by Mr. Sirahudin Quraishi, In Lahore run by Professor Arshad Bukhari and in Dubai UAE run by his Grand-son Shahzada Akif.) Moulana Shahzada Azad was not only the community leader, he was one of freedom fighter of sub continent. he was member of all india National Congress. many times he was sent proson in the charge of rebellion sppeches against British regime. At last He was exiled in 1938, His printing press was discipline.Moulana Shahzada Azad was concervative in values. Prohreessive in out look and stead fast in resolution. He was Religious Scholar, Polotician, Genealgist, Jounalist, Historian. He worked with Ahrar Leaders and joined the " Terike Khilafat" He joined many processions of Jamiat al Ulmae Hind also. He was arrested in 1936 in Kambulpur in the change of speech regarding Therike Khliafat Nabuwat. after the partition of Sub-continent, He stayed in Lyalpur (Pakistan). He issued the newspaper Islam musawat from Lyalpure and Al Qurasih from Sialkot. In 1952 All Pakistan Quraish conference was held under his patronage in Laylpure Sudden after this conference He got paralize. He shifted in his village Samberial and spent of the rest of the life in village. He is an author of the some books, in which two books Tarikhul Quraish and Tahrikh Kiraka Rajput are the famous books. He spent 15 years (1952-1967) under the disease of paralyze. DEATH:
He died in june 26th 1967 in his village Samberial and burried in the same village also.
BOOKS:
* 1) Tarikhul Quraish
* 2) Tahrikh Kiraka Rajput
MAIN OFFICES:
* in Islamabad run by his Grandson Shahzada Akif.
* in Dheli run by Mr. Sirahudin Quraishi.
* in Lahore run by Professor Arshad Bukhari.
EXTERNAL LINKS:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010107/ldh1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambrial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialkot_International_Airport
SHAHZADA AZAD ON FACEBOOK:
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Patterson and SumTotal Team Up - Analyst Blog
Patterson Companies Inc. ( PDCO ), a Minnesota-based distributor of dental, veterinarian and rehabilitation medical supplies, has collaborated with SumTotal Systems, LLC, a provider of integrated Human Resource (HR) solutions. Patterson will be utilizing the latter's SumTotal Talent Expansion applications to build upon its mobile and social learning abilities.
Given the need of the hour to fight strong competition, Patterson recognized the necessity of adding value to its existing workforce, to drive both personal and professional excellence. PDCO's decentralized 7,000-strong workforce is spread across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, France and China. Therefore, it became imperative for management to keep their employees updated with the latest HR technologies.
Talent Expansion is a learning-focused approach to HR technology that assists employees to expand their talent real time. We believe SumTotal's interactive, intuitive user interface and robust reporting capabilities should help develop the hidden potential within PDCO's workforce.
Patterson currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). The company reported a disappointing fiscal 2014 first-quarter results, reflecting a challenging macro environment. PDCO's earnings per share (EPS) of 45 cents in the reported quarter remained flat year over year and missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3 cents.
Moreover, revenues dropped marginally by 1% to $880.1 million from $889.2 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Revenues were considerably lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $918 million.
The core dental business also faced difficult year-over-year comparisons in the quarter. However, management is confident that the business will deliver incremental returns for the rest of fiscal 2014 on the back of its new product CEREC Omnicam, and rising demand.
Despite these shortcomings, we note that Patterson's Veterinary business is growing modestly, reflecting a tailwind in the underlying market. Moreover, the Medical business is also geared to improve in the long-term, reaping the benefits of PDCO's advanced products portfolio and underlying favorable demographics.
While we choose to remain on the sidelines regarding PDCO, medical/dental supplies companies that are worth considering include STRAUMANN HLD N AKT ( SAUHF ), MWI Veterinary Supply ( MWIV ) and Align Technology ( ALGN ). SAUHF carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), while MWIV and ALGN carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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I have a module which is misbehaving. An EFQ is returing unexpected results, but I can't see why just by looking at the code. Is there a dpq() equivalent for EFQs? Other ways of debugging them?
• Similar question: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/33473/…. Can you cast the query object to a string to inspect it to see if the SQL gives any clues? – Clive Jul 10 '12 at 8:43
• 1
Great suggestions, however: Recoverable fatal error: Object of class EntityFieldQuery could not be converted to string :( – Letharion Jul 10 '12 at 8:50
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It's a wee bit of a hack, but you could add a tag to any EntityFieldQuery you're interested in printing the query for, then implement hook_query_alter() to intercept it when it's a standard SelectQuery, then cast it to string for debugging:
function MYMODULE_query_alter($query) {
if ($query->hasTag('efq_debug')) {
dpm((string)$query);
}
}
$q = new EntityFieldQuery;
$q->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node')
->addTag('efq_debug')
->execute();
It's a bit of a hack but does the trick. The output for the above is:
SELECT node.nid AS entity_id, node.vid AS revision_id, node.type AS bundle, :entity_type
AS entity_type
FROM {node} node
Presumably this will also only work when using MySQL as the field storage system.
• Sounds great in theory, but what about the comments on the question? EFQ doesn't implement __toString()? – Letharion Jul 20 '12 at 11:19
• 4
By the time it gets to hook_query_alter() the query isn't an EntityFieldQuery any more, it's been converted down to a standard db_select(), so __tostring() works great :) Since working this out I've been using it quite a lot and it works pretty well – Clive Jul 20 '12 at 12:11
• Confirmed that casting to string works once the query gets to hook_query_alter(). – jhedstrom Aug 27 '12 at 21:09
• To see the query argumentos (":entity_type" in the above example) you can use dpm($query->arguments()); – sanzante Nov 23 '14 at 14:09
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Rather than rolling your own hook_query_alter() you can let Devel module do the heavy lifting for you by adding the debug tag:
$q = new EntityFieldQuery;
$q->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node');
->addTag('debug')
->execute();
This will print the query to screen, just like dpq() would.
4
Adding to the @Clive answer, which generally prints the query with the placeholder not along with the value. To print the value with the query use the following code under the hook_query_alter.
function hook_query_alter($query) {
if ($query->hasTag('debug')) {
$sql = (string)$query;
$connection = Database::getConnection();
foreach ((array) $query->arguments() as $key => $val) {
$quoted[$key] = $connection->quote($val);
}
$sql = strtr($sql, $quoted);
dpm($sql);
}
}
$q = new EntityFieldQuery;
$q->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node');
->addTag('debug');
->execute();
It is not good practice to install a module for the few lines of code. That is why I opted for the aforementioned solution.
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If you download the dev version of Nice DPQ (or anything => 1.1), you can simply do:
$user_query = new EntityFieldQuery();
$user_query->entityCondition('entity_type','user');
$user_query->addTag('nicedpq');
$user_result = $user_query->execute();
and you will get the query dpm'ed nicely :). The important part in the code above is addTag('nicedpq') - that triggers the dpm().
• nice alternate workaround to devel. Couldn't find that module directly over DO because they removed related module block which was there earliar. – kiranking Oct 13 '15 at 8:44
1
You can try to debug it via XDebug. Once installed, do xdebug_start_trace() before the code, and xdebug_stop_trace() after that, then you'll have clear trace log what was executed and where.
Also you can enable query logger in MySQL configuration.
The other method is to use strace/truss/dtruss like debuggers.
Example using dtruss:
• all queries
sudo dtruss -t read -n mysqld
• specific queries
sudo dtruss -t read -n mysqld 2>&1 | grep SPECIFIC_TEXT
Note that dtruss is just a script which uses DTrace, so you may consider a direct implementation of PHP DTrace static probes or DTracing MySQL by writing your own script.
Read more: Advanced debugging of Drupal core using the command line (strace & tcpdump)
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Add this function to your module. Then, add the tag debug to any EFQ. Requires Devel module to be enabled in order to print the query.
/**
* Implements hook_query_TAG_alter().
*
* Add the tag 'debug' to any EFQ and this will print the query to the messages.
*
* @param \QueryAlterableInterface $query
*/
function MYMODULE_query_debug_alter(QueryAlterableInterface $query) {
if (function_exists('dpq') && !$query->hasTag('debug-semaphore')) {
$query->addTag('debug-semaphore');
dpq($query);
}
}
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Nickson Fong
* ... that Singaporean animator Nickson Fong is the first local to be awarded an Academy Award?
* Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KDOC First Night
* Comment: Recently moved from sandbox to main space. May I request that this (if approved) appear on the main page on Feb 9 (the date he receives the award)?
Created by Bonkers The Clown (talk). Self nom at 08:16, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
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Difference Between Rc::clone(&rc) and rc.clone() in Rust
Nilesh Katuwal Jan 30, 2023
1. Use Rc::clone(&rc) for Cloning in Rust
2. the rc.clone() in Rust
Difference Between Rc::clone(&rc) and rc.clone() in Rust
In this article we’ll tackle about the difference between Rc::clone(&rc) and rc.clone() in Rust. Both of the traits are used for cloning or duplicating an object.
Use Rc::clone(&rc) for Cloning in Rust
Rc::clone(&rc) is used to make one new shared reference instead of cloning the underlying object referenced. Rc stands for Reference Counted, and the shared ownership of type T value is provided by the type Rc<T>, allocated in a heap.
use std::fmt;
use std::rc::Rc;
fn print_it<T: fmt::Display>(val: T) {
println!("{}", val);
}
fn main(){
let greet = Rc::new("Hello, world".to_string());
let borrowed = Rc::clone(&greet);
print_it(greet);
print_it(borrowed);
}
Output:
Hello, world
Hello, world
We have displayed the scope of Rc in the code written above by using the use statement. Then, the Rc type is created associated with the function::new() with the original string.
Later a reference is created using another relative function::clone() for the original greet:RC (this is not the same as the initial reference, i.e., &greet). We have tried to print both referenced and an original variable using this code’s function print_it.
The execution of Rc::clone does not make a deep copy of the data like most types of executions of clones do. Data’s deep copy can take a great deal of time.
By involving Rc::clone for reference counting, we can recognize the deep copy type of clones and the type that increases the reference count. While searching for execution issues in the code, we need to consider the deep copy clones and ignore calls to Rc::clone.
the rc.clone() in Rust
The clone() function creates a new owned handle, which can be moved to a new thread. According to the standard library of Rust, this function tends to make common code patterns easy to misinterpret.
The issue is that more-specific processes and types, which could advantage from detailed nomenclature, are only accessible through high-level or abstract terms.
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MercadoLibre Has a Secret Weapon in Mercado Pago
You might not think of MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) as a fintech stock. The internet retailer dominates e-commerce in South America. But its payments solution, Mercado Pago, might be the secret weapon that will propel this stock much, much higher.
In this episode of "The 5," Danny Vena explains why he's excited about Mercado Pago. This segment was recorded live on Oct 11.
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Jason Hall: Danny, you're going to talk a little bit about a company that led the fintech world when it came to providing digital payment services for people that don't have access to banks.
Danny Vena: This is true. When you first said "fintech," immediately all the regular suspects came to mind. Taylor just mentioned a couple of them, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), Square (NYSE: SQ), SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST). But for me, you're talking about the region of Latin America, which has twice the population of the United States. Secondly, it's much less banked or more underbanked than the United States. Essentially, you've got half the population doesn't have a checking account. You've only got about 30 percent of the population with a credit card, according to recent figures, I think it was from World Bank.
The bottom line is, a lot of people, not a lot of financial services being used. MercadoLibre introduced Mercado Pago as a way to get around that when the company introduced its e-commerce back in 1999. Now since then, they modeled Mercado Pago after PayPal. But they gave it a Latin American twist. This is a cash-based society largely. If you have cash in your hand and you want to buy something on e-commerce, you're stuck. But what they did was they made it so that these folks could walk into their local convenience store, they could hand the person at the register some cash, they'd get a receipt, the money goes into their Mercado Pago account, and then they can use that just like they could any other digital wallet.
That's been going on for years and years now. The company is very well entrenched in Latin America. In fact, Mercado Pago became so successful that they then turned around and unleashed it on the rest of retail. Now you can use Mercado Pago just about anywhere that you can use a credit card in Latin America. It's been growing hugely, triple-digit growth, going back at least five or six quarters year over year. There's a lot more growth that can happen. In fact, MercadoLibre's payments business has exceeded its e-commerce business largely because of the success of Mercado Pago.
There are a lot of fintech businesses out there that we're waiting for them to prove themselves. Mercado Pago already has, and it's been driving growth at MercadoLibre for years now. I would say, if you're looking for something that's already proven, I think MercadoLibre is the way to go.
Danny Vena owns shares of MercadoLibre, PayPal Holdings, SoFi Technologies, Inc., Square, and Upstart Holdings, Inc. and has the following options: long January 2022 $85 calls on PayPal Holdings. Jason Hall owns shares of MercadoLibre, SoFi Technologies, Inc., and Square. Taylor Carmichael owns shares of PayPal Holdings and Square. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends MercadoLibre, PayPal Holdings, SoFi Technologies, Inc., Square, and Upstart Holdings, Inc. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2022 $75 calls on PayPal Holdings. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Obesity is a significant public health concern in the major pharmaceutical markets under study and is growing into an epidemic. Despite the prevalence of the disease, few drugs are available to treat it (especially in Europe and Japan). Worse still, available therapies do not have acceptable risk:benefit profiles, and few novel agents are in the late-stage pipeline. Thus, the market opportunity for an antiobesity drug that elicits sustained weight loss and is safe and welltolerated is huge. Antiobesity agents that were launched over 2012-2017 include the GLP-1 receptor agonist Saxenda (Novo Nordisk) and the fixed-dose combination (FDC) of naltrexone and bupropion (Orexigen’s Mysimba in Europe). The diabetes space is inspiring the next generation of weight- loss agents; Novo Nordisk’s semaglutideand Johnson & Johnson’s FDC canagliflozin/phentermine are both in late-stage development.
Questions Answered:
• Physicians and regulators, particularly in Europe and Japan, have been very cautious with respect to novel antiobesity drugs. Is the attitude of regulators expected to change over the forecast period? How will physicians’ caution affect the uptake of novel medications?
• Several novel branded and generic GLP-1 receptor agonists are forecast to launch in the United States and EU over the forecast period. How will the availability of new pharmacotherapeutic agents affect medical practice in these markets? What will be the overall impact on drug use and sales?
• Prescribing generic medication off-label for weight loss is common practice, owing to the limited efficacy, tolerability, and availability of approved medications. How will the availability of novel branded antiobesity agents affect off-label prescribing?
Scope:
Markets covered: United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Japan.
Primary research: 19 country-specific interviews with obesity thought leaders.
Epidemiology: Prevalence of obesity by severity; prevalence of overweight by eligibility for drug treatment.
Emerging therapies: Phase II: 12 drugs; Phase III: 2 drugs (Phase III-ready); preregistration: 0 drugs; registered: 0 drugs. Coverage of 14 select preclinical and Phase I products.
Key Companies: Alizé Pharma, AstraZeneca, Eisai, Emros Pharmaceuticals, Hanmi Pharmaceuticals, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Levo Therapeutics, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Opko Health, Orexigen Therapeutics, Raziel Therapeutics, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi, Saniona, Shionogi, Takeda, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Vivus, Zealand Pharma
Key Drugs: AZP-531, Belviq, canagliflozin, carbetocin, Contrave/Mysimba, efpeglenatide, EMP-16, Invokana, LIK-066, lorcaserin, MEDI-0382, OPK-88003, orlistat, phentermine, phentermine/canagliflozin, phentermine/topiramate, Qsymia, RZL-012, S-237648, Saxenda, semaglutide, setmelanotide, taurocholic acid, tesofensine, Xenical, ZP-2929. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Hello! I'm a fairly new Wikipedian who likes video games and uses the word quadrice. My account's pretty old in internet years but I've only really been becoming more of a Wikipedian in the last few months so let me know if I make any mistakes, and I'll try to learn.
My sub- and related pages
* My user talk
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Looking after your prostate
By Clair Whitty - Naturally Healthy
It's time to talk about your prostate. If you're getting up several times to pee during the night you could have an enlarged prostate gland. This is normally treatable and a visit to your doctor will help put your mind at ease. Enlarged prostate affects 50% of men over 50. Many men dismiss symptoms, putting them down to getting older.
If the prostate enlarges the flow of urine can become obstructed causing slow or stop-start urination. Symptoms include:
• A weak stream of urine.
• Straining to pass urine or urination takes a long time.
• Stop/start urination where the urine appears to have finished and then re-starts again.
• Frequent trips to the toilet, both in the day and through the night.
• An urgent need to pass urine, sometimes with a little leaking at the first sign of wanting to go.
Symptoms can lead to irritability, anxiety, loss of sex drive and can have a significant, negative impact on the quality of life. It interrupts sleep and often that of your partner. If left untreated it can lead to an increased risk of serious and expensive long-term complications such as acute retention of urine, kidney and bladder conditions, and hospitalisation.
If you're experiencing these symptoms, please do visit your doctor and get a diagnosis of exactly what the problem is. If you have an enlarged prostate your doctor may prescribe medication, or surgery.
A healthy diet and lifestyle will help to keep you and your prostate healthy. Avoid high saturated fats, sugar and caffeine. Reduce salt, white processed breads, and pastries. Alcohol and smoking both contribute to inflammation and should be avoided.
Eat plenty of vegetables, nuts, seeds, oily fish as well as foods that contain zinc. These foods include shellfish, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, pecan nuts, fish, and eggs. Alcohol interferes with the uptake of zinc another reason to avoid alcohol.
To maintain prostate health you could consider A.Vogel Saw Palmetto tincture. Take a multivitamin that contains zinc, and Omega 3 oils and you're well on your way to keeping your prostate healthy.
Excess weight will increase the severity of the symptoms, while regular exercise will help you to lose those extra pounds and help improve the condition.
So look after yourself and visit your doctor for a check-up if you're worried. You'll be glad you did.
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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (Ursus nella valle dei leoni, also known as Valley of the Lions) is a 1962 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Although it was the fourth film in the Italian "Ursus" series, it was the first to provide Ursus with an origin story, explaining how he was raised by a lioness. Ed Fury once again appears as Ursus and Alberto Lupo plays the villainous Ajak.
When the film was distributed in the US, the title was shortened to simply Valley of the Lions. This film was also distributed as Son of Atlas in the Valley of the Lions.
Plot
The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom, and during the battle, the besieged King Annurius orders one of his subjects to take his son Ursus to a place of safety outside of the city, after first putting a royal medallion around the baby's neck. Ajak kills the king and usurps his throne, but the infant prince is smuggled out of the city to safety.
Later through a series of incidents, the baby Ursus winds up being abandoned alone in a hidden valley in the wilderness where he is adopted and raised by a pride of lions who mistake him for one of their cubs. In a storyline similar to "Tarzan of the Apes", Ursus grows to manhood with the lions as his family.
One day, a caravan of slave girls heading to market breaks down near Ursus' cave and after repairing their wagon, Ursus takes Ania, one of the slave girls, as his payment. During an eventful courtship, Ursus explains despite being raised by lions, he was educated by merchants passing through the valley. Through these interactions however, Ursus learned of the treacherous side of humankind and chose to remain in the wilderness. He offers a place in his home among the lions to Ania who accepts. Unsurprisingly, a mutual attraction evolves into a romance.
The evil king Ajak is still alive and sitting on Ursus' father's throne at this point, and when Ajak hears that Ursus is still alive, he fears that Ursus will one day come seeking revenge and orders his soldiers to journey to the valley of the lions and arrest him. The soldiers kill all but one of the lions with poisoned meat, and when Ursus refuses to surrender, Ajak's men kidnap the slave girl Ania and use her as a hostage to force Ursus to give up. Simba, the last surviving lion of the pride, follows the chained Ursus to Ajak's city, trying to remain close to Ursus in the event that an opportunity to help him arises.
At the climax of the film, Ajak orders that a group of innocent townspeople be dragged into a raging pyre by a group of elephants to which they are chained. Ursus manages to free himself from the king's dungeon and kill Ajak's henchman Lothar by throwing him into a kennel of ferocious, slavering hyenas. Ursus then makes his way to the grand arena and physically holds back the elephants, saving the condemned civilians from a fiery death. When the people realize Ursus is their rightful ruler and revolt against their evil king, Ajak tries to sneak out of the arena, but he is attacked and mauled to death by Simba the lion, who spent the last half of the picture waiting patiently to avenge the deaths of his fellow lions. At the end, the people declare Ursus their king, and with Ania as his queen, Ursus reclaims his father's throne.
Cast
* Ed Fury: Ursus
* Mary Marlon: Ania
* Moira Orfei: Diar
* Alberto Lupo: Ajak
* Mariangela Giordano
* Giacomo Furia: Simud
* Gérard Herter: Lothar
* Andrea Scotti
* Michelle Malaspina
* Orlando Orfei
* Gianni Solaro | WIKI |
VIX Falls to Four-Week Low as U.S. Stocks Advance
The benchmark index for U.S. stock
options dropped to a four-week low as U.S. stocks extended a
second straight weekly gain after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned and consumer confidence rose. The VIX, as the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility
Index is known, fell 2.5 percent to 15.69 today. The gauge fell
to an intraday low of 15.55 at 11:03 a.m., minutes after Mubarak
stepped down. That’s close to the three-year closing low of
15.45 in December. The index measures the cost of using options
as insurance against declines in the Standard & Poor’s 500
Index, which rose 0.6 percent to 1,329.15. Benchmark indexes began erasing an early slide after the
Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of
consumer sentiment for the month climbed to an eight-month high
of 75.1. Stocks extended gains as Mubarak bowed to the demands
of protesters that have occupied central Cairo for the past
three weeks demanding an end to his 30-year rule. He handed
power to the nation’s military. VIX futures dropped. The most-traded contracts were the
March futures, which declined 1.4 percent to 18.05. The most-
active VIX options were the March $22.50 calls, which fell 8.2
percent to 78 cents. In Europe , the benchmark gauge of stock-market volatility
rose for a second day. The VStoxx Index , which measures the cost
of protecting against a decline in shares on the Euro Stoxx 50
Index, gained 1 percent to close at 19.95 in Frankfurt. The Euro
Stoxx 50 stock index advanced fell less than 0.1 percent to
3,024.37. To contact the reporter on this story:
Jeff Kearns in New York at
jkearns3@bloomberg.net . To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Nick Baker at nbaker7@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Effects of ww1 on australia. What were the effects of World War 1 on Australia? 2022-12-20
Effects of ww1 on australia
World War 1 had a significant impact on Australia, both during the conflict and in the years following the armistice. The country's involvement in the war, along with the loss of life and the economic and social changes that took place, had a lasting effect on the nation and its people.
One of the most significant effects of World War 1 on Australia was the loss of life. Over 60,000 Australians were killed in the conflict, and many more were injured or traumatized. This was a significant loss for a country with a small population at the time, and the impact was felt by many families and communities across the nation.
The economic effects of the war were also significant. Australia's economy boomed during the war due to the demand for its primary products, such as wool and wheat. However, after the armistice, the country faced a recession as demand for these products declined and the country had to readjust to peacetime conditions. This recession was compounded by the post-war depression, which hit Australia hard and contributed to the high unemployment rates and social unrest that characterized the period.
The war also had a significant impact on Australian society. Many women took on traditionally male roles during the conflict, as men were away fighting, and this contributed to the push for women's suffrage and the eventual granting of the vote to women in the country. The war also led to a greater sense of national identity and pride, as Australians saw themselves as having played a significant role in the conflict and in shaping the world order in the aftermath of the war.
In summary, World War 1 had a significant impact on Australia, both during and after the conflict. The loss of life, economic changes, and social shifts that took place during this time had a lasting effect on the nation and its people.
Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war
Australia 's US alliance is unquestionably its single most important security relationship. Many communities were divided by differing views on conscription. The security relationship between Australia and the U. This is because over 90% of Australians had a British heritage. Even in private life, those political divisions were deep and abiding. Some of the gains realised by Economy and Trade: …show more content… This was good for both countries, as Britain was struggling with the repatriation of many of its soldiers, and unemployment was at record highs in that country, and Australia desperately needed its population to rise to help develop a new nation. Members of the league are to respect territory and sovereignty of all nation-states.
Effects of WWI lingered long in Australia
In 1918, a socialist revolution broke out in Germany, which resulted in the Irish War of Independence 1919-20 , Hungarian Revolution 1918-20 , Egyptian Revolution 1919 , and many other revolutionary movements took place during this period. Immigrants that were thrown into the fray of the developing United States faced the most drastic change to their lives during World War I. D Source: National Archive of Australia Post Traumatic Stress Disorder P. Let us therefore return our active thanks to this our new home country. By around 1860, a very visible German—Australian community was well established. Amongst all gases, Mustard gas was the most effective one.
German experience in Australia during WW1 damaged road to multiculturalism
What happened to the economy after World War 1? The Effects of World War 1 on the Australian Economy - History, Topic 2 Australia and World War 1. The way of life for all civilians was dramatically altered as their husbands and baby boys were shipped overseas to fight. While negotiations were underway with the British government to requisition ships, 104 internees died of the worldwide pneumonic influenza that struck Australia in 1919. This turbulent, fiery-tempered little Welshman was elected to power in 1915 following the collapse of the Fisher Government- although seen by many as a noisy, belligerent Empire loyalist, Hughes was nonetheless a passionate Australian nationalist, who fought like a hellcat for what he believed to be in the nation's best interests. World War I was a global war based in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
How did ww1 affect the economy? Around 1900, there were 46 Lutheran schools in South Australia, 45 in Queensland, ten in Victoria and one in Sydney. There are a number of reasons as to why this was the case, as demonstrated through the government 's wartime controls. The Great War led to the introduction of new machines, guns, aeroplanes, and modern artillery. In South Australia, Consul Hermann Mücke, son of Carl, was briefly interned during April 1916 and subsequently detained in his home in Adelaide under military guard. The average weekly wage was increased 8 to 12 percent. The scale of Australian military losses in World War I is well known.
How Did World War 1 Affect Australian Society
The Trading with the Enemy legislation was designed not only to prevent Australian products from reaching Germany during the duration of the war, and vice versa. It has given us a new conception of national life. And what could our thanks be? There were prominent business establishments that carried German names. However, within a few days after his promise, the British empire declared war on Germany on the fourth of August 1914. It ended the ruling of the Romanovs 300 years , massacred the Romanov family and rose the Bolsheviks and a communist regime in Russia. World War 1 impacted Australian society greatly. This event did change society forever.
What were the effects of World War 1 on Australia?
Manufacturers had to rebuild and retool to produce goods. The economy had boomed during the period of the Second World War as Australian products could be produced as well. In the 1850s, however, the German—Australians carried the day. Finally, they had to give an opinion as to whether or not the aliens: … should be sent forward for examination by the military authorities. Large numbers of soldiers enrolled then left Australia. The government routinely refused to submit the complaints of internees to the ordinary procedures of legal arbitration.
The Benefits of World War One on Australia Essay
Another 150,000 returned sick or wounded, physically and mentally. It was the first international organization in the world. They saw terrible things, like people being injured and dying, and experienced trauma. The concept of conscription particularly in 1916-1917 in line with enlistment numbers. The British paid 160 million pounds for the wool, keeping alive an industry that carried the country.
Top 10 Effects of World War 1
There was a sizeable urban community of merchants, tradesmen and labourers living in and around Brisbane. How did these rises lead to industrial action amongst Australian workers? The tribunal, consisting of a single magistrate, rubber-stamped the applications according to the guidelines issued by the government. When the war began, the U. They were by far the largest non-British immigrant group. They were all summarily deported. Mustard gas could also cause blistered skin and vomiting but mostly took the lives of the people. The German-speaking minority now had a voice in the highest constitutional body and their spokesmen were accepted as co-legislators with full equal rights. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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@article {Wheelock727, author = {Wheelock, Margaret J. and Shintani, Yasushi and Maeda, Masato and Fukumoto, Yuri and Johnson, Keith R.}, title = {Cadherin switching}, volume = {121}, number = {6}, pages = {727--735}, year = {2008}, doi = {10.1242/jcs.000455}, publisher = {The Company of Biologists Ltd}, abstract = {The cadherin molecules at adherens junctions have multiple isoforms. Cadherin isoform switching (cadherin switching) occurs during normal developmental processes to allow cell types to segregate from one another. Tumor cells often recapitulate this activity and the result is an aggressive tumor cell that gains the ability to leave the site of the tumor and metastasize. At present, we understand some of the mechanisms that promote cadherin switching and some of the pathways downstream of this process that influence cell behavior. Specific cadherin family members influence growth-factor-receptor signaling and Rho GTPases to promote cell motility and invasion. In addition, p120-catenin probably plays multiple roles in cadherin switching, regulating Rho GTPases and stabilizing cadherins.}, issn = {0021-9533}, URL = {http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/6/727}, eprint = {http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/6/727.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Cell Science} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Suman Bose is an common man from India, Who is working as Receiving Officer at Trent Limited. | WIKI |
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1048 HERACLEU. 'uleu, bf Uuoccbi (S nit. pointieomMC CL Nspln, 1754,1755). Hermc1«aM|[nieniJlj regarded ■■ the nitin tonn- tij of the ctkbnled poinUr Zeaiii, thoaf;b there u much doobt tb which of the uiUDenxu alia of tha mune that dutiaguuhed aniat really owed hii birth. IBiiyr. Diet. aiL Zkuxi&J Bat the flonriihing dale of the arte in the Lneanian Heradeia (in coaimm with meat of the iiei;bb«riiig cities of Mif^ Gnecia) ia atteeted bj the bnntj and ra- rietj of ita oouia, aoms of which maj deservcdiy be nckoned Knang the choicest ipecimena of Greek art; while thrir nnmher iu(ficiently proves the opn- lence and oanmercial ailiTily of the cil» lo which Ibej belong. (Rckliel, nil. i. p. 153 ;'MilIinpen. ■ Mi&r^«:./iiitte,i).lll.) [E.H.B.] . HERACt.EtA, somuned MINOA ('Hp^Aiw Hr'vf«: Elk. 'HfHHAd^rnT, Heracliensis), ui Sicilj, •n ancient Greek city, aitiuted on the eoath coast of the island, at the mouth of the rirer Halycue^ between AsriRentum and Selinus. IM two namee were con- nect«d Willi two wparate mytholn^ml legends in reeocd to its origin. The fint of these rehited tlmt Uerculea, hiring yanqniibed the local hero Eiji in a wrealling match, obtained therebj' the right to the whole western portion of Sidlj, which he expresal; reierred foe hit descendants. (Diod. ir. S3 ; Herod. T. 43 I Puis. iii. 16. § 5.) He did not, b«we>er, found a town or seUlsnient ; bal, Bomewhat later, Uinoa, king of Crete, haring come lo Sicilj in pur- suit of Daedalus, landed at the moulh of the river Halfcue, and founded then a city, to whidi be gave the name of Minoa : or, according to another veniion of the storj, the cilr wu linil established by his followers, after (he death of Uinca himseir. Heracli- dea Ponlicus adds, that there was previousi; a, natire city on the spot, the mm* of whidi was Macnn. (Diod. ir. 79, zii. 9 ; Henul. PonL § 29.) The two legends are so distinct that no intimation ia given bj Diodonu of their ivlaling to the same spot, and we only learn thnr cunneclion fmn the comln- natiini in later timee of the two namea. The first notice of the eity wbicli we find in bistorical timee repnisents it as a small town and a cohmj of Selinua, bearing the name of Minis (Herod. T. 46) ; bat ws hare no account of lis settlement. ]t was in ibis stale when Dorieus the Spartan (bnlher of Cleo. inenee I.) canie to Sidly, with alargebodj of fullow- era, wild the eiprpss view of reclaiming the territory which had belooged tu his ancestor Hercules. But having engaged in hcetilities with the Carthaginians and Scgeslans, he was defeuled and shun in a battle in wbiili almost all hie leading companiims also perished. Euiylem, the only one of ihe chieA who escaped, nude himself master of Minoa, which now, in all probability, obluined for lite first linw tbe name of HencleiH. (Hcrv,d. v. 42—46.) This ia not, indeed, apreuly staled by Herodotus, who givea the preceding narrative, but is evidentij im- : plied in his alaUiDsit at the b t ginnii ig rf if, thd Dorieoi tet oat to' the potpoee of ticnHing Iferwhia, cnnlnaed with the fact that Dindorat Tiip t« e pU Um as having been ita actoal fbuider. (Dioi. ir. H.) Hence then seems no nam to asppoe (as haa boa snggealed) that Henclna and HinB wcra iHigiai% dutinct dtiea, and that tha name of the oe wm snbseiineittJy tninsfemd to the other. Fion the period of this new BSttlenient (b.c:5I0) it sees Is imonly borne Ihe name of Heracleia, tfangh Dupled with th t of Mina forth CHponAtfar riir Miwiar, Pol. i. 15 ; " liendo, quam vocant Minoa," Liv. uir. 35.) Diodoms tells na thnt Ihe newly founded cily rf Henclna rose npidly to prceperi^, but waa de^evvd by the Carthaginians, thrvagb jeakKuy of ita Iimiii ioi^pawer. (Id,iv.33.) Tbepcriodat wluchtlattii^ phu« is uncertain. It was pnibably related by Diads- rus in bia 10th book, which ia now lost: at least k makes no mention of any each event OD octwsJM rf the great expediiioo cf Hsmilcar,ui B.C. 480, lo wUtk epoch we might olherwise bate rvferrvd it ; while, from lb« absence of all notice of Heradeia daring the subsequent centnry, and the wars of Dkmjmai with the Carthaginians, it seems certain that it did not then exist, or must have bt«n ui a vaj ndoBd condition. Indeed, the next notice we find cf k (under the name of Minoa), in b.c 357. when Di« Inoded then, npresents it as a small town ia tha Agrigentine territory, but at that time sabjert ta Cartilage. (Died. ivi. 9 ; Plat. Dion. 25.) fieace it u pTDbable that the Ireaty between Dionysaa and the Carthaginians which had fiud Ibe Hatna as tl>e boundary of the latter, had lefl HeiHkb, though on its left bauk, btill in their hands : and, in accanlance with this, we End it atipnlaled by tbe similar treaty concluded with Ibem by Acatho- clea (B.C. 314), Ihal Heradtia, Selinua, and OoKa shontd condnna subject lo Cartha^, at tiiy i^ baa ie/ore. (Diod. lb. 71.) rrom this iiB» Heracleia Tesppean in history, and aanuDC* lb* poaitiDO of an important ci^ ; though we hat« D* eiplanation of the circnmetancci that bad tuaed it from its pitrioos insignificance. Thus we find it, soon alter, joining in the movement originated b; Xenodicns of Agrigentum, B.c. 307, and dedanig itself free both from the Carthaginians and Agatbo- cles; though it was sorai recovered by the latto*, a hia return from Africa. (Id. XI. 56.) At Ihe tiaa of the expedition of Pyrrbna it was once mm a the hands of the Cartbaglniana, and waa the first city Ukeu from tbem by that monarch as he adraaced westward frnn Agrigentum. (Diod xxii. la EacH. p. 497.) In like manner, in Ihe First Punic War, il waa occugued by the Cirthagiiiian general Hanac^ when advancing to the relief t^ Agrigentiim, at that time heueged by the Boman anniea, B.C.2G0. (Id. xxiiL 8. p 502| Pol. i. 19.) Again, in b-c 256, it was at Heracleia that the C<irth^nian fleet of 350 sliipa waa potted fur t)ie purpose of preventing the passage of the Roman fleet to Afnca, and when it sustained a great defeat from the consols R^oIdb and Manlius. (Pol. I 25— 28,30; ZMUr.riii. IS.) It appears, indeed, at this time to have been oaie df the principal naral stations of ihe Carthaginian* ia Sicily; and hence in n. c.249 we again End tbeir admiral, Canbalo, taking hia poet then la watch fir the Roman fleet which vras approuhiug to the nliel ofLilybaeum, (Id. L 53.) At Ibe close of the war Kencleia, of conne, passal, with Ibe rest of Srily. under the Roman doaiiuiLii but in the Secsod Punk | WIKI |
Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold
Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold (25 January 1694 – 12 October 1734) was a ruler of the county of Lippe.
Life
He was the son of Frederick Adolphus, Count of Lippe-Detmold and his wife Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg. His five siblings all died young, of his seven step-siblings, only three sisters lived into adulthood:
* Amalia 1701–1754 abbess of Cappel Abbey in Lippstadt and St. Mary's Abbey in Lemgo
* Franziska 1704–1733, married to Count Frederick Charles of Bentheim-Steinfurt
* Friederike Adolphine, 1711–1769 married to Count Frederick Alexander of Detmold
His Grand Tour under the supervision of the Lord Chamberlain in 1710 took him to the University of Utrecht and to the courts of England and France. During the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718, he took part in the campaign of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Hungary and Belgrade, and later returned via Vienna to Detmold, where he took up government 1718.
Simon Henry Adolph is famous for the fact that in 1720 Emperor Charles VI offered to raise him to Imperial Prince for a mere 4400 talers, but Simon Henry Adolph found himself unable to raise the money. A chronic shortage of money forced him to sell the Dutch lordships of Vianen and Ameide in 1725, and to pledge Sternberg Castle to the Electorate of Hanover in 1733.
Historians judge that he loved pomp and circumstance as much as his father did. Although he was constantly in financial difficulties, he wasted money on parties as if he had an inexhaustible source of money, or so an expert on Lippe history says 200 years later. Mayor Möller of Lippstadt voiced quite a different opinion on 1784, praising Simon Henry Adolph for improving the state of the principality's economy and eradicating the high debt, some of which were caused by the Thirty Years' War, and some by his charitable generosity, and some by his providing care and a suitable education to all branches of his family, not by taxation and oppression of his subjects, but by borrowing and selling off his Dutch possessions in 1725, and by mortgaging Sternberg in 1733. According to Möller, Simon Henry Adolph brought balance to the state's financial situation with his frugal policies, and he used extraordinary care to ensure the welfare of his country, vigorously promoted religion, morality, justice and prosperity for all his subjects.
Marriage and issue
On 16 October 1719 Simon Henry Adolph married princess Johanna Wilhelmina, daughter of Prince George August of Nassau-Idstein. Of her eleven children, four died young and three daughters remained unmarried:
* Charles August, (born: 3 November 1723 in Detmold; died: 16 February 1724 in Detmold)
* Charles Frederick Simon, (born: 31 March 1726 in Detmold; died: 18 February 1727 in Detmold)
* Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold, born: 12 June 1727 in Detmold; died: 1 May 1782 in Detmold)
* Frederick Adolph (born: 30 August 1728 in Detmold; died 8 August 1729 in Detmold)
* Louis Henry Adolph (born: 7 March 1732 in Detmold; died: 31 August 1800 in Lemgo)
* married firstly in 1767 Anna of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born: 14 December 1735; died: 7 January 1785), daughter of Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
* married secondly in 1786 with Louise of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein (born: 10 December 1764; died: 24 September 1844)
* Emil George (born: 12 March 1733 in Detmold; died: 8 July 1733 in Detmold)
* August William Ernest Albert, (born: 11 January 1735 in Detmold; died: 23 January 1791 in Brake)
* married in 1773 Countess Wilhelmina of Trotha (born: 14 February 1740; died: 26 February 1793)
* Elisabeth Henriette Amalia (born: 10 February 1721 in Detmold, died: 19 January 1793 in Brake), abbess of Cappel Abbey in Lippstadt and St. Mary's Abbey in Lemgo, 1751
* Louise Friederike (born: 3 October 1722 in Detmold; died: 3 November 1777 in Brake)
* Henriette Auguste (born: 26 March 1725 in Detmold; died: 5 August 1777 in Norburg)
* married on 19 June 1745 Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (born: 1 April 1701; died: 27 November 1766), grandson of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg
* Charlotte Clementine, abbess, (born: 11 November 1730 in Detmold; died: 18 May 1804 at Brake Castle) | WIKI |
STTR Phase I: Piezoelectric Self-sensing Shoe Insole
Period of Performance: 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
$206K
Phase 1 STTR
Recipient Firm
Nano Composite Products, Inc
679 North 400 East
Orem, UT 84097
Firm POC, Principal Investigator
Research Institution
Brigham Young University
A-285 ASB
Provo, UT 84602
Institution POC
Abstract
The broader impact/commercial potential of this project lies in an ability to provide information regarding human movement in a way that is less expensive, more robust, and more accurate than existing methods, in order to improve human health and performance. The project advances several technology areas including ?smart? wearable sensors, mobile assistive technology, and multi-sensor networked decision-making. The insole launches into the rapidly growing ?wearable device? market, which is anticipated to grow by 200% over the next 3 years. The introduction of an economical self-sensing material that can transform current foam and compliant components into high-accuracy deformation sensors has huge potential in almost all fields of consumer products and engineering. Initial interest has already been expressed from manufacturers of running shoes, athletic helmets, car bumpers, airbag sensors, and mattress manufacturers. Other applications are numerous: self-monitoring artificial spine segments, self-sensing furniture, smart mounts for vibrating equipment, etc. Furthermore, the collaboration with Brigham Young University (with a specific focus on undergraduate mentoring) introduces a large number of future engineers to the works of high-tech startups, and a wide variety or ?real world? engineering issues. This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will demonstrate feasibility, in terms of both technology and market, of a self-sensing piezoresponsive insole. Using novel and robust technology, the insole will quantify 3D ground reaction force characteristics during various human movements, potentially assisting an American society that is aging and overweight in becoming more healthful. Research objectives will focus on the exploitation of an entirely new class of nano-composite foam sensors to capture gait characteristics that were previously only measurable in highly controlled laboratory conditions. An insole will be created with the ability to detect all necessary components of ground reaction force, while remaining almost impervious to moisture, with a very low power requirement. The technology will be configured using wireless data transfer and smart-phone apps to provide ?smart? wearables for four specific user applications: exercise analysis, video game input, physical therapy aid, and gait biofeedback. Examples of specific objectives include accurate estimates of caloric expenditure and retraining of movement patterns that are detrimental to lower-extremity musculoskeletal health. The commercial feasibility of the insole will be validated, including a large-scale manufacturability review and market testing of the beta-stage product. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Birth of Peter Paul Rubens
Birth of Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Siegen, Nassau-Dillenburg, Holy Roman Empire.
Rubens was born to a Protestant family that had fled their home to escape religious persecution. He later converted to Catholicism, and religion figured prominently in much of his work.
Raised in Antwerp, Rubens studied Latin and classical literature before beginning his art training at the age of 14. He studied under some of the city’s leading painters, spending much of his first few years copying the works of famous artists. Rubens finished his education in 1598 and entered the Guild of St. Luke as an independent master.
Rubens went to Italy in 1600, where he saw the works of Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, which would have a noticeable impact on his art. In Mantua, Rubens joined the court of Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga, who sent him to Rome and Florence. He used those trips to further study the masters. While in Rome he also made his first altarpiece, St. Helena with the True Cross for the church of Santa Croce.
In 1603, Rubens went on the first of many diplomatic missions. He brought gifts from the Gonzagas to the court of King Philip III. During his time there he also studied the king’s art collection. Rubens returned to Italy in 1604 and spent a good deal of time painting portraits. He also worked on a book picturing the city’s palaces and received his most important altar commission up to that time.
In 1608, Rubens’ mother fell ill and he returned to Antwerp, though she passed away before he could arrive. The following year Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, made him court painter. He then designed a new house and studio, which he occupied beginning in 1610. Three years later he designed and built another home north of Antwerp. During this time, Rubens painted several altarpieces that cemented him as one of Flanders’ leading painters. Around 1618, Rubens began exploring printmaking and was able to spread his name further by producing prints and books.
In 1621, Rubens embarked on a series of diplomatic missions. He spent a good deal of time in France collecting information and worked to bring about a peace treaty between Spain and England. For his role in this mission, he was knighted by Charles I and received an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Cambridge University.
Rubens spent his final years in and around Antwerp. He died on May 30, 1640, from heart failure. Rubens is often considered one of the greatest painters in European history and the most influential artist in the Flemish Baroque style. He produced over 1,400 works during his career.
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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bobet
* The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it .
Bobet
final (68/0/0) ending 21:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
– I am proud to nominate User:Bobet for adminship. I first met him in November while working on a list of films I had created at WP:MEA. After a small false start, I'm really glad to seen him grow into a true wikipedian worthy of the mop and bucket (and flamethrower). He has over 6,000 edits, evenly spreadout through the namespace, fighting vandalism, warning vandals , not biting the newbies adding infoboxes , voting for RfA's , adding images , making insightful, reasoned and polite comments and active in categories for deletion. And that's just in the last three days. I'm not the only one to notice his contributions, , just the first. He also showed restraint in waiting a few weeks before actually going ahead with the nomination to get three solid months of contributions, even though he has edited since around November. He is a solid contributor, well versed in wikipedia policies and would make a great admin. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I'll accept, thanks. - Bobet 21:29, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Support
* 1) Support super supportive nominator support! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 2) Support. Great candidate, wanted to nominated him myself. Let's make him an admin before the end of the month. Kusma (討論) 21:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Support Nacon kantari e |t||c|m 21:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 4) Support. Solid, responsible editor. Agnte 22:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 5) Support M o e ε 22:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Support a wonderful editor, perfect candidate Robdurbar 22:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 7) Support excellent Wikipedia activity. KI 22:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 8) Support: Because admin should be no big deal right? ⇒ SWAT Jester [[Image:Flag_of_Iceland.svg|18px|]] Ready Aim Fire! 22:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 9) support "I've seen good work", as the saying goes. Grutness...wha? 23:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Support --Latinus 23:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Support --very good.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 23:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* 12) Support see him around Dl yo ns 493 Ta lk 00:03, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 13) Support --Ugur Basak 00:12, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 14) Support Why the hell not? --Aaron 03:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 15) --Jaranda wat's sup 03:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Support Will be a good admin. Edit counts are impressive. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 04:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 17) Support very good Wikipedian, excellent potential for adminship. gidonb 04:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 18) A bit new, but unlikely to abuse tools. NSL E (T+C) at 05:12 UTC (2006-02-22)
* 19) Support. So far do good. psch e mp | talk 05:26, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 20) Support - looks like a great well rounded user. Tawker 07:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 21) Support, excellent record. Essexmutant 11:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 22) Support, yes, definitely. Proto || type 11:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 23) Support seems to have the right attitude necessary to be a good admin Cynical 12:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 24) Support. Should do well as an admin. PJM 12:57, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 25) Support. --Interiot 14:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 26) Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 17:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 27) Support, trustworthy editor. Xoloz 18:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 28) Support. Would make a nice administrator. — The KMan talk 19:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 29) Support, in my experience a valuable contributor. Hiding talk 20:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 30) Support He seems to deserve it I Love Plankton 20:47, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 31) Support impressive contributions all around, should make a good admin. --W.marsh 21:56, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 32) Support. Punkmorten 22:56, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 33) Support. Nice mix of contributions. | Klaw ¡digame! 23:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
* 34) Support. I have a good feeling, so it must be a support vote. - Darwinek 00:13, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 35) Support Well rounded contributor. EdwinHJ | Talk 00:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 36) Unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 00:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 37) Support. Looked edit history over and concluded that he is unlikely to abuse extra tools and is ready for adminship.-- Dakota ~ ° 00:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 38) Support Seems like he will make a good admin † Jak ken † 02:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 39) Support, looks good. --Ter e nce Ong 03:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 40) Support --AySz88^ - ^ 05:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 41) Support. Looks good. — Rebelguys2 talk 06:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 42) Support. I was originally on the fence (partly because you're still fairly new, and partly because I hadn't seen you around) until I saw Interiot's hour-by-hour breakdown of when you edit. You have a flat spot eight hours long. Bravo. Either you're sleeping, or working, or something. But that's *healthy*! I wish most of us could do that. Enjoy the mop! ... aa:talk 08:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 43) Support D a Gizza Chat © 10:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 44) Support, Well deserved. Great activity with good diversity. Be good with the mop.--Looper5920 10:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 45) Support —Quarl (talk) 2006-02-23 11:50Z
* 46) Support Comprehensive nom makes this support easy. Fine candidate. Marskell 11:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 47) great contribs.. nice. drumguy <font face="verdana" style="font-size: 9pt;">8800 <font face="verdana" style="font-size: 9pt;"> - speak? 14:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 48) Support. Mahvelous. Deskana (talk) 21:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
* 49) Support another great user. Raven4x4x 00:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 50) Support - Looks like he will do the mop, bucket and flamethrower proud. ;) Prsgodd e ss187 00:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 51) Support Humble and hardworking. -- Samir ∙ TC [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|25px| ]] 07:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 52) Support Per above -- Ban e z 10:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 53) Support: --Bhadani 14:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 54) Support--<font color="#f4a460 ">Birgitte§β ʈ <font color="#778899">Talk 20:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 55) Support good vandal fighter. Compu te r Jo e 22:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
* 56) Support A very worthy candidate! <span class="user-sig user-That Guy, From That Show!">—-- That Guy, From That Show! <i> (talk) 2006-02-25 05:34Z </i>
* 57) Support. Mushroom (Talk) 14:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* 58) Support and thanks for your tireless editing. <font facefolor="#FF0000">haz (user talk)<font color="#00FF00">e 16:34, 25 February 2006
* 59) All this, and sorts stubs too. Strong support. Alai 20:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* 60) Support --Saluyot 02:35, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* 61) support user will do great work with a golden plunger!Benon 07:11, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* 62) Support, although userpage could have more userboxes. --Dragon695 07:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* 63) Support. Soon every Finn on the English Wikipedia will be an admin. Muhahaha! <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 08:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* 64) Support good editor. -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 16:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* 65) Support, very good editor. Have run across him on vandalism reverts many times. <font facefolor="#FF0000">haz (user talk)<font color="#00FF00">e 20:54, 26 February 2006
* 66) Support. Looks good. Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 17:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* 67) Support - seems to be a good well-rounded candidate abakharev 00:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
* 68) Support: little early, perhaps, but appears to be ready. Jonathunder 14:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
* 69) Definite support. +sj + 19:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral
Comments
* Edit summary usage: 99% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace. Mathbot 21:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
* See Bobet's edit count and contribution tree with Interiot's tool.
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
* 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
* A. I'd most likely be active in closing afds, deleting WP:PRODded pages that reached that stage and looked hopeless, speedying pages in CAT:CSD (it seems to develop a backlog at certain times every day). I'd also keep an eye on WP:AIV and keep reverting vandals when applicable. I'd most likely start slow to get a good feel on things and wouldn't be jumping into places that I'm not that well-versed in.
* 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
* A. I'm not particularly pleased with anything, just generally pleased. There's a list of pages I started (I haven't kept track of articles that I just expanded a lot) at User:Bobet/made if someone feels that would be helpful. Beyond that I've mostly added infoboxes and generally tried to improve articles from the list of notable films mentioned by Reflex Reaction and wikified and hopefully improved things that had ended up on Special:Deadendpages (or in some cases, listed them in afd or WP:CP). If I had to name one article, I liked how Shin Sang-ok turned out in one edit.
* 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
* A. No, I haven't, my interests seem to center around less-traveled areas here. I know some people might view that as a negative since there's no way to show how I'd handle situations like that, but no conflicts have been forthcoming and I haven't been inclined to actively seek them out either. All I can say is that if conflicts arose, I'd deal with them to the best of my abilities, and most likely wouldn't get stressed over them, but you'd have to take my word for it.
Optional additional questions from MarkSweep
* 4. Consider the following situation (hypothetical, but realistic). A user contacts you with a complaint about an article that was deleted after a controversial debate on AfD, with strong opinions for and against deletion, accusations of impropriety involving sockpuppets etc. Assume further that you're conflicted: on the one hand, the AfD was clearly controversial and had apparent irregularities; on the other hand, you believe that the article in question should have been deleted. What would you do in this situation?
* A. Questions like this are harder to answer than specific cases since there are obviously many variables that should be considered that could change how I'd approach the thing. In a general case, I'd try to explain the reasons for the deletion to the user in question. In case the article was deleted because of its content and not its subject, I'd tell him to be bold and rewrite it since a good article about the same thing could probably get kept. In other cases or if the person wasn't satisfied with my answer, I'd probably take it to deletion review. I don't think my personal opinion on whether it should be deleted or not has that much to do with it, only whether I believed the afd result was valid or not, which I'd elaborate on at deletion review if it got to that.
* 5. You're patrolling recent changes and you notice that an anonymous editor removed a sizeable chunk of text from an article about a minor celebrity, without leaving any edit summary. You're conflicted: on the one hand, the information that was removed was unflattering, and it was not backed up by any sources; on the other hand, it's hard to discern the motives of the anon, since they didn't leave any summary and may be engaged in a whitewashing effort. What would you do in this situation?
* A. Having seen things like that before, the first thing I'd do is check the editor's contibutions and see if he's just removing things at random (assuming I knew nothing about the validity of the text). In case it was a single event or otherwise indicated acting in good faith, I'd most likely either watchlist the page and wait and see if someone who knows more about the subject was inclined to agree or disagree with the changes, or I'd just use google and see if I could easily find out whether the removed text was valid or not and find an attributable source if possible.
* 6. You're patrolling new pages and you notice that a user recently created a new stub with no text except for an external link to some web site with more information. You speedy delete this article under the A.3 provision of WP:CSD. Fifteen minutes later the exact same stub has been recreated, and its creator has left a rude message on your talk page, accusing you of all kinds of nasty things. What would you do in this situation?
* A. I'd redelete it and explain to the creator that articles only containing external links aren't valid content. If the subject wasn't completely hopeless, I'd tell him to try and build a valid stub instead. In case he just kept recreating an external link article on a topic that was never going to stick, I'd put the deletedpage on it and protect. And if the rude message in question was nasty enough, I'd add a npa to his talk page since some people don't appreciate rude personal attacks.
* 7. You're patrolling new pages (again) and you notice that someone created a new article about a current minor celebrity (again). The article is clearly not a stub: it's is long, detailed, wikified to a reasonable extent, properly formatted. There is no sign that it is a copyvio. The article also asserts that the person is notable. The article is distinctly unflattering, but still descriptive, so it does not qualify as an attack page. The article is completely new, not a recreation of anything that was previously deleted, or a fork of an existing article. You conclude that none of the Criteria for Speedy Deletion apply. (a) Under what conditions, if any, would you speedy delete the article? (b) Another admin speedy deletes the article. What do you do?
* A. a) Given that the question already shows that the article doesn't match the most obvious criteria, the only case I could think of where it would get speedily deleted would be that it was provenly nonsense, such as a couple of articles that have been verbatim copies of existing articles about another person and only changed the names and such.
* b) I'd look at the deletion summary since I could've missed something or been wrong in my judgement that was indicated by the question. If the deletion summary wasn't useful, I'd ask the deleter. And if I didn't get a response or I believed it was clearly deleted out of process (and felt the article had any chance at afd, I do believe in WP:SNOW in some cases), I'd undelete and list it at afd.
* The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page. | WIKI |
Talk:The Assyrian Tragedy
Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (Atour.com/service clearly states: "(www.atour.com) is primarily in Public Domain and Creative Commons, unless otherwise stated as copyrighted by other respective companies, organizations or individuals, and can be reproduced without permission from atour.com."
The page I quoted from is not protected under copyright law, unless you can show me otherwise, and your speedy deletion is reacting rather quickly before studying their copyright statements.) --Ramsin93 (talk) 22:27, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
From Copyright
"If you want to import media (including text) that you have found elsewhere, and it does not meet the non-free content policy and guideline, you can only do so if it is public domain or available under terms that are compatible with the CC BY-SA license."
The text I imported is in the public domain, therefore permissible under Wikipedia's rules. -Ramsin93 (talk) 22:34, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Merge Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII?
Due to the lack of secondary sources to establish the notability for an independent article by the books title, I am requesting that an administrator merge this page into Ramsin93 (talk) 12:15, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
* I agree that it should be merged. WhinyTheYounger (WtY) (talk, contribs) 03:05, 18 March 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 67.djvu/73
Rh was his friend and admirer and at his request gave this certificate. Bellarmine died in 1621 and could not be called as a witness in 1632. When Galileo was called upon to defend himself for teaching the Copernican doctrine in his Dialogues, which had given great offense, he produced this certificate and called attention to its wording, which differs materially from that of the protocol of February 26, being much less stringent in form. In essence it is the same; to teach a doctrine as true is to 'defend' it. Cardinal Bellarmine did not have the protocol before him in writing the informal certificate. The prohibition of the latter is, however, precise and absolute; the doctrine 'can not be defended,' that is, taught in any way as if it were true. It can not even be 'held,' silently. It represented the attitude of the cardinal's mind precisely; the church would not suffer if its terms were obeyed. In reading Galileo's defense of 1632-3, we shall see the use he made of the discrepancy between these two documents, one formal and of record (February 26), the other friendly and informal (May 26).
It is the theory of Gebler in his careful history, 'Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia,' that the genuine document of February 26 is not a true record of the facts. He admits that it was written in its proper place by the notary. He finds an 'obvious contradiction' between a formal command 'not in any way to hold or defend,' which are the words of the process of 1633, and the prohibition of Bellarmine's certificate 'not to defend or hold.' After an examination of all the documents it is impossible, I think, to take Gebler's view. It is necessary to admit the words of the genuine documents to mean precisely what they say.
Gebler lays down three facts as indisputable: '(I.) Galileo did not receive any prohibition except the cardinal's admonition not to defend or hold the Copernican doctrine; (II.) Entire silence on the subject was therefore not enjoined upon him; (III.) The second part of the note in the Vatican MS. of February 26, 1616, is therefore untrue.' My own conclusions are entirely different as to all three prohibitions. The Cardinal's admonitions are, in effect, absolutely the same as those of the formal prohibition; silence was enjoined, and more than this Galileo was forbidden to hold certain opinions even mentally and silently. If not, what does Bellarmine mean by the word 'hold'? Is it, I ask, credible that an authority that forbids a man to hold an opinion, even silently, would permit him to teach it? To ask the question is to answer it. When Galileo taught the opinion he disobeyed the orders of a Church whose authority he fully admitted during the whole of his life.
Within the assigned limits of this paper the matter can not be discussed at length. Two points may be touched upon however. | WIKI |
Talk:Jaquie Brown
Article expansion
Watch that 2002 video in this article. Described as "New Zealand TV’s most extreme live interview" and yep, that may well be true. Schwede 66 20:29, 30 March 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Tuskegee University researchers looked for records of lynchings in newspapers published between 1882 – 1968 and generated this chart. The orange color are victims whose race is unknown. This isn’t a complete account of lynching victims. It is only a count of the ones that were recorded by newspapers and which were reviewed by the Tuskegee researchers. There were many more. For example, the Lynching in Texas project of Sam Houston University found public records of over 100 additional lynching victims in that state alone that Tuskegee had missed.
Tuskegee’s “white” category should be labeled “non-Black” because it also included Mexicans, Native Americans, Chinese, Jews, and Catholic immigrants. The KKK was rabid against Catholic immigrants and did not consider them white. According to the Tuskeegee dataset, Texas lynched by far the most non-Black people, but most of them were Mexican-Americans according to the Lynching in Texas project. Many whites were lynched in Western states, and in the South there were also 148 black-on-black lynchings, 200 cases of white-on-white lynchings, and four incidences of black mobs killing whites recorded between 1882 and 1930.
The graph paints a picture of lynchings being common practice for meting out vigilante ‘justice’ against many races in 1882, but lynching soon morphed into a technique that was primarily used to terrorize Blacks in the South by 1900.
Lynching was such a celebrated part of life that participants paid professional photographers and made commemorative postcards to send to friends and family as you can see below. Photography was extremely expensive in at the time and was only afforded for commemorating particularly special occasions. Time magazine noted:
Even the Nazis did not stoop to selling souvenirs of Auschwitz, but lynching scenes became a burgeoning subdepartment of the postcard industry. By 1908, the trade had grown so large, and the practice of sending postcards featuring the victims of mob murderers had become so repugnant, that the U.S. Postmaster General banned the cards from the mails.
Naturally, given that lynchings were accepted as normal, nobody was punished for participating in a lynch mob. Arthur Raper investigated nearly one hundred lynchings and estimated that, “at least one-half of the lynchings are carried out with police officers participating, and that in nine-tenths of the others the officers either condone or wink at the mob action.” Despite being sanctioned by law enforcement, Arthur Raper’s study estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. Some mobs didn’t even correctly identify the person they lynched.
Lynchings were sometimes announced in newspapers to draw crowds and to give photographers time to prepare their equipment. Some attracted up to 15,000 people. Schools were sometimes cancelled and railroads sometimes ran special excursion trains to accommodate spectators. The photo below shows Jesse Washington, “a 17-year-old retarded black child“, who was killed by a crowd that was estimated at over 10,000 in Waco Texas in May 15, 1916.
They mayor initially resisted the mob which threatened to hang him for doing his job and trying to protect the unconvicted man. The lynch mob put a rope around the mayor’s neck and set the courthouse on fire in retaliation. Here is a later photo of Jesse Washington’s corpse showing a smiling youth among the people posing for a professional photographer behind Jesse’s charred remains.
Below is a postcard reading, “George and Ed SILSBEE HANGED by a MOB of CITIZENS IN FRONT OF JAIL. Jan. 20, 1900. Fort Scott Kan.” The back of the postcard advertised the photography studio that took the photo: J.V. DABBS PHOTOGRAPHER GROUND FLOOR STUDIO, Frames and Mouldings, 407 Market Street. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.
This shows a mother and her fifteen-year-old son who were tortured by being dragged for miles before being hung for this commemorative postcard in Okemah, Oklahoma, in 1919.
Close to my home, Sheriff Sherman Eley was assaulted by a mob for not giving up the location of a Black man who was in custody. Sheriff Eley’s home was ransacked, his sick infant daughter was taken as a hostage, and he was beaten to unconsciousness and suffered cuts and broken ribs. The mob put a noose around his neck in downtown Lima and started to hang him, but a colleague stepped in and convinced Eley to tell where the ban was being held and he relented and told them that the Black man was being held at the Putnam County Jail. The mob then drove to the Putnam County Jail, which would have likely been about an hour drive on the bumpy roads of the day.
They kidnapped Eley and took him with them, tied spread-eagle across the hood of a creamery truck they had commandeered.” Eley, “vomiting and slipping in and out of consciousness,” remembered little of it
Meanwhile the prisoner had been moved to Toledo and Eley escaped the mob. Eley’s daughter Doris died soon thereafter. That was the last attempted lynching in Ohio, shown below.
My colleague, historian Perry Bush, researched this event and when the Lima News published a story about it in 2017, he learned that descendants of the people in the story had never heard anything about it. He also received a call warning him that some local people were offended and were threatening his safety, so the event was still raw a century later.
The photo below shows well-dressed members of an Omaha, Nebraska lynch mob posing around the body of black man named Will Brown in 1919. The mob also attempted to hang the mayor and nearly killed him because the mob had been egged on by a rival political party that was stoking racial animosity in order to gain political power and defeat the mayor. Somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 people participated in the lynch mob which also poured gasoline in the courthouse and lit it on fire and shot seven police officers in the frenzy of the lynching. Nobody served any term of imprisonment.
This kind of violence had probably been going on for centuries so the big question is why has it become so much rarer in the past century. Although there is less documentary evidence going farther back into the mists of history, there is still plenty of evidence for public executions and mob violence. The Salem witchcraft trials, the Boston tea party, and on and on. Steven Pinker has done the most thorough analysis of the decline in violence over the centuries. The world is much less violent today along most dimensions. For example, America is MUCH less likely to execute people.
in the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries, the death penalty was prescribed and used for theft, sodomy, bestiality, adultery, witchcraft, concealing birth, slave revolt, counterfeiting, and horse theft. We have statistics for capital punishment in the United States since colonial times. As you can see, in the 17th century a majority of executions were for crimes other than homicide. In current times, the only crime that is punished by capital punishment other than homicide is conspiracy to commit homicide.
The death penalty itself, of course, has been abolished in most of Europe… Currently, only Russia and Belarus have it had on the books.
But interestingly, even before capital punishment was abolished by the stroke of a pen, it had fallen into disuse. You can see that the percentage of European countries that actually carry out executions has always been far lower, and the decline began much earlier.
…Now the United States, of course, notoriously is the only Western democracy that has capital punishment (though only in two-thirds of the states), a number that has been dwindling. And to say that the United States has the death penalty is a bit of a fiction. If you look at the number of executions as a proportion of the population, it has been plunging since colonial times. Today, out of about 16,500 homicides per year, there are about 50 executions, and that rate has been in decline as well.
Here is a rough estimate of the homicide rate in New England from the National Academies:
We have longer-term data for homicide in Europe. Here is data from Michael Eisner. It is on a log scale so it diminishes the true decline in the homicide rate which is over 50 fold.
Bill Gates notes that Americans don’t just hurt each other a lot less, we also talk a lot more about rights:
Use of the terms civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, gay rights, and animal rights in English-language books, 1948-2000. These staggered rises tell a story. Each of the movements took note of the success of its predecessors and adopted some of the tactics, rhetoric, and most significantly, moral rationale. The Rights Revolutions have brought us measurable and substantial declines in many categories of violence.
Plus, worldwide deaths in warfare have been declining too: | FINEWEB-EDU |
Talk:Europatriotism
= Restoring Europatriotism = This page was originally created as "Europatriotism" but was renamed without consent to "Pan-European identity" The dramatic 2016 UK Brexit referendum has lead to a display of the more well-known anti-European views in the UK, but also, and especially among the younger demographic, in pro-European demonstration. We have also seen influential celebrities like ex-top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson express his feeling as European above British, saying he is a true and proud European. Rdeman (talk) 00:00, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
* How about we use actual research to write the article instead of expressing political preferences by moving it around hap-hazardly?
* I fail to see how anecdotes like "Jeremy Clarkson expressed his feeling as European above British, saying he is a true and proud European" has any relevance unless we can cite secondary literature which mentions this in the context of a presentation of a concept of "Europatriotism". --dab (𒁳) 13:49, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
* I see you have copy-paste restored the page. Please don't do that. If you want to move the article back, submit a formal move request and see if you can get a consensus. --dab (𒁳) 13:50, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
* While I understand the desire for academic rigor, dismissing relevant real-world examples and perspectives as mere "anecdotes" seems overly limiting. The concept of Europatriotism exists in both scholarly literature and the lived experiences of ordinary Europeans.
* Jeremy Clarkson stating he feels more European than British is precisely the type of pop culture example that could help illustrate the notion of Europatriotism taking root at a grassroots level. While not rigorous social science, it offers a glimpse into current European identity.
* Similarly, the protests around Brexit showcase emerging pro-European identities, especially among younger citizens. These events are shaping Europatriotism right now. Excluding contemporary, "on-the-ground" occurrences risks presenting an abstract, detached account.
* My aim is not to make the article politically biased, but rather to incorporate a diverse mix of academic sources, polling data, current events, and cultural examples to provide a balanced, thorough perspective. Contemporary developments help demonstrate Europatriotism as a dynamic concept still evolving in the real world.
* I believe high-quality Wikipedia articles should synthesize multiple types of sources. Rigorous research is crucial, but so are compelling illustrations of how these academic ideas manifest in the lives of everyday people. We should allow room for both. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:39, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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More Than 100,000 Have Cast Early Votes In S. Florida « CBS Miami
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Early voting is well underway in the Sunshine State and more than 100,000 residents of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have already cast their votes. Early voting began on Saturday and will run through this Saturday, November 3. The number of early voting days was reduced this year by the Republican-led legislature, but the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. throughout the early voting days. In Miami-Dade County, more than 51,000 voters cast their ballots since Saturday. The busiest early voting sites have been the North Dade Regional Library, Coral Gables Library, West Dade Regional Library, and the South Dade Regional Library. All of those sites have seen at least 3,000 voters come through and cast their ballot in the last 48 hours, according to numbers from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department. In Broward County, more than 54,000 votes have been cast during the first two days of early voting. The Southwest Regional Library has been the busiest location in Broward County with more than 5400 votes cast since early voting began on Saturday. Overall in the state, roughly 1.9 million Floridians have cast their ballots early, including absentee ballots. The breakdown of the voting is: 1.4 million absentee votes and more than 500,000 early voters. The vote is nearly evenly split by party with 784,444 ballots cast by Democrats to 774,304 ballots cast by Republicans and 307,000 ballots cast by non-party voters. The totals are nearly 16 percent of the Florida electorate with a little less than a week to go in early voting. Long lines are possible due to increased interest in the presidential election and in Miami-Dade County waits could be longer as voters have to make their way through a ballot that could be at least 12 pages long for some voters. Want to know more about the constitutional amendments? 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 |
Sell Snap because competitors are ‘stealing its best ideas,’ Needham says
Needham initiated coverage on Snap with an underperform rating, citing the competitive threat of rivals copying its innovations. "We believe SNAP has the most innovative culture on the internet today. The problem is that we believe SNAP shareholders pay in full for its missteps, but don't benefit from the upside of SNAP's genius because competitors can roll out SNAP's best ideas to larger user bases virtually overnight," analyst Laura Martin wrote in a note to clients Monday. "Every time SNAP proves that something works, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and others can copy it. " Snap shares are up 59 percent from its Thursday $17 IPO offering price as of Friday's close. Martin cited six key reasons for her negative stance: | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:Flaflaf/sandbox
Slow Own Squad
Slow Own Squad (greek: αργή δική ομάδα) is a Mario Kart Wii clan with more than 7 members. Slow own squad (sos) is known for its legendary inclan wars. As far as humans can think no sos member has ever had internet issues or disconnections during one of their clan wars. In over 90 wars 8 different people scored more than 67 points over all. One of the most skillfull players in the clans history are Spikegamz231 and Flaflaf. They are not only known for their numerous bkts on any track, they are also both ct master in Mario Kart Wii Mogi Lounge.
Member List
* 1) owners: Flaflaf, Spikegamz212
* 2) moderators: no one
* 3) members: Vortex, SuperR, Lars and a few more
Statistics
* Created: 03/12/2020
* Members: more than 8
* Inclans: 95
* Clanwars: 7
* Enemies: Rayowen
* Peak mmr: 3487
* Average mmr: 752
* Disconnections: 0
Inclans
Slow Own Squads inclan wars are well known for their high amount of skill. People usually take them very serious and score little points. The highest known score in an sos inclan war was a 177 by SuperR. Lowest known score a 1 by Rayowen (yes he once was in sos and did an inlcan you all just didnt realise). After an inclan has ended it sometimes occurs that people are leaving the server because they only scored 110 instead of 115. Teammaking does not matter in such a high skill clan because everyone is on the same level so there are never any arguments or discussions about the teams. And if people complain they are most likely getting ignored because Flaflafs team always wins (only if spike is not participating).
Clan Wars
Team sos has already competed against lots of other good clans with even better player like the funky nuts or well i dont know any other clans. In more than 12 wars they secured 10 wins which is a brilliant bilance. Here an example.
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Media
Slow Own Squad has an own inactive youtube channel as well as a cool Twitter account. A few of the members also have youtube accounts. But they only upload boring bkts.
Other Clans
* The Funky Nuts: Just a Mario Kart Wii clan idk
* PrS: Bens clan. They participated in CTL and got into the finals of div 1 | WIKI |
Add-on:AppTV
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AppTV
See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase
Author: Wyrm
Type: Skin
Repo: Kodi.tv repo v20
Kodi.tv repo v19
License: ASL v2.0
Source: Source code
Summary: AppleTV inspired skin for Kodi
Home icon grey.png ▶ Add-ons ▶ AppTV
Attention talk.png Need help with this add-on? See here.
AppTV is a AppleTV inspired skin for Kodi. It provides a very light weight minimalist gui while also allowing access to a number of advanced Kodi features not available in the original AppleTV interface.
Installing
This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:
1. Settings
2. Add-ons
3. Install from repository
4. Look and feel (v16 and higher)
5. Skins
6. AppTV
7. Install
Required add-ons
To get the most out of AppTV the following add-ons are required. These add-ons should be installed automatically when you install the skin. If they are not, please install manually using the links below. Certain skin features will not be available if one or more of these add-ons are not installed on your system.
Supported add-ons
The following add-ons are not required but the skin does have support built-in. You might need to install these manually through Kodi's Add-on Browser if not already installed by another skin. In most cases the skin will prompt you to allow Kodi to load required script for user selected skin function. Most of these scripts can also be loaded thru the skins settings menu (Addons tab in Skin settings menu).
Special skin features
Screenshots
Home Screens
Weather Screens
Video Screens
Music Screens
Keyboards
FAQ's
You say the skin is based on the AppleTV interface but it looks nothing like my AppleTV, what gives?
The AppleTV has been around in various forms for quite some time, I have coded the home screen to allow for the three major home screen types that Apple has used. You can select the home screen type from either the skins setting screen (Home Menu tab) or from the Screen Settings menu on the Home screen. I have also included four different themes (change the Skin tab on Kodi's Interface settings screen) that you can select to change the darkness of the skin. Personally I like the Default (dark theme) with the Icon home menu, but if you want something more like the current AppleTV interface use one of the Lite themes with Icon home menu.
It seems a little plain can I add a bit of bling?
Unlike Apple I have choosen to allow extensive customisation but I have also tried very hard to not stress lightweight systems with the skin. The skin supports user customisation of the widgets used thruout the skin. Custom commands/favourites and playlists can be assigned to home menu items and the full range of custom skin images are available. Visit the Skin settings screens and cut sick.
I can't see any watched marks in my library, what's going on?
AppTV follows the Apple convention of not showing watched items but showing new or unwatched items. So a solid blue circle indicates New or Unwatched. I have added slightly to this practice by adding a blue half circle to show that an item has been watched but not finished.
Ok so what's with the light and dark circles at the top or side of the screen?
These are to indicate that there is additional content that can be navigated to (Some may show while other content may be hidden). An example of shown content is the Letterbar (requires skin setting to show) which allows you to jump to library content by the first letter in its name. Hidden content may be the Scrollbar (depending on your skin settings) or the Screen settings menu (again depending on your skin settings).
You have a thing about coloured circles don't you, so what are the red circles for?
The red circles with numbers in them generally show how many unwatched items there are in the current folder or home menu item. I have recently extended this idea to show how many updates are waiting to install.
How can I add custom item's to the skin's Home screen?
Navigate to the item that you want to add to the Home screen and make it a favourite via the context menu. Then head over to the skin's setting menu and select the "Custom Favourites" menu. From there select which menu heading you wish to place menu item under and select a empty favourite slot and follow the prompts. This has been greatly expanded in the latest version, you can now assign playlists, Kodi commands and Favourites to the home menu. Also this customisation screen is now also available from the Home screen settings menu and the Skin settings menus.
What's this Screen settings menu you just mentioned?
This is basically the same menu that other skins call the Side menu or Blade menu. This menu has settings that relate to the current screen, for example the View used. On screens where the navigation is mostly up/down, you would access the Screen settings menu by navigating left. On the other hand, screens with major navigation happening left/right you would need to navigate up to access this menu.
Does the skin handle mouse/touch?
The skin is coded with the idea of a 10' interface (big enought to read from 10' feet away and using a remote control) but Yes it does, but it requires you to change a setting in the skins General setting tab. Don't worry I include help text to show what each setting does (just move the current focus to the setting you want to know what it does and the help text will appear at the bottom of the screen.
I don't see what I'm looking for in this FAQ is there somewhere else I can get answers?
You betcha, go leave a message for me at my sub forum on the main Kodi forum. Also if you think the skin is missing something or has a bug, Please also drop by the forum and let me know. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Mitakataka
Mitakataka, from "Umutakataka", a tree originating from Burundi, is a village in the Commune of Bubanza in Bubanza Province in north western Burundi. It is one of the province's most populous villages and is home to Canal River, an irrigation artificial river created in the aftermath of the country's decolonization. Notable people from the village are the honourable Manasse Nzobonimpa, a member of the Assembly and former governor of Bubanza and Nyabenda Pascal, a former president of the CNDD-FDD party.
The village is famously known for its huge paddy fields making it one of the richest villages and the best contributor to the province of Bubanza in terms of tax based on production. Paddy farming is therefore the main activity of the villagers. Other crops include palm oil, cassava, beans, etc. Before and after the 1993 Burundi Civil War, the village has been a rich source of gravel used in roads construction throughout the country.
Gahongore, a hill sitting at the center of the village is said to be rich in minerals although a concrete study is yet to be conducted | WIKI |
The Time (band)
The Time, also known as Morris Day and the Time and The Original 7ven, is an American funk rock band founded in Minneapolis in 1981. They contributed to the development of the Minneapolis sound, an eclectic fusion of funk, R&B, new wave, synth-pop and dance. Led by singer-songwriter Morris Day, the band members are known for having been close associates of musician Prince, and are arguably the most successful artists who have worked with him, achieving success with singles such as "Get It Up", "The Bird", "Cool", "777-9311", "Jungle Love" and "Jerk Out".
Former members Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis went on to a prominent production career after they left the band in 1983, while Day and guitarist Jesse Johnson recorded solo material in addition to their work with the Time.
Prince and formation
The Time was assembled under a clause in Prince's contract with Warner Bros. that allowed him to recruit and produce other artists for the label. Inspired by the musical film The Idolmaker (1980), about a rock promoter, Prince decided to put together a pop-funk group that would serve as an outlet for material in the vein of his own early albums, while he explored other genres and styles in his own career.
By 1981, Prince had built The Time out of an existing Minneapolis funk/R&B unit, Flyte Tyme, which featured Cynthia Johnson on lead vocals and sax, Anton (Tony) Johnson on guitar, David Eiland on saxophone, Jellybean Johnson on drums, Jimmy Jam and Monte Moir on keyboards, and Terry Lewis on bass. To the last four were added Jesse Johnson on guitar and a lead singer and childhood friend named Morris Day, as well as Jerome Benton, who was a promoter drawn from another local band called "Enterprise", who became Day's comic foil.
Success
The band went on to release four funk albums, generally light and humorous in tone, strongly influenced by Funkadelic, Parliament, James Brown and Sly Stone. Although they scored numerous hits during the early 1980s, including "Cool" (1981), "Jungle Love" (1985), "777-9311", "Get It Up" (1981), "Gigolos Get Lonely Too", and "The Walk", mostly on the R&B charts, they never approached superstardom. With the exception of singer Morris Day, who was required to follow Prince's guide vocals note-for-note, none of the band played on their debut album. Prince instead played all the instruments himself, crediting the production to his alter-ego, "Jamie Starr", and Morris Day.
A rivalry developed between The Time and Prince's band during their 1982 Controversy Tour. Frustrated with their lack of input on the albums bearing their name and at being underpaid, The Time would take to the stage with the intent of showing up Prince. On the final night of the tour in Cincinnati, during the Time's set, Prince and some of his band threw eggs at their supporting act from offstage. After The Time's performance, guitarist Jesse Johnson was handcuffed to a wall-mounted coat rack. Prince demanded no interruptions during his performance, but as soon as he left the stage, a food fight erupted. When the battle continued at the hotel, Prince held Morris Day responsible and made him pay for all damages.
During the 1982–83 1999/Triple Threat tour, The Time served as Vanity 6's backing band from behind a curtain, before playing their own hour-long set. They liked the arrangement because the band saw it as free money. Terry Lewis said, "I'll play behind Vanity 6 for thirty minutes for $250. No problem. I was going to have to do the sound check, anyway." Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who had begun writing songs and producing albums of their own (working with SOLAR to produce Klymaxx and with Tabu Records to produce the S.O.S. Band), were stranded in Atlanta by a blizzard and failed to make it to a Time concert in San Antonio, for which Jerome had to mime playing bass guitar on stage while Prince played Lewis's part off stage, and Lisa Coleman stood in for Jimmy Jam. Subsequently, the duo were fined and then fired, although Prince would state in a 1990 Rolling Stone interview: "I didn't fire Jimmy and Terry. Morris asked me what I would do in his situation. You got to remember, it was his band." Whether their firing was due to the incident or to their increasing independence has never been clear. Monte Moir took the opportunity to leave as well, and would also work with Jam and Lewis. The three were replaced with Mark Cardenas and Paul Peterson on keyboards and Rocky Harris on bass. This new line up, with Jerry Hubbard replacing Rocky Harris, was featured in Prince's Purple Rain film. The Time rode the wave of popularity created by the movie and hit singles "Jungle Love" and "The Bird".
First split
Day left after arguments with Prince, choosing to pursue a solo career in 1985 after a successful acting turn in Purple Rain. With Jesse Johnson also opting to go solo (taking other Time members Cardenas and Hubbard with him), the band disintegrated. The remaining members (Benton, Jellybean Johnson and Peterson) were reformed into a new short-lived project called The Family. Meanwhile, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis went on to become one of the most successful songwriting and production teams of the 1980s and 1990s.
First reunion
In 1990, the original seven members of the band reunited for the Graffiti Bridge movie and soundtrack, as well as a new album, Pandemonium. The project was originally called Corporate World and was set to only feature Morris and Jerome, but Warner Bros. demanded that the original line-up be brought in if Prince wanted the company's backing for the movie. This spawned their highest selling single, "Jerk Out" and the album featured more input from the band than any other Time album. "Nobody really needed to put The Time back together," said Lewis, "but everybody wanted to. That makes it a great experience all round. We take the musicianship and the craft of what we do very seriously but, when the seven of us get together, it's naturally a party, fun kinda situation. We carry that from the record on to the stage."
The reunion was short-lived, as infighting within the band caused them to disband once again. Morris and Jerome have since remained a team, with both trying out some small acting roles over the next few years.
Several members of The Time reunited in 1995, added a few new recruits, Tori Ruffin on guitar, Chance Howard on keyboards, Robert GI' Grissett Jr. on third keyboards and Ricky "Freeze" Smith on bass guitar. This version of the band can be seen in the Kevin Smith film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and toured frequently usually billed as "Morris Day and The Time".
A fifth Time album was rumored to have been completed in the late 1990s, recorded with the new lineup, but production and coordination with Prince has prevented its release. Old Dogs, New Tricks was the working title. A 2004 album attributed to Morris Day called It's About Time contains a few new tracks written and performed by Day and a number of live performances by The Time featuring the new members along with Jellybean, Jerome, Monte & Morris.
Second reunion and The Original 7ven
The Time reunited at The 50th Grammy Awards on February 10, 2008, performing a medley that included Rihanna and featured "Jungle Love".
In June and July 2008, all of the original members of The Time (Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jellybean Johnson, and Monte Moir) reunited once again for a series of shows at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
A January 2009 interview mentions that guitarist Jesse Johnson states he is working with The Time on their upcoming album. The Time appeared at The Fox Theater, in Detroit, Michigan on June 11, 2010, with the original lineup to a packed house. Two days later during what Jimmy Jam dubbed "The Stingy Tour" on June 13, 2010 the "magnificent 7" played a hometown reunion concert in Minneapolis, MN, and, during that concert, announced on stage that a new album was "90% complete", which confirmed information provided in a Billboard profile published a week earlier.
In September 2011, the band announced a name change to The Original 7ven and a new album Condensate which was released October 18, 2011 with the single "#Trendin" released September 20. Concerning the name change, Jimmy Jam said that “the decision was made at that point that we could either continue to, shall we say, negotiate or argue or plead or whatever. We decided to go the route of 'let’s not hold things up because of the name. Let’s embrace the opportunity to move forward in a new era, with a new outlook, with a new album' and that’s what we did. We think the name reflects exactly who we are. We are the Original 7even and that basically, for me, covers it.”
On October 27, 2011, The Original 7ven appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
On November 17, 2011, The Original 7ven opened the Soul Train Music Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. The show was broadcast on November 27.
On April 21, 2016, group founder Prince was pronounced dead at his Paisley Park complex. Members of the band paid tribute to him in live performances and on social media.
On the weekend of June 24/25, 2016, Morris Day & The Time appeared at a Prince Tribute in London organised by the charity Autism Rocks. The charity was supported by Prince with live shows, including his last in the UK. Alongside Morris and The Time were other artists influenced or otherwise involved with Prince including CeeLo Green, Mark Ronson and Larry Graham & Graham Central Station.
On February 12, 2017, the original lineup of The Time played a brief two-song set at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, held at Staples Center as part of a tribute to Prince. The Time's appearance was followed by a performance by Bruno Mars.
The band has been honored with a star on the exterior of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue, where both the original roster and the second lineup of the group performed (first in October 1981 and later in the film Purple Rain). The stars on the building recognize performers who have played sold-out shows or have otherwise demonstrated a major contribution to the culture at the iconic venue. Receiving a star "might be the most prestigious public honor an artist can receive in Minneapolis," according to journalist Steve Marsh.
Legal dispute with Prince Estate
In March 2022, a Los Angeles Times article reported that the Prince Estate had recently informed Day that he “‘can no longer use [the name] Morris Day and the Time in any capacity.’” Music industry attorney Erin M. Jacobson was quoted in the article saying that it was more accurate to say the letter said that Day could not claim “‘ownership of the name,’” but there was still opportunity to use the name via an agreement with the Prince Estate that would provide terms for Day to monetarily compensate “‘the trademark owner in exchange for the ability to continue using the name.’”
Members
Current
* Morris Day – lead vocals, backing vocals (1981–1985, 1990–1991, 1995–present)
* Jellybean Johnson – drums, guitar, backing vocals (1981–1985, 1990–1991, 1995–present)
* Torrell "Tori" Ruffin – guitar, backing vocals (1995–present)
* Ricky "Freeze" Smith – bass, backing vocals (1995–2018, 2020–present)
* Sylvester Donald – valet, dancer, backing vocals, percussion (2009–2015, 2021–present)
* Andre "PaDre" Holmes – keyboards, bass, backing vocals (2018–present)
* Christopher Troy – keyboards, backing vocals (2021–present)
Past
* Jesse Johnson – guitar, backing vocals (1981–1985, 1990–1991, 2008, 2011, 2017)
* Monte Moir – keyboards, backing vocals (1981–1983, 1990–1991, 1995–2021)
* Terry Lewis – bass, backing vocals (1981–1983, 1990–1991, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2020)
* Jimmy Jam – keyboards, backing vocals (1981–1983, 1990–1991, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2020)
* Jerome Benton – valet, dancer, backing vocals, percussion (1981–1985, 1990–1991, 1995–2006, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2020)
* Mark Cardenas – keyboards, backing vocals (1983–1984)
* St. Paul Peterson – keyboards, backing vocals (1983–1984)
* Rocky Harris – bass (1983)
* Jerry Hubbard – bass, backing vocals (1983–1984)
* Morris Hayes – keyboards, backing vocals (1991)
* Stanley "Chance" Howard – keyboards, backing vocals (1995–)
* Robert Grissett, Jr. – keyboards, backing vocals (1995–)
* Brice Myles – keyboards, backing vocals
* Jeff McNeely – keyboards, backing vocals
* Jeffree Mak – keyboards, backing vocals (2006?–2019)
* Thomas Austin – valet, dancer, backing vocals, percussion (2014–2020)
* Charlie Redd – bass, backing vocals (2018) | WIKI |
Lionel Duval
Lionel Duval, (February 11, 1933 – September 30, 2016) was a Canadian sports journalist and long time presenter at La Soirée du hockey.
Biography
Born in the Estrie region of Québec, Lionel Duval graduated from École supérieure de Hull in the Outaouais region. He began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1950s at CKCH.
In the late 1950s, he was the play-by-play announcer for the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens hockey games.
Duval was hired by Radio-Canada in 1961 in the Outaouais and Ottawa region. One of his first gigs was as the host of Hebdo Sports, a local sports television programme.
In 1964, he was transferred to the Montréal Radio-Canada television station. For close to 30 years he was presenter and interviewer of La Soirée du hockey, the weekly broadcast of the Montreal Canadiens games. He was a sports news presenter for Radio-Canada television as well.
For many of those years at La Soirée du hockey, he was a member of a broadcasting team with René Lecavalier, Richard Garneau and Gilles Tremblay.
During his years at La Soirée du hockey, the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup 11 times, which, according to Radio-Canada, is a record among ice hockey broadcasters.
For Radio-Canada, Lionel Duval covered several Olympic Games, from Munich 1972 to Albertville '92. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, he described cycling, rowing and canoeing.
In the 1980s in Québec, he appeared as himself in a Pepsi commercial alongside comedian Claude Meunier.
In 1990, the Québec's voting public award him a MetroStar as their favorite host of a sports programme.
Lionel Duval, aged 60, retired in 1993, after more than 40 years in sports journalism, including 32 years at Radio-Canada. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2016. | WIKI |
ARTERIES AND VEINS….WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?…AND HOW DO THEY WORK?
As a vascular surgeon, one of the more common questions I receive from patients and from friends and family alike is what do I actually do? I find the question interesting because before I went to medical school, I did not even know that the field of vascular surgery existed! Vascular surgeons operate on the blood vessels all around the body including the chest, arms, neck, abdomen, and legs. One key thing to remember is that Vascular surgeons do NOT work on a person’s heart. Heart doctors are more commonly known as cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.
There are two different types of blood vessels: arteries and veins. Arteries are the tubes that bring blood from the heart to the rest of the body including arms, legs, head, abdomen, and legs. Arteries allow blood to travel at high speed with the pressure provided by the contraction of the heart. Common health problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes can result in blockages of the arteries that lead to the foot. Once the blockages are severe enough, a patient can have pain in the calves and feet as well as ulcers or gangrene of the toes and feet that do not heal. In addition to the effects on the legs, patients can also develop narrowing in the carotid arteries that supply the brain, the arteries that lead to the arm, and the arteries that lead to organs in the abdomen.
On the other hand, veins are the tubes that bring blood back to the heart from the body. After dropping off oxygen and nutrients to the tissue, the blood returns to a low-pressure state and thus moves at a low speed in the veins back to the heart. Because of the low pressure, specialized structures called valves exist in the veins to make sure that after blood goes back to the heart, the blood does not reflux back into the vein. When reflux occurs, the venous pressure can increase and cause ulcers, swelling, and varicose veins in the legs.
If you have ulcers on your feet that have not healed or varicose veins or swelling in your legs that are limiting your life, do not hesitate to call our office at 408-376-3626 to schedule a consultation. We can help!
Visit our website at www.southbayvascular.com to learn more about who we are, what we can do, and how we can help restore your circulatory health.
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Are Ice Baths Good for Your Heart: 4 Benefits You Should Know
Ice baths are widely known for their benefits in muscle recovery and inflammation reduction, but a common question arises: Are ice baths good for your heart? Understanding how cold exposure impacts cardiovascular health is essential for anyone considering ice baths as part of their wellness routine. In this article, we’ll explore the effects of ice baths on heart health, offering evidence-based insights into whether they are beneficial or potentially risky.
Are Ice Baths Good for Your Heart: 4 Benefits You Should Know
Are Ice Baths Good for Your Heart: 4 Benefits You Should Know. (Image: Pixabay)
1. Stimulate Cardiovascular Function
One of the primary ways that ice baths affect the heart is through the stimulation of cardiovascular function. Are ice baths good for your heart in this regard? Yes, they can be. When you immerse yourself in ice-cold water, your body responds by constricting blood vessels, a process known as vasoconstriction. This reaction causes an increase in blood pressure and heart rate as your body works to maintain core temperature.
While this might sound concerning, this temporary cardiovascular workout can actually strengthen your heart over time. The cold exposure challenges your circulatory system, making it more resilient and efficient at managing blood flow.
Beyond strengthening your heart, this process can also enhance your overall cardiovascular fitness. By regularly engaging in activities that challenge your heart, like ice baths, you can potentially improve your endurance and heart health in the long term. This makes ice baths a unique tool not only for recovery but also for cardiovascular conditioning.
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2. Improve Circulation
Are ice baths good for your heart in terms of circulation? The answer is yes. The process of vasoconstriction during cold immersion is followed by vasodilation—the widening of blood vessels—once you leave the ice bath and your body begins to warm up. This alternating constriction and dilation of blood vessels improves overall circulation.
Better circulation means that oxygen and nutrients are delivered more efficiently throughout the body, supporting not just muscle recovery but also overall heart health. Regular exposure to cold stress through ice baths can help improve the flexibility and responsiveness of your blood vessels.
This improved circulation doesn’t just benefit your heart; it can also lead to better skin health, enhanced mental clarity, and even a boost in energy levels. By supporting your body’s circulatory system, ice baths contribute to your overall well-being, making them a versatile addition to your health regimen.
3. Support Immune System Function
Interestingly, ice baths may also contribute to heart health by supporting immune system function. Are ice baths good for your heart when it comes to immune support? Yes, they can be. Cold exposure has been shown to stimulate the production of white blood cells, which play a crucial role in fighting infections. A healthy immune system reduces the overall stress on the body, including the heart.
By helping your body fend off illnesses, ice baths indirectly contribute to maintaining a healthy heart. Additionally, the improved circulation from ice baths helps distribute immune cells more efficiently throughout the body, ensuring a more robust defense against pathogens.
4. Enhance Mental Resilience and Reduce Stress
Are ice baths good for your heart in the context of mental health? Absolutely. Regular exposure to cold stress through ice baths can improve your mental resilience, which in turn benefits your heart. Chronic stress is a well-established risk factor for heart disease, as it elevates blood pressure and puts additional strain on the cardiovascular system.
By helping you manage stress more effectively, ice baths can reduce the overall burden on your heart. The endorphins released during cold exposure can also improve mood and reduce anxiety, further supporting cardiovascular health by promoting a balanced mental state.
Managing stress is essential for maintaining a healthy heart, and ice baths offer a natural, effective way to achieve this. By incorporating ice baths into your routine, you’re not only taking care of your body but also nurturing your mental well-being. This holistic approach to health ensures that you’re supporting your heart in every way possible.
Potential Risks for Those with Pre-existing Heart Conditions
Although ice baths can offer heart health benefits, it’s important to assess whether they are safe for everyone. For individuals with pre-existing heart conditions, such as hypertension or heart disease, the sudden increase in heart rate and blood pressure caused by cold exposure can pose risks.
The shock of cold water can potentially trigger arrhythmias or other heart complications. Therefore, if you have a known heart condition, it’s essential to consult with a healthcare professional before incorporating ice baths into your routine. They can help determine whether this practice is safe for you based on your specific health profile.
It’s important to remember that while ice baths offer many benefits, they are not suitable for everyone. Taking the time to understand your own health and consulting with professionals ensures that you can enjoy the advantages of ice baths without unnecessary risks. This careful approach helps you make informed decisions about your health and well-being.
Why Are Ice Baths Good for Your Heart?
So, are ice baths good for your heart? The benefits are clear: they stimulate cardiovascular function, improve circulation, and support immune health, all of which contribute to a healthier heart. However, it’s essential to approach ice baths with caution, particularly if you have pre-existing heart conditions. For those in good health, ice baths can be a powerful tool to enhance overall cardiovascular wellness, improve mental resilience, and reduce stress. As always, consult with a healthcare professional to ensure that this practice aligns with your specific health needs and goals. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Simin-e Zagheh
Simin-e Zagheh (, also Romanized as Sīmīn-e Zāgheh and Sīmīn Zāgheh; also known as Simīr-e Zāgheh) is a village in Simineh Rud Rural District, in the Central District of Bahar County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,428, in 388 families. | WIKI |
Pylons
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What is Pylons?
Quoting the Pylons Python Web Framework web site:
"Pylons is a python rapid web application development framework frequently compared to rails and with an emphasis on speed and fun."
Installing Pylons
Note: This was written on June 10, 2008. You may want to try "pacman -Ss pylons" to check if Pylons has been added to the repos.
Before you start, you need to make sure aurbuild is installed. Then, install the following (I have ordered them so that there are no unresolved dependencies):
Note: Add the -n or --noconfirm option if you want to bypass answering "yes" for confirmation messages.
sudo aurbuild -s python-myghtyutils python-simplejson python-routes python-webhelpers python-beaker python-paste python-paste-deploy python-paste-script python-decorator python-nose python-mako python-pylons
Alternative method
Install easy_install:
# pacman -S setuptools
Install Pylons like in instruction:
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Understanding Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
by | Dec 5, 2023
Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Options for TMD Pain
Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorders, or Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD), present intricate challenges that significantly impact the quality of life for those affected.
In this expansive blog post, we will delve deep into the multifaceted nature of TMJ disorders, exploring the various factors contributing to these conditions. With a primary focus on physiotherapy interventions, we aim to elucidate how this comprehensive approach can provide relief for individuals dealing with the complexities of TMJ disorders.
Throughout this discussion, we’ll utilize key search terms such as temporomandibular joint, TMJ disorder, jaw pain, physical therapy, and related terms to ensure a thorough exploration.
Understanding the Complexity of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
The temporomandibular joint, a crucial hinge connecting the mandible (jawbone) to the skull, is a sophisticated structure involving muscles, ligaments, and a disc facilitating smooth jaw movement for such actions as speaking, drinking and chewing food.
TMJ disorders encompass a spectrum of conditions affecting this joint, leading to symptoms such as jaw pain, limited movement, and chronic orofacial pain. Contributing factors range from arthritis, misalignment, chronic jaw movement issues and head trauma. These complications can cause pain and create a challenging landscape for both individuals and healthcare professionals.
Physiotherapy as a Comprehensive Approach to TMJ Disorders
Manual Therapy for Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
Manual therapy techniques form the cornerstone of addressing TMJ dysfunction. Physiotherapists employ a hands-on approach, utilizing soft tissue manipulation and joint mobilizations to alleviate pain and improve overall jaw function. By focusing on specific muscles and structures, manual therapy becomes a targeted intervention, significantly reducing the impact of TMJ disorders.
Jaw Mobility Exercises for TMJ Pain
Tailored exercise programs are designed with precision to enhance jaw mobility and strengthen the muscles involved in jaw movement. Physiotherapists target muscle imbalances and promote optimal joint function, ultimately reducing symptoms such as facial pain and restricted jaw movement. These exercises are integral to the rehabilitation process, promoting long-term improvements in jaw function.
Disk and Temporal Bone Considerations
Physiotherapy interventions are intricately designed, taking into account the delicate structures within the TMJ, including the disk and temporal bone. By addressing specific issues related to these components, such as disk displacement or bone abnormalities, physiotherapists contribute to restoring normal TMJ function. The comprehensive nature of these interventions ensures a holistic approach to TMJ disorders.
Arthritis and TMD Symptoms
Arthritis is a common contributor to TMJ disorders, often leading to pain and inflammation in the joint. Physiotherapists employ targeted interventions, including exercises and joint mobilizations, to manage arthritis-related symptoms and improve joint function. This aspect of physiotherapy is crucial in providing relief to individuals dealing with the dual challenges of arthritis and TMJ dysfunction.
Collaboration with Dentists
A collaborative approach between physiotherapists and dentists is essential for a comprehensive care plan for TMJ disorders. Dentists may provide orthopedic appliances, such as splints or mouthguards, while physiotherapists focus on addressing muscular and functional aspects of TMJ dysfunction. This collaboration ensures a holistic and coordinated approach to managing TMJ-related challenges.
Chronic Pain and Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome
Chronic orofacial pain is a significant aspect of TMJ disorders, impacting daily life and overall well-being. Physiotherapy strategies extend beyond pain relief to address the underlying causes, promoting long-term improvements in function and quality of life. Through a combination of pain management techniques and targeted interventions, physiotherapists play a pivotal role in addressing chronic pain associated with TMJ dysfunction.
MRI and TMJ Assessment
Advanced diagnostic tools, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and X-ray, may play a useful role in assessing the extent of TMJ dysfunction. Physiotherapists utilize imaging findings to tailor treatment plans, ensuring precision in addressing specific issues contributing to TMJ disorders, such as sustained upper cervical extension. The integration of advanced diagnostics enhances the overall effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions, providing valuable insights into the intricacies of TMJ-related challenges.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Aligning with evidence-based practices advocated by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), physiotherapy interventions prioritize effectiveness and patient-centered care. Staying abreast of the latest research and guidelines ensures that physiotherapists offer optimal care for individuals with TMJ disorders. The NIDCR serves as a valuable resource, guiding physiotherapists in providing evidence-based and up-to-date interventions for TMJ-related challenges.
Conclusion
In conclusion, physiotherapy emerges as a pivotal and comprehensive approach to managing the complexities of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders. Through a thorough exploration of manual therapy, jaw mobility exercises, considerations for delicate structures, arthritis management, collaborative care, chronic pain strategies, advanced diagnostics, and adherence to evidence-based practices, this blog post has outlined the multifaceted nature of physiotherapy interventions for TMJ disorders.
For individuals grappling with TMJ-related symptoms, seeking the expertise of a physiotherapist becomes a transformative step toward unlocking relief and improving overall well-being. With ongoing research and collaboration between healthcare disciplines, the field of physiotherapy continues to evolve, offering hope and practical solutions for those navigating the intricate challenges posed by Temporomandibular Joint Disorders.
If you or someone you know is dealing with TMJ-related challenges, consider consulting a physiotherapist for a comprehensive assessment and a personalized treatment plan designed to address the unique aspects of TMJ dysfunction.
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FAQ: Addressing Common Questions on Physiotherapy for Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD)
1. How does physiotherapy differ from other treatments for TMJ disorders?
Physiotherapy takes a holistic approach, addressing both the physical and functional aspects of TMJ disorders. While other treatments may focus on specific symptoms, physiotherapy considers the interconnected nature of the temporomandibular joint and surrounding structures, offering comprehensive interventions to alleviate pain and improve overall function.
2. Are jaw exercises effective in managing TMJ pain?
Yes, jaw exercises are a crucial component of physiotherapy for TMJ disorders. These exercises aim to enhance jaw mobility, strengthen supporting muscles, and address muscle imbalances. A tailored exercise program designed by a physiotherapist can significantly contribute to reducing TMJ-related pain and improving jaw function.
3. How soon can one expect relief from TMJ symptoms through physiotherapy?
The timeline for experiencing relief from TMJ symptoms varies among individuals. Factors such as the severity of the condition, adherence to the physiotherapy plan, and consistency in performing prescribed exercises play a role. While some individuals may experience improvements in a few weeks, others may require a more extended period for noticeable relief.
4. Can physiotherapy help with chronic orofacial pain associated with TMJ disorders?
Absolutely. Physiotherapy strategies extend beyond pain relief to address the underlying causes of chronic orofacial pain. By targeting muscle imbalances, improving joint function, and incorporating pain management techniques, physiotherapists play a pivotal role in enhancing the overall well-being of individuals dealing with chronic pain related to TMJ dysfunction.
5. Is collaboration with a dentist necessary for effective TMJ management?
Collaboration with a dentist can enhance the overall effectiveness of TMJ management. Dentists may provide orthopedic appliances, such as splints or mouthguards, which complement the physiotherapy interventions focused on addressing muscular and functional aspects of TMJ dysfunction. A multidisciplinary approach ensures a comprehensive and coordinated care plan.
6. Are there specific exercises to avoid for TMJ disorders?
While each case is unique, individuals with TMJ disorders may be advised to avoid certain exercises that exacerbate symptoms. High-impact activities, excessive jaw movements, or exercises that induce pain should be approached cautiously. Physiotherapists tailor exercise programs to the individual’s needs, taking into account their specific TMJ issues.
7. Can physiotherapy address TMJ disorders associated with arthritis?
Yes, physiotherapy is effective in managing TMJ disorders associated with arthritis. Physiotherapists use targeted interventions, including exercises and joint mobilizations, to address arthritis-related symptoms, reduce inflammation, and improve joint function. Collaborative care with rheumatologists may be recommended for a comprehensive approach to arthritis management.
8. How often should one undergo physiotherapy sessions for TMJ disorders?
The frequency of physiotherapy sessions varies based on individual needs and the severity of TMJ disorders. Initially, more frequent sessions may be recommended to address acute symptoms, with a gradual decrease in frequency as the individual progresses. Consistent communication with the physiotherapist ensures an optimal treatment plan tailored to the individual’s progress.
9. Can physiotherapy prevent the recurrence of TMJ symptoms?
Physiotherapy aims not only to alleviate current symptoms but also to address underlying causes and prevent recurrence. Through a combination of exercises, manual therapy, and education on jaw mechanics and posture, physiotherapists empower individuals to maintain optimal TMJ function and reduce the risk of future symptoms.
10. Is physiotherapy suitable for all types of TMJ disorders?
Physiotherapy is generally suitable for various types of TMJ disorders, ranging from muscle-related issues to structural problems. However, the specific approach may vary based on the diagnosis and individual factors. A thorough assessment by a physiotherapist helps determine the most appropriate interventions for each case.
Remember, these answers provide general information, and it’s essential to consult with a qualified healthcare professional for personalized advice based on individual circumstances.
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Adding Skype to OUtlook
We have office 365 Education and it has Skype in the online Outlook app. Can Skype be added to the desktop version of our Outlook? If so, please advise.
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Vasil Michev (MVP)Connect With a Mentor Commented:
Multiple accounts are not a problem (although you might have some issues if the account you use in SfB does not match the primary Outlook account). The add-in is installed as part of the SfB package, if it's missing you might need to enable it as detailed here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3097122/skype-meeting-control-is-not-displayed-on-outlook-2016
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It's added by default with the Office install. In case you use a version that does not include SfB, download/install the standalone one: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49440
Or do you mean the "consumer" Skype?
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Bob SchneiderCo-OwnerAuthor Commented:
We have skype for business in Office 365 but it is not listed as an add in on my desktop version of Outlook. Is that because I have multiple email accounts from other organisations there?
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Ok I have the Skype icon but it is disabled. Any ideas?
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Is it disabled in the Addons. Can you enable it? If you can't Enable it then you need to check in the Event Viewer Logs why Outlook is failing to enable the Addon. You might need to reinstall your SfB Client.
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may depend on. We will always stick together. No matter bow many other horses I may have, I shall never love any of them like you. And no matter how much money I am offered for you, I will never sell you. We belong to each other forever."
At this assurance Dapples again nodded his head sagely. It was a pact agreed to by both parties—they were to belong to each other forever. | WIKI |
Bolivia reaches preliminary $2.5 billion oil, gas investment deal
LA PAZ, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Bolivia’s state-run oil company YPFB signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai-based Kampac Oil and London-based investment office Milner Capital for oil and gas exploration and production, Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Monday.
Under the terms of the memorandum, the two companies would invest $2.5 billion in the Madre de Dios basin in northern Bolivia, which has the potential to produce 4 billion barrels of oil and 12 trillion cubic feet of gas. Kampac would invest $500 million and Milner would invest $2 billion.
“These agreements signed with Kampac Oil, based in Dubai, and Milner Capita, based in London - new partners that are joining our exploration and production efforts - show that Bolivian norms give legal security to foreign companies,” Morales said in a post on Twitter announcing the deal.
The deal includes investment to search for hydrocarbons in exploratory fields and to increase production in mature fields, Jose Morao Patino, partner and head of Latin America at Milner Capital, said at an event marking the deal in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Landlocked Bolivia is South America’s top natural gas exporter, but contract re-negotiations with neighboring Argentina and Brazil as well as declining reserves and production could threaten its economy, which has grown at one of the fastest rates in the region in recent years. (Reporting by Daniel Ramos; Writing by Luc Cohen; Editing by Paul Simao) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
-- FSA Mostly Clears Itself on Missed Libor-Rigging Signals
The U.K. Financial Services
Authority missed more than two dozen warnings that Libor rates
were inaccurate, a lawmaker said after a report cleared the
regulator of failures on the scale of other financial crisis-
related scandals. The regulator missed 26 signals that the London Interbank
Offered Rate didn’t reflect market conditions, which should have
“set alarm bells ringing,” Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the U.K.
Treasury Select Committee, said in an e-mailed statement. When Barclays was fined 290 million pounds ($439 million)
by the U.S. and U.K. in June last year, the bank admitted
submissions used to set interest rates were rigged in an effort
to profit from bets on derivatives and to help the bank appear
financially healthier than it was. The London-based lender also
said it had alerted regulators to problems with Libor before the
investigation, communicating with the FSA, Bank of England ,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the British Bankers’
Association 33 times in 2007 and 2008. The regulator, facing lawmaker criticism that it missed
warning signs on the rigging of benchmark interest rates for
years, said the internal report on how it handled “dislocation”
in the Libor rate from 2007 until May 2009 found that there were
areas where the regulator could have performed better. The
report found no failures on the scale of previous scandals
involving its oversight of Northern Rock Plc or Royal Bank of
Scotland Group Plc . Low-Balling Clues At the time, “the FSA’s bank supervisors were primarily
focused on ensuring they understood the prudential implications
of severe market dislocation,” FSA Chairman Adair Turner said
in a statement. The agency “had no formal regulatory
responsibility for the Libor submission process. As a result,
the FSA did not respond rapidly to clues that low-balling might
be occurring.” The report confirms lawmakers’ “concerns that the FSA was
slow to act,” Tyrie said. “The FSA’s successor bodies will
need to do better. The Treasury Committee’s scrutiny of them
will be intensive.” 97,000 Documents Out of 97,000 documents the FSA searched in its review,
none referred to attempts by traders to manipulate rates, the
regulator said. Many indicated “dislocations” in Libor, where
there was a divergence between banks’ submissions and actual
rates, a wider range of submissions, or disparities because
there wasn’t sufficient data on which to base the rate. The FSA
said it was “acutely aware” of that situation in 2007 to 2008. “Clear evidence of this dislocation did not, in itself,
however, carry any implication that ‘low-balling’ was
occurring,” the FSA said. About $300 trillion of contracts worldwide, including home
mortgages, interest-rate swaps and loans, are tied to Libor. The FSA concluded it was too focused on dealing with the
financial crisis that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc. and should have considered the likelihood low-ball
rate submissions were occurring. It also said it should have
better managed the information it received. The FSA opened its investigation into rate manipulation in
early 2010, a year-and-a-half after the U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission’s probe. Barclays, RBS and UBS AG (UBSN) have been
fined about $2.5 billion by U.S. and U.K. regulators for rate-
rigging, and more than a dozen other firms are under
investigation. Barclays Concerns In its discussion with the FSA, Barclays “consistently”
raised concerns its competitors were submitting artificially low
quotes used in setting the rate, the bank told lawmakers in
July. When it was fined, Barclays admitted to colluding with
other banks to manipulate Libor and similar benchmarks. The Bank of England had no knowledge of criminal wrongdoing
and passed along any market rumors about the Libor-setting
process to the FSA, the central bank said in a statement today. “As senior Bank officials made clear in public, it was
widely known that the interbank market had effectively closed,
and so there were questions about what the Libor rates were
based on,” Britain’s central bank said. The BOE will take over prudential regulation when the FSA
is abolished at the end of the month. The British government last week formally started the
search for a replacement body to oversee Libor after the British
Bankers’ Association, the industry group that created the
benchmark in 1986, agreed to relinquish oversight. Libor Poll During the time period the FSA reviewed, Libor was
calculated by a poll carried out daily by Thomson Reuters Corp.
on behalf of the BBA, which asked firms to estimate how much it
would cost to borrow from each other for different periods and
in different currencies. Gary Gensler, the chairman of the CFTC, recently questioned
the long-term viability of Libor, saying underlying markets on
which it relies may be permanently disrupted. The rates must be
anchored to real transactions in order for people to have
confidence in them, he said in an interview last month. Northern Rock was the first British casualty of the U.S.
subprime market’s collapse and was taken over by the British
government in February 2008. RBS (RBS) also received a bailout by the
U.K. and remains the largest government-owned lender in Britain. To contact the reporter on this story:
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Williams, Oregon
Williams is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,072.
There were three different post offices in the area named for their proximity to Williams Creek: Williams, Williamsburg and Williams Creek (in Jackson County). Williams Creek, which flows into the Applegate River, was named for Captain Robert Williams, who fought against Rogue River Indians along the creek during the Rogue River Wars of 1855–6. Williams post office was established in 1881 and is about six miles upstream from Provolt on Williams Creek, and two miles west of the Jackson-Josephine county line. The community is served by the Three Rivers School District; Williams Elementary School is located in the community.
Geography
Williams is in southeastern Josephine County, in the valley of Williams Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the Applegate River and part of the Rogue River watershed. It sits to the northeast of the Siskiyou Mountains and is 6 mi south of Provolt and 19 mi south of Grants Pass, the Josephine county seat.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Williams CDP has an area of 29.3 sqkm, all of it recorded as land.
Demographics
In 2022, Williams, OR had a population of 1.17k people with a median age of 43.2 and a median household income of $81,310. Between 2021 and 2022 the population of Williams, OR grew from 1,033 to 1,173, a 13.6% increase and its median household income grew from $70,739 to $81,310.
Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Williams has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.
Notable residents
* Steve Miller, musician - from 1976 to 1986, Miller owned the Lippincott-Wagner House and a 420 acre ranch here. In 2015, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. | WIKI |
New Enterprise
New Enterprise may refer to:
Places
* New Enterprise, a populated place in northern Bedford County, Pennsylvania
* New Enterprise Public School, in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Other
* New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm focused on information technology and healthcare
* New Enterprise Coaches, the coaching arm of Arriva Southern Counties, based in Kent, England
* New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc., a company owning and operating quarries in Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware | WIKI |
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