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Thomas Suluk
Thomas Suluk (Inuktitut: ᑖᒪᔅ ᓱᓗᒃ; March 14, 1950 – October 13, 2018) is a former Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
Biography
Thomas Suluk was born on March 14, 1950, in Arviat, then part of the Northwest Territories. After graduating from Arthur Turner Anglican Theological School in Pangnirtung, on Baffin Island, Suluk was posted to Apex, Iqaluit. However, at age 22, he was one year too young to go through the process of ordination. Instead of waiting, Suluk chose to enter politics, during a time when Inuit were beginning to learn of land claims and their civil rights. He began in his local council office, but moved on to working for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as he had an interest in broader community issues.
After working as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio announcer for a short period, Suluk won an election to the House of Commons of Canada at the 1984 federal election, representing the electoral district of Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut). His election was close - his Progressive Conservative candidacy narrowly defeated the Liberal candidate, Robert Kuptana, by just 247 votes. During his time in Parliament, Suluk focused on land claims issues in Nunavut, and was also involved with the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut (now Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated), which was at the time the peak organisation tasked with negotiating land claims and treaties for Inuit. Suluk did not contest the seat at the following election.
After his brief role in politics, Suluk opened a coffeeshop in Arviat, and as of 2008 was working on the 2007/8 Inuit Health Survey. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Editor review/PullToOpen
User:PullToOpen
I am about to hit the magical 1k edits (not so magical here as in other wikis), and am looking for a direction to turn. I plan on running for adminship sometime in the future (DISTANT future), and right now I am looking for feedback on where I should go next to ensure my chances of success. Thank you, PullToOpenTalk 04:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Reviews
* Review from :
* Hey, I know you! You're an admin on Simple (where I am only a very small contributor). Anyway, most of what I see looks quite good, and I would probably support your distant future RfA if you continue the way you are going. However, others have different RfA standars, so I will discuss some things you may want to focus on if you are to convince other !voters as well and have a successful RfA.
* First: XFDs. I personally do not consider these paramount to adminship if that is not the intended use of the tools, but some users feel experience with these is important regardless. You may want to begin participating more here, and also remember that it is generally good to have a large number of Wikipedia space edits, which can be largely fulfilled by XFDs.
* Also, you may want plenty of talk edits when it comes time for your RfA. As is true with Wikipedia space edits, having a large number of these is not because everyone has editcountitis, but because the reality is that statistics are a good way to get a quick handle on someone's contributions. In the cases of these two namespaces, they are used to get a general idea of how much you communicate with other users, and how good a knowledge of Wikipedia policy you have.
* Additonally, remember to always be civil. I here refer to this. You used "wtf" in the edit summary (generally to be avoided), but more importantly, you may have made that user think you were telling him/her to "burn in hell." Please be careful not to make comments like this that could be interpreted as offensive, no matter what is said to you.
* And a nitpick: it is not a large matter, but you may want to watch you edit summaries, avoiding abbreviations like rvv . While no problem at all for experienced users, many new and inexperienced users look at the edit histories of pages and may have difficulty figuring out what happened during that edit. It takes but a little time to write "revert vandalism."
* These comments are just my take, and feel free to ask me about anything. My door is always open. You seem to be on the righ track and I wish you the best, Dar-Ape 22:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
* Addendum:
* Just for the record, I see you had removed this comment before I submitted my review. (And it was only live for about one minute... funny I stumbled on it.) I stand by what I wrote, but I just wanted to say that I'm glad you thought better of that comment. Cheers, Dar-Ape 22:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
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Questions
* 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
* I am somewhat proud of my List of House episodes and List of diseases featured on House, with the former well on its way to becoming a FL.
* 1) 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?
* Never (maybe because I WP:DGAF :p). Therefore, the second part of the question does not apply.
* Never (maybe because I WP:DGAF :p). Therefore, the second part of the question does not apply. | WIKI |
Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/British nuclear tests at Maralinga/archive1
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British nuclear tests at Maralinga were conducted between 1956 and 1963 in the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia. A total of seven nuclear tests took place at Maralinga, with approximate yields ranging from 1 to 27 ktTNT. Two major test series were conducted: Operation Buffalo in 1956 and Operation Antler the following year. One bomb used cobalt pellets as a tracer for determining yield, resulting in rumours that Britain was developing a cobalt bomb. The site was also used for trials of neutron initiators and tests on the compression of nuclear weapon cores and the effects of fire on atomic weapons. The site was left contaminated with radioactive waste, and a clean-up was attempted in 1967. A further clean-up was completed in 2000. In 1994, the Australian government paid $13.5 million compensation to the traditional owners, the Maralinga Tjarutja people. The land was restored to them in 2014.
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Hi and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Smog Check Price Ojai – Rigo, The Man You Will Be Able To Belive In.
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MAKE THE DIAGNOSIS IS CORRECT
The very first fact you want to do is to make sure the diagnosis is right. After that, seek out a good car dealership or repair service to take on the repair, ultimately someone which has a great deal of knowledge in vehicle head gasket repair work. Afterwards, along with the following tips, be sure to ask a few key questions to make sure the repair service is executed properly. The facts are that elevated temperatures can very quickly wreck an engine by causing warping of the heads or the block, or perhaps even cracking. The quicker the motor is stopped after understanding the head is blown, the greater the prospects of fixing the top end without large implications.
Smog Check Price Ojai DO NOT USE OLD PIN
Making do with the old pins can produce a scenario where the head is not correctly torqued because the studs will extend when they are torqued. Old studs have already been stretched, so the torque value will be different than a new stud. You can see the difference in the treads if you hold the two studs up together. Here are a few things to be on guard for when getting a head gasket reconditioned. People can easily hope to spend between $1,200 and $2,000 depending on how much work will need to be undertaken. Don't ever make the mistake in paying out an inexpensive price any repair with less skilled workmanship. Make sure that the mechanic is qualified and the garage is reputable. Otherwise, the results will frequently set you back more.
MAKE THE DIAGNOSIS IS ACCURATE
The very first fact you need to carry out is to make sure the analysis is dead on. Then, seek out a respected dealership or repair service to take care of the servicing, preferably someone that possesses a good deal of knowledge in motor head gasket repair work. Then, utilizing the following tips, be sure to ask a few key points to ensure the repair service is finished effectively.
The facts are that very high temperature levels can very quickly harm an engine by resulting in warping of the heads or the block, or perhaps even breaking. The quicker the motor is stopped after understanding the head is blown, the better the possibilities of fixing the top end without critical effects. Smog Check Price Ojai | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
South African Law/Persons/Unborn child
Under Ethiopian Law a child merly concieved may be considered born for certain legal purposes provided it's interest so requires and is born alive and viable(Art. 2 of the 1960 Civil code). The requirments that the merly conceived child's interest requires and it be born alive and viable are cummulative all the time. Its interest is said to be involved if for example, the father of the baby dies while still conceived and the succession of the deceased is opened and other heirs are to take it with out the conceived child's participation. In this case the child is said to be a double loser in a sense he lost his father and, if he is to be excluded from the succession only be cause he in to be a person yet. So to protect the interest of the conceived child from the regours of the principle that only birth gives rise to personality, this exception has be devised by the law. The other requirments are concomitant to one an other: namely birth and viability. For the purpose of birth the child must be born alive and of course it is a prerequisite for the requirment of viability for we cannot talk about viability of a child born with out life. Article 4 of the Civil Code provides the meaning of what viability for the purpose of Art. 2 of the Civil Code. Accordingly, viability is the ability of the child to sustain life for 48 hours after birth. The law says a child is viable if it lived for 48 hours after birth(Art.4/1). And viability of a child who lived for 48 hours is irribattable, meaning no contrary proof is allowed. This even so if the life of the child was supported with an external mechanism with out which it couldn't survive for more than 4 hours, let say due to some desease it has contracted while in the womb. On the other hand if a child dies due to a cause other than its internal constitution, ie due to external factors example the child suffered a head fructure due to an error by the nurse, or it was saffocated due to lack of ventlation or other causes that it might suffer in the hands of any one or causes not attributable to any desease he might have contracted while in the womb. | WIKI |
Pan American Judo Union
The Pan American Judo Union (PJU) is an international organization comprising national Judo federations and associations of the Americas, and was one of five such continental organizations recognized by the International Judo Federation.
The PJU is currently a member of the World Judo Federation (WJF).
History
It was founded in 1952. It was the official organizer of the Pan American Judo Championships from 1952 to 2008 and was responsible for selecting the qualification requirements for the continental quota for the Olympic Games.
The PJU was replaced by the Pan American Judo Confederation (PJC) when it was founded in 2009. This decision was appealed at the International Court for sports. It declared that the PJU had to be reinstated as the judo union for the American continent. | WIKI |
libsigc++ 2.99.5: Even less code
I managed to rip out another chunk of slightly-incomprehensible code from libsigc++, and those improvements are in libsigc++-3.0’s 2.99.5 version.
Now there’s no common functor_base base class and I removed all those interdependent result_type typedefs that were scattered throughout the code. When I had unravelled the whole result_type chain, I could replace it with just a handful of decltype(auto) uses, realising that that’s what the whole mess was trying to achieve. I love decltype(auto).
One thought on “libsigc++ 2.99.5: Even less code
1. Congrats! decltype, auto, and their combination are certainly hugely powerful, and it’s great to hear sigc is benefiting more and more from the evolution of C++. That to me is the ace up the sleeve of gtkmm and sigc: that were built in standard C++ and you actively work to incorporate its improvements. They’re not [cough] C++98 with proprietary h4x
Anyway, is it me, or does deleting obsoleted code almost feel better than writing new stuff? :-) I often find that after going through my codebase improving and streamlining things, it does more, better, with much less. Achieving the balance of simplicity and power – a great feeling!
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Crow (comics)
The Crow is a superhero and the protagonist of The Crow comic book series, originally created by American artist James O'Barr in 1989. The titular character is an undead vigilante brought back to life by a supernatural crow to avenge his murder and death of his fiancée.
The character has subsequently appeared in several feature films, a television series, and spin-off novels and comics. In the various incarnations, films, and spin-offs, many people have taken on the Crow persona in order to avenge their own wrongful deaths. In 2011, IGN ranked the Crow 37th in the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. The Crow made his live-action debut in the 1994 film The Crow, portrayed by Brandon Lee. Later, The Crow was portrayed by Mark Dacascos in the 1998 television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven.
The Crow (bird)
The Crow is a supernatural bird that serves as the protagonist's link between the living world and the realm of beyond. The magical crow is capable of resurrecting people who have been murdered, so that the victims may be able to seek justice on the person or people responsible for their death. This story is said to come from an old Native American legend.
During the person's "rebirth", the crow serves as a guide, helping the individual tap into his or her potential and assisting in tracking down the wrongdoers. Other people do not see the crow, only the reborn, unless he wants it. The Crow communicates with the reborn in a manner akin to telepathy, often helping guide them to exact their revenge.
In the film adaptations, the crow is a real bird and if harmed or killed, the reborn becomes vulnerable. However, the Crow also seems to be much more enduring than a regular bird and might possess some regeneration abilities (e.g. in The Crow film the bird survives after being shot with a rifle).
Powers and abilities
While they are in possession of the Crow's powers, the reborn are endowed with several unique abilities. As they are already dead, the reborn are incapable of feeling pain or fatigue and are not capable of healing. In the films, however, they possess a supernatural ability to recover from seemingly all injuries in a matter of moments. Chief among their physical abilities is their inhuman strength and enhanced reflexes; able to quickly brutalize several opponents simultaneously, even those who would be otherwise untouchable, as well as catch fast-moving projectiles such as throwing knives with their bare hands. In both Wicked Prayer and Stairway to Heaven, the source of the reborn's strength is attributed to their love for the ones they've lost. Alternatively, Ashe Corven says in City of Angels that the fuel for his power is pain. In either case, the Crow's magic is rooted in lost love.
Also, again in the films, the reborn possesses the ability to see images from his or her loved one's memory when touching things he or she touched before, or to see the memories of a person when touching them. In addition the reborn usually can send the images and feelings from the memories already absorbed to the person whose eyes the reborn touches at the moment; in The Crow, protagonist Eric Draven makes villain Top Dollar feel 30 hours of his (Eric's) murdered girlfriend Shelly's pain in one moment. In The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Eric can see events that transpired simply by touching objects that belonged to someone.
Although the person brought back to life by the Crow is physically invulnerable, in the films and later Crow comics they do have one weakness: they lose their power if the crow is harmed or killed. In addition, the reborn lose their invincibility when they consider their mission completed; in The Crow: Salvation, protagonist Alex Corvis is tricked into thinking that he completed his mission, thus he becomes vulnerable. His guide Crow ultimately makes Alex realize his mistake and rise again.
In the comic book The Crow: Waking Nightmares, it is stated that the Crow power is taken from the reborn if they abandon their mission. In case of losing special powers, the reborn become vulnerable, start to rot, and rigor mortis sets in, as if the reborn were still in their graves.
In The Crow: City of Angels and The Crow: Salvation, those resurrected by the Crow have the ability to turn into crows themselves and possess the natural abilities of a crow, such as flight and night vision.
Appearance
In the comic book, the origin of Eric's make-up is explained briefly as "painting his face in the colors of joy". This indicates that he copied the Greek comedy masquerade mask in his and Shelly's house. Contrary to the film, in the book Eric does not paint his face with white. The white pale color comes from the fact that Eric is dead and it is just a corpse inhabited by a soul. Joshua and Mark Leung do not wear any distinctive make-up, and Ashe's is provided by Sarah, as in the film. Iris Shaw paints the semblance of a Crow on her face with the tail covering her nose, and the wings covering her eyes. She removes it to face her final killer. Michael Korby's makeup covers his neck and shoulders. The makeup is referred as "the mask of death" and "the trails of Gorgon's blood" in The Crow: Wild Justice comic book. In The Crow: Death and Rebirth, Jamie Osterberg's pale skin color and eye/mouth lines are not created by make-up, however, and his hair has turned completely white. In The Crow: Curare, Carrie's pale skin color is not accomplished by make-up, there is no horizontal line over the mouth, and the vertical lines over the eyes are shorter and thinner.
According to O'Barr, Eric Draven is based on the face of Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus) and the body of Iggy Pop.
In all feature films, except The Crow: Salvation, the protagonist wears make-up that cover their face. In the first film Eric Draven copies the pattern from one of the masquerade that decorated his and Shelly's apartment, which consists of white paint placed over the face with black paint around eyes, black vertical lines over and under eyes, black paint on the lips and a black horizontal line across the mouth and cheeks, resembling a Glasgow smile. In The Crow: City of Angels, Ashe's make-up was provided by Sarah and looks similar. Jimmy's make-up in The Crow: Wicked Prayer is similar as well, though there is no horizontal line over the mouth and the vertical eye lines are shorter and thinner.
In the third film, The Crow: Salvation, Alex Corvis is executed in the electric chair, and his face is burned by the metal helmet which was worn over his head during the execution. He removes the burned skin following his resurrection, scarring his face around the eyes and lips, thus forming a pattern similar to the classical make-up. However, there are two vertical lines over each of his eyes and they cross with the horizontal lines on his mouth.
In The Crow: Stairway to Heaven TV series, Eric's "make-up" appears automatically whenever he "changes" into The Crow. His fingernails become black, while his face becomes white, with vertical lines over the eyes and short horizontal/diagonal lines extending from his lips, like a smile; they disappear when he becomes 'normal'.
Even though not all the reborn wear make-up, they are still usually drawn in a certain style: their lips are usually distinctively black, skin around eyes is black, while the eyes are sometimes burning white. Generally, the style of drawing is reminiscent of the pattern of the classical makeup.
The resurrected souls in the Crow novels do not wear the traditional face paint/markings.
Eric
The protagonist of the original comic book. Eric and his fiancée, Shelly, are on their way back from a romantic get-away, when their vehicle breaks down on a deserted road. A car full of gang members stops, not to help, but to take advantage of the couple's misfortune. They shoot Eric in the head paralysing him while they rape and kill his fiancée in the car, while Eric dies hours later in the hospital. A year later, resurrected by The Crow, Eric exacts vengeance on the men responsible for their deaths.
Following the original series, London Night Studios published the six-issue series The Crow/Razor: Kill the Pain (#1-4, #0 and a Finale issue) in 1998, which saw Eric paired with Everette Hartsoe's character, Razor. In it Eric is again returned to the land of the living, this time to help Razor fight a demonic gang known as Pain. In the end Eric must face the events which led to his death, and the realization that his soul cannot rest as he blames himself for being unable to save Shelly. A follow-up magazine entitled The Crow/Razor: Nocturnal Masque, featuring artwork of both characters with quotes attributed to each, was also published.
Eric was also in a 10-issue series by Image Comics which reimagined the plot, adding influences from the film. Eric and Shelly's lives are cut short when a wrong apartment number leads a gang of drug lords to mistakenly murder them only days before their wedding. Now, Eric haunts the city as the Crow, a shadow administering revenge for not only his loss, but for others as well. A police officer enlists the aid of the Crow to uncover the truth about the jailed suspect of a murdered 9-year-old girl. As the Crow is flushing out information about the murder, he discovers that Shelly's grave has been desecrated and her body has been removed. Another vigilante, a Native American named Walker, who communicates with a wolf, begins killing local murderers.
Joshua Zane
Joshua appears in the three issue series The Crow: Dead Time, the follow-up to the original graphic novel. Joshua is a Native American farmer of the Crow Nation who adopts the "white man's way" and becomes a farmer. Joshua, along with his wife and child, are murdered by a band of Confederate soldiers. A century later, Joshua is resurrected by the Crow and hunts down the soldiers, who have been reincarnated as a biker gang.
Iris Shaw
Iris appears in the three issue series The Crow: Flesh and Blood and is the first woman to assume the role. Iris is a Federal Conservation officer who is killed, along with her unborn child, by terrorists. The Crow resurrects her to hunt them down. She seems to be not completely invincible, as, according to the Crow, she must complete her mission before she rots. Thus, she cannot really heal, and uses a stapler to repair her wounds.
Michael Korby
Michael appears in the three-issue series The Crow: Wild Justice. Michael and his wife are murdered during a car jacking. He is brought back by two crows named Hugo and Manny respectively, and must avenge his and his wife's death before the Gorgon blood running through his veins runs out. The Gorgon god tattoos Michael's body, which gives him the power to regenerate until the blood runs out.
Mark Leung
Mark appears in the four-issue series The Crow: Waking Nightmares. Mark and his wife are murdered by the Chinese Mafia. Instead of going after their killers, Mark returns to save his twin daughters, whom the mob have sold into slavery.
Leandre
Leandre appears in The French Crow, Vols. 2 and 3, published in France in 2007, in the two-part story "The Medieval Crow". Leandre and his wife Jeanne are murdered and their son Lestal stolen on the orders of Lord Arthuro, who is seeking an heir. Leandre achieves his vengeance when he kills Arthuro, but accidentally kills Lestal as well. After his son's death, Leandre is abandoned by his spirit crow and must wander the Earth until he learns the true reason for his restless wandering.
Vincent
He appears in The French Crow, Vol. 4, published in France in 2010, in the story "La Fiancée du Corbeau" ("Bride of the Crow"). Vincent is a young make-up artist in the 1930s who falls in love with Evy, an actress. He tries to rescue Evy from being raped by a gang of stagehands but is murdered by them, and he returns a year later, aided by a Spirit Crow, to seek vengeance.
Elorah
She appears in The French Crow, Vols. 4 & 5, published in France in 2010, in the two-part story "Le Sang des Innocents" ("Blood of the Innocent"). Elorah is an undercover police officer investigating a narcotics baron; after being murdered and revived by a Spirit Crow, she must now face not only her murderer but his creation: a cyborg that feeds on blood.
Jamie Osterberg
Appearing in the five issue series The Crow: Death and Rebirth, Jamie Osterberg is a foreign exchange student studying in Tokyo, Japan. His fiancée Haruko and other friends vanish, only to return possessed by someone else. Jamie finds out too much and is killed. Resurrected by the power of The Crow, with a sword that seeks truth, he learns that the "possession" was caused by a process that can insert one person's mind into another person's body and that Haruko was taken because an old rich dying woman wanted a new life in Haruko's body. Jamie hunts down those responsible to free the souls of his friends and be reunited with his one true love, even if it means allying himself with Japanese ghosts and demons and following a path of vengeance through the different Japanese Hells (Diyu).
The Man
The protagonist of the three issue series The Crow: Skinning the Wolves, which takes place at a Nazi concentration camp. The Man, whose name is never revealed, is an inmate whom the camp's commandant murders after losing to him in a game of chess. The Man is resurrected by The Crow and wreaks a vengeance on all of the troops at the camp. He eventually finds and kills his murderer, avenging himself and the other victims of the camp. He then disappears into the night, intending to take revenge on the nearby town whose inhabitants knew what was happening at the camp and did nothing about it.
Carrie / "Curare"
In the three issue series The Crow: Curare, Carrie is a young girl who was murdered by a serial killer who preys on children. She is resurrected by a Spirit Crow (which she calls "Birdy"). She is also the only protagonist in the "Crow" canon who does not personally engage in violence; instead, she helps Detective Joe Salk, who investigated her murder, to find her killer and take revenge.
Salvador
In The Crow: Pestilence, Salvador is a young boxer in Juárez, Mexico who refuses to take a fall, but has no problem taking a drug gang's pay-off. When the gang kills Salvador and his family, he returns years later in search of vengeance and forgiveness. The final showdown not only reveals an unexpected ally and an equally unexpected truth about his family's murder, but also pits him against la Santa Muerte ... Death itself.
David Amadio
In The Crow: Momento Mori, David is a Catholic altar boy who is killed along with his girlfriend Sarah and dozens of others in a terrorist attack in Rome, Italy. Resurrected as the Crow, he wreaks vengeance on those who committed the atrocity, but wiping out the terrorists does not prove the end of the story, as the mastermind behind the attack and the reasons for it still remain a mystery that he must solve before he can rest in peace.
Marcus Grieves
In The Crow / Hack/Slash, Marcus was a young gay man in 1980s San Francisco who was murdered along with his lover by a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in a homophobic attack. He killed all the skinheads, but was reactivated decades later to deal with the Angeles Cero situation.
Angeles Cero
Also in The Crow / Hack/Slash, Angeles was a graffiti artist who was murdered along with her twin sister by Angeles's abusive ex-lover, a police cadet. Angeles killed the killer, but fell under the influence of her acquaintance Urban DK, an "urban shaman" who imprisoned her crow to allow her to continue killing members of the San Francisco police force and political establishment who helped cover up the murder.
Eric Draven
Eric Draven was portrayed by actor Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow, based on the comic book. The film had the same basic premise, except that the couple were murdered in their loft apartment because they were fighting tenant eviction instead of being murdered on the side of the road for fun. The film supplies Eric and Shelly with the respective last names Draven and Webster; in the graphic novel, they were referred to only by their first names. In the film Eric depends on the Crow's health to be invincible, while the graphic novel depicts Eric as totally invincible and the crow is a spirit guide that mostly only Eric sees. Bill Skarsgård will play Eric Draven in the reboot.
Ashe Corven
Ashe Corven (portrayed by Vincent Perez) appears in The Crow: City of Angels, the sequel to The Crow. He is resurrected by the magical crow to avenge the death of his son Danny, who was killed along with him after accidentally witnessing a gang committing a murder. Like his predecessor, Ashe kills each of the gang members until he meets the crime boss who ordered his death. The crime boss, Judah Earl (portrayed by Richard Brooks), wishes to obtain Ashe's powers for himself. Ashe is assisted by Sarah from the original film (here portrayed by Mia Kirshner). Sarah provides Ashe's facial makeup in honor of Eric. While Ashe is on his way to kill Judah, Judah captures his spirit crow and drinks its blood, gaining Ashe's powers. While the film's ending has Ashe and Danny reunited, the original intended ending leaves Ashe unable to move on to the Afterlife, condemning him to wander the Earth.
Alexander Frederick "Alex" Corvis
In The Crow: Salvation, the third film in the series, Alexander Frederick "Alex" Corvis (portrayed by Eric Mabius) is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Lauren (portrayed by Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), and then executed in the electric chair. Alex is assisted by Lauren's younger sister, Erin (portrayed by Kirsten Dunst), as they uncover the mystery surrounding the murder. Alex is the only reborn whose make-up wasn't provided purposefully, but rather appeared in the form of burn scars on his face.
James "Jimmy" Cuervo
James Cuervo appears in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the fourth film in the series, which was loosely based on the fifth book of the Crow series of the same name (Dan Cody was the character's name in the book).
As in the book, James "Jimmy" Cuervo (portrayed by Edward Furlong) and his girlfriend Lily (Leticia Hardin in the novel and portrayed by Emmanuelle Chriqui in the film) are hunted down by a gang of devil worshippers who want to steal her eyes for use in an outlandish ritual. She and Jimmy are both killed in the process. Jimmy then goes on a journey to avenge his and his girlfriend's death and take down the gang in the process.
Eric Draven
Eric was also portrayed by Mark Dacascos in the television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven in 1998. This version of Eric differed slightly from the other versions in that his mission wasn't about revenge, but about redemption. 22 episodes were produced in which Eric acts as a vigilante helping the needy, before the series was pulled in 1999.
Hannah Foster
Played by Bobbie Phillips, she appears in The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. Hannah Foster is brought back to life one year after she and her daughter are killed. Like Draven, Hannah has a Spirit Crow and possesses all of the Crow's powers, but unlike Eric, she constantly battles between the need for redemption and her lust for vengeance; also, her methods for dealing with her opposition are far more severe than Draven's.
Toys
NECA released Cult Classics Icons Series 1 Action Figure Eric Draven (The Crow). Hot Toys released The Crow (Eric Draven) 1/6th scale collectible figure.
William Blessing
He appears in The Crow: Quoth the Crow, the first published novel in the series. Blessing is a popular horror writer who is murdered by his jealous protégé Donald Marquette, aided by a goth gang with literary aspirations. His wife is viciously raped in the encounter, and Blessing is brought back to exact vengeance. Blessing's body is continually on the verge of rotting away, but his willpower to complete his mission is the only thing holding him together. It is also implied that Blessing's healing abilities are actually the result of eating his victims.
Jared Poe
He appears in The Crow: The Lazarus Heart, the second novel in the series. Poe is a controversial S&M photographer who becomes the target of a serial killer in Louisiana who preys on gay men and transgender people. He is wrongfully arrested by members of a homophobic police force and convicted for the murder of his lover (who was actually murdered by the serial killer), and while on death row is murdered by a fellow inmate whose brother was one of the serial killer's victims and who believed that Poe was the killer. Upon his rebirth, he tries to track down the real killer with the help of his lover's transgender sister, while also avenging himself on the corrupt police officers who were responsible for his arrest, conviction and death.
Amy Carlisle
She appears in The Crow: Clash by Night, the third novel in the series. Amy is a day care owner who is killed in a bombing, along with some of the children she watches, when a militia group calling themselves The Sons of America tries to kill a popular senator who was supposed to have been visiting the center but who pulled out at the last minute. Six months after the bombing, Amy is resurrected by a Spirit Crow, but discovers that her husband Rick has moved on with her best friend, who survived the blast. During her acts of vengeance against the militia group's members, Amy is seen and recognized by Rick, who then attempts to infiltrate the militia group.
Stephen Lelliott
He appears in The Crow: Temple of Night, the fourth novel in the series. In turn-of-the-century Bangkok, the Klong Toey shantytowns are home to shadowy erotic emporiums where millionaire celebrities act out their darkest sexual fantasies, protected by money, influence, and American diplomacy. Stephen Lellicott is a young American journalist assigned to expose the latest cover-up, but he's about to break the two cardinal rules of journalism: don't fall in love, and don't get killed.
Dan Cody
He appears in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the fifth novel in the series and the basis for the film of the same name. He and his girlfriend Leticia Hardin are murdered by John Church and Kyra Damon, who have learned about the power of The Crow, who want immortality and who need Leticia's eyes to achieve it. Dan is resurrected, then goes on a journey to avenge his and his girlfriend's deaths.
Billy Parker and Dren
They appear in The Crow: Hellbound, the sixth novel published in 2001. In this book, a demon named Dren is looking for salvation; the Devil's fiery underworld has become a foreign place to him and feels he is different from the other souls. After escaping from Hell, Dren must save a single soul in order to pass on to the heavens above. Billy is a young hoodlum working for a big-time mobster, and like Dren he has also changed and wants out of the seedy underworld he calls his home. Neither the mob nor Hell look kindly on deserters; the Devil has sent two rogue demons to stop Dren and the mob has hired a conjurer named Nadja to kill Billy. In the end, the two must call on the powers of the Crow to save them both and to escape their own hells — waging a full-scale war on the mobsters of Earth above and the lord of darkness below.
Lionel Boulet
Lionel appears in Sarah: The Tears of the Crow, the seventh novel published in 2020. The novel is set in Detroit, 1992. The crime and chaos spreading throughout the city is about to disappear when a series of events disrupts everything. Young Sarah is scarred to the depths of her soul when she confronts her past, and her present is her future.
In popular culture
* Eric Draven (alongside his crow) appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry", voiced by Simon Pegg. In a segment that parodies The Wizard of Oz, the Nerd (voiced by Seth Green) spices up his dream by imagining Eric Draven in place of the Scarecrow (along with Optimus Prime replacing the Tin Man and Lion-O replacing the Cowardly Lion). When engaging a flying monkey at the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, Eric explains the meaning of existence in such a depressing way that the flying monkey hangs himself. Eric then sheds a single tear.
* In the season two episode of the Comedy Central program Workaholics titled "Teenage Mutant Ninja Roommates", Anders is shown to have attended Eric Draven Middle School.
* Professional wrestler Sting used the Crow facepaint for his darker persona in late 1996 suggested by Scott Hall and still uses a modified version of it to this day. The original face paint was a near identical replica of Eric Draven's face paint with the exception of a frown being painted on his lips instead of a smile. The modified versions include longer trails on the eyes and mouth, resembling black blood. He also briefly merged the look with that of actor Heath Ledger's interpretation of Joker in The Dark Knight during his battle with Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff's villainous group Immortal in TNA before returning to the modified Crow styling. | WIKI |
BollingerBandWidth Constructor (Int32, Double, ISeries)
Constructs a Bollinger Band Width indicator instance with the specified input series.
Namespace: RightEdge.Indicators
Assembly: Indicators (in Indicators.dll) Version: 2010.1.0.0 (2010.1.0.0)
Syntax
C#
public BollingerBandWidth(
int periods,
double deviation,
ISeries input
)
Visual Basic
Public Sub New (
periods As Integer,
deviation As Double,
input As ISeries
)
Visual C++
public:
BollingerBandWidth(
int periods,
double deviation,
ISeries^ input
)
F#
new :
periods : int *
deviation : float *
input : ISeries -> BollingerBandWidth
Parameters
periods
Type: System..::..Int32
The number of periods.
deviation
Type: System..::..Double
Standard deviation value.
input
Type: RightEdge.Common..::..ISeries
The series perform the calculation against.
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Noah (Noah album)
Noah is the debut studio album of the Danish duo Noah. It was released on 20 May 2013 on Copenhagen Records debuting at number 2 in its first week of release. The duo had already pre-released two successful singles from the album in 2012, namely "Alt er forbi" and "Over byen". Just prior to the release of the album, Noah released yet a third single "Det' okay" from the album.
Track listing
All songs by Troels Gustavsen and Lasse Dyrholm
* 1) "Det' okay" (4:02)
* 2) "Ekko" (3:27)
* 3) "Over byen" (4:04)
* 4) "Dine fodspor" (3:38)
* 5) "Når vi falder" (4:06)
* 6) "Tilbage til mig selv" (4:18)
* 7) "Alt er forbi" (3:57)
* 8) "Kun dig og mig" (3:08)
* 9) "Mælkevej" (4:23)
* 10) "Godnat København" (3:36) | WIKI |
PuSH - Publikationsserver des Helmholtz Zentrums München
Li, W.B. ; Beuve, M.* ; di Maria, S.* ; Friedland, W. ; Heide, B.* ; Klapproth, A. ; Li, C.Y.* ; Poignant, F.* ; Rabus, H.* ; Rudek, B.* ; Schuemann, J.* ; Villagrasa, C.*
Corrigendum to “Intercomparison of dose enhancement ratio and secondary electron spectra for gold nanoparticles irradiated by X-rays calculated using multiple Monte Carlo simulation codes” [Phys. Med. 69 (2020) 147–163] (Physica Medica (2020) 69 (147–163), (S1120179719305320), (10.1016/j.ejmp.2019.12.011)).
Phys. Med. 80, 383-388 (2020)
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In our paper [1] we presented the dose enhancement ratios (DERs) and the electron spectra for a single gold nanoparticle (GNP) irradiated by a narrow X-ray beam calculated with multiple Monte Carlo simulation codes. During further analysis of the data for an internal EURADOS report, we identified the following inconsistencies in the simulations, which affect the results presented in the above-mentioned article [1]: 1. PENELOPE#1 and PENELOPE#2: The X-ray spectra in the input files were given as cumulative probabilities. The start points of the X-ray photons were sampled from a square rather than a circular area as PENELOPE main programs do not provide the option of a circular source. The first error was corrected in new simulations of PENELOPE#1 using PENELOPE-2018. The variant source geometry was taken into account for the electron spectra by using a fluence correction factor of 4/π (area of the square divided by the area of circle). The impact of the source geometry on the DER is assumed to be small enough to be disregarded for the purpose of this corrigendum. PENELOPE#2 has not performed new simulations and, therefore, data of PENELOPE#2 are not presented in this corrigendum.2. G4/DNA#1: The electron spectra for a GNP of diameter 50 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays, a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays and a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 100 kVp X-rays were not divided by the energy bin width of 5 eV. This error has been corrected in this corrigendum.3. G4/DNA#2: There was an error in the readout file. The electron spectrum for a GNP of 50 nm diameter irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays was newly simulated and the corrected spectrum is shown in this corrigendum. No new simulations for a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays have been performed, therefore no data for this spectrum are included in this corrigendum.4. G4/DNA#3: The electron spectra were not divided by the energy bin width of 5 eV. This error has been corrected in this corrigendum.5. TOPAS-nBio: The X-rays were sampled from a larger circular source area with a total radius of the radius of the GNP plus 10 nm. Factors of 1.36 and 1.19 (calculated by [Formula presented]) have been used for correction of the electron spectra of a GNP with diameter of 50 nm and 100 nm, respectively. In this corrigendum, as for PENELOPE#1, the impact of the variant source geometry on the DER is assumed to be small enough to be disregarded.6. MCNP6: The electron spectra were recorded only for electrons ejected from the GNP in the angular bin 0–15 degree (approximately normal direction with respect to the surface of the GNP). The electron spectra were not divided by the energy bin width of 50 eV. In this corrigendum, the electron spectra were multiplied by a factor of 11 (estimated by the participant of MCNP6 from the ratio of the total number of ejected electrons and those ejected in the close-to-normal bin) and divided by the energy bin width of 50 eV in order to reconstruct the total electron spectrum emitted from a GNP.7. MDM: The electron spectra were normalized to a photon fluence of 1 photon per cm2 instead of one photon per circular source area. In this corrigendum, the electron spectra for a GNP of diameter 50 nm and a GNP of diameter 100 nm were multiplied by the respective ratio of the two photon fluences of 7.09x107 and 2.11x107, respectively.For the aforementioned reasons, Figs. 4-8 and Table 2 presented in our paper [1] were replotted and tabulated in the following. In addition to the above corrected Figs. 4-8 and Table 2, the text regarding to the UF in Sections of “Abstract”, “Results”, “Discussions” and “Conclusion” were correspondingly corrected in the following. Abstract “Results: The mean dose enhancement ratio of the first 10 nm-thick water shell around a 100 nm GNP ranges from 400 for 100 kVp X-rays to 600 for 50 kVp X-rays with large uncertainty factors up to 1.6.” 3 Results 3.1.2 Uncertainty factor of DER in nanometer ranges “∙∙∙. It can be seen in Fig. 5(a)-(d) that the UFs of DERs for the results are 1.3–1.6, 1.3–1.5, 1.3–1.5 and 1.2–1.5, respectively, with the maximum UF values occurring at the water shells located at 280 nm, 440 nm, 470 nm and 540 nm, respectively. The UFs at the first 10 nm-thick shells for the four radiation scenarios are relatively small and close to 1.3.” 3.1.3 DER in micrometer ranges This sentence “It is noted that, for 100 kVp X-rays, the DER calculated by PENELOPE at 2 µm to 8 µm from the surface of the GNP drops down more steeply than the other results, in contrast to the irradiation scenarios by 50 kVp X-rays.” should be removed. 3.2.2 Uncertainty factor of electron energy spectra “∙∙∙. Overall, the highest UF, from maximum 8.6 to minimum 1.3 was found for a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays, and the lowest UF, from maximum 5.6 to minimum 1.1, for a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 100 kVp X-rays. If the high UF values at the low energy range, say from 50 eV to 200 eV were neglected due to the very high uncertainty of the cross sections of lower electron energies, then the UF of the energy spectra ranges from 2.5 for the scenario of a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays to 2.2 for the scenario of a GNP of diameter 100 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-rays. ∙∙∙. As an example, ∙∙∙. The UF at 100 eV for the four radiation scenarios is very large, expanding from 2.8 to 4.8. The UFs at 1,000 eV and 10,000 eV for these four scenarios is smaller than that at 100 eV, ranging from 1.4 to 1.7 and from 1.3 to 2.9, respectively.” 4 Discussion 4.1 Uncertainty of DER and energy spectra of secondary electrons ”∙∙∙. A quantitative uncertainty analysis revealed a larger uncertainty factor ranging from 1.3 up to 4.8 (see Table 2). A very large uncertainty was found at energy 100 eV for the scenario of a GNP of diameter 50 nm irradiated by 50 kVp X-ray spectra. ∙∙∙.” “Despite the large variation of electron energy spectra shown in the lower to middle energy ranges in Fig. 7, the DER showed comparably smaller uncertainty factors, from 1.2 up to 1.6 in the whole range from 10 nm to 1000 nm for 10 nm-thick water shells. If the maximum UFs of DERs for each radiation scenario were excluded, the overall UF is smaller than a factor of 1.4. ∙∙∙.” The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. 5 Conclusion “∙∙∙. Despite the larger uncertainty with a maximum UF up to 4.8 for the electron energy spectra, the uncertainty of DER in the 10 nm-thick water shells showed a maximum UF up to 1.6. ∙∙∙.”
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 1120-1797
e-ISSN 1724-191X
Quellenangaben Band: 80, Heft: , Seiten: 383-388 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Elsevier
Verlagsort The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford Ox5 1gb, Oxon, England
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Possibilities for Intellisense(tm) in Pynk...
Julie points out that if it ain't got Intellisense, it ain't a productive programming environment. Now,
• Pynk doesn't even have cut-and-paste yet, so that comes first; and
• It *should * be possible to use reflection to get, not quite Intellisense, but something like a list of properties and methods that might be applicable to the current object; but
• We're back to the PIP dilemma: I would need events firing as the user enters individual characters (at least, when they enter a '.'). Which you don't get with the PIP, but which I might be able to get off the RecognizerContext object's Recognize event. But, I don't think I can actually get a reference to the PIP's RecognizerContext, so I can't use the PIP for input in this scenario. But I want to move towards free-form ink and/or syntax-directed UIs anyway...
P.S. I can't do something Intellisense-like within Shark itself, since it runs from static configuration files and Intellisense is inherently dynamic | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:S2ceball
Dr. Cheryl E. Ball (s2ceball on most media) directs the Digital Publishing Collaborative at Wayne State University Libraries Systems (WSULS), where she collaborates with scholars on open-access publications, particularly those that highlight researcher’s scholarly multimedia content. She is Executive Director for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Library Publishing Curriculum. Since 2006, Ball has been editor of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, the world’s longest continuously running, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that exclusively publishes scholarly multimedia. She joined the journal in 2001 as a section editor. She also directs the Vega project, an open-source academic publishing platform. Her peer-reviewed research on the scholarly communications lifecycle is openly available on her personal repository, http://ceball.com. | WIKI |
United Airlines shores up liquidity, cuts costs to weather coronavirus
CHICAGO, March 10 (Reuters) - United Airlines Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it has raised an extra $2 billion in financing while slashing its 2020 capital expenditures by more than a third in an effort to prepare for a prolonged slump in travel demand due to COVID-19. The measures come on top of previous announcements from United regarding capacity cuts and suspended earnings forecasts and will bring the airline’s total liquidity to $8 billion for 2020, while adjusted capex will fall to $4.5 billion from $7 billion previously forecast for the full-year. The airline said it is now withdrawing guidance for the first quarter and expects to record a loss for the period. Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by Bernard Orr | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
BRIEF-Apergy Says Company-Wide Salary Reductions, Including 25% Reduction In CEO's Base Salary
March 23 (Reuters) - Apergy Corp: * APERGY - IMPLEMENTING IMMEDIATE DOWNTURN CONTINGENCY PLANS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN ABOUT $65 MILLION OF ANNUAL COST SAVINGS TO PRESERVE MARGINS, CASH FLOW * CAPITAL EXPENDITURES IN 2020 TO BE REDUCED BY APPROXIMATELY 65% FROM 2019 * COMPANY-WIDE SALARY REDUCTIONS, INCLUDING 25% REDUCTION IN CEO’S BASE SALARY Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 124.djvu/4593
124 STAT. 4567 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—DEC. 15, 2010 SEC. 1.111. DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE IN REDUCTIONS IN FORCE. (a) Competing covered employees are the covered employees within a particular position or job classification, at or within a particular competitive area, as those terms are defined below. (b) Competitive area is that portion of the employing office’s organizational structure, as determined by the employing office, in which covered employees compete for retention. A competitive area must be defined solely in terms of the employing office’s organizational unit(s) and geographical location, and it must include all employees within the competitive area so defined. A competitive area may consist of all or part of an employing office. The minimum competitive area is a department or subdivision of the employing office within the local commuting area. (c) Position classifications or job classifications are determined by the employing office, and shall refer to all covered positions within a competitive area that are in the same grade, occupational level or classification, and which are similar enough in duties, qualification requirements, pay schedules, tenure (type of appoint- ment) and working conditions so that an employing office may reassign the incumbent of one position to any of the other positions in the position classification without undue interruption. (d) Preference Eligibles. For the purpose of applying veterans’ preference in reductions in force, except with respect to the applica- tion of section 1.114 of these regulations regarding the waiver of physical requirements, the following shall apply: (1) ‘‘active service’’ has the meaning given it by section 101 of title 37; (2) ‘‘a retired member of a uniformed service’’ means a member or former member of a uniformed service who is enti- tled, under statute, to retired, retirement, or retainer pay on account of his/her service as such a member; and (3) a preference eligible covered employee who is a retired member of a uniformed service is considered a preference eligible only if (A) his/her retirement was based on disability— (i) resulting from injury or disease received in line of duty as a direct result of armed conflict; or (ii) caused by an instrumentality of war and incurred in the line of duty during a period of war as defined by sections 101 and 1101 of title 38; (B) his/her service does not include twenty or more years of full-time active service, regardless of when per- formed but not including periods of active duty for training; or (C) on November 30, 1964, he/she was employed in a position to which this subchapter applies and thereafter he/she continued to be so employed without a break in service of more than 30 days. The definition of ‘‘preference eligible’’ as set forth in 5 U.S .C § 2108 and section 1.102(o) of these regulations shall apply to waivers of physical requirements in determining an employee’s qualifications for retention under section 1.114 of these regulations. H&S Regs: (e) Reduction in force is any termination of a covered employee’s employment or the reduction in pay and/or position grade of a covered employee for more than 30 days and that may be required for budgetary or workload reasons, changes resulting from reorganization, or the need to make room for an employee | WIKI |
How to Bring Extended Reality to Everybody
By Hugo Swart, VP and GM of XR at Qualcomm Technologies; Twitter: Hugo Swart (@HugoSwart_QCOM) / Twitter
Most new consumer tech products enter the market with high-priced devices geared toward “early adopters” who are willing to pay for the privilege of exploring their new features before everybody else. Personal computers, mobile phones, flat-screen TVs: The first products were reserved for the rich. And what they got, often, was technology still suffering teething pains.
Spatial Computing, and this new era of Extended Reality (XR) is about to leap past that early-adopter point. It is a transformational technology that will take, entertainment, productivity, gaming from 2D rectangular screens to computing in “space” – where the the world becomes the digital canvas. It is beginning to change how people interact with technology and with each other. Our mission at Qualcomm, for the past decade, has been to make building and experiencing XR affordable, accessible and open to any device manufacturer from start-ups to top global brands. To make this a reality we must also enable developers, and to make sure that there’s an open XR ecosystem that benefits from a competitive market. Just like access to the Internet itself, we believe XR or Spatial Computing should be for everybody and not dictated by one single company.
There are two primary keys to bringing XR to market quickly and keeping it affordable: hardware that meets minimum requirements for immersiveness and a robust software market.
1. Affordable and Reasonable hardware specs
Every technology vendor today benefits from the smartphone era because of the ongoing R&D that goes into building smartphone chips. The continuous investment and innovation to offer high performance in small size and low power, and the global capacity to produce them, makes smartphone-level technology affordable for more than just smartphones. The technology today lives in appliances, cars, TVs, a variety of consumer electronics, robots, and more.
A similar dynamic has been playing out for years in XR. Qualcomm Technologies, in parallel to its development of smartphone processors, has been developing XR technology for the past ten years. We currently power over 65 augmented, mixed and virtual reality devices that are based on our purpose-built Snapdragon XR processors: Snapdragon XR1, XR2 and XR2+. The volume production of these chips and the wide availability are reasons you are seeing so many reasonably priced and highly capable XR products coming to market. And Snapdragon XR Platforms power a majority of them.
2. Available software tools and transitional technologies
Programming in XR is a new art form, and developers can use all the help they can get in learning and creating new applications. These new immersive experiences require the precise tracking of user inputs like head, eye and hand tracking to make those experiences feel believable. Our developer kit, Snapdragon Spaces, follows the OpenXR standard that was created to fix the challenge of requiring developers to re-build XR applications for different hardware platforms. We believe a tool made for one platform should be easily adaptable to run on whichever headset they want. We are creating an open, accessible approach to XR.
Because the more places a developer’s application can run, the bigger their market can be and the lower the costs can be for everyone. Fortunately, the market is growing: Research firms IDC, ABI, and CCS project that an average of 37 million XR units will ship in 2025[1].
We also think the best way to bring the world of XR to more people is to make it easy for developers to adapt existing mobile apps for XR headsets. Technology like our Dual Render Fusion, which is a feature just enabled though Snapdragon Spaces, allows smartphone app developers to quickly build extensions that pair XR glasses with smartphone-based controls.
To accelerate the creation of these applications and other products, we’ve committed up to $100M via our Snapdragon Metaverse Fund to help makers build new immersive experiences. To date, we’ve deployed millions in funds, and we’re actively looking for more innovators.
Coming Soon
As XR enters a new period of acceleration, these factors above will yield a bounty of better XR experiences, and quickly. Look for improvements like smaller and more comfortable headsets; more and better uses for XR including fitness, games and content, plus industrial, productivity, and collaboration apps. We will soon also see much more immersive XR experiences as the hardware improves and software makers learn how to use it, and a rapid increase in the number and quality of “mixed reality” applications that blend the real world with the digital.
We can also expect to see processing to be distributed between multiple devices in proximity. This means flexible hardware architectures where XR headsets make use of the computing power available in smartphones and PCs when those devices are needed and available. And, of course, even more innovation and specialization in the headset market.
There are many ways to build the world of XR. We have some innovative ideas, and other hardware companies, most of which use our chipsets, have more. We are eager to see how businesses and customers adapt to this new, fundamental technology. And we hope everyone in the world who wants it can experience it for themselves with affordable yet capable hardware.
[1] Average of XR data projections from research firms IDC, ABI, and CCS.
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 |
Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado
The Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (Secretariat of State Information) was an Argentine intelligence agency, created in 1955 by National Executive Decree No. 776 of January 20 during the government of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. It was the predecessor of the Secretaría de Inteligencia de Estado. | WIKI |
Sakchi
Sakchi was a village in north eastern Indian territory of Singhbhum which was selected by Jamsetji Tata to be the location of a planned steel city, which in 1919 became Jamshedpur. Sakchi is now part of the city between the Tata Steel site and the river Subarnarekha. Then it was known as Kalimati. Due to the presence of iron ore, river water and sand, Jamsetji Tata decided to establish TISCO (Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) there. The company is now known as Tata Steel Ltd.
Overview
Even today running through Sakchi is the Kalimati Road. During British India, a railway line connecting Jamshedpur to Howrah (Calcutta) was started. Jamshedpur is in the Indian mineral-rich state of Jharkhand which was earlier in South Bihar.
As Tata Steel was established, the first planned urban settlement started in Sakchi area and it included businessmen (Gujaratis, Parsis, Punjabis), servicemen (Biharis, Bengalis, Oriyas, Telugus, Tamils, Malayalis). Many people who then migrated from West Bengal, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), Gujarat and Assam are now permanent residents of Jamshedpur city and their ancestral homes were either lost or sold after separation of East Pakistan (Bangladesh). Old houses of Bengalis, Parsis, Anglo-Indians and Gujaratis can still be seen in Aambagan, Hill Cart Road, Kalimati Road, Pennar road, Sakchi Bazar areas of Sakchi. A few such houses are also present in Bistupur.
Once, there used to be a single line railway track which would carry sand for the factory in present-day Aambagan Maidan near the Masjid, it does not exist anymore. Mode of transport in the Jamshedpur city were buggies and taxis. There were single lane roads with old British style street lamps. Most roads between Sakchi and Bistupur were surrounded by jungles.
The city is unique because it is a very small town even today with extreme ends being covered within 45 minutes (including traffic). It is not a metro city, yet it has the demography of a metro town as people from all ethnicities live here as permanent residents. Sakchi is located in the centre of the city, with Bistupur, Kadma, and Sonari lying in the West. In the East, lies Baradwari, Kasidih, Bhalubasa, Sitaramdera, Agrico and Sidhgora. In the North, lies Mango which is also one of the busiest locations of the city and down south lies Burmamines, Tatanagar station, Jugsalai and Parsudih.
Sakchi today has numerous cinema halls, Sakchi Bazaar which holds Mangla Market (Tuesday market) every Tuesday on footpath. Sakchi Market (or Sakchi Bazaar) is the oldest market in the city.
History
In April 1904, Dorabji Tata, Shapurji Saklatvala and C. M. Weld, went on a journey to locate a site rich in iron, coal, limestone and water. One day they reached to Sakchi village, situated in the dense forests of the Chota Nagpur plateau, near the convergence of the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers. It appeared to be an ideal choice for a steel plant and the location was selected. Sakchi was a tribal village, mainly inhabited by the Bhumij and Santhal tribes. Sakchi village was populated by 17 families of Bhumij, and its two hamlets – Kashidih consisted 18 families of Bhumij and 3 families of Santhal; and Mahulbeda consisted 17 families of Santhal.
The construction of the plant began in 1908, the plant rolled its first steel ingot on 16 February 1912. In 1919, Lord Chelmsford renamed Sakchi to Jamshedpur in honour of its founder, Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata.
Civic administration
There is a police station at Sakchi. | WIKI |
[Crim. No. 5167.
First Dist., Div. One.
Dec. 7, 1965.]
THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EUGENE A. WILLIAMS, Defendant and Appellant.
Gary M. Merritt, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edward P. O’Brien and Jay S. Linderman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
SIMS, J.
Defendant has appealed from an order of the Superior Court in and for the City and County of San Francisco which denied his “Motion to Annul, Vacate and Set Aside the Judgments” in two consolidated cases, in each of which he had been convicted of robbery and sentenced to serve a prison term consecutive to the other. The motion is in effect a petition for writ of error coram nobis and should be treated as such. (People v. Sandoval (1927) 200 Cal. 730, 732-733 [254 P. 893]; People v. Silva (1965) 232 Cal.App.2d 477, 478 [42 Cal.Rptr. 723]; People v. Painter (1963) 214 Cal.App.2d 93, 96 [29 Cal.Rptr. 121]; and People v. Dowding (1960) 185 Cal.App.2d 274, 276 [8 Cal.Rptr. 208].) Although the appealability of the order may depend on the substance of the facts alleged in or adduced in support of the petition, the matter must be entertained in any event to determine whether dismissal or review on the merits is proper. (People v. Thomas (1959) 52 Cal.2d 521, 527-529 [342 P.2d 889]; People v. Banks (1959) 53 Cal.2d 370, 377-380, and fn. 5, pp. 379-381 [1 Cal.Rptr. 669, 348 P.2d 102]; People v. Shorts (1948) 32 Cal.2d 502, 506-507 [197 P.2d 330]; and cf. People v. Wadkins (1965) 63 Cal.2d 110, 114 [42 Cal.Rptr. 173, 403 P.2d 429] with People v. Thornton (1965) 233 Cal.App.2d 1, 3 [43 Cal.Rptr. 691]; and People v. Cantrell (1961) 197 Cal.App.2d 40, 45 [16 Cal.Rptr. 905].)
For reasons hereinafter set forth it is concluded that defendant has failed to set forth facts which entitled him to any relief in proceedings of this nature; that the trial court properly summarily denied his motion, and that this appeal should be dismissed.
The facts reflect that on June 21, 1951, defendant and another were jointly charged with robbery in each of two separate informations filed that day, in the first with the robbery of Fred Scott on or about June 3, 1951, and in the second with the robbery of Ernest J. Dobia on or about May 31, 1951. Each information charged defendant with a prior conviction of robbery August 28, 1946. Following arraignment and the entry of pleas of not guilty to both charges by defendant and his codefendant, the cases were consolidated for further proceedings, the surplus allegations of the prior conviction were dismissed from the second information, and defendant admitted the prior as charged in the first information.
According to defendant’s motion a trial ensued. The record reflects that on October 16, 1951, judgment was pronounced as first set forth herein.
On May 10, 1965, defendant filed his “Notice for Motion to Annul, Vacate and Set Aside the Judgment in the Above Entitled and Above Numbered Case [45901-02],” accompanied by the written motion itself, a brief in support thereof, and two affidavits regarding an alleged statement made on or about July 20, 1961, by the victim in the first action.
Defendant’s motion, in which he refers to himself as “petitioner,” sets up the following grounds for relief:
“A. Petitioner . . . was convicted by the use of coerciveness which was used on the victim, by the police department of the City and County of San Francisco, which was false evidence . . .
“B. Petitioner’s right secured by the confrontation clause was denied, ... by the court refusal to subpoena the police officer that arrested petitioner on the second of June, 1951, . . .
“C. Petitioner . . . was denied his right to have compul-' sory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, for his defense, . . .
“D. [T]he failure of his court appointed counsel to object demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the law, that establishes a denial of his constitutional rights to ‘effective aid in the preparation and trial of the case, . . . ’
“E. [R]ight to counsel under the Sixth Amendment was infringed, involving the right of petitioner to have separate counsel, due to a conflict of interest, , .
Although the notice of motion purported to fix May 17, 1965, as the day for presenting the motion, the matter was called on the calendar, presented to the judge and summarily denied on May 14th. This appeal ensued.
Defendant’s request, contained in his notice of appeal, for all of the records of the municipal and superior court proceedings which led to his sentencing was denied by the lower court, as was a subsequent request to augment the record. A motion addressed to this court for similar relief was granted to the extent of providing a transcript of the proceedings in court on May 14, 1965, and was denied insofar as it sought a record of the original proceedings. These requests and motion were properly denied. (People v. Cantrell, supra, 197 Cal.App.2d 40, 45-46; and see People v. Howard (1965) 62 Cal.2d 237, 238 [42 Cal.Rptr. 7, 397 P.2d 999].)
Defendant’s request to this court for the appointment of counsel was held in abeyance pending filing of the transcript of the proceedings before the lower court. It appeared therefrom that the trial court had summarily denied the motion without hearing. A preliminary examination of the record failed to reveal adequate factual allegations stating a prima facie case for relief through issuance of a writ of error coram nobis. His request for counsel was therefore denied and he was instructed to file a brief within thirty days. (People v. Howard, supra, 62 Cal.2d 237, 238; and see People v. Shipman (1965) 62 Cal.2d 226, 232 [42 Cal.Rptr. 1, 397 P.2d 993].)
Thereafter, no brief having been filed by the defendant within the time designated, the People filed their motion to dismiss the defendant’s appeal. In the consideration of this motion this court took cognizance of People v. Rosoto (1965) 62 Cal.2d 684 [43 Cal.Rptr. 828, 401 P.2d 220], where in response to a “petition for writ of coram nobis or other appropriate relief,” the Supreme Court, without comment, appointed a referee to take evidence on the questions, among others, whether or not a key prosecution witness had committed perjury at the trial of the petitioners, and if so whether the People caused or permitted the perjured testimony to be introduced knowing it was such. The court reviewed the referee’s report and concluded that no new evidence had been presented which could be allowed to impeach the judgments. It ordered: “The petition for writ of coram nobis is denied.” The foregoing created a doubt as to the propriety of relegating the defendant to his remedy of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to secure relief from a judgment of conviction allegedly obtained by the use of false testimony known by the prosecution to be false. (See People v. Adamson (1949) 34 Cal.2d 320, 327 [210 P.2d 13], and discussion infra.) The motion was thereupon continued to a hearing of the appeal on the merits, and defendant was furnished a court-appointed attorney who filed a brief herein on his behalf, and presented his case at the hearing thereon.
The allegations of the petition must be examined in the light of the tests laid down in People v. Shipman, supra, 62 Cal.2d 226, wherein it is stated: “The writ of coram nobis is granted only when three requirements are met. (1) Petitioner must ‘show that some fact existed which, without any fault or negligence on his part, was not presented to the court at the trial on the merits, and which if presented would have prevented the rendition of the judgment. ’ [Citations.] (2) Petitioner must also show that the ‘newly discovered evidence . . . [does not go] to the merits of issues tried; issues of fact, once adjudicated, even though incorrectly, cannot be reopened except on motion for new trial.’ [Citations.] This second requirement applies even though the evidence in question is not discovered until after the time for moving for a new trial has elapsed or the motion has been denied. [Citations.] (3) Petitioner ‘must show that the facts upon which he relies were not known to him and could not in the exercise of due diligence have been discovered by him at any time substantially earlier than the time of his motion for the writ. . . .’[Citations.] ” (62 Cal.2d at p. 230.)
With the possible exception of the first ground, an examination of the petition reflects that the matters asserted by the defendant fail to satisfy the foregoing criteria.
Defendant alleges that he was originally arrested on June 2, 1951 and taken to a police station as a result of a fight with Scott, who subsequently proved to be the complaining witness; that the desk sergeant listened to him, to Scott, and to an unidentified eyewitness and told the defendant to go home. He complains, in grounds “B” and “C” above, of the failure of the People to confront him with the desk sergeant so he could cross-examine him, and get the name of the eyewitness, and the failure of the court to issue a subpoena for some officer who allegedly arrested him on that date. These matters were, of course, all known to him before judgment and could have been reviewed by motion for new trial or appeal. They cannot furnish grounds for issuance of the writ sought by defendant. (People v. Remling (1956) 146 Cal.App.2d 476, 479 [304 P.2d 97]; People v. Cox (1956) 141 Cal.App.2d 158, 160 [296 P.2d 72].)
Defendant alleges in ground “D” that he was denied his constitutional right to effective aid of counsel in the preparation and trial of his case. Any complaints he has relating to lack of time with which to confer with counsel, or to counsel’s lack of diligence or competence are predicated on matters which arose before judgment and cannot be raised collaterally in these proceedings. (People v. Howard, supra, 62 Cal.2d 237, 238; People v. Thomas (1955) 45 Cal.2d 433, 435 and 437 [290 P.2d 491]; People v. Adamson, supra, 34 Cal.2d 320, 328; People v. Gatewood (1960) 182 Cal.App.2d 724, 728 [6 Cal.Rptr. 447]; People v. Sharp (1958) 157 Cal.App.2d 205, 208 [320 P.2d 589]; People v. Remling, supra, 146 Cal.App.2d 476, 479; People v. Mendez (1956) 144 Cal.App.2d 500, 503 [301 P.2d 295]; People v. Cox, supra, 141 Cal.App.2d 158, 160.)
The same principles govern specification “E,” in which defendant complains of failure of the trial court to appoint separate counsel for him because of an alleged conflict in the interests of himself and his codefendant. (Cf. In re Waltreus (1965) 62 Cal.2d 218, 224 [42 Cal.Rptr. 9, 397 P.2d 1001].)
There remains for consideration the issue raised by the allegation that the prosecution coerced false testimony from the complaining witness. In his unverified written motion defendant alleges that he “was denied his life and liberty without due process of law, by the use of coercion on one Fred Scott, who the policies [sic] made said that your petitioner had robbed him, ...” He states he only became aware of this when he met the alleged victim at Folsom Prison in 1961. Attached to the moving papers are affidavits executed in October 1964 by two fellow inmates in which each relates that on July 20, 1961, in the presence of each other and the defendant and two other inmates, Fred Scott said: “ ‘That he knew Eugene A. Williams did not rob him, but the police told me if I did not prosecute Williams, they were going to prosecute me for the knife, Williams took from me in the fight. ’ ” Defendant submitted no affidavit himself, but in his unverified brief filed in the trial court states: “Mr. Scott said he would testify to these facts if he was subpoenaed to court. But because he is not able to write he cannot sign an affidavit.’’
The second requirement of Shipman prohibits use of the writ to reopen an issue of fact once adjudicated on the ground of newly discovered evidence. (62 Cal.2d at p. 230; People v. Tuthill (1948) 32 Cal.2d 819, 822 [198 P.2d 505]; In re Lindley (1947) 29 Cal.2d 709, 725-726 [177 P.2d 918]; People v. Harris (1963) 223 Cal.App.2d 291, 292 [35 Cal.Rptr. 753]; People v. Sutton (1953) 115 Cal.App.2d 751, 753 [252 P.2d 633]; People v. Vernon [1935) 9 Cal.App.2d 138, 146 [49 P.2d 326].) The foregoing applies even though the newly discovered evidence is a confession by a fellow convict or another, that he and not the petitioner committed the offense. (People v. Harris, supra; People v. Sutton, supra; People v. Vernon, supra; and see In re De La Roi (1946) 28 Cal.2d 264, 267-268 and 275 [169 P.2d 363].) Nor does the discovery and establishment that perjury was committed at the trial justify issuance of the writ. The falsity of the testimony, if a fact, presumably generally is known to the defendant at the time of trial in most instances. To permit reopening would merely result in again retrying the issue of fact resolved in the original proceeding. (See People v. Serrano (1963) 218 Cal.App.2d 472, 474 [32 Cal.Rptr. 811]; People v. Sutton, supra, 115 Cal.App.2d 751, 753; People v. Malone (1950) 96 Cal.App.2d 270, 271-272 [215 P.2d 109]; People v. Agnew (1947) 81 Cal.App.2d 408, 411 [184 P.2d 167]; and see In re De La Roi, supra, 28 Cal.2d 264, 269.)
On the other hand, where a conviction has been obtained by the use of perjured testimony, used with knowledge of its falsity by the prosecuting authorities, it would be a violation of due process of law for a state to fail to provide any postconviction corrective judicial process by which a conviction so obtained might be set aside where these facts are only discovered after the judgment has otherwise become final. (Mooney v. Holohan (1934) 294 U.S. 103, 110-113 [55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791, 98 A.L.R. 406].) Review of such a question is available through petition for writ of habeas corpus. (See In re Mooney (1937) 10 Cal.2d 1, 15 [73 P.2d 554]; and see In re Waltreus, supra, 62 Cal.2d 218, 221; and In re Lessard (1965) 62 Cal.2d 497, 507 [42 Cal.Rptr. 583, 399 P.2d 39].) The question remains whether that writ furnishes the exclusive remedy, or whether the question can be reviewed in connection with a petition such as that filed in the lower court in these proceedings.
In People v. Mooney (1918) 178 Cal. 525 [174 P. 325] (cert. den. 284 U.S. 579 [39 S.Ct. 21, 63 L.Ed. 430]), following the affirmance of his conviction on the merits (177 Cal. 642 [171 P. 690]), the defendant moved to set aside the judgment and sentence on the general ground under discussion. The lower court denied relief and on appeal the defendant applied for a certificate of probable cause to secure a stay of execution. The Supreme Court denied the application. The opinion recognizes the proceedings below as an application for a writ of error coram nobis, and concluded that the creation and existence of the statutory remedies of motion for a new trial and appeal rendered that writ unavailable in cases where a trial had been had on the factual issue under attack. (See also concurring opinion of Schauer, J., joined by Carter, J. and Traynor (now C.J.), in In re Lindley, supra, 29 Cal.2d 709, 729.)
In People v. Adamson, supra, 34 Cal.2d 320, one of the grounds alleged in support of the petition for coram nobis was “That defendant was convicted upon false testimony of fingerprint experts and of Mrs. Prances Turner, used by the State with knowledge of its falsity.” (34 Cal.2d at p. 325.) The opinion which dismissed the appeal from the denial of the writ recites: “With expansion of the function of habeas corpus in this state, an application for that writ has become the proper remedy to attack collaterally a judgment of conviction which has been obtained in violation of fundamental constitutional rights. Thus, the appropriate writ to secure relief from a judgment of conviction obtained by the use of false testimony known by the prosecution to be false is not coram nobis but habeas corpus (In re Lindley, supra, p. 725 of 29 Cal.2d; see People v. Mooney (1918) 178 Cal. 525 [174 P. 325]; Mooney v. Holohan (1934) 294 U.S. 103, 113 [55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791, 98 A.L.R. 406]; In re Mooney (1937) 10 Cal.2d 1 [73 P.2d 554]), although coram nobis has been used for this purpose (see People v. Kirk (1946) 76 Cal.App.2d 496, 498 [173 P.2d 367]).” (34 Cal.2d at p. 327.)
In Kirk, which the Adamson court recognizes, but does not expressly approve or disapprove, the court had stated: ‘The third question argued presents other problems. It seems settled that a defendant is entitled to a review by independent process of the proceedings resulting in his conviction, ‘. . . if a state has contrived a conviction through the pretense of a trial which in truth is but used as a means of depriving a defendant of liberty through a deliberate deception of court and jury by the presentation of testimony known to be perjured.’ (Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103 [55 S.Ct. 340, 79 L.Ed. 791, 98 A.L.R. 406].) Whether this review should be by means of a writ of error coram nobis or through a writ of habeas corpus does not seem so clear (Mooney v. Holohan, supra; People v. Mooney, 178 Cal. 525 [174 P. 325]; In re Mooney, 10 Cal.2d 1 [73 P.2d 554]; In re Knight, 62 Cal.App.2d 582 [144 P.2d 882]), although these decisions seem to indicate that the writ of habeas corpus is the preferred remedy in a case like the one before us. However, we will assume, without holding, that the petition for a writ of error coram nobis may be available to defendant.” (People v. Kirk (1946) 76 Cal.App.2d 496, 498 [173 P.2d 367].) The case is oft-cited for its pronouncements on other issues (see People v. Shipman, supra, 62 Cal.2d 226, 231), but has not been expressly followed or repudiated on the assumption last stated in the quoted portion of the opinion.
On the other hand, the language first quoted from Adam-son has often been cited for the proposition that coram nobis is not the proper remedy to review the question of whether or not false testimony was knowingly used to convict the defendant. (People v. Gatewood, supra, 182 Cal.App.2d 724, 727 (hearing in S.Ct. den.); People v. Remling, supra, 146 Cal.App.2d 476, 479-480; People v. Bobeda (1956) 143 Cal.App.2d 496, 500 [300 P.2d 97]; People v. Malone, supra, 96 Cal.App.2d 270, 271; and see People v. Thomas, 52 Cal.2d 521, 528 [342 P.2d 889]; People v. Mabry (1965) 236 Cal.App.2d 402, 403 [46 Cal.Rptr. 92]; People v. Ayala (1955) 138 Cal.App.2d 243, 246, 247 and 250 [291 P.2d 517]; and People v. Egan (1946) 73 Cal.App.2d 894, 899-900 [167 P.2d 766].)
The action of the Supreme Court in Rosoto has been alluded to above. That court having territorial jurisdiction throughout the state may disregard the form of an original writ filed with it and give such relief as may be warranted by the petition. (See Neal v. State of California (1960) 55 Cal.2d 11, 15-16 [9 Cal.Rptr. 607, 357 P.2d 839]; In re Cregler (1961) 56 Cal.2d 308, 309 and 313 [14 Cal.Rptr. 289, 363 P.2d 305]; In re Martin (1962) 58 Cal.2d 133, 141-142 [23 Cal.Rptr. 167, 373 P.2d 103].) It was therefore unnecessary in Bosoto to determine whether the relief sought—for a conviction allegedly based on perjured testimony knowingly introduced—should be reviewed by “writ of coram nobis” or “other appropriate relief.’’ The mere fact that the review was conducted, as it could and should have been on an application for a writ of habeas corpus, may not be taken as an implied overruling of the well entrenched dictum from Adamson.
This court cannot consider the appeal before it as an application for writ of habeas corpus. In People v. Dowding, supra, 185 Cal.App.2d 274, this court stated; “Nor can we convert this proceeding into one for habeas corpus and thereby afford any merited relief. While ‘habeas corpus is the proper proceeding to test the question whether the petitioner was serving an excessive sentence by virtue of an unauthorized adjudication that he was an habitual criminal, ’ (In re Seeley, supra, 29 Cal.2d 294, 298 [176 P.2d 24]) the instant matter lacks the jurisdictional bases which would empower this court to act.
“In the first place, a decision of the superior court denying a petition for habeas corpus cannot be appealed to a District Court of Appeal. (People v. Coffman (1951) 105 Cal.App.2d 164 [233 P.2d 117]; People v. Dunlop (1951) 102 Cal.App.2d 314 [227 P.2d 281].) In the second place, only the superior court or District Court of Appeal in the area in which the petitioner is in custody may exercise jurisdiction to entertain a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. (People v. Coffman, supra, 105 Cal.App.2d 164; People v. Dunlop, supra, 102 Cal.App.2d 314; People v. Schunke (1951) 102 Cal.App.2d 875 [228 P.2d 620].) Appellant presently is in custody in San Luis Obispo County, beyond the jurisdiction of both the superior court of Alameda County and the First District Court of Appeal.” (185 Cal.App.2d at p. 277; see also People v. Vaitonis (1962) 200 Cal.App.2d 156, 161-163 [19 Cal.Rptr. 54]; People v. Del Campo (1959) 174 Cal.App.2d 217, 220-221 [344 P.2d 339]; and People v. Dunlop (1951) 102 Cal.App.2d 314, 318 [227 P.2d 281].)
Defendant seeks a determination that relief on the grounds under discussion should be available under both eoram nobis and habeas corpus. He contends that the circumstances satisfy the requirements of Shipman in that (1) the fact that the victim’s false testimony was coerced by the prosecution was unknown to him, and no fault or negligence on his part prevented presenting that fact at the trial; (2) that although the falsity of the victim’s testimony goes to the merits of the issues tried and should have been known to him at the time of trial, the fact that it was coerced is a new fact and new issue which would defeat his conviction, and the incidental result that it opens up an issue already found against him should not defeat resort to this writ; and (3) the fact of coercion was not known to him at the time of the trial and could not have been discovered by him earlier than it was.
Furthermore it is noted that in other jurisdictions use of coram nobis is sanctioned for attack on the grounds of knowing use of perjured testimony. (18 Am.Jur.2d, Coram Nobis, etc., §16, pp. 474-475 ; 24 C.J.S., Criminal Law, § 1606 (14), pp. 730-733.) It is also recognized as a ground for relief under the Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act. (18 Am. Jur.2d, Coram Nobis, etc., § 36, pp. 509-510.) Under the latter the relief must be sought in the court in which the conviction took place. (Id., § 38, p. 511.)
In this state it has been suggested on the one hand that “By eliminating coram nobis and concurrently expanding the scope of habeas corpus to include all grounds previously reached by coram nobis, California would eliminate a confused and difficult area of criminal procedure.” However, in respect to habeas corpus the same authors recognize: “The defendant is precluded from attacking the conviction in the court in which he was convicted and sentenced. Although habeas corpus allows the prisoner to raise matters not in the record, the petition is unavailable in the only court that could have knowledge of the actual events at the trial. Difficult administrative problems may thus arise. Although most habeas corpus cases raise fact issues involving occurrences at the trial, usually the records of the sentencing court are not readily available to the court hearing the petition. It becomes necessary in such cases to require judges, prosecutors, and police officials—all from the trial court—to appear in habeas corpus hearings as witnesses or to provide depositions. These requirements may result in inconvenience, expense, and unwarranted delay. [Footnote omitted.]” (Note, Post-Conviction Remedies in California Death Penalty Cases, 11 Stan.L. Rev. (1958) 94, at pp. 113-114 and 118-119.)
The recommendation of those commentators that California procedure be amended to allow but one form of postconviction collateral attack which could be brought in the sentencing court, as well as in the appropriate appellate court, has not been implemented. Nevertheless, the reasons for having the review in such court are still cogent, and suggest that for this reason, particularly where alleged perjured testimony is to be weighed in the light of the record, coram nobis in the court which last dealt with that record (see Pen. Code, § 1265) should be a proper remedy.
Despite these considerations, it is concluded that to avoid the risk of creating greater uncertainty the holding of Mooney (178 Cal. 525) and the dictum of Adamson and the cases following it should be followed until expressly overruled by higher authority. The defendant has his remedy for review of the grounds asserted through petition for habeas corpus. The lower court properly disposed of the motion summarily because it failed to set forth grounds recognized by our courts as appropriate for coram nobis, and for like reasons the motion to dismiss the appeal should be granted.
Insofar as the merits of defendant’s application are concerned, it is noted that neither the notice of motion, the motion, nor the brief are verified; that the material in the affidavits is hearsay as to the principal issue which defendant asserts; that he has not made an affidavit himself, although allegedly present at the victim’s revelation; that although he secured affidavits from the two witnesses which were sworn to before a notary public, he failed to get a declaration, valid though unsigned, under oath from the alleged recanting witness. (See Code Civ. Proc., §§ 2003, 2012; Ede v. Johnson (1860) 15 Cal. 53, 57.) Finally, he has failed to explain the delay between the discovery of the alleged fraud of the prosecutor on July 20, 1961, and May 10, 1965 when he filed his notice of motion. This unexplained delay on the face of the moving papers furnishes sufficient grounds for the summary action of the lower court, and affirmance of the judgment by this court if it were disposed to consider the merit of the allegations of the motion itself. (People v. Shorts, supra, 32 Cal.2d 502, 512-515; People v. Vaitonis, supra, 200 Cal.App.2d 156, 161; People v. Del Campo, supra, 174 Cal.App.2d 217, 220; People v. Remling, supra, 146 Cal.App.2d 476, 480; People v. Bobeda, supra, 143 Cal.App.2d 496, 499-500; People v. Dunlop, supra, 102 Cal.App.2d 314, 318; People v. Ward (1950) 96 Cal.App.2d 629, 632-633 [216 P.2d 114]; People v. Vernon (1935) 9 Cal.App.2d 138, 142-143 [49 P.2d 326]; and see cases collected Annotation (1958) 62 A.L.R.2d 432.)
The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed.
Sullivan, P. J., and Molinari, J., concurred.
Appellant’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied February 2,1966.
No error is urged in connection with the premature consideration of the motion. The reporter’s transcript reflects, from the remarks of the clerk, that defendant had filed a prior similar motion; that it had been denied; that he filed an appeal from that denial; and that he dismissed the appeal and filed the motion anew. The People have not sought to augment the record to show these facts if they are correct, nor do they urge a prior application on similar grounds and a final ruling thereon as a basis for the dismissal of the present proceedings. (See People v. Silva, supra, 232 Cal.App.2d 477, 478-479; People v. Vernon (1935) 9 Cal. App.2d 138, 143-146 [49 P.2d 326].)
Filed directly with the Supreme Court because it had affirmed the original judgment on appeal. (Pen. Code, § 1265; People v. Thomas (1955) 45 Cal.2d 433, 436 [290 P.2d 491].)
The allegations of the motion, and the brief in support thereof and of the affidavits filed therewith are open to the interpretation that although the complaining witness was coerced into testifying because of a threat of prosecution for another offense, and did in fact testify falsely, the police did not know of or attempt to coerce the falsity. Herein the allegations have been construed in favor of the defendant’s contention that they show facts warranting a hearing to determine whether false testimony was knowingly used by the prosecution. This consideration should not be interpreted as an indication that perjured testimony, presented in ignorance of its falsity, should be grounds for postconvietion review because the prosecution induced a reluctant witness to testify.
The record reflects that defendant is confined at Folsom Prison in Sacramento County.
Coram nobis is a proper remedy for knowing use of perjury in at least seven states: See Ex parte Gammon (1951) 255 Ala. 502 [52 So.2d 369, 370]; Pike v. State (1931) 103 Fla. 594 [139 So. 196, 198]; Yon v. State (1939) 138 Fla. 770 [190 So. 252]; Dolan v. State (1943) 195 Miss. 154 [13 So.2d 925, 926]; Madison v. State (1954) 205 Md. 425 [109 A.2d 96, 100]; State v. Eaton (Mo. 1955) 280 S.W.2d 63, 66; Duncan v. Robbins (1963) 159 Me. 339 [193 A.2d 362],
New York has especially expanded coram nobis to reach constitutional errors. Even unknowing use by the prosecutor of mistaken (not perjured) police testimony relevant to voluntariness of a confession can be raised. (People v. Robertson (1963) 12 N.Y.2d 355 [190 N.E.2d 19, 239 N.Y.S.2d 673, 677].) Knowing use of perjury is normally so raised. (People v. Calero (1965) 23 App.Div.2d 698 [258 N.Y.S.2d 207, 208]; People v. Fanning (1949) 300 N.Y. 593 [89 N.E.2d 881]; People v. Sadness (1949) 300 N.Y. 69, 73 [89 N.E.2d 188]; see Morhous v. Supreme Court of New York (1944) 293 N.Y. 131, 140 [56 N.E.2d 79], on relation between coram nobis and narrow scope of habeas corpus.)
It has been pointed out, however, that return to the trial court where the collateral attack is predicated upon errors of the judge is subject to a temptation on his part to deny the writ. (Amandes, Coram Nobis—Panacea or Carcinoma, 7 Hastings L.J. (1955) 48 at p, 56,)
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User:Tyrol5/Edmund Muskie 1972 presidential campaign
The Edmund Muskie presidential campaign of 1972 began when then U.S. Senator from Maine and 1968 Democratic nominee for Vice President Edmund Muskie decided to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 1972 election.
Background
Muskie had been involved in local politics in addition to practicing law in Waterville, Maine, until his election to the Maine House of Representatives in 1946. In 1954, Muskie was elected Governor of Maine and was re-elected in 1956, serving as Governor until being elected to the United States Senate in 1958. Muskie's rise to national prominence came as running mate to Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election. While Humphrey nearly chose U.S. Senator from Oklahoma Fred R. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee ultimately decided that Muskie's temperament, experience, and younger age made Muskie a stronger candidate than Harris.
Humphrey and Muskie narrowly lost the 1968 presidential election to the Republican ticket, consisting of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew, though Muskie's spot on the ticket—in addition to his largely more popular demeanor than that of Humphrey—rendered Muskie a frontrunner for the 1972 Democratic nomination and led to much speculation that he would indeed run for President.
Groundwork and early campaign
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal72-1249975 - timeline (declared Jan. 4)
http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/ajcr/1971/Time%20Cover.shtml - tour in September 1971
"Canuck Letter"
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg-Watergate%20Files/Canuck%20Letter/Canuck%2002.pdf - good overview
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/101072-1.htm - WaPo post-mortem | WIKI |
Mamalarky
Mamalarky is an American indie rock band formed in 2016 in Austin, Texas. The group was briefly based in Los Angeles, California before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia.
History
Singer and guitarist Livvy Bennett and drummer Dylan Hill first became acquainted in middle school and later met keyboardist Michael Hunter in high school. After high school, the members began playing together and adopted the name Mamalarky by 2016. The band was initially active in their hometown of Austin before relocating to Los Angeles. Bennett played bass on tour with Cherry Glazerr and Hunter played with White Denim during this time.
Mamalarky released their debut EP, Fundamental Thrive Hive, in May 2018. Bassist Noor Khan joined the band late that year in response to a call for musicians put out by Bennett on Tinder.
In December 2019, the band signed to Brooklyn based record label Fire Talk. The following month, they released "Fury", the first single off their debut album. This was followed by "How To Say" in May 2020 and lead single "Schism Trek" that September. Bennett, Hunter, and Khan relocated to Atlanta late that year. The band released the final singles from their full length debut, “You Make Me Smile” and "Drug Store Model", in October and November 2020 respectively.
Mamalarky’s self-titled debut album, a culmination of two years of effort, was released on November 20, 2020. Pitchfork contributor Jesse Locke praised the band’s “complex instrumental interplay”, awarding the album a rating of 7.1 out of 10. Ben Salmon of Paste magazine gave the album a rating of 7.5, describing the album's sound as "fussed over" and "distant" but ultimately commending the group's fluency in multiple genres.
The band’s second album, Pocket Fantasy, was released in September 2022 on Fire Talk Records. Writing for Pitchfork, critic Will Gottsegen rated the album 7.3 out of 10, praising the balance the band struck between technical proficiency and “playfulness”.
Members
* Livvy Bennett – vocals, guitar (2016–present)
* Dylan Hill – drums (2016–present)
* Michael Hunter – keyboard (2016–present)
* Noor Khan – bass (2018–present)
EPs
* Fundamental Thrive Hive (2018)
Singles
* "Loose Leaf" (2017)
* "Nonmonogamy" (2017)
* "Mama's Bear" (2018)
* "Hero" (2019)
* "Fury" (2020)
* "How to Say" (2020)
* "Schism Trek" (2020)
* "You Make Me Smile" (2020)
* "Drug Store Model" (2020)
* "Meadow" (2021)
* "Moss" (2021)
* "You Know I Know" (2022)
* "Mythical Bonds" (2022)
* "It Hurts" (2022)
* "Shining Armor" (2022) | WIKI |
Georges-Antoine Belcourt
Georges-Antoine Belcourt (April 22, 1803 – May 31, 1874), also George Antoine Bellecourt, was a French Canadian Roman Catholic diocesan priest and missionary. Born in Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec, Belcourt was ordained in 1827. He established missions in areas of Quebec and Manitoba. On the frontier, he became involved in a political dispute between the local First Nations population and the Hudson's Bay Company, the monopoly fur trading company.
At the urging of the Company's Governor, Belcourt was recalled to Montreal. He was next assigned to Pembina, North Dakota. He established two missions in the 1840s to convert the local Ojibwe (also called Chippewa) and Métis to Catholicism. In 1859, Belcourt left Pembina for Quebec, but was quickly redeployed to North Rustico, Prince Edward Island. He established the Farmers' Bank of Rustico (the first community-based bank in Canada).
Belcourt retired from his post in 1869 to live out his life in New Brunswick, but was recalled in 1871, this time to the Magdalen Islands. In May 1874, Belcourt was forced to retire due to ill health. He died in Shediac, New Brunswick, on May 31, 1874. He was designated a National Historic Person by the Government of Canada in 1959.
Early life
Georges-Antoine Belcourt was born on April 22, 1803, at Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec, to Antoine Belcourt and Josephte Lemire, who had married on February 23, 1802. His parents, devout Roman Catholics, brought their son up in the same faith, and the young Belcourt received his first Holy Communion in 1814. At age 13, Belcourt enrolled in Le Petit Séminaire de Québec to undertake a philosophical course of study, which he completed in 1823. Belcourt studied to become a priest, and on March 10, 1827, Bernard-Claude Panet, the Archbishop of Quebec, performed Belcourt's ordination in the chapel at the Seminary.
Belcourt was appointed as an assistant at several parishes in the area, before becoming pastor of a parish at Sainte-Martine, Quebec, in 1830. As he was bilingual and spoke English as well as French, he was able to minister to his parish of mostly Irish Catholic Canadians.
Early missionary work
During his time at Sainte-Martine, the young priest aspired to do missionary work in the west of British North America and applied for it. In 1830, Archbishop Panet requested that the young priest accompany him on a journey to Manitoba. Following an interview in February 1831, Belcourt was enlisted to go on the trip. After spending two months learning the Algonquian language, Belcourt departed from his home town on April 27 of that year in a canoe of the Hudson's Bay Company. On June 17, the priest's party arrived at Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and Belcourt was assigned as one of three priests there. He was to assist the Bishop at the town's cathedral, and study the Anishinaabe language. He was to work with the Ojibwe people to convert them to Christianity. Although the language was not yet documented in written form, Belcourt made rapid progress. Within a year, he had learned enough to be considered ready to work directly with those whom he termed the "savages," as was customary at the time.
In 1832, Belcourt established the first native-only mission west of Saint Boniface, but Gros Ventre raids forced its closure the following year. In 1834, he established a mission at Baie-Saint-Paul on the Assiniboine River, where he instructed the local Aboriginal population in European-style agriculture. The priest had a log chapel built, with smaller log cabins on the surrounding land to house the natives. The local bishop opposed his missionary work, as he believed the Aboriginal Canadians would not settle in one spot for long. Belcourt overcame this opposition, and in 1834 built a school at his mission, enlisting the assistance of a Chippewa-speaking woman to serve as a teacher. In 1836, the missionary admitted five natives to Holy Communion. He was discouraged by the Ojibwe readiness to return to their former spiritual practices after baptism.
In 1838, Belcourt travelled to Rainy Lake to examine sites for a mission. He abandoned the plan after discovering that the First Nations people were unwilling to give up their Hudson's Bay Company-supplied liquor, as he required for conversion to Christianity. In August 1838, the priest arranged to have a dictionary published in the Chippewa language, and returned to his mission at Baie-Saint-Paul. In the winter of 1839, Belcourt carved 280 oak balusters and candlesticks for his log chapel.
In 1840, the missionary established a mission among the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations, where he repeated his Baie-Saint-Paul design: a log chapel at the centre surrounded by small cabins for the local population, with outlying farms. The mission closed ten years later; Belcourt blamed this on mismanagement by oblates he had entrusted with its management. In 1845, Belcourt served as the chaplain to some buffalo hunters, but returned to his first mission at Baie-Saint-Paul to teach the Chippewa language to a group of oblates.
In 1846, a dysentery epidemic swept communities along the Assiniboine River in Manitoba. On June 22 of that year, Belcourt left his mission at Baie-Saint-Paul to join a group of hunters on their journey south for the summer. The hunters carried the disease, infecting others, and 25 people died of dysentery by July 5. On the worst days, eight people had to be buried. Belcourt and six of the hunters travelled south to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in search of medicine, as the priest's supply had quickly run out. With his medicine supplies replenished, the missionary headed back to the encampment of hunters before returning to his mission.
Arrival in North Dakota
In 1847, in response to perceived discrimination against First Nations people by the Hudson's Bay Company in the fur trade, Belcourt prepared a petition to Queen Victoria to seek redress. The petition was signed by 977 First Nations people, but the Colonial Secretary, Earl Grey, consulted with advisors who had little sympathy for the natives and took no action in the case. The Company criticised Belcourt for what it saw as his inciting discontent among the local First Nations. The Company administrators decided that the priest should not be allowed to remain in British North America. The missionary was arrested, but was released after the charges against him were discovered to be unfounded. At the urging of the Company's Governor, the Archbishop of Quebec asked Belcourt to return to Montreal. Belcourt asked the Governor of the Company to retract the charges for which he was arrested. The Governor apologised for what he described as a mistake on the part of the Company's chief Factors.
The Church assigned Belcourt to Pembina, North Dakota, as a missionary to the Chippewa and Métis of the Pembina River basin, a tributary to the Red River of the North. Upon arrival at Pembina, Belcourt constructed a small log cabin of 20 feet long by 30 feet wide, which was not large enough for all of his congregation. On August 14, 1848, the missionary baptised his first person in Pembina, and held a Holy Communion class consisting of 92 Native Americans. Needing more resources, Belcourt wrote to the Archbishop of Quebec for money for food and building supplies. He also asked for another Canadian priest well-versed in both French and the Chippewa language, as he noted there were more Métis than Chippewa in the Pembina area. Belcourt described the original territory of the Chippewa in the Pembina district as several hundred miles north to south, and east to west - much larger than the small reservation to which they were later assigned.
In addition to performing his missionary work, Belcourt engaged in political advocacy on the behalf of Métis and Anishinaabeg peoples. In 1849, Belcourt gathered a petition of one hundred names of Métis heads of families protesting ongoing encroachment on the buffalo robe and pemmican trade by the Hudson's Bay Company. Belcourt forwarded the petition and letter of protest to the governor of Minnesota Territory, Alexander Ramsey. In November 1849, the young and recently ordained priest Albert Lacombe arrived in Pembina and immediately started to learn the Chippewa language. Despite claiming to have to resort to manual labour to pay for his food, Belcourt supported a household that included a school teacher, a housekeeper, a Chippewa cook and several servants. Thirty miles to the west, he established a mission at Turtle Mountain to serve as a base for expansion toward the Canadian Rockies.
In 1853, Belcourt moved to what is now Walhalla, North Dakota, and established a school and a church there. The priest envisioned a large metropolis for the area. He began to lay out a city planned in the European-style of a grid, with wide streets and several open squares. Despite his having planned for ample water, and the natural advantages of fertile soil and resources in the area, major development went elsewhere. Since the early twentieth century, agriculture has declined as a mainstay of family economies in the area. The town has 885 residents.
A strong advocate of prohibition of alcohol, especially among Native Americans and First Nations peoples, Belcourt petitioned the US Congress to prevent the illicit trafficking of liquor from Canada into the United States. In March 1859, Belcourt left North Dakota to return to Canada.
Return to Canada
Belcourt returned to Quebec, but was quickly sent out to serve at a parish at Rustico, Prince Edward Island. Arriving there in November 1859, the priest performed his first baptism among the local people the following month. Belcourt built a parish hall out of stone (which was used into the 1950s) and established the Farmers' Bank of Rustico. He founded a high school, where he taught until recruiting a teacher from Montreal to the island. The priest created a study group, the members of which had to agree to be teetotalers. He established a parish library, built with the assistance of 1,000 French francs a year from Emperor Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I. In October 1865, Belcourt resigned from his position at the parish at Rustico, and returned to Quebec for some weeks.
He asked for reassignment to Rustico and returned to the island in November. In 1866, Belcourt built and demonstrated a steam-powered vehicle, considered the first automobile to be driven in Canada.
Belcourt remained pastor of his parish at Rustico until 1869, when he retired. The priest intended to live on a farm at Shediac, New Brunswick, but was called back to the church in August 1871. He was asked to pastor a parish on the Magdalen Islands. Ill health forced his retirement from there in May 1874, and he returned to Shediac before dying on May 31, 1874.
Legacy and honors
* The town of Belcourt, North Dakota, was named after the late priest in honour of his efforts in the region.
* In 1959, Belcourt was designated a National Historic Person by the Government of Canada. | WIKI |
The effect of seasonal acclimatization on whole body heat loss response during exercise in a hot humid environment with different air velocity
Tze Huan Lei, Masashi Fujiwara, Nicola Gerrett, Tatsuro Amano, Toby Mundel, Yoshimitsu Inoue, Dai Okushima, Takeshi Nishiyasu, Narihiko Kondo*
*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract
Seasonal acclimatization from winter to summer is known to enhance thermoeffector responses in hot-dry environments during exercise whereas its impact on sweat evaporation and core temperature (Tcore) responses in hot-humid environments remains unknown. We, therefore, sought to determine whether seasonal acclimatization is able to modulate whole body sweat rate (WBSR), evaporated sweat rate, sweating efficiency, and thermoregulatory function during cycling exercise in a hot-humid environment (32 °C, 75% RH). We also determined whether the increase in air velocity could enhance evaporated sweat rate and sweating efficiency before and after seasonal acclimatization. Twelve males cycled for 1 h at 40% V-O2max in winter (preacclimatization) and repeated the trial again in summer (after acclimatization). For the last 20 min of cycling at a steady-state of Tcore, air velocity increased from 0.2 (0.04) m/s to 1.1 (0.02) m/s by using an electric fan located in front of the participant. Seasonal acclimatization enhanced WBSR, unevaporated sweat rate, local sweat rate and mean skin temperature compared with preacclimatization state (all P < 0.05) whereas sweating efficiency was lower (P < 0.01) until 55 min of exercise. Tcore and evaporated sweat rate were unaltered by acclimatization status (all P > 0.70). In conclusion, seasonal acclimatization enhances thermoeffector responses but does not attenuate Tcore during exercise in a hot-humid environment. Furthermore, increasing air velocity enhances evaporated sweat rate and sweating efficiency irrespective of acclimated state. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Seasonal acclimatization to humid heat enhances eccrine sweat gland function and thus results in a higher local and whole body sweat rate but does not attenuate Tcore during exercise in a hot-humid environment. Sweating efficiency is lower after seasonal acclimatization to humid heat compared with preacclimatization with and without the increase of air velocity. However, having a lower sweating efficiency does not mitigate the Tcore response during exercise in a hot-humid environment.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)520-531
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Applied Physiology
Volume131
Issue number2
Early online date5 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2021
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This study was supported by a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (P18793) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from the Ministry of Education.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 the American Physiological Society.
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This study was supported by a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (P18793) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from the Ministry of Education.
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Diet and exercise for transgender people
You can have better health before, during, or after a gender transition. It is always the right time to do it. It does not have to cost anything, and it can help your transition go well:
• Reduce body dysphoria
• Give you a sense of control in life
• Help you meet requirements for medical transition options
• Improve other health problems
• Improve how clothes look and fit
• Improve mood, energy, and self-esteem
• Help with sleep
• Reduce depression and anxiety
• Help you save money
Medical requirements
Everyone should know their body mass index (BMI). Adults are measured differently than children and teens. Via the US CDC:
Some healthcare providers may require you to have a BMI within healthy weight in order to get hormones or surgery. BMI has four adult categories:
Below 18.5Underweight
18.5 – 24.9Healthy Weight
25.0 – 29.9Overweight
30.0 and AboveObese
Some may also check your Charlson Comorbidity Index. This checklist takes your age and diagnosed medical issues, then finds out the chances that you will die in the next ten years.
Diet
Gaining or losing weight is a very simple process.
• To lose weight, consume fewer calories than you burn.
• To gain weight, burn fewer calories than you consume.
Calories and weight are always the same:
• 1 pound = 3,500 calories
• 1 kilogram = 7,700 calories
If you want to lose 1 pound a week, you need to consume 3,500 fewer calories than you burn that week. That’s 500 calories a day. You can do this by consuming fewer calories, burning more calories, or a combination.
Your goal should be to change your habits so you can maintain your target weight. Here are some general suggestions that have clinical evidence that they can work:
Drink lots of water, including a big glass before meals.
• I drink tap water that I filter with a Brita. If that tastes too plain, you can add low calorie flavorings or carbonation.
Drink a caffeinated beverage
• Stimulants lower your appetite. Do not add dairy and sugar to your coffee or tea, or try to use less.
Do not drink calories
• Fruit juices and sugary soft drinks are full of calories that can be changed for other choices. Beer, wine, alcohol, and mixers have lots of calories, too, and they are often drunk while eating foods that are not good for you.
Shop along the walls of the grocery store
• Produce, meats, dairy, and freshly baked goods made in the store are better than processed stuff in the middle aisles. Packaged foods like ramen or mac and cheese seem cheap, but they often have tons of carbohydrates and fat and salt.
Do not eat fast food
• It is easy to find, and it seems cheap, but it is not a good choice. As an example, a Big Mac, large fries, and large Coke come to 1,340 calories. That is about the same calories as a 10-inch Domino’s pizza or a Chipotle chicken burrito with cheese and guacamole. You would have to walk for 5 or 6 hours that day to burn just one of those meals off.
Plan your meals
• Restaurant food is expensive, often not very good for you, and the choice of people who do not plan well. Pack a lunch, plan your dinners and breakfasts. You can make a lot of things ahead of time so they are ready more quickly. Going out once in a while is a nice treat, but having people over is almost always cheaper and healthier.
Cook at home
• Even if you do not have a stove, you can make healthy hot meals at home with a microwave, hot plate, slow cooker, countertop grill or griddle, rice cooker, or toaster oven.
Trade out candy and salty snacks
• Replace them with fruits, vegetables, and healthier choices. If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple or a carrot, you are not really hungry. You are eating for other reasons.
Consider fermented foods
• I am a strong believer in vinegar and fermented foods like kimchi and sauerkraut and yogurt. They have low calories, and the fermentation is good for cutting cravings and helping digestion. My favorite is apple cider vinegar with “the mother.” I also love pickles.
Consider a low-carb diet
• Carb is short for carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are found in many foods:
• Bread
• Grains like rice
• Starchy vegetables like corn and potatoes
• Pasta
• Cereal
• Beer
• Sweetened yogurt
• Fruit juice
• Low-fat salad dressings
• Beans and legumes
• Honey and sugar
• Chips and crackers
• Milk
• Gluten-free baked goods
• These foods make it harder to lose fat, because your body uses these for energy before it uses fat. If you do not eat carbs, your body burns fat instead.
• Cutting something out of your diet helps you be more mindful about what you eat.
• When I want to lose weight, I stop having bread, pasta, potatoes, alcohol, and rice.
Count calories
• Most people do not think much about what they eat.
• If you keep track of everything you eat for a couple of weeks, you will start to see ways you can lower your calories. Use a calorie calculator for everything. When you see how much exercise you need to burn what you eat, you will start to think twice about a lot of food choices. These sites all give nutrition information for common foods:
Treat yourself now and then
• Set a goal, and when you reach it, allow yourself a cheat day where you have something you love. For me, it is usually pizza, or chocolate, or wine. Sometimes I will go out with friends. The key is finding a good balance with treats so they really feel special.
Foods
Some foods may have a small effect on hormone levels in some people.
To lower testosterone
• Reduce meat
• Reduce cholesterol
• Reduce fat
• Increase soy
To lower estrogen
• Increase fiber
• Increase flax seed
• Increase foods with sulfur
• Increase organic food
• Reduce caffeine
• Reduce processed food
Exercise
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend getting 30 minutes of aerobic exercise 5 days a week.
Even if you do nothing all day, you will burn some calories. For instance, a sedentary woman my age and BMI burns about 2,000 calories a day just being alive. If she eats 2,000 calories a day, she will stay the same weight. If she eats 1,500 calories a day, she will lose one pound a week (500 fewer daily calories consumed x 7 days = 3,500 calories = 1 pound).
By adding daily exercise, you can lose even more weight. If the same woman does 15,000 steps every weekday as part of her job or other activity, she would burn an additional 700 calories a day (700 more calories burned x 5 days = 3,500 calories = 1 pound).
So with only diet or only exercise described above, she would lose a pound a week, but with both diet and exercise, she would lose 2 pounds a week.
Find out how much various activities burn from calculators like these:
SELFNutritionData (nutritiondata.self.com)
HealthStatus (healthstatus.com)
Harvard (health.harvard.edu)
Certain kinds of exercise can also change your body shape. Transmasculine folks often want to bulk but their upper bodies, and transfeminine people often want to bulk up their lower bodies. See the For us, by us section below for some exercise tips from other trans people.
Finding help when needed
Many people are able to manage their weight on their own through diet and exercise, but there’s also lots of help available! Skip the fads and gimmicks. They are like “get rich quick” schemes that prey on people who want an easy solution. Here are some ways to get help.
Friends and family
• Maybe you and others you know can set goals together and give each other encouragement.
Support groups and meal plans
Clinical options
• Most hospitals have dieticians, nutritionists, and weight loss clinics. Insurance policies and tax-funded public health programs have many options for those who need a healthcare professional, so check with your healthcare provider.
Prescription drugs
• Skip over-the-counter drugs and home remedies. They are often just stimulants. Prescription drugs are sometimes an option for those who have been unable to meet their healthy weight goals with other options.
• Drugs approved by FDA include:
• bupropion-naltrexone (Contrave)
• liraglutide (Saxenda)
• lorcaserin (Belviq)
• orlistat (Xenical)
• phentermine-topiramate (Qsymia)
Surgery
• Surgery is a last resort.
• Liposuction and fat freezing techniques can have complications and can only do so much before there’s a lot of loose skin in an area.
• Bariatric surgery changes the size of the stomach. Most surgeons will only perform this on obese or morbidly obese people whose BMI is above 35. In some cases, they will do it for obese people with BMI of 30 and doing it will also help with some other health condition. These surgeries require a lifestyle change afterwards.
Resources
This is health talk, not advice. Talk with your doctor before starting any new diet or exercise program.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov)
MDCalc (mdcalc.com)
Dietary Guidelines for Americans (dietaryguidelines.gov)
Choose My Plate (choosemyplate.gov)
• By the US Department of Agriculture
Bespoke Unit (bespokeunit.com)
Shop Your Shape (shopyourshape.com)
Eating Disorder Hope (eatingdisorderhope.com)
• Founded in 2005; a great resource.
Diet.com (diet.com)
• Lots of useful meal plans at various calorie amounts.
For us, by us
River Eastwood (riverrunswild.com)
Laith Ashley (laithashley.com)
Trans Out Loud (transoutloud.com)
Trans & Fit (youtube.com/user/transandfit)
• Motivational YouTube channel by Alex, active 2015-2016.
Transgender Fitness Life (transgenderfitlife.com)
Andrian Aliazas (youtube.com/user/TheAndrianAliazas)
Natalie (youtube.com/watch?v=S8MXKMsM9ig)
Wussy (wussymag.com)
References
Linsenmeyer WR, Rahman R (2017). Diet and nutritional considerations for a FtM transgender male: A case report. Journal of American College Health Volume 66, 2018 – Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1431917 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Johny Antony
Johny Antony is an Indian film director and actor, known for making comedy films in Malayalam cinema. He is from Changanassery in Kottayam district, Kerala. He worked for about a decade as an associate to directors Thulasidas, Taha, Kamal and Jose Thomas. Antony made his directorial debut with the slapstick comedy C.I.D. Moosa in 2003.
His other directorial ventures include Kochi Rajavu (2005), Thuruppu Gulan (2006), Cycle (2008), Ee Pattanathil Bhootham (2009), Masters (2012), Thappana (2012) and Thoppil Joppan (2016). Antony made his acting debut with a role in the film Shikkari Shambhu (2018). His acting credits include the films Drama (2018), Joseph (2018), Ganagandharvan (2019), Varane Avashyamund (2020), and Home (2021)''. ''
Career
He began his film career as an assistant director and assisted around ten leading directors in Malayalam film. Antony became an independent director in C.I.D. Moosa and became a blockbuster comedy movie. Inspector Garud, with Dileep and Kavya Madhavan in lead roles, followed next.
In 2012, he directed two films, one being Masters, a movie starring Prithviraj, Sasikumar, Pia Bajpai, and Ananya, and the other being Thappana, a movie starring Mammootty, Murali Gopy, Charmy Kaur. | WIKI |
Piemonte Parchi
Piemonte Parchi ('Piedmont Parks') is an Italian magazine devoted to nature parks and life sciences. It is published since 1983 in Turin (Italy) by the Piedmont Regional Government.
History and profile
Piemonte Parchi was the first magazine published by an Italian public administration devoted to nature conservation. Its first issue was published in November 1983 and soon the journal won a widespread praise. The magazine consisted in a quarterly supplement of Notizie, the official newspaper of the Regione Piemonte; in 1985 the magazine redoubled its pages (which from that year on were all printed in colours) and became bimonthly, and then monthly.
During the early 1990s, to support its policy on nature conservation, the Regional Department for nature parks (Assessorato regionale ai parchi) printed each month around 50,000 copies of the magazine, which were sent free of charge to schools, local administrations, associations and private citizens, to inform them about the situation of the already existing nature parks in the region and the projects of new establishments. Since 1993, aiming to rationalise expenditure of the regional administration, the magazine started to be provided on the basis of paid subscriptions. Its circulation in 1997 decreased to 35,000 copies per issue. Besides its ordinary issues from 1999 on Piemonte Parchi publishes every year two tematic issues, devoted to specific topics as, for instance, Il ritorno del lupo (The return of wolves), Gli ecomusei (Ecomuseums), La speleologia in Piemonte (Speleology in Piedmont), I parchi in Europa (Nature parks in Europe) and so on. From 2001 Piemonte Parchi is on the Internet, registered as Piemonte Parchi Web, where it is flanked by an online news bulletin with the events taking place in the Piedmontese parks, and by a weekly newsletter.
In 2004 Piemonte Parchi launched Piemonte Parchi Web Junior, a web project addressed to schools, which ended in 2011. In the months preceding Turin 2006 Winter Olympics the journal launched an intensive information campaign on the event. With the 221st issue of December 2012, following a time of crisis when Piemonte Parchi risked a complete closure due to Regione Piemonte budgetary cuts, after almost 30 years of activity the magazine sharply reduced its paper format issues per year. From then on the magazine mainly goes on as a free of charge online newspaper. Contents and sections are roughly the same of the historic paper journal, and also the newsletter is still operating.
Contents
Major aim of Piemonte Parchi is to provide news about the nature reserves features and activities in Piedmont, Italy and abroad. It also deals with environmental and life science issues such as geology, climatology, ornithology, zoology and botanics.
Its articles also cover territorial issues as local history and traditional products. Among the contributors of Piemonte Parchi there are prominent personalities of the Italian environmentalism as, for instance, Mario Rigoni Stern, Reinhold Messner, Antonio Cederna, Laura Conti and Piero Angela.
Since 1991 Piemonte Parchi maintains a public library named "Biblioteca delle aree protette" ("Conservation areas library"), which was confirmed in 2009 by a legge regionale and offers consultation and loans of works related to Conservation biology. | WIKI |
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350 It follows that in the reporting of strikes, the easiest way is to let the news be uncovered by the overt act, and to describe the event as the story of interference with the reader's life. That is where his attention is first aroused, and his interest most easily enlisted. A great deal, I think myself the crucial part, of what looks to the worker and the reformer as deliberate misrepresentation on the part of newspapers, is the direct outcome of a practical difficulty in uncovering the news, and the emotional difficulty of making distant facts interesting unless, as Emerson says, we can "perceive (them) to be only a new version of our familiar experience" and can "set about translating (them) at once into our parallel facts."
If you study the way many a strike is reported in the press, you will find, very often, that the issues are rarely in the headlines, barely in the leading paragraphs, and sometimes not even mentioned anywhere. A labor dispute in another city has to be very important before the news account contains any definite information as to what is in dispute. The routine of the news works that way, with modifications it works that way in regard to political issues and international news as well. The news is an account of the overt phases that are interesting, and the pressure on the newspaper to adhere to this routine comes from many sides. It comes from the economy of noting only the stereotyped phase of a situation. It comes from the difficulty of finding | WIKI |
Tapir Facts
Tapir Facts
Tapir Tapirs are large mammals that look like pigs with prolonged snouts. These animals can be found in Central and South America and Asia (Sumatra and Malaysia). Tapirs live in swamps, grasslands, forests and mountains. There are four types of tapirs: Baird's tapir, Lowland tapir, Mountain tapir and Malayan tapir. All species, except Lowland tapir, are endangered due to increased hunting and habitat loss.
Interesting Tapir Facts:
Tapirs weigh from 500-700 pounds and can reach 29-42 height at shoulders. Malayan tapir is the largest and Mountain tapir is the smallest species.
Closest relatives of tapirs are horses and rhinos.
Tapirs have not changed much for tens of millions of years.
Tapirs have 4 toes on their front feet and 3 toes on their back feet.
Tapirs are herbivorous. They eat leaves and fruit twice a day.
These animals are ecologically very important because they disperse seeds with their feces as they move from one location to another.
Their snout is a fusion of nose and upper lip. It facilitates eating. Tapirs use it to grab leaves from the nearby branches, pick up the fruit from the ground or to find aquatic plant on the bottom of the water.
Group of tapirs is called a "candle".
Tapirs communicate verbally, via high pitched sounds and non-verbally, via urine droppings. By sniffing and recognizing urine marks, tapirs can know if there are other tapirs in the area.
They like to spend time in the water because water cools them down and helps them in removing parasites.
Tapirs can spend few minutes under the water. They can use their snouts as snorkels if they need to hide under the water longer period of time (in the case of danger).
Jaguars, tigers, crocodile and anacondas hunt tapirs.
After 13 months of pregnancy, one calf will be born. As long as mother produces milk, young tapir will eat it.
Young tapirs have specific yellow and white stripes and spots on the reddish-brown fur which provide excellent camouflage. After few months (when they lose these marks), they look like miniature version of adult animal.
Tapirs live 25-30 years in the wild and over 30 years in captivity.
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1172 TREATY WI'I`H THE SACS, FOXES, IOWAS. LIARCH 6, 1861. not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres each, to the highest bidder for cash; the sale be be made upon sealed proposals, to be duly invited by public advertisement, provided no bid shall be favorably considered which may be less than one dollar and twemy·flve cents per acre. And shonld ImP"°"€m°¤*¤· any of the tracts so to be sold have upon them improvements of any kind which were made by or for the Indians, or for Government purposes, the proposals therefor must state the price for both the land and improve- Proceeds of ments. The proceeds of the sales thereof; after deducting therelrom the "l°‘ expenses of surveying the lands and all other expenses incident to the negotiation of these articles of convention and the proper execution thereoh the balance shall be applied as follows, viz : one half shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, and interest thereon, at the rate of five per centum per annum, shall be paid annually, with the other funds to be paid said tribe, in the V°l- X·P·1°74· same manner as stipulated in the treaty0f May 18th, 1854; and the other hz11Fof said balance shall be applied as hereinafter specified. lawns cedsw ARTICI,E III. The Iowa tribe of Indians, parties to this agreement, £;‘fdE'};;°g‘§g‘;:: hereby code, relinquish and convey to the United States, for the use and benand Foxes. efit of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, for their permanent home, all that part of their present reservation lying and being west of Nohearts creek, Boundm-ies. and bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at a point where the southern line of tho present Iowa reserve crosses Nohearts creek; thence with said line to the south fork of the N emaha, (commonly known as Walnut creek;) thence down the middle of said south fork, with the meanders thereof, to its mouth, and to a point in the middle of the Great Nemaha river; thence down the middle of said river to a point opposite the mouth of Nohearts creek; and thence, in a southerly direction with the middle of said Nohearts creek, to the place of beginning. And it is hereby un— derstood and agreed that, in full consideration For said ccssion, the United States shall hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the Iowas, the one half of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands described in the second article of this agreement, and interest thereon, at the rate of five per centum per annum, shall be paid to the Iowa tribe in the same manner Vol.;:. p. 1069. as their annuimies are paid under the treaty of May 17th, 1854. The reservation herein described shall be surveyed and sci: apart For the exclusive use and benefit of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, and the remainder of the Iowa lands shall be the tribal reserve of said Iowa Indians, for their exclusive usc and benefit. Joseph Tesson Arrrrcnm IV. The Sacs and Foxes of Missouri being anxious to make 0‘}““"' full satisfhction for a just claim which Joseph Tossou holds against said land. tribe, it is hereby agreed by the parties to this convention that said claimant shall select a. quarter-section or one hundred and sixty acres of land, to include his present residence and improvements, to be located in one body, in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public surveys, which tract of land shall be received by him in full payment of said claim, estimated at about eight hundred dollars, and all other claims or rights of every character whatsoever against said tribe; and when 2. relinquishment shall have been executed by said claimant in favor of said tribe for all claims that he may have against them, a patent shall be issued to him for said tract of land in fcu simple. Cmain chiefs The following chiefs shall be entitled to select each a quarter-section K;§; €::;‘g €i*;i:‘ *:, or one hundred and sixty acres of land in one body, in conformity with hm the public surveys, to include their present residences and improvements, viz: Po—te-0k-a-mn, Ne-sour-quoit, and Mo—less; and George Gomess, a member of the Sac and Fox tribe, shall select in like manner one eighth of a section or eighty acres of land in one body, to include his improvenients, and patents shall be issued therefor in favor of said persons in fee snmp e. Grants for pm-- ART1CL1·: V. In order to encourage education among the aforesaid | WIKI |
User:NOMAD 67
Three piece Rock Band NOMAD 67 from Worcestershire, England formed in 2005. The line-up consists of Jay Lawson-Pearce ( guitar / main vocals, Will Diment ( drums/vocals ) and Joe Shellam ( bass/vocals) . Supported THE SUBWAYS , SEX PISTOLS EXPERIENCE , THE BUCK BROTHERS , VICE SQUAD , ARCADIAN KICKS Toured throughout the UK including and played at Bridge Bash festival , Nozstock festival , Bscene Festival ( Switzerland ) also toured in Holland. NOMAD 67 write and perform their own original material and perform covers in their own style , they supplied three original songs on the PC game MotorM4x , supplied music for the USA TV show ROADTRIP NATION which included an interview with SUB-POP record label founder Jonathan Poneman where their original song "Better Off" was played , NOMAD 67 original music has been played on BBC H&W the friday session, Kerrang Radio and numerous internet radio stations. BURNING SKY RECORDS in America have included NOMAD 67 performances in two recent compilation albums one a tribute to ROXY MUSIC and one a tribute to New Zealand punk band TOYLOVE. | WIKI |
Snapchat enables tasteless Bob Marley selfie lens for 4/20
Snapchat is currently being criticized for launching a new selfie lens for April 20th that maps Bob Marley's face onto the user. Critics are saying the move reduces Marley's legacy to a stereotype by allowing users to share snaps of themselves wearing digital blackface. According to a statement sent to The Verge, Snapchat worked with the Marley Estate to release the lens: Those who came across the filter shared images on Twitter to voice their dismay: oh god @snapchat you didn’t pic.twitter.com/lBZUHZKODg According to The Guardian, celebrity users like Kylie Jenner are already being called out for the filter. but of course Kylie Jenner used that terrible Bob Marley Snapchat filter pic.twitter.com/3Ieoz48ust To be clear, and despite the best intentions of Snapchat and the Marley Estate, using Bob Marley as an icon for observing 4/20 and weed culture is of course problematic. Marley certainly used marijuana as a sacrament, but he also happens to be one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, helping make reggae a cultural force. While the selfie lens isn't quite the same as putting black paint on you face, it's tantamount to putting on a Bob Marley mask to celebrate getting high, effectively reducing Marley's impact to a stereotype. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Spider-Man on PS4 remixes comic book lore for a fresh superhero story
Marvel’s Spider-Man is out today on the PlayStation 4, and in addition to the high-flying, web-slinging action, developer Insomniac Games is putting some big emphasis on the story. The game offers a slightly new spin on the classic hero, one that takes a lot of established comic lore and mixes it up in fresh and interesting ways. Warning: mild spoilers below for Spider-Man for the PS4 Much like the most recent Spider-Man films, the PS4 game makes the smart move to skip over Peter’s origin story entirely. It’s a safe bet that if you’re picking up a Spider-Man game in 2018, you probably already know the basics: Uncle Ben, radioactive spider, “With great power comes great responsibility,” etc. The game doesn’t just excel by breaking out of the usual Spider-Man timeline. It also remixes existing Spider-lore to create something fresh that shakes up some of the character relationships that fans have come to know and love over the decades. Most of these changes don’t affect Peter. After all, it’s still a Spider-Man game, which means that Peter still has to be, well, Spider-Man, as he quips and flips his way through the city. But nearly everyone surrounding Peter has changed. How Peter relates to those changes is what makes the game so interesting. One of the biggest changes is Peter’s relationship with Mary Jane Watson, who’s historically been relegated to the role of a damsel in distress for Peter to save. That’s not the case in Spider-Man for PS4, though; in this game, she’s a playable character in her own right, breaking stories as a reporter for the Daily Bugle and often clashing with Peter’s overprotectiveness as she tries to do her job. Another major change is the shift of Professor Otto Octavius, who shows up not as the iconic villain but as Peter’s mentor at the poorly funded Octavius Industries lab. (It wouldn’t be a Spider-Man story if Peter didn’t have money problems of some sort.) It helps tie Peter together with a rather unlikely ally as they work on creating prosthetic limbs for soldiers. Of course, anyone who’s seen a Spider-Man property will likely guess where that relationship leads down the road. Popular Spider-Man villains like Electro, Scorpion, and Rhino all make token appearances, and the game makes it clear that Spidey has already dealt with them before. For example, when Spidey fights Shocker, he teases the villain by using his real name. Avoiding the tedious backstories gives the game more time to focus on less familiar characters like Mr. Negative or Tombstone, providing players with new enemies to face that they haven’t already seen in countless video games, comics, and films over the years. And like the current crop of comics or the upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie, Spider-Man’s world also features Miles Morales (who fans will recognize as the popular bearer of the Spider-Man name in Marvel’s alternate universe Ultimate comics). Miles isn’t Spider-Man here, but he is a playable character, and his life eventually intersects with Peter’s in decidedly non-superheroic ways that offer some of the more grounded, human moments of the game. There are smaller things, too: J. Jonah Jameson has moved on to a podcast, and he’s essentially morphed into Alex Jones, if Alex Jones only really hated Spider-Man (who is a menace, Jameson will have you know). It seems like a fairly reasonable place for the brash editor to end up, eight years on. Aunt May also has a bigger role, working at the FEAST shelter that ties her together with the villainous Mister Negative. Plus, Spider-Man doesn’t ignore the past. The backstory of this Peter Parker’s adventures is a backdrop for the current plot, with collective items and lines of dialogue giving the backstory for players who are interested in hunting it all down. Things like mementos from battles with classic villains like Sandman, important moments in MJ and Peter’s relationship, or relics from Peter’s earlier Spider-Man days all show up, giving a sense of a larger world outside of the game. Spider-Man almost certainly won’t be the last we’ll see of this universe’s webslinger, either. Marvel has already said that the Insomniac-designed Spidey will be joining the comics in the upcoming Spidergeddon crossover event. And given the positive reception of the PS4 title and the MCU-style post-credit scenes that practically promise a part two, Sony will likely be eying a sequel down the line soon. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:DRAYTON26/The South Derbyshire Pool Team
The summer Overseal and District pool league is a 4 group tournement held over four months with each game played every Thursday evening. Each match is played under the World Matchplay Rules and 9 frames must be played, only one player must play 3 times only per one match. Each team plays each other twice home and away. The top two teams from each group going through the Quater - Finals, The Semi - Finals and then The Final. The South Derbyshire Pool Team for the 2010 season was drawn out in Group 4 with:- The Blue Bell Inn (Ashby) Shoulder Of Mutton (Oakthorpe) Square And Compass (Linton) The Rising Sun (Gresley) and The Railway Inn (Swadlincote)
The first game of the new 2010 season took place on Thursday 17 June 2010 When The South Derbyshire Pool Team took on The Blue Bell Inn. The South Derbyshire Pool got off to a flying start winning the first frame of nine but then they crumbled to a 7 - 2 defeat to finish bottom of the group after on game. Their next match is away to The Rising Sun in Gresley on Thursday 24 June 2010. | WIKI |
Morepath Security
In this post I'd like to discuss the security infrastructure of the Morepath web framework. I hope that I can showcase some of the interesting features of Morepath security, generate a bit of feedback for me, and also serve as the start of documentation on this topic. Finally, it's also useful for me to get an overview of where gaps in my implementation still exist.
What it should do
So what do I mean by "security"? I mean infrastructure in the Morepath web framework that helps you make sure that the web resources published by your application are only accessible by those people who are allowed to by your application. If you're not allowed you'll get a HTTP error.
Right now that error is HTTP Unauthorized (401) but I think I'll shortly change it to make it HTTP Forbidden (403), and make HTTP Unauthorized optional when HTTP Basic Authentication is in use. But I need to add a bit of infrastructure to make that possible first.
What does this look like in practice?
First we need to make sure that the application has an identity policy: a system that takes the HTTP request and established a claimed identity for it. For basic authentication for instance it will extract the username and password. The claimed identity can be accessed by looking at the identity attribute on the request object.
This is how you install an identity policy into a Morepath app:
from morepath.security import BasicAuthIdentityPolicy
@app.identity_policy()
def get_identity_policy():
return BasicAuthIdentityPolicy()
Let's say we want two permissions in our application, view and edit. We define those as plain Python classes:
class ViewPermission(object):
pass
class EditPermission(object):
pass
Since they're classes they could even inherit from each other and form some kind of permission hierarchy, but we'll keep things simple here.
Now we can protect views with those permissions. Let's say we have a Document model that we can view and edit:
@app.html(model=Document, permission=ViewPermission)
def document_view(request, model):
return "<p>The title is: %s</p>" % model.title
@app.html(model=Document, permission=EditPermission)
def document_edit(request, model):
return "some kind of edit form"
This says that we only want to allow access to document_view if the identity has ViewPermission on the Document model, and only allow access to document_edit if the identity has EditPermission on the Document model.
But how do we establish permissions for models at all? We can do this with the permission directive. Let's give absolutely everybody view permission:
@app.permission(model=Document, permission=ViewPermission)
def document_view_permission(identity, model, permission)
return True
We can implement any permission policy we like. Let's say a user has EditPermission on Document if it's in a list allowed_users on that document:
@app.permission(model=Document, permission=EditPermission)
def document_edit_permission(identity, model, permission):
return identity.userid in model.allowed_users
Morepath Super Powers Go!
What if we don't want to have to define permissions on a per-model basis? In our application, we may have a generic way to check for the edit permission. We can easily do it with Morepath, as it knows about inheritance:
@app.permission(model=object, permission=EditPermission)
def has_edit_permission(identity, model, permission):
return has_generic_edit_permission(identity, model)
This permission function is registered for model object, so will be valid for all models in our application. We can of course still make exceptions for particular models:
@app.permission(model=SpecialModel, permission=EditPermission)
def special_model_edit_permission(identity, model, permission):
return exceptional_edit_permission_check(identity, model)
Variation is not only on model, but can also on permission or identity. For instance, we can register a permission policy for when the user has not logged in yet, i.e. has no claimed identity:
@app.permission(model=object, permission=EditPermission, identity=None)
def has_edit_permission_not_logged_in(identity, model, permission):
return False
This permission check works in addition to the ones we specified above. In short you can be as generic or specific as you like.
Login forms
We've tackled a lot, but not yet how a user actually logs in to establish an identity in the first place. We need a view that gets triggered when the user logs in, for instance by submitting a login form. I'll sketch out some code here to give you an idea:
import morepath
@app.root()
class Root(object):
pass
@app.html(model=Root, name='login')
def login_attempt(request, model):
username = request.form['username']
password = request.form['password']
# check whether user has password, using password hash and database
if not user_has_password(username, password):
return "Sorry, login failed"
# okay, user is known, so modify response remembering that user
@request.after
def remember_security(response):
# create identity object
identity = morepath.Identity(username)
# modifies response, setting identity
morepath.remember(response, request, identity)
# redirect to original page after successful login attempt
return morepath.redirect(request.form['came_from'])
This would work well for session, cookie or ticket-based authentication: after the identity is established once it is remembered on the response object, so that it is automatically sent with each new request.
For HTTP basic authentication this form-based authentication approach wouldn't work, of course. We'd instead need to issue a HTTP Unauthorized response, causing the browser to ask the user for a username/password combination, which it would then send along for each subsequent request. The remember operation is a no-op for basic auth.
Note: Currently this is in fact broken code as I haven't enabled the implicit generic function implementation lookup yet for Morepath implementations. It's an easy fix as I have the infrastructure for it in Reg, but I need to add it to my todo list.
Theory: Identity/permits
Security in Morepath has two parts:
• establish someone's claimed identity.
• use that claimed identity to see whether access to a Morepath view is permitted.
This looks very much like, but isn't quite, a separation between authentication and authorization. There are subtle differences.
Establishing identity only establishes a claimed identity and does not verify (with, say, a database), that this identity is in fact still recognized by the system (the user may be removed), or that this identity is even as it is claimed.
In the case of some identity policies and some applications this is in fact enough: if someone manages to claim an identity, then it is the identity, without the need to access a database. This is for instance the case with cryptographic ticket based authentication systems such as the one implemented by mod_auth_tkt. If someone comes along with the right encrypted auth tkt cookie, we know that's the identity we gave to this user earlier when they first logged in. No database verification check is needed.
Then there's the next step: to see whether a claimed identity is permitted to access a view on a model. This can be seen as the authorization step, and will normally have to access some kind of database to do so. It may however do something in addition when accessing the database: verify that the claimed identity is still valid. This is done in this step because it can sometimes be established whether someone has access and whether the claimed identity is valid by a single database query.
What have these changes accomplished? We've made sure that establishing a claimed identity can be done without touching a database; only checking whether that identity is permitted something has to touch a database, possibly only once.
I'm grateful to Chris McDonough, creator of the Pyramid web framework, who wrote a very useful postmortem on Pyramid's design and what he'd do differently if he could change things. That was extremely useful when I come up with Morepath's security system, so thanks again, Chris! Also inspirational was my long familiarity with Zope's security system, and I hope to have distilled some of it down to the minimum. Of course anything I got wrong is my own fault.
Identity Verification?
I think the case of Morepath it would in fact be easy to let users specify an app-specific verify function, which will be called with the identity and can use the database to establish whether an identity is claimed. This would be easy to integrate into Morepath, and doesn't require the miniframeworks that Chris bother him in his postmortem. It could look like this (for something like basic auth):
@app.function(generic.verify, object)
def verify_identity(identity):
return validate_password(identity.userid, identity.password)
I could add a bit of sugar for this in the form of a directive:
@app.verify()
def verify_identity(identity):
return validate_password(identity.userid, identity.password)
The default verify would just return True, so it would still work for identity policies and applications that have no need for identity verification. Identification verification would not be part of identity policy, but part of Morepath's security infrastructure, as it would be entirely application specific.
More identity policies
Right now Morepath implements only a single identity policy, and that's BasicAuthIdentityPolicy for HTTP basic auth. I hope I will get time in the future to port some of the more interesting functionality from Pyramid's authentication module; the AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy looks interesting in particular. These could then be made available in a Morepath extension module. If you are interested in helping this porting activity I'd be thrilled though -- get in touch with me, please!
Conclusion
I'm pretty pleased with the flexibility of the Morepath security system: you can be fine-grained or generic when you need to. It's all built on top of the Morepath foundations of directive-based configuration and Reg generic functions, and it fits.
The identity system should be able to cope well with any kind of authentication system you can throw at it, allowing you to write generic code and swapping in a different one with ease. The only oddball is the perennial exception of HTTP Basic Auth, but at least Morepath can deal with it.
There may seem to be many concepts involved at first, but I think in fact they've been kept down to an amount that you can still keep in your head after you get used to it.
I hope to get feedback on this, and I also hope people will play with it, so we can smoothen out any kinks quickly. Please let me know what you think! Join the #morepath IRC channel on freenode! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
A Brief on Carbon Steel Forged Fittings
There are some excellent and outstanding features of the Carbon Steel Forged Fittings, such as high toughness, high welding properties, optimum performance, corrosion-resistant, high strength, less maintenance, corrosion-resistant, precisely built, etc. Durable, flexible, and rugged are our carbon steel fittings. It also displays some other finest features such as solid construction, rust-free, smooth and fine finish, no extra impurity, long life, delivered effectively, fair and so on.
It is preferably referred to as corrosion cracking fittings. In contrast to other carbon grades, these carbon steel forged fittings are less machineable. It provides excellent properties that are resistant to corrosion. It can be manufactured very well. These fittings have high chemical, physical and mechanical properties, making it a high quality product and a demanding product.
These Carbon Steel Forged Fittings are used in various industries like the oil and gas industry, petrochemical industry, power generation plants, bulk liquid transportation, chemical industry, pharmaceuticals industry and equipments etc.
These fittings are used in the oil and gas applications which include process seawater, firewater, and subsea pipe works, systems. In making pressure vessels, valves, and heat exchangers, such fittings are included. In many other sectors, such as emission control devices such as desulfurization gas machines, the paper and pulp industry, desalination, mining, metallurgical and marine industries, these fittings are used.
Such fittings are resistant to acids such as sulphuric acids and are thus used in many chemical industries where the hard chemicals do not affect the components of the unit. Such fittings are often used in a durable build.
What’s the most common grade of carbon steel?
The ASTM A105 Carbon Steel Forged Fittings is the most popular grade of carbon steel grades. It is simply a higher temperature and ambient service fitting that can be used in a pressure system.
Nonetheless, there are different restrictions imposed on this standard. The weight and thickness of the fittings forged shall not exceed the range specified. The carbon steel that is killed is second-hand for forging.
After forging, the duration is then given. Annealing allows the material to be reheated uniformly to the desired temperature in order to transform it into a specified one. Normalizing normalises the material, which is then cooled at room temperature. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Biological Sciences https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/7463 2021-01-18T08:07:05Z 2021-01-18T08:07:05Z Ant communities along an elevational transect, the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18801 2020-11-06T01:02:26Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Ant communities along an elevational transect, the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. Understanding biodiversity patterns and the processes that structure them along environmental gradients has been a topic of major ecological interest. Although relatively well-known, alpha diversity is still poorly understood. It is therefore crucial to investigate alpha diversity patterns as they reveal how diversified species are within a site and identifies processes underlying the co-occurrence of species at a local scale. The patterns and processes related to beta diversity, however, have lagged even more behind. Beta diversity describes the variation in species composition between sites. It reveals whether species turnover or richness differences cause variation in community composition between sites. Together, alpha and beta diversity may provide baseline information for conservation planning, especially in African Tropics. African tropical rainforests, although very diverse, are some of the most threatened and understudied ecosystems of the world. Similarly, although the primary aim in ecology has been to document biodiversity patterns and the processes that structure them, those of invertebrates have lagged behind. As a result, very little is known about African tropical invertebrate patterns and the mechanisms that drive them. The current study, therefore aims (1) describe ant diversity patterns and community assemblages along the Udzungwa mountains, (2) to describe the extent of compositional differences between sites (beta diversity) and (3) to reveal the assembly mechanisms that drive these differences along an altitudinal gradient, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. A standardized pitfall survey was conducted across five elevational transects, each at a distance of 0.1, 1, 20 and 174 km from the first one. Three target elevations which correspond to the three forest types of this mountain (lowland (300-800 m.a.s.l), sub-montane (800-1400), montane (1400-1500)) were selected. A total of 31 776 ant specimens were collected. They belong to five subfamilies, 34 genera and 101 species. Species richness declined with increasing elevation. Three species assemblages corresponding to the three forest types were observed across the mountains. The lowland assemblage was very distinct, while the sub-montane and montane assemblages were closely related. Results show that distance (km) and elevational distance (m.a.s.l) influence variation in community composition (beta diversity). Beta diversity increases with geographic and elevational distance, although more noticeable with elevation. The standardised effect sizes (SES) models suggest that species turnover increases with distance and elevation, while richness differences decrease with distance and elevation. Species turnover plays a significant role in structuring ant communities with increasing elevation while neither species turnover nor richness differences play a significant role in structuring ant communities with increasing geographical distance. The overall findings of this study, therefore, suggest that ants of the Udzungwa mountains are niche conservative, beta diversity is affected by distance and elevation and that species replacement structures ant communities with increasing elevation, while biotic interactions structure ant communities with increasing distance. Therefore, temperature is very important in structuring ant communities along the Udzungwa mountains and complementarity between sites is maximized by choosing sites that are at different elevations. Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Varying soil nutrition in grassland and savanna ecosystems affect plant-microbe symbiosis, nitrogen nutrition and growth of Pisum sativum L. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18799 2020-11-06T01:02:20Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Varying soil nutrition in grassland and savanna ecosystems affect plant-microbe symbiosis, nitrogen nutrition and growth of Pisum sativum L. Abstract available in pdf. Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Selective impacts on the vigour and mortality of Aristida junciformis (subsp. junciformis) https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18795 2020-11-05T01:02:24Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Selective impacts on the vigour and mortality of Aristida junciformis (subsp. junciformis) The aim of grazing management is to maximise livestock production by maintaining high sward quality. Many southern African grasslands have become degraded allowing grass species unfavourable for livestock production, such as Aristida junciformis subsp. junciformis, to become dominant thereby reducing the available sward quality. Aristida junciformis persists once established and is remarkably understudied. Three studies were conducted to investigate the dynamics of this grass and to find focused management techniques to control and manage A. junciformis. The studies compared the impact of a high density graze (HDG), targeted herbicide application and a control on the survivorship and productivity of A. junciformis tufts, on the species and cover composition and on the post-treatment seedbank. Tufts exposed to herbicide had a lower probability of survival (p = 0.887) than those subjected to a HDG (p = 1.000) or control (p = 1.000). After treatment implementation, grazed tufts were significantly (p = 0.0018) shorter than control tufts. The tufts displayed a linear growth rate under the control (F1,8 = 456.84; P < 0.001), increasing steadily over time, and a quadratic growth rate under the HDG (F2,7 = 125.35; P < 0.001), initially growing rapidly then declining towards the end of the growing season. There was no significant difference in the height (p = 0.9481) and the aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) (p = 0.7053) between the tufts in the control and HDG paddocks. The plant species composition (p = 0.4169) and cover composition (p = 0.4169) did not differ among treatments, however there were significant shifts in species composition (p = 0.0002) and cover composition (p = 0.0005) over time (p = 0.0002). The directional shift in species and cover composition were similar in all paddocks. Most of the grazing resistant perennial grasses, or ‘mtshiki’ species (Eragrostis curvula, E. plana, Sporobolus pyramidalis and S. africanus) and A. junciformis increased and Themeda triandra decreased over time. Total vegetation cover increased across all paddocks for all grass and forb species such that the bare soil cover was reduced from 53% to 34%. No A. junciformis seedlings emerged from the seedbank study. Most of the seedlings emerging from the seedbank (92%) and field studies (40%) were forbs. In the field study A. junciformis (30%) was second most dominant, followed by T. triandra (13%). The plant species composition of emerged seedlings did not differ among treatments (p = 0.8134). Aristida junciformis is and remains a persistent, indigenous weed that is difficult to eradicate. More research is required to prevent its establishment in areas not yet dominated but prone to its invasion and to eradicate it in veld where it is already dominant. Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Effect of elevated temperatures on growth and defence of Vachellia 1 sieberiana seedlings grown with or without grass. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18794 2020-11-05T01:02:22Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Effect of elevated temperatures on growth and defence of Vachellia 1 sieberiana seedlings grown with or without grass. Warming is suggested to increase globally in the next few decades. Warming, soil nutrients, 2 water, CO2 and sunlight are the most important environmental factors for plant life. Elevated 3 temperatures can highly impact plant metabolism, photosynthesis and consequently woody 4 plant performance and fecundity. An increase in minimum temperatures will possibly result in 5 the transformation of grasslands to savannas. The effects of rising temperatures on growth and 6 defence of woody plant seedlings and trade-offs between growth and physical defence 7 particularly thorn length of woody plants that potentially invade grasslands have been studied 8 utilising open-top warming chambers (OTCs). Furthermore, it is important to study the effect 9 of warming on woody plant growth and defence when competing with grass. Field experiments 10 were conducted in three different seasons to determine the effect of warming on growth and 11 defence of Vachellia sieberiana seedlings growing with or without grass, and the effect of 12 warming on trade-offs between growth and defence of V. sieberiana seedlings growing with or 13 without grass. It was predicted that elevated temperatures would increase growth and thorn 14 length of V. sieberiana seedlings growing (1) with or without grass in the dormant season and 15 early growing season, but (2) in the later part of the growing season only when grass cover is 16 absent. It was also predicted that warming, with or without grass cover increases seedling 17 growth, but elevated temperatures would decrease investment in defences relative to growth of 18 V. sieberiana seedlings when grass cover is absent. To test these predictions, 120 seedlings 19 that were three weeks old were transplanted into 20 field plots. Ten plots were warmed, and the 20 other ten plots were not warmed. In both warmed and unwarmed plots the grass was either 21 cleared or not. OTCs raised air temperature by 1.0 to 2.5 °C. Stem length, plant height, stem 22 diameter, thorn length, and dry mass of shoot, leaf, and root were measured after 6 weeks for 23 the dormant season, and after 6 weeks and 12 weeks in the growing season for the first 24 experiments. For the second experiment, plant height, stem length, stem diameter and thorn 25 length were measured after 6 weeks. To determine effects of warming and grass cover on the 26 relationship between defence and growth, ratios of thorn length (a measure of defence) to plant 27 height, stem length and stem diameter (measures of growth) were calculated. The first 28 experiment revealed that warming increased growth of V. sieberiana seedlings in all seasons. 29 Defence was low in the presence of grass cover in the growing season, but not in the dormant 30 season. The second experiment revealed that warming and grass cover significantly and 31 independently reduced the thorn length: plant height ratio and thorn length: stem length ratio. 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I'm curious about how apic is managed by amd64 processors, especially dual core ones. Where could I find a good pace on this? <IP_ADDRESS> 15:40, 21 June 2007 (UTC)tcd.
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Merge Intel APIC
First of all, since this is capitalized it's a proper name, so it's referring to the Intel one, rather than being generic. Second, OpenPIC, doesn't have an article so this WP:CONCEPTDAB isn't really needed. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:17, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* Totally agreed, merging Intel APIC Architecture into Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller is the way to go. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 02:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* Okay. I'm gonna do that. I think I'll spin off the OpenPIC and MPIC in their own page. I thought OpenPIC wasn't used, but it found new life as MPIC. Someone not using his real name (talk) 09:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* Nice work! Splitting off separate OpenPIC and MPIC article is totally fine, as basically they're a competing technology to the Intel's APIC. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 21:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
x2APIC
It looks like this is also a candidate for merger due to its shortness. There doesn't seem to be a separate article for xAPIC, by the way. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:27, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
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* Support: Makes sense to me. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 00:05, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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Media Recorder Example
Here is the code for a full custom audio capture and playback example using the MediaRecorder class.
package com.apress.proandroidmedia.ch07.customrecorder;
import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaRecorder;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
Our CustomRecorder activity implements OnClickListener so that it may be notified when Buttons are pressed, and OnCompletionListener so that it can respond when MediaPlayer has completed playing audio.
public class CustomRecorder extends Activity implements OnClickListener,~ OnCompletionListener {
We'll have a series of user interface components. The first, a TextView called statusTextView, will report the status of the application to the user: "Recording," "Ready to Play," and so on.
TextView statusTextView;
A series of buttons will be used for controlling various aspects. The names of the Buttons describe their use.
Button startRecording, stopRecording, playRecording, finishButton;
We'll have a MediaRecorder for recording the audio and a MediaPlayer for playing it back.
MediaRecorder recorder; MediaPlayer player;
Finally, we have a File object called audioFile, which will reference the file that is recorded to.
File audioFile; ^Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedlnstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedlnstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main);
When the activity starts up, we'll set the text of the statusTextView to be "Ready."
statusTextView = (TextView) this.findViewByld(R.id.StatusTextView); statusTextView.setText("Ready");
stopRecording = (Button) this.findViewByld(R.id.StopRecording); startRecording = (Button) this.findViewByld(R.id.StartRecording); playRecording = (Button) this.findViewByld(R.id.PlayRecording); finishButton = (Button) this.findViewByld(R.id.FinishButton);
We'll set all of the Buttons' onClickListeners to be this so that our onClick method is called when any of them are pressed.
startRecording.setOnClickListener(this); stopRecording.setOnClickListener(this); playRecording.setOnClickListener(this); finishButton.setOnClickListener(this);
Finally, in the onCreate method, we'll disable the stopRecording and playRecording Buttons since they won't work until we either start recording or finish recording respectively.
stopRecording.setEnabled(false); playRecording.setEnabled(false);
In the following onClick method, we handle all of the Button presses.
public void onClick(View v) { if (v == finishButton) {
If the finishButton is pressed, we finish the activity.
If the stopRecording Button is pressed, we call stop and release on the MediaRecorder object.
recorder.stop(); recorder.release();
We then construct a MediaPlayer object and have it prepare to play back the audio file that we just recorded.
player = new MediaPlayer(); player.setOnCompletionListener(this);
The following two methods that we are using on the MediaPlayer, setDataSource and prepare, may throw a variety of exceptions. In the following code, we are simply throwing them. In your application development, you will probably want to catch and deal with them more elegantly, such as alerting the user when a file doesn't exist.
player.setDataSource(audioFile.getAbsolutePath()); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { throw new RuntimeException(
"Illegal Argument to MediaPlayer.setDataSource", e); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { throw new RuntimeException(
"Illegal State in MediaPlayer.setDataSource", e); } catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(
"IOException in MediaPalyer.setDataSource", e);
player.prepare(); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { throw new RuntimeException(
"IllegalStateException in MediaPlayer.prepare", e); } catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("IOException in MediaPlayer.prepare", e);
We set the statusTextView to indicate to the user that we are ready to play the audio file.
statusTextView.setText("Ready to Play");
We then set the playRecording and startRecording Buttons to be enabled and disable the stopRecording Button, as we are not currently recording.
playRecording.setEnabled(true); stopRecording.setEnabled(false); startRecording.setEnabled(true); } else if (v == startRecording) {
When the startRecording Button is pressed, we construct a new MediaRecorder and call setAudioSource, setOutputFormat, and setAudioEncoder.
recorder = new MediaRecorder();
recorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC);
recorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.THREE_GPP);
recorder.setAudioEncoder(MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.AMR_NB);
We then create a new File on the SD card and call setOutputFile on the MediaRecorder object.
File path = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()^ .getAbsolutePath() + "/Android/data/com.apress.proandroidmedia.ch07w .customrecorder/files/");
path.mkdirs();
audioFile = File.createTempFile("recording", ".3gp", path); } catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Couldn't create recording audio file",e);
recorder.setOutputFile(audioFile.getAbsolutePath()); We call prepare on the MediaRecorder and start to begin the recording.
recorder.prepare(); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { throw new RuntimeException(
"IllegalStateException on MediaRecorder.prepare", e); } catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("IOException on MediaRecorder.prepare",e);
recorder.start();
Last, we update the statusTextView and change which Buttons are enabled and disabled.
statusTextView.setText("Recording");
playRecording.setEnabled(false); stopRecording.setEnabled(true); startRecording.setEnabled(false); } else if (v == playRecording) {
The last Button that we need to respond to is playRecording. When the stopRecording Button is pressed, the MediaPlayer object, player, is constructed and configured. All that we need to do when the playRecording Button is pushed is to start the playback, set the status message, and change which Buttons are enabled.
player.start();
statusTextView.setText("Playing"); playRecording.setEnabled(false); stopRecording.setEnabled(false); startRecording.setEnabled(false);
The onCompletion method is called when the MediaPlayer object has completed playback of a recording. We use it to change the status message and set which Buttons are enabled.
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) { playRecording.setEnabled(true); stopRecording.setEnabled(false); startRecording.setEnabled(true); statusTextView.setText("Ready");
Here is the layout XML file, main.xml, for the foregoing activity. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height=^ "wrap_content" android:id="@+id/StatusTextView" android:text="Status"^ android:textSize="35dip"></TextView>
<Button android:text="Start Recording" android:id="@+id/StartRecording"^ android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
<Button android:text="Stop Recording" android:id="@+id/StopRecording"^ android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
<Button android:text="Play Recording" android:id="@+id/PlayRecording"^ android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"^ android:id="@+id/FinishButton" android:text="Finish"></Button> </LinearLayout>
We'll also need to add the following permissions to the AndroidManifest.xml file.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"></uses-permission> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">^ </uses-permission>
As we have seen, developing a custom audio capture application using MediaRecorder is not too cumbersome. Now let's look at how we can use the MediaRecorder's other methods to add other features.
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Oura: The Tail of Cardano
Oura is a tool for pool operators, developers, and anyone who wants to find information on the blockchain.
There are currently tools for exploring the Cardano blockchain, which are useful when looking for standardized or generic information, but the Oura use case is complementary, looking at the blockchain for patterns of particular events.
Oura is, in essence, a tool to process information from certain events. A pipeline that connects to the tail of a Cardano node, via some Ouroboros mini-protocol combination (using a unix socket or tcp bearer), filters events that match a particular pattern, and then sends a payload succinct, self-contained utility to pluggable observers called “sinks.”
Oura is a native implementation of Rust, which is a lightweight, compiled, general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language that supports pure functional, procedural, imperative, and object-oriented programming.
Oura is open source and licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
This tool processes the events in stages, and each one fulfills a different function, which I will explain later.
Why Oura?
Ouroboros, the Cardano consensus protocol, is a reference to the ancient symbol that represents a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The term Oura is of Greek etymology, and means “tail”. The tool is inspired by the “tail” command available on Unix-like systems, which is used to display the tail of a text file or piped data.
How Oura Works
All of the heavy lifting required to communicate with the Cardano node is done by the Pallas, which provides an implementation of the Ouroboros multiplixer and some of the necessary mini-protocol state machines (ChainSync and LocalState in particular).
Pallas is an expanding collection of modules that re-implements common Cardano logic in native Rust. This crate doesn’t provide any particular application, it is meant to be used as a base layer to facilitate the development of higher-level use-cases, such as explorers, wallets, etc (who knows, maybe even a full node in the far away future).
The data pipe makes heavy use of the multithreading and mpsc pipes provided by the Rust std::sync library.
Oura connects directly to the Cardano node using TCP or Unix sockets.
Each stage of the pipeline plays a different role:
Source Stages: is responsible for extracting the data from the blockchain, and mapping the raw blocks, in search of smaller and more granular events. Each event is then sent through the stage’s output port for further processing.
Filter Stages– Receive individual events from the source and apply transformations to each of them. The applied transformations will depend on the particular use case, but they usually revolve around the selection of relevant events and their enrichment with additional information, selecting the relevant events, enriching the events with external information, adding metrics, etc.
Sink Stages: receives the final version of the events and sends the payload to an external system, database, or service for further processing. For example: Kafka, Elasticsearch, or a custom HTTP endpoint. Oura allows you to use one of the built-in sinks or create your own.
Data Flow
The following diagram describes the data flow, starting from the Cardano node, until reaching the searching user through the web interface.
Terminal output demo
In this terminal recording we can see a few minutes of live output from a testnet node connected to the terminal sink: https://asciinema.org/a/453455
Use Cases
Command line interface (CLI) to view transactions live
The CLI tool of the node is the “Swiss Army Knife” of the system, which allows querying the node to obtain information, send transactions, build and sign transactions, and manage cryptographic keys. Using the CLI, Oura can call watch <socket> to print TX data to the terminal from the tip of a local or remote node. It can be useful as a debugging tool for developers, or just to see what’s happening on the network (e.g. to watch airdrops as they happen or oracles posting new information).
As a bridge to other persistence mechanisms
Like the well-known db-sync tool provided by IOHK, Oura can be used as a “daemon” (a special type of program that runs in the background) to follow a node, and send data to it. data to a different data storage technology more suitable for your end use case. The main difference from db-sync is that Oura was designed for easy integration with data flow pipelines rather than relational databases.
Given its small memory/cpu footprint, Oura can be deployed alongside your Cardano node even in resource-constrained environments such as Raspberry PIs.
As a custom action trigger
Oura, in “daemon” mode, can be configured to use custom filters to identify particular transaction patterns, and trigger actions when a match is found. For example: send an email when a particular policy/asset combination appears in a transaction; call an AWS Lambda function when a wallet delegates to a particular pool; send an http call to a webhook every time a metadata key appears in the TX payload.
As a library for custom scenarios
If the available features don’t suit your particular use case, Oura can be used as a library in the Rust project to configure custom pipelines. Each component (sources, filters, sinks, etc.) of Oura is intended to be self-contained and reusable. For example, custom filters and sinks can be built by reusing existing sources.
Windows (experimental)
support Oura’s Windows support is currently experimental, the Windows build only supports Node-to-Node source with tcp socket bearer.
Scraping metadata
One of the potential use-cases for Oura is scraping metadata. This is a reference app to show how Oura can be leveraged to build a search engine for CIP-25 tokens.
The frontend is built using React and Remix. The backend is a combination of a Cardano node, Oura, and Elasticsearch. Everything together is deployed using Kubernetes.
Live demo: https://cip25-search-engine.txpipe.io
For Experts: Installation
Oura provides different installation options:
• Binary Release: to use one of our pre-compiled binary releases for the supported platforms.
• From Source: to compile a binary from source code using Rust’s toolchain
• Docker: to run the tool from a pre-built docker image
• Kubernetes: to deploy Oura as a resource within a Kuberentes cluster
Source: https://txpipe.github.io/ oura/installation/index.html
Roadmap
Currently Oura has certain limitations, that’s why the development team is working on certain improvements.
Oura can only process blocks from the Shelley era, so the developers are working to add support for Byron, before the current Shelley era, in a future release.
Oura reads minted block/transaction events. Support for querying the mempool is planned for a future release.
Oura will report chain backtracking as a new event. The business logic to “undo” already processed events is the responsibility of the consumer. The team will add support for a “buffer” filter stage that can retain blocks until they reach a configurable depth (number of confirmations).
The latest release v1.1.0 of Oura.
The Developers
Santiago Carmuega is Argentinian and leader of the project. His main collaborator is Mark Stopka. You can see the full team here.
dcSpark started contributing to both Pallas and Oura. For Pallas, Nicolas Di Prima contributed pallas-crypto crate and $rvcas started working on pallas-byron which will enable to decode old Cardano Byron era blocks.
Github: Oura
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This makes me think there is a problem with the page name, perhaps with the use of the apostrophe. Note I also use a Dvorak keyboard layout.
Anyone able to help? Tolleranza (talk) 11:25, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
helpme Problem still persists. What do I need to do?Tolleranza (talk) 16:45, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
* You talk about clearing a cache but you did not say which cache. Specifically, there are two caches that can be involved in these matters, Wikipedia's (see WP:PURGE), and your own computer's (see WP:BYPASS). Since I cannot replicate the error—I am not seeing a prior version of the page accessing it through any URL—I suspect that your computer's cache is the problem and simply needs to be cleared.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
* I find no problem with this article. Your browser cache is perhaps the most likely source of the problem. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:20, 22 November 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Historically, Black women have been fighting for civil rights through their blood, sweat, and tears. They are the structural foundation upon which the United States is built. Women like Sojourner Truth who were part of the Abolitionist Movement exhibited self- sacrifice and resilience during a time when they were slandered through a racist, sexist, and oppressive system. Take for example, slave owners raped many women and had control over Black women’s reproductive
During the Progressive era women had to endure a lot of suffering due to poor living conditions, illness, earning wages no matter what age or race they were. Women activists decided it was time to start speaking out and protesting to receive more equality in society. Different groups of activists, made up of women, fought for women’s rights socially, economically, and politically. Some activists were better known for women’s sexuality. Jane Addams was one of the first women activists who fought for equal wages for women. From Jane Addams speech in 1908, “Possibly the first step towards restoration is publicity as to industrial affairs, for we are all able to see only those things to which we bring the informing mind." Jane Addams and Florence Kelly are two women who were for African American rights especially for voting.
Although some people might argue that Shirley Chisholm does not demonstrate leadership qualities, a closer examination proves that the former congresswoman was a strong leader because of her independence, perseverance,and willingness to take risks.
No one will ever forget the Baltimore riots. Freddie Gray, the young man killed by Baltimore police, became the symbol for the brutality facing young Black men. As a young Black man, it was hard for me to stay off of social media during these incidents. The riots raged on and many non-Blacks sought to remind our population of what we’re not allowed to do. Many social media posts focused on the March on Washington, Selma, and peaceful sit-ins, and captioned their posts with the statement: “Why can’t Blacks be peaceful like the Civil Rights Movement.”
The civil rights movement of 1954-1968 has made a huge impact on the history of African-American equality. All the great leaders of the movement have gone down in history for their courageous work and outstanding commitment to the civil rights movement. One of the most famous of the activists was Martin Luther King Junior (1929-1968) . King is still remembered today for his legendary speech entitled “I had a dream”. Many countries concurred with Luther King and agreed with his ideas because he made a difference for African-Americans and took a stand against racism. Yet the question today, over forty years later is: Was the African-American civil rights movement an overall success? Or is it the same now as it was back in 50’s and 60’s?
Despite liberation after the Civil War, African Americans still experienced extreme inequality and injustice. Many of them were still being persecuted, for one hundred African Americans were lynched each year during the 1880s and the 1890s. A female African American writer in Memphis, Tennessee wrote about these terrors. Her name was Ida B. Wells. She published pamphlets that illustrated the injustices being inflicted upon the African Americans. On Lynchings includes pamphlets such as Southern Horrors, Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans. The pamphlets included within the book provide sources and facts about the executions. The book itself is about a black women’s cry for help through her writing and how she overcame
Sojourner Truth a famous abolitionist and women’s right activists feared rights of women would be left out. Many African Americans felt that the women’s suffrage movement was concerned with the rights of only white women (Wood,59) and were sometimes discriminated against within the movement.. This is fictionally displayed in Iron Jawed Angels when a black suffragist expresses discontent with their parade being segregated by race. I feel that this is hypocritical as they are fighting for equal rights yet treating people of color as separate. Despite their concerns countless African American women still joined in on the cause and contributed to its
“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.” Susan B. Anthony
During the 1800’s, those who saw social prejudice or corruption started many reform movements to correct the difficulties in America. The Second Great Awakening really helped shape the United States into a religious nation and paved the way through the reform movements, while stressing individual choice that caused an uprising in denominations leading to followers by the masses. Antislavery abolitionism became a movement mostly because of influence from the religious revival that was taking place, and demonstrating to all of those religious that slavery is a sin.
How much of history would change if African Americans never went through adversity? Between 1877 (End of Reconstruction) and the 1950’s (Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement) African Americans went through immense hardships. They had to fight numerous times in order to gain their rights and even be counted as “human”. During the Harlem Renaissance many African Americans arose and found ways to create and show what they were going through. A famous African American author and civil rights leader by the name of James Weldon Johnson “was deeply committed to exposing the injustice and brutality imposed on African Americans throughout the United States, especially in the Jim Crow South”
Within the 1880's there was a woman named Leonora M. Barry. She was no average women. As times were inhuman and cruel for women workers she experienced how hard it was to work as women. But, she just did not continue to face the cruel treatment. Joining the Knights of Labor, she wrote Organizing Women Workers to open societies and the Order's minds about the oppressed women within America. Barry was a voice for women and within Organizing Women Workers she publicized what women went through. Her written piece showed how much she wanted justice for all working women who had pitiful pays, appalling work conditions, and insufficient education to be lifted from the oppression. With a strong intent, she wrote this document, hoping for a change for
The year is 1965 in the torn and crushed capital of Montgomery, Alabama. At the time, every square inch in all southern cities in the United States was filled with African American segregation, discrimination, and hatred. But then, there was this one bold, powerful, and courageously beautiful African American woman who rose to the cause. Amelia Boynton, borned on August 8, 1911, in Savannah, Georgia, helped to save African Americans by protesting for voting rights. Amelia Boynton was an effective Civil Rights Movement leader because she helped organize the march from Selma to Montgomery.
Did you know that in 1882 to 1968, there were almost 4,000 people lynched that were black and about 1,000 lynched that were white? In the twentieth century a muckraker, by the name of Ida B. Wells, reported on similar Lynch cases. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist in the twentieth century, also called a muckraker, who wrote articles about lynching and led an anti-lynching movement. She changed America socially, morally, and economically through her investigative reporting. Ida B. Wells changed America socially because her speaking out inspired African-Americans to raise their voices and to create new protests due to the strong influence she had on them. “…her audiences included many leading African-American women…” (Wikipedia).
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett commonly known as Ida B Wells was one of the nation 's most vocal anti-lynch activist of her time.(Steptoe) It all started when three of her African American friends were lynched after they opened up a store, the People’s Grocery, which competed well with a white owned grocery store nearby. A white mob attacked the People’s Grocery and three white men were injured, the owners of the store were then jailed when they were later broken out and lynched. This infuriated Wells and she wrote after the incident urging African Americans to leave Memphis, “There is, therefore, only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons.” This caused some 6,000 African-Americans to leave Memphis while others started boycotts on white businesses.(Wikipedia)
The years between 1865 and 1920 could be described a time of great change for African Americans in the United States. The year of 1865 President Lincoln established the Emancipation Proclamation this means that it did not end slavery. As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation the Civil War Amendments were the designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 13th Amendment was passed, this was a presidential proclamation and the executive order issue. Due to the passing of the 15th amendment tenants began to take advantage of the fact people were starting to receive more rights. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Bernie Sanders Says He Will Vote for Hillary Clinton (to Defeat Donald Trump)
Senator Bernie Sanders said on Friday that he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election, offering one more indication that he has given up on his own candidacy. Asked if he would cast his vote for Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Mr. Sanders said, “Yes.” He added that the alternative, Donald J. Trump, would be dire for the country: “The issue right here is I’m going to do everything I can do to defeat Donald Trump. I think Trump, in so many ways, would be a disaster for this country if he were elected.” Mr. Sanders has previously signaled that he would work with Mrs. Clinton to defeat Mr. Trump, and on Wednesday he acknowledged that “it doesn’t appear” that he’ll be the Democratic nominee when the party gathers for its convention next month. But he has thus far refused to suspend his presidential bid or stop campaigning. He had a campaign rally in New York City on Thursday night, and similar events are scheduled in Albany and Syracuse on Friday. The remarks from Mr. Sanders increase the likelihood of the Democratic Party uniting ahead of the July 25-28 convention in Philadelphia, and could help Mrs. Clinton sway Sanders supporters who would otherwise sit out the November election or vote for Mr. Trump. Mr. Sanders said that right now his goal is to fight for the strongest possible platform at the convention. He is pushing for the inclusion of progressive policies that protect vulnerable workers and keep big money out of politics. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
11.7. Recursion Walkthrough: The Base Case
To ease into the concept of recursion, let's start with a loop task.
In the Arrays chapter, we examined the join method, which combines the elements of an array into a single string. If we have arr = ['L', 'C', '1', '0', '1'], then arr.join('') returns the string 'LC101'.
We can reproduce this action with either a for or a while loop.
11.7.1. Joining Array Elements With a Loop
Examine the code samples below:
Use a for loop to iterate through the array and add each entry into the newString variable.
Use a while loop to add the first element in the array to newString, then remove that element from the array.
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console.log(newString);
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'LC101'
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'LC101'
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Inside each loop, the code simply adds two strings together---whatever is stored in newString plus one element from the array. In the for loop, the element is the next item in the sequence of entries. In the while loop, the element is always the first entry from whatever remains in the array.
OK, the loops join the array elements together. Now let's see how to accomplish the same task without a for or while statement.
11.7.2. Bring In Recursion Concepts
First, state the problem to solve: Combine the elements from an array into a string.
Second, split the problem into small, identical steps: Looking at the loops above, the "identical step" is just adding two strings together - newString and the next entry in the array.
Third, build a function to accomplish the small steps: Let's call the function combineEntries, and we will set an array as the parameter.
function combineEntries(arrayName){
//TODO: Add code here
}
We want combineEntries to repeat over and over again until the task is complete.
How do we make this happen without using for or while?
11.7.3. Identifying the Base Case
for and while loops end when a particular condition evaluates to false. In the examples above, these conditions are i < arr.length and arr.length > 0, respectively.
With recursion, we do not know how many times combineEntries must be called. To make sure the code stops at the proper time, we need to identify a condition that ends the process. This is called the base case, and it represents the simplest possible task for our function.
if the base case is true, the recursion ends and the task is complete. if the base case is false, the function calls itself again.
We check for the base case like this:
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For the joining task, the base case occurs when we pass in a one-element array (e.g. [ 'L' ]). With no other elements to join together, the function just needs to return 'L'.
Let's update combineEntries to check if the array contains only one item.
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arrayName.length <= 1 sets up the condition for ending the recursion process. If it is true, the single entry gets returned, and the function stops. Otherwise, combineEntries gets called again.
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We define our base case as arrayName.length <= 1 rather than arrayName.length === 1 just in case an empty array [] gets passed to the function.
11.7.4. The Case for the Base
What if we accidentally typed arrayName.length === 2 as the condition for ending the recursion? If so, it evaluates to true for the array ['0', '1'], and the function returns '0'. However, this leaves the element '1' in the array instead of adding it to the string. By mistyping the condition, we ended the recursion process too soon.
Similarly, if we used arrayName[0] === 'Rutabaga' as the condition, then any array that does NOT contain the string 'Rutabaga' would never match the base case. In situations where the base case cannot be reached, the recursion process either throws an error, or it continues without end---an infinite loop.
Correctly identifying and checking for the base case is critical to building a working recursive process.
11.7.5. Check Your Understanding
Question
We can use recursion to remove all of the 'i' entries from the array ['One', 'i', 'c', 'X', 'i', 'i', 54].
Consider the code sample below, which declares the removeI function.
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//call removeI function again
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};
Which TWO of the following work as a base case for the function? Feel free to test the options in the repl.it to check your thinking.
1. !arr.includes('i')
2. arr.includes('i')
3. arr.indexOf('i')===-1
4. arr.indexOf('i') !== -1
Experiment with this repl.it.
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The factorial of a number (n!) is the product of a positive, whole number and all the positive integers below it.
For example, four factorial is 4! = 4*3*2*1 = 24, and 5! = 5*4*3*2*1 = 120.
Consider the code sample below, which declares the factorial function.
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if (baseCase is true){
//solve last step
//end recursion
} else {
//call factorial function again
}
};
Which of the following should be used as base case for the function?
1. integer === 1
2. integer < 1
3. integer === 0
4. integer < 0
Experiment with this repl.it. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Comments and answers for "How do I format the output" https://answers.splunk.com/answers/6073/how-do-i-format-the-output.html The latest comments and answers for the question "How do I format the output" Answer by si_rbrisita https://answers.splunk.com/answering/346850/view.html For anyone looking to format using integers: stat_name=sales | timechart sum(total_price) AS total | eval cents = substr(total, -2) | eval dollars = substr(total, 1, len(total) - 2) | eval Revenue = "$" + tostring(dollars, "commas") + "." + cents Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:58:04 GMT si_rbrisita Comment by nawneel on nawneel's answer https://answers.splunk.com/comments/231232/view.html correction to above its not email but eval , i guess that is a typo Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:49:28 GMT nawneel Answer by msmapper https://answers.splunk.com/answering/128938/view.html The best option would be to use | fieldformat amount= "$" + tostring(amount, "commas"). Using fieldformat vs. eval keeps the data numeric, whereas email considers the data to be a string. Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:50:57 GMT msmapper Answer by wagnerbianchi https://answers.splunk.com/answering/65329/view.html Just adding my 2 cents with a practical example, here I go: index="idx_apache" action=purchase | stats count by product_name, price | eval total=(price*count) | eval PreçoUnit="U$ ". tostring(price,"commas") | eval TotalFinal="U$ ". tostring(total,"commas") | rename count -> QtdVendido | sort -total | fields - price, total This query will retrieve information about the purchased products based on Apache access logs. Cheers! Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:34:55 GMT wagnerbianchi Comment by Stephen Sorkin on Stephen Sorkin's answer https://answers.splunk.com/comments/17603/view.html What is the exact string that tostring(X, "commas") is failing on? I've tried this (limited) example successfully: | stats count | eval count =123456789.12345 | eval count = "$" . tostring(count, "commas"). I'll file a bug on your behalf if you help me reproduce. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:48:16 GMT Stephen Sorkin Comment by JohnB on JohnB's answer https://answers.splunk.com/comments/17602/view.html I used eval X="$" . tostring(X,"commas") to format, however, there is a bug in tostring(X,"commas") it's supposed to be in comma & 2 decimal places format, but alas, it's not. It's a wonder why I keep telling Godfrey QA needs to be better? Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:25:56 GMT JohnB Answer by gkanapathy https://answers.splunk.com/answering/6127/view.html <p>There is unfortunately not a better way currently. It would be nice to have the charts and tables able to render numbers without changing the underlying data as <code>eval()</code> does (for example, sorting columns of numbers and timestamps doesn't work right when they've been converted to strings for display formatting, and automatic drilldown won't work with such post-reporting conversions on charts).</p> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:42:32 GMT gkanapathy Answer by Stephen Sorkin https://answers.splunk.com/answering/6087/view.html <p>Using <code>eval</code> is the best way to solve this problem.</p> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:11:24 GMT Stephen Sorkin | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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284 ‘This is your motto,’ he said. ‘Volere, Sapere, Ardire’. It is a wise one, act upon it.’
“I threw myself at his feet.
‘Ferdinand,’ I said, ‘I beseech you, let me go with you.’
‘This is madness. Scenes are my aversion. I do not understand all this pertinacity and passion. It is my will that you should stay.’
“He raised me, placed me on the sofa, touched my forehead with his lips, and was gone.
“I was deeply wounded. I felt the indifference such conduct showed.
“Two months passed. I led the same life as hitherto, I was not unhappy. I enjoyed the diversions usual to my age; but there were times when I asked myself. ‘Will this go on for ever? Does life afford nothing higher, greater, more absorbing?’
“My success at Court increased daily. I was more and more drawn into its most intimate circle. My husband’s sister accompanied me everywhere; but accidentally, or from design, I was always left alone, the centre of some charmed line of demarcation at all Court festivities, which set me apart from all but one. That one showed me a kindness which I had the folly to mistake for a real honest regard. My inexperience, however, delayed the catastrophe.
“I was not one of those women who can play with love, and accept it from any man who offers it; who take possession of a life as they would of a jewel, to wear or cast aside, and as long as they preserve a personal fidelity to their husband, fancy they do no wrong. I had dreams of something different from the calm sentiment of affection which hitherto was all I had experienced or inspired; and hoped that my husband would some day see in me more than the inexperienced child he had married for her beauty, and would learn to love me as I felt I could love him; but I sought nothing else. The love now offered me had no characteristic by which I could recognise it as the passionate emotion of which I had dreamed. It was simply pleasant. A sentiment, not a feeling. My tastes were sympathised with and understood, my opinions consulted, and I had that delightful consciousness that the best construction was put upon all I did and said, which gives a woman so much security, and doubles whatever power of charming she may have. I said to myself. ‘It is sweet to have a friend.’ The exalted position of this friend mingled my gratitude with a feeling of reverence (I had been educated in the most old-fashioned notions of loyalty), which gave an exaltation to my manner which was at last misunderstood.
“It was one evening at a masked ball to which I went as Night, crescent on head and bow in hand, that the declaration, which had been probably predicted by Court gossips for more than a month past, was made. A mask hovered about me for some time, and then drew me to a conservatory which opened from the ball-room. It was the Emperor. He threw aside the careless light tone he had hitherto accustomed me to, and confessed a passion which had enough of truth in it to knock loudly at my heart. I had never till then heard that voice. Yes, I felt I was loved, though I did not love. It was bitter-sweet!
‘Why do you look at me so searchingly?’ he said; ‘I ask for nothing but the simple assurance that I am not indifferent to you—my great love will sooner or later win a return. Beautiful and beloved, answer me.’
“I started. I felt I had forgotten myself in a strange musing to have allowed this to go so far; and to his infinite surprise, for I saw it in his face, I neither blushed nor faltered, but knelt in my turn, I gravely kissed his hand, and laid it on my forehead (such was the custom at this Court at an audience of farewell), and then I rose, and without a word left the room. He had understood me, and sprang after me.
‘Where are you going?’
‘To my husband.’ And then, seeing the mortification and pain of his countenance, I added, ‘Forget, as I have already forgotten.’
“The next morning by sunrise I was on my way to Rome. I travelled day and night. At length the great Dome rose before me in the purple sky. O Patria! It all seemed like a dream.
“The carriage drove to a house in the Corso, where my husband had an apartment. It was evening; through the half-closed windows I could see lights. He was at home. I went up-stairs. In the ante-room I met and recognised the German valet who was always in his service. He started back as if he had seen an apparition.
‘Immediately,’ he said, ‘his Excellency should be informed of my arrival. But will the Countess come this way; my master is at dinner with some friends, but he will be at liberty immediately—will your ladyship come into this room and rest.’
“He showed me into a very sumptuous bed-room. Through the open doors I saw the drawing-room brilliantly lighted up, beyond was the dining-room. I threw myself on a chair and waited. Why did not my husband join me? A sound of loud gay conversation, tinkling glasses, and quick exclamations reached me through the closed doors. It was a convivial meeting evidently, and not one of the most refined character.
“At last Ferdinand entered, he looked annoyed.
‘Santa, what is the meaning of this?’
“I did not care for his coldness. In my youth and innocence I felt a sense of protection and confidence in my husband’s presence, and in his home. I threw myself into his arms, I told him all. He started up, walked up and down the room with impatient exclamations in German, and at last drew me to the light, and looked at me from head to foot. His face cleared up.
‘Listen to me,’ he said, gravely. ‘I will forgive you, on condition that you return home to-morrow;’—home, then, was not with him.—‘I will accompany you as far as the frontier.’
‘But—’
‘Do not answer me,’ he said, imperiously. ‘Take some refreshment and repose, and be ready to start at six.’
‘Ferdinand,’ I said, passionately, ‘have you understood me?’ | WIKI |
Talk:Demeter/GA1
GA Review
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Reviewer: Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk · contribs) 13:06, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
I will review this article. Full comments later, but to get you started a couple of notes:
* I see several places which are lacking a citation – at least four paragraphs are entirely uncited.
* The article includes a list of Demeter's "most common epithets" – I can see no source for the fact that these are the most common, and several of them appear to be cited to a primary source which supports that there was a shrine to Demeter with that epithet at one particular place; that's not sufficient to demonstrate that they are common epithets, let alone "most common"!
* The article as a whole is nearly 6000 words long, which isn't a problem in itself – it's a big subject! – but it means that being concise and remaining on topic is even more than usually important. There are several places where even at a quick look through the article could be tightened up – for instance:
"An ancient Amphictyony, probably the earliest centred on the cult of Demeter at Anthele (Ἀνθήλη), which lay on the coast of Malis south of Thessaly. This was the locality of Thermopylae.After the 'First Sacred War', the Anthelan body was known thenceforth as the Delphic Amphictyony."
This is grammatically awkward and could already be tightened to e.g.
"Probably the earliest Amphictyony centred on the cult of Demeter at Anthele (Ἀνθήλη), lay on the coast of Malis south of Thessaly, near Thermopylae. After the 'First Sacred War', the Anthelan body was known as the Delphic Amphictyony."
But the fact that after the First Sacred War the Amphictyony acquired a new name doesn't seem to me directly relevant to Demeter herself, and I would strongly consider cutting it.
Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 13:06, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
* Okay, having assessed the article more thoroughly I would say referencing is the biggest problem here.
* Firstly, there are way more references to primary sources than I would suggest is a good idea, including essentially the entirety of §Other functions and titles, §Other wrath myths, and §Other favour myths. In the case of the section on functions and titles, this means that the section's primary claim (that the listed titles are the "most common epithets of Demeter") completely unsupported – none of the ancient sources cited are reliable sources for the claim that those particular epithets are common, let alone the most common! In the case of the myth sections, the overreliance on primary sources leads to just a grab-bag of random myths with limited structure and no analysis of why these particular myths matter. We've grouped them as "wrath myths" and "favour myths", but is even that a useful way of thinking about them that scholars use? It's impossible to tell from the lack of sources cited! The "wrath myths" could equally be considered "myths about Demeter's search for Persephone" – which may well be a more useful way of thinking about them!
* Secondly, some of the secondary sources cited are deeply dubious. In the section §Etymology, we have the claim According to a more popular theory, the element De- might be connected with Deo, an epithet of Demeter. The citation for "more popular theory" is Jane Ellen Harrison's Myths of Greece and Rome, which was published in 1928 – this is not a good source for claims about what theories are currently popular! It also doesn't make any claims about the relative popularities of different theories, so even if the source were usable it wouldn't support the claim made! We also cite Harrison's even more dated Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, and Martin P. Nilsson's Greek Popular Religion (1940) and History of Greek Religion (the article cites the 1967 German translation, but the original book is from 1922). Then there's Robert Graves, whose ideas on mythology are... not widely accepted, to say the least.
* Also cited are several non-specialist tertiary sources such as encyclopedias, all of which I would rather avoid. The World History Encylopedia, in particular, I am sceptical of.
* Finally, I find several examples where the sources cited simply don't support the claims made. For instance: In the cult of Flya, she was worshipped as Anesidora who sends up gifts from the Underworld. There was a temple of Demeter under this name in Phlya. is simply not supported by the sources cited (the British Museum source identifies Anesidora as Pandora!) I've already mentioned the use of Harrison in the section on etymology, which also falls into this issue. After the "First Sacred War", the Anthelan body was known thenceforth as the Delphic Amphictyony is another example of a claim where I cannot see how the source supports it.
* Other than referencing, I have found at least one example of excessively close paraphrasing: which lay on the coast of Malis south of Thessaly. This was the locality of Thermopylae, when the source says Anthele lay on the coast of Malis south of Thessaly [...] This was the locality of Thermopylai. There are also issues with structure (why, for instance, is the paragraph on Demeter's association with Poseidon and Cybele in the section on etymology), and writing about myths as though they are real things that certainly happened (this is a problem in some, but not all, of the subsections of §Mythology).
* On the whole, this article needs substantial work to bring up to GA status – more, I suspect, than could reasonably be done in the conventional one week hold period. For this reason, I am going to fail this nomination, though I hope you continue working on the article and do bring it up to GA standard. If you want an informal review of the article before renominating, do let me know and I'd be happy to give it another look over. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 14:22, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
* 1. L.H.Jeffery in her book :"Archaic Greece.The city states c.700-500BC"(1976) mentions that .....in an ancient Amphictiony (dwellers around) centred on the cult of Demeter at Anthela. Anthela lay on the coast of Malis south of Thessaly, in Trachinian country; behind her rose Mount Oita, where Heracles had died.This is the locality of Thermopylae ('hot gates') that is the place of hot springs and cavernous entrances to Hades).The twelve delegates to the Amphictiony met in spring and autumn, and were entitled Pylagorai (gate-assemblers), perhaps a reference to the local Gates of Hades, since Demeter was a chthonic goddess in many of her oldest local cults.(pp. 72-73). There was not any excessively close paraphrasing in the article, but your remark is excessively prejudicial. Even if one doesn't know the geography of Greece, the meaning is clear in the passage.
* 2.Jeffery mentions in p.73 (The war and the Delphic Amphictiony) :Kirhha throve on these visitors (n. of the oracle of Delphi) ; indeed until the war she was apparently in recognized control of the holy site itself.In p.74 As the result of the war the Anthelan body was known thenceforth as the Delphic Amphictiony,and became the official overseer and military defender of the Pythian cult. ..........It is said that this enlargement created the system aroused in classical period.The claim is well supported by the source. I don't know why a well-known scholar like L.H.Jeffery is underestimated.
* The Delphic Amphictiony is not related to Demeter, but I believe that the information is useful. The Anthelan Amphictiony was enlarged and became the Delphic Amphictiony.
* 3. Pausanias describes two temples at Phlya. The second had altars for Demeter Anesidora, Zeus Ktesios, (In Greek: bringing up gifts). (Pausanias I 31,4) Jestmoon(talk) 22:39, 5 April 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Research Opportunities in Wayne Hayes's Group
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I've supervised and mentored dozens of young researchers (grads, undergrads, high school students) over the years. It's fun and productive for all --- you, me, other students, and other scientific collaborators. It's hard work, but rewarding. Here's what some have said about working in my research group:
Selection Criteria
To work in my group, you need to demonstrate yourself to be significantly above average among your peers: you need to undertake one of the following challenges and submit the results to me. If they're not correct... no problem, I give second chances. You're also allowed to ask questions, but try to keep them to a minimum. The primary criterion by which you will be judged is how well you can perform, and then write up, these tasks independently, without much help. Note: If you already have any undergraduate degree, then you need to do the "extra" work required in each of the challenges. This applies to potential grad students or STEM teachers applying to work with me, for example.
In all cases you need to submit a PDF write-up, with histograms or figures plotted. I don't need your code. I want to see your write-up including a description of you did, and why, and your results with commentary. THIS IS JUST AS MUCH A TEST OF YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS AS CODING. Doing research requires critical thinking and the ability to explain your rationale for what you did AND WHY. Without that your code or blind results are worthless.
I have several projects running. Three of them are described in the PowerPoint presentation here. You only need to do ONE of the below challenges, depending upon which project you're interested in working on. You need to do the task, and then write it up nicely, with graphs or plots to illustrate your answer. You should be able to do the task within about a week at most, but the answer has to be GOOD. If you hand in a GOOD solution later, that's better than a crappy solution earlier. In other words, a good solution is required, but faster is better than slower.
Let me know if there are any ambiguities, but your job is to do this task with as little supervision from me as is possible.
Please direct all questions to me at whayes@uci.edu.
The Projects
(0) Physics-based tracking of moving and growing cells in a colony: YouTube video
The left side shows frames from a real video of a growing bacterial colony; the right frame shows our algorithm tracking the growth and motion of each individual bacterium during its whole life cycle from being born, moving, growing, to splitting into two daughter cells. Biologists need to track cells in video frames for many purposes, including tracking the growth of cancer cells, learning about the growth of embryos, learning how bacteria move, learning how genetic changes to a cell result in functional changes during it's lifetime... it's a huge research area. Although there already exist several cell tracking algorithms out there, we are working on a novel approach that seems to have several advantages. In order to join this project, your task is to take the above animated GIF, and automatically estimate the number of bacteria in each of the frames, and produce a text file whose only output is one integer per line, representing the count, and the number of lines should equal the number of frames. You only need to use one of the two sides; I'd recommend you use the right side (red lines on an otherwise black and grey image are easy to isolate.) You can use any language you want, and any method you want, as long as it's automatic. Describe your algorithm and the output, and send your PDF write-up to me by email. Extra work for those who already have an undergrad degree: You must create two algorithms, one that can handle each side of the above image. Compare the results and explain any differences.
Alternatively, if you prefer "library" type (reading and writing) research, use Google Scholar to look up and describe everything you can find out about cell tracking that has been published in the last 2 calendar years. (For example, if it's now 2018, then click "since 2017" on the left-hand side toolbar in Google Scholar and see what you can find.) There is no set number of words or pages, but you should describe all relevant work that has happened in cell tracking in the designated time period, devoting at least one paragraph to each paper you find.
(1) Graph theory applied to network database engines and biological network alignment: YouTube Video
Network modeling and network database queries
We are working on a database engine to allow complex network-based queries. This basically means we are trying to solve the subgraph isomorphism problem in such a way as to allow lightning-fast graph-based database queries of a large network corpus. Additionally, we are working on modeling networks theoretically so as to be able to create synthetic databases of graphs that "model" real graphs.
Network Alignment
Network alignment is the task of finding large subgraphs, or near-subgraphs, that are common between two or more large networks. The differerence between this and network modeling and database queries is that in queries, we are generally looking for very small (10-20 nodes at most) exact or near-exact matches inside a large database of networks; in alignment, we are given a small number of input graphs (maybe half a dozen), and we're looking for much larger (hundreds or thousands of nodes) of near-matches between them.
1) If you want to do either the graph database and network modeling, or the biological network alignment project, you need to know what a graph is and how to work with them, especially how to code with them. Your task is the following: you're given a text file representing a network. The first line of the file is N, the number of nodes. You will name the nodes from 0 through N-1. The remaining lines will have two integers per line, representing an edge. You don't know in advance how many edges there are, you just keep reading until you reach end of file. When you are done, you are to compute the number of CONNECTED COMPONENTS in the graph, and output a single integer. Below I provide some sample inputs. I don't care what language you use. In addition, in your write up, include a histogram of the distribution of DEGREES of nodes. That is, how many nodes have degree zero, degree 1, etc., up to the max degree. If you don't know any of these terms, look them up. The data for this project is here. The graphs are undirected; analyze all the graphs in the zip file. That means each edge can only exist in your graph once, even if it is listed multiple times (or with the node endpoints reversed) in the input file. Extra work for those who already have a degree: Treat the graphs as directed, and enumerate the number of strongly, and weakly connected components. In addition, read the GRAAL paper and count the graphlets of size 2 and 3 in all the networks.
Alternatively, if you prefer "library" type (reading and writing) research, use Google Scholar to look up and describe everything you can find out about biological network alignment that has been published in the last 2 calendar years. (For example, if it's now 2018, then click "since 2017" on the left-hand side toolbar in Google Scholar and see what you can find.) There is no set number of words or pages, but you should describe all relevant work that has happened in biological network alignment in the designated time period, devoting at least one paragraph to each paper you find.
(2) Image analysis of spiral galaxies: YouTube Video
2) If you want to work in the Galaxy Image Analysis project, then you should start by playing around with any galaxy images you find on the web and putting them into the SpArcFiRe webpage. Once you get the hang of it, you have two choices:
(A) find an image of NGC5054, or take the one from my paper with Darren Davis (cited on the above web page), and try to find a set of SpArcFiRe options on the website that can find the "dim" arm on the right hand side of the image of that galaxy in the above paper.
(B) Go get the following file: here Each row is some data about a galaxy, and the columns have names in the top row. You don't need to know what all of the columns mean, but pay attention to these ones: P_CS: the probability that this galaxy is a spiral. numDcoArcsGEXXX for various values of XXX: the number of arms in that spiral galaxy that are longer than XXX. Your task is to plot a histogram of the number of galaxies with N or more arms of length XXX, for each of the XXX values in the file. It would be best to plot all the histograms on one figure to be easily able to compare them to each other.
Alternatively, if you prefer "library" type (reading and writing) research, use Google Scholar to look up and describe everything you can find out about automated galaxy classification that has been published in the last 2 calendar years. (For example, if it's now 2018, then click "since 2017" on the left-hand side toolbar in Google Scholar and see what you can find.) There is no set number of words or pages, but you should describe all relevant work that has happened in automated galaxy classification in the designated time period, devoting at least one paragraph to each paper you find.
Extra work for those who already have a degree: Tell me about your astronomy and/or physics background.
(3)Predicting sea level rise by modeling melting ice caps (NASA/JPL Collaboration): visit here.
3) If you want to work on the global warming project, then you should start by going to the website http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov and seeing what the project is all about. The ISSM architecture is briefly described in this PPT file. Then pick a challenge below:
(C) JAVASCRIPT: Given the cloud of 2D points here, let the first point listed in that file be called Reference Point A. 1) Create a website index.html (with respective javascript files) that dynamically loads the coordinates from that file; 2) create a canvas and plot the A point in red; 3) plot all the others in black on the canvas; 4) compute the B and C points that are respectively closest and furthest from A; and 5) plot B and C in blue and green respectively. The whole webpage has to be driven by javascript. No offline computation allowed. You can put it all in your ~/public_html directory on openlab.ics.uci.edu and provide me the URL. It must dynamically load the Data.csv from the URL above each time I refresh your page. Thus, if I go and change that Data.csv file behind your back and reload your page, your page should work on the new Data.csv file. You may use JS libraries/frameworks such as jQuery. Your deliverable is both the above PDF and also the URL to your index.html file so I can test it. Note MATLAB experience is a plus because we will eventually be converting Matlab to Javascript as well, although we are not aware of any automated way to do this (yet!).
(4)Facilitate the use of NASA hydrology tools for water management in the developing world
Many existing and upcoming NASA satellites orbit around the Earth to measure a variety of physical quantities related to the terrestrial water cycle. NASA scientists routinely develop tools to analyze these data as well as numerical models that help simulate the movement of water on Earth. Together these computer programs have the potential to help water resources management agencies particularly in the developing world where observations are sparse. However, such agencies often have to focus on critical real-time decision-making activities and therefore only have limited resources available to learn how to analyze state-of-the-art NASA observations. There is hence much to be gained in easing the usage of NASA hydrology tools. If you want to work on the water resources project, then perform the challenge below:
Your challenge is to publish a simple Python code on GitHub and run it within a hosted Continuous Integration service. Your code must download data directly from the URL http://rapid-hub.org/data/angles_UCI_CS.csv, notice and print the top line is a header, add a third header column, and then repeat the next lines of data as well as the cosine values for each angle---that is, print all values of “station_id”, “angle_degrees” and associated cosine values in the standard output. (PS: the data file does not go into the repo. Your code must download the data, because the data may change behind your back, although the format of the data will not change.) You might use the Ubuntu or MacOS capabilities of Travis CI, or the Windows capabilities of AppVeyor, depending on your preferred OS. Note that these services are free for open source software. Hint: this challenge requires the inclusion of a YAML file (*.yml) in your repository and that this YAML file shall be tailored to the hosted Continuous Integration service you selected. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
What is Bidirectional Pressure?
Bidirectional pressure is a type of pressure reading in reference to ambient atmospheric pressure in both positive and negative directions. It falls in the subcategory of gauge pressure.
Gauge pressure is the difference between ambient atmospheric pressure and the reading. Barometric pressure varies depending on atmospheric conditions. The reading is always measured relative to the barometric pressure of its location. The detail that sets bidirectional pressure apart from gauge pressure is that it can be a positive or negative reading.
Read 'What is Pressure? Definition and Types Explained' for more info.
In the atmosphere of the earth, the barometric pressure is never absolute zero, bidirectional pressure can read above atmospheric pressure as a positive value or below atmospheric pressure as a negative value. These values are made possible by diaphragms inside bidirectional pressure gauges that can flex in either direction. The bidirectional readings are inferred from the magnitude of the deflection.
Bidirectional pressure is useful to maintain room pressurization. Hospital operating rooms and quarantine rooms are pressurized in reference to the surrounding atmospheric pressure in order to maintain patient health and to isolate contaminates from entering or exiting the room. Bidirectional pressure helps create the sterile environment we depend on in modern medicine.
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It is also useful to measure bidirectional pressure when storing, circulating or custody transfer of gases. At a negative reading, pipes and tanks run the risk of implosion; with readings too high, the same tanks and pipes are at risk of explosions.
Mensor has a full range of bidirectional sensors, as well as the CPG1500 precision digital pressure gauge.
Learn more about the CPG1500
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Talk:Brian James Freeman
Is this too "Trivia"
In May of 2000, Dark Star Publications (who have since changed their name) was going to release what was supposed to be Mr. Freeman's first novel. He ended his contract with them before publication occurred (except for some preview copies and electronic review copies). Officially this book does not exist, but there are some websites that reviewed electronic versions of it
* Link to Interview with Brian Freeman about Sins of the Children
* Link to review of Sins of the Children
The book still hasn't been released. - Antmusic 16:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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List of programs broadcast by Public Television Company of Armenia
This is a list of television programs which are currently, formerly, or are soon to be broadcast on Public Television Company of Armenia.
News and information
* Agenda
* The First on Economics
* Parliamentary Week
* Agenda: Interview
* At the Square
* 360°
* Off the Agenda
* Journalism by Profession
* First Pavilion
Dramas
* Open Your Eyes
* Against the Flow
Game shows
* Love Formula
* Bonus
* Hay-Q
* Hayastan Jan
* Armenian Knight
Reality/other
* Lets cook together
* Nice Evening
* National Music Channel
* Musical Post
* National Music Awards
* National Music Awards Diary
* Emmy - First CD Presentation Solo Concert
* Hot 10
* Hot 10 Diary
* Top 10
* Top 50
* Top 2006
* Top 2007
* Top 2008
* Top 2009
* Top 2010
* Top 2011
* Top 2012
* Two Stars
* Two Stars Diary
* 32 Teeth Club
* Open Project
* Foreign games
* Rubicon
* Rubicon +
* Made in USSR
* Golden Clarinet
* Resolution
* Europolis
* Late Night
* Saturday Evering
* Health
* Sanatorium
* The First Program
* The First Wave Cafe
* Fairy-Tale Calling
* Once Upon A Time
* Faces
* Quality Mark
* Mechanics of Happiness
* Found Dream
* Canticle of Canticles
* Open Lesson
* Cities of the World
* Quotation Marks
* On the Roads of Armenia
* The Devotees
* Armed Forces
* Life on Border
* Tandem
Former programming
* Benefis
* Name that Tune
* With the Whole Family
* Towards Artsakh | WIKI |
Scar Treatment
Scar Care 101: How to Treat Your Scars
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A scar changes a little every day – the sooner you start treating it; the more effective the healing. The answer to how to reduce the visibility of scars starts at understanding why our bodies create them in the first place. Scars are a common result of how our skin heals after an injury such as mild burn, wound or acne.
What are scars and what causes them?
A scar is the body’s natural way of healing and replacing lost or damaged skin.
Human skin is composed of three main layers: the outermost called the epidermis, the mid layer called the dermis and the innermost layer named hypodermis or subcutis [1]. In case of skin injury, a scar will form as the natural consequence of the healing process and wound closure.
The layers of the skin: epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue
The layers of the skin: epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue
Skin wound closure follows 3 steps: inflammation, proliferation and remodeling. Scar formation occurs during the remodeling phase that takes place after about 2 to 3 weeks when the wound is completely closed. During this remodeling process, collagen fibers will be recruited to the site of the injury, forming a scar that will feel and look different than the surrounding tissue. Usually, collagen is good for your skin but the excessive amount of disorganized collagen, in addition to the lack of elastic fibers, is the reason for scar formation [1]. Over the counter products such as Mederma® scar treatment range possess moisturizing properties that limit water loss and, consequently, scar formation.
Skin conditions that seem minor, such as acne, may injure your dermis and cause scaring. The sooner you start treating them, the more effective the treatment.
What are the types of scars?
There are 5 different types of scars:
• Normal scars: These scars occur when the wound heals under normal circumstances. These scars are flat and pale and will gradually fade over time.
• Keloid scars: These scars are raised and larger than usual due to excessive collagen production on the site of the wound and may also extend beyond the site of injury. The causes are not fully understood but genetics may be involved and they are more common in darker skin types [2]. They can be itchy and painful.
• Hypertrophic scars: These are also due to an excessive production of collagen but compared to keloids, hypertrophic scars contain less collagen. They are raised scars and are potentially itchy and painful. Unlike keloids they stay within the boundaries of the injury.
• Atrophic scars: These are depressed scars and are typical consequences of severe acne. These scars occur when too little collagen is produced and have a sunken appearance resulting from the loss of supporting tissue [3,4].
• Contracture scars: These scars result from hypertrophic scars over joints. They tend to develop because of the immobilization of the joint during wound healing and are particularly disabling and painful due to the limited joint mobility [5].
How can you treat a scar?
Once formed, it’s hard to get rid of the scars, however, solutions exist to improve their appearance and make them fade away. Depending of the size and depth of your scar some treatments might be more effective than others.
Topical treatments: many topical treatments are available, especially for light scars, and include easy-to-access, over-the-counter creams and solutions containing FDA-approved ingredients such as :
• Silicone that has been shown to be effective in hypertrophic scar prevention [3]
• Allantoin, also known to improve scar appearance [6].
• Dimethicone, a skin protectant commonly found in skin moisturizer especially in acne treatment [7].
• Dimethicone and Allantoin are two active ingredients that you will find in Mederma® Scar treatment products.
Topical treatment may also include natural extracts to provide appearance/cosmetic effects. Those natural extracts include :
• Onion extract
• Green tea
• Aloe Vera
Other topical treatments contain pharmaceutical compounds and therefore are prescription only medicines. These include:
• Imiquimod (an immune response modifier)
• mitomycin C (an antibiotic with antitumor activity)
These topical treatments have shown some effectiveness in improving the appearance and feel of scars [8]. The sooner you start treating your scar, the more effective these treatments. The course of these treatments spans several months, but with patience and perseverance, your efforts will likely pay off.
For larger or more visible scars, you’ll probably need a more intense treatment that can only be done by a healthcare professional. These treatments are more invasive and include dermabrasion, laser treatment, micro needling, cryotherapy and filler therapy. They are not at-home treatments and require an expert opinion, so before starting any of these treatment, please choose your dermatologist carefully.
How to prevent scars?
You cannot avoid all scars, but you can do many things to improve how a scar looks. You can also prevent scars by taking steps to prevent injuries and other damage to your skin. Some injuries will make a good story and you might even be proud of some of your scars but for others, you may want them to fade away.
Taking good care of a skin injury helps a lot in preventing scar formation, so it is important to always keep the wound moist and clean [9]. For acne pimples, refrain from squeezing, popping or picking them. In case of a cut, if the wound is deep or serious please go see your doctor immediately as you may require stitches for your injury to heal properly.
Once the wound has healed, keeping your scar moisturized is important. It is also important to keep the scar protected from the sun after healing, to avoid additional damages due to UVA and B [9].
In short, skin injuries are nearly inevitable but taking good care of your injuries and starting early treatment can help reduce scar formation. Mederma® has a range of scar treatment products for adults and kids that have clinically shown to improve the overall appearance, color and texture of scars [10,11].
Mederma® SPF UNIQUE TRIPLE ACTION FORMULA penetrates beneath the surface of the skin to help:
• Protect from harmful UVA/B exposure
• Retain moisture, and
• Collagen production
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Delaware judge rules in favour of Redstone family in CBS dispute
May 17, 2018 / 4:10 PM / Updated 35 minutes ago Delaware judge rules in favor of Redstone family in CBS dispute Tom Hals , Jessica Toonkel 3 Min Read
(Reuters) - A judge declined on Thursday to issue a restraining order against Shari Redstone, allowing her to exert control over CBS Corp ( CBS.N ) and dealing a setback to the U.S. media company’s plans to strip her voting power and thwart a merger with Viacom Inc VIAB.N.
The CBS board was scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. ET to consider issuing a special dividend that would dilute Redstone’s vote to 17 percent, closer to her economic stake, from 80 percent. CBS had sought the temporary restraining order because the directors feared Redstone would replace the board before the meeting.
CBS shares fell around 6 percent after the ruling amid investor concerns that Redstone would replace CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves and the board.
On Wednesday, Redstone used her control to amend CBS’s bylaws to require a supermajority of directors to approve the issuance of a special dividend, essentially allowing her to block the move.
CBS plans to challenge her bylaw change in court, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
The judge, Chancellor Andre Bouchard of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, noted that while he was not convinced the situation required him to restrain Shari Redstone, he had “extensive power” should she breach her fiduciary obligations. Those powers include setting aside Wednesday’s bylaw change if CBS can show they are invalid or unfair, he said in his ruling.
CBS said in a statement that “the ruling clearly recognizes that we may bring further legal action to challenge any actions by NAI that we consider to be unlawful.” Slideshow (2 Images)
The Redstone family controls both CBS and Viacom through a movie theater company National Amusements Inc (NAI). NAI welcomed the ruling, and said CBS’s special committee had breached its fiduciary obligations to CBS shareholders.
“The court’s ruling today represents a vindication of National Amusements’ right to protect its interests,” the company said in a statement.
The fast-moving battle for control of the CBS boardroom was put in motion on Sunday, when CBS’s special committee determined the merger with Viacom long-favored by Shari Redstone was not in the interest of CBS shareholders.
National Amusements believes a deal is needed for the two media companies to gain scale and compete with the likes of video-streaming company Netflix Inc ( NFLX.O ) and Amazon.com Inc ( AMZN.O ).
Bouchard said he expected to continue to have oversight of the actions by CBS and Redstone.
Shares of CBS were down 4.2 percent by midday trade on the New York Stock Exchange at $51.60 while shares of Viacom were up 0.5 percent at $28.40 on Nasdaq. Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Susan Thomas | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:Newmanbe/About me
Music
I play contrabass (you know, upright bass, double bass, the big cello looking thing) as well as violin (not to mention my vocal chords [baritone/bass]). I can hack out songs on the piano — if I am lucky, it is a slow song and not in a funny key so I can play an accompaniment too. I like Baroque music. My favourite composer is Giovanni Gabrieli. | WIKI |
Anti virus Systems — How Do They Work?
A ant-virus system is an application application designed to defend computers by malicious code, also known as adware and spyware. These kinds of threats can harm your gadget and the info stored onto it, and sometimes even take control of it.
Anti virus systems use a mixture of detection methods and tactics to prevent spyware and infections. They will include behavioral monitoring, equipment learning, signature-based detection, and heuristic analysis.
Behavioral Detection
Behavior-based detection is actually a more energetic option than signature-based computer virus scanning, and cybersecurity advantages are choosing this approach to find new and evolving episodes faster. This type of coverage constantly watches installed data files for shady manners and quickly classifies all of them as potentially malevolent.
Heuristics
Unlike signature-based detection, heuristics rely on a database of known spyware and adware strains to detect up to now undiscovered spyware and. If a document is discovered as similar to a known repository entry, it could be deemed harmful and can be quarantined for further inspection or erased www.brightsystems.info/avast-behavior-shield entirely.
Look for a corporation that offers regular updates for their malware databases. Having a constantly updated databases is important because internet threats are repeatedly being developed, and it could be important that antivirus programs can easily detect these types of new viruses. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Best polynomial approximation in uniform norm
For a given function on an interval, the code calculates the min-max approximation by a polynomial.
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For a given real-valued function of one real variable on an interval, the code calculates the best approximation in the uniform (max) norm by a polynomial of a given degree. Approximating in a uniform norm is much computationally harder compared to the standard least squares fit, but gives eye pleasing results. It can be viewed as an optimal polynomial interpolation, where the interpolating nodes are not known in advance, but rather determined by the algorithm. The polynomial that best approximates the data (X,Y) in the discrete uniform norm, i.e. the polynomial with the minimum value of max{ | p(x_i) - y_i | , x_i in X }, also known as min-max (or minimax) polynomial, is obtained by the exchange algorithm. Technically, the exchange algorithm requires a finite number of calculations to find the best approximation, but this finite number grows exponentially with the increase of the data points.
The screenshot example:
M = 5; N = 10000; K = 0; EPSH = 10^-12; MAXIT = 10;
X = linspace(-1,1,N); % uniformly spaced nodes on [-1,1]
k=1; Y = abs(X).^k; % the function Y to approximate
[A,REF,HMAX,H,R,EQUAL] = polyfitinf(M,N,K,X,Y,EPSH,MAXIT);
p = polyval(A,X); plot(X,Y,X,p) % p is the best approximation
The MATLAB/OCTAVE algorithm and the comments are based on the original FORTRAN code written by Joseph C. Simpson and available on Netlib repository: http://www.netlib.org/toms/501 See also: Communications of the ACM, V14, pp.355-356(1971)
This routine has been mostly developed and modified by students as computer assignments in Approximation Theory courses by Andrew Knyazev, University of Colorado Denver, USA: Team Fall 98 (Revision 1.0): Chanchai Aniwathananon, Crhistopher Mehl, David A. Duran, Saulo P. Oliveira; Team Spring 11 (Revision 1.1): Manuchehr Aminian.
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NCT 127
NCT 127 is the first fixed and second overall sub-unit of the South Korean boy band NCT, formed and managed by SM Entertainment. They originally debuted on July 7, 2016, with their debut extended play NCT #127, with an original lineup of seven members: Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, and Haechan. Doyoung and Johnny joined the unit in December 2016, ahead of their second EP Limitless, while Jungwoo, the final member, was introduced in September 2018 ahead of their first studio album Regular-Irregular. They are known for their experimental hip hop-based music, which they refer to as "neo music", as well as their vocal and rap abilities, choreographies, and performances.
After debuting in 2016, they broke into the domestic mainstream in 2017 with "Cherry Bomb", now recognized as one of their signature songs, and received greater international attention following the release of "Kick It" in 2020.
In April 2019, NCT 127's increasing global popularity prompted SM Entertainment to sign marketing and distribution deals with Capitol Music Group and Caroline Distribution, respectively. The unit subsequently released the EP We Are Superhuman that year and their second Korean studio album, Neo Zone, in 2020, the latter becoming their first top-five entry on the US Billboard 200 and their first release to sell over one million copies. In 2021, NCT 127 released their third Korean studio album, Sticker, and its repackaged version Favorite. With a combined 3.58 million copies sold, it broke the record for the best-selling album of all time by an act under SM Entertainment and earned the group the Daesang award at the 31st Seoul Music Awards. Sticker debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, becoming the longest and highest-charting K-pop album in the US in 2021. In 2022, NCT 127 released their fourth Korean studio album 2 Baddies, which sold 3.2 million copies and made them the second K-pop act to have three albums debut in the top five of the Billboard 200.
Background and name
In January 2016, SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man delivered a presentation at the SM Coex Artium titled "SMTOWN: New Culture Technology 2016". Lee announced that the label planned to debut a new boy group with an "unlimited" number of members, in alignment with their "culture contents" strategy. The group would have "sub-unit teams" of different members from different cities around the world, and the units would collaborate with each other frequently. Lee revealed the name of the group to be NCT, an acronym of the presentation title. NCT was to be SM Entertainment's first idol group to debut since Red Velvet in August 2014 and the label's first boy group to debut since South Korean–Chinese boy band Exo in 2012. During the presentation, Lee also announced plans to debut the first NCT unit within the first half of 2016 in Seoul and Tokyo, with sub-units based in Chinese cities to follow in the latter half of the year and units in Southeast Asia and Latin America later.
On July 1, 2016, NCT 127 was announced as the second sub-unit, a Seoul-based, multi-national boy group that would promote actively in South Korea. The name "NCT 127" combines the acronym for Neo Culture Technology with the number "127", the longitude coordinate of the city of Seoul.
2013–2016: Formation, pre-debut activities and early days
All ten members of NCT 127 were originally introduced through SM Rookies, a pre-debut training team established by SM Entertainment. Johnny was the first member to join the label through an American audition at Chicago, Illinois, in 2007, while Yuta was recruited through the SM Global Audition in Osaka, Japan and Mark in Vancouver, Canada in 2012. The same year, Taeyong and Jaehyun joined the label after being cast by label employees and passing auditions and were the first members to be introduced through SM Rookies. Taeil was the next member to join the label in 2013, despite having chosen twice before to not pursue an idol career. Doyoung and Donghyuck joined the label in 2013, with Winwin being introduced through SM Rookies on January 5, 2016, and Jungwoo on April 17, 2017.
Prior to the unit's debut, several members had solo activities during their time in SM Rookies, including Taeyong's music video for "Open the Door" and feature in Red Velvet's second single "Be Natural" (credited as SR14B's Taeyong) in 2014. Taeyong then joined fellow trainees Johnny, Mark, Donghyuck, Yuta and Jaehyun in the Mnet-produced reality show Exo 90:2014. Doyoung and Jaehyun became fixed MCs for the music show Show Champion from January to June 2015, while Mark and Donghyuck were Mouseketeers on Disney Channel Korea's The Mickey Mouse Club in July 2015. The members eventually had their first official show, titled SMRookies Show, in Seoul in September 2015 and later in Bangkok, Thailand in February 2016. Taeil released his first solo soundtrack “Because Of You” for the television series The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 on January 26, 2016, and Winwin, who appeared as a dancer for the live performance of NCT U's "The 7th Sense" during the sub-unit's first live performance in China at the 16th Music Feng Yun Bang Awards later in April 2016. Along with other SM Rookies trainees, the members starred in their first reality show series, titled NCT Life, in the same month. Taeyong, Taeil, Jaehyun, and Mark—all of whom previously debuted in NCT U—as well as Yuta, Winwin, and Donghyuck (who selected the stage name Haechan) were confirmed to debut in NCT 127, the Seoul-based unit of NCT, on July 1, 2016.
NCT 127 officially debuted with the release of the music video for "Fire Truck" on July 7, 2016, and had their debut performance on Mnet's M Countdown on the same day. They performed the single alongside another promotional song, "Once Again". They released their self-titled extended play (EP) on July 10, 2016. The record was a commercial success, debuting at number two on the Gaon Album Chart and rising to the number one position by the third week of its release, while reaching number two on the Billboard World Albums Chart. In collaboration with Coca-Cola, NCT 127 released the single "Taste the Feeling" under the SM Station project on July 29 while continuing promotions for "Fire Truck" on television music shows such as Music Bank, Show Champion, and Inkigayo. The group then collaborated with the W Korea magazine and modeling agency ESteem for a special performance video, which featured five members (Yuta, Taeyong, Jaehyun, Mark, and Winwin) performing a then-unreleased track, titled "Good Thing". On December 20, NCT 127 released the music video for "Switch", previously issued as a bonus track on NCT #127, which featured other SM Rookies trainees (who were referred to as SR15B at the time of release). The unit was named the Best New Group of 2016 at several music award shows, including Asia Artist Awards, Seoul Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, Mnet Asian Music Awards and Gaon Chart Music Awards.
2017: New members, breakthrough with Cherry Bomb and Japanese debut
On December 27, SM Entertainment confirmed that NCT 127 would release their second EP Limitless in January 2017. The label then announced that new members Johnny and Doyoung would join with NCT 127, becoming a nine-member boy group, with Doyoung having previously debuted with NCT U in April 2016. The group premiered two versions of the EP's eponymous lead single on January 4 and January 5, 2017. The EP, released the next day, was commercially successful, becoming NCT 127's second chart-topper on the Gaon Album Chart and their first to reach number one the Billboard World Albums Chart. The lead single also received positive reviews from music critics, hailed by Dazed Digital as one of the top 20 best K-pop songs of 2017, and a fan favorite. Similar to their previous releases, the unit began their promotion cycle for "Limitless" and "Good Thing" on M Countdown on January 5. They released their EP Cherry Bomb on June 14, led by their single of the same name. The release marked NCT 127's breakthrough, with "Cherry Bomb" being their first single to enter the Gaon Digital Chart, peaking at number forty-seven, and earning the group their first music trophy. The song has since become one of the group's signatures and was named by Billboard and Idolator "one of the best K-pop songs of 2017".
In addition to their initial activities in South Korea, NCT 127 promoted overseas with their first live performances at the 2017's KCON music festival in Mexico City, followed by their appearance at the KCON Festivals in Los Angeles and New York City, respectively. They also became the first K-pop act to be introduced as Apple Music's “New Artist of the Week” list, attending and performing at the Apple Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on June 25, 2017. The group released a Japanese version of "Limitless" on November 4, 2017, as their debut Japanese single, along with a new music video. In December, after signing with Avex Trax, NCT 127 was confirmed by SM Entertainment to make their official Japanese debut in spring of 2018, accompanied by their first showcase tour.
2018: Empathy project, member lineup adjustments and Regular-Irregular
In mid-January 2018, SM Entertainment announced that all current members and units would participate in NCT 2018, a project by parent group NCT. NCT 127 released "Touch" as the fourth single from NCT 2018 Empathy, the studio album that united the existing sub-units of NCT, with different members collaborating under the rotational unit NCT U. The group released their first Japanese EP Chain via Avex Trax on May 23, 2018, which debuted and peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart. Its eponymous second single was also successful, peaking at number twenty-one on the Oricon Singles Chart. On September 17, SM Entertainment introduced a new logo for NCT 127 on all social media platforms. On October 1, they were announced as Apple Music's Up Next Artist of the October, making them as the first K-pop artist to be selected for the series. Along with the release of a new teaser video, the label confirmed that member Jungwoo would officially join the lineup for their upcoming first full-length album, titled Regular-Irregular, on October 12. Jungwoo previously debuted in the rotational unit NCT U for the single "Boss" in February 2018. The album was a commercial success domestically, remaining at number one on the Gaon Album Chart for two weeks and becoming NCT 127's first to receive a Platinum KMCA certificate for selling over 250,000 copies. In addition, the album debuted at number eighty-six on the US Billboard 200, earning the group their first charting title on the chart and leading all ten members to extend their promotions to the United States. In association with their role as one of Apple Music's Up Next artists, album promotions included a group performance of an English version of the lead single "Regular" and "Cherry Bomb" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the group's first appearance on US national television. NCT 127 also performed on ABC's Mickey's 90th Spectacular TV special on November 4 and released an Apple Music-exclusive digital EP, Up Next Session: NCT 127, on October 21. The digital EP contained an English version of "Cherry Bomb", remixes for "Fire Truck" and "Regular," and the original song "What We Talkin’ Bout" featuring American singer Marteen. NCT 127 re-released Regular-Irregular under the title Regulate on November 23, led by the single "Simon Says". The single was moderately successful in South Korea but experienced greater success in the US, becoming NCT 127's first to top the Billboard World Digital Songs chart and their first to enter the New Zealand Hot 40 Singles chart.
Due to his preparations to debut with China-based sub-unit WayV, member Winwin did not join the group's promotional activities for the release of the repackage. On December 19, it was announced Haechan would be taking a hiatus from the group due to injury.
2019: First world tour, Awaken and We Are Superhuman
In January 2019, NCT 127 announced their first concert tour, Neo City – The Origin, with stops in South Korea and Japan from January to March. The tour was extended to North America, with twelve shows on April and May 2019, and an additional nine in Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia from May through July 2019. Haechan rejoined the group beginning with the Japan leg of the tour in March 2019. The group featured on Jason Derulo's single "Let's Shut Up & Dance", which was released on February 22, alongside labelmate Lay Zhang. On March 18, NCT 127 released "Wakey-Wakey" as the lead single of their first Japanese studio album, Awaken, which was released on April 17.
In April 2019, NCT 127 signed a worldwide distribution deal with Capitol Music Group and Caroline Distribution via SM Entertainment. Ahead of the North American leg of their tour, the group made appearances on Good Morning America and Strahan and Sara on April 18; they were the third K-pop act to perform on the former. In the same month, the group announced their fourth EP, We Are Superhuman, released on May 24, 2019, and performed once again as a nine-piece group, with Winwin continuing to promote solely as a member of WayV. The group performed the EP's lead single, "Superhuman", on Good Morning America and Strahan and Sara. They also performed the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden on May 14. NCT 127 appeared in the Japanese variety show NCT 127 Teach Me JAPAN!, which began airing on dTV from June 9.
We Are Superhuman debuted at number eleven at the Billboard 200 with 27,000 units, becoming NCT 127's second entry on the chart. The EP also became their second number-one album on the Billboard World Albums chart. An English version of "Highway to Heaven" was released as the EP's second single on July 18, 2019. In August 2019, SM Entertainment announced that Jungwoo would sit out the group's activities for undisclosed health reasons, although the label clarified in November 2019 that his health had been improving and that he may be able to rejoin the group in 2020.
NCT 127 performed as special guests at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival in New York in September 2019. They released their first live album, Neo City: Seoul − The Origin, on October 24, and performed at the 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards in Seville, Spain on November 3, becoming the first K-pop group to do so. NCT 127 also performed at the 2019 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on November 28, making them the first Korean artist to perform at the event, as well as on the program Today on November 29.
2020: Neo Zone and cancelled US arena tour
As the group's United States promotional activities for their previous release came to a conclusion by the end of November 2019, NCT 127 released a shortened music video for "Dreams Come True" on their official YouTube channel on January 27. After the announcement of Jungwoo's return, the group released their second Korean studio album, Neo Zone, on March 6, 2020, featuring lead single "Kick It". Several members took part in songwriting for the album. Neo Zone debuted at number five on Billboard 200 with more than 87,000 units sold in the first week. The album sold over 700,000 units in the first month in the US, becoming their best-selling album to date, as well as topping the Korean album sales chart in March.
In addition to promotional activities in South Korea, NCT 127 promoted in the US, beginning with performances at the 2020 RodeoHouston in Houston on March 10, becoming the first K-pop group to perform at the event. They were scheduled to embark on their second tour, Neo Zone – The Awards, in June 2020 in North America, although the tour was indefinitely postponed and later canceled entirely due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April, NCT 127 was chosen as ambassador for Korean cosmetics brand Nature Republic. On May 17, they became the fourth act to hold an online concert, titled "Beyond the Origin" as part of SM Entertainment's Beyond Live online concert series. The concert sold over 104,000 virtual tickets to audience members from 129 countries.
On May 19, the group released Neo Zone: The Final Round, a repackage of Neo Zone. The album was released alongside lead single "Punch", which NCT 127 premiered live during their Beyond Live concert two days prior. Combined sales of Neo Zone and The Final Round exceeded 1.2 million copies, making it the group's best-selling album at the time and their first to exceed one million total sales.
The group reunited with the rest of the NCT members for their second studio album, NCT 2020 Resonance Pt. 1 and NCT 2020 Resonance Pt. 2, released on October 12 and November 23, respectively. NCT 127 recorded the track "Music, Dance" for the album.
2021: Loveholic, Sticker, and second world tour
NCT 127 announced in January that they would release their second Japanese EP, Loveholic, on February 17.
On June 4, NCT 127 collaborated with Amoeba Culture to release the digital single "Save".
On June 28, SM released a presentation on the future of the company and the comebacks of their artists. The presentation explained that the group planned to release a third studio album and repackage. At a fanmeet for the group's fifth anniversary, they confirmed the album would have a September release window. Their third Korean studio album, Sticker, was released on September 17. The album consists of eleven tracks, including the lead single of the same name. It achieved 1.13 million pre-orders within the first 24 hours, making it the highest pre-ordered K-pop album in one day. In total, the album recorded 2.2 million pre-orders and sold 2.4 million copies within a week after its release, making it the first album from SM Entertainment to sell over two million copies without a repackage version. Sticker also became the group's highest-ranking album on the Billboard 200 at number three and the highest-ranking K-pop album on the chart in 2021.
NCT 127 released the repackage version of Sticker, Favorite, and its lead single "Favorite (Vampire)" on October 25, 2021. The repackage accumulated 1.06 million copies in pre-order sales and sold over 1.1 million copies in one week after its release. As of November 3, 2021, Sticker and Favorite have sold a combined total of 3.58 million copies, making it the best-selling album by an artist under SM Entertainment.
On December 17, NCT 127 kicked off their second world tour with three shows at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, promoted as NCT 127 2nd Tour 'Neo City: Seoul – The Link'.
2022: 2 Baddies, world tour continuation
From May 22 until June 26, NCT 127 continued their world tour with 'Neo City: Japan — The Link'. They performed with five sold-out shows at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, the Vantelin Dome in Nagoya, and the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, garnering a total of 220,000 spectators. This marks NCT 127 as the first NCT unit to embark on a dome tour in Japan. They later performed at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore and at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, earning 12,000 and 15,000 spectators, respectively.
On September 16, NCT 127 made their comeback with their fourth studio album 2 Baddies and its title track of the same name. The album sold 1.5 million copies in its first week, becoming the highest-selling album by an SM Entertainment act within its week debut. On the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, the album sold 55,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number three, becoming the group's third album to debut within the top five and their second consecutive album to debut at number three. This makes NCT 127 the second K-pop act to have three albums debut in the Top 5 of the chart, following BTS. 2 Baddies also became the group's highest-charting album in Australia's ARIA Charts, debuting at number three. The album surpassed 3.2 million sales in January 2023 following the release of its reissue titled Ay-Yo, making it NCT 127's second triple-million selling album.
On October 6, NCT 127 held a sold-out concert at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, as part of the North American Leg of Neo City – The Link. They later performed with another sold-out show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on October 13. On October 22 and 23, the group performed with a 2-day special concert at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, the largest concert stadium in South Korea. The show, titled Neo City: Seoul – The Link+, featured a new set list that included tracks from their fourth studio album 2 Baddies. NCT 127 continued touring in Asia in November and December 2022, playing shows in Jakarta, Indonesia and Bangkok, Thailand.
2023–present: The Lost Boys documentary, Fact Check, third tour and Walk
In January 2023, they continued their Neo City – The Link tour in North America, performing in Chicago, Houston, and Atlanta. In the same month, they held shows in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, and Bogotá, Colombia, with the lattermost becoming the first large-scale K-pop concert in the country. NCT 127 concluded the tour in Mexico City on January 28. On May 27, NCT 127 headlined the K-pop music festival M(a)y Concert 2023, at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. On July 16, they held their seventh anniversary fanmeeting, titled Once Upon A 7uly, at the Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.
On August 30, 2023, Disney+ released an original documentary series titled NCT 127: The Lost Boys. Containing four episodes, it focuses on the members' childhoods, their personal lives prior to debut, and their perspective on international success. On October 6, NCT 127 released their fifth studio album Fact Check, alongside its title track of the same name. On October 16, SM Entertainment announced NCT 127's third world tour, Neo City – The Unity. It will commence with six concerts at the KSPO Dome in Seoul from November 17 until November 26, and will continue in 2024 with a dome tour in Japan.
On July 15, 2024, NCT 127 released their sixth Korean studio album Walk with the lead single of the same name.
Members
Originally a septet at the sub-unit's debut in July 2016, the lineup now consists of eight active members as of 2024:
Current
* Taeil (태일)
* Johnny (쟈니)
* Yuta (유타)
* Doyoung (도영)
* Jaehyun (재현)
* Jungwoo (정우)
* Mark (마크)
* Haechan (해찬)
Inactive
* Winwin (윈윈) (董思成)
* Taeyong (태용) – leader
Musical style
NCT 127's music incorporates genres such as hip hop, R&B, and EDM. Their most prominent style is experimental hip-hop, which the members describe as "neo", in reference to NCT's name, Neo Culture Technology. Their hip hop-based experimental singles include the hardcore hip hop "Cherry Bomb", the Latin-inspired hip hop "Regular", the "powerful" hip hop and R&B "Kick It", and the critically polarizing, minimal hip hop "Sticker". They frequently collaborate with American producer Dem Jointz, who has composed many of their lead singles alongside South Korean songwriter Yoo Young-jin. Gelene Penalosa of POP! dubbed NCT 127 the "K-pop's kings of noise music" after noting the increasing prominence of experimental music among fourth generation K-pop groups.
Choreography
NCT 127's choreography has been noted for its intensity and complexity, and the members' synchronized dance moves across different styles have received praise. Tim Chan of Rolling Stone described their choreography as "difficult for even professional dance troupes to master."
Discography
Korean albums
* Regular-Irregular (2018)
* Neo Zone (2020)
* Sticker (2021)
* 2 Baddies (2022)
* Fact Check (2023)
* Walk (2024)
Japanese albums
* Awaken (2019)
Headlining tours
* NCT 127 1st Tour 'Neo City – The Origin' (2019–2020)
* NCT 127 2nd Tour 'Neo City – The Awards' (2020; cancelled)
* NCT 127 2nd Tour 'Neo City – The Link' (2021–2023)
* NCT 127 3rd Tour 'Neo City – The Unity' (2023–2024)
Concert participation
* SM Town Live World Tour VI (2017–2018)
* SM Town Special Stage 2019 in Santiago (2019)
* SM Town Live 2019 in Tokyo (2019)
* NCT: Resonance 'Global Wave' (2020)
* SM Town LIVE "Culture Humanity" (2021)
* SM Town Live 2022: SMCU Express at Kwangya (2022)
* SM Town Live 2022: SMCU Express at Human City Suwon (2022)
* SM Town Live 2022: SMCU Express at Tokyo (2022)
* SM Town Live 2023: SMCU Palace at Kwangya (2023)
Online concerts
* NCT 127 – Beyond the Origin (2020)
Awards and nominations
In 2016 and 2017, NCT 127 received "Best New Artist" awards from the Mnet Asian Music Awards, Golden Disk Awards and Seoul Music Awards. In 2022, they won the Grand Prize (Korean: 대상 Daesang) award at the 31st Seoul Music Awards for the commercial success of Sticker, becoming the first NCT sub-unit to win a Daesang from a major award show. | WIKI |
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Superpower (ability)
A superpower is a special or extraordinary superhuman ability that is greater than what is considered normal. Superpowers are typically displayed in science fiction and fantasy comic books, television programs, video games, and films as the key attribute of a superhero. The concept originated in American comic books and pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, and has gradually worked its way into other genres and media.
Definition
There is no rigid definition of a "superpower." In popular culture, it is often associated with unusual abilities or other attributes such as flight, superhuman strength and speed, invulnerability or psionics. However, it can also describe natural abilities that reach the peak of human potential, such as advanced intelligence or weapon proficiency.
Generally speaking, superheroes like Batman and Iron Man may be classified as superheroes even though they have no actual superhuman abilities beyond their exceptional talent and advanced technology. Similarly, characters with superhuman abilities derived from artificial, external sources, like Green Lantern's power ring and Tony Stark's Iron Man armor may be described as superpowers, but the wearer is not necessarily superhuman.
In fiction and fantasy, superpowers are often given scientific, technological, pseudoscientific, or supernatural explanations. They come from sources such as magic, technology, or the character's own physiological nature (being an alien, a supernatural being, or a mutant).
In manga and anime
Superpowers are a commonly used concept in Comics, manga and anime, particularly in the shonen genre. They are often featured in popular manga, comics and anime such as Dragon Ball Z, Saint Seiya, YuYu Hakusho, One Piece, Black Clover, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Code Geass, Fairy Tail, Hunter × Hunter, Attack on Titan, and My Hero Academia.
The types of powers featured vary from series to series. Some, such as Dragon Ball and Fullmetal Alchemist, feature many different characters who have the same types of powers. Others, like One Piece and Bleach, feature characters with a wide range of different powers, with many powers being unique to only one or a few characters.
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Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous (born 1967) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southgate and Wood Green since 2024. While in opposition he held a series of shadow ministry posts. He was suspended from the Labour Party during an investigation into a complaint against him between June 2023 and April 2024, but the complaint was not upheld.
Charalambous grew up in North London and trained and worked as a solicitor. Before entering national politics, he served as a member of Enfield Council for 24 years.
Early life and career
Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous was born in 1967, in a Greek Cypriot family and raised in Bowes Park. His parents come from Kalo Chorio and Fasoulla, both near Limassol, in Cyprus.
He was educated at Chace Boys' Comprehensive School, followed by Tottenham College and then Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University). Charalambous read law and was elected as vice president of the Students' Union in 1990.
Charalambous is a solicitor. Before and until his election as MP, he worked for Hackney Council in their housing litigation team.
He served as a member of Enfield Council for the Palmers Green ward for 24 years. Whilst a councillor, he also served as an Associate Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture, Localism and Young People.
Parliamentary career
At the 2005 general election, Charalambous stood as the Labour Party candidate in Epping Forest, coming second with 21% of the vote behind the incumbent Conservative MP Eleanor Laing.
Charalambous stood in Enfield Southgate at the 2010 general election, coming second with 32.2% of the vote behind the incumbent Conservative MP David Burrowes. He again stood in Enfield Southgate at the 2015 general election, coming second with 39% of the vote, again behind David Burrowes.
At the snap 2017 general election, Charalambous was elected to Parliament as MP for Enfield Southgate with 51.7% of the vote and a majority of 4,355.
Charalambous served on the Justice Select Committee. He also served as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on London, Cyprus, Crossrail Two, Autism, Sex Equality, Music, Global Education For All and London's Planning and Built Environment.
In January 2018, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In December 2018, he was appointed as an Opposition (Labour) Whip.
At the 2019 general election, Charalambous was re-elected as MP for Enfield Southgate with a decreased vote share of 48.5% and an increased majority of 4,450.
Charalambous was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Justice in January 2020.
Following Keir Starmer's election as Labour leader in April 2020, he joined the shadow Home Office team as the Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction and Courts. Charalambous swapped roles with Holly Lynch in a minor reshuffle in May 2021, becoming the Shadow Minister for Immigration. He served as Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa from 2021 to June 2023, when he was suspended as a Labour MP following an allegation "that requires investigation by the Labour Party". After a thorough investigation involving scrutiny by a board chaired by an independent lawyer, the complaint was not upheld and he had the whip restored in April 2024.
Due to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, Charalambous' constituency of Enfield Southgate was abolished, and replaced with Southgate and Wood Green. In May 2024, Charalambous was selected as the Labour candidate for Southgate and Wood Green at the 2024 general election. In the 2024 general election, he retained his seat in the new constituency, winning a majority of 15,300 votes over Eric Sukumaran, the Conservative candidate. | WIKI |
About
For ostomates, it is essential to ponder about the appropriate diet. Otherwise, it can create bowel blockage and trouble for the patients. Once a patient leaves the hospital, a nurse guides him/her about the adequate types and quantity of the meals. It is a vital duty of a person to listen and follow their nurses and doctors. However, some patients still get unaware and careless regarding their eating habits. Diet for an ostomy is one of the necessary points in their treatment. Moreover, many people afraid of going out and eating their favorite meals. Well, you have to follow a proper diet plan, and after a few months, a patient can eat whatever he wants. It all depends on the healing time, digestion ability, and adequate meals. Every patient, whether he is an ostomate or not, has to follow a prescribed diet for their health. It is not that only stoma patients have prohibited from some foods. For the sake of a person’s health, you have to say goodbye to some of your favorite dishes and welcome some of the meals you dislike the most.
After the ostomy surgery, a patient’s bowel gets swell. Therefore, the paramount thing is a healthy bowel. A wrong diet can block it. Well, the swelling is temporary, but a patient has to be vigilant regarding their food and drinks. Therefore, we can say that the initial days of the ostomy are sensitive and crucial. A patient has to eat easy to digest meals for the sake of the bowel. Even many people cannot eat in a few initial days. Therefore, you have to take meals which are rich in fiber. Well, do not eat too much watery food like cucumber, oranges, and grapes or drink too much water, as this can create a problem for them. A patient should eat vegetables and fresh fruits. A person should not take too much cellulose or fats right after the surgery.
Avoidable Foods for Ostomates
Well, the restrictions on the foods are temporary and for the short-term. Once a patient gets back to the previous life, he/she can eat according to their wish. However, ostomates should avoid a few meals.
These are:
• Raw fruits
• Raw vegetables.
• Uncooked meals.
• Processed meat.
• Dry fruits and nuts.
• Seeds.
• Butter.
• Popcorn.
• Onion, carrot, cabbage, garlic, cereals, foods packed in tins.
Moreover, an ostomate should not eat meat) beef, pork) and sausages for a few months. It will be tough for many of you to stick to some foods and avoid your favorites. But, this is for your betterment and health. In any case, a patient has to think about the healthy bowel. Otherwise, its blockage can lead to many other diseases and problems. Moreover, an ostomate should not eat big meals. A patient should take small meals four to five times a day. This is a bad habit that a patient does not eat for a long time and makes the stomach suffer. Your stomach should not sleep and be active. Therefore, take small meals after the intervals. Avoid fried foods like chips, barbeque, and snacks.
Recommended Foods for Ostomates
A patient should eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Moreover, easy to chew and digest foods are highly recommended. A person has to go for green vegetables and fresh fruits like peach, banana, papaya, guava, melon, avocado, and fruits without skin. The same is the case with other foods. An ostomate should eat eggs, chicken, salmon fish, sweet potato, white rice, green beans, spinach, a small quantity of cucumber, and green beans.
An ostomate should not eat gastric foods like potatoes, onion, beans, pulses, sprouts, garlic, eggplant, and dry fruits. However, you can eat them after the six months of the surgery. But, before making any change in your diet, consult your nurse and doctor. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Battle of Moulouya
misinformations
all this topic is just misinformations by the algerians, the whole story is fake and created by some sick people, plus algeria did not existed back then and even the map have been modified because Sijilmassa was part of Empire Cherifien, also another important point is the casualties, just by looking at the differences you will understand that something is wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montananana (talk • contribs) 02:35, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
* So you are claiming that this very well sourced event is completely false? Whatever748 (talk) 08:56, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Algerians are falsifying history on Wikipedia by altering several articles about Moroccan Kings and Sultans, making up imaginary battles they supposedly won against The Kingdom, and so on. This farce needs to stop. hahah this battle never took place i searched in internet i didn't found a source exept this and then i found a video in youtube that is completly unlogical pretending that algerian colonised morocco and made up moulay ismail one of the most famous alaouite dynasty sultans the same who defeated the frensh and the spanish at alraech and the same that took over the songhai empire was made a slave !!! this is propanganda don't belive this the only battle that took place betwen algeria and morocco wasn't really betwen algeria and morocco cause algeria never existed but between morocco and the turkish in battle of wad-lben wich morocco wonded against the holly ottoman army and janisser's i found that in wikepedia Stabilisation of the empire Between 1678 and 1679, Moulay Ismail attempted an expedition over the Amour mountain range into the region of Cherg, accompanied by a large contingent of Arab tribes, including the Beni Amer. The Turkish artillery put all the Arab tribes in the expedition to flight and the Sultan was forced to set the border between the Ottoman empire and Morocco at Tafna.[10][11] Moulay Ismail restored and reorganised Oujda on his return.[alN 12] He reorganised the south of the empire following an expedition in 1678, from Souss and the oasis of Touat to the provinces of Chenguit on the border of the Sudan region in modern Mauritania.[Arc 3] During his journey, Ismail appointed caids and pashas and ordered the construction of forts and ribats to demonstrate his control to the makhzen in these regions.[12] During this expedition, the Sultan received embassies from all the Maqil tribes in the Saharan provinces of the country, which stretched all the way to the Senegal river.[alN 13] Moroccan control over the Pashalik of Timbuktu was established in 1670 and continued throughout Moulay Ismail's reign — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8108:2C40:12E4:CB:2339:A1D9:8D60 (talk) 20:11, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Map
Hello, Askelaadden Are you certain that the map which you have created is correct? According to many sources, Morocco had controlled territory as far as Tuat. Thanks. Fleettask (talk) 18:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC) Blocked sock. M.Bitton (talk) 13:29, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
* Hello Fleettask,
* Thanks for your feedback, my map is based on this map : []
* Otherwise, this battle took place in 1692 and the maps you shared above represent the barbarian states in 1877 and 1850. They are not relevant here.
barbarian states in 19 century ???? euhh algeria fell up to the frensh in 1830 and only morocco remainded to see the 20 century ??
* Regards, --Askelaadden (talk) 18:34, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
* I have found a 1710 map which isn't far off the date the battle took place. Regards, Fleettask (talk) 18:58, 12 May 2021 (UTC) Blocked sock. M.Bitton (talk) 13:29, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Your map is fake. Here's the original: https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/67481/africae-accurata-tabula-ex-officina-nic-visscher-visscher-i
Truly shameless.
+ Funny how you only pick maps that don't show a divided Algeria. Here's the same map you used with its original border colors: https://sanderusmaps.com/our-catalogue/antique-maps/africa/antique-map-of-africa-by-h-moll-4219 This is what happens when you mix modern politics with history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8108:2C40:12E4:5094:5DFA:DC10:8A12 (talk) 10:07, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Sources are concerning
The article source scarcity and weakness is concerning. If such a major event in the history of the region indeed happened as described, there must be Arabic sources belonging to the same era. Citing one very little known French author is certainly not enough.
Map sources are equally concerning: they seem weak, fake and completely unreliable while better quality maps from the era do exist.
* The article is very well sourced with quality sources focused on the subject. Moreover, the sources are all readable.
* Concerning the map, you can find the two sources concerning it in the description of the image.
* --Askelaadden (talk) 19:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
"Quality sources". I believe this is the object of our disagreement. Your sources are by no means quality sources, therefore the article is highly suspicious.
Hadj Chabane
This character is being depicted as largely more significant that he actually was. Did in good faith some research and found nothing of relevance about his time in charge of Ottoman Algeria. To portray him as a rival or equal of Ismail Ibn Sharif is dubious, to say the least. Even the Wikipedia entry in French language has a couple of lines about him, nothing more. There's a short Ukrainian version too, but no other Wikipedia has an article about him, not even English Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TunaLover3 (talk • contribs) 14:06, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
* We rely mainly on the sources and not on other wikipedia projects. Furthermore, the article summarises and presents Hadj Chabaane as described in the sources. Nothing more. --Askelaadden (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Again: please cite a few contemporary and reliable MAGHREBI sources such as renown historians from that era, preferably from both sides of the conflict for more neutrality. Only then you can claim the article is well sourced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TunaLover3 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
* Again : You can already find all the sources in the reference section of the article. Most of them are freely available. This trial you are making of the sources is delusional. --Askelaadden (talk) 09:05, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Gvtbh jmkmk
Vufvgbyhu <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:12, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
Fake information
The territory until the right bank of the Moulouya River experiences more than 100 years of Algerian rule?? What if I brought sources from the 19th century saying otherwise!! The boarders between ottoman empire and Morocco were ouad tafna,stop misleading and misusing historical informations <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:04, 26 September 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=453733
Description: Suppose you have a list of items, and you are going to compute some expensive function on each of them. Sometimes it is convenient to have the minimum (or maximum) value of the function. Other times, it is more convenient to have the item which minimizes (or maximizes) the function (for example, what is the hash key that corresponds to the largest hash value?). And sometimes you even want both.
The latter behavior is referred to as argmin and argmax. To do this in Perl, you can always sort based on the expensive function, and then grab the min/max, but the sort is very wasteful for long lists (even with a Schwartzian Transform). Instead, here's a simple watermarking way to do it. In list context, it also returns both values of interest (the item that minimized/maximized the function, and the min/max value itself).
• Get the largest value that an expression takes on:
use List::Util 'max'; my $largest_val = max map { expensive_func($_) } @items;
• Get the item which produces the largest value on an expression:
my $largest_item = argmax { expensive_func($_) } @items;
• Get both at once:
my ($largest_item, $largest_val) = argmax { expensive_func($_) } @item +s;
A very simple concept, but quite useful.
sub argmax(&@) {
my $index = undef;
my $max = undef;
my $block = shift;
for (@_) {
my $val = $block->($_);
if ( not defined $max or $val > $max ) {
$max = $val;
$index = $_;
}
}
return wantarray ? ($index, $max) : $index;
}
sub argmin(&@) {
my $index = undef;
my $min = undef;
my $block = shift;
for (@_) {
my $val = $block->($_);
if ( not defined $min or $val < $min ) {
$min = $val;
$index = $_;
}
}
return wantarray ? ($index, $min) : $index;
}
These could also be implemented with List::Util::reduce, but just doing it by hand makes it easier to let the block to run with $_ aliased to the relevant value -- instead of fussing with $a and $b in L::U::reduce. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Gazeta Polska Codziennie
Gazeta Polska Codziennie (Gazeta Polska Daily) is a Polish right-wing daily newspaper issued since September 9, 2011.
During its announcement, its editor-in-chief, Tomasz Sakiewicz, said that its editorial staff was planned to be about 60 persons, including half of the staff of Gazeta Polska weekly, with the majority being new people. | WIKI |
Synthesis and characterization of magnetic amidoximated chitosan-g poly(polyacrylonitrile)/laponite RD nanocomposites with enhanced adsorption capacity for Cu$^{2+}$
Authors: GHOLAM REZA MAHDAVINIA, EBRAHIM SHOKRI
Abstract: Magnetic amidoximated nanocomposites based on a combination of chitosan and magnetic laponite RD were prepared and examined for the removal of Cu$^{2+}$ from aqueous solutions. Magnetic laponite RD was prepared by an in situ method. In order to prepare magnetic amidoximated nanocomposites, acrylonitrile was grafted to chitosan in the presence of magnetic laponite RD. Then the nitrile pendants on magnetic chitosan-g-polyacrylonitrile/laponite RD (mChtioPANLap) were converted to amidoxime groups. We developed a polyamidoximated magnetic nanocomposite based on a mixture of chitosan/laponite RD, possessing a high adsorption capacity for Cu$^{2+}$. By introducing magnetic laponite RD the adsorption capacity of nanocomposites for Cu$^{2+}$ was significantly improved. The effects of contact time, initial concentration of Cu$^{2+}$, initial pH of Cu$^{2+}$ solutions, and temperature on adsorption process were investigated. Studying adsorption kinetics showed that the experimental data are described better by the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The adsorption of Cu$^{2+}$ on nanocomposites followed the Langmuir isotherm model well. Additionally, the fitting of isotherm data by the Dubinin-Radushkevich model showed that the adsorption process occurred by physisorption mechanism. The thermodynamic data indicated that the adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic.
Keywords: Chitosan, magnetic, laponite RD, polyamidoxime, adsorption of Cu$^{2+}$
Full Text: PDF | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:BrunkenM/sandbox
Unetech Institute is a translational research incubator operated jointly by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha. Drawing IP from UNeMed and the greater Omaha community, Unetech connects the immense resources of the University of Nebraska system to enrich, organize, fundraise, and launch innovative technologies. Rod Markin (UNMC) directs Unetech alongside assistant director Henry Runge, esq.
Unetech also operates Opportunity Corps, a grant-supported 10-month entrepreneurship training program. Graduate Assistants and Undergraduate students gain practical work experience through the institute when the collaborate on client strategy reports and customer discovery. | WIKI |
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Journal of AOAC International
Determination of total chromium at ultratrace levels in water and soil samples by coprecipitation microsample injection system flame atomic absorption spectrometry.
PMID 25902994
Abstract
A simple, robust, and novel analytical procedure was developed for determination of total chromium (Cr) by carrier element coprecipitation (CECP) coupled microsample injection system with flame atomic absorption spectrometry. For this method, Cr(III) was oxidized by Ce(SO4)2 in acidic media, and the resulting solution formed coprecipitates with ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate in the presence of Ce(III). The effective parameters of the developed method have been optimized and studied in detail. The LOD and enrichment factor of CECP were 2.13 μg/L and 100 ± 2.8, respectively, with 40 mL initial volumes. The RSD values (n = 6) were <5%. The applicability and accuracy of CECP were estimated by the analysis of total Cr in industrial effluent wastewater by the standard addition method (recoveries > 96%). The accuracy of total Cr by CECP after microwave acid digestion was checked by using a certified reference material (GBW 07309 Stream Sediment). The difference between the found and certified values was not significant (P > 0.05). The proposed method was successfully applied to natural drinking water, industrial effluent wastewater, and the exchangeable fraction of garden soil from Denizli, Turkey. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
BRIEF-TreeHouse Foods to sell soup, infant feeding business
April 25 (Reuters) - TreeHouse Foods Inc: * TreeHouse Foods Inc announces definitive agreement to sell soup and infant feeding business to an affiliate of insight equity * TreeHouse Foods Inc - transaction will have a negligible impact on ongoing operating income of TreeHouse Foods * TreeHouse Foods Inc - financial terms of sale were not disclosed * Transaction will have a negligible impact on ongoing operating income of TreeHouse Foods * TreeHouse Foods Inc- financial terms of sale were not disclosed * TreeHouse Foods Inc - will retain its tetra aseptic carton business, which includes broth and other products that are produced in another location * TreeHouse Foods Inc- approximately 400 hourly and 60 salaried employees will transition from treehouse foods to Riverbend Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
完走
Noun
* 1) finishing the race, reaching the finish line, staying the course
Verb
* 1) finish the race, cross the finish line, stay the course | WIKI |
User:Satnarayan patel/sandbox
Satyanarayan Patel
Mr. Satyanarayan Patel started his political career at the age of merely 16. He started attending all the programs & concerns of Congress party along with his father the loyal & faithful member of congress party Mr. Rameshwar Patel. He participated in ‘National Camp’ of Sevadal as a child participant in New Delhi 1983. Seeing the enthusiasm & stamina of this child participant then secretary general shri Rajeev Gandhi impressed a lot. During the last day of camp shri Gandhi specially honored this youngest participant of the camp. Till then shri Rajeev Gandhi became his ideal. Taking shri Rajeev Gandhi as an ideal he is moving on his footsteps on the path of social & political sector.
www.satyanarayanpatel.org
Name - Mr. Satyanarayan Patel Father’s Name – Shri Rameshwar Patel (former minister of MP government) Educational Qualification – Valid license as a Commercial Pilot Occupation- Agriculture. Specific Hobbies – Social work, Humanism, Environmental conservation, Religious orchestration, Horse riding, Piloting & Archery. Political Career- Mr. Patel is one of the few leaders who started his political career through Gram Panchayat & from Panchayat election to Loksabha election he promoted the idealism of Congress.
Loksabha
Congress has declared Mr.Patel as their candidate in Loksabha election. His selection has been made by the members of Indore congress on the ground of guidelines set by the young Sub secretary general of Congress & MP shri Rahul Gandhi. Before this he also contested as a Congress candidate from Indore in the Loksabha election 2009. During last two decades BJP has seized this important seat of Loksabha & since 1989 BJP had been getting this seat by thousands of votes. Due to clean & immaculate image & proficient management he lost the election by merely 11,000 votes. It is simply due to the output of his hard work that during the Loksabha election slowly but steadily we are getting positive atmosphere towards congress.
Vidansabha
Mr.Patel had been elected as an MLA from Indore (sector no. 5) in 1998 by acquiring the maximum no. of votes. In 2003 the higher authority of congress ordered him to change his sector to Depalpur at the last moment but still he fought very bravely & lost the election by the least difference & thereafter he started serving the people of that sector. Soon his hard work turned into a precious reward as he won the Vidhansabha election 2008 from the same sector. Again in 2013 he contested in vidhansabha election from Depalpur sector.
District Panchayat
In order to fulfill the dreams of his ideal shri Rajeev Gandhi for Panchayat Raj he won the Janpad & District Panchayat election by a huge margin. He was also elected as a General Secretary of Zila Panchayat Indore. He was also elected as a General Secretary of Zila Panchayat Organization held in New Delhi for all District Panchayat General Secretaries.
Congress Organization
State Congress – General Secretary of M.P. Congress Panchayat Porch in the year 1995-96. State Youth Congress – General Secretary of State Youth Congress in the year 1991-93. District Youth Congress – General Secretary of Zila Youth Congress in the year 1990-91. Gram Panchayat – Elected as City Functionary of N.S.U.I. in the year 1985-87. Steps in giving firmness to the organization-
Rastriya Ekta Sadbhav Yatra 2002
In order to create the sentiments of nationality in nation’s youth he organized Rastriya Ekta & Sadbhav Yatra in the year 2002. In this event from Indore & near about regions more than 200 youngsters participated. From Indore to Ajmer, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Punjab, Hariyana, Amritsar, Vagaborder via Jaliawala Bagh & from there via Vaishanav Devi, Dehradun, Haridwar, Hrishikesh reached New Delhi. There he met various senior leaders of Congress including honorable Sonia Gandhi & requested them to organize such events on a national level in order to create a sense of nationality & responsibility towards nation in our nation’s youth & to make them familiar to the current scenario of party.
Masik Choupal Charcha
Informing the rural sector about the human welfare development schemes of congress leading Central Government’ he started ‘Masik Choupal Charcha’ in the rural sector of Indore by giving special focus on Depalpur. Through his efforts most of the villages of Indore had been informed about the welfare programs started by Central government in their benefits Malwa Vikas Yatra – In the year 2006 for the development & progress of the whole Malwa region (which included Indore, Ujjain, Dewas, Shajapur) he started Malwa Vikas Yatra. In which a group of 350 people inspected the whole region & focusing on major development plan & prepared a ‘Five Formulated Memorandum’ & handed it to general secretary of congress smt.Sonia Gandhi, honorable Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister, Presidents & other cabinet ministers. Warlike demonstration against the problem of electricity & manure – The mismanagement & carelessness of BJP government towards the problems related to electricity, manure & seed made him started a warlike demonstration against them on 27 November 2007 & led the most successful ‘Chakkajam’ on the national highway at Ghatabillod (MP). More than 25,000 people joined him in this demonstration against BJP government.
Regular Public Relations
Certainly Mr. Patel is the first & foremost leader of MP who established an authentic office in order to be in touch & to meet the common men. This office is situated at his residence & as a leader of common men he gets their problems solved doesn’t matter from which political party the people come. So through his constant efforts the morale & self confidence of local personnel of congress are getting stronger day by day. | WIKI |
HAL Films
HAL Films was a short-lived British film production company, created in October 1997 and dissolved in 2012, although trading stopped in 2000.
History
The company was set up by two former managers at Channel 4, Head of Film David Aukin and Director of Film Acquisition Colin Leventhal, together with former Miramax executive Petrea "Trea" Hoving (later Leventhal), and was financed by Miramax Films. The company name was created from the three founders' last names initials: Hoving, Aukin and Leventhal. At the launch, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein called the managers behind HAL Films "the European dream team", and the company replaced Miramax's London production office.
The company was involved in the production of four feature films:
* Elephant Juice (1999)
* Mansfield Park (1999)
* About Adam (2000)
* Birthday Girl (2001)
In February 2000 it was announced that Miramax would no longer support the company, and that Aukin and Leventhal would pursue other "interests in the entertainment industry", while Hoving, who had married Leventhal in the meantime, would devote her time to the family.
According to industry newspaper Variety, the reason for the split was a growing disagreement between the three managers in London and the Miramax management in New York. Following the decision, Miramax took over the London premises under its own name. | WIKI |
Talk:Majestic-class battleship/GA1
GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''
Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 15:11, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:11, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
* - any progress on this? Parsecboy (talk) 17:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
* Maybe before the end of the month, but no promises. Locked in a heated battle in the WP:Stub Contest--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:49, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
* Fair enough - good luck getting that voucher ;) Parsecboy (talk) 19:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Dude just tripled my entire month's work and I'm just about out of ship stubs to do in bulk, so here I am.
* no DABs, external link good.
* Photos appropriately licensed.
* Usual sort of infobox stuff. Add power line w/ boilers and ihp, link VTE steam engines, simplify torpedo description. Since the guns are linked probably don't need caliber length provided that that info is in the armament para.
* Should all be fixed now.
* I know what you're trying to say here Japanese Shikishima and Mikasa classes, but it's a bit problematic since Mikasa was a singleton.
* Yeah, I hadn't been very happy with that line when I wrote it. See if what I changed it to is too clunky.
* This looks to be unchanged.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
* Whoops, I fixed it in the lead and forgot to do the body. Parsecboy (talk) 15:36, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
* Be consisted about abbreviating measurements in the main body, right now I see 12 in and 12-inch.
* Should all be standardized now
* Some kind soul has added a link for naval citadel citadel that you should add and remember for later. And same for roll
* That's pretty handy.
* Move link to conning tower to first appearance
* Done
* Add links for freeboard, caliber length and or note for /40 nomenclature, QF.
* All done.
* Watch for rounding errors in measurements. 18 inches is the only one I've noticed so far, though.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
* Fixed the one 18" - I had forgotten to manually do that one. Parsecboy (talk) 12:27, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
* Did a little bit of cleanup to expedite things, but you still forgot about the unexplained /40 for the 6-inch guns.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:09, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
* Don't forget about this.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:50, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
* Done, thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 17:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
All through the series on understanding where electrons are, and how they flow, we’ve been talking about how the basis of chemistry is that opposite charges attract and like charges repel, and that in reactions, electrons flow from “electron rich” areas to “electron poor” areas.
Today, we’ll officially give a name to the types of species that are considered electron rich and “electron poor”.
They’re called nucleophiles and electrophiles.
Let’s start with “nucleophiles” (from “nucleus loving”, or “positive-charge loving”). A nucleophile is a reactant that provides a pair of electrons to form a new covalent bond.
Sound familiar? It should! This is the exact definition of a Lewis base. In other words, nucleophiles are Lewis bases.
When the nucleophile donates a pair of electrons to a proton, it’s called a Brønsted base, or simply, “base”.
Here are some examples of Lewis bases you’re probably familiar with. As you can see, nucleophiles all have pairs of electrons to donate, and tend to be rich in electrons. [Moving ahead, there are actually three classes of nucleophiles you’ll meet in organic chemistry, but let’s focus on the simple examples for now.]
Now let’s talk about electrophilicity (from “electron-loving”, or “negative-charge loving”). An electrophile is a species that accepts a pair of electrons to form a new covalent bond.
Again, this should sound familiar: this is the definition of a Lewis acid!
An electrophile that accepts an electron pair at hydrogen is called a Brønsted acid, or just “acid”.
Here are some examples of Lewis acids you’re familiar with.
Two more things:
We can vaguely define “nucleophilicity” as “the extent to which a species can donate a pair of electrons”. [There’s actually a more precise definition we’ll discuss in the next post, but this will do for now.]
Similarly, the extent to which a species can accept a lone pair of electrons is called “electrophilicity”.
Example:
Let’s look at an example we’re familiar with: hydroxide ion.
When hydroxide ion donates a pair of electrons to an electrophilic atom (such as carbon here) to form a new covalent bond, it is acting as a nucleophile.
And as we’ve seen before, when hydroxide ion donates a pair of electrons to an (acidic) proton to form a new covalent bond, we say it’s acting as a “base”.
So species can be both nucleophiles and bases? Yes!!! In fact, the “basicity” we’ve been talking about is just a subset of “nucleophilicity” – the special case where the electrophile is a proton!
As well, species can be both electrophiles and acids. And “acidity” is just a subset of “electrophilicity”.
Let’s go even further here: the vast majority of the reactions you’ll see (>95%) – will be reactions where a nucleophile donates a pair of electrons to an electrophile. Nucleophile attacks electrophile. There are very few exceptions!
This is why understanding where electrons are, and how electrons flow is so important – because the electron richness (or poorness) of an atom (or molecule) determines its nucleophilicity or electrophilicity, which in turn determines its reactivity.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that nucleophilicity and electrophilicity are the fundamental basis of chemical reactivity. They are truly the yin and the yang of chemistry.
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mamid
The picture of Lewis acids appears twice in the post, the 2nd time for no apparent reason.
Great job, by the way.
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james
Fixed. Thanks for spotting, as always.
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Ola
Hi. I am wondering whether the kind of nuclephile has an impact on whether we will get Sn1, Sn2, E1 or E2 reactions?
I know that solvent and steric effects do matter but what about “nucleophile species”.
Thank you for all great resources.
Greetings.
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james
Yes, it absolutely has an impact. That’s coming up in the series, but you might find this post helpful: http://masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/10/29/trapped-in-sn1sn2e1e2-hell-some-resources/
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Agustin
Now I’ve read this explanation seems much easier! But i’m having problems generalizing. I was asked to build a table featuring EWG and EDG of common functional groups , arranging them by its ” electrophilic power”. First a table of decreasing “Inductive effect”; secondly a table of decreasing mesomeric effect and at last a table comparing them and defining “decreasing” Electron Withdrawal Power.
The groups to arrange where:
-COOH/-COOR/-NO2/-CONH2/-CN/-SO2OH/-COCR/-COH/-COCl/-OCH3/-COCOCH3/-OH/-F/-Br/-I/-NH2/-F/-H/-CH3
Yes I Know is weird, but this “teacher” is kinda strange; I know that those things are kinda complicated to measure in first place. I’m really drowning here so if you can help me to order this thins according at least to electrophylicity ‘ld be gratefull.
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Fatunbi, David
Can i assume that all compounds formed in the homologous series of ether(ROR),amines(RNH2), RO, ROH etc are nucleophiles
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James
Yes, they’re all Lewis acids bases and therefore can all act as nucleophiles.[thanks to brenda for spotting my typo]
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Brenda
Do you mean Lewis bases…?
“A nucleophile is a reactant that provides a pair of electrons to form a new covalent bond.
Sound familiar? It should! This is the exact definition of a Lewis base. In other words, nucleophiles are Lewis bases.”
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James
yes, thanks for spotting the typo. Sorry
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Bitzer
Simple question but I’m having trouble. Does Hydrogen act as an electrophile or nucleophile in H30+? I first expected the Hydrogen atoms to act as nucleophiles seeing that H3O+ is positively charged; however, when looking at an electrostatic potential map even though the molecule is positively charged it still shows the Oxygen atom as partially negative while the Hydrogen atoms are partially positive leading me to believe the Hydrogen atoms are acting as electrophiles. Also what about NaH? I would expect the Hydrogen to be nucleophilic seeing that in this ionic bond the electron dense region leans towards the Hydrogen atom. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated
Umar Aman
There is one thing to mention in the first reaction, “Hydroxide Ion as a Nucleophile”, the solvent is H2O. In case of alcohol, an Alkene would be formed.
Great Job!
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niteesh
Is there are any compounds which are electro and nucleophile both
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James
Hydrogen is the electrophile – the difference in electronegativity means that hydrogen is electron poor, oxygen is electron rich. Formal charge is not always a reliable guide to electron density.
You are right that the H in NaH is nucleophilic.
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Divorce, especially international divorce, has long been known for its added stress on individuals, whether it be emotional, mental, or physical. What most people do not realize is that long-term stress brought upon by divorce can lead to more serious health problems. In a sleep study conducted by David Sbarra, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, it was found that sleep problems that occur following a separation can be a normal adjustment progression. However, sleep problems that persisted for an extended period of time might be attributed to the mental stress associated with the legal process.
Sbarra states: “It may mean that people are potentially becoming depressed, that they’re struggling with getting their life going again, and it is these people that are particularly susceptible to health problems.”
The article focused on 138 people who had divorced or been physically separated from their partner for approximately 16 weeks before the study began. Sleep quality and blood pressure levels were monitored for each participant over three lab visits in a seven-and-a-half month period. While there did not appear to be a direct relationship between sleep issues and blood pressure levels at the beginning, there was a delayed correlation between increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure and sleeping problems discovered in subsequent lab visits.
“We saw changes in resting blood pressure were associated with sleep problems three months earlier. Earlier sleep problems predicted increases in resting blood pressure over time,” according to Sbarra.
The research goes on to explain how the length of time in which the sleep problems persisted increased the likelihood of those problems having a harmful effect on blood pressure. Such ramifications tend to cumulate approximately 10 weeks following separation from a spouse. This extended period of time is something that people should pay attention to, especially when they notice a blood pressure increase. Sleep problems occurring up until the 10-week marker do not appear to have an association with future blood pressure increases.
This can be particularly serious for those who are susceptible or already have high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a widespread problem that can lead to early death, whether it is from stroke, heart failure or diabetes. Many separated or divorced individuals — especially those who have gone through the complications of international divorce — do not realize their risk of developing such issues as a result of stress, anxiety, tension, and other changes. The human body can be heavily impacted by such chronic symptoms and seeking help is advised. Krietsh suggests that separated and divorced individuals seek therapy if they experience persistent sleeping difficulties. This study promotes the value of sleep and highlights how our minds and bodies have a co-dependent relationship.
Schedule adjustments or finding new methods of relaxation can also be helpful. It is important to understand that the divorce and complicated international divorce does not have to be experienced alone. There are several resources that individuals can tap into for support. Physical exercise, reaching out to friends and family, and speaking with a therapist are ways that a person can take an active role in creating a healthy transition period. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Victor A. Elliott
Victor Alanson Elliott (July 23, 1839 – February 5, 1899) was an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1888 to 1895.
Early life
Elliott was born in Richmond, Pennsylvania on July 23, 1839. He earned a law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
He fought in the Civil War, achieving the rank of major, and relocated to Colorado after the war ended.
Career in Colorado
Elliott had a law practice in Denver. Following Colorado's admission to the Union in 1876, he was elected to serve as the first judge of Colorado's Second Judicial District. He was re-elected to the office in 1882, serving for almost twelve years before being elected associate justice of the supreme court.
Elliott was elected to the Supreme Court in fall 1888 and served as an associate justice from December 4, 1888, to January 1895.
Death
Elliott died on February 5, 1899, aged 59, in Denver. He is buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery. | WIKI |
ScalarDB supports the following databases and their versions.
Amazon DynamoDB
Version DynamoDB
ScalarDB 3.12
ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
ScalarDB 3.7
Apache Cassandra
Note
For requirements when using Cassandra or Cassandra-compatible databases, see How to configure databases to achieve the general requirements.
Version Cassandra 4.1 Cassandra 4.0 Cassandra 3.11 Cassandra 3.0
ScalarDB 3.12
ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
ScalarDB 3.7
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Version Cosmos DB for NoSQL
ScalarDB 3.12
ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
ScalarDB 3.7
JDBC databases
Note
For recommendations when using JDBC databases, see Recommendations.
Amazon Aurora MySQL
Version Aurora MySQL 3 Aurora MySQL 2
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ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
ScalarDB 3.7
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ScalarDB 3.10
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ScalarDB 3.8
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MariaDB
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ScalarDB 3.12
ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
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Microsoft SQL Server
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ScalarDB 3.12
ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
ScalarDB 3.7
MySQL
Version MySQL 8.1 MySQL 8.0 MySQL 5.7
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ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
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Oracle
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ScalarDB 3.9
ScalarDB 3.8
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PostgreSQL
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ScalarDB 3.11
ScalarDB 3.10
ScalarDB 3.9
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ScalarDB 3.11
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AI Transforming Healthcare Environment: Revolutionizing Diagnostics and Treatment
AI Transforming Healthcare Environment: Revolutionizing Diagnostics and Treatment
Overview Of AI In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare is revolutionizing patient care with advanced technology. AI’s ability to analyze vast datasets ensures accurate diagnostic processes, enabling early detection of conditions like cancer and heart disease. Machine learning algorithms, for example, can identify patterns missed by human eyes, ensuring treatment begins as early as possible.
Hospitals and clinics incorporate AI to create personalized medicine. By analyzing patient data, AI predicts disease progression, tailoring treatments to individual needs. Oncologists, for instance, use AI to develop custom cancer treatment plans, increasing survival rates and minimizing adverse effects.
AI assists in administrative tasks, streamlining healthcare operations. Automated systems manage appointments, patient records, and billing efficiently. This reduces human error and allows healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. For instance, AI-powered scheduling tools optimize time management for doctors, reducing patient wait times.
Surgical procedures benefit from AI integration. Robotics guided by AI provide greater precision in minimally invasive surgeries, resulting in quicker recovery times and fewer complications. Neurosurgeons, using AI-enhanced tools, achieve accuracy during complex brain operations, safeguarding vital functions.
In predictive analytics, AI enhances resource allocation and patient outcomes. Predictive models forecast patient admission rates, helping hospitals prepare adequately. For instance, during flu season, AI-driven predictions ensure sufficient staffing and resources.
AI in healthcare isn’t confined to hospitals. Wearable devices monitor vital signs and send real-time data to healthcare providers, promoting proactive care. Patients with chronic conditions like diabetes benefit from continuous monitoring, allowing timely interventions.
Beyond direct patient care, AI contributes to medical research by processing enormous datasets to discover new drug formulations and treatment methods. Researchers harness AI to expedite the development of vaccines and therapies, setting pace for innovations.
Thus, AI in healthcare bridges the gap between potential and reality, transforming the healthcare environment into a more efficient and patient-centered system.
Applications Of AI In Healthcare
AI’s applications in healthcare are broad, significantly impacting diagnostics, treatment plans, and analytics.
Diagnostic Accuracy
AI enhances diagnostic accuracy through its ability to analyze extensive datasets. For instance, AI algorithms excel at image recognition, identifying abnormalities in medical imaging, such as X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans. This capability enables early and accurate detection of diseases like cancer, enhancing treatment outcomes and patient survival rates. In pathology, AI can differentiate between benign and malignant cells with high precision, reducing the human error margin.
Personalized Treatment Plans
In personalized treatment plans, AI assesses patient data to recommend tailored treatments. By evaluating factors like genetics, lifestyle, and medical history, AI systems predict disease progression and suggest the most effective therapies. For example, in oncology, AI can identify specific mutations in a tumor’s genetic profile, guiding oncologists toward targeted therapies. This personalized approach improves treatment efficacy and minimizes adverse effects.
Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics powered by AI optimize resource allocation and operational efficiency in healthcare settings. Analyzing historical data, AI can forecast patient admission rates, aiding hospitals in managing bed occupancy and staffing levels. In chronic disease management, AI models predict flare-ups in conditions like diabetes and heart disease, allowing for preemptive interventions. This proactive approach reduces hospital readmissions and improves patient outcomes.
By integrating AI technologies, healthcare systems enhance diagnostic accuracy, deliver personalized treatments, and employ predictive analytics to improve operational efficiency and patient care. This transformation signifies a shift toward a more data-driven and patient-centric healthcare environment.
Benefits Of AI In Healthcare
AI significantly enhances the healthcare environment by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and elevating patient care.
Improved Efficiency
AI streamlines various operational processes in healthcare facilities. Machine learning algorithms optimize scheduling systems, reducing wait times for patients. Natural language processing (NLP) efficiently handles administrative tasks, such as patient record management and documentation. Robotics automates routine procedures, increasing consistency and accuracy in operations.
Cost Reduction
AI reduces healthcare costs through predictive analytics and automation. Surgical robots enhance precision in surgeries, decreasing operative time and risk of complications. Predictive maintenance of medical equipment prevents costly breakdowns. By streamlining resource allocation, AI minimizes wastage and ensures optimal utilization, resulting in significant cost savings.
Enhanced Patient Care
AI enhances patient care by personalizing treatment plans and improving diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven tools analyze patient data to recommend tailored therapies, especially in chronic disease management. Advanced imaging techniques, powered by AI, provide precise diagnostic insights, detecting anomalies earlier than traditional methods. Virtual health assistants offer real-time support, addressing patient queries and improving adherence to treatment plans.
Challenges And Ethical Considerations
AI’s transformative potential in healthcare comes with significant challenges and ethical considerations.
Data Privacy and Security
AI systems process vast amounts of patient data, creating concerns about data privacy and security. Protecting sensitive patient information from breaches and unauthorized access is critical. Encryption, secure data storage, and stringent access controls are fundamental methods to safeguard data integrity. If AI in healthcare is to gain widespread acceptance, adherence to HIPAA and GDPR standards remains non-negotiable.
Bias and Fairness
AI can inadvertently perpetuate biases present in training datasets. Ensuring fairness in AI algorithms is crucial to avoid discriminatory practices. Diverse and representative datasets are essential to train unbiased models. Regular audits and validations help identify and mitigate bias, ensuring equitable healthcare delivery across different demographics.
Regulatory Compliance
Adhering to regulatory compliance poses a significant challenge as AI in healthcare evolves. Governing bodies like the FDA and EMA are continually developing frameworks for AI applications in medicine. AI systems must undergo rigorous validation and certification processes. Staying updated with regulatory changes and engaging with policymakers ensure consistent compliance and patient safety.
Future Prospects
The future of AI in healthcare promises several breakthroughs with significant benefits for patient care and operational efficiency. Exploring emerging technologies and potential innovations provides insight into this transformative landscape.
Emerging Technologies
New technologies like machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and AI-driven robotics are reshaping healthcare. Machine learning algorithms predict disease outbreaks by analyzing social media and epidemiological data. NLP tools interpret and process unstructured medical data, including clinical notes and electronic health records. AI-driven robotics assist in surgeries, enhancing precision and reducing recovery times.
Potential Innovations
AI may soon drive innovations that fundamentally alter healthcare delivery. Predictive analytics could personalize preventive care, suggesting lifestyle changes or medical interventions. Virtual health assistants powered by AI might provide 24/7 patient support, answering queries and managing medications. Additionally, real-time AI analytics could aid in swift diagnosis during emergencies, improving response times and outcomes.
Conclusion
AI is undeniably transforming the healthcare environment, ushering in an era of unprecedented precision and efficiency. The advancements in diagnostics, treatment customization, and operational processes are just the beginning. As we continue to embrace AI technologies like machine learning and natural language processing, we’re poised to witness even more groundbreaking innovations.
The potential for personalized preventive care and real-time analytics is immense, promising better patient outcomes and streamlined healthcare operations. However, as we navigate this exciting frontier, it’s crucial to address challenges like data privacy and algorithmic bias to ensure equitable and secure AI integration.
By harnessing the full potential of AI, we’re not just enhancing healthcare but reimagining it for a better, more efficient future. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Technology Sector Update for 02/24/2017: OLED,AAOI,ACIA
Top Tech Stocks
MSFT -0.47%
AAPL -0.34%
IBM -0.35%
CSCO +0.39%
GOOG -0.54%
Technology stocks were ending little changed this afternoon, with shares of tech companies in the S&P 500 slipping less than 0.1% today.
In company news, Universal Display ( OLED ) surged to a record high on Friday after the organic light-emitting diode manufacturer and iPhone components supplier beat analyst forecasts with its Q4 net income and revenue and disclosed plans to begin paying a quarterly dividend late next month.
The company earned $0.55 per share during the three months ended Dec. 31, up from $0.39 per share during the same quarter last year and exceeding the Capital IQ consensus by $0.14 per share. Revenue jumped 20% over year-ago levels to $74.6 million, also topping the $69.09 million Street view.
The company will pay its first-ever dividend on March 31 to shareholders of record on March 15. Future dividend will be subject to board approval, the company said. It also projected FY17 revenue in a range of $230 million to $250 million, bridging the $242.7 million analyst mean.
Following the company announcements last night, analysts at Canaccord Genuity today raised their price target for the company's stock by $16 to $65 a share, maintaining their Hold investment recommendation.
OLED shares were up nearly 21% in late trade at $81.35 apiece, easing from a mid-morning climb to a best-ever $82.50 a share.
In other sector news,
(+) AAOI, Adjusted Q4 EPS of $0.84 improves on $0.22 per share year-ago profit and surpasses Street view by $0.05 per share. Revenue jumps 60% over last year to $84.9 mln, topping the $84.6 mln consensus. Projected Q1 EPS of $0.80 to $0.88 on $67 mln to $91 mln in revenue both beat Wall Street expectations.
(-) ACIA, Q4 EPS of $0.94 tops consensus by $0.04 per share. Revenue climbs 107.9% over same quarter last year to $142.4 mln, also exceeding the $139.72 mln Street view. Guides Q1 earnings, revenue below Capital IQ consensus.
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Mount Hampden
Mount Hampden is the parliamentary seat of Zimbabwe in Mashonaland West Province. It is about 18 km from the main capital, Harare. It was the original destination of the Pioneer Column of the British South Africa Company; however, the Column eventually settled some 18 km to the south, in present day Harare. Mount Hampden was named after English politician John Hampden by the hunter and explorer Frederick Courteney Selous.
Recent Developments
In 2012, the government of Zimbabwe under then President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe announced plans to build a new parliament in Mount Hampden, replacing the previous parliament in central Harare. The new complex already houses the New Zimbabwe Parliament Building, and will eventually include a Presidential palace, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and High Court of Zimbabwe, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, residential suburbs, hotels and modern shopping malls.
After completion of New Zimbabwe Parliament Building in April 2022, it automatically became the parliamentary capital of Zimbabwe. Dubai based Nawab Shaji Ul Mulk is building a potentially tallest building in Africa, in Mt Hampden | WIKI |
태그 보관물: r
r
geos 라이브러리 (C ++ 및 C)를 설치 한 다음 rgeos 패키지 (R)를 설치하려고하면 geos-config가 누락되었다고보고합니다. (861 Kb) URL abierta ================================================== downloaded
R 언어의 rgeos 패키지는 이전에 설치된 geos 라이브러리를 필요로한다는 것을 알고, 필자는 Ubuntu 12.04 (32 비트) 시스템의 시냅틱 설치 프로그램을 사용하여 libgeos와 libgeos-c1 (3.2.2)을 모두 설치했습니다.
그런 다음 R 콘솔에서 rgeos를 직접 설치하려고 시도했는데 geos-config를 찾을 수 없다는 메시지가 표시되었습니다. 출력은 다음과 같습니다.
> install.packages("rgeos")
Installing package(s) into ‘/home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘sp’
probando la URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/sp_1.0-9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 882102 bytes (861 Kb)
URL abierta
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downloaded 861 Kb
probando la URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rgeos_0.2-19.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 221471 bytes (216 Kb)
URL abierta
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downloaded 216 Kb
* installing *source* package ‘sp’ ...
** package ‘sp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c R centroid.c -o Rcentroid.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c init.c -o init.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c pip.c -o pip.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c pip2.c -o pip2.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c sp_xports.c -o sp_xports.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c surfaceArea.c -o surfaceArea.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c zerodist.c -o zerodist.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o sp.so Rcentroid.o gcdist.o init.o pip.o pip2.o sp_xports.o surfaceArea.o zerodist.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/sp/libs
** R
** data
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
‘intro_sp.Rnw’
‘over.Rnw’
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (sp)
* installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ...
** package ‘rgeos’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99
configure: CXX: g++
configure: rgeos: 0.2-17
checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
configure: svn revision: 394
checking geos-config usability...
./configure: line 1385: geos-config: command not found
no
configure: error: geos-config not usable
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’
* removing ‘/home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/rgeos’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘rgeos’ had non-zero exit status
내 무지를 용서하지만,이 “geos-config”파일의 출처는 모르겠습니다 : 위의 gcc 컴파일에 의해 생성되어야합니까, 아니면 libgeos 라이브러리가 설치 될 때 이전에 설치되어야합니까?
다른 컴퓨터에서 “geos-config”는 실행 파일이며 / usr / bin에 설치해야한다는 것을 배웠습니다.
내 절차에 어떤 문제가 있는지 아십니까?
감사,
세르지오
답변
좋아하는 패키지 관리자 (또는 소프트웨어 센터)와 함께 libgeos-devlibgeos-dev 설치 패키지를 설치하면 /usr/bin/geos-config.
이것을 어떻게 찾았습니까? http://packages.ubuntu.com/ 웹 페이지 geos-config에서 파일에 대한 쿼리 를 사용했습니다 . 필요한 패키지가 나열됩니다 ( query link ). 다음에 비슷한 문제가 발생할 때 사용하십시오!
답변
OP는 특정 배포판의 이름을 지정하지 않으므로 CENTOS에 goes-config를 설치하는 데 필요한 라인은 다음과 같습니다 (예 : RHEL & Amazon Linux). yum install -y geos-devel
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Talk:Information Technology and Ethics/Surveillance
Editors
Created and written in April 2017 by the Red Team, Spring 2017 ITMM 485/585 course, Illinois Institute of Technology Contributions to the chapter come from the following students:
--Ray Trygstad (discuss • contribs) 21:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
* Abdullah Alanazi - Introduction
* Huejin Byun - Controversies: Cons of Surveillance
* Xavier Chavez - Events
* Blake Odette - Controversies: Pros of Surveillance
Added Content on May 30, 2019, by Prathamesh Ghumade - the Blue Team member, Spring 2019 ITMM 485/585 course, Illinois Institute of Technology Added entry in the Introduction part, Added new entry as Methods of Surveillance, Added 3 Events in the Event section, Added content in Pros and Cons section. Blue Team Members:
* Prathamesh Ghumade
* Robert Bacius
* Sai Siva Satwik Kommi
* Shan Shazad
* Rahul Virmani | WIKI |
Talk:Irreconcilables (Philippines)
Creation of this article
I created this article following discussion at. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:39, 1 March 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Goodbye Pork Pie
Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 New Zealand comedy film directed by Geoff Murphy, co-produced by Murphy and Nigel Hutchinson, and written by Geoff Murphy and Ian Mune. The film was New Zealand's first large-scale local hit. One book described it as Easy Rider meets the Keystone Cops.
It was filmed during November 1979, using only 24 cast and crew. Its overheads were surprisingly minimal, to the point that the police cars used doubled as crew and towing vehicles, and that the director Geoff Murphy performed some of the stunts himself.
Plot
In the Northland town of Kaitaia in spring 1978, nineteen-year-old Gerry Austin (Kelly Johnson) opportunistically steals a wallet and uses the cash and driver's licence inside to rent a yellow Mini. With no particular aim in mind, he drifts down to Auckland. Meanwhile, in Auckland, the middle-aged John (Tony Barry), has just had Sue, his girlfriend of six years, walk out on him and fly home to Invercargill. After a night on the bottle, John decides to go down to Invercargill.
Searching for transport, John notices Gerry being stopped by a traffic officer for failing to wear a seat belt. John intervenes and manages to get the officer off writing a ticket. As thanks, Gerry offers John a lift part of the way. The duo stopped for petrol in northern Waikato but accidentally drive off without paying, drawing police attention to the car.
Further down the road, Gerry and John pick up Shirl (Claire Oberman), who is heading to Wanganui, and after informing the duo that she is a virgin, Gerry makes a bet that this will change before reaching Wanganui. After failing to pay for petrol on purpose in the central North Island, they are pursued by a motorcycle officer, with the duo ending up avoiding arrest by driving into a car wrecker.
Shirl doesn't leave at Wanganui, and decides to stay with the guys and go to Wellington. In Wellington, the trio meets Mulvaney (Bruno Lawrence), an old associate of John's, who gives the trio overnight accommodation at his garage and supplies them with money and drugs in return for parts of the car. Leaving for the inter-island ferry the next morning, Gerry runs a red light and is immediately pursued by the police through central Wellington. The trio avoid the police by driving through the Wellington railway station and stowing the Mini in an empty boxcar being shunted onto the ferry.
Arriving in Picton in the South Island, the boxcar is attached to a train destined for Christchurch, and the trio enjoy a leisurely ride, decorating the wagon with the name "Blondini" and other items found in the train's wagons. After a night of partying, Gerry finally wins his bet with Shirl. Arriving in Christchurch in the morning, the trio finds out the wagon is not leaving the city for the West Coast until that night, so spend the day on the town. Gerry and John return to the train, but notices Shirl is not there, and the train leaves without her.
After leaving the train, Gerry and John stop at a tearoom further down the coast. They find out from the television that Shirl was arrested for shoplifting, and that they're wanted in a national man-hunt of the "Blondini Gang". Crossing back over the Southern Alps, the Mini is pursued by a determined police officer (Marshall Napier) down the Lake Hāwea shoreline. He almost catches Gerry and John, but ends up driving off the road and down the bank trying to avoid a combine harvester blocking the road. The duo sell more parts off the car at Cromwell, but as they are short-changed John takes a full petrol can as extra payment.
At Dunedin, the duo meet Snout, who helps them avoid a police roadblock and buys more parts off the car. However, after he learns they're heading for Invercargill, he tips them off to the police. Stopping for conveniences, John is spotted by police; unable to find Gerry, he drives off in the Mini, not realising Gerry is underneath the car trying to remove the muffler. Gerry is arrested, but manages to escape from the police car and jumps on top of the fleeing Mini. The police try to PIT the Mini, and Gerry falls off and is hit by the pursuing police car. John says goodbye to the injured Gerry, then takes the car and proceeds to Invercargill.
John encounters a roadblock at the entrance to Invercargill and diverts through a cemetery to avoid it, but not before the Armed Offenders Squad shoots a hole in the Cromwell fuel can, spilling the petrol. Approaching Sue's house, the insecure exhaust dragging along the road ignites the fuel, setting it alight. John reunites with Sue, but their reunion is short-lived when the burning Mini draws the attention of emergency services. With police surrounding the house, John finally admits defeat and surrenders.
Cast
* Tony Barry as John
* Kelly Johnson as Gerry Austin
* Claire Oberman as Shirl
* Shirley Gruar as Sue
* Jackie Lowitt as Leslie Morris
* Don Selwyn as the Kaitaia police officer
* Shirley Dunn as the car rental agent
* Paki Cherrington as the taxi driver
* Christine Lloyd as the disco girl
* Maggie Maxwell as Sue's sister
* John Ferdinand as the bus station attendant
* Clyde Scott as the Auckland traffic officer
* Phil Gordin as the first service station attendant
* Bruno Lawrence as Mulvaney
* Adele Chapman as the Wellington party girl
* Ian Watkin as the father in the other yellow Mini
* Steven Tozer as the West Coast traffic officer
* Frances Edmond as Annette
* Marshall Napier as the Lake Wanaka/Lake Hāwea police officer
* Bill Juliff as the Cromwell car yard man
* John Bach as Snout
* Liz Simpson as Alice
* Alan Wilks as the Southland police sergeant
* Paul Watson as the Southland police officer
* Timothy Lee as the truck driver
* Michael Woolf as the Armed Offenders Squad leader
* Andrew Dungan at the young Armed Offenders Squad member
* Frank Prythetch as the gang leader
Impact
Though coming after Sleeping Dogs, the release of Goodbye Pork Pie is considered to be the coming-of-age of New Zealand cinema as it showed that New Zealanders could make successful films about New Zealand. It was the first really financially successful New Zealand film of modern times.
Production
Goodbye Pork Pie was filmed chronologically over six weeks in late 1979, following the north to south route taken by the film's protagonists. Filming began in the northern town of Kaitaia and ended in Invercargill, near the bottom of the South Island. Director Geoff Murphy, who co-produced the film with Nigel Hutchinson, had been good friends with star Tony Barry (Smith) as well as Bruno Lawrence before Goodbye Pork Pie. The three had played together in multi-media group Blerta.
Geoff Murphy cameos in the film as a man working at the second petrol station. Co-producer Nigel Hutchinson sells a banana milk shake "with an egg in it" to John a short time before Gerry falls off the car.
New Zealand band Street Talk provided most of the music heard in the film and formed a large part of the soundtrack, but the group had already broken up by the time the movie was released.
Cars
The yellow mini was a 1978 British Leyland Mini 1000, registered IZ6393. However, three 1978 Minis were used during filming. They were sourced from the New Zealand Motor Corporation (assemblers of British Leyland products in NZ). After filming was completed, two of the Minis that were undamaged were returned to The New Zealand Motor Corporation. The third, which had a hole cut in the roof and the front bodywork removed, was used for promotion and is still in New Zealand. Its actual registration is IX2992. A fourth, 1959 Mini was used for the final scene where it was burnt out. The Holden HQ police cars used in the film doubled as towing and support vehicles for the cast and crew. These were the police cars chasing the Mini throughout both the North and South Islands.
Locations
An early scene in the film shows John and his partner in a taxi, after she has left him, crossing the old Mangere Bridge. The new bridge, at the time of the film's production, was on hold for a couple of years in an unfinished state due to prolonged industrial action.
When Gerry and John pick up Shirl, she is standing in front of the now-decommissioned Meremere coal-fired power station.
The first petrol station that fuel was stolen from is located in Pōkeno, and is now a camper van sales yard. The second petrol station the trio stole fuel from is located in National Park, at the intersection of State Highway 4 and State Highway 47.
On a wet and dismal day, Gerry and John drop Shirl off at an address in Wellington. This was in Palliser Rd, Mt Victoria. When the car pulls up, they are in front of a garage with a large number '24' painted on the front. This garage has since been removed.
John introduces Gerry to his friend Mulvaney at a workshop which was at 97 Aro St, Wellington. The building is still there but somewhat modified since the movie was shot.
The Interislander ferry that the Mini is stowed on between Wellington and Picton is the MV Aratika.
The Christchurch railway station where the Mini is stowed while in Christchurch was closed in 1993, replaced by a new station built in Addington. This building was used as a movie theatre and Science Alive from 1993, until the building was badly damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The building was demolished in 2012.
A later scene in the film shows Blondini and John in Cromwell, Central Otago. The part of Cromwell shown is now underwater, due to the Lake Dunstan hydroelectric project.
The scene at McNab, Southland where Gerry is caught by the police shows a decrepit old toilet block at the side of the road. It was actually a temporary structure built specifically for the film.
Remake
In 2014, a remake of the film was announced, with Matt Murphy – one of Geoff Murphy's sons who had worked on the original version – as director. The same year, a re-enactment of the Lake Hāwea chase was filmed to promote the New Mini, which featured prominently in the remake, simply known as Pork Pie.
Filming of Pork Pie started in March 2016. Dean O'Gorman, James Rolleston and Ashleigh Cummings star as Jon (John), Luke (Gerry) and Kiera (Shirl) respectively. The film's first trailer was released on 17 October 2016, with the film released in cinemas on 2 February 2017. The remake was not as successful as the original. | WIKI |
Web3, the Metaverse and Crypto: What Will 2022 be Remembered For?
2022 will probably be mostly remembered for the collapse of FTX, the centralized crypto exchange, and the arrest of its founder and ex-CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) for fraud. SBF was arrested on December 13 in the Bahamas, after the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed criminal charges against him.
Shortly after the SDNY confirmed his arrest, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it had authorized separate charges relating to SBF's "violations of securities laws," which were filed publicly on December 14. It’s unclear what charges await SBF, the crypto celebrity who became an outcast overnight when his company suffered a liquidity crisis and filed for bankruptcy, leaving at least a million depositors unable to access their funds.
John Ray III, the new CEO of the bankrupt FTX, who handled the bankruptcy of Enron, says that FTX is even worse, describing what he calls a "complete failure of corporate controls."
"Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here," Ray said. "From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented."
The full circumstances that led to this calamity and the extent of the damage to consumers and the overall industry – both in crypto and traditional finance -- will unfold in the years to come. This followed other events earlier in the year: the fiasco of Terra (Luna) becoming worthless, the bankruptcy of Voyager and Celsius, and the contagion risk that spread throughout the crypto market.
All these events made people doubt the value of blockchain technology, Web3 and the economic use cases of cryptocurrency and their benefits.
But we must differentiate between cryptocurrency as an asset class trading on a platform such as FTX, and the technology that underpins cryptocurrency; specifically, blockchain technology and Web3. The two are separate concepts and should not be confused.
Trading, especially in the crypto space, is mainly based on speculation, hype, and influencers, not much on merit or value.
Technology, on the other hand, is about building applications and implementing it for valuable business use cases that can benefit the global economy and society. The developments of blockchain and Web3 applications – across all industries – are still forcefully ongoing!
There is no doubt that the benefits of blockchain technology and Web3 are immense. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, who has bashed bitcoin, has always been one of the great supporters of blockchain technology. JPMorgan is one of the leading companies in Web3 and has made significant investments in blockchain technology, Web3 and the Metaverse since 2015.
Furthermore, in relation to FTX, we should put things in the right context. FTX was a centralized crypto exchange – a centralized trading platform, providing trading services to customers, similar to centralized stock exchanges. The difference between FTX (and other centralized crypto exchanges) and stock exchanges is that the latter are regulated and abide by very strict rules of consumer and investor protection, while FTX and the likes are not regulated. It is very likely that had FTX been regulated, it would not have been in this predicament.
It is also important to bear in mind that FTX was simply a trading platform and does not represent Web3 technology or the benefits of cryptocurrencies (which we’ll discuss below). If something good can come from this, is that regulations are coming for centralized crypto exchanges, and that stricter rules on investor protection in the crypto trading space will be enacted.
This is quite overdue – I have advocated for regulating centralized crypto exchanges since 2017, but better late than never.
Beyond FTX, other major events happened throughout the year while companies and significant institutions continued to invest in Web3, build applications, examine, and experiment. Let’s remember some of these events.
The Russia-Ukraine war
The Russia-Ukraine war has provided a demonstration of the vital need and benefits of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the technology that underlies cryptocurrency, especially to underserved communities on a global scale. Among other examples, we've seen the Ukrainian government asking for donations in cryptocurrency and Ukrainians adopting crypto as their main currency as their lives have been uprooted due to the Russian invasion.
These instances underscore the promise of blockchain when Bitcoin, the first blockchain, was launched in January 2009, that a decentralized, peer-to-peer system, accessed by everyone, with no need for intermediaries, can empower everyday people: a system that is for the people, by the people.
Uprooted Ukrainians, with no access to banks or any traditional financial services, turned to cryptocurrencies for all of their financial needs, from payments to savings. This is, in fact, the main benefit of cryptocurrency – providing accessibility to anyone from anywhere to financial services, which could democratize society and level the playing field for the underserved communities – nationally and internationally.
Ethereum's successful merge
The long anticipated (and delayed) Merge has finally happened on September 14 -15. It was the second phase of a Ethereum 2.0 or ETH2 multi-phased upgrade that attempts to improve the Ethereum network's scalability and security by making infrastructure modifications, specifically moving from Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
The move to PoS from PoW will make the Ethereum blockchain not only more scalable but also more energy efficient.
Vitalik Buterin, the founder and the brain behind Ethereum wrote a blog in December titled "What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me." Among other things, some of the ideas that excite him are:
The use of cryptocurrency as a mode of payment, especially in countries with hyperinflation and for underserved communities
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to build more democratic, resilient and efficient forms of governance
The identity ecosystem
On the last point, digital identity privacy and security is a crucial component of Web3 and of special importance for applications built for the metaverse and immersive interactions.
2022: The year institutions focused on Web3
Here is a month-by-month recap of the investments into Web3 technology:
January
Cash App started offering lighting network access to users
Twitter launched NFT integrations
Robinhood started crypto wallet testing
February
KPMG Canada added BTC/ETH to its balance sheet
Twitter added ETH tipping
GameStop partnered with ImmutableX, a Web3 gaming platform, to launch a $100 million gaming fund
ConocoPhillips launched a Bitcoin mining operation
BNY partnered with Chainanalysis to track and analyze crypto products
Intel launched a crypto mining initiative
JPMorgan unveiled research on Quantum key Distribution blockchain network
Sling partnered with Bitpay for crypto payments
Rakuten launched an NFT trading platform
March
CVS filed a trademark application for NFTs and VR
State Street partnered with Copper, a crypto custody service, to offer digital assets custody
JPMorgan partnered with TRM, a blockchain analytics service, to use its analytics for compliance tech for securing blockchain transactions
Billboard partnered with Universal to launch an NFT-based project
Tencent filed a patent for metaverse concerts
Misfit gaming revealed partnership with Tezos, a decentralized blockchain platform
April
Fidelity allowed 401K accounts to hold BTC
Robinhood integrated lightning Network
Tesla partnered with Blockstream, a bitcoin and digital assets infrastructure, and Block, a mobile payment service, to launch a solar-powered bitcoin mining facility in Texas
Stripe enabled USDC stablecoin payments
LBMA started using blockchain for supply chain management and fraud prevention
Mastercard partnered with di Pocket to launch a crypto card
Commerzbank applied for local crypto license
Stripe partnered with Polygon, a decentralized blockchain platform, to allow customers to make payments in USDC stablecoin
May
Meta partnered with Polygon to integrate NFTs
Instagram started to support NFTs built on Ethereum, Flow or Polygon
Cloudflare started staking ETH
LGT bank started offering crypto
De Beers launched an NFT-based project
Stripe partnered with Opennode, a bitcoin payment processor, to allow fiat-to-bitcoin conversions
MoneyGram partnered with Stellar, a decentralized blockchain platform, to allow users to send and convert stablecoins
June
PayPal started enabling transfer of BTC, ETH and LTC to external wallets
Citadel partnered with Virtu financial to build a crypto trading marketplace
American Express launched a product allowing users to earn crypto rewards
Chipotle partnered with Flexa, a digital payment service, to accept cryptocurrency payment in U.S. stores
Apple partnered with Block and Square to integrate “tap to pay” on iPhone
com started offering merchants instant fiat-to-stablecoin conversion
Binance Pay partnered with Splyt to help Binance users in 70+ countries to book ride-hailing travel and shopping experience
Shell partnered with Accenture and American Express and announced the launch of Avelia, a blockchain-powered digital sustainable aviation fuel SAF book-and-claim solution
July
Christie's launched a Web3 venture fund
GameStop released a public beta NFT marketplace
Dubai's Crown prince laid out the region’s most ambitious metaverse strategy
BNP Paribas partnered with Metaco to custody crypto
SMBC to work with Hashpyrt to develop Web3 projects
Barclays took up a stake in $2bn cryptocurrency from Copper, a crypto custody service
August
BlackRock started offering crypto to its institutional clients
OTCC released its own blockchain
Meta launched an NFT integration through multiple wallets
Binance partnered with Mastercard to launch crypto-to-fiat card in Argentina
Tiffany &Co. announced the sale of 250 pendants for CryptoPunk NFT holders
PayPal started offering crypto support
Grand Prix filed crypto trademarks for 2023 Las Vegas Strip Circuit Grand Prix
September
Nasdaq announced a crypto custody service
Nova Labs and T-Mobile signed an exclusive 5-year agreement for the launch of a Helium Mobile commercial service that will leverage T-Mobile's macro network and Nova Labs' CBRS network
Citadel, Charles Schwab and Fidelity announced a joint crypto exchange EDX Markets
Swift partnered with Symbiont and announced a corporate data blockchain pilot
The Bank of China extended a trial of e-CNY Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
Norges Bank, Riksbank and the Bank of Israel team up to explore a retail CBDC
October
Google Cloud partnered with Coinbase to allow Web3 companies to make crypto payments
McDonalds started accepting Tezos and BTC in the Swiss town of Lugano
Mastercard partnered with Paxos to provide crypto trading capabilities to banks
Mastercard extended its capabilities deep into the field of digital assets with an agreement to acquire CipherTrace, a leading cryptocurrency intelligence company with insight into more than 900 cryptocurrencies
Fidelity added an Ethereum index fund
JPMorgan and Visa teamed up to streamline cross-border payments using LINK and B2B Connect
BNY Mellon enables customers to custody bitcoin and ether alongside traditional investments
Rio de Janeiro to accept crypto payments for property taxes
Google launched a cloud-based node engine service for Ethereum developers and projects
Hong Kong unveils completed retail CBDC project with CBDC-backed stablecoin
November
Arweave partnered with Meta to store non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Instagram
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that the first industry pilot under MAS’ Project Guardian that explores potential decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in wholesale funding markets has completed its first live trades. Under the first industry pilot, DBS Bank, JPMorgan and SBI Digital Asset Holdings conducted foreign exchange and government bond transactions against liquidity pools comprising of tokenized Singapore Government Securities Bonds, Japanese Government Bonds, Japanese Yen (JPY) and Singapore Dollar (SGD)
Sony started exploring NFTs and blockchain for gaming
Nike launched a new Web3 platform called Swoosh that will offer Polygon-based NFT products
Nike acquired Web3 studio RTFKT in 2021 and released digital Nike sneakers as Ethereum NFTs in April
With December still ongoing, we have just seen exciting news from Warner Music and Starbucks as they make their investments toward the emergence of the metaverse.
E-commerce and interactive platform builder LGND announced in December a multiyear partnership with blockchain network developer Polygon and global entertainment company Warner Music Group to create a Web3 music platform called LGND Music. LGND Music, scheduled to launch in January 2023, is designed to be a music and collectibles platform that supports "digital collectibles from any blockchain in a proprietary player," thereby making it possible for users to play their digital collectibles on the go. Creators will also be able to interact with their fanbase via special content and curated experiences.
Starbucks Odyssey launched in beta to the first Starbucks Rewards members and partners (employees) in the U.S. Starbucks Odyssey is an extension of Starbucks Rewards, powered by Web3 technology, that unlocks access to new benefits and experiences for members. The experience allows members to participate in a series of interactive activities called "Journeys."
Once a "Journey" is complete, members will earn collectible "Journey Stamps" (NFTs) and Odyssey Points that will open access to new benefits and immersive coffee experiences that they cannot get anywhere else.
As one of the first companies to integrate Web3 technology and NFTs with an industry-leading loyalty program at scale, and grounding the experience in coffee, connection, and community, Starbucks is entering the Web3 space differently than any other brand. Starbucks Odyssey is an experience, surrounded by a digital community, where members can come together, interact, and share their love of coffee.
Starbucks and Warner Music's Web3 projects, with the use of NFTs and rewards to engage communities, is a growing trend in Web3, and it sets the foundations for the full experience in the metaverse when it is completely developed.
And speaking of the metaverse...
Times Square and Piccadilly Circus transformed, on December 17 and 18, respectively, into live stages for ground-breaking performances set to revolutionize the concept of music performance. Both locations became first-of-a-kind immersive stages for performances by the award-winning virtual band Gorillaz for their new track, Skinny Ape.
A great way to end the year – the metaverse is going to take place in the real world too!
A lot has happened in 2022, much more than just the collapse of FTX. Most events did not make headlines, as the media tends to chase drama rather than the steady progression of innovative technology.
The developments of blockchain and Web3 applications – across all industries – are still going on strong, and there is much to look for in the year 2023 and beyond.
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 |
Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed http://www.eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse Community Forums Eclipse Indigo and JAX-WS Support - why only Axis2/CXF?? http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/245181/734731/#msg_734731
Last release of Eclipse was Helios and it included only Axis2 and CXF as the JAX-WS runtime choices. Now I downloaded and installed the latest Indigo (JEE package) and to my disappointment again, no Metro/JAX-WS RI choice included. Same old Axis2 and CXF choices which we don't want to use in our environment at all. Is there some specific reason why they continue to exclude Metro/JAX-WS RI from the WTP component of Eclipse?
Thanks
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mark streit 2011-10-09T16:19:37-00:00
Re: Eclipse Indigo and JAX-WS Support - why only Axis2/CXF?? http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/245181/736844/#msg_736844
WTP aren't excluding or limiting the support of Metro/JAX-RI on purpose.
You should start by logging an enhancement request in bugzilla against the JAX-WS Tools component (jst.ws.jaxws) under WTP Webservices to provide support for Metro/JAX-WS RI.
I will note however that due to a lack of time and resources we would currently be relying on a 3rd party contribution to the JAX-WS Tools component to provide said support.
Thanks,
Shane ]]>
Shane Clarke 2011-10-14T11:35:39-00:00 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:Benw27~enwikiversity/Micheal eborn
Child hood:
Michael Eborn was born in Guildford (so he claims) on April 18th, 1988. From the day he was born it was clear Mike was going to flourish into a very special person. His rise to fame began in Essex, where Mike soon progressed into his natural role of a typical Essex chav boy.
Education
Well to be honest his educational achievements are few and far between. However over the summer holidays of this year Mike was employed as a teaboy for some brickies. However due to his overwhelming performance he was soon promoted to 'stone intake manager', a highly prestigious and responsible role.
Achievements
Personal Life | WIKI |
Mohan Mohan - 5 months ago 51
Scala Question
Scala equivalent of Haskell first and second
Haskell has very convenient functions called
first
and
second
which apply a function to one element of a pair:
first fn (a,b) = (fn a, b)
second fn (a,b) = (a, fn b)
Are such functions defined in the standard Scala libraries?
Edit: I know it's easy to define them, but where possible it's cleaner to use standard functions with standard names…
def first[A, B, X](fn: A => X)(pair: (A, B)): (X, B) = (fn(pair._1), pair._2)
def second[A, B, X](fn: B => X)(pair: (A, B)): (A, X) = (pair._1, fn(pair._2))
Answer
Haskell's Arrows (first and second are among them) are implemented in Scalaz:
Scalaz source
Some examples
While it's technically not a standard library it's stable and seems to be well maintained.
UPDATE
Syntax is a bit cumbersome though (maybe there is another way?):
import scalaz._
import Scalaz._
val f = (x: Int) => x + 1
val g = f.second[String]
g("1", 2) //> ("1", 3)
// or with type inference
f second ("1", 2) //> ("1", 3) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fine Tuning Language
Lightroom 1.2 has support for four languages: English, French, German, and Japanese. With the 1.2 release, English, French, and German are packaged in the same installer. So how do you choose which language Lightroom uses? The answer depends on which operating system you use.
Note: The Japanese release of Lightroom 1.2 uses the same logic as the English, French, and German release, so you can use these same techniques described below with that release.
Windows
On windows, Lightroom bases its language choice off of the “Current Format” selection in the “Regional and Language Options” control panel. Simply select any of the “English”, “French” or “German” language options
If your primary language is not French, German or English, Lightroom on Windows will use English.
If you want to select one language in the “Regional and Language Options” control panel, but prefer to use Lightroom in English, this is possible… but it requires that you modify the Lightroom installation. So proceed with caution:
1. Open “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2″ in Windows Explorer.
2. Create a new folder called “Disabled Languages”
3. Open the “Resources” folder.
4. Move “fr” and “de” to the “Disabled Languages” folder.
Now Lightroom will be in English regardless of what language setting you make in the “Regional and Language Options” control panel. To revert this change, move the “fr” and “de” folder back into the Resources folder.
Note: On Windows XP, the control panel is called “Regional and Language Settings” (Microsoft renamed the control panel in Vista).
Macintosh
On a Macintosh computer, you can rank your preferred languages in order by using the International control panel. Drag the language you want to use to the top of the list. Then relaunch Lightroom: The user interface will be presented in that language.
If your primary language is not French, German, or English, Lightroom will scan down the list and use the first language that we support. For example, if your primary language is “Español”, but you also speak French, you can set Lightroom to use French by making sure “Français” appears second in the list of Languages in the International control panel.
If you want your operating system to be French or German, but prefer to use Lightroom in English, this is simple:
1. Open the /Applications folder in the Finder
2. Select “Adobe Lightroom.app”
3. Right click on “Adobe Lightroom.app” and select “Get Info”
4. Expand the “Languages” tab
5. Uncheck “de” and “fr”
Now Lightroom will be in English regardless of what language setting you make in the International control panel. To restore the French and German functionality, follow the same steps, except this time check them back on.
9 Responses to Fine Tuning Language
1. Dan says:
the steps and the mac are actually much simpler and safer (and standard amongst most multilingual Mac apps).just “Get Info” on the application icon and uncheck the languages you don’t want to see. no copying files required.–Andy Responds: Of course, you’re right! I looked in the Get Info panel, but somehow missed the collapsed languages tab. I’ve modified the entry to use your steps! Thanks!
2. RobertWood says:
Attempting to access these settings through the Get Info panel, I find the three Language choices appear; however they are grayed out – unselectable. Under the “Ownership & Permissions” tab, set to system by default, unlocking and resetting to a normal user account – read & write does not render the Language tab items selectable. How do I gain access to these items in the Get Info panel?Thanks, Robert–Andy responds: Robert, I see what you mean. I was able to get control by duplicating Adobe Lightroom.app using the Finder. Then I was able to customize the copy using the Finder’s Get Info command. (You can then throw away the original and rename the copy back to the original name.)
3. Douglas Meredith says:
Thanks for the workaround with langauge.Do you have a workaround for those of us who work in Windows XP and need to turn off “intuitive filename sorting” and go back to the old filename sort method? It seems that LR does not allow the user to select the filename sorting method best for their application. A swtich to turn off intuitive filename sorting or simply honoring what we select in TWEAK UI or change in REGEDIT would be a very helpful workaround.–Andy Responds: Douglas, I’ll forward your suggestion to the team. I’m not currently aware of any workaround.
4. Teb Kaylis says:
Andy responds: Robert, I see what you mean. I was able to get control by duplicating Adobe Lightroom.app using the Finder. Then I was able to customize the copy using the Finder’s Get Info command. (You can then throw away the original and rename the copy back to the original name.Hey Andy, I happened on your website via lightroomnews.com and was glad to see that there’s a work-around to the language issue for the recent 1.2 lightroom update. I therefore closely followed the instructions you provide (as shown above). Thing though is that since then Lightroom has been painfully slow. Quite annoyingly as well.It’s running at the same crippling speed it did when I was using some of the Beta versions. Preview images take forever to load (even with low res jpegs) and the problem is greatly multiplied when i try viewing raw files i shot with a P45+ back.Prior to the update, everything used to work very well. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!(I’ve got a 2GB 1.67Ghz PowerBook with plenty of HD space [60GB].)
5. Tobias Dratt says:
I changed the language in the described way on my Mac. However whenever I import images now from a cardreader the system crashes – maybe the database is still linked to the old language and this is causing the error.Seems that I will have to stay with the silly German translation…
6. Thanks much for this information.When it seemed for a while that I was gonna be hopelessly stuck in the French version it almost spoiled all the fun of having gotten the program delivered via UPS and waiting for me as I got home from work today! ;) Hopefully the Windows workaround won’t result in any downgraded performance.
7. Pascal says:
Can one use any of the three languages (German / English / French) independent of the version one originally purchased the license for?Would appreciate a confirmation.Thank youPascal
8. Marc Schaerrer says:
I would also be interested to know if I will be able to run Lightroom in English/French) if I get a box of Lightroom 1.0 in German (there are good deals).[Marc, the Lightroom updates provided on Adobe.com include English, French and German language support in a single installation. You are free to select your language per the details of this post. -TH]
9. Gianni Giosue says:
Hello there!I hope that somebody could help me out. i am based in japan and i was thinking of buying Lightroom here, the only problem is that i would like to use the English version. My question is; if i buy the japanese version can i then change the language to English once i istall it on my MacBook? i am using Leopard 10.5Thank you for your timebest regardsgianni[Yes. The language is driven by your system preferences. You can also refer to the following blog post: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/09/fine_tuning_language.html -TH] | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:Keil and Delitzsch,Biblical commentary the old testament the pentateuch, trad James Martin, volume 1, 1885.djvu/1148
position was to be a constant incitement to the Levites to surrender themselves entirely to the Lord and His service, it was also to become to the whole nation a constant admonition, inasmuch as it was a prerogative conferred upon them by the Lord, to seek the highest of all good in the possession of the Lord, as its portion and inheritance. - The revenue itself, however, which the Lord assigned to the Levites and priests, as His servants, consisting of the tenths and first-fruits, as well as certain portions of the different sacrificial gifts that were offered to Him, appears to have been a very considerable one, especially if we adopt the computation of J. D. Michaelis (Mos. Recht. i. §52) with reference to the tithes. “A tribe,” he says, “which had only 22,000 males in it (23,000 afterwards), and therefore could hardly have numbered more than 12,000 grown-up men, received the tithes of 600,000 Israelites; consequently one single Levite, without the slightest necessity for sowing, and without any of the expenses of agriculture, reaped or received from the produce of the flocks and herds as much as five of the other Israelites.” But this leaves out of sight the fact that tithes are never paid so exactly as this, and that no doubt there was as little conscientiousness in the matter then as there is at the present day, when those who are entitled to receive a tenth often receive even less than a twentieth. Moreover, the revenue of the tribe, which the Lord had chosen as His own peculiar possession, was not intended to be a miserable and beggarly one; but it was hardly equal, at any time, to the revenues which the priestly castes of other nations derived from their endowments. Again, the Levites had to give up the tenth of all the tithes they received to the priests; and the priests were to offer to Jehovah upon the altar a portion of the first-fruits, heave-offerings, and wave-offerings that were assigned to them. Consequently, as the whole nation was to make a practical acknowledgment, in the presentation of the tithe and first-fruits, that it had received its hereditary property as a fief from the Lord its God, so the Levites, by their payment of the tenth to the priests, and the priests, by presenting a portion of their revenues upon the altar, were to make a practical confession that they had received all their revenues from the Lord their God, and owed Him praise and adoration in return (see Bähr, Symbolik, ii. pp. 43ff.). =Chap. 19=
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Seamless Linking: How to Merge Inventories Across Two Minecraft Servers
21st July, 2023
Minecraft Servers
Minecraft, the iconic sandbox game, provides players with endless opportunities for exploration, creativity, and collaboration. For those seeking to expand their gaming experience, merging inventories across two Minecraft servers offers a compelling way to connect worlds, share resources, and create a more immersive gameplay environment. In this article, we will delve into the concept of seamless linking and guide you through the process of merging inventories across two Minecraft servers.
1. Understanding Seamless Linking:
Seamless linking refers to the process of creating a connection between two separate Minecraft servers, enabling players to share inventories and resources between the two worlds. This powerful feature fosters a sense of continuity and collaboration, allowing players to traverse diverse environments without losing their hard-earned items.
2. Compatible Server Plugins or Mods:
To achieve seamless linking, server administrators must install compatible plugins or mods that support inventory synchronization between servers. Several popular options, such as BungeeCord, MultiInv, or Cross-Server Chat, facilitate inventory merging and communication across servers.
3. Setting Up BungeeCord:
BungeeCord, a popular proxy software, allows players to connect to multiple Minecraft servers within a network. By setting up BungeeCord and configuring the servers accordingly, players can seamlessly switch between servers while maintaining their inventory and game progress.
4. Configuring MultiInv or Similar Plugins:
Plugins like MultiInv enable players to retain their inventory and experience points when moving between servers. By synchronizing inventory data across servers, players can enjoy a smooth transition between distinct worlds without any loss.
5. Data Backup and Precautions:
Before attempting any inventory merging, it is crucial to back up all server data to avoid the risk of accidental data loss. Merging inventories can be complex, and having backups ensures that players' progress remains safe throughout the process.
6. Communicating Between Servers:
In addition to merging inventories, seamless linking often involves cross-server chat functionality. This allows players to communicate with others who are on different connected servers, enhancing the sense of community and collaboration.
7. Shared Resource Economy:
Seamless linking can extend beyond just inventories. By linking the economies of two servers, players can engage in cross-server trading, further enhancing the interconnectivity of the Minecraft world.
8. Administering Permissions:
While linking inventories can enhance gameplay, it's essential to set clear rules and permissions to maintain fairness and prevent potential exploits. Server administrators should carefully configure permissions to ensure balanced and enjoyable gameplay.
Seamless linking, or merging inventories across two Minecraft servers, offers an exciting way to create a more immersive and interconnected gaming experience. By implementing compatible plugins or mods like BungeeCord and MultiInv, players can transition smoothly between diverse worlds while retaining their hard-earned items and progress. However, server administrators must exercise caution, administer permissions thoughtfully, and maintain data backups to ensure a seamless and secure merging process. With the power of seamless linking at their fingertips, players can embark on grand adventures and collaborative endeavors, forging a unified and thriving Minecraft world that transcends the boundaries of individual servers. Happy linking, and may your Minecraft journey be filled with boundless exploration and camaraderie across the interconnected realms!
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