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In the 19th century, the city of Chicago in Illinois was plagued by the problem of improper water drainage. The city, being located close to Lake Michigan and its low elevation, was always flooded with water. The people in the city led miserable lives due to the stale waters always present in the city.
By that time, Chicago had grown to be an industrial center in the United States, which increased the city traffic. As people moved into the city, they soon realized that the commute was rendered impossible due to the swampy landscape of the city. The flow of traffic, be it carriages, horses, or virtually anything else, was hindered. The problem kept worsening due to the frequent floods that destroyed basements and commercial buildings.
However, somehow the agitated residents of Chicago managed to live with these problems. But as time passed, the water became a murky habitat for pathogens. Soon enough, water-borne diseases such as typhoid fever and dysentery wreaked havoc in the city. Due to improper sanitation and drainage, the diseases become epidemic in 19th century Chicago.
These diseases spread rapidly and uncontrollably due to improper water drainage. How could it not? The swampy streets and murky waters meant that people were always exposed to water-borne pathogens.
Later, the outbreak of Cholera made even matters worse. The plague that followed took thousands of lives in the city, effectively wiping out six percent of the city’s total population.
It was after this outbreak that people begin to realize the grave problem of the city’s drainage and overall infrastructure. A board was then created to solve the crisis in Chicago for once and for all. The board consisted of competent engineers and architects alike. They initially tried to solve the drainage problem by installing citywide sewers. The plan was submitted in 1856 by Ellis S. Chelsborg, an esteemed engineer.
However, Chicago is almost level with Lake Michigan, which meant that no matter how much the water was drained, it would soon level back. The board soon realized that this solution would not cure the problem of water drainage. The next plan of action was grading, which is a system of land leveling.
But much to the dismay of the board, even this method failed. One after the other, the engineers proposed a variety of schemes to cope with the drainage problem. However, it soon became apparent that the only solution was to raise the city a little above Lake Michigan. It included the buildings, streets, and alleys.
Back in the 19th century, this quite a tough challenge; our forefathers did not have access to sophisticated machines such as heavy lifters and efficient means of transport. Despite the challenges, the board went forward with this innovative scheme. Surprisingly, the elevation was carried out manually by only employing hydraulic jacks and jackscrews.
Different structures were elevated to different heights ranging from 4 feet to a whopping 14 feet, but on average, most buildings were raised by 10 feet. But this innovative project couldn’t be carried out without adequate funds, so it was decided that private property owners, as well as public funds, would be used to cover the costs.
The first building to be elevated as part of this plan was a four-story masonry building. The 70-foot brick structure was successfully lifted to more than 6 feet 2 inches its original height. Jackscrews were employed during the process.
Unsurprisingly, the crew managed to move the building without damaging it in any way. After the successful elevation of this building, the engineers soon implemented this method on other buildings too. By the next two decades, moving the buildings was so common that it was considered quite normal, almost like traffic jams of our era.
People would witness entire houses and buildings being located to the other side of the city. The entire process was nothing short of a feat, as all transportation was done manually. Today, even After two decades, it seems like a far-fetched idea to move an entire house across a street, much less a four-story building.
As time passed, engineers learned the precise methods of lifting even taller buildings, and eventually, they were able to lift the entire city blocks to elevate them.
So, if we describe the entire ordeal in simple terms, the city of Chicago was quite literally lifted out of the swamp and elevated in the next two decades that followed. It ensured that after the installation of proper drainage and sewage system, the city would no longer be a murky swamp. And that’s how the current city of Chicago became a more habitable region. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Please tell me why this is not false?
#1
Can someone please tell me why this is not false?
What is wrong in this OR
#2
If you mean this,
2**3 == 108 % 100 or 'Cleese' == 'King Arthur'
then the answer is simple. It's an OR expression meaing there is only one False state... Both operands are False. All other states yield True.
or T F
T T T
F T F
#3
Thank you! Still a bit fuzzy. Will have to re-review that particular section
#4
LS RS
2**3 108 % 100
8 8
8 == 8 => True
Since this operand is True, it short-circuits the expression and yields True.
#5
Doesn't 108%100 mean 108 divided by 100 and leaving a remainder? If so, how does this statement equal true?
#6
2**3 == 108 % 100
8 == 8
True
#7
How does 108%100 equal 8? This is where I'm confused.
When I divide them, I get an answer of 1.08.
#8
You get 1 with a remainder of 8
#9
Ah, I get it now. It returns true because it actually DOES have a remainder.
So 108 % 100 would be false if it DIDN'T return a remainder.
I was confused because I thought they were saying it returned an answer of 8.
#10
No, it evaluates to 8, not false
If you compare that 8 to something you'll get a boolean value.
For example:
108 % 100 > 5
evaluates to true, because 8 > 5 evaluates to true
#11
OK. But if I divide 108 by 100, I get an answer 1.08. How does that equal to 8?
I guess the math is where I'm getting stuck.
Can you walk through 108%100 so that maybe I can understand this please.
Sorry for my difficulty in understanding this.
#12
108 divided by 100 doesn't equal 8. The remainder is 8.
#13
Got it. This is where my confusion came from.
I was thinking that the program wanted the same TYPE of number (whole number & whole number).
Looks like it was just looking for the same character regardless of whether one was a whole number 8 (2**3) or a decimal number .08 (108%100).
Thank you so much for your help & patience.
#14
% is the remainder or modulo operator. / is the division operator.
108 / 100 => 1.08
108 % 100 => 8
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100 ) 108 | 1
-100 |
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8
#15
I get the difference between the modulo operator & the division sign.
The modulo operator is only looking for the remainder?
If so, I just get that by simple division. Done on a calculator I get 1.08, but done by hand like your example I get the remainder of 8.
Which makes the statement true because the modulo operator has a value / remainder of 8.
#16
If your calculator does not have a MOD function then it is a two step approach to calculate.
108 / 100 => 1.08
keep the decimal fraction and
multiply by the denominator (the modulus)
0.08 * 100 => 8 (the modulo)
This technique is very much hands on if using the computer to manually perform the calculation since it will very likely return a float unless the multiplication is very simple.
23 % 11
23 / 11 = 2.090909090909091
0.090909090909091 * 11
=> 1.0000000000000009
#17
Now I get it!!!
Thank you very much!!!
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Sample of IndexedDB with Autogenerating Keys
04-26-2012 6,603 views Development, JavaScript, HTML5 5 Comments
I'm still struggling my way through learning IndexedDB. I'm going to post examples as I learn - but as a warning - please consider anything I post as potentially wrong, misleading, and dangerous to the fabric of the universe.
In today's post - I simply wanted to create an objectstore (again, think of a table) with an autogenerating key. The (mostly) incredibly useful MDN documentation talks a bit about how you can either provide a key manually or use a key generator. However it doesn't explain how you actually use a key generator. This seems to imply that indexeddb has a way to allow you to write your own logic to create keys. For example, perhaps by combining a few properties, or perhaps by simply counting the existing objects and adding one to it. I'm still not sure if that actually exists. However, there is a simpler way of doing it.
When you create your object store, you provide a name and a map of options. One option is the keypath, which is basically the property of your data expected to hold a value. The second option is a key called autoIncrement. This defaults to false, but if you set it to true, you get nicely autoincrementing keys. Here's an example by itself:
And here is a complete template. Note it also supports a simple button to add data and then dump it to console. Note that adding data currently barfs on Chrome with:
Uncaught Error: DATA_ERR: DOM IDBDatabase Exception 5
Which according to the MDN reference is "Data provided to an operation does not meet requirements." If I had to guess, I'd say maybe Chrome isn't supporting the auto generated key. (Note - I just did a test and confirmed this. Well, I'll be focusing then on Firefox, which seems to be more to spec.) For a complete example, see the code below.
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• Commented on 09-23-2012 at 4:25 AM
Thanks for this example.
Btw, on Chrome (both 21 and 23) it's not working. I saw it's throw:
NotFoundError: DOM IDBDatabase Exception 8
• Commented on 09-23-2012 at 8:44 AM
Chrome still doesn't support onupgradeneeded, which is the spec. :(
http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/6/12/I...
• Commented on 09-23-2012 at 8:49 AM
FYI, Chrome Canary supports it.
• Commented on 09-23-2012 at 2:29 PM
Yep... btw, I did this short example (forked from your example) that works both in FF and Chrome ;)
• Commented on 09-23-2012 at 3:06 PM
Good to hear. :)
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Finding solutions to an embarrassing female problem
It is not an unnatural occurrence – 40 percent of postmenopausal women experience vaginal dryness and an undetermined number experience this condition following childbirth and breast cancer. These numbers remain a mystery, because so few women are willing to discuss this issue with a doctor and many surveys exclude the latter two groups.
Vaginal lubrication is linked to insufficient levels of estrogen, which tend to plummet during menopause, following pregnancy and with treatments for breast cancer. This condition, however, is something women should be discussing with their doctors. Vaginal dryness can be a result of more serious conditions, such as the autoimmune disease, Sjogren’s syndrome, or it could be caused by certain medications, like antidepressants.
Regardless of the cause, intercourse can become very painful. Women may lose the desire to have sex or endure unhealthy pain in the attempt to appease their partner. The impact on your sex life and health –mental and physical – is significant.
There are several things women, particularly menopausal women, can do to find relief from vaginal dryness naturally – and it comes down to simple things you already know are important to caring for your health. These are habits you should make a priority – vaginal dryness is a sign that something is awry inside your body.
1. Hormone balance
Hormonal shifts can occur throughout the female lifespan, but none are as great as the rapid, and often sudden, decline that accompanies menopause. During perimenopause progesterone begins to decline and some women may experience a relative increase in estrogen. When menopause hits, however, estrogen plummets as well. Among the responsibilities of estrogen is vaginal lubrication, which is why vaginal dryness is common in postmenopausal women.
Hormone therapy can bring relief – restoring estrogen and progesterone levels to normal levels can bring back the natural mechanism that supports vaginal lubrication. Studies have shown that in addition to treatment with the estradiol, the estrogen hormone, estriol, is also very effective.
2. Nutrition
Eat plenty of healthy fats. Fats are essential for making hormones - just make sure you choose the healthy ones, like mono- and polyunsaturated fats. Good sources of these fats include walnuts, almonds, olive oil, avocados and certain types of fish. Just remember, fats should consume no more than 20 percent of your diet.
3. Hydrate
Keep your body hydrated. Hydration keeps the body’s mucous membranes moist and functioning. Alternative beverages, like coffee, soda and alcohol, dehydrate the body further. Menopausal women or women approaching menopause, often have trouble ridding these toxic substances from their body, furthering the effects of dehydration throughout the body and exacerbating vaginal dryness.
4. Avoid irritants
Feminine sprays, douches and antibacterial and deodorant soaps steal moisture from the delicate tissues of the vagina and surrounding tissue. Choose soaps that can maintain the pH balance of the vaginal tissue. Look for a moisturizing, hypoallergenic soap with no dyes or fragrances that is non-alkaline and pH balanced.
5. Lubricate
There are many lubricants on the market today. Some have even been specially formulated for menopausal women. Just be sure to choose a water-based formula. There are also all-natural products you can use, like extra virgin coconut oil, which offers a pleasant odor in addition to adequate lubrication. In some cases, you may simply need to learn to lubricate yourself – moisture can pool in the back of the vagina, making it impossible to reach during sexual intercourse. In this instance, you can use your finger to pull the moisture down and coat the dry surfaces. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Berchtesgaden Provostry
Berchtesgaden Provostry or the Prince-Provostry of Berchtesgaden (Fürstpropstei Berchtesgaden) was an immediate (reichsunmittelbar) principality of the Holy Roman Empire, held by a canonry (a collegiate foundation of Canons Regular) led by a Prince-Provost.
Geography
The territory comprised the Alpine Berchtesgaden hollow, namely the modern communities of Berchtesgaden, Bischofswiesen, Marktschellenberg, Ramsau and Schönau am Königssee, located in the present-day German state of Bavaria, as well as a number of estates further afield. The location of the monastery was strategically important. Firstly, it is in an area possessing immensely valuable salt deposits, and was situated in such a way that it was able to act as a buffer state between its much larger neighbours, the Duchy of Bavaria and the Archbishopric of Salzburg, and to make this situation work to its advantage. Secondly, the Berchtesgaden valley is almost entirely enclosed by high mountains, except for a single point of access to the north, and is thus virtually impregnable.
History
The Berchtesgaden monastery, dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist, was founded in 1102 within the Bavarian stem duchy as a community of Augustinian Canons by Count Berengar of Sulzbach under the directions of the will of his mother, the late Countess Irmgard.
In view of the favourable geopolitical circumstances, the provosts had little difficulty in establishing the territorial independence of the monastery, which became an Imperial abbey in 1194. In 1380 the provosts achieved the status of an ecclesiastical Reichsfürst and from 1559 held a direct vote in the Reichstag assembly as "Prince-Provosts", a rank almost equivalent to that of a Prince-Bishop. The title was one of only two within the Empire: the only other one was at the Swabian Imperial Ellwangen Abbey. The position of Prince-Provost was frequently held in conjunction with other high ecclesiastical positions, and the provosts often lived elsewhere. From 1594 until 1723, the title and territories were held by the House of Wittelsbach, from 1612 in personal union by the Prince-Archbishops of Cologne, whose cousins ruled over the neighbouring Bavarian duchy. The constant avarice of the archbishops of Salzburg led to clashes of arms in 1611, when the troops of Wolf Dietrich Raitenau occupied Berchtesgaden but were repulsed by the forces of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria.
In 1802/1803 the provostry and its territories were secularised and mediatised first to the short-lived Electorate of Salzburg, which according to the 1805 Peace of Pressburg fell to the Austrian Empire, and finally in 1810 to the newly established Kingdom of Bavaria. The monastic buildings were used for a while as a barracks, but in 1818 the monastery was designated as a royal residence of the Wittelsbachs, who used it as a summer palace.
Following the end of the Bavarian monarchy, the buildings have been administered since 1923 by the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund (Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds). Some of the rooms are open to the public, while other parts of the building are still used by the Wittelsbachs. The monastic church now serves as the parish church of Berchtesgaden.
Provosts and Prince-Provosts of Berchtesgaden
* Eberwin 1111-1142
* Hugo I 1142-1148
* Heinrich I 1148-1174, Anti-Archbishop of Salzburg 1174-1177, Bishop of Brixen 1177-1195
* Dietrich 1174-1178
* Friedrich I 1178-1188
* Bernhard I of Schönstätten 1188-1201
* Gerhard 1201
* Hugo II 1201-1210
* Konrad Garrer 1210-1211
* Friedrich II Ellinger 1211-1217
* Heinrich II 1217-1231
* Friedrich III of Ortenburg 1231-1239
* Bernhard II 1239-1252
* Konrad II 1252
* Heinrich III 1252-1257
* Konrad III von Medling 1257-1283
* Johann I Sachs von Sachsenau 1283-1303, Prince-Bishop of Brixen 1302-1306
* Hartung von Wildon 1303-1306
* Eberhard Sachs von Sachsenau 1306-1316
* Konrad IV Tanner 1316-1333
* Heinrich IV von Inzing 1333-1351
* Reinhold Zeller 1351-1355
* Otto Tanner 1355-1357
* Peter I Pfaffinger 1357-1362
* Jakob I von Vansdorf 1362-1368
* Greimold Wulp 1368-1377
* Ulrich I Wulp 1377-1384 concurrently with
* Sieghard Waller 1381-1384
* Konrad V Thorer von Thörlein 1384-1393, Bishop of Lavant 1397-1406
* Pilgrim von Puchheim 1393-1396, also Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg since 1365
* Gregorius Schenk von Osterwitz 1396-1403, also Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg
* Berthold von Wehingen 1404, Anti-Archbishop of Salzburg 1404-1406
* Peter II Pienzenauer 1404-1432
* Johann II Praun 1432-1446
* Bernhard III Leuprechtinger 1446-1473
* Erasmus Pretschlaiffer 1473-1486
* Ulrich II Pernauer 1486-1496
* Balthasar Hirschauer 1496-1508
* Gregor Rainer 1508-1522
* Wolfgang I Lenberger 1523-1541
* Wolfgang II Griestätter 1541-1567 (created Prince-Provost in 1559)
* Jakob II Putrich 1567-1594
* Ferdinand of Bavaria 1594-1650, also Archbishop of Cologne from 1612
* Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria 1650-1688, also Archbishop of Cologne
* Joseph Clemens of Bavaria 1688-1723, also Archbishop of Cologne
* Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau 1723-1732
* Cajetan Anton von Notthaft 1732-1752
* Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg 1752-1768
* Franz Anton Joseph von Hausen-Gleichenstorff 1768-1780
* Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös 1780-1803, also Prince-Bishop of Freising 1789-1803, resigned | WIKI |
Non-jammy packages in aramo?
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Hi. I'm reviewing the Aramo package archive for differences compared to Jammy, and while the REMOVED and MODIFIED packages appears to make sense compared to the 'package-helpers' and 'ubuntu-purge' projects, I find a large number of packages that are in Aramo that are NOT in jammy.
For example: gcc-8, g++-8, python3.9, clang-9, xdmx, kmon, gnome-twitch-player-backend-gstreamer-cairo.
What the packages have in common is that they seem to have been part of earlier Ubuntu releases.
Is it intentional that these packages are part of Aramo, and where can I find how they end up in the Trisquel archive? Which Trisquel script imports them? Since the packages are not part of Jammy, I assume they won't get security fixes via Ubuntu, which is a concern to me.
I should be able to do the same analysis for Nabia vs Focal but haven't done so yet.
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Which Trisquel script imports them?
"reprepro and some cron scripts" are used, if https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made is up to date.
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Ubuntu drops and deletes packages, mainly on the development stage of the next release, so by the time trisquel made a copy of the jammy archive those packages some were part of the repository, while removing non-free software is done via scripts, some maintenance to the aramo repo should be done in order to remove dropped packages manually at this point.
Some other packages might be ported from debian or other source mainly using helpers, thus not available at ubuntu.
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Ah, thanks -- that explains it, that packages from jammy were imported at one point before the jammy release, and later just was kept around in aramo.
Wouldn't it make sense to automate removals? Presumably if something disappears from jammy we would want it to disappear from aramo as well, unless Trisquel disagree with the decision behind the removal, in which case we can re-add the package using the usual mechanisms to add trisquel-specific packages? Anyway, that part is not important, but removing the non-jammy packages from aramo before the aramo release would be nice, so people don't end up installing some package (like python3.9) that aramo won't support.
Btw, the output of my scripts to diff ubuntu and trisquel are published here -- I hope to HTMLize and improve the output eventually:
https://debdistutils.gitlab.io/debdistdiff/
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Thanks for pointing this out. I wrote a script that finds all the cases (https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/trisquel-builder/-/blob/master/find-packages-to-remove.py) and I'm now cleaning the repositories with it.
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Thank you! Looking forward to see a cleaned aramo archive. Nice script, will try to learn from it.
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You can do whatever you want with our feet - can feet grow as an adult
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Jul 26, · By some estimates, feet grow as much as a half size every decade after age 40, which means it’s important to have them measured when you buy shoes and not assume they are the same size as when you were younger. According to a study in the Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery, about one-third of people wore shoes that were at least one size off. Oct 05, · Feet do not literally grow, orthopedists agree. Rather, over the years, tissue in our feet degenerates and ligaments become looser, which causes strain on .
Jun 24, · A. Feet do get bigger over decades of pounding. Some people over the age of 40 can gain half a shoe size every 10 years. I know my feet are larger than they used to . Feb 28, · No, feet do not continue to grow - they reach a maximum size depending on gender usually in the teens Feet DO change size however due .
Jun 29, · When you’re a child, your feet rapidly grow each year. They grow even faster during puberty, as your body turns into an adult. Your bones, including the ones in . | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Re: More math - must be bug(?)
At 2008-02-14 09:09AM, "ZB" wrote:
tclsh8.5 [~/tmp]set a -0
-0
tclsh8.5 [~/tmp]puts [::tcl::mathfunc::int $a]
0
tclsh8.5 [~/tmp]puts [::tcl::mathfunc::abs $a]
-0
tclsh8.5 [~/tmp]puts [::tcl::mathfunc::abs $a]
-0
As you can see, "int" does the operation "absolute value" properly - when
"abs" does not?
I think you've found a bug in ::tcl::mathfunc::abs. File it on the Tcl
bug tracker at sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=110894&group_id=10894&func=browse
Note that when you use expr, result is correct:
% expr {abs(-0)}
0
I see in the expr docS that when Tcl sees:
expr {sin($x+$y)}
it actually does
tcl::mathfunc::sin [expr {$x+$y}]
expr still processes the function arguments (!)
so we see the error:
% ::tcl::mathfunc::abs -0
-0
BUT
% expr {-0}
0
Therefore, as a workaround, you should wrap your mathfunc arguments in
expr:
set abs [::tcl::mathfunc::abs [expr {$a}]]
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Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (c. 675 – 22 September 717) was the seventh Umayyad caliph, ruling from 715 until his death. He began his career as governor of Palestine, while his father Abd al-Malik ((r. 685 – 705)) and brother al-Walid I ((r. 705 – 715)) reigned as caliphs. He founded the city of Ramla, the administrative capital of Palestine, and built the White Mosque in it. After succeeding al-Walid, Sulayman dismissed his predecessor's governors and generals. Territorial expansion largely stopped under Sulayman, partly due to effective resistance along the frontiers. He intensified the war with the Byzantine Empire, culminating in the 717–718 siege of Constantinople, which ended in the Arabs' defeat. Sulayman died in Dabiq during the siege. He made the unconventional choice of nominating his cousin, Umar II, as successor. Sulayman was viewed by contemporary Arab poets in messianic terms due to the siege of Constantinople and the approaching centennial of the Hegira (start of the Islamic calendar).
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Hi and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:55, 28 March 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
Carcinomas of the lungs are divided into non small-cell (NSCLC) and small-cell (SCLC) types. A form of NSCLC, squamous lung cancer begins in the squamous cells found in the tissue lining of the airways. The location of the malignancy presents particular obstacles to treatment.
Signs and Symptoms
Squamous cell is closely associated with cigarette smoking, as are most types of lung carcinomas. It is also known as epidermoid carcinoma. Malignant cells tend to grow in the main bronchi where the trachea and lungs meet. As with other types of NSCLC, squamous cell grows slowly. Symptoms of coughing up blood or developing hoarseness in the voice are related to this form of cancer.
Cancers close to the airways can cause additional symptoms such as ‘pancoast syndrome’. This problem is signified by pain radiating down the arm from the shoulder, prickly sensations in the fingers and hands, or ‘Horner’s Syndrome’ which causes a droopy eyelid. Hypercalcemia is another possible side effect of squamous cell carcinoma. This symptom elevates calcium levels causing weakness and cramping muscles.
Diagnostic Methods
During a routine physical examination, chest x-rays which show abnormalities will be investigated for cancer. A sputum cytology performed on a sample from the airways is effective for detecting cancer cells. Additional methods to confirm suspected cancer include chest x-rays using 3D imaging such as CT scans or PET scans. A biopsy sample will generally be taken to learn more about the malignant cells.
Diagnostic tests will determine the measurement of tumors, if the cells have metastasized and if the lymphatic system is now involved. A stage from 1a to 4 will be assigned based on evaluation of these factors. Treatment is then scheduled to cure the patient.
Treatments Options
A person with an early stage squamous-cell tumor has a good chance it can be removed with surgery. This chance is reduced if the tumor has grown to larger than 3 centimeters or is invading local organs or blood vessels. Doctors may use surgical resection combined with chemotherapy to cure the patient. Radiation doses may also be used to alleviate symptoms of the disease, especially in patients with advanced stage lung cancer.
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115 STAT. 312 PUBLIC LAW 107-56 —OCT. 26, 2001 with respect to liabilities arising from the restraint, seizure, or arrest of such funds, and that such suspension or termination would be in the interest of justice and would not harm the national interests of the United States. "(2) No REQUIREMENT FOR GOVERNMENT TO TRACE FUNDS.— If a forfeiture action is brought against funds that are restrained, seized, or arrested under paragraph (1), it shall not be necessary for the Government to establish that the funds are directly traceable to the funds that were deposited into the foreign bank, nor shall it be necessary for the Government to rely on the application of section 984. "(3) CLAIMS BROUGHT BY OWNER OF THE FUNDS.—I f a forfeiture action is instituted against funds restrained, seized, or arrested under paragraph (1), the owner of the funds deposited into the account at the foreign bank may contest the forfeiture by filing a claim under section 983. "(4) DEFINITIONS.— For purposes of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply: "(A) INTERBANK ACCOUNT.— The term 'interbank account' has the same meaning as in section 984(c)(2)(B). "(B) OWNER.— "(i) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided in clause (ii), the term 'owner'— "(I) means the person who was the owner, as that term is defined in section 983(d)(6), of the funds that were deposited into the foreign bank at the time such funds were deposited; and "(II) does not include either the foreign bank or any financial institution acting as an intermediary in the transfer of the funds into the interbank account. "(ii) EXCEPTION.— The foreign bank may be considered the 'owner' of the funds (and no other person shall qualify as the owner of such funds) only if— "(I) the basis for the forfeiture action is wrongdoing committed by the foreign bank; or "(II) the foreign bank establishes, by a preponderance of the evidence, that prior to the restraint, seizure, or arrest of the funds, the foreign bank had discharged all or part of its obligation to the prior owner of the funds, in which case the foreign bank shall be deemed the owner of the funds to the extent of such discharged obligation.", (b) BANK RECORDS. —Section 5318 of title 31, United States Code, as amended by this title, is amended by adding at the end the following: " (k) BANK RECORDS RELATED TO ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PRO- GRAMS.— "(1) DEFINITIONS. —For purposes of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply: "(A) APPROPRIATE FEDERAL BANKING AGENCY.—The term 'appropriate Federal banking agency' has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act(12 U.S.C. 1813). "(B) INCORPORATED TERM. — The term 'correspondent account' has the same meaning as in section 5318A(f)(l)(B).
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Example Code:
procedure selection( var a : anarray; N : integer);
var i, j, min : integer;
begin
for i := 1 to N-1 do
begin
{Elements from 1 to i-1 are in the correct place}
min := i;
for j := i+1 to N do
if a[j] < a[min] then min := j;
swap(a[i], a[min]);
{Elements from 1 to i are in the correct place}
end;
end;
Back to Sorting Algorithms
This algorithm is of order n2; that is, at worst it goes through the square of the number of instructions. For those of you who understand c:
void sort (int sortme[], int items) {
int i, j, smallest, index;
for (i = 0; i > items - 1; i++) {
smallest = sortme[i];
index = i;
for (j = 0; j < index; j++) {
if (sortme[j] < smallest) {
smallest = sortme[j];
index = j;
}
}
if (index != i) {
sortme[index] = sortme[i];
sortme[i] = smallest;
}
}
}
Selection sort is a sorting algorithm that nearly every student of computer science knows. Its name comes from the fact that on each pass, the algorithm selects and processes the largest element. It has time complexity Θ(n2). Because of this, other algorithms like quicksort and merge sort, with time complexity O(n log n) are often used over it. It is stable, in-place, requires n exchanges and n2 comparisons.
The selection sort algorithm is:
1. Find the largest value V of list L.
2. Swap V with the value of last unprocessed element of L.
3. Repeat until all of elements of L have been exhausted.
NB: the two implementations above work by finding the smallest value and swapping it with the first unprocessed element of the list. This difference is trivial (almost.. but we'll get to that).
An example should drive the point home. Consider the following list of integers as the sequence to be sorted.
2 1 7 9 4 2 6
1. The first step is to find the largest value of the list.
2 1 7 9 4 2 6
2. Now swap it with the last element of the list.
2 1 7 6 4 2 9
3. Ignore the last element of the list.
2 1 7 6 4 2 | 9
Repeat the process:
2 1 7 6 4 2 | 9 (find)
2 1 2 6 4 7 | 9 (swap)
2 1 2 6 4 | 7 9 (ignore)
2 1 2 6 4 | 7 9 (find)
2 1 2 4 6 | 7 9 (swap)
2 1 2 4 | 6 7 9 (ignore)
2 1 2 4 | 6 7 9 (find)
2 1 2 4 | 6 7 9 (swap)
2 1 2 | 4 6 7 9 (ignore)
2 1 2 | 4 6 7 9 (find)
2 1 2 | 4 6 7 9 (swap) *
2 1 | 2 4 6 7 9 (ignore)
2 1 | 2 4 6 7 9 (find)
1 2 | 2 4 6 7 9 (swap)
1 | 2 2 4 6 7 9 (ignore)
1 2 2 4 6 7 9
In this example, stability was not maintained. Notice that the two elements with value 2 swapped places. This happened at the step marked with the asterisk. With this algorithm, the simple fix is to find the element with the largest value that is closest to the end. This is done by using >= instead of > in the comparison between the current element and the largest element. Alternatively, you can use the smallest/first element swap used by yossarian and flamingweasel in their implementations above. This is the sole reason why I chose to sort by finding the largest value in this writeup: so you would become familiar with the idea that simple things can have unforeseen consequences on an otherwise working algorithm.
Selection sort has time complexity Θ(n2) in all cases. In layman's terms, this means that selection sort will more or less require the same amount of time regardless of the order or type of data. Conversely, another sorting algorithm, bubble sort, requires less and less time as the sortedness of the data increases. The n2 implies that as the list of items to be sorted grows, the time required to sort them grows quadratically.
This algorithm has space complexity O(1) in all cases. This means the memory required by the algorithm is constant regardless of how much data is processed. Usually this memory is in the form of two loop variables and another variable to keep track of which element is the largest. Some naïve implementations of the algorithm have space complexity O(n) because they require enough extra memory to hold another copy of the input list. The naïve algorithm is then to find the smallest element of the input list, remove it, and then place it at the end of the output list. This extra memory is unnecessary as the algorithm can be implemented to sort in-place.
A very common improvement to selection sort produces an algorithm known as heapsort. In a heapsort, elements are first put into a heap and then the basic selection sort process is used. It runs in O(n log n) time. A different improvement produces the algorithm bingo sort. It is the same as selection sort, except when there are multiple elements with the same value. In this situation, all of those elements are moved in the same pass.
Sources:
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/selectionsrt.html
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Franz
Franz may refer to:
People
* Franz (given name)
* Franz (surname)
Places
* Franz (crater), a lunar crater
* Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada
* Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Businesses
* Franz Deuticke, a scientific publishing company based in Vienna, Austria
* Franz Family Bakeries, a food processing company in Portland, Oregon
* Franz-porcelains, a Taiwanese brand of pottery based in San Francisco
Other uses
* Franz (1971 film), a Belgian film
* Franz (2025 film), an upcoming biographical film of Franz Kafka
* Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language | WIKI |
Lateral Joins in Rails
Making Activerecord do what it does not yet know it wants to do: Lateral Joins
March 8, 2021
Imagine you’re making a Reddit clone in Rails. Your site has many Posts, and each post has thousands of Comments.
You want the front page to show a few hundred posts along with the top three comments on each post. You’re planning on being very popular, so the front page will need to be very fast. How do you fetch that data efficiently from postgresql using Activerecord?
Making one Comment query per Post is too expensive; it’s N+1 queries (one to fetch the posts, N to fetch the comments).
You could use includes to preload all the comments for all the posts, but that requires hydrating hundreds of thousands of records, even though you only need a few hundred for your front page.
What you want is some kind of GROUP BY with a LIMIT on each group — but that doesn’t exist, either in Activerecord nor even in postgres.
Postgres has a different solution for this problem: the LATERAL JOIN. ActiveRecord doesn’t have built-in support for it, but here’s what a lateral join looks like in SQL:
SELECT lateral_subquery.* FROM posts
JOIN LATERAL (
SELECT comments.* FROM comments
WHERE (comments.post_id = posts.id)
LIMIT 3
) lateral_subquery ON true
WHERE posts.id IN [A_LIST_OF_POST_IDS]
You could always select against this raw SQL directly, but then your query is not available for the chaining, adjusting, lazy-evaluating fun that ActiveRecord makes possible. Here’s how to make that same query in conjunction with (or at least in spite of) ActiveRecord.
We’re going to build the query from the inside out; concentrate on what each step means and how we combine them, not what it will return if run in isolation. First, write a generic query you’d like to run against each Post. We don’t have a post to run against, so we’re just describing a filter on Comment:
filter = Comment.order(:rating).limit(3)
(Note this is NOT post.comments.order... we don’t know what post, yet. We want the final query to return comments, so our filter starts with Comment.)
Now constrain that query against a theoretical Post in our lateral join:
filter = filter.where("comments.post_id = posts.id").select("comments.id")
Note that if you try to execute this line in the REPL, you’ll get an error at this point; this query is now invalid outside the context of our lateral join because we haven’t selected anything from the posts table yet. That’s ok; we don’t need our filter to run in isolation. Instead, we need it to convert to an sql string:
comment_ids_query = Post.joins("JOIN LATERAL (#{filter.to_sql}) subquery ON true")
.where("posts.id": front_page_posts)
.select("subquery.id")
Now we have a functional lateral join, but the table is ostensibly the posts table; and so the query can’t be chained, ordered, limited, etc. Let’s pack it inside a Comments query:
Comment.where("comments.id IN (#{comment_ids_query.to_sql})")
All together, it looks like this:
def top_comments(post_ids)
filter = Comment.order(:rating).limit(3)
filter = filter.where("comments.post_id = posts.id").select("comments.id")
comment_ids_query = Post.joins("JOIN LATERAL (#{filter.to_sql}) subquery ON true")
.where("posts.id": post_ids)
.select("subquery.id")
Comment.where("comments.id IN (#{comment_ids_query.to_sql})")
end
and does indeed return the first 3 Comments for all the post ids provided, in a single request.
Problems you’ll encounter:
• Table aliases. As is often the case with complicated ActiveRecord chicanery, tables can alias in ways you don’t expect, breaking your query. Luckily, the part of the query you’re most likely to change is the initial filter – and it is isolated inside its subquery, where the only potential conflict is with posts from the lateral join.
• Order and distinct: ordering the filter will behave correctly as far as limit is concerned, but the returned records will not be in order unless you add an order to the final query. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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-- Rubiales Gains as Citigroup Predicts Output Jump: Bogota Mover
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (PREC) , the
operator of Colombia ’s largest oil field, rose for a fifth day
as Citigroup Inc. (C) forecast the company would report “strong”
first-quarter production gains. The shares rallied 7.3 percent to 37,560 pesos this week in
Bogota, the second-best performance on Colombia’s benchmark
Colcap index, which rose 0.2 percent. Pacific Rubiales gained
1.5 percent at 12:40 p.m today. First quarter results “should highlight strong production
growth,” Citigroup analysts Pedro Medeiros and Fernando Valle
wrote in a report today. This could help “enhance investors’
confidence.” Pacific Rubiales is scheduled to report first-
quarter profit on May 8. Production will average 126,000 barrels of oil equivalent a
day in the first quarter, according to Citigroup. For the fourth
quarter, net output averaged 108,149 barrels a day, according to
the company. The current share price leaves “considerable upside from
exploration and development of its probable reserves,” the
Citigroup analysts wrote. To contact the reporters on this story:
Christine Jenkins in Bogota at
cjenkins28@bloomberg.net ; To contact the editor responsible for this story:
David Papadopoulos at
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Deutsche Versuchs- und Prüfanstalt für Jagd- und Sportwaffen
The German Experimental and Test Institute for Hunting and Sporting Firearms (founded 26 November 1888 ) (German Deutsche Versuchs- und Prüfanstalt für Jagd- und Sportwaffen e.V.), usually shortened DEVA, is a German manufacturer's association whose purpose is to provide independent advice and testing for firearms and ammunition. DEVA conducts its work independently, and is co-owned by most German firearm manufacturers, such as Blaser, Heckler & Koch, Heym, Mauser, Merkel, Sauer, etc. DEVA today consists of two branches, one in Dune, Altenbeken and one on Stahnsdorfer Damm, Berlin.
History
In the 1880s, the transformation from black to smokeless powder propellants also took place in the civilian sector. The handling and production of firearms and ammunition turned out to be complicated and little explored. As a result, there was a growing desire among hunters for an independent advisory and testing center for civilian firearms.
In 1888, the predecessor of DEVA was founded under the name Deutsche Versuchs-Anstalt für Handfeuerwaffen (literally The German Experimental Institute for Small Arms). Their tasks included amongst others the standardization of propellant charges and creation of the basis of what was to become the German law on ammunition.de:Beschussgesetz The first president of the association, elected in 1893, was his highness the Duke of Ratibor, who died later in the same year. In 1921, the association became involved in small caliber sport shooting as a founding member of the association Kleinkaliberschützen Berlin, which was the first small caliber shooting sports club in Germany, a club that is still active today. In the 1930s, the associations area of responsibility covered the entire technical field of hunting and sports shooting in Germany. After the Second World War, Deutsche Versuchs-Anstalt für Handfeuerwaffen was banned as an organization of the Nazi regime, and its grounds in Berlin-Wannsee were permanently confiscated.
In 1953, the Deutsche Institut für Jagdliches und Sportliches Schießen e. V. (lit. German Institute for Hunting and Sport Shooting) was founded in Düsseldorf, which in 1970 was merged with the Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Handfeuerwaffen (German Test Institute for Firearms) into the current DEVA.
Activities
The tasks of DEVA includes:
* Research and development
* Examination and assessment of hunting and sporting firearms, aiming devices and ammunition
* Assessment of firearm damages from accidents
* Assessment of shooting ranges
* Provide information to hunters and shooters
Shooting range Berlin-Halensee
The first shooting range of the association was established in Berlin-Halensee on a site of the Reichsbahn after mediation with Kaiser Wilhelm. In addition to the shooting range itself, the association also received a building for the technical facilities. In 1927, the site had to be returned to the Reichsbahn.
Shooting range Berlin Wannsee
As a replacement for the property in Halensee, the city of Berlin provided the association with a 7 hectare site in Wannsee, on which a large building for administration and technology was built in 1928. The complex included various shooting ranges up to 300 m and a clay target shooting stand. (52.41569°N, 13.17542°W) The shooting competitions at the 1936 Olympic were held at this range.
After the Second World War, most of the buildings were destroyed. The site was in the US sector of the city, and was confiscated by the US military government. The US military's Berlin Brigade took the area into use under the name Rose Range. In addition to the US military, the Berlin police also used the shooting ranges. The American Rod&Gun Club used the range on the weekends.
After the withdrawal of the Allies in 1994, the Wannsee shooting range was returned to the Germany, and has since then again been used by a branch of DEVA.
Shooting range Düsseldorf
From 1953 to 1970, the German Institute for Hunting and Sport Shooting was located at the shooting range in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. The range was closed in 1970 due to noise pollution.
Shooting range Buke
Following the closure of the Düsseldorf shooting range, the institute was relocated to the Dune 3 shooting range of the hunting club Landesjagdverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V (NRW) near the small town of Buke in Paderborn, Altenbeken. A branch of DEVA is still situated at the shooting range today.
Articles
* Büchsenpatronen - vor 100 Jahren. In: Wild und Hund, 25/1994, p. 32-37
* Passende Verbindungen. Zielfernrohr-Montagen. In: Jäger, 4/1997, p. 56-57
Literature
* Bergien, Rüdiger: "Unsere Neutralität wird nicht angezweifelt". DEVA-Hauptversammlung. In: Wild und Hund, 14/2001, p. 61
* Grösschen, Hans-Wolfgang: Schießinstitut und DEVA vereinigt. Deutsche Versuchs- und Prüfanstalt für Jagd- und Sportwaffen entstand. In: Wild und Hund, 73. Jg. (1970/71), p. 1014-1019
* Krah, Alexander: DEVA im "Forum Waffenrecht". Hauptversammlung in Berlin. In: Wild und Hund, 16/2000, p. 11
* Mitzschke, Gustav: 75 Jahre Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Handfeuerwaffen e.V. In: Wild und Hund, 66. Jg. (1963/64), p. 413-414
* Rakow, Frank: Die aktuellen Aufgaben wiegen bleischwer. Helmut Kinsky/DEVA im Gespräch. In: Wild und Hund, 6/2005, p. 114-115
* Winsmann, Burkhard: 100 Jahre DEVA - eine repräsentative Feierstunde in Nürnberg. In: Wild und Hund, 1/1988, S. 24-25
* Winsmann, Burkhard: 100 Jahre DEVA. Interview mit Hans Walter Pfeiffer (DEVA-Präsident). In: Wild und Hund, 3/1988, p. 32-39 | WIKI |
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Rh. None of these men have any financial interest in the business of transporting merchandise by wagon, and few of them have any practical knowledge of it. One man says, “I have been looking at your wagons and their beds are not the right height from the ground, and you must change them. I notice also that the steps are put on wrong and the buckles of your harnesses are not of the right character. You must fix these things.” Another man says, “The lanterns your teamsters carry are not suitable. You must buy a much more expensive kind and see that they are carried whether they are needed or not.” Another says, “You must not use a certain lead horse any more because he is not suited to the business.” Another says, “I noticed that you were carrying a calf on one of your wagons. In such cases you must get your wagon from the waterfront to destination within one hour, and it must be moved at a speed of not less than ten miles per hour.” Another says, “In our part of the city your wagons must not move faster than four miles an hour, and you must stop Rh | WIKI |
To My Sorrow
"To My Sorrow" is a country music song written by Vernice J. McAlpin, sung by Eddy Arnold (and His Texas Plowboys), and released in 1947 on the RCA Victor label (catalog no. 20-2481-A). In November 1947, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard folk juke box chart. It was also ranked as the No. 12 record on the Billboard 1947 year-end folk juke box chart. | WIKI |
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In the 1980s I visited Ecton, and saw its steeply sloping graveyard, the church and the folly. The latter has a 2nd story set at 45 degrees to the ground floor, all as described in Pevner's "Staffordshire". In the 1990s things were different. All three roads to Ecton were county signposted to divert the driver away. The entry from the Manifold Way was labelled "Private Road, No Entry". I did enter once or twice, and found a caravan or farm truck blocking further entry. What is happening here? Atomic waste disposal? Too dramatic perhaps, but no millionaire seems to have built himself a home here; the houses just look derelict with broken windoes.
There is a model of Ecton Hill in Derby Museum made from rock Victuallers (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
-- Lexus ES350, Acura Premium Compete in Luxury Car Step-Up
Once upon a time, trading in your
reliable foreign car for an entry-level luxury ride was an
obvious process. You drove a Toyota Camry ? A Lexus ES was in
your future. Die-hard Honda Civic types stepped up to an Acura . Yet the entry point to luxury has changed, as many
inexpensive cars now offer scads of gadgets once only found on
pricier vehicles. South Korea ’s Hyundai and Kia have muscled
onto the scene, using the same techniques the Japanese once did
-- over-delivering good cars at even better prices. Which might leave one wondering: What constitutes an entry-
level luxury car these days, and where do Lexus and Acura fit
in? To get a sense of that question, I tested both the latest
Lexus ES and a brand-new Acura model, the ILX. The all-new, sixth-generation Lexus ES350 starts at
$37,000, and is also available as a hybrid. The Acura ILX ,
meanwhile, is $32,000 with an optional technology package. It
too can be had as a hybrid. The 2013 Lexus ES has traveled a long road since its 1989
inception as a slightly upgraded Toyota Camry. The big luxury
back then was real wood in the interior. The ES would eventually
become Lexus’s best seller in the U.S., a result of reliability,
subdued looks and an undemanding ride. Japanese Crafting Values shift. The new ES gets a significant restyling, a
firmer suspension and more engaging drive. Being boring, it
turns out, isn’t so luxurious after all. My test car, an ES350 prototype with black exterior and
interior, had real wood and leather, and the quality was nice
indeed. The leather that wraps around complex contours is hand-
stitched by Japanese craftsmen. The 300h hybrid model is offered with a synthetic material
Lexus calls “NuLuxe.” The ES has never been a young person’s car, despite ranking
as one of the entry-level sedans in the Lexus lineup. One is
reminded of this by the slightly uncomfortable pairing of a
round, analog clock hovering under the sharp, eight-inch
navigation screen. Nonetheless, Lexus is clearly banking on customers finding
luxury in the digital world. Its navigation screen is controlled
by a mouse-like device mounted on the center console, and you
can hook up a smart phone to the system and access applications
like Pandora radio, OpenTable and Yelp. Camera Feature Safety options include a system that alerts drivers about
to back out of a parking lot to cars passing behind, as well as
lane departure and dynamic cruise control. More interesting is the better-tuned suspension. The ES350
is front-wheel drive, so you can forget about it being a hot
sports sedan. Yet the 3.5-liter V-6 is sufficiently sprightly,
with 268 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque. Gas mileage is
21 city, 31 highway, while the hybrid (which has a four-
cylinder) gets 40 and 39. Compared to previous generations, the new ES350 is simply
more entertaining to drive. And it even looks pretty good with
the new, rather funky Lexus grill and front end. While the ES now rides on the slightly larger Toyota Avalon
platform, the brand-new Acura ILX is on the same foundation as
its cousin the Honda Civic. Defect Recalls The new generation Civic, which went on sale last year, has
fallen far short of expectations, with a lackluster ride and two
recalls because of defects. The company is rushing out an early
fix with a redesign for 2013. Here’s a suggestion for Honda: Take some cues from the ILX.
A handsome sedan with a conventionally-raked windshield and a
longer hood, it fixes the snub-nosed oddities of the current
Civic. There’s a nice interplay of creases and folds along the
body and rear. Though the ILX name is new, there are hints at former Acura
models that I was fond of, like the Integra . The ILX Premium
model I tested, which starts under $30,000, has a 2.4-liter
engine with 201 hp and a sweet six-speed manual. Oddly, you
cannot get an automatic transmission with the 2.4-liter engine.
That will disappoint many a buyer. The Premium model is a car for people who like to drive.
The engine revs high (over 7,000 rpm), the stick is fun to use
and the car is engagingly responsive. Slow Horses Sadly, the standard ILX comes with a 2.0-liter four-
cylinder with only 150 hp, and a decidedly less-than-luxurious
five-speed automatic. Even the BMW 5 Series is now offered with
a four-cylinder engine, but the lackluster power on the 2.0-
liter ILX is disappointing. The ILX’s top-of-the-line technology package brings
navigation with traffic, Bluetooth and access to Pandora. It’s
an upmarket car, but not really a premium-level one. Cross-
shoppers might take a look at the $28,000-plus Hyundai (000270) Sonata
Limited, which has a 274-hp turbo four cylinder and heated front
and rear seats. As an aside, Hyundai’s $35,000 Genesis sedan is a credible
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Weird problem with pre-OS graphics
saphire 199
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Ok, this one has got me stumped. Anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. My girl has a Dell Dimension 2400. Someone replaced all the RAM (RAM type and size is correct for mobo, etc and I doublechecked to make sure seated, cleaned, etc) and right after that the graphics that are inherent in the mobo no longer work. Hence, nothing shows up on the display until the actual log-in of Windows (XP) This means that I do not know how to debug it as none of the boot sequence shows on the monitor - no BIOS, no boot ini, etc. Nothing until the graphic card actually kicks in and the OS is loaded. Is there a way to manually clear the powered BIOS so it goes back to the original flash BIOS? I am guessing that if I could do that there is a chance that original BIOS might not contain the error that somehow developed after the RAM was replaced. Only two jumpers are the CMOS jumper and the password clear jumper. Again, thanks for any help.
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Terry60
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If you remove the CMOS battery and shift the CLR CMOS jumper to the other end for 10 seconds. Put it back where you found it, replace the battery and reboot.
That will set everything to default (you'll need to reset date and time and any other custom settings.).
saphire 199
Distinguished Member
Thanks, Terry. I tried this but still no screen showing. Should I be supsecting the mobo right about now? Or could it be something else?
Terry60
Telephone Sanitizer (2nd Class)
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I wouldn't think there can be a hardware fault in the mobo if the Windows driver eventually fires up and everything works.
Have you downloaded the latest release and flashed the BIOS ?
Does your monitor have dual analogue/digital connections ?
If so try connecting through the analogue socket.
If that gets you in the BIOS, have a poke around to see if there's a "disabled" somewhere in the onboard graphics section.
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JustinW
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How much RAM you got in it? Its an older model and should have 2GBs max w/ 2 1GB sticks. The one I got in the closet ran XP home at 512MB. Try removing a stick if you have more than one on the motherboard.
saphire 199
Distinguished Member
Thanks guys and sorry it took so long to get back. I solved the problem - one of the memory slots was fried and with the memory plugged in on both slots, was causing (for some reason) the above problems. When I finally determined that it was the slot, I simply took out the chip from the bad slot, everything worked fine after that. So there is at least one problem in the mobo (bad slot), but everything up and running, so we'll go with that for now. Now running 1 gb of memory, flashed the bios, etc. Again thanks.
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Keeping in view the Developmental Origin of Health and Disease hypothesis, this study aimed to assess differences in cardiac and vascular structure and function in children exposed to preeclampsia in-utero as compared to those of normotensive mothers. We hypothesized that children exposed to preeclampsia had altered cardiac and vascular structure and function as compared to the unexposed group.
This was a retrospective cohort study which included children between 2-10 years of age born to mothers with and without exposure to preeclampsia in-utero (n= 80 in each group). Myocardial morphology and function using echocardiogram and carotid intima-media thickness and pulse wave velocity were performed. Multivariable linear regression was used to compare preeclampsia exposed and non-exposed groups. Subgroup analysis to assess differences between early vs late onset preeclampsia was also performed.
Forty one percent (n=33) mothers had early onset preeclampsia. Children in the exposed group had significantly higher prevalence of Stage 1 systolic and diastolic hypertension (22%, n=18 and 35%, n=18 respectively) as compared to the unexposed group (9%, n=7 and 19% n =15 respectively, p=0.01). Children in the exposed group also had higher pulse wave velocity as compared to unexposed group (0.42 +/- 0.1 vs 0.39 +/- 0.1, p=0.03). Subgroup analysis revealed that blood pressure and pulse wave velocity changes were primarily determined by early onset preeclampsia. There was no significant difference in cardiac morphology or systolic and diastolic function between the exposed and unexposed groups.
In-utero exposure to preeclampsia has an effect on the vascular function in children aged 2-10 years, primarily related to early onset disease. Routine blood pressure screening should be recommended for such children.
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of great draught vnable to enter, anchored without the harbour in a wilde roade at sea, about two miles from shore.
From whence the General wrote letters to master Ralfe Lane, being gouernour of those English at Virginia, and then at his Fort about sixe leagues from the Rode in an Island which they call Roanoac, wherein especially he shewed how ready he was to supply his necessities and wants, which he vnderstood of, by those he had first talked withall.
The morow after, Master Lane himselfe and some of his company comming vnto him, with the consent of his captaines he gaue them the choice of two offers, that is to say: Either he would leaue a ship, a pinnesse, and certaine boates with sufficient Masters and Mariners, together furnished with a moneths victuall, to stay and make farther discouery of the countrey and coastes, and so much victuall likewise as might be sufficient for the bringing of them all (being an hundred and three persons) into England, if they thought good after such time, with any other thing they would desire, and that he might be able to spare.
Or els if they thought they had made sufficient discouerie already, and did desire to returne into England, he would giue them passage. But they, as it seemed, being desirous to stay, accepted very thankfully and with great gladnesse, that which was offred first. Whereupon the ship being appointed and receiued into charge by some of their owne company sent into her by Master Lane, before they had receiued from the rest of the Fleete the prouision appoynted them, there arose a great storme (which they sayd was extraordinary and very strange) that lasted three dayes together, and put all our Fleete in great danger, to bee driuen from their anchoring vpon the coast. For we brake many Cables, and lost many Anchors: and some of our Fleete which had lost all (of which number was the ship appointed for Master Lane and his company) was driuen to put to sea in great danger, in auoyding the coast, and could neuer see vs againe vntill we mette in England. Many also of our small Pinnesses and boates were lost in this storme.
Notwithstanding after all this, the Generall offred them (with consent of his Captaines) an other ship with some prouision, although not such a one for their turnes, as might haue bene spared them before, this being vnable to be brought into their Harbour. Or els if they would, to giue them passage into Eng | WIKI |
Nicki Chapman
Nicki Chapman (born 14 January 1967) is an English television and radio presenter, talent show judge and public relations agent who previously worked in the British pop music industry.
Chapman was a judge on the ITV reality shows Popstars, with Nigel Lythgoe and Paul Adam, and Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox. She currently hosts Wanted Down Under, Escape to the Country and its spin-offs I Escaped to the Country, and Escape to the Continent as well as The RHS Chelsea Flower Show. She regularly presents on BBC Radio 2 as a stand-in presenter.
Early life
Chapman was born in Herne Bay in Kent on 14 January 1967. Her mother was a housewife and her father worked for Rank Xerox.
Chapman went to St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury.
Career
Chapman worked her way up in the music industry from being Promotions Assistant at MCA records at the age of 21. She later worked at RCA as Head of Promotions where she first met Simon Cowell. She applied for the promotions job and the next day, called and said: "I need to know if you want me, I've been offered another job, but this is the one I really want." Up until the end of 2000, she was a joint partner in the Brilliant! PR company with Nick Godwyn. They managed Billie Piper and Amy Winehouse as well as representing, among others, the Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Charlotte Church, Take That, David Bowie, Van Morrison and Phil Collins as well as the PR for the Brit Awards and The Big Breakfast. Having met and worked with Simon Fuller in the 1990s she joined his management company 19 Entertainment in January 2001 as Creative Director, working with acts including Annie Lennox, Will Young, S Club 7 and the Spice Girls.
Chapman rose to fame as a judge on the ITV television series Popstars and Pop Idol, together with Nigel Lythgoe and Paul Adam (on Popstars), Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Dr Fox (on Pop Idol). Pop Idol was the top rated TV show in the UK for 2001 and 2003 making Chapman a household name. Chapman was known in particular for her compassionate nature towards contestants on the shows, in contrast to many talent shows of the present day. She once claimed that "What I think and what I say have to be different because people don't need to hear my honest thoughts, you can let them down a lot more gently and it takes a lot of courage to stand up there and do an audition".
She currently works as a presenter and has fronted a number of lifestyle and current affairs programmes for the BBC and ITV including Holiday, BBC Breakfast News, Holidays at Home, The Morning Show, Sunday Style, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Castle in the Country, Escape to the Sun, City Hospital, Holiday Ten Best and others. She presented a series for Sky One called Made in LA which investigated behind the scenes of the rich and famous.
In 2006, Chapman was one of twelve celebrities in the BBC's Sport Relief showjumping programme Only Fools on Horses. Despite being a novice, and suffering a shoulder injury as a result of falling from her horse during one of the live broadcasts, she came second, voted by the public.
In May 2007, Chapman co-hosted the live ITV1 celebrity cookery show Soapstar Superchef (the spin off from Soapstar Superstar).
In October 2008, Chapman joined her fellow ex-Pop Idol judges Pete Waterman and Neil Fox on Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice, a spoof on the talent show genre of programmes.
In 2009, she appeared as a judge in Disney Channel's Hannah-Oke along with Disney's Brad Kavanagh and Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner.
In 2011, as well as filming another series of Escape to the Country and Wanted Down Under, she was heard on BBC Radio 2 sitting in for Vanessa Feltz on the Early Breakfast Show, which she continued to do until Vanessa left the station in 2022. She also deputised for Janice Long in 2012, Anneka Rice in 2013 and Sara Cox in 2019. Since 2019, she has also deputised for Zoe Ball on the Breakfast Show. In early 2021, she presented The Saturday Show between Graham Norton leaving the station and Claudia Winkleman taking over the slot. In 2024, it was announced she would temporarily host 'Sunday Love Songs', following the death of the long time presenter Steve Wright.
In November 2014, Chapman hosted The Imperial Dream by the Spanish Riding School of Vienna at the Wembley Arena.
In January 2012, Chapman appeared on The Talent Show Story, a documentary for ITV about various entertainment and talent shows. She spoke about her time on Pop Idol and Popstars, as well as working with Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Cowell. The show featured interviews from various talent show judges and stars including Kelly Rowland, Dannii Minogue, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan, Lenny Henry and Les Dennis as well as her former co-judges Pete Waterman and Neil Fox.
Personal life
Chapman is married to Dave 'Shacky' Shackleton, a music producer and Sony BMG executive; the couple live in Chiswick, London.
In May 2019 she revealed she had surgery to remove a non-cancerous brain tumour and later made a good recovery. Subsequently, she was appointed an Ambassador for The Brain Tumour Charity. In 2022, Chapman made this comment during an interview: "It's important for me to work with The Brain Tumour Charity and share my experience to help others know that they're not alone in this".
She is an ambassador for British Dressage and a supporter of Teenage Cancer Trust, Childline and Nordoff–Robbins music therapy as well as volunteering for Save the Children in her spare time. | WIKI |
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CH. IV.], not only over the citizens, but over the stales. This, however, is not left to implication, for it is declared to be the supreme law of the land, "any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." The people of any state cannot, then, by any alteration of their state constitution, destroy, or impair that supremacy. How, then, can they do it in any other less direct manner? Now, it is the proper function of the judicial department to interpret laws, and by the very terms of the constitution to interpret the supreme law. Its interpretation, then, becomes obligatory and conclusive upon all the departments of the federal government, and upon the whole people, so far as their rights and duties are derived from, or affected by that constitution. If then all the departments of the national government may rightfully exercise all the powers, which the judicial department has, by its interpretation, declared to be granted by the constitution; and are prohibited from exercising those, which are thus declared not to be granted by it, would it not be a solecism to hold, notwithstanding, that such rightful exercise should not be deemed the supreme law of the land, and such prohibited powers should still be deemed granted? It would seem repugnant to the first notions of justice, that in respect to the same instrument of government, different powers, and duties, and obligations should arise, and different rules should prevail, at the same time among the governed, from a right of interpreting the same words (manifestly used in one sense only) in different, nay, in opposite senses. If there ever was a case, in which uniformity of interpretation might well be deemed a necessary postulate, it | WIKI |
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Recently, having some time on my hands, I stumbled on Kaggle. A site for data scientist and other enthusiast programmer who want to test their skills in building the best machine learning models. It seemed to me at first like something for only a small community of people. However, as it turns out most machine learning models are already there (in R, Python etc.). Even most beginner programmer/analysts can try their luck and skills at building the best models.
Personally, this was an incentive for me to learn R – a free statistical language for data exploration/mining/analysis. R is a great and fairly simple language to learn, allowing you to load, explore, visualize and manipulate data very easily. I won’t go into detailed examples as there are already plenty of tutorials examples out there. I wanted just to share a few highlights why every data analyst (not only statistician) should have R in their toolbox:
Why use R?
…apart from some reasons mentioned by Inside-R I wanted to list those practical features that are particularly important to me compared to e.g. Excel:
• Concise – most code in other languages will translate usually to a lot less in R. R is also very similar to Javascript in some sense which is a good thing!
• Easy and quick manipulation on various data structures – apply transformation functions to rows, columns, cells. Doing this in Excel is much more cumbersome and usually less efficient
• Easy data file loading from various sourses e.g. CSV, Excel files – a CSV can be loaded in just one line of code!
• Easy multithreading! – one of the setbacks of Excel is its lack of multithreading. In R “for” iterations loops can run concurrently
I wanted also to share some real world examples when R could come in handy:
Example 1: Merging 2 csv files into 1
csv1 <- read.csv(file="testcsv1.csv", sep=";")
csv2 <- read.csv(file="testcsv2.csv", sep=";")
csvRes <- rbind(csv1,csv2)
write.table(csvRes, file="resCsv.csv", sep=";",row.names=FALSE)
Wow 4 lines of code! How cool is that? But why not load the files in parallel?
Example 2: Concurrency
require(foreach)
require(doParallel)
cl <- makeCluster(4)
registerDoParallel(cl)
csvRes <- foreach(i=1:2, .combine=rbind) %dopar% {
read.csv(file= paste("testcsv",i,".csv",sep=""), sep=";")
}
write.table(csvRes, file="resCsv.csv", sep=";",row.names=FALSE)
stopCluster(cl)
What? That’s it? Yes! Of course this example is very simplified – usually you will want to do some additional data processing/transformation. Imagine, however, having to load/process/merge hundreds of files in Excel. As in this example R will do it in 4 or any amount specified of separate threads.
I hope these short examples have encouraged you to add R to your toolbox!
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Printing from datastep on mainframe
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Printing from datastep on mainframe
We're migrating a SAS AF application from 9.1 to 9.3 on mainframe, so we are dealing with some pretty old code. A couple of programs use proc printto to direct output to a certain printer and then create output by using file print in a datastep. This all worked fine in the past. But now with 9.3 there is a problem. The print output is buffered until a proc print is used or if the SAS session is closed. This is not workable for the people who have to use this several times a day.
A solution might be to redesign the programs using ODS but that's not desirable because of the amount of work and the fact that the application is nearing it's end of life. Does anyone know a quick simple solution?
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Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
Is the hang-up the PROC PRINTTO or the FILE PRINT?
If the problem is with PROC PRINTTO and getting the results into a dataset then the ODS SELECT might be what you're looking for but some more description of the procedures involved and the output might be helpful.
Or instead of FILE PRINT which goes to the default output file reference would work if you have a dataset.
Data _null_;
file "C:\mytextfile.txt"; or Fileref to your file
set sashelp.class;
put name $10 @15 Sex $1 @20 Age f2. @25 Height f4.1 @30 Weight f5.5;
run;
for example to create a fixed width file.
You can create a lot of control with this approach and by passes any boundaries as it is written when the data step executes.
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Posts: 16
Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
We simply don't know which one causes the hang up because we can't separate the two. As I said before, it worked without problems under 9.1. The code is basically something like:
data _nulll_;
set SomeData;
file print;
... several put statements ...
run;
What we suspect is that the print file is not closed when the datastep ends and the output stays in a buffer. Only exiting SAS or using a proc with printer output seems to release that buffer.
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Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
Help clarify here please (best to reveal more of your SAS code, including the PROC PRINTTO statement(s) please) - you have a z/OS MVS TSO user running interactive SAS and when the SAS session is immediately started, a PROC PRINTTO PRINT FILE=xxxxx (where "xxxxx" is a pre-allocated SYSOUT= destination?) is issued, followed by a DATA step that issues some PUT references against FILE PRINT, and eventually a RUN; and a PROC PRINTTO to reset the output re-direct -- is that the case here?
Consider helping us help you will the encapsulated SAS program to start, along with some confirmation about observations / presumptions above?
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Posts: 16
Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
Unfortunately my contract doesn't allow me to copy code and place it on a forum. I've sent part of the code to SAS support though. We also seem to have gotten closer to the problem.
Users run SAS interactive on z/OS and enter data in an AF application. That application then executes code by using several SUBMIT blocks with the option CONTINUE. Within those SUBMIT blocks a filename statement is used to route the output to a printer. At the end of a SUBMIT block that filename is cleared but it looks like it doesn’t really release it. It seems that it is only released if that filename is reinitiated in another SUBMIT block.
SAS mentioned that default settings for listing output have been changed in 9.3. We have a work around for now but I do wonder what causes this.
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Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
Have you run into this?(my emphasis added)
Any time you use PROC PRINTTO to route output, you must close the output device
before PROC PRINTTO will release the output or log and send it to the
destination that you have specified. To close the output device, issue PROC
PRINTTO without any parameters:
proc printto; run;
Issuing PROC PRINTTO without any parameters closes the output device,
generates output, and reroutes the log and procedure output to their default
destinations.
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Re: Printing from datastep on mainframe
Yes, PROC PRINTTO without parameters was already in the code, but thanks for the tip.
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Underwood (surname)
Underwood is a surname of English topographic origin.
History
Deriving from the Old English "unter", or Angeln (Danish-German)/Scandivadian equivalent—a preposition meaning "under" or "below"—plus "wuda", a wood, leading to the Saxon expression "unterwuda" sounding like "oontawooda". The name was originally given to one dwelling at the foot of a wood or literally "below the trees of a forest". The name may also be locational from three places named with these elements, e.g. Underwood in Derbyshire, England, and Underwood, Nottinghamshire, England. The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 12th century (see below). One William Underwude appears in the 1219 Assize Court Rolls of Yorkshire, and a William under the Wode in the 1332 Subsidy Rolls of Staffordshire. From the beginning of the surviving parish registers in 1559 there were Underwoods recorded in Pickering parish, North Yorkshire, England. On 2 January 1634, one Joseph Underwood, aged 23 yrs., embarked from London on the ship Bonaventure bound for Virginia. He was one of the earliest recorded name bearers to enter America. No less than seven coats of arms were granted to families of this name; a particular namebearer mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography was one Michael Underwood (1737–1820), who practised in London as a surgeon and as a "male-midwife". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Underwode which was dated 1188, in the "Records of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk", during the reign of King Henry II, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154–1189.
General
* Adin Ballou Underwood (1828–1888), American general
* Antony Underwood, Australian scientist
* April Underwood, tech investor
* Barbara Underwood (born 1944), American lawyer
* Cecil F. Underwood (1867–1943), British scientific collector
* Cecilia Underwood, 1st Duchess of Inverness (c. 1785–1873), British peer
* Edmund Underwood (182?–1863), U.S. Army officer 1848–1863
* Edmund Beardsley Underwood (1853–1928), American naval officer, son of Edmund Underwood
* Elizabeth Underwood (c. 1794–1858), Australian land owner
* Eric Underwood (1905–1980), Australian scientist
* Francis Henry Underwood (1825–1894), American biographer and diplomat
* George V. Underwood Jr. (1913–1984), American army general
* Gordon Waite Underwood (1932–1978), American naval officer
* Grant Underwood (born 1954), American Mormon historian
* Horace Grant Underwood (1859–1916), American missionary and founder of Yonsei University in Korea
* James Underwood (1771–1844) Australian merchant
* James Underwood (born 1942), British pathologist
* Janice Underwood, American educator
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* John Underwood (PR adviser), British public relation adviser
* John Thomas Underwood (1857–1937), founder of the Underwood Typewriter Company
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* Kevin Ray Underwood (born 1979), American convicted murderer
* Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907), American botanist and mycologist
* Naomi Tacuyen Underwood, Filipina-American journalist and AAPI activist
* Peter Underwood (1937–2014), Australian judge and government official
* Peter Underwood (parapsychologist) (1923–2014), English author, broadcaster and paranormalist
* Robert C. Underwood (1915–1988), American jurist from Illinois
* Rory Underwood (born 1992), Company Director of Rormat ltd
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* Blair Underwood (born 1964), American actor
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* Frank Underwood (English musician)
* Franklin Underwood, American musical theatre composer
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* Henry Underwood (architect, born 1787) (1787–1868), English architect
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* Ian Underwood (born 1939), musician
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* Katie Underwood (born 1975), Australian singer-songwriter
* Larry Underwood (born 1966), American actor
* Lee Underwood (born 1938), American musician
* Leon Underwood (1890–1975), British artist
* Loyal Underwood (1893–1966), American actor
* Matt Underwood (born 1968), American sports announcer
* Michael Underwood (born 1975), British television presenter
* Mick Underwood (born 1975), British drummer
* Ron Underwood (born 1953), American film director
* Ron Underwood (musician)
* Ruth Underwood (born 1946), American musician
* Sam Underwood (born 1987), American actor
* Sam Underwood (born 1990), British writer, director and actor
* Sara Jean Underwood (born 1984), American model, actress, and Playboy Playmate
* Sheryl Underwood (born 1963), American comedian
* Wilbur Underwood (1874–1935), American poet
* William Lyman Underwood (1864–1929), American photographer
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* Cecil H. Underwood (1922–2008), American politician
* Henry Underwood (politician) (1863–1945), Australian politician
* Jim Underwood (politician), American politician
* John C. Underwood (1840–1913), American politician and judge
* John Curtiss Underwood (1809–1873), American abolitionist, politician and judge
* John W. H. Underwood (1816–1888), American politician
* Joseph R. Underwood (1791–1876), American politician
* Lauren Underwood (born 1986), American politician
* Mell G. Underwood (1892–1972), American politician
* Nerissa Bretania Underwood, Guamanian politician
* Oscar Underwood (1862–1929), American politician
* Robert A. Underwood (born 1948), American politician from Guam
* Thomas Underwood (1863–1948), Canadian politician
* Thomas R. Underwood (1898–1956), American politician
* Warner Underwood (1808–1872), American politician
Sports
* Brad Underwood Basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
* Derek Underwood (1945–2024), English cricketer
* Dimitrius Underwood (born 1977), American football defensive end
* Duane Underwood Jr. (born 1994), American baseball player
* E. J. Underwood (born 1983), American football cornerback
* Fred Underwood (1868–1906), American baseball pitcher
* George Underwood (athlete) (1884–1943), American track and field athlete
* Lake Underwood (1926–2008), American race car driver
* Marviel Underwood (born 1982), American football safety
* Olen Underwood (born 1942), American football player and judge
* Paul Underwood (born 1973), English footballer
* Rory Underwood (born 1963), English rugby union player
* Tiquan Underwood (born 1987), American football wide receiver
* Tom Underwood (1953–2010), American baseball pitcher
* Tony Underwood (born 1969), English rugby union player
* Wayne Underwood (1913–1967), American football player
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* Frank Underwood (House of Cards), fictional American politician
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* Jean Underwood, a teacher in the novel Rage by Stephen King
* Robin Underwood, a character in Nexo Knights
* Mr. Underwood, a side-character in TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect | WIKI |
Go to Bed! Surprising Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Man in green striped shirt yawning and holding hand over mouth.Sleep deprivation affects your brain, metabolism, immune system, and cardiovascular health, not to mention your day-to-day happiness and quality of life. Sleep should be one of our top health priorities. Yet all the research says the same thing: we are chronically sleep deprived as a society.
The CDC reports that one-third of American adults suffer from “short sleep duration,” meaning they consistently get less than seven hours per night.1 A 2020 Sleep in America poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that only 16 percent of us feel well rested every day.2 And this isn’t just an American problem. According to a survey conducted by the Philips corporation in 13 countries in 2021, barely half of adults worldwide are satisfied with the sleep they’re getting.3
You have to wonder if some of these surveys underestimate the problem. After all, how many of us want to admit how often we stay up until 2 a.m. scrolling on our phones? More to the point, how many people know if they’re getting good sleep? Sleep deprivation isn’t just getting less than eight hours a night of sleep per night. You can also wind up in a sleep debt when your sleep quality is lacking and you aren’t getting the restorative rest you need.
Does the average person even know what it feels like to be fully rested? Perhaps not. It’s like when people start eating Primally, and they finally discover what it’s like to have energy throughout the day, or they realize that those chronic stomach aches and sore joints weren’t normal after all. By the same token, lots of people are probably suffering from symptoms of sleep deprivation but chalk them up to stress or illness. Or they simply ignore them.
Everyone knows how critical sleep is for health, but it’s just so darn easy to put good sleep on the back burner. Today we’ll highlight some signs of sleep deprivation that you might be missing.
What Causes Poor Sleep?
The kind of sleep deprivation we’re talking about today is what researchers call chronic partial sleep deprivation or sleep restriction. You aren’t entirely sleep deprived, staying awake for 24, 36, or even 72 hours at a time like some folks with insomnia or research participants do. Rather, you consistently get less sleep than you need, racking up sleep debt incrementally night after night.
Sometimes, the factors leading to sleep deprivation are within your control—staying up late to consume media, having poor sleep hygiene habits—but not always. Caregivers or parents frequently experience sleep disruptions, and there’s little they can do about it. Sleep-wake disorders like sleep apnea by definition interfere with sleep, but so do many other medical conditions. (If medical issues are affecting your sleep, talk to your medical provider. They may have treatments you haven’t considered.)
Although the research suggests that some people are more resilient to sleep loss than others, everyone is negatively affected by insufficient sleep. You’re no doubt familiar with common side effects like
• Fatigue
• Irritability or moodiness
• Cravings
• Difficulty concentrating
Here are some others you might not expect.
Surprising Signs of Sleep Deprivation
Sleep Deprivation Hurts
Sleep deprivation increases your pain sensitivity. One night of total sleep deprivation decreases your brain’s pain threshold,4 and even normal day-to-day fluctuations in sleep quality can affect how much pain you experience. Researchers used sleep trackers to track two nights of sleep among 236 people who were already experiencing some pain. When sleep quality declined from one day to the next, participants reported more pain the second day.5
Sleep deprivation can make your symptoms worse if you have a condition like fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or other chronic pain.6 This is a double-edged sword because it’s harder to get good sleep when you’re hurting. Experts suggest treating chronic pain conditions and sleep disorders simultaneously because they are so intertwined.
Sleep Deprivation Headaches
One specific way sleep deprivation hurts is by causing headaches. Losing just an hour or two of sleep a few nights in a row can trigger all-day headaches. Folks who already suffer from chronic tension headaches or migraines are particularly at risk.7 This, too, is a bidirectional effect: poor sleep causes worse headaches, and headaches interfere with sleep. Insomnia is significantly more prevalent among people with chronic headaches and migraines compared to the rest of the population.
A handful of studies show that sleep interventions can reduce headache frequency. They may also reduce headache intensity, though the results are inconsistent.8
Sleep Deprivation Makes You Look Older
Sleep deprivation shows in our faces, and we judge well-rested individuals to be more attractive. For example, researchers photographed 20 adults with sleep apnea before and after treatment. Raters judged their post-treatment photos, when they were getting better sleep, to be more attractive and more youthful.9 The same is true for how we see ourselves. A study of 60 women found that chronically good sleepers are more confident in their appearance than poor sleepers.10
Chronically poor sleep is associated with significantly greater skin aging11 and signs of aging like under-eye bags and dark circles, and fine lines and wrinkles.12 In a cruel twist of nature, poor sleep is also associated with acne, so you can have extra blemishes to go with your dark circles.13 Seems unfair, right?
Bad Sleep Leads to Environmental Disasters (and Other Accidents)
Sleep deprivation leads to human error. Tired workers have been at least partially responsible for an alarming number of near-calamities at nuclear power facilities, including Three Mile Island in 1979. Investigators also ruled that sleep deprivation was a contributing factor in the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the Challenger explosion, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, plus who knows how many near-misses.14
Sleepiness is a leading cause of other less catastrophic—but still plenty serious—accidents. Even a single night of missed sleep leads to measurable defects in reaction time, attention, working memory, and the ability to multitask.15 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that sleepiness was a factor in at least 91,000 automobile crashes in 2017, and that’s just in the U.S.16
In surveys, 4 percent of drivers admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel in the past month, and a whopping 40 percent in their lifetime.17 18 Patients and medical professionals alike have been sounding the alarm about this problem for years, but medical students, residents, and many doctors still must work long hours with little time for sleep.
The scary part is that you probably don’t even realize how much your cognitive function is affected. Even mild sleep deprivation—sleeping six hours per night instead of the recommended eight—leads to significant impairment. Yet sleep-deprived individuals routinely report feeling normal. The truth is, you’re probably making lots of little mistakes at work, at home, in the gym that go unnoticed… at least by you. Your coworkers may tell a different story.
Relationship Issues and Interpersonal Conflict
You know that sleepiness makes you grouchy and not all that pleasant to be around, but that’s only one of the ways sleep deprivation can lead to conflict in your relationships.
Generally speaking, when you sleep better, you have better relationships (and more of them) in all areas of your life. Lots of studies link sleep quality—getting good sleep and plenty of it—to relationship satisfaction among romantic couples, in particular.19 Sleep deprivation can easily lead to misunderstandings. Sleepy people are more likely to misinterpret one another’s emotions.20 Plus, according to psychologists, you’re less able to put yourself in your partner’s shoes and see their side of things.21 This makes it harder to resolve those disagreements.
Even one night of lost sleep seems to predispose your brain to be on higher alert for threats and negativity.22 23 If your partner has even accused you of being “oversensitive” when you’re tired, this may be why. You literally are more sensitive on to signs of trouble a neurological level .
Chances are, you work to make your relationships successful. Shouldn’t that work include investing in high-quality sleep?
Altered Reality
You might know that even mild sleep deprivation can lead to impaired memory since sleep is critical for locking memories into long-term storage. But did you know that sleep deprivation can also increase your susceptibility to false memories?
In one series of studies, researchers used a validated false memory paradigm. Participants memorize lists of words that have something in common, and later they need to recall the words. The true test is whether they remember seeing the common word which was actually not on the list. For example, the list might include butter, food, eat, sandwich, and rye. The question is whether participants falsely recall seeing the word bread. As you might expect, sleep-deprived participants incorrectly remembered seeing those words more often.24
In another study, researchers had participants view photographs of a crime in progress (e.g., a man stealing a woman’s wallet). Then they read a written description of the event that differed in a few key details from what they had seen in the photos. A week later, they were asked to recall features of the crime. Participants who had reported sleeping less than five hours the night before coming into the lab were more likely to remember false details.25
Obviously, these are pretty low stakes. However, misremembering can have more serious consequences, from fighting with your spouse because you have different recollections of that conversation from a few days ago to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.
More generally, sleep deprivation can affect how you see the world. For instance, people who sleep less are more susceptible to repetitive negative thinking, where they get stuck focusing on problems and negative experiences. Repetitive negative thoughts are associated with depression, anxiety, OCD, and poorer overall wellbeing.26
In extreme circumstances, sleep deprivation causes paranoia and even full-blown hallucinations. A 2018 review concluded that being awake for more than 24 hours can lead to blurred vision, visual distortions like problems with depth perception, and altered sense of time. The longer you go without sleep, the worse these distortions become. After two or three days without sleep, you’re likely to experience visual and auditory hallucinations.27
How to Improve Your Sleep
Hopefully you don’t need any more convincing that good sleep is worth the effort. For tips about how to improve your sleep quality and quantity, start with these posts from Mark’s Daily Apple:
17 Ways to Improve Your Sleep
7 Ways You Might Be Inadvertently Sabotaging a Good Night’s Sleep
Ask a Health Coach: Why Can’t I Sleep?
10 Natural Sleep Aids: What Works and Why
About the Author
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Lindsay Taylor, Ph.D., is a senior writer and community manager for Primal Nutrition, a certified Primal Health Coach, and the co-author of three keto cookbooks.
As a writer for Mark’s Daily Apple and the leader of the thriving Keto Reset and Primal Endurance communities, Lindsay’s job is to help people learn the whats, whys, and hows of leading a health-focused life. Before joining the Primal team, she earned her master’s and Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also worked as a researcher and instructor.
Lindsay lives in Northern California with her husband and two sports-obsessed sons. In her free time, she enjoys ultra running, triathlon, camping, and game nights. Follow along on Instagram @theusefuldish as Lindsay attempts to juggle work, family, and endurance training, all while maintaining a healthy balance and, most of all, having fun in life.
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Eva Scheer
Eva Scheer (13 March 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.
Personal life
Scheer was born on 13 March 1915 in Oslo to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. In 1942, during the German occupation of Norway, several of her family members were deported and eventually murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp, while Scheer managed to flee to Sweden.
Career
After World War II, Scheer worked as journalist for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet. She made her literary debut in 1948, with the book Vi bygger i sand. She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators in 1948, and also worked as literary critic. She was a reporter for Arbeiderbladet in Palestine and Israel during the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, and her books on this issue include Vi møttes i Jerusalem from 1951, and Israel: dobbelt-løftets land from 1967. In 1954 she wrote the children's book Teddybjørn på bølgelengde.
Her book Posene på gjerdestolpen from 1977 contains Jewish fairytales and folklore translated for children. Her later books include Papirbroen: jødisk drøm og virkelighet (1979), Tre er fedrene, fire mødrene (1981), En smak av vintreets frukt (1982), and Hundene gjør ved vanningsstedet (1983).
Death and legacy
Scheer died on 22 June 1999. The book Jødiske fortellinger: Fra shtetl til Grünerløkka was published in 2015, containing a collection of jewish stories written down by Scheer. In 2015 she was also part of the exhibition Kvinner i jiddisch kultur hosted at the Jewish Museum in Oslo. | WIKI |
List of national parks of the Philippines
In the Philippines, National Parks are places of natural or historical value designated for protection and sustainable utilization by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources under the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act (1992).
In 2012, there were 240 protected areas in the Philippines, of which 35 have been classified as National Parks. By June 22, 2018, an additional 94 critical areas were designated as national parks, increasing the total national parks to 107, when President Rodrigo Duterte signed the E-NIPAS Act of 2018.
National parks
World Heritage Site or part of a World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
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414 "Bueno, si no me deja, se lo digo al gendarme que ahi viene!" ("Well, if you don't let me go, I'll tell the policeman who is coming there!") she threateningly answers.
"Digaselo, el no tiene que ver con mis negocios!" ("Tell him, then; he has no right to know my business!") says the man, insolently. And when she sees that she can't go, then she says, entreatingly:
Que quiere? y dejme ir que se me hace tarde''" ("What do you want? Let me go, now, because it is getting late").
He: "Pos ya se lo dije que si me quiere ó no!" ("I have already asked you, do you love me or not?").
"Pos yo lo quisiera pero dicen que es casado, pos para que me quiere? entonces vayase con su mujer!" ("I should like you, but I was told that you are married; if so, what do you want with me? Go on to your wife!") she replies.
"Miré nada mas lo que son las jentes de mentirosas. Quien se lo dijo? Si fuera casado, no la quisiera, pos digame nada mas" ("See what story-tellers the people are! Who told you? If I was married, I wouldn't love you. Only tell me"), he retorts.
"Bueno, que deveras me quiere?" ("Weil, is it really true that you love me? ") she now pleasantly replies.
"Pos hasta la paré d'enfrente, como no? V mas dulce que un acitron y mas buena que'I pan caliente. Qualquiera sénamora de V. nada mas con que se le quite un poquito el genio de Suegra que tiene, entonces si valia la plata, pero no tenga cuidado que yo se lo quitare!" ("I love you about as much as that wall in front of us. Why not? You're sweeter than preserves or candy, and better than hot bread. Whoever sees you will love you, only you must leave off some of that hot temper such as mothers-in-law have, and then you'll be equal to a silver mine; but never mind, don't bother yourself, I'll get all that out of you!")
After this, her hot temper gets the better of her, and, tossing his hand from her shoulder, and releasing the rebozo, she says:
"Déjeme! déjeme! " ("Get out the way, and let me alone!"), and. | WIKI |
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1 June 2009 Ceratozetes and Ceratozetoides (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae) of North America
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Abstract
The oribatid mite genus Ceratozetes Berlese is represented in America north of Mexico by 21 previously described species known from forest, grassland, subarctic and arctic soils and litter, and canopy habitats. The closely related genus Ceratozetoides Shaldybina is represented in America north of Mexico only by C. cisalpinus (Berlese). Three new species of Ceratozetes from North America are described: C. biporosus sp. nov. from forest habitats of southeastern North America, C. cyclopea sp. nov. from montane habitats in western North America, and C. pseudomediocris sp. nov. from forest habitats of western North America. A detailed revised diagnosis is given for Ceratozetes, Ceratozetoides, all previously described species of Ceratozetes (C. angustus (Banks), C. borealis Behan-Pelletier, C. cuspidatus Jacot, C. enodis (Ewing), C. fjellbergi Behan-Pelletier, C. gracilis Michael, C. kutchin Behan-Pelletier, C. longispinus Jacot, C. mediocris (Berlese), C. oresbios Behan-Pelletier, C. pacificus Behan-Pelletier, C. parvulus Sellnick, C. spitsbergensis Thor, C. subaquila (Ewing), C. subinconspicuus (Berlese), C. thienemanni Willmann, C. virginicus (Banks), and C. watertonensis Behan-Pelletier), and Ceratozetoides cisalpinus. Ceratozetes figuratus (Ewing) and C. zeteki (Ewing) are considered junior subjective synonyms of C. enodis (Ewing) syn. nov., and C. inupiaq Behan-Pelletier is transferred to Mycobatidae as Cyrtozetes inupiaq (Behan-Pelletier) comb. nov. New distribution records are given for Ceratozetoides cisalpinus and Ceratozetes angustus, C. borealis, C. cuspidatus, C. gracilis, C. mediocris, C. longispinus, C. oresbios, C. pacificus, C. parvulus, C. thienemanni, C. virginicus, and C. watertonensis. A diagnostic key is provided to adults of the Ceratozetes and Ceratozetoides species now known for America north of Mexico. An analysis of the systematic relationships of 23 of these species based on adult characters indicates that Ceratozetes, excluding Ceratozetoides, is paraphyletic. The clade that includes Ceratozetoides cisalpinus and 15 species of Ceratozetes includes most species for which immatures are known. One sister clade includes Ceratozetes cyclopea, C. enodis, and C. fjellbergi and another includes C. kutchin, C. parvulus, and C. thienemanni. The decision whether or not these 6 species should be retained in Ceratozetes sensu stricto awaits discovery of their immatures and molecular analysis.
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Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier and Barbara Eamer "Ceratozetes and Ceratozetoides (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae) of North America," The Canadian Entomologist 141(3), (1 June 2009). https://doi.org/10.4039/n09-023
Received: 22 January 2009; Accepted: 1 February 2009; Published: 1 June 2009
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Kesavan Veluthat
Kesavan Veluthat (born 1951) is an Indian historian and academic from Kerala specializing in medieval south Indian history. He is also an epigraphist and knows languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
Career
Veluthat received his undergraduate degree from National Council for Rural Higher Education, graduate degree from University of Calicut (Kerala) in 1974, M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1978 and doctoral degree from the University of Calicut in 1987. He was a student of historian M. G. S. Narayanan.
Veluthat started his career as a Kerala government service college teacher in 1975. In 1982 he moved to the newly formed Mangalore University. Veluthat retired as Professor and Chairman of the Department of History in 2008. He also served as professor of history at the Delhi University.
He was a visiting professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He is a lifetime member of Indian History Congress. He was also associated with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in assessing universities and colleges in India.
Major publications
The below are some of his major publications:
* Brahman Settlements in Kerala: Historical Studies, (Kozhikode, Sandhya Publications, 1978; revised and enlarged edition, CosmoBooks, Thrissur, 2013)
* Kerala Through the Ages, (Thiruvananthapuram, Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala, 1976) with M. G. S. Narayanan, et al.
* The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1993; second revised edition, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012)
* State and Society in Pre-modern South India, ed., with R. Champakalakshmi and T. R. Venugopalan (Cosmo Books, Thrisssur, 2002)
* The Early Medieval in South India, Oxford University Press, (New Delhi, 2009; first paperback edition, 2010; sixth edition, 2014)
* Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan, ed., with Donald R. Davis, Primus Books, Delhi, 2014 | WIKI |
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About Tradepedia
Tradepedia is a leading provider of independent educational seminars and courses to both institutional and retail financial markets traders across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Founded by renowned financial markets analyst and management expert, Avramis Despotis, Tradepedia has built a portfolio of clients that represent some of the world’s leading banking and financial institutions. With its motto, ‘learn to earn’, Tradepedia’s charter is to nurture trading excellence. Its lectures are delivered across Europe and the Middle East in multiple languages by highly qualified lecturers and address both the theoretical and practical aspects of trading. With webinars and workshops focusing on technical analysis, risk management and behavioral finance, Tradepedia works to equip students with the knowledge, strategies and tools to make educated trading decisions and gain long-term financial independence.
To date, the company has provided training to over 20,000 individuals and in 2014, Tradepedia opened its licensed MENA headquarters (license no. CL1433) in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Founder & Head Lecturer, Avramis Despotis
Avramis Despotis is an enthusiastic educator, authoritative voice in price action trading and inspiring personal coach, Avramis Despotis has been immersed in the financial markets for over two decades. Founder and CEO of Tradepedia, he is an expert instructor in technical analysis, risk management and behavioural finance and has mentored over 20,000 private and institutional traders. His technical analysis reports and signals are sought after by clients and stock brokers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As a specialist in stocks and derivates, he correctly predicted the drop of the Western stock markets in 2007 and their subsequent rise in 2009 and the MENA region’s drop in 2008 and rise in 2013. A long-time trader in his native Greek stock exchange, he publicly predicted in Bankingnews.gr the drop of the stock market from 2500 to 500 points in 2010 and the subsequent rise to 1000 points in 2013.
Avramis is regularly called upon by top-tier global firms like Interarab Cambist Association (ICA), The Financial Markets Association (ACI), Saxo Bank, HSBC, Barclays Bank, National Commercial Bank, Arab Bank, Emirates NBD, Abu Dhabi National Bank, MENACORP, FX Pro, XM.com, ADS Securities and more to provide expert-level training to their top traders, fund managers and risk assessors. A regular speaker for Thomson Reuters Middle East, Despotis cites the highlight of his career as speaking at the 37th annual conference of the Interarab Cambist Association, with Tony Blair as keynote speaker, where he delivered two technical analysis courses to 500 delegates from all the banks in the MENA Region.
In 2009 he founded Tradepedia where he brought together all his years as a successful trader, instructor, technical analyst and automated algorithmic software developer. He developed a concise series of courses giving private investors and institutional firms access to proprietary market analysis tools and the skills to become assured, independent traders. Under his astute direction, Tradepedia has fast become a leading training institute and provider of automated software, market reports and signals.
Avramis Despotis is a Certified Financial Technician from the International Federation of Technical Analysts, a member of the British Society of Technical Analysts and is certified by CySEC for Portfolio Management and Own Account Trading. He holds a BSc. in Economics from the University College London and an MSc. in Finance and Banking from the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB).
Prior to Tradepedia, Avramis was a sought after educator and led teams of instructors delivering seminars to multiple clients across Europe and the Middle East. He trained high net worth individuals in the financial markets and institutional clients to pass the Certified Financial Technician CFTe I & II examination. He was a portfolio manager for Atlantic Securities, a leading general insurance company, where he managed funds in FX, commodities and equity markets. He developed automated trading systems for trading and scanning the markets and risk managed all positions and operations undertaken by the company.
His extensive trading experience in the financial markets stems from a decade of interbank trading. He worked for ten years at the Hellenic Bank where he set up multiple departments including the dealing room, credit card department, stock trading accounts and mutual funds. He was entrusted with creating the Hellenic bank’s first capital guaranteed products for FX and equity derivatives until he assumed overall responsibility for FX proprietary trading at the Treasury in Greece.
Currently, he is leading his team of trainers at Tradepedia and is prop trading in the international and local Markets. He is based in Dubai, UAE with his family. | WIKI |
Displaying Emoji in SQL Server
In SQL Server we can create a database, table and write T-SQL query using emoji.
Lets create a table and then insert few records into table.
Create table [😛😈🤪😎] (EmojiId INT, EmojiName Varchar(20), Emoji NVarchar(MAX))
You can check whether a table is created or not by using object explorer.
As you can see table is created which have emojies as table name.
Lets insert some records into table.
Insert into [😛😈🤪😎] values (1 , 'face with big eyes',N'😃')
Insert into [😛😈🤪😎] values (2 , 'winking face',N'😉')
Insert into [😛😈🤪😎] values (3 , 'face with tongue',N'😛')
Insert into [😛😈🤪😎] values (4 , 'face with tongue',N'😛')
Insert into [😛😈🤪😎] values (5 , 'clown face',N'🤡')
No we select records from table.
select * from [😛😈🤪😎]
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We celebrate Thanksgiving every year. However, we sometimes forget that the first Thanksgiving had a deep rooted medical history.
The Pilgrims established the first permanent colony in New England. However, there had been other explorers who had stopped in that area.
They included some famous names like Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson and John Smith. Cape Cod got its name from Bartholomew Gosnold who explored the area in 1602.
However, the explorers were not the only ones to visit the area. They were accompanied by smallpox, measles and influenza. During the years 1617-1619 an epidemic killed 90 percent of the Native Americans in the area.
It appears that the epidemic that did that was something called leptospirosis. The bacteria that causes it is a relative of the ones that cause syphilis and Lyme disease.
It is carried by the black rat. The rats came courtesy of the explorers’ ships. Those rats then urinated in the drinking water. The Native Americans who drank the water developed leptospirosis and died.
For perspective, laboratory hamsters injected with 10 leptospira will die within days. Each drop of rat urine deposited hundreds of thousands of them into the water.
The result was that when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, they found an abandoned village. They found pre-tilled fields. That made it much easier for them to settle in.
Squanto is the Native American famous for assisting the Pilgrims. He escaped the epidemic because the Englishman Thomas Hunt had kidnapped him and had him in captivity. He returned to work with the Pilgrims. However, his assistance was short lived. He caught leptospirosis and died.
The Mayflower had 102 passengers and 30 crew members. While they were building the new colony, they frequently stayed aboard the ship.
The first year was medically hard on the Pilgrims as well. By the end of the first winter, only 47 of the original colonists survived. Half of the crew had died as well. Most died from disease. Some died from nutritional issues.
We have come through a COVID pandemic which killed about one out of every 300 Americans. We thought it involved a lot of suffering.
However, in those early days the suffering was far worse. The leptospirosis epidemic killed 90 percent of the Native Americans in the area. Less than half of the Pilgrims survived the first winter.
We need to be thankful this year that modern medicine has been able to keep the mortality statistics from COVID-19 to being much less than what occurred in the early 1600s in Massachusetts.
COVID update- New COVID case numbers this week continue to show little change. Nationally, the number of new cases has gone from 241,000 to 249,000. Sussex County remains in the low risk zone. Total number of new cases went from 195 last week to 188 this week.
At this point there does not appear to be a need to keep doing weekly updates with so few new cases. We now have a vaccine. We now have antiviral agents. We know about wearing masks when we are sick. We know about hand sanitizer. There is little new to report. I will resume updates if and when we have a winter surge. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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iOS Question
How do I pass a swift object to javascript (WKWebView / swift)
I am working on passing data from swift to javascript inside a WKWebView
I have a custom class:
class AllInfo: AnyObject {
var title = "Special Title"
var description = "Special Description"
}
and initialize it with
var info = AllInfo()
I then have a WKWebView with which i pass a WKUserScript with which I have a source property of:
source: "changeDisplay('\(info)')"
My problem is how do I access this object in the javascript. I have attempted to access it like a javascript object as well as associative array with no luck. Here's the js funciton:
function changeDisplay(passedInfo) {
document.querySelector('h1').innerHTML = passedInfo.title
document.querySelector('h2').innerHTML = passedInfo.description
}
setTimeout(function () {changeDisplay();}, 5000);
EDIT: When I do attempt to access the object like this, I get undefined.
So my questions are:
Can I pass an AnyObject to JavaScript and access it?
If not, what type should I make the swift class so that I can easily pass it.
I am tempted to just create a javascript object in swift as a string and pass that, but I feel there's a better way.
Thanks
EDIT: I answered how I was able to pass data as JSON below.
Answer Source
Passing a native object to javascript is complex, especially for WKWebView which runs in multi-process mode. Any operation regarding the native object needs to cross process boundary. WKWebView has no language binding support between native and javascript. However, WKWebView supports message passing API. You have to wrap it for complex interactions between JS and native.
I created a project named XWebView which provides language binding styled API based on the raw message passing of WKWebView. It's written in Swift.
Regarding your example, the object has to be injected in javascript namespace firstly:
let webView = WKWebView(frame: frame, configuration: WKWebViewConfiguration())
webView.loadPlugin(AllInfo(), namespace: "someInfo")
You can access the object in javascript:
console.log(window.someInfo.title);
window.someInfo.title = "Some title";
To expose an Swift object to javascript, properties and methods must be dynamic dispatching. This means, properties must be dynamic, methods must has @objc attribute. (See https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=27 for dynamic dispatching). For simple, inherit from NSObject. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Francisc von Neuman Stadium
Francisc von Neuman Stadium is a football stadium in Arad, Romania. It is built on the site of the former Francisc von Neuman Stadium. The stadium was opened on 28 August 2020 and currently serves as the home for UTA Arad of the Liga I.
The stadium shares designing elements from Kirklees Stadium in Huddersfield which is visible in the stands. It is named after a local Jewish Hungarian aristocrat, Francisc von Neumann, a baron who owned several businesses in Arad and personally sponsored the construction of the old stadium and the founding of the team.
The first match at the stadium was a Liga I game played between UTA Arad and Voluntari, which ended in a goalless draw. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the game was played without spectators.
The first match with spectators was the 2021 women's Romanian Cup final between U Olimpia Cluj and Heniu Prundu Bârgăului, which ended with a 1–0 win in extra-time for the Cluj team.
The first international game played on the arena was the friendly goalless draw between UTA Arad and Kolubara Lazarevac. | WIKI |
1947 Colombian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 16 March 1947 to elect the Senate and Chamber of Representatives, the first occasion on which the Senate was directly elected. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 73 of the 131 seats in the Chamber. | WIKI |
Nakagawa Jun Kyōju no Inbina Hibi
Nakagawa Jun Kyōju no Inbina Hibi (中川准教授の淫びな日々) (lit. The lewd days of Associate Professor Nakagawa) is a 2008 Japanese pink film directed by Kunihiko Matsuoka and starring Rinako Hirasawa and Minami Aoyama. It won the Silver Prize at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony and Takashi Naha won Best Actor, 2nd place for his performance in the film.
Cast
* Rinako Hirasawa: Nana Mochizuki
* Minami Aoyama: Emi Nakagawa
* Azusa Sakai: Yōko Nakagawa
* Keisuke Iba: Tanehiko Yoda
* Seshio (世志男): Keizō Akao
* Takashi Naha: Shirō Nakagawa | WIKI |
Debian Conference
DebConf, the Debian developers conference is the yearly conference where developers of the Debian operating system meet to discuss further development of the system.
Besides the scheduled workshops and talks, Debian developers take the opportunity to hack on the Debian system in a more informal setting. This has been institutionalised by introducing the DebCamp in the Oslo DebConf in 2003: a room is set aside and computing infrastructure provided.
Locations
Locations of past and future DebConf events:
Miniconf
These were one-day miniature conferences, originally held in association with the main linux.conf.au Australian Linux conference. They were targeted towards specific communities of interest and offered delegates an opportunity to network with other enthusiasts while immersing themselves in a specific topic or project.
Locations of past LCA Miniconf events:
MiniDebConf
This is a smaller Debian event, held annually in various places in the world.
Locations of past and future MiniDebConf events:
Attendance
According to a 2013 brochure, the conference had about 30 attendees in 2000 while in 2011 there were around 300 attendees, and about 250 are expected. | WIKI |
Heart Complications of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease results when a person is bitten by a tick that is infected with the parasite Borrelia burgdorferi. In most cases, Lyme disease can be cured by treatment with antibiotics. If the disease is treated early, all symptoms typically disappear and the disease is completely cured. However, if Lyme disease is not treated, it can cause serious, life-threatening complications affecting the nervous system, heart and lungs, and can cause fatigue and arthritis. In North America, approximately 8 percent of patients with Lyme disease develop heart complications, according to an article published in the "Canadian Journal of Cardiology."
Is This an Emergency?
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Electrical Abnormalities
The most common heart complication caused by Lyme disease is disruption of the electrical signals that coordinate the beating of the heart, explains the University of Maryland Medical Center. The heart uses electrical signals to make sure that all the cells of the heart beat at the right time in order to push out blood and pull in more blood. When the electrical disturbances are disrupted, doctors call this a heart block. Depending on the exact location of the block within the heart, different types of electrical blocks can occur. Lyme disease often causes an atrioventricular block, which causes symptoms of dizziness, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness, chest pain and heart palpitations.cause:
• Lyme disease often causes an atrioventricular block
• which causes symptoms of dizziness
• shortness of breath
• loss of consciousness
• chest pain
• heart palpitations
Swelling of the Heart
Patients with Lyme disease may also experience a swelling of the heart, which is called myopericarditis. When the parasite causing Lyme disease migrates into heart tissue, the immune system tries to attack it by sending many specialized immune cells into the heart to kill the parasite. The influx of these immune cells causes the heart, particularly the small blood vessels that run through the heart, to swell, which is known as inflammation. The swelling of the heart can affect the ability of the heart to beat properly. In some cases, even after the parasite has been killed, the immune system continues to overreact, causing the heart to remain swollen.
Congestive Heart Failure
If Lyme disease remains untreated for a long time, some evidence suggests it may slowly cause heart failure, which is also known as cardiomyopathy, explains the "Canadian Journal of Cardiology." Researchers have not yet clearly established a link between Lyme disease and heart failure; however, some studies have found that patients infected with Lyme disease tend to have a higher incidence of cardiomyopathy than uninfected patients, reports the" Candian Journal of Cardiology." Doctors suspect that the continued damage to the heart caused by the Lyme disease parasite slowly weakens the ability of the heart to pump blood properly.
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Chat for Aesop Story Engine
Wopisanje
A single chat component is one piece of conversation: one chat bubble. Using a single chat bubble as the building block, any number of chat bubble components can comprise the end result. Short or long, it’s completely up to you, the content creator.
Please note that this plugin builds upon existing functionality provided by Aesop Story Engine, and will not function without it.
Options
Using the component’s built-in options, the chat colors can vary on a post-by-post basis. Multiple conversations in a single post can have varied colors, due to the modular nature of the components.
Appearance defines the style of chat bubble. There is a default style, but it’s not very interesting. There are options to imitate the appearance of chat styles used by Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and iOS Messaging.
Width defines the maximum width of the chat bubble. It will never exceed this value, but it can be shorter, if there is not enough text to fill a single line. Please note that the „px“ suffix is already included, so all this field requires is a number.
Background Color defines the background color behind the chat bubble. It’s always the full width of the screen.
Chat Color defines the background color of the chat bubble itself. The bubble arrow also takes on this color.
Text Color defines the text color in the chat bubble.
Direction defines where the chat bubble, its arrow, and avatar (optional) come from: left or right.
Content defines the text inside the chat bubble. Enter as much or as little as you want!
Avatar defines the picture associated with the chat bubble. This is optional.
Avatar Style defines the shape of the avatar. By default, it’s just a square image. It can be changed to rounded corners (I call this a „squircle“) or a circle.
Fota wobrazowki
• Options for Chat for Aesop Story Engine
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Instalacija
1. Download the plugin zip file.
2. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Plugins and click the Add New button.
3. Click Upload Plugin and Choose File, then select the plugins’s zip file. Click Install Now.
4. Click Activate.
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44.33. pg_statistic
The catalog pg_statistic stores statistical data about the contents of the database. Entries are created by ANALYZE and subsequently used by the query planner. There is one entry for each table column that has been analyzed. Note that all the statistical data is inherently approximate, even assuming that it is up-to-date.
pg_statistic also stores statistical data about the values of index expressions. These are described as if they were actual data columns; in particular, starelid references the index. No entry is made for an ordinary non-expression index column, however, since it would be redundant with the entry for the underlying table column.
Since different kinds of statistics might be appropriate for different kinds of data, pg_statistic is designed not to assume very much about what sort of statistics it stores. Only extremely general statistics (such as nullness) are given dedicated columns in pg_statistic. Everything else is stored in "slots", which are groups of associated columns whose content is identified by a code number in one of the slot's columns. For more information see src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h.
pg_statistic should not be readable by the public, since even statistical information about a table's contents might be considered sensitive. (Example: minimum and maximum values of a salary column might be quite interesting.) pg_stats is a publicly readable view on pg_statistic that only exposes information about those tables that are readable by the current user.
Table 44-33. pg_statistic Columns
Name Type References Description
starelid oid pg_class.oid The table or index that the described column belongs to
staattnum int2 pg_attribute.attnum The number of the described column
stanullfrac float4 The fraction of the column's entries that are null
stawidth int4 The average stored width, in bytes, of nonnull entries
stadistinct float4 The number of distinct nonnull data values in the column. A value greater than zero is the actual number of distinct values. A value less than zero is the negative of a fraction of the number of rows in the table (for example, a column in which values appear about twice on the average could be represented by stadistinct = -0.5). A zero value means the number of distinct values is unknown
stakindN int2 A code number indicating the kind of statistics stored in the Nth "slot" of the pg_statistic row
staopN oid pg_operator.oid An operator used to derive the statistics stored in the Nth "slot". For example, a histogram slot would show the < operator that defines the sort order of the data
stanumbersN float4[] Numerical statistics of the appropriate kind for the Nth "slot", or NULL if the slot kind does not involve numerical values
stavaluesN anyarray Column data values of the appropriate kind for the Nth "slot", or NULL if the slot kind does not store any data values. Each array's element values are actually of the specific column's data type, so there is no way to define these columns' type more specifically than anyarray | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Parasitology
Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it forms a synthesis of other disciplines, and draws on techniques from fields such as cell biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, genetics, evolution and ecology.
Fields
The study of these diverse organisms means that the subject is often broken up into simpler, more focused units, which use common techniques, even if they are not studying the same organisms or diseases. Much research in parasitology falls somewhere between two or more of these definitions. In general, the study of prokaryotes falls under the field of bacteriology rather than parasitology.
Medical
The parasitologist F. E. G. Cox noted that "Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70 species of protozoa, some derived from our primate ancestors and some acquired from the animals we have domesticated or come in contact with during our relatively short history on Earth".
One of the largest fields in parasitology, medical parasitology is the subject that deals with the parasites that infect humans, the diseases caused by them, clinical picture and the response generated by humans against them. It is also concerned with the various methods of their diagnosis, treatment and finally their prevention & control. A parasite is an organism that live on or within another organism called the host. These include organisms such as:
* Plasmodium spp., the protozoan parasite which causes malaria. The four species infective to humans are P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. vivax and P. ovale.
* Leishmania, unicellular organisms which cause leishmaniasis
* Entamoeba and Giardia, which cause intestinal infections (dysentery and diarrhoea)
* Multicellular organisms and intestinal worms (helminths) such as Schistosoma spp., Wuchereria bancrofti, Necator americanus (hookworm) and Taenia spp. (tapeworm)
* Ectoparasites such as ticks, scabies and lice
Medical parasitology can involve drug development, epidemiological studies and study of zoonoses.
Veterinary
The study of parasites that cause economic losses in agriculture or aquaculture operations, or which infect companion animals. Examples of species studied are:
* Lucilia sericata, a blowfly, which lays eggs on the skins of farm animals. The maggots hatch and burrow into the flesh, distressing the animal and causing economic loss to the farmer
* Otodectes cynotis, the cat ear mite, responsible for Canker.
* Gyrodactylus salaris, a monogenean parasite of salmon, which can wipe out populations which are not resistant.
Structural
This is the study of structures of proteins from parasites. Determination of parasitic protein structures may help to better understand how these proteins function differently from homologous proteins in humans. In addition, protein structures may inform the process of drug discovery.
Quantitative
Parasites exhibit an aggregated distribution among host individuals, thus the majority of parasites live in the minority of hosts. This feature forces parasitologists to use advanced biostatistical methodologies.
Parasite ecology
Parasites can provide information about host population ecology. In fisheries biology, for example, parasite communities can be used to distinguish distinct populations of the same fish species co-inhabiting a region. Additionally, parasites possess a variety of specialized traits and life-history strategies that enable them to colonize hosts. Understanding these aspects of parasite ecology, of interest in their own right, can illuminate parasite-avoidance strategies employed by hosts.
Conservation biology of parasites
Conservation biology is concerned with the protection and preservation of vulnerable species, including parasites. A large proportion of parasite species are threatened by extinction, partly due to efforts to eradicate parasites which infect humans or domestic animals, or damage human economy, but also caused by the decline or fragmentation of host populations and the extinction of host species.
Taxonomy and phylogenetics
The huge diversity between parasitic organisms creates a challenge for biologists who wish to describe and catalogue them. Recent developments in using DNA to identify separate species and to investigate the relationship between groups at various taxonomic scales has been enormously useful to parasitologists, as many parasites are highly degenerate, disguising relationships between species.
History
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observed and illustrated Giardia lamblia in 1681, and linked it to "his own loose stools". This was the first protozoan parasite of humans that he recorded, and the first to be seen under a microscope.
A few years later, in 1687, the Italian biologists Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo and Diacinto Cestoni published that scabies is caused by the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei, marking scabies as the first disease of humans with a known microscopic causative agent. In the same publication, Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti (Experiences of the Generation of Insects), Francesco Redi also described ecto- and endoparasites, illustrating ticks, the larvae of nasal flies of deer, and sheep liver fluke. His earlier (1684) book Osservazioni intorno agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi (Observations on Living Animals found in Living Animals) described and illustrated over 100 parasites including the human roundworm. He noted that parasites develop from eggs, contradicting the theory of spontaneous generation.
Modern parasitology developed in the 19th century with accurate observations by several researchers and clinicians. In 1828, James Annersley described amoebiasis, protozoal infections of the intestines and the liver, though the pathogen, Entamoeba histolytica, was not discovered until 1873 by Friedrich Lösch. James Paget discovered the intestinal nematode Trichinella spiralis in humans in 1835. James McConnell described the human liver fluke in 1875. A physician at the French naval hospital at Toulon, Louis Alexis Normand, in 1876 researching the ailments of French soldiers returning from what is now Vietnam, discovered the only known helminth that, without treatment, is capable of indefinitely reproducing within a host and causes the disease strongyloidiasis. Patrick Manson discovered the life cycle of elephantiasis, caused by nematode worms transmitted by mosquitoes, in 1877. Manson further predicted that the malaria parasite, Plasmodium, had a mosquito vector, and persuaded Ronald Ross to investigate. Ross confirmed that the prediction was correct in 1897–1898. At the same time, Giovanni Battista Grassi and others described the malaria parasite's life cycle stages in Anopheles mosquitoes. Ross was controversially awarded the 1902 Nobel prize for his work, while Grassi was not. | WIKI |
Kibana Import JSON : File structure cannot be determined
Hi ,
I want to import this index-pattern :
Kibana index-pattern
When I import it , I have this error :
I tried to override Timestamp with this option but it doesn't work :
Override
I tried to make timestamp_format to null but it's doesn't work :
Github solution
I read many discussion forum on this theme , lot of on .CSV file but no one on JSON .
I have you got any idea :slight_smile:
Does I need to convert JSON file to NDJSON ?
Index-pattern
The JSON File (index pattern) is made in 2019, does I have to change something ?
Hey @Julien069 ,
I would start checking compatibility, as you might not be to able to import pretty old saved objects to the current Kibana instance. If you scroll down, you can also find curl examples.
Regarding the format and possible changes, here is an example of saved objects format we are currently use in our tests. Hope it helps.
Best, Dima
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Sports Physicals
Sports Physicals
You know that playing sports helps keep kids fit and are a fun way for them to socialize and make friends. But you might not know why the physical kids may have to take at the beginning of their sports season is so important.
About Sports Physicals
In the sports medicine field, the sports physical exam — or preparticipation physical examination (PPE) — helps determine whether it's safe for kids to participate in a particular sport. Most states actually require that kids and teens have a sports physical before they can start a new sport or begin a new competitive season. But even if a PPE isn't required, doctors still highly recommend getting one.
The two main parts to a sports physical are the medical history and the physical exam.
Medical History
This part of the exam includes questions about:
The medical history questions are usually on a form that you'll fill out with your child. Looking at patterns of illness in a family is a good indicator of any potential conditions kids might have. Most sports medicine doctors believe the medical history is the most important part of the sports physical exam, so take time to answer the questions carefully. It's unlikely that any health conditions your child has will prevent him or her from playing sports completely.
Physical Examination
During the physical part of the exam, the doctor will usually:
Although most aspects of the exam will be the same for males and females, the doctor may ask girls and guys different questions if they've started or already gone through puberty. For example, if a girl is heavily involved in a lot of active sports, the doctor may ask her about her period and diet to make sure she doesn't have something like female athlete triad.
A doctor will also ask questions about use of drugs, alcohol, or dietary supplements, including steroids or other "performance enhancers" and weight-loss supplements, because these can affect a person's health.
At the end of the exam, the doctor will either fill out and sign a form if everything checks out OK or, in some cases, recommend a follow-up exam, additional tests, or specific treatment for medical problems.
Why a Sports Physical Is Important
A sports physical can help athletes find out about and deal with health problems that might interfere with their participation in a sport. For example, for a kid who has frequent asthma attacks but is a starting forward in soccer, a doctor might be able to prescribe a different type of inhaler or adjust the dosage for easier breathing during running.
The doctor may even have some good training tips and be able to give athletes some ideas for avoiding injuries; for instance, recommending specific exercises, like certain stretching or strengthening activities, that help prevent injuries. A doctor also can identify risk factors that are linked to specific sports. Advice like this will make kids better, stronger athletes.
When and Where to Go for a Sports Physical
Some athletes go to their own doctor for a sports physical; others have one at school. During school physicals, kids might go to half a dozen or so "stations" set up in the gym; each one is staffed by a medical professional who gives a specific part of the physical exam.
If your child's school offers the exam, it's convenient to get it done there. But even if the PPE is done at school, it's a good idea for your regular doctor to conduct an exam as well. Your doctor knows your kids — and their health history — better than anyone they talk to briefly in a gym.
If your state requires sports physicals, kids probably will have to start getting them when in seventh grade. Even if PPEs aren't required by your school or state, it's still smart for kids to get them if they participate in school sports. And those who compete regularly in a sport before ninth grade should begin getting these exams even earlier.
Getting a sports physical once a year is usually adequate. Any athlete healing from a major injury, like a broken wrist or ankle, however, should get checked out after it's healed before starting to practice or play again.
Getting a physical about 6 weeks before the sports season begins allows enough time to follow up on something, if necessary. Neither your child nor your doctor will be very happy if the PPE is the day before baseball practice starts and it turns out there's something that needs to be taken of care.
If There's a Problem
What happens if your child doesn't get the OK from your doctor and has to see a specialist? Does that mean your young athlete won't ever be able to letter in softball or hockey? Don't worry if the doctor orders other tests or a follow-up exam — it could be something as simple as rechecking your child's blood pressure a week or two after the physical.
A referral to a specialist may help your child's athletic performance. For example, a kid who wants to try out for the track team but gets a slight pain in the knee every time he or she runs might see an orthopedist or sports medicine specialist to help figure out what's going on. Perhaps the pain comes from previous overtraining or poor running technique. Maybe the knee was injured a long time ago and it never totally healed. Or perhaps the problem is as simple as running shoes that don't offer enough support. Chances are, a doctor will be able to help your child run without the risk of further injury to the knee by giving offering suggestions or treatment before the sports season begins.
It's very unlikely that your child will be disqualified from playing sports. The ultimate goal of the sports physical is to ensure safe participation in sports, not to disqualify the participants. Most of the time, a specialist won't find anything serious enough to prevent someone from playing a sport. In fact, fewer than 1% of students have conditions that might limit sports participation, and most of these conditions are known before the PPE takes place.
What About Regular Physicals?
It may seem like overkill, but also getting a regular physical is important for athletes because these are different from a sports physical.
The sports physical focuses on well-being as it relates to playing a sport. It's more limited than a regular physical, but it's a lot more specific about athletic issues. During a regular physical, however, doctors address kids' overall well-being, which may include things not related to sports. You can ask your doctor to do both types of exams during one visit; just be aware that it'll take more time.
Even if a sports physical exam doesn't reveal any problems, it's always wise to monitor your kids when they play sports. If you notice changes in their physical condition — even if you think they're minor, such as muscle pain or shortness of breath — talk to the coach or see your doctor. You should also inform the phys-ed teacher or coach if your child's health needs have changed in any way or if he or she is taking a new medication.
Just as professional sports stars need medical care to keep them playing their best, so do young athletes. Help give your kids the same edge as the pros by making sure they get get their sports physicals.
Reviewed by: Mary L . Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: August 2013
Originally reviewed by: Kathleen B. O'Brien, MD
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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OrganizationAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) The AAOS provides information for the public on sports safety, and bone, joint, muscle, ligament and tendon injuries or conditions.
OrganizationAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) The AAP is committed to the health and well-being of infants, adolescents, and young adults. The website offers news articles and tips on health for families.
OrganizationAmerican College of Sports Medicine This site has tips on staying safe while playing sports and exercising.
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Pat King (hurler)
Patrick King (born 1964) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with Toomevara, and also lined out at inter-county level with the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Career
King first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Toomevara club, winning numerous championship titles from under-12 up to under-21 level. He enjoyed his first success at adult level when he was part of the Toomevera team that won the Tipperary IHC title in 1984. King later won three successive Tipperary SHC medals from 1992 to 1994. The second of these victories was later converted into a Munster Club SHC title, before later losing the 1994 All-Ireland club final to Sarsfields. King added further Tipperary SHC titles to his collection in 1998 and 1999, before ending his career back with the club's intermediate team.
King never played at minor or under-21 levels with Tipperary, however, his performances at club level resulted in a call-up to the senior team for the 1986 season. He was later dropped from the panel but earned a recall in 1994 and won a National League medal on the field of play that year. King made his only Munster SHC appearance in a defeat by Clare that season.
In retirement from playing, King became involved in team management and coaching. He has served as a selector at various times with the Toomevara senior team, including during the club's Tipperary SHC-winning season in 2004.
Player
* Toomevara
* Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship: 1993
* Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999
* North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship: 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999
* Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship: 1984
* Tipperary Under-21 A Hurling Championship: 1985
* Tipperary
* National Hurling League: 1993–94
Management
* Toomevara
* Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship: 2004 | WIKI |
How do we run only the unit tests for files that have changed before git commit?
As we move forward with EPC, unit testing is a necessary skill, and it’s important to run single tests before local Git commits, as you can’t put all the pressure of single tests on the pipeline.
After all, it costs a lot of money to run a single test in the pipeline, and it takes at least a few minutes to go from push to trigger the pipeline and perceive the results of the single test.
So we need to do some single-testing on git commit. But if we run all the single test cases before committing, it’s not necessary and it’s time consuming.
So how should we run a single test case for only the files that have changed?
1. Using husky and lint-staged
We’re going to use the husky and lint-staged components next to implement detection of change-only files before commit.
• husky allows us to easily set the hook for pre-commit.
• lint-staged component can fetch all the files that have changed since the last commit before Git commits them. we can use this feature to run jest.
1.1 Configuring husky and lint-staged
First let’s install and configure these two components.
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"scripts": {
"test:staged": "jest --bail --findRelatedTests"
},
"lint-staged": {
"src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}": ["npm run test:staged"]
}
}
The node-glob wildcard configuration is supported in lint-staged, as well as multiple configurations. If the path to the file where the change occurs satisfies the configuration, the subsequent command is triggered.
The above wildcard means: any file ending with .js or .jsx or .ts or .tsx in src directory at any path.
1.2 Configuring jest
We configured jest in the test:staged command above.
• bail: exit whenever a single test case that fails to run is encountered.
• findRelatedTests: detects the specified file path.
For other more parameters, you can directly consult the official documentation Jest CLI Options.
Many of the public data we can configure directly in jest.config.js
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module.exports = {
roots: ['<rootDir>/src'], // 查找src目录中的文件
collectCoverage: true, // 统计覆盖率
coverageDirectory: 'coverage', // 覆盖率结果输出的文件夹
coverageThreshold: {
// 所有文件总的覆盖率要求
global: {
branches: 60,
functions: 60,
lines: 60,
statements: 60,
},
// 匹配到的单个文件的覆盖率要求
// 这里也支持通配符的配置
'./src/**/*.{ts,tsx}': {
branches: 40,
functions: 40,
lines: 40,
statements: 40,
},
},
// 匹配单测用例的文件
testMatch: ['<rootDir>/src/**/__tests__/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}', '<rootDir>/src/**/*.{spec,test}.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}'],
// 当前环境是jsdom还是node
testEnvironment: 'jsdom',
// 设置别名，若不设置，运行单测时会不认识@符号
moduleNameMapper: {
'^@/(.*)$': '<rootDir>/src/$1',
},
};
Once the above two configurations are completed, npm run test:staged will be executed when at least 1 of the files changed in this commit meet the requirements.
Let’s run all the test cases first.
sobyte
As you can see, we actually have 2 source files and 3 test files. However, the add-related ones have already been committed in the last commit, so only uitils and utils.test have changed in this commit.
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$ git add .
$ git ci -m 'test(utils): only test utils changed file'
As you can see from the given test report, only the utils files that have changed are currently being detected.
sobyte
2. Coverage requirements
We set the global coverage and the coverage of individual files above via the coverageThreshold property in jest.config.js.
We then add a few new files to the code, but do not configure the corresponding test files. Then the runtime finds that if there is no corresponding test file, the coverage of that file is not checked.
I purposely set the probability here to 100%, and then math.js has no corresponding test file.
sobyte
From the results of the test run, only utils.js with the test file is detected here, and not math.js.
Here we need to add a new property collectCoverageFrom.
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collectCoverageFrom: ["src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"],
}
At this point, when we run the single test again, we will be able to include all the files that meet the requirements, in the coverage assessment.
3. The pitfalls of collectCoverageFrom
When we commit with commit, it triggers lint-staged, which, as we said in section 1, should only run the instance where the change occurred, and the coverage will only output the currently running instance.
But this is not the case, if collectCoverageFrom is configured, it will output coverage data for all files that match no matter how the single test is run.
sobyte
As you can see from the yellow box, we only submitted utils.js this time, so we should just run and calculate the single test coverage of utils.js, but in fact, all the coverage will be output, and then most of the data will be 0, which can’t meet the requirement of coverage set.
But we can’t leave the collectCoverageFrom property unset, so my solution is: Exclusion Method.
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{
collectCoverageFrom: ['!src/**/*.d.ts', '!src/**/*{.json,.snap,.less,.scss}'],
}
This way we are satisfied with extracting coverage from only the files being tested when committing.
4. Summary
If you want to build something, you need to build something. Once we’ve built the configuration ahead of time, we’re ready to develop. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
As children grow and reach the early stages of adulthood, they may encounter more and more challenges. It is in times like these that the most skilled and determined ones truly stand out. To succeed, a person would need resilience.
Resilience is the ability and the capacity to remain strong in the midst of adversity and being able to recover from setbacks. This is an important skill that is being taught in some of the best international schools in Manila, which helps them in preparing for the future. As parents, it is important to teach and instill resilience to your children.
To give you a guide, here are some ways you can teach resilience to your kids:
One of the building blocks in teaching resilience is helping your children become more competent when it comes to doing various tasks at home or at school. Competence is the ability to do various tasks skillfully and successfully. You could help your kids be resilient by providing them some tasks that require problem-solving.
For example, you can ask your children to assemble or fix an item. While they are doing this, allow them to find things out by themselves and only give positive responses when they do something correctly. Through activities like these, your children are challenged to accomplish it while also discovering new things.
Problem-solving helps build confidence by giving them something challenging that they have to accomplish by themselves. Essentially, this will help them gain new skills as well as develop their characters.
A great way to help your kids learn how to be resilient is by showing it to them and allowing them to follow your example. Children learn new things by following actions mostly done by adults, which means that they tend to imitate actions done by their parents and teachers.
To show them resilience, you can provide them an example of how calm and composed you are during a challenging task. By doing so, it would help them understand resilience more and emulate it at home and at school.
Managing your emotions is one of the key factors to becoming a resilient person. This is important to teach your children; they have to learn that showing their emotions is completely fine. They can feel anger and disappointment when they lose a game or feel sad when they don’t get what they want.
However, they should also be taught that managing strong emotions is vital as well as determining what they should do when having such feelings. Let them know that throwing a fit is not appropriate. Instead, both of you can figure out ways on how they can calm down during such instances. Being calm and composed can help them clear their mind so they can know what actions they should do next.
One of the best ways to help your children become resilient people is by letting them become more independent. Independence means allowing them to discover new things on their own.
However, while giving them independence is a good thing, it is still essential to remain a caring parent – a strong family relationship is a factor in developing a child’s resilience.
Sometimes, a problem could prove to be too much for your children. When this happens, they should learn that asking for help from others is completely alright every once in a while.
Parents can teach their kids to be brave and strong-minded. You should keep in mind, however, that being strong also means asking for help at the right time.
Your children face a lot of challenges at school, and there will come a time when they will experience some form of failure. Failure can bring about strong negative emotions, which would affect your children greatly. Instead of seeing this as a completely negative experience, tell them that failure is another step in growth and learning. This would help them overcome it. Eventually, this could also lead them to become stronger individuals in the future.
Also, you can tell your children that taking age-appropriate risks is a good thing, as it lets them experience various levels of growth – which can be productive and helpful in molding them into resilient individuals.
Resilience is one of the most important traits to have as a person, as it helps your children take on challenges, experience success, and rise up from failure. It is an important trait when it comes to molding your children into strong individuals as they grow into adulthood. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Lesson of the Day: ‘It’s Slime. And It’s Satisfying.’
current events In this lesson, students explore the appeal of slime and write their own pieces about the trends and fads they think symbolize modern childhood. Find all our Lessons of the Day here. Featured Article: “It’s Slime. And It’s Satisfying.” “Slime content has invaded the satisfaction internet and oozed into the American middle school. Slime is an art form, a community and an industry: sensory gratification tubbed and sold,” Amanda Hess writes about that sticky substance between liquid and solid. In this lesson, students explore the appeal of slime among young people and then write their own pieces about the trends and fads they think symbolize modern childhood. Do you or have you ever played with slime? What do you like (or dislike) about it? Before you read, watch the video below and scroll through some of the other videos and images in today’s featured article. Take note of the different sensations you have as you look at them. What do you see, hear, feel, taste and smell when you see these images? How do they make you feel? Read the article, then answer the following questions: 1. Amanda Hess begins the article by writing, “One of the internet’s greatest features is satisfaction on demand.” What does she mean by that? How is slime an example of that? 2. What role do the five senses — sight, sound, smell, taste and touch — play in the experience of slime? 3. How does Chloe Park, the creator of Slime New York, wield these senses to market and sell her product? Are her efforts successful? 4. How is slime “a symbol of modern childhood, and in particular, girlhood,” according to Ms. Hess? Do you agree with her assessment? Why or why not? 5. Ms. Hess argues that part of slime’s appeal is that it is an “escape” from our screens and other worries intensified by the internet. She ends the article by writing: It is probably not a coincidence that slime has risen just as we have come to define ourselves by our anxieties, our food issues, and our efforts to fend it all off with practices of self-care. The internet can replicate and exacerbate these stressors, but slime can work in the opposite way, as a kind of timeline cleanse. The word “satisfy” comes from the Old French satisfaire, which meant to repay or make reparations. Perhaps that is what slime is: the internet’s atonement for everything else. Do you agree? Why do you think slime is trending at this moment? Media Literacy Amanda Hess, the author of this piece, is an adult writing about a fad that is largely popular among children and teenagers. Does her assessment of modern childhood and young people’s love of slime speak to your own experience of being a teenager today? If not, try your hand at writing an article about a trend or fad that is popular among your peers. It can be short — just a paragraph or two — or as long as the one you read today. Use Ms. Hess’s piece as a model for your own writing. Like her, you might: Choose a trend that you think is a “symbol of modern childhood.” Describe it and explain why you think young people find it appealing. Then, analyze it: What does it say about the world or teenage life today? If you have more time, you might incorporate some other good journalism practices: Conduct research online to see what others have written about the trend. Interview your classmates or other experts and include their quotes in your article. Add images, videos, tweets or Instagram posts that help illustrate your point. Finally, share your piece with your classmates or another audience. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence
The following is a list of massacres that occurred in the Croatian War of Independence. Numbers may be approximate. | WIKI |
A's shoot for sweep of Angels | Fox News
The Oakland Athletics try to continue their recent mastery of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Wednesday when they attempt to complete another three-game sweep of them at O.co Coliseum. Oakland's dominance in this series continued on Tuesday, as Yoenis Cespedes went 2-for-4 with four RBI while Seth Smith added a three-run double to lead the Athletics to a 10-6 win. The A's have won three in a row overall following a 1-8 stretch, including a 19-inning marathon on Monday that lasted six hours, 32 minutes. Tuesday's meeting was two hours, 53 minutes shorter, but the outcome wound up being the same as each of five matchups between these AL West rivals this season -- all Oakland victories. The A's last won six straight against the Angels from June 23-Sept. 24, 2004. Jarrod Parker (1-4) earned his first win of the season after allowing four runs -- three earned -- on six hits over six-plus innings, while Garrett Richards (1-2) was shelled for seven runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 frames to take the loss. It looked like he was aggressive right away, A's manager Bob Melvin said of Parker. Hopefully we can get on a roll here in a couple outings and get him past a little bit of a tough time. Mike Trout powered the Angels' offense with a double, a triple and four RBI, but the club fell for the sixth time in its last seven games. We've got to find a way to get leads, hold leads and win games even when you're not as deep as you need to be, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. I tell you one thing right now, no one is going to feel sorry for you. Getting the call for the A's on Wednesday will be lefty Tommy Milone, who has lost his last two starts after opening the year 3-0. Milone fell to Baltimore on Friday, despite a terrific showing that saw him surrender just an unearned run in 6 2/3 innings to lower his ERA to 3.38 on the year. We always feel good when Tommy takes the mound, and even when we struggle to get runs and even hits, he still keeps you in the game, Melvin said. Milone beat the Angels earlier in the year and is 3-1 with a 5.40 ERA in four starts. Los Angeles, meanwhile, will turn to lefty C.J. Wilson, who is 2-0 with a 4.30 ERA. Wilson defeated the Seattle Mariners on Friday, limiting them to three runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. He also struck out nine and walked a pair in the win. Wilson is 7-7 lifetime against the A's with a 3.70 ERA in 42 games (13 starts). Oakland swept the Angels from April 9-11 in Anaheim. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 2018 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Turandot (Brecht)
Turandot or the Whitewashers' Congress is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written during the summer of 1953 in Buckow and substantially revised in light of a brief period of rehearsals in 1954, though it was still incomplete at the time of Brecht's death in 1956 and did not receive its first production until several years later. It premièred on 5 February 1969 at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, in a production directed by Benno Besson and Horst Sagert, with music by Yehoshua Lakner.
The story is loosely based on Count Carlo Gozzi's commedia dell'arte play Turandot (1762), a production of which Brecht saw in Moscow in 1932, directed by Yevgeny Vakhtangov. From 1930 onwards, Brecht began to develop a version of his own, which became part of a wider complex of projects exploring the role of intellectuals (or "Tuis," as he called them) in a capitalist society. Brecht's protagonist is coarse, lacking the whimsical charm of Gozzi's portrayal and the aspiration to nobility in Schiller's adaptation (1801).
The play consists of 27 subdividing pictures in 10 major scenes. Its plot is about how to explain high cotton prices, although of a vast harvest. The prize for best explanation is Turandot. The big topic is the abuse of intellectual skills.
The play had its British première in an amateur production in 1970 and a professional production at the Oxford Playhouse in 1971. | WIKI |
How do I fix Bootrec Fixboot access is denied Windows 10?
How do I fix Fixboot Access Denied?
To fix the “bootrec/fixboot access denied”, the following methods are worth a try.
1. Method 1. Repair Bootloader.
2. Method 2. Run Startup Repair.
3. Method 3. Repair your boot sector or rebuild BCD.
4. Method 4. Run CHKDSK.
5. Method 5. Check disk and rebuild MBR using freeware.
How do I fix Access Denied?
How to fix Access is denied message on Windows 10?
1. Take ownership of the directory. …
2. Add your account to the Administrators group. …
3. Enable the hidden Administrator account. …
4. Check your permissions. …
5. Use Command Prompt to reset permissions. …
6. Set your account as administrator. …
7. Use Reset Permissions tool.
How do I run Fixboot on Windows 10?
Bootrec in Windows 10
1. Insert the Windows 10 DVD or USB.
2. Reboot the system.
3. Press any key at the “Press any key to boot” message.
4. Click Repair your computer. …
5. Select Troubleshoot, then select Command Prompt.
6. When Command Prompt appears, simply type the necessary commands: bootrec /FixMbr.
7. Press Enter after each command.
How do I fix Bootrec Fixboot access is denied Windows 7?
How to Fix ‘bootrec /fixboot’ Access Denied on Windows 7,8 and 10
1. Solution 1: Name the Hidden Boot Partition on Your Drive.
2. Solution 2: Run Automatic Repair After Naming the Volume.
3. Solution 3: Target Volumes with BOOTMGR Compatible Code.
4. Solution 4: Disable Fast Boot in BIOS.
What is access denied error?
Cause An “Access Denied” error message can occur for one or more of the following reasons: The folder ownership has changed. You do not have the appropriate permissions. The file is encrypted.
Why is access denied when I am the administrator?
Access denied message can sometimes appear even while using an administrator account. … Windows folder Access Denied administrator – Sometimes you might get this message while trying to access the Windows folder. This usually occurs due to your antivirus, so you might have to disable it.
How do I get rid of access denied on iPhone?
Open Safari and test.
1. Safari – Clear the history and cookies on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
2. Safari website data on your iPhone or iPad – How to clear. Do you have access to another WiFi network where you can try? That has worked for several people. …
3. Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Try a forced restart.
How do you fix forbidden you don’t have permission to access on this server?
If you have encountered this error, here are a few steps that you can take to remedy this.
1. Adjust file permissions & ownership of the webroot directory. Incorrect file permissions & directory ownership are known to restrict access to website files. …
2. Adjust directives in Apache main configuration file.
Does Windows 10 have a repair tool?
Answer: Yes, Windows 10 does have a built-in repair tool that helps you troubleshoot typical PC issues.
How do I manually rebuild my BCD?
Fix #4: Rebuild the BCD
1. Insert the original installation DVD or USB Drive. …
2. Restart your computer.
3. Boot from the disc/USB.
4. At the Install screen, click Repair your computer or press R.
5. Click Troubleshoot.
6. Click Command Prompt.
7. Type these commands: bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /ScanOs bootrec /RebuildBcd.
How do I put Windows 10 into safe mode?
From Settings
1. Press Windows logo key + I on your keyboard to open Settings. …
2. Select Update & Security > Recovery . …
3. Under Advanced startup, select Restart now.
4. After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart.
What is Bootrec Fixboot?
According to Microsoft here is what Bootrec /FIXBOOT does: “This option writes a new boot sector to the system partition by using a boot sector that’s compatible with Windows Vista or Windows 7
How do I fix bad system configuration information?
5 Ways to Fix the “Bad System Config Info” Stop Code in Windows…
1. Restart Your System. The first fix is always the easiest: restart your computer. …
2. Run SFC and CHKDSK. …
3. Restore the Windows Registry. …
4. Use System Restore to Fix the Windows Registry. …
5. Fix Boot Configuration Data (BCD)
How do I run Bootboc Fixboot?
Type BOOTREC /FIXMBR and hit <Enter>. This command will attempt to fix any corruption issues with the master boot record. If all goes well, you should see The operation completed successfully. Next, type BOOTREC /FIXBOOT then hit <Enter>.
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Differential motif enrichment analysis of paired ChIP-seq experiments.
ABSTRACT: Motif enrichment analysis of transcription factor ChIP-seq data can help identify transcription factors that cooperate or compete. Previously, little attention has been given to comparative motif enrichment analysis of pairs of ChIP-seq experiments, where the binding of the same transcription factor is assayed under different conditions. Such comparative analysis could potentially identify the distinct regulatory partners/competitors of the assayed transcription factor under different conditions or at different stages of development.We describe a new methodology for identifying sequence motifs that are differentially enriched in one set of DNA or RNA sequences relative to another set, and apply it to paired ChIP-seq experiments. We show that, using paired ChIP-seq data for a single transcription factor, differential motif enrichment analysis identifies all the known key transcription factors involved in the transformation of non-cancerous immortalized breast cells (MCF10A-ER-Src cells) into cancer stem cells whereas non-differential motif enrichment analysis does not. We also show that differential motif enrichment analysis identifies regulatory motifs that are significantly enriched at constrained locations within the bound promoters, and that these motifs are not identified by non-differential motif enrichment analysis. Our methodology differs from other approaches in that it leverages both comparative enrichment and positional enrichment of motifs in ChIP-seq peak regions or in the promoters of genes bound by the transcription factor.We show that differential motif enrichment analysis of paired ChIP-seq experiments offers biological insights not available from non-differential analysis. In contrast to previous approaches, our method detects motifs that are enriched in a constrained region in one set of sequences, but not enriched in the same region in the comparative set. We have enhanced the web-based CentriMo algorithm to allow it to perform the constrained differential motif enrichment analysis described in this paper, and CentriMo's on-line interface (http://meme.ebi.edu.au) provides dozens of databases of DNA- and RNA-binding motifs from a full range of organisms. All data and output files presented here are available at http://research.imb.uq.edu.au/t.bailey/supplementary\_data/Lesluyes2014.
SUBMITTER: Lesluyes T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4167127 | BioStudies | 2014-01-01
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单片机大作业，包含电路图、源代码和实验报告（除总结）
电路图
电路图提供两个版本，一开始我是用Proteus8画的，但是老师说之后要在她的电脑上运行，所以花了几分钟画了个低版本的：
链接：https://pan.baidu.com/s/1OET1wenZcMJAtf0aHUSkjw
提取码：6666
实验代码
#include<reg51.h>
#include<absacc.h>
#define uchar unsigned char
#define uint unsigned int
uchar code numtab[] = {0xc0,0xf9,0xa4,0xb0,0x99,0x92,0x82,0xf8,0x80,0x90};
uchar code postab[] = {0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80};
uchar count;
uchar hour = 13, minute = 14, second = 15;
int year = 2021, month = 6, day = 4;
sbit ShowInfo = P0 ^ 0; //显示年月日
sbit SetModel = P0 ^ 1; //显示时分秒
sbit SetYear = P0 ^ 2; //设置年份
sbit SetMonth = P0 ^ 3; //设置月份
sbit SetDay = P0 ^ 4; //设置天
sbit SetHour = P0 ^ 5; //设置小时
sbit SetMinute = P0 ^ 6; //设置分钟
sbit SetSecond = P0 ^ 7; //设置秒钟
uchar model = 0;
void init(){ //定时器初始化
TMOD = 0x01;
TH0 = (65535 - 50000) / 256;
TL0 = (65535 - 50000) % 256;
EA = 1;
ET0=1;
EX0 = 1; IT0 = 1;
EX1 = 1; IT1 = 1;
TR0 = 1;
}
void delay(uint times) { //延时函数
uint a,b;
for(a = times; a > 0; a--)
for(b = 100; b > 0; b--);
}
void DisTime() { //显示时分秒
P1 = postab[7];
P2 = numtab[second % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[6];
P2 = numtab[second / 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[5];
P2 = 0xBF;
delay(3);
P1 = postab[4];
P2 = numtab[minute % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[3];
P2 = numtab[minute / 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[2];
P2 = 0xBF;
delay(3);
P1 = postab[1];
P2 = numtab[hour % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[0];
P2 = numtab[hour / 10];
delay(3);
}
void DisDate() { //显示年月日
P1 = postab[7];
P2 = numtab[day % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[6];
P2 = numtab[day / 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[5];
P2 = numtab[month % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[4];
P2 = numtab[month / 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[3];
P2 = numtab[year % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[2];
P2 = numtab[year / 10 % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[1];
P2 = numtab[year / 100 % 10];
delay(3);
P1 = postab[0];
P2 = numtab[year / 1000];
delay(3);
}
int IsLeapYear() { //判断是否为闰年
if((year % 4 != 0)||(year % 100 == 0 && year % 400 != 0))
return 0;
else
return 1;
}
void AdjustDate() {
day++;
if((day == 29 && month == 2 && !IsLeapYear()) || (day == 30 && month == 2 && IsLeapYear())) { //è?1?ê?2??29
month = 3; day = 1;
}
if(day == 31 && (month == 4 ||month == 6 || month == 9 || month ==11)){
day = 1;
month ++;
}
if(day == 32 && (month == 1 || month == 3 || month == 5 || month == 7 || month == 8 || month == 10 || month == 12)) {
day = 1;
month ++;
}
if(month == 13) {
year++;
month = 1;
day = 1;
}
}
void AdjustTime() {
second++;
if(second == 60) {
second = 0;
minute++;
if(minute == 60) {
minute = 0;
hour ++;
if(hour == 24) {
hour = 0;
AdjustDate(); //调整日期
}
}
}
}
void main(){
init();
while(1) {
if(model == 0) { //模式零显示日期，模式一显示时间
DisDate();
} else {
DisTime();
}
}
}
void timer0() interrupt 1 {
TH0 = (65535 - 50000) / 256;
TL0 = (65535 - 50000) % 256;
if(++count == 18) {
count = 0;
AdjustTime();
}
}
void int0() interrupt 0 {
if(ShowInfo == 0) { //设置显示模式，显示年月日
model = 0;
} else if(SetModel == 0) { //设置显示时分秒
model = 1;
} else if(SetHour == 0) { //设置小时
hour++; //小时增加
if(hour == 24) { //如果溢出则进位，并且调整日
hour = 0;
AdjustDate();
}
} else if(SetMinute == 0) { //设置分钟
minute++;
if(minute == 60) { //分钟溢出则进位
minute = 0;
hour++;
if(hour == 24) { //小时溢出进位，调整日
hour = 0;
AdjustDate();
}
}
} else if(SetSecond == 0){ //设置秒
AdjustTime();
} else if(SetDay == 0) {
AdjustDate();
} else if(SetMonth == 0) { //设置月
month++;
if(month == 13) { //月溢出则进位
month = 1;
year++;
}
} else if(SetYear == 0) { //设置年
year++;
}
}
实验报告
供大家参考，不要复制粘贴
链接：https://pan.baidu.com/s/1uLRZxO9cUokQsaAHDb6CFw
提取码：6666
立志成为一名攻城狮
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Peltops
Peltops is a genus of birds in the family Artamidae. It contains two species that are endemic to the island of New Guinea. The species have also had the common name of shieldbill.
Taxonomy
The genus Peltops was introduced by the German zoologist Johann Georg Wagler in 1829. The type species is the lowland peltops. The name is from the Greek pelte meaning small shield and ops meaning face. The genus was once placed with the monarch flycatchers, but molecular and morphometric studies place it closer to the butcherbirds, possibly as a sister taxon to this group. The genus is placed in its own subfamily, Peltopsinae.
The genus contains two species:
Description
Peltops are smaller than the butcherbirds, and have a less massive but still large bill. The mountain peltops is the larger species, at 20 cm, whereas the lowland peltops is slightly smaller at 18 to(-). The hooked bill is the same size in both species, making it proportionally larger in the lowland peltops.
Distribution and habitat
Both species occupy rainforest on New Guinea, but are separated by altitude. The lowland peltops ranges across the island from sea level to 600 m, whereas the mountain peltops ranges from 600 to(-). Within the forest they are particularly common at forest openings and edges, tree falls, river edges, and other disturbed areas including human modified openings like roads and gardens. In undisturbed virgin forest they may use massive trees emerging from and above the canopy. | WIKI |
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traces of columns or bases of columns have been found either in the hall or in the antechamber. The several stones (a b) discovered in the upper half of the hall, to judge from their form and position, cannot have served as bases for pillars. Neither can we accept the view that wooden columns existed and were afterwards destroyed, for in that case some remains of their bases would have been found. Hence we must conclude that the roof, in spite of the great breadth of the hall, could not have been supported by interior columns.
A heap of ashes, partly buried under a house wall of the VII Stratum, was found in the center of the hall, and warrants the assumption that our building was a dwelling house. The upper walls were probably erected out of fine building stone, and their complete destruction may be due to the fact that they were utilized by the inhabitants of the VII Stratum as material for their houses. No traces of clay brick are to be found in this structure. The roof was probably horizontal, and built of earth resting upon a steep incline constructed of straw or similar material. We have no information as to the lighting of the apartment. Certainly there must have been a door between the hall and antechamber, but its size and form are unknown.
To the north of VI A was discovered the great building VI B, fronting the southwest. Three walls of an antechamber and a small portion of a side wall of the hall are preserved. Since the | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mostafa Makhlouf
Mostafa Makhlouf
* – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)
No indication the subject meets the general notability guideline. Only source indicates he is the fifth-choice goalkeeper for his club and he has not played at senior level. C679 11:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and Egypt. C679 11:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. C679 11:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* He was in the first team in the past 2 years
* And entered the African list for Al Ahly this year so he must have a Wikipedia page Mohamedmokhtar22 (talk) 11:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Delete or Draft According to soccerway he hasn't played any games. So those trophies? Are they really earned? If the article was improved with better sourcing I might send to draft, in it's current state I would delete. Also @ Why do you have two accounts? Govvy (talk) 13:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Delete: Not enough coverage for this individual. All I can find, a few brief words about him. Oaktree b (talk) 16:54, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* First, I have only One account but I changed the username.
* Second, In African Championships if he entered the saquad in any match the whole championship it will be earnd for him Mohamedmokhtar22 (talk) 17:04, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 17:24, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* https://www.yallakora.com/egyptian-league/2795/news/447474/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%85-%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%8A-%D8%B8%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A8-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3-
* This link from Yallakora the famous site about Mostafa Makhlouf Mohamedmokhtar22 (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
* Weak delete. He doesn't seem to pass WP:SIGCOV. I found several sources, but but neither seem reliable . Tau Corvi (talk) 20:09, 21 July 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Morten Amundsen Morten Amundsen - 5 months ago 69
MySQL Question
How to convert selection in JavaFX ComboBox to String
I have a form which is to be submitted to a mySQL database, where one of the inputs is a ComboBox (JavaFX).
When submitting the input from the ComboBox, the value added to the database is
"ComboBox[id=rolePicker, styleClass=combo-box-base combo-box]"
not a
String
value.
How can I solve this issue, so that the data submitted to the database is a
String
of the value selected?
(Partial) JAVA Controller Code:
public class NewUserController implements Initializable, ControlledScreen {
@FXML
TextField nameField;
@FXML
TextField usernameField;
@FXML
TextField emailField;
@FXML
ComboBox rolePicker;
@FXML
public void submitUser(ActionEvent event) {
String dbUsername = "root";
String dbPassword = "secret";
String dbURL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/uia";
try {
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, dbUsername, dbPassword);
Statement statement = (Statement) conn.createStatement();
statement.execute("INSERT INTO user (name, username, password, email, userrole) VALUES ('" + nameField.getText() + "', '" + usernameField.getText() + "', '" + usernameField.getText() + "', '" + emailField.getText() + "', '" + rolePicker + "');");
} catch (SQLException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
(Partial) FXML Code:
<ComboBox id="rolePicker" fx:id="rolePicker" editable="true" maxHeight="25.0" maxWidth="225.0" minHeight="25.0" minWidth="225.0" prefHeight="25.0" prefWidth="225.0" promptText="Role.." visibleRowCount="4">
<items>
<FXCollections fx:factory="observableArrayList">
<String fx:value="TEACHER" />
<String fx:value="STUDENT" />
</FXCollections>
</items>
</ComboBox>
Answer
On the following line you use rolePicker in a string expression, therefore the compiler will call the toString() method on this object to get the string representation of the object, that causes the mentioned output:
statement.execute("INSERT INTO user (name, username, password, email, userrole) VALUES ('" +
nameField.getText() + "', '" + usernameField.getText() + "', '" + usernameField.getText() + "', '" + emailField.getText() +
"', '" + rolePicker + "');");
You should get the selected value of the ComboBox with getValue method:
rolePicker.getValue();
and you can use the returned value in the expression.
Note: getValue will return the type which type the ComboBox has as generic parameter (the type of the items stored in the ComboBox): public final T getValue(). In your current situation you have a ComboBox that stores String values (ComboBox<String>), therefore the returned value can be used directly. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The aim of this practical seminar (7 CP) is the realization of a complete pipeline of a project from the problem statement to finding solutions using methods of machine learning on our Deep Learning cluster. The topics are proposed by different groups of the Mathematics and Computer Science departments consisting for example of topics in computer linguistics, bioinformatics, computer vision, computer graphics, language processing, and optimization. Each topic will be supervised by the group that proposed the topic. Up to three students will be working on one topic. The project seminar consists of three parts. In the first part, the student group working on a topic will get acquainted with the topic, the input data, and research about potential solutions for the given problem. The second part is the implementation and testing of solutions for the problem. At the end of the course, the groups will present their topics and the solutions in a seminar.
Organizer: Dr. Pedro Guimarães (see below for the project supervisor/tutor)
Dates:
Registration *HERE from April 16th to April 23rd, 2019
Kick-off meetingApril 25th 2019, 10:00-11:00, Building E 2.1 Room 2.06
Deadline to register in HISPOS OR de-register from seminar *May 16th, 2019
Lecture datesGeneral introduction: April 26th, 2019, 9:00-10:00, Building E 2.1 Room 2.06 Technical introduction: May 3rd, 2019, 9:00-10:00, Building E 2.1 Room 2.06
Intermediate Progress MeetingMay 24th, 2019, 10:00, Building E 2.1 Room 2.06
Deadline for handing in results of implementationJuly 12th, 2019
PresentationsJuly 19th, 2019, 10:00, Building E 1.1 Room 2.06
Final report deadlineJuly 26th, 2019
* If you want to deregister from the seminar, please send the tutor an email irrespectively whether you (de)registered in HISPOS or not. Requirements for participation:
• at least one course in Machine Learning or Statistical Learning or Neural Networks: Implementation and Applications
Certificate requirements:
• Successful presentation:
• Talk: 30 minutes
• Questions from the tutors/audience after the presentation
• Taking minutes during the practical part to make clear which student worked on which part of the project.
• Handing in a final report after the presentation along with the protocol of the practical part.
Final grade:
• Based on the given presentation (see “Certificate requirements”)
• May be influenced by the submitted report and handling of the practical part
Topics
# Supervisor Topic Participants
1 Peter Minko Non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) detection
Our data set consists of 10,000 patients that underwent heart and/or thorax surgery. Of these patients we extracted laboratory values (approximately over 12 million) to be analyzed in regards to non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI). This disease is graded by a scoring system: 0 points = no NOMI, 1-3 mild and 4-7 severe signs of NOMI. This scoring system has been validated by previous data and publications. There are several questions we want to pursue: 1. Correlation of the severity of NOMI with the lab values; 2. How are lab values changing over time: pre-operative (earliest value), post-operative (24 h after) and 24h, 48h and 72 h after the last angiography; 3. Correlation with indication: Emergency vs. planed operation with lab values; 4. Re-bleeding of the thorax with lab values pre-operative and first day post-operative.
2 Veit Flockerzi & Claudia Fecher-Trost Comparison of proteomes derived from primary trophoblast cells of wild-type (WT) and Trpv6 gene-deficient mice (Trpv6-/- or Trpv6KO)
TRPV6 channels selectively conduct calcium ions (Fecher-Trost et al. (2013); Störger & Flockerzi (2014)) and are expressed during pregnancy in the maternal decidua and the fetal labyrinth of the placenta (Fecher-Trost et al. (2019)). As we have recently shown TRPV6 channels are necessary for proper embryonic and bone development (Fecher-Trost et al. (2019)): Homozygous Trpv6KO embryos that develop in a Trpv6KO mother accumulate less calcium, have a reduced bone mineralization and altered bone biomechanics that persist into adulthood. This suggests a causal relationship between the functional TRPV6 channel in the placenta and bone development. We have already shown that calcium uptake in isolated trophoblasts, which are part of the fetal placental labyrinth, is greatly reduced in Trpv6KO animals. In addition, the morphology and cell-cell contacts of the trophoblasts of the placental labyrinth is reduced compared to the WT. This suggests a correlation between functional trophoblast TRPV6 channels, calcium uptake and placental labyrinth morphology. We isolated trophoblasts from wild-type (WT) and Trpv6KO placentae (n = 5, each) of pregnant mice, examined them for their growth behavior in cell culture and analyzed them by mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS / MS). Although the amount of protein and the number of spectra obtained was almost equal for both groups, the overall number of identified proteins was 2875 for WT trophoblasts and 1776 for Trpv6KO trophoblasts. We would like to get answers to the following questions: 1. Can proteins (qualitatively and quantitatively) be identified to determine whether the protein endowment of wild-type and Trpv6KO trophoblasts is different? Or are there only individual differences of the proteomes, independently of the respective genotype, id est wild-type or Trpv6KO? 2. In case there are changes in both categories (WT vs Trpv6 KO), which parameters are different and are these parameters related to cellular functions, such as cell adhesion, cell-cell contacts, hormonal regulation, transport, angiogenesis, calcium homeostasis/signaling or metabolism? 3. Is it possible to draw any conclusions in regard of underlying changes of cellular pathways of trophoblasts in Trpv6 KO animals?
3 Klaus Illgner & Sunil Jaiswal Robust depth estimation Samim Taray
The company K|Lens GmbH is a spin-off of the Saarbrücken University and the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science. https://www.k-lens.de/ We are working on the development of a light field lens and the corresponding software. http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/KaleidoCam/ A core module of our software is a robust depth estimation algorithm. Here we are working on different approaches, one of which is based on Machine Learning. Over the past months, we have analyzed various solutions and consider the Flownet 2.0 algorithm to be the most promising basis. https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2017/IMSKDB17/ We now want to optimize this algorithm according to our hardware, to accelerate it, and to train the network according to our very special camera logic. Ideally, this algorithm will then be used within our photographic product as well as to solve industrial challenges. From our part, the project will be fully supported and result-oriented.
4 Matthias Mueter Sugar beet plants segmentation Natalia Sergeeva,
Vladimir Bokor
Due to public pressure, the use of herbicides in farming will be reduced in the near future. An alternative is mechanical weed hoeing. The online detection of plant positions and the distinction between weed and crop are the main problems of mechanical weed control in the row. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFL2K1tyat0 The goal of the project is to get the coordinates (local horizontal and vertival position in pixels) from each sugar beet in the image. That means the plant center (where the plant grows out of the soil). As a secondary target we want to distinguish between weed and sugar beet plants.
5 Mustafa Kahraman Identification of tumor patients with Deep Learning approaches based on microRNAs measured in blood samples Harry Ritchie,
Hui-Syuan Yeh,
Koushik Chowdhury
In the last 10 years the number of studies and efforts in the area of body fluid diagnostics and research of diverse diseases has been increased. Especially the interest is focused on early identification of tumor patients since the current applied diagnostic methods work only for diseases at advanced stage which is in most cases too late for a successful curative treatment. While the majority of the studies deals with messengerRNAs as biomarkers, the community researching with microRNAs becomes more and more established. The current research shows that there is a huge diagnostic potential in the regulatory behavior of miRNAas. This is usually analyzed in bioinformatics by classical machine learning methods and hypothesis tests. In the last years Deep Learning is one of the newest trends in data science applied in different fields. However, there are only a few groups using the new methods for researching with miRNAs. The following project has the aim to find if Deep Learning approaches can find sets of biomarkers that can distinguish good enough between tumor and non-tumor patients, or even outperform classical machine learning methods used on the same dataset. The dataset consists of over 3000 patients of which 500 have tumors.
6 Vera Demberg & Xudong Hong Coherent Visual Storytelling
Storytelling is one of the oldest activities of language use. Automatic storytelling has been a research focus in modern artificial intelligence. An interesting variant of this task is visual storytelling, generating stories given visual input like images or videos (Huang et al., 2016). State-of-the-art models can generate short stories given five consecutive photos (Wang et al., 2018). However, these models do not consider whether the generated stories are coherent. One problem in the output of current storytelling systems is that referring expressions are often not used correctly (e.g., there is no antecedent that a pronoun in a text can resolve to, for example when the text talks about “he”, but no male person has previously been mentioned). Some recent works on coherent language generation integrate coherence models in the storytelling task (Clark et al., 2018, Xu et al., 2018, Fan et al., 2018), which explicitly represent the entities that have been previously introduced. In this project, we would like to apply these coherent storytelling methods to the visual storytelling task so that we can generate coherent stories given photo sequences. A second potential direction is to include some measure of coherence into the objective during training (Nguyen et al., 2017). One of our baseline models makes use of reinforcement learning for visual storytelling which provides a test-bed for different rewards. We aim to design an auxiliary reward that is sensitive to text coherence to improve this baseline.
7 Pedro Guimarães Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis from SPECT imaging Anna Olah,
Egla Hajdini,
Jayesh Mahapatra
There are no quantitative objective biomarkers for the diagnosis and progression of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. It is a lifelong condition that heavily impacts individuals and their families. Symptom-based evaluation hinders both the daily clinical practice and the research for novel pharmaceutical therapies. Several studies have reported substandard misdiagnosis rates, and early stages often go undiagnosed. In this work we will pursue the automatic diagnosis of PD from single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging using convolutional neural networks. Furthermore, we will take advantage of a comprehensive longitudinal dataset to search for progression biomarkers.
8 Tobias Fehlmann RNAfold using Deep Learning
Computationally fast and efficient prediction of RNA secondary structure in dot-bracket notation and minimum free energy computation based on deep neural networks. Example input/output sequence: In : UAGCUUAUCAGACUGAUGUUGACUGUUGAAUCUCAUGGCAACACCAGUCGAUGGGCUGUC Out: (((((((((.(((((.(((((.((((.((…))))))))))).)))))))))))))).. Webserver: http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at//cgi-bin/RNAWebSuite/RNAfold.cgi Toolsuite (ViennaRNA package): https://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA/
9 Tim Kehl Multi-task learning for drug sensitivity prediction Naajil Khan,
Trang Do
Cancer is a heterogeneous class of diseases that are caused by an interplay of various genetic and environmental factors and that can be characterized by a common set of features, known as the Hallmarks of Cancer. The high genotypic and phenotypic diversity among tumors makes the treatment of malignant tumors a grand challenge. As a remedy, optimal therapies have to be determined in a personalized manner based on the in-depth characterization of each tumors genetic and epigenetic makeup. In the last few years, several research projects showed that neural networks and especially deep learning techniques can successfully be used to predict the sensitivity of tumor cells to individual drugs based on their molecular characteristics. In this project, deep learning techniques will be used to develop and apply a multi-task learning approach to solve this problem. To this end, we use the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer Project (GDSC) dataset, which contains measurements of gene expression, genetic aberrations and methylation for over 1000 cancer cell lines and their response to 250 anti-cancer drugs.
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IP Video Builds on What You Know
Contrary to what might be perceived by all of the articles in security magazines, exhibitions at trade shows and talk within the security industry, less than 15 percent of video surveillance applications involve IP/digital video.
The reasons analog video still rules the market are obvious to those who work with different types of companies wanting to strengthen safety and security. First and foremost, there are many analog video systems installed that run on coax and, in many cases, their users are simply upgrading components. In other instances, security managers are leery of moving beyond what they already understand and currently works for them.
Many resellers, including dealers and integrators, are also uncomfortable with IP/digital surveillance. They see connectivity as a big issue. Plus, IP/digital video has some new vocabulary that needs explaining.
Hopefully, this article can provide a kind of portal into IP/digital video. It all begins with a basic understanding of what comprises a computer-based network.
Cat-5e Provides Infrastructure
An IP camera has its own IP address and built-in computing functions to handle network communication. It is best described as a combination camera/computer that connects to the network exactly like any other node. For the most part, that means you can forget the intricacies of most of our glossary’s definitions. You just need some training on how to piece them together.
The good news is that any major IP video provider will help you to do so. From training manuals, both print and electronic, to actual “hands-on,” “in-the-field” support, your IP video manufacturer should be there to guide you. Once you’ve done a couple of installations with the manufacturer’s help, you’ll be just as capable of configuring an IP/digital system as you are connecting a traditional analog CCTV system.
More good news is that almost all new construction projects include the laying of Cat-5e cabling, a desirable infrastructure for IP/digital systems of any and all types, including video. True IP-based digital surveillance includes cameras that use signal processing to send video streams over the LAN through a Cat-5e cable rather than a coax cable network. This provides greater bandwidth and standard TCP/IP communication.
Hold Onto That Analog Equipment
Integrators and end users want to be sure their system choices provide an upgrade path that is forward-compatible with a future of fully digital IP/digital architecture, without throwing out perfectly good analog equipment. To maximize the customer’s technology choices at the camera, the transmission system and the head-end, leading video systems suppliers are providing products that “connect the dots” between installed analog and digital equipment.
Leveraging UTP Cabling — Joining analog equipment to the digital future is facilitated by the adoption of unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable as the transmission medium. In fact, most facilities already have UTP cable for their phones and datacom needs. If the customer has it, use it because there is a way to implement a cost-effective hybrid UTP system that gives customers the product choices they need. A UTP-based hybrid solution supports today’s cost-effective analog systems while providing the IP-ready cabling infrastructure when a switchover does occur.
For integrators that want to implement a digital-ready structured cabling system that easily supports a wide variety of existing analog products, a power-video-data (PVD) solution supports cameras. Integrators can deliver a high quality picture over the same infrastructure used by Ethernet datacom systems.
PVD products now let integrators standardize their structured cabling in accordance with EIA 568B wiring protocols, reduce installation time, and fully prepare the plant wiring for future digital systems when desired. The PVD solution provides a convenient, cost-conscious and future-proofed way to connect power, video and data from the camera to the control room.
Leveraging DVRs — The “middle of the road” of video surveillance is upgrading video by utilizing a DVR. A DVR system is not really fully IP-based, but is a step toward the more advanced IP technology. In actuality, a DVR system uses the same camera and structures for cabling as the older CCTV analog systems, but the old VCRs and multiplexers have been replaced with a DVR for storage of the data. The data is converted to digital so it can be stored on hard disks, but the quality of the images captured remains analog since this is how it originated.
In other words, analog signals are fed from the cameras to the DVR where they are converted into digital signals for storage and/or transmission over digital networks.
Dealing With Image Degradation
However, in applications where analog is converted into digital one must be very careful of image degradation. That is because analog and digital use different video display methods. The signal coming from the analog cameras is interlaced while digital monitors and DVRs favor progressive scan.
Interlaced means the lines that make up the picture on the analog monitor are drawn in an alternating fashion. In the United States, first the even lines appear on the screen, and then the odd lines. During interlace display scanning the screen is refreshed in two top-to-bottom passes such that the lines scanned in one pass are positioned between the lines drawn in the previous pass.
Progressive scan means the lines that make up the monitor picture are displayed all at once in sequence. It renders all lines in a single top-to-bottom pass, which requires twice as much data per pass as interlaced scanning.
Therefore, when moving from analog to digital, the video data format must be converted from one that is compatible with interlaced fields to one that provides progressive frames prior to rendering on a digital display. The process of translating received interlaced video signals into a progressive scan format for output and display on any digital display is called de-interlacing.
Properly processing the video from its native interlace form factor to high quality progressive-scan data is extremely important to the overall quality of the resulting image. Not only will any de-interlacing artifacts be visible, but they also increase the work that the codec must do to compress the image, resulting in lower quality at a given data rate.
The transformation is done in the DVR but not all DVRs are created equal. Before selecting one type of product over another, the user wants to literally see results. If the cameras are analog and the monitor is digital, de-interlacing creates a progressive scan at the DVR and passes it onto the digital monitor. However, when the user wants to get extended time out of the analog monitor, the progressive scan needs to be reconverted back to the interlacing method. This is the setting at which the image can get softened and uneven.
Sprinkling In Some Pixel Dust
The measurement of resolution (normally horizontal) in the analog world depends upon perceived differentiation between lines on a standard NTSC or PAL (the two types of TV standards used in the world) resolution chart. This resolution depends upon how fast the electron beam can change its intensity as it traces the image.
In the digital world, the resolution is determined by the actual number of pixels th
at make up an image, measured in horizontal and vertical rows. The more pixels you have on an image, the more resolution you will have. The CCDs (charge coupled devices) used today are available in two resolutions. The lower resolution imager contains 510 horizontal rows and 484 vertical columns of pixels, or about 250,000 total pixels. The higher resolution imager contains 768 horizontal rows and 494 vertical columns of pixels, or about 380,000 total pixels.
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North Island cricket team
The North Island cricket team is a representative cricket team based in New Zealand. They have played intermittently in first-class and List A cricket since 1894. They have most frequently played against the South Island cricket team, but have also played first-class matches against touring national sides. In the 1981–82, 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, they faced South Island in one-day matches billed as the "Plunket Shield", while similar contests in 2003–04 and 2004–05 were named the "State of Origin" matches.
North Island v South Island
The first-class matches between North Island and South Island have often been used to help the national selectors choose teams for forthcoming tours or Test series. South Island won the first match between the two teams in 1903–04, by two wickets. North Island won the most recent first-class match in 1999–2000 by 32 runs.
In all, the two teams have played each other 12 times in first-class matches. North Island have won six times, South Island four times, and two matches have been drawn. The highest score for North Island is 208 not out by Bert Sutcliffe in 1947–48, and the best innings and match bowling figures are 5 for 37 and 10 for 101 by Bob Blair in 1957–58.
In their five List A matches, North Island have won four times, South Island once.
Players
The following players have appeared for North Island, in either first-class or List A matches.
* Andre Adams, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Graeme Aldridge, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Cyril Allcott, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Ray Allen, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Bryan Andrews, 1 first-class match, 1968–69
* Frank Ashbolt, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Michael Austen, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Wiri Baker, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Trevor Barber, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* Wally Barclay, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Aaron Barnes, 1 first-class match, 1999–2000
* Don Beard, 2 first-class matches, 1957–58 – 1958–59
* John Beck, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Matthew Bell, 2 first-class matches, 1999–2000
* Larry Bishop, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Robert Blacklock, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Bob Blair, 3 first-class matches, 1954–55 – 1958–59
* Denis Blundell, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Mark Burgess, 4 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1977–78
* Ces Burke, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Ian Butler, 1 List A match, 2003–04
* Les Butler, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Lance Cairns, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* Chris Cairns, 1 List A match, 2003–04
* Colin Campbell, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Tama Canning, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Mark Carrington, 1 first-class match, 1981–82
* Harry Cave, 2 first-class matches, 1954–55 – 1957–58
* Rex Challies, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Ewen Chatfield, 2 first-class matches, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* Don Clarke, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Ossie Cleal, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Richard Collinge, 4 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1977–78
* David Collins, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Ian Colquhoun, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Jeremy Coney, 2 first-class matches, 1 List A match, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* Barry Cooper, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* Jack Cowie, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Christopher Cross, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Martin Crowe, 1 first-class match, 2 List A matches, 1981–82 – 1994–95
* Bob Cunis, 1 first-class match, 1968–69
* Mike Curtis, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* Ces Dacre, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Richard de Groen, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* David Donald, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Mark Douglas, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Jimmy Ell, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* James Franklin, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Trevor Franklin, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* Derwent Garrard, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Charles Gore, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Doug Gray, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Evan Gray, 1 first-class match, 1981–82
* Mark Greatbatch, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* Wayne Greenstreet, 1 first-class match, 1970–71
* John Guy, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Everett Hales, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Noel Harford, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Roger Harris, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Matthew Hart, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* Mark Haslam, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Douglas Hay, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Syd Hiddleston, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Alfred Holdship, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Gareth Hopkins, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Ken Hough, 1 first-class match 1958–59
* Jamie How, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Geoff Howarth, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* Hedley Howarth, 3 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1977–78
* Mark Jefferson, 1 first-class match, 1999–2000
* Andrew Jones, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Richard Jones, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* Jimmy Kemp, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Len Kent, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Charlie Kerr, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Jack Lamason, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Herb Lambert, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Gavin Larsen, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Hugh Lusk, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* James Macassey, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* James McDonogh, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Don MacLeod, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* Eddie McLeod, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Erv McSweeney, 1 first-class match, 1981–82
* Jeremiah Mahoney, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Hamish Marshall, 2 List A matches, 2003–04 – 2004–05
* James Marshall, 2 first-class matches, 1999–2000
* Frederick Mason, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Michael Mason, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1999–2000 – 2003–04
* Mal Matheson, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Lawrie Miller, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* George Mills, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Isaac Mills, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Frank Mooney, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Ross Morgan, 3 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1970–71
* John Morris, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Bruce Morrison, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* John Morrison, 1 first-class match, 1981–82
* Lance Mountain, 1 first-class match, 1970–71
* Bruce Murray, 3 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1970–71
* Ron Murray, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Chris Nevin, 2 first-class matches, 1 List A match, 1999–00 – 2003–04
* Caleb Olliff, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Jacob Oram, 1 List A match, 2003–04
* Adam Parore, 2 List A matches, 1993–94 – 1994–95
* Jeetan Patel, 1 List A match, 2004–05
* Herb Pearson, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Andrew Penn, 1 first-class match, 1999–00
* Eric Petrie, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Bill Playle, 2 first-class matches, 1957–58 – 1958–59
* Blair Pocock, 2 first-class matches, 1999–00
* Vic Pollard, 1 first-class match, 1968–69
* Alan Preston, 2 first-class matches, 1957–58 – 1958–59
* Chris Pringle, 2 List A matches, 1993–94 – 1994–95
* Geoff Rabone, 1 first-class match, 1954–55
* Rodney Redmond, 1 first-class match, 1970–71
* John F Reid, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* John R Reid, 2 first-class matches, 1947–48 – 1954–55
* Andrew Reinholds, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* Herbert Rice, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Gary Robertson, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* Ian Rutherford, 1 first-class match, 1977–78
* Maurice Ryan, 1 first-class match, 1968–69
* Scott Sale, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Verdun Scott, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Murray Sharp, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Terry Shaw, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* Mike Shrimpton, 3 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1970–71
* Barry Sinclair, 1 first-class match, 1957–58
* Mathew Sinclair, 2 first-class matches, 2 List A matches, 1999–00 – 2004–05
* Ian Smith, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* Nessie Snedden, 1 first-class match, 1921–22
* Colin Snedden, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Martin Snedden, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1981–82
* John Sparling, 1 first-class match, 1958–59
* Stewart Speed, 1 first-class match, 1968–69
* William Stemson, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Scott Styris, 1 List A match, 2003–04
* Murphy Su'a, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* Bert Sutcliffe, 2 first-class matches, 1944–45 – 1947–48
* Bruce Taylor, 1 first-class match, 1970–71
* Don Taylor, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* Ross Taylor, 2 List A matches, 2003–04 – 2004–05
* Shane Thomson, 2 List A matches, 1993–94 – 1994–95
* Eric Tindill, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Bill Tricklebank, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Gary Troup, 1 first-class matches, 1 List A match, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* Kinder Tucker, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Daryl Tuffey, 1 first-class match, 1 List A match, 1999–00 – 2003–04
* Roger Twose, 1 List A match, 1994–95
* Ernest Upham, 2 first-class matches, 1893–94 – 1903–04
* Daniel Vettori, 1 List A match, 2003–04
* Lou Vincent, 2 first-class matches, 1 List A match, 1999–00 – 2004–05
* Graham Vivian, 3 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1977–78
* Giff Vivian, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Brooke Walker, 2 first-class matches, 1999–00
* Merv Wallace, 3 first-class matches, 1934–35 – 1947–48
* Kerry Walmsley, 2 first-class matches, 1999–00
* Victor Waters, 1 first-class match, 1903–04
* Willie Watson, 1 List A match, 1993–94
* William Wheeler, 1 first-class match, 1944–45
* Paul Whitelaw, 1 first-class match, 1934–35
* Arnold Williams, 1 first-class match, 1893–94
* Stu Wilson, 1 first-class match, 1947–48
* John Wiltshire, 1 first-class match, 1981–82
* John Wright, 2 first-class matches, 1977–78 – 1981–82
* Bryan Young, 2 List A matches, 1993–94 – 1994–95
* Bryan Yuile, 2 first-class matches, 1968–69 – 1970–71 | WIKI |
Virology
Objectives
The objective of the virology course is to provide students with basic knowledge of virology, including the biological properties of viruses, virus morphology, tropism, taxonomy, replication strategies of representative DNA and RNA viruses and effects of virus infection on cell growth control and survival. Moreover, it aims to provide students with basic knowledge of the etiology and pathogenesis of relevant human and animal viral infections. Emphasis is also placed on viral zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases.
General characterization
Code
10659
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Luís Jaime Gomes Ferreira da Silva Mota, Sílvia Carla Santos de Barros
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 63
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
1. "Principles of Virology: Molecular Biology, pathogenesis, and control of animal viruses" Flint, S.J. (Editor), et al. (2003)
2. “Desk Encyclopedia of General Virology” Brian W.J. Mahy and Marc van Regenmortel (editors) 2010. Academic Press, Elsevier.
3. Molecular approaches for veterinary diagnosis. Mónica Cunha e João Inácio (2014). LIDEL.
4. Selected scientific papers.
Teaching method
In lectures the successive topics of the syllabus will be explain and discuss. The subject from last lesson will be reviewed at the start of each new lesson.
In practical classes, laboratory work will be performed with the implementation of techniques whose aim is to consolidate the concepts that were learned in the theoretical lectures and prepare students for the day-to-day of a virology lab. At the end of each practical session results will be discussed and conceptualized with the subjects taught in the course. At the end of the semester students will develop a project based on the given methods.
Evaluation method
Theoretical Evaluation: 3 tests (30%, 40% and 30% of final grade/each respectively), or a final exam. To be approved student must have a minimum grade of 9.5, resulting from the sum of the singular evaluations.
Practical Evaluation: Students will be evaluated by 2 test (50% each). To be approved student must have a minimum grade of 9.5, resulting from the sum of the singular evaluations.
The final grade was the sum of the theoretical and practical evaluations.
Subject matter
General features of virus: biological properties, tropism, morphology, replication and taxonomy.
2. Study of virus families, with emphasis on cell tropism, viral genetic, virus replication in the host cells.
3. General characteristics of negative strand RNA viruses: Families Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae Paramyxoviridae, Rhabdoviridae and Orthomyxoviridae.
4. Double-stranded RNA virus (dsRNA): Family Reoviridae.
5. Positive strand RNA viruses: Families Coronaviridae, Picornaviridae, Flaviviridae and Caliciviridae.
6. Family Retroviridae (HIV and Maedi-Visna virus).
7. General characteristics of DNA viruses: Families Parvoviridae, Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae, Poxviridae.
8. Prophylactic and vaccination strategies. Emerging infections.
Programs
Programs where the course is taught: | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Template:Did you know nominations/Shadism
The result was: rejected by Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:42, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Shadism
* ... that shadism is a form of discrimination common in Aboriginal, African, Asian, Hispanic and Indian cultures?
5x expanded by Shaina390 (talk). Nominated by Jaobar (talk) at 14:13, 3 March 2014 (UTC).
* ALT1: ... that Academy-Award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o felt the effects of shadism, as she was teased about her dark skin as a child? <IP_ADDRESS> at 00:23, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol question.svg Article: On 27 February 2014, when this article was nominated for DYK, it had been expanded more than five times from the previous version. It also appears to be adequately referenced. However, the difficulty I have is that the references neither appear to use the term shadism at all, nor state clearly that shadism is "common" in the cultures mentioned. For example, the article referred to in footnote 1 uses the term colorism. (The full versions of many of the references – such as those mentioned in footnotes 2 and 3 – are not available.) I therefore fear that the article is the product of synthesis.
* Hook: Subject to what I said above, the hook is of appropriate length and is supported by offline references which may be accepted in good faith. — Regards, Truth's Out There (speak the truth) 21:57, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
* Hello, and thank you for your comments. I recognize that the only source I had that explicitly mentioned the term 'Shadism' was my Bim Adewunmi piece from The Guardian. I have added more sources that explicitly name and describe the term 'shadism.' Shadism is different to colorism, as shadism is usually intraraical or internalized and deals with skin tone within race and not race itself, as opposed to colorism, which is usually interracial and deals with discrimination based on race, as opposed to different skin tones within a race. The term shadism is well known and often used in race-based communities, but is still being developed in academic writing. It is a term that certainly exists, and should be recognized apart from colourism or racism, because it is not the same thing. To my article, I added a piece from The Toronto Star in which black high school students discuss spreading awareness of shadism in their school during Black History Month, another in which Indian-Canadian playwright Anita Majumdar discusses her fear of the sun's impact on her skin and in turn her life and success, and a paragraph on the Canadian documentary 'Shadeism', which revolves around the topic and how it affects 5 young women of different ethnicities. I am quite passionate about this subject, and I very much want my page to demonstrate that there is a name for this discriminatory practice that people, particularly people of colour may notice, and that that name is shadism.--Shaina390 (talk) 04:25, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
* It's laudable that you have put a lot of work into creating this article, but my concern is that other more experienced editors will feel that there is too much original research and, in particular, is the result of synthesis. As that guideline states: "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources. If one reliable source says A, and another reliable source says B, do not join A and B together to imply a conclusion C that is not mentioned by either of the sources. This would be a synthesis of published material to advance a new position, which is original research." I will leave it to an experienced editor or the DYK administrator to determine whether this is the case. I would suggest that you have a section right at the top of the article defining what shadism is and citing the three sources you mentioned above.
* I also notice that you have (or someone else has) deleted the original hook and replaced it with a new one. Unfortunately, this hook is currently not acceptable because (1) I don't think external links are accepted in hooks; (2) the information in the hook does not appear anywhere in the article; and (3) even if you included it in the article and provided the YouTube video as a reference, the YouTube video does not mention shadism at all. Furthermore, it appears to be a copyright violation, in that it was uploaded to YouTube by someone other than the copyright holder of the video. Note that "Did you know/Reviewing guide" states: "The hook fact(s) must be stated in the article, and must be immediately followed by an inline citation to a reliable source." — Regards, Truth's Out There (speak the truth) 15:18, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol redirect vote 4.svg An experienced editor should assess whether the article is the product of synthesis and thus amounts to original research. — Regards, Truth's Out There (speak the truth) 15:18, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol question.svg I've read through the article and note the page creator's expansive knowledge of the subject of skin-tone discrimination and also the inclusion of lots of sourcing. I don't think this is a question of original research, but of whether Shadism and Colorism should be merged. Both articles use the same definition for the subject: discrimination due to skin tone. If Shaina390 can explain the difference between Shadism and Colorism, and provide reliable sources to back it up, it should be stated clearly in the lead, even with a few sentences or a whole paragraph. Otherwise, as Truth'soutthere noted, most of the sources being used for the Shadism article are referring to Colorism, and since the Colorism article isn't so well-referenced, it would be a good idea to merge the information in Shadism to Colorism. Yoninah (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
* Hello; I would argue that colorism is like racism in that it deals with the color of a person's skin (black, white) but not their shade, or how light or how dark their skin is within their race and the stereotypes that comes with that. While this difference may sound insignificant, it is actually very prevalent and meaningful. Because shadism very often comes from within one's own race (Indian with light skin, Indian with dark skin), it is a different form of discrimination that I would argue warrants it's own page. The 'Discrimination based on skin color' page, in my opinion, is describing a broader form of discrimination, which is racism. Shadism is very often intraracial, and internalized. Please also see my response to your comment on the shadism talk page.--Shaina390 (talk) 03:53, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
* Now you are giving us a much more fine-tuned definition of shadism, Shaina. But looking through your sources, I can't find that many that verify that point. In fact, the article seems padded with blog pages or chat columns in magazines that really aren't saying the point you're trying to make. Now I understand and accept Truth'soutthere's original point that the article is based on original research. You may very well want to argue that shadism (which, by the way, should probably be spelled Shadeism, as one of your sources has it) is different from colorism, but on Wikipedia, your sources have to state it explicitly and prove it, not you. Yoninah (talk) 22:38, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol question.svg Also, as regards the ALT1 hook, I think it may be a problem that the source for the hook only mentions that Nyong'o was teased about her dark skin as a child. The fact that she thus felt the effects of shadism is not mentioned in the hook, but is a conclusion drawn by the article's author(s). — Regards, Truth's Out There (speak the truth) 12:00, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol possible vote.svg The article now has both "original research" and "merge" templates on it, which basically stops this nomination in its tracks. The former, if not dealt with, is enough to sink the nomination, and needs to be resolved soon. The latter will delay the nomination until the merge is either rejected or completed. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
* No action for a six days, tags unaddressed. archived. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:42, 29 April 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few.
January 1, 1776 Norfolk burnt
Four British warships in the Elizabeth River opened fire on Norfolk, Virginia. This was not a retaliation by the British or even part of General Howe’s plan to subdue Washington’s Army. This bombardment was made under the direct command of Virginia’s royal governor, and their gunners bombarded the city that was a Tory stronghold. But the city had been occupied by rebel militiamen from Virginia and North Carolina, and Lord Dunmore sought to chase them away.
Dunmore’s landing parties were repulsed, but his ships were safely beyond the range of militia sharpshooters. The shot from Dunmore’s cannon pounded waterfront warehouses. Then the undisciplined “shirtmen” – as the militiamen were called because they had no uniforms and wore hunting shirts – took advantage of the confusion and looted shops and homes deserted by fleeing townsfolk. They tapped kegs of rum and, in a rampage of revenge, set buildings afire indiscriminately.
After almost 12 hours, Dun-more stopped the shelling. Two thirds of the city – more than 900 buildings – lay in ruin. Those residents who remained were hard pressed to find shelter and food. Smallpox broke out among the black population. In time, Dunmore, his ships packed with Tory refugees, sailed off to the sanctuary of Gwynn’s Island. In February 1776, the militia commanders, ordered by the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg to evacuate Norfolk, burned the remaining 400 buildings to the ground. | FINEWEB-EDU |
User:TheRealDMXfan/sandbox
m Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the American rapper and actor. For other uses, see DMX. DMX Academy Awards afterparty CUN DMX.jpg DMX in February 2007 Background information Birth name Earl Simmons Also known as Dark Man X Born December 18, 1970 (age 47)[1] Rome, Italy Origin Rome, Italy.[1] Genres Hip hop hardcore hip hop[2] Occupation(s) Rapper record producer actor Years active 1991–present Labels Ruff Ryders Columbia Bloodline Hypnotic, a division of Cleopatra[3] Associated acts Ruff Ryders Earl Simmons (born December 18, 1970),[1] professionally known as DMX, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. In 1999, DMX released his best-selling album ...And Then There Was X, which included the hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)". He has been featured in films such as Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave and Last Hour. In 2006, he starred in the reality television series DMX: Soul of a Man, which was primarily aired on the BET cable television network. In 2003, DMX published a book of his memoirs entitled, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.[4]
Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Musical career 2.1 1991–1995: Career beginning 2.2 1996–1998: It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood 2.3 1999–2000: ...And Then There Was X 2.4 2001–2002: The Great Depression 2.5 2003–2004: Grand Champ 2.6 2005–2008: Year of the Dog...Again and The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter 2.7 2011–2012: Undisputed 2.8 2013–present: Eighth studio album 3 Personal life 3.1 Feud with Ja Rule 4 Legal issues 4.1 1998–1999 4.2 2000–2005 4.3 2008–2011 4.4 2013 4.5 2015 4.6 2017 5 Discography 6 Awards and nominations 7 Filmography 8 References 9 External links Early life DMX was born Earl Simmons in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Arnett Simmons and Joe Barker, and was raised in Yonkers, New York.[1][2] As a child, he was brought up in the Jehovah's Witness faith.[5] Simmons went through an abusive childhood that included stays at group homes and frequent arrests.[2]
Musical career 1991–1995: Career beginning In 1991, Gabriel Grevenstuk from The Source magazine praised DMX in his Unsigned Hype column that highlighted unsigned hip-hop artists. In 1991, DMX recorded his first demos, Unstoppable Force and Three Little Pigs. His stage name was a tribute to an instrument he used in the 1980s, the Oberheim DMX drum machine; it later was interpreted as "Dark Man X".[2]
In 1992, Columbia Records signed DMX to their subsidiary label Ruffhouse, which released his debut single "Born Loser". The single did not receive much airplay.[citation needed] The label eventually agreed to release DMX from their contract.
He released his second single, "Make a Move" in 1994, and made a guest appearance alongside Jay Z, Ja Rule, and Mic Geronimo on the classic underground track "Time To Build" on Mic Geronimo's debut album in 1995. He also appeared on LL Cool J's single "4, 3, 2, 1" in 1997. Additional guest spots on Mase singles "24 Hrs. to Live" and "Take What's Yours", and The LOX's single "Money, Power & Respect" created a strong buzz.[2] DMX also made a cameo appearance in the Sum 41 music video for "Makes No Difference".[6]
1996–1998: It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood In February 1998, DMX released his debut major-label single, "Get at Me Dog", on Def Jam Recordings. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA. His first major-label album, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, which included the single "Ruff Ryders Anthem", was released in May 1998. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the U.S and sold over five million copies.
Later that year in December, DMX released his second album, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, where it remained for three consecutive weeks. Within one week of the album's release, 670,000 units were shipped.[citation needed] It was eventually certified Platinum four times. As a result, DMX was the first rapper in history to have released two number one [2] albums in the same year, both of which debuted on Billboard 200.[2]
1999–2000: ...And Then There Was X DMX released his third and best-selling album ...And Then There Was X, on December 21, 1999. It was his third album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Its most popular single, "Party Up", became his first Top Ten hit on the R&B charts. Singles "What's My Name?" and "What These Bitches Want" were also popular.[citation needed] The album was certified six-times Platinum.[2]
2001–2002: The Great Depression After improving his legal situation (see section "Legal Issues"), DMX returned to the studio to complete his fourth album, The Great Depression. Released October 23, 2001, it was his fourth album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, featuring the singles "Who We Be", "We Right Here", and "Shorty Was The Bomb". Despite the album's triple Platinum certification, its commercial and critical success was lower than his previous album.[2]
2003–2004: Grand Champ His fifth album, Grand Champ, once again debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 charts, placing DMX as the only musical artist in history to release five consecutive albums (his entire album catalog at the time) that debuted at number one. Singles include "Where Tha Hood At" and "Get it on the Floor". After its release, he informed the public that he planned to retire, and that Grand Champ would be his final album.[7]
2005–2008: Year of the Dog...Again and The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter DMX signed to Columbia Records in January 2006. He recorded his next album, Year of the Dog...Again, while switching record labels, which caused numerous delays.[8] It was finally released on August 1, 2006, and missed the number one Billboard spot by only a few hundred copies.[9] He released two more singles, "Lord Give Me A Sign" and "We In Here"
On June 12, 2008, Def Jam released a compilation of his greatest hits, The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter.[2] Def Jam released another compilation album, The Best of DMX, in 2011.[10][11] which features hit singles including "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya".
In 2009, DMX claimed he would pursue preaching in Jersey City, New Jersey but will also continue to produce music. He completed a Gospel album prior to his incarceration. According to MTV, he had semi-retired to study the Bible more in an effort to give messages behind the pulpit.[12]
2011–2012: Undisputed On October 11, 2011, DMX performed at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards. He stated that he has been working "nonstop, every day" on his seventh album, which was later titled Undisputed.[13] A video for a new track entitled "Last Hope" was released via the Internet on September 24, 2011, and was later included on The Weigh In EP released digitally on May 5, 2012.
In late February 2012, Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. acquired United Music Media Group's music assets (which included a catalog of DMX's music),[14] and signed DMX to a two-album deal. During a performance at New York's Santos Party House on December 25, 2011, DMX stated that the new album will be entitled Undisputed and would be released on March 26, 2012. After numerous delays,[15][16] the album was eventually released on September 11, 2012, and featured production from Swizz Beatz and J.R. Rotem with a guest appearance by MGK.
2013–present: Eighth studio album In 2013, DMX announced he had begun working on his eighth studio album. He has been seen collaborating with producers Swizz Beatz[17] and Dame Grease. In December, after regaining his passport, he embarked on a world tour with performances in Bulgaria and Kosovo, with additional performances expected in Europe and the Middle East.[18][19]
On January 7, 2015 it was announced by DMX's label Seven Arts Music that DMX would be releasing a new album next week entitled Redemption of the Beast, but later during the day close personal friend and recurring collaborator producer/rapper/entrepreneur Swizz Beatz confirmed that this was false, DMX's management would also confirm it was false as well.[20][21] On January 13, 2015, Seven Arts Music released Redemption of the Beast, without acquiring a legal artist contract. On January 15, 2015 it was announced by DMX's brother/manager Montana that DMX was no longer signed to Seven Arts Music and that they would be taking legal action against Seven Arts Music for the unauthorized release of Redemption of the Beast stating:
Seven Arts Entertainment had no right to put out a new album. The only contract DMX had was for Undisputed & that came out two years ago. He don’t have a contract with them to release another album. You can't just put somebody's album out without permission. X only had a contract with them for one album & that album already came out a long time ago. If they wanted to come out with another album, they had to come to the table. That's why we sent a cease & desist letter. Some of the songs are from the Undisputed album & there's three extra songs that he recorded that were not on the Undisputed album that they just put on that album. That's what they did. We don’t even know where he got that picture on the cover from.
— Montana[22][23][24] For his upcoming album, long-time collaborator Swizz Beatz stated that two of the collaborators on the album will be Kanye West and Dr. Dre.[25] His 2003 song "X Gon' Give It to Ya" was featured in the 2016 film Deadpool and in its trailers.
On June 28, 2016 DMX released a new song which was produced by Divine Bars which was titled "Blood Red".[26]
On January 11, 2017 DMX released a new song produced by Swizz Beats entitled "Bain Iz Back".[27]
Personal life DMX is a Christian[28] and has stated he reads the Bible every day.[29] While in prison, DMX stated that he had a purpose for being there: "I came here to meet somebody...Don't know who it was, but I'll know when I see him. And I came here to give him a message. And that message is Jesus loves them."[30] DMX is currently a transitional deacon in the Christian Church and aspires to become ordained as a pastor, stating that he received this call in 2012.[31]
DMX is the father of fifteen children. He was married to Tashera Simmons in 1999 and they were married for eleven years.[32] In July 2010, after his first of three incarcerations that year, Tashera announced their separation.[33] DMX maintains that the two remain friends.[34] His fifteenth child, Exodus Simmons, was born to his girlfriend, Desiree Lindstrom, on August 16, 2016.[35]
DMX in 2001 DMX had multiple extramarital affairs during his marriage to Simmons, some of which produced children. DNA testing confirmed that he is the father of at least two children; the first was born to Maryland resident Monique Wayne in 2004, the second to a different woman in late 2008.[36][37] DMX and Wayne fought over her claim that he was the father of her son for years, during which she has sued him repeatedly for defamation of character,[38] and for child support. After DNA testing proved DMX fathered Wayne's son in 2007, he was ordered to pay her $1.5 million.[39][40][41][42]
On July 30, 2013, DMX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing his child support obligations as his priority claim.[43] The filing was challenged by the Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog trustee program,[44] and was later dismissed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on November 11, 2013.[45]
On February 10, 2016, DMX was found lifeless in a Ramada Inn parking lot in Yonkers.[46][47] He was resuscitated by first responders and given Narcan before being rushed to the hospital.[48] A witness states he ingested some type of substance before collapsing, but police found no illegal substances on the property.[49] DMX stated that it was from an asthma attack.[50]
Feud with Ja Rule DMX and Jay Z guest-starred on the single "It's Murda" from Ja Rule's first album. Ja Rule had previously feuded with Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent; all of which had been resolved or faded from significance. DMX accused Ja Rule of copying his signature "gruf style". DMX said that he wanted the feud to end when he was released from jail in 2005: "Gotti came to me in jail and said I want to make peace with you and him. I was like, 'Alright Gotti, let's do it."[51] DMX and Ja Rule finally ended their feud at VH1's 2009 Hip Hop Honors.[52]
Legal issues
June 2008 mugshot of DMX Since becoming a public figure, DMX's multiple arrests have been for offenses including: resisting arrest, animal cruelty,[53] reckless driving,[54] unlicensed driving, drug possession,[55] and identity falsification.[56]
1998–1999 When officers of the Fort Lee Police Department executed a search of his home in 1999, DMX promptly surrendered himself on weapons possession charges.[57] DMX faced a 1999 animal cruelty charge in Teaneck, New Jersey, that was dismissed after the performer agreed to accept responsibility and record public service announcements for an animal rights group.[58] 2000–2005 In 2000, DMX served a 15-day jail sentence for possession of marijuana.[59] DMX served another jail sentence in 2001 for driving without a license and possession of marijuana. His appeal to reduce the sentence was denied; rather, he was charged with assault for throwing objects at prison guards. DMX entered rehab to treat his addiction to drugs in 2002.[60][61] In January 2002, DMX pleaded guilty in New Jersey to 13 counts of animal cruelty, two counts of maintaining a nuisance and one count each of disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia. He eventually plea-bargained down to fines, probation and community service, and starred in public service announcements against the dangers of guns and animal abuse.[62] In June 2004, DMX was arrested at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, on charges of cocaine possession, criminal impersonation, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief, menacing, and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, while claiming to be a federal agent and attempting to carjack a vehicle.[63] He was given a conditional discharge on December 8, 2004, but pleaded guilty on October 25, 2005, to violating parole.[64] On November 18, 2005, DMX was sentenced to 70 days in jail for violating parole; the lateness charge added a 10-day extension to the original 60-day sentence.[65] DMX was released early (for "good behavior") on December 30, 2005.[66] 2008–2011 On May 9, 2008 DMX was arrested on drug and animal cruelty charges after attempting to barricade himself inside his Arizona home.[58] DMX pleaded guilty to charges of drug possession, theft, and animal cruelty, at a hearing on December 30, 2008; he was sentenced to 90 days in jail on January 31, 2009.[67][68] On May 22, 2009, DMX entered a plea agreement/change of plea, and pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated assault. After serving four out of six months for violating drug probation, DMX was released from jail on July 6, 2010.[69] That day, a television pilot was filmed to portray his road to recovery; however, DMX was arrested three weeks later and the pilot did not evolve into a series. On July 27, 2010, DMX turned himself in to Los Angeles Metropolitan Court for a reckless driving charge he received in 2002. He was sentenced to serve ninety days in jail.[70][71] On November 19, 2010, DMX was arrested in Maricopa County, Arizona on charges of violating his probation by consuming alcohol (at a performance). On December 20, 2010, DMX was moved to the Mental Health Unit of the Arizona State Prison,[72] and released on July 18, 2011.[73] On August 24, 2011, DMX was arrested for speeding (recorded as 102 mph in a 65 mph zone), reckless driving, and driving with a suspended license. While DMX admitted to speeding, he claims he was driving 85 mph, not 102 mph as charged.[74] 2013 On February 13, 2013, DMX was arrested in Spartanburg, South Carolina for driving without a drivers license.[75] On July 26, 2013, DMX was arrested again in Greenville County, South Carolina and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as driving without a license.[76] On August 20, 2013, DMX was arrested again in Greer, South Carolina during a traffic stop after a car he was a passenger in made an improper u-turn. He was arrested due to an outstanding warrant for driving under suspension. Four packages of marijuana were also found in the vehicle, and he along with the driver were cited for them.[77][78][79] On November 4, 2013, DMX was again arrested by the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport police near Greer, South Carolina after police, who were familiar with his prior arrests, noticed DMX behind the wheel of a vehicle at the terminal. DMX was booked on charges of driving under suspension, having an uninsured vehicle, and not having a licensed vehicle. He was subsequently released after spending three hours in jail.[80] 2015 On June 26, 2015, DMX was arrested in New York, charged for robbery in Newark, New Jersey, and outstanding child support.[81] On July 14, 2015, DMX was sentenced to 6 months in jail for failing to pay $400,000 in child support.[82] On December 14, 2015, an arrest warrant was issued for DMX after he missed a court hearing to address child support issues with his ex-wife Tashera Simmons and their 4 kids.[83][better source needed] 2017 On July 14, 2017, DMX appeared in court after having been charged with 14 tax fraud related counts relating to $1.7 million of allegedly unpaid taxes dating back to 2000. If found guilty of all 14 counts, he would face up to 44 years in prison.[84] DMX was charged with one felony count of attempting to interfere with the administration of the U.S. internal revenue laws under 26 U.S.C. § 7212, seven felony counts of willful attempted tax evasion under 26 U.S.C. § 7201, and six misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7213.[85] Discography Main article: DMX discography It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998) Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998) ...And Then There Was X (1999) The Great Depression (2001) Grand Champ (2003) Year of the Dog... Again (2006) Undisputed (2012) Awards and nominations Grammy Award
Year Nominated work Award Result 2001 ...And Then There Was X Best Rap Album Nominated "Party Up (Up In Here)" Best Rap Solo Performance Nominated 2002 "Who We Be" Best Rap Solo Performance Nominated American Music Award
Year Nominated work Award Result 2000 DMX Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist Won 2001 DMX Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist Won MTV Video Music Award
Year Nominated work Award Result 1999 "Ruff Ryders Anthem" Best Rap Video Nominated 2000 "Party Up (Up In Here)" Best Rap Video Nominated 2001 "No Sunshine" Best Video from a Film Nominated 2002 "Who We Be" Best Rap Video Nominated Best Breakthrough Video Nominated Filmography Films Year Title Role Notes 1998 Belly Tommy "Buns" Bundy 2000 Romeo Must Die Silk Backstage As Himself 2001 Exit Wounds Latrell Walker 2001 Angel: One More Road to Cross As Himself 2003 Cradle 2 the Grave Anthony Fait 2004 Never Die Alone King David 2006 Father of Lies Paul Direct-to-DVD 2007 Death Toll The Dog Direct-to-DVD 2008 Last Hour Black Jack Direct-to-DVD Lords of the Street Thorn Originally titled Jump Out Boys 2009 Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent Nick Direct-to-DVD The Bleeding Tagg Direct-to-DVD 2013 King Dog[86] Terrell (TJ) Johnson Direct-to-DVD Blame It on the Hustle[87] — Direct-to-DVD 2014 Top Five Himself Cameo Video Games Year Title Role Notes 2003 Def Jam Vendetta Himself Voice role and likeness Television Year Title Role Notes 1998 The Chris Rock Show Himself South Park Himself "Chef Aid" (Season 2, Episode 14) 2000 Moesha Himself "Gimme a Break' (Season 5, Episode 18) 2000–02 MadTV Himself 2 Episodes 2002 Half & Half Himself "The Big Sistah Sans Soul" (Season 1, Episode 7) 2003 Third Watch Kandid Jones "In Lieu of Johnson" (episode 92, season 5) Eve Xenon "She Snoops to Conquer" (episode 3, season 1) 2004 Chappelle's Show Himself (episode 16, season 2)/Music Guest Jimmy Kimmel Live! Himself Season 3, Episode 57 The Sharon Osbourne Show Himself 2005 Trippin' Himself 2 Episodes 2006 DMX: Soul of a Man Himself Documentary 2008 Big Pun: The Legacy Himself Documentary 2011 Lifechangers Himself 2 Episodes 2012 Couples Therapy Himself Documentary 2013 Iyanla, Fix My Life Himself "Fix My Rap Star Life" (episode 1, season 2) 2015 Fresh Off The Boat Himself (episode 9, season 2) 2017 Black Ink Crew Himself (TBA, season 5) References ^ Jump up to: a b c d Simmons, Earl & Fontaine, Smokey D. (2003), E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX, HarperCollins, p. 7, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>033 ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Huey, Steve (June 12, 2007). "DMX – Biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved May 18, 2008. Jump up ^ Steve Huey "DMX - Biography" "AllMusic.com" Retrieved Oct. 27, 2017 Jump up ^ Fleischer, Adam; Gissen, Jesse; Lelinwalla, Mark; Rodriguez, Jayson (December 12, 2011). "What's the Word: Top 10 Rap Books". XXL. December 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2012. 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"Rapper DMX Reads Bible Verses to Struggling Fan on Los Angeles Street". The Christian Post. Retrieved September 24, 2014. DMX went on to say that although he has read the bible in its entirety, he admits he has more soul searching to do in order to become a better Christian. Jump up ^ "Rapper DMX says life calling is to be a pastor". Christian Today. January 19, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2014. In a recent interview with a Fox News affiliate, DMX said he reads the Bible every day, plans to launch a television programme about how he can "reach people that the average person can't reach", and hopes to eventually preach from the pulpit – some time after he gets out of jail, that is. Jump up ^ "Rapper DMX says life calling is to be a pastor". Christian Today. January 19, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2014. Though his situation may appear bleak, the popular rapper tried to look at it in a positive light. "I came here to meet somebody," said the rapper. "Don't know who it was, but I'll know when I see him. And I came here to give him a message. And that message is Jesus loves them." Jump up ^ Law, Jeannie (January 8, 2014). "DMX Talks About Becoming a Pastor and How He Feels about Eminem Being 'Rap God'". Breathecast. The Christian Post. Retrieved September 24, 2014. "I will be a pastor. I'm already a deacon. I will be a pastor." The rapper first mentioned his "call" of being a Pastor during an interview he did in prison in 2012. Jump up ^ "DMX Denies Divorce Stories". ContactMusic.com. April 7, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2010. Jump up ^ Strong, Nolan (July 22, 2010), "Tashera Simmons Announces Split From Rapper DMX'; New Reality Series", AllHipHop, retrieved July 22, 2010 Jump up ^ "Watch: DMX Interview – The Breakfast Club – Power 105.1 (Video)". stupidDOPE.com. February 24, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2013. Jump up ^ Ivey, Justin (August 22, 2016). "DMX Welcomes His 15th Baby Into the World". XXL. Retrieved August 23, 2016. 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"Memorandum of Law in Support of the United States Trustee's Motion for Order Converting the Case to One Under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code or Dismissing the Case". pp. 3–10. Retrieved December 7, 2013. Jump up ^ Palank, Jacqueline. "Judge Dismisses DMX Bankruptcy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 7, 2013. Jump up ^ "Troubled rapper DMX, 45, 'nearly dies in New York hotel parking lot after being found unconscious and not breathing' but is saved by police". dailymail.co.uk. Jump up ^ "Rapper DMX found lifeless in NY hotel parking lot". Fox5 San Diego. Jump up ^ "DMX rushed to hospital after he stops breathing, collapses without a pulse after allegedly ingesting 'some sort of substance'". NY Daily News. Jump up ^ "Rapper DMX found lying 'lifeless' in Yonkers hotel parking lot". AOL. Jump up ^ "Rapper DMX saved by first responders after he's found 'lifeless' in hotel parking lot". ABC7 New York. Jump up ^ "DMX ENDS FEUD WITH JA RULE". Superiorpics.com. 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Jump up ^ "DMX Hit With Tax Evasion Charges of $1.7 Million - XXL". XXL Mag. Retrieved July 14, 2017. Jump up ^ Indictment, March 20, 2017, United States v. Simmons, case no. 17-cr-00172, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Jump up ^ "King Dog the Movie". Kingdogthemovie.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014. Jump up ^ "Blame It On The Hustle". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved April 17, 2014. External links Find more about DMX (rapper) at Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from Wikidata DMX on IMDb [hide] v t e DMX Discography Studio albums It's Dark and Hell Is Hot Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood ... And Then There Was X The Great Depression Grand Champ Year of the Dog... 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Diffuse Thinning Hair Transplant Surgery
April 21, 2022
Alopecia is a general clinical term that basically means hair loss. There are over 100 different types of alopecia that affect both men and women. Most forms of alopecia can be treated, but some forms cannot. Androgenic alopecia is by far the most common form of hair loss and is known as male and female pattern baldness.
Androgenic alopecia is mostly caused by age and hormones and there are many different treatment options for this common condition. Most of the causes of diffuse thinning hair are due to androgenic alopecia, and sometimes, diffuse thinning hair transplant surgery is the best option to fight against hair loss.
Diffuse Hair Thinning of Healthy Hair
Woman experienceing thinning and female pattern hair loss
Diffuse thinning is a term used to describe a general loss of hair throughout the entire scalp, instead of in concentrated areas, like the top of your head or along the hairline. This can sometimes give your entire head of hair a thin, see-through appearance.
A diffuse thinning hair transplant surgery will sometimes be a bit different than a standard procedure because more of an area of your head will need transplanted hair follicles, among other reasons we will get into later.
Being able to identify diffuse thinning will help you be able to come up with a solution quicker, be it hair loss medication or even a diffuse thinning hair transplant.
Frequently, diffuse thinning is the result of alopecia. However, it can also have other causes as well. Being able to identify those cases will be the first step in treating the condition.
Diffuse alopecia areata is challenging to treat. Even when treatment induces an increase in hair growth, hair loss may recur when treatment is stopped
They may also perform a hair pull test to see your hair’s strength and resilience.
The telogen phase is otherwise known to be the resting period of the hair follicle. When an individual is placed under circumstances of extreme stress, the hair is at heightened risk of entering the resting phase prematurely, leading to thinning and a noticeable loss of hair.
Diffuse Thinning Symptoms
What are common symptoms of female pattern hair loss and diffuse hair loss?
Gradual Thinning
Diffuse thinning is characterized by a gradual reduction in hair density across the entire scalp. Unlike localized hair loss, this symptom manifests as even thinning, making it challenging to identify a specific affected area.
Increased Scalp Visibility
As diffuse thinning progresses, the scalp becomes more visible, especially when hair is wet or exposed to direct light. This heightened transparency is a notable indicator of thinning hair.
Reduced Hair Volume
Individuals with diffuse thinning may observe a decrease in hair volume, leading to an overall appearance of less dense hair. Despite a significant number of follicles, individual hairs become finer.
Increased Shedding
Experiencing an elevated amount of hair shedding during daily grooming activities is a common symptom of diffuse thinning. This includes increased hair fall during brushing, washing, or styling.
Weakened Hair Strands
Diffuse thinning often results in weakened hair strands that are more prone to breakage. Factors like hormonal imbalances or nutritional deficiencies can contribute to this increased fragility.
Changes in Hair Texture
Noticeable alterations in hair texture, such as increased frizziness or a finer, softer feel, are associated with diffuse thinning. These changes reflect the impact of thinning on individual hair strands.
Scalp Sensitivity or Irritation
Some individuals may experience scalp sensitivity or irritation as a symptom of diffuse thinning. This discomfort may be linked to environmental stressors or inflammation associated with thinning hair.
Diffuse Thinning and Its Causes
What causes diffuse hair loss?
Diffuse thinning of the hair can just be how androgenic alopecia has just decided to manifest for you.
With no rhyme or reason, alopecia will cause many kinds of hair loss and not just the standard recession of the hairline or balding on the top of the head.
Diffuse thinning can slowly develop over the course of several months or it can appear quite suddenly. Being aware of how the hair loss is developing will help you identify diffuse thinning early.
The most apparent sign of diffuse thinning is of course reduced hair density and an easily visible scalp.
Generally, individuals with the thinnest hair will still be able to cover their head with hair so that the scalp is not seen. With diffuse thinning, the scalp will be visible for even people with normally thick hair.
The appearance of the scalp will be even more pronounced when the hair is wet or under bright, downward-facing light.
It is normal for us to lose right around 50 to 100 hairs per day. This shedding of hair is a part of our hair’s natural growth cycle.
For those suffering from diffuse thinning, you will start to lose hair much faster than normal on a daily basis. You will start to notice clumps of hair around your shower drain, in your hairbrush, and on your pillowcases and sheets.
Male Pattern Baldness & Treating Hair Loss
What causes male pattern baldness and stops hair growth on the scalp?
Male pattern hair loss is a very common form of hair loss experienced by a large percentage of the population. Many of these men experience diffuse hair loss and diffuse balding as they age.
This is due to the fact that many men have a genetic predisposition to diffuse balding as well as imbalances in hormone levels.
Often times, men experiencing diffuse hair loss have trouble experiencing new hair growth on a level that keeps up with their visible diffuse alopecia.
As hair regrowth slows down and hair health diminishes, noticeable hair loss becomes more prominent to the hair loss sufferer, as well as to those around them.
It is even possible for them to experience complete baldness over time, especially if they don’t address the cause of diffuse thinning early enough.
Female Pattern Hair Loss & Thinning Hair
Excessive hair loss is less common in females but still happens
Increased scalp hair shedding in middle-aged women is a completely common occurrence, although it happens much less than it does in men.
This form of hair thinning rarely results in a receding hairline as it does in male pattern hair loss, but the entire scalp may experience excessive hair shedding.
Additionally, as hair falls out and hair growth becomes less resilient over time, female pattern hair loss may show patchy areas.
Depending on the extent of diffuse balding in women, they may require medical treatments that increase blood flow, nourish the hair shaft, and encourage optimal hair growth as they age.
Telogen Effluvium & Diffuse Balding Hair Loss
Male pattern baldness is a form of hair loss common in men
Although there are many different possible causes of diffuse thinning, the most common culprit is telogen effluvium.
Telogen effluvium develops in your system when large amounts of your hairs enter the telogen, or resting, phase of the hair growth cycle.
Normally growing and healthy hair goes through a multi-phase growth cycle. In the anagen phase, the hair is growing healthily, and to its full potential over the course of around 2 to 6 years.
The next phase of the cycle is called the catagen phase, which is when the hair actively stops growing.
The last phase of the hair growth cycle is called the telogen phase. This is when the hair growth stops completely so that the hair is eventually replaced by strands of new, anagen hair, ready for growth.
What Form of Hair Loss Causes Diffuse Thinning?
Hair loss can come from hair and scalp diseases and cause excessive shedding
A normal, healthy head of hair is in the anagen phase about 85 to 90 percent of the time, with the remaining hair in the telogen phase.
Telogen effluvium is when a large percentage of your hairs, normally around 70% of all the hairs that are supposed to be in the anagen phase, prematurely enter the telogen phase and begin falling out.
Most cases of telogen effluvium have to do with some kind of physiologic stress that has been put on the body, which can be brought on by a number of different reasons.
Severe fevers, infections, hormone changes, and traumatic events that bring on great deals of stress have all been known to cause telogen effluvium. (A, 1997).
Thyroid conditions and nutritional deficiencies have also been known to trigger telogen effluvium in the system. In rare cases, iron deficiencies and syphilis have been known causes.
How to Treat Diffuse Thinning
Dr. Greg Powell can help treat diffuse thinning hair loss in Los Angeles
The best way to treat diffuse thinning is by identifying the root cause of the issue. If the cause is telogen effluvium, then you also need to further identify what is causing the stress on your system that is causing the telogen effluvium.
If you take the necessary steps to relieve that stress on your system, like changing certain medical conditions or treatment, adjusting your diet, reducing stress, or just recovering from an injury, then the issue will eventually clear up on its own.
As soon as the root cause of the diffuse thinning of the hair is addressed, you may want to look into a diffuse thinning hair transplant surgery.
If the hair loss is not severe enough to warrant surgery, then some topical hair loss drugs may help, like minoxidil and finasteride. Even a low-level light therapy hair restoration device, used along with the hair loss drugs may even be enough to restore the thickness of your hair.
Diffuse Thinning Hair Transplant Surgery Information
Diffuse thinning hair loss can be reveresed with hair follicle implantation
There are two main types of hair transplant surgery, an FUE, and a FUT procedure. During a FUT hair transplant, your surgeon harvests a thin strip of hair-bearing tissue from a selected donor area.
Then they dissect the individual hair follicles for transplantation. An FUE procedure is when just the individual hair follicles are extracted for transplant, instead of strips of tissue.
There are types of diffuse thinning hair where just the crown of the head is affected or other specific areas of the scalp.
In these situations, a FUE hair transplant would be effective as a treatment option for diffuse balding.
This is because the doctor would be able to strongly identify a donor area that is not affected by the diffuse thinning. That ensures the transplanted hair follicles grow strong after the transplant.
However, if the entire scalp is affected by the condition, then the surgeon would have difficulty deciding which hair follicles should be used as donor hair.
Is Telogen Effluvium Causing You Problems with Hair Fallout?
You may need to talk with a trusted surgeon about hair loss and solutions for it.
If the transplanted follicles were affected by telogen effluvium, then transplanting them to a different area of the scalp would do little to help them to enter the regrowth phase.
In fact, the transplant would put undue stress on the already unhealthy hair follicles. Chances are it would die shortly after the procedure.
If you get a FUT hair transplant, it would be difficult for the surgeon to ensure that the entire strip of donor hair is not affected by the telogen effluvium.
This is not to say that a diffuse thinning hair transplant surgery would not be effective. A skilled hair transplant surgeon can detect which follicles are healthy and which may be affected by diffuse thinning hair.
Finding a skilled hair transplant specialist is vital to the success of a diffuse thinning hair transplant surgery.
Best Hair LA is Your Diffuse Hair Loss Specialist
Treat your diffuse hair thinning in LA at Best Hair Transplant
Here at Best Hair LA, we make all forms of hair restoration our business. Our doctors and surgeons are well-versed in what causes diffuse hair loss and all other forms of alopecia.
We have treated diffuse hair thinning and diffuse balding with both surgical and non-surgical hair loss solutions. If you need hair transplant surgery, we’ll identify which method will be best for you. We will provide the results that you hope for.
Diffuse hair loss is one of the hardest hair loss conditions to treat. You need a specialist on your side that will take the time to understand your condition.
One that will offer the solution that is best for you. A lot of other hair clinics will just throw you on the operating table, hoping to make a quick buck.
Our hair loss specialist will sit down with you and discuss your hair restoration needs in detail. The only thing you have to lose is more hair, so call us today.
Diffuse Thinning Hair Transplant Surgery in Los Angeles
Hair Loss surgeon Dr. Greg Powell performing graft transplant hair restoration procedure
Best Hair Transplant is the best place to schedule your diffuse thinning hair transplant in Los Angeles. We’ve helped both men and women regrow hair lost to diffuse hair thinning. But don’t take our word for it. We suggest learning as much as possible about hair restoration. Do so prior to making a decision on how to address your hair loss. Not every procedure is right for everyone.
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References:
• A, R. (1997). Telogen Effluvium. Karger Dermatology.
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How do I set VLC as my default player on Mac?
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Right-click (Control click) on the type offileyou want to always open with VLC. Click 'Get Info'.Inthe 'Open With' section, select VLC fromthedrop-down menu. To apply this change to all files of thistype,click the 'Change All' button.
Click to see full answer.
In respect to this, how do I change my default player on Mac?
• Right click on the file.
• Click Get Info on the menu.
• Note down the file format extension under Name&Extension.
• Click the software selector under Open with.
• Select a media player from the drop-down list.
• Click Change All below the selector.
• Click the blue Continue button in the pop-up.
• Similarly, what is the default media player in Mac? The QuickTime Player is the defaultmediaplayer for the Mac OS. But, most of the userschoose todownload some other software to play theirmediafiles.
Keeping this in view, how do I set VLC as my default player?
Open VLC player, click on Tools in the menu,andfrom there select Preferences. Click on the Interfacebuttonon the left panel and then click on Set up associations (it'scloseto the bottom). Select types of files from the listthatappears.
How do I change the default open with?
To set a default app at any time:
1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Apps & notifications Default apps.
3. Tap the default that you want to change.
4. Tap the app that you want to use by default.
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Shony Alex Braun
Shony Alex Braun (born Sándor Braun; Cristuru-Secuiesc, Romania, July 14, 1924 – Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2002) was a Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish violinist, Holocaust survivor, classical composer and actor. He played bit parts in the TV shows Perry Mason, WKRP in Cincinnati and the film '68. He died of pneumonia on October 4, 2002, aged 78.
Early life
Sándor Braun, nicknamed "Sanyi" or "Shony", was fourth of six children. He was also known by his Hebrew name, Yitzhak. He was a violin prodigy. He and his family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was moved to several camps and ended up in Dachau, where he would regularly play the violin for SS officers in exchange for extra food rations.
After the Holocaust he married Shari Mendelovitz, also a Holocaust survivor, and resumed his violin studies. He emigrated to the United States in 1950. He composed the "Symphony of the Holocaust" and performed it with a live orchestra in 1992 in Dayton, Ohio. He recorded 11 albums of continental and Gypsy music. Many of the compositions were his original works. | WIKI |
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How to merge multiple .NET assemblies into one
Sometimes we need to deliver our code as a single assembly for different reasons. There are a few techniques for doing that.
The first one and maybe the most obvious is ILMerge. A command line tool that disassembles multiple assemblies into IL code and then reassembles them to a single one.
When to use ILMerge:
- When all the assemblies are from the same provider. If the assemblies have strong name, they will be re-signed with the snk file of the first of them (or executable if exists).
- ILMerge works well on Microsoft.NET framework only. Supported version is only 2.0 and higher
When we cannot use ILMerge:
- When merging assemblies from different providers. For example, one assembly written by our company which references a few 3rd party assemblies.
- When merging WPF assemblies, because they use embedded resources, that needs to be serialized
- ILMerge won't work on other .NET frameworks, such as Mono or Rotor.
- ILMerge won't merge assemblies from .NET Framework 1.1
Another technique makes use of embedding assemblies as resources within the main assembly. So here are the steps:
1. Add referenced assembly as embedded resource to the main assembly.
2. Don't forget to select "Embedded Resource" in Build Action on File Properties
3. Add a code that loads assembly from the resources (see below)
When to use loading assemblies from resources:
- When we need to load multiple strong named assemblies from different providers.
- Any case that is not supported by ILMerge
Here is a sample code that loads assemblies from resources. It started from Jeffrey Richter's blog post and enhanced to support loading multiple assemblies. When I used the code as is in his post I got an exception saying "Method not found". So here is the modified piece of code. It needs to be initialized in a static constructor of your "main" class, i.e. the first class user would access before accessing other classes.
public class AssemblyResolver
{
private readonly Dictionary<string,Assembly> m_LoadedAssemblies = new Dictionary<string,Assembly>();
public Assembly CurrentDomainAssemblyResolve(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
var assemblyResource = BuildAssemblyResourceName(args.Name);
return m_LoadedAssemblies.ContainsKey(assemblyResource)
? m_LoadedAssemblies[assemblyResource]
: LoadAssembly(assemblyResource);
}
private static string BuildAssemblyResourceName(string requestedAssemblyFullName)
{
var containingAssemblyName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name;
var indexOfComma = requestedAssemblyFullName.IndexOf(",", StringComparison.Ordinal);
var requestedAssemblyName = indexOfComma > 0
? requestedAssemblyFullName.Substring(0, indexOfComma)
: requestedAssemblyFullName;
var assemblyFullName = String.Format("{0}.Resources.{1}.dll", containingAssemblyName, requestedAssemblyName);
return assemblyFullName;
}
private Assembly LoadAssembly(string assemblyName)
{
using (var assemblyStream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(assemblyName))
{
if (assemblyStream == null) return null;
using (var reader = new BinaryReader(assemblyStream))
{
var readBytes = reader.ReadBytes((int) assemblyStream.Length);
var assembly = Assembly.Load(readBytes);
m_LoadedAssemblies.Add(assemblyName, assembly);
return assembly;
}
}
}
public AssemblyResolver Attach()
{
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += CurrentDomainAssemblyResolve;
return this;
}
public void Dettach()
{
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve -= CurrentDomainAssemblyResolve;
}
}
Yes, I know there is a lot of code, but let's try to understand it one by one.
AssemblyResolver class holds list of already loaded assemblies. If an AssemblyResolve event occurs, the resolver looks up in the m_LoadedAssemblies and return the already preloaded instance from it. If the requested assembly is not loaded yet, LoadAssembly method will load it from the embedded resources and add it to m_LoadedAssemblies. BuildAssemblyResourceName method concatenates resource name assuming that dependend assemblies reside in Resources folder in the main assembly.
Please note that it ignores the version of the requested assembly and its public key. It assumes that the correct assembly was added to the embedded resources.
Here is the usage from another class:
public class MainClass : IDisposable
{
static readonly AssemblyResolver Resolver = new AssemblyResolver();
static MainClass()
{
Resolver.Attach();
}
public void Dispose()
{
Resolver.Dettach();
}
}
That's all! Hope it helps
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James J. Goetz (born 1965/1966) is an American venture capitalist and businessman who is a partner with Sequoia Capital. Goetz is known for his focus on mobile and enterprise startups, including successful investments in AdMob, WhatsApp, Chartboost and GitHub. In 2017, Goetz announced he was stepping back from his leadership role with Sequoia, but continues to invest and represent the firm on company boards.
Early life
Goetz was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the Midwestern United States, and attended the University of Cincinnati, where he received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering. Afterward, he attended Stanford University and earned an M.S. in computer systems.
Career
Goetz started a PhD, but chose instead to pursue a career in product management, with early stints working at AT&T and SynOptics, which later became Bay Networks.
Goetz became a vice president at Bay Networks, then left in 1996 to co-found a software company, VitalSigns. With co-founders Rajiv Batra and Monty Kersten, Goetz raised $5.5 million from Sequoia Capital and Austin Ventures in April 1997. The same month, the company released a "browser companion" application, NetMedic, enabling users to identify and correct network performance issues. In October 1998, the company agreed to be acquired by International Network Services. Following the sale, Goetz joined the venture capital firm Accel.
Sequoia Capital
Goetz joined Sequoia Capital in 2004, where he has focused on mobile and enterprise startup investments. As of March 2018, Goetz sits on the board of five unicorn companies. At Sequoia, he has spoken publicly in favor of immigration as a boon to entrepreneurship, and supported initiatives to bring a closer gender balance at startups and venture firms.
Goetz has been ranked on the Forbes Midas list of top 100 venture capitalists, and occupied the top spot each year from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, he dropped to number three. In 2015, Goetz was named "VC of the Year" at the Crunchies award show, hosted by the publication TechCrunch.
Major investments
Major investments by Goetz leading to IPOs have included Ruckus Wireless and Palo Alto Networks in 2012, Nimble Storage and Barracuda Networks in 2013, and HubSpot in 2014. Notable acquisitions from Goetz investments have included AdMob, acquired by Google for $750 million in 2009, Clearwell Systems, acquired by Symantec for $410 million in 2011, Appirio's acquisition by Wipro for $500 million in 2016, and GitHub, acquired for $7.5 billion by Microsoft in 2018.
Goetz's most successful investment was in WhatsApp, in which Sequoia was the only outside investor prior to its acquisition by Facebook for $19 billion in February 2014. Sequoia's stake, led by Goetz, returned $3.5 billion on an approximate $60 million investment. TechCrunch described the deal as the "largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history", and it earned Goetz a reputation as one of Silicon Valley's "biggest rainmakers".
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Philanthropy
Goetz created the Mantei/Mae scholarship program at the University of Cincinnati in 2010 for high-achieving students studying electrical and computer engineering and computer science.
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Goetz is married, with three children, and lives in Los Gatos, California. In 2011, they bought the Los Gatos Theatre, an Art Deco cinema, and donated it to the town. | WIKI |
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tsing Yi Fishermen's Children's Primary School
The result was redirect to Mun Tsai Tong. Sandstein 20:09, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Tsing Yi Fishermen's Children's Primary School
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Fails WP:GNG. Little coverage Imcdc (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Imcdc (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
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* Delete. Apart from the book mentioned in the article, which I cannot find/access I can't find anything online mentioning this school. Fails both WP:GNG and WP:ORG. -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 11:22, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
* Delete - not enough in-depth coverage from independent sources to pass WP:GNG. Onel 5969 TT me 00:51, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
* Perhaps redirect to Mun Tsai Tong which mentions the school and has a great relation to it (although with a different name). Sun8908  Talk 09:05, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
* Keep. Every school of such size is notable. If it is not kept, merge and redirect per Sun8908. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:31, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
* The school is extremely small. No SNG applies. Sun8908  Talk 13:50, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
* As a newbie, <IP_ADDRESS>, please read WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. Matthew hk (talk) 15:33, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
* Redirecting to Mun Tsai Tong would be better. Lorstaking 11:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
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Data from: A jungle in there: bacteria in belly buttons are highly diverse, but predictable
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Hulcr, Jiri et al. (2013). Data from: A jungle in there: bacteria in belly buttons are highly diverse, but predictable [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q8f74
Abstract
The belly button is one of the habitats closest to us, and yet it remains relatively unexplored. We analyzed bacteria and arachaea from the belly buttons of humans from two different populations sampled within a nation-wide citizen science project. We examined bacterial and archaeal phylotypes present and their diversity using multiplex pyrosequencing of 16S rDNA libraries. We then tested the oligarchy hypothesis borrowed from tropical macroecology, namely that the frequency of phylotypes in one sample of humans predicts its frequency in another independent sample. We also tested the predictions that frequent phylotypes (the oligarchs) tend to be common when present, and tend to be more phylogenetically clustered than rare phylotypes. Once rarefied to four hundred reads per sample, bacterial communities from belly buttons proved to be at least as diverse as communities known from other skin studies (on average 67 bacterial phylotypes per belly button). However, the belly button communities were strongly dominated by a few taxa: only 6 phylotypes occurred on >80% humans. While these frequent bacterial phylotypes (the archaea were all rare) are a tiny part of the total diversity of bacteria in human navels (<0.3% of phylotypes), they constitute a major portion of individual reads (~1/3), and are predictable among independent samples of humans, in terms of both the occurrence and evolutionary relatedness (more closely related than randomly drawn equal sets of phylotypes). Thus, the hypothesis that “oligarchs” dominate diverse assemblages appears to be supported by human-associated bacteria. Although it remains difficult to predict which species of bacteria might be found on a particular human, predicting which species are most frequent (or rare) seems more straightforward, at least for those species living in belly buttons.
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The song has two video,one is the gorest and scariest video on the planet and one more is the natrual form but it still scary. Mustafizurahman stated only who have the strong fear not to watch the video. the video has lots of gore and scary moments,blood heads and many more.The video is the most gore and most scary video ever shown to human mankind.only 27 years above can watch and also download the video.for downlaod go to Disturbia.com/download.html.one more is the natrual that all years can watch.it is clean it still use the gore as the concept for the video. | WIKI |
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Just in case any one's interested, Blue-Haired Lawyer is a character from The Simpsons. Unfortunately the Image Mafia have deleted Wikipedia's picture of Blue-Haired Lawyer because we obviously don't need to have pictures to illustrate cartoon characters. But just in case one might help. — Blue-Haired Lawyer 21:54, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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6.12. Re-adjusting the Toolchain
Now that the final C libraries have been installed, it is time to adjust the toolchain again. The toolchain will be adjusted so that it will link any newly compiled program against these new libraries. This is the same process used in the “Adjusting” phase in the beginning of Chapter 5, but with the adjustments reversed. In Chapter 5, the chain was guided from the host's /{,usr/}lib directories to the new /tools/lib directory. Now, the chain will be guided from that same /tools/lib directory to the LFS /{,usr/}lib directories.
Start by adjusting the linker. The source and build directories from the second pass of Binutils were retained for this purpose. Install the adjusted linker by running the following command from within the binutils-build directory:
make -C ld INSTALL=/tools/bin/install install
[Note]
Note
If the earlier warning to retain the Binutils source and build directories from the second pass in Chapter 5 was missed, or if they were accidentally deleted or are inaccessible, ignore the above command. The result will be that the next package, Binutils, will link against the C libraries in /tools rather than in /{,usr/}lib. This is not ideal, however, testing has shown that the resulting Binutils program binaries should be identical.
From now on, every compiled program will link only against the libraries in /usr/lib and /lib. The extra INSTALL=/tools/bin/install option is needed because the Makefile file created during the second pass still contains the reference to /usr/bin/install, which has not been installed yet. Some host distributions contain a ginstall symbolic link which takes precedence in the Makefile file and can cause a problem. The above command takes care of this issue.
Remove the Binutils source and build directories now.
Next, amend the GCC specs file so that it points to the new dynamic linker. A perl command accomplishes this:
perl -pi -e '[email protected] /tools/lib/[email protected] /lib/[email protected];' \
-e '[email protected]\*startfile_prefix_spec:\[email protected]$_/usr/lib/ @g;' \
`gcc --print-file specs`
It is a good idea to visually inspect the specs file to verify the intended change was actually made.
[Important]
Important
If working on a platform where the name of the dynamic linker is something other than ld-linux.so.2, substitute “ld-linux.so.2” with the name of the platform's dynamic linker in the above commands. Refer back to Section 5.2, “Toolchain Technical Notes,” if necessary.
[Caution]
Caution
It is imperative at this point to stop and ensure that the basic functions (compiling and linking) of the adjusted toolchain are working as expected. To do this, perform a sanity check:
echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c
cc dummy.c
readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'
If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors, and the output of the last command will be (allowing for platform-specific differences in dynamic linker name):
[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]
Note that /lib is now the prefix of our dynamic linker.
If the output does not appear as shown above or is not received at all, then something is seriously wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out where the problem is and correct it. The most likely reason is that something went wrong with the specs file amendment above. Any issues will need to be resolved before continuing on with the process.
Once everything is working correctly, clean up the test files:
rm -v dummy.c a.out | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Disable Unnecessary Services on Mac OS X
How to disable unnecessary services on Mac OS X based desktop / server / laptop.
Mac OS X uses the following directories to start various services:
1. /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ – System-wide daemons provided by Mac OS X
2. /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user agents provided by Mac OS X
3. ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user agents provided by the user
4. /Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user agents provided by the administrator
5. /Library/LaunchDaemons/ – System-wide daemons provided by the administrator.
launchd manages processes, both for the system as a whole and for individual users using .plist files. Open the terminal and type the following commands to view directory files:
cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
ls -l
ls -l | less
OR
cd /System/Library/LaunchAgents/
ls -l
ls -l | less
Disable Unnecessary Services
Use the launchctl command as follows:
sudo launchctl unload -w /path/to/.plist/file
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/file.plist
In this example, use the following to disable the Bonjour service:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponderHelper.plist
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Page:Southern Historical Society Papers volume 17.djvu/121
Life^ Services and Character of Jefferson Davis, 113
Life, Services and Character of Jefferson Davis.
An Oration by Hon. John W. Daniel.
Delivered under the auspices of the General Assembly of Virginia at Mozart Academy of Music^ January 25^ i8go.
PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS ON THE PART OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
In the Senate of Virginia, December 7, 1889, Senator T. W. Har- rison, of Winchester, offered the following concurrent resolution :
Resolved (the House of Delegates concurring), That the Hon. John W. Daniel be invited to deliver an address upon the life and character and services of the late Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, in the hall of the House of Dele- gates, at such time during the present session of the Legislature as he may designate, and that a committee of two on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House be appointed to wait upon the Hon. John W. Daniel and extend him this invitation and make all necessary arrangements.
Agreed to by Senate December 7, 1889.
J. D. Pendleton, Clerk of Senate,
Agreed to by House of Delegates December 7, 1889.
J. Bell Bigger, Clerk of House of Delegates,
The following joint committee was appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Delegates, respectively :
Committee on the part of the Senate :
T. W. Harrison, of Winchester. Taylor Berry, of Amherst.
Committee on the part of the House of Delegates:
J. Owens Berry, of Fairfax. P. C. Cabell, of Amherst. James M. Stubbs, of Gloucester. | WIKI |
mouseMoved()
描述
mouseMoved()是一個函數，當 USB 滑鼠移動時被呼叫。
語法
void mouseMoved() {
// statements
}
範例
#include <MouseController.h>
//初始化 usb 物件
USBHost usb;
// 連接滑鼠到 usb 物件
MouseController mouse(usb);
void mouseMoved() {
Serial.print("Move: ");
Serial.print(mouse.getXChange());
Serial.print(", ");
Serial.println(mouse.getYChange());
}
void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop(){
usb.Task();
}
參見
mouseDragged()
mousePressed()
mouseReleased()
getXChange()
getYChange()
getButton()
函式庫參考主頁面
The text of the 86Duino reference is a modification of the Arduino reference, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Code samples in the reference are released into the public domain. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Milestones (book)
Untitled
This article was nominated for deletion on January 17 2006. The result of the discussion was. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.
Criticism
Even a section on criticism has to be polite and not use a sarcastic tone. Sentences like "It's not clear whether he includes among these lucky Africans the slaves who worked in the salt mines of early Islam..." betray the obvious bias of the editor and should not be acceptable. Also, the whole section is written from the editors perspective and not from a critic's perspective, another reason why this section needs to be edited for POV. Aslamt 05:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Surely there's a better way
Surely there should be a better way to write about this book than quoting verbatim from it. Instead of this format, can one simply discuss the main themes in the book and the book's impact?
* Definitely. Anyone interested should also look to improving the article on Sayyid Qutb. --Vector4F 17:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
New, More Complete, Entry for Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq
Warning: A lot of vertabim quotes are used but I want to let the book speak for itself.
Any comments?
--Leroy65X 21:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
* Seems good. I would definitely have more summary of the main thrust of the book and its historical impact first (that's already on the page, mostly), but the other details are nice. SnowFire 13:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq or Milestones, first published in 1964, is a book by Egyptian Islamist author Sayyid Qutb in which he lays out a plan and makes a call to action to re-create the Muslim world.
The title Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq translates into English as "Milestones Along the Way" or "Milestones Along the Road". English translations of the book are entitled simply "Milestones," (The book is also sometimes referred to as "Signposts").
Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq is probably Qutb's most famous and influential work, and one of, if not the most influential Islamist tracts ever written. It is often described as a major influence on radical Islamist terrorists.
History
Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq or Milestones marked the culmination of Qutb's evolution from modernist author and critic, to Islamist activist and writer, and finally to Islamist revolutionary and theoretician. It was written in prison where Qutb spent 10 years under charges of political conspiracy and first published in 1964.
Less than a year after its publication, Qutb was again arrested and brought to trial in Egypt under charges of conspiring against the state. Excerpts from the book were used to incriminate Qutb and he was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging in 1966. His death elevated his status to Shaheed or martyr and Milestones became a best seller and widely distributed across the Arab speaking world. To date, close to 2,000 editions of the work are said to have been published.
Contents
In his short (12 chapter 160 pages) book, Qutb seeks to set out "milestones" or guiding markers along a road that will lead to the revival of Islam from its current "extinction."
"The Muslim community has been extinct for a few centuries," and reverted to its pre-Islamic state, (a.k.a. Jahiliyyah ), according to Qutb, because those who call themselves Muslims have failed to follow "the laws of God" or Sharia (also Shariah, Shari'a, or Shari'ah), traditional Islamic law. (p.9) Following the Sharia is not just important but a defining attribute of Muslims, more necessary than belief itself (p.89), because "according to the Shari'ah, 'to obey' is 'to worship'." Obeying Sharia is to worship God, likewise "Anyone who serves someone other than God" -- be they priests, presidents, parliaments or secular legal statutes -- "is outside God's religion, although he may claim to profess this religion." [p.60]
Qutb sees Sharia as much more than a code of religious or public laws. It is a complete "way of life ... based on submission to God alone," (p.82) crowding out anything non-Islamic. It's rules range from "belief" to "administration and justice" to "principles of art and science." (p.107) Being God's law, Sharia is as much a part "of that universal law which governs the entire universe, ... as accurate and true as any of the laws known as the `laws of nature,`" like gravity or electricity. (p.88, also p.45-46)
"The establishment of God's law on earth" will lead to "blessings" falling "on all mankind." (p.90) Sharia is "the only guarantee against any kind of discord in life. (p.89)" and will "automatically" bring "peace and cooperation among individuals." It will reveal "the knowledge of the secrets of nature, its hidden forces and the treasures concealed in the expanses of the universe." (p.90), its "harmony between human life and the universe" will approach the perfection of heaven itself. (p.91)
Just as Sharia is all encompassing and all wonderful, what is non-Muslim (or Jahiliyyah) is "evil and corrupt," and its existence anywhere intolerable to true Muslims. "The Islamic society is by its very nature, the only civilized society." (p.94) "We will not change our own values and concepts either more or less to make a bargain with this jahili society. Never!" (p.21) "Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyyah ... The mixing and co-existence of the truth and falsehood is impossible." (p.130) In preaching and promoting Islam, for example, it is very important not to demean Islam by "searching for resemblances" between Islam and the "filth" and "the rubbish heap of the West." (p.139)
Some may ignore this fact and attempt to introduce elements of socialism or nationalism into Islam or the Muslim community (as Egypt's Arab Socialist Union government was doing at the time). They should bear in mind that the Prophet (pbuh) never appealed to ethnic or class loyalty to build his religion. Though such crowd-pleasing appeals would have undoubtedly shortened the thirteen years of "tortures" the Prophet (pbuh) had to indure while calling initially unresponsive Arabs to Islam, "God did not lead His Prophet (pbuh) on this course. ... This was not the way," (p.25-27) and so must not be the way now. Only God's law brings justice.
To restore Islam on earth and free Muslims from "jahili society, jahili concepts, jahili traditions and jahili leadership," (p.21) Qutb preaches that a vanguard (tali'a) be formed modeling itself after the original Muslims ("Companions of the Prophet") and their community. These Muslims successfully vanquished Jahiliyyah (Qutb declared), principally for two reasons:
* They cut themselves off from the Jahiliyyah -- i.e. they ignored the learning and culture of non-Muslim groups (Greeks, Romans, Persians, Christians or Jews), and separated themselves from their old non-Muslim friends and family. (p.16, 20)
* And they looked to the Qur'an for orders to obey, not as "learning and information" or solutions to problems. (p.17-18)
Following these principles the vanguard will fight Jahiliyyah with a two-fold approach: preaching, and "the movement" (jama'at). Preaching will persuade people to become true Muslims, while the movement will remove by "physical power and Jihaad" (p.55) "material obstacles" from the Sharia's path. The foremost of these obstacles is the "political power which rests on a complex yet interrelated ideological, racial, class, social and economic support," (p.59) but ultimately includes "the whole human environment." (p.72) Force is necessary, Qutb explains, because it is naive to expect "those who have usurped the authority of God" to "give up their power" without a fight. (p.58-9)
Remaining aloof from Jahiliyyah and its values and culture, but preaching and removing obstacles within it, the vanguard will travel the road, gradually growing from a cell of "three individuals ... to ten, the ten to a hundred, the hundred to a thousand, and the thousand ... to twelve thousand," and blossom into a truly Islamic community. The community may start in the "homeland of Islam" but this is by no means "the ulimate objective of the Islamic movement of Jihad." (p.72) Jihad must not merely be defensive, it must be offensive, (p.62) and its objective must be to carry Islam "throughout the earth to the whole of mankind." (p.72) True Muslims should maintain a "sense of supremacy" and "superiority," (p.141), but sadly it is important that they also prepare themselves for a "life until death in poverty, difficulty, frustration, torment and sacrifice" (p.157), and even brace themselves for possibility of death by torture at the hands of Jahiliyyah's sadistic, "arrogant, mischievous, criminal and degraded people." (p.150) Qutb ends his book describing the gruesome burning and dismemberment (he believes) many Muslims will be subject to. (p.150, 157)
Some revision made 5.7.06
--Leroy65X 15:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Influences
Qutb popularized ideas first advanced by Indian Islamist writer Abul-a'la Mawdudi: al-'ubudiyya, or worship, (which is performed not only by praying and adoring but by obeying); and al-hakimiyya, or sovereignty, (which is God's over all the earth and violated when His law, the Sharia, is not obeyed).
Qutb's intense dislike of the West not withstanding, certain of his ideas (such as the "infertility" of democracy, victimhood from malicious foreign and Jewish conspiracies, and the necessity of a corrective revolution led by a vanguard following principles from a earlier golden age) are strongly reminiscent of European fascism. Some have found "ideas, constructs and phrases" used by Qutb "clearly adapted from the works of" German "fascist philosopher" Carl Schmidt , or that Qutb "appreciated' the work of French fascist Alexis Carrel.
Influence
In terms of Milestones' influence over others, the debate centers on whether or which terrorist or insurgent groups were inspired by Milestones and to what extent. In the decades following Qutb's execution, groups formed generally thought to be inspired by Qutb's Milestones-- such as al-Jihad al-Islami, al-Takfir was al-Hijrah, al-Jihad, Tanzim al-Faniyyah al-Askariyyah, Jund Allah. Two vanguard groups dedicated to overthrowing the Egyptian government and renewing Islam -- al-Jihad al-Islami, and particularly Jama'at Islamiyya -- were responsible for hundreds of deaths in Egypt during the 1980s and 90s, including those of a president (Anwar Sadat), a head of the counter-terrorism police (Major General Raouf Khayrat), a parliamentary speaker (Rifaat el-Mahgoub), dozens of European tourists, and over 100 Egyptian police.
Egypt, A Timeline of Recent Events "Survivors of the Qutbist movement joined Bin Laden," including members of al-Jihad al-Islami which merged with al-Qaeda and whose leader Ayman al-Zawahiri became bin Laden's 2nd in command.
On the other hand, supporters defending his innocence against the Egyptian governments accusations deny Milestones instigated "violence and destructive activities" More persuasively, some point to passages in Milestones that talk of how "first" Islam must be "imprinted on hearts" and "consciences" (p.35) of the people before Sharia law is implemented,, although these contradicts his call for offensive jihad in the manner of the early Caliphs. (p.62)
It should also be pointed out that some Salafi/Wahhabi radicals have attacked Qutb as insufficiently militant in opposing allegedly apostate Muslims.
Reference
by Ahmad S. Moussalli, Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1992.
* Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, The Mother Mosque Foundation, 1981
* Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Ideological and Political Discourse of Sayyid Qutb
* Syed Qutb Shaheed, Hasan, S. Badrul, Karachi, Pakistan, International Islamic Publishers, 1982
* "Sayyid Qutb: ideologue of Islamic revival" by Haddad, Yvonne Y. in Voices of the Islamic Revolution, edited by Esposito, J., (1983)
Qutb and Fascism
Here is the deal. I have been around this claim that Qutb and fascism share this connection (see the Qutb talk page and a note page of my own ). The cited sources are all familiar to me. There are some parallels, but they are not particularly "fascist." Therefore, I removed most of this paragraph:
Here are the problems with this passage:
* I removed the phrase
* Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't you yourself lectured others on the impropriety of editing wikis before discussion? --Leroy65X 16:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
* "and the necessity of a corrective revolution led by a vanguard following principles from a earlier golden age", because this is not something especially common to fascism. The concept of an ideological party educating and leading the people is far more relevant to communist revolutions.
* It is the COMBINATION of these characteristics that makes them reminiscent of European fascism: disdain for democracy, hatred of foreigners and Jews, need for revolution etc. BTW, just what other ideologies is it common to? Communists did not "follow principles from a earlier golden age." They believed their ideology was the social, economic, political trend of the future. Dictatorship of the proletariate, scientific socialism, and eventually classless, moneyless society, were all new concepts. The Germans talked about a "Third Reich," i.e. they looked back at least in theory to two previous empires. I grant you Lenin used the term vanguard and, so far as I know, Nazis and Fascists did not. --Leroy65X 16:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
* The quote from Euben does not appear on the cited page (199), nor can I find a mention of Carl Schmidt in the text. The footnote itself does not provide any content about Qutb other than that he cited Alexis Carrel, but this is only a correlation. Also, Euben is speaking of non-rationalism and its commonality to Qutb and fascist thinkers. She is not making an argument for Qutb as fascist.
* The cite comes from Khaled Abou El Fadl.
* "Although Qutb does not once mention him in his works, a careful reading of Milestones on the Road reveals that many of Qutb's ideas, constructs and phrases are clearly adapted from the works of Schmidt." i.e. Carl Schmidt.
* I have not read the Euben book myself. --Leroy65X 16:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
* The citation from Al-Azmeh occurs on page 71 in the paperback (pg 30 in the 1996 hardcover). Most of the cited passage (p. 71-101) is about Afghani. Schmidt is not referenced in Al-Azmeh's text. The passage mentions the following details:
* -- A parallel between Qutb and Alexis Carrel in their general subject matter (both dealt with the decline of modernity).
* -- The fact that Qutb read and cited Carrel.
* -- The parallel between Qutb and Carrel that both mentioned the need for some type of enlightened elite to reform society.
* -- The parallel that both Qutb and Carrel use a naturalistic argument, though Al-Azmeh says this is only "implicit" in Qutb. Whatever this means, Qutb and Carrel's naturalism are two very different things. It's entirely misleading, if not wrong, to use the term "naturalism" in refernce to Qutb's philosophy.
* All things considered, this passage does not establish a link between Qutb and Carrel which can be identified as "fascism".
* None of the two citations mentions Schmidt, source the quoted text, nor state that Qutb "clearly adapted" ideas from Schmidt.
* In Ali's book, Qutb (where he appears as Kutb) is only mentioned as a reader of Carrel's work. That's the same correlation which Euben and Al-Azmeh noted, but it is only a correlation. (the citation above is from hardcover 2002 edition ISBN:1859846793).
* I will accept the deletion of coments about Schmidt. Right now at least we don't have proof that what Khaled Abou El Fadl is right about Qutb's "ideas, constructs and phrases [being] clearly adapted from the works of" Schmidt.
* As for Carrel I have to argue that
* there is no doubt that he showed at least strong fascist tendencies: he `advocated the use of gas chambers to rid humanity of "inferior stock"` and worked to implement `eugenics policies during [the Nazi-allied] Vichy France` (from wikipedia entry).
* Qutb read and cited Carrel and Azmeh sees Carrel's influence in Qutb.
* I hereby propose replacing my original passage with this:
--Leroy65X 16:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
* Let's stick to keeping the comments properly organized (rather than inserting them inbetween posts) so they can be easily read. I'm having trouble following myself.
* 1) No, there is no impropriety on editing a wiki prior to discussion. If I ever said that, I was wrong. However, editing in lieu of discussion is bad form, particular when the facts are not clear. As far as I can tell, I made the last edit based on facts, which I don't think need major discussion. Obviously, however, I explained what edits I made and why because I wanted to bring the facts to light.
* 2) It's not productive to debate the various philosophies associated with fascism in depth here. Let's just stick with the language "strongly reminiscent of European fascism", being sure to be descriptive (as you have done) as to what we mean by this statement.
* 3) I found the citation from Khaled Abou El Fadl ("The Great Theft" pg.83), so that should be cited directly (maybe it was, I didn't see that in the article though). However, the passage in El Fadl only states this argument that Schmidt directly influence Qutb and provides no proof. He doesn't even elaborate. His endnote says this (pg.298): "The influence of facist theory upon Qutb has been noted by other writers. See Roxanne L. Euben, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 199, n. 181; Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islam and Modernities (London: Verso Press, 1997), 77-101..."
* This is a circular reference. I see this all the time with connecting Qutb to European fascist authors. El Fadl cites other authors, who cite other authors, etc. Euben does the same. But none provide the evidence, not even a discussion, of the relationship between Qutb and fascist European authors. This circular referencing is not acceptable, certainly not for a scholarly work, but also not to make claims about direct influence.
* On the connection to Carrel. As far as I know, Qutb cites Carrel in only one book. I have never seen this text. It would be good to know why Qutb was citing Carrel before we say Qutb was citing Carrel's facist ideas. Because context, let alone content, is important. None of the scholars cited provide this basic evidence. The topic of "who influenced whom?" occupies thousands of volumes in Western scholarship, but here we can't bring up the single piece of evidence we can identify - how do we know we haven't misidentified it?
* Regardless, I support your revised version if we can remove the last sentence. I would support its inclusion if we had material to back it up (e.g. scholarly analysis). --Vector4F 02:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Per editing a wiki prior to discussion, this is what I'm going to put in the text:
Even assuming Tariq Ali, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Khaled Abou El Fadl are all using circular reasoning (which I haven't time to verify), the fact they have found fascist influence in Qutb is worth a line in the text.
--Leroy65X 15:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
* Please understand, I am not interested in being difficult or defining Qutb in a certain way. If we are going to make serious claims about who influenced whom then I think it is only fair that we do our best to be correct, not merely speculative. Let me be clear: I will not be taking this issue into an edit war, an RFC, or anything else. All we need is to identify what we know and what we don't know. I am perfectly willing to be proven wrong.
* My argument is against the inclusion of these scholars opinions on the grounds that they do not provide justification for their assumptions. If scholars have found the fascist influence, they should explain and make a case for it. A scholar is only as good as their scholarship. To establish influence and qualify it as "fascist" is a significant claim. To do so with no evidence is a significant omission. I have no issue with simply saying that Qutb read and cited Carrel. That much is clear. But the incidence of this is isolated and we do not know the content or context. How do we get from this to "fascist influence" - how can we say this influenced a specific work (e.g. Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq)? Isn't there a rather large difference between saying "Bob influenced Alice" and "Bob's fascism influenced Alice"? The difference justifies explanation. We have no sources which provide this justification. We only have sources which say "it's there; so-and-so has seen it; here's a correlation." This opinion has no more value than a piece in National Review; it contributes nothing more than an editorial byline.
* So I am unsure as to why a scholar's conclusion should be advanced without the content of their argument (in article or via citation). I cannot overlook the absence of verifiable argument on account of a person's/institution's/etc. reputation. What else do we have here? --Vector4F 21:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
The current section on Qutb's supposed link to fascism is much better then the previous ones, AND shows how shaky the argument is: The first bullet point comes from Leninist historical materialsm, and was copied clumsily into Hitler's version of facism. The second bullet point (earlier golden age) is the core of most nationalisms, and absent in fascism, The third point (victimhood from conspiracies) is not core Qutb (Qutb claims that deviation by those INSIDE islam is the core problem) The forth point (establish international domination of the nation / community) is outside Qutb's ideology, as his idea is to INCLUDE all people and nations into one world wide Islamic state, and certainly not to have one nation to dominate over the others. So the argument is flawed on all four points. I propose it to be declared to be unsubstantiated.
There is a semantic problem here: Qutb himself was always arguing for an inclusive, egalitarian world system, making him more like a communist. His call for violence was quite theoretical, made when he was in prison, threatened to be hung by an unjust judicial system, maybe never meant to be applied on any significant scale. But small, violent sections of todays djihadist movements often selectively cite his work in order to justify random killings, sometimes even mass random killings like 9-11, against all considered infidel or deviaters of the righteous path.
Although that is not facism in the strict meaning (justifying random mass violence to establish a biologically homogeneous nation, dominating all others) it is a very similar thing: justifying random mass violence to establish a religious homogeneous nation, to replace all others. There remains a theoretically important diffrence: facsism strives for exclusion of all with a slightly different biology, where even the most extremist version of jihadist Islam strives for inclusion of everyone with any biology (as a muslim). Pieter Felix Smit (talk) 21:38, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Vandalism of "Racism" and "Christians and Jews as Polytheists" sections
Two chunks of text were removed by "Islami"
* Yet for the last decade and a half of his life (1953-1966) Qutb himself belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded on almost military-like structure at least as hierarchal as most Christian or Jewish congregations or denominations. Before his assassination "Supreme Guide" Sheikh Hassan al Banna had the power to overrule any decisions by local Brotherhood branches not to his liking.
and
* American Racism
* - Qutb condemned "evil and fanatical racial discrimination" in America but in Milestones he describes the enslavement of Africans by early Muslims as a great benefit to the deprived Africans. "When Islam entered the central part of Africa, it clothed naked human beings, socialized them, brought them out of the deep recesses of isolation, and taught them the joy of work for exploring (sic) material resources" (p.105), such work being the job of African slaves in the Islamic empire, and the reason their very short life expectancy.
Both these pieces of information are documented by reputable sources. If Islami has any reason to dispute the accuracy or relevance of them kindly share it with us --Leroy65X 14:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
* The first one is not related to what Qutb is talking about. He does not have a problem with a hierarchal organization. He is talking about giving priests and rabbis the authority to make laws, as in reference to Quran (Tauba:31). As for the second one, he was not talking about the slaves. --Islamic 14:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
* The critic of Qutb in question, (one Elmer Swenson) argues that "Supreme Guide" al Banna was making "laws" (regulations is probably a better word) for the Brethren that were more strict than priests and rabbis make for their followers, i.e. Qutb was being hypocritical in his accusing Christians and Jews of being polytheists.
* As for the second complaint, do you have any reason for us to believe that the Africans that Qutb says were given the "joy" of "work for exploring (sic) material resources," i.e. working in mines and farms in early Muslim empires, were not slaves as described below?
* Zanj slaves used to drain the salt flats of southern Iraq, and the blacks employed in the salt mines of the Sahara and the gold mines of Nubia. These were herded in large settlements and worked in gangs. Large landowners, or crown lands, often employed thousands of such slaves. While domestic and commercial slaves were relatively well-off, these lived and died in wretchedness. Of the Saharan salt mines it is said that no slave lived there for more than five years ...
* Again the critic is suggesting Qutb's complaint about America's treatment of Africans is hypocritical. This certainly seems relevant to an article about this book. --Leroy65X 22:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
* Making an orgnaizational regulations is very different than making divine laws. And since Sayyed never talked about slaves, that paragraph does not belong there. Islam had build large empires in the West balck africa (Mali, Nigeria, etc). That is not related to the "Zanj".--Islamic 23:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
* Christians and Jews as Polytheists: Are you familiar with what Qutb said in Milestones? He did not talk about the "divine laws" of Christians and Jews, he said
* [Jews and Christians] did not consider their priests or rabbis as divine, nor did they worship them; but they gave them the authority to make laws, obeying laws which were made by them [and] not permitted by God... [p.82]
* [This is not permitted by God because] it clear that obedience to laws and judgments is a sort of worship [p.60]
* in other words, it's obediance to other human beings and/or laws made by human beings that is the problem. The laws do not have to be designated "divine" by the human law-maker according to Qutb for obediance to them to be an act of shirk. Only sharia law should be obeyed because "obedience to laws and judgments is a sort of worship"
* I have worked very hard on this article and would appreciate it if you did not delete text again. I will drop the racism issue for the time being.
* A Rabbi interprets Halakkah and law based on the Torah just as much as Ulema interpret the Sharia... if anything in Islam Ulema are given far more deference in their judgement and can't be disagreed with. This effectively gives them the power to make laws of their own judgement and declare it the divine will. It's hilarious that he obstinately refuses to see this and considers it at all true that in practice sharia consists purely of following God's commands. The direct orders in the sharia are few and far between, who interprets what is the will of God in other areas effectively had the power to issue laws. Christianity is unique in that its not a law based religion and we're merely told to obey the ruler, but that is the command of our religion, it's not his place to apply the standards of Islam to Christianity and object to our religions commandment to render one to Caesar as some firm of worship. As for Judaism he's apparently entirely unaware of its details and the fact that it's very similar to his own religion in being based on religious law. Except that they don't demand the laws of their religion rule the whole world.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
"Christians and Jews as Polytheists" section revised
I have revised the "Christians and Jews as Polytheists" section to make it clearer and hope we will not have to continue this revert war. --Leroy65X 21:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
* One thing need to be added here. Qutub's view (Christians and Jews as Polytheists) is a traditional, so I don't see a point of criticizing Sayyed only. --Islamic 04:09, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
* Tell us more. Is Qutb's reasoning -- that ahl al-kitab are mushrik because they give 'priests and rabbis "the authority to make laws" and "it is clear that obedience to laws and judgments is a sort of worship"` -- is that traditional too? Isn't it traditional that ahl al-kitab are in a different class than mushrik? That they can pay jizya and do not have to convert to Islam? --Leroy65X 14:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks SnowFire
I disagree with some of your edits but thank you for finding mistakes and wikipedia-ing it better. -Leroy65X 14:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Neutrality
Sayyid Qutb may or may not have been a dangerous nut, but he deserves - more importantly Wikipedia readers deserves him - to be heard without original criticism dogging him at every step. No doubt, there is much notable criticism which should be included, but skewed language and original argument violates policy, and makes for an even poorer article than were his ideas presented without any commentary at all.Proabivouac 06:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* I think you are confusing language that explains what the criticism is, with non-NPOV. i.e. Wikipedia readers deserve to know what the controversy is about. --Leroy65X 17:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* Criticism deserves to be here, but it must attributed to notable critics, and I did not remove any of this; indeed there sould be more of it. We cannot write, "Qutb insists this but this is obviously wrong because of that," or any variant thereof. See my message on your user talk.Proabivouac 17:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* I agree with Proabivouac above. Current criticism section is all about original argument using sarcastic and biased language. Readers deserve to know what the dispute is about in a scholarly fashion. Using language like "It's not clear whether he includes among these lucky Africans the slaves who worked in the salt mines of early Islam...", while might represent the actual controversy, still betrays the obvious bias of the editor and violates policies. Aslamt 18:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* [proabivouac message on my user talk] Leroy65X, I'm inclined to agree with your dim view of Qutb, but it is a fact of policy (though often violated) that articles can't be structured in such a way as to advance an argument, except insofar as a neutral presentation of facts is suggestive in itself. We can and certainly should quote Qutb's critics, so long as they are either acknowledged experts in their fields or otherwise notable. What we are not to do is (for example): "Critics of Sharia insist that it presents an insufficient and outdated model for human society. However, these criticisms ignore that [Arguments for Sharia]..." That's fine, of course, in an essay, which rightfully aims to advance a point of view, but not encyclopedic. What is needed is to find notable critics who say something you might want to say, quote or paraphrase them appropriately, and make sure Qutb backers (he seems to have quite a few) don't bias the article in the other direction. In any event, never fear: even if only Qutb's words were presented, statements such as the entire world must be governed under Islamic law are likely to be seen (by most non-Muslims at least) as lunatic fringe, even if they go unrebutted (as they shouldn't).Proabivouac 17:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* My opinions about Qutb are irrelevent if they do not enter into the article. Articles should not be structured in such a way as to advance an argument, but they should be written in a way advance understanding. I think you are confusing encyclopedic with dull, for example your removal of
* This uniquely free socio-economic system not only frees Muslims to be true Muslims, but explains why ...
* in the paragraph
* This uniquely free socio-economic system not only frees Muslims to be true Muslims, but explains why offensive jihad to "establish the sovereignty of God ... throughout the world" (p.62) is not aggression but "a movement to wipe out tyranny and to introduce true freedom to mankind." (p.62)
* does not remove something Qutb would in any way disagree with. To Qutb Islam is not a free system it is the only free system.
* As for notability of critics it is true the author of is not notable (so at least I've never heard of Elmer Swenson). If mr. Swenson was offer a judgement that Qutb was crazy or ignorant or whatever, that certainly should not be included in any wikipedia. But the argument based on Qutb's writing, made on that page seems to me to be rather important. Qutb's explanation of how conqest is liberation is contradicted by his explanation of how Islam is free.
* I will attempt to remove any POV insinuation but if your going to remove it again we are going to need dispute resolution. --Leroy65X 18:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
* Re: "this uniquely free socio-economic system not only frees Muslims to be true Muslims" I removed because it seemed untopical to the following material, which is about global jihad. You are free to restore it if you must.
* However, the use of Swenson is not acceptable, nor is there a need for dispute resolution, as the way forward is quite clear: as Swenson is neither notable nor an acknowledged expert, citing him fails to support the inclusion of the material, even if we think (as we do) that he makes some very good points. As I wish neither to confront you nor to discourage you, I suggest you seek feedback from other experienced editors on this point; you will find that I am only representing the prevailing orthodoxy in this regard.Proabivouac 19:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I've added some complementary references to Qutb's book from other writers to avoid giving the impression the beginning of the criticism is proforma and just a setup for the points of criticism below. --Leroy65X 17:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah yes, the old canard of "Arab slave-drivers" ....
It's not clear whether he includes among these Africans the slaves who worked in the salt mines of early Islam[24] and whose short life expectancy was a result of the conditions under which they explored for the resource of sodium chloride.
This is clearly either POV or from a biased source, it should be removed.<IP_ADDRESS> 21:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Section on "American racism" removed ....
This section was clearly POV and fallacious at that -- asking Qutb, amongst other things, to "answer" for the actions of slaveholders 1000 years ago.<IP_ADDRESS> 17:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC) -
NPOV tag added - the criticism section is plain silly and needs extensive rewriting - if the author wants to sarcastically refute or attack Qutb then they should write a book, a so called neutral encyclopedia is not the place for that.
1st October 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Learn to read Arabic
The term "shirk" (hence the designation mushirk) does not necessarily entail "polytheism" (i.e., the worship of many gods.) Shirk means idolatry and a mushirk is one who practices idolatry, i.e., an idolater. An idolater is one who venerates material things, even if only a single thing is venerated. This is a meaningful distinction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:Milestones.jpg
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Proposed title change from Ma'alim fi al-Tariq to Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones)
Reason: The translation of Ma'alim fi al-Tariq into english uses the title Milestones.
Any objections? --BoogaLouie (talk) 20:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
* I don't agree. There's no need to state the name twice. Arguably, the title should be Milestones (book) if we wanted to use the English terminology, but there's definitely no point in having both in the main title line. As an example, the article Joan of Arc is there, not at Joan of Arc (Jeanne d' Arc). The only example I can think of where something like this was done was for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, and they eventually moved that out of the / title anyway.
* I think this name is fine. It's accessible from Milestones easily anyway, and states the most commonly known title (Milestones) right at the beginning. SnowFire (talk) 04:09, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Restrictions
I think it would be good to have a list of countries this book is banned in. For starters, at least one edition is banned in UK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16171251) <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
This article needs serious reworking
I've done my best to clean this article up (diffs ), but there are problems here which are outside of my expertise, both in terms of content and regarding how to write a Wikipedia article. I am no scholar, nor do I have any knowledge of this work or its author, so I can't really clean up the content itself. I suspect there are significant issues with the content, though, which really needs to be overlooked by someone erudite in this material (preferably someone without a POV and who could write it encyclopedically). There are significant WP:MOS issues, however, including the citing of page numbers within the article (which should be cited via, and how there is bullet list usage which may be better as a paragraph. I'd do this myself, but I simply don't know how, or I am not knowledgeable enough to make these edits.
For the time being, I've placed some template headers on this article in the hopes that someone could come in here and clean this up. I did what I could, but this is out of my level at this time. Sorry. –Nøkkenbuer (talk • contribs) 06:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
* Have done the and gotten rid of some quotes. --BoogaLouie (talk) 01:04, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
quotations
Have trimmed quotations but kept a number of them where the issue addressed is controversial, and readers otherwise might we saying something like, "Really? I wonder what he actually said."
Example:
* When of God's law is established on earth, it will lead to blessings falling on all mankind. Sharia is "the only guarantee" against "any kind of discord" in life. and will "automatically" bring "peace and cooperation" among individuals. Knowledge of the "secrets of nature, its hidden forces and the treasures concealed in the expanses of the universe," will be revealed "in an easy manner." The "harmony between human life and the universe" of sharia law will approach the perfection of heaven itself. --BoogaLouie (talk) 16:05, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
title
going to change name of title per Article titles#English-language titles --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:02, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
* To what...? Also WP:RM is where you want to go if you think it might potentially be controversial. SnowFire (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
* To "Milestones (book)". Milestones being the title used in all translations I know of. And Article titles#English-language titles being pretty clear on what the language should be. Yes, the book is very controversial, but the title ...?
* However, it didn't work. this happened. will have to appeal to an admin as Snowfire says above. --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:12, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
* You can use db-move (see WP:G6) on the redirect, and I think I'd even support that proposal, but I wouldn't be surprised if an admin turned that down since the article has been here & stable for a decade. Is there a hurry? Just file a brief RM and wait the week, IMHO. SnowFire (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
* RM made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests#Uncontroversial_technical_requests No hurry. Yes, stable for a decade, but consistency is nice and Milestones is much more well known and easier to remember for English speakers than than Ma'alim fi al-Tariq. --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:43, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
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Why an Oracle user is locked? Who is locking an Oracle user?
GOAL
Finding out who locked an account in the database and why it was locked.
SYMPTOMS
A user is getting ORA-28000: The account is locked error frequently. Unlocking the account with ALTER USER ... ACCOUNT UNLOCK statement fixes issue temporarily. Then after some time, the same account lock happens again.
CAUSE
It happens when something (user, script, or application) keeps connecting to a database with a INCORRECT PASSWORD multiple times.
The account locks automatically whenever a certain number of failed login attempts occurs, with the total failed login attempts being more than the value of the FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS user profile parameter.
DEMO
Create a user for the demo
SQL> CREATE USER DEMO IDENTIFIED BY DEMO;
User created.
SQL> GRANT CONNECT TO DEMO;
Grant succeeded.
What is the user's default profile?
-- The user's default profile
SET LINES 200
SET PAGES 999
COL USERNAME FOR A10
COL ACCOUNT_STATUS FOR A15
COL CREATED FOR A10
COL LOCK_DATE FOR A10
COL EXPIRY_DATE FOR A10
COL PROFILE FOR A11
SELECT USERNAME,
ACCOUNT_STATUS,
CREATED,
LOCK_DATE,
EXPIRY_DATE,
PROFILE
FROM
DBA_USERS
WHERE
USERNAME='DEMO';
USERNAME ACCOUNT_STATUS CREATED LOCK_DATE EXPIRY_DAT PROFILE
---------- --------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
DEMO OPEN 08-JAN-22 07-JUL-22 DEFAULT
-- User profile password policies
COL RESOURCE_NAME FOR A25
COL RESOURCE_TYPE FOR A10
COL LIMIT FOR A10
SELECT * FROM DBA_PROFILES
WHERE
PROFILE='DEFAULT' AND
RESOURCE_NAME IN ('FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS','PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME');
PROFILE RESOURCE_NAME RESOURCE_T LIMIT COM INH IMP
----------- ------------------------- ---------- ---------- --- --- ---
DEFAULT FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS PASSWORD 10 NO NO NO
DEFAULT PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME PASSWORD 1 NO NO NO
These profile's RESOURCES are
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS
Specify the number of consecutive failed attempts to log in to the user account before the account is locked. If you omit this clause, then the default is 10 times.
PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME
Specify the number of days an account will be locked after the specified number of consecutive failed login attempts. If you omit this clause, then the default is 1 day.
To proceed further with the demo, enable DATABASE AUDITING
COL NAME FOR A15
COL VALUE FOR A10
SELECT NAME,
DISPLAY_VALUE VALUE
FROM
V$PARAMETER
WHERE
NAME='audit_trail';
NAME VALUE
--------------- ----------
audit_trail DB
Activate the audit for failed logins attempts
SQL> AUDIT SESSION WHENEVER NOT SUCCESSFUL;
Audit succeeded.
Run the following bashcommand that attempts to log in to the database with the wrong password 11 times
time for i in {1..11}; do echo wrong_password | sqlplus DEMO 2>&1 1>/dev/null; done
NOTE
Before running the bash command, you must configure Oracle Environment Variables.
When the bash command completes, query the audit table to get details about the locked user
-- Connect as privileged user
SQL> SHOW USER
USER is "SYS"
-- Get status of the DEMO user
SET LINES 200
SET PAGES 999
COL USERNAME FOR A10
COL ACCOUNT_STATUS FOR A15
COL CREATED FOR A10
COL LOCK_DATE FOR A10
COL EXPIRY_DATE FOR A10
COL PROFILE FOR A11
SELECT USERNAME,
ACCOUNT_STATUS,
CREATED,
LOCK_DATE,
EXPIRY_DATE,
PROFILE
FROM
DBA_USERS
WHERE
USERNAME='DEMO';
USERNAME ACCOUNT_STATUS CREATED LOCK_DATE EXPIRY_DAT PROFILE
---------- --------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -----------
DEMO LOCKED(TIMED) 08-JAN-22 08-JAN-22 07-JUL-22 DEFAULT
-- Attempt to connect as the DEMO user
SQL> connect DEMO/DEMO
ERROR:
ORA-28000: The account is locked.
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
As expected, the bash command locked the DEMO user.
Query the audit table to get details about the account lock.
-- Connect as privileged user
SQL> SHOW USER
USER is "SYS"
-- Query audit table
SET LINES 300
SET PAGES 999
COL INUM FOR 9999
COL OS_USERNAME FOR A10
COL USERNAME FOR A10
COL USERHOST FOR A30
COL ACTION_NAME FOR A10
COL OS_PROCESS FOR A10
COL TIMESTAMP FOR A20
SELECT INSTANCE_NUMBER INUM,
OS_USERNAME,
USERNAME,
USERHOST,
TO_CHAR(EXTENDED_TIMESTAMP,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') TIMESTAMP,
ACTION_NAME,
OS_PROCESS,
RETURNCODE
FROM
DBA_AUDIT_SESSION
WHERE
RETURNCODE IN (1017, 28000)
ORDER BY EXTENDED_TIMESTAMP;
INUM OS_USERNAM USERNAME USERHOST TIMESTAMP ACTION_NAM OS_PROCESS RETURNCODE
----- ---------- ---------- ---------------------- -------------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:07:58 LOGON 14793 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:07:59 LOGON 14797 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:00 LOGON 14801 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:02 LOGON 14805 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:03 LOGON 14809 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:04 LOGON 14814 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:05 LOGON 14818 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:06 LOGON 14822 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:07 LOGON 14826 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:08 LOGON 14830 1017
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:08 LOGON 14834 28000
0 oracle DEMO dbpilot.vmware.local 08-JAN-2022 17:08:43 LOGON 14866 28000
12 rows selected.
The query output provides all the necessary information to identify the cause of the problem.
In this demo, something from the host dbpilot.vmware.local, using OS user oracle, attempted to log in to the database by the DEMO user.
First 10 attempts were made with the wrong password - ORA-1017. After 10 failed login attempts, the account was locked - ORA-28000.
SQL> !oerr ora 1017
01017, 00000, "invalid username/password; logon denied"
// *Cause:
// *Action:
SQL> !oerr ora 28000
28000, 00000, "The account is locked."
// *Cause: The wrong password was entered multiple consecutive times as
// specified by the profile parameter FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS, or the
// DBA locked the account, or the user is a common user locked in
// the root container.
// *Action: Wait for the PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME or contact the DBA.
The DEMO account will be locked for a time specified in the PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME profile value.
To unlock the account immediately use the ALTER USER ... ACCOUNT UNLOCK statement
-- Connect as privileged user
SQL> SHOW USER
USER is "SYS"
-- Unlock the DEMO user
SQL> ALTER USER DEMO ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
User altered.
-- Connect as the DEMO user
SQL> connect DEMO/DEMO
Connected.
SQL> SHO USER
USER is "DEMO"
That's it. We successfully simulated the user account lock and found who did it.
As the final step of the demo, deactivate the audit for failed logins attempts and drop the DEMO user.
-- Connect as privileged user
SQL> SHOW USER
USER is "SYS"
-- Disable failed login auditing
SQL> NOAUDIT SESSION WHENEVER NOT SUCCESSFUL;
Noaudit succeeded.
-- Drop the DEMO user
SQL> DROP USER DEMO;
User dropped.
REFERENCES
Finding the source of failed login attempts. (Doc ID 352389.1)
How to find "Failed Login USERNAME" in OEM (Doc ID 2564866.1)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Tinker
The result was no consensus and so it is eligible for the BOLD reformulation proposed below. Any disputes about this may be discussed using the normal dispute resolution process. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:45, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
David Tinker
* – ( View AfD View log )
Fails NSOLDIER. No RS for most of the details on the page. Opal|zukor (discuss) 10:44, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Opal|zukor (discuss) 10:44, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Opal|zukor (discuss) 10:44, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:52, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Keep Details and references are all found within the book A Message from the Falklands. MrMarmite (talk) 11:21, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Delete fails WP:SOLDIER, WP:NAUTHOR and WP:GNG. Mztourist (talk) 12:03, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Delete per Mztourist. – Cupper 52 Discuss! 12:20, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Delete not everyone killed in battle is notable. That is basically what we would have to set notability at to justify having this article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:05, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Keep. While he doesn't pass WP:SOLDIER, he may qualify under WP:NAUTHOR. The book has reviews, including in the prestigious London Review of Books . A play has been created from the book , and is itself the subject of scholarly interest. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:40, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
* Comment I wonder if this might be redirected to a possible future article about his father Professor Hugh Tinker who has both an Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article and a UK Who's Who entry but no English Wikipedia article? Piecesofuk (talk) 17:22, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
* Comment. Not sure this in itself would make him notable, but The Stage and Television Today archive should have some interesting material about how the play Falkland Sound initially was banned from Plymouth but then was staged at a smaller theatre. RobinCarmody (talk) 22:39, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 Talk Work 16:20, 26 January 2021 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting to get better consensus. Expertwikiguy (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
* Delete While the subject does have one book and it is reviewed I'm not sure I would consider them any more notable for that one book than any other author who writes one book. The play is an interesting spin on the subjects impact but the question remains to be determined whether a person's work, alone, can make them notable even if all that is referenced is the work while there is little to no in-depth coverage of the works creator. Is the work notable or the creator? While the subjects father or relatives may be notable that notability is not inherited. The subject must be notable and while the work they create or the heroics they may perform can be a catalyst in which notability is incubated and emerges, the works and events can not, themselves, be the sole source of notability that receives significant coverage independent of its creator/performer. I find, after conducting my own BEFORE search, in this case that the subject does not meet the criteria for inclusion. There are flashes but flashes are no better than mentions in that regard. Fails WP:SOLDIER, Fails WP:NAUTHOR, Fails WP:N, Wikipedia is not... WP:NOT -- A Rose Wolf 17:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
* Keep and rewrite to be about the book, which does seem to be notable, most of the article content is already about it anyways. Deletion is inappropriate because the notable book is memoirs of the person, making it really easy to re-purpose for the book itself. I can do it if consensus is reached here. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
* Keep but add more references, and more about the book and play and his letters. -- HistoricalAccountings (talk) 18:04, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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| WIKI |
Mahim
Mahim (Marathi pronunciation: [maːɦiːm])(Marathi: माहिम) is a neighbourhood in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The Mahim Junction railway station on the Western Railway and Harbour Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network is the last station of the city, as neighboring Bandra comes in Mumbai Suburb. Mahim is an ethnically and religiously diverse town and has a Hindu temple, church, mosque and Parsi fire-temple existing within a few meters of each other. The town has a large Rich and Upper Middle class Marathi population.
History
The name Mahim is derived from the ancient Mahikavati meaning "miraculous" in Sanskrit. Other historical names for the area include Mahimawati, Maijim, and Mejambu.
Mahim was one of the seven islands that originally made up Mumbai. Mahim, or Mahikavati as it was known, was the capital of Raja Bhimdev, who reigned over the region in the 13th century. He built a palace and a court of justice in Prabhadevi, as well as the first Babulnath Temple.
In 1343, this island was possessed by the Delhi Sultanate. It was in their reign that the old Mahim mosque was built. A dargah of Makhdoom Ali Mahimi was built here in 1431.
In 1543, the Portuguese captured the islands of Mumbai. In 1662, these islands were given to the English King, King Charles II, as a part of the wedding dowry for the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza. After the British acquired Mumbai, they built the Mahim Fort here to protect themselves from the Marathas.
The causeway connecting Mahim and Bandra (corrupted from "Bunder" meaning port in Persian) was completed in 1845 at a cost of Rs. 1,57,000 donated entirely by Lady Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, wife of the first baronet Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy with a stipulation that no toll would be charged to citizens for its use by the government.
In 1847, a small group of Scottish missionaries decided to start a new school, now one of the most high-profile schools in Mumbai — the Bombay Scottish School.
The 1993 Bombay bombings took place in Mahim among other places. A truck driver placed a vehicle here and put a bomb there which exploded.
The town is also in close proximity to the remarkable Maharashtra Nature Park. This park has been created out of a garbage dump, and houses a bird sanctuary. It houses 12,500 varieties of plants and several rare birds including flamingos.
Mahim Fort
Mahim Fort, which was once visible from the Mahim Causeway and Bandra Reclamation, is barely visible now. The Mahim Fort along with Fort St George in South Mumbai was an important base during the time of the British Empire. Other forts in Mumbai and Salsette Island include Sion, Worli, Sewri and Mazagaon. Fort St George was built in 1669, by the former Governor of Bombay, Gerald Aungier.
Thomas Grantham then strengthened the fort's ramparts in 1684. In 1772, 111 years after Bombay was taken from them, the Portuguese attempted to attack this fort. The British replied fiercely with cannonballs. The Bandra church also bore the brunt of their fire. There were about 100 soldiers and 30 cannons in the Mahim Fort at that time.
The fort is situated just beside Mahim beach. Today the fort is almost ruined and encroachers and hutments occupy it.
Demographics
The town has a large and strong base of upper middle class and rich Maharashtrian people. The largest ethnic minority group being Goans (Konkani speaking) followed by the South Indian (mostly Kannadigas and Tamilians) and a few Gujaratis. Hinduism is the most followed religion while Christianity and Islam are the second and third most followed religions respectively. There is also a small community of Parsis (Zorastrians), Buddhists and Jains residing in Mahim. It is considered to be Mumbai's ethnically and religiously most diverse town.
Geography
Mahim is surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, Bandra to the North, Matunga and Dadar to South and by Dharavi and Sion to the east.
Mahim Bay
Mahim Bay is a large bay, part of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai. The southern end is Worli, the northern end is Bandra Reclamation and Mahim is in the centre. The bay was named after the islands of Mahim and Salsette were merged in the early 19th century. The Mithi River drains into Mahim Creek.
During the colonial era, the Portuguese built a watchtower called Castella de Aguada on the northern side. Later, the British built the Worli Fort to the south and Mahim Fort near the creek to defend the Seven Islands of Bombay against attacks by the Portuguese and the Marathas. The Bandra–Worli Sea Link crosses Mahim Bay.
Mahimchi Khadi (Mahim Creek)
Mahim Creek is a 15 ft deep creek. The Mithi River drains into the creek which drains into the Mahim Bay. It forms the boundary between the city (Churchgate to Mahim) and suburbs (Bandra to Dahisar) of Mumbai. The creek is swamped by mangroves and has a mini-ecosystem.
It now has the Bandra Kurla Complex with corporate offices on both its sides.
The waters of the creek are foul smelling due to the dumping of untreated industrial effluents upstream. In recent years, the mushrooming of slums around the waters has caused concern for the mangrove ecosystem, vital to the ecosystem of Mumbai.
In 2006, it was the site of mass hysteria as thousands claimed its waters had turned "sweet."
Transport
The nearest railway station is Mahim Junction on the Western line and Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. The station is an important Junction as it connects Western Suburbs (till Goregaon) with Harbour line (CSMT to Kings Circle). Taxis and buses are widely used by the locals and auto rickshaws are not allowed. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport is just 4 kilometers away from the town.
Mahim Causeway
The Mahim Causeway is a vital link road connecting the neighborhoods of Mahim in Mumbai City district to Bandra in Mumbai Suburban district.
The Mahim Causeway was built between 1841 and 1846 to connect the island of Salsette with Mahim. The swampy area between the two islands made travel dangerous and thus a need for a causeway arose. The British East India Company, which governed Bombay at that time, refused to fund the project. This led Lady Jeejeebhoy, wife of the first baronet Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, to donate the entire amount of ₹157,000/- on the condition that the government would not charge a toll for its use or disturb the Koli community who lived around the area.
The Mahim Causeway forms the link between Swami Vivekanand Road and L.J. Road, being the stretch between Bandra Masjid and Mahim Church (St. Michael's Church). It is not to be confused with the Bandra–Worli Sea Link, a major infrastructural project opened on 30 June 2009 which is designed to ease traffic across the causeway by building another bridge across the Mahim Bay.
Schools and educational institutions
Mahim has a number of schools and educational institutions. Some of the well-known schools are Bombay Scottish School, Canossa Convent High School, K.J Khilnani High School, Victoria High School, Saraswati Mandir High School, Lokmanya Vidyamandir, Billa Bong school and St Michael High School). Reputed colleges and professional educational institutes such as P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce, St. Xavier's Technical Institute and Xavier Institute of Engineering also in Mahim. | WIKI |
Stocks open lower, Nasdaq threatens to snap 4-day win streak
Stocks opened slightly lower Thursday, taking a breather a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 29,000 for the first time since February. The Dow flipped between small gains and losses to trade near unchanged, while the S&P 500 fell around 0.6% to 3,560 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined 1.6% to trade near 11,860, on track to snap a four-day winning streak. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at records on Wednesday. Ahead of the opening bell, government data showed number of new applications for unemployment benefits fell by 130,000 last week to a fresh pandemic low, but the drop was due to a major change in how the data is reported instead a big increase in people finding jobs. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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CNET's Michael Horowitz runs down the ins and outs of securing and restoring private, secure access to your Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account, whether it's been infiltrated, locked you out, or you're just looking to ensure its privacy. It's a good guide that might make you think twice about your web mail practices, especially if you haven't run through his final bit of advice: Test your password recovery procedure—the kind that left Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account wide open—before anyone else does. Anyone involved in backing up computer files knows the importance of testing the recovery process and the same applies with Web mail. The best way to insure that you can recover or reset your password is try it.
Horowitz covers the pros and cons of the three major web mail services, so if you're using a different service with better (or worse) security, tell us how you lock it down in the comments.
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Windows only: Freeware PDF Unlocker, a free Windows utility, doesn't do everything that commerical packages like those from Elcomsoft do, but it will help if you just need to unlock copy/paste and editing restrictions on a PDF. Simply drag a copy-protected PDF onto PDF Unlocker's icon, and a new, non-protected copy will be created. You can also strip PDF files of passwords needed to open and read them, but you, uh, need the password to do so. For simple restrictions, however, it does the job. Freeware PDF Unlocker is a free download for Windows systems. Freeware PDF Unlocker
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ACCESS DENIED. Those two bone-chilling words are the last thing you want to see when you're trying to log into a system or open a file, but they're not necessarily a dead end. Several free tools can help you find lost passwords you can't remember or that your computer has saved but obscured. Let's take a look at a few free remedies for lost password panic when you're trying to log onto a computer, network, or just figure out what's behind that string of asterisks.
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Windows only: When you dig up that old Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file from years ago you cleverly secured with a hard-to-guess password—and now you can't guess it—you want PstPassword. Turns out that Outlook passwords aren't that difficult to figure out, because this handy utility detects the PST's on your system (or you can open one up specifically) and reveals several possible passwords that can open the file. The developer writes:
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All systems with access to a Windows partition: The free, open source Windows password cracker, Ophcrack Live CD, has updated to version 3.0 with faster cracking, a better interface, and an all-new Vista version. We've walked you through how to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack in the past (and offered tips for securing your password against Ophcrack), but the new and improved version has been rebuilt to beef up the already impressive tool. The Ophcrack source code is free to download and also available as a Windows installer, but the live CD .ISO file is the quickest and easiest way to get cracking. If you give it a try, let's hear how your passwords fared in the comments. Ophcrack
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Windows only: Freeware application WirelessKeyView recovers the wireless network keys saved to your computer by the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service of XP or the WLAN AutoConfig service in Vista. As with any password-finding tool, this can be put to use both for the powers of good or evil, but we trust you'll stick to good—say when you're doing tech support on your parents' laptop and they can't remember what their Wi-Fi password is. WirelessKeyView is freeware, Windows only. Got more password cracking needs done? Crack your Windows password with Ophcrack, or roll up your sleeves on your network passwords with Cain and Abel. WirelessKeyView
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If time were no object, we'd all live a more secure computer life—we'd beef up our browsers, use complex passwords, and keep our data locked up with encryption Skynet couldn't crack. But that kind of stuff requires obscure software, tricky command line work, and most of a free weekend, right? Nope. Anybody can feel more secure about their systems with the help of some free software and easy tweaks and add-ons. We've rounded up a good deal of these swift and simple security fixes for Windows, Mac, and Linux, so bust out the tinfoil hats and check 'em out after the jump. Photo by ul Marga.
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The Firefox Asterisk Revealer bookmarklet reveals the contents of any password field (i.e., a field whose text is obscured by asterisks) in an alert box using a simple bit of javascript—particularly handy for those sites for which you've saved the password but long since forgotten what it is. The post itself just includes the javascript, but you can turn it into a bookmarklet by simply right-clicking your Bookmarks toolbar and selecting New Bookmark, and then pasting the javascript into the Location field.
Firefox Asterisk Revealer | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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import {NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA} from '@angular/core';
import {async, ComponentFixture, TestBed} from '@angular/core/testing';
import {TranslationModules} from '@app/test-config.spec';
import {StoreModule} from '@ngrx/store';
import {AppSettingsService, appSettings} from '@app/services/storage/app-settings.service';
import {ClustersService, clusters} from '@app/services/storage/clusters.service';
import {ComponentsService, components} from '@app/services/storage/components.service';
import {AppStateService, appState} from '@app/services/storage/app-state.service';
import {HostsService, hosts} from '@app/services/storage/hosts.service';
import {AuditLogsService, auditLogs} from '@app/services/storage/audit-logs.service';
import {AuditLogsFieldsService, auditLogsFields} from '@app/services/storage/audit-logs-fields.service';
import {AuditLogsGraphDataService, auditLogsGraphData} from '@app/services/storage/audit-logs-graph-data.service';
import {ServiceLogsService, serviceLogs} from '@app/services/storage/service-logs.service';
import {ServiceLogsFieldsService, serviceLogsFields} from '@app/services/storage/service-logs-fields.service';
import {
ServiceLogsHistogramDataService, serviceLogsHistogramData
} from '@app/services/storage/service-logs-histogram-data.service';
import {ServiceLogsTruncatedService, serviceLogsTruncated} from '@app/services/storage/service-logs-truncated.service';
import {TabsService, tabs} from '@app/services/storage/tabs.service';
import {UtilsService} from '@app/services/utils.service';
import {HttpClientService} from '@app/services/http-client.service';
import {LogsContainerService} from '@app/services/logs-container.service';
import {AuthService} from '@app/services/auth.service';
import {FilterButtonComponent} from './filter-button.component';
describe('FilterButtonComponent', () => {
let component: FilterButtonComponent;
let fixture: ComponentFixture<FilterButtonComponent>;
beforeEach(async(() => {
const httpClient = {
get: () => {
return {
subscribe: () => {
}
}
}
};
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
declarations: [FilterButtonComponent],
imports: [
StoreModule.provideStore({
appSettings,
clusters,
components,
appState,
hosts,
auditLogs,
auditLogsFields,
auditLogsGraphData,
serviceLogs,
serviceLogsFields,
serviceLogsHistogramData,
serviceLogsTruncated,
tabs
}),
...TranslationModules
],
providers: [
AppSettingsService,
ClustersService,
ComponentsService,
AppStateService,
HostsService,
AuditLogsService,
AuditLogsFieldsService,
AuditLogsGraphDataService,
ServiceLogsService,
ServiceLogsFieldsService,
ServiceLogsHistogramDataService,
ServiceLogsTruncatedService,
TabsService,
UtilsService,
{
provide: HttpClientService,
useValue: httpClient
},
LogsContainerService,
AuthService
],
schemas: [NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA]
})
.compileComponents();
}));
beforeEach(() => {
fixture = TestBed.createComponent(FilterButtonComponent);
component = fixture.componentInstance;
fixture.detectChanges();
});
it('should create component', () => {
expect(component).toBeTruthy();
});
}); | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Wyoming Highway 312
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Adidas Telstar
Telstar is a football made by Adidas. The iconic 32-panel alternating black-and-white design of the ball, based on the work of Eigil Nielsen, has since become a global standard design used to portray a football in different media.
Ball
The ball was first introduced as the "Telstar Elast" for the 1968 European Football Championship. A slightly different ball named "Telstar" was used as the official match ball of the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The similar "Telstar Durlast" was one of two official balls, along with the Chile Durlast, of the 1974 FIFA World Cup held in West Germany. The ball was also used in the 1972 and 1976 European Championships.
The Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. The 32-panel configuration had been introduced in 1962 by Select Sport, and was also used in the official logo for the 1970 World Cup. The black-and-white pattern, to aid visibility on black and white television broadcasts (colour television was still rare worldwide during this time), was also well established before the Telstar.
The name came from the 1962 Telstar communications satellite, which was roughly spherical and dotted with solar panels, somewhat similar in appearance to the football. Developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories for AT&T, Telstar was the world's first active communications satellite and was the first to send live television signals, telephone calls, and fax images through space, which inaugurated an age of instant worldwide communications via satellite.
The ball was made of leather. The 1974 model's "Durlast" polyurethane coating provided waterproofing as well as protection from damage such as scuffs and tears.
Only 20 Telstars were provided for the World Cup; an estimated 600,000 replicas were sold subsequently. Some 1970 matches were played with a brown ball. The Chile Durlast was all white and was used during the Italy-Germany semifinal for the first 20 minutes, then it was replaced by a 32 panel black and white due to a deflation.
A new version of the Telstar, named Telstar 18, was the official match ball for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The design maintains the general pattern, except the corners of the pentagons are stretched into pixellated gradients.
Telstar is now considered a classic design. Although most footballs used in current championships have different designs and sections, in representations of footballs in cartoons, comics, caricatures and decorations in general, footballs inspired by Adidas Telstar are usually used, becoming a universal icon for football to this day. | WIKI |
ахъчэ
Alternative forms
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* (Kabardian)
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Synonyms
* (borrowed word from Turkish)
* (borrowed word from Turkish) | WIKI |
Jim Watkins (businessman)
James Arthur Watkins (born November 1963) is an American businessman, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and the operator of the imageboard website 8chan/8kun and textboard website 5channel. Watkins founded the company N.T. Technology in the 1990s to support a Japanese pornography website he created while he was enlisted in the United States Army. After leaving the Army to focus on the company, Watkins moved to the Philippines. In February 2014, Watkins became the operator of 2channel after he seized it from its creator and original owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, later renaming it 5channel. He began providing domain and hosting services to 8chan later that year and became the site's official owner and operator by year's end.
Watkins and his son, Ron Watkins, are prominent advocates of the QAnon conspiracy theory, and have close ties to the Q movement.
Early life
James Arthur Watkins was born in Dayton, Washington, and grew up on a family farm in Mukilteo, Washington. His mother worked for Boeing and his father worked for a phone company.
Watkins joined the United States Army in 1982 when he was 18 years old and served until 1998 or 1999. Over his time in the Army, he worked as a helicopter mechanic and recruiter; he reached the rank of sergeant first class in 1994. The Army sent him to a technology school in Virginia in 1987, where he learned about computers and the early Internet.
Career
In 1998, while still enlisted, Watkins created a website for Japanese pornography called "Asian Bikini Bar". By hosting it in the United States, he was able to circumvent the strict pornography censorship in Japan. He later renamed the venture "N.T. Technology", which according to Watkins was a meaningless acronym meant to make pornography purchases less conspicuous on credit card statements. N.T. Technology, which is based in Reno, Nevada, initially sold advertising, and later also sold web hosting services to other Japanese adult entertainment websites that couldn't be hosted in Japan. In 1998 or 1999, during the dot-com boom, Watkins left the Army to focus on N.T. Technology. In October 2020, Mother Jones reported that N.T. Technology has hosted domains with names suggesting connections to child pornography, and that regardless of whether child pornography is hosted on the domains, Watkins is "profiting from words that appeal to the real thing". Watkins dismissed the claim as "an attempt to smear [his] name and print something awful".
Watkins has been involved in many business ventures. He operated an organic food restaurant in Manila, Philippines, which is now closed. In 2005, Watkins opened a Manila-based software business called Race Queen, which has subsequently been listed as the employer on Philippine work visas for several employees of Watkins'. Watkins also runs the Manila-based business Loki Technology. He has also been involved with a book narration company called books.audio; he narrated some of the books himself under the alias "A.J.". Watkins is also listed as the chairman of the board of a company called Emerald Pedistal, which sells piglets.
In 2016, around the time he purchased 8chan, Watkins created a news website called The Goldwater (named after former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater). The site's content has been described by The Washington Post as "notably conspiratorial and amateurish". The videos featured on The Goldwater were hosted by American associates of Watkins and by several "attractive Filipina women" who delivered pro-Donald Trump news in heavily accented English. Watkins himself appeared in some of the videos under the alias Jim Cherney. Watkins intended the site to be "a public service to provide news to the 8chan community." However, it became unpopular with many 8chan users, which Watkins attributed to the fact that "Goldwater" is a Jewish-sounding name. One video addressed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, with Watkins commenting that he believed that the child sex ring existed, though not that it was connected with a pizzeria. The highest point for The Goldwater came when it was accredited to cover Trump's June 2018 summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
Watkins claimed in a September 2022 stream that he purchased doxxing forum Kiwi Farms after it had been removed from several web hosting services, and that he was looking to bring it and 8kun back to the clearnet. The announcement received mixed reactions from Kiwi Farm's userbase, and site owner Joshua Moon denied it in a Telegram post.
2channel
2channel is a textboard website that is extremely popular in Japan, particularly among the very right-wing netto-uyoku. It was created in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura, and is the predecessor to all other "chan" sites including 4chan and 8chan. Nishimura was believed to be making $1million a year from advertising and premium memberships to 2channel in 2008. He hosted the site on N.T. Technology's servers. After a 2013 data breach exposed user credit card data, Watkins seized the 2channel domain in 2014, and took full control of the website and assumed the role of site administrator. He has continued to run the website since, renaming it to 5channel in October 2017 to avoid potential trademark litigation from Nishimura, who owns the "2channel" trademark.
Watkins has claimed he seized the 2channel domain because the loss of revenue from the data breach made Nishimura unable to pay hosting costs. Nishimura has claimed that he paid Watkins in full, and that Watkins' seizure of the domain constitutes domain hijacking.
8chan
8chan, later renamed 8kun, is an imageboard website known for hosting extreme alt-right and racist content, for being a forum for child pornography, for its role in the Gamergate harassment campaign, and for its links to multiple mass shootings. The site was founded in October 2013 by Fredrick Brennan. After 4chan's founder, Christopher "moot" Poole, banned discussion related to Gamergate in September 2014, Brennan began advertising 8chan as a "free speech friendly 4chan alternative". The site took off—Brennan said in an interview with Ars Technica that the site experienced over 4,000 posts an hour that month, a major increase from around 100 posts per hour prior to the 4chan rule change. Brennan found it increasingly difficult to keep up with the server costs of the growing site, and the site experienced frequent downtime as multiple internet service providers denied service due to the site's objectionable content.
Watkins' son, Ron Watkins, told his father about the website after learning of it from an Al Jazeera America documentary about Brennan. The elder Watkins contacted Brennan to offer a partnership, under the condition that Brennan come to the Philippines to work for him. Brennan trusted Watkins because he knew he operated 2channel, though at the time he was unaware of the claim that Watkins had stolen the site from its founder. Brennan agreed to work for Jim Watkins, and in 2014 moved to Manila in the Philippines to join him. Watkins, via N.T. Technology, began offering domain name services and hardware to host 8chan in 2014 into 2015, and Brennan continued to be responsible for the site's software development and community management. In 2014, Watkins became the official owner and operator of 8chan. Brennan remained the site administrator until 2016, at which time he relinquished the role. Wired magazine reported he left the position due to stress; others have attributed his departure to Brennan growing disgusted with the site and its contents, and asking to be reassigned to work elsewhere. Brennan stopped working on and posting at 8chan, continuing instead to work for Watkins on the 2channel project. Ron Watkins took up the site administrator role following Brennan's resignation. In 2018, Brennan cut ties with the Watkins family, alleging that Jim Watkins had shown up at his home and berated him for asking to take time off. Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of 8chan and of Watkins, and has actively battled to try to keep the site offline.
In 2019, the perpetrators of the March Christchurch mosque shootings, the April Poway synagogue shooting, and the August El Paso shooting all used 8chan to disseminate their respective manifestos. The site was removed from the clearnet shortly after the August shooting due to suspensions of service from multiple providers, and did not return until November 2019. In August 2019, the United States House Committee on Homeland Security called Watkins to testify about 8chan's efforts to address "the proliferation of extremist content, including white supremacist content". The next month, Watkins traveled to Washington, D.C. for congressional questioning. The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and National Police (PNP) also launched investigations into Watkins and 8chan in August 2019 in relation to the shootings. , the NBI's investigation was closed and their findings were turned over to the PNP; the PNP's investigation was still open but had not resulted in charges against Watkins.
Watkins has attempted to earn money through 8chan, although the website has never been profitable. Posters on the website can pay, using a cryptocurrency created by Ron Watkins, to have their posts listed prominently through a program called "King of the Shekel". In a 2019 interview, The Washington Post asked if the name was antisemitic; Watkins hung up on them.
In October 2019, Watkins filed a cyberlibel case against Brennan for tweeting that Watkins was "senile" and that 8chan's moderators were "incompetent". Cyberlibel is a crime in the Philippines that can be punished with time in prison. Brennan has said that Watkins filed the suit to try to intimidate and punish him. On February 26, 2020, a Philippines court issued an arrest warrant for Brennan based on the complaint. Brennan, who has brittle bone disease, has said that because of his medical condition and the notoriously poor conditions in the Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center, arrest by the Philippine authorities would likely result in his death. Brennan fled the Philippines hours before the warrant was issued, taking a different flight to avoid authorities who were looking for him at the airport. He has been fighting the warrant from the United States. In March 2020, the court suspended the case pending the outcome of an appeal by Brennan to the Philippines Department of Justice.
QAnon
QAnon is a discredited far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring is plotting against former President Donald Trump, who is battling them. The theory has been promulgated by a mysterious person or group of people called "Q", who originally posted on 4chan but later moved to posting on 8chan. Q has said they will never post outside of 8chan. Many conspiracy theory researchers believe that Watkins or his son, Ron Watkins, are working with Q, know Q, or have assumed Q's identity. When 8chan was taken off the internet in August 2019 following three mass shootings, Q stopped posting; when it came back online in November, Q reappeared. QAnon researcher Marc-Andre Argentino said in March 2020 that based on an analysis of Q's posts, he believes Watkins has been posting as Q since autumn 2019. Also in March 2020, QAnon researcher Mike Rothschild said, "It would be very easy for the Q poster to use another forum or provide a cryptographic key to prove his authenticity on some other site, but instead they wait to post on this rickety version of 8chan. The only reason to keep Q on 8chan is because Watkins is personally connected to him." Fredrick Brennan quoted in The Atlantic in June 2020 said, "I definitely, definitely, 100 percent believe that Q either knows Jim or Ron Watkins, or was hired by Jim or Ron Watkins." ABC News reported that a prominent website for "Q drops", called "QMap.pub", shared the same content delivery network as 8kun. Brian Friedberg, a senior researcher at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, said: "Regardless of whether he is doing any direct posting, or encouraging what the content is, the Watkins family and the 8kun crew have a remarkable amount of control over what's turning into an international movement". In an interview on a September 2020 episode of the podcast Reply All, Brennan explained that he believes the Q account was originally operated by someone else, but that Watkins and his son took control of the persona, most likely around December 2017. PJ Vogt of Reply All has said he discussed Brennan's theory with other journalists who write about Q, and that "some of them think it's likely, everyone agrees it's more than plausible". Watkins has denied knowledge of Q's identity, as has his son, Ron Watkins. When Watkins testified before the United States House Committee on Homeland Security in September 2019, he wore a QAnon pin.
In February 2020, Watkins formed a super PAC called "Disarm the Deep State", which backs political candidates who support the QAnon conspiracy theory. Watkins is listed as the group's treasurer. Benjamin Barr, an attorney who has represented Watkins in the past and who is known for his involvement with the American right-wing activist group Project Veritas, also helped with the super PAC. , the super PAC had raised less than $4,000 and spent less than $700, with none of the spending going towards federal candidates. In November 2020, Washington Monthly reported that the "Disarm the Deep State" super PAC had raised just 4,736 dollars, including a 500 dollars loan from Watkins' lawyer.
Media Matters for America reported in April 2020 that the super PAC was buying advertisements from Watkins to place on the 8chan website, and that it was one of the only groups advertising on the site. A QAnon researcher named Mike Rains said of Watkins and Q, "Watkins always made it seem like there was distance between him and Q, that Q was just this guy posting on his forums, that he let Q post because he's a free speech absolutist. By launching this PAC he is fully admitting that he is working with whoever is posting as Q and he is now part of the grift that is QAnon." In October 2020, Watkins was a featured speaker at Q Con Live!, a conference for QAnon adherents that was held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Twitter permanently suspended Watkins' account on January 8, 2021, along with other accounts they found to be "solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content", including that of his son, Ron Watkins, and the accounts of former Trump attorney Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The account bans happened two days after the United States Capitol attack.
On June 6, 2022, while testifying under oath to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, Watkins distanced himself from the conspiracy theory and claimed that QAnon is "manufactured by the left-wing media", "mostly" by Media Matters which he said is "funded by George Soros".
Personal life
While Watkins was stationed in South Korea with the Army, he met his first wife, Ton Sun Watkins. In 1987 they had their first child, Ronald "Ron" Watkins. The family moved often because of Watkins' military service, spending the longest period in Mukilteo, Washington. Watkins and Ton Sun divorced when their son was a teenager, at which point his son began to live primarily with Ton Sun.
In October 2001, Watkins traveled to Manila in the Philippines and married his second wife, Liezel, three weeks after arriving. Watkins began moving to the Philippines in 2004, and started living there permanently in 2007. Watkins split his time between a pig farm outside of Manila and a condominium in the city. During the 2010s, Watkins' son Ron moved to Manila to live with him. Ron served as 8chan's site administrator from 2016 until 2020.
In January 2020, the Investigations Division of the Philippines Bureau of Immigration (BI) designated Watkins an "undesirable alien". This is an administrative, not criminal, determination that a person is a "risk to the public interest", and although it indicates a person is able to be deported, it is up to the commissioner of the bureau whether to pursue deportation. Immigration records obtained by ABC News said that Watkins "is the owner and operator of 8chan, a hate filled forum/website which hosts trolling and serves as go-to resource for violent extremists and white supremacists". According to Watkins' brother-in-law, Watkins sold his pig farm and in August 2020 returned to the United States. According to ABC News, if Watkins did not return to the Philippines by January 31, 2021, to appeal the BI's designation, he would be denied reentry to the country. According to an April 2021 article in The Independent, Watkins was expected to return to the Philippines to appeal the decision.
Watkins' interests include yoga and fountain pens. He has recorded videos on YouTube about these subjects. He also uses his YouTube channel to publish videos of himself singing hymns and reading Bible verses. | WIKI |
Talk:National AIDS Trust
National AIDS trust
The article title should have a capital T.Headhitter (talk) 18:48, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Requested move
moved to National AIDS Trust per Manual of Style/Capital letters. --regentspark (comment) 15:59, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
National AIDS trust → National Aids Trust – Title should be in capitals according to Manual of Style/Capital letters. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:24, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
* Oppose while we normally don't use caps they are allowed in the case acromyms. WP:ALLCAPS states Do write in all capitals for acronyms and initialisms, unless the acronym gains common usage as an ordinary, lowercase word (e.g., we write scuba and laser, but NATO). So unless there is evidence that AIDS is usually typed as Aids the current title is fine. Also the main article is spelled AIDS as well.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:12, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
* Oppose - AIDS is an acronym and I don't recall ever seeing "Aids", let alone it seeing it be the standard. jheiv talk contribs 20:15, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
* It should be National AIDS Trust - the T in trust needs to be uppercase.--Michig (talk) 20:47, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
* Strong oppose "AIDS" is not the same as "Aids" <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
* Alt move to National AIDS Trust per Michig. AIDS is an acronym. --Pnm (talk) 04:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Template:Did you know nominations/John Hoskins (officer)
The result was: promoted by sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 05:19, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
John Hoskins (officer)
* ... that U.S. Navy Captain John Hoskins (pictured), his foot severed by explosion aboard USS Princeton (CVL-23) during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, became first commander of the new USS Princeton (CV-37) the next year?
Created by BusterD (talk). Self-nominated at 13:54, 25 August 2015 (UTC).
* Symbol question.svg Article looks fine, but seems incomplete in the current state, with an empty section for "Korean War". Are you planning to expand it? -Zanhe (talk) 23:36, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
* Sorry, I'd planned to do that right away but got caught up in RL activity. I also owe a QPQ that got delayed. Please give me 24 hours. Thanks. BusterD (talk) 09:53, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
* Done with article. BusterD (talk) 15:34, 28 August 2015 (UTC) Have started review process on The Star, St John's Wood to fulfill QPQ. Awaiting nominator comments and changes. BusterD (talk) 18:31, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
* ALT 1: ... that despite losing his foot in an explosion aboard USS Princeton (CVL-23) in 1944, U.S. Navy Captain John Hoskins (pictured) went on to serve as first commander of the new USS Princeton (CV-37) the next year?
* Symbol confirmed.svg New enough (created by BusterD on 24 August 2015), long enough (11,144 characters). Fully referenced. Hook and ALT1 both fine, verified against online source. Image correctly licensed. QPQ done. Good to go. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:55, 28 August 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
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