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Talk:Sydney Ferries
New Captain Cook Cruises contract
It has been quite a while since the contract with Fantasea Cruises ended. Sydney ferries services are now supplemented by 2 or 3 vessels from Captain Cook Cruises. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Sydney Ferries 'privatised'
This article needs a complete rewrite indicating that Sydney Ferries no longer exists as all ferry services were contracted to Harbour City Ferries (which needs its own Page created too) in Aug 2012 (I think). — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Re-write of corporate details
I've just re-written some of the details of the current corporate structure of Sydney Ferries. The old version named the specific ministers who are shareholders and was already out-of-date. I've changed it to name the positions instead - i.e. "The two shareholders are the NSW treasurer and finance minister." This way the page will stay valid when the office-holders change.
I also deleted the naming of Geoffrey Smith as CEO as he has been dismissed from the role recently. Stuart midgley (talk) 02:29, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Merge Accident Pages
The accident pages should be merged in here. They should be discussed in view of the recent accident history of Sydney Ferries, not on their own separate pages that will never be expanded. JRG 23:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC) I disagree, what occurred is an absolute calamity, the likes of which would not occur very often and is very significant and will in the future be expanded a lot. I vote that they be reinstated. They were removed with suspiciously undue haste.Ajayvius 05:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* Agree. --Peta 02:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* Three - perhaps four people drowned. It is not a big event by any stretch of the imagination. Wikepedia is an encyclopedia not a news source. --Peta 05:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose merge - first of all, Sydney Harbour Bridge Ferry Disaster was merged the first time way too fast. Second of all, this may not seem important to you, but it could have massive repercussions for Austrlian figure skating. Awartha 05:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* Wikipedia articles aren't supposed to be created for supposed future events. All sorts of new items have article written about them and they are left to languish - at least within the ferries article there is some context and it contributes to information about accidents the company has been involved in. --Peta 05:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* Also the name of the disaster article is a farce; no one other than Wikipedia is calling the accident by that name. --Peta 05:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* It's not a supposed future event. It's already devastated the Australian figure skating community. This could possibly be as bad as the Sabena crash. This is big for figure skating. Keep it as a seperate article. Awartha 05:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* So rename the article. That's not a reason to move it. Awartha 05:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* You are proclaiming that the death of three people involved in figure skating in Australia "could have massive repercussions for Austrlian figure skating"; if Australia fails to enter a figure skating team at the next world champs. because of this accident, you may have a case for writing the article in the future. As is, it's a minor accident of little interest beyond the news. Look at the Burnley tunnel article, it makes excellent use of recent news information without spinning it off into a pointless article. --Peta 05:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree that the article should be merged with Sydney Ferries. I'm sorry, Awartha, it's a very, very sad and tragic accident, and will no doubt have an impact, at least emotionally, on the ice-skating community (in which I gather you are involved or interested). As Peta says, the Burnley Tunnel accident is a similar precedent, which has no doubt devastated the Australian cycling community, and yet does not have its own article, nor one defined as a cycling article. It could not possibly be as bad as the Sabena Flight 548 crash, which killed 73 people including the entire U.S. figure skating team, and to call it a disaster is overstating it a bit. --Canley 08:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
* Alright, I'm merging it. JRG 10:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
It may be worth merging this article about a figure skater who it seems likely now will never have the chance to become notable except for the manner of her death - Morgan Innes. --Mattinbgn/talk 03:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Confusing introduction statistics
The introduction says that Sydney Ferries is used "primarily" by tourists but then later gives statistics that show more commuter travel than tourists. Which is correct? Is this somehow a bone of contention? Jpp42 10:10, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Statistics
Speed and capacity listed for some ferries conflicts with what this page says: http://www.sydneyferries.info/about-us/7-15-Fleet-Facts/first-fleet.htm --Canberranone (talk) 05:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Route map?
This article really needs a route map, at least for the benefit of those who are not intimately familiar with the Sydney area. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 16:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Sydney Ferries (the service network brand) vs Sydney Ferries (the government agency)
There are two Sydney Ferries in existence currently (January 2018). One is the Sydney Ferries branding, which has the green Hop logo and green font. The other is a government agency, as stated in the current Transport Administration Act 1988 and Transport for NSW annual reports (like the 2016-17 one). The agency is the owner of the ferry fleet and is a controlled entity of Transport for NSW.
Question is, should these two "Sydney Ferries" be split into two separate wiki articles (i.e. the agency one has the name like Sydney Ferries (agency)), or leave both of them in this article? Marcnut1996 (talk) 05:37, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
* Oppose The agency is not notable enough for its own article, it doesn't trade, merely is the custodian of ferrys that are leased to Harbour City Ferries. A precedent is where there aren't separate article for NSW Trains (agency) and NSW TrainLink (brand). Turingway (talk) 06:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
6 March 2014 High speed surface functionalization using direct laser interference patterning, towards 1 m2/min fabrication speed with sub-μm resolution
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Periodic patterned surfaces can be used to provide unique surface properties in applications, such as biomaterials, surface engineering, photonics and sensor systems. Such periodic patterns can be produced using laser processing tools, showing significant advantages due to a precise modification of the surfaces without contamination, remote and contactless operation, flexibility, and precise energy deposition. On the other hand, the resolution of such laser based surface structuring methods, like direct laser writing, is generally inversely proportional to the fabrication speed. Therefore, the development of new laser structuring technologies as well as strategies offering both high speed and resolution is necessary. In this study, the fabrication of spatially ordered structures with micrometer and submicrometer lengthscales at high surface processing fabrication speed is demonstrated. The procedures shown here are applied to process both planar surfaces and also three dimensional components. Different application examples of structured surfaces on different materials are also described. The applications include the development of thin film structured electrodes to improve the efficiency of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) as well as the direct fabrication of decorative elements on technological steels. Finally, an example of fabrication at high fabrication speed is shown.
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Andrés Lasagni, Andrés Lasagni, Teja Roch, Teja Roch, Matthias Bieda, Matthias Bieda, Dimitri Benke, Dimitri Benke, Eckhard Beyer, Eckhard Beyer, "High speed surface functionalization using direct laser interference patterning, towards 1 m2/min fabrication speed with sub-μm resolution", Proc. SPIE 8968, Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing VIII, 89680A (6 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2041215; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041215
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The result of the discussion was keep. (NAC) – Armbrust Talk to me about my editsreview 06:01, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Per its talk page, I propose a name change into television-character-stub and tv-character-stub (per Severo) for common scoping. Sometimes, I cannot remember abbreviations of full words. Need I explain any more? --Gh87 (talk) 08:22, 17 October 2011 (UTC) --Gh87 (talk) 17:32, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
* Oppose - to keep in line with all TV stubs (using -tv- (see tree of )) and all fictional characters (using -char- (see )). Now you could bring either/both abbreviations here, but you'd need to do so for every template. I'd still oppose changing -tv- to -television- (does what it says on the tin) but I'm more ambivalent on the character abbreviation (possibly more confusing). SeveroTC 11:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
* If you are proposing changing the -char- stem to a -character- stem, do you plan on bringing the other eleven templates using this here as well? I still oppose any change if it is just made to one template making it out of line with the others. SeveroTC 11:08, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
* Oppose - unless all the other fictional character stubs are changed accordingly. Right now they all use abbreviations, and they all use the -char- stem, both of which actually makes it easier, when adding tags to multiple articles. Fortdj33 (talk) 15:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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How to Generate Synthetic Structured Data with Cohere
· 10 min read
Safeer Mohiuddin
Introduction
Generating synthetic structured data is critical for training your AI models. But getting AI engines to produce structured data isn’t always easy. This article will show how you can easily use Cohere and Guardrails to produce synthetic structured data.
What is synthetic structured data?
Structured data is any data put into a format that machines can easily parse, manage, and analyze.
Structured data abounds in traditional applications. Database tables, XML files, and JSON files are common examples of structured data software developers use daily. Structured data is also a good way for models in a complex AI-based application to exchange data.
Synthetic data is fictional data that is statistically or mathematically similar to real data. Companies, particularly in fields such as finance and healthcare, are increasingly using synthetic data to train their AI models. Recent research shows that, on top of being cheaper to produce, synthetic data may create AI models that are just as good, if not better, than models trained on real-world data.
Generating synthetic structured data with Cohere and Guardrails AI
Generating synthetic structured data using today’s AI engines can be a challenge. By default, a Large Language Model (LLM) outputs unstructured text. So, how do you coach it to return properly structured synthetic text?
Using Cohere and Guardrails together, you can generate synthetic structured text with high realism and accuracy. Cohere’s Command model provide generation capabilities for structured data. Guardrails AI adds structural and quality assurances that refine Cohere’s output, resulting in more accurate, realistic data.
Let’s discuss how the Cohere and Guardrails AI portions work, then see how they work even better together.
How Cohere works
Cohere offers access to cutting-edge LLMs through a simple API. It provides a variety of API endpoints to use depending on your use case, including Chat, Generate, Embed, Rerank, Semantic Search, Rerank, and Classify.
Cohere’s models power a variety of use cases, including running interactive chatbots, generating text for product descriptions or blog articles, moderating content, and recognizing intent. Companies can leverage Cohere’s LLMs in their apps without needing to train their own AI models from the ground up.
How Guardrails AI works
Guardrails AI is a Python package you can use to enhance the outputs of LLMs by adding structural, type, and quality assurance checks.
Guardrails AI leverages the pydantic format, one of the industry's most widely used data validation libraries. Guardrails checks for defects such as bias in generated text and bugs in generated code. Guardrails also enforces structural and type guarantees (e.g., returning proper JSON formatting) and takes corrective actions, such as prompt submission retries, when validation fails.
Creating a Guardrail for LLM output is a three-step process: Guardrails Spec
1. Create a data structure spec. You can create a spec either using a Pydantic model or using RAIL. RAIL (Reliable AI Markup Language) is a language-agnostic, human-readable XML dialect for defining the expected structure and type from the LLM, as well as any validators and corrective actions. For the example below, we will use Pydantic.
2. Create a guard from the spec. The Python gd.Guard object serves as the basic executable unit for calls to the LLM.
3. Wrap the LLM call with the guard. The guard combines the spec and the call to the LLM in order to validate, structure, and correct its outputs.
Walkthrough: Generating structured data with Cohere and Guardrails AI
Now, let’s see how to use these two technologies to create highly realistic synthetic structured data.
Prerequisites
• Python 3 installed on a dev machine with the latest version of Pip
• Cohere account and a Cohere API key
Generating data with Cohere
First, to get started with Cohere, sign up and generate an API key.
Cohere Signup
We'll use Cohere's Generate endpoint (co.generate) to generate realistic text conditioned on a given input. Cohere supports a REST API that developers can call from any programming language. In this walkthrough, we'll use Cohere's official Python SDK.
Start by installing the Python library for Cohere on your dev box:
pip install cohere
Next, write a simple Cohere application to generate structured data in JSON format:
import cohere
co = cohere.Client(api_key='<API_KEY>')
response = co.generate(
prompt='Generate different structured data and render it in JSON format',
model='command',
max_tokens=300,
temperature=0.9,
k=0,
stop_sequences=[],
return_likelihoods='NONE'
)
print(response)
Let's step through this line by line to understand what's going on.
1. import cohere: Standard Python import call.
2. co = cohere.Client(api_key='<API KEY>'): Create a client object named co to interact with the Cohere API. It uses the provided API key to authenticate the requests. The API key is essential for accessing the Cohere services.
(Note: Remember never to check API secrets directly into source code or leave them in Notebooks! Use a secrets vault, such as AWS Secrets Manager, for secure storage and retrieval of secrets.)
3. response = co.generate(...): This line sends a text generation request to the Cohere API using the generate method. It provides several parameters as input for the text generation task:
• model='command': Specifies the type of language model to use for text generation. In this case, it uses the "command" model.
• prompt='Generate different structured data and render it in JSON format': Contains the input text prompt that serves as a starting point for text generation. The language model will generate text based on this prompt.
• max_tokens=300: Sets the maximum number of tokens (words or subwords) the generated text should contain. This is used to limit the length of the generated response. Longer responses take more computational power to process, which increases application costs.
• temperature=0.9: Controls the randomness of the generated text. Higher values (e.g., 1.0) make the output more diverse, while lower values (e.g., 0.2) make it more deterministic.
• k=0: The number of top-k candidates to sample from during text generation. Setting it to 0 means it will consider all candidates.
• stop_sequences=[]: A list of strings that will stop the text generation if encountered. However, the list is empty, so the generation will continue until it reaches the max_tokens limit.
• return_likelihoods='NONE': Specifies whether to return the likelihoods of each generated candidate. In this case, it is set to 'NONE', meaning it won't return likelihoods.
4. print(response): This line prints the entire response object returned by the Cohere API after text generation. The response may contain various information, such as the generated text, the likelihoods, and other metadata.
5. print('Prediction: {}'.format(response.generations[0].text)): This line prints the generated text obtained from the response. The response.generations attribute is a list of generated text candidates, and response.generations[0].text retrieves the first candidate's text. The format function includes the generated text in the output string, labeled as "Prediction."
Cohere Code
Adding guards with Guardrails AI
Now, let’s improve the quality of Cohere’s response by adding a guard. Install Guardrails AI and other required dependencies locally using pip:
pip install guardrails-ai pydantic typing openai rich
Create a new Jupyter Notebook entry that imports the Guardrails AI library:
import guardrails as gd
We will define structured data for an online order that has the following attributes:
1. Each user should have a first and a last name.
2. Each user should have between 0 and 50 orders.
3. The dataset should contain exactly 10 rows.
4. The output should be in JSON format.
To accomplish this, we’ll create a spec as a Pydantic model:
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from guardrails.validators import ValidLength, TwoWords, ValidRange
from typing import List
prompt = """
Generate a dataset of fake user orders. Each row of the dataset should be valid. The format should not be a list, it should be a JSON object.
${gr.complete_json_suffix}
an example of output may look like this:
{
"user_orders": [{ │ │
"user_id": 1,
"user_name": "John Mcdonald",
"num_orders": 6
}]
}
"""
class Order(BaseModel):
user_id: int = Field(description="The user's id.", validators=[("1-indexed", "noop")])
user_name: str = Field(
description="The user's first name and last name",
validators=[TwoWords()]
)
num_orders: int = Field(
description="The number of orders the user has placed",
validators=[ValidRange(0, 50)]
)
class Orders(BaseModel):
user_orders: List[Order] = Field(
description="Generate a list of users and how many orders they have placed in the past.",
validators=[ValidLength(10, 10, on_fail="noop")]
)
The Pydantic file above defines two models: an Order model that defines the format of each order; and an Orders model that holds a list of Order objects. The validators parameters for each property define the parameter format that the output from the LLM must satisfy for Guardrails to accept it.
Now, we can create a Guard from our Pydantic model:
guard = gd.Guard.from_pydantic(output_class=Orders, prompt=prompt)
Guardrails will generate a full prompt based on our Pydantic model. Note that it compiles an XML specification for the output and makes it part of the prompt.
Finally, let’s wrap our call to the LLM in Cohere with our guard:
raw_llm_response, validated_response = guard(
co.generate,
model="command",
max_tokens=1024,
temperature=0.3
)
Once again, let's break this down line by line:
1. raw_llm_response: The raw response object returned by the GPT-3 model. It will contain various information, such as the generated text, the likelihoods, and other metadata.
2. validated_response: The validated or processed version of the raw response.
3. co.generate: The method to call on Cohere to generate our synthetic structured data.
4. model="command": Specifies we could use Cohere's command module.
5. max_tokens=1024: Again, we use max_tokens to limit response length and cap computing resources.
6. temperature=0: The degree of randomness. Since this is structured text, we use 0.3 to specify we want the result to be mostly deterministic.
The result in validated_response is the JSON data generated by Guardrails:
{
'user_orders': [
{'user_id': 1, 'user_name': 'John Smith', 'num_orders': 10},
{'user_id': 2, 'user_name': 'Jane Doe', 'num_orders': 20},
{'user_id': 3, 'user_name': 'Bob Jones', 'num_orders': 30},
{'user_id': 4, 'user_name': 'Alice Smith', 'num_orders': 40},
{'user_id': 5, 'user_name': 'John Doe', 'num_orders': 50},
{'user_id': 6, 'user_name': 'Jane Jones', 'num_orders': 0},
{'user_id': 7, 'user_name': 'Bob Smith', 'num_orders': 10},
{'user_id': 8, 'user_name': 'Alice Doe', 'num_orders': 20},
{'user_id': 9, 'user_name': 'John Jones', 'num_orders': 30},
{'user_id': 10, 'user_name': 'Jane Smith', 'num_orders': 40}
]
}
Guardrails logs the full history of calls it makes to the LLM. You can see this history in Python by running:
print(guard.state.most_recent_call.tree)
You can use this information for:
• Debugging and pinpointing issues. Use the full sequence of LLM calls to identify the source of errors or unexpected behavior in the generated output.
• Understanding model behavior. By reviewing the full history, developers can better understand how the LLM interprets and responds to various input types.
• Fine-tuning and parameter optimization. The history of calls provides insights into how different prompts and parameters affect the model's responses. This information can be invaluable when fine-tuning the model or optimizing parameters to achieve desired outcomes.
• Version control and collaboration. Developers can track changes and experiment with different prompt variations over time. This is essential for version control and collaboration among team members on the same project.
• Context preservation. Examining past calls preserves the context of previous interactions with the model. This context is vital when dealing with conversations or dialogue-based systems, where the model's responses depend on preceding prompts.
Conclusion
Cohere combined with Guardrails AI is a novel and groundbreaking approach to data generation. In this article, we’ve introduced both technologies and shown how you can leverage them with a simple Python script to create your own synthetic structured data. By harnessing the power of Large Language Models, you can effortlessly generate diverse and contextually relevant structured data with just a few lines of code. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
If there are rumbling and grumbling sounds coming from your stomach, they may be embarrassing, but most likely they're just the normal cacophony of sounds your gastrointestinal system makes as it processes food. Because the intestines are hollow, bowel sounds can echo throughout the stomach, making similar sounds pipes make as water flows through.
In some instances, however, a change in the normal pattern of your bowel sounds, either an increase or a decrease in the volume and frequency, can signal a health problem. A reduction in the loudness or regularity of bowel sounds (hypoactive) may indicate a slowing of intestinal activity and can be caused by certain medications, including opiates, abdominal surgery or radiation to the abdomen. Decreased or no stomach sounds also often indicate constipation. In some instances, a silent stomach can mean there's a more serious problem, such as a bowel or blood vessel obstruction, hernia, tumor or infection.
If, on the other hand, your stomach noise is growing louder and more insistent (hyperactive), it means that there is an increase in intestinal activity, which could have myriad causes, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, bleeding in the intestinal tract, diarrhea or a food allergy.
If you're experiencing a change in your normal stomach sounds, try keeping a "stomach sound diary" for two to three weeks, recording all the food and drinks you consume, whether you are stressed, anxious or upset, and if you skipped meals and the intestinal activity they sparked. A new diet, especially one that is significantly lower in calories; drinking carbonated and caffeinated drinks; swallowing excessive air, for example, from eating too quickly; consuming foods containing sweeteners; and stress can all raise your stomach sound level.
When to See Your Physician
Call your doctor if you experience any of the following:
• Bleeding from the rectum
• Nausea
• Prolonged diarrhea or constipation
• Vomiting
During your office visit, your doctor will give you a physical exam you and ask you a series of questions about your medical history, including:
• Have you noticed any abdominal distention?
• Do you have abdominal pain?
• Do you have excessive or absent gas?
In addition to the physical exam, your doctor may order tests, including:
• Abdominal CT scan
• Abdominal X-ray
• Blood tests
• Endoscopy
Depending on the diagnosis, you may be given medication to reduce symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. In some instances, surgery may be required. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
How to Snapshot an ElasticSearch Helm Release on GKE
In this tutorial, we will create a snapshot of the ElasticSearch database that has been deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We will then restore the database state using the roll back to a point-in-time snapshot feature.
Before starting with this tutorial, make sure Robin Storage is installed on GKE, and your Elasticsearch database is deployed, has data loaded in it, and the Helm release is registered with Robin.
Creating a snapshot of the Elasticsearch Helm Release
Snapshots allow you to restore your application’s state to a point-in-time. If you make a mistake, such as unintentionally deleting important data, you can simply undo it by restoring a snapshot.
Robin lets you snapshot not just the storage volumes (PVCs) but the entire database application including all its resources such as Pods, StatefulSets, PVCs, Services, ConfigMaps, etc. with a single command. To create a snapshot, run the following command.
robin snapshot create single-user-bob myusers --desc "contains a user named bob" --wait
Now let us verify that we have successfully created the snapshot.
robin snapshot list --app myusers
You should see an output similar to the following. Note the snapshot id, as we will use it in the next command.
We now have a snapshot of our entire database that contains our user named Bob.
Roll back to a point-in-time using snapshot
Let’s simulate a user error by adding an invalid user named “Jo$n” instead of “John” via the command:
kubectl exec -i ${CLIENT_ADDRESS} -- curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST http://localhost:9200/test-index/test/2 -d '{"name":"Jo$n"}'
Let us verify the movie titled “Jo$n” has been added by running the following command.
kubectl exec -i ${CLIENT_ADDRESS} -- curl -X GET http://localhost:9200/test-index/_search?pretty
From the output you should see a secondary user named “Jo$n”:
Let us now run the following command to see the available snapshots for our ElasticSearch database.
robin app info myusers
You should see an output similar to the following. Note the snapshot id, as we will use it in the next command.
Now, let us roll back to the point-in-time when we only had one user (‘Bob’) that was valid. To roll back, run the following command using the snapshot id displayed in the above output:
robin app rollback myfilms Your_Snapshot_ID --wait
To verify we have rolled back to 9 movies in the “movies” table, run the following command.
kubectl exec -i ${CLIENT_ADDRESS} — curl -X GET
http://localhost:9200/test-index/_search?pretty
You should see an output similar to the following:
We have successfully rolled back to our original state that contains our valid user “Bob”!
This concludes the Snapshot ElasticSearch on GKE tutorial. We can also clone the entire ElasticSearch database to improve collaboration across Dev/Test/Ops teams.
Deploy ElasticSearch on GKE Tutorial
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick Achom
The result was Withdrawing due to explanation below. Mdann52 (talk) 14:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Frederick Achom
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Suspected hoax reported on my talk page, rational was "I would like to draw your attention to this wikipedia article Frederick Achom, at first look it looks like a good article, but it hides most of the real information. If you see article's history you will see that it has been under several editing wars. Almost all claims made in the article are supported in the article are made using own links or PR releases. Also the links which seem genuine like London's 1000 most influential people 2010: Night OwlsLondon's 1000 most influential people 2011: Night Owls have many things wrong in them- they claim to be 1000 but not more than 6 are present; they have no author. They are off the website but somehow have crept into the website. There are many such cases in this wiki article." Mdann52 (talk) 07:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
* Speedy Keep: User:Mdann52, suggest withdrawing nomination and closing. London Evening Standard is a sufficiently reliable newspaper for the purpose, and the "Night Owls" is a subcategory of identified notable Londoners. Subject has notability, whatever the deficiencies of the article, and the article is under discussion for repair at Talk:Frederick_Achom, where User:NihartouJason is now proposing an alternative version in Draft. Cheers undefinedHydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk) 07:57, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Expected value probability
expected value probability
Find expected value based on calculated probabilities. Expected value. The concept of expected value of a random variable is one of the most important concepts in probability theory. It was first devised in the 17th. In probability theory, the expected value of a random variable, intuitively, is the long-run average value of repetitions of the experiment it represents. For example Definition · General definition · Properties · Uses and applications. The art of probability for scientists and engineers. When the absolute summability condition is not satisfied, we say that the expected value of is not well-defined or that it does not exist. Er bestimmt die Lokalisation Lage der Verteilung der Zufallsvariablen und ist vergleichbar mit dem empirischen arithmetischen Mittel einer Häufigkeitsverteilung in der deskriptiven Statistik. The mean and the expected value are so closely related they are basically the same thing. However, the main result still holds:. Der Index an der Erwartungswertsklammer wird nicht nur wie hier abgekürzt, sondern manchmal auch ganz weggelassen. I see how they put the tables together thats not hard its just trying to figure out where the information goes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Its probability density function is. They only informed a small circle of mutual scientific friends in Paris about it. You might want to save your joker masken Two variables with the same probability distribution will have the same expected value, if it is defined. expected value probability In vielen Anwendungsfällen liegt im Allgemeinen uneigentliche Riemann-Integrierbarkeit vor und es gilt:. In classical mechanics , the center of mass is an analogous concept to expectation. Resources Glossary Introduction to Minitab Express Review Sessions Central! Das Konzept des Erwartungswertes geht auf Christiaan Huygens zurück. The definition of conditional expectation would use inequalities, density functions, and integrals to replace equalities, mass functions, and summations, respectively. Given a large number of repeated trials, the average of the results will be approximately equal to the expected value. This is sometimes called the law of the unconscious statistician. Ähnlich wie die charakteristische Funktion ist die momenterzeugende Funktion definiert als. Das Experiment sei ein Würfelwurf. Der Erwartungswert einer Zufallsvariablen beschreibt die Zahl, die die Zufallsvariable im Mittel annimmt. Statistics and probability Random variables. More practically, the expected value of a discrete random variable is the probability-weighted average of all possible values. You can roll the die once and if you dislike the result, roll the die one more time. The equation is sometimes called the tower rule or the tower property ; it is treated under law of total expectation.
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If you have a discrete random variable , read this other article instead: Welcome to STAT ! It is possible to construct an expected value equal to the probability of an event by taking the expectation of an indicator function that is one if the event has occurred and zero otherwise. A More Complicated Expected Value Example The logic of EV can be used to find solutions to more complicated problems. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser.
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-- Ivanishvili Vows Protests If Vote Rigged, Asaval-Dasavli Says
Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili said he’ll organize demonstrations if President
Mikheil Saakashvili’s government rigs this year’s parliamentary
election, Asaval-Dasavli reported. “If they go ahead and falsify as much as 20 percent to 30
percent of the votes, we won’t behave like angels, of course,”
the Tbilisi-based newspaper quoted Ivanishvili as saying.
“We’ll stand in the streets and defend our votes. We’ll use
every means allowed by law.” Ivanishvili, whose wealth was estimated at $5.5 billion by
Forbes magazine in March, began a public movement aimed at
challenging Saakashvili’s hold on power. He is awaiting a
decision by the Justice Ministry on a request to restore his
Georgian citizenship, which was revoked on Oct. 11. The parliamentary contest is scheduled for October,
followed by a presidential election next year. Ivanishvili said
he seeks a peaceful transfer of power. Manana Manjgaladze, a spokeswoman for Saakashvili, said she
hadn’t read the article and declined to comment when contacted
by Bloomberg News. To contact the reporter on this story:
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UPDATE 1-Agrium's Vanscoy potash mine operations remain suspended
(Adds union official’s comment, background on incident) TORONTO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Agrium Inc’s operations at its Vanscoy potash mine in the province of Saskatchewan could be halted for days, a union official said on Tuesday, the day after a worker was injured. An Agrium spokesman said in a statement that the company was working on a plan to restart the western Canadian facility and did not expect any “material disruption.” Agrium gave no timeline for resuming operations at the mine. A worker was injured Monday and is in critical condition in the hospital, said Darrin Kruger, president of United Steel Workers union’s Local 7552 division. Kruger said the incident was under investigation by a provincial workplace safety body and that the facility was expected to reopen after that concludes. A Saskatchewan spokeswoman said the province does not comment on open investigations and has no standard timeline for them. (Reporting by Ethan Lou in Toronto and Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Lisa Von Ahn) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Overview of system reserved partition and how it works
System reserved partition contains boot files that are required to start Windows, so your computer will not boot if this partition is missing. To avoid this situation, you need to move system reserved partition to another drive. Before that, let's get basic of system reserved partition. It contains two important things for computer startup.
1. The Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data.
When your computer boots, the Windows Boot Manager starts up and reads the boot data from the Boot Configuration Data (BCD). Then, your computer will boot the bootloader off the System Reserved partition. At last, the Windows will boot from your system drive.
2. The startup files used for BitLocker Drive Encryption.
If you ever decide to encrypt your hard drive with BitLocker drive encryption, the System Reserved partition contains the necessary files for starting your computer. Your computer boots the unencrypted System Reserved partition, and it will decrypt the main encrypted drive and boot the encrypted Windows system.
Need to move system reserved partition to another disk
By default, it's not suggested to move system reserved partition in Windows 10/8/7. But if the system reserved partition is on wrong drive or the disk is experiencing smart error, you have to do so. Then, let's have a closer look at these situations.
Situation 1: The system reserved partition on wrong drive
Sometimes, you may forget to disconnect extra hard drive when you clone disk or install Windows 7/8/10. Then, you may find your C drive on disk 1 and system reserved partition on disk 2. If you remove disk 2, your computer will fail to boot. Therefore, to ensure your disk can boot properly, you have to merge system reserved partition with C drive on disk 1. Also, you may find nothing in system reserved partition on disk 1.
Situation 2: The disk containing system reserved partition is experiencing smart error
If your computer is experiencing smart error, you may receive an error message, saying, "SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: WD5000BEVP-75A0RT0-(S1). Warning: Immediately backup your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to Continue. ". In this case, your disk may fail at any time, so you need to move system reserved partition to a healthy disk immediately.
Don't worry about it too much, keep reading below, I'll show you 4 ways to safely move system reserved partition to another disk.
How to move system reserved partition to another disk effortlessly
Here you will learn how to move system reserved partition to C drive. You have 4 ways, among them, Method 2 is the easiest, and you can directly go to it if you want. Note that changing system reserved partition in Windows 11/10/8/7 is dangerous and may cause system failure, please create a system backup or disk backup just in case. Then, let's have a closer look at them one by one.
Method 1: Move system reserved partition on wrong drive with Disk Management
The first method is to use built-in Disk Management to move boot partition on wrong drive. Without further ado, let's get started.
Please note that the following operation may cause unexpected problems. Thus, you need to create a repair disc first. Once your computer cannot boot successfully, you can use it to troubleshoot the computer.
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Step 1. Create a new simple partition on disk 0 with disk management. Please note that the System Reserved partition is 100 MB on Windows 7, 350 MB on Windows 8, and 500 MB on Windows 10.
To open disk management, you can click “Win+R” and type diskmgmt.msc in the run box. Then right-click the unallocated space and choose New Simple Volume. If you do not have unallocated space on disk 0, you can shrink the partition first.
Create New Partition
Step 2. Assign a drive letter for your newly simple partition (Z:).
Step 3. Copy everything from the system reserved partition to your newly simple partition (Z:), Including Boot folder, bootmgr, BOOTSEC.BAK
Step 4. Remove the drive letter from the system reserved partition on disk 1.
Step 5. Set the new partition as "System Reserved".
Step 6. Remove the drive letter of your new System Reserved partition, then mark it as active.
Step 7. Restart your computer and delete system reserved partition on disk 1 if Windows can start. If not, start your computer using the previously created repair disc and repair it using Startup Repair option.
Method 2: Move system reserved partition to SSD with System Clone
Here you will learn the easiest solution to change system reserved partition in Windows 11/10/8/7, which is to use "System Clone" feature in AOMEI Backupper Professional.
• It will clone all the boot drive(s) including the system reserved partition and move them to second drive, either HDD or SSD.
• It could ensure secure boot after cloning by setting the active system reserved partition as a primary partition and avoid unwanted deletion by hiding its drive letter.
• It still supports "Disk Clone" and "Partition Clone" to transfer system and data from one disk/partition to another. You are allowed to clone MBR disk to GPT and vice versa.
Preparations for moving system reserved partition:
♦ Prepare a new SSD and be sure it can be detected.
♦ Download and install AOMEI Backupper Professional. To merge system reserved partition with C drive in Server 2012/2016/2019/2022, etc, try server cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Server.
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Now, take Windows 10 as an example. Let's start to learn how to move system reserved partition in Windows 10 with "System Clone" feature.
Step 1. In the main page of AOMEI Backupper Professional, select Clone and System Clone. Then, it will automatically select the operating system and system reserved partition required to start Windows.
Choose System Clone
Note: If you want to include all the content on the hard drive with system reserved partition, you could consider cloning hard drive to SSD or another HDD with Disk Clone feature.
Step 2. Select the recognized SSD (or unallocated space) as destination path, and click Next.
Choose Destination Partition
If the destination SSD is partitioned, you'll receive a prompt reminding you the partition will be overwritten or deleted. Click OK to continue or click Cancel to backup important data first.
Prompt
Step 3. Tick SSD Alignment to accelerate the writing and reading speed of the SSD and extend its lifespan. Then, click Start Clone to perform Windows 10 move system reserved partition. And you will be asked to upgrade to the full version of AOMEI Backupper Professional to launch the cloning process, because System Clone is not available in the trial version.
Move System Reserved Partition to Another Drive
Notes:
⊙ You could choose to clone all sectors of a hard drive to another one with Sector by sector clone feature.
⊙ If the destination partition is larger, you will see one more option called Make full use of disk space (to extend system partition size by adjacent unallocated space) and it is checked by default.
After cloning, it's advisable to create bootable media in advance, so you can boot your computer even if it's not bootable. If you have multiple computers, you could consider using PXE boot tool in AOMEI Backupper Workstation.
Create Bootable Media
Then, you will still need to check if your computer can start normally from the cloned SSD.
• Restart your computer and press the manufacturer key, usually it's F2, F11, ESC, etc, to go to BIOS.
• Select the Boot tab and set the cloned SSD as the first boot option.
Change Boot Order
• Press F10 or other prompted key to reboot. Please wait patiently and see if it can start normally.
• If it is, the operation is successful. Then, it's suggested to delete system reserved partition on the original drive to free disk space.
Besides system clone, this software can still be used to clone all kinds of HDDs and SSDs, including clone Windows 10 to new hard drive, clone HDD to Seagate SSHD, clone HDD to Samsung SSD, clone NVMe SSD, etc.
Method 3: Move system reserved partition to another drive with Backup and Restore
Except for System Clone in AOMEI Backupper, you still can use "System Backup" and "System Restore" to move system reserved partition to different drive. By this way, you're doing a double workload - backup system to external hard drive and then restore to a different drive. And it requires an extra drive to store backup image temporarily.
Next, follow the steps below to move system reserved partition to SSD. At first, you need to create a system10 image in Windows 10 if you don't have one.
Launch AOMEI Backupper, click Backup and System Backup, select a destination path and click Start Backup
System Backup
After backing up system in Windows, you can start to restore system image to new SSD with this software. Please connect the new SSD to your computer right now.
Step 1. Click Restore in the main page of this software and choose Select Image File to find the image on your external drive.
Select Image File
Step 2. Tick Restore this system backup and Restore system to other location. Then, click Next to continue.
Restore This System Backup
Note: This software will select the latest system image automatically according to its backup time. If this backup image is damaged, you can select a previous one by selecting a different time point.
Step 3. Select a destination partition on the new SSD. For safety, it’s suggested to select the first partition. Then, click Next.
Select Destination Path
Step 4. Click Start Restore to move system reserved partition and system partition to new SSD.
Restore System Reserved Partition to Another Drive
Tips:
⊙ If you want to backup and restore system image to new computer, it's suggested to tick "Universal Restore". Because this feature can install all the necessary drivers required to boot Windows.
⊙ If the target disk is an SSD, please tick "SSD Alignment" to accelerate the writing and reading speed of SSDs with its 4k alignment technology.
Method 4: Move system reserved partition on second drive with command line
Except for Disk Management, built-in command line utility can also help you move system reserved partition to another drive, but this method only works well on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Then, learn how to change system reserved partition with the following steps.
Step 1. Open cmd as administrator, type the following command and hit enter.
bcdboot C:\windows /s C:
Create Boot Files
Step 2. Open Disk Management, right-click the C drive and select "Mark Partition as Active".
Step 3. Select the system reserved partition and tap on "Mark Partition as Inactive ".
Step 4. Restart your computer and confirm it can boot successfully.
Step 5. Right-click the system reserved partition and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths", then follow the on-screen instruction to assign a letter for this partition.
Step 6. Right-click the system reserved partition again and tap on "Delete Volume" to delete system reserved partition.
Note: If you are not familar with command line, you could consider using AOMEI Backupper Professional or built-in Disk Management.
More about Windows move system reserved partition
1. How do I get my system reserved partition back?
If the system reserved partition is on the second drive, you can choose to clone or backup the entire system with an all-in-one disk cloning software, AOMEI Backupper, for example. It will include all the boot-related partitions, such as, system reserved partition.
2. Is formatting system reserved partition safe?
By default, it's not suggested to format system reserved partition if your computer work properly. If it's on the second drive or the disk is experiencing smart error, you choose to move system reserved partition with 4 methods provided in this article and then format it for more space.
3. How do I make my system reserved partition bigger?
To make system reserved partition bigger, you can extend it to unallocated space with Disk Management. The steps should be: right-click the system reserved partition > select Extend Volume.... and follow the on-screen instruction to finish the rest of steps.
4. Can I merge C drive with system reserved partition?
The answer is Yes, but Not recommended. The system reserved partition on BIOS systems is meant to house WinRE and the boot files. In UEFI, it's meant to house WinRE only. Thus, if the C: partition is corrupted, the WinRE will be affected and you cannot boot into WinRE to fix computer issue.
Wrapping Things up
You can easily move system reserved partition to another drive, whether you are currently using Windows 10, 11, or 8, 7, XP, Vista, as long as you follow the above ways carefully. If you don't want to see the system reserved partition on wrong drive issue again, you need to ensure you take out extra devices while cloning disk or installing Windows.
In addition, to create an exact copy of your system by System Clone (eg: migrate Windows 10 to SSD) or System Backup is also a great way, please keep it in a safe place. Also, you can enjoy multiple useful features on it, such as, SSD Alignemnt for further performance enhance, Make full use of disk space to enlarge system partition, etc. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Correction of Congenital Nevi by Boston Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Bartlett
Congenital nevi, frequently called “moles,” are very common and are not a problem in the vast majority of cases. However, certain patients are affected by “atypical nevi” or “giant nevi” which carry an increased incidence of developing malignant melanoma (cancer). Such nevi can be small and “mole–like” or can cover large areas, for example, an entire back, limb, or half of a scalp.
Patients affected by such lesions should be closely followed by their primary care doctor and/or dermatologist. These physicians often recommend removal of nevi which have changed or are at risk for the development of skin cancers later in life. Occasionally, the patient or their family requests removal to improve appearance and improve self esteem. Because of the size of such lesions and the fact that they are often on sensitive areas such as the face, a plastic surgeon is usually consulted.
One of Boston’s premier reconstructive plastic surgeons, Richard A. Bartlett, M.D. has one of the largest series of treated nevi in the country. Dr. Bartlett carefully evaluates each patient who presents with atypical nevi and clearly explains their treatment options. Often this process takes more than one visit. For smaller nevi the critical issue is usually performing the surgery to minimize scarring. Larger nevi often require special reconstructive surgery techniques to restore the appearance of the skin, including skin grafts or tissue expansion. In every case the goal is to remove harmful or unsightly nevi while achieving a result with which patients will be happy.
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IMR Press / EJGO / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.12892/ejgo3559.2017
Open Access Original Research
Use of hematologic biomarkers during chemotherapy predicts survival in ovarian cancer patients
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1 Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, USA
Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 2017 , 38(3), 378–381; https://doi.org/10.12892/ejgo3559.2017
Published: 10 June 2017
Abstract
Objective: The optimal strategy for combining chemotherapy with immunotherapy in ovarian cancer patients is currently under investigation. Increasing evidence indicates that the lymphopenia induced by chemotherapy may promote homeostatic proliferation and thereby enhance antitumor immunity. Furthermore, there has been much discussion and even discord over the effects of anemia and blood transfusion in the perichemotherapy period. The goals of this retrospective study were to determine the timing of chemotherapy induced lymphopenia and to observe perichemotherapy hemoglobin levels, and the impact of the timing and depth of lymphopenia and anemia on clinical outcomes of ovarian cancer patients. Materials and Methods: A chart review was performed on 115 patients identified in the electronic medical record from May 2005 until May 2011. Identified patients were only those who received at least six cycles of carboplatin and paclitaxel under the present authors’ care for primary peritoneal, ovarian, or fallopian tube carcinoma. Specifically, the authors focused on lymphocyte and hemoglobin nadir and the reconstitution kinetics for this population. For each patient’s lymphocyte count, nadir values were abstracted from weekly complete blood counts. They then split the population into two groups based on whether the nadir occurred at or after the nine-week mark (third cycle) for the lymphopenia data; this point was chosen because it was good for prognosis and it corresponds to patients whose trajectories bottom out. The intrachemotherapy hemoglobin levels were observed and an exploratory analysis was performed to attempt to identify a range that significantly effected patient outcomes. Results: Lymphocytes: The nadir of absolute lymphocyte concentrations is associated with platinum status and clinical response (Figure 1A). 94/115 patients had a lymphocyte count nadir after the third cycle of chemotherapy. 71/94 (75.5%) were platinum sensitive, 21/94 (22.3%) were resistant, and 2/94 (2.1%) were refractory. Of those that experienced a nadir before three cycles, ten (47.6%) were sensitive, ten (47.6%) were resistant, and one (4.7%) was refractory (p = 0.04). Considering nadir values continuously, both overall survival (OS, p = 0.0068) and progression free survival (PFS, p = 0.0321) were strongly associated with late nadir points. Twenty-one of the 115 patients had a nadir value earlier than the third draw and this was associated with progressive disease, platinum resistance, poor overall survival, and poor progression free survival. The effect sizes were great [median OS 33 vs. 66 months median PFS, 14 vs. 38 months, early vs. late nadir respectively (Figure 1B)]. Hemoglobin: A mean Hb less than 12.5 is associated with both overall survival (OS) (HR = 2.11, 95% CI: 1.03-4.33; p = 0.042) and progression free survival (PFS) (HR = 1.91, 95% CI: 1.02-3.56; p = 0.041), as were low Hb level at outset of chemotherapy and a decreasing Hb trend over the course of treatment. Furthermore, for each cycle of chemotherapy in which the hemoglobin was recorded at a value less than 11, hazard increased, with OS (HR = 3.51, 95% CI: 1.63-7.54, p = 0.0013), and PFS (HR = 2.20, 95% CI:1.12-4.33; p = 0.0223). Deeper analysis revealed that outcomes were significantly affected when a patient had three or more cycles with Hb less than 11 with both OS (HR = 2.34, 95% CI: 1.37-4.01; Wald-Test p = 0.0020, Log Rank p = 0.00145) and PFS (HR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.17-3.02; Wald-Test p = 0.009, Log Rank p = 0.00743). Conclusion: The nadir of absolute lymphocyte concentrations is an independent predictor of overall survival and progression free survival. This is an easily measurable biomarker which can be utilized for identifying patients that will be likely to respond to immunomodulation. Furthermore, this evidence showing significant improvement in OS and PFS with two or less cycles with hemoglobin < 11 sheds new light on the need for further studies on growth stimulating factors and blood transfusion during this treatment period.
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Hematologic biomarkers
Chemotherapy induced lymphopenia
Homeostatic proliferation
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Available, Affable, Able: The 3 A’s of Medical Referrals
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A new study looks at an old “problem.” How do primary care physicians decide on referrals to specialists, such as surgeons? Hint: It is not the same way they choose medications.
There is a hierarchy within medicine, the referral food chain. At the top are the predators, specialists doing procedures and interventions and getting the big bucks. Towards the bottom are the primary care providers, who provide the patients to those predators through their referrals. Ask any top predator specialists, and they will tell you that the care and feeding of their primary care referring physicians is vital to their successful practices. This qualitative study (no p-values) surveyed 21 primary care physicians in “a large primary care network in the Northeast US.” [1]
The primary care physicians (PCP) were predominantly women in family or internal medicine serving a mix of ages and geographical locations, roughly 40% with less than ten years of practice and 60% for longer. A reasonable mix of practices with the caveat that most were in an academic network, making them employees. From the point of view of referrals, maintaining patients within the network is often monitored and enforced. The other caveat is that often patients are referred to practices rather than specific members of that practice, but as we will see, that is not an issue.
The interviewers first questioned the PCP on how they select medical treatment, prescribing medications. PCPs used decision support tools, such as guidelines, to prescribe specific medications for a given clinical indication tailored to the needs of their patients. Given our information on the efficacy and adverse consequences of medications, it is a straightforward process.
But in prescribing specialist care, there is a knowledge gap in the efficacy and adverse consequences. And that brings us to the three A’s alluded to in the title. Available is a no-brainer; if the specialist has no time for the patient, they will not be called. This A may be a holdover from years ago when solo or small practices were predominant. Today, with every increasing group size, availability is probably no longer a concern.
Affability remains quite important. From the PCP’s point of view, they want to make the referral as frictionless as possible for themselves and their patients. They do not want to hear that their patient had a bad experience, was kept waiting, or had a problem. They only want to hear thank you, which applies to both patient and the specialist physician. They also want the specialist physician to provide them with follow-up, preferably before the patient tells them, so they can avoid surprises and being left out of the therapeutic loop.
Able is the toughest of the A’s, which the PCPs in this survey cited as the greatest difficulty. Reputation is not necessarily equivalent to quality or its metrics; even quality metrics may not account for the severity of the illness being managed. So how is the PCP supposed to decide? One solution the authors offer is to have specialists’ efficacy and adverse events in a decision support tool, like the medications. Given the vagaries of data collection and risk adjustment, that tool would not be near as accurate as the information we have on pharmaceuticals; and there would be a great deal of resistance to such a dataset among the specialists.
For a physician entering a practice, the older members will direct them to the specialist they most often refer patients to – based on availability and affability. Affability extends beyond professional interactions; physicians have friends, church, and other social networks creating the necessary affability. The specialist's ability will be based on the anecdotal experience of the older practice members; you are only as good as your most recent case.
You would think that experience would allow ability to be sorted out and stratified over time. But here is a dirty little secret, affability can trump ability. Some PCPs just do not see the lack of ability. Perhaps the differences are slight, or the specialist frames the patient as a “complex” case. From my study of referral patterns within a hospital system, I can report that like “birds of a feather,” the able cluster amongst themselves as do the less able. At least to the degree that length of stay, discharge disposition, and readmission are measures of ability. The competence of the PCP is often reflected in their choice of specialists – the ablest find one another, just as the less-than-able find their peers.
[1] Given all of the authors are from the University of Pennsylvania, it is a good bet that this is the network under review.
Source: Factors Associated With Primary Care Physician Decision-making When Making Medication Recommendations vs Surgical Referrals JAMA Network Open DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.56086 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Elsayed
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This article has been awaiting translation for more than two weeks. Prod contested on the grounds that it is not a valid reason for deletion, which goes against established policy (see WP:PNT and Template:Notenglish). Delete. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 20:42, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete. The Google translation doesn't indicate much notability. Unfortunately, not reading Arabic, I can't do very efficient searches on him; the ones I have done don't show much promise. Anturiaethwr Talk 20:57, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete A self created bio of a non notable person. Created by a user named Elsayed amr. Upon using the Google Translator link above, this is a bio of a "Doctor of Civil Engineering" (possibly professor? I dunno. Google translator seems to translate as well as Babelfish: Just enough to get the point across). Of course this would have been easier if this article was in English. Seeing as this is the English Language Wikipedia, but even on the Arabic Wikipedia, he wouldn't be notable. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 22:08, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete fails the professor test. nneonneo talk 03:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
* delete as failing WP:PROF. If a bio for this person exists on the Arabic wikipedia, then speedy delete per CSD:A2. Pete.Hurd (talk) 20:05, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete - fails the professor test (his own entry on the Vermont University website makes no mention of any publications, awards or recognition by anyone. Using his name in Arabic produced zero hits on Google, so there is no article about him on the Arabic Wikipedia, either (so no speedy delete for A2). --Cbdorsett (talk) 07:22, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete. No clear indication of notability. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete. No sources establishing notability (not too surprising, since his PhD is from Fall 2006: not many academics attain notability that rapidly after their PhD). --Crusio (talk) 17:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete. To be honest I'm not sure why there isn't an option to speedy delete something like this. This is the English language Wikipedia after all. coccyx bloccyx (toccyx) 20:21, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
* Reply. That's because there is already an established procedure to deal with stuff like this. This AfD, as a matter of fact, is the final step of that procedure, to be done only when all else fails. See WP:PNT, where, on an average day, two or three pages get listed, and some of them grow into valid articles. I'd be curious to know whether there are articles that currently have Featured status that were once listed at PNT. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 22:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
* Comment Maybe not featured status, but I have certainly seen a lot of good Start and B class articles arise from WP:PNT-listed articles. Even if it is the English WP, people sometimes post very good material in a foreign language. nneonneo talk 15:58, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
* Speedy delete per CSD A2. Nsk92 (talk) 16:03, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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Pokemon Go: How can I stop it from killing my battery?
So here's a few tricks that can help you save your phone battery whilt playing the Pokemon Go app, although beware as some of them may have side-affects...
Pokemon Go battery saver
So the first thing to do is to use the Pokemon Go app's built in battery saver mode. To turn this on open Pokemon Go app and click on the b=pokemon ball at the bottom. In the top right hand corner is the setings cog, click this. In the list of settings there is one named battery saver - tick this box in order to activate Pokemon Go's battery saver mode.
The Pokemon Go battery saver mode will dim your screen to almost darkness as soon as you aim your phone towards the ground (as if you were putting it into your pocket. And the great thing with this is that it will still vibrate when you're near something worth catching.
I have found, and some friends also have, that sometimes if you raise your phone back up again after having the Pokemon Go battery saver mode on, the game will hang. It will look like it's working, but nothing willinteract with your finger movements, and so sometimes you might have to then close the app and re-open it.
Turn off Augmented Reality (AR) whilst catching pokemon
So I know one of the most awesome concepts of Pokemon Go is that it's in the real world, and the augmented reality really adds to that feeling as well as you catch a Pikachu sat in a bus stop. But in using the augmented reality it also uses your mobile's camera, which is always a way to kill your mobile's battery quicker. Turning off augmentied reality can bedone whilst catching a pokemon, or during a gym battle, by toggling the switch named "AR" in the top right hand corner. Another bonus of turning off Pokemon Go's augmented reality is that when catching pokemon they will always be centered on your screen, and so they will be easier to catch. If I'm ever showing a friend the app for the first time I will always turn on the augmented reality as, lets face it, it's awesome, but other than that I always play with it switched off.
Turn off game sounds
Unless you really need them on, I suggest turning off the game's music and sound effects. They're not needed in order to catch pokemon, and will save a small amount of battery whilst playing as well.
Lower your mobile's screen brightness
You can lower your phone's screen brightness by going to settings, and reducing this setting right down. The oly problem I've found with this is on sunny days you end up not actually being able to see the screen at all! At which point you will need to raise the brightness setting again in order to see it.
Your mobile's battery saver mode
So most mobiles these days have their own battery saver mode, and mostly they will check web servers of non-open apps less frequently and reduce any animations that your mobile operating system might use.
Again, I found a problem with this method also, in that the mobile device will not vibrate if you walk near a pokemon to catch. This kind of deems it slightly pointless, unless like me you were with someone else who had plenty of battery left and so check your mobile every time their's vibrates.
Buy a battery pack
So sales of battery packs must of gone through teh roof for retailers since the release of this game, as now when I walk through town you can often see cables coming out of people's mobiles and into their bags/pockets where the battery pack sits! Personally I have a solar panel battery pack, meaning that whilst the battery pack is not being used it can (as long as it's a sunny day) re-charge itself ready for the next time I need to use it.
Hopefully these tips have been helpful, and if you can use a combination of some (if not all) of the above, then hopefully you'll be playing more, than having to go and charge your mobiles so much. If you have any otehr battery saving hints/tips please do leave them in the comments below.
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About Geoffrey De Smet
Geoffrey De Smet (Red Hat) is the lead and founder of OptaPlanner. Before joining Red Hat in 2010, he was formerly employed as a Java consultant, an A.I. researcher and an enterprise application project lead. He has contributed to many open source projects (such as drools, jbpm, pressgang, spring-richclient, several maven plugins, weld, arquillian, ...). Since he started OptaPlanner in 2006, he’s been passionately addicted to planning optimization.
Cheating on the N Queens benchmark
Many Solver distributions include an N Queens example, in which n queens need to be placed on a n*n sized chessboard, with no attack opportunities. So when you’re looking for the fastest Solver, it’s tempting to use the N Queens example as a benchmark to compare those solvers. That’s a tragic mistake, because the N Queens problem is solvable in polynomial time, which means there’s a way to cheat.
That being said, OptaPlanner solves the 1 000 000 queens problem in less than 3 seconds. Here’s a log to prove it (with time spent in milliseconds):
INFO Opened: data/nqueens/unsolved/10000queens.xml
INFO Solving ended: time spent (23), best score (0), ...
INFO Opened: data/nqueens/unsolved/100000queens.xml
INFO Solving ended: time spent (159), best score (0), ...
INFO Opened: data/nqueens/unsolved/1000000queens.xml
INFO Solving ended: time spent (2981), best score (0), ...
How to cheat on the N Queens problem
The N Queens problem is not NP-complete, nor NP-hard. That is math speak for stating that there’s a perfect algorithm to solve this problem: the Explicits Solutions algorithm. Implemented with a CustomSolverPhaseCommand in OptaPlanner it looks like this:
public class CheatingNQueensPhaseCommand implements CustomSolverPhaseCommand {
public void changeWorkingSolution(ScoreDirector scoreDirector) {
NQueens nQueens = (NQueens) scoreDirector.getWorkingSolution();
int n = nQueens.getN();
List<Queen> queenList = nQueens.getQueenList();
List<Row> rowList = nQueens.getRowList();
if (n % 2 == 1) {
Queen a = queenList.get(n - 1);
scoreDirector.beforeVariableChanged(a, "row");
a.setRow(rowList.get(n - 1));
scoreDirector.afterVariableChanged(a, "row");
n--;
}
int halfN = n / 2;
if (n % 6 != 2) {
for (int i = 0; i < halfN; i++) {
Queen a = queenList.get(i);
scoreDirector.beforeVariableChanged(a, "row");
a.setRow(rowList.get((2 * i) + 1));
scoreDirector.afterVariableChanged(a, "row");
Queen b = queenList.get(halfN + i);
scoreDirector.beforeVariableChanged(b, "row");
b.setRow(rowList.get(2 * i));
scoreDirector.afterVariableChanged(b, "row");
}
} else {
for (int i = 0; i < halfN; i++) {
Queen a = queenList.get(i);
scoreDirector.beforeVariableChanged(a, "row");
a.setRow(rowList.get((halfN + (2 * i) - 1) % n));
scoreDirector.afterVariableChanged(a, "row");
Queen b = queenList.get(n - i - 1);
scoreDirector.beforeVariableChanged(b, "row");
b.setRow(rowList.get(n - 1 - ((halfN + (2 * i) - 1) % n)));
scoreDirector.afterVariableChanged(b, "row");
}
}
}
}
Now, one could argue that this implementation doesn’t use any of OptaPlanner’s algorithms (such as the Construction Heuristics or Local Search). But it’s straightforward to mimic this approach in a Construction Heuristic (or even a Local Search). So, in a benchmark, any Solver which simulates that approach the most, is guaranteed to win when scaling out.
Why doesn’t that work for other planning problems?
This algorithm is perfect for N Queens, so why don’t we use a perfect algorithm on other planning problems? Well, simply because there are none!
Most planning problems, such as vehicle routing, employee rostering, cloud optimization, bin packing, … are proven to be NP-complete (or NP-hard). This means that these problems are in essence the same: a perfect algorithm for one, would work for all of them. But no human has ever found such an algorithm (and most experts believe no such algorithm exists).
Note: There are a few notable exceptions of planning problems that are not NP-complete, nor NP-hard. For example, finding the shortest distance between 2 points can be solved in polynomial time with A*-Search. But their scope is narrow: finding the shortest distance to visit n points (TSP), on the other hand, is not solvable in polynomial time.
Because N Queens differs intrinsically from real planning problems, is a terrible use case to benchmark.
Conclusion
Benchmarks on the N Queens problem are meaningless. Instead, benchmark implementations of a realistic competition. A realistic competition is an official, independent competition:
1. that clearly defines a real-word use case
2. with real-world constraints
3. with multiple, real-world datasets
4. that expects reproducible results within a specific time limit on specific hardware
5. that has had serious participation from the academic and/or enterprise Operations Research community
OptaPlanner‘s examples implement several cases of realistic competitions.
Reference: Cheating on the N Queens benchmark from our JCG partner Geoffrey De Smet at the OptaPlanner blog.
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VT(7I) Ioctl Requests VT(7I)
vt
illumos virtual console interface
#include <sys/kd.h>
#include <sys/vt.h>
The virtual console device driver — also known as virtual terminal (VT) — is a layer of management functions that provides facilities to support and switch between multiple screen faces on a single physical device.
VT's are accessed in the same way as other devices. The open(2) system call is used to open the virtual console and read(2), write(2) and ioctl(2) are used in the normal way and support the functionality of the underlying device. In addition, some virtual console-specific ioctls are provided and described below.
The VT provides a link between different screen faces and the device. The active virtual console corresponds to the currently visible screen face. Device input is directed to the active console and any device-specific modes that change on a per virtual terminal basis are set to the characteristics associated with the active console.
You manage VT's by intercepting keyboard sequences (“hot key”). To maintain consistency with Xserver, the virtual console device driver supports the Ctrl, Alt, F# and arrow keys.
The sequence AltL + F# (where AltL represents the left Alt key and F# represents function keys 1 through 12) is used to select virtual console 1-12. The sequence AltGraph + F# (where AltGraph represents the right Alt key and F# represent function keys 1 through 12) is for virtual console 13-24. Alt + F1 chooses the system console (also known as virtual console 1). The sequence Alt + → (where "→" represents the right directional arrow) selects the next VT in a circular ring fashion and Alt + ← (where "←" represents the left directional arrow) changes to the previous console in a circular fashion. The sequence Alt + ↑ (where "↑" represents the up directional arrow) is for the last used console.
Virtual console switching can be done automatically (VT_AUTO) on receipt of a “hot-key” or by the process owning the VT (VT_PROCESS). When performed automatically, the process associated with the virtual console is unaware of the switch. Saving and restoring the device are handled by the underlying device driver and the virtual console manager. Note that automatic switching is the default mode.
When a “hot-key” is sent when in process-controlled switch mode, the process owning the VT is sent a signal (relsig) it has specified to the virtual console manager (see signal(3C)) requesting the process to release the physical device. At this point, the virtual console manager awaits the VT_RELDISP ioctl from the process. If the process refuses to release the device (meaning the switch does not occur), it performs a VT_RELDISP ioctl with an argument of 0 (zero). If the process desires to release the device, it saves the device state (keyboard, display, and I/O registers) and then performs a VT_RELDISP with an argument of 1 to complete the switch.
A ring of VT's can contain intermixed auto mode and process control mode consoles. When an auto mode process becomes active, the underlying device driver and the virtual console manager handle the restoring of the device. Process control mode processes are sent a specified signal (acqsig) when they become the active console. The process then restores the device state (keyboard, display, and I/O registers) and performs VT_RELDISP ioctl with an argument of VT_ACKACQ to complete the switching protocol.
The modify-operations ioctls (VT_SETMODE, VT_RELDISP, VT_WAITACTIVE, KDSETMODE) check if the VT is the controlling tty of the calling process. If not, the sys_devices privilege is enforced. VT_ACTIVATE requires the sys_devices privilege. Note that there is no controlling tty and privilege check for query/view operations.
The following ioctls apply to devices that support virtual consoles:
Queries to determine if VT functionality is available on the system. The argument is a pointer to an integer. If VT functionality is available, the integer is 1, otherwise it is 0.
Finds an available VT. The argument is a pointer to an integer. The integer is filled in with the number of the first available console that no other process has open (and hence, is available to be opened). If there are no available VT's, -1 is filled in.
Determines the VT's current mode, either VT_AUTO or VT_PROCESS. The argument is the address of the following structure, as defined in <sys/vt.h>
struct vt_mode {
char mode; /* VT mode */
char waitv; /* not used */
short relsig; /* signal to use for release request */
short acqsig; /* signal to use for display acquired */
short frsig; /* not used */
}
/* Virtual console Modes */
#define VT_AUTO 0 /* automatic VT switching */
#define VT_PROCESS 1 /* process controls switching */
The structure will be filled in with the current value for each field.
Sets the VT mode. The argument is a pointer to a vt_mode structure as defined above. The structure should be filled in with the desired mode. If process-control mode is specified, the signals used to communicate with the process should be specified. If any signals are not specified (value is zero), the signal default is SIGUSR1 (for relsig and acqsig).
Tells the VT manager if the process releases (or refuses to release) the display. An argument of 1 indicates the VT is released. An argument of 0 indicates refusal to release. The VT_ACKACQ argument indicates if acquisition of the VT has been completed.
Makes the VT specified in the argument the active VT (in the same manner as if a hotkey initiated the switch). If the specified VT is not open or does not exist, the call fails and errno is set to ENXIO.
If the specified VT is currently active, this call returns immediately. Otherwise, it sleeps until the specified VT becomes active, at which point it returns.
Obtains the active VT number and a list of open VTs. The argument is an address to the following structure:
struct vt_stat {
unsigned short v_active, /* number of the active VT */
v_signal, /* not used */
/*
* count of open VTs. For every 1 in this
* field, there is an open VT
*/
v_state;
}
With VT_GETSTATE, the VT manager first gets the number of the active VT, then determines the number of open VTs in the system and sets a 1 for each open VT in v_state. Next, the VT manager transfers the information in structure vt_stat passed by the user process.
Obtains the text/graphics mode associated with the VT.
#define KD_TEXT 0
#define KD_GRAPHICS 1
Sets the text/graphics mode to the VT.
indicates that console text is displayed on the screen. Normally KD_TEXT is combined with VT_AUTO mode for text console terminals, so that the console text display automatically is saved and restored on the hot key screen switches.
KD_GRAPHICS indicates that the user/application (usually Xserver) has direct control of the display for this VT in graphics mode. Normally KD_GRAPHICS is combined with VT_PROCESS mode for this VT indicating direct control of the display in graphics mode. In this mode, all writes to the VT using the write system call are ignored, and you must save and restore the display on the hot key screen switches.
When the mode of the active VT is changed from KD_TEXT to KD_GRAPHICS or a VT of KD_GRAPHICS mode is made active from a previous active VT of KD_TEXT mode, the virtual console manager initiates a KDSETMODE ioctl with KD_GRAPHICS as the argument to the underlying console frame buffer device indicating that current display is running into graphics mode.
When the mode of the active VT is changed from KD_GRAPHICS to KD_TEXT or a VT of KD_TEXT mode is actived from a previous active VT of KD_GRAPHICS mode, the virtual console manager initiates a KDSETMODE ioctl with KD_TEXT as the argument to the underlying console frame buffer device indicating that current display is running into console text mode.
/dev/vt/#
VT devices.
ioctl(2), signal(3C), wscons(7D)
By default, there are only five virtual console instance login prompts running on /dev/vt/# (where "#" represents 2 to 6) in addition to the system console running on /dev/console. Normally Xorg uses the seventh virtual console (/dev/vt/7). To switch from consoles to Xserver (which normally picks up the first available virtual console), use [ Ctrl + ] Alt + F7 .
# svcs | grep login
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:default
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:vt2
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:vt3
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:vt4
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:vt5
online 17:49:11 svc:/system/console-login:vt6
console-login:default is for the system console, others for virtual consoles.
You can manage virtual consoles using the service management facility, smf(5):
# svccfg -s console-login add vt8
# svccfg -s console-login:vt8 setprop \
ttymon/device=astring: "/dev/vt/8"
# svcadm enable console-login:vt8
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Tito Salas
Británico Antonio Salas Díaz, better known as Tito Salas (8 May 1887 – 18 March 1974), was a Venezuelan painter, considered a significant contributor in the development of Venezuelan modern art. | WIKI |
The paper offers a double-cascade scheme for reducing the concentration of 232, 234, 236U isotopes in reprocessed uranium hexafluoride. The greatest decrease of the ratio between the masses of 236U and 235U is provided in the product of the first ordinary cascade enriched by 235U at the concentration of less than 20%. For this purpose, a special mode of stages operation is determined. Enrichment by 232, 234U is performed in the second ordinary cascade, which is fed by the product of the first cascade. After being purified from 232, 234U, the waste flow is diluted till the concentration of 235U is less than 5%. This paper describes the methodology for calculating the parameters of cascades with the stage separation factors correlating with gas centrifuges. This methodology served as a basis for a computational experiment. It is demonstrated that the output gained after the dilution meets the requirements of the American Society for Testing and Materials C996-20 specification for the commercial grade of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride in terms of 232, 234U isotopes. The content of 236U in it is several times less than during the direct enrichment of reprocessed uranium hexafluoride. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Review: Le Carré, the Con Man’s Son: Writer, Liar, Survivor, Spy
Books of The Times Years ago, when he was thinking about writing an autobiography, John le Carré recounts, he hired two detectives to research him and his family. As the son of a flamboyant con man, as a spy for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and as a novelist who spent his days making up things, truth and memory tended to blur together: “I’m a liar, I explained. Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist.” He was interested in learning the facts of his life, he told the detectives — since, “as a maker of fictions, I invent versions of myself, never the real thing, if it exists.” This propensity for what his biographer Adam Sisman calls “false memory” might not make Mr. le Carré (or, rather, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym) the most reliable of memoirists. But it has fueled an extraordinary career as a novelist who’s not only reinvented the espionage thriller but also claimed his rightful place as an heir to Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. And in the case of his new book, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” it fails to diminish our pleasure in reading these stories from his life — stories, he suggests, that might well contain a smidgen of imaginative shaping (“real truth lies, if anywhere, not in facts, but in nuance”) — or, perhaps, a dash of self-dramatization. “The Pigeon Tunnel” is not an autobiography — and certainly doesn’t add many factual details to Mr. Sisman’s thoughtful portrait. Rather, it’s a collection of reminiscences (some, familiar from published essays) that provide glimpses of the author over the years, hopping and skipping through time, and recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur — by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy. The book provides insights into the quicksilver transactions between art and life performed by Mr. le Carré in his fiction: how his “wise Oxford mentor” Vivian Green provided him, by example, with “the inner life of George Smiley”; and how his own tortured relationship with his disreputable father, Ronnie (“con man, fantasist, occasional jailbird”), fueled the filial drama in his most psychologically complex novel, “A Perfect Spy.” Readers of le Carré novels like “The Little Drummer Girl” and “The Tailor of Panama,” on through “The Constant Gardener,” “The Mission Song” and “Our Kind of Traitor,” will also learn how strenuously he researched such later books, traveling to dangerous parts of the globe (Beirut to visit with Arafat, Khmer Rouge-gripped Cambodia, the eastern Congo to meet with warlords) to get a feel for conditions on the ground and to search for people who might flesh out characters just starting to germinate in his mind. Along the way, Mr. le Carré recounts some of his experiences as a spy — without divulging any operational details, and without really grappling with his decision to choose, in Mr. Sisman’s words, “loyalty to his country over loyalty to his friends” when, as a young recruit, he was asked by MI5 to keep an eye on left-wing student activity at Oxford. What he does nimbly evoke is the huggermugger dampness of the Cold War years, which inspired “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and his incomparable Smiley novels (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” “The Honourable Schoolboy” and “Smiley’s People”). He takes us to Germany in the early 1960s, where he says former Nazis still loitered throughout the intelligence world, and inside British intelligence’s old headquarters, where he says he once believed that “the nation’s hottest secrets were housed in a chipped green Chubb safe that was tucked away at the end of a labyrinth of dingy corridors.” Mr. le Carré’s fiction did much to demystify the morally ambiguous world of contemporary intelligence — which had been largely defined, until then, by the derring-do of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels — and he observes here that while “every spy service mythologizes itself,” the British “are a class apart.” He writes: “Forget our dismal showing in the Cold War, when the K.G.B. outwitted and out-penetrated us at almost every turn. Hark back instead to the Second World War, which to believe our television and tabloid press is where our national pride is most safely invested. Look at our brilliant Bletchley Park codebreakers!” As a spy, Mr. le Carré developed keen journalistic powers of observation that served him well as a novelist, and this volume is filled with wonderfully drawn portraits of writers, spies, politicians, war reporters and actors who possess a palpable physicality and verve. He describes the intelligence officer Nicholas Elliott — the close friend, confidant and, it turns out, dupe of the notorious double agent Kim Philby — as “a sparkling bon vivant of the old school,” who looked like “a P. G. Wodehouse man-about-town, and spoke like one,” except that he was “recklessly disrespectful of authority.” He notices that the Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, who spent years in internal exile for speaking out against human rights abuses, smiles a lot, and wonders “whether that was always natural to him, or whether smiling was something he taught himself to do as a way of disarming his interrogators.” As for the great Alec Guinness, who indelibly played Smiley in the 1979 BBC production of “Tinker, Tailor,” Mr. le Carré remembers his charm, his “mischievous dolphin smile,” and the way he would study and store away the mannerisms of people he met in preparation for roles, molding “his own face, voice and body into countless versions of us.” He ascribes Guinness’s elusiveness, his love of disciplined work and good manners to the legacy of the “indignity and disorder of his wretched early years.” Guinness, he writes, was “someone all too familiar with chaos,” and even at 80, remained a “watching child,” who had “still found no safe harbors or easy answers.” The same might be said of Mr. le Carré, now in his 80s himself. The chapter here about his unhappy boyhood (a chapter based on a long article he published in The New Yorker in 2002) is the rawest, most emotional part of this book, and its psychological spine. It is a harrowing, almost Dickensian story: When he was 5, his mother walked out on him and his brother (she was tired of being beaten by their violent father), and he grew up a “frozen child,” used and humiliated by his scam-artist dad — a charming but treacherous man who “saw no paradox between being on the Wanted list for fraud and sporting a gray topper in the Owners’ enclosure at Ascot,” a man who obliviously gambled away his son’s school tuition in Monte Carlo, did jail time around the world (Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Zurich) and later groused over his famous son’s failure to give him a cut of his book royalties. Learning the arts of “evasion and deception” as survival tools when he was a boy and longing to belong to some legitimate, larger family, the young David Cornwell was a natural recruit as a spy. Joining “the secret world,” he writes, “felt like a coming home.” Looking back now on his career as a novelist, he also asks himself, “Which bits of me still belong to Ronnie”? “Is there really a big difference, I wonder, between the man who sits at his desk and dreams up scams on the blank page (me), and the man who puts on a clean shirt every morning and, with nothing in his pocket but imagination, sallies forth to con his victim (Ronnie)?” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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How is hearing loss related to Dementia and Alzheimer?
In the most simplest terms your brain function needs stimulation. Out of your five senses: smell, taste, touch, vision and hearing, many doctors feel that hearing is number one. The brain has to determine what that sound is. Voices, doors shutting, golf balls hitting the club literally millions upon millions of sounds 24 hours a day which in turn gives your brain exercise.
As you get older your five senses dull down. As for your sense of touch and smell keep active with strong blood flow. As for taste don’t eat or drink extremely hot food or beverage. To maintain your vision protect your eyes from the sun. If damage has already occurred you may also get glasses or surgery.
For your hearing, stay way from loud noises or wear ear protection. If damage has already occurred you can get hearing devices.
Fun note: The number one brain stimulator is not brain games even though they are good for you, the number one is juggling. Not only is it eye to hand coordination but it is also a physical activity that stimulates blood flow. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
&aposFruitvale Station&apos arrives, and thoughts turn to Oscar - Chicago Tribune
You may have missed it for the racket produced by the majority of movies currently going boom-boom or, in the case of The Lone Ranger, bust-bust at the multiplex. But with the arrival of Sundance Film Festival sensation Fruitvale Station in theaters, the opening bell for Oscar season has sounded, providing welcome news for moviegoers immune to the charms of unnecessary reboots and bloated tent-pole movies. And though we're still a long way from sending the tux to the dry cleaners to see what they can do about the stain left from Wolfgang Puck's pork belly dumplings, it's never too early to begin crafting an Oscar campaign. Several recent best picture nominees The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, Winter's Bone and, this year, Beasts of the Southern Wild debuted theatrically by early July. The challenge, which Fruitvale must now meet, is to keep the movie and its talent in the conversation as the pages of the calendar (but not the leaves ... this is L.A.) turn. OSCARS 2013: Winners/nominees list | Highlights Fruitvale dramatizes the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old ex-con detained and killed by transit policeman on a train platform in Oakland on New Year's Day 2009. It won both the Sundance festival's Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, as did Benh Zeitlin's boisterous Beasts in 2012. Now, backed by the awards-season muscle of the Weinstein Co., the critically acclaimed Fruitvale will again try to match Beasts, which, after an early summer theatrical run, went on to garner four Oscar nominations: picture, director, lead actress and adapted screenplay. This will not be the last time you guys walk to a podium, Sundance jury member Tom Rothman told Fruitvale writer-director Ryan Coogler in January. That may be true, though at 84 minutes, the powerful, immersive Fruitvale might appear a bit slight for some motion picture academy members who equate dramatic heft with running time. But Fruitvale certainly got off to a promising start at the box office, averaging almost $54,000 per screen in limited release, a dazzling number. With its obvious connections to the Trayvon Martin case, the film seems poised to turn into an indie hit, which never hurts when it comes to awards voters. At the very least, Fruitvale and its accomplished lead actor, Michael B. Jordan, seem destined to succeed at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, though even there voters have been more inclined in recent years to reward established filmmakers at the expense of newcomers like Coogler. With its festival pedigree, Fruitvale is the highest-profile awards-season contender to debut this year. But it's far from the only one. Discriminating moviegoers have had to do some serious sifting, but the first half of 2013 provided a fair number of films and performances worthy of being remembered come ballot time. Here are six to file away. Oscars 2013: Best and worst moments since 2008 Actress: Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha. Academy members, perhaps feeling the pang of self-recognition, don't respond particularly well to kooky characters, which makes Gerwig's lively comic turn in a movie she co-wrote with director Noah Baumbach even more of a long shot for an Oscar. But Spirit voters nominated her for Baumbach's 2010 bittersweet comedy Greenberg and should put her at the front of the line for her delightful performance here, arguably a career high point. Supporting actor: Sam Rockwell, The Way, Way Back. Academy members also snooze on the funny, but Rockwell's work as the sympathetic mentor in this coming-of-age tale is so special and deeply felt that it's possible they just might ... OK .... we're probably kidding ourselves. But beyond Rockwell's inspired comic riffing, there's that beautiful, loving, end-of-film exchange with young Liam James that leaves audiences in puddles. Distributor Fox Searchlight should sell that and maybe send out a case of sunscreen to critics' group members, who tend to be on the pale side to begin with. Supporting actor: Matthew McConaughey, Mud. McConaughey fought his way back into critics' good graces last year through fine work in Magic Mike, Bernie and Killer Joe. He's even better in Mud, playing a charismatic fugitive returning home to reclaim the love of his life. Beyond that, the resurgent McConaughey has a starring turn in Dallas Buyers Club, a fact-based drama about a man who begins smuggling alternative medical treatments after being diagnosed with HIV. McConaughey lost 30 pounds for that role, which, if the film (and history) holds up, almost guarantees him an Oscar nomination. But Mud shouldn't be forgotten. If Dallas is all that, how about a double-dip: lead and supporting? Adapted screenplay: Before Midnight. Since the second entry in Richard Linklater's relationship trilogy, 2004's Before Sunset, received an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, we're guessing a hard sell won't be necessary. But because this series continues to grow richer and riskier with each film, perhaps voters could also be persuaded to extend their kindness, recognizing the movie itself and its fantastic leads, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. The film's improvisatory feel is hard-earned and shouldn't be held against the actors. The emotions they summon run deep and true. Documentary: 20 Feet From Stardom. This crowd-pleasing tribute to female backup singers has done well critically and, at least for a documentary, commercially. Its stories of artists struggling to stay true to their craft and remain relevant in an industry that puts personality ahead of authenticity should resonate with voters. Recent rule changes that make it easier for popular docs like this to make the final cut also work in its favor. And yes, there's the singing which by itself could carry it to a nomination. Documentary: Stories We Tell. Sarah Polley's fearless investigation into the mysteries of her family life might be the year's most intriguing film. Full of warmth and humor and impeccably constructed, it's the latest chapter from a filmmaker (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) who has become a remarkably accomplished storyteller. Critics' praise, which began last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, will likely keep this movie in front of voters when groups award their prizes at the end of the year. glenn.whipp@latimes.com MORE OSCAR COVERAGE PHOTOS: Show highlights Oscars 2014: Behind the scenes PHOTOS:Red carpet arrivals PHOTOS: Show highlights Oscars 2014: Behind the scenes PHOTOS:Red carpet arrivals | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Bernice Wilson
Bernice Wilson (born 21 April 1984) is a former British sprinter who represented her country at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships and served two bans from track and field athletics for anti-doping violations.
An English Schools 200 metres finalist in 1997, Wilson went on to reach numerous finals at age group, regional and national level before making her big senior break-through by coming second in the 60 metres at the 2010 British Indoor Athletics Championships. Wilson set a new personal best time of 7.25secs when she finished runner-up to Jodie Williams in the 60 metres at the 2011 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Sheffield on 12 February 2011 leading to her selection for the following month's European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris, France. There she made it through the heats but finished fifth in her semi-final running a time of 7.28 and therefore missing out on a place in the final. In July 2011 it was announced Wilson had been provisionally suspended from competition having failed an anti-doping test after the banned substances anabolic steroid testosterone and Clenbuterol were found in an urine sample she provided at the Bedford International Games on June 12. The athlete blamed a contaminated sample but she was subsequently given a four-year ban from athletics. While still banned in February 2015, she failed an out-of-competition test for another banned substance, the fertility drug clomiphene, but due to the substantial assistance she provided to UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and a prompt admission of guilt, her second suspension was reduced from 40 months to 10 months. It was later revealed that Wilson's coach and then boyfriend, George Skafidas, had been giving her the clomiphene without her knowledge by replacing her vitamin tablets with the drugs. In 2016 Skafidas was given a lifetime ban from athletics after admitting nine anti-doping rule violations. Wilson is now part of the UKAD Athlete Commission seeking to help others avoid the pitfalls into which she fell. | WIKI |
How To Run Sports Data Regressions in Microsoft Excel
The shorthand description of a regression: It’s the best possible trend line between a scatter of dots. Like this:
The orange line (and the connected equation) represent the most basic idea of a regression.
The orange line (and the connected equation) represent the most basic idea of a regression.
One of the fun things about regressions is that they give us formulas — line equations, specifically. So if we have a quarterback with a 100 QB rating, we can plug his 100 into our formula (y = 0.097 * 100 – 2.495) and get a reasonable estimation of what his Adjusted Net Yards per Pass Attempt (ANY/A) would be (about 7.2). The R2 tells us essentially how reliable the regression is — or, more specifically, how much of the variation in QB Rating is explained by ANY/A.
Of course, the problem with the data here (which I just kind of threw together as an example) is that QBR and ANY/A use almost the same inputs and attempt to do the same thing. It’s nice to see they have about 91% overlap (it basically says they’re just about interchangeable), but no one is going to use QB rating to derive or forecast a ANY/A.
Regressions are more useful when we start with something small and reliable, then move our way to more all-encompassing but volatile stats. This is like how we use contact or plate discipline data (small and reliable) to expand into an xBABIP calculator (big and more meaningful).
There are two ways to run some regressions in Excel:
1. Use the scatterplot tool (as above) and create a simple, two-variable regression.
2. Use the Data Analysis ToolPack to run a more complete and useful regression.
The first method is the easiest, but it doesn’t output the peripheral data that is essential to fully understanding a regression’s findings.
The Scatterplot Regression
For the first method, just select two columns of data and make a scatterplot (Insert > Scatter). That will give you something like this:
Here's a scatterplot of the 2015 Durham Bulls' strikeout and home run totals.
Here’s a scatterplot of the 2015 Durham Bulls’ strikeout and home run totals, min. 50 PA.
With the chart selected, choose to add a linear trendline (Layout > Trendline > Linear Trendline):
Adding a linear trendline will create a basic linear regression.
Adding a linear trendline will create a basic linear regression.
Now double-click the trendline to produce the “Format Trendline” window. In that menu, check the boxes for “Display Equation on chart” and “Display R-squared on chart”:
These two boxes give you the bare minimum of data necessary to interpret a regression.
These two boxes give you the bare minimum of data necessary to interpret a regression.
So now we have a regression! The formula (HR = 3.5367 * SO + 29.166) tell us there is a positive connection between home run totals and strikeout totals. And the R2 tells us the relationship between HR and SO explains 48% of the variation between the two of them.
What this regression doesn’t tell us:
• What direction, if any, is the causality? Are homers causing players to strikeout? Or do more strikeouts make more homers?
• Are their peculiarities in the residuals? This article does a great job of teaching how to interpret residuals plots.
• Does the regression fit the data? And ANOVA analysis can be useful in augmenting what the R2 tells us.
The first issue is a matter of deeper research. A regression won’t tell us direction of causality. But we can still answer those other two questions — as well as add more variables — using Excel data Analysis ToolPack. The first thing we’ll need to do is enable that ToolPack.
In the File > Options > Add-Ins section, you’ll notice a “Go…” button at the bottom of the window.
This button opens a dialogue that allows us to turn on the data Analysis ToolPack. Why is this not enabled by default? Who knows? Maybe Bill Gates.
This button opens a dialogue that allows us to turn on the data Analysis ToolPack. Why is this not enabled by default? Who knows? Maybe Bill Gates.
Select the top option in the available Add-Ins (“Analysis ToolPack”) and then click “OK.”
You can also add in these other ones if you're feeling frisky. I rarely use them, though.
You can also add in these other ones if you’re feeling frisky. I rarely use them, though.
Now, after this first step, you should have a new option in your Data tab. Let’s explore that. Go to Data > Data Analysis. That will open a simple dialogue with a list of various operations. Choose “Regression” and click “OK”.
You should then get this screen:
The Y Range will be what you are regression against, so to speak.
The Y Range will be what you are regression against, so to speak.
In the Y Range text box, you will want to add only a single column of data. I prefer to include the column headings so that the output screen will be more easily understood. In this instance, I’m choosing a big column of completions percentage data from Pro-Football-Reference.com (from this data: NFL QB seasons since 1969 with min. 10 TD). I’m regression this Cmp% data against the quarterbacks sack total and yards per attempt (Y/A) total.
In short, I’m asking: Can Y/A and sack totals predict a QB’s accuracy?
So in the X Range, I’m going to select the Q and R columns (titles and all). The output is something like this:
Here are the big three components of a regression.
Here are the big three components of a regression.
So this is kinda what it will look like after a regression. Let’s break down the three big areas one at a time, in the typical order I look at them:
1. Residual Plots: These look good! You want a shotgun blast looks. If you start to see anything other than a circle, in any of your residual plots, then you’ll need to rework your regression. (See that above article for more details.)
2. R2 Results: What is a good R2? Well, higher is always (well, usually) better, but there’s no clear perfect R2. Truth is, we have to be as intellectually honest as possible and determine how much explanation is the right amount of explanation. With multiple variables, it’s important to look at Adjusted R2 because it helps combat the unintentional increase in R2 caused by just adding more data. In this case, though, R2 and Adjusted R2 are about the same, so whutevz.
3. Coefficients: The coefficients tell us both the formula of the regression (Cmp% = 36 + 0.02 * Sacks + 3.03 * Y/A) but also the strength of the variables involved. And it doesn’t take much work realized which variable is more important. Even a QB who has been sacked will only see his Cmp% moved by 1.5%. What’s more: It increases 1.5%. That’s a red flag right there for a bad variable. Maybe Sack% would be a more useful tool because the sack totals are merely telling us he played more (and QBs who played more probably had better performances because otherwise they would have been benched).
Anyway, I hope this has been helpful. I encourage readers to learn more about regression before attempting any, as they are a complicated and tricky tool and can lead a researcher astray quickly if used incorrectly.
NOTE: For those wondering why I haven’t gone into detail about significance testing for P-values, it’s because I believe that field of statistical study is generally arbitrary and altogether intellectually bankrupt. But there are dozens of great tutorials out there on the subject. I just can’t in good ethical faith write one.
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Jacob
7 years ago
“How To Run Sports Data Regressions in Microsoft Excel”
For your own sake, just don’t do it!
Okay, actually, for some people this will be the easiest way and will allow them to have fun with sports data. But if you’re working with very large datasets or like to have total control and do super cool analyses….don’t do it in Excel. See TechGraphs’s R tutorials for more details 🙂
Darryl
7 years ago
Reply to Jacob
R is great. Personally, I always recommend the Python data analysis stack — especially Pandas (pandas.pydata.org) for working with sports data. For the NFL especially, it’s simple to use in conjunction with NFLDB. I’ve been meaning to write some “getting started” pieces on that for a while.
Mike
7 years ago
I get why you don’t like P values with the data you analyze, but don’t say they are intellectually bankrupt for all datasets. There are plenty of datasets that P Value is quite good for telling us important aspects of correlations. However, I suspect you are probably right for sports statistics that P values are probably not a good way to go. (Note: As a Religious R user [former STATA], this was a great tutorial.)
wiggly
7 years ago
Intellectually bankrupt? Huh? Are you saying it’s impossible or “just” that it’s evil to attempt to differentiate signal and noise? I’m really confused….
jb
7 years ago
Reminds me of AP stats from a long time ago. Wish I would have done something sports related in that class. Nice article. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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MGM (TV channel)
MGM Channel was a global-based television network that was launched in 1999 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that aired movies from MGM's library, including West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, The Terminator, Moonraker, The Manchurian Candidate, The Black Stallion, Blown Away, amongst many others. The network had access to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library of films, comprising approximately 4,000 titles, and over 10,400 episodes of television programming.
Following AMC Networks' acquisition of Chellomedia, it was announced on 4 August 2014 that MGM Channel would be rebranded as AMC in late 2014. On 5 November 2014, MGM became a Hungarian Version of AMC.
As of 2015, MGM Channel has been indirectly found out to have continued airing in Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Iceland and some other countries.
On 1 January 2015, the Asian version of AMC was launched, replacing MGM in Asia and also in Sri Lanka for the first time it received AMC.
MGM HD
MGM HD was a high definition version of the channel. | WIKI |
Adding Addons to Your Bedrock Server
Bedrock Addons add behavioral and visual changes to the game. This guide will teach you how to upload and configure Addons that include both Behavior Packs and Resource Packs. Not all Addons will use both so make sure you upload the correct files to your server.
Download Addon File and extracting
There are a few websites you can go to download Addon's from such as CurseForge and Planet Minecraft. You can recognize addons by the file extensions of .mcpack or .mcaddon.
1. Download your Addon files.
2. Next, extract the files using an archiving program such as WinRar, 7zip, or the built in application for your operating system:
1. Double check your Addon to see if it adds a behavior pack, a resource pack or both. Example of both:
Configuring the Addons.
In order for the Addon to work correctly you'll need to create files for the folders you have.
1. Create a file in a text editor such as NotePad and paste in the following:
[
{
"pack_id": "uuid here",
"version": [version number here]
}
]
1. To find the UUID and Version number for the behavior pack, go to the folder for the Behavior pack and find manifest.json.
2. At the top you should see the UUID and version number you'll want to put into your file.
1. Save the file as world_behavior_packs.json.
2. Repeat the process for the Resource pack folder but using the UUID and version number from the manifest.json found in the Resource Pack folder. Save the file as world_resource_packs.json
Upload to your server
1. Stop your server and create a backup of your server.
2. Use SFTPto connect to your Bedrock server's file system.
3. Upload your Behaviors packs folder into the folder path minecraft-bedrock/behavior_packs.
4. Upload your Resource Packs folder into the folder path minecraft-bedrock/resource_packs.
5. Upload your world_behavior_packs.json world_resource_packs.json to your world folder.
1. Start your server and connect! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The Chief's Blanket
The Chief's Blanket is a 1912 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore.
Cast
* Lionel Barrymore as The Young Man
* Blanche Sweet as The Young Woman
* W. Chrystie Miller as The Father
* Charles West as The Outlaw (as Charles H. West)
* Alfred Paget as The Unfaithful Sentinel
* Adolph Lestina as The Doctor
* Walter P. Lewis as The Indian Chief
* Charles Gorman as An Indian
* Wilfred Lucas
* Joseph McDermott as Among Settlers
* Jack Pickford as An Indian
* W. C. Robinson as An Indian
* Hector Sarno as An Indian (as Hector V. Sarno) | WIKI |
Rei Kawakubo Revealed (Sort Of)
Forty years ago, the Comme des Garçons designer began creating subversive, gender-bending clothes for men at a time when no one else was. She still is. CreditCreditArtwork by Gengoroh Tagame EARLY ONE MORNING, in the beginning of April, just as the cherry blossoms came into full bloom in Tokyo, 100-odd people gathered at the entrance to an anonymous office building in Aoyama, an elegant and sedate neighborhood known for its designer stores and expensive French restaurants. Unlike the building’s facade (squat, brick, unremarkable) or its interior (empty, beige, somehow even more unremarkable), the people making their way inside were, like the pink petals feathering the city’s sidewalks, impossible to ignore. Some looked like religious fundamentalists or figures from 16th-century portraits, others like extras from “La Strada.” They nodded and held doors open for one another, but remained quiet and unsmiling. Four times a year, Comme des Garçons, the avant-garde Japanese fashion label founded by Rei Kawakubo in 1969, puts on runway shows exclusively for its own employees — the receptionists and store managers and H.R. associates — people with no business flying to Paris for fashion week but who, according to the rigorous standards set by their employer, must be intimately familiar with all aspects of the aesthetic order to which they have dedicated their lives. Elevated plywood catwalks, edged with neat rows of plastic folding chairs, were erected in gray-carpeted conference rooms; the fluorescent lights flickered. There, models in full hair and makeup paraded the season’s designs thousands of miles away from and many months past the French fashion schedule. The models themselves seemed beside the point, redundant. With their tulle-stuffed skirts and plastic-wrapped heads, they looked like characters sprung from the mind of Lewis Carroll. And yet, as hard as I tried to force myself to pay attention to them, I was continually distracted by the dozens of employees sitting across from me, each dressed in head-to-toe Comme des Garçons — a band of ideologues in wait. Most had bangs and wore no jewelry. There were ruffled jackets made of washed wool, Arcimboldo-printed gowns accessorized with allergy masks. The skirts were long and layered, the ankle socks plentiful, the shoes flat, the Peter Pan collars oversize. They mixed seasons and lines (there are 18 under the Comme des Garçons label) to dizzying effect; some men wore women’s clothes, some women wore men’s clothes. It was like being in the middle of “Art of the In-Between,” the Rei Kawakubo retrospective mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year — but more urgent and immersive, as though the archive of her work had come to life. When I asked a devoted, elfin publicist in sequined basketball shorts the color of aquarium gravel if his colleagues had dressed up especially for the show, he looked at me with confusion, barely contained derision and maybe a bit of pity. “No,” he said. “We look like this always.” EVEN THE MOST oddly dressed woman is seldom doing anything all that transgressive with her appearance. We assume that women care about how they look, even when they don’t want to look pretty, so when they don kooky hats or outsize suits or shave their heads or apply rouge with purposefully grotesque abandon, it’s taken to be merely an outlandish variation on expected behavior. Meanwhile, an eccentrically dressed man — not a dandy in the Beau Brummell mold but someone plainly interested in creating new and jarring shapes with his body and clothes — is a rare and electrifying sight. In refusing to telegraph the traditional goals of male fashion (power, utility, wealth), it can seem as though he has renounced capitalism itself — even if the price of doing so is equal to a series of consecutive mortgage payments. Kawakubo introduced men’s wear in 1978, nearly a decade after she launched Comme des Garçons. It was instantly popular, thanks in part to a booming Japanese economy that, as W. David Marx notes in his 2015 book “Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style,” put credit cards in the pockets of middle-class teenagers and made it possible for them to afford Comme des Garçons and similarly expensive, off-kilter clothing. The house’s earliest men’s suits were ill-fitting and dark, resembling something secondhand, an aesthetic once shunned by the fashion elite. The totems of the line are still rooted in almost-classic suiting and shirting, but never without a discreet signifier of willful rebellion: a pinstripe button-down’s sleeve’s hidden slashes, a pair of navy wool schoolboy shorts piped with leopard print; pleated black pants at once inflated, cropped and tapered. Years before the art school-y New York fashion label Eckhaus Latta sent painters, pregnant models and performance artists down their runways, Kawakubo cast the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1987), Francesco Clemente (1989), John Malkovich (1990), Dennis Hopper (1991) and Matt Dillon (1991) for her men’s shows. Robert Rauschenberg walked down the runway in 1993 completely drunk. Passionate and famous male fans of the brand include John Waters, who at the age of 46 modeled for Comme des Garçons in Paris in 1992; the writer David Sedaris, who has admitted to compulsively buying the brand’s clownish culottes; and Frank Ocean, who named a song after the company. Also: Jared Leto, James Harden, Daveed Diggs and Kanye West. “I like to describe Comme des Garçons as ‘how clothes,’ not ‘why clothes,’ ” Ken Utaka, a 48-year-old, New York-based freelance patternmaker, told me. Originally from Japan, Utaka has been wearing the brand since he was 15. “The question is not why they did something in this strange way but how they did it.” When I met Kawakubo, this is what I wanted to talk to her about: her approach to making clothing for men, whether or not she had thoughts about the state of masculinity in 2018, how designing men’s wear is different (or similar) to creating women’s wear. I wondered if perhaps the tighter constraints of masculine dress codes allowed, in fact, for more creativity and fun. I didn’t expect real answers. Kawakubo is notorious for her gnomic pronouncements (e.g., “The void is important”) and her anachronistic, otherworldly embodiment of what it means to be a genius. Once, in response to a journalist’s question, Kawakubo drew a circle on a piece of paper and walked away. To my surprise, I did not find the designer particularly aloof or monastic in her bearing. Flanked by her husband and translator, Adrian Joffe, who is also the company’s president, Kawakubo projected a kind of plain and quiet professionalism, though the topic of masculine versus feminine wares appeared to agitate her. “Men seem to have more courage to try new things now, not only in Japan but all over the world,” she said, wondering aloud why women have become “so quiet,” and why, these days, it’s the men who buy and wear the showpieces. Women, comparatively, have become more conservative. “It’s a bit upsetting,” she said. “If you have an insight into that, it might help with my business.” Kawakubo recalled how when she was younger, in the 1980s especially, young women added their names to lists for expensive pieces and were happy to wait in long lines to buy them. These days, though, “There’s a tendency for men to queue up to buy things,” she said. “I wonder why women don’t do this. Why are there no women queuing up for Supreme or Nike?” I suggested that perhaps in an age of digital streaming, streetwear had replaced record collecting, sublimating whatever obsessive, completist, seemingly male-specific tendencies that were once reserved for rare Nirvana EPs and Kanye’s earliest mixtapes. Kawakubo seemed to have no reaction to this theory, and said nothing. It’s true that while there are certainly women who consider themselves dedicated fans of Comme des Garçons (in the early days, they were known in Tokyo as “the crows,” since Kawakubo and her followers were so devoted to the color black), the company seems to hold an even more special place in the hearts of men. “It’s the most addictive brand I’ve ever come into contact with,” said Lane Spodek, a 28-year-old sales associate at the downtown New York City branch of the high-fashion mini-emporium Totokaelo. Like many men I spoke to, Spodek told me that wearing Comme des Garçons gives him the impression of having turned himself into a work of art. He spends almost all of his discretionary income on Comme des Garçons and is saving up for a trip to Japan, which he referred to as a “pilgrimage.” Though Kawakubo described Comme des Garçons’ male clientele as comprising students and men with creative jobs — “Anyone who is not free in his work probably is not wearing our clothes”— she admitted that the so-called rules of men’s wear (subdued colors, suiting materials, professional silhouettes) make designing for men more interesting, especially as someone with a self-imposed edict to always be creating new, never-before-seen garments. “The basics of clothing lie in men’s fashion,” she has said. “The best thing about Comme des Garçons clothes is how they fit. As weird as they might look, they actually feel really natural on the body and are designed very practically,” said Utaka. I asked him if he had a favorite item. “A ridiculously cool black coat from the fall 2012 collection,” he answered. “It looks like anybody could have made it, like it’s just two pieces of fabric stuck together.” Part of Kawakubo’s 2D collection (every Comme des Garçons collection is named, and the clothes hew literally to the theme, though Kawakubo’s interpretation of “literal” can often feel like abstraction), the piece is a visual paradox, at once completely flat-looking and voluminous, with rounded shoulders, a nipped waist and angular hips — like what you’d make if asked to design a parka for a paper doll. Utaka praised the garment’s draping and lapel construction, noting that although the coat’s structure looks simple, its engineering is anything but. This secret pragmatism is perhaps the most traditionally masculine feature of Kawakubo’s designs for men. Those who wear Comme des Garçons tend to talk about how the clothes don’t feel new, even when they are — you try on a jacket with the tags still attached and have the impression that it’s been hanging in your closet for years. Kevin Hearn, a 49-year-old musician and keyboardist for the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies and longtime Comme des Garçons client, says Kawakubo’s garments “feel musical — like each item is a different song, something that brings color and joy and inventiveness into the world.” When we spoke, Hearn was wearing his latest purchase — a black Gore-Tex slicker with a grim reaperlike hood. He described Comme des Garçons clothes as “playful” and then said, “but this raincoat isn’t funny at all. It’s elegant and well designed. It has pockets where you want there to be pockets, strings where you want there to be strings.” Kawakubo, he noted, “isn’t joking around.” The male ardor for Comme des Garçons is, at least in part, a kind of gratitude for a gender-fluid approach to fashion design that has gone mainstream in recent years but was practiced by Kawakubo, virtually alone, for decades. She shrank suit jackets to Chanel topper proportions, made handsome (no other word for it) skirts out of gabardine and tacked schoolgirl collars on otherwise office-ready white button-downs. She gave men a way of opting out of society while still remaining in it. For nearly a century, there had been little to no innovation in men’s wear — a steady, conservative beat of sensible, timeless clothing. Then suddenly, Kawakubo appeared like a sorceress, materializing a new and more permissive way of appearing in the world that changed not only fashion but, on a small scale, maleness itself. Now, 40 years after she began designing men’s wear, her philosophical heirs — Thom Browne, Raf Simons, Craig Green, to name a few — are everywhere. This, finally, is their time. “WHAT DID YOUR father dress like?” I asked Kawakubo about halfway through our interview. Joffe translated, and Kawakubo spoke to him in Japanese for what felt like 20 to 30 seconds. “She doesn’t understand the question,” Joffe said. He laughed, Kawakubo did not, and it was tacitly understood that this was tantamount to a refusal. The conversation continued a bit awkwardly. Kawakubo expressed annoyance that her spring 2017 collection (Naked King) hadn’t gotten the credit it deserved for popularizing transparent garments for men — a trend seen on the runways (Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, Off-White) for seasons after. She explained that incorporating unexpected materials, like the ghostly knit PVC she employed in that collection, is the challenge and joy of designing for men. “The one thing she doesn’t like is camping clothing — you know, walking-outdoors fashion?” Joffe interjected. “Athleisure, you mean?” I asked. He nodded and scribbled the word down in English on a scrap of paper for Kawakubo to read. “You know this word?” he asked. She shook her head in disdain. “The most boring fashion for her is this,” he said. “I have looked to see if there is anything interesting here and I have not found it,” Kawakubo added. Kawakubo likes to insist that first and foremost, she is a businesswoman. This is true in a certain sense ($300 million in yearly sales for the labels combined, and 135 stores, all of which Kawakubo owns completely), but also almost hilariously imprecise. “Most businesses only think of evolution and growth in terms of the bottom line, and maybe the difference with Comme des Garçons is that it’s not necessarily what you can and can’t sell that makes the business, because the business is creation,” she said. Kawakubo admits that her venture into men’s wear was a practical decision, not an artistic one. But, she added, “I’ve often thought this is the most difficult way to do business. It’s not easy to sell only ideas and ones that people are not used to.” Every choice she makes, she said, even about corporate structuring, “is based on aesthetic values.” Whether she likes it or not — and it’s almost certain that she does — the products of Kawakubo’s business are, for the most part, bought and enjoyed as art. And to see someone in Comme des Garçons on the street is to wonder if perhaps fashion isn’t actually more generous, more civic-minded, more political than art. Unlike a painting purchased in a gallery and hung on the wall of a private home, a Comme des Garçons garment actually circulates in the world, confronting (and delighting and confusing and frustrating) the very people who never would or could wear it themselves. That’s how I felt, at least, that morning in Tokyo. Sitting across the office runway from all those Comme des Garçons employees, I was in awe — and ashamed. My outfit, which I had chosen to be both appropriate and flattering, suddenly looked not just boring but selfish. It delighted neither me nor anyone else. It seemed like a waste. I had dressed, I realized, like a man might — a non-Comme des Garçons-wearing man. A few days later, when I returned to the office to interview Kawakubo, I wore different — but similarly lackluster — clothes. I had no delusions that she even took note of my appearance, though I was also certain that if she did, it would have depressed her. “Is there any man you wish you could design for and haven’t?” I asked at the end of our hourlong meeting. Kawakubo shook her head. “It’s a stupid question,” she said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Source code for runway.cfngin.hooks.awslambda.source_code
"""Source code."""
from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import logging
from pathlib import Path
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterator, List, Optional, Sequence, Union
import igittigitt
from runway.compat import cached_property
from runway.utils import FileHash
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from _typeshed import StrPath
LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
[docs]class SourceCode: """Source code iterable.""" gitignore_filter: igittigitt.IgnoreParser """Filter to use when zipping dependencies. If file/folder matches the filter, it should be ignored. """ project_root: Path """Top-level directory containing the project metadata files and source code root directory. The value can be the same as ``root_directory``. If it is not, it must be a parent of ``root_directory``. """ root_directory: Path """The root directory containing the source code."""
[docs] def __init__( self, root_directory: StrPath, *, gitignore_filter: Optional[igittigitt.IgnoreParser] = None, include_files_in_hash: Optional[Sequence[Path]] = None, project_root: Optional[StrPath] = None, ) -> None: """Instantiate class. Args: root_directory: The root directory containing the source code. gitignore_filter: Object that has been pre-populated with rules/patterns to determine if a file should be ignored. include_files_in_hash: Files that should be included in hash calculation even if they are filtered by gitignore (e.g. ``poetry.lock``). project_root: Optional project root if the source code is located within a larger project. This should only be used if the contents of value of ``include_files_in_hash`` contains paths that exist outside of the root directory. If this is provided, it must be a parent of the root directory. """ self._include_files_in_hash = include_files_in_hash or [] self.gitignore_filter = gitignore_filter or igittigitt.IgnoreParser() self.root_directory = ( root_directory if isinstance(root_directory, Path) else Path(root_directory) ) self.project_root = ( # defaults to root_directory if project_root not provided project_root if isinstance(project_root, Path) else (Path(project_root) if project_root else self.root_directory) ) if not gitignore_filter: self.gitignore_filter.parse_rule_files(self.root_directory) self.gitignore_filter.add_rule(".git/", self.root_directory) self.gitignore_filter.add_rule(".gitignore", self.root_directory)
@cached_property def md5_hash(self) -> str: """Calculate the md5 hash of the directory contents. This can be resource intensive depending on the size of the project. """ sorted_files = list(self.sorted()) for include_file in self._include_files_in_hash: if include_file not in sorted_files: sorted_files.append(include_file) file_hash = FileHash(hashlib.md5()) file_hash.add_files(sorted(sorted_files), relative_to=self.project_root) return file_hash.hexdigest
[docs] def add_filter_rule(self, pattern: str) -> None: """Add rule to ignore filter. Args: pattern: The gitignore pattern to add to the filter. """ self.gitignore_filter.add_rule(pattern=pattern, base_path=self.root_directory)
[docs] def sorted(self, *, reverse: bool = False) -> List[Path]: """Sorted list of source code files. Args: reverse: Sort the list in reverse. Returns: Sorted list of source code files excluding those that match the ignore filter. """ return sorted(self, reverse=reverse)
[docs] def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool: """Compare if self is equal to another object.""" if isinstance(other, SourceCode): return self.root_directory == other.root_directory return False
[docs] def __fspath__(self) -> Union[str, bytes]: """Return the file system path representation of the object.""" return str(self.root_directory)
[docs] def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[Path]: """Iterate over the source code files. Yields: Files that do not match the ignore filter. Order in arbitrary. """ for child in self.root_directory.rglob("*"): if child.is_dir(): continue # ignore directories if self.gitignore_filter.match(child): continue # ignore files that match the filter yield child
[docs] def __str__(self) -> str: """Return the string representation of the object.""" return str(self.root_directory)
[docs] def __truediv__(self, other: StrPath) -> Path: """Create a new path object from source code's root directory.""" return self.root_directory / other | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
DeSantis steps down from Congress to focus on governor's race
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest congressional allies, announced Monday that he is resigning his seat to focus on his campaign for Florida governor, a race that was fueled by Trump and has quickly become one of the most-watched gubernatorial battles of 2018. The three-term congressman said the move was needed because it’s “inappropriate” for him to continue to draw his $174,000-per-year salary while he's on the campaign trail and missing official congressional business. It’s a message in line with the fiscally conservative persona DeSantis has cultivated in Congress and on the campaign trail. “As the Republican nominee for governor of Florida, it is clear to me that I will likely miss the vast majority of our remaining session days for this Congress,” DeSantis wrote in his resignation letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan. “Under these circumstances, it would be inappropriate for me to accept a salary.” The resignation was effective Sept. 1. DeSantis, a Navy veteran and JAG officer, was focused largely on his primary fight against Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam for the past few months. During the first several months of his primary campaign, DeSantis missed less than 10 percent of congressional votes, but that number spiked to 53 percent from July through September, according to GovTrack. DeSantis’ resignation deprives Trump of a key ally on the Hill, but it will also allow DeSantis to miss at least a handful of votes that could prove politically tricky in his general election battle against Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum. The federal government, for instance, is set to run out of money in September, which could again set up a contentious vote over keeping the lights on or forcing another government shutdown. Trump, who has called DeSantis a “warrior,” has expressed indifference to the notion of a shutdown, indicating he is willing to force one if he does not get support for his proposed wall along the southern border. “If it happens, it happens,” Trump said last week. “If it’s about border security, I’m willing to do anything.” In the primary election, DeSantis’ most frequent talking point was about his endorsement from Trump, who both tweeted his support and held a rally for DeSantis in Tampa. DeSantis’ campaign got national attention for a TV ad featuring his toddler building a wall with cardboard blocks, a signal of how closely DeSantis wanted to tether himself to the president. “Build the wall,” DeSantis says to his daughter in the ad. Though Florida primary voters remain very supportive of Trump, that close relationship will be viewed differently in a general election, and DeSantis tying himself to a Trump-driven government shutdown would almost assuredly be used against him on the campaign trail. Democrats nevertheless seized on the resignation, using it as a chance to re-up the talking points they will use to characterize DeSantis as too conservative for Florida’s general election electorate. “Ron DeSantis’ entire political career has been about helping one person: Ron DeSantis,” Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo said in a statement. “In Washington, Ron DeSantis voted to take away health care coverage from millions of people while he showered President Trump with praise on Fox News.” DeSantis formally shut down his campaign account in July after spending the fund down to $15 cash on hand. Most of his excess funds were transferred to the Republican Party of Florida, which will be heavily involved in his gubernatorial bid. DeSantis’ 6th Congressional District includes a coastal slice of Northeast Florida just south of Jacksonville. In the race to replace him, former Clinton administration staffer Nancy Soderberg is facing Republican Michael Waltz, a businessman and former Green Beret. It’s unlikely a special election will be called, meaning the seat will remain vacant until January. CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Rizzo's name. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
@article {Uhmann:1991-03-01T00:00:00:0003-7028:390, author = "Uhmann, Wolfgang and Becker, Andreas and Taran, Christoph and Siebert, Friedrich", title = "Time-Resolved FT-IR Absorption Spectroscopy Using a Step-Scan Interferometer", journal = "Applied Spectroscopy", volume = "45", number = "3", year = "1991-03-01T00:00:00", abstract = "The implementation of time-resolved step-scan FT-IR spectroscopy with a commercial interferometer is described. With the use of the photoreaction of the biological system bacteriorhodopsin as an example which exhibits infrared spectral changes smaller than 10−2 absorbance units, the quality of the method is demonstrated. A comparison with conventional flash-photolysis experiments with a monochromatic infrared monitoring beam clearly demonstrates the multiplex advantage. The advantage of covering the total time course of the reaction allows for a variety of data analysis, such as forming difference spectra between intermediates of the reaction and the deduction of time courses of absorbance changes at selected wavenumbers. The mirror stability is better than ±1.5 nm, which is sufficient for the reliable measurement of small absorbance changes.", pages = "390-397", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sas/sas/1991/00000045/00000003/art00009", doi = "doi:10.1366/0003702914337128", keyword = "Biochemical systems, Bacteriorhodopsin, Step-scan Fourier transform Spectroscopy" } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Apple’s little-known (and somewhat unsexy) secret to success
A version of this essay was originally published at Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry. One of the things most consumers do not know about Apple is that its supply chain and manufacturing is one of the best in the world. Tim Cook, when he was in charge of that chain, created one of the most efficient supply and manufacturing systems in the market. Cook managed this side of Apple’s business for more than 10 years before he was elevated to the role of CEO. Even today he has an eagle eye on this part of the company’s business, and understands the supply chain better than any other CEO in the tech world today. But what really makes Cook and Apple stand out is that, when they design hardware, they only marginally look at what type of equipment they will use to make this product. Creating a product that is great, easy to use and extremely well-designed is the first priority. Once that is in place, they get serious about how they can manufacture the product in mass quantities, and in the most cost-effective way. However, Apple stands above most in this area because if they can’t find the right equipment to make a product, they actually invent and/or create the equipment, either with the help of a partner, or they do it themselves. This extension of their technical prowess is critical to Apple’s success. In 2013, Apple worked with a key supplier to customize robots to manufacture new iPhones and iPads, and spent about $10.5 billion to create these special tools. Over the years, I have talked with various ODM and manufacturing equipment makers, and many have told me Apple’s real secret to success is how deep the company goes into the overall manufacturing process. Very few companies go to that level of detail when it comes to their supply chain. Besides Intel, Apple is one of the only other major tech companies I know of that will actually invent the manufacturing equipment needed to bring a new product to market. Most others accept the limitations of the equipment, and instead design the product around the things these machines can do with as little customization as possible. Horace Dediu of Asymco has created a great chart that looks at Apple’s equipment spending from 2011-2016: As you can see from this chart, Apple constantly pours investment dollars into its machine and equipment spending, and sees this area as an important differentiator that helps make them one of the most profitable companies in the world. But this type of thinking also underscores Apple’s overall attention to detail when it comes to creating a product critical to its ecosystem. Apple’s designers are at the heart of their products, but I see their counterparts who manage the supply chain and the manufacturing of their products as equal stars in Apple’s success. No matter what tiny design adjustment Jony Ive and his team ask the supply chain and manufacturing teams to give them, they somehow are able to accommodate Ive and co. In many other companies, it is the other way around. A design team will come up with a product idea and, most of the time, they are forced to create that product around what existing materials and equipment are available. These types of limitations impact innovation. That is one of the reasons we have so many me-too products on the market today. We all know Apple marches to the beat of its own drum. This is just another example of Apple’s formula for success. Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc. He is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Bajarin has been with Creative Strategies since 1981, and has served as a consultant to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry including IBM, Apple, Xerox, Compaq, Dell, AT&T, Microsoft, Polaroid, Lotus, Epson, Toshiba and numerous others. Reach him @Bajarin. This article originally appeared on Recode.net. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
The objective functions and adjoint sources behaviour for elastic full waveform inversion
Tianze Zhang, Kristopher A. Innanen
Elastic full-waveform inversion is an ill-posed data-fitting procedure that is sensitive to noise, inaccuracies of the starting model, the definition of multi-parameter classes, and inaccurate modeling of wave fields amplitudes. The objective function measures the difference between the synthetic data and observed data, which plays an essential role in the convergence property of the elastic wave equation. In this study, we investigate the behavior of the l2, l1 norm and the correlation-based objective function in FWI, and show the sensitivity of these objective functions with respect to VP, VS, and density. The objective functions show that all three objective functions show strong non-linearity with the VS parameter, which means the inversion is relatively harder to invert compared with the other two parameters since it contains a lot of local minimums. We also developed an objective function based on the multi-scale Z transform. The multi-scale Z transform objective function could release the non-linearity of the objective function since the low frequency information of the objective function is first extracted. Thus, the adjoint source contains low frequency information, which helps to build the larger-scale information of the velocity model. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
DSNTEP2 aka Batch SPUFI
By | In Blog, DB2, SQL Server | February 19th, 2015
DSNTEP2 is an application program that can be used to issue DB2 dynamic SQL statements. It is sometimes referred to as “Batch SPUFI” because it allows you to submit SQL in batch similar to how SPUFI allows online SQL execution.
The following sample JCL demonstrates the capability of DSNTEP2 to issue DCL, DDL, and DML dynamically.
The DNSTEP2 program is written in the PL/I programming language. Prior to DB2 V6, you needed to have a PL/I compiler to use DSNTEP2. However, as of V6 IBM now provides both the source code and an object code version of DSNTEP2 with DB2. So, you no longer need a PL/I compiler to use DSNTEP2.
Because DSNTEP2 is an application program, and the PL/I source code is provided with DB2, a knowledgeable PL/I programmer can easily modify the code. After doing so, of course, it must be compiled, linked, and bound before it can be used.
DSNTEP2 can process almost every SQL statement that can be executed dynamically. DSNTEP2 accepts
• The GRANT and REVOKE DCL statements,
• The ALTER, COMMENT ON, CREATE, and DROP DDL statements,
• The DELETE, INSERT, SELECT, and UPDATE DML statements, and
• The COMMIT, ROLLBACK, EXEC SQL, EXPLAIN, and LOCK statements.
The only important statement that DSNTEP2 does not support is the LABEL ON DDL statement. Of course, DSNTEP2 can be modified to support this statement if you have PL/I knowledge and a PL/I compiler.
When Does DSNTEP2 Commit?
Well, the simple answer to that question is that the results of the SQL are committed upon completion of all the SQL. A helpful answer is a little longer.
First off, you need to know that DSNTEP2 has an internal parameter named MAXERRORS that controls the number of failing statements that can occur before it stops. A failing statement is one which returns a negative SQLCODE. The value of MAXERRORS is set to 10 inside the program, so DSNTEP2 will allow 9 failing SQL statements but when it hits the 10th failing statement, it will exit, COMMITting all other work.
This is ugly because it can wreak havoc on the integrity of your data. I mean, who wants to figure out what was run, what was impacted, and then try to rebuild a job to fix data and/or restart at the right place? To rerun DSNTEP2, remember that all SQL statements that completed with a 0 SQL code were committed. These statements should not be rerun. All SQL statements completed with a negative SQL code must be corrected and reprocessed.
Certain severe errors cause DSNTEP2 to exit immediately. One severe error is a -101 “SQL statement too long or too complex”.
If any SQL errors occurred during the execution of DSNTEP2, a return code of 8 is returned by the job step.
At any rate, DSNTEP2 never issues an explicit COMMIT or ROLLBACK by itself. A COMMIT occurs at the end unless the program abends.
Specify Your SQL Statements Properly
The SQL to be run by DSNTEP2 is specified in SYSIN. Be sure to code the DSNTEP2 input properly.
DSNTEP2 reads SQL statements from an input data set with 80-byte records. The SQL statements must be coded in the first 72 bytes of each input record. SQL statements can span multiple input records and are terminated by a semicolon (;). Semicolons are not permitted in the text of the SQL statement.
Liberally Comment DSNTEP2 Input
Comments can be passed to DSNTEP2 in the SQL statements using two hyphens in columns 1 and 2 or a single asterisk in column 1. Doing so is good form and helps others to understand what your DSNTEP2 job is attempting to accomplish.
Bottom Line
DSNTEP2 is especially useful for running one-off SQL statements. Use DSNTEP2 when you have ad hoc SQL to run in a batch environment. DSNTEP2 is easier than writing your own quick and dirty programs to run ad hoc SQL in batch. It is simple to set up and saves time. But be careful if you have multiple SQL modification statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) because of the above-mentioned possibility of causing data integrity problems if some of the statements fail and others succeed.
Originally published on Craig Mullins’ blog http://db2portal.blogspot.com/.
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3 thoughts on “DSNTEP2 aka Batch SPUFI”
1. I used to own the book: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures, and it has been one of the most accomplished textbooks on DBMS, across platforms, for me. Hopefully with the new 2012 edition, the book proves even more innovative and resourceful for DBAs.However,for JAVA and J2EE compliant DBMS platforms, it is simply impossible anymore for Enterprise DBAs and DBA Architects not to know enterprise applications and application developments with open, enterprise standards tools such as Eclipse IDE and programming language such as Java and J2EE or .Net irrespective of platforms such as UNIX,LINUX or Windows OS; and with the increasing need to access and manage backend systems, web services – SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, SAML and web applications with Application servers such as Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, Websphere, JBoss, Netweaver, etc. DBAs must always strive for innovations in enterprise applications and enterprise information systems. Java in the database is the ice in the cake for enterprise applications developments and deployments. Thank you for the new book and I would get it again, pretty soon. Hope you do like it very much at DatAvail! And I am always proud of your works in the DBMS world!
2. Hello Martins:
Thanks for the kind words about my book… and I agree with your sentiments about DBAs needing to understand modern programming languages and tools (IDEs) for development. As DBAs, we must always be learning new things. You simply cannot sit still and expect to thrive… or even survive!
Regarding DatAvail, yes, they are good group of folks with a lot of technical acumen and database knowledge. I am enjoying working with them to help expand and support their DB2 offerings!
Cheers,
Craig
3. We could use maxerrors 0 where the job abends in the first error. Although it is useful, i agree that DSNTEP2 is a little risky but unavoidable in todays world.
Regards
Eswar | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
-- Spain’s Debt to Rise to Record 79.8%; Bond Sales to Decline
Spain’s public debt will rise to a
record this year as it sells almost 37 billion euros ($49
billion) of bonds to finance a budget deficit that was nearly
three times the euro-area limit last year. Total borrowing will reach 79.8 percent of gross domestic
product as the country breaches the European Union’s deficit
rules for a fifth year. That’s the highest since before the
country’s return to democracy in 1978 and up from 68.5 percent
last year, according to the 2012 budget that the government
presented to Parliament today in Madrid. Net debt issuance will fall from 48.2 billion euros last
year as the government trims its budget deficit to 5.3 percent
of GDP from 8.5 percent in 2011, according to the plan. Lawmakers began reviewing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy ’s
blueprint, which contains the deepest reductions in more than 30
years. The budget may fail to meet its goal of cutting the
deficit by more than one-third as its 27 billion euros of
spending cuts and tax increases will worsen Spain ’s second
recession since 2009, economists including Barclays Capital
Antonio Garcia Pascual forecast. “Achieving the 2012 deficit target of 5.3 percent of GDP
will remain very challenging,” Garcia Pascual, chief southern
European economist at Barclays, wrote in a note yesterday. Bonds Slide The yield on Spain’s 10-year bonds rose 6 basis point to
5.41 percent today and has gained more than 50 basis points
since March 2 when Rajoy raised the deficit target, citing a
deepening recession and his Socialist predecessor’s failures.
Rajoy is seeking to meet the EU’s 3 percent deficit ceiling next
year. “The government will not hesitate to take measures to
comply with its deficit targets,” Budget Minister Cristobal Montoro told reporters. The goal is “unconditional” and the
government has the tools to make regional governments comply,
Montoro said. The budget is based on bond yields at current levels,
Montoro told reporters. Budget documents forecast Spanish bond
yields in 2012 will remain near the levels of February, when the
yield on the country’s 10-year bond averaged 5.12 percent. The Treasury faces redemptions of 149.3 billion euros in
2012, making for gross issuance of 186.1 billion euros,
according to budget documents. The government plans to reduce
the use of Treasury bills and increase the sale of longer-term
debt. The shift won’t be enough to boost average maturity, which
will fall to 6.2 years from 6.4 years. Interest Payments The government expects interest payments on the debt of
2.71 percent of GDP on a cash basis, or 28.8 billion euros this
year, according to the budget. That compares with 22 billion
euros that were spent last year, said Marta Fernandez Curras,
deputy minister for the budget. The budget plan cuts spending by government ministries by
17 percent and seeks to raise revenue through ending some
corporate breaks and offering a one-time amnesty on tax evasion .
Those tax measures are in place since March 31, as is the 15
billion-euro package of spending cuts and tax raises approved by
the one-month-old government in December and then included in
the budget. Corporate-tax revenue is forecast to rise 17.8 percent this
year, while income-tax receipts will grow 4.7 percent due to
increases imposed in December, according to the documents. The economy is forecast to shrink 1.7 percent this year,
following a 0.7 percent expansion last year and a contraction of
0.1 percent in 2010. “We continue to forecast a 6.6 percent budget deficit for
2012,” Citigroup Global Markets senior economist Guillaume Menuet wrote in a note yesterday. “Implementing necessary
efforts designed to lift the economy’s potential growth rate
will likely have negative short-term consequences on activity.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Angeline Benoit in Madrid at
abenoit4@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Craig Stirling at
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The GPI-linked Ly-6 antigen E48 regulates expression levels of the FX enzyme and of E-selectin ligands on head and neck squamous carcinoma cells
Rinat Eshel, Alexandra Zanin, Orit Sagi-Assif, Tzipi Meshel, Nechama I. Smorodinsky, Oren Dwir, Ronen Alon, Ruud Brakenhoff, Guus Van Dongen, Isaac P. Witz*
*Corresponding author for this work
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Abstract
By differential display we demonstrated that antibody-mediated ligation of the GPI-linked protein product of E48, a newly discovered human Ly-6 gene, upregulates the expression of the FX enzyme in 3 lines of head and neck squamous carcinoma cells. FX is responsible for the last step in the synthesis of GDP-L-fucose. The up-regulation of FX was E48 ligand-specific. 22AWT head and neck squamous carcinoma cells expressing high levels of E48 expressed significantly higher levels of FX than the E48 antisense transfected 22AWT cells (8-3 cells). The former cells also expressed higher levels of two major fucosylated glycans (the selectin ligand, Sialyl Lewis a, and VIM-2) than the E48 antisense transfectants. Conversely, transfection of cells from the 14CWT line expressing very low levels of E48 with E48 cDNA caused an up-regulated expression of FX and of the two fucosylated glycans in the 14C-CMV16 transfectants. Moreover, the expression levels of Sialyl Lewis a was significantly up-regulated on HNSCC upon ligation of E48 by anti-E48 antibodies. The functional significance of the E48-mediated up-regulation of Sialyl Lewis a was demonstrated in rolling experiments on E-selectin bearing surfaces under physiological conditions of shear flow and on tumor necrosis factor α-activated human umbilical venous endothelial cells. Only high E48/FX/Sialyl Lewis a expressing 14C-CMV16 cells could roll on purified E- selectin or establish E-selectin dependent rolling on the activated human umbilical venous endothelial cells. Low E48/FX/Sialyl Lewis a expressing 14CWT cells did not roll. These results show that E48 controls the expression of the FX enzyme and of certain fucosylated E-selectin ligands by HNSCC. E48 may thus function as a key regulator of the adhesiveness of these tumor cells to inflamed vessel walls expressing E-selectin.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12833-12840
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume275
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Apr 2000
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Implementing Display trait on a type that returns a mutable reference
I have a type (A) that contains another type (B). I have (A) return a mutable reference to (B) so we can update it nicely:
struct A {
b: B,
}
struct B {
value: u32,
}
impl A {
fn new() -> Self {
Self {
b: B::new(),
}
}
fn b(&mut self) -> &mut B {
&mut self.b
}
}
impl B {
fn new() -> Self {
Self {
value: 5,
}
}
fn value(&self) -> u32 {
self.value
}
fn update(&mut self, new_value: u32) {
self.value = new_value;
}
}
fn main() {
let mut a = A::new();
println!("value is: {}", a.b().value());
a.b().update(10);
println!("value is: {}", a.b().value());
}
This works just fine:
value is: 5
value is: 10
But now I want to implement the Display trait for (A):
impl fmt::Display for A {
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
write!(f, "{}", self.b().value())
}
}
When adding this code, I get the following error:
error[E0596]: cannot borrow `*self` as mutable, as it is behind a `&` reference
--> src\main.rs:49:25
|
49 | write!(f, "{}", self.b().value())
|
I understand what the error is telling me. But I'm not sure the best idiomatic way to fix it.
I got it to work by making separate functions in impl A, where B can be returned as either mutable or immutable:
impl A {
fn new() -> Self {
Self {
b: B::new(),
}
}
fn b(&self) -> &B {
&self.b
}
fn b_mut(&mut self) -> &mut B {
&mut self.b
}
}
But this seems a little sloppy to me. I figure there are three possibilities:
(1) My initial approach is not idiomatic, and there's a more appropriate way to accomplish this
(2) There's actually an easy fix with just a few keystrokes, that I haven't been able to find in my searches
(3) This is just the way it is
Any advice on this situation would be most helpful.
it's your type, you are the author, why not just use the field directly, instead of calling the method that returns a reference?
- write!(f, "{}", self.b().value())
+ write!(f, "{}", self.b.value())
feel free to provide more context about the actual problem if your example code didn't resemble the real constraints.
this is quite common practice in rust actually, what makes you think it's "sloppy"? again more context is needed to better understand your problem.
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Oh geez, I feel dumb. I've had it drilled into my brain from older languages that making "member variables" public was bad form, so I guess my mind didn't even consider it for this application.
That did the trick, thank you!
Question: Is this approach typically acceptable in libraries?
I actually learned about that approach here. By "sloppy" I meant for this particular problem specifically, since it required an addition that didn't seem necessary.
do you mean accessing the field directly? I don't understand why you are reluctant to access a struct field directly. when implementing a trait for a type, either the type is defined in your own crate, or the trait is defined in your own crate (or both), this is referred as the orphan rule. in this case, the trait Iterator is a foreign trait (from core) so you can only implement it for your own types, thus it counts as "implementation details".
a "getter" method is unnecessary in the first place, if all it does is to hide the field access. use "getter" methods only if your type must maintain certain invariant and exposing the field directly can lead to invalid states for your type. otherwise, just let the user access the field directly.
on the other hand, it's very common to see pairs of methods that differ only in mutability, both in the standard library and in third party libraries. for instance: for core::Option, there are as_ref() vs as_mut(), as_deref() vs as_deref_mut(), for core::cell::RefCell, we have borrow() vs borrow_mut(), for any conainer C, we have C::iter() vs C::iter_mut(). in third party libraries like indexmap, either, you'll see plenty of these pairs.
note these are not "getters", they are mostly type conversions or projections, or conveys special semantics.
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You don't need to make the field public for this. 1st-party impls of a type always have access to its fields. Just think about it: if this weren't the case, all non-public access levels would be useles. If even the impl of the type itself can't access its fields, then who could?
If not adding that method would lead to a type error, which is solvable by adding an other method, then what's unnecessary about it?
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Aishwarya Mishra
Aishwarya Kailash Mishra (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian athlete from Maharashtra. She competes in 400m. She is named in the Indian athletics team for the 400m event as a reserve athlete for the relay team event for the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. She was part of the women's 4 × 400 m relay Indian team that won silver along with Vithya Ramraj, Subha Venkatesan and Prachi Choudhary at the 2022 Asian Games.
Career
Aishwarya's personal best times:
* 2023: On September 29, she qualified for the final of the Asian Games 400m.
* 2023: In September, she clocked 47.90s in the 4 × 400 m relay at Chandigarh. Her best in 4 × 400 m relay mixed event came at Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok in July. She was part of the 4 × 400 m relay team that clocked 3:30.41, her personal best, at Mahinda Rajapaksha Stadium, Diyagama, Sri Lanka.
* 2023: She won a bronze medal in 400m at the Asian Athletics Championships at Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok in July.
* 2023: In May, she won he gold in 400m at the 26th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships, Birsa Munda Foot Ball Stadium, Morabadi, Ranchi.
* 2022: She clocked her best 2:06.44, in 800m at Patiala in March 2022.
Controversy
In 2022, after a major event Aishwarya went missing and a dope test could not be conducted after the Federation Cup at Kozhikode in April. But later she revealed that she went to take care of her ailing grandmother and later returned to competitions taking part in the National Inter-State Senior Championships in June. | WIKI |
Curcumin & Inflammation
Inflammation stopping you from what you really want? Want to be more active in life with less pain? and what is inflammation actually. Are there compounds, home remedies or foods that reduce inflammation?
You can relax – There is! Let’s continue with our article and find out what the solutions are for inflammatory issues (Step-by-Step).
First of all – We need to identify what inflammation actually is: It’s a defense mechanism of the body and it is an essential part of the healing process of the different medical issues that can occur in the body.
That sounds like a beneficial mechanism right? So what’s the problem then?
The problem starts – when the body doesn’t quit with the inflammatory response. And what you’re left with is; Pain, swelling body parts and other uncomfortable issues. If the defense mechanism is still putting out inflammatory responses, it will do more harm than good. This is an easy way to explain what inflammation is.
Offcourse the question now for you is: How can I reduce the inflammation?
When we want to reduce inflammation, first of all, we need to take a look at our diet. We can prevent inflammation by taking a good look at our diet and what to take in our diet and what to take out of it.
Which foods cause inflammation?
9 inflammatory foods to avoid
1. Refined Sugar.
2. Vegetable Oils.
3. Fried Foods.
4. Dairy.
5. Processed Meats.
6. excessive alcohol intake.
7. Trans fats.
8. Fast foods.
9. Additive sweeteners or chemicals.
Now you know what foods to avoid Inflammation.
When you look at this list you’re probably not surprised. A lot of people already identify this as unhealthy foods. Still reminding yourself to stay away from this inflammatory foods as much as possible is a great good and a healthy decision. We always need to remind ourselves, since we are creatures of habits and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Foods that reduce inflammation in the body (100% whole foods)
Offcourse we from Natures Healthy Roots we promote healthy roots. So the Turmeric root and the Ginger root are included and they must be because they have immense value in the fight against inflammation in the body.
1. Turmeric Root.
2. Ginger Root.
3. Green leafy vegetables.
4. Celery.
5. Beets.
6. broccoli.
7. Blueberries.
8. pineapple.
9. Salmon (organic)
10. Walnuts.
11. Coconut oils.
12. Chia Seeds.
This anti-inflammatory diet list is all-in-one can’t go wrong list of foods that reduce inflammation in the body.
Having said that. Maybe you want more practical and easy to use Home Remedies to reduce your inflammation?
turmeric couching syropA way to do that – is by making Ginger or Turmeric Home Remedies and reduce the inflammation in the body yourself. This is a Home Remedy originated from the people in the Himalayan mountains. That drink this for centuries and growing very old and healthy. I think we do ourselves and our body’s a pleasure to drink this milky nectar.
# Home Remedy Turmeric Milk
1 cup Almond Milk.
1 tsp Turmeric powder.
1 Tbsp honey.
½ tsp Cinnamon.
A pinch of black pepper.
The only thing you have to do is warm up the Milk and add and mix the products.
Fast like that – and easy steps to follow! The Turmeric home remedy is good for colds and coughs, It relaxes you and of course, it has huge anti-inflammatory properties. You can drink it in the evening to sleep better, to get more out of this Home Remedy.
Here’s another one: Ginger Tea with Honey
1 Tbsp ginger sliced
1 Tbsp honey
1 slice of lemon
Drink this in the morning and/or night. Preferably both. It’s easy to do and this healthy root tastes good with honey and Lemon. You’re going to love this Home Remedies I use.
What is the next step to stop inflammation in the body?
Exercise!
Hold on Edwin!? This should be an easy guide to reduce inflammation? Yes, no worries. All will be easy and very beneficial for all Inflammation symptoms.
Qi-Gong is the way to go. It’s a very healthy and relaxing easy to follow exercise. It states that one of both energies is out of balance which causes inflammation and needs to be in balance again. There are certain exercises to do that. They just take a few minutes. So get started and enjoy the movements.
The next solution – is an important one. It’s called Diaphragmatic breathing technique. Which is essential to strengthen the immune system, which reduces stress and therefore reduces the inflammation in the body.
Here is a short end clear video about this breathing technique
Do we have another solution to help reduce inflammation? Yes. It’s called Vitamin D. One of this vitamin’s many functions is to regulate the functioning of the immune system. Studies show that most people around the world don’t get enough of this vitamin D. And what is good for the Immune system, is good for reducing inflammation.
Normally when the sun is shining and we go enough outside, we get plenty of vitamin D. In the winter this is more difficult. So it’s easy to get a Vitamin D Supplement and support your fight with this friendly ally.
The last thing you can do is: Get enough sleep.
Sleeping replenishes your body’s energy and cells, which again is good for your immune system that fights the inflammation. Don’t oversleep too much also. But an 8-9 hour sleep is perfect.
The last thing – that I would recommend is meditation. Everything that reduces stress is an ally against inflammation. The upside from meditation is that there are many other health benefits related to meditation. There is less anxiety, feeling more compassion, feeling inner stillness in everyday situations, more focused.
Here is the one meditation I got from my teacher which is really simple to do.
1. Sit straight in a chair
2. put your hands into your lap. One hand over the other, both thumbs touching each other.
3. then follow your breath. Let your breath doing the work for you. You don’t need to adjust it.
4. now be the observer of the breath. Don’t be the breath. Your job is to observe it and look with every breath and feel this centering of your easy attention get you the deserved quiet time that you need.
5. Thoughts will come up. In the beginning, the will come up quickly. Only observe those thoughts, do not follow them, because they will dray you in one of your storylines. The thoughts will go away eventually when they’re looked at.
6. always go back to your breath when you’re out of your concentration. Be gentle with yourself.
So this was my article about inflammation – and how much you can do about it. I hope you enjoyed it and it has some benefits for you and if you feel inspired then take the Turmeric Plus Capsules Supplements, which have been proven to take a fight against all inflammatory symptoms.
Have a great day!
Be well
Be Blessed,
Edwin.
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CAAP
CAAP is an acronym that may refer to:
* Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
* Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology, a type of British medical specialist; usually shortened to Clinical Associate (Psychology)
* Coalition of African American Pastors
* Communauté d'Agglomération du Pays d'Aix-en-Provence (Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department)
* Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, theatre company resident at Carriageworks in Sydney | WIKI |
Waymo and GM still lead the pack in California’s new self-driving report cards
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report today. In the report, all companies that are actively testing self-driving cars on public roads in the Golden State disclose the number of miles driven and the frequency in which human drivers were forced to take control of their driverless vehicles. The biggest takeaway is that this is still Waymo (née Google) and GM’s party, and everyone else is playing catch-up. Waymo says it drove a total of 352,545 miles autonomously in California for the 12-month period that ended November 2017. That’s a steep drop from the number of miles driven in 2016 — 635,868 miles — which highlights the fact that Waymo has moved much of its fleet to Phoenix in advance of the launch of its commercial ride-hailing service. Waymo also reported that it had a paltry number of disengagements, 63, for the entire year. A Waymo spokesperson said that disengagements are a part of the testing process, as the company rolls out new vehicles (its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan made its debut last year) and tests new skills. Having driven more miles than any other company by an order of magnitude, and in over two dozen US cities, the company doesn’t seem to see the DMV’s annual reports as indicative of its overall testing program anymore. GM’s self-driving division Cruise told the California DMV that it drove a total of 131,676 miles in 2017 — a 121,900-mile increase over 2016. Its vehicles (which have a range of hilarious names like Albatross, Sunbear, and Mongoose) reported disengaging 105 times during the 12-month period. A spokesperson touted the company’s “1400 percent rate of improvement” in the performance of its autonomous systems. “We’re really excited about the rate of improvement that we see year-over-year,” he said. “It’s another proof point in our mission to bring an autonomous ride-sharing vehicle to market in 2019.” One result of the sharp increase in GM’s number of miles driven is a plethora of accidents. The auto giant’s autonomous cars were involved in 22 fender benders over the course of the reporting period (and two more in 2018). That’s one crash for every 5,985 miles of testing. The reports are further evidence that the intense competition to create self-driving cars is — for now — a two-person race between Waymo and GM. That was also the message from Navigant’s leaderboard analysis released earlier this year. In a sign that Waymo and GM only have eyes for each other, Waymo’s Medium post on the news today accidentally linked to GM’s report rather than its own, as noted by Jalopnik’s Ryan Felton. (The link was later fixed.) Waymo wrote about its CA testing here, and links to ... Cruise's reporthttps://t.co/ThMjhsmyiN pic.twitter.com/vjmvo2b9sC No other company came close to racking up the same number of miles as Waymo and GM. Drive.ai drove 6,127 miles; Nissan 5,007 miles; Zoox 2,244 miles; Bosch 2,052 miles; Aptiv 1,810 miles; and so on. (If you haven’t heard of some of these companies, don’t feel bad. Some are auto suppliers, others still fairly small startups.) Several major automakers like Ford, BMW, Honda, and Volkswagen reported driving zero miles autonomously on public roads in California. This shouldn’t be interpreted as these companies lagging in the self-driving race. Some are testing their vehicles in other states or countries, or on closed-course proving grounds. And the fact that they applied for permits from the DMV seems to indicate they will be testing at some point down the road. California’s annual reports are closely watched in the self-driving world, mainly for the sheer number of companies that test there and the state’s rules that require disclosure of miles driven, disengagements, and accidents. More often than not, the reports are criticized from all sides, with the companies complaining about the amount of work that goes into their production, and academics and experts chiding their lack of context. Another company that stands out is Tesla, which reported driving zero miles autonomously on public roads. The company says that it conducts its testing “via simulation, in laboratories, on test tracks, and on public roads in various locations around the world.” And with hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road today, Tesla touted its method of “shadow-testing” its autonomous capabilities, by which the company collects anonymized data from its fleet of customer-owned vehicles during normal driving operations. These vehicles are not autonomous, but Tesla claims this method will help it achieve “full self-driving” capabilities. Noticeably absent from the list of companies with reports to disclose is Uber. You may recall the dust-up between the ride-hail company and the DMV when Uber refused to apply for a license to test its autonomous vehicles in California. The DMV ordered Uber’s self-driving cars off the road, and the company made a big show of shipping them to Arizona (where the rules are far less stringent). Uber eventually acquiesced and received its testing permit in May 2017. As such, the company was not required to submit a report this time. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Dark hunter
Dark hunter may refer to:
* Austrogomphus bifurcatus, a species of dragonfly, native to northern Australia
* Dark-Hunter, a paranormal romance novel series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
* Dark-Hunter Universe, a fictional world in which multiple interlocking series by Sherrilyn Kenyon come together, see The Dark-Hunter, Dream-Hunter, Were-Hunter and Hellchaser Universe
* Dark HunTor may refer to Operation Dark HunTor a U.S. law enforcement operation regarding The Onion Browser (TOR) aka the dark web. | WIKI |
Talk:Malagassiskisut
RFV discussion: August 2017
Wondering why I even bother with RFV, since I know noone else is working on Greenlandic.__Gamren (talk) 16:37, 30 August 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Clémentine Delauney
fan from U.S America (Indiana)
Found you on random search. Love--Love-Love. I have some of your talent on my playlist (brucejo2000) on U Tube music playlist 2601:805:8000:AA80:59BF:C36C:1EC9:706F (talk) 05:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Isurus
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Isurus
Temporal range: Cretaceous - recent
[1][2]
Shortfin mako swfsc.jpg
Shortfin mako shark (I. oxyrinchus)
Isurus paucus.jpg
Longfin mako shark (I. paucus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: Isurus
Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms
• Isuropsis Gill, 1862
• Lamiostoma Glikman, 1964
• Oxyrhina Agassiz, 1838
• Oxyrrhina Bonaparte, 1846
• Plectrostoma Gistel, 1848
Isurus is a genus of mackerel sharks in the family Lamnidae, commonly known as the mako sharks.
Description[edit]
The two living species are the common shortfin mako shark (I. oxyrinchus) and the rare longfin mako shark (I. paucus). They range in length from 2.5 to 4.5 m (8.2 to 14.8 ft), and have an approximate maximum weight of 800 kg (1,800 lb).
Several extinct species are known from fossils found in sediments from Cretaceous to Quaternary (age range: 99.7 to 0.781 million years ago).[1]
The family Lamnidae also includes the great white shark and the porbeagle. Mako sharks are capable of swimming at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph), and jumping up to 7 m (23 ft) into the air. The great white shark is also closely related to an ancient mako shark, Isurus hastalis. However, fossil evidence suggests I. hastalis belonged to the genus Carcharodon.[3] Unique among members of the Lamniformes order, Mako sharks occasionally exhibit homosexual behavior outside of their usual mating season.[4]
Species[edit]
The genus contains these species:[1]
Fossil teeth of I. hastalis
See also[edit]
References[edit]
1. ^ a b c Fossilworks
2. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30.
3. ^ "Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
4. ^ Garrison, Tom (2007). Oceanography : an invitation to marine science. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole. ISBN 978-0-495-11286-0. OCLC 77765037.
5. ^ Smith, J.L.B. Sharks of the Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810. Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 6. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
6. ^ Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982 ISBN 0-00-216987-8 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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vulnerable are lock-and-dam installations and the shiplifts at Rothensee and Niederlinens; destruction of which would completely close through traffic and cause flooding and restrictive low water levels on the major routes. The simultaneous destruction of the shiplifts and the locks at Niederlinens, Brandenburg, and Eisenhuettenstadt would be of particular consequence—all major routes to Greater Berlin would be closed to through traffic from both east and west. Serious interdiction could also be accomplished in destroying ports, repair facilities, and large bridges.
East Germany's merchant fleet could provide substantial sealift logistical support for military operations. Its cargo ships have a combined lift capability of 818,675 long tons, and its tankers could transport about 2.6 million barrels of petroleum products. The sizable number (74 units) of large-hatch, heavy-lift ships could be used extensively to replenish supplied for deployed armed forces as well as to provide sealift capability for delivering all known Communist military hardware. The fleet's passenger carrying ships would lift about 1,500 troops under emergency conditions, and the fleet's four ferries could be used to transport about 8,500 troops on a very short-haul basis. Additionally, with slight modifications the 23 fishing vessels in the fleet totaling 87,925 g.r.t. and 51,955 d.w.t. could be converted to military use. Three of East Germany's major maritime ports—Rostock, Wismar, and Stralsund—are the most favorably suited for military logistic use and have a combined estimated military port capacity of 74,500 tons. Rostock, the largest and best equipped, is by far the most suitable, but all three have substantial wharfage for handling military cargo, and each is cleared by several standard-gage rail lines and several hard-surfaced roads. Sassnitz and Peenemuende, the two remaining major ports, are less than ideal for such operations, not being general-cargo ports and more limited in clearance facilities.
The two largest ports, Rostock, and Wismar, if used as terminals in an east-west maritime movement of Warsaw Pact forces, would permit supplying such forces operating in northern East Germany directly from Soviet Baltic or Soviet inland-waterway ports.
Rostock is the principal supply port for Soviet forces in East Germany. Soviet vessels unload supplies at a military terminal in the Unter Warrgau Harbor and at deep-draft wharves in the Overseas Harbor.
'''FIGURE 1. Soviet forces moving near Berlin, armor on the Outer-Ring railroad line and a truck convoy on the south ring of the Berlin autobahn (C)'''
The principal disadvantage of East German ports in a military operation is their vulnerability to interdiction. Rostock has a narrow harbor entrance and Wismar, Stralsund, and Peenemuende all have long and relatively narrow approach channels. Sassnitz is not restricted by an approach channel but does depend on a combination rail-highway bridge for clearance from the island of Ruegen to the mainland.
The civil-air carrier INTERFLUG could provide limited troop and cargo transport services in support of military operations. This support, however, is totally dependent upon provision of supplies and aircraft maintenance services in the U.S.S.R. Many of INTERFLUG's skilled aviation personnel are members of the military reserve. East German airfields are distributed throughout the country but are concentrated mainly in the south; facilities are adequate for routine operations.
The telecom systems could adequately support military requirements. Total disruption of services by military action would be difficult because of the many facilities available for alternate routing; however, unattended radio-relay repeater stations and junction points in the underground cable networks are vulnerable to sabotage. In wartime, complete military control of the telecom facilities would prevail.
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telegram bot接口开发指南
cooolr 于 2022-05-10 发布
第一步: 在BotFather新建机器人并获取token
第二步: 设置webhock转发消息到本地接口
https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/setWebhook?url=https://www.baidu.com/telegram_bot_api
第三步: 开发https本地接口接收消息
import requests
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
TOKEN = ""
app = Flask(__name__)
def send_message(chat_id, message):
url = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}/sendMessage"
data = {"chat_id": chat_id, "text": message}
r = requests.post(url, json=data)
return r.status_code
@app.route("/telegram_bot_api", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def bot_api():
text = request.json["message"]["text"]
chat_id = request.json["message"]["chat"]["id"]
if text == "/start":
send_message(chat_id, "绑定成功")
else:
message = "您设置的交易阈值即将被触发\n交易对：USD/CNY\n最高价：6.45\n最低价：6.31\n交易量：2334\n交易额：98765.43\n请及时关注交易信息，以免造成损失。"
send_message(chat_id, message)
return ""
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(port=1234, threaded=True)
加入变量
https://t.me/cooolr_bot?start=helloworld | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Serhiy Romanyshyn
Serhiy Romanishyn (born 3 September 1975) is a former Ukrainian football player. He was the first Ukrainian footballer to play in the Albanian Superliga and was also the first to win the 2002 league title in Albania with Dinamo Tirana. | WIKI |
Tanfield Lea
Tanfield Lea is a village north of Stanley, County Durham, England, and south of Tantobie.
Religious sites
There is a Methodist Church, which also has a village hall.
Industry
The Ever Ready battery company used to be a major employer in the local area, employing over a thousand workers at its peak. The Tanfield Lea factory was closed in 1996, following the take over of British Ever Ready by the American company Ralston Purina in 1992. | WIKI |
Mokpo station
Mokpo station is a station on the Honam Line in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province. It is the westernmost railway station in South Korea. This station is the last stop on the Honam Line. Being located in the southwestern part of the Korean peninsula, it is used by customers who visit Jeju Island, Heuksan Island, and Hong Island in connection with KTX. | WIKI |
Talk:Tanya Snyder
redirect
While the article does use some primary sources, it does not exclussively depend on primary sources. Snyder is the co-owner and co-chief executive officer of an NFL Team. She has recieved independent coverage:, , , ,. At the very least, I would ask that a deletion nomination is made where a discussion can take place to decide whether or not to turn this article into a redirect, rather than just making it so without discussion. Is that possible? -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 16:17, 7 May 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Helen Fogwill Porter
Agnes Helen Fogwill Porter (May 8, 1930 – February 16, 2023) was a Canadian writer, educator, and activist.
Early life
Porter was born on May 8, 1930, on the Southside of St. John's, Newfoundland, the eldest child of Robert (Bob) Fogwill, who worked in the Newfoundland Railway freight office, and Evelyn Horwood. Porter attended the Holloway School and Prince of Wales College in St. John's. As a teenager, Porter was part of the petition drive for confederation between Newfoundland and Canada. Following her graduation, she worked as a shorthand typist with the Department of Justice.
In 1953 she married John Porter; the couple had four children: Kathy, Ann, John, and Stephen. The family lived in Corner Brook and Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador before returning to St. John's. John Porter died in 1983; John Porter Jr. died in 2016.
When their youngest child entered high school Porter started work at the A. C. Hunter Library. She was introduced to the writing of Margaret Duley and met other aspiring writers.
Writing career
One of Porter's first-published poems appeared in 1943, but she became serious about writing in 1962. In 1963 she began having articles, reviews, short stories and poetry published in Maclean's, Chatelaine, Star Weekly and Saturday Night. Her works were then further published in the Quill & Quire, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review and the Journal of Canadian Fiction. At the beginning of her writing career, Porter based most of her stories out of England, Scotland, or the United States because she believed that nobody was interested in stories about Newfoundland.
It was not until 1973 that she devoted her full-time to writing. By then, Porter's short stories, articles, poems, plays and reviews were published throughout Canada and abroad. In 1977 she collaborated with Bernice Morgan and Geraldine Rubia on writing From this Place, an anthology from women writers of Newfoundland and Labrador. Porter's Below the Bridge was published in 1979, a story about her childhood in St. John's. It was later adapted to audiobook format. Porter said,"One experience that I never had again is the one I had with writing Below the Bridge because that is probably the book that I most wanted to write. It's a memoir history about growing up on the South Side of St. John's in the 1930s and 1940s. That was a book I had to write."Porter's first novel, January, February, June or July (1988), took on the then-taboo subject of abortion. This was followed by A Long and Lonely Ride (1991) and Finishing School (2007). Her most recent publication is the poetry collection Full Circle. Porter's work has been said to construct narratives "that focus on commonplace events in order to examine the motivations, material conditions, constraints and desires that inform women's actions and responses in apparently non-dramatic situations."
Porter was a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada (of which she has been given a lifetime membership), and served on the boards of PEN and the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL). Porter taught creative writing with Memorial University Extension Arts from 1976-1990 and with the division of Continuing Studies from 1991. She also worked with the Visiting Artists' Program of the Newfoundland Teachers' Association visiting schools to impart an appreciation of literature to school children. Porter was also a founding member of the Newfoundland Writer's Guild. As part of that group, she helped bring Metroverse, a Canada Council initiative placing poetry on city buses, to St. John's. This project led her to get involved with a similar one in Alberta called "Take the Poetry Route" that put pieces of poetry inside buses in Edmonton, Lethbridge, Fort McMurray, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and Medicine Hat.
Political life
Porter was heavily involved in the women's movement in the early 1970s. She was also a founding member of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council. In the decade between 1975 and 1985, Porter ran for election to the Canadian Parliament as a New Democratic Party representative four times. She ran in the riding of Mount Pearl, a suburb of St. John's, Newfoundland.
Porter's political goals were to get the economy back on track and to gain equality for women. Porter has been described as "an outstanding candidate with an enormous commitment to her community". Her audience also stated that: "Helen Porter will fight for real change for the benefit of all Newfoundlanders." In 2003 The Helen Porter Fund was established to help women NDP candidates. She marched for causes and protested events from the Vietnam War to a Metrobus strike to St. John's heritage preservation.
Awards
At least fifteen of Porter's works were honoured with awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competitions throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This included Bus Ride, a conversation between two women coming home from bingo; this later became a radio play broadcast on CBC Radio as well as a one act play performed at a festival on the upper concourse of the St. John's Arts and Culture Centre.
Porter's novel January, February, June or July won the Young Adult Canadian Book Award from the Canadian Library Association in 1989, and was short-listed for Books in Canada W. H. Smith Best First Novel Award. Porter also received the year's lifetime achievement award for her length of time as a leading figure in the Guild. Porter received the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. Memorial University of Newfoundland granted her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1997. She was appointed Member of the Order of Canada (CM)) in December 2015. It was presented during a special ceremony in St. John's. That same year a footbridge spanning the Waterford River was dedicated to her.
The Helen Fogwill Porter Fund
In March 2003, the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party launched a fund in Porter's name. The fund aids women who are seeking to run as an NDP representative. The fund assists women at the provincial level in general and by elections. The financial assistance provides child care, campaign costs and household assistance. The Helen Fogwill Porter Fund also support conferences where female candidates can meet with each other. Nancy Riche stated, "The province needs more women in the legislature. If Helen had won in one of the elections in which she ran, she would have made more than a difference. She would have changed the political landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador."
Articles
* People I Should Like to Meet (1945)
* Growing Up on the South Side. The Atlantic Advocate (September 1965): 35-39.
* But Where Is Everything? (1975)
* To rearrange the past. Books in Canada 23:1 (1994): 21-23.
* The Road Taken (2000)
* My History Lessons (2000)
* It would have been our 47th anniversary. National Post (2000-10-18)
* OK, so my meals weren't exactly gourmet. National Post (2002-07-08)
Books
* From this Place - with Bernice Morgan and Geraldine Rubia (1977; ISBN 0-920502-02-4)
* Below the Bridge (1980; ISBN 0-919948-72-3)
* January, February, June or July (1988; ISBN 0-920911-27-7)
* A Long and Lonely Ride (1991; ISBN 1-55081-011-1)
* We Came From Over the Sea, British War Brides in Newfoundland - with Barbara B. Barrett C.M., Eileen Dicks, Isobel Brown, Hilda Chaulk Murray (1996)
* Finishing School (2007; ISBN 978-1-895900-88-0)
Poems
* The Business of Getting Up (1943)
* She's Over Eighty, You Know (1950)
* They Do It Every Summer (1954)
* The Children Are Gone (1979)
* Moratorium (1999)
* To My Son
* Sunday Best (1992)
* Food for Thought (1996)
* Gwenda (1999)
* Full Circle (2018; ISBN 978-1-550817-13-3)
Plays and short stories
* Teen-Age Tragedy (1946)
* For Every Man an Island (1982; ISBN 0-919519-09-1)
* The Five- Dollar Bet (1969)
* Moving Day
* Hot Night In July (1991) | WIKI |
Ten Days Erased from History
October 11, 2022
In today’s world people are more connected than ever to time. We hardly go anywhere without our phones or there being a clock of some sort telling us the exact time, often down to the 100th of a second.
Yet, there are also moments in our lives when we lose track of time. Maybe a few minutes here and there. An hour or two. Possibly even a day.
But to lose ten whole days requires a pretty major event.
This singular event, which took place in October 1582, corrected a worldwide problem over 1200 years in the making. Imagine this: you go to bed on October 4th and you wake up and it’s now October 15.
Like last week’s post, you might think it could only happen in The Twilight Zone. But the ten days between those two dates in 1582 were, literally, erased from the calendar as though they never happened.
What was ushered in was a new calendar which we still follow 440 years later. The Infallible Wikipedia helpfully tells us:
“The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day ‘tropical’ or ‘solar’ year that is determined by the Earth’s revolution around the Sun. (snip)
There were two reasons to establish the Gregorian calendar. First, the Julian calendar assumed incorrectly that the average solar year is exactly 365.25 days long, an overestimate of a little under one day per century, and thus has a leap year every four years without exception. The Gregorian reform shortened the average (calendar) year by 0.0075 days to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes.”
Use of the Julian calendar had caused many problems, not the least of which being that the seasons no longer aligned with the longest and shortest days of the year or the spring or autumn equinoxes.
The most innovative part of the calendar adjustment had to do with the calculation of leap years. Since we experience a 366 day year once every four years, leap years were the perfect vehicle to make adjustments.
So every four years we gain a day… except when we don’t. If the leap year is set to occur in a ‘century’ year (1800, 1900, 2000, etc) then there is NOT a leap year. But with one exception. Any ‘century’ year which can be divided by 400 IS a leap year. Which is why the year 2000 was a leap year but 2100, 2200, and 2300 will NOT be. The next ‘century’ leap year does not occur until 2400.
In thinking about those ten days simply being erased got me thinking about a few times in my own life when time lost all meaning and a series of days squished together without definition.
There were several times when severe illness did that for me. An allergic reaction to penicillin in the sixth grade caused me to miss the Central Washington Fair as I lay in bed for a week and half; contracting the hard measles the year I was in 8th grade (https://barbaradevore.com/2020/03/03/seasons-in-the-sun/); The two weeks I came home from college in January of 1978 with the chicken pox; and, more recently, in late February 2020 when I had Covid 19.
But there was one particular event which occurred when the whole world seemed to stop for ten days. I had been in Yakima in September and October 2019 nearly full time as my Dad’s health deteriorated and he had been placed on hospice. Although I had returned home for a couple days, the call came from the hospice that the end was approaching.
My message to my siblings from Tuesday, October 15, 2019:
“Dad is in bed now and minimally responsive. He is not opening his eyes on command. The only time he does respond is when the staff needs to take care of his physical needs such as changing him, etc. He dislikes being touched although he did let her hold his hand. But he does not want to be rubbed, etc.
His BP is still good and he still has some fight left in him…. However, Lecia (the hospice nurse) said she expects him to pass within the next few days and would be surprised if he makes it through the weekend.”
As it turned out Lecia, and everyone else, were completely wrong.
Dad had slipped into a comatose state… and remained that way for a total of ten days. Over the course of those days, all of his children and various family members came to see him.
It was a weird scene. Dad lay in bed, eyes closed, unresponsive, as family visited and reminisced. And he hung on. Day after day. Night after night. Every day the caregivers at Apple Creek (a wonderful and caring place!) were baffled by how long he was able to survive without food or water. His mouth was moistened with an oral sponge on a stick.
Time morphed into episodes of light and dark and lost all meaning. Eventually, family members had to return to their lives and, on the last few days, it was just three of us – my brother, my sister, and me – who were there, taking turns in our vigil.
My sister and I did two ‘overnights’ together, each using one of the recliners so we could sleep.
Finally, a night arrived where, due to her job as teacher and the need to make lesson plans for the substitute, my sister could not stay overnight. So I volunteered to take on the duty solo. When I fell asleep that night, I could not have told you the date or the time. All I know is that I was going to be there with dad.
Then, around 4 a.m., things started to change. In those ten days of sameness dad never moved, never ate, never talked, never drank. It was just always the same.
Except that when, suddenly, it was no longer the same. At the moment of death, an electric impulse vibrated through his entire body for several seconds, his whole being coming to life; it was as if it was his final resistance to death.
When it was over I knew I had experienced something extraordinary; even so I was shaken by the ordeal. And yet the first thing I did after that event was to look at the clock and note the time and the day.
It was 5:06 a.m. on Thursday, October 24. As surely as the ten days which were erased in October 1582, so had time been reset for me in October 2019. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Floristry
Floristry is the production, commerce, and trade in flowers. It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design and arrangement, merchandising, production, display and flower delivery. Wholesale florists sell bulk flowers and related supplies to professionals in the trade. Retail florists offer fresh flowers and related products and services to consumers. The first flower shop in the United States opened prior to 1851.
Floristry concerns the cultivation of flowers as well as their arrangement and sale. Much of the raw material supplied for the floristry trade comes from the cut flowers industry. Florist shops, along with online stores, are the main flower-only outlets, but supermarkets, garden supply stores, and filling stations also sell flowers.
Floral design or floral arts is the art of creating flower arrangements in vases, bowls, baskets, or other containers, or making bouquets and compositions from cut flowers, foliages, herbs, ornamental grasses, and other plant materials. Often the terms "floral design" and "floristry" are considered synonymous. Florists are people who work with flowers and plants, generally at the retail level. Floristry differs from floristics, the study of distribution and relationships of plant species over geographic areas. Floristry also differs from horticulture, which more broadly relates to the cultivation of flowers and plants so they will remain fresh as long as possible, and would be desirable for purchase, which also involves knowledge of customers' requirements and expectations. The ability to create a variety of floral designs such as wreaths, bouquets, corsages, boutonnières/'buttonholes', permanent arrangements, and other more complicated arrangements are also important.
Education, both formal and informal, is another significant segment of the floristry industry. Established floristry designers and artists impart their craft to students interested in floral design as hobby or career. Courses are generally available through community colleges, private post-secondary vocational schools, and professional florist trade associations.
In the Netherlands, the first horticultural college was founded in 1896 in Naaldwijk; the second horticultural college was founded in 1897 in Aalsmeer. In 1926, the first national professional qualification examinations in floristry were held in the Netherlands. The horticultural college in Aalsmeer celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1972 and in 1997 its 100th anniversary. Since 1926 is the horticultural college in Aalsmeer was called the Rijks Middelbare Tuinbouw School (RTMS). The first professional floristry education started at the RMTS in 1968. The first professor in floristry at the horticultural college in Aalsmeer was Mr. Theo Boerma. In 1972 Theo Boerma started teaching professional evening courses for the floristry diploma: vakdiploma Bloemist-Winkelier. In 1980 Theo Boerma and his wife José Boerma founded the first privately owned floristry school; Boerma Instituut International Floral Design School in Aalsmeer. The floristry diploma was recognized by the Dutch government until 1996. When the borders of Europe opened, the diploma was no longer needed but professional training for Dutch and international students is still organised by the Boerma Instituut.
The floristry business has a significant market in the corporate and social event world, as flowers play a large part in the decor of special events and meetings. Centerpieces, entryways, reception tables, bridal bouquets, wedding chuppahs, and stage sets are only a few examples of how flowers are used in the business and social event settings. Flowers are also traditionally used in ecclesiastical settings and their arrangement is often done by skilled church volunteers.
Styles
Many nations have their own style of floral arranging. This is dependent on what flower varieties are readily available, and the culture of the nation.
Ikebana
Today, florists in Japan also sell pre-arranged or done-while-you-wait ikebana. Ikebana is a style of floral design that originated in Japan. Best known for its simplicity of line and form, ikebana is a design style primarily practiced for personal enjoyment. It has three parts of alignment: heaven, man, and earth.
English Garden
English Garden style is traditionally an English form of floral design. Stems are placed in a radial fashion and feature abundant use of seasonal flowers and foliages. These designs are often done as low, tufted mounds, or taller vase arrangements that are all-sided (360°), and incorporate garden flowers like roses, gardenia, camellia, delphinium and peonies. The flowers are usually arranged with minimal space between the blooms and foliage is used to accent the flowers as these are the main feature.
Modern/European Style
Modern/European Style floristry involves contemporary, linear designs that highlight unique forms of both individual floral materials and of the designs themselves. Arrangements generally feature negative space and incorporate asymmetric placement of materials. The style stands in direct contrast to traditional radial arrangements such as English Garden. Modern designs are identified by their play on the space used between each bloom, which is often dramatic, and the play on the use of color and different textures, which can be quite experimental.
Modern/European Style designs often incorporate unique, exotic or tropical flowers such as bird of paradise, orchids, Anthurium, and Protea of the Caribbean and other exotic locals, but may also employ more common blossoms, such as Roses, Gerberas and lilies.
Contemporary/Dutch Style
Contemporary/Dutch Style designs also involve contemporary and linear designs. The Dutch designs use a lot of different kinds of greens are used in a natural way. The "Dutch Garden" style arrangement—started in the early 1980s—is a very good example of a Dutch style arrangement. Stones, bark and mosses are used in these designs.
Australian Style
Australian floral style is a harmonious blend of nature's raw beauty and artistic expression. Drawing inspiration from the country's diverse landscapes and native flora, this style encapsulates the essence of the land Down Under. With a focus on native flowers like banksias, eucalyptus, and Waratahs, Australian floral arrangements exude a distinctive rustic charm. The style often showcases a fusion of textures, colours, and shapes, mirroring the dynamic contrasts found in the Australian environment. Whether it's a coastal-inspired arrangement echoing the tranquil shores or a bold creation capturing the vibrant hues of the outback, Australian floral style is a unique and captivating representation of the country's natural riches.
Significance of particular flowers
Typically, a florist will organize flowers by season and holiday. Flowers have various different meanings in different cultures. The holidays and events for which flowers are used vary. Poppies are used to remember fallen soldiers only in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. People often prefer flowers that are associated with their ethnic group or country and the cultural meaning of the flower color strongly affects their choice and use. Colors convey different meanings to different groups so that, for example, various colors may be associated with luck or death or love. A flower such as a red rose might communicate love in some cultures, whereas in others, it might be considered indecent or simply puzzling. The vastly divergent attitudes to the color white can also lead to miscommunication and sometimes give offense. White, for example, represents death in many Asian cultures, whereas white is usually a symbol of purity and innocence in countries with a European heritage. Early Victorians, among others, developed an entire, comprehensive language of flowers sometimes referenced in the floral industry today.
Role in personal relationships
Due to the rich and nuanced significance of different flowers and the myriad design possibilities using floral materials, it is hardly surprising that floral arrangements play a number of roles in personal relationships. They're sent to express love, celebrate special occasions, offer condolences, and more.
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021, floristry became an even more important means of communicating with loved ones from a distance. As The New York Times noted, "in lieu of saying it in person, we're all saying it with flowers." This has led to an increase in profit for the American floral industry; over 80% of respondents to a survey conducted by the Society of American Florists said their holiday sales had increased in 2020 compared with 2019.
Fresh flower sources
There are usually three major sources of fresh flowers for retail florists: local growers, local wholesalers and flower auctions. The majority of these are supplied by specialist horticultural and cut flower suppliers.
Internationally there are hundreds of wholesale flower markets and auctions, the largest of which is located in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands: the Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer. Other major markets include the fledgling Dubai Flower Centre and the Ota Flower Market in Tokyo, Japan.
Within North America, Miami is considered to be the main distribution point for imported fresh flowers. Many local wholesalers purchase fresh flower stock from importers in Miami to resell to local florists in their areas. Wholesale flower districts are present in many North American cities such as New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Carlsbad, California. Flower auctions are run using the Dutch clock system and are mainly located in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Floristry shops
In the Netherlands gardeners started to sell flower arrangements from around 1850. In 1851 Butz Flowers opened its doors in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is still operating today as one of the oldest floristry shops in the United States. Soon after, around 1900, the first flower shops started to open in The Netherlands. At that time the flower shops also had small greenhouses from which they sold their flowers.
Generally, a florist's shop will contain a large array of flowers, sometimes displayed on the street, or will have a large plate glass window to display the flowers. To keep them fresh, the flowers will be refrigerated and kept in water, generally in glass or plastic vases or other containers. Most shops have a refrigerator/chiller cabinet/cooler near the front of the shop/store with large glass doors so that customers can easily view the contents. Some shops also have another cooler out of the customers' view where they keep extra stock and arrangements for customers' orders. Most stores have a separate work room in which the design florist or designers can work on orders with more privacy.
The flowers sold in florist shops typically represent the varieties abundantly available in the season but also include blossoms flown in from around the world. Basic varieties in temperate latitudes include roses, tulips, irises, orchids and lilies. Fashion sometimes plays a role in floristry; what is considered the flower that everyone needs to have today can change very quickly. Some shops also stock gift baskets, fruits, and chocolates as well as flowers, whereas some shops will purchase these things only when needed for an order. Floral business is seasonal and is heavily influenced by the following holidays and events: Christmas, Valentine's Day, Administrative Professionals' Day, Mothers' Day, All Souls Day, Advent, Easter, weddings and funerals. These occasions make up the largest part of the business, with the sale of house plants and home decor being a smaller, but more constant, part. Flowers for personal enjoyment as well as those selected to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, thank-yous and get well wishes are also a significant portion of a florist's business.
Supermarket flowers
Cut flowers are widely sold in supermarkets and petrol stations. These outlets offer a limited selection, usually in the form of mixed bouquets and roses by the dozen. Flowers purchased at these outlets are generally less expensive than the flowers purchased at a florist shop. Professional florists may offer a greater selection, higher flower quality, or more skillfully arranged flowers.
Technology
In the United States, the number of florists has dropped since a peak of over 27,000 in 1992 to fewer than 20,000 in 2007. The World Wide Web has contributed to this decline by making alternatives more accessible.
Floral wire services play an intermediary by gathering orders to be fulfilled by local florists. Floral wire services take a percentage of customers order value for orders provided through their websites and additional fees for the transmission of orders to local florists.
Few companies ship flowers direct to the consumer. ProFlowers, Interflora, Teleflora, FTD typically function as order gatherers and will work with local florists to have the order delivered.
Floral foam is a foam used by florists to fixate flower stems for storage and delivery. It usually consists of phenol-formaldehyde plastic. Due to an additional treatment with detergents, the substance can soak up water and increase the longevity of arranged flowers. Floral foam is non-biodegradable, non-recyclable and toxic for both humans and animals. | WIKI |
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comprehensive policy as the ultimate outcome of their movement, I entertain no doubt. They looked unquestionably to an easy military success, and the complete establishment of their Confederacy; more remotely, there can be no question they contemplated a policy of extension, and the establishment along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and in the Antilles of a great semi-tropical, slave-labor re- public; finally, all my investigations have tended to satisfy me that they confidently anticipated an early disintegration of the Union, and the accession of the bulk of the Northern States to the Con- federacy, New England only being sternly excluded therefrom, "sloughed off," as they expressed it. The capital of the new Confederacy was to be Washington; African servitude, under reason- able limitations, was to be recognized throughout its limits; agricul- ture was to be its ruling interest, with a tariff and foreign policy in strict accord therewith. 4< Secession is not intended to break up the present government, but to perpetuate it. We go out of the Union, not to destroy it, but for the purpose of getting further guarantees and security," this was said in January, 1861; and this in IQOO: "And so we believe that with the success of the South, the ' Union of the Fathers/ which the South was the principal factor in forming, and to which she was far more attached than the North, would have been restored and re-established; that in this Union the South would have been again the dominant people, the controlling power. ' ' Con- ceding the necessary premises of fact and law a somewhat con- siderable concession, but, perhaps, conceivable conceding these, I see in this position, then or now, nothing illogical, nothing provo- cative of severe criticism, certainly nothing treasonable. Acting on sufficient grounds, of which those thus acting were the sole judge, proceeding in a way indisputably legal and regular, it was proposed to reconstruct the Union in the light of experience, and on a new, and, as they considered, an improved basis, without New England. This cannot properly be termed a conspiracy; it was a legitimate policy based on certain assumed data legal, moral and economical. But it was in reality never for a moment believed that this programme could be peaceably and quietly carried into effect; and the assent of New England to the arrrangement was neither asked for, assumed, nor expected. New England was distinctly relegated to an outer void at once cold, dark, inhospitable.
As to participation of those who sympathized in these views and this policy in the councils of the government, so furthering schemes for its overthrow while sworn to its support, I hold it unnecessary to | WIKI |
Rigor Mortis
Rigor mortis literally translates to “stiffness of death“.
Nysten in 1811 is credited with being the first person to use rigor mortis to determine the time of death. He is the first to show postmortem rigidity in a criminal inquiry. It’s a physical change that affects all muscles in animals and humans who have just died. When this happens, it means that fatalities happened during the last 2-4 hours.
Rigor Mortis is a Third stage of death. It’s a chemical process that causes muscle fibres to stiffen in flexion position by forming a stable combination of adenosine and myosin and occurs periodically.
Mechanism:
A variety of metabolic processes occur inside the skeletal and cardiac muscle fibres throughout the body shortly after death. Specifically, the chemical source of energy for muscular contraction, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), continues to be used by muscle cells, leading in the creation of cross-bridges between myosin and actin fibres. When you die, though, your body stops producing fresh ATP. Because ATP is necessary for the dissociation of actin and myosin fibres and the resulting muscle relaxation, relaxation is no longer possible after the ATP supply is depleted. As a result, the muscle fibres are unable to relax and stay in a constant state of contraction. As a result of the absence of extra ATP, the muscle fibres stay in a constant state of contraction, unable to relax. When a result, as these processes take place after death, the body’s muscles will grow progressively stiff until all of the ATP has been spent. Rigor mortis is the term for postmortem muscular stiffness. Rigor mortis will last until the myosin and actin filaments are fragmented, which can be done by physical manipulation or early decomposition.
The muscles become limp or flaccid shortly after death. The muscles begin to stiffen within the first hour following death. Rigor mortis occurs simultaneously in all muscles. Because muscle parts differ in size and mass, rigor mortis manifests itself first in the smaller muscles, such as the jaw and fingers. Within 3 hours, rigor mortis nearly spread in all muscles of body.
The jaw, arms, and eventually the legs are straightened out of the flexion posture and the resistance is measured to determine rigor.
Because rigor mortis is a chemical reaction, the pace of development varies greatly depending on the environment, the size of the individual, and the person’s state upon death.
Rigor mortis develops and fades faster in instances of weariness or protracted sickness, whereas it develops slowly in cases of suffocation, apoplexy, or neurological disorders. Strychnine and other spinal toxins have a faster start and a longer duration.
The muscles become limp and flaccid as the rigour mortis progresses, and they do not respond to mechanical or electrical stimulation. The indications of decomposition grow increasingly visible on the body, and the corpse becomes completely relaxed and flaccid, allowing it to be placed in any position or posture.
Here are some more rigour mortis facts:
✔ At 70°F–75°F, muscles stiffen about 1–3 hours after death, and grow completely after 9–12 hours.
✔ A high fever or a high ambient temperature can hasten the onset of rigidity.
✔ If the deceased was engaged in vigorous physical activity just before death, rigour mortis will develop more quickly.
✔ Rigor mortis is initially noticed in the jaw, then the face, and finally the upper and lower extremities. To feel if the linked joints are movable, the examiner must first check the mouth, then the arms, and finally the legs.
✔ When the jaw, elbow, and knee joints are immobile, the body is said to be in total (full) rigidity.
✔ At 70°F–75°F, the body will stay stiff for 24–36 hours until the muscles begin to relax, generally in the same order that they tightened.
✔ In lower temperatures, rigor is slowed, whereas in warmer temperatures, it is accelerated.
✔ When the body stiffens, it stays that way until the rigour passes or the joint is physically moved, breaking the rigidity (or decomposition occurs).
✔ The posture of a body in complete rigour might reveal whether or not the body has been moved after death.
If a body has been moved after death, seeing rigour mortis might be beneficial.
Rigor Mortis First appears in:
The rigour mortis takes a predictable path. It begins with the muscles of the eyelids, then moves on to the muscles of the back of the neck and lower jaw, the front of the neck, the face, the chest, and the upper extremities, and finally to the muscles of the belly and lower extremities. It disappears in the same order in which it appeared. Rigor mortis is most severe in the tiny muscles of the fingers and toes.
Rigor Mortis is not Appear in:
Rigor mortis does not develop in an immature foetus under the age of 7 months. In infants and the elderly, the onset is gradual but noticeable, but in adults, it is slow but noticeable.
Effect of Temperature on Rigor Mortis:
When the environment is dry and cold, the onset is gradual but the length is greater than when the atmosphere is hot and humid, when the onset is quick and the duration is shorter. Rigor mortis occurs early and fades late in case of drowning.
Rigor mortis can be simulated by the following conditions:
1. Heat Stiffening:
When the body is exposed to temperatures exceeding 50°C, muscle protein coagulates, causing muscles to become rigid and stiff, simulating rigour mortis. Due to the extreme heat observed in burns, the body adopts a ‘pugilistic attitude,’ with lower limbs and arms contracted and fists clenched. The whole body has been burned. It is caused by muscular shortening as a result of heat.
2. Cold Stiffening:
When the body is exposed to severe cold, solidification of body fat causes muscular stiffness, resulting in cold stiffening. Due to cold exposure, the skin folds around the neck of babies may resemble ligature marks.
3. Cadaveric Spasm:
Sometimes, after death, the muscles of the body go straight into a state of contraction without going through the typical early phase of relaxation. This is known as cadaveric spasm or instantaneous rigour. It is usually restricted to a specific set of muscles rather than affecting the entire body. This occurs when death occurs at a period of intense physical activity and mental excitement inside the body. It is prevalent in scenarios such as combat, drowning, strangling, suicide, and so forth. The actual cause of cadaveric spasm is unknown, however increased neuronal discharge into a specific group of muscles before to death has been suggested as one of the causes.
Cadaveric spasm has high medical-legal importance since the presence of a weapon, hair, weeds, clothing fragments, and other items gripped in the hands may point to the cause of death. Cadaveric spasm is a pre-mortem condition that cannot be induced after death. Weapons held in cadaveric spasm-infected hands can only be withdrawn with extreme difficulty.
References
Reddy KS. The Essentials of Forensic medicine and Toxicology. 26th ed. Hyderabad: K. Saguna Devi; 2007. pp. 130
Parikh CK. Parikh’s textbook of medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology. 6th ed. Delhi: CBS Publishers; 1999. pp. 3–16.
Shivpoojan Kori. Time since Death from Rigor Mortis: Forensic Prospective , Volume – 9 Issue 5- June 2018, DOI: 10.19080/JFSCI.2018.09.555771
Sharma R.K. Concise Textbook of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, pp. 48
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CreatePlayerSessions - GameLift Service
CreatePlayerSessions
Reserves open slots in a game session for a group of players. New player sessions can be created in any game session with an open slot that is in ACTIVE status and has a player creation policy of ACCEPT_ALL. To add a single player to a game session, use CreatePlayerSession.
To create player sessions, specify a game session ID and a list of player IDs. Optionally, provide a set of player data for each player ID.
If successful, a slot is reserved in the game session for each player, and new PlayerSession objects are returned with player session IDs. Each player references their player session ID when sending a connection request to the game session, and the game server can use it to validate the player reservation with the GameLift service. Player sessions cannot be updated.
Available in Amazon Web Services Local.
Related actions
CreatePlayerSession | CreatePlayerSessions | DescribePlayerSessions | StartGameSessionPlacement | DescribeGameSessionPlacement | All APIs by task
Request Syntax
{ "GameSessionId": "string", "PlayerDataMap": { "string" : "string" }, "PlayerIds": [ "string" ] }
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
Note
In the following list, the required parameters are described first.
GameSessionId
A unique identifier for the game session to add players to.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:/-]+
Required: Yes
PlayerIds
List of unique identifiers for the players to be added.
Type: Array of strings
Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 25 items.
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.
Required: Yes
PlayerDataMap
Map of string pairs, each specifying a player ID and a set of developer-defined information related to the player. Amazon Web Services does not use this data, so it can be formatted as needed for use in the game. Any player data strings for player IDs that are not included in the PlayerIds parameter are ignored.
Type: String to string map
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: No
Response Syntax
{ "PlayerSessions": [ { "CreationTime": number, "DnsName": "string", "FleetArn": "string", "FleetId": "string", "GameSessionId": "string", "IpAddress": "string", "PlayerData": "string", "PlayerId": "string", "PlayerSessionId": "string", "Port": number, "Status": "string", "TerminationTime": number } ] }
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
PlayerSessions
A collection of player session objects created for the added players.
Type: Array of PlayerSession objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
GameSessionFullException
The game instance is currently full and cannot allow the requested player(s) to join. Clients can retry such requests immediately or after a waiting period.
HTTP Status Code: 400
InternalServiceException
The service encountered an unrecoverable internal failure while processing the request. Clients can retry such requests immediately or after a waiting period.
HTTP Status Code: 500
InvalidGameSessionStatusException
The requested operation would cause a conflict with the current state of a resource associated with the request and/or the game instance. Resolve the conflict before retrying.
HTTP Status Code: 400
InvalidRequestException
One or more parameter values in the request are invalid. Correct the invalid parameter values before retrying.
HTTP Status Code: 400
NotFoundException
A service resource associated with the request could not be found. Clients should not retry such requests.
HTTP Status Code: 400
TerminalRoutingStrategyException
The service is unable to resolve the routing for a particular alias because it has a terminal RoutingStrategy associated with it. The message returned in this exception is the message defined in the routing strategy itself. Such requests should only be retried if the routing strategy for the specified alias is modified.
HTTP Status Code: 400
UnauthorizedException
The client failed authentication. Clients should not retry such requests.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:Vikkiroxx~enwiki
Artur Karpiński (born December 8, 1984), also known as Vami, is a well-known database updater, who used to produce updates for the Championship Manager game series in the first years of 21st century. He started his CM-related career in 2000, when he became one of the editors of LCM - then Polish official CM site. After a confict over political issues, he changed the workplace and became a chief editor of CM Men. On September 11, 2004, Karpiński released his final database update for Championship Manager. The date of this release was not accidental because of the controversial slogan: "September 11 - the new meaning of the date". The reference to the World Trade Center attack was obvious. Nowadays, Karpiński is no longer producing updates, but remains active in the community.
Karpiński, Artur | WIKI |
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, to whom several of his most interesting letters are addressed. George Schoales, J. S. Harford, and Adam Clarke were among his frequent correspondents in his later years.
Knox was universally admitted to be an admirable conversationalist; and people used to visit him in Dawson Street, much in the same way as people used to visit S. T. Coleridge at Highgate. Unfortunately no records of his talk have been preserved. Coleridge and Knox resemble each other as having done much to stimulate thought by unsystematic methods, and to influence the succeeding generation. But, as Cardinal Newman points out, Knox differed from Coleridge in that ‘he realises his own position, and is an instance in rudiment of those restorations which he foresaw in development’ (British Critic for April 1839).
Knox published a volume of ‘Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland during the Administration of Lord Camden; with an Appendix containing Thoughts on the Will of the People’ (1799). This is merely a collection of ‘papers intended in almost every instance for insertion in newspapers, or for circulation in the form of handbills.’ They were written at intervals between 1795 and 1797, in a bright, lively, popular style. In 1802 he published a pamphlet in defence of Wesley against a Calvinistic clergyman, James Walker, fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, who had published an ‘Expostulatory Address to the Members of the Methodist Society in Ireland.’ Knox's ‘Remarks’ on this address called forth a ‘Defence’ from Walker. A little later he wrote two articles for the ‘Eclectic Review.’ In 1820 he issued a short tract ‘On the Doctrine respecting Baptism held by the Church of England,’ in which he shows the doctrine of baptismal regeneration in the case of infants to be that of the church of England. In 1822 he contributed some short but interesting ‘Remarks,’ which were inserted at the end of the second edition of Southey's ‘Life of Wesley.’ In 1824 he published ‘An Enquiry on Grounds of Scripture and Reason into the Use and Import of the Eucharistic Symbols.’ He also published prefaces to Jebb's two editions of Burnet's ‘Lives.’
‘The Remains of Alexander Knox,’ edited by Mr. Hornby of Winwick, appeared in 4 vols. 8vo in 1834–7, and in 1834 appeared ‘Thirty Years' Correspondence between Bishop Jebb and Alexander Knox,’ edited by the Rev. C. L. Forster, Bishop Jebb's biographer. These letters show his close agreement in many points with the leaders of the Oxford movement, then beginning. In an article in the ‘Contemporary Review,’ August 1887, Professor Stokes traced the movement of thought from Wesley to Knox, from Knox to Jebb, and from Jebb to Hugh James Rose, Newman, and Pusey. The theory was impugned by Dr. Church, dean of St. Paul's, and defended by Professor Stokes in the ‘Guardian’ (7, 14, 21, and 28 Sept. 1887); but both agree that Knox anticipated much of what was afterwards insisted upon by the leaders of the revival. Keble, while admiring Knox, thought him an eclectic, looking down upon all schools with an air of superiority (, Memoir, p. 241).
Knox contends that ‘the church of England is neither Calvinian nor Augustinian, but eminently and strictly catholic, and catholic only;’ that ‘our vitality as a church is in our identity of organisation with the church catholic;’ that the church of England is not protestant, but a reformed branch of the church catholic; that the English church is the only representative of the spirit of the Greek fathers, and that we ought to aim at union with the Greek church. He dislikes Calvinism in every form; and he argues that our justification is an imparted, not an imputed, righteousness. This last view was specially obnoxious to the evangelicals, and was opposed, among others, by [q. v.] in ‘The Primitive Doctrine of Justification investigated’ (1837). Knox laments the general deadness of the services as conducted in his day; he rebels against the identification of churchmanship with toryism, and takes the primitive church in ancient times, and the seventeenth century in modern, as his models. Like Wesley, he admired mystical writers like à Kempis, De Sales, and De Renty. He had no tendency to Rome, although he was a steady advocate of catholic emancipation and a supporter of Maynooth.
He exercised a great influence through his friend Bishop Jebb. The appendix to Jebb's sermons in 1815 (not quite accurately described as the first publication that recalled men's attention to Anglo-catholic principles) was avowedly the joint production of Knox and Jebb, and it is plain that Knox was really the inspirer of the thought expounded by Jebb.
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User:Burhan abdi ali
Burhan abdi is professional public administrator who holds masters in public administration and management coupled bachelor's in public administration and management. He is passionate of the ereas of personal development and personal success. | WIKI |
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+#summary XEP-0313: Message Archive Management for MUC
+#labels Stage-Alpha
+
+= Introduction =
+
+This module logs the conversation of chatrooms running on the server to Prosody's archive storage.
+To access them you will need a client with support for
+[http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html XEP-0313: Message Archive Management]
+or a module such as [mod_http_muc_log].
+
+= Usage =
+
+First copy the module to the prosody plugins directory.
+
+Then add "mam_muc" to your modules_enabled list:
+{{{
+Component "conference.example.org" "muc"
+modules_enabled = {
+ "mam_muc",
+}
+storage = {
+ -- This makes mod_mam_muc use the sql2 storage backend (others will use internal)
+ -- which at the time of this writing is the only one supporting stanza archives
+ muc_log = "sql2";
+}
+}}}
+
+See [https://prosody.im/doc/storage Prosodys data storage documentation]
+for more info on how to configure storage for different plugins.
+
+= Configuration =
+
+Logging needs to be enabled for each room in the room configuration dialog.
+
+{{{
+ muc_log_by_default = true; -- Enable logging by default (can be disabled in room config)
+
+ muc_log_all_rooms = false; -- set to true to force logging of all rooms
+
+ -- This is the largest number of messages that are allowed to be retrieved in one MAM request.
+ max_archive_query_results = 20;
+
+ -- This is the largest number of messages that are allowed to be retrieved when joining a room.
+ max_history_messages = 1000;
+}}}
+
+
+= Compatibility =
+|| trunk || Works ||
+|| 0.10 || Works ||
+|| 0.9 || Does not work ||
+|| 0.8 || Does not work || | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Why Quantum-Si Stock Was Highly Volatile Today
What happened
Quantum-Si (NASDAQ: QSI) stock saw some big pricing swings in Friday's trading. While the protein-sequencing technology specialist's share price closed out the day down 6.2%, it had previously been up as much as 12.8% in the daily session, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Quantum-Si started Friday with a bang following news that Ark Invest had purchased 1.4 million shares of the company's stock the day prior. Ark Invest is led by CEO Cathie Wood, and news that the high-profile growth investor has purchased a stock for her company's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can sometimes create additional bullish momentum for that company's share price.
So what
Ark Invest publicly discloses its stock positions on its websites, and regular updates for the portfolio compositions of its funds show what stocks Wood's company has bought and sold. With an update published Thursday, the investment firm revealed that it purchased roughly $3.7 million worth of Quantum-Si shares for its ARK Genomic Revolution ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKG). It wasn't a new position for the ETF.
Wood's company began buying Quantum-Si stock when the company went public in June 2021, and it looks like the famous investor is becoming increasingly bullish on the little-known biotech player. Thursday's purchase represented Ark's biggest-ever purchase of the stock.
But while news that Ark was adding to its position in the company was initially enough to drive big gains for Quantum-Si in Friday's trading, the stock wasn't able to hold on to the gains. Some investors may have sold the stock after the pop in order to record some quick gains. After starting the day with positive momentum, the broader market also pulled back some. The S&P 500 index ended the day down 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite index fell roughly 0.2%.
Even after today's pullback, Quantum-Si's share price still closed out this week's trading up 17.6%.
Now what
While Cathie Wood and Ark are warming up to Quantum-Si, the stock still represents a relatively small holding in the ARK Genomic Revolution ETF. Valued at roughly $37 million, the biotech stands as the 23rd-largest overall stock position in the fund.
Quantum-Si has just started delivering its semiconductor-based protein sequencing platform to customers and recording its first sales. In the first quarter, the company recorded revenue of $254,000, orders from customers totaling $449,000, and a net loss of $23.6 million. With the company still in the early stages of manufacturing and marketing its innovative sequencing platform, it's hard to map where the business will head next, but Wood is betting the high-risk, high-reward stock could be a winner.
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@article{zhou_liu_dong_deng_2021, title={Incentivized Bandit Learning with Self-Reinforcing User Preferences}, abstractNote={In this paper, we investigate a new multi-armed bandit (MAB) online learning model that considers real-world phenomena in many recommender systems: (i) the learning agent cannot pull the arms by itself and thus has to offer rewards to users to incentivize arm-pulling indirectly; and (ii) if users with specific arm preferences are well rewarded, they induce a "self-reinforcing" effect in the sense that they will attract more users of similar arm preferences. Besides addressing the tradeoff of exploration and exploitation, another key feature of this new MAB model is to balance reward and incentivizing payment. The goal of the agent is to maximize the total reward over a fixed time horizon T with a low total payment. Our contributions in this paper are two-fold: (i) We propose a new MAB model with random arm selection that considers the relationship of users' self-reinforcing preferences and incentives; and (ii) We leverage the properties of a multi-color Polya urn with nonlinear feedback model to propose two MAB policies termed "At-Least-n Explore-Then-Commit" and "UCB-List". We prove that both policies achieve O(log T) expected regret with O(log T) expected payment over a time horizon T. We conduct numerical simulations to demonstrate and verify the performances of these two policies and study their robustness under various settings.}, author={Zhou and Liu and Dong and Deng}, year={2021}, month={May} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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p
The p tag is primarily used as a container for text and other WML tags. Remember, text in WML cannot stand alone, but must be contained in an element.
This tag also causes a line break to occur, in that the flow of text and images is halted on the current line, and resumes on the next line. Thus, each p element starts on a new line in the display. Note that no additional blank line is inserted such as with the HTML p tag, so this is not a true paragraph break.
This tag can be used to set the alignment and line wrapping values for a paragraph which is accomplished using the align and mode attributes.
If you do not set the text alignment, the default is for the text and images to resume at the left margin of the display.
In general, most browsers automatically line wrap texts that are too long to display in one line and you may find that you cannot turn this line wrapping off. (Line wrapping is used to prevent a long text from disappearing from view by running out of the right margin of the display.) Technically, the default for line wrapping is that the current paragraph element inherits the value of the line wrap mode attribute from the previous paragraph element in the current card. However, if there is no previous paragraph, the current p element inherits the line wrap mode value of the card.
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Attributes
align
The optional align attribute is used to align the starting text or image in the paragraph element at the left or right margin, or in the center.
class
The optional class core attribute is used to assign one or more classes to the element. Multiple classes are separated by white space. The class name is case sensitive (i.e., Stocks and stocks are not the same).
id
The optional id core attribute is used to assign a unique name to a tag. The name must be unique to the entire deck and not just unique to a card. The first character of the name can be a letter or the underscore. The remaining characters can be any combination of letters, numbers, or underscores.
mode
The optional mode attribute is used to declare whether there is line wrapping or no line wrapping. Correspondingly, there are only two permitted values, wrap and nowrap. This attribute may not be recognized by some browsers. The default is to line wrap.
xml:lang
The optional xml:lang attribute sets the language used in the element, such as English or Greek. For example, in the U.S. the default value is en-US.
Code:
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Front Mission 2089
Front Mission 2089 (フロントミッション 2089) is a tactical role-playing game developed by Square Enix Co., Ltd., MSF, and Winds, and was published and released in Japan by Square Enix Co., Ltd. in 2005 and 2008 for mobile phones. The game was released on March 7, 2005 (i-mode services), October 27, 2005 (EZweb services), and June 18, 2008 (Yahoo! Mobile services). Front Mission 2089 is part of Front Mission Mobile, a project dedicated to Front Mission video games for the mobile phones. Front Mission 2089 is the fifth main entry and the seventh entry overall in the Front Mission series. Like other Front Mission titles, Front Mission 2089 is part of a serialized storyline that follows the stories of various characters and their struggles involving mecha known as wanzers. An enhanced remake of the game developed by h.a.n.d. was released for the Nintendo DS on May 29, 2008, titled Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness. A sequel, Front Mission 2089-II (フロントミッション 2089-II), was released for mobile phones in Japan in 2006 and 2008 for i-mode and EZweb services, respectively, continuing the story following a new main character.
Gameplay
Front Mission 2089 borrows many of the gameplay mechanics found in Front Mission. The video game progresses in a linear manner: watch cut-scene events, complete missions, set up their wanzers during intermissions, and sortie for the next mission. Missions in Front Mission 2089 are traditional tactical RPG fare, ranging from destroying all enemy targets to protecting a particular allied target. Due to its mobile phone format, the story of Front Mission 2089 is told through episodic content; new episodes were released for download on the video game's official website on a bi-weekly basis. A returning feature in the game is the Arena. Like in Front Mission, players can fight other players to win monetary rewards. Mission rankings also make a return; based on the scoring system of Front Mission 3, players can earn new parts and wanzers by doing well during missions. Another returning feature is briefings. Lastly, players can choose to play two unique scenarios - one with the Oceania Cooperative Union (O.C.U.), and one with the United States of the New Continent (U.S.N.).
In the remake of the game Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness, numerous gameplay mechanics from other Front Mission entries were implemented in the game. The most significant of these additions is Links. Links is a unique ability that allows multiple units to provide offensive support to each other during Player Phase battles. Up to two units can be linked together to form one "link". All weapons can be used for linked actions. The linked units cannot use the same class of weapons though; if both use melee weapons, they cannot participate in a linked battle. They can only participate if one of the units equips another weapon class: short-range, long-range, or support fire weapons. The linked units must also be free to act on their turn, as using Links ends the turns of the involved participants. Other returning features include armor coating, mission branching, part sorting, and remodeling. Several weapon classes have also received changes - shotguns now fire multiple rounds per attack and rifles are now purely long-range weapons. The remake, however, does not have mission rankings or the option to play two scenarios.
Story
Set in 2089, the story of Front Mission 2089 takes place on Huffman Island one year before the 2nd Huffman Conflict. A series of skirmishes across Huffman Island in 2086 causes chaos on the island. The O.C.U. and U.S.N. send in peacekeeping forces on their respective sides of the island to quell the violence. This conflict, known as the "Huffman Crisis", increased tensions between the two supranational unions. By 2089, both super-states increase their military presence on the island and begin hiring mercenaries from all over the world. These mercenaries were then sent on espionage and reconnaissance operations around Mail River - the border that divides the O.C.U. and U.S.N. territories on Huffman Island.
Plot
The plot of Front Mission 2089 revolves around a group of mercenaries led by Ernest J. Salinger. Given the codename "Storm", Ernest conducts sorties near Mail River. While many of the sorties involve basic reconnaissance and data collection, the mercenaries detect abnormalities by the border. Mercenaries hired by both sides begin mysteriously disappearing, and many of them were last sighted near Mail River. Unsure whether the mercenaries are deserting their duties or are truly disappearing, Storm's superior officer Falcon orders them to investigate these disappearances. During their investigations, Ernest and his group come across an unknown mercenary outfit known as the Vampires.
Characters
These are the recurring characters whose first appearance was in Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness, which is a remake of Front Mission 2089. The video game takes place from 2089 to 2093.
Ernest J. Salinger - Ernest J. Salinger is a former O.C.U. captain and a mercenary employed by the O.C.U. He was the part of the O.C.U. Ground Defense Force (O.C.U. GDF) 13th Battalion, B.A.T.S., but left the unit for unknown reasons. Salinger's mercenary codename is "Storm". Ernest also makes an appearance in Front Mission 2089-II.
Kate S. Houjou - Kate S. Houjou is a former operations coordinator and a mercenary working with the O.C.U. military. Her past line of work got her involved with the Central Intelligence Union (C.I.U.) on many intelligence operations. Houjou's mercenary codename is "Oddeye". Kate also makes an appearance in Front Mission 2089-II.
Lycov - Lycov is an engineer in the employ of weapons developer and medical conglomerate, Sakata Industries. Lycov worked with the company to create Bioneural Device-use models. His real name is "G. Lycov", but few know what the initial "G" stands for. Lycov also makes appearances in Front Mission 2089-II and Front Mission 2.
Stan Williams- Stan Williams is a former mixed martial arts champion and a mercenary working with the O.C.U. military. He won the Triple Crown of mixed martial arts, but left the sport in search of more "meaningful" work. Williams' mercenary codename is "Champ". Stan also makes an appearance in Front Mission 2089-II.
Development
The game appeared in 2005 at the Computer Entertainment Software Association's "Tokyo Game Show". The graphics were thought to be good, with an "involved" story and extensive customization. The game was released on mobile phones with three chapters per month, a feature that would change on the Nintendo DS where it was rewritten to be more "linear", according to series producer Toshiro Tsuchida. The game, its remake, and its sequel did not include any new music, instead reusing music from prior games in the series, and there have not been any album releases of their music.
Remake
In fall 2007, Square Enix Co., Ltd. announced that it would be creating a remake of Front Mission 2089 on the Nintendo DS and named it Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness. The game's producer Koichiro Sakamoto indicated that a survey of the series fans showed that most did not play games on their cell phones, and so Square Enix decided to bring it to the Nintendo DS. This remake of Front Mission 2089 featured completely remade visuals, new character artwork, new cut-scene events, a rewritten story, new game scenarios, and new battle maps. Also incorporated in the game were touchscreen features and a revised interface for more intuitive touchpad controls. Likewise, various game play mechanics from other Front Mission entries such as armor coating and linked attacks were added to Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness. Multiplayer mode had to be dropped due to space issues on the Nintendo DS.
Reception
As of September 30, 2008, Square Enix Co., Ltd. reported that Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness had sold 50,000 copies in their report of the first half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. The game debuted at number 13 on the video game software charts in Japan its opening week.
Sequel
Front Mission 2089-II is a tactical role-playing game developed by Square Enix, MSF, and Winds as a sequel to Front Mission 2089. It was published and released in Japan by Square Enix in 2006 and 2008 for mobile phones: September 15, 2006 for i-mode services and February 21, 2008 for EZweb services. Front Mission 2089-II is part of Front Mission Mobile, a project dedicated to Front Mission video games for the mobile phones, and is the seventh main entry and the tenth entry overall in the Front Mission series.
Front Mission 2089-II borrows many of the gameplay mechanics found in Front Mission 5: Scars of the War. The video game progresses in a linear manner: watch cut-scene events, complete missions, set up wanzers during intermissions, and sortie for the next mission. Missions in Front Mission 2089-II are traditional tactical RPG fare, ranging from destroying all enemy targets to protecting a particular allied target. Due to its mobile phone format, the story of Front Mission 2089-II is told through episodic content; new episodes can be downloaded on the video game's official website on a bi-weekly basis. A returning feature in the game is the Survival Simulator. Like in Scars of the War, players go through a set number of floors to collect parts and weapons that can be used in the game. Other returning features include armor coating, briefings, and flanking. Unlike Front Mission 2089, there is only one story scenario that can be played in the game.
As the game is modeled after Scars of the War, Front Mission 2089-II plays radically different from its direct predecessor. Each pilot has a clearly defined role in which they excel at, and are not particularly skilled at other roles. A pilot gains proficiency in their natural role faster than in non-specialist ones, and can learn the full skill set from the aforementioned role. For example, Albert Masel can only gain up to 50 levels towards the striker-type role, but can reach the level 99 maximum in his natural role as an assault-type pilot. Likewise, all weapon types have changed functionality and properties. Melee weapons cannot hit aerial targets, flamethrowers can discharge multiple rounds, rifles are now purely long-range weapons, bazookas can cause additional damage from their blast, etc. Ranged weapons are now subject to accuracy losses based on the distance between the target and the attacking unit. These changes help increase the strategic options available to the player during mission play.
The plot of Front Mission 2089-II is a direct continuation of the previous game, revolving around a mercenary named Albert Masel. As a new recruit for the O.C.U. mercenary outfit Chariots, Albert is given the codename "Tornado" and assigned a role of an assault-type wanzer pilot. In the midst of a large investigation behind the mysterious disappearances of mercenaries on both sides, the Chariots are assigned by the Central Intelligence Unit (C.I.U.) to investigate the mercenary outfit known as the Vampires. During their investigations, Albert and the Chariots eventually discover a link between the Vampires and a medical entity known as the B Organization.
Front Mission 2089-II was first showcased in playable form at Jump Festa 2007 as part of Square Enix's gaming line-up. | WIKI |
Vikings in Britain left a very important mark on the British history that affected Britain culturally and linguistically to a great extent.
İn this post, we will talk about the history of Vikings in Britain, and how did they establish themselves and prospered.
About Vikings in Britain
The Vikings invasion for Britain has taken a lot of different stages, starting with England, and going through İreland and Scotland.
The Vikings in England
Vikings in Britain existence starts with the invasion of England, which had the biggest effect compared to other kingdoms.
Vikings raided England in 793, storming Lindisfarne and stealing the bones of Saint Cuthbert that were kept in a monastery there.
A group of people killed the monks and took their money. In this attack, the “Age of Viking Conquest” began.
The Vikings were able to do this because they used tall ships.
In the last decade of the 8th century, there was a lot of violence on the northern and western coasts of England, but on a small scale. Viking invasions kept going on in English coastal towns. While the first raiding groups were small, it was thought that they had a lot of plans.
It was winter between 840 and 841 when the Norwegians went out. They had been waiting on an island off the coast of Ireland. For their first winter in the United Kingdom, the Vikings stayed on the island of Thanet in Kent.
It was the second time in 854 that the group of raiders stayed on the Isle of Shepey in the Thames Estuary for winter. In 864, they came back to Thanet to set up camp for the winter.
The next year, a huge pagan army led by the crippled brothers Ivar, Halfdan, and Ob Ragnarson arrived in East Anglia. They were joined by another Viking ruler (Gathram).
They then went into Northumbria and took over York, making Norse York, a Viking town where some people lived as farmers and artisans.
The Vikings took over most of the English kingdoms, which were in a state of chaos at the time. During an attack on Northumbria by the Halfdan brothers, sons of Ranger and ivar the boneless, the Englishman King Forced was made a mere puppet by the Halfdan brothers. This made Northumbria their northern home.
The “Great Summer Army” came to England in 870, led by a Viking chief named Bagsick and the Five Earls. They took over the country. It was a fight between the Viking forces that had been in charge of the majority of England until 871, when they planned to invade the Kingdom of Wessex with help from the Great Pagan Army.
Bagsick’s men and Halfdan’s forces tried to stop them (who had already conquered much of England from their stronghold in Norse York).
Bajsek and the Earl were killed in the Battle of Ashdown on January 8, 871, when the two were killed. As a result, a lot of Vikings came back to northern England, and Scandinavian York became the capital of the Viking kingdom. But Alfred the Great was able to drive them out. After defeating Viking raids on the frontier, Alfred and his successors were able to take over York, which was on the coast.
As a result of Eric Bloodaxe’s victory over York in 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings came into England. Canute the Great, who ruled from 1016 to 1035, kept the Vikings in Denmark, but the power of his successors was reduced by a series of succession battles.
Thingmen was a group of Vikings in 1012 who fought for the King of England. This group was called the “Thingmen.” From 1012 to 1066, they were charged the Danion tax, which was meant to stop the Vikings from coming for about two decades. When the English won the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, the Vikings lost their power.
Nineteen days after that, the Normans came to England. The Normans are related to the Norwegians who killed and crippled the English army in the Battle of Hastings.
Vikings in İreland
The Vikings built Waterford, Cork, Dublin, and Limerick in Ireland. Vikings and Scandinavians moved to Ireland and mixed with the native people. It was shown in Irish and British literature, as well as in handiwork and decorative patterns, that Norse culture was important.
Vikings did business in Dublin’s Irish markets. There were textiles from England, Byzantium, Persia, and Central Asia that were found during the excavations. A lot of people were living outside of Dublin’s walls by the eleventh century.
In 795, Vikings raided Ireland’s west coast monasteries before moving on to the rest of the coast. In the north and east of the island, most of the storm hit.
These attacks were first led by small groups of Vikings who were very mobile. In 830, the groups were made up of huge fleets of Viking ships. Around 840, the Vikings started to build long-term strongholds on the seashore so they could stay there.
Dublin was the most important colony for a long time. When the Vikings were around, the Irish got used to them and sometimes formed alliances through marriage.
There were 120 Viking ships in 832, when they invaded the northern and eastern parts of what is now Ireland’s northern and eastern coasts. According to some people, the number of invaders rose because the Scandinavian rulers were ready to attack Ireland’s western coasts with military force.
Attacks on Ireland began in the middle of the ninth century, unlike previous invasions, which only reached the coasts (830). Navigable rivers made it possible for this to happen. After 840, the Vikings built a lot of strongholds across Ireland that were well-placed.
İn 838 AD, A small Viking fleet came to Ireland in Eastern Ireland. The Vikings built a fortified naval station. The Irish called it the fortified naval base because it was very strong.
This rule was called the Dublin Rule. After this time, the Irish and the Vikings fought for about 40 years. Vikings also fortified naval bases in Cork, Limerick, Wexford, and Wexford. The Vikings sailed up and down the main river and its branches to get around the area.
Battle of Clontarf
A battle between the Vikings and an Irish army led by King Brian Borough took place on April 23, 1014, at Clontarf. It was one of the Vikings’ last great fights.
When people read about the Battle of Clontarf in Irish and Viking literature, they saw it as a battle between natural and supernatural forces. For example, there were witches, goblins, and demons that are mentioned in these literature.
Vikings in Scotland
It is said that the Vikings tried to enter Scotland for the first time in 794 on the island of Iona, a year after they took over the island of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. There are very few records about this.
In 839, a huge Scandinavian fleet swam down the Tai and Irne rivers and into the heart of the Pict kingdom of Fortray, where the Picts lived.
Norwegians had set up homes in Shetland, Orkney (North), the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, and parts of Scotland by the middle of the 9th century, when the Vikings came to the area.
In the Hebrides and Man, Norse settlers mixed in a little with the Gaelic people (see-Nordic Gaelic people). Local earls, who used to be local Viking ship captains or military leaders, ran these territories. On the other hand, the Earl of Orkney and Shetland claimed to own and run it.
During the year 875, King Harald Firererer led a naval force from Norway to Scotland. When he tried to unite Norway, many people who didn’t like him took refuge on the islands.
In addition to pillaging other places, they also tried to attack Norway, which they did not like very much. He built a fleet and defeated the rebels, gaining control of the earls who had fled to Iceland. In the end, he ruled more than just Norway. He also ruled parts of Scotland.
Often in Scotland, the year 1266 is thought to be the real end of the Viking Age.
In 1263, Norway’s King Haakon IV sent a fleet of ships from Norway and Orkney to the west coast in response to a raid by the Scots on Skye. Magnus III, Magnus, and Dougal ships from the Isle of Man were all in contact with his ship, which made contact with their fleets as well.
After peace talks broke down, his troops fought the Scots at Largs in Ayrshire. Even though the fight took a long time, it meant that the Scandinavians would not be able to invade again this year. During the winter, Haakon died while he was sleeping in Orkney. His son Magnus had given the Kingdom of Man and the Isles and all the Scottish islands to Alexander III through the Treaty of Perth.
King Christian I of Denmark gave up Orkney and Shetland to secure the dowry of his daughter, who was going to marry James III of Scotland, in 1468.
The earls of Orkney and Shetland ran the areas and were under the rule of Norway until then. When Charles II signed the Act of 1669, he kept his promise to bring Orkney and Shetland into his kingdom. He said that they would be excluded from any “dissolution of His Majesty’s lands,” and they are now officially part of the United Kingdom.
Vikings in Wales
The Vikings didn’t take over Wales as much as they did in England.
The Vikings moved to the south, near St. David, Haverfordwest, and other places. It’s still possible to find old Norse homes in Skokholm, Skomer, and Swansea, as well as in other places.
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I cannot load upfront after I made some changes in Slider Revolution. There is some stripslashes issue.
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• Mtwo
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I am now able to get back into Builder. I am not sure if it was something you or I did to fix this, so here are some of the things I did in case it helps find any issues.
I downloaded the current theme folder from the server via FTP and compared the directory to a previous version. I started with any theme file that on the server had a date modified of today. I copied the contents of the old file and pasted it over the file on the server. I then attempted to load Builder. If it didn't load, I undid the paste, saved and moved to the next file. I attempted similar with settings.php, but still did not work.
I browsed through the theme files on the server and noticed that some files had permissions of 664 and others in the same directory had 666 permissions. So I set all to 666 and still nothing.
I used builder to open another theme, saved, and activated when prompted. Still I could not get into builder for the theme in question. I edited the Theme Info for the theme in question and saved, including activation.
So, with not being able to work within Builder, I moved on to troubleshooting others errors and warnings I noticed within the inspector. With every Builder theme I have worked on, I always see the following warning, and still have no idea on how to address, so skipped:
The specified value "!" does not conform to the required format. The format is "#rrggbb" where rr, gg, bb are two-digit hexadecimal numbers.
Next, was in regards to Google Maps. There were 4 errors:
Not authorized, though the correct key was present.
Duplicates, so I deleted the key value from another location and the duplicate disappeared.
Google Maps API warning: InvalidVersion
Google Maps API warning: SensorNotRequired
I installed Google Maps Pro, generally configured, and re-inspected. Errors still present, so I deactivated the plugin. Upon doing so, Google maps related errors decreased to two and I am now able to access Builder.
I still cannot get rid of Google Maps API warning for InvalidVersion and SensorNotRequired, so your help with this issue will be appreciated.
The weird thing about this is that Slider Revolution violations keep showing up and disappearing.
...just an update....
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Hi Mtwo,
Hope you're doing well.
We didn't had time to check your site until now so it wasn't anything changed from our end, and it was some change you did that got it working again.
The warnings you see will not affect your site functionality and are actually not shown to visitors, only admins will see it.
The first one is usually related to CSS being used for a gradient effect.
InvalidVersion is showing probably due to Upfront code calling a map script but not defining the correct version number of the script.
And SensorNotRequired simply says that the map code was updated and that it no longer requires Sensor but it still works with it included.
Basically, all of these are just notifications and will not affect your site functionality in any way.
Red errors in the console are something to keep an eye on and it's something that can break UF editor/builder from loading, but I don't see any of those on your site and UF loaded fine for me.
Let us know if you have any followup questions about this :slight_smile:
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Talk:Frasier season 11
Merge proposals
I propose to merge The Doctor Is Out and Goodnight, Seattle here. They have a claim of notability, but The Doctor Is Out is just plot apart from the award sentence, and Goodnight, Seattle has a farewell speech extra, which I am not sure should be included at all. – sgeureka t•c 12:58, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't know why we want to merge such a great series finale and give it only a small description. People that do a lot of work contributing raise a fuss about it, and I do remember a conversation on the IRC channel about how people are not happy with the sudden 'urge to merge' everything. LReyome254 (talk) 14:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
* yes to the doctor, nea to the finale. The finale was significant and does conatin secondary sourcing it can and does act as a stand alone, albiet could be improved. Though this is late for feedback on this merge proposalOttawa4ever (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Don't merge. As a finale it is notable and is worthy of a page. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:26, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
I do not think we should merge Goodnight, Seattle with anything as it is worthy of its own page. It is not only a series finale, but it is a series finale to one of the best series in television history. I would even go as far as to say that the summary of the episodes is too small and requires extention. Necropedal (talk) 22:13, November 15 2010 (AEDT) —Preceding undated comment added 11:16, 15 November 2010 (UTC). | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 20
= September 20 =
Marx's ecclesiastic friend?
Did he have one? A book says he had one by the name of Thomas Munser who was German and who organised peasants in very large numbers. Reactionaries plotted and killed him and Marx broke into tears hearing the news of his death. My guess is that the guy who wrote the book (who is a priest) mistook Thomas Müntzer for a friend of Marx and used his imagination copiously. Or, am I wrong in my guess and there really was a priest friend? The book in question is the autobiography of Father Vadakkan and is in Malayalam --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:28, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* I'm not sure if there's a specific answer to your question (I don't think anyone ever kept a list of Marx's personal friends), but Marx himself was nowhere near as anti-religious as later Marxists, and there was a fairly significant Marxist movement among certain Catholic orders at one point (particularly in Germany and Latin America). It's not at all impossible for Marx to have had a religious friend who was butchered by reactionaries, since a lot of people that Marx liked ended up being butchered by reactionaries. -- Ludwigs 2 05:01, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Seems very unlikely that anybody would have been organizing large numbers of peasants in Germany during Marx's era. Given that the communists wrote extensively about Thomas Müntzer, it seems pretty clear that he's the person in question. Looie496 (talk) 05:19, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* However, it seems unlikely that Marx would shed tears (except possibly metaphorically) over the death of someone 400 years or so before him. And I wasn't talking about revolutionary organizing; Marxist catholics were much more into the 'brotherhood of man' aspect of marxism, and developed small enclaves and organizations dedicated to communist-style social organization. all very non-threatening, though it didn't stop a few of them from getting axed. -- Ludwigs 2 06:21, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Could it be that Marx was told the story as a child, and when he came to the part where Müntzer died he started crying? That is the only explanation I can think of. If the author claims that Marx and Müntzer were friends, I would seriously question the veracity of the author and any other fact contained in his book. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:29, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* (OP here). The author's knowledge is certainly questionable. However, if one wants to say that he is plain stupid on this they have to confirm that there existed no friend of Marx by this name. Marx and Engels had repeatedly referred to this 16th century priest in their works. Marx's friends and relations are well-documented. So, if there had been a friend by this name he would have been mentioned in Marx's biographies and reminiscences about Marx. If there was such a friend who is not mentioned in such works, our erring author who lived in the 20th century also wouldn't have known such a person. So, I guess one can say with near certainty that the author mistook the 16th century rebel priest for a friend of Marx. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* While that may be an explanation as to how the mistake came about, it does still not exempt the author of the charge of sloppy research. It would not have been difficult for him to discover his error, any decent printed encyclopedia would have had an entry on Müntzer. --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:06, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Plainclothes nuns
Are there any Catholic nuns who don't wear some sort of habit? What about monks? L ANTZY T ALK 04:32, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Garments for monks and nuns are determined by their particular order, and vary. Most orders have "formal" garb for religious purposes, some have obligatory garb that ought to be worn at all times, others allow the sisters and brothers to dress as they like outside of official events or jobs. Generally speaking, anyone who joins a monastic order is likely to want to display the fact when doing anything related to the order's purpose, so you are more likely to see habits and robes when you encounter one in a religious setting than if you encountered one on the street. Priests tend always to wear the collar in public, nuns from conservative orders usually wear some abbreviated version of the habit in public, otherwise all bets are off. -- Ludwigs 2 04:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Once again, a note on regional variations. Here in Texas and across the Deep South, I haven't seen anyone of any denomination wearing a clerical collar outside of church services, or an identifiable habit, for at least the last 30 years. All that is as gone with the wind as fedoras and beehive hairdos down here, as far as I can tell. Had one college professor, a nun, in the mid-1970s who wore conservative pink and yellow pantsuits with a cross necklace; can't remember anything visible like that since then, although I'm sure there are nuns in Texas. Somewhere. Textorus (talk) 08:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* All I know is that this is a broad and complicated question, whose answer differs between the different orders. Vatican II (the Second Vatican Council of the early 1960's under Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI) encouraged or permitted many monks and nuns (including enclosed ones) to engage more closely with outside society; this included adopting dress that separated them less from the lay world and that hindered them less in performing their works of mercy. —— Shakescene (talk) 11:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* At the risk of OR (though this isn't an article): a relative has in the past been employed by the professional associations for leaders of Catholic religious orders in the U.S. I agree in general with Ludwigs2's remarks, though the part about "priests tend always to wear the collar in public" is perhaps too sweeping.
* Non-Catholics may not be aware of the distinction between secular priests (those "belonging" to a diocese, the typical parish priest) and religious priests (members of an order such as the Jesuits, the Marists, the Dominicans). Some male orders have both priests and brothers (e.g., the Franciscans), others only one or the other role.
* Just as some religious (male or female) feel more comfortable or more professional in a distinct form of dress, whether a traditional, pre-Vatican II habit or a modified, more recent version, others find that distinction places too much of a barrier between them and the communities they serve. The dowdy blue-skirt-and-jacket, mini-veil look for sisters, for example, can be hard to find even at a motherhouse -- except on TV or in the movies. --- OtherDave (talk) 16:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Chinese Christians
I wish to know more about how Chinese Christians practise and integrate their two cultures. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:19, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* We have an article on Christianity in China, if that's any help. -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK ) 08:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* You might also be interested in OMF International, which started life 150 years ago as the China Inland Mission. They have a lot of experience in integrating the two cultures. BrainyBabe (talk) 22:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Also, Lottie Moon is a pretty central figure. -- Jayron 32 00:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
What's the smallest element copyrightable/trademarkable?
A single letter? One note? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* First, copyright and trademark are totally different. You can trademark a single note. You can trademark a single letter. You can trademark a color. You can trademark totally common words. (Apple, for example.) Etcetera. Trademark just means, "I am using this logo/name/noise/brand in a specific commercial context." It doesn't require any creativity at all. It just requires you to associate it with commercial activity and be the only one doing it. So if your company's commercials always have a clarinet playing C-flat at the end, you can trademark that, no problem — but it only matters in situations where a rival company selling a similar product might be using the same note (you don't get to ban orchestras from playing the note, for example). If your company is named "X", that's fine, as long as no one else has the active trademark in your domain. If you stop using the trademark, you lose it. You can search the US Patent and Trademark Office trademark database and find all sorts of one-letter trademarks. The company Orange in the UK has trademarked the color orange for the purposes of telecommunications advertising, for example. That doesn't mean no one else in the world can ever use the color orange, it just means that if you are running a telecommunications company, your logo cannot be made to be confusing with their logo.
* As for copyright, in US copyright law, you need to be able to make an argument that there is artistic creativity in the work in question. That's going to be hard to do with something that is extremely short, if you are copyrighting the text itself and not the presentation. There's no hard-and-fast "lower-end" but a haiku could probably be copyrightable, and that's a pretty minimal length, although as you can see that it is still long enough to allow a near-infinite amount of variation. We discussed this a few months ago, too. Of note is the USPTO's guideline that says that you cannot copyright "Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents." --Mr.98 (talk) 14:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Thank you for your intelligent answer, Mr98. As a side note to what you were saying above, it seems like Vonage would clash with Orange as Vonage is a telecom company and they use a lot of orange in their commercials and packaging. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:59, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* I would not be surprised if the two companies had worked out some kind of agreement on this matter. These kinds of things are rarely left for chance amongst big corporations, because the stakes are very high. --Mr.98 (talk) 15:02, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* My only disagreement with anything Mr.98 said above is his last statement, because human error and the Peter Principle rule, even at large corporations. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:08, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* It is not correct that there is any requirement for artistic creativity. In the US, with a few exceptions, all works are copyrighted automatically, without the author having to do anything. Copyright is violated when somebody copies the specific expression of a copyrighted work. If something similar is produced independently, there is no copyright violation. These rules don't apply to trademarks. Trademarks have to be assigned in order to be valid, and even an accidental duplication constitutes infringement. Looie496 (talk) 21:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* In the U.S., however, there is prescedent for unintentional copyright violations. Even if you coincidentally violate copyright (i.e. your infinite Monkeys come up with the complete works of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.), you can still be liable for doing so. See My Sweet Lord and Cryptomnesia. -- Jayron 32 00:41, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
* Your cited sources support the claim that unintentional copyright violations that relied on a copyrighted work still have liability, even when these were subconcious. They don't support your claim if you just coincidentally violate copyright, such as if your infinite monkeys come up with the complete works of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., you will be liable.
* Of course, in most situations, it's likely to be difficult to prove you didn't subconciously violate copyright even if you are able to convince a judge or jury you didn't conciously and intentionally violate copyright. If the similarity is great enough, the judge or jury is going to think "well this is similar enough, the person must have been copied in some way even if perhaps they didn't do it intentionally or realise they were doing it".
* But to use an example, if there is some Truman style reality show, and this persons entire life is clearly recorded and it's proven they never read the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (including any abridged or modified versions), nor was anything done to them to try and stimulate the conditions that may lead to such a work, and it's also proven they entirely by themselves came up with a work or multiple works that are similar to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., I don't see anything in the sources you've provided that show this will be a violation of copyright in US law. (I'm not saying it won't be, simply that I don't think the cases where it's been held that the person did rely on the copyrighted work, they just didn't do it conciously, necessarily have a bearing on a case where someone really does not rely on the copyrighted work at all.)
* The monkey's thing is a somewhat different case, since in this example, it seems likely someone is doing the selecting of the work, likely a publisher. It's possible this publisher would be liable as even though technically the work itself didn't rely on a pre-existing copyrighted work. In other words, perhaps it would be argued by selecting the work because it was the same as a pre-existing copyrighted work this violates copyright. The monkeys couldn't be liable because they are monkeys but even if they could be, it's not clear they would be liable.
* Nil Einne (talk) 19:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
* My understanding is that while the Berne Convention does indeed mean that copyright immediately applies to things which are eligible for copyright, there is a limit to what can be copyrighted. My understanding is that "artistic creativity" (or rather "threshold of originality") does play a role in that determination. For example Feist v. Rural determined that mere collection of names and phone numbers are not eligible for copyright. However, the bar to originality is set extremely low, and pretty much any deviation from a straight collection of facts renders the work copyrightable (at least those portions which are original). -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
* Agreed with 174. This is what I meant by creativity ("originality" is the more correct term and I always forget it). Agreed as well that it is a low bar, but there is a bar (and one that would come into play when considering the lowest unit of copyrightable information). It has nothing to do with the automatic registration clause (I'm not saying you have to make said argument before being awarded copyright — what I meant is, if it is going to be legally upheld, those conditions must be met). Note there are some queasy areas — see e.g. Bridgeman v. Corel. Don't know about accidental infringement problem. --Mr.98 (talk) 03:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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* Three points. First, there is a creativity, sometimes called "artistic" component that's absolutely necessary in U.S. copyright law. See Feist v. Rural for a full explanation. It's absolutely correct though that it's small. Second, the My Sweet Lord case is a clear example of how a random arrival at the same work is in fact not a copyright infringement, unlike patent law. That decision is the emblematic example of the "subconscious infringement" doctrine, which is, right or wrong, probably the same, but technically, if you could prove you never had access to the work, then it's not infringement. Finally, the Berne Convention isn't binding in the U.S. insofar as it hasn't been enacted in Title 17 [and other applicable parts of the Code]. Shadowjams (talk) 05:49, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
* (But the parts relating to automatic registration have been enacted, which is all that matters for our purposes here.) --Mr.98 (talk) 11:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
* It's true that registration isn't required anymore nor are most of the other formalities (things like the copyright symbol, renewal, etc.), but they're still important at the damages stage and for proof of copyright. There is no automatic registration, but there is automatic protection. But neither of those formally affect the creativity component (which is constitutional). If I understand you, I think you're saying that as a practical matter it's not very relevant, in which case I agree. Shadowjams (talk) 07:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
US City in Canada
I'm trying to find this on Google maps, but it either isn't clearly identified or missing... Around the Great Lakes region, there is a U.S. city that is only accessible by either going into Canada by land or by water. In other words, it is disconnected by land from the mainland, but is not an island. It is merely a lake-front city inside of Canada. Does anyone know which city this is so I can use it as an example in a completely different topic? -- k a i n a w ™ 17:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* You're not thinking of Sault Ste. Marie are you? Not sure of one like that but which can be reached directly by land from Canada. Or does that river count? There's someplace like that in the Pacific Northwest though I think... Wiki Dao ☯ (talk) 18:08, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Point Roberts, Washington and the Northwest Angle are both this sort of thing. — Lomn 18:08, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Northwest Angle is what I was looking for. Thanks. -- k a i n a w ™ 18:14, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* I thought so. But, to make it clear, it's not a city. In my road atlases the only place marked within the area is a village called Angle Inlet, which is so small that none of the atlases even shows a population for it.
* Point Roberts is a similarly situated location on the west coast; and there is also the Alburgh Peninsula in Lake Champlain, which is a weaker example because it has road bridges connecting it directly to the rest of the US. Both of these have substantially larger population than the Northwest Angle, but still no cities. --Anonymous, 18:32 UTC, September 20/10.
Since the followup question (below) is about access by road, rather than access by land, it should perhaps be noted that because there is no road along the Alaska Panhandle, there are three cities or towns on the Panhandle that can be reached by land within Alaska from the main part of the state, but not by road -- to get there by road, you have to go through Canada. Two are Skagway and Haines, which are only about 20 miles apart by water, but about 340 miles apart by road. The third, much smaller and farther south, is Hyder. (And the state capital, Juneau, is also on the mainland but isn't connected to anywhere by road!) --Anonymous, 17:50 UTC, September 23, 2010 (copyedited later).
Canadian city in the US?
Are there any reverse examples? Canadian towns (not on islands) that can only access the rest of Canada by road via the US? ---Sluzzelin talk 18:49, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* From List of enclaves and exclaves, we have: St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and Campobello Island. -- k a i n a w ™ 19:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Except that Campobello I. is not an example, being, you know, an island. The other one's real, though, and I did not know about. Damn Wikipedia for exposing my ignorance again! --Anonymous, 22:50 UTC, September 20/10.
* Campobello Island is only accessible by land from the United States. That is why it is an example. -- k a i n a w ™ 03:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
* Of "Canadian towns (not on islands)"? --Anon, 05:45 UTC, September 21, 2010.
* I found that page AFTER asking the question above. -- k a i n a w ™ 19:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* just so we all understand why this is, the US and Canada settled the details of their border using a modified version of Pokemon playing cards. a couple of the midwest representatives had some highly evolved water-types that skewed the outcome. Or at least, that's what I've heard... -- Ludwigs 2 20:25, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* In the east they used the somewhat inaccurate Mitchell Map and in the west they used surveys of the 49th parallel... AnonMoos (talk) 23:48, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks, fascinating list! The article on Akwesasne has a little map showing the borders. ---Sluzzelin talk 13:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
The Importance of Finding the Idea Body Fat Scale
You have to realize that your weight isn’t the sole element in ascertaining how healthy a person is. There are other aspects that you should know such as the volume of your lean mass, the volume of fat you’re storing and your total body composition, which is where the best body fat scale comes into the picture.
These machines exist in a variety of shapes, models, and sizes. Body fat scale machines have cutting edge machinery referred to as the bioelectrical impedance that enables the device to determine the amount of body fat in the body. Immediately you step in the scale, right on the detector, the device sends an electrical tide up one of the legs. The electrical current is undetectable, and hence one won’t feel a thing.
The best body fat scale is depicted to integrate a specialized system that helps evaluate the total percentage of fat using the figures generated via the resistance of your build to the electrical charge. The unit also considers your weight, height, gender, and age. Quality body fat scale devices have a variety of features such as WIFI transmission, and you can use this to compute your body fat count using an app.
These appliances do not exactly measure the amount of fat in the body but what it does is to calculate your body density. The body scale uses the figure it gets from computing your body density and then inserts a calculation to examine your fat percentage. To draw up your correct fat percentage, ensure you equalize every test. This implies that each test should be similar to the one you had previously.
Not all fat scales are designed equally which is why you should know the contrasts between them. If you are on a weight loss program, you should concentrate in shedding your overall body weight enfolded in fat instead of burning muscles.
Aside from being a physical fat measuring device that one can easily step on, the scale is also incorporated with a variety of different percentages. The listing of percentages reflects the ideal percentage of fat on female or male adult.
Installing the scale is simple as you can program different settings into the machine. After all your details have been saved in the machine, the next thing is to stand on the scale. If you want a precise computation, step on the gadget barefoot and remove your clothing.
Test yourself the same time each day if you want to keep track of your body fat every day. You should do this because measuring your body fat and weight will be extremely different after drinking, exercising or eating.
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Einat Yaron
Einat Yaron (עינת ירון; born 11 November 1973) is an Israeli judoka.
Yaron won a bronze medal at the 1995 European Judo Championships in Birmingham. | WIKI |
Mark Solms
Mark Solms (born 17 July 1961) is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, who is known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology) and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (since 2013).
Solms founded the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society in 2000 and he was a Founding Editor (with Ed Nersessian) of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. He is Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, a Trustee of the Neuropsychoanalysis Fund in London, and Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Trust in Cape Town. He is a trustee of the Loudoun Trust.
Background and education
Mark Leonard de Gier Solms was born on 17 July 1961 in Lüderitz in Namibia. His ancestor Johann Adam Solms (1792–1854) was born in the winegrowing town of Nackenheim in the Electorate of Mainz, and moved to the Cape Colony from the then-Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1838.
Mark Solms was educated at Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa. He then attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology (1984), an Honours degree in Applied Psychology (1985), a master's degree in Research Psychology (1987) and a PhD in Neuropsychology (1992). He emigrated to London in 1988, where he worked academically at University College London (Psychology Department) and clinically at the Royal London Hospital (Neurosurgery Department), while he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis (1989-1994). During this period, he established the first neuropsychoanalytic clinical service at the Anna Freud Centre.
Contribution to neuropsychoanalysis
Mark Solms is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and for his integration of psychoanalytic theories and methods with those of modern neuroscience. He is reportedly the first person to have used the term neuropsychoanalysis.
Solms' work tries to connect the theories and findings of psychoanalysis, a science of the mind (subjective thoughts, feelings, memories, etc.), with modern neuroscientific knowledge of the objective anatomical structure and functions of the brain. The renowned case of Phineas Gage, who had traumatic brain injury caused by a tamping iron, is traditionally used to illustrate these connections. Gage was physically recovered but his mind was radically changed and his friends and acquaintances said that he was 'no longer Gage'. According to Solms, these clinical observations demonstrate that the brain and the personality are inextricable. They make it clear that the object of study in psychoanalysis is somehow intrinsically connected with the object of study of neuroscience. Solms is convinced that the only way to fully understand the brain is by bringing back together psychoanalysis and neuroscience.
The pivotal aim of Solms' work is to provide an empirical method by which psychoanalysis can rejoin neuroscience in a way that is compatible with Freud's basic assumptions. In order to accomplish that, Solms relies on one of the major developments within neuroscience since Freud's death: the work of Alexander Romanovich Luria. Luria's method identifies the neurological organization of any mental function without contradicting the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis. Hence, a viable bridge is established between the concepts of psychology, those of anatomy, physiology and all the other branches of neurological science. Solms elaborates and formulates a new approach to investigate the deeper strata of the mind by implementing neuropsychoanalysis thinking: "I am recommending that we chart the neurological organization of the deepest strata of the mind, using a psychoanalytic version of syndrome analysis, by studying the deep structure of the mental changes that can be discerned in neurological patients within a psychoanalytic relationship."
Recognition
Mark Solms has received numerous awards, notably Honorary Membership of the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1998, the American College of Psychoanalysts in 2004 and the American College of Psychiatrists in 2015. Other awards include:
* Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (2017)
* Sigmund Freud Award by the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians (2013)
* Eli W. Lane Memorial Award by the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society, University of Arizona [awarded twice] (2012 & 2013)
* Sigourney Award by the Mary Sigourney Trust (2011)
* Oscar Sternbach Award for Outstanding Dedication and Contributions to Psychoanalysis (2009)
* Arnold Pfeffer Prize by the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (2008)
* Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (2007)
* Gradiva Award for Best Book (Science Category): 'Clinical Studies in Psychoanalysis' [with K. Kaplan-Solms] by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (2001)
* International Psychiatrist Lecture by the American Psychiatric Association (2001)
* George Sarton Medal by the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium (1996).
Publications
He has published widely in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, including Cortex (journal), Neuropsychologia, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He is also frequently published in general-interest journals, such as Scientific American. He has published more than 250 articles and book chapters, and 6 books. His second book, The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), was a landmark contribution to the field. His 2002 book (with Oliver Turnbull), The Brain and the Inner World was a best-seller and has been translated into 13 languages. His latest book, on the hard problem of consciousness, is entitled The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021). He is the authorised editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and the Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).
Personal life
In 1985, Solms married Karen Kaplan-Solms, who is also a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist. Together they wrote the book Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis in 2001, which received the Gradiva Award for Best Book (Science Category) by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, USA.They have a son (Leonard, born in 1996) and a daughter (Ella, born in 2000). His current partner is Eliza Kentridge, the artist and poet, who lives in Wivenhoe, England.
Other activities
He is the lead educator of an online course entitled "What is a Mind?".
Outside academia, Mark Solms pursues a different passion: winemaking. Solms-Delta is a farm, located in the Franschhoek Valley, with a rich history and prize-winning wines. Solms took over custodianship of the farm in 2001. Its 325-year history was deeply rooted in slavery, but Solms decided to transform the farm into a cooperative. Now, all 180 inhabitants of the land and previously workers for the farm, along with Solms and British philanthropist Richard Astor are co-owners. Solms affirms that worker subjectivity is important for the quality of the final product: "Wine is made by hand, and the attitude of the labourers affects what is in the bottle, from the way they tend the vines and select the grapes. If someone is preparing it with resentment and hatred, what will he make?" | WIKI |
Your body type doesn’t just help determine what sports you’re good at, influence what type of exercise you’ll love, and how easily you lose and gain weight, but can also affect how much and what type of foods best fuel your body and help you lose weight. While ectomorphs for example, can eat just about anything without gaining a pound, endomorphs are more sensitive to what they put in their body. And unlike other body types endomorphs find it difficult to make up for poor dietary habits with exercise.
Endomorphs need to get their diet right to lose weight, to feel energetic, and for good health.
ENDOMORPHS ARE SENSITIVE TO EXTRA CALORIES
One of the reasons endomorphs struggle with their weight more than mesomorphs and ectomorphs, is that for various reasons endomorphs are very sensitive to even the slightest over-consumption of food. This means that the extra calories are more likely to be stored as fat compared to ectomorphs, resulting in a greater propensity for fat storage. As an endomorph you need to monitor your calorie intake carefully.
The calorie excess we’re taking about could simply be a chocolate bar a day too much. That’s it! On average a chocolate treat such as Milky Way or Snickers contains between 300 and 400 calories. Let’s assume you consume 300 extra calories a day. That would work out at 2100 extra calories per week. This amounts to 2.6 lbs (1.2 kgs) of fat gain per month and a whopping 31 lbs (14 kgs) per year!
This may seem crazy. I mean it’s just a chocolate bar, right?! But this is the actual reality for most of us and the reason we’re gaining the extra weight and struggling with it so much. Who even remembers eating that tiny little piece of chocolate! While many of us wake up one morning and suddenly realise we’re overweight, it doesn’t actually happen overnight. Weight gain happens gradually and creeps up on us, until we realise that it isn’t our favorite clothes store that has been messing around with the dress sizing, but that it’s our waist and thighs that have been steadily expanding. And the difference between us and ectomorphs is that ectomorphs have the unique capacity to burn off extra calories – their bodies actually defend against weight gain. Ours doesn’t.
Does that mean calorie counting until the day you die? Not at all. But for the first few months you do need to closely watch your diet until you have a firm sense of how and what to eat. And at regular periods you might want to do a spring clean/ inventory of where you diet’s at. Looking over your diet for any bad habits that have crept in, and then to re-evaluate and reset your diet.
Remember when you veer of course it’s often only by a few degrees (or a chocolate bar!). You want to catch it and get back on track early. Before you’ve strayed off too far, gained a lot of weight and become disillusioned, discouraged, and feel you have to start all over again.
WHAT SHOULD ENDOMORPHS EAT?
As an endomorph, it isn’t only your calorie intake that’s important. Your macronutrient ratio (the ratio of protein, carbohydrate and fat) is also a key factor helping you lose weight and get fit. And it’s your body type that helps determine your ideal macronutrient ratio.
Endomorphs often have some degree of carbohydrate sensitivity and insulin sensitivity. Carbohydrate rich foods are converted to sugar in the bloodstream quickly and more likely be stored as fat than be burned for energy. This is one of the reasons endomorphs tend to do better on a lower carb diet. A moderate reduction in carbs will make a significant difference in helping carb-sentive endomorphs shift body fat.
The carbs you do eat should be complex carbs – predominantly vegetables and some smaller amounts of unrefined, high-fiber starches, such as quinoa and amaranth. As an endomorph, if you want to lose weight, you need to step away from the white bread, rice and pasta, and from the sweet cereals, cakes and cookies! Fruits are rich in important nutrients, but also higher in sugar. So aim to eat at least 5 servings of veggies for every 2 servings fruit (~5:2 ratio).
Carb sensitive endomorphs should minimize the amount of carb-dense foods they eat outside the workout window. Stick to eating largely complex carbs most of the time. Limit eating carb-dense foods to the pre- and post-workout period when your body wants them most – for energy and when it will help your body repair and recover from your workouts and also limit fat gain.
BEST DIET FOR ENDOMORPHS
Endomorphs typically do best on a diet that is higher in protein and fat, with less carbs. A macronutrient ratio that works well for endomorphs is:
• 30 – 40% carbs
• 30 – 35% protein
• 30 – 35% fat
You can start with more carbs such as a nutrient distribution of 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fats, and if you find you’re not losing weight reduce your carb intake further. For example, 30% carbs, 35% protein, and 35% fats.
You needn’t follow a complicated diet to make these changes. This ratio of protein, fat, and carbs doesn’t have to be pinpoint accurate. Think of it simply as eating a diet higher in protein and fat, and lower in carbs. A Paleo-like diet is often best suited for endomorphs, as each meal contains protein, vegetables and some healthy fats, such as avocado or olive oil.
A moderately low carbohydrate, higher protein and fat diet will help endomorphs to:
• Lose fat.
• Maintain energy levels.
• Higher protein levels allow a reduction in calories, while minimizing any feelings of deprivation/ hunger. A protein rich meal is more satisfying and leaves you more full after eating compared to carb-heavy meals.
• Protein has a higher thermic effect and “stirs the pot” more than fat or carbs. While anything eaten in excess is likely to lead to fat gain, a diet higher in protein is less likely to be stored as body fat than a diet high in carbs or fat.
• Moderate carbs with higher protein will help prevent the muscle loss that occurs when lowering calories to lose weight.
• Provide enough carbohydrates to fuel metabolic needs, while keeping blood sugar controlled and minimizing risk of diabetes and other diseases.
• Help make eating like this a lifestyle choice and a habit, as it isn’t restrictive, doesn’t exclude entire food groups and is easy to stick with.
SUMMARY/ RECOMMENDATION FOR ENDOMORPHS
Baseline macronutrient ratio: 30-40% carbs, 30-35% protein, 30-35% fats
Carb tolerance/needs: Low
Carb timing: Almost all carb-dense foods should be consumed before/ after exercise.
Exercise: Endomorphs tend to have a hard time losing fat through diet alone, so a workout program is absolutely necessary for the endomorph.
Works Cited
Després J, Nadeau A, Tremblay A, Ferland M, Moorjani S, Lupien PJ, Thériault G, Pinault S, Bouchard C: Role of deep abdominal fat in the association between regional adipose tissue distribution and glucose tolerance in obese women. Diabetes 1989;38:304 –309.
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1926–27 Sheffield Shield season
The 1926–27 Sheffield Shield season was the 31st season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. South Australia won the championship for the first time since the 1912–13 season. Queensland joined the Championship for the first time, and the method of deciding the title winners was based on average instead of points.
Most Runs
Bill Ponsford 1091
Most Wickets
Don Blackie 33
Notable events
Victoria recorded the highest innings total in first-class cricket history, when scoring 1,107 against New South Wales at Melbourne in December 1926. Incredibly, in the return match against New South Wales at Sydney in January 1927 they were dismissed for an innings total of just 35. | WIKI |
Barelli
Barelli is a comics series featuring an eponymous character, created by Bob de Moor, which first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tintin on July 27, 1950. Barelli made sporadic serial runs throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s while 8 albums in the series were released by Lombard and Bédescope.
Synopsis
Barelli is a theatre actor who often finds himself caught up in dangerous adventures.
Characters
* Georges Barelli, a native of Yugoslavia with an Italian name, is a stage actor who achieved international stardom playing Antonio in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
* Inspector Moreau, from the Judicial Police in Paris.
* Journalist Randor, a friend of Georges Barelli.
* Anne Nannah, an actress and friend of the actor with whom she is discreetly infatuated.
* Sophia Barelli, Georges' aunt or "Georgio".
* Vittorio Barelli, Georges' uncle and Sophia's brother.
Serialised stories
* 1) L'enigmatique monsieur Barelli (Tintin, 30/1950 - 9/1951)
* 2) Barelli a nusa penida (Tintin, 10/1951 - 20/1952. Later Bob de Moor added pages to this adventure)
* 3) Barelli et les agents secrets (Tintin, 1964)
* 4) Barelli et le Bouddha boudant (Tintin, 1972)
* 5) Bonne mine à la mer (Tintin, 1974)
* 6) Barelli et le seigneur de Gonobutz (Tintin, 1976)
* 7) Barelli et la mort de Richard II (1980)
Album publications
* 1) L'énigmatique Mr Barelli (1956) Lombard
* 2) Barelli et les agents secrets (1973), Lombard
* 3) Barelli et le bouddha boudant (1974), Lombard
* 4) Bonne mine à la mer (1975), Lombard
* 5) Barelli à Nusa Penida T1 (1980), Bédescope
* 6) Barelli à Nusa Penida T2 (1980), Bédescope
* 7) Le Seigneur de Gonobutz (1980), Bedescope
* 8) Barelli et la mort de Richard II (1980), Bedescope
* Bruxelles Bouillonne (1989) Promotional comic book for the city of Brussels. | WIKI |
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210 them now defunct. Credit has been allowed to former students of even the worst of the Chicago night schools.
Date of visit: April, 1909. | WIKI |
Văn Mai Hương
Văn Mai Hương (born 27 September 1994 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese Pop Music singer. She was the runner-up of Season 3 of Vietnam Idol in 2010, before becoming a mainstay in the industry.
2010: Vietnam Idol
As a participant of the third season of Vietnam Idol, she was the youngest among the top 10 contestants and was known as a highly technical performer. During the final competitive show, she sang "Trái tim âm nhạc", "Hot n Cold", "Cảm ơn Tình Yêu", and "Á quân" and came in second place to Uyên Linh.
2011-2012: Debut "Nếu như anh đến" and the debut album Hãy mỉm cười
After Vietnam Idol, she released a sponsored song "Ngày mới trắng hồng" in partnership with an international cosmetics brand.
In June 2011, she released her official single "Nếu như anh đến" (translated: As If You'd Shown Up), a dance-pop/R&B song written by Nguyễn Đức Cường and produced by Huy Tuấn. It was released digitally on Zing platforms and as an EP. That August, she release a Music Video directed by Film Ninja Productions that featured both an acoustic and the official electronic version of the songs while also celebrating the burgeoning singer-songwriter cafe scene of Vietnam.
The success of "Nếu như anh đến", led to a second single "Ngày chung đôi" and her first album. "Hãy mỉm cười". Upon the release of the album, Hương remarked, "At 17 years old, I don't want to perform songs that might feel too old for my character and personality. I wanted to make music for my fellow teenagers. I want to make pop music that is dignified and modern to help create my distinct artistic identity.
2013-2017: New Genres with Mười tám+, Mona Lisa, and Ngay Gan Anh
In 2013, Huong released her second album "Mười tám +", where she released down-tempo ballads and R&B, alongside the dance-pop she had become known for.
In 2014, she collaborated with Dương Triệu Vũ to release "Ngày gần anh". She would win "Favorite Female Singer at the 2014 HTV Awards. Soon after, she would cancel many shows and withdraw from the industry, later pointing to her struggles with Depression. She would come back at the end of 2015 with the single "Mona Lisa", a collaboration with Khắc Hưng and contained elements of Swing-Jazz In 2016, she would feature in Phạm Hồng Phước's song "Thời thanh xuân sẽ qua". She would also serve as a judge on Vietnam Idol Kids. In 2017, she released the ballad "Những khát khao ấy".
2018-2021: "Hương (Scent)"
In 2021, she released her third full album "Hương (Scent)".
2024: Collaborated with Myra Trần - "Cầu Vồng Lấp Lánh"
In 2024, she collaborated with Myra Trần & Hứa Kim Tuyền to release "Cầu Vồng Lấp Lánh" (WeChoice Awards 2023)
Albums
* Minh Tinh (2023) | WIKI |
User:Ryanmix
Ryan Mix is a Graduate Research Consultant (GRC) intern at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the Mood, Emotion, and Clinical Child Assessment (MECCA) Lab, which is directed by Dr. Eric A. Youngstrom. Additionally, Ryan Mix is a member of the Helping Give Away Psychological Science (HGAPS) organization, which specializes in delivering free, easily-accessible, and evidence-based psychological science. As such, Ryan Mix's presence on Wikipedia is motivated from the desire to participate in HGAPS's efforts to edit, review, and create new Wikipedia pages that contain the most reliable and up-to-date psychological findings on assessment, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, etc.
Other Interests and Goals
As an addendum to Ryan's academic endeavors, he is also interested in expanding Wikipedia's content on Gospel Convention or Southern Gospel style music, a religious form of music that has it origins in the work of Joseph Funk, A.J. Showalter, Stamps-Baxter Music Company, James D. Vaughan, and Ben Speer. This kind of religious music is also related to the Sacred Harp Music tradition, which is practiced by congregations throughout the world. While Ryan Mix himself is a gospel convention and Sacred Harp songwriter, developing both of these styles' history and modern status is his primary goal for including this additional interest on Wikipedia. | WIKI |
entity framework column name to property mapping dbentry
c# entity-framework entity-framework-core
Question
I'm trying to map entity properties to database column names while saving entities in DbContext, but I can't figure how to do it in EF7.
After generating database schema with migrations, column names are not always the same as properties names in object. For example, below object schema:
public class Document
{
[Key]
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public User Author { get; set; }
}
would have Id, Name and AuthorId columns in database. Next when I'm iterating over EntityEntry properties, it contains Id, Name and AthorId columns. I can easily map Id and Name.
Thing I'm looking for is how to figure out that "AuthorId" in EntityEntry is mapped to Author field in Document?
Backround: I'm implementing universal object version history mechanism, which would get modified columns from EntityEntries (from ChangeTracker in SaveChanges() in DbContext) and save proper columns and it new values. Next, when restoring objects it should be able to map these changes to proper entity fields.
I have found similar question for EF6 Where does Entity Framework store the mapping between property names and the columns it selects in SQL? but it is quite complicated and uses classes specific to EF6.
Popular Answer
As per my comment, the Author field is not a simple object/struct (IE: DateTime, Enum, etc) nor a primitive (IE: int, string, etc). As such, it is a Navigation Property and only the ID of the object is stored. This ID then allows you to navigate to the row in another table that stores the complex data of the Author object.
As such, you would want a DbContext and DbSets as such:
public class Document {
public int Id { get; set; } // No need for [Key] ID is auto detected
public string Name { get; set; }
// Foreign Keys
public int AuthorId { get; set; } // Can use "int?" if you want to allow it to be nullable
public User Author { get; set; }
}
public class Author {
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class BookContext : DbContext {
public DbSet<Author> Authors { get; set; }
public DbSet<Document> Documents { get; set; }
}
This will produce tables:
Document: Id (int), Name (nvarchar), AuthorId (int) with FK to Author table
Author: Id (int), Name (nvarchar)
When querying the DB:
var books = BookContext.Documents // Access documents table
.Include(q => q.Author) // Ensure that the author's properties are loaded, not just the ID
.Where(q => q.Name.Contains("SomeText")) // Search for documents with a name matching this text
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This article created by me is about a family member and thus potentially violates WP:CONFLICT. Every effort has been made to comply to WP's policy of WP:NPOV (Neutral Point of View). If you think otherwise, please leave a message to that effect here.--WickerGuy (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Kondoor, Nalgonda district
Kondoor is a village in Marrigudam mandal in Nalgonda district, Telangana, India. The village is about 60 km from Hyderabad. | WIKI |
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Title: The charge transport in liquid sulphur and fluorescence of the solid.
Authors: Ghosh, P. K.
Award date: 1968
Presented at: University of Leicester
Abstract: Specimens of liquid sulphur were obtained by melting orthorhombic sulphur crystals or ultrapure granules of sulphur. Between the melting point (119°C) and 160°C, liquid sulphur is composed of puckered S8 ring molecules bound by weak van der Waal forces as in the solid. Above 160°C, polymerisation of ring molecules takes place, Drift mobility techniques have been used to study the charge transport during melting and in the liquid up to about 200°C. The specimen cell consisted of two parallel quartz discs separated by glass spacers, 50 to 700 microns thick. Transparent electrodes were applied to the inner surfaces of the discs. Charge carriers were generated close to one of the electrodes by a fast ultraviolet light pulse (~ 10 microsecond duration), and carriers of one polarity were drawn across the specimen in the applied field. Their transit time was measured giving a value for the drift mobility. The results showed that the charge transport is due to both negative and positive charges which move in the liquid by means of phonon-assisted random hopping between neighbouring molecules. From a detailed discussion of the results it is concluded that we are dealing here with an electronic, rather than an ionic charge transport. The electron and hole mobilities at the melting point are 1.0 x 10-4 and 5.5 x 10-5 cm 2 / volt sec respectively. The Electron mobility which is a hopping transport in the solid, shows a drop of a factor of 30 during change of state. This has been attributed to a decrease of overlap J by a factor of 5.5. Between 119°C and 160°C the electron mobility increases in the liquid with increasing temperature. with an activation energy of 0.15 + 0.03 ev. Holes have the same activation energy within a larger experimental error. Above 160°C both electron hole mobilities decrease slowly with increasing temperature. This has been attributed to a decrease in the hopping probability resulting from a loss of ring molecules by polymerisation. Dark current measurements on liquid sulphur suggested that in less pure specimens impurity ions set up a space charge near each electrode of opposite polarity to that of the electrode which modifies the current in accordance with Thomson and model of conduction in gases. The measurement of the efficiency of carrier generation in liquid sulphur has been carried out at an applied field of 33 K volt/cm, considerably less than the saturation value. The results show that the ultraviolet photoconductivity reaches a peak at about 2600 A with a generation efficiency of 10-2. The recombination lifetime of generated carriers has been estimated to be about 10-7 sec. The visible emission of solid sulphur under x-ray excitation has been studied. The observed emission has an estimated efficiency between 10-4--10 -06. Three emission peaks at 4900, 5300 and 5700 A have been detected. The emission is thought to be due and transitions from a molecular excited state, 2.7 ev above the ground state, to the singlet ground state of the S8 molecule.
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Title and content
"So what is your resolution for pages such as Biology, Glaciers, and other pages brought up in the beginning of this discussion? Certainly would be nice to add some useful context in these pages rather than just a bunch of random definitions there... though I do oppose just straight out deleting them (as I respect Marshall's hard work here). But alas, I feel like action needs to be taken on these pages. A lot of work I was planning on adding to pages like Volcano and Glaciers... I can't do. I have no clue where I should put them. ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:56, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
* Actually there's an easy fix! If you'd like to use the resource title Volcano which is a redirect and you'd like to be the resource creator, I can delete the redirect if there are no objections and you are free to use it. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 19:09, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
* Ditto for Glaciers and Glacier is unused. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
* O bviously the name of a whole science should be a TOC like entry point to the topic, and not "someones" page. I wrote unless the name is really bad. If Biology is currently kind of owned, then I agree that it should be renamed. But I think it should be renamed because Marshallsumter apparently chose too broad a name - and not just because it is in the mainspace. People who choose reasonably specific page names should be spared the hassle of broken links. Watchduck (quack) 20:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)" Copied from Requests for Deletion --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:44, 12 April 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Morgan Anthony Dorr (born November 4, 1982 in Watertown, Massachusetts) is the vocalist and guitarist for the rock band Endway. | WIKI |
Talk:Horn antenna
Why?
The main thing this article needs, I think, is at least a brief explanation of why a horn-shaped antenna is desirable. Any experts want to leap in and provide one? --Doradus 12:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
* Well,
* It tapers the wave impedance from that in the waveguide to that of free space, and so achieves a much better match (lower VSWR) than a simple open-ended waveguide.
* It gives a larger aperture and hence a higher directivity than an open-ended waveguide (provided the taper is gradual enough that there isn't a large phase-variation over the aperture).
* Incidentally: A portion of a waveguide in which the cross section is smoothly increased along the axial direction is a taper; I've never heard it called a horn. (Can't summon the enthusiasm to fix the actual article right now) --catslash (talk) 22:49, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
* Added a 'How it works' explanation. -- Chetvorno TALK 09:59, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
* And a lot more besides! Nice work. --catslash (talk) 23:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Rename this article Horn antenna?
I suggest removing content referring to acoustic horns, which is already covered in horn (acoustic) and renaming this article Horn antenna. Like catslash I have never heard an internal taper in a waveguide called a "horn", in my experience the term "horn" in microwave engineering is used for horn antennas. -- Chetvorno TALK 01:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
* Agreed. Horn antenna already redirects here. Also the change would side-step the issue of whether a taper could be called a horn. --catslash (talk) 21:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
* Looking at this issue too. As we have Horn (acoustic) then I would suggest this article be left as is or renamed Horn (microwave). Horn (microwave) is, in my experience, a very common term for them, after all you do use horns at microwave frequencies don't you?. Types of horn antenna should be merged in and redirected, though I doubt there is any useable content. - The stub Horn (telescope) exists, should probably be a wp:dab page. Feed horn might be merged too. ☢ 220.101 talk\Contribs 04:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
* Although horns are most commonly used at microwave frequencies, they are also used at UHF and millimeter wave frequencies, so I think Horn (microwave) would be inaccurate. The title Horn antenna emphasizes its function and avoids specializing to a specific frequency range, and is what the device is called in engineering texts. Horn (microwave) could be a redirect. -- Chetvorno TALK 19:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
* The acoustic content has been moved to Horn (acoustic) and the article has been renamed Horn antenna. -- Chetvorno TALK 18:49, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Incorrect reference
The photo shown of a pair of Seattle Long-Lines horns are NOT Hoggs Horns; rather they are examples of a KS-15676 "Horn Antenna System" with a patent filing by Alfred C Beck and Harold T Friis (the wizard of radio-relay) November 26, 1941. Patent #2,416,675 granted and assigned to Bell Telephone Laboratories March 4, 1947...
This was before the Hoggs design. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
* I wrote the section on the Hogg antenna. You're right about the inventor, thanks for catching my screwup! I was able to find only brief articles about the antenna in technical books, and I thought I read that Hogg had invented it. Oops. The KS-15676 spec sheet you pointed out is fantastic!!!!! I tried to find info on those AT&T horn reflector antennas and couldn't find any. Horn reflector antennas like the KS-15676 are the same design as the Holmdel Horn Antenna built by D. L. Hogg at Bell Labs in 1961, pictured in the article. 1. This design is referred to in microwave tech literature as the Hogg antenna. Apparently, although Beck and Friis invented it, Hogg got his name attached to it. -- Chetvorno TALK 05:41, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
They *are* amazing antennas. The BSP never mentions some obvious details; they are ~14 ft tall & weigh several thousand pounds. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:37, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Content from types of horn antenna article
The following is the content from the article titled "types of horn antenna". I did not feel that it could be simply pasted into the article, so I am posting it here in the remote chance that any of it is salvageable. I also cleaned it up a little bit.
There are five types of horn antenna:
* 1) Conical horn antenna:Conical horn antenna can be directly excited from a circular waveguide
* 2) Ridge horns: Central ridge loads a waveguides and increases the bandwidth by lowering cutoff frequency of the dominant mode
* 3) Septum horns
* 4) Corrugated horns: Corrugated horns can provide reduced diffraction, improved pattern symmetry and reduced cross polarization
* 5) Aperture-Matched antenna
References
* "Antennas for all Applications" by John D Kraus, McGraw Hill edition
--Kjkolb (talk) 03:10, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Requested move
The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Horn (telecommunications) → Horn antenna — Specifies the device's function, corrects the inaccurate implication that horns are only used in telecommunications, and is standard usage in technical literature. Chetvorno TALK 19:59, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
* Support. This far more accurately describes the article's current content and focus, which fit in well with other related articles. Andrewa (talk) 22:50, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
* Comment the acoustics portion of the article is not an antenna. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:43, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
* Yes, as mentioned in the "Horn antenna" discussion above, I propose moving the acoustics content to Horn (acoustic). -- Chetvorno TALK</i> 06:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
* Support - for reasons already mentioned. Incidentally, there is also an article called Feed horn. Also incidentally, a requested move may not be necessary; it's usually possible for an autoconfirmed user to move an article to a name currently belonging to a redirect page. --catslash (talk) 23:29, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
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I have enjoyed every bit of my journey in learning Swift 4. The language is incredibly intuitive, concise, and down right fun to work with at times. But today I came across String Indexing in Apple’s documentation. And I have to say… it isn’t all that intuitive.
The reason is because of the way Swift stores Characters in memory. Different characters can take up different amounts of memory. Therefore, Strings cannot be indexed by an Integer; and they must be iterated over to access a particular Character. Instead they are indexed by something called a String Index. This makes for some odd bits of code when you want to access a particular Character within a String.
For example. Given the String domain.
let domain = "https://ingax.com"
Access the first Character.
let firstChar: Character = domain[domain.startIndex]
Access the second Character.
let secondChar: Character = domain[domain.index(after: domain.startIndex)]
Access the third Character.
let thirdChar: Character = domain[domain.index(domain.startIndex, offsetBy: 2)]
The longhand form of accessing the fourth Character.
var fourthChar: Character = " "
var i = 1
for char in domain {
fourthChar = char
if(i == 4) {break} else {i += 1}
}
As you can see, the code isn’t so pretty. I wish I could just do this:
let fifthChar: Character = domain[4]
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destroy his business connection. She can call at his club and secure his expulsion. If he be a working man she can interview his employer and secure his prompt dismissal. She can render him a laughing-stock to all his acquaintances, and at the same time achieve his financial ruin. The law and its administrators stand idly by. No remedy for the helpless male. The "poor woman" (they are always that) must have been ill-used; there is no such thing as savage vindictiveness and recklessness in the female.
If a man under any provocation, no matter how galling—insolence or violence—strikes a woman, he is sent to hard labour, divorced, and his property confiscated, or his earnings hypothecated—and all this through the prompt instrumentality of the police-court. A woman may assault, stab, set fire to her husband, and he has no remedy, except to summon her to the police-court, where, if she be fined, he is compelled to pay the fine, and as likely as not is laughed at. If her crime be revoltingly atrocious, she is perhaps sent to prison—for one-twentieth part of the time awarded to a male offender for a like offence. On her being released, her husband, unless he be a rich man, is bound to take her back, and, rich or poor, support her. The prompt and inexpensive police-court divorce is not for him.
A humane police magistrate actually had to stoop to make terms with a cruel and murderous criminal. A wife strikes a felon blow at her husband, renders him insensible, and he has to be removed to the hospital. His face is badly scarred, six stitches having to be put into the wounds. The magistrate, wishing to prevent murder, binds her over to come up for judgment, if called upon, on condition that she kindly consents to sign a separation deed, permitting her unfortunate hus- | WIKI |
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Introduction
Decentralized applications (dApps) are transforming the digital landscape by enabling trustless and transparent interactions. Kaspa, with its innovative features, offers a robust platform for dApp development. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to building your first dApp on Kaspa.
Understanding dApps and the Kaspa Platform
Decentralized applications (dApps) are transforming the digital landscape by leveraging blockchain technology to offer secure, transparent, and decentralized solutions. The Kaspa platform stands out in this domain with its unique features and capabilities, making it an ideal choice for developing and deploying dApps.
Definition and Key Features of dApps
Decentralized applications (dApps) are software applications that operate on a decentralized network, typically leveraging blockchain technology. Unlike traditional applications that run on centralized servers, dApps utilize distributed ledgers to ensure transparency, security, and immutability. Key features of dApps include:
1. Decentralization: dApps operate on a peer-to-peer network of nodes, eliminating the need for a central authority and reducing the risk of single points of failure.
2. Transparency: All transactions and operations within a dApp are recorded on the blockchain, providing an immutable and transparent record that can be audited by anyone.
3. Security: The decentralized nature of dApps, combined with cryptographic protocols, ensures a high level of security, making them resistant to hacks and fraud.
4. Smart Contracts: dApps often use smart contracts, which are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into code. These contracts automatically enforce and execute the terms without the need for intermediaries.
5. Autonomy: Once deployed, dApps can operate independently and continuously, relying on the underlying blockchain network for operation.
Introduction to Kaspa and its Unique Features
Kaspa is a cutting-edge blockchain platform designed to support high-performance dApps with unique features that set it apart from other blockchain networks. Some of the key features of Kaspa include:
1. High Throughput and Scalability: Kaspa’s architecture is designed to handle high transaction volumes, ensuring that dApps can scale effectively without compromising performance. This is achieved through innovative consensus algorithms and data structures that optimize transaction processing.
2. Decentralization and Security: Kaspa maintains a robust decentralized network, ensuring that no single entity has control over the network. This decentralization, combined with advanced cryptographic techniques, provides a secure environment for dApps.
3. Fast Transaction Speeds: Kaspa offers fast transaction confirmation times, making it suitable for dApps that require quick and reliable transaction processing. This is crucial for applications in finance, gaming, and other real-time use cases.
4. Smart Contract Capabilities: Kaspa supports the development and deployment of complex smart contracts, enabling developers to create sophisticated dApps with automated and self-executing features. The platform’s smart contract language and tools are designed to be developer-friendly, facilitating innovation and ease of use.
5. Interoperability: Kaspa is designed to be interoperable with other blockchain networks, allowing for seamless integration and communication between different platforms. This opens up possibilities for cross-chain dApps and broader ecosystem collaboration.
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Creating decentralized applications (dApps) on the Kaspa platform requires a well-prepared development environment. This section outlines the prerequisites for dApp development, the necessary tools and software to install, and the steps to set up a Kaspa node.
Prerequisites for dApp Development
Before diving into dApp development on the Kaspa platform, it’s essential to ensure that you meet the following prerequisites:
1. Basic Knowledge of Blockchain Technology: Understanding how blockchain works, including key concepts such as decentralization, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms, is crucial.
2. Familiarity with Smart Contract Languages: Proficiency in programming languages used for smart contract development, such as Solidity, is beneficial. While Kaspa might have its unique requirements, knowing how smart contracts generally function will be advantageous.
3. Development Environment Setup: A development environment with necessary software tools, such as code editors (e.g., Visual Studio Code), version control systems (e.g., Git), and package managers (e.g., npm for JavaScript), should be ready.
4. System Requirements: Ensure your development machine meets the minimum system requirements, which typically include a modern operating system (Windows, macOS, or Linux), sufficient RAM (at least 8GB), and ample storage space.
Installing Necessary Tools and Software
To develop dApps on Kaspa, you need to install several tools and software packages:
1. Node.js and npm: Node.js is a JavaScript runtime, and npm is its package manager, both essential for many blockchain development tasks.
• Installation: Download and install Node.js from the official website. This will also install npm automatically.
2. Truffle Suite: Truffle is a popular development framework for Ethereum and other EVM-compatible blockchains, useful for smart contract development.
• Installation: Run the command npm install -g truffle to install Truffle globally.
3. Ganache: Ganache is a personal blockchain for Ethereum development that you can use to deploy contracts, develop applications, and run tests.
• Installation: Install Ganache from the official website or via npm with npm install -g ganache-cli.
4. Visual Studio Code (VS Code): A powerful and popular code editor.
Setting Up a Kaspa Node
Running a local Kaspa node is essential for interacting with the Kaspa blockchain network during development. Here’s how you can set up a Kaspa node:
1. Download Kaspa Node Software: Obtain the latest version of the Kaspa node software from the official Kaspa GitHub repository.
2. Install Dependencies: Ensure all necessary dependencies for running a Kaspa node are installed on your system. Typically, these might include Golang and other required libraries.
3. Build the Node: Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Kaspa node software and build the node.
bash
git clone https://github.com/kaspanet/kaspad.git
cd kaspad
go build
4. Run the Node: Start your Kaspa node by executing the built binary.
bash
./kaspad
5. Configure the Node: Customize the configuration file as needed, specifying parameters like network type (mainnet, testnet) and data directories.
By setting up your development environment with these prerequisites, tools, and a Kaspa node, you’ll be well-equipped to start developing and deploying decentralized applications on the Kaspa blockchain platform. This foundational setup ensures you have all the necessary resources at your disposal to build efficient, secure, and scalable dApps.
Building Your First dApp
Creating a decentralized application (dApp) on the Kaspa platform involves several key steps. This guide will walk you through choosing a use case, designing the architecture, writing smart contracts, and developing the frontend interface for your dApp.
Choosing a Use Case for Your dApp
Selecting a compelling and practical use case is the first step in building a successful dApp. Consider the following factors when choosing a use case:
1. Identify a Problem: Look for a problem that can be effectively solved using blockchain technology. Consider areas where decentralization, transparency, and security are crucial.
2. Market Demand: Ensure there is a demand for the solution you plan to build. Research existing solutions and identify gaps or areas for improvement.
3. Feasibility: Assess whether the use case is technically feasible with the current capabilities of the Kaspa blockchain. Evaluate the complexity and required resources.
4. User Engagement: Choose a use case that can attract and retain users. Consider applications in finance, supply chain, gaming, identity management, or any other sector where blockchain can add significant value.
Designing the dApp Architecture
Once you’ve chosen a use case, the next step is to design the architecture of your dApp. This involves outlining the structure and components of your application.
1. Backend (Smart Contracts): Determine the functionality that will be implemented in smart contracts on the Kaspa blockchain. This includes data storage, business logic, and interactions with other smart contracts.
2. Frontend (User Interface): Design the user interface that users will interact with. This includes web or mobile applications that communicate with the blockchain.
3. Middleware: Identify any middleware components that may be necessary to bridge the frontend and backend. This can include APIs, off-chain data storage, and other intermediary services.
4. Data Flow: Map out the flow of data within your dApp. Understand how data will be input, processed, stored, and retrieved across different components.
Writing Smart Contracts on Kaspa
Smart contracts are the backbone of any dApp. Writing smart contracts on the Kaspa blockchain involves the following steps:
1. Set Up Development Environment: Ensure your development environment is set up as described in the previous section, with tools like Node.js, Truffle, and a running Kaspa node.
2. Define Smart Contract Logic: Write the smart contract code to define the business logic of your application. This includes functions for data manipulation, state changes, and interactions with other contracts.
3. Use Solidity or Similar Languages: Use Solidity or other supported smart contract languages for writing your contracts. Follow best practices for security and efficiency.
4. Test Smart Contracts: Before deploying to the mainnet, thoroughly test your smart contracts on a testnet environment. Use testing frameworks like Truffle to automate the testing process.
5. Deploy Smart Contracts: Once testing is complete, deploy your smart contracts to the Kaspa mainnet. Use tools like Truffle or custom deployment scripts to manage the deployment process.
Developing the Frontend Interface
The frontend interface is what users interact with, and it plays a crucial role in the user experience of your dApp.
1. Choose a Framework: Select a frontend development framework such as React, Vue.js, or Angular. These frameworks provide robust tools for building interactive web applications.
2. Integrate with Blockchain: Use libraries like Web3.js or Ethers.js to integrate your frontend with the Kaspa blockchain. These libraries allow you to interact with your smart contracts and fetch data from the blockchain.
3. Design User Interface: Create a user-friendly interface that allows users to interact with your dApp seamlessly. Focus on usability, accessibility, and visual appeal.
4. Implement Features: Develop the core features of your dApp, such as user authentication, transaction management, and data display. Ensure smooth interaction with the smart contracts deployed on Kaspa.
5. Test and Debug: Rigorously test the frontend to identify and fix any bugs or performance issues. Conduct user testing to gather feedback and make necessary improvements.
By following these steps, you can successfully build and deploy your first dApp on the Kaspa platform. This process involves a combination of strategic planning, technical implementation, and user-centric design to create a functional and impactful decentralized application.
FAQs
Q: What is a dApp?
A: A dApp, or decentralized application, is a software application that runs on a blockchain network rather than on a centralized server. It leverages blockchain technology to ensure transparency, security, and decentralization.
Q: Why build a dApp on Kaspa?
A: Building a dApp on Kaspa offers benefits such as a scalable and secure blockchain platform, low transaction fees, fast transaction speeds, and access to a growing community of developers and users.
Q: What are the basic steps to build your first dApp on Kaspa?
A: The basic steps to build your first dApp on Kaspa include:
1. Set Up Development Environment: Install necessary tools like a code editor, Kaspa SDK, and blockchain node.
2. Learn Smart Contract Language: Familiarize yourself with the smart contract language supported by Kaspa.
3. Write Smart Contract: Develop your smart contract to define the dApp’s logic and functionality.
4. Deploy Smart Contract: Deploy your smart contract to the Kaspa blockchain.
5. Build Frontend: Create a user interface for interacting with your dApp.
6. Connect Frontend to Blockchain: Integrate your frontend with the Kaspa blockchain using APIs.
7. Test Your dApp: Test your dApp thoroughly to ensure it works as expected.
8. Launch Your dApp: Make your dApp available to users.
Q: What tools and resources are available for building dApps on Kaspa?
A: Tools and resources available for building dApps on Kaspa include the Kaspa SDK, developer documentation, community forums, online tutorials, and support channels where you can seek help from other developers and the Kaspa team.
Q: How can you test and deploy your dApp on Kaspa?
A: You can test your dApp using Kaspa’s testnet, which allows you to deploy and interact with your smart contract without incurring costs. Once testing is complete and you’re satisfied with the dApp’s performance, you can deploy it on the Kaspa mainnet.
Q: Where can you find help and support for building your first dApp on Kaspa?
A: You can find help and support for building your first dApp on Kaspa through the official Kaspa documentation, community forums, social media groups, online tutorials, and by participating in community events and developer meetups.
Conclusion
Building your first dApp on Kaspa involves understanding the platform, setting up a development environment, writing smart contracts, and deploying your application. By following best practices and leveraging community resources, developers can create secure, efficient, and user-friendly dApps. Begin your journey with Kaspa and contribute to the growing ecosystem of decentralized applications. Join the Kaspa developer community and start building the future today.
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Jake Fried
Jake Fried is an artist who began his career as a painter. As he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he became interested in the way the image changed over time. Thus, he changed direction to become an animator. Fried works with ink and white correction fluid, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory stop motion animations. He modifies and photographs the artwork over and over to create an image that evolves rapidly over the course of the short (typically one-minute long) video. His animations have been shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern and the Sundance Film Festival.
He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | WIKI |
How To Transfer Kindle Ownership
2. How to Switch Accounts on Kindle? (Step-by-Step Process)
1. Step 1 – Open the “Content & Devices” setting. …
2. Step 2 – Click on the “Devices” tab. …
3. Step 3 – Select the Device to Deregister. …
4. Step 4 – Deregister Your Kindle Device. …
5. Step 5 – Re-register Your Kindle Device.
How do I reset my Kindle to a new owner?
Reset the Kindle (Optional)
The new owner will be able to start from a totally blank slate. Go to Menu > Settings. On the Settings page, tap the Menu button again, and then select the “Reset” option. In the confirmation window, tap “Yes” and the Kindle will take a few minutes to restart and reset.
Can you transfer ownership of Kindle books to another account?
You CANNOT transfer Kindle books from one Kindle account to another. You can download and transfer books from your Amazon library to a Kindle device via USB using a PC. But, if you are not using the same account on Kindle that was used for purchasing the books, you won’t be able to open the books.
Does deregistering a Kindle remove content?
You can access the books and the last saved online progress from any device you link to your Amazon account. Your offline data is safe – Just like the books on your cloud do not vanish upon deregistering, the books on your device, especially outside of the Kindle cloud ecosystem, remain safe. The two are just unlinked.
How do I register a used Kindle to my account?
Can you register a Kindle to two different Amazon accounts?
Amazon is now letting Kindle owners access multiple accounts on a single device. On Friday, Amazon rolled out a software update that includes “Family Library,” a feature that will allow two adults and up to four children to share content on one Kindle.
How do I deregister my Kindle without losing books?
One thing you should keep in mind is that when you deregister a Kindle with books on it, all of them will be removed from the device. If you want to keep the books, you will first need to back them up to your computer and then copy them back to the Kindle.
How do I wipe my Kindle Paperwhite?
Factory reset: From the Home screen, go to Menu (three lines) > Settings > Menu > Reset Device. Hard restart: Hold the Sleep button until the Paperwhite restarts (about 20 seconds). A factory reset will delete all of your books and settings. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:Ike9898/The Kim Deitch reader's resource
I'm using this space to construct a database of facts regarding the works of the artist Kim Deitch. It will be of interest to anyone with a casual or serious interest in this artist and his fascinating work.
Deitch's work
Stories
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Publications
Other media
Keywords
Deitch himself
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What Is a Judge in the Bible?
In the Hebrew Bible, we find several descriptions of judges. Most of these are in the Book of Judges. During the period before the Israelite monarchy was established, judges served as military leaders in times of crisis. Some of these characters are Deborah, Othniel, and Elon the Zebulonite.
Elon the Zebulonite
Elon the Zebulonite is buried in Zebulun and served as judge over Israel for 10 years. The name Elon can be confusing. It could also mean the town. But the actual name is Aeylvon, which means “oak” or “mighty one.”
Elon was a wise judge during this time, ensuring that justice was served. He also ruled on disputes between families, neighbors, and tribes. He helped keep the people focused on the true religion, and prevented them from practicing idolatry. As a result, enemies didn’t move against the Israelites during his reign. Elon was a blessing to Israel for ten years, and died at the age of 80.
Elon was the tenth judge in Israel, and came from the tribe of Zebulun. He ruled over Israel for ten years, from 1075 B.C. Elon was buried in Aijalon, his ancestral town. Elon’s reign was followed by that of Ibzan, and then by the government of Abdon. Though Elon is a forgotten judge in the bible, he was an important figure in Israel’s history.
In the Bible, Deborah is a woman who played a pivotal role in the history of Israel. As a result of her leadership role, she became one of the most influential women in Scripture. While Deborah was not a savior or hero, her role was still essential in the story. Her faith in God gave her the ability to act, and she received the necessary resources to accomplish God’s will.
Deborah was the only woman in the Bible who served as a judge. She is also the only one described as a prophet. As a judge, Deborah was instrumental in the nation’s victory over the Canaanites. The story of her victory is chronicled in the prose narrative in Judges 4 and in the poem Song of Deborah in Judges 5. While many scholars argue over the dating of the two accounts, the prose version is believed to be older.
The Bible records that the Israelites had been under the control of a king named Jabin for twenty years. Under his rule, the Israelites had been subjected to harsh treatment. This led to a low spirit among the people. As a result, Deborah describes the difficult lives of her people under Jabin. Among other things, they had been restricted to hilltops, and had no commercial access to the highways.
The Bible also describes Deborah as the first woman judge in Israel. She ruled between 1237BC and 1198BC. The Bible also mentions that she was the wife of Lapidoth. The palm tree on which she held court might have been her home for more than thirty years. According to her story, she could have lived until her seventies. The palm tree was situated between Bethel and Ramah in the hill country of Ephraim.
Jephthah is a man who is mentioned in the Bible. He was a judge who took a vow to God to judge the people of Israel. After the ten years were over, he realized that his vow had become a foolish one. In order to be released from his vow, he had to pay a certain sum of money to the Temple treasury.
Jephthah’s story is both tragic and encouraging. He sacrificed his loved ones for an unnecessary vow. His birth mother was a prostitute. Jephthah’s brothers rejected him and drove him out of the family home. After that, he escaped to a village called Tob and gathered together powerful warriors. His rise to prominence in the Bible came when the Ammonites threatened to attack Israel. The elders of Gilead requested his assistance when they were attacked by the Ammonites.
Jephthah made a vow to God before he went to war. This vow was misunderstood by most people. The vow concerned his daughter. Some people believed that he would sacrifice her as a human sacrifice to please God.
Jephthah’s story is a tale of sacrifice. He made a vow to sacrifice his daughter when he returned from war. Later, he realized that his vow was rash, and he tore his clothes in dismay. His daughter was preserved, but she remained a virgin.
Jephthah’s story is divided into three scenes. In the first, he tries to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Ammonite incursion. His efforts are fruitless as the Ammonites reject his argument. As a result, war ensues.
Othniel is one of the first judges in the Bible. His story is similar to King David’s, and he is a powerful warrior and leader. He is also mentioned in the Song of Deborah. During his life, God brought about a change in the people of Israel, and he ruled in peace.
According to the Bible, Othniel was a judge who saved the Israelites from the Canaanites. His name is derived from the Hebrew word ‘oth’, meaning ‘lion’. He lived during a time when the people of Israel had turned away from God and sinned. His life span is about 40 years, and his role is often viewed as crucial in saving the Jewish people.
The Bible gives us only a few details about his life. We know that he ruled Israel for three years. But he also fought with many of his people, resulting in his death. It is not clear who his descendants were, but some scholars believe that he was a descendant of an earlier Jair, who named thirty towns Havvoth Jair. Although his name is not given in the Bible, he is referred to as a minor judge.
Ehud was a left-handed man. In ancient times, left-handed people were compelled to become right-handed, so he stood out. Ehud, however, was the one who was able to kill the Philistines. In the end, he killed 600 of them.
The Bible tells the story of Gideon, a mighty warrior from the tribe of Manasseh. His life is described in the book of Judges. Gideon was a man endowed with the Spirit of God and sent to deliver Israel from oppression. His spirit and his military skills helped him defeat the Midianites and their allies. His story also shows how God can use people from different backgrounds and make them stand together.
After Gideon had gathered an army, he overheard a dream of his enemy’s guards. He went and gathered them together, but he was afraid of what would happen to his family and the townspeople. He had taken the first cautious step in faith, but the Midianites and the Amalekites had already formed an army. Gideon’s men were commanded to destroy the altar of Baal, which was evidence of the Israelites’ apostasy. Gideon and his men then go and destroy the altar, although they are threatened with death from the townspeople.
God hears the cries of His people and sends an angel to call Gideon into his service. He comes from an undistinguished family and had no idea what God would ask of him, but the angel reassures him that his actions would bring salvation to the Israelites. In the beginning, Gideon doesn’t believe in God’s call and doubts his calling. But eventually he begins to believe in the Lord and begins to serve His people.
Despite his shortcomings as a leader and a mighty warrior, Gideon ends up being a godly man. His faith and ability to obey God led him to overcome his enemy. The Bible says that Gideon was a man of faith. The Bible also praises his faith. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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