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BROKEN LOVE.
MY Speetre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin.
A fathomless and boundless deep, There we wander, there we weep; On the hungry craving wind My Spectre follows thee behind.
He scents thy footsteps in the snow, Wheresoever thou dost go; Through the wintry hail and rain When wilt thou return again ?
Poor pale pitiable form That I follow in a storm, From sin I never shall be free Till thou forgive and come to me. A deep winter dark and cold Within my heart thou dost unfold; Iron tears and groans of lead Thou hind'st around my aching hea Dost thou not in pride and scorn Fill with tempests all my morn, And with jealousies and fears l-- And fill my pleasant nights with tears O'er my sins thou dost sit and moan: Hast thou no sins of thine own O'er my sins thou dost sit and weep And lull thine own sins fast asleep. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yankee Division We're Back challenge coin
The result was delete. Consensus is that this coin does not meet Wikipedia notability guidelines. North America1000 01:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Yankee Division We're Back challenge coin
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No evidence of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Only reference is the website of the coin's designer. Hirolovesswords (talk) 11:47, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
* Delete -Such a thing can almost never be independently notable. Anmccaff (talk) 00:35, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
* Delete - The coin's designer seems to have a prod tag on it at the moment, both seem to be advertisements and not notable. Smmurphy(Talk) 04:06, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
* Delete, not notable for stand alone article. Promo for coin designer. Kierzek (talk) 19:15, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
* Delete - Fails WP:GNG. -- Dane talk 01:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
* Delete: does not seem to meet the notability requirements. I'd note that such coins are relatively common within the military: I have several from each of the battalions or regiments I've served in. While they are often given out as a thank you for distinguished service of a minor kind, they are also often purchased by members through regimental trust funds and the like, so each one is relatively common. That said, there will be some very rare ones, which might be notable, but it would need strong sourcing to demonstrate the need for a stand alone article. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:12, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
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How Can You Prevent Radiation Exposure?
When we witnessed the cruelty of the Russian invaders in Ukraine, the world was forever altered. Ten years ago, if you brought up the potential of a nuclear attack, people would laugh in your face and assume you were mentally unstable. Now, more and more individuals are beginning to understand how to protect themselves against the effects of a potential nuclear calamity, particularly in Ukraine and Europe.
Let's hope that nobody ever needs this information, but because knowledge is power, here's what you do in case they do.
Priorities come first
1) Remain indoors if you are. If not, go under shelter right away. On the ground, on roofs, and on walls, radioactive material condenses. Avoid interacting with the outside world as much as you can.
2) Keep any pets you have indoors. They shouldn't play in the radioactive meadow.
3) Close all windows and doors, and use moist towels to plug any crevices.
4) Ascertain that you have enough food to last a few days. Place everything in sealed containers and conceal it in the freezer or another cool location.
5) To protect the lungs, prepare a bandage made of cotton gauze, a face mask, or a respirator.
6) Maintain your position and watch for any additional orders from the State Emergency Service, police enforcement, or other authorities. Go outside only if you have no other option and nothing else.
Basic radiation protective measures
Keep these guidelines in mind if you want to spend some time outside (for evacuation or medical assistance):
1) Put on rubber boots, gloves, a raincoat, and a respirator.
2) Avoid stripping off in public, touching the ground, grass, shrubs, or trees, and whatever you do, avoid swimming or using outside water for washing.
3) Carefully take off your outer layer of clothing when you get home to avoid shaking the radioactive dust off. The garment should be stored in an airtight bag or container as far away from humans and animals as you can.
4) If at all feasible, wash your head in the shower while using soap. Use only the shampoo; skip the conditioner. Never scrape or rub the skin.
5) If taking a shower isn't an option, wash all exposed skin with running water, paying specific attention to your face, eyes, and ears. In a pinch, moist wipes or cloth will also work.
6) Don clean clothing now that you are clean.
What should I consume in the event of a radiation accident?
It's important to keep in mind that not all food is suitable for consumption during a nuclear emergency.
1) Only ingest pure water. Tap water is not recommended, but if you come across a safe, clean well, make sure to fill your bottles.
2) You need to maintain a constant supply of water that is safe to drink because boiling does not reduce radiation. As long as it was in a container, any water would work as long as it wasn't radioactive.
3) Food that has been hermetically sealed in a jar or another container is safe to consume. It's also possible to use food from the refrigerator or freezer, so it wouldn't hurt to stock up on some very healthy snacks. Oh, and clean the packaging with a moist towel or cloth before opening it. Put that fabric in a plastic bag afterwards and hide it somewhere unreachable.
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St Cyril and St Methodius
Celebrated on February 14th
These early Christian ‘Apostles of the Slavs’ were brothers from Thessaloniki. It seems that although their father Leo was a higher ranking Byzantine soldier, their mother Maria was a Slav and hence all their seven children spoke Greek as well as some Slavic dialect.
Constantine, called The Philosopher, was a brilliant student at Constantinople and became a priest and a professor at the university there as well as a librarian at the basilica. He was very fond of St Gregory of Nazianzus, The Theologian, and he also spoke Arabic and Hebrew. He discovered the relics of Pope St Clement on his mission to the Khazars.
Methodius, who was born Michael, was first a provincial governor before joining a monastery on the Bithynian Olympus (north-west Turkey). He may have been an abbot there too.
In 863, upon an invitation by prince Rastislav, both brothers arrived to Nitra (in current Slovakia) in order to evangelise the Great Moravian Empire (which comprised at certain times of parts of the current Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine). In order to do this, they created a unique script called Glagolitic (a pre-cursor to the Cyrillic) which had the capacity to capture the unusual Slavic sounds. Using this script, they translated the Scriptures, some liturgical books and legal documents. However, the Latin clergy in the Frank (German) Empire were so opposed to this, that the brothers had to travel to Rome a few times to get a renewed papal confirmation for their work in the vernacular.
Eventually, Constantine became a monk there, taking the name Cyril. He died in Rome in 869 and was buried in the Basilica of St Clement.
Methodius, consecrated a bishop by Pope Adrian II, received permission to use the Slavic language for liturgical and canonical purposes in the new Slavic dioceses of Moravia and Pannonia. Thus, in 9th century, the (old) Slavonic was the only other liturgical language permitted in the Catholic Church - after Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Archbishop Methodius then returned to the Great Moravia to continue his work but he was imprisoned and tortured for three years by the Frankish clergy who disliked the creation of the independent Slavic territories.
Methodius was liberated by the newly elected Pope John VIII, but he died ill and exhausted in 885 after another visit to Rome. He named one of the Slavic clergy (Gorazd) as his successor, but all his disciples were heavily persecuted upon Methodius’ death by Wiching, the Frankish bishop, and ultimately exiled. Latin language and script were swiftly reestablished in the Great Moravian territories, while Cyrillic (in honour of St Cyril) was developed from Glagolitic and Greek in Bulgaria by the run away disciples.
The brothers were declared co-patrons of Europe with St Benedict of Nursia in 1980. The Macedonian brothers are also patrons of unity and ecumenism. | FINEWEB-EDU |
How to Paste Coverlay on FPC?
If you have ever learned something about flex circuits, you would know there is a layer of coverlay on it. Pasting coverlay on flexible circuit is to prevent it from the damages of dust, moisture and so on. Meanwhile, it also plays an role in insulation. We have learned something about the benefits of pasting coverlay on flex circuits, but how to paste the coverlay? Let’s take a look.
To begin with, we need to prepare the coverlay material, checking whether the soldering iron has power, cleaning the residue of soldering iron and the dust-free paper.
The procedures of pasting the coverlay on FPC:
1. Checking whether the coverlay and film have problems, including missing punching, missing drilling, too large burr on the coverlay etc.. After that, clean the dust on the surface of coverlay with packaging cleaner.
2. Cleaning the worktable and putting the coverlay, soldering iron and other tools in the right place.
3. Checking whether there are oxidization, litter, dust etc. on the flex circuits to be pasted.
4. Pasting the coverlay should follow the requirements of process and the MI data. It should be strictly follow the “C”marking line, pad or counterpoint hole when align.
5. How to peel the coverlay off: putting the covelay on the optical desk, but please remember that the release film is facing up and the coverlay is facing down. After that, holding the coverlay then peeling off the release film slowly.
peeling the coverlay off
peeling the coverlay off
1. Fixing the coverlay on FPCwith soldering iron after the coverlay is aligned with the “C” marking line of the flex circuit board and ensure it is correct, so that the coverlay can not deviate or peel off. However, please remember the soldering iron can not burn the products.
pasting coverlay on FPC
pasting coverlay on FPC
1. Single-side lamination: after pasted the coverlay on FPC, it should be gone through the machine with temperature between 160°C-165°C. Next, until the board got cold, the release film should be peel off and carry out the single-side lamination and self-checking.
Notices:
1. It is necessary to wear rubber gloves to prevent the flexible printed circuit board from oxidization or dirty.
1. It must be kept clean during pasting coverlay on FPCto prevent there are dirty residues on flex circuits.
2. It is required to check whether the coverlay is broken, wrinkled, scratched, etc..
3. Do not wear accessories to avoid scratching the board.
4. It is necessary to confirm that the coverlay leave a little bit space for plating if the flex circuitsare tin or gold plating.
5. The hand could not beyond the handle to avoid burning when holding the soldering iron.
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The Keys in the Mobile Phone
With the development of smart phone, the mechanical key has been already eliminated from the stage. There is only the HOME key left on the front side of the phone. Even sometimes the HOME key is also out and there are only two keys left–volume key and power key. These two are usually used a FPC to save cost as well as space. The structure showing as below:
power key & FPC
power key & FPC
For the design of volume key and power key, there are two things required to considerate. On one hand, the position of the flex circuit. Since the flexible circuit is glued on the supported wall, three directions need to be limited if you would like to fix the FPC. As well, the designers still need to consider the installation position of the keys itself, which determines the basic structure of the keys.
On the other hand, the volume key and power key are moving parts. Therefore, taking the stroke of metal domes into account is necessary and as general rule the stroke is 0.3. In addition to hard contact mode, there is also a soft contact mode (P+R), which is to use rubber or TPU (Thermoplastic polyurethanes) for the part where the key is contact with the dome, so that the sound is softer.
key structure
key structure
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Page:What Maisie Knew (Chicago & New York, Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897).djvu/156
142 he would recognize it as an obligation of plain decency to protect his wife against the outrage of that person's barefaced attempt to swindle her. The swindle was that Mr. Farange put upon her the whole intolerable burden; "and even when I pay for you myself," Sir Claude averred to his young friend, "she accuses me the more of truckling and grovelling." It was Mrs. Wix's conviction, they both knew, arrived at on independent grounds, that Ida's weekly excursions were feelers for a more considerable absence. If she came back later each week the week would be sure to arrive when she would n't come back at all. This appearance had of course much to do with Mrs. Wix's actual valor. Could they but hold out long enough the snug little home with Sir Claude would find itself informally constituted.
XIII
might moreover have been taken to be the sense of a remark made by her stepfather as—one rainy day when the streets were all splash and two umbrellas unsociable and the wanderers had sought shelter in the | WIKI |
Closed Bug 1632711 Opened 3 years ago Closed 2 years ago
Stand up Wordpress gutenberg against Firefox Nightly in CI
Categories
(Remote Protocol :: Agent, task, P2)
task
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED FIXED
People
(Reporter: impossibus, Assigned: impossibus)
Details
(Whiteboard: [puppeteer-beta2-mvp])
Set up gutenberg tests running against Firefox on Travis to check our progress more easily and for an eventual PR to https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
Whiteboard: [puppeteer-beta-reserve] → [puppeteer-beta2-mvp]
Summary: Stand up Wordpress gutenberg against Firefox Nightly in Travis CI → Stand up Wordpress gutenberg against Firefox Nightly in CI
The Gutenberg project uses GitHub Actions for their CI.
There's a Firefox Nightly job set up at https://github.com/mjzffr/gutenberg/tree/firefox-ci
I will add a comment on this bug to document how to trigger such a job.
I will also add whimboo as repo owner.
Assignee: nobody → mjzffr
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Going to https://github.com/mjzffr/gutenberg/actions?query=workflow%3A%22End-to-End+Tests%22 and clicking on "Run workflow" will run Gutenberg e2e tests against the latest Firefox Nightly.
The default branch on mjzffr/gutenberg is firefox-ci for this purpose.
A few notes:
• Gutenberg uses GitHub Actions for their CI jobs. I used largely the same configuration in the mjzffr/gutenberg fork.
• Gutenberg e2e tests depend on Puppeteer 3. Upgrading a newer version of Puppeteer is non-trivial because other tools (like jest-puppeteer) depend specifically in Puppeteer <= 3. As far as Firefox support goes, the main difference between Puppeteer 3 and 5 is browser fetching and installation, as well as a few new default Firefox preferences. So the CI job uses mozdownload to fetch Firefox Nightly, and I set the missing Firefox preferences in the e2e test config.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Thank you Maja! When checking individual test jobs I can see a lot of test output, and I wonder if there is a dashboard or something else the Wordpress folks might use to keep an overview of failing/passing tests. The produced artifacts aren't that clear (at least not from the first check) in what's actually broken / failing. Or is there nothing and failures need to be investigated by observing the test output? That would be really tedious.
Flags: needinfo?(mjzffr)
Hi! :) I'm not aware of any dashboard used by the upstream gutenberg project to summarize CI output. I think they have pretty minimal output of just test summaries, whereas in the Mozilla fork I enabled browser trace logs. In any case, the best person to ask about their e2e tests and CI setup is gziolo on GitHub.
I think some extra work will be needed to green up the gutenberg tests again after changes to Remote Protocol since July 2020 -- that would make future test results easier to parse. The summary of setup steps on the project wiki is still valid https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote/GutenbergCDPUsage
Also, I've resent the GitHub invite to you, Henrik.
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Lafayette Park (Los Angeles)
Lafayette Recreation Center, also known as Lafayette Park, is a public park in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
History
In 1899, Clara R. Shatto donated 35 acre of land to the City of Los Angeles. The land consisted of tar seeps and oil wells and Shatto requested that it be developed into a park. Shatto was the wife of George Shatto, the then-owner of Santa Catalina Island.
Canary Island palm trees and jacaranda were planted in the area of what became known as Sunset Park. Local groups requested that the name be changed to commemorate Marquis de Lafayette, a military officer of the American Revolutionary War. The name was officially changed in 1918. A statue of him was erected in 1937, close to the Wilshire Boulevard entrance.
A senior center designed by architect Graham Latta opened on the east side of the park in 1963. It was expanded by architect Stephen Kanner, whose firm improved the classrooms, community rooms, and gymnasium. In 2011, the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks partnered with the non-profit organization Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) to offer youth programs. The complex was renamed "Lafayette Park Recreation Center".
The park features sports facilities, including basketball courts. These have been featured in popular media, such as the 1992 sports comedy, White Men Can't Jump, during which 20th Century Fox performed renovation to the facilities. Also available for public use is the "Lafayette Skate Park".
Vicinity
The park's vicinity has seen the construction of numerous architecturally significant buildings of which several are listed in the National Register of Historic Places: the Sheraton Town-House, Felipe de Neve Branch Library, and Bullocks Wilshire, all built in 1929. Neighboring the park are also the First Congregational Church — an English Gothic Revival building completed in 1932 — and a 19-story glass building that houses a branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court (built in 1972).
Lafayette Park is fenced off and closed at night, avoiding much of the negative reputation that affects its immediate neighbor, MacArthur Park. However, access to the park is available at all times of the day.
Emergency services
Los Angeles Police Department operates the Rampart Community Police Station. It was originally located at 2710 West Temple Street, 90026, serving the area around the park. It has since moved east into a newly constructed facility at 1401 West 6th Street, the site of the former emergency receiving hospital. Beginning January 4, 2009, the park became the responsibility of the newly created Olympic Division, LAPD. | WIKI |
Nema (community)
Nema (or Neema or Neva) is a merchant community which is mainly found in Madhya Pradesh. It has also spread to Gujarat and Rajasthan. It originated from the Nimar region of western Madhya Pradesh, where this community is still concentrated.
Several old Jain inscriptions mentioning the Nema or Neva community have been found in Madhya Pradesh.
The Nemas are largely devout Vaishnavas. A group of Nemas that migrated to Vidarbha region a few centuries ago, follows Digambar Jainism. Those having presence in the Gujarat and Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh follow Śvetāmbara Jainism.
Legend
Russell and Hira Lal state that:
* They say that when Parasurāma was slaying the Kshatriyas fourteen young Rājpūt princes, who at the time were studying religion with their family priests, were saved by the latter on renouncing their Kshatriya status and declaring themselves to be Vaishyas. These fourteen princes were the ancestors of the fourteen gotras of the Nema subcaste, but the gotras actually bear the names of the fourteen Rīshis or saints who saved their lives. These sections appear to be of the usual Brāhmanical type, but marriage is regulated by another set of fifty-two subsections, with names which are apparently titular or territorial. | WIKI |
Talk:2007–08 Bundesliga
Movement of articles.
I will be moving ALL the Fußball-Bundesliga pages to Fußball-Bundesliga XXXX-XX in line with FA Premier League XXXX-XX to achieve greater consistency with regards to football seasons. So, for an example, Fußball-Bundesliga 2007/08 would move to a new page called Fußball-Bundesliga 2007-08. The La Liga (Spanish league) now follows the same manner of title as well. The La Liga seasons are now called La Liga XXXX-XX -- S iva1979 Talk to me 13:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
"(P)" "(C)" "(N)" comments?
Considering not many league pages use these comments, could someone explain what the (P), (N), and (C) denote for their respective teams? There's no table defining these, and I'm just left to assume that they deal with previous champions or newly promoted teams (C and N, respectively), but I'm still at a loss as to what the "P" denotes (if my other guesses are correct)? --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
P = German Cup winner C = Bundesliga Champions N = Promoted team from second division Kingjeff (talk) 04:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
* I don't think it is necessary. Such as other league articles. Raymond Giggs 08:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Bayern Munchen.png
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* That this article is linked to from the image description page.
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* Fixed. Wiggy! (talk) 09:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Dead link
* http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/torjaeger/saison/2007-08/spieltag/34
* In 2007–08 Fußball-Bundesliga on 2011-05-27 02:14:17, 404 Not Found
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Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1913.djvu/1169
MONEY, ETC. — DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES 1047
Money, Weights, and Measures.
By the mouetary law of December 9, 1904, and the Presidential Decree of March 25, 1905, the monetary unit is the silver peso or dollar, the legal value of which has been fixed at "75 gramme of pure gold. There are 10-peso and 5-peso gold coins, "900 fine and '100 copper, weighing respectively 8 "SSS^ and 4'166| grammes. The silver peso weighs 27 '073 grammes, "9027 fine and '0793 copper, and thus contains 24*438 grammes of fine silver. The peso is divided into 100 centavos ; 50-, 20-, and 10-centavo pieces are of silver, "800 fine and '200 copper. Bronze coins are 2- and 1-centavo pieces, 95 parts copper, 4 tin, and 1 zinc. There are 5-centavo nickel coins. The value of the gold peso or dollar is 24*58 pence.
Gold coins and 1-peso silver coins are legal tender to any amount. Frac- tional coin is legal tender for amounts up to 20 pesos ; nickel and bronze coins up to 1 peso. The right of coinage belongs exclusively to the Executive of the Union ; consequently the right of private persons to tender gold and silver bullion to the mints for the purpose of being coined is abrogated. The bank notes of the National Bank, the Bank of London and Mexico, and the State banks, are current throughout the Republic at their full nominal values, thus serving the pur^^ose of gold, which is practically never seen in circulation.
The weights and measures of the metric system were introduced in 1884 and their use is enforced bylaw of June 19, 1895, though the old Spanish measures are still occasionally referred to. The old weights and measure* were : —
fVeight. 1 libra = 0*46 kilogramme = 1*014 lb. avoirdupois.
1 arroba = 25 libras = 25*357 lbs. avoirdupois. For gold and silver. 1 marco = ^ libra = 4, 608 granos.
1 ochava = 6 tomines.
1 tomin = 12 granos.
20 granos = 1 French gramme. Length. 1 vara = 0*837 metre = 2 ft. 8fV Fnglish in.
1 legua comun = 6, 666| varas.
Diplomatic and Consular Representatives.
1, Of Mexico in Great Britain. Envoy and Minister. — Sefior Don Miguel Covarrubias. First Secretary. — Sefior Don Cayetano Romero. Second Secretary. — Sefior Don Julio W. Baz.
There are Consular representatives at Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dov^er, Dublin. Falmouth, Glasgow, Great Grimsby, Liverpool, Manchester, Maryport, Newcastle, Southampton.
2. Of Great Britain in Mexico.
Envoy and Minister. — Francis W. Stronge, Secretary. — Thomas B. Hohler. Consnl-General. — C. E. W. Stringer. Vice-Consul. — S. P. Smith.
There are Consuls at Progreso, Salina Cruz, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Manzanillo, and Colima, and Vice-Consuls at Acapulco, Chihuahua, Ensenada de Todos Santos, Frontera, Guadalajara, Guaymas and Santa Rosalia, Laguna de Terminos, La Paz, Mazatlan, Monterey, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Oaxaca, Saltillo, Soconusco, Tuxpan, Payo Obispo, and San Luis Potosi. | WIKI |
Q. 85.0( 2 Votes )
What was the role
: Poland was ruled by United Worker’s Party ( Communist party of the East that ruled most part of eastern Europe)
• At that time no political parties were allowed to function, people could not choose their political party.
• On 14th August 1980, the workers of Lenin Shipyard went on strike; the shipyard was owned by the government.
• The strike spread across the city; they demanded right to form independent trade unions, the release of political prisoners, and end censorship on the press.
• The government had to give in, 21 point agreement was signed, and a new union called solidarity was formed.
• Solidarity became very popular and in April 1989 free election was conducted, and solidarity won.
• In October 1990, Poland had its first presidential election.
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Disc galaxy
A disc galaxy (or disk galaxy) is a galaxy characterized by a galactic disc. This is a flattened circular volume of stars that are mainly orbiting the galactic core in the same plane. These galaxies may or may not include a central non-disc-like region (a galactic bulge). They will typically have an orbiting mass of gas and dust in the same plane as the stars. Interactions with other nearby galaxies can perturb and stretch the galactic disk.
Disc galaxy types include:
* Spiral galaxies:
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162 The essential is in the ruler; the accidental in the ruled.
* Lit. the "root," and the "tip" of the branch, respectively.
The ultima ratio lies with the prince; representation is the duty of the minister.
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Currently I am using reprepro and inoticoming to maintain a Debian package archive on a remote machine.
The repo is configured with this distributions file:
Origin: ...
Label: ...
Codename: squeeze
Architectures: i386 amd64 armhf source
Components: main
Description: ...
Log: /home/apt/log/reprepro.log
The daemon is running with:
inoticoming \
--logfile /home/apt/log/upload.log \
/home/apt/incoming \
--stdout-to-log \
--stderr-to-log \
--suffix .changes \
reprepro -Vb /home/apt --waitforlock 1000 processincoming default {} \;
I am building and signing my packages locally and then upload with dupload. However when I try to install a package from that archive I get:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
Is there a way to make the signatures work? I absolutely don't want to share my private GPG key with the remote machine. Are there other tools or a better suited workflow?
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The signatures apt uses are on the repo as a whole (specifically on the "Release" file, not on the individual packages. So they have to be generated as part of the process of adding packages to the repo.
Normally one creates a key specifically for signing the repository with and keeps that on the machine used to manage the repo.
Another option would be to manage the repo locally on your machine and then use a tool like rsync to transfer it to the server.
Another thing that may work would be to Download the release file and create the signature manually after each update to the repo but I haven't tried this myself.
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FUELLING THE CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINE: NUTRITION AND HYDRATION ESSENTIALS FOR OPTIMAL EXERCISE PERFORMANCE
Embarking on a cardiovascular exercise journey, whether it’s running, cycling, or engaging in high-intensity interval training, requires more than just determination and a good pair of shoes. Nutrition and hydration play pivotal roles in supporting your body’s energy needs, enhancing performance, and promoting overall well-being during cardiovascular exercise. In this article, we explore the key components of an effective nutrition and hydration strategy for maximising the benefits during workouts.
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Pre-Exercise Fuelling:
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Carbohydrates – ‘The Energy Powerhouse’:
Carbohydrates are the body’s preferred source of energy during cardiovascular exercise. Consuming complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, helps maintain blood sugar levels and sustains energy throughout your workout. Including these foods in your regular diet supports glycogen stores in muscles, preventing premature fatigue during prolonged cardio sessions.
Protein for Muscle Support:
While carbohydrates take centre stage for energy, protein is crucial for muscle support and repair. Including a moderate amount of protein in your meals, both before and after exercise, helps prevent muscle breakdown and supports recovery. Sources of lean protein, such as chicken, fish, beans, or tofu, contribute to the overall balance of your pre- and post-workout nutrition.
Hydration Before Exercise:
Hydration is a core element of optimal exercise performance. Dehydration can lead to fatigue, cramping, and decreased exercise efficiency. Pre- hydrate by drinking water throughout the day and consume additional fluids about 2 hours before your workout. While the exact amount will vary aim for around 16-20 ounces (473-590 ml) of water as a general guideline.
During Exercise Hydration
Continuous Fluid Intake:
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Electrolytes for Longer Sessions:
During extended cardio sessions, especially in hot and humid conditions, you may lose essential electrolytes through sweat. Replacing these electrolytes helps maintain proper muscle function and hydration balance. Consider sports drinks or natural alternatives like coconut water to replenish electrolytes lost during prolonged workouts.
Post-Exercise Nutrition and Hydration
Replenishing Glycogen Stores:
After a cardiovascular workout, your body is primed to replenish glycogen stores in muscles. Consuming a post-exercise meal rich in carbohydrates and moderate in protein helps kick-start the recovery process. A ratio of 3:1 or 4:1 carbohydrates to protein is often recommended for optimal recovery.
Protein for Muscle Repair:
Post-exercise protein intake is essential for muscle repair and growth. Including a protein source in your post-workout meal or snack, such as a protein shake, Greek yoghourt, or a chicken and vegetable stir-fry, supports recovery and helps prepare your muscles for the next session.
Hydration After Exercise:
Re-hydration is a critical component of the post-exercise recovery process. Aim to drink at least 16-24 ounces (473-710 ml) of fluid for every pound (0.45 kg) lost during exercise. This helps restore fluid balance and supports overall recovery.
Additional Considerations
Individualised Approach:
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Conclusion
Achieving optimal cardiovascular exercise performance goes beyond the physical effort you put into your workout; it’s about providing your body with the right fuel and staying properly hydrated. A well-balanced combination of carbohydrates, protein, and fluids before, during, and after exercise supports energy levels, muscle function, and recovery. By incorporating these nutrition and hydration strategies into your routine, you can enhance your cardiovascular exercise experience, improve endurance, and promote overall well-being on your fitness journey. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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SMITH v. STATE OF MARYLAND
[No. 22,
September Term, 1975.]
Decided January 7, 1976.
The cause was argued before Murphy, G. J., and Singley, Smith, Digges, Levine, Eldridge and O’Donnell, JJ.
Morgan L. Amaimo for appellant.
Arrie W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee:
Digges, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court. O’Donnell, J., concurs in the result and filed a concurring opinion at page 535 infra.
The issue presented for our consideration is whether .the petitioner in this case was denied his rights to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and -by Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. Because we conclude that these rights were violated, the petitioner’s conviction must be reversed and the indictment dismissed.
The petitioner, Ramarro Lee Smith, in a seven-count indictment returned by the grand jury in Montgomery County on October 4, 1972, was charged with rape and related offenses. More than 15 months later, on January 23, 1974, trial commenced in the circuit court of that county before Judge Joseph M. Mathias and a jury. Upon conclusion of the trial on January 28,1974, Smith was found guilty on five of the counts, including the one charging rape. Sentencing took place on April 16,-1974, and nine days later the petitioner noted a timely appeal to the Court of Special Appeals. In an unreported decision, Smith v. State, decided December 27, 1974, that court affirmed the conviction, holding inter alia that the trial court did not err when it failed to grant Smith’s motion (premised upon an allegation that he had been denied a speedy trial) to dismiss the indictment. We granted certiorari, limiting our review solely to the speedy trial question.
Since, when contemplating this issue, time in relation to events is such a significant consideration, we shall chronicle in detail the incidents which preceded the petitioner’s conviction. The crimes with which Smith was charged allegedly occurred on September 15, 1972. He was arrested and incarcerated the following day, and indicted shortly thereafter, on October 4. Two days later, after entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, Smith was committed by court order to Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital for examination. The hospital’s report, received by Judge Mathias on December 12, 1972, concluded that the petitioner was then competent to stand trial and that he was sane when the crimes allegedly were committed. Although Smith was returned on the 11th of December to the Montgomery County Detention Center to await trial, for no apparent reason his trial was not scheduled to begin until six months later, on June 11, 1973.
During this six-month period the State made no positive efforts to keep itself posted as to the whereabouts of the prosecutrix, Barbara Rae Linn. Thus it was not until June 7, 1973, that the Deputy State’s Attorney discovered this complaining witness was no longer in the jurisdiction and consequently the summons which had been issued for her on May 30 could not be served. Realizing that Mrs. Linn’s testimony was crucial to the State’s case, he telephoned Police Lieutenant Skaife, one of the investigating officers, and requested that the officer immediately attempt to locate the missing witness. Having not heard from the lieutenant by the late afternoon of Friday, the 8th of June, the Deputy State’s Attorney advised Circuit Court Judge Shure that he would be unable to proceed with the trial then scheduled to begin on the ensuing Monday morning. An office memorandum prepared by the State’s Attorney for his deputy assigned to try the case summarizes a subsequent telephone conversation he had with the judge that same day:
“Judge Shure indicated] that he was not going to take the case off the docket, but was going to grant the continuance; that [defense counsel] was going to be in court for the record, but understood that the case should be entitled to a continuance when the witness disappears. The Judge indicated he would like to try to restrict us to 30 days to prepare the case for trial. I indicated we would not be able to if we had to extradite witnesses. He indicated we could dismiss our witnesses, since the case would not be tried on that date.” (Emphasis added.)
Promptly following the conversation referred to in this memorandum, the State filed a formal motion for a continuance and advised its remaining witnesses that the case would not be tried on June 11, but would be rescheduled for a subsequent date. Still later that Friday afternoon, Lieutenant Skaife was notified that on Monday morning (June 11), though a formal hearing was necessary, the State’s request for a continuance would be granted.
In what might be termed an unexpected turn of events, Mrs. Linn, having learned of the lieutenant’s efforts to contact her, telephoned him from Mississippi that same Friday, in the evening, between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. Although the prosecutrix indicated she was willing to appear and testify on Monday, the police officer informed her the State had already requested a continuance and that the trial would be set for another date. At the time of the June 11 hearing on the motion for a continuance, however, none of the participants in the hearing was aware of the fact that Mrs. Linn had been located. At that hearing counsel for Smith objected to the granting of a continuance, asserting that the State had had ample time to determine the whereabouts of its complaining witness and that he was then ready to proceed with the trial. He made oral motions to dismiss the indictment for lack of a speedy trial, for a speedy trial, and for release of his client on bond. Judge Shure, without specifically ruling on the petitioner’s two speedy trial motions, granted the requested continuance, although in doing so he noted in his own handwriting on the face of the order that “the Court is aware of the motion of defendant for a speedy trial,” and by separate order directed that Smith be released on bond.
Upon learning that Mrs. Linn had been located and was willing to testify, the Deputy State’s Attorney, on June 14, 1973, requested the assignment office to reschedule the case for trial as soon as possible. However, it was not until July 20, 1973, that the assignment office advised the parties that the trial had been reset for November 15. Alleging principally that his mental condition had deteriorated significantly since June 11 and that he was now unable to aid in his own defense, the petitioner filed another motion, on November 7, 1973, to dismiss his indictment on the ground that his right to a speedy trial had been denied. At the hearing on this motion held before Judge Mathias on November 14, Dr. David A. Lanham, a psychiatrist who had seen Smith frequently since November 12, 1972, for evaluation and treatment, testified that the petitioner’s condition had worsened to the extent that he was unable to hold employment and also expressed doubt that Smith could at that time assist in his own defense. Confronted with this testimony, Judge Mathias recommitted the petitioner to Perkins Hospital, ordering it to complete and submit to the court a reevaluation within 14 days, and deferred ruling on the dismissal motion until the time of trial. Following a one-hour examination of the petitioner on November 26, the acting superintendent of the hospital reported to the court that in his opinion Smith’s mental condition had improved substantially during the past year and that he was “presently able to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him and to assist in his defense.”
At a point undisclosed by the record, some time between November 14 and December 4, 1973, the trial was rescheduled to commence on January 3, 1974. However, because the principal investigating officer was to be out of the country on military assignment from December 16,1973, to January 7, 1974, the State, on December 4, 1973, requested an additional continuance. The court, notwithstanding the petitioner’s objection and renewed motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial, granted the continuance and the trial was reset for the 23rd of January.
Finally, more than 16 months after arrest and 15 months after indictment, the petitioner received his day in court. At his trial which was conducted on January 23, 24 and 28, Smith was found guilty and his speedy trial motions were denied. On appeal, the Court of Special Appeals, with Judge Davidson dissenting, concluded that, although the delay was of such duration that it “did reach constitutional dimensions,” Smith’s right to a speedy trial had not been violated.
Before demonstrating why we conclude these facts indicate that the petitioner was denied the prompt trial guaranteed him by both the State and Federal Constitutions, we will briefly discuss the interplay between these two constitutional provisions. Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights mandates “[t]hat in all criminal prosecutions, every man hath a right ... to a speedy trial . .. .” Similarly, the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy . . . trial. . . .” As pointed out by Judge Smith for this Court in Erbe v. State, 276 Md. 541, 545, 350 A. 2d 640 (1976), Judge Alfred S. Niles, in his authoritative treatise, Maryland Constitutional Law 13 (1915), divides the articles of the Declaration of Rights into four categories and places Article 21 in “Class'C,” denominated “Limitations on the power of the State similar to those limitations prescribed in the United States Constitution for the Federal Government.” When construing “Class C” articles, Judge Niles concludes that
“the decisions of the United States [Supreme] Court, in reference to the corresponding provisions of the Federal Constitution, are adopted by [the Maryland] court as authority which is very persuasive, although not necessarily controlling.”
The accuracy of this statement has been demonstrated by decisions of this Court interpreting other rights protected by “Class C” articles. See, e.g., Brown v. State, 233 Md. 288, 296, 196 A. 2d 614 (1964) (self-incrimination of Article 22 and Fifth Amendment); Givner v. State, 210 Md. 484, 492,124 A. 2d 764 (1956) (search and seizure of Article 26 and Fourth Amendment); cf. Bureau of Mines v. George’s Creek, 272 Md. 143, 156, 321 A. 2d 748 (1974) (due process of Article 23 and the Fourteenth Amendment; Niles places Article 23 in “Class B,” entitled “Exact duplications of provisions found in the Federal Constitution”); Goldsmith v. Meade Johnson & Co., 176 Md. 682, 686-87, 7 A. 2d 176 (1939) (same); Niles, Maryland Constitutional Law 48 (1915) (concluding that cases decided under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause “are practically direct authorities” as to the proper interpretation of the due process clause of Article 23). Although this Court has not previously definitively determined the relationship between the two constitutional speedy trial rights, we here conclude that the opinions of the Supreme Court interpreting the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial are “very persuasive, although not necessarily controlling,” as to the proper construction of Maryland’s parallel Article 21 right.
The contours of the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U. S. 213, 87 S. Ct. 988, 18 L.Ed.2d 1 (1967), were recently drawn by the Supreme Court in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U. S. 514, 92 S. Ct. 2182, 33 L.Ed.2d 101 (1972). Since the Barker decision was but a short time ago analyzed in considerable detail by Judge O’Donnell for this Court in Epps v. State, 276 Md. 96, 345 A. 2d 62 (1975), only a brief discussion is warranted here. In Barker, the Supreme Court adopted a balancing test in which the following four factors were deemed to be of primary importance in determining whether the right was violated: (1) length of delay, (2) the reason for the delay, (3) the defendant’s assertion of his right, and (4) prejudice to the defendant. 407 U. S. at 530, 92 S. Ct. at 2191-92. We will discuss these considerations seriatim as they apply to the facts of this case.
(1) Length of Delay
The interval between the time one becomes an “accused” and the date his case is tried must be determined since unless that period is sufficiently extensive to be “presumptively prejudicial, there is no necessity for inquiry into the other factors that go into the balance.” Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U. S. at 530, 92 S. Ct. at 2192. We conclude that Epps, 276 Md. at 111, 345 A. 2d at 72, is dispositive of that issue in this case since there this Court unanimously concluded that a one-year, fourteen-day delay was sufficient to require us to engage in the sensitive balancing procedure outlined in Barker. Inasmuch as the 16-month delay between Smith’s arrest and trial exceeded that in Epps, a fortiori we must enter into the balancing process here. Additionally, the length of the delay, 16 months, should, by itself, be given some, but not determinative, weight.
(2) Reasons for the Delay
In Barker, Mr. Justice Powell, for the Supreme Court, expressed the view that “different weights should be assigned to different reasons [for delay].” 407 U. S. at 531, 92 S. Ct. at 2192. Initially, he observed that “[a] deliberate attempt to delay the trial in order to hamper the defense should be weighted heavily against the government.” Id. He then indicated that prolongation of trial due to the negligence of state officials, understaffing of state offices or overcrowded courts, while not to be considered neutral, is to be “weighted less heavily” toward a finding of a violation of the Sixth Amendment right. Id.; Strunk v. United States, 412 U. S. 434, 436, 93 S. Ct. 2260, 2262, 37 L.Ed.2d 56 (1973). In connection with this, we point out that employees of a court’s assignment office or of a state hospital, as well as prosecutors, policemen and judges, must be considered representatives of the State. The Barker Court added that “a valid reason [for postponing a trial], such as a missing witness, should serve to justify appropriate delay.” 407 U. S. at 431, 92 S. Ct. at 2192. Lastly, in Strunk v. United States, supra, 412 U. S. at 436, 93 S. Ct. at 2262, the Supreme Court implied that if the reason for the delay is traceable solely to the accused, it should not be used to support the conclusion that the accused was denied a speedy trial.
In this case, it can be forcefully argued that every postponement of petitioner’s trial occurring after Smith’s first medical examination was caused by the State; consequently we must carefully scrutinize the justifications assigned by the State for each ensuing delay. Although, following his first trip to Perkins Hospital, the petitioner was returned on December 11, 1972, to the Montgomery County Detention Center to await trial, the date set for this event was June 11, 1973, a full six months later. While Smith may have been ready for trial prior to June 11, he made no request for an earlier trial date; in the absence of such a demand or of prejudice shown to have emanated from this interval, the pre-June 11 delay alone may not have been sufficient to have violated his constitutional right. We need not decide that question, however, since what subsequently occured, in our view, clearly tips the balance so as to require a finding that the petitioner’s right to a speedy trial was violated.
As for the June 11 trial date itself, although the prosecutor was notified of it on March 14, 1978, the State made no serious effort to locate the complaining witness until a few days before the scheduled trial; the result was that the State did not learn until June 7 that Mrs. Linn had left the jurisdiction. Even if this shortcoming was the consequence of being understaffed, any resulting delay would be, as we have already indicated, chargeable, though somewhat “less heavily,” against the Government. Nonetheless, the trial could still have commenced on June 11 or shortly thereafter, despite Judge Shure’s indication to the State’s Attorney that the requested continuance would be granted and that the State could so inform its witnesses, had the Government informed the judge on or before June 11 that the missing witness, whose absence was the reason assigned for seeking the continuance, had been located. As they both represent the State, it matters not whether the police or the prosecutors were responsible for this lack of communication. Consequently, the reasons why the case was not tried on June 11 are all traceable to the State and, considering their nature, any delay resulting solely therefrom must be weighed against it. Although we need not reach the issue, if the petitioner’s trial had taken place within a few days of June 11 it might well have been acceptable.
In our evaluation the crucial delay occurred between the original trial date of June 11, 1973, and November 15, 1973, the date on which the trial was first rescheduled to begin. Even though, once the Deputy State’s Attorney learned that the prosecutrix had been located, he promptly asked the assignment office to “set this case for trial at the earliest available date,” it was not until July 20, 1973, that the assignment office advised the parties that the trial was scheduled for November 15 of that year. No reason has been given for either the relatively long delay between the time of the request (June 14) and the time of the advisement (July 20) or for the inordinate length of time between June 11, the date originally set for trial, and November 15, the date on which the reset trial was to begin. Again, whether these protracted delays were the result of dereliction on the part of the State’s Attorney’s office or the assignment office is immaterial since both are agencies of the State. In this regard it must be remembered, as the Supreme Court pointed out in Barker, that “[a] defendant has no duty to bring himself to trial; the State has that duty . . . 407 U. 3. at 527, 92 S. Ct. at 2190 (footnote omitted]. In view of the amount of time which had already elapsed, the petitioner’s demand for a speedy trial and the circuit court’s evident concern over the issue, the State should have made certain that the trial was promptly reset for a date in the immediate future, even if that required the rescheduling of other cases. If, as here, the trial date set by the assignment office is unsatisfactory in relation to the constitutional mandates, the State’s Attorney’s office should request an earlier date and, if necessary, ask the court to order compliance. Epps v. State, supra, 276 Md. at 114-15, 345 A. 2d at 74; Jones v. State, 241 Md. 599, 611, 217 A. 2d 367 (1966). We add that when a defendant makes known his desire to be furnished his constitutionally guaranteed speedy trial, it is incumbent upon the State to provide for trial at the earliest practicable date. Epps v. State, supra, 276 Md. at 114-15, 345 A. 2d at 74; Jones v. State, supra, 241 Md. at 610-11. Although the delay in this case might have been understandable, and possibly even acceptable, in an extremely congested court such as Baltimore City’s criminal court, the State has not suggested that similar congestion existed or exists in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. We conclude that the delay between June 11 and November 15 was due to governmental tardiness and neglect and must be weighed against the State.
Although the Supreme Court has indicated that delays necessitated by missing witnesses can be considered neutral, Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U. S. at 531, 92 S. Ct. at 2192, it may be that the additional delay, from January 3 to 23,1974, caused by the State’s principal investigator’s military assignment (which might not have qualified him to be classified as a “missing witness”) should also be assessed against the State. We say this not only because the State brought about the postponement of the trial until January 3, 1974, but also because, when, on December 4, 1973, the State requested the further continuance until January 23 to accommodate its witness, it could have asked that the trial date be advanced rather than deferred. But even if the delay-occasioned by the State’s investigating officer being out of the country was considered neutral, we would still, in the light of the other circumstances, find a violation of the petitioner’s constitutional right in this case.
(3.) Defendant’s Assertion of His Right
It is not disputed that counsel for Smith asserted, repeatedly, his client’s constitutional right to a speedy trial. Motions were first made orally on June 11, 1973, and renewed on November 7, December 4, and finally at trial in January of 1974. Moreover, as described more fully in the statement of facts, the State’s Attorney’s office was fully aware of the requests and cognizant of the trial court’s interest in the speedy disposition of this case. These repeated demands must be weighed as supportive of the petitioner’s position that he was denied a speedy trial.
(4) Prejudice to the Defendant
The Supreme Court has stated that under the Barker guidelines an affirmative demonstration of prejudice by the defendant is not necessary in order to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment speedy trial right. Moore v. Arizona, 414 U. S. 25, 26, 94 S. Ct. 188, 189, 38 L.Ed.2d 183 (1973). Thus even if we were to agree with the Court of Special Appeals’ conclusion that petitioner did not establish that he was prejudiced, affirmance of that court’s holding, that Smith was not denied his constitutional right, would not concomitantly follow. However, since we believe, after making an independent review of the evidence, that the petitioner was prejudiced by the delay, Smith has a stronger case for dismissal.
In Barker the Supreme Court said that “[prejudice . . . should be assessed in the light of the interests of defendants which the speedy trial right was designed to protect.” 407 U. S. at 532, 92 S. Ct. at 2193. One such interest was to “prevent oppressive pretrial incarceration.” Id. Smith was subjected to almost nine months of pretrial incarceration — from September 16, 1972, to June 11, 1973. The speedy trial right was also intended to minimize the anxiety of the accused, his family and friends, and to protect the accused from public scorn, financial ruin and having to curtail his speech and associations. Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U. S. at 532-33, 92 S. Ct. at 2193; United States v. Marion, supra, 404 U. S. at 320, 92 S. Ct. at 463; Klopfer v. North Carolina, supra, 386 U. S. at 222, 87 S. Ct. at 993; Epps v. State, supra, 276 Md. at 118, 345 A. 2d at 76-77. Considering that there was a time-lapse of 16 months between Smith’s arrest and trial, and that his family was forced onto the public welfare rolls during this period, we conclude that at least some of these considerations are applicable to this case. Lastly, the Barker Court said that the speedy trial right was intended “to limit the possibility that the defense will be impaired [by delay],” which interest the Court termed “the most serious . . . because the inability of a defendant adequately to prepare his case skews the fairness of the entire system.” 407 U. S. at 532, 92 S. Ct. at 2193. Smith asserts that his defense was, in fact, impaired by the delay from June 11 to November 15, 1972, because during that period his mental condition deteriorated to the point where he could no longer aid in his defense. The evidence relating to this contention was in conflict, with petitioner’s psychiatrist, who had seen Smith frequently between November 12, 1972, and November 14, 1973, supporting petitioner’s position while the State’s medical expert concluded, after a one-hour examination, that Smith’s mental health had improved and that he could assist in his defense. We are simply unable to conclude, particularly since the sanity of the petitioner was always at least colorably an issue, that no prejudice of this nature was shown. Cf. Williams v. United States, 250 F. 2d 19, 23 (D.C. Cir. 1957) (passage of time makes proof of subtle fact of mental state immeasurably difficult).
It must be remembered that societal interests, as well as those of the accused, are protected and effectuated by the state and federal speedy trial clauses. In fact, dilatoriness, at which the two speedy trial rights take aim, undermines the entire criminal justice system by: enabling defendants to negotiate plea bargains more advantageous to themselves; increasing the opportunity of those free while awaiting trial to commit other crimes or to flee; reducing the capacity of the Government to prove its case; increasing the costs and overcrowding of penal facilities; and reducing the ability of the system to deter and rehabilitate. Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U. S. at 519-21, 92 S. Ct. at 2186-87; Dickey v. Florida, 398 U. S. 30, 42, 90 S. Ct. 1564, 1571, 26 L.Ed.2d 26 (1970.) (Brennan, J., concurring]. Additionally, by penalizing governmental delay intended to disadvantage a defendant, the speedy trial right discourages official abuse of the judicial system. Id. at 42-43, 90 S. Ct. at 1571. Thus, even though these constitutional provisions indicate that the right to a speedy trial adheres to the accused, broad societal concerns are also at stake whenever the issue is legitimately raised.
Having examined the facts of this case in relation to the four factors mentioned in Barker, and applying the “difficult and sensitive balancing process” mandated by that case, 407 U. S. at 533, 92 S. Ct. at 2193, we conclude that the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the Federal Constitution; similarly we hold that he was denied his Article 21 right. Since the Supreme Court has held that dismissal of the indictment is the only available remedy for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, Strunk v. United States, 412 U. S. 434, 440, 93 S. Ct. 2260, 2263, 37 L.Ed.2d 56 (1973), the indictment upon which Smith was convicted must be dismissed.
Judgment of the Court of Special Appeals reversed; case remanded to that court with directions that it be remanded to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County with instructions to dismiss the indictment; costs to be paid by Montgomery County.
O’Donnell, J.,
concurring:
Although I agree with the conclusion reached by the majority that the appellant was denied the right to a speedy trial guaranteed him under both the Sixth Amendment and Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, I cannot subscribe to the validity of some of the premises posited by the majority in reaching that result.
In Epps v. State, 276 Md. 96, 345 A. 2d 62 (1975), we recently examined the right to a speedy trial and those factors delineated by the Supreme Court in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U. S. 514 (1972) as applicable in determining whether that right has been denied. We there pointed out that “in Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U. S. 213, 223 (1967) [the Supreme Court] made clear . . . that the right [to a speedy trial] is ‘as fundamental as any of the rights secured by the Sixth Amendment’ and is imposed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the States. See Smith v. Hooey, 393 U. S. 374 (1969).” 276 Md. at 102, 345 A. 2d at 68. Since the Supreme Court, by selective incorporation, has brought the right to a speedy trial guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment within the ambit of the Fourteenth Amendment and, as such, binding upon the States, decisions by that Court establish the minimal standards to be applied when there has been an assertion of the denial of a speedy trial.
Notwithstanding my recognition of the protections afforded through our own Declaration of Rights, as I see it, the provisions of the Sixth Amendment and of our Article 21, each providing as they do for the right to a speedy trial in all criminal cases, are in pari materia, and in interpretation and application should be harmonized. It seems to me outmoded to suggest “that the opinions of the Supreme Court interpreting the sixth amendment right to a speedy trial are ‘very persuasive, although not necessarily controlling’ as to the proper construction of Maryland’s parallel Article 21 right.” In Epps we recognized that the decisions of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial were clearly controlling, even to the extent of the remedy mandated by that Court’s decisions — the dismissal of the indictment where the right has been denied. 276 Md. at 121, 345 A. 2d at 78. As I read the provisions in Maryland Code (1957, 1971 Repl. Vol. [1975 Cum. Supp.]) Art. 27, § 645A (a), (d) (Post Conviction Procedure Act), as well as those in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Habeas corpus remedies in Federal courts in cases of state custody), the decisions of the Supreme Court would be held “controlling” and not merely “very persuasive” in a collateral attack upon a state criminal conviction.
I believe it equally anachronistic to suggest a continuation of the categorizations designated in 1915 by the late Judge Alfred S. Niles in his recognized treatise on Maryland Constitutional Law, in view of the application by the Supreme Court, since that date, of specific rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Amendments to thé United States Constitution, as binding upon the States pursuant to the “due process” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Because of the view adopted by the majority concerning the noncontrolling effect of the decisions of the Supreme Court in the area of a speedy trial, they seem to suggest the view (in footnote 2) that in Maryland the demand-waiver doctrine, which requires a holding that a defendant waived his right to a speedy trial if he failed to demand it, may still be of continuing force and effect. The majority thus suggests that our prior holdings in State v. Murdock, 235 Md. 116, 123, 200 A. 2d 666, 669-70, cert. denied, 379 U. S. 914 (1964) and in Harris v. State, 194 Md. 288, 297, 71 A. 2d 36, 40 (1950), both antedating Barker v. Wingo, may still have viability. We pointed out in Epps that in Barker v. Wingo, the Supreme Court had specifically rejected the demand-waiver doctrine, as a criterion for invocation of the right to a speedy trial, but recognized that the defendant’s assertion of his right, or his failure to do so, was but one of the factors to be considered in applying the right guaranteed by the sixth amendment. As a result of the decision in Barker v. Wingo, it appears to be no longer open to question that the demand-waiver doctrine heretofore applied by this Court in State v. Murdock, supra, and in Harris v. State, supra, has been repudiated and that such a demand is no longer a condition precedent to the application of the right. Such a view was recognized not only in Epps, but in State v. Hunter, 16 Md. App. 306, 314-15, 295 A. 2d 779, 783 (1972) and in State v. Jones, 18 Md. App. 11, 16-18, 305 A. 2d 177, 180-81 (1973).
I think further that the majority should have made it clear that the interval between October 6, 1972, when the defendant filed a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and was thereupon committed to Perkins State Hospital for examination, pursuant to Maryland Code (1957, 1972 Repl. Vol.) Art. 59, § 23, until the receipt of the Hospital’s report by the trial judge on December 12, 1972, should not be considered in computing any delay in bringing the defendant to trial. See Baldwin v. Warden, 243 Md. 326, 328-39, 243 A. 2d 73, 75 (1966) where this Court recognized that a substantial portion of the time between the appellant’s indictment, and the date of his trial, was spent “in examining [him] in relation to his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity” and was not at all unreasonable under the circumstances of the case. Although the majority finds that the “crucial delay occurred between the original trial date of June 11, 1973, and November 15, 1973, the date on which the trial was first rescheduled to begin,” and do not address themselves to the interval while Smith was a patient in Perkins Hospital, they implicitly suggest that such an interval might be includable within the computation of the period, when they point out “that employees of a court’s assignment office, or of a state hospital, as well as prosecutors, policemen and judges must be considered representatives of the state” (emphasis added) in appraising reasons for any delay.
Art. 59, § 23, as did its predecessor, Code (1957, 1964 Repl. Vol.) Art. 59, § 7, prescribes a rule of procedure by which to ascertain, before trial, whether or not a defendant, charged with a criminal offense, possessed the requisite mental capacity to commit the offense with which he is charged, as well as to determine his competency to assist in his defense. See Hamilton v. State, 225 Md. 302, 170 A. 2d 192 (1961). It is the purpose of the provisions of Art. 59 to protect an offender who is mentally incapable of forming a criminal intent, from being punished as if he were sane, and to insure for him, in the event of a finding of insanity, custody and treatment. Robinson v. State, 249 Md. 200, 238 A. 2d 875 (1968). When Smith raised the issue of his mental competency, it became incumbent upon the trial court to determine whether or not there should be a trial on the issue of his criminal culpability. See Hamilton v. State, supra. His commitment to Perkins Hospital, upon the plea filed by him pursuant to the statute, provided the means to have a diagnosis made on the question of his insanity. Tull v. State, 230 Md. 596, 188 A. 2d 150 (1963).
The Supreme Court recognized in United States v. Ewell, 383 U. S. 116, 120 (1966), that “because of the many procedural safeguards provided an accused, the ordinary procedures for criminal prosecution are designed to move at a deliberate pace.” In Epps, we recognized that “[f]or ‘speedy trial’ purposes the delay involved is reckoned only in connection with ‘the passage of time beyond that which is obviously within the requirements of orderly procedure’ ” citing State v. Lawless, 13 Md. App. 220, 230, 283 A. 2d 160, 169 (1972). Smith’s confinement at Perkins Hospital, in an attempt to establish his pleaded defense, could certainly be said to come within the scope of “orderly procedure” prior to the scheduling of his trial. Since his commitment was at his own behest, the computation of time affecting his right to a speedy trial should be held in abeyance pending receipt of the hospital’s report to the trial court, pursuant to Art. 59, § 24 (a) as to whether or not he was competent to stand trial. This view seems to be in accord with that expressed in United States v. Canty, 469 F. 2d 114, 118 (D.C. Cir. 1972) and State v. Smith, 215 Kan. 34, 40, 523 P. 2d 691, 696 (1974). It would be unnecessarily burdensome during that interval to require the prosecution to prepare for a trial which might never occur were he found to lack the mental capacity to have committed the crimes charged.
Though I agree with the view of the majority that “if the petitioner’s trial had taken place within a few days of June 11, it might well have been acceptable,” I think it should be clearly explicated that any computation of a delay in bringing the petitioner to trial commenced only upon the receipt by the trial court of the hospital’s report.
Lastly, I am unable to agree with the majority’s conclusion that the delay between June 11 and November 15, 1973, while unforgivable for speedy trial purposes in Montgomery County, might be acceptable in Baltimore City. They express the view: “although the delay in this case might have been understandable, and possibly even acceptable, in an extremely congested court such as Baltimore City’s criminal court, the State has not suggested that similar congestion existed or exists in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County.” Although the record is devoid of whatever reason there may have been for the delay between June 11th (when the trial judge indicated a continuance restricted to 30 days) and the rescheduling, on July 20, 1973, by the assignment office, of the trial for November 15th, the majority seems to be taking judicial notice of a difference in the status of the criminal trial dockets between Montgomery County and Baltimore City. Upon such an unsupported premise they seem to suggest a differing application of constitutional principles between subdivisions within the State. In Epps, it was held that the delay in affording a criminal defendant a “speedy trial” because of overcrowded court dockets and scheduling problems in Baltimore City, was not excusable. Concluding that the responsibility for affording a defendant a speedy trial rests upon both the courts and the prosecutors, we there found that if a defendant’s rights to a speedy trial are being infringed, the courts, as well as the assignment offices acting as their agencies, together with the prosecutors, have the duty to promptly assign a defendant’s case for trial. As pointed out in Barker v. Wingo, supra, and in Strunk v. United States, 412 U. S. 434 (1973), although “[unintentional delays caused by overcrowded court dockets or understaffed prosecutors are among the factors to be weighed less heavily than intentional delay,” they must “be considered since the ultimate responsibility for such circumstances must rest with the government rather than with the defendant.” 412 U. S. at 436. As I see it, when a defendant makes demand for a speedy trial, he must be afforded such a trial within a reasonably prompt period of time, notwithstanding that the assignment of his case for trial may involve some rescheduling and reshuffling of other cases upon the criminal trial dockets.
Assuming that Smith’s case was not more promptly rescheduled for trial after June 11th because of a lack of communication between the trial court and the court’s assignment office, or the prosecutor and that office,! or from clerical inefficiencies, if the delay was of constitutional dimension in Montgomery County, it should be treated as having equal constitutional significance throughout the State without regard to the status of the docket. Fully appreciating that there may be realistic reasons, factually supportable, for delay in the trial of a defendant, which might vary within subdivisions of the State, the application of the constitutional principles concerning the denial of the right to a speedy trial should be consistent.
. Allowing for the concurrent and consecutive sentences imposed under the several counts, Judge Mathias directed that Smith be imprisoned for a total of 16 years.
. This Court, in cases decided prior to the United States Supreme Court’s rejection of the demand-waiver doctrine in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U. S. 514, 523-28, 92 S. Ct. 2182, 2188-91, 33 L.Ed.2d 101 (1972), held that an accused .waives his Maryland Article 21 right unless he affirmatively demands a speedy trial. See, e.g., State v. Murdock, 235 Md. 116,123, 200 A. 2d 666, cert. denied, 379 U. S. 914 (1964); Harris v. State, 194 Md. 288, 297, 71 A. 2d 36 (1950). Since in this case the petitioner repeatedly requested a prompt trial, we need not decide whether those pre-Barker cases are still viable.
. Although the Supreme Court did not preclude inquiry into factors other than the four mentioned, Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U. S. at 530, 92 S. Ct. at 2192, we find no other factors significant here.
. A person becomes an “accused” for purposes of the Sixth Amendment when “either a formal indictment or information or else the actual restraints imposed by arrest and holding to answer a criminal charge” occur. United States v. Marion, 404 U. S. 307, 320, 92 S. Ct. 455, 463, 30 L.Ed.2d 468 (1971); see Dillingham v. United States, 44 U.S.L.W. 3327 (U. S. Dec. 1,1975) (per curiam); Epps v. State, 276 Md. 96,109, 345 A. 2d 62, 71-72 (1975).
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Ultherapy Vs Laser Treatment Which One is Best for You?
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September 4, 2023
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Reza Ghalamghash MA. PhD. DOMP.
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When it comes to the world of skincare and cosmetic treatments, there are two modalities that have risen in popularity: Ultherapy and Laser Treatments. But what makes them different, and which one is the best choice for your skincare needs? In this extensive analysis, we'll explore both options to help you make an informed decision.
How Does Ultherapy Differ from Laser Treatments?
Ultherapy uses ultrasound technology to target the deep layers of the skin, where collagen production occurs. This can help to stimulate collagen production and tighten the skin from the inside out. Laser treatments, on the other hand, target the surface layers of the skin. This can help to improve the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, but it does not have the same effect on collagen production.
Ultherapy:
• Uses ultrasound technology to target collagen production beneath the surface of the skin.
• Penetrates much deeper than traditional laser treatments.
• Has virtually no downtime.
• Is a one-time treatment.
Laser Treatments:
• Target only issues at the top of the skin.
• Work best for addressing minor surface issues like wrinkles and red spots.
• Focus energy on the surface of the skin.
• May require a few weeks of visible healing.
• Treat the outer layer of skin, the epidermis, as well as the dermal layer.
What are the Benefits of Ultherapy over Laser Treatments?
There are several benefits to Ultherapy over laser treatments, including:
Deeper Treatment: Ultherapy targets deep below the skin, reaching depths of 3 mm and 4.5 mm beneath the surface, while laser treatments focus energy on the surface of the skin. Treating the deeper layers of skin with Ultherapy may lead to better and more noticeable results.
Minimal Downtime: Laser treatments, such as laser resurfacing, may require a few weeks of visible healing and social downtime, depending on the level of treatment. In contrast, Ultherapy has virtually no downtime, allowing patients to resume their normal activities immediately after the procedure.
Long-Lasting Results: While laser treatments stimulate collagen growth for 6 months, which then delivers benefits to the skin that can last for a couple of years, Ultherapy works much quicker.
However, to continue enjoying the results, clients often return for yearly touch-ups. It is important to note that the effects of both treatments may vary from person to person.
What is the Cost Difference Between Ultherapy and Laser Treatments?
The cost difference between Ultherapy and laser treatments can vary depending on various factors such as the severity of concerns, the number of treatments needed, the area needing treatment, and the clinic.
Ultherapy
• The cost of Ultherapy can range from $1200 to $3500.
• The final price for Ultherapy can be determined through a private consultation with a skincare specialist or dermatologist.
Laser Treatments:
• The cost of laser treatments can vary depending on the type of laser used and the number of treatments needed.
• Laser treatments the cost can range around $500 to $2,000.
• Laser treatments may require almost no time away from work and provide quick, lasting results.
How Does the Recovery Time for Laser Treatments Compare to Ultherapy?
The recovery time for laser treatments and Ultherapy can differ based on the type of laser treatment and the area of treatment. Here are the differences in recovery time between Ultherapy and laser treatments:
Ultherapy:
• Ultherapy has virtually no downtime.
• most patients able to return to their normal activities immediately after treatment. You may experience some redness and swelling, but this usually resolves within a few days.
Laser Treatments:
• Laser treatments may require 1 to 2 weeks of visible healing, depending on the level of treatment.
• During this time, you may experience redness, swelling, and bruising. You may also need to avoid makeup and sun exposure.
Can Ultherapy and Laser Treatments be Combined for Better Results?
Yes, Ultherapy and laser treatments can be combined for better results. This is often done to achieve a more comprehensive skin-tightening effect.
For example, Ultherapy can be used to tighten the skin of the neck and jawline, while laser treatments can be used to improve the texture and tone of the skin on the face. This combination of treatments can help to create a more youthful and refreshed appearance.
However, it is important to consult with a qualified healthcare professional to determine if this is the right treatment plan for you. Here are some points that you need to consider.
Complementary Effects: Ultherapy and laser treatments work differently to stimulate collagen production and tighten the skin. Combining these treatments may provide complementary effects that enhance the overall results.
Customized Treatment Plan: A qualified healthcare professional can create a customized treatment plan that combines Ultherapy, and laser treatments based on individual needs and goals. This may involve scheduling the treatments at different times or targeting different areas of the skin.
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Rh he resigned his seat to accept the office of judge of the circuit court, and in 1865, in turn, resigned that station to become a judge of the Supreme Court. He was re-elected in 1868 and 1870, the last time without opposition. In 1876 he was the nominee of was defeated. He practised law at St. Louis until 1880, when he retired to a suburban home near Canton, Missouri. Occasionally he advises as consulting counsel, but is no longer in active practice. In 1870 he published a revision of the statutes of the State, and in 1872 a supplement thereto. These publications were admirably and systematically arranged. Until the official revision of 1879, "Wagner's Statutes" were almost universally cited. Judge Wagner's opinions appear in twenty-seven volumes of the reports (38-64). Some of them are leading cases, and so classified by authors. Many of them display his rare powers to fine advantage. Among those which can be studied with profit are: Hannibal, etc., R. R. Co. v. Marion County, 36 Mo. 294; Hayden v. Tucker, 37 Mo. 214; Huelsenkanp v. Citizen's Ry. Co., 37 Mo. 537; Gerhardt v. Boatmen's Sav. Inst., 38 Mo. 60; State v. Starr, 38 Mo. 270; State ex rel. v. Fletcher, 39 Mo. 388; Blair v. Ridgely, 41 Mo. 63; Strouse v. Drennon, 42 Mo. 289; Washington University v. Rowse, 42 Mo. 308; Gibson v. Pacific Railroad, 46 Mo. 163 (2 Thomps. Negl. 944); State ex rel. v. Gatzweiler, 49 Mo. 17; Garretzen v. Duenckel, 50 Mo. 104; State ex rel. v. Boone County Court, 50 Mo. 317 (dissenting); State ex rel. v. Saline County Court, 51 Mo. 350 (dissenting); McVey v. McVey, 51 Mo. 406; Chisholm v. National Ins. Co., 52 Mo. 213; State ex rel. v. Lefhis party, then largely in the minority, and fingwell, 54 Mo. 258; Dunn v. Railey, 58 Mo. 134; St. Louis v. Griswold, 58 Mo. 175; Lewis v. St. Louis, etc., R. R. Co., 59 Mo. 495; Greenabaum v. Elliott, 60 Mo. 25; Isabel v. Hannibal, etc., R. R. Co., 60 Mo. 475; Bailey v. Smock, 61 Mo. 213; Lammert v. Lidwell, 62 Mo. 188; Hamilton v. Marks, 63 Mo. 167; Dunn v. White, 63 Mo. 181.
A competent authority has said of Judge Wagner: "He possesses a strong habit of attention and a powerful memory. These enable him to seize, with great rapidity, upon all the elements of a subject, and to hold them in one connected image in his mind's eye. His most elaborate judgments are thus fully organized in his mind before he puts pen to paper, and then they are written out at one sitting, with seldom an erasure or interlineation."
FRANCIS M. BLACK
Walter L. Lovelace.
By dint of industry and determination, Judge Lovelace reached the summit of his ambition. He was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, Oct. 1, 1831, of parents whose circumstances were exceedingly limited. On the death of his father in 1833, his widowed mother removed to Montgomery County, | WIKI |
EXTJS in XPages #16 – Right Click Context Menus
In this article I will discuss and demonstrate how to create a context menu so that when a user right clicks on grid they are able to take action.
EXTJS in XPages series
Here are links to all of the previous articles in this series
Demonstration
The EXTJS in XPages demonstration database can be found at http://demo.xomino.com/xomino/Extjs.nsf/xBufferedRendererContextMenu.xsp
Download
The sample database that will accompany this series is available from the menu in the live demo database from this link – http://demo.xomino.com/xomino/Extjs.nsf
Introduction
Context menus (right click menu) are one form of user experience which “reduces clicks”. But that is a fallacy in some senses because the user is not clicking any less they are just less annoyed by the clicks 🙂
If the user is in a grid and has to select some documents, then move their mouse out of the grid and click an “Approve” button that is “one click” but “with an annoying mouse movement”. Right click – select Approve is actually two clicks…..which is more clicks but is less annoying because of little to no mouse movement.
r1
How does that work?
In the grid we are able to create a context menu by “Creating a menu” and “adding it to the onContextMenu event of the grid view. In the example below I am creating the “approveAction”. In that action we:
• define the icon which will appear int he menu
• define the text on the menu action
• have a handler which interprets what happens when the menu action is clicked
• In this case the action gets all the selected documents and creates a JSON string from it
• That JSON string is then shown on the console for debugging
var approveAction = Ext.create('Ext.Action', {
icon : 'images/add.png', // Use a URL in the icon config
text: 'Approve Users',
disabled: false,
handler: function(widget, event) {
var selection = Ext.getCmp('myPanel').getSelectionModel().getSelection();
var theJSON=[]
for ( var i = 0; i < selection.length; i++) {
theJSON.push({'unid': selection[i].data["@unid"],
'field': 'status',
'val': 'approved'}
)
}
console.dir(theJSON)
}
})
I will get to writing about how to do the update like I promised……but suffice to say that this is posted at a customREST control which will then update the values based on the UNID.
r2
The menu is added to the grid in the following manner. A view listener is added to the grid and in the itemcontextmenu event we detect where the event is happening and then display the menu at exactly that point (you could offset this if you wanted)
The menu is smart enough that if you do not click on the menu itself it disappears when you click away from it.
gridFunc = {
self: this,
grid: function(){
return Ext.getCmp('myPanel')
},
contextMenu: Ext.create('Ext.menu.Menu', {
items: [
approveAction,
rejectAction
]
})
}
var grid = Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', {
viewConfig: {
stripeRows: true,
listeners: {
itemcontextmenu: function(view, rec, node, index, e) {
e.stopEvent();
gridFunc.contextMenu.showAt(e.getXY());
return false;
}
}
},
etc
Reusing the actions
Not only can the actions be added to the context menu, but because they are created as EXT Objects they can be added to other place as well – like a toolbar
gridDock = [{
id: 'activeStorePaging',
xtype: 'toolbar',
dock: 'bottom',
items: [
{
text: 'Clear Filter Data',
handler: function () {
grid.filters.clearFilters();
}
},
'-',
approveAction,
'-',
rejectAction
]
}]
r3
Conclusion
As you can see with great control and little additional effort (as ever!) we are able to add more feature rich functionality to our grid
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Alfred Chapman
Alfred Beck Chapman (September 6, 1829 – January 16, 1915) was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He was one of the founders of the city of Orange, California.
Personal
Chapman was born on September 6, 1829, in Greensboro, Alabama. His grandfather, Robert Hett Chapman, was born in Orange, New Jersey, studied theology and was a pastor from 1796 to 1812, at which time he became president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1816. His father attended the University of North Carolina.
Military
Chapman was a Cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, from September 1, 1850, to July 1, 1854, when he was graduated 29th in his class. He was promoted to Brevet Second Lieutenant Of Artillery, July 1, 1854. Serving first in Florida in the early part of the Third Seminole War, 1854-55 during which he was promoted Second Lieutenant, U. S. 3rd Artillery Regiment. On February 15, 1855, he became a Second Lieutenant, U. S. 1st Dragoon Regiment, March 3, 1855, being ordered on frontier duty, at Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory in 1856. There he was on escort duty at both Albuquerque and Camp Moore. At Fort Buchanan, in 1857–1858, he participated in the 1857 Gila Expedition, and engaged Apache, in the Combat on Gila River, N.M., June 27, 1857. While at Fort Buchanan, he also made the first census for the United States of the Pima, Papago and Maricopa peoples of Arizona.
Later in 1858 he was sent to Fort Tejon, California, serving there from 1858 into 1859. There he was involved in the Mohave War scouting against the Mohave people, and was engaged in a skirmish at Beall's Crossing of the Colorado River, January 9, 1859. Three days earlier he had been promoted to First Lieutenant, 1st Dragoons and was then sent to Fort Crook, California, serving there 1859-60, and then at Fort Churchill, in Utah Territory (now Nevada) from later 1860 until he resigned, May 14, 1861, following news of the beginning of the American Civil War. Following his resignation Chapman moved to Los Angeles, in Southern California where he took up the practice of law in 1862.
Attorney
Chapman married Mary Scott, the daughter of Los Angeles attorney Jonathan R. Scott, with whom he studied law. In 1861 he set up a partnership with Cameron E. Thom.
In 1863 Chapman became city attorney of Los Angeles, replacing Myer J. Newmark, who resigned, and in 1868 he was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County. He went into partnership with a boyhood friend, Andrew Glassell, when the latter arrived in Los Angeles in 1866. Colonel George H. Smith, a former Confederate Army officer and brother-in-law of Glassell, joined the firm in 1870. Their law practice was confined chiefly to real estate transactions, and they made their fortunes by handling the large partition suits. Chapman was the businessman of the firm. He took his compensation in land, and nearly every final decree in partition would find that Glassell & Chapman had acquired more property.
Chapman and Glassell are best known in Orange County for being founders of Orange, California. The firm represented the Yorba and Peralta families in the partitioning of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1867, and had received for a portion of their fees certain large parcels of land in the partition. He joined with one of his partners, Andrew Glassell, to develop a new community, Richland (which would eventually be named Orange). They hired the land surveyor, Frank Lecouvrier of Los Angeles, to map this tract, which they called Richland Farm District. 'Richland' was originally the name of the Virginia plantation owned by the father of Andrew Glassell in the 1830s.
A large transaction by Chapman and Glassell was the legal suit known as "The Great Partition of 1871", brought against the Verdugo Rancho San Rafael properties on the Los Angeles River and in the Verdugo Mountains. The legal fees were again paid in substantial land transfers. He at one time also owned "practically all the land" where Glendale, California, and the suburb of Tropico were established.
Chapman continued to practice law until 1880. After retirement, he devoted full-time to managing his 700 acre rancho in the upper San Gabriel Valley, a portion of the Rancho Santa Anita grant, and became involved in citrus production.
Family and later life
Chapman had six children by his first marriage to Mary Scott. He married again after her death in 1883, and had one child by his second marriage to Mary L. Stephens, daughter of a pioneer California attorney and judge.
Chapman died on January 16, 1915, at the age of 85 in his residence near Sunny Slope in the San Gabriel Valley, "the result of heart failure following a severe cold." Survivors were his wife and children A.S. Chapman and Richard H. Chapman of Los Angeles, William Chapman of Spokane, Washington, and Mrs. L.C. Lantz, Mrs. Charles Lantz and Mrs. Evelyn L. Johnson, all of Los Angeles.
Legacy
He is often misidentified as the namesake for Chapman University in Orange, however, businessman and citrus magnate Charles C. Chapman actually has that distinction.
Chapman Avenue, which bisects the heart of Orange, was indeed named to honor attorney Alfred Beck Chapman.
The neighborhood of Chapman Woods in Pasadena, the site of Chapman's rancho in the San Gabriel Valley, is named after Alfred Chapman. | WIKI |
Understanding Your Options for Industrial Cleaning Processes
If you own or manage an industrial facility of any sort, a cleaning company may give you their own recommendations as to the best process for cleaning floors and walls. However, it's good if you understand some factors about the most popular choices for industrial cleaning so you can make the best decision for your facility. Each type of process will have its own advantages, so note the following.
1. Hydroblasting
The prequel hydro refers to water, and hydroblasting means using water at high velocity for cleaning. This is much like the pressure washing you do at home, but at much higher pressures and in some cases, with the use of detergents, solvents, bleach, and other additives.
The advantage of hydroblasting is that it is safe in dangerous environments where chemicals and other cleaning materials may cause a fire hazard. Water is also very environmentally friendly, so you don't need to worry about chemical runoff, fumes, and other damaging elements that are common with other forms of cleaning. It can also be the best choice for food grade equipment or any surfaces where residue needs to be avoided.
2. Industrial vacuuming
Industrial vacuuming is often best for oils, sludges, and slurries that need to be cleaned. Vacuuming avoids runoff and possible contamination that happens with any type of blasting. Vacuuming is dust free and also produces no fumes, emissions, and other hazardous byproducts. The right industrial cleaning company will also take care of the disposal of the debris that has been vacuumed. This type of cleaning is also best for any type of pit, tank, or silo, as you know there will be residual solutions left behind.
3. Sponge blasting
Sponge blasting is like hydroblasting but rather than water, this process uses a type of polyurethane foam in the blasting process. Foam is less abrasive than sand or any type of gritty material, but may provide absorption of materials that water cannot. Micro-abrasives as well as various detergents and cleansers can be added to the foam, and this can be helpful when cleaning delicate surfaces that need a gentle touch, or stains that need more abrasion.
Because sponge blasting uses no water, this is little to no runoff. Sponge blasting is very environmentally friendly as it produces no dust. The material can be recycled several times during the cleaning process, which is one reason why it's often very affordable.
Note these factors about the most common forms of industrial cleaning so you can talk to your contractor about which is the best choice for your facility. For more information, contact a company like Delron Carpet Cleaning Service.
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430 is so cool, putting Piccadilly, from two till five, out of the question: there is always shade on one side or other of the street, a shade which you doubly enjoy, on the principle of contrast. It is satisfactory to think how hot the people must be opposite: then, though I do not eat ice myself, I can suppose other people doing it. If they do, an eastern poet might gain new ideas about coolness and fragrance, while enjoying the coloured coldnesses at Grange's. Towards the close, flowers begin to pass away; you are not met at every second step in Regent's Street by a bunch of moss-roses—a little faded, it is true, allegories by the way of our pleasures, but sweet notwithstanding. Dark-eyed pinks no longer heap the stands in such profusion; but then fruit is come in, such fruit as London only can furnish. I confess that I have no simple and natural tastes about gathering it myself. My experiences in that way have been unfortunate. I once picked some strawberries, and disturbed a whole colony of frogs; I once gathered a plum, and was stung by a wasp; and my latest experience regarded a peach, which hung— "With rosy cheek turn'd to the sun Upon a southern wall." There is an old proverb which says, "Tell me your company, and I will tell you yourself." By this rule the peach would be severely judged, for its associates were earwigs. I can't say, for I made no trial of its merits: the sight of its friends were enough for me. I pass over a horde of other miseries, such as stooping in the sun, thorns, dirt, &c., and will only observe, that fruit never looks to such an advantage as it does on china, whether Dresden, Sevres, or even Worcester. There are two seasons when Covent-garden will more especially reward a visit,—at the beginning of summer and at the close. Flora holds her court in the first instance, and Pomona in the second. Pass along the centre arcade, and it is lined with trophies of the parterre or of the orchard, and you may look upon the early roses, and grow sentimental about or become unsophisticated, and go back to the innocent enjoyments of your childhood while gazing on the crimson-sided apples. I like, too, Hungerford Market; it gives one the idea of a Dutch picture. People wear mere bargaining faces; fruit and flowers have their price, but fish were sent into the world, at least, into the market, to be cheapened. Everybody beats down the price of a fresh pair of soles, or a fine turbot. It is just the sort of place for a new edition of the old anecdote of a well-known legal peer, who, feeling the necessity of reform among fishmongers, and retrenchment in their bills, determined on "shaming the rogues." He took his station at the dinner-table in all the triumph of a good bargain, that ovation of daily life, when "there was a place where the turbot was not." Instead of that, he met his lady's eyes, triumphant in her turn, with a consciousness of a good bargain also,—"My dear, fish was excessively dear to-day, and poor Mrs. So-and-so called in great distress, her fishmonger having disappointed her; so I let her have the turbot for—"exactly one-half what her unfortunate husband had paid for it. The moral of this story is,—we English people delight in a moral—not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, | WIKI |
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Rh safety of a country is concerned, whether it be princedom or republic, no regard ought to be paid to justice or injustice, to pity or severity, to glory or shame; but putting aside every other consideration, that course alone ought to be followed which may preserve to the country its existence and its freedom. Diderot pithily put the superficial impression of all this when he said that you might head these chapters as 'The circumstances under which it is right for a Prince to be a Scoundrel.' A profounder commentary of a concrete kind is furnished by Mommsen's account of Sulla27—an extraordinary literary masterpiece, even in the view of those who think its politics most perverse. Such a Sulla was the real type of Machiavelli's reformer of a rotten State.
It has been a commonplace of reproachful criticism that Machiavelli chose for his hero Cæsar Borgia.28 Not only was Borgia a monster, it is said, but he failed. The baleful meteor flamed across the sky for little more than four years, and then went out. If only success should command admiration, Borgia and his swiftly shattered fortunes ought to be indifferent to Machiavelli and the world for which he was writing. What Machiavelli says is this—'I put him forward,' he writes, 'as a model for such as climb to power by good fortune and the help of others. He did everything that a long-headed and capable man could do, who desires to strike root. I will show you how broad were the foundations that he laid for the fabric of his future power. I do not know what better lessons I could teach a new prince (i.e. an usurper) | WIKI |
User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Oil
Missing topics related to Oil
Terminology
* abi gravity -
* Absorption process –
* Barrels per month -
* Circulating gas-oil ratio -
* Dewaxing of petroleum -
* Diluted crude oil -
* logging whilst drilling (LWD) -
* National Petroleum Policy -
* Oil cooper -
* Oil hardening -
* Oil import quota -
* oil pool -
* Oil reclaiming -
* Oil-gas process -
* Oil-hole drill -
* Oil-well investment scheme -
* oilfield hazards -
* Production manifold -
* Service agreements (oil industry) -
* Stabilise (oil) -
* Stock tank barrel -
* Tidelands oil controversy -
* Tons per day (TPD) -
* total resource base -
* Tropical oil strikes -
* Unfinished oil -
* Way oil -
Types of oil
* arab light -
* Asian Premium -
* attic oil -
* low-toxicity mineral oil (LTMO) -
* Oil countershock -
Oil-related technology
* Absorbing boom -
* acid fracturing pumper -
* Active vibration damper (AVD) -
* ADGAS plant -
* ADIP process -
* advanced drilling techniques (ADT) -
* advanced drilling techniques (ADT) -
* along hole departure (AHD) -
* Amphibious bulk fuel system (ABFS) -
* anchored industrial -
* annulo access valve (AAV) -
* aquifer water drive -
* Atwood Eagle, drilling unit -
* Balow kelly busing (BKB) -
* Bit booster -
* Borgland Dolphin -
* Borgton Dolphin -
* Casing exit system -
* coke manifold base (CME) -
* Conversion to natural gas -
* Crude still -
* deep installation of subsea hardware (DISM) -
* depletion drive -
* drag bit -
* drill string shock absorber -
* drilling at zero WOB -
* Drilling difficulty index (DDI) -
* drilling guide base (DGB) -
* drilling jar -
* Drilling with oil (DWO) -
* dual-diameter digging -
* dull bit -
* electric submersible pump -
* Expandable sand screen (ESS) -
* Expansion loop -
* external turret -
* Floating Natural Gas Unit (FNGU) -
* foam pig -
* formation isolation valve (FIV) -
* fuelling rig -
* Gravel pack carrying fluid -
* Gravel park screen -
* gravel park tool (GPT) -
* hydraulic fracturing fluid -
* Impregnated drill bit -
* Integrated Ocean-Drilling Platform -
* Intermediate Fluid-type Vaporiser (IFV) -
* Line pipe -
* Main oil line -
* matrix acidizing -
* Mist extractor -
* Mobile offshore application barge (MOAB) -
* Mobile offshore production unit (MOPU)-
* Near bit readmer (NBR) -
* North saving gyro -
* Offloading sea braker (OSB) -
* Offshore bulk fuel system (OBFS) -
* Offshore rig -
* oil and gas separator -
* oil offloading line (OOL) -
* Oil siphoning -
* Oil transport -
* Oil/line export metering -
* Open Reach Vaporizer (ORV) -
* OTTO system -
* Pipeline booster –
* pipeline repair clamp -
* Pressure differential transducer (PDT) -
* pressure while drilling (DWI) -
* Produced formation water -
* Production, drilling and quaring (PDQ) -
* Pumping statue -
* ram-type blowout presvete -
* rerun tricones -
* rollie reamer -
* Secondary oil recovery -
* Seismic exploration for oil and gas -
* semisubmersible rig -
* Shtokman gas concentrate -
* shuttle and Regasification Vessel (SRV) -
* Side dumping, rock dumping -
* Side Store Dumping Vessel (SSDV) -
* Single arm rigid leg anchor mooring -
* Slimhole drilling -
* South sealed truck -
* Spear drill bit -
* Spill prevention -
* spread mooring -
* spur car -
* stabilized condensate -
* Submerged turret loading (STL) -
* submerged turret production (STP) -
* Subsea rock installation -
* surface wellhead platform (SUHP) -
* Thermally enhanced oil recovery -
* Through-tubing rotary drilling (TTRP) -
* Top tension riser -
* Tower mooring -
* Tower mooring -
* tube-conveyed performing (TCP) -
* turret mooring -
* under reaming -
* underwater inspection in line of drydocking -
* Used oil recycling –
* utility pig -
* utility rig -
* Vacuum system in an oil refinery -
* Valve chamber -
* Virtual Gas Curtain -
* Water injector -
* Well enhancer -
* whipstock – '
Rigs
* Al Ghallan rig -
* Albury (oil rig) -
* Albury rig -
* Amelia Platform, Guendaline Field -
* Astra rig -
* Atwood Aurora, rig -
* Awood Hunter, rig -
* Ben Avan rig -
* Bi-Di rig -
* Blackford Dolphin rig -
* Challis Venture -
* Cossack Pioneer -
* David Tinsley rig -
* DSS-20-CAS-M, rig -
* Ensco 100 rig Ensco 100 -
* Ensco 70 rig Ensco 70 -
* GSF Adriatic IV, rig -
* GSF Bigfoot 1 -
* GSF Grand Banks -
* GSF Manhattan -
* Gus Androes, rig -
* Independence Hub -
* Iran Khazar, rig -
* Khazar (rig) -
* Kvitebjdra, rig -
* Leiv Eiriksson rig -
* Lloud Noble, rig -
* Lloyd Noble (oil rig) -
* Maai Wellhead Platform -
* Maecrske Gallant, rig -
* Maertsk Guardian -
* Molipaw, rig -
* Nanhri II -
* Noble Amos Runner, rig -
* Noble Tommy Craighead -
* Northern Producer, rig -
* Ocean Courage, rig -
* Ocean Guargian, rig -
* Ocean Rig Corcovado -
* Orlan (rig) -
* Rowan Sorilla III, rig -
* Rubicon Offshore -
* Rubicon Vantage -
* Seaharvester, rig -
* Sedneth 701, rig -
* Simon Stevin rig -
* Stena Don, rig -
* surface wellhead platform (SUHP) -
* Thebaud platform -
* Transocean Arctic, rig -
* Volga-Ural Platform -
* West Epsilon, rig -
* Will Phoenix, rig -
* Yolla-A Platform -
Ships
* Apertura Petroleva -
* Audacia (ship) –
* Kome Kribi 1, ship -
* Ksocy Asdoung, ship -
* Single arm rigid leg anchor mooring -
* spread mooring -
* Wolverine Oil Company Drayage Barn -
Bases
* Aberdeen Operations Control Center (AOCC) -
* Arctic Tandem Offloading Terminal (ATOT) -
* Arun LNG Plant -
* Independence Hub -
* Lamerd gas condensate refinery -
* Ploesti Oil Refineries -
* Snohvif LNG facility -
* Telemark Hub –
Terminals
* Arctic Tandem Offloading Terminal (ATOT) -
* Bahia de Bizkaia Regasification Plant -
* Bonru Island LNG plant -
* Bontang LNG plant -
* Dabhol LNG terminal -
* Equatorial Guinea LNG Plant -
* Fos Tonkin LNG Terminal -
* Golden Pass LNG terminal -
* Hazira LNG terminal -
* Inchan LNG terminal -
* Incheon LNG terminal -
* Kårste processing plant -
* Kenai LNG plant -
* Kitinat LNG terminal -
* Kumul Marine Terminal -
* Maasvlakte LNG terminal -
* Map Ta Phut LNG regasification terminal -
* Map Ta Phut LNG regasification terminal -
* Mejillones LNG Terminal -
* Mizushima LNG import terminal -
* North Adriatic LNG terminal -
* Orenburg gas processing plant -
* Rodong LNG Terminal -
* Sodegaura LNG terminal -
* Tangon LNG Plant –
* Westbury Micri-LNG plant –
Miscellaneus Tech
* AMA-324 -
* Atlas Well -
* Bettis-DD -
* British-French Oil Agreement -
* Continental Shelf Operations Notice (CSOJ) -
* Conventional mooring buoy -
* DNG LNG Project -
* Drilling difficulty index (DDI) -
* Eclipse Wireline -
* Eunsoye-A -
* Farha South-5 -
* Fort Yukon AK -
* HCR 506Zf -
* logging whilst drilling (LWD) -
* low-toxicity mineral oil (LTMO) -
* Lufeng 13-1 -
* Mat support -
* Matrix body -
* MER-14X -
* Mesa 30 -
* Okha SFO -
* Orisant -
* P 110 -
* Pajarit-IX -
* Petrobras XX -
* Petronius A -
* Platus II Project -
* S-Lag -
* Secondary cutting -
* Side dumping, rock dumping -
* Sujawal X-q -
* WGA-1 -
* WYC Piece -
* X-POW -
* Yuu K'dek' Naab -
* Z-16 St -
Oil fields
* Aitingen field in Germany -
* Akepo Field -
* Akepo Field -
* Al Jalija Field -
* Al Jurf Field -
* Al Jurf Oil Field, Libya -
* Alaskan oil fields -
* Altamira Field -
* Amerlia Platform, Guendaline Field -
* Ampe Field -
* Angel Field -
* Angot Field -
* Apex Trinidad Outfield -
* Arthit Field -
* Awali Field -
* Ayazli Field -
* Babbage Field -
* Babbage Field, gas field -
* Bagaja gas condensate field -
* Bansue Field -
* Barder Field -
* Barracuda Field -
* Bazergan Field -
* Bentley Field -
* Big Foot Field -
* Bir Seba Field -
* Blake Field -
* Blenheim Field -
* Boomvang Field -
* Boulton Field -
* Bourbon Prospect -
* Bruce H-Field II -
* Bualuang Field -
* Buckland Field -
* Buffalo Field -
* Burghley Field -
* Burghley Oil Field –
* Cal Canal Field -
* Cal Canal field -
* Canatrell Field -
* Captain Field -
* Casablanca Field -
* Casablanca Oil Field -
* Caston-Knox Field -
* catcher prospect -
* cather prospect -
* Causeway Field -
* Cayvo Field -
* Ceiba Field -
* Cendor Field -
* Cepu Field -
* Chuchupa Field -
* Columbus Field -
* Columbus Gas Field -
* Constitution Field, Ticonderoga Field -
* Cottonwood Field -
* Culzean discovery -
* Curisera Field -
* Dagargg Field -
* Dalen 2 gas field -
* Dba Fields -
* Deborah Field -
* Deep Panaka Field -
* Deep Panulle Field -
* Dougles Field -
* Droshky Field -
* Durango Well -
* Dzheiture Field -
* Dzhygalybeg Field -
* Eakring oil field -
* East Caracoles oilfield -
* Edinburgh Oil Shales -
* Elswick Field -
* Emeraude Field -
* Emlichheim Field -
* Eoith Furious Field -
* Erawan field, natural gas field in Thailand -
* Erha Field -
* Etame Field -
* F2I Well -
* Fiume Bruna Field, Bruna Field -
* FLEX Field -
* Forton Field -
* Frog Field -
* Fulmer Field -
* Gajah Baru Field -
* Galoc Field -
* Galoc Oil Field -
* Gannet Field -
* Genesis Field -
* Glamus Field -
* Glitne Field -
* Guendalina Field -
* Guendalina Gas Field -
* Guneshli oil field-
* Hac Long 28 Field -
* Handcross Prospect -
* Hanze F2A Field -
* Hatah Field -
* House Mountain Field -
* Huabei Field -
* Huabei Oil Field -
* Huldra Field -
* Janica Field -
* Jatibarang Field -
* Jubilee Well -
* Judi Field -
* Juliet Field -
* Katherine Prospect -
* Keitu Field -
* Keskida Field -
* Kharyaga Field -
* Kikek Field -
* Kinsala Head Field -
* Kipper Field -
* Kipper Field -
* Kirkuk oil field -
* Kiskada Field -
* Kittiwake Field -
* Kutubu oil field -
* Kutubu Oil Project -
* Kuwaiti oil lakes -
* Laggan and Tormore Field -
* Lagon Prospect -
* Laminana Field -
* Laminaria Field -
* Las Cienego Field -
* Las Cienego Field -
* Lima-Indiana Oil Field -
* LLL52 Field -
* Lomonal Field -
* Lomonal Fields -
* Longhorn Field -
* Longhorn Gas Field -
* Lufeng 13-1 -
* Macdeon Field -
* Macher Fiel -
* Malampaha Field -
* Marhock Field -
* Mari-B Field -
* Markham Field -
* Markham Gas Field -
* Maule Field -
* McClure Field -
* Meji Field -
* Mergarses Well -
* Moulvibazer Field -
* Muglad oilfield -
* Nang Nuam Field -
* Nang Nuan Oil Field -
* Nikastchug Field -
* Nikastchug Field -
* Nini and Cecilia Fields -
* Noa gas field -
* Okono Field -
* Okono Oil Field -
* Okwok Field Okwok Oil Field -
* Olowi Field -
* Orinoco oil belt -
* Orkid Field -
* Owo field –
* Pañacocha Field -
* Pañacocha Oil Field -
* Papyrus-1x well -
* Piranema Field -
* Point Arguello oil field -
* Polecat Green Well TX -
* Prirazlomrouha Field -
* Rahi Field -
* Rasan Field -
* Rashia Field -
* Ravenspoon North Field -
* Rio Viejo Field -
* Rio Vijo Field -
* Rivers Fields -
* Rong Doi Field -
* Rong Doi Gas Field -
* Rosa Field -
* Rumal Oil Field, Iraq/Kuwait -
* Sacha 171st Well -
* Salt Flat Field, TX -
* Sanga-Sanga block -
* Sangsan North Well -
* Sapele Well -
* Scarab and Saffron Field -
* Severo-Vargoganskoe, field -
* Shana Makat Field -
* Shearwater Field -
* Shelley Field -
* Shorre Field -
* Shushufirdi Field -
* Sigyn Field -
* Sigyn Gas Field -
* Sinphuhorm gas field -
* Sinpjuhorn gas field -
* Skua Field -
* Solan Discovery -
* Songkhla oil field -
* Sonkhla Oil Field -
* Sorochinsko-Nikolskoe Field -
* South Furious Field -
* sovetskoye Field -
* Stafjord Field -
* Stella development -
* Strathspey Field -
* Strathspra Field -
* Su Tu Den field -
* Sugarkane Field -
* suwaydiya oil fields -
* Tahiti Field -
* Talco Field -
* Tapti gas field -
* Teldinskeya CBM Field -
* Thama Fields -
* Togar Field -
* Tonbua-Landana development -
* Tora Well -
* Trant Field -
* Tristan North West Field -
* Tritan Fields -
* Trym Field -
* Umma Shaif Field -
* utica natural gas shale field -
* Valemor Field -
* Veriskian Field -
* Verron Field -
* veskfinkk Field -
* Veslefrikk field -
* Victoria Field -
* Visuna Field -
* West Ozyoynoye Field -
* Xikomba Field Xikomba Oil Field -
* Yibel Field -
* Yoho Field -
* Zaafarana Field -
* Zafiro Oilfield -
* Zuata Field -
* Zuata Oil Field -
See also the List of oil fields
Plants
* Snohvit LNG facility -
* ADGAS plant -
* Arun LNG Plant -
* Bahia de Bizkaia Regasification Plant -
* Bonru Island LNG plant -
* Bontang LNG plant -
* Equatorial Guinea LNG Plant -
* Kårste processing plant -
* Kenai LNG plant -
* Qalhat LNG plant -
* Tangon LNG Plant -
* Westbury Micri-LNG plant -
Platforms
* Al Ghallan -
* Armada Platform -
* GSF Grand Banks -
* Maai Wellhead Platform -
* Perdida Platform -
* Thebaud Platform -
* Yolla-A Platform -
Wells
* Atlas Well -
* Durango Well -
* Farha South-5 -
* Sacha 171st Well -
* Sangsan North Well -
* Sapele Well -
* Tora Well -
Pipelines
* Abku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline -
* Åsgard Pipeline –
* Bonaparte gas pipeline -
* Guwahati-Siliguri Products Pipeline -
* Iragi Pipeline Across Saudi Arabia -
* Iraq Pipeline across Saudi Arabia -
* Kirkuk-Ceyben pipeline, Kirkuk-Yumurtalik Pipeline -
* Landled pipeline -
* Leightong Eclipse -
* Marmul to Nimr Pipeline -
* Nam Con Sou Pipeline -
* Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte Gas Pipeline II -
* Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte Gas Pipeline II -
* Rome to Brisbane Pipeline -
* Siberian pipeline -
* South-East to North-East Pipeline -
* Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation -
* Verterled Pipeline -
* Yadane Pipeline Project -
Projects
* Chad Maeroon Pipeline Development Project -
* DNG LNG Project -
* Hamaca Project -
* Kemerkol Project -
* Kutubu Oil Project -
* Lamerd gas condensate refinery -
* Petrozuate Project -
* Platus II Project -
* Shanghai LNG Project -
* Sincor Project -
* Telemark Hub -
Related laws
* Connal Hot Oil Act -
Oil companies
* African Petroleum Company -
* Aktobe Oil Company -
* Arabian Oil -
* Araby American Oil Company -
* Austrian Oil Corporation -
* Bahrain Natural Oil Company -
* Baker Oil Tools -
* Baku Oil Society -
* Basra Petroleum Company -
* Batumi Oil Production and Trading Company -
* British Malayan Petroleum Company -
* British Natural Gas -
* Bytech Oil Development -
* Cabinda Gulf Oil Company -
* Calgary Petroleum Product Company -
* California Arabian Standard Oil Company -
* California-Texas Company -
* Cameroon Oil Transportation Company -
* Caspian and Black Sea Oil Production and Trading Company -
* Cawedin Oil -
* China National Petrochemical Corporation -
* Contracted Oil and Transportation Company -
* Daikyo Oil -
* Dubai Petroleum Company -
* Dutch Oil Company -
* Enterprise Oil Norge -
* Gulf Petroleum -
* Harker Energy -
* Independent Petroleum Exchange (IPE) -
* Independent Petroleum Institute of America (IDAA) -
* International Egypt Oil Company -
* International Energy Programme -
* Interstate Oil Company -
* Iran Pan-American Oil Company -
* Iranian Marine International Oil Company -
* Japan National Oil Company -
* Kaduna Refining & Petrochemicals Company -
* Kuwait Oil Tanker Company -
* La Jolla Oil Company -
* Lagoven -
* Laven Petroleum Company -
* Liberia Petroleum Refining Company -
* Libya General Petroleum Company -
* Manshev Company -
* Merriman Oil Company -
* Mesa Petroleum -
* Minnehoma Oil Company -
* Mission Corporation -
* Mission Transfer Company -
* Mitsui Petrochemical Industries -
* Mosul Petroleum Company -
* National Oil and Gas Mining Corporation, Indonesia -
* National Oil Company of Liberia -
* National Oil Company of Libya -
* National Oil Company of the Republic of Indonesia -
* National Petroleum Corporation -
* Nepal Lube Oil Limited -
* Nepal Oil and Gas Services Limited -
* Nepal Oil and Gas Services Limited -
* New Zealand Oil & Gas -
* Nigerian National Oil Company -
* Nigerian National Oil Corporation -
* Nobel Brothers Petroleum Production Company -
* Northern Sumatra Oil Exploitation -
* Norwegian Petroleum Society -
* Oasis Group -
* Oil & Gas Industry Tech Force -
* Oil and Gas Development Corporation -
* Oil Exploration Syndicate of Canada -
* Oil Industry Association -
* Oil Investments International Company -
* Oil Investments International Corporation -
* Oil Sector Services Company -
* Petrochemicals Industries Company -
* Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd -
* Petroleum Exploration Incorporated -
* Petroleum Reserves Corporation -
* Rocky Mountains Oilfield Testing Center -
* Rubicon Offshore -
* Saudi Gas Initiative -
* Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria -
* Society of British Gas Industries -
* South Peru Oil Company -
* Tethys Oil -
* Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company -
* Trinidad Oil Company -
* Trinidad Oilfield’s Limited -
* Union Petroleum Company -
* United British Oilfields of Trinidad -
* Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company -
* Waters-Pierce Oil Company -
* Zhuhai Zhenrong Trading -
Oil organizations
* Aberdeen Operations Control Center (AOCC) -
* Alliance Drilling Fluids -
* American Petroleum Industry Association (APIZ) -
* American Petroleum Industry Association (APIZ) -
* Brunei Oil and Gas Authority -
* Federal Oil and Gas Council (FOGC) -
* General Organization for Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia -
* Independent Petroleum Institute of America (IDAA) -
* Italian General Petroleum Agency -
* Oil & Gas Industry Tech Force -
* Oil Control Board -
* Oil Industry Association -
* Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission -
* Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund -
* Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund -
* Old Harry Oil Reserve -
Related issues
* oil and gas industry security -
* Tideland Oil Controversy -
* Used oil recycling -
Related laws
* Petroleum Productions Act -
Miscellaneous
* Abu Dhabi Marine Areas Operations -
* Alliance Drilling Fluids -
* Anglo-French Agreement on Oil in the Near and Middle East -
* approach code of practice (ACOP) -
* Broken Till Proprietary -
* Daqing Complex -
* Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement -
* Iranian Oil Participants -
* marine spill response -
* Naval Oil Shale Reserve -
* naval petroleum and oil shale reserve -
* Oil Sands Areas -
* Personnel on board on offshore unit (POB) -
* Petroleum Intelligence Weekly -
* pressure while drilling -
* Texas oil industry –
* Thai Petrochemical Industry -
* Third Oil Schock, 2003 -
* Other missing articles | WIKI |
-- South Africa Soybean Futures Decline Most in Almost Seven Weeks
South African soybean futures
declined the most in almost seven weeks. The oilseed for delivery in December, the most active
contract, fell 1.8 percent, the biggest decline since Oct. 1, to
6,250 rand ($619) a metric ton by the noon close on the South
African Futures Exchange in Johannesburg. Wheat for delivery
next month slipped for a fourth day, losing 0.4 percent to 3,530
rand a ton. White corn retreated 0.6 percent to 2,413 rand a
ton, while the yellow variety decreased 0.5 percent to 2,361
rand. South Africa , a net importer of wheat, is the sub-Saharan
region’s largest producer of the grain after Ethiopia and the
area’s biggest buyer after Nigeria and Sudan, according to U.S.
Department of Agriculture data. The country is the biggest
grower of corn, with the white variety used as a staple food and
yellow used mainly as animal feed . To contact the reporter on this story:
Andre Janse van Vuuren in Johannesburg at
ajansevanvuu@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
John Viljoen at
jviljoen@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
-- Rupiah Reaches One-Week High on Europe Optimism; Bonds Advance
Indonesia ’s rupiah reached a one-
week high and government bonds advanced after overseas investors
purchased the nation’s assets amid optimism European leaders
will be able to resolve their debt crisis. Global funds bought $107 million more local stocks than
they sold last week and added 1.57 trillion rupiah ($164
million) to their sovereign debt holdings, data from the
exchange and finance ministry show. Germany and Italy agreed to
“do everything to protect the euro area,” according to an e-
mailed statement yesterday, echoing European Central Bank
President Mario Draghi ’s pledge last week. Indonesia posted
trade deficits in April and May, official data show, and is due
to release economic reports for June this week. “Asian currencies and markets in general reacted
positively to comments from European policy makers last week,
however the rupiah has lagged,” said Prakriti Sofat , a regional
economist at Barclays Plc in Singapore . “The underperformance
is driven by continued concerns regarding a deteriorating
current-account position.” The rupiah strengthened 0.2 percent to 9,455 per dollar as
of 4:21 p.m. in Jakarta, according to prices from local banks
compiled by Bloomberg. The currency reached 9,445, the highest
level since July 18. One-month implied volatility, which
measures exchange-rate swings used to price options, was
unchanged at 8 percent. Consumer prices rose 4.64 percent in July, compared with
4.53 percent in June, according to the median estimate of 20
economists surveyed by Bloomberg before data due Aug. 1. The yield on the government’s 7 percent bonds due May 2022
dropped three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 5.73
percent, the lowest level since March 6, according to closing
prices from the Inter Dealer Market Association. To contact the reporter on this story:
Yudith Ho in Singapore at
yho35@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
James Regan at
jregan19@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Lappajärvi Church
Lappajärvi Church (Lappajärven kirkko) is a Lutheran church located in Lappajärvi, Finland. The church was designed by Matti Honka and built 1765. | WIKI |
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TENNESSEE, Davidson County, Brentwood, McCrory-Mayfield House , 1280 Hickory Blvd. (12/27/82)
TENNESSEE, Tipton County, Covington, Hotel Lindo , 116 W. Liberty St. (12/27/82)
TEXAS, Anderson County, Brushy Creek vicinity, Anderson Camp Ground , W of Brushy Creek on SR 837 (12/27/82)
TEXAS, Harris County, Houston, Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing Building , Holman Ave. and Ennis St. (12/27/82)
TEXAS, Harris County, Houston, Houston Negro Hospital , 3204 Ennis St. (12/27/82)
TEXAS, Taylor County, Abilene, Paramount Theater , 352 Cypress St. (12/27/82)
The following properties was also entered in the National Register but was excluded from a previous notice:
CALIFORNIA, San Bernardino County, Barstow vicinity, Bitter Spring Archaeological Site (4-SBr-2659) , (12/20/82)
IOWA, Des Moines County, Burlington, Heritage Hill Historic District , Roughly bounded by Central Ave., High, 3rd, and Jefferson Sts. (12/21/82)
MARYLAND, Baltimore (Independent City), Garrett Building, 233-239 Redwood St. (12/16/82)
MARYLAND, Baltimore (Independent City), Franklin Square Historic District, Bounded by Mulberry, N. Carey, W. Baltimore, and N. Monroe Sts. (12/10/82)
MARYLAND, Harford County, Bel Air vicinity, Tudor Hall , NE of Bel Air on Tudor Lane (Boundary decrease) (12/16/82)
MARYLAND, Harford County, Bel Air, Joshua's Meadows 300 N. Tollgate Rd. (12/21/82)
MARYLAND, Wicomico County, Hebron vicinity, St. Giles , SW of Hebron on MD 347 (12/20/82)
NEW YORK, Bronx County, New York City, Eighth Regiment Armory , 29 W. Kingsbridge Rd. (12/21/82)
OHIO, Butler County, Oxford vicinity, Austin-Magie Farm and Mill District , N of Oxford at Four Mile Creek and Somerville Rd. (12/21/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People (Black History TR) , 4807 Cedar Ave. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, House of Wills (Black History TR) , 2491 E. 55th St. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Karamu House (Black History TR) , 2355 E. 89th St. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Morgan, Garrett, House (Black History TR) , 5202 Harlem Ave. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Shiloh Baptist Church (Black History TR) , 5500 Scovill Ave. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, St. John's AME Church (Black History TR) , 2261 E. 40th St. (12/17/82)
OHIO, Delaware County, Delaware, Sandusky Street Historic District , 44 S. to 92 N. Sandusky, 46 E. to 31 W. Winter, and 9 E. to 17 W. William (12/17/82)
OHIO, Miami County, Piqua, African Jackson Cemetery N of Piqua on Zimmerlin Rd. (12/16/82)
OHIO, Montgomery County, Huber Heights, Miami-Erie Canal Lock No. 70 , Fishburg and Endicott Rds. (12/20/82)
OHIO, Stark County, Canton, Ridgewood Historic District , Roughly bounded by Market and Gibbs Ave., and 21st and 24th Sts. (12/19/82)
OHIO, Trumbull County, Girard, Barnhisel, Henry II, House , 1011 N. State St. (12/19/82)
PENNSYLVANIA, Berks County, Birdsboro, St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory , Mill and Church Sts. (12/20/82) | WIKI |
Schooner Breaks Century-Old Record for Crossing the Atlantic
Hours after breaking the 100-year-old race record for crossing the Atlantic, the helmsman Mike Sanderson could afford to reflect on the 9 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds he had spent at sea aboard Mari-Cha IV, one of the world's fastest monohulls. ''This is such a historic record, a historic route, and it's always a great achievement to sail any yacht across the Atlantic,'' Sanderson said of Mari-Cha's arrival at 10:05:23 a.m. yesterday off Lizard Point, near Cornwall, England, the finish line for the 2005 Rolex Trans-Atlantic Challenge. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Anyone keeping up with Bitcoin mining? Curious about Iris Energy
Sup folks, found some interesting news in the Bitcoin mining space today! As someone who has been keeping an eye on the crypto industry, (That's right! I'm still a believer. loll) I'm always on the lookout for companies that are being innovative and it seems like Iris Energy is doing just that! This recent article from has me feeling pretty bullish about thhem and wanted to get some input.
**Summary:**
In case you're not familiar with the sector, Bitcoin mining is the process by which new Bitcoins are created and transactions are verified on the blockchain network. However, mining requires a lot of energy, which has led to concerns about its environmental impact. This is where Iris Energy comes in - they use 100% renewable energy to power their mining operations, making them a leader in sustainable Bitcoin mining. The company recently announced an update on its strategic priorities, which is great news for investors and the environment alike.
**Key Facts:**
* Iris Energy is a sustainable Bitcoin mining company that uses 100% renewable energy to power its operations.
* The company recently announced an update on its strategic priorities, which is set to be revealed on May 10th.
* With Bitcoin mining becoming increasingly popular, Iris Energy is well-positioned to capitalize on this growth while also making a positive impact on the environment.
**TLDR:**
Iris Energy, a sustainable Bitcoin mining company that uses 100% renewable energy, recently announced an update on its strategic priorities, which is set to be revealed on May 10th, making them well-positioned to capitalize on the growing popularity of Bitcoin mining while also contributing to the decarbonization of energy markets.
Read more: [Iris Energy to Provide Investor Update on May 10, 2023 (yahoo.com)](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/iris-energy-investor-may-10-103100056.html) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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356 peak of solitary grandeur. Here and there individuals rise a little above the mass, and form as a whole the body of thinkers. Here and there individuals rise a little above the body, and form as a whole the smaller group of men of talent. Here and there individuals rise a little above the group, often in the merest details of their personal idiosyncrasy, and attain more or less distinctly to the level which most of us recognize as genius. But from first to last the various stages of intellect or of special faculty rise gradually one above the other; the differences between the men themselves are minute; it is the differences between the effects produced upon others that elevate some on so high an imaginary pedestal above their fellows.
I know that to say all this may look invidious. I know that the polite crowd of clubs and drawing-rooms, which can not see the importance of a psychological question for its own sake, apart from personalities, will read in it throughout nothing but envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. However, on that point I am not afraid. I don't think any man living has a profounder respect than I have for the genius of Matthew Arnold, and William Morris, and Herbert Spencer, and George Meredith. I'm sure no man living has a more generous appreciation than I have for the genius of Andrew Lang and Austin Dobson, of James and Howells, of Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter Besant. I know that genius simply swarms among us; that in this age one may see such men as Croll wasting, like spendthrifts, upon a solitary problem of the glacial epoch, vast constructive and organizing powers which in any other age would have secured them world-wide fame and reputation; such men as Beddoe, working for pure love, with inexhaustible industry, through a whole lifetime, at questions which everybody else ignores and neglects; such men as Galton, filled to the brim with ingenuity, acuteness, and insight, till it oozes out at their finger-ends, pouring forth in abundance upon an unheeding world the suggestive results of their piercing, keen, and all-sided thinking. I know that genius is choking and strangling itself in the keen struggle for recognition and consequent usefulness. But I know also that if genius is a drug, talent is a weed in modern London; and that talent too deserves its due honor. Men of ability throng thick around us—men of ability so exceptionally high that in any less richly gifted age than ours it would be universally recognized and crowned as genius. The commoner such talent becomes in the world the more supereminent must be the powers, or the more peculiar the twist, or the more marked the originality which will suffice to raise it into the higher category. In other words, what is talent to-day would have been genius yesterday; what is genius to-day will be but talent as men reckon to-morrow.—Fortnightly Review. | WIKI |
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I have a project containing many SQL code recipes. Let's say I want to find a recipe in which I modified a specific column, but I don't remember which it is. Is there a way to search through all the recipes within my project? My current approach is to open them one by one until I find the correct recipe.
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• MickaelH
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Hi,
You can:
- open the DSS catalog (from the "Apps" menu on the top right corner of the window) and search the specific column. You can also reduce the number of items by filtering by Object type (recipe), Project and Type of recipe;
- if you are on release > 6.0 you will also be able to search using the Global search toolbar visible on the top right corner of the window
I hope this helps.
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Native Americans came to the California missions for a variety of reasons. Some of these were: protection from their enemies, access to stable food sources, attraction to Spanish culture and religion, fear of Spanish weapons and a desire to stay together with their clans and kin.
- 1 Were Native Americans Forced to Enter the California Missions?
- 2 Reason 1: Protection from Enemies
- 3 Reason 2: Keeping Families Together
- 4 Reason 3: Access to Stable Food Sources
- 5 Reason 4: Attraction to Christianity
- 6 Reason 5: Fear of Spanish Weaponry and Attraction to Spanish Society
- 7 Did Native Americans Flee the Missions?
- 8 Mission Revolts
- 9 Conclusion
- 10 Suggested Books
Were Native Americans Forced to Enter the California Missions?
Many people assume Indian people entered the California missions because they were forced to. There were times that Native Americans were forced to return to the missions after they joined. But both Spanish law and Catholic Church law made it clear that Native Americans were not to be forced to enter the missions against their will.
In order to join a mission, native people had to accept becoming Christian and being baptised. According to Catholic Church law, a person can be baptized only if they freely do so, or in the case of babies and children, only if their parents freely agree to do so. Otherwise such a baptism is not considered valid. So in order for a person to be baptized, they needed to give their consent.
Spanish civil law also forbade forcing Indians to join the missions. In fact, missionaries and Spanish government officials didn’t always agree. There were times in which Spanish government officials argued that Indians shouldn’t join the missions at all. Sometimes they preferred to offer Indians jobs on ranches and farms that weren’t connected with the missions or to have Native Americans settle in Spanish pueblos.
That doesn’t mean that Native Americans were free to leave the missions once they joined. When Indian people became part of a mission community, they were expected to stay part of that community for the rest of their lives. Although they could travel to visit relatives or hunt and fish, it was for a limited time, and they were expected to return to the mission.
The following are several reasons why Native Americans entered the missions. They are not necessarily in order of importance, because we cannot always know the exact reasons for the choices of people in the past. Nonetheless, these are main reasons that we can find in documents and studies.
Reason 1: Protection from Enemies
One very important reason Native Americans came to the California missions was protection from enemies. As we know from the testimony of Pablo Tac, a young Indian man from the San Luis Rey mission, native tribes in Alta California had rivalries and conflicts between one another. Some of these feuds even lasted for generations.
According to Pablo Tac, “We were always at war. There was always fighting day and night with those who spoke another language. It seems that our enemies were those that are now called Dieguiños by the Spanish, and quichamcauichom by us. This means ‘the Southerners’…life was very miserable then, because their was always fighting.”
Learn more about Pablo Tac by reading Memories of Life at a Mission: The Account of Pablo Tac, Luiseño.
Native people often viewed the Spanish or Mexican armies as potential allies against their rivals. By joining a mission, they would be able to rely on Spanish soldiers and military power to protect themselves against other enemy tribes or clans. One example of a native leader who became an ally of the Mexican army was Sem Yeto (also known as Chief Solano). He fought alongside the troops of General Mariano G. Vallejo.
To learn more about Sem Yeto and Gen. Vallejo, read Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: General of the Northern Frontier.
Of course, in many cases Indian tribes who were rivals would also share space on the same mission lands. This could often lead to conflicts as well. At the same time, by intermarrying, many of these rivalries could be overcome with time.
Reason 2: Keeping Families Together
Many times the leader of a Native American community would decide to be baptized and join the mission. Because of his power and authority, the leader could convince other members of the same community to join the mission. This provided a way to stay together with family and friends and not be split up.
At times a whole village went into the mission and families would be baptized together. At other times one or two persons would enter or be baptized, and slowly other family members would follow their example and go to live on the mission lands. This was not always the case, however. In places like San Diego, there were villages where Christian and non-Christian Indians lived together. However, in order to join a mission and live within its boundaries, it was necessary for a native person to be baptized.
The wish to stay together became especially important as more and more people entered missions and villages shrank in size. Indians who had remained in the villages became fewer and therefore more vulnerable. They therefore began to see the need of being together with their kin as a more attractive option. Nevertheless, in some places under Spanish control there were native groups and families who never became Christians or entered the missions.
Reason 3: Access to Stable Food Sources
Although California Indians had developed successful methods for living off the land, like hunting, fishing and harvesting native plants, there were many times in which food was in short supply. When food sources became scarce, Indian groups were forced to move the great distances to find food.
By joining the missions, Native Americans learned farming techniques that could allow them to raise abundant foods in a predictable way. Raising cattle and other livestock allowed members of the mission community to have easy access to beef, for example. Cattle raising was much more predictable than hunting or trapping wild game.
Read more about Native American jobs at the California missions: Indian Life at the California Missions
Nevertheless, even after Indian people did join the missions, they would continue to hunt and fish whenever they could. Hunting and fishing would be important sources of supplemental food when droughts or other difficulties threatened the foods grown on mission farms. Scholars have also suggested that as European crops and livestock became more widespread, native foods became more and more difficult to find.
Reason 4: Attraction to Christianity
Some Native Americans were attracted to the California missions out of religious reasons. They saw the missionary priests as kind and charitable. They also saw them as spiritually powerful. Some Native Americans were resentful or fearful of the power of the shaman or religious leaders of their tribes. They either felt that Christianity was more powerful than the religion of the shaman, or they saw it as a more attractive alternative. Some were drawn to the music and the rituals of the Catholic Church.
Over time many Native Americans saw their friends and relatives being baptized, and they decided to join them and not be left out. By joining the Christian faith, they could have also have access to Hispanic society and the opportunities that it presented. And many native people mixed practices from Christianity and their ancestral religions together. It is difficult to tell how many native Americans adopted Christianity in a sincere way, but many certainly did.
Reason 5: Fear of Spanish Weaponry and Attraction to Spanish Society
Native Americans in California had never encountered a group as well-organized, powerful and efficient as the Spanish military. With advanced technology such as horses and writing, weapons such as pistols, muskets, swords and lances, the Spanish were a very impressive force. Spanish ships, larger than anything ever seen before, arrived on the coast. And Spanish fortresses, known as presidios, were stronger and more permanent than anything native people had seen. Although Spanish soldiers were few in number compared to Native Americans, they could instill fear.
Another important factor is that the Spanish did not treat the Indians as enemies. Instead, they invited them to be allies and even become part of Spanish society. Many of the Spanish soldiers themselves were of Native American ancestry. They also brought with them Indian people from Baja California and other parts of Mexico as interpreters. These native people also helped model the Latin American lifestyle to the Native Americans of Alta California. By inviting native people to join Spanish society, they offered access to the type of power and resources that many Indians saw as beneficial.
Did Native Americans Flee the Missions?
There were many times when Native Americans did not feel free and fled the missions. Sometimes they did so because or they felt the work was too hard, or the punishments too harsh. Sometimes they just missed their old homes and wanted to return to them. When epidemics struck the mission community and people were dying, many Native Americans ran away out of sadness or to escape the diseases.
When Indian people fled the missions, other native people from the mission would go to convince them to come back. If they refused to return, soldiers would also be sent to retrieve them. In this way they would be forced to return.
At times there would be revolts, where a large number of Native Americans would leave a mission and take up arms to resist the soldiers sent to bring them back. The number of these revolts increased in the early decades of the 19th century. At that time, supplies from Mexico were cut off, and Native Americans had to work extremely hard to support not only their mission communities, but also the presidios.
Some of these revolts were quite violent and ended with many lives lost. One of the most famous revolts was that of Estanislao, an Indian from Mission San José, who fought against the troops of General Mariano G. Vallejo. Although Estanislao was very successful as a military leader, he eventually returned to the mission and lived the rest of his life there.
As you can see, there were many reasons why Native Americans joined the missions. Sometimes they did so because they felt it was the best thing to do for themselves and their families. Other times they probably felt that they had few options. We can never know all of the reasons, but certainly each individual had a choice to make.
If you want to find more in-depth information on the subject of why Native Americans entered the missions, the books below offer a great starting point. Click below to find them on Amazon.com: | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Solar neutrinos (proton-proton chain) in the Standard Solar Model
Electron neutrinos are produced in the Sun as a product of nuclear fusion. Solar neutrinos constitute by far the largest flux of neutrinos from natural sources observed on Earth, as compared with e.g. atmospheric neutrinos or the diffuse supernova neutrino background.[1]
Mechanisms[edit]
The main contribution comes from the proton-proton reaction. The reaction is:
or in words:
2 protons deuterium + positron + electron neutrino.
From this reaction, 86% of all solar neutrinos are produced. As seen in figure, Solar neutrinos (proton-proton chain) in the Standard Solar Model, the deuterium will fuse with another proton to create a 3He nucleus and a gamma ray. This reaction can be seen as:
The isotope 4He can be produced by using the 3He in the previous reaction which is seen below.
With both helium-3 and helium-4 in the system now, beryllium can be fused by the reaction of one of each helium nucleus as seen in the reaction:
Since there are four protons and only three neutrons, the beryllium can go down two different paths from here. The beryllium could capture an electron and produce a lithium-7 nucleus and an electron neutrino. It can also capture a proton due to the abundance in a star. This will create boron-8. Both reactions are as seen below respectfully:
This reaction produces 14% of the solar neutrinos. The lithium-7 will combine with a proton to produce 2 nuclei of helium-4.
The boron-8 will beta(+) decay into beryllium-8 due to the extra proton which can be seen below:
The reaction produces about 0.02% of the solar neutrinos. These few solar neutrinos have the larger energies. The asterisk on beryllium-8 indicates that the nucleus is in an excited state.[2]
The excited beryllium-8 nucleus then splits into two helium-4 nuclei.
Observed data[edit]
The highest flux of solar neutrinos come directly from the proton-proton interaction, and have a low energy, up to 400 keV. There are also several other significant production mechanisms, with energies up to 18 MeV.[3] From the Earth, the amount of neutrino flux at Earth is around 7·1010 particles/cm2/s.[4]
The number of neutrinos can be predicted by the Standard Solar Model. The detected number of electron neutrinos was only 1/3 of the predicted number, and this was known as the solar neutrino problem. It led to the idea of neutrino oscillation and the fact that neutrinos can change flavour. This was confirmed when the total flux of solar neutrinos of all types was measured and it agreed with the earlier predictions of expected electron neutrino flux, as seen by Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and thus confirmed that neutrinos have mass. Solar models additionally predict the location within the Sun's core where solar neutrinos should originate from, depending on the nuclear fusion reaction which leads to their production. Future neutrino detectors will be able to detect the incoming direction of these neutrinos with enough precision to measure this effect.[5]
The energy spectrum of solar neutrinos is also predicted by solar models.[6] It is essential to know this energy spectrum because different neutrino detection experiments are sensitive to different neutrino energy ranges. The Homestake Experiment used chlorine and was most sensitive to solar neutrinos produced by the decay of the beryllium isotope 7Be. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is most sensitive to solar neutrinos produced by 8B. The detectors that use gallium are most sensitive to the solar neutrinos produced by the proton-proton chain reaction process. In 2012 the collaboration known as Borexino reported detecting low-energy neutrinos for the proton-electron-proton (pep reaction) that produces 1 in 400 deuterium nuclei in the sun.[7][8] The detector contained 100 metric tons of liquid and saw on average 3 events each day (due to carbon 11 production) from this relatively uncommon thermonuclear reaction.
Neutrinos can trigger nuclear reactions. By looking at ancient ores of various ages that have been exposed to solar neutrinos over geologic time, it may be possible to interrogate the luminosity of the Sun over time,[9] which, according to the Standard Solar Model, has changed with time.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
1. ^ Billard, J.; Strigari, L.; Figueroa-Feliciano, E. (2014). "Implication of neutrino backgrounds on the reach of next generation dark matter direct detection experiments" (PDF). Phys. Rev. D. 89: 023524. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.023524.
2. ^ Grupen, Claus (2005), Astroparticle Physics, Springer, ISBN 3-540-25312-2 [page needed]
3. ^ Bellerive, A. (2004), "Review of solar neutrino experiments", Int. J. Mod. Phys., A19: 1167–1179, arXiv:hep-ex/0312045Freely accessible, Bibcode:2004IJMPA..19.1167B, doi:10.1142/S0217751X04019093
4. ^ Grupen 2005, p. 95
5. ^ Davis, Jonathan H. (2016). "Projections for Measuring the Size of the Solar Core with Neutrino-Electron Scattering". Physical Review Letters. 117: 211101. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.117u1101D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.211101.
6. ^ Solar Neutrino Viewgraphs
7. ^ Bellini, G.; et al. (2012), "First Evidence of pep Solar Neutrinos by Direct Detection in Borexino", Phys. Rev. Lett., 108 (5): 051302, arXiv:1110.3230Freely accessible, Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108e1302B, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.051302, PMID 22400925, 051302 . 6 pages; preprint on arXiv
8. ^ Witze, Alexandra (March 10, 2012), "Elusive solar neutrinos spotted, detection reveals more about reaction that powers sun", Science News, 181 (5): 14, doi:10.1002/scin.5591810516
9. ^ Haxton, W. C. (1990). "Proposed neutrino monitor of long-term solar burning". Physical Review Letters. 65: 809–812. Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65..809H. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.65.809.
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How to send an http get request to Rest API server in Angular 7
How to send an http get request to Rest API server in Angular 7
In this angular 7 tutorial, we’ll learn by example how to send GET requests to REST API servers in your Angular 7 application using Httplient. We’ll also see how to use Angular services, RxJS Observables, models and the async pipe.
When we built a Front end application using javascript frameworks like Angular Js, they communicate with backend servers through RESTFUL APIs and they are based on the HTTP protocol.
Angular HttpClient uses the XMLHttpRequest, which supports by old browsers.
During this tutorial, we are going to learn with examples of how to use HttpClient for get request. HttpClient is available from the @angular/common/http package. HttpClient make HTTP GET requests using the angular get() method.
Set HttpClient in your angular application
get(url: string, options: {
headers?: HttpHeaders;
observe: ‘response’;
params?: HttpParams;
reportProgress?: boolean;
responseType?: ‘json’;
withCredentials?: boolean;
}): Observable>;
We can get the data using the get() method in two ways.
1) Subscribe to the returning Observables
2) Async pipe with the returning Observables
Subscribe to the returning Observables
Let start with an example:-
Start with importing HttpClient in your component and include HttpClient via the component’s constructor.
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
constructor(private httpClient: HttpClient){}
Now make a function for httpclient get() method
get_posts(){
this.httpClient.get(‘https://vrsoftcoder.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts’).subscribe((response)=>{
console.log(response);
});
}
Let show the posts on the component template. First, declare a posts array inside the class.
private posts = [];
And make the changes in get_posts() method as follows:-
get_posts(){
this.httpClient.get('https://vrsoftcoder.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts').subscribe((response : any[])=>{
console.log(response);
this.posts = response;
});
}
Now loop the posts array using ngFor loop of angular:-
• {{item.title}}
Async pipe with the returning Observables
With Async pipe we first need to create an observable by following way:-
private postsObservable : Observable ;
Now call the get() method and commit the result to postsObservable:
this.postsObservable = this.httpClient.get('https://vrsoftcoder.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts');
And make changes in your component template:-
• {{item.title}}
Angular Services
When we used HttpClient get() method direct in our component, it is against the separations of the coding rule and coding standard. To retain coding standard we used angular services. Now we have to recreate our code to use an Angular service. In Angular service we make HTTP GET requests then Angular service returns the result back to our component.
So let’s create a new service:-
$ ng generate service postdata
Now we have to move to get() request code to post data service. Open the src/app/postdata.service.ts and update it as follow:-
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
@Injectable({
providedIn: 'root'
})
export class PostdataService {
baseUrl:string = "https://vrsoftcoder.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts";
constructor(private httpClient : HttpClient) {}
get_posts(){
return this.httpClient.get(this.baseUrl);
}
}
Now Update the src/app/app.component.ts file as follows:
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { PostsdataService } from './postdata.service';
/* .... */
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
private posts = [];
private postsObservable : Observable ;
constructor(private postdataService: PostdataService){
this.postsObservable = this.postdataService.get_posts();
or
this.postdataService.get_posts().subscribe((res : any[])=>{
this.posts = res;
});
}
}
Creating Post Model
create a model named posts.ts in the root directory of your application and update as follows:-
export interface Posts {
id: number;
title: string;
slug: string;
content: string;
}
Next update your app.component.ts file as follows:-
import { Posts } from './posts';
private posts : posts[] = [];
private postsObservable : Observable ;
constructor(private postsdataService: PostsdataService){
this.postsObservable = this.postsdataService.get_posts();
this.postsdataService.get_posts().subscribe((res : posts[])=>{
this.posts = res;
});
}
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TitleEnhanced Top-Down Protein Characterization with Electron Capture Dissociation and Cyclic Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsShaw JB, Cooper-Shepherd DA, Hewitt D, Wildgoose JL, Beckman JS, Langridge JI, Voinov VG
JournalAnal Chem
Volume94
Issue9
Pagination3888-3896
Date Published2022 Mar 08
ISSN1520-6882
KeywordsAmino Acid Sequence, Electrons, Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Proteins, Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Abstract
Tandem mass spectrometry of denatured, multiply charged high mass protein precursor ions yield extremely dense spectra with hundreds of broad and overlapping product ion isotopic distributions of differing charge states that yield an elevated baseline of unresolved "noise" centered about the precursor ion. Development of mass analyzers and signal processing methods to increase mass resolving power and manipulation of precursor and product ion charge through solution additives or ion-ion reactions have been thoroughly explored as solutions to spectral congestion. Here, we demonstrate the utility of electron capture dissociation (ECD) coupled with high-resolution cyclic ion mobility spectrometry (cIMS) to greatly increase top-down protein characterization capabilities. Congestion of protein ECD spectra was reduced using cIMS of the ECD product ions and "mobility fractions", that is, extracted mass spectra for segments of the 2D mobiligram (/ versus drift time). For small proteins, such as ubiquitin (8.6 kDa), where mass resolving power was not the limiting factor for characterization, pre-IMS ECD and mobility fractions did not significantly increase protein sequence coverage, but an increase in the number of identified product ions was observed. However, a dramatic increase in performance, measured by protein sequence coverage, was observed for larger and more highly charged species, such as the +35 charge state of carbonic anhydrase (29 kDa). Pre-IMS ECD combined with mobility fractions yielded a 135% increase in the number of annotated isotope clusters and a 75% increase in unique product ions compared to processing without using the IMS dimension. These results yielded 89% sequence coverage for carbonic anhydrase.
DOI10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04870
Alternate JournalAnal Chem
PubMed ID35188751
PubMed Central IDPMC8908312
Grant ListR43 GM123855 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
R43 GM134792 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
R44 GM123855 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
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Module:Political party/W
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Talk:needy
What about in the sense that someone can be a needy person; as in, they require a high degree of "maintenence" or attention and affection?
needy
rfd-sense — Noun sense.
Noun use of an adjective. Compare:
* A part of this linden bark was sold at a low price, a part was given gratuitously to the most needy, another part was distributed on shares ...— In the Midst of the Starving
* More people are being served and the grants for the neediest have been increased.—Presidential Radio Address - 9 July 1983
* — Pingkudimmi 05:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
* Delete, but not every adjective can be used in such fused-head constructions, especially in such a range of noun roles. Should we note this kind of thing? How? Should it be a part of Wiktionary:English adjectives? DCDuring TALK 06:33, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
* The latter is one place I looked, though perhaps Wiktionary:English nouns would be more consistent (if consistency is what is needed here—I suppose what really matters is that people know/can learn/can work out where to find it). I eventually found some rules posted as part of a discussion in Talk:adjective; I don't know where these came from, but they might provide a starting point for a write-up. — Pingkudimmi 07:18, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
* Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:43, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
deleted -- Prince Kassad 21:52, 26 March 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Rh saddle again, and rode along the halting and wondering line.
"We are going to have a good thing on them now, boys!" he shouted. "Come, follow me! Turn around! We are going back! We are going to sleep in our quarters to-night! Come on!"
The magic of that voice and that dashing, daring figure was wonderful. Old veterans threw up their caps and yelled themselves hoarse. Those in retreat turned and were the first to press upon the gallant leader's heels. The lines were re-formed, and when the Confederates made their next charge, company after company met it bravely, standing like rocks. Then other troops came up from the left and the right, and the cavalry burst from the woods. "The Yankees have been reënforced—Sheridan had brought on more regiments!" was the false news circulated on the other side, and then the Confederates began to halt in dismay.
This great change on the battlefield occurred about one o'clock, after almost eight hours of continual fighting. Driven back, the Confederates took another stand, but at | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2022 Quezon City fire
The result was delete. Policy-based consensus is there's no lasting impact of this fire. Should there be a change, or a development of legislation, I am happy to provide this in draft space but at the moment there are no grounds for an article. Star Mississippi 02:23, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
2022 Quezon City fire
* – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)
As per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:LASTING, there is nothing to indicate that fire that happened in the residential area, U.P. Campus, Quezon City was historic (e.g. record deaths or property damage).
While coverage includes BBC News and a Hong Kong site, all falls under WP:ROUTINE. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:58, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events and Philippines. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:58, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Keep because it's important enough & is reliably sourced, including mainstream media articles from multiple countries. Causing a record number of deaths or record amount of property damage isn't required for disasters to be notable. The vast majority of fires & other disasters which we have articles about weren't that severe. This isn't a routine or run-of-the-mill event - it was a large fire which destroyed many houses & killed 8 people. Having started (according to the BBC) within the campus of a university increases its notability. Jim Michael 2 (talk) 06:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. — hueman1 ( talk • contributions ) 10:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. Not a major notable fire incident similar to Star City, a mall in Davao City and the Kentex factory. This is just a normal and ordinary fire incident that frequently seen everytime in all news media outlets, fails WP:NOTNEWS. CruzRamiss2002 (talk) 11:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Keep Eight people were killed. According to SunStar:
* Around 250 families were affected by the fire, which was declared out at around 7 a.m.
* According to AFP via The Manila Times at least sixty homes were destroyed. The Independent says 80.
* These are somewhat notable numbers. Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 13:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Not all !votes are policy backed, but amongst those that are, there's sufficient to warrant from another week's discussion - especially as to whether it is ROUTINE and LASTING coverage (or not) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 08:57, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
* Keep I agree with User:Dunutubble that those numbers are notable, and there is already some coverage of it. This doesn't fall under WP:ROUTINE in my mind, with something that affected 250 families - it's not a wedding announcement or a sports score or a "dog bites man" type deal. Given that this fire only occurred two days ago (by local time), I think we may be jumping the gun a bit by deleting it since more coverage is likely to arise (including some that has already been brought up in this AfD discussion) with which we can expand the content of it. Sleddog116 (talk) 16:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Keep because it was a major fire that swept through a village's worth of houses leaving 250 families heavily affected by this and leaving 8 people dead 6 of which were children plus it can stand out in a way for where why and how the fire started. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dubstar44 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
* Comment This is just a run of the mill fire. The latest news is just about the identification of 7 of the 8 victims. (Philippine Star as of May 4). No WP:LASTING effect such as the city mayor's position being challenged such as the case of the Kentex slipper factory fire or virtual destruction of one of two of the country's major amusement park such as in the case of the Star City fire. The fire just happen to occur inside a village that shares the same name as the country's university (yes technically said university is largely in the same village/barangay) thus it was picked up by international media (eg. BBC News).Hariboneagle927 (talk) 23:34, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
* How can a fire which destroyed dozens of houses & made hundreds of people homeless be run-of-the-mill? Had it happened in the developed world, our article would be several times longer & would have been edited by several times more people. Jim Michael 2 (talk) 06:56, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
* Because it is not from the developed world. I lived, studied and worked there and this is sadly a normal occurrence especially during the dry season. Here's another fire from the same area with almost the same number of families displaced and in the end it was just run of the mill politician promises afterwards. -- Lenticel ( talk ) 14:43, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
* I'm talking about the coverage being run-of-the-mill you usually hear in the local evening news. As for the second point I afraid WP:SYSTEMICBIAS plays. But even so, if the local Filipino media would have provided a more comprehensive info on what happened to the fire which would have provided material to build this article. I really attempted to add more information about the fire but I can't really find further info from reliable sources aside from "we have now identified on who died." Virtually all news article says "a fire has happened and people died". No information of its implications to even local community or the related universityHariboneagle927 (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
* If this was not run-of-the-mill fire, there could have been easily longer... with COVID and ABS-CBN shutdown in mind, which meant getting references got a bit harder. Two examples of notable fires were the aformentioned Kentex slipper factory fire and the Ozone Disco fire. Generally, fires in residential areas are run-of-the-mill. There were bigger fires in Cavite City, two of them in February, one affecting 700 families and four villages. Those two were still run-of-the-mill. If East Coast bias was real, then Imperial Manila bias can give a run for its money. Howard the Duck (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Delete per WP:LASTING. After two weeks there are no additional news articles that details any progress about what to do with the effects of the fire moving forward. I appreciate the votes that are concerned about the loss of life and property but thing is, this is routine. It happened before and it will happen again and nothing will be done about it. -- Lenticel ( talk ) 01:26, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
* Delete as WP:NOTNEWS. SBKSPP (talk) 03:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
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%0 Journal Article %A Rhinn, Muriel %A Ritschka, Birgit %A Keyes, William M. %T Cellular senescence in development, regeneration and disease %D 2019 %R 10.1242/dev.151837 %J Development %P dev151837 %V 146 %N 20 %X Cellular senescence is a state comprising an essentially irreversible proliferative arrest combined with phenotypic changes and pronounced secretory activity. Although senescence has long been linked with aging, recent studies have uncovered functional roles for senescence in embryonic development, regeneration and reprogramming, and have helped to advance our understanding of this process as a highly coordinated and programmed cellular state. In this Primer article, we summarize some of the key findings in the field and attempt to explain them in a simple model that reconciles the normal and pathological roles for senescence. We discuss how a primary role of cellular senescence is to contribute to normal development, cell plasticity and tissue repair, as a dynamic and tightly regulated cellular program. However, when this process is perturbed, the beneficial effects turn detrimental and can contribute to disease and aging. %U https://dev.biologists.org/content/develop/146/20/dev151837.full.pdf | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Irena Laskowska
Irena Laskowska (15 March 1925 – 6 December 2019) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1948 and 2003.
Selected filmography
* The Last Day of Summer (1958)
* Milczące ślady (1961)
* Salto (1965)
* Hunting Flies (1969)
* Everything for Sale (1969)
* Pornografia (2003) | WIKI |
Glascock County School District
The Glascock County School District is a public school district in Glascock County, Georgia, United States, based in Gibson. It serves the communities of Edge Hill, Gibson, and Mitchell.
Schools
The Glascock County School District has one consolidated school including pre-school to grade twelve.
Elementary-middle-high school
* Glascock County Consolidated School | WIKI |
Page:Rudin - a novel (IA rudinnovel00turgrich).pdf/185
RUDIN ‘No, but it’s time.’
‘Repeat, then, at least once more.’
‘You say you are happy?’ asked Natalya.
‘I? No man in the world is happier than I am! Can you doubt it?’
Natalya lifted up her head. Very beautiful was her pale, noble, young face, transformed by passion, in the mysterious shadows of the arbour, in the faint light reflected from the evening sky.
‘I tell you then,’ she said, ‘I will be yours.’
‘Oh, my God!’ cried Rudin.
But Natalya made her escape, and was gone.
Rudin stood still a little while, then walked slowly out of the arbour. The moon threw a light on his face; there was a smile on his lips.
‘I am happy,’ he uttered in a half whisper. ‘Yes, I am happy,’ he repeated, as though he wanted to convince himself.
He straightened his tall figure, shook back his locks, and walked quickly into the garden, with a happy gesture of his hands.
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Talk:-δαπός
Etymology
I took this etymology from the one you originally wrote at ἀλλοδαπός. Do you remember what the sources for this etymology are? —Mahāgaja · talk 15:18, 16 July 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Container to use Host Kernel
How can i make the linux container to use linux Kernel Version
Since host has this version
cat /proc/version
Linux version 6.2.0-20-generic`
but
sudo kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_intel
modprobe: FATAL: Module msr not found in directory /lib/modules/6.2.0-20-generic
does not pick up the kernel for some reason. if i check the folders in /lib/modules its an old version of 5.15.x
A container automatically uses the host’s kernel (try running uname -a from inside the container to confirm this).
That doesn’t mean you’ll be able to load kernel modules etc from inside the container. That would be a huge security breach - you’d be loading the modules on the host.
This folder is needed for hardware accelaration for Emulator.
/lib/modules/6.2.0-20-generic
its available in the host but not in the container. in the modules path i have a different version of the host kernel version but when i
uname -a
Linux devubuntugui 6.2.0-20-generic
its the same version as the host
as @RichardHuxton pointed, containers use the same kernel as the host does. And you can’t load kernel modules from inside the container (unless your container is privileged). If you have another kernel version in /lib/modules/... inside the container it just doesn’t mean that your container use another kernel version.
If you want to use KVM acceleration inside the container I can suggest you to to modprobe kvm from the host in advance, allow /dev/kvm inside the container (using lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = ...), create /dev/kvm device node inside the container (you will need to enable mknod interception too).
Upd. I wasn’t right about mknod interception, it’s limited to a few character devices and /dev/kvm not in the list.
how can i create /dev/kvm inside the container
lxc config device add <ct_name> kvm unix-char mode=0660 gid=109 path=/dev/kvm | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special Best Album
The result was delete. MBisanz talk 01:11, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Special Best Album
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
Speedy delete: WP:Crystal and fails WP:MUSIC ( Moon ) and ( Sunrise ) 22:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
* Delete Even though BoA is a notable artist, the article has no references to support that it is even going to be released. Rtyq2 (talk) 23:13, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 02:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
* Special Best Smash with the crystal hammer (upcoming album). MuZemike ( talk ) 03:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
* Delete: WP:CRYSTAL. JamesBurns (talk) 00:57, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
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Mesoplanet
Mesoplanets are planetary-mass objects with sizes smaller than Mercury but larger than Ceres. The term was coined by Isaac Asimov. Assuming size is defined in relation to equatorial radius, mesoplanets should be approximately 500 km to 2,500 km in radius.
History
The term was coined in Asimov's essay "What's in a Name?", which first appeared in the Los Angeles Times in the late 1980s and was reprinted in his 1990 book Frontiers; the term was later revisited in his essay, "The Incredible Shrinking Planet" which appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and then in the anthology The Relativity of Wrong (1988).
Asimov noted that the Solar System has many planetary bodies (as opposed to the Sun and natural satellites) and stated that lines dividing "major planets" from minor planets were necessarily arbitrary. Asimov then pointed out that there was a large gap in size between Mercury, the smallest planetary body that was considered to be undoubtedly a major planet, and Ceres, the largest planetary body that was considered to be undoubtedly a minor planet. Only one planetary body known at the time, Pluto, fell within the gap. Rather than arbitrarily decide whether Pluto belonged with the major planets or the minor planets, Asimov suggested that any planetary body that fell within the size gap between Mercury and Ceres be called a mesoplanet, because mesos means "middle" in Greek. ... my own suggestion is that everything from Mercury up be called a major planet; everything from Ceres down be called a minor planet; and everything between Mercury and Ceres be called a "mesoplanet" (from a Greek word for "intermediate"). At the moment, Pluto is the only mesoplanet known. — I. Asimov (1988)
Today, the known objects that would be included by this definition are Pluto,, , , , , probably , and perhaps. These eight, together with Ceres, are the objects astronomers generally agree are dwarf planets (though with some doubt regarding Orcus); other smaller bodies have been proposed, but astronomers disagree about their dwarf planethood. | WIKI |
A Category 6 hurricane? Should scale be expanded to measure storms?
(CNN)Some experts are renewing calls to expand the scale used to measure hurricanes by adding a sixth category of storm as the flood-weary Carolinas battle the remnants of Hurricane Florence five days after landfall. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale denotes the maximum wind speed of a storm, ranging from a Category 1 to Category 5. A Category 1 storm can still be dangerous -- as Florence was when it slammed into the North Carolina coast Friday -- with winds of 74 to 95 mph, but a Category 5 is catastrophic, with winds of 157 mph or higher. Longtime CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, who has been in the thick of some of the worst storms over the past few decades, questions the need for changing the long-established scale. "I don't think creating a sixth category makes sense," Myers said. "None of the recent large storms exceeded the current Saffir-Simpson wind scale. They were large storms, which delivered the expected impact indicated by the forecast." Myers said there may be too much of a focus on a single number. "The fact that a category is only describing a concentrated wind event occurring near the eye tells you nothing about the rest of the storm," he said. "It might be time to take it a step further." Florence dropped dramatically from a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday to a Category 2 and then a Category 1 when it made landfall Friday morning near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The decline in wind strength may have caused some residents to let down their guard despite dire warnings from the National Hurricane Center that catastrophic damage might take parts of the Carolinas weeks or months to recover. In fact, in light of the downgrade on winds, Myers emphasized the likely storm surge during his coverage, practically ignoring the wind speeds and focusing on the expected inundation. Frequently, he noted, "The surge from this storm will be like a Category 4 storm, even though the winds in the eyewall are a Category 2." Instead, Myers suggested a three-tiered scale incorporating all aspects of a storm's danger when it makes landfall and beyond. "We should be helping people understand what a storm will do, not just how strong it is while over warm water," he said. His solution would be to rate the threats for each aspect of a storm. For example, Florence could have been described as a Category 1 for wind, a Category 3 for storm surge and a Category 5 for flooding. He said focusing on the threats might help local, state and federal officials as well as the public make more informed decisions and plans. "The challenge is people like to focus on single numbers, like the Dow Jones (industrial average)," Myers said. When it comes to making life-or-death decisions, the category of a past storm shouldn't be the driver for action, he said. The public is more informed and smarter than most officials think, especially in the digital age, Myers said. By providing people with the best information, he said, they will make even better decisions. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Cancer Immunology
The Cancer Immunology program studies the immunological processes involved in cancer development and therapy, and investigates cancers that derive from hematopoietic cells.
The immune system; the force witin that can cure cancer
Immunotherapy has been a breakthrough in the treatment of patients with melanoma, lung cancer and aggressive lymphoid malignancies. Nonetheless, many cancer types remain difficult to treat because of intense crosstalk between the tumor and the immune system, which leads to immune suppression that hampers an effective anti-tumor response.
Mission and goals
The Cancer Immunology program aims to improve the understanding of immunity against cancer, by immune monitoring of patients and investigating the immune suppressive mechanisms underlying tumor immune escape. The program also aims to find novel biomarkers to identify patients who may benefit from immunotherapy as well as discover and develop innovative therapeutic strategies that overcome immune escape. Altogether, the research performed within the Cancer Immunology program will advance the understanding and the clinical benefit of cancer immunotherapy.
The theme Cancer Immunology encompasses a broad representation of the field. Both solid tumors and hematopoietic cancers are investigated by multidisciplinary teams with strong (inter)national collaborations. To ensure scientific and societal impact fundamental research is translated into clinical applications. Vice versa, clinical findings are further investigated in the lab to unravel underlying mechanisms, with the aid of state of the art core facilities.
Research lines
Research lines of the Cancer Immunology theme comprise:
• Immunotherapy (e.d. engineered bispecific T cell engagers (BiTEs), CAR-T cells, dendritic cell-targeted vaccination, local immune modulation and engineered antibodies)
• Immune monitoring, biomarkers
• Cancer and autoimmunity
• Immune metabolism
• Tumor microenvironment
• Immune suppression
Program leaders
Program members | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
시간 제한메모리 제한제출정답맞힌 사람정답 비율
1 초 128 MB52191147.826%
문제
Tom’s birthday is coming up, and you have been put in charge of baking cakes for his monstrous birthday party. However, you have a great number of cakes to make, and a very short amount of time, so you are not sure that you will even finish before the party!
You have a list of different cakes to make, each requiring a certain amount of time to bake. You also have exactly 3 ovens to bake the cakes in, and each oven can only bake one cake at a time. Assuming that the time required to take a cake out and put another one in is negligible, can you determine the smallest amount of time you will need to spend baking, given the list of cakes to make?
입력
The input test file will contain multiple cases, with each case on a single line. The line begins with an integer n (where 1 ≤ n ≤ 40), the number of cakes to bake. Following are n integers, t1, . . . , tn (where 1 ≤ ti ≤ 30), indicating the time in minutes required to bake each of your cakes. End-of-input is marked by a single line containing 0; do not process this line.
출력
For each test case, output on a single line the smallest amount of time, in minutes, that you need to bake all of your cakes.
예제 입력 1
1 30
3 15 10 20
5 6 7 8 9 10
0
예제 출력 1
30
20
15 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Norman Baker
Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes in East Sussex from the 1997 general election until his defeat in 2015.
In May 2010 he was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport. On 7 October 2013, Baker was promoted to Minister of State at the Home Office in the coalition government of 2010–15. He resigned from his role at the Home Office on 3 November 2014.
Early life
Baker was born in Aberdeen, but his family moved to Hornchurch in east London in 1968. He was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, near Romford, and at Royal Holloway College, University of London, graduating in 1978 with a BA degree in German & History.
Baker joined the Liberal Party in 1981 while living in Islington and in his memoir he described himself as a 'sleeping' party member save for one canvassing session in six years. In 1985 he joined the then Ecology Party before seeking his first council seat in Ouse Valley ward of Lewes District Council in 1987. Two years later in 1989 was also elected to the local county council of East Sussex. He became the Leader of Lewes District Council in 1991, a position he held until his election as an MP in 1997.
Outside of politics Baker was a regional director for Our Price Records for five years from 1978. He worked at Malling Street Service Station, Lewes, from 1983 to 1985. He taught English as a foreign language from 1985 to 1997, with a spell as a Liberal Democrat environment researcher in the House of Commons in 1989–90.
Parliamentary career
Baker contested Lewes at the 1992 general election, but the sitting Conservative Party MP Tim Rathbone retained the seat. He stood again at the 1997 election, and this time gained the seat with a majority of 1,300 votes over Rathbone, becoming Lewes's first non-Conservative MP since 1874.
Baker prided himself on "uncovering scandals and conflicts of interest among MPs and the government". His consistent questioning of Peter Mandelson may have helped lead to Mandelson's second resignation from government. He also raised issues about Lord Birt and his role as Tony Blair's adviser. After compiling figures in 2002, which revealed that the government's fleet of ministerial cars had grown to its largest ever size, he began in January 2005 to campaign to force disclosure of the details of MPs' expenses under the Freedom of Information Act, finally succeeding in February 2007. His success enabled The Daily Telegraph to publish details of his own expense claims, which included £3,000 for office rental.
In October 2001 he won a test case in the High Court, when the National Security Appeals panel ruled that the Data Protection Act required the security service MI5 to allow him access to information which he believed the security service holds on him, the first time this had happened in the 92-year history of MI5. In 2001 he was named "Inquisitor of the Year" in The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards, and in February 2002 he won the Channel 4 Opposition MP of the Year Award.
Baker is regarded as coming from the left-wing of the party, and until losing his seat was a member of the Beveridge Group within the Liberal Democrats. A staunch republican, he is also well known for his vocal support for animal rights groups, and he is a strong proponent for greater protection of animals under law. In 1997, The Times columnist Matthew Parris described him as a "classic House of Commons bore", and in the Commons in 2002, Labour MP Stephen Pound likened his speeches to "root canal surgery without anaesthetic", but Parris added in 2001 "You underestimate him at your peril. He has a habit of being right." He asked two parliamentary questions of the Ministry of Defence in 2006 and 2007 on the subject of what the Ministry calls "unexplained aerial phenomena" including: "To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department's unidentified flying objects project is extant; and if he will make a statement."
Following the 2008 Camp for Climate Action at the coal-fired Kingsnorth power station in Kent (since demolished), Baker called for an investigation into police tactics, saying he had witnessed unnecessarily aggressive policing and unprovoked violence against peaceful protesters during the event.
Front-bench career
In the 2001–05 Parliament, Baker was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, and was appointed as Liberal Democrat Environment spokesman in 2002, a post he held until his resignation in 2006 following the election of Sir Menzies Campbell as party leader.
As Environment spokesman in May 2005, he joined with two former environment ministers, the Labour MP Michael Meacher and the Conservative John Gummer, to table a cross-party Early Day Motion No. 178 in support of a Climate Change Bill drafted by Friends of the Earth. The motion called for a Bill to be "brought forward in this Parliament so that annual cuts in carbon dioxide emissions of 3 per cent can be delivered in a framework that includes regular reporting and new scrutiny and corrective processes" and attracted 412 signatures. Baker also opposed nuclear power, describing it as "hopelessly uneconomic", and warning that new nuclear power stations "would generate vast quantities of nuclear waste and divert essential funding away from energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy."
He returned to the front bench in July 2007, when he was appointed as Liberal Democrat spokesman on the Cabinet Office and the Duchy of Lancaster. In December 2007, after the election of Nick Clegg as party leader, Baker (who had supported Clegg in the leadership contest) returned to the front bench as spokesman on Transport.
David Kelly
Baker announced on 19 May 2006 that he had decided to step down from the Liberal Democrats' front bench to pursue a quest to establish the truth behind the death in 2003 of David Kelly, an expert in biological warfare employed by the Ministry of Defence and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. Kelly had been found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee investigating the scandal.
The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide and that Kelly had not in fact said some of the things attributed to him by Gilligan. Baker said that Hutton had "blatantly failed to get to the bottom of matters", and that "the more I look into it the less convinced I am by the explanation and the more unanswered questions appear which ought to have been addressed properly by the Hutton inquiry or by the coroner."
In July that year, Baker claimed that data had been wiped from the hard drive on one of his computers. Although some news reports suggested that this related to evidence showing Kelly's death was not a suicide, Baker maintained that none of his research on Kelly had been stored on that particular machine. In April 2007 he announced his findings, telling a meeting in Lewes:"I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that this could not be suicide. The medical evidence does not support it and David Kelly's state of mind and personality suggests otherwise. It was not an accident so I am left with the conclusion that it is murder.'"
His book, The Strange Death of David Kelly, was published in October 2007, and serialised in the Daily Mail. Some relatives of Kelly have expressed their displeasure at the publication. The husband of Kelly's sister Sarah said "It is just raking over old bones ... I can't speak for the whole family, but I've read it all [Baker's theories], every word, and I don't believe it." However, Baker writes in the book that other relatives of Kelly also think his death was suspicious.
Censure
In December 2007, Baker was criticised, but not fined by the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges for a newsletter which contained an "advertising feature" about a Liberal Democrat MEP. The Committee's report concluded: "We agree with the Commissioner that this element of Mr Donovan's complaint should be upheld, and we reiterate that the inclusion of material of a party political nature is not permissible in publications funded from parliamentary allowances."
Tibet
Baker is President of the Tibet Society, and was a member of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet.
In February 2008 he released a statement to mark International Mother Language Day saying "The Chinese government are following a deliberate policy of extinguishing all that is Tibetan, including their own language in their own country. It may be obvious, but Tibetan should be the official language of Tibet." Tibetan is an official language of Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas in China. In school, the younger grades are taught in Tibetan for new ideas, but the rest is in Mandarin Chinese including for concepts in sciences and maths.
On 18 March 2008 he addressed Tibetan protesters outside the Chinese embassy in London, and also delivered a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from six Tibetan students in the UK who were supporting Tibetans in the 2008 Tibetan unrest. The students' letter called for an end to the unrest's suppression, a UN investigation into it, and for unfettered media access in Tibet.
In March 2010, the BBC ran an investigation detailing 37 occasions that Baker failed to declare a financial interest in Tibet during parliamentary debates and questions, despite receiving hospitality from the Tibetan government-in-exile. Baker released a statement saying that it was an oversight.
Coalition Government
At the 2010 general election Baker was again returned as MP for Lewes. The Liberal Democrats entered a coalition agreement with the Conservative Party on 11 May 2010, and Baker was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
In 2013, Baker was quoted as saying that rail fares were "not that expensive" when compared to fares for rail travel in other countries, and that deals that were available reduced the price significantly. This was against fare increases of more than 50% for "the average season ticket" between 2003 and 2013.
In the October 2013 reshuffle, Baker was appointed to the Home Office as Minister of State, overseeing issues relating to national security, replacing fellow Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne. In this role he repeatedly suggested changes to drug policy, saying that patients should have access to cannabis for cancer pain relief and multiple sclerosis and that all options regarding legal highs were under consideration. The Home Office repeatedly rejected progressive suggestions.
In December 2013, it was reported that Baker had encouraged the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen or reconsider six cases involving female genital mutilation, as forbidden by the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985. Although this law had been on the books since 1985, there had been no prosecutions under it until February 2014, when it was announced that the first was scheduled soon thereafter. The Daily Telegraph estimated that, up to that point, 170,000 women had been subject to the assault. A doctor was the first person charged with an offence contrary to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 in March 2014.
He was appointed a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2014, giving him the right to the Honorific Title "The Right Honourable" for life.
Baker resigned from the Home Office on 3 November 2014, citing conflicts with Home Secretary Theresa May. On the same day, he described being the only Liberal Democrat in the Home Office as like being "a hippy at an Iron Maiden concert".
2015 general election
On two occasions in the run-up to the election, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visited the towns of Seaford, Lewes and Newhaven (which are within the Lewes constituency) with Baker. At the election Baker's majority of over 7,000 was overturned by the Conservative candidate Maria Caulfield, a nurse who beat him by 1,083 votes.
Life after Parliament
In 2015, Baker, a keen music enthusiast, re-formed his old band The Reform Club, which announced that it would be releasing an album of 15 original songs on 25 March. Baker is the chief lyricist with music written by Mike Phipps. The band also includes Geoff Smith on bass and vocals, Chris Dartnell on drums and vocals, Mike Phipps on guitars, keyboards and vocals, Brian Wiseman on lead guitar and vocals, with Maxwell Gardner on guitar for live appearances. A second album, Never yesterday, is awaiting release. As Norman Baker and Friends, he released a four-track EP, Animal Countdown, in March 2015, which highlights the plight of endangered species. He also presents two radio shows on the local community radio station Seahaven FM, The Hidden 60s on Monday evenings and Anything Goes on Sunday mornings.
Baker's political memoir Against The Grain was published on 18 September 2015. In an interview with The Independent newspaper on 11 August he said he had no intention of seeking election again.
Baker was the managing director of The Big Lemon, a bus operator based in Brighton, from March 2017 to January 2018.
On 15 October 2019, Baker’s book, ... And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know, which critically examined the Royal Family's privileged status in public life, was released by Biteback Publishing.
On 10 September 2022, Baker attended the Accession Council for the Proclamation of King Charles III at St James's Palace, London. | WIKI |
BRIEF-Armstrong Flooring reports Q3 2016 results
Nov 11 (Reuters) - Armstrong Flooring Inc : * Armstrong Flooring Inc sees FY 2016 adjusted EBITDA outlook to be in range of $73 mln to $78 mln * Armstrong Flooring Inc says continue to expect to spend between $45 mln to $50 mln for capital expenditures for 2016 * Armstrong Flooring Inc sees 2016 adjusted net sales to be in range of flat to up 1 pct compared to prior year * FY 2016 earnings per share view $0.62, revenue view $1.23 bln — Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Armstrong Flooring reports third quarter 2016 results * Q3 adjusted earnings per share $0.39 * Q3 earnings per share $0.29 * Q3 sales $313.4 mln versus I/B/E/S view $327.8 mln * Q3 earnings per share view $0.33 — Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wall Street Has Given Up on These 3 Stocks, and That's a Huge Mistake
Investors often watch Wall Street's reaction to a business to get a sense of how they should be thinking about a company, but very often the market gets it more wrong than right.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) , Apache (NYSE: APA) , and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are three such companies that Wall Street has given up on, but that could be a big mistake. Here are the reasons why three Motley Fool contributors think the market is wrong about these stocks.
Making memories, building wealth
Anders Bylund (Micron Technology): Memory chip giant Micron Technology had a fantastic year in 2017, when chip prices were on the rise and the stock skyrocketed 88% higher in 52 weeks. It was a very different story in 2018. Memory chips turned cheaper again and the entire tech sector was rattled by trade tensions between Beijing and Washington. By the end of the year, Micron's shares had slumped 23% lower .
Today, we Micron investors are looking back at a 30% price drop over the last six months despite a 17% gain in January. Global demand for electronics is running low at the moment due to a lull in the smartphone market and that troublesome Sino-American trade conflict, and that means lower demand for Micron's memory chips.
But Micron is actively managing the supply-and-demand equation for chip prices by tapping the brakes on its manufacturing lines. When -- not if -- the market turns back up again, the floodgates to Micron's in-house manufacturing facilities will open wide and allow the company to take full advantage of the refreshed market conditions.
From consumer-level smartphones to data center servers, with an eye toward self-driving cars and smart homes in the future, devices everywhere are thirsting for larger and larger memory and storage capacities. Right now, wireless buyers may be holding off on upgrades due to the impending launch of 5G devices and networks. In the data center market, solid-state storage devices are moving to a newer, faster, and more reliable data transfer technology, creating a bottleneck in that product pipeline as device manufacturers rejigger their production systems. These are short-term issues with clear solutions just around the corner.
Meanwhile, market makers are treating Micron's stock like a redheaded stepchild. Shares are trading at just 3.1 times trailing earnings and 4.7 times Micron's free cash flows. This stock is spring-loaded for a huge rebound, perhaps in 2019, but most certainly within the next couple of years.
The oil driller the market loves to hate
John Bromels (Apache Corporation): It's not clear why, but Wall Street seems to have given up on independent oil and gas exploration and production company Apache Corporation. Shares have dropped about 60% over the last five years, despite the company's recent string of solid earnings reports .
Naturally, shares of the oil driller sank -- along with all of its peers' -- when oil prices crashed in 2014. But in 2016, Apache announced a massive find in West Texas that it dubbed "Alpine High." The company estimated that the find contained 3 billion barrels of oil and 75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but it had only paid an average of $1,300 per acre for the find. That's incredibly cheap by Permian Basin standards, where the hydrocarbon-rich land usually goes for at least $10,000 per acre, and often quite a lot more.
But the "Alpine High" didn't last for Apache's stock price: After the stock briefly topped $60 per share, investors got concerned that the lack of infrastructure in the Alpine High region would hamper Apache in ramping up sales of its Alpine High oil and gas. Then, even as Apache sold off underperforming Canadian assets in 2017 and reallocated the money to Alpine High infrastructure, the share price dropped to $50... then to $40, even lower than its pre-Alpine High announcement price. The market slump in Q4 2018 even knocked it below $30 per share, although it's back up at just above that level now.
The market doesn't even seem to be giving Apache credit for being one of the few oil drillers not to cut its dividend during the slump. That dividend is now yielding 3.1%, at the high end of its historical range, further evidence that Apache is undervalued. Currently, the company is trading for less than the estimated price of the land it owns in Texas -- and that doesn't even count its lucrative North Sea and Egypt operations. Clearly, Wall Street has left the stock for dead.
But that's a mistake, thanks to Apache's improving balance sheet, its rising production numbers, and the stabilization of oil prices. While the market may continue to ignore Apache in the near term, at some point it's going to have to pay attention to this stable workhorse.
Not rotten to the core at all
Rich Duprey(Apple): The market's right: Apple is never going to sell another iPhone again. The better-than-30% drop in its share price from the all-time high hit back in October when the company became the first trillion-dollar business is a good assessment of the prospects for the consumer electronics titan.
Or, it was a complete overreaction to the reports of declining iPhone sales. Although it's true fourth-quarter iPhone shipments were down 11%, according to IDC, it wasn't just Apple suffering from a slowdown. Samsung also saw shipments decline, but as the world's biggest seller of smartphones, its 5.5% drop should be a bit more worrisome.
More importantly for investors, Apple is transitioning more to services. Although iPhone revenue fell 15% in the fourth quarter, service revenue jumped 19%, and Apple said it had more than 360 million paying subscribers to services like iCloud, Apple Music, and Apple Pay, some 120 million more than last year.
Because these are recurring sources of revenue , they ought to be seen as more valuable to Apple, even if it's a smaller number than its core iPhone business at the moment. And Apple still does sell a heckuva lot of iPhones. IDC estimates over 68 million were shipped last quarter. That business isn't going away, and Apple possibly adding lasers to its cameras in the future to create 3D imaging may boost sales once again.
Apple's stock trades at just 13 times trailing earnings and 12 times this year's estimates, while going for a discounted 15 times the free cash flow it produces. So either Apple is about to shrivel up and die, as the collapse in its stock price would suggest, or this is a great time to get in on a still-great company. Wall Street made a mistake by giving up on Apple so easily; you shouldn't do the same.
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Netflix: Is the Streaming Giant Running Out of Steam?
Netflix (NFLX) is a global leader in the fast-growing streaming-on-demand entertainment business. It owns a massive customer network with a meaningful and growing presence in virtually every country other than China.
The main value for NFLX comes from its monthly subscription fee that it generates through its massive subscriber network. Meanwhile, its competitive advantage is boosted by its enormous content library and strong name brand that leads to significant customer growth in its newer markets. (See Netflix stock analysis on TipRanks)
The company also boasts sticky loyalty among its existing customers, and a massive trove of consumer data that it has accrued. It can leverage this data to better inform choices for new content production. That helps the company creates content that will best satisfy existing customers and attract new subscribers. It can also use its data to target advertising with maximum effectiveness to promote its products.
Thus far, the results have been terrific as revenue has exploded by over 17,000% in under two decades of operation. The stock has generated total returns that exceed the S&P 500’s by a jaw-dropping nine-to-one over that span.
Growing Competition
However, the company has run into some recent headwinds as major deep-pocketed rivals have poured into the streaming space, including Amazon (AMZN), Disney (DIS), and AT&T (T). While Netflix enjoyed a head-start in terms of customer network and industry-specific data and tailored content, each of these competitors has deeper pockets due to highly profitable core industries that can finance its investments into streaming.
Furthermore, all three of these companies have massive customer networks of their own from other businesses that have also given them significant consumer data banks. Moreover, Disney has a ton of existing and extremely popular video content that it has quickly loaded onto its Disney+ streaming service as well as numerous franchises with devoutly loyal fanbases (e.g., Star Wars) that it is leveraging to attract new subscribers.
Competition is clearly beginning to dampen Netflix’s growth momentum, as Q1 of Fiscal Year 2021 showed weak subscriber growth and management issued disappointing guidance for Fiscal Year 2021. Revenue growth appears to have peaked in 2018 at 35.1% and has decreased every year since, with analyst consensus growth targets of 18.9% in 2021 and 15.1% in 2022.
Valuation Metrics
Despite these headwinds, NFLX still possesses a significant head start in the space, giving it a significant edge to leverage in terms of consumer data and network. However, its valuation remains elevated despite a recent pullback in the share price.
The forward EV/EBITDA remains roughly in-line with long-term averages at 33.7x. That said, the Price to Normalized Forward Earnings looks more reasonable at 48.35x given that Netflix is expected to grow Normalized Earnings by a whopping 74.3% this year and 22.3% in in 2022 to $13.12. At the current share price of $599.3, that would put the P/2022 Normalized Earnings at 38.3x.
Wall Street’s Take
From Wall Street analysts, NFLX earns a Moderate Buy analyst consensus based on 26 Buy ratings, 6 Hold ratings, and 4 Sell ratings in the past 3 months. Additionally, the NFLX average price target of $599.3 puts the upside potential at 21.14%.
Summary and Conclusions
NFLX is facing significant headwinds right now given the entry of several deep-pocketed heavyweight companies into the streaming space. As a result, the company’s growth potential has weakened considerably and its growth rate seems to be in terminal decline.
That said, it still has a lot going for it, with a significant head start in terms of industry-specific consumer data collection and network effect. Furthermore, it already has a foothold in countries across the globe and millions of subscribers that are familiar with and loyal to its content library and style, making them less likely to switch to a competitor.
Overall, the stock does not appear extremely cheap, but could be good buy if the company will deliver on near-term growth expectations and it remains in the double-digits for the foreseeable future.
Disclosure: On the date of publication, Samuel Smith had no position in any of the companies discussed in this article.
Disclaimer: The information contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this article should be taken as a solicitation to purchase or sell securities.
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BOOK TENTH
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��Meanwhile, ere thus was sinned and
judged on Earth, Within the gates of Hell sat Sin and
Death, 230
In counterview within the gates, that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Far into Chaos, since the Fiend passed
through,
Sin opening; who thus now to Death be- gan: " O Son, why sit we here, each other
viewing
Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives In other worlds, and happier seat provides For us, his offspring dear ? It cannot be But that success attends him; if mishap, Ere this he had returned, with fury driven By his Avengers, since no place like this Can fit his punishment, or their revenge. Methinks I feel new strength within me
rise, 243
Wings growing, and dominion given me
large Beyond this Deep whatever draws me
on,
Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite With secret amity things of like kind By secretest conveyance. Thou, my shade Inseparable, must with me along; 250
For Death from Sin no power can sepa- rate.
But, lest the difficulty of passing back Stay his return perhaps over this gulf Impassable, impervious, let us try (Adventrous work, yet to thy power and
mine
Not unagreeable !) to found a path Over this Main from Hell to that new
World
Where Satan now prevails a monument Of merit high to all the infernal Host, 259 Easing their passage hence, for intercourse Or transmigration, as their lot shall lead. Nor can I miss the way, so strongly drawn By this new-felt attraction and instinct." Whom thus the meagre Shadow answered
soon :
" Go whither fate and inclination strong Leads thee; I shall not lag behind, nor
err
The way, thou leading: such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste The savour of death from all things there
that live.
��Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid." 271 So saying, with delight he snuffed the
smell Of mortal change on Earth. As when a
flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league
remote,
Against the day of battle, to a field Where armies lie encamped come flying,
lured
With scent of living carcases designed For death the following day in bloody
fight;
So scented the grim Feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air, 280 Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both, from out Hell-gates, into the
waste
Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark, Flew diverse, and, with power (their power
was great)
Hovering upon the waters, what they met Solid or slimy, as in raging sea Tossed up and down, together crowded
drove, From each side shoaling, towards the mouth
of Hell;
As when two polar winds, blowing adverse Upon the Crouian sea, together drive 290 Mountains of ice, that stop the imagined
way
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broad,
Smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to Hell. So, if great things to small may be com- pared,
Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke, From Susa, his Memnonian palace high, Came to the sea, and, over Hellespont
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Obama to ask his political appointees to clear way for Clinton
President Barack Obama plans to ask the thousands of political appointees across his administration to submit letters of resignation effective on Inauguration Day, a move that follows a time-honored tradition but is stoking anxiety among his loyalists throughout the federal government. For the first time in 28 years, there’s the prospect of a same-party transition, and with Hillary Clinton vowing to build on Obama’s agenda, that could have been good news for any of his 4,000 political appointees who might want to keep their jobs beyond Jan. 20. But despite the eight-year process of merging the Democrats’ political networks, the expectation remains that Clinton will largely replace Obama’s executive branch staff — from cabinet secretaries to deputy chiefs of staff to low-level press assistants — with her own. Compared to the skeletal political machine that Obama built as a freshman senator from Illinois, Clinton has “a far larger universe of people who have relationships with her or have worked with her over the years,” said Tommy Vietor, who went from driving a press van for then-Sen. Obama to becoming his top national security spokesman in the White House. If Clinton wins on Tuesday, no one is expecting the same sort of mass exodus of staff that would come with a Donald Trump victory. But it doesn’t exactly mean job security for the current appointees, either, though they’re more likely to be asked to stick around until their replacements start. "It's been a pretty open process with the White House liaison offices over the last year that no one should expect a position in the next administration," a recently departed Obama administration official said. When asked by POLITICO, the White House confirmed that Obama would do his part to clear the way for Clinton’s staff picks. In accordance with the “well-respected principle that the incoming president selects her or his own team,” said White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine, Obama “plans to follow the past practice of asking appointees to submit resignation letters effective upon the inauguration of the new president.” And many of Obama’s appointees don’t even know if they would want to stay. After serving multiple grueling years trying to carry out Obama’s agenda, workers with political posts are wondering whether they have gas left in the tank, whether they could affect more change outside government, and whether it’s time to make more cash. “There are a lot of us stepping out of an eight-year whirlwind of service, and thinking, ‘I don’t own a house and I have no kids,’” said Jesse Moore, 34, a longtime White House aide who recently left to work on youth advocacy and political mobilization. “People who served in his White House worked pretty damn hard for a really long time,” Moore said. He predicted that some will stay, and others will come back to serve later. But for now they’re eager, he said, “to build or pay more attention to their families and get home in time for dinner most days.” A likely situation for many political appointees if Clinton wins is limbo — perhaps for a while. Clinton may choose to hang on to quite a few people, at least until she can complete the process of filling out her own government, which can take a year. Alida Garcia, head of a new effort to boost the ranks of blacks and Hispanics in government, said her group, Inclusv, has been getting “daily outreach from appointees of color in the Obama administration concerned about their future job opportunities who lack clarity on what the job market will look like shortly with thousands of people moving to town.” Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign and transition team are deeply resistant to discussing who’ll serve in her government, insisting that they’re single-mindedly focused on winning the election. There’s very limited precedent for a two-term president to be followed by a member of the same party. Indeed, when Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H. W. Bush won in 1988 — the last same-party White House transition — it didn’t go over well when large numbers of Reagan appointees were dismissed. Chase Untermeyer, Bush’s personnel director, recalled dealing with the “the pain and outrage that comes from removing someone from office.” Reagan, who campaigned enthusiastically for Bush as essentially a third Gipper term, ordered his appointees to submit resignation letters, and Bush could decide which to accept. Untermeyer sent out surveys asking Reagan appointees whether they wanted to keep their jobs, or if they wanted a new position within the new administration. But ultimately, there was heavy turnover. Bush “absolutely believed in making sure that his longtime supporters were remembered,” Untermeyer said. Untermeyer maintained a list of the “truly deserving” Bush loyalists who’d get preference for jobs. The famed Bush strategist Lee Atwater also believed strongly in rewarding young campaign staffers with “Schedule C” positions, the lowest-level of political appointments, Untermeyer recalled in an interview. If the Clintons keep such a list, it has accumulated a lot of names over their three decades in politics. Confidants like to cite an aphorism: Obama travels light; the Clintons have a lot of baggage. “With Obama, he had essentially no political network in Chicago and it was just sort of the Senate office or people who had done the campaign work who were likely to come with him,” said Vietor, who left the White House in 2013 to found a strategic communications firm on the West Coast. Clinton, Vietor said “is in a different place,” with a political network that includes her time in Arkansas, as first lady, Senator and secretary of state, not to mention two presidential campaigns. Further dimming the prospects for Obama’s Schedule Cs and other appointees who want one of the 4,000 spots Clinton will have to fill: most of the people currently serving in the administration are barred by law from helping campaign. But people who’ve worked closely with Clinton as she’s climbed the political ladder caution against the perception that she’s committed to paying back political favors. They warn that she’s primarily interested in talent, so Clinton loyalists and donors hoping for a gig might end up being just as disappointed as Obama veterans who want to stay. And despite the early bad blood after their bitter 2008 primary battle, there’s still tons of overlap in the Clinton-Obama Venn diagram. Just look at the leadership in her campaign: Jen Palmieri and John Podesta held top posts in Obama’s White House. Spokesman Brian Fallon’s last job was in the Justice Department. Jacob Leibenluft left Obama’s National Economics Council in June to join Clinton’s Brooklyn policy shop. Her transition team includes Obama veterans Tom Donilon and Stephanie Valencia Ramirez. They’re all likely to recruit at least some former colleagues. But the degree of continuity isn’t fully Clinton’s prerogative. Many Obama administration aides, whether they’re at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or grinding away at the agencies, say they’re ready for a break, whether that’s a six-month vacation or a stint in the private sector. A lot of them have moved on, and so did Kevin Samy, 29, for a while at least. He spent the past year consulting after serving as a speechwriter in Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency and Defense Department. Citing the “pull of public service” and his support for Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, Samy is eager to work in the next Democratic administration. But he explained the mindset of those who aren’t. There’s the Obama movement factor, for one thing. It’s not so much that alumni don’t want to work for Clinton as much as they were never especially ambitious about politics in the traditional Washington sense. "I didn't get into politics for politics sake, I got into it because I was inspired by what Barack Obama stands for,” Samy said. “You'll find a lot of people with that same story. And there are a lot of ways to still make good on his mission, inside and outside of government." Indeed, the millennials and Gen-Xers who got their first taste of the political process during the Obama years got a harsh view of its limits, especially as a Republican Congress stymied Obama’s initiatives. So if Obama alumni are leaving not just the administration but the Washington game at unusually high rates — many have decamped to the West Coast — “it’s more of a function of personal and professional reality eight years later,” Samy said, “it's not that Obama folks don't care.” The “ultimate question,” he added, is whether the Clinton administration, which is likely to still need 60-plus votes in the Senate and a miracle in the House if it’s going to pass any bills, is the best way to fulfill “Obama’s underlying mission of change and service.” They’ve watched the president use his convening power to convince executives to make changes, and wonder if the flatter world of business would be a more effective approach to, for example, fighting climate change. There’s also the less-voiced advantage of the salary boost. “Let’s say you could effect big change at a place like Wal-Mart, SpaceX, Amazon, or Google, versus a mid-level position in government,” Samy said. “You can still make a large and legitimate impact on society." But hundreds of appointees eager to stay in their posts, hopefully with Clinton at the helm, are stuck with a waiting game. Hoffine said the White House is “committed to providing out-going appointees the information they need to plan for their own transitions.” That includes working with agency personnel heads to make sure appointees get extra personnel and benefits information before the administration ends. “Get comfortable with the fact that this is gonna take a while,” Vietor wrote in a recent Medium post titled “A brief guide to surviving transition.” It takes weeks for the process of hiring cabinet secretaries and their chiefs of staff to filter down. “This part sucks the most,” he warned, “because the bosses and colleagues you love will be preoccupied with figuring out what happens to them before they can stop to think about you.” Andrew Restuccia contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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3 Conditions with the Same Symptoms as Heartburn
You likely recognize the burning sensation in your chest following a big meal. Heartburn, also called acid indigestion, is an uncomfortable feeling that occurs when acidic food or stomach acid backs up into your esophagus. Heartburn is one of the symptoms of gastrointestinal reflux, usually a short-term issue that’s easily controlled by avoiding certain foods, quitting smoking and losing weight.
Heartburn also may be a symptom of a more serious condition, however. While over-the-counter antacids may relieve your symptoms temporarily, if you experience heartburn frequently, you need to check with an experienced Manhattan gastroenterologist like Dr. Shawn Khodadadian. Dr. Khodadadian can diagnose the underlying cause of your acid indigestion and treat it properly. Here are three conditions that can cause heartburn:
1. GERD
GERD, or gastrointestinal reflux disease, is the most common cause of frequent heartburn. You might have GERD if you experience heartburn two or more times per week. If you have GERD, you’ll probably exhibit other symptoms beside heartburn, such as vomiting, a chronic dry cough, difficulty swallowing and hoarseness.
The condition is the result of a weakened valve between your stomach and esophagus that lets the acid back up, so controlling the food you eat doesn’t prevent the heartburn. Dr. Khodadadian, a doctor for GERD, relies on an upper endoscopy to diagnose GERD. If you have it, he can help you change your diet, provide medication or in the worst case, perform surgery. Without treatment from a GERD doctor, GERD can lead to other complications, including Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that can lead to throat cancer.
2. Hiatal Hernia
Pressure on your stomach from an injury or birth defect can cause a hiatal hernia. This condition happens when your stomach pushes through the opening, or hiatal, where your esophagus is attached. Food and acid can get pushed through the opening too, resulting in acid indigestion.
In addition to chronic heartburn, you may experience fatigue, difficulty swallowing and persistent belching. Most people just need to modify their lifestyle so that they lose weight — obesity being a key contributor to the condition. Surgery from an acid reflux doctor is recommended only when acid reflux medication doesn’t help.
Severe cases can lead to strangulation of the hernia, which cuts off the flow of blood to your stomach and requires emergency surgery. Other long-term complications of untreated hiatal hernias include Barrett’s esophagus and ulcers.
3. Gastroparesis
If the muscles in your stomach don’t function correctly, you may have gastroparesis. Often the result of damage to your vegas nerve, gastroparesis can be caused by diabetes, anorexia orbulimia, an infection, some medications, abdominal surgery or Parkinson’s disease. In addition to heartburn, you may experience bloating, lack of appetite, fluctuating blood sugar levels and weight loss.
Dr. Khodadadian relies first on an upper endoscopy to rule out other causes of the condition. A gastric-emptying study can help him verify gastroparesis, which to date has no cure. Instead, you’ll receive lifestyle counseling to change your diet, although medications may help as well.
Make an appointment at Manhattan Gastroenterology when your heartburn symptoms persist. Harmful bacteria left in your system can create havoc with your body and undigested food left in your stomach can lead to a life-threatening situation.
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Orgin of Life
The orgin of life is complex in most cases. Since some people follow diffrent religions and get interfered with science with diffrent people of diffrent religions. | WIKI |
Black-collared lovebird
The black-collared lovebird (Agapornis swindernianus) also known as Swindern's lovebird is a small, 13.5cm (5in) long, African parrot in the genus Agapornis and belongs to the Agapornithinae family. The black-collared lovebird is commonly found in areas of Africa such as Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Ghana; Liberia, and Uganda. They are most commonly found in forests with large trees and canopies where there is tropical and moist land. It is a mostly green parrot with black band on the back of its neck, and a dark greyish-black bill. Both sexes are similar. It is rarely kept in captivity because of its dietary requirement for a native fig.
Description
It is a mostly green parrot with black-collared nape, brownish red chest, greyish black bill, yellow iris and grey feet. Both sexes are similar. More specifically, the head is mostly green, with a yellow neck and a narrow black hind collar. Its bottom is a royal dark blue, and the rest of its upper body is dark green. The agapornis swindernianus has soft black feathers and orange-red markings on its outer tail feathers. The two genders are similar in their coloring. The young birds do not have the distinct black collar. The Dutch professor Theodore van Swinderen from the University of Groningen named the black-collared lovebird in 1820. The bird gets its name from the 'collar', identifiable from black feathers around its neck that resembles a collared shape. The zenkeri extension of the species contains a blood-orange stripe underneath its distinct collar.
Taxonomy
There are three subspecies of the black-collared lovebird:
* The nominate subspecies, A. s. swindernianus – Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
* Cameroon black-collared lovebird, A. s. zenkeri – Cameroon, Gabon and Congo
* Ituri black-collared lovebird or Emin's lovebird, A. s. emini – Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
The black-collared lovebird was discovered by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820. The name commemorates the Dutch professor, Theodore van Swinderen of University of Groningen.
Distribution and habitat
The black-collared lovebird is distributed across a wide range in equatorial Africa. It inhabits the forests of Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia and Uganda. They hide high in the forest canopy and are characterized as being very shy.The black-collared lovebird lives mainly in mature and secondary subtropic lowlands. These birds prefer a close-to-sea-level environment where they are not met with mountains or hills. They also enjoy gallery forests, or an environment of trees along a body of water. The black-collared lovebirds particularly favor fig trees and areas cleared of brush. Found commonly in primary forest trees or rarely in secondary growth, depending on the foliage level.
Diet and Foraging
The agapornis swindernianus diet relies on fig seeds, African fruits Rauwolfia, Harungana, and Macaranga, and maize from the forest ground. They are known to forage for oil palm at dawn in small flocks and feed on seeds and berries; insects, including caterpillars and beetle larvae. Although the Agapornis Swindernianus will feed on food found on the ground level they are mostly spotted in tree tops above the canopies making them very difficult birds to spot.
Vocal Behavior
The vocal behavior of the agapornis swindernianus has not been adequately recorded. There is not an exact pitch or sound that has been pinned to the bird. The most common voice is a high-pitched, discordant "sri-lee". The bird makes a variety of chattering noises when perched. Big groups of birds tweet constantly.
Conservation status
The black-collared lovebird is not globally threatened. The bird is generally reported as rare or uncommon with an exception in Gabon where they can be commonly found. This might reflect the common observer activity and the sensitization to the black-collared lovebird. The bird is rare in Liberia, but not of concern. The black-collared lovebird is also not uncommon in places such as the Yapo Forest and the Ivory Coast. The bird was also recorded from Azagny and Taï National Parks where you could find flocks of the birds. In Ghana, the species is rare and probably now confined to forest reserves, as well as in Bia National Park. The species is rare in the Dzanga reserves where they subside as well as in the Central African Republic. The agapornis swindernianus has rarely been recorded in East Africa, but is reasonably common, in Bwamba lowlands, Uganda.
Status
It is rare in some parts of its range. The range is so large that the population is difficult to estimate, but it is believed that the population is not under significant threat. The black-collared lovebird is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Aviculture
Black-collared lovebirds are rarely kept in captivity or as pets. They require certain native fig seed or fig flesh as a basis of their daily diet, and without these vital dietary necessities they do not normally thrive or breed well in captivity. | WIKI |
-- Former Chinese Leader Resurfaces Before Political Transition
Jiang Zemin , the former Chinese
president who was declared dead by a Hong Kong television
station last year, is back in the headlines on the eve of a
once-a-decade leadership transition in China , where retired
elders have long influenced the political horse-trading process. On Oct. 19 the official People’s Daily reminded readers
that late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping once called Jiang, 86,
a “qualified” Communist Party leader. The paper’s website the
next day reported Jiang met university officials in Beijing and
included a picture. Xinhua News Agency said Oct. 21 he
congratulated his old middle school on its 110th anniversary. Jiang’s appearances less than three weeks before the start
of the Communist Party Congress signals to fellow cadres that he
is healthy and involved in negotiations over who will run China
for the next decade, according to analysts including John Lee of
the University of Sydney. The reports may be aimed at projecting
stability during a transition that’s been roiled by the ouster
of Politburo member Bo Xilai and heir-apparent Xi Jinping’s two-
week public absence in September. “His public appearances are probably calculated to advance
both his presence and the standing of his preferred candidates
within the party,” said Lee, an adjunct professor at the
university’s Centre for International and Security Studies .
“The involvement of elders is seen by the Party as a
stabilizing rather than destabilizing factor since the
psychological factor of continuity rather than radical change is
much more comforting.” Elders Involved Party elders have long been involved in the succession
process, with their blessing of the next generation seen as
crucial. Deng supported Jiang’s promotion to party general
secretary after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Hua
Guofeng, who succeeded Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976, claimed the
leadership mantle by touting the endorsement of the Great
Helmsman, who reportedly told him that “with you in charge, I
am at ease.” Jiang served as party general secretary from 1989 to 2002.
China’s economy more than tripled in size during his time in
power and is now the world’s second-largest. This year has seen new challenges for the party, including
Bo’s ouster and expulsion from the Communist Party over the
murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, along with Xi’s
unexplained absence. On Oct. 18, China reported third-quarter
economic growth eased to 7.4 percent from a year earlier, the
seventh straight deceleration. Prominent Proteges Jiang’s most prominent protege is Xi, the current vice
president who is set to succeed President Hu Jintao as general
secretary at the congress beginning Nov. 8 and assume the mantle
of president next year, according to Willy Wo-Lap Lam, an
adjunct professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. Other proteges include Chongqing Party Secretary Zhang
Dejiang and propaganda chief Liu Yunshan, he said. Jiang has waged a power struggle with Hu for more than a
decade and the fact that the incoming Politburo Standing
Committee, China’s most powerful ruling body, is forecast to
include Zhang and Liu -- and not Hu ally Wang Yang -- suggests a
victory for Jiang, according to Lam. “These media appearances so close to a major event mean
something -- he is definitely out on maneuvers,” said Kerry
Brown, a former British diplomat in Beijing who is now a
professor at the University of Sydney . “He wants people close
to him in the new line up. And I suppose a more benign
interpretation is that is stresses continuity.” Weak Methods Jiang’s involvement also exposes the weakness of the
methods by which China’s leaders are chosen, illustrating the
complex and informal transition process, University of Sydney’s
Lee said. The prolonged influence of elders makes it “more
rather than less difficult to change policy direction in the
absence of dramatic events,” he said. Jiang largely disappeared from public view last year, and
his absence from the Communist Party’s 90th anniversary
celebrations in July 2011 led to speculation about his health.
On July 6 of that year, Hong Kong ’s Asia Television Ltd.
reported that Jiang had died, prompting Xinhua to issue a
rebuttal that reports of his death were “pure rumor.” Jiang met with the president and party secretary of
Shanghai Ocean University on Oct. 9 in Beijing, the People’s
Daily website reported Oct. 20. A photograph of the meeting
showed a white-haired Jiang wearing a gray suit and blue tie. On
Oct. 15 Xinhua reported Jiang sent condolences on the passing of
Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk. Crucial Role “The signal is clear -- the new leadership team is
something Jiang has played a crucial role in picking,” said
Minxin Pei, a professor of political science at Claremont
McKenna College in California . Pei said he expected mentions of Jiang to stop once the
party congress ends, since more appearances could take attention
away from Xi and the party’s other new leaders. “He has to be careful about not overshadowing the new
leader, Xi, after the party congress is over,” Pei said. “If
Jiang keeps appearing in public after Nov. 15, this could send
the wrong signal, something suggesting his continuing
influence.” To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story:
Michael Forsythe in Beijing at
mforsythe@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Peter Hirschberg at
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What Is the Definition of ETL and How Does It Differ From Data Pipelines?
A concise explanation and overview.
November 6, 2015
ETL is an acronym, and stands for three data processing steps: Extract, Transform and Load. ETL tools and frameworks are meant to do basic data plumbing: ingest data from many sources, perform some basic operations on it and finally save it to a final target datastore (usually a database or a data warehouse). The term itself has quite some history, and similar to BI, had time to accumulate all kinds of flavors of meanings, depending on who you ask.
A data pipeline, encompasses the complete journey of data inside a company. It can contain various ETL jobs, more elaborate data processing steps and while ETL tends to describe batch-oriented data processing strategies, a data pipeline can contain near-realtime streaming components. Current state-of-the-art tools for building data pipelines are for example Luigi (published by Spotify) or Airflow (published by AirBnB). Both fall into the category of workflow engines, are used in production by many mature companies to orchestrate very impressive data processing pipelines.
If you only want to get your data from one database to another, ETL is the term you should look for. Don’t bake your own solution, but rather use an existing tool or framework - otherwise it will get very messy eventually, and it will probably be hard to maintain by anybody but yourself. If however your team is going to grow and the ways you are using your data are not limited to plumbing it from one database into another, do take a look at the aforementioned workflow engines. They will require a bit of finesse, effort and DevOps skill to set up properly, but won’t hold you back once the company and its data start growing.
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Sentek Global
Sentek Global is consulting firm specializing in systems engineering and cybersecurity. The company's offerings are primarily related to IT security program management, but also include NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and leadership training.
History
Sentek Global was founded in 2001 by Eric Basu, a reserve US Navy SEAL officer.
In 2011, Sentek was awarded a $70-million, 5-year contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide information assurance, systems engineering, and other services related to software and implementation.
In 2021, Sentek Global was acquired by Deloitte. | WIKI |
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks) | Advanced Dermatology
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks)
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks)
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks) are one of the most common skin growths seen in infancy. They are a noncancerous overgrowth of blood vessels. The spots generally appear as a red patch in the skin that will grow to a red raised area over a short period of time. Any infant may grow a hemangioma, but we know they are more common in certain circumstances. The reasons for this are not clear. Girls have them more commonly than boys. They also occur more often in premature babies, or babies with a low birth weight.
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks)
With this type of birthmark generally we see a red patch or bump that is present at or shortly after birth. In the first year of life, the spots usually can grow considerably in size becoming larger and darker red. This time of growth for hemangiomas is called the proliferative phase. Rarely infants may have more than one of these growths present. They can also develop virtually anywhere on the skin.
The best dermatologists in Omaha know that there are several complications that can occur from hemangiomas.
Ulceration
The most common complication is ulceration and can occur in hemangiomas anywhere on the body. With ulceration, the hemangioma grows so quickly that it outgrows its own blood supply and the overlying skin breaks down leaving an open sore. The primary problem with this is that this skin wound can become infected and can be very painful for babies. Surprisingly, despite their bright red color, substantial bleeding as a complication is not something we see when it comes to hemangiomas.
Head & Neck Area
However, based on their location we can encounter other even more serious complications. Especially on the head and neck area we worry about hemangiomas on or near certain important structures, because due to the rapid growth in the first year of life sometimes they can interfere with these structures. One example is hemangiomas on eyelids. If these grow rapidly and block vision, rarely a hemangioma could cause permanent issues with eyesight. On the lips or around the nose a hemangioma may grow and block off the mouth/airway leading to breathing or eating issues.
Despite all these concerns, there are several pieces of good news when it comes to this very common growth.
Involution Phase
First and foremost, after hemangiomas have completed the proliferative phase, they then move into a phase where they gradually shrink and eventually disappear in most cases. Sometimes after they have completed shrinking up, some a discoloration or scarring in the skin may remain. The period of shrinking is called the involution phase for hemangiomas. This phase is much slower than the proliferative phase and can take a handful of years to fully occur.
There is a general rule for this involution phase:
• By age 5, roughly 50% of hemangiomas disappear
• By age 7, roughly 70% of them disappear
• Age 9, roughly 90% will have disappeared.
Infantile hemangiomas (strawberry birthmarks) Treatments
Equally important, for cases where there are complications or we have significant worry about potential complications, we have treatments available to help. The most important aspect of strawberry marks treatment generally involves actively treating a hemangioma during the proliferative growth phase with the goal of keeping them from growing as much as possible until this phase has ended.
At Advanced Dermatology of the Midlands we prefer to see babies with hemangiomas as early as possible, ideally by 1 month of age. This is so that we can assess the baby for potential complications and intervene with active treatment as early as possible when needed.
Medication
There are a few different medications that can be used to accomplish this. Traditionally prednisone had been the “go to” treatment. In recent years, use of medications in the category known as beta blockers has come to the forefront in dermatology showing great promise for treatment of hemangiomas. In most cases, these treatments are administered systemically as a liquid medicine by mouth. Sometimes they can also be applied topically to the growths.
Laser may also be used in some cases with very thin hemangiomas. The best type of laser for this is known as a pulsed dye laser. The pulsed dye laser we have available and use in our practice is the V beam perfecta.
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Infantile hemangiomas are quite common, and they are something we see frequently in our clinics at Advanced Dermatology of the Midlands. We have extensive experience diagnosing and treating these growths. If you have a child affected by a hemangioma and would like any additional assistance, please contact us to schedule a consultation. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed bin Faisal I
The result was delete. No references are provided as proof that this person exists. Sandstein 18:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Mohammed bin Faisal I
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Hoax please see Articles for deletion/Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite. Related article up for deletion:Articles for deletion/Adnan bin Mohammed bin Faisal I, Articles for deletion/Adel bin Mohammed bin Faisal I - dwc lr (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
* Delete - dwc lr (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
* Delete as hoax. Edward321 (talk) 05:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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Rh essential thing which the leader must secure first of all as a foundation for everything else, it is revealed as something outside, something to be neglected until the nuisance of listening to its demands becomes more intolerable than the nuisance of acceding to them. And this, I am afraid, is too often a true picture of the attitude of the Government and the public opinion of the country towards science.
Professor Perkin has shown, in this year's presidential address to the Chemical Society, that the coal-tar industry, founded on the discoveries made by his father, now leads to our annual purchase of colouring matters to the value of £2,000,000, of which 90 per cent, comes from Germany; furthermore, that these dyes are essential to our textile industries, representing at least £200,000,000 per annum and employing 1,500,000 workers. He traces the decline of the coal-tar industry and its gradual transference to Germany, beginning during the period 1870–5, to the insufficient number of first-rate British chemists necessary for developing the existing processes, and especially for the all-important work of making new discoveries.
The same failure is apparent in other industries, as was shown by Professor Perkin in his evidence before the consultative Committee of the Board of | WIKI |
Review: An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically
Critic’s Pick Robert Ashley’s “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” isn’t the first opera to have its heroine pathetically forsaken in an American desert. Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” starts its final act in one, with the title character “alone, lost, abandoned,” as she cries in a majestic outpouring of an aria. The Linda of “Improvement” — which was written in the 1980s and is being given a soulfully austere revival at the Kitchen in Chelsea through Feb. 16 — doesn’t get to vent her feelings quite so extravagantly. For one thing, she’s left by Don, her husband, at a distinctly unoperatic locale: a highway turnoff. For another, her voice rarely rises much beyond the soft singsong-y speech that’s characteristic of Mr. Ashley’s mature works. Her most sweeping solo is a kind of monologue; she mulls in a quiet flood of gently rhythmic talk how she has “driven my husband from me by my complacency and my indifference.” [Read about the pleasures and perils of reviving Robert Ashley.] But even if Linda’s story never overtly expands far beyond the everyday — a coffee, a late-night rendezvous in a deli, a letter from her son she reads aloud — our 90 minutes with her and the people she comes across take on a lulling, mesmerizing grandeur as episodes and years pass. This is in large part because Gelsey Bell, the production’s Linda, has a silky yet focused voice that securely handles Mr. Ashley’s rush of wryly absurdist text. Her big, moist eyes shift from fear and sadness to a kind of consolation, weariness and resignation — from innocence to experience. This trajectory isn’t merely personal. “For the sake of argument,” the narrator (a recording of Mr. Ashley, who died in 2014) tells us near the beginning, “Don is Spain in 1492 and Linda is the Jews.” The various places and people in their path, moreover, represent figures and themes in the history of the Jewish people in the centuries since the Spanish expulsion. An airline ticket counter representative with a lot of questions is meant to evoke the Inquisition; the big city to which Linda eventually moves is, in the allegory, assimilation. If this seems like too much and too weird to take in on a first listen, it is. There’s little overt drama: The six performers sit at six small tables on platforms, recite-singing into microphones. (The change of scenes is evocatively captured in the saturated sky of a distant mountain range in the background of David Moodey’s set.) Many listeners will just perceive the alluringly enigmatic stories being told: Taken together, they’re a sun-baked, ominous American gothic that’s like a quieter version of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon or Nathanael West. But even an initial brush with “Improvement” is an experience of hypnotic vocal virtuosity — the cast makes its way through an enormous quantity of words with choral synchronicity and stunning clarity — and emotional weight, rueful humor and a pleasant sense of bathing in idiosyncratic charm. Though we come to know Linda only in impressions and episodes, she comes sympathetically to life. “Improvement” was originally conceived as a recording. Tom Hamilton’s electronic background score — a cool, smoothly droning landscape marked by little pops, bits of flute, faint taps of steel drum and the occasional shimmer — was for a long time inextricable from the vocal tracks. So when the piece was done live, the performers essentially had to duet with their own recorded selves. For this new staging — developed by Mr. Ashley’s widow and longtime collaborator, Mimi Johnson, in conjunction with its cast (Ms. Bell, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Aliza Simons, Dave Ruder and Amirtha Kidambi) — the electronics have been created anew, and the performers have been freed. But Mr. Ashley always makes you think about being free — “if there is any meaning to that word,” as Linda says. His interpreters work under precise constraints, not least the steady pulse of 72 beats per minute that defined his essential works, including much of the tetralogy “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” of which “Improvement” is the first part. But within those restrictions, there is a universe of choices as to diction, emphasis, mood and volume to be explored in Mr. Ashley’s style, which is controlled yet capacious. There’s ample room for the adjustment and, perhaps, yes, improvement that is Linda’s story, and ours. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Creepy facial projections, 3D hair capture, digital creepers and more from Eurographics 2017 – TechCrunch
The Eurographics conference is underway in Lyon and among the more technical offerings from computer graphics specialists are a few cool enough for just about anyone to appreciate. Unless you’re afraid of clowns. In that case, you probably shouldn’t scroll down. First is a system for simulating vines and creepers as they grow in complex interweaving patterns. The plants are a series of particles that interact with their immediate environment — angle, material, light exposure, other plants — and grow appropriately. The video shows the simulation without plant trappings, and it looks like intelligent sausage links. Coupled with fluid dynamics and a few other tricks, these virtual plants can grow and be interacted with in real time. Imagine exploring (and pruning) a world where intelligent vines slither like snakes up the landscape, pursuing you and your murderous machete. Shivers! It supports up to 20 plants simultaneously and up to 25,000 branches. You can read more about the project or download the paper here. Next is a pair of projects from Disney Research that demonstrate impressive capabilities both to bring the digital world to the real one and vice versa. In one case it’s applying graphics to a person’s face in real time, and in the other it’s capturing the subtleties of their hair in 3D by observing it in motion. The facial projection rig uses a high-speed camera to track facial motion and expressions in real time, combining that with static graphics to create a custom image to project back onto the face — updated hundreds of times per second. So you can put together any kind of cool design, mask, facial hair or scars… …And, of course, the first thing they do is put a horrifying clown face on someone, and then the even more horrifying face of the Joker from The Dark Knight. It works well, but why not something a little less creepy? (Note that in the video, the flicker you see comes from an interaction between the DLP image and the camera’s rolling shutter — you wouldn’t see it in real life.) The lighting demo in particular I think is pretty cool. This would be useful in real-life performances like theater, or, now that I think of it, theme parks. Who’d have thought? Disney researchers also put together a technique for capturing and simulating hair accurately by observing it in vivo. The hair movement thing is a hard problem but one that’s addressed pretty well by current models; setting up hair so it can be simulated in the first place is a different question entirely. Want to go around manually configuring every strand of a 5,000-strand 3D hair model? Me neither. This team uses a setup of 10 cameras to track head motion and hair motion in minute detail. By simply sitting in what I assume must be a very hot, brightly lit studio and shaking one’s head back and forth, the system gets enough data to put together a really quite decent reproduction of one’s head of hair. This would be extremely useful when making an avatar of oneself. Right now part of the reason they always turn out creepy is poor representation of the hair. That plus the robotic articulation and dead eyes. The last one I thought was super cool is this crowd simulator. Simulating a crowd is easy to do poorly and really hard to do realistically, with dozens or hundreds of individuals pathing around each other, stopping and starting, getting too close or forming weird patterns. If you want to put a fake crowd in the background of a film or game, those problems are super obvious to observers and, as has probably happened to many readers, immediately damages any suspension of disbelief. This new approach basically gives each individual a rudimentary sense of vision and basic understanding of its surroundings. Based on what it sees, it makes the best choice for navigating around an obstacle or another individual in the crowd, more or less how humans do it: you’ll go a couple of feet out of your way, but you won’t slowly veer into the street because the other guy is on your side of the sidewalk (awkward). The results are really quite good, with the little crowds navigating one another deftly — but never too deftly. When two streams of people cross, they don’t find a perfect function for how to do so without modifying their speeds or looking around. There’s a little negotiation and some slowdown and that’s what you see with this vision-based approach. Perhaps they can show this video to people in Seattle, who could do with a few tips on how this whole walking-around-other-people thing works. Dozens more papers are being presented over the next week; check the full schedule for any others that pique your interest. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canine Caddy
The result was redirect to Mickey Mouse (film series). ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 14:35, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Canine Caddy
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No sources or indication of notability, little more than a plot summary Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:01, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:08, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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* Delete Fails WP:TVSHOW
* Cmt See also Mickey Down Under, probably some one is creating throw away accounts and creating these articles. I've PRODded it. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ mail 17:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
* It looks like some obvious sockpuppetry. I've issued a warning at one of the userpages and if they ignore that, then I'll do a WP:DUCK block for the newer of the two accounts. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:49, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
* They haven't responded with an explanation, so I'm going to block them. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:36, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
* Redirect to Mickey Mouse (film series), a list article that contains a brief synopsis of all of the films in the series. Since this article contains little more than the synopsis, it really adds nothing that is not already at the list article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
* Cmt Ye Olden Days is another, by the creator of Canine Caddy. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ mail 03:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
* Move to Mickey Mouse (film series) as suggested above; nothing to suggest this particular film is notable. SwisterTwister talk 06:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
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Page:The invasion of the Crimea Vol. 5.djvu/382
360 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA- CHAP. ' round, I could see none of the first line or of the ' ' supports. The supports ought to have followed ' me in the attack, instead of which they diverged ' to the right and left. . . . My aides-de-camp ' were prevented by different causes from being ' with me. I was consequently nearly or quite ' alone. I have already positively stated that when ' I got back to the battery which we had attacked ' and silenced, I could see none of the first line, ' and no troops formed either on the right or the ' left. I therefore found myself alone ; and I ask, ' was it not my duty to retreat gradually and ' slowly in rear of the broken parties of the first ' line up the hill, rather than turn and ride 1 through the Eussian cavalry in search of my ' supports, without knowing at the time which ' way they had gone, they not having followed ' the first line in the advance as they ought to ' have done ? My humble opinion is, that it is ' quite sufficient for a General of Brigade to re- ' turn with as well as lead the attack of the front 1 line, unless he should by chance come in contact 1 with his supports, in which case he would re- • main with them ; but it may be observed that ' no general officer could have rendered any ser- ' vice or assistance in an affair like that of Bala- • clava, in which all the loss of men and horses ' was sustained in twenty minutes, and there were ' no troops left with which to attack an over- ' whelming force like that of the Eussians in • position on that day.' * ' What was the duty
* Paper famished to me by Lord Cardigan. | WIKI |
User:Gjn26
Geoff is a 30-year-old sports and music fan. His primary interests are ice hockey, collegiate American football, and various sub-genres of alternative rock. He is graduate of the University of West Florida with a Bachelor's in Sport Management.
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2024 President's Cup – Men's doubles
S D Prajwal Dev and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha were the defending champions but only Dev chose to defend his title, partnering Nitin Kumar Sinha. They lost in the first round to Aleksandre Bakshi and Zura Tkemaladze.
Egor Agafonov and Ilia Simakin won the title after defeating Denis Istomin and Evgeny Karlovskiy 6–4, 6–3 in the final.
Seeds
• # 🇮🇱 Daniel Cukierman / 🇦🇹 Neil Oberleitner (semifinals)
• # 🇯🇵 Seita Watanabe / 🇯🇵 Takeru Yuzuki (semifinals)
• # Aleksandr Lobanov / 🇨🇳 Wang Aoran (quarterfinals)
• # 🇺🇦 Vladyslav Orlov / 🇸🇰 Lukáš Pokorný (quarterfinals) | WIKI |
Create New Project
It is the screen where a new project definition is made in the system. Project definition is made by choosing Selenium if testing will be done only through the web browser, Selenium + Appium is chosen if mobile testing will be performed, and Service is chosen if Web Service testing will be performed.
On pop-up the screen , the system offers three options;
1. Selenium
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1. Test Framework
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definition. If the Cancel button is clicked, the system cancels the new Project definition process.
If the choice is Selenium + Appium;
On the pop-up screen;
1. Test Framework
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4. Project Name
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6. GIT Project Folder
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of long term disability in the US. Unfortunately, therapeutically targeting and preventing stroke-related damage from ischemic cascades and reperfusion injury has been challenging, making research on neuroprotective strategies a priority. Mammalian hibernation presents a unique opportunity to study naturally occurring neuroprotection. Hibernating ground squirrels undergo rapid and extreme changes in body temperature and brain perfusion as they cycle between lengthy torpor bouts (7-10 days) and brief periods of euthermia called interbout arousals (IBAs, <24 hours), but they do not suffer any residual brain damage. Arousal from torpor to IBA, where body temperature increases from 5 to 37oC and heart rate explodes from 3 to 300-400 beats/min, takes an average of just 2.8 hours. Different areas of the brain show markedly different activity profiles during hibernation, so neuroprotective differences must permit this spectrum of activity. This is of particular interest to stroke research, because neuroprotective strategies need to be focused specifically to the area of damage. Preliminary data from ground squirrel hypothalamic transcriptome sequencing shows that genes encoding regulatory proteins of well- known survival pathways, JAK3, STAT3, AKT1, MAPK1/3 are significantly upregulated during torpor and IBA. Additionally, production of the neuroprotective hormone melatonin accompanies arousal, suggesting that it plays a protective role at this time, when the squirrels are susceptible to reperfusion injury. Melatonin is known to be protective through survival pathways including JAK-STAT, AKT1, and MAPKs.
In Specific Aim 1, I will administer the specific and competitive melatonin receptor antagonist luzindole to ground squirrels just prior to a natural arousal to determine melatonin's receptor-mediated protective effects. I will monitor the effects of luzindole on arousal parameters (body temperature and heart rate) using surgically implanted telemeters and measure levels of activated survival proteins in five differentially active areas of the brain upon arousal. A pilot study indicated that luzindole treatment delays arousal onset.
In Specific Aim 2, I will establish the effect of the hibernator's environment on melatonin production. Normally, melatonin is only produced at night, inhibited by light during the day, but melatonin production upon arousal occurs regardless of the time of day. The dark and cold conditions during arousal from torpor and/or circadian clock action could be sufficient to trigger melatonin production. The hypothalamic transcriptome data indicates that expression of one circadian clock gene, DEC1, is elevated during torpor. To achieve this aim, I will artificially manipulate the photoperiod (light or dark) and temperature (4 or 25oC) of the hibernation environment and determine the effect on melatonin production and DEC1 expression. The results from these proposed experiments will provide new and valuable information on the potential of melatonin receptors as neuroprotective therapeutic targets, along with establishing a novel environmental and potential seasonal timing role for the clock gene DEC1.
Public Health Relevance
Stroke victims currently have no neuroprotective treatment available to help prevent and combat ischemic and reperfusion damage that can occur even days after the stroke event. Hibernating ground squirrels provide a unique opportunity to examine a mammalian brain that is naturally neuroprotected, as it is subjected to periods of ischemia and reperfusion throughout hibernation. A better understanding of the protective molecular mechanisms underlying this natural tolerance could greatly benefit therapeutic approaches for stroke victims.
Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)
Project #
5F32NS077643-03
Application #
8714083
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1)
Program Officer
He, Janet
Project Start
2012-09-24
Project End
2015-09-23
Budget Start
2014-09-24
Budget End
2015-09-23
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Department
Biology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Country
United States
Zip Code
55455
Schwartz, C; Hampton, M; Andrews, M T (2015) Hypothalamic gene expression underlying pre-hibernation satiety. Genes Brain Behav 14:310-8
Schwartz, Christine; Ballinger, Mallory A; Andrews, Matthew T (2015) Melatonin receptor signaling contributes to neuroprotection upon arousal from torpor in thirteen-lined ground squirrels. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 309:R1292-300
Schwartz, Christine; Hampton, Marshall; Andrews, Matthew T (2013) Seasonal and regional differences in gene expression in the brain of a hibernating mammal. PLoS One 8:e58427
Schwartz, Christine; Andrews, Matthew T (2013) Circannual transitions in gene expression: lessons from seasonal adaptations. Curr Top Dev Biol 105:247-73 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
2000–01 FC Utrecht season
The 2000–01 season was the 51st season in the history of FC Utrecht and the club's 31st consecutive season in the top flight of Dutch football. In addition to the domestic league, FC Utrecht participated in this season's editions of the KNVB Cup.
Group stage
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Fengrun, Tangshan
Fengrun District is a district of the city of Tangshan, Hebei province, China. The district spans an area of 1326 km2, and has a population of 916,092 as of 2010.
History
During the Warring States period, the area of present-day Fengrun District belonged to the Yan State. In the Qin dynasty, the area was incorporated as part of the Youbeiping Commandery. During the Western Han dynasty, the area belonged to Tuyin County, Xuwu County , and Changcheng County. During the Northern Qi dynasty, Tuyin County was abolished, and merged into Wuzhong County.
In 1187, during the Jin dynasty, the area was reorganized as Yongji County. In 1209, Yongji County was reorganized as Fengrun County, which it remains today, although some put the date of this change at 1368, during the Ming dynasty.
People's Republic of China
In 1983, Fengrun County was placed under the jurisdiction of Tangshan.
On February 1, 2002, Fengrun County was upgraded to a district, and absorbed the now-defunct Tangshan New Area.
On January 28, 2011, three administrative villages from the town of Chahe were transferred from Fengrun District to the town of Fengnan (now Xugezhuang) in neighboring Fengnan District.
In June 2013, Tangshan's municipal government moved the town of from Fengrun District to neighboring Lubei District, and the town of was moved under the jurisdiction of the Tangshan New Technology Development Zone. In December 2013, the municipal government moved the remainder of Chahe to Fengnan District.
Geography
Fengrun District is located within the prefecture-level city of Tangshan, in the eastern part of Hebei province. The district is bordered by Tangshan's urban core to the south, and Ninghe District in Tianjin to the southwest.
The Yan Mountains lie to the north of the district, and the district's elevation generally decreases from the northeast to the southwest. Elevation within Fengrun District ranges from 1 m to 648 m above sea level. The and the both run through the district.
Administrative divisions
Fengrun District administers 3 subdistricts, 18 towns, and 2 townships.
Subdistricts
Fengrun District's 3 subdistricts are, , and.
Towns
Fengrun District's 17 towns are, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.
Townships
Fengrun District's 2 townships are and.
Former administrative divisions
Former administrative divisions that are now defunct include the towns of, , and Chahe.
Demographics
Per the 2010 Chinese Census, Fengrun District has a population of 916,092. This is up significantly from the 2000 Chinese Census, when it had a recorded population of 715,835. This sharp increase can partially be attributed to annexation of additional land by Fengrun District in 2002, between the two censuses. Since 2010, the district has ceded part of its area in 2011, and again in 2013. A 2012 estimate put the district's population at 930,000. A 1996 estimate put Fengrun District's population at 689,000.
Economy
CRRC Tangshan, a subsidiary of CRRC producing rolling stock, is headquartered in Fengrun District.
Culture
Major attractions within Fengrun District include the following:
* Tuyin City Ruins, which dates back to the time of the Han dynasty
* Dinghui Temple, which dates back to the Jin dynasty
* , which dates back to the Liao dynasty
* Chezhou Mountain
* Panjiayu Revolution Memorial Hall
Transportation
Major railways in Fengrun District include the Beijing–Qinhuangdao railway and the Tangshan–Zunhua railway. National Highway 101 and National Highway 112 both run through Fengrun District.
Notable people
* Liu Heqiao, a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army Air Forcewho served as commander of the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force from 1987 to 1993. | WIKI |
Talk:PNS Ghazi/GA1
GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''
Reviewer: Jim Sweeney (talk · contribs) 05:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Sorry this is a quick fail, there are several sections unreferenced, and all of the details in the General characteristics section of the info box need to be in the article and cited. Jim Sweeney (talk) 05:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Can you cite in WP:MOS whether it is required for the details to be in listed in a section? This somewhat states that common sections of a particular format are not a GA criteria. I'll see what I can find about the missing references from the sections. The references for characteristics are there in the article and the sister article, USS Diablo (SS-479), and could have been cited easily. Aren't you going a little fast? --lTopGunl (talk) 10:43, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* It should look like the Good Article German Type IXA submarine design section. Jim Sweeney (talk) 11:44, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Is there a requirement of it being necessary (cite one) or just an example? --lTopGunl (talk) 11:47, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* See the GA criteria
2 Factually accurate and verifiable:
* (a) it provides references to all sources of information in the section(s) dedicated to the attribution of these sources according to the guide to layout;
* (b) it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged,
3 Broad in its coverage:
* (a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and
* (b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail.
Jim Sweeney (talk) 12:32, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* I think the article is to the point, not going into unnecessary details and covers main topics. The citations are an issue, but as I said, they can be dealt with. You didn't cite the requirement of infobox data being in a section as well. Is that a requirement? --lTopGunl (talk) 12:36, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Yes it would need to be written, not just a list of numbers etc. Jim Sweeney (talk) 12:39, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Can I suggest you get a peer review, before submitting articles, to iron out any problems.Jim Sweeney (talk) 12:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, that would be a good idea. Thanks. --lTopGunl (talk) 12:43, 17 December 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Most G20 members see trade row as huge risk for global growth - Japan MOF official
FUKUOKA, Japan, June 8 (Reuters) - Most Group of 20 finance leaders said escalating trade tensions pose a huge downside risk for the global economy, a senior Japanese Ministry of Finance said on Saturday. “With so many countries expressing concern over the fallout (from the trade tensions), there seems to be some momentum to reflect that in the communique. But there’s no conclusion yet,” the official told reporters. G20 finance ministers and central bank governors gathering in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka discussed the global economy and its risks, among other topics, on the first day of a two-day meeting that ends on Sunday. (Reporting by Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto; editing by Richard Pullin) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Pennsylvania Route 737
Pennsylvania Route 737 (PA 737) is a state highway in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The route runs from U.S. Route 222 (US 222) in the borough of Kutztown north to PA 143 in Albany Township. PA 737 heads north from an interchange with US 222 north of Kutztown on Krumsville Road. It continues north through a small part of Maxatawny Township into Greenwich Township. The road features an interchange with Interstate 78 (I-78)/US 22 in the village of Krumsville. PA 737 then heads northwest into Albany Township, where it ends at PA 143 near the village of Kempton.
PA 737 was assigned to a formerly unnumbered road between Kutztown and Kempton on March 8, 1962. Around that time, US 222 served as the southern terminus in downtown Kutztown. When the Kutztown Bypass was constructed in the 1970s, US 222 was realigned off of Main Street in Kutztown and onto the bypass. PA 737, at that point, ended at unnumbered Main Street until 1978, when the south end of the designation was truncated to its current location. Since then, the route has remained on the same alignment. Two bridges along the route between Kutztown and Krumsville were replaced in 2011. The interchange with I-78/US 22 was reconstructed between 2015 and 2019, shifting the route slightly to the east.
Route description
PA 737 begins at a partial cloverleaf interchange with the US 222 freeway on the northern edge of the borough of Kutztown in Berks County as a four-lane divided highway. South of this interchange, the road continues as Greenwich Street, which is designated as an unsigned quadrant route numbered State Route 1021, toward downtown Kutztown. From US 222, the route heads north into Maxatawny Township and soon becomes two-lane undivided Krumsville Road as it runs through forested areas to the east of Sacony Creek. The road heads northwest and then north through an S-curve past a few homes before it turns west and enters Greenwich Township. PA 737 continues through forested land alongside the creek before it turns north away from the Sacony Creek and winds through a hilly mix of woods and farm fields with some homes, passing through an S-curve to the northeast and then northwest before a curve to the north. Farther north, the route heads northeast near a few homes and businesses before it comes to a diamond interchange with I-78/US 22. Past this interchange, the road curves to the north and heads into the community of Krumsville, where it intersects Old Route 22 near residences and a few businesses.
Past Krumsville, PA 737 becomes an unnamed road and enters agricultural areas with some trees and homes, curving to the northwest. The route turns to the north and crosses into Albany Township, where it runs through farmland and woodland. The road passes through forests before it curves northwest and reaches the residential community of Stony Run. PA 737 continues west through a mix of farm fields and woods before it turns to the north and comes to the community of Kempton. Here, the route runs past homes prior to turning west and crossing the Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad at-grade. PA 737 passes to the south of a mill and heads across Maiden Creek before it continues past rural residences and reaches its northern terminus at an intersection with PA 143.
History
PA 737 originated as an unnumbered arterial highway from US 222 (Main Street) in downtown Kutztown north to PA 143 at an intersection in Kempton. On March 8, 1962, this highway was designated by the state as PA 737, which ran north on Greenwich Street out of Kutztown before following its present alignment to Kempton. In 1971, the newly formed Pennsylvania Department of Transportation began construction on the Kutztown Bypass, a freeway alignment of US 222 that was planned to bypass downtown Kutztown. The bypass was constructed in September 1972 and US 222 was realigned onto the new highway in 1973. After the realignment, PA 737 now ended at unnumbered Main Street in downtown Kutztown for a short time. By 1978, the southern terminus of PA 737 was moved to the interchange with the US 222 freeway to the north of Kutztown. The route has remained on the same alignment since.
In 2009, Berks County began to work on design for a new "Accelerated Bridge Program" for several bridges, one on PA 737 and two on nearby quadrant routes. The bridge projects used stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which cost the county about $180,000 (2009 USD) for the studies. In January 2011, work began on replacing the bridge over Mill Creek between Kutz Mill Road and Eagle Point Road, with completion slated for August of that year. Another bridge over Mill Creek between Kohlers Hill Road and Wessner Road closed on July 11, 2011 for replacement. The replacement of this bridge, which cost over $963 thousand and was funded by the state, was completed on December 9, 2011, six months ahead of schedule. Plans were made to reconfigure PA 737 at its interchange with I-78/US 22. This project replaced the partial cloverleaf interchange with a diamond interchange and shifted PA 737 to the east. A roundabout was planned at the ramps serving the eastbound lanes of I-78/US 22 and Zettlemoyer Road but was dropped from the plans. Work on reconstructing the interchange began on June 15, 2015. The interchange reconstruction was completed in 2019. | WIKI |
Computers, Entertainment, Technology
Back to vanilla MythTV – Part 2: Fiddling
After installing MythDora, there were a few extra things I had to do that took a while to figure out.
Upgrade to mythtv-trunk from ATrpms
I figured I just enable the “bleeding” repository and then do yum install mythtv. This worked fine. But nothing was different. It seems that “mythtv” is a meta package that just says you have Myth installed without actually containing anything. So then I tried yum install mythtv-frontend mythtv-backend mythtv-setup mythweb mythplugins. This worked up until a point bu then failed a transaction test. The actual failure was a mismatch between themes that different parts provided. I decided this was unimportant but couldn’t force yum to install. So I installed apt (yum install apt) and used that (apt-get install mythtv-frontend mythtv-backend mythtv-setup mythweb mythplugins and it all went fine.
Import old recordings
This was easy than I expected. Simply replace the database with your old one (make sure you stop mythbackend before you do). I had previously copied all my old recordings to my FreeNAS box and dumped the database (mysqldump -u username -p mythconverg > mythconverg.sql). So I deleted the mythconverg database and imported the SQL file (mysql -u username -p < mythconverg.sql. You could also just copy the mythconverg directory in the MySQL data directory directly.
The next time you start mythbackend it will update the database schema (if necessary) and everything will work. Apparently if you had slave backends on your old system you might have problems but I didn’t so I’m not entirely sure what they are…
Automatically mount a remote file system
To get MythTV to save on my FreeNAS server I obviously needed to mount it at start up. This was simpler than I expected (although I did it using a terminal). Open the file /etc/fstab and add the line:
server:/share mount_point cifs defaults 0 0.
server is the IP address of the FreeNAS server, /share is the folder on the server mount_point is the name you want to access it with locally (this directory should already exist – you normally make a sub directory of /mnt. After adding this run the command mount -a to force the system to mount all the file systems (it does this automatically at start up).
Then run MythTV Setup, select storage groups and add the mount point you chose as a directory.
Computers, Entertainment, Technology
Back to vanilla MythTV – Part 1: MythDora Rocks
Well I tried LinuxMCE but didn’t really get very far. After deciding everything was too much of a hassle, I downloaded MythDora 4.0 and installed it.
I have to say that unless you have a specific reason otherwise, MythDora is definitely the way to go for a MythTV installation. It was really easy and actually worked (something that seems not to have happened a lot when I’ve tried Linux).
One of the big advantages of using MythDora is since it’s Fedora based you can update (usually) painlessly from ATrpms. It has MythTV packages based on regular SVN checkouts. Importantly for me it also has packages from from mythtv-trunk (the latest version). Although they’re marked as “bleeding” they are usually stable.
The reason I needed the latest version is for storage group support. Without storage groups MythTV is limited to storing recordings in a single directory, storage groups allows you to specify multiple storage groups, each containing several directories. MythTV then use some clever load balancing to spread things out across available drives. This is important for me since I was planning on keeping most of my recordings on my new FreeNAS server, at least in the long term. The recordings aren’t tied to a specific storage group by the way – you can move them around freely (so I record to the local hard drive and then move them to the FreeNAS server later).
Once it was installed I did have to do a bit of fiddling, and it’s the sort of fiddling other people may have to do, so I’ll explain in part 2.
Computers, Entertainment, Technology
LinuxMCE 0704
A new version of LinuxMCE is out. And from what I’ve read (I haven’t installed it yet) it looks like a big improvement.
The biggest factor is improved MythTV support (which to be honest I feel is the most important part of it). They also claim the DVD quick install only requires three keypresses (but that’s only for the install, no setup). There is thankfully a new video as well that is considerably less annoying than the previous one – complete with disclaimers about things that may only work on specific hardware.
On the subject of specific hardware, there is a company called Fiire offering some pretty affordable computers with LinuxMCE already installed. Personally I’d build the core myself but maybe buy their thin clients.. They also a do a cool remote with built in gyro (like a remote/gyro-mouse combo) but it’s a $150… | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
25% of voters in 2016 race remain undecided: Survey
The presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton holds a small 5-point lead over Republican challenger Donald Trump, according to the June CNBC All-America Economic Survey, with a large chunk of the voting public remaining undecided. The poll of 801 registered voters conducted June 11-14 shows Clinton with a 40 percent to 35 percent lead, but the poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Pollsters for CNBC say the survey shows a tight race with 25 percent undecided, including 14 percent who right now choose "neither" candidate. "It's the hallmark of a campaign with high negatives around these candidates," said pollster Micah Roberts with Public Opinion Strategies. The poll was conducted by POS from the Republican side and Hart Research Associates from the Democratic side. But both pollsters pointed to one group that could increase Clinton's margin. The survey shows that 20 percent of voters who had supported Democrat Bernie Sanders currently choosing neither candidate. "I've seen nothing to suggest that Sanders supporters won't break in favor of Clinton,'' said Jay Campbell, Hart Research's senior vice president. He points out that Sanders supporters who have made their decisions back Clinton about 6 to 1. In other findings: Americans are divided on which candidate is best for the economy, 39 percent to 38 percent in favor of Clinton. They are also tied on who is best for dealing with terrorism, and who is best for a person's personal financial situation and for small business. Clinton holds leads on who is best for health care, trade, immigration and the lower and middle classes. Trump leads on who would be best for stocks, regulating Wall Street and banks, dealing with the budget deficit, large companies and the wealthy Sixty-two percent, including 41 percent of Republicans, say Trump should release his tax returns. Fifty-eight percent say a Trump presidency would make America's standing in the world worse, compared with 38 percent for Clinton. The horrific attack in Orlando, Florida, occurred in the middle of the survey but pollsters said they found little effect on presidential choice. The economy and unemployment ranked as the top election issue for Americans both before and after the massacre, chosen by 26 percent of Americans compared with 20 percent who chose foreign policy, world leadership and combating terrorism. But the foreign policy category did rise by 6 points from 15 percent to 21 percent after the attack. The effect on presidential choice, however, appeared to be minimal, and Roberts, the Republican pollster, suggested that could spell trouble for Trump. After the attack, CNBC asked which candidate has the best policies for "dealing with terrorism and homeland security." The 408 respondents to that question (half the sample, with a margin of error of 4.8 points) gave Trump only a slight edge of 40 percent to 38 percent. Roberts said that going back to 2002, Republican candidates typically hold 10 to 36 point leads over Democrats on national security issues. "That's a major red flag for Trump," said Democratic pollster Campbell. Among the challenges facing Clinton, while she is seen as best for the middle class by a 43 percent to 32 percent margin, the actual middle class is less sure. Among those with incomes from $50,000 to $75,000 and among blue collar workers, Clinton and Trump are tied on the middle-class question. Clinton also faces a large block of Sanders voters choosing neither. She'll have to bring them on board, and has just a 3-point lead among independents, 35 percent of whom choose neither candidate. CNBC All-America Economic Survey, June 20, 2016 by CNBC | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:plastic
Um, I thought inelastic was the antonym of elastic? --Connel MacKenzie 06:59, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
This page also needs to consider the meaning of Plastic used in the arts and in art criticism.
Plastic as "moldable"
Plastic as "subject to human will"
Chris.rider 17:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Malleable substance
This meaning is described as archaic but it is still very current in the field of materials science and is often opposed to "elastic". Since the entry gives "elastic" as an antonym, it is quietly recognising this in any case. Spinningspark 22:16, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
RFV discussion: August–September 2018
Rfv-sense: "snobbish".
Formerly included in the immediately preceding definition, which is now "fake". The cahracteristics fake and snobbish may often co-occur in the world but they do not mean the same thing. I moved the citation from the preceding definition because it was the only one that was not unambiguously for the definition "fake". It is, however, actually of plastics, which would make it for one of the existing noun definitions. DCDuring (talk) 18:10, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
* I have added some cites, but I am not completely sure about them. Kiwima (talk) 03:53, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
* To me none of them seem unambiguous. And Plastic snob would be a pleonasm if plastic meant "snobbish". DCDuring (talk) 04:49, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:39, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
What sense is this? -- "plastic scenery"
It can't refer to the modern material called plastic, because that didn't exist at the time being discussed. Nor the "fake, ersatz" sense, which derives from the cheapness and light weight of the modern material. "Deformable" doesn't seem relevant either.
* 1826, Abraham John Valpy, Edmund Henry Barker, The Classical Journal (volume 33, page 85)
* Immediately behind the Logeion, lay the Proskenion, or proper stage, which, having often heavy plastic scenery to support, was made of stone.
Green's Newspeak (1984) says that the word "plastic" can refer to theatrical scenery that is three-dimensional (as opposed to flats), so that might be it. We lack that sense. Equinox ◑ 21:04, 8 June 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
International Association for Cryptologic Research
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Wessel P. J. van Woerden
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2022
EUROCRYPT
On the Lattice Isomorphism Problem, Quadratic Forms, Remarkable Lattices, and Cryptography 📺
Wessel van Woerden Léo Ducas
A natural and recurring idea in the knapsack/lattice cryptography literature is to start from a lattice with remarkable decoding capability as your private key, and hide it somehow to make a public key. This is also how the code-based encryption scheme of McEliece (1978) proceeds. This idea has never worked out very well for lattices: ad-hoc approaches have been proposed, but they have been subject to ad-hoc attacks, using tricks beyond lattice reduction algorithms. On the other hand the framework offered by the Short Integer Solution (SIS) and Learning With Errors (LWE) problems, while convenient and well founded, remains frustrating from a coding perspective: the underlying decoding algorithms are rather trivial, with poor decoding performance. In this work, we provide generic realizations of this natural idea (independently of the chosen remarkable lattice) by basing cryptography on the lattice isomorphism problem (LIP). More specifically, we provide: - a worst-case to average-case reduction for search-LIP and distinguish-LIP within an isomorphism class, by extending techniques of Haviv and Regev (SODA 2014). - a zero-knowledge proof of knowledge (ZKPoK) of an isomorphism. This implies an identification scheme based on search-LIP. - a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) scheme and a hash-then-sign signature scheme, both based on distinguish-LIP. The purpose of this approach is for remarkable lattices to improve the security and performance of lattice-based cryptography. For example, decoding within poly-logarithmic factor from Minkowski's bound in a remarkable lattice would lead to a KEM resisting lattice attacks down to poly-logarithmic approximation factor, provided that the dual lattice is also close to Minkowski's bound. Recent works have indeed reached such decoders for certain lattices (Chor-Rivest, Barnes-Sloan), but these do not perfectly fit our need as their duals have poor minimal distance.
2021
EUROCRYPT
Advanced Lattice Sieving on GPUs, with Tensor Cores 📺
Léo Ducas Marc Stevens Wessel van Woerden
In this work, we study GPU implementations of various state-of-the-art sieving algorithms for lattices (Becker-Gama-Joux 2015, Becker-Ducas-Gama-Laarhoven 2016, Herold-Kirshanova 2017) inside the General Sieve Kernel (G6K, Albrecht et al. 2019). In particular, we extensively exploit the recently introduced Tensor Cores -- originally designed for raytracing and machine learning -- and demonstrate their fitness for the cryptanalytic task at hand. We also propose a new dual-hash technique for efficient detection of `lift-worthy' pairs to accelerate a key ingredient of G6K: finding short lifted vectors. We obtain new computational records, reaching dimension 180 for the SVP Darmstadt Challenge improving upon the previous record for dimension 155. This computation ran for 51.6 days on a server with 4 NVIDIA Turing GPUs and 1.5TB of RAM. This corresponds to a gain of about two orders of magnitude over previous records both in terms of wall-clock time and of energy efficiency.
2021
ASIACRYPT
NTRU Fatigue: How Stretched is Overstretched? 📺
Wessel van Woerden Léo Ducas
Until recently lattice reduction attacks on NTRU lattices were thought to behave similar as on (ring)-LWE lattices with the same parameters. However several works (Albrecht-Bai-Ducas 2016, Kirchner-Fouque 2017) showed a significant gap for large moduli $q$, the so-called overstretched regime of NTRU. With the NTRU scheme being a finalist to the NIST PQC competition it is important to understand ---both asymptotically and concretely--- where the fatigue point lies exactly, i.e. at which $q$ the overstretched regime begins. Unfortunately the analysis by Kirchner and Fouque is based on an impossibility argument, which only results in an asymptotic upper bound on the fatigue point. It also does not really {\em explain} how lattice reduction actually recovers secret-key information. We propose a new analysis that asymptotically improves on that of Kirchner and Fouque, narrowing down the fatigue point for ternary NTRU from $q \leq n^{2.783+o(1)}$ to $q=n^{2.484+o(1)}$, and finally explaining the mechanism behind this phenomenon. We push this analysis further to a concrete one, settling the fatigue point at $q \approx 0.004 \cdot n^{2.484}$, and allowing precise hardness predictions in the overstretched regime. These predictions are backed by extensive experiments.
2020
PKC
The Randomized Slicer for CVPP: Sharper, Faster, Smaller, Batchier 📺
Léo Ducas Thijs Laarhoven Wessel P. J. van Woerden
Following the recent line of work on solving the closest vector problem with preprocessing (CVPP) using approximate Voronoi cells, we improve upon previous results in the following ways: We derive sharp asymptotic bounds on the success probability of the randomized slicer, by modelling the behaviour of the algorithm as a random walk on the coset of the lattice of the target vector. We thereby solve the open question left by Doulgerakis–Laarhoven–De Weger [PQCrypto 2019] and Laarhoven [MathCrypt 2019]. We obtain better trade-offs for CVPP and its generalisations (strictly, in certain regimes), both with and without nearest neighbour searching, as a direct result of the above sharp bounds on the success probabilities. We show how to reduce the memory requirement of the slicer, and in particular the corresponding nearest neighbour data structures, using ideas similar to those proposed by Becker–Gama–Joux [Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2015]. Using $$2^{0.185d + o(d)}$$ memory, we can solve a single CVPP instance in $$2^{0.264d + o(d)}$$ time. We further improve on the per-instance time complexities in certain memory regimes, when we are given a sufficiently large batch of CVPP problem instances for the same lattice. Using $$2^{0.208d + o(d)}$$ memory, we can heuristically solve CVPP instances in $$2^{0.234d + o(d)}$$ amortized time, for batches of size at least $$2^{0.058d + o(d)}$$ . Our random walk model for analysing arbitrary-step transition probabilities in complex step-wise algorithms may be of independent interest, both for deriving analytic bounds through convexity arguments, and for computing optimal paths numerically with a shortest path algorithm. As a side result we apply the same random walk model to graph-based nearest neighbour searching, where we improve upon results of Laarhoven [SOCG 2018] by deriving sharp bounds on the success probability of the corresponding greedy search procedure. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Draft:Everything is A OK: A Dallas, TX punk documentary
Everything is A OK: A Dallas, TX punk documentary | WIKI |
Wilbur Street Historic District
The West Second Street Historic District includes three residential subdivisions created in 1919–1922 within the original town site of Mesa, Arizona. The district boundary is Second Street on the north and First Street on the south. The western boundary is Pasadena Street and the eastern boundary is Pomeroy Street. The other streets in the district are Hibbert and Wilbur.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and features many Bungalow style homes which were popular around 1920. There are a few Tudor Revival and Pueblo Revival homes as well as some Ranch homes that were built later after World War II.
An annual historic home tour, sponsored by the Mesa Historical Museum, allows the public to visit several homes in the district. | WIKI |
Codex Veronensis (R)
Codex Veronensis (R, Verona, Chapter Library) is a 6th-century manuscript of the Psalter in Greek and Latin. The codex consists of 405 leaves, measuring 10½ x 7½ inches; each page contains 26 lines. The Greek text appears at each opening on the left-hand page, and the Latin on the right.
Both texts are written in Roman characters. A few lacunae (Ps. 1. 1—2. 7, 65. 20—68. 3, 68. 26—33, 105. 43—106. 2) have been supplied by a later hand, which has also added the ψαλμὸς ἰδιόγραφος (Ps. 151.). The Psalms are followed prima manu by eight canticles (Exod. 15. 1—21, Deut. 32. 1—44, 1 Regn. 2. 1—10, Isa. 5. 1—9, Jon. 2. 3—10, Hab. 3. 1—10, Magnificat, Dan. 3. 23 ff.).
Printed by Bianchini in his Vindiciae canonicarum scripturarum', T. I. (Rome, 1740), and used by Lagarde in the apparatus of his ''Specimen and Psalterii Gr. quinquagena prima, and in the Cambridge manual Septuagint'' (1891). A new collation was made in 1892 by H. A. Redpath, which has been employed in 142the second edition of The Old Testament in Greek (1896); but it is much to be wished that the Verona Chapter may find it possible to have this important Psalter photographed. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2012-06-28
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Supreme Court temporarily freezes DACA document request
(CNN)A divided Supreme Court agreed 5-4 on Friday to temporarily put on hold a lower court order requiring the government to turn over documents related to its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program is an Obama-era policy that defers deportation for some undocumented youth who had been brought to the United States as children. The Supreme Court's order is a setback for challengers, including California and the regents of the University of California, who contend that the Trump administration violated federal law when it abruptly decided to rescind the program. The challengers had sought the documents to bolster their case, pending in California. RELATED: DACA state of play: Time is running short Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by the three other liberal justices, dissented from the court's order. Stressing that the lower court has still not heard the merits of the case, Breyer criticized the majority for intervening "in this kind of discovery-related dispute." He said the matter should be left with the lower courts, which are in a better position "to understand whether a particular discovery order is over-burdensome. " "This court," Beyer wrote, is "poorly positioned to second-guess district courts' determinations in this area." The high court's action is a win for government lawyers, who argued in court papers that the "district court's orders mandating discovery and expansion of the administrative record were in excess of the district court's authority." In a statement, a Justice Department spokesman praised the Supreme Court's order. "The Department of Homeland Security acted within its lawful authority in deciding to wind down DACA in an orderly manner, and the Justice Department believes the courts will ultimately agree," said spokesman Devin O'Malley. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra responded: "What is the Trump administration trying so hard to hide? "The administration owes the American people a real explanation for its decision to upend the lives of 800,000 Dreamers, stripping them of their ability to work and study, stirring fear, and threatening our economy," Becerra said. "We'll keep fighting in court for Dreamers, particularly the 1-in-4 DACA grantees who call California home." The district judge had filed a statement with the justices arguing that the government's petition "leaves the incorrect impression that the district court endorsed unfettered discovery," he said. Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California argued that his request was "limited, narrowly directed, and reasonable." The challengers have until Wednesday to respond to the ruling. The district court is set to hear arguments December 20 on whether the case should be dismissed altogether. CNN's Tal Kopan contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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