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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/k6.com.br
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* 1) 2007-12-15 15:10:13 (---): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Hero-O-Matic (diff - undo) - Link: www.heroomatic.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.heroomatic.k6.com.br/ (1, 3, 1, 1)
* 2) 2008-03-04 11:01:44 (UTC): User Miroca28 (talk - contribs; 9) to Young Christian Workers (diff - undo) - Link: www.jocbrasil.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.jocbrasil.k6.com.br/ (9, 1, 1, 1)
* 3) 2008-06-04 13:54:44 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Minirrotatoria (diff - undo) - Link: www.minirrotatorias.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.minirrotatorias.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 4) 2008-06-06 05:11:50 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to Artes marciais chinesas (diff - undo) - Link: www.vingchun.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.vingchun.k6.com.br (3, 3, 3, 1)
* 5) 2008-06-15 07:13:43 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 13) to Casino Royale (diff - undo) - Link: www.pcs.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.pcs.k6.com.br (13, 1, 1, 1)
* 6) 2008-06-25 03:52:36 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to DC Heroes (diff - undo) - Link: heroomatic.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: heroomatic.k6.com.br (2, 3, 1, 1) br.geocities.com/diegomode2000/ (2, 820, 1, -3)
* 7) 2008-06-26 17:52:09 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Portugalgay.pt (talk - contribs; 80) to Tabela periódica (diff - undo) - Link: ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.webelements (80, 4, 1, 1) ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/ (80, 9, 1, 1) tabelaperiodicavirtual.googlepages.com/ (80, 9, 1, 1) www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html (80, 1309, 1, -3) www.chemicalelements.com (80, 225, 1, 1) gperiodic.seul.org/ (80, 10, 1, 1) www.tabelaperiodica.hpg.ig.com.br/ (80, 6, 1, 1)
* 8) 2008-06-26 23:00:25 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Epica (diff - undo) - Link: www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br (1, 3, 1, 1)
* 9) 2008-07-03 02:26:01 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Willard (talk - contribs; 1) to The Offspring (diff - undo) - Link: theoffspring.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: theoffspring.k6.com.br (1, 4, 1, 1)
* 10) 2008-07-03 02:26:01 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Willardy (talk - contribs; 1) to The Offspring (diff - undo) - Link: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br (1, 4, 1, 1)
* 11) 2008-07-03 02:33:06 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to wikipedia:pt:pt:Spice Girls (diff - undo) - Link: www.spicegirlsforeverbrasil.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.spicegirlsforeverbrasil.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 12) 2008-07-04 23:35:38 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Spore (diff - undo) - Link: www.sporebrasil.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.sporebrasil.k6.com.br (2, 1, 1, 1) www.sporando.com/ (2, 20, 1, 1)
* 13) 2008-07-06 23:40:30 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to Wushu (diff - undo) - Link: www.vingchun.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.vingchun.k6.com.br (3, 3, 3, 1)
* 14) 2008-07-06 23:40:31 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to Wing Chun (diff - undo) - Link: www.vingchun.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.vingchun.k6.com.br (3, 3, 3, 1)
* 15) 2008-07-07 00:25:35 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Interpol (banda) (diff - undo) - Link: www.interpolforum.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.interpolforum.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 16) 2008-07-07 00:25:58 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to The Offspring (álbum) (diff - undo) - Link: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br (2, 4, 1, 1) www.offspring.com (2, 498, 1, -3)
* 17) 2008-07-07 00:25:58 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 6) to The Offspring (álbum) (diff - undo) - Link: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.theoffspring.k6.com.br (6, 4, 1, 1)
* 18) 2008-07-07 14:35:32 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Lalola (diff - undo) - Link: www.lalolabr.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.lalolabr.k6.com.br/ (1, 2, 1, 1)
* 19) 2008-07-08 14:27:50 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Kenan e Kel (diff - undo) - Link: www.kenankel.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.kenankel.k6.com.br (1, 2, 1, 1)
* 20) 2008-07-08 15:29:04 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Kamen Rider Den-O (diff - undo) - Link: www.tokuforum.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tokuforum.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 21) 2008-07-08 23:02:41 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Linkin Park (diff - undo) - Link: www.linkinloko.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.linkinloko.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 22) 2008-07-10 16:58:41 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to Orlando Fedeli (diff - undo) - Link: www.homenagemfedeli.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.homenagemfedeli.k6.com.br (3, 1, 1, 1)
* 23) 2008-07-11 16:17:04 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Boomerang (diff - undo) - Link: boomerang.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: boomerang.k6.com.br (2, 2, 1, 1) pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/web_tv_boomerang (2, 10102, 0, 0)
* 24) 2008-07-16 19:13:53 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Marcelo mmonteiro (talk - contribs; 9) to WEB TV Boomerang (diff - undo) - Link: www.boomerang.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.boomerang.k6.com.br (9, 2, 1, 1)
* 25) 2008-07-20 14:51:34 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 5) to Tammy Di Calafiori (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (5, 15, 4, 1)
* 26) 2008-07-20 15:04:27 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 5) to O Herdeiro Milionário (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (5, 15, 4, 1)
* 27) 2008-07-20 15:06:59 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 5) to Tammy Di Calafiori (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (5, 15, 4, 1) www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (5, 15, 4, 1)
* 28) 2008-07-31 01:06:34 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Tecnologia (diff - undo) - Link: www.itec.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.itec.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 29) 2008-08-09 01:51:15 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Wing Chun (diff - undo) - Link: www.alexserra.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.alexserra.k6.com.br (1, 8, 1, 1)
* 30) 2008-08-11 23:37:33 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Final Fantasy VII (diff - undo) - Link: www.finalfantasy.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.finalfantasy.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 31) 2008-08-18 15:04:27 (UTC): User <IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Wing Chun (diff - undo) - Link: www.alexserra.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.alexserra.k6.com.br (1, 8, 1, 1)
* 32) 2008-08-18 20:20:15 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Esporte Clube Avenida (diff - undo) - Link: www.avenida.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.avenida.k6.com.br/ (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 33) 2008-09-18 02:51:45 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:OS2Warp (talk - contribs; 7696) to Redirecionador (diff - undo) - Link: www.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.vai.la (7696, 2, 1, 1) www.s9k.net/ (7696, 1, 1, 1) www.rg3.net (7696, 2, 1, 1) www.k6.com.br (7696, 1, 1, 1) www.clic3.net (7696, 1, 1, 1) www.1br.net (7696, 1, 1, 1) www.rg9.net (7696, 2, 1, 1) www.rg9.org (7696, 2, 1, 1) www.rg10.net (7696, 2, 1, 1)
* 34) 2008-09-18 21:06:13 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Pintadas (diff - undo) - Link: www.pintadas.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.pintadas.k6.com.br (2, 1, 1, 1)
* 35) 2008-09-26 10:11:04 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Kim richard (talk - contribs; 1232) to RGB (diff - undo) - Link: www.ihsoftwares.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.ihsoftwares.k6.com.br (1232, 9, 1, 1)
* 36) 2008-11-03 13:24:17 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Mateus Hidalgo (talk - contribs; 227) to Lalola (diff - undo) - Link: www.lalolabr.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.youtube.com/lalola (227, 252521, 0, 0) www.lalolabr.k6.com.br/ (227, 2, 1, 1) www.sbt.com.br/lalola/ (227, 294, 1, -3) www.america2.com.ar/lalola/ (227, 46, 1, 1)
* 37) 2008-11-20 12:34:38 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Araruna (Paraná) (diff - undo) - Link: www.galerazigze.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.galerazigze.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 38) 2008-11-27 04:11:05 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (3, 9, 2, 1) www.icm.org.br/ (3, 13, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (3, 9, 2, 1)
* 39) 2008-11-27 16:32:05 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Internet Relay Chat (diff - undo) - Link: voltamirc.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: voltamirc.k6.com.br/ (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 40) 2008-12-07 01:10:37 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Observatore (talk - contribs; 57) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.atuapalavra.com.br/ (57, 11, 1, 1) maranathachurches.org/ (57, 6, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.com/ (57, 7, 1, 1) www.icmbr.org.br/portalnovo/ (57, 17, 1, 1) www.icm.org.br/ (57, 13, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (57, 9, 1, 1)
* 41) 2008-12-20 18:17:16 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.icm.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.icm.k6.com.br/ (2, 2, 2, 1)
* 42) 2008-12-20 18:19:39 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.icm.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.icm.k6.com.br/ (2, 2, 2, 1)
* 43) 2008-12-22 20:59:28 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.icmaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.icmaranata.k6.com.br/ (1, 2, 1, 1)
* 44) 2008-12-23 12:14:38 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 1) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (1, 9, 1, 1)
* 45) 2008-12-23 20:26:41 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Rafa rabazios (talk - contribs; 6) to Ministério Skysong (diff - undo) - Link: www.skysong.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.skysong.k6.com.br (6, 1, 1, 1)
* 46) 2008-12-24 03:40:23 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:Tvpires (talk - contribs; 1) to TV Pires (diff - undo) - Link: www.redepires.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.redepires.k6.com.br/ (1, 3, 1, 1)
* 47) 2008-12-24 14:05:40 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 7) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.atuapalavra.com.br/ (7, 11, 1, 1) maranathachurches.org/ (7, 6, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.com/ (7, 7, 1, 1) www.icmbr.org.br/portalnovo/ (7, 17, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (7, 9, 2, 1) www.icm.org.br/ (7, 13, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (7, 9, 2, 1)
* 48) 2008-12-25 11:31:55 (UTC): User wikipedia:pt:MaurÃÂcio I (talk - contribs; 685) to Igreja Cristã Maranata (diff - undo) - Link: www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.igrejamaranata.com/ (685, 7, 1, 1) www.icmbr.org.br/portalnovo/ (685, 17, 1, 1) www.igrejamaranata.k6.com.br/ (685, 9, 1, 1) www.icm.org.br/ (685, 13, 1, 1)
* 49) 2008-05-06 06:48:38 (---): User w:pt:Ejunior 01 (talk - contribs; 9) to TDL (diff - undo) - Link: www.tdl.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tdl.k6.com.br (9, 3, 3, 1)
* 50) 2008-05-06 06:48:39 (---): User w:pt:Ejunior 01 (talk - contribs; 9) to TDL (diff - undo) - Link: www.tdl.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tdl.k6.com.br (9, 3, 3, 1) www.tdl.k6.com.br (9, 3, 3, 1)
* 51) 2008-05-08 06:21:41 (---): User w:pt:Guigoo (talk - contribs; 10) to Brazilian Conspiracy (diff - undo) - Link: www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.epica.nl/ (10, 81, 2, 1) www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br/ (10, 3, 2, 1)
* 52) 2008-06-04 21:02:01 (UTC): User w:pt:Carlosprspd (talk - contribs; 19) to Puffy AmiYumi (diff - undo) - Link: www.amiyumi.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.amiyumi.k6.com.br/ (19, 1, 1, 1)
* 53) 2008-06-05 00:44:34 (UTC): User w:pt:Augusto Reynaldo Caetano Shereiber (talk - contribs; 720) to Clube de Regatas Brasil (diff - undo) - Link: www.crb-al.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.crb-al.org/ (720, 2, 1, 1) www.museudosesportes.com.br (720, 167, 7, 1) br.geocities.com/galoucos/ (720, 820, 3, -3) www.crb-net.com.br (720, 3, 1, 1) www.crb-al.k6.com.br (720, 1, 1, 1) www.comandoalvirubro.com (720, 2, 1, 1) www.crbacimadetudo.com (720, 2, 1, 1) www.soucrb.blogspot.com (720, 2, 1, 1) drgalo.ub (720, 1, 1, 1)
* 54) 2008-06-05 15:35:18 (UTC): User w:pt:Gunnex (talk - contribs; 6087) to Tabela periódica (diff - undo) - Link: ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.tabelaperiodica.hpg.ig.com.br/ (6087, 6, 1, 1) gperiodic.seul.org/ (6087, 10, 1, 1) www.chemicalelements.com (6087, 225, 1, 1) www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html (6087, 1309, 0, 0) tabelaperiodicavirtual.googlepages.com/ (6087, 9, 1, 1) ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/ (6087, 9, 1, 1) www.webelements (6087, 4, 1, 1)
* 55) 2008-06-05 15:35:18 (UTC): User w:pt:Eric Duff (talk - contribs; 1859) to Tabela periódica (diff - undo) - Link: ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.enodisoft.tk/ (1859, 12, 1, 1) www.webelements.com (1859, 2519, 1, -3) ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/ (1859, 9, 1, 1) tabelaperiodicavirtual.googlepages.com/ (1859, 9, 1, 1) www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html (1859, 1309, 0, 0) www.chemicalelements.com (1859, 225, 1, 1) gperiodic.seul.org/ (1859, 10, 1, 1) www.tabelaperiodica.hpg.ig.com.br/ (1859, 6, 1, 1)
* 56) 2008-06-05 15:35:18 (UTC): User w:pt:Burmeister (talk - contribs; 3607) to Tabela periódica (diff - undo) - Link: ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: www.tabelaperiodica.hpg.ig.com.br/ (3607, 6, 1, 1) gperiodic.seul.org/ (3607, 10, 1, 1) www.chemicalelements.com (3607, 225, 1, 1) www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html (3607, 1309, 0, 0) tabelaperiodicavirtual.googlepages.com/ (3607, 9, 1, 1) ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/ (3607, 9, 1, 1) www.webelements.com (3607, 2519, 0, 0) www.enodisoft.tk/ (3607, 12, 1, 1)
* 57) 2008-06-07 23:12:06 (UTC): User w:pt:Durth (talk - contribs; 1) to Xiaolin Showdown (diff - undo) - Link: www.heylinwarriors.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.heylinwarriors.k6.com.br (1, 1, 1, 1)
* 58) 2008-06-15 19:16:54 (UTC): User w:pt:Delyrios do calypso (talk - contribs; 9) to Banda Calypso (diff - undo) - Link: www.vivemosporcalypso.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.vivemosporcalypso.k6.com.br (9, 1, 1, 1)
* 59) 2008-06-16 00:05:16 (UTC): User w:pt:Guigoo (talk - contribs; 10) to Epica (diff - undo) - Link: www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.brazilianconspiracy.k6.com.br (10, 3, 2, 1)
* 60) 2008-07-18 13:49:53 (UTC): User w:pt:Garavello (talk - contribs; 587) to Tabela periódica (diff - undo) - Link: ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/. * Links added in this diff: gperiodic.seul.org/ (587, 10, 1, 1) www.chemicalelements.com (587, 225, 1, 1) www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/ (587, 1309, 0, 0) tabelaperiodicavirtual.googlepages.com/ (587, 9, 1, 1) ihsoftwares.k6.com.br/ (587, 9, 1, 1) www.webelements.com (587, 2519, 0, 0) www.enodisoft.tk/ (587, 12, 1, 1)
* 61) 2008-07-20 15:11:45 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ciranda de Pedra (2008) (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 62) 2008-07-20 15:13:11 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ciranda de Pedra (2008) (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 63) 2008-07-20 15:13:26 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Meu Nome Não àJohnny (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 64) 2008-07-20 15:13:42 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Meu Nome Não àJohnny (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 65) 2008-07-20 15:14:07 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Alma Gêmea (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 66) 2008-07-20 15:15:26 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Alma Gêmea (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 67) 2008-07-20 15:17:33 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ciranda de Pedra (2008) (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1) www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1) www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
* 68) 2008-07-20 15:18:19 (UTC): User w:pt:Bruneco3 (talk - contribs; 13) to Alma Gêmea (diff - undo) - Link: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br. * Links added in this diff: www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1) www.tammy-calafiori.k6.com.br (13, 15, 11, 1)
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Healthy Heart
Heart Protection Nutritional Supplement Guide:
Following a heart-healthy diet can do a lot to reduce risk, but for a lot of people, it is not enough. Heart-protecting drugs usually come with troublesome side effects, such as fatigue and the chance of liver disease. For some risk factors, like homocysteine and low-density lipoprotein prescriptive drugs are not available.
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HEART HEALTH FACTORS TO BE AWARE OF:
I. Total Cholesterol: Desirable cholesterol is below 200; borderline high is between 200 and 239; large is 240 and over.
Beneficial Nutritional Supplements:
Plant sterols. Beta-sitosterol and other plant sterols have a chemical structure similar to that of cholesterol, which allows them to decrease the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine. Several studies have found that Bat Removal plant sterols can lower cholesterol levels by an average of 6 to 8 per cent. Take sterol supplements two to three times a day, products labeled plant sterols, phytosterols, or beta-sitosterol.
Niacin: This form of vitamin B-3 has been known since the 1950’s to decrease cholesterol levels. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration for reducing cholesterol, it’s sold both by prescription and over the counter. As powerful as niacin is, it triggers the release of histamine, which frequently will turn the skin beet red and tingly for about an hour. If you continue taking niacin, the intense flushing episodes should eventually facilitate. Once or twice a day and work up to 500 to 1,000 mg. Three times per day.
Coenzyme Q10: Individuals who must take statin drugs should also take 100 to 200 mg. Of CoQ10 a day because statins can deplete the body’s natural source.
Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) Cholesterol: Small, dense LDL globules are a lot more likely to cause blood clots than are larger, less dense ones. And when a person’s antioxidant intake is reduced, LDL oxidation increases, which seems to be a vital step in the progression of heart disease. If total LDL is high, it may be smart to have another blood test to find out which type predominates.
Take sterol supplements 2 to 3 times a day, products labeled plant sterols, phytosterols, or beta-sitosterol.
Vitamin E: Won’t lower LDL, but will curb its inclination to promote cardiovascular disease. Contrary to common thinking, LDL is not entirely bad – it’s needed to transport fat-soluble nutrients, such as vitamin E and coenzyme Q10, throughout the bloodstream.
Dietary Options: To reduce LDL, reduce your intake of saturated fat (in fatty meats and dairy products) and avoid processed foods containing trans fats such as most shortenings, partially hydrogenated oils, and most cookies and crackers on the market.
High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Cholesterol: HDL is widely considered the “good” form of cholesterol, mainly because it helps transfer the LDL or bad cholesterol to the liver where the LDL is then processed for excretion. The higher your HDL levels, the lower your risk of heart disease.
/dL or greater for women and 45 mg/dL or higher for men.
L-carnitine: A part of protein, is highly recommended.
Fish Oil “Omega 3” Supplements: Contain eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) – both essential dietary fats that boost HDL. They are also powerful blood thinners so that they stop clotting, and they help to regulate heart rhythm.
Niacin: A form of vitamin B-3, will raise HDL levels. You may experience an extreme one-hour flushing sensation after your take it.
Dietary Options: To boost HDL, don’t worry too much on fats, particularly heart-healthy fish oils and olive oil. Low-fat diets, long suggested to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, actually lower HDL levels. Cut back on refined carbs, which can decrease HDL.
Triglycerides: Triglycerides really account for many fat found in the blood and in body fat. A higher ratio of triglycerides to HDL has been associated with a significant increase in heart attack risk.
or less. Levels of 150 to 199 mg. are borderline high, and 200 mg. and above are considered high.
Beneficial Nutritional Supplements:
Fish Oil Supplements: Can lead to remarkable reductions in triglyceride levels. In some studies, plant sterols have also been shown to reduce triglycerides.
Dietary Options: Triglyceride levels are directly linked to the quantity of refined carbohydrates you eat, so reduce your consumption of table sugar, white bread, cookies and other sweets, refined pasta, and bagels, and focus instead on whole grains.
Homocysteine: Homocysteine is normally a short-lived byproduct of protein metabolism – it is only when levels become elevated that they cause trouble. If you eat lots of veggies, particularly those that include folic acid such as spinach, romaine lettuce, and other greens, there is a great chance that your homocysteine is at healthy levels.
The American Heart Association considers normal levels to be from 5 to 15 micromoles per liter of blood. Ideal levels are under 7.
Beneficial Nutritional Supplements:
Three B Vitamins are particularly helpful in breaking down homocysteine: folic acid (1,000 to 5,000 mcg. daily), vitamin B-6 (25 to 50 mg. daily), and vitamin B-12 (2,000 mcg. daily.)
Dietary Options: Load up on leafy greens: spinach, romaine lettuce.
V. Glucose Tolerance
Beneficial Nutritional Supplements: Many supplements can help lower and stabilize glucose and insulin levels, but if you already take glucose-regulating drugs, be certain to work with your doctor to adjust their dosage.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid: An antioxidant, is widely used in Germany to treat peripheral neuropathy, a nerve disease caused by diabetes. Studies have found that it can lower both insulin and glucose levels. Take 100 to 300 mg. daily.
Chromium Picolinate: An essential mineral, has been shown to lower glucose and cholesterol levels. Take 400 to 1,000 mcg. daily.
Cinnamon: Can lower fasting glucose, total cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.
Ginseng Supplements: 1 to 3 grams of American ginseng (Panax quinqufolius L.) significantly reduced the rise in blood glucose.
Silymarin: The antioxidant-rich extract of milk thistle, is famous for increasing liver action. Italian researchers found that 600 mg. Of silymarin daily reduced several important measures of glucose tolerance, including fasting glucose and insulin, over the course of a year.
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To start off, aim to do ab work 3 or 4 times a week on non-consecutive days with at least 24 hours of rest in between sessions, says Gagliardi. During those sessions, you can start with simpler moves like crunches, bicycle crunches, and planks. Even though you may only be directly targeting your abs 3 or 4 times a week, you should still be activating your core (aka, tightening your ab muscles) in every workout you do, says Gagliardi.
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Have you ever decided to skip a meal to cut back on your daily calorie count? Despite saving a few calories in the moment, this strategy almost always backfires. When you skip breakfast, or any meal, you'll begin to experience excessive hunger that can lead to craving unhealthy foods—and lots of them. You may also eat faster than you normally do after skipping a meal, causing you to miss the warning signs that you're full and resulting in overeating.
This drug is an injected variant of a satiety hormone called GLP-1. It slows down how quickly the stomach empties and tells the brain that you don’t need to eat yet – a great idea for losing weight. As a bonus this drug works fine while one is on the keto diet and it works even better with intermittent fasting – for a rapid weight loss with no hunger.
14 ways to lose weight without diet or exercise Strict diets can be challenging to follow, and people may not always have the time or ability to exercise. However, a variety of simple lifestyle changes can help people lose weight and improve their health. These include taking probiotics, getting enough sleep, and thoroughly chewing food. Learn more here. Read now
The 30-Day Shred workout was designed by celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels. This weight loss DVD comprises three 20-minute circuit training workouts that are based on Jillian's 3-2-1 interval method. Each circuit alternates among three minutes of strength training, two minutes of cardio and one minute of core work to effectively burn fat and lose up to 20 pounds within 30 days. In order to lose weight with Jillian's 30-Day Shred series, you'll need to incorporate a sensible diet that allows you to consume the appropriate amount of calories and healthy foods in order to reduce body fat.
Spending more time in the kitchen can help you shed belly fat, as long as you’re cooking with the right foods, according to one 2017 study. After analyzing data from more than 11,000 men and women, UK researchers found that people who ate more than five homemade meals per week were 28 percent less likely to have a high body mass index, and 24 percent less likely to carry too much body fat than those whole only downed three meals at home.
Some people feel better supplementing the already active T3 (sometimes prepared from pig thyroid glands), as it can give a stronger effect than the T4 hormone, but its effect is often harder to control. Swedish healthcare rarely prescribes or offers such T3 treatment, as it often lacks advantages and may pose a risk when doses are high for an extended period of time.
There’s one caveat, though: Don’t train your abs. (You’re welcome.) While you need to work abs most weeks, the point of workouts at this stage is to get the muscles that pump up well to swell further with increased glycogen storage. Since abs don’t get pumped like biceps or shoulders, it doesn’t make sense to drive glycogen into them—in fact, doing so can cause them to inflate too much, blurring definition.
Most low-carb diets advocate replacing carbs with protein and fat, which could have some negative long-term effects on your health. If you do try a low-carb diet, you can reduce your risks and limit your intake of saturated and trans fats by choosing lean meats, fish and vegetarian sources of protein, low-fat dairy products, and eating plenty of leafy green and non-starchy vegetables.
I love the book! Very easy to follow with a large variation of foods to choose from. Dr. Ian breaks down each phase of the plan and offers menu suggestions to follow. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend and other buyers looking to lose weight! Absolutely nothing boring about this diet plan - love it. I'm going on week 3 and I have lost 14.5 lbs.!
This is ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in meters. This parameter helps doctors judge whether the person will suffer from heart disease or strokes. Those having a BMI of 25-29.9 are considered overweight and those with a BMI of 30 are considered obese. However, this parameter is not always accurate in measuring belly fat. In fact, you can measure your belly fat with a measuring tape in front of the mirror, and set your own targets to reduce belly fat. Looking at the mirror and checking regularly will motivate you to lose the unhealthy fat lining your abdomen.
Intermittent fasting -- here's a thorough guide to intermittent fasting -- is not a diet, although you can follow an intermittent fasting schedule in conjunction with a calorie reduction plan. It's just a different way of eating -- and a great way to burn more fat and change your body composition and shift your muscle to fat ratio toward a greater percentage of muscle.
After somewhere between three and five hours, your body stops processing its last meal. There's nothing left to absorb, so insulin levels naturally decrease. Then, somewhere between eight and 12 hours after that last meal, your body starts burning stored fat. (Why don't you start burning fat sooner? Biology is sometimes a pain in the ass; it's like our bodies will do anything to hang on to fat.)
"Crash diets (dramatically cutting down how much you eat) might help you to lose a few pounds at first, but they’re hard to sustain and won’t help you keep the weight off. It might seem like a quick and easy option, but eating too few calories can actually do more harm than good. If your calorie intake dips too low, your body could go into starvation mode. This will slow down your metabolism, making it harder for your body to lose weight. Make sensible, healthy changes to your lifestyle that you can stick to and avoid the fad diets."
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High Availability
pfSense is one of very few open source solutions offering enterprise-class high availability capabilities with stateful failover, allowing the elimination of the firewall as a single point of failure. High Availability is achieved through a combination of features:
• CARP for IP address redundancy
• XMLRPC for configuration synchronization
• pfsync for state table synchronization
With this configuration, units act as an “active/passive” cluster with the primary node working as the master unit and the secondary node in a backup role, taking over as needed if the primary node fails.
Though often erroneously called a “CARP Cluster”, two or more redundant pfSense firewalls are more aptly titled a “High Availability Cluster” or “HA Cluster”, since CARP is only one of several technologies used to achieve High Availability with pfSense, and in the future CARP could be swapped for a different redundancy protocol.
One interface on each cluster node will be dedicated for synchronization tasks. This is typically referred to as the “Sync” interface, and it is used for configuration synchronization and pfsync state synchronization. Any available interface may be used.
Note
Some call this the “CARP” interface but that is incorrect and very misleading. CARP heartbeats happen on each interface with a CARP VIP; CARP traffic and failover actions do not utilize the Sync interface.
The most common High Availability cluster configuration includes only two nodes. It is possible to have more nodes in a cluster, but they do not provide a significant advantage.
It is important to distinguish between the three functions (IP address redundancy, configuration synchronization, and state table synchronization), because they happen in different places. Configuration synchronization and state synchronization happen on the sync interface, directly communicating between firewall units. CARP heartbeats are sent on each interface with a CARP VIP. Failover signaling does not happen on the sync interface, but rather it happens on every CARP-enabled interface.
See also
For additional information, you may access the Hangouts Archive which contains the June 2015 Hangout also covering High Availability.
CARP Overview
Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) was created by OpenBSD developers as a free, open redundancy solution for sharing IP addresses among a group of network devices. Similar solutions already existed, primarily the IETF standard for Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). However Cisco claims VRRP is covered by its patent on their Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), and told the OpenBSD developers that it would enforce its patent. Hence, the OpenBSD developers created a new free, open protocol to accomplish essentially the same result without infringing on Cisco’s patent. CARP became available in October 2003 in OpenBSD, and was later added to FreeBSD as well.
A CARP type Virtual IP address (VIP) is shared between nodes of a cluster. One node is master and receives traffic for the IP address, and the other nodes maintain backup status and monitor for heartbeats to see if they need to assume the master role if the previous master fails. Since only one member of the cluster at a time is using the IP address, there is no IP address conflict for CARP VIPs.
In order for failover to work properly it is important that inbound traffic coming to the cluster, such as routed upstream traffic, VPNs, NAT, local client gateway, DNS requests, etc., be sent to a CARP VIP and for outgoing traffic such as Outbound NAT to be sent from a CARP VIP. If traffic is addressed to a node directly and not a CARP VIP, then that traffic will not be picked up by other nodes.
CARP works similar to VRRP and HSRP, and may even conflict in some cases. Heartbeats are sent out on each interface containing a CARP VIP, one heartbeat per VIP per interface. At the default values for skew and base, a VIP sends out heartbeats about once per second. The skew determines which node is master at a given point in time. Whichever node transmits heartbeats the fastest assumes the master role. A higher skew value causes heartbeats to be transmitted with more delay, so a node with a lower skew will be the master unless a network or other issue causes the heartbeats to be delayed or lost.
Note
Never access the firewall GUI, SSH, or other management mechanism using a CARP VIP. For management purposes, only use the actual IP address on the interface of each separate node and not the VIP. Otherwise it cannot be determined beforehand which unit is being accessed.
IP Address Requirements for CARP
A High Availability cluster using CARP needs three IP addresses in each subnet along with a separate unused subnet for the Sync interface. For WANs, this means that a /29 subnet or larger is required for an optimal configuration. One IP address is used by each node, plus a shared CARP VIP address for failover. The synchronization interface only requires one IP address per node.
It is technically possible to configure an interface with a CARP VIP as the only IP address in a given subnet, but it is not generally recommended. When used on a WAN, this type of configuration will only allow communication from the primary node to the WAN, which greatly complicates tasks such as updates, package installations, gateway monitoring, or anything that requires external connectivity from the secondary node. It can be a better fit for an internal interface, however internal interfaces do not typically suffer from the same IP address limitations as a WAN, so it is still preferable to configure IP addresses on all nodes.
Switch/Layer 2 Concerns
CARP heartbeats utilize multicast and may require special handling on the switches involved with the cluster. Some switches filter, rate limit, or otherwise interfere with multicast in ways that can cause CARP to fail. Also, some switches employ port security methods which may not work properly with CARP.
At a minimum, the switch must:
• Allow Multicast traffic to be sent and received without interference on ports using CARP VIPs.
• Allow traffic to be sent and received using multiple MAC addresses.
• Allow the CARP VIP MAC address to move between ports.
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Scenario SQL query change trigger
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davidmakovoz
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Scenario SQL query change trigger
I already posted this question earlier , but perhaps it wasn't clear, so I'll try to be more precise here.
Custom python trigger code uses t.fire() to trigger the scenario when the condition is met.
What is the equivalent of that t.fire() in the SQL query change trigger?
Thank you
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fchataigner2
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from the UI, Administration > Maintenance > Logs is the way. Otherwise, they're in the run/ folder of your DSS data directory.
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Hi,
a "sql query change" trigger initiates a run of the scenario if it detects a change in the data returned by the query, be it in the number of rows returned or the values returned. Typically, such a trigger is used with a query that aggregates a table, like computing a row count, or a max of a timestamp column.
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@fchataigner2 thank you for your reply. I don't like creating duplicate entries, but here is what I posted in the first one (link above):
I have two triggers: a SQL query change trigger and a python Custom trigger.
They both check the same table dataiku_poc.CMR_CAMP_COPY
Here is what I have in the SQL query change trigger
select count(*) from dataiku_poc.CMR_CAMP_COPY;
Here is what I have in the python Custom Trigger
import dataiku
from dataiku import pandasutils as pdu
import pandas as pd
from dataiku.scenario import Trigger
mydataset = dataiku.Dataset("CMR_CAMP_COPY")
mydataset_df = mydataset.get_dataframe()
p = dataiku.Project()
variables = p.get_variables()
CMR_count = int(variables["local"]["CMR_count"])
t = Trigger()
new_count = len(mydataset_df)
if new_count != CMR_count:
variables["local"]["CMR_count"] = new_count
p.set_variables(variables)
t.fire()
Both triggers have Run every 10 seconds, Grace period 0 seconds.
Every time I delete or insert rows in the table the python Custom trigger is triggered and the SQL never triggers.
What I am doing wrong? Is there a way to troubleshoot it?
Thank you
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the setup of the sql trigger looks fine, so maybe 1) check that the query runs in a notebook and returns results and 2) check the backend.log of the instance for exceptions in case some arise in the context of ActiveTriggerLifecycleThread threads (there is no proper debug of these triggers). You can also check the scenario's charts to see if the only triggers firing are the python ones
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I did make sure the SQL runs in the notebook, and I've been constantly checking Last Runs to see if the SQL trigger triggered.
Where do I find backend.log?
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from the UI, Administration > Maintenance > Logs is the way. Otherwise, they're in the run/ folder of your DSS data directory.
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Heinz Otto Sibum (29 March 1956) is a German historian of science, Hans Rausing Professor and Director of the Office for History of Science at the University of Uppsala.
Biography
H. Otto Sibum holds a doctoral degree in physics (Dr.rer.nat.) from Oldenburg University (1989) and his habilitation in history from the TU Braunschweig (2001). He has been Director of Research at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin (1998 – 2007) as well as Research Associate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (1991-1995). He was awarded best teacher at British Universities for his teaching of history of science at Cambridge University (1992) and has received various scholarly awards like the Paul-Bunge-Prize (1994) for the best publication in history of science, as well as the scientific excellence grant from the Max Planck Society, Germany (1998). He was a visiting researcher and professor at various institutions: Cambridge University, Tel Aviv University, Professeur invité (directeur de recherche) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2008), visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (2008, 2009, 2010) and at Si-Mian Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at East China Normal University, Shanghai (2010).
Research
Otto Sibum’s research covers the history of the physical sciences from the 18th century until present. His studies are dedicated to exploring new approaches in social and cultural history of the sciences. He has recently worked on laboratory practices, instruments and the historical experiment in research.
Selected publications
* Ed, The Heavens on Earth. Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture (co-editors David Aubin and Charlotte Bigg), Duke University Press 2010
* ”Historians and the Study of Material Culture”, AHR Conversation with L. Auslander, Amy Bentley, H. Leor, H. O. Sibum, C. Witmore, The American Historical Review, vol. 114, no. 5, 2009, 1355-1404.
* Ed, Science and the Changing Senses of Reality circa 1900, Special volume of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 39 (3) Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008, 295 - 458
* Changing Tastes: How Things Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now, with Steven Shapin, Uppsala Universitet, 2011.
* “From the Library to the Laboratory and Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for Historians of Science”, with Fors, H., Principe, L., Ambix, 63(2): 85-97, 2016. | WIKI |
Clay Knobloch
Henry Clay Knobloch, also spelled Knoblock, (November 25, 1839 – May 19, 1903) was the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1885 to 1889 serving under Governor Samuel D. McEnery.
Early life and Civil War
Knobloch was from Thibodaux, Louisiana and he served in the American Civil War as Sergeant of Company I of the 26th Louisiana Infantry in the Confederate Army. In 1867, Knobloch married Flavia Knight.
Political career
Knobloch was a supporter of the McEnery faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party. In 1884 Knobloch ran for and was elected Lieutenant Governor but he was defeated in the Democratic Primary when he ran for reelection in 1888. He lost to James Jeffries who was affiliated with the Nicholls faction of the party, even losing his own parish. He blamed his defeat in Lafourche Parish on State Senator E.A. O'Sullivan who represented the Parish in the legislature. In February 1889 they came to blows on the streets of Thibodaux and one week later Knobloch challenged O'Sullivan to a duel. They met on the dueling grounds at the Oaks in New Orleans on March 1, 1889, with O'Sullivan choosing swords as the method for the duel. When the parties were assembled at the Oaks, it was determined that the ground was too wet with dew to allow sword fighting and after a brief parley, the dispute was resolved without violence.
Death
Knobloch was shot and killed on May 18, 1903, in downtown Thibodaux, Louisiana by barber James Cherault. Evidence from a preliminary hearing showed the men quarreled over a woman, and Cherault shot Knobloch in self-defense. | WIKI |
How do I do regular expression in Java?
This example demonstrates how we do regular expression in Java. The regular expression classes is in the java.uti.regex package. The main class including the java.util.regex.Pattern class and the java.util.regex.Matcher class.
In this example we are only testing to match a string literal if it is exists in the following sentence, we are searching the word “lazy”.
package org.kodejava.example.regex;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class RegexDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
/*
* To create a Pattern instance we must call the static method
* called compile() in the Pattern class. Pattern object is
* the compiled representation of a regular expression.
*/
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("lazy");
/*
* The Matcher class also doesn't have the public constructor
* so to create a matcher call the Pattern's class matcher()
* method. The Matcher object it self is the engine that match
* the input string against the provided pattern.
*/
String input = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.format("Text \"%s\" found at %d to %d.%n",
matcher.group(), matcher.start(), matcher.end());
}
}
}
The output of the code snippet above is:
Text "lazy" found at 35 to 39.
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Timoleague Friary
Timoleague Friary (Mainistir Thigh Molaga), also known as Timoleague Abbey, is a ruined medieval Franciscan friary in Timoleague, County Cork, Ireland, on the banks of the Argideen River overlooking Courtmacsherry Bay. It was built on the site of an early Christian monastic site founded by Saint Molaga, from whom the town of Timoleague derives its name. The present remains date from roughly the turn of the fourteenth century and were burnt down by British forces in the mid-seventeenth century, at which point it was an important ecclesiastical centre that engaged in significant trade with Spain.
The friary is the largest medieval ruin in West Cork and one of the few early Franciscan friaries in Ireland to have substantial ruins. It is claustral in layout, and built in the Early English Gothic architectural style. It contains several elements atypical of Franciscan architecture of the period, including wall passages and exterior access to its upper floor. It was significantly altered in the early 16th and early 17th centuries. Several historical artefacts are associated with the friary, and during the Romantic era it was depicted in several notable artworks.
Monastic site
The friary sits on a monastic site dedicated to Saint Molaga dating to either the 6th or 7th century. According to legend, this settlement was originally to be formed a mile west of Timoleague, but all work done on that site by day would fall down by morning. Interpreting this as God's will that the friary be built elsewhere, Molaga supposedly placed a blessed candle on a sheaf of corn, and set it down the Argideen River, building his settlement on the spot that it came ashore, in an area overlooking Courtmacsherry Bay. The town derives its Irish name, Teach Molaga or "Molaga's House" from the saint.
Foundation and early history
The date of foundation by the Franciscans is disputed. Documentary evidence places the foundation of the friary between 1307 and 1316, though physical evidence suggests that a preexisting 13th-century building was incorporated into the site. According to the Annals of the Four Masters, the friary was founded in 1240 by the MacCarthy Reagh family. This has been identified as possibly being too early. Some sources ascribe this claimed foundation to Domhnall Got MacCarthy, while others claim that Got MacCarthy merely expanded the friary anywhere between 1312 and 1366. Domhnall's grandson, Domhnall Glas MacCarthy, is also thought to have been a patron of the friary. Samuel Lewis, in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland... (1837) writes that the MacCarthy's founded the friary in 1312. The friary's foundation has also been attributed to the Anglo-Norman de Barry family in the early 14th century. Though the friars were well established in Timoleague by 1320, the earliest surviving parts of the ruined friary date from later in the 14th century. It is likely that they were based in Timoleague Castle prior to the construction of the friary.
By the 15th century, the friary was recognised as a centre of learning, and also as an important ecclesiastical centre. In 1460, Timoleague became one of the first houses in the Franciscan order to recognise the observantine reform. Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh, also known as "Blessed Thaddeus", is said to have been educated by the friars in Timoleague around this time. According to the Annals of Ulster, in 1505 Patrick Ó Feidhil, a famous preacher in Ireland and Scotland, was buried in the friary.
An important patron of the church was Bishop John Edmond de Courcy, along with his nephew James, 8th Baron Kingsale. They funded the construction of the Gothic style bell tower, the infirmary, the library, and one of the dormitories. De Courcy had been a friar in Timoleague before being made a bishop. The tower was added between 1510 and 1518. They also contributed to the friary's collection of plate. John de Courcy was buried in the transept of the friary, but in the Cromwellian period his grave was desecrated and his bones thrown into the estuary.
Despite the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540 by Henry VIII, the friars remained in Timoleague. In 1568, the friary was seized by crown forces, and in 1577 was granted to James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant. Despite this, Timoleague remained an important centre for the training of the novitiate until the late 1580s. In 1590, the Protestant Bishop of Cork ordered materials to be taken from the friar's mill to be used in the construction of a new mill he was building, but the river flooded and swept away all progress on the new mill. In 1596, the friary's wooden cells were removed and were being transported by ship, but the ship sank in a storm. After the succession of James I, the friary was reclaimed by Catholics in 1603, and was repaired in its entirety by the end of 1604. During these repairs, significant changes were made to the architecture of the friary.
Abandonment and destruction
In 1612, Bishop Lyons came to Timoleague to disperse the friars but was repelled by an Irish force led by Daniel O'Sullivan. Though the friary had reportedly been re-edified by 1613, by the time of Donatus Mooney's visit in 1616, the friary could no longer be considered genuinely inhabited. In 1629, four years after the death of King James, Richard Boyle was named Lord Justice and instigated the closure of religious buildings across Cork, putting increasing pressure on the friary. It is assumed, however, that the friary was already largely abandoned by the Franciscans by this point, as the guardian appointed to the friary, Eugenius Fildaeus, was appointed in Limerick, in Loco refugii. By 1631 the friary had been largely plundered by Protestant settlers.
Despite these accounts, the friary was reportedly renowned for its School of Philosophy, established in 1620 and led by Owen O'Fihelly. Furthermore, in 1629 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh reportedly transcribed material from the Book of Lismore in the friary library.
The friary was eventually burnt down by crown forces in July 1642, when a force led by Lord Kinelmeaky failed to capture Timoleague Castle and instead burnt the friary and much of the town. Franciscan houses were commonly founded at trading ports, and Timoleague is no exception: the friary at one time engaged in significant trade with France, and in particular, Spain. The monks likely traded Irish agricultural goods such as hides, butter, timber, and corn in exchange for wine: an account of the burning of the friary states that: "We burnt all the towne, and their great Abbey, in which was some thousand barrels of wine." The destruction of the friary led to a significant downturn in the financial development of the town.
As ruins
After the friary was burnt, local families began to bury their dead within the friary regardless of status, something which previously had only been done for prominent local families. Despite the burning of the friary, the Franciscan community of Timoleague survived for close to two centuries. In 1696 four friars were reportedly living in the ruined monastery. Though the Franciscan community dispersed by the mid-eighteenth century, individual friars remained in the area for several more decades. The last Franciscan friar working in the area was Fr Edmund Tobin (also known as Bonaventure Tobin), who died circa 1822. The Franciscans appointed titular guardians of the friary up until 1872. The last guardian of Timoleague friary was Patrick Carey. Interest in the friary was renewed during the Romantic era of the early 19th century, and many paintings and sketches of the friary exist from this period. On 15 January 1848, Fr Matt Horgan, writing under the pen-name "Viator", wrote the following which was released in the Cork Examiner:
"'The walls [of the friary] are washed by the tide and some large breaches are already made in the burying ground, much to the disgrace of the lord of the soil, who must be either some heartless absentee, or a Gothic resident, having no feeling of fatherland; irrespective of its history or monuments, thinking only of bullocks, and knowing nothing, and caring less for the arts; blind to the beauties, with heart closed against the romance and poetry of the glorious past, and its mute but still eloquent memorials.'"
Soon after the publication of these remarks, Colonel Robert Travers, the so-called "lord of the soil", had the walls of the friary grounds replaced, and a road built between them and the sea, all at his own expense. In 1891, mass was celebrated in the friary for the first time since it was burnt down 249 years prior. One of the Timoleague chalices (the Dale-Browne Chalice) was used on the occasion. In 1892, Denham Franklin wrote that
"'The preservation of the abbey is mainly due to the care bestowed on it by the family of the present proprietor of Timoleague, Mr. Robert Travers, who did not allow the depredations unfortunately too common on our ancient buildings.'"
In 1920, in response to the murder of three police officers by Irish nationalists, British soldiers desecrated the friary's burial ground. Burial vaults were opened, and the flags that had been draped over the coffins within were torn and cast aside. Coffins were opened, and in some cases, human remains were left visible.
The friary has been listed as a discovery point on the Wild Atlantic Way since it was established in 2014. Irish-language writer Máire Ní Shíthe was interred in the friary in an unmarked grave in 1955. In 2016 the location of her burial was identified, and a commemorative stone placed above it.
Architecture
The friary is the largest medieval ruin in West Cork. The use of locally available freestone was typical in the construction of Franciscan friaries of the period, and Timoleague Friary is no exception, having been made from locally sourced slate, quarried in nearby Borleigh. Built in the Early English Gothic architectural style, the architectural details are quite plain. Despite the extensive standing remains, the friary was once much larger than it is today. Records show that in the late 1500s the friary had a mill attached to the main structure, and that the monastery stood on a 4.5 acre site — four times larger than what is left of the friary grounds today.
At the entrance to the nave, now used as the main entrance to the friary, a fleur-de-lis is engraved on the left jamb. The doorway features simple mouldings, features of the Perpendicular Gothic period. The original monks were likely French-speaking, and would have used the fleur-de-lis as an aid to describing the Holy Trinity. A small recess above the door was used to hold either a sculpture or other religious imagery. The nave was considerably smaller when the friary was first constructed; it features an arcade of six arches, only three of which are original.
A leprosarium was located in Spittal, a nearby townland, and as a result, the south window of the transept was known as the "Leper's Hole" or "Lepers' Window" — a gap through which sufferers of leprosy could see and hear the service, and partake in the Blessed Sacrament. The window is narrower on the outside than it is on the inside, and the Eucharist was likely passed out by the monks on a spoon so as to avoid contact with a disease which was considered highly contagious at the time.
The choir is the oldest part of the friary and may have originally been an early 13th-century castle or church that the Franciscans later added to. It is notably tall and features unusual components such as long arches and triforium wall passages. It features four widely splayed arched recesses in the north and south walls, separated by piers, one of which is now covered by the base of the tower. The recess nearest the east gable contained the sedilia. A niche on the northern wall once contained an altar in memory of the de Courcey family. The great window in the choir faces east, and once contained elaborate stained glass imagery. The graves of the McCarthy Reagh family are also located here.
The sacristy features a bullaun stone, commonly known as a “wart well” as the water in the depression was said to heal warts. This stone is far older than any other aspect of the friary, and may have originally been associated with the original 6th or 7th century monastic site.
One of the protruding stones on the exterior wall is known as "St Molaga's Head". A gift given by French sailors as thanksgiving for safe harbour following a storm at sea, it was originally a sculpture of Molaga's head, but the facial features have been completely eroded.
A room generally considered to have been the library is the only section of the friary not in use as a burial ground. This may have been the place of residence of the friars who remained in Timoleague after the destruction of the friary. The windows present in the remaining ground floor of this room would not have been sufficient for literary work, and the library was actually more likely to have been on the upper floor.
When Donatus Mooney visited the friary in the 17th century, he noted that the ceilings above the refectory and the chapter room were supported by beams of carved oak. The chapter room may have at one time been the location of the library, though it was later used for storage purposes. The chamber designated as the refectory is evidenced by traces of a reader's seat and one of the five windows which lighted it.
The friary originally had a cloister, but only a portion of its walls remain standing. It is unclear whether the ambulatory extended along the western side. The cloister and the monk's living quarters are towards the north of the church, which is typical of Irish Franciscan friaries. The cloister quadrangle would have covered an area 32 ft across by 30.5 ft wide. In the south wall of the cloister is an intramural space known locally as "The Fairy Cupboard". In the 1800s, some local children supposedly entered the Fairy Cupboard and discovered a parchment manuscript beneath one of the flagstones, which they used as a football before the remainder was eaten by pigs. Documentary evidence suggests that there was exterior access from the cloister to rooms on the upper floor, which would have been unusual. Though there are no traces of steps, there are indications that the space typically occupied by the chapter room in Franciscan friaries was used as a cellarage, and that the chapter room was located above. A further atypical feature of the friary is that alongside the cloister it has a large outdoor courtyard.
The bell tower is one of fourteen pre-reformation towers built in Franciscan monasteries that still stand today. It is a later addition to the friary, and was erected in the early 16th century. The tower is wider from north to south than from west to east, a feature typical of Franciscan towers. It measures 13 ft from west to east and 15 ft from north to south. Also typical is the abrupt narrowing of the cross-walls from the north and south at the point where the tower begins. The tower is more obviously battered than most Franciscan towers. The tower is battlemented, as are almost all surviving towers. The top of the tower has three merlons rising to each of its four corners.
Book of Lismore
Leabhar Leasa Móir, or the Book of Lismore, also known as Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh, is a 15th-century manuscript with connections to the friary. Though some sources claim that the manuscript was written or partly written in the friary, Professor Pádraig Ó Macháin, an expert on Irish manuscripts, says that that is not the case. It was held in the friary at times, and material from the book was transcribed there by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh in 1629.
Timoleague Chalices
Two 17th century chalices – both of which are referred to as the "Timoleague Chalice" – are associated with the friary. The first, also known as the "Dale-Browne Chalice", or the "Dale Chalice", is made of gilt silver and was created circa. 1600. After the suppression of the monastery, one of the friars supposedly escaped with the chalice, disguised himself and lived as a farmer. His dying wish was that the chalice and his vestments were buried in a box beneath his house and that they remain buried until the friary was restored and the friars had returned. Years later, the box was discovered while the house was undergoing renovations. The contents were given to Franciscans in Cork.
The earlier chalice is engraved with the words "Orate · Pro · Animabvs · Caroli · Dali · Et · Elizie · Browne · TimoLeagve." around the base, which translates as "Pray for the souls of Charles Daly and Elizabeth Browne, Timoleague". It is 8.5 inches tall, with the tulip-shaped bowl measuring 3.25 inches wide and 3 inches deep. Its primary decoration is on one facet of its tall hexagonal foot. It depicts a selection of the Instruments of the Passion: a central cross with a spear to one side and a stick with a sponge on the other. The cross is depicted as the tree of life, with branches sprouting from its tip and base and shamrocks forming its head and arms. The chalice was likely a gift from the Dalys (Elizabeth Browne being Charles' wife) to the friars upon their return to the friary after its suppression in 1568. It is currently held by the Collins Barracks branch of the National Museum of Ireland.
The later chalice, also known as the "Timoleague Franciscan Chalice", is made of gold and may date to c. 1633. When the friary was burned, three friars supposedly fled via rowboat and were found at sea by fishermen from Cape Clear Island, by which time two of them had died. A box was left with the fishermen by the surviving friar, with instructions that they not open it as he would one day return for it, though he never did. It was re-opened in 1860 and found to contain a set of severely deteriorated vestments and a chalice "black with age". The chalice is engraved with the words "ffr'MinConv de Thimolaggi" ("Friars Minor Convent of Timoleague"). In 1892, 250 years after the chalice was removed from the town, it was returned to the parish priest of Timoleague. It has remained in the safekeeping of his successors, and an exact replica of the chalice is on permanent display in the local Catholic church.
In culture
William Ashford depicted the friary several times: first in a pencil sketch, and then again among his earliest landscape works, which include a rough drawing of the friary, titled Timoleague (abbey ruins), which he followed with two 1776 watercolours of the ruins. The Irish writer Seán Ó Coileáin wrote the c. 1913 poem Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich about the ruins. James Hardiman described it as one of the "finest modern poems in the Irish language" in 1831. It has been translated to English several times, including as The Mourner's Soliloquy in the Ruined Abbey of Timoleague and as Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga by Sir Samuel Ferguson. A bronze cast of one of the verses in the original Irish is located at the entrance gate of the ruins. | WIKI |
Alfredo Ovando Candía
Alfredo Ovando Candía (6 April 1918 – 24 January 1982) was the Commander of the Bolivian Air Forces and ambassador who served as the 48th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively, first as co-president with René Barrientos from 1965 to 1966 and then as de facto president from 1969 to 1970.
Early years
Ovando was born in Cobija from an upper-middle-class family of immigrants parents from Extremadura, Spain and Piedmont, Italy. He started his long military career in the early 1930s, when he served in the Chaco War against Paraguay. Originally rather apolitical, he was chosen (among others) to lead the reconstituted Armed Forces of Bolivia in the aftermath of the 1952 Revolution that installed in power the reformist Revolutionary Nationalist Movement party, better known as the MNR. Ovando lived through the relative deprivation, reduced budgets, and loss of prestige of the defeated Bolivian army during the early years of MNR rule. By the early 1960s, President Víctor Paz Estenssoro came to rely more heavily on the military in the face of growing political divisions among the governing elites. Equally as important in this rebirth was the considerable pressure exerted by the United States to modernize and equip the troops for a decidedly more political role: that of fighting possible Cuba-styled Communist insurgencies.
The 1964 coup d'état and the co-presidency
When Paz Estenssoro amended the Constitution in 1964 in order to allow himself to run for re-election (a largely frowned-upon move in the largely personalistic world of Bolivian politics), General Ovando, along with the vice-president and former head of the Air Force René Barrientos, toppled Paz from power. They ruled together in a Junta (sometimes called "The Co-Presidency) until January 1966, when Barrientos resigned in order to register himself as a candidate. At that point Ovando became sole President, leading the country to the elections from which the popular Barrientos emerged victorious. With the new president having taken the oath of office in August 1966, Ovando returned to his post as Commander of the Bolivian Air Forces.
Armed forces commander and president-in-waiting, 1966-69
Uncharismatic but tenacious, Ovando was biding his time, counting on the fact that he would be the logical choice to run for elections once Barrientos' term ended in 1970, perhaps with some electoral "help" from the outgoing administration. Soon, major differences emerged between Ovando and the president, however, especially in regard to the massacre of miners at Siglo XX in June 1967, and the so-called Arguedas Affair of 1968. In early 1967, a guerrilla force had been discovered to be operating in the rural Bolivian southwest under the leadership of the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. While the popular insurgency was eventually crushed by the US-trained Bolivian military troops under American CIA command, Guevara was captured and executed in October 1967. This event fostered a major spin-off scandal that surfaced in 1968. That year, Barrientos' trusted friend and Minister of Interior, Antonio Arguedas, disappeared with the captured diary of Che Guevara, which soon surfaced in Havana. From abroad, Arguedas confessed himself to have been all along a clandestine Marxist supporter, and denounced Barrientos and many of his aides as being on the CIA's payroll. This event embarrassed US military School of the Americas (SOA) graduate Barrientos as a US-controlled puppet, and prompted Ovando to distance himself from the president with an eye to the projected 1970 elections. (The US SOA notoriously trained many Latin American dictators and death squads in counterinsurgency tactics and torture and disappearance techniques).
The worries proved unnecessary, for Barrientos perished in a tragic helicopter crash on 27 April 1969. His vice-president, a little-known Christian-Democrat politician named Luis Adolfo Siles, was sworn as president soon thereafter, in accordance to the Constitution. Siles' poor relations with Ovando led Siles to support the candidacy of the popular Mayor of La Paz, Armando Escobar, as the true successor of the now-constantly eulogized Barrientos, threatening to spoil the carefully laid plans of Ovando. Furthermore, Ovando had been undergoing a political metamorphosis, and had come to conclude that he had to move to the Left in order to be acceptable as president in the ideologically super-charged atmosphere of the late 1960s. The changes he planned to institute could be difficult to enact in the presence of a potentially hostile Congress. For these reasons, Ovando decided not to wait for the elections (which no one could guarantee he could win, with the popular Escobar as candidate) and on 26 September 1969, he executed a coup d'état that overthrew Siles.
The 1969-70 Ovando dictatorship
Ovando's short (13 month) dictatorship was difficult and marked by political violence. Upon taking office, he declared himself in favor of fundamental changes aimed at enhancing the deplorable living conditions of the vast majority of Bolivians. To this end, he nationalized the Bolivian operations of the U.S.-based Gulf Oil Corporation and called on known leftist intellectuals to become part of his cabinet. Ovando also announced his political adherence to the principles espoused by other so-called "leftist military" regimes then in vogue in Latin America, foremost of which were the regimes of Peru's Juan Velasco and Panama's Omar Torrijos.
Ovando's populist stance surprised many conservative members of the Bolivian military and failed to fully satisfy the increasingly more belligerent forces of the Left, especially the workers and students. Worse, the military (in whose name he served) had become polarized, with some sectors supporting the President and even calling for a further leftward turn (General Juan José Torres) and others criticizing Ovando and urging a more conservative, anti-Communist, and pro U.S. stance (General Rogelio Miranda). In June 1970, a new Marxist guerrilla movement emerged in the lowlands near La Paz, this time constituted mostly by Bolivian university students aligned with the outlawed Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army, or ELN). The new guerrilla outbreak was easily controlled, but Ovando's response had been rather vacillating and timid. He offered a generous safe haven to guerrillas who gave up the fight, for example, in contrast to Barrientos' call for "heads on spikes" in 1967. The forces of the right had had enough.
The October 1970 coup and retirement
On 6 October 1970, an anti-government coup d'état took place via a junta of commanders of the Bolivian Military. However, the polarized forces of the military were evenly split. Much blood was shed on the streets of various major cities, with garrisons fighting each other on behalf of one camp or the other. Eventually, President Ovando sought asylum in a foreign embassy, believing all hope was lost. But the leftist military forces re-asserted themselves under the combative leadership of General Juan José Torres, and eventually triumphed. Embarrassed by his quick abandonment of the fight, and worn out by 13 grueling months in office, Ovando agreed to leave the presidency in the hands of his friend, General Torres. The latter was sworn in and rewarded Ovando with the Bolivian ambassadorship to Spain. Ovando remained in Madrid until 1978, when he returned to Bolivia. In his latter years, he supported the progressive UDP alliance of former President Hernán Siles, but otherwise never participated in active politics again. He died in La Paz on 4 January 1982, at the age of 63. His wife died in 2014. | WIKI |
Kue cucur
Kue cucur (Indonesian) or kuih cucur (Malay), known in Thai as khanom fak bua (ขนมฝักบัว, ) or khanom chuchun (ขนมจู้จุน or จูจุ่น), is a traditional snack from Indonesia, and popular in parts of Southeast Asia, includes Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore. In Indonesia, kue cucur can be found throughout traditional marketplaces in the country; the popular version, however, is the Betawi version from Jakarta. In Brunei and Malaysia, the term cucur is generally used to refer to any type of fritters. A popular type of cucur in Brunei and Malaysia is Jemput-jemput (also known as Cokodok) and Pinjaram (also known as Kuih cucur gula merah/melaka). In Southern Thailand, it is often featured in wedding ceremonies and festivals.
The dessert, made of fried rice flour mixed with palm sugar, is thick in the middle and thin at the edges. Thai people believe that it is similar to the lotus which can grow in poor conditions. Thus, it is like the love of a newly married couple that will smoothly grow up and succeed in married life. Thai people like to use it at a wedding or propitious ceremony, or at any festival. Sometimes it is given as a gift. Normally, Thai people like to eat it immediately after it is fried because it is still soft and colorful, and smells good. If it is left for an hour, it will be sticky, stiff and full of oil. | WIKI |
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CHAP. V. GREAT CHAITYA AT KARLE. 147 Mahayana school ; the larger pairs of figures, however, are earlier and may be original. The later inscriptions are of the time of the Andhra king Pulumavi (dr. A.D. 150). The presence of the woodwork is an additional proof, if any were wanted, that there were no arches of construction in any of these Buddhist buildings. There neither were nor are any in any Indian building anterior to the Muhammadan conquest, and very few indeed in any Hindu building afterwards. To return, however, to Karle, the outer porch is considerably wider than the body of the building, being 52 ft. wide by 15 ft. deep, and is closed in front by a screen composed of two stout octagonal pillars, without either base or capital, supporting what is now a plain mass of rock, but which was once ornamented by a wooden gallery forming the principal ornament of the facade. Above this a dwarf colonnade or attic of four columns between pilasters admitted light to the great window, and this again was surmounted by a wooden cornice or ornament of some sort, though we cannot now restore it, since only the mortices remain that attached it to the rock. In advance of this screen stands the lion-pillar, in this instance a plain shaft with sixteen flutes, or rather faces, surmounted by a capital not unlike that at Kesariya (Woodcut No. 7), but at Karle supporting four lions instead of one, and, for reasons given above (p. 60), they seem almost certainly to have supported a chakra or Buddhist wheel (Woodcut No. 8). A similar pillar probably stood on the opposite side, but it had either fallen or been removed to make way for the little Hindu temple that now occupies its place. The absence of the wooden ornaments of the external porch, as well as our ignorance of the mode in which this temple was finished laterally, and the porch joined to the main temple, prevents us from judging what the effect of the front would have been if belonging to a free-standing building. But the proportions of such parts as remain are so good, and the effect of the whole so pleasing, that there can be little hesitation in ascribing to such a design a tolerably high rank among architectural compositions. Of the interior we can judge perfectly, and it certainly is as solemn and grand as any interior can well be, and the mode of lighting the most perfect one undivided volume of light coming through a single opening overhead at a very favourable angle, and falling directly on the dagaba or principal object in the building, leaving the rest in comparative obscurity. The effect is considerably heightened by the closely set thick columns that divide the aisles from the nave, as they suffice to prevent the boundary walls from ever being seen, and, | WIKI |
2018 Special Honours
As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Hereditary Peerage
* His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David, to be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel – 19 May 2018
Conservative Party
* Diana Barran,, to be Baroness Barran, of Bathwick in the City of Bath – 21 June 2018
* The Rt Hon. Sir Edward Garnier,, to be Baron Garnier, of Harborough in the County of Leicestershire – 22 June 2018
* The Rt Hon. Sir Alan Haselhurst, to be Baron Haselhurst, of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex – 22 June 2018
* The Rt Hon. Peter Lilley, to be Baron Lilley, of Offa in the County of Hertfordshire – 19 June 2018
* Catherine Meyer (Lady Meyer), to be Baroness Meyer, of Nine Elms in the London Borough of Wandsworth – 19 June 2018
* The Rt Hon. Sir Eric Pickles, to be Baron Pickles, of Brentwood and Ongar in the County of Essex – 19 June 2018
* The Rt Hon. Sir John Randall, to be Baron Randall of Uxbridge, of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon – 25 June 2018
* Amanda Sater, to be Baroness Sater, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – 21 June 2018
Labour Party
* Martha Osamor, to be Baroness Osamor, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey and of Asaba in the Republic of Nigeria - 25 November 2018
* Pauline Bryan, to be Baroness Bryan of Partick, of Partick in the City of Glasgow – 21 June 2018
* Iain McNicol, to be Baron McNicol of West Kilbride, of West Kilbride in the County of Ayrshire – 21 June 2018
Democratic Unionist Party
* The Rev. Dr. William McCrea, to be Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, of Magherafelt in the County of Londonderry and of Cookstown in the County of Tyrone – 19 June 2018
Non-affiliated
* The Rt Hon. Andrew Tyrie, to be Baron Tyrie, of Chichester in the County of West Sussex – 13 June 2018
Crossbench
* Sir David Anderson,, to be Baron Anderson of Ipswich, of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk – 10 July 2018
* Rosie Boycott, to be Baroness Boycott, of Whitefield in the County of Somerset – 9 July 2018
* Deborah Bull,, to be Baroness Bull, of Aldwych in the City of Westminster – 11 July 2018
* Sir Jeremy Heywood,, to be Baron Heywood of Whitehall, of Glossop in the County of Derbyshire – 26 October 2018
Lord Lieutenant
* Dr. Sarah Furness – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Rutland. – 14 February 2018
* Arvind Michael Kapur, – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Leicestershire. – 11 May 2018
* Alison Millar – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Londonderry. – 17 May 2018
* Tia C Jones – to be Lord-Lieutenant of Powys. – 17 July 2018
* Susan Sheldon – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight. – 26 October 2018
* Edward William Gillespie, – to be Lord-Lieutenant of and in the County of Gloucestershire. – 30 October 2018
* Elizabeth Patricia Gilroy – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. – 5 November 2018
* Johanna Ropner – to be Lord-Lieutenant of the County of North Yorkshire. – 6 November 2018
* Anna Turner – to be Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire. – 13 November 2018
Privy Counsellor
* The Hon. Sir Seamus Treacy, – 12 January 2018
* The Rt Rev. Dame Sarah Mullally, – 14 March 2018
* The Hon. Enele Sopoaga, MP – 14 March 2018
* The Hon. Sir Peter Coulson, – 26 April 2018
* Robert Goodwill, – 26 April 2018
* The Hon. Sir George Leggatt, – 26 April 2018
* Kevan Jones, – 26 April 2018
* The Rt Hon. The Baroness Chakrabarti, – 18 May 2018
* Geoffrey Cox, – 11 July 2018
* Dominic Raab, – 11 July 2018
* The Hon. Sir Jonathan Baker, – 7 November 2018
* The Hon. Dame Nicola Davies, – 7 November 2018
* The Hon. Sir Nicholas Green, – 7 November 2018
* The Hon. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, – 7 November 2018
* Steve Barclay, – 20 November 2018
* Mark Tami, – 23 November 2018
* Christopher Pincher, – 23 November 2018
* Sir Edward Leigh, — 28 December 2018
* Philip Dunne, — 28 December 2018
* Sir Roger Gale, — 28 December 2018
Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG)
* The Rt Hon. The Viscount Brookeborough – 23 April 2018
Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter (LG)
* Dame Mary Fagan, – 23 April 2018
Stranger Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG)
* His Majesty The King of the Netherlands – 23 October 2018
Knight Bachelor
* The Hon. Mr Justice Timothy Miles Fancourt, – 8 February 2018
* The Rt Hon. David Evennett, – 18 May 2018
* The Rt Hon. John Hayes, – 23 November 2018
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
* The Rt Hon. The Lord Heywood of Whitehall, – 31 October 2018
Knight / Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
* Her Excellency The Hon. Sandra Mason, DA, QC – Governor-General of Barbados – 8 January 2018
* His Excellency The Hon. Neville Cenac – Governor-General of Saint Lucia – 18 January 2018
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
* Honorary
* Dr. George Vella, Maltese national – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Malta – For services to UK-Malta relations and the Commonwealth.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
* Honorary
* Dr. Stefan Nicolaas Dercon, Belgian national – Chief Economist, Department for International Development – For services to economics and international development.
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Ford, – upon relinquishing his appointment as Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office – 11 December 2018
* The Rt. Hon. The Lord Vestey, – upon relinquishing his appointment as Master of the Horse – 12 December 2018
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
* Captain Nicholas Peter Wright, – upon relinquishing his appointment as Private Secretary to The Princess Royal – 11 December 2018
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
* Dr. Jonathan James Cornelius Holliday, – on the relinquishment of his appointment as Apothecary to the Queen at Windsor– 14 December 2018
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)
* Christopher Robin Weatherley – on his retirement as Fire Safety and Access Manager, London Palaces.
* Edward Sackville Lane Fox – on the relinquishment of his role as Private Secretary to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
* David Frank Westwood, – on his retirement as Exhibitions and Maintenance Conservator, Royal Collection Trust
* Oliver Henry Urquhart Irvine – on the relinquishment of his appointment as Assistant Keeper of the Royal Archives – 14 December 2018
* Sally Osman – upon relinquishing her appointment as Director of Royal Communication – 18 December 2018
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
* Keith Sanderson – on his retirement as Head Chauffeur, Royal Household
* Captain (QGO) Surendrakumar Gurung, The Queen's Gurkha Signals
* Captain (QGO) Dillikumar Rai, The Royal Gurkha Rifles
Knight / Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE / DBE)
* The Hon. Mrs Justice Sara Elizabeth Cockerill, – 12 January 2018
* The Hon. Mrs Justice Christina Caroline Lambert, – 8 February 2018
* Honorary
* Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn, Thai national – United Nations expert in human rights; Professor of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok – For services to International Human Rights.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
* Military division
* Commodore William Jonathan Warrender, – 11 May 2018
* Air Vice-Marshal John Jackson Stringer, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Brigadier Nicholas Stephen Pond, – 23 November 2018
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
* Military division
* Lieutenant Colonel Jason Ainley, Corps of Royal Engineers – 11 May 2018
* Wing Commander Kathryn Elizabeth Ferris, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Wing Commander Mark David Lorriman-Hughes, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Wing Commander Matthew James Peterson, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Colonel John Wakelin – 23 November 2018
* Honorary
* Hofesh Shechter, German/Israeli national – For services to contemporary dance.
* Professor Teo Soo-Hwang, Malaysian national - For developing research collaborations on Asian cancer between Malaysia and Britain.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
* Military division
* Captain Patrick Halford, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Colour Sergeant Mark Roughsedge, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Major James David Brown, Grenadier Guards – 11 May 2018
* Squadron Leader Craig Robert Ledieu, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Squadron Leader Cristopher Andrew Right, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Acting Major Jon Sydarby Heathcliff Hassain, Corps of Royal Engineers, Army Reserve – 23 November 2018
* Acting Major Timothy James Graham, The Royal Scots Dragoons Guard – 23 November 2018
* Lieutenant Colonel Charles Edward Digby Grist, The Rifles – 23 November 2018
* Major Peter Alexander Houlton-Hart, The Royal Gurkha Rifles – 23 November 2018
* Sergeant Abigail Frances Morrow, Royal Army Physical Training Corps – 23 November 2018
* Squadron Leader Christopher Andrew Wright, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Honorary
* Frank Havrah Fassett, US national – For services to the crafts of knitting and needlework.
* Natascha Biebow, German national – For services to children's writers and illustrators.
* Claudia Mariel Papa Fragomen, Argentinian national – For services to the British community and the British Embassy in Argentina.
* Bryan David Lewis, Irish national – For services to education and charity.
British Empire Medal (BEM)
* Honorary
* Judith Houlahan, Irish national – For services to the health and welfare of older people in Northern Ireland.
* Milena Kolarikova Ba, Czech and Dutch national – For services to the commemoration of British soldiers in Belgium.
* Cristina Monteiro, Spanish national – For services to British commercial interests and charitable work in Madrid.
* Ulf Axel Mikael Olin, Finnish national – For services to the British Embassy Helsinki, Finland.
* George Psaradakis, Greek national – For services to the community in London.
* Milagros Villanueva, Filipino national – For services to the British Embassy Brasilia.
Military Cross (MC)
* Corporal Hugo Wilton, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Colour Sergeant Daniel Mark Garratt, Parachute Regiment – 11 May 2018
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
* Flight Lieutenant Thomas Philip Hansford, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
Air Force Cross (AFC)
* Squadron Leader Ian Samuel Dornan, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Flight Lieutenant Ben Wallis, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
Queen's Gallantry Medal (QGM)
* Air Engineering Technician (Mechanical) Stuart Maurice Rogers, Royal Navy – 11 May 2018
* Leading Seaman (Diver) Simon Wharton, Royal Navy – 23 November 2018
* Chief Petty Officer (Diver) Kristopher Fenwick, Royal Navy – 23 November 2018
Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)
* Gold
* Philip Shaun Croasdale, – formerly Welfare and Housing Manager, Royal Household.
Mentioned in Despatches
* Captain Thomas James Limb, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Acting Lance Corporal Robert Patrick Neill, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Lance Corporal Nathan William Fletcher, The Parachute Regiment – 11 May 2018
* Sergeant Andrew Mather, The Royal Irish Regiment – 11 May 2018
* Lance Corporal Charles Anthony Dexter Taylor, The Parachute Regiment – 11 May 2018
* Squadron Leader Matthew Frederick Axcell, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Flight Lieutenant Helena Bullivant, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
Queen's Commendation for Bravery
* Sergeant Christopher Samuel, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Sergeant Alistair James Seddon, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Petty Officer (Diver) Toby Stuart Jones, Royal Navy – 11 May 2018
* Acting Flight Sergeant Benjamin Martin Howarth, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Leading Seaman (Diver) Matthew John O’Brien, Royal Navy – 23 November 2018
* Able Seaman (Diver) Joshua Thomas Smith, Royal Navy – 23 November 2018
Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service
* Colour Sergeant Omar Acid, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Colonel Daniel Blanchford, – 11 May 2018
* Petty Officer Warfare Specialist (Electronic Warfare) James Hick, Royal Navy – 11 May 2018
* Sergeant Paul Richards, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Corporal Aleksandr David Stovell, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Colour Sergeant Michael Waker, Royal Marines – 11 May 2018
* Acting Lieutenant Colonel Philip Matthew Birch, The Royal Anglian Regiment – 11 May 2018
* Major Victoria Anne Bullied, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps – 11 May 2018
* Major Noel Clark Claydon-Swales, The Light Dragoons – 11 May 2018
* Major Fiona Allison Dangerfield, The Royal Logistic Corps – 11 May 2018
* Colonel Andrew Bernard Jackson – 11 May 2018
* Warrant Officer Class 2 Peter Keogh,, The Royal Irish Regiment – 11 May 2018
* Major Clodia Nicolette O'Neill, Corps of Royal Engineers – 11 May 2018
* Acting Sergeant Thomas Andrew Stokes, Intelligence Corps – 11 May 2018
* Lance Corporal Liam Derek Stott, Royal Army Medical Corps – 11 May 2018
* Warrant Officer Class 2 Luke Townsin, Corps of Royal Engineers – 11 May 2018
* Staff Sergeant Mark Robert Brodrick, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Flight Lieutenant Gregory Stuart Mould, Royal Air Force – 11 May 2018
* Mrs Lisa Gardner, Civil Servant – 11 May 2018
* Flight Lieutenant Alexander Eeveson, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Wing Commander Cristopher James Hoyle, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Acting Flight Lieutenant Laura McDonald, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Squadron Leader Edward Alexandar Sellers, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Major Thomas Charles Lilleyman, Corps of Royal Engineers – 23 November 2018
* Sergeant William Nicholas MacFarlane, Royal Marines – 23 November 2018
* Sergeant James Oldale, Royal Marines – 23 November 2018
* Lieutenant Amy Gilmore, Royal Navy – 23 November 2018
* Major Thomas James Quin, Royal Marines – 23 November 2018
* Staff Sergeant Bradley Ross Carter, Corps of Royal Engineers, Army Reserve – 23 November 2018
* Captain Sam Patterson, The Royal Logistic Corps – 23 November 2018
* Captain Robert Matthew George Price, The Rifles – 23 November 2018
* Captain Lucy Rose Stearn, Intelligence Corps – 23 November 2018
* Acting Corporal Joseph Steer, Intelligence Corps – 23 November 2018
* Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Mark Wilde, The Mercian Regiment – 23 November 2018
* Flight Sergeant Benjamin David Crossley, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
* Flight Lieutenant Alexander Eveson, Royal Air Force – 23 November 2018
Knight of the Order of St John
* Dr. Maged Abu Ramadan
* Alderman Charles Edward Beck Bowman
* The Very Rev. John Cairns,
* Dr. John Ferguson-Smith
* Vice Admiral Sir Paul Lambert,
* Joseph Mackie
* Stephen James Brindley Highes
* The Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Cecil Makgoba
* Graham James Gillespie
* His Excellency Sir Frank Kabui,
* Alderman Peter Estlin
* James Alexander Bingham
* Dr. Sarath Malcolm Samarage
Dame of the Order of St John
* Christine Ruby Benson
* Her Excellency Dame Sandra Mason,
Commander of the Order of St John
* Clive Nicholas BOOTHMAN
* Martin Peter CALLAGHAN
* Dr Malcolm Robert GOLIN
* George Findlay MACRAE
* Geoffrey John STREETER
* Alexander Edwards URQUHART
* Sheila Ann, Mrs FERGUSON-SMITH
* Elizabeth Stewart, Mrs HAMILTON
Officer of the Order of St John
* David John AMOS
* Lieutenant Colonel Giles De MARGARY TD
* Paul Leonard FRENCH
* William Alfred Anthony HACKETT
* Angus John LOUDON MBE
* Ewen Alexander MACDONALD
* Dennis William MARSHALL
* Paul MEALOR
* Geoffrey Ian NICHOLLS
* Andrew Ian SMITH
* Malcolm SLATER
* George Alexander WAY
* Miss Lynn Elaine CLEAL
* Solange Hazel, Mrs CRIPPS
* Sarah, Mrs MORE-MOLYNEUX
* Miss Katherine Mary SMITH
Member of the Order of St John
* Mark Joseph ADHEN
* Kenneth BLACKMAN
* William Stephen CADMAN
* Mark CORETH
* Thomas James DIMMOCK
* Andrew Mark EDWARDS
* David Thomas Sinclair GIBB
* Canon Mark Richard GRIFFIN
* Alderman and Sheriff Timothy Russell HAILES JP
* Donald Angus Stuart MacGREGGOR
* Steven John MITCHELL
* Steven John MULLOY
* Major Dennis Reginald OUTRAM
* Reverend Mark PERRY
* Major Christopher John PICKIN
* Kenneth PRITCHARD
* Sheriff Neil Graham Morgan REDCLIFFE
* David Michael Andrew REES
* Squadron Leader Alistair Keith RIDLAND
* Neil ROLLAND
* Anthony Michael SMITH
* Lieutenant Commander Rex THORNBOROUGH RD* RNR
* Lesley, Mrs BODKIN
* Alison, Mrs CHALMERS
* Sharon Michelle, Mrs CHAMBERS
* Miss Patricia Mary COUGHLAN
* Miss Jennifer DUKE
* Jess Lawson Love, Mrs DUNCAN
* Miss Lynne EDWARDS
* Marita Faye, Mrs EDWARDS
* Nicola Yvette, Mrs GEORGE
* Victoria Ann, Mrs HARRISON
* Deborah Jane, Mrs HAVILL
* Dawn Maria, Mrs MACKINNON
* Wendy, Mrs McEVOY
* Jacqueline Susan, Mrs PHILLIPS-CLARKE
* Miss Sarah Philippa Smith SCOTT
* Erica Ann, Miss SEGGIE
* Miss Gillian Sarah TANNER
* Janice, Mrs WEBSTER
* Miss Eve WRIGHT | WIKI |
Adharm (1992 film)
Adharm ( : Unrighteousness) is a 1992 Bollywood action drama film directed by Aziz Sejawal and produced by Nitin Manmohan. The film stars an ensemble cast. The story was written by Javed Siddiqui.
Cast
* Shatrughan Sinha as Avinash Verma
* Shabana Azmi as Mamta Verma
* Sanjay Dutt as Vicky Verma
* Anita Raj as Sara D'Souza
* Shakti Kapoor as Makhan Singh
* Gulshan Grover as Rocky Verma
* Paresh Rawal as Raghunath Verma
* Kiran Kumar as Jagannath 'Jagan' Verma
* Asrani as Khatrilal
* Avtar Gill as Inspector D'Souza
* Vikram Gokhale as Mr. Verma
* Mac Mohan as Rafiq
* Rakesh Pandey as Bharat Verma
* Tej Sapru as Pratap Verma
Music
The music of the film is composed by Anand–Milind and lyrics are penned by Sameer. | WIKI |
Draft:Eugene Gray Covington
Eugene Covington should link here
Eugene Gray Covington was a surgeon, education advocate, and politician in the United States
https://www.mchistory.org/research/biographies/covington-dr-eugene | WIKI |
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SQLEndTran Function
Conformance
Version Introduced: ODBC 3.0 Standards Compliance: ISO 92
Summary
SQLEndTran requests a commit or rollback operation for all active operations on all statements associated with a connection. SQLEndTran can also request that a commit or rollback operation be performed for all connections associated with an environment.
Note Note
For more information about what the Driver Manager maps this function to when an ODBC 3.x application is working with an ODBC 2.x driver, see Mapping Replacement Functions for Backward Compatibility of Applications.
SQLRETURN SQLEndTran(
SQLSMALLINT HandleType,
SQLHANDLE Handle,
SQLSMALLINT CompletionType);
HandleType
[Input] Handle type identifier. Contains either SQL_HANDLE_ENV (if Handle is an environment handle) or SQL_HANDLE_DBC (if Handle is a connection handle).
Handle
[Input] The handle, of the type indicated by HandleType, indicating the scope of the transaction. See "Comments" for more information.
CompletionType
[Input] One of the following two values:
SQL_COMMIT SQL_ROLLBACK
SQL_SUCCESS, SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, SQL_ERROR, SQL_INVALID_HANDLE, or SQL_STILL_EXECUTING.
When SQLEndTran returns SQL_ERROR or SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, an associated SQLSTATE value may be obtained by calling SQLGetDiagRec with the appropriate HandleType and Handle. The following table lists the SQLSTATE values commonly returned by SQLEndTran and explains each one in the context of this function; the notation "(DM)" precedes the descriptions of SQLSTATEs returned by the Driver Manager. The return code associated with each SQLSTATE value is SQL_ERROR, unless noted otherwise.
SQLSTATE
Error
Description
01000
General warning
Driver-specific informational message. (Function returns SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO.)
08003
Connection not open
(DM) The HandleType was SQL_HANDLE_DBC, and the Handle was not in a connected state.
08007
Connection failure during transaction
The HandleType was SQL_HANDLE_DBC, and the connection associated with the Handle failed during the execution of the function, and it cannot be determined whether the requested COMMIT or ROLLBACK occurred before the failure.
25S01
Transaction state unknown
One or more of the connections in Handle failed to complete the transaction with the outcome specified, and the outcome is unknown.
25S02
Transaction is still active
The driver was not able to guarantee that all work in the global transaction could be completed atomically, and the transaction is still active.
25S03
Transaction is rolled back
The driver was not able to guarantee that all work in the global transaction could be completed atomically, and all work in the transaction active in Handle was rolled back.
40001
Serialization failure
The transaction was rolled back due to a resource deadlock with another transaction.
40002
Integrity constraint violation
The CompletionType was SQL_COMMIT, and the commitment of changes caused integrity constraint violation. As a result, the transaction was rolled back.
HY000
General error
An error occurred for which there was no specific SQLSTATE and for which no implementation-specific SQLSTATE was defined. The error message returned by SQLGetDiagRec in the *szMessageText buffer describes the error and its cause.
HY001
Memory allocation error
The driver was unable to allocate memory required to support execution or completion of the function.
HY008
Operation canceled
Asynchronous processing was enabled for the ConnectionHandle. The function was called, and before it finished executing SQLCancelHandle Function was called on the ConnectionHandle. Then the function was called again on the ConnectionHandle.
The function was called, and before it finished executing SQLCancelHandle was called on the ConnectionHandle from a different thread in a multithread application.
HY010
Function sequence error
(DM) An asynchronously executing function was called for a statement handle associated with the ConnectionHandle and was still executing when SQLEndTran was called.
(DM) An asynchronously executing function (not this one) was called for the ConnectionHandle and was still executing when this function was called.
(DM) SQLExecute, SQLExecDirect, SQLBulkOperations, or SQLSetPos was called for a statement handle associated with the ConnectionHandle and returned SQL_NEED_DATA. This function was called before data was sent for all data-at-execution parameters or columns.
(DM) An asynchronously executing function (not this one) was called for the Handle with HandleType set to SQL_HANDLE_DBC and was still executing when this function was called.
(DM) SQLExecute, SQLExecDirect, or SQLMoreResults was called for one of the statement handles associated with Handle and returned SQL_PARAM_DATA_AVAILABLE. This function was called before data was retrieved for all streamed parameters.
HY012
Invalid transaction operation code
(DM) The value specified for the argument CompletionType was neither SQL_COMMIT nor SQL_ROLLBACK.
HY013
Memory management error
The function call could not be processed because the underlying memory objects could not be accessed, possibly because of low memory conditions.
HY092
Invalid attribute/option identifier
(DM) The value specified for the argument HandleType was neither SQL_HANDLE_ENV nor SQL_HANDLE_DBC.
HY115
SQLEndTran is not allowed for an environment that contains a connection with asynchronous function execution enabled
(DM) HandleType cannot be set to SQL_HANDLE_ENV if asynchronous execution of connection functions is enabled for a connection in the environment.
HY117
Connection is suspended due to unknown transaction state. Only disconnect and read-only functions are allowed.
(DM) For more information about suspended state, refer to the Comments section of this topic.
HYC00
Optional feature not implemented
The driver or data source does not support the ROLLBACK operation.
HYT01
Connection timeout expired
The connection timeout period expired before the data source responded to the request. The connection timeout period is set through SQLSetConnectAttr, SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT.
IM001
Driver does not support this function
(DM) The driver associated with the ConnectionHandle does not support the function.
IM017
Polling is disabled in asynchronous notification mode
Whenever the notification model is used, polling is disabled.
IM018
SQLCompleteAsync has not been called to complete the previous asynchronous operation on this handle.
If the previous function call on the handle returns SQL_STILL_EXECUTING and if notification mode is enabled, SQLCompleteAsync must be called on the handle to do post-processing and complete the operation.
For an ODBC 3.x driver, if HandleType is SQL_HANDLE_ENV and Handle is a valid environment handle, then the Driver Manager will call SQLEndTran in each driver associated with the environment. The Handle argument for the call to a driver will be the driver's environment handle. For an ODBC 2.x driver, if HandleType is SQL_HANDLE_ENV and Handle is a valid environment handle, and there are multiple connections in a connected state in that environment, then the Driver Manager will call SQLTransact in the driver once for each connection in a connected state in that environment. The Handle argument in each call will be the connection's handle. In either case, the driver will attempt to commit or roll back transactions, depending on the value of CompletionType, on all connections that are in a connected state on that environment. Connections that are not active do not affect the transaction.
Note Note
SQLEndTran cannot be used to commit or roll back transactions on a shared environment. SQLSTATE HY092 (Invalid attribute/option identifier) will be returned if SQLEndTran is called with Handle set to either the handle of a shared environment or the handle of a connection on a shared environment.
The Driver Manager will return SQL_SUCCESS only if it receives SQL_SUCCESS for each connection. If the Driver Manager receives SQL_ERROR on one or more connections, it returns SQL_ERROR to the application, and the diagnostic information is placed in the diagnostic data structure of the environment. To determine which connection or connections failed during the commit or rollback operation, the application can call SQLGetDiagRec for each connection.
Note Note
The Driver Manager does not simulate a global transaction across all connections and therefore does not use two-phase commit protocols.
If CompletionType is SQL_COMMIT, SQLEndTran issues a commit request for all active operations on any statement associated with an affected connection. If CompletionType is SQL_ROLLBACK, SQLEndTran issues a rollback request for all active operations on any statement associated with an affected connection. If no transactions are active, SQLEndTran returns SQL_SUCCESS with no effect on any data sources. For more information, see Committing and Rolling Back Transactions.
If the driver is in manual-commit mode (by calling SQLSetConnectAttr with the SQL_ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT attribute set to SQL_AUTOCOMMIT_OFF), a new transaction is implicitly started when an SQL statement that can be contained within a transaction is executed against the current data source. For more information, see Commit Mode.
To determine how transaction operations affect cursors, an application calls SQLGetInfo with the SQL_CURSOR_ROLLBACK_BEHAVIOR and SQL_CURSOR_COMMIT_BEHAVIOR options. For more information, see the following paragraphs and also see Effect of Transactions on Cursors and Prepared Statements.
If the SQL_CURSOR_ROLLBACK_BEHAVIOR or SQL_CURSOR_COMMIT_BEHAVIOR value equals SQL_CB_DELETE, SQLEndTran closes and deletes all open cursors on all statements associated with the connection and discards all pending results. SQLEndTran leaves any statement present in an allocated (unprepared) state; the application can reuse them for subsequent SQL requests or can call SQLFreeStmt or SQLFreeHandle with a HandleType of SQL_HANDLE_STMT to deallocate them.
If the SQL_CURSOR_ROLLBACK_BEHAVIOR or SQL_CURSOR_COMMIT_BEHAVIOR value equals SQL_CB_CLOSE, SQLEndTran closes all open cursors on all statements associated with the connection. SQLEndTran leaves any statement present in a prepared state; the application can call SQLExecute for a statement associated with the connection without first calling SQLPrepare.
If the SQL_CURSOR_ROLLBACK_BEHAVIOR or SQL_CURSOR_COMMIT_BEHAVIOR value equals SQL_CB_PRESERVE, SQLEndTran does not affect open cursors associated with the connection. Cursors remain at the row they pointed to prior to the call to SQLEndTran.
For drivers and data sources that support transactions, calling SQLEndTran with either SQL_COMMIT or SQL_ROLLBACK when no transaction is active returns SQL_SUCCESS (indicating that there is no work to be committed or rolled back) and has no effect on the data source.
When a driver is in autocommit mode, the Driver Manager does not call SQLEndTran in the driver. SQLEndTran always returns SQL_SUCCESS regardless of whether it is called with a CompletionType of SQL_COMMIT or SQL_ROLLBACK.
Drivers or data sources that do not support transactions (SQLGetInfo option SQL_TXN_CAPABLE is SQL_TC_NONE) are effectively always in autocommit mode and therefore always return SQL_SUCCESS for SQLEndTran whether or not they are called with a CompletionType of SQL_COMMIT or SQL_ROLLBACK. Such drivers and data sources do not actually roll back transactions when requested to do so.
In Driver Managers that were released before Windows 7, a transaction was active if SQLEndTran returned SQL_ERROR from the driver. However, it was possible that the transaction had been successfully committed on the server, but the driver on the client had not been notified (for example, because a network error occurred). This would leave the connection in a bad state. Starting with Windows 7, when SQLEndTran returns SQL_ERROR, the connection might be in a suspended state. In a suspended state, it is possible to call read-only functions. Eventually, the application should call SQLDisconnect on a suspended connection to release resources.
If all of the following conditions are true, the connection will be put into a suspended state:
• The driver returns SQL_ERROR from SQLEndTran.
• The driver is ODBC version 3.8, or later.
• The application version is 3.8 or later; or the recompiled ODBC 2.x or 3.x application successfully cancels the SQLEndTran function through SQLCancelHandle.
• The driver did not return one of the following messages, which confirm that the transaction did not complete:
• 25S03: Transaction is rolled back
• 40001: Serialization failure
• 40002: Integrity constraint
• HYC00: Optional feature not implemented
If SQLEndTran was called on an environment handle and one of its connections met the above conditions, all connections connecting to the same driver will be put into the suspended state.
After an application calls SQLDisconnect on a suspended connection, the connection can be used to reconnect to another data source or the same data source.
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Apple could head toward a bear market as iPhone concerns mount
Apple's had a rotten few days, and one market watcher sees more trouble ahead for the world's largest company by market cap as concerns over iPhone demand mount. "It's about slowing sales within the emerging markets, within China, that's the concern," Chad Morganlander, portfolio manager at Washington Crossing Advisors, told CNBC's "Trading Nation " on Friday. Revenue generated in China has accounted for a larger portion of total sales through this decade, but growth hit a worrying hurdle over the past two years. Sales in China fell by 7.7 percent in its September-ended fiscal 2017, following a more than 17 percent decline in fiscal 2016. China accounts for roughly one-fifth of total sales. "What's baked in is the future forecasted growth of this year and next year but what's happening in 2022? And that's where the valuation problem happens," said Morganlander. Apple currently trades at a lower valuation than the broader market. Its shares are 13.5 times forward earnings, below the 16.5 multiple on the . At these levels, and with future growth uncertain, Morganlander adopts a cautious approach to Apple. "We would have a hold where we would not be entering the situation at this point in time. We would look for a better entry point perhaps 10 to 15 percent below where we are today," he said. A 15 percent drop from Friday levels would put Apple's stock at around $140.86, and place it firmly in bear market territory. The tech giant tumbled into a correction Friday on worries over weak iPhone sales in its June-ending quarter. Morgan Stanley sees a high possibility June quarter estimates among investors will be revised lower when Apple reports its March quarter on May 1. Apple is now roughly 9 percent lower than a 52-week high set in March, putting it below the 10 percent threshold indicating a correction. If Apple shares take another leg down, Piper Jaffray's Craig Johnson sees one crucial level of support. "If you look at the uptrend support line off of the mid-2016 lows, we're retesting that level right now at about $165. We're also retesting the rising 40-week moving average or 200-day moving average on the shares also," Johnson, the firm's chief market technician, told "Trading Nation" on Friday. "A break below this kind of $165 area violates not just one but two technical support levels and would leave the next area of support for the stock at about $154 lows which is the lows we'd seen in February this year," Johnson said. Apple last traded at $154 on Feb. 9 during a large market sell-off. It has not closed below that level since October. Its stock was up 0.5 percent on Monday, recovering a level above $166 again. Friday's sell-off of more than 4 percent was its second-worst day of the year. It remains lower for the year, one of roughly two-thirds of the Dow Jones industrial average to trade negatively for 2018. Disclaimer Disclosure: Chad Morganlander nor Washington Crossing Advisors has a position in AAPL. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Often referred to as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B", Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award. She has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its original song "Mighty River", becoming the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year.
Her career began in 1988 when she was signed to Uptown Records by its founder Andre Harrell. During this time, Blige performed background vocal work for other artists on the label such as Father MC and Jeff Redd. In 1992, Blige released her debut album, What's the 411?, which is credited for introducing the mix of R&B and hip hop into mainstream pop culture. Its 1993 remix album became the first album by a singer to have a rapper on every song, popularizing rap as a featuring act. Both What's the 411? and her 1994 album My Life are featured on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, and the latter on Time magazine's All-Time 100 Albums. Throughout her career, Blige went on to release 14 studio albums, including four Billboard 200 number-one albums. Her biggest hits include "Real Love", "You Remind Me", "I'm Goin' Down", "Not Gon' Cry", "Be Without You", "Just Fine" and the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Family Affair".
Blige has also made a successful transition to both the television and movie screen, with supporting roles in films such as Prison Song (2001), Rock of Ages (2012), Betty and Coretta (2013), Black Nativity (2013), her Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough performance as Florence Jackson in Mudbound (2017), Trolls World Tour (2020), Body Cam (2020), The Violent Heart (2021) and co-starring as jazz singer Dinah Washington in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect (2021). In 2019, Blige starred as Cha-Cha on the first season of the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy. She currently stars as Monet Tejada in the spin-off of the highly-rated TV show drama Power in Power Book II: Ghost.
She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007. Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years. In 2017, Billboard magazine named her 2006 song "Be Without You" as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop song of all time, as it spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and over 75 weeks on the chart. VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time in 2011 and ninth in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list in 2012. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her as the 25th greatest singer of all-time. In 2024, Blige was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1971–1991: Early life and career beginnings
Mary Jane Blige was born on January 11, 1971, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York City, to nurse Cora and jazz musician Thomas Blige. She has an older sister, LaTonya Blige-DaCosta, a younger half-brother, Bruce Miller, and a younger half-sister, Jonquell, both from a relationship Blige's mother had with another man after divorcing her first husband.
She spent her early childhood in Richmond Hill, Georgia, where she sang in a Pentecostal church. She and her family later moved back to New York and resided in the Schlobohm Housing Projects, located in Yonkers. The family subsisted on her mother's earnings as a nurse after her father left the family in the mid-1970s. Her father was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.
At age five, she was molested by a family friend; as a teenager she endured years of sexual harassment from her peers. She would eventually turn to alcohol, drugs and promiscuous sex to try and numb the pain. Blige dropped out of high school in her junior year.
Influenced by the music of Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight, she began pursuing a musical career. Blige spent a short time in a Yonkers band named Pride with band drummer Eddie D'Aprile. In early 1988, she recorded an impromptu cover of Anita Baker's "Caught Up in the Rapture" at a recording booth in the Galleria Mall in White Plains, New York. Her mother's boyfriend at the time later played the cassette for Jeff Redd, a recording artist and A&R runner for Uptown Records. Redd sent it to the president and CEO of the label, Andre Harrell. Harrell met with Blige, and in 1989 she was signed to the label as a backup vocalist for artists such as Father MC, becoming the company's youngest and first female artist.
1992–1996: What's The 411? and My Life
After being signed to Uptown, Blige began working with record producer Sean Combs, also known as Puff Daddy. He became the executive producer and produced a majority of her first album. The title What's the 411? was an indication by Blige of being the "real deal". What's the 411? nevertheless established Blige as a dynamic storyteller whose performances of love narrative drew upon both her musical influences and her lived experiences as a hip-hop-generation woman. The music was described as "revelatory on a frequent basis". Blige was noted for having a "tough girl persona and streetwise lyrics". On July 28, 1992, Uptown/MCA Records released What's the 411?, to positive reviews from critics. What's the 411? peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It also peaked at number 53 on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA. According to Entertainment Weekly's Dave DiMartino, with the record's commercial success and Blige's "powerful, soulful voice and hip-hop attitude", she "solidly connected with an audience that has never seen a woman do new jack swing but loves it just the same". According to Dave McAleer, Blige became the most successful new female R&B artist of 1992 in the United States.
What's the 411? earned her two Soul Train Music Awards in 1993: Best New R&B Artist and Best R&B Album, Female. It was also voted the year's 30th best album in the Pazz & Jop—an annual poll of American critics nationwide, published by The Village Voice. By August 2010, the album had sold 3,318,000 copies in the US. What's the 411? has since been viewed by critics as one of the 1990s' most important records. Blige's combination of vocals over a hip hop beat proved influential in contemporary R&B. With the album, she was dubbed the reigning "Queen of Hip Hop Soul" The album's success spun off What's the 411? Remix, a remix album released in December that was used to extend the life of the What's the 411? singles on the radio into 1994, as Blige recorded her follow-up album.
Following the success of her debut album and a remixed version in 1993, Blige went into the recording studio in the winter of 1993 to record her second album, My Life. The album was a breakthrough for Blige, who at this point was in a clinical depression, battling both drugs and alcohol – as well as being in an abusive relationship with K-Ci Hailey. On November 29, 1994, Uptown/MCA released My Life to positive reviews. The album peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200 and number one of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for selling 481,000 copies in its first week and remaining atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for an unprecedented eight weeks. It ultimately spent 46 weeks on the Billboard 200 and 84 weeks on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In 2002, My Life was ranked number 57 on Blender's list of the 100 greatest American albums of all time. The following year, Rolling Stone placed it at number 279 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and in 2006, the record was included in Time's 100 greatest albums of all-time list.
Blige involved herself in several outside projects, recording a cover of Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" for the soundtrack to the FOX series New York Undercover, and "Everyday It Rains" (co-written by R&B singer Faith Evans) for the soundtrack to the hip hop documentary, The Show. Later in the year, she recorded the Babyface-penned and produced "Not Gon' Cry", for the soundtrack to the motion picture Waiting to Exhale. The platinum-selling single rose to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in early 1996. Blige gained her first two Grammy nominations and won the 1996 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for her collaboration with Method Man on "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By". Shortly after, Blige was featured on Jay-Z's breakthrough single, "Can't Knock the Hustle", from his debut Reasonable Doubt (1996) and with Ghostface Killah on "All That I Got Is You" from his debut, Ironman, which was also released that year. In addition, Blige co-wrote four songs, provided background vocals and was featured prominently on two singles with fellow R&B singer Case on his self-titled debut album (1996) including the US top 20 hit, "Touch Me, Tease Me", which also featured then up-and-coming rapper Foxy Brown.
What's the 411? highlights the featuring of woman centered narratives although in this album her narratives were regularly policed and told through male emcees. Nonetheless, it marked the start of a transition towards black women centered narratives that focused on the daily experiences and troubles of the black experience through the lens of women rather than necessarily singing about black trauma. Treva B. Lindsey, in her piece "If You Look in My Life: Love, Hip-Hop Soul, and Contemporary African-American Womanhood", highlights the regulating by men saying, "Although the lyrics on What's the 411? establish an African American woman-centered discourse, male artists' words of adoration and longing first introduce listeners to Blige as a hip-hop storyteller. What's the 411?, therefore, functions as an African American woman-centered storytelling space created largely by black men."
1997–2000: Share My World and Mary
On April 22, 1997, MCA Records (parent company to Uptown Records, which was in the process of being dismantled) released Blige's third album, Share My World. By then, she and Combs had dissolved their working relationship. In his place were the Trackmasters, who executive-produced the project along with Steve Stoute. Sharing production duties were producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, R. Kelly, Babyface and Rodney Jerkins. The album was made at a time when Blige was trying to "get her life together", by trying to overcome drugs and alcohol, as well as the ending of her relationship with Hailey. After an encounter with a person who threatened her life the previous year, she tried to quit the unhealthy lifestyle and make more upbeat, happier music. As a result, songs such as "Love Is All We Need" and "Share My World" were made. Share My World debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and spawned five hit singles: "Love Is All We Need" (featuring Nas), "I Can Love You" (featuring Lil' Kim), "Everything", "Missing You" (UK only) and "Seven Days" (featuring George Benson). In February 1997, Blige performed her hit at the time, "Not Gon' Cry", at the 1997 Grammy Awards, which gained her a third Grammy Award nomination, her first for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, as Blige was recording the follow-up to My Life. In early 1998, Blige won an American Music Award for "Favorite Soul/R&B Album". That summer, she embarked on the Share My World Tour, which resulted in a Gold-certified live album released later that year, simply titled The Tour. The album spawned one single, "Misty Blue".
On August 17, 1999, Blige's fourth album, titled Mary was released. It marked a departure from her more familiar hip hop-oriented sound; this set featured a more earthy, whimsical, and adult contemporary-tinged collection of songs, reminiscent of the 1970s to early 1980s soul. She also appeared on In Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Centre at Antigua with Eric Clapton in 1999. On December 14, 1999, the album was re-released as a double-disc set. The second disc was enhanced with the music videos for the singles "All That I Can Say" and "Deep Inside" and included two bonus tracks: "Sincerity" (featuring Nas, Andy Hogan and DMX) and "Confrontation" (a collaboration with hip hop duo Funkmaster Flex & Big Kap originally from their 1999 album The Tunnel). The Mary album was critically praised, becoming her most nominated release to date, and was certified double platinum. It was not as commercially successful as Blige's prior releases, though all of the singles: "All That I Can Say", "Deep Inside", "Your Child", and "Give Me You" performed considerably on the radio. In the meantime, MCA used the album to expand Blige's demographic into the nightclub market, as club-friendly dance remixes of the Mary singles were released. The club remix of "Your Child" peaked at number-one on the Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in October 2000. In 2001, a Japan-only compilation, Ballads, was released. The album featured covers of Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed", and previous recordings of Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and Dorothy Moore's "Misty Blue". In 1999, George Michael and Mary J. Blige covered the song 'As' written by Stevie Wonder, and worldwide outside of the United States, it was the second single from George Michael's greatest hits album Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael. It became a top ten UK pop hit, reaching number four on the chart. It was not released on the U.S. version of the greatest hits collection or as a single in the U.S. Michael cited Blige's record company president for pulling the track in America after Michael's arrest for committing a lewd act.
In January 2001, Blige performed as a special guest in the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show.
2001–2004: No More Drama and Love & Life
On August 28, 2001, MCA released Blige's fifth studio album, No More Drama. The first single in the album, "Family Affair" (produced by Dr. Dre) became her first and only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for six consecutive weeks. It was followed by two further hit singles, the European-only single "Dance for Me" featuring Common with samples from "The Bed's Too Big Without You" by The Police, and the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced title track (originally recorded for the Mary album), which sampled "Nadia's Theme", the piano-driven theme song to the daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Though the album sold nearly two million copies in the U.S., MCA was underwhelmed by its sales, and subsequently repackaged and re-released the album on January 29, 2002. The No More Drama re-release featured a new album cover and deleted three of the songs from the original track listing, while adding two brand-new songs—one of which was the fourth single and top twenty Hot 100 hit "Rainy Dayz", (featuring Ja Rule), plus two remixes; one of the title track, serviced by Sean Combs/Puff Daddy and the single version of "Dance for Me" featuring Common. Blige won a Grammy for 'Best Female R&B Vocal Performance' for the song "He Think I Don't Know". In April 2002, Blige performed with Shakira with the song "Love Is a Battlefield" on VH1 Divas show live in Las Vegas, she also performed "No More Drama" and "Rainy Dayz" as a duet with the returning Whitney Houston.
On July 22, 2002, MCA released Dance for Me, a collection of club remixes of some of her past top hits including the Junior Vasquez remix of "Your Child", and the Thunderpuss mix of "No More Drama". This album was released in a limited edition double pack 12" vinyl for DJ-friendly play in nightclubs.
On August 26, 2003, Blige's sixth album Love & Life was released on Geffen Records (which had absorbed MCA Records.) Blige heavily collaborated with her one-time producer Sean Combs for this set. Due to the history between them on What's the 411? and My Life, which is generally regarded as their best work, and Blige having just come off of a successful fifth album, expectations were high for the reunion effort.
Despite the album debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and becoming Blige's fourth consecutive UK top ten album, Love & Life's lead-off single, the Diddy-produced "Love @ 1st Sight", which featured Method Man, barely cracked the top ten on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, while altogether missing the top twenty on the Hot 100 (although peaking inside the UK top twenty). The following singles, "Ooh!", "Not Today" featuring Eve, "Whenever I Say Your Name" featuring Sting on the international re-release, and "It's a Wrap" fared worse. Although the album was certified platinum, it became Blige's lowest-selling at the time. Critics and fans alike largely panned the disc, citing a lack of consistency and noticeable ploys to recapture the early Blige/Combs glory. Blige and Combs reportedly struggled and clashed during the making of this album, and again parted ways upon the completion of it.
The album became Blige's first album in six years to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 285,298 copies in the first week. Love & Life received mixed reviews from music critics. AllMusic gave it 4 stars and said the album "beamed with joy" and Rolling Stone gave it three stars, saying "You may not always love Blige's music, but you will feel her". The album was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping over 1,000,000 copies in the US. The album was nominated for the Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 46th Grammy Awards.
2005–2006: The Breakthrough and Reflections – A Retrospective
Geffen Records released Blige's seventh studio album, The Breakthrough on December 20, 2005. For the album, Blige collaborated with J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Rodney Jerkins, will.i.am, Bryan-Michael Cox, 9th Wonder, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Raphael Saadiq, Cool and Dre, and Dre & Vidal. The cover art was photographed by Markus Klinko & Indrani. It debuted at number one on both the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Selling 727,000 copies in its first week, it became the biggest first-week sales for an R&B solo female artist in SoundScan history, the fifth largest first-week sales for a female artist, and the fourth largest debut of 2005.
The lead-off single, "Be Without You", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at number one on the R&B chart for a record-setting fifteen consecutive weeks; it remained on the chart for over sixteen months. "Be Without You" found success in the UK (peaking in the lower end of the top forty) it became Blige's longest charting single on the UK Singles Chart. It is her second-longest charting single to date. The album produced three more singles including two more top-five R&B hits—"Enough Cryin'", which features Blige's alter ego Brook-Lynn (as whom she appeared on the remix to Busta Rhymes's "Touch It" in 2006); and "Take Me as I Am" (which samples Lonnie Liston Smith's "A Garden of Peace"). Blige's duet with U2 on the cover of their 1992 hit, "One" gave Blige her biggest hit to date in the UK, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart eventually being certified one of the forty highest-selling singles of 2006; it was her longest charting UK single. The success of The Breakthrough won Blige nine Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, two BET Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, and a Soul Train Award. She received eight Grammy Award nominations at the 2007 Grammy Awards, the most of any artist that year. "Be Without You" was nominated for both "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year". Blige won three: "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance", "Best R&B Song" (both for "Be Without You"), and "Best R&B Album" for The Breakthrough. Blige completed a season sweep of the "big three" major music awards, having won two American Music Awards in November 2006 and nine Billboard Music Awards in December 2006.
In December 2006, a compilation called Reflections (A Retrospective) was released. It contained many of Blige's greatest hits and four new songs, including the worldwide lead single "We Ride (I See the Future)". In the UK, however, "MJB da MVP" (which appeared in a different, shorter form on The Breakthrough) was released as the lead single from the collection. The album peaked at number nine in the U.S, selling over 170,000 copies in its first week, while reaching number forty in the UK In 2006, Blige recorded a duet with rapper Ludacris, "Runaway Love", which is the third single on his fifth album, Release Therapy. It reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 and the R&B chart. Blige was featured with Aretha Franklin and the Harlem Boys Choir on the soundtrack to the 2006 motion picture Bobby, on the lead track "Never Gonna Break My Faith" written by Bryan Adams. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
2007–2008: Growing Pains
Blige's eighth studio album, Growing Pains, was released on December 18, 2007, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It sold 629,000 copies in its first week, marking the third time since Nielsen SoundScan began collecting data in 1991 that two albums sold more than 600,000 copies in a week in the United States. In its second week, the album climbed to number one, making it Blige's fourth number-one album. The lead single, "Just Fine", peaked at number twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number three on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "Just Fine" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Blige won Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the Chaka Khan duet "Disrespectful" (featured on Khan's album Funk This) which Blige wrote.
Growing Pains was not released in the UK until February 2008, where it became Blige's fifth top ten and third-highest-charting album. "Just Fine" returned Blige to the UK singles chart top 20 after her previous two singles failed to chart highly. Subsequent singles from Growing Pains include "Work That", which accompanied Blige in an iTunes commercial, and "Stay Down".
Blige was featured on 50 Cent's 2007 album, Curtis, in the song "All of Me". In March 2008, she toured with Jay-Z on the Heart of the City Tour. Together, they released a song called "You're Welcome". In the same period, cable network BET aired a special on Blige titled The Evolution of Mary J. Blige, which showcased her career. Celebrities such as Method Man and Ashanti gave their opinions about Blige and her music. Blige is featured on singles by Big Boi, and Musiq Soulchild. Growing Pains was nominated for and won the Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary R&B Album", at the 51st Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2009, earning Blige her 27th Grammy nomination, in a mere decade. Blige went on the Growing Pains European Tour, her first tour there in two years. A tour of Australia and New Zealand was scheduled for June but was postponed due to "weariness from an overwhelming tour schedule" and then eventually canceled entirely.
On August 7, 2008, it was revealed Blige faced a US$2 million federal suit claiming Neff-U wrote the music for the song "Work That", but was owned by Dream Family Entertainment. The filing claimed that Dream Family never gave rights to use the song to Blige, Feemster or Geffen Records. Rights to the lyrics of the song used in an iPod commercial are not in question.
2009–2010: Stronger with Each Tear
Blige returned to performing in January 2009 by performing the song "Lean on Me" at the Presidential Inauguration Committee's, "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial". Blige also performed her hit 2007 single, "Just Fine", with a new intro at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009. Blige appeared as a marquee performer on the annual Christmas in Washington television special.
Blige's ninth studio album, Stronger with Each Tear, was released on December 21, 2009, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 332,000 units in its first week of release. It became her fifth album not to take the top spot in the United States. Blige recorded "Stronger", as the lead single from the soundtrack to the basketball documentary "More than a Game" in August 2009. The second single from Stronger with Each Tear, "I Am", was released in December 2009 and reached number fifty-five on the Hot 100. The third international single from the album, "Each Tear", was remixed with different featured artists from different countries, then being released in February 2010. The single failed to chart anywhere except in the UK where it reached number one-hundred-eighty-three and in Italy where it reached number one. The album's third U.S. single, "We Got Hood Love" featuring Trey Songz, was released in March 2010 and reached number tw25 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart though it failed to reach the Hot 100. One of Blige's representatives reported to Us Weekly magazine that a tour in support of Stronger with Each Tear would begin in the fall of 2010. In March 2010, Blige released Stronger with Each Tear in the United Kingdom, as well as in the European markets. The album performed modestly in the United Kingdom, debuting at number 33 on the UK Albums Chart and at number four on the UK R&B Chart. It reached the top 100 in other countries.
Blige was honored at the 2009 BET Honors Ceremony and was paid tribute by Anita Baker and Monica. On November 4, 2009, Blige sang The Star-Spangled Banner at Yankee Stadium before the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies played the last game (game 6) of the World Series. Blige performed two songs from her ninth album as well as her previous hits, "No More Drama" and "Be Without You" along with the song "Color", which was featured on the Precious soundtrack. Blige appeared as a guest judge on the ninth season of American Idol on January 13, 2010.
On January 23, Blige released a track titled "Hard Times Come Again No More" with the Roots, performing it at the Hope for Haiti Now telethon. Blige also performed on BET's SOS Help For Haiti, singing "Gonna Make It" with Jazmine Sullivan and "One." At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Blige performed "Bridge over Troubled Water" with Andrea Bocelli. She also took part in February 2010's We Are the World 25 for Haiti, singing the solo originally sung by Tina Turner in the original 1985 We Are the World version. At the 41st NAACP Image Awards on February 26, Blige won Outstanding Female Artist and Outstanding Album for Stronger with Each Tear. On November 18, 2010, Billboard revealed Mary J. Blige as the most successful female R&B/hip hop artist on the Top 50 R&B/Hip Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years list. She came in at number 2 overall.
2011–2013: My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1) and A Mary Christmas
In January 2011, Hot 97 premiered Blige's teaser track "Someone to Love Me (Naked)" featuring vocals by Lil Wayne. In July 2011, Blige released the song "The Living Proof" as the lead single to the soundtrack of the film The Help. On July 24, VH1 premiered their third Behind the Music that profiled her personal and career life. In August 2011, Blige released her first single off the album, "25/8". Blige's tenth studio album, My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1), was released in November 2011. The album, primarily recorded in Los Angeles and New York City, saw Blige looking toward the future while acknowledging the past. "From me to you, My Life II... Our journey together continues in this life", the singer explained. "It's a gift to be able to relate and identify with my fans at all times. This album is a reflection of the times and lives of people all around me." The album features production by Kanye West and the Underdogs. The second single "Mr. Wrong" featuring Canadian rapper Drake was the most successful single from the album, peaking at number 10 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The rest of the songs released, including lead single "25/8" achieved only moderate success, peaking within the top 40 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The album itself debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, selling 156,000 copies in the first week; it was eventually certified Gold in 2012 and has sold 763,000 in the US.
On February 28, 2012, Blige performed "Star Spangled Banner" at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game. Blige appeared as guest mentor on American Idol on March 7, 2012, and performed "Why" on the results show the following night. On September 23, 2012, Blige was a performer at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. Blige was featured on the song "Now or Never" from Kendrick Lamar's album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, released on October 22, 2012.
In early 2013, reports surfaced that Blige was recording a Christmas album. The album, titled, A Mary Christmas was released on October 15, 2013, through Matriarch and Verve Records, her first release with the latter. The album includes collaborations with Barbra Streisand, the Clark Sisters, Marc Anthony and Jessie J. In early December, A Mary Christmas became Blige's 12th top ten album after it rose to No. 10 in its eight week.
On October 23, 2013, Blige sang the national anthem before Game 1 of the 2013 World Series.
2014–2019: The London Sessions and Strength of a Woman
On February 5, 2014, a remix of Disclosure's "F for You" featuring guest vocals from Mary was released. In May 2014 Blige was featured on Mariah Carey’s song It's a Wrap as part of Carey’s deluxe edition of her 2014 album Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse. It was announced May 30, 2014, that Think Like a Man Too (Music from and Inspired by the Film), released June 17 on Epic Records, would introduce new songs by Mary J. Blige, including the single "Suitcase". Blige recorded a collection of music from and inspired by the film. In the United States, Think Like a Man Too debuted at number 30 on the Billboard 200, with 8,688 copies sold in its first week, becoming the lowest sales debut of any of her studio albums. On Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart, the soundtrack album charted at number six, marking Blige's 16th top ten entry on the chart, tying her with Mariah Carey for the second-most top tens by a female artist.
June 2, 2014, saw Blige pairing up with another English musician with the release of a reworked version of Sam Smith's "Stay with Me". A live visual to the song was released on the same day.
Following her concert date at the Essence Festival, on July 9, 2014, it was announced Blige would move to London to experiment with a new sound for her new album. Blige spent a month in London recording her album in RAK Studios with a host of young British acts, including Disclosure, Naughty Boy, Emeli Sandé and Sam Smith. Ten new songs, co-written and recorded by the singer, were released on November 24, 2014, on an album titled The London Sessions. That same month, she announced that she left Geffen and Interscope and signed with Capitol Records.
In August 2016, Blige was recruited to perform the new theme song for the ABC Daytime talk show The View for its twentieth season titled "World's Gone Crazy" written by Diane Warren. A music video was also shot for the new theme song with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Candace Cameron Bure, Raven-Symoné, Paula Faris, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Jedediah Bila. Blige also appeared on The View alongside Maxwell during its premiere week on September 9, 2016, to discuss their joint tour and theme song.
On September 30, 2016, Blige premiered a new show, The 411, on Apple Music. On its debut episode, she interviewed Hillary Clinton. A trailer was released online with Blige singing a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin" to a bewildered Clinton. The exchange received mixed and negative reaction on social media. Two weeks later, a studio version, this time featuring a verse from American rapper Kendrick Lamar was released online.
In October 2016, following her highly publicized divorce from Kendu Issacs, Blige released two songs: "Thick of It" and "U + Me (Love Lesson)". Her thirteenth studio album, Strength of a Woman, was released on April 28, 2017. It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and topped the R&B Albums chart. On July 12, 2018, Blige released the single "Only Love" on Republic Records, following her exit from Capitol Records.
On April 16, 2019, Blige announced that she is co-headlining a North American summer tour with Nas titled The Royalty Tour. On May 8, Blige released the single "Thriving" featuring Nas. During an interview with Ebro Darden on Beats 1 for the premiere of "Thriving", Blige announced that her next studio album would be released before July. On June 23, at the 2019 BET Awards, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contributions to the music industry.
2021–present: The Super Bowl, Good Morning Gorgeous and endeavors with Dr. Dre
In June 2021, Blige celebrated the 25th anniversary of her album My Life with the release of the Amazon Studios documentary Mary J. Blige's My Life, directed by Vanessa Roth. In December 2021, it was announced that Blige had formed her own label, Mary Jane Productions, in conjunction with 300 Entertainment. Along with the news came the release of two new singles, "Good Morning Gorgeous" and "Amazing" featuring DJ Khaled. In January 2022, Blige released "Rent Money" featuring Dave East. The songs appear on Blige's fourteenth studio album, also titled Good Morning Gorgeous, which was released on February 11, 2022.
On February 13, 2022, Blige performed at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show alongside fellow American rappers Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, and Anderson .Paak. Days later, on February 17, Blige said on the radio show The Breakfast Club that she is working on an album entirely produced by Dr. Dre. On March 7, Blige and Pepsi announced the inaugural Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit, a three-day festival in Atlanta, in partnership with Live Nation Urban. In May 2022, Blige was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME. In September 2022, she was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Super Bowl LVI halftime show. In February 2023, Mariah Carey released an EP of her song It's a Wrap which featured Mary’s remix of the track.
In October 2023, Blige released a deluxe version of A Mary Christmas, which included four additional tracks. On October 27, 2023, Blige released the single "Still Believe In Love", which features rapper Vado.
1998–2016: Early works
In 1998, Blige made her acting debut on the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, playing the apparently southern Ola Mae, a preacher's daughter who wanted to sing more than gospel music. Her father was portrayed by Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers. In 2001, Blige starred opposite rapper Q-Tip in the independent film Prison Song. That same year, Blige made a cameo on the Lifetime network series, Strong Medicine; playing the role of Simone Fellows, the lead singer of a band who was sick, but would not seek treatment. In 2000, Blige was featured in a superhero web cartoon in junction with Stan Lee. Blige used the cartoon as part of her performance while on her 2000 Mary Show Tour. In 2004, Blige starred in an Off-Broadway play, The Exonerated, which chronicled the experiences of death row inmates. Blige portrayed Sunny Jacobs, a woman who spent 20 years in prison for a crime she did not commit. In late 2005, it was reported that Blige landed the starring role in the upcoming MTV Films biopic on American singer/pianist and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. By the spring of 2010, Blige was slated to star as Simone with British actor David Oyelowo portraying her manager Clifton Henderson. Blige later dropped out of the role due to financial issues and the role was subsequently recast with actress Zoe Saldana as Simone in Nina, released in 2016.
In February 2007, Blige guest-starred on Ghost Whisperer, in the episode "Mean Ghost", as the character Jackie Boyd, the school's cheerleader coach grieving for the death of her brother and affected by the ghost of a dead cheerleader. The episode features many of Blige's songs. In August 2007, Blige was a guest star on Entourage, in the role of herself, as a client of Ari Gold's agency. In October 2007, Blige was also a guest star on America's Next Top Model, as a creative director for a photoshoot by Matthew Rolston. In May 2009, Mary made a guest appearance on 30 Rock, as an artist recording a benefit song for a kidney. Blige also had a supporting role in Tyler Perry's movie I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which was released in September 2009.
Blige starred alongside Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, and Alec Baldwin in the 2012 film adaptation of the 1980s jukebox musical Rock of Ages. Blige played Justice Charlier, the owner of a Sunset Strip gentlemen's club. Production began in May 2011 and the film was released in June 2012.
Blige starred in the Lifetime movie Betty and Coretta alongside Angela Bassett, Malik Yoba and Lindsay Owen Pierre. She played Dr. Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X. The film premiered in February 2013. In December 2015, she portrayed Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West in NBC's The Wiz Live!. In October 2016, Blige guest-starred on ABC legal drama How to Get Away with Murder as an old acquaintance of Annalise Keating played by Viola Davis.
2017–present
In 2017, Blige starred in the period drama film Mudbound directed by Dee Rees. Playing Florence Jackson, the matriarch of her family, she received praise such as Variety's review: "Mary J. Blige, as the mother of the Jackson family, gives a transformative performance that will elevate the acting career of the R&B star." For her performance in Mudbound, Blige was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As she was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song (with Taura Stinson and Raphael Saadiq), she became the first person nominated for an Academy Award for acting and original song in the same year. Her nomination also made Dee Rees the first black woman to direct a film for which an actor was nominated for an Academy Award.
Blige voiced Irene in the 2018 animated film Sherlock Gnomes, and in 2020 voiced Queen Essence in the animated musical film Trolls World Tour. In 2018, it was announced that Blige was cast as Sherry Elliot in Scream: Resurrection, the third season of the slasher television series Scream. The season premiered on VH1 on July 8, 2019. In 2019, Blige starred in the role of Cha-Cha, a main antagonist in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy.
In 2020, Blige played a leading role in the horror film Body Cam. She also starred in the independent drama film Pink Skies Ahead. Blige currently stars as Monet Stewart Tejada in Power Book II: Ghost, the first spin-off for the highly rated Starz cable drama Power which premiered in September 2020. Blige played singer Dinah Washington in the biographical drama film Respect about life and career of Aretha Franklin. The film was released theatrically on August 13, 2021.
In 2023, Blige was cast in the drama film Rob Peace, a film adaptation of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Personal life
In the 1990s, Blige spent six years in a relationship with singer Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey of the R&B group Jodeci. Their turbulent relationship inspired Blige's album My Life. During a 1995 interview on the UK television show The Word, Blige confirmed the two were engaged; Hailey denied that they were going to get married. Following her break-up with Hailey, Blige developed a relationship with singer Case, which dwindled due to his involvement with other women. She also briefly dated rapper Nas.
Blige married her manager, Martin "Kendu" Isaacs, on December 7, 2003. At the time, Isaacs had two children, Nas and Jordan, with his first wife, and an older daughter, Briana, from a teenage relationship. In July 2016, Blige filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences". Blige and Isaacs' divorce was finalized on June 21, 2018.
Blige is a Democrat and performed for Barack Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Blige has dealt with drug and alcohol addiction, and as of 2019, she had been sober for several years. She is also a childfree person, proclaiming in a February 2022 interview with E! News, "I have nieces and nephews forever, and I'm always watching how people are scrambling around for babysitters. I don’t want to go through that. I like my freedom. I like being able to get up and go and move and do what I want to do."
Blige is a close friend to Taraji P. Henson, Missy Elliott, Simone Smith (wife of rapper LL Cool J), and fashion stylists June Ambrose and Misa Hylton, as well as former radio personality Angie Martinez, whose son, Niko Ruffin, is Blige's godson.
Other ventures
Blige has had endorsement contracts with Reebok, Air Jordan, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Gap, Target, American Express, AT&T Inc., M·A·C, Apple Inc., Burger King and Chevrolet. She has also been a spokesperson for Carol's Daughter beauty products and Citibank's Citi Card program (alongside Nickelback).
In 2004, Blige launched her own record label, Matriarch Records, distributed through Interscope. In 2012, she discovered girl group Just'Us, making the group the first ladies of the label. At the time, Blige said, "These are my little Mary's; they each remind me of myself at different points in my life." Blige was reportedly working with the group on their debut album, but it never materialized, and Just'Us has since disbanded.
In 2009, Blige's production company, along with William Morris Endeavor, was working on several TV and film projects.
In July 2010, in partnership with the Home Shopping Network (HSN) and Carol's Daughter, Blige launched her first perfume, My Life (through Carol's Daughter), exclusively on HSN. The fragrance broke HSN sales records in hours, by selling 50,000 bottles during its premiere, and has been awarded two prestigious FIFI awards from the Fragrance Foundation, including the "Fragrance Sales Breakthrough" award. In August 2011, another scent called My Life Blossom was launched exclusively to HSN.
In October 2010, Blige released "Melodies by MJB", a line of sunglasses. The first Melodies collection featured four styles with a total of 20 color options. Each style represented a specific facet of Blige's life. In the spring of 2011, Essence magazine reported that "Melodies by MJB" had extended their collection to offer more styles.
In late 2020, Blige and her close friend, Simone Johnson-Smith, a cancer survivor and wife of rapper LL Cool J, co-founded Sister Love, a jewelry line for women. Blige also announced the 2019 formation of a film and television production label, Blue Butterfly Productions. On December 16, 2022, the label signed a first-look lucrative deal with BET for scripted and non-scripted content; its first under the partnership was Blige's talk show, The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige, which premiered in early 2023.
She has founded two companies: Mary Jane Productions, which she co-founded with her former manager, Steve Stoute, in 1994, and an independent record label, Beautiful Life Productions, in 2023. She signed Boyz II Men affiliate group, WanMor to the former in August 2023 and New York rapper Vado to the latter in May 2024.
Legacy
Called the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul", Blige is credited with influencing the musical marriage of hip hop and R&B. Ethan Brown of The New Yorker says that albums "What's the 411?" and "My Life", in hindsight, invented "the sample-heavy sound that reinvigorated urban radio and became a blueprint for nineties hip-hop and R&B". Tom Horan of The Daily Telegraph comments that Blige, being an immensely influential figure in popular music, "invented what is now called R&B by successfully combining female vocals with muscular hip hop rhythm tracks. All over the world, that recipe dominates today's charts." Called one of the "most explosive, coming-out displays of pure singing prowess" and "one of the most important albums of the nineties", What's the 411? saw Blige pioneer "the movement that would later become neo soul, generating gripping songs that were also massive radio hits".
African American scholars have noted the implications of Blige's presentation and representation of black womanhood and femininity in the typically male-dominated and centric sphere of hip hop. Blending the vocal techniques of rapping in hip hop with aspirational messages in R&B, Blige is credited with articulating black women's experiences in a "more factual and objective" manner than typical stereotypes and tropes of black women in the media. Using her personal experiences and struggles with her family as source material for her songs, Blige refutes notions of black female hypersexuality by "imploring women to love and empower themselves through both autonomy and intimacy." This desire for love does more than connect to her audience members. With particular attention on her single "Real Love", critics note how the song is "a performative text, declaratively demand[ing] recognition of Blige's full humanity and, more broadly, that of hip-hop-generation women."
Blige has received notable awards and achievements. In 2010, she was ranked 80th on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artist of All Time. Blige was listed as one of the 50 most influential R&B singers by Essence. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked My Life at number 279 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was also included on Time's list of the 100 Greatest albums of All Time. In 2020, both What's the 411? and My Life were featured in a rebooted list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at 271 and 126 respectively. Alternately called the "Queen of R&B" for her success in the realm of R&B, Blige has amassed ten number one albums on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Blige is also the only artist to have won Grammys in the R&B, hip-hop, pop, and gospel fields.
Blige and her work have influenced several recording artists, including Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift, Layton Greene, Cheryl, Teyana Taylor, Keke Palmer, Jess Glynne, Sam Smith, Summer Walker, K. Michelle, Rihanna, Keyshia Cole and Alexandra Burke.
As an actress, Blige received the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival for her role in Mudbound.
In 2020, Kamala Harris, the first Black and South Asian female Vice President-elect on a major party, walked out to "Work That" at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, campaign events (including her own presidential campaign), and her victory speech.
Studio albums
* What's the 411? (1992)
* My Life (1994)
* Share My World (1997)
* Mary (1999)
* No More Drama (2001)
* Love & Life (2003)
* The Breakthrough (2005)
* Growing Pains (2007)
* Stronger with Each Tear (2009)
* My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1) (2011)
* A Mary Christmas (2013)
* The London Sessions (2014)
* Strength of a Woman (2017)
* Good Morning Gorgeous (2022)
Headlining
* Share My World Tour (1997–98)
* The Mary Show Tour (2000)
* No More Drama Tour (2002)
* Love & Life Tour (2004)
* The Breakthrough Experience Tour (2006)
* Growing Pains European Tour (2008)
* Love Soul Tour (2008)
* Music Saved My Life Tour (2010–11)
* The London Sessions Tour (2015)
* Strength of a Woman Tour (2017)
* Good Morning Gorgeous Tour (2022)
Co-headlining
* Heart of the City Tour (with Jay-Z) (2007)
* The Liberation Tour (with D'Angelo) (2012–13)
* King and Queen of Hearts World Tour (with Maxwell) (2016)
* The Royalty Tour (with Nas) (2019)
Supporting
* Humpin' Around the World Tour (with Bobby Brown) (1992–1993) | WIKI |
Forncett
Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.76 km2 and had a population of 1,000 in 381 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,126 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.
It includes the villages of Forncett St Peter's, Forncett St Mary and Forncett End.
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall with a total population at the 2011 Census of 2,701.
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
The Forncett Industrial Steam Museum houses a collection of large stationary steam engines which are occasionally demonstrated to the public.
Included in the collection is a 150 hp Vickers Armstrong cross-compound pumping engine originally used to open Tower Bridge in London. It was the 'third' steam engine, installed as a wartime precaution against air-raid damage, and was removed to Forncett in 1974. The two original engines remain on display at Tower Bridge.
Other exhibits include a Gimson and Company beam engine, and examples of Corliss engines, vertical engines and Woolf compound engines.
Norfolk Tank Museum
Situated in Station Road, the museum houses an exhibition of tanks, armoured vehicles, and weaponry.
Notable people
* Frances Ellen Colenso, a historian of the Zulu Wars, was born here in 1849.
* Robert Kett (c. 1492 – December 7, 1549), leader of Kett's rebellion, was the son of Forncett native Thomas Kett. | WIKI |
Anechoic Chambers for RF and Electromagnetic Testing
As the meaning of anechoic is ‘without echo’, an anechoic chamber represents a room that has minimal wave reflections from the floor, ceiling, and walls. Anechoic chambers are, therefore, suitable for testing Radio Frequency or RF, electromagnetic interference or EMI, and electromagnetic compatibility or EMC. Special materials on the floor, ceiling, and walls of the chamber help to absorb electromagnetic waves.
Another type of anechoic chamber is suitable for audio waves. The design of such chambers is meant for testing audio recording. The floor, ceiling, and walls have special material and their design helps to absorb sound waves.
A wide range of application areas requires accurate measurements of the electromagnetic spectra. For instance, the testing of an antenna requires measuring the electromagnetic energy levels that it is sending or receiving in all directions. Engineers call this the radiation pattern of the antenna, and the pattern can be in three dimensions, or in the principal plane.
When testing an antenna in an anechoic chamber, engineers use a reference antenna for transmitting a known level of power. They rotate the antenna under test to a known angle and allow the measurement system to record the power it receives. By rotating the position of the antenna under test to a different angle, they can take another measurement of the power it is now receiving. By combining all the measurements, they can form a polar plot representing the radiation pattern in that elevation or azimuthal plane.
Conducting this exercise in the open area test site offers several disadvantages.
The test environment may have extraneous electromagnetic waves that the antenna can pick up along with the test signal. This will introduce errors in the measurement. A variety of sources can supply these extraneous waves, including air traffic, cell phones, FM radio transmitters, and more.
Moreover, weather conditions like rain and wind may also easily affect outdoor measurements of electromagnetic radiation.
Additionally, there can be reflections from nearby structures and the floor. The antenna under test will likely pick up these unwanted reflections as well.
Testing inside an anechoic chamber helps engineers avoid the above disadvantages. Typically, anechoic chambers use metal walls as a shield for preventing external radio signals from impinging on equipment inside the chamber. Special RF absorbing materials on the interior walls, floor, and ceiling of the chamber help in absorbing unwanted reflections of radio waves.
In fact, a shielded and non-reflecting anechoic chamber represents an infinitely large room, where the reflections do not reach the device under test, thereby enabling repeatable and accurate measurements.
Available anechoic chambers range in size from a typical room to a small tabletop enclosure. In fact, some anechoic chambers are so big engineers can easily walk inside, while some are as large as an aircraft hangar.
Pyramidal foams with a loading of conductive carbon often cover the internal surfaces of anechoic chambers. The tapered structure of the pyramidal shapes ensures minimal wave reflections for radio waves hitting them, while the presence of conductive carbon helps to absorb the waves. The RF absorbing material converts the absorbed incident electromagnetic energy to heat. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
/** Submit results to index and return the queue messages to be ack'd */
private List<QueueMessage> submitToIndex(List<IndexEventResult> indexEventResults) {
// if nothing came back then return empty list
if (indexEventResults == null) {
return new ArrayList<>(0);
}
IndexOperationMessage combined = new IndexOperationMessage();
List<QueueMessage> queueMessages =
indexEventResults
.stream()
// filter out messages that are not present, they were not processed and put into the
// results
.filter(result -> result.getQueueMessage().isPresent())
.map(
indexEventResult -> {
// record the cycle time
messageCycle.update(
System.currentTimeMillis() - indexEventResult.getCreationTime());
// ingest each index op into our combined, single index op for the index producer
if (indexEventResult.getIndexOperationMessage().isPresent()) {
combined.ingest(indexEventResult.getIndexOperationMessage().get());
}
return indexEventResult.getQueueMessage().get();
})
// collect into a list of QueueMessages that can be ack'd later
.collect(Collectors.toList());
queueIndexOperationMessage(combined);
return queueMessages;
}
private void startWorker() {
synchronized (mutex) {
Observable<List<QueueMessage>> consumer =
Observable.create(
new Observable.OnSubscribe<List<QueueMessage>>() {
@Override
public void call(final Subscriber<? super List<QueueMessage>> subscriber) {
// name our thread so it's easy to see
Thread.currentThread().setName("QueueConsumer_" + counter.incrementAndGet());
List<QueueMessage> drainList = null;
do {
try {
drainList = take();
// emit our list in it's entity to hand off to a worker pool
subscriber.onNext(drainList);
// take since we're in flight
inFlight.addAndGet(drainList.size());
} catch (Throwable t) {
final long sleepTime = indexProcessorFig.getFailureRetryTime();
logger.error(
"Failed to dequeue. Sleeping for {} milliseconds", sleepTime, t);
if (drainList != null) {
inFlight.addAndGet(-1 * drainList.size());
}
try {
Thread.sleep(sleepTime);
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
// swallow
}
indexErrorCounter.inc();
}
} while (true);
}
}) // this won't block our read loop, just reads and proceeds
.flatMap(
sqsMessages -> {
// do this on a different schedule, and introduce concurrency with flatmap for
// faster processing
return Observable.just(sqsMessages)
.map(
messages -> {
if (messages == null || messages.size() == 0) {
// no messages came from the queue, move on
return null;
}
try {
// process the messages
List<IndexEventResult> indexEventResults =
callEventHandlers(messages);
// submit the processed messages to index producer
List<QueueMessage> messagesToAck = submitToIndex(indexEventResults);
if (messagesToAck.size() < messages.size()) {
logger.warn(
"Missing {} message(s) from index processing",
messages.size() - messagesToAck.size());
}
// ack each message if making it to this point
if (messagesToAck.size() > 0) {
ack(messagesToAck);
}
return messagesToAck;
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("Failed to ack messages", e);
return null;
// do not rethrow so we can process all of them
}
})
.subscribeOn(rxTaskScheduler.getAsyncIOScheduler());
// end flatMap
},
indexProcessorFig.getEventConcurrencyFactor());
// start in the background
final Subscription subscription = consumer.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread()).subscribe();
subscriptions.add(subscription);
}
}
/**
* calls the event handlers and returns a result with information on whether it needs to be ack'd
* and whether it needs to be indexed
*
* @param messages
* @return
*/
private List<IndexEventResult> callEventHandlers(final List<QueueMessage> messages) {
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("callEventHandlers with {} message(s)", messages.size());
}
Stream<IndexEventResult> indexEventResults =
messages
.stream()
.map(
message -> {
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug(
"Queue message with ID {} has been received {} time(s)",
message.getMessageId(),
message.getReceiveCount());
}
AsyncEvent event = null;
try {
event = (AsyncEvent) message.getBody();
} catch (ClassCastException cce) {
logger.error("Failed to deserialize message body", cce);
return new IndexEventResult(
Optional.absent(), Optional.absent(), System.currentTimeMillis());
}
if (event == null) {
logger.error("AsyncEvent type or event is null!");
return new IndexEventResult(
Optional.absent(), Optional.absent(), System.currentTimeMillis());
}
final AsyncEvent thisEvent = event;
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Processing event with type {}", event.getClass().getSimpleName());
}
try {
IndexOperationMessage single = new IndexOperationMessage();
// normal indexing event for an entity
if (event instanceof EntityIndexEvent) {
single = handleEntityIndexUpdate(message);
}
// normal indexing event for an edge
else if (event instanceof EdgeIndexEvent) {
single = handleEdgeIndex(message);
}
// deletes are 2-part, actual IO to delete data, then queue up a de-index
else if (event instanceof EdgeDeleteEvent) {
single = handleEdgeDelete(message);
}
// deletes are 2-part, actual IO to delete data, then queue up a de-index
else if (event instanceof EntityDeleteEvent) {
single = handleEntityDelete(message);
}
// initialization has special logic, therefore a special event type and no index
// operation message
else if (event instanceof InitializeApplicationIndexEvent) {
handleInitializeApplicationIndex(event, message);
}
// this is the main event that pulls the index doc from map persistence and
// hands to the index producer
else if (event instanceof ElasticsearchIndexEvent) {
handleIndexOperation((ElasticsearchIndexEvent) event);
} else if (event instanceof DeIndexOldVersionsEvent) {
single = handleDeIndexOldVersionEvent((DeIndexOldVersionsEvent) event);
} else {
throw new Exception(
"Unknown EventType for message: " + message.getStringBody().trim());
}
if (!(event instanceof ElasticsearchIndexEvent)
&& !(event instanceof InitializeApplicationIndexEvent)
&& single.isEmpty()) {
logger.warn(
"No index operation messages came back from event processing for msg: {} ",
message.getStringBody().trim());
}
// if no exception happens and the QueueMessage is returned in these results, it
// will get ack'd
return new IndexEventResult(
Optional.of(single), Optional.of(message), thisEvent.getCreationTime());
} catch (IndexDocNotFoundException e) {
// this exception is throw when we wait before trying quorum read on map
// persistence.
// return empty event result so the event's message doesn't get ack'd
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug(e.getMessage());
}
return new IndexEventResult(
Optional.absent(), Optional.absent(), thisEvent.getCreationTime());
} catch (Exception e) {
// NPEs don't have a detail message, so add something for our log statement to
// identify better
final String errorMessage;
if (e instanceof NullPointerException) {
errorMessage = "NullPointerException";
} else {
errorMessage = e.getMessage();
}
// if the event fails to process, log and return empty message result so it
// doesn't get ack'd
logger.error(
"{}. Failed to process message: {}",
errorMessage,
message.getStringBody().trim());
return new IndexEventResult(
Optional.absent(), Optional.absent(), thisEvent.getCreationTime());
}
});
return indexEventResults.collect(Collectors.toList());
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ticrapo District
Ticrapo District is one of the 13 districts of Castrovirreyna province in Peru. Ticrapo is the birth place of Lina Medina, the youngest confirmed mother in history. | WIKI |
Acyclovir for Herpes: Dosage, Side Effects, Efficacy
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Acyclovir is a drug that is used to treat varying degrees of infections caused by viruses. Most commonly, the drug is recommended to treat cold sores occurring around the mouth, or outbreaks from genital herpes. It’s also effective against shingles and chickenpox. Because of its powerful antiviral properties, the medication is very effective when treating HSV2 herpes outbreaks. Acyclovir for herpes is specially designed to reduce the amount and severity of the outbreaks in the individuals who carry the herpes virus.
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About Acyclovir for Herpes
Even though acyclovir is meant to be an effective antiviral drug, it should not be mistaken as a cure. The medication can treat outbreaks, but the infection remains inside of the body between each outbreak instance. This means that the drug is a form of management, allowing for those who suffer from herpes to live more comfortably.
Additionally, the drug can help sores heal faster and soothe outbreak areas, preventing future sores from forming while decreasing the local pain and itching. For individuals who suffer from a weaker immune system, taking acyclovir can help contain the virus, limiting its spread to other body parts, which greatly reduces the risks of especially serious infections.
Acyclovir Dosage
Usually your doctor will determine the dosage plan when it comes to reducing the severity and occurrence of outbreaks. The average recommendation will be to take the medication by mouth anywhere between two to five times per day. In some cases, this can mean taking five pills at a time five times per day, at a total of 25 pills! This is one reason many people prefer Valocyclovir (Valtrex) instead. (However, Acyclovir is far cheaper.)
Usually the dosage is based entirely on how you respond to the treatment. In the case of children, the dosage is based on weight as well. Because of how immediately the drug works in the body, it is important to keep its levels constant. The recommended course is to take the drug at evenly spaced intervals throughout the day. Users are encouraged to take a pill at the same times every day. It is crucial for you to not skip doses or change the dosage until the prescription runs out, and even then, you will need to speak with your doctor and keep them informed in case the condition worsens or persists.
When to Take Acyclovir
Speak with your doctor at the first sign of an outbreak, and take it immediately once it begins. The drug begins working in your body almost instantly so long as it is taken daily as directed by your doctor. The medication will usually need to be taken even after the outbreak has been managed in order to manage the last traces of the infection.
Acyclovir Side Effects
There are several side effects that can occur during dosage period, though they are usually mild in severity. It is highly recommended to keep your body well hydrated while taking the medication. Nausea is one of the most common side effects. If you feel it worsening or persisting after your body adjusts to the medication, you should inform your doctor. While these are rarer, it is crucial to be aware of any signs of kidney damage, mental or mood changes, unusual amounts of dizziness and drowsiness, and difficulty speaking.
The rarest of all side effects are also among the most severe, and it is extremely unlikely that the doctor would prescribe the medication if you were at risk for any severe side effects. However, it is important to keep in mind that the medication can very rarely cause life threatening disorders that affect the kidneys and blood cells. Seeking out medical attention is vital if you experience extreme fatigue or any irregular changes in your heartbeat. Similarly, be aware of the possibilities of kidney damage and severe stomach or abdominal pain, as well as sudden vision changes, seizures, and sudden loss of consciousness.
Acyclovir vs. Valtrex
Another medication option, similar to acyclovir for herpes, is Valtrex. Much like acyclovir, the drug works by combating the virus and the infection and reducing the frequency of outbreaks. It also helps manage the pain and itchiness that occurs between outbreaks. The largest difference between the two drugs is the regular dosage amount, as both drugs are broken down and absorbed by the body at entirely different rates. Since Valtrex is absorbed into the body at a slower rate, its dosages will often be smaller — perhaps two pills a day. However, the way it functions and its side effects are similar enough to acyclovir for the difference of utility to be a matter of preference among doctors. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Dreadlock Muscle Punk-rock band formed by Nico French and The Razor in 1992.
With an inspration from bands and artists like Mötley Crue, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbbath, The Who and french rock Noir Desir- Dreasdlock Muscle began the early Grounge transition - playing music like Queens Of The Stoneage - decades before -- | WIKI |
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Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in men and women. These malignant tumors arise from polyps which grow in the lining of the colon. Not all polyps will become cancerous, but those which will, generally take 5 to 10 years to do so. The risk of developing colorectal cancer is approximately 6% over a person’s lifetime. The majority of these cancers develop after the age of fifty. There are certain factors which increase a person’s risk of colorectal cancer. For example, a person with a brother, sister, mother or father with colorectal cancer, will have a three-fold increase in risk of developing this cancer also. A person with inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, will also have an increased risk. A person with polyps in the colon has an eight-fold increase risk of developing cancer. It is important to remember however, that the vast majority of colorectal cancers occur in people who have no specific personal risk factors, and no family members with the disease.
Colorectal cancer is unique in that we are able to dramatically decrease it’s occurrence by effective screening programs. By identifying and removing polyps, we can prevent them from progressing to cancer. The recommended screening protocol for people without special risk factors, begins with annual fecal occult blood tests (testing for blood in the stool) and digital rectal exams starting at age forty. At the age of fifty, a person should undergo colonoscopy. This test will allow your physician to directly examine the inside of the colon and rectum, and to remove polyps if they are encountered. Another option for examining the colon is a sigmoidoscopy. This test is similar to a colonoscopy, but only examines the lower left side of the colon. The sigmoidoscopy must be accompanied by a complimentary test, such as a barium enema, in order to evaluate the remainder of the colon. Unfortunately, if a suspicious lesion or polyp is identified on this radiographic study, a colonoscopy will be required to examine, biopsy or remove the area in question. For this reason, most physicians consider colonoscopy to be the screening test of choice, as it can evaluate the entire colon and remove polyps at the same time. In the near future, other options for screening, such as CT virtual colonosocopy will be perfected. These tests will still require colonoscopy for tissue sampling. Complete colon screening should be carried out every five years after the age of fifty. The presence of polyps, or the development of symptoms such as bleeding , abdominal or rectal pain or changes in bowel habits, may necessitate more frequent examinations. The goal of screening is to prevent cancer by removing polyps, and to identify cancers early, giving the greatest opportunity for cure.
After a diagnosis of colorectal cancer is made, additional studies are usually ordered such as a CT scan, chest x-ray and blood tests. When the workup has been completed, the next step is the surgical resection of the cancer. The exception to this is rectal cancer, which is often treated first with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. This treatment, which produces shrinkage of the tumor, is then followed by surgical resection. Colon cancers are treated first by surgical resection, and then followed by chemotherapy, if indicated. Resection of a colorectal cancer involves the removal of the segment of the bowel that contains the cancer along with margins of normal bowel to reduce the possibility of local recurrence. The segment of the colon or rectum to be removed is generally dictated by the blood supply to that segment of colon. The entire blood supply and the associated lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes are removed along with the segment of bowel. This not only helps prevent recurrence, but allows for accurate staging of the cancer, and therefore helps to direct further treatment decisions. Colostomies, in which the bowel is brought out through the abdominal wall and opened into a bag, is not part of the usual surgical treatment of colorectal cancer. However, there are situations which my require the formation of a colostomy. Your surgeon will discuss this possibility as it relates to your condition. Minimally invasive surgical techniques have changed the operative experience dramatically for most patients. Using very small incisions, a camera and specialized surgical instruments are introduced into the abdomen. The resection of the diseased bowel is carried out with significantly less surgical trauma to the patient when compared to traditional operations. The same excellent cancer resection can be accomplished utilizing these minimally invasive techniques, but with less blood loss, less pain, faster return of bowel function, shorter hospital stay and faster return to normal activity.
The staging of colorectal cancer is based on the depth of the tumor invasion in the bowel, whether lymph nodes have become involved, and whether the cancer has metastasized (spread) to other organs. This information will help determine the need for chemotherapy. Follow up after cancer therapy will include periodic physical examination, blood tests, CT scans, chest xrays and colonoscopy. In every case, the patient is followed by a team of specialists (surgeon, medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, nurses, nutritionists, etc.) to assure that they receive the latest and most complete cancer care available.
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The Rolling Stones Announce Kickoff Date For '50 & Counting' Tour « 104.1 Jack FM
Rolling Stones fans should mark their calendars. The band has given an official start date to its upcoming tour. Though The Stones already announced they were kicking off their tour in Los Angeles, they took to their website to announce that they'll take over the Staples Center on May 2. At least as of now. The Stones warn fans: Date subject to change pending NBA/NHL playoff schedule. If you can't get yourself to L.A. for the tour kickoff, why not check the Stones out in Sin City? Radio.com is giving you the chance to see The Rolling Stones live in Las Vegas on May 11. But the lucky fan won't just get a chance to see the show, they'll get an exclusive backstage tour too. A winner and his/her guest will fly out to Vegas, stay at the MGM Grand and take home Stones merch. So don't worry if the band isn't coming to your town, enter for your chance to win HERE. Also just announced: Tickets for Los Angeles, Anaheim, Boston and Philadelphia will go on sale Monday, April 15 at 1o a.m. local time, via The Stones' official site. 50 AND COUNTING TOUR DATES 2013*May 2 – Los Angeles STAPLES Center – On Sale: April 15th @ 10 AM PSTMay 5 – Oakland Oracle Arena – On Sale NowMay 8 – San Jose HP Pavilion – On Sale NowMay 11 – Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena – On Sale: TBAMay 15 – Anaheim Honda Center – On Sale: April 15 @ 10 AM PSTMay 25 – Toronto Air Canada Centre – On Sale NowMay 28 – Chicago United Center – On Sale NowMay 31 – Chicago United Center – On Sale NowJune 3 – Chicago United Center – On Sale NowJune 6 – Toronto Air Canada Centre – On Sale NowJune 12 – Boston TD Garden – On Sale: April 15 @ 10 AM ESTJune 18 – Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center – On Sale: April 15 @ 10 AM EST *Los Angeles concert date subject to change due to pending NBA/NHL schedule Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Listen Live | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Commentary, J Appl Bioinforma Comput Biol Vol: 11 Issue: 5
Continual Inflammation and Cancer Immune Response
Rene Gurdon *
Department of Environmental Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
*Corresponding author: Rene Gurdon
Department of Environmental Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
E-mail: [email protected]
Received date: 18 April, 2022, Manuscript No. JABCB-22-67888;
Editor assigned date: 20 April, 2022, PreQC No. JABCB-22-67888 (PQ);
Reviewed date: 04 May, 2022, QC No. JABCB-22-67888;
Revised date: 11 May, 2022, Manuscript No. JABCB-22-67888 (R);
Published date: 18 May, 2022, DOI: 10.4172/2329-9533.1000233
Citation: Gurdon R (2022) Continual Inflammation and Cancer Immune Response. J Appl Bioinforma Comput Biol 11:5.
Keywords: Bioinformatics
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Chronic inflammation represents a long-run reaction to associate degree inflammatory stimulation characterised by continued enlisting of mononucleate leukocytes (monocytes and lymphocytes) amid tissue injury because of the sustained inflammatory response. In distinction to acute inflammatory responses, chronic inflammation might last weeks, months, or perhaps a time period within the case of some chronic inflammatory diseases. Additionally to the buildup of monocyte-derived macrophages and lymphocytes, chronic inflammation is characterised by changes related to wound healing, like proliferation of fibroblasts and tiny blood vessels. Several chronic inflammatory diseases begin as inferior, extended responses to pathogens or bound endogenous or exogenous substances. Chronic inflammation plays a key role within the development and progression of the many chronic diseases as well as, however not restricted to, reaction diseases, metabolic disorders like arteriosclerosis and fatness, fibrosis, and cancer. Macrophages square measure key cellular components of chronic inflammatory responses. Distinct populations of money supply and money supply macrophages regulate the chronic inflammatory setting. Some chronic inflammatory responses might proceed to tumour inflammation, characterised by a morphologically distinct cellular plan to contain associate degree violative agent or substance that's troublesome to eradicate. The classical example of tumour inflammation is discovered within the host response to infection with tubercle bacillus.
Epigenetic Alterations
Chronic inflammation is deeply concerned in development and progression of human cancers, causative up to twenty fifth of them. As mechanisms of however chronic inflammation induces irreversible genetic/epigenetic alterations, acceleration of cell proliferation and production of reactive element species are chiefly thought of. At constant time, as involvement of epigenetic alterations in development and progression of cancers became apparent, induction of epigenetic alterations has joined the mechanisms of however chronic inflammation induces cancers. During this chapter, we'll describe the link between inflammation and cancers before the epigenetic era, epigenetic alterations iatrogenic by chronic inflammations, and the way epigenetic alterations square measure iatrogenic.
Among GU malignancies, bladder cancer provides the strongest proof for a link between chronic inflammation and carcinogenesis. The proof linking inflammatory bilharzia infections to bladder cancer is especially sturdy, and Schistosoma haematobium has been classified as a familiar substance by the International Agency for analysis on Cancer. Epidemiologically, countries with high rates of endemic infection have high rates of bladder cancer, and elevated levels of infestation square measure related to an epithelial cell composition. Different sources of bladder inflammation that are coupled to carcinogenesis embrace chronic tract infections, chronic inward catheters, and urinary tract infection iatrogenic by cyclophosphamide treatment. The cellular and molecular mechanisms by that chronic bladder infection ends up in cancer haven't been absolutely elucidated; they possible involve mechanisms the same as those represented in different cancers, that is, dysfunctional macrophages that manufacture immune restrictive cytokines, a set of myeloid cells that suppress an energetic immunologic response, and a polarization of the reconciling immunologic response toward a Th2 and Treg composition.
Immune Recognition
Once bladder tumors develop, the immune writing hypothesis would recommend that early tumors could also be recognized by the system and eliminated. That hypothesis is supported by information showing that CD8 T-cell infiltration correlates with outcome in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Clearly a fortunate CD8-mediated growth response doesn't occur all told cases, and up to date information describe a vital mechanism by that bladder tumors, excretory organ cancer, and different growth sorts “escape” immune recognition. This happens through the interaction between immune stop molecules expressed on cancer-specific T cells and their ligands, expressed on either growth cells or tumor-associated macrophages. This interaction is deeply restrictive to lymph cell activity, attenuating proliferation additionally as effector operates. During this regard, many tissue-based studies showed that the animal tissue cells in bladder cancer specific the immune stop matter PD-L1. In one early study, PD-L1 expression was noted in more or less 15 August 1945 to thirty fifth of cases, and expression was related to multiplied growth grade. Curiously, in these patients, PD-L1 expression was additional closely related to prognosis than was World Health Organization grade, inform to a purposeful role for the PD-1/PD-L1 interaction in bladder cancer progression. A second connected study confirmed the link between PD-L1 expression and finest growths and additional incontestable that PD-L1 expression was related to tumor infiltration by immune cells. Curiously, this cluster additionally showed that PD-L1 was extremely expressed in BGG-induced granulomas in patients progressing on medical care, suggesting a doable dodging. Mechanistically, these information support a model referred to as “adaptive immune resistance”, that explains however PD-L1 expression may be a crucial mechanism by that tumors evade the immunologic response. During this model, mutations arising as a growth progresses cause associate degree reconciling immunologic response outlined by CD8 lymph cell recognition. These CD8 T cells migrate to the growth, as a consequence of feat effector operate secrete the protein. IFN-γ may be a powerful inducer of PD-L1 expression in growth cells and myeloid cells and animal tissue cells, and it's these iatrogenic PD-L1 molecules on growth cells that act with PD-1 on the infiltrating CD8 T cells to effectively curtail their growth effector operate. Those information would recommend that an antibody that blocks either PD-1 or PD-L1 might doubtless cause objective growth responses in patients with bladder cancer, a hypothesis powerfully confirmed by phase II clinical trial and III studies in bladder and excretory organ cancer.
Exposure to human immunological disorder virus in kids and adolescents happens through perinatal transmission, blood transfusions, drug usage, and sexual contact. Growth failure may be a cardinal feature of childhood nonheritable immunological disorder syndrome. However, HIV-infected infants and kids show growth failure even before demonstrating severe immune disfunction. Weight, length, and head circumference square measure all affected, though weight-for-height could also be traditional. Before the time of extremely active antiretroviral medical care, height growth rate was related to survival, freelance of either CD4+ T-cell WBC count or microorganism load, with therapy normalizing growth in most studies. Studies of the GH-IGF1 axis in HIV-infected kids have shown proof of attenuated GH secretion, GH resistance, and IGF1 resistance; each traditional and low levels of GH and IGF1 square measure seen. Lipodystrophy related to therapy happens in kids, though less usually than in adults, and attenuated GH secretion has been incontestable in HIV-associated lipodystrophy, doubtless causative to impaired growth. HIV-infected kids oft have delayed pubescence, which might contribute to their linear growth failure. during a short-run treatment trial with normal doses of GH, height and weight growth multiplied and macromolecule organic process diminished, with none adverse impact on microorganism burden.
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Under the bold heading "5 program areas", why don't you add the actual mission. You reference that they follow their mission and aim to accomplish it, but I think it would be beneficial to add the actual mission there.
You state that one of the programs is headed up by Douglas Maughan. Think about adding more information about him: What are his experiences? What is his actual job title and what exactly does that title entail?
In the paragraph about securing cyberspace, the President's national strategy to secure cyberspace is mentioned. I think it would be beneficial to state what his strategy entails and how it ties into this subject.
Under cyber security it is mentioned that there are 3 program areas within this topic. Listing these would help elaborate on this topic.
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User:Binx12345/Sexual harassment in the workplace in the United States
Judge Richey’s decision received a lot of media attention, including stories in multiple national newspapers. A lot of this attention was critical of the decision, and focused on a footnote Judge Richey included in the Memorandum Opinion. This footnote stated that sexual harassment from a supervisor who is bisexual cannot be considered sex discrimination if both men and women employees are subject to the harassment.
Williams’ case was appealed multiple times, and it took around eight years for her to win. Judge Richey granted Williams $19,147 to make up for lost pay. | WIKI |
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* Graph Cuts
* Graph cuts in computer vision
* Segmentation-based object categorization
* Maximum a posteriori estimation
* Graphs
* Graph (mathematics)
* Directed graph
* Connectivity (graph theory)
* K-vertex-connected graph
* Cut (graph theory)
* Graph partition
* Flow network
* Graph coloring
* Menger's theorem
* König's theorem (graph theory)
* Max-Flow / Min-Cut
* Max-flow min-cut theorem
* Maximum flow problem
* Minimum cut
* Maximum cut
* Algorithms
* Edmonds–Karp algorithm
* Dinic's algorithm
* Ford–Fulkerson algorithm
* Push–relabel maximum flow algorithm
* Hopcroft–Karp algorithm
* Optimization
* Mathematical optimization
* Optimization problem
* Duality (optimization)
* Duality gap
* Convex optimization
* Convex function
* Convex set
* Linear programming
* Appendix
* Graph traversal
* Breadth-first search
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The papers of the Red yet contain many more proofs of the spirit of cruelty reigning among them. The Government received letters from the relatives of the murdered requesting investigation, and so an enquiry was often instituted. In reality, there was very little to investigate, for generally the writer already knew the names of the murderers. Nevertheless an inquest was held.
On the 3rd April a murder and robbery was investigated in the parish of Sibbo. The two murderers confess, but are not imprisoned. They only receive a warning not to absent themselves. On the 2nd April the perpetrators of the murder of an innkeeper in the parish of Mohla are brought to trial. They are two young Red Guardsmen. They seized the innkeeper in his home, and took him before the Staff. Here he was sentenced to death. They then seized him again, and were going to take him to the wood, but on the way he ran to a little house where some of his relatives lived. He begged and prayed the two to shoot him near the house, so that his body might remain with his people, but this could not be allowed. He was shot in the wood, his body rifled and thrown into the river. When the members of the Staff were examined, they explained that the innkeeper had been sentenced by them in their capacity of members of the "summary court-martial," because he was an eager adherent of the butchers. They had ordered him to be shot, but had not taken the trouble to ascertain whether or how the sentence was accomplished. The solemn abolition of capital punishment was not thus taken seriously by the tribunals themselves. In the parish of Strömfors the Red Guardsmen openly confess to having murdered and plundered two peasants. On the 22nd February a crofter's son has been murdered, and the body rifled and thrown into the river; also the | WIKI |
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PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988
102 STAT. 1441
tion (b)(2) shall be used only for direct costs and not for indirect costs, profits, or management fees of the contractor. "(4) In determining whether to make an award to a particular joint venture, the Program shall consider whether the members of the joint venture have made provisions for the appropriate participation of small United States businesses in such joint venture. "(5) Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to ^ e following information obtained by the Federal Government on a confidential basis in connection with the activities of any business or any joint venture receiving funding under the Program— "(A) information on the business operation of any member of the business or joint venture; and "(B) trade secrets possessed by any business or any member of the joint venture. "(6) Intellectual property owned and developed by any business or joint ventiu« receiving funding or by any member of such a joint venture may not be disclosed by any officer or employee of the Federal Government except in accordance with « written agreement between the owner or developer and the Program. "Cf) The Federal Government shall be entitled to a share of the licensing fees and royalty payments made to and retained by any business or joint venture to which it contributes under this section in an amount proportional to the Federal share of the costs incurred by the business or joint venture as determined by independent audit. "(8) If a business or joint venture fails before the completion of the period for which a contract or award has been made, after all allowable costs have been paid and appropriate audits conducted, the unspent balance of the Federal funds shall be returned by the recipient to the Pn^ram. "(9) Upon dissolution of any joint venture or at the time otherwise agreed upon, the Federal Government shall be entitled to a share of the residual assets of the joint venture proportional to the Federal share of the costs of the joint venture as determined by independent audit. "(e) As used in this section, the term 'joint research and development venture' has the meaning given to such term in section 2(a)(6) of the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4301(a)(6)).".
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of the Act of March 3, 1901, is amended to read as follows: VISITING OOMMirTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
"SEC. 10. (a) There is established within the Institute a Visiting Establishment. Committee on Advanced Technology (hereafter in this Act referred 15 USC 278. to as the 'Committee'). The Committee shall consist of nine members appointed by the Director, at least five of whom shall be from United States industry. The Director shall appoint as original members of the Committee any final members of the National Bureau of Standards Visiting Committee who wish to serve in such capacity. In addition to any powers and functions otherwise granted to it by this Act, the Committee shall review and make recommendations r^arding general policy for the Institute, its organization, its
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I have the following query to get me the values corresponding with the latest date:
SELECT MAX(RowAddedDate), X, Y
FROM dbo.MyTable
GROUP BY X, Y
This is fine, but I need to get the ID of each row in this query. If I add the ID though, I get everything as the ID needs to be in the GROUP BY.
How do I solve this?
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You can use window (ranking). functions for this:
WITH ct AS
( SELECT X, Y, RowAddedDate, ID,
Rn = DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY X, Y
ORDER BY RowAddedDate DESC)
FROM dbo.MyTable
)
sELECT X, Y, RowAddedDate, ID
FROM ct
WHERE Rn = 1 ;
If multiple rows have the same date with same X and Y, all of them will be returned due to the DENSE_RANK().
If you want only one, you can replace it with ROW_NUMBER() and adjust the ORDER BY to control which of the tied rows will be returned.
As for efficiency, an index on (X, Y, RowAddedDate) INCLUDE (ID) would help.
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You could use a window MAX() to achieve the result in a way that is semantically very close to the one you have discovered but does not involve a join:
SELECT
ID,
X,
Y,
RowAddedDate
FROM
(
SELECT
*,
MaxRowAddedDate = MAX(RowAddedDate) OVER (PARTITION BY X, Y)
FROM
dbo.MyTable
) AS derived
WHERE
RowAddedDate = MaxRowAddedDate
;
The maximum values of RowAddedDate per X, Y are returned alongside non-aggregated values. You just filter on the max values to get the rows you want.
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OK, had a brain flash as soon as I posted this. Still, answer might help someone.
It is possible that the combination of MAX(RowAddedDate), X, Y in the query isn't unique, therefore the query can't be guaranteed to return a single ID per row.
As such, I will have to JOIN the table on itself with those three values as the join condition.
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In the Western world, endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer and is the fourth importance among all feminine cancers. Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 (COX-1 and -2) are the limiting enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of prostaglandins (PGs) from arachidonic acid. The PGs have been shown to be implicated in evolution and tumor transformation, particularly, PGE2. Four prostaglandin E2 receptors have been found: EP1, EP2, EP3 and EP4. The aim of this study was to determine if resveratrol, a natural anti-oxidant found in red wine, could influence the production of PGs and apoptotic cell death or cellular proliferation. Six different human uterine cancer cell lines were used for this study. Real-time RT-PCR and Western analyses were carried out to measure COX-1, COX-2, EP1, EP2, EP3 and EP4 expression. The results indicated that all cell lines expressed both COX isoforms and the four EP receptors at different levels. In experiment two, cells were treated with various concentrations of resveratrol for different length of time. MTT proliferation assay revealed that resveratrol induced maximal cell proliferation of RL-95-2 cells in a dose dependent manner after 24 hours, which was reduced after 48 and 72 hours. Resveratrol had no effect on KLE cells in term of proliferation but inhibited cell proliferation in HeLa and HEC-1-A in a dose and time dependant manner. In Ishikawa and TOV-1078D cells, a novel human endometrial cancer cell line, the effect of resveratrol was biphasic: cell proliferation was increased at low concentration whereas higher concentrations resulted in a decreased of cell proliferation in a time dependent manner. Hoechst nuclear staining indicated that resveratrol induced apoptosis in HeLa, HEC-1-A, Ishikawa and TOV-1078D but not in KLE and RL-95-2 cells. Since we have showed that Akt activity can directly up-regulate COX-2 gene expression and PGE2 secretion, in experiment two Western blot analyses were carried out to determine the possible involvement of the PI3-K/PTEN/Akt pathway in this process. Results indicate that, depending on the cell line, resveratrol can act positively and negatively on Akt phosphorylation in those wild types (HeLa, HEC-1-A and KLE) and mutated PTEN (RL-95-2, Ishikawa and TOV-1078D) human uterine cancer cells and that COX-1 and COX-2 expressions are influenced by resveratrol. In response to resveratrol PGE2 secretion was decreased in HeLa, HEC-1-A and Ishikawa cells. The results suggest that resveratrol, through its action on prostaglandin biosynthesis, could be an important regulator of cell survival in uterine cancer. Supported by CIHR (MOP-66987).
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User:Harsh uttamchandani/sandbox/CATROBAT(PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
CATROBAT(PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
Catrobat is a visual programming language and set of creativity tools for smartphones, tablets, and mobile browsers.
Through Catrobat, we promote computational thinking skills as well as the free and open source software philosophy in a fun and engaging way on a worldwide scale.
Catrobat and the software developed by the Catrobat team are inspired by the Scratch programming system developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Catrobat itself is an independent free and open source software (FOSS) project.
HISTORY
There were 3 version of paintroid 0.1.6b(dec,2010), 0.6.4b(Mar, 2011) and 0.7b(feb,2012).Catroid had Catroid 0.4.3d and some beta version also.In August,2013 they were merged and catrobat and pocket code was formed.
Paintroid was a part of the Catroid project. It had a graphical paint editor program for the Android platform that, among others, allows to set parts of pictures to transparent. Paintroid can load any kind of picture including photos taken with the phone's camera, allows to draw with different kind of lines and in almost any color, including the crucial transparent "color", can recolor complete areas, also including setting them to transparent, and has additional goodies such as pinch-zoom etc.
POCKET CODE
Pocket Code allows you to create and execute Catrobat programs in a visual, “LEGO-style” programming environment. Pocket Code and Catrobat are inspired by MIT’s Scratch but independently developed and entirely running on smartphones and tablets – no Laptop or PC whatsoever is needed to create or execute Catrobat programs. With Pocket Code you can develop your own games, animations, or music videos, taking advantage of multi-touch, built-in sensors, and the full display resolution of your device. It also allows wirelessly controlling external hardware such as Arduino boards, Lego Mindstorms robots, or Parrot’s AR.Drone. Pocket Code allows you to download Catrobat programs that others have made and upload programs to the Web, all under free open source licenses to foster learning, sharing, and remixing. All major mobile platforms are supported. Google is promoting Pocket Code through their Google Play for Education platform, and Catrobat has been chosen as the official programming language for OLPC tablets. Pocket Code encourages tinkering and allows you to iteratively create your own apps using just one finger.. Catrobat programs written on one platform can be directly run on all other platforms as well and can be shared via a the Pocket Code sharing website.
= USER INTERFERENCE = When you start a new project you get a background and a object place. In backgrounds and object option you can add background and object and program them with the help of scripts option and you can also add sounds to your program by going to it.In scripts block you get categories like control,motion,sound,looks and data.
POCKET PAINT
Pocket Paint is a paint editor that, among others, allows setting parts of pictures to transparent and zooming up to pixel level.It is integrated into Pocket Code but can also be used on its own. Images are saved under Photos and Gallery as well as in the "Pocket Paint" folder.
Features:
* Image format: png with transparency.
* Layers
* Tools: brush, pipette, stamp, circle/ellipse, cropping/enlarging, flipping, zooming, line tool, cursor, fill tool, rectangle, image importing, eraser, text, moving, and rotating.
* Full screen drawing.
* Line width and shape.
* Color palette or RGBa values.
LEGO Mindstorms NXT and Pocket Code
To enable the LEGO NXT bricks you have to hit the “settings”-button in Pocket Code. Go to “Lego Mindstorms NXT bricks”. Select the first checkbox for enabling the bricks. These bricks are now available and can be used as usual. To communicate with the robot a bluetooth-connection is needed. When you start a program, you are asked to to connect to a robot via Bluetooth.
Raspberry Pi and Pocket Code
To enable the Raspberry Pi bricks you have to hit the “settings”-button in Pocket Code. Select the checkbox for enabling the bricks. These bricks are now available and can be used as usual.
Pocket Code and Phiro
To enable the Phiro bricks you have to hit the “settings”-button in Pocket Code. Select the checkbox for enabling the bricks. These bricks are now available and can be used as usual.
Pocket Code and Arduino
To enable the Phiro bricks you have to hit the “settings”-button in Pocket Code. Select the checkbox for enabling the bricks. These bricks are now available and can be used as usual.
Pocket Code and LegoEV3
These bricks are now available and can be used as usual in latest version.
COMMUNITY OF USERS
The catrobat community is increasing day- by- day.As per as of 16 ,january 2017 the stats were-:
Community Stats
36,738 programs
624,589 download
GSoC and Code-in
Catroid has participated in Google summer of code from 2011 to 2014. It is also participating google code-in 2017.
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2016–17 Zira FK season
The Zira FK 2016–17 season is Zira's second Azerbaijan Premier League season, and third season in their history. It is their second season with Adil Shukurov as manager, during which they will participate in the Azerbaijan Cup as well as the League.
Season events
On 27 December 2016, Adil Shukurov had his contract as manager terminated by mutual consent, with Aykhan Abbasov taking over as manager until the end of the season.
Summer
In:
Out:
Winter
In:
Out:
Appearances and goals
* colspan="14"|Players who left Zira during the season:
* colspan="14"|Players who left Zira during the season:
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SoftBank's Uber deal takes major step forward
Uber's warring factions have agreed to a truce that will allow Japan's SoftBank Group to launch a tender offer for at least a 14% stake in the ride-hail company, per multiple sources. Bottom line: This is major development, but doesn't mean the deal will actually be consummated. Instead, SoftBank now will propose a price at which it would buy stock from eligible Uber shareholders, who would then have 30 days to tender. This deal has been in a holding pattern for several weeks, due to a disagreement between ex-CEO Travis Kalanick and venture capital firm Benchmark. The resolution – which allows a voting rights agreement to be signed shortly – is twofold: Benchmark will suspend its lawsuit against Kalanick during the tender, and drop it if the deal gets closed. Kalanick will allow a majority of the board to approve (or disapprove) his future nominees to three board seats that he currently controls. Key now is what price SoftBank proposes. As we've previously reported, SoftBank likely will need to come up for its indicative proposal that valued Uber at around $50 billion. Benchmark and other early investors have agreed not to discuss their sale plans with one another, while SoftBank has agreed that all of its secondary share purchases will be at the same price (it had initially wanted to offer a premium to early sellers). Go deeper: Uber's new CEO gives his first public interview since taking the job Update: Uber confirms progress in its talks with the investors. From a spokesperson: | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Beam crossing
This article had false information, AFAIK. The LHC has five experiments, not eight as the article proposed. Correct the article if I'm wrong.
A correction: LHC has a total of 6 experiments: 4 main experiments, and 2 smaller ones. The points in which the two beams cross, though, are only 4 (the 2 smaller experiments don't have dedicated crossing points, but use the data from the beam crossings made for 2 of the bigger experiments). I'm correcting the article changing "five" to "four". —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Contextual bandit problems model the inherent tradeoff between exploration and exploitation in personalized decision making in marketing, healthcare, revenue management, and beyond. Specifically, the tradeoff is characterized by the optimal growth rate of the regret in cumulative rewards compared to the optimal policy we are trying to learn, and naturally the optimal rate depends on how complex the underlying supervised learning problem is, namely how much can observing reward in one context tell us about mean rewards in another context. Curiously, this obvious-seeming relationship is obscured in current theory that separately studies the easy, fully-extrapolatable case and the hard, super-local case. So, to characterize the relationship more precisely I study a nonparametric contextual bandit problem where the expected reward functions are β-smooth (roughly meaning, they are β-times differentiable). I will show how this interpolates between two extremes that were previously studied in isolation: non-differentiable-response bandits (β ≤ 1), where rate-optimal regret is achieved by decomposing the problem into separate non-contextual bandits, and parametric-response bandits (β = ∞), where rate-optimal regret can often be achieved with minimal or no exploration due to infinite extrapolatability from one context to another. We develop a novel algorithm that works for any smoothness setting in between by operating neither fully locally nor fully globally. We prove its regret is rate-optimal by establishing matching upper and lower bounds, recovering the existing results at the two extremes and filling in the gap. In this sense, our work bridges the regret gap between the non-differentiable and parametric bandit problems and between bandit algorithms that exclusively use global or local information, shedding light on the crucial interplay of complexity and regret in dynamic decision making. Time permitting, I will also discuss how to construct valid confidence intervals from data collected by contextual bandits, a crucial challenge in the enterprise to replace randomized trials with adaptive experiments in applied fields from biostatistics to development economics. To solve it, I will present the first asymptotically normal estimator of causal effect given data collected by a contextual bandit.
This talk is based on the following papers:
Smooth Contextual Bandits: Bridging the Parametric and Non-differentiable Regret Regimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02553
Post-Contextual-Bandit Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00418 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Proposals, December 2007
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Ada Programming/Keywords/use
Use clause
There are two versions of use clauses, a use_package_clause and a use_type_clause.
At library level
This use_package_clause makes the content of a package directly visible. If applied on the library level, its scope is the complete library unit.
A use clause never hides anything that is already directly visible without it. All use clauses in effect in a certain scope act on the same level: Two homographs in different packages must still be named as selected components.
; ; Hello Put_Line("Hello, world!"); New_Line; Put_Line("I am an Ada program with package use."); Hello;
If readability is your main concern then you should avoid this kind of use clause. Either make it more local or use a use_type_clause.
At declaration level
The effect is the same as above, but the scope is the directly enclosing declaration region.
; Hello ; Put_Line("Hello, world!"); New_Line; Put_Line("I am an Ada program with package use."); Hello;
For types
Use type clauses come in two versions.
Type_Name;
makes the operators of the type directly visible.
Type_Name;
makes the primitive operations of the type directly visible.
Representation clauses
The keywords, and are used for representation clauses.
A record representation clause specifies the Layout aspect of a record.
An enumeration representation clause specifies the Coding aspect of an enumeration type.
See Ada Programming/Representation_clauses.
Wikibook
* Ada Programming
* Ada Programming/Keywords
Ada Reference Manual
Ada Quality and Style Guide
|Use Keywords:use | WIKI |
Algorithms and OOD (CSC 207 2014S) : EBoards
CSC 207 2014S: Extra Session, Week 2
Overview
Questions
Can I send in my extra credit summary a week late?
Maybe once or twice. Don't make it a habit.
Can my peers have extra credit for Chinese New Year celebration 6-8 p.m. on Friday in Harris Center?
Yes.
What will we be doing with ArrayLists?
Nothing explicit. At times, you will want expandable arrays, and you have three choices: Implement the expandable arrays yourself (this maybe an assignment), use ArrayList, use Vector.
ArrayLists and Vectors are both expandable arrays. ArrayLists only seem to expand one element at a time. Vectors expand more easily. ArrayLists allow internal deletion.
See examples/arrays/VectorsVsArrayLists.java
Sam's Question: Can we design a thing like lists/arrays that (1) give fast access to individual elements; (2) won't behave too slowly if we do deleteElementAt(2), insertElementAt(2), getElementAt(1000000)
_How do we tell Java that we want an ArrayList that contains only strings?
Use angle brackets. That should make Java happy. You need to use a class (so Integer rather than int).
ArrayList<String> strings = new ArrayList<String> ();
How would you write average?
We'll come back to this tomorrow, but:
a/2 + b/2 + (isOdd(a) && isOdd(b) : 1 ? 0);
Only works in the sitation that they are both non-negative
Copyright (c) 2013-14 Samuel A. Rebelsky.
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Introduction
In Linux, a group is a unit in which you can manage privileges for several users simultaneously. Linux groups allow you to manage multiple user permissions quickly and easily.
In this tutorial learn how user groups work in Linux, and how to add users to specific groups.
how to add a user to a group in linux
Prerequisites
• A system running Linux
• A user account with sudo or root privileges
• Access to a terminal window/command line (Ctrl-Alt-T, Ctrl-Alt-F2)
What is a User Group in Linux
In Linux, different users have different roles or responsibilities. Some users might need the ability to execute applications, while others are restricted from accessing specific files and folders.
Groups let you create categories of users with pre-set permissions. Instead of managing permissions for each user account, you can simply add a user to a group to grant the appropriate permissions.
Primary Group
The primary group is set to the logged-in user. Any files the user creates are automatically added to that group. A user can only belong to one primary group at a time. A primary group with the same name as the user is created, and any files created by the user are included in that group.
Secondary Groups
A user can belong to any number of secondary groups (including none). Secondary groups are created to manage individual files and software applications. Members of the group inherit the read, write, and execute privileges for that group.
How to Create a User Group
To create a new group, enter the following:
sudo groupadd new_group
Replace new_group with the name you want for your new group.
create a user group in linux
How to Add User to Group
Add an Existing User to an Existing Group
Use the adduser command to add a user to a group:
sudo adduser user_name new_group
add existing user to an existing group
Use the useradd command to add a user:
sudo useradd –G new_group user_name
You can also use the usermod command to add a user to a group:
sudo usermod –a –G group_name user_name
The usermod command uses the –append and –group options to append the user to a particular group. Without using –append, the user could be dropped from other groups.
Add a User to Multiple Groups at Once
Use the usermod command to specify multiple groups to add to:
sudo usermod –a –G new_group,new_group2,new_group3 user_name
Create a User and Add to Group
This is useful for creating a new user on the fly for a specific software application. Enter the following:
sudo useradd –G new_group new_user
Next, assign a password to the new user:
sudo passwd new_user
Change a Users Primary Group
All previous commands have been used to manage the secondary groups a user belongs to. In most cases, a user’s primary group is the same as their username.
To change a users primary group, enter the command:
sudo usermod –g new_group user_name
The lower-case –g specifies the primary group. (Upper-case –G refers to a secondary group.) A user can only have one primary group, so the old primary group user_name won’t be primary anymore for this user.
How to Remove a User From a Group
The gpasswd tool is used for managing groups. To remove a user from a group:
sudo gpasswd –d user_name new_group
Note: The gpasswd tool can also be used for other administrative tasks such as defining group administrators and setting a password for access to group resources. Use the man gpasswd command for details.
Delete a Group
To delete a group, use the command:
sudo groupdel new_group
example of deleting a user group in linux
How to List Groups in Linux
Linux comes with several different groups by default. Some of these, like the sudo group, can be used to grant permissions. Others are hidden, used for system tasks.
To view a list of groups on your system by displaying the /etc/groups file:
sudo nano /etc/groups
To display the groups that a user belongs to with the groups command:
groups
find groups of logged-in user
The image above shows the groups that the logged-in user ‘sofija’ belongs to. You can display groups for a different user by specifying the username:
groups other_user
Another method to display the groups a user belongs to, including user ID (uid) and group ID (gid), is to use the id command:
id user_name
Other Common Groups
There are a several common group names you might encounter in Linux:
• sudo – A member of this group can use the sudo command to elevate their privileges
• wheel – This is an older method of granting sudo-like privileges
• cdrom – Allows the user to mount the optical drive
• adm – Allows the user to monitor Linux system logs
• lpadmin – Allows the user to configure printers
• plugdev – Allows the user to access external storage devices
Conclusion
You should now have a good understanding of Linux groups and how to add and remove members from those groups. For more information on specific commands, you can enter the man command to display a manual in your terminal window.
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How to Add Develop Menu in Mac Safari?
If you’re a web developer, you know that having the Develop menu enabled in Safari is a must. It provides access to helpful web development tools, such as the Web Inspector and Error Console.
Unfortunately, the Develop menu is hidden by default in Safari. But don’t worry, it’s easy to enable. Just follow these simple steps:
1. Open Safari.
2. Click on Safari > Preferences in the menu bar.
3. Click on the Advanced tab.
4. Check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” box.
5. Close the Preferences window.
And that’s it! The Develop menu will now be visible in the menu bar. Happy web developing!
Why you would want to add the Develop menu in Mac Safari
The Develop menu in Mac Safari is a great way to troubleshoot webpages. It provides access to web inspector tools, which can be used to examine the structure and styles of a webpage. Additionally, the Develop menu can be used to disable certain features of a webpage, such as Javascript or CSS. This can be helpful when trying to troubleshoot a webpage that is not displaying correctly.
To add the Develop menu in Mac Safari, simply open Safari preferences and select the “Advanced” tab. Then, check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” box. The Develop menu will now be available in the Safari menu bar.
READ Fix: Only Secure Content is Displayed
How the Develop menu can help you in Mac Safari
The Develop menu in Mac Safari is a great way to troubleshoot webpages and test web applications. The menu provides access to various web developer tools, such as the Web Inspector and the Error Console.
The Web Inspector is a powerful tool that lets you examine the structure and resources of a webpage. You can use the Web Inspector to view and modify the HTML and CSS of a webpage. The Web Inspector can be used to debug JavaScript code, and it can also be used to inspect the network traffic of a webpage.
The Error Console is a tool that lets you view JavaScript error messages. The Error Console can be used to debug JavaScript code, and it can also be used to view the network traffic of a webpage.
The Develop menu can be enabled in the Advanced tab of the Safari preferences.
What you can do with the Develop menu in Mac Safari
As a web developer, you’re probably always looking for ways to improve your workflow. The Develop menu in Mac Safari is a great way to do just that.
With the Develop menu, you can access a variety of web development tools that can help you with your work. For example, you can use the Web Inspector to inspect and debug your web pages.
You can also use the Develop menu to disable JavaScript, CSS, and other web technologies that you might not need for development. This can help you load pages faster, and it can also help you troubleshoot issues that you might be having with your web pages.
READ How to Change the Capitalization of Text
If you’re a web developer, the Develop menu in Mac Safari is a great way to improve your workflow. With the menu, you can access a variety of development tools that can help you with your work.
How to remove the Develop menu in Mac Safari
If you want to get rid of the Develop menu in Mac Safari, there are a few different ways you can do it. One way is to simply go to the Safari menu and uncheck the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option.
Another way is to open up the Terminal and type in the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDevelopMenu -bool false
Once you hit enter, the Develop menu should no longer be visible in Safari. If you ever want to bring it back, you can just repeat the process and check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option or enter the following command into the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDevelopMenu -bool true
How to Add Develop Menu in Mac Safari? | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Template talk:Infobox punctuation mark
Possible improvements
Now that this is a stand alone, some Infobox improvements can be considered. For example: -DePiep (talk) 21:56, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
* 1) Add unicode name & code point
* 2) Add "group" (word separators; on-Latin; ...)
* 3) Add parameter: Group, See also; is not; other uses (of this mark, e.g. in math)
* 4) Check overlap with Infobox grapheme
* 5) Add option image
Non-English punctuation
I can't find it again but somewhere there is an idea for a future expansion, to add punctuation marks not seen routinely in English. If this is to be explored further, it would be best to limit it to Western European Latin. I have just stumbled on this at Romanization of Ukrainian: Unlike in the English language where an apostrophe is punctuation, in the Ukrainian language it is a letter. Without language specialists, we could get it badly wrong so best leave it to their respective language Wikipedias --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:50, 24 November 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl
Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl was the first tlatoani (ruler) of the pre-Columbian Tepanec altepetl (ethnic state) of Tlacopan in the Valley of Mexico.
Aculnahuacatl was a son of Tezozomoc, the ruler of Azcapotzalco, who installed him as ruler of Tlacopan. He married Tlacochcuetzin, the daughter of Tlacacuitlahuatzin, the ruler of Tiliuhcan, and had two sons: Coauoxtli and Oquetzal.
"Acolnahuacatl" was part of an anti-Mexica coalition to drive the then-nomadic tribe off or exterminate them. | WIKI |
0
I created view & content pane that has many filters and also search term field. In addition, I created a page with page manager and panels, that present this search view (content pane), with more different panels.
My goal is to have search field, on the header of the site, that will be available to user in any time. when the user will decide to use this search field, it will direct them to the search page I created (using page manger & panels), and will show the search results on this specific page.
Can I do that? If so, can you please explain me how?
I read on how to that using views alone, but I couldn't understand how to that with the use of page manager and panels all together.
Thanks.
1
If I understand the question correctly, you would like to send users from a search form to a specific (custom) search results page (which happens to also have some other panels etc on it).
I do not believe the panels/page manager aspect really affects how the search box operates, in which case all we have to do is specify where you would like the search form to send the user.
The following code (for an imaginary module entitled customsearch just found existing module entitled custom_search, not related).
1. creates a block to hold a search form (you can then place this wherever you want)
2. constructs a simple textfield search form to go in the block
3. defines a custom submit to pass the search argument to your customised search results page
1)
// Implements hook_block_view().
function customsearch_block_view($delta = '') {
if (user_access('search content')) {
$block['content'] = drupal_get_form('customsearch_block_form');
return $block;
}
}
2)
// Implements hook_forms().
function customsearch_forms() {
$forms['customsearch_block_form']= array(
'callback' => 'customsearch_box',
'callback arguments' => array('customsearch_block_form'),
);
return $forms;
}
// Form builder; Output a search form for the search block's search box.
function customsearch_box($form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
$form['customsearch_form'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => '',
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#default_value' => '',
'#attributes' => array(
'title' => t('Search the website'),
'placeholder' => t('search the website'),
),
);
$form['actions'] = array('#type' => 'actions');
$form['actions']['submit'] = array('#type' => 'submit', '#value' => t('Search'));
// define function to determine search destination
$form['#submit'] = array('customsearch_search_box_form_submit');
return $form;
}
3)
// overide submission of search query from block
function customsearch_search_box_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
$searchterm = $form_state['values']['plus_search_form'];
$search_path = 'specialcustomsearch'// replace with the path to your search results page
// pass search term to your search results page as argument
drupal_goto($searchpath .'/'. $searchterm);
}
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Unless there is a special need, you won't have to add any custom coding. It's even possible to use the standard Drupal search block. If you are using Panels to build your site, you can place it in the header region in the Panels interface, and use CSS to style it.
One caveat, though (I've learned this through experience)--some content displayed in Panels that isn't part of the Node Content may not be properly indexed if not set up correctly. It may be good to reference this other article.
Hope this helps.
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Chapter 1FAULT LINES
The Empire in Crisis: First Century BC
To understand Cicero¹s life, which spanned the first two thirds of the first century bc, it is necessary to picture the world in which he lived, and especially the nature of Roman politics.
Rome in Cicero¹s day was a complex and sophisticated city, with up to a million inhabitants, and much of its pattern of life is recognizably familiar, even at a distance of two millennia. There were shopping malls and bars and a lively cultural scene with theater and sport. Poetry and literature thrived and new books were much talked about. Leading actors were household names. The affluent led a busy social round of dinner parties and gossip, and they owned country homes to which they could retreat from the pressures of urban living. Politics was conducted with a familiar blend of private affability and public invective. Speech was free. Everyone complained about the traffic.
The little city-state, hardly more than a village when it was founded (according to tradition) in 753 bc, gradually annexed the numerous tribes and statelets in the Italian peninsula and Sicily. The Romans were tough, aggressive and, to reverse von Clausewitz, inclined to see politics as a continuation of war by other means. They came to dominate the western Mediterranean. First, they gained a small foothold in the Maghreb, the province of Africa which covered roughly the territory of modern Tunisia. From here the great city of Carthage ruled its empire, until it was twice defeated by Rome and later razed to the ground in the second century bc. Spain was another prize of these wars and was divided into two provinces, Near Spain and Far Spain. In what is now Provence, Rome established Transalpine Gaul (Gallia Transalpina), but the rest of France was an unconquered and mysterious mélange of jostling tribes. Northern Italy was not merged into the home nation but was administered as a separate province, Italian Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina).
Then Rome invaded Greece and the kingdoms of Asia Minor, enfeebled inheritors of the conquests of Alexander the Great. In the first century bc, along the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean, now named with literal-minded accuracy ³our sea² (Mare Nostrum), Rome directly governed a chain of territories: Macedonia (which included Greece), Asia (in western Turkey), Cilicia (in southern Turkey) and Syria (broadly, today¹s Syria and Lebanon). Beyond them, client monarchies stood as buffers between Rome¹s possessions and the unpredictable Parthian Empire, which lay beyond the River Euphrates. Pharaohs still ruled Egypt, but their independence was precarious.
This empire, the largest the western world had so far seen, was created more through inadvertence than design and presented Rome with a heavy and complicated administrative burden. This was partly because communications were slow and unreliable. Although a network of well-engineered roads was constructed, travel was limited to the speed of a horse. The rich would often travel by litter or coach, and so proceeded at walking pace or not much faster. Sailing ships before the age of the compass tended to hug the coast and seldom ventured beyond sight of land.
There being no public postal service, letters (which were scratched on waxed tablets or written on pieces of papyrus and sealed) were sent at considerable cost by messengers. The state employed couriers, as did commercial enterprises, and the trick for a private correspondent was to persuade them, or friendly travelers going in the right direction, to take his or her post with them and deliver it.
The greatest underlying problem facing the Republic, however, lay at home in its system of governance. Rome was a state without most of the institutions needed to run a state. There was no permanent civil service except for a handful of officials at the Treasury; when politicians took office or went to govern a province they had to bring in their own people to help them conduct business. The concept of a police force did not exist, which meant that the public spaces of the capital city were often hijacked by gangs of hooligans in the service of one interest or another. Soldiers in arms were absolutely forbidden to enter Rome, so all the authorities could do to enforce law and order was to hire their own ruffians.
The Republic was governed by the rule of law but did not operate a public prosecution service, and elected politicians acted as judges. Both in civil and criminal cases it was left to private individuals to bring suits. Usually litigants delegated this task to professional advocates, who acted as private detectives, assembling evidence and witnesses, as well as speaking at trials. Officially these advocates were unpaid, but in practice they could expect to receive favors, gifts and legacies in return for their services.
There was no penal system, and prisons were used for emergencies rather than for housing convicts. (Distinguished foreign captives and state hostages were exceptions and could be kept under lock and key or house arrest for years.) Penalties were usually exile or a fine and capital punishment was rare: no Roman citizen could be put to death without trial, although some argued that this was permissible during an official state of emergency.
The Republic became enormously rich on the spoils of empire, so much so that from 167 bc Roman citizens in Italy no longer paid any personal taxes. However, banking was in its infancy, and there were no major commercial financial institutions. Moneylenders (silversmiths and goldsmiths) laid cash out at interest and it was even possible to hold private accounts with them; but most people felt it safer to borrow from and lend to their family and friends. Without a bureaucracy the government was not in a position to collect taxes, selling the right to do so to the highest bidder. Tax farmers and provincial governors often colluded to make exorbitant profits.
All these things, in their various ways, were obstacles to effective administration. However, the constitution, which controlled the conduct of politics, was the Republic¹s greatest weakness.
Rome was an evolutionary society, not a revolutionary one. Constitutional crises tended to lead not to the abolition of previous arrangements but to the accretion of new layers of governance. For two and a half centuries Rome was a monarchy that was very much under the thumb of neighboring Etruria (today¹s Tuscany). In 510 bc King Tarquin was expelled in circumstances of great bitterness; according to legend he had raped a leading Roman¹s daughter, Lucretia. Whatever really happened, the citizenry was determined that never again would any single man be allowed to obtain supreme power. This was the main principle that underpinned constitutional arrangements which, by Cicero¹s time, were of a baffling complexity.
For generations the system worked well. It created a sense of community. To be a Roman citizen did not confer equality, but it did mean that one lived under the rule of law and felt a personal stake in the Republic¹s future. Rights, of course, were accompanied by duties and one of the secrets of Rome¹s strength was that even in moments of military catastrophe the state could call on all its citizens to come to its rescue. Another was pragmatism: for most of its history Rome¹s leaders showed a remarkable talent for imaginative improvisation when they met intractable problems. These were the qualities that assured the triumph of the Republic¹s legions and the creation of its empire.
After the fall of the monarchy, royal authority was transferred to two Consuls who alternated in executive seniority month by month. They were elected by the people (that is, all male Roman citizens within reach of the capital city, where elections took place) and held office for one year only. There was a ladder of other annual posts (called the cursus honorum, the Honors Race) up which aspiring politicians had to climb before they became eligible for the top job, the Consulship. The most junior of these brought with it life membership of a committee called the Senate and led on to glittering privileges: in Cicero¹s words, ³rank, position, magnificence at home, reputation and influence abroad, the embroidered robe, the chair of state, the lictors¹ rods, armies, commands, provinces.² The number of Senators varied; at one point, in Cicero¹s youth, there were only 300, but half a century later Julius Caesar packed the Senate with his supporters, and the membership reached 900.
On the first rung of the ladder were twenty Quaestors, who were responsible for the receipt of taxes and payments. The next stage for an aspiring young Roman was to become one of four Aediles, who handled‹at their own expense‹various civic matters in the capital: the upkeep of temples, buildings, markets and public games. Lucky for those with limited means or generosity, the Aedileship was optional, and it was possible to move directly to the Praetorship.
The eight Praetors, like the two Consuls, stood above the other officeholders, for they held imperium‹that is to say, the temporary exercise of the old power of royal sovereignty. Imperium was symbolized by an official escort of attendants, called lictors, each of whom carried fasces, an ax and rods signifying the power of life and death. Praetors acted as judges in the courts or administered law in the provinces. Only after he had been a Praetor might a man stand for the Consulship.
The constitution had a safety valve. In the event of a dire military or political emergency, a Dictator could be appointed on the nomination of the Consuls. He was given supreme authority and no one could call him to account for his actions. However, unlike modern dictators, his powers were strictly time-limited: he held office for a maximum of six months. Before Cicero¹s lifetime, the last Dictator had been Quintus Fabius Maximus in 217, whose delaying tactics had helped to drive the great Carthaginian general Hannibal out of Italy. The post then fell into disuse.
Life after the high point of the Consulship could be something of a disappointment. Former Consuls and Praetors were appointed governors of provinces (they were called Proconsuls or Propraetors), where many of them used extortion to recoup the high cost, mostly incurred by bribing voters, of competing in the Honors Race‹and, indeed, of holding office, for the state paid no salaries to those placed in charge of it. After this point, for most of them, their active careers were to all intents and purposes over. They became elder statesmen and wielded influence rather than power through their contribution to debates in the Senate. The only political job open to them was the Censorship: every five years two former Consuls were appointed Censors, whose main task was to review the membership of the Senate and remove any thought to be unworthy. Circumstance or ambition allowed a few to win the Consulship again, but this was unusual.
In theory the Senate was an advisory committee for the Consuls, but in practice, largely because it was permanent and officeholders were not, it became the Republic¹s ruling instrument. It usually met in the Senate House in the Forum (Curia Hostilia, named after its legendary founder king, Tullus Hostilius) but was also convened in temples and other public buildings, sometimes to ensure the Senators¹ safety. It gained important powers, especially over foreign affairs and money supply. The Senate could not pass laws; it usually considered legislation before it was approved by the People at the General Assembly. But to all intents and purposes it decided policy and expected it to be implemented. The proud wielders of imperium knew that they would soon have to hand it back and as a rule thought twice before irritating the one body in the state that represented continuity.
Another remarkable device inhibited overmighty citizens. This was the widespread use of the veto. One Consul could veto any of his colleagues¹ proposals and those of junior officeholders. Praetors and the other officeholders could veto their colleagues¹ proposals.
At bottom, politics was a hullabaloo of equal and individual competitors who would only be guaranteed to cooperate for one cause: the elimination of anybody who threatened to step out of line and grab too much power for himself. It follows that there was nothing resembling today¹s political parties. Governments did not rise and fall and the notion of a loyal opposition would have been received with incredulity.
However, there were two broad interest groups: the aristocracy, the oldest families of which were called Patricians, and the broad mass of the People, or the plebs. Their political supporters were known respectively as optimates, the ³best people,² and populares, those who favored the People. The high offices of state were largely in the hands of the former and, in practice, were the prerogative of twenty or fewer families. With the passage of time, some plebeian families were admitted to the nobility. But only occasionally did a New Man, without the appropriate blue-blooded pedigree, penetrate the upper reaches of government. Cicero was one of these few.
Since the fall of the monarchy in 510 bc, Roman domestic politics had been a long, inconclusive class struggle, suspended for long periods by foreign wars. During one never-to-be-forgotten confrontation over a debt crisis in 493 bc, the entire population withdrew its labor. The plebs evacuated Rome and encamped on a neighboring hill. It was an inspired tactic. The Patricians were left in charge‹but of empty streets. They quickly admitted defeat and allowed the creation of new officials, Tribunes of the People, whose sole purpose was to protect the interests of the plebs. In Cicero¹s day there were twelve of these. While everybody else¹s term of office ran till December 31, theirs ended on December 12.
Tribunes could propose legislation and convene meetings of the Senate, of which they were ex officio members, but they had no executive authority and their basic role was negative. Just as the Consuls had a universal power of veto, so a Tribune could forbid any use of power that he judged to be high-handed and against the popular will. Tribunes could even veto one anothers¹ vetoes. No doubt because their purpose in life was to annoy people, their persons were sacrosanct.
Different kinds of popular assembly ensured a degree of democratic control. The Military Assembly (comitia centuriata) elected Consuls and Praetors through voting blocs called ³centuries² (the word for an army platoon), membership of which was weighted according to citizens¹ wealth. The more important Tribal or General Assembly (comitia tributa) voted by tribes, which were territorial in composition rather than socioeconomic. It had the exclusive power to declare peace or war and it approved bills, usually after consideration by the Senate. The General Assembly could only accept or reject motions and, except for speeches invited by the officeholder who convened the meeting, debate was forbidden. Despite these restrictions, the General Assembly was a crucial mechanism for enforcing change against the Senate¹s wishes. An informal assembly meeting (contio) could also be called, at which reports could be given but no decisions taken.
A serious problem of unfairness arose as Roman citizenship was increasingly conferred on Italian communities at a distance from Rome. Democratic participation in Roman political life was direct and not based on the representative principle: the General Assembly was not a parliament. Those who lived more than a few hours¹ travel from the city (say, twenty miles or so) were effectively disfranchised and ³rural² communities were often represented by a handful of voters, who therefore exerted considerably more influence than members of city wards. Well-targeted bribes could easily swing bloc votes.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francisco Flores (Mexican footballer) (2nd nomination)
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Francisco Flores (Mexican footballer)
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* Speedy delete - pet WP:CSD. This article is not significantly different from the one that was previously deleted. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:56, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
* Delete It's actually shorter, but there's still no sign of what's needed. Too soon. Peridon (talk) 18:33, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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File:Flying Buffalo logo.png
Summary
Logo to Flying Buffalo Incorporated. Taken from on the official Flying Buffalo website. Replaces Image:Flying Buffalo logo.gif which has transparency that scales poorly.
Fair use for Flying Buffalo
The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:
* 1) its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it represents the subject of this article.
* 2) it is not possible to replace the logo with a free one (such an image would not accurately represent the organization) | WIKI |
Seasonal Affective Disorder Quiz
Take the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Quiz
If you notice you feel depressed when the seasons change, you may have seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This condition is marked by times of depression during certain seasons. This is followed by times of normal or high mood the rest of the year. Take this quiz to learn more.
1. People with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) feel depressed only during the winter.
2. People assigned female at birth and teens are more likely to develop SAD than others.
3. SAD can be hard to diagnose because its symptoms are like those of other illnesses.
4. The hormone estrogen may play a role in SAD.
5. SAD is more common in northern parts of the world.
6. One symptom of summer SAD is weight loss.
7. A good way to feel better when you have winter SAD is to get outdoors every day.
8. SAD treatment often starts with light therapy. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
678th Air Defense Group
The 678th Air Defense Group is a disbanded United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the 20th Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC) at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The group was formed in 1970 when ADC expanded its radar units that operated Back-Up Interceptor Control sites from squadron sized units to groups. From 1977 until it was inactivated in 1983 the 678th was responsible for operating the Southern Air Defense System.
History
The 678th Air Defense Group replaced the 678th Radar Squadron (SAGE) (formerly the 678th Aircraft Warning & Control Squadron) at Tyndall Air Force Base in 1970. The group operated a Back-Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) site with the mission to back up the centralized and vulnerable Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) operations center of the 20th Air Division at Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama. The BUIC III operated by the group gave the unit a semi-automatic control capability, unlike earlier BUIC systems that required manual operation. The group provided air defense mission command and control from 1970 to 1983. It was a component of Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) (later transferred to Tactical Air Command (TAC)) Air Defense Weapons Center from 1974 to 1981. The group earned an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for exceptionally meritorious service for the period 1 June 1970 through 1 June 1972.
In 1969, the inadequacy of the radar coverage to the south of the United States had been dramatically illustrated whan a Cuban Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 went undetected before it landed at Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, Florida. and two years later, an Antonov An-24 similarly arrived unannounced at New Orleans International Airport. As a result, ADC established The Southern Air Defense System (SADS). Initially, the 630th Radar Squadron operated a manual control center at the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center and the USAF added radars to supplement the existing Federal Aviation Administration coverage in the Caribbean area. In 1977, responsibility for operating the SADS control center was transferred to the group, which was operating the last BUIC III site in ADC. The previous year the group also assumed responsibility to operate the Tyndall NORAD Control Center.
The group continued to act as a control center until it was inactivated in 1983 when the Tyndall radar site became part of the Joint Surveillance System.
Lineage
* Constituted as 678th Air Defense Group on 13 February 1970
* Activated on 1 March 1970
* Inactivated on 1 March 1983
* Disbanded on 27 September 1984
Assignments
* 20th Air Division, 1 March 1970 – 1 March 1983
Components
None
Stations
* Tyndall AFB, Florida, 1 March 1970 – 1 March 1983 30.07639°N, -85.60972°W | WIKI |
reģistratūra
Etymology
Apparently borrowed from, ultimately related to 🇨🇬 (cf. ).
Noun
* 1) registration, reception office or department where registration (e.g., of people) is carried out; hospital or polyclinic registration desk | WIKI |
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32 Judge Tucker leads No. 11, July, with the Valedictory to his Law Class, published at their request; and is followed by a number of others, in prose and verse, the greatest of whom is his own associate, President Thos. R. Dew, with Part II. of his "Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences between the Sexes." At length a poem "To Mary." E. A. P. and "The Visionary—a Tale," by Edgar A. Poe, arrest the eye. There is no comment upon them. Mrs. Sigourney has a pathetic poem "On the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl." But what the editor has to say of the effusions in verse that get into his basket is quite amusing: "The quantity of rhyme poured in upon us is a matter of admiration. The effusions which we consign to outer darkness monthly are past enumeration. Such, for instance, as contain the following lines"—which are then given. The literary notices show that the new editor has been at his post, with industry and independence.
Allusion has already been made to the change to which the Messenger was forced in its position on slavery. There are some pregnant remarks on this question, at page 650-1.
In No. 12, August, we meet again several of our old friends, especially President Dew; and Mr. Poe favors us with "a Tale, Bon-Bon;" and "The Coliseum—a Prize Poem." If the editor | WIKI |
Talk:City of Dunedin (ship)
Described as 'schooner rigged paddle steamer' suggest change from 'clipper' class? | WIKI |
gemearcian
Etymology
Equivalent to.
Verb
* 1) to mark; to point out
* 2) to mark out a site; to fix the boundaries of
* 3) to make a mark on
* 4) to form by marks; to describe a figure; to design
* 5) to seal
* 6) to make a sign; to make the sign of the cross
* 7) to assign; to appoint
* 8) to note or record in writing | WIKI |
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Why lizards do push-ups and other Tucson wildlife tidbits you need to know before you die
It’s all about getting attention. We’re not referring to the reason motorists blast booming music through their cars’ tinny speakers or why those bored-looking folks toss and twirl furniture sale signs on the corner of Swan and Fort Lowell roads.
We’re talking about why lizards do push-ups. While we can come up with theories that range from absorbing warmth from a tree limb to stretching their legs after a lengthy nap, the real reason lizards to push-ups is simply to get attention.
This is just one of the juicy local wildlife questions that keeps many a Tucsonan awake at night, kicking at the covers and unable to rest lest we get to the bottom of such sweet mysteries.
It’s the male lizards that engage in the push-up practice, the Discovery Channel explains, for the sole purpose of letting other lizards know a Lizard He-Man is on the scene.
And what a He-Man feat these push-ups are. Perched on all fours, the full-body push-ups fully thrust the lizard’s entire frame up and down in quick succession – probably more exercise than some people get in a month.
If the push-up ruse works according to plan, all female lizards within viewing distance will suddenly swoon and have the urge to mate with this push-up pounding He-Man. All other male lizards will steer clear – unless, of course, they are bigger and badder than the push-up lizard king, in which case they’ll beat him up or eat him.
Other Tucson wildlife doesn’t need to do any fancy schmancy exercise moves to get our attention. We have all had our heart stop at least once at the sound of a rattlesnake’s rattle. If we’ve taken our pooches to rattlesnake avoidance training, our dogs even stop before we do.
The mystery here is not why our heart or our dogs stop when we encounter a rattlesnake – the innate desire to live takes care of the former while the shock collar took care of the latter. The mystery is how fast a rattlesnake can rattle, one of life’s great inquiries that is right up there with the question of how much wood a woodchuck could chuck.
While we may never know the answer to the woodchuck question, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum tells us a rattlesnake can rattle its rattle more than 60 times per second. That’s a wow. That’s also much faster than the lizard does his push-ups.
The snake’s rattling speed beats out two other fast-moving desert critters: the lesser long-nose bat and the hyperactive hummingbird.
While bats do swoop and soar at great velocities, especially when they aim for our bangs, their top flying speed is a scant 14 mph. This would have been impressive, of course, three paragraphs back before we knew about the rattlesnake’s rattling speed. The bat’s mere 14 mph, however, calculates to a scant 0.23 miles per minute, or roughly .004 miles per second.
Big deal. Even Tucson traffic moves faster than that.
Despite their dietary staple of bright red sugar water and their claim to fame as the only bird that can fly backward, hummingbirds also fall short on speed when compared to the rattlesnake’s rattle.
While they, too, can swoop at our foreheads with great velocity, their flight speed is nothing compared to their heart rate. Their little hearts bang around in their chests at the astonishing rate of 1,260 beats per minute.
Although such a heart rate would most likely make a human’s head explode, it only calculates to 21 beats per second. That is still much slower than a rattlesnake’s rattle, yet impressively quicker than the brain-rattling music that booms from a tinny car speaker.
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Shiksha - TeleVehicle
Shiksha – TeleVehicle (Learn from Television), is a Bengali language 24x7 satellite channel. It is a joint venture of Webel Mediatronics Ltd. (Government of West Bengal Under-Taking) & Adjeet Advertising Agency. Officially on air date is 15 April 2013, before that it ran as a test signal from 9 April 2013. The channel content basically is class V to class X students covering all subject (board approved subjects), based on West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The channel is approved by West Bengal State Education Ministry and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. | WIKI |
chdir
OS/161 Reference Manual
Name
chdir - change current directory
Library
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
Synopsis
#include <unistd.h>
int
chdir(const char *pathname);
Description
The current directory of the current process is set to the directory named by pathname.
chdir (like all system calls) should be atomic. Note that the kernel is not obliged to (and generally cannot) make the chdir call atomic with respect to other threads in the same process accessing the pathname string during the operation.
Return Values
On success, chdir returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set according to the error encountered.
Errors
The following error codes should be returned under the conditions given. Other error codes may be returned for other errors not mentioned here.
ENODEV The device prefix of pathname did not exist.
ENOTDIR A non-final component of pathname was not a directory.
ENOTDIR pathname did not refer to a directory.
ENOENT pathname did not exist.
EIO A hard I/O error occurred.
EFAULT pathname was an invalid pointer. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Urban backpacking
Urban backpacking is a form of budget travel focusing on flexibility and low cost, usually sleeping in hostels and other budget accommodation.
For information on travelling through uninhabited areas, sleeping in tents or cabins, see wilderness backpacking.
Understand
In this context, the term "backpacker" refers to a budget traveler, gap-year traveler, or student who is spending an extended period of time overseas, possibly working or volunteering.
Backpackers take their name from the large rucksacks they typically use to carry their belongings while traveling. They generally favor an independent and grassroots style of travel, staying in hostels with dormitory-style facilities or in other types of low-budget accommodation.
Destinations
Backpackers know no borders and can be found travelling all parts of the globe. Famous destinations have long included Australia and New Zealand, Western and Central Europe, South America, India, and Southeast Asia.
Newer backpacker hotspots include Eastern Europe, China, Korea and Japan. China can be extremely difficult without a local knowledge or language skills. In Africa a popular route is from Nairobi to Cape Town (or for the more experienced: Cairo to Cape Town).
Get around
Backpacking works best in areas where public transportation is readily available, both between cities and within them (such as much of Europe). Where private automobiles dominate (as in much of North America) or transport in general is sketchy (as in much of the developing world), you'll depend more on hitchhiking to get from place to place, which can be less dependable and less safe.
Backpackers are renowned for their desire to travel large distances at the least expense possible. Popular means of travel include:
* Rail is often convenient for both short and longer journeys. Try to plan your journey to avoid very busy trains, as trains can be full with passengers standing close together. Some trains require seat reservation, and you may need some planning to avoid a surcharge or to get a ticket before they are sold out. On a quieter train there is often plenty of room for luggage and a chance to walk around during the trip. In some countries train tickets are cheaper when bought well in advance.
* Ferries are a normal part of voyages in some parts of the world, such as for islands in the Gulf of Thailand
* Local buses are useful for getting the last few miles to your destination. Longer distance buses and coaches provide an alternative to rail journeys, sometimes saving money, often at the expense of comfort. In some countries long distance services require reservations and every passenger has a seat and cannot be as packed as buses and trains without mandatory reservation.
* Backpacker tours mean you will be travelling with like-minded folks, but you are less likely to meet locals than on a bus or train.
* Hop-on hop-off transport
Wear
You might not be able to carry more than a few days' worth of clothing, due to limited storage space, and laundry facilities where you're staying could be expensive or non-existent (or at least difficult to find).
To address the concern, many backpackers will bring a few pairs of "quick-dry" or "travel" underwear which is designed to be washed in the sink and hung up to dry overnight. If you have access to a sink every day, you could get away with packing only two pieces of underwear! Pack detergent in a small container, or buy some at your destination in single-use or travel-size packaging. Single-serve detergent sachets are very common in developing countries. In a pinch, normal bathroom soap can be used.
Other essential pieces of clothing include:
* Trousers. There are many fairly conservative countries (or cultures within countries) where wearing shorts in public is not well looked upon, and even in places where shorts are accepted, wearing shorts is a dead giveaway that you are a tourist. Also, many traditional places of worship such as Buddhist temples or Christian cathedrals require visitors to cover their thighs. A dress gives less protection against mosquitoes and the like, but may be more comfortable in hot climates.
* Long-sleeved shirt. Similar to above, cathedrals and temples may not allow entry if you're showing your shoulders. Also useful for preventing sunburn and mosquito bites.
* Cargo pants. Pockets are handy. Also, you can get cargo pants that are easy to wash and dry (jeans, on the other hand, take forever to dry) and have a zipper around the leg which allows you to convert pants into shorts very quickly. For the maximum utility out of one piece of clothing this would be a good option to explore.
* Black shoes. They're not great to hike around in, but some nightclubs have a strict dress code and you won't be able to get in without them.
* Party shirt. Like the black shoes, have one piece of clothing for a night on the town.
* Pyjamas or clothes that can be used as such; you will probably often use lodging with shared bedrooms (dorms) or shared bathrooms.
All that said, the most important rule when it comes to clothing is to pack smart. You're not preparing for a disaster, nor are you out to impress anyone with your wardrobe (except for the party shirt). Take as few pieces of clothing as possible, and reuse them as often as possible. You also don't need to carry everything from home: if you are travelling to a low-income country, chances are you find better clothes for a cheaper price at your destination. Just pack what you need until you know enough to do the shopping.
See also the Packing List travel topic.
Carry
Unlike the business traveller who can expect his upmarket hotel to provide full services, you need to carry:
* a towel and soap
* a clothes line for your laundry
* a padlock for lockers
* linen – in some parts of the world many hostels do not provide bed sheets or charge for providing them.
A sarong is lightweight and remarkably versatile – beach blanket, wrap, furniture cover.
Eat
Backpackers often purchase ingredients locally and cook their own meals, as this is the cheapest option. Many hostels have well-equipped kitchens for this purpose. Kitchen etiquette demands:
* Don't dominate shared resources, such as refrigerator space, stove space, pots, etc.
* Don't steal shared cookware.
* Wash pots, pans, dishes, silverware, etc. immediately after you use them.
* If you have food, utensils, or anything else you don't need anymore, consider donating them.
* Write your name (and date) on anything you put in a shared refrigerator, and don't leave it there to get moldy.
Some hostels provide food to their guests, usually a simple buffet breakfast. This may be included in the price of a bed, or it may be an additional purchase.
Backpackers also patronize street vendors and inexpensive restaurants. Some establishments give discounts to guests of nearby hostels.
Drink
Backpackers all over the world are generally renowned for their drinking of alcoholic beverages. However, this is usually limited to local beer and other cheap drinks. Don't overdo it, and respect local customs.
In some areas tap water or water in the wild are unsafe. Plan how to cope. Have refillable bottles for when you get to a good source, and be considerate if you have to use bottled water. In some regions tea is readily available, and as it has been boiled, it may be much safer than water.
Sleep
Backpackers favour cheap hostel, B&B and hotel accommodation. Other popular ways of travelling and saving on accommodation costs include all inclusive coach tours, camping and hiring a campervan.
Accommodation standards in the backpacker price range vary for each region of the world. Europe, New Zealand and Australia have some of the best types of backpacker hostels, whilst the USA is gradually embracing the backpacking culture and outside of major tourist cities, motel accommodation is more common.
Asia is relatively cheap and backpackers favour staying in hotels or local homestays.
South Africa has a high standard when it comes to backpackers. They are very popular amongst young travellers who come to South Africa. Most of the backpackers are found in Cape Town and along the garden route. They are seen as very safe and secure and a great place to meet new people.
Lodging
Youth hostels and budget hotels are the best bets for inexpensive accommodation in much of the world. Hostels are dorm style accommodations ranging anywhere from private rooms to sleeping 16+bed sleepers. You may give up some privacy with shared bathrooms and even shared rooms, but it also gives you a chance to meet fellow travelers. Backpacking has traditionally been very basic, but more "resort-like" purpose-built-residences also known as "flashpackers" have emerged.
Camping
Bringing a tent and camping out can bring a backpacking trip down from "affordable" to "cheap". One problem is that campsites tend to be on the outskirts of cities, or downright away from cities, far from sights you might want to see, and may not be served well by local public transportation. They often have all the natural charm of a parking lot and all the modern comforts of – a parking lot. OK, usually with a group bathroom and showers, laundry facilities of some kind, and maybe a place to get snacks. In many places, most of your camping neighbors will be car/caravan/camper users, but some sites will have an area set aside for tents. Ask about rates before booking a stay; they may charge you as much for your 2-person tent as for a 30-foot RV.
Stay safe
See staying safe.
See also pickpockets and common scams for information on security measures.
Stay healthy
Most backpacks and some clothing should be treated with insecticide to reduce risk of various annoyances and of infections spread by bugs. | WIKI |
Expansion Tanks
NOW Required by Sacramento Plumbing code, to be installed at all water heater, Code Refrance: 2013 CPC Section 608.3 and 2013 CMC Section 1005.0.
What is an expansion tank & why do I need one?
An expansion tank is a cylinder tank about 2.2 gallons in size, and is typically now required for use on all water heaters from up to 50 gallons, larger expansion tanks for larger water heaters. They are also used for the installation of tankless water heaters.
Expansion tanks are built with a rubber bag (bladder) inside the tank and is about half the size of the tank it self, this bag is filled with air pressure that should match the pressure of the incoming water into your home’s main water supply piping from a municiple water source or a private well.
An expansion tank is required if a plumbing system is “closed”, which means that the back-flow that normally runs between the house and the main water supply is now blocked at the meter by a check valve, this check valve allows water to flow from the water meter to your home but, not backwards… blocking the extra pressure from thermal expansion of your water heater.
When water is heated, it starts to expand up to an average of 20% which causes a rise in water pressure, this increased pressure must go somewhere. If there is nowhere for the pressure to go, it places extra stress and strain on your water heater and your home’s plumbing system. Increased pressure will shorten the life of your water heater. However, expansion tanks provide relief from this excess water pressure and protect your home.
Whats inside the expansion tank
Actual Installation
Many homes have what is called a closed water system, which is a water system with a one-way valve such as a back-flow valve or check valve or pressure reducing valve, some of the newer water meters being installed have this valve built in and thus require an expansion tank installed since the excess water volume cannot be absorbed back through the city’s water system.
In a closed system this extra water pressure from thermal expansion can cause the most damage because the extra water pressure has nowhere to go since it cannot push back into the city water. Most cities now require that expansion tanks be installed in closed systems. If you have some form of backflow preventer installed on the main water line you may be required to also have a water heater expantion tank installed. Some cities may not require an expansion tank be installed such as the city of Elk Grove, CA does not require an expansion tank because they do not have check valves built into their water meters unless you have a hot water recirculation pump or and external back-flow device installed.
If you are going to replace your water heater, Water Heaters Pros will install this expansion tank on your cold water pipe above or adjacent to your 30-gallon, 40-gallon, or 50-gallon water heaters for only $169 as an upgrade, larger size water heaters require a larger expansion tank depending on actual size and cost more.
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Peter Fatomilola
Peter Fatomilola (born 16 January 1946) is a Nigerian dramatist, film actor, poet, ifa priest and prolific playwright.
Quotes
* If they ask you to come and carry any filth, because of your love for money you will help them to carry it. And it will spoil the name you have been building from your youth.
* There is no beer produced in Nigeria that I have not tasted –Peter Fatomilola The Punch (Nigeria), 16 April 2016. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Place in the sun
The result was redirect to Bernhard von Bülow. Article history is preserved, so any merge can still take place with little difficulty. Shereth 18:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Place in the sun
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
I voice my concerns that this topic does not warrant its own article. No claim to notability (it only refers to a german wikisource). Simply a single phrase once said by von Bulow, which could easily be included in his own article if deemed relevant/notable enough. SGGH ping! 18:02, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
* Move content to Bernhard von Bülow, then Delete. It's not notable to have its own article, but could be part of another main article. Ydouthink90 (talk) 18:08, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
* Move and delete, per above. The premise of the article is that the phrase was coined by von Bulow, yet there is no evidence to support this. I42 (talk) 18:25, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
* Merge and redirect- If any information is merged over to the main article, then the page history needs to be kept per the GFDL. Umbralcorax (talk) 18:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
* Redirect. If anyone wants to move any of the content to Bernhard von Bülow, that's one thing; the edit summary of the addition there can refer to the history of this article, obviating any copyright concerns. (And the relevant entry in A Place in the Sun (disambiguation) can be altered to link to the relevant section of the Bülow article.) I think, however, that the redirect from this title should be to the target A Place in the Sun, a much more likely candidate for the intended destination of someone entering this phrase in the search box. Deor (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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User:Laurenbaylor
My name is Lauren Baylor and I am a sophomore at Marquette University. I am majoring in Physiological Sciences with a minor in Psychology, and I am in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. I work in the Alumni Memorial Union on the building staff and in the Administration office. I have a cat named Tiger who is 11 years old. My family adopted her as a kitten when I was nine years old, so I've had her for over half my life. She's getting old, but she still loves to play. Her favorite toys are any pieces of paper she finds on the ground and empty boxes. When she's not playing, she loves to cuddle and take naps in my lap. | WIKI |
Update .Net 8 - WSUS
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1. Sina Salam 7,126 Reputation points
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Hello Uranus Perú
Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A and thank you for posting your questions here.
Your question is to know how you would distribute .NET 8 through WSUS. To distribute .NET 8 through WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), follow these steps:
1. Install the WSUS Server Role: Ensure that you have a WSUS server set up. If not, install the WSUS role on a Windows Server machine. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this in the Microsoft Learn documentation.
2. Configure WSUS: Set up your WSUS server by configuring synchronization settings, specifying products and classifications, and approving updates. Make sure to include .NET Framework updates in the list of approved updates.
3. Approve and Deploy Updates in WSUS: Once the WSUS server is configured, approve the specific .NET 8 update (such as KB4054590) for deployment. Ensure that the update is targeted to the appropriate group of computers.
4. Group Policy Settings for Automatic Updates: Configure Group Policy settings on client machines to ensure they check for updates from the WSUS server. This will allow the clients to fetch and install the approved .NET 8 update.
Remember that WSUS is based on the local Windows Update client, and it won’t force machines to install updates if the PCs don’t think they need them. If the clients aren’t fetching the update, consider alternative methods like manual installation or using deployment tools like PDQ Deploy.
Additionally, for server operating systems, updates for supported versions of .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5.0, and .NET 6.0 are available via WSUS and Microsoft Update Catalog.
I hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to let me know if you have any other questions.
Please remember to "Accept Answer" if answer helped, so that others in the community facing similar issues can easily find the solution.
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Rh "The sun is still to them a giant, like Hyperion, bloodthirsty when tinged with gold. The common saying is that the sun 'when he seeks his kingdom' expects to find forty loaves prepared for him by his mother. . . . Woe to her if the loaves be not ready! The sun eats his brothers, sisters, father, and mother in his wrath." A well-known amour of Helios was his intrigue with Rhode by whom he had Phaethon and his sisters. The tragedians told how Phaethon drove the chariot of the sun, and upset it, while his sisters were turned into poplar trees, and their tears became amber.
Such were the myths about the personal sun, the hero or demigod, Helios Hyperion. If we are to believe that Apollo also is a solar deity, it appears probable that he is a more advanced conception, not of the sun as a person, but of a being who represents the sun in the spiritual world, and who exercises, by an act of will, the same influence as the actual sun possesses by virtue of his rays. Thus he brings pestilence on the Achæans in the first book of the Iliad, and his viewless shafts slay men suddenly, as sunstroke does. It is a pretty coincidence that a German scholar, Otfried Müller, who had always opposed Apollo's claim to be a sun-god, was killed by a sunstroke at Delphi. The god avenged himself in his ancient home. But if this deity was once merely the sun, it may be said, in the beautiful phrase of Paul de St. Victor, "Pareil à une | WIKI |
Talk:José Alencar
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Actually, there is no law, but rather a common law interpretation of constitutional rights that refusal to take the paternity test after 3 subpoenas is admitted as evidence of paternity. The right not to deliver evidence against oneself is relativized when in shock with the child's right to paternity. I thought of ammending the bio to add that, but I thought it was somewhat irrelevant, so I decided to leave it here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:48, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
* Thank you for the input. When we say "Brazilian law", it includes principles not written into law, but widely accepted by the judicial system, such as that you speak of. Missionary (talk) 20:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Brazilian Law 12.004/2009 about the refusal of undergoing a parental testing in Brazilian courts.
The Brazilian Law 12.004/2009, valid since 29 July 2009, establishes that the refusal of undergoing a parental testing must be accepted as proof of paternity. Follow a link to an official site, published by Brazilian Presidency, and a link to an article of O Globo, a major newspaper in Brazil. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:52, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
"The Strong"
"José Alencar, the Strong". What??? Citation needed. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:55, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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Economic beliefs
* "..he argued in favor of lower taxes, especially indirect taxation over consumers"
This phrasing might mean either a) he sought a reduction in indirect taxes b) he sought a reduction in the overall tax burden and a shift from direct to indirect taxes. Given that his views are described as pro-business, b) sounds a little more likely — but if the passage is to remain in the article, a sourced clarification is required. Harfarhs (talk) 09:21, 24 October 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open – Doubles
The 1999 Westel 900 Budapest Open doubles was the doubles event of the second edition of the Budapest Grand Prix; a WTA Tier IV tournament and the most prestigious women's tennis tournament held in Hungary. Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez were the defending champions but only Ruano Pascual competed that year with Laura Montalvo.
Montalvo and Ruano Pascual lost in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Evgenia Kulikovskaya and Sandra Naćuk.
Seeds
The top two seeded teams received byes into the quarterfinals. • # 🇦🇷 Laura Montalvo / 🇪🇸 Virginia Ruano Pascual (final)
• # 🇨🇿 Eva Martincová / 🇨🇿 Eva Melicharová (quarterfinals)
• # 🇪🇸 Gala León García / 🇪🇸 Cristina Torrens Valero (first round)
• # 🇩🇪 Jana Kandarr / 🇩🇪 Elena Wagner (quarterfinals) | WIKI |
If You Invested $10,000 in CRISPR Therapeutics In 2020, This Is How Much You Would Have Today
Growth stocks took off during 2020 amid the early stages of the pandemic. Buying during that time led to significant profits for some investors. One of the stocks that benefited from that bullishness was CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP), a Cathie Wood favorite. The gene-editing company has enormous potential and can help transform the healthcare industry.
But now that the hype has cooled and growth stocks are struggling, how much would a $10,000 investment in CRISPR back in 2020 be worth today? Below, I'll look at that, along with whether the stock is a good buy right now.
CRISPR's stock price has gone full circle
On March 2, 2020, CRISPR's stock opened at a price of $54. By January 2021, amid the meme stock hype, shares of CRISPR reached highs of more than $200, and the stock was looking like a fantastic buy. However, CRISPR, along with other growth stocks, has gone on to crash since then, and today it's trading at less than $50.
The stock has gone full circle within a span of three years. If you had invested $10,000 into the business three years ago, you would have owned approximately 185 shares of the company. Based on Monday's closing price of $49.33, that investment would now be worth $9,126, for a decline of 9%.
Not a lot has changed in three years
Three years ago, the company didn't have an approved product, and its top line was primarily due to the collaboration revenue it earned from working with Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Today, the company still doesn't have an approved product, but that could change as CRISPR and Vertex are in the process of submitting a Biologics Licensing Application to regulators on their CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing therapy, exa-cel, which is a functional cure for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia.
CRISPR said in its earnings release last month that the rolling submission should be complete by the end of the first quarter -- which would be sometime this month. So there could be hope that it may not be too much longer before a decision is made on the treatment, which could lead to some more stable revenue growth for the business, and perhaps a more consistent performance from the stock as well.
What's interesting to note is that despite CRISPR's stock becoming more popular and well-known as it progresses through its clinical trials, the stock's average trading volume is nearly unchanged from where it was three years ago.
CRSP 30-Day Average Daily Volume data by YCharts.
Things appear to be more stable now, but the risk for investors is that this can be a highly volatile stock, and that means there's the potential for both big gains and losses.
Is CRISPR a buy today?
If exa-cel obtains approval from the Food and Drug Administration, there could again be significant volatility for this healthcare stock. It would be a monumental achievement for CRISPR as the company notes that "exa-cel has the potential to be the first approved CRISPR-based therapy in the world."
The danger is that if it doesn't obtain approval, the stock will surely tank. This is where CRISPR can be a high-risk, high-reward type of investment. And if you aren't prepared for the volatility and wild fluctuations in price that can be involved with owning the stock, you're better off staying away.
If, however, you're comfortable with the level of risk, then this could be a good buy. CRISPR does, after all, have a strong balance sheet with more than $1.8 billion in cash and marketable securities on its books as of the end of last year. That adds a layer of safety for investors as the company used up $495.7 million over the course of its day-to-day operations in 2022.
As long as the cash burn doesn't get worse, the business should be well-funded for multiple years.
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Aleksander Brückner
Aleksander Brückner (29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of the Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles and discovered the oldest extant prose text in Polish (the Holy Cross Sermons).
Life
Brückner was born in Brzeżany (Berezhany) in Galicia, Austrian Empire, to an Austro-Polish family who had moved there from Stryj three generations earlier. He studied at the German Gymnasium in Lwów (Lemberg) under Omelian Ohonovsky, in Vienna under Franz Miklosich, and in Berlin under Vatroslav Jagić. Brückner first taught at Lwów (Lwów University). In 1876 he received a doctorate at the University of Vienna and in 1878 his habilitation for a study on Slavic settlements around Magdeburg (Die slawischen Aussiedlungen in der Altmark und im Magdeburgischen). In 1881 he received a professorship at the Berlin University, where he long held (1881–1924) the chair in Slavic Philology. He received funds for travel and studies from his University and he resided in Berlin continuously for 58 years until his death. He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as academies in Prague and Belgrade.
Brückner wrote extensively in both Polish and German on the history of the Slavic languages and literature, folklore, ancient Slavic and Baltic mythology, and the history of Polish and Russian literature. His most important works include a history of the Polish language (Lemberg, 1906), several histories of Polish literature in Polish and German, a history of Russian literature, an etymological dictionary of the Polish language (Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego, 1927), works on Slavic and Baltic mythology, an encyclopedia of Old Poland, and a 4-volume history of Polish culture (Kraków, 1930–46). Brückner was a specialist on the older periods of Polish and Slavic culture and was the discoverer, interpreter, and publisher of the oldest known manuscript in Polish, the Holy Cross Sermons. He had an incomparable knowledge of medieval Polish literature, which he knew from the original manuscripts, and was an expert on Renaissance and early modern Polish literature.
In general, Brückner tried to raise the prestige of old Slavic culture both in the eyes of the Germans among whom he worked and in the eyes of the Poles with whom he sympathized. He was critical of the Russian autocracy and the centralized Russian state of his time, including the Russian liberals (Kadets) who supported a centralized state and opposed either federalism or national autonomy for the non-Russian peoples of the Russian Empire. During the First World War, he favored the Central Powers but opposed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which he believed was largely directed against a resurgent Poland, and made deep concessions to the Ukrainians in his native eastern Galicia. It was, however, scholarship, not politics, which always remained his main concern.
On the most central questions of Slavic scholarship, he believed that in ancient times the Slavic and Baltic languages had a common ancestor and he always stressed this common Balto-Slavic bond. He placed the original homeland of the Slavs farther west than most Slavists, on the territory of today's Poland. He believed that the apostles of the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, had originated the idea of their mission on their own, and he played down the invitation from Moravia; finally, in a polemic with the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, he took a Normanist position on the origins of the Rus', stressing the linguistic and historical evidence for a Scandinavian connection.
In 1924, he retired from the university and spent most of his time writing concise histories of Polish culture and language, especially of the Old Polish period. After he died in Berlin, his final book, a short German-language history of Polish culture, went unpublished.
Works in English
* A Literary History of Russia, ed. E.H. Minns, trans. H. Havelock (London: T.F. Unwin, 1908). xix, 558 pp.
Works in German
* Litu-Slavische Studien, Die Slavischen Fremdwörter im Litauischen Alexander Brückner, Weimar 1877
* Randglossen zur kaschubischen Frage, Archiv für slavische Philologie 1899
* Geschichte der russischen Litteratur, Leipzig 1905
* Russische Literaturgeschichte, 2 Bd., Berlin/Leipzig 1919
* Polnische Literaturgeschichte, Berlin/Leipzig 1920
* Geschichte der polnischen Literatur, Leipzig 1922
* Die Slaven. Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch, Tübingen 1926 | WIKI |
Asclepiadaceae Asclepias latifolia
Asclepias latifolia
Asclepias latifolia
Family: Asclepiadaceae – Milkweed Family
Asclepias is the only genus from this family represented at Arches National Park. Perennial herbs usually with milky latex; plant 7.87” to 2.6' (2 to 8 decimeters) tall
Leaves: opposite; simple broad leaves; entire; no hairs; 1.6” to 8” (4 to 20 cm) long; 1.6 to 5.2 inches (4 to 13 cm) wide
Flowers: 5 united (lobed or cleft) pale green petals folded downward; 5 parted or lobed sepals folded downward; 5 stamens; 2 pistils; plus a corona (an additional structure sitting between the petals and the stamens) that looks like an extra set of petals. The corona consists of 5 hoods; inside the hoods there may be a beak-like structure (horn) pointing toward the center of the flower. Bisexual; flower lobes 0.44” to 0.48” (11 to 12 mm) long
Pollinators: bees, moths and butterflies
Fruits: pair of follicles; seeds typically have very silky hairs
Blooms in Arches National Park: May, June, July, August, September
Habitat in Arches National Park: disturbed sites, desert shrub, pinyon-juniper and hanging garden communities
Location seen: park road mile 0 to 2.5, across from Park Avenue parking lot, park road near Salt Valley Overlook (around mile 13 to 15), Fiery Furnace
Other: The genus name, “Asclepias”, refers to “Asklepios”, a Greek physician and an authority on the medicinal use of plants and who according to Greek Myth could bring the dead to life. Hades fearing a loss of employment, convinced his brother Zeus to kill Asklepios with a bolt of lightning. The species name, “latifolia”, means “wide leaves”.
The green plants before and during the flowering stage are poisonous to sheep, cattle, and goats. Poisoning has occurred early in the spring before the grass had started to grow.
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The Peninsular War and the Congress of Erfurt, 1808
French troops had installed themselves in Burgos, Pamplona, and Barcelona by the end of February 1808. Murat left Burgos for Madrid on March 15, but his approach provoked riots in the capital, which led to Godoy’s imprisonment and to the enforced abdication of Charles IV in favour of his son, Ferdinand VII, on March 19, four days before Murat’s arrival. Charles and Ferdinand were summoned to Bayonne, where on May 10 Napoleon obliged them to resign the kingdom to his brother Joseph. Meanwhile more serious rioting in Madrid (May 2) was followed by nationalist insurrections throughout Spain. Joseph entered Madrid on July 20 but soon had to retire beyond the Ebro. The ensuing operations came to be known as the Peninsular War.
From the first the war in Spain affected France’s relations with the eastern powers. The Franco-Russian entente was disliked in Russian governing circles, and they felt further dissatisfaction at Napoleon’s treatment of Prussia and at his proposals for the division of Turkish territories. Napoleon was now anxious to enlist Russian support to guard against Austrian and German moves while the bulk of his forces were engaged in Spain. Having concluded a convention with Prussia whereby the French were to evacuate Prussian territory except certain strong points on the Oder (September 8), Napoleon on September 27, 1808, met Alexander at Erfurt. His concessions failed to impress Alexander, who refused to put any effective pressure on Austria. The Treaty of Erfurt (October 12) renewed the Tilsit alliance, and Napoleon could now expect to be free to concentrate on Spain. The Grande Armée was dissolved, with just two corps remaining in Germany under Davout.
When Napoleon, at Vitoria, on November 6, 1808, took command of the 70,000 French in Spain north of the Ebro, the only solidly constituted force opposing him was that of the 20,000 British under Sir John Moore. Moore had been reinforced by 13,000 infantry disembarked at La Coruña on October 26, but within a month Napoleon had occupied Madrid. Moore resolved (December 6) to assist the Spanish by moving with 26,000 men against the communications of the still dispersed French forces. On December 23 he received news of a French concentration against him and next day he began his retreat towards La Coruña. A force of 20,000 French under Soult was in pursuit of the British, and Moore, his transport ships still en route, established a defensive perimeter at La Coruña on January 14, 1809. A French attack on January 16 was repulsed with heavy losses, but Moore was mortally wounded in the fighting. The British completed their evacuation on January 18. Having given up his direction of operations on January 3, Napoleon left Valladolid for Paris a fortnight later, to face the danger from Austria. His brief experience of Spanish warfare had shown him some of its difficulties, and he left Spain unsubdued, but he was not prepared to abandon his enterprise.
Effects of economic warfare
The opening of Spain, Portugal, and South America to British trade helped to offset the drop in Great Britain’s exports to Europe. Whereas Great Britain’s exports to northern Europe in “real” (as opposed to official) values fell from £16,600,000 in 1805 to £5,400,000 in 1808 and recovered only to £14,500,000 in 1809, sales to the Americas outside the United States for the same years rose from £8,500,000 to £18,100,000 and to £19,800,000. Much of the increase in South American business was financed by credit, and the default of the Spanish colonies was among the causes of the economic crisis of 1811.
A parallel development in shipments to the Mediterranean offset the damage done by U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson’s measures in North America. While shipments to the United States fell by £6,300,000 between 1805 and 1808, those to the Mediterranean grew fourfold to £6,800,000. The effect of Embargo Act against British commerce was greatly eased in 1809, for while the Non-Intercourse Act of March 1809 maintained the prohibitions on trade with belligerents, it did not include the Iberian peninsula and Scandinavia, and U.S. ships were able to make their way to nonneutral ports. British exports to the United States had fallen to £5,300,000 in 1808; for 1809 they were £7,460,000.
The Continental blockade, however, was already capable of creating substantial strategic difficulties for Great Britain. Imports of grain from Europe sank from 114,000 tons in 1807 to 14,000 tons in 1808, and the price of wheat increased nearly 60 percent between 1807 and 1810. It is in this context that the shortsightedness of Napoleon’s determinedly mercantilist policy in selling surplus French and allied corn in 1809 and 1810 is most striking. The effects of the blockade were keenly felt in France and the Continental states as well as in Great Britain. European consumers had food enough but missed amenities such as coffee and sugar, and cotton manufacturers soon found themselves cut off from their raw materials as well as from competition. In addition, capital was lacking to create new enterprises to offset the absence of British manufactures. French ports and their merchants were hard hit, and difficulties of transportation arose from the greatly increased use of land routes for Continental trade. Between 1806 and 1808, when British exports fell by approximately 13 percent, those of the French empire declined by 27 percent to remain at the same level in 1809, when the volume of British foreign trade rose by more than 33 percent. French customs receipts, 60,600,000 francs in 1807, were only 11,600,000 in 1809.
The French system of licenses
To increase revenue and to dispose of surplus agricultural production, Napoleon in April 1809 issued licenses as a temporary measure, permitting the export of alcohol and foodstuffs in exchange for wood, flax, iron, quinine, or cash. The concessions were so limited, however, that the licenses taken up during the next 14 months represented only 3 percent of French exports for 1809. A decree of July 25, 1810, imposed the license system on all foreign trade, and one of August 5 laid duties of 40–50 percent on colonial goods. The entry of colonial goods was conditional on the export of goods of at least equivalent value. British manufactures, however, could not be brought in. Finally, the decree of Fontainebleau of October 10, 1810, prescribed sentences of ten years’ imprisonment and branding for the smuggling of British manufactures and up to four years for the importation of unlicensed colonial goods. All goods illegally imported were subject to confiscation; colonial produce was to be sold by the state and manufactured goods were to be publicly destroyed. These measures precipitated the crisis of 1811 on the Continent.
Through the decrees of 1810 the French state, in effect, took over the contraband trade, whose costs were commuted into the new customs tariffs. Licenses given under the decree of July 25 were restricted at first to trade in French ships, and the modest trade permitted could hardly offset the overall effects of the Continental System. Customs receipts increased to nearly 106,000,000 francs between August 1810 and December 1811. By November 25, 1811, however, only 494 of the new licenses had been issued to cover imports worth 27,000,000 francs and exports worth 45,000,000. Many “exports” were dummies, later jettisoned, to warrant the landing of imports.
The annexations of 1809–10
Apart from the cessions imposed upon defeated Austria under the peace of Vienna, Napoleon extended the frontiers of the French empire in 1809–10 in order to make his Continental System more effective. On May 17, 1809, he annexed what had been left of the Papal States. On July 6 Pius VII, who had excommunicated Napoleon, was taken from Rome as a prisoner. On January 3, 1810, Zeeland was annexed and the Dutch provinces between the Scheldt and the Rhine were occupied, before the outright annexation of Holland on July 9. Finally, in December 1810 Napoleon annexed not only Valais but also all northwestern Germany between the Low Countries and the western Baltic, including Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, part of Berg, part of Westphalia, Arenberg, Salm and—most controversially, because its ruling dynasty was closely connected with Russia—Oldenburg. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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work. They held that either "some one in special is bound to preach the Gospel to those that are without or else all Christians are equally bound to perform this work, or else that the work ceased with the Apostles". They adopted the first of these opinions, and agreed that some of the functions of the Apostles were of perpetual duration in the Church, and that their office as "itinerant ministers" descended to those who were to succeed them. They therefore established an order of travelling ministers, "to whom it appertains to take all occasions to cause the light of the glorious Gospel to shine unto such as sit in darkness, to plant churches, to confirm them in the faith, to visit and comfort those who have believed through grace". These travelling ministers were chosen by an association of churches, while each church chose its own elders, the pastor being only an elder with the gift of teaching. Thus Baptist congregations were gathered together, and though membership of each congregation depended on tokens of regeneracy, discipline was exercised over the members in monthly meetings. Lay preaching was recognised. "It was lawful for any person to improve his gifts in the presence of the congregation."
The advantages of this organisation were greatly lost in the time that followed the Restoration by want of leaders and the prevalence of small disputes amongst themselves. Even the Baptists laid aside their missionary zeal and busied themselves with maintaining their own congregations. It was the outburst of Wesleyanism which revived all religious organisations in England and threw them back upon | WIKI |
Talk:Open Document Architecture
Write something about why OpenOffice.org made a new document format (OpenDocument) while this one already exists.
RDO format?
I thought that the Xerox .rdo format was an ODA format. assuming that there aren't two "Open Document Architecture"s. Okay, so RDO isn't "significant" outside the "print on demand" sector, but Xerox is a significant company. ErkDemon 00:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Timeline?
"The standard was initially completed at a ISO working group meeting in Ottawa in February 1989" -- err, no. The standard was completed at an ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG3 meeting in Paris La Defense, France, around Armistice (Nov. 11) 1987. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
“Nothing but a failure”
“It would be improper to call ODA anything but a failure, but its spirit clearly influenced latter-day document formats that were successful in gaining support from many document software developers and users.”
Then it wasn’t a complete failure, was it? Maybe the bombastic first clause should be toned down some. Doug Ewell (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
I must do some editing...
I worked in the ESPRIT project that was mentioned in the History section, as an employee of ICL.
I take issue with the assertion that the ODA interchange format was based on SGML, because it wasn't. But it is the case that it used ASN.1, which is binary (SGML, like HTML and other variants, is text-based). This becomes significant when considering the cryptographic extensions (which I also worked on), which deserves a mention if I can dredge up some detail.
A lot of the early standardisation work was done under the auspices of ECMA, as standard 101. This standard is mentioned on the ECMA standards page in Wikipedia, but it is not linked to this page. When I have managed to insert something about ECMA here, I shall complete that link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MJCoon (talk • contribs) 16:29, 27 March 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
Giovanni Quagliata
Giovanni Quagliata (1603–1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He is more properly known in Italy as Giovan Battista Quagliata (and Giambattista Quagliata), one of the leading artists of the Messinesi painters of the 17th century, as described by Francesco Susinno in his book "The Lives of the Messinesi Painters" published in 1724. Giovanni was born in Messina, Italy. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and enjoyed the patronage and friendship of the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, Don Juan José of Austria (Viceroy from 1649 to 1651; also known as John of Austria the Younger). Giovanni's brother, Andrea Quagliata (born in 1594 or 1599, and died in 1660), was also an historical painter, but of lesser significance. Giovanni's works – paintings, frescoes and large canvases – were famously displayed in the galleries and churches of Messina, but due to earthquakes from Mount Etna and wartime bombings, few have survived to the present day.
Biography
Giovanni's father, Giovan Domenico Quagliata, was a painter who lived in Rome in the late 16th century. He was an artist of talent, but not greatness. Unfortunately, we don't have the details of Giovan Domenico's birth, but a reasonable estimate would be 1570. His birthplace remains a mystery. If he was born on the mainland, it's highly likely he was part of the Quagliata family located in Balvano. Possibly looking for a better market for his talent and art, Giovan Domenico moved from Rome to the growing trade center of Messina, arriving in Sicily in the late 16th century. Unfortunately Susinno does not cite the works of Giovan Domenico. Sometime before 1600, Giovan Domenico married a woman from Messina named Francesca LeDonne and together they had children. We know of two sons: Andrea Quagliata born in 1594 (or in 1599, and died in 1660) and Giovan Battista Quagliata born in 1603 (1603–1673, also known as Giovanni Quagliata). Andrea became a student of his father and was a capable painter. Giovanni was directed by his parents to study letters, but his studies were interrupted by the premature death of the father. Andrea, by that time a professional painter, convinced his younger brother to attend his school where Giovanni does well. Andrea married, but apparently did not have children.
Giovanni helped his brother with household income by painting small pictures and portraits. Giovanni became so attracted by the art of painting that he decided to journey to Rome to attend the prestigious school of Pietro Berrenttini from Cortona (also known as Pietro da Cortona). As Giovanni continued his studies under Cortona, it soon became clear that he was more talented than both his father and his brother. About age 24, he married a Roman woman named Cinzia Conticelli. During those years in Rome he created many works documented in the registers of the parish of San Nicola in Arcione, and he became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke – an association of artists in Rome, founded in 1593 for the purpose of elevating the work of "artists" above that of craftsman, which is still active today.
At age 37, perhaps enticed by lucrative commissions, Giovanni returned to Messina in 1640. There he enjoyed the patronage of the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, Don Juan José of Austria. The Viceroy became a student of Giovanni's and the two became friends. Then, Giovanni's first wife, Cinzia, died and sometime later he married Flavia Alias, sister of the famous mathematician of the Company of Gesu, Vincenzo Alias. Giovanni had at least two children – two sons are known. Giovanni produced many famous works during this period. In time, Viceroy Don Juan José granted Giovanni Quagliata a noble title with a coat of arms and some land in the countryside area of Forza d'Agrò, Sicily, between the city and the sea, where the new city of Sant'Alessio Siculo later developed, and from where most of his descendants come. Giovanni's works – paintings, frescoes and large canvasses – were famously displayed in the galleries and churches of Messina, but due to earthquakes from Mount Etna and wartime bombings, few have survived to the present day. Surviving canvases include: 'The Apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Paul', 'The Sacrifice of Polissena', 'The Virgin Nativity', 'Immaculate Mary', and 'The Triumph of David'. | WIKI |
The Christian News
The Christian News was a Korean-language Christian newspaper published in Korea from 1897 to 1914. It changed its Korean name several times; it was founded as and renamed on December 3, 1907. It received its final name in 1910. It published in the native Korean script Hangul.
It was the second Christian newspaper to be published in Korea (after The Korean Christian Advocate). In 1905, it became the first non-denominational Protestant newspaper in Korea, after The Korean Christian Advocate was effectively merged into it. The two papers split again in 1910, and then again merged in 1915 to form the Kidok Sinbo, which lasted until 1937.
, the Korean Christian Museum had 39 issues in its collection, and 200 issues total are accounted for in various collections.
History
Korea (then Joseon) had previously been isolationist for centuries, and Christianity was still uncommon there by the late 1800s. In 1896, an article entitled "The Literary Needs of Korea" was published in the journal The Korean Repository. It argued for the need in creating more Christian Korean-language literature.
The newspaper published its first issue on April 1, 1897. Its founder was American Presbyterian missionary Horace Grant Underwood. It was published by the Trilingual Press. It initially began with eight pages per issue, but later increased this to ten pages and twelve on Easter and Christmas. It was closely related to The Korean Christian Advocate, another Korean-language newspaper which had been founded by Methodist missionaries just two months before and printed by the same publisher. However, Underwood wanted his publication to be less overtly Christian, and did much of the early editing and writing for the publication himself.
Articles were often written in English then translated into Korean by Underwood and his Korean-speaking staff. In its early years under Underwood, the paper covered a diverse range of topics; it published on science, technology, agriculture, and explained Western culture. Only several pages were dedicated to Christianity. Sometimes articles would be submitted by Korean Christians; they shared their religious experiences and their hopes for Korea's modernization and support for the Korean independence movement.
The paper and its staff were monitored by the Korean government, as Christianity and modernization sentiments were seen skeptically around this time. In response, the newspaper made an effort to not speak badly about native Korean religious practices, and advocated for loyalty to the monarchy. The Korean monarch Gojong was reportedly a fan of the paper. He once ordered the purchase of 467 of its issues for distribution in government offices across the country. The paper published a special edition on Gojong's birthday, and in 1897 they gave photos of Gojong as gifts to people who purchased yearly subscriptions. This was the first time in Korean history that photos of a Korean monarch were made widely available to the public.
Around 1900, The Korean Christian Advocate ceased publication. Around 1905, The Christian News was made into a unified Protestant paper, and included the Methodist staff of the former The Korean Christian Advocate. It published the first unified issue on July 1, 1905. Its editor-in-chief was James Scarth Gale. Gale was assisted by Elmer Cable, Jacob Moose, and Samuel Forman Moore. Charles Vinton managed the paper's finances. Around this time, each issue had 12 to 20 pages. The paper became more explicitly religious around this time, with more of its writing being Christian.
The newspaper changed its Korean name to on December 3, 1907. It reduced the number of pages in each issue to 8 pages, and reduced its publication frequency to every other week.
The newspaper closed on February 21, 1910, and split back into the Methodist The Korean Christian Advocate and Presbyterian The Christian News papers. The Christian News resumed publication on the 28th as a weekly paper. Gale served as the Presbyterian paper's first president. Around this time, it was owned by a stock company with capital of 1,000 won and a circulation of 3,700. It appointed its first Korean editor, Kim Wŏn-kŭn.
It stopped publishing in August 1914. The two papers eventually merged back together, and on December 8, 1915, were succeeded by the Kidok Sinbo. | WIKI |
President Trump Resigns From Businesses, Leaves Sons, CFO in Charge
President Donald Trump has resigned from his namesake company and more than 400 affiliated entities, a Trump Organization spokesperson told NBC News. In a statement, the spokesperson, who asked not to be identified, said Trump had transferred title, management and authority of the companies to a trust under the management of his sons Don and Eric and of Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of The Trump Organization. The spokesperson provided a resignation letter dated Jan. 19 and signed by Trump, along with a list of hundreds of companies that he had left. The news comes amid rising pressure on Trump to resolve his perceived conflicts of interest — although the move will likely do little to persuade critics, including ethics lawyers for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who have argued that he should liquidate his assets or place them in a blind trust. "Stepping back from running his business is meaningless from a conflict-of-interest perspective," said Walter Shaub, director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. "The idea of setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust — it's not even close." On Monday, a liberal government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, sued Trump, arguing in federal court that he violated the Constitution by not divesting from the Trump Organization and other interests with leases, bookings, payments and deals connected to foreign governments — spanning Russia to to Saudi Arabia to the Philippines and China. That violation began, the suit alleges, the moment Trump was sworn into office. The resignation letter released Monday is dated the day before Trump was inaugurated. Trump and White House officials have argued that the president, by law, can't have any conflicts of interest — "in theory, I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly," Trump said in November — although he announced this month that he would nevertheless let his children manage his businesses. "He has gone above and beyond in what he has done to make sure there are no conflicts," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. Follow CNBC International on and Facebook. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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THINK this book is the best that has come out of Ireland in my time. Perhaps I should say that it is the best book that has ever come out of Ireland; for the stories which it tells are a chief part of Ireland's gift to the imagination of the world—and it tells them perfectly for the first time. Translators from the Irish have hitherto retold one story or the other from some one version, and not often with any fine understanding of English, of those changes of rhythm for instance that are changes of the sense. They have translated the best and fullest manuscripts they knew, as accurately as they could, and that is all we have the right to expect from the first translators of a difficult and old literature. But few of the stories really begin to exist as great works of imagination until somebody has taken the best bits out of many manuscripts. Sometimes, as in Lady Gregory's version of Deirdre, a dozen manuscripts have to give their best before the beads are ready for the necklace. It has been necessary also to leave out as to add, for generations of copyists, who had often but little sympathy with the stories they copied, have mixed versions together in a clumsy fashion, often repeating vii | WIKI |
8 Replies Latest reply on Feb 25, 2010 2:59 PM by Diana Densmore
Process that allows task completion in email example?
mike.tx.edu Level 1
I am having problems figuring out how to get started and if this is possible at all.
I want to create a long-lived process that takes data from a database (SQL Server) and merges it into a PDF. This PDF will then need to be assigned to a user for approval. I want to attach the PDF form with merged data to the email sent to the user notifying them that they have a task to complete. The user can then open the attached form and complete the task by clicking a button on the form. Is this at all possible in LiveCycle ES 8.2.1 SP2?
Any help or sample process to accomplish something like this would be helpful. I'm still new to all this... Thanks!
• 1. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
PraveenKumar D Level 1
Hi Mike,
Actually I looked for same solution but did not get enough materail .
I am sure that Email Based approvals can be done in ES2 but am not sure in ES8.2 SP2.
But I found some inforamation saying we can do at :: http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/upgrade/processmanagement.html (Click the first point and E-mail-based routing)
In ES2,Users can approve or reject the request from Mobile itself. For more information :: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/livecycle_forms_iphone_print.html
ES2 Process Management gurus, please help us.
Thanks
Praveen
• 2. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
Jasmin Charbonneau Level 4
This is definitely possible.
First, make sure the email server settings are configured properly (under adminui/Services/Process Management/Server Settings/Email Settings).
Then you need to make sure to set the settings to allow email notifications for new tasks (under adminui/Services/Process Management/Server Settings/Task Notification).
Finally, the users also need to set some settings in Workspace to allow email notifications to be received (preferences/Manage UI Settings)
Jasmin
• 3. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
Diana Densmore
Hi Mike
In addition to what Jasmin has pointed out, you need to add an email endpoint on the Complete Task process.
This allows users to click a Submit button on the form they received as a Task Notification attachment.
The form and data are then emailed back to the LiveCycle server via the mailbox that you set up on the Complete Task endpoint.
The Help for that endpoint is here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/8.2/admin_aac/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?&acces sible=true
Make sure that on your Task Notification settings in adminui that you select both "Enable Task Notifications" and well as "Include Form Data".
The user also needs to set "Attach Forms in Email" to Yes in their Workspace UI pereferences.
Diana
• 4. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
Scott Brodersen Level 4
Here's some information about how to customize the body of the notification email that is sent:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/8.2/wb_help/001004.html
scott
• 5. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
PraveenKumar D Level 1
Hi Diana,
I created all settings at admin console and workspace . But I struke in creating the end point to the service.
Let me explain my process.
I created one sample form and taking this as input asset to the process. I will enter data in workspace and sumbits.
Then assigns to manager for approval or rejection. I am using assign task activity to do the same.
After configuring email end points to the service, it is telling that inbox connection failed it seems I gave wrong inputs.
Please let me help how to do email end points or any video is available for the same ?
Thanks
Praveen
• 6. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
Diana Densmore Level 3
Hi Praveen
Just a bit confused...this thread is about completing tasks offline. is that what you are trying to do or are or you starting them via email?
Just to clarify...adding an email endpoint on the Complete Task is only required if you want to "continue" workspace processes.
For example, a notification is sent to a user with the form and data attached. Now you want to send it back via email instead of looging into Workspace to complete it.
If you are "starting" a process via email, you use an email start point in the process.
A generic email startpoint and an email endpoint on the Complete Task require slightly different information, so I just want to confirm.
Inbox connection failed can happen for several reasons:
1. The Host, User name or Password field are incorrect.
2. The email server does not have POP3 enabled.
3. The POP3 port is incorrect. (The default is 110 but your server might be different or be enabled for https which is default 995.)
4. You are trying to create a start point/endpoint using gmail which is unsupported.
Diana
• 7. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
mike.tx.edu Level 1
Hi Diana,
Thanks for the response. The email notifications with attached form is being sent properly to user who is assigned the task.
The next step in my process when a user gets assigned the task is to Approve or Reject the form to move along through the process. So on my Assign Task operation I have two routes, one labeled Approve and the other labeled Reject. In Workspace these buttons are automatically generated for you when you check "Initialize task with route names" and "User must select a route to complete this task", when completing the task in Workspace. I am stuck as to how I would make this work in email. I would like Approve and Reject buttons on the email notification attached form, so when the user opens and views the form they can complete the task here instead of going into Workspace. Can this be done? If so, how? Any examples you can provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
• 8. Re: Process that allows task completion in email example?
Diana Densmore Level 3
Hi Mike
When you design your form, you need to include the Process Fields to handle this case.
Open your form in Designer and from the Custom Object Library, drag on the set of fields called "Process Fields".
This will give you an Action dropdown, a Submit button and some hidden fields.
When the user receives the pdf attached to the email, this Action dropdown will contain your choices from the routes leaving the Assign Task.
The user chooses one of these actions and then clicks Submit.
This value will then be submitted back to the server in the xdp data file that is attached to the email and the correct route will be taken.
Hope this helps.
Diana | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Marion Massey
Cleanup tag
I have added a cleanup tag because biographical information (born when, where etc. etc) is missing in this article on a person. Tschild (talk) 12:12, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
* I've added a few details, but little biographical information seems to have been published. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
* >>I did a bit of cleanup. If some one can move her marriage and husband info into the Personal life section, this can became class=start. I can't do cut and paste at the moment. Thanks, SWP13 (talk) 06:48, 8 February 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 June 16
June 16
This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on June 16, 2015.
Melbourne City Wrestling
* The result of the discussion was keep. We still don't have an overwhelming consensus one way or another on the merits of keeping this redirect, but the discussion below showed a majority sentiment that it's too soon to start another RfD, especially as the nominator didn't present a new argument not presented at the last RfD. Deryck C. 12:46, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
* Melbourne City Wrestling → List of professional wrestling organisations in Australia (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melbourne_City_Wrestling&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
Re-submitting after no consensus was reached on the previous listing. Delete under R10. Redirects to lists with little if any useful information aren't encyclopaedic and WP:REDLINK applies as there is some notability through the presence of Emma and Buddy Murphy. Curse of Fenric (talk) 07:37, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
* n.b. Previous discussion here. --BDD (talk) 13:19, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep I continue to doubt that this organization is notable on its own. The two wrestlers cited in the nomination would hardly be notable if they had never left this minor competition, and notability is not inherited, so their later success doesn't bestow notability. --BDD (talk) 13:19, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
* Speedy procedural close - previous discussion closed with no consensus for any action, and I doubt that situation has changed in the two weeks since. No comment on the redirect; if you like you can read my comments at the previous thread. Ivanvector (talk) 14:46, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
* Previous discussion was distracted by another issue (partly my fault as well) so procedural close is not appropriate. Curse of Fenric (talk) 00:46, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Comment Keep - when I looked into this before, I came to the tentative conclusion there wasn't enough info to make an article, so redlinking was inappropriate. If I was wrong ... well, the smart thing to do would be to make the article and render the question moot. If I was right, then it should be kept. Cycling around RfD again and again ain't wise. Wily D 08:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
* Delete This is similar to an RfD I saw earlier this morning when commenting on the June 13 nomination of Bill Cunningham. Naturally this is not political, but the same situation applies when it comes to redirects that only work if the subject is contained in a substantive way in the target article - which this is not. Redirects to lists that carry a name and virtually nothing else should be discouraged as unencyclopedic IMO. WP:NOT discourages directories, which this redirect contributes to. As an aside, the target article's notability is questionable but I shall leave that be. Dragonfire X (talk) 00:13, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 13:43, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* No consensus. How many times does this need to be listed? Ivanvector (talk) 15:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Probably until we reach a consensus. Nothing wrong with that. Dragonfire X (talk) 23:43, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Quite right, Dragon. Ivan, instead of bailing how about we discuss this so we can reach a consensus instead of throwing it in the bin just like that for no good reason? Curse of Fenric (talk) 12:09, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
* The consensus is that there is no consensus, I'm with Ivanvector that far: but to draw a line in the sand, I say keep for now, it's at the target, but nothing stops anyone making it into an article if they feel like it, they can simply overwrite the redirect. The case for delete would be to encourage the creation of the article (presumably WP:RFD) but nobody seems to be particularly encouraged so to do. Si Trew (talk) 22:08, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
XHFJ-FM
* The result of the discussion was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 13:44, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
* XHFJ-FM → XHMIX-FM (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XHFJ-FM&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
It appears this station changed its calls a long time ago to XHMIX-FM but the page move was never made.
The main reason to delete the redirect is because there is an XHFJ-FM 95.1 in Teziutlán, Puebla (see the IFT FM tables). Raymie (t • c) 21:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Keep is the Puebla station notable? If it isn't, it doesn't matter that it exists. This is valid because it is a former callsign (former name) ; If the Puebla station is notable, the you can stubbify the redirect into an article and add a hatnote. Otherwise, keep as is. Non-notable stations do not "confuse" since they do not belong on Wikipedia. Pointing former names of notable stations to their articles is the proper thing to do. -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep Until such time as the notability of that other station is established this needs to stay as is per the IP. Dragonfire X (talk) 00:22, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 13:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Robert Muise
* The result of the discussion was do not delete, with no consensus on subsequent action. I'm procedurally closing this RfD without prejudice against further action, such as restoration and subsequent AfD or merge. Deryck C. 12:39, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
* Robert Muise → David Yerushalmi (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Muise&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
Neither informative nor logical. Dr. Fleischman (talk) 22:43, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep or turn into article These two people seem to work together on a lot of projects. I looked up Robert Muise and he might be notable. If he is, an article should be created for him. If not, these two seem to to be discussed in a lot of sources, like this one and therefore be kept because yes, Muise and Yerushalmi are very relevant to one another. --Mr. Guye (talk) 00:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep. Maybe not notable himself, but mentioned at the target in the lede, and they do seem to be siamese twins. Si Trew (talk) 20:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* Restore I'm not saying it was in great shape, but revert to the pre-redirect form and let this be judged by PROD or AfD as desired. --BDD (talk) 13:50, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
* Comment — Muise's "notability" appears to stem completely from his activities as an attorney with Thomas More Law Center, and more recently, with American Freedom Law Center (the law centers are more notable than the attorneys). Much of David Yerushalmi's notability is also related to AFLC. My suggestion is to take all of the "legal case" information involving both Muise & Yerushalmi and place it in the American Freedom Law Center article, along with a brief bio paragraph for each of them. Then redirect the Muise and Yerushalmi pages to the AFLC page. The Thomas More Law Center article already exists, and already mentions Muise where appropriate. Xenophrenic (talk) 17:17, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Kate's tool
* The result of the discussion was delete. --BDD (talk) 13:36, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
* Kate's tool → Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%27s_tool&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
Delete per WP:RFD and WP:CNR. This was kept back in 2007, but since Kate's tool is no longer functional I think the harm outweighs the good in keeping this. Tavix| Talk 19:53, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
* Delete WP:CNR that is only confusing. How do we know we aren't talking about a hammer that belong to a woman named Katelyn or Katherine? --Mr. Guye (talk) 00:13, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Unless she becomes a Norse god or a Marvel superhero, I'm not seeing any tools belonging to Kate being notable. However, I could see this being a good band name. Tavix| Talk 17:50, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Delete XNR to a tool that is no longer Kate's Tool and is pipework content anyways, unsuitable for reader content. -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Delete as above. So, when I bought at an auction sale that Kate's stool was what Kate Bush used to sit and scream her songs from, I was misled? Si Trew (talk) 20:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
MakeMKV
* The result of the discussion was procedural close, already deleted by . Deryck C. 10:17, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
* MakeMKV → Matroska (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MakeMKV&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
MakeMKV is software that can be used to transcode video to the Matroska file format. It is in no way the same thing as the format, so the redirect here makes no sense. Keeping the redirect may discourage others from creating the page. — SkyLined (talk) 19:32, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
* You're right. I'm fine with you going ahead and deleting the redirect. AKA Casey RollinsTalk with Casey 18:10, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Template:—
* The result of the discussion was keep. --BDD (talk) 13:35, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
* Template:— → Template:-- (links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:%E2%80%94&action=history history] · stats) [ Closure: ]
An em dash which produces an em dash. This redirect is actually used 33 times. Alakzi (talk) 16:54, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep viable search term to figure out the name of the template that produces emdashes. Though it shouldn't be used as a transclusion. -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:00, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
* Leaning towards keep per the IP. It does no harm and is arguably useful. It should always be substituted, though – is there some sort of bot that regularly checks and substitutes those type of templates? If so it should be added to that. Jenks24 (talk) 14:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
* Perhaps it could be added to AWB. Would that be possible? Alakzi (talk) 14:32, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
* Delete. This makes no sense. If a user can type em dash why use the extra brackets? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:35, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
* Let's say, you forget what the name of the emdash template is, so you type in "template:—" to figure out, so that when you are out and about, and on a different system, you can still contribute with emdashes when you can't type the emdash in, since you then know the name of the template. (such as when you're on a trip, and using a business center) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:46, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
* Let's say you don't know the difference between an en or em dash and a hyphen. MOS:DASH and MOS:HYPHEN will advise, although the Wikipedia style of them is not how I do it elsewhwere with other style guides: presumably it got WP:CONSENSUS. Delete this as confusing sine it does not go to an em dash but to two consecutive hyphens. The target is bad enough, we don't need to make it worse.
* Now I don't know how to type an em dash, even though I know what one is, so I write . MOS:DASH gives instructions for when to use an en or em, but nobody seems to follow them (in particular the breaking or non-breaking spaces before or after). This is why we have things like to take care of it for us so we don't have to worry if we got it wrong: and even if we did, all would be changed automatically when MoS changes its mind (as it frequently does). Si Trew (talk) 13:33, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
* Keep per 70.51. This is useful as a search term to help figure out what this template is called, because it's not obvious that it is --. A copy and paste of an em-dash could be used to do that. I agree that there shouldn't be any transclusions though. -- Tavix ( talk ) 15:24, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
* Em dash, Em-dash, Emdash, Mdash and -- all produce an em dash. Are there people who use em dashes who don't know what they're called? Alakzi (talk) 15:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
* Definitely. From personal experience, I've used em-dashes before I knew what they were called. -- Tavix ( talk ) 15:35, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
* Alright then. Alakzi (talk) 15:39, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
* There's also people who use "Alright" when it is not in any dictionary I know of. (Should be, on the model of "almost", "almighty", and so on, but isn't. Oxford and Webster have articles about it.) Si Trew (talk) 16:22, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* I've never given the pet peeves of philologists and linguistic dilettantes much thought. Alakzi (talk) 16:43, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* Well we are not a dictionary: but surely our job here partly is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and make sure we only keep the chaff. Si Trew (talk) 20:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* I'd use the proper form in an article. Alakzi (talk) 22:15, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* Comment - Alakzi has already moved Template:-- to Template:Em dash and dealt with the double redirect. Keep as it is now per WP:RFD #5 (someone finds them useful) since they're clearly in use. Ivanvector (talk) 20:29, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* This is a much better title, but shouldn't we be consistent? The template for an en dash is at Template:Ndash. We should choose one style or the other. -- Tavix ( talk ) 21:13, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* There's an RM on the talk page of Ndash. Alakzi (talk) 21:14, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks for the heads up. You're one step ahead of me again. -- Tavix ( talk ) 21:45, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
* Just to be clear, I'm OK with keeping it too. Alakzi (talk) 20:48, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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How to send environmental data to ThingSpeak.com
Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 20 2011
Through Flyport and the SHT71 Sensirion sensor it is possible to project a weather wireless station. In particular SHT71 allows to acquire the environmental temperature and humidity, data that will then be sent to ThingSpeak for the storage.
ThingSpeak.com is a free service offering (upon registration) multi-functional database to backup any data. Each time you create a database, you receive a “Write API Key, an access password that identifies the database.
To start, we need two API libraries (thingspeak.c and SHT.c) to import on OpenPicus IDE 2.0. The system, once programmed and started, connects to the desired WLAN and initiates the sensor. The main routine includes the acquisition of environmental data (float) through SHT71 sensor, the Flyport processes them converting the temperature in °C and humidity as a percentage, all with the unique API SHTRead (). The routine then continues with the WdataF” which takes as parameters: the write the API key, an array of float type and the number of elements of that array. The function correctly set, automatically connects Flyport to the server thingspeak.com through TCPClient.
In addition to sending a POST that accesses the database, specified by the “Write API Key, and sends the data of temperature and humidity for the storage. The data, now stored in the remote database, will be available to users through colourful graphics(downloadable from thingspeak originated) or downloaded to any device of XML-like files.
Go to openpicus.com to download simple commands to connect and send data from your Flyport to Thingspeak.com
2 Comments
1. Does it work with just the SHT71 Sensirion sensor, because i ordered the Ds18S20 temp sensor, jst wanna find out if i can substitute the SHT71 Sensirion sensor for the DS18S20 temperature sensor. Cheers
2. Claudio says:
great,keep us updated and if you wanna share the code/library for the DS18S20 let us know!
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* 1) computer-aided software engineering.
* 2) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
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Computer Hardware and Software
A Computer system has two main categories Hardware and Software. They require each other to run the computer system.
Hardware and software are interdependent. Hardware provides the physical infrastructure, while software provides the instructions and functionality. Without hardware, software cannot run, and without software, hardware is useless.
Hardware
Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer or electronic device. This includes the tangible parts such as the processor, memory, hard drive, keyboard, and monitor. These components are essential for the device to operate and perform tasks.
Hardware can be categorized into two main types: input devices and output devices. Input devices allow users to input data into the computer, such as keyboards and mice, while output devices display or provide the results of processed data, such as monitors and printers.
Basic Hardware Components:
• Motherboard: It is a circuit board contains IC sockets and slots.
• CPU: Full name central processing unit. It is the heart of the computer.
• Math coprocessor: It is an IC (Optional) used for mathematical calculation.
• ROM: Read only memory used to store information permanently.
• RAM: Random Access memory used to write programs.
• Display card.
• Speaker.
• SMPS.
• UPS.
Software
Software, on the other hand, refers to the programs and instructions that tell the hardware what to do. It is a collection of code and data that enable the computer to perform specific tasks or functions. Software can be categorized into two main types: system software and application software.
System software includes the operating system, which manages the hardware and allows other software to run smoothly. It also includes device drivers, which enable the hardware components to communicate with the operating system. Application software, on the other hand, includes programs like word processors, web browsers, and games that users interact with directly.
Two types of software are there;
• System Software (Operating System).
• Application Software (Language processors – Editor, Linker, Translator etc).
Operating System: The operating system is system software which links Computer Hardware and Software. Example: DOS (Disk operating system), Windows operating system, Unix operating system, etc. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Ashwagandha Root
• Withania somnifera
• Origin: India
Ashwagandha Root
SKU
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Common Name
Standardized: ashwagandha
Other: winter cherry, ashvagandha
Botanical Name
Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal
Plant Family: Solanaceae
Parts Used
Root
Overview
Ashwaganda is a highly revered medicinal herb used in Ayurveda for millennia and praised as a longevity and vitality tonic. It is often referred to as 'Indian ginseng' due to its similarity to ginseng in its action. Its herbal actions span a wide range from adaptogenic to sedative. In many Asian countries, all parts of the plant are utilized, and the tender leaves are eaten as a vegetable. As a gentle nourishing herb, it can be administered to children as well as the elderly. Many scientific studies exist regarding its manifold healing properties.
Botany
Native to Africa, Southeast Asia and the Mediteranean, 1 Withania somnifera is an undershrub with hairy branches, ovate leaves, yellow to greenish flowers, and bright red berries. 4 It is in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, and related to vegetables such as potato, tomato, and eggplant, and also to the psychoactive Jimson weed (Datura stramonium), and the medicinal bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara).5 The following species are used medicinally as well: W. coagulens, W. simonii, W. adunensis, and W. riebecki.6 The Latin species name, somnifera, means 'sleep inducing' and refers to its action as a sedative.
Cultivation And Harvesting
Ashwagandha is cultivated in India in regions such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Most commercial supply is grown or wildcrafted in India. 3
History And Folklore
In Ayurveda (traditional system of natural medicine recognized practiced in India primarily but also in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Malaysia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), 3 the root is used, often powdered and mixed with honey and ghee (clarified butter). 5 It has been part of their repertoire for millenia. 6 'Ashwaghanda' literally means 'smelling like a horse' which most likely refers to its actual scent (as many believe it smells like horse urine). 5
It is an effective sleep aid and used to balance various conditions that arise from 'vata dosha' (body type characterized by nervousness, dryness and feelings of cold) imbalances. 2,5 It is believed to encourage youth and vitality, and, in the elderly, to quell nervousness. 3 It is considered a 'grounding' and nourishing herb that helps to stabilize the mood as well, and is therefore another reason that it is supportive to female health. According to Anne McIntyre in "The Ayurvedic Bible" ashwagandha is an "exceptional nerve tonic" that is useful in cases of nervous exhaustion, worry, and overwork.
All parts of the plants have been used in traditional medicine. In India, the young leaves are eaten as a tasty vegetable sidedish. 3 The bitter leaves were administered in cases of fever, and they were also bruised and applied topically for skin ailments and various swellings. 4 Furthermore, they were combined with warm castor oil and administered in cases of worms and were also used to treat swelling. The unripe green berries were applied topically to the skin, and the root has been used externally too, as a treatment for soothing occasional sore joints. 4 Also, the red berries have been used as a substitute for rennet which is used to coagulate milk when making cheese. 6 In Africa, a tea of the bark was made to treat lung issues internally and skin issues externally. 3
Flavor Notes And Energetics
Bitter, sweet, astringent in flavor and energetically warming (mildly). 5
Herbal Actions
Anxiolytic, tonic, hypolipidemic, rejuvenative, nervine, sedative, 5 and adaptogenic. 7
Uses And Preparations
Dried roots cut and sifted for tea, powdered and added to formulas, tinctured, or encapsulated
Constituents
Key constituents include: ashwagandhine, cuscohygrine, anahygrine, tropine, withaferin A, withanolides*, withasomniferin, withasomidienone, withasomniferols, withanone, withaniol, sitoindosides, acylsteryl glucosides. 4
• the steroidal withanolides resemble, in both action and appearance, ginsenosides, the active constituents of Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng).6
Precautions
Specific: Not for use in pregnancy except under the supervision of a qualified healthcare practitioner.
General: We recommend that you consult with a qualified healthcare practitioner before using herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on any medications.
References
1. United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Accessed on February 18, 2015.
2. Health Canada. Ashwagandha Monograph. http://webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/nhpid-bdipsn/monoReq.do?id=35
3. Engels G, Brinckmann J. Ashwagandha. HerbalGram. 2013; Issue: 99 Page: 1-7 American Botanical Council. Austin, TX.
4. Khan, I. A., & Abourashed, E. A. (2011). Leung's encyclopedia of common natural ingredients: used in food, drugs and cosmetics. John Wiley & Sons.
5. Khalsa Singh KP, Tierra M. The way of Ayurvedic herbs. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press; 2008.
6. Verma, S. K., & Kumar, A. J. A. Y. (2011). Therapeutic uses of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) with a note on withanolides and its pharmacological actions. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, 4(1), 01-04.
7. Mills S, Bone K. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone; 2000.
For educational purposes only This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Sensory Systems/Visual System/old/Sensory Organs
Vision, or the ability to see depends on visual system sensory organs or eyes. There are many different constructions of eyes, ranging in complexity depending on the requirements of the organism. The different constructions have different capabilities, are sensitive to different wave-lengths and have differing degrees of acuity, also they require different processing to make sense of the input and different numbers to work optimally. The ability to detect and decipher EM has proved to be a valuable asset to most forms of life, leading to an increased chance of survival for organisms that utilise it. In environments without sufficient light, or complete lack of it, lifeforms have no added advantage of vision, which ultimately has resulted in atrophy of visual sensory organs with subsequent increased reliance on other senses (e.g. some cave dwelling animals, bats etc.). Interestingly enough, it appears that visual sensory organs are tuned to the optical window, which is defined as the EM wavelengths (between 300nm and 1100nm) that pass through the atmosphere reaching to the ground. This is shown in the figure below. You may notice that there exists other "windows", an IR window, which explains to some extent the thermal-"vision" of snakes, and a radiofrequency (RF) window, of which no known lifeforms are able to detect.
Through time evolution has yielded many eye constructions, and some of them have evolved multiple times, yielding similarities for organisms that have similar niches. There is one underlying aspect that is essentially identical, regardless of species, or complexity of sensory organ type, the universal usage of light-sensitive proteins called opsins. Without focusing too much on the molecular basis though, the various constructions can be categorised into distinct groups:
* Spot Eyes
* Pit Eyes
* Pinhole Eyes
* Lens Eyes
* Refractive Cornea Eyes
* Reflector Eyes
* Compound Eyes
The least complicated configuration of eyes enable organisms to simply sense the ambient light, enabling the organism to know whether there is light or not. It is normally simply a collection of photosensitive cells in a cluster in the same spot, thus sometimes referred to as spot eyes, eye spot or stemma. By either adding more angular structures or recessing the spot eyes, an organisms gains access to directional information as well, which is a vital requirement for image formation. These so called pit eyes are by far the most common types of visual sensory organs, and can be found in over 95% of all known species.
Taking this approach to the obvious extreme leads to the pit becoming a cavernous structure, which increases the sharpness of the image, alas at a loss in intensity. In other words, there is a trade-off between intensity or brightness and sharpness. An example of this can be found in the Nautilus, species belonging to the family Nautilidae, organisms considered to be living fossils. They are the only known species that has this type of eye, referred to as the pinhole eye, and it is completely analogous to the pinhole camera or the camera obscura. In addition, like more advanced cameras, Nautili are able to adjust the size of the aperture thereby increasing or decreasing the resolution of the eye at a respective decrease or increase in image brightness. Like the camera, the way to alleviate the intensity/resolution trade-off problem is to include a lens, a structure that focuses the light unto a central area, which most often has a higher density of photo-sensors. By adjusting the shape of the lens and moving it around, and controlling the size of the aperture or pupil, organisms can adapt to different conditions and focus on particular regions of interest in any visual scene. The last upgrade to the various eye constructions already mentioned is the inclusion of a refractive cornea. Eyes with this structure have delegated two thirds of the total optic power of the eye to the high refractive index liquid inside the cornea, enabling very high resolution vision. Most land animals, including humans have eyes of this particular construct. Additionally, many variations of lens structure, lens number, photosensor density, fovea shape, fovea number, pupil shape etc. exists, always, to increase the chances of survival for the organism in question. These variations lead to a varied outward appearance of eyes, even with a single eye construction category. Demonstrating this point, a collection of photographs of animals with the same eye category (refractive cornea eyes) is shown below.
Refractive Cornea Eyes
An alternative to the lens approach called reflector eyes can be found in for example mollusks. Instead of the conventional way of focusing light to a single point in the back of the eye using a lens or a system of lenses, these organisms have mirror like structures inside the chamber of the eye that reflects the light into a central portion, much like a parabola dish. Although there are no known examples of organisms with reflector eyes capable of image formation, at least one species of fish, the spookfish (Dolichopteryx longipes) uses them in combination with "normal" lensed eyes.
The last group of eyes, found in insects and crustaceans, is called compound eyes. These eyes consist of a number of functional sub-units called ommatidia, each consisting of a facet, or front surface, a transparent crystalline cone and photo-sensitive cells for detection. In addition each of the ommatidia are separated by pigment cells, ensuring the incoming light is as parallel as possible. The combination of the outputs of each of these ommatidia form a mosaic image, with a resolution proportional to the number of ommatidia units. For example, if humans had compound eyes, the eyes would have covered our entire faces to retain the same resolution. As a note, there are many types of compound eyes, but delving to deep into this topic is beyond the scope of this text.
Not only the type of eyes vary, but also the number of eyes. As you are well aware of, humans usually have two eyes, spiders on the other hand have a varying number of eyes, with most species having 8. Normally the spiders also have varying sizes of the different pairs of eyes and the differing sizes have different functions. For example, in jumping spiders 2 larger front facing eyes, give the spider excellent visual acuity, which is used mainly to target prey. 6 smaller eyes have much poorer resolution, but helps the spider to avoid potential dangers. Two photographs of the eyes of a jumping spider and the eyes of a wolf spider are shown to demonstrate the variability in the eye topologies of arachnids. | WIKI |
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JMS-style selectors on Amazon SQS with Apache Camel
10.28.2013
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This blog post demonstrates how easy it is to use Apache Camel and its new json-path component along with the camel-sqs component to produce and consume messages on Amazon SQS.
Amazon Web Services SQS is a message queuing “software as a service” (SaaS) in the cloud. To be able to use it, you need to sign up for AWS. It’s primary access mechanism is XML over HTTP through various AWS SDK clients provided by Amazon. Please check out the SQS documentation for more.
And as “luck” would have it, one of the users in the Apache Camel community created a component to be able to integrate with SQS. This makes it trivial to add a producer or consumer to an SQS queue and plugs in nicely with the Camel DSL.
SQS, however, is not a “one-size fits all” queueing service; you must be aware of your use case and make sure it fits (current requirements as well as somewhat into the future…). There are limitations that, if not studied and accounted for ahead of time, could come back to sink your project. An example of a viable alternative, and one that more closely fits the profile of a high performance and full featured message queue is Apache ActiveMQ.
For example, one limitation to keep in mind is that unlike traditional JMS consumers, you cannot create a subscription to a queue that filters messages based on some predicate (at least not using the AWS-SQS API — you’d have to build that into your solution).
Some other things to keep in mind when using SQS:
• The queue does not preserve FIFO messaging
That is, message order is not preserved. They can arrive out of order from when they were sent. Apache Camel can help with its resequencer pattern. Bilgin Ibryam, now a colleague of mine at Red Hat, has written a great blog post about how to restore message order using the resequencer pattern.
• Message size is limited to 256K
This is probably sufficient, but if your message sizes are variable, or contain more data that 256K, you will have to chunk them and send in smaller chunks.
• No selector or selective consumption
If you’re familiar with JMS, you know that you can specify consumers to use a “selector” or a predicate expression that is evaluated on the broker side to determine whether or not a specific message should be dispatched to a specific consumer. For example,
• Durability constraints
Some use cases call for the message broker to store messages until consumers return. SQS allows a limit of up to 14 days. This is most likely sufficient, but something to keep in mind.
• Binary payloads not allowed
SQS only allows text-based messages, e.g., XML, JSON, fixed format text, etc. Binary such as Avro, Protocol Buffers, or Thrift are not allowed.
For some of these limitations, you can work around them by building out the functionality yourself. I would always recommend taking a look at how an integration library like Apache Camel can help — which has out-of-the-box support for doing some of these things.
Doing JMS-style selectors
So the basic problem is we want to subscribe to a SQS queue, but we want to filter which messages we process. For those messages that we do not process, those should be left in the queue. To do this, we will make use of Apache Camel’s Filter EIP as well as the visibility timeouts available on the SQS queue.
By default, SQS will dispatch all messages in its queue when it’s queried. We cannot change this, and thus not avoid the message being dispatched to us — we’ll have to do the filtering on our side (this is different than how a full-featured broker like ActiveMQ does it, i.e., filtering is done on the broker side so the consumer doesn’t even see the message it does not want to see).
Once SQS dispatches a message, it does not remove it from the queue unless the consumer has acknowledged that it has it and is finished with it. The consumer does this by sending a DeleteMessage command. Until the DeleteMessage command is sent, the message is always in the queue, however visibility comes in to play here.
When a message is dispatched to a consumer, there is a period of time which it will not be visible to other consumers. So if you browsed the queue, you would not see it (it should appear in the stats as “in-flight”). However, there is a configurable period of time you can specify for how long this “visibility timeout” should be active. So if you set the visibility to a lower time period (default is 30 seconds), you can more quickly get messages re-dispatched to consumers that would be able to handle the message.
Take a look at the following Camel route which does just that:
@Override
public void configure() throws Exception {
// every two seconds, send a message to the "demo" queue in SQS
from("timer:kickoff?period=5000")
.setBody().method(this, "generateJsonString")
.to("aws-sqs://demo?amazonSQSClient=#sqsClient&defaultVisibilityTimeout=2");
}
In the above Camel Route, we create a new message every 5 seconds and send it to an SQS queue named demo — note we set the defaultVisibilityTimeout to 2 seconds. This means that after a message gets dispatched to a consumer, SQS will wait about 2 seconds before considering it eligible to be dispatched to another consumer if it has not been deleted.
On the consumer side, we take advantage of a couple Apache Camel conveniences
Using JSON Path + Filter EIP
Camel has an excellent new component named JSON-Path. Claus Ibsen tweeted about it when he hacked it up. This allows you to do Content-Based Routing on a JSON payload very easily by using XPath-style expressions to pick out and evaluate attributes in a JSON encoded object. So in the following example, we can test an attribute named ‘type’ to be equal to ‘LOGIN’ and use Camel’s Filter EIP to allow only those messages that match to go through and continue processing:
public class ConsumerRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
@Override
public void configure() throws Exception {
from("aws-sqs://demo?amazonSQSClient=#sqsClient&deleteIfFiltered=false")
.setHeader("identity").jsonpath("$['type']")
.filter(simple("${header.identity} == 'login'"))
.log("We have a message! ${body}")
.to("file:target/output?fileName=login-message-${date:now:MMDDyy-HHmmss}.json");
}
}
To complete the functionality, we have to pay attention to a new configuration option added for the Camel-SQS component:
• deleteIfFiltered — Whether or not to send the DeleteMessage to the SQS queue if an exchange fails to get through a filter. If ‘false’ and exchange does not make it through a Camel filter upstream in the route, then don’t send DeleteMessage.
By default, Camel will send the “DeleteMessage” command to SQS after a route has completed successfully (without an exception). However, in this case, we are specifying to not send the DeleteMessage command if the message had been previously filtered by Camel.
This example demonstrates how easy it is to use Apache Camel and its new json-path component along with the camel-sqs component to produce and consume messages on Amazon SQS.
Please take a look at the source code on my github repo to play with the live code and try it out yourself.
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You can’t stay here, Ben; you know that as well as I do. I signed the warrant for your arrest myself. It ’s been over a year since the Grand Jury indicted you for arson.
You mean you ’ll give me up?
You won’t do that, Judge; you ’re here as her friend.
No, but if it ’s known he ’s here, I could n’t save him, and it ’s bound to be known.
(to Ben)
Were you careful coming?
Yes.
It ’s bound to be known.
He means they ’ll tell on me. (He nods his head toward door) My brother, or my sisters.
No, I don’t think they ’d do that.
Let ’em! What do I care. I ’m sick of hiding out, half starved! Let ’em do what they please. All I know is one thing,—when they put her into her grave her sons and daughters are goin’ to be standin’ there, like the Jordans always do.
(quietly)
Hannah will have your room ready by now. There are some clean shirts and things that was your father’s; I ’ll bring them to you. | WIKI |
The Nation and Athenaeum
The Nation and Athenaeum, or simply The Nation, was a United Kingdom political weekly newspaper with a Liberal/Labour viewpoint. It was formed in 1921 from the merger of the Athenaeum, a literary magazine published in London since 1828, and the smaller and newer Nation, edited by Henry William Massingham.
The enterprise was purchased by a group led by the economist John Maynard Keynes in 1923. From then on, it carried numerous articles by Keynes.
From 1923 to 1930, the editor was Liberal economist Hubert Douglas Henderson, and the literary editor was Leonard Woolf, who would help impecunious young authors, including Robert Graves and E. M. Forster he knew through the Hogarth Press by commissioning them to write reviews and articles; there were others, such as Edwin Muir who had come to his attention at the Nation and whose work he would publish at Hogarth.
Other contributors included Edmund Blunden, H. E. Bates, H. N. Brailsford, J. A. Hobson, Harold Laski, David Garnett, Aldous Huxley (under the pseudonym "Autolux"), Charlotte Mew, Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and G. D. H. Cole.
In 1931, it was absorbed into the Labour weekly the New Statesman, which was known as the New Statesman and Nation until 1964. | WIKI |
Enhanced cancer immunotherapy using STAT3-depleted dendritic cells with high Th1-inducing ability and resistance to cancer cell-derived inhibitory factors
Tomoko Iwata-Kajihara, Hidetoshi Sumimoto, Naoshi Kawamura, Ryo Ueda, Tomomi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Mizuguchi, Makoto Miyagishi, Kiyoshi Takeda, Yutaka Kawakami
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
68 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
STAT3 signaling constitutes an important negative feedback mechanism for the maintenance of immune homeostasis, a suppressive signal for the Th1 immune response in murine macrophages, and a cancer immune evasion signal in various immune cells. The strategy for STAT3 signal inhibition should be considered, because these features could impede effective cancer immunotherapy. We have evaluated the effects of STAT3 inactivation in dendritic cells (DCs) on immune responses in mice and humans. DCs derived from LysMcre/STAT3flox/flox mice displayed higher cytokine production in response to TLR stimulation, activated T cells more efficiently, and were more resistant to the suppression of cytokine production by cancer-derived immunosuppressive factors compared with DCs from control littermates. Antitumor activities of STAT3-depleted and control DCs were compared by intratumoral administration of gp70 Ag peptide-pulsed DCs in the therapeutic MC38 tumor model. Intratumoral administration of STAT3-depleted DCs significantly inhibited MC38 tumor growth of both injected and nontreated remote tumors. The inhibition was accompanied by an increase in gp70-specific T cell response as well as in systemic Th1 immune response. STAT3-depleted human DCs with adenoviral STAT3 short hairpin RNAwere also capable of producing more cytokines with TLR stimulation and more resistant to cancer-derived factors, and they induced tumor Ag-specific T cells more efficiently than control DCs. The identified role of DC STAT3 signaling in both in vivo therapeutic tumor models in mice and in vitro-specific T cell induction in humans indicates that STAT3-inactivated DCs may be a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-36
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Immunology
Volume187
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011 Jul 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Immunology and Allergy
• Immunology
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Use Virtual Kubelet with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Container Instances (ACI) provide a hosted environment for running containers in Azure. When using ACI, there is no need to manage the underlying compute infrastructure, Azure handles this management for you. When running containers in ACI, you are charged by the second for each running container.
When using the Virtual Kubelet provider for Azure Container Instances, both Linux and Windows containers can be scheduled on a container instance as if it is a standard Kubernetes node. This configuration allows you to take advantage of both the capabilities of Kubernetes and the management value and cost benefit of container instances.
Note
AKS now has built-in support for scheduling containers on ACI, called virtual nodes. These virtual nodes currently support Linux container instances. If you need to schedule Windows container instances, you can continue using Virtual Kubelet. Otherwise, you should use virtual nodes instead of the manual Virtual Kubelet instructions noted in this article. You can get started with virtual nodes using the Azure CLI or Azure portal.
Virtual Kubelet is an experimental open source project and should be used as such. To contribute, file issues, and read more about virtual kubelet, see the Virtual Kubelet GitHub project.
Before you begin
This document assumes that you have an AKS cluster. If you need an AKS cluster, see the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) quickstart.
You also need the Azure CLI version 2.0.65 or later. Run az --version to find the version. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install Azure CLI.
To install the Virtual Kubelet, install and configure Helm in your AKS cluster. Make sure that your Tiller is configured for use with Kubernetes RBAC, if needed.
Register Container Instances feature provider
If you have not previously used the Azure Container Instance (ACI) service, register the service provider with your subscription. You can check the status of the ACI provider registration using the az provider list command, as shown in the following example:
az provider list --query "[?contains(namespace,'Microsoft.ContainerInstance')]" -o table
The Microsoft.ContainerInstance provider should report as Registered, as shown in the following example output:
Namespace RegistrationState
--------------------------- -------------------
Microsoft.ContainerInstance Registered
If the provider shows as NotRegistered, register the provider using the az provider register as shown in the following example:
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.ContainerInstance
For RBAC-enabled clusters
If your AKS cluster is RBAC-enabled, you must create a service account and role binding for use with Tiller. For more information, see Helm Role-based access control. To create a service account and role binding, create a file named rbac-virtual-kubelet.yaml and paste the following definition:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: tiller
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: tiller
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: tiller
namespace: kube-system
Apply the service account and binding with kubectl apply and specify your rbac-virtual-kubelet.yaml file, as shown in the following example:
$ kubectl apply -f rbac-virtual-kubelet.yaml
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/tiller created
Configure Helm to use the tiller service account:
helm init --service-account tiller
You can now continue to installing the Virtual Kubelet into your AKS cluster.
Installation
Use the az aks install-connector command to install Virtual Kubelet. The following example deploys both the Linux and Windows connector.
az aks install-connector \
--resource-group myResourceGroup \
--name myAKSCluster \
--connector-name virtual-kubelet \
--os-type Both
These arguments are available for the az aks install-connector command.
Argument: Description Required
--connector-name Name of the ACI Connector. Yes
--name -n Name of the managed cluster. Yes
--resource-group -g Name of resource group. Yes
--os-type Container instances operating system type. Allowed values: Both, Linux, Windows. Default: Linux. No
--aci-resource-group The resource group in which to create the ACI container groups. No
--location -l The location to create the ACI container groups. No
--service-principal Service principal used for authentication to Azure APIs. No
--client-secret Secret associated with the service principal. No
--chart-url URL of a Helm chart that installs ACI Connector. No
--image-tag The image tag of the virtual kubelet container image. No
Validate Virtual Kubelet
To validate that Virtual Kubelet has been installed, return a list of Kubernetes nodes using the kubectl get nodes command:
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
aks-nodepool1-56577038-0 Ready agent 11m v1.12.8
virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-linux-eastus Ready agent 39s v1.13.1-vk-v0.9.0-1-g7b92d1ee-dev
virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-windows-eastus Ready agent 37s v1.13.1-vk-v0.9.0-1-g7b92d1ee-dev
Run Linux container
Create a file named virtual-kubelet-linux.yaml and copy in the following YAML. Take note that a nodeSelector and toleration are being used to schedule the container on the node.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: aci-helloworld
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: aci-helloworld
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: aci-helloworld
spec:
containers:
- name: aci-helloworld
image: microsoft/aci-helloworld
ports:
- containerPort: 80
nodeSelector:
beta.kubernetes.io/os: linux
kubernetes.io/role: agent
type: virtual-kubelet
tolerations:
- key: virtual-kubelet.io/provider
operator: Equal
value: azure
effect: NoSchedule
Run the application with the kubectl create command.
kubectl create -f virtual-kubelet-linux.yaml
Use the kubectl get pods command with the -o wide argument to output a list of pods with the scheduled node. Notice that the aci-helloworld pod has been scheduled on the virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-linux node.
$ kubectl get pods -o wide
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE
aci-helloworld-7b9ffbf946-rx87g 1/1 Running 0 22s 52.224.147.210 virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-linux-eastus
Run Windows container
Create a file named virtual-kubelet-windows.yaml and copy in the following YAML. Take note that a nodeSelector and toleration are being used to schedule the container on the node.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nanoserver-iis
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nanoserver-iis
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nanoserver-iis
spec:
containers:
- name: nanoserver-iis
image: microsoft/iis:nanoserver
ports:
- containerPort: 80
nodeSelector:
beta.kubernetes.io/os: windows
kubernetes.io/role: agent
type: virtual-kubelet
tolerations:
- key: virtual-kubelet.io/provider
operator: Equal
value: azure
effect: NoSchedule
Run the application with the kubectl create command.
kubectl create -f virtual-kubelet-windows.yaml
Use the kubectl get pods command with the -o wide argument to output a list of pods with the scheduled node. Notice that the nanoserver-iis pod has been scheduled on the virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-windows node.
$ kubectl get pods -o wide
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE
nanoserver-iis-5d999b87d7-6h8s9 1/1 Running 0 47s 52.224.143.39 virtual-kubelet-virtual-kubelet-windows-eastus
Remove Virtual Kubelet
Use the az aks remove-connector command to remove Virtual Kubelet. Replace the argument values with the name of the connector, AKS cluster, and the AKS cluster resource group.
az aks remove-connector \
--resource-group myResourceGroup \
--name myAKSCluster \
--connector-name virtual-kubelet \
--os-type Both
Note
If you encounter errors removing both OS connectors, or want to remove just the Windows or Linux OS connector, you can manually specify the OS type. Add the --os-type parameter to the previous az aks remove-connector command, and specify Windows or Linux.
Next steps
For possible issues with the Virtual Kubelet, see the Known quirks and workarounds. To report problems with the Virtual Kubelet, open a GitHub issue.
Read more about Virtual Kubelet at the Virtual Kubelet GitHub project. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Results
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45 (The Gaslight Anthem song)
"45" is a song by American rock band the Gaslight Anthem, released on May 8, 2012 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Handwritten (2012).
Composition
"45" was the first song written for Handwritten. Lead singer, Brian Fallon said of the song, "This record was different, because when we started out, I didn't know what was gonna happen, you know, and after American Slang after The '59 Sound, I was like, 'What am I gonna do? Is there anymore Gaslight songs?' It's a scary thing when that feeling, it hits you. When we wrote the song '45', I was like, 'Thank God.' I just knew that it was gonna be alright."
Music video
The music video features the band playing the song for a live audience at the legendary New Jersey music venue, The Stone Pony.
In other media
"45" is part of the soundtrack to the video game NHL 13, as a playable track in Guitar Hero Live, and as a downloadable song in Rocksmith 2014. | WIKI |
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Find orphaned users in SQL Server
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declare @strSQL as nvarchar (4000)
DECLARE Curse CURSOR local fast_forward
FOR
SELECT
name
FROM
master.dbo.sysdatabases
WHERE
name not in ('master', 'msdb', 'model', 'tempdb','AdventureWorks','AdventureWorksDW')
OPEN Curse
FETCH next FROM Curse INTO @databasename
WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
BEGIN
SET @strSQL = 'USE '+ @databasename + '
declare @usrname varchar(100), @command varchar(100)
declare Crs insensitive cursor for
select name as UserName from sysusers
where issqluser = 1 and (sid is not null and sid <> 0x0)
and suser_sname(sid) is null
order by name
for read only
open Crs
fetch next from Crs into @usrname
while @@fetch_status=0
begin
IF exists(select * FROM master..syslogins WHERE [name] = @usrname)
select @command='' sp_change_users_login auto_fix, '' + @usrname
print @command
exec(@command)
fetch next from Crs into @usrname
end
close Crs
deallocate Crs'
EXEC dbo.sp_executesql @strSQL
fetch next from Curse into @databasename
end
close Curse
deallocate Curse
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Benedict (given name)
Benedict is a masculine given name of Latin origin, meaning "blessed". Etymologically, it is derived from the Latin words bene ('good') and dicte ('speak'), i.e. "well spoken". The name was borne by Saint Benedict of Nursia (480–547), often called the founder of Western Christian monasticism.
Forms of Benedict in different languages
• Albanian: Bekim (name) meaning ’blessing’
• Amharic: ብሩክ (Biruk; from the Semitic root B-R-K, meaning 'blessed')
• Arabic: مبارك (Mubarak, meaning 'blessed')
• Aragonese: Benedet
• Armenian: Բենեդիկտոս (Benediktos), Բարաք (Barak’, from B-R-K)
• Azerbaijani: Mübarək (meaning 'blessed,' derived from Turkish "Mübarek," from Arabic "مبارك")
• Belarusian: Бэнэдыкт (Benedikt), Беніадзік (Beniadzik)
• Bengali: মোবারক (Mobarok)
• Breton: Benead
• Bulgarian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Catalan: Benet
• Chinese; simplified: 本笃, traditional: 本篤 (Bentu; official Catholic shortened from)，本尼迪克特 (Běn ní díkè tè), 有福的, 幸福, 受祝福的 (meaning 'blessed')
• Croatian: Benedikt, Benko
• Czech: Benedikt, Beneš, Dyk
• Danish: Benedikt, Bendt, Bent
• Dutch: Ben, Benedict, Benedictus
• English: Benedict, Bennett
• Esperanto: Benedikto
• Estonian: Pent
• Filipino: Benito
• Finnish: Pentti
• French: Bénédict, Benoist, Benoît; Bénédicte, Benoîte (female)
• Frisian: Bendiks, Benedir
• Galician: Bieito, Bento
• Georgian: ბენედიქტ (Benedik’t)
• German: Benedikt
• Greek: Βενέδικτος (Venediktos)
• Hebrew: ברוך (ba-ruch, meaning 'blessed')
• Hindi: मुबारक (Mubarak, transcription of Arabic "مبارك")
• Hungarian: Benedek
• Icelandic: Benedikt
• Indonesian: Benediktus
• Irish: Beinidict
• Italian: Benedetto, Benetto; Benedetta (female)
• Japanese: ベネディクト (Benedikuto)
• Kannada: ಬೆನೆಡಿಕ್ಟ್ (Beneḍikṭ)
• Korean: 베네딕토, 분도 (Benedigto, Bundo)
• Kurdish: Pîroz (Peeroz)
• Latin: Benedictus; Benedicta (female)
• Latvian: Benedikts, Bendiks, Benis
• Lithuanian: Benediktas
• Macedonian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Norwegian: Bendik, Benedikt, Bengt
• Persian: فرخنده (Farkhondé) or خجسته (Khojasté), both meaning 'blessed'
• Polish: Benedykt
• Portuguese: Bento, Benedito; Benedita (female)
• Provençal: Bénézet
• Romanian: Benedict
• Russian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Serbian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Slovak: Benedikt, Beňadik
• Slovenian: Benedikt
• Spanish: Benedicto, Benito
• Swedish: Benedikt, Bengt, Benkt
• Thai: เบเนดิกต์ (Benedikt̒)
• Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས (Brka shis; pronounced "Tsa shi"; meaning "good luck; good fortune"), བྱིན་རླབས་ཅན (Byin gyis can; pronounced "Jin gyis chan", meaning "blessing')
• Turkish: Mübarek (meaning 'blessed,' from Arabic "مبارك")
• Ukrainian: Бенедікт (Benedikt)
• Uzbek: Muborak (meaning “blessed”, “congratulations”)
• Vietnamese: Phúc, Phước (from Chinese "福" (fú), meaning "happiness; good fortune; blessing")
• Welsh: Benedet
• Yiddish: Bendich, Benesh, Bendit
List of people with the given name Benedict, Benedikt, Bénédict, or Bennedict
For a complete list, see, , or.
Saints
* Benedict of Nursia (480–547), Italian monk, founder of the Benedictine order of monasticism
* Benedict of Aniane (747–821), Benedictine monk and monastic reformer
* Benedict Biscop (628–690), Anglo-Saxon abbot
* Benedict (bishop of Milan) (died 732), archbishop of Milan
* Benedict of Szkalka (died 1012), Hungarian Benedictine monk
* Benedict the Bridge-Builder (c. 1163 – 1184), also known as Bénézet
* Benedict the Moor (1526–1589), also known as Benedict the Black
* Benedict Joseph Labre (1748–1783), French Franciscan mendicant
* Benedict Menni (1841–1914), Italian priest
Popes and antipopes
* Pope Benedict I (died 579), pope from 575 to 579
* Pope Benedict II (635–685), pope in 684/685, also a saint
* Pope Benedict III (died 858), pope from 855 to 858
* Pope Benedict IV (died 903), pope from 900 to 903
* Pope Benedict V (died 965), pope in 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
* Pope Benedict VI (died 974), pope in 973/974
* Pope Benedict VII (died 983), pope from 974 to 983
* Pope Benedict VIII (died 1024), pope from 1012 to 1024
* Pope Benedict IX (c. 1010 – 1056), pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048
* Antipope Benedict X (c. 1000)
* Pope Benedict XI (1240–1304), pope from 1303 to 1304
* Pope Benedict XII (c. 1280 – 1342), pope from 1334 to 1342
* Antipope Benedict XIII (1328–1423)
* Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century
* Pope Benedict XIII (1649–1730), pope from 1724 to 1730
* Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), pope from 1740 to 1758
* Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), pope from 1914 to 1922
* Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), pope from 2005 to 2013
Other
* Benedict (archbishop of Edessa), first archbishop of Edessa of the Latin rite
* Benedict (canon of St. Peter's) (12th century), religious and liturgical writer of Rome
* Benedict of Bari, monk and religious author
* Benedict of Poland (1200–1280), Polish Franciscan friar, traveler, explorer, and interpreter
* Benedict, Duke of Finland (1254–1291), Swedish prelate bishop and duke
* Benedict I of Jerusalem (1892–1980), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
* Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677), Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi descent
* Benedict Akwuegbu (born 1974), Nigerian footballer
* Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Irish political scientist and historian of South East Asia
* Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (1665–1742), Austrian Baroque composer
* Benedict Arnold (1741–1801), American general who after 1779 shifted his allegiance to the British
* Benedict Arnold (congressman) (1789–1849), American politician representing New York State
* Benedict Balansa (1825–1891), French botanist
* Benedict Birnberg (1930–2023), British solicitor and human rights campaigner
* Benedict Campbell (born 1957), Canadian actor
* Benedict Chifley (1885–1951), Australian Prime Minister
* Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976), English actor
* Benedict Daswa (1946–1990), South African school principal and mob murder victim
* Benedikt Doll (born 1990), German biathlete
* Benedikt Dreyer (1495–1555), German sculptor, carver and painter*Benedict Erofeev (1938–1990), Russian writer and Soviet dissident
* Benedict Fogelberg (1786–1854), Swedish sculptor
* Benedict Friedlaender (1866–1908), German zoologist and sexologist
* Benedict Goëz (1562–1697), Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer (Bento de Góis)
* Benedict Gregorios (1916–1994), Metropolitan Archbishop of the Malankara Church
* Benedict Gross (born 1950), American mathematician
* Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner (1873–1959), Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist
* Benedikt Höwedes (born 1988), German footballer
* Benedict Iroha (born 1969), Nigerian footballer
* Benedict Jackson (born 1967), English golfer
* Benedikt Jóhannesson (born 1955), Icelandic publisher, businessman and politician
* Benedict F. Kiernan (born 1953), American historian
* Benedikt Kotruljević (1416–1469), Ragusan Renaissance humanist
* Benedikt Kuripečič (1491–1531), Slovene diplomat
* Benedikt Lampert (born 1985), Liechtensteiner bobsledder
* Benedikt Livshits (1887–1938), Russian poet, writer and translator*Benedict Kiely (1919–2007), Irish writer and broadcaster
* Bennedict Mathurin (born 2002), Canadian basketball player
* Benedict McCarthy (born 1977), South African footballer
* Benedict Morel (1809–1873), French psychiatrist
* Benedikt Niese (1849–1910), German classical scholar
* Benedikt Rejt (1450–1533), Bohemian architect
* Benedikt Roezl (1824–1885), Austrian botanist
* Benedict Samuel (born 1988), Australian actor
* Benedikt Schack (1758–1826), Bohemian composer and tenor
* Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal (1924–2010), Prime Minister of Iceland
* Benedict Stilling (1810–1879), German anatomist and surgeon
* Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906–1947), South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator
* Benedikt Waldeck (1802–1870), Progressive Prussian politician
* Benedict Wells (born 1984), German-Swiss novelist
* Benedict Wong (born 1971), English actor
Fictional characters
* Benedict, a chicken villager from the Animal Crossing series
* Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
* Benedict of Amber, from the Chronicles of Amber
* Bénédict, the title character in Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict | WIKI |
XPLMSetErrorCallback
XPLM_API void XPLMSetErrorCallback(
XPLMError_f inCallback);
XPLMSetErrorCallback installs an error-reporting callback for your plugin. Normally the plugin system performs minimum diagnostics to maximize performance. When you install an error callback, you will receive calls due to certain plugin errors, such as passing bad parameters or incorrect data.
Important: the error callback determines programming errors, e.g. bad API parameters. Every error that is returned by the error callback represents a mistake in your plugin that you should fix. Error callbacks are not used to report expected run-time problems (e.g. disk I/O errors).
The intention is for you to install the error callback during debug sections and put a break-point inside your callback. This will cause you to break into the debugger from within the SDK at the point in your plugin where you made an illegal call.
Installing an error callback may activate error checking code that would not normally run, and this may adversely affect performance, so do not leave error callbacks installed in shipping plugins. Since the only useful response to an error is to change code, error callbacks are not useful “in the field”. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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