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How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
As a trauma therapist, knowing my client’s ACE score directly impact my course of treatment with them. Learning about adverse childhood experience has been revolutionary as a mental health professional. Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains that how repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. The ACE report is a groundbreaking public health study that addressed Adverse Childhood Adversity (ACE) using a ten-question screen on over 17,000 patients at Kaiser Permanente.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)? They are events that occur in the first 18 years of a child life that occur in the home and include household dysfunction, substance abuse, parental separation and divorce or early death of a parent. Also identified as ACE are: mental illness, spousal or partner violence, and criminal behavior resulting in incarceration of a household member.
The Cornerstone of the ACE Study is the Ace Questionnaire. Here are the ten questions in the questionnaire which can be asked in both medical and mental health settings.
• Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? Or act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… push, grab, slap, or throw something at you? Or ever hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did an adult or person at least five years older than you ever… touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way? Or attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did you often or very often feel that … no one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special? Or your family didn’t look out for each other, feel close to each other, or support each other?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did you often or very often feel that … you didn’t have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you? Or your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you or take you to the doctor if you needed it?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Was a biological parent ever lost to you through divorce, abandonment, or other reason?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Was your mother or stepmother: often or very often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her or kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard? Or ever repeatedly hit over at least a few minutes or threatened with a gun or knife?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic, or who used street drugs?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
• Did a household member go to prison?
No___ If Yes, enter 1___
The sum of the “Yes” answers equals your ACE Score.
Issues for complex PTSD-high ACE score clients include the following.
• If untreated, the intrusive and numbing symptoms of chronic PTSD may continue across the lifespan.
• Untreated PTSD depresses the immune system.
• In addition to PTSD, attachment deficits and dissociative symptoms, survivors often have issues with trust, self-hatred, and abandonment.
• Survivors often do not believe they deserve good health, have shame and guilt issues.
It is becoming more evident that ACE contributes to what has been called a public health epidemic. It may also be evident that EMDR can contribute to the improvement of physical and mental health in an ACE survivor.
The ACEs and other negative core events and beliefs that drive harmful behavior, or avoidance of current problems must be addressed and resolved.
Source: Nadine Burke Harris | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
James Kitson (businessman)
James Kitson (27 October 1807 – 30 June 1885) was an English first-class cricketer and early railway industrialist, founding the locomotive builders Kitson and Company.
Early life
The son of a publican, he was born in his father's pub, the Brunswick Tavern, in Leeds in October 1807. He acquired some level of education at local schools in Leeds, with Kitson helping out in the family pub as a young child. At 14 he was apprenticed at a local dyeworks, where he acquired a bad injury. Despite his injury he was determined to improve himself and was fascinated by the new emerging railway technology. Kitson joined the newly founded Leeds Mechanical Institute, where he studied chemistry, mathematics and mechanics. He then undertook an apprenticeship at Fenton, Murray and Wood in Leeds, before briefly gaining employment under Robert Stephenson with his company, Robert Stephenson and Company, at Newcastle. He counted the elder George Stephenson among his close friends.
Career
In 1835, Kitson decided to form his own locomotive engineering company. Enlisting the help of Charles Todd and David Laird, together the trio founded Todd, Kitson and Laird in a former cloth mill. Within a month of founding the company they received a lucrative order for locomotives from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with the company producing LMR 57 Lion. The company would go on to produce locomotives for 103 years, finally ceasing operations in 1938.
Cricket
Kitson played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Oxford. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the MCC first innings by Francis Popham, while in their second innings he was dismissed for a single run, being caught by Henry Knatchbull off an unrecorded bowler.
Politics
He served as the Mayor of Leeds from 1860 to 1862, in addition to serving on the Leeds Town Council for many years.
Religion
The Kitsons were closely associated with Unitarianism in Leeds, at Mill Hill Chapel, with Kitson giving lectures to working women on hygiene as part of his missionary work. William Morris was commissioned to create a stained glass window there in honour of Ann Kitson, who died in 1865.
Marriages and children
At the age of 21 he married Ann Newton, with the couple having 11 children, though only six survived to adulthood. One son, also named James, followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a locomotive builder, in addition to becoming a politician and the 1st Baron Airedale. Another son, Arthur Octavius Kitson, was involved in a notorious court case with his brother-in-law William Smoult Playfair, an eminent obstetrician.
After his second marriage, Kitson bought Elmete Hall, in the vicinity of what is now Roundhay Park, to the north of Leeds. He and his wife Elizabeth raised four children there. He died at Elmete Hall on 30 June 1885. His life is documented by the Thoresby Society, the historical society for Leeds. | WIKI |
Bülent Esel
Bülent Esel (23 July 1927 – 17 August 2004) was a Turkey international football forward who played for clubs in Turkey and Italy.
Career
Born in Izmir, Esel began playing youth football for Kırıkkalespor. He played senior football for Kırıkkalespor and Ankaragücü before moving to Italy in 1951, where he would make 78 appearances and scored 25 goals during three seasons in Serie A for SPAL 1907.
Esel returned to Turkey and spent the remainder of his career with Beşiktaş J.K., Vefa S.K. and Altınordu S.K.
Esel made four appearances for the Turkey national football team from 1949 to 1950.
Personal
Esel died on 17 August 2004. | WIKI |
No Highway
No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute. It formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky.
A scientist has been claiming that certain parts of a new aircraft called a Reindeer will develop metal fatigue sooner than officially estimated, but nobody takes him seriously. While flying to the site of an air crash that killed a Soviet ambassador, he discovers that his own plane is a Reindeer which has already flown twice its permitted number of hours. He uses his technical knowledge to sabotage it as soon as it lands, putting his credibility further in doubt.
The plot weaves together many themes, such as attitudes to safety, conflicts of interest between management and professionals, Cold War diplomacy, single parenthood and clairvoyance, before the scientist’s theory is finally vindicated. As the novel appears to presage some later real-life disasters and is based on just-emerging knowledge of metal fatigue, it is said to be one of few novels to reveal a new engineering truth.
Shute was a pioneer aircraft designer and co-founder of the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd.
Characters
* Theodore Honey: A middle-aged widower and experienced scientist at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, Hampshire (RAE), working on safety;
* Dr Dennis Scott: Younger, dynamic aeronauticist and recently appointed head of the structural department at the RAE, brought in to 'downsize' the department;
* Marjorie Corder: Airline stewardess, in her mid-20s and tiring of the "glamorous life" with the fictional C.A.T.O.;
* Monica Teasdale, an older, middle-echelon Hollywood actress, facing a lonely retirement;
* Captain Samuelson: veteran pilot of the Reindeer, highly respected;
* Elspeth: Honey's twelve-year-old daughter;
* Shirley Scott: Dr Scott's wife, a local schoolteacher.
Plot
The narrator is Dr Scott, brought in to downsize his department, and the plot concerns his consideration of Theodore Honey, who initially comes across as an unlikely hero. Mr Honey, a widower, does not live a conventional British life, and is bringing up his young daughter, Elspeth, alone. He is engaged in research on the fatigue of aluminium airframes. He is currently investigating possible failure in the high aspect ratio tailplane of a new airliner, the fictional "Rutland Reindeer".
Honey is nervous and distrusting of the 'new broom', is unimpressive in appearance and is so intensely focused on his work that his relations with the outside world – never that good to begin with – suffer badly. Throughout the story, people judge him by that appearance, or by his varied and unconventional outside interests, such as pyramidology, the study of possible esoteric interpretations of the Pyramids.
Honey has predicted, by a (fictional) theory supposedly related to quantum mechanics, that it is possible for an aluminium alloy structure to fail long before the design lifetime predicted by the usual design standards. He is using a spare tailplane from a Reindeer aircraft in a fatigue test. Honey's theory predicts that the metal at the root of the tailplane will suffer from metal fatigue and fail with a crystalline fracture.
Before Dr Scott's arrival, despite Honey's concerns, the aircraft had recently been allowed into service. Honey's work is regarded as likely to falsify his far-fetched theory, rather than raising a significant safety issue. But the newly arrived Mr Scott links it with the recent crash of a Reindeer carrying the Soviet ambassador, which had total flying hours close to Honey's estimate, and which crashed in northeastern Quebec. The crash report, including photographs, is inconclusive, and Scott feels that the remains of the aircraft must be physically examined.
Honey is sent to Canada to examine the debris of the crash, travelling on board a Reindeer aircraft on which he meets the two heroines of the novel, Corder and Teasdale. During the flight, Honey discovers from the cockpit crew that the flying hours of this aircraft are twice those of any other Reindeer in service, and are close to his predicted failure time. He becomes increasingly anxious for its safety. He confides in Teasdale, whose films he admires, and goes on to give her some advice on the safest place to go in the aircraft in the event of a crash. Despite his alarm, he remains persuasive and sincere, and impresses Corder and Teasdale. He also impresses the pilot, Samuelson, who knew the captain of the recently crashed Reindeer and had rejected with scorn the official inquiry's conclusion that the crash was the result of pilot error.
During a heated discussion during a stopover at Gander International Airport, Honey realises that he has failed to persuade anyone to declare the Reindeer unfit for service, and in desperation, he disables it by raising its undercarriage while it is standing on the tarmac, leaving the aircraft damaged and unable to move.
Honey is recalled to Farnborough after this sabotage, but he is delayed because C.A.T.O., the fictional operator of the damaged aircraft, refuses to carry him. While he is away, trouble arises on a second front. For the duration of his trip, he has left Elspeth in their shabby, neglected home in Farnham, with only the supervision of the unreliable cleaning woman.
Shirley Scott finds Elspeth unconscious, confirming her misgivings about the state of Honey's home life, and nurses her. Elspeth displays a touching mix of precocity and serious intelligence, but betrays Honey's hobbies of spiritualism and prophecy. That notwithstanding, Elspeth's outlook is tempered with serious thought and childhood happiness in simple things.
Teasdale visits Dr Scott at Farnborough and relates her story of events to the Director of the RAE before offering Elspeth some feminine care and affection. Her affection for Honey is obvious, but she realises it is not to be – she cannot give him children or sustain him in his work. She is rapidly followed by Corder, who bears Honey's letter of resignation to Scott and her own account of the events in Gander.
By the time Honey returns, Scott has left for Canada to retrieve the tailplane roots. On reaching the crash site he discovers that the parts of the aircraft adjacent to where the tailplane separated have been removed by the Soviet party who came to recover the body of their Ambassador. The Soviet authorities suspect that the crash was part of a plot to assassinate the ambassador, and are wholly unhelpful when approached for information about the missing tailplane root.
The tailplane itself remains lost in the wilderness, but must be found if there is any hope of proving the existence of metal fatigue. Honey comes to the rescue, but in a highly unorthodox way. He puts his daughter into a light trance which, to Corder's shock, Elspeth has clearly experienced before.
Using a planchette and automatic writing, a message is written: UNDER THE FOOT OF THE BEAR. Sceptical of the message's value, the Director refuses to send it to Scott, and a heated exchange follows. The Director points out that "the bear" could just as plausibly refer merely to the Soviet Union and that the message tells them no more than they already know. With Corder's and Samuelson's help and their C.A.T.O. contacts, Honey manages to have the message passed to Scott in the Canadian woods. Scott and his party work out that "the bear" could refer to a lake, Dancing Bear Water, 30 or 40 miles back along the flight path of the lost aircraft, and there, in due course, they find the tailplane.
Its front spar root reveals a classic fatigue fracture. The find vindicates Honey's theory and makes him a minor hero in aviation circles – to which he is indifferent. His early warning even allows for a timely redesign by the manufacturers, ensuring no loss of service of the Reindeers over the Atlantic and allowing the safety issue to be hushed-up. But Dr Scott goes on to take safety more seriously than had been previous practice. Corder and Honey finally marry one another.
Aircraft types
Rutland Reindeer: Built by the Rutland Aircraft Company, in service with C.A.T.O, then regularly plying the Atlantic. Powered by eight engines with four contra-rotating propellers (four nacelles carrying two engines each), the Reindeer can best be imagined to resemble the Bristol Brabazon, whose future development would also have included jet power, and Shute notes this late in the novel. It is described as a low-wing monoplane with a nosewheel-type undercarriage and a single tail. In the movie,
Assegai Mk.1 powered by a Boreus afterburning turbojet. At the end of the novel this aircraft is under investigation by Dr Scott because three of them have been lost through transonic disintegration. This parallels the late development of the Gloster Meteor, whose later versions featured powerful engines providing more thrust than the airframe was designed to accommodate. They also suffered from transonic buffeting in powered dives; two were lost to tail separation. The problem in the latter cases was that the aircraft had not been designed using the transonic area rule, its aerodynamics being unsuited to stable flight in the transonic envelope, causing problems such as structural flutter (felt by the pilot as buffeting) and control reversals – both of which would have been most likely to be present in a high-speed dive.
Avro Lancaster NX636 is shown as the RAF aircraft that returns Theodore Honey to his employer at Farnborough after C.A.T.O. refuse to carry him either further, or to return him back, to the United Kingdom. Management at the Royal Aircraft Establishment consider the RAF obliged to accept the risk of carrying a potentially unhinged person as part of their regular flying duties.
Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
Part of the novel is set in Canada (and in the Dominion of Newfoundland which had not yet, in the year 1949, become a part of Canada), a country that was very much "the Northern American land of dreams" for Shute—following his visit there in the 1930s aboard the dirigible R100, on whose development he had worked as a member of the design team under Barnes Wallis.
One observer has suggested that Shute may have been influenced in his description of the crash site by the 1946 crash at Hare Mountain (later Crash Hill), Newfoundland, of a Douglas C-54E which killed 39 people.
Title
The title is taken from The Wanderer by John Masefield which Shute quotes at the start of the book:
* Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find
* No Highway more, no track, all being blind,
* The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.
Publication history
* First published in 1948 by William Heinemann, London.
* Reprinted in 2001 under ISBN 1-84232-273-7.
The initial US publication took place at the end of August 1948. But on publication BOAC objected to the use of its name without permission, and associated with aircraft disasters. It threatened to sue Heinemann unless its name was removed. British publication was therefore delayed until 13 December while all references to BOAC were changed to CATO.
Adaptations
The film adaptation of the novel was released in 1951, starring James Stewart as Honey, Jack Hawkins as Scott, and Marlene Dietrich as Teasdale. The film was released as No Highway in the Sky in the United States and elsewhere. It presents Mr Honey as odd rather than being nervous at possible dismissal.
No Highway, a radio adaptation dramatised by Mike Walker with Paul Ritter as Honey, William Beck as Scott, and Fenella Woolgar as Teasdale was directed by Toby Swift for BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial in August 2010.
An earlier BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial, dramatised by Brian Gear in three episodes, and broadcast weekly from 11 May 1986, starred John Clegg as Theodore Honey, Norman Bowler as Scott, and Margaret Robertson as Monica Teasdale. | WIKI |
User:Sheriff Rose/sandbox
The Officer Down Memorial Podcast is a true crime podcast created and hosted by Sheriff Scott Rose based in Mantorville, Minnesota.
The podcast launched it's first episode in 2020 and has been downloaded in all 50 states and over 50 countries. The podcast was created by Sheriff Rose, a 25 year veteran law enforcement officer serving his third term elected Sheriff at the Dodge County Sheriff's Office in Southeast Minnesota. Sheriff Rose is also a long time board member for the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association, the Law Enforcemwent Memorial Foundation of Southeast Minnesota, and on the executive board for the Invisible Wounds Project.
In each episode of the Officer Down Memorial Podcast, Sheriff Rose shares the stories of how these men and women heroically lost their lives in the Line of Duty. This podcast gives listeners a glimpse of what law enforcement officers and their families go through every day to help keep our communities safe. These stories take the listener back in time to the era and the community where we lost these heroes. This story telling format is designed to make listeners feel like they were there when we lost this officer. In each episode, the podcast helps illustrate why the men and women who serve in law enforcement are true heroes every day they put on the badge.
While the podcast primarily covers stories of fallen officers, there are episodes that share survivor stories, aand episodes that discuss law enforcement suicides.
These podcasts are produced in a story telling format sharing these officer's stories based on input from the men and women who served with them and the families who were left behind. Older stories are written using historical documents and newspaper records. These stories are researched with the fallen officer's agency to help ensure they are historically accurate. Sheriff Rose says these stories take 50-60+ hours to create, including the research, interviewing, copy writing, hosting, audio production, and editing. Episodes are released once or twice a month depending on the research necessary. All the work is done by Rose and the podcast is hosted by libsyn.com.
The mission of the podcast is to honor our fallen heroes, remember their service, support the families they left behind, and never forget their sacrifice. | WIKI |
Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher
Summary
AQM-60 Kingfisher
Aqm-60a.jpg
AQM-60 Kingfisher awaiting loading onto its B-50 mothership before a test of US air defenses.
Role Target drone
National origin United States of America
Manufacturer Lockheed
First flight April 1951
Primary user United States Air Force
Developed from Lockheed X-7
The AQM-60 Kingfisher, originally designated XQ-5, was a target drone version of the USAF's X-7 ramjet test aircraft built by the Lockheed Corporation. The aircraft was designed by Kelly Johnson, who later created the Lockheed A-12 and its relatives, such as the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and Lockheed YF-12.[1]
The X-7's development began in 1946 after a request from the USAF for a Mach 3 unmanned aerial vehicle for test purposes. This craft evolved into the Kingfisher, which was later used to test anti-missile systems such as the MIM-3 Nike Ajax, SAM-A-25/MIM-14 Nike Hercules, and IM-99/CIM-10.[2]
The Kingfisher was capable of evading the vast majority of weapons systems it was used to test, despite the systems being designed to destroy hypersonic missiles in flight. This created much embarrassment at the USAF and considerable political fallout. This led to the discontinuation of production in 1959 and the cancellation of the project in the mid-1960s.[3]
The engine developed for the AQM-60 was later modified for use on the long range nuclear-tipped CIM-10 Bomarc, which was a nationwide defense against nuclear bombers during the 1960s and early 1970s. An endurance variant of the same engine was produced for use in the Lockheed D-21, which was launched from the back of a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird mothership or from under the wing of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bomber.[4]
Specifications
General characteristics
• Length: 38 ft 1 in (11.6 m)
• Wingspan: 9 ft 10 in (3 m)
• Height: 6 ft 11 in (2.1 m)
• Gross weight: 7,937 lb (3,600 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Marquardt XRJ43-MA ramjet (Sustainer)
• Powerplant: 2 × Thiokol XM45 (5KS50000) solid-fuel rockets, 50,000 lbf (222 kN) thrust each for 5s (Boosters)
Performance
• Maximum speed: Mach 4.3
• Range: 110 nmi (130 mi, 210 km)
• Service ceiling: 98,000 ft (30,000 m)
References
1. ^ "Johnson, Clarence Leonard - National Aviation Hall of Fame". nationalaviation.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
2. ^ Area 51 - Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, Bill Yenne 2014, p.95
3. ^ "The Lockheed X-7". www.456fis.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
4. ^ Goodall and Goodall 2002, p. 106.
External links
• Directory of US Military Rockets and Missiles
• http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-60.html | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Talk:Galaxy Game/GA1
GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''
Reviewer: Indrian (talk · contribs) 16:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I know, I know, I am falling further behind and here I go taking on another one. The good news is I have a lot of free time over the next few days and should be able to wrap all of these up. Indrian (talk) 16:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Alright, let's get this one knocked out, then I will double back and do the early games parent article.
Lead
* "It featured a blue fiberglass casing with the PDP-11 inside one of them" - Does not make sense. I assume that this is supposed to indicate that each monitor was housed in its own casing, one of which also contained the computer.
* "and the capability for four monitors to play multiple games simultaneously" - The monitors don't play the game, should probably be "to play multiple games simultaneously on four monitors."
* Wow, that whole sentence is a garbled mess, isn't it. Reworked as two sentences to address both issues. -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Background
* "while exploring the steam tunnels and buildings of the campus" - Pitts was certainly fond of exploring the steam tunnels and breaking into university buildings, but breaking into the AI lab was its own endeavor one evening; the current wording makes it sound like he was actively exploring other locations on the night he discovered SAIL.
* Tweaked to say it was a hobby he had, not something he was in the middle of that night (perhaps if he broke into the building from a steam tunnel...) -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
* "Pitts often played against Hugh Tuck, a friend from high school" - In the previous sentence, you mention that Pitts is playing with other Stanford students, so the implication here is that Tuck was a Stanford student as well. We should probably mention that he was a Cal Poly student. (I know you state this later, but it probably needs to be moved up here.)
* Done. -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
* "Torpedoes are fired one at a time by flipping a toggle switch on the computer or pressing a button on the control pad" - Looks like a copy/paste from the Spacewar article. Galaxy Game, of course, has a different control scheme. You have the correct controls below, so this sentence can probably just be excised.
* Whoops, yeah, I did copy-paste after you copyedited Spacewar. Dropped the mention of the old control scheme. -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Development
* "started with a US$4,000 Data General Nova computer which they thought would be powerful enough to run the game; when it turned out to not be" - Technically, a Nova is powerful enough to run the game, and Data General even did just that. What it was not powerful enough to do was run four to six games at once, which was necessary to make the game profitable.
* Yeah, I haven't started looking deeper into the development of Computer Space than what is here; it's implied in some sources that they couldn't get it to run it at all, though I know it was done by at least one other programmer before them. Adjusted here and a few sentences later to say that they needed to run multiple games simultaneously to make the cost worth it, and they couldn't find a way before they worked out the custom solution instead. -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
* Two things that should probably be worked in here somewhere, both of which can be found in the Galaxy Game entry of the "All in Color for a Quarter" blog. First, the display adapter was built by a third person, Ted Panofsky. Second, the story of locating joysticks for the game, which were not yet common outside of military applications, is also worth telling here.
* Hmm, I guess I was thinking that cheap joysticks could be found for electronic crane games and the like, and they went military because they wanted something sturdier, but I don't know the history of electronic arcade games enough to know if that's plausible it's probably worth mentioning in any case. Added the Panofski bit, the joysticks, mentioned where they got the coin acceptors, and threw in a bit about the joysticks being modified in the 2nd version. -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
And that's it. The article is in really good shape and should get promoted in no time. I'll go ahead and place this while changes are made. Indrian (talk) 15:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
* responded to everything inline, think I've gotten it all. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
* Everything here has been addressed, and I just completed a copy edit, so we are good to go. Well done once again! Indrian (talk) 23:09, 1 April 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Australian Bulldog
The result was delete. Courcelles 01:33, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Australian Bulldog
* – ( View AfD View log Stats )
Nonotable variety of bulldog. No reliable secondary sources available on the breed. Fails WP:GNG. T K K bark ! 16:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
* Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mkdw talk 04:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
* Delete - unregistered breed that's attracted little or no attention and appears just a single/couple of breeders name for a crossbreed. - Peripitus (Talk) 04:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
* Delete. Unregistered breed. Only body giving it any sort of recognition is a unit set up by one of the breeders. Looks like promotional material. No evidence of notability.--Dmol (talk) 10:51, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
* Delete for lack of independent in-depth coverage. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) (formerly R——bo) 00:37, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
* Delete as non-notable. — Ed! (talk) 04:08, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
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Bug 1297603 - [SLOW QUERY] beakerd counting dirty jobs
[SLOW QUERY] beakerd counting dirty jobs
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Reported: 2016-01-11 19:53 EST by Dan Callaghan
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Description Dan Callaghan 2016-01-11 19:53:40 EST
The update_dirty_jobs thread in beakerd is structured as a polling loop which regularly checks for dirty jobs and then processes any which are found. Checking for dirty jobs means querying the job table for dirty_version != clean_version.
The dirty_version != clean_version condition does use an index according to the EXPLAIN output, although it is not a constant lookup so MySQL still has to examine many rows. However it is still able to do this quickly. The query to actually grab the dirty job ids:
SELECT job.id AS job_id
FROM job
WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version
does show up in our slow query log (presumably because it's not using a constant index lookup) but it averages 0.32 seconds running time which is acceptable.
MySQL [beaker_dcallagh]> explain SELECT job.id AS job_id FROM job WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | job | index | NULL | ix_job_dirty_clean_version | 32 | NULL | 846116 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
However beakerd's polling loop actually calls .count() on this first, to determine if any dirty job rows exist, and then actually looks up their ids if the .count() call returned greater than zero. The current query generated by .count() is:
SELECT count(*) AS count_1
FROM (SELECT job.id AS job_id, job.dirty_version AS job_dirty_version, job.clean_version AS job_clean_version, job.owner_id AS job_owner_id, job.submitter_id AS job_submitter_id, job.group_id AS job_group_id, job.whiteboard AS job_whiteboard, job.retention_tag_id AS job_retention_tag_id, job.product_id AS job_product_id, job.result AS job_result, job.status AS job_status, job.deleted AS job_deleted, job.to_delete AS job_to_delete, job.ttasks AS job_ttasks, job.ntasks AS job_ntasks, job.ptasks AS job_ptasks, job.wtasks AS job_wtasks, job.ftasks AS job_ftasks, job.ktasks AS job_ktasks
FROM job
WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version) AS anon_1
It seems that the subquery wrapping defeats MySQL's optimizer and produces a much slower query. The EXPLAIN output indicates that this version does not use any index at all:
MySQL [beaker_dcallagh]> explain SELECT count(*) AS count_1 FROM (SELECT job.id AS job_id, job.dirty_version AS job_dirty_version, job.clean_version AS job_clean_version, job.owner_id AS job_owner_id, job.submitter_id AS job_submitter_id, job.group_id AS job_group_id, job.whiteboard AS job_whiteboard, job.retention_tag_id AS job_retention_tag_id, job.product_id AS job_product_id, job.result AS job_result, job.status AS job_status, job.deleted AS job_deleted, job.to_delete AS job_to_delete, job.ttasks AS job_ttasks, job.ntasks AS job_ntasks, job.ptasks AS job_ptasks, job.wtasks AS job_wtasks, job.ftasks AS job_ftasks, job.ktasks AS job_ktasks FROM job WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version) AS anon_1;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Select tables optimized away |
| 2 | DERIVED | job | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 846116 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+------------------------------+
2 rows in set (1.52 sec)
Compared with a simpler COUNT(*) using no subquery:
MySQL [beaker_dcallagh]> explain SELECT COUNT(*) FROM job WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | job | index | NULL | ix_job_dirty_clean_version | 32 | NULL | 846116 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------------------------+---------+------+--------+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
The .count() subquery wrapping, and its performance problems on MySQL, is a known issue <http://stackoverflow.com/a/14758255/120202> and one we have actually hit before (e.g. bug 1183239). In this particular case we know that the subquery wrapping is superfluous so we can either force SQLAlchemy to generate the simpler COUNT(*) query, as suggested in the Stack Overflow answer, or even better we could skip the .count() entirely and always just fetch the list of dirty job ids.
Comment 1 Dan Callaghan 2018-06-04 03:38:33 EDT
As of https://git.beaker-project.org/cgit/beaker/commit/?id=fa50dca70e604118c25158eeba7abc8ee5084690 we no longer issue this problematic COUNT() query.
However the corresponding SELECT query itself, that is:
SELECT job.id AS job_id
FROM job
WHERE job.dirty_version != job.clean_version
came up in bug 1097861 as something which might be worth optimizing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097861#c36
Here is a patch to switch to the "naive" dirty flag approach:
https://gerrit.beaker-project.org/6121
as described in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097861#c41
although it is not at all clear to me right now whether this change will make things better or worse overall. It might be worth seeking more data before deciding to merge that patch.
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Nude (Camel album)
Nude is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel, released in January 1981. A concept album, it is based on a true story of a Japanese soldier (Hiroo Onoda) marooned on an island during the Second World War who does not realise that the war is over. The title derives from his family name, 'Onoda'. The album mainly comprises instrumentals; only a few tracks contain lyrics. The lyrics were mainly written by Susan Hoover, except those for "Please Come Home", which were written by Andrew Latimer. It is the last Camel album to date to feature original drummer Andy Ward, and the last to feature more than one original member.
On 24 November 2023, a new edition of the album was remastered by Ben Wiseman and with new mixes by Stephen W. Tayler for Universal Music.
Synopsis
Within the album, a story is displayed to tell about the album's plot. The concept mainly focuses on the theme of Onoda's isolation from the rest of the world and the effects on the way he lives after his disappearance and discovery.
The year is 1942, and the Second World War is in full swing. Hiroo Onoda has found himself living in a society ruled over by harsh regulations and orders that have altered the way that both himself and the rest of Imperial Japan have to live through everyday ("City Life/ Nude"). One day, Nude receives an envelope in the mail that require his services to the Japanese Army and the war effort. Seeing that he had no other options, he follows the instructions ("Drafted"). When the time had finally arrived, Nude finds himself alongside other young soldiers who are being loaded onto a ship to head for battle with a crowd of people watching behind them ("Docks"). Eventually, he is thrown into the fighting on a Pacific Island and is quickly overwhelmed by his surroundings, leading to a blackout during combat ("Beached"). When Nude wakes up, he is alone and without his regiment. He drifts off to sleep with the hopes that he will soon be rescued by his Unit, unaware of the fact that he has been left behind, all alone on the war-torn island ("Landscapes").
Time passes and many lonely years drift by. By now, Nude has given up his search and is currently living in a cave beside a lagoon, constantly patrolling through the jungles for any hiding enemies ("Changing Places"). Every once in a while, he retreats to a high mountaintop and runs through a procedure that fulfills his military duties, including reciting his countries national anthem and firing a bullet into the sky ("Pomp & Circumstance"). When a plane flies over him one day, Nude is greeted by a large content of leaflets, letters and photographs urging him to accept the end of the war and for him to return to his country ("Please Come Home"), however, he dismisses these replies, assuming that the Allied Forces were playing tricks on him. Over time, Nude feels a shift in his feelings and comes to the conclusion that the war had truly ended long ago ("Reflections"). While on a hunt somewhere later on, he is captured and thrown onto a boat taking him back to Japan ("Captured").
Upon hearing of his return, the entire nation rejoiced. When Nude had landed back in his home land, he is greeted with crowds of people in celebration and excitement for his return ("The Homecoming"). Despite the warm welcome, his years of loneliness and lack of communication leads to a breakdown; a tidal wave of publicity that he did not favor ("Lies"). With the passing of his fame came his separation from the rest of society and life became dull for the returned soldier, even with his fame and government rewards. On his 50th Birthday, a small group had thrown a party for him and gave him a cake that allowed him to remember his time away. Nude is moved by such a presentation and is allowed to be left alone to reflect on his past ("The Last Farewell: The Birthday Cake/ Nudes Return").
Legacy
In 2008, Steven Wilson, writing in Classic Rock magazine, included Nude as one of "10 Mind-Blowing Concept Albums that may have slipped under your radar".
All Music Guide's Daevid Jehnzen wrote that "Nude" is, in many ways, just as impressive. Although a less accessible effort, it has a number of quite intriguing passages, especially as it features more improvisation, orchestration, and even some world rhythm influences. It's not as spacious as Camel's early progressive rock records, but it's quite atmospheric and creates its own fascinating world. On the other hand, Sputnik Music website said that the musicianship on this album is stellar, utilizing symphonies, vibraphones, and yes, it has even a saxophone. It’s one of the best progressive albums of the 80’s in a very troubled musical period to the progressive rock music. “Nude” doesn't need to hide behind masterpieces like “Mirage”. It's better than much of what was served to us by other progressive bands in that period.
Track listing
All songs written by Andrew Latimer, except where noted.
* 2009 Expanded & Remastered Edition
Bonus tracks recorded at Hammersmith Odeon on 22 February 1981 for BBC Radio One "In Concert". Excerpts from "Nude" medley:
Personnel
* Camel
* Andrew Latimer – guitars, vocals, flute, koto & various keyboards; lead vocals on "Please Come Home" and "Lies"
* Colin Bass – bass, vocals; lead vocals on "City Life" and "Drafted"
* Andy Ward – drums, percussion
* Additional musicians
* Mel Collins – flute, piccolo, saxophones
* Duncan Mackay – keyboards
* Jan Schelhaas – piano on "The Last Farewell"
* Chris Green – cello on "Drafted"
* Gasper Lawal – all percussion on "Changing Places"
* Herbie Flowers – tuba on "The Homecoming"
* Production
* Engineered by Tony Clarke
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Hits 3 (Spice 1 album)
Hits 3 is third greatest hits album by American rapper Spice 1. It was released April 9, 2002 on Mobb Status Entertainment. The album was produced by Ant Banks, Blackjack, DJ Paul, Juicy J, Pimp C, Al Eaton, DJ Squeaky, Tony Harmon and Spice 1. It features songs from his "post-Jive" releases: The Last Dance, Spiceberg Slim and The Playa Rich Project, one song from the Jive album Immortalized, as well as guest appearances from the albums: The Big Badass, CrazyNDaLazDayz, Colouz Uv Sound and Cellblock Compilation, Vol. 2: Face/Off. Several guest performers appear on the album, including: 2Pac, Ant Banks, Too Short, UGK, Jayo Felony, Tray Dee, Yukmouth, MJG and Three 6 Mafia.
Hits 3 was released in between two Spice 1 studio albums, The Last Dance (2000) and Spiceberg Slim (2002). The album is the third of three greatest hits compilations by Spice 1, Hits and Hits II: Ganked & Gaffled, were released in 1998 and 2001, respectively.
Critical reception
Allmusic - "...Spice 1's second of two greatest-hits collections in two years, Hits 3 compiles a modest number of the notorious West Coast hardcore rapper's performances..."
Track listing
* 1) "Who Can I Trust?" - 3:53 (from the album The Last Dance)
* 2) "I Can't Turn Back" (featuring 2Pac & Young Akayser) - 3:33 (from the album Cellblock Compilation, Vol. 2: Face/Off)
* 3) "Got Me Fucked Up" - 3:19 (from the album Spiceberg Slim)
* 4) "Would You Ride?" - 4:29 (from the album Immortalized)
* 5) "To Kill a G" (featuring Ant Banks & Too Short) - 5:19 (from the album The Big Badass)
* 6) "Murder Man" (featuring UGK) - 4:30 (from the album The Last Dance)
* 7) "That's OK" (featuring Rappin' 4-Tay) - 3:33 (from the album Spiceberg Slim)
* 8) "Ride or Die" (featuring Jayo Felony, Tray Dee & Yukmouth) - 4:24 (from the album The Playa Rich Project)
* 9) "Chocolate Philly" (featuring MJG) - 4:18 (from the album The Last Dance)
* 10) "Playa Pieces" - 4:34 (from the album The Last Dance)
* 11) "Wet Party" (featuring Three 6 Mafia) - 3:53 (from the album CrazyNDaLazDayz)
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2015 Palanca Awards
The 65th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held on September 1, 2015, at The Peninsula Manila in Makati to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. Out of 895 entries, only 57 Filipino literary writers and artists emerged as victors. Dr. Gemino H. Abad [soon to be declared National Artist for Literature] was guest of honor and speaker at this year's awarding ceremony.
The 2015 winners are divided into four categories:
Novel
* Grand Prize: Victorette Joy Z. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands
Short Story
* First Prize: Alexis A. L. Abola, "Phallic Symbols"
* Second Prize: Maria Carmen G. Aquino Sarmiento, "The Backroom Angels Buggaloo"
* Third Prize: Hammed Q. Bolotaolo, "The Storyteller"
Short Story for Children
* First Prize: Raymond G. Falgui, "Monster Rescue: A Children’s Story for Adult Readers"
* Second Prize: Victoria Estrella C. Bravo, "The Bear"
* Third Prize: Jonathan R. Guillermo, "The Three Questions of Tarongoy"
Poetry
* First Prize: Charisse-Fuchsia A. Paderna, "An Abundance of Selves"
* Second Prize: Arkaye Kierulf, "There Are No Monsters"
* Third Prize: Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr., "Aria and Trumpet Flourish"
Poetry Written for Children
* First Prize: Peter Solis Nery, "The Rainbow Collection"
* Second Prize: Patricia Celina A. Ngo, "Ordinary Adventures"
* Third Prize: Elyrah L. Salanga-Torralba, "The Cockroach’s Prayer"
Essay
* First Prize: Eli Rueda Guieb III, "Symphony of Dry Winds in a Time without Rain"
* Second Prize: Jennifer Dela Rosa Balboa, "Violence, A Biography"
* Third Prize: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada, "The Bangkok Masseur"
One-Act Play
* First Prize: Layeta P. Bucoy, "The Adopted Healthy Baby"
* Second Prize: Jose Elvin Bueno, "Looking for Ulysses"
* Third Prize: Jonathan R. Guillermo, "The Hawk and the Viper"
Full-Length Play
* First Prize: No Winner
* Second Prize: Jose Maria Manalo, "Obando"
* Third Prize: Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza, "Haiyan"
Nobela
* Grand Prize: Charmaine Mercader Lasar, Toto O.
Maikling Kwento
* First Prize: John Carlo I. Pacala, "Ang Reyna ng Espada at mga Pusar"
* Second Prize: Lilia Quindoza Santiago, "Mag-ambahan Tayo"
* Third prize: Andrian M. Legaspi, "Johnson at Putol"
Maikling Kwentong Pambata
* First Prize: Manuelita Contreras-Cabrera, "Sulat sa Birhen"
* Second Prize: Salvador T. Biglaen, "Ang Alamat ng Gulugod Baka"
* Third Prize: Corazon L. Santos, "Ang Hiling sa Punso"
Tula
* First Prize: Christa I. De La Cruz, "Mula sa Silong"
* Second Prize: Abner Dormiendo, "Sa Antipolo pa rin ang Antipolo"
* Third Prize: Christian Jil R. Benitez, "Sapagkat Umiibig: Mga Tula"
Tulang Pambata
* First Prize: Errol A. Merquita, "Ang Iisang Paa ng Tsinelas"
* Second Prize: John Romeo Leongson Venturero, "Si Iking Pasaway"
* Third Prize: No Winner
Sanaysay
* First Prize: Adelma L. Salvador, "Silat"
* Second Prize: Dionie Cabral Tañada, "Tawag ng Pangangailangan"
* Third Prize: Jayson Bernard B. Santos, "Ang Tiktik sa Kalye Moriones"
Dulang May Isang Yugto
* First Prize: Allan B. Lopez, "Sa Isang Hindi Natatanging Umaga, at Ang Mga Ulap ay Dahan-Dahang Pumaibabaw sa Nabubulok na Lungsod"
* Second Prize: Vladimeir B. Gonzales, "Mal"
* Third Prize: Marco Antonio R. Rodas, "Igba"
Dulang May Ganap na Haba
* First Prize: Kanakan Balintagos, "Mga Buhay na Apoy"
* Second Prize: Edgardo B. Maranan, "Diwata ng Bayan"
* Third Prize: George A. De Jesus III, "Maniacal"
Dulang Pampelikula
* First Prize: Eloisa Angeli Andrada Palileo, "Pink o Blue"
* Second Prize: Brylle B. Tabora, "Sekyu"
* Third Prize: Nita Eden So, "Alyas FPJ"
Short Story [Cebuano]
* First Prize: Lamberto G. Ceballos, "Tuba"
* Second Prize: Manuel M. Avenido Jr., "Sa Lalaking Naligsan sa may Interseksyon"
* Third Prize: Januar E. Yap, "Liboa’g Usa Ka Hugon-Hugon Kabahin sa Tagulilong"
Short Story [Hiligaynon]
* First Prize: Jesus C. Insilada, "Amburukay"
* Second Prize: Ritchie D. Pagunsan, "Kalamay Nga Pula"
* Third Prize: Gil S. Montinola, "Ang Lapsag sa Taguangkan ni Belen"
Short Story [Iluko]
* First Prize: No Winner
* Second Prize: No Winner
* Third Prize: Rhea Rose Domasing Berroy, "Ti Naimas a Luto ni Inangko ken Dagiti Babbai iti Biwong"
Kabataan Essay
* First Prize: Catherine Regina Hanopol Borlaza, "That Man, That Hero in Our Stories"
* Second Prize: Richard C. Cornelio, "A Loaded Gun in the House Next Door"
* Third Prize: Annicka B. Koteh, "Until Transcendence"
Kabataan Sanaysay
* First Prize: Karl Gabrielle B. De Los Santos, "Hindi Ko Alam"
* Second Prize: Lance Lauren L. Santiago, "Ang Nakakikiliting Kalabit ng Bukang-Liwayway"
* Third Prize: Jason Renz D. Barrios, "Kahimanawari: Mga Kwentong Aswang ni Lola Basyang" | WIKI |
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Linux Question
AWS EC2 Permissions Denied /usr/local/bin cURL
I am trying to follow this documentation and install docker machine on my EC2 instance. However, the curl command:
curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.8.2/docker-machine-`uname -s`-`uname -m` >/usr/local/bin/docker-machine
quits with the error:
-bash: /usr/local/bin/docker-machine: Permission denied
I tried to curl into the home directory, hoping that it would change the permissions on the directory and then copy it to destination, but it didn't work.
How can I by-pass this? Clearly, the ec2-user is lacking the root privileges on some directories.
Answer Source
-v When given the -v (validate) option, sudo will update the user's cached credentials, authenticating the user's password if necessary. For the sudoers plugin, this extends the sudo timeout for another 5 minutes (or whatever the timeout is set to by the security policy) but does not run a command. Not all security policies support cached credentials.
ec2-user is in sudoers list by default.
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo -v
[ec2-user ~]$
Try this:
sudo bash -c "curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.8.2/docker-machine-`uname -s`-`uname -m` >/usr/local/bin/docker-machine"
If you want to make the saved file an executable for all:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
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Fitness At home
Staying fit and healthy is not only helpful for our physical well-being but also for our mental wellbeing. However, after the ongoing pandemic and lockdown, it has become difficult to practice outdoor exercise. At the same time, fitness studios and gyms are closed. In this circumstance, the only effective way that we can rely on is the internet resources to stay healthy and fit during the coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to several online classes that can guide you to work out at home with the help of available exercise equipment. Fitness at home using online classes has become the new and most effective trend in the UK.
How to Stay Fit at Home?
Fitness at home has become very easy with online fitness platforms. With the help of these online platforms, you can easily exercise in front of your TV or other devices. You can also access the fitness class whenever you want. There are numerous different types of workouts that you can practice becoming fit and losing weight. However, you need to identify a suitable fitness regime for you such as high intensity or beginner or else. Therefore, you can easily take care of your physical and mental health during lockdown by joining an online fitness platform.
The Importance of Smart Fitness Goals:
When you want to stay fit and healthy by working out at home, you should have a smart fitness goal to achieve your success. Smart fitness goals help you to reach your fitness objective. SMART- acronym represents “S for Specific, M for Measurable, A for Attainable, R for Relevant, and T for Timely”. You can keep track of your everyday workout and follow healthy meals according to your plan with the help of smart goals. So, to set a fitness goal, you should consider these five elements.
Specific:
Your fitness goals have to be very specific to drive yourself in the right direction. To make a specific goal, you should include “What?” “Who?”When?” “Where?” and “Why?” questions into your goals. A specific goal will help you to determine the details of your planning.
Measurable:
You should have measurable goals. For instance, you can set a goal of ‘losing 5 pounds’ or ‘running five miles. However, there should be a time frame in your goal so that you can make a plan of reaching your goal within a certain time. Setting a time frame will help you to measure your progress towards achieving the goal.
Attainable:
You should always set realistic and attainable goals so that you can achieve your goals. If you set unreasonable goals over a short period of time, you will become frustrated for failing to attend to the goals. You can also cause harm to your body by setting unattainable goals. Therefore, set your goals considering your limitations.
Relevant:
Your goals have to be relevant to your desire. You should set small milestones that are relevant to your way of life. You need to consider your personal well-being while setting goals.
Timely:
There should be a deadline for your fitness goal. For instance, you can make a plan of losing 5 pounds in two weeks. If you have a long-term fitness goal, you should set several short period goals to achieve your long-term goal and to make yourself keep going on track.
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Multi-tenancy, which involves the sharing of infrastructure, software, and network assets by more than one entity, is the predominant mode of computing in the cloud. There are good reasons for this. A multi-tenant environment is more efficient than alternative approaches like assigning each system its own individual machine. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) host multiple companies’ IT resources at once, providing each with cost savings compared to self-hosting all resources on-premise.
Having multiple tenants sharing data assets, however, exposes everyone involved to security risks. Eavesdropping, unauthorized data access, lateral moves between assets, and malfeasance are all possible if tenants can access each other’s resources without permission. Privileged Access Management (PAM) naturally emerges as an underlying countermeasure to mitigate these risks.
Multi-tenancy is the sharing of infrastructure, software, and network assets by more than one entity.
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Multi-Tenancy and Why It’s Good for IT
Multi-tenancy solves a major problem for IT departments. Prior to its use, each system required its own dedicated hardware and software. If you wanted to run an application on a Windows Server with Microsoft SQL , you would install it on an X86 server and that machine would be yours for the duration. If you used it once a day, it didn’t matter. You still had exclusive use of that machine. As you can imagine, this quickly led to an unsustainable proliferation of physical machines.
The Evolution of Virtualization
PAM and multi tenancy - apartment
Virtualization provided a solution. With a hypervisor, it became possible to run multiple independent systems as Virtual Machines (VMs) on the same hardware. Each system is a “tenant” on the machine, just like a person is a tenant in an apartment building. And, just as apartments share common electrical and plumbing systems, the VMs running on the hypervisor share resources like power, memory, and network connectivity.
Virtualization and multi-tenancy work well in private data centers, where they help with resource utilization. The technology has grown in sophistication in recent years, making it possible for today’s elaborate multi-tenant public cloud services. With a public cloud provider, you’re one of millions of tenants on a massive collection of shared resources. You might be sharing tenancy on the same machine, the same database, and so forth. This arrangement offers substantial cost savings and gains in flexibility. However, it also introduces some serious security risks.
Security Risks in Multi-Tenant Environments
A system running in a multi-tenant environment is exposed to all the standard security threats like malware and hacking. However, given its location, the tenant must face an added layer of risk. Essentially, there is the possibility that a malicious actor will take advantage of the architecture to gain unauthorized access to your data assets.
Although multi-tenant environments streamline workflow, they have an added layer of risk as hackers can take advantage of the architecture to gain deeper access into organizational systems.
This might mean the hacker penetrates the hypervisor and is then able to manipulate or spy on any VM it hosts if the tenant environments are not well isolated from one another, with insufficient security. The attack could involve an unauthorized database user jumping across data tables shared by multiple tenants and stealing data from your system. Or, the malicious actor could disrupt your operations by switching your system off.
PAM and multi tenancy - hacker
The public cloud actually presents two layers of this kind of risk. The cloud provider itself has multi-tenant security risk at the infrastructure and hardware level. Customers have multi-tenant risk from other tenants or from attackers who have penetrated the cloud infrastructure. Given the standard two-tier security model of the public cloud, you will undoubtedly find yourself responsible for shielding yourself form multi-tenant risk at the application and storage layers.
Solutions to Multi-Tenant Risk in the Cloud
Multi-tenant environments can attain very robust security postures. Both infrastructure managers and clients have a variety of tools at their disposal to isolate one tenant from another, without relying solely on the CSP for security. These include internal access control systems that prevent a malicious actor from entering your system through a breach elsewhere in the multi-tenant architecture.
However, such countermeasures must adhere to a fundamental principle in order to work: There has to be clarity and certainty about who can administer the tenant assets as well as the ecurity measure itself. Without confidence that such privileged access is under control, the risk level goes up again.
Privileged Access Management and Multi-Tenancy
Types of Privileged Users
A user who has the right to access the administrative back end of a system is known as a “privileged user.” In a multi-tenant context, there are several different kinds of privileged users. The user who can set up and modify the hypervisor or other controls over shared resources is a privileged user. Someone who can set up or manage the underlying network infrastructure is similarly privileged.
At the client or tenant level, a privileged user is the person who can set up or modify the hosted assets. For example, a privileged user for a tenant will be able to administer the servers, databases, and storage that the tenant entity is renting. If security controls are in place, a tenant-level privileged user should not be able to access the assets of another tenant.
Different types of privileged users have access and control over different aspects of the infrastructure depending on their role.
Utilizing a PAM Solution
A well-implemented Privileged Access Management (PAM) system prevents a privileged user (or stolen privileged credentials) from gaining unauthorized administrative access to systems in a multi-tenant ecosystem. PAM combines practices and tools to keep malicious actors away from sensitive administrative backends. Indeed, when a hacker can impersonate a privileged user, he or she can do a lot of damage very quickly—stealing information, tainting the integrity of data, shutting systems down, and more. And, in some cases, the malicious privileged user can erase any evidence that he or she was even there.
A PAM solution operationalizes the control and oversight of all privileged activity. WALLIX, for example, lets super admins grant and revoke access privileges to users. The solution sits between the privileged user and the target system, providing access only to those resources which the user is authorized to see and administrate. That way, if a privileged user leaves the company, changes role, or simply no longer needs privileged access, the access rights can be terminated instantly.
PAM and multi tenancy - super admin
The PAM solution also monitors privileged account sessions. This makes it possible for security analysts to know the answer to the most important questions that arise in a security incident: who did what, when? The WALLIX Bastion solution actually records a video of the privileged account session so it will be clear what a malicious—or negligent—actor did to harm the security of a multi-tenant system. PAM solutions can also issue alerts if there are suspicious activities occurring in a privileged account session. For example, if a privileged user logs in from an unexpected remote location, that could trigger an alert so SecOps people can investigate if there is something improper going on.
PAM provides a countermeasure to secure multi-tenant environments. It gives system owners visibility and control over who has administrative access to the tenant assets as well as to isolation solutions that secure the tenant assets. The cloud provider, too, can and should embrace PAM to make sure that only those with the appropriate authorization can access the admin panels of the cloud infrastructure. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd (born October 23, 1966) is the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and former justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Early life, education and legal career
Budd was born on October 23, 1966, to former U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts Wayne Budd. Budd primarily grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts. She attended Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, but graduated high school in Atlanta after her family moved before the start of her senior year in 1983.
Budd received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Georgetown University, graduating magna cum laude in 1988, and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1991. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Chief Justice Joseph P. Warner of the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 1991. She was a litigation associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo before serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. After that, she was a university attorney for Harvard University in the General Counsel's Office. She later served as Director of the Community Values program at Harvard Business School. Budd teaches in MCLE and Bar Association programs, is a former adjunct instructor at New England Law, and has taught trial advocacy at Harvard Law School.
Judicial career
Budd was previously an Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court. She was nominated to the court by Governor Deval Patrick in July 2009 and began active service in September 2009. She was nominated to the seat formerly held by Ralph D. Gants.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
She was nominated to the court by Governor Charlie Baker on June 14, 2016, and confirmed by the Governor's Council on August 10, 2016. She assumed office on August 24, 2016, and was ceremonially sworn in on November 21, 2016.
In May 2017, Budd wrote for the unanimous court when it found that the federal Americans with Disabilities Act required the Massachusetts parole board to make reasonable accommodations when considering whether to grant parole to a murderer with traumatic brain injury.
On October 28, 2020, Governor Charlie Baker nominated Justice Budd to assume the role of Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Justice Budd has been nominated to fill the Chief Justice vacancy after the death of former Chief Justice Justice Ralph Gants in September 2020. On November 18, 2020, she was unanimously confirmed by the Governor's Council. Budd became the first female, African-American Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upon her swearing in.
Personal life
She is married with two sons. Her father is Wayne Budd, senior counsel at Goodwin Procter and a former United States Attorney. | WIKI |
Weekly Market Wrap: May 29, 2015
The twenty-first full trading week of 2015 comes to a close with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ composite all lower on the day in late afternoon trading.
Most actively traded stocks include Apple (AAPL) down 0.97%, Bank of America (BAC) lower by 0.84%, Intel (INTC) up 1.01%, and Pfizer (PFE) higher by 0.86%.
The S&P 500, NASDAQ and Dow are all lower in the last five days of trading.
Crude oil futures are higher this week, trading at $60.28 per barrel on Friday afternoon.
And Gold futures are down this week, trading at $1190.89 an ounce this afternoon.
In economic news, sales of new single-family houses in April 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 517,000, according to estimates released jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 6.8 percent above the revised March rate of 484,000 and is 26.1 percent above the April 2014 estimate of 410,000.
The median sales price of new houses sold in April 2015 was $297,300; the average sales price was $341,500. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of April was 205,000. This represents a supply of 4.8 months at the current sales rate.
In the week ending May 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 282,000, an increase of 7,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 274,000 to 275,000. The 4-week moving average was 271,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 250 from 266,250 to 266,500.
Real gross domestic product -- the value of the production of goods and services in the United States, adjusted for price changes -- decreased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.
In corporate dividend news, Cisco ( CSCO ) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.21 per common share to be paid on July 22, 2015 to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 6, 2015.
HP ( HPQ ) has declared a regular cash dividend of $0.176 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend, the third in HP's fiscal year 2015, is payable on July 1, 2015, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 10, 2015.
Tiffany & Co. ( TIF ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share of Common Stock, representing a 5% increase in the quarterly rate. This action increases the quarterly dividend from $0.38 per share to the new rate of $0.40 per share.
Merck ( MRK ) has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.45 per share of the company's common stock for the third quarter of 2015. Payment will be made on July 8, 2015, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 15, 2015.
The Deere & Company ( DE ) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $.60 per share on common stock, payable August 3, 2015, to stockholders of record on June 30, 2015.
Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) declared a dividend of $0.29 per share on the Common Stock of the company, payable in cash on June 19, 2015, to holders of record of such common shares at the close of business on June 5, 2015.
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Getting Data In
How to filter for a specific pattern with wild card?
aamer4zangi
Path Finder
Hi,
In excel you can custom filter the cells using a wild card with a question mark.
For example, if I want to filter following data I will write AB??-
AB22- , AB43-, AB03-
Are these searches possible in Splunk? If I write AB*- , it will match AB1233-, ABw-, AB22222222-.
I want specifically 2 characters between AB and -
Thanks.
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1 Solution
mayurr98
Super Champion
Try this run anywhere search
| makeresults | eval raw="AB22-,AB43-,AB03-,AB1233-,ABw-,AB22222222-"| makemv raw delim="," | mvexpand raw| rex field=raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
In your environment, you should write
<your base search >| rex field=_raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
If these are getting capture in a specific field the write field=<your_field> in rex command or else _raw.
let me know if this helps!
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mayurr98
Super Champion
Try this run anywhere search
| makeresults | eval raw="AB22-,AB43-,AB03-,AB1233-,ABw-,AB22222222-"| makemv raw delim="," | mvexpand raw| rex field=raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
In your environment, you should write
<your base search >| rex field=_raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
If these are getting capture in a specific field the write field=<your_field> in rex command or else _raw.
let me know if this helps!
aamer4zangi
Path Finder
Thanks for the reply.
I must confess I am encountering makeresults for the first time, so trying to wrap my head around the search cmd.
AB22-,AB43-,AB03-,AB1233-,ABw-,AB22222222- is not my raw data, it was just an example. The cells contain data with a pattern of ABXX- and I want to filter only those records in a specific column which follow that specific pattern.
I did come across filter option when converting data into Data Table. However, still no success.
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mayurr98
Super Champion
did you try this?
index=<your_index>| rex field=_raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
can you share sample raw events so that I can give you appropriate regex?
aamer4zangi
Path Finder
There are thousands of lines, just sampling few lines. This data is coming from comments people write for specific hardware and is not generated by a machine. Thus, it is highly random. The raw data is as follows. Additionally this data is present in a specific column.
After the search the first 6 rows should be the final result.
1 1401812.AQWEAB02-TCPL02.1G
2 1356292.QWERAB04-ANCA02
3 1234OAB05-PLAIN02 reserved ||
4 1405252.AB07-SBCC01
5 1409325-ARDRAB05-GENIV02.22
6 1304030.ARDRAB07-TECEL02.10333
7 1389621.ABFDBC01-COGDS02333
8 1349222.ABFDBC01-MOH29.5MJJ
9 1313513.ABFDBC01-BPRSS
10 1393599.ABFDBC01-WGELP
11 1375957.ABFDBC01-BREQL01.0M222
12 1332348.ABFDBC01-MANNG01.10M1WW1
13 1321017.ABFDBC01-BLJCW01.3MQQ
Moreover, it is not only AB??- that I would be searching for, there are other criteria as well but I guess if we can get one criteria down then others should follow the same pattern.
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mayurr98
Super Champion
yes so I have given the correct regex
what is the result of this search?
index=<your_index>| rex field=_raw "(?<newfield>AB\d{2}-)"| search newfield=*
I have already given you the solution.
See my workaround here. it is exactly matching first 6 events. above search will return only events with AB??-.
https://regex101.com/r/7b6mTh/1
mayurr98
Super Champion
If you deem a posted answer as valid and helpful to your solving of the issue, please accept said answer so that this question no longer appears open.
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aamer4zangi
Path Finder
Thanks a lot mate. Yes, it worked as wanted. In the end if I want to add BC??- to AB??- how should I add these two.
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mayurr98
Super Champion
do you mean (AB OR BC)??-?
then try this
(?<newfield>((AB)|(BC))\d{2}-)
aamer4zangi
Path Finder
Thanks again...yes. It did the trick.
Moreover, regex101.com is a great tool.
mayurr98
Super Champion
did you try this?
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sravankaripe
Communicator
write add below rex to your query
| rex "AB(?\d\d)-" | eval myfield="AB".myfield | search myfield=*
please let me know if its works?
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aamer4zangi
Path Finder
Thanks in advance. I got the following error.
Error in 'rex' command: Encountered the following error while compiling the regex 'AB(?\d\d)-': Regex: unrecognized character after (? or (?-
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58 comes their comrade with a working-man in a clean blouse. He had done his work, and was going out, but has seized two or three hammers and a wedge, and hastens in aid of the law.
The smith is brought up to the door, and looks at it and at those who have sent for him, and delays operations for a minute or two, and then removes his blouse, with the air of a man who is master of the situation. But the police have little patience with sentiment, and a sharp word, which calls up an angry glance in the man’s dark eye, nevertheless quickens him, and he places his wedge on the hinge side of the door. An exclamation of approval from one of the officers brings a slight smile of contempt to the smith’s lips.
“I suppose that you would try there,” he says, pointing to the lock, “so that when you had broken the bolts, you might have the further pleasure of breaking the chain, if you could.”
“How do you know that there is a chain?”
“Because I put it up myself, and was desired to make it strong, as the house was left to women, who wished to be secure.”
“And are not the hinges secure?”
“I was not told to do anything to the hinges,” replies the blacksmith.
They stood his blows, however, very well, and it was some time before he could make an opening for the wedge. It was gained at last, and the man struck hard, and the strong door began to give way.
Hawkesley was watching eagerly as the upper part of the door seemed to be yielding, and was ready to be the first to rush into the house, when Aventayle said:
“Surely she should not have come.”
“She—who?” and Hawkesley turning, saw Mrs. Lygon making her way through the crowd.
He sprang away, and was by her side in a moment.
“I beg you not to come, Laura,” he said. “This is no place for you. For God’s sake stop away from the house. I will fetch you, if you will, when we have done.”
“I must come in with you, Charles.”
“You do not know what you are asking—”
“I must come in. You cannot understand why I say so—but you must let me come. All my life may hang on a moment’s speech with him.”
“With him,—with whom?” said Hawkesley, impatiently.
Before Laura could reply, Henderson hurried up.
“It is useless, it is wicked—you must not, madam, indeed you must not. It is too dreadful. Take her away, sir, for the love of Heaven. It is too dreadful!”
The girl’s face was pale with terror, and her bright keen eyes shone out with a ghastly effect. She clung to Laura, and with gesture and earnest words implored her to keep back.
“I must see him,” said Laura, in a low voice.
“You cannot, dear lady, you cannot. And if you—”
But a crash announced that under the blows of the smith, aided by the pressure of the other men, the door had given way.
Hawkesley was about to run back to the house, but paused to adjure Laura to wait his return.
“If you would only hear me for one moment, dear lady,” implored Henderson. “Run in, Mr. Hawkesley, run in. I am sure that Mrs. Lygon will give me one minute.”
He saw that the girl had something that she would say, saw that she would detain Laura, by force if needful, and he darted back, and hurried into the house.
The police had already rushed through the large room in front, and through the smaller chamber, and had found no one. Charles Hawkesley hastened up-stairs to the drawing-rooms, and as he reached the landing, a gendarme, followed by another, confronted him—they had ascended by the private stair from the room at the back, the stair down which Mrs. Lygon had been conducted to her hiding-place.
The next moment Hawkesley was in the front drawing-room. It was empty.
Not so the second room.
There were signs there that men had closed in a fierce struggle, and near the open window the carpet was torn from its fastenings as by the stamping and grinding of foot and heel—furniture had been dashed about in that wild strife.
But these were points for the police to note. Hawkesley saw none of them.
He saw only the dead body of Robert Urquhart.
There lay the strong man. Upon his lip was blood, but this had flowed, as was plain, from wounds self-inflicted, and when he had set his teeth grimly, in some access of fiery passion, now still for ever. But he had died by a single blow,—a blow that had been delivered truly, and home. It had been struck, and he had gone down. Across the place of the wound the fold of the loose coat had fallen, and it was not until one of the officers gently drew it back, that the tale was told. It was not told in the face, for upon the strong features had come a calm that gave them a loftiness they had rarely shown in life, and upon the bleeding lip there was almost a smile.
“That man has not died in the presence of his murderer,” said, in a low voice, one of the officers—a soldier who had seen other deaths. “What is that gold in his hand?”
The hand was stiffening, but it yielded easily as yet, and Hawkesley drew from its clasp a small locket. It had been worn on a ribbon, which was broken, and there were specks of blood upon the glass, as if it had been pressed to the wounded lips.
Hawkesley knew well the fair hair of Bertha.
“He has forgiven her—forgiven her his death—but that was the least he had to pardon,” said Hawkesley, his voice breaking with his tears.
But he spoke in presence of the dead only—the officers had dispersed on the traces of the assassin.
had lingered behind his friend, for, lacking the personal interest which hurried Hawkesley on to whatever sight might be in store for him, the former owned to a shuddering repugnance to encounter, needlessly, a spectacle | WIKI |
How Much Does A Pontoon Boat Weigh
The average pontoon boat weight is between 2,000 and 2,500 pounds. This weight includes the weight of the motor.
Most pontoon boats of this size and weight can support as much as 2,000 pounds of weight. That weight would be the combined total of accessories, gear, coolers, people, and gasoline.
These vessels come in varying lengths and widths, with a lot of different accessories like covers, extra seating, and tables. That means that their weight varies depending on the size of the craft and the accessories and features on it.
Some of the longer varieties, with all of the bells and whistles on them, can weigh as much as 10,000 pounds. Some of the smallest vessels with little or no accessories can weigh as little as 1,000 pounds.
Pontoon Boat Sizes
Pontoon Boat Tied to a Dock
These boats come in three basic size categories.
Small
The smaller vessels are normally between 12 and 19 feet in length. There are some that are shorter, but the majority of the small size will start at 12 feet.
They weigh between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds depending on what type of seating they have, whether they have a cloth cover or metal cover, and possibly no cover.
Medium
The mid-size units start at about 20 feet in length and top out at lengths of close to 35 feet. Their weight is between 2,200 pounds and 8,500 pounds.
Large
The big boys in this category start at about 30 feet in length and they top out at close to 60 feet in length. They are definitely what you call a party barge.
Larger boats can weigh between 7,500 pounds and 10,000 pounds. You need a truck with a serious tow package to drag these bad boys behind.
Weights to Consider
Pontoon on lake
When you are talking about boats of any kind there are three main weights that you should be concerned with.
The Dry Weight
The dry weight of the boat is the weight of the boat chassis and the engine. It is the weight of the boat when it is devoid of any accessories, people, or cargo.
The Wet Weight
The wet weight of the boat tells you how much it weighs after you load it with gasoline, people, drinks, accessories, and supplies. Most of the boats will gain up to 2,000 pounds when they are packed and ready to go out on the water.
The Tow Weight
The towing weight is critical because it is the weight that your vehicle must be able to pull to transport the boat to and from the water.
The tow weight is the combined weight of the boat with accessories on it and the trailer that the boat is riding on.
This weight is important because you have to have a vehicle with a towing ability that equals the weight of the boat or you will not be able to travel safely to and from the water.
Pros and Cons of These Boats
pontoon boat dock
Pros:
• They are safer, especially for families with children
• They are comfortable with ample seating
• You can get up and move around freely and do not have to stay in a cramped seated position
• They can be used as fishing boats
• They can be used to pull a skier or a tuber
• You can actually sleep on them
• The covers protect you from excessive exposure to the sun and help keep you cooler
• They often have radios
• The things on the deck are less likely to get wet
• There is often a table for lunches and picnics
• There is plenty of room for coolers of drinks and supplies.
• Most of the bench seats lift to reveal hidden storage compartments
• You can easily get off of them and go for a swim and then get back on the boat using the handy ladder positioned close to the motor
Cons:
• They do not go very fast. The top speed in one of these boats is about 25 mph.
• Outboard engines can be noisier than inboard engines.
• They weigh more than many other boats so they are more difficult to tow
• They are larger so you might not be able to get as close to your favorite fishing spots as you would like
• If you hit a submerged item you can damage the pontoons
FAQs
Are Pontoon Boats Safe?
They are safer than other boats with a much lower chance of passengers falling out of the boat.
Do Pontoon Boats Come With Toilets?
The casual leisure pontoon does not have a toilet but usually has a space where a porta-potty can be sat for privacy.
Can You Flip A Pontoon Boat?
These boats are stabilized and it would be very hard to flip one. With that said, you could potentially flip one of them under extreme conditions.
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resided in Samaria, where St. Peter the decon preached with much success confirming the same by miracles; however, Simon was in great reputation among the people, and stiled himself, the great power of God, and affirming that he was the supreme Deity, worshipped by all nations; the apostles sent Peter and John from Jerusalem to Philip's assistanccassistance [sic], who when they came thither, laid their hands upon the new converts whereupon they presently reccivedreceived [sic] the Holy Ghost; which when Simon saw, he offered them money if they would confer that power upon him. But Peter perceiving his vile intentions, scornfully rejected his impious offer. However, by his witchcrafts and sorceries, he at length became acceptable to the emperor as well as the vulgar; Nero that monster, had much veneration for him, being patron of the magicians, and all thoscthose [sic] who have commerce with the infernal powers, and Peter being returned to Rome, resolved to encounter him, and discover the impostures and dclusionsdelusions [sic] of this wretched man.
About that time, an eminent young gentleman, kinsman to the emperor, died at Rome, and the same of Peter's having power to raise the dead, his friends were persuaded to send for him, but others proposed Simon Magus, who readily came, being glad of the occasion to magnify himself among the people, and Peter being present, Simon alledged, that he had provoked the great power of God, and should lose his life if he did not raise the dead person, but if Peter prevailed he himself would submit to the same fate: Peter accepted the terms, and Simon began his charms and cnchantmentsenchantments [sic], whereat the dead gentleman seemed to move his head, upon which the people shouted, and cricdcried [sic] he was alive, and talked to Simon, and began to insult Peter; the apostle intreated their patience, and told them it was nothing but fancy and appearance, and that if Simon were removed from | WIKI |
coil spring
Noun
* 1) A common type of mechanical spring in a form of a helix, manufactured in different styles and sizes for many different applications. | WIKI |
Ministry of Popular Culture
The Ministry of Popular Culture (Ministero della Cultura Popolare, commonly abbreviated to MinCulPop) was a ministry of the Italian government from 1937 to 1944.
History
It was established by the Fascist government in 1922 as the Press Office of the Presidency of the Council, before being renamed to Press Office of the Head of Government in 1925. In 1934 it became the Secretariat for Press and Propaganda. It became a ministry in 1935 and was given its definitive designation in 1937. During its existence, it controlled most of the literary and radio channels in Italy. It was the Italian analogue of the German Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
The Ministry financed various Fascist publications, including La Difesa della Razza. It famously outlawed the importation and translation of all American comic books, with the lone exception of Mickey Mouse, in 1938.
The Ministry was officially suppressed by the Kingdom of Italy on 3 July 1944, having remained vacant ever since the overthrow of Benito Mussolini in the 25 Luglio coup a year earlier. During the Italian Social Republic, Mussolini revived the Ministry of Popular Culture and appointed Ferdinando Mezzasoma as its head.
Kingdom of Italy
* Parties
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with men and women whom he had thought remote as the Poles.
Two interesting examples are Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya and Mr. Samuel Gompers. Time was, and not so many years ago, when both condoned violence—the violence of the Russian Nihilist, the violence of the American dynamiter—as a short road to justice. Their attitude was not unlike that of the first Southern lynchers: "We take the law into our own hands, because conditions are unbearable, and the State affords no adequate relief." But Madame Breshkovskaya has seen the forces she helped to set in motion sweeping in unanticipated and shattering currents. She has seen a new terrorism arise and wield the weapons of the old to crush man's sacred freedom. The peasants she loved have been beyond the reach of her help. The country for which she suffered thirty years of exile repudiated her. Radicals in Europe and 85 | WIKI |
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 2
This is a follow-up to my Visualizing Risky Words post. You’ll need to read that for context if you’re just jumping in now. Full R code for the generated images (which are pretty large) is at the end.
Aesthetics are the primary reason for using a word cloud, though one can pretty quickly recognize what words were more important on well crafted ones. An interactive bubble chart is a tad better as it lets you explore the corpus elements that contained the terms (a feature I have not added yet).
I would posit that a simple bar chart can be of similar use if one is trying to get a feel for overall word use across a corpus:
freq-bars
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It’s definitely not as sexy as a word cloud, but it may be a better visualization choice if you’re trying to do analysis vs just make a pretty picture.
If you are trying to analyze a corpus, you might want to see which elements influenced the term frequencies the most, primarily to see if there were any outliers (i.e. strong influencers). With that in mind, I took @bfist’s corpus and generated a heat map from the top terms/keywords:
risk-hm
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There are some stronger influencers, but there is a pattern of general, regular usage of the terms across each corpus component. This is to be expected for this particular set as each post is going to be talking about the same types of security threats, vulnerabilities & issues.
The R code below is fully annotated, but it’s important to highlight a few items in it and on the analysis as a whole:
• The extra, corpus-specific stopword list : “week”, “report”, “security”, “weeks”, “tuesday”, “update”, “team” : was designed after manually inspecting the initial frequency breakdowns and inserting my opinion at the efficacy (or lack thereof) of including those terms. I’m sure another iteration would add more (like “released” and “reported”). Your expert view needs to shape the analysis and—in most cases—that analysis is far from a static/one-off exercise.
• Another area of opine was the choice of 0.7 in the removeSparseTerms(tdm, sparse=0.7) call. I started at 0.5 and worked up through 0.8, inspecting the results at each iteration. Playing around with that number and re-generating the heatmap might be an interesting exercise to perform (hint).
• Same as the above for the choice of 10 in subset(tf, tf>=10). Tweak the value and re-do the bar chart vis!
• After the initial “ooh! ahh!” from a word cloud or even the above bar chart (though, bar charts tend to not evoke emotional reactions) is to ask yourself “so what?”. There’s nothing inherently wrong with generating a visualization just to make one, but it’s way cooler to actually have a reason or a question in mind. One possible answer to a “so what?” for the bar chart is to take the high frequency terms and do a bigram/digraph breakdown on them and even do a larger cross-term frequency association analysis (both of which we’ll do in another post)
• The heat map would be far more useful as a D3 visualization where you could select a tile and view the corpus elements with the term highlighted or even select a term on the Y axis and view an extract from all the corpus elements that make it up. That might make it to the TODO list, but no promises.
I deliberately tried to make this as simple as possible for those new to R to show how straightforward and brief text corpus analysis can be (there’s less than 20 lines of code excluding library imports, whitespace, comments and the unnecessary expansion of some of the tm function calls that could have been combined into one). Furthermore, this is really just a basic demonstration of tm package functionality. The post/code is also aimed pretty squarely at the information security crowd as we tend to not like examples that aren’t in our domain. Hopefully it makes a good starting point for folks and, as always, questions/comments are heartily encouraged.
# need this NOAWT setting if you're running it on Mac OS; doesn't hurt on others
Sys.setenv(NOAWT=TRUE)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggthemes)
library(tm)
library(Snowball)
library(RWeka)
library(reshape)
# input the raw corpus raw text
# you could read directly from @bfist's source : http://l.rud.is/10tUR65
a = readLines("intext.txt")
# convert raw text into a Corpus object
# each line will be a different "document"
c = Corpus(VectorSource(a))
# clean up the corpus (function calls are obvious)
c = tm_map(c, tolower)
c = tm_map(c, removePunctuation)
c = tm_map(c, removeNumbers)
# remove common stopwords
c = tm_map(c, removeWords, stopwords())
# remove custom stopwords (I made this list after inspecting the corpus)
c = tm_map(c, removeWords, c("week","report","security","weeks","tuesday","update","team"))
# perform basic stemming : background: http://l.rud.is/YiKB9G
# save original corpus
c_orig = c
# do the actual stemming
c = tm_map(c, stemDocument)
c = tm_map(c, stemCompletion, dictionary=c_orig)
# create term document matrix : http://l.rud.is/10tTbcK : from corpus
tdm = TermDocumentMatrix(c, control = list(minWordLength = 1))
# remove the sparse terms (requires trial->inspection cycle to get sparse value "right")
tdm.s = removeSparseTerms(tdm, sparse=0.7)
# we'll need the TDM as a matrix
m = as.matrix(tdm.s)
# datavis time
# convert matri to data frame
m.df = data.frame(m)
# quick hack to make keywords - which got stuck in row.names - into a variable
m.df$keywords = rownames(m.df)
# "melt" the data frame ; ?melt at R console for info
m.df.melted = melt(m.df)
# not necessary, but I like decent column names
colnames(m.df.melted) = c("Keyword","Post","Freq")
# generate the heatmap
hm = ggplot(m.df.melted, aes(x=Post, y=Keyword)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill=Freq), colour="white") +
scale_fill_gradient(low="black", high="darkorange") +
labs(title="Major Keyword Use Across VZ RISK INTSUM 202 Corpus") +
theme_few() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(size=6))
ggsave(plot=hm,filename="risk-hm.png",width=11,height=8.5)
# not done yet
# better? way to view frequencies
# sum rows of the tdm to get term freq count
tf = rowSums(as.matrix(tdm))
# we don't want all the words, so choose ones with 10+ freq
tf.10 = subset(tf, tf>=10)
# wimping out and using qplot so I don't have to make another data frame
bf = qplot(names(tf.10), tf.10, geom="bar") +
coord_flip() +
labs(title="VZ RISK INTSUM Keyword Frequencies", x="Keyword",y="Frequency") +
theme_few()
ggsave(plot=bf,filename="freq-bars.png",width=8.5,height=11)
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1. Thanks for clear exposition, barchart and heatmap code. In Christchurch there is an abundance of word clouds without further analysis. Overall themes are to do with wellness and insurance. I need to track themes over time so will explore your code further in a week or two. Regards, Tony
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C++ Program to find union and intersection of two strings
In this program, You will learn how to find union and intersection of two strings in C++.
First string is :abc
Second sting is :bcdef
Union of two string :abcdef
Intersection of two String :bc
Example: How to find union and intersection of two strings in C++
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#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
using namespace std;
void findUnion(char str1[], char str2[]) {
int f, l = 0;
int i, j;
char str3[100];
int len1 = strlen(str1);
int len2 = strlen(str2);
while (str1[l] != '\0') {
str3[l] = str1[l];
l++;
}
for (i = 0; i < len2; i++) {
f = 0;
for (j = 0; j < len1; j++) {
if (str2[i] == str1[j]) {
f = 1;
}
}
if (f == 0) {
str3[l] = str2[i];
l++;
}
}
str3[l] = '\0';
cout << "\nUnion of Two String :" << str3;
}
void findIntersection(char str1[], char str2[]) {
int i, j, k = 0;
char str3[100];
int len1 = strlen(str1);
int len2 = strlen(str2);
for (i = 0; i < len1; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < len2; j++) {
if (str1[i] == str2[j]) {
str3[k] = str1[i];
k++;
}
}
}
str3[k] = '\0';
cout << "\nIntersection of Two String :" << str3;
}
int main() {
char str1[100];
char str2[100];
char str3[100];
int len1, len2, l = 0;
int i, j, f;
cout << "Enter First String :";
cin.getline(str1, 100);
cout << "\nEnter Second String :";
cin.getline(str2, 100);
findUnion(str1, str2);
findIntersection(str1, str2);
return 0;
}
Output:
Enter First String :abc
Enter Second String :bcdef
Union of Two String :abcdef
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/CXCIV Mademoiselle
October, 1900.
MY DEAR MADEMOISELLE,
I have been very happy and content here. I am having the best of times after many years. I find life here with Mr. Bois very satisfactory — the books, the calm, and the absence of everything that usually troubles me.
But I don't know what kind of destiny is waiting for me now.
My letter is funny, isn't it? But it is my first attempt.
Yours faithfully,
VIVEKANANDA. | WIKI |
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 6 Social Science (History) Chapter 9 The Gupta Age Exercises Questions and Answers.
(I) Match the following:-
(II) Answer the question:-
(1) Who wrote Panchatantra?
Ans: – Vishnusharma wrote Panchatantra
(2) What is the name of the book of Aryabhatta?
Ans: – Aryabhattiyam is the book of Aryabhatta
(3) What are Ajanta caves famous for?
Ans: – There are beautiful murals in the Ajanta caves depicting scenes from the life of Buddha. They have been done carefully that even today they look real. So that Ajanta caves are famous.
(4) What material is the temple at Bhitargaon made of?
Ans: – The temple of Bhitargaon is made of bricks
(5) Who said that the earth is not stationary, it rotates on its axis?
Ans: – Aryabhatta said that the earth is not stationary rotates on its axis.
(6) How did Samudragupta treat the kings of Chhattisgarh?
Ans: – The kings of Chattisgarh were defeated by Samudragupta. Samudragupta took yearly tribute from the and later returned this kingdom to the king.
(7) What were the characteristics of administration in Gupta empire?
Ans: – The administration was done by local people and the king gave orders only on important issues. A council of village elders administrated the village. This way local people played important roles in administration during the Gupta age.
(8) Which things did you like about the society in Gupta age?
Ans: – From the writings of Fa hien we know a lot about the society of Gupta age. The people were rich and happy. They did not have to pay much land revenue and did not drink wine. Buddhist monasteries were given fields along with houses, gardens formers and oxen. As well as there were no administrative restrictions.
(9) What features of religion in the Gupta age could be liked by the poor people?
Ans: – In the Gupta age expensive yojnas and religious rituals were being replaced by poojas, fastings and donations. This enabled poor people to take port in the religious activities.
(10) Which policy did Samudragupta adopt to have control over other kingdoms?
Ans: – Samudragupta defeated several rulers of Aryavarta, Aatvik state and Sakshinpatha. He fought and annexed the kingdoms. This way he became powerful king of a big empire and have control on those other kingdoms. But he returned the kingdoms to the rulers of the Dakshinpath after defeating them. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Jan 5 (Reuters) - Retrophin Inc:
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Sleep Deprivation And Air Traffic Control
How can sleep deprivation impact job performance?
Lack of sleep can make doing almost everything we need to do much more difficult. Trying to do a job while sleep deprived often leads to poor job performance, something we all want to avoid. This can be particularly problematic for those who make important and far-reaching decisions about the lives of others, such as politicians and ER doctors, to name a few.
A recent statement from the FAA highlights another profession for which lack of sleep can have very serious consequences: air traffic controllers. The FAA reported yet another air traffic controller who fell asleep for about five hours during his shift. The controller was on the midnight shift on February 19th, 2011. Air traffic controllers work in pairs, one handling incoming flights, and one working the radar. According to the article, while the controller who was supposed to be handling the incoming flights was sleeping, the other controller working in the tower in Knoxville, landed planes and worked the radar position at the same time. The FAA does not allow one person to do multiple jobs at the same time; this man was forced to do so as his colleague slept because he was too tired to stay awake.
We know this about sleep deprivation: there are real physiological and psychological effects as we deprive our bodies of a basic physical need. Our judgment isn’t always the best. Our reaction time slows, our memory decreases, our bodies and minds slowdown in an effort to preserve the energy we have left. In addition the more sleep deprived we get the less we notice it!
This is only the latest in sleep deprivation and fatigue-related incidents for the airline industry. Remember the October, 2009 incident, where two Northwest Airlines pilots fell asleep in the cockpit and overshot their destination by 150 miles? Pilots, traffic controllers on the ground—these are people we rely on for our safety when we fly.
The FAA suspended the controller who fell asleep on the job and continues to try to enforce rules about safely working midnight shifts. My big question is:
Was this really the controller’s fault?
It sounds like in many of these cases, the air traffic controllers are being asked to work back to back shifts, and in some cases multiple days at a time. This is INSANE, it is a miracle we have not had more issues. And while I agree that no one should be working such a late shift by themselves, air traffic controllers, pilots, and anyone with responsibility late at night or after long days should also consider:
• Taking naps earlier in the day before their shift
• Avoiding using caffeine as a way to stay awake-unless for use in the short term only
• Having a set sleep routine during both their work week and time off
After those pilots missed Minneapolis by 150 miles, the FAA rewrote its rules that govern flight time for pilots and their require rest periods in order to reduce the chances of fatigue. Hopefully they will also do so for the air traffic controllers on the ground.
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R Question
Fast way to create a binary matrix with known number of 1 each row in R
I have a vector that provides how many "1" each row of a matrix has. Now I have to create this matrix out of the vector.
For example, let say I want to create a 4 x 9 matrix
out
with following vector
v <- c(2,6,3,9)
. The result should look like this
out
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9]
[1,] 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
[2,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
[3,] 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
[4,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
I've done this with a
for
loop but my solution is slow for a large matrix (100k x 500):
out <- NULL
for(i in 1:length(v)){
out <- rbind(out,c(rep(1, v[i]),rep(0,9-v[i])))
}
Has anyone an idea for a faster way to create such a matrix?
Answer Source
Here is my approach using sapply and do.call and some timings on a small sample.
library(microbenchmark)
library(Matrix)
v <- c(2,6,3,9)
microbenchmark(
roman = {
xy <- sapply(v, FUN = function(x, ncols) {
c(rep(1, x), rep(0, ncols - x))
}, ncols = 9, simplify = FALSE)
xy <- do.call("rbind", xy)
},
fourtytwo = {
t(vapply(v, function(y) { x <- numeric( length=9); x[1:y] <- 1;x}, numeric(9) ) )
},
akrun = {
m1 <- sparseMatrix(i = rep(seq_along(v), v), j = sequence(v), x = 1)
m1 <- as.matrix(m1)
})
Unit: microseconds
expr min lq mean median uq
roman 26.436 30.0755 36.42011 36.2055 37.930
fourtytwo 43.676 47.1250 55.53421 54.7870 57.852
akrun 1261.634 1279.8330 1501.81596 1291.5180 1318.720
and for a bit larger sample
v <- sample(2:9, size = 10e3, replace = TRUE)
Unit: milliseconds
expr min lq mean median uq
roman 33.52430 35.80026 37.28917 36.46881 37.69137
fourtytwo 37.39502 40.10257 41.93843 40.52229 41.52205
akrun 10.00342 10.34306 10.66846 10.52773 10.72638
With a growing object size, the benefits of spareMatrix come to light.
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Dental Implants: FAQs About Overdentures
FAQs About Overdentures
Missing teeth can profoundly impact your life. With the use of dentures, people with missing teeth can enjoy a better quality of life. However, one of the most common complaints with dentures is the simple fact that dentures often slip and don’t stay in securely. Obviously, this can be an embarrassment, but simple things like eating and chewing can be also become taxing with unstable dentures. Thankfully there is a solution. With the use of dental implants to stabilize the dentures, denture patients can enjoy improved health, easier chewing, improved speech and an overall boost in confidence with a simple and minimally invasive procedure. Here are some frequently asked questions about dental implants and different types of dentures.
What is a Dental Implant and Why is it Necessary?
People with missing teeth can choose to have a dental implant (a small titanium anchor) permanently placed into their upper and/or lower jaw. Over time, the implant integrates with the bone and acts very much like your natural tooth. These implants provide edentulous patients with much more stability with the overdentures and are increasingly considered the first choice in the standard of care.
What are Dentures and Overdentures?
When some or all of a person’s teeth are missing, the treatment option to replace multiple teeth is called overdentures. When your overdentures are retained by your implants it has a more secure and comfortable fit and doesn’t rely on adhesives to stay in place.
Why Choose Dental Implants Over Regular Dentures?
Perhaps one of the most important considerations when looking at one’s options for dentures is to consider the future possibility of more bone loss. Studies have shown that dental implants can help significantly reduce the resorptive bone-loss process by about 75 percent in the areas where implants are placed compared to areas without implants. This is a major cornerstone of modern dentistry and preventing more bone loss is a key factor in successful overdenture treatment.
Can Dental Implants Help Improve Nutrition and Mastication (Chewing)?
The short answer is…YES! Evidence suggests that patients with two-implant overdentures rate their quality of life and their oral health as higher than people with conventional dentures. No more lose dentures and embarrassing moments eating or speaking in public. Data suggests that when patients have a simpler form of dentures, they are able to modify their diets and improve their nutrition, which in turn can positively impact their overall general health.
Can this Treatment Be Applied to my Upper Denture?
Not exactly. The upper implant has different needs and requirements to be successful. Physiologically there are many differences in bone volume and density which makes upper jaw implants unpredictable. Whereas for the lower jaw, just two implants are needed for a successful implant, it may take as many as four to six implants in the upper jaw to retain an upper overdenture. This is an increasingly more complex and expensive procedure. More research needs to be done, and the upper two-implant overdenture is not considered a standard procedure at this time.
Who is a Good Candidate for this Treatment?
Generally, if you are healthy enough to have a tooth extraction, you are also healthy enough for the two-implant dental implant and overdenture treatment. If you are dissatisfied with your conventional dentures and are suffering from discomfort and lack of retention, you are probably a great candidate. Additionally, research has shown that increasing age and osteoporosis are not barriers to a successful outcome. The surgical phase of this treatment can usually be done in one visit, although proper assessment and planning for the procedure should be expected. Taking good care of your teeth and gums before your procedure is very important. You’ll be able to resume normal (2 times per day) brushing and flossing after your implants. Here is a before and after guide for dental implant maintenance.
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Ballooning instability
The ballooning instability (a.k.a. ballooning mode instability) is a type of internal pressure-driven plasma instability usually seen in tokamak fusion power reactors or in space plasmas. It is important in fusion research as it determines a set of criteria for the maximum achievable plasma beta. The name refers to the shape and action of the instability, which acts like the elongations formed in a long balloon when it is squeezed. In literature, the structure of these elongations are commonly referred to as 'fingers'.
The narrow fingers of plasma produced by the instability are capable of accelerating and pushing aside the surrounding magnetic field in order to cause a sudden, explosive release of energy. Thus, the instability is also known as the explosive instability.
Relation to interchange instability
The interchange instability can be derived from the equations of the ballooning instability as a special case in which the ballooning mode does not perturb the equilibrium magnetic field. This special limit is known as the Mercier criterion. | WIKI |
Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
Prices change; that's fundamental to how economies work.
And yet: In 1886, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel. It was also a nickel in 1900, 1915 and 1930. In fact, 70 years after the first Coke was sold, you could still buy a bottle for a nickel.
Three wars, the Great Depression, hundreds of competitors — none of it made any difference for the price of Coke. Why not?
In 1899, two lawyers paid a visit to the president of Coca-Cola. At the time, Coke was sold at soda fountains. But the lawyers were interested in this new idea: selling drinks in bottles. The lawyers wanted to buy the bottling rights for Coca-Cola.
The president of Coca-Cola didn't think much of the whole bottle thing. So he made a deal with the lawyers: He'd let them sell Coke in bottles, and he'd sell them the syrup to do it. According to the terms of the deal, the lawyers would be able to buy the syrup at a fixed price. Forever.
Andrew Young, an economist at West Virginia University, says the president of Coke may have signed the contract just to get the guys out of his office.
"Anytime you've got two lawyers in your office, you probably want them to leave," Young says. "And he's saying, 'I'll sign this piece of paper if you'll just please leave my office.' "
Bottled drinks, of course, took off. And Coca-Cola was in a bind. If the bottlers or a corner store decided to raise the price of a bottle of Coke, Coca-Cola wouldn't get any extra money.
So, if you're Coca-Cola, you want to somehow keep the price down at 5 cents so you can sell as much syrup as possible to the bottlers. What do you do?
"One thing you do is blanket the entire nation with Coca-Cola advertising that basically has '5 cents' prominently featured," Young says.
The company couldn't actually put price tags on the bottles of Coke saying "5 cents." But it could paint a giant ad on the side of a building right next to the store that says, "Drink Coca-Cola, 5 Cents."
"Since everybody was brainwashed — people saw these ads all over — it was hard for anyone to increase the price," says Daniel Levy, a professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and at Emory University in Atlanta.
That contract with the bottlers eventually got renegotiated. But the price of Coke stayed at a nickel. That was partly due to another obstacle: the vending machine.
The Coca-Cola vending machines were built to take a single coin: a nickel.
Levy says the folks at Coca-Cola thought about converting the vending machines to take a dime. But doubling the price was too much. They wanted something in between.
So they asked the U.S. Treasury to issue a 7.5-cent coin. At one point, the head of Coca-Cola asked President Eisenhower for help. (They were hunting buddies.) No luck.
In the end, inflation killed the nickel Coke. The price of the ingredients rose. In the late 1940s, some stores sold Cokes for 6 cents. The last nickel Coke seems to have been in 1959.
The nickel price had lasted over 70 years. And in retrospect, Andrew Young says, it wasn't a bad thing for the company. It's one reason Coke is everywhere today. The company couldn't raise the price. So it did the only thing it could: It sold as many Cokes as possible.
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Kadanthodu
Kadanthodu ( ka-den-thode ) (also "Kadanthottu")is the surname used by members of the Kadanthodu Family who originate from the town of Changanacherry in the State of Kerala in India. It is a name written in Malayalam, the official language of the State of Kerala. (The version shown here is its anglicized form.)
Origins
The Kadanthodu family traces its roots to the ancient Kulathackal Family of the Raman Namboodiris (Brahmins) of Maramon Town in Kerala, India, who had embraced Christianity in AD 1325. (?) These Namboodiri-Christians came to be known as the Ramachans of Maramon and Aranmoolla.
According to folklore, the name "Ramachan" is derived from the honorific granted to one Mr. Raman Namboodiri by the native Hindu ruler who was also the patron and benefactor of the Temple. The ruler had been unhappy for some time because the financial affairs and journals of the temple had not been kept up to date, and the accounts were seriously in arrears. The ruler assigned the accounting burden to Raman Namboodiri, who, working diligently over a single night, managed to reconcile all of the temple's accounts and bring the books current. Pleased at this remarkable feat, and at the speed with which Raman managed to complete his assignment, the ruler honored Raman by granting him the title "Ramachan," meaning the "One who is better than or superior to even the Night." ("Ra" is from "Ratri" in Sanskrit meaning "Night." Many of his descendants continue to carry the name Ramachan as their surname even today).
The accounting feat demonstrated by Ramachan did not sit well with his fellow Brahmins of the temple who had personally benefited by manipulating those accounts. Ramachan became persona non grata in his own town; life became difficult for him and his family. At this time, Ramachan came to befriend a neighbor, Malliyekal Tharakan, who was a Christian.
Christianity in Kerala
Christianity has existed in India for nearly two thousand years. It is believed that the Apostle Saint Thomas himself arrived in Kerala in AD 52 via trade routes from Arabia. He preached the gospel there, founded seven churches, and evangelized many natives to Christianity. He is said to have been martyred in India in AD 72.)
Ramachan became interested in studying Christian philosophy. A moment of epiphany guided Ramachan later to go with his neighbor to the Church at Nirannam (one of the seven churches of Saint Thomas), where he was baptized and became a Christian in AD 1325 (?)
Kadanthodu in Modern Times
Over time, some members of his family migrated to the town of Changanacherry and its surrounding areas in Kerala and founded the great Kadanthodu Family. Part of this family is now residing in Allepey, Kanjirapally areas and rest in Changanacherry. The family is scattered throughout the world. | WIKI |
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SQL VIEWS A view can be thought of as either a virtual table or a stored query. The data accessible through a view is not stored in the database as a distinct object. What is stored in the database is a SELECT statement. The result set of the SELECT statement forms the virtual table returned by the view. A user can use this virtual table by referencing the view name in Transact-SQL statements the same way a table is referenced. A view is used to do any or all of these functions:
Restrict a user to specific rows in a table.
For example, allow an employee to see only the rows recording his or her work in a labor-tracking table. Restrict a user to specific columns.
For example, allow employees who do not work in payroll to see the name, office, work phone, and department columns in an employee table, but do not allow them to see any columns with salary information or personal information. Join columns from multiple tables so that they look like a single table.
Aggregate information instead of supplying details.
For example, present the sum of a column, or the maximum or minimum value from a column.
Views are created by defining the SELECT statement that retrieves the data to be presented by the view. The data tables referenced by the SELECT statement are known as the base tables for the view. In this example, titleview in the pubs database is a view that selects data from three base tables to present a virtual table of commonly needed data: SQL View are automatically updated when any DML statement is executed on the tables on which these are generated. | WIKI |
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124 STAT. 2500 PUBLIC LAW 111–238—SEPT. 27, 2010 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 6102: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 156 (2010): Sept. 14, considered and passed House. Sept. 16, considered and passed Senate. Public Law 111–238 111th Congress An Act To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for F/A–18E, F/A–18F, and EA–18G aircraft. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY FOR F/A–18E, F/ A–18F, AND EA–18G AIRCRAFT. (a) EXTENSION OF CERTIFICATION.—Paragraph (2) of section 128(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 2217) is amended by striking ‘‘a reference to March’’ and inserting ‘‘a reference to September’’. (b) REQUIRED AUTHORITY.—Such section 128 is further amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(e) REQUIRED AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any other provi- sion of law, with respect to a multiyear contract entered into under subsection (a), this section shall be deemed to meet the require- ments under subsection (i)(3) and (l)(3) of section 2306b of title 10, United States Code.’’. Approved September 27, 2010. Sept. 27, 2010 [H.R. 6102] | WIKI |
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��any ever existed, remains. A plain old lectern, after a period of banishment to the belfry, has now dis- appeared altogether.
The church, in 1 845, was found to have been exten- sively decorated with wall paintings, which were un- happily swept away to give place to raw modern plaster. These occurred over the chancel arch and in the spandrels of the nave arcades, but no records have been preserved as to the dates and subjects.
Until the beginning of the igth century there was an exceptional quantity of ancient stained glass of very fine design remaining. A Jesse-tree was almost com- plete in the window of the Knowle Chapel in 1798, but within a few years some fragments only were left, including, in the centre, a headless seated figure hold- ing a rose, a Crucifixion in the upper part, and, in Lombardic lettering, the names Josaphat, Ashur, Salomon, Ezechial, and Joathan. In 1841 scarcely anything of this remained, and some fragments had probably been removed by Lord Onslow to West Clandon Church, but, if so, they no longer exist there. When Manning and Bray published their History of Surrey in 180814 there also remained in the Vachery Chapel on the north side effigies of our Lord and the Blessed Virgin seated, and two angels censing. 78 The figure of the Blessed Virgin has dis- appeared, but those of our Lord and the two angels, together with some good pattern-work, have been worked up into the reticulated tracery of the modern east window of the chancel. Our Lord, seated on the throne in a green tunic and yellow mantle, has the right hand raised in benediction, while with the left He holds the cross and orb. The background is ruby, with a white border. Some of the pattern-work in the other quatrefoil figures of this window, con- sisting of crosses with fleur-de-lys ends, in white on red and gold on red, is also ancient, the date of the whole being c. 1340.
The font, standing to the west of the first pillar in the north nave arcade, is of doubtful antiquity ; if not new, severe re-tooling has robbed it of all appear- ance of age. The bowl is octagonal and quite plain, standing upon a large central drum and eight small shafts without capitals, having a cable-moulding twined in and out round them, for a base.
Outside, beneath the east window, is an early 14th- century coffin-lid, with a cross within a circle on a long stem carved in low relief. Manning and Bray and Brayley mention a slab in the nave floor, with the legend in Gothic capitals :
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��Also a brass plate, formerly existing in the chancel, to William Sydney, esq., who died 8 October 1449. Both these seem to have disappeared early in the i gth century.
Within the chancel rails on the south side is a brass half-figure of a priest " in mass vestments, with scrolls proceeding from his mouth, bearing the words :
ESTO MIHl PECCATORI : SANA ANIMX MEA QUIA PECCAVI T1BI
Up to the restoration of 1845 a good specimen of the combined altar-tomb and Easter sepulchre, in
��Sussex marble, remained against the north wall of the chancel. Most improperly, it was then demolished, and the brasses upon and over it were permitted to disappear. It bore the effigies of a man and woman with a child between them, all kneeling, each having inscriptions issuing from the mouth, the man's having the words : ' Have m'cy Jhesu in honour of thy gloriovs resvrreccion ' ; the woman's : ' And grant vs the merite of thy bytter Passion ' ; and the child's : ' Accipe parentes, et infantem, bone Xpe.'
Fortunately a facsimile of the plate on the wall behind is preserved in an engraving, probably of the size of the original, in Hussey's Churches of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. This, as is often the case in Easter sepulchres, was a representation of the Resurrection of our Lord, Who is stepping out of the tomb bearing the cross and pennon and displaying the bleeding wounds, while guarding the tomb are four soldiers. Detached from the tomb, on the other side of the chancel, was a shield bearing a merchant's mark and the initials R. H. ; and on the tomb itself, beneath the figures, was the imperfect inscription, which when complete read : ' Of your Charite pray for the soulys of Robert Hardyng late Alderman & Goldsmith of London and Agas his Wyffe whos body here lyeth beryed, And departyd this present lyfe the XVIII day of Febrvar y in the yere of ovre Lord God MCCCCC and III for whos Sowlys and all xpen we pray you say Paternoster and Ave.' Above the man's figure were the arms of Harding, which were : Argent a bend sable with three martlets or thereon.
Among the stones cast out of the church in 1845 were three inscribed :
' 1664. May 1 9 th Sir Richard Onslow, Bart., aged 6 3.'
' 1679. Aug' 27"" Dame Elizabeth Onslow hii widow, aged 78."
' 1688. July 21 st Sir Arthur Onslow, Bart., aged 67.'
On the outside of the south wall of the south aisle is a tablet of Sussex marble, very weather-worn, bearing the date 1630. A few others of no great age or importance have been re-fixed on the aisle side of the north arcade.
The bells are six in number, the oldest with the inscription : PRAIS GOD 1599 AW, and a coin. Two others have : 1638 BRYAN ELDRIDGE ; another is by Bryan Eldridge, 1 660 ; the treble by William Eldridge, 1709 ; and the third, re-cast in 1862, used to have the inscription : OUR HOPE is IN THE LORD R.E. 1605.
With the exception of a silver paten of 1789 the church plate is modern and uninteresting.
The registers commence in 1566 and have been somewhat irregularly kept. As might be expected, they contain numerous entries relating to the Onslow family.
The modern chapel of ease of St. Andrew, on the Common, was dedicated in 1900.
The origins of Cranleigh as a ADVQWSQN parish are unknown. In Domesday it is not recognized. It belonged to the extensive manors of Shiere and Gomshall, and when Shiere was divided in 1 299, the greater part of it was included in the manor called Shiere Vachery or
��" Manning and Bray, op.cit. i, 540. The late Major Heales, F.S.A., in his paper on this church in Surr. Arch. Coll. vi, 30, in
��recording the general disappearance of the old glass, omits to note that parts of these Vachery Chapel fragments still survive.
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* User:Dspuller, in that case they must either alter the "© 2013 North Carolina Dept. of Commerce" on the page from which it was taken or grant license through the process described at Donating copyrighted materials. If you have any questions about how this is done, please feel free to visit my talk page or ask at Help desk. In the meantime, we cannot retain the content, I'm afraid. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:26, 1 February 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Little bit of analytics aggregation
Where to Aggregate Analytics?
Gaining analytic insights from data often comes down to counting events in a time series. For example, “how many times did event A happen this month after we enabled feature X?”. There are infinite number of questions to ask, but when the CPUs start churning and the bytes moving, it’s almost always just counting things.
Big Data (re: buzz word for offline, aggregation) analytic tools like Data Studio often make it obvious that they are trying to make it easier to model these questions. Easier than writing raw SQL on a data warehouse. Often times though this goal is hindered by a second motive: making it cheaper to ask these questions.
The number one way to make analytic queries cheaper is to scan less data. Since analytic events are almost always a time series, its pretty straight forward to follow this principle. If we want to know how often event A happened this month, we shouldn’t bother reading any data before that which wastes CPU cycles (aka money). In a SQL query, this is as simple as a WHERE clause on a datetime column. Things get more opaque at the abstract tooling level. At this level, a user just cares about finding their insight, not as much about how the tool is going to do it as cheap as possible. So the tool ask questions to run the query more efficiently, but in an attempt to stay our of the user’s way, it often ends up being more confusing than just coming straight out and sayin “Hey, we don’t want to query all this crap, so what data should we cut out?”.
Lots of times there are multiple ways to do something in these complex analytic tools and its not clear which way should be preferred. Whenever I run into this I just go the route that I think will help the tool cut out more data.
In Data Studio, a data source can be a BigQuery table OR a custom query. Which should I use? For context, Data Studio allows users to visualize data and exposes knobs to update the graphs in real time. What did this event look like last month? What about last year? If these graphs are backed by a static custom query data source which queries the same data no matter what, then CPU cycles are probably being wasted. If the graphs are instead backed by a table and Data Studio is able to issue optimized queries to cut out data, cycles are being saved. So unless a custom query can be modified to scan less data, a table data source should be preferred over a custom query.
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John Port
John Port may refer to:
* Sir John Port (judge) (1480–1541), judge, born in Chester, lived in Etwall, Derbyshire, England
* Sir John Port (died 1557), son of above, born in Etwall, founded Repton School | WIKI |
How to Create a Wireless Access Point Using a WiFi Adapter & Cable Modem
by Matthew Schieltz
Anyone can create a wireless access point to receive an Internet signal if it's not possible to have a physical connection between a computer workstation and a cable modem. In fact, wireless access points are used both in household networks and in businesses such as hotels where access to Wi-Fi networks exist for guests and patrons. To set up your wireless access point, the Wi-Fi adapter and cable modem are necessary, but you'll also need a wireless router.
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Connect the cable modem to the cable and an electrical outlet. Watch for the green lights that should appear on your cable modem; refer to the instruction manual of your particular cable modem to determine which lights should come on.
2
Hook up an Ethernet or Category-5 (Cat5) cable from the Internet port on the cable modem to the Internet port on the wireless router. Plug the wireless router into an the electrical outlet; watch for the green lights that indicate that the router is receiving a Wi-Fi signal from the modem and that a wireless access point has been created.
3
Connect your Wi-Fi USB adapter or card to your laptop computer or desktop if it does not contain an internal wireless card. This adapter makes it possible for your computer to propagate the wireless 802.11 b/g/n signal. Once connected, the Wi-Fi adapter should instantly be recognized by your computer if the adapter is a plug-and-play device and search for the wireless access point you created with your router and modem. Follow any other instructions for the Wi-Fi adapter model if any are required (e.g. inserting a CD or installing adapter drivers).
4
Secure your wireless access point by first pointing your Internet browser to the wireless router's configuration page. Most wireless routers have a settings page that can be found by typing in an address such as "192.168.1.1" into your Internet browser's address bar. Create a unique SSID (secure set identifier) and encryption key password for your wireless access point to ensure only authorized individuals have access to your wireless network. Select the option in your router's configuration page to disallow the SSID broadcast, which prevents network outsiders from seeing that you have a private network.
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About the Author
Matthew Schieltz has been a freelance web writer since August 2006, and has experience writing a variety of informational articles, how-to guides, website and e-book content for organizations such as Demand Studios. Schieltz holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He plans to pursue graduate school in clinical psychology.
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• forest refugia;
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• temperate trees
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Extinctions have been important in the shaping of modern phytogeographic patterns. A classic example is the heavy Plio-Pleistocene losses that have caused Europe to have a depauperate temperate tree flora compared to eastern North America and eastern Asia. To investigate the mechanisms involved in this extinction event, I test the hypothesis that the present European status (extinct, relictual, or widespread) of cool-temperate tree genera found in Pliocene Europe is predictable from their modern climatic requirements. As a prerequisite for this analysis, I test for genus-level conservatism in climatic requirements by comparing congeneric values across Europe, eastern Asia and North America, and find strong evidence hereof. I find a high degree of ecological determinism in the fate of European Pliocene tree genera, still widespread taxa being more tolerant of cold growing season and winter temperatures than extinct and relictual taxa, and relictual taxa being more drought tolerant than extinct taxa. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Fix bug reported by Mark Lewis (Rampage@SESTAR), when packing NetMail messages · 41ed7a56
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(from stored messages in .msg files into packets), the origin net/node within
the *packed message* header would be set to the local system's address
net/node (for the destination zone), always. This is the appropriate action
when packing EchoMail, but not for NetMail.
Now, there are lot of other header fields in the packed message that contain
the source/origin address (e.g. @FMPT, @INTL kludges) and those would reflect
the original origin address still. And these fields take precedence over the
orign net/node fields of the packed message header. So I'm not sure this bug
would actually cause any problems anywhere, but it was a bug all the same.
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Beeac
Beeac is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the shore of the hyper-saline Lake Beeac in the Colac Otway Shire local government area, 160 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Beeac had a population of 370.
History
Beeac was originally created as a reserve for campers, and the name is thought to mean either "salt lake" or "grubs" in the local Aboriginal language. From 1860, the area was opened for selection and a townsite was surveyed in 1864. A post office opened on 1 January 1862 but was known as Ondit (the name of the surrounding parish) until 1872.
The original post office building was destroyed by fire in 1926, but was eventually replaced by the current building. By the end of the decade, the Beeac area had become a prominent wheat growing district, wine grapes were cultivated and a salt works was operating on the lake. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, churches, schools, shops and hotels were established. The railway reached Beeac in 1889, bringing the area into closer contact with nearby Colac. The line closed in 1953. A newspaper, The Beeac Advocate and Weering and Warrion Advertiser, operated from 1901 to 1902 and the local hospital was founded in 1928.
The town today
The town in conjunction with neighbouring township Irrewarra has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Colac & District Football League.
Golfers play at the course of the Beeac Golf Club on Mingawalla Road.
Notable people
The test cricketer, Bill Johnston was born and raised in Beeac. Geelong Football Club premiership player and 1965 Best and Fairest winner, Peter Walker, was also originally from Beeac. | WIKI |
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I've got a query set up that generates a resultset of players and their statistics, and this is displayed back out in a table via PHP:
Query:
$sql = 'SELECT nickname AS name, count( * ) AS played, sum( score ) AS agg, max( score ) AS highest, min( score ) AS lowest, avg( score ) AS average'
. ' FROM stats_players, stats_scoreslist, stats_matches'
. ' WHERE stats_players.playerid = stats_scoreslist.playerid AND stats_scoreslist.matchid = stats_matches.matchid AND stats_matches.season = 2004'
. ' GROUP BY nickname'
. ' ORDER BY average DESC , name ASC';
$result=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$rows="";
$position=1;
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$playername=$row["name"];
$played=$row["played"];
$agg=$row["agg"];
$high=$row["highest"];
$low=$row["lowest"];
$avg=$row["average"];
$rows.="<tr><td><center>".$position.'</td><td><center>'.$playername.'</td><td><center>'.$played.'</td><td><center>'.$agg.'</td><td><center>'.$high.'</td><td><center>'.$low.'</td><td><center>'.$avg.'</td></tr>';
$position++;
}
//mysql_close()
PHP table generation:
<table width="550" border="1">
<tr>
<th scope="col">Pos</th>
<th scope="col">Player</th>
<th scope="col">Played</th>
<th scope="col">Aggregate</th></th>
<th scope="col">Highest</th>
<th scope="col">Lowest</th>
<th scope="col">Average</th>
</tr>
<?=$rows?>
</table>
This all works fine, but I now have a new requirement (a new column at the end) that relies on calculations between rows in the resultset/table.
I'm stumped as to how to do this - my experience allows me to use the SQL query to generate the table, but where a new result depends on the values in the previous result, I'm not sure what to do.
To outline what I need to work out, here's a few lines from the current table.
Player Played Aggregate Highest Lowest Average
1 Andy U 16 641 49 31 40.0625
2 Clive 16 636 45 32 39.7500
3 Rob 18 711 49 33 39.5000
I need to have another column at the end (except for position 1) that takes the difference between pos 1 average and pos 2 average, multiplies it by pos 2's games played, and adds that to pos 1's average. Just to give you some idea of context, it shows what score that person has to get to catch the person above them.
Anyone have any idea how this could be accomplished? I don't know enough about it, but I get the impression temporary DB tables might be involved. Is there a way you can get PHP to do calculations? I suspect that would be better if it can.
Anyway, pplease, anyone advice/ideas??
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Anyone? Any ideas on how to perform further calculations on a set of results from a SQL statement? There's a Gmail invite and/or my eternal love winging its way to whoever comes up with the goods! :)
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It would really help to know what calculations you wanted to perform.
for instance... say you did not have the average in the database (and really I don't think you need it !) and you wanted to find it.
$avg = $agg/$played;
let me know exactly what calcs you are looking to do and I can help you out.
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Or instead of doing it with PHP you could just have it done with the db... so there really is like cjgraphix says no reason to hold that in a table you might notice the Average in quotes that just returns the column name as Average instead of seeing the formula Aggregate/Highest beign returned
SELECT Played,Aggregate,Hightest,Lowest,Aggregate/Highest "Average"
As far as doing what your saying I don't know how to do that with mysql, try just doing it in php show me 2 examples with the dataset you provided and i will tell you how to do it with php
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Aye, it's a tricky one to explain, but thanks for the replies guys!
I'm not sure what more I can say in addition to my original post though. The current SQL query I'm using is there in that post, so you can see how I'm doing stuff already. Incidentally, I don't have the average stored in the DB - that's calculated through SQL dynamically.
The crux of this issue though is performing calculations on the result (or resultset I should say) of a SQL query.
For example, my current SQL query follows:
$sql = 'SELECT nickname AS name, count( * ) AS played, sum( score ) AS agg, max( score ) AS highest, min( score ) AS lowest, avg( score ) AS average'
. ' FROM stats_players, stats_scoreslist, stats_matches'
. ' WHERE stats_players.playerid = stats_scoreslist.playerid AND stats_scoreslist.matchid = stats_matches.matchid AND stats_matches.season = 2004'
. ' GROUP BY nickname'
. ' ORDER BY average DESC , name ASC';
Which when run returns the following sample:
name played agg highest lowest average
Andy U 16 641 49 31 40.0625
Clive 16 636 45 32 39.7500
Rob 18 711 49 33 39.5000
I need to add another column on the end of each row that dynamically performs a calculation on values within that row, and the row above it.
I'll step through row 2's calculation for example; I need to subtract row 2's average from row 1's average (40.0625 - 39.7500 = 0.3125), and multiply that by row 2's games played (0.3125 * 16 = 5), and add that value to row 1's average (5 + 40.0625 = 45.0625). This would be repeated for all the rows in the result.
I don't think it can be done with pure SQL, so I'm guessing we'd need to run it into an array in PHP (which is already is, I think - $result?) and add the extra column in there, and perform the calculations through PHP.
Is that any clearer?!? Again, thanks for persisting with me!
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I'll step through row 2's calculation for example; I need to subtract row 2's average from row 1's average (40.0625 - 39.7500 = 0.3125), and multiply that by row 2's games played (0.3125 * 16 = 5), and add that value to row 1's average (5 + 40.0625 = 45.0625). This would be repeated for all the rows in the result.
If I understand.....
How about building an array on those values as you step through the result. That way you can call the key values that are one before the row you are in. Maybe drop the actual calculations in as array vals. So you would have an array, (multidimensional) that would store in myarray[playerposition] = array(player average, player games played, player steroids used, etc,). Then when going through row "x" you could call the values from the array as myarray[{x-1}][0] and do your magic on them.
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Talk:Sexual grooming/Archive 2
Legal part
Why can't I add the legal part in brakets I want to add at the beginning and I even have to start a discussion in the talk page for something like this? What's the problem? I already explained in the post-edit message. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:45, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
* There are several problems. First, the word "child" already has connotations and definitions within the article indicating it's meant to refer to someone under the age of majority, which is 18 in most legal jurisdictions, and this number is usually higher than the legal of consent. In other words, adding this "legal part" is redundant. Second, it is very poor writing style to including a very long part in parenthesis in the first sentence of an article, (see MOS:LEAD).
* Is there perhaps some kind of language barrier here that I'm not seeing, about the connotations of these terms? I see your IP address is from Italy. Or is there some specific concern about misunderstanding?Legitimus (talk) 13:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
* I have citizenship in Italy, but I was born and grown in the US. And anyway, the age of majority is not the same in the US, three states have the age of majority established as 17, 19 and 21, and child and so child grooming refer always (officially and legally at least, depending the state) to age of consent. There are cases in which you don't even have to be in age of majority to get married. Not to mention the fact that at 16 you can drive or leave school to go to work, and the fact that even who is in age of majority but still doesn't have the age to drink alcohol yet (normally 21) is still referred to as a child or a minor.
* What age are you using to define the word "child?"Legitimus (talk) 17:04, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
* I don't get it. Are you sure you wrote the question correctly? And does it have to do with what I wrote?
* Your edits to the article seems to imply that the word "child" as used in the first sentence is not sufficient to cover the full age range that is included in the definition of "child grooming." So, at what age do you think the term "child" stops being applicable, but is still below the age of consent? That point is, you must prove this definition with an objective, reliable source. My contention is, that the content of the first sentence is sufficient in context. It spells out the concept in a concise sentence, and that more specific details about what a "child" is are best left to the rest of the article.Legitimus (talk) 19:05, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
* The term child is used depending on the various implications and situations. When you don't have the legal age to get married, to drink or buy alcohol, to consent to sex, to drive, no matter if you are in majority age or not, depending on these examples you're still considered a child. Even for more than adult people is used the term children instead of sons and daughters. Can I go on now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:29, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
* You're cherry-picking what I say in how you formulate your replies. You still haven't explained why the lead sentence, as written, needs your edit added in a way that's supported with sources. I've explained why I think it's redundant. If you think it's not, then you need to provide some kind of link to a reliable website, book, or journal article, that contains definitions which are different from how the lead sentence is written. Your personal opinion is not a source.Legitimus (talk) 12:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
I tried once again taking into consideration your last response. I hope I did it right this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:56, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
* The opening sentence needs to be short and to the point, we should not be getting bogged down in hairsplitting details and parentheticals. - MrOllie (talk) 02:20, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
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"grooming" for non-English, in English...
I ask for your help as a non-english-native-speaker since the term "grooming" in other languages is often borrowed from English in popularized and scientific circles as "taking care of," for example in the case of the young or among primate offspring, but also in general when defining e.g. gossip as the "human form of grooming." As you can see "grooming" takes on a connotation that is not at all "dark" as here. Perhaps a disambiguation or a little additional explanation would help all those non-English languages that make use of forestierisms from what is now the lingua franca of the planet. Thanks to those who would like to try. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:31, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
The article needs to better explain better whom it is who would be considered a child groomer and who would not.
Reading the article again after many years, I noticed the article currently refers to "child groomers" but leaves out an important detail as to who these people are. As far as I know we generally do not use the term to refer to teenagers who try to another teen of similar age (or close age) to to be open to having sex with them at some point in the future as groomers. Nor do we refer to prepubescent children who attempted to get a same age or similar age children to be willing to engage in sexual acts with them as groomers either. Mostly, this term "child groomer" is limited to either adults or teenagers of significant age difference where the sex between them and the victim would be considered under the law as "child sexual abuse". The more informed readers could probably surmise that the "child groomer" would have to be an adult or or teenager capable of child sexual abuse of the victim. Yes, child-on-child sexual abuse is a thing, but even their I am not aware of any case of a child perpetrator in such abuse being referred to as a "child groomer" but if someone has RS's that back the use of term "child grooming" in the context of child-on-child sexual abuse or with regard to close-in-age underage teenagers, then I will drop my concern. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notcharliechaplin (talk • contribs) 07:09, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
False rumors and misconceptions
I included an excerpt in the the "History" section describing false accusations of child grooming, but this excerpt was removed; if this excerpt can't be included there, should this topic be mentioned elsewhere in the article? Jarble (talk) 03:18, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
* I suggested changing the title of the article you quoted to Groomer (slur), because my reading of the article was the topic was "using the word Groomer to accuse or imply LGBT people are pedophiles" and was told I was incorrect, that is not the topic at all. The consensus is that the article is about the conspiracy that you can indoctrinate someone into being LGBT through means like drag queen story hours or sex education, which is why Anita Bryant is on the page (she opposed legislation requiring non-discrimination against homosexual teachers even in private Christian schools, where she said they would recruit children to become homosexual). I'd personally call the article homosexual recruitment and make "groomer rhetoric of the 2020's" a sub-section of that, but the consensus is opposed to any changes. That's why it doesn't belong here - because this article is about Child Sexual Abuse, not indoctrination. Denaar (talk) 05:19, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
* "Grooming" means preparing someone for something. Because there is no "Main" (WP:BROAD) grooming article, every use of the term applied to people (even adults and teenagers) ends up on this page, and I'm slowly moving the information to separate articles so this one can focus on it's original topic as it was created: "Nonviolent Methods that child sexual abusers use to ensure compliance with child sexual abuse", which is how the term is used in psychology and counseling. I also updated the disambiguation page to have a section on "Grooming as indoctrination or recruitment" to catch all the ways the word grooming is used for gangs, terrorists, sexual exploitation of teenagers and adults, etc. Long term, I think there are some duplicates, as well as additional topics that need to be their own articles. Denaar (talk) 18:41, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Age of consent
A previous version of the article, without sources, defined child as someone under the age of consent. That does not seem to be correct; for example, the Canadian law cited later in the article says that for the purposes of the law, a "child means a person who is or appears to be under the age of eighteen years." The age of consent in Canada is usually 16. (t · c) buidhe 04:49, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Duplicate article
User:Denaar, without getting consesus for it, has created another article titled "Grooming" whose content is almost entirely about what is called "grooming" of children.
Where are the sources that confirm that there are two separate topics here that can support two wikipedia articles?
I don't think that "grooming" the word can support a Wikipedia article because we are not a dictionary and I don't see any sources that cover both, say, "grooming" someone to join an armed group versus the original use of child sexual "grooming" that is the topic of this article (see the requirements at Broad-concept_article) (t · c) buidhe 16:58, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) 22:28, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Child grooming → Sexual grooming – Grooming means to prepare someone/something for a purpose, which is why it covers things like "getting ready in the morning" and "cleaning and saddling horses" all the way to "mentoring someone for a leadership position. However, it's also used to describe a type of child sexual abuse. Most sources use grooming on it's own, sexual grooming is second most likely, then child sexual grooming is the third - but child grooming is rarer. The other problem with using the word "child" when there isn't an established meaning of "child grooming" is that there are arguments about what child means - the original meaning from the 80's of prepubescent children? Are Adolescents included or not? If it's a minor; what does that mean when some places allow 16 year olds to consent to sexual relationships and others use 18? As a representative discussion, this is a NY Times article from 2021 you'll find it describes sexual grooming for children, adolescents, and even adults - and that's how it's described just about everywhere today. If we make a separate "Sexual Grooming" it would duplicate "Child Grooming" in 90% of it's content, so it makes more sense to use "Sexual Grooming" as the article scope. Denaar (talk) 00:27, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
* Support. "Sexual grooming" does seem clearer and a better representation of the focus of the article than "child grooming". ╠╣uw [ talk ] 11:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
* How about child sexual grooming instead ,, since social media is all aflutter about Chris Evans "grooming" a 26 year old right now, and how in the UK Russell Brand is also being accused of it for someone over the age of consent (which isn't grooming in the UK as it is over the age of consent? or so the victim seems to say), though it doesn't work too well with the attacks in mass media concerning gender identity, sexual identity, and grooming, as sex is cognate with gender; ? child sexual congressional grooming ? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:46, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
* We have articles on those topics already, if you check the disambiguation page, including use of Groomer as a Slur word in multiple contexts. It's why I'm also proposing grooming be turned into a WP:BROAD article - the disambiguation page isn't working to help people find the topics they want, they just keep stuffing everything on this page. Denaar (talk) 12:28, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
* Wikipedia is not a dictionary and the content of this article should be determined by scholarly sources that are about this topic, not media usage of the word "grooming". (t · c) buidhe 16:59, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
* Support Rreagan007 (talk) 18:59, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
* Support per nom. The meaning of the current title is actually perfectly innocuous (or should be) and doesn't mean what the article thinks it means. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:31, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
* Hard agree. I would expect it to deal with a parent doing their child's hair. Red Slash 22:08, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
* Strong support as proposed. If any rescoping is needed, rescope it. Red Slash 22:08, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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San Gregorio, L'Aquila
San Gregorio is a village in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of L'Aquila. It sits 584 meters above sea level at the base of Monte Manicola. The village of San Gregorio is 12.11 kilometers from the town of L'Aquila, of which it is considered a suburb community (Fraction or Frazione). Italy's SS17 Highway is its main transportation artery. The village sits near an active earthquake fault zone in the Valley of the Aterno-Pescara.
Overview
San Gregorio is a rural agricultural suburb of the city of L'Aquila and is closely tied to its history. The area has been inhabited for approximately 1,000 years and initially it did not have a defined city structure. During the Roman conquest, the fertility of the area guaranteed food production for Rome. During Medieval times San Gregorio was known for its Romanesque-church.
On April 6, 2009, at 01:32 GMT (03:32 CEST) an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy (See 2009 L'Aquila earthquake) with its epicenter near San Gregorio, at 42°25′22″N, 13°23′40″E. It is estimated that 12 residents were killed, 8 of whom were killed when the village's medieval church collapsed. It was estimated that 95% of San Gregorio's buildings received some type of damage during the earthquake. A huge tent city was constructed for residents, and a base camp was set up in the city for rescuers. As part of its rebuilding efforts, other communities within Italy who also carry the name “San Gregorio” have given funds to San Gregorio in its effort to rebuild.
Transport
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How can I pass the value of an entity as an empty string instead of null in the request body of an API?
How can I pass the value of an entity as an empty string instead of null in the request body of an API?
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@Ritik_Dixit please look into it.
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1. Utilize the static function to accomplish this task.
2. In the “Copy from” tab, pass the static( , string) function, and in the “Copy to” tab pass the entity.
3. Next, simply pass this entity to your configuration service task.
4. You’ll notice an empty string being passed in the request body of an entity
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Emma. ‘Well, we shall see how irresistible Mr, Tom Musgrave and I find each other. I suppose I shall know him as soon as I enter the ball-room ; he must carry some of his charms in his face.’
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‘What! Would you come late at night in this chair ?’
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Emma for a moment made no answer. At last she said—
‘I wish, Elizabeth, you had not made a point of my going to this ball; I wish you were going instead of me. Your pleasure would be greater than mine. Iam a stranger here, and know nobody but the Edwards; my enjoyment, therefore, must be very doubtful. Yours, among all your acquaintance, would be certain. It is not too late to change. Very little apology could be requisite to the Edwards, who must be more glad of your company than of mine, and I should most readily return to my father; and should not be at all afraid to drive this quiet old | WIKI |
How to handle Engine/Supercharger/Turbo Oil Consumption Issues
Author: Jon Bond
We all love the power that boosted applications provide. For some, it can help provide the extra work needed to tow a camper, leave a stop light, or compete at the track. We can also enjoy the improved fuel economy if you can learn to forget where the foot feed is.
Whether you favor a turbo or a supercharger, here are some recommendations if you own the following:
-high mileage turbo
-high mileage supercharger
-high mileage engine
-if you own a new/used Sprintex Supercharger (sorry guys- but if you own one, you know.)
1. If you have engine blowby- add an oil trap to the PCV line. If your engine is MAF controlled- don’t vent the PCV to atmosphere. It will act like a vacuum leak. That air, at one point, passed through the MAF.
2. If you have an intercooler and your engine, turbo, or supercharger is consuming oil, clean the intercooler and keep it from becoming saturated or clogged with oil. Oil will slow down the movement of air between the cooling fins, attract particulates, restrict boost and reduce the cooling effect on the air. This can lead to an increase in charge air temperature, which can cause reduced performance and even damage an engine from detonation. We often get complaints ‘I lost boost!’, after rebuilding a supercharger, and cleaning the clogged intercoolers of the debris. The real statement should be ‘I gained power.’ A restricted intercooler, causing higher boost does not translate into more power. Did you know that JB Performance owns ultrasonic cleaning equipment? We can clean and in many situations, pressure test your intercooler.
3. If your engine, turbo, or supercharger is consuming oil, check your spark plugs often for fouling and replace as necessary. A dirty spark plug can cause engine detonation. Many of us know what engine detonation can do. For those that do not, it can cause poor performance, reduced power, head gasket failure, and even more serious internal piston/valve damage. Detonation can also cause rotor to rotor contact damage on any twin screw or roots style supercharger.
4. Oil sludge inside a supercharger can lead to rotating noises and damage to the supercharger. Excess amounts of oil attract dirt and debris which doesn’t exit the supercharger. It just keeps rotating around. It reduces the efficiency of the supercharger and increases the charge temperature of the air. Superchargers do not have the clearance to pump fluids. Turbos and superchargers were designed to pump air. Oil sludge can accelerate wear in a supercharger and cause many other issues internal to the supercharger.
5. Oil loss out of a turbo or supercharger can reduce the cooling effect on the bearings or gears, leading to shorter lifespans, and possibly failed gear sets and shafts. It can also increase the overall operating temperature of the supercharger/turbo and require more power to rotate the unit.
If you ever encounter any of these issues, it doesn’t mean you need to spend money rebuilding these items right away. Monitor and maintain. If problems become persistent, where it could lead to a failure or increased labor/maintenance costs, then address these areas. If you are a Sprintex owner, we feel for you. Sadly, all you can do is maintenance until such time, Sprintex completely corrects the design issue. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Utilizing CI/CDs to the Fullest for Fun and Profit
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9 min readJan 24, 2021
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Hey folks,
We all have heard of CI/CDs right? I was exploring GitHub Actions and what I found was the fact that it was an extremely underrated resource which is not quite widely used for general purposes by people. In this blog post, I aim to detail how people can really benefit from CI/CDs with GitHub Actions in focus, and how one can fully exploit the resource to get the most out of it. This post is more inclined at security people, but literally anyone could use this guide to escalate up their productivity, plus a bonus at the end. 😉
Wait, what is CI/CD?
Lets refer to what Wikipedia has to say:
In software engineering, CI/CD generally refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. CI/CD bridges the gaps between development and operation activities and teams by enforcing automation in building, testing and deployment of applications.
So basically it is a setup utilized by developers to automate building & deployment of their apps. You noticed the catch here? “Automation”. Well that’s what we’re absolutely interested in.
GitHub Actions was made available for public use back in November, 2019 and indeed offers a great toolset which can drastically improve one’s work potency. At the time of writing this blog, GitHub offers free 2000 minutes per month, (which is more than 1 hour daily!) for free users.
If you cannot afford a private server/VPS to run your scripts on, GitHub Actions got you covered. Additionally, if you’re into bug bounties, you must already know that the competition out there is huge and one should actually try to automate things as much as possible. Lets see what all of this is about, shall we?
Understanding the Requirements/Usage
If you have ever used any cloud platform, you will certainly know how easily you can spin up instances for a task and then shut the machine down as soon as the task is over. Well, on a fairly abstracted level, this is almost the same. Simply put, every time you “run a build”, you get a fresh new machine which allows you to setup a couple of dependencies and then you can run your scripts up there howsoever you like. There are already well-known techniques that leverage monitoring setups, certificate transparency monitoring for getting new subdomains, e.g. sublert, cert-spotter, etc. CI/CD platforms prove to be an extremely feasible resource in such cases.
Exploring things on a much broader level, it is quite evident that you get several advantages in using such kind of setups. Apart from the hardware (although virtualized) and network bandwidth, one just cannot rule out the fact that you get a fresh new setup spun up in a matter of seconds. Having a new setup also includes installing dependencies afresh and often has perks over a cluttered up home setup where multiple versions of a same dependency might mess up with the runtime results.
CI/CDs also prove to be a useful resource when you have a heavy I/O or time-consuming task at hand which can take hours to complete. Do you have to run a full nmap port scan on a couple of targets or probably a an entire CIDR? Do you need to extract & parse a huge dataset and run a few scripts on it? Well, integrated tools make lives much easier in these cases.
Getting Started
So how do we achieve this? Lets dive in rightaway.
NOTE: This assumes that you have a basic understanding of how Git and GitHub works, if not, I’d highly recommend getting a good grip on both the topics.
Understanding the Syntax
All that GitHub Actions requires, is a YAML file containing the configuration on how you’d like to setup the workflow. There are a lot of things to cover when it comes to a custom CI/CD automation setup and docs explain it very well, however, I’ll try breaking down things to make this as simple as possible. Stay with me.
An exemplary simple workflow in a Python environment configuration looks like this:
Lets quickly break the major components down into simple steps:
1. The on directive (line 3) specifies when the build should initiate, in our case we have designated to run this workflow in both situations, when a commit is pushed to the master branch of the repository, as well as manually trigger it whenever required — the workflow_dispatch switch.
2. The runs-on (line 12) directive specifies on what platform should the code run on, in our case we have chosen the latest Ubuntu as our distro.
3. The next 2 chunk of steps (line 15–26) is actually setting up the environment, which in our case is setting up Python and then installing the dependencies. If you’re using Python, it is highly recommended that you should use a requirements.txt file to manage your dependencies, which would otherwise result in discrepancies.
4. The last couple of lines (line 30–33) runs your actual code and produces the desired output.
Two points of interest to note here:
• the run directive, if specified anywhere, will execute a set of commands to run on the system. This is equivalent to directly typing commands on your terminal.
• the name key is simply used as an identifier for a block of commands serving a particular purpose, makes things look neat when the workflow is actually running.
The aforementioned setup suits best in situations when you intend to run a single/set of scripts at your will. A worth noting point is that, there is no restriction on the number of workflows nor in the number of repositories you create, i.e. you can create multiple workflows for a single script as well as one workflow per script. Its entirely upto you how you orchestrate your setup to best suit your needs. The only restriction here is the time for which you can execute the workflows.
Now that we know how to create a simple workflow, lets take a look at enriching our setup by adding more capabilities. The first item on the list is to add a way where we can run the script on a regular basis. How? The answer lies in GitHub Actions’ cron feature which lets you to setup cronjobs. As shown below, simply add a schedule directive with the cron key to the on section.
on:
push:
branches: [ master ]
schedule:
# Runs the script daily at 00:00 UTC
- cron: '0 0 * * *'
workflow_dispatch:
So far what we did was to setting a cronjob that runs daily at 00:00 UTC. The cron syntax is a bit tricky and if you do not understand it, you can use crontab.guru to setup a cronjob according to a time which you find feasible. That’s it, your scripts are all set to run daily when you’re deep asleep and the next day, your automation setup will present you with a new set of possible assets/vulnerabilities to poke at!
Another important aspect of creating an automation setup is logging the results to an output file. Any output your scripts generate will be lost as soon the workflow completes. This situation can be tackled in a variety of ways (e.g. pinging the output to a slack channel), but personally my favourite is to just simply commit all the output files back to the repository after the workflow has completed. To do so, we can simply append the following at the end of the script (make sure to maintain even indentation).
- name: Commit and push
uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4.2.0
with:
commit_message: Your commit message
commit_user_name: 'My Automation'
commit_user_email: 'literally-anything-here@github.com'
The final resultant workflow YAML file should look like this:
A final structure of our YAML config file
Creating the Setup
So far, we know how to write a config file for a GitHub Actions setup, lets put it into action:
1. A good point to start would be to create a private repository on GitHub and upload your scripts up there.
2. Once it is done, you can create a .github/ folder under the root directory of your repo, and then create a folder named workflows/ and put the main.yml file in. Or, you can switch to the Actions tab and start writing your own config file (GitHub helps you by auto-completing suggestions, which I think is great).
3. As soon as you commit the file, a “build” should automatically trigger running your script(s) for the first time.
That’s it, you’re all set.
Why should I use it?
Its an obvious thing that “Why should I use it?” question appears? Usually there are 2 aspects of the issue, the first is the network bandwidth, and secondly the hardware (RAM & CPU) available. Well, lets look at some benchmarks, shall we?
Network capacity of a GitHub Action Runner
To answer the first part of the question, you get over 1.5 Gigabit/s network bandwidth, which I think is far greater than an average home network. So if your scripts consume significant bandwidth, e.g. make a lot of HTTP queries, they’ll likely run way faster than if you run them on your own home network. The image below answers the second part of the question:
CPU info of a GitHub Actions Runner
You get a 2-core CPU each clocked at 2.30GHz which is quite fair in my opinion. A very astonishing thing I observed was that it offers almost ~50MB cache memory which is way more than any normal PC/laptop.
Memory capacity of a GitHub Actions Runner
As for RAM, you have a total of 10GB at your disposal (4GB swap and 6GB available), which I personally think is great and should be sufficient for all kinds of scripts you’re planning to run on it.
Few Example Usecases
Well, so far we have seen the whats’ and hows’. Lets take a look at some whens’:
• Full port scans usually take a lot of time and bandwidth. Additionally the time exponentially increases if you need to spoof the source packet address.
• Downloading and parsing large datasets to extract information for research purposes.
• IP exclusivity: In pentesting, you might come across cases where a security solution rate-limits/blocks your IP address from sending packets to their system. I have personally observed CI/CDs spinning up runners on a different IP than that of its previous execution, so that’s where this might come handy!
• Continuous monitoring setups like subdomain discovery throught CT monitoring, or setups checking for changes in page content .
• and so on…
Automation might be an alias of laziness
After seeing the innumerable benefits of using Actions, I tried using it for my daily tasks. But I’m too lazy to write config files for every task and then go ahead and upload it to GitHub. 🥱
Therefore, I decided to go ahead and write Bludger, an automation framework around GitHub Actions, because why not? It has a powerful templating engine coupled with automatic repository creation/deletion/cloning and a lot of other features which allows you to make use of the CI on a daily basis with minimal effort. 😉
Lets take look at a simple use-case where we run masscan on 1.1.1.1/28:
1. First step would of course be to install the tool. Simply follow the setup instructions of the tool and try getting a basic understanding of the command line arguments it supports. Once you’ve setup your access token lets step ahead.
2. Now, lets directly execute the one-in-all command:
./bludger.py -n massrun -T basic-shell -C 'sudo apt install masscan && sudo masscan --rate 1000 1.1.1.1/28 -p 1-1024 -oJ 1.1.1.1.json' --clone
So what happened there?
• -n massrun: Created a new repository massrun.
• -T basic-shell: Makes use of the template basic-shell.yml under templates/ folder.
• -C <command>: Takes in the command you want to run for that template. In our case, we first installed masscan, then ran the tool to scan the first 1024 ports for all hosts in 1.1.1.1/28 at rate of 1000 packets/s.
• --clone: Finally, clone the repository under the custom/ folder so that you can see the results altogether (since we used the -oJ switch to output the scan results as JSON).
Wait, its that simple? Yes! For more info, you can refer to the wiki of the repository.
Concluding thoughts
Thinking about it, GitHub Actions is a powerful toolset that can indeed be used to level up your productivity as well as ease your daily life by letting the CI do the heavy job for you. However, it is also important that you make use of the resource keeping in mind GitHub’s Terms. With this good food for thought, I hereby conclude this article.
Hope you learnt a new thing today, and of course, start using the tool on a daily basis to game up your productivity!
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Ladislaus of Salzburg
Władysław of Salzburg, also known as Władysław of Wrocław (Władysław Wrocławski) or Władysław of Silesia (Wladislaus von Schlesien, Vladislav Slezský; c. 1237 – 27 April 1270), a member of the Silesian Piasts, was co-ruler in the Duchy of Wrocław since 1248. He served as chancellor of King Ottokar II of Bohemia from 1255 and was elected Bishop of Bamberg in 1257 and Bishop of Passau in 1265. Władysław became Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg in the same year, and from 1268 also served as administrator of the Wrocław diocese.
Family
Władysław was the fifth and youngest son of the Polish Duke Henry II the Pious, by his wife Anna, daughter of the Přemyslid king Ottokar I of Bohemia. He was a member of the Silesian Piasts, elder line of the Polish ruling Piast dynasty. Władysław's grandfather, Duke Henry the Bearded, also regained the Seniorate Province and the Polish throne as High Duke in 1232.
Duke Henry II became co-ruler of his father in 1226 and was able to succeed him as Silesian duke and High Duke of Poland in 1238. When he was killed during the first Mongol invasion of Poland in the Battle of Legnica on 9 April 1241, Władysław's eldest brother Bolesław II the Bald assumed the rule over the Lower Silesian lands and the guardianship of his minor siblings. Stuck in internal conflicts with his brothers Henry III the White and Mieszko, he was not able to secure the Polish throne, which he had to cede to his Piast cousin Konrad of Masovia.
Life
With the approval of their mother Anna of Bohemia and with the purpose to not further divide the paternal lands, the younger sons of late Henry II, Władysław and Konrad I, were sent to study at the Italian university of Padua, with the idea that both prepare for an ecclesiastical career. In 1248, their rivalling elder brothers Henry III and Bolesław II finally came to terms: Henry assumed the government over the Lower Silesian lands around Wrocław, after he made a land division with Bolesław II. He chose Władysław as co-ruler, while Konrad I supposedly became co-ruler in the newly established Duchy of Legnica under Bolesław. However, the Duke of Legnica refused to share the power with anybody. Konrad fled to Greater Poland and, backed by his brother-in-law Duke Przemysł I, eventually obtained the Duchy of Głogów as his own share in 1251.
In the case of Henry III and Władysław, the cooperation between the brothers was a mutual agreement with few opportunities to frictions, as Władysław mainly stayed in the Bohemian capital Prague at the court of his maternal cousin King Ottokar II. His role in the undivided Duchy of Wrocław was limited to receive his rents; Henry III took under his hands all the government. Nevertheless, Władysław too issued numerous deeds and in 1261 he and his brother jointly vested the Wrocław citizens with Magdeburg rights. With the support of the Bohemian king, Władysław continued his spiritual career: about 1255 he became a provost at the cathedral chapter of the St Peter and Paul collegiate church in Vyšehrad (today a part of Prague) and thus was appointed Bohemian Royal Chancellor, a post exclusively reserved for the Vyšehrad provosts. The close alliance between the Silesian Piasts and the Přemyslid dynasty strengthened the ties between the lands of Silesia and Bohemia.
Władysław joined the cathedral chapter in Bamberg in 1256 and was elected bishop in the following year, however, he had to resign, as he received no dispensation by Pope Alexander IV due to his young age. Backed by King Ottokar II, he became a member of the Wrocław chapter and in April 1265 he was elected Bishop of Passau. In October he was elected Archbishop of Salzburg; this time he received the consent of Pope Clement IV. Władysław arrived in Salzburg in Spring 1266. He had to return to Silesia upon the death of his brother Duke Henry III the White on 3 December 1266. In his will, he left Władysław the guardianship of his infant son Henry IV Probus and with this, the regency of the whole Silesian duchy of Wrocław.
Henry III's government had not been too beneficial to the church; Władysław, now as a bishop and also regent, was not inclined to preserve the prerogatives of the nobility, but at the end he was forced to accept this. The bishop-regent was an advocate, with his late brother Henry III, for the canonization of their paternal grandmother, Duchess Hedwig of Silesia (née of Andechs). The process was finally completed, when Saint Hedwig was canonized by Pope Clement on 26 March 1267. This was certainly Władysław's great personal success and gave much prestige to the whole family.
The final chord of his great church's career was his nomination in 1268 to the Bishopric of Wrocław. Władysław had no intention to sacrifice the Archbishopric of Salzburg, but thanks to his influence in Prague and Rome he was appointed an apostolic administrator with all the rights of a bishop. Władysław fulfilled all his duties honestly, a quite uncommon attitude among the medieval princes. When he was Archbishop of Salzburg and shortly afterwards received the title of an administrator in the Diocese of Wroclaw, he was able to combine the two positions so that no one can say that these features overwhelm them. The last four years of life he was in constant travels between Salzburg and Wrocław.
Władysław died on 27 April 1270 and was buried in Salzburg Cathedral. In his will, he left his rights over the half of the Duchy of Wrocław to his nephew Henry IV Probus. There were some rumours that the cause of death of the young bishop, with not more than thirty-three years, was poisoning. Guilty of this crime have to be among the nobility, who four years earlier apparently killed Duke Henry III the White, and almost twenty years later his nephew Henry IV shared the same fate. The mere fact of mentioning the same source (the Chronicle of the Silesian Piast Dukes and his likes) stated that the subsequent death of the Dukes of Wrocław in a short term appears to be somewhat suspect. Likely source of sensational suit has gone, but few credible rumors. The sudden death of a young prince caused by natural factors in the time, when the medical service was not the best, could easily be interpreted as a poisoning. Władysław's death was likely, however, natural, which indicates the presumable place of his death, Salzburg. If the Polish nobles actually wanted to kill him, they presumably would have made this when he stayed in Wrocław and may not have chosen a long journey to Germany to eliminate the bishop-regent. | WIKI |
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Bawdrip
The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels in Bawdrip, Somerset, England was built in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The church was built in the late 13th to early 14th century, on the site of an early church which had belonged to Athelney Abbey.
It underwent Victorian restoration in 1866.
The parish is part of the benefice of Woolavington with Cossington and Bawdrip which is part of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
Architecture
The Blue Lias church consists of a two-bay nave, two-bay chancel, and north and south transepts. The crossing tower has gargoyles and a parapet. Within the tower are four bells. Two of these are believed to be from 1448 and the others from 1671 and 1745.
In the church is a 14th century effigy depicting Sir Simon de Bradney in his armour. | WIKI |
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Description: Shirtless smiling pose of Al Hostak, American Middleweight Champion
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Fair Use License Rationale: This is a photo of Hotstak taken roughly around 1940. It will be used once to identify him in the Wiki article that bears his name, Al Hostak. Hostak is deceased, and the photo is no longer used for promotion. As this will be the only photograph identifying the boxer, and it is essential for identifying Hostak for educational purposes, and to mark his role as a World Middleweight champion, it will be used in this article to identify him as it satisfies the fair use rationale for a non-free image.
It will also be used once to identify Hostak as the boxer who defeated 'Solly Krieger to retake the World Middleweight Title on June 27, 1939 in the Wiki article entitled Solly Krieger. As this event was the most important of Hostak's life as a boxer, an identification of him seems warranted as the most significant historical event of his life. | WIKI |
bibliomystery
Noun
* 1) A genre of mystery novels which have books as the central theme of the plot. | WIKI |
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* List of Indian cities by GDP (PPP)
* List of country subdivisions by GDP over 100 billion US dollars
* Economy of Kerala
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* Fishing in India | WIKI |
GM's stock halted for news, after Reuters report of production halts and job cuts
Shares of General Motors Co. were halted Monday as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern time for news pending. They were up 2.2% ahead of the halt. Reuters reported earlier Monday, citing sources, that the automobile manufacturer plans to stop production of several low-selling cars and slash its North American workforce. The Reuters report said GM plans to halt production at assembly plants in Canada, Ohio and Michigan, citing sources. The plants are the Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly and the Oshawa Assembly, the report said. The stock had shed 10.4% in 2018 prior to the halt, while the S&P 500 has eased 0.3%. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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1. Signup for CloudSigma
2. Ensure you are using a recent JDK 6
3. Setup your project to include cloudsigma-zrh
• Get the dependency org.apache.jclouds.provider/cloudsigma-zrh using jclouds Installation.
4. Start coding
{% highlight java %} // get a context with ibm that offers the portable ComputeService api ComputeServiceContext context = ContextBuilder.newBuilder(“cloudsigma-zrh”) .credentials(email, password) .modules(ImmutableSet. of(new Log4JLoggingModule(), new SshjSshClientModule())) .buildView(ComputeServiceContext.class);
// run a couple nodes accessible via group webserver nodes = context.getComputeService().client.runNodesInGroup(“webserver”, 2);
// While the portable context is easier, you can always perform the same commands manually, // using the provider-specific context. CloudSigmaClient client = CloudSigmaClient.class.cast(context.getProviderSpecificContext().getApi());
// clone a drive from another drive DriveInfo drive = client.cloneDrive(“source-id”, “name”, size(sizeInBytesYesBytes));
// Note you‘ll have to block until the drive has no exclusive lock before starting your server. Here’s how I do it: boolean success = new RetryablePredicate(Predicates.not(new DriveClaimed(client)), maxDriveImageTime, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS).apply(drive);
// After your boot disk is up, you can create a server with it as below. Names needn't be unique.: Server toCreate = Servers.small(name, drive.getUuid(),defaultVncPassword).mem(ramMB).cpu(mhz).build(); ServerInfo newServer = client.createServer(toCreate);
// release resources context.close(); {% endhighlight %}
1. Run on CloudSigma | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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What is sucralose?
Sucralose is a no-calorie, high quality sweetener that is made from sugar and tastes like sugar. It is approximately 600 times sweeter than sugar.
What’s the difference between SPLENDA® and sucralose?
SPLENDA® is the brand name for the sweetening ingredient sucralose. Sucralose is the generic or common name.
How was sucralose discovered? Who discovered it? Where was it discovered? When?
Sucralose was discovered in 1976 as the result of a joint sweetener research project conducted by Tate & Lyle and Queen Elizabeth College in London, UK. The scientists, who were investigating the structure-taste relationship of the sugar molecule, discovered that by modifying the structure of sugar in a certain way they could intensify the sweet taste of sugar whilst at the same time making it non-caloric.
Sucralose and Diabetes
How is sucralose made?
Sucralose is made through a patented, multi-step process that starts with sugar and selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. The result is an exceptionally stable sweetener that tastes like sugar, but without sugar’s calories.
Is sucralose a natural sweetener?
No. Sucralose is not a natural product – it is not found in nature. Although sucralose is made from sugar, the sugar molecule is chemically modified to make sucralose which is classed as an artificial sweetener.
How many calories does sucralose have?
Sucralose is not metabolized for energy in the body so it has no (zero) calories.
Exactly how sweet is sucralose?
Sucralose is, on average, about 600 times sweeter than sugar and thus only very small amounts are required to sweeten foods and beverages. For example, a standard 12-ounce can of diet soda would require only 70 milligrams (0.07g) of sucralose compared to a full-calorie version that would typically contain about 40g of sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
In what sort of foods and beverages do manufacturers use sucralose?
Sucralose is extremely versatile. Already it is being used in most food and drinks, including dairy deserts, baked goods, chewing gum, ice cream, and low carbohydrate snacks. It can be used in foods where some other sweeteners cannot. The fact that it remains sweet under high/intense heat and during long-term storage, coupled with its great sugar-like taste means sucralose is used in a vast range of reduced-calorie foods and beverages.
What are the benefits of sucralose?
Sucralose is made from sugar and has a great sugar-like taste. It is also extremely versatile and can be used to replace caloric sweeteners such as sugar and high fructose corn syrup in most foods and drinks. Sucralose retains its sweetness for longer including during cooking and baking.
For some great tasting recipes that you can try at home, please visit www.splenda.com
Sucralose Safety
Is sucralose safe?
Sucralose is safe. This is the view of every regulatory agency that has reviewed the scientific research on the ingredient.
Were tests conducted on humans? Have there been any negative reactions reported?
Since its introduction over a decade ago, millions of people have safely enjoyed foods and beverages sweetened with sucralose. It is conclusively tested and its safety has been confirmed by regulatory authorities representing more than 80 countries worldwide.
An extensive database of scientific research demonstrates sucralose has no harmful effects and is safe for all consumers, including sensitive populations like diabetics, children and pregnant women. Sucralose requires no warning labels or health information statements.
Doesn’t sucralose contain chlorine?
Yes the sucralose molecule contains three atoms of chlorine, and this is the key to how we intensify the sweetness of sugar and remove the calories.
There is no cause for concern about the safety of sucralose due to the presence of chlorine. In the case of sucralose, the addition of chlorine atoms converts sucrose (sugar) to sucralose, which is an inert, unreactive substance. The chlorine in sucralose does not separate in the body, nor does sucralose accumulate in the body. In fact, it is the presence of these chlorine atoms that prevent sucralose from being broken down in the body for energy, thus, making sucralose non-caloric.
Is the chlorine in sucralose safe?
Absolutely. This is why every regulatory authority which has reviewed the scientific data on sucralose has approved it for use as a food ingredient.
Chlorine is used to modify the structure of the sugar molecule and produce sucralose and is really the key to how the sweetness of sugar is intensified while at the same time retaining the taste of sugar and rendering it non-caloric. There is absolutely no cause for concern about the safety of sucralose due to the presence of chlorine. In the case of sucralose, the addition of chlorine atoms converts sugar to sucralose, which is an inert, nonreactive substance. The chlorine in sucralose does not separate in the body, nor does sucralose accumulate in the body.
Is the chlorine in sucralose released in the body?
No, sucralose does not break down in the body. It is not affected by the body’s digestive processes. The chlorine in sucralose does not separate in the body, nor does sucralose accumulate in the body. Only a small proportion of the sucralose that is consumed is actually absorbed and that is quickly eliminated as sucralose in the body wastes. The majority of ingested sucralose just passes through the digestive system unchanged.
Chlorine and Sucralose
How is sucralose metabolized in the body? How long does it take to break down in the body?
Sucralose enters and leaves the body as sucralose. It is not broken down in the body and does not provide any calories.
What will the long-term effects of sucralose consumption be?
Sucralose is safe. There will be no ill effects as a result of long-term sucralose consumption. Specific testing, both in animals and man, has been conducted to assure us of that. This is why over 80 countries around the world, including the UK and the US, have approved sucralose for human consumption.
How does sucralose interact with other foods/food ingredients/drugs?
Because sucralose will be used in so many different foods, potential interactions have been thoroughly investigated. These studies have shown that sucralose is an inert, nonreactive ingredient that does not interact with other food ingredients or drugs.
Was sucralose thoroughly tested?
Yes. Sucralose was tested to the satisfaction of every regulatory authority that has reviewed the data from the safety studies. Regulatory authorities worldwide have agreed and permitted sucralose to be used as a sweetener, without the need for any special warning labels of health information statements.
How was the safety of sucralose determined?
Regulatory authorities globally have very specific requirements in terms of scientific studies to demonstrate safety of new food ingredients, including sweeteners. Sucralose underwent all of the required scientific studies and the data has been reviewed by scientific experts representing regulatory authorities around the world. Every regulatory authority that has reviewed the safety data on sucralose has concluded that sucralose is safe for human consumption.
What happens to sucralose in the body?
Although sucralose is made from sugar, the body does not recognize it as sugar or a carbohydrate. It is not metabolized by the body for energy, so it is calorie-free. The vast majority of ingested sucralose is not absorbed and simply passes through the digestive system. The small amount of sucralose that is absorbed is rapidly eliminated in urine as sucralose.
Can diabetics consume sucralose?
Yes. Numerous studies have shown that sucralose is suitable for people with diabetes. Sucralose is not recognized by the body as sugar or as a carbohydrate. It is not metabolized by the body for energy and does not affect blood glucose levels. Sucralose has no effect on carbohydrate metabolism or insulin secretion and is therefore suitable for diabetics. For more information please visit The American Diabetes Association Web site www.diabetes.org and the SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener Web site, www.splenda.com (See: Living with Diabetes section). | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Smelly t shirt dating
Inbred mice, who were alike in all genes but MHC, could detect a difference in the scent of a relative that harbored an ever-so-slightly different MHC gene.Moreover, their odor preferences were not innate but learned.[4] He decided to gather male scent rather than female scent simply because unshaved armpits collect more odor.In fact, to ensure a strong body odor, he gave the men supplies of odor-free soap and aftershave and asked them to remain as "odor neutral" as possible.Primer pheromones release hormones, which are connected to sperm and testosterone production in males and follicle maturation in females. However, if you’re itching to get your hands on 10 shirts from strangers, you’ll have to resort to your own means for now.Smell Dating just closed its registration for its first rounds of clients, but you can sign up and be notified to when it will be open again.
How exactly this works, however, is still a bit of a mystery.In this study, Wedekind had a group of female college students smell T-shirts that had been worn by male students for three nights, without deodorant, cologne or scented soaps.Overwhelmingly, the women preferred the odors of men with the most dissimilar MHCs to their own The theory of desired dissimilar immune system matching can be quantified according to markers on a person’s major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a large gene region that controls the immune system response, and postulates that couples attracted to this type of scent owing to the result that a resultant child would create a more robust immune system, more defensive against a greater variety of pathogens.[1] The results of the sweaty T-shirt study are used by the science-based pair matching site Scientic to match people. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
List of Maltese records in swimming
Below is a complete list of the Maltese records in swimming, which are ratified by the Aquatic Sports Association of Malta. | WIKI |
Talk:cataglottis
RFV discussion: May–December 2018
Added one citation. DTLHS (talk) 01:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
* I did some research and discovered that cataglottism was the proper form of the word. It's a nonexistent entry, which had only two citations on its citation page, but I found and added a third citation. Perhaps the entry can be created now. Khemehekis (talk) 02:28, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
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The Military Health System is the health care system of the United States military. The Military Health System is comprised of a "direct care" network of hospitals and clinics, known as Military Treatment Facilities, and a "purchased care" health plan, known as TRICARE. As of Fiscal Year 2008, the Military Health System covered over 9 million beneficiaries and had an annual budget of over $39 billion.
Direct care
Direct care in the Military Health System is care furnished directly through the military's large network of Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs). In FY 2007, the Department of Defense operated a direct care network of 65 hospitals, 412 medical clinics and 414 dental clinics throughout the world.
Historically, most care has been provided through the direct care network. Various studies have shown that the cost of care provided through the direct care network is significantly less than the cost of purchased care. Several factors, however, have led to a large increase in the use of purchased care over direct care in the last several years.
Purchased care
Purchased care is care obtained through private sector health care providers. The majority of purchased care spending in the Military Health System is within the TRICARE program.
History
Prior to the Civil War, medical care in the military was provided largely as a function of the regimental surgeon and surgeon's mates. While further attempts were made to establish a centralized medical system, care provision was largely local and limited. The availability of effective treatment for disease and injury was, by modern standards, primitive. Significant changes began to occur near the time of the Civil War, when improvements in medical science, communications and transportation made centralized casualty collection and treatment more practical.
In World War I the U.S. Army Medical Department expanded and developed greater organization and structure. Care began on the battlefield and was then transferred to successively greater levels of medical capability. Considerable medical service capability was located in the combat theater. This capability was to ensure the availability of needed care, and to help maintain combat unit strength by returning soldiers to duty if their condition could be effectively treated in theater. Expansion continued during World War II under the necessity to meet changing needs of the war, but without the benefit of an organizational or expansion plan.
After World War II, the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government underwent significant reorganization. The separate Department of War and Department of the Navy were re-aligned under a single Department of Defense. The reorganization created conflict as the Army had evolved its own medical system, as had the Navy. Furthermore, the Air Force, originally part of the Army, was created as a separate military service with its own separate Medical Service. Intermittent efforts to consolidate function and eliminate overlap and redundancy have taken place, but have historically met strong resistance.
Expansion of benefits for dependents and retirees
Historically, the primary mission of the medical departments of the Army and Navy was to provide medical care to Active Duty personnel. The Army Appropriations Act of 1885 included language that "the medical officers of the Army and contract surgeons shall whenever practicable attend the families of the officers and soldiers free of charge." When military personnel retired from active service, it was understood that they were subject to recall in time of national need; therefore, medical care was made available to them as well. Family members of Active Duty personnel and retirees and their dependents received medical care from military medical facilities on a space-available basis.
After World War II, and especially after the Korean War, a larger standing armed force for the Cold War resulted in larger dependent and retiree communities. Their medical care in military medical facilities was limited and space-available care became increasingly unavailable. A 1956 Department of Defense estimate was that 40 percent of active duty dependents did not have access to federal facilities due to distance, incomplete medical coverage at the federal facility, or due to the saturation of services at military treatment facilities. Many retirees had to seek medical care in the civilian economy at their own expense.
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS)
To address the adverse effects on morale of the rationing of medical care in military medical facilities for Active Duty dependents and retirees (and their dependents), Congress acted to provide alternative sources of medical care to those communities, if their needs could not be met in the space-available military medical facilities. In 1956 Congress passed the Dependents Medical Care Act, allowing military retirees and their dependents to receive care in military medical facilities based on the "availability of space and facilities and the capabilities of the medical and dental staff." It also gave the Secretary of Defense the authority to contract with civilian medical care sources for the care of spouses and children of Active Duty members of the Uniformed Services, but not for retirees and their dependents. The Military Medical Benefits Amendments of 1966 extended these benefits to retired military members and their dependents. This benefits program became known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, or CHAMPUS.
Initially, CHAMPUS was modeled after the Blue Cross-Blue Shield High Option Plan of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The program provided for partial government payment for new and expanded inpatient and outpatient care at civilian sources for designated beneficiaries. The CHAMPUS benefits were limited when compared to those authorized in military medical facilities, and they did not extend to those over 65 years of age. Additionally, CHAMPUS-eligible individuals did not have to pay a premium but had no plan choice. CHAMPUS beneficiaries were generally required to obtain non-emergency inpatient care from nearby MTFs, if such care was available there. Thus, CHAMPUS was not directly comparable to the various plans available to participants in FEHBP.
Because of escalating costs, claims paperwork demands, and general beneficiary dissatisfaction, DOD initiated in the late 1980s, with congressional authority, a series of demonstration projects designed to more effectively contain costs and improve services to beneficiaries. One of these, known as the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative (CRI), was designed by DOD in conjunction with a consulting company. Under CRI, a contractor provided both health care and administrative-related services, including claims processing.
The CRI project was one of the first to introduce managed care features to the CHAMPUS program. Beneficiaries under CRI were offered three choices — a health maintenance organization-like option called CHAMPUS Prime that required enrollment and offered enhanced benefits and low-cost shares; a preferred provider organization-like option called CHAMPUS Extra that required use of network providers in exchange for lower cost shares; and the standard CHAMPUS option that continued the freedom of choice in selecting providers and higher cost shares and deductibles.
Although DOD’s initial intent under CRI was to award three competitively bid contracts covering six states, only one bid, made by Foundation Health Corporation covering California and Hawaii, was received. Foundation delivered services under this contract between August 1988 and January 1994.
TRICARE
In late 1993, in response to requirements in the DOD Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1994, the DoD announced plans for implementing a nationwide managed care program for the MHS, known as TRICARE, that would be completely implemented by May 1997. Under the initial design of the TRICARE program, the United States was divided into 12 health care regions. An administrative organization, the lead agent, was designated for each region and coordinated the health care needs of all military treatment facilities in the region.
Seven managed care support contracts were awarded between September 1994 and September 1997 to cover these 12 regions. The contracts were awarded to Sierra Military Healthcare Services (Region 1), Anthem Alliance (later purchased by Humana Military Healthcare Services) (Regions 2/5), Humana Military Healthcare Services (Regions 3/4), Foundation Health Federal Services (later known as Health Net Federal Services) (Region 6, Regions 9/10/12 and Region 11), and TriWest Healthcare Alliance (Regions 7/8). The contracts were initially awarded for a base period and five option years and were subsequently extended, in some cases multiple times.
In August 2003 the DoD realigned the previous 12 regions into three new regions - North, South and West - and awarded new TRICARE contracts for administration of the three new regions.
The new contracts
While the health care benefit was changing, so was the composition of beneficiaries. Between 1988 and 2003, the number of eligible non-Active Duty beneficiaries for each Active Duty service member increased from 3.1 to 4.7. As the eligible retiree population was increasing, the opportunity for receiving inhouse care was rapidly declining. Between 1990 and 2001, base realignments and closures and MTF consolidation resulted in a 74 percent drop in the number of beds, a 76 percent decrease in bed days, and a 36 percent reduction in outpatient visits. This "…amounted to a de facto decline in the level of benefits provided to Medicare-eligible retirees. They had difficulty obtaining care at military medical treatment facilities on a space-available basis."
STOP
Effective October 1, 2001, TRICARE for Life (TFL) began providing lifelong comprehensive health care benefits to certain Medicare-eligible beneficiaries age 65 and older or disabled.
In October 2004, the Transition Assistance Management Program (TAMP) was extended to provide TRICARE for 180 days following active duty. In April 2005, the TRICARE Reserve Select (TRS) program was launched to provide a premium-based TRICARE health plan offered for purchase to Reserve Component members who qualify. In 2006, additional TRICARE benefits were extended to dependents whose sponsor died on active duty.
Objectives
To maintain a physically and mentally fit, combat and operationally ready military force.
To ensure the timely availability of trained manpower and other health resources required to provide support to approved combat, mobilization and contingency plans of the military forces.
To provide a program of health services to all eligible beneficiaries as currently authorized by law and practice.
To maintain a professionally viable and effective military health care system that is an incentive for the recruitment and retention of high-quality health professionals in an all-volunteer military force.
To maintain a system of health services that functions as effectively and efficiently as possible. | WIKI |
2020 elections Pete Buttigieg unveils new aspects of 'Douglass Plan' in bid for black voters
(CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled new aspects of his plan for racial justice Thursday morning, pledging that it would "help heal our racial divides with bold policies that match the scale of the crises we face today." Buttigieg's "Douglass Plan," named for abolitionist Frederick Douglass, would seek to combat racial inequality by focusing on reforming health care, education, entrepreneurship, criminal justice and voting rights on a federal level, per a release from his campaign. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor first announced the plan in an op-ed for the Charleston Chronicle last month. In the new details of the plan, Buttigieg has proposed: increasing federal funding for historically black colleges and universities, increasing investments in minority-held depositories and mandating 25% of government contracts go to minority owned businesses. The plan would also seek to reduce incarceration by 50% at the state and federal level and abolish private federal prisons, per a release from the Buttigieg campaign. The plan also wants to address "the underrepresentation of Black Americans in the health workforce and train our existing health workforce to combat bias -- especially racial bias -- when treating patients," hitting a topic Buttigieg has touched on while stumping on the campaign trail. "Our entire health care system is burdened by racism," Buttigieg told voters at Sunday's Essence Fest in New Orleans, "when black women are dying from maternal complications at three times the rate of white women. Your race should have absolutely no bearing on your life expectancy in this country." Buttigieg's campaign has struggled to garner support with black voters. A CNN poll released last week found the mayor polling at 0% with black voters nationally. Last week, the mayor told reporters at Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition breakfast: "When you're new on the scene, and you're not from a community of color, you've got to work much harder in order to earn that trust, because trust is largely a function of quantity time." Buttigieg, in an interview with CNN's David Axelrod that will air on "The Axe Files" on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, responded to the poll by saying he is "not interested in winning without black support." "I'm interested in winning black support and deserving to win black support," Buttigieg said. "It's why we're making sure that through initiatives like the Douglass Plan, people understand exactly what I propose to do with the powers of the presidency and federal office, to deal with racial inequality." Buttigieg added that "a lot of people feel like they've been lied to, by various politicians coming along from both parties, for as long as I've been alive or longer" and that means he has "a lot of work in a short amount of time, to build that trust and build those relationships." In Iowa last week, Buttigieg blasted the criminal justice system during a campaign stop, telling voters at the Carroll County Fourth of July Barbecue, "The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence there's systemic racism." "When black people and white people are treated the same by the criminal justice system, it will be easier for white people and black people to live in this country and it will be easier for law enforcement to do their job. But racism has no place in American politics or in American law enforcement." CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this story. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Production process of nano essence containing olive oil
Fecha de publicación: 27/11/2020
Fuente: Wipo "olive oil"
The invention discloses a production process of nano essence containing olive oil. An oil phase is prepared from 2%-4% of hexadecanol, 3%-9% of stearic acid, 5%-10% of butyrospermum parkii butter, 2%-6% of lanolin, 1%-3% of hyaluronic acid, 2%-8% of sodium hyaluronate, 5%-10% of glycerinum and 1%-3% of methylparaben. A water phase is prepared from 1%-3% of olive oil, 0.5%-2.5% of aloe barbadensisleaf extract, 3%-7% of jasmine extracting solution and 64.4%-75.4% of deionized water. The technical scheme has the beneficial effects that various sunscreen components such as 1%-3% of carrot extracting solution, 0.5%-2.5% of jasmine extracting solution and 3%-7% of radix sophorae flavescentis extracting solution are adopted in the technical scheme, the sunscreen effect on the skin of a user canbe effectively facilitated, and meanwhile, moisturizing failure is increased, and the problems mentioned in the background art are effectively solved. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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90 STAT. 3034
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—JUNE 10, 1976
June 10, 1976 [M. on. es. J Ante, p. 694.
CORRECTION OF ENROLLED BILL H.R. 11559 Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring)^ That in the enrollment of the bill (H.R. 11559) entitled "An Act to authorize appropriations for the saline water conversion program for fiscal year 1977", the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to make the following correction: On page 1, line 2, of the Senate engrossed amendment, strike out "$7,090,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$7,540,000". Passed June 10, 1976.
June 11, 1976 [H. Con. Res. 651]
UNITED STATES SUPPORT OF ITALIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENT Whereas the Atlantic alliance continues to be the cornerstone of the foreign policy of the United States; and Whereas the basic purposes of that alliance are to preserve the security of member countries and promote the ideals of freedom and democracy they hold in common; and Whereas the effective functioning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is crucial to the fulfillment of these purposes; and Whereas the effectiveness of NATO is dependent upon general agreement within the alliance as to the security needs of its members and the means by which such needs are to be met; and Whereas the full and unencumbered participation of Italy in NATO is of vital importance in sustaining such agreement; and Whereas there exist between the United States and Italy strong ties of friendship, alliance, and kinship; and Whereas the people of the United States and Italy share broad ideals and viewpomts; and Whereas the United States owes a debt to Italy in the creation and formation of our own country: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring)^ That it is the sense of the Congress that for all these reasons the people and Government of the United States reaffirm a sympathetic interest in Italian democracy and democratic institutions and call on the European friends and allies of Italy similarly to confirm their support for the Italian people and their Government and to join in assisting Italy to renew her confidence and to attain full and lasting prosperity. SEC. 2. It is the sense of the Congress that the economic viability of Italy is important to the Atlantic alliance as a whole as well as to the United States. SEC. 3. It is the sense of the Congress that the United States, in conjunction with other friends and allies of Italy, should stand ready to participate in efforts to provide financial assistance to Italy through the proposed OECD Special Financing Facility and/or by other means deemed appropriate. Passed June 11, 1976.
June 23, 1976 CORRECTION OF ENROLLED BILL S. 3201 1&. Lon. Kes. 2 J Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), Ante, p. 999. That in the enrollment of the bill (S. 3201), to amend the Public
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The Top 10 Moments From Couture Week
Hedi Slimane's surprising appointment at Céline, paying homage to Alaïa — and a 2-year-old on the runway. The collections kicked off this season with a different kind of show: a homage to the designer Azzedine Alaïa, who died unexpectedly last November, in the form of a jewel-like exhibit. Approximately 40 pieces of his work from the 1980s to last year were on display in the gallery of his Marais headquarters — and over a thousand people (Peter Marino, Marc Newson, Courtney Love, Sophie Hicks and Farida Khelfa among them) crowded in to pay their respects. The crowd was so thick that it packed the inner courtyard, creating a traffic jam at the door and testifying to the depth and breadth of the late designer’s friendships and fans. Many were drawn like a magnet to the kitchen, where Alaïa famously hosted riotous dinners that went long into the night. Naomi Campbell broke out the chilled vodka in his honor. It was his drink, and his night. — VANESSA FRIEDMAN, fashion director, Styles Eight years ago, the former designer Riccardo Tisci took Givenchy out of the couture show game — but this January, Clare Waight Keller, who joined the house in March of last year after six years at Chloé, brought it back in. It was a risky move for all sorts of reasons, not least because Waight Keller had never worked with a couture atelier before, but she pulled it off with aplomb. The collection was something of a revelation: by far the most sophisticated, tightly woven show she has done yet. There’s been a lot of worry this week in the front row over the fact that with Phoebe Philo’s departure from Céline, adult women in search of clothes that combine intelligence, elegance and comfort were not going to have a place to shop, but if Waight Keller’s couture is any indication, Givenchy may well become their new destination. Oh, and she threw in some couture for men for good measure too. — V.F. When the first look of Valentino, the last show of the season, appeared in the gilded halls of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, the audience breathed an unconscious sigh of delight. It wasn’t just thanks to the luscious palette or sense of luxurious ease conveyed by the clothes, but also because of what topped them off: an enormous umbrella hat covered in aquamarine ostrich feathers trailing jellyfish fronds. Pierpaolo Piccioli, Valentino’s creative director, had never used hats in a collection before, but this time around he teamed up with the British milliner Philip Treacy to enchanting effect. Apart from the feathered fancies, there were coronas of leaves in fuchsia and jade green that bristled like haute dandelions on the model’s heads, capping off a remarkable outing that took the elements of classic high fashion — ruffles, volumes, bows, embroidery, taffeta — and rendered them weightless, and without pomposity: couture for the era of the casual everyday. — V.F. In an era where most of the front row tends to view fashion shows through their smartphones, John Galliano took that 21st-century industry reality and reflected it — both figuratively and literally — within his latest couture collection for Maison Margiela. This season, Galliano and his team developed a special holographic fabric that looked like black nylon when viewed with the naked eye, but when viewed through a phone camera with flash, it transformed into shimmering panels of holographic rainbows, different to the eye of every beholder. It was all about “freezing the glamour of the accidental, the magical moment,” Galliano said. The collection featured oversize parkas sewn into slips or polka dot dresses, and bustiers atop trench coats, all of which shimmered in states of psychedelic transformation as the models walked past. It is rare these days to find fashion that feels truly boundary-breaking in philosophy and finish. This show, however, was one of them. — ELIZABETH PATON, European correspondent, Styles The couture of Iris Van Herpen exists in its own space between technology and tradition; the Dutch designer often uses avant-garde techniques such as laser cutting, 3D-printing and heat bonding to create extraordinary pieces of wearable art, and this season was no exception. On Monday, at her “Games of Nature” show held at the Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie, Van Herpen had found inspiration from photographs of various landscapes seen from the sky. These ideas found form in whispers of structured tulle: first, with cloudlike gowns that seemed to float up and away from the body, etched with iridescent patterns that meandered like tributaries, or else in more fitted silhouettes finished with laser-cut fragments that quivered against the wearer like a second skin. Soft and feminine, familiar yet also futuristic and presented beneath giant cellulose sculptures by the Dutch artist Peter Gentenaar that hung suspended from the vaulted ceiling, it was a collection rooted in the beauty of the earth, while also being out of this world. — E.P. Supermodels who are the scions of, well, supermodels, are all the rage these days. But Bella Hadid and Kaia Gerber need to watch their backs because there is a new girl in town: Ioni Conran stole the show at Jean Paul Gaultier on Wednesday when she took to the runway alongside her mother, Coco Rocha. Sporting matching blue gowns, black gloves, white tights and sky-high corkscrew ponytails, the duo closed the show by skipping along the catwalk, striking poses along the way and melting hearts in the process (did we mention Ioni is only 2?) Couture has rarely looked so cute. — E.P. There is a fantasy attached to attending the couture shows. While many of the guests in attendance are couture clients, we journalists often have to stretch in order to imagine the world in which these creations live. Thanks to Dior, we didn’t have to dream too hard: For the second year in a row, the house’s couture show was followed by a fantastical, spectacular ball at the Musée Rodin. Dior’s artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, presented a dreamy, Surrealist-inspired collection filled with diaphanous trompe l’oeil dresses and playful face masks designed by Stephen Jones. The venue then transformed into a grand masquerade ball, where 800 guests — including Bella Hadid and Monica Bellucci — dressed in their finest gowns, tuxedos and over-the-top masks, danced the night away. What better way to celebrate a great collection? — MALINA JOSEPH GILCHRIST, style director, women’s, T Magazine It’s only January, but we’ve already gotten a glimpse of some fall/winter 2018 collections, ahead of the ready-to-wear season next month. Since it moved onto the Paris schedule last summer, Proenza Schouler has become something to look forward to during couture — and this week, Ellery and Acne followed suit. From the looks of those ready-to-wear shows, some strong themes for the season have begun to emerge. All three designers alluded to the ’70s in some way. At Proenza, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez nodded to arts and crafts in the form of tie-dye turtleneck dresses, macramé looks, hammered sculptural necklaces and python platforms. At Acne, there were long, languid layers, muted florals — and coats that looked like they were plucked from a vintage store. Models even wore their hair long and wavy, reminiscent of Janis Joplin. Ellery offered a more polished interpretation of the era, with the label’s signature bell bottoms and sculptural gold jewelry. If these shows are any indication of what’s to come, the fall/winter ’18 season is already off to a strong start. — M.J.G. Haute couture week is always a feast for the eyes — and not just in terms of fashion. Beauty, too, is about fantasy, and an escape from the practicalities of everyday life. The spring/summer 2018 couture season proved to be a good one for makeup artists, as the trend of natural fresh faces was less prevalent than it has been during recent ready-to-wear seasons. Instead, many shows featured beautiful color on the face, especially in terms of blush. At Chanel, models’ cheeks were rosy pink, and at Armani, a pastel pink blush was applied on the apples of the cheeks and extended up to the temple. The look became more extreme at RDVK; it could only be described as ’80s, Kabuki-style rouge. — M.J.G. On a quiet Sunday in Paris, the fashion industry was alerted to the most unexpected news: that Hedi Slimane would be taking the reins at Céline, following the departure of Phoebe Philo. Since he left Saint Laurent in 2016, rumors have circulated about where he would end up. Many speculated that he would return to LVMH, but Celine was a total surprise. Slimane devotees were elated — especially with the announcement that Slimane will introduce men’s wear to Celine — while Philo loyalists worried that they may have to trade in their voluminous trousers for skinny jeans. Either way, the appointment is exciting — and we’re looking forward to seeing what Slimane dreams up come September. — M.J.G. An earlier version of this article misstated the age of Coco Rocha's daughter, Ioni. She is 2, not 3. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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[–]coderascal 2 points3 points (1 child)
Google's spellcheck is probably driven by some pretty heavy equations and datasets. You'd have to do one of the following:
1. Include all of that information in Chrome which will take up a huge amount of space.
2. Hit Google for every word ever typed in. Expensive.....
[–]BettingZoo 0 points1 point (0 children)
It already hits Google for every word to generate a list of search suggestions. It might not take that much longer.
In addition, Google gives you a few results for what it thinks is the correct spelling, so it probably isn't worth the extra work assuming most people get what they want this way.
Lastly, it'd be way more efficient to spell-check on the client-side, and they already have spell checking in HTML text boxes so it wouldn't take a lot of effort to do it that way.
Nice idea though!
[–]DavidM01 2 points3 points (0 children)
Google decides which spelling is right by how many times the word is spelled that way in all the pages of the web.
Peter Norvig mentions this on his website: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
[–]s_m_c -1 points0 points (0 children)
Probably because the silos in Google are getting more and more rigid.
My experience dealing with them, when negotiating for use of some of their properties on a web portal we were building for a major telco, was baffling. To get the same product for web and mobile required talking to 2 (or more) different product managers. Surely it's the same backend and just a different presentation layer. Apparently not to the product people.
Even "smart" and supposedly innovative companies can be victims of their own size. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
South Korea-Japan trade war: Gas stations refuse to refuel Japan cars
There's a massive trade war brewing between South Korea and Japan, the culmination of decades of mistrust and political tensions.It was triggered on July 1, when Tokyo placed export restrictions on three key materials that South Korea needs to make semiconductors and display screens.Many South Koreans have threatened to boycott Japanese beer and films. Some gas-station owners are even refusing to refuel Japanese cars.South Korea plans to report Japan to the World Trade Organization.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese cars in the latest escalation of the two countries' new trade war, which comes after decades of political and economic tensions.Those tensions exploded to the surface on July 1, when Japan placed export restrictions on three key high-tech materials — fluorinated polyimide, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride — that South Korea relies on to make semiconductors and display screens for its booming electronics industry.Tokyo also plans to remove Seoul from a so-called white list of nations that face minimum trade restrictions.
Sung Yoon-mo, South Korea's industry minister, told reporters on Wednesday, according to Reuters: "It is a very grave matter that shakes the foundation of South Korea-Japan economic partnership and Northeast Asian security cooperation that has been maintained and developed for more than 60 years."Sung added: "Removal of South Korea from the white list of countries is against international norms and we are worried about its serious negative impact on global value chains and free trade."Similarly, Yoshihide Suga, Japan's top government spokesman, said on Wednesday, per Reuters, that "Japan-South Korea relations are now in a very severe state."South Korean President Moon Jae-in earlier this month called the new trade restrictions an "unprecedented emergency" and accused Tokyo of imposing them for political gain.He also warned dozens of executives from companies including Samsung, Hyundai, and Lotte that this trade war could last a long time, Bloomberg reported.
Japanese and South Korean officials met for five hours on July 12 in an effort to ease tensions but failed to achieve a breakthrough, The Japan Times reported.US President Donald Trump last Friday offered to help end the impasse, Reuters reported, but the US has not intervened.Seoul now plans to report Tokyo to the World Trade Organization at meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday and says it is considering suing Japan to allege unfair trading practices, The Japan Times said.Tokyo denies those allegations and says any wrongdoing is Seoul's.
Car owners, beer drinkers, and anime fans affectedMany South Koreans have since vowed to boycott Japanese products and called on gas-station operators to stop refueling Japanese cars, The Korea Times reported on Tuesday.Some have complied, with one telling the newspaper that whenever he saw a Japanese car he saw "a Japanese flag."Some auto-service centers have also formed an alliance to refuse serving Japanese autos, the newspaper said.Observers say, however, that these boycotts are just harming Koreans rather than the Japanese government."The victim of the gas stations refusing to fill up Japanese cars isn't the Japanese government but the car owners," The Korea Times quoted the South Korean online news outlet E Today as saying."If people don't use gas stations, the victim is not the Japanese government but the gas station owners," it added.
South Koreans have also bought less Japanese beer, booked fewer trips to Japan, and even refused to watch Japanese movies, South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper reported.Emart, South Korea's biggest retailer, said sales of Japanese beer between July 1 and 18 were 30% lower year on year, The Hankyoreh reported."Butt Detective: The Movie," a Japanese anime film based on a series popular in South Korea, also suffered at the box office after its July 11 release, The Hankyoreh reported. It received multiple negative reviews, many of which said Koreans shouldn't watch Japanese films, the report said.Last week, a 78-year-old South Korean man died after he set himself on fire outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. An officer told Agence France-Presse that he had said he was doing so because of his "hostility against Japan."
100-year-long tensions bubbling under the surfaceThe two countries have had an uneasy relationship since 1910, when Japan forcefully colonized the Korean Peninsula — which at the time was still unified — and ruled it with an iron fist.During World War II, Japan, still controlling Korea, forced millions of Koreans to become laborers to support Japan's military ambitions and conscripted tens of thousands of people.
Though Tokyo and Seoul normalized diplomatic relations in 1965, their relationship remained uneasy.After a South Korean court last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate Koreans who were forced into wartime labor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries refused to comply, viewing it as an erosion of trust between the two countries.The Japanese government says the 1965 treaty settled all colonial-era debts, while many people in South Korea argue they had no choice but to accept it at the time, Tom Le, a professor at Pomona College, wrote in The Washington Post on Tuesday. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
[Question] MySQL Plugin
#1
I have a command that needs a name of a player with underscores (e.g. John_Doe) and would update records in the database if the user exists. My problem is, that whenever it INSERTS or UPDATES data, it get rids of the underscore from the name.
So for example:
A player types "/pay John_Doe 5000"
Here's what the MySQL function actually does:
Код:
CMySQLHandler::Query(UPDATE accounts SET money=money+'5000' WHERE username='John Doe') - Successfully executed.
With the example given, you would see that the underscore from the name was removed. This was taken from an actual debug text file of the MySQL plugin.
Any thoughts on this?
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#2
Try adding the \_ for it is originated for php, meybe it will work if you add an \ before the underscore.
Note: Use the split function.
Example:
pawn Код:
new Name[2][MAX_PLAYER_NAME];
new PlayerName[MAX_PLAYER_NAME];
GetPlayerName(playerid, PlayerName, MAX_PLAYER_NAME);
split(PlayerName, Name, "_");
format(PlayerName, 100, "%s\\_%s", Name[0], Name[1]);
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#3
That's a good suggestion. But it's weird since I've already used those functions a lot of times having data with underscores and worked perfectly. Anyway, I just used the strreplace function by replacing the spaces with underscores. Thanks though.
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George Kavel
George Charles Kavel (May 3, 1910 – July 15, 1995) was an American football player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. Kavel played college football at Carnegie Mellon University. | WIKI |
Neoclassical architecture in Tuscany
Neoclassical architecture in Tuscany established itself between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century within a historical-political framework substantially aligned with the one that affected the rest of the Italian peninsula, while nonetheless developing original features.
Unlike other regions, where architects often arrived from outside during the years of renewal, the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence directly trained the protagonists of a particularly lively period, especially within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Historical context
In the first half of the 18th century Tuscany was largely administered by the grand duchy controlled by the Habsburg-Lorraine, and had Florence as its capital. Then there were a number of smaller entities: the Republic of Lucca, which included the city of the same name and neighboring territories; the Principality of Piombino, which extended over the Val di Cornia and part of the Island of Elba; the State of the Presidi, which essentially included the area of Orbetello and was politically dependent on the Kingdom of Naples; and finally, the Duchy of Massa and Carrara, which governed a small territory facing the sea in the northern part of the region.
With the French occupation, the Grand Duchy was succeeded by the Kingdom of Etruria (1801-1807), which also included the State of the Presidi; Piombino and Lucca were united into a single principality, to which the Duchy of Massa and Carrara was also assigned in 1806. In December 1807, the Kingdom of Etruria was suppressed and the grand duchy, still controlled by the French empire, was divided into three territorial departments called "of the Mediterranean," "of the Ombrone," and "of the Arno," with capitals Livorno, Siena and Florence, respectively.
At the Congress of Vienna, with the Conservative Order, the Grand Duchy obtained some territorial retouches, with the annexation of the Principality of Piombino, the Presidi State and some minor fiefdoms; in 1847 the Duchy of Lucca was also included. In 1860 the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was annexed into the Kingdom of Sardinia, later becoming part of the Kingdom of Italy.
General features
The events that affected Tuscany can be essentially distinguished into a pre-revolutionary or at least 18th-century phase, a revolutionary phase coinciding with the French occupation, and a third phase, that of the Conservative Order, which preceded the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.
Architecturally, the first phase was essentially a reaction to the Rococo; the cultural climate established by the Habsburg Lorraine favored the transposition of the Enlightenment into architecture, affirming principles more closely aligned with functionalism, with a new aesthetic ideal based on the use of simple geometric forms and the rejection of excessive ostentation.
In the second phase the formal apparatus was affected by Napoleonic influence, with greater derivation from classical Greek and Roman art.
During the third period, artistic manifestations were filtered through local tradition, especially that of the Renaissance, thus moving away from the historical foundations that had seen them arise; Neoclassicism, from being a symbol of emancipation of thought and cultural freedom, asserted itself instead as a stylistic code adaptable to the return of the Ancien Régime, in what critics have called "Romantic Neoclassicism."
With the annexation of the Tuscan territories to the Kingdom of Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century, Neoclassicism opened up to a variety of pursuits that led to the disintegration of the concept of style, thus paving the way for eclecticism.
The Regency Period (1739-1765)
In January 1739, Grand Duke Francis III made his entry into Florence through the triumphal arch erected by Jean-Nicolas Jadot outside the San Gallo Gate, formally taking possession of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany after the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici and the subsequent regency of Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon. Contrary to the tradition of the time, the arch was not an ephemeral work made of wood, canvas and plaster, but rather constituted a structure in permanent plan, taking up a theme from Roman art of particular symbolic significance, inaugurating the spread of this typology in the neoclassical era. The arch designed by Jadot, placed before the ancient medieval walls of Florence, thus foreshadowed the renewal that would soon affect the architecture of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The regency age constituted the preparation and platform for the subsequent reforming action that Grand Duke Peter Leopold would promote after the death of his father Francis in 1765. Although with various limitations and not without difficulties, the first period of the Lorraine grand duchy was characterized by the implementation of a comprehensive plan aimed at the knowledge of the territory and the better exploitation of natural resources: this includes, for example, the motu proprio for the protection of the botanical society (1739), the founding of the Accademia dei Georgofili (1753), the commissioning of Odoardo Warren to draw the plans of the cities of the grand duchy, the drafting of a general topographical map of Tuscany commissioned from Leonardo Ximenes, the drafting of a report on the natural history of the countries of the grand duchy published by Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti between 1751 and 1754, the renovation of the baths of San Giuliano, and the work on the imperial canal of Lake Bientina. The Regency also favored the development of cultural services, both in the capital and in the smaller centers of the grand duchy, with the opening and renovation of a series of libraries and theatrical spaces, from Pontremoli to Siena, from Prato to Pisa, passing through the reconstruction in masonry of the hall of the Pergola Theater in Florence.
In general, this period was characterized by an architecture devoid of ostentation. The layout of the new baths of San Giuliano, the design of which was drawn up between 1744 and 1762 by architects Giuseppe Ruggieri, Ignazio Pellegrini and Gaspare Paoletti, constitutes a significant example of this architecture: among the simple buildings of the baths, imagined as the fulcrum of development of a new inhabited settlement, the central building, which stood out exclusively, distinguished by the window-balcony motif and the clock above it. Also recalled is the design for the new Livorno suburb of San Jacopo: a regular-mesh plan layout, somewhat akin to the design of the contemporary Borgo Teresiano in Trieste, with dwellings characterized by sober facades and the search for maximum simplicity of distribution in the plan. The same essentiality is found in the design for a market square to be built near the church of San Pierino, Pisa (1749), in the facade of the church of San Giuseppe (1759) and in the Marucelliana library in Florence.
In other words, the Lorraine period had inaugurated a more measured design attitude than the one held during Gian Gastone's grand duchy, with a few apparent exceptions, such as the church of Santa Felicita (completed in 1739), the bell tower of San Lorenzo with its flattened bulbous finial (1740) and the continuation of the sumptuous Princes' Chapel; works that constitute the last reflection of the Medici period, as they had been begun prior to the Regency or commissioned directly by Princess Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
In this context, Ignazio Pellegrini's monumental designs for the royal chapel and theater in the Pitti Palace, or for the new entrance to the Uffizi Gallery, were deemed unrealistic and did not find implementation; other architects, such as the brothers Giuseppe and Ferdinando Ruggieri, were willing to moderate their ambitions and found greater fortune in commissioning, although they never adhered to a neoclassical language; for example, the facade of San Filippo Neri and the ribs on the interior walls of Santa Felicita, designed by Ferdinando, appear far removed from the authentically neoclassical invention constituted by Carl Marcus Tuscher's proposal for the facade of San Lorenzo (1739).
From Peter Leopold to Ferdinand III (1765-1799)
In 1765 Peter Leopold became Grand Duke of Tuscany, ending the Regency Age. An enlightened ruler, he was not a true patron of the arts and consistently demonstrated an attitude of prudence toward the costs of architectural undertakings. Careful administration and the obvious goal of containing state expenditures, however, did not limit the realization of works of public utility, which perfectly embodied the period of ideological change desired by Peter Leopold, such as the reorganization of the grand duchy's hospitals, the new lazaret at Livorno, the refounding of the thermal baths of Montecatini, the building of the new cemeteries in Livorno and Florence, the reclamation of the Maremma, Val di Chiana, and Val di Nievole, the rewards distributed for the foundation of farmhouses in the Pisa and Siena provinces, and even the construction of new roads and the renovation of existing ones.
In 1784 he founded the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, entrusting its direction to Gaspare Paoletti, who, albeit as a continuer of the Renaissance tradition, can be considered the initiator of neoclassical style in Tuscany. Paoletti, who boasted an excellent preparation on both architectural and technical levels, transmitted this dual aptitude to his pupils, precisely in the years when the split between the Académie des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique was taking place in Paris.
An expert in hydraulics, he is mainly credited with the refounding of the baths of Montecatini, with the construction of the Bagno Regio, the Terme Leopoldine and the Tettuccio. Also noteworthy is the design, which remained on paper, for a circular bathhouse with an uncovered inner basin bordered by an annular colonnade, which, if realized, would have represented the most interesting stylistic achievement of Tuscan architecture of the period.
Between 1766 and 1783 Paoletti worked on the villa of Poggio Imperiale, in Florence, enlarging the previous Medici building with the formation of two side courtyards characterized by a measured neoclassical language; he built the rear facade, the ballroom on the main floor and constructed the stables.
In the same years he was engaged in the construction site of the Pitti Palace. While for the construction of the new forepart of the façade, on the Via Guicciardini side, he limited himself to reproposing the loggia that Giuseppe Ruggieri had employed in the rondeaux placed towards the Via Romana, inside the palace he built, with the contribution of the brothers Grato and Giocondo Albertolli, the refined "Hall of the Stuccoes" (1776-1783), which, because of its use of the Corinthian theme and the stucco decoration, can be related to other neoclassical designs of the time, such as the aforementioned ballroom in the villa at Poggio Imperiale and the room created by Zanobi del Rosso to house the sculptural group of Niobe inside the Uffizi Gallery. Beginning in 1781, again for the Pitti Palace complex, he began construction of the Palazzina della Meridiana, which was later taken over by his pupil Pasquale Poccianti.
While the rest of Tuscany recorded the construction of few architectural works of formal and stylistic relevance (such as the new wing of the conservatory of San Niccolò, in which Giuseppe Valentini melded Neoclassicism with clear references to Mannerism), an interesting opportunity for comparison among architects occurred when the grand duke requested the project for the new building of the Cascine farm in Florence. In 1785 the experienced Paoletti and the young Giuseppe Manetti presented two different proposals: the former, attempting to combine elegance with economy, prepared a design for a building used as a stable and hayloft placed in the center of two farmhouses; the latter, showing greater inventiveness and an obvious link with the architectural aesthetics of the Enlightenment, conceived instead a large porticoed hemicycle, with a taller building hinged between the two semicircular arms, the whole bordered by two pronaos flanked by two conical icehouses. Paoletti's modest design, judged "miserable in idea," was discarded, while Manetti's, considered too wasteful, was approved in 1787 only after being extensively scaled down and simplified. Despite the limitations of the commission, Manetti succeeded in giving architectural dignity to the design of the central building through the inclusion of pierced pillars, the terracotta facing of the base portico, and the motifs of the ornamental roundels.
In 1790 Pietro Leopoldo left the government of Tuscany to assume the imperial investiture, and his son Ferdinand became grand duke in a period marked by great unrest. The only major construction site he managed to start was the one for the Livorno aqueduct, the work on which, begun in 1793 by Giuseppe Salvetti, suffered several interruptions and proceeded amid many difficulties. Even the arrangement of the Cascine park designed by Giuseppe Manetti, with the construction of the pyramid-shaped ice-house and the round aedicule of the "Pavoniere," are to be considered more as the completion of works begun in the Leopoldine era, rather than the actual initiatives of Grand Duke Ferdinand.
In domestic politics, the new grand duke did not repudiate his father's reforms that had brought Tuscany to the forefront in Europe, preceding in some fields even the French Revolution then in progress, but he tried to limit some of their excesses, especially in the religious sphere, with the restoration of outward practices of worship. With the return to the devotion of the saints, the architect Giuseppe Del Rosso, before devoting himself to the construction of the neo-Gothic chapel of Our Lady of Consolation in the cathedral of Arezzo, was commissioned by the Delle Pozze family to design the oratory of Sant'Onofrio, in Dicomano (1792); despite its modest dimensions, the oratory constitutes a true manifesto of Enlightenment architecture for Tuscany and is notable for its rigorous proportions, preceded by a tetrastyle Ionic pronaos and tympanum on the façade.
The Napoleonic period (1799-1814)
In 1799 Ferdinand III was forced into exile in Vienna because of the precipitating political situation in the peninsula and the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Bonapartist period conditioned the affairs of the region for about fifteen years. Tuscany, including the Principality of Lucca, experienced a radical transformation of institutions; the few years of the empire were enough to draft and start ambitious projects, which were completed after the restoration of the Lorraines and, in some cases, with the unification of Italy.
The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence was also reformed and joined by a conservatory of arts and crafts. In 1813, along with the most famous institutes in the empire, it was invited to submit a design for a monument to be erected on Mont-Cenis; among the entries admitted to the competition were Giuseppe Manetti's Colossus of the Eagle and the triumphal arch designed by the group formed by Giuseppe Del Rosso, Giuseppe Cacialli and Luigi de Cambray Digny.
Among them, Giuseppe Cacialli was the most successful architect during the years of Napoleonic rule. Surpassing his rival Pasquale Poccianti, who in 1809 was sent to Livorno as a community architect despite boasting greater seniority, Cacialli obtained the appointment as architect of the royal palaces and possessions, a body tasked with the maintenance of property passed from the Lorraine to Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi. Early in his career he found himself collaborating with Poccianti in the extension of the Medici villa at Poggio Imperiale initiated by Gaspare Paoletti, but their respective contributions are nonetheless distinguishable: thus, while Poccianti is credited with the central part of the facade, Cacialli is credited with the bulk of the work. The author of academic and elegant decorative compositions, Cacialli was also distinguished for his work on the rearrangement of the Pitti Palace (Iliad Room, Hercules Room and Maria Theresa's bathroom) and the Napoleonic quarter of the Medici Riccardi Palace.
Whereas Giuseppe Del Rosso, appointed municipal architect in Florence, proved to be a modest planner and ranged from the restoration of ancient monuments to the design of the Pia Casa di Lavoro in Montedomini, in the "Department of the Ombrone," the few notable neoclassical architectural works of the period can be traced to the figure of Agostino Fantastici: notably, in Siena, the project for the transformation of the convent of Sant'Agostino into a lyceum (of which only the grandiose external portico would later be built) and, in Montalcino, the cathedral of the Santissimo Salvatore, which was designed from 1813 and built only during the Conservative Order.
In Pistoia, where the forms of Enlightenment classicism had been introduced by the Palazzo Vescovile Nuovo erected by Stefano Ciardi beginning in 1787, the contribution of a pupil of Paoletti's, Cosimo Rossi Melocchi, is noteworthy; his Pantheon of Illustrious Men, designed in 1811 and not completed until 1827 in much reduced form compared to the original plan, shows an adherence to the themes of revolutionary architecture in the rough elevation interrupted by a portico with massive Doric-order columns.
A very lively cultural climate was experienced in Lucca; the city, subject to France but not part of the former territories of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, became almost a model and a benchmark for the region's Napoleonic-era town planning. In 1805 Élisa Baciocchi obtained control of the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, to which the territories of Massa and Carrara were later annexed. During the administration of the future Grand Duchess of Tuscany, the towns of Carrara, Viareggio and Bagni di Lucca were enlarged, while under the guidance of architect Giovanni Lazzarini, often assisted by Théodhore Bienaimé, a series of important construction sites were started: the construction of Piazza Napoleone, achieved by gutting a substantial portion of Lucca's historic center; the opening of a gate in the shape of a triumphal arch and a connecting road dedicated to Élisa; the renovation, in a neoclassical style, of the summer residence of Marlia; the enlargement of the cemetery outside the San Donato gate; the transformation of some religious complexes to other uses; and the design of the Teatro del Giglio, work on which began in 1817.
Along with Lazzarini, a number of other architects gravitated to Lucca. In 1812 Pasquale Poccianti, who in those same years was engaged in the completion of Livorno's aqueduct, was also called to Elisa Baciocchi's court, but his contribution was limited to a few projects of monumental urban structures in the neoclassical style, which, moreover, did not find implementation.
From the Conservative Order to Unification (1814-1860)
With the Conservative Order, that generation of talented architects trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Gaspare Paoletti became the protagonists of a particularly dense and interesting period for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Upon his return to Tuscany in September 1814, Grand Duke Ferdinand III set up a major program for the construction of works of public utility: for example, new roads were built in the territory of Arezzo, the new aqueduct came into operation in Livorno (1816), the road system in Maremma was upgraded, and the vast and functional Dogana delle Filigare was erected on the Bolognese road to the design of Luigi de Cambray Digny (1818).
In several cities, old blocks were demolished to open new squares. In Florence, in 1824 Gaetano Baccani prepared the plan for the enlargement of the Piazza del Duomo, with the creation of a vague portico of neoclassical style on the south side; statues of Arnolfo di Cambio and Filippo Brunelleschi were inserted in the central loggia of the new Palazzo dei Canonici on the cathedral's southern flank to celebrate the values and protagonists of local culture. Alongside this project and the initiatives for the continuation of Via Cavour, there is the one for the widening of Via dei Calzaiuoli, which was approved, with several modifications, only in 1842. With the same criterion, in Pisa, the old monastery of San Lorenzo was demolished in order to create the Piazza Santa Caterina (completed in 1827 by Alessandro Gherardesca), the old Monumental Cemetery was rearranged into a museum, and a section of the Lungarno was laid out. In Arezzo, with the work on the road to Ancona, plans were made to regularize and connect the two levels of Piazza Sant'Agostino and to place a statue there, later actually erected in Piazza Grande.
Still in Florence, the Goldoni theater was inaugurated in 1817, and a few years later Giuseppe Martelli was engaged in the transformation into a girls' boarding school of the former monastery of the Santissima Concezione, inside which it is worth mentioning the very refined spiral staircase in pietra serena surmounted by a lead caryatid, which the sculptor Luigi Pampaloni placed at the top of the central column to give stability to the structure. In addition, the Royal Loggia (1821) was built to the design of Luigi de Cambray Digny, while Pasquale Poccianti, promoted first architect of the royal buildings by Ferdinand III and destined to establish himself as the principal architect of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, became interested in the construction of the new staircase and vestibule of the Pitti Palace, the connecting corridor to the Specola rooms, completed the Palazzina della Meridiana with the design of the southern façade, and built the Sala d'Elci for the expansion of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. While Renaissance memories converge in the neoclassical code of Poccianti's three-aisled vestibule and staircase characterized by superimposed columns, for the addition of the Michelangelo library the architect resorted to the insertion of a refined neoclassical rotunda, without, however, seeking any connection with the pre-existing structure.
Private initiatives include the palace on Via Ghibellina (1821), commissioned by Prince Gaetano Borghese from Gaetano Baccani, where the imposing rustic facade surmounted by a slender Ionic colonnade stands out. To the same period date roughly the Pantheon built inside Villa Puccini of Scornio in Pistoia, probably the work in which the language of the eclectic Alessandro Gherardesca reached the purest neoclassical quality for the lightness and harmony of the whole, and the grandiose Villa San Donato in Novoli, designed by Giovan Battista Silvestri for the Demidoff family.
Also interesting is the figure of Rodolfo Castinelli, who, after designing the ballroom of the Goldoni theater with neoclassical style, built the temple of Minerva Medica of Montefoscoli in memory of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri's father, drawing with ease on Roman and Etruscan archaeological memories.
This revivalistic liveliness, which looked to distant iconographic repertoires of local tradition, also emerges in the twin monuments of Volterra designed by Giuseppe Del Rosso in 1830 (with dolphins and herms of Janus) and in the wooden chair, in the Empire style and with neo-Egyptian inserts of Piranesian style, that Agostino Fantastici designed for the University of Siena.
In any case, most of these architects did not exclusively adhere to the neoclassical style, but, in parallel, devoted themselves to designing works in the neo-Gothic style, with a revaluation, typical of Romanticism, of the anticlassical repertoire: on the one hand, neoclassical architecture corresponded to the ambitions of the restored monarchies, while on the other hand, neo-medievalism presaged an evolution in the concept of the redemption of national autonomy.
Meanwhile, Lucca and its territories, united in a state independent from the rest of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until its annexation in 1847, also witnessed the realization of a series of public works. In 1818 Lorenzo Nottolini, who had been a pupil of Giovanni Lazzarini, assumed the appointment of royal architect; he was also active as a restorer, urban planner, and hydraulic engineer, also receiving commissions from private individuals. His contributions include: the aqueduct (1822-1833), the Orsetti chapel in the suburban cemetery (1824), the Monastery of the Angel, the Villa Borbone in Viareggio, and the Catene bridge near Bagni di Lucca.
However, it was Livorno, a free port of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany animated by intense cultural exchanges with foreign countries, the city in which Restoration Neoclassicism achieved its best results; an affirmation that coincided with Leopold II's ascension to government (1824-1859) and the founding of the local "School of Architecture, Ornament and Surveying" (1825).
The ambitions of a growing city were reflected in the design and construction of important public utilities. For the new quarter of Casone, south of the city, Cambray Digny hypothesized the opening of a gateway on the southern bastion of the Medici curtain wall, envisaging, on the outside, a regular street scheme; according to the indications contained in the plan, the church of Saints Peter and Paul (1829) was built on the edge of the new settlement, in which the neoclassical themes of the façade are diluted in the portico with round arches derived from 15th-century Tuscan architecture. Soon after, the transformations extended to the rectification of the surrounding ditch and the demolition of the ancient Medici walls, with the expansion of the free port area. However, the motion of expansion of the city, exemplified by the vast Piazza dei Granduchi built by Luigi Bettarini to connect the historic center to the Lorraine suburbs, was countered by the limit set by the new customs wall designed by Alessandro Manetti (1835-1842); the original compositions of the customs gates are, however, due to Carlo Reishammer, who took up some of the stylistic features of Ledoux's architecture, juxtaposing canopies, staircases, pillars and other ornamental cast-iron elements.
At the same time, Poccianti devoted himself to the works necessary to upgrade the aqueduct completed a few years earlier; the architect's attentions focused mainly on the design of several reservoirs intended for water storage and filtration: the Purgatorio di Pian di Rota (1841-1852), characterized by a strongly dilated layout marked by two semicircular exedras at either end and a stern Tuscan pronaos on the façade; his masterpiece, the Cisternone (1829-1842), with the portico surmounted a "revolutionary" semi-dome decorated with coffers, which translates into reality the daring inventions of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; the Cisternino di città (completed around 1848), with a basilica plan and a slender loggia raised above the massive basement. Altogether, these are three buildings arising from the union of elementary geometric volumes, where French influences are combined with an evident knowledge of Roman thermal architecture and the Tuscan architectural tradition. Moreover, in the architect's intentions (later, in fact scaled down in the execution phase), the aqueduct work was supposed to be accessible from the city to the springs, in a sort of didactic route through tunnels, arches and inspection huts built in the forms of neoclassical temples.
Other architects who worked in Livorno, such as Gaetano Gherardi, Giuseppe Puini, Giuseppe Cappellini and Angiolo della Valle, were influenced by Poccianti. Gherardi, a professor at the local "School of Architecture, Ornamentation and Surveying," was responsible for the large church of Soccorso (1836) with Brunelleschian references, the church of Sant'Andrea and the adjoining Girolamo Gavi Seminary; Puini was responsible for the church of San Giuseppe (1839), with the lacunar splay on the façade reminiscent of that of the Cisternone; at Cappellini, the Casini d'Ardenza, an original composition built in the 1940s as part of the renewal of Livorno's seafront, and the Goldoni theater (1843-1847), characterized by a glazed roof for daytime performances and the only one among Tuscan theaters to present itself with an important formal exterior appearance conferred by the majestic carriage porch; at Della Valle, the church of San Giorgio and the new English cemetery (1839). Also worth mentioning in this context are the vast plans, which remained on paper, prepared by Cambray Digny and Giuseppe Martelli for the new hospital (1832) and the covered market in Livorno (1849), respectively; outsized gigantism took shape instead in the Pia Casa di Lavoro begun on a design by Alessandro Gherardesca in 1845 and later completed by Angiolo della Valle.
Beginning in the 1840s, there was a certain amount of activity in Florence as well: the start of work on the extension of Via dei Calzaiuoli, the approval of the plan for the new Barbano quarter (1842), the reorganization of the Lungarni, the opening of the Leopolda and Maria Antonia Stations, and the construction of the heavy Stock Exchange building, designed by Michelangelo Maiorfi and Emilio De Fabris along the course of the Arno River. This included the inauguration of the Tribune of Galileo, a room located inside the Specola Museum (1841); designed by Giuseppe Martelli and characterized by a bright polychromy and an overabundance of ornamental elements, it constitutes a mirror of a neoclassical style now oriented toward eclecticism, especially when compared with Poccianti's austere addition for the Laurentian Library, also inaugurated in the same year.
Other cities in the grand duchy also witnessed intense building and urban planning activity. These include the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Montecatini (1833) and the rectory of Saints Giusti and Clemente (1842-1845), designed respectively by Luigi De Cambray Digny and Agostino Fantastici by resorting to tetrastyle porticoes of the Ionic order; the facade of the oratory of San Francesco in Bibbiena (1829), by Nicolò Matas; and the elevation of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ponsacco (1832-1836), by Alessandro Gherardesca; the church of San Pier Forelli (1838) in Prato, by Torello Niccolai and Angelo Pacchiani; the Teatro Petrarca in Arezzo (opened in 1833), by Vittorio Bellini; the Teatro Metastasio in Prato (completed in 1830), designed again by Cambray Digny; the Palazzo del Tribunale, in Pontremoli (1840), by Angiolo Cianferoni; the Teatro degli Animosi, built in Carrara to a design by Giuseppe Pardini (1840); the Napoleonic Museum at Villa di San Martino on Elba Island (1851), designed by Matas for Anatoly Demidov.
With the development of industrial activities, it is worth noting the increasing use of metallurgical products, which found use especially in the construction of bridges, such as the suspended bridge at Poggio a Caiano (1833) by Alessandro Manetti and those at San Ferdinando and San Leopoldo in Florence, by the Séguin brothers. Alongside these works of engineering is the church of San Leopoldo in Follonica, a work by Reishammer characterized by numerous cast-iron elements, such as the pronaos, the façade rose window, the apse, the tip of the bell tower and some interior furnishings (1838), which together with the Porta San Marco in Livorno, also by Reishammer, heralds new and striking scenarios in the field of architecture.
After the unification of Italy
The election of Florence as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy marked the watershed, in Tuscany, between Neoclassicism and neo-Renaissance eclecticism.
The task of updating the image of the new capital, with a series of urban and architectural interventions in order to adapt the city to its function, was entrusted to Giuseppe Poggi, who had been a pupil of Pasquale Poccianti. Poggi took care of every detail, from the detailed plans down to the architectural scale, giving it an imprint that ran between an adherence to Neoclassicism and a natural reference to Renaissance models. The most significant part of his entire work is the hilly expansion of the city, with the Viale dei Colli and Piazzale Michelangelo, conceived as a belvedere over the city. There he built a loggia according to neoclassical and neo-16th-century canons, which was to form part of a Michelangelo museum.
Between 1885 and 1895 there was also the redevelopment of the historic center; an operation outside the Poggi plan that led to the gutting of the area around the old market, with the construction of new blocks, quite anonymous and undifferentiated, in neoclassical and neo-Renaissance styles. After all, after the unification of Italy, Tuscan and, more generally, Italian architecture turned toward a line that exalted what was considered the national style par excellence, namely that of the Renaissance; a predominantly secular architecture, embodied by the typology of the sixteenth-century palace, which was perfectly suited to the rapid expansion of the cities. | WIKI |
# Getting Started
This section will help you generate example files from the ground up. If you already have an existing project and would like to keep documentation inside the project, start from Step 3.
# Steps
• Step 1: Create a new directory and change into it.
$ mkdir my-project && cd my-project
• Step 2: Create a .env file and add your credentials or use environment variables for database authorization. (You can also use parameters.)
$ touch .env
Add and edit the following data to the .env file you just created.
DB_DATABASE=example
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=user
DB_PASSWORD=password
• Step 3: Install pg-generator locally or globally with your preferred package manager. If you install globally pgen command is available anywhere.
$ npm install -g pg-generator`
• Step 4: Install a generator that contains templates. If you installed the pg-generator globally, install the generator globally too. For a start, you may install pg-generator-example to see how pg-generator works. pg-generator-example provides some example generators.
$ npm install -g pg-generator-example
• Step 5: Run generator for your database.
CLI
$ pgen example --out-dir models --clear
or add a sub-generator name after the semicolon ":" to execute a sub-generator
$ pgen example:report --out-dir reports --clear
API
import { generate } from "pg-generator";
await generate("example", { outDir: "models", clear: true });
or add sub-generator as a second parameter to use one a sub-generator
import { generate } from "pg-generator";
await generate("example", "report", { outDir: "reports", clear: true });
See pg-generator-example docs (opens new window) for the available sub-generators.
If you have complex relationships (e.g. multiple relations between the same tables etc.) in your database, you may get a naming collision error. You can try --relation-name-functions optimal and --relation-name-functions descriptive. They produce longer relation names to prevent a collision.
TIP
See available options using pgen --help or have a look at generate function documentation.
# Examples
See pg-generator-example (opens new window) plugin for an example. It provides examples of:
• Sub-generators for popular ORMs, markdown with mermaid support, and a report.
• Custom filters
• Custom context
• Shared partial usage | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Christ Church, Hampstead
Christ Church, Hampstead, is a Church of England church in Hampstead, London. It is a church with particular connections to the old village of Hampstead and the Heath.
Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee was married to his wife, Violet Attlee, at Christ Church, Hampstead.
History
The present church was erected between 1850 and 1852 to designs by the architect Samuel Daukes in the Early English Gothic style. In 1860 a timber gallery was erected by Sir Gilbert Scott (this was dismantled in the 1960s). In 1881–82 the north porch and aisle were added to designs by Ewan Christian. The church is constructed of Kentish ragstone with Portland stone dressings and slate roofs.
In 1855 the church built a primary school adjacent, originally for infants. By the post-World War II period the school catered to kindergarten (ages 3 – 5) and primary (ages 5 – 11) mixed gender students, organized as one class per year. This was one of many such church-associated schools in the area.
Vicars
* John Pelham 1852 - 1855
* Edward Bickersteth 1855 - 1885
* George Frederick Head 1885 - 1897
* George Sidney Streatfeild 1898 - 1901
* Alfred Edwin Deacon 1901 - 1917
* Thomas Brocas Waters 1917 - 1922
* Osmond Ralph Maude Roxby 1923 - 1936
* John Farquhar Richardson 1936 - 1941
* Frank Hay Gillingham 1941 - 1942
* Sydney James Nisbet Wallace 1942 - 1953
* David Thomas Jarvis 1953 - 1969
* John Alfred Sampford 1969 - 1979
* Christopher John Fairfax Scott 1979 - 1995
* Paul Derick Conrad 1995 - current
Bells
The church has a ring of eight bells, the heaviest of which weighs in at 24cwt. They were installed in 2005 after Michael Royalton-Kisch, the current tower captain, single-handedly raised £100,000 to replace the old, unsafe bells. The current band practices on a Wednesday evening at 7pm, and rings for most Sunday services.
The treble, tenor, third and fifth bells were the work of Gillett & Johnston, adopted from St Luke's in Cowley, Oxford. The remaining four bells were cast by Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 2005.
Organ
The church had an organ installed in 1857 by the celebrated builder Henry Willis who also became the church's first organist. The organ has since been replaced. In about 1968 dry rot was found directly above the organ and to repair the damage the organ had to be partly dismantled. It was stored in the church but was never re-assembled. At some point after this it was taken away and stored (possibly by the organ builders Mander). After some trials of the Allen computer organ, a smaller 2 manual tracker action instrument was installed at the rear of the church. The BBC visited the church and chose to broadcast their Morning Service soon after, however the Willis organ that they heard on their 'scouting' visit had been dismantled by the time they came to broadcast live.
There have been a number of famous organists including:
* Walter Brooks
* Henry Willis 1852 - 1859
* Henry Parratt 1859 – ???? (formerly organist of St. Paul's Church, Huddersfield)
* John Charles Ward 1863 - 1868
* Dr. Marshall of Kidderminster 1868
* Charles John Vincent 1883 – 1891 (formerly organist of St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock)
* Henry Walford Davies 1891 - 1898
* Cyril Rootham 1898 - 1901
* Ian Graham ? - 1964
* Gordon Whittard c 1964 - 1974? | WIKI |
PCOS and Insulin Resistance: What Can You Do to Strike Balance?
From missed periods and infertility to acne and weight gain, polycystic ovarian syndrome is one of the most distressing reproductive conditions women face. While an imbalance in our sex hormones is often at the root of PCOS, researchers have discovered that there may be more to the PCOS puzzle than estrogen and testosterone.
In fact, most women who have polycystic ovaries also have trouble maintaining a healthy insulin balance. This throws another wrench into the already delicate hormone balance and can lead to further health issues.
Thankfully, PCOS and insulin resistance aren’t life sentences. There are many ways to restore a healthy hormone balance and improve the health of your reproductive system. Let’s learn how we can break the cycle of hormone imbalance and restore optimum reproductive health!
What is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)?
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. Despite a common condition, many women who have PCOS don’t become aware of it until they struggle to get pregnant.
PCOS occurs when too many androgens (“male” hormones) are produced. As a result, the hormone balance shifts, which causes multiple immature follicles (or cysts) to develop in the ovaries.
Beyond the characteristic cysts, this increase in male hormones causes a range of symptoms like irregular menstrual cycles, fertility issues, excessive hair growth, and acne.
What Causes PCOS?
The exact cause of PCOS is still unknown, but most cases are likely due to a combination of several factors, including genetics, diet, and environmental factors.
In Chinese medicine, PCOS is linked to the Kidney, Liver, and Spleen systems. These organ systems are entire energetic networks that link to other organs and regions of the body and have deep connections to the ovaries, hormones, brain, and reproductive system in general.
When there is a weakness or imbalance in one of these systems (often resulting in what we call “dampness”), it can affect the reproductive organs and hormones. With acupuncture and other Chinese medicine tools, we correct these organ system imbalances to improve your reproductive function, overcome PCOS, and boost overall health.
Understanding PCOS and Insulin Resistance
Despite the name, PCOS does not only affect the ovaries. In reality, it is a complex endocrine and metabolic disorder that involves the whole body.
The past several years of research have shown that PCOS is closely related to insulin levels and that most women with PCOS (about 70%) have higher-than-normal levels of insulin and signs of insulin resistance.
What is Insulin Resistance?
Insulin is an essential hormone that is released after we eat. It tells the muscles and the liver to absorb sugar from the blood and convert it to energy.
When our blood sugar spikes, the body releases more and more insulin to store the excess sugar. Diets that are high in sugar and carbohydrates will require more and more insulin to function. Eventually, the body becomes resistant to insulin (and levels go through the roof).
Aside from throwing the body’s balance off, high insulin levels increase inflammation and cause weight gain. This excess fat causes the body to produce even more insulin. The cycle goes on and leads to issues like diabetes and PCOS.
What’s the PCOS-Insulin Resistance Link?
Along with weight gain, stress, and inflammation, insulin also causes the ovaries to make too much testosterone. This interferes with the healthy development of the follicles, and ovulation slows or stops.
But, PCOS could also be the trigger for insulin resistance. Experts believe that women with PCOS have a slight change in the insulin receptor, making it “deaf” to the insulin message. As a result, more insulin is needed to reach the same goal.
Finding Balance: Acupuncture for PCOS and Insulin Resistance
PCOS and insulin resistance are manageable conditions that can be reversed with the right care and lifestyle changes. In addition to the conventional treatments (like metformin), Wellnest Denver’s acupuncture treatments bring the body’s hormones – and insulin – back to balance.
Let’s see how acupuncture can improve PCOS and insulin resistance:
Acupuncture balances hormones.
Acupuncture is a holistic treatment that improves the symptoms of PCOS while also bringing key hormones into balance. For women with PCOS, acupuncture can lead to more regular and predictable ovulation, better mood balance, and even weight loss. Acupuncture has also been shown to increase blood flow to the ovaries and uterus to enhance fertility.
Acupuncture helps manage blood sugar.
A simple acupuncture treatment could improve the way your body metabolizes sugar. Studies show that acupuncture does this by improving the conditions that lead to insulin resistance in the first place. It helps to lower high blood sugar, reduce blood lipids, and encourage healthy weight loss.
Acupuncture reduces stress.
Since stress tends to complicate most health issues, It’s no surprise that stress makes insulin resistance worse. Research shows that high cortisol levels (the stress hormone) increase the body’s resistance to insulin. To fight back, acupuncture helps to reduce excess cortisol and strengthen our resilience to stress. Acupuncture also quiets feelings of worry and anxiety, putting the body into a healthy state of “rest and digest.”
3 Simple Ways to Manage Insulin Resistance and PCOS
Holistic reproductive care starts in our Wellnest Denver acupuncture clinic, but it continues right at home. Here are five ways to improve your insulin sensitivity and reduce your PCOS symptoms with easy lifestyle habits:
1. Eat a protein-packed breakfast (and nutritious lunch and dinner).
When it comes to managing insulin levels, skipping breakfast is out of the question. So is opting for a sugary, carb-heavy breakfast like donuts or cereal, as this can throw your blood sugar on a rollercoaster. Instead, eat a hearty breakfast high in protein and healthy fruit or vegetables. This keeps blood sugar levels balanced throughout the day and boosts your natural energy. Try these simple mushroom breakfast burritos or blueberry almond energy bites for something sweet and smart.
Beyond breakfast, what you eat throughout the day also has a huge impact on your hormone balance. Try switching to a PCOS-friendly whole foods diet by avoiding processed food and enjoying fresh and healthy nutrient-packed meals.
To rebuild your insulin sensitivity and keep blood sugar balanced, ditch the refined sugar, pasta, white potatoes, and rice. Instead, include plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein in your diet. Eat complex carbs and high-fiber foods like quinoa, oatmeal, berries, lentils, sweet potatoes, green vegetables, and almonds. These contain essential fiber and antioxidants that slow down digestion and stabilize blood sugar levels.
2. Catch your Zzz’s.
Think skipping sleep won’t do much harm? Unfortunately, there is a clear connection between PCOS and poor sleep habits. Poor sleep is known to cause hormone imbalances and even directly interferes with insulin control.
The good news is that improving your sleep patterns is easier than it seems, but you’ll need a smart sleep plan. Plan to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day, cut on your caffeine consumption, create an evening routine to “train” your body to recognize bedtime. Keep screen time limited in the evenings and practice a stress-relief ritual before bed (like meditation).
3. Enjoy being active.
Exercise is an excellent habit for anyone who wants to live a healthy lifestyle. But for those who wish to manage PCOS and insulin resistance better, it’s essential. Exercise helps you maintain a healthy weight, relieve stress, balance hormones, boost circulation, and improve digestion – all of which work to decrease insulin resistance and get your period back on track.
Conquer PCOS and Insulin Resistance Naturally with Wellnest Denver Acupuncture
Taking control of PCOS and insulin resistance naturally starts with balancing your hormones. And the path to balanced hormones begins by getting to the root of the problem. At Wellnest Denver, we are experts at uncovering the root issues so your body can naturally revert to its healthy, natural state.
Book your first treatment today to learn how Wellnest Denver can help you boost your reproductive health and live in balance!
Looking for a Denver acupuncture clinic to help you with all of your general health, mental health, chronic pain, fertility, gynecological, facial acupuncture, or digestive needs?
Contact Wellnest Acupuncture + Holistic Medicine at 720.618.0770 or book an appointment online.
Can Dermarolling Help You Get Glowing Skin at Home?
Can Dermarolling Help You Get Glowing Skin at Home?
Looking for a DIY way to get dermatologist office results? A dermaroller could be the answer. In this blog, we’re taking a closer look at the trendy dermaroller to find out if this at-home beauty treatment is all that influencers and wellness pros make it out to be! Read on to get answers to all your burning dermaroller questions!
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Can Acupuncture Help with Loss of Smell and Taste?
Can Acupuncture Help with Loss of Smell and Taste?
When you think of the sense you rely upon most, sight or hearing usually spring to mind. Unfortunately, more people are struggling to smell and taste properly than ever before. Loss of smell and taste is one of the most common symptoms of mild Covid-19 infections and can persist long after recovering from the illness.
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Are Your Skincare Products Hiding Toxic Ingredients?
Are Your Skincare Products Hiding Toxic Ingredients?
With the average woman using 12 different skincare or beauty products each day, it’s no surprise that we love our skincare products. Unfortunately, many of the “miracle” creams and cleansers we put on our skin are actually doing more harm than good. Taking a look at the back of your drugstore skincare products and you’re likely to findchemical ingredients and potentially toxic compounds.
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Talk:Mamu
Requested move 31 March 2020
The result of the move request was: Moved per consensus. (non-admin closure) – Ammarpad (talk) 12:25, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
– There's no primary topic between the ethnic group, their language, and the half a dozen places with the name so far listed on the dab page. – Uanfala (talk) 14:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
* Mamu → Mamu people
* Mamu (disambiguation) → Mamu
* Support, per nom. We typically disambiguate where the group and their language are known by the same name. Here, there are also a number of other possible meanings. BD2412 T 17:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
* Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
* The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. | WIKI |
Boost C++ Libraries
...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world. Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards
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libs/local_function/test/add_template.cpp
// Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Lorenzo Caminiti
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0
// (see accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or a copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
// Home at http://www.boost.org/libs/local_function
#include <boost/config.hpp>
#ifdef BOOST_NO_VARIADIC_MACROS
# error "variadic macros required"
#else
#include <boost/local_function.hpp>
#include <boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp>
#include <algorithm>
//[add_template
template<typename T>
T total(const T& x, const T& y, const T& z) {
T sum = T(), factor = 10;
// Must use the `..._TPL` macros within templates.
T BOOST_LOCAL_FUNCTION_TPL(const bind factor, bind& sum, T num) {
return sum += factor * num;
} BOOST_LOCAL_FUNCTION_NAME_TPL(add)
add(x);
T nums[2]; nums[0] = y; nums[1] = z;
std::for_each(nums, nums + 2, add);
return sum;
}
//]
int main(void) {
BOOST_TEST(total(1, 2, 3) == 60);
return boost::report_errors();
}
#endif // VARIADIC_MACROS | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Battle of Doiran (1917)
The Battle of Doiran was a 1917 battle between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria during World War I. The battle ended in decisive Bulgarian victory, leading to 16 months of silence on the front before the Third Battle of Doiran.
Planning
During the Second Conference of the Military Counsel of the Entente in Chantilly, it was decided to continue with the attempts at a breakthrough. The task for the Entente forces on the Macedonian front was to inflict major defeats on the Bulgarian army and effect a breakthrough in the Balkans in a relatively short time. The Allied command, which expected reinforcements, planned a major assault in the direction of Vardar and Doiran. In 1917 the 2nd (Bulgarian) Thracian Infantry Division was replaced at Doiran by the 9th Pleven Infantry Division under the command of Colonel Vladimir Vazov.
Initial attacks
On 9 and 10 February, the Allies attacked the 33rd Svishtov and 34th Troyan Regiments but were repulsed by a decisive counterattack by the Troyan Regiment. The British advance on 21 February was repulsed by Bulgarian artillery after a two-day battle.
The Allied command found that the Bulgarian positions were better fortified than the previous year, so it ordered a systematic artillery barrage on these defences. In the meantime, it continued the development of its forming-up ground, which was 800 – 1,500 m from the defensive lines of the Pleven Division. To make the breakthrough, the British concentrated three divisions (the 22nd, 26th, 60th), with its artillery – more than 43,000 men, 160 guns, 110 mortars and 440 machine-guns. The objective did not differ much from the battle in the previous year; the main blow was on a front of 5–6 km towards Kalatepe.
The prognosis of the Bulgarian command for a significant Allied offensive was confirmed by intelligence. The 9th Pleven Division was reinforced, having 30,000 men, 147 guns, 35 mortars, and 130 machine guns.
According to the orders of the High Command, the front was divided into three zones with different widths: the right from the River Vardar to the Varovita heights with a width of 13 km was defended by 1st Brigade (6 battalions with 48 guns, 12 mortars and 56 machine guns); the central from the Varovita heights to the Karakondzho heights, 4 km wide, defended by the 57th Regiment (3 battalions) and the left from the Karakondzho heights to Lake Doiran, 9 km wide, defended by 2nd Brigade (6 battalions, 76 guns, 19 mortars and 52 machine-guns).
Defensive positions
In 1917 the Bulgarian defensive positions and fortifications were further improved. It included two prime positions with two rows of continuous trenches 1.5 – 2 metres deep, 200 to 1000 m apart and linked with passages for communication. In front of these positions was a two-line system of wire entanglements. Between the rows of trench watchpoints, shelters, machine-gun nests and sunken batteries were constructed. Behind these defences were concrete galleries, artillery encampments, and ammunition platforms. There were smaller fortifications in front of the primary position, with a partly constructed secondary position 2 – 5 km to its rear.
The battle
The battle for a breakthrough in the Bulgarian positions began on 22 April and continued intermittently until 9 May 1917. The assault began with a bitter four-day artillery barrage in which the British fired about 100,000 shells. As a result, the earthworks and some wooden structures in the front positions were destroyed. The Bulgarians also opened fire from the batteries between Vardar and Doiran. Vladimir Vazov ordered fire day and night on the Allied positions. The initial several-hour struggle between the British and Bulgarian batteries was followed by a one-hour Bulgarian counter-barrage in which 10,000 shells were fired. The British infantry began its attack on the night of 24–25 April. Twelve companies attacked the Bulgarian 2nd Brigade and, after a bloody fight, managed to take the "Nerezov," "Knyaz Boris," and "Pazardzhik" positions. After a Bulgarian counterattack, the British were repulsed with heavy casualties and, by 8 pm, had retreated. The British assaults on the right and central fronts were also repulsed with heavy casualties after help from the Bulgarian artillery.
The British attacks in the next two days were defeated by constant Bulgarian fire and counterattacks. Due to this fire, the British withdrew to their initial positions on 27 April. The Bulgarians immediately started to reconstruct the destroyed fortifications.
Due to criticism by their high command, the British made new attempts at a breakthrough. On 8 May, after a long artillery barrage, they began another attack. The main assault started at 9 pm with five waves of British troops attacking the Bulgarian positions. After four attacks during the night of 8–9 May, the British were defeated and suffered enormous casualties. A Times correspondent wrote that the British soldiers called the "Boris" point "the valley of death."
Though the artillery duel continued until 9 May, the British had to abandon all attacks due to heavy casualties. They lost 12,000 killed, wounded and captured, of which the Bulgarian defenders buried 2,250. The losses of the Ninth Pleven Infantry Division were 2,000, of whom 900 died from disease and wounds.
Vladimir Vazov was promoted to Major-General.
Aftermath
Apart from local skirmishes, the front was quiet during the next 16 months. Both sides used that time to strengthen and consolidate their positions further. In 1918 a massive Anglo-Greek attack was repulsed by the Pleven Division in the Third Battle of Doiran. | WIKI |
Talk:Sean Solomon
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Need to have the redirect from the NASA Astrobiology Institute to the entry for Astrobiology. The Institute is not the topic. Not sure if I can do that and if I can how it is done. Dbigwood (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Health & Wellness
Helpful Tips From Experts In Delta-8 THC Tinctures
Choosing the proper Delta-8 THC tinctures can be tricky. Many people are unfamiliar with how to use this type of tincture, so it’s essential to take the time to educate yourself about the product. Luckily, you can learn a few valuable tips from experts. These tips can help you get the most out of your tincture.
Concentration
Depending on the product you’re looking for, you can find Delta-8 THC tinctures in concentrations of 1,200, 4,000, or even 5,000 mg. You can also find flavored varieties. The tinctures are usually sold in glass bottles with dropper tops. They’re a great way to get an exact dose. You can also mix them into drinks or food.
Delta-8 THC tinctures are an easy way to enjoy the effects of cannabis. They’re typically sold in concentrations of 1,200 or 4,000 mg. This isn’t an exact science, though. You can take your tinctures orally, but some users have found that they work better if mixed with food.
The delta-8 THC tinctures are often combined with other cannabinoids. This allows for various effects, such as a clear-headed, relaxing feeling. They can also address specific issues, such as insomnia.
Delta 8 THC tinctures can be taken sublingually, which means they’re taken under the tongue. It’s important to remember that you’ll experience an effect after about 30 minutes to an hour. Users report that their products are generally non-sedative.
Delta-8 tinctures have a very earthy flavor. This can be a good thing, but it also means that the products have a taste that some users don’t like. The flavor can also be bitter. Therefore, you should avoid mixing it with water.
Dosing
A solid delta-8 THC tincture dosage plan can help you enjoy this famous cannabinoid. However, several factors can affect how much you take. The most significant factors include age, body weight, and gender.
Start with a low dose to get the most bang for your buck. You can start with 5 mg and gradually increase it as you feel comfortable. Using a sublingual tincture is the quickest way to see effects. This is because it’s delivered directly to the bloodstream, whereas edibles take longer.
If you’re unsure how much delta 8 THC tincture you should take, start with the small bottle and gradually increase it as you get accustomed to it. A dropper lid on most bottles will help you measure your needed amount.
For a more rapid effect, try using a vape pen or edible. You can also try using sublingual candy or flowers.
When taking your delta-8 tincture, read the label for instructions. You can also talk to a medical professional or integrative medicine physician for advice. In addition, you may have some medical conditions that require a different dose of delta-8 THC tincture.
It would help if you also tried to drink plenty of water. A dry mouth and dry eyes are common side effects of delta-8. If you feel yourself getting jittery, try deep breathing.
Tolerance break
A tolerance break can help you rewire your receptors and avoid forming bad habits. Depending on your needs and capacity, this break can last from a few days to a month.
A tolerance break can help your endocannabinoid system reset and rewire itself. It can also help you avoid becoming dependent on a psychoactive substance.
The length of a tolerance break will depend on several factors, including your tolerance level, the amount of cannabis you consume, and your lifestyle. However, experts recommend three to fourteen days as the minimum break length.
In addition to giving your body time to reset, a tolerance break can save money. Taking a break from cannabis may involve switching products, reducing consumption rates, or taking smaller doses of your usual weed.
For people who have been heavy Delta-8 consumers, a two-week break is recommended. This will allow your body to recoup the CB1 receptors depleted by excessive consumption. However, if you want to experience the benefits of Delta-8 without a break, vaping e-liquids can be the quickest and most effective way to enjoy it.
One drop of a Delta-8 tincture contains around 20 mg of the drug. However, this number can vary depending on the product, weight, and other factors.
Safety
Unlike Delta-9 THC, Delta-8 is a naturally occurring cannabinoid found in hemp. As a result, delta-8 is less psychoactive and more calming.
Delta-8 tinctures are an excellent way to get your delta-8. However, they may only work for some. This is because each person’s body reacts differently to Delta-8. For example, some people may experience a tingling sensation, while others may experience a calming high.
Delta-8 tinctures are available in various potencies. This is important to understand when choosing a product. For example, some tinctures may provide 50 mg of delta 8 per milligram, while others may provide only five mg. This means you must calculate how much to take to get the desired effect.
The most effective way to use a Delta-8 tincture is to place it under the tongue. This is the fastest way to get Delta-8 into the bloodstream. However, you should also check the label for additives or cutting agents. These additives and agents can be dangerous for your health.
Delta-8 THC tinctures contain delta-8 THC as well as other cannabinoids. The best way to determine the percentage of delta-8 in your product is to look at the product description. You will also want to check third-party lab reports. You can find these reports by looking for a company with a strong reputation and links to them on their product page. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Karolina Halatek
Karolina Halatek (born 1985) is a Polish contemporary visual artist working in a field of installation art, using light as a key medium. Karolina Halatek creates experiential site-specific spaces that incorporate visual, architectural and sculptural elements. Seeing her work primarily as a catalyst for experience, Karolina creates installations that have strong experiential and immersive characteristics, often the result of collaborations with quantum physicists, founders of the superstring theory (Leonard Susskind, Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelii) and precision mechanical engineers.
Career
Halatek studied Design for Performance at the University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art, Great Britain, Fine Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. During studies in Berlin, she participated in workshops at the Institut für Raumexperimente run by Olafur Eliasson. Karolina Halatek received the Minister's Scholarship for Fine Arts from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland, a London residency managed by Acme Studios International Residencies Programme in collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw in 2014, artist residency at CEC Artslink NYC and Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri; residency at a$ Art Museum in Chengdu, China. Karolina Halatek was a fellow through the »New Networks« project, a cooperation of Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, with financial support by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. In cooperation with KulturRegion Stuttgart and the city of Gerlingen, Karolina Halatek participated in the Lichkunstfestival »Aufstiege« of KulturRegion Stuttgart during her stay at Akademie Schloss Solitude. In 2015 her Scanner Room Video was broadcast into outer space at the MONA FOMA Festival held by the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.
Near Death Experience in Contemporary Art
Karolina Halatek dedicated one of her projects to the subject of Near Death Experience (NDE). Terminal her immersive light installation was inspired by the testimonies of people who returned from unconsciousness, reported their experiences at the threshold of death. Installation has been exhibited multiple times in Gerlingen/Stuttgart and in front of Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany. In 2018 project has been presented at the 4th International Time Perspective Conference, University of Nantes, France.
Major exhibitions
* Germany: Kunstahalle Bremen, Aufstiege Lichtkunstfestival by KulturRegion Stuttgart, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, Design Transfer Gallery Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin
* Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA
* Kinetica Art Fair, London, Great Britain
* Transmission Festival, Omonoia Athens Biennial, Greece
* Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
* Dubai ECHO Festival of Art, Design and Technology, United Arab Emirates
* A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
* Morcote Public Art Biennial, Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano, Switzerland
* De School during Amsterdam Dance Event, curated by Children of the Light, Netherlands
* 4th International Time Perspective Conference at University of Nantes, France
* Poland: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, Galeria Labirynt in Lublin, Museum of Lublin, BWA Galleries of Contemporary Art Wrocław, Museum of Archeology and Ethnography in Łódź, Lodz Design, Manhattan Gallery in Łódź, Galeria Opus in Łódź, Fotofestiwal International Festival of Photography in Łódź, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków, Salon Akademii Gallery in Warsaw, Propaganda Gallery at Warsaw Gallery Weekend.
Public Presentations / Artist Talks
* Artslink Assembly, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2018
* Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, USA, 2018
* Webster University, Department of Art, Design & Art History, St.Louis, USA, 2018
* 4th International Time Perspective Conference, University of Nantes, France, 2018
* Kunsthalle Bremen, Long Night of the Museums, 2018
* Light as a Creative Tool Conference, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, 2018
* Kunstkrafwerk Leipzg, Germany, 2017
* ÜberLicht, Art in Public Spaces, Esslingen, during Ascents Light Art Festival, Germany, 2016
* Gerlingen City Council, Germany, 2016
* Near Death Experience Conference, Gerlingen, Germany, 2016
* Symposium on Abstract Geometry, Radziejowice, Poland, 2015
* The Educational Film Studio (WFO) Łódź, Poland, 2013
* Academy of Fine Arts Łódź, Poland, 2013
Press
* Terminal Artdaily, Designboom, iGnant, Archdaily, Culture.pl, Welt, Jurnal du Design, Illumni, Urdesign, Skai, Goood
* Scanner Room Artdaily, Creators Project, FAD Magazine, Pylon Hub, Illumni, Starry Night
* Cloud Square FAD Magazine, Designboom, Illumni | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cowan (journalist)
The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:14, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
David Cowan (journalist)
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Doesn't meet WP:JOURNALIST, not widely covered by third party sources that I can find Aloneinthewild (talk) 18:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. MT Train Talk 18:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. MT Train Talk 18:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. MT Train Talk 18:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. MT Train Talk 18:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
* Delete: The subject was a nominee in an "Awards Scotland" Television Journalist of the Year category in 2014: . However, even if that had been won, such an award would not have been sufficient to demonstrate encyclopaedic notability. The article text is CV-level, and notability is not inherited from covering notable news stories. Fails WP:BASIC, WP:JOURNALIST. AllyD (talk) 08:01, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
* Delete this is a biogrpahy of a living person that has as its one source twitter. This is way below even being close to even one reliable source.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:51, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
* I am having some doubts now. if own Twitter can be counted as poor reference? Though it is clearly rid of BLP violation. Lorstaking (talk) 02:26, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
* Twitter is not a reliable source for anything. It does not matter who the operator is.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:08, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
* Delete - no references, no apparent notability, fails WP:JOURNALIST and WP:GNG. L293D (☎ • ✎) 13:18, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
* Delete Fails GNG. L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 17:06, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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All Apps and Add-ons
Website Monitoring: Why am I getting error "404 not found Splunk cannot find "adddata/selectsource"" trying to create an input?
bspluk74
New Member
When I click on the "create a website monitoring input now", why am I getting the error:
404 not found Splunk cannot find "adddata/selectsource"
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LukeMurphey
Champion
Could try seeing if there is a traceback in the logs? See http://lukemurphey.net/projects/splunk-website-monitoring/wiki/Troubleshooting searches that would reveal it. A traceback would make narrowing this down much easier.
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jbailey_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
Did you install the app from the UI or the CLI? If you installed through the UI, your account should have been under the admin role and that should have installed fine, with no issues. If you installed via the CLI, make sure the "website_monitoring" directory is owned by the correct user and has the correct permissions (mirroring the rest of the Splunk install on that server). If the ownership and/or permissions do not match the rest of the Splunk install, make those changes to the entire directory for website_monitoring.
Another recommendation would be to make sure your Splunk instance is running on a recent release/version - such as 6.3.X
Hope this helps...
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LukeMurphey
Champion
Have you tried making the input from the Manager (Data inputs >> Website Availability Check >> Add new)? It could just be that that particular link doesn't work
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edwinmae
Path Finder
I have the exact same Error
There is also no Website Availability Check under Data inputs
Website Monitoring 1.4.0 / Splunk 6.1.0 / W2008R2
Splunk was rebooted
Unable to initialize modular input "web_ping" defined inside the app "website_monitoring": Introspecting scheme=web_ping: script running failed (exited with code 1).
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jameswortman
New Member
I am running a Linux server and I am getting the same errors...did you get an answer to why?
Unable to initialize modular input "web_ping" defined inside the app "website_monitoring": Introspecting scheme=web_ping: script running failed (exited with code 1).
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edwinmae
Path Finder
No I did not. I installed the app through the UI and my role is admin, so theoretically all should be fine.
We're moving from W2008R2 to Linux within 2-3 weeks and move to Splunk 6.4 at the same time. Let's see after that.
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jbailey_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
Ok, that sounds like a plan... But a couple more things, just in case...
(Just confirming at this point) Are you attempting to configure the website monitoring input as admin or a different user/role?
Go to Settings -> Access Controls -> Roles -> (Specific Role of User performing the website monitoring action).
Under Capabilities, make sure the following are selected (if they are not, then select them):
edit_modinput_web_ping
list_inputs
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jameswortman
New Member
OK I have tried everything listed above and still cannot get this app to work. I still get this error ever time we restart SPLUNK:
Unable to initialize modular input "web_ping" defined inside the app "website_monitoring": Introspecting scheme=web_ping: script running failed (exited with code 1).
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jbailey_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
Hi jameswortman, could you tell me a little more about your environment? I have not seen this specific error before related to this app, but hopefully we can figure it out...
Version of Splunk you're running?
Version of Linux?
Version of the Website Monitoring app?
What is the user/group that "owns" the directories and files in your Splunk installation?
Does the Website Monitoring app match that ownership and permissions?
What user are you using to create the input?
If not admin, what role has been assigned to that user?
What permissions (from the Manage Apps UI screen) does the Website Monitoring app have? It should be Global, everyone read, admin write.
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jameswortman
New Member
Version of SPLUNK: 6.1.3 build 220630
Linux: 5.e16
Website Monitoring: 1.4.0
Admin owns the directories and files
we verified that ownership and permission do match
I tried admin and someone in the admin group.
I made sure that edit_modinput_web_ping and list_inputs were added to the admin roles
Permissions are set to Global, everyone read admin write.
I do not have this capability: Manager (Data inputs >> Website Availability Check >> Add new
Do I need to modify a conf file on the Linux server first for this data input?
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jbailey_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
Are you running a trial license or a full Splunk license on this Splunk instance? I've seen similar issues when using a trial license (some functionality is disabled on a trial license). You can check by going to Settings -> Licensing.
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edwinmae
Path Finder
As an Admin. We already have 1 Linux server running Splunk 6.3 and Website Monitoring is running just fine.
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jbailey_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
Excellent! Thanks for the follow-up on this! I've previously seen this app work correctly in a Windows 2012R2 environment, but never in a Windows 2008R2. I'm not saying it is definitely an issue with 2008R2, but it's a possibility.
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Is Ventas Following Welltower's Lead in Standing Pat on Its Dividend?
Ventas (NYSE: VTR) is one of the largest players in the healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) space. It has a long history of executing well, with its CEO often receiving awards for her management skills. But it has stumbled lately, which management believes is just a temporary supply/demand mismatch. There's no particular reason to worry, except Ventas just chose to stand pat on its dividend. That breaks with recent history. What's going on?
Here's what just happened
In five of the six years leading up to 2019, Ventas increased its dividend in the fourth quarter. The one year that it didn't do this included a spin off, so that year is something of an anomaly. Investors have come to expect a dividend hike at the end of the year. It didn't happen in 2019. Ventas kept the dividend static at $0.7925 per share per quarter. If it doesn't increase the dividend at least once in 2020, the company's nine-year streak of annual increases will come to an end.
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Here's the thing: Welltower (NYSE: WELL), one of Ventas' largest competitors, let its much longer streak of annual increases die not too long ago. Welltower hasn't increased its dividend for three years, with the last hike taking place at the start of 2017. Welltower, for reference, is considered one of the best-run REITs in the healthcare niche. Healthpeak Properties (NYSE: PEAK), formerly known as HCP, the other big name in the space, hasn't increased its dividend since 2017, as well, following the spin off of its nursing home business (which resulted in a reduced dividend payment to Healthpeak investors).
The lack of dividend growth at Welltower and Healthpeak was a selling point for Ventas. Although dividend growth in recent years hasn't been huge, hovering around the long-term rate of inflation growth over the trailing three- and five-year periods, it is much better than no growth at all. In fact, the buying power of a dividend that isn't increased over time will slowly get eroded by rising prices. That Ventas has chosen to stand pat on the dividend is a big deal.
The backstory
Despite the industry accolades, Ventas stumbled badly in 2019. It entered the year calling for a pickup in growth in 2020, but ended it by saying that the growth it expected wouldn't show up until 2021 or later. Investors were not pleased, pushing the REIT lower on the news. It has notably underperformed its two closest peers over the past year.
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A big piece of the problem is self-inflicted. Rule changes have allowed healthcare REITs to own and operate some properties (the REITs actually hire an operator; the big difference is that they do not lease the properties out). That allows the performance of these assets, called senior housing operating properties (SHOP), to flow through to the top and bottom line. When times are good, that boosts performance. When times aren't so good, it's a drag. Ventas' SHOP portfolio has struggled lately. It's not alone in that: Healthpeak's SHOP portfolio has also been weak. But Welltower's has not; it's still doing quite well. So Ventas took on the extra risk of a SHOP portfolio and didn't execute well.
Adding to the concern here is that Ventas wasn't overly responsive to analyst requests for additional clarity on 2020. The party line was that such information would be given as normal on the fourth quarter conference call. If the REIT hadn't so obviously stumbled, that would be an acceptable response. Worse, based on its implied outlook for the fourth quarter of 2019, 2020 could be a tough year. To put some numbers on that, through the first nine months of 2019 normalized funds from operations (FFO) was $2.92 per share. The REIT's guidance for the full year is $3.83 per share. A little subtraction shows that normalized FFO in the fourth quarter is expected to be around $0.91 per share.
If you assume that roughly $0.90 is a run rate for 2020, full year normalized FFO comes in at around $3.60 a share next year. That's a sizable drop from 2019. And it would push the normalized FFO payout ratio up to nearly 90%. That's pretty high for a healthcare REIT and doesn't leave a lot of room for further problems in the SHOP portfolio. So it is understandable that the dividend would be held static. Note that Welltower and Healthpeak are both likely to have payout ratios around the 85% range in 2019. Ventas isn't wildly out of line with peers, but with the information available today, it is understandable that investors would be concerned about the dividend.
The positive spin here is that the properties in the SHOP portfolio are getting hit by the lingering effect of a construction boom that has largely tapered off. Ventas reports that new construction is at a nine-year low. Equally important, the REIT also says that customer demand remains high. So it looks like a temporary supply/demand imbalance that just needs time to correct itself. If that's the case, then Ventas, with a price-to-normalized FFO ratio of around 15 (using the 2020 FFO projection from above) and a dividend yield of 5.5%, looks like a relatively good deal. Welltower is currently trading with a yield of 4.5% and a price-to-FFO ratio of roughly 20, based on 2019 expectations. The problem is that, without more guidance, it's hard to tell if Ventas is worth the risk, since recently weak performance could also be the start of a longer and more negative trend. Long-time dividend investors know all too well that, sometimes, a dividend that stops growing can end up getting cut.
Good call, but time to pay attention
Investors looking to own a large and diversified healthcare REIT should have Ventas on their watch lists. That said, the weakness in its SHOP portfolio and the fact that it is holding pat on the dividend should be a worry. This isn't the end of the world, by any means, assuming that management is right about the supply/demand outlook improving in the near future. (In fact, there's still time for Ventas to extend its nine-year dividend growth streak, if it hikes sometime in 2020.) However, this is an issue that investors, particularly those who own the shares already, need to be watching very closely. In fact, truly conservative investors should probably stay on the sidelines here until management offers its 2020 outlook, when it reports fourth quarter results.
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Dig Commands Cheatsheet
Dig Command
Dig stands for (Domain Information Groper). Dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System (DNS) name servers. It is useful for verifying and troubleshooting DNS problems and also to perform DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server that were queried. dig is part of the BIND domain name server software suite. dig command replaces older tool such as nslookup and the host. dig tool is available in major Linux distributions.
Query Domain “A” Record
# dig yahoo.com; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <<>> yahoo.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<
Above command causes dig to look up the “A” record for the domain name yahoo.com. Dig command reads the /etc/resolv.conf file and querying the DNS servers listed there. The response from the DNS server is what dig displays.
UNDERSTAND THE OUTPUT:
1. Lines beginning with ; are comments not part of the information.
2. The first line tell us the version of dig (9.8.2) command.
3. Next, dig shows the header of the response it received from the DNS server
4. Next comes the question section, which simply tells us the query, which in this case is a query for the “A” record of yahoo.com. The IN means this is an Internet lookup (in the Internet class).
5. The answer section tells us that yahoo.com has the IP address 72.30.38.140
6. Lastly there are some stats about the query. You can turn off these stats using the +nostats option.
Query Domain “A” Record with +short
By default dig is quite verbose. One way to cut down the output is to use the +short option. which will drastically cut the output as shown below.
# dig yahoo.com +short
98.139.183.24
72.30.38.140
98.138.253.109
Note: By default dig looks for the “A” record of the domain specified, but you can specify other records also. The MX or Mail eXchange record tells mail servers how to route the email for the domain. Likewise TTLSOA etc.
Query MX Record
Querying different types of DNS resource records only.
# dig yahoo.com MX
; <> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <> yahoo.com MX
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31450
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 24
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yahoo.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com. 33 IN MX 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 33 IN MX 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 33 IN MX 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
Query SOA Record
# dig yahoo.com SOA
; <> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <> yahoo.com SOA
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2197
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 7
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yahoo.com. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com. 1800 IN SOA ns1.yahoo.com. hostmaster.yahoo-inc.com. 2012081409 3600 300 1814400 600
Query TTL Record
# dig yahoo.com TTL
; <> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <> yahoo.com TTL
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56156
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yahoo.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com. 3589 IN A 98.138.253.109
yahoo.com. 3589 IN A 98.139.183.24
yahoo.com. 3589 IN A 72.30.38.140
Query only answer section
# dig yahoo.com +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional +nostats
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6 <<>> yahoo.com +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional +nostats
;; global options: +cmd
yahoo.com. 3442 IN A 72.30.38.140
yahoo.com. 3442 IN A 98.138.253.109
yahoo.com. 3442 IN A 98.139.183.24
Query ALL DNS Records
# dig yahoo.com ANY +noall +answer
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6 <<>> yahoo.com ANY +noall +answer
;; global options: +cmd
yahoo.com. 3509 IN A 72.30.38.140
yahoo.com. 3509 IN A 98.138.253.109
yahoo.com. 3509 IN A 98.139.183.24
yahoo.com. 1709 IN MX 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 1709 IN MX 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 1709 IN MX 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns2.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns8.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns3.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns1.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns4.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns5.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com. 43109 IN NS ns6.yahoo.com.
DNS Reverse Look-up
Querying DNS Reverse Look-up. Only display answer section with using +short.
# dig -x 72.30.38.140 +short
ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com.
Query Multiple DNS Records
Query multiple website’s DNS specific query viz. MXNS etc. records.
# dig yahoo.com mx +noall +answer redhat.com ns +noall +answer
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6 <<>> yahoo.com mx +noall +answer redhat.com ns +noall +answer
;; global options: +cmd
yahoo.com. 1740 IN MX 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 1740 IN MX 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
yahoo.com. 1740 IN MX 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
redhat.com. 132 IN NS ns1.redhat.com.
redhat.com. 132 IN NS ns4.redhat.com.
redhat.com. 132 IN NS ns3.redhat.com.
redhat.com. 132 IN NS ns2.redhat.com.
Create .digrc file
Create .digrc file under $HOME/.digrc to store default dig options.
# dig yahoo.com
yahoo.com. 3427 IN A 72.30.38.140
yahoo.com. 3427 IN A 98.138.253.109
yahoo.com. 3427 IN A 98.139.183.24
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Morgan Rattler (1793 ship)
She was probably a French vessel launched under another name and taken in prize early in 1793 after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. She became a Liverpool privateer, but was quickly captured. A few years later she became a French privateer. She captured several British merchantmen before in June 1796 a British naval brig captured her and her prizes.
Career
Morgan Rattler first appears in the journal of an Irish coastguard in 1790, who wrote "On the 4 Decr 1790 The famous Smuggling Lugger Morgan Rattler being anchored in Glassdrummond Bay with a number of Yawls alongside and astern with goods in each preparatory to landing. The Revenue pinnace was sent out, and a part of officers stationed on land to prevent a landing. In order to effect this purpose 16 men were despatched in the Lugger’s boat to chive off the Revenue land party and take the pinnace also — The Revenue party now opned a fire on the assailants who were not only deterred from their purpose when landed but cut off from their own boat. The Lugger now fired a Gun to cover her Men and she sent at the same time a reinforcement of 12 men who landed about half a mile north of the Revenue party and attacked them by firing in their rear. I moved towards the latter party leaving some of my people to protect our boat. During this movement, the Smugglers got their first party and boat to sea and the Revenue party being obliged to retreat before the 2d party of the Lugger’s men the landing was effected. My party fired some 10 or 12 rounds. The Smugglers were heard to say fire at the man on horseback meaning myself".
Morgan Rattler later appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1793.
Captain William Gibson acquired a letter of marque on 25 May 1793. Morgan Rattler, Gibson, master, was reported in August to have been captured and taken into Lorient.
Morgan Rattler may have served the French Navy in 1794. Between April and July the corvette Morgan was stationed at Bay of Bourgneuf under the command of enseigne de vaisseau non entrenu Collet. She then apparently became a privateer.
On 28 June 1796 HMS Suffisante captured Morgan. Morgan, under the command of John Coffin Whitney, was the former ''Morgan Rattler.
On 27 August Suffisante intercepted and recaptured two British merchant ships near the Île de Batz. They reported that they had been sailing from Oporto when a privateer of 16 guns and 10 swivel guns had captured them. When last seen the privateer had been north of Scilly in chase of some other merchant vessels. Suffisante immediately sent the recaptured vessels to Plymouth and sailed Suffisante to the French coast between Ushant and the Île de Batz in the hopes of intercepting the privateer on her return, or any prizes that she might have taken on their way to Morlaix or Brest.
The next morning Commander Nicholas Tomlinson, of Suffisante sighted the privateer and four prizes. He was able to capture the privateer by 1pm; Suffisante fired some small-arms fire at and she did not fire back, but instead struck. Tomlinson then put a prize crew on board the privateer, after taking off her captain and officers, and captor and ex-privateer set off after the prizes.
Suffisante recaptured not only the four prizes she had seen, but two others as well. The six merchant vessels were:
* Draper, 200 tons (bm), of Dublin, sailing from Oporto to Dublin, carrying 400 pipes of wire and 11 bales of cotton (Draper's master was Maddock, or Maddox);
* Brothers, 180 tons (bm), of Liverpool, sailing from Oporto to Liverpool, carrying 350 pipes and 30 hogsheads of wine and 72 bales of cotton;
* Mary Ann, 70 tons (bm), of Dublin, sailing from Oporto to Dublin, carrying 272 pipes of wine, 11 bales of cotton, and five casks of vinegar;
* Ann, 170 tons (bm), of Dublin, sailing from Oporto to Dublin, carrying 303 pipes of wine, 15 boxes and 10 baskets of lemons;
* Vine, 110 tons (bm), of Lancaster, sailing from Oporto to Lancaster, carrying 108 pipes and four hogsheads of wine, 175 bags cotton, and three-and-a-half tons of cork, lemons, etc.; and
* Eliza, 160 tons (bm), of Dublin, sailing from London to Dublin, carrying 250 chests of tea, 250 barrels of porter, a quantity of steel, and other dry goods.
Suffisante and her seven prizes, sailed into Plymouth on 30 June 1796.
At the time these captures were considered highly important. The Committee for Encouraging the Capture of French Privateers etc. and the Court of Directors of the Royal Exchange Assurance, each voted Tomlinson a piece of plate valued at 50 guineas. | WIKI |
Olsborg Castle
Olsborg Castle (Olsborg), also Olofsborg, was a fortified castle located in Tanum Municipality in Bohuslän, Sweden. It is situated on a steep cliff, and might previous to later use been an early hill fort.
History
Olsborg was constructed in 1502 by the squire Nils Ravaldsson from Åby (died 1505), after a recent Norwegian-Swedish rebel attack on Viken. In May 1504, a one-year ceasefire was signed between the Swedish-Norwegian rebels and King Hans. However most of Olsborg was destroyed shortly after, when the forces of Scandinavian monarch King Hans attacked during the Christmas party in 1504.
After the turmoil created by the dethronement of the Danish king Christian II, the Swedes returned, seized the area and reconstructed Olsborg's fortifications. The brief Swedish rule of northern Bohuslän was administrated between 1523 and 1525 from Olsborg by the nobles Lars Siggesson (Sparre) (c. 1492-1554) and Ture Jönsson (Tre Rosor) (c.1475-1532).
In 1525, the administration was moved to Karlsborg Castle, south of Hamburgsund. During these years, the castle defenses were improved, especially in 1526. During Christian II's attempt to retake his throne, the part of Bohuslän under Swedish rule was attacked, and both Karlsborg and Olsborg were destroyed by Norwegian forces in December 1531.
Decades later, several attempts to rebuild the castle was made by Sweden. Eric XIV in 1564 and Johan III in 1569 and 1570 both tried, but the attempts were unsuccessful and the castle remained in ruins. The ruins were still clearly visible during the early 20th century, when they were excavated by Swedish archaeologist Wilhelm Berg (1839-1915). Berg was the secretary of the Gothenburg and Bohuslän Antiquities Association and had also excavated the Ragnhildsholmen fortification at Kungahälla during the 1880s. | WIKI |
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