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Talk:Theresa Andersson
POV or Peacock?
I can't tell if this article seems to be copied from a brochure promoting this musician, or it's a POV issue. It uses Peacock wording, and lacked inline citation, as well as having no reference section, the only references were two You Tube URLs, and the artist has no website.. just a MySpace site. If a new editor put this together, I'm not attacking you-- we can fix the errors. But it must be in an encyclopedic fashion. --leahtwosaints (talk) 14:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Turn off Notifications?
No-Sass
8 - Asteroid
We are standing up Connect and would like to mute all the notifications until we are ready to roll. Every time we complete a change, delete a source/report/workflow etc - an email gets generated and sent to all related parties for that item. Getting really challenging to send out a "Pay no attention to the email you just received" notices every time. I've been unable to find anything that speaks to this...anywhere...
Can anyone provide some insight here?
Thanks
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VojtechT
Alteryx
Alteryx
Hi @No-Sass ,
there is no switch. What you can do is to remove the configuration of the SMTP server (or just modify it to non-existing hostname), so Connect does not send any emails until you are ready to send them.
What we are working on right is the option for the user to turn-off notifications on auto-loaded content. But what you are looking for is to have a master switch for such notifications for all users. I'll have a look what I can do with that and will try to get it done as well in current release.
Vojta T., PM for Data Connectors
Try our Beta data connectors at https://bit.ly/3Ae8HgY
JoTP
8 - Asteroid
On a similar note, the email notifications that are received are not easily marked or flagged/prefixed as coming from Alteryx. I expect that this is on purpose so that data owners can't "hide" from changes/comments on their areas of expertise, but from a time management point of view, it would be good to be able to flag them in some way so that a rule can be run on them in the users inbox, and they can batch up their reviews/answers.
For example if there was a prefix like [Alteryx Connect] then this would be easier...
Interested in others thoughts on this. Is it done like this on purpose?? | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Get Here (album)
Get Here is the fourth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Brenda Russell. Released in 1988, it is Russell's most successful album to date and includes her hit single "Piano in the Dark" as well as the minor hit title track, "Get Here," which became an international success for Oleta Adams three years later.
Album history
After the release of her third album, Two Eyes (1983), Russell moved to Stockholm, Sweden and began writing songs for her fourth album in 1984. Working with several producers and recorded at ten different studios in Stockholm and Los Angeles, the album was ultimately released in 1988 and saw Russell return to the A&M Records label that had released her first two solo albums in 1979 and 1981 (her 1983 album had been released via Warner Bros.). The album peaked at number 49 on the US Billboard 200 and number 20 on the Billboard R&B chart.
The first single from the album was the ballad "Piano in the Dark", released in February 1988. The single, which features vocals by Joe "Bean" Esposito, became (and remains) Russell's biggest hit, peaking at number 6 on the US Billboard 100 and was also a Top 30 hit in the UK (No. 23), as well as earning Grammy nominations for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals" (Russell would also garner a nomination for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" for Get Here). Other singles from the album include "Le Restaurant" (featuring David Sanborn on saxophone) and the dance track "Gravity". The title track of the album was also released as a single and was a minor R&B hit. It was later recorded by Oleta Adams and became a huge trans-Atlantic hit for her in 1991 (US No. 5, UK No. 4).
Track listing
Credits are adapted from the album’s Liner Notes
* 1) "Gravity" (Brenda Russell, Gardner Cole) - 3:28
* 2) "Just A Believer" (featuring Dave Koz) (Russell, Jeff Hull) - 3:55
* 3) "Piano in the Dark" (featuring Joe Esposito) (Russell, Hull, Scott Cutler) - 5:19
* 4) "This Time I Need You" (Russell, Joe Turano) - 4:54
* 5) "Make My Day" (Russell) - 4:24
* 6) "Le Restaurant" (featuring David Sanborn) (Russell) - 4:33
* 7) "Midnight Eyes" (Russell) - 3:40
* 8) "Get Here" (Russell) - 4:56
Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic and the album’s liner notes.
Musicians
* Brenda Russell – lead vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (4-7)
* Gardner Cole – synthesizers (1), drum machine (1)
* Wayne Linsey – additional synthesizers (1)
* Jeff Hull – synthesizers (2, 3, 7), drum machine (2, 3, 7)
* Michael Ruff – additional synthesizers (3)
* Russell Ferrante – acoustic piano (3, 6), synthesizers (6, 8)
* Peter Ljung – synthesizers (4, 8), additional synthesizers (5)
* Anders Neglin – synthesizers (4)
* Larry Williams – synthesizers (4, 5), horns (5)
* Kevin Toney – additional synthesizers (5)
* Joe Sample – elpiano (8)
* Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars (1)
* James Harrah – guitars (3)
* Peter O. Ekberg – guitars (4)
* Henrik Janson – guitars (4, 5, 8), guitar solo (5)
* Don Griffin – additional guitars (5)
* Dann Huff – guitars (7)
* Janne Schaffer – guitar synthesizer (8)
* Nathan East – bass (5)
* Jimmy Haslip – bass (6)
* Ed Brown – bass (7)
* Sam Bengtsson – bass (8)
* Per Lindvall – drums (4, 5)
* Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (6)
* Åke Sundqvist – drums (8), percussion (8)
* Dave Koz – saxophone (2)
* David Sanborn – saxophone solo (6)
* Jerry Hey – trumpet (6), flugelhorn (6)
* The Jam Squad (Joe Esposito, Donny Gerrard, Howard Smith and Joe Turano) – backing vocals (1)
* Joe Esposito – male vocals (3)
* The Jamettes (Charlotte Crossley, Paulette Parker and Sharon Robinson) – backing vocals (2)
* Joe Turano – additional backing vocals (4)
Note: Paulette Parker is also known as Maxayn Lewis.
Production
* Producers – Brenda Russell (All Tracks); Stanley Clarke (1 & 2); Jeff Hull (3); Andre Fischer (3-8); Peter O. Ekberg (4, 5 & 8).
* Executive producer – Brenda Russell
* Recording engineers – Csaba Petocz, Bill Schnee, Steve Sykes, Jan Ugand and Gary Wagner.
* Assistant engineers – Jim Dineen, Reggie Dozier, Mike Edwards, Steve Ford, Toni Greene, Debbie Johnson, Michael C. Ross, Micajah Ryan, Joe Schiff and Brad Stevens.
* Mixing – Csaba Petocz (1); Bill Schnee (2-8).
* Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).
* Art direction – Chuck Beeson
* Album design and special photo treatments – Donald Kreiger
* Photography – Raul Vega
* Production assistant and album coordination – Marsha Burns
Charts
Album
Singles | WIKI |
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116 STAT. 1704 PUBLIC LAW 107-252—OCT. 29, 2002 (E) school and neighborhood campaigns to increase voter turnout, including newsletters, posters, telephone chains, and transportation. Awards. (b) REQUIREMENT. —The National Student and Parent Mock Election shall present awards to outstanding student and parent mock election projects. 42 USC 15472. SEC. 296. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this subtitle $200,000 for fiscal year 2003 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 6 succeeding fiscal years. TITLE III—UNIFORM AND NONDISCRIM- INATORY ELECTION TECHNOLOGY AND ADMINISTRATION REQUIRE- MENTS Subtitle A—Requirements 42 USC 15481. SEC. 301. VOTING SYSTEMS STANDARDS. (a) REQUIREMENTS. —Each voting system used in an election for Federal office shall meet the following requirements: (1) IN GENERAL.— (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the voting system (including any lever voting system, optical scanning voting system, or direct recording electronic system) shall— (i) permit the voter to verify (in a private and independent manner) the votes selected by the voter on the ballot before the ballot is cast and counted; (ii) provide the voter with the opportunity (in a private and independent manner) to change the ballot or correct any error before the ballot is cast and counted (including the opportunity to correct the error through the issuance of a replacement ballot if the voter was otherwise unable to change the ballot or correct any error); and (iii) if the voter selects votes for more than one candidate for a single office— (I) notify the voter that the voter has selected more than one candidate for a single office on the ballot; (II) notify the voter before the ballot is cast and counted of the effect of casting multiple votes for the office; and (III) provide the voter with the opportunity to correct the ballot before the ballot is cast and counted. (B) A State or jurisdiction that uses a paper ballot voting system, a punch card voting system, or a central count voting system (including mail-in absentee ballots ' and mail-in ballots), may meet the requirements of subparagraph (A)(iii) by—
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuntz (song)
The result was delete. Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:32, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Kuntz (song)
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Uncited article, did some research and no notable sources can be found that detail this song in particular. felt _ friend 22:16, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:37, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:37, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
* Delete. It pains me greatly to vote this way, as I'm a major fan of the Butthole Surfers, but WP:ILIKEIT is not a valid reason to keep the article. It could be redirected to Butthole Surfers or Locust Abortion Technician, but I'm not sure there's any point. Nobody is going to search for "Kuntz (song)". If there isn't a Butthole Surfers wikia, there should be. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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Converting a PHP API to a C# implementation
by Damiaan Peeters 11. January 2010 13:32
I have this web service I want to use. The supplier only provides a PHP example to use the API. It is not a standard SOAP or REST service, but a custom Http POST based command. This means that you that you either have to write
http://www.asp.net/downloads/archived/migration-assistants/php-to-aspnet/
Because I had no Visual Studio installed, ready to be launched, i used the command line conversion.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Corporation\PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant>PHPConvert.exe "c:\source\PhpSource" /out "C:\source\AspDotNetVersion”
The port of the code was successful. Most of the code was converted to c#. A lot of conversion warnings popped up, but most of them where not imposing any severe problems.
Code clean-up
A manual code clean-up is advised. For example, this code comes clearly from an unmanaged environment:
1. dpublic virtual void useSecure(bool val)
2. {
3. if ((val == true) && (val.GetType() == true.GetType()))
4. {
5. this.Secure = true;
6. }
Why should you check the type of “val” at runtime? This is already done by the compiler. A simple “ if (val== true) “ would be sufficient. Or in this case even shorter:
1. d public virtual void useSecure(bool val)
2. {
3. this.Secure = val;
4. }
Other things to clean up are links to magic-quotes, cURL and other specific PHP stuff.
Calling the API
Calling the API means in PHP that you do a socket write and read. For example, in PHP one would do:
$sock = fsockopen("ssl://".$this->ApiUrl["host"], 443, $errno, $errstr);
Because every effort is done to maintain the original architecture by the conversion tool. The convertor tool added a PHP namespace containing extra support classes for duplicating the original (php) functionality. The previous line of code is thus converted to:
sock = PHP.NetworkSupport.OpenSocket("ssl://" + this.ApiUrl["host"], 443, errstr);
The OpenSocket function is a wrapper function with one line (with some additional simple error handling):
returnValue = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create((System.String)Target); // + ":" + System.Convert.ToInt32(Port));
Although this is neat, I like the native .Net HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse Classes. So I took the code from my previous blog post: Http Post using C#, adapted it a bit and removed almost 80 lines of the converted code.
My problem with the wrapper functions created by the convertor tool, is that they use System.Object parameters and also return a System.Object. So for readability and maintenance reasons, I started immediately converting this to some strongly typed code.
Conclusion
I was very pleased with this tool. I saved literally hours typing, and it took me (only) a few hours of refactoring. Refactoring meant:
• removing unused functionality (magicQuotes, cURL, …)
• removing unnecessary type checks using Relfection
• removing calls to wrapper functions when I had decent managed .Net code available in my library
And just now I started thinking that it may have been faster implementing a custom WCF implementation.
Who.I.am
Certified Umbraco Master, Part of Umbraco Certified partner comm-it, .Net and Azure developer, seo lover. Magician in my spare time.
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README.md
[](https://travis-ci.org/ostinelli/cowbell)
# Cowbell
**Cowbell** is an Erlang node connection manager.
## Introduction
Erlang nodes do not automatically reconnect when a node gets disconnected. For instance, when net splits happen, the nodes in a cluster might get disconnected and action needs to be taken to reconnect them again.
Cowbell automatically manages the connections & reconnections for you.
## Install
### Rebar3
If you're using [rebar3](https://github.com/erlang/rebar3), add `cowbell` as a dependency in your project's `rebar.config` file:
```erlang
{syn, {git, "git://github.com/ostinelli/cowbell.git", {tag, "0.1.0"}}}
```
Or, if you're using [Hex.pm](https://hex.pm/) as package manager (with the [rebar3_hex](https://github.com/hexpm/rebar3_hex) plugin):
```erlang
{cowbell, "0.1.0"}
```
Then, compile:
```bash
$ rebar3 compile
```
### Rebar2
If you're using [rebar](https://github.com/rebar/rebar), add `cowbell` as a dependency in your project's `rebar.config` file:
```erlang
{syn, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/ostinelli/cowbell.git", {tag, "0.1.0"}}}
```
Then, get and compile your dependencies:
```bash
$ rebar get-deps
$ rebar compile
```
## Usage
### Setup
Ensure that Cowbell is started from your application. This can be done by either providing it as a dependency in your `.app` file, or by starting it manually:
```erlang
cowbell:start().
```
### Specify Nodes & Options
Nodes and options can be set in the environment variable `cowbell`. You're probably best off using an application configuration file (in releases, `sys.config`):
```erlang
{cowbell, [
%% check interval for nodes events (Default: 10)
%% {check_interval_sec, 10},
%% abandon a node after unsuccessful reconnect (Default: 86400)
%% {abandon_node_after_sec, 86400},
%% list of nodes to connect to and monitor
{nodes, [
%% 'cowbell@127.0.0.1'
]}
]}.
```
Your application will have its own logic on when to connect to the other nodes in the cluster. To connect to the nodes and start monitoring for disconnections, issue:
```erlang
cowbell:connect_nodes().
```
The recommended place to do so is in the `start/2` function in your main application module, something along the lines of:
```erlang
-module(myapp_app).
-behaviour(application).
-export([start/2, stop/1]).
start(_StartType, _StartArgs) ->
%% connect to nodes
cowbell:connect_nodes().
%% start sup
myapp_sup:start_link().
```
Cowbell will then start monitoring nodes.
## Why "Cowbell"?
_"A cow bell or cowbell is a bell worn by freely roaming livestock, making animals easier to locate should they wander off."_
- From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbell).
## Contributing
So you want to contribute? That's great! Please follow the guidelines below. It will make it easier to get merged in.
Before implementing a new feature, please submit a ticket to discuss what you intend to do. Your feature might already be in the works, or an alternative implementation might have already been discussed.
Do not commit to master in your fork. Provide a clean branch without merge commits. Every pull request should have its own topic branch. In this way, every additional adjustments to the original pull request might be done easily, and squashed with `git rebase -i`. The updated branch will be visible in the same pull request, so there will be no need to open new pull requests when there are changes to be applied.
Ensure to include proper testing. To run tests you simply have to be in the project's root directory and run:
```bash
$ make tests
``` | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Rh varies in size, owing to the size of the pocketbook of the party who buys it, but it is usually about the size of the little finger, and six inches long, with a head on one end. This pin and the two large silver rings are the most highly prized possessions of the Korean bride. The rings are worn on the third finger of the left hand, and are so large that the fingers are compelled to stand apart when they are worn.
It is not possible to go into details here and describe the different costumes and customs that figure in all grades of society. They are all on the same general style, and are adhered to in accordance with the financial ability of the contracting parties. So I shall try to give a clear idea of a middle-class marriage, and let the reader fill in for the more elaborate of the rich and deduct from that of the poor who cannot have even a feast for their friends.
The day has at last arrived and the groom is dressed in a real wedding costume — not his own, but one that has been rented for the occasion. It has been worn by many grooms before, and will be worn by many more. This is a real official costume, such as is worn by high officials when they go into the presence of the king. It consists of silk robes, high boots, and a peculiar cap with earlike wings protruding from the sides, which means that the ears of an official are always open to the words of his king. Thus dressed, the groom, riding upon a pony or a donkey and escorted by men dressed in servants' attire carrying many-colored lanterns and a huge umbrella in front of him, proceeds to the home of the bride. Here he does not | WIKI |
Edgar P. JOHNSON, Plaintiff, v. John W. GARDNER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States of America, Defendant.
Civ. No. 67-1529.
United States District Court C. D. California.
April 24, 1968.
Joe C. Ortega and Shibley, Bevill & Ortega, Norwalk, Cal., for plaintiff.
Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief of Civil Division, and William P. Lamb, Asst. U. S. Atty., for defendant.
DECISION, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, and ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT
HAUK, District Judge.
This action was brought under section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, hereinafter called the Act, 42 U.S. C.A. § 405(g), to review a final decision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare disallowing plaintiff’s application for the establishment of a period of disability and for disability insuranee benefits under sections 216(i) and 223 of the Act, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 416(i) and 423. After filing its Answer to the Complaint, the defendant now moves for summary judgment, an appropriate way of bringing the matter on for decision.
The plaintiff filed an application for a period of disability and for disability insurance benefits on March 23, 1966 (Tr. 86-89), alleging that he became unable to work on June 24, 1952, at age 30. The application was denied initially (Tr. 91-92) and on reconsideration (Tr. 96-97) by the Bureau of Disability Insurance of the Social Security Administration, after the California Department of Rehabilitation, upon evaluation of the evidence by a physician and a disability examiner, had found that the plaintiff was not under a disability (Tr. 94-95).
The plaintiff then requested a hearing (Tr. 28) which was held on February 2,1967, at Long Beach, California, where the plaintiff, a witness for the plaintiff, and a vocational consultant appeared and testified (Tr. 29-84). The hearing examiner considered this testimony and all the other evidence of record de novo and, on March 29, 1967, issued his decision finding that the plaintiff was not under a disability within the meaning of the Act and was therefore not entitled to a period of disability or to disability insurance benefits under the Act (Tr. 9-22).
The hearing examiner’s decision became the final decision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare when it was approved by the Appeals Council on June 21, 1967 (Tr. 1), and that decision is now subject to review by this Court.
The Court has examined the record before this Court, which includes, among other things, the Complaint to Set Aside Decision under Social Security Act, the Answer, and the Administrative Transcript of Record. The matter has been extensively argued by counsel, in writing and orally. The Court has reviewed all of this material and concludes that plaintiff failed to sustain his burden of proving that he was entitled to the establishment of a period of disability or to disability insurance benefits. On the contrary, there is more than substantial evidence in the record to support the decision of the hearing examiner, and the decision of the Secretary should therefore be affirmed by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant.
Now having heard the arguments and having examined all the files, documents and records herein, the cause having been submitted for decision, and the Court being fully advised in the premises, the Court renders its decision.
DECISION
The Applicable Law
Section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 405(g), reads in part as follows:
“Any individual, after any final decision of the Secretary made after a hearing to which he was a party * * may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action * * * in the district court of the United States * *. As part of his answer the Secretary shall file a certified copy of the transcript of the record including the evidence upon which the findings and decision complained of are based. The court shall have power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Secretary, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing. The findings of the Secretary as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive * *
Under this section, the jurisdiction of the Court is limited to the single question of whether or not the findings of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare are supported by substantial evidence. This specific statutory restriction upon judicial review of the Secretary’s decision is applicable to the findings of fact if supported by substantial evidence and extends as well to the inferences drawn therefrom if they have a substantial basis in the record evidence. Mark v. Celebrezze, 348 F.2d 289, 293 (9th Cir. 1965); McMullen v. Celebrezze, 335 F.2d 811, 814 (9th Cir. 1964); Celebrezze v. Bolas, 316 F.2d 498, 500-501 (8th Cir. 1963); Celebrezze v. Maxwell, 315 F.2d 727, 730 (5th Cir. 1963); Hoffman v. Ribicoff, 305 F.2d 1, 6 (8th Cir. 1962); Sherrick v. Ribicoff, 300 F.2d 494, 495 (7th Cir. 1962); Cody v. Ribicoff, 289 F.2d 394, 395 (8th Cir. 1961); Carqueville v. Flemming, 263 F.2d 875, 877 (7th Cir. 1959) ; Rosewall v. Folsom, 239 F.2d 724, 728 (7th Cir. 1957); United States v. LaLone, 152 F.2d 43, 44 (9th Cir. 1945).
“Substantial evidence” is “such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion and it must be based on the record as a whole.” Celebrezze v. Bolas, supra, 316 F.2d at 501. Where there is substantial evidence both for and against the claimant the court in proceedings such as these is not authorized to weigh the evidence and substitute its judgment for that of the Secretary but must affirm the Secretary’s decision. Celebrezze v. Bolas, supra, 316 F.2d at 506. In Miller v. Flemming, 275 F.2d 763, 765 (9th Cir. 1960) , the Court of Appeals for this Circuit stated: “We are not free to choose inferences tending to the contrary and thus substitute our fact finding for that of the administrative agency.” See also McMullen v. Celebrezze, supra, 335 F.2d at 814; Seitz v. Secretary of Social Security Administration, etc., 317 F.2d 743, 744 (9th Cir. 1963); Conley v. Ribicoff, 294 F.2d 190, 194 (9th Cir. 1961).
Section 216 (i) of the Act, the so-called “disability freeze” provision, 42 U.S.C.A. § 416(i), contemplates the elimination from an individual’s earnings record of periods during which he was under a “disability”, as defined in the Act, for the purpose of determining the amount of his monthly wage, upon which the amount of his benefit is based. Section 223- of the Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 423, provides for the payment of monthly benefits to individuals under disability.
Both sections 216 and 223 require that an individual have the special insured status as set forth therein in order to- be eligible for a disability freeze or monthly benefits. 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 416(i), 423 (b) .
Prior to the 1965 amendments to the Social Security Act, the term “disability” was defined in sections 216(i) and 223 (c) (2) of Title II of the Social Security Act as follows:
“inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of long-continued and indefinite duration.”
Section 303(a) of P.L. 89-97, enacted July 30, 1965, amended sections 216(i) and 223(c) (2) of the Act by substituting for the requirement that an individual’s impairment must be expected to result in death or be of long-continued and indefinite duration a new requirement that he have been under a disability which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 calendar months. A period of disability by reason of this change may be retroactively established pursuant to the provisions of section 303(f) of P.L. 89-97 beginning as early as October, 1941, but benefits are payable under the amended test only after September, 1965.
The statutory definition of disability imposes a three-fold requirement: (1) there must be a “medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death”, or which must under the former law have been expected to be “of long-continued and indefinite duration”, or under the law as amended have lasted or be expected to last for “a continuous period of not less than 12 calendar months”; (2) there must be an “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity”, and (3) the inability must be “by reason of” the impairment. Celebrezze v. Bolas, supra, 316 F.2d at 501; Gotshaw v. Ribicoff, 307 F.2d 840, 844 (4th Cir. 1962); Polak v. Ribicoff, 300 F.2d 674, 677 (2d Cir. 1962); Adams v. Flemming, 276 F.2d 901, 903-904 (2d Cir. 1960). See also the comments of the Senate Committee on Finance on H.R. 9366; S.R. 1987, 83rd Congress, 2d Session, pp. 20-21; H.R. 1698, 83rd Congress, 2d Session, p. 23. It should be noted that the amendments do not change the requirements of the definition that a disability must be by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment and that the impairment must be severe enough to prevent the individual from engaging in any substantial gainful activity.
The definition of disability, both prior to amendment of Title II and in its present form, excludes individuals who suffer from a partial rather than a total disability and those who, while unable to continue in their customary employment, might still obtain and successfully pursue some other type of full time or part time labor that would be substantial and gainful. Hicks v. Flemming, 302 F.2d 470, 473 (5th Cir. 1962); Adams v. Flemming, supra, 276 F.2d at 904.
This aspect of the definition of disability has been clarified by the 1967 amendments to the Social Security Act. Section 158(b) of P.L. 90-248, 81 Stat. 821 points out that an individual is to be determined to be under a disability:
“ * * * only if his physical or mental impairment or impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy, regardless of whether such work exists in the immediate area in which he lives, or whether a specific job vacancy exists for him, or whether he would be hired if he applied for work. For purposes of the preceding sentence (with respect to any individual), ‘work which exists in the national economy’ means work which exists in significant numbers either in the region where such individual lives or in several regions of the country.”
Since the inability to work must be caused by a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, an individual does not meet the statutory definition where he is unemployed for any other reason, such as, for example, because he lacks the motivation or inclination to work or is not faced with the economic necessity of working. See Hicks v. Flemming, supra, 302 F.2d at 473, and Adams v. Flemming, supra, 276 F.2d at 904.
By way of elaboration, rather than change, the 1967 amendments to the Social Security Act further provide by section 158(b) of PL 90-248 that for disability determination purposes:
“(3) * * * a ‘physical or mental impairment’ is an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques.”
and that:
“(5) An individual shall not be considered to be under a disability unless he furnishes such medical and other evidence of the existence thereof as the Secretary may require.”
Sections 404.1501 and 404.1502 of the regulations of the Social Security Administration, 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1501, 404.-1502, similarly interpret the term “disability” as used in the Act and set forth the standards for evaluating disability. In addition, sections 404.1510 through 404.1519 of the regulations, 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1510-404.1519, discuss the medical factors to be considered in determining the effect of impairments in general and in evaluating the degree of dysfunction imposed by specific impairments affecting the various body systems.
The Question for Review
The issue in this ease is whether there is substantial evidence in the record to support the decision of the Secretary that the plaintiff, having the burden of proof thereof, failed to establish that he is entitled to a period of disability under section 216(i) of the Social Security Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 416(i), or to disability insurance benefits under section 223 of the Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 423.
The Evidence
The plaintiff, who was born on June 19, 1922, alleged that he became unable to work on June 24, 1952, due to loss of the right arm about five inches below the shoulder, loss of two ribs, and injury to the left arm (Tr. 86). At the hearing, the plaintiff also complained of a bad back (Tr. 60). The plaintiff had worked at coal mining, performing such jobs as driller and loader, brakeman, switching cars and operating electric locomotives and gathering motors (Tr. 52-54, 103, 108). During his military service from October, 1942, to February, 1946, he worked primarily as an artillery mechanic and tank driver (Tr. 45-46, 48). The plaintiff completed five years of school and can read and write (Tr. 49-50). The plaintiff’s right arm was amputated in June 1952, due to a mining accident. He had been right-handed (Tr. 54). It is conceded that the plaintiff could not perform his former work (Tr. 21).
The plaintiff’s earnings record (Tr. 98) shows that he last met the special earnings requirement for insured status under the Act on June 30, 1957 (Tr. 92, 96). The burden of proof was on the plaintiff to establish his entitlement to benefits under the Act. Seitz v. Secretary of Social Security Administration, 317 F.2d 743, 744 (9th Cir. 1963). It was incumbent upon the plaintiff to prove that prior to June 30, 1957, he was “disabled” within the meaning of the Social Security Act, that is, that he suffered from a medically determinable impairment which could be expected to result in death or which had lasted or could be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 calendar months and which was so severe as to render him unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity. Whether there was substantial evidence in the record to support the hearing examiner’s finding that the plaintiff was not thus disabled is the sole issue before the Court on this review of the hearing examiner’s decision.
The medical evidence of record demonstrates that the plaintiff’s major defect is the anatomical loss of his right arm, but the conceded seriousness of such an impairment does not, in and of itself, establish a resultant inability to engage in substantial gainful activity. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1511; Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Foster, 67 F.2d 264, 266 (5th Cir. 1933). Within nine months of his accident, the plaintiff’s amputation stump was well healed, he was considered a good candidate for physical and vocational rehabilitation, and he was furnished a prosthesis and placed on prosthetic training (Tr. 113-15). Unfortunately, due to lack of motivation or some alleged discomfort from the device, the plaintiff chose to use the prosthesis for only three months. (Tr. 59).
The plaintiff’s complaints concerning his left arm are referable to an old fracture and chronic deformity (Tr. 116-17). Dr. Stanley S. Haft, an orthopedic surgeon (Tr. 123), reported that the fracture had healed in excellent alignment, that left shoulder movement was normal, and that there was nothing significant except for chest scars. Although there was some limitation on straightening of the left arm, it functioned well and no active treatment was indicated (Tr. 119-22).
A report dated January 1967, from Dr. Dean K. Hendricks, a chiropractor, indicated objective findings which were not substantially different from those of Dr. Haft, but he nevertheless concluded that the plaintiff was physically incapable of performing regular employment and that the impairments “will have lasted a continuous period or not less than 12 months.” Dr. Hendricks’ report was made ten years after the plaintiff last met the earnings requirement for insured status, and Dr. Haft’s report was one year earlier. In any event, to the extent that medical reports are conflicting or subject to conflicting inferences, the resolution of any such conflict is the sole function of the trier of fact on behalf of the Secretary. Celebrezze v. Bolas, supra, 316 F.2d at 501; Hayes v. Celebrezze, 311 F.2d 648, 653 (5th Cir. 1963); Gotshaw v. Ribicoff, supra, 307 F.2d at 845; Snyder v. Ribicoff, 307 F.2d 518, 520-521 (4th Cir. 1962). The hearing examiner was justified in adopting the findings and conclusions of Dr. Haft, an orthopedic specialist, whose findings were clearly based on appropriate objective medical data, were “supported by specific and complete clinical findings”, and were “consistent with other evidence as to the severity and probable duration of the individual’s impairment or impairments.” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1526; Easttam v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 364 F.2d 509, 513 (8th Cir. 1966); Brookshire v. Celebrezze, 233 F.Supp. 278, 281 (W.D.S.C.1964).
Although the plaintiff complains of a back condition, the record fails to show the presence of a medically determinable impairment which had its inception on or before June 30, 1957. Reports from Christ Hospital, dating from 1953 (Tr. 113-18), are entirely silent with respect to any complaints, findings or diagnosis referable to the back. The plaintiff testified that the back condition had not become severe until three or four years before the 1967 hearing (Tr. 49). The plaintiff’s witness, Mrs. Page, testified that she did not think the plaintiff had back trouble in 1957 (Tr. 65).
Dr. Demos, the vocational expert, testified that as of June 30, 1957, there were a variety of jobs that the plaintiff could perform without the prosthesis (Tr. 73-74) and that there were additional types of work that would have been available had he used the device (Tr. 77-78). All the jobs enumerated were available as of that time in the plaintiff’s general area of Los Angeles and Long Beach as well as statewide and nationally (Tr. 75).
Subsequent to the hearing, Dr. E. G. Skaggs, who performed the amputation, stated that he felt the plaintiff was totally unable to do any physical labor, but his observation was in the present tense and predicated on observation extending three years beyond the date that the plaintiff last met the special earnings requirement. His opinion was unsupported by any data whatsoever.
Undoubtedly the plaintiff had a partial disability which made work more difficult and uncomfortable. The plaintiff failed to establish that his pain or discomfort were of sufficient severity and continuity to preclude him from engaging in substantial gainful activity on or prior to June 30, 1957. Page v. Celebrezze, 311 F.2d 757, 762-763, (5th Cir. 1963); Martinelli v. Celebrezze, 228 F.Supp. 434, 435 (D.Mass.1964); Garboden v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 258 F.Supp. 370, 372 (D.Ore.1966).
The record does not establish the existence of an impairment or impairments individually or in combination, which prevented the plaintiff from engaging in some type of gainful activity.
In accordance with the foregoing, which shall also constitute findings of fact and conclusions of law, the Court now makes its formal Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Plaintiff is a resident of the judicial district of this Court.
2. This action was commenced within sixty days after the plaintiff was notified of the final decision of the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States of America.
3. Defendant is the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States of America, and has filed as part of his Answer herein a certified copy of the Administrative Transcript of Record, Exhibit “A” to said Answer.
4. Facts and evidence contained and set forth in the said Administrative Transcript of Record are, and each of them is, true and correct.
5. The following Conclusions of Law, insofar as they may be concluded Findings of Fact, are so found by this Court to be true in all respects. From the foregoing facts, the Court concludes that:
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
I
Under the provisions of section 205 (g) of the Social Security Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 405(g), this Court has jurisdiction to review the final decision of the defendant only to the extent of determining whether the decision is supported by substantial evidence.
II
The final decision of the defendant and the Findings of Fact upon which it is predicated are supported by substantial evidence and, under the provisions of section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 405(g), are conclusive, and thus are approved and affirmed by this Court.
III
Any Conclusions of Law contained in the Findings of Fact are deemed incorporated herein by reference.
IY
There is no genuine issue as to any material fact and the Complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Accordingly, plaintiff is not entitled to any relief under or by virtue of the Complaint.
ORDER
By reason of the foregoing Decision, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, it is hereby ordered that Judgment be entered affirming the final decision of the Secretary.
Let judgment be entered accordingly.
. 42 U.S.C.A. § 405(g):
“§ 405. Old-age and survivors insurance benefit payments — Old-age insurance benefits
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Review
(g) Any individual, after any final decision of the Secretary made after a hearing to which he was a party, irrespective of the amount in controversy, may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to him of notice of such decision, or within such further time as the Secretary may allow. Such action shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides or has his principal place of business, or, if he does not reside or have his principal place of business within any such judicial district, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. As part of his answer the Secretary shall file a certified copy of the transcript of the record including the evidence upon which the findings and decision complained of are based. The court shall have power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Secretary, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing. The findings of the Secretary as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive, and where a claim has been denied by hte Secretary or a decision is rendered under subsection (b) of this section which is adverse to an individual who was a party to the hearing before the Secretary, because of failure of the claimant or such individual to submit proof in conformity with any regulation prescribed under subsection (a) of this section, the court shall review only the question of conformity with such regulations and the validity of such regulations. The court shall, on motion of the Secretary made before he files his answer, remand the case to the Secretary for further action by the Secretary, and may, at any time, on good cause shown, order additional evidence to be taken before the Secretary, and the Secretary shall, after the case is remanded, and after hearing such additional evidence if so ordered, modify or affirm his findings of fact or its decision, or both, and shall file with the court any such additional and modified findings of fact and decision, and a transcript of the additional record and testimony upon which his action in modifying or affirming was based. Such additional or modified findings of fact and decision shall be reviewable only to the extent provided for review of the original findings of fact and decision. The judgment of the court shall be final except that it shall be subject to review in the same manner as a judgment in other civil actions. Any action instituted in accordance with this subsection shall survive notwithstanding any change in the person occupying the office of Secretary or any vacancy in such office.”
. 42 Ü.S.C.A. § 416 (i):
“§ 416. Additional definitions “For the purposes of this subchapter—
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Disability; period of disability
(1) (1) Except for purposes of sections 402(d), 423 and 425 of this title, the term “disability” means (A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, or (B) blindness; and the term “blindness” means central visual acuity of 5/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens. An eye in which the visual field is reduced to five degrees or less concentric contraction shall be considered for the purpose of this paragraph as having a central visual acuity of 5/200 or less. An individual shall not be considered to be under a disability unless he furnishes such proof of the existence thereof as may be required. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary or any other officer or employee of the United States to interfere in any way with the practice of medicine or with relationships between practitioners of medicine and their patients, or to exercise any supervision or control over the administration or operation of any hospital.
(2) (A) The term “period of disability” means a continuous period (beginning and ending as hereinafter provided in this subsection) during which an individual was under a disability (as defined in paragraph (1)), but only if such period is of not less than 6 full calendar months’ duration or such individual was entitled to benefits under section 423 of this title for one or more months in such period.
(B) No period of disability shall begin as to any individual unless such individual files an application for a disability determination with respect to such period; and no such period shall begin as to any individual after such individual attains the age of 65.
(0) A period of disability shall begin—
(1) on the day the disability began, but only if the individual satisfies the requirements of paragraph (3) on such day; or
(ii) if such individual does not satisfy the requirements of paragraph (3) on such day, then on the first day of the first quarter thereafter in which he satisfies such requirements.
(D) A period of disability shall end with the close of whichever of the following months is the earlier: (i) the month preceding the month in which the individual attains age 65, or (ii) the second month following the month in which the disability ceases.
(E) No application for a disability determination which is filed more than 12 months after the month prescribed by subparagraph (D) as the month in which the period of disability ends (determined without regard to subparagraph (B) and this subparagraph) shall be accepted as an application for purposes of this paragraph.
(F) An application for a disability determination filed before the first day on which the applicant satisfies the requirements for a period of disability under this subsection shall be deemed a valid application only if the applicant satisfies the requirements for a period of disability before the Secretary makes a final decision on the application. If upon final decision by the Secretary, or decision upon judicial review thereof, such applicant is found to satisfy such requirements, the application shall be deemed to have been filed on such first day.
(3) The requirements referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph (2) (C) of this subsection are satisfied by an individual with respect to any quarter only if—
(B) (i) he had not less than twenty quarters of coverage during the forty-quarter period which ends with such quarter, or
(ii) if such quarter ends before he attains (or would attain) age 31 and he is under a disability by reason of blindness (as defined in paragraph (1) of this subsection), not less than one-half (and not less than 6) of the quarters during the period ending with such quarter and beginning after he attained the age of 21 were quarters of coverage, or (if the number of quarters in such period is less than 12) not less than 6 of the quarters in the 12-quar-ter period ending with such quarter were quarters of coverage;
except that the provisions of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall not apply in the case of an individual with respect to whom a period of disability would, but for such subparagraph, begin before 1951. For purposes of sub-paragraph (B) of this paragraph, when the number of quarters in any period is an odd number, such number shall be reduced by one, and a quarter shall not be counted as part of any period if any part of such quarter was included in a prior period of disability unless such quarter was a quarter of coverage.”
. 42 U.S.C.A. § 428:
“§ 423. Disability insurance benefit payments — Disability insurance benefits
(a) (1) Every individual who—
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(D) is under a disability (as defined in subsection (c) (2) of this section) shall be entitled to a disability insurance benefit (i) for each month beginning with the first month after his waiting period (as defined in subsection (c) (3) of this section) in which he becomes so entitled to such insurance benefits, or (ii) for each month beginning with the first month during all of which he is under a disability and in which he becomes so entitled to such insurance benefits, but only if he was entitled to disability insurance benefits which terminated, or had a period of disability (as defined in section 416 (i) of this title) which ceased, within the 60-month period preceding the first month in wlrch he is under such disability, and ending with the month preceding whichever of the following months is the earliest: the month in which he dies, the month in which he attains age 65, or the third month following the month in which his disability ceases. No payment under this paragraph may be made to an individual who would not meet the definition of disability in subsection (c) (2) except for subparagraph (B) thereof for any month in which he engages in substantial gainful activity, and no payment may be made for such month under subsection (b), (c), or (d) of section 402 of this title to any person on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such individual.
(2) Except as provided in section 402 (q) of this title, such individual’s disability insurance benefit for any month shall be equal to his primary insurance amount for such month determined under section 415 of this title as though he had attained age 62 (if a woman) or age 65 (if a man) in—
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and as though he had become entitled to old-age insurance benefits in the month in which he filed his application for disability insurance benefits and was entitled to an old-age insurance benefit for each month for which (pursuant to subsection (b) of this section) he was entitled to a disability insurance benefit. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, in the case of a woman who attained age 62 in or before the first month referred to in subparagraph (A) or (B) of such sentence, as the case may be, the elapsed years referred to in section 415(b) (3) of this title shall not include the year in which she attained age 62 or any year thereafter.
(3) Repealed. Pub.D. 89-97, Title III, § 304 (n), July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 370.
Filing application
(b) An application for disability insurance benefits filed before the first month in which the applicant satisfies the requirements for such benefits (as prescribed in subsection (a) (1)) shall be deemed a valid application only if the applicant satisfies the requirements for such benefits before the Secretary maks a final decision on the application. If, upon final decision by the Secretary, or decision upon judicial review thereof, such applicant is found to satisfy such requirements, the application shall be deemed to have been filed in such first month. An individual who would have been entitled to a disability insurance benefit for any month had he filed application therefor before the end of such month shall be entitled to such benefit for such month if he files such application before the end of the 12th month immediately succeeding such month.
Definitions
(c) For purposes of this section—
(1) An individual shall be insured for disability insurance benefits in any month if—
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(B) (i) he had not less than twenty quarters of coverage during the forty-quarter period which ends with the quarter in which such month occurred, or
(ii) if such month ends before he attains (or would attain) age 31 and he is under a disability by reason of blindness (as defined in section 416 (i) (1) of this title), not less than one-half (and not less than 6) of the quarters during the period ending with the quarter in which such month occurred and beginning after he attained the age of 21 were quarters of coverage, or (if the number of quarters in such period is less than 12) not less than 6 of the quarters in the 12-quarter period ending with such quarter were quarters of coverage.
For purposes of subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, when the number of quarters in any period is an odd number, such number shall be reduced by one, and a quarter shall not be counted as part of any period if any part of such quarter was included in a period of disability unless such quarter was a quarter of coverage.
(2) The term “disability” means—
(A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months; or
(B) in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 55 and is blind (within the meaning of “blindness” as defined in section 416 (i) (1) of this title), inability by reason of such blindness to engage in substantial gainful activity requiring skills or abilities comparable to those of any gainful activity in which he has previously engaged with some regularity and over a substantial period of time.
(3) The term “waiting period” means, in the case of any application for disability insurance benefits, the earliest period of six consecutive calendar months—
(A) throughout which the individual who files such application has been under a disability * *
. See note 4 on page 234.
. All references to “Tr.” are to the Administrative Transcript of Record, Exhibit “A” to the Answer, certified as follows:
“CERTIFICATION
I, Charles M. Erisman, Chairman, Appeals Council and Director, Bureau of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, under authority conferred upon me by the Secretary, hereby certify that the documents annexed hereto constitute a full and accurate transcript of the entire record of proceedings relating to the application of Edgar P. Johnson to establish a period of disability, and his claim for disability insurance benefits under title H of the Social Security Act, as amended, such transcript including application for a period of disability and disability insurance benefits, testimony and other evidence upon which the decision of the hearing examiner of the Bureau of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration, was based.
Date: January 10, 1968
(s) Charles M. Erisman”
. Footnote 2, supra.
. Footnote 3, supra.
. Even though the plaintiff filed his application after the 1965 amendments went into effect, the period during which he could be found disabled for purposes of the Act ended in 1957, and the hearing examiner considered his case under both the former and current provisions of the Act (Tr. 10).
. Section 158(e) of E.L. 90-248, enacted January 2, 1968, provides:
“The amendments made hy this section shall be effective with respect to applications for disability insurance benefits under section 223 of the Social Security Act, and for disability determinations under section 216 (i) of such Act, filed—
“(1) in or after the month in which this Act is enacted or
“(2) before the month in which this Act is enacted if the applicant has not died before such month and if—
“ (A) notice of the final decision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has not been given to the applicant before such month; or
“(B) the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (A) has been so given before such month but a civil action with respect to such final decision is commenced under section 205(g) of the Social Security Act (whether before, in, or after such month) and the decision in such civil action has not become final before such month.”
. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1526:
“§ 404.1526 Conclusion by physician regarding individual’s disability.
The function of deciding whether or not an individual is under a disability is the responsibility of the Secretary. A statement by a physician that an individual is, or is not, ‘disabled,’ ‘permanently disabled,’ ‘totally disabled,’ ‘totally and permanently disabled,’ ‘unable to work,’ or a statement of similar import, being a conclusion upon the ultimate issue to be decided by the Secretary, shall not be determinative of the question of whether or not an individual is under a disability. The weight to be given such physician’s statement depends on the extent to which it is supported by specific and complete clinical findings and is consistent with other evidence as to the severity and probable duration of the individual’s impairment or impairments.”
. See Fels v. Ribicoff, 30 F.R.D. 141, 142 (S.D.N.Y.1962); Pirone v. Flemming, 183 F.Supp. 739, 740 (S.D.N.Y.1959, aff’d per curiam, 278 F.2d 508 (2d Cir. 1960).
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Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees were always at crossroads and the latter believed that Jesus was neither the son of God nor did he have that he had the capabilities he talked about when addressing the multitudes. One of the things that Jesus said when he was alive is that he would resurrect after three days, a thing that angered his detractors who did not believe in the resurrection. The Scribes and Pharisees were two different groups during the time of Jesus. Scribes were lawyers who knew and interpreted the law and used it to draft legal documents. There was at least one scribe per village and they ensured that people understood and followed the law. Pharisees belonged to a tribe that ascribed to the traditions of their ancestors and not the legal traditions illustrated in the bible. The Pharisees and the Scribes were the main accusers of Jesus Christ.
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After Jesus died and was buried in Joseph’s tomb, the Scribes and the Pharisees went to Pilate on the following day. They told Pilate that they remember that when Jesus was alive, he had said that he would resurrect after three days. Why did the scribes and the Pharisees go to appeal to Pilate? To start with, they did not believe that it was possible for Jesus to resurrect. Secondly, the scribes and the Pharisees thought that his followers would steal the corpse from Joseph’s tomb and preach to the people that he had resurrected, to fulfill his prophecy. According to the Scribes and the Pharisees, the second deception from his disciples would be worse than the first one and they wanted the tomb to be guarded until the third day to keep away disciples of Jesus, whom they feared could steal the body to make people believe that Jesus had risen from the dead.
After making their appeal, Pilate answered them, allowing them to hire a guard and make the tomb as secure as possible (Lightly, 1217). After the audience with Pilate, the Scribes and Pharisees went and made his tomb secure. To start with, they sealed the stone at the entrance of the tomb before setting a strong guard to ensure that no one accessed the tomb to take away the body of Christ.
However, Jesus rose after three days and the guards went to report to the scribes what had happened. The Scribes and the Pharisees consulted with each other and came to a mutual decision. The Scribes and the Pharisees bribed the guards to stop them from telling the story of resurrection. They told the guards to tell anyone who asked to about Jesus that his disciples had stolen the body at night. Simply put, the Scribes and the Pharisees were being driven by their immense fear of Jesus. They feared that Jesus would influence the people against them. They feared that if Jesus resurrected as he claimed he would, he would confirm that that indeed he was the son of God, a fact that the Scribes and the Pharisees had objected to previously.
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Good morning. Congratulations to the authors for this remarkable article, which deserves to be translated into other languages. I accidentally found in this : Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia (microform) , in which we find series of ancient traditional face painting designs. If anyone has the time to "clean up" these scans and upload them to Wikimedia commons or the article, I think that would be interesting. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do this myself, and so I'm putting this suggestion here. Lamiot (talk) 07:25, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
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Notability - #9 on the charts
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Admiral and Mrs. Croft, every thing of peculiar cordiality and fervent interest, which the same consciousness sought to conceal;—and with Captain Wentworth, some moments of communication continually occurring, and always the hope of more, and always the knowledge of his being there!
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LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Alfa Financial, which provides software for the asset finance industry, said on Friday it has priced its June initial public offering at 325 pence per share, which would make it the biggest listing in London so far this year. The company’s pricing gives would give it a market capitalization of 975 million pounds ($1.26 billion), Alfa said in a statement. Sources had previously said that the company, which counts Bank of America and Mercedes-Benz as customers and Old Mutual and Henderson as investors, was aiming for a valuation of at least 800 million pounds. London-based Alfa, which made adjusted earnings before interest and tax of 32.8 million pounds in 2016, has said it hopes the listing will help it win market share by attracting new customers looking to replace legacy or in-house systems that have failed to keep up with evolving regulations. Uncertainty around Britain’s future outside of the EU single market has dampened investor confidence: funds raised by British firms holding IPOs fell 28 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters data. Barclays and Numis are acting as joint bookrunners for the IPO, while Rothschild is acting as financial adviser. The company will join the London Stock Exchange on June 1. ($1 = 0.7769 pounds) (Reporting by Clara Denina) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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18 poured down their throats. Yet when this subject of King. George of England was tried, it was pleaded for him in open, court that a negro being property, it was no greater offence, in law for his owner to kill him than to kill a dog: the jury, though they returned a verdict of "guilty," by a majority, of their number, recommended Hodge to mercy: and Governor Elliott wrote home in his despatches, that he was obliged to be present, as Commander-in-chief,—to call out the militia,—and to proclaim martial law,—in order to secure the execution of the sentence. It is a remarkable additional, fact, and shows the state of feeling at that time, that although these and a thousand other horrors were perfectly well known,, Esq., was well received, in the society of the island, and retained his rank as "one of the Members of his Majesty's Council" up to the day of his arrest,
But these are things of the past: horrible shadows, remembered like bad dreams: events that never can occur again where England's law has sway. For England is just and merciful; and if she is also a little proud and preaching, it is no more than all converts to, good causes are apt to be, in the fresh earnestness of their desire that truths lately brought home to themselves, should be brought home to others; and if she finds fault with the laws, that permit oppression in the code of other countries, it is that she has no law which permits oppression in her own.
I beg the attention of both my American and English readers to a case I find copied, from, a report in a "Cincinnati Gazette," into the columns of our own "Times" newspaper, in the month of November, 1853. It was a case tried in the Covington Circuit Court; and, by the report it appears, that a, slave named; Sam Norris, belonging to a Mr J. N. Patton, of Virginia, had been permitted to work in Covington, on condition of paying each year a certain sum to his master; which sum was accordingly paid: that two years ago, Mr Patton proposed that the slave should purchase his freedom by the payment of | WIKI |
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)
SIGMA 1 (2005), 005, 7 pages nlin.SI/0510055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2005.005
Andrew Lenard: A Mystery Unraveled
Jeffery Praught and Roman G. Smirnov
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5
Received September 29, 2005, in final form October 03, 2005; Published online October 08, 2005
Abstract
The theory of bi-Hamiltonian systems has its roots in what is commonly referred to as the ``Lenard recursion formula''. The story about the discovery of the formula told by Andrew Lenard is the subject of this article.
Key words: Lenard's recursion formula; bi-Hamiltonian formalism; Korteweg-de Vries equation.
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Opinion | Trumpism for Thee, but Not for Me
David Leonhardt There are a lot of problems with living near an offshore oil rig. The smell can be nasty. The rigs produce something known as tarballs — little globs of petroleum that wash up on land. Even modest oil spills, which happen pretty frequently, can disrupt life. A major spill can devastate a community. No wonder, then, that people living along both the East and West Coasts objected when the Trump administration announced a big expansion of drilling last month. But only one area has managed to win a promised exemption to the drilling: Florida. Why? Well, Florida’s governor is Rick Scott, a Republican whom President Trump is trying to persuade to run for the Senate this year. If Scott does run, he doesn’t want to be forced to defend an unpopular new drilling plan. So Trump’s larger agenda will move ahead, with a special exception to that very same agenda for the president’s closest allies. It’s Trumpism-for-thee-but-not-for-me, and it is becoming a pattern. Here’s how it works: First, the Trump administration, often with congressional Republicans, enacts a policy that harms a large number of Americans. Then local or state allies of the administration raise objections. Ultimately, the administration and Congress create a carve-out that protects a small number of favored constituents while leaving most of the damaging policy in place. It is splendidly hypocritical, of course: If Trump’s agenda is as wonderful as he says, his loyal supporters should surely get to benefit from it as well. But I think it also contains an important lesson for anyone trying to stop Trump’s agenda: Keep calling attention to the substance of that agenda, because it is deeply unpopular — and even Trump’s allies know it’s unpopular. The pattern first appeared during the attempts to repeal Obamacare last year. The repeal bills would have sharply cut federal spending on health insurance. Yet not every part of the country would have experienced a cut. Most blue states would have suffered large reductions (Trumpism for thee…), while many red states would actually have received more federal subsidies (…but not for me). Then came the tax law passed in December. Not only does it shift billions of federal dollars from blue states to red, it does so partly through duplicity. The clearest example is a new tax on colleges with an endowment of at least $500,000 per full-time student. It was aimed at bastions of liberalism, like Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford and Amherst. But members of Congress eventually realized that the endowment tax would also apply to Berea College, a small institution in Kentucky with a nice-sized endowment. Kentucky, as you are probably aware, is the home state of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. So McConnell “insisted” (his word) that last week’s budget deal create a carve-out to spare Berea from the tax. I want to emphasize that Berea is an extremely impressive place. It enrolls only lower-income students, most of them from Appalachia, and doesn’t charge tuition. But the idea that congressional Republicans are just trying to protect low-income students — their rationalization for the carve-out — is ridiculous. For one thing, those same members of Congress have repeatedly taken steps to make college more expensive for both low- and middle-income families. So have state-level Republicans, which helps explain why nationwide per-student funding for higher education has dropped 16 percent since 2008. Trump and House leaders both recently proposed further cuts. For another thing, Berea, admirable as it is, happens to be tiny. It graduated about 315 lower-income students last year. By comparison, N.Y.U. graduated more than 1,000 lower-income students. Arizona State — located in the state suffering from the deepest college funding cuts — graduated 7,500 such students. McConnell hasn’t done any “insisting” on their behalf. All of this hypocrisy is certainly maddening. But as the old saying goes: Don’t get mad, get even. The Trumpism-for-thee phenomenon helps point the way to fighting back against Trumpism. In other countries, the most effective way to stop recent demagogues has been to treat them as normal politicians who are failing to deliver on their promises, as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago has noted. Don’t focus mostly on the outrages, the insults and the scandals. Most voters have become inured to them. Focus instead on the demagogue’s policies and job performance. Most Americans don’t want college to become more expensive. They don’t want medical care to become less accessible. They don’t want to live among tarballs or breathe dirtier air. They don’t want the top priorities of the federal government to be maximizing corporate profits and reducing taxes on the wealthy, at everyone else’s expense. Often, Trump simply lies about what his policies would do. But his aides and the leaders of Congress know they can’t always get away with lying. Instead, they create carve-outs. In doing so, they are admitting the truth about the Trump agenda: It’s so bad that they don’t want their own voters to live with it. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
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3D reconstruction of high-resolution, micro-computer tomography (CT) scans of the thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). The delicate and intricate trabecular bone structure within the marrow cavity of the femur is shown here. The medullary bone used to store calcium for eggshell formation in female quails is absent from the marrow cavity in males. Average length of an intact quail femur is approximately 40 mm. Like many other birds, quails control the timing of their reproduction through a physiological process called photoperiodism. Quails are highly sensitive to day length and use this information to ensure that reproduction occurs during the most favourable season for their offspring (i.e. in the summer). Increase in day length results in a series of hormonal changes leading to greater oestrogen production and fertility. In birds, these hormonal changes also result in the formation of extensive "medullary bone" within the marrow cavity. This medullary bone is essential to supply the large amount of calcium required to form the eggshell.
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Mosquitos are among the earliest insects in the world. They have been approximately for numerous years, and for that same amount of time, they have been taken into consideration one of the many bothersome pests come humans and also animals alike. Mosquitos (scientific name: Culicidae) space a kind of nematocerid fly. They deserve to feed off fruit and also plant nectar; however, most varieties have adapted, such that they have actually the capacity to feeding on human and also animals, through piercing the skin and also draining your host’s blood.
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Mosquitos are thought about a nuisance since they use their saliva come feed turn off humans and also animals. Mosquito saliva avoids hemostasis, or blood clotting, which allows them to drainpipe blood from their hosts through ease. However, your saliva also causes inflammation, i beg your pardon is why the is common that mosquito bites itch.
Mosquitoes are most attracted to world with type O blood; pregnant women; world with many of skin bacteria; hefty breathers; and people who emit many body heat. Mosquitoes have the right to be deadly, as their bites deserve to transmit major illnesses, such as Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever, Malaria, and Chikungunya.
How long Do Mosquito Bites Itch?
As pointed out above, the itchiness one feels after a mosquito bite is actually brought about by the mosquito’s saliva. Mosquito saliva is a kind of hematophagous arthropod saliva. In general, hematophagous arthropod saliva prevents blood clots. Castle contain at the very least one each of the following substances: Anticlotting; antiplatelet; and also vasodilatory.
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Aside from staying clear of blood clots, mosquito saliva likewise causes inflammation. Inflammation, in general, is the human body’s immune solution to anything that is international to it. Inflammation after a mosquito bite is the body’s reaction to the binding of IgG antibodies to IgE antibodies, result from the saliva beginning one’s system. This is as soon as the itching set in. The itching and swelling the comes as a an outcome of the bite usually last all over from a day to a week, depending largely on just how the host reacts to the saliva.
Some people have allergy reactions come mosquito bites, and it is likely that these world will finish up v a more adverse reaction contrasted to those that aren’t allergic to mosquitoes.
Of course, over there are methods of easing the itchiness and also swelling led to by mosquito bites. The most common solution is to use an anti-itch cream to the impacted area. Doing so will certainly lessen the irritation. For civilization who uncover the itch unbearable, or for human being who have actually mosquito allergies, acquisition a low-dose antihistamine would additionally help. A house remedy would be to ice the impacted area, so together to permit the ede to go under faster, as well as the numb the area. This might work on pesky no-see-ums bites together well.
Do Mosquitoes have actually Teeth?
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When one hears the word ‘bite,’ one would instantly think ‘teeth.’ Mosquito bites, however, carry out not indicate teeth. As a matter of fact, mosquitoes execute not have any kind of teeth. “So how do castle pierce the skin the humans and also animals,” one might ask. Anyone that has ever before had blood work-related done should have actually a an excellent idea of exactly how mosquitoes bite. Mosquitoes room no different from syringes. Basically, mosquitoes usage a body part called the proboscis to pierce the skin and also extract blood. They extract blood the same means a clinical Technician would once extracting blood for tests. Lock syphon the end the blood v their proboscis.
A mosquito’s proboscis has much more than one use, that course. As pointed out above, mosquitoes use their saliva to prevent blood clots, so the they can drain out blood from your hosts v ease. Mosquitoes additionally use their proboscis come inject their saliva into the incision, before syphoning the end the blood. This way, the can drain the blood from your hosts there is no trouble.
How countless Teeth walk a Mosquito Have?
As pointed out above, mosquitoes carry out not have actually teeth. They have a proboscis because that injecting their saliva, and for sucking the end the blood. However, the tube of the proboscis itself cannot penetrate the skin top top its own. Mosquitoes actually have actually cutting edges also with your proboscis. These cut through the skin in order for proboscis tubes come penetrate.
Mosquitoes have four sets of cutting edges v their proboscis. Further to this, follow to author, Isaac Asimov, mosquitoes actually have actually 47 cutting edges in total. These cutting edges space the mosquitoes’ identical to a set of this for humans.
As they room the part of the mosquito the cuts through the skin and causes the ‘bite,’ most consider these cutting edge are taken into consideration the mosquitoes’ teeth. However, like human being teeth, this cutting edges space not used by the mosquito because that chewing or v breaking down the framework of your food. This is no necessary because mosquitoes feeding on blood, which already takes a fluid form, making the act of chewing unnecessary.
Do Mosquitoes Bite more Than Once?
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Mosquitoes have the right to bite a human an ext than once. However, this is dependent on the situation. Ideally, a mosquito would just feed top top a human being or animal. As soon as it it s okay its fill of blood, it pipeline to digest that is food. When this happens the mosquito does not come back and bite again; the is till they must feed again.
If one notices the there only one mosquito in the area, and also one gets bitten more than once, this simply way that the mosquito initially fed, however was disturbed or interrupted throughout its feeding and also had to fly off prior to it to be full. As soon as this happens, mosquitos come ago and feed off your hosts again till they space full.
Simply put, if one pen of a mosquito the is in the middle of feeding (and doesn’t end up killing it), and also it is likely that the mosquito hasn’t had its fill of blood yet, climate it is likely that it will certainly come earlier and feed part more, till it is full. These are what most civilization consider ‘repeat bites.’
So how deserve to one avoid multiple bites? The simple answer would certainly be to enable the mosquitoes to end up feeding, or come ensure the one kills the mosquitoes once one brushes them off. Neither of which stop the mosquito native biting. However, as previously mentioned a an excellent offence is the best defence when it concerns keeping mosquitos at bay. Friend can shot a propane mosquito trap such together a Mosquito Magnet Executive to help eliminate a mosquito population, for this reason reducing the likelihood of a mosquito bite. However, with any trap or whichever eradication technique you use trap placement is that utmost importance and a straight factor in your mosquito defense.
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Luxembourg to Take Stake in BIL as Dexia Negotiates Sale
Dexia SA (DEXB) is in exclusive talks to
sell its Luxembourg unit to a group of international investors
as the Franco-Belgian lender is broken up. The Luxembourg government will take a minority stake in
Dexia Banque Internationale a Luxembourg SA, Finance Minister
Luc Frieden told reporters today in Luxembourg. Talks are in an
advanced stage and should be concluded by the end of the month,
he said. Dexia would then review any potential offer, the
Brussels- and Paris-based lender said in a separate statement. “Given the systemic character of BIL in Luxembourg, the
Luxembourg state will enter as minority shareholder into the
capital of this bank,” Frieden said. “We believe very strongly
in the future of BIL. This is a project oriented to the future
that will give the bank new perspectives.” The disposal is part of Dexia’s planned breakup, with the
profitable assets such as Dexia Bank Belgium NV, DenizBank AS,
Dexia BIL and the asset-management division being sold to free
capital for a so-called bad bank holding Dexia’s troubled
assets, leaving little value for shareholders. Belgium plans to
nationalize the Belgian bank pending a sale, De Tijd reported
today. Dexia fell as much as 16 percent in Brussels trading after
Frieden announced the talks to sell BIL, erasing earlier gains.
The shares declined 11 cents to 91 cents by 1:11 p.m. local
time, for a market value of 1.78 billion euros ($2.38 billion). Sixth-Biggest Bank With assets of 32.3 billion euros and shareholder equity of
1.77 billion euros at the end of last year, BIL ranks as
Luxembourg’s sixth-biggest bank, according to an annual report
about the Luxembourg banking industry drawn up by KMPG Europe
LLP’s subsidiary in the country. Net income at the unit fell 25
percent to 129 million euros last year. Tracking its origins to 1856, which makes it Luxembourg’s
oldest bank, BIL offers retail, commercial and private banking
services. The bank held about 12.6 billion euros of customer
deposits last year, an 11 percent decline from a year earlier
and dropping to fifth position, according to the KMPG report. Frieden said he couldn’t reveal the identity of the
potential buyer and said the minority stake of the Luxembourg
state is still subject to negotiations, adding that he doesn’t
expect a transaction to result in a reduction in jobs. With a workforce of 1,854, BIL is the second-biggest
employer in the country’s banking industry, after BNP Paribas
SA’s unit. To contact the reporter on this story:
Stephanie Bodoni in Luxembourg at
sbodoni@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
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Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Origen/Origen Against Celsus/Book IV/Chapter LXXV
Chapter LXXV.
For, in the first place, he is of opinion that “thunders, and lightnings, and rains are not the works of God,”—thus showing more clearly at last his Epicurean leanings; and in the second place, that “even if one were to grant that these were the works of God, they are brought into existence not more for the support of us who are human beings, than for that of plants, and trees, and herbs, and thorns,”—maintaining, like a true Epicurean, that these things are the product of chance, and not the work of Providence.  For if these things are of no more use to us than to plants, and trees, and herbs, and thorns, it is evident either that they do not proceed from Providence at all, or from a providence which does not provide for us in a greater degree than for trees, and herbs, and thorns.  Now, either of these suppositions is impious in itself, and it would be foolish to refute such statements by answering any one who brought against us the charge of impiety; for it is manifest to every one, from what has been said, who is the person guilty of impiety.  In the next place, he adds:  “Although you may say that these things, viz., plants, and trees, and herbs, and thorns, grow for the use of men, why will you maintain that they grow for the use of men rather than for that of the most savage of irrational animals?”  Let Celsus then say distinctly that the great diversity among the products of the earth is not the work of Providence, but that a certain fortuitous concurrence of atoms gave birth to qualities so diverse, and that it was owing to chance that so many kinds of plants, and trees, and herbs resemble one another, and that no disposing reason gave existence to them, and that they do not derive their origin from an understanding that is beyond all admiration.  We Christians, however, who are devoted to the worship of the only God, who created these things, feel grateful for them to Him who made them, because not only for us, but also (on our account) for the animals which are subject to us, He has prepared such a home, seeing “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, that He may bring forth food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.”   But that He should have provided food even for the most savage animals is not matter of surprise, for these very animals are said by some who have philosophized (upon the subject) to have been created for the purpose of affording exercise to the rational creature.  And one of our own wise men says somewhere:  “Do not say, What is this? or Wherefore is that? for all things have been made for their uses.  And do not say, What is this? or Wherefore is that? for everything shall be sought out in its season.” | WIKI |
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* ... that Detroit Titans men's basketball player Ray McCallum, Jr. was "one of the most highly-recruited players in school history"?
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* Symbol question.svg I'll have to look at this more thoroughly later, but for starters, you should add quotation marks around "one of the most highly-recruited players in school history" as it is a quote. Automatic Strikeout ( T • C • Sign AAPT ) 16:40, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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In today’s digital age, where cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, safeguarding an organization’s network is paramount. One critical component in the arsenal of network security tools is the Intrusion Detection System (IDS). This blog post delves into what IDS is, how it works, and why it’s essential for protecting your organization’s network.
What is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a network security technology designed to detect and alert administrators to potential malicious activity or policy violations within a network. Unlike firewalls, which block harmful traffic, IDS is primarily focused on monitoring and alerting. It serves as a watchdog, constantly scrutinizing network traffic for suspicious patterns that may indicate an intrusion.
Types of IDS
IDS can be broadly categorized into two types:
1. Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS):
• Monitors traffic across the entire network.
• Positioned at strategic points like network perimeters or critical junctures within the network.
• Analyzes data packets for known attack signatures or abnormal behaviors.
2. Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS):
• Resides on individual hosts or devices within the network.
• Monitors incoming and outgoing traffic on the specific device.
• Can also track system logs, file integrity, and unauthorized changes to system configurations.
How IDS Works
IDS operates by using one or more of the following detection methods:
1. Signature-based Detection:
• Relies on a database of known attack patterns or signatures.
• Compares incoming traffic against these signatures.
• Quick and effective for known threats but may miss new or unknown attacks.
2. Anomaly-based Detection:
• Establishes a baseline of normal network behavior.
• Monitors for deviations from this baseline that could indicate a threat.
• More capable of detecting zero-day attacks but can generate false positives.
3. Hybrid Detection:
• Combines signature-based and anomaly-based techniques.
• Aims to balance the strengths and weaknesses of both methods.
Benefits of Using IDS
Implementing an IDS in your network security infrastructure offers several advantages:
• Early Detection: Identifies potential threats before they can cause significant harm.
• Incident Response: Provides valuable information that aids in responding to security incidents.
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps meet compliance requirements for monitoring and reporting.
• Forensic Analysis: Facilitates post-incident analysis by maintaining logs of detected activities.
• Enhanced Visibility: Offers insight into network activity, helping to uncover hidden threats and vulnerabilities.
Challenges and Considerations
While IDS is a powerful tool, it also comes with its challenges:
• False Positives: Anomaly-based systems can generate alerts for benign activities, leading to alert fatigue.
• Resource Intensive: IDS can require significant processing power and storage, especially in large networks.
• Skill Requirement: Effective IDS management necessitates skilled personnel to interpret alerts and manage the system.
Conclusion
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, an Intrusion Detection System is a critical component for any organization’s defense strategy. By monitoring and analyzing network traffic, IDS helps in the early detection of potential threats, enabling proactive measures to mitigate risks. Despite its challenges, the benefits of deploying IDS—enhanced visibility, regulatory compliance, and improved incident response—make it an indispensable tool in safeguarding your network.
Investing in a robust IDS solution, along with continuous updates and skilled management, can significantly bolster your organization’s security posture against the myriad of cyber threats lurking in the digital world. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Söğüt
* For the seaside village of Söğüt near Marmaris, see Bozburun.
Söğüt is a town in the hills of Eastern Marmara Region in Turkey, with a population in 2020 of 17,924. It's a nondescript place amid cherry orchards and market gardens, and eyesore marble quarries and claypits. Yet from 1299 to 1335 it was the first powerbase of the Ottoman dynasty, which went on to establish a vast empire that endured for 600 years.
Understand
The town name means "willows", which in Byzantium was Thebasion. It traded and processed silk and other materials along the Silk Road between inland Anatolia and the ports along the Sea of Marmara coast. Initially this was pre-made silk, but by 140 AD the secret and the silkworms had been smuggled out of China, and towns across this region began production in their own right. Anatolia to the east was wrested from the Byzantines by the Seljuks in the 11th century, so Söğüt was in a borderland or power vacuum.
Around 1258 AD, the local leader Ertuğrul had a son, called Osman — and that is all that is reliably known of his origins. The standard theory is that Ertuğrul was of the Kayı tribe of Oghuz Turks, a nomadic people pushed ever westward from Persia by the Mongol invasions. They pitched their yurts among the willows and established settled dwellings and agriculture here. When the Seljuks were toppled by the Mongols, the vassal tribal chiefs each declared independence, and Osman (having succeeded his father) did so in 1299. The problem is that none of this was documented until over a century later and has been thoroughly mythologised and jazzed-up. If you win battles, people write about you, and you get to employ them.
The proto-Ottoman statelet began to subdue its Byzantine or briefly independent neighbours under Ertuğrul. Osman continued, and laid siege to the major city of Bursa, but it was only during the reign of his own son Orhan that it was captured in 1326. This was a much more important, sturdier and more lucrative place to be, so the throne was soon moved to Bursa, and Söğüt was left in a backwater.
It was rediscovered, and in a way reinvented, in the late 19th century when the Ottomans were being ousted from their non-Turkish dominions and needed a rallying cry in their heartlands. Abdülhamid II (r 1876–1909) ordered the repair of the earliest Ottoman structures, a new mosque, and selected his personal bodyguard regiment from the Karakeçili clan, closest known descendants of the Kayı people settled around Söğüt. But 1918 saw that empire finally shattered, and the Greeks awarded the Aegean islands and large tracts of mainland such as Izmir. The Greeks had greater ambitions and in 1920 invaded this region, until driven back in the War of Turkish Independence.
Get in
There's no direct transport from the big cities. From Istanbul take the YHT fast train to Bilecik, whence an hourly dolmuş runs the 28 km to Söğüt. From Ankara take the YHT to Eskişehir; the onward dolmuş is every two hours, and similarly from Bozüyük which is also on the YHT line.
The main approach highway is D-650 to Bilecik, then onto the side road past Yeniköy. This road is wide and smooth. It continues southeast to join D-200 / E90 towards Eskişehir.
You might approach via Bozüyük coming from the Izmir area. This road is surfaced but the turn-off isn't signed, and the route is narrow and twisty. Still, it's scenic.
Get around
It's about 3 km from the tomb of Ertuğrul Gazi at the north end of town, to the Mosque of the Well at the south end, so it's walking distance.
See
* Hamidiye Mosque (or Çifte Minareli Cami — "Double Minaret Mosque") just north of the museum is a neo-classical building of 1903.
* (Hamidiye İdadisi) is an attractive group of buildings of 1905, corner of Zafer Sk and Ertuğrul Gazi Cd. They're now a library and other local government offices.
* is the town's finest. It was built circa 1420 but only the foundations remain, with the present mosque built upon them at the end of the 19th.
* Governor's Fountain (Kaymakam Çeşmesi) is north side of that mosque. It's early 20th century.
* is the town's finest. It was built circa 1420 but only the foundations remain, with the present mosque built upon them at the end of the 19th.
* Governor's Fountain (Kaymakam Çeşmesi) is north side of that mosque. It's early 20th century.
Further out
* in the village of Borcak is a simple building, probably 14th century. But under its interior plaster were discovered curious decorations, interpreted as shamanistic references to Gök Tanrı or Tengri the sky-god. These interpretations are disputed, and detested by those who wish to depict medieval Turkey as monoglot Islamic; but pre-Ottoman nomads acquired Islam in dribs and drabs from travelling preachers not from study in a medressah. Isa Bey himself served with Ertuğrul Gazi: "İsa" corresponds to Jesus and "Sofu" indicates he was Sufi, the mystic branch of Islam.
* is a memorial to Turkish losses in the war with Greece 1920-22.
* is a memorial to Turkish losses in the war with Greece 1920-22.
Do
* Söğüt Spor Salonu is a gym and fitness centre at Ertuğrul Gazi Cd 79 just south of the tomb.
Buy
* There are souvenir shops around the Mosque of the Well, and south of the Ertuğrul Gazi tomb.
* Shops for necessities line main drag. There's no dominant superstore.
Eat
* Türk Sofrası is next to Ertuğrul Gazi Tomb, open daily 10:00-22:00.
* There's a slew of small cafes in town centre.
Drink
* Most cafes serve beer. There's no free-standing pub.
Connect
As of May 2022, Söğüt has 4G from all Turkish carriers. 5G has not rolled out in Turkey.
Go next
* Bilecik — a nearby city and the provincial capital was also an early Ottoman possession and has some associated sites.
* Eskişehir — back in the early years of the Ottoman Empire, Eskişehir was the site of a small Byzantine castle as well as of a Turkish-run regional marketplace. Nowadays, it is a fine riverside city, taking pride in being the hometown of Malhatun, the spouse of Osman I and the mother of Orhan.
* Bursa — the Ottoman capital after Söğüt is chock full of monuments from the early years of the empire, and is the site of the tombs of many sultans, including Osman I.
* Domaniç — over the misty mountains to the southwest, Domaniç was the summer meadows of the Kayı tribe back in the nomadic days, and is the site of the tomb of Hayme Ana, the mother of Ertuğrul. | WIKI |
Troy Clarke (Australian rules footballer)
Troy Clarke (8 June 1969 – 28 October 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. He is a member of the Queensland Football Hall of Fame.
Early career
Clarke represented Queensland at interstate football from junior level and was just 17 when he won the Crathern Medal with South Cairns as the "best and fairest" player in the 1986 AFL Cairns season.
West Torrens
In 1987, he joined South Australian National Football League club West Torrens and spent his four seasons playing mostly as a wingman. He was selected in the 1989 "West End All Stars Team of the Year".
Brisbane Bears
Despite not making onto the Brisbane Bears list when they joined the competition in 1987, Clarke's efforts in South Australia saw him signed by the club in 1991. He participated in their reserves premiership that year and also represented Queensland in a State of Origin win over Victoria. Small, fast and versatile, Clarke was used in many positions by Brisbane and received 12 Brownlow Medal votes during his career. An injury sustained in 1995 meant he had to undergo a knee reconstruction which ultimately ended his AFL career.
Coaching
Clarke took over from Lance Spaulding as coach of Sandy Bay for the 1997 TFL Statewide League season in Tasmania. The following season he took over as coach of the newly formed Southern Cats.
Death
Clarke died from coronary atherosclerosis on 28 October 2013, aged 44. | WIKI |
Talk:Fem fetale
Movies
The movie section should be broken out. Name the actual films, not scenes you particularily found interesting. Example of Fem Fatales in movies. Etc. Turlo Lomon 09:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
DOH!
Just realized both the original author and myself misspelled Fem Fetale (should be (Femme fatale). However, the redirect I did does not appear to be taking. No clue how to fix it! HELP! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Turlo Lomon (talk • contribs) 10:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC).
Jeese. There was less then 2 seconds before I tried to edit with my sig. That is one fast bot. Turlo Lomon 10:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Turlo Lomon 11:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
* The redirect is working fine. Click article at the top of this page and you go straight to the correctly named article. If you look at the top of the article, just below the title, you'll see that it says "redirected from Fem Fetale" in small letters.--Fuhghettaboutit 11:57, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
* Figured out my problem. I needed to clear my IE cache so it would load the new page with the redirect. I don't usually have that problem. Wierd. Thank you for the quick response. Turlo Lomon 12:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
Djiboutian Opposition Calls Off Protest After Authorities Block Gathering
Djiboutian opposition parties were
forced to call off a planned protest today after being prevented
from gathering at the city’s Hassan Guled Stadium, said Mohamed
Daoud Chehem, head of the Djibouti Party for Development. Opponents of President Ismail Guelleh will attempt to hold
another demonstration on March 11, Chehem said in a phone
interview from Djibouti City. “They stopped the people,” Chehem said. “They have not been
able to come to where we are meeting.” Calls to the mobile
phones of Interior Minister Yacin Elmi Bouh and Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Ali Yousef seeking comment weren’t answered. Violence broke out at an opposition rally around the
stadium on Feb. 18 when security forces acted to contain
“trouble-makers” who hijacked the protest, Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Ali Yousef said on Feb. 21. One policeman died and nine
other people were injured, he said. Anti-government protests have spread from Libya to Yemen
since January after popular uprisings ousted the presidents of
Egypt and Tunisia . In Djibouti, Guelleh’s People’s Rally for
Progress party has ruled since independence in 1977. The 63-
year-old leader, first elected in 1999, amended the constitution
in March 2010 to allow him to extend his rule by two more six-
year terms. “The president is a dictator,” Chehem said. “Today he
showed who he is. We will continue with the protests next
Friday.” Elections Opposition parties, which also include the National
Democratic Party and three-party alliance Union for a Democratic
Alternative, are calling for Guelleh’s resignation or for a
presidential election on April 8 to be delayed to give time to
create conditions for a fair vote. The U.S. has had a military base in Djibouti since 2001,
while former colonial power France has around 3,000 troops
stationed in the country, which is smaller than the U.S. state
of Massachusetts . To contact the reporter on this story:
William Davison at
wdavison3@bloomberg.net . To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Paul Richardson at
pmrichardson@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Tax credit overpayment
In the tax law of the United Kingdom, tax credit overpayment occurs when a claimant (person filing taxes) has received more Working Tax Credit (WTC) or Child Tax Credit (CTC) than HMRC’s final end of year calculations awards them. This can be caused by official or claimant error or neglect, or simply because the provisional payments were based on out of date information. This article is solely about overpayment, not about details of the tax system as a whole.
Since the implementation of the Tax Credit Act 2002 (TCA 2002) HMRC consider overpaid tax credit in the same light as unpaid income tax, and can use the full extent of their powers to pursue recovery (aka repayment)
Records for each completed year (all awards up to date and closed) show that one third of all tax credit claims have been overpaid. In fact 1/3 are also underpaid, and only 1/3 paid correctly on average.
Causes of overpayment
A combination of several of the following may be responsible for any overpayment bill.
Customer Error Applicants delaying informing HMRC of changes of circumstances (CoC's) such as children leaving a household, ending employment, or splitting from a partner. This also includes applicants giving incorrect information on making/updating claims, or failing to respond in a timely manner to deadlines in the Tax Credit process.
Annualised taxation calculations Because entitlement to tax credits depends on the level of income received for the tax year it is being paid, the true award cannot be finalised until the end of that year, as such all payments are ‘provisional’ until an end of year calculation. The result is that an overpayment can be discovered at the end (or even during) an award.
Inflexibility of the system HMRC did not anticipate claimants' incomes and circumstances would vary so much ‘in year’. The system operates retroactively, so delays allowing for changes to process mean overpayment can occur even if changes are reported timely. The resulting numerous and confusing paperwork amendments to claims caused additional problems.
The Tax Credit Office initially took the decision not to require or act on notifications of circumstance changes ‘in year’ anyway, and instead save this information until the end of the year to factor into a single entitlement recalculation. This meant overpayments built up even where claimants notified HMRC of all changes of circumstance (CoC's)
Provisional payments made between the end of one claim and the processing of another assumed income was predictable and stable. In practice, income details used could be two years out of date and were not even being supplied by the claimant on which to base any current payments. The result was awards were not even properly started for that year and may already have been overpaid.
Calculations and deductions HMRC told claimants to apply deductions before declaring their income if they had had a child in the previous year, reducing the gross figure of the claimant's income and therefore increased their entitlement to a higher level of award. In reality, this actually caused an overpayment because it transpired that this calculation only worked when it was assumed that the claimant would not be going back to work in the following year.
HMRC's lack of experience with the TC client base Because HMRC as a whole, and the staff in general, were used to dealing with higher income earners, they had no understanding of the importance of reliable and secure awards, nor the empathy or experience to deal reasonably with frustrated, confused claimants who had variable circumstances and little previous experience of taxation.
Take up of Tax Credit was far higher than expected and staff were working under pressure with fixed deadlines, little training, backlogs, confused claimants and inadequate facilities. Untrained and private sector staff were answering claimant's calls, and callers were not advised of this.
Annulled awards These types of overpayment bills are called 'annulled awards' because the Tax Credit Office have said the claimant didn't return the end of year declaration within the time limit. This automatically 'wipes out' their entitlement to all the payments they already received for that tax year.
Wrong Capacity this is when a claim is terminated because HMRC believe the couple / single status of the adults on the award was wrong. Rather than the status being changed, the claim is automatically cancelled and all payments already made are ruled as overpaid. No replacement claim is calculated in the ‘right’ capacity unless the claimant invokes the dispute process and is able to successful argue for a Notional Entitlement assessment.
The I.T infrastructure The computerised system on which processing, recording and calculating claimants awards was based was flawed. ‘Glitches’ in the systems mean records are lost or not logged, records were not kept of all communications to the Tax Credit Office, award notices that claimants are supposed to check are not posted or received, and the dual level system means that call operative give out the wrong information regarding claims because they cannot see all case information. The company responsible EDS were later sued by HMRC
Fraud and error
To be overpaid is not an accusation or suspicion of fraud or neglect, and there doesn't have to have been an error for an overpayment to have occurred.
"'An element of overpayment to claimants was an inherent part of the design of the tax credits system'" Quote from the Public Accounts Committee's chairman Edward Leigh
Unhelpfully HMRC combine the figures for fraud and error when publicly releasing the information and do not separate out which is claimant error and which is official error.
Dispute process
Some claimants are initially confused when informed of an overpayment, and believe that HMRC are trying to reclaim money the claimant didn't receive. This is because during the course of an award claimants are sent award notices stating the current rate of payments, so when an overpayment is declared claimants don't understand that those award notices are now ‘wrong’. If the circumstances used to calculate an overpayment are correct, then there is no denying the amount paid was wrong, but responsibility, and therefore who should have to foot the bill, can be contested.
Terminology causes confusion here as accepted language would be to Appeal, but because Tax Credits is enshrined in tax law, and in that Appeal has a specific meaning, it is not possible to Appeal against the recovery of an overpayment. (As that would be to insist the circumstances used for the final calculation were wrong) instead, in cases where responsibility for the cause of the overpayment is contested, the correct terminology is to dispute recovery of the overpayment.
It is possible to dispute informally, but there is a set structure and route through the process. HMRC's Code of Practice 26 (COP 26) sets out the basics of why and how claimants can dispute recovery of an overpayment but does not go into detail. Several agencies offer support and guidance in disputing including the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and the Tax Credit Casualties
Contentious issues
There have been many criticisms of the delivery of tax credits and the handling of overpayment disputes
Criticisms have centred on:
• That the dispute process is not independently adjudicated.
• The number of HMRC errors claimants are expected to spot.
• The level of understanding of tax law HMRC assumed claimants would have.
• HMRC's lack of clear information regarding how to dispute.
• The poor administration and training of staff.
• The automatic renewal process that automatically starts a new claim when a claimant provides closing details for the previous year's claim, whether they want a new claim or not.
• That there is no opt out of the system, if a claimant still qualifies but doesn't want to claim HMRC have to list ‘household break up’ on the claim to invalidate it.
• That the computer system was rolled out with so many flaws in it.
• That the increase income disregard from £2,500 to £25,000 was not retroactively backdated and is not the safety net it was supposed to be
• HMRC adjusting awards after finalisation, often going back several years, which instantly ‘creates’ overpayments.
• The flawed assumptions about how claimants lived that left the system inflexible and unrealistic.
• The low rate of successful disputes.
• Implementation of the Civil Partnerships bill and decisions regarding claimants deemed to be Living Together As Husband And Wife (LTAHAW) have seen them get criticised for dictating lifestyle politics
• The annualised calculation system - HMRC traditionally are used to dealing with high income earners and corporations who ‘balance’ their tax accounts on a yearly basis and have the savings and income to be able to do this. | WIKI |
The three theories of leadership are trait theories, behavioral theories, and contingency theories. Each theory is different from the other. For example, trait theory states that a person is not made a leader, but is born that way. Behavioral theory states that one’s behavior is what makes them a leader. Lastly, contingency theory states that the way one handles a certain situation is what makes them a leader.Trait theories of leadership focus on a leader’s specific characteristics, or traits, that they were born with. Basically, what this theory states are that one cannot become a leader over time, but that they are already born that way. For example, a trait that every leader has in common is ambition. This trait isn’t something that these leaders have learned over time. They were born with this trait, which is what made them the leader that they are. Behavioral theories of leadership state that leadership is based on one’s behaviors. | FINEWEB-EDU |
In JavaScript, the `currentTarget` property is commonly used in event handling to refer to the element on which the event listener is registered. It represents the target element regardless of the event propagation phase. However, there are cases where the `currentTarget` value may be `null`. Here are five examples with a step-by-step explanation:
Example 1:
javascript
function handleClick(event) {
console.log(event.currentTarget);
}
document.body.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
– Here, we define a function `handleClick` that takes an event object as a parameter and logs the `currentTarget` value.
– We then register this function as an event listener for the ‘click’ event on the `document.body` element.
– If you click anywhere on the page, the `currentTarget` value will be the `document.body` element.
Example 2:
javascript
function handleClick(event) {
console.log(event.currentTarget);
}
const button = document.getElementById('myButton');
button.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
– This example is similar to the previous one, but we register the event listener on a specific button element with the id ‘myButton’.
– If you click the button, the `currentTarget` value will be the `button` element.
Example 3:
javascript
function handleClick(event) {
console.log(event.currentTarget);
}
document.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
– In this example, we register the event listener on the `document` object itself.
– If you click anywhere on the page, the `currentTarget` value will be the `document` object.
Example 4:
javascript
function handleClick(event) {
console.log(event.currentTarget);
}
const div = document.querySelector('.myDiv');
div.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
– Here, we register the event listener on a specific div element with a class name ‘myDiv’.
– If you click the div, the `currentTarget` value will be the `div` element.
Example 5:
javascript
function handleClick(event) {
console.log(event.currentTarget);
}
const link = document.querySelector('a');
link.addEventListener('click', handleClick);
– In this example, we register the event listener on a specific anchor (link) element.
– If you click the link, the `currentTarget` value will be the `link` element.
It’s important to note that the `currentTarget` value will only be `null` if the event listener was not attached to any element. This can happen if the event hasn’t been dispatched, or if the event listener was removed or detached from the element.
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DJ K-Sly (Kathleen Marie Taylor) is recognized for her work as an american radio personality and TV host. She gained popularity in Los Angeles at KKBT-FM (100.3). Prior to The Beat, K-Sly was a mainstay on Atlanta's WHTA-FM (107.9, formerly 97.5) with multi-platinum recording artist, Ludacris. K-Sly got her start at Kansas State University's DB92 (91.9), where she attended college.
She has been featured as a guest deejay on On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, and has made appearances on BET, MTV and many other television stations. K-Sly also served as the resident deejay/announcer on the international tv show Dance 360 from 2004-2006. She was also the deejay/announcer for Steve Harvey's Big Time.
Currently, she has a new remix album out with the producers The Drop Squad featuring the music of the group Outcast. She frequently deejays for different events across the country. | WIKI |
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (ふがいない僕は空を見た) is a 2012 Japanese drama film adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Misumi Kubo. It was released in Japan on 17 November. The film stars Kento Nagayama as Takumi Saito, the lead hero; Tomoko Tabata as Satomi Okamoto (Anzu), the lead heroine; Masataka Kubota as Ryota Fukuda; Takahiro Miura as Yoshifumi Taoka. The film was directed by Yuki Tanada.
Reception
Tomoko Tabata won the 67th Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. | WIKI |
Our Lady of Absam
Our Lady of Absam is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, associated with a 1797 Marian apparition in the alpine village of Absam, a municipality of Austria. Unlike traditional Marian apparitions, this apparition of the Virgin Mary was said to leave a permanent memento in the form an image of the Virgin etched into a windowpane without a formal appearance by the Virgin. The windowpane itself has been associated with numerous miracles and healings.
Pope John Paul II declared Saint Michael's Church in Absam–the parish church where the image is currently enshrined–a minor basilica on June 24, 2000 (now known as the Basilika St. Michael), due to the popularity of the church as a site of pilgrimage.
Apparition
On January 17, 1797, between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, an 18-year-old girl named Rosina Buecher was sitting at the dinner table and sewing. With no particular intervention, Buecher was prompted to look out the window near her where strange markings had seemed to appear on the window on their own. The girl called her mother to see the unusual phenomenon, and together, they looked upon the face etched into the window and concluded that it was that of the Virgin Mary. In the image, the Virgin seemed to be crying, as a tear drop could be noted coming out of her right eye. Neighbors and the parish priest were summarily called to the Buecher home to see the window for themselves.
Reasons for the appearance remain a matter of speculation. One theory that has been hypothesized is that Rosina's mother suspected it to be a grim premonition, as both her husband and her son, Johann–Rosina's brother –worked in the salt mines. Conversely, it has also been believed that the image was instead a positive sign, promising the safe return of the two men to their home. Both men did indeed return home after barely escaping a work-related accident.
Recounting by Johann Buecher
In his old age, Johann Buecher recounted the following rendition of the apparition in 1857:
"'On 17th January 1797, my sister, a grown girl (18 years of age) by the name of Rosina was sitting at the table by the window on the ground-floor room sewing. She then – between 3 and 4 o'clock – suddenly looked up and saw what had never been seen before, drawn on a window pane, an image of Mary, the Mother of God. She called to her mother, who was also present, but in another part of the room. Mother hurried over and was initially not a little frightened, when she saw the image of the Holy Virgin, as she thought an accident could have befallen father or myself in the salt-mine where we worked. She said to sister Rosanna that we should pray; and that is what happened. After saying their prayers, the mother wiped the picture with a cloth, because she thought it was steamed up, but look, scarcely had she wiped it off, but it was back just as it was before. The apparition of the image took place on a Tuesday, and on the Thursday me and my father came home perfectly well from the mountain. We looked with joy and amazement at what we had occurred. On 17th January 1797 I was in my 16th year and have retained in my memory everything that happened on that day.'"
Examination of the windowpane
The parish priest took the windowpane for further examination by experts soon after its removal from the home. They discovered that as soon as the windowpane was submerged in water, the image would disappear, but would reappear again. Attempts to chemically test and treat the window with sand and acid were futile, and the image of the Virgin Mary remained permanently on the window.
A commission from the University of Innsbruck was set up to investigate the matter and consisted of two professors of chemistry, a mathematician, a painter, Joseph Schöpf and two master glaziers. The commission found that applications of chemicals, physical rubbing, and even a mirror grinder with polish could not erase the image. One of the two glaziers then tried to remove the image with an abrasive. With the application of a lead polish, the glass allegedly became transparent and the image had disappeared, leading the commission to report, "As a result of the investigation, a quite natural cause has to be assumed, and so the image should not be regarded as a miracle."
Theories behind the image's creation
One theory behind the origin of the etching is that it may have been the work of a young man named Georg Johannes Stebenbauer, the wealthy son of a prominent painter. Stebenbauer was said to have loved Rosina Buecher and wanted to create a painting of her, which Buecher allegedly allowed him to do, but only on the condition that she would not notice him doing so. As an alternative to this, he instead set on capturing Buecher's reflection by attaching a piece of paper, soaked in an unspecified substance made to react to light, to Buecher's window. Stebenbauer had hoped she would longingly gaze out of the window, supposedly as she always did, and capture her reflection in this way. After removing the chemically treated paper from the window, he failed to have the image of her reflection appear on the paper. If true, this method of imagery would have predated the formal invention of photography by approximately 25 years. News of the unusual image on Buecher's window soon spread throughout Absam, and Stebenbauer reportedly left Innsbruck in despair, as Buecher apparently renounced the world as a nun and entered a convent. She later assumed the name "Maria Walburga".
Pilgrimage and enshrinement
The pane was returned to the Buecher family, but later given to Saint Michael's church on June 24, 1797, for veneration. To encourage the family to donate the pane to the church, villagers reportedly said, "Where the Son stays, there must be a place for the Mother too." A festive procession in reverence of the Virgin was held on the same day, rife with bells and celebration. Pope John Paul II declared Saint Michael's Church a minor basilica on the 203rd anniversary of the windowpane's official placement in the church, on June 24, 2000. | WIKI |
Understanding how to handle, dispose of, and recycle Asbestos should be known due to the severe illnesses you could contract from asbestos-containing material. Though we will be going through how you deal with Asbestos, you must refrain from trying to handle, dispose and recycle it yourself, as there are professionals for a reason. At the very most, if you are worried about the Asbestos contaminating other parts of your home and you would like to slow down the spread, you will be able to gently spray the asbestos-containing material with water, as it is known that once you dampen the Asbestos, it will not spread.
This comprehensive guide sheds light on the intricate web of considerations surrounding asbestos, providing essential information for individuals, professionals, and businesses alike. From understanding the risks associated with asbestos exposure to navigating the complex management, this guide serves as a roadmap for ensuring the safe and responsible handling of asbestos-containing materials.
Guide to Handling, Disposing and Recycling Asbestos Properly
Handling And Disposing Of Asbestos-containing materials
Before you handle the substance, you will need to assess the size of the area that contains the Asbestos. You will then need to prepare the site for handling and removal; the work area must be sealed off with plastic sheeting, and hostile air pressure units must be used to prevent contamination outside the work area. Warning signs must also be present to alert passersby that an asbestos-related project is in progress; this is important as people with breathing problems such as asthma will know to stay away.
Next, you must ensure all protective clothing is worn when tackling the asbestos-containing material; all workers must also wear an N-100 or P-100 respirator to prevent exposure. Finally, you are ready to handle the asbestos-containing material. All materials must be wetted before handling to eliminate the chance of spread; once this has been done, you will need to double bag the material in 6-millimetre plastic bags and enclose them in plastic, leak-tight containers with a lid and proper labelling. You can hire experts for these services from an Essex asbestos removal company. This will ensure a sense of professionalism is present throughout the project.
When do you need to use an asbestos survey company
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Properly Recycling Of Asbestos-containing Materials
Most people will need help to recycle asbestos properly due to how toxic the substance is. Recycling asbestos is more involved than putting it in the recycling bin. Many professionals can recycle your Asbestos-containing materials and turn them into ceramics or glass. This can be done by washing the fibres in a hot base solution, followed by acid to dissolve them. The extremely high temperatures of the solution are strong enough to destroy all of the asbestos fibres. If this process is done on ceramics or glass, there should be no concerns about reusing or recycling as usual.
Navigating asbestos handling, disposal, and recycling requires knowledge, caution, and environmental responsibility. Following the guidelines outlined in this guide equips you with the essential information to manage asbestos-containing materials safely. Remember, prioritising safety is critical. Proper asbestos management is an individual obligation and a collective commitment to preserving our environment. Stay informed, stay safe.
The Unsung Heroes of Construction Why Every Project Needs a Quantity Surveyor
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CHAPTER XI
BATRACHIA
The theory of evolution teaches that animal life began in a very simple form in the sea, and that afterward the higher sea animals lost their gills and developed lungs and legs and came out to live upon the land; truly a marvelous procedure, and incredible to many, although the process is repeated every spring in countless instances in pond and brook.
In popular language, every cold-blooded vertebrate breathing with lungs is called a reptile. The name reptile is properly applied only to lizards, snakes, turtles, and alligators. The common mistake of speaking of frogs and salamanders as reptiles arises from considering them only in their adult condition. Reptiles hatch from the egg as tiny reptiles resembling the adult forms; frogs and salamanders, as every one knows, leave the egg in the form of tadpoles (Fig. 248). The fact that frogs and salamanders begin active life as fishes, breathing by gills, serves to distinguish them from other cold-blooded animals, and causes naturalists to place them in a separate class, called batrachia (twice breather) or amphibia (double life).
—Tadpoles may be studied by placing a number of frog's eggs in a jar of water, care being taken not to place a large number of eggs in a small amount of water. When they hatch, water plants (e.g. green algæ) should be added for food. The behavior of frogs may be best studied in a tub of water. A toad in captivity should be given a cool, moist place, and fed well. A piece of meat placed near a toad may attract flies, and the toad may be observed while catching them, but the motion is so swift as to be almost imperceptible. Live flies may be put into a glass jar with a toad. Toads do not move about until twilight, except | WIKI |
Disabling AutoProtect Snapshots in vSphere ESXi 6/6.5
If you are pounding the tar out of a test VM in VMware Workstation, it probably makes sense to have “AutoProtect” enabled. Under vSphere, however, AutoProtect is probably a (very) bad idea; best practice generally states that snapshots should be maintained for no longer than 72 hours. VMware is so anti-AutoProtect that they don’t even provide controls for it in the vSphere web management GUI.
And here’s the kicker: If you use vCenter Converter (standalone) to migrate a VM from Workstation to vSphere, any preconfigured AutoProtect schedules will come over with it.
So, uh, if the management interface doesn’t provide controls, how do you disable AutoProtect under vSphere? I’m glad you asked!
1) Log into the web management GUI with admin privileges and then navigate to the VM for which you wish to disable AutoProtect.
2) Power off the VM (yes, you must do this).
3) Edit the VM’s settings.
4) Click VM Options, expand Advanced, and then click Edit Configuration
5) Find every occurrence of rollingTier#.live (where # will be a 0, 1, 2, and so forth – e.g., rollingTier0.live) and set it to false.
6) Save your changes and exit all dialogues.
7) Restart your VM.
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Heading
Heading can refer to:
* Heading (metalworking), a process which incorporates the extruding and upsetting processes
* Headline, text at the top of a newspaper article
* Heading (navigation), the direction a person or vehicle is facing, usually similar to its course
* Aircraft heading, the direction that the aircraft's nose is pointing
* Double-heading, the use of two locomotives at the front of a train
* Subject heading, an integral part of bibliographic control
* Using one's head to move an airborne football or volleyball
* Heading off, (especially with regard to livestock, sports or military action), circling around to prevent livestock or opponents from fleeing. See Heading dog.
* Heading date, a parameter in barley cultivation
* Heading, part of a flag used to attach it to the halyard; see Flag. | WIKI |
Mapshow : attribute colors to polygons according to ID
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Hi everyone,
I have the map layer of climate zones downloaded from there : https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0042325
I would like to display the different climate zones of Ethiopia, and represent each climate zone according to the climate type (GRIDCODE field in my shapefile's structure). I have this so far :
addpath('...')
climate = shaperead('c1976_2000.shp');
figure();
set(groot,'defaultLineMarkerSize',6);
mapshow(climate, "DefaultEdgeColor",[0.9 0.9 0.9])
xlim([32 49]);
ylim([2 16]);
The map displays fine and for my region of interest. However all the climate zones just appear in yellow. Obviously I would like to have them appear each in a different color according to their GRIDCODE ID but I can't do that and couldn't find anything on MathWorks either.
Thanks!
Accepted Answer
Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 25 Aug 2022
Try this. Define a list of colors, and plot each gridcode region seperately.
climate = shaperead('c1976_2000.shp');
% List of grid codes:
gc = [climate.GRIDCODE];
% What are the unique values of grid codes?
ugc = unique(gc);
% A color for each unique grid code:
col = parula(length(ugc));
figure()
hold on
% Loop through each unique gridcode:
for k = 1:length(ugc)
% Plot only the shapes that whose grid code is ugc(k)
mapshow(climate(gc==ugc(k)), "DefaultEdgeColor",[0.9 0.9 0.9],'facecolor',col(k,:))
end
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Alcones
Alcones, formerly known as Los Halcones, is a Chilean village, currently part of Marchihue, Cardenal Caro Province.
It is located south of the village of Sauce; 15 km north of Reto; east of Pichilemu; and 45 km southeast of Palmilla. | WIKI |
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"But," said Aaron, "if Fortune is a female"
"Fortune! Fortune! Why, Fortune is a lady. What do you say, Major?"
"She has all the airs of one, Sir William," said the Major, with the wistful grimness of his age and culture. And the young fellow stared like a crucified cyclop from his one eye: the black shutter being over the other.
"And all the graces," capped Sir William, delighted with himself.
"Oh, quite!" said the Major. "For some, all the airs, and for others, all the graces."
"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady, my boy," said Sir William. "Not that your heart is faint. On the contrary—as we know, and your country knows. But with Lady Fortune you need another kind of stout heart—oh, quite another kind."
"I believe it, Sir: and the kind of stout heart which I am afraid I haven't got," said the Major.
"What!" said the old man. "Show the white feather before you've tackled the lady! Fill the Major's glass, Colonel. I am quite sure we will none of us ever say die."
"Not likely. Not if we know it," said the Colonel, stretching himself heartily inside his tunic. He was becoming ruddier than the cherry. All he cared about at the moment was his gay little port glass. But the Major's young cheek was hollow and sallow, his one eye terribly pathetic.
"And you, Mr. Sisson," said Sir William, "mean to carry all before you by taking no thought for the morrow. Well, now, we can only wish you success."
"I don't want to carry all before me," said Aaron. "I should be sorry. I want to walk past most of it."
"Can you tell us where to? I am intrigued, as Sybil says, to know where you will walk to. Come now. Enlighten us."
"Nowhere, I suppose."
"But is that satisfactory? Can you find it satisfactory?"
"Is it even true?" said the Major. "Isn't it quite as positive an act to walk away from a situation as to walk towards it?" | WIKI |
Cleaver: 'Legitimate' to Say Biden Infrastructure Bill Has Items Unrelated to Infrastructure
On Wednesday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's Your World, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) stated that it's legitimate to say that there are some provisions of President Joe Biden's infrastructure package that don't have anything to do with infrastructure. Host Neil Cavuto asked, It seems to be heavy on the tax part, very heavy on spending as well, congressman, that has nothing to do with infrastructure. And that's what maybe worries some Republicans, maybe some of your more moderate colleagues, who think that however meritorious and kind it is to spend better than 400 billion on care for the elderly and disabled, it has nothing to do with infrastructure. What do you say to that? Cleaver responded, I think that's a legitimate point. I'll say that anywhere. That's a legitimate point. Here's the challenge for us on that though: First of all, I think the president has opened the door. None of this is in concrete. He wants to sit down and I think he's going to begin to invite Republicans over to the White House to discuss the funding and any other component of this. Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett ClipsEconomyPoliticsEmanuel Cleaverinfrastructure . Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Copyright 2021 Breitbart | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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#ifndef _weakpointer_h_
#define _weakpointer_h_
/****************************************************************************
WeakPointer and CleanUp
Copyright (c) 1991 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Permission is hereby granted to copy this code for any purpose,
provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
Last modified on Mon Jul 17 18:16:01 PDT 1995 by ellis
****************************************************************************/
/****************************************************************************
WeakPointer
A weak pointer is a pointer to a heap-allocated object that doesn't
prevent the object from being garbage collected. Weak pointers can be
used to track which objects haven't yet been reclaimed by the
collector. A weak pointer is deactivated when the collector discovers
its referent object is unreachable by normal pointers (reachability
and deactivation are defined more precisely below). A deactivated weak
pointer remains deactivated forever.
****************************************************************************/
template< class T > class WeakPointer {
public:
WeakPointer( T* t = 0 )
/* Constructs a weak pointer for *t. t may be null. It is an error
if t is non-null and *t is not a collected object. */
{impl = _WeakPointer_New( t );}
T* Pointer()
/* wp.Pointer() returns a pointer to the referent object of wp or
null if wp has been deactivated (because its referent object
has been discovered unreachable by the collector). */
{return (T*) _WeakPointer_Pointer( this->impl );}
int operator==( WeakPointer< T > wp2 )
/* Given weak pointers wp1 and wp2, if wp1 == wp2, then wp1 and
wp2 refer to the same object. If wp1 != wp2, then either wp1
and wp2 don't refer to the same object, or if they do, one or
both of them has been deactivated. (Note: If objects t1 and t2
are never made reachable by their clean-up functions, then
WeakPointer<T>(t1) == WeakPointer<T>(t2) if and only t1 == t2.) */
{return _WeakPointer_Equal( this->impl, wp2.impl );}
int Hash()
/* Returns a hash code suitable for use by multiplicative- and
division-based hash tables. If wp1 == wp2, then wp1.Hash() ==
wp2.Hash(). */
{return _WeakPointer_Hash( this->impl );}
private:
void* impl;
};
/*****************************************************************************
CleanUp
A garbage-collected object can have an associated clean-up function
that will be invoked some time after the collector discovers the
object is unreachable via normal pointers. Clean-up functions can be
used to release resources such as open-file handles or window handles
when their containing objects become unreachable. If a C++ object has
a non-empty explicit destructor (i.e. it contains programmer-written
code), the destructor will be automatically registered as the object's
initial clean-up function.
There is no guarantee that the collector will detect every unreachable
object (though it will find almost all of them). Clients should not
rely on clean-up to cause some action to occur immediately -- clean-up
is only a mechanism for improving resource usage.
Every object with a clean-up function also has a clean-up queue. When
the collector finds the object is unreachable, it enqueues it on its
queue. The clean-up function is applied when the object is removed
from the queue. By default, objects are enqueued on the garbage
collector's queue, and the collector removes all objects from its
queue after each collection. If a client supplies another queue for
objects, it is his responsibility to remove objects (and cause their
functions to be called) by polling it periodically.
Clean-up queues allow clean-up functions accessing global data to
synchronize with the main program. Garbage collection can occur at any
time, and clean-ups invoked by the collector might access data in an
inconsistent state. A client can control this by defining an explicit
queue for objects and polling it at safe points.
The following definitions are used by the specification below:
Given a pointer t to a collected object, the base object BO(t) is the
value returned by new when it created the object. (Because of multiple
inheritance, t and BO(t) may not be the same address.)
A weak pointer wp references an object *t if BO(wp.Pointer()) ==
BO(t).
***************************************************************************/
template< class T, class Data > class CleanUp {
public:
static void Set( T* t, void c( Data* d, T* t ), Data* d = 0 )
/* Sets the clean-up function of object BO(t) to be <c, d>,
replacing any previously defined clean-up function for BO(t); c
and d can be null, but t cannot. Sets the clean-up queue for
BO(t) to be the collector's queue. When t is removed from its
clean-up queue, its clean-up will be applied by calling c(d,
t). It is an error if *t is not a collected object. */
{_CleanUp_Set( t, c, d );}
static void Call( T* t )
/* Sets the new clean-up function for BO(t) to be null and, if the
old one is non-null, calls it immediately, even if BO(t) is
still reachable. Deactivates any weak pointers to BO(t). */
{_CleanUp_Call( t );}
class Queue {public:
Queue()
/* Constructs a new queue. */
{this->head = _CleanUp_Queue_NewHead();}
void Set( T* t )
/* q.Set(t) sets the clean-up queue of BO(t) to be q. */
{_CleanUp_Queue_Set( this->head, t );}
int Call()
/* If q is non-empty, q.Call() removes the first object and
calls its clean-up function; does nothing if q is
empty. Returns true if there are more objects in the
queue. */
{return _CleanUp_Queue_Call( this->head );}
private:
void* head;
};
};
/**********************************************************************
Reachability and Clean-up
An object O is reachable if it can be reached via a non-empty path of
normal pointers from the registers, stacks, global variables, or an
object with a non-null clean-up function (including O itself),
ignoring pointers from an object to itself.
This definition of reachability ensures that if object B is accessible
from object A (and not vice versa) and if both A and B have clean-up
functions, then A will always be cleaned up before B. Note that as
long as an object with a clean-up function is contained in a cycle of
pointers, it will always be reachable and will never be cleaned up or
collected.
When the collector finds an unreachable object with a null clean-up
function, it atomically deactivates all weak pointers referencing the
object and recycles its storage. If object B is accessible from object
A via a path of normal pointers, A will be discovered unreachable no
later than B, and a weak pointer to A will be deactivated no later
than a weak pointer to B.
When the collector finds an unreachable object with a non-null
clean-up function, the collector atomically deactivates all weak
pointers referencing the object, redefines its clean-up function to be
null, and enqueues it on its clean-up queue. The object then becomes
reachable again and remains reachable at least until its clean-up
function executes.
The clean-up function is assured that its argument is the only
accessible pointer to the object. Nothing prevents the function from
redefining the object's clean-up function or making the object
reachable again (for example, by storing the pointer in a global
variable).
If the clean-up function does not make its object reachable again and
does not redefine its clean-up function, then the object will be
collected by a subsequent collection (because the object remains
unreachable and now has a null clean-up function). If the clean-up
function does make its object reachable again and a clean-up function
is subsequently redefined for the object, then the new clean-up
function will be invoked the next time the collector finds the object
unreachable.
Note that a destructor for a collected object cannot safely redefine a
clean-up function for its object, since after the destructor executes,
the object has been destroyed into "raw memory". (In most
implementations, destroying an object mutates its vtbl.)
Finally, note that calling delete t on a collected object first
deactivates any weak pointers to t and then invokes its clean-up
function (destructor).
**********************************************************************/
extern "C" {
void* _WeakPointer_New( void* t );
void* _WeakPointer_Pointer( void* wp );
int _WeakPointer_Equal( void* wp1, void* wp2 );
int _WeakPointer_Hash( void* wp );
void _CleanUp_Set( void* t, void (*c)( void* d, void* t ), void* d );
void _CleanUp_Call( void* t );
void* _CleanUp_Queue_NewHead ();
void _CleanUp_Queue_Set( void* h, void* t );
int _CleanUp_Queue_Call( void* h );
}
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RV 118 (LONDON AT LEISURE) ginger being no longer hot in a mouth that has lost all savours, they will become aged devotees and perhaps make for edification.
No doubt to the passionate reformer, of whatever code, the idea of so many individuals living the life of beasts is horribly disturbing. (I know, indeed, one reformer who was driven to fits of rage at the waste of time in a family of the leisured class. They had lived at this particular reformer's house in the country, and apparently washed themselves ten times a day.) But no doubt, too, this phenomenon makes for good to the body politic.
Work is the original curse of mankind because it is the original medicine. We may go on working till we drop, occupying our minds, keeping our bodies sound—but the moment we drop work our minds decay, our bodies atrophy, it is all over with us in this world. As with individuals so with the Body Politic, or with London, the modern World Town.
Whilst, in essentials, it is a Town of Work it keeps all on going; it sweats out at the top these atrophied individuals, or it sweats them out at the bottom (they hang around the street posts and make books outside the doors of public houses); and thus Work, the medicine, purges the unhealthy corpuscles of the blood or revenges itself of the too healthy. For if we may call the poor loafer the unhealthy, we must call the rich leisured class the too healthy. In one way or another their ancestors, their family, their gens, have worked too much for them: they are left without the need to 118 | WIKI |
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Understanding Dysphagia and the Importance of Following a Modified Diet
By Tom McGinness
Dysphagia—a condition that affects so many people yet is rarely spoken about.
As one of the most commonly diagnosed swallowing disorders, dysphagia affects an estimated 9.4 million Americans. Each year, approximately 1 in 25 adults will experience a swallowing problem in the United States, and nearly one-half of people older than 60 will be affected by the disorder.
Several diseases and disorders, including stroke, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, or even a brain or spinal cord injury, can affect one’s ability to swallow. Adding to the underlying disorder, dysphagia brings its own set of potential complications such as dehydration, malnourishment, and aspiration of food and liquids into the lungs.
Understanding how to create a modified diet for those with swallowing disorders is truly a matter of survival. When a person has dysphagia, their swallowing process does not function properly. Consuming texture-modified foods and thickened beverages allows more time for a successful swallow, which in turn can aid in proper nutrition and overall wellness.
The goal of a modified diet is to provide a safe, nutrient-rich mealtime experience for patients using foods and drinks that are easy to swallow, look appealing, and taste good.
A few important issues make adherence to a modified diet challenging for some. First, some of the food and beverage choices are unpalatable, and when taste and appearance are unappealing, one’s appetite can vanish. Coupled with that, many individuals with swallowing disorders are embarrassed by their condition. As a result, they opt to eat alone or rush through meals. Unfortunately, they often avoid eating altogether, which can lead to weight loss, malnutrition, and even depression.
These effects on confidence and dignity severely damage one’s quality of life. With recent innovation, this is changing. For example, the quality, versatility, and variety of products made for safer swallowing has improved immensely. There’s a greater focus on solutions that provide nutrition and health benefits and offer flavor, convenience, practicality, portability, and flexibility.
Further, professionals in our industry are making great strides in establishing common expectations for food and beverage characteristics through the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI). This global effort to promote standardized, common-language terminology for texture-modified foods and thickened liquids aims to make dining safer and easier to administer for caregivers, patients, and manufacturers alike.
Navigating the challenges presented by dysphagia can be daunting. Consider the following tips:
• Learn to recognize the signs of someone who might be experiencing dysphagia, such as choking when eating, coughing or gagging when swallowing, pain while swallowing, or drooling, among others.
• Educate yourself on the products (such as prethickened beverages, purées, and food and beverage thickeners) that are available and how they can specifically help a patient suffering from dysphagia.
• Take time to understand a patient’s likes and dislikes to better determine the best menu options for them. When you have an understanding of what they like, it’s easier to customize a modified diet specifically for them—and it may increase their compliance with the modified diet, as well.
• Make sure that the products you recommend are IDDSI compliant. As the new guidelines are implemented (May 2019 was the US adoption date) by facilities, manufacturers, and organizations, it will be important to follow them for consistency across all food items.
• Explore professional resources for best practices, especially for encouraging consumption—adding warm bouillon made from thickened water to the dinner menu, or a frozen popsicle made from prethickened juice as an afternoon snack are just a few ideas from speech-language pathologists working closely with the dysphagia diet that help enhance intake and improve nutrition.
• Finally, mealtime and the ability to dine with dignity play an important role in a person’s mental health and quality of life. Taking the time to emotionally connect with those suffering from dysphagia is a critical step to ensuring patient compliance.
— Tom McGinness is a registered dietitian and regional sales manager for the Personal Nutrition Solutions (PNS) division of Kent Precision Foods Group, Inc. (KPFG). Under the PNS division, KPFG produces the Thick-It® brand family of products, which offers mealtime solutions to help improve quality of life for people with dysphagia as well as the health care professionals and loved ones caring for them. Thick-It® is a gold sponsor of IDDSI. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Robert Lenox Kennedy
Robert Lenox Kennedy (November 24, 1822 – September 14, 1887), was an American banker and philanthropist who served as president of the National Bank of Commerce in New York and the Lenox Library.
Early life
Kennedy was born in New York City on November 24, 1822. He was the eldest child of David S. Kennedy (1791–1853) and Rachel Carmer (née Lenox) Kennedy (1792–1875), who were first cousins. He had three siblings, a brother, James Lenox Kennedy (who married Cornelia Van Rensselaer, a daughter of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer); and two sisters, Rachel Lenox Kennedy, who founded the Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents, and Mary Lenox Kennedy, who both died unmarried. His father was a Scottish-American merchant and banker with Maitland & Kennedy who served as president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.
His maternal grandparents were Robert Lenox, a Scottish-American merchant, and Rachel (née Carmer) Lenox. His maternal uncle was bibliophile and philanthropist James Lenox, from whom Kennedy inherited a portion of his estate. His paternal grandparents were Capt. John Kennedy and Mary (née Lenox) Kennedy (the sister of his maternal grandfather).
Kennedy attended and graduated from Columbia College in 1840 before studying law. He never practiced, however, and succeeded to his father's business and "assumed the various positions of trust occupied by him."
Career
In 1859, Kennedy was elected a director of the National Bank of Commerce in New York and was associated with the bank until his death. At the time of the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, the Bank of Commerce was the largest bank in the country. In 1868, he began serving as the bank's fourth president. The first president of the bank was Samuel Ward, followed by John Austin Stevens and Charles Handy Russell (who was also a dry goods merchant with Charles H. Russell & Co.). He retired from the presidency in 1878 but remained involved as vice-president of the Bank under his successor Henry F. Vail (who had previously founded the Bank of the Republic with Gazaway Bugg Lamar). In 1929, the bank merged into the Guaranty Trust Company of New York (which later became the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, predecessor to J.P. Morgan & Co.).
He served as a director of many important New York institutions, including the Chemical Bank, the Bleecker Street Bank for Savings, the New-York Life and Trust Company, the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Union Trust Company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway, the United Railroads of New Jersey, the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1880, Kennedy replaced Edward Minturn of Grinnell, Minturn & Co. on the executive committee of the board of directors of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company.
He was also a trustee of the New York Society Library, the Presbyterian Hospital and the New York Hospital, having been president of the latter, and was an active member of the Foreign and Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He was one of the organizers of the Union League Club and, during the U.S. Civil War he was a "strong Unionist and Republican, though he afterward took no part in politics." In 1854, Kennedy became a Fellow of the American Geographical Society and a member of its Council in 1884. He also served as the fourth president of the American Sunday School Union from 1873 to 1882. Following his uncle's death in 1880, he succeeded Lenox as president of the board of trustees of the Lenox Library. Kennedy had previously donated Mihály Munkácsy's 1878 historical genre picture The Blind Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to his Daughters (which he bought from art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer) to the Library in 1879.
Personal life
Kennedy was twice married. His first marriage was in Philadelphia on October 19, 1852 to Louisa Vanuxem Wurts, a daughter of Mary (née Vanuxem) Wurts and Charles Stewart Wurts, a founder of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. After Louisa's death on April 26, 1877, he married Sophia Heatly Dulles, a daughter of Joseph Heatly Dulles and Margaret (née Welsh) Dulles, in Philadelphia on February 10, 1879. Sophia's brother was the Presbyterian minister and author John Welsh Dulles (the grandfather of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles). The couple did not have any children.
On his return voyage following a four-month sojourn to Europe in hopes of improving his health, Kennedy died aboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Trave on September 14, 1887. His funeral was held at the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan. In 1889, his personal library which included many rare works like "Aldine first editions of the classics, incunables, vellum manuscripts, historical and beautiful bindings, Americana, and other rarities" was sold at the Fifth-Avenue Art Galleries. | WIKI |
User:Shawn gabriel
Hello my name is Shawn Gabriel Archuleta.
The man I have become has thrown off tons of baggage from my back I have grown a thick skin to protect my being then shed it all to have a new sensitive layer I've worn my heart on my sleeve all my life and covered it with a permanent marking to secure it and still watched it drop to the ground only to see it bounce right into my chest again I have been so out of my head in extasy seen a universe surge from eye to eye and swirl at my own hands gesture I've lost my mind when I only thought I had a brain and found that it only wandered as far as my skull and fell in love with my brain knowing that it wouldn't allow itself to know how important that brain was after my mind was gone I've given up my name to make an avatar out in the world only to cry alone I mourned the spirit of that name because it is what I am known for we are all known by our names nameless. . .no one can say "I love Shawn. . . thank you Shawn. . .You're beautiful Shawn. . . If I could choose anyone out there I would choose you Shawn. . .You are Shawn, right?" My name means chosen strength. I find my strength in integrity and honesty and beauty and artistry and family and friends and sexuality and bearing another ones burdens and love love love love love love love love love love So my name to my life to my being to my thoughts to my art to my all is to always choose love as the ultimate strength in everything love is always the easy means to joy, for me the unconditionality of love is my nationality. I live in love and it is where I claim my citizenship. It is abundant and rolls like a earthquake whenever I need encouragement the ground cracks open and it flows out to gracefully playfully harass to remind me that there's a source underfoot underground reserved for me and others who are of the same homeland the same motherland the same fatherland it pushes out the life of this earth to bloom new things of hopes. Love is natural and trusts no one but me. but I am free to direct it in any direction like a trench where some hide can drown in it only to sink like a stone or float on the current. . .either way it is so strong it kills them to make them realize they need a severe change to truly receive how strong the grip is of this anomoly that would rather strike you dead first for a few lifetimes passing only in minutes to me I see an near mobbing of fear in mankind and it comes full circle to return to me like a golden retriever with only a slobbery toungue panting mouth saying with pride throw it out again and I'll bring something even better back this time. It always makes me surge sear seap smirk and sob
I swear my entire being is out there for the taking. I am strongly in love by my choice alone. Draw to you the love I know and all yours will love, think, and be as I am truly now. . .in dire need of nothing at all.
Satana. . .use these and it's the same as crackin my head open and stealing my brain Shosan Hossan Nashon Sohasn Shozan Screw it just change your freakin last name to ShitKickerbitchssonsansanspon. Hell you got my blessing do whatever you want I'll just leave it at that.
oh and get that streak touched up. You're roots are setting in.
Sincerely to all the Shatons out there.
Shawn Gabriel "Nu0ne" Archuleta | WIKI |
Toyo Keizai
Toyo Keizai Inc. (株式会社東洋経済新報社) is a book and magazine publisher specializing in politics, economics and business, based in Tokyo, Japan.
The company is famous for Weekly Toyo Keizai (週刊東洋経済) established in 1895, one of three Japanese leading business magazines ranked with Nikkei Business (日経ビジネス) published by Nikkei Business Publications and Weekly DIAMOND (週刊ダイヤモンド) published by DIAMOND.
Major magazines, websites and services
* Weekly Toyo Keizai, Japan’s oldest business magazine published since 1895.
* Kaisha Shikiho, Japanese company quarterly handbook which provides comprehensive earnings forecasts information for all listed companies in Japan.
* TOYOKEIZAI ONLINE, One of the largest websites for economics and business in Japan.
* Toyo Keizai Data Services, Data provider of economic and corporate data. | WIKI |
Hand Hygiene: How Effective Are Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Against Non-Enveloped Viruses?
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The very first thing I learned clinically in dental hygiene school was hand hygiene. Proper handwashing was the first, and admittedly the most stressful, clinical competency on which we were evaluated. I remember practicing until my skin was chapped to ensure my technique was perfect.
Though we all need to know the correct technique and properly wash our hands, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that alcohol-based hand rubs can be used instead of soap and water for hand hygiene. The current guidance from the CDC states, “For routine dental examinations and nonsurgical procedures, use water and plain soap (hand washing) or antimicrobial soap (hand antisepsis) specific for health care settings or use an alcohol-based hand rub. Although alcohol-based hand rubs are effective for hand hygiene in health care settings, soap and water should be used when hands are visibly soiled (e.g., dirt, blood, body fluids).”1
However, there may be limitations as some viruses are much more difficult to manage with alcohol-based hand rubs. The problem lies in the fact that many non-enveloped viruses are resistant to alcohol-based hand rubs, and saliva is not visible.2
The Concern with Non-Enveloped Viruses
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sneaky virus; it can elude not only alcohol-based hand rubs but also most disinfectants. Studies have shown fingers and hands can be a reservoir for high levels of HPV DNA in patients with genital infections.3
Additionally, it is shed from the infected epithelial surface, including the oral cavity, in those who have an oral infection. Therefore, it is plausible that the virus can also reside on the fingers of individuals with an oral infection, though no studies have been completed to confirm this.4
Furthermore, equipment that cannot be autoclaved can be a potential reservoir of viral particles. This could contribute to non-sexual transmission of the virus. This is an important thing to consider in dentistry to prevent cross-contamination and nosocomial infections. Barriers are useful in lowering the risk of cross-contamination with non-enveloped viruses.3,5,6
Enteric viruses, including norovirus, rotavirus, and astrovirus, are also non-enveloped viruses that are resistant to alcohol-based hand rubs. Since the discovery of enteric viruses, it has been established that the infection route was certainly fecal-oral. However, newer research has found that many enteric viruses may also replicate in the salivary glands, establishing the possibility of a new route of infection.2,7
Considering that these viruses also replicate in the salivary glands, it is imperative to conduct proper hand hygiene to prevent transmission to the clinician and/or other patients.7
Handwashing versus Alcohol-based Hand Rubs
The CDC states that “Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are the preferred method for cleaning your hands in most clinical situations.” They tend to be most effective for reducing pathogens on the hands of health care workers, but there are always exceptions.8
Though they are certainly convenient, it is important to recognize the limitations of alcohol-based hand rubs. Non-enveloped viruses, such as norovirus, HPV, and rotaviruses, are more resistant to pH and temperature changes. Furthermore, they are completely unaffected by some disinfectants, including alcohol. The alcohol is unable to penetrate the protein shell or capsid that protects the nucleic acid core. Disruption of the viral structure is required to inactivate or “kill” the virus.2,3
Alcohol’s mechanism of action against viruses is through the disruption of the lipid membrane or the envelope. Enveloped viruses require an intact lipid membrane or envelope to properly attach to and infect a host. Without it, the virus is inactivated and cannot infect a host. It has been well established that alcohol is effective for enveloped viruses yet ineffective against non-enveloped viruses.8
The popularity of alcohol-based hand rubs peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they are certainly effective against coronaviruses because they are enveloped viruses. Therefore, it is imperative to understand that alcohol-based hand rubs are not useless in preventing viral infections, but they certainly have limitations.8
Handwashing with soap and water is superior in the cases of non-enveloped viruses. The mechanism of action isn’t the inactivation of the virus but rather the molecular makeup that allows for the removal of these viruses. Soap consists of molecules shaped like pins, each featuring a hydrophilic (water-attracting) head and a hydrophobic (water-repelling) tail that prefers to bond with oils and fats.10
In water, these molecules either move independently, interact with other molecules, or form small structures known as micelles, where the heads face outward and the tails are protected inside. During handwashing, soap micelles encase any pathogens on the skin. The hydrophobic tails seek to avoid water and, in doing so, insert themselves into the lipid layers of certain bacteria and viruses, disrupting them.10
However, some tougher microbes, such as non-enveloped viruses, are more resistant to the destructive mechanism yet can still be effectively removed. The removal of non-enveloped viruses occurs through thorough handwashing with soap and water, trapping the virus in the micelles, and washing them away without the need to inactivate the virus.10
The combination of the mechanisms of action exerted via hand washing with soap and water underscores why handwashing is often more effective than using hand sanitizer when considering non-enveloped viruses.10
Proper Handwashing Techniques in Health Care Settings
The CDC has provided guidance on proper hand hygiene in healthcare settings:8
• When cleaning your hands with soap and water, wet your hands first with water, apply the amount of product to your hands recommended by the manufacturer, and rub your hands together vigorously for at least 15 seconds, covering all surfaces of the hands and fingers.
• Rinse your hands with water and use disposable towels to dry. Use a towel to turn off the facet.
• Avoid using hot water to prevent drying of the skin.
• Other entities have recommended that cleaning your hands with soap and water should take 20 seconds.
• Either time is acceptable. The focus should be on cleaning your hands at the right times.
Conclusion
Not all viruses are created equally. Some are far more resistant to alcohol-based hand rubs and, in some cases, even some hospital-grade disinfectants. This is not new information, but it seems to have gotten lost during the pandemic when alcohol-based hand rubs became the “go-to” for hand hygiene.
Though alcohol-based hand rubs are indeed effective at managing certain viruses and a slew of bacteria, handwashing remains superior in managing non-enveloped viruses. This is especially important in health care settings where patients are expected to be protected through proper infection control protocols. Therefore, if you have access to a sink and water, handwashing should be done instead of or in addition to using alcohol-based hand rubs.
Nonetheless, when soap and water are not available, alcohol-based hand rubs are a good second choice. When I was working clinically, I often did both to cover all the bases and ensure my hand hygiene would not contribute to cross-contamination or nosocomial infections. I encourage you to consider doing the same.
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References
1. Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care. (2016, October). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/pdf/safe-care2.pdf
2. Wieselman, N. (2023, October 5). The Science of Alcohol-Based Sanitizers and Norovirus. International Sanitary Supply Association. https://www.issa.com/articles/how-to-protect-yourself-during-peak-norovirus-season
3. Solovey, M. (2014, February 12). Popular Disinfectants Do Not Kill HPV. The Pennsylvania State University. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/popular-disinfectants-do-not-kill-hpv/
4. van Heerden, W.F., Bunn, B.K. Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: What the Dentist Should Know. Journal of the South African Dental Association. 2012; 67(10): 570-572. https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/21807/VanHeerden_Oropharyngeal_2012.pdf
5. Ryndock, E., Robison, R., Meyers, C. Susceptibility of HPV16 and 18 to High Level Disinfectants Indicated for Semi-Critical Ultrasound Probes. Journal of Medical Virology. 2016; 88(6): 1076-1080. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.24421
6. Sikora, A., Zahra, F. Nosocomial Infections. (2023, April 27). StatPearls. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559312/
7. Ghosh, S., Kumar, M., Santiana, M., et al. Enteric Viruses Replicate in Salivary Glands and Infect Through Saliva. Nature. 2022; 607(7918): 345-350. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04895-8
8. Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings. (2021, January 8). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/handhygiene/providers/index.html
9. Golin, A.P., Choi, D., Ghahary, A. Hand Sanitizers: A Review of Ingredients, Mechanisms of Action, Modes of Delivery, and Efficacy Against Coronaviruses. American Journal of Infection Control. 2020; 48(9): 1062-1067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.182
10. Jabr, F. (2020, March 13). Why Soap Works. Yale School of Medicine. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/why-soap-works/ | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
2017–18 Maltese Premier League
The 2017–18 Maltese Premier League (known as the BOV Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 103rd season of top-flight league football in Malta. The season began on 18 August 2017 and ended on 22 April 2018. Hibernians were the defending champions, having won their 12th title the previous season.
Balzan and Valletta contended the league title for the whole season and were head-to-head in the final phases. On the last day of the season, on 21 April 2018, Valletta defeated Gżira United 2–1, while Balzan slipped in a 0–1 defeat against Hibernians, and as a result Valletta were crowned champions for the 24th time in their history.
Teams
Pembroke Athleta are relegated after they finished twelfth the previous season. They are replaced by Lija Athletic the 2016–17 Maltese First Division champions, Senglea Athletic the 2016–17 Maltese First Division runners-up, and Naxxar Lions the 2016–17 Maltese First Division Third Place.
Kits
* Additionally, referee kits are made by Adidas, sponsored by TeamSports and FXDD, and Nike has a new match ball.
Results
Each team plays every other team in the league home-and-away for a total of 26 matches played each.
Relegation play-offs
A play-off match took place between the twelfth-placed team from the Premier League, Tarxien Rainbows, and the third-placed team from the First Division, Zejtun Corinthians, for a place in the 2018–19 Maltese Premier League. | WIKI |
3 Reasons General Electric Company's Stock Could Rise
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But what will it take for GE's stock to keep rising over the long haul? Here are three factors that could make it happen.
1.Asian and resource-rich economies improve.
With a presence in more than 170 countries, GE's industrial businesses act as a barometer for global economic activity. Last quarter, CEO Jeff Immelt noted on the earnings call that the U.S. has been improving, Europe has stabilized, and emerging markets remain volatile. All told, GE's industrial revenue, which accounted for nearly 83% of total revenue, declined by 1% year over year, and increased by 4% on an organic basis, after excluding the impact of acquisitions, dispositions, and currency headwinds.
By region, the biggest detractors were Asia and resource-rich regions, representing 37% of GE's industrial revenue in the third quarter, which declined by 7% year over year. Clearly, the slowdown in China and the slump in oil prices are weighing on GE's overall performance:
Source: GE. Resource Rich: Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Latin America, MENAT, Russia and CIS, and Sub-saharan Africa. Asia: ASEAN, China, and India. Developed: U.S., Europe, Japan, & Korea.
Ultimately, if these regions improve and the rest of the world remains stable, it would likely have a meaningful impact on GE's overall performance.
2.Margins expand and fuel earnings growth.
As margins expand, more dollars have the potential to flow to GE's bottom line and drive earnings growth. GE's industrial operating margins have expanded for 10 straight quarters, indicating that the company is maintaining its value proposition, and staying disciplined in a challenging environment. Most recently, GE's third-quarter industrial operating margin increased by 100 basis points, to 17.3%.
Source: GE. OP = Operating. Industrial operating margins includes GE Corporate activities, excluding gains and restructuring.
Looking ahead, Immelt believes there's room for GE to continue expanding its margins, fueled by long-term initiatives that the company is pursuing, like the Brilliant Factory , which aims to improve factory productivity in real time by leveraging sensors, connected machines, and advanced analytics. According to GE, a 1% improvement in productivity across its manufacturing footprint translates to $500 million in cost savings. Over the long haul, the goal for the Brilliant Factory is to increase GE's manufacturing productivity by 20%.
3.Oil prices rebound and revitalize the industry.
GE's oil and gas segment continues to get punished from the effect that lower oil prices are having on the industry's activity. The segment's third-quarter sales declined by 16% year over year, to $3.9 billion, sending profits lower by 12%, to $584 million. Overall, oil and gas accounted for 15% of GE's industrial revenue, and 13% of its profit.
To combat the headwinds that the oil industry is facing, GE remains on track to cut $600 million of expenses this year from the segment, and another $1 billion of expenses in 2016. The goal here is to reduce the impact that declining sales will have on the segment's profitability.
Although GE isn't banking on an oil and gas recovery anytime soon, the cost-cutting measures puts the segment in a better position to profit from an eventual rebound in oil prices that drives industry growth.
Putting it all together
For General Electric's stock to move higher, there are factors that are in its control, and others that are not. What it can control is how it executes on its transformation, whether it can continue expanding margins, and operate more efficiently. It obviously can't control if oil prices rebound, growth markets recover, and the world economy doesn't deteriorate.
Ultimately, the better that GE executes in areas it can control, the better the stock's long-term growth prospects.
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Dow Chemical Says Wet Weather Hurt Agriculture, Paint Sales
Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) , the largest U.S.
chemical maker, said it’s facing “headwinds” in the second
quarter including adverse weather that probably eroded sales of
agriculture products and house paint. Sales at Dow AgroSciences, which makes pesticides and
seeds, and at the coatings unit were hurt “a little bit” by
unusually wet and cold weather in the U.S., Chief Financial
Officer William H. Weideman said today on a webcast presentation
from the Goldman Sachs Basic Materials Conference in New York. “Demand is still on a steady recovery in the U.S.,”
Weideman said. “There are some headwinds we are seeing in the
second quarter.” Sales to carmakers have been hurt by a parts shortage
stemming from the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan , he
said. Dow, based in Midland, Michigan, supplies plastics, wire
coatings and foams to the auto industry. Asian demand for
polyethylene plastic dipped for three weeks in the quarter in
anticipation of lower prices, Weideman said. Total demand is “strong” in Latin America , Asia and
northern and eastern Europe , Weideman said. Dow, which got two-
thirds of revenue last year from outside the U.S., plans to
boost production of ethylene, a key plastics ingredient, by 20
percent within three years. The plastics business has “upward
momentum” as supplies tighten and U.S. natural gas remains
inexpensive relative to oil, he said. Dow fell 14 cents to $35.47 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock
Exchange composite trading. The shares have gained 3.9 percent
this year. To contact the reporter on this story:
Jack Kaskey in Houston at
jkaskey@bloomberg.net . To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
1891 Kentucky State College Blue and Yellow football team
The 1891 Kentucky State College Blue and Yellow football team represented Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—as an independent during the 1891 college football season. The 1891 team's colors were blue and light yellow, decided before the Centre–Kentucky game on December 19. A student asked "What color blue?" and varsity letterman Richard C. Stoll pulled off his necktie, and held it up. This is still held as the origin of Kentucky's shade of blue. The next year light yellow was dropped and changed to white. | WIKI |
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continue so long to them, as by pleasing him they shall deserve, whence it must needs be they should bend all their intentions, and services to no other ends but to his, that if it should happen that a tyrant (God turn such a scourge from us to our enemies) should come to grasp the Scepter, here were his speare men and his lances, here were his firelocks ready, he should need no other pretorian band nor pensionry then these, if they could once with their perfidious preachments aw the people. For although the Prelats in time of popery were sometimes friendly anough to magnacharta, it was because they stood upon their own bottom, without their main dependance on the royal nod: but now being well acquainted that the protestant religion, if she will reform her self rightly by the Scriptures, must undresse them of all their guilded vanities, and reduce them as they were at first, to the lowly and equall order of Presbyters, they know it concerns them neerly to study the times more then the text, and to lift up their eyes to the hils of the Court, from whence only comes their help; but if their pride grow weary of this crouching and observance, as ere long it would, and that yet their minds clime still to a higher ascent of worldly honour, this only refuge can remain to them, that they must of necessity contrive to bring themselves and us back again to the Popes supremacy, and this we see they had by fair degrees of late been doing. These be the two fair supporters between which the strength of Prelaty is born up, either of inducing tyranny, or of reducing popery. Hence also we may judge that Prelaty is meer falshood. For the property of Truth is, where she is publickly taught, to unyoke & set free the minds and spirits of a Nation first from the thraldom of sin and superstition, after which all honest and legal freedom of civil life cannot be long absent; but Prelaty whom the tyrant custom begot a natural tyrant in religion, & in state the agent & minister of tyranny, seems to have had this fatal guift in her nativity like another Midas that whatsoever she should touch or come neer either in ecclesial or political government, it should turn, not to gold, though she for her part could wish it, but to the drosse and scum of slavery breeding and setling both in the bodies and the souls of all such as doe not in time with the sovran treacle of sound doctrine provide to fortifie their hearts against her Hierarchy. The service of God who is Truth, her Liturgy confesses to be perfect freedom, but her works and her opinions declare that the service of Prelaty is perfect slavery, and by consequence perfect falshood. Which makes me wonder much that many of the Gentry, studious men, as I heare should | WIKI |
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‘Sailing Directions for South America,’ 1848. ‘Barometer and Weather Guide,’ 1858. ‘Passage Table and General Sailing Directions,’ 1859. ‘Barometer Manual,’ 1861. He was also the author of official reports to the board of trade (1857–65), of occasional papers in the ‘Journal of the Royal Geographical Society’—of which society he was for several years a member of council—and in the ‘Journal of the Royal United Service Institution.’
FITZSIMON, HENRY (1566–1643), jesuit, born at Dublin on 31 May 1566, was son of Nicholas Fitzsimon, an alderman or ‘senator’ of that city, by his wife Anne, sister of Christopher Sidgreaves of Inglewight, Lancashire. At the age of ten he was ‘inveigled into heresy,’ and afterwards he studied grammar, humanities, and rhetoric for four years at Manchester. He matriculated at Oxford, as a member of Hart Hall, on 26 April 1583. ‘In December following,’ says Wood, ‘I find one Henry Fitz-Simons, to be elected student of Christ Church, but whether he be the same with the former, I dare not say.’ It does not appear how long he continued at Oxford, nor whether he took a degree. In 1587 he became a student in the university of Paris. At this period he imagined that he was ‘ able to convert to Protestancie any encounterer whatsoever;’ but at length he was overcome in argument by Father [q. v.], nephew of Bishop Bonner, and was reconciled to the catholic church. After his conversion he appears to have visited Rome. He went to the university of Pont-à-Mousson before the close of 1587, and studied rhetoric for one year, philosophy for three years, from 1588 to 1591, and took the degree of M.A., after which he read theology for three months at Pont-à-Mousson, and for seven weeks at Douay, privately studying casuistry at the same time. He took minor orders, was admitted into the Society of Jesus by Father Manæreus, the provincial of Flanders, and began his noviceship at Tournay on 15 or 26 April 1592. On 2 June 1593 he was sent to pursue his theological studies at Louvain under Father Leonard Lessius, and while there he also formed an intimate acquaintance with Father Rosweyde and Dr. Peter Lombard. He so distinguished himself that he was appointed to the chair of philosophy in the university of Douay.
Being sent, at his own earnest petition, to the Irish mission, he reached Dublin late in 1597. Wood states that ‘he endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he could to his religion, either by private conference or public disputes with protestant ministers. In which work he persisted for two years without disturbance, being esteem'd the chief disputant among those of his party, and so ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him.’ The hall of a nobleman's house in Dublin having been placed at his disposal, he caused it to be lined with tapestry and covered with carpets, and had an altar made and magnificently decorated. Here high mass was celebrated with a full orchestra, composed of harps, lutes, and all kinds of instruments except the organ. The catholics used to go armed to mass in order to protect the priests and themselves. Father Field, superior of the Irish jesuit mission, reported in September 1599 that Fitzsimon was working hard, that crowds flocked to hear him and were converted, that he led rather an open, demonstrative life, never dining without six or eight guests, and that when he went through the country, he rode with three or four gentlemen, who served as companions. His zeal led to his arrest in 1599, and he was committed to Dublin Castle, where he remained in confinement for about five years. While in prison he held disputations with Dr. Challenor, Meredith Hanmer, Dean Rider, and James Ussher, afterwards primate of Ireland. On 12 March 1603–4 James I ordered Fitzsimon's release, but he was not actually liberated until three months later. About 1 June 1604 he was taken from Dublin Castle and placed on board a ship which landed him at Bilboa in Spain.
After some time he left Spain for Flanders, and in 1608 he was summoned on the business of the Irish mission to Rome, where he made his solemn profession of the four vows, and where he appears to have remained till after April 1611, when he returned to Flanders. On 1 July 1620 he reached the imperial camp in Bohemia, and, in the capacity of army chaplain, went through the campaign, of which he wrote a history. He was again in Belgium in 1626. At length, after an exile of twenty-six years, he returned in 1630 to his native country. Having been condemned to be hanged for complicity in the rebellion he was forced to leave the Dublin residence of the jesuits and to fly by night to distant mountains, in company with | WIKI |
User:Thejimmeh
Jimmy is a man champion. no one is as awesome as jimmy. if jimmy was a soda, he would be punch you in the face with awesomeness cola. Jimmy can punch down 900 inch thick solid steel walls.
If jimmy doesnt like you, you were never born. period.
Jimmy was once asked out to a dance and was then stood up. the next day that girl woke up as a man. | WIKI |
bum rush
Etymology
Originates from the 1980s, as slang for the stampede of people created by a police raid.
Noun
* 1) A storming into an establishment. | WIKI |
Azure B2B Multiple Office Tenancies For an Organization
Copper Contributor
Hi We are looking at a scenario where we want to create an additional Office 365 tenancy for staff and customers to collaborate in primarily using SharePoint . The users of this tenancy will already exist in separate azure ad directories. So we will have to add all users as Azure B2b guests in the new tenancy.
Can somebody give me an overview of the limitations of what Azure B2b guests can and cant do and what the roadmap is?
thanks
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If you already have an Office tenant, why do you want another one? they will be totally disconnected and you will have to do duplicate admin tasks. It would be much easier to just enable external sharing on dedicated sharepoint sites in your existing Office 365 tenant.
You state that users of the new tenancy already exist in separate Azure AD directories. How can you know that for all of your customers? are these directories that you manage or that your customers manage?
B2B is good if you know who you are going to work with and want to preload a bunch of accounts.
This should be helpful https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-your-office-365-sites-with-external-users-89502322-bf...
In general B2B Guests can do whatever they are authorized to do by the person who invites them,with some restrictions of course. In SharePoint, they can be granted edit or read permissions
This may be helpful https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-what-is-azure-ad-b2b
Hi dean in office 365 sharepoint there are scenarios where you do not want people to be able to see other people - for example the people picker.
In sharepoint online the people picker shows everyone in the azure ad that is mapped to it. There is no way to lock it down to say organisational units like in sp on premise.
This is one of the drivers for looking at another tenancy.
I hope I have explained the issue.
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Mechanism About How Piceatannol Enhances Anti-tumor Effect of Cisplatin on Laryngeal Cancer Hep-2 Cells
DUAN Chuanxin
2018 Zhongliu Fangzhi Yanjiu
Objective To investigate how piceatannol enhances the anti-tumor effect of cisplatin on laryngeal cancer cells and related molecular mechanism. Methods Laryngeal carcinoma Hep-2 cells were cultured in vitro and then treated with piceatannol and cisplatin. Cell proliferation apoptosis, karyopyknosis ratio and proteins expression of BCL-2 family were detected by CCK8, flow cytometry, Hoechst staining and Western blot, respectively. Results No effect of 50 μmol/L piceatannol was found on the Hep-2
more » ... cell apoptosis or proliferation. Compared with cisplatin, cisplatin combined with piceatannol could significantly decrease the cell proliferation; after 48h, the absorbance of cells treated with cisplatin and piceatannol was decreased for 60%, and the apoptosis ratio was significantly increased (P < 0.05). Hoechst staining revealed the karyopyknosis ratio of Hep-2 cells treated with cisplatin and piceatannol was significantly increased. Western blot showed piceatannol could down-regulate BCL-2 expression and up-regulate BAX expression. Conclusion The anti-tumor effect of cisplatin on laryngeal cancer cells could be enhanced by piceatannol, and its molecular mechanism is related to the regulatory effect of piceatannol on the key proteins of BCL-2 family.
doi:10.3971/j.issn.1000-8578.2018.17.1241 doaj:a4dac63345bb44849d91e5104c3f10c9 fatcat:pcu4nnxfg5fdhf6bjqmdubxfca | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fluoride, calcium and phosphorus metabolism in the rat: Comparison of 'natural ingredient' with semipurified diets
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
10 Scopus citations
Abstract
Three groups of weanling female rats were fed different, commercially available, 'natural ingredient' diets containing 12, 28 or 45 parts/106 F, mainly as bone meal, for six weeks. Two other groups were fed a low-fluoride (0.76 parts/106) semipurified diet. They received fluoride doses, either in the drinking water or by daily intraperitoneal injection, which were approximately equal to the average dose of the other three groups. Rats on the 'natural ingredient' diets ingested more food and water and excreted more faeces arid urine, effects which were attributed to the higher amounts of dietary fibre, Na, K and Cl. Thus, at any given concentration of fluoride in the food or water, the level of fluoride ingestion and the ensuing effects would be influenced by the type of diet used. The values for fractional fluoride absorption (45-49%) and retention (38-47%) were similar among the groups given 'natural ingredient' diets. In the groups given semipurified diet, the corresponding values were about twice as high with the exception that fractional absorption was negative (-41%) in the injected group, which indicated net intestinal secretion of fluoride. Fluoride balances and tissue concentrations were highest in the groups fed the semipurified diet, even though the level of intake was not always higher. The fractional values for calcium and phosphorus absorption (41-51%) and retention (33-43%) were also similar among the groups given 'natural ingredient' diets. The corresponding values were about twice as high in the groups fed the semipurified diet. In terms of supporting maximum bone calcification, phosphorus absorption was marginal in two of the groups on the 'natural ingredient' diets. Because of their variable fluoride concentrations and ill-defined compositions, the use of 'natural ingredient' diets in research should be avoided.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)291-297
Number of pages7
JournalArchives of Oral Biology
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1991
Keywords
• absorption
• balance
• bone fluoride
• bone mineralization
• cAMP
• dental fluorosis
• enamel fluoride
• enamel mineralization
• faecal excretion
• intake
• osteoporosis
• plasma fluoride
• retention
• urinary excretion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Otorhinolaryngology
• Dentistry(all)
• Cell Biology
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-- GE Gets Back in the Stuff Business
General Electric Co. has formally announced that it's looking to spin off GE Capital Corp., selling as much as 20 percent of the company in an initial public offering. The move has been expected for a while, but now it’s official, and it raises some interesting questions about the direction of the economy. Business writers used to joke that General Motors Co. was a bank with a side business in cars, and something similar could be said about a lot of businesses -- from those that focus on appliances (GE) to retailers (Target Corp.). As the market for goods has gotten more fiercely competitive, a lot of businesses have relied on the less transparent business of financing to make up the lost margin. Over time, these divisions have often expanded beyond simply providing auto loans or store credit cards and become full-fledged financial firms. What does it mean that GE now wants to get out of that business? It’s still pretty insanely profitable; selling the unit means knocking about a third off GE's annual income statement. But GE doesn’t think that’s the future of the firm. Which leaves us with a question: Are we shifting back toward an economy in which firms can rely less on opaque financial transactions and more on making stuff? | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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grown elephant holds ten gallons. This makes him a good traveller in waste places where water is not plenty. If he has a mind to, he can draw the water from his stomach into his trunk at any time, and take a drink, or even squirt it over himself, thus taking a shower-bath. But he does not usually waste the extra water which he has stored up in that way.
The elephant's tusks are formed of dentine, a very valuable tooth-covering. They are merely greatly elongated upper teeth, which in some cases curve down and then up at an angle of forty-five degrees. These tusks, which form the ivory that man prizes so highly, in the case of the African elephant often weigh two hundred pounds.
The ivory in a large set of tusks is worth hundreds of dollars, and sometimes even | WIKI |
Winnebago Industries Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Results
-- Net Revenues and EPS in Line with Preliminary Results Forecast --
-- Towable RV Segment Achieves Unit Volume Growth as New Products Target Affordability --
-- Continued Retail Share Gains Drive Marine Segment’s Strong Profitability Growth --
-- Company Updates Fiscal 2025 Full-Year Outlook --
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO), a leading outdoor lifestyle product manufacturer, today reported financial results for the fiscal 2025 third quarter ended May 31, 2025.
Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Summary
Net revenues of $775.1 million
Gross profit of $106.0 million, representing 13.7% gross margin
Net income of $17.6 million, or $0.62 per diluted share; adjusted earnings per diluted share of $0.81
Adjusted EBITDA of $46.5 million, representing 6.0% adjusted EBITDA margin
CEO Commentary “Our fiscal third-quarter results reflect both the diverse dynamics of our business segments and the challenges posed by an uncertain economic environment,” said Michael Happe, President and Chief Executive Officer of Winnebago Industries. "While retail demand across the outdoor recreation sector remains soft, our dealer partners are navigating the market with prudence and agility. At Winnebago Industries, we continue to pursue discipline in every aspect of our operations. We are focused on protecting long-term profitability and sustaining strong customer relationships while aligning production closely with healthy field inventory turn targets. Most importantly, I want to thank our entire team for their dedication. Their commitment and resilience continue to power our progress and position us for future growth.”
“Winnebago Industries' 67-year history of innovation is reflected in the exciting new products and model year updates launching across our portfolio,” Happe continued. “In our Towable RV segment, we are leaning into the growing consumer emphasis on affordability by introducing a range of competitively priced products that are meeting the needs of today’s buyers. New travel trailer offerings such as the Grand Design Transcend Series and the Winnebago Thrive are designed to deliver exceptional value and quality, ensuring that more families can experience the RV lifestyle without compromising on comfort or reliability. In our Motorhome RV segment, Grand Design RV’s entrance into the motorized market with the expanding Lineage Series and new product entries from Newmar are gaining share momentum. In our Marine segment, our Chris-Craft and Barletta brands also continue to grow market share, helping to drive a double-digit increase in profitability."
Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Results
Net revenues were $775.1 million, a decrease of 1.4% compared to $786.0 million in the third quarter of last year, driven by a reduction in average selling price per unit related to product mix, partially offset by targeted price increases. Volume growth in the Towable RV and Marine segments was partially offset by volume reductions in the Motorhome RV segment, as dealers continue their efforts to right-size field inventories in this segment.
Gross profit was $106.0 million, a decrease of 10.3% compared to $118.2 million in the third quarter of last year. Gross profit margin decreased 130 basis points in the quarter to 13.7%, primarily as a result of higher warranty experience and product mix, partially offset by operational efficiencies compared to prior year.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $70.3 million, an increase of 1.9% compared to $69.1 million in the third quarter of last year, primarily due to investment to support the growth of the new Grand Design motorhome business.
Operating income was $30.2 million, a decrease of 30.7% compared to $43.5 million in the third quarter of last year.
Net income was $17.6 million, compared to net income of $29.0 million in the third quarter of last year. Reported earnings per diluted share was $0.62, compared to reported earnings per diluted share of $0.96 in the third quarter of last year. Adjusted earnings per diluted share was $0.81, a decrease of 26.4% compared to adjusted earnings per diluted share of $1.10 in the third quarter of last year.
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA was $46.5 million, a decrease of 19.8%, compared to $58.0 million in the third quarter of last year.
Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Segments Summary
Towable RV
Net revenues for the Towable RV segment decreased from the prior year, primarily due to a shift in product mix toward lower price-point models, partially offset by higher unit volume.
Segment Adjusted EBITDA margin decreased from the prior year, primarily due to higher warranty experience and deleverage, including that associated with product mix, partially offset by operational efficiencies.
Motorhome RV
Net revenues for the Motorhome RV segment decreased from the prior year, primarily due to lower unit volume related to current market conditions, partially offset by product mix.
Segment Adjusted EBITDA margin decreased from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher discounts and allowances, volume deleverage and operational inefficiencies associated with the Winnebago motorhome business.
Marine
Net revenues for the Marine segment increased from the prior year, primarily driven by unit volume and targeted price increases, partially offset by product mix.
Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased from the prior year, primarily driven by targeted price increases and leverage, partially offset by product mix and higher warranty expense.
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow As of May 31, 2025, cash and cash equivalents totaled $10.5 million. The Company had total outstanding debt of $539.9 million ($550.0 million of debt, net of debt issuance costs of $10.1 million) and working capital of $444.2 million. Cash flow used in operations was $25.3 million in the fiscal 2025 third quarter.
Quarterly Cash Dividend On May 16, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.34 per share payable on June 25, 2025, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on June 11, 2025.
Outlook Based on its results through the first three quarters of fiscal 2025, current business conditions and its outlook for the remainder of the year, the Company is updating its fiscal 2025 guidance as follows:
Net revenues in the range of $2.7 billion to $2.8 billion
Reported earnings per diluted share of $0.50 to $1.00
Adjusted earnings per diluted share of $1.20 to $1.70(1)
“Although the macroeconomic backdrop presents near-term challenges, we remain confident in the resilience of our brands and the long-term potential of our end markets,” Happe said. “With a new leadership team in place, Winnebago motorhomes is launching a comprehensive margin recapture plan centered on refreshing the product line, boosting operational efficiency and rebuilding sustained profitability beginning in fiscal 2026. The growing appeal of the outdoor lifestyle—especially among younger and more diverse consumers—continues to drive strong interest in RVing and boating. This trend supports our view for meaningful growth across our portfolio as market conditions normalize.”
Q3 FY 2025 Conference Call Winnebago Industries, Inc. will discuss third quarter fiscal 2025 earnings results during a conference call scheduled for 9:00 a.m. Central Time today. Members of the news media, investors and the general public are invited to access a live broadcast of the conference call and view the accompanying presentation slides via the Investor Relations page of the Company's website at http://investor.wgo.net. The event will be archived and available for replay for the next 90 days.
About Winnebago Industries Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading North American manufacturer of outdoor lifestyle products under the Winnebago, Grand Design, Chris-Craft, Newmar and Barletta brands, which are used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The Company builds high-quality motorhomes, travel trailers, fifth-wheel products, outboard and sterndrive powerboats, pontoons, and commercial community outreach vehicles. Committed to advancing sustainable innovation and leveraging vertical integration in key component areas, Winnebago Industries has multiple facilities in Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and Florida. The Company’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and traded under the symbol WGO. For access to Winnebago Industries' investor relations material or to add your name to an automatic email list for Company news releases, visit http://investor.wgo.net.
Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the business outlook and financial guidance for Fiscal 2025. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and involve potential risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements, including, but not limited to general economic uncertainty in key markets and a worsening of domestic and global economic conditions or low levels of economic growth; availability of financing for RV and marine dealers and retail purchasers; competition and new product introductions by competitors; ability to innovate and commercialize new products; ability to manage our inventory to meet demand; risk related to cyclicality and seasonality of our business; risk related to independent dealers; risk related to dealer consolidation or the loss of a significant dealer; significant increase in repurchase obligations; ability to retain relationships with our suppliers and obtain components; business or production disruptions; inadequate management of dealer inventory levels; increased material and component costs, including availability and price of fuel and other raw materials; ability to integrate mergers and acquisitions; ability to attract and retain qualified personnel and changes in market compensation rates; exposure to warranty claims and product recalls; ability to protect our information technology systems from data security, cyberattacks, and network disruption risks and the ability to successfully upgrade and evolve our information technology systems; ability to retain brand reputation and related exposure to product liability claims; governmental regulation, including for climate change; increased attention to environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") matters, and our ability to meet our commitments; impairment of goodwill and trade names; risks related to our 2030 Convertible Notes and Senior Secured Notes, including our ability to satisfy our obligations under these notes; and changes in recommendations or a withdrawal of coverage by third party security analysts. Additional information concerning certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from that projected or suggested is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") over the last 12 months, copies of which are available from the SEC or from the Company upon request. We caution that the foregoing list of important factors is not complete. The Company disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this release or to reflect any changes in the Company's expectations after the date of this release or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based, except as required by law.
Contacts Investors: Ray Posadas ir@winnebagoind.com
Media: Dan Sullivan media@winnebagoind.com
Winnebago Industries, Inc. Footnotes to News Release
Footnotes:
Amounts in tables are calculated based on unrounded numbers and therefore may not recalculate using the rounded numbers provided. In addition, percentages may not add in total due to rounding.
Winnebago Industries, Inc. Non-GAAP Reconciliation (Unaudited and subject to reclassification)
Non-GAAP financial measures, which are not calculated or presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), have been provided as information supplemental and in addition to the financial measures presented in the accompanying news release that are calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Such non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered superior to, as a substitute for, or as an alternative to, and should be considered in conjunction with, the GAAP financial measures presented in the news release. The non-GAAP financial measures presented may differ from similar measures used by other companies.
The following table reconciles diluted earnings per share to Adjusted diluted earnings per share:
The following table reconciles net income to consolidated EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA.
Non-GAAP performance measures of Adjusted diluted earnings per share, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have been provided as comparable measures to illustrate the effect of non-recurring transactions occurring during the reported periods and to improve comparability of our results from period to period. Adjusted diluted earnings per share is defined as diluted earnings per share adjusted for after-tax items that impact the comparability of our results from period to period. EBITDA is defined as net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, and depreciation and amortization expense. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization expense and other pretax adjustments made in order to present comparable results from period to period. Management believes Adjusted diluted earnings per share and Adjusted EBITDA provide meaningful supplemental information about our operating performance because these measures exclude amounts that we do not consider part of our core operating results when assessing our performance.
Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures (a) to evaluate historical and prospective financial performance and trends as well as assess performance relative to competitors and peers; (b) to measure operational profitability on a consistent basis; (c) in presentations to the members of our Board of Directors to enable our Board of Directors to have the same measurement basis of operating performance as is used by management in its assessments of performance and in forecasting and budgeting for the Company; (d) to evaluate potential acquisitions; and (e) to ensure compliance with restricted activities under the terms of our asset-backed revolving credit facility and outstanding notes. Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate companies in our industry. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Award Date
2020
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department / School
Dairy Science
First Advisor
Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo
Keywords
dairy manufacturing, hydrodynamic cavitation, ice cream, microbiology, rheology, skim milk concentrate
Abstract
The phenomenon of hydrodynamic cavitation involves the formation, growth, and subsequent collapse of bubbles when a given liquid experienced a reduction of pressure below its vapor pressure. The presence of cavitation limits the performance and the safe operation of many machinery and pumps. However, innovation in the design of the hydrodynamic cavitation devices has offered promising applications in the food and dairy industry. Upon collapse of the cavities, the fluid experiences significant mechanical effects (shear and turbulence) as well as instantaneously elevation of the fluid temperature. All these effects can be put to work for mixing, dispersion, particle size reduction, disinfection, and emulsification. In this thesis, the feasibility of using a rotational cavitator for different unit operations was systematic evaluated. The feasibility of hydrodynamic cavitation was evaluated in terms of analysis of cavitation parameters, characterization of the increase in the fluid temperature, microbial efficiency, and emulsification of ice cream mix. The analysis of the cavitator revealed that the velocities generated inside the rotational cavitator are sufficiently high to induce cavitation within the fluid. The development of the cavitation was influenced by the flow rate, speed of the rotor, temperature, and fluid properties. The pressure at which cavitation would first appear was calculated as a function of the operating parameters. The increase in the temperature of the fluid was modeled, showing satisfactory correlation with the experimental data. The increased in the temperature of the fluid due to cavitation was used to develop a process for assisting thermal pasteurization with the idea of reducing the log counts of thermoduric bacteria. The newly developed process can be operated within a wide range of processing conditions (50-300 L h-1, 600-3600 RPM, 70-85°C with residence time from 10-110 s). It was found a 3.5 log reduction of Bacillus coagulans by cavitation followed by thermal treatment, while thermal treatment along yielded a 2.77 log reduction. The hydrodynamic cavitation was applied during the manufacture of ice cream with the idea of reducing the concentration of stabilizers. Particle size of ice cream mix and rheology test was conducted to determine the influence of the stabilizer amounts in ice cream mix. Hydrodynamic cavitation itself reduced the particle size of cream and ice cream mix. Dynamic rheological measurements (strain and frequency sweeps) of ICM indicated increased product stability at a rotation speed of 3600 RPM and flow of 100 L -1. However, the mechanical spectra were considerable different. Imparted viscosities at medium shear rates were at least 2-fold greater compared to formulations homogenized conventionally.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cavitation.
Dairy processing.
Hydrodynamics.
Format
application/pdf
Number of Pages
92
Publisher
South Dakota State University
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Detrital zircon geochronology
Detrital zircon geochronology is the science of analyzing the age of zircons deposited within a specific sedimentary unit by examining their inherent radioisotopes, most commonly the uranium–lead ratio. Zircon is a common accessory or trace mineral constituent of most granite and felsic igneous rocks. Due to its hardness, durability and chemical inertness, zircon persists in sedimentary deposits and is a common constituent of most sands. Zircons contain trace amounts of uranium and thorium and can be dated using several modern analytical techniques.
Detrital zircon geochronology has become increasingly popular in geological studies from the 2000s mainly due to the advancement in radiometric dating techniques. Detrital zircon age data can be used to constrain the maximum depositional age, determine provenance, and reconstruct the tectonic setting on a regional scale.
Origin
Detrital zircons are part of the sediment derived from weathering and erosion of pre-existing rocks. Since zircons are heavy and highly resistant at Earth's surface, many zircons are transported, deposited and preserved as detrital zircon grains in sedimentary rocks.
Properties
Detrital zircons usually retain similar properties as their parent igneous rocks, such as age, rough size and mineral chemistry. However, the composition of detrital zircons is not entirely controlled by the crystallization of the zircon mineral. In fact, many of them are modified by later processes in the sedimentary cycle. Depending on the degree of physical sorting, mechanical abrasion and dissolution, a detrital zircon grain may lose some of its inherent features and gain some over-printed properties like rounded shape and smaller size. On a larger scale, two or more tribes of detrital zircons from different origins may deposit within the same sedimentary basin. This give rise to a natural complexity of associating detrital zircon populations and their sources.
Zircon is a strong tool for uranium-lead age determination because of its inherent properties:
* 1) Zircon contains high amount of uranium for machine recognition, commonly 100–1000 ppm.
* 2) Zircon has a low amount of lead during crystallization, in parts per trillion. Thus, lead found in zircon can be assumed as daughter nuclei from parent uranium.
* 3) Zircon crystals grow between 600 and 1100 °C, while lead is retained within the crystal structure below 800 °C (see Closure temperature). So once zircon has cooled below 800 °C it retains all the lead from the radioactive decay. Therefore, U-Pb age can be treated as the age of crystallization, if the mineral/sample itself has not undergone high temperature metamorphism after formation.
* 4) Zircon commonly crystallizes in felsic igneous rocks, with greater than 60% silica (SiO2) content. These rocks are generally less dense and more buoyant. They sit high in the Earth's (continental crust), and have good preservation potential.
* 5) Zircon is physically and chemically resistant, so it is more likely to be preserved in the sedimentary cycle.
* 6) Zircon contains other elements which gives supplementary information, such as hafnium (Hf), uranium/thorium (U/Th) ratio.
Sample collection
There are no set rules for sample selection in detrital zircon geochronology studies. The objective and scale of the research project govern the type and number of samples taken. In some cases, the sedimentary rock type and depositional setting can significantly affect the result. Examples include:
* Matured quartz arenite within Vlamy Formation yield older and more diverse ages given by well-rounded detrital zircons, which may correlate to multiple sedimentary reworking events. On the contrary, Harmony Formation in the same region has younger and homogenous ages given by euhedral detrital zircons. These two formations illustrate the possibility of relating sedimentary maturity with resulting zircon ages, meaning that rounded and well-sorted sedimentary rocks (e.g. siltstone and mudstone) may have older and more diverse ages.
* Turbidites in Harts Pass Formation contain homogenous detrital zircons ages. On the other hand, fluvial Winthrop Formation in another strata of the same basin has various detrital zircon age populations. Comparing the vertical detrital zircon distribution within these two formations, one can expect a narrower age population of detrital zircons from rocks which are rapidly deposited, such as turbidites. Rocks that are gradually deposited (e.g. marine mudstone), however, have a greater chance and time to incorporate zircon sediments from different localities.
Detrital zircon extraction
After rock samples are collected, they are cleaned, chipped, crushed and milled through standardized procedures. Then, detrital zircons are separated from the fine rock powder by three different ways, namely gravity separation using water, magnetic separation, and gravity separation using heavy liquid. In the process, grains are also sieved according to their size. The commonly used grain size for detrital zircon provenance analysis is 63–125 μm, which is equivalent to fine sand grain size.
Type of detrital zircon analysis
There are two main types of detrital zircon analysis: qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. The biggest advantage of qualitative analysis is being able to uncover all possible origin of the sedimentary unit, whereas quantitative analysis should allow meaningful comparison of proportions in the sample.
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative approach examines all the available detrital zircons individually regardless of their abundance among all grains. This approach is usually conducted with high precision thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) and sometimes secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Optical examination and classification of detrital zircon grains are commonly included in qualitative studies through back-scatter electrons (BSE) or cathodoluminescence (CL) imagery, despite the relationship between the age and optical classification of detrital zircon grains is not always reliable.
Quantitative analysis
Quantitative approach requires large number of grain analyses within a sample rock in order to represent the overall detrital zircon population statistically (i.e. the total number of analyses should achieve an appropriate level of confidence). Because of the large sample size, secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) are used instead of thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS). In this case, BSE and CL imagery are applied to select the best spot on a zircon grain for acquiring reliable age.
Methods
Different methods in detrital zircon analysis yield different results. Generally, researchers would include the methods/ analytical instruments they used within their studies. There are generally three categories, which are the instrument(s) used for zircon analysis, their calibration standards and instrument(s) used for zircon imagery. Details are listed in Table 1.
Detrital zircon data
Depending on the detrital zircon study, there should be different variables included for analysis. There are two main types of data, analyzed zircon data (quantifiable data and imagery/descriptive data), and sample (where they extract the zircon grains) data. Details are listed in Table 2.
Filtering detrital zircon data
All data acquired first-hand should be cleansed before using to avoid error, normally by computer.
By U-Pb age discordance
Before applying detrital zircon ages, they should be evaluated and screened accordingly. In most cases, data are compared with U-Pb Concordia graphically. For a large dataset, however, data with high U-Pb age discordance (>10 – 30%) are filtered out numerically. The acceptable discordance level is often adjusted with the age of the detrital zircon since older population should experience higher chances of alteration and project higher discordance. (See Uranium–lead dating)
By choosing the best age
Because of the intrinsic uncertainties within the three yield U-Pb ages (207Pb/235U, 206Pb/238U and 207Pb/206Pb), the age at ~1.4 Ga has the poorest resolution. An overall consensus for age with higher accuracy is to adopt:
* 207Pb/206Pb for ages older than 0.8 – 1.0 Ga
* 206Pb/238U for ages younger than 0.8 – 1.0 Ga
By data clustering
Given the possibility of concordant yet incorrect detrital zircon U-Pb ages associated with lead loss or inclusion of older components, some scientists apply data selection through clustering and comparing the ages. Three or more data overlapping within ±2σ uncertainty would be classified as a valid age population of a particular source origin.
By age uncertainty (±σ)
There are no set limit for age uncertainty and the cut-off value varies with different precision requirement. Although excluding data with huge age uncertainty would enhance the overall zircon grain age accuracy, over elimination may lower overall research reliability (decrease in size of the database). The best practice would be to filter accordingly, i.e. setting the cut-off error to eliminate reasonable portion of the dataset (say <5% of the total ages available )
By applied analytical methods
Depending on the required analytical accuracy, researchers may filter data via their analytical instruments. Generally, researchers use only the data from sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) and thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) because of their high precision (1–2%, 1–2% and 0.1% respectively ) in spot analysis. An older analytical technique, lead-lead evaporation, is no longer used since it cannot determine the U-Pb concordance of the age data.
By spot nature
Apart from analytical methods, researchers would isolate core or rim ages for analysis. Normally, core ages would be used as crystallization age as they are first generated and least disturbed part in zircon grains. On the other hand, rim ages can be used to track peak metamorphism as they are first in contact with certain temperature and pressure condition. Researchers may utilize these different spot natures to reconstruct the geological history of a basin.
Maximum depositional age
One of the most important information we can get from detrital zircon ages is the maximum depositional age of the referring sedimentary unit. The sedimentary unit cannot be older than the youngest age of the analyzed detrital zircons because the zircon should have existed before the rock formation. This provides useful age information to rock strata where fossils are unavailable, such as the terrestrial successions during Precambrian or pre-Devonian times. Practically, maximum depositional age is averaged from a cluster of youngest age data or the peak in age probability because the youngest U-Pb age within a sample is almost always younger with uncertainty.
Using detrital zircon age abundance
In a global scale, detrital zircon age abundance can be used as a tool to infer significant tectonic events in the past. In Earth's history, the abundance of magmatic age peaks during periods of supercontinent assembly. This is because supercontinent provides a major crustal envelop selectively preserve the felsic magmatic rocks, resulting from partial melts. Thus, many detrital zircons originate from these igneous provence, resulting similar age peak records. For instance, the peak at about 0.6–0.7 Ga and 2.7 Ga (Figure 6) may correlate the break-up of Rodinia and supercontinent Kenorland respectively.
Using difference between detrital zircons crystallisation ages and their corresponding maximum depositional age
Apart from the detrital zircon age abundance, difference between detrital zircons crystallisation ages (CA) and their corresponding maximum depositional age (DA) can be plotted in cumulative distribution function to correlate particular tectonic regime in the past. The effect of different tectonic settings on the difference between CA and DA is illustrated in Figure 7 and summarized in Table. 3. | WIKI |
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I suggest merging attrition (called here in Wikipedia "imperfect contrition") with this article, which we should eventually rename Contrition and attrition in order to cover the debate and respective roles of each. It seems that the majority of authors consider that pure attrition is not possible, making it a quite theoretical question. On the other hand, this question, lifted but not settled during the Council of Trent, was one of the reason of the debate between Jansenists and Jesuits. Spirals31 (talk) 17:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
* I agree with you @Spirals31. I put a similar recommendation on the imperfect contrition talk page. I would recommend the new title being "Contrition in Catholicism". Crusadestudent (talk) 23:53, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
* Scratch that. See proposal for deletion. Deus vult! Crusadestudent (talk) 16:37, 10 May 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Logical Recovery
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Data Recovery After a System Crash
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Retrieving Data from Encrypted Drives
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Supporting IT Departments
IT departments often face complex data recovery challenges, such as RAID failures or large-scale data losses. Not all data recovery tools are designed to meet these needs or offer advanced features like RAID recovery. IT professionals seeking to efficiently manage and recover data across multiple systems should be careful in selecting a data recovery tool to ensure their organization’s data integrity.
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Specialized Data Recovery Scenarios
In addition to common data recovery scenarios, there are specialized situations where advanced recovery features are particularly useful.
Email File Recovery
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Optical Media Recovery
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Recovery from High-Capacity Drives
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RAW Data Recovery
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Preventative Measures to Minimize Data Loss
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Regular Backups
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Using S.M.A.R.T. Drive Monitoring
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Implementing Security Protocols
Strong antivirus software and regular system updates protect against malicious attacks. Additionally, implementing robust security measures such as firewalls, encryption, and user access controls further safeguards your data from threats.
Utilizing Cloud Storage Solutions
Storing data in the cloud adds an extra layer of security and accessibility. Cloud storage services offer automated backups, versioning, and remote access, ensuring your data is protected and available even if your physical devices are compromised.
Stellar Data Recovery: A Comprehensive Solution
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Factors to Consider
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• File Format Support: Check that the software can recover the types of files you typically work with, such as documents, photos, videos, and emails.
• User Experience: Look for software with an intuitive interface and helpful guides to make the recovery process as straightforward as possible.
• Advanced Features: Consider the need for advanced features like RAID recovery, disk imaging, and encrypted drive support.
Making an Informed Decision
Evaluating your specific needs and comparing different software options will help you make an informed decision. Here are some tips:
• Read Reviews and Testimonials: User reviews and testimonials can provide insights into the software’s performance and reliability.
• Try Free Versions: Many data recovery tools, including Stellar, offer free trials or demo versions. Use these to test the software’s capabilities and see if it meets your needs.
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Data loss can be a daunting experience, but with the right recovery tools, you can protect your valuable information. Stellar Data Recovery stands out due to its comprehensive features and proven reliability, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to safeguard their digital life. Stay prepared and ensure your data is always recoverable with the right solutions. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran - The New York Times
Advertisement By JO BECKER and RON NIXONMARCH 6, 2010 The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington's efforts to discourage investment there, records show. That includes nearly $15 billion paid to companies that defied American sanctions law by making large investments that helped Iran develop its vast oil and gas reserves. For years, the United States has been pressing other nations to join its efforts to squeeze the Iranian economy, in hopes of reining in Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Now, with the nuclear standoff hardening and Iran rebuffing American diplomatic outreach, the Obama administration is trying to win a tough new round of United Nations sanctions. But a New York Times analysis of federal records, company reports and other documents shows that both the Obama and Bush administrations have sent mixed messages to the corporate world when it comes to doing business in Iran, rewarding companies whose commercial interests conflict with American security goals. Advertisement Many of those companies are enmeshed in the most vital elements of Iran's economy. More than two-thirds of the government money went to companies doing business in Iran's energy industry a huge source of revenue for the Iranian government and a stronghold of the increasingly powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a primary focus of the Obama administration's proposed sanctions because it oversees Iran's nuclear and missile programs. Advertisement Other companies are involved in auto manufacturing and distribution, another important sector of the Iranian economy with links to the Revolutionary Guards. One supplied container ship motors to IRISL, a government-owned shipping line that was subsequently blacklisted by the United States for concealing military cargo. Beyond $102 billion in United States government contract payments since 2000 to do everything from building military housing to providing platinum to the United States Mint the companies and their subsidiaries have reaped a variety of benefits. They include nearly $4.5 billion in loans and loan guarantees from the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that underwrites the export of American goods and services, and more than $500 million in grants for work that includes cancer research and the turning of agricultural byproducts into fuel. In addition, oil and gas companies that have done business in Iran have over the years won lucrative drilling leases for close to 14 million acres of offshore and onshore federal land. In recent months, a number of companies have decided to pull out of Iran, because of a combination of pressure by the United States and other Western governments, terrorism free divestment campaigns by shareholders and the difficulty of doing business with Iran's government. And several oil and gas companies are holding off on new investment, waiting to see what shape new sanctions may assume. The Obama administration points to that record, saying that it has successfully pressed allied governments and even reached out directly to corporate officials to dissuade investment in Iran, particularly in the energy industry. In addition, an American effort over many years to persuade banks to leave the country has isolated Iran from much of the international financial system, making it more difficult to do deals there. We are very aggressive, using a range of tools, said Denis McDonough, chief of staff to the National Security Council. The government can, and does, bar American companies from most types of trade with Iran, under a broad embargo that has been in place since the 1990s. But as The Times's analysis illustrates, multiple administrations have struggled diplomatically, politically and practically to exert American authority over companies outside the embargo's reach foreign companies and the foreign subsidiaries of American ones. Indeed, of the 74 companies The Times identified as doing business with both the United States government and Iran, 49 continue to do business there with no announced plans to leave. One of the government's most powerful tools, at least on paper, to influence the behavior of companies beyond the jurisdiction of the embargo is the Iran Sanctions Act, devised to punish foreign companies that invest more than $20 million in a given year to develop Iran's oil and gas fields. But in the 14 years since the law was passed, the government has never enforced it, in part for fear of angering America's allies. Advertisement That has given rise to situations like the one involving the South Korean engineering giant Daelim Industrial, which in 2007 won a $700 million contract to upgrade an Iranian oil refinery. According to the Congressional Research Service, the deal appeared to violate the Iran Sanctions Act, meaning Daelim could have faced a range of punishments, including denial of federal contracts. That is because the law covers not only direct investments, such as the purchase of shares and deals that yield royalties, but also contracts similar to Daelim's to manage oil and gas development projects. But in 2009 the United States Army awarded the company a $111 million contract to build housing in a military base in South Korea. Just months later, Daelim, which disputes that its contracts violated the letter of the law, announced a new $600 million deal to help develop the South Pars gas field in Iran. Now, though, frustration over Iran's intransigence has spawned a growing, if still piecemeal, movement to more effectively use the power of the government purse to turn companies away from investing there. Nineteen states including New York, California and Florida have rules that bar or discourage their pension funds from investing in companies that do certain types of business in Iran. Congress is considering legislation that would have the federal government follow suit, by mandating that companies that invest in Iran's energy industry be denied federal contracts. The provision is modeled on an existing law dealing with war-torn Sudan. Obama administration officials, while indicating that they were open to the idea, called it only one variable in a complex equation. Right now, the president's priority is on breaking down Chinese resistance to the new United Nations sanctions, which apply across borders and are aimed squarely at entities that support Iran's nuclear program. But Representative Ron Klein, a Florida Democrat who wrote the contracting provision moving through Congress with the help of a lobbying group called United Against Nuclear Iran, said it offered a way forward with or without international agreement. Advertisement We need to send a strong message to corporations that we're not going to continue to allow them to economically enable the Iranian government to continue to do what they have been doing, Mr. Klein said. An Unused Tool Sending a strong message was Congress's intention when it passed the Iran Sanctions Act in 1996. The law gives the president a menu of possible punishments he can choose to levy against offending companies. Not only do they risk losing federal contracts, but they can also be prevented from receiving Export-Import Bank loans, obtaining American bank loans over $10 million in a given year, exporting their goods to the United States, purchasing licensed American military technology and, in the case of financial firms, serving as a primary dealer in United States government bonds or as a repository for government funds. Congress is now considering expanding its purview to a broader array of energy-related activities, including selling gasoline to Iran, which despite its vast oil and gas reserves has antiquated refineries that leave it heavily dependent on imports. From the beginning, though, the law proved difficult to enforce. European allies howled that it constituted an improper attempt to apply American law in other countries. Exercising an option to waive the law in the name of national security, the Clinton administration in 1998 declined to penalize the first violator a consortium led by the French oil company TotalFina, now known as Total. The administration also indicated that it would waive future penalties against European companies, winning in return tougher European export controls on technology that Iran could convert to military use. Stuart E. Eizenstat, who as the deputy Treasury secretary handled those negotiations, said the law let Iran exploit divisions between the U.S. and our European allies. Waiving it, though, was followed by additional investments in Iran and more government largesse for the companies making them. Advertisement In 1999, for instance, Royal Dutch Shell signed an $800 million deal to develop two Iranian oil fields. Since then, Shell has won federal contract payments and grants totaling more than $11 billion, mostly for providing fuel to the American military, as well as $200 million in Export-Import loan guarantee and drilling rights to federal lands, records show. Shell has a second Iranian development deal pending, but officials say they are awaiting the results of a feasibility study. In the meantime, the company continues to receive payments from Iran for its 1999 investment and sells gasoline and lubricants there. Records show Shell is one of seven companies that challenged the Iran Sanctions Act and received federal benefits. John R. Bolton, who dealt with Iran as an under secretary of state and United Nations ambassador in the Bush administration, said failing to enforce the law by punishing such companies both sent a signal to the Iranians that we're not serious and undercut Washington's credibility when it did threaten action. Mr. Bolton recalled what happened in 2004 when he suggested to the Japanese ambassador that Japan's state-controlled oil exploration company, Inpex, might be penalized for a $2 billion investment in the Azadegan field in Iran. The Japanese ambassador said, 'Well, that's interesting. How come you've never sanctioned a European Union company?' Mr. Bolton recounted. Inpex was never penalized, though several years later it decided to reduce its stake in the Iranian project. And to Mr. Bolton's chagrin, the Bush administration did not act on reports about other such investments, neither waiving the law nor penalizing violators. Recently, after 50 lawmakers from both parties complained to President Obama about the lack of enforcement and sent him a list of companies that apparently violated the law, the State Department announced a preliminary investigation. Officials said that they were looking at 27 deals, and that while some appeared to have been carefully constructed to get around the letter of the law, they had identified a number of problematic cases and were focusing on companies still active in Iran. Competing Interests Among the companies on the list Congress sent to the State Department is the Brazilian state-controlled energy conglomerate Petrobras, which last year received a $2 billion Export-Import Bank loan to develop an oil reserve off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The loan offers a case study in the competing interests officials must confront when it comes to the Iran Sanctions Act. Advertisement Despite repeated American entreaties, Petrobras had previously invested $100 million to explore Iran's offshore oil prospects in the Persian Gulf. But the Export-Import Bank loan could help create American jobs, since Petrobras would use the money to buy goods and services from American companies. Perhaps more important, it could help develop a source of oil outside the Middle East. After The Times inquired about the loan, bank officials said that they asked for and received a letter of assurance from Petrobras that it had finished its work in Iran. A senior White House official, in a Nov. 13 e-mail message, said that while it was the administration's policy to warn companies against such investments, Brazil is an important U.S. trading partner and our discussions with them are ongoing. But if the administration hoped that the loan would bring Brazil in line with its objectives in Iran, it would soon prove mistaken. On Nov. 23, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited Brazil, and the two countries agreed to share technical expertise on energy projects. Iranian officials said they might offer Petrobras additional incentives for further investment. The visit infuriated American officials, who felt it undercut efforts to press Iran on its nuclear program while lending international legitimacy to the Iranian president. Brazil's relationship with Iran has also complicated American maneuvering at the United Nations, where Brazil holds a rotating seat on the Security Council. Just last week, Brazil's president, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, restated his opposition to the administration's sanctions proposal, warning, It is not prudent to push Iran against a wall. Carter Lawson, the Export-Import Bank's deputy general counsel, acknowledged that Mr. Ahmadinejad's visit was problematic for us, and it raised our antenna. He said that since December the bank had been operating under a new budget rule requiring borrowers to certify that they had no continuing operations in Iran's energy industry, and was carefully monitoring Petrobras's activities. In the meantime, Petrobras's Tehran office remains open. And Diogo Almeida, the acting economic attach at the Brazilian Embassy in Iran, said that while Petrobras was currently assessing how much it could invest in Iran, given the huge discovery off Rio de Janeiro, company officials were in active discussions with the Iranian government and were interested in pursuing new business. Advertisement Opportunities for Profit For all the American rules and focus, there is still plenty of room for companies to profit in crucial areas of Iran's economy without fear of reprisal or loss of United States government business. Auto companies doing business in Iran, for instance, received $7.3 billion in federal contracts over the past 10 years. Among them was Mazda, whose cars in Iran are assembled by a company called the Bahman Group. A 45 percent share in Bahman is held by the Sepah Cooperative Foundation, a large investment fund linked to the Revolutionary Guards, according to Iranian news accounts and a 2009 RAND Corporation report prepared for the Defense Department. A Mazda spokesman declined to comment, saying the company was unaware of the links. Even companies based in the United States, including some of the biggest federal contractors, can invest in Iran through foreign subsidiaries run independently by non-Americans. Honeywell, the aviation and aerospace company, has received nearly $13 billion in federal contracts since 2005. That year it acquired Universal Oil Products, whose British subsidiary is working on a project to expand gasoline production at the Arak refinery in Iran. Universal recently received a $25 million federal grant for a clean-energy project in Hawaii. In a statement, Honeywell said it had told the State Department in January of 2009 that while it was fulfilling its Arak contract, it would not undertake new projects in Iran. Ingersoll Rand, another American company with foreign subsidiaries, says it is evaluating its minor business in Iran in light of the political climate. But for now, according to a spokesman, Paul Dickard, it continues to sell air-compression systems with a wide variety of applications, including in the oil and gas industries and in nuclear power plants. Senator Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, tried to close the foreign subsidiary loophole after a furor erupted in 2004 over Halliburton, former Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, which had used a Cayman Islands subsidiary to sell oil-field services to Iran. But he said he was unable to overcome business opposition. William A. Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, lobbied against Mr. Dorgan's bill and has opposed other unilateral sanctions. He argues that their futility can be seen in the intransigence of the Iranian government and the way American oil companies have simply been replaced by foreign competitors. Moreover, many foreign companies with business interests in Iran are also large American employers; deny them federal contracts and other benefits, Mr. Reinsch said, and it's those workers who will pay the price. But Hans Sandberg, senior vice president of Atlas Copco, which is based in Sweden, offered a different perspective. Atlas Copco's sales of mining and construction equipment to Iran are dwarfed by its American business, including military contracts. If forced to choose, he said: It would be no problem. We wouldn't trade with Iran. An article on Sunday about United States government contracts and other benefits received by companies doing business in Iran misstated the date Honeywell, the aviation and aerospace company, notified the State Department that, while a British subsidiary would finish a refinery project in Iran, it would not undertake new projects there. It was January 2009, not last January. Eric Owles contributed reporting. A version of this article appears in print on March 7, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe We're interested in your feedback on this page. Tell us what you think. Go to Home Page » | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Jean. Nay, my Lady, you make me do it so often, I'm tired of taking him off.
Countess. Do as you are bid, child.
Jean. "Dear gentle idol of a heart too fond, "Why doth that eye of sweetest sympathy—"
Hov. Ha, ha, ha! Excellent!
Bar. (off his guard.) By Heaven, this is too bad! Your servants taught to turn me into ridicule!
Countess. (starting.) How's this? Mercy on me!
Hov. Be not alarmed, Countess; I thought he would surprise you. My friend is the best mimick in Europe.
Countess. I can scarcely recover my surprise. (To Baron) My dear Sir, I cannot praise you enough. You have a wonderful talent. The Baron's own mouth could not utter his voice more perfectly than yours.
Bar. (pulling off his cap and beard.) No, Madam, not easily. (Jean. shrieks out, and the Countess stands in stupid amazement.) This disguise, Madam, has procured for me a specimen of the amiable dispositions of a heart formed for tenderness, with a sample of your talents for mimickry into the bargain; and so I wish you good day, with thanks for my morning's amusement.
Countess. (recovering herself.) Ha, ha, ha! You understand mumming very well, Baron, but I still better. I acted my part well. | WIKI |
Murder of Alice Gross
Alice Gross (14 February 2000 – 28 August 2014) was an English girl who was murdered in West London. Her body was found hidden on the bed of the River Brent on September 30, five weeks after she disappeared.
Missing case
Alice Poppy Madeleine Gross was a 14-year-old girl who suffered from anorexia, which was suggested by her mother and some mainstream media sources in the early days of the search for her as being related to her disappearance. She lived in Hanwell, West London, with her sister, Nina Gross, and parents, Jose Gross and Rosalind Hodgkiss. She went missing after leaving her home on 28 August 2014. The search for her was the largest deployment of Metropolitan Police officers in a search operation since the 7 July 2005 London bombings. It involved 600 officers from eight services.
Suspects
Two men were arrested in connection with Gross's death; both were later released without charge.
The prime suspect was Latvian builder and convicted murderer Arnis Zalkalns, who went missing from Ealing, West London, on 3 September.
Murder inquiry
On 1 October, police launched a murder inquiry after Gross's body was found hidden under logs on the bed of the River Brent the night before. On 4 October, police announced that they had found a badly decomposed body in dense woodland in Boston Manor Park during their search for Zalkalns, and that early indications suggested the body might be his. Police confirmed two days later that the body was that of Zalkalns. The cause of his death was hanging.
Community involvement
The local community of Hanwell was galvanised during the time Gross was missing, and a poster campaign to "Find Alice" was organised through a Facebook page. In order to increase public awareness of Gross being missing the community tied yellow ribbons to trees, railings, their cars and homes. Ealing Borough Council flew flags at half-mast following the discovery of Gross's body, opened a public book of condolence and replanted flower beds near to the Hanwell Clock Tower with yellow pansies in Gross's memory.
Police briefing
In a briefing on 28 January 2015, the Metropolitan Police stated that "all the evidence points firmly to Arnis Zalkalns" and that he would have been charged if he had not hanged himself.
Lost inquest file
On 26 July 2015, it was reported that a 30-page document relating to the case had been lost after West London coroner Chinyere Inyama left it on a train. Inyama subsequently was told to reassign the case to another coroner, and it was taken by Dr Fiona Wilcox. | WIKI |
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246 "The man will be himself again in three weeks," Mr. Carmichael said aside to his wife. "Look at his face already."
In fact, he did look changed. Here was the "little missus," and he had new things to think of and plan for already. In the first place, there was Miss Minchin. She must be interviewed and told of the change which had taken place in the fortunes of her pupil.
Sara was not to return to the seminary at all. The Indian gentleman was very determined upon that point. She must remain where she was, and Mr. Carmichael should go and see Miss Minchin himself.
"I am glad I need not go back," said Sara. "She will be very angry. She does not like me; though perhaps it is my fault, because I do not like her."
But, oddly enough. Miss Minchin made it unnecessary for Mr. Carmichael to go to her, by actually coming in search of her pupil herself. She had wanted Sara for something, and on inquiry had heard an astonishing thing. One of the housemaids had seen her steal out of the area with something hidden under her cloak, and had also seen her go up the steps of the next door and enter the house.
"What does she mean!" cried Miss Minchin to Miss Amelia.
"I don't know, I 'm sure, sister," answered Miss Amelia.
"Unless she has made friends with him because he has lived in India."
"It would be just like her to thrust herself upon him and try to gain his sympathies in some such impertinent | WIKI |
Roblox Studio Tutorials/Effects
Campfire
You can make a cool campfire using effects! First, build the campfire with surroundings and a base and some logs. Then, add a fire effect by going to models>effects>fire. You will see a fire coming out from the base. The fire might be too small, but we can make it bigger by going to the properties of the fire. You can change the size of the fire by changing the size property. You can also change the brightness, and the color, also the range to make a cool campfire!
Fountain
This one is a little bit harder than campfire. But it is really cool. First, add a ring of water, then, add surrounding and a middle. Add a part that would spray water into the air in the middle. Insert a ParticleEmitter inside the sprayer. You will see that the sprayer starts to "spray" out sparkles. But sparkles look nothing like water. We need water. Copy this smoke: wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=File:Smoke.png&filetimestamp=20150731221157& copy this website. Add the new smoke file to replace the sparkles file. You should see smoke coming out of the sprayer. That still doesn't look like water though, we need to change the properties. Change Color>Start to light teal, then change LightEmission to 0.5, click on size and click ... and drag the right endpoint to the bottom. Do the same thing to transparency. But this time, drag the left endpoint to about in the middle. Now they look good but they don't fall. To make the particles fall, we need to change acceleration to 0,-10,0. Now for the finishing touches. Change RotSpeed to -90,90, change speed to 15, velocity spread to 5, rate to 200 and LifeTime to 4. | WIKI |
3 March 2017 Toward real-time tumor margin identification in image-guided robotic brain tumor resection
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For patients with malignant brain tumors (glioblastomas), a safe maximal resection of tumor is critical for an increased survival rate. However, complete resection of the cancer is hard to achieve due to the invasive nature of these tumors, where the margins of the tumors become blurred from frank tumor to more normal brain tissue, but in which single cells or clusters of malignant cells may have invaded. Recent developments in fluorescence imaging techniques have shown great potential for improved surgical outcomes by providing surgeons intraoperative contrast-enhanced visual information of tumor in neurosurgery. The current near-infrared (NIR) fluorophores, such as indocyanine green (ICG), cyanine5.5 (Cy5.5), 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), are showing clinical potential to be useful in targeting and guiding resections of such tumors. Real-time tumor margin identification in NIR imaging could be helpful to both surgeons and patients by reducing the operation time and space required by other imaging modalities such as intraoperative MRI, and has the potential to integrate with robotically assisted surgery. In this paper, a segmentation method based on the Chan-Vese model was developed for identifying the tumor boundaries in an ex-vivo mouse brain from relatively noisy fluorescence images acquired by a multimodal scanning fiber endoscope (mmSFE). Tumor contours were achieved iteratively by minimizing an energy function formed by a level set function and the segmentation model. Quantitative segmentation metrics based on tumor-to-background (T/B) ratio were evaluated. Results demonstrated feasibility in detecting the brain tumor margins at quasi-real-time and has the potential to yield improved precision brain tumor resection techniques or even robotic interventions in the future.
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Danying Hu, Danying Hu, Yang Jiang, Yang Jiang, Evgenii Belykh, Evgenii Belykh, Yuanzheng Gong, Yuanzheng Gong, Mark C. Preul, Mark C. Preul, Blake Hannaford, Blake Hannaford, Eric J. Seibel, Eric J. Seibel, } "Toward real-time tumor margin identification in image-guided robotic brain tumor resection", Proc. SPIE 10135, Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 101350D (3 March 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2255417; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255417
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Leslie Berland
Leslie Berland is the CMO of Verizon, as of December 2023. She was formerly the CMO of Peloton and Twitter.
She was also Head of People at Twitter. Prior to that she spent over a decade in executive roles at AmEx establishing the financial service company’s initial social media strategies. (She also had executive PR roles at Ketchum and GCI Health. She is on the board of directors of the Ad Council.
Forbes ranked Berland #3 in their World's Most Influential CMOs list. Fast Company ranked Berland sixth in their 100 Most Creative People in Business for persuading AmEx leadership to prioritize social media platforms. She was featured in Advertising Age's Creativity 50 list. In 2018, she was appointed to the National Board of Directors at Make a Wish Foundation | WIKI |
Atomic force microscope
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How an atomic force microscope works.
Atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are a type of microscope. AFMs provide pictures of atoms on or in surfaces. Like the scanning electron microscope (SEM), the purpose of the AFM is to look at objects on the atomic level. In fact, the AFM may be used to look at individual atoms.[1] It is commonly used in nanotechnology.
The AFM can do some things that the SEM cannot do. The AFM can provide higher resolution than the SEM. Further, the AFM does not need to operate in a vacuum. In fact, the AFM can operate in ambient air or water, so it can be used to see surfaces of biological samples like living cells.
The AFM works by employing an ultra-fine needle attached to a cantilever beam. The tip of the needle runs over the ridges and valleys in the material being imaged, "feeling" the surface. As the tip moves up and down due to the surface, the cantilever deflects. In one basic configuration, a laser shines on the cantilever at an oblique angle, and allows for the direct measurement of the deflection in the cantilever by simply changing the angle of incidence for the laser beam. In this way, an image may be created revealing the configuration of the molecules being imaged by the machine.[2]
There are many different operating modes for an AFM. One is the "contact mode", where the tip is simply moved across the surface and the cantilever deflections are measured. Another mode is called "tapping mode", because the tip is tapped against the surface as it travels along. By controlling how hard the tip is tapped, the AFM can move away from the surface when the needle feels a ridge, so that it will not hit against the surface when it moves across. This mode is also useful for biological samples, because it is less likely to damage a soft surface.[3] These are the basic modes most commonly used. However there are different names and methods such as "intermittent contact mode", "non-contact mode", "dynamic" and "static" modes and more, but these are often variations on the above described tapping and contact modes.
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1. 1. Sugimoto, Y., et al., Chemical identification of individual surface atoms by atomic force microscopy. Nature, 2007. 446(7131): p. 64-67.
2. Binnig, G., C.F. Quate, and C. Gerber, Atomic Force Microscope. Physical Review Letters, 1986. 56(9): p. 930.
3. Weisenhorn, A.L., et al., Deformation and height anomaly of soft surfaces studied with an AFM. Nanotechnology, 1993. 4(2): p. 106-113. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Alejandro Amaya
Alternativa, Confirmación
Not being Mexican, I have no idea what these things refer to. Could this be clarified? NickelShoe (Talk) 13:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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RESPONSE:Curious... What is specifically sensationalistic about this Wikipedia entry? What specific politics are mentioned in this Wikipedia entry?
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It's not an issue of being Mexican... The words are Spanish Language. A good glossary of bullfighting terms can be found at http://www.matadorjaimebravo.com/Bullfighting-Glossary.htm
Have a nice day!
yes yes, the disputed neutrality is the claim that: "who at one time was considered to be the up-and-coming superstar that would revive bullfighting in Mexico".
i think that there is no need for this frase, so i will delete it.Sajjad664 07:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Sidney Powell/Archive 4
This article is way too POV
For example, this sentence: 'Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories. She has claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert "deep state" operation' needs to be re-written. Comey himself has admitted that he and his team cooked up a scheme to question Flynn off guard. And it's also true that at the time the FBI questioned Flynn, they already had the phone call itself, so they already knew that Flynn did not do anything illegal. Also, the word "frame" has specific legal meaning, so unless we cite a reliable source which quotes Powell using that word, this sentence is thin gruel. I suggest, rather than merely posting "deep state" in quotes, we post an actual full verbatim Powell quote which expressly establishes what this sentence asserts (by by characterization). <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:25, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* It's easiest if suggestions are in the form of "Change X to Y based on source Z". Otherwise we don't know what the "full verbatim Powell quote" you're referring to is (there is more than one), or what sources back up what you're saying. Levivich harass/hound 16:11, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* Here's a Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-plot-frame-michael-flynn-claims-lawyer-1503070 they use 'frame' in the article title, not "framed" like we do. Why? Because though Sidney is quoted as saying "So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately in part of their efforts to set him up and frame him.", she is not quoted as saying they accomplished that; she's quoted as saying they tried to frame him, which is a big difference. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* It would save keystrokes to just write "Change 'framed' to 'frame' per Newsweek". I do not think that change would be an improvement because it would be ungrammatical. Also Newsweek is not a generally reliable source post-2013 per WP:RSP. Levivich harass/hound 16:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* Very difficult these days, to see Powell in a neutral light. GoodDay (talk) 16:27, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* Perhaps you are correct in that, which is why we need to be that much more vigilant <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)
* There's nothing wrong with the contents o the article, if the sources describe her as a conspiracy theorist in regards to the Flynn stuff, then we follow suit. ValarianB (talk) 18:21, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* I'm going to hat this WP:FORUM stuff in a moment. Arguing over present versus past tense based on Newsweek, which is already questionable per WP:RSP, is silly. IHateAccounts (talk) 18:35, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
* Contrary to your assertion, the discussion was not about "Arguing over present versus past tense". Rather, it was whether or not, it's good editing to deliberately misquote a lawyer's precise words, when understanding those words is the linchpin to readers assigning meaning to the quote. What Powell did, per Newsweek (which quoted her accurately) is assert that certain actors tried to "frame" Flynn, which is her legal assessment and opinion. She did not assert that they "framed". Her assertion is that the steps they took towards the sneaky interview were "part of their efforts to set him up and frame him", but she did not assert that there has been a finding to that effect. Properly speaking, a conspiracy theorist is one who asserts something to be true, usually for off-kilter reasons, and contrary to the established factual conclusions. But there have not been any factual conclusions that Flynn was framed; and Powell does not assert that there have been. However, the DOJ did request that the charges be dropped, and there were internal findings from the DOJ which establish that there were genuine problems with the case, but the DOJ did not concede that Flynn was framed. And even WAPO admits that it was Flynn himself who claimed he was "framed" and that Powell, as his attorney, is making his argument for him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-defense-claims-without-offering-specifics-that-material-from-justice-department-review-includes-stunning-evidence-of-fbi-misconduct/2020/04/24/abafc742-8664-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html The point I'm making is that in our rush to paint Powell as a buffoon, we are glossing over important distinctions and are attributing things to Powell which, precisely speaking, are not her words. Also, according to NYT, the DOJ (under Barr, who is certainly no fan of Trump or Flynn) took this position when dismissing the case [the] Agents’ questioning “was untethered to, and unjustified by, the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/politics/michael-flynn-case-dropped.html And frankly, that concession by DOJ certainly supplies a reasonable foundation to the allegation that Flynn was "set-up". And if there's even a smidgen of truth to the allegation that Flynn was set-up, then it's fully reasonable for a zealous defense attorney to assert such. And by definition, reasonable behavior does not make one a "conspiracy theorist" . And this is why we need to avoid saying "framed" as if that word was a) Powell's verbatim word (it's not); rather than b) her client's defense (which it was; part of Flynn's defense, that is) <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:20, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Inadequate sourcing on caustic characterization ?
I believe that these sentences "Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories. She has claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert "deep state" operation,[5][10]" (see article, first two sentences of 4th paragraph) may violate WP:BLP. I say that because the claim "Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories" is not supported by the facts asserted in either of the two sources which are cited. Also, the Politico article is not reliable - it's chock full of accusatory invective, but very thin on facts; it's essentially an pastiche of various opinions, cobbled together to slime Powell. As for the Dallas News (it's behind a paywall, but I did read it), there are not even any quotes which purport to support the claim that Powell has "promoted numerous conspiracy theories". Rather, there is only a snide article title. I suggest we re-write the sentence to say "Powell has been characterized by some as a "conspiracy theorist". What are your thoughts on this? Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 05:05, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* I would recommend taking a skim through, where this was all discussed at great length. I will add that there are many more sources in this article that verify that she has promoted conspiracy theories; the two you quote are specifically referring to the "Flynn was framed by the deep state" conspiracy theory. GorillaWarfare (talk) 05:19, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* The sentence I take issue with is: "Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories". This sentence is not supported by any citation to a reliable source. And most specifically, we need a reliable source for the "numerous" qualifier. But to be clear: I am not claiming if numerous is true or not; but what I am saying is that we not have a reliable source which says that "numerous" is correct/factual/true. Rather, what I am saying is if we ourselves call what she did/did not do "numerous", without a citation, that's a WP:OR violation; and it's also a WP:BLP violation. The word numerous in this context adds pejorative weight and is clearly aimed at making her look like a kook. Such an editorial tone, if we are to take it (I think we should not) must be precisely cited on the exact accusation. But we have no citation to numerous and therefore, that word should be removed. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 13:47, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* Those tiny, bracketed numbers you see in the text are called citations, and they support the text in question. 1) Flynn framed, 2) QAnon, 3) "deep state", 4) alleged Dominion election fraud. so yes, "numerous" is quite on point for the collection of conspiracy claims. ValarianB (talk) 13:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* Thank you for making my point. Your summary of her actions is your summary and as such, calling that summary "numerous" without citation to a reliable source which calls her actions "numerous" is your original research. Are you an expert on what is/is no "numerous" when it comes to advancing "conspiracy theories"? Have you been published in a reliable source? Are we citing you? No, no, no. Thus, even of you are convinced that the things listed are aptly described as conspiracy theories, the quantity you list (or any quantity) cannot be called "numerous" absent a citation to a reliable source which says that's what it is; numerous. The sentence at issue makes a specific allegation ("Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories") which in and of itself must be cited to a reliable source, else it's a WP:OR violation - and it's also a WP:BLP violation. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 19:59, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* Arguing over how many conspiracies constitute "numerous" appears to be an exercise in pedantry to the point of absurdity. I'm reminded of a joke: "Is three a lot? Depends. A lot of macaroni noodles? Probably not. A lot of heart attacks? Yes." In the case of conspiracy theories, the number Powell has promoted is well above the norm for rational human beings, so it's safe to use the word "numerous." IHateAccounts (talk) 20:12, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* I agree with IHateAccounts and ValarianB here. The sourcing is more than adequate to say that she has "promoted numerous conspiracy theories". GorillaWarfare (talk) 20:24, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* I second that emotion. A bit of common sense should be used here. The content is backed up by multiple RS. -- Valjean (talk) 20:27, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* Thirded. It's the RS themselves that say it, e.g. The Independent, Politico , and NBC News . Levivich harass/hound 20:35, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* It's good to see that we're now actually talking about citations. However, Politico is not reliable, neither is independent.co.uk. But NBC is and if that's what we are going to cite, then the sentence in question and the citation needs to be changed to comport the NBC article... Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 20:40, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* All three are green at WP:RSP. Levivich harass/hound 20:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* Well cite on then - the current citations do not support the sentence in question Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 20:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* In response to the earlier comment...um, no, counting things is not original research. 4+ conspiracy theories is "numerous", by any reasonable speaker of the English language. As for Politico and the Independent, they are both listed at WP:RSP as reliable sources. Why do you claim otherwise? ValarianB (talk) 20:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
* No, merely counting is not; but the word "numerous" is a descriptor, not a number. If we have (let's say) 5 sources, all reliable, which each reliably tell us about a particular conspiracy theory which Ms. Powell advanced, then we can say "Ms. Powell has advanced at least 5 conspiracy theories". We can do this, because we are are not inventing a new fact. The number 5 is a fact, it exists on it's own and we show that, by linking to enough articles that a reader can add up to the number 5 from them. However, when we characterize that number as "numerous", now we are interjecting our own opinion as to the weight of the number. Myself, I think 10 or more conspiracy theories, all unfounded, all in a couple of years, might count as "numerous"; someone else, might think it's 3 or so. The original research is committed when we decide the threshold, when we make ourselves the arbiter of what should be considered "numerous" or not. Unless we are trying to say that every number is "numerous", then the effect of using that term is to suggest that the amount of theory-advancing Powell has done should be taken note of - that it's notable. But this is not an editorial decision; rather, we are setting a marker which we have no right to set. We need to find a reliable source which suggests that the number of theories advanced by Powell is sufficient that it's notable. If we fail to do that, we are indeed committing the WP violations I've listed above. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 02:37, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* There are no violations. You can move on from this now. ValarianB (talk) 13:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Just saying "There are no violations" does not address the points I raised. Please address the specifics of the alleged WP violations I referred to above. I read the policy pages, I think there are violations. Which is why I'm interested in your anlaysis, not your mere dismissal. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 16:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* The analysis already occurred above, and we're squarely in the "no" stage now, sorry. ValarianB (talk) 17:17, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* To my reading, your retorts have been more conclusory than explanatory (unless I missed something). But if I haven't, then this means you've not posted the elements of your analysis, so no, it's not occured yet. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:31, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
"According to a Justice Department official, the Justice Department was not consulted about the pardon"
I read the article linked as our citation. The article says it was an "anonymous" official who they quoted. Q: Is an article a reliable source if it quotes a anonymous "official"? And if yes, shouldn't we be including in our article the word "anonymous"? Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 12:46, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Yes, it is; your question represents a common misunderstanding about what an "anonymous sourcing" is. An anonymous source is simply one who, by agreement of source and journalist, does not wish to be publicly identified. The source is not anonymous to the journalist. ValarianB (talk) 13:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Not not at all. I know what the article claims; it claims the author consulted with a source, one which they claim wants to be anonymous. Now presuming that there actually is a source and the information is not fabricated, it still matters that we should mention that the source was anonymous. The cited article says the source was anonymous; so we should make sure we include that fact, that the source was anonymous. We do our readers a disservice if we omit the word "anonymous". Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 16:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* No, we don't. We trust reliable sources and their ability to properly vet sources, and we support their right, and in many cases their journalistic duty, to allow those sources to remain anonymous. We don't cast doubt on reliable sources by saying that they "claim" to have consulted with a source, and that they "claim" that the source wants to be anonymous. Reliable sources are, as the name might suggest, reliable. We do not second guess them, or seek to add language that insinuates otherwise. As stated above, the source is not anonymous to the journalist. To suggest, in Wikipedia's voice, that they were anonymous might imply, for instance, that the information comes from a truly anonymous source of unknown provenance. That is not the case. NonReproBlue (talk) 23:45, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* No, just wrong. If the RS says the source is anonymous, and it's a good enough source for us to cite to and quote from, then we ought to be including the full quote. Repeating a quote verbatim injects the least amount of Wiki "voice" into our article. True neutrality requires exactly that: verbatim quotes. Anything else, are we are editorializing by skewing the included information. The source is anonymous; the RS says it's anonymous; we ought to say it's anonymous. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 03:08, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Policy does not support your assertion. In fact, the manual of style directly states "It is generally recommended that content be written in Wikipedia editors' own words". Neutrality requires that we accurately summarise what reliable sources say, and the current statement does that. NonReproBlue (talk) 03:20, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* The operative word in your point is "accurately" and on that I agree. In fact, it's why we need to add the word "anonymous". Adding the word does not make the article less accurate, it makes it more accurate. You are arguing for a result (less accuracy) than your stated aim, which is accuracy. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:23, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* I already explained why that is not the case, and don't particularly feel like repeating myself. Given that, and the fact that multiple editors have disagreed with you, I think this discussion has reached its logical conclusion. NonReproBlue (talk) 00:33, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* Just commenting to say that NonReproBlue is correct here. GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:59, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
"ultimately lost four federal lawsuits"?
Is it accurate to say she "lost" a lawsuit for which there was no ruling on the merits? Seems to me, one only "loses" a lawsuit if there is an adverse ruling on the merits. A dismissal due to lack of standing or foreclosure for some other reason (laches, estoppel, etc), is not the same thing as losing on the merits. Do we have citations establishing that she "lost" cases? And for the number we claim? Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 05:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* The citations are in Sidney Powell. The lead summarizes the body of the article. Please see MOS:LEADCITE for questions about citations in the lead. Levivich harass/hound 06:02, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Well that's al well and good, but we are holding forth as true, a factual error; "lost four federal lawsuits". This is a factual error because she has not "lost" those suits, for the same reasons I stated above. Those cases were not heard on the merits; thus it's bad editing to say she "lost". It would be better to say "has so far, failed to prevail in four federal lawsuits". Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 12:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* No, your word salad is inappropriate (self-redacted -VB) . A loss is a loss, whether it comes after a lengthy trial or a dismissal on grounds. ValarianB (talk) 13:02, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Uh, wrong. A lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing is not "lost"; the exact same fact set, alleged by a plaintiff with standing, might be heard. On one of the cases we list, our article admits that that laches barred bringing the suit. Now whither that's a correct ruling or not, it certainly says that the case was not heard. And a case which was not heard, is not "lost"; the suit might have failed, but the case was not "lost". By saying "lost" you imply that the meat of the allegations were defeated. Also, please retract your personal attack. Likening my comment to "word salad is demeaning - and it makes me feel bad. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 16:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* Not wrong. A case was filed, a case was not successful. This is why the media frequently makes mention of Donald Trump (as well as associates and those who have filed like-minded lawsuits) being 1-65. Whether a case was dismissed for lack of standing or they actually ruled on the merits, it is chalked up as a loss by reliable sources. We place a greater weight on reliable sources tan your own opinion on the matter. ValarianB (talk) 17:20, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
Noting that now "Tondelleo" has gone to dishonestly edit warring on this talk page. IHateAccounts (talk) 16:33, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
* "HateAccounts"... what you just said about me is not true. I deleted your personal attack against me ("word salad"), and you then explained that I should not delete, but I should instead revert - which is also what you did. You reverted once and I reverted once. That's not an "edit war" Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
A loss is a loss. There is no difference between "failed to prevail" and "lost". That is what the word "lost" means. There are many ways to lose a lawsuit, and having it tossed for lack of standing or laches or any other reason has the same result. Furthermore, and most importantly, "lost" is in line with the way it is described in reliable sources, which say things such as "Sidney Powell saw swift defeat in two cases Monday". The only sources claiming that there is a meaningful difference between losing on the merits and losing because or standing or laches are, as far as I can tell, partisan sources that do not meet our standards of reliability. If you have reliable sources indicating otherwise I would be interested to see them. Also note that, as explained here, laches qualify as a judgement on the merits with regards to the requirements of res judicata. NonReproBlue (talk) 00:06, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Um, if you enter a horse into the Kentucky Deby and he's scracthed before the race due to a failed drug test, he did not "lose" the race. If you are stopped from boarding onto a flight, because you are on the do no fly list, you did not "lose" your seat; rather, you never took your seat. If you file at a court to sue another party, and you do not get past laches, you are foreclosed from suing due to a preceding time limit which does not speak to the factual allegations in your suit. You did not "lose" yopur case; rather, you were procedurally barred from presenting your case. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 03:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Can you present reliable sources supporting that argument? Any challenge to what reliable sources say must come from other reliable sources, not editors' opinions or analogies. NonReproBlue (talk) 03:29, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Read this: "https://www.adamsdrafting.com/what-does-prevailing-party-mean-2/". The writer is an expert on law, and he says this "For purposes hereof, prevailing party means the party in whose favor final judgment, after appeal (if any), is rendered with respect to the claims asserted in any such action or proceeding.". The emphasis is mine, but the point is the same as what I've been saying; absent a ruling on the merits, there is no prevailing party. Claims which do not reach the evidence stage, are not ruled-on on the merits. The claims Powell has brought, those which were blocked by procedure, have never been heard on the merits. Thus, she has "failed to prevail" but she did not "lose" the disputes over the merits issues, which is what our article suggests. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* You are devolving into Whataboutism now. We are specifically discussing court cases, not horses or passenger flights. ValarianB (talk) 13:25, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Not true. I am rebutting a false understanding of what the word "lost" means. For a contest to be "lost" there actually has to be a contest. In the airplane example, what was lost is the reservation, not the seat; they never took the seat, so the seat was not lost. In the horse race, the scratched horse was DQ'd; he never raced, so self-evidently, he did not lose the race. In court cases (litigation), if evidence is never presented, the dispute never reaches the contest phase. And if that's true, then res judicata does not apply. Only if res judicata applies, has a dispute been resolved with a loser and a winner. If a matter is not decided on the merits, it cannot be said that the case was "lost". Being barred from proceeding by laches, as some of the election cases have been, is not a decision on the merits. The same facts, argued by a party who can establish that the time constraints do not apply to them, might very well prevail. For example, in one of the major PA 2020 election lawsuits, the plaintiffs were barred from proceeding due to statutory proscribed time-limited litigation window. Thus the allegation that the statute in question is a PA state constitutional violation is not extinguished, even though original plaintiff was barred. In other words, the GOP actors in that litigation being deemed to have failed to meet the window, could not proceed. But another person, newly arrived in PA and discovering the alleged violation, likely could get a hearing. Why? Because they did not have prior notice of the window and you can't use statute to forever bar constitutional challenges. Eventually, always, for a constitutional challenge, someone must have standing; else the constitution in question is dead letter law, which it never can be. The point of this being, it's not so simple as you think it is and the word "lost" in regards to litigation, has a much more precise meaning than we are allowing for in our article. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 16:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* A whole lot of WP:OR that does not match what the WP:RS coverage says, and is thus completely meaningless. Please stop sealioning and filibustering at this discussion. IHateAccounts (talk) 17:05, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* To which I reply; this is the 2nd time now you have heaped ad hominem complaints against me, rather than evince that you seek to understand the distinction I am offering. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* If you would like to propose a change to the article, please suggest it in the format of Change X to Y based on source(s) Z. I.e., "change 'lost' to [whatever] based on source(s) Z". I recommend linking to more than one source Z, and make sure they're reliable sources, not listed as yellow or red at WP:RSP. Levivich harass/hound 17:06, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* I've offered one already, near the top of this thread. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:18, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* The suggested format is "Change X to Y based on source(s) Z". Levivich harass/hound 17:21, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* I'll see what I can do to find one which will satisfy the critics here, but I did post one above which clarifies this discussion. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 17:27, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* I don't understand your misunderstanding, but at no point in this discussion have you written anything along the lines of "Change X to Y per source Z". I know "X" is "lost", I have no idea what "Y" is, and if your source "Z" is the Adams on Contracts blog entry, that source (even assuming it qualifies as an expert-published WP:SPS, which it doesn't, because Adams is not a trial attorney and doesn't purport to be an expert on litigation) doesn't even address "lost" or dismissals, it addresses "prevailing party" as that term is used in certain boilerplate contract clauses, so it's not relevant to changing "lost". If you want to gain consensus for removing "lost" based on the argument that a plaintiff who has her case dismissed has not "lost" the case, then you'll want to find a source that actually says that, a source that actually uses the words "lost" and "dismissal". (By the way, you may want to learn about dismissals with prejudice and dismissals without prejudice, if you're going to argue about whether a dismissal is a loss.) Levivich harass/hound 17:33, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Levivich I understand just fine, so it's perhaps you who might want to shift your thinking. As for with/without prejudice, that's still not a matter of merits; that only means if something can be filed again (or not); it may have been withdrawn, it may have been procedurally blocked for a non-fatal reason, etc. And I disagree with your assessment of the source I cited; it's a terminology guide and it's very much sufficient for the purposes I've posted it. As for your false statement "but at no point in this discussion have you...", perhaps if you re-read this thread, you would see my suggestion, which is plain as day above. Instead of saying "ultimately lost four federal lawsuits", I suggested (and am trying to discuss) that we instead write ""has so far, failed to prevail in four federal lawsuits". Also, you do know that she's got several under appeal, yes? Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 21:26, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* OK, we're making progress! The suggested format is "Change X to Y based on sources Z". I'm glad we now have an "X" ("lost") and a "Y" ("so far, failed to prevail"), now all we need is that pesky "Z": reliable sources that say she "so far, failed to prevail". Levivich harass/hound 21:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* If she prevails, we will write that she has. But we do not speculate on what might happen with terms like "so far"—we just write what has happened, which is that she has lost her lawsuits (or "failed to prevail", which is a much more awkward and wordy way to say "lost"). I'm a little surprised to see people pushing for "failed to prevail" as somehow a softer version of "lost"—I don't think writing that she has "failed" is kinder at all. GorillaWarfare (talk) 21:42, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Are you unaware of the fact that at least (2) of the casdes she is involved in have not reached the end of the line, they are not over? See |this and |this. And if they are still active cases, she has not "lost" them. Would you at least agree that this is true, that a case which is not over, has not been "lost"? If there are extant cases of hers which do not yet have a final disposition (and there are), then it's far more truthful to say "has so far, failed to prevail". Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 03:57, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* So what you're saying is change "lost" to "has so far, failed to prevail" based on? Levivich harass/hound 04:27, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* If I understand you correctly; yes, that's what I am suggesting. Or, we could also get some better citations, if mine are not sufficient Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 14:33, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* The problem isn't so much the sources, it's that they don't say "failed to prevail". A bigger problem is that you're engaged in "backwards editing": you have something you want the article to say (failed to prevail, or didn't lose yet, or whatever), and you're looking for sources that say it. That's the wrong way to go about it. "Forwards editing", aka the right way, is to first look at what the sources say, and then summarize them, with no preconceived notion about what the article should say, and not looking for sources that say what we think the article should say. The sources say the cases were dismissed, and two are on appeal, e.g. . FWIW I'd be fine with changing the lead to say "dismissed" instead of "lost" (dismissed is more specific) and to say that two of the cases are pending appeal (which is already in the body). Levivich harass/hound 16:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* Forwards editing: "I was reading source Z, and it doesn't say X, it says Y, so we should change X to Y."
* Backwards editing: "I think X is wrong, it should be Y, let me go find a source Z that backs me up..." Levivich harass/hound 16:42, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* Both of those sources seem to be discussing appeals. Appeals are attempts to overturn a loss, and are filed by the losing party. Nothing about her filing an appeal would mean that she had not previous lost. In fact, by definition, she must have lost in order to appeal. Unlike the unrelated analogies to horse racing and plane seating, this one is part of the actual definition of the legal term. "Appeal – A request made after a trial by a party that has lost". The fact that she is appealing is itself proof that "lost" is the correct phrasing. NonReproBlue (talk) 10:52, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* It's only the correct phrasing if we want to confuse our readers, which evidently some here are ok with. How so? Because the case is not over until the appeals are over. Thus the case is itself is not lost. A loss while the case is still alive is not final, until appeals are exhausted. Thus, a case is not "lost" until all possible losses take place. What you are evidently confused about is the plain fact that it can easily take multiple losses before a case is lost, depending on appeals. So, per your own admission, two of those cases are not yet "lost". My suggested phrasing is both legally and semantically correct; yours is not. Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 14:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* TBH, there's only one confused reader here. The arguments have been exhausted on this particular topic, as there does not appear to be consensus for this proposal. ValarianB (talk) 15:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
* Tondelleo Schwarzkopf, I count 4 editors who have disagreed with you, and none who seem to think your suggestions have any merit. I suppose, counting myself, it's 5. Time to WP:DROPTHESTICK. --JBL (talk) 15:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Addition to the opening sentence.
Clearly there has been a lot of back and forth with this article and the lead so I wanted to get feedback before making any edits. I think her work on the Enron defense and defense of Michall Flynn should be added to the opening sentence.
* ''Sidney Katherine Powell (born 1955)[1] is an American attorney and former federal prosecutor, best known for her defense of Enron executives, defense of Gen Michael Flynn and promotion of conspiracy theories in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
While she certainly is best know for the election related things, she was known prior to that. Springee (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
* I would say that while she's well known for the Enron and Flynn cases, those aren't what she's best known for—which are her 2020 election-related activities, like you mention. So I think having Enron and Flynn in the very next paragraph, and keeping the first sentence about the 2020 election, is the right amount of prominence in the lead for each. DanCherek (talk) 18:38, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
* What about removing "best". This one sentence shows up in Google searches so it's private best to be a bit more including on its content. Springee (talk) 14:44, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
* I suggest "well known for her defense of... and more recently her defense of..." Tondelleo Schwarzkopf (talk) 15:35, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
* I would support just using "known for" rather than "best" or "well known", regardless of whether Enron/Flynn is added. It is hard to firmly establish precisely what someone is best known for, whereas determining what someone is known for is fairly straightforward. GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:12, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
I think it's fine as it is. The relative importance of her prior work is appropriately covered in the 2nd graf. soibangla (talk) 01:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Should this be included?
I was about to add this bold part, but I thought I'd run it by others first. This is her BLP, but this broader context is important.
Incidentally, note the Q on her vest: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1399786885472571392
soibangla (talk) 00:19, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 26 August 2021
remove "in order to undermine public confidence in the democratic process". There is no evidence that was her motive, intention, or objective. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:57, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
* Judge Parker: the case "was about undermining the people’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so." soibangla (talk) 19:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:04, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Proof reading
It looks as if some clumsy editing left a superfluous "filed" lying around... "... namely filing filed baseless, frivolous lawsuits"
* ✅ soibangla (talk) 13:31, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Image Quality
Are there any higher quality photos of Powell in the public domain? This has a screenshot of a YouTube video and probably doesn't fit MOS:IMAGEQUALITY... <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
Smartmatic allegations against Powell
The article correctly states that "In March 2022 a New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed the Smartmatic allegations against Powell." But the linked articled states that ..."judge said an alleged misstatement by Pirro was not defamatory, and he lacked jurisdiction over claims against Powell." so it seems to me that adding ("citing lack of jurisdiction over claims against Powell") would be more appropriate. I can't edit the page, but someone else might be. Jabaxu (talk) 17:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
* Please make an "edit request" for the text you propose. The documentation is at this link SPECIFICO talk 18:32, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
It’s still 2023!
October 19 2023 - not 2024. Please make a correction. Dezz777 (talk) 15:11, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
* by Eve rgr een Fir (talk) 15:36, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 27 August 2023
She “allegedly” attempted to overturn the 2020 election. She’s presumed innocent until proven guilty <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:25, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
* Her actions are undeniable. Whether or not those actions will result in criminal culpability is a separate matter. Zaathras (talk) 21:32, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
* So she's still not guilty. Take off "conspiracy theorist" unless you intend to give proof every 2020 election had no errors. 2600:387:15:1D13:0:0:0:B (talk) 08:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derthnog
Derthnog
This is a joke of some sort; I'm confused. Maybe it's patent nonsense, though it does at least use complete sentences. Anyway, it doesn't belong here. Cdc 07:31, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Delete: Looks like nonsense to me. DCEdwards1966 07:59, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
* Delete. Sound like a RPG creature. --Wikimol 14:44, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Delete. Obvious joke, and a classic case of something that shouldn't need to stay on VfD for the full five days, but does under current policy. Andrewa 16:46, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Delete. I agree that it should be speedied. Only one hit on Google. Guess where. --LeeHunter 17:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Speedy Delete, it does qualify as vandalism- prank or hoax. Wyss 18:42, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* No, it does not. We don't have a policy to speedy delete pranks and hoaxes. --Wikimol 00:10, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Yes we do, they're included in the definition of vandalism. Wyss 03:50, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* No, but I would argue we have a de facto policy to speedy delete Derthnog, and only Derthnog. Nobody in the whole wide world would argue otherwise, solely on the merits of the article itself. Show me such a person, and I'll show you a straw man. To all the admins out there who are CSDing utter nonsense like this without even feeling guilty they're not burdening VfD enough: good for you. "Policy" is not just a bunch of words written on a page somewhere, it's made by us. Policy may not be able to include common sense, but flesh and blood people can, and should, where appropriate. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind". And that's all I have to say on that. <IP_ADDRESS> 23:59, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Delete. And for heaven's sake, stop humping wolves. --fvw * 08:06, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)
* Kids, please don't use the photoshop software while on drugs. Delete. Edeans 05:45, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Looks like Windows PBRUSH.EXE to me. And delete, of course. —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 08:28, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
* Speed deleted as silly vandalism. See: Vandalism. Wile E. Heresiarch 22:49, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) | WIKI |
Bonas (disambiguation)
Bonas is in France.
Bonas may also refer to:
* Bonäs, Sweden
Surname
* Clive Bonas
* Cressida Bonas | WIKI |
Korg PS-3300
The Korg PS-3300 is a polyphonic analog synthesizer released by Korg in 1977. It was released alongside the PS-3100, a more compact variant featuring a complete synthesizer voice board for each of its 48 keyboard notes. The PS-3300 essentially combines three PS-3100 units, triggering all voices simultaneously with each key press and mirroring the PS-3100's overall design, featuring a total of 144 synth voices. The PS-3300 uses the PS-3010, a detachable keyboard equipped with an assignable joystick called the X-Y Manipulator.
The PS series also includes the PS-3200, launched in 1978, which upgrades to two voices per key and introduces the capability to save and recall 16 presets. The PS-3200 also substitutes the resonators found in the PS-3100 and PS-3300 with a 7-band equalizer.
Background
At the time the PS-series synthesizers were released, creating polyphonic synthesizers posed significant difficulties for manufacturers. Truly polyphonic instruments, such as the Polymoog, Yamaha CS-80, and Oberheim's SEM-based four- and eight-voice systems, were scarce and in some instances, not fully polyphonic. The construction of synthesizers from expensive discrete components, rather than more accessible oscillator and filter chips, made polyphonic instruments not only costly but also lacking in features.
In 1977, Keio Electronic (now known as Korg) introduced the PS-3100 and PS-3300 polyphonic synthesizers, which had been developed over several years by Korg engineer Fumio Mieda. The PS-3100 was the smaller model and employed a 'divide-down' oscillator architecture, previously utilized in Keio's Polyphonic Ensemble synthesizers, but with significant enhancements. Each note across its 48-note keyboard featured an individual filter, envelope, and amplifier, allowing for simultaneous playing of all keys. It featured a comprehensive selection of modules, an ensemble effect, and a patch panel with 32 inputs and outputs for flexible sound routing.
The PS-3300 essentially comprised three PS-3100 units, providing three independent oscillators, filters, envelopes, and amplifiers for every note. The three modules can be individually adjusted and then mixed at the final output to create multitimbral sounds. It boasted over 60 patch points and included additional features such as sample & hold, a global envelope generator, two voltage processors, independent channel outputs, and mixers for its three synth sections. The PS-3300 did not feature the ensemble effect from the PS-3100. Bob Moog praised the PS-3300 as "the best synthesizer for fat sounds".
Sounds and features
The layout of the front panel clearly shows the modular origins of the Korg PS-3300; oscillators, filters and envelopes are all arranged in vertical narrow strips, much like the front panel of the Moog modular synthesizer, with patch points at the bottom of each strip. The PS synths are semi-modular so no patching is required to start playing. The Korg PS-3300 is three complete synthesizer units in one box, where each synthesizer unit is almost identical to the smaller Korg PS-3100 and is labelled as "PSU-3301" on the front panel.
Each PSU-3301 features a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that offers triangle, pulse, square, pulse-width modulation (PWM), and sawtooth waveforms, with pitch modulation provided by a low-frequency oscillator (LFO). A patch panel socket permits pitch control from the envelopes or other voltage sources. The low-pass voltage-controlled filter (VCF) features cutoff frequency and resonance controls, allowing modulation from both the LFO and the envelope. Keyboard tracking for the VCF frequency and voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) gain can be adjusted across the keyboard, allowing for emphasizing keyboard sections.
Each PSU-3301 unit is equipped with an envelope modifier with controls for attack, decay, and sustain stages. The release time can be set to damped (no release), half-damped, or set to 'release', where the duration matches the setting of the decay knob, similar to the Minimoog envelope functionality. The PS-series synthesizers each include a single 'general' envelope generator that is shared between all notes. This DAR (delay/attack/release) envelope is primarily connected to the VCF cutoff but can be rerouted to alternate destinations using a patch cable.
Each PSU-3301 module incorporates a three-peak voltage-controllable resonator capable of enhancing frequency bands between 100Hz and 10kHz, complete with adjustable bandwidth and frequency controls. This functionality can produce more authentic synthesized 'acoustic' instrument sounds. Additionally, it allows for the modulation of frequency sweeps either manually or through an LFO, envelope, or another modulation source to create vowel and phasing sounds.
Each PS synthesizer features a temperament adjust section with 12 knobs, corresponding to the chromatic scale notes from C to B, allowing the user to independently tune each keyboard note to facilitate the creation of alternative scales.
The PSU-3302 module, located on the far right of the PS-3300, serves as both a mixer and modulation unit, combining audio from the three PSU-3301 modules into a single output channel with dedicated volume controls for both line and headphone outputs. This module also includes three external inputs for integrating effects loops or additional sound sources. Control voltages from an LFO or envelope can modulate the mixed level.
The modulation section of the PSU-3302 features an auxiliary envelope generator with delay and three separate outputs: a standard CV signal, an inverted version, and a voltage offset version. There is also a sample & hold (S&H) module with an adjustable clock frequency, two control voltage processors, and connections for the keyboard and an optional foot controller.
Accessories
The PS series offered several accessories, including the PS-3010 polyphonic keyboard with remote control features, the PS-3040 dual foot-controller pedal for live performances, the PS-3050 48-pin junction box for connecting multiple PS synths, and the PS-3060 remote control programmer for the PS-3200. Additionally, the 60-pin PS-3001 cable facilitated the connection of up to three Korg PS series synthesizers to one keyboard through the PS-3050 junction box, enabling centralized control.
Legacy
Yasuhiko Mori, a designer at Korg, estimates that only 30 to 50 units of the PS-3300 were produced due to its high cost, which was prohibitive for many musicians. In contrast, approximately 300 to 600 units of the PS-3100 were manufactured.
The PS synthesizers quickly became overshadowed by the release of the Sequential Prophet-5 in 1978. Despite the PS series' superior polyphony and routing flexibility, the Prophet 5's digital patch storage was seen as a groundbreaking feature. Nevertheless, the technological advancements from the PS series were integrated into the Korg MS-20 monophonic synthesizer, also launched in 1978. The PS series ceased production by 1981, leading Korg to focus on developing more conventional polysynths, such as the Polysix, Poly-61, and DW synthesizers.
Modern variants
In 2017, Full Bucket Music released a free software emulation of the PS-3300 polyphonic synthesizer, available in VST and AU formats.
In October 2023, Cherry Audio released a software emulation of the PS-3300, created with the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project (EMEAPP). It comes with AU, VST, VST3, AAX and standalone formats and extends the original features by adding PS- or MS-style filter selection, tempo sync, temperament tuning presets and an effects section.
In 2024, Korg announced plans to release a hardware reissue of the PS-3300, dubbed the PS-3300 FS. This reissue incorporates digital patch storage with 16 banks, each containing 16 slots, USB and MIDI connectivity, and a librarian application for preset organization. The updated model will feature 49 keys and 49-voice analog polyphony, up from the original's 48.
Galleries
* Korg PS-3300 Gallery to accompany this article
* Korg PS synthesizers user manuals and information at synthfool.com
* Korg PS-3300 at Secretlifeofsynthesizers.com
* A Korg PS-3300, this is the early model with metal ring knobs
* Korg PS-3300 pictures at sequencer.de
* Klaus Schulze's Korg PS-3300 | WIKI |
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Date of Award
1-1-2013
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Mathematics
First Advisor
Jerrold Griggs
Abstract
Sperner's Theorem is a well known theorem in extremal set theory that gives the size of the largest antichain in the poset that is the Boolean lattice. This is equivalent to finding the largest family of subsets of an $n$-set, $[n]:=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, such that the family is constructed from pairwise unrelated copies of the single element poset. For a poset $P$, we are interested in maximizing the size of a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n]$, where each maximally connected component of $\mathcal{F}$ is a copy of $P$, and finding the extreme configurations that achieve this value. For instance, Sperner showed that when $P$ is one element, $\dbinom{n}{\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\rfloor}$ is the maximum number of copies of $P$ and that this is only achieved by taking subsets of a middle size. Griggs, Stahl, and Trotter have shown that when $P$ is a chain on $k$ elements, $\dfrac{1}{2^{k-1}}\dbinom{n}{\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\rfloor}$ is asymptotically the maximum number of copies of $P$. We find the extreme families for a packing of chains, answering a conjecture of Griggs, Stahl, and Trotter, as well as finding the extreme packings of certain other posets. For the general poset $P$, we prove that the maximum number of unrelated copies of $P$ is asymptotic to a constant times $\dbinom{n}{\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\rfloor}$. Moreover, the constant has the form $\dfrac{1}{c(P)}$, where $c(P)$ is the size of the smallest convex closure over all embeddings of $P$ into the Boolean lattice. Sperner's Theorem has been generalized by looking for $\operatorname{La}(n,P)$, the size of a largest family of subsets of an $n$-set that does not contain a general poset $P$ in the family. We look at this generalization, exploring different techniques for finding an upper bound on $\operatorname{La}(n,P)$, where $P$ is the diamond. We also find all the families that achieve $\operatorname{La}(n,\{\mathcal{V},\Lambda\})$, the size of the largest family of subsets that do not contain either of the posets $\mathcal{V}$ or $\Lambda$. We also consider another generalization of Sperner's theorem, supersaturation, where we find how many copies of $P$ are in a family of a fixed size larger than $\operatorname{La}(n,P)$. We seek families of subsets of an $n$-set of given size that contain the fewest $k$-chains. Erd\H{o}s showed that a largest $k$-chain-free family in the Boolean lattice is formed by taking all subsets of the $(k-1)$ middle sizes. Our result implies that by taking this family together with $x$ subsets of the $k$-th middle size, we obtain a family with the minimum number of $k$-chains, over all families of this size. We prove our result using the symmetric chain decomposition method of de Bruijn, van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen, and Kruyswijk (1951).
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# サービスを無効にする
sudo svc -d /service/* && sudo svc -x /service/* && sudo rm /service/*
• supevisor
http://supervisord.org/
# インストール
sudo yum -y install supervisor
# supervisor 起動
sudo systemctl start supervisord.service
sudo systemctl status supervisord.service
sudo systemctl enable supervisord.service
# サービスの設定
sudo tee /etc/supervisord.d/app.ini <<EOS
[program:w1]
command=/vagrant/w1.sh
process_name=%(program_name)s-%(process_num)d
numprocs=2
autostart=false
[program:w2]
command=/vagrant/w2.sh
process_name=%(program_name)s-%(process_num)d
numprocs=3
autostart=false
EOS
# 反映
sudo supervisorctl update
# サービスの開始
sudo supervisorctl start all
# サービスの再起動
sudo supervisorctl restart all
# サービスの停止
sudo supervisorctl stop all
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$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
#サービスの再読み込みをする。
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
# サービスをスタート
$ sudo systemctl start sampled
# 動いているか確認
$ systemctl status sampled
# システム起動時に自動的に実行させる
$ sudo systemctl enable sampled
#起動時に実行する設定が有効かチェックする
$ systemctl is-enabled sampled
# 起動時に実行する設定を取り消す
$ systemctl disable sampled
$ cd /etc/systemd/system/
$ sudo vim sampled.service
iniファイルにて設定とかの流れ。
[Unit]
Description=Sample Daemon
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/lib/sampled.py
Restart=always
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/sampled.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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systemctlでdjangoを自動起動する – あれは、魔法だろうか？
DjangoをHerokuで実装するときにチェック
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AWSでelasticsearchとkibanaをinstall
そもそもAWSのポートが空いてなかった。
$ netstat -na | grep LISTEN
...
tcp 0 0 ::1:9200 :::* LISTEN
...
## elasticsearch install
$ curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf elasticsearch-5.6.0.tar.gz
$ cd elasticsearch-5.6.0/bin
$ ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" ./bin/elasticsearch
## $ vim config/jvm.optionsでいじってもいいかも
$ curl -O "https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-5.6.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
$ tar -xvzf kibana-5.6.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ cd kibana-5.6.0-linux-x86_64
$ vim config/kibana.yml
# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601
# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
$ ./bin/kibana &
## logstash install
$ curl -O "https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-5.6.0.tar.gz"
$ tar -xvzf logstash-5.6.0.tar.gz
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Python3.6の仮想環境作成について
python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
でいけるらしい。
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Elasticsearchを用いて、kibanaで分析する
ElasticSearchで分析するやり方があるらしい。
データの投入はSparkを使ったりするっぽいよ。
$ ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" ./bin/elasticsearch
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楽しい可視化 ： elasticsearchとSpark Streamingの出会い | NTTデータ先端技術株式会社
PostgreSQLのCentOS7での立ち上げ方やコマンドなどの便利なサイト＋自動インストール
DjangoではPostgreが推奨のDBMSらしいよ。
www.digitalocean.com
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#!/bin/sh
# -*- MAINTAINER -*- Lasha Gogua Lh4cKg@gmail.com
# -*- RUN -*- $ bash install.sh
# system update and install epel package
yum update -y && yum upgrade -y
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
yum update -y && yum upgrade -y
sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config
# install gcc package and other necessary packages
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo /etc/localtime
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'Performance Tools' -y
yum install -y openssl-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel tk-devel ncurses-devel libaio-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk zsh
yum install -y atlas-devel lapack-devel blas-devel
yum install vim -y
yum install mc -y
# install mysql
#wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
#rpm -ivh mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
#yum update -y && yum upgrade -y
#yum install mysql-server mysql-devel -y
#systemctl start mysqld.service
#systemctl enable mysqld.service
#mysql_secure_installation
# install postgres
yum install postgresql-server postgresql-devel postgresql-contrib -y
postgresql-setup initdb
# use md5 insted of ident
# vim /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
mv -f pg_hba.conf /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
systemctl start postgresql
systemctl enable postgresql
# install nginx
yum install nginx -y
mv -f nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
systemctl start nginx
systemctl enable nginx
systemctl restart nginx
# required libraries for Python installation
yum install libjpeg libjpeg-devel -y
yum install freetype-devel libpng-devel -y
yum install zlib zlib-devel -y
yum install krb5-devel -y
yum install openssl openssl-devel -y
yum install libffi libffi-devel -y
yum install gmp gmp-devel -y
# install Python.3.6 version
# example: 3.6.1 = 3.3.6 => Python.3.3.6 or 3.6.1=2.7.11 => Python.2.7.11
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/3.6.1/Python-3.6.1.tgz
tar -xvf Python-3.6.1.tgz
mv -f Python-3.6.1 /opt/ && cd /opt/Python-3.6.1
./configure
make && make altinstall
cd
# install pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
# use Python version | python3.3 or python
python3.6 get-pip.py
pip3.6 install uwsgi
pip3.6 install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
workonの設定は以下 kidnohr.hatenadiary.com
gist.github.com
リスト内包表記(IFあり)
リスト内包表記ってっこんな感じ。
[（処理１）if （条件式） else （処理2for 仮引数 in （リストオブジェクト）]
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Luigi Nicola Riserbato
Luigi Nicola Riserbato (born 18 September 1969 in Matera) is an Italian politician.
Biography
He graduated at the University of Bari and works as a lawyer in the city of Trani, Apulia.
He ran for Mayor of Trani at the 2012 Italian local elections, leading a centre-right coalition. He won and took office on 26 May 2012. He was suspended from office on 22 January 2015 after being charged for fraud, extortion and criminal association. The trial has begun on 27 June 2019. | WIKI |
-- Boeing Wins $1.2 Billion Satellite Order From Maritime Provider Inmarsat
Inmarsat Plc , the biggest provider of
satellite services to the maritime industry, posted a 56 percent
increase in first-half profit and placed a $1.2 billion order
with Boeing Co. for three satellites.
Profit before tax rose to $151.8 million from $97 million a
year earlier, the London-based company said in a statement
today. Revenue climbed 12 percent to $570.7 million. Inmarsat
proposed an interim dividend of 14 cents, up 10 percent and said
it was “confident” about sustaining 10 percent dividend growth
for from 2010 to 2012.
“Our first-half performance continues to show the
profitable growth in the markets we serve,” Chief Executive
Officer Andrew Sukawaty said in the statement. “We are well-
positioned to deliver our growth objectives for the year.”
Inmarsat is benefitting from demand for data services from
commercial and government customers. It has expanded broadband
to all the countries it serves and offers voice services via
handheld satellite phones.
Maritime revenue gained less than 1 percent to $177.7
million as revenue growth was restrained by “the challenging
economic climate in shipping” in the first six months, the
company said. The three months through June still represented a
“record quarter” for maritime sales, Sukawaty said in a
telephone interview today.
Inmarsat gained 28.5 pence, or 4 percent, to 741.5 pence at
4:35 p.m. local time on the London Stock Exchange. The shares
have gained 7.2 percent this year.
“We remain confident the future will be a good one for our
maritime business,” the CEO said.
Global Broadband
Sales at the aeronautical and land mobile businesses gained
40 percent and 14 percent respectively. Voice services declined
while data business increased as clients substituted e-mails for
phone calls, the CEO said.
The new Ka-band satellites Inmarsat is purchasing from
Boeing, expected to start operations in 2014, will support
Inmarsat’s Global Express high-speed mobile broadband services.
Inmarsat is targeting $500 million annual revenue from Ka-band
offerings, which have frequencies from about 18 gigahertz to
about 21 gigahertz, five years after the start of the services.
“We will be the first operator to offer global mobile
broadband coverage,” the CEO said. The company will have
“unparalleled speeds and bandwidth to customers in remote
locations around the world.”
Boeing Buys Capacity
Under a separate arrangement, Boeing has agreed to become a
distribution partner for both Inmarsat ’s Ka- and L-band
services, which have frequencies of about 2 gigahertz or less.
Boeing has pre-committed to capacity purchases representing more
than 10 percent of Inmarsat’s target Ka-band revenue in the
first five years after global service launch.
Under the distribution arrangement, Boeing will supply Ka-
band satellite frequencies to the U.S. military, Craig Cooning ,
the Chicago-based company’s vice president and general manager
for space and intelligence systems, said on a conference call
today. The U.S. Defense Department relies on commercial
satellite services for 80 percent of its needs, Cooning said.
The Pentagon’s demand for commercial satellite services may
increase as much as 300 percent from current levels by 2020,
Sukawaty said.
Inmarsat estimates that the total cost of Inmarsat-5 and
Global Xpress will be $1.2 billion over 4.5 years, incorporating
the fixed cost of the satellites, as well as the cost of
additional ground network infrastructure, product development,
launch services and insurance.
Inmarsat aims to fill the capacity of the new satellites
with traffic from defense, maritime, air, oil and gas clients.
The company will focus on government and business customers as
it doesn’t plan to tap the consumer market, the CEO said.
U.S. Ex-Im Bank
Inmarsat expects a “substantial part of the funding” to
come from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which helps finance the
sale of U.S. goods and services internationally, Chief Financial
Officer Rick Medlock said in an interview. The bank may provide
about $500 million of debt “at very good conditions,” he said.
Inmarsat will also fund the investment with its balance
sheet as the company predicts it will “keep generating lots of
cash” in coming years, the CFO said. Medlock ruled out selling
new shares to raise funds.
The company revised its capital expenditure forecast for
2010 to $240 million to $250 million.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Chiara Remondini in Milan at
cremondini@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Article
Obesity-related Changes in High-density Lipoprotein Metabolism
Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Obesity (Impact Factor: 3.73). 07/2008; 16(6):1152-60. DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.202
Source: PubMed
ABSTRACT
Obesity is associated with a 3-or-more-fold increase in the risk of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction (1,2,3,4,5,6). The American Heart Association has reclassified obesity as a major, modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease (7). The increased prevalence of premature coronary heart disease in obesity is attributed to multiple factors (8,9,10). A principal contributor to this serious morbidity is the alterations in plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels. The dyslipidemia of obesity is commonly manifested as high plasma triglyceride levels, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc), and normal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc) with preponderance of small dense LDL particles (7,8,9,10). However, there is a considerable heterogeneity of plasma lipid profile in overweight and obese people. The precise cause of this heterogeneity is not entirely clear but has been partly attributed to the degree of visceral adiposity and insulin resistance. The emergence of glucose intolerance or a genetic predisposition to familial combined hyperlipidemia will further modify the plasma lipid phenotype in obese people (11,12,13,14,15).
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• "Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with metabolic syndrome (MetS) [1]. Cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVR) include an excess of body fat, promoting dyslipidemia, with reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) and increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) [2]. A low level of HDL is regarded as a sensitive discriminator of atherogenicity and is one among the five criteria selected by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) to characterize MetS [3]. "
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ABSTRACT: We aimed to comprehensively evaluate lipoprotein profile including lipid particle size following a lifestyle intervention in metabolic syndrome (MetS) volunteers and to assess the associations between lipoprotein subfractions and carotid-intima-media-thickness (CIMT) – a surrogate indicator of atherogenesis. 100 participants (50–70 years) from the RESOLVE trial, underwent a one-year follow-up beginning with a three-week residential program combining high exercise volume (15-20 h/week), restrictive diet (-500 kcal/day), and education. For baseline references, 40 aged-matched healthy controls were recruited. Independent associations between subfractions of lipoproteins and CIMT were evaluated using a generalized estimating equations model accounting for variation in correlations between repeated measures. The lipoprotein subfractions profile was assessed using Lipoprint® electrophoresis allowing to separate: the very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) fraction, then the intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL) C, B and A, the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) with subfractions 1 and 2 as large LDL and subfractions 3 to 7 as small dense LDL (sdLDL), and the high density lipoprotein (HDL) subfractions categorized into large, intermediate, and small HDL. Apolipoproteins A1 and B were also measured. 78 participants completed the program. At baseline, apolipoproteins B/A1, VLDL, sdLDL and small HDL were higher in MetS than in healthy controls; IDL, LDL size, large and intermediate HDL were lower. Despite time-related regains during the follow-up, lipoprotein subfractions traditionally involved in cardiovascular risk, such as sdLDL, improved immediately after the residential program with values closest to those of healthy controls. CIMT improved throughout the lifestyle intervention. Using a generalized estimating equations model, none of the subfractions of lipoproteins nor apolipoproteins were linked to CIMT. Lipoprotein subfractions traditionally involved in CVR, decreased after the 3-week residential program. During a 12 month follow-up, the time-related regains remained closer to the values of healthy controls than they were at baseline. CIMT improved throughout the lifestyle intervention. However, we failed to demonstrate a link between some lipoprotein subfractions and the atherogenicity directly measured from the wall thickness of arteries (CIMT). Further investigations are required to explore the atherogenicity of lipoprotein subfractions. Trial registration NCT00917917
Lipids in Health and Disease 07/2014; 13(1). DOI:10.1186/1476-511X-13-112 · 2.22 Impact Factor
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• "HDLc is cardioprotective due to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and scavenging properties (Mooradian et al., 2008). HDLc has a complex metabolism, and elevated levels must be interpreted in context with the overall lipid profile (Mooradian et al., 2008). To our knowledge there has been no reported involvement of the orexin system in HDLc processing; the mechanism by which ACT-335827 affects HDLc metabolism warrants further examination. "
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ABSTRACT: The orexin system regulates feeding, nutrient metabolism and energy homeostasis. Acute pharmacological blockade of orexin receptor 1 (OXR-1) in rodents induces satiety and reduces normal and palatable food intake. Genetic OXR-1 deletion in mice improves hyperglycemia under high-fat (HF) diet conditions. Here we investigated the effects of chronic treatment with the novel selective OXR-1 antagonist ACT-335827 in a rat model of diet-induced obesity (DIO) associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Rats were fed either standard chow (SC) or a cafeteria (CAF) diet comprised of intermittent human snacks and a constant free choice between a HF/sweet (HF/S) diet and SC for 13 weeks. Thereafter the SC group was treated with vehicle (for 4 weeks) and the CAF group was divided into a vehicle and an ACT-335827 treatment group. Energy and water intake, food preference, and indicators of MetS (abdominal obesity, glucose homeostasis, plasma lipids, and blood pressure) were monitored. Hippocampus-dependent memory, which can be impaired by DIO, was assessed. CAF diet fed rats treated with ACT-335827 consumed less of the HF/S diet and more of the SC, but did not change their snack or total kcal intake compared to vehicle-treated rats. ACT-335827 increased water intake and the high-density lipoprotein associated cholesterol proportion of total circulating cholesterol. ACT-335827 slightly increased body weight gain (4% vs. controls) and feed efficiency in the absence of hyperphagia. These effects were not associated with significant changes in the elevated fasting glucose and triglyceride (TG) plasma levels, glucose intolerance, elevated blood pressure, and adiposity due to CAF diet consumption. Neither CAF diet consumption alone nor ACT-335827 affected memory. In conclusion, the main metabolic characteristics associated with DIO and MetS in rats remained unaffected by chronic ACT-335827 treatment, suggesting that pharmacological OXR-1 blockade has minimal impact in this model.
Frontiers in Pharmacology 12/2013; 4:165. DOI:10.3389/fphar.2013.00165 · 3.80 Impact Factor
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• "On the other hand, some key enzymes involved in HDL metabolism, such as CETP, LCAT, hepatic lipase(HL) and protein phospholipid transfer protein(PLTP), are changed in obese people with insulin resistance, promoting this process [28]. What's more, the increased plasma clearance of apoA-I and downregulation of its production also offer some contributions to the reduction of HDL-C [29]. In spite of these interpretations, there is no consolidated explanation for the association between obesity and decreased HDL-C levels. "
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ABSTRACT: Obesity, a significant risk factor for various chronic diseases, is universally related to dyslipidemia mainly represented by decreasing high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), which plays an indispensible role in development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the mechanisms underlying obesity and low HDL-C have not been fully elucidated. Previous studies have focused on the alteration of HDL catabolism in circulation following elevated triglyceride (TG). But recent findings suggested that liver and fat tissue played pivotal role in obesity related low HDL-C. Some new molecular pathways like microRNA have also been proposed in the regulation of HDL metabolism in obesity. This article will review recent advances in understanding of the potential mechanism of low HDL-C in obesity.
Lipids in Health and Disease 10/2011; 10(1):176. DOI:10.1186/1476-511X-10-176 · 2.22 Impact Factor
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Infinite loop
I am stumped. Can anyone tell me why this code goes into an infite loop and just keeps running and running. Using MSSQL. The idea is that it updates rows, in chunks, of a very large table ~ approx 32M rows. If I run this and stop it, the # of rows affected (when adding all the 250000 up) is greater than the total number of rows in the table. Only a small fraction of them are actually updated then too as it turns out.
set nocount off
set rowCount 250000
declare @LastUpdated int
While 1=1 begin
Begin Transaction
Update [table] set [column1] = null where [column1] = 0
SET @LastUpdated = @@rowCount
COMMIT
if @LastUpdated = 0 break
end
set rowCount 0
Pulling my hair out...
ccleebeltAsked:
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Jim P.Connect With a Mentor Commented:
Try this:
set nocount off
declare @LastUpdated as integer
While 1=1 begin
Begin Transaction
Update top (50000) [table] set [column1] = null where [column1] = 0
SET @LastUpdated = @@rowCount
COMMIT
print @LastUpdated
if @LastUpdated = 0 break
end
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HuaMinChenBusiness AnalystCommented:
What are you trying to change in the table? You can even use one Update statement to change Column1 (if that is the only thing you want to adjust). Or you can use a cursor to refer to the relevant rows and further change them. Read
Cursor Example
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Anthony PerkinsCommented:
The Transaction as written in quite unnecessary and the script could be made more efficient without using SET ROWCOUNT (which should be avoided as it will not longer be supported in future versions):
Using SET ROWCOUNT will not affect DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in a future release of SQL Server. Avoid using SET ROWCOUNT with DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use it. For a similar behavior, use the TOP syntax.
But to answer the question, assuming you know how many rows have column1 = 0 then perhaps there is a TRIGGER on the table.
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ccleebeltAuthor Commented:
Thanks. How would you recommend that I rewrite the query to adjust the data? I have about 32 Million rows that need to be mass updated.
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Anthony PerkinsCommented:
How would you recommend that I rewrite the query to adjust the data?
As shown in the accepted comment, but I would lose the Transaction as it is pointless and will only make it take longer.
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Jim P.Commented:
As shown in the accepted comment, but I would lose the Transaction as it is pointless and will only make it take longer.
I agree it adds time, but the significance, depending on the underlying system, isn't always there.
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Black Mirror’s Crocodile lacks a meaningful perspective on surveillance or privacy
The fourth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on December 29th, 2017. In this series, six writers look at each of the fourth season’s six episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears. The other essays in this series address “USS Callister,” “Black Museum,” “Hang The DJ,” “Metalhead,” and “Arkangel.” Spoiler warning: This essay does not reveal the end of “Crocodile,” but does address significant plot points not seen in the episode trailer. What would the world look like if we couldn’t lie? Ricky Gervais took a stab at imagining that possibility in his 2009 comedy The Invention of Lying, as did China Miéville in Embassytown. In “Crocodile,” Black Mirror re-examines the question in a world where the newest form of surveillance takes place inside people’s minds, where technology can grant access to any observer. The results as heavy-handed and depressing as Black Mirror fans might expect. At a dance party in Iceland, a couple named Mia (Andrea Riseborough) and Rob (Andrew Gower) writhe to a Goldfrapp song that declares, “I’m in love with a strict machine.” Still half-drunk, they drive home along a frozen highway, and accidentally hit a cyclist on their way. Mia immediately picks up her phone to call the police, but Rob begs her to think about the consequences: him in jail, and the man dead either way. At first, she’s the picture of dissent. She screams “no”; she says “don’t.” But in the end, she helps Rob hide the evidence. Both the man’s body and his bike disappear into the bottom of a fjord. Out of sight, out of mind. In our world, that might have been the end of it. In this one, things turn out differently, thanks to the ultimate form of surveillance: using technology to peer inside people’s minds. In this episode, an M&M-sized device placed on a person’s temple allows memories — or “engrams” — to be displayed on a nearby screen. Everyone from insurance adjusters to police officers is empowered to poke around in people’s brains when they need answers, turning the entire population into de facto CCTV cameras that are always rolling. Many years later, Mia has become an award-winning architect. Hair cut and colored in a short, professional style, she’s built a new life with a gentle, bearded man, and they have a nine-year-old son. After a speaking engagement in the city, filmed at Reyjavik’s gorgeous Harpa concert hall, she meets up with Rob for the first time in years. He’s newly sober and looking to make amends, particularly to the widow of the man they ran down, who has never stopped searching for him. Rob says they have a moral obligation to tell her what happened. Mia is more concerned with protecting herself. The conversation that follows ends poorly. Mia’s life doesn’t unravel until she witnesses a traffic accident, and an insurance investigator named Shazia (Kiran Sonia Sawar) begins to investigate it, ping-ponging from one set of eyes and memories to the next. She’s only out to determine fault in the accident, via the “recaller” and facial recognition technology. Her search leads her to Mia, who can’t reveal what she saw without also revealing what happened in that hotel room. The fallout from their confrontation just leads to more violence. As a small, slight white woman, Mia benefits from the presumption of innocence that surrounds her like a halo; she’s an unlikely killer, but that’s part of what makes her so effective, and it doesn’t seem like an accident that most of her victims in “Crocodile” are people of color. Like Get Out, which positioned white femininity as the canny, quiet heart of its violence, “Crocodile” asks viewers to imagine a tearful, blond, white woman as the malefactor willing to sacrifice anyone around her on an altar of murderous self-interest. Mia cries every time she kills — she even apologizes to her victims — but that doesn’t stop her from committing horrific acts. Her pseudo-sympathetic tears are the lachrymal corollary to the famous line from Hamlet that one can “smile and smile and smile and be a villain.” Mia weeps between victims, but she’s no less a monster because she has red-rimmed eyes. When she appears outside the house of a future victim clad in black and wielding a hammer, she’s as cold-blooded and terrifying as any horror villain. It’s less clear what the episode means to communicate about the memory-reading “strict machine” that motivates Mia’s killing spree. The technology is an obvious proxy for the increasingly invasive ways our lives are surveilled, from cameras to face-recognition to data theft. Although “Crocodile” feints at interesting ideas, it’s hard to identify a takeaway. Invasive surveillance is bad because… it’s really good at catching murderers? Or it’s bad because… it pushes people who are capable of murder into murdering each other? The episode closes with an attempted knife-twist that’s only worth an eye-roll. It’s meant as a bit of dramatic irony, but it arrives abruptly and without setup, and lands with a dull thud. There’s also a deus ex machina involving a guinea pig that makes no sense, even within the episode’s techno-mythos. Although often pretty to look at, thanks to its snow-swept locales, “Crocodile” is most useful as a compact summary of some of Black Mirror’s worst tendencies: violence and cruelty for their own sake, and developments that abandon the story’s pre-established logic in favor of big, allegorical gut-punches. Too bad this one doesn’t land at all. Relevance: Low. Facial recognition is frightening from a privacy perspective, particularly as it pertains to law enforcement, but its deployment here doesn’t offer any insights. The memory-reading technology the episode conjures into being has a lot of potential for exploring the dark side of surveillance, though it is largely wasted. Aesthetics: Austere and beautiful. The episode was filmed in Iceland, where the long drives between Mia’s murders unfold on empty roads that wind between dramatic snow-encrusted peaks and chilly fjords. It’s so isolated that killing a man in a hit-and-run and disposing of his body before the next car came along seems entirely plausible. Squirm factor: The dread that precedes the first several murders is unpleasant, though it quickly fades with repetition, and while the skull-cracking is unpleasant to watch, Mia’s moral apathy is more discomforting. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Executive Order 9615
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 12 of the Act of July 2, 1926, 44 Stat. 789, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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, September 14, 1945. | WIKI |
Warfield Raymond WIKE, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 81117.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Nov. 23, 1994.
Rehearing Denied June 25, 1995.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and David A. Davis, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Gypsy Bailey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Warfield Raymond Wike, Jr., appeals his sentence of death for first-degree murder imposed after a remand for a new sentencing proceeding. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We hold that the trial judge erroneously denied Wike his vested procedural right to conclude the closing arguments before the jury, and, consequently, we must reverse his sentence and remand this cause for resentencing.
Wike was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, and attempted murder and was sentenced to death for the first-degree murder conviction. On appeal, we affirmed the convictions but ordered a new sentencing proceeding. On remand, the jury unanimously recommended the death penalty, which the trial judge subsequently imposed. It is this death sentence that is now before the Court.
In this appeal, Wike raises eleven issues, the first of which we find to be dispositive. In his first issue, Wike asserts that the trial judge erroneously denied him the right to final closing argument. The facts pertinent to this claim are as follows. After remand by this Court, but before the new sentencing proceeding, Wike filed a motion requesting that he be allowed to give final closing argument, i.e., that his closing argument follow the State’s closing argument. In making this request, Wike’s counsel relied on Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.250, which governs the presentation of arguments during the guilt phase. At the hearing on Wike’s motion, the trial judge asked: “Do the rules specifically address opening and closing with regard to a 'penalty phase?” (Emphasis added). The State responded, “It does not address that as I recall, Judge. That is 3.250,1 believe.” Additionally, the State informed the judge that Wike’s request did “not corn-port 'with the Rules of Criminal Procedure.” The trial court denied Wike’s motion.
Wike renewed his request for final closing argument near the close of the resentencing proceeding. At that time, the following colloquy took place:
TRIAL JUDGE: [A]gain, it does not seem to be clear law right on point. It appears to be a procedural matter.
WIKE’S COUNSEL: OK, then for the record I’ll request that we be allowed rebuttal after the State.
TRIAL JUDGE: I don’t know of any— The norm in the sentencing phase is argument. I’m not familiar with rebuttal_
What is the State’s position?
STATE: [Rebuttal] is not justified under the cases that presently exist.
TRIAL JUDGE: I’m a little surprised there is not more guidance on this area, but there is not and it appears as though the [prior] ruling of [this] Court has logic to it.
After the jury returned its recommendation and the penalty phase proceeding had concluded, Wike’s counsel, in a motion for a mistrial, brought to the attention of the trial judge and the state attorney Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.780(c), which governs the presentation of arguments in penalty phase proceedings. The trial judge denied the motion for mistrial, stating:
Neither the State nor defense counsel cited [rule 3.780(c)] to the Court at the time the Pretrial Motion was argued or at the Charge Conference when the issue was again raised. This Court finds that the term “will” [within rule 3.780] is not mandatory and allows the Court discretion with regard to the order of argument.
However, even if the Court has no discretion in this ease and allowing the State closing argument was error, the issue remains is it harmless error or is it fundamental error which would require a mistrial. In that this is a capital case, the rule differs from Rule 3.250, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure which provides a Defendant offering no testimony in his own behalf, except his own, shall be entitled to the concluding argument before the jury. (Emphasis added). The Defendant in the instant case did in fact offer testimony in his own behalf (other than his own) and would not have been entitled to closing argument before the jury under Rule 3.250. Additionally, the defense did not bring to the Court’s attention anything argued by the State during its argument that the defense believed was necessary to rebut nor did the defense request additional or rebuttal argument subsequent to the State’s closing argument. In order to assign denial of the right to a closing argument available as error, the Defendant must have tendered and been refused the right to have his counsel make a closing argument subsequent to a closing argument against him made for the prosecution. (Emphasis added). Hall v. State, [119 Fla. 38,] 160 So. 511, 512 (Fla.1935).
In a non-capital trial, the right to open and close the argument to the jury is a substantial procedural right, but never has been raised to constitutional status. Preston v. State, 260 So.2d 501, 505 (Fla.1972). The Supreme Court of Florida has held that the right to open and close belongs to the prosecution as the party with the burden of proof. Id. at 505.
This Court has not found any case authority holding that the right to close the argument to the jury in the penalty phase of a capital case rises to the level of a substantial procedural right where the jury returns an advisory verdict even though same must be given great weight by the sentencing Court. In the instant case, both sides had equal opportunity for argument, and altering the order of argument from Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.780(e) does not appear to be fundamental error. Quince v. State, [414 So.2d 185 (Fla.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 895, 103 S.Ct. 192, 74 L.Ed.2d 155 (1982) ].
In summary, throughout the proceedings, Wike’s counsel asserted that Wike had a right to the concluding argument but did not cite rule 3.780; the State erroneously advised the trial judge that no rule of criminal procedure governed this situation; and the trial judge, after finally being advised of the correct rule, found that the rule was discretionary rather than mandatory.
Rule 3.250, which governs a defendant’s right to conclude final arguments in the guilt phase of a criminal trial, provides that “a defendant offering no testimony in his or her own behalf,, except the defendant’s own, shall be entitled to the concluding argument before the jury.” Rule 3.780, which governs a defendant’s right to conclude final arguments in the penalty phase of a capital case, provides as follows: “Both the state and the defendant will be given an equal opportunity for argument, each being allowed one argument. The state mii present argument first.” (Emphasis added.) Both rules are clear and unambiguous — in a guilt phase proceeding, a defendant has the right to close in final argument only if the defendant presents no testimony other than his or her own; in a penalty phase proceeding of a death case, a defendant always has the right to close in final argument.
To fully understand the rights this state has historically provided to defendants regarding concluding arguments under either rule, it is necessary to examine the history of these rules. At common law, the generally accepted rule was that the party who had the burden of proof had the right to begin and conclude the argument to the jury. Huston v. Green, 91 Fla. 434, 108 So. 846 (1926). The rule applied to both civil and criminal cases. Faulk v. State, 104 So.2d 519 (Fla.1958); Smith v. State, 155 Fla. 148, 19 So.2d 698 (1944). The rationale behind this common law rule was to provide the party who shouldered the disadvantage of the burden of proof with the advantage of the opening and closing arguments before the jury. Faulk. In 1853, this common law rule was changed in Florida through chapter 539, Laws of Florida (1853), to provide that a defendant who produced no testimony at trial was entitled to the advantage of making the concluding argument before the jury. That law was later codified as section 918.09, Florida Statutes.
As early as 1858, this Court determined that a trial judge had no discretion in following the statutory predecessor of section 918.09 and that the erroneous denial of a defendant’s right to concluding argument constituted reversible error. Heffron v. State, 8 Fla. 73 (1858). Throughout the years, Florida courts have never deviated from the holding that the denial of a defendant’s right to close under this rule constitutes reversible error. Faulk; Morales v. State, 609 So.2d 765 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); Graddy v. State, 606 So.2d 1242 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992); Lamar v. State, 583 So.2d 771 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991); Crowley v. State, 558 So.2d 529 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990); Terwilliger v. State, 535 So.2d 346 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); Gari v. State, 364 So.2d 766 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978); Dampier v. State, 336 So.2d 683 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976); Cagnina v. State, 175 So.2d 577 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965). In fact, this is true even though in 1968 section 918.09 was incorporated as rule 3.250 and in 1970 section 918.09 was repealed. See, e.g., Wilson v. State, 284 So.2d 24 (Fla. 2d DCA 1973) (even though the opening and closing of final argument statute is now a procedural rule, the denial of that 120-year-old right still constitutes reversible error), quashed on other grounds, 294 So.2d 327 (Fla.1974). Further, Justice Thornal made clear in Birge v. State, 92 So.2d 819 (Fla.1957), that erroneous denial of a defendant’s right to conclude the arguments is reversible error even when more than sufficient evidence exists to determine that a defendant is guilty. The Court explained in Birge that it is not this Court’s privilege to disregard the right to concluding argument “even though we as individuals might feel that [a defendant] is as guilty as sin itself.” 92 So.2d at 822. See also Terwil-liger, 535 So.2d at 348 (the erroneous denial of a defendant’s right to concluding argument constitutes reversible error, “notwithstanding that the state’s evidence may be more than adequate to support a verdict of guilty”). As such, the law is clear that the erroneous denial of the right provided by rule 3.250 cannot be deemed harmless error. Morales; Hart v. State, 526 So.2d 124 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988); Gari. As the Fourth District Court of Appeal stated in Raysor v. State, 272 So.2d 867, 869 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973):
[W]e are at a loss as a practical matter to know just how any criminal defendant could in fact make a demonstration of error because of the refusal of the trial court to follow the dictates of the Rule. It is inherent in the procedure, as all acquainted with trial tactics know, that the right to address the jury finally is a fundamental advantage which simply speaks for itself.
Although rule 3.250 has been in existence in some form or another for over 135 years, rule 3.780 was not enacted until 1977. Even so, rule 3.780 is not new and should be familiar to all attorneys and judges involved in death penalty proceedings. That rule was adopted as part of the bifurcated procedure established for the presentation of evidence and rebuttal testimony in the guilt and sentencing proceedings for capital eases. See rule 3.780(a), (b). Rule 3.780(c) makes it clear that a defendant always presents the final closing argument in the sentencing phase. In a capital sentencing hearing, a defendant is on trial for a determination of a life or death sentence and, in promulgating rule 3.780(c), this Court made a conscious policy decision that, under these circumstances, a defendant should have the procedural right of having the concluding argument before the jury. A trial judge has no discretion to change the order of the arguments under this rule, and there is no question but that the word “will” in rule 3.780(c) was intended to be mandatory.
Nevertheless, the State argues that, when ruling under rule 3.780(c), we need not follow the reversible error doctrine that has been established under rule 3.250. The State contends that rule 3.250 governs the guilt phase of a trial, not the penalty phase, as does rule 3.780(c), and that, because the two phases differ in many respects, so too should they differ in the application of the reversible error doctrine. Instead, the State contends that we should apply a harmless error analysis in determining whether the trial judge’s error is reversible. We disagree. As we noted in Fitzpatrick v. State, 527 So.2d 809, 811 (Fla.1988), “A high degree of certainty in procedural fairness ... must be maintained in order to insure that the death penalty is administered evenhandedly.” If a defendant is not capable of demonstrating prejudice under rule 3.250, how could a defendant ever be expected to demonstrate prejudice under 3.780(c)? We find that no real difference exists in the policy of affording a defendant the right to concluding argument under either rule, and, consequently, we conclude that the failure to provide a defendant with the concluding argument under rule 3.780(c) constitutes reversible error.
The State also argues that, even if the judge’s failure to provide Wike with concluding argument under rule 3.780(c) was reversible error, Wike failed to properly preserve this point for appeal given that his counsel failed to bring rule 3.780(c) to the attention of the court until after the trial. Unquestionably, if trial counsel fails to properly preserve this issue for review, the issue is procedurally barred. Quince v. State, 414 So.2d 185 (Fla.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 895, 103 S.Ct. 192, 74 L.Ed.2d 155 (1982); Gibson v. State, 351 So.2d 948 (Fla.1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 1004, 98 S.Ct. 1660, 56 L.Ed.2d 93 (1978); Staples v. State, 298 So.2d 545 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974). In this case, however, we find that the issue was properly preserved. Wike requested that he be al-. lowed to present the concluding argument on more than one occasion, and the State erroneously advised the trial judge that no rule governed Wike’s request. Moreover, we find it amazing that Wike’s counsel, the prosecutor, and the trial judge were all unfamiliar with rule 3.780, a seventeen-year-old rule of criminal procedure expressly written to control the penalty phase proceedings in capital cases.
Accordingly, because the trial judge erroneously denied Wike his vested procedural right to conclude the closing arguments before the jury, we find that we must reverse his sentence and again remand this cause for resentencing.
It is so ordered.
OVERTON, SHAW, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., concurs specially with an opinion, in which OVERTON, SHAW, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
GRIMES, C.J., dissents with an opinion, in which WELLS, J., concurs.
WELLS, J., dissents with an opinion, in which GRIMES, C.J., concurs.
ANSTEAD, Justice,
specially concurring.
I agree with the majority opinion that there is no rational basis for drawing a distinction between the penalty and guilt phases of a capital homicide prosecution for purposes of enforcing this Court’s rule mandating that the defendant have the final closing argument to the jury. Indeed, since the defendant’s life is literally on the line during the penalty phase, any arguable distinction would favor an even more stringent application of the rule in the penalty phase. Because the defendant’s life is substantially in the hands of the jury, his very existence is at stake during the penalty phase, and the denial of the rule-mandated right to closing is clearly more prejudicial to him than the right to closing during the guilt phase.
Final argument is an important component of our adversarial and largely procedural system of justice, and of its centerpiece, trial by jury. Our system contrasts with the inquisitorial system used in many countries, and its reliance upon the court to investigate, produce, and assess evidence. Under our system, we place great reliance upon the litigants to convince the fact finder, usually a jury, by the production of evidence and by oral persuasion, of the justice of their positions. Under this system, and in reality, it does matter who gets the last opportunity to address the jury. This court has long recognized the importance of final argument, and, by adopting a rule that grants the last argument to the convicted defendant whose life is at stake, has enhanced the credibility of the sentencing phase of a capital trial, clearly the most important trial proceeding in our justice system.
There is also no legal justification or factual basis for applying a harmless error test here. The majority has cited a lengthy and unbroken line of cases enforcing this rule and requiring a new trial when the rule is violated. Given our responsibility of review, we are, unfortunately, often called upon to distinguish among the most extreme cases of human depravity. The facts of this case, involving the murder and rape of a young child, strain this Court’s ability to comprehend the source of such inhumane conduct. Under such circumstances it may be tempting to throw up one’s hands and simply say this case is so bad that no error could have made a difference. Indeed, it could be contended that no penalty phase trial is necessary in such a case and that no juror could possibly vote to spare the life of someone guilty of such depravity.
We, of course, cannot give in to such temptations. In fact, in this defendant’s first trial, three (3) of the same jurors who found him guilty of murder and rape also recommended that his life be spared. They were influenced, perhaps, by the mitigating evidence summarized in our earlier opinion, including the defendant’s drug abuse and lack of a significant criminal history. More importantly, the constitutional validity and legitimacy of the capital trial and sentencing process rests substantially upon this Court’s acceptance and adherence to its responsibility to see that the carefully crafted rules of the process are stringently enforced. In this unique area especially, the more stringently we enforce the rules laid down by this Court and the United States Supreme Court, the more confidence there will be in the legitimacy of the process and the justice of the outcome. We bear an enormous burden and bear it we must.
This Court has displayed no timidity in applying the doctrine of harmless error in capital cases. Indeed, any review of this Court’s recent opinions in capital cases will yield a liberal seasoning of citations to State v. DiGuilio, 491 So.2d 1129 (Fla.1986), this Court’s definitive opinion on the harmless error rule. We have also upheld many rules, arguably less important than the one invoked today, and rejected as a matter of policy any consideration of harmless error in their application. In Richardson v. State, 246 So.2d 771 (Fla.1971), we announced a requirement of a procedure that must be followed when the discovery rules have been violated, and we have consistently held that the failure to follow that procedure will result in a reversal and retrial regardless of whether it can be shown that the error was harmless. Further, we have consistently adhered to the rule that in a homicide prosecution the failure to instruct on justifiable and excusable homicide as part of the definition of manslaughter is fundamental error regardless of the lack of objection and not subject to a harmless error analysis. See Miller v. State, 573 So.2d 337 (Fla.1991); Rojas v. State, 552 So.2d 914 (Fla.1989); Hedges v. State, 172 So.2d 824 (Fla.1965). These are but two examples of legal principles we have found too important to the process to permit a harmless error analysis.
The facts of this case are among the most egregious we have seen. Arguably, for that very reason, the life of the defendant may rest entirely on the ability of his representative at trial, his lawyer, to convince a jury to show him mercy and recommend that his life be spared. In a similar context involving a different sentencing error, Justice Sundberg succinctly made the point:
Would the result of the weighing process by both the jury and the judge have been different had the impermissible aggravating factor not been present? We cannot know. Since we cannot know and since a man’s life is at stake, we are compelled to return this case to the trial court for a new sentencing trial_
Elledge v. State, 346 So.2d 998, 1003 (Fla. 1977).
OVERTON, SHAW, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
GRIMES, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
Because guilt-phase proceedings are ordinarily much longer and more complicated than penalty-phase proceedings, there is a difference between the two with respect to the importance of the order of closing arguments. Therefore, I see no departure from stare decisis in employing a harmless error analysis in this case.
WELLS, J., concurs.
WELLS, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. I have carefully reviewed the trial record, including the closing argument of counsel, and conclude that the order of counsel’s argument had absolutely no effect — none—on the jury’s recommendation that a sentence of death be imposed upon Warfield Raymond Wike, Jr. In my opinion, a harmless error review can and should be performed with respect to the present record in accordance with State v. DiGuilio, 491 So.2d 1129 (Fla.1986), and Sochor v. Florida, 504 U.S. 527,112 S.Ct. 2114,119 L.Ed.2d 326 (1992). A harmless error review of this record demonstrates beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that the “Order of Sentence and Findings of Fact Supporting the Imposition of Death Sentence” should be affirmed.
This Court has in the past accepted the exceptional responsibility of applying harmless error analysis to many issues in the sentencing phase of a death case. See Fennie v. State, 648 So.2d 95 (Fla.1994) (applying harmless error analysis where trial court provided an unconstitutionally vague jury instruction for the cold, calculated, and premeditated aggravating factor); Peterka v. State, 640 So.2d 59 (Fla.1994) (applying harmless error analysis where trial court permitted testimony regarding an unverified prior juvenile conviction during the penalty phase); Atwater v. State, 626 So.2d 1325 (Fla.1993) (finding that errors in allowing evidence of lack of remorse during penalty phase and giving of erroneous instruction for the heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator were harmless), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 114 S.Ct. 1578,128 L.Ed.2d 221 (1994); Duncan v. State, 619 So.2d 279 (Fla.1993) (finding that introduction of gruesome photograph during penalty phase was harmless error although the prejudicial effect of the photograph outweighed its probative value), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 114 S.Ct. 453, 126 L.Ed.2d 385 (1993); Clark v. State, 613 So.2d 412 (Fla.1992) (applying harmless error analysis where trial court might have erroneously considered the felony murder and pecuniary gain aggravators separately), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 114 S.Ct. 114, 126 L.Ed.2d 79 (1993); Randolph v. State, 562 So.2d 331 (Fla.1990) (finding that improper questioning of medical examiner during penalty phase constituted harmless error), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 992, 111 S.Ct. 538, 112 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990); Chandler v. State, 534 So.2d 701 (Fla.1988) (applying harmless error review to prosecutor’s penalty phase comment on defendant’s silence), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1075, 109 S.Ct. 2089, 104 L.Ed.2d 652 (1989); Hardwick v. State, 521 So.2d 1071 (Fla.1988) (finding error in weighing aggravating and mitigating factors harmless), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 871, 109 S.Ct. 185, 102 L.Ed.2d 154 (1988); Delap v. Dugger, 513 So.2d 659 (Fla.1987) (applying harmless error review where trial court failed to instruct jury that it could consider nonstatu-tory mitigating factors). The instant case illustrates why harmless error review should apply to procedural errors in the penalty phase in a death ease.
This tragedy began in early morning hours of September 22,1988, when Wike kidnapped sisters Sarah Rivozfar, age 6, and Sayeh Rivozfar, age 8, from their home while they were sleeping. Wike drove the two young girls to a place on an unpaved road and then had Sayeh climb onto the trunk of the car. He removed her pants and underwear and raped her. Next, Wike took the girls into an area near a tree. He then slit Sayeh’s throat with a knife, and she fell to the ground as if dead. As Sayeh lay on the ground, she heard her six-year-old sister screaming. When Wike finally left the scene, Sayeh found Sarah dead. Wike had slit Sarah’s throat. Sayeh managed to make her way to a road, where she was rescued by a couple on their way to work.
Wike was arrested the morning of the murder, rape, and kidnappings. In June 1989, he was tried before a jury in Santa Rosa County. The jury recommended a sentence of death by a vote of nine to three. The trial judge followed the jury’s recommendation and imposed a sentence of death. In its review, this Court reversed the trial court’s judgment on the ground that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to grant Wike’s motion for a continuance of the penalty phase. Wike had moved for a one-week continuance for the purpose of procuring additional witnesses, e.g., Wike’s mother, a cousin, and Wike’s ex-wife, all of whom needed an extra week to be present to testify. Wike v. State, 596 So.2d 1020 (Fla.1992).
In December 1992, a retrial of the penalty phase was held before a second jury in Santa Rosa County. In this second penalty proceeding, the prosecutor gave an opening statement and set forth the facts upon which the jury would make its recommendation. Wike’s counsel then made an opening statement, stating that the facts as outlined in the prosecutor’s opening statement were basically correct. The prosecution then introduced a number of witnesses.
Sayeh Rivozfar, who was by then 13, recounted to the jury the unfathomable nightmare she experienced on September 22, 1988. She explained to the jury how she was taken with her sister from her bed during the night, raped, and had her throat slit. She recalled hearing the screams of her sister, which she later discovered occurred as Wike slit her sister’s throat. Photos of Sarah with her throat slit were admitted into evidence.
Dr. Lula Montes, a pediatrician, testified that she examined Sayeh Rivozfar on September 22, 1988, at the Santa Rosa County Medical Center. Dr. Montes asked Sayeh what had happened to her, and Sayeh responded that Ray cut her throat, that he cut her sister’s throat, and that “Ray put his thing in mine,” pointing to her vagina. Dr. Montes testified Sayeh had an eight centimeter clean cut laceration on the front of her neck, that she was actually bleeding from her vagina, and had a deep, extensive laceration of her vaginal canal down to her rectal sphincter.
Several witnesses testified in Wike’s behalf. Wike’s witnesses testified about his childhood and his history of alcohol and drug abuse. An expert presented evidence regarding the advantages of a sentence of life imprisonment as opposed to the death penalty-
In their closings, both Wike’s counsel and the prosecutor argued substantially the same facts which had been the basis for their opening statements. The jury returned after an hour and twenty minutes of deliberation with a unanimous recommendation of death, and the trial court followed the jury’s recommendation. Wike’s attorney then filed a motion for mistrial, alleging that Wike had a right to the concluding argument in the penalty phase pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.780(c). The trial judge denied the motion because neither party had cited to rule 8.780(c) when the issue regarding the order of closing arguments was originally raised and because he determined the rule was discretionary rather than mandatory-
In this court’s present review, the majority relies upon the seminal case of Birge v. State, 92 So.2d 819 (Fla.1957), to hold that the trial court’s failure to give Wike the final closing pursuant to rule 3.780(c) requires reversal. The majority rejects a harmless error review because it concludes that Birge and its progeny hold that this type of error is per se reversible.
It is my view, however, that Birge and the cases which follow it are distinguishable from the instant case for several reasons. First, all of the cases on which the majority relies deal with the issue of guilt. In this case, however, guilt has already been decided, and the only issue remaining is whether the death penalty should be imposed. Because the penalty phase differs from the guilt phase, the procedures followed in each may also differ. See Hildwin v. State, 531 So.2d 124 (Fla.1988) (recognizing a different standard for judging the admissibility and relevance of evidence in the penalty phase than in the guilt phase), affirmed on other grounds, 490 U.S. 638, 109 S.Ct. 2055, 104 L.Ed.2d 728 (1989).
Furthermore, the Birge ease was decided on the basis of section 918.09, Florida Statutes, which was repealed in 1971. Section 918.09 provided that a defendant was entitled to the closing argument in the guilt phase only when the defendant offered no testimony in his own behalf other than his own. Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.250, pertaining to the guilt phase, contains this same provision, but there is no similar qualification regarding defendant’s testimony in rule 3.780(e). Accordingly, I disagree with the majority’s finding that “no real difference exists in the policy of affording a defendant the right to concluding argument” under rule 3.780(c) and rule 3.250.
The Birge court determined that section 918.09 gave the defendant a vested statutory procedural right to give the last argument. The statute that presently pertains to capital sentencing does not mandate that the defendant has a vested right to give the last argument. Section 921.141(1), Florida Statutes (1993), only provides that “[t]he State and the defendant or his counsel shall be permitted to present argument for or against a sentence of death.” Rule 3.780(c) was designed to comport with this statute and should not be raised to the level of a substantive right which outweighs the statutory mandate.
Rather, section 924.33, Florida Statutes (1993), which codifies the harmless error rule, should apply to an error in the order of argument in the sentencing phase of a capital case. Section 924.33 specifies that “[n]o judgment shall be reversed unless the appellate court is of the opinion, after an examination of all the appeal papers, that error was committed that injuriously affected the substantial rights of the appellant.” As noted herein, this Court has in fact performed harmless error review with respect to a myriad of penalty-phase issues. The United States Supreme Court in Sochor v. Florida, 504 U.S. at —, 112 S.Ct. at 2119, expressly recognized that this Court could perform a harmless error review of the penalty phase of a capital case which was tried in the Florida courts. In Sochor, the court reviewed an erroneous jury instruction. It is simply illogical to conclude that this court can perform a harmless error review where the jury has been instructed erroneously by the court as to what the law is, but cannot perform a harmless error review when the order in which counsel argues to the jury is erroneous.
The majority, in expressing concern over the defendant’s inability to demonstrate prej-udiee under 3.780(c) if a harmless error analysis is applied, overlooks the fact that it is the State which bears the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict. The State, not Wike, must prove that there is no reasonable possibility that the trial court’s failure to give Wike the final closing argument in the penalty proceeding contributed to his conviction.
In the instant case, the heavy burden placed upon the State is clearly met. The record demonstrates that the order of counsel’s argument could not possibly have affected the jury’s decision. It is inconceivable that a majority of 12 reasonable jurors in Santa Rosa County would vote other than to impose a death sentence in this case. I therefore find the majority’s decision to send the case back for a third time and have yet another jury sit through a penalty proceeding patently is unwarranted. This reversal will require Sayeh Rivozfar to relive her horrifying experience in yet another retrial. Such a retrial, based solely on technical adherence to a court rule and a 37-year-old case, serves form rather than justice. Chief Justice Rehnquist’s statement in Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808, 827-28, 111 S.Ct. 2597, 2609-11, 115 L.Ed.2d 720 (1991) should be noted in this situation:
Adhering to precedent “is usually the wise policy, because in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than it be settled right.” Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co., 285 U.S. 393, 406, 52 S.Ct. 443, 447, 76 L.Ed. 815 (1932) (Brandeis, J., dissenting). Nevertheless, when governing decisions are unworkable or are badly reasoned, “this Court has never felt constrained to follow precedent.” Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649, 665, 64 S.Ct. 757, 765, 88 L.Ed. 987 (1944). Stare decisis is not an inexorable command; rather, it “is a principle of policy and not a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision.” Helvering v. Hallock, 309 U.S. 106, 119, 60 S.Ct. 444, 451, 84 L.Ed. 604 (1940).
(Emphasis added.)
Ultimately, death penalty jurisprudence is an effort to make certain that the accused’s constitutional rights guaranteed by the United States and Florida Constitutions are not abridged. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972); State v. Dixon, 283 So.2d 1 (Fla.1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 943, 94 S.Ct. 1950, 40 L.Ed.2d 295 (1974). A reading of the record in this case and the decision in Wike demonstrates beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that Warfield Raymond Wike’s constitutional rights have not been abridged, that he has been adjudicated guilty, that he has been sentenced in accord with due process, and that the sentence of death is in accord with the laws of Florida.
GRIMES, C.J., concurs.
. The facts of this case are set forth in Wike v. State, 596 So.2d 1020 (Fla.1992).
. Wike asserts that: (1) the trial judge erred in denying him final closing argument; (2) he was denied effective assistance of counsel; (3) the trial judge erred in allowing the State to make a "mercy” argument; (4) the trial judge failed to make an adequate inquiry as to whether Wike knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently wanted to represent himself; (5) the trial judge improperly admitted victim impact evidence; (6) the trial judge improperly refused to permit Wike to question the jury about or present evidence of the other sentences he received in connection with this crime; (7) the trial judge gave improper jury instructions on the aggravating circumstances; (8) the trial judge erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the mitigating circumstance of extreme mental or emotional disturbance; (9) the trial judge improperly limited the testimony of a defense expert; (10) the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of the surviving sister's injuries; and (11) the trial judge improperly admitted the videotaped testimony of a state witness.
. In his order denying Wike’s motion for mistrial, the trial judge stated that Wike had to object after the close of the State's argument for the issue to be properly preserved, citing Hall v. State, 119 Fla. 38, 160 So. 511 (1935). Notably, in Green v. State, 80 So.2d 676 (Fla.1955), this Court stated that the ruling in Hall did not apply to a situation where, as here, the court had previously made a specific ruling on the question.
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A bicycle is a human powered land vehicle with two wheels, a seat and pedals. Its name is derived from the Latin prefix “bi-” meaning two and the suffix “-cycle,” which refers to the number of wheels. A chain connected to cogs on the pedals and rear wheel provides power when a person rides the bike. Other parts include a frame that gives the bike strength and a handlebar to steer it. People who use a bicycle for transport often ride in groups or pairs. A bike may be used to get to work, school or other activities. Some people enjoy using a bicycle as a form of recreation, and others use it to stay physically fit.
Those who want to learn how to ride a bicycle can start by observing experienced cyclists. They can also read books or magazines on the subject. Some people choose to have a friend or family member teach them. It is important to be aware of the rules of the road when riding a bicycle, as it can be dangerous. A helmet is recommended. It is also a good idea to wear bright clothing, especially in the dark or when it is raining. A person should also carry water and food on a bicycle trip, in case of an emergency.
The most common type of bicycle is the upright bicycle, which has handlebars that are close to the rider’s shoulders. This makes it easy to control the bike. A person should practice steering while coasting, as well as making turns to the left and right. Once a person has mastered this, they can try pedaling while coasting.
Bicycles should be used in designated bike lanes if possible. They should also be parked in areas where they do not obstruct traffic flow. People who are interested in learning how to ride a bicycle should also make sure that their bikes have working brakes and reflectors. In addition, they should know that automobiles are not required to yield to a cyclist when crossing a street. It is also a good idea to avoid riding a bicycle on sidewalks, as it can be difficult to maneuver in that environment.
A bicycle is a great way to get around in a city. It can help people improve their health and cut down on traffic congestion. The invention of the bicycle has had an enormous impact on society. It has given women more freedom and allowed people to visit far-away places quickly. Bicycles are also an environmentally friendly mode of transportation, as they do not require as much fuel as cars. Bicycles are also a lot quieter than vehicles and can be easily parked in small spaces. They also require less maintenance and can be repaired easily if they are damaged. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Rh feet more, and it would have been all wrong. What was you trying to do with it, anyhow?"
"I thought I would turn it around. I only touched one little handle, and then the foot-plate, and the pesky auto wouldn't go straight at all. Yes, fellows," smiled the speaker at Frank and Sammy, "I'm like the bad penny, turned up again."
"I'm glad to see you in Fairview," said Frank. "How are you getting on at the academy?"
"Oh, I've quit there," said Tom Chubb, otherwise "the fat boy."
"How is that?"
"They said I wasn't far enough along to keep up with the class."
"I see."
"You know I don't know much," said the fat boy, frankly. "The fellows all made fun of me. Then they got mad. I couldn't hit back when they fought me, I was so fat. Well, all I could do was to get them in a corner and fall on them."
"Ha! ha!" laughed Sammy.
"That's pretty good," chuckled Bob.
"Father is thinking of coming to Fairview to live for the summer," went on the fat boy. "I think we'll take that vacant house Buxton was just looking at."
"Why, then, you may come to our school?" said Sammy.
"I reckon I will," replied the fat boy. "I hope so, for I like you fellows. Say," and he grinned from ear to ear, "remember how you met me in the mountains that night?"
"Of course we do," smiled Frank.
"How you told me how to get even with the students who hazed me? Well, I did it great and grand, and I'll never forget you for that." | WIKI |
Ford (F) to Invest $170M in South Africa for Everest SUV
Ford Motor Co.F announced that it will invest R2.5 billion ($170 million) in its Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria, South Africa. The automaker is making this investment in order to expand its operations in South Africa and to support the production of Ford Everest as well as the Ford Ranger, which was launched last year.
Ford also confirmed that this investment will help create 1,200 new employment opportunities in South Africa. Ford Everest is widely popular among customers for the capability and utility it offers. A seven-seated SUV, the vehicle features body-on-frame construction, intelligent four-wheel drive and an Advanced Terrain Management System. The automaker considers that the production of Everest in South Africa will enable it to make the vehicle more conveniently available to customers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This investment of R2.5 billion will support Ford's growth strategy in the Middle East and Africa. Moreover, it strengthens South Africa's position as an export base for Ford.
The Silverton plant has an annual production capacity of 10,000 Everests. Production of Everest at the plant will start from the third quarter of 2016. The first vehicles for sale will be available from the fourth quarter.
The vehicles produced at the Silverton plant will basically be marketed locally and also exported across Sub-Saharan Africa markets. Ford Everest is also produced at other plants, including the AutoAlliance Thailand plant in Rayong, Ford's Chennai plant in India and the JMC Xiaolan Plant in Nanchang, China.
At present, Ford Everest is imported from Thailand. The vehicle features a 3.2-liter five-cylinder Duratorq TDCi engine. In South Africa, it is available in two specification levels - XLT and the range-topping Limited. According to Ford, after production begins in South Africa, the vehicle will be available with a 2.2-litre Duratorq TDCi four-cylinder diesel engine, along with a wider range of specification levels. The new Duratorq TDCi diesel engines offer maximum fuel efficiency and better performance.
The $170 million investment will also support the new Ranger's production. The vehicle is being produced at the Silverton Assembly at maximum capacity level. The Ranger also has relatively high domestic sales and export demand.
Over the years Ford has retained its focus on Africa with continuous investments and expansion. In 2008, the automaker invested R3.4 billion ($231 million) for the production of Ford Ranger. The vehicle is exported to 148 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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A Software Contraption
With Docker Compose
Physical Objects
Docker Containers
$ docker pull redis
$ docker run -dP redis
f965bea89b312e77184a9b59b2d41827d99c34de97d179420d77...
$ docker ps -l
CONTAINER ID IMAGE PORTS
f965bea89b31 redis 0.0.0.0:32769->6379/tcp
version: '2'
services:
rust:
image: contraption/rust
ports:
- 3500:3500
links:
- redis
working_dir: /rust/projects/rusty_redis
entrypoint: ./target/debug/rusty_redis
clojure:
image: contraption/clojure
links:
- rabbitmq
- redis
working_dir: /root/projects/bringing_clojure
entrypoint: lein run
golang:
image: contraption/golang
links:
- rabbitmq
working_dir: /projects/gofire
entrypoint: go run gofire.go
redis:
image: redis
rabbitmq:
image: rabbitmq
Fast
Safe
Systems
$ docker run -it --entrypoint '/bin/sh' scorpil/rust
# container running...
$ mkdir -p projects/hello_world
$ cd projects/hello_world
$ nano main.rs
fn main() {
println!("Hello, World!");
}
$ rustc main.rs
$ ./main
Hello, World!
extern crate redis;
use redis::Commands;
use std::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
use std::thread;
use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::io::BufReader;
fn handle_client(mut stream: TcpStream) -> redis::RedisResult<()> {
let client = try!(redis::Client::open("redis://redis/"));
let con = try!(client.get_connection());
let mut buffer = String::new();
let mut reader = BufReader::new(stream);
while reader.read_line(&mut buffer).unwrap() > 0 {
let s = format!("{}, Rust!", buffer.trim());
println!("Received string: {} ..", s);
buffer.clear();
let _ = try!(con.set("rusty_key", s));
}
Ok(())
}
fn main() {
let listener = TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3500").unwrap();
// accept connections and process them, spawning a new thread for each one
for stream in listener.incoming() {
match stream {
Ok(stream) => {
thread::spawn(move|| {
println!("Client connected!");
let _ = handle_client(stream);
});
}
Err(e) => {
println!("client errored! {}", e);
}
}
}
// close the socket server
drop(listener);
Store Key
Publish
Functional
Simple
Fast
$ docker run -it clojure
# container running...
$ mkdir -p projects
$ cd projects
$ lein new app hello_world
$ cd hello_world
$ lein run
Hello, World!
(ns bringing-clojure.core
(:gen-class))
(defn -main
"I don't do a whole lot ... yet."
[& args]
(println "Hello, World!"))
(ns bringing-clojure.core
(:require [taoensso.carmine :as car :refer (wcar)])
(:require [langohr.core :as rmq])
(:require [langohr.channel :as lch])
(:require [langohr.queue :as lq])
(:require [langohr.basic :as lb])
(:gen-class))
;; redis setup
(def redis-conn {:pool {} :spec {:uri "redis://redis/"}})
(defmacro wcar* [& body] `(car/wcar redis-conn ~@body))
;; data passing
(defn feed-rabbit
[v]
(let [conn (rmq/connect {:host "rabbitmq"})
ch (lch/open conn)
qname "go-rabbit"]
(lq/declare ch qname {:exclusive false :auto-delete true})
(lb/publish ch "" qname (format "%s Clojure!" v) {:content-type "text/plain"})
(rmq/close ch)
(rmq/close conn)))
(defn fetch-rusty-key
[]
(if-let [v (wcar* (car/get "rusty_key"))]
(do
(wcar* (car/set "rusty_key" nil))
v)))
;; main
(defn -main
"setup, poll redis, feed rabbit, rise-and-repeat."
[& args]
(while true
(Thread/sleep 10)
(if-let [v (fetch-rusty-key)]
(do
(println "found rusty value!" v)
(feed-rabbit v)))))
Portable
Concurrent
Fast
$ docker run -it golang
# container running...
$ mkdir -p projects/hello_world
$ cd projects/hello_world
$ nano hello_world.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, World!")
}
$ go run hello_world.go
Hello, World!
package main
import (
"log"
"time"
"github.com/streadway/amqp"
)
func main() {
log.Printf(" [*] Go-ing to sleep ")
time.Sleep(10000 * time.Millisecond)
log.Printf(" [*] Time to get to work!")
conn, _ := amqp.Dial("amqp://guest:guest@rabbitmq/")
defer conn.Close()
ch, _ := conn.Channel()
defer ch.Close()
q, _ := ch.QueueDeclare(
"go-rabbit", // name
false, // durable
false, // delete when unused
false, // exclusive
false, // no-wait
nil, // arguments
)
msgs, _ := ch.Consume(
q.Name, // queue
"", // consumer
true, // auto-ack
false, // exclusive
false, // no-local
false, // no-wait
nil, // args
)
forever := make(chan bool)
go func() {
for d := range msgs {
log.Printf("Received a message: %s", d.Body)
}
}()
log.Printf(" [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C")
<-forever
}
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Ledet House
Ledet House is a historic residence located at 2117 LA 308, about 7 mi west of Raceland, Louisiana.
Built in c.1870, the house is a one-story framed cottage in Greek Revival style. The property on which the house stands was bought by Paulin A. Ledet and Joachim Prosper Ledet in 1876 from Leon Falgout.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997. | WIKI |
Converting a CloudFormation template to Terraform code can be a manual process because there is no automated tool that can perfectly translate between the two, given the differences in their syntax and features. However, you can follow these steps to guide you through the conversion process:
Step-by-Step Guide
1. Understand the CloudFormation Template:
• Identify all the resources, parameters, mappings, conditions, and outputs in the CloudFormation template.
• Note down the AWS services and resource types being used.
2. Set Up Your Terraform Environment:
• Install Terraform if you haven’t already.
• Create a new directory for your Terraform configuration files.
• Initialize the directory by running terraform init.
3. Create Terraform Configuration Files:
• Create a main configuration file, typically named main.tf.
• You might also create separate files for variables (variables.tf), outputs (outputs.tf), and provider configuration (provider.tf).
4. Translate CloudFormation Resources to Terraform:
• For each resource in the CloudFormation template, find the corresponding resource in the Terraform AWS provider documentation.
• Translate the CloudFormation resource properties to Terraform resource arguments.
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Gus Williams (outfielder)
August Joseph "Gus" Williams Jr. (May 7, 1888 – April 16, 1964), known also as "Gloomy" Gus Williams, was a German American professional baseball player whose career spanned 10 seasons, five of which were spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the St. Louis Browns (1911–1915). Over his major league career, Williams batted .263 with 171 runs scored, 367 hits, 58 doubles, 31 triples, 12 home runs, 147 runs batted in (RBIs), and 95 stolen bases in 410 games played.
Williams career started out in 1909 with the Monmouth Browns of the Class-D Illinois–Missouri League. After playing in the minor leagues for two seasons, Williams made his major league debut in 1911. He had another stint in the majors in 1912. In 1913, Williams served as the Browns regular outfielder. He was a dead-ball era power hitter for the Browns, ranking in the top-10 amongst American League hitters in home runs during the 1913 and 1914 seasons. He led the league in strikeouts in 1914. Williams would make his last appearance in the major leagues during the 1915 season. He would go on to play in the minors with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1915), Nashville Volunteers (1916), Louisville Colonels (1917), and Indianapolis Indians (1918). In the minors, he compiled a career batting average of .293 with 838 hits in 759 games played. Williams also played semi-professional baseball after leaving the professional circuit. He batted and threw left-handed. During his baseball career, Williams stood at 6 ft and weighed 185 lb.
Early life
Gus Williams was born on May 7, 1888, in Omaha, Nebraska, to August Sr. and Clara Williams of Indiana and Illinois, respectively. The two had four other children, Frank, Ross, Reed, and Weston. August Williams Sr., whose parents hailed from Germany, was a fire chief in Omaha. Gus Williams had five siblings; sisters Mamie, Carie, Louisa, and Theresia; and brother Harry. Harry would go on to play two seasons with the New York Yankees (1913–14). For much of his adolescent life, he worked in a meat packing plant in Omaha. In 1908, Williams tried out with the Lincoln Railsplitters as a pitcher. He was turned away from their training camp after he was too "wild". Later in 1908, he signed with the minor league Marion Diggers of the Class-D Ohio State League, again as a pitcher. However, Williams joined a semi-professional league and did not play with the Marion club.
Early minor league career (1909–1910)
In 1909, Williams signed with the minor league Lincoln Railsplitters, who he had tried out with a year before. Lincoln then farmed Williams out to the Monmouth Browns of the Class-D Illinois–Missouri League. He was used as a pitcher for the Browns until June when manager John Corbett converted Williams to an outfielder. In September, a scout from the St. Louis Browns saw Williams play and reported back to the team's management that they should sign him. He was drafted later that month by the Browns in Major League Baseball's (MLB) rule 5 draft. The Browns had to pay Monmouth US$300 in accordance with the draft, but the Lincoln club contested the transaction, since Williams' contract was still owned by the Railsplitters. The National Commission ruled that Lincoln should receive the compensation from the Browns, since Williams was still under contract with them. Williams finished the season with the Monmouth club. He compiled a .327 batting average with 64 hits, 10 doubles, 15 triples, and two home runs. Williams finished the season first in the Illinois–Missouri League in slugging percentage (.555), tied for first in triples, and fourth in batting average.
Williams again played with the Monmouth Browns in 1910, who were now members of the Class-D Central Association. In July, as a member of the Monmouth club, Williams hit a home run during an exhibition game against the MLB Chicago Cubs, which ended in the Cubs favor by a score of 5–to–4. By the end of the season, Williams had compiled a .290 batting average with 138 hits, 30 doubles, 11 triples, and seven home runs in 128 games played. Amongst league batters, he was second in triples, third in total bases (211), and fourth in slugging percentage (.443). After the season, the St. Louis Browns stated their intent for Williams to make his MLB debut during the 1911 season.
St. Louis Browns (1911–1915)
During spring training in 1911, Williams played with the St. Louis Browns. He made his MLB debut on April 12, against the Cleveland Naps. In that game, he had three hits, which included two doubles, in three at-bats. With the Browns that season, he batted .269 with one run scored, seven hits, three doubles, and four runs batted in (RBIs) in nine games played. He was assigned to the Omaha Rourkes of the Class-A Western League in mid-May. In July, Williams was benched due to poor play. The Lincoln Evening News stated that Williams had trouble hitting curveballs. On the season, Williams batted .303 with 149 hits 26 doubles, 15 triples, and 10 home runs in 128 games played. He was third in the league in home runs; and was tied for fifth in triples, and slugging percentage (.478).
Williams joined the Montgomery Rebels of the Class-A Southern Association at the start of the 1912 season. On June 17, Williams quit the Montgomery club after he stated it was too hot to play baseball in the area. He returned to his home-town of Omaha, where he played during the 1911 season where he asked the team for a contract. John Dobbs, the president of the Rebels telegraphed Williams at his home in Omaha that Montgomery would raise his salary if he returned to the team. However, Williams stated he did not want to return to the Montgomery team that season. In 57 games played with the Rebels that season, he batted .286 with 54 hits. Williams joined the St. Louis Browns in July. Williams made his MLB season debut on July 27, against the New York Highlanders. In that game, he got one hit, a double, in three at-bats. In August, Williams replaced Heinie Jantzen as the Browns every-day outfielder. Williams' first career MLB home run came on September 27, against Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Lange. During the next game on September 28, Williams hit his second career home run, also against Frank Lange. On the season, he batted .292 with 32 runs scored, 63 hits, 13 doubles, seven triples, two home runs, 32 RBIs, and 18 stolen bases in 64 games played.
In 1913, Williams played his first full season in the majors. During spring training that season, he reportedly exceeded the expectations of St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall. In May, a syndicated column "Ball and Bat Notes" had a section calling Williams "one of the best fielders in the country". Williams batted .273 with 72 runs scored, 147 hits, 21 doubles, 16 triples, five home runs, 51 RBIs, and 31 stolen bases in 148 games played. Amongst American League batters, Williams was second in strikeouts (87); tied for fourth with Ty Cobb in triples; tied for fifth with Rube Oldring, and Danny Moeller in home runs; tied for sixth with Oldring in at-bats per home runs (107.6), and eighth in extra base hits (42).
Williams re-signed with the St. Louis Browns in March 1914. The Browns feared that Williams would sign with a Federal League team, since it was reported in February that he was in talks with the Kansas City Packers, however he continued his tenure with St. Louis. Williams led the American League in batting average until the beginning of June. At one point in the season, Williams was sustaining a .452 batting average, with Sam Crawford, and Shoeless Joe Jackson trailing behind that. On June 26, The Washington Post reported that Williams hit one of the longest home runs ever at Sportsman's Park. Sportswriter Charles Bartlett stated that St. Louis manager Branch Rickey was the reason for Williams success that year, writing: "Branch Rickey is the man who made a star of Gus Williams. Who ever heard of [Williams] playing the brand of ball he's been exhibiting this year". In July, Williams went into a slump, causing manager Rickey to position him at the sixth spot in the Browns batting order. On the season, Williams batted .253 with 51 runs scored, 126 hits, 19 doubles, six triples, four home runs, 47 RBIs, and 35 stolen bases. He led American League hitters in strikeouts that season (120). Williams was also tied for seventh with Howie Shanks, Marty Kavanagh, Tris Speaker, and Jimmy Walsh in home runs; and tied for ninth with Donie Bush, and Ty Cobb in stolen bases.
In late-February 1915, Williams re-signed with the St. Louis Browns, and reported to their spring training in Texas. Browns manager Branch Rickey stated before the start of the season that he expected Williams to have a more productive season then 1914. The Kingston Daily Freeman called Williams the "best bad ball player" that season. With St. Louis that season, he batted .202 with 15 runs scored, 24 hits, two doubles, two triples, one home run, 11 RBIs, and 11 stolen bases in 45 games played. He made his last MLB appearance on June 18.
Later career (1915–1918)
On August 21, 1915, the St. Louis Browns traded Williams to the minor league Toronto Maple Leafs of the Double-A International League in exchange for a pitcher to be named later. On the season with Toronto, Williams batted .285 with 97 hits, 15 doubles, nine triples, and eight home runs in 90 games played. He finished the seasons fifth in the International League in home runs. After the season, Williams wrote Rowdy Elliott, the manager of the Oakland Oaks, requesting a chance to try out for the team. Elliott said that he was not interested in another left-handed hitter, as he already had outfielders Rube Gardner and Robert Middleton, who were also left-handed. Before the start of the 1916 season, Williams signed with the Nashville Volunteers of the Class-A Southern Association. The Volunteers won the Southern Association Championship that year. As a member of the winning team, Williams received a cash reward, and supply of cake from a local Atlanta bakery. With the Volunteers, he batted .298 with 156 hits, 33 doubles, 13 triples, and five home runs in 138 games played. Williams led the league in doubles, was second in hits, tied for second with Joe Harris in total bases (230), and tied for third with Ham Hyatt in triples.
At the end of the 1916 season, Williams was selected by the Double-A Louisville Colonels of the American Association in the minor league draft. He played the entire 1917 season with the Colonels, batting .279 with 161 hits, 29 doubles, 24 triples, and seven home runs in 148 games played. Williams led the American Association in triples; was fifth in doubles; and tied for fifth with Dave Altizer, Johnny Beall, Ray Demmitt, Cozy Dolan, and Fred Nicholson in home runs. After the season, Louisville traded Williams, along with Red Corriden, to the Indianapolis Indians, who like the Colonels were members of the American Association. Williams batted in the lead-off spot in the Indians batting order. He primarily played right field for the Indians. The Indians were in talks with the St. Louis Cardinals to send Williams back to the majors, but negotiations fell through, resulting in him staying in Indianapolis. On the season, Williams batted .279 with 19 hits, four doubles, and three triples in 17 games played. That season would prove to be his last in professional baseball.
Later life
In July 1918, Williams signed with the semi-professional Allegheny Steel team, based out of Pittsburgh. By 1930, Williams was living in Sterling, Illinois, with his wife Hazel, and their two daughters. Williams and his wife worked out of their own office as chiropractors. In 1942, Williams was working for a Stewart Warner in Sterling. Williams died on April 16, 1964, at the age of 75 in Sterling. He was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Sterling. | WIKI |
Ikayaki
Ikayaki (いか焼き, イカ焼き, or 烏賊焼) is a popular fast food in Japan. In much of Japan, the term refers to simple grilled squid topped with soy sauce; the portion of squid served may be the whole body (minus entrails), rings cut from the body, or one or more tentacles, depending on the size. Ikayaki is served in many izakayas and a grilled tentacle on a stick is popular at Japanese festivals.
Osaka variety
The term "ikayaki" may refer to a style of "squid pancake" that is regional specialty in Osaka. This pancake style is prepared like folded crêpes and made of chopped squid, hard dough, Worcestershire sauce and sometimes egg, and is cooked and pressed between two iron plates. The popularity of this style of "ikayaki" is partly due to its speed, as it only takes a minute to cook it this way.
The Snack Park of Hanshin Department Store (Umeda, Osaka) is famous for its ikayaki. Ikayaki is also commonly served on the street or at the beach.
It should not be confused with takoyaki, which are spherical octopus dumplings also from Osaka. | WIKI |
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