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Can I take a syringe into the aircraft for medical reasons?
Yes, but you need a medical certificate. Security checks might demand for one. We recommend that you have your medical certificate issued in English.
Can I take liquid medicines on board with me?
You can take any urgently required medicines in liquid form on board with you, but only the amount that you require on the flight. We suggest you bring a medical certificate (in English) with you for these medicines that you can present when you go through the security check.
What do pregnant women need to know?
You may fly on an Edelweiss flight up to the end of the thirty-sixth week of your pregnancy, that is to say, up to four weeks before your due date. For additional information, click on the link below:
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What do I need to know as a diabetic?
Discuss your planned flight with your doctor. He or she will be able to tell you if you need an additional or reduced dose of insulin and whether to have another meal. Important: Present a valid prescription for insulin at security.
What do I need to know about deep-vein thrombosis?
When people sit for a long time and hardly move, there is a risk of blood pooling in the veins. Prevent thrombosis by drinking plenty, moving as much as possible and regularly stretching and bending your legs. At-risk patients should seek medical advice before travelling.
Can I still fly even if I am ill or have just had surgery?
Be particularly careful if you are acutely ill or have recently had surgery. Flying is physically demanding. Delay your flight if you don't feel quite up to the challenge. Passengers with acute diseases or who have recently had surgery are urgently advised to have a doctor check that they are fit to fly.
When do I need a medical certificate?
The following cases (this list is not complete) require you to have confirmation that you are fit to fly (SAF/MEDIF form): If you need to be carried on a stretcher.
If you need oxygen during the flight for medical reasons.
If your health is such that there are doubts whether you will survive the flight safely and without medical aid.
If you are suffering from a transferable disease or infection that could pose a direct risk to the health and safety of the other passengers.
I am wearing a cast. Can I still fly?
Persons with an arm or leg plaster cast which was fitted within 5 days (for long-haul flights) or 24 hours (for short-haul flights) before departure need a SAF/MEDIF-Form. The circular cast must be splitted.
SAF/MEDIF-Form
I have both gluten or lactose intolerance can I still book a meal?
Yes, you can book a gluten- or lactose-free meal for your flight. Only one special meal can be ordered per passenger. Meals can be ordered up to, at the latest, four days before departure using the following link:
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Han Dynasty (peacetime)
Although not regarded as highly as males, females did have freedoms during the Han Dynasty and were able to demonstrate power through running the household and their family units. However, it was common for married couples to reside with the males family. That being said, women had very different expectations from males as illustrated in "Lessons for Women."
Song Dynasty (wartime)
Women had more freedom during this period that the previously addressed Han Dynasty. The strict regulations and expectations laid out in the book "Lessons for Women" were no longer as applicable as they had been in the past. Women were no longer respected if they chose to remarry and the rise of yin and yang laid validity on the foundation that there were stark differences between males and females.
Republican Period (wartime)
During this period, there were still stark differences between males and females. That being said, across the world a revolution was occurring that spurred equal rights for the genders. Thus, females were encouraged to leave the home to get an education, leadership/community positions, jobs, and could work at locally owned businesses. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Basora
Basora is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Basora is also the Spanish form of Basra.
* Adrian A. Basora (born 1938), American diplomat
* Estanislau Basora (1926–2012), Spanish football player | WIKI |
Self-compassion may protect perfectionists from getting depressed
(Reuters Health) - Learning to respond to your failures with kindness, or self-compassion, may help offset the negative effects of perfectionism at any age, according to a small study of Australian teens and adults. “We know that perfectionism can often lead to people pushing themselves too far in the pursuit of an unobtainable excellence, and as a result experience burn-out and depression symptoms,” lead author Madeline Ferrari, a clinical psychologist at Australian Catholic University in Strathfield, New South Wales, told Reuters Health by email. “However self-compassion seems to offer the opportunity to manage these perfectionism beliefs and not fall into the depression trap.” While striving to attain high personal standards is not unhealthy in itself, the authors write in the online journal PLoS ONE, there is a “maladaptive” form of perfectionism that includes self-criticism, fear of making mistakes and worry about negative evaluations by others. Past research has tied this negative form of perfectionism to heightened risk for depression, they write. To see whether self-compassion or a lack of it might influence that link, and whether age makes a difference, Ferrari’s team sent questionnaires to more than 1,000 teens and young adults. The anonymous, voluntary questionnaires were administered to 541 adolescents in grades seven to 10 at five Australian private high schools to assess their levels of perfectionism, depression and self-compassion. About 8 in 10 participants were girls. The study team gave similar questionnaires to a group of 515 adults recruited from the general population and ranging in age from 18 to 72 years, of whom about 7 in 10 were women. Researchers found a strong relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression among both adolescents and adults. But among people with high levels of self-compassion, the link between perfectionism and depression was “decoupled,” they report. “Self-compassion seems to sever the link between perfectionism (and depression), even though it is really tentative and not definitive,” said Serena Chen, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley who wasn’t involved in the study. Perfectionism, depression and self-compassion are all correlated with one another, but the direction and influence of the effects is unclear, she added. It could be that depression leads people to be more perfectionistic or maybe people who are perfectionists have lower self-compassion, Chen said in a telephone interview. “(The researchers) want to make the case that self-compassion is a good thing. It is good for you . . . but we don’t know from this study that self-compassion is causing anything,” she added. Women and girls reported having significantly more depressive symptoms compared to men and boys in both study groups, but men tended to report higher self-compassion levels than women, the study authors found. Among the study’s limitations, they acknowledge, is that because both study groups had a high proportion of females, more research is needed to make certain that the findings apply equally to men and women. Further research involving an active intervention to see if increasing self-compassion weakens the risk of depression would be needed to prove the link, they add. “Our study contributes to the growing recognition that in embracing our mistakes, failures and vulnerabilities, i.e., being self-compassionate, we become more resilient,” Ferrari said. This should come as relief to parents, she added. “Noticing perfectionist tendencies in children shouldn’t be a cause for panic. Instead, this is an opportunity to model and teach self-compassion, especially when a child’s performance doesn’t meet their own standards.” “We treat other people with more compassion and understanding than we do ourselves,” said Kristin Neff, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who wasn’t involved in the study. “The most important part of self-compassion is being kind to yourself. Self-compassion doesn’t mean you don’t point out your mistakes. You do so with constructive criticism,” Neff said in a phone interview. “Validate that it hurts, you’re disappointed and acknowledge the pain, but tell yourself that failure is part of being human. Ask yourself what you would say to a friend that made the same mistake and then tell that to yourself. “ SOURCE: bit.ly/2HAMNsm PLoS ONE, online February 21, 2018. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Born in 1987, "ZLandau" is a Virginia Tech undergraduate scheduled to graduate in the Spring of 2010. He enjoys guitar, microscopes, tug-of-war, classifying parasites and benthic macroinvertebrates, and golf. Currently earning his degree in biology, "ZLandau" hopes to attend medical school in the near future.
"ZLandau" would like to dedicate all pages pertaining to Ecology of Wildlife Disease published this semester on Wikipedia to his professor. If it were not for her, he would most likely never have attempted to make his own Wikipedia page.
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Quantum Logic description
There are several approaches to quantum logic, and it should be therefore more appropriately called `Quantum Logics'. The following is a short list of such approaches to quantum logics.
* A standard approach to quantum logics is to add axioms so that it can be treated as a theory of Hilbert lattices . Both Hilbert lattices and Hilbert space are involved in the foundation of quantum mechanics, and they are considered to be `dual' to each other. "Just as Fourier transforms have led to greater insight into the nature of electrical signals, it may be possible that (via Sol\`er's theorem) quantum logic and Hilbert lattices will lead to new results in quantum mechanics." The axioms of this standard version of quantum logic (QL) can be specified as three distinct groups of axioms: #
* the ortholattice axioms: ax-a1 to ax-a5, and ax-r1, ax-r2, ax-r4, ax-r5 ; for example: ax-a1 is: $$a= N(Na)= NNa $$, where N stands for the logical negation; ax-a2 and ax-a3 are respectively the commutativity and associativity axioms; the ax-r1 ro ax-r5 axioms are implication axioms, such as: $$[a =b] \Rightarrow [b=a] $$ for ax-r1. #
* the orthomodular law, ax-r3, that holds for those ortholattices that are also orthomodular lattices: $$1= [a \equiv b] \Rightarrow [a=b];$$ (interestingly, without ax-r3, the quantum logic becomes decidable), and #
* stronger axioms than 1. and 2. for orthomodular lattices that are also Hilbert lattices. The set of closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, $$\mathcal{C}_H$$ determines a special case of an orthomodular lattice $$\left\langle{\mathcal{A},\cup, N}\right\rangle$$.
* An interesting system for further studies is that in which the orthomodular lattice axiom or `orthomodular law', ax-r3, is replaced by a weaker axiom called the weakly orthomodular (WOM) law ;
* Quantum propositional calculus : quantum logic can be expressed and studied as a propositional calculus but involving the axioms or rules of quantum logics instead of those of Boolean logic. Quantum propositional calculus (QPC) is based on the algebra(s) of orthomodular lattices, similarly to the foundation of classical propositional calculus (CPC) on Boolean algebras. However, one notes that classical propositional calculus can also be modeled by a non-Boolean lattice, such as a centered $$LM_n$$-logic algebra. Another remarkable example is that of the logic lattice $$O6$$ ([0, a, b, Na, Nb,1]) which is a non-distributive model for classical propositional calculus.
* A second approach preferred by logicians is to define quantum logics via many-valued (MV) logic algebras such as the \L{}ukasiewicz-Moisil n-valued logic algebras. | WIKI |
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Spinal anesthesia for ambulatory surgery: current controversies and concerns
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Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: General anesthesia is a popular choice for ambulatory surgery. Spinal anesthesia is often avoided because of perceived delays due to time required to administer it and prolonged onset, as well as concerns of delayed offset, which may delay recovery and discharge home. However, the reports of improved outcomes in hospitalized patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty have renewed the interest in spinal anesthesia. This review article critically assesses the role of spinal anesthesia in comparison with fast-track general anesthesia for the outpatient setting. RECENT FINDINGS: The purported benefits of spinal anesthesia include avoidance of airway manipulation and the adverse effects of drugs used to provide general anesthesia, improved postoperative pain, and reduced postoperative opioid requirements. Improved postoperative outcomes after spinal anesthesia in hospitalized patients may not apply to the outpatient population that tends to be relatively healthier. Also, it is unclear if spinal anesthesia is superior to fast-track general anesthesia techniques, which includes avoidance of benzodiazepine premedication, avoidance of deep anesthesia, use of an opioid-sparing approach, and minimization of neuromuscular blocking agents with appropriate reversal of residual paralysis. SUMMARY: The benefits of spinal anesthesia in the outpatient setting remain questionable at best. Further studies should seek clarification of these goals and outcomes.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)746-752
Number of pages7
JournalCurrent opinion in anaesthesiology
Volume33
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2020
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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Talk:Beau Beasley
Does he really need a separate page? All relevant info could probably be mainained in the Big Brother 6 article.--WilliamThweatt 02:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abner Carroll Binder
The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:43, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Abner Carroll Binder
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seemingly non-notable journalist whose notability appears to stem from donating money and papers to a university who established a scholarship in his name. Toddst1 (talk) 20:48, 20 November 2013 (UTC) Withdrawn per arxilos. Thanks for finding that. Toddst1 (talk) 07:16, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:00, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
* Delete Reads as a WP:MEMORIAL article. Apparently no one wrote about Binder while alive or dead, independently, that I can see. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 01:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
* Keep per Arxiloxos. Apparently drop "Abner" when searching. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 03:52, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
* Keep. This journalist died in 1956 so we are stuck with old sources having limited online access. But, the "find sources" links for his professional byline, Carroll Binder, produce volumnious results in GBooks, GScholar, and GNews. He has a New York Times news obit, although it is paywalled so we can see only the headline ("CARROLL BINDER, EDITOR, DIES AT 60; Chief of Minneapolis Tribune Editorial Page Had Served on U.N. Information Unit Urged Freedom of Information) and first line--someone with full Times access can see the whole thing. His bio is also included in the 1951 edition of Current Biography, but only a snippet is visible. GNews shows that his columns were widely printed with his name as the headline. With due regard for avoiding FUTON bias, I conclude that he was notable in his time and that we are better serving our encyclopedic task by keeping him around. --Arxiloxos (talk) 02:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
* Keep, good deal of potential secondary sourcing here. — Cirt (talk) 18:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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Stephen Stonley
Stephen J. Stonley (29 September 1889 – September 1967) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Woolwich Arsenal as a centre forward. He also played in the Southern League for Northampton Town and Brentford.
Personal life
Stonley served as a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery and later worked at the Royal Arsenal during the First World War. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2022 March 2
= March 2 =
Does a staircase go up or down?
I'm confused. --Pink Saffron (talk) 03:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* Both. See stairs. Matt Deres (talk) 03:54, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* What about Penrose stairs? PrimeHunter (talk) 06:35, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* , you might like to check out the works of M. C. Escher: some of them incorporate exactly this paradoxical device. {The poster formerly known as <IP_ADDRESS>} <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:12, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* Now here's one for you: Why does a flamingo stand with one leg lifted? --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* If it tries to reduce the number of body parts touching the ground to less than 1 it doesn't stay below 1 for long. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 06:58, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* More generally, see Impossible object. A flat 2D picture can only trick our brains into imagining the image in three dimensions, and normally this is not confusing if you draw it the right way. However, it is possible to draw a 2D object that tricks the visual processing parts of our brains into seeing the object in 3D in impossible ways. The Penrose stairs cited above is just one example of this, there are lots of others. The real answer is "It doesn't go anywhere, it's just a bunch of lines on a paper". Your brain takes those lines, and tries to make sense of it, and it's drawn in just such a way as to screw with your brain. -- Jayron 32 13:38, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* The question posed by the OP does not reference impossible objects. I assume it is a question about language. If so, the answer is that it depends on the point of view of the speaker. A similar question is, "Does a door lead into or out of  a building?" For someone outside, the passage goes "into", but for someone outside, the passage goes "out of". Likewise, for someone on the ground floor of a house wanting to go to the attic, the stairway they need to take goes "up". If they want to go to the cellar, they should take a stairway that goes "down". When returning to the ground floor, these directions flip. (A solid staircase should actually go neither up nor down. It should stay firmly where it is, and leave the going up and down to elevators and escalators.) --Lambiam 15:20, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* The classic point of view question: Is the glass half empty or half full? PrimeHunter (talk) 05:08, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
* And one answer is "It depends on whether you're drinking or pouring." As to the Penrose thing, it depends on whether you're walking clockwise or counter-clockwise. And keep in mind that in the old days, schools had strict rules about which staircases were for which - hence the book title Up the Down Staircase. --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:05, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
* And talking of impossible objects... Does anyone else sometimes feel stricken with the whole body illusion that their Wikipedia editing is just like desperately trying to keep running up the down escalator? Martinevans123 (talk) 15:33, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* Well, if nothing else, at least both are good exercise. {The poster formerly known as <IP_ADDRESS>} <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:41, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Global coordinates
I have recently come across global coordinates in the format " 30U XC 43133 09144 ". This is almost UTM, but I don't understand the XC and expected six digits in each numeric field. Is this a 'known thing' or is it something someone has just invented? -- SGBailey (talk) 07:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* Perhaps Military Grid Reference System? In which case it's somewhere southwest of Henley-on-Thames. Card Zero (talk) 07:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* I think thta is it. Thank you. -- SGBailey (talk) 08:14, 2 March 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
The Maasai are a Nilotic people indigenous to the African Great Lakes region, with roots that can be traced back to South Sudan.
According to their oral history, they began migrating south from the lower Nile Valley north of Kenya’s Lake Turkana sometime in the 15th century, ultimately arriving in their current range between the 17th and late 18th century.
Many of the ethnic groups that had established settlements in the area were either displaced or assimilated by the Maasai, who also adopted certain customs from them (including ritual circumcision and social organization focused more on age set than descent).
By the mid-19th century Maasai territory included the entire Great Rift Valley as well as the lands that surrounded it, and its people had become as well known for their strength as warriors (using spears, shields and clubs that could be thrown accurately from up to 70 paces) as they were for their cattle-herding.
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What is laser trabeculoplasty?
Laser Trabeculoplasty
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Laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma: Overview
Laser trabeculoplasty uses a very focused beam of light to treat the drainage angle of the eye. This surgery makes it easier for fluid to flow out of the front part of the eye, decreasing pressure in the eye.
There are two types of laser trabeculoplasty:
• Argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT).
• Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT).
SLT uses a lower-power laser than ALT does.
For laser trabeculoplasty:
• The doctor will put drops in your eye to numb the eye.
• A special microscope (slit lamp) and lens (goniolens) are used to guide the laser beam to the canals (trabecular meshwork) where fluid drains from the eye.
• The doctor makes small burns in the trabecular meshwork.
• At the end of the surgery, the doctor will put drops in your eye to prevent eye pressure from rising right away.
Some people feel some pressure in the eye during the surgery.
How well does laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma work?
Argon laser trabeculoplasty lowers the pressure in the eye about 75% of the time in people who haven't had surgery on that eye before. Research comparing ALT and SLT has shown that SLT lowers pressure in the eye about the same as ALT. People usually need to continue taking medicine after laser surgery to keep down the pressure in their eyes.
Control over the pressure inside the eye may decrease as time passes. Argon laser trabeculoplasty is often not effective when repeated. But experts believe that SLT may be repeated because it uses a lower level of laser and causes less scarring than ALT. SLT may be used if ALT fails to lower eye pressure. The results of repeated laser surgeries are less predictable than the results of the first surgery.
What are the risks of laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma?
Complications of laser trabeculoplasty are rare. The most common complication of laser surgery for glaucoma is an increase in the pressure in the eyes. The pressure may be normal immediately after laser surgery and rise sharply within 1 to 4 hours after laser surgery. To prevent this problem, the doctor may put medicine in your eyes (such as apraclonidine or brimonidine) before or after laser surgery, especially in people with high intraocular pressure before laser surgery.
Other complications of laser surgery may include:
• A brief period of inflammation of the colored part of the eye (iris).
• Cloudiness of the clear covering (cornea) over the iris. This usually does not last long.
• Blockage of the drainage angle when the cornea and the iris stick together.
• Pain.
• Decreased vision.
Decreased vision is usually a temporary problem unless there is a significant rise in the pressure inside the eye. Very high pressures inside the eye can lead to permanent vision loss.
How does laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma feel?
You will likely feel some pressure, but not pain, in your eye during the surgery.
What is laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma?
Laser trabeculoplasty is a treatment for glaucoma. It uses laser light to create small burns in the trabecular meshwork. This is an area made up of tiny canals where fluid drains from the eye. The burns allow fluid to drain from the front part of the eye. This lowers pressure in the eye.
There are two types: argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT) and selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT). SLT uses a lower-power laser than ALT does.
What can you expect as you recover from laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma?
You may need to be checked by the doctor within 2 hours of the surgery. You will also need to see the doctor for a follow-up exam.
Why is laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma done?
Laser trabeculoplasty may be used to treat glaucoma that gets worse even with medicine treatment. It may also help treat older adults who have glaucoma and can't use medicines to treat it.
How is laser trabeculoplasty for glaucoma done?
First, the doctor numbs your eye. Then the doctor uses a special microscope and places a lens on the eye to guide a laser beam to make small burns in the trabecular meshwork. At the end of the surgery, the doctor puts drops in your eye to help control the eye pressure.
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Talk:Middle East Justice and Development Initiatives
Redirect doesn't make any sense.
Middle East Justice and Development Initiatives, often shorthanded to MEJDI, redirects to the given name / surname page for Majdi. This is like if the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals page redirected to the Peta (given name) page. It's not what people are looking for when they search for the organization. Nablais (talk) 16:36, 11 February 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Napa Valley Cricket Club
Napa Valley Cricket Club is a cricket club in Napa Valley, that serves the expatriate and local cricket population of Napa County, California and beyond. The club was established in 2012 and plays its home games at Napa Valley College in the City of Napa, at the southern end of the Napa Valley. The club is affiliated to USA Cricket, the American Cricket Federation, the United States Youth Cricket Association, and Last Man Stands.
The club welcome members to play social cricket and includes members who hail from cricket playing countries including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and the United States of America.
The club hosts an annual match dubbed the "Napa Valley World Series of Cricket" each year where an intra-club game of cricket between members takes place. The teams are divided along their countries of birth and the game is generally between an American & Australian XI and a Rest of the World XI.
The club also hosts visiting teams on tour and has hosted Philadelphia Cricket Club, Merion Cricket Club, Beverly Hills Hollywood Cricket Club, Malibu Cricket Club, Hoboken Cricket Club, Meraloma Cricket Club, Minnesota Royals Cricket Club, Compton Cricket Club captained by Nick Compton and also hosted a "Caribbean All-Stars" team captained by former West Indies Test Captain Alvin Kallicharran. In addition to hosting touring teams the Napa Valley Cricket Club undertakes an annual tour and has toured to Los Angeles twice, Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Hawaii, and Vancouver where they played a match at the Brockton Oval in Stanley Park. | WIKI |
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Pride is an inordinate appetite of excellence, and it is twofold. The one is carnal and worldly, which places its excellence in corporal goods, as wealth, parentage, beauty, honourable office, (fee. The other pride is spiritual, which cherishes itself in the spiritual goods of sciences and virtues, and this has four acts. i. The first is to attribute to oneself that which is God's, as if it were his own, due to his nature or acquired by his own industry, without acknowledging God for the author of it ii. The second is, that although one thinks that what he has is from Almighty God, yet he attributes to km own merits that which is of pure grace, iii. The third is, to think of oneself that he has much more good than in truth he has, as well in virtue as in learning and other natural or acquired gifts, and to flatter oneself with them. iv. The fourth is, to think that one is singular and excellent above all in those good parts which he has, or to desire vainly to be so, that all may yield and subject themselves to him.
2. Prom pride spring many other vices with sundry acts of sins, which, like the seven heads of this infernal dragon, we may reduce to
i. The first is her eldest daughter, vain-glory, which is an inordinate appetite to be known, esteemed and praised of men; whose acts are, to boast oneself of what one has, as if one had not received it from Almighty God; to boast of what in truth one has not, or of a thing unworthy of glory, by reason of its being wicked and most base; to desire vainly to delight men, saying or doing things that they may praise one; to rejoice vainly when one is praised, delighting to hear one's own praises, though they be false flatteries. This vain-glory is most abominable in matter of virtues, for it is | WIKI |
Review of Gravity Probe B
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Background
The experiment now known as Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was conceived more than 30 years ago. Bold and daring in concept, it has been under continuous development ever since. The aim of the experiment is to measure, rather precisely, an effect that is pre dicted by all viable relativistic theories of gravity but has not yet been observed. Just as Newton's law of gravity is paralleled by Coulomb's law of electricity, so also it is expected that the force between currents of electrical charge, described by Ampere's law, should be paralleled by a force between "currents" of flowing matter. It is this force that has never been directly observed.
A useful perspective on the GP-B experiment can be obtained from a historical profile of its funding. Until the late 1980s, the project was funded at a level of $1 M to $2 M per year to develop and demonstrate the necessary technology. Funding was th en increased to permit detailed engineering of the various subsystems and thorough ground testing. The funding level reached about $30 M/yr in FY 1992, when the project entered a "science mission" phase involving development of an appropriate spacecraft to carry the experiment. Since then the funding has been approximately $50 M/yr.
When the project was last reviewed for NASA 4 years ago, the Parker Committee, an ad hoc review committee convened by NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications Lennard A. Fisk and chaired by Eugene N. Parker of the University of C hicago, recommended that if GP-B were to go forward, it must be properly funded. That committee considered an appropriate funding level to be about $50 M/yr until the time of launch, which was anticipated to be late in the 1990s. Subsequent funding has in fact been at this level, and has allowed highly skilled teams to address thoroughly various technical details of the experiment and to start building the flight instrument package and integrating it into a spacecraft. By the end of FY 1995 about $240 M will have been spent on the project. NASA estimates that another $340 M will be needed for completion, including launch and subsequent data analysis.
1.2 Scientific Motivation
Like most other fields of science, Einstein's theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity or GR, has developed its own notation and jargon. Despite the simplicity and economy of its underlying assumptions, the theory in full glory leads to int ensely complicated nonlinear equations. Indeed, the equations have been fully solved only in a few special instances. However, much of the mathematical complication can be removed by assuming that all gravitational fields are weak. The equations then r educe to a form remarkably similar to those governing electromagnetism. Terms appear that are analogous to the electric field caused by charges (the gravitoelectric field, produced by masses), and to the magnetic field produced by the flow of char ge (the gravitomagnetic field, produced by the flow of matter). A spinning ball of electrical charge produces a well-prescribed static magnetic field, and correspondingly a spinning mass such as the Earth is expected to produce a static gravitomag netic field. Of course, general relativity has important differences from electromagnetism, as well: in particular, it represents gravitational forces as arising from geometric curvature in the structure of space and time.
Gravity Probe B aspires to detect and measure, at the 1 percent level, the gravitomagnetic field produced by the spinning Earth through a spin-spin interaction with an orbiting gyroscope. This effect of the gravitomagnetic field is often referred to a s "frame dragging," or the Lense-Thirring effect. In addition, GP-B will accurately measure the much larger "geodetic" precession, a combination of the effects of spin-orbit coupling and space-time curvature.
In the quarter century since inception of the GP-B project, many other tests of Einstein's theory of gravity have been made. The delay and deflection of light signals passing close to massive objects have been measured with increasing precision and fo und to agree with the predictions of GR at the 0.1 percent level. Geodetic precession has been detected and measured with 2 percent accuracy by laser ranging to the Moon. Gravitational radiation from accelerated masses in a binary pulsar system has been shown to be consistent with GR at the 0.4 percent level. Some of these tests involve gravitomagnetic effects related to the translational flow of matter, in combination with other relativistic gravitational effects, and therefore they provide indirect e vidence for the existence of gravitomagnetism. By contrast, GP-B proposes to provide a direct test of gravitomagnetism caused by rotation, in isolation from other relativistic gravitational effects.
The past quarter century has also seen the development of exquisitely sensitive new instruments based on developing technologies and located both on Earth and in space. Some of them have provided the means to probe more and more deeply into the nature and evolutionary history of the universe. Observations with such instruments have yielded one surprise after another, and they raise perplexing questions about missing mass, the age of the universe, and the circumstances giving rise to the large-scale d istribution of matter in space. In the past, laws of nature previously considered sacrosanct have sometimes been found deficient when subjected to much closer scrutiny or applied to new phenomena. As long as some discoveries defy understanding, it is im portant to continue testing nature's most fundamental laws.
1.3 Conclusions
1.3.1 Scientific Importance
The frame-dragging effect predicted by our principal theory of space and time, general relativity, has a deep conceptual significance involving the connections between rotation, distant matter, and absolute space. Frame dragging is a direct manifestat ion of gravitomagnetism. Its consequences have found important astrophysical applications in, for example, models of relativistic jets observed streaming from the cores of quasars and active galactic nuclei. A 1 percent measurement of the predicted fram e-dragging effect would be a significant and unique test of GR. Gravity Probe B is one of the few space missions NASA has conducted with relevance to fundamental physics. If successful, it would assuredly join the ranks of the classical experiments of p hysics. By the same token, a confirmed result in disagreement with GR would be revolutionary.
Since GP-B was conceived, significant progress has been made through experimental studies of gravity, both in improved precision and in performing qualitatively new tests. These tests are so constraining that there are now no examples of alternative t heories that are consistent with the experimental facts and predict a frame-dragging effect different from that predicted by GR at a level GP-B could detect. Yet the basic weakness of the gravitational force means that GR has been tested much less thorou ghly than the other fundamental theories of physics. Nevertheless, along with most physicists this task group believes that a deviation from GR's prediction for frame dragging is highly unlikely.
In addition to detecting the new gravitomagnetic effect of frame dragging, Gravity Probe B should be able to measure the geodetic precession of its gyroscopes to an unprecedented accuracy of about 75 parts per million (ppm). This result would provide a factor-of-20 improvement in the measurement of space curvature per unit mass (now known to about 2 parts in 1000) and would tightly constrain the deviations from GR predicted by other theories of gravity in the weak-field limit.
1.3.2 Technical Feasibility
The task group is highly impressed with the extraordinary talents and abilities of the technical team assembled to create Gravity Probe B. The group has consistently solved technical problems with great inventiveness and ingenuity. Moreover, in the c ourse of its design work on GP-B the team has made brilliant and original contributions to basic physics and technology. Its members were among the first to measure the London moment of a spinning superconductor, the first to exploit the superconducting bag method for excluding magnetic flux, and the first to use a "porous plug" for confining superfluid helium without pressure buildup. They invented and proved the concept of a drag-free satellite, and most recently some members of the group have pioneer ed differential use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to create a highly reliable and precise aircraft landing system.
The task group finds progress in construction of the actual GP-B apparatus to be very impressive, as well. Working in concert with a team from the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, the Stanford group is well on its way toward putting GP-B into spac e before the end of the decade, providing that the funding level is sustained. The task group has found no serious technical impediments to meeting the existing launch schedule. The spacecraft, experimental package, and projected methods of operation ar e well designed to meet the scientific requirements and prove the results valid. The team is well prepared to cope with a wide range of unanticipated phenomena. The task group considers the overall complexity of GP-B to be somewhat greater than that of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) but much less than that of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). An ordinary hardware failure is no more likely than in other comparable space missions. Furthermore, GP-B has been designed with extensive in-flight testi ng of all parts, four independent sensor gyros to provide immediate confirmation of results, and in-flight calibration using observations of the aberration of light caused by the motion of the satellite.
Nevertheless, the extraordinary experimental requirements and the impossibility of ground tests of some critical systems at the necessary level of accuracy introduce significant risks. Despite an extensive list of detailed questions put to the GP-B te am by the task group, no specific weakness or likely points of failure have been identified. A majority of the task group believes that GP-B has a reasonably high probability of achieving its design goals and completing the planned measurements. However , based on their experience with complex scientific experiments on the ground, several members remain skeptical about the large extrapolations required from ground testing to performance in space. This minority believes it likely that some as yet unknown disturbance may prevent GP-B from performing as required. The task group notes that in any event, should the GP-B experiment be completed successfully but yield results different from those predicted by general relativity, the scientific world would alm ost certainly not be prepared to accept them until confirmed by a repeat mission using GP-B backup hardware, or by a new mission using different technology.
1.3.3 Comparison with Other Proposed Programs
The scientific objectives of GP-B involve testing one of the fundamental laws of nature. The goals are therefore quite different from the objectives of a common situation in which natural laws, as inferred theoretically and tested in terrestrial labor atories, are used to interpret observations of astrophysical phenomena. In particular, the ambitions of GP-B are qualitatively different from those underlying most astronomical work, including NASA projects such as the HST, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), and the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF). Tests of nature's laws are the ultimate foundations of physical science and are the only rational basis for belief that th ese laws are, at least in part, "understood." Despite its omnipresence, gravity remains the least well tested of all the fundamental forces.
NASA's highly successful COBE satellite was designed primarily to answer certain astrophysical and cosmological questions. Nevertheless, its results have implications in fundamental physics as well, particularly for questions concerning the origin of the universe. The task group's considered judgment is that the most likely of successful outcomes of the GP-B experiment(the measurement and confirmation of two specific effects predicted by general relativity(will be an important milestone, but will hav e less impact on the scientific world than the cumulative results of COBE. The reason is simple: there is no serious alternative to the general theory of relativity that predicts effects differing from those of general relativity by amounts that GP-B co uld detect. The GP-B experiment has been exciting for many scientists because of the need for confirmation of gravitomagnetism and the possibility of a great surprise, but the latter chance now seems more remote than before.
Other proposed satellite tests of frame dragging or spatial curvature, such as LAGEOS III, are intrinsically an order of magnitude less precise than GP-B. Another proposal claiming to offer higher accuracy is now in the conceptual stage and might even tually become a worthy successor to GP-B. It is discussed briefly in Section 2.4.
NASA estimates that $340 M will be required to complete the construction, launch, and data analysis phases of GP-B. If the experiment delivers as promised, so that the frame-dragging effect is measured to 1 percent accuracy and the geodetic term to 75 ppm, is it worth the cost? This question must be viewed in the context of other NASA projects of comparable magnitude, and necessarily its answer involves subjective scientific judgments. The task group was not able to achieve a clear consensus on the question of competitive value, even after extensive discussion and deliberation. Its members agree unanimously that all scientists would find it appealing to see a clean and direct demonstration of the frame-dragging effect, and that a confirmed discrepa ncy between the result of the GP-B experiment and the prediction of general relativity would fully justify the mission's cost, including the additional expense of a confirming experiment. However, in light of existing tests of gravitation theories such a discrepancy is considered highly unlikely.
Consequently, the task group's members hold a range of opinions on the relative cost-effectiveness of GP-B. A significant minority judge that the purpose of the mission is too narrow in comparison with missions that explore wide-open scientific issues and have a high probability of making new discoveries. This minority assigns high weight to the fact that essentially all experts believe that gravitomagnetism must exist, and consequently it does not appear likely that unexpected new knowledge will be gained.
In contrast, the task group's majority judgment gives higher weight to the importance of experimental verification in GP-B's unique and direct test of general relativity. Considering also the possibility of a revolutionary discovery, however remote, t he majority judges the GP-B project well worth its remaining cost to completion.
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Hôtel Hesselin
The Hôtel Hesselin, later known as the Hôtel d'Ambrun, was an aristocratic town house (hôtel particulier) located in Paris that was erected around 1639 to 1642 for Louis Hesselin to the designs of the French architect Louis Le Vau. It was on the south side of the Île Saint-Louis, west of the rue Poulletier at its intersection with the quai du Dauphin (now 24 quai de Béthune, 4th arrondissement of Paris). The hotel was demolished in 1935 by Helena Rubinstein, who had a new building erected to the designs of the architect Louis Süe.
Layout
Le Vau's designs for the Hôtel Hesselin were reproduced in six engravings by Jean Marot, which were published in the Grand Marot in 1686. The house shows Le Vau's skill at adapting plans to unique and unusual sites. Since the plot was located on a quiet quai, where street noise was minimal, he moved the entrance courtyard, which typically kept the main part of the house, the corps de logis, far away from the street, to behind the wings used for living, so the latter were near the River Seine and provided vistas across the river toward the University and upriver toward Salpêtrière Hospital. The courtyard was reached from the quai via a carriage entryway (porte cochère) and passageway. The impressive doors of the carriage entryway were sculpted by Étienne Le Hongre and have been preserved. The courtyard led directly to the garden at the rear, and the stables were east of the garden, along the rue Poulletier. On the right side of the courtyard a short flight of steps led to a highly decorated vestibule with a grand staircase on its south side leading to the main floor above, where there was a grand gallery (grande galerie) running parallel to the quai, with four windows overlooking the river to the south and three, the courtyard to the north.
Elevations
Another imaginative feature of the house was the arrangement of the facades along the river. Le Vau was also responsible for the design and construction of the house to the left, the Hôtel Sainctot, the river side of which was nearly complete by 1640. He combined the elevations of the two houses so they formed a nearly symmetrical ensemble.
Demolition
The Hôtel Hesselin was purchased in 1932 by the rich American cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein "for a song" and had tenants living in it. After nearly three years, when the last of the tenants moved out, Helena Rubinstein moved to have the hotel demolished despite the neighbouring residents and press protesting against the demolition. She justified her decision by saying the foundations had been undermined by repeated flooding of the Seine. The hotel was demolished in 1935 at the request of Rubinstein, and a new building was erected to the designs of the architect Louis Süe. The new building incorporated elements from the original, including Le Hongre's doors from the carriage entryway and an iron balcony, which had been declared a monument historique in 1927. Georges Pompidou, president of the French Republic from 1969 to 1974, resided in this building. | WIKI |
Natascha Drubek
Natascha Drubek-Meyer (Drubek) is a researcher, author and editor in the area of Central and East European literature, film and media. Since 2012 Drubek has been teaching comparative literature, and film and media studies, at the Free University of Berlin (in 2020-21 as professor of the FONTE-Stiftung].
Drubek is one of the developers of Hyperkino and the editor-in-chief of the open-access academic journal Apparatus. From 2003 until 2014 she was the editor of the film and screen media section of ARTmargins, a journal for contemporary Central and Eastern European visual culture. From 2009 to 2015 Drubek was a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgeminschaft at the University of Regensburg pursuing two projects: Soviet antireligious films and campaigns and the film projects in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 2014, during her Heisenberg fellowship she organized a conference on film propaganda in Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 2016, Drubek published a selection of the conference proceedings as a double special issue of Apparatus. She holds a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (with a thesis on Nikolai Gogol) where she was also habilitated with a monograph on the cultural history of early Russian film centering on the Russian pre-revolutionary director Evgenii Bauer (Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, 2012). Her other research interests include Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sorokin, and Jana Černá, born Krejcarová.
Film studies, curator, digital editions
Next to her university career, in the 1990s Drubek was a freelance at the Munich Film Museum where she curated Russian and East European film seasons.
In 2004 she was awarded the Feodor-Lynen Research Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research on early cinema in Russia where she benefitted from the guidance of her Moscow mentor, Naum Kleiman. Her next project grew out of a cooperation with the NIIK, the Research Institute of Film Art in Degtiarnyi pereulok, Moscow. It was a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Film School FAMU in Prague with the project: "Hypertextual Film Presentation. Digital Editions for the European Cinematographic Heritage" (2006-2008). With film historian Nikolai Izvolov, head of film history at NIIK, Natascha Drubek co-authored the method Hyperkino. Hyperkino is a standardized system of annotating films on digital carriers - attaching related content and analysis to individual frames. The pilot DVD of Alexander Hackenschmied's Aimless Walk (1930) – finished in 2008 – was never published. A version of Drubek's annotations appeared in the journal Bohemia. In 2012, in cooperation with Izvolov, Drubek published the Hyperkino the ibook "Happiness" (on Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1934 film Happiness), the first scholarly filmbook with moving images. Drubek served as a member of film festival juries at Docaviv (2016), Pula (2017), and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2012, 2014, 2018).
Editorial and academic publishing activities, open access
* 1995-2003: editor of film section Balagankino of the theatre and drama journal Balagan, Potsdam & Regensburg.
* 2003-2014: editor of the film and screen media section of ARTMargins.
* With Georg Witte and Jurij Murasov Drubek co-edits the series "osteuropa medial", published by Böhlau
* From 2015: editor-in-chief of Apparatus, a multilingual academic peer reviewed online journal, available in open access | WIKI |
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C++ Program to calculate the sum of two numbers. | C ++ प्रोग्राम दो संख्याओं की गणना करने के लिए।
C++ Program to calculate the sum of two numbers.
Let see the program add two numbers.
Example:
1. Declare three variables they are integer or float data types x, y,z.
2. Declare one int data type and one float datatype, then store float data type.
3. Declare two float data type, then store float data type.
4. Declare two integer data types, then store integer data type.
5. Input x=10,y=20
6. Then z=x+y
7. Sum two numbers z=30.
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int x; float y,z; cout<<"Enter x value :"; cin>>x; cout<<"Enter y value :"; cin>>y; z=x+y; cout<<" Sum of two numbers :"<<z<<endl; return 0; }
Output:
Enter x value :31 Enter y value :31.36 Sum of two numbers :62.36
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { float x,y,z; cout<<"Enter x value :"; cin>>x; cout<<"Enter y value :"; cin>>y; z=x+y; cout<<" Sum of two numbers :"<<z<<endl; return 0; }
Output:
Enter x value :31.10 Enter y value :36.10 Sum of two numbers :67.2
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int x,y,z; cout<<"Enter x value :"; cin>>x; cout<<"Enter y value :"; cin>>y; z=x+y; cout<<" Sum of two numbers :"<<z<<endl; return 0; }
Output:
Enter x value :31 Enter y value :36 Sum of two numbers :67 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Introduction
Why should I take this module?
Welcome to NAT for IPv4!
IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers. Mathematically, this means that there can be just over 4 billion unique IPv4 addresses. In the 1980s, this seemed like more than enough IPv4 addresses. Then came the development of affordable desktop and laptop computers, smart phones and tablets, many other digital technologies, and of course, the internet. Rather quickly it became apparent that 4 billion IPv4 addresses would not be nearly enough to handle the growing demand. This is why IPv6 was developed. Even with IPv6, most networks today are IPv4-only, or a combination of IPv4 and IPv6. The transition to IPv6-only networks is still ongoing, that is why Network Address Translation (NAT) was developed. NAT is designed to help manage those 4 billion addresses so that we can all use our many devices to access the internet. As you can see, it is important that you understand the purpose of (NAT) and how it works. As a bonus, this module contains multiple Packet Tracer activities where you get to configure different types of NAT. Get going!
6.0.2
What will I learn to do in this module?
Module Title: NAT for IPv4
Module Objective: Configure NAT services on the edge router to provide IPv4 address scalability.
Table caption
Topic Title Topic Objective
NAT Characteristics Explain the purpose and function of NAT.
Types of NAT Explain the operation of different types of NAT.
NAT Advantages and Disadvantages Describe the advantages and disadvantages of NAT.
Static NAT Configure static NAT using the CLI.
Dynamic NAT Configure dynamic NAT using the CLI.
PAT Configure PAT using the CLI.
NAT64 Describe NAT for IPv6. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Jang 2018 J Med Toxicol
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Jang DH, Khatri UG, Mudan A, Love JS, Owiredu S, Eckmann DM (2018) Translational application of measuring mitochondrial functions in blood cells obtained from patients with acute poisoning. J Med Toxicol 14:144-51.
» PMID: 29536431
Jang DH, Khatri UG, Mudan A, Love JS, Owiredu S, Eckmann DM (2018) J Med Toxicol
Abstract: It is conservatively estimated that 5000 deaths per year and 20,000 injuries in the USA are due to poisonings caused by chemical exposures (e.g., carbon monoxide, cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, phosphides) that are cellular inhibitors. These chemical agents result in mitochondrial inhibition resulting in cardiac arrest and/or shock. These cellular inhibitors have multi-organ effects, but cardiovascular collapse is the primary cause of death marked by hypotension, lactic acidosis, and cardiac arrest. The mitochondria play a central role in cellular metabolism where oxygen consumption through the electron transport system is tightly coupled to ATP production and regulated by metabolic demands. There has been increasing use of human blood cells such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells and platelets, as surrogate markers of mitochondrial function in organs due to acute care illnesses. We demonstrate the clinical applicability of measuring mitochondrial bioenergetic and dynamic function in blood cells obtained from patients with acute poisoning using carbon monoxide poisoning as an illustration of our technique. Our methods have potential application to guide therapy and gauge severity of disease in poisoning related to cellular inhibitors of public health concern. Keywords: Mitochondria, Respiration, Motility, Carbonmonoxide, Toxicology, Poisoning Bioblast editor: Kandolf G O2k-Network Lab: US PA Philadelphia Jang DH
Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Patients, Pharmacology;toxicology Pathology: Cardiovascular
Organism: Human Tissue;cell: Blood cells Preparation: Permeabilized cells, Intact cells
Coupling state: LEAK, ROUTINE, OXPHOS, ET Pathway: N, S, Gp, CIV, NS, ROX HRR: Oxygraph-2k, O2k-Fluorometer
2018-02, PBMC, AmR, MitoEAGLE blood cells data | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Is there a way to grab data from alternate records in a ColdFusion query?
Essentially, what I am trying to do is this:
I am querying my database to grab some data. 2 rows of data are returned here.
Now I want to set 2 variables - var1 = row1.columnA
and var2 = row2.columnX
How do I do this?
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I'm kinda confused so you have a table column 1 column 2 column 3, row 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 row 5 and you want var1 to show row 1,3 and 5 and var2 to show row 2,4 and 6 ?
You can set the sql statement so var1 shows columnA and var2 shows ColumnX but not sure if you can skip rows.
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I'm kinda confused so you have a table column 1 column 2 column 3, row 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 row 5 and you want var1 to show row 1,3 and 5 and var2 to show row 2,4 and 6 ?
You can set the sql statement so var1 shows columnA and var2 shows ColumnX but not sure if you can skip rows.
Actually, there are only 2 rows. So like the following:
Table:
Column 1, Column 2, Column 3, Column 4
Row 1
Row 2
What I want now is:
var 1 = Row1.Column3
var 2 = Row2.Column4
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If there is only 2 rows this should work
<cfquery name="Query1" datasource="#application.dsn#">
select column 3 // replace with name of column 3
from TableName // replace with the table name in the data base
where tableName.Column 3 = 'The vAlue in the database that is at row1 colum3 keep i inside these quotes'
</cfquery>
<cfquery name="Query2" datasource="#application.dsn#">
select column 4 // replace with name of column 4
from TableName // replace with the table name in the data base
where tableName.Column 4 = 'the value data in of Row2 Column4'
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>
<tr>
<td width="10"><div class="content_black">#Query1.Column3# </div></td>
<td width="10"><div class="content_black">#Query2.Column4# </div></td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
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Actually, there are only 2 rows. So like the following:
Table:
Column 1, Column 2, Column 3, Column 4
Row 1
Row 2
What I want now is:
var 1 = Row1.Column3
var 2 = Row2.Column4
I would test on MOD 2 of currentrow:
<cfquery name="blah" datasource="#dsn3">
select * from table
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>
<cfloop query="blah">
row:#CurrentRow# mod2:#CurrentRow MOD 2#<br>
<cfloop>
</cfoutput>
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The essays written for and the speeches made at the infamous 1880 Congress in Milan, Italy, were included in this book which was part of a bundle of books donated to the Deaf Museum by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (now known as Action on Hearing Loss) Library.
What happened at the Congress?
The influential Milan Congress in 1880 decided that the oral method of educating deaf children was superior to sign language. This International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, in which the majority of those attending were hearing teachers of deaf children, out of 164 attendees only one or two were deaf. Many of the people invited were known oralists so the Congress was biased and most, if not all, of the resolutions that were voted on by the delegates gave results in favour of the oral method. They had passed a resolution banning the use of sign languages in schools throughout the world. Nine of the twelve speakers gave an oralist view and only three (Edward Miner Gallaudet, the Rev. Thomas Gallaudet and Richard Elliott, a teacher from England) supported the use of sign language. The participants of the Congress then returned to their home countries, determined to eradicate both the employment of deaf teachers and the use of sign language in schools. They also sought to reduce class sizes to those that were manageable by hearing teachers and all the deaf teachers were dismissed. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Rh place. In other words, the peoples of the Mediterranean basin, learning of their aptitude for a southward migration, would perhaps move to Algeria, displacing the people of the Soudan and the Semitic stocks toward the equator. To fill the place thus left vacant, the people of northern France slowly drift to the Rhone Valley and Provence for a generation or two, and their place is taken by Germans and Belgians.
That this is a tendency at the present time can not be doubted. Each generation adapting itself quietly would produce succeeding ones with an inherited immunity. Unfortunately, this most reasonable let-alone policy has two fatal objections: in the first place, it requires a policy of noninterference; and, more potent still, it absolutely neglects the political factor. To suppose that France would quietly allow her people to be dispossessed by Germans, even though she aided her colonial policy thereby, or that Germany would quietly leave Africa to her Gallic neighbor, is not to be supposed for a moment. Nevertheless, it will be probably the only policy which will finally produce a new immune type in the regions of the equator. Of course, England is by fate condemned to follow the first policy we have outlined. France, indeed, is the only one of the European states which extends over the two contrasted European climates; a large measure of her success is probably due to that fact; while all the nations north of the Alps must traverse her territory or that of Italy on the way to these newly discovered lands. Great political results are therefore not impossible, if the prognosis we have indicated prove to be correct. At all events, enough has perhaps been said to show that great problems for science remain to be solved before the statesman can safely proceed to people those tropical regions of the earth so lately apportioned among European states. | WIKI |
-- N.J. Revenue May Be $540 Million Off Target, Analyst Says
New Jersey ’s revenue collections
were as much as $540 million less than targeted by Governor
Chris Christie through the fiscal year ended June 30, according
to a memo from the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services. The total was $24.2 billion, compared with $24.7 billion
projected by Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, according to
David Rosen , legislative budget officer. The gap will narrow by
as much as $300 million after year-end accounting adjustments,
Rosen wrote in a letter yesterday to Senator Barbara Buono, a
Metuchen Democrat who requested an analysis. “Even allowing for typical adjustments of $200 million to
$300 million, that means we will have started off this fiscal
year with about half of Governor Christie’s projected surplus
already gone,” Buono said in a statement. The state is in the process of shifting some of July’s cash
collections to the fiscal year that ended June 30 in order to
achieve balance. This is a typical accounting process, according
to Rosen and Kevin Roberts , a Christie spokesman. “Whether it is this year, last year, five or 10 years ago,
the process of closing out a fiscal year and moving from one to
another always includes accounting adjustments and transfer
between fiscal years,” Roberts said in an e-mail. Partial Report Because those adjustments aren’t complete, the revenue
figures released yesterday are preliminary, and it is premature
to report a shortfall, Roberts said. The Christie administration on Aug. 15 released only
partial revenue figures for July. That prompted criticism from
Buono, who said the governor wasn’t obeying his own executive
order signed in January 2010, his first month in office, which
stipulates that revenue reports be issued monthly. Sidamon-Eristoff’s office released more July figures late
yesterday. Revenue was $304 million, 5.5 percent under target,
as casino taxes were 30 percent less than projected. The report
didn’t disclose whether sales-tax collections, one of the
state’s biggest revenue sources, met goals. Collections Rise Collections for all of the state’s major revenues were 2.5
percent higher last month than in July 2011, Sidamon-Eristoff
said in a statement. Corporate taxes were 26 percent higher and
sales levies were 4.4 lower, while income taxes were up by 10
percent. “The fact that July collections were significantly higher
is a clear signal that the economy continues to grow,” Sidamon-
Eristoff said. Christie has traveled the state touting a “Jersey
Comeback,” an economic-recovery plan that includes a tax cut .
The $31.7 billion budget for fiscal 2013 didn’t include a tax
reduction because Democrats, who control the Legislature,
weren’t certain whether revenue would meet Christie’s targets.
His plan maintained a surplus of more than $600 million. The governor has said his tax cut will help create jobs.
New Jersey’s unemployment rate jumped to a 35-year high of 9.8
percent in July, the state Labor Department said yesterday. To contact the reporter on this story:
Elise Young in Trenton at
eyoung30@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Stephen Merelman at
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THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the chemical in drugs like marijuana that delivers the high to users. THC is the psychoactive component of the plant, and it’s what can be most dangerous and most addictive. If you have a marijuana addiction and are ready to get sober, then a THC detox will be part of the equation. Get familiar with the withdrawal symptoms, what to expect, and what comes after the detox itself on your journey to recovery at Crestview.
How to Tell if You Need to Detox From THC
THC detoxIn many states, the medical use of marijuana is legal. In Oregon, people can even use the drug recreationally. For these reasons, many people mistakenly believe that THC is a harmless compound. In reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Before attending drug addiction treatment, we recommend attending detox at one of Portland’s reputable facilities.
It’s still entirely possible to become physically and psychologically dependent on marijuana and its most potent chemical compound, THC. If you can’t relax or sleep without the use of the drug, then you’re probably in need of a detox.
If you want to end an addiction to marijuana, a detox is the first and most important step. When you go through detox, you’ll end consumption of the drug all at once. While this can lead to some withdrawal symptoms, it’s the only way to effectively begin the recovery process. Detox won’t last forever, and it can establish your life of health and freedom from addiction once and for all.
Side Effects of THC Addiction
One of the most common arguments in favor of marijuana use is that the drug doesn’t have any negative side effects. Of course, an addiction to THC means that many negative side effects are likely. These side effects can be physical, financial, and behavioral, among many others.
Cannabis use can greatly reduce verbal communication skills as well as cognitive function. The more you rely on drugs like THC, the more likely it is that you’ll struggle with memory loss. The brain can actually begin to change with the chronic use of marijuana, and these changes can be permanent. In some individuals, IQ can decrease over time as a result of marijuana consumption.
Typical THC Withdrawal Timeline
THCThe good news is that a THC detox doesn’t last long. Although the specific timeline varies from person to person, the average duration is just two weeks in total.
The first day of detox can begin with some mild withdrawal symptoms. This is often barely noticeable, but for heavy users, it can be uncomfortable. By day two or three, withdrawal symptoms will reach their peak. After that, symptoms can lessen, but psychological symptoms may continue for another week or two for some people.
Common Symptoms During a THC Detox
During a THC detox, a number of withdrawal symptoms can occur. In the first few days of withdrawal, many of the symptoms are physical. Some of these can include nausea, vomiting, chills, extreme sweating, and headaches.
Later, most withdrawal symptoms are psychological. Some of the most common of these symptoms are anxiety, depression, insomnia, cravings, and irritability.
What Comes After the THC Detox?
After attending a Portland detox center, the next step is to find ongoing care. If you want to overcome addiction, then you’ll need to learn how to maintain your newly found sobriety. At Crestview Recovery, rehab programs prepare people for a future without drugs. Some treatment methods available in rehab include:
A THC detox may be the best way to overcome marijuana addiction. At Crestview Recovery in Portland, Oregon, you’ll have access to the resources you need to fight back against drugs. Find freedom from addiction by calling 866.262.0531. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
VA to switch to Defense Department electronic health record system
Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin announced today that the VA will officially move its electronic health records system from its highly regarded, in-house system called VistA to the same commercial one that the Department of Defense is adopting. Cerner, the health technology conglomerate based in Kansas City, Mo., is working on the DoD medical records project and will earn billions of dollars in extra money to convert the VA system. Why it matters: The VA system has been criticized for years — Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove told Axios earlier this year that it was behind the times. Shulkin said the VA and the Defense Department have spent years trying to get their systems to talk to each other, but that both agencies "will continue to face significant challenges if the Departments remain on two different systems." Wall Street kinda cheered: Cerner's stock jumped more than 2% Monday after the news was announced, but tempered down to a 1% increase. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
No. 1 Buckeyes Pass Another Test
Troy Smith passed for four touchdowns as Ohio State emerged from the most difficult part of its schedule with a 38-17 rout at No. 13 Iowa. The Buckeyes do not face a team currently ranked in the top 25 until their regular-season finale on Nov. 18 against Michigan. Down by 10 early, No. 5 Florida pulled away from Alabama, 28-13. No. 24 Georgia Tech returned the favor with a 38-27 victory at No. 11 Virginia Tech. No. 12 Notre Dame started fast this time and had little trouble beating Purdue, 35-21. Navy routed Connecticut, 41-17. COMPLETE COVERAGE, PAGES 6-7 | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Rh left, aud F iu a certain fixed point B on the right edge, and, consequently, the statical condition of the balance is the same as if the weights W, P, P" were all concentrated in one fixed point C (fig. 7), the position of which, in regard to the beam, is independent of the extent to which the latter may have turned, and independent of the direction of gravity. It is also easily seen that in a given beam the position of C will depend only on P and P", and supposing P to remain constant it will change its position whenever P" changes its value. Fio. 7. Diagram illustrating theory of Precision Balance. The point C will in general lie outside of the axis of rotation, and conse quently there will in general be only two positions of the beam in which it can remain at rest, namely, first, that posi tion in which C lies vertically above, and, secondly, that position in which it lies vertically below the axis of rotation. Only one of these two positions can possibly lie within the angle of free play which the beam has at its disposal. The second of the two positions, if it is within this angle, can easily be found experimentally, because it is the position of stable equilibrium, which the beam, when left to itself in any but the first position, will always by itself tend to assume. The first position, viz., that of unstable equilibrium, is practically beyond the reach of experimental determina tion. Hence the points A, B, and S must be situated so that, at least whenever P7 = FT exactly or very nearly, the beam has a definite position of stable equilibrium, and that this position is within the angle of free play. To formulate these conditions mathematically, assume a system of rectangular co-ordinates, X, Y, Z, to be connected with the beam, so that the axis of the Z coincides with the central edge and the origin with the projection O of the centre of gravity on that edge, while the Y-axis passes through the centre of gravity. Let the values of the co-ordinates of the points A, B, S, C (imagined to be situated as indicated by the figure) be as follows:—
Point A B S C x = - 1 +1" x, y= h h" s y (The z s are evidently of no practical consequence.) To find X Q and y we need only again apply the reasoning which helped us in the case of the similar problem regarding the ideal instrument. Assuming, then, first, gravity, to act parallel to Y, we have (F + P" + W) x 9 - FT - P7. Assuming, secondly, gravity to act parallel to X, we have (F + p" + W)y = P A + P"A" + Ws, .: for the distance of the common centre of gravity C of the system from the axis of rotation, r= Jx* + yf, and for the angle a through which the needle, supposing it to start from the zero-point, must turn to reach its position of stable equilibrium—
p /;// p/// x r t r t,, , If, in particular cases, one or more of the points A, B, S should lie above the X-axis, we need only consider the respective ordinates as being in themselves negative, and the equations (as can easily be shown) remain in force. Taking equation 3, together with what was said before, we at once see that if a balance is to be at all available for what it has been made for, and supposing two of the co-ordinates h, h" to have been chosen at random, the third must be chosen so that, at least whenever F ex actly or nearly counterpoises P", Ws + P A + F A" &gt; 0. For if it were = 0, then, in case of P7 = P 7," the balance would have no definite position of equilibrium, and if it were negative, y would be negative, and the position of stable equilibrium would lie outside the angle of free play. Obviously, the best thing the maker can do is so to adjust the balance that h = h" = and I = I", because then the customary method of weighing (see above) assumes its greatest simplicity, and, especially, the factor with which the deviation of the needle has to be multiplied to convert it into the corresponding excess of weight present on the respective pan assumes its highest degree of relative con stancy. We speak of a degree of constancy because this factor can never be absolutely constant, for the simple reason that no beam is absolutely inflexible, and consequently h as well as h" is a function of P, and P" of the form h = A + yP, where y has a very obvious meaning. What is actually done in the adjusting of the best instruments is so to place the terminal edges that, for a certain medium value of P + P", h + h" = 0, so that the sensibility of the balance is about the same when the pans are empty as when they are charged with the largest weights they are intended to carry. The condition I = I" also cannot be fulfilled absolutely in practice, but mechanicians now- a-days have no difficulty in reducing the difference y - 1 to less than 0000 and even a greater value would create no serious inconvenience. We shall therefore now assume our balance to be exactly equal-armed ; and, substituting for h + h" the symbol 2h, and under standing it to be that (small) value which corresponds to the charge, substitute for equation 3 the simpler expression {{center|{{missing table]]}} which, on the understanding that P" = P + A, and that A is a very small weight, gives the tangent-value corre sponding to P and A. Sometimes it is convenient to look upon the pans (weighing p each) as forming part and parcel of the beam ; the equation then assumes the form— {{center|{{missing table}}}} tana = wvT^ (5) where p = P p u. {{ti|1em|In a precision balance the sensibility, i.e., the tangent- value of the deviation produced by A = 1, which is}} {{center|{{missing table}}}} _, A WY + 2ph must have a pretty considerable value, and at the same time ought to be as nearly as possible independent of the charge. Hence what the equation (4) indicates with refer ence to a balance to be constructed is, that, so far as these two qualities are concerned, we may choose the weight of the beam as we like; and in regard to the sensibility which the instrument is meant to have when charged to a certain {{div end}}{{div col end}} | WIKI |
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How to? Copy+Paste in TCMD tabs with Ctrl-Shift-Ins?
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The help file says:
To paste text from elsewhere in a Take Command tab window directly onto the command line, highlight the text with the mouse and press Ctrl-Shift-Ins, or use the Copy+Paste command on the Edit menu.
This is equivalent to highlighting the text and pressing Ctrl-Ins followed by Ctrl-V,except that it will not change the contents of the clipboard
That works for me with Copy+Paste from the Edit menu, but not withCtrl-Shift-Ins, which does nothing.
How do you make this shortcut work?
There seems to be no key assignment for Copy+Paste in the TCC options, nor a corresponding command.
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Go to the TCMD Options menu, select "Take Command", and then click on Tabs. In the Windows section, you need to have either the "Left ctrl key" or the "Right ctrl key" checked if you want Take Command to handle the key. If neither are checked, the ctrl keys will be passed to the console app.
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Go to the TCMD Options menu, select "Take Command", and then click on Tabs.
In the Windows section, you need to have either the "Left ctrl key" or the "Right ctrl key" checked if you want Take Command to handle the key. If neither are checked, the ctrl keys will be passed to the console app.
Thank you, that made it work.
Just one minor detail, if I may be so bold:
the choice of Left or Right Ctrl keys is in the Tabs section of the TCMD options.
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Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31 (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's set of six sonatas for keyboard and violin, K. 26–31 were composed in early 1766 in The Hague during the Mozart family's grand tour of Europe. They were dedicated to Princess Caroline of Nassau-Weilburg on the occasion of the eighteenth birthday of her brother, William V, Prince of Orange. They were published as Mozart's Opus 4.
These works show an improvement in compositional technique over the sets for Paris (K. 6–9) and London (K. 10–15), although like the previous sets, the keyboard part dominates and the violin may be considered optional.
Mozart composed all three early sets of accompanied sonatas while touring northwest Europe. These types of sonatas were not favored at home in Salzburg. Mozart would not revisit this genre until 1777–78 on a trip to Mannheim and Paris.
Sonata in E-flat major, K. 26
1. Allegro molto
2. Adagio poco andante (in C minor)
3. Rondeaux (Allegro)
Sonata in G major, K. 27
1. Adagio poco andante
2. Allegro
Sonata in C major, K. 28
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Allegro grazioso
Sonata in D major, K. 29
1. Allegro molto
2. Menuetto and Trio
Sonata in F major, K. 30
1. Adagio
2. Rondeaux (Tempo di Menuetto)
Sonata in B-flat major, K. 31
1. Allegro
2. Tempo di Menuetto (Moderato) Theme and six variations | WIKI |
Communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of both cities and territories. They are led by government appointed burgomasters (fr. bourgmestres) and are further divided into quarters (fr. quartiers) and embedded groupings (fr. groupements incorporé).
City communes
The 34 cities of DR Congo are divided into 139 communes:
Territory communes
There are 174 communes in the 145 territories of DR Congo. Each administrative center of a territory is a commune and in most cases has the same name as the territory. | WIKI |
#include #include #include // from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103499 // 2010-08-25 Keenerd // gratuitous white space // defines // comments // broke up some ?: #define NOTIFY_MASK XCB_EVENT_MASK_SUBSTRUCTURE_REDIRECT|XCB_EVENT_MASK_SUBSTRUCTURE_NOTIFY|XCB_EVENT_MASK_STRUCTURE_NOTIFY #define WIDTH_SIBLING_STACK XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_BORDER_WIDTH|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_SIBLING|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_STACK_MODE #define CONFIG_XYWH XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_X|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_Y|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_WIDTH|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_HEIGHT void sigchld(int x) { if(signal(SIGCHLD,sigchld) != SIG_ERR) {while(0 < waitpid(-1, 0, WNOHANG));} } int main(int argc,char**argv) { xcb_connection_t* dpy = xcb_connect(0,0); sigchld(0); void* ret; // abused for everything int32_t x, y, mx, my, cs[255]; int32_t tx = -1; int32_t root = xcb_setup_roots_iterator(xcb_get_setup(dpy)).data->root; ret = xcb_intern_atom_reply(dpy,xcb_intern_atom(dpy,0,16,"WM_DELETE_WINDOW"),0); int32_t wmdel = ((xcb_intern_atom_reply_t*)ret)->atom; free(ret); ret = xcb_intern_atom_reply(dpy, xcb_intern_atom(dpy, 0, 12, "WM_PROTOCOLS"), 0); int32_t wmpro = ((xcb_intern_atom_reply_t*)ret)->atom; free(ret); xcb_change_window_attributes(dpy, root, XCB_CW_EVENT_MASK, (uint32_t[]){NOTIFY_MASK}); uint8_t mz; uint8_t cz = 0; xcb_grab_key(dpy, 1, root, 0, 64, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC); for(mz=64; mz>1; mz>>=3) // 64 8 { xcb_grab_key(dpy, 1, root, mz, XCB_GRAB_ANY, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC); xcb_grab_button(dpy, 1, root, XCB_EVENT_MASK_BUTTON_PRESS, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC, XCB_NONE, XCB_NONE, XCB_GRAB_ANY, mz); } main: xcb_flush(dpy); noflush: x=y=cz-1; again: switch(((xcb_generic_event_t*)(ret=xcb_wait_for_event(dpy)))->response_type&127) { case XCB_BUTTON_PRESS: for(; x>-1; x--) { if(cs[x] == ((xcb_button_press_event_t*)ret)->child) { if(((xcb_key_press_event_t*)ret)->detail == 2) {goto pocus;} case XCB_KEY_PRESS: // bad nesting mz = 128 | ((xcb_key_press_event_t*)ret)->detail; my = ((xcb_key_press_event_t*)ret)->state; goto stack; } } goto noflush; case XCB_KEY_RELEASE: if(((xcb_key_press_event_t*)ret)->detail!=64 || tx==-1) {goto again;} x = tx; tx = -1; goto stack; case XCB_CONFIGURE_REQUEST: { xcb_configure_request_event_t *e = ret; uint32_t c[6] uint32_t *p = c; if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_X) {*p++ = e->x;} if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_Y) {*p++ = e->y;} if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_WIDTH) {*p++ = e->width;} if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_HEIGHT) {*p++ = e->height;} if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_SIBLING) {*p++ = e->sibling;} if(e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_STACK_MODE) {*p = e->stack_mode;} xcb_configure_window(dpy, e->window, e->value_mask&~XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_BORDER_WIDTH, c); for(; x>-1; x--) { if(cs[x] == e->window && e->value_mask&XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_STACK_MODE) { switch(e->stack_mode) { case XCB_STACK_MODE_BELOW: y = 0; case XCB_STACK_MODE_ABOVE: goto stack; } } } goto main; } case XCB_MAP_REQUEST: y = ((xcb_map_request_event_t*)ret)->window; ret = xcb_get_window_attributes_reply(dpy, xcb_get_window_attributes_unchecked(dpy, y), 0); x += ((xcb_get_window_attributes_reply_t*)ret)->override_redirect; free(ret); for(; x>-1; x--) { if(x>=cz || cz==255 || cs[x]==y) {goto noflush;} } cs[cz++] = y; xcb_map_window(dpy, y); goto hocus; if (0) // Low hanging fruit for you! { case XCB_MOTION_NOTIFY: if (mz == 1) {xcb_configure_window(dpy, cs[y], XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_X|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_Y, (int32_t[]){mz==3&&((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_x-mx<1?:((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_x-mx,mz==3&&((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_y-my<1?:((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_y-my});} else {xcb_configure_window(dpy, cs[y], XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_WIDTH|XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_HEIGHT, (int32_t[]){mz==3&&((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_x-mx<1?:((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_x-mx,mz==3&&((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_y-my<1?:((xcb_motion_notify_event_t*)ret)->root_y-my});} } else { case XCB_BUTTON_RELEASE: xcb_ungrab_pointer(dpy,XCB_CURRENT_TIME); } goto main; case XCB_DESTROY_NOTIFY: case XCB_UNMAP_NOTIFY: unmap: if (x<0) {goto noflush;} if (cs[x] == ((xcb_unmap_notify_event_t*)ret)->window && --cz) {goto stack;} else {x--; goto unmap;} default: goto again; } mvsz: ret = xcb_grab_pointer_reply(dpy, xcb_grab_pointer_unchecked(dpy, 0, root, XCB_EVENT_MASK_BUTTON_RELEASE|XCB_EVENT_MASK_POINTER_MOTION,XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC,XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC,XCB_NONE,XCB_NONE,XCB_CURRENT_TIME),0); y += ((xcb_grab_pointer_reply_t*)ret)->status != XCB_GRAB_STATUS_SUCCESS; free(ret); ret = xcb_get_geometry_reply(dpy, xcb_get_geometry_unchecked(dpy, cs[y]), 0); mx = ((xcb_get_geometry_reply_t*)ret)->x; my = ((xcb_get_geometry_reply_t*)ret)->y; free(ret); if(mz!=1 || y==cz) {goto main;} ret = xcb_query_pointer_reply(dpy, xcb_query_pointer_unchecked(dpy, root), 0); mx = ((xcb_query_pointer_reply_t*)ret)->root_x-mx; my = ((xcb_query_pointer_reply_t*)ret)->root_y-my; free(ret); goto main; stack: mx = cs[x]; for(; x!=y; x+=x-1; x--) { if (atoms[x] == wmdel) { xcb_send_event(dpy,0,cs[y],XCB_EVENT_MASK_NO_EVENT,(char*)(xcb_client_message_event_t[]){{.response_type=XCB_CLIENT_MESSAGE,.window=cs[y],.type=wmpro,.format=32,.data.data32={wmdel,XCB_CURRENT_TIME}}}); goto main; } } xcb_kill_client(dpy, cs[y]); } goto main; case 54: goto*(ret="urxvt +sb -fn 'xft:monospace-12' -geometry 29x2+500+500 -e sh -c 'date;sleep 2'&",&&cmd); cmd: system(ret); default: goto main; } } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Gorači
Gorači is a village in the western part of Croatia. Administratively, it is part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The village is connected by the D32 highway. | WIKI |
There are many different treatment options if you have been diagnosed with bladder cancer.
The first step in both diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer is the Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT). This surgery utilizes a scope with an electrocautery loop to resect, cut or scrape the tumor out of the bladder. This is also the most common treatment for early-stage or superficial (non-muscle invasive) bladder cancers. Most patients have superficial cancer when they are first diagnosed, so this is usually their first treatment. The surgery is done using an instrument put up the urethra, so it does not require cutting into the abdomen.
Intravesical Therapy is used after transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) for non-invasive or minimally invasive bladder cancers to help keep the cancer from coming back. A live bacteria called BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) is injected into the bladder to induce an immune response and prevent recurrences of cancer. Various chemotherapy agents can also be placed within the bladder to directly kill cancer cells and prevent tumor recurrences.
Radical Cystectomy involves the removal of the bladder. The lymph nodes and other sexual organs (including the prostate and seminal vesicles in men and the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and part of the vagina in women) are also removed. Radical cystectomy can be performed either via a traditional open surgery or robotically. A urinary diversion will provide the body a means to potentially store and eliminate urine once the bladder has been removed.
• Ileal conduit – This is the most common and simplest urinary diversion. A segment of small intestines is used to connect the ureters to the outside of the body through an opening in the abdominal wall called a stoma. This is covered with a bag that collects continuously draining urine.
• Continent catheterizable reservoir – This procedure involves creation of an internal pouch using a portion of the intestines in order to store urine. The urine is emptied by inserting a catheter through a small opening in the skin near the navel.
• Neobladder – This procedure creates a “new” bladder from a segment of the intestines. This new bladder is connect to the urethra in order to pass urine normally. This surgery necessitates having to “re-learn” how to urinate. In addition, many patients have to occasionally catheterize the neobladder in order to facilitate bladder emptying.
Chemotherapy is an important tool in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer that as either invaded deeply into the wall of the bladder or spread to other sites. Chemotherapy is instilled intravenously and can be administered either before or after surgery or can be used in combination with radiation.
Radiation therapy can be sometimes used in combination with intravenous chemotherapy (trimodality therapy) in select patients with invasive cancer. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Can a Bad EGR Valve Cause a Misfire?
Too often car owners think that the issues their car is having are not a big deal or it will go away. They may be thinking there is no way a bad EGR valve can cause a misfire. Or that there may not be any other consequences of this. But are there?
What is an EGR Valve?
An EGR valve, also known as the exhaust gas recirculation system, maintains the chemical and thermal exhaust of your car’s engine. It’s main responsibility is to provide your car with a smooth operation, particularly during drawn-out rides. As it is doing this, it lowers the temperature of the engine and reduces chemical emissions from the exhaust.
The EGR valve influences Nitrous Oxide, or Nox, emission. Your car will burn out the unused fuel while recirculating some of the exhaust. Therefore, fewer harmful emissions are let off by your car.
Signs of a Bad EGR Valve
Many things can signal a bad EGR valve. You may see a reduction in overall engine performance, but there are also other signs that the valve is bad.
Flashing Check Engine Light
If the check engine light is flashing, you may have a bad EGR valve. The electronic control unit may identify an issue in the emission control system. This will turn on the check engine light.
You can continue to drive with a broken EGR, but you will want to get it looked at as soon as possible.
Fuel Consumption Increases
Fuel consumption will increase if the valve is left open. The fuel is not allowed to burn at full efficiency as the temperature will be too low.
Trouble Starting the Engine
If you are having trouble starting the engine, there is a possibility the EGR valve is bad. The EGR valve should be shut when the engine is started. This will block the flow of gasses back into the engine.
Once the vehicle warms up and takes off, under normal circumstances, the valve will open.
Should the EGR valve not be working properly, the exhaust fumes are allowed to pass into the combustion chambers. This causes the engine to cut out. If you smell fuel coming from the exhaust when starting the car, you could have a bad EGR valve.
Engine Performance Decreases
If you notice a decrease in the performance of the engine, the EGR valve may be stuck open or closed. The engine may hesitate or sputter. Or you may even see a decrease in the fuel economy or notice a rough idle.
Uneven Idle
Another sign that you have a faulty EGR is an uneven idle. If the EGR is engaged constantly and exhaust gasses get to the intake manifold, an unpredictable idle can occur.
Stalling
When your car is idling, if the valve is left open, the car may stall. When it is continuously left open, exhaust gasses can enter the EGR system. Thus, the car will typically stall with a rough idle.
Engine Spark Knock
An engine spark knock comes from the engine bay while the car is accelerating or is under load. If the valve is blocked or not able to open as it should, the exhaust fumes are not permitted to re-enter the engine as they should.
Smelling Gas
If you smell gasoline, a faulty EGR valve may be to blame. It is bad for your health to breathe in the NOx that is coming out of the tailpipe. And let’s face it…gasoline smells awful. Add in that when the valve is not working correctly, more fuel is burned.
This leads to more hydrocarbons release. Once these are mixed with the NOx, a harmful combination of gasses is produced.
Failed Emissions Test
An emissions test ensures that the gas released by a car into the environment is not a threat to either lives or the environment. Some states mandate that it be completed every 6 months.
Can a Bad EGR Valve Cause a Misfire?
Yes, a bad EGR valve can cause a car to misfire. The main cause of this is clogged-up passages that are located inside your vehicle’s intake. This will decrease the power of the car.
A stuck valve can be caused by oil vapors that are inside the engine. This will increase carbon accumulations inside the exhaust gas recirculation valve.
If the EGR valve is allowed to remain open, a large amount of exhaust gas will diminish the amount of air drawn inside. This will decrease the quantity of fuel injection from the control unit. The car will then misfire while you are driving it.
Repairing or Replacing
When you have a faulty EGR valve, you need to consider repairing or replacing it. If it is clogged with soot particles, you may just need to have it cleaned so it is not stuck open or closed.
This can easily be done at home using a can of EGR valve cleaner. Using a can of professional EGR valve cleaner can be time efficient and is very easy. You do not need to remove the valve to clean it.
Likewise, you can use a can of carburetor cleaner, but you will then need to remove the EGR valve. This is a harsh means of cleaning the valve, as it is time-consuming and you are exposed to an aggressive cleaner.
Or can ask your mechanic to clean it for you. If you opt to do it yourself, a can of cleaner should not cost you more than $20.
If you need the EGR replaced, you can expect to pay up to $500 for the part and labor combined. This will depend upon the make and model of your car. Generally, a part can cost anywhere from $70 to $490.
In Conclusion
A bad EGR valve can cause a misfire in your car, as well as many other costly repairs. Don’t have the mindset that if you can just hold out for a few more weeks or months, you will take the time to get it fixed. Get it fixed now before further issues arise.
• Eric Williams
I'm the founder of Daily Car Tips. I wrote articles in the automotive industry for more than 10 years, published in USA and Europe. I love sharing my knowledge and insights with fellow enthusiasts. Join me on this journey as we explore the exciting world of cars together! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 North Vietnam emerged from its war with France in 1954 a food-deficit area. Densely populated, war-torn, it found it self more than customarily dependent upon outside supplies of rice and supplemental foods, which it had usually imported from South Vietnam. Soviet stop-gap aid filled the food deficit until DRV production was improved. The negative attitude of the GVN toward any economic relations with the DRV beyond those necessitated by the Geneva regroupment, in which Diem became progressively more adamant, created one pressure upon the DRV to seek dependable sources of further aid abroad. A second stemmed from lack of human and material capital to take advantage of its natural resources: the North contained all the developed mineral lodes and most of the established manufacturing in the two Vietnams, as well as the bulk of electric power capacity in Indochina. 50/ The DRV needed substantial foreign aid either to press toward modernizing its basic industry or to collectivize its farms.
a. Agriculture
Foreign aid to the DRV in agriculture, aside from relief shipments of food, took the form chiefly of technical assistance, both in management and technique. 51/ Chinese experts in Maoist land reforms figured prominently in the-Concept and direction of the collectivization drives. Russian advisors are believed to have advocated DRV concentration on mineral and tropical products valuable in communist international trade, and to have furnished methodological assistance in irrigation, fertilizing, and the like, but to little avail: labor intensive, hand tool farming in the traditional fashion persisted. Progress towards collectivization was perceptible. After retrenching in 1957 following the peasant flare-up, the regime moved ahead, although more cautiously. At the beginning of 1958, less than 5% of the farm population was in producer cooperatives; enrollments increased thereafter, and sharply in 1960, from about 55% of peasant households in July to about 85% in December. About one third of the collectives were in advanced stages of communal land mmership and shared production; the remainder represented inchoate socialization, with market incentive still a mainstay. Performance in agriculture was generally poor, output never rising above subsistence levels, and slower and erratic growth depressing progress in other sectors of the economy. There was, however, perceptible progress:
Food Grain Per Capita 52/ ( in Kilograms) 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 260 310 283 315 358 304 337 339
The DRV gross national product, owing to improvements in both the industrial and agricultural sectors, grew steadily some 6%per year after 1958. The most promising years for the DRV were 1958 and 1959, when performance in both sectors was extraordinarily good; thereafter, consecutive years of poor harvests and rapid population increases cut into gains. Rh | WIKI |
Mike Bercovici
Michael Bercovici (born February 9, 1993) is an American football coach and former quarterback who currently serves as an offensive assistant for the Carolina Panthers. He played college football at Arizona State. He signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent after the 2016 NFL Draft and has also spent time with the Arizona Cardinals and San Diego Fleet.
High school career
Bercovici was born in Northridge, California. He attended Taft High School in Los Angeles. As a senior, he was 240-of-399 passes (60.2%) for 3,755 yards with 37 touchdowns and only nine interceptions in 2010, he also recorded 103 rushing yards with three touchdowns.
He was rated by PrepStar as the 91st overall prospect in the nation, and the seventh overall quarterback in the nation. He was also ranked the 14th overall pro-style quarterback in the nation by Rivals.com. He was offered an athletic scholarship to Arizona State University in June 2010, he accepted the scholarship a week later.
College career
As a true freshman in 2011, Bercovici appeared in three games. He completed 2-of-3 passes for 15 yards. In 2012, he redshirt ed the season. As a redshirt sophomore in 2013, he appeared in four games as holder on special teams. He completed 3-of-4 (75%) for 18 yards and a quarterback rating of 112.8. He also rushed the ball 10 times for 46 yards. As a redshirt junior in 2014, he appeared in eight games (three starts). He replaced starter Taylor Kelly after Kelly was injured. Becovici complete 115-of-186 (61.8%) for 1,445 yards and 12 touchdowns and four interceptions. He also rushed the ball 26 times for 16 yards. As a redshirt senior in 2015, he was named the starting quarterback. He was a unanimous team captain and member of the team's leadership council. He started all 13 games. He completed 318-of-531 (59-.9%) for 3,854 yards, 30 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also rushed the ball 109 times for 84 yards. His 30 touchdowns tied the Arizona State school record for most touchdown passes in a single season. His 531 passing attempts set the record for most passing attempts in a single season in school history.
On October 4, 2014 Bercovici threw a 46-yard Hail Mary with time expiring to beat USC in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 38–34. Bercovici ended the game with a record-setting performance, throwing for 510 yards and 5 touchdowns – the most ever thrown by a USC opponent.
Bercovici graduated from Arizona State with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business management in 2014 and a Master's Degree in Sports law and Business in 2015.
San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers
After going undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft, Bercovici was signed by the San Diego Chargers. He was eventually featured on the NFL Network show Undrafted. On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Chargers during the final roster cuts. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Chargers on January 10, 2017. He was waived on September 2, 2017.
Arizona Cardinals
On October 24, 2017, Bercovici was signed to the Arizona Cardinals' practice squad. On November 30, 2017, he was released by the Cardinals.
San Diego Fleet
In 2018, Bercovici signed with the Arizona Hotshots of the newly-formed Alliance of American Football, but was later drafted by the San Diego Fleet with their second-round pick in the league's quarterback draft in November.
Bercovici began the 2019 AAF season as the Fleet's starting quarterback. In the opener against the San Antonio Commanders, he was hit by Shaan Washington in an impact that knocked his helmet off, but continued to play. Bercovici struggled in the 15–6 loss as he was sacked six times and threw two interceptions before being replaced by Philip Nelson. League offices credited Bercovici for being a sacrificial lamb for the league, as the hit provided viral buzz for the league on social media despite an otherwise mediocre on-field product.
Nelson was eventually announced as the starter for the following week's game against the Atlanta Legends. In early March, Bercovici returned to the starting role against the Salt Lake Stallions after Nelson suffered a clavicle fracture in the previous game and was placed on injured reserve; Bercovici completed 22 of 43 passes for 304 yards with a touchdown and interception, including a 45-yard throw to Dontez Ford on the final drive that set up Donny Hageman's game-winning field goal to clinch a 27–25 San Diego victory. The league ceased operations in April 2019.
Coaching career
In May 2019, Bercovici returned to Arizona State as a graduate assistant. ASU head coach Herm Edwards had approached Bercovici about the position in January, but he declined in order to play in the AAF.
Arizona Cardinals
In 2020, Bercovici joined the Arizona Cardinals' coaching staff as an entry-level assistant to head coach Kliff Kingsbury. On May 10, 2022, Bercovici was promoted to offensive assistant. | WIKI |
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are best, but we don't always understand them. Es. 55, 8-9.
Often, I get quite tired of waiting for God's help and say, "Alas, Lord, for how long" Why doesn't he come to our aid? Hab. 1, 2-4. Bgræd. 2, 11, 18—19 - 4, 4—6. Ps. 69, 2-4, 70, 6.
In such times you have to have faith and wait, but it is very difficult. - Our people are all now "at home", except those who are here with us. It was a terrible time! Alas, may God soon give peace on earth. Pray for it. 3. Mos. 26, 6 - Jer. 15, 2-4. So, it went.
God has healed me without both doctor and medicine. He should have the credit!
As soon as possible we broke up. We traveled with the mutasserifen which was very sick. Sister Alma helped him a lot on the road. He died here in the hospital a few days after his arrival. The Valie in Bitlis is also supposed to be sick. The Lord has protected us all on the journey. We had two gendarmes and six to eight men on foot.
It was a big caravan, as we had 21 cargo and riding animals. We were 11 people and had quite a lot with us, but still sold most of it. Pray for me that God must show me his way. I do not see the step before me, it is completely dark.
We’re good, living in a tent in the garden. I long for work and all the dear people; but no one needs my help there now. From Wan we know nothing definite. In Bitlis the old Miss Ely, Mr. Nape and the priest dead.
This year I’ve been working so well among all the sick in Musch, and we had such hopes for the future; but it would not be so. I would like to write more, but it is not possible. How is it with you all? Please, greet everyone so warmly from me.
Physically it looks good, but I am terribly "heart sick." Remember me before the throne of grace.
The most heartfelt greetings from your
Bodil Biørn.
Zef. 3, 16—17, 19—25. | WIKI |
Flames co-owner Riddell dies
Calgary Flames co-owner Clay Riddell has died, the team confirmed Sunday. Paramount Resources, one of the oil and natural gas companies the 81-year-old billionaire built, said Riddell died Saturday. “We mourn the passing of a great man of industry, sports, philanthropy and human decency along with our city, province and country,” Flames vice chairman and CEO Ken King said in a statement. “His legacies to all of us are immeasurable. To his family our gratitude, respect and deepest sympathy.” Riddell joined the Flames’ ownership in 2003, and he relinquished his role as CEO of Paramount Resources in 2015. “On behalf of the National Hockey League and our board of governors we extend our deepest condolences to the family of Clay Riddell,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. “Clay’s passion and commitment to his city and beloved Flames will be deeply missed.” —Field Level Media | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
What to Eat Before Morning workout
What to Eat Before Morning Workout
Morning workout sessions significantly uplift energy, enhance mood, and build strength. However, to maximize your morning workout, you must focus more on the pre-workout drinks. Consuming the right foods before engaging in such intense workout sessions is necessary. What you consume before your exercise sessions can directly impact your energy and performance. The foods you eat during dinner time won’t suffice your pre-workout energy requirements. Hence, you must figure out what to eat before morning workout.
Certain foods can supply instant energy, preparing your body for an effective workout. Such foods are lightweight yet rich in essential nutrients. Here, we will discuss important pre-workout foods you can consider eating before your morning workout. This fruitful discussion will fulfill your nutritional requirements while offering successful morning workout sessions.
What to Eat Before Morning Workout: a Comprehensive Guide for Fitness Enthusiasts
Dry fruits
Regarding pre-workout, you might have to limit consuming heavy foods. Consumption of heavy meals can make you feel fuller and impact your energy level. Hence, you must eat foods high in nutrients yet low in weight. Eating almonds, dates, walnuts, and Raisins before engaging in such hardcore workout sessions will benefit you in the long run. It will keep your mood fresh for the entire day.
From hardcore cardio exercises like cycling and running to intense weight lifting like deadlift or chest press, these dry fruits suit every workout regime seamlessly. It can keep your energy level intact while offering a speedy recovery to your exhausted muscles. So, from now on, you can add these dry fruits to your pre-workout meal.
Oatmeal with Nuts
We have a great suggestion if you are still wondering what to eat before the morning workout. Oatmeal and nuts create a balanced meal for fitness enthusiasts, offering the right blend of carbohydrates, protein, and good fat. Oats are a healthy source of fiber. On the other hand, nuts are rich in protein and antioxidants. Combining healthy foods will fulfill your nutritional requirements, adding more energy to your morning workout sessions.
Whole grains and Smashed Avocado
Eating heavy meals right before a workout is not advisable. Hence, your aim should be to eat something lightweight and nutrient-rich. Whole grains are rich in healthy fiber and harmless fat. You can combine its nutrition with some smashed avocado to increase its nutritional value.
Avocado plays a significant role in offering some instant energy. However, eating a whole piece of Avocado makes you feel fuller. So, it’s wise to smash the Avocado first and then combine it with the whole grain. Such nutritious pre-workout meals will fulfill the nutritional requirements and provide the much-needed energy for your intense workout sessions.
Scrambled Eggs
Eggs can be used as both pre and post-workout meals. We all know that egg is a brilliant source of protein. Eating scrambled eggs before your morning workout might feel weird; however, it’s worth it. Eggs can enhance the power of intense weight-lifting sessions.
Consuming eggs before and after your workout will speed up the muscle recovery. However, it’s recommended to scramble the eggs if you are going to eat them before a workout. Boiled eggs are fine for the post-workout sessions. However, having boiled eggs before a workout can make you feel bursting.
Protein Bar
If you are into strength training and want to dedicate your morning workout sessions to intense strength training exercises, we advise you to focus more on protein intake. Eating a protein bar right before your morning workout will fulfill the protein requirements while preparing your muscles for a hardcore strength training session.
Rich in antioxidants and packed with high protein, this readymade protein bar is a workout essential. Most fitness enthusiasts carry a protein bar in their gym bag to have it anytime to boost their energy level and maximize protein intake.
Diet Cookies
If you are confused about what to eat before the morning workout, we have an easy suggestion. Diet cookies are a great source of healthy carbs and high protein. Such cookies are specifically made for fitness enthusiasts who want their pre-workout meals to be lightweight yet nutritious.
These diet cookies have all the good ingredients like oats, fruits, nuts, grains, almond butter, and chocolate or honey essence. Having these cookies is a great treat for your taste buds. They provide the needed nutrition yet don’t make you feel cramped.
Fresh Fruits
Again, fresh fruits can be both pre and post-workout meals. However, do not eat more than one fruit if it will be an early morning workout session. Let’s keep it simple yet satisfying. A fresh apple or Banana can fulfill your nutritional requirements and won’t cause any discomfort to your morning workout session. Apple is an excellent source of healthy carbs. It can provide some instant energy without making you feel heavy.
On the other hand, bananas go easy with the digestion process. It offers the energy you need most in your morning workout. So, if you want to keep it simple yet effective, we suggest you pick one of these fruits.
A cup of Greek Yogurt
Greek Yogurt is a well-known protein source, fulfilling the protein requirements of every gym rat. Having a cup of Greek Yogurt before your cardio or lifting session will boost your energy level while optimizing muscle recovery. Remember not to exceed the quantity, as a morning workout requires you to feel light yet fresh. A cup of Greek yogurt will do wonders if you add fiber-based fruits. It will instantly increase your energy level, eventually boosting your workout performance.
Final Thoughts
A correct choice of foods can make your morning workout sessions much more effective. By offering a balanced meal that includes healthy fibers, protein, and good fat, you give your body the strength for hardcore workouts. However, it’s essential to remain consistent about your food preferences. Do not change your pre-workout meals frequently to see a desirable result. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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–583– -583§ 1037. Filing and recording will and certificate of proof At the close of a proceeding under this subchapter in which probate is granted, the clerk shall file and record the will, and a certificate of proof thereof. When so filed and recorded, the will and certificate constitute part of the record in the proceeding. The clerk shall also file all testimony given in the proceeding. Subchapter III—Contests After Probate § 1061. Contest within one year; petition A person interested may, within one year after the probate of a will, contest the probate or validity of the will. For that purpose he shall file in the division of the court in which the will was proved a petition in writing, containing his allegations against the validity of the will or against the sufficiency of the proof, and praying that the probate be revoked. § 1062. Citation Upon filing a petition pursuant to this subchapter, and within one year after the probate, a citation shall be issued to the executor of the will, or to the administrator with the will annexed, and to all the legatees and devisees mentioned in the will, and heirs residing in the Canal Zone, as far as known to the petitioner or to their guardians, if any of them is a minor or is legally incompetent, or to their personal representatives, if any of them is dead, requiring them to appear before the court on a day therein specified, to show cause why the probate of the will should not be revoked. § 1063. Proof of service; trial; revocation of probate At the time appointed for showing cause, or at any time to which the hearing is postponed, proof having been made of service of the citation upon all of the persons named therein, the court shall proceed to try the issues of fact joined in the same manner as an original contest of a will. If the original probate was granted without a contest, a trial by jury shall be had, as in the case of a contest before probate, on written demand of either party, filed three days prior to the hearing. If, upon hearing the proofs of the parties, the jury finds, or, if no jury is had, the court decides, that the will is invalid or is not the last will of the testator, the probate shall be revoked. § 1064. Effect of revocation upon executor or administrator Upon the revocation of the probate of a will, the powers of the executor or administrator with the will annexed shall cease; but he is not liable for any act done in good faith previous to the revocation. § 1065. Costs If, in a proceeding under this subchapter, the will is not revoked, the costs shall be paid by the contestant. If the probate is revoked, the costs shall be paid by the party who resisted the revocation, or out of the property of the decedent, as the court directs. § 1066. Conclusiveness of probate; limitations; infants and persons of unsound mind If the validity or the probate of a will is not contested within one year after the probate, the probate is conclusive; saving to infants and persons of unsound mind a like period of one year after their respective disabilities are removed. § 1067. Failure to contest as not precluding probate of another will Failure to contest a will does not preclude the subsequent probate of another will of the decedent.
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2022-RA-964-ESGO Radioguided occult lesion localisation (ROLL) for gynecologic tumor relapses: development of a technique
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1. Vicente Bebia1,
2. Anna Luzarraga1,
3. Richard Mast2,
4. Anderson Cardozo-Saavedra3,
5. Silvia Franco-Camps1,
6. Asunción Pérez-Benavente1,
7. Antonio Gil-Moreno1 and
8. Silvia Cabrera1
1. 1Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain
2. 2Radiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain
3. 3Nuclear Medicine Department, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
Introduction/Background Excision of peritoneal or nodal solitary lesions frequently involves performing a surgery on a previously operated area, which is more difficult to achieve with minimally-invasive approaches. Our aim was to describe the technical aspects, feasibility and complications derived from the application of the radioguided occult lesions localization (ROLL) in gynecologic oncology recurrence excision.
Methodology All consecutive patients bearing localized relapses of a gynecologic tumor that were considered candidates for surgical excision were assessed to undergo a ROLL procedure. After multidisciplinary review of images and surgical indication, patients were considered as suitable for ROLL. Injection of the relapsed tumor was performed by ultrasonography or CT guidance. Relapses were localized using a gammaprobe by minimally-invasive surgery (laparoscopic or robotic surgery) when located in the abdomen, or pecutaneously when located in the groin. Intraoperative and early (up to postoperative day 30) complications were prospectively recorded, and complications were graded according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0
Results A total of 8 patients underwent the procedure. Median age was 59 years (range: 35–87). Four patients had abdominal relapses, while four patients presented groin relapses. Mean operative time was 120 minutes (range: 30–190), while median estimated blood loss was 5 cc (range: 0–150 cc). All of the targeted lesions were successfully removed. No intraoperative complications were reported. One postoperative complication (inguinal lymphocele) was reported after surgery, corresponding to CTCAE grade 2 severity.
Conclusion ROLL surgery is feasible for excision of recurrences of gynecological tumors.
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Alpine pika
Alpine pika
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Ochotonidae
Genus: Ochotona
Species: O. alpina
Binomial name
Ochotona alpina
(Pallas, 1773)
Alpine pika range
The alpine pika (Ochotona alpina) is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is found in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia in very cold, mountainous regions. It is a small mammal only weighing about 5 ounces (0.31 lb) and about 7 inches (18 cm) long. They have no visible tail, round ears, and sharp claws used for foraging and digging. They feed mainly on plant stems, which they gather during the summer for the winter months to create haypiles. This storage will sometimes be shared with other species such as reindeer.[1] They have been known to share their burrows with snow finches, as they will help them build their nest.[2] They are sometimes referred to as the whistling hare because of their rabbit-like behavior and high-pitched warning calls.[3][4]
References
1. 1 2 Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. (2008). "Ochotona alpina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 10 November 2008. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
2. "Alpine pika pictures and facts". Retrieved 26 December 2013.
3. "Animal Facts alpine pika". Retrieved 26 December 2013.
4. "Pika". NWF. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
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The Python zip() Method
The Python zip() method is used to combine iterables into an object of tuples. What makes this method powerful is that any type of iterables can be combined together and can be unzipped further in the program.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the Python zip() method using examples or zipping iterables and unzipping them.
The Python zip() Syntax
Python zip() method take zero or multiple iterables (list, tuple, dictionary) in a comma-separated list.
zip(iterable_1, iterable_2)
Creating an Empty Zip Object
The most basic way to use zip() is to create an empty zip object. This is done by calling zip() with no arguments.
result = zip()
print(type(result))
<class 'zip'>
Zipping a Single Iterable
First, let's try zipping a single iterable and see what the result is. We will have to convert the zip object into a list before it can be printed.
items = ['a', 'b', 'c']
result = zip(items)
result = list(result)
print(result)
[('a',), ('b',), ('c',)]
Zipping Iterables Together
Now let's try zipping multiple iterables together and see what output we get.
items = ['a', 'b', 'c']
words = ('one', 'two', 'three')
nums = [1, 2, 3]
result = zip(items, words, nums)
result = list(result)
print(result)
[('a', 'one', 1), ('b', 'two', 2), ('c', 'three', 3)]
In the example above we can see that zip() combines elements from the same index and puts them in a tuple in the order that each iterable was supplied to zip().
Zipping Iterables with Different Lengths
If iterables with different lengths are supplied, zip() will only create tuples up to the length of the shortest iterable. Let's try this out with an example.
items = ['a', 'b', 'c']
words = ('one', 'two')
nums = [1, 2, 3]
result = zip(items, words, nums)
result = list(result)
print(result)
[('a', 'one', 1), ('b', 'two', 2)]
Unzipping Zipped Values
To unzip values supply a comma-separated list of variables to assign the unzipped tuples to and inside zip() supply an asterisk before the zip object.
items = ['a', 'b', 'c']
words = ('one', 'two', 'three')
nums = [1, 2, 3]
result = zip(items, words, nums)
result = list(result)
print(result)
a,b,c = zip(*result)
print(a)
print(b)
print(c)
[('a', 'one', 1), ('b', 'two', 2), ('c', 'three', 3)]
('a', 'b', 'c')
('one', 'two', 'three')
(1, 2, 3)
Conclusion
You now know how to use the zip() method in Python to join multiple iterables into a zip object of tuples and then unzip them.
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Christa Schmidt
Christa Schmidt (born Christa Weigel on 3 April 1941) is a retired German politician (CDU). She served as a minister in the last government of East Germany. She had built an earlier career as a teacher and educationalist.
Life
Christa Weigel was born in Leipzig during the first half of the Second World War. Between 1955 and 1959 she studied at a Teacher Training Institute for non-graduate teachers: between 1959 and 1964 she taught at the Goethe-School in Mügeln, a small town located a short distance to the east of Leipzig. She then switched to the Pestalozzi School for children with special needs in Leipzig, where she taught from 1964 till 1990.
By 1990 sources were describing Christa Schmidt as "married with two children".
In parallel with her teaching job, between 1972 and 1974 Schmidt studied successfully for a degree in Special School Pedagogy ("Sonderschulpädagogik") at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Further study at the same institution led to her Doctorate of Pedagogy in 1980: her doctoral dissertation concerned handicapped school children. In 1982 she was promoted to the status of "Chief Teacher" ("Oberlehrer") and in 1988 she was promoted again, becoming an Education Councillor ("Studienrat").
Political engagement began in 1973 when, at the age of 32, Christa Schmidt joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The East German CDU lacked the autonomy of its West German counterpart, being a "bloc party" controlled through the country's so-called National Front by the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED). Nevertheless, the East German CDU was not entirely without influence, and was allocated a fixed quota of around 50 seats in the National Parliament ("Volkskammer") even though general elections from 1949 until 1990 always resulted in more than 99% of the reported votes having been cast in support of the single candidate list provided by the ruling party. For Christa Schmidt, between 1979 and 1989 CDU party membership was accompanied by a role as a deputy in the Central Leipzig City Assembly, where she worked on the Commission of Training and Education.
In November 1989, following months of mounting street protests, the Berlin Wall was breached by demonstrators. Back in 1953 street protests had been brutally suppressed: in 1989 the realisation that Soviet occupation forces no longer had orders to suppress the protests using violence opened the way for a series of events which would lead to German reunification, formally in October 1990. In March 1990 the country held its first (and as matters turned out last) free parliamentary election. Based on the popular vote, the CDU now received not 50 seats but 163 of the 400 in the Volkskammer. Following a change in the law that had been voted through in February 1990, voters had no longer been restricted to a single party list, and Christa Schmidt's name had been on the CDU party list for the Leipzig electoral district, positioned high enough up on the list for her now to be elected to the assembly. The powerful performance of the CDU meant that the task of forming a new East German government fell to the party chairman, Lothar de Maizière. In April Christa Schmidt was appointed as a minister, mandated to head up the newly formed Ministry for Family and Women ("Ministerium für Familie und Frauen").
The de Maizière government ended in the context of German reunification on 3 October 1990, when what had been East Germany was incorporated into the German Federal Republic. 144 of the 400 members who had sat as members of the now defunct East German Volkskammer since March 1990 now became members of a newly enlarged Bundestag (upper parliamentary chamber) in the reunified Germany. Christa Schmidt was one of these, remaining a member till the general election in December 1990. She returned to the Bundestag in February 1994, taking the seat vacated through the resignation from the chamber of the CDU member Bertram Wieczorek, who left in order to take on the chairmanship of Berlin's monopoly Water Supply company. Schmidt again remained a Bundestag member only till the next general election, which this time took place in October 1994, with the resulting change-over taking place two months later, in December.
In 1991 Christa Schmidt resumed her work as an education professional, becoming vice-president of the Upper School Office (Oberschulamt) in Leipzig. At the same time she served during 1990/91 as chair of the (CDU) Women's Union for Saxony. In 1992 she took on the leadership of the Leipzig Schools appointments department.
During 1992/93 she set up in the regional Saxony Culture Ministry a state institute for teachers of special needs and primary schools, herself taking on the role of its head. She continued in this post till her retirement in 2002. | WIKI |
#!perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; use Text::Xslate; BEGIN { package Text::Xslate::Syntax::Custom; use Mouse; extends 'Text::Xslate::Parser'; sub init_symbols { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::init_symbols(@_); $self->symbol('merge_hash')->set_nud($self->can('nud_merge_hash')); } sub nud_merge_hash { my $self = shift; my ($symbol) = @_; $self->advance('('); my $base = $self->expression(0); $self->advance(','); my $value = $self->expression(0); $self->advance(')'); return $symbol->clone( arity => 'merge_hash', first => $base, second => $value, ); } package Text::Xslate::Compiler::Custom; use Mouse; extends 'Text::Xslate::Compiler'; sub _generate_merge_hash { my $self = shift; my ($node) = @_; my $lvar_id = $self->lvar_id; local $self->{lvar_id} = $self->lvar_use(1); return ( $self->compile_ast($node->first), $self->opcode('save_to_lvar', $lvar_id), $self->compile_ast($node->second), $self->opcode('move_to_sb'), $self->opcode('load_lvar', $lvar_id), $self->opcode('merge_hash'), ); } package Text::Xslate::Custom; use base 'Text::Xslate'; sub options { my $class = shift; my $options = $class->SUPER::options(@_); $options->{compiler} = 'Text::Xslate::Compiler::Custom'; $options->{syntax} = 'Custom'; return $options; } } my $tx = Text::Xslate::Custom->new; my @tests = ( [ ': [ merge_hash($a, $b).foo, $a.foo, $b.foo ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'FOO FOO undef' ], [ ': [ merge_hash($b, $a).foo, $a.foo, $b.foo ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'FOO FOO undef' ], [ ': [ merge_hash($a, $b).bar, $a.bar, $b.bar ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'RAB BAR RAB' ], [ ': [ merge_hash($b, $a).bar, $a.bar, $b.bar ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'BAR BAR RAB' ], [ ': [ merge_hash($a, $b).baz, $a.baz, $b.baz ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'ZAB undef ZAB' ], [ ': [ merge_hash($b, $a).baz, $a.baz, $b.baz ].map(-> $elem { defined($elem) ? $elem : "undef" }).join(" ")', 'ZAB undef ZAB' ], ); for my $test (@tests) { is( $tx->render_string( $test->[0], { a => { foo => 'FOO', bar => 'BAR', }, b => { bar => 'RAB', baz => 'ZAB', }, } ), $test->[1], $test->[0] ); } done_testing; | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Why Do My Legs Feel Heavy And Weak?
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Why Do My Legs Feel Heavy and Weak
Do your legs often feel heavy, achy, and tired? Is leg fatigue most noticeable after standing or sitting for long periods? This feeling is common, and while it can be caused by everyday activities, weak and heavy legs can also be a sign of varicose veins.
Treatment options are available to manage varicose veins and improve leg health. If you have leg heaviness and other symptoms of vein disease, it’s important to see a vein specialist.
This guide will explore the most common causes of tired legs, including varicose veins, and their related symptoms and treatment options.
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Why Do My Legs Feel So Heavy?
Legs that feel tired occasionally, like after a tough workout, are usually nothing to worry about. However, if you’ve been pushing yourself harder and your legs feel achy or heavy, it might be a sign of overtraining. Your muscles simply need more time to recover. Taking rest days should help.
But what if the heaviness and weakness persist, even without intense exercise? This could indicate an underlying health condition that needs attention, such as chronic venous insufficiency, a treatable condition that impacts millions of adults in America.
Let’s explore some of the most common causes of tired, heavy legs.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Chronic venous insufficiency, or vein disease, is the root cause of varicose veins. It can also cause symptoms such as leg pain, swelling, and tiredness.
Venous insufficiency occurs when the valves in the leg veins become damaged. This can happen for several reasons, including high blood pressure, genetics, being overweight, and age.
Early-stage venous insufficiency symptoms include bulging, raised veins and spider veins. As this condition progresses, people start noticing more uncomfortable symptoms, such as leg heaviness and weakness, throbbing pain, and swelling. If left untreated, venous insufficiency can lead to more serious symptoms, such as leg ulcers. It also increases the risk of developing a dangerous blood clot.
Poor Circulation
Venous insufficiency, a common vein disease, occurs when blood struggles to flow back up to the heart from the legs. This happens when the valves in your veins weaken, causing blood to pool in the legs and resulting in a heavy, achy sensation. Poor circulation can exacerbate these symptoms. When your blood vessels don’t allow blood to flow freely throughout the body, you might notice heaviness in the legs, achiness, leg cramps, and swelling.
Contributing factors to poor circulation include dehydration, a sedentary lifestyle, and habits that can increase blood pressure and damage blood vessels, such as smoking or chronic stress.
Peripheral Artery Disease
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is caused by fatty deposits that accumulate along artery walls. These deposits harden and narrow the arteries, constricting blood flow.
Just like vein disease, PAD primarily impacts the legs. Someone with PAD might have tired, achy legs and pain or cramping in the legs that worsens when walking up the stairs.
Restless Leg Syndrome
Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is characterized by discomfort in the legs. It’s most noticeable when resting. The legs have an uncontrollable urge to move, making it difficult to fall asleep. This condition also causes an aching or heavy feeling in the legs.
There is a correlation between RLS and vein disease.¹ People with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition recognized by widespread pain and tenderness, are also more likely to notice issues with restless legs.²
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
If the spinal column narrows—which can happen over time because of age, excess weight, or constricted blood vessels from long-term smoking—the spinal canal can become pinched. This can cause pain in the lower back and feelings of heaviness, weakness, or numbness in the legs.
Lymphedema
Lymphedema is characterized by a blockage of lymph fluid. The lymph vessels can’t circulate lymph fluid through the body, causing the fluid to pool, usually in the legs or arms. The vessels might become injured or blocked due to an injury, illness, or inflammation.
Chronic venous insufficiency can also lead to a type of lymphedema.
When someone has venous insufficiency, the lymphatic system drains some of the excess fluid that accumulates in the legs and feet. In severe cases of vein disease, the lymph system becomes overloaded. As a result, it can’t circulate lymph fluid effectively, and even more fluid pools in the lower extremities, leading to heaviness in the legs and more pronounced swelling. This condition is phlebolymphedema: lymphedema caused by issues with the veins (‘phlebo’ means vein).
Symptoms to Watch For if You Have Weak and Heavy Legs
Symptoms to Watch For if You Have Weak and Heavy Legs
Usually, heaviness in the legs is accompanied by other symptoms such as:
• Aching or throbbing pain that gets better when elevating your legs
• Swelling of the feet, ankles, or legs
• Skin changes, such as itchiness, discoloration, or hardening of the skin
• Varicose veins
If you notice symptoms like leg heaviness, fatigue, and other vein-related issues, it could be a sign of venous insufficiency. It’s important to see a vein specialist who can examine your legs, provide an accurate diagnosis, and create a personalized treatment plan to help you feel better.
If the vein specialists suspect another underlying condition, they can refer you to the appropriate healthcare professional for further evaluation and treatment.
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Treatment for Heaviness and Weak Legs
Treatment for Heaviness and Weak Legs
USA Vein Clinics offers multiple vein treatments that address the root cause of weak and heavy legs, including sclerotherapy, Endovenous Laser Therapy (EVLT), and VenaSeal. Our doctors treat damaged veins, helping relieve tiredness, restless leg syndrome, swelling, varicose veins, and other symptoms.
If you have an aching, heavy feeling in your legs, schedule a consultation with a specialist at a vein clinic near you. Find out what’s causing your symptoms and get the treatment you need to feel better.
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References:
1. Dezube, Aaron R et al. “Correlation between Restless Leg Syndrome and Superficial Venous Reflux.” The International journal of angiology : official publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc vol. 30,4 285-291. 25 Aug. 2021, doi:10.1055/s-0041-1730447
2. Viola-Saltzman, Mari et al. “High prevalence of restless legs syndrome among patients with fibromyalgia: a controlled cross-sectional study.” Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine vol. 6,5 (2010): 423-7.
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At the further end of the drawing-room, when she could control her voice, Mrs. Coltingham remarked. "This happens every night, directly Mrs. Villiers' name is mentioned. We are frank in discussion to say the least of it. But you see most of us have lived here all the winter, and perhaps we know one another a little too well."
Mrs. Lawrence smiled "It's amusing at first, but I can imagine it palls Who is this little 'Mrs. Villiers?
"No one knows, except that she has divorced Mr. Villiers, whoever he may be."
"She looks such a child!" "But children nowadays are precocious."
Mrs. Lawrence laughed. "You don't like her?"
"Oh! I didn't say that returned the other lady. Precocious children are sometimes amusing you know, and after four months in a foreign pension, one welcomes anything that's amusing. The house is torn by faction on her account." she went on still smiling.
"She has her devoted adherents, and her no less devoted enemies. Each party discusses her all day long, and I believe, far into the night. Every other topic fades into insignificance before the burning question of Mrs. Villiers' innocence and integrity, versus her depravity and guile."
"And to which side do you incline?"
Mrs. Coltingham shrugged her shoulders. "I—Oh, a plague on both your houses' is my attitude," she returned lightly. "To me she is merely an amusing little person." | WIKI |
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Joshua Barlow was born on Saturday the 20th November 1993 in Warrington, Cheshire.
Independent Mortgage Adviser
Joshua Barlow has worked within the financial services since August 2011 which he started off doing admin support for a company called Elm Tree financial services. In that time he gathered the relevant information required to train and become an independent mortgage advisor. Joshua Barlow works all over the UK helping clients to find the best mortgage to meet their criteria. Been independent mortgage advisor means he is not tied to any banks or building societies so the advice he gives is completely impartial. Joshua Barlow specialises in clients with bad credit scores helping them by the property of their dreams.
Companies
* Joshua Barlow - Independent Mortgage Adviser
* KJ Funding
* Elm Tree Financial Services | WIKI |
Sync data from existing base with Sales CRM Template
I have an Admin Base that has all of our user data. We have three different types of user data stored in our Admin Base. I love the Sales CRM Base Template from Airtable and am trying to figure out how to sync the data from my Admin Base into my Sales CRM Base Template. Does anyone have suggestions or ideas on how to do this?
All of the fields in the Sales CRM Template are hard coded, so they have to be input directly. I’ve started creating synced tables and mimicking the formatting of the template, but now I’m just recreating the template with my synced data tables. This feels inefficient and like poor design on my part (or worst case scenario, a limited template capability).
I thought about downloading my Airtable data into Excel, reformatting it to fit the Sales CRM Base, and then reupload it there, but that sounds awful and it wouldn’t sync in the future. I could create automations to sync the data from them on, but the number of automations necessary would be terrible to write (from what I understand, it would be one field at a time).
Thanks everyone for any help!
Hey Jonathan! You might want to check out Whalesync’s Airtable x Airtable 2-way sync (I’m the co-founder).
The steps would be:
1. Connect your Admin Base and Sales CRM Base to Whalesync
2. Map the tables/fields in each base to each other
3. Turn sync on
Let me know if you have any questions!
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Talk:Azmet Jah
Titular vs Pretender
Azmet Jah is the pretender to the title of Nizam of Hyderabad.
He is not the titular Nizam of Hyderabad as all titles in India were abolished in 1971.
The Govt of India recognizes no titles. To be a titular ruler, an actual government has to recognize your title. HyderabadEditor (talk) 11:58, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
* Agreed. Supporting proof : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/mukarram-jahs-succession-certificate-invalid-royal-kin/articleshow/97237309.cms
* I am going ahead and removing the "titular" part from the article for now, this needs a talkpage consensus before coming into article.Iamsanatani (talk) 05:26, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
* It's absolutely correct that following the introduction of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India, the Government of India ceased recognizing titles. Titular may be replaced by Pretender. Dnl.krm (talk) 05:48, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Ozzy, Bernie and Dennis trying to say hello! Congrats on you 2023 Coronation my friend!
Ozzy, Bernie and Dennis trying to say hello! Congrats on you 2023 Coronation my friend! Drop a line when you get a moment. We are in South Florida area. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Nenagh Arts Centre
Nenagh Arts Centre (Ionad Ealaíon Aonach Urmhumhan), formerly known as Nenagh Town Hall (Halla an Bhaile Aonach Urmhumhan), is a municipal building in Banba Square, Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. The building, which was used as the local town hall, now accommodates an arts centre.
History
In 1884, the town commissioners for Nenagh resolved to erect a town hall and made an application for a loan from the Board of Works. The site they selected, on the east side of Banba Square facing Nenagh Courthouse, had been occupied by the local turf market. The new building was designed by the town surveyor, Robert Paul Gill, (father of Tomás Mac Giolla), in the Italianate style, built by Michael Grace in rubble masonry at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1889.
The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of three bays facing south onto Peter Street (later renamed Kickham Street). The left hand-bay featured a round headed doorway with an archivolt mounted on columns, and a semi-circular plaque, inscribed with the words "Town Hall A.D. 1889", installed in place of a fanlight. The other two bays on the ground floor were fenestrated by round headed windows with hood moulds, while, on the first floor, there was a tall round headed window in the central bay and smaller segmental headed windows with hood mounds in the outer bays. The side elevation of six bays, facing Banba Square, was fenestrated by rows of round headed windows, with the ones on the first floor being larger than those on the ground floor. Internally, the principal rooms were an assembly room and a public library.
The building, which served as the meeting place of the town commissioners, became the offices and meeting place of Nenagh Urban District Council when it was formed in 1900. During the First World War, the town hall was one of a series of venues where a recruiting officer from the Royal Flying Corps, Lieutenant Charles Alston, gave a lecture about life on the Western Front using lantern slides.
The library service relocated to O'Rahilly Street in the early 1980s. The building continued to be used as the offices of the urban district council until 2002, and then as the offices of the successor town council, but ceased to be the local seat of government, when the town council co-located with North Tipperary County Council at a new facility, known as the Civic Offices, on Limerick Road in 2005.
A major programme of refurbishment works, intended to create a new a 194-seat theatre, was subsequently implemented. After completion of the works, which cost €1.6 million and were financed by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, North Tipperary County Council and Nenagh Town Council, the building re-opened as the Nenagh Arts Centre in 2010. Further works to establish a tourist information centre in the building were completed in 2020. | WIKI |
Celebrating the life and work of lord kelvin
William Thomson, more commonly known as Lord Kelvin, was an exceptional scientist and successful businessman, whose solutions to theoretical problems in physics and ingenious inventions have transformed modern life.
Kelvin had come to Glasgow at the age of ten in 1832, after his father was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University. His ties to the University had always been reinforced through family connections; his brother, James, also became a Professor of Engineering in 1873. After retiring from teaching, Kelvin enrolled as a research student, with a desire to remain affiliated with the University.
Then finally, in 1904, Kelvin was elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held this position until 1907, remaining dedicated to his work up until 3 weeks before his death.
He was one of both the youngest and oldest matriculated student of the University, first registering as a student when he was only ten years old, and again when he retired at 75.
Some of his more transformative and recognisable accomplishments include paving the way for the global communication highway with his work on planning the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, for which he was knighted in 1866 by Queen Victoria, becoming Sir William Thomson.
He is equally revered for other important inventions such as his sound machine and Kelvin compass, which greatly increased safety at sea and was adopted by navies around the world. Kelvin also made breakthroughs that laid the groundworks for the development of refrigerators – his work is still celebrated today by the US brand ‘Kelvinator’! His academic work was also highly valued, having published more than 600 scientific papers during his lifetime and proposing an absolute scale of temperature, now known as the Kelvin Scale.
Kelvin was a Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University for 53 years, from 1846 to 1899, teaching over 7,000 students from all over the world. He then went on to serve as Dean of Faculties from 1901 to 1903, and then as Chancellor from 1904 to 1907. He eventually established a “School of Electrical Engineering”, an advanced class in mathematical physics and a laboratory in which they could experiment. In the lab, the students worked on problems linked to Kelvin’s own scientific and engineering research in electricity.
For his achievements in thermodynamics, Kelvin became the first scientist to be elevated to the peerage when he was ennobled in 1892, becoming Baron Kelvin of Largs. He died at his home in Ayrshire and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 23 December 1907.
Kelvin Attractions on Campus
- Number 11 Professor's Square; Kelvin's home from 1870. His clock remains in the entrance.
- The Hunterian Museum has a permanent exhibition on the work of Kelvin including many of his original papers, instruments, and other artifacts, such as his smoking pipe.
- The Senate Room; Once Kelvin's Natural Philosophy apparatus room and classroom.
- Sundial (at South Front), believed to have been made by Lord Kelvin.
- Kelvin statue in the Kelvingrove Park.
- Memorial Gate where Lord Kelvin's name is displayed along with other distinguished figures. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Java Programming Examples Tutorial Index
Java Number Programs
This Java program is used to demonstrates find largest and smallest number in an Array.
Example:
public class FindLargestSmallestNumber {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//numbers array
int numbers[] = new int[]{55,32,45,98,82,11,9,39,50};
//assign first element of an array to largest and smallest
int smallest = numbers[0];
int largetst = numbers[0];
for (int i = 1; i < numbers.length; i++) {
if (numbers[i] > largetst)
largetst = numbers[i];
else if (numbers[i] < smallest)
smallest = numbers[i];
}
System.out.println("Largest Number is : " + largetst);
System.out.println("Smallest Number is : " + smallest);
}
}
Program Output:
Java_Find_Largest_Smallest_Number
Explanation:
This Java program shows how to find the largest and the smallest number from within an array. Here in this program, a Java class name FindLargestSmallestNumber is declared which is having the main() method. Inside the main(), the integer type array is declared and initialized. The integer type array is used to store consecutive values all of them having type integer. The statement is:
int numbers[] = new int[]{55,32,45,98,82,11,9,39,50};
The numbers 55, 55, 32, 45, 98, 82, 11, 9, 39, 50 are stored manually by the programmer at the compile time. Then two integer type variable, name smallest and largest are declared and initialized with the 0th index value of the array.
Then a 'for loop' is used which goes from 1 to the array length. Within this loop the largest and the smallest value is detected and initialized to the smallest and largest value uisng if()
When …. numbers[i] is greater than largetst
largetst = numbers[i];
when numbers[i] greater than smallest
smallest = numbers[i];
The last two statements --
System.out.println("Largest Number is : " + largetst);
System.out.println("Smallest Number is : " + smallest);
Is used to print the largest and the smallest value which is extracted from the array. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The MMIX Breakpoint Window
This window lets you manage breakpoints.
When the window is opended, it displays a listbox with all currently set breakpoints. For example on the right you see four breakpoints: an execute breakpoint at address #144, a read and write breakpoint in file hello.mms, line 6, an execute breakpoint in the same file at line 10, and finaly again in the same file a trace point in line 13.
Before you can modify one of these breakpoints, you must select it by clicking on it. The breakpoint is the shown higlighted (with a blue background).
You can the remove the breakpoint by pressing the Remove button.
You can add an execute, read, write, or trace breakpoint for the selected breakpoint by pressing the blue, green, red, or black button respectively. Pressing the button a second time will remove it again.
When you double click on a breakpoint showing a file and a line number, the cursor in the edit window will move to the specified line.
There are two types of breakpoints shown in this list: breakpoints that are bound to a specific line in a sourcefile and breakpoints that are bound to a specific address. You must add breakpoints of the first kind using the editor. You can add breakpoints of the second kind by entering the address in hexadecimal notation in the editbox shown left of the Add button and then pressing the Add button.
When you edit the file, the editor will move around the breakpoints in the text together with the text. These changes are not shown in breakpoint list. However when you start the debugger, the list will be updated.
If you change the source file while the program is running, neither the breakpoints in the running program nor the breakpoints in the list will be updated. This is not a good idea. You should stop debugging, edit the file, then assemble it again, and finaly restart the debugger. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Core and margin in warm convective clouds-Part 2: Aerosol effects on core properties
Reuven H. Heiblum, Lital Pinto, Orit Altaratz, Guy Dagan, Ilan Koren
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2 Scopus citations
Abstract
The effects of aerosol on warm convective cloud cores are evaluated using single cloud and cloud field simulations. Three core definitions are examined: positive vertical velocity (Wcore), supersaturation (RHcore), and positive buoyancy (Bcore). As presented in Part 1 (Heiblum et al., 2019), the property Bcore ⊆ RHcore ⊆ Wcore is seen during growth of warm convective clouds. We show that this property is kept irrespective of aerosol concentration. During dissipation core fractions generally decrease with less overlap between cores. However, for clouds that develop in low aerosol concentrations capable of producing precipitation, Bcore and subsequently Wcore volume fractions may increase during dissipation (i.e., loss of cloud mass). The RHcore volume fraction decreases during cloud lifetime and shows minor sensitivity to aerosol concentration. It is shown that a Bcore forms due to two processes: (i) convective updrafts-condensation within supersaturated updrafts and release of latent heat-and (ii) dissipative downdrafts-subsaturated cloudy downdrafts that warm during descent and "undershoot" the level of neutral buoyancy. The former process occurs during cloud growth for all aerosol concentrations. The latter process only occurs for low aerosol concentrations during dissipation and precipitation stages where large mean drop sizes permit slow evaporation rates and subsaturation during descent. The aerosol effect on the diffusion efficiencies plays a crucial role in the development of the cloud and its partition to core and margin. Using the RHcore definition, it is shown that the total cloud mass is mostly dictated by core processes, while the total cloud volume is mostly dictated by margin processes. Increase in aerosol concentration increases the core (mass and volume) due to enhanced condensation but also decreases the margin due to evaporation. In clean clouds larger droplets evaporate much slower, enabling preservation of cloud size, and even increase by detrainment and dilution (volume increases while losing mass). This explains how despite having smaller cores and less mass, cleaner clouds may live longer and grow to larger sizes.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10739-10755
Number of pages17
JournalAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volume19
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes
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The difference between AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. Neural Networks
Nowadays, technology is going into our lives deeper than ever. We see them everywhere in social media, or apps on your phone, etc. These things make our experience better. And to keep up with the pace of user expectations, companies are trying to apply more and more technologies associated with artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks.
These terms are often used in our conversation, but what is the difference between them? In this article, let’s clarify it.
How do artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning relate?
Perhaps the easiest way to think about artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning is to think of them like Russian nesting dolls. Each is essentially a component of the prior term.
That is, machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence. Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, and neural networks make up the backbone of deep learning algorithms. In fact, it is the number of node layers, or depth, of neural networks that distinguishes a single neural network from a deep learning algorithm, which must have more than three.
What is a neural network?
Neural networks— or more specifically, artificial neural networks (ANNs)— mimic the human brain through a set of algorithms. At a basic level, a neural network has four main components: inputs, weights, a bias or threshold, and an output. Similar to linear regression, the algebraic formula would look something like below:
From there, let’s apply it to a more tangible example, like whether or not you should order a pizza for dinner. This will be our predicted outcome, or y-hat. Let’s assume that there are three main factors that will influence your decision:
1. If you will save time by ordering out (Yes: 1; No: 0)
2. If you will lose weight by ordering a pizza (Yes: 1; No: 0)
3. If you will save money (Yes: 1; No: 0)
Then, let’s assume the following, giving us the following inputs:
• X1 = 1, since you’re not making dinner
• X2= 0, since we’re getting ALL the toppings
• X3 = 1, since we’re only getting 2 slices
For simplicity purposes, our inputs will have a binary value of 0 or 1. This technically defines it as a perceptron as neural networks primarily leverage sigmoid neurons, which represent values from negative infinity to positive infinity. This distinction is important since most real-world problems are nonlinear, so we need values which reduce how much influence any single input can have on the outcome. However, summarizing in this way will help you understand the underlying math at play here.
Now we need to assign some weights to determine importance. Larger weights means that a single input’s contribution to the output more significant compared to other inputs.
• W1 = 5, since you value time
• W2 = 3, since you value staying in shape
• W3 = 2, since you’ve got money in the bank
Finally, we’ll also assume a threshold value of 5, which would translate to a bias value of –5.
Since we established all the relevant values for our summation, we can now plug them into this formula.
Using the following activation function, we can now calculate the output (i.e., our decision to order pizza):
In summary:
Y-hat (our predicted outcome) = Decide to order pizza or not
Y-hat = (1*5) + (0*3) + (1*2) – 5
Y-hat = 5 + 0 + 2 – 5
Y-hat = 2, which is greater than zero.
Since Y-hat is 2, the output from the activation function will be 1, meaning that we will order pizza.
If the output of any individual node is above the specified threshold value, that node is activated, and data is sent to the next layer of the network. Otherwise, no data is passed along to the next layer of the network. Now, imagine the above process being repeated multiple times for a single decision as neural networks tend to have multiple “hidden” layers as part of deep learning algorithms. Each hidden layer has its own activation function, potentially passing information from the previous layer into the next one. When all the outputs from the hidden layers are generated, then they are used as inputs to calculate the final output of the neural network. The above example is just the most basic example of a neural network; most real-world examples are nonlinear and far more complex.
The main difference between regression and a neural network is the impact of change on a single weight. In regression, you can change a weight without affecting the other inputs in a function. However, this case is different with neural networks. Since the output of one layer is passed into the next layer of the network, a single change can have a cascading effect on the other neurons in the network.
How is deep learning different from neural networks?
Actually deep learning is implied within the explanation of neural networks. The “deep” in deep learning is referring to the depth of layers in a neural network. A neural network that consists of more than three layers—which would be inclusive of the inputs and the output—can be considered a deep learning algorithm. This is generally represented using the following diagram:
Most deep neural networks are feed-forward, meaning they flow in one direction only from input to output. However, you can also train your model in opposite direction from output to input, and it’s called backpropagation. Backpropagation allows us to calculate and attribute the error associated with each neuron, allowing us to adjust and fit the algorithm appropriately.
How is deep learning different from machine learning?
Deep learning can be understood as merely a subset of machine learning. The primary difference is how each algorithm learns and how much data each type of algorithm uses. Deep learning automates much of the feature extraction piece of the process, eliminating some of the manual human intervention required. It also enables the use of large data sets. This capability will be particularly interesting as we begin to explore the use of unstructured data more, particularly since 80-90% of an organization’s data is estimated to be unstructured.
Classical, or “non-deep”, machine learning is more dependent on human intervention to learn. Human experts determine the hierarchy of features to understand the differences between data inputs, usually requiring more structured data to learn.
“Deep” machine learning can leverage labeled datasets, also known as supervised learning, to inform its algorithm, but it doesn’t necessarily require a labeled dataset. It can ingest unstructured data in its raw form (e.g. text, images), and it can automatically determine the set of features which distinguish one item from one another.
By observing patterns in the data, a deep learning model can cluster inputs appropriately. We could group pictures of different items into their respective categories based on the similarities or differences identified in the images. With that said, a deep learning model would require more data points to improve its accuracy, whereas a machine learning model relies on less data given the underlying data structure. Deep learning is primarily leveraged for more complex use cases, like virtual assistants or fraud detection.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Finally, artificial intelligence (AI) is the broadest term used to classify machines that mimic human intelligence. It is used to predict, automate, and optimize tasks that humans have historically done, such as speech and facial recognition, decision making, and translation.
There are three main categories of AI:
• Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
ANI is considered “weak” AI, whereas the other two types are classified as “strong” AI. Weak AI is defined by its ability to complete a very specific task, like winning a chess game or identifying a specific individual in a series of photos. AGI and ASI is stronger form of AI, and they incorporate more human behaviours, such as the ability to interpret tone and emotion.
Strong AI is defined by its ability compared to humans. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) would perform on par with another human while Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)—also known as superintelligence—would surpass a human’s intelligence and ability. Neither forms of Strong AI exist yet, but ongoing research in this field continues.
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The DM11-BA Modem Control Multiplexor allows asynchronous serial lines connected to a UNIBUS device controller to be connected to modems. It could be set to interrupt the CPU when a modem control line (Ring, Carrier, etc) changed state. It is a re-implementation of the DM11-BB Modem Control Option; instead of plugging into a controller backplane like the -BB, the -BA plugs into a standard UNIBUS MUD slot.
It is program compatible with the DM11-BB (although a single DM11-BA only supports 8 lines, unlike the DM11-BB, which handled 16), and is implemented as a single hex board, the M8640.
H317-B with cover off
It connects, using two flat cables plugged into Berg headers on the board, to a passive distribution panel, either one usable with the DM11-BB (such as the H317-B); or the newer H317-M or the functionally identical H317-P (the latter has improved EMI shielding). | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Won't install Roon Servers Build 106 [Resolved]
@support Roon downloads and attempts to install the new build 106 on Ropieee but fails as soon as it starts the update with a message “There was an error checking for an update”
Ok. As soon as I’m home I’ll have a look myself.
HI @Tony_Reimann tested this at home and everything updated fine.
I think you might have run into a brief problem when connection to the Roon infrastructure.
Can you try again?
Thanks
I have tried 4 times with the same result. Will reinstall Ropieee from scratch and see how it goes.
Reinstalled Ropieee from scratch and all good.
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I ran into something similar on my linux-based bridge (Atom NUC). In my setup I have the Logs directory in the same filesystem as RoonBridge and RAATServer (the default setup). In my case with constant use (10 hrs/day 5 days/week) the RAAT Logs filled up the filesystem. That was causing the update to fail.
Cleaning out the logfiles allowed the update to complete normally. I need to update my config to either flush the logs on reboot or redirect them to /tmp, but haven’t gotten around to it.
I have the same issue, with update failing. Unfortunately totally noob when it comes to linux. CAn anybody briefly explain how to flush the log files? Thanks in advance!
Just to be sure: are you running RoPieee?
Yes, Ropieee. I installed the latest image (2017/08/19), Roon version is build 106 and it tries to install build 112.
For information, my SD is 2 Gb, could it be too small?
Ah. well, that indeed could mean it runs full because of the log files and then it can’t update.
So you’re on RoPieee’s stable build? Or are you running the beta?
Yes, running the stable build.
Ok. You stated that you’re a ‘total noob’ on linux. Do you have any experience with SSH?
yes, some. Have a SSH client installed. But really don’t know any commands…
ok. let’s go then:
1. login with ssh to your ropieee with username ‘root’ and password ‘root’.
2. run the following command:
rm -rf /var/roon/*/Logs/*
done, now run:
reboot
After the reboot of your RoPieee you can try to see if it will update.
I’m running RoPiee, how do I know that I have the latest software in it? I thought it updated automaticly? I have no Linux eperience and the plug and play aspect appealed to me. Thank you.
It updates automatically indeed. This is just a manual ‘fix’ to make sure your RoonBridge is capable updating, which is normally not required.
And I will build a fix for this as well.
With respect to which RoPieee your’re running: you can go the web page of ropieee (point your browser to: http://ropieee.local or replace ‘ropieee’ with the hostname you’ve given it). On the information tab you can see the version information.
Ok, did that now, after reboot I checked again, it downloads the update but unfortunately I get the same error message “There was an error checking for an update”…
ok. can you go to RoPieee’s web page, to the tab ‘advanced’ and hit the ‘send feedback’ button? I can then have a closer look why it fails to update RoonBridge.
Done. Here is the feedback identifier 5f98a9c93b721c6d
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complex conjugate root theorem
Proper noun
* 1) The theorem that if a complex number is a root for a polynomial with real coefficients, the complex conjugate of that number will also be a root. | WIKI |
Homeopathy Treatment for high blood pressure
Blood pressure is primarily influenced by the strength of the heart and the diameter and elasticity of the vessels. Optimal blood pressure is 120/80 mmHg and elevated blood pressure is 140/90 mmHg. The two values refer to the so-called systolic and diastolic values. The systolic refers to the pressure when the heart contracts and the diastolic refers to the pressure when the heart muscle relaxes.
Homeopathic remedies are only prescribed as an accompaniment to high blood pressure.
Which homeopathic remedies help?
Physical symptoms are described below. Choose a homeopathic remedy for high blood pressure that best suits your situation.
Crotalus
with flushed face and urging of blood to head. Often accompanied by a feeling of heat, ringing in the ears, nosebleeds or headaches.
Plumbium metallicum
with rather pale skin color, often accompanied by a hard pulse or cramping abdominal pain with constipation. Plus dizziness and headaches.
Allium sativum
Essential hypertension, causes unknown.
Barium iodate
Rapid pulse, muscle tremors associated with arteriosclerosis.
Iberis amara
For acute high blood pressure caused by stress and anxiety or to support chronic hypertension. The hard pulse is visible on the side of the neck.
Rauwolfia
Palpitations, irregular heartbeat, stitches and chest tightness. During physical exertion, the patients get bad breath.
Accompanied by dizziness
Aurum metallicum
with a rather dark red complexion. Patient may have memory lapses, suffer from dizziness and throbbing headache.
Viscum album
triggered by vasoconstriction (arteriosclerosis). High blood pressure caused by narrowing of the vessels, often together with dizzy spells, headaches, palpitations and inner restlessness. The patient is in a bad mood, suffers from insomnia and restless dreams.
Crataegus
Blood pressure fluctuates due to declining cardiac output. Patient feels weak and dizzy and suffers and palpitations.
Barium carbonicum
with pale skin color and rather slowed body functions. Often associated with dizziness, ringing in the ears or forgetfulness. Patient is indecisive and prone to obesity, premature aging and cataracts.
Aranea diadema
Dizziness in any position and location, and rush of blood to the head.
Causes of high blood pressure
• genetic predisposition
• lack of exercise
• overweight
• nutrition
• stress
• alcohol and cigarettes
• medication
• metabolic diseases
• pregnancy
Symptoms of high blood pressure
• dizziness
• headache
• ringing in ears
• nosebleeds
Further tips and information on treatment
In the short term, for example during sports, high blood pressure is not harmful. Serious damage can only result from permanently high blood pressure. Elevated blood pressure is one of the main causes of stroke, vascular disease and diabetes. So the right kind of prevention is essential. The cause and cure of high blood pressure are exact opposites. If you want to avoid or reduce this, you should make sure you get enough exercise, avoid salty foods, limit alcohol and cigarette consumption, and avoid being overweight and stressed. However, there are also a number of medications that can be used.
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fix ave/time output into separate files
Hi,
I am using fix ave/time to store the radial distribution function at different simulation timesteps as follows:
compute myRDF all rdf 1000
fix 4 all ave/time 1000 1 1000 c_myRDF file tmp.rdf mode vector
Unfortunately the output arrays are stored in a one file one after another. In case of many updates during the simulation the file is becoming quite difficult to read without any post processing of the file. Is there any way to divide the output of ave/time into separate files similarly as it is done using dump command, by defining the file name as, e.g. tmp*.rdf?
All the best,
Bartosz
You could always “split” the file
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/usplit.htm and others
Nigel
Of course it is an option, but it is also one more post-processing step. I know Lammps itself is quite powerful in sense of post-processing so maybe I will try to modify ave/time a bit if no other Lammps command can do it.
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Archimedean solid
Etymology
Named after ancient Greek mathematician and engineer (c. 287 – c. 212 BCE).
Noun
* 1) Any of a class of convex semiregular polyhedra, composed of two or more types of regular polygon meeting in identical vertices.
Translations
* Esperanto: arĥimeda solido, arkimeda solido
* Finnish: Arkhimedeen kappale
* Galician: sólido arquimediano
* German:
* Hungarian:
* Italian: solido archimedeo
* Latin: corpus irrēgulātum
* Portuguese: sólido arquimediano, sólido de Arquimedes
* Spanish: sólido arquimediano, sólido de Arquímedes | WIKI |
Tebuthiuron
Tebuthiuron is a nonselective broad spectrum herbicide of the urea class. It is used to control weeds, woody and herbaceous plants, and sugar cane. It is absorbed by the roots and transported to the leaves, where it inhibits photosynthesis. The ingredient was discovered by Air Products and Chemicals, but was registered by Elanco in the United States in 1974, and later sold to Dow AgroSciences.
Environmental Impacts
The Environmental Protection Agency considers tebuthiuron to have a great potential for groundwater contamination, due to its high water solubility, low adsorption to soil particles, and high persistence in soil (its soil half-life is 360 days).
In Europe, tebuthiuron has been banned since November 2002.
Illegal Use
In 2010, tebuthiuron in the form of Dow AgroSciences Spike 80DF was deliberately used in an act of vandalism to poison the live oak trees at Toomer's Corner on the Auburn University campus following the 2010 Iron Bowl. The lone perpetrator, a University of Alabama fan, was charged with first-degree criminal mischief and was placed in jail on a $50,000 bond. Remediation of the incident required removal of about 1,780 tons of contaminated material. In 2021, Arthur and Amelia Bond, wealthy summer residents of Camden, Maine poisoned their neighbor's oak trees with tebuthiuron in order to obtain a better view of Camden Harbor. They paid over $200 thousand in fines to address illegal pesticide use and environmental contamination, and $1.5 million to settle with their neighbor. | WIKI |
Page:Richard Nixon's presidential daily calendar - 1969.djvu/1831
Attendees at the signing ceremony for H. R. 14001, November 26, 1969. Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense
John G. Stennis, Senator
Margaret C. Smith, Senator
Leslie Arends, Congressman
L. Mendel Rivers, Congressman
F. Edward Hebert, Congressman
Alexander Pirnie, Congressman
Bernard T. Franck. Assistant to the Director, Selective Service System
Russell Blandford
Frank Slantansheck
Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Board
Robert W. Ryan
David G. Aydelotte
Robert F. Morrison
Gerald M. Smith
William B. Patterson
Harold Moore | WIKI |
The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Colburn, Warren
COLBURN, Warren, an American mathematician, born at Dedham, Mass., March 1, 1793, died at Lowell, Sept. 15, 1833. He was the eldest son of a large family. His parents were poor, and during his childhood made frequent removals to different manufacturing villages,
where Warren as well as some of the other children found employment in the factories. He early manifested a remarkable taste for mathematics, and having acquired the trade of a machinist, he entered Harvard college in 1816. He graduated in 1820, and soon afterward opened a select school in Boston. In the autumn of 1821 the first edition of his “First Lessons in Mental Arithmetic” was issued. While in college the necessity of such a work had been forced upon his mind, and its plan digested. He was accustomed to say that “the pupils who were under his tuition made his arithmetic for him;” that the questions they asked, and the necessary answers and explanations which he gave in reply, were embodied in that book. No other elementary work on arithmetic ever had such a sale. It has been translated into most of the languages of Europe, and into several of those of India. After teaching nearly three years, he accepted the situation of superintendent of the Boston manufacturing company at Waltham, in April, 1823; and in August, 1824, he was appointed superintendent of the Merrimack manufacturing company at Lowell. Here he projected a system of lectures of an instructive character, presenting commerce and useful subjects in such a way as to gain attention. In the autumn of 1825 he commenced a course of lectures on the natural history of animals. This he followed in subsequent years with lectures on light, the eye, the seasons, electricity, hydraulics, astronomy, &c. His “Sequel” had been published just before he left Waltham. In 1828 he published his “Algebra.” In May, 1827, he was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He was also for a number of years one of the examining committee on mathematics in Harvard college, and some time superintendent of schools at Lowell. | WIKI |
Homosalate
Homosalate is an organic compound used in some sunscreens. It is made by the Fischer–Speier esterification of salicylic acid and 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanol, the latter being a hydrogenated derivative of isophorone. Contained in 45% of U.S. sunscreens, it is used as a chemical UV filter. The salicylic acid portion of the molecule absorbs ultraviolet rays with a wavelength from 295 nm to 315 nm, protecting the skin from sun damage. The hydrophobic trimethyl cyclohexyl group provides greasiness that prevents it from dissolving in water.
Safety
Homosalate was identified in a court case brought by German chemical company Symrise who claimed that the ingredient used in sunscreen did not require animal testing.
Symrise lost the appeal against a European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) decision that requires the German manufacturer to test sunscreen ingredients on animals.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision applies to two formerly approved ingredients used exclusively in sunscreens — UV filter homosalate and 2-ethylhexyl salicylate.
Similar to other UV filter compounds, more homosalate is absorbed into the uppermost stratum corneum (ie, the stratum disjunctum) of the face (25% of applied dose) versus back of volunteers. This amounted to approximately two to three times the amount of sunscreen that was present in the superficial stratum corneum layers of the face compared with the back. There was no homosalate detected in the urine samples or blood plasma samples of the volunteers in this study.
Homosalate has been identified as an antiandrogen (testosterone blocker) in vitro, as well as having estrogenic activity toward estrogen receptors α, and general in vitro estrogenic activity. Homosalate has been shown to be an antagonist toward androgen and estrogen receptors in vitro. Some work has shown that organic UV filters in general can present concerns.
There is no in vivo evidence of toxicity, endocrine disfunction or adverse effects; and none of these adverse events have ever been reported to occur in humans.
An in vivo study involving repeated subcutaneous injections of homosalate at dose levels up to 1000mg/kg of body weight to juvenile female Wistar rats over three consecutive days revealed no estrogenic potential in the uterotrophic assay. Another study on immature Long-Evans rats receiving up to 892 mg/kg of body weight of homosalate in their daily diet found no estrogenic effects in vivo. Research on zebra fish also found no estrogenic effects after being continuously exposed to homosalate for 96 hours straight. The SCCS has declared there is no sufficient evidence that identifies pure homosalate as an endocrine disruptor in humans and further declared that in vivo research has confirmed that homosalate has no genotoxic, phototoxic or photosensitive effects when applied topically. | WIKI |
Shah-co-pee (or Six) is one of the chiefs of the Dahcotahs; his village is about twenty-five miles from Fort Snelling. He belongs to the bands that are called Men-da-wa-can-ton, or People of the Spirit Lakes.
No one who has lived at Fort Snelling can ever forget him, for at what house has he not called to shake hands and smoke; to say that he is a great chief, and that he is hungry and must eat before he starts for home? If the hint is not immediately acted upon, he adds that the sun is dying fast, and it is time for him to set out.
Shah-co-pee is not so tall or fine looking as Bad Hail, nor has he the fine Roman features of old Man in the Cloud. His face is decidedly ugly; but there is an expression of intelligence about his quick black eye and fine forehead, that makes him friends, notwithstanding his many troublesome qualities.
At present he is in mourning; his face is painted black. He never combs his hair, but wears a black silk handkerchief tied across his forehead.
When he speaks he uses a great deal of gesture, suiting the action to the word. His hands, which are small and well formed, are black with dirt; he does not descend to the duties of the toilet.
He is the orator of the Dahcotahs. No matter how trifling the occasion, he talks well; and assumes an air of importance that would become him if he were discoursing on matters of life and death.
Some years ago, our government wished the Chippeways and Dahcotahs to conclude a treaty of peace among themselves. Frequently have these two bands made peace, but rarely kept it any length of time. On this occasion many promises were made on both sides; promises which would be broken by some inconsiderate young warrior before long, and then retaliation must follow.
Shah-co-pee has great influence among the Dahcotahs, and he was to come to Fort Snelling to be present at the council of peace. Early in the morning he and about twenty warriors left their village on the banks of the St. Peters, for the Fort.
When they were very near, so that their actions could be distinguished, they assembled in their canoes, drawing them close together, that they might hear the speech which their chief was about to make them.
They raised the stars and stripes, and their own flag, which is a staff adorned with feathers from the war eagle; and the noon-day sun gave brilliancy to their gay dresses, and the feathers and ornaments that they wore.
Shah-co-pee stood straight and firm in his canoe and not the less proudly that the walls of the Fort towered above him.
“My boys,” he said (for thus he always addressed his men), “the Dahcotahs are all braves; never has a coward been known among the People of the Spirit Lakes. Let the women and children fear their enemies, but we will face our foes, and always conquer.
“We are going to talk with the white men; our great Father wishes us to be at peace with our enemies. We have long enough shed the blood of the Chippeways; we have danced round their scalps, and our children have kicked their heads about in the dust. What more do we want? When we are in council, listen to the words of the Interpreter as he tells us what our great Father says, and I will answer him for you; and when we have eaten and smoked the pipe of peace, we will return to our village.”
The chief took his seat with all the importance of a public benefactor. He intended to have all the talking to himself, to arrange matters according to his own ideas; but he did it with the utmost condescension, and his warriors were satisfied.
Besides being an orator, Shah-co-pee is a beggar, and one of a high order too, for he will neither take offence nor a refusal. Tell him one day that you will not give him pork and flour, and on the next he returns, nothing daunted, shaking hands, and asking for pork and flour. He always gains his point, for you are obliged to give in order to get rid of him. He will take up his quarters at the Interpreter’s, and come down upon you every day for a week just at meal time and as he is always blessed with a ferocious appetite, it is much better to capitulate, come to terms by giving him what he wants, and let him go.
And after he has once started, ten to one if he does not come back to say he wants to shoot and bring you some ducks; you must give him powder and shot to enable him to do so. That will probably be the last of it.
It was a beautiful morning in June when we left Fort Snelling to go on a pleasure party up the St. Peters, in a steamboat, the first that had ever ascended that river. There were many drawbacks in the commencement, as there always are on such occasions. The morning was rather cool, thought some, and as they hesitated about going, of course their toilets were delayed to the last moment. And when all were fairly in the boat, wood was yet to be found. Then something was the matter with one of the wheels and the mothers were almost sorry they had consented to come; while the children, frantic with joy, were in danger of being drowned every moment, by the energetic movements they made near the sides of the boat, by way of indicating their satisfaction at the state of things.
In the cabin, extensive preparations were making in case the excursion brought on a good appetite. Everybody contributed loaf upon loaf of bread and cake; pies, coffee and sugar; cold meats of every description; with milk and cream in bottles. Now and then, one of these was broken or upset, by way of adding to the confusion, which was already intolerable.
Champagne and old Cogniac were brought by the young gentlemen, only for fear the ladies should be sea-sick; or, perhaps, in case the gentlemen should think it positively necessary to drink the ladies’ health.
When we thought all was ready, there was still another delay. Shah-co-pee and two of his warriors were seen coming down the hill, the chief making an animated appeal to some one on board the boat; and as he reached the shore he gave us to understand that his business was concluded, and that he would like to go with us. But it was very evident that he considered his company a favor.
The bright sun brought warmth, and we sat on the upper deck admiring the beautiful shores of the St. Peter’s. Not a creature was to be seen for some distance on the banks, and the birds as they flew over our heads seemed to be the fit and only inhabitants of such a region.
When tired of admiring the scenery, there was enough to employ us. The table was to be set for dinner; the children had already found out which basket contained the cake, and they were casting admiring looks
When we were all assembled to partake of some refreshments, it was delightful to find that there were not enough chairs for half the party. We borrowed each other’s knives and forks too, and etiquette, that petty tyrant of society, retired from the scene. Shah-co-pee found his way to the cabin, where he manifested strong symptoms of shaking hands over again; in order to keep him quiet, we gave him plenty to eat. How he seemed to enjoy a piece of cake that had accidentally dropped into the oyster-soup! and with equal gravity would he eat apple-pie and ham together. And then his cry of “wakun” 1 when the cork flew from the champagne bottle across the table! How happily the day passed how few such days occur in the longest life!
As Shah-co-pee’s village appeared in sight, the chief addressed Col. D, who was at that time in command of Fort Snelling, asking him why we had come on such an excursion.
“To escort you home” was the ready reply; “you are a great chief, and worthy of being honored, and we have chosen this as the best way of showing our respect and admiration of you.”
The Dahcotah chief believed all; he never for a moment thought there was anything like jesting on the subject of his own high merits; his face beamed with delight on receiving such a compliment. The men and women of the village crowded on the shore as the boat landed, as well they might, for a steamboat was a new sight to them. The chief sprang from the boat, and swelling with pride and self admiration he took the most conspicuous station on a rock near the
shore, among his people, and made them a speech. We could but admire his native eloquence. Here, with all that is wild in nature surrounding him, did the untaught orator address his people. His lips gave rapid utterance to thoughts which did honor to his feelings, when we consider who and what he was.
He told them that the white people were their friends; that they wished them to give up murder and intemperance, and to live quietly and happily. They taught them to plant corn, and they were anxious to instruct their children. “When we are suffering,” said he, “during the cold weather, from sickness or want of food, they give us medicine and bread.” And finally he told them of the honor that had been paid him. “I went, as you know, to talk with the big Captain of the Fort, and he, knowing the bravery of the Dahcotahs, and that I was a great chief, has brought me home, as you see. Never has a Dahcotah warrior been thus honored!”
Never indeed! But we took care not to undeceive him. It was a harmless error, and as no efforts on our part could have diminished his self importance, we listened with apparent, indeed with real admiration of his eloquent speech. The women brought ducks on board, and in exchange we gave them bread; and it was evening as we watched the last teepee of Shah-co-pee’s village fade away in the distance.
But sorrow mingles with the remembrance of that bright day. One of those who contributed most to its pleasures is gone from us one whom all esteemed and many loved, and justly, for never beat a kinder or a nobler heart.
Shah-co-pee has looked rather grave lately. There is trouble in the wigwam.
The old chief is the husband of three wives, and they and their children are always fighting. The first wife is old as the hills, wrinkled and haggard; the chief cares no more for her than he does for the stick of wood she is chopping. She quarrels with everybody but him, and this prevents her from being quite forgotten.
The day of the second wife is past too, it is of no use for I her to plait her hair and put on her ornaments; for the old chief’s heart is wrapped up in his third wife.
The girl did not love him, how could she? and he did not succeed in talking her into the match; but he induced the parents to sell her to him, and the young wife went weeping to the teepee of the chief.
Hers was a sad fate. She hated her husband as much as he loved her. No presents could reconcile her to her situation. The two forsaken wives never ceased annoying her, and their children assisted them. The young wife had not the courage to resent their ill treatment, for the loss of her lover had broken her heart. But that lover did not seem to be in such despair as she was he did not quit the village, or drown himself, or commit any act of desperation. He lounged and smoked as much as ever. On one occasion when Shah-co-pee was absent from the village the lovers met.
They had to look well around them, for the two old wives were always on the look out for something to tell of the young one; but there was no one near. The wind whistled keenly round the bend of the river as the Dahcotah told the weeping girl to listen to him.
When had she refused? How had she longed to hear the sound of his voice when wearied to death with the long boastings of the old chief.
But how did her heart beat when Red Stone told her that he loved her still that he had only been waiting an opportunity to induce her to leave her old husband, and go with him far away. She hesitated a little, but not long; and when Shah-co-pee returned to his teepee his young wife was gone no one had seen her depart no one knew where to seek for her. When the old man heard that Red Stone was gone too, his rage knew no bounds. He beat his two wives almost to death, and would have given his handsomest pipe-stem to have seen the faithless one again.
His passion did not last long; it would have killed him if it had. His wives moaned all through the night, bruised and bleeding, for the fault of their rival; while the chief had recourse to the pipe, the never-failing refuge of the Dahcotah.
“I thought,” said the chief, “that some calamity was going to happen to me” (for, being more composed, he began to talk to the other Indians who sat with him in his teepee, somewhat after the manner and in the spirit of Job’s friends). “I saw Unk-a-tahe, the great fish of the water, and it showed its horns; and we know that that is always a sign of trouble.”
“Ho!” replied an old medicine man, “I remember when Unk-a-tahe got in under the falls” (of St. Anthony) “and broke up the ice. The large pieces of ice went swiftly down, and the water forced its way until it was frightful to see it. The trees near the shore were thrown down, and the small islands were left bare. Near Fort Snelling there was a house where a white man and his wife lived. The woman heard the noise, and, waking her husband, ran out; but as he did not follow her quick enough, the house was soon afloat and he was drowned.”
There was an Indian camp near this house, for the body of Wenona, the sick girl who was carried over the Falls, was found here. It was placed on a scaffold on the shore, near where the Indians found her, and Checkered Cloud moved her teepee, to be near her daughter. Several other Dahcotah families were also near her.
But what was their fright when they heard the ice breaking, and the waters roaring as they carried everything before them? The father of Wenona clung to his daughter’s scaffold, and no entreaties of his wife or others could induce him to leave.
“Unk-a-tahe has done this,” cried the old man, “and I care not. He carried my sick daughter under the waters, and he may bury me there too.” And while the others fled from the power of Unk-a-tahe, the father and mother clung to the scaffold of their daughter.
They were saved, and they lived by the body of Wenona until they buried her. “The power of Unk-a-tahe is great!” so spoke the medicine man, and Shah-co-pee almost forgot his loss in the fear and admiration of this monster of the deep, this terror of the Dahcotahs.
He will do well to forget the young wife altogether; for she is far away, making moccasins for the man she loves. She rejoices at her escape from the old man, and his two wives; while he is always making speeches to his men, commencing by saying he is a great chief, and ending with the assertion that Red Stone should have respected his old age, and not have stolen from him the only wife he loved.
Shah-co-pee came, a few days ago, with twenty other warriors, some of them chiefs, on a visit to the commanding officer of Fort Snelling.
The Dahcotahs had heard that the Winnebago were about to be removed, and that they were to pass through their hunting grounds on their way to their future homes. They did not approve of this arrangement. Last summer the Dahcotahs took some scalps of the Winnebago, and it was decided at Washington that the Dahcotahs should pay four thousand dollars of their annuities as an atonement for the act. This caused much suffering among the Dahcotahs; fever was making great havoc among them, and to deprive them of their flour and other articles of food was only enfeebling their constitutions, and rendering them an easy prey for disease. The Dahcotahs thought this very hard at the time; they have not forgotten the circumstance, and they think that they ought to be consulted before their lands are made a thoroughfare by their enemies.
They accordingly assembled, and, accompanied by the Indian agent and the interpreter, came to Fort Snelling to make their complaint. When they were all seated, (all on the floor but one, who looked most uncomfortable, mounted on a high chair), the agent introduced the subject, and it was discussed for a while; the Dahcotahs paying the most profound attention, although they could not understand a word of what was passing; and when there was a few moments’ silence, the chiefs rose each in his turn to protest against the Winnebago passing through their country. They all spoke sensibly and well; and when one finished, the others all intimated their approval by crying “Ho!” as a kind of chorus. After a while Shah-co-pee rose; his manner said “I am Sir Oracle.” He shook hands with the commanding officer, with the agent and interpreter, and then with some strangers who were visiting the fort.
His attitude was perfectly erect as he addressed the officer.
“We are the children of our great Father, the President of the United States; look upon us, for we are your children too. You are placed here to see that the Dahcotahs are protected, that their rights are not infringed upon.”
While the Indians cried Ho! ho! with great emphasis, Shah-co-pee shook hands all round again, and then resumed his place and speech.
“Once this country all belonged to the Dahcotahs. Where had the white man a place to call his own on our prairies? He could not even pass through our country without our permission!
“Our great Father has signified to us that he wants our lands. We have sold some of them to him, and we are content to do so, but he has promised to protect us, to be a friend to us, to take care of us as a father does of his children.
“When the white man wishes to visit us, we open the door of our country to him; we treat him with hospitality. He looks at our rocks, our river, our trees, and we do not disturb him. The Dahcotah and the white man are friends.
“But the Winnebago are not our friends, we suffered for them not long ago; our children wanted food; our wives were sick; they could not plant corn or gather the Indian potato. Many of our nation died; their bodies are now resting on their scaffolds. The night birds clap their wings as the winds howl over them!
“And we are told that our great Father will let the Winnebago make a path through our hunting grounds: they will subsist upon our game; every bird or animal they kill will be a loss to us.
“The Dahcotah’s lands are not free to others. If our great Father wishes to make any use of our lands, he should pay us. We object to the Winnebago passing through our country; but if it is too late to prevent this, then we demand a thousand dollars for every village they shall pass.”
Ho! cried the Indians again; and Shah-co-pee, after shaking hands once more, took his seat.
I doubt if you will ever get the thousand dollars a village, Shah-co-pee; but I like the spirit that induces you to demand it. May you live long to make speeches and beg bread the unrivalled orator and most notorious beggar of the Dahcotahs! | FINEWEB-EDU |
4 Next-Generation Tech Stocks Billionaires Can't Stop Buying
There's no beating about the bush: It's been a trying year for investors. The combination of historically high inflation, a weakening U.S. economy, and heightened geopolitical tensions (e.g., Russia's invasion of Ukraine), pushed both the broad-based S&P 500 and technology-centric Nasdaq Composite firmly into a bear market.
However, you wouldn't know the stock market is suffering through one of its worst years in decades by the actions of Wall Street's most-successful investors. Instead of retreating to the sideline, billionaire money managers have been actively buying stocks as the market dips. In particular, billionaires have really taken a liking to tech stocks focused on forward-looking innovation.
What follows are four next-generation tech stocks billionaires simply can't stop buying.
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Upstart Holdings
The first innovative powerhouse that at least one billionaire money manager can't stop purchasing is cloud-based lending platform Upstart Holdings (NASDAQ: UPST). During the second quarter, billionaire Philippe Laffont of Coatue Management acquired roughly 2.36 million shares.
What puts Upstart on the leading edge of its industry is its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to vet loan applications. Rather than rely on the traditional (and slow) loan-vetting process, Upstart leans on predictive technologies and previously vetted loan data to approve and fully automate nearly three-quarters of all loans its processes. This saves the six dozen financial institutions Upstart has partnered with time and money.
However, what stands out even more about Upstart is the broader pool of applicants being approved. The typical loan applicant to gain approval with Upstart has a lower average credit score than the those approved with the traditional vetting process. Yet, delinquency rates between Upstart's AI-based process and the traditional vetting process have been similar. The implication here is that Upstart can expand the potential pool of borrowers for banks and credit unions without adversely impacting their credit-risk profile.
Laffont is likely also encouraged by Upstart's push into new verticals. Whereas it's spent years processing personal loan applications, it's begun handling auto loan and small business loan originations. On a combined basis, auto and small business loans are more than 10X the market size of personal loan originations.
Snowflake
The second next-generation tech stock billionaires can't seem to get enough of is cloud data-warehousing company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW). The June-ended quarter saw billionaire Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies add more than 1.25 million shares to his fund's existing position (which now stands at more than 2 million shares).
The answer to "Why Snowflake?" can be explained by the company's unique operating model. For instance, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are shifting data into the cloud at an accelerated rate. However, sharing that data across competing cloud infrastructure platforms can be challenging. Snowflake's platform resolves this by building its infrastructure atop the leading cloud-service providers. In other words, Snowflake clients can seamlessly share and move data with ease.
What's more, Snowflake has shunned the extremely common practice among cloud providers of pushing subscriptions. Instead, Snowflake offers something of a pay-as-you-go service that charges based on the amount of data stored and Snowflake Compute Credits used. This provides more cost transparency for the company's clients than a one-size-fits-all subscription package.
Arguably the biggest obstacle for Snowflake is the company's own valuation. Even after a significant share price haircut, the company is valued at 27 times Wall Street's projected sales of roughly $2 billion in fiscal 2023. But if Snowflake can make good on its march to $10 billion in net sales by fiscal 2029 (calendar year 2028), billionaires like Simons may be glad they paid a premium to hold a stake in Snowflake.
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Palantir Technologies
The third cutting-edge tech stock billionaires can't stop buying is data mining company Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR). During the second quarter, billionaire Israel Englander's Millennium Management bought nearly 1.9 million shares of Palantir stock. To boot, Simons' Renaissance Technologies more than doubled its stake by purchasing close to 15.69 million shares.
Billionaires love Palantir for the simple reason that its technology at scale hasn't been duplicated by any other company. Put in another context, Palantir has no direct competitors that can replace the services it's offering to federal governments and predominantly large-scale businesses.
The company's Gotham operating system is an AI-driven platform designed to help federal governments gather data, plan missions, accelerate decision-making. Large contract wins from the U.S. government tied to Gotham explain why Palantir has sustained a 30% or greater sales growth rate for the past couple of years.
However, Gotham has a limited ceiling. That's because Palantir's management won't extend the Gotham operating system to certain governments, such as China. Over the long run, the company's Foundry software is its golden ticket to sustained double-digit growth. Foundry helps businesses streamline their operations by making sense of big data. In the June-ended quarter, Palantir's commercial customer count more than tripled to 119 from the year-ago quarter. In short, Foundry is in the very early innings of its growth phase.
CrowdStrike Holdings
The fourth and final next-generation tech stock billionaires can't stop buying is cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD). Billionaire Steve Cohen of Point72 Asset Management purchased over 819,000 shares of CrowdStrike during the second quarter, which ultimately boosted Point72's stake to 955,234 shares.
What makes CrowdStrike tick is the company's AI-powered Falcon security platform. Falcon oversees in the neighborhood of 1 trillion events on a daily basis, which allows the platform to become more adept at recognizing and responding to potential end-user threats. While CrowdStrike doesn't offer the cheapest cybersecurity solutions, the fact that its gross retention rate is hovering around 98% clearly implies that Falcon is effective.
Something else to consider about CrowdStrike, and the cybersecurity industry as a whole, is that cybersecurity has evolved into a basic necessity service. No matter how poorly the stock market or U.S. economy perform, bad actors don't take a day off from trying to steal enterprise or customer data. This creates a base level of demand for a company like CrowdStrike.
But the best thing of all about CrowdStrike might just be its ability to encourage its existing clients to spend more. In a span of five years, the percentage of customers with four or more cloud-module subscriptions catapulted from 9% to more than 70%. Having existing customers purchase additional services is CrowdStrike's golden ticket to subscription gross margins of around 80%.
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Bio::OntologyIO::Handlers::InterPro_BioSQL_Handler(3pm) User Contributed Perl DocumentationBio::OntologyIO::Handlers::InterPro_BioSQL_Handler(3pm)
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Bio::OntologyIO::Handlers::InterPro_BioSQL_Handler - parse an InterPro XML file and persist the resulting terms to a Biosql database SYNOPSIS
# see load_interpro.pl in bioperl-db/scripts/biosql/ DESCRIPTION
This module is for parsing an InterPro XML file and persist the resulting terms to a Biosql database as soon as the term is complete as signaled by the appropriate xml tag. This parser takes advantage of SAX, a stream-based XML parser technology, to keep the used memory as small as possible. The alternative parser for InterPro, module InterProHandler, builds up the entire ontology in memory, which given the size of the latest InterPro releases requires a huge amount of memory. This module takes the following non-standard arguments upon instantiation. -db the adaptor factory as returned by a call to Bio::DB::BioDB->new() -version the InterPro version (not available as property!) -term_factory the object factory to use for creating terms Note that there are two alternatives for how to persist the terms and relationships to the database. The default is using the adaptor factory passed as -db or set as a property to create persistent objects and store them in the database. The alternative is to specify a term persistence and a relationship persistence handler; if one or both have been set, the respective handler will be called with each term and relationship that is to be stored. See properties persist_term_handler and persist_relationship_handler. AUTHOR
Juguang Xiao, juguang@tll.org.sg Contributors Hilmar Lapp, hlapp at gmx.net APPENDIX The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Interal methods are usually preceded with a _ term_factory Title : term_factory Usage : $obj->term_factory($newval) Function: Get/set the ontology term factory to use. As a user of this module it is not necessary to call this method as there will be default. In order to change the default, the easiest way is to instantiate L<Bio::Ontology::TermFactory> with the proper -type argument. Most if not all parsers will actually use this very implementation, so even easier than the aforementioned way is to simply call $ontio->term_factory->type("Bio::Ontology::MyTerm"). Example : Returns : value of term_factory (a Bio::Factory::ObjectFactoryI object) Args : on set, new value (a Bio::Factory::ObjectFactoryI object, optional) db Title : db Usage : $obj->db($newval) Function: Sets or retrieves the database adaptor factory. The adaptor factory is a Bio::DB::DBAdaptorI compliant object and will be used to obtain the persistence adaptors necessary to serialize terms and relationships to the database. Usually, you will obtain such an object from a call to Bio::DB::BioDB. You *must* set this property before starting the parse. Note that this property is immutable once set, except that you may set it to undef. Therefore, be careful not to set to undef before setting the desired real value. Example : Returns : value of db (a Bio::DB::DBAdaptorI compliant object) Args : on set, new value (a Bio::DB::DBAdaptorI compliant object or undef, optional) persist_term_handler Title : persist_term_handler Usage : $obj->persist_term_handler($handler,@args) Function: Sets or retrieves the persistence handler for terms along with the constant set of arguments to be passed to the handler. If set, the first argument will be treated as a closure and be called for each term to persist to the database. The term will be passed as a named parameter (-term), followed by the other arguments passed to this setter. Note that this allows one to pass an arbitrary configuration to the handler. If not set, terms will be persisted along with their relationships using the respective persistence adaptor returned by the adaptor factory (see property db). Example : Returns : an array reference with the values passed on set, or an empty array if never set Args : On set, an array of values. The first value is the handler as a closure; all other values will be passed to the handler as constant argument. persist_relationship_handler Title : persist_relationship_handler Usage : $obj->persist_relationship_handler($handler,@args) Function: Sets or retrieves the persistence handler for relationships along with the constant set of arguments to be passed to the handler. If set, the first argument will be treated as a closure and be called for each relationship to persist to the database. The relationship will be passed as a named parameter (-rel), followed by the other arguments passed to this setter. Note that this allows one to pass an arbitrary configuration to the handler. If not set, relationships will be persisted along with their relationships using the respective persistence adaptor returned by the adaptor factory (see property db). Example : Returns : an array reference with the values passed on set, or an empty array if never set Args : On set, an array of values. The first value is the handler as a closure; all other values will be passed to the handler as constant argument. _persist_term Title : _persist_term Usage : Function: Persists a term to the database, using either a previously set persistence handler, or the adaptor factory directly. Example : Returns : Args : the ontology term to persist _persist_relationship Title : _persist_relationship Usage : Function: Persists a relationship to the database, using either a previously set persistence handler, or the adaptor factory directly. Example : Returns : Args : the term relationship to persist _persist_ontology Title : _persist_ontology Usage : Function: Perists the ontology itself to the database, by either inserting or updating it. Note that this will only create or update the ontology as an entity, not any of its terms, relationships, or relationship types. Example : Returns : the ontology as a peristent object with primary key Args : the ontology to persist as a Bio::Ontology::OntologyI compliant object perl v5.14.2 2012-03-02 Bio::OntologyIO::Handlers::InterPro_BioSQL_Handler(3pm)
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U.S. considers adding Venezuela to terrorism sponsors list: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering adding Venezuela to its list of state sponsors of terrorism but no final decision has been made, a person familiar with the deliberations said on Monday. Adding Venezuela to the list could limit U.S. economic assistance and impose financial restrictions on a country already suffering from hyperinflation, mass migration and shortages of food and medicine. Discussions on the issue have moved forward in recent days with strong lobbying from Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who has long pressed the administration to take a tougher stand against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the source said. A time frame for a decision on whether to add Venezuela to the terrorism list had not yet been determined, the source said. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it would be a challenge for the Trump administration to provide concrete proof linking the Maduro government to terrorism if it decides to put Venezuela on the list. The four countries currently on the list - North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria - have been found to “have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.” Rubio and two other Republican senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in September urging him to name Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism and accusing it of links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, but they offered no proof. The Trump administration has levied several rounds of sanctions against Maduro’s Socialist-led government since 2017, accusing it of undermining democracy. On Nov. 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed a disrupting Venezuela’s gold exports. Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Maduro, who denies limiting political freedoms, has said he is the victim of an “economic war” led by the United States. The Washington Post, which first reported that the Trump administration was considering the designation, said the U.S. State Department had been asking for feedback on the proposed move from various agencies in recent days. A State Department spokesperson said it “consistently and on an ongoing basis reviews available information and intelligence, from many sources, on possible state-level involvement in terrorism, evaluating all credible, verified, and corroborated information in its entirety.” The White House declined to comment. A senior U.S. official told Reuters earlier this month that the Trump administration was “looking at all potential avenues” to pressure Maduro’s government. “We believe his presidency to be illegitimate,” the official said, reiterating Washington’s rejection of the outcome of Venezuela’s elections earlier this year. Maduro won a new six-year term in May but his main rivals disavowed the election and alleged massive irregularities. “The regime really understands that the world is getting smaller for them. And that’s the kind of pressure that is needed to really change minds in the regime. The sanctions are having an effect,” the official said. Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Additional reporting by Alexandra Ulmer in Washington anfd Luc Cohen in Caracas; Editing by Sandra Maler | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Using the "Adwaita Dark" GTK theme (the main dark theme offered in Gnome 3), we end up with dark styles for <select>, <input type="checkbox">, scrollbars, and text inputs.
Forcibly switching GTK themes is probably too difficult. Firefox does things like that already, with unwanted impact on web content:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086
For devtools we could leave the scrollbars and checkboxes as-is, but least fix the search input style.
It seems that for search text inputs we already have `-moz-appearance: none` and a few styles like `border: solid 1px` which resets GTK styles, but we still end up with a dark background. We could fix that by explicitly declaring a `background-color`.
The dark-theme.css does it, but not the light-theme.css.
The filter inputs in Console and Network are not affected.
Scrollbar colors is related to Bug 1460109 (not sure it'll add the capability to style Linux/GTK scrollbars though).
Also affected: new RDM.
Attached image rdm-dark-inputs.png
Priority: -- → P3
Assignee: nobody → florens
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: Dark GTK widgets clash with the DevTools light theme → Inspector has dark input fields on Linux with light theme and a dark GTK theme
I'd like to restrict the scope of this bug to just the Inspector's filter/search inputs, and other users of devtools-textinput (and related classes), to make it more manageable. I have a fix for that which I'd like to land if possible. I can open follow-up bugs for the RDM and other places that need more work.
Pushed by pbrosset@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cd606d8bb763
Declare devtools-textinput colors explicitly; r=pbro
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cd606d8bb763
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 64
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Wed. Jun 29th, 2022
Since the general public began to be aware of the dangers of smoking a couple of decades ago people have struggled to quit the smoking of tobacco difficult. Companies are constantly innovating and developing smoking cessation products for many years now. From gum to nicotine patches smoking cessation products, addicts of nicotine have used these products to end their habit.
Electronic cigarettes (also known as e-cigarettes and electric cigarettes)are the most innovative product available to hit the market. They’re designed cigarette electronique so that they look and feel exactly like real cigarettes, even with the ability to emit artificial smoke but they don’t contain any tobacco. Smokers inhale nicotine vapour that appears to be smoke, but it is not a single one of the carcinogens found in tobacco smoke, which can be harmful to the smoker as well as other people in the vicinity.
The Electronic cigarette consists of a nicotine cartridge containing liquid nicotine. Inhaling it, a tiny battery powered atomizer converts a tiny amount of liquid nicotine into vapour. Inhaling nicotine vapour gives the user a hit of nicotine within seconds instead of minutes using gum or patches. Inhaling, a small LED light near the tip of the electronic cigarette is orange , emulating the real-life smoke.
The nicotine cartridges themselves are available in a variety of strengths. Most of the major brands, like the Gamucci electronic cigarette have full strength as well as half strength and a little strength. This is designed for people who wish to quit smoking cigarettes. When they become comfortable smoking electronic cigarettes, they can gradually reduce the amount they smoke until they have quit.
The most significant advantage electronic cigarettes have over nicotine gums or patches is that first, they get the nicotine dose much faster and secondly, because one of the major reasons why smokers fail to quit suing patches and gum is because they have a hard time imagining the feeling of inhaling smoke from a round object. Electronic cigarettes mimic and even replicates the smoke.
The electronic cigarettes are beneficial from a financial perspective. The set that includes five cartridges will cost about PS8 and is about the same price as 500 cigarettes. Although the initial expense of the electronic cigarette kit, which is PS50 might seem pricey initially, users can save cash in the end.
As with many popular products, there have been many cheap Chinese imitations that have flooded the market. They typically cost less expensive than a brand-name electronic cigarette, and appear identical to real cigarettes in many ways. It is inadvisable to smoke them as they have not been subject to the exact tests that official electronic cigarettes are and are able to be detrimental to the health of the user.
As electronic cigarettes become increasingly fashionable, they are becoming used to smoke in clubs and pubs with a smoking ban. Electronic cigarettes appear to be the next thing and may be soon replacing real cigarettes in clubs.
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William MILLER, Plaintiff, v. ACE USA, D/B/A Ace American Insurance Company, Defendant.
No. Civ.02-4237ADM/AJB.
United States District Court, D. Minnesota.
May 8, 2003.
Christopher H. Yetka, and Marnie L. DeWall, Lindquist & Vennum, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff.
Jeffrey M. Thompson, Meagher & Geer, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for and on behalf of Defendant.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MONTGOMERY, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This matter is before the undersigned United States District Judge on the cross Motions for Summary Judgment of Plaintiff William Miller (“Miller”) and Defendant ACE USA, d/b/a Ace American Insurance Company (“ACE”) [Docket Nos.-10, 8,14]. Miller seeks a declaratory judgment that ACE has a duty to defend a third-party action against him, while ACE requests summary judgment on all counts of the Complaint, or, alternatively, on the claims of breach of fiduciary duty and breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing. Oral argument of the Motions was heard on March 12, 2003. For the reasons stated below, Miller’s Motion is denied and ACE’s Motion is granted.
II. BACKGROUND
A. The Policy
The insurance policy under which this coverage dispute arises is a claims-made Directors & Officers and Company policy (“D & O Policy” or “Policy”), purchased by Worldtrak Corporation (“Worldtrak”) from ACE, effective March 22, 2002 to March 22, 2003. During this period, Miller was employed by Worldtrak as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the company. There is no dispute that, as an officer of Worldtrak, Miller was covered by the D & O Policy.
Worldtrak purchased only the D & O coverage, which included the General Terms and Conditions section applicable to and provided with all ACE policies. The Insuring Clause of the D & O Policy states that: “Insurer shall pay on behalf of the Directors and Officers Loss resulting from any Claim first made against the Directors and Officers during the Policy Period for a Wrongful Act.” D & O Policy ¶ A(l) (Yetka Aff. Ex. A). “Loss means damages, settlements and Costs, Charges and Expenses incurred by any of the Directors and Officers under Insuring Clause[ ] 1 ...” and “Costs, Charges and Expenses means reasonable and necessary legal fees and expenses incurred by any of the Insureds in defense of any Claim.... ” Id. ¶ B(7), (4). “Claim” is defined as:
a) any written or oral demand for damages or other relief against any of the Insureds, and
b) any judicial, administrative or arbitration proceeding initiated against any of the Insureds in which they may be subjected to a binding adjudication of liability for damages or other relief, including any appeal therefrom.
Id. ¶1>(2). “Wrongful Act” is defined as “any actual or alleged error, omission, misleading statement, neglect, breach of duty or act by” any of the “Directors and Officers” acting in their capacity as “a director, officer or employee of the Company.” Id. ¶ B(9).
B. The Hintz Action
The parties contest whether or not this policy provides coverage for a lawsuit brought by Sandra Hintz (“Hintz”), a former Worldtrak employee, against Worldt-rak, Axonom, Inc., Miller, and Clark Dircz (“Dircz”), Chief Executive Officer of Worldtrak during the policy period. Hintz’s complaint (the “Hintz Complaint”) sets forth nine Counts: (I) sex discrimination in violation of Title VII; (II) sex discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act; (III) reprisal in violation of Title VII; (IV) reprisal in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act; (V) violation of Minnesota Parenting Leave Act; (VI) negligent supervision and retention; (VII) negligent infliction of emotional distress; (VIII) assault and battery; and (IX) aiding and abetting and obstruction in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act. Hintz Complaint (Yetka Aff. Ex. B).
The factual allegations underlying these causes of action describe a pattern of sexual advances and harassment by Dircz, followed by discriminatory and retaliatory treatment upon Hintz’s announcement of her marriage and pregnancy. Id. ¶¶ 12-28. Hintz alleges that she was advised to work only part-time because her pregnancy was affecting her job, and that the duties of her position were no longer needed, prompting her to file a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Id. ¶¶ 18-23. She asserts that shortly after this time she was given the choice of resignation or employment without pay and finally informed by Miller that all Worldtrak employees were terminated. Id. ¶ 25. Additionally, Hintz avers that the transfer of business from Worldtrak to Axonom was done to escape liability to her for sexual harassment and as part of a plan to defraud Worldtrak’s shareholders. Id. ¶ 26.
Upon receipt of the Hintz Complaint, Miller sought defense and indemnification from ACE under the terms of the D & 0 Policy. ACE denied coverage and Miller brought the instant suit, seeking reimbursement of attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in both this and the Hintz action, a declaratory judgment of ACE’s duty to defend and indemnify, and alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing. Miller presently moves for summary judgment only with respect to the duty to defend. In its cross Motion, ACE requests summary judgment on this suit in its entirety or, alternatively, on Miller’s fiduciary duty and good faith and fair dealing claims.
III. DISCUSSION
A. Standard for Summary Judgment
Rule 56(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that the court shall render summary judgment if there exists no genuine issue as to any material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c); see Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 252, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 323, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986).
On a motion for summary judgment, the court views the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. Ludwig v. Anderson, 54 F.3d 465, 470 (8th Cir.1995). However, the nonmoving party may not “rest on mere allegations or denials, but must demonstrate on the record the existence of specific facts which create a genuine issue for trial.” Krenik v. County of Le Sueur, 47 F.3d 953, 957 (8th Cir.1995).
B. Duty to Defend
The insurer has a duty to defend all claims against the insured if any one of the asserted causes of action is arguably within the scope of policy coverage. Metropolitan Property and Cas. Ins. Co. and Affiliates v. Miller, 589 N.W.2d 297, 299 (Minn.1999). The duty to defend is broader than the distinct duty to indemnify. Id. To avoid this obligation, the insurer must establish that all claims clearly fall outside the policy. Id. The duty to defend is determined by comparing the allegations of the complaint against the insured to the language of the insurance contract and assessing whether the claims “state a cause of action within the coverage afforded by the policy.” Meadowbrook, Inc. v. Tower Ins. Co., 559 N.W.2d 411, 419 (Minn.1997); Garvis v. Employers Mut. Cas. Co., 497 N.W.2d 254, 256 (Minn.1993).
Miller avers that the Hintz complaint contains allegations arguably giving rise to coverage under the D & O Policy. Additionally, he asserts that none of the Policy exclusions apply. ACE argues that the action is entirely employment-related and therefore is clearly excluded from the term of coverage. It contends that an isolated factual allegation without reference or relation to any asserted claim cannot support a duty to defend.
1. Allegations of the Complaint
To establish that the Hintz Complaint includes a claim within the scope of the Policy, Miller asserts that certain factual allegations arguably imply a shareholder cause of action. He relies on the portion of paragraph 26 that states: “Upon information and belief, this [the cessation of business of Worldtrak and transfer of work and assets to Axonom] was also part of a plan by Worldtrak to defraud its shareholders and/or investors, including Plaintiff, by devaluing the worth of Worldtrak.” Hintz Complaint ¶ 26. Because no fraud or shareholder claim is a numerated count of the Hintz Complaint, see supra p. 1132, Miller’s assertion that this language creates arguable coverage necessarily depends on his argument that the duty to defend is not limited to specific causes of action, but extends to facts and assertions generally pleaded.
Though the duty to defend exists irrespective of the merit of the underlying claims against the insured, it does not mandate defense for claims “that could have been made (for example, are suggested by the fact pattern) but were not.” Reinsurance Ass’n of Minn. v. Timmer, 641 N.W.2d 302, 311 (Minn.Ct.App.2002). The reviewing court should focus on the claims set forth, not the “conduct being asserted to prove the claimfs].” Meadowbrook, 559 N.W.2d at 420 (emphasis in original). Miller emphasizes that Minnesota courts refer not only to “claims” and “causes of action” when comparing complaint content to policy language, but also to “allegations in the complaint,” arguing, therefore, that claims triggering the duty to defend need not be contained in a specific count or cause of action. Meadowbrook, 559 N.W.2d at 415. While an accurate reflection of terminology use, this argument does not extend to potential claims suggested or intimated by the facts of the complaint, but not included among the particularized counts. See Timmer, 641 N.W.2d at 311 (“For purposes of determining arguable coverage, we will limit ourselves to the causes of action alleged in the complaint”). The underlying factual circumstances recited by a plaintiff may provide a duty to defend a cause of action that could arguably be based on more than one legal theory, such as facts asserting intentional and negligent conduct within a complaint stating a generic claim for infliction of emotional distress, but should not be converted into possible, but not asserted, causes of action. See id.
On its face, the Hintz Complaint includes no shareholder or securities causes of action. Miller maintains, however, that Count VII, labeled Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, asserts a broader negligence claim that incorporates the purported allegations of fraud. Putting aside questions that would be raised by a claim of fraud based on simple negligence, there is no indication in the remainder of the Hintz Complaint, especially in the list of causes of action specifically set forth, of a shareholder derivative or securities devaluation suit. Furthermore, the “Factual Allegations,” on which Miller relies, include no explicit allegations against Miller of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty. Instead, he is named in relation to the alleged discrimination and retaliation against Hintz, with Hintz asserting that Miller attempted to dissuade her from filing a charge of discrimination, and implying that Miller attempted to obstruct her pursuit of this charge by causing inculpating e-mail to be deleted from her account. Id. ¶¶ 23, 28. Hintz also states Miller was the person who informed her all Worldtrak employees were terminated. Id. ¶ 25.
In fact, the focal paragraph 26 itself, recites Miller’s name only in the context of Hintz’s discrimination complaint, tying the sale of Worldtrak’s assets to an alleged plan by Miller and the other defendants to retaliate against Hintz and “escape liability for sexually harassing” her. Id. ¶ 26. The subsequent, unexplained sentence submitting that the sale of the company, first alleged to be part of a harassment scheme, was also “part of a plan by Worldtrak to defraud its shareholders” does not, standing alone, directly implicate Miller or, more importantly, change the nature of the allegations and the claims pleaded. With no relation to those counts actually enumerated, assuming some type of securities action based on this sole reference to stock devaluation would create a claim Hintz has not expressly alleged and for which she has provided no basis or explanation, and would unreasonably construe and enlarge what is on its face an employment discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit. The Hintz Complaint does not leave “the true nature of the claims at issue” for speculation, but precisely specifies alleged violations of nine statutory and common laws, labeling each count accordingly. Timmer, 641 N.W.2d at 311; Hintz Complaint at 8-14. As such, Miller’s contention that the Hintz Complaint arguably states a shareholder claim must fail.
2. Interpretation and Applicability of Exclusions
Miller submits that even without construing the Hintz Complaint to include a claim of stock devaluation, ACE’s obligation to provide defense is triggered because none of the exclusions contained in the D & 0 Policy apply. Miller’s primary argument on this issue is that the exclusions contained in the D & 0 Policy apply only to indemnification and not to the duty to defend. The duty to defend, Miller contends, is separately set forth in the General Terms and Conditions, which are not subject'to the terms of, but apply to, all Coverage Sections offered by ACE. ACE responds that such a reading of the Policy is contrary to its clear language and purpose, improperly isolates parts of a unitary contract, and leads to an absurd result. In the alternative, Miller claims ACE cannot prove the applicability of any D & 0 exclusion and therefore the broad terms of the Insuring Clauses establish coverage of the Hintz action.
Insurance policy interpretation is a question of law and is governed by general principles of contract construction. Progressive Specialty Ins. Co. v. Widness ex rel. Widness, 635 N.W.2d 516, 518 (Minn.2001). Clear, unambiguous language is given its ordinary meaning, while ambiguity is resolved against the insurer. Id. In construing policy provisions, “the intent of the parties is to be ascertained, not by a process of dissection in which words or phrases are isolated from their context, but rather from a process of synthesis in which the words and phrases are given a meaning in accordance with the obvious purpose of the insurance contract as a whole.” State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Tennessee Farmers Mut. Ins. Co., 645 N.W.2d 169, 175 (Minn.Ct.App.2002).
Here, the duty to defend must be based on and drawn from the coverage scope of the D & O Coverage Section. Miller’s assertion that this duty is separately contained in the General Terms and Conditions does not square with the logical conception and reading of the Policy as a whole. Miller relies on the initial recitation of the General Terms and Conditions that “the terms and conditions of each Coverage Section apply only to that Coverage Section and shall not be construed to apply to any other Coverage Section.” General Terms and Conditions ¶ A (Yetka Aff. Ex. A). He then points to the language of paragraph L that reads, “Insurer shall have the right and duty to defend any Claim ...,” contending this provides a broad, overriding duty to defend that is not subject to the D & O exclusions. Id. UL(2). The General Terms and Conditions section, however, is not a stand-alone policy. It references and expressly incorporates the “applicable Coverage Seetion[s],” which embody the actual insurance coverage an insured has purchased. Because Worldtrak bought only the D & O Coverage Section, the D & O Policy, as supplemented by the General Terms and Conditions, represents the entire policy at issue in this case. The General Terms and Conditions provision cited by Miller acknowledges this structure, when it states that “Item C,” the Exclusions section of the D & O and other Coverage Sections, is the appropriate source of policy coverage limits:
Costs Charges and Expenses incurred by the Insurer, or by the Insureds when defending or investigating with the written consent of the Insurer, shall be paid by Insurer as part of, and not in addition to, Insurer’s Limit of Liability set forth in Item C. of the Declarations of the applicable Coverage Section.
Id. (emphasis added). Thus, the Exclusions of the D & 0 Policy provide limitations on the defense obligations of the Insurer. Id.
Furthermore, Miller’s argument would place the duty to defend in a vacuum. Not only would this negate the rule of determining the duty to defend by a comparison between the complaint and policy scope, with the absence of any reference to insuring clauses and limitations from which to discern arguable coverage, but would create a limitless defense obligation without relation to or regard for potential indemnification liability. Such a result is contrary to any reasonable interpretation and understanding of the policy when reading these sections independently and in context, operating together to create the entire scope of coverage. See State Farm, 645 N.W.2d at 175. Though these provisions may not be the model of clarity, their structure and interrelation should not be dissected to result in an unreasonable meaning. See id.; West Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 419 N.W.2d 848, 850-51 (Minn.Ct.App.1988). The General Terms and Conditions are not a distinct policy, but supplement the various ACE policies. See Yetka Aff. Ex. A at A001 (Policy Declaration page listing available Coverage Sections). ACE provides them to the insured only in conjunction with one or more Coverage Sections, the documents that prescribe the substantive insurance purchased and the limits of such coverage. Accordingly, the General Terms and Conditions and the D & 0 Coverage Section encompass and should be read as “a whole.” State Farm, 645 N.W.2d at 175. Thus, the duty to defend must be determined by the provisions of the D & 0 Policy, the Coverage Section under which Miller was insured. It therefore must be examined whether or not any of the cited exclusions apply to the Hintz action.
Miller next asserts Insuring Clause 1 of the D & 0 Policy establishes arguable coverage and that ACE has not met its burden to prove that the cited exclusions clearly defeat the duty to defend. ACE acknowledges that the Insuring Clause is triggered, but argues multiple exclusions place the Hintz suit entirely outside the scope of the policy.
a. Employment Exclusion
ACE first asserts that exclusion (n) bars coverage because Hintz’s lawsuit is based entirely on employment-related matters. This provision reads as follows:
2. Insurer shall not be liable to make any payment under this Coverage Section in connection with any Claim:
n) based upon, arising out of, directly or indirectly resulting from, in consequence of, or in any way involving any employment-related matters brought by or on behalf of a director, officer, or employee, including any voluntary, seasonal, temporary, leased or independent contracted employee of the company;
D & 0 Policy ¶ C(l)(n). Miller concedes the majority of the counts in the Hintz Complaint are based upon or arise from Hintz’s employment with Worldtrak, but contends Count VII, for negligent infliction of emotional distress, and Count VIII, asserting assault and battery, do not involve employment. He further argues the entire exclusion is inapplicable because Hintz was no longer an “employee” at the time of filing the lawsuit. ACE states that even if claims VII and VIII were considered to be outside of the employment context, they are explicitly precluded under another exclusion, and that the definition of “employee” includes Hintz.
Exclusion (a) exempts from coverage any claim “for actual or alleged libel, slander, defamation, bodily injury, sickness, disease, death, false imprisonment, assault, battery, mental anguish, emotional distress, invasion of privacy, or damage to or destruction of tangible property, including loss of use thereof!.]” Id. ¶ C(l)(a) (emphasis added). Thus, by its plain terms this clause clearly excludes Counts VTI and VIII from coverage under the D & 0 Policy. Miller’s argument that the emotional distress claim implicitly also encompasses a claim of ordinary negligence has no foundation in the language of the Hintz Complaint.
With respect to the definition of “employee,” because exclusion (n) does not specify that it applies to former employees, Miller argues the meaning is unclear and must be interpreted in his favor to establish arguable coverage. ACE replies that the applicable definition is found in the Definitions section of the D & 0 Policy, which provides that “Directors and Officers” are “all persons who were, now are, or shall be: a) directors, officers or employees of the Company....” Id. ¶ B(5). Therefore, it submits, by virtue of this general definition, Hintz and all former employees are included in exclusion (n) as being “a director [or] officer” of the Company. Id. ¶ C(l)(n).
The introductory clause of the Definitions section states: “The following terms whenever used in this Coverage Section in boldface type, shall have the meaning indicated.” Id. ¶ B. Miller maintains that since the term “employee” is not specifically defined in the policy, and the words “director, officer or employee” in exclusion (n) are not bold-faced, “employee” takes on its ordinary meaning, which would not include former employees.
By using “director, officer, or employee” without further elaboration and without the capitalization and bold font specified in the Definitions section and found in other exclusions, exclusion (n) does not specifically incorporate these meanings and is therefore potentially open to alternative interpretation. However, this slight ambiguity “does not ineluctably lead to the conclusion that the drafter is to lose.” Davis v. Outboard Marine Corp., 415 N.W.2d 719, 724 (Minn.App.1987); see also Horizon III Real Estate v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 186 F.Supp.2d 1000, 1004 (D.Minn.2002). When readily discernable, the parties intent and the “obvious purpose of the contract as a whole” must govern. Davis, 415 N.W.2d at 723 (internal alteration and quotation omitted); see also State Farm, 645 N.W.2d 169, 175.
ACE states that the applicability of the employment exclusion to claims by former employees is evidenced by the availability of another ACE policy, the Employment Practices Liability (“EPL”) insurance, which Worldtrak was offered but declined to purchase for economic reasons. Since the EPL Coverage Section provides coverage for employment suits, most of which are brought by former employees, ACE contends construing “employee” as only current employees would subvert the purpose of the ■ employment exclusion: to exempt from D & O coverage those claims encompassed by the EPL insurance. ACE argues that by buying only the D & O Policy, intended to cover shareholder and third-party claims, Worldtrak and Miller could not have reasonably expected to obtain the employment-related coverage offered by the EPL Policy they elected not to purchase.
The expansive language of exclusion (n) indicates an intent to exclude from coverage claims based in any way on a plaintiffs employment relationship with the employing company. Cf. Meadowbrook, 559 N.W.2d at 419-20 (discussing breadth of employment exclusion). The existence and offering of the separate EPL Policy further supports the notion that the parties would not reasonably expect the D & 0 Policy to extend to employment-based actions, such as that brought by Hintz. Denying coverage for claims by employees who sue while still employed with the company, while providing it for those brought by employees who have resigned or been fired, would draw an artificial and impractical distinction that would greatly hinder the purpose of exempting employment-related suits from D & 0 coverage. Exclusions function to restrict coverage obligations for activity not within the subject matter of the policy, such that “[ejxclu-sions typically found in D & 0 policies preclude coverage of matters that may be covered by other insurance. For instance, the [D & 0] policy will not provide coverage for claims arising from pollution incidents, ... accidents falling under the workers’ compensation laws, and employment practices.” Kalberman, Stacey, Director and Officer Liability: An Overview of Corporate and Insurance Indemnification, 7 No. 4 Andrews Sec. Litig. & Reg. Rep. 17 (2001) (emphasis added).
Though not specifically including “former” employees, exclusion (n) should be read to apply to the Hintz lawsuit, which, though initiated after she was terminated, concededly arose from her employment at Worldtrak. However, even accepting Miller’s interpretation and restricting the exclusion to claims of present employees, subsection G(l)(f), the “Insured v. Insured” clause, places the Hintz action beyond the scope of the policy.
b. Insured v. Insured Exclusion
ACE additionally proffers exclusion (f) as proof that the Hintz action falls clearly outside the policy coverage. This provision negates ACE’s liability obligations for claims by, on behalf [of], or at the direction of any of the Insureds, except and to the extent such claim:
(i) is brought derivatively by a security holder of the Company who, when such claim is first made, is acting independently of all of the Insureds, ... or
(in) is brought by an employee of the Company who is not or was not a director or officer of the Company and where such Claim is brought by such employee only in their capacity as a security holder of the Company[.]
D & 0 Policy ¶ C(l)(f). “Insured” means “the Company and the Directors and Officers” and, as previously cited, “Directors and Officers” are defined as “all persons who were, now are, or shall be:
a) directors, officers, or employees of the Company, and
b) the functional equivalent to directors or officers of the Company in the event the Company is incorporated or domiciled outside the United States.... ”
Id. ¶ B(l), (5). Therefore, “Insureds” include former employees of Worldtrak. As such, Hintz is an “Insured” and her suit is excluded unless one of the exceptions recited above applies.
Despite this definition, Miller asserts “Insureds,” and therefore, this exclusion, should not be read to include all employees but only those acting as “the functional equivalent” of directors and officers. Pl.’s Reply Mem. at 16. The plain language of the relevant definitions belies this argument. Though courts have interpreted “insured v. insured” clauses narrowly in certain circumstances, where such exclusions are clear and susceptible to only one fair interpretation, courts generally apply them pursuant to their plain terms. Compare Conklin Co. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co., No. 4-86-860, 1987 WL 108957, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12837, at *7-8 (D.Minn. Jan. 28, 1987) (finding insured v. insured exclusion ambiguous and thus inapplicable, in light of underlying purpose of clause); with Foster v. Kentucky Hous. Corp., 850 F.Supp. 558, 561 (E.D.Ky.1994) (applying unambiguous insured v. insured clause and “directors and officers” definition that included former employees without inquiry into collusive potential of lawsuit) •and FDIC v. Zaborac, 773 F.Supp. 137, 143 (C.D.Ill.1991) (noting that “[b]e-fore a court can start divining the intent behind [an insured v. insured] clause, the Court must determine that the clause was ambiguous”).
Miller relies on Conklin and a related authority, Township of Center v. First Mercury Syndicate, Inc., 117 F.3d 115, 119 (3d Cir.1997), asserting that the purpose of insured v. insured provisions is the prevention of collusive lawsuits and therefore the court should evaluate the legitimacy of the underlying action in determining whether to apply this type of exclusion. While this position finds some support in decisions involving insured v. insured clauses, where policy language is explicit and unambiguous, the court may not create ambiguity to afford coverage. General Mills, Inc. v. Gold Medal Ins. Co., 622 N.W.2d 147, 151 (Minn.Ct.App.2001); see also Noran Neurological Clinic, P.A. v. Traveler’s Indem. Co., 229 F.3d 707, 709 (8th Cir.2000) (noting duty of interpreting courts to “fastidiously guard against the invitation to create ambiguities where none exist”) (quoting Columbia Heights Motors, Inc. v. Allstate Ins. Co., 275 N.W.2d 32, 36 (Minn.1979)). Accordingly, the Court may not insert Miller’s suggested modification into the unambiguous Policy definitions, under which Hintz, as a former employee, is explicitly defined as an “Insured.”
Miller next contends that even if Hintz is an “Insured,” both exceptions (i) and (iii) provide arguable coverage. Her action, he argues, may be viewed as a shareholder suit and thus exempted from the exclusion. Miller, however, offers no evidence to support this assertion and thus cannot meet his burden to establish the applicability of these exceptions. See Smith v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 656 N.W.2d 432, 436 (Minn.Ct.App.2003) (citing rule that insured bears burden of proving exceptions to exclusions). The Hintz suit is not a derivative action brought in the name of the corporation, ruling out exception (i), and because, as discussed above, Hintz has sued Worldtrak, Dircz, and Miller for alleged violations of employment and tort laws, she has not brought her claims “only in [her] capacity as a security holder of the Company.” D & O Policy ¶ C(l)(f)(Iii); see supra part IIIB(l) (construing claims of Hintz Complaint). The insured v. insured exclusion therefore precludes coverage of the action and ACE is entitled to summary judgment on the declaratory judgment and breach of contract claims because it has no potential duty to indemnify and therefore no duty to defend.
C. ACE’s CROSS MOTION
ACE additionally moves for summary judgment on Miller’s claims of breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing and breach of fiduciary duty, arguing that, as a matter of Minnesota law, ACE cannot be hable under these theories because it has not undertaken defense of the claims against Miller. Prior to the insurer assuming defense of the insured, ACE asserts, there can be no fiduciary duty to conduct the defense in good faith and thus no breach of such a duty. It further avers that under Minnesota law, an insured may not seek tort damages for a breach of contract. Miller counters that the Minnesota courts have established a duty of the insurer to act in good faith throughout the term of the contractual relationship.
1. Breach of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
ACE correctly recites that an alleged bad-faith breach of contract cannot be the basis for tort liability under Minnesota law. See Haagenson v. Nat’l Farmers Union Prop. and Cas. Co., 277 N.W.2d 648, 652 (Minn.1979). However, a claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing is not grounded in tort, but contract, such that an insured may assert a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in conjunction with a breach of contract claim. In re Silicone, 652 N.W.2d at 54, 75. However, in this case, summary judgment is nonetheless appropriate because Miller bases his claim for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing on the same facts he asserts to support the breach of contract claims, namely, ACE’s refusal to provide defense and indemnification in the Hintz action. See Midwest Sports Mktg. v. Hillerich & Bradsby of Can., 552 N.W.2d 254, 268 (Minn.App.1996) (granting summary judgment on covenant of good faith and fair dealing claim where same facts alleged as basis for other non-viable contract claims). Because ACE did not breach these contractual duties and no further allegations or evidence have been presented to show how ACE “unjustifiably hinder[ed]” Miller’s performance of the contract, summary judgment on this count is granted. In re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litig., 540 N.W.2d 494, 502 (Minn.1995).
2. Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Count V of Miller’s Complaint asserts ACE breached the fiduciary relationship between insured and insurer. ACE maintains that this claim does not state a cause of action recognized in Minnesota and is therefore ripe for summary judgment.
To substantiate this claim, Miller relies on Kissoondath v. United States Fire Ins. Co., 620 N.W.2d 909 (Minn.Ct.App.2001), in which the Minnesota Court of Appeals expressed “that an insurer owes its insured a fiduciary duty to represent the insured’s best interests.” Id. at 915. In so holding, however, the Appeals Court was not creating a new rule of law, but was reiterating the ruling of an earlier Minnesota Supreme Court decision, Short v. Dairyland Ins. Co., 334 N.W.2d 384 (Minn.1983). The Kissoondath court clarified, in reversing the district court, that the statements in Short regarding the fiduciary duty of the insurer were expressions of opinion and not mere dicta. Kissoondath, 620 N.W.2d at 915. Accordingly, the parameters of the duty established in Short provide the authority for this claim.
In Short, the Court found the insurer failed to exercise good faith in settlement negotiations with a third party to whom the insured was clearly liable, when it refused to settle within the policy limits. Short, 334 N.W.2d at 388. Explaining the relationship and the resultant duty between the insurer and insured in such situations, the Court stated that when “the insurer contractually acquires control of the negotiations and settlement,” there are often “conflicting interests on the part of the insurer. On the one hand, the insurer owes a fiduciary duty to the insured to represent his or her best interests and to defend and indemnify. On the other hand, the insurer is interested in settlement at the lowest possible figure.” Id. at 387. The right of the insurer to control settlement negotiations, the Court concluded, “must be subordinated to the purpose of the insurance contract-to defend and indemnify the insured within the limits of the insurance contract.” Id. The Court then explained the terms of the insurer’s fiduciary duty, holding that
[i]n Minnesota, a liability insurer, having assumed control of the right of settlement of claims against its insured, may become liable in excess of its undertaking under the terms of the policy if it fails to exercise ‘good faith’ in considering offers to compromise the claim for an amount within policy limits. This duty to exercise ‘good faith’ includes an obligation to view the situation as if there were no policy limits applicable to the claim, and to give equal consideration to the financial exposure of the insured.
Id. at 387-88 (internal citations omitted, emphasis added).
Thus, the rule enunciated in Short and referenced in Kissoondath, specifies the fiduciary obligations as arising once the insurer assumes the defense of the insured. See Short, 334 N.W.2d at 387-88; Kissoondath, 620 N.W.2d at 913, 916. Where the insurer is not yet acting as advocate for the insured in dealing with a third party, the conflict of interest inherent in settlement negotiations and creating the fiduciary duty is not at issue. Miller cites no authority expressly providing for a fiduciary duty before this time, and Minnesota law is established that an alleged bad-faith breach of contract does not support extra-contractual liability absent an independent tort. Haagenson, 277 N.W.2d at 652; In re Silicone, 652 N.W.2d at 74. In accordance with the foregoing, summary judgment is granted as to Miller’s fiduciary duty claim, Count V of the Complaint.
IV. CONCLUSION
Based on the foregoing, and all the files, records and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment [Docket Nos. 8, 14] is GRANTED,
2. Plaintiffs Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [Docket No. 10] is DENIED, and
3. Plaintiffs Complaint [Docket No. 1] is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERED ACCORDINGLY.
. According to the Hintz Complaint, Axonom, Inc. is a Minnesota corporation to which all of Worldtrak’s assets were transferred after Worldtrak went out of business. Hintz Complaint ¶¶ 7, 26 (Yetka Aff. Ex. B).
. As ACE notes, there is no allusion to any of the substantive obstacles to, and procedural requirements for, bringing a shareholder derivative action or a federal securities fraud claim. See, e.g., Skoglund v. Brady, 541 N.W.2d 17, 21 (Minn.App.1995) (discussing limitations on shareholder derivative and direct actions); Fed.R.Civ.P. 9(b) (requiring fraud be pled with particularity). Additionally, Hintz requests damages for such things as loss of income, emotional and physical injury, humiliation, loss of reputation, and other pain and suffering, without mention of loss of stock value. Hintz Complaint at 8-14.
. Miller argues the D & O Insuring Clauses would provide applicable limitations, yet this is directly contrary to his fundamental assertion that the terms and conditions of the individual Coverage Sections do not apply to or affect the General Terms and Conditions.
. This point is highlighted by the many cases that cite Short for Minnesota’s recognition of a "bad faith” cause of action for an insurer's failure to settle within policy limits. E.g., In re Mathews, 207 B.R. 631, 636-37 (Bankr.D.Minn.1997); see also Pillsbury Co. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburg, Pa., 425 N.W.2d 244, 249 (Minn.Ct.App.1988). These opinions, reciting the proposition that a duty of good faith arises in settlement negotiations, necessarily implicate fact scenarios in which the insurer had undertaken the defense and was involved in potential settlement of the action against the insured. See, e.g., Northfield Ins. Co. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co., 545 N.W.2d 57, 60 (Minn.Ct.App.1996) (finding insurer did not breach Short duty when refusing to consider settlement offer because insured was not clearly liable). Thus, Miller's reliance on the broad language in Kissoondath, which arguably implies a general fiduciary duty to insureds from the inception of the contractual relationship, is not supported by the rule of Short, on which the Kissoondath holding was explicitly based. See Kissoondath, 620 N.W.2d at 914-15. Although references to "fiduciary duty” and "good faith” axe intermingled in both Kis-soondath and Short, the Kissoondath decision holds to the Short edict that the “good faith” standard by which an insured’s fiduciary duty is judged operates within the settlement context, such that it is "breached when the insured is clearly liable ... and when the insurer’s- refusal 'to settle within the policy limits is not made in good faith and is not based upon reasonable grounds to believe that the amount demanded is excessive.’ ” Kissoondath, 620 N.W.2d at 916 (quoting Short, emphasis added). Furthermore, like Short, the Kissoondath decision addressed the actions of the insurer that occurred after it had undertaken defense of, and settlement negotiations for, the insured. Id. at 913.
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How IBM's game show winning supercomputer is solving problems before they occur
IBM has been breaking new ground in the technology sector for more than a century.
In the last 20 years or so, it has developed technology that would not look out of place in a science fiction novel.
In 1997, for instance, its supercomputer Deep Blue took on and defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. In 2011 another supercomputer, Watson, beat two "Jeopardy!" champions, correctly answering questions on topics as varied as literature, music, and sport.
The company has not stood still in the years since that historic, and slightly surreal, game show win. "After that we broke the Watson capability into lots of little pieces called services, and we put them in the IBM cloud so that people can now access the part of it that they want," Andy Stanford-Clark, the chief technology officer for IBM in the U.K. and Ireland, told CNBC.
Stanford-Clark describes Watson – named after Thomas J. Watson, the company's former chairman and CEO – as being a platform that allows users to have access to image recognition, voice recognition, language translation, pattern matching and "all the different types of analytics you might want to use."
The applications of Watson are varied, and Stanford-Clark says that IBM is working with "quite a lot" of businesses that make machinery. One such company is German-based Schaeffler which, among other things, helps make big industrial assemblies such as train carriages.
The business is developing what Stanford-Clark describes as a digital twin. "It's a digital model, inside Watson, of the physical system," he said. "They feed the digital model with data from … sensors on the real system and then they can then prod about on the digital model and ask 'what if?' questions."
Stanford-Clark adds that these questions could include asking: "What if we run it for twice as many miles before we service it? What if we change the tension on this bearing?" These "what ifs" could be run first on the digital model rather than risking anything on a physical system.
The ability to spot a problem before it happens is becoming a useful tool. "That's one of the areas where (the) internet of things has really helped in the industrial space, is to be able to predict what's going to happen, what's going to fail based on past history," Stanford-Clark said.
IBM is also doing work related to what Stanford-Clark describes as acoustic monitoring. "You actually dangle a microphone down a lift shaft and … listen to those creaks and groans and grumbles which, when we get in the lift we go, 'there's something wrong with this lift'."
Watson, according to Stanford-Clark, would be able to say if there was something wrong with the lift and call an engineer out before anything broke.
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Fact-checking Trump's claim that Kurds did not help the US in World War 2 and Normandy invasion
(CNN)During a press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump mentioned that the Kurds did not join the US during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 as part of his defense for removing troops from northern Syria, providing Turkey with a clear shot to attack the Kurds. "Now the Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand," Trump said when asked if abandoning the Kurds would make it more difficult for the US to gain allies in the future. "As somebody wrote in a very very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy," Trump said, likely referring to an article posted on the right-wing website Townhall. Facts First: The Kurds as an entity did not assist the US during World War II or at Normandy in particular, but that's because they couldn't. The Kurds are made up of many different tribes and families that primarily live in Kurdistan, a region that spans across five countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Armenia. During the Second World War there was no Kurdish government in any of these countries, so there was no way they could have assisted the US in Normandy or any battlefront. Experts CNN spoke with said that since the Kurds were not (and still are not) a nation state, there would be no way for them to enter the war. However, because some Kurds migrated to the Soviet Union following the First World War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, individual Kurds may have fought with the Soviets against the Axis, as noted by The New York Times. Henri Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told CNN that entering the war would have been impossible for the Kurds. "There was no Kurdish entity, or Kurdish political authority," said Barkey. "Just like many other people who did not have a state, (the Kurds) could not have helped the United States." "World War II was a war among states and the Kurds weren't a state," Michael Rubin, an expert on the Middle East and resident scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, told CNN. "It's such a nonsensical statement to start with," Rubin said of Trump bringing up Normandy. Military equipment According to Bryan Gibson, an expert on Kurdistan and assistant professor of history at Hawaii Pacific University, at the time, any Kurds who were armed had no military equipment beyond rifles and perhaps older machine guns. They had no tanks, airplanes, or any sort of artillery. "The US has long range bombers, massive artillery, tanks," Gibson said. "At most, (the Kurds) had cars." Gibson also noted that many of the Kurds were cut off from larger parts of society at the time. "We're talking about a group of people who live in a relatively remote part of the world who have contact with modernity but pretty limited," he said. US and the Kurds The US never called on the Kurds to aid in the invasion of Normandy or in the war at all. The experts who spoke to CNN did say that every time, however, that the US has asked for Kurdish aid, the Kurds have come. "When we needed them and when we called upon them, they were ready," Rubin said, asserting that every president since George H.W. Bush has called on the Kurds to help fight a common enemy. "And they were there to answer our call." The SDF, a Kurdish-led military group including Arab soldiers and backed by US, British and French special forces, defeated ISIS and liberated eastern Syria in March. The SDF said it lost 11,000 "forces, leaders, and fighters" while battling ISIS. "To justify abandoning them on the basis of them not helping during the Second World War is outrageous," Gibson said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Developer Guide (API Version 2006-03-01)
Specifying Resources in a Policy
The following is the common Amazon Resource Name (ARN) format to identify any resources in AWS.
arn:partition:service:region:namespace:relative-id
For your Amazon S3 resources:
• aws is a common partition name. If your resources are in the China (Beijing) Region, aws-cn is the partition name.
• s3 is the service.
• You don't specify Region and namespace.
• For Amazon S3, it can be a bucket-name or a bucket-name/object-key. You can use wild card.
Then the ARN format for Amazon S3 resources reduces to the following:
arn:aws:s3:::bucket_name arn:aws:s3:::bucket_name/key_name
The following are examples of Amazon S3 resource ARNs.
• This ARN identifies the /developers/design_info.doc object in the examplebucket bucket.
arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket/developers/design_info.doc
• You can use wildcards as part of the resource ARN. You can use wildcard characters (* and ?) within any ARN segment (the parts separated by colons). An asterisk (*) represents any combination of zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) represents any single character. You can use multiple * or ? characters in each segment, but a wildcard cannot span segments.
• This ARN uses the wildcard * in the relative-ID part of the ARN to identify all objects in the examplebucket bucket.
arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket/*
This ARN uses * to indicate all Amazon S3 resources (all S3 buckets and objects in your account).
arn:aws:s3:::*
• This ARN uses both wildcards, * and ?, in the relative-ID part. It identifies all objects in buckets such as example1bucket, example2bucket, example3bucket, and so on.
arn:aws:s3:::example?bucket/*
• You can use policy variables in Amazon S3 ARNs. At policy evaluation time, these predefined variables are replaced by their corresponding values. Suppose that you organize your bucket as a collection of folders, one folder for each of your users. The folder name is the same as the user name. To grant users permission to their folders, you can specify a policy variable in the resource ARN:
arn:aws:s3:::bucket_name/developers/${aws:username}/
At runtime, when the policy is evaluated, the variable ${aws:username} in the resource ARN is substituted with the user name making the request.
To find the ARN for an S3 bucket, you can look at the Amazon S3 console Bucket Policy or CORS configuration permissions pages. For more information, see How Do I Add an S3 Bucket Policy? or How Do I Allow Cross-Domain Resource Sharing with CORS? in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Console User Guide.
For more information about ARNs, see the following:
For more information about other access policy language elements, see Access Policy Language Overview. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Can you restore a corrupt partition?
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I have a 250 GB hdd here that is divided in 3 partitions. One of those became 'corrupt' thus I wasn't able to read what was on that partition. Is it possible that by formatting I can have all the 250GB back?
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By reformatting you could get the 250GB back but you would lose the data on the partitions.
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I backuped all the data I could save. So thanks ;D | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Etymology
From or by shortening.
Adjective
* 1) Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
Adverb
* 1) Very; tremendously. | WIKI |
Autobacs Seven
Autobacs Seven Co., Ltd. (株式会社オートバックスセブン) (tyo: 9832) is a retailer of automotive parts and accessories based in Japan, with branches primarily in Asia and stores also located in France.
Etymology
Autobacs was given a backronym as follows, which reflects the products the company provided prior to its renaming to Autobacs in 1980: "Seven" in the company name is said to reflect Autobacs's philosophy of searching for seventh products for customers.
* AUTO: Appeal, Unique, Tire, Oil
* BACS: Battery, Accessory, Car electronics, Service
History
Autobacs was founded by Toshio Sumino in 1947 in Fukushima-ku, Osaka as Suehiro Shokai Co., Ltd., which was reorganized into Fuji Shokai Co., Ltd. a year later.
In 1960, Sumino opened the Fuji Drive Shop, Japan's first large-scale automotive goods store, and in 1969 he became involved in motorsport sponsorship by sponsoring a car in the Japanese Grand Prix.
In 1974, the first of the Autobacs stores, the "Autobacs Higashi Osaka Store", was opened in Daitō, Osaka. The following year, Autobacs would run its first franchisee store, the "Autobacs Hakodate Nakamichi Store" in Hakodate, Hokkaidō. In 1977, Autobacs would start to develop and sell its own motor oil and tires to be sold in its own stores. At the end of the decade, Autobacs opened its 100th store, and in 1984 opened its 200th store. The company's name was officially changed from Fuji Shokai to Autobacs in March of 1980.
On 11 July 2005, Autobacs entered a collaboration agreement with UK retailer Halfords. On 13 December 2005, Autobacs acquired 5% of the company (11,400,000 shares) at approximately ¥7.5 billion.
ASL
In the late 1990s, specialty car manufacturer Tommykaira ran into financial difficulties as a result of the Lost Decade. In 2001, it was acquired by Autobacs, which renamed its car manufacturing arm ASL (Autobacs Sportscar Laboratory), thus allowing the aftermarket parts manufacturer to continue trading with its usual name.
The first car planned to be produced by ASL was the Garaiya. As none were sold, there is not much known about ASL nor the Garaiya, only that it is a small sports car based on the Tommykaira ZZ, with an output of around 180 hp from a Nissan SR20VE engine and a weight of approximately 900 kg. Customers would take part in the final development of their car's suspension to tailor it to their preferences or driving style.
A modified Garaiya was fielded in the GT300 class of Super GT from 2003 through 2012 by Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, a team formed by Autobacs and Japanese former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki. After the Super GT rule changes in 2012 that prohibited low-volume production cars from entering races, the Garaiya is no longer able to race in the series.
Similarly, the Garaiya RS01 (also known as simply the RS01) was a second attempt at the ZZII, which was to be a larger and faster accompaniment to the ZZ with a variety of engines ranging from 2.0 to 3.5 litres to fit various racing regulations, as it was designed to be an FIA-spec racing car with a road version and a target weight of 1000 kg. The prototype was fitted with a modified RB26DETT engine producing 542 hp and also featured the R34 Skyline GT-R's ATTESA-ETS all-wheel drive system. | WIKI |
polarFreq: Function to plot wind speed/direction frequencies and other...
Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
View source: R/polarFreq.R
Description
polarFreq primarily plots wind speed-direction frequencies in ‘bins’. Each bin is colour-coded depending on the frequency of measurements. Bins can also be used to show the concentration of pollutants using a range of commonly used statistics.
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polarFreq(
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statistic = "frequency",
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wd.nint = 36,
grid.line = 5,
breaks = seq(0, 5000, 500),
cols = "default",
trans = TRUE,
type = "default",
min.bin = 1,
ws.upper = NA,
offset = 10,
border.col = "transparent",
key.header = statistic,
key.footer = pollutant,
key.position = "right",
key = TRUE,
auto.text = TRUE,
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Arguments
mydata
A data frame minimally containing ws, wd and date.
pollutant
Mandatory. A pollutant name corresponding to a variable in a data frame should be supplied e.g. pollutant = "nox"
statistic
The statistic that should be applied to each wind speed/direction bin. Can be “frequency”, “mean”, “median”, “max” (maximum), “stdev” (standard deviation) or “weighted.mean”. The option “frequency” (the default) is the simplest and plots the frequency of wind speed/direction in different bins. The scale therefore shows the counts in each bin. The option “mean” will plot the mean concentration of a pollutant (see next point) in wind speed/direction bins, and so on. Finally, “weighted.mean” will plot the concentration of a pollutant weighted by wind speed/direction. Each segment therefore provides the percentage overall contribution to the total concentration. More information is given in the examples. Note that for options other than “frequency”, it is necessary to also provide the name of a pollutant. See function cutData for further details.
ws.int
Wind speed interval assumed. In some cases e.g. a low met mast, an interval of 0.5 may be more appropriate.
wd.nint
Number of intervals of wind direction.
grid.line
Radial spacing of grid lines.
breaks
The user can provide their own scale. breaks expects a sequence of numbers that define the range of the scale. The sequence could represent one with equal spacing e.g. breaks = seq(0, 100, 10) - a scale from 0-10 in intervals of 10, or a more flexible sequence e.g. breaks = c(0, 1, 5, 7, 10), which may be useful for some situations.
cols
Colours to be used for plotting. Options include “default”, “increment”, “heat”, “jet” and RColorBrewer colours — see the openair openColours function for more details. For user defined the user can supply a list of colour names recognised by R (type colours() to see the full list). An example would be cols = c("yellow", "green", "blue")
trans
Should a transformation be applied? Sometimes when producing plots of this kind they can be dominated by a few high points. The default therefore is TRUE and a square-root transform is applied. This results in a non-linear scale and (usually) a better representation of the distribution. If set to FALSE a linear scale is used.
type
type determines how the data are split i.e. conditioned, and then plotted. The default is will produce a single plot using the entire data. Type can be one of the built-in types as detailed in cutData e.g. “season”, “year”, “weekday” and so on. For example, type = "season" will produce four plots — one for each season.
It is also possible to choose type as another variable in the data frame. If that variable is numeric, then the data will be split into four quantiles (if possible) and labelled accordingly. If type is an existing character or factor variable, then those categories/levels will be used directly. This offers great flexibility for understanding the variation of different variables and how they depend on one another.
Type can be up length two e.g. type = c("season", "weekday") will produce a 2x2 plot split by season and day of the week. Note, when two types are provided the first forms the columns and the second the rows.
min.bin
The minimum number of points allowed in a wind speed/wind direction bin. The default is 1. A value of two requires at least 2 valid records in each bin an so on; bins with less than 2 valid records are set to NA. Care should be taken when using a value > 1 because of the risk of removing real data points. It is recommended to consider your data with care. Also, the polarPlot function can be of use in such circumstances.
ws.upper
A user-defined upper wind speed to use. This is useful for ensuring a consistent scale between different plots. For example, to always ensure that wind speeds are displayed between 1-10, set ws.int = 10.
offset
offset controls the size of the ‘hole’ in the middle and is expressed as a percentage of the maximum wind speed. Setting a higher offset e.g. 50 is useful for statistic = "weighted.mean" when ws.int is greater than the maximum wind speed. See example below.
border.col
The colour of the boundary of each wind speed/direction bin. The default is transparent. Another useful choice sometimes is "white".
key.header, key.footer
Adds additional text/labels to the scale key. For example, passing options key.header = "header", key.footer = "footer" adds addition text above and below the scale key. These arguments are passed to drawOpenKey via quickText, applying the auto.text argument, to handle formatting.
key.position
Location where the scale key is to plotted. Allowed arguments currently include "top", "right", "bottom" and "left".
key
Fine control of the scale key via drawOpenKey. See drawOpenKey for further details.
auto.text
Either TRUE (default) or FALSE. If TRUE titles and axis labels will automatically try and format pollutant names and units properly e.g. by subscripting the ‘2’ in NO2.
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Other graphical parameters passed onto lattice:xyplot and cutData. For example, polarFreq passes the option hemisphere = "southern" on to cutData to provide southern (rather than default northern) hemisphere handling of type = "season". Similarly, common axis and title labelling options (such as xlab, ylab, main) are passed to xyplot via quickText to handle routine formatting.
Details
polarFreq is its default use provides details of wind speed and direction frequencies. In this respect it is similar to windRose, but considers wind direction intervals of 10 degrees and a user-specified wind speed interval. The frequency of wind speeds/directions formed by these ‘bins’ is represented on a colour scale.
The polarFreq function is more flexible than either windRose or polarPlot. It can, for example, also consider pollutant concentrations (see examples below). Instead of the number of data points in each bin, the concentration can be shown. Further, a range of statistics can be used to describe each bin - see statistic above. Plotting mean concentrations is useful for source identification and is the same as polarPlot but without smoothing, which may be preferable for some data. Plotting with statistic = "weighted.mean" is particularly useful for understanding the relative importance of different source contributions. For example, high mean concentrations may be observed for high wind speed conditions, but the weighted mean concentration may well show that the contribution to overall concentrations is very low.
polarFreq also offers great flexibility with the scale used and the user has fine control over both the range, interval and colour.
Value
As well as generating the plot itself, polarFreq also returns an object of class “openair”. The object includes three main components: call, the command used to generate the plot; data, the data frame of summarised information used to make the plot; and plot, the plot itself. If retained, e.g. using output <- polarFreq(mydata, "nox"), this output can be used to recover the data, reproduce or rework the original plot or undertake further analysis.
An openair output can be manipulated using a number of generic operations, including print, plot and summary.
Author(s)
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See Also as windRose, polarPlot
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# basic wind frequency plot
polarFreq(mydata)
# wind frequencies by year
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, type = "year")
# mean SO2 by year, showing only bins with at least 2 points
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, pollutant = "so2", type = "year", statistic = "mean", min.bin = 2)
# weighted mean SO2 by year, showing only bins with at least 2 points
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, pollutant = "so2", type = "year", statistic = "weighted.mean",
min.bin = 2)
## End(Not run)
#windRose for just 2000 and 2003 with different colours
## Not run: polarFreq(subset(mydata, format(date, "%Y") %in% c(2000, 2003)),
type = "year", cols = "jet")
## End(Not run)
# user defined breaks from 0-700 in intervals of 100 (note linear scale)
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, breaks = seq(0, 700, 100))
# more complicated user-defined breaks - useful for highlighting bins
# with a certain number of data points
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, breaks = c(0, 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, 700))
# source contribution plot and use of offset option
## Not run: polarFreq(mydata, pollutant = "pm25", statistic
="weighted.mean", offset = 50, ws.int = 25, trans = FALSE)
## End(Not run)
openair documentation built on Sept. 15, 2021, 5:07 p.m. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 16
= April 16 =
The mass of something 1836 times smaller than you?
An electron is only 1,1836 the mass of a proton. If your mass was 50 kilograms, what would be the mass of something 1836 times smaller than you? Try it the other way. What would be the mass of something 1836 times larger than you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlackBerryStromGuy (talk • contribs) 00:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Not sure what you're asking here, but this appears to be simple arithmetic. If you weigh 50kg something that's 1836 times smaller than that weighs 50/1836 kg (about 27g or call it give or take 1Ounce. Something 1836 times 50kg is 50 * 1836 kg or about 90 tons. Call it about 19 elephants. Tonywalton Talk 01:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* This reads like a homework question, yet it makes no sense as a homework question to me. Why did you need to know this? Vimescarrot (talk) 10:44, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Neutrons have slightly more mass than protons and I have plenty of them in me, how is it on your planet? Cuddlyable3 (talk) 12:33, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I simplified the title for reference. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 19:30, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I think the OP is asking for the name of an object that is either 1836 times smaller or larger in terms of mass than a 50-kg person. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 16:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Internet searches for non-linear notations
Please see Reference desk/Computing. -- Wavelength (talk) 01:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Icelandic volcano and air travel.
So - just how long could the volcano in iceland keep aircraft from flying over the UK? Some sources say that the wind could change direction - like that would solve the problem...but couldn't this think keep on belching dust for a very long time? Just how long could it keep going? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? SteveBaker (talk) 02:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* This article quotes a volcanologist at the University of Edinburgh as saying that the eruption could last years. As for disruption of air traffic, it will very much depend on the direction of the winds aloft. After British Airways Flight 9 and KLM Flight 867, the aviation industry is very concerned about flight though volcanic ash clouds. -- Flyguy649 talk 02:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* If it keeps going for years - the wind is going to cause this kind of chaos several times a month for all that time? That would be kinda annoying! SteveBaker (talk) 02:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yup. Rio de Janiero might become a big hub for Europe-North America air traffic! -- Flyguy649 talk 02:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* And US-Europe cruiseships may see a revival. caknuck ° needs to be running more often 06:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* (Western/Nothern) Europe is perhaps somewhat fortunate that they have decent high speed rail for intra Europe travel which may get a further boost if this disruption continues. BTW, suggests that repeated disruptions are definitely possible. Incidentally, as someone who just purchased something from Germany and paid a lot for shipping to because of $#(*&%!* Deutsche Post/DHL's we don't price by weight for packets policy the disruption is rather annoying. Nil Einne (talk) 07:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Ironically I just realised the German airspace wasn't closed at the time I wrote my message above although it is now. Of course since the packet was only sent on Friday it probably will still be in the system in Germany somewhere and may not have really been affected yet. Nil Einne (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Epic: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped." --Sean 16:52, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Cool animation of the ash plume from the ESA. -- Flyguy649 talk 09:52, 16 April 2010 (UTC) We can survive cancelled commercial flights for a while but there are other emergency aviation needs such as air ambulances, mountain rescue and forest firefighting. Would a battery powered electric helicopter be a feasible solution at this time? Cuddlyable3 (talk) 12:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Battery powered helicopters can barely support their own weight. But you could use a helicopter with internal combustion and a filter (like a car engine basically), instead of a jet engine or turbine. And I think most non-military helicopters are internal combustion. Also, fly low, under the plume. Ariel. (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Au contraire. See the "Hexacopter," which can carry itself plus a substantial payload. Would the size/mass problem that defeated Langley prevent its being scaled up? Edison (talk) 20:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* It weighs 1.2Kg, and can carry 1Kg, with a flight time of a couple of minutes. 36 minutes with no payload. In contrast a typical gas powered helicopter also has a payload of about it's own weight - but it can do it for hours. Ariel. (talk) 01:49, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
* Because the eruption was largely unexpected, the safest course of action in the short-term was to simply cancel all flights in affected areas and put up with the inconvenience and economic losses. If the hazardous conditions exist for a few more days, flight plans will be developed to avoid the affected areas. If conditions last for a few more weeks, safety assessments will take place and flight procedures will be developed that fly in the affected areas but minimize the risk. If the hazardous conditions really do last "several years", then we will have time to develop engineering fixes to the flight control electronics, engine intakes, and so on, to accomodate the non-ideal conditions and safely fly through zones with large amounts of volcanic ash. This is really a matter of estimating how much effort should go into developing solutions for a problem which might be temporary anyway. If global dispersion of volcanic ash becomes the most serious impediment to air travel over the next several decades, we will see engineers developing revolutionary new kinds of aircraft that are impervious to ash plumes - but that would only be worthwhile if the consequences of volcanic eruptions are huge. Nimur (talk) 15:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Engineering fixes seem difficult at best. Aircraft that have flown through ash plumes in the past had all of the paint scoured off the plane and the windows 'sandblasted' to the point where it was impossible to see out! The very nature of jet engines is that:
* They take in a lot of air at high speeds...filtering that air is not a possibility.
* They burn fuel at temperatures high enough to melt the tiny rock fragments in the ash and turn it into the sticky glassy substance that then coats the internal parts.
* That the fuel burns at a temperature that's high enough to melt the engine parts themselves if there isn't a cooling airflow ducted in through narrow holes that get blocked by the ash.
* It's not going to be easy (and perhaps not even possible) to fix those things. SteveBaker (talk) 18:14, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Rocket planes wouldn't suffer those engine problems, because they have no air intake. Abrasion could be a problem, but I feel confident that it could be solved. SpaceShipTwo is already well into the design phase - this is not an impossible idea! But these rocket-powered aircraft are not cost-competitve with conventional aircraft - so rocket planes could only become mainstream if conventional aircraft become totally inoperable over a long enough period of time to affect airline company technology strategies. Nimur (talk) 14:37, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
* Why couldn't air routes be lowered to fly under the plume? (High mountain areas excepted). Certainly it would be louder for those on the ground. How much would fuel consumption go up at say 10,000 feet (3000 meters) rather than 30,000 feet (9100 meters) or whatever is the favorite altitude for passenger jets? Edison (talk) 20:11, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Because a) debris is constantly precipitating out of the debris cloud and b) this would require constant monitoring of the ash cloud ceiling (which can vary greatly locally) over an area of tens of thousands km2. Better to go around than under. caknuck ° needs to be running more often 22:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* After the eruption of Krakatoa, there were no airplane flights for 20 years!! Edison (talk) 03:57, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Soviet historians strongly disagree! Nimur (talk) 18:04, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
* As the eruption continues, the ash plume could drift west over the North Atlantic, cooling the region and possibly setting off the negative phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Any long-term effects on climate are expected to be slight, but the eruption contains both SO2, which could cool the ash-affected regions of Western Europe while increasing severe weather in the region and producing acid rain, as well as water vapor which would produce a net contribution to the warming of the globe as it is emitted into the stratosphere where it has the biggest effect. Also, the volcano is likely to trigger a second eruption at Katla, which would prolong the ash plume even further and melt more of the glacier in Iceland which would melt into the sea, flooding more villages and having a slight effect on global current sea level rise. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 16:09, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Our article says no long term climate effects are expected yet but they could still occur. Nil Einne (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Some interesting facts from our article talk page.
* 1) It seems it isn't true all aeroplanes are grounded. Rather only IFR are forbidden. Many places still allow VFR. Of course all commercial flights and large planes use IFR so they're all affected. And VFR implies you have to stay fairly low and have to be able to actually see where the aircraft is going so if the situation is so bad you can't see, you can't fly VFR.
* 2) One Russian plane did try this 'fly low' thing. However it's not clear how well planned this was since they ran out of fuel and had to divert to Vienna (original destination had been Rimini, Italy). In any case, even though they are supposed to have flown below the ash cloud, there are still calls for very rigorous inspection of the plane.
* Nil Einne (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Why not use piston engine powered propellor planes? Count Iblis (talk) 02:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Black lights, wattage, and wave lengths
I have some glow in the dark powder pigment, specifically this that I use sometimes, and have been using a 75 watt GE black light bulb to charge it. I also have a 3W led UV light. The led operates at 395-400 nm wavelength, I think the 75W is at 365. Any ideas about the differences is the effectiveness of charging the powder? Using the flashlight is vastly preferable but not at a huge sacrifice to a brightness from the powder. Beach drifter (talk) 03:20, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* You need a certain wavelength to charge it. A longer wavelength will not charge it at all, and a shorter one just wastes energy. Once you have that wavelength, the brighter the light the faster it will charge (more or less). To find out how bright the bulb is, in theory you want the lumen or candela, but those are adjusted to human vision, and UV does not rate. Electrical watts tells you very little since you don't know how efficient the bulb is (unless they are both the same type, you did not specify). Confusingly, Radiant flux is also measured in watts. So are those electrical (input) watts or radiant (output) watts? Note: the powder could be a mix, and might have multiple desired wavelengths, but I think pure green isn't a mix. Ariel. (talk) 04:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I'm fairly certain the powder is not a mix, it is very strong, pretty awesome stuff. The 75W bulb is an incandescent type that you can get at Walmart. The down side is that it gets very very hot and when camping requires a dc to ac converter and a car. Beach drifter (talk) 04:12, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I think that Incandescent UV bulbs are ordinary bulbs with filters that remove visible light. The UV efficiency is probably horrible (but I don't have numbers). So despite being 75 watts little UV is made. But probably more than 3 watts worth. Can you do a test, just because I'm curious? Try to charge the powder with a regular 75 watt bulb. Anyway, what I would suggest for you is a 12 volt portable fluorescent lamp with a built in battery. Car mechanics use them, so it should not be hard to find. Ariel. (talk) 21:32, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Palatine uvula
I read the article on this but didn't find the answer I was looking for. My query is: other than humans, do other animals have a uvula? If so, what it it used for since humans use it for language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* It is adapted by humans for use in language. Its other purpose is to close off the nasal sinuses from the throat, to prevent food from getting into your sinuses when you swallow. See also Epiglottis for a similar flap covering the trachea. -- Jayron 32 04:29, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* How does the uvula, which exists in the oropharynx, prevent food from getting into the sinuses, which communicate with the nasal antrum? DRosenbach ( Talk 05:02, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Look at the pictures in either of the two articles you linked. There are two flaps at the top and bottom of the pharynx. The top is the uvula and the bottom is the epiglottis. During swallowing, both flaps are pushed away, blocking the relevent openings to either end of the breathing system. -- Jayron 32 05:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Both pictures are midsagittal planes, rendering 2D images of 3D objects. DRosenbach ( Talk 18:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
My original question does not seem to be answered: do other animals have a palatine uvula? If they do, then I assume that it has the same function of closing off the nasal passage during swallowing since no other animal seems to have the same sophisticated vocal language that we humans do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:57, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Do plants need to sleep?
Is it healthy for plants to be out in the sunlight all day and then under a fluorescent light at night? Should they be left in the dark to sleep? Do they need to sleep? Specifically I was wondering about very young pumpkin plants. For the hell of it, I just started a couple plants in pots [soup tins].--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 06:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* From what I read after a google search it seems that the leaves will grow OK, but the constant light will mess with flower budding, and other plant stages. So you might get a big plant, but no pumpkins. You might be able to start with constant light and grow them fast, then switch to a normal pattern when it's time for flowers, but I'm not sure. In general plants use the ratio of dark to light to know what season it is, and they do different things at various points in the seasons. Ariel. (talk) 08:28, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* It depends on what type of photoperiodism your plant exhibits. Pumpkins are in the same family (taxonomy) as cucumbers, which according to our article are day-neutral i.e. they will flower in any light regime. I don't know whether this carries over to to pumpkins, or whether other physiological processes will be affected by constant light. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks for the replies Ariel and <IP_ADDRESS>. I've searched about on Google for this, though it seems like no one really knows for sure. Pumpkins aren't really the type of plant people plant indoors, I guess. Hopefully they'll be in the ground by the time they start flowering.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 06:13, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Refractive index less than one
In Refractive index it says: "Contrary to a widespread misconception, n may be less than 1, for example for X-rays." But doesn't that imply a speed of light greater than c? The only thing I could think of is that for X-rays this is "n" as compared to air, not vacuum. Ariel. (talk) 08:20, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* The phase speed is greater than c, but that doesn't mean that a signal can be sent with such speeds. Remember that an idealized monochromatic wave actually extends to infinity (only then the Fourier transformation yields a single frequency). The propagation of a wave packet will be slower. Icek (talk) 11:02, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* To be more specific, the speed of light in a medium is actually given by
* $$v_g=\frac{c}{n-\lambda \frac{dn}{d\lambda}}$$
* which will always be smaller than (or equal to) c even when n<1. Dauto (talk) 15:12, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* This is the only known example of "real" faster than c propagation of light. Count Iblis (talk) 20:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
The Leaning Brown Building of the Spanish Steps
In Photo A, the brown building on the left seems to be standing perpendicular to the ground, as you’d expect.
But in Photo B it’s very different. Obviously it’s a function of where the photographer was standing and the direction the camera was pointing. The vanishing point seems to be a foot above the picture, yet the camera was clearly not aimed at the vanishing point. How to explain the effect? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 10:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Perspective distortion (photography)? It looks in the second camera as if the person is tilting the camera up slightly (unless that's just my eyes) which can have the affect of making buildings lean/slope in funny directions. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:11, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
The metadata for the left photograph indicates it has been treated in Corel Paint Shop Pro where it could have received perspective correction to make the vertical edges of buildings parallel. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 12:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Looks to me like the photographer was tilting the camera up in the second picture. The fountain in the foreground also looks wrong. Take a look also at a tilt shift lens. Ariel. (talk) 12:30, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* The second image was shot up the hill without perspective correction, either with a tilt-shift lens or via software. Since there's an angle upwards, the vertical lines will converge in accordance with the principals of perspective. Our brain tends to edit out such vertical perspective, but not horizontal perspective, which we expect as a natural phenomenon. Therefore, pictures that exhibit vertical perspective look odd. It's the bane of architectural photographers, since most buildings are taller than the photographer, so shooting up, if one is reasonably close, is inevitable. I routinely correct for vertical perspective in Photoshop, since I haven't brought myself to spend on a nice T-S lens. The Spanish Steps are on a steep hill, so the vantage point of the first image, off to the side, avoids the problem to some degree (anmd appears to have been further fixed in Corel), while the second is significantly lower than the base of the steps. Acroterion (talk) 17:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Thank you, Acroterion, that was a very clear explanation. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 03:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
* For answering questions like this, you may want to post a link from the Featured Pictures talk page. Those guys are experts at correcting and understanding all kinds of distortion effects. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
brain activity and dreams
Every action of ours is ordered by our brain. In dreams, if we do any action like eating, fighting etc., it is because of the brain's activity or our obeying the brain's order, of course mentally. In that case, why is the body in reality not obeying the order of the brain (i.e. why don't we eat or fight, waking up from sleep, as a result of the 'order' from our brain) ? And if it does, like in case of somnambulism or something like that, we call it a 'disorder'. Another question is that why don't most of us remember the dream that we dreamt that particular night, at once after waking up. (i would rather prefer to be a fool asking questions that are foolish) —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I'm not an expert here, but I know there are different segments of the brain. One bit is controlled consciously, another is automatic. Dreams are a result of, I suppose, random thoughts being viewed. Most people do remember their dreams, but stress and other factors can cause us to forget. If we disobey the orders of the brain, we get tired, hungry, or injured. That's all I can help you with. Maybe there are some experts here. 2D Backfire Master sweet emotion 11:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Sleep paralysis. During sleep the body "switches off" the nerves that would otherwise carry out the actions. If they don't switch off, then you have Sleep walking. And sometimes it will stay switched off for short time after waking, which is quite terrifying when it happens. (It's happened to me twice.) Ariel. (talk) 11:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Wow, that sleep paralysis article is awful. I think it's talking about 2 different things and doesn't even know it. Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yeah, as the sleep paralysis article explains (although not very clearly), there is a special circuit in the brainstem that disconnects the upper brain from the lower motor centers during the dreaming state. In experiments using cats where this small brain area was damaged, the cats would physically enact their dreams. There is a caveat though: sleepwalking is actually a different phenomenon. The data is limited, but it looks like a sleepwalking person is not actually in the dreamlike state, but rather in a state where part of the brain is asleep while other parts are awake. Looie496 (talk) 17:45, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Michel Jouvet is famous for his experiments in which he destroyed a portion of the lower brain stem in cats that caused paralysis during sleep; some cats then could be seen to act out their dreams. Until, presumably, they were woken up by all the tactile input of walking around. A quibble with your first statement: Not every action of yours is ordered by your brain. Healing, most (or all?) of the digestion process, and several kinds of reflexes are examples. Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* However, when people are only half-asleep sometimes they will be woken up by a mini "spasm" that coincides with the partially awake dream of the person falling, and some scientists link this to the ancestral fear of falling out of a tree while sleeping. Do we have an article on this? ~ A H 1 (TCU) 15:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yes, see hypnic jerk. Looie496 (talk) 17:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Why can't plants move?
What in evolution made plants immovable? They prepare their own food but is it 'food' all they need? They depend on wind, insects, water etc., for pollination, they would have been lot more better (than the highly-evolved humans) had they been able to move since the time of evolution. - Anandh, Chennai —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* How could they both move and have roots? I think once they have roots, they are committed to it. If you mean move branches, some plants do, but most of the time it's not very useful for a plant to be able to do that. Ariel. (talk) 12:14, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* How could they both move and have roots? I think once they have roots, they are committed to it. If you mean move branches, some plants do, but most of the time it's not very useful for a plant to be able to do that. Ariel. (talk) 12:14, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Some plants are capable of rapid movement. See venus flytrap. As an aside, movement takes a LOT of energy, so there needs to be a really good reason to evolve such a capability. In the case of the venus flytrap, it lives in such poor soil it needs to catch bugs for nutrients. -- Jayron 32 12:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* See Rapid plant movement for a lengthier list. Gabbe (talk) 13:04, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* It is also important to think of plant movement speed based on plant lifespan. Consider a plant that can live for 1,000 years. If it moves a branch a couple feet in a year, that is relatively fast movement/lifespan compared to animals. Another way to think about it: Animals have a very short lifespan compared to plants. So, they have to quickly find food. Plants have time to wait for food. -- k a i n a w ™ 12:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Not really. Even if you assume a human is only going to move 50 years, he would only be able to move 20 yards a year, and that is incredibly slow. I bet even a snail could beat that in a week or two. Googlemeister (talk) 13:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* One might as well ask why humans can't generate their own food by just sitting in the sun, as that would clearly be a lot easier than running around and trying to brain other creatures with stones. --Mr.98 (talk) 12:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* See tumbleweed, sargassum and phytoplankton.--12:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Photosynthesis doesn't really generate enough energy to move around like us animals do. If plants wanted to move and dance under their own power they'd need to find a new source of energy.
* The Venus Fly Trap mentioned above can take hours or even days to "reset" its traps. APL (talk) 14:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Who says that having movment means something is higher evolved? If you ask me, plants were here before humans and have evolved to make their own food, be self sefficient during a regular life cycle and reproduce by using the natural occurences of the Earth. If you ask me, they are much higher evolved. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:44, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* That debate came up while back when the DNA of rice was completely sequenced. Previously, there was an assumption that dna sequence length equated to level of evolution. However, rice sequence length is much longer than human sequence length. So, I saw some people assume that the rice sequencing was wrong and they wanted to resequence it to see if was actually much shorted. Others assumed human sequencing was wrong and wanted to resequence it to make it longer. Some assumed that equating evolution level to sequence length was hogwash and dropped that whole idea. A few wacky scientists said that it was all correct and that rice was more evolved than humans. As one put it: Try living all year standing knee-deep in a cold bog and see how long you survive. -- k a i n a w ™ 15:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* The first plants to appear were algae. They floated in the sea, carried by currents, getting nutrients from the surrounding water and using sun energy from the sun. They were no animals yet, so they couldn't feed from them. There was no oxygen in the atmosphere yet, so they couldn't use it to make the energy transformation that us animals use now. Time passed, and algae filled the oceans and increased the oxygen content in the atmosphere. Some of the oxygen dissolved in the sea water. Now some pluricelled (is that the name in english?) livings discovered a mean to eat the algae and use the oxygen to process its components into lots of energy. Algae couldn't have discovered that process because the ingredients weren't there when they first appeared. All plants descend from those algae, and all animals descend from those algae-eaters. Our ancestors went down that path of evolution and we are pretty much stuck into it, for good or for bad. There are some very successful species that decided to test new grounds (like fish becoming amphibian when they first went to land, and later some big land animals deciding to return to the sea and becoming whales) but they still carry an awful lot of inherit traits, and they needed a lot of generations and ambient influences to change their shapes. --Enric Naval (talk) 16:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Multicellular? Zain Ebrahim (talk) 17:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* In English, we call it a multi-celled plant or animal. StuRat (talk) 17:02, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Mimosa (the plant, not the drink) is quite fast moving, but does not do so to eat flies like the Venus Flytrap. Edison (talk) 04:28, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Just be grateful that they can't move. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:19, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Because they grow places instead of going places. Why waste loads of energy moving (and making your muscles warm to do so) when you can just sit still? Also plants move their chloroplasts around their cells in response to varying light using the same proteins (actin and myosin) that are in our muscles. With regards as to which are more evolved, I like to think that plants make things (a huge variety of secondary metabolites) whereas animals break things. The idea of linear evolution is stupid, everything is adapted to the environment it lives in and the lifestyle is uses. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Incidentally, remember that many animals are sessile too. --ColinFine (talk) 14:15, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Some plants use forms of vegetative reproduction that enable them to "move" over time along their roots to create other members of the same organism, see quaking aspen. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 15:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Just consider the word 'plant'. Something that's planted doesn't move without intervention. Vranak (talk) 22:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Mind controlling gene function.
A person's character is based on genes (excluding environmental factors)(they say...like father/mother is the son/daughter)but character changes as years pass by. Does that mean the gene expression or gene function for the 'disappearing character' lost/stopped? If so, can one's mind control the gene expression so that it would be advantageous for one to evade baldness, fear etc., by controlling the baldness/fear gene's expression/function ? - anandh, chennai —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Are you sure "A person's character is based on genes" is true? It's probably affected to some degree by it, but not controlled absolutely. This is a very very old argument, with no single answer, but you can read all about it in Nature vs. Nurture. Ariel. (talk) 12:32, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Yes, son/daughter has father/mother's character. The reason obviously is through inheritance (genes of course). It hence means genes control characters, though not absolutely as mentioned by Mr. Ariel. - anandh, chennai —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* How can you be certain that sons & daughters don't have their mothers/father's character because they were raised by their mother/father and so learned that personality. What percentage of their character is because they have their parent's genes, and what percentage is because they were raised by their parents? -- Jayron 32 13:55, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Agreed. Genes are a minor factor, with environment being the major factor, and there's also a small random element (we know this since identical twins raised together aren't quite identical in personality). Now, as for the genetic part, yes, they can express at different ages. For example, sexual orientation may not express until puberty or even later. However, this certainly doesn't mean that this gene expression can be controlled by conscious thought. StuRat (talk) 16:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* "son/daughter has father/mother's character". This proposition implies that all siblings have the same character. That's certainly not true in my experience, and in the US we have somewhat of a tradition of presidents with ne'er-do-well relatives. --Sean 17:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
When you talk about the mind controlling gene expression, you are improperly mixing levels in a way that can only lead to confusion. There are many factors that influence gene expression, including levels of stress-related hormones such as cortisol. Since stress is clearly a function of cognitive factors, there must be at least some degree of influence of cognitive factors on gene expression. It is important to point out, though, that a gene that is not expressed does not disappear -- it is still there, and will still be inherited. Also gene expression often differs greatly for different cells within a single body. Looie496 (talk) 17:36, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Stephen Pinker has argued that behavioral studies tend to underplay the role that genetics has on behavior. Studies that show, for example, that reading to your children before bed boosts their scholastic aptitude don't control for genetics so it could simply be the case that families with genes that lend themselves to scholastic aptitude include the tendency to read to children at night.
* Even if one's DNA has a stronger influence on behavior than we normally assume, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's particularly strong (especially when we have very strong environmental factors). In this TED talk, Jonathan Haidt talks about a postulated innate morality but, as he argues, innate doesn't mean fixed. It's just means that there's an existing template that our genes provide that experience then revises. This is also part of Derek Bickerton's language bioprogram theory regarding innate grammar. — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 19:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Genes have essentially no impact on your character. They might on your intelligence etc, but a son of two really popular and charismatic people might be a real loner who is afriad of social interaction simply due to the fact that he's never learned how to act appropriately in social situations (I know a guy like this with parents like that). Also twin studies are rubbish, the twins do not go through identicle upbringings. It would be exceptionally naive to assume they do. Siblings, twins, often have different interests and do loads of different things. One twin might be a great footballer and become a PE/Gym teacher. The other may be more academically orientated and go on to be some brilliant proffessor.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Genes definitely have some sort of impact on temperament. The correlation is too strong not to notice. But they don't determine it. John Riemann Soong (talk) 02:54, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* There are loads of anecdotes of twins separated at birth who reunite to discover they have many many common characteristics. I recall one example where a pair reunited after living in different states for several decades to find that the only real [readily describable in a Readers Digest article] difference between their personalities was their favorite sports teams. — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 19:14, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Map of the world folded along the equator
Where could I find a map of the world where the southern and northern hemispheres are superimposed, so that the same latitude north and south of the equator is shown in the same place? This results friom a discussion on the Entertainment Desk about how far south Australia is compared to how far north Europe is. Thanks <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:33, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* There's a couple in our antipodes article. See also www.antipodemap.com --Shantavira|feed me 16:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Let's split...
Which came first, the split between plants and animals or the split between single-celled and multi-celled ? Since we have all 4 combinations, that implies that one of those splits happened twice. Here is are some possibilities I see:
SP = Single celled Plants MP = Multi-celled Plants SA = Single celled Animals MA = Multi-celled Animals
SP -> MP -> MA -> SA
MP ^ | SP -> SA -> MA StuRat (talk) 17:14, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I think Multicelularity evolved more than once but I don't think SP -> SA makes any sense. Dauto (talk) 18:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* So then do you think that single-celled animals (de)evolved from multi-celled animals ? StuRat (talk) 19:24, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* More relevant, I think, is the monophyly of Eukariotic life. Having organelles within your cell structure isn't necessarily a prerequisite to multicellularity, but it certainly helps. — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 19:22, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* According to newer research in the last decade, the presence of multicellular life is most likely directly dependent on organelles, with the mitochondria possibly allowing for the evolution of multicellular life. Sjschen (talk) 14:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* It is not as simple as that. The chloroplasts found in plants are believed to come from unicallular organisms that became part of plant cells during their evolution. And there are things that are neither animals nor plants. I take it that the OP did not study biology at school. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* "Which came first" is hard to answer, because it depends on how you define "plant", "animal", and "multi-cellular". Is a plant "something that obtains energy from non-living sources", or "something that obtains energy from the Sun"? Is an animal "something that obtains energy from its surroundings", or "something that obtains energy from other living things"? Is a multicellular being any grouping of attached cells, only those groupings where the cells interact, or is it further restricted to ones with some degree of specialization of the cells? What does a mat of chemosynthetic bacteria count as? --Carnildo (talk) 22:39, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I'm not sure a mat of bacteria should count under the term multicellular...if that were the case the layer of slime in bathtub would be considered multicellular life. The term multicellular life to me should only apply to colonies of cells with tight collaboration and specialization of functions, including that of various somatic and sexual function. These cell colonies cannot be chopped up and still be considered an organism. For instance, if you divide up a bacterial mat, it becomes several segments of viable bacterial mat, but if you chop up a C. elegans it will not be a viable organism (it can grow back its parts but each divided part is no longer a whole organism). Slime molds are harder to pigeon hole, but since their cells collaborate so closely in reproduction, I would put them in as multicellular. Sjschen (talk) 14:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* Reading articles like prokaryote suggests that things can be both single- and multicelled, and that things did not simply split but there was a network of splittings and mergeings, and that no-one really knows which came first. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Multicellular life most likely arose after the acquisition of mitochondria or chloroplasts with animals containing the former and plants containing both. If you use this definition than the first single cell eukaryotes are animals (SA) since acquisition of the mitochondrias is the first step to increasing energy output in relatively light free environments. The chloroplasts would be taken on later so: SA -> SP. While we can be sure that single cell plants produced multicell plants (SP -> MP) we don't know if it was single cell animals leading to multicell animals (SA -> MA) or a jack-of-all-things multicell plant through gamete mutation producing the proto-multicell animal(MP -> MA), though the former (SA -> MA) is more likely. Another possibility, though much less likely is SP -> SA -> MA, in which some SP lost its chloroplast after gaining some important adaptation which allows it to produce the modern SA that in turn evolved to MA.
* Maybe it went something like:
SA-->SP-->MP | --->MA or SA-->SP-->MP | -->MA or oldSAs-->SP-->MP | --->newSA-->MA
* Likely only genetic and/or fossil studies can further elucidate this. Sjschen (talk) 15:07, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks. So it looks like it's still an open question. I thought plants must have come first, since animals need them to eat. Apparently, animals must have eaten other organisms, before there were plants. StuRat (talk) 17:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* The first living things were chemosynths, which don't really fit in either "plants" or "animals". --Carnildo (talk) 01:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
* OK, but then how did we get from those to single and multi-celled plants and animals ? StuRat (talk) 13:42, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
football effecting brain
does taking heads(in football) harms your brain(means unabling the brain to do something,anything)?
* but here is a simple explanation that when u take head there is jerk on ur head so damage is inevitable.
* well i don't think so as our brain is well secured in a bony box ie skull and also for further safety there is 3 layered membrane filled with a fluid absorbing shocks.
I THINK IT IS JUST A MISCONCEPTION —Preceding unsigned comment added by Myownid420 (talk • contribs) 17:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Well, you're wrong. The brain has a lot of protection, but it is so soft and squishy that a hard blow to the head can seriously damage it anyway. Looie496 (talk) 17:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* I remember reading some time ago that this is a danger and that professional footballers and others were advised to avoid them. Cannot recall where I saw it, but I often look at health section of the BBC news-site, and that would be the sort of thing they'd cover. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Jeff Astle, one of West Bromwich Albion's most famous players, died from a brain disorder which was ascribed at the inquest to repeatedly heading a football. I would point out, however, that he was active in the 1960s and 70s when footballs were made of leather and became even heavier in wet English conditions. --TammyMoet (talk) 19:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* See Dementia pugilistica. At the bottom of the article it notes that it's been diagnosed also in player(s) of American football and professional wrestling. Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yes it certainly does, and those are just the first four google hits. ~ Amory ( u • t • c ) 20:52, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* 45% of some professional footballers tested had brain injuries from heading, according to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/176392.stm <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:19, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* See also concussion. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 15:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Closed head injuries regularly result in brain damage. Yes, the structure of the brain cavity is such as to provide a good deal of protection, but that doesn't mean it's set up to take repeated and/or intense impact. The hardness of the skull may even serve to damage the brain as much as to protect it (as in contrecoup injuries, which often result in worse damage from the brain bouncing around inside the skull than from the impact itself). A friend of mine who used to volunteer at a rehabilitative clinic told me that some of the brain-injured individuals there suffered severe and permanent damage from activities as innocent as getting out of bed, slipping on the rug, and striking the head on the edge of the nightstand. It seems logical, then, that there would be at least an element of risk in an activity that involves a sizable, fast-moving object colliding with the head. See Association football headgear. Furthermore, although most people who have suffered a concussion or two in the course of their lifetime recover with no lasting effects, frequent concussions may lead to neurodegeneration (the abovementionted dementia pugilistica). When the brain suffers a concussive blow while still under the effects of a previous concussion, death or permanent damage is possible from a rare condition called second-impact syndrome, most often seen in young athletes. If you do play a sport that puts you at high risk for concussion (football/soccer, American football, boxing, etc.), be familiar (and make sure your teammates are familiar) with the symptoms of concussion and DON'T RETURN TO THE GAME after a head injury until you've been medically cleared. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Movie about the "representative town in sampling"
I have a vague recollection there is a movie about a town (in US) that was seen for a time as a very representative town, with regards to sampling (it's population was seen as very "average"). Half an hour of googling and looking through Wikipedia categories and articles gives me nothing. Any suggestions? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Will_it_play_in_Peoria%3F -- Coneslayer (talk) 17:58, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Interesting, but I see nothing about a movie. I am pretty sure I read about something similar in the context of a movie made of it (or a book? Hmmm.). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I googled for "most typical american city" (as four words, not a phrase) and that quickly turned up the key word "Middletown". In Wikipedia, Middletown links to Middletown studies, which links to Magic Town, which I believe is the movie you want. --Anonymous, 05:22 UTC, April 17, 2010.
* Yes, I believe this is what I was looking for. Thank you both, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 06:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Largest Recorded Solar Flare
When was the largest recorded solar flare? According to this, it was recent. But according to this, it was in 1972. --Reticuli88 (talk) 18:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* The recent one seems to have been measured with a new device. Also, the wikipedia article could be outdated. Most other sources cite the 2003 one. --Cheminterest (talk) 00:46, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* The Carrington Event in 1859 was likely the biggest geomagnetic storm ever recorded from a solar flare that hit the Earth. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 15:48, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Escape velocity
Escape veocity is said to be the amount of speed necessary to escape an body's gravitationa (or whatever) field. This is usually said to be independent of the launch angle, because kinetic energy is a function of the speed, not velocity, of an object. I think this is a mistake though. If an object were to be launched at an angle to the horizontal, even though it may have the energy necessary to reach an infinity height, its trajectory won't allow it to, because when it reaches its maximum height, it will still have some speed, just perpendicular to the direction of gravity. Am I right? Does the radial component of the velocity have to equal the escape velocity? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:11, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* You are right. Wikipedia has an article about Escape velocity. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 23:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* But the article indicates that the object will undergo a parabolic trajectory if shot at an angle, which would take it to infinity, no? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:18, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* The article is right. The component of the velocity perpendicular to the direction of gravity will steadily decrease as the object moves away from the planet allowing the object to scape. Just remember that the direction of gravity is changing as the object moves along the orbit. Dauto (talk) 01:25, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* In the case of a spherically symmetric 1/r² field, the closed (elliptical) orbits all have a total energy smaller than the escape energy, so whether you get a closed or open orbit does depend only on the speed. In general, though, there can be closed and open orbits passing through the same point with the same speed, in which case it does matter which way you throw. (But can that happen in Newtonian gravity in 3 dimensions? I don't know.) -- BenRG (talk) 05:19, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
To put it plainly, the original poster is wrong and Cuddly is wrong to agree. As long as the object is not slowed by collision or by air friction, its direction doesn't affect whether it will escape or not, only its speed does. The original poster's reference to "its trajectory won't allow it" appears to assume that it will start falling, but it never will. --Anonymous, 05:30 UTC, April 17, 2010.
* What I meant by "its trajectory won't allow it" is the following: suppose we are dealing with an object travelling near the earth's surface. If we want this object to reach a height h, buy the conservation of energy we want the ball to have a speed v = sqrt(2gh). But this will only work if the object is shot up perpendicular to the surface. If it is shot at a bit of an angle, then its apex will lower than this max height.
* Now when it was originally presented to me, the escape velocity was calculated by the conservation of energy. That is, mv2/2 = GMm/r, and solve for v. However, it is then said that, because speed is a scalar and doesn't depend on direction, this works regardless of the angle it is launched at. However, drawing a parallel to the example I gave above, it seems perfectly reasonable that an object launched at the escape velocity at an angle won't reached r = infinity (ie its maximum height), even though it would have the energy to do so. So it appears, at least to me, that further analysis is required to justify that escape velocity is independent of launch angle, beyond looking at potential and kinetic energy. Is this correct? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* The only reason the object might not "escape" at lower angle is that it would remain in the atmosphere for longer, and would thus lose some of its initial energy, bringing its "total energy" below escape energy. On a ( spherically symmetric ) planet ( see comments below ) without atmosphere or mountains, escape velocity will allow escape at any angle above zero. D b f i r s 08:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* The OP is right, as I said above. In, say, a spherical 1/r4 field, circular orbits have a total energy that's larger than the energy at infinity, but they're nevertheless closed (though unstable—but you can construct a potential where they're stable too). That doesn't happen in Newtonian gravity in three dimensions with spherical symmetry, but it's not self-evident that that's the case. I don't know if it can happen in Newtonian gravity in three dimensions without the assumption of spherical symmetry. -- BenRG (talk) 10:18, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Energy calculations do not take into account the physical size or shape of the Earth (or other planet). If you launch an object exactly horizontally with a speed greater than escape velocity then it enters a hyperbolic orbit whose perigee is at the launch point (because launch is horizontal). This is its closest approach to the center of the Earth. So as long as you assume a spherical Earth (and, of course, no atmosphere) then yes, the object will escape to infinity, even though initially it has no radial velocity - this is illustrated at the top of the escape velocity article. But if you have a non-spherical Earth (and the OP seems to be assuming a flat Earth) or launch at an angle below the horizontal then the orbit may intersect the surface of the Earth at some point after launch - conservation of energy does not forbid this. This is what escape velocity says - an object can be above escape velocity but not on an escape trajectory. Gandalf61 (talk) 11:12, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I see what you're getting at now with the "trajectory" thing. When we're talking about objects near the Earth's surface moving at moderate speeds, it is indeed true that if you launch an object diagonally instead of vertically, it won't rise as high. That's because only the upward component of its initial velocity is directed opposite to the gravitational acceleration, so it's eliminated sooner while the horizontal component remains unchanged. You can easily compute that, ignoring air friction, its path is a parabola.
But that analysis is based on the assumption that the Earth is flat! This is good enough for that particular case, but it's not the truth. That "parabolic" curve is actually the tip of a long narrow elliptical orbit reaching down inside the Earth, with its other end just beyond the Earth's center.
When you're dealing with an object moving at escape velocity, you can't ignore the shape of the Earth any more. If you imagine a trajectory where the object does not go on rising, that trajectory must be an orbit -- an ellipse. And for any particular orbit, there is only one possible speed for an object at any particular point in that orbit. And if you calculate the speed your object has remaining after it has risen to any particular altitude, it will always be faster than the speed for that point on any elliptical orbit.
To really prove it it'd be necessary to do the calculations, which I'm not going to attempt now, but I hope this explanation will at least help make it more intuitive why it works as it does.
Oh, one more point I should have made. Ignoring air friction, once an object is launched at a particular speed, its speed from then on is only a function of its altitude. For example, say you launch a ball vertically at 70 mph and at a certain height it has slowed to 30 mph. If you launch it diagonally at 70 mph and it reaches the same height before it starts dropping, then its speed at that height will again be 30 mph. The tradeoff between kinetic and potential energy is the same no matter what path it takes, right? Well, when I said that the speed would be too fast for it to be in an elliptical orbit, this principle explains how you would know what the speed will be. --Anonymous, 11:51 UTC, April 17, 2010.
* So if I understood what was said, it would take a study of orbital mechanics and Newtonian gravity to understand the escape velocity result, right. Thanks a lot! <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Well no, just understand that the Earth is round. Even if you are moving mostly horizontally you will eventually be moving away from the Earth. John Riemann Soong (talk) 19:06, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Also instead of thinking of maybe a rocket and Earth, think an electron and an atomic nucleus. (The nucleus is massive enough that it moves very slowly in our timeframe.) For a certain velocity less than V_e, you can even orient it totally vertically and it would be in a degenerate orbit (passing right through the nucleus) and you will get an orbit oscillating along the y-component. This excludes any quantum mechanical effects, of course. John Riemann Soong (talk) 19:13, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* It's just amatter of conservation of energy and angular momentum. Dauto (talk) 03:27, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
beer
i quit drinkin. whats the best tasting brand of non-alcohol beer sold in the usa? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonny12350 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
i found a list of them please choose which i should buy
http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductListView?forwardto=ProductListView&Ne=5&Ntt=non-alcoholic%20&langId=-1&Ntk=ProductSearch&storeId=10052&Ntx=mode%20MatchAllPartial&catalogId=10002&N=207&Nty=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonny12350 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* This is impossible to answer. The best one for you is the one you like the best (other factors such as cost, availability and so on being taken into account). Put your question another way: "what is the best tomato I can buy"? and you'll see there's no sensible answer. However in my experience (yes, this is original research) all non-alcohol beers are easily describable as "worst". Drink soda or fruit juice instead. Tonywalton Talk 00:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* The best non-alcoholic beer ? Root beer. StuRat (talk) 01:59, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Corona (beer). Pretty much non-alcoholic. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:10, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* No, it isn't. Dauto (talk) 19:59, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Speaking of root beer, don't forget about ginger ale. ~ A H 1 (TCU) 15:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Looks like this is your chance to try a few different brands of non-alcoholic beer - and other beverages - until your taste buds make their expert decision. Have fun. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Help comprehending units of energy
I can visualize most physical units, for example, I know about how much force a Newton is ("It's like me pressing down this hard"). However I find it very hard to comprehend a joule. Obvioulsy something that is moving has kinetic energy, but how do we quantify it? I am having trouble understanding exactly how much energy a "joule" is, probably because energy doesn't seem like something that one can have "amounts" of. I know this is an extremely hard request but can any of you help me visualize energy?--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Run up a mountain all day without eating. Do you feel hungry? Now you know what energy is. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 23:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yeah I knew what it was but "how much" is a joule? It doesn't seem to be something quantifiable.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:17, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Why doesn't Orders of magnitude (energy) help? For that matter how about the Calorie? Nil Einne (talk) 00:05, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* I kind of take 92's point. Is it because a unit like a Calorie is defined in terms of other quantities? For example in the definition of the Calorie: the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius one can directly perceive what a kilogram feels like (lift a bag of sugar) and what a temperature rise feels like (OK, perhaps not a 1°C rise, but you can directly perceive a temperature change), but you can't directly feel, see or hear the energy making the change. Tonywalton Talk 00:31, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* A joule is defined as the work done when a force of one newton pushes an object one meter, or one coulomb of electrons (a very large number) is pushed through a voltage of one volt. --Cheminterest (talk) 00:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* There we are again. The quantities you mention as defining a joule are physically palpable; you can feel a force (whether or not you can accurately tell whether it's 1N) and you can see, or walk, a distance. 92, might the article on Dimensional analysis be of interest? By the way, I'm not sure about your definition of a joule there, Cheminterest; surely the mass of the object you're pushing comes into it somewhere, and isn't work measured per time? Tonywalton Talk 01:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Cheminterest's explanation is correct, the mass of the object is irrelevant for the definition of work. It is power that is the quatity defined as energy per time. You asked about how to better understand the unit of energy but what you really want is to understand the concept of energy. Once you do that, then the units will make more sense. Sure, energy is slighly more abstract than force or distance, but only slightly so. Dauto (talk) 02:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Apologies, of course it's correct. My fault entirely for misreading it. Tonywalton Talk 00:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
* If an average sized apple has a weight (not mass) of 1N on Earth then you lifting that apple up by 1 metre would mean you have done 1 joule of work to that apple. --antilivedT 13:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* We have Joule. It is fairly self-explanatory. (Except maybe the one with a drop of beer, which is a bit counter-intuitive, no pun intended. Beer has about half a kilocalorie of food energy per gram; that is roughly 2 kilojoules of food energy per gram. A beer drop that weights about 0.05 gram has about 100 joules of food energy. Not all of it can be used for work, of course, so a drop of beer is probably not enough for you to throw a 2 kg projectile at 10 m/s). --Dr Dima (talk) 06:20, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
c and si
C(carbon) and Si lie in same group.why compound co(carbon mono oxide ) is formed but SiO is not formed .plz explain —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
* Actually, it does. See Silicon monoxide. It's just quite rare as it is not very stable (neither is CO, which is why it is not formed in nature. But cars don't burn silicon). Hope this helps, --The High Fin Sperm Whale 00:22, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* That's "quite rare" under normal Earth conditions (we have an atmosphere fairly rich in oxygen, after all, which tends to oxidise most things given half a chance). The article you linked states that "... [SiO] has been described as the most common oxide of silicon in the universe". Wish cars did burn silicon. Stuffing rocks into the tank would be much cheaper than using petrol, and rocks are easier to find than crude oil. Tonywalton Talk 00:40, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* About your note about rocks burning silicon: Rocks already contain silicon in an oxidized state. It cannot be burned any more, just like carbon dioxide cannot be burned. An oxidizible silicon compound such as SiO or silane would be a fuel, though. --Cheminterest (talk) 00:52, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Good point, though CO2 can be burned; just stuff something hot enough and oxygen-greedy enough into it (a lump of burning magnesium will do the trick, you get magnesium oxide and soot, aka carbon). I wonder if anything cheap could provide enough energy to dissociate SiO2 in the same way, thus providing silicon out of my car's exhaust pipe which I could sell to Intel or TI. Hmmm...Tonywalton Talk 01:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* Anything strong enough to reduce silicon oxides (or carbon dioxide) isn't going to be found in nature: it would have long ago reacted with oxygen. If you did find something that strong, you'd just burn it instead (in oxygen) to get much more energy released. Buddy431 (talk) 14:13, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
* You aren't burning the CO2, you are burning the magnesium. The CO2 would be the oxidizer (not the fuel). Ariel. (talk) 01:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
fermuar
Etymology
Shortening of obsolete, borrowed from , an obsolete variant of.
Noun
* 1) zip fastener | WIKI |
Talk:Magic Wand (software)
Why does a wikiword for a historic word processing software link to a contemporary software?
Why does a wikiword for a historic word processing software link to a contemporary software? 2003:C7:370F:9600:D386:14EC:ABA1:41FC (talk) 20:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
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It is the only symbol of perfect life. The inscription will suit nothing but a tomb-stone.
You will see many fine old ruins, Mr. Cypress, crumbling pillars, and mossy walls—many a one-legged Venus and headless Minerva—many a Neptune buried in sand—many a Jupiter turned topsy-turvy—many a perforated Bacchus doing duty as a water-pipe—many reminiscences of the ancient world, which I hope was better worth living in than the modern; though, for myself, I care not a straw more for one than the other, and would not go twenty miles to see any thing that either could shew.
It is something to seek, Mr. Glowry. | WIKI |
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So I have a product content type with a title field and a file upload field and I created a bulk operation to enable the user to upload a single file, selecting which titles to upload that file for.
But what my client really wants is a page (instead of modifying each individual node) with a list of the product titles and a file upload next to each since most of the products use different files. My view is defined with a table style instead of the bulk operations style and has the title field and the file upload field displayed but in the preview, the file upload field column only shows the file names for the titles which already have a file uploaded and the rest of the rows blank.
Is there a way to expose this file upload field like you do a filter so the user can upload a different file for each title ??
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Based on some research, I was able to find Editview for Drupal 6. I'm not quite sure if it's like how Editable views work for Drupal 7.
It states in the Editview's module page that,
It allows you to create a view in which the nodes are editable, and new nodes can be created.
Hope this helps.
• Thanks. Nice find. Even though it states that it only works for views 2, not views 3, and we are already on views 3, it seems to be working as hoped, although I do get an ajax error pop up on each save. I'll continue to update this. – ronnienorwood Sep 1 '15 at 20:50
• You're welcome! Oh! I was assuming you're using Views 6.x-2.18. Nice one! :) – Leolando Tan Sep 1 '15 at 23:03
• The only other minor issue I have with this module is that there is no functionality to pick and choose which fields you want to be editable on the row. All of the fields (in my case, four of them) on the row are data entry fields whereas I only wanted one of the fields to be that way and the rest be data display fields so the user can't accidentally modify a value that shouldn't be modified. – ronnienorwood Sep 2 '15 at 19:06
• Hmm.. not so sure at the moment but since it may be a form, you could use hook_form_alter() to hide it or hide and disable the unwanted fields. I could check that module later though. – Leolando Tan Sep 2 '15 at 22:09
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documents that are no longer in their physical control or possession at the time of their own decisions or decisions on external review. In other words, it may result in there being an obligation that cannot be fulfilled for reasons that are not the fault of the Minister concerned. That argument can be rejected for reasons given in the course of answering the remaining questions of law. In short, there may be an answer in s 24A of the FOI Act to the conundrum in the case of accidental loss or destruction of a document falling within a request, depending on the facts. The asserted conundrum does not otherwise tell against the imposition of the duties referred to below. Rather, compliance with those duties will avoid the conundrum arising at all. Deliberate non-compliance may constitute a refusal to comply with a legal obligation or an interference with the rights of the requesting party. That is not a "conundrum" in a constructional sense. Rather, it is a factual conundrum arising because of a breach of duties owed under the statute, properly construed.
101 Submissions of the Attorney-General concerning the special status of Cabinet documents will be addressed in the pages that follow.
Questions of law 2 and 5
102 Question 2 concerns the obligations owed by a Minister (including obligations of an outgoing Minister) in relation to a document that falls within the terms of a request made under s 15 of the FOI Act and that was, at the time of the request, an official document of the Minister (specifically in circumstances where the document is the subject of a pending review by the Commissioner under Pt VII of the FOI Act). The question is whether the Minister (including an outgoing Minister) has an obligation to take such steps as are necessary to retain the document in the custody of the Minister (from time to time) for the purpose of the review and/or an obligation to not deal with the document in such a way as to frustrate the provision of access to the document in accordance with the FOI Act "or to frustrate the appeal". I understand the latter part of the question to refer to the frustration not only of the exercise of a right of appeal to this Court but also the frustration of a right of review under Pt VII.
103 Question 5 is related. It is whether a "current Minister" is entitled to access a document that has been transferred out of the custody of the Commonwealth by a former Minister in breach of any of the duties or obligations described in (relevantly) question 2.
104 The two questions may be considered together. Patrick v Attorney-General (Cth) [2024] FCA 268 | WIKI |
AAHA
AAHA or Aaha may refer to:
Organizations
* All American Hockey League (2008–2011), formerly the All American Hockey Association
* American Amputee Hockey Association, also an ice hockey league in the U.S.
* the former Alberta Amateur Hockey Association, now known as Hockey Alberta
Film and television
* Aahaa..! (1997 film), a Tamil language film
* Aahaa..! (1998 film), a Telugu language film
* Aaha (2021 film), a Malayalam language film
* Aaha (TV series), a 2011-12 Tamil series | WIKI |
Talk:Deshong Art Museum
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Did You Know Submission 2
Now that the article is eligible as a good article, I wanted to re-submit using the DYK template. I received an error message that the page already existed and posted on Wikipedia talk: Did You Know. I received the advice to manually create the Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Deshong_Art_Museum_2. I did this by creating a dummy submission for Deshong Park DYK here. I then copied that info and modified it for Deshong Art Museum. I need to know delete the Deshong Park dummy DYK. I apologize in advance if I have messed up anything. Dwkaminski (talk) 13:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
UPDATE 1-India Aug retail inflation rate climbs, rate cut hopes still high
* August CPI inflation 3.21% y/y vs 3.15% for July * August CPI food inflation 2.99% y/y vs 2.36% in July (Add details, quote) NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - India's retail inflation rate increased to a 10-month high in August but stayed below the central bank's 4% medium-term target, strengthening expectations that there will be another interest rate cut next month. Annual retail inflation in August was 3.21%, up from 3.15% in July but below analysts' forecasts, data from the Ministry of Statistics showed on Thursday. A Reuters poll had forecast an annual retail inflation rate for August of 3.3%. Last month's rate, pushed up by increased health and education costs, was below the central bank's target for a 13th straight month. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month lowered its benchmark repo rate for a fourth meeting in a row. It has dropped 110 basis points so far this year to 5.40%. The central projected inflation to remain at 3.4% to 3.7% during the October-March period. Economists said the RBI could cut rates further to support consumer demand and private investment, as economic growth slowed to a more than six-year low of 5% in the April-June quarter and inflation remains subdued. Aditi Nayar, principal economist at ICRA, the Indian arm of Moody's, said the high frequency data for August 2019 revealed a recovery was not under way, despite a pick-up in industrial growth in July 2019. "We continue to expect another rate cut in the October 2019 MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) review," she said. New Delhi has largely relied on the central bank to support the economy, while resisting pressure to provide a stimulus to boost consumer demand and private investments. India's monthly passenger vehicle and car sales recorded their steepest fall ever in August, according to data released by an industry body on Monday, prompting many companies to cut jobs. India's unemployment rate rose to 8.2% in August, highest reading since September 2016, compared with 6.3% a year ago and 7.3% in the previous month, estimates from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a Mumbai-based think-tank, showed. The next decision from the RBI's monetary policy committee (MPC) is due on Oct. 4. Retail food prices, which make up nearly half of India's inflation basket, increased 2.99% in August year-on-year, compared with a revised 2.36% in July, while prices of services such as education, health and entertainment climbed between 5.54% and 7.84%. Separately, figures released on Thursday showed industrial output increased 4.3% in July from a year earlier. (Additional reporting by Aftab Ahmed in NEW DELHI and Sachin Ravikumar in BENGALURU; Editing by Alex Richardson) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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author Asier Lostalé <asier.lostale@openbravo.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:50:25 +0100
changeset 26205 e7c1d9e51ba8
parent 1867 a2cb0934dfb0
permissions -rw-r--r--
fixed bug 29329: can't download attachments for 2 rows with same name & no ext
When trying to download at once attachemnts for different records that have the
same name and it does not have extension, it fails.
The problem is in case of duplicated names to be included within the zipped file,
a number is appended to the file name before the extension. Extesion is present
is assumed, failing if not.
Fix: don't assume file name has extension.
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Page:Posthumous works, in prose and verse - Ann Eliza Bleecker.djvu/48
26 will therefore fufpend our journey to Albany " for a few days." Though MARIA'S foul 'faddened at the conviction of this truth ; though her fears again urged her to propofe immediate flight, yet flie acquiefced ; and having fupped vith the family, this tender pair funk afkep on the hofom of reft.
Early the next morning Mr. KITTLE arofe, firft imprefling a kifs on MARIA'S foft cheek, ^s (he {lumbered with her infant in her arms. He then awaked his brother, reminding him that he had propofed a hunting match the pre ceding evening. " It is true," replied PETER, " but fince hoftilities have commenced fo near " us as the Indians inform, I think it rather " come," .replied the other, " do not let us " felvesup with women and children." " I 66 being afraid." Then having drefled him- felf, while his brother charged their pieces, they left the houfe, and traverfed the pathlefs grafs for many hours without perceiving any thing hut fmall birds, who filled the fragrant air with melody. PETER," faid Mr. KITTLE,
* imprudent to quit the family." " Come,
* ' intimidate the neighbours by cloiflering our-
* l rejecl the thought," rejoined PETER, " df | WIKI |
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