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Pamela Jo SHERMAN, Plaintiff, v. STANDARD RATE DATA SERVICE, INC., Defendant.
No. 88 C 3140.
United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.
Feb. 27, 1989.
Joan Ellen Smuda, Chicago, 111., for plaintiff.
Michael A. Stiegel, Arnstein, Gluck, Lehr & Milligan, Adele Rapport, Chicago, 111., for defendant.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ROVNER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff Pamela Jo Sherman (“Sherman”) filed a three-count amended complaint in this action against her former employer, defendant Standard Rate Data Services, Inc. (“Standard Rate”) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5 (“Title VII”), seeking permanent injunctive relief, an order of reinstatement, and monetary damages against defendant for the sexual harassment of plaintiff by her supervisor (Count I); for the breach of a settlement agreement between the parties and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) (Count II); and for the retaliatory discharge of plaintiff for having filed her charge of sexual discrimination with the EEOC (Count III). Standard Rate has moved for dismissal of plaintiff’s amended complaint pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6). For the reasons set forth below, defendant’s motion is granted as to Counts I and III of plaintiff’s amended complaint and denied as to Count II.
II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Plaintiff Sherman was an employee of defendant Standard Rate from on or about August 6, 1981 until December 1, 1984. Hired as an administrative assistant, Sherman’s duties in this position were to provide technical support to programmers and analysts while she received the technical training necessary to become a programmer or analyst. Sherman served as an administrative assistant until November 22, 1982 when she was demoted to a secretarial position. Richard Caldwell (“Caldwell”) served as Sherman’s supervisor during her tenure with Standard Rate.
Shortly after her demotion, on December 6, 1982, Sherman filed a written charge with the EEOC alleging that Standard Rate, through its employee Caldwell, discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. Specifically, Sherman charged that Caldwell sexually harassed her by touching her without her consent, using lewd and suggestive language with her, and threatening and intimidating her in an attempt to force her to submit to his sexual overtures.
Sherman’s charge with the EEOC was resolved on March 3,1983 when the parties and the EEOC entered into a Settlement Agreement (“Settlement”) and a Settlement Agreement and Release (“Release”). Pursuant to the Settlement, Standard Rate agreed to initiate technical training for Sherman, to compensate Sherman with back pay, if any, for the difference between her being paid on a salary basis instead of an hourly basis, to expunge Sherman’s record of any negative memoranda, disciplinary writeups, and reports referring to her demotion, to allow Sherman the right to review her personnel file and object to any documents contained therein, and not to retaliate against Sherman for filing her sexual discrimination charge with the EEOC. In exchange for these promises made by Standard Rate, both the EEOC and Sherman agreed not to institute a lawsuit against Standard Rate under Title VII based on the EEOC charges.
According to Sherman, Standard Rate never complied with any of the terms of the Settlement and Release. With respect to the specific promise of training, Sherman alleges that she was told by Standard Rate that she would not receive the promised training because her position was being phased out and she would not be employed with Standard Rate much longer. Sherman was terminated as an employee on December 1, 1984. She alleges that her termination was in retaliation for her earlier filing of sexual discrimination charges with the EEOC.
On April 2, 1987, Sherman filed a complaint against Standard Rate in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Leighton dismissed the complaint without prejudice on November 16, 1987. The instant three count amended complaint was filed with this Court on December 17, 1987. Presently pending before the Court is Standard Rate’s motion to dismiss all three counts of Sherman’s amended complaint.
III. DISCUSSION
A. Count I
In Count I, Sherman asserts a Title VII claim against Standard Rate based on the same discriminatory acts which served as the basis for the sexual discrimination charge she filed with the EEOC on December 6, 1982 while she was still an employee at Standard Rate. Standard Rate moves to dismiss Count I pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction or, in the alternative, pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a cause of action upon which relief may be granted.
The threshold issue is whether this Court has subject matter jurisdiction over Sherman’s claim in Count I. Standard Rate argues that Count I suffers from two jurisdictional defects: 1) Sherman’s failure to file a subsequent charge with the EEOC or to reinstate her original charge after her charge was dropped as part of the Settlement and Release, and 2) Sherman’s failure to receive a “right to sue” letter from the EEOC prior to filing suit in federal court. Sherman argues that the charge filing and right to sue letter requirements are not jurisdictional prerequisites, but are statutory requirements which are subject to equitable modification by the district court. Sherman admits both that she failed to reinstate her original EEOC charge and that she failed to obtain a right to sue letter, but suggests that the facts of this case entitle her to equitable modification of these Title VII statutory requirements.
In Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., 455 U.S. 385, 393, 102 S.Ct. 1127, 1132, 71 L.Ed.2d 234 (1982), the United States Supreme Court held that:
filing a timely charge of discrimination with the EEOC is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit in federal court, but a requirement that, like a statute of limitations, is subject to waiver, estoppel and equitable tolling.
Based on its review of the structure of Title VII, the congressional policy underlying it, and its own precedent, the Supreme Court held that “the provision for filing charges with the EEOC should not be construed to erect a jurisdictional barrier to suit in district court.” Id. at 397, 102 S.Ct. at 1132. After Zipes, Sherman’s failure to reinstate her charges with the EEOC does not deprive this court of subject matter jurisdiction over Count I of her amended complaint.
Following Zipes, decisions from several other circuits have extended the reasoning of Zipes to hold that the procedural requirement of obtaining a right to sue letter, like the charge filing requirement at issue in Zipes, is no longer considered a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit but is, instead, a statutory prerequisite analogous to a statute of limitations and is subject to equitable modification by a district court when appropriate. See, e.g., Bintz v. NSU Bd., 811 F.2d 1504 (Table) (text in WEST-LAW) No. 86-110, slip op. at 4 (4th Cir. Feb. 2, 1987) (WESTLAW CTA Database); Gooding v. Warner-Lambert Co., 744 F.2d 354 (3d Cir.1984); Fouche v. Jekyll Island-State Park Authority, 713 F.2d 1518 (11th Cir.1983); Pinkard v. Pullman-Standard, 678 F.2d 1211 (5th Cir. Unit B 1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1105, 103 S.Ct. 729, 74 L.Ed.2d 954 (1983); Hladki v. Jeffrey’s Consolidated, Ltd., 652 F.Supp. 388, 392 (E.D.N.Y.1987). The Court finds the reasoning of these cases persuasive, and in the absence of any compelling contrary authority from courts within the Seventh Circuit, holds that a right to sue letter is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to the filing of a Title VII action. Accordingly, Count I cannot be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on this basis.
Although the charge filing requirement and right to sue letter requirements are not jurisdictional prerequisites, they are statutory prerequisites and Sherman’s failure to comply with them, absent special circumstances justifying equitable modification, subject Count I of her amended complaint to dismissal on Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) grounds. Plaintiff has not set forth any reasons that would justify an equitable modification of these statutory requirements. In Hladki, the court examined relevant case-law and compiled a list of situations that have led courts to invoke equitable principles to modify Title VII’s statutory requirements:
1) when a claimant has received inadequate notice; (2) when a motion for appointment of counsel is pending; (3) when a court has led a plaintiff to believe that he or she has done everything required; (4) when affirmative misconduct has lulled a plaintiff into inaction; (5) when a “plaintiff has in some extraordinary way been prevented from asserting his rights”; (6) when a plaintiff “has raised the precise statutory claim in issue but has mistakenly done so in the wrong forum;” (7) when a right to sue letter has been received subsequent to commencement of a Title VII action and while the action is still pending; or 8) when the EEOC or Attorney General has incorrectly refused to issue a right to sue letter.
652 F.Supp. at 393 (citations omitted).
Sherman has not alleged that she is entitled to equitable modification for any of the aforementioned reasons. Instead, Sherman asserts that Standard Rate’s actions in knowingly and deliberately entering into the Settlement and Release with no intention of complying with its terms were “wrongful and dilatory toward plaintiff.” Even if this unsupported allegation were true, it does not explain Sherman’s failure to reinstate her charges after Standard Rate’s alleged breach of the settlement agreement or seek a right to sue letter from the EEOC prior to filing the instant amended complaint. The Court agrees with the defendant that Sherman’s own lack of diligence precludes the application of principles of equitable modification. Accordingly, Count I of Sherman’s amended complaint is dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).
In addition to Sherman’s failure to meet the statutory requirements or conditions precedent of a Title VII claim, two other reasons compel the Court to dismiss Count I of Sherman’s amended complaint. The Court must dismiss Count I because a party who agrees to settle a discrimination claim cannot seek both the benefit of the settlement and “the opportunity to continue to press the claim [s]he agreed to settle.” Wilmes v. U.S. Postal Service, 810 F.2d 130, 132 (7th Cir.1987) quoting Kirby v. Dole, 736 F.2d 661, 664 (11th Cir.1984). See also Strozier v. General Motors Corp., 635 F.2d 424 (5th Cir.1981); Grayer v. Copperweld Steel Co., 687 F.Supp. 1157 (N.D. Ohio 1988).
Count II of Sherman’s amended complaint seeks relief from Standard Rate for its alleged breach of the Settlement it entered into with Sherman and the EEOC. In asserting both the sexual discrimination claim in Count I which she previously settled and the breach of the Settlement claim in Count II, Sherman essentially wants to both “have her cake and eat it too.” The Court will not allow Sherman this luxury. In voluntarily entering into the Settlement with Standard Rate and the EEOC, Sherman waived her right to bring a subsequent action in this Court based upon the same fact situation as the claim she settled. Garvin v. Postmaster, U.S. Postal Service, 553 F.Supp. 684 (E.D.Mo.1982) aff'd, 718 F.2d 1108 (8th Cir.1983). Sherman argues that because Standard Rate breached the Settlement, the Court should allow her to pursue the underlying discrimination claim. Even when a party alleges a breach of a voluntary settlement agreement, she is precluded from reviving the underlying Title VII claim in federal court. Vermett v. Hough, 606 F.Supp. 732, 745-46 (W.D.Mich. 1984). Sherman’s remedy for the alleged subsequent breach is confined to her cause of action for breach of the Settlement. Id. at 746.
In a similar vein, the Court finds that Count I must be dismissed because the Release precludes plaintiff from litigating the underlying sexual discrimination claim. When a potential Title VII plaintiff executes a general release in clear and unambiguous language in favor of a given party, the release serves as a bar to a subsequent Title VII claim brought in federal court against that party. Pilon v. Univ. of Minnesota, 710 F.2d 466 (8th Cir.1983). In Pilón, the plaintiff sued the university in a state court proceeding in 1977 alleging discrimination on the basis of her sex when the university denied her a Ph.D. in Educational Administration. Id. at 467. The parties settled that lawsuit in 1980. On March 17, 1981, the plaintiff signed a general release which provided in part:
[The plaintiff] ... does hereby release acquit and forever discharge [the university] ... from any and all manner of action or actions, suits, claims, damages, judgments, levies, and executions, whether known or unknown, liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, direct or indirect, which [the plaintiff] ever had, has or ever can, shall or may have or claim to have against [the university] from any act or thing occurring prior to the date of the execution of this document and without limiting the generality of the foregoing: to any and all claims which may have been asserted in ... [the 1977 lawsuit].
Id. at 467.
Two months after signing the release, the plaintiff filed a claim alleging that from 1975 to 1980 the same university discriminated against her on the basis of her sex when it denied her a position as a member of the faculty. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the order of the district court which granted summary judgment in favor of the university. The court held that absent a claim of fraud or duress by the plaintiff in executing the release, the clear and unambiguous language of the release barred the plaintiff from bringing a later Title VII claim based upon pre-release events. Id. at 467-68.
Similarly, in the instant case, Sherman executed a release which contained clear and unambiguous language specifically waiving any Title VII claims which arose prior to the date of the release. Sherman offers no response to Standard Rate’s argument that the release precludes Sherman’s claim in Count I and she fails to allege that she signed the release as a result of fraud or duress.
For a release or waiver of a discrimination claim to be valid, courts require that the releasing party knowingly and voluntarily waive Title VII rights. See Glass v. Rock Island Refining Corp., 788 F.2d 450 (7th Cir.1986); Garvin, 553 F.Supp. at 687 (citing Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co., 415 U.S. 36, 94 S.Ct. 1011, 39 L.Ed.2d 147 (1974)). If the plaintiff fails to allege that the defendant misrepresented the terms of the release or that she was unaware of the terms of the same, then the Court must conclude that the plaintiffs assent to the release was voluntary and knowing. Garvin, 553 F.Supp. at 687. Sherman makes no allegation concerning the integrity of the release or her lack of knowledge as to its terms. Thus, the Court must conclude that she voluntarily and knowingly waived her right to assert a Title VII claim based upon acts allegedly committed by Standard Rate prior to the date of the Release.
For these accumulated and alternative reasons, Standard Rate’s motion to dismiss Count I of Sherman’s amended complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to Fed.R. Civ.Pro. 12(b)(6) is granted.
B. Count II
In Count II of her amended complaint, Sherman seeks redress for Standard Rate’s alleged breach of the Settlement. The settlement agreement between Sherman, Standard Rate and the EEOC, entered into by the parties on December 6, 1982, was reached shortly after Sherman filed her sexual discrimination charge with the EEOC. The Settlement was a “predetermination settlement agreement” which is “a contract between a complaining employee and the allegedly discriminatory employer that is reached with the aid of the EEOC prior to an EEOC determination of the merits of the complaining employee’s charge of discrimination.” Brewer v. Muscle Shoals Bd. of Educ., 790 F.2d 1515, 1519 (11th Cir.1986). Predetermination agreements are creatures of the EEOC’s regulations, and differ from “conciliation agreements” which are statutory creatures and which follow an EEOC investigation and determination of reasonable cause.
Standard Rate reiterates its argument that Sherman’s failure to receive a right to sue letter and failure to file a charge with the EEOC concerning the alleged breach of the Settlement require dismissal of Count II. Stressing the differences between conciliation agreements and predetermination agreements, Standard Rate distinguishes the cases cited by Sherman and argues that Sherman may not sidestep the requirement that she exhaust administrative remedies before bringing her suit for breach of the Settlement directly in federal court. Alternatively, Standard Rate argues that Count II should be dismissed because Sherman waited over two years after the alleged breach to institute her suit in federal court.
The Seventh Circuit’s decision in E.E.O. C. v. Liberty Trucking Co., 695 F.2d 1038 (7th Cir.1982) is a good starting point for the discussion of the issues presented in this case. In Liberty Trucking, the Seventh Circuit addressed the question of whether a suit brought by the EEOC seeking enforcement of a conciliation agreement is one brought directly under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for purposes of federal jurisdiction. Id. at 1040. The district court, although finding that the defendant had deliberately breached the conciliation agreement, held that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction and dismissed the EEOC’s action.
The Court began its analysis in Liberty Trucking with the recognition that Title VII does not explicitly provide the EEOC with authority to seek enforcement of conciliation agreements. Id. Analyzing the legislative history of the role of the 1972 amendments to Title VII and the role given to conciliation agreements in these amendments, the Court found that “conciliation remains the most important function of the EEOC.” Id. at 1042. Given the primacy of conciliation in the Title VII scheme, the Seventh Circuit held it would undermine Congress’ commitment to conciliation to deprive the EEOC of a federal forum in which to enforce its conciliation agreements. Id. at 1044. In an all-important footnote, the Seventh Circuit held:
We do not reach the question of whether a distinction should be made between conciliation agreements, which are statutory creatures and which follow an EEOC investigation and determination of reasonable cause, and settlement agreements which are a device created by the EEOC to resolve complaints prior to investigation. See E.E.O.C. v. Pierce Packing Co., 669 F.2d 605 (9th Cir.1982). We note, however, that our decision here turns on the voluntary nature of conciliation agreements and not upon an administrative finding of reasonable cause. Jurisdiction predicated upon an administrative finding of reasonable cause would, it appears, tend to convert the EEOC into an adjudicative administrative agency.
Id. at 1044 n. 7.
In its memorandum in support of its motion to dismiss, Standard Rate relies on E.E.O.C. v. Pierce Packing Co., 669 F.2d 605, 608 (9th Cir.1982) for the proposition that 29 C.F.R. 1601.20(a), the regulation allowing for predetermination agreements, “does not permit court involvement predicated on breach of a settlement agreement, absent reasonable cause determination and good faith attempts at conciliation,” see Defendant’s Reply Mem. in Support of Motion to Dismiss at 8-9, but completely ignores the footnote in Liberty Trucking. The court finds this omission to be very telling. After Liberty Trucking, the two circuits which have addressed the question of whether a federal court has jurisdiction over suits to enforce predetermination agreements have relied on Liberty Trucking in holding that given the congressional emphasis on voluntary compliance, there is no relevant distinction between predetermination agreements and conciliation agreements for purposes of Title VII jurisdiction. See Eatmon v. Bristol Steel & Iron Works, Inc., 769 F.2d 1503, 1512 n. 9 (11th Cir.1985) (“We are bolstered in our conviction by the fact that Pierce was decided prior to Liberty Trucking ... [and] [w]e also note that the Seventh Circuit suggested in Liberty Trucking, 695 F.2d at 1044 n. 7 that it too would see no relevant difference for jurisdictional purposes.”); E.E. O. C. v. Henry Beck Co., 729 F.2d at 305 (noting that Pierce was decided before Liberty Trucking). The Court agrees with these two decisions and believes that based on Liberty Trucking, the Seventh Circuit would reach an identical conclusion.
Standard Rate suggests that although the EEOC may sue for breach of a settlement agreement in federal court, private plaintiffs should not be permitted to bring such actions. Standard Rate offers no case law to support this proposition. Although the Court has not found any Seventh Circuit authority on point, the Court agrees with the Eleventh Circuit’s holding in Eatmon that “[a]ll of the reasons that support Title VII jurisdiction over such actions when brought by the EEOC apply with equal force to actions brought by the aggrieved employees to enforce conciliation agreements entered into by the EEOC, their employees, and themselves.” 769 F.2d at 1510. See also Brito v. Zia Co., 478 F.2d 1200 (10th Cir.1973) (cited with approval in Liberty Trucking, 695 F.2d at 1044 n. 5); Kiper v. La. St. Bd. of Elem. Educ., 592 F.Supp. 1343, 1359 (M.D.La. 1984), aff'd, 778 F.2d 789 (5th Cir.1985); Byrd v. Long Island Lighting Co., 565 F.Supp. 1455, 1461 (E.D.N.Y.1983).
Moreover, the Court holds that Sherman is not required to exhaust her administrative remedies in order to bring suit for the breach of the Settlement in federal court. The fact that “no charges were ever filed with the EEOC and there was no EEOC investigation or determination of reasonable cause do not prevent this from being an action ‘brought under’ Title VII.” Eatmon, 769 F.2d at 1510-11. See also, Brewer v. Muscle Shoals Bd. of Educ., 790 F.2d 1515, 1519 (11th Cir.1986) (“[a]n employee need not file an EEOC charge alleging breach of the agreement to invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court over an action arising from the breach of a settlement agreement”). Such actions are brought directly under Title VII over which federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction, see Liberty Trucking, 695 F.2d at 1044, and plaintiffs need not exhaust administrative remedies as a prerequisite to filing such actions. Eatmon, 769 F.2d at 1508, 1512 (goal of voluntary compliance and conciliation overrides requirement of EEOC participation).
Finally, Standard Rate’s argument that Sherman should not be allowed to bring her action more than two years after the last alleged discriminatory act, her firing, amounts to an argument based on the equitable defense of laches. “The doctrine of laches should be applied to prevent a claimant from prejudicing an employer by resurrecting a stale discrimination claim after apparently acquiescing in the employer’s breach of settlement.” Perdue v. Roy Stone Transfer Corp., 690 F.2d 1091, 1094 (4th Cir.1982). In order for laches to bar Sherman’s claim, Standard Rate must show “(1) lack of diligence by the party against whom the claim is aserted, and (2) prejudice to the party asserting the defense.” Costello v. U.S., 365 U.S. 265, 282, 81 S.Ct. 534, 543, 5 L.Ed.2d 551 (1961); Cannon v. Univ. of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, 710 F.2d 351, 359 (7th Cir.1983). At this time resolution of the question of laches is premature; laches is a factual question which generally is not subject to resolution at the summary judgment stage let alone at the pleadings stage. See Jeffries v. Chicago Transit Authority, 770 F.2d 676, 679 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1050, 106 S.Ct. 1273, 89 L.Ed.2d 581 (1986).
For all of the above-discussed reasons, Standard Rate’s motion to dismiss Count II of plaintiff’s amended complaint must be denied.
C. Count III
In Count III of her amended complaint, Sherman alleges that Standard Rate terminated her employment and committed other acts in retaliation for her filing of an action with the EEOC. Standard Rate argues that the retaliatory discharge claim in Count III must be dismissed because the charge of retaliation is a separate act of discrimination under Title VII from the underlying discrimination claim which served as the basis for Sherman’s original EEOC charge. Standard Rate argues that Sherman was required to file an additional charge with the EEOC relating solely to the alleged retaliatory discharge claim and that her failure to do so and receive a “right to sue” letter requires that Count III be dismissed.
In the Seventh Circuit, the relevant test in determining whether plaintiff is required to exhaust her administrative remedies before filing a complaint which encompasses allegations outside the ambit of the predicate EEOC charge is the “scope of the charge” test. See Steffen v. Meridian Life Ins. Co., 859 F.2d 534, 544 (7th Cir.1988); Babrocky v. Jewel Food Co. & Retail Meatcutters, 773 F.2d 857, 864 (7th Cir. 1985). Under the “scope of the charge” test, all claims of discrimination are cognizable in a civil action which are “ ‘like or reasonably related to the allegations of the charge and growing out of such allegations.’ ” Jenkins v. Blue Cross Mutual Hospital Ins., Inc., 538 F.2d 164, 167 (7th Cir.1976) (en banc) (quoting Danner v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 447 F.2d 159, 162 (5th Cir.1971)), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 986, 97 S.Ct. 506, 50 L.Ed.2d 598 (1976).
Sherman does not contest Standard Rate’s assertion that the retaliation claim is a separate and distinguishable claim from the sexual discrimination claim alleged in her EEOC charge. Indeed, Sherman would be hardpressed to argue this point. Sherman’s retaliatory discharge claim in Count III “injects an entirely new theory of liability into the case alleging unlawful activity of a much different nature” than the sexual discrimination alleged in her original EEOC charge. Steffen, 859 F.2d at 545. For this reason, Sherman’s retaliatory discharge claim fails the “scope of the charge test” and accordingly, must be dismissed with prejudice.
The Court’s holding that Sherman’s Title VII action cannot include her claim for retaliatory discharge does not implicate any ruling as to the admissibility of evidence of retaliation in her sole remaining claim for breach of the Settlement. Given that one of the terms of the Settlement was that Standard Rate agreed not to retaliate against Sherman for filing her EEOC charge, any evidence of retaliation would be highly relevant to her claim in Count II. See Proffit v. Keycom Electronic Pub., 625 F.Supp. 400, 408 n. 14, 409 (N.D.Ill. 1985), overruled on other grounds, Gilardi v. Schroeder, 833 F.2d 1226 (7th Cir. 1987); Garcia v. Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, 80 F.R.D. 254, 262 (N.D.Ill.1978).
IV. CONCLUSION
The Court grants defendant’s motion to dismiss Counts I and III of Sherman’s amended complaint, but denies defendant’s motion to dismiss with respect to Count II.
. In ruling upon a motion to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), the court must accept as true all of the allegations in Sherman’s complaint. Jenkins v. McKeithen, 395 U.S. 411, 89 S.Ct. 1843, 23 L.Ed.2d 404 (1969); Greene v. Finley, 749 F.2d 467, 468 (7th Cir.1984). All of the facts in this section are taken from allegations in plaintiff’s amended complaint and the exhibits attached to her amended complaint.
. Sherman made the same promise not to use the EEOC charge as the basis for a Title VII lawsuit pursuant to the terms of the Release. The Release provided in part;
Sherman will and does hereby release [Standard Rate] and any past, present or future officer, agent, employer or attorney of [Standard Rate] from any and all liability under any presently existing action and causes of action or any action which may arise under any express or implied contract, federal state or local fair employment practice or other employee relations statute, executive order, law or ordinance, tort or other public policy obligation arising out of Sherman’s employment to date with [Standard Rate], including but not limited to, relief in any administrative proceedings or plenary actions brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 2OOOe et seq.) specifically including but not limited to, EEOC Charge Number 051830911.
(Release, at 1-2).
. In a Title VII action, an aggrieved person must file a complaint with the EEOC "within one hundred eighty days after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e). Because Illinois law has an applicable state law to which Ms. Sherman had recourse, the filing period is extended to three hundred days. Id.; Gilardi v. Schroeder, 833 F.2d 1226, 1230 (7th Cir.1987).
. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1) (1982) provides in relevant part:
If a charge filed with the Commission ... is dismissed by the Commission, or if within one hundred and eighty days from the filing of such charge ..., the Commission has not filed a civil action under this section ..., or the Commission has not entered into a conciliation agreement to which the person aggrieved is a party, the Commission ... shall so notify the person aggrieved and within ninety days after the giving of such notice a civil action may be brought against the respondent named in the charge ... by the person claiming to be aggrieved____
(emphasis added). This statutorily required notification by the EEOC is known as a "right to sue” letter.
. The Seventh Circuit has not addressed the question of whether a right to sue letter is a jurisdictional prerequisite since the Supreme Court’s opinion in Zipes. The sole case cited by Standard Rate for this proposition, Collins v. Dept. of Public Aid, No. 87 C 499, slip op., 1987 WL 17830 (N.D.Ill. Sept. 25, 1987) (LEXIS, Genfed, Courts file) contains no discussion of Zipes. As a practical matter, whether the "right to sue letter” is a condition precedent or jurisdictional prerequisite makes little difference. Dismissals for failure to obtain a "right to sue letter” are typically "without prejudice,” affording plaintiff the opportunity to obtain the necessary “right to sue letter.” See Collins, slip op. at 2; Hladki, 652 F.Supp. at 394. Dismissal of Count I in this case is with prejudice because principles of equitable modification do not apply to allow plaintiff to circumvent the charge filing requirement and because of the other two grounds for dismissal discussed later in this opinion.
. See supra, note 2.
. The predetermination settlement agreement at issue in this case apparently is the product of the Commission's "Rapid Charge Processing System," adopted in 1977 by the EEOC and designed as a "response to an increasing backlog of charges resulting from time-consuming investigations.” E.E.O.C. v. Henry Beck Co., 729 F.2d 301, 303 (4th Cir.1984). 29 C.F.R. 1601.-20(a) (1979), which provides for such negotiated setlements, states in pertinent part:
Prior to the issuance of a determination as to reasonable cause, the Commission may encourage the parties to settle the charge on terms that are mutually agreeable ... The Commission shall limit its undertaking in such settlements to an agreement not to process that charge further. Such settlements shall note that the Commission has made no judgment on the merits of the charge—
. The statutory scheme for processing unfair employment practice charges filed with the EEOC, set forth in § 706(b) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(b), requires the EEOC to try to eliminate the alleged unlawful employment practice through informal methods of conciliation. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(b) provides in relevant part:
Whenever a charge is filed by ... a person claiming to be aggrieved .. alleging that an employer ... has engaged in an unlawful employment practice, the Commission shall ... make an investigation thereof ... If the Commission determines after such investigation that there is reasonable cause to believe that the charge is true, the Commission shall endeavor to eliminate any such unlawful practice by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion.
. A ruling on the defense of laches is also premature because plaintiff, who bears the burden of explaining her delay has not had the opportunity to do so, see Lingenfelter v. Keystone Consolid. Indust., Inc., 691 F.2d 339, 340 (7th Cir. 1982), and because defendant, who must establish that it has been materially prejudiced by any unreasonable or inexcusable delay, has not made such a showing. See Jeffries, 770 F.2d at 680. The Court notes that Sherman’s delay of over two years in bringing suit does not fall within the range of delay found to be unreasonable in EEOC cases by the Seventh Circuit. See Cannon, 710 F.2d at 359-60 (relying on EEOC cases, court finds that private litigant’s delay of between 3 years/8 months and 5 years unreasonable).
. The Court’s dismissal of Sherman’s retaliatory discharge claim is, in essence, an order of summary judgment in favor of Standard Rate. In Babrocky, 773 F.2d at 863-64, the Seventh Circuit held that after Zipes, the requirement of scope, like the requirement of filing a timely charge, is in the nature of a condition precedent and, therefore, "the district court’s decision to dismiss those parts of plaintiffs Title VII allegations supposedly not included in the EEOC charge should have resulted in partial summary judgment, not dismissal.’’ Id. at 864. Similarly, the Court's dismissal of Count III should be considered as an order of partial summary judgment.
Because Sherman's retaliatory discharge claim fails to meet the “scope of the charge" requirement, her failure to exhaust her administrative remedies — in this case, her failure to file timely an additional EEOC charge and obtain a right to sue letter — are alternative grounds upon which the Court may dismiss her claim. Although Zipes held that the timely filing of an EEOC charge is not a jurisdictional requirement, Zipes did not hold that a plaintiff can simply disregard the charge filing requirements of Title VII. See Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown, 466 U.S. 147, 152 n. 6, 104 S.Ct. 1723, 1726 n. 6, 80 L.Ed.2d 196 (1984) (“We did not in Zipes declare that the [charge filing] requirement need not ever be satisfied; we merely stated it was subject to waiver and tolling.”); Berger v. Ironworkers Reinforced Rodmen, 843 F.2d 1395, 1434 (D.C.Cir.1988); Bennett v. Russ Berrie and Co., Inc., 564 F.Supp. 1576 (N.D.Ind. 1983). Sherman has not proffered any reasons which justify the use of equitable principles to toll the 300-day period from the date she was fired in which she was required to file a new EEOC charge based on the alleged retaliation. Accordingly, Sherman’s Title VII claim for retaliation is time-barred. See Baldwin, 466 U.S. at 152, 104 S.Ct. at 1726 (”[o]ne who fails to act diligently cannot invoke equitable principles to excuse that lack of diligence”); Rice v. New England College, 676 F.2d 9, 11 (1st Cir.1982) (”[i]n the absence of a recognized equitable consideration, the court cannot extend the limitations period [the 90 day period for filing after receipt of right to sue letter] by even one day”).
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72 O dervish!’ But he said in himself, ‘If he be enamoured of the boy and require him of lewdness, needs must I slay him this night and bury him secretly. But, if there be no lewdness in him, the guest shall eat his portion.’
Then he brought him into a saloon, where he left him with Kemerezzeman, after he had said privily to the latter, ‘O my son, when I am gone out, sit thou beside the dervish and sport with him and provoke him to dalliance. I will watch you from the window overlooking the saloon, and if he seek of thee lewdness, I will come down to him and slay him.’ So, as soon as Kemerezzeman was alone with the dervish, he sat down by him, and the latter began to look upon him and sigh and weep. Whenever the lad spoke to him, he answered him kindly, trembling the while and groaning and sobbing, and thus he did till the evening mealevening-meal [sic] was brought in, when he fell to eating, with his eyes on Kemerezzeman, but stinted not from weeping. When a fourth part of the night was past and talk was ended and the time of sleep come, Abdurrehman said to the lad, ‘O my son, apply thyself to the service of thine uncle the dervish and gainsay him not:not; [sic]’ and would have gone out; but the dervish said to him, ‘O my lord, carry thy son with thee or sleep with us.’ ‘Nay,’ answered the merchant; ‘my son shall lie with thee: peradventure thy soul may desire somewhat, and he will do thine occasion and wait upon thee.’ Then he went out and sat down in an adjoining room, wherein was a window giving upon the saloon.
As soon as he had left them, the lad came up to the dervish and began to provoke him and make advances to him, whereupon he waxed wroth and said, ‘What talk is this, O my son? I take refuge with God from Satan the Stoned! O my God, indeed this is an iniquity that pleaseth Thee not! Hold off from me, O my son!’ So saying, he arose and sat down at a distance; but the boy | WIKI |
Artificial Neural Networks/Recurrent Networks
Recurrent Networks
In a recurrent network, the weight matrix for each layer l contains input weights from all other neurons in the network, not just neurons from the previous layer. The additional complexity from these feedback paths can have a number of advantages and disadvantages in the network.
Simple Recurrent Networks
Recurrent networks, in contrast to feed-forward networks, do have feedback elements that enable signals from one layer to be fed back to a previous layer. A basic recurrent network is shown in figure 6. A simple recurrent network is one with three layers, an input, an output, and a hidden layer. A set of additional context units are added to the input layer that receive input from the hidden layer neurons. The feedback paths from the hidden layer to the context units have a fixed weight of unity.
A fully recurrent network is one where every neuron receives input from all other neurons in the system. Such networks cannot be easily arranged into layers. A small subset of neurons receives external input, and another small subset produce system output. A recurrent network is known as symmetrical network if:
* $$w_{ij} = w_{ji} \forall i, j$$
Elman Network
An Elman Network is a special case of a Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) with four layers: An input layer, an output layer, a hidden layer and a context layer. The context layer feeds the hidden layer at iteration N with a value computed from the output of the hidden layer at iteration N-1, providing a short memory effect. Elman networks are used, for example, for predicting series of values. | WIKI |
During the First World War, in January 1916, The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, was passed in the British House of Commons. In February, responding to an appeal from tramway managers, the Ministry of Munitions agreed to add the remaining tramcar drivers and inspectors to the Reserved Occupations list, so that services could be maintained.
Drivers and inspectors could not now be conscripted – but other male tramway staff could. The staff shortages could only get worse, and managers began once again to consider breaking with tradition – this time, by employing women to drive as well as conduct the tramcars.
Glasgow Corporation led the way. Already in January 1916 they had 30 women drivers and 1030 women conductors. Reports from their Manager showed that the women “had done their work remarkably well” and “had created a favourable impression.
“Practically all routes of the system were traversed by the motor women, who continue on duty daily.”
By March 1916, more tramways were training women as drivers.
Staff shortages, the cost of materials, and the difficulty of obtaining spare parts were the main problems faced by the country’s tramways at this stage of the war. So far services had been maintained – but managers knew there was no end to the War in sight, and matters were not going to improve in the foreseeable future. They faced a battle of their own – to keep the trams moving.
The basic uniform for conductresses was an ankle-length skirt and tunic jacket, with each tramway company introducing its own style variations.
The question of wages for women was much like the recruitment process – each tramway company seems to have been allowed to set its own rates. Some did pay women the same wages men received, but often they were paid less, even though they usually worked the same 10 hour shift as men. Despite such disparity, many women considered employment on the trams as an upward step from what they had previously known. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Leandro David (721719) | asked Feb 05 '13, 12:01 p.m.
Hi, I'm using RTC and I need to find a way to export all the files changed in one Stream after a specific date.
I can look at the history and see all the change sets by date but to list the files that are part of the change set I would need to open one by one.
Since I have hundreds of change sets, I don' t want to make it mannualy. Is there a way in RTC to list all the files changed by date ?
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Tim Mok (6.6k38) | answered Feb 05 '13, 4:39 p.m.
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Since RTC is change set based, you'll have to look at all the change sets to get the files. If you're looking at the history of a component, you can select all of the change sets and open them in Change Explorer (or Change Summary if you're on 4.0.1). This will show you a list of all the files and the view has a way to generate a text log of all the changes.
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Category:Central Missouri Mules and Jennies basketball
Basketball at the University of Central Missouri, formerly Central Missouri State University, that are not specific to the men's or women's program at the school. The men's team is called the Mules, while the women's team is the Jennies. | WIKI |
Review: Baryshnikov Explores the Troubled Mind of a Dance Genius
8 Photos View Slide Show › Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the great ballet dancers of the late 20th century, tries to evoke the violently disordered mind of Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the great ballet dancers of the early 20th century, in “Letter to a Man,” an opaque and frustrating work of dance theater being presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It takes just a glance at the visual aspects of the production — the vampire-white makeup on Mr. Baryshnikov’s face would probably suffice, actually — to clock his collaborator in this misguided enterprise: Robert Wilson, the theater auteur known for his chilly and glacially paced, if often hypnotically beautiful, work. Mr. Wilson is credited with the direction, set design and lighting concept, “with” Mr. Baryshnikov. I’ll say this, at least: Mr. Baryshnikov resists, for the most part, the studied, slow-motion movement that often characterizes Mr. Wilson’s work. There’s a jaunty spring in his step almost throughout the show, although at 68, and long since retired from his career as a classical dancer, he naturally makes no attempt to imitate, or even vaguely evoke, Nijinsky’s style, notably his famous jump, which was said to give the effect of utter weightlessness, as if he were pausing in midair. Instead, often clad in white tie and tails, he capers about more in the manner of Fred Astaire, although his macabre aspect — black eyebrows etched above his own, an eerie rictus spreading from ear to ear — recalls more the M.C. from “Cabaret” than anything else. In any case, “Letter to a Man” is not about Nijinsky the artist, but about Nijinsky the schizophrenic of his later years, from whose diaries the text, by Christian Dumais-Lvowski, is drawn. The script is a collage of confused thoughts that revolve around various themes: his hatred of his mother-in-law; his delusions of grandeur; his guilty thoughts about sex; his tortured past with the impresario Serge Diaghilev, who made him an international sensation with the Ballets Russes. The title comes from a letter Nijinsky addressed to Diaghilev with those words. We see Diaghilev only as a two-dimensional puppet gliding by at the back of the stage, as Mr. Baryshnikov is the sole performer here, although the body of a soldier from World War I — Nijinsky’s pacifism is a theme in the diaries — is splayed across the stage at one point. The text is almost all heard in voice-over. We hear Mr. Baryshnikov, speaking in Russian and English, but also Mr. Wilson and Lucinda Childs, who collaborated on the movement as well. (Is she meant to be Nijinsky’s wife, Romola, who edited the first published version of the diaries, heavily expurgated?) Supertitles appear above and on the sides of the stage, although they are generally not necessary, since the Russian and the English seem mostly to be the same repeated phrases. Mr. Baryshnikov is a captivating presence. We first glimpse him as Nijinsky in a silvery box of light, straitjacketed in a chair, but he is soon at loose across the stage, engaging in fleet-footed movement, or enacting a ghostly pas de deux with a chair (meaning what, exactly?), or merely doffing one of his black jackets with a spellbinding intricacy that holds the attention fast. Unfortunately, for all Mr. Baryshnikov’s efforts, “Letter to a Man” remains stubbornly obscure and theatrically lifeless, despite a wildly eclectic soundtrack that ranges from Arvo Pärt to Tom Waits to Bessie Smith. Obviously, the antic thoughts of a man in the grip of schizophrenia — even when they have, as they do on occasion, a certain arresting poetry — do not naturally make for a coherent text. You would have to be familiar with the progress of Nijinsky’s descent into madness to recognize the blood-red arcs and circles that loom on the screen at the back of the stage (the video design is by Tomek Jeziorski) as the eyes that Nijinsky obsessively began drawing as his mind started to break apart. For those unfamiliar with the diaries (as I mostly am), bewilderment and eventually boredom are likely to be the primary reactions to the show — even at a mere 70 minutes. Nijinsky’s art is largely lost to history. His dancing, of course, lives on in legend and in the occasional photograph, and only the choreography of “Afternoon of a Faun” — one of his three major ballets — survives. The diary is sadly the single most substantial record of his actual experience. Maybe that’s why Mr. Baryshnikov — after being asked, according to an interview, to portray Nijinsky more than a dozen times — decided that here, at least, might be found some authenticity. But I’m afraid “Letter to a Man” does more of a disservice to Nijinsky than it honors him. This information was last updated on Aug. 27, 2018 | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Okkar
* The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.
User:Okkar
* Suspected sockpuppeteer
* Suspected sockpuppets
* Report submission by: Chris 03:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* Evidence
User Okkar showed up yesterday (Friday, January 5, 2007) as a contentious single-article editor at Military of Myanmar, started to make unilateral deletions which I reverted, which led to a revert war. I stopped, because it's just not productive.
* Some how you seems to have convieniently forgotten to mention that you were found guilty against 3R rule and you were warned for abusing new comers and then you stopped, not because you thought was "not productive". Okkar 05:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Then he found our Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar, for which there had been no complaints in four months, and wants to change the page name. I said I would only support the move if the other Burman members of our project who had been there earlier would wish it. Hence the start of the flaming, and in short order User:Gadone showed up, and quickly changed names to MgMinGyiTharMgMyaPhay, and also accused me of "discriminating" against its country, which is the same argument Okkar used. This is an editor with no edits of articles, just piping in on a vote to skew the results. It's too similar and too quick to be anything but a sockpuppet. Chris 03:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* In the age of IRC and IM messaging, news travelled fast and quick, surely as an internet user, you would have known. That should not be the ground for the basis of your accusation. Neither you nor your supporter have contacted the said persons in questions, who are currently online and chatting on irc. Yet, you insist that these are not real people simply to suppress any dessent and objection against your rule on WikiProject Burma/Myanmar Okkar 06:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* Update-now there has been created Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar, sockpuppets N.Linn and Phothar showed up, again never having edited an article, but placed the bogus names at the RfM, minutes after Okkar had done so. These are clearly sockpuppets. Example from Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar enclosed below-
* 1) Agree. Okkar 06:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* 2) Agree. N.Linn 07:03, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* 3) Agree. Phothar 07:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* This is a pure lie. These people are the Myanmar Online users. You can contact them personally online at irc server on irc.myanmaronline.org. They have all joined to make their voice heard on the issues relating to their country. Myanmar internet users realised about discriminating and insulting comments regarding their country name was made by Chris when i put the topic of the discussion threat to #ygnchat (the main irc chatroom for myanmar internet users with over 300+ users daily from Myanmar). YOu can contact them indvidually on irc server at Myanmar Online, their nick names xcore, phothar and gadone. You can verify this yourself. This is a pure personal attack and trying to remove me from Wikipedia due to the fact that I am standing up and speaking up for my country. Okkar 01:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* I further supply the following evidence to revert this false report - please see the whois output of the users:
gadone is<EMAIL_ADDRESS>* gadone gadone is connecting from<EMAIL_ADDRESS><IP_ADDRESS> gadone is a registered nick gadone on ?!~#eckali @#dagon-1 !~#Dream-Prince &#ygnchat @#burmese !@#help @#admins ?!@#ops ?!@#services &#talk.myanmaronline.net !&#nitric ?!#zero ?!@#jungle !&#operhelp !&#helpdesk !@#radio !&#helpers ?!&#Friz_43v3r ?!&#oct-<30 gadone using irc.yadanarpone.net Yadanarpone gadone is a Network Administrator gadone is available for help. gadone End of /WHOIS list.
phothar is<EMAIL_ADDRESS>* phothar phothar is connecting from<EMAIL_ADDRESS><IP_ADDRESS> phothar is a registered nick phothar on @#talk.myanmaronline.net !@#jackass ?!@#services @#admins ?!@#ops !@#quiz @#burmese !~#clones !&#helpdesk @#hackers #ygnchat !~#taunggyi phothar using irc.innwa.net Innwa Communications IRC Server phothar is away: I am Offline Now, Leave the Message! phothar is a Network Administrator phothar End of /WHOIS list.
the other user xcore is currently not online.
Again, this report was made in order to silent our opposition to Chris discrimination of our country name. A mediation request has been lodged as you can see, and he is simply trying to remove us. Since he has been using Wikipedia a while, he is using all these complaints procedures to get the upper hand in the dispute. I hope some admin would take serious action on this kind of fake reports. Okkar 01:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* I have no problem with any new user who is civil, and does not unduly push their viewpoint. As per the matter of the mediation, I publically stated in the talk page that I will support the move if it is supported by the members of the project who were here before Okkar showed up. Chris 01:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* Please see the users posts and none of which contains any uncivil comments, nevertheless please do bear in mind we are talking about one's country here and people tend to take offence when discriminated (i.e. when being told that our country's name will only be recognised if US States Department recognise it). It is clear that this is simply a cheap attempt to silence the opposition in order to get the upperhand in particular dispute which was filed against him and his group. This kind of users who abuse wikipedia's policies and procedures to his own benefits should be investigated and banned. Okkar 01:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* It is interesting to note that both gadone and phothar, users on the MyanmarOnline chatroom come from the same locations. But they do have different IP addresses, and there is no way to prove whether those same users created the usernames on Wikipedia.--Hintha 02:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* Ever heard of BNC? they are using BNC on a shell server. Anyone who has any knowledge of IRC and Internet Chatting knows what BNC are. Again, you are trying to attempt to pull the wools over the eyes of the admins here. Have you even attempt to have conversations with these users? Please stop trying to silence the opposition with cheap trickery. Okkar 03:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
'''Wikipedia includes in their definition of Sockpuppet "to generate an appearance of consensus, or to vote more than once", and at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Forbidden_uses_of_sock_puppets says
"Voting and other shows of support" "Wikipedia uses a "one person, one vote" principle for all votes and similar discussions where individual preferences are counted in any fashion. Accordingly, sock puppets may not be used to give the impression of more support for a viewpoint. This includes voting multiple times in any election, or using more than one account in a discussion at polls and surveys, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, or on talk pages."
"In addition to double-voting, sock puppets should not be used for the purpose of deception, or to create the illusion of broader support for a position than actually exists."
Nobody is trying to silence any opposition, as stated multiple times a name change would be supported if the vote is clean. I stand by Wikipedia's definition of sockpuppets when it comes to bringing in ringers to skew a vote.''' Chris 13:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
* Whats not clean about Myanmar people voting for the name of their country? is it really that hard to accept that people simply does not share your views? Okkar 15:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
From the evidence, it is clear that if not sockpuppets, the accounts in question are at least meatpuppets. Convincing users to come to Wikipedia solely to influence a discussion or vote is not to be stood for. However, the accounts in question have not edited since the 7 January discussion, and did not contribute strongly to the issue. Because of this, they will not be blocked as of yet. However, if any of the canvassing continues, all offending users will face the possibility of being blocked. Take this as a lesson not to use others to influence discussions. For information purposes, from this edit, it is clear that was at one point. editing from. -- Nataly a 13:29, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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Arthur W. Woodson House
The Arthur W. Woodson House is a historic house at 1005 West Arch Avenue in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building, with a broad gabled roof across its main section. A cross-gabled porte-cochere extends to the right, supported by brick piers, and a hip-roofed porch extends across the front, with a projecting gabled section in front of the entrance, making for a picturesque and irregular roof line. The house was built in 1923, and is considered one of the city's finer examples of Craftsman architecture.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. | WIKI |
Research & Education
Modified Citrus Pectin and Alginates for Heavy Metal Detox
Heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium are naturally occurring elements. However, industries and manufacturers have generated increased levels in the environment, and this pollution has produced more exposure to humans. Acute poisoning causes significant health problems that could even lead to death. Chronic, low-grade exposure may likewise lead to health problems.
Accumulated heavy metals, whether singular or in combination, may cause excessive oxidative stress, inflammation, DNA damage, protein damage, changes to the pH of the cytoplasm, cellular dysfunction, and more damages to our bodies on a cellular level. This may elicit chronic symptoms and an increased risk of a variety of diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
Finding safe ways to detoxify heavy metals is important. There are many possible heavy metal chelators that bind the metals for excretion, but some also bind to essential minerals or cause gastrointestinal distress, reducing their benefits for long-term detoxification. Among the options for a milder chelator is modified citrus pectin, a fiber derived from the inner peel of citrus fruit, which is modified so that it can be absorbed into the bloodstream and increase its binding capacity.
In one small study, eight participants took 15 g of modified citrus pectin for 5 days and a 20 g dose on day 6 of the study. After just 24 hours, the urinary excretion of arsenic increased by 130% and cadmium by 230%, both reaching statistical significance. In addition, mercury excretion increased by 150% and lead excretion increased 560%, both at near statistical significance. Another study on children between the ages 5 and 12 years found that taking 15 g of modified citrus pectin divided into three doses per day led to an average 161% decrease of lead serum levels, with an average 132% increase in urinary excretion.
Alginates also work well as a potential heavy metal detoxifying agent by binding the heavy metals into an alginate biomass for excretion. Although both modified citrus pectin and alginates can work separately as chelators, some small studies point to their potentially increased efficacy as partners.
In one case study, a family of six took a supplement comprised of modified citrus pectin and sodium alginate at a dose of 2,250 mg twice daily for 6 weeks to reduce uranium levels. There was an increase of fecal excretion of uranium starting at day 6 and lasting through the 6-week period. Another case study report featuring five patients likewise found increased excretion of heavy metals from a combination of the two ingredients. Four of the patients received three capsules daily comprised of a blend of 300 mg modified citrus pectin and 450 mg alginates. The fifth patient took 15 g of modified citrus pectin. The average decrease for the six heavy metals measured was 74% over the 6-month period, and the writers of the report speculated that the combination of the two chelating agents allowed for similar effects at smaller doses.
There have yet to be extensive trials on the ability and safety of modified citrus pectin and alginates as chelators for heavy metal detox, but the case studies demonstrate a promising application. They have the potential to help increase excretion of toxic metals without otherwise negatively impacting one’s health.
By Kendra Whitmire, MS, CNS | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
A long, long time ago, in a phone company long since gone and resurrected, if Aunt Bee wanted to call Sheriff Andy, she picked up the phone, pressed the receiver a couple of times, the operator picked up, Bee said to connect her to Andy, and the operator shoved a jack into a hole to complete the circuit. For long distance calls, two or more operators and switchboards were involved. It left something to be desired, but it worked.
Fast forward a while, and Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn got the idea to automate it all with a packet-switched network. David Reed designed UDP, which helped eliminated the operators sitting at switchboard jack panels, but didn't guaranty delivery of the packet, and if the packets did arrive, there was no particular ordering to them. This fire-and-forget mechanism was fine for the sender. Not so much for the recipient.
Fast forward some more and they created TCP, which provided guaranteed delivery and reassembly of the logical message. This worked well for decades. Eventually, Time Berners-Lee built the internet on top of it all, and it still worked remarkably well.
At some point, people started building games to play on this wonderful web of worlds. Eventually, they realized that the games would be a lot more fun if players could share the field of battle and play with/against each other...
Stefan is a client engineer at a company that builds client-server real-time networking middleware for game development. They support more than 20 different platforms and 6 different programming languages. New features are implemented in the primary language and then ported to the other languages.
Since they are chronically short of developer manpower and there are at least two years worth of priority-one tasks in the queue, they often outsource any porting work of significant consequence and which doesn't require too much in the way of communicating requirements. The consulting companies hired to do the work are required to have programmers, each with about a decade of experience doing the relevant type of work and in the requisite language.
Typically, they gave the consulting company the code for the feature with instructions to make it work in the same way (e.g.: pass the same set of unit tests, but in the desired programming language).
The primary means of communication for the library is via UDP, and their implementation is extremely well tested and fairly bulletproof. An alternate mechanism that uses TCP was also available, but only offered for platforms that didn't support UDP. Finally, some customers wanted to run fly in the cloud and use services that didn't support UDP. Thus was born the need to port the client side TCP implementation to C++.
This task was outsourced to a company in a land recently liberated from an oppressive overlord. The consulting company assessed the work and provided a written estimate of time and cost.
After more than triple the time estimate had passed, Stefan had invested more than half of the amount of time it would have taken him to do it himself in helping the consultants. Since Stefan was already overloaded at that time, he didn't check every single line of the thousands of lines of code and tests that the consultants had produced.
Sadly, he subsequently wished that he had.
One of the test cases for handling a large UDP message would set up and validate that the correct thing happened when both sending and receiving a message that was beyond certain thresholds. Specifically, it would be broken down into smaller messages, transmitted, and reassembled on the receiving end. Since TCP is higher level than UDP and handles breaking up and reassembling messages automatically, this test case should succeed for TCP. That is, unless something has gone horribly wrong.
However, the first couple of lines in the test case for this scenario provided by the consultants were:
if (useTcp) {
return;
}
At first, Stefan thought that this had been added just to save a bit of time when running the test cases. Then the TCP implementation started spamming the logs in an endless loop, repeatedly spewing forth the same error codes. At this point, he decided to dive a bit deeper into the TCP implementation.
Unlike the original TCP implementation, the consultants decided to use the UDP code for handling fragmentation for TCP. When they realized that this wasn't working, they decided to fix it in a unique way. Rather than just porting the correct lines of code, they simply set a using-TCP flag and checked it whenever they dove into the UDP code being used to implement TCP, thus masking the problem instead of fixing it.
Stefan went in search of an assault rifle and a plane ticket...
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Vladimir Kanaykin
Vladimir Alekseevich Kanaykin (Владимир Алексеевич Канайкин; born 21 March 1985) is a Russian race walker.
Career
He won the 2002 World Junior Championships in the 10 km race, took the silver medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships and finished ninth in the 50 km race at the 2006 European Championships.
He competed at the 2005 World Championships, but was disqualified.
On 29 September 2007 Kanaykin set a new world record for the 20 km race walk at the 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, in Saransk, Russia. He walked a time of 1 hour, 17 minutes, 16 seconds to break the record previously held by three-time world champion Jefferson Pérez of Ecuador.
Kanaykin competed in the 20 km race at the London Olympics in 2012, but was disqualified.
Doping scandal
On 5 August 2008 Kanaykin and his training partners Sergey Morozov, Viktor Burayev, and Aleksey Voyevodin, who are all coached by Viktor Chegin, were banned from competing for two years by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after testing positive for EPO. The positive tests were conducted in April 2008 and evidenced doping. He took the silver in men's 20 km race walk in 1:20:27 at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu.
On 20 January 2015, Kanaykin was disqualified for life starting from 17 December 2012, and all his results between 25 January 2011 and 25 March 2011, as well as between 16 June 2011 and 27 September 2011 were annulled. On 25 March 2015 the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of the six athletes involved including Kanaykin. On 24 March 2016 the court ruled and disqualified all of Kanaykin's results from 11 February 2011 to 17 December 2012.
International competitions
* Kanaykin was originally seventh at the 2011 European Race Walking Cup, silver medallist at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, bronze medallist at the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, and gold medallist at the 2012 Summer Olympics. | WIKI |
Parents Using Their Heads: Improving the Morning Routine
You've make lunch for Lucy and remembered to grab Timmy’s tuba on the way out the door, but one thing you may not consider during the morning scramble is brain health.
Results show that diet, exercise and rest can help improve cognitive function. That’s why the California Innovations BrainFuel program is helping parents lay a strong foundation for their children’s education.
It features short articles that highlight recent brain research, the impact that sleep and fitness have on mental sharpness, quick tips for packing smarter lunches, and recipes for brain-healthy meals.
Here are a few tips to get you started:
Hit the kitchen- not the snooze button. Research shows that breakfast-eaters have higher school attendance, reduced tardiness, better behavior, and stronger test performance than breakfast-skippers.
Drop the pop. Loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, soda offers a lot of calories and no nutritional value. Stick with the basics: 100 percent juice, almond milk, or plain old water.
Go nuts! Skip the chips and cookie aisles and pick up some nuts instead (allergies aside, of course). Walnuts are high in Omega-3 and antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin B6.
Focus on fitness. Experts believe exercise fuels learning, but they’re not sure how. According to Dr. John J. Ratey, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, "Exercise itself doesn't make you smarter, but it puts the brain of the learners in the optimal position for them to learn." Studies show that exercise enables cells to sprout synapses, which are crucial to forming connections the brain needs in order to learn.
Get quality shut-eye. "Even minor changes in sleep... can impair a school kid's learning, memory, attention [and] concentration," says researcher Avi Sadeh, DSc, director of the Laboratory for Children's Sleep and Arousal Disorders at Tel Aviv University.
Taking time to implement these tips for your children may mean a big step up in their brain health and performance at school. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
How the shell with Docker executor is selected
I’m using shared runners on Gitlab.com page with a custom Docker image. It is based on Alpine which contains sh but also bash is installed in a later step.
How do I know, which shell the Docker executor is using for executing scripts from .gitlab-ci.yml file? Is that sh or bash?
This documentation (The Docker executor | GitLab) says that sh, bash and pwsh is supported. However if Docker image contains more of them, which has higher priority?
I would love to know this as well. I have a container which uses
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-l", "-c"]
and has bash installed, but still I cannot make it run using bash instead of sh.
I also set the shell option of the [[runners]] section to bash, to no avail.
I wasn’t able to find it in the documentation, but I have found that in the source code of Runner.
I wrote a post about it here: Shell conditions in Gitlab CI - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
And here is the script which is responsible for selecting the shell.
Thank you for that.
Using one of my images, which has ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-l", "-c"] and a working bash, I am still getting that GitLab executes scripts using sh:
image:
name:my_image
entrypoint: [ "/bin/bash", "-lc" ] # Just for good measure, force it
stages:
- test
job:
stage: test
script:
- '[ -x /bin/bash ] && echo BASH IS OK' # OK
- '[ -x /bin/sh ] && echo SH IS OK' # OK
- bash -c 'echo $0' # BASH
- echo $0 # SH: why?
I am sincerely lost.
This does not happen with the image my image is based on: debian:bookworm-slim, to which I actually only add a couple of things and set the environment.
I even manually ran:
docker run --rm -it --entrypoint "sh" my_image -c 'if [ -x /usr/local/bin/bash ]; then
echo exec /usr/local/bin/bash -l
elif [ -x /usr/bin/bash ]; then
echo exec /usr/bin/bash -l
elif [ -x /bin/bash ]; then
echo exec /bin/bash -l
elif [ -x /usr/local/bin/sh ]; then
echo exec /usr/local/bin/sh -l
elif [ -x /usr/bin/sh ]; then
echo exec /usr/bin/sh -l
elif [ -x /bin/sh ]; then
echo exec /bin/sh -l
elif [ -x /busybox/sh ]; then
echo exec /busybox/sh -l
else
echo shell not found
exit 1
fi'
and got exec /bin/bash -l in response! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Clinus woodi
Clinus woodi, the Oldman klipfish, is a species of clinid that occurs in subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean from Mozambique to South Africa where it can be found in tide pools with plentiful seaweed and in the subtidal zone. This species can reach a maximum length of 16 cm TL. The identity of the person honored in the specific name of the species was not given by J.L.B. Smith but it is thought to be his friend Alexander Thomas Wood (1872-1957) of Xora Mouth, South Africa which is the type locality for C. woodi. Wood provided specimens to Smith and had a cottage that Smith often used as a base for carrying out fieldwork. | WIKI |
Itivuttaka
The Itivuttaka (Pali for "as it was said") is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism and is attributed to Khujjuttara's recollection of Buddha's discourses. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya. It comprises 112 short teachings ascribed in the text to the Buddha, each consisting of a prose portion followed by a verse portion. The latter may be a paraphrase of the former, or complementary. Some scholars consider it one of the earliest of all Buddhist scriptures, while others consider it somewhat later. Latest translation by Samanera Mahinda has been published in 2018.
Translations
* Sayings of Buddha, tr J. H. Moore, Columbia University Press, 1908
* "As it was said", in Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon, volume II, tr F. L. Woodward, 1935, Pali Text Society, Bristol
* Tr John D. Ireland, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1991; later reprinted in 1 volume with his translation of the Udana.
* Tr Peter Masefield, 2000, Pali Text Society, Bristol; the PTS's preferred translation; its declared aim is to translate in accordance with the commentary's interpretation
* Tr Bhikkhu Mahinda (Anagarika Mahendra), Itivuttaka: Book of This Was Said, Bilingual Pali-English Second Edition 2022, Dhamma Publishers, Roslindale MA; ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>150. | WIKI |
Ramona Padio
Ramona Quintina Padio (born 13 March 1998) is a footballer from Papua New Guinea. She has played for the Papua New Guinea national team in the under-20, and senior levels. She was part of the Papua New Guinea squad for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
International Career
Padio was a member of the Papua New Guinea squad for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. the country's first FIFA tournament.
Padio made her international debut for Papua New Guinea Senior team in their 5–0 win against Samoa as part of the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup.
Padio was the top goal-scorer in the Pacific Games in Apia 2019 and Honiara 2023, scoring 9 and 11 goals respectively.
International goals
* Scores and results list Papua New Guinea's goal tally first. | WIKI |
Talk:Product Red/Archives/2013
History and development of the (RED) brand
Is it worth discussing the development of the brand and the backstory significance of the name (RED)? The first section jumps right into "The Global Fund," entirely skipping coverage of the initial development of this project. As stated in the Wolff Olins case study, the brand was built "with a unique architecture that unites participating businesses by literally embracing their logos to the power (RED)." [explanation as to why its written Product ^ (RED)] Thought that might be an interesting and valuable addition. http://www.wolffolins.com/work/red Sbl19 (talk) 15:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Media Campaign
Can we discuss the media campaign as well? I'm trying to track down the commercial/PSA that plays on MTV Hits.
What about the comments of Richey and Ponte? It is an academic review on the workings of RED, critical but very inspiring. Besides their book 'Brand Aid' there is also the paper http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/320_06%20richey.pdf. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
* Their critique can be summarized in three points:
* 1) the impact of aid celebrities on policymaking,
* 2) the legitimacy of consumers as citizens, and
* 3) the construction of Africans with AIDS as worthy recipients of profits generated from heroic shopping. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Price Differences
Why does the PRODUCT (RED) version of a DELL laptop (that includes a $50 donation to AIDS charities) cost $150 more than an identical, non-RED laptop? Where does the remaining $100 go? Jewpiterjones (talk) 19:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
The standard Dell XPS laptops come with Vista Home Premium as standard, whereas the Product Red versions come with Vista Ultimate. Vista Ultimate is a $150 upgrade, so actually, the Red and non-Red versions end up the same price. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Although is it worth mentioning that some of these products aren't even new, they already existed and were already coloured red before Product Red even began. I've has a Red XPS for ages, and it's identical to the Product Red one except for the default desktop wallpaper. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Timeline & Images
I added a couple dates. But think it can be edited to look a lot nicer.
info was also taken from: http://www.joinred.com/products.asp Knowsitallnot 07:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to come up with a timeline using information from here in my sandbox. I'm definitely new at this, but i think one can get the gyst of it.. if anybody would like to help, (perhaps the categorizing is a little off..., dates need to be added, code not good) i'd be welcome to any positive changes. Knowsitallnot 03:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
* I see that ed g2s has removed the images from the timeline... i can understand that as some of them are not allowed. But, I think it would be more thorough if they were included, so I have left the column in my sandbox, but i'll be looking for legal images, and encourage anyone to help and contribute them perhaps [User:Knowsitallnot/Sandbox_II|here]] and when we have enough they can be posted to the article page. Knowsitallnot 06:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
If you add an image, can you pls make sure its fair use or allowed by Wikipedia's guidelines & Image use policy (see also Fair image resources and fair use). Again, I hope to gather all the images in the timeline... so if any one has any they'd like to contribute pls hit me up with a little msg heretalk. Thanks! Knowsitallnot 07:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Was the iPod first?
Was the iPod the first Product Red product, or were there other things before it? (There are everything from Product Red wrist bands to Product Red pencils now.)
A: No, the iPod was not first. See the timeline section for details. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timtastic (talk • contribs) 17:08, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Clarification: (Brackets)? or no brackets? Caps on/off?
According to the websites and media releases: (PRODUCT) RED or (RED) is always in CAPITAL LETTERS.
* Also, if you are using the word "red" alone, to signify the brand, it should be writted: (RED)
* If you are saying "Product Red", it should be written: (PRODUCT) RED or (PRODUCT) RED.
When talking about the brand - according to the what official releases i have seen & read - these are incorrect:
* Product Red
* PRODUCT (RED)
* RED
* Product RED
Knowsitallnot 07:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
* These are correct:
* (RED)
* (PRODUCT) RED
* (PRODUCT) RED
* This is all well and good, but we use our own style guide which with regards to trademarks states:
* "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules even if the trademark owner encourages special treatment".
* ed g2s • talk 13:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
* okay. gotchya. Knowsitallnot 07:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Manual of style in timeline
Actually, as a clarification on style, for the Product Name heading in the timeline... can that be kept to the original style or name format that the products are called i.e. Gap (RED) or American Express RED ... just for Product Name and then, regular formatting thereafter? i.e. Gap Red, American Express Red... just so the actual product intended name is known? is this in keeping with the Manual of Style? Knowsitallnot 05:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
* I'd personally prefer that any oddly styled product names be presented here as directed by WP:MOS-TM, and the style issues can be mentioned in those products' respective articles (much as has been done with Product Red in the intro here).--chris.lawson 11:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Where did it come from?
UK, USA? Idunno who started it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 22:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC).
* Hmmm Specifically, I'd say Ireland, with Bono and his mates... but Product Red wants to be a worldwide affiar. I think thats covered now... But will check.. should be added in perhaps. Also, pls sign your name with ~ Knowsitallnot 23:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
* This info can be read on the website: http://www.joinred.com/red/factsheet.asp
* PRODUCT (RED) launced in March 2006 in the UK, and on October 13th in the US. Inspiredstuff 21:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
The brand was actually built by Wolff Olins, a key partner in this initiative. According to Bobby Schriver, "Wolff Olins took (RED) from an idea on a napkin to a tangible visceral vision that was game changing for our partners." Don't you think the agency, who worked pro-bono, deserves some recognition for the work? They were the active developers of the brand's idea, architecture, and visual identity. Sbl19 (talk) 21:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Improper page move
Why the F was this page just moved here? The Manual of Style is very clear on this point, and the page should not have been moved.--chris.lawson 23:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
* totally agree... i made that mistake before in editing the article... should keep in mind previous discussion in Talk:Product Red! So how do we get the page moved back? Knowsitallnot 05:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Criticism
There has been criticism of Product Red (including it being patronising and degrading) I think this should be noted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 12:59, 14 November 2006
There is a good video of Stephen Lewis and Avi Lewis (son of Stephen Lewis and the husband of Naomi Klein) criticizing the Product Red campaign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrTpiXdMTA
* You're quite welcome to add citations of reliable sources for this criticism.--chris.lawson 18:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
The video has been removed from you tube.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Has anybody mentioned the irony of companies well known for human rights abuses (gap,nike) making one product ethical to improve their brand image? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 10:02, 22 November 2006
* Well, most stores or celebrities do that with charities. it's more of an image thing sometimes. I also feel it should be noted. <IP_ADDRESS> 17:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
There should without a doubt be a criticism section. See unsigned 2 comments. If I can, I'll create a new one and find more reliable sources - as chris suggested.--Danielfolsom 04:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I can offer a couple of reliable sources for criticism (I don't want to edit myself as I've written a fairly strident critique myself and so am probably not a good source of NPOV on this topic):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/17/opinion/main2098633.shtml
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20061023.html
SeanLegassick 11:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I agree that there should be a citicism section. Some of the points made appear to be; 1. The reputation of some of the companies involved has suggested to some they are simply after some good PR. 2. The actual money going to a good cause appears to be undisclosed and rumour has it that it is in fact a tiny percentage or a voluntary donation with no actual obligation to give anything at all. This suggests that the corporations involved are making big profits under the guise of charity or a good cause and is therefore misleading people and possibly diverting money from actually charities (This would obviously require citations) 3. There is little information about where the money actually with the suggestion that it is actually used to buy drugs form major pharmacutical corporations.
It might be worth mentioning the reinspired alternative (http://reinspired.blogspot.com/) which was founded as an alternative and criticises product red thus 'Product (Red) implies that corporations, branding and consumption are a necessary part of involvement in a cause.' --Neon white 16:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Someone should mention that Gap, Apple, and Motorola have spent a total of 100 million dollars to promote product red, and so far product red has raised about 18 million dollars. They would have been better off just donating that 100 million to an aids charity. Read it in Time magazine.
* As can be read on the FAQ page (http://www.joinred.com/red/factsheet.asp) of PRODUCT (RED), US$36 million has been contributed to the Global Fund so far. Examples of where/how the money is being used on the same FAQ page: Swaziland and Rwanda, antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive individuals, HIV prevention programs, feeding and education of children orphaned by AIDS, and low-cost treatment to reduce risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child. The following page has a good review of the criticism: http://www.beyondphilanthropy.org/nc/red_gets_a_beating/. It deals with the criticism that too much has been invested in marketing with not enough money being raised. As stated from the early beginning when it was launched, PRODUCT (RED) is not charity, it is a business model, and like any business it needs to make large upfront investments. Not enough time has passed to determine the result. Inspiredstuff 22:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I think there needs to be some more flesh the the main body of the article that should include both sides of the argument. The criticism section is massive on its own and I think it would flow better in a main body as opposed to down at the bottom. Also, the "Critiques" section of links at the bottom should be written into the the notes and into the body of the article to help keep a NPOV. Drivec (talk) 23:39, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
iTunes gift cards
their are now iTunes gift cards for (RED). I would add it but I am pretty bad at writing.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=5CC18469&nclm=iTMSPhysicalCards (Scroll Down a bit) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
Reference request - weasel words
I always find it to be a good practice to use inline citations in "criticism" sections. I didn't see any applicable references for this section.
Additionally we are using 'critics say' - a blatent use of weasel words.
Chupper 05:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Criticism section removal
The criticism section currently has no references and is filled with weasel words. In my opinion it is also not prominent enough to be mentioned. It sounds more like a 'bash section' and a 'soapbox' than an encyclopedia section. Because I know I'm not always right, I'm moving it here if anyone should disagree. See also User:Chupper/Unwarranted criticism sections
Criticism of Product Red includes the commercialisation of charity, the amount of money that is actually donated (only 5% of the price of a Product Red-branded iPod Nano) and the fact that is regarded degrading donating a small amount of money to people in need while spending a much bigger amount on the luxury goods themselves. Additionally, some of the products are produced by companies which are known to violate worker's and human rights in third world countries like Nike, manufacturer of Converse-branded sneakers. Critics see this as a cynical proof that the interest of at least some of the participants is improving their brand image instead of helping in the fight against AIDS in Africa.
Furthermore, Product Red itself is a for-profit corporation, owned principally by Bono and Shriver that makes a profit on the Product (Red) branding that is not donated to charitable causes. Because of their status as a private for-profit corporation they are not required to disclose their financial information, thus Bono and Shriver have an ability to make personal profit from what many see as an act of charity.
Chupper 19:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
of course it needs rewording, alot of the criticisms are opinion based, though some is fact, like the undisclosed finances. --Neon white 17:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Chupper 19:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I've added some sources and less opinion based information. --Heran_Bago
Citations and product description
One of my problems with this page is that not all of the external links at the bottom of the page can be immediately accessed. The expensive campain nets meager...link leads to AdvertisingAge's webpage, and I'm not signing up just to get a chance to read the article. My second critisism is that the time line reads like a retail flyer. the item description area of the chart is to expansive. It's actaully hawking the items with vainglourious descriptions of the items. and lastly, can i spell check this sucker in the edit page?<IP_ADDRESS> 20:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Criticism section removed again
An anon recently edited the quote in the Criticism section. Since quotes are sacred, I figured I'd take a look at the ref to see if that was a helpful edit or not, but it turns out the YouTube video used as the sole source of the whole section is private.
I've placed the section here for the time being; if someone can cite reliable public sources for it, it's welcome in the article.
* According to Stephen Lewis, the Red campaign allows big corporations to create a product line, brand it Red and out of the money generated exclusively from the sale of that product line donate money to the Global Fund. In other words, the Red campaign benefits the corporations more than the cause it is supposed to serve. The campaign allows the participating corporations to associate with an issue that makes them look good in the public eye. In addition, it inflates the public image of the participation corporations which may or may not be socially responsible in the first place. In the words of Avi Lewis, "People really feel that they have done something about the AIDS pandemic by buying a damn iPod." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Clawson (talk • contribs) 22:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC).
Fair use rationale for Image:Productred.gif
Image:Productred.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
BetacommandBot 02:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Issue with using colored formatted text in the forst line of the article
It seems to me that the use of the brand formatted text in the first line doesnt jive with the encyclopedia as a whole, I think it should be removed SeamusHC (talk) 21:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
How did this blatant advertising end up on Wikipedia?
topic —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
* OK, so your point is...? [Jam] [talk] 18:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
* My point is that the entry is a fluff piece, and it falls far short of Wikipedia's standards. My opinion is that it should be wiped out and started over, but even if that's not done a major overhaul is neccesary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
* No it isn't, it's perfectly verified and balanced. There is nothing in the article that violates any policy, the only thing that might be better is the formatting of the timeline but the content is fine. In fact with a little expansion it might be a candidate for GA status. -- neon white user page talk 15:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Article Update
Hi - I'm from (RED). There are several notes and discussions surrounding the (RED) page and I'm here to help clean-up the entry, propose citations and provide up-to-date and accurate information so that the entry meets Wikipedia standards. I am not looking to make changes directly to the page, rather to give suggestions for editors to consider. The following intro information about (RED) is out of date. //CP112 (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC) I propose the following re-write from 'It is an initiative begun by U2 frontman Bono and Bobby Shriver of DATA to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria' to 'It was founded in 2006 by U2 frontman and activist Bono and Bobby Shriver of DATA/ONE to engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the recipient of (RED) monies.' (source: http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i3088c639a8acf60c03f3ed9695f3c96a )
* Motorola and Microsoft are no longer (RED) partners
* New partners are Nike (global) and Peguin Classics (in UK & International) are now partners.
* American Express is just a UK partnership
* Hallmark is just a US partnership
* We propose adding the date of when (RED) launched which is 2006 *DATA merged with the organisation ONE, and we propose referencing it as DATA/ONE
* (RED) appointed Susan Smith Ellis as CEO in June 2007 (source: http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6686832/Susan-Smith-Ellis-Appointed-as.html). Bobby Shriver is no longer CEO.
As the Global Fund is the only recipient of (RED) monies I propose adding in the following section about the organization after the introduction:
* Your requests are noted, but I also note they're dependent on PR, so I await agreement to make changes; also, your request does not appear to be just "Change THIS to THAT", so I cannot process it as a simple request to edit the page. I'll cancel out the "Request edit" for now, and see how the consensus/discussion forms below. Chzz ► 02:36, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
The Global Fund
Created in 2002, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria supports large-scale prevention, treatment and care programs for these three infectious diseases. (source: http://www.avert.org/global-fund.htm) Today, a quarter of all international funding for HIV/AIDS-related programs, over half for tuberculosis, and almost three-quarters for malaria worldwide comes from The Global Fund. The concept of "performance-based funding" is central to the organization and only those grant recipients who can demonstrate measurable and effective results from the monies received will be able to receive additional financing. (source: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/globalfund.aspx) 100% of the funds generated by (RED) partners and events goes to Global Fund programs that provide medical care and support services for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. No overhead is taken by either (RED) or the Global Fund. (RED) is the largest private sector donor to the Global Fund, and has generated over $150 million for HIV/AIDS programs in Africa. (http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/pressreleases/?pr=pr_100601)
Article Update
Hi - I'm from (RED). I'm here to help provide up-to-date and accurate information so that the entry meets Wikipedia standards. I am not looking to make changes directly to the page, rather to give suggestions for editors to consider.I propose adding the following section underneath the Global Fund section to discuss one of (RED)'s largest initiatives. //CP112 (talk) 14:27, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
The Lazarus Effect
The Lazarus Effect documentary debuted on May 24, 2010 on HBO, YouTube and Britain's Channel 4. It is directed by Lance Bangs, executive produced by Spike Jonze and presented by (RED), HBO, and Anonymous Content. The documentary follows HIV-positive people in Zambia and shows the transformation possible with access to lifesaving pills that cost around 40 cents a day. The film is also available via a free iPad app called "(RED): The Lazarus Effect," which contains the full length documentary, additional information about how antiretroviral drugs work and photos of the transformative effect that ARVs can have. In May 2010, (RED) launched a complimentary PSA campaign to promote the film.
The Lazarus Effect public service campaign features celebrities including Bono, Don Cheadle, Hugh Jackman, Penelope Cruz, Iman, Gwen Stefani, Gabourey Sidibe, and Common. Celebrity participation and the media placement for The Lazarus Effect campaign, was secured pro-bono.
The following section is proposed to show the tangible impact that (RED) funds have had in Africa. It neutrally states the number of recipients in each country:
(RED) Impact
(RED) was designed to provide a scalable and sustainable flow of funds to the Global Fund. By 2011, it had generated $170 million to support Global Fund financed AIDS grants. These grants have reached more than 7.5 million people in Ghana, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia.
Rwanda (RED) has provided antiretroviral therapy (ART) to more than 27,000 people living with HIV and reached over 34,000 HIV positive pregnant women with preventative ART to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
Lesotho (RED) has provided more than 45,000 people living with HIV with lifesaving ART and reached more than 16,000 HIV positive pregnant women with preventive ART to reduce mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
Article Update
(RED) would like to propose some modifications to the Guiding Principles section to keep them current. Please see proposed changes below. Would love any feedback to ensure conformity with wiki standards. Thanks Codydamon (talk) 14:40, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Guiding principles
Product Red states that its main principles are:
* To expand opportunities for the people in the continent of Africa.
* To respect its employees and ask its partners to do the same with their employees and the people who help make their products or deliver their services.
* To see the power of a community mobilized for hope, health and progress.
* To ask its partners to uphold the same principles.
* To transform the collective power of consumers into a financial force to help fight AIDS in Africa.
* To engage businesses to create a sustainable and scalable flow of private sector funding to the fight against AIDS in Africa.
* To ensure 100% of (RED) money goes to AIDS programs through the Global Fund, with no overhead taken.
* To promote awareness of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Article clean up
I've removed quite a few bits from the article for lacking secondary sources which are needed to show that information is relevant to be included. We need newspapers or books as references, not press releases from the charity itself. I've also removed poorly sourced criticism too. More work is needed on removing spammy content and making sure the criticism is fair. SmartSE (talk) 19:38, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Disputed Critique section
Can anyone tell me what the latest on the disputed Critique section at the end of the article is? I have not seen such a section before and I would like to understand what is required to remove the tag.--Soulparadox (talk) 15:09, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Criticism section
I would suggest the criticism section be added to the main body of the page. I understand the need to keep the information on the page. However, listing this as a separate section at the bottom of the page defeats the NPoV by drawing extra attention to it. The information would flow better if it was added to the end of the main body, before “The Global Fund” section. I also suggest to add the following: “ The theory behind (RED) was to embrace commercialism and consumption by leveraging brands to reach new audiences and build awareness of AIDS, TB and malaria epidemics in Africa.” I think this will provide a better idea of why the organization functions the way it does and balance out the criticism which is already provided to make it more neutral.
I am a new user and not affiliated with the organization. Melweave77 (talk) 18:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
CEO Information
I’m new to the talk page and editing Wikipedia but I would like to make a few suggestions to include in the first section of the article. First, I suggest changing the sentence “Susan Smith Ellis was appointed to the position of CEO in June 2007” to include that she replaced Bobby Shriver, who is now a chairman for the company. I found a new reference, since the link to Goliath News does not work.
Second, I would like to suggest including that Susan Smith Ellis has over 20 years of experience as an executive in advertising and brand development and has a passion to fight HIV/AIDS around the world. She has also introduced new ideas such as (RED)Wire and (RED)Nights, both of which fight AIDS thru music. She was appointed to the Board of Director’s for Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in September of 2010.
Third, it needs to be added that Deborah Dugan was appointed the new CEO of (Product) Red in September 2011 and is the current CEO of the company. Dugan has more than 16 years of “diverse and pioneering media experience.”
I think adding information about who the CEO is for (RED) is important because it helps us see who is running the company and it allows someone to do further research on them if they want to. Also this information would provide up-to-date facts about the company, which is very important on a Wikipedia page. Leweav01 (talk) 19:34, 21 July 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
HAVANA CLUB HOLDING, S.A., Havana Club International, S.A., Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, v. GALLEON S.A., Bacardi-Martini USA, Inc., Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees, Gallo Wine Distributors, Inc., G.W.D. Holdings Inc., Premier Wine and Spirits, Defendants-Appellees.
Docket No. 99-7582
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: Oct. 13, 1999
Decided: Feb. 4, 2000
Charles S. Sims, New York, N.Y. (Joshua J. Pollack, Jenifer Paine, Proskauer Rose LLP; Michael Krinsky, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.
William R. Golden, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Michelle M. Graham, Margaret Ferguson, Scott H. Mandel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.
(Mark Traphagen, Brett G. Kappel, David C. Quam, Marinn F. Carlson, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief for amicus curiae Organization for International Investment).
Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.
. The CACR authorizes both "general” licenses, see 31 C.F.R. § 515.317, which permit classes or categories of transactions with Cuban nationals, see, e.g., id. § 515.542(a) (common carriers of mail), and "specific” licenses, see id. § 515.318, which require individualized determinations and approvals by OFAC, see, e.g., id. § 515.521 (authorizing specific licenses to unblock shares of qualifying United States permanent residents in "U.S.-located assets” of Cuban corporations).
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal, raising issues concerning the Cuban embargo, arises from a dispute between two rum producers over the rights to the “Havana Club” trademark and trade name. Havana Club Holding, S.A. (“HCH”) and Havana Club International, S.A. (“HCI”) appeal from the June 28, 1999, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shira A. Scheindlin, District Judge), dismissing trademark, trade name, and false advertising claims against Defendants-Appellees Bacardi & Company Ltd. and Bacardi-Martini USA, Inc. We conclude that the Cuban embargo barred assignment to HCH of the “Havana Club” trademark registered in the United States, that we are precluded by statute from enforcing whatever rights HCI might have to trade name protection undér the General Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Protection, and that HCI lacks standing to assert its false advertising and unfair competition claims under the Lanham Act. We therefore affirm.
Background
Plaintiff-Appellant HCI is a joint stock company organized under the laws of Cuba, with its domicile and principal place of business in Cuba. Plaintiff-Appellant HCH, a Luxembourg corporation, owns the “Havana Club” trademark in certain countries outside the United States. Defendant-Appellee Bacardi & Company is a corporation organized in Liechtenstein and headquartered in the Bahamas, and Defendant-Appellee Bacardi-Martini USA is a Delaware corporation (collectively “Bacardi”). Defendant Galleon S.A. has merged into Bacardi & Company.
Before the Cuban revolution, Jose Are-chabala, S.A. (“JASA”), a Cuban corporation owned principally by members of the Arechabala family, produced “Havana Club” rum and owned the trademark “Havana Club” for úse with its rum. JASA exported its rum to the United States until 1960, when the Cuban government, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, seized and expropriated JASA’s assets. Neither JASA nor its owners ever received compensation for the seized assets from the Cuban government.
The Cuban embargo. In 1963, the United States imposed an embargo on Cuba, reflected in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (“CACR”), as amended, 31 C.F.R. §§ 515.101-515.901 (1999), promulgated pursuant to section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended, 12 U.S.C. § 95a (“TWEA”). In 1996, Congress enacted the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act (“LIBERTAD Act”), Pub.L. No. 104-114, 110 Stat. 785 (1996), which, among other things, codified the regulations implementing the Cuban embargo, see 22 U.S.C. § 6032(h). The Secretary of the Treasury has the authority to administer the Cuban embargo, which he has delegated to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), see 31 C.F.R. § 515.802.
The trademarks and their assignment. From 1972 to 1993, Empresa Cubana Ex-portadora De Aimentos y Productos Var-ios (“Cubaexport”), a Cuban state enterprise, exclusively exported “Havana Club” rum, primarily to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Cubaexport registered the “Havana Club” trademark with Cuban authorities in 1974 under Registration No. 110,353, and with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) in 1976 under Registration No. 1,031,651. In 1993, Cubaexport sought to reorganize and find a foreign partner for its “Havana Club” rum business. Havana Rum & Liquors, S.A. (“HR & L”), a newly formed Cuban company, entered into a joint venture agreement with Pernod Ricard, S.A. (“Pernod”), a French company distributing liquor internationally. Under a November 1993 agreement between Pernod and HR & L, HCI and HCH were formed. In an agreement dated January 10, 1994, Cu-baexport assigned trademark Registration No. 1,031,651, the United States registration for the “Havana Club” trademark, to HR & L, and in a subsequent agreement dated June 22,1994, HR & L assigned this trademark to HCH. In 1996, HCH renewed the United States registration of the “Havana Club” mark for a term of ten years.
In April 1997, Bacardi & Co. purchased the Arechabala family’s rights (if any) to the “Havana Club” trademark, the related goodwill of the business, and any rum business assets still owned by the Arechabala family.
OFAC’s actions concerning the assignments. After an October 5, 1995, application to OFAC for a “specific” license authorizing the 1994 assignments of the “Havana Club” trademark from Cubaex-port to HR & L, and from HR & L to HCH, OFAC, on November 13, 1995, issued to Cubaexport License No. C-18147, which approved the two assignments and authorized all necessary transactions incident to the assignments of the mark.
However, on April 17, 1997, after the instant lawsuit was filed in the District Court, OFAC issued a Notice of Revocation, revoking License No. C-18147. The revocation notice stated:
You are notified that, as a result of facts and circumstances that have come to the attention of this Office which were not included in the application of October 5, 1995, License No. C-18147 ... is hereby revoked retroactive to the date of issuance. The determination to revoke License No. C-18147 is made pursuant to § 515.805 of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515. Any action taken under this specific license from the date of issuance until now is null and void as to matters under the jurisdiction of the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
The parties’ sales of rum. Since 1994, HCI has exported rum under the “Havana Club” trademark under an exclusive license to that mark from HCH. From 1994 to 1998, HCI sold over 38 million bottles of “Havana Club” rum, with approximately 30 percent of the sales in Cuba — including sales to Americans traveling in Cuba — and the remainder exported principally to Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia and Panama. Under travel regulations imposed by OFAC, the class of travelers permitted to visit Cuba may reenter the United States with up to $100 in Cuban-origin goods for personal use. Havana Club rum and cigars are the most popular items brought back.
Because of the Cuban embargo, however, HCI’s “Havana Club” rum has never been sold in the United States. HCI intends to export its rum to the United States as soon as legally possible. HCI anticipates using its current marketing strategy of emphasizing the quality and character of its rum based primarily upon its Cuban origin. The label on HCI’s “Havana Club” rum portrays the city of Havana and contains the phrase “El Ron de Cuba” (“The Rum of Cuba”). HCI’s advertising also stresses the product’s Cuban origin.
Beginning in 1995, Baeardi-Martini’s predecessor-in-interest, Galleon S.A., produced rum in the Bahamas bearing the “Havana Club” name, and distributed sixteen cases of this rum in the United States. From May 1996 to August 1996, Bacardi distributed an additional 906 cases of “Havana Club” rum in the- United States.
The pending lawsuit. In December 1996, HCH and HCI filed the instant action to enjoin Bacardi from using the “Havana Club” trademark, alleging violations of sections 32 and 43(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946 (“Lanham Act”), as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114,1125(a). Among Bacardi’s defenses was a claim that OFAC’s specific license to HCH, authorizing the assignments of the U.S. trademark, was invalid because HCH obtained the mark by fraud. In March 1997, the District Court ruled that Bacardi lacked standing to challenge OFAC’s specific license to HCH and that OFAC’s decision to grant the specific license was unreviewable. See Havana Club Holding, S.A. v. Galleon, S.A., 961 F.Supp. 498 (S.D.N.Y.1997) (“Havana Club I ”).
In August 1997, the District Court ruled that HCH had no rights to the “Havana Club” trademark because the specific license to assign the mark to HCH had been nullified by OFAC’s revocation of the specific license and because the CACR’s general license authority under 31 C.F.R. § 515.527(a) did not authorize the assignment. See Havana Club Holding, S.A. v. Galleon, S.A., 974 F.Supp. 302, 306-07 (S.D.N.Y.1997) ("Havana Club II”). After rejecting the Appellants’ claim of rights to the “Havana Club” mark, the Court granted the Appellants’ motion to amend their Complaint to assert rights to the “Havana Club” trade name under sections 44(g) & 44(h) of the Lanham Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 1126(g), (h), and Chapter III of the General Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Protection, Feb. 20, 1929, 46 Stat. 2907, 2926-30 (“IAC”). Both Cuba and the United States are signatories to the IAC. See IAC, 46 Stat. at 2907. The District Court subsequently dismissed several counter claims. See Havana Club Holding, S.A. v. Galleon, S.A, No. 96 CIV. 9655(SAS), 1998 WL 150983 (S.D.N.Y. Mar.31, 1998) (“Havana Club III ”).
During the bench trial, the District Court ruled that HCH, a Luxembourg corporation, could not claim rights to trade name protection under the IAC because Luxembourg was not a party to the IAC. See Havana Club Holding, S.A. v. Galleon, S.A., 62 F.Supp.2d 1085, 1089 (S.D.N.Y.1999) (“Havana Club IV”). After trial, the District Court ruled that it was prohibited from enforcing HCI’s trade name rights under the IAC by section 211(b) of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, Pub.L. No. 105-277, § 211(b), 112 Stat. 2681, 2681-88 (1998) (“Omnibus Act”), which Congress enacted on October 21, 1998. See Havana Club IV, 62 F.Supp.2d at 1091-95.
The District Court also ruled that HCI lacked standing to assert its claim under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act. HCI had alleged that Bacardi’s use of the mark “Havana Club” and its label — which features a sketch of Malecón, a seafront boulevard in Havana — falsely designated Cuba as the place of origin of Bacardi’s rum, when in fact Bacardi produced it in the Bahamas. The District Court held that HCI had no standing to pursue this claim, because the Cuban embargo prevented HCI from selling its rum in the United States, and thereby from suffering commercial injury because of Bacardi’s actions. The District Court added, “Any competitive injury plaintiffs will suffer based upon their intent to enter the U.S. market once the embargo is lifted is simply too remote and uncertain to provide them with standing.” Havana Club IV, 62 F.Supp.2d at 1099. An amended judgment was entered on June 28,1999.
Discussion
I. Trademark
HCH contends that Bacardi infringed its rights to the “Havana Club” trademark registered in the United States. The basic issue on the trademark claim is whether HCH has any rights to the mark. Although HCH purported to acquire rights by assignments from Cubaexport to HR & L and from HR & L to HCH, HCH recognizes that to have enforceable rights in the United States, it must find authority for the assignment somewhere in United States law, because in the absence of such authority, the Cuban embargo renders null and void the transfer of trademark registrations in which a Cuban national or entity has an interest.
As authority for the assignments, HCH’s Complaint in this litigation initially invoked the “specific” license issued by OF AC in November 1995, which “licensed” the assignments. However, after OFAC revoked the specific license in 1997, HCH has relied on the “general” licensing authority in 31 C.F.R. § 515.527. Section 515.527(a) states:
Transactions related to the registration and renewal in the United States Patent and Trademark Office ... in which ... a Cuban national has an interest are authorized.
31 C.F.R. § 515.527(a)(1) (emphasis added). This provision was added in 1995, more than a year after HCH became the assignee of the “Havana Club” trademark. See Certain Transactions With Respect To United States Intellectual Property, 60 Fed.Reg. 54,194, 54,196 (1995). HCH contends that, even though OFAC revoked the specific license to assign the “Havana Club” trademark, the assignments remain valid under the general authorization of section 515.527(a)(1) as transactions “related to” the registration and renewal of a trademark. HCH also contends that if section 515.527(a)(1) is not construed to authorize the assignments, HCH will be denied treaty rights protected by the I AC. We disagree with both arguments.
(a) Whether the CACR prohibit the assignments. Before considering the meaning of section 515.527(a)(1), we encounter an express prohibition against HCH’s claim set forth earlier in Subpart E of Part 515, which contains section 515.527(a)(1). Section 515.502(a) provides:
No ... authorization contained in this part ... shall be deemed to authorize or validate any transaction effected prior to the issuance thereof, unless such ... authorization specifically so provides.
31 C.F.R. § 515.502(a) (emphasis added). The assignments for which HCH claims to find authorization in section 515.527 were “effected” in 1994, prior to the issuance of section 515.527 in 1995, see 60 Fed.Reg. at 54,196 (effective Oct. 17, 1995), and section 515.527(a)(1) does.not “specifically so provide[]” for authorization of transactions that occurred prior to its issuance. Therefore, whether or not section 515.527(a)(1) might be interpreted to authorize assignments occurring after its effective date, this provision cannot authorize the 1994 assignments of the “Havana Club” trademark to HCH.
Even if section 515.502(a) were not an obstacle, we would not accept HCH’s argument that section 515.527(a)(1) -should be interpreted to authorize the 1994 assignments as transactions “related to” a trademark renewal. Although phrases like “related to” are properly given a broad meaning in some statutes and regulations, see, e.g., Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., 463 U.S. 85, 96-97, 103 S.Ct. 2890, 77 L.Ed.2d 490 (1983) (determining that a state law “relates to” employee benefit plans for purposes of ERISA preemption under 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a)), the context in which the phrase is used illuminates its meaning. In Shaw, the ERISA context and the congressional purpose to achieve broad preemption warranted a broad reading of the phrase. By Contrast, the context here precludes a broad reading. Section 515.527(a)(1) creates an exception to the broad prohibitions of the Cuban embargo. If every assignment of a trademark, for which the registration was subsequently renewed, were considered a transaction “related to” trademark renewal, the exception created by section 515.527(a)(1) would swallow much of the general rule of the Cuban embargo prohibiting transfers of trademarks.
Even if the text of section 515.527(a)(1) arguably applied to the assignments at issue, OFAC, the agency that promulgated the provision and that administers the Cuban embargo, interprets section 515.527 not to authorize assignments. R. Richard Newcomb, Director of OFAC, stated in a 1996 letter to Appellee’s counsel that section 515.527
allows only for the registration and renewal of intellectual property; § 515.527 does not convey to the registrant the authority to assign the registrant’s interest in a patent, trademark, or copyright registered in the United States to another person. Such an assignment would require authorization by OFAC in the form of a specific license.... In the absence of OFAC authorization, the assignment of rights to the U.S.-registered trademark would be null and void.
Under this interpretation, only Cubaex-port, the original registrant of the United States registration for the “Havana Club” trademark, has the authority to renew the “Havana Club” trademark, and a specific license is required in order to assign it.
Article 11 of the IAC. HCH contends that failure to recognize its rights as as-signee of the United States registration for the “Havana Club” trademark would nullify rights guaranteed by Article 11 of the IAC. Article 11 provides:
The transfer of the ownership of a registered or deposited mark in the country of its original registration shall be effective and shall be recognized in the other Contracting States, provided that reliable proof be furnished that such transfer has been executed and registered in accordance with the internal law of the State in which such transfer took place. Such transfer shall be recorded in accordance with the legislation of the country in which it is to be effective.
46 Stat. at 2922-24. Since the “Havana Club” mark registered in the United States was originally registered in Cuba and was transferred in accordance with Cuban law, Article 11 purports to assure that the transfer to HCH will be recognized in the United States. The disputed issue is whether the Cuban embargo has abrogated the rights that Section 11 of the IAC would otherwise protect.
A “treaty will not be deemed to have been abrogated or modified by a later statute unless such purpose on the part of Congress has been clearly expressed.” Cook v. United States, 288 U.S. 102, 120, 53 S.Ct. 305, 77 L.Ed. 641 (1933) (emphasis added); see Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Franklin Mint Corp., 466 U.S. 243, 252, 104 S.Ct. 1776, 80 L.Ed.2d 273 (1984); Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U.S. 536, 539-40, 5 S.Ct. 255, 28 L.Ed. 770 (1884). Although neither the CACR nor the LIBERTAD Act refers expressly to the IAC, the question of abrogation does not turn on whether the IAC has been expressly identified for abrogation. Congress is not required to investigate the array of international agreements that arguably provide some protection that it wishes to annul and then assemble a check-list reciting each one. What is required is a clear expression by Congress of a purpose to override protection that a treaty would otherwise provide.
With respect to the Cuban embargo, the purpose of Congress could not be more clear. Congress wished to prevent any Cuban national or entity from attracting hard currency into Cuba by selling, assigning, or otherwise transferring rights subject to United States jurisdiction. The CACR make this clear, and the LIBER-TAD Act, by codifying the CACR, provides unmistakable evidence of congressional purpose. We must therefore accord primacy to the prohibition of the CACR that bars a Cuban national or entity from transferring a United States trademark.
HCH contends that since the “related to” phrase of section 515.527(a)(1) could be interpreted to authorize the assignments at issue, the interpretation favoring HCH should be adopted in order to avoid a conflict with section 11 of the IAC. We disagree. First, that argument fails to reckon with the absolute prohibition of section' 515.502(a), which prevents section 515.527(a)(1) from validating assignments that were made before the issuance of the latter provision. Second, wholly apart from section 515.502(a), section 515.527(a)(1) cannot be interpreted as HCH contends without substantially undermining the CACR’s general prohibitions, as applied to United States trademarks. Thus, we would reject HCH’s interpretation even if we did not have the benefit of OFAC’s interpretation. Third, even if the interpretation of section 515.527(a)(1) were fairly debatable, the interpretation of the provision given by the agency charged with enforcing the embargo is normally controlling. See Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452, 461, 117 S.Ct. 905, 137 L.Ed.2d 79 (1997) (agency interpretation of its own regulation is “controlling unless plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation”) (internal quotation marks omitted); cf. Paradissiotis v. Rubin, 171 F.3d 983, 987 (5th Cir.1999) (noting that OFAC’s application of its own regulations deserves greater deference than under Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984)); Consarc Corp. v. Iraqi Ministry, 27 F.3d 695, 702 (D.C.Cir.1994) (same). Whether or not deference to an administrative agency’s interpretation of its own provisions would override treaty provisions in other contexts, we have no doubt that Congress, whose purpose we are ultimately obliged to follow on this issue, expects that OFAC’s restrictive interpretation of section 515.527(a)(1) will override any conflicting treaty protection.
Moreover, in 1996, after OFAC promulgated 'section 515.527, Congress clearly expressed its intent to prohibit transfers of property, including intellectual property, confiscated by the Cuban government by enacting the LIBERTAD Act. Finding that the Castro government was “offering foreign investors the opportunity to purchase an equity interest in, manage, or enter into joint ventures” involving confiscated property in order to obtain “badly needed financial benefit, including hard currency, oil, and productive investment and expertise,” 22 U.S.C. § 6081(5), (6), Congress established a civil remedy, for any United States national owning a claim to “property” confiscated by the Cuban government after January 1, 1959, against “any person” who “traffics” in such property, id. § 6082(a)(1)(A), and broadly defined “property” specifically to include “trademarks,” id. § 6023(12)(A). By doing so, Congress intended “to create a ‘chilling effect’ that will deny the current Cuban regime venture capital, discourage third-country nationals from seeking to profit from illegally confiscated property, and help preserve such property until such time as the rightful owners can successfully assert their claim,” H. Rep. No. 104-202, at 25 (1996), re-printed in 1996 U.S.C.C.A.N. 527, 530 (emphasis added). In other words, Congress sought to discourage business arrangements like Cu-baexport’s joint venture with Pernod, the venture that led to both the creation of HCH and the assignments of a trademark confiscated by the Castro regime from JASA.
By invoking the 1996 LIBERTAD Act as evidence of Congress’s purpose to prohibit the assignments we do not retroactively apply that Act to prohibit the assignments in this case. The 1994 assignments ■ are unauthorized because OFAC revoked the specific license for them and the alleged source of a general licensing authority for them is unavailing. The LIBERTAD Act is simply evidence of congressional purpose that the result we reach should prevail over any contrary arguments, including those based on the IAC.
In the same vein, we note that Congress has recently explicitly spoken to restrict the scope of section 515.527. Section 211(a)(1) of the Omnibus Act provides:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no transaction or payment shall be authorized or approved pursuant to section 515.527 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 9, 1998, with respect to a mark, trade name, or commercial name that is the same as or substantially similar to a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated unless the original owner of the mark, trade name, or commercial name, or the bona fide successor-in-interest has expressly consented.
112 Stat. at 2681-88. Section 515.527 has been amended to include this restriction. See 31 C.F.R. § 515.527(a)(2).
As with the LIBERTAD Act, we cite section 211(a)(1), not to apply its terms to invalidate the 1994 assignments (an arguably retroactive application), but only to indicate that interpreting section 515.527(a)(1) not to authorize the assignments fully vindicates Congress’s purpose not to permit assignment of confiscated trademarks without the consent of the original owner. See West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey, 499 U.S. 88, 100, 111 S.Ct. 1138, 113 L.Ed.2d 68 (1991) (“Where a statutory term presented to us for the first time is ambiguous, we construe it to contain that permissible meaning which fits most logically and comfortably into the body of both previously and subsequently enacted law.”) (emphasis added).
For all of these reasons, HCH has no enforceable rights to the “Havana Club” trademark.
II. Trade Name Protection Under the Inter-American Convention
HCI contends that Bacardi infringed its rights under the IAC to protection of the “Havana Club” trade name. The IAC provides that any manufacturer “domiciled or established” in a signatory country that uses a particular trade name or commercial name may enjoin the use of that name in another signatory country that is “identical with or deceptively similar to” its trade name. IAC, art. 18, 46 Stat. at 2928-30. A trade or commercial name need not be a registered to be protected. See IAC, art. 14, 46 Stat. at 2926.
Rights to trade names and commercial names arising under treaties may be asserted under section 44(b) of the Lanham Act, which provides:
Any person whose country of origin is a party to any convention or treaty relating to trademarks, trade or commercial names, or the repression of unfair competition, to which the United States is also a party ... shall be entitled to the benefits of this section under the conditions expressed herein to the extent necessary to give effect to any provision of such convention, treaty or reciprocal law....
15 U.S.C. § 1126(b). Section 44(g) of the Lanham Act adds, “Trade names or commercial names of persons described in subsection (b) of this section shall be protected without the obligation of filing or registration whether or not they form parts of marks.” Id. § 1126(g). The terms “trade name” and “commercial name” are defined as “any name used by a person to identify his or her business or vocation.” Id. § 1127.
On October 21, 1998, before the bench trial in this case, Congress passed section 211 of the Omnibus Act, which provides in pertinent part:
(b) No U.S. court shall recognize, enforce or otherwise validate any assertion of treaty rights by a designated national or its successor-in-interest under sections 44(b) or (e) of the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1126(b) or (e)) for a mark, trade name, or commercial name that is the same as or substantially similar to a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated unless the original owner of such mark, trade name, or commercial name, or the bona fide successor-in-interest has expressly consented.
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
(d) In this section:
(1) The term “designated national” has the meaning given such term in section 515.305 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 9, 1998, and includes a national of any foreign country who is a successor-in-interest to a designated national.
(2) The term “confiscated” has the meaning given such term in section 515.336 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 9, 1998.
112 Stat. at 2681-88.
Section 211(b) applies in this case. This Court is a “U.S. court” Under section 211(b). HCI is a “designated national” under section 211(b) because HCI is organized under the laws of Cuba, is domiciled in Cuba, and has its principal place of business in Cuba. See 31 C.F.R. § 515.305 (defining “designated national” to mean “Cuba and any national thereof including any person who is a specially designated national”).
Applying section 211(b), the District Court ruled that it precluded HCI’s assertion of treaty rights under sections 44(b) or (e) of' the Lanham Act and thereby precluded HCI’s claims under the IAC. HCI disputes this ruling on several grounds. HCI first argues that it does not need sections 44(b) and (e) of the Lanham Act to assert its rights under the IAC because upon ratification, the IAC became law in the United States without the aid of additional legislation. See Bacardi Corp. of America v. Domenech, 311 U.S. 150, 161, 61 S.Ct. 219, 85 L.Ed. 98 (1940). This argument presumes that when Congress enacted section 44(b) of the Lanham Act, it intended to incorporate into law only those treaties that were not self-executing at the time.
The original text of section 44(b) and the legislative history, however, suggest otherwise. When enacted in 1946, section 44(b) of the Lanham Act specifically incorporated the treaty rights of
[plersons who are nationals of, domiciled in, or have a bona fide and effective business or commercial establishment in any foreign country, which is a party to (1) the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ... or (2) the General Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Protection ... or (3) any other convention or treaty relating to trade-marks, trade or commercial names, or the repression of unfair competition to which the United States is a party....
Trademark Act of 1946, ch. 540, § 44(b), 60 Stat. 427, 442 (emphasis added). Although the- Supreme Court had already ruled the IAC to be self-executing, see Bacardi Corp., 311 U.S. at 161, 61 S.Ct. 219, Congress specifically referred to the IAC in section 44(b) because Congress simply was not sure whether the trademark treaties had acquired the force of law. The Senate Report explained:
These conventions have been ratified, but it is a question whether they are self-executing, and whether they do not need to be implemented by appropriate legislation.
Industrialists in this country have been seriously handicapped in securing protection in foreign countries due to our failure to carry out, by statute, our international obligations.
S. Rep. No. 79-1333 (1946), reprinted in 1946 U.S. Code & Cong. Serv. 1274, 1276. Accordingly, Congress intended the Lan-ham Act “[t]o carry out by statute our international commitments to the end that American traders in foreign countries may secure the protection to their marks to which they are entitled.” Id. (emphasis added). Indeed, referring specifically to “inter-American conventions,” Congress aimed to eliminate “these sources of friction with our Latin-Ameriean friends” and “facilitate mutual trade in this hemisphere” by ensuring the protection of their trademark rights in the United States. Id. Therefore, HCI must assert its rights under the IAC pursuant to section 44(b) of the Lanham Act.
Second, HCI argues that, because HCI’s rights to the “Havana Club” trade name existed before Congress enacted section 211(b), the District Court improperly applied section 211(b) retroactively. To determine whether section 211(b) may apply retroactively, we would normally first inquire “whether Congress has expressly prescribed the statute’s proper reach.” Landgraf v. USI Film Products, 511 U.S. 244, 280, 114 S.Ct. 1483, 128 L.Ed.2d 229 (1994). Since section 211 does not clearly indicate that it should be applied retroactively, the traditional presumption against retroactivity would likely apply. See id.
In this case, however, we can apply section 211(b) to bar relief on HCI’s trade name claim because when an “intervening statute authorizes or affects the propriety of prospective relief, application of the new provision is not retroactive.” Id. at 273, 114 S.Ct. 1483 (emphasis added); see American Steel Foundries v. TriCity Central Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 201, 42 S.Ct. 72, 66 L.Ed. 189 (1921) (applying Clayton Act to injunction entered before its enactment because “relief by injunction operates in futuro and the right to it must be determined as of the time of the hearing”); Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Peering, 254 U.S. 443, 464, 41 S.Ct. 172, 65 L.Ed. 349 (1921) (same); Salute v. Stratford Greens Garden Apartments, 136 F.3d 293, 298 n. 2 (2d Cir.1998) (“When an intervening repeal of a 'statute affects the propriety of prospective relief, a court should apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision.”). Because HCI seeks only injunctive relief, this Court can properly apply section 211(b).
Third, HCI argues that section 211(b) does not apply when the trade name at issue has been abandoned. Section 211(b) precludes enforcement of rights under section 44(b) for a trade name “that was used in connection with a business or assets that' were confiscated unless the original owner of such mark, trade name, or commercial name, or the bona fide successor-in-interest has expressly consented.” 112 Stat. at 2681-88. By “confiscated,” section 211(b) refers to the nationalization, expropriation, or other seizure of property by the Cuban Government on or after January 1, 1959. See 31 C.F.R. § 515.336. It is undisputed that JASA used the “Havana Club” name until the Cuban government expropriated the business in 1960 and has not expressly consented to HCI’s use of the “Havana Club” name.
Nevertheless,' HCI argues that JASA had abandoned its rights to the “Havana Club” trade name long before HCI started to use the-name (as “Havana Club International”) in 1994.. Despite the lack of an explicit abandonment defense, HCI urges this Court to construe section 211(b) to include an abandonment exception because (1) interpreting section 211(b) otherwise would abrogate the IAC, and (2) abandonment, as a defense that arises out of common law, must not be presumed to be abrogated by section 211(b) absent express indication of Congress’s intent to do so. However, we will, not create an abandon•ment exception to section 211(b). Section -211(b) requires only that a trade name “was used” in connection with a confiscated business or asset, not that -the trade name continues to be used. See United States v. Wilson, 503 U.S. 329, 333, 112 S.Ct. 1351, 117 L.Ed.2d 593 (1992) (“Congress’ .use of a verb tense is significant in construing statutes.”). Moreover, Congress knows how to enact an abandonment defense; it has already provided conditions under which any trademark, service mark, collective mark, or certification mark shall be deemed abandoned. See 15 U.S.C. § 1127. It is not likely that Congress wished to disadvantage a company that understandably ceased to use its trade name after the confiscation of its business.
Fourth, HCI argues that it should be allowed to prove that the “Havana Club” trade name was never confiscated. Section 211(d)(2), incorporating by reference 31 C.F.R. § 515.336, defines “confiscated,” in pertinent part, as property, nationalized, expropriated, or otherwise seized by the Cuban government on or after January 1, 1959, “[without the property having been returned or adequate and effective compensation provided,” § 515.336(a)(1). See 112 Stat. at 2681-88. The District Court found that “all of JASA’s assets were taken and that it received no compensation.” Havana Club Holding IV, 62 F.Supp.2d at 1095 n. 8.
HCI argues that it had no opportunity to conduct discovery to determine whether JASA had a positive net value at the time of expropriation, because Congress did not enact section 211 until well into the proceedings, and because the District Court implicitly denied its motion to conduct discovery on the matter by applying section 211.
We disagree with HCI’s premise that no compensation is “adequate and effective” compensation under section 515.336(a)(1) where the confiscated business allegedly had no positive net value at the time of expropriation. The embargo’s definition of confiscated property contemplates only three ways in which property expropriated by Cuba can avoid becoming classified as “confiscated.” Cuba can either return the property, provide “adequate and effective compensation,” or settle the property claim pursuant to an international claims settlement agreement or other mutually accepted settlement procedure. See 31 C.F.R. § 515.336(a). Where Cuba has not returned JASA’s property, not made even a gesture toward compensation, and not settled the claim, the confiscation inquiry ends.
III. False Advertising
HCI disputes the District Court’s finding that it does not have standing to assert its “false advertising” claim. Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act provides:
Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or de vice, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which—
(A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with an other person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person ... shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is likely to be damaged by such act.
15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1). To establish standing under section 43(a), the plaintiff must
demonstrate a “reasonable interest to be protected” against the advertiser’s false or misleading claims, and a “reasonable basis” for believing that this interest is likely to be damaged by the false or misleading advertising. The “reasonable basis” prong embodies a requirement that the plaintiff show both likely injury and a causal nexus to the false advertising.
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Cosprophar, Inc., 32 F.3d 690, 694 (2d Cir.1994) (citations omitted). “Although a section 43 plaintiff need not be a direct competitor, it is apparent that, at a minimum, standing to bring a section 43 claim requires the potential for a commercial or competitive injury.” Berni v. International Gourmet Restaurants of America, Inc., 838 F.2d 642, 648 (2d Cir.1988) (citations omitted); see, e.g., National Lampoon, Inc. v. American Broadcasting Cos., 376 F.Supp. 733, 746-47 (S.D.N.Y.) (publisher of National Lampoon magazine has standing to sue television network’s use of part of its name on two television programs, in part because plaintiff “has begun production of programs for closed-circuit television and is negotiating for production of a special program” to sell to one of the television networks), aff'd, 497 F.2d 1343 (2d Cir.1974).
This Court reviews de novo the District Court’s determination of standing. See Devlin v. Transportation Communications International Union, 175 F.3d 121, 131 (2d Cir.1999). Contrary to the case law on standing under section 43(a), HCI first argues that to obtain standing, it must demonstrate only that Bacardi has falsely indicated the origin of its “Havana Club” rum as Havana, when in fact Bacardi produced its rum in the Bahamas. HCI points to the original language of section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, which provided:
Any person who shall affix, apply, or annex, or use in connection with any goods or services, or any container or containers for goods, a false designation of origin ... shall be liable to a civil action by any person doing business in the locality falsely indicated as that of origin or in the region in which said locality is situated, or by any person who believes that he is or is likely to be damaged by the use of any such false description or representation.
60 Stat. at 441 (emphasis added). HCI argues that, by using the disjunctive “or,” Congress contemplated that a plaintiff could sue under section 43(a) if it did business in the locality falsely designated as the origin of a particular good, regardless of whether that plaintiff was likely to be damaged by the false representation. Although Congress amended section 43(a) in 1988, the Senate Report stated that standing “should continue to be decided on a case-by-case basis, and that the amendments ... made to the legislation with respect to [this issue] should not be regarded as either limiting or extending applicable decisional law.” S. Rep. No. 100-515, at 41 (1988), reprinted in 1988 U.S.C.C.A.N. 5577, 5604. Therefore, HCI argues, it has standing under the current version of section 43(a), because HCI does business “in the locality falsely indicated as that of origin” by Bacardi, namely, Havana.
We disagree. The Senate Report indicates that Congress intended not to alter the then “applicable decisional law” under section 43(a). Although numerous cases prior to 1988 recognized that standing under section 43(a) required demonstrable proof that a plaintiff would be likely to suffer damage as a result of false advertising, see, e.g., Johnson & Johnson v. Carter-Wallace, Inc., 631 F.2d 186, 190 (2d Cir.1980) (“[T]he likelihood of injury and causation will not be presumed, but must be demonstrated.”), we have found no case decided before 1988 that recognized standing under section 43(a) based on HCI’s interpretation of the pre-1988 version of section 43(a). Since no such case existed, Congress cannot be deemed to have left unaltered, and by implication recognized, HCI’s theory of standing when it amended section 43(a) in 1988. The parties in the cases relied upon by HCI could have demonstrated likelihood of injury because they competed with each other in the same geographic area. See Black Hills Jewelry Manufacturing Co. v. Gold Rush, Inc., 633 F.2d 746, 748 (8th Cir.1980) (the Dakotas); Scotch Whiskey Association v. Barton Distilling Co., 489 F.2d 809, 811 (7th Cir.1973) (Panama, including Canal Zone).
Second, to establish the likelihood of commercial injury for the purposes of standing, HCI argues that Bacardi’s use of the “Havana Club” name will adversely affect HCI’s current and future sales of its rum to U.S. visitors to Cuba. The fact that HCI sells to Americans traveling in Cuba, however, does not necessarily demonstrate the likelihood that the distribution of Bacardi’s “Havana Club” rum in the United States will hurt HCI sales to those persons in Cuba. Although HCI presented consumer surveys that reported that “33% of Americans think that it is legal to sell rum from Cuba in the United States and 9% do not know whether it is legal or illegal,” the District Court noted that “it is intuitively doubtful that these findingfs] would apply to U.S. travelers authorized to visit Cuba.” Havana Club Holding IV, 62 F.Supp.2d at 1100 n. 11. We will not disturb this finding on appeal. A district court has broad discretion concerning the weight of particular evidence, including consumer surveys such as those proffered here, see Schering v. Pfizer, Inc., 189 F.3d 218, 230 (2d Cir.1999); Grotrian, Helfferich, Schulz, Th. Steinweg Nachf. v. Steinway & Sons, 523 F.2d 1331, 1341 (2d Cir.1975), and its findings of fact are reviewed for clear error. In this case, the plaintiffs’ consumer surveys drew their sample from across the United States, without attempting to control for any likelihood that the participants would travel to Cuba. Under such circumstances, the District Court’s finding that these surveys did not show consumer confusion among the relevant class of travelers was not clearly erroneous.
HCI further argues that this Court must presume harm because Bacardi intentionally copied the “Havana Club” label, citing Paddington Corp. v. Attiki Importers & Distributors, Inc., 996 F.2d 577, 586-87 (2d Cir.1993) (“Where a second-comer acts in bad faith and intentionally copies a trademark or trade dress, a presumption arises that the copier has succeeded in causing confusion.”). However, Padding-ton and the other cases HCI cites are inapposite because they involve trademark claims, not false advertising claims.
Third, HCI argues that the District Court erred in finding HCI’s ability to enter the U.S. market to be too remote at this point to confer standing. Although this Court has conferred standing for section 43(a) claims based on a showing of potential commercial injury, not all potential commercial injuries are sufficient to confer standing. See, e.g., PDK Labs, Inc. v. Friedlander, 103 F.3d 1105, 1112 (2d Cir.1997) (hopes of holder of patent for weight loss method, who had marketed his product only to potential investors, to obtain FDA approval and then sell product to public too remote to confer standing to challenge defendant’s advertising).
HCI characterizes its injuries as (1) the “lost ability to use the HAVANA CLUB name in the U.S. through Bacardi’s accumulation of rights-by-use,” (2) “loss of the key selling points in the U.S. of being the single source of both HAVANA CLUB rum and Cuban-origin rum,” and (3) “damaged reputation of Cuban-origin rum,” or more generally, “the imminent loss of their prime selling advantage.” Brief for Appellants at 25. Even if HCI competes with Bacardi in markets elsewhere in the world, standing requires that HCI demonstrate at least potential commercial injury in the United States, because Bacardi sells “Havana Club” rum only in the United States. Because HCI’s rum does not now compete with Bacardi’s rum in the United States, HCI’s alleged injury amounts to the present diminution in the speculative value of its sales of Cuban-origin rum in the United States market once the United States government removes the obstacle of the Cuban embargo.
That obstacle is formidable. The LI-BERTAD Act not only codified the economic embargo of Cuba, see 22 U.S.C. § 6032(h), and strengthened its measures, see id. §§ 6033-6046, but also authorized the President to take steps to suspend the embargo only after determining that a “transition government in Cuba is in power,” id. § 6064(a), and authorized the President to take steps to terminate the embargo only after determining that “a democratically elected government in Cuba is in power,” id. § 6064(c). At this time, the President has not determined that a “transition government,” let alone a “democratically elected” government, exists in Cuba.
HCI points to recent efforts in Congress to pass legislation to lift portions of the Cuban embargo. However, by conferring standing to HCI based on its own prediction of Congress’s actions, this Court would expand its authority well beyond any zone of twilight that might exist between legislative and judicial authority.
HCI also seeks to support standing by relying on G.H. Mumm Champagne v. Eastern Wine Corp., 142 F.2d 499 (2d Cir.1944), and section 10(g) of the TWEA. Its arguments are unavailing. Mumm is a pre-Lanham Act action to enjoin trademark infringement and unfair competition, not a false advertising action, and its facts are readily distinguishable from those in this case. In Mumm, a French company had registered the trademarks at issue and had contracted with a Delaware company in 1938, prior to World War II, to sell only the French company’s champagne. See id. at 500. After upholding the Delaware company’s entitlement to an injunction, the Court considered “the rather barren question” whether to uphold its right to obtain an injunction on behalf of the French company, “barren, because one injunction is as good as two.” Id. at 502. Despite the lack of significance of an injunction on behalf of the French company, we affirmed it because the infringement risked lost sales in the United States by the Delaware company, which might have resulted in lost profits by the French company “provided sales lost by the Delaware company resulted in sales lost by it to that company.” Id. In the pending case, however, unlike the French company in Mumm, HCI has no United States partner selling its product in the United States, and therefore no loss of profits derived indirectly from lost sales in the United States will occur.
Nor does section 10(g) itself aid HCI. Section 10(g) provides that “[a]ny enemy, or ally of enemy, may institute and prosecute suits in equity ... to enjoin infringement of letters patent, trade-mark, print, label, and copyrights in the United States owned or controlled by said enemy or ally of enemy, in the same manner and to the extent that he would be entitled so to do if the United States was not at war.” 50 U.S.C. app. § 10(g). HCI does not contend that it may sue under section 10(g); in the absence of a state of war with Cuba, HCI is not an “enemy.” Never-tbeless, it argues that if its section 43(a) claim is rejected for lack of standing, then section 10(g) could not be used by those plaintiffs within the section’s coverage. The argument does not help HCI.
In the first place, section 10(g) would not apply to a false designation of origin claim under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act. A plaintiff need not “own[] or control ]” a registered trademark to bring a section 43(a) action. Any rum producer selling its product in the United States can obtain standing to complain about Bacardi’s allegedly false designation of origin as long as it can demonstrate the commercial injury required for an action under section 43(a).
Secondly, to the extent that HCI analogizes false designation claims to trademark infringement claims, section 10(g) provides no escape from traditional standing requirements. Section 10(g) permits a covered plaintiff to institute an infringement action “to the extent that he would be entitled so to do if the United States was not at war.” Thus, a section 10(g) plaintiff would have to demonstrate the competitive injury necessary to establish standing for an infringement action in the absence of a wartime embargo. Although an embargo might make it more difficult for such a plaintiff to show such injury, a company in an embargoed country still might, in some circumstances, suffer sufficient risk of competitive harm, due to a defendant’s infringement, to obtain an injunction. See Mumm, 142 F.2d at 502. In such circumstances, section 10(g) would allow the plaintiff to go forward with its action. However, where, as here, the plaintiff cannot establish injury for a false designation claim, comparison to section 10(g) affords it no refuge from traditional standing requirements.
IV. Unfair Competition
Finally, HCI argues that it has standing to sue under section 44(h) of the Lanham Act for unfair competition. Section 44(h) provides
Any person designated in subsection (b) of this section as entitled to the benefits and subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to effective protection against unfair competition, and the remedies provided in this chapter for infringement of marks shall be available so far as they may be appropriate in repressing acts of unfair competition.
15 U.S.C. § 1126(h). Rights under Section 44(h) are co-extensive with treaty rights under section 44(b), including treaty rights “relating to ... the repression of unfair competition.” Id. § 1126(b). See Toho Co. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 645 F.2d 788, 792 (9th Cir.1981) (“The grant in subsection (h) of effective protection against unfair competition is tailored to the provisions of the unfair competition treaties by subsection (b), which extends the benefits of section 44 only to the extent necessary to give effect to the treaties.”); American Auto. Ass’n v. Spiegel, 205 F.2d 771, 774 (2d Cir.1953) (“Since [section 44(h) ] is limited to ‘person designated in subsection (b)’, we look to that subsection to learn its scope.”).
HCI essentially argues that it must demonstrate less to obtain standing to assert its section 44(h) claim than is required for its section 43(a) claim. Article 21(c) of the IAC defines an act of “unfair competition” to include “[t]he use of false indications of geographical origin or source of goods, by words, symbols, or other means which tend in that respect to deceive the public in the country in which these acts occur.” 46 Stat. at 2932. We note, however, that article 21 of the IAC authorizes the prohibition of its specified acts of unfair competition “unless otherwise effectively dealt with under the domestic laws of the Contracting States,” Id. HCI’s section 44(h) claim amounts to little more than the re-assertion of its section 43(a) claim because article 21(c) of the IAC prohibits a subset of the conduct already effectively prohibited under American law by section 43(a). We therefore conclude as a matter of law that HCI has failed to state a viable claim under section 44(h).
Conclusion
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.
. Although acknowledging that the nullification of the assignment caused the rights in the mark to revert to Cubaexport, the assignor, the District Court did not cancel the United States registration for "Havana Club” because Cubaexport was not a party to the litigation. See id. at 311-12.
. Unless authorized, the Cuban embargo prohibits, with respect to property in which a Cuban national or entity has an interest, (1) "[a]ll dealings in, including, without limitation, transfers ... of, any property ... or evidences of ownership of property by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”; (2) "[a]ll transfers outside the United States with regard to any property or property interest subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”; and (3) "[a]ny transaction for the purpose or which has the effect of evading or avoiding any of the prohibitions” above. 31 C.F.R. § 515.201(b), (c).
These prohibitions apply where a Cuban national or entity has an interest of "any nature whatsoever, direct or indirect,” in the property transferred. Id. § 515.312. The embargo defines "property” to include trademarks, see id. § 515.311, and specifically defines "transfer” to include "the making, execution, or delivery of any assignment,” id. § 515.310. Any transfer of property in violation of the Cuban embargo "is null and void and shall not be the basis for the assertion or recognition of any interest in or right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to such property.” Id. § 515.203(a).
. The Appellants’ initial brief in this Court implies some reliance on the special license by asserting that "cancellation of HCH's interest in the Registration” violates treaty rights under the IAC, see Brief for Appellants at 55, suggesting that the cancellation, if unlawful, leaves the special license in force. We consider the IAC issue below. However, the reply brief unequivocally asserts, "The core issue is whether the CACR general license covers the transfer....” Reply Brief for Appellants at 26.
. The CACR constitute Part 515 of Chapter V (Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury) in Subtitle B of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
. If HCH were to meet the obstacle of section 515.502(a) by obtaining assignments of the “Havana Club” trademark from Cubaexport now (after issuance of section 515.527(a)(1)), it would encounter the further obstacle of section 211(a)(1) of the Omnibus Act, discussed below, which, without any issue as to retroactivity, would prohibit future assignments of confiscated trademarks without the consent of the original owner.
. The Appellants inform us that HCH and HR & L have applied to OFAC for a second specific license, following revocation of the first specific license. See Reply Brief for Appellants at 31.
. We need not determine whether JASA abandoned the "Havana Club” mark by not renewing that mark with the USPTO after the United States imposed the Cuban embargo. We note, however, that in 1962, two years after Cuba expropriated JASA’s assets, Congress amended the Lanham Act to allow applications for renewing registered trademarks to show that "any nonuse” of. the mark "is due to special circumstances which excuse such nonuse and it is not due to any intention to abandon the mark.” Act of Oct. 9, 1962, Pub.L. No. 87-772, § 5, 76 Stat. 769, 770.
. Although a statute could be prospectively applied to bar an injunctive remedy with respect to a previously acquired property, it would arguably encounter retroactivity objections if applied, of its own force, to invalidate a prior acquisition. See generally Landgraf v. USI Film Products, 511 U.S. 244, 114 S.Ct. 1483, 128 L.Ed.2d 229 (1994).
. Congress may "amend substantive law in an appropriations statute, as long as it does so clearly.” Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Society, 503 U.S. 429, 440, 112 S.Ct. 1407, 118 L.Ed.2d 73 (1992). The Appellants argue that this Court must presume that Congress intended section 211(b) to expire at the end of the 1999 fiscal year because it did not clearly indicate its intent to permanently amend the law. We disagree. If Congress had intended section 211 to expire at the end of the fiscal year, section 211(c), which directs the Secretary of Treasury to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out its provisions, would have been superfluous.
. It is unclear whether "U.S. court” in section 211(b) means only a federal court or any court in the United States that would otherwise have concurrent jurisdiction over Lanham Act claims, such as a state court, see Berlitz Schools of Languages of America, Inc. v. Everest House, 619 F.2d 211, 216 (2d Cir.1980). The term "U.S. court” closely resembles the term "court of the United. States,” which Congress has used to distinguish federal courts from other forums, especially in statutes that expressly identify both federal and state courts. See, e.g., 22 U.S.C. § 2459(a) ("no court of the United States, any State, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States” may deprive a cultural or educational institution of any work of art' of other object imported into the United States for exhibition if determined by the President to, have cultural significance). Because the Cuban embargo significantly implicates United States foreign policy, however, it is unlikely that Congress intended to preclude the ability of plaintiffs to assert in federal court rights derived from property confiscated by Cuba, but preserve their ability to do so in state court. Because this Court is clearly a "U.S. court,” we need not decide whether section 211(b) also precludes HCI from asserting its claims under the IAC in state court.
. In 1962, Congress amended section 44(b) to exclude the references to the two specific treaties, see § 20, 76 Stat. at 774, presumably in an effort to ‘'revis[e] the language to a more understandable form,” S. Rep. No. 87-2107 (1962), reprinted in 1962 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2844, 2851.
. Cf. Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. T. Eaton Co., 234 F.2d 633, 641 (2d Cir.1956)(noting that in trademark dispute involving sales of allegedly infringing goods in Canada, the only rights plaintiff could assert under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property "other than through § 44 of the Lan-ham Act ... are derived from ... Canadian law, and not from the fact that the International Convention may be a self-executing treaty which is a part of the law of this country”)(emphasis added).
. The Act defines "a transition government” in Cuba as one that has, among other things, legalized all political activity, released all political prisoners, publicly committed to organizing and timely implementing "free and fair elections,” ceased interference with Radio Marti or Television Marti broadcasts, has publicly committed to and demonstrated progress in establishing an independent judiciary and allowing for the establishment of independent trade unions and independent social, economic, and political associations, and "does not include Fidel Castro or Raul Castro.” 22 U.S.C. § 6065(a).
. In the contract, the French company agreed that it alone would protect and enforce its trademark rights in the United States. See id. at 502. Soon thereafter, as the district court in Mumm explained, France was "occupied by the armed forces of the German Reich.... Because of conditions due to the existing war, the [Delaware company] is, and has been, unable to communicate with the [French company].” G.H. Mumm Champagne v. Eastern Wine Corp., 52 F.Supp. 167, 169-70 (S.D.N.Y.1943). Observing that the war had made “impossible the performance of that promise” by the French company to protect its marks, we construed the contract to authorize the Delaware company, under those circumstances, to seek to enjoin trademark infringement on the French company's behalf. Mumm, 142 F.2d at 502." Although we referred to sections 10(g) and (h) of the TWEA, 50 U.S.C. app. § 10(g), (h), we did so only to note that the TWEA did not preclude the Delaware company’s limited authority under the contract to seek to enjoin trademark infringement on the French company’s behalf. See Mumm, 142 F.2d at 503.
. Whether the possibility of lost profits by the French company might have resulted from loss of an increase in its account with the Delaware company as the latter depleted its stock of pre-war imported champagne, or from some other arrangement is not indicated in the Court's opinion.
.Section 10(g) applies to ”[a]ny enemy[] or ally of enemy.” When Congress enacted the TWEA, six months after the United States entered World War I, see Act of Oct. 6, 1917, ch. 106, 40 Stat. 411, “enemy” was defined to include any resident or corporation of, or any foreign resident or corporation doing business in, any nation “with which the United States is at war,” § 2, 40 Slat, at 411. In 1933, Congress amended section 5(b) of the TWEA to authorize the President to act under section 5(b) “[d]uring time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President," Act of Mar. 9, 1933, ch. 1, sec. 2, § 5(b), 48 Stat. 1, 1 (emphasis added). In 1977, Congress removed the President’s authority to act under section 5(b) in a declared national emergency, see Act of Dec. 28, 1977, Pub.L. No. 95-223, § 101(a), 91 Stat. 1625, 1625, but still permitted the President to continue to exercise the authorities conferred under section 5(b) “which were being exercised with respect to a country on July 1, 1977, as a result of a national emergency declared by the President before such date,” § 101(b), 91 Stat. at 1625. This grandfather clause preserved the President’s authority to maintain the Cuban embargo under section 5(b). See Regan v. Wald, 468 U.S. 222, 232, 104 S.Ct. 3026, 82 L.Ed.2d 171 (1984). In contrast, Congress has never amended section 10(g) to authorize actions by persons or entities other than ”[a]ny enemy, or ally of enemy.”
. If the unfair competition claim were viable, it would not encounter the obstacle of section 211(b) of the Omnibus Act, which does not expressly preclude a court from enforcing treaty rights under section 44(b) relating to the repression of unfair competition.
. HCI also argues that it has an independent basis for standing under article 23 of the IAC. See 46 Stat. at 2934 ("Repression of False Indications of Geographical Origin or Source”). HCI cannot rely on this provision in asserting its section 44(h) claim, however, because the IAC does not treat rights under article 23 as rights related to the repression of unfair competition. Because HCI never properly pled a cause of action invoking article 23 of the IAC, we decline to consider such a claim.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Use of courtesy titles and honorifics in professional writing
The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:15, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Use of courtesy titles and honorifics in professional writing
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It was asserted at Vfd back in 2005 that this article was "a bit of propaganda" against the use of honorifics on Wikipedia. I don't know if that's true, but it does explain how something like this would come to be. I think this fails WP:GNG and is fundamentally unencyclopedic in that it's not a subject discussed by reliable sources. The citation scheme here is rather hodgepodge, but it seems to all be primary sources explaining individual publications' practices. The article would need references beyond journalistic how-tos and style guides, and I just don't see that ever being the case. I couldn't find any such sources, though it's not a particularly easy search. --BDD (talk) 21:03, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 21:05, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
* Delete - Not an encyclopedic topic. Essentially a research essay comparing the house style of this paper to that to the other. Carrite (talk) 04:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
* I would take issue with "not an encyclopedic topic". This is the kind of topic that traditional print encyclopedias thrive on. I think you mean "not a Wikipedic topic", which is a very different thing that depends on the blinkered vision of an encyclopedia that has taken hold here. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:22, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
* Phil, if you can prove that, the article might be worth keeping. I'm skeptical though. Does Britannica, for example, really have an entry that essentially just samples style guides to discuss the use of such titles in professional writing? If they're referring to good reliable sources, maybe the article can be saved. --BDD (talk) 22:14, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
* Comment - In the event that this mess is kept, there are greenlinks aplenty in the body which need to go away or be moved to External Links. This thing is virtually unsourced as it sits... Carrite (talk) 04:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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* Delete per WP:HOWTO, unless you can give me good reasons otherwise. Bearian (talk) 18:05, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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John Malcolm (footballer)
John Moore Malcolm (20 May 1917 – 14 January 2009) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a wing half in the Football League for Accrington Stanley and Tranmere Rovers. | WIKI |
U.S. Silica (SLCA) Q3 Loss Lower Than Expected, Sales Trail
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc.SLCA logged a net loss of $11.3 million or 17 cents per share in third-quarter 2016. The company had posted a profit of $2.4 million or 4 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. The results in the reported quarter were unfavorably impacted by business development-related expenses.
Barring one-time items, U.S. Silica's loss came in at 13 cents per share in the quarter, narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 19 cents.
Revenues slipped 11% year over year to $137.7 million in the reported quarter. Sales fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $138 million. Overall sales volume fell 5% year over year in the quarter to 2.5 million tons.
U.S. Silica's shares closed around 1.9% higher at $43.73 last Friday.
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Segment Analysis
Revenues for the Oil & Gas division were $86.8 million in the reported quarter, down 15% year over year. Overall sales volume was flat year over year at 1.6 million tons.
Revenues for the Industrial and Specialty Products division were $51 million, down 5% year over year. Overall sales volume declined 13% in the quarter to roughly 0.9 million tons.
Financials
U.S. Silica had $264.1 million in cash and cash equivalents at the end of the quarter, up roughly 4% year over year. Long-term debt was $499.9 million, up around 2% year over year.
Capital expenditures for the quarter was $9.4 million, mostly related to the company's investments in various maintenance, expansion and cost improvement projects.
Outlook
Owing to lack of visibility in the Oil and Gas business, U.S. Silica said that it will not provide any guidance for adjusted EBITDA until it gets a clear picture of business activity levels and related demand for its products. Factoring in the current market conditions, the company expects its capital expenditures for 2016 to be in the band of $42-$47 million.
U.S. Silica currently holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Other Stocks to Consider
Other well-placed companies in the basic materials space include Innophos Holdings Inc IPHS , Koppers Holdings Inc. KOP and Celanese Corporation CE .
Innophos sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). The company has an expected earnings growth of 51.4% for the current year.
Koppers has an expected earnings growth of around 62.3% for the current year. The stock carries a Zacks Rank #1. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here .
Celanese carries a Zacks Rank #2 and has an expected earnings growth of around 9.4% for the current year.
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Free Download iReb for iOS 10/11 to Jailbreak iPhone
Jailbreaking your phone is usually a straightforward and painless process. Many options exist for assisting the process of jailbreaking your iOS device from out of Apple’s protective little ecosystem, and one of the popular options is iReb.
So, what is iReb, and how can you use it safely to jailbreak your iPhone?
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Jailbreaking is a common thing that iOS users sometimes do. What it does is free their iOS device from the confines of the so-called iOS ecosystem. iOS devices rely on a closed enborinment consisting of the devices and iTunes/App Stores, meaning that only Apple authorized apps and content can be distributed to Apple devices.
This is fine in one way as it means that using iOS devices is safe and secure, but it also means you are limited to what is approved by Apple. Some developers, especially for grey area software like emulations of game consoles, have been turned down by Apple and so have gone a different route.
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iReb was developed by the well-known developer team IH8Sn0w and is in fact a GUI based method of putting your iOS phone or pad into “pwned” or jailbreakable state allowing the installation of custom firmware. You can Downlaod iReb for Mac/Windows on iH8sn0w’s Github page https://github.com/iH8sn0w/.
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Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire
Rise is a village and civil parish in Holderness, the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 7 mi east of the town of Beverley and 5 mi south-west of Hornsea. It lies to the east of the B1243 road.
The place-name 'Rise' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Risun in the Holderness Wapentake. This is the plural of the Old English word 'hris', meaning 'brushwood'. According to the 2011 UK census, Rise parish had a population of 105, a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 119.
Rise was served from 1864 to 1964 by Whitedale railway station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway, until the line was closed following the Beeching Report.
Rise Hall
East of the village is Rise Hall, a Grade II* listed historic house built between 1815 and 1820. In 2010, its restoration by property developer Sarah Beeny was the subject of a TV series, Beeny's Restoration Nightmare, on Channel Four; the property was sold by her in 2019. | WIKI |
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(b) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for purposes of this section with— (A) the Secretary of Agriculture; (B) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (C) the Chief of Engineers. (2) STATE PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary may request that the Governors of Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico be signatories to the memorandum of understanding. (c) DESIGNATION OF QUALIFIED STAFF.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the signing of the memorandum of understanding under subsection (b), all Federal signatory parties shall, if appropriate, assign to each of the field offices identified in subsection (d) an employee who has expertise in the regulatory issues relating to the office in which the employee is employed, including, as applicable, particular expertise in— (A) the consultations and the preparation of biological opinions under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536); (B) permits under section 404 of Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344); (C) regulatory matters under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); (D) planning under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a et seq.); and (E) the preparation of analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). (2) DUTIES.—Each employee assigned under paragraph (1) shall— (A) not later than 90 days after the date of assignment, report to the Bureau of Land Management Field Managers in the office to which the employee is assigned; (B) be responsible for all issues relating to the jurisdiction of the home office or agency of the employee; and (C) participate as part of the team of personnel working on proposed energy projects, planning, and environmental analyses. (d) FIELD OFFICES.—The following Bureau of Land Management Field Offices shall serve as the Pilot Project offices: (1) Rawlins, Wyoming. (2) Buffalo, Wyoming. (3) Miles City, Montana. (4) Farmington, New Mexico. (5) Carlsbad, New Mexico. (6) Grand Junction/Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (7) Vernal, Utah. (e) REPORTS.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that— (1) outlines the results of the Pilot Project to date; and (2) makes a recommendation to the President regarding whether the Pilot Project should be implemented throughout the United States.
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Euro zone adjusted current account surplus widens in May
FRANKFURT, July 20 (Reuters) - The euro zone’s adjusted current account surplus widened in May as exports rose but the annualised surplus remained on a downward trend, European Central Bank data showed on Thursday. The working-day and seasonally-adjusted current account surplus in the 19-country currency bloc increased to 30.1 billion euros ($34.64 billion) in May from 23.5 billion euros a month earlier. But the rolling 12-month surplus eased to 3.2 percent of the bloc’s gross domestic product from 3.5 percent a year earlier, confirming the ECB’s expectation for a narrowing surplus in 2017. The ECB expects the surplus to ease to 2.8 percent of GDP this year from 3.4 percent in 2016, then to hover just below 3 percent for the next few years. Based on unadjusted data, the surplus in May narrowed to 18.3 billion euros from 22.8 billion euros in April. For more detail on current account data, please click on: here ($1 = 0.8690 euros) (Reporting by Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Gareth Jones) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Discord is launching a game store – TechCrunch
Just a few weeks back, Valve moved into Discord’s turf a bit with a dramatic overhaul of Steam’s chat system. Today, Discord is returning the favor by playing with the idea of selling games through its namesake chat platform. The company says it’ll launch a beta of the game store later today, though it’ll initially be limited to a small slice of its user base (which now sits at 150 million users). More specifically, the beta will roll out to just 50,000 users from Canada at first. It’ll be dabbling in game sales on two fronts: they’ll directly sell some games, while other games will be added perks for its Discord Nitro subscription service. Whereas Valve has massively increased the number of games on Steam over the last few years by opening up to third parties through things like Steam Greenlight or (more recently) Steam Direct, Discord is pitching this as a more “curated” offering with a slimmer number of options. At least at first, they say they’re aiming for something that feels more like “one of those cozy neighborhood book shops” — which, on day one of the beta, translates to 11 games. The games it’ll sell first: While 11 games may not seem like much, you can bet they’ll offer more than that in time. See that screenshot up top? You don’t dedicate an entire tab in some of your app’s most prime screen real estate unless you’re hoping to make it a key part of your business. Taking things one more step forward, Discord is also getting into (temporary) exclusives — or, as it calls them, “First on Discord” games. While it doesn’t mention names and none will roll out with today’s beta, Discord says it’ll soon highlight select indie games that’ll be available only on Discord for the first 90 days-or-so after their respective launches. Meanwhile, the company is also testing the idea of building up its premium subscription add-on, Discord Nitro, into a game subscription service. Whereas the $5-per-month service previously primarily got you a few mostly aesthetic perks like animated avatars, a special profile badge and bigger upload limits, the same 50,000 players mentioned above (or, at least, those on Windows) will get access to a rotating set of games. The first games hitting the subscription beta: While many of those games aren’t exactly new (some of them are 5+ years old), a lot of them are really great games (I’ve lost days to Super Meat Boy) that not everyone has gotten around to playing. It’s a solid way to pique people’s interest in giving Discord a bit of money each month if the GIFs and badges weren’t quite enough. Oh, and for good measure, Discord is making itself a launcher — that is, you’ll be able to sort and launch most of the games on your computer right from Discord, including games purchased elsewhere and even those, notes the company, that require another launcher to run. If that’s not a shot across the bow in Steam’s direction, I’m not sure what is. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
TY: THES T1 - C-Glycosyl flavonoids as potential anticoronavirus drugs with dual action A1 - Godinho, Patrícia Inês Carvalho N2 - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread all over the world, causing millions of deaths, and became a major global concern. Although protective vaccines have been developed and administered, efficient antiviral agents for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 are not yet available. Moreover, since new and deadly CoVs can emerge at any time with the potential of becoming pandemics, it is crucial the development of therapeutic agents against these potentially deadly CoVs. The scientific research and the medical challenges to save lives revealed the genetic evolution and the biochemistry of SARS-CoV-2 life cycle in comparison with other coronaviruses. The SARS-CoV-2 attacks primarily the respiratory tract, through its binding of Spike glycoprotein to angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) of the host cell, initiating the replication and transcription of viral genome by 3CLpro. There have been developed some strategies towards SARS-CoV-2 inhibition, which target the Spike glycoprotein and 3CLpro. In the search for anti-coronaviral drugs, researchers soon turned their heads towards glycosylated flavonoids. Glycosyl flavonoids, widespread in the plant kingdom, have received a lot of attention due to their widely recognized antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, antidiabetic activities, and to their ability to modulate key cellular enzymes function. Recently, glycosyl flavonoids have also shown promising antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2. Despite O-glycosyl flavonoids are by far the most common in nature, C-glycosyl flavonoids have attracted much recent interest, due to their enhanced stability to chemical and enzymatic hydrolysis. Thus, the first aim of this work was the synthesis of new C-glycosyl flavonoids to evaluate their antiviral activity towards the SARS-CoV-2. The synthesis of C-glycosyl flavonoids was achieved through the cross-coupling Heck reaction between a 3-bromo flavonoid and a modified sugar alkene. Although the synthesis of C-glycosyl flavones was not well-succeeded, it was possible to synthesize C-glycosyl 2-styryl-4H-chromen-4-ones, although, the presence of isomers was observed. The new synthesized compounds were unequivocally characterized by mono- (1H and 13C) and two-dimensional (HSQC, HMBC, NOESY) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques. Whenever possible, they were also characterized by mass spectrometry and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Since the new synthesized C-glycosyl 2-styryl-4H-chromen-4-ones were obtained as a mixture of isomers, the evaluation of the antiviral activity could not be performed. Further studies to separate the isomers are needed, as well as the evaluation of the antiviral activity towards the 3CLpro and ?-glucosidases. Furthermore, molecular docking studies will be conducted to understand the interactions of the new synthesize C-glycosyl flavonoids with SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro and the ?-glucosidases. UR - https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/33119 Y1 - 2021 PB - No publisher defined | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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THE SIGN OF THE BROKEN SWORD "Everybody," said the priest.
Flambeau knit his black brows. "I don't grasp it all yet," he said.
"There is another picture, Flambeau," said Brown in his more mystical undertone. "I can't prove it; but I can do more—I can see it. There is a camp breaking up on the bare, torrid hills at morning, and Brazilian uniforms massed in blocks and columns to march. There is the red shirt and long black beard of Olivier, which blows as he stands, his broad-brimmed hat in his hand. He is saying farewell to the great enemy he is setting free—the simple, snow-headed English veteran, who thanks him in the name of his men. The English remnant stand behind at attention; beside them are stores and vehicles for the retreat. The drums roll; the Brazilians are moving; the English are still like statues. So they abide till the last hum and flash of the enemy have faded from the tropic horizon. Then they alter their postures all at once, like dead men coming to life; they turn their fifty faces upon the general—faces not to be forgotten."
Flambeau gave a great jump. "Ah," he cried, "you don't mean"
"Yes," said Father Brown in a deep, moving voice. "It was an English hand that put the rope round St. Clare's neck; I believe the hand that put the ring on his daughter's finger. They were English hands that dragged him up to the tree 311 | WIKI |
The chastening of Justin Trudeau - The Liberals limp back
ON THE MORNING after election day, Justin Trudeau appeared at a metro station in his Montreal constituency of Papineau to offer hugs, kisses and selfies to commuters. Perhaps he was in need of an ego boost. Although he survived as prime minister, his Liberal Party lost its parliamentary majority and received fewer votes than the opposition Conservatives (see chart). The election exposed deep regional divisions and will compel him to seek support for his programme from rival parties. “Canadians rejected division and negativity,” he declared after his victory. In fact, those principles were the basis on which many voted. The negativity came largely from Mr Trudeau’s missteps in office. He pressed his attorney-general to intervene in the prosecution for bribery of SNC-Lavalin, an engineering firm in Quebec. Parliament’s ethics minister rebuked him for that. Mr Trudeau was also embarrassed by the publication during the campaign of photos of him wearing brown- and blackface as a young man. Andrew Scheer, the Conservative leader, sought to capitalise on those errors with the taunt that Mr Trudeau is “not as advertised”. It nearly worked. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. Mr Trudeau would be right to claim that Canadian voters rejected one sort of division. The election did not turn on issues of immigration and identity, as some analysts had feared it might. The Conservatives did not oppose Canada’s high levels of immigration. The only party that does, the populist People’s Party, won no seats. Its leader and only MP, Maxime Bernier, lost his. Although the Conservatives outpolled the Liberals, most votes went to parties that prefer the redistributionist policies favoured by Mr Trudeau to the small-state philosophy of Mr Scheer. The splits laid bare by the election are mainly regional. The Liberals lost their five seats in the western oil- and gas-producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Conservatives won all but one of the provinces’ 48 seats. In Quebec, Canada’s French-speaking province, the big winner was the Bloc Québécois, a separatist party. Mr Trudeau’s main problem will not be finding support for his policies in Parliament. Canada is accustomed to minority government. The risk is that these policies will widen the regional chasms that the election exposed. The Liberals’ main partner is likely to be the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Jagmeet Singh. It will be no obstacle to enacting Mr Trudeau’s main legislative priorities. These include a fresh tax cut for the middle class, a ban on assault weapons and more ambitious targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The two parties also agree on investing in low-rent housing. Both want a federal-government-run drug plan, but Mr Singh’s ideas would probably be more expensive. He laid out other preconditions for supporting Liberal policies on election night, which would tug the government to the left if Mr Trudeau accepted them. Mr Singh wants a new “super wealth tax”, for example. The two parties’ agreement on the principle of fighting climate change (shared by the Greens and the Bloc Québécois) is bound to raise tensions with the western prairie provinces. Mr Trudeau’s previous government sought to reduce them by backing the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), a project to expand an oil pipeline from Alberta to a terminal near Vancouver. In 2018 it bought the pipeline from a private firm. Mr Trudeau had hoped this would reconcile Alberta and Saskatchewan to his signature environmental policy: a national floor for the price of carbon emissions, which took effect this year. As the election showed, it did not work. Alberta and Saskatchewan have long chafed at the greater power of the more populous central provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Their anger has deepened since 2014, when global oil prices slumped, causing regional hardship. Jason Kenney, the Conservative premier of Alberta, blames the Liberals’ climate-change policies for worsening the situation. During the campaign, Mr Trudeau stoked those resentments as a way of winning votes from the NDP and the Greens. In the final party leaders’ debate, he abandoned his usual talk of balancing green goals with developing natural resources. Instead, he attacked “oil interests” and provincial leaders opposed to his climate-change policies. The election has given a fillip to separatist sentiment in Alberta. More surprisingly, it has also revived the issue of Quebec separatism, a force that threatened Canada’s integrity from the 1970s to the 1990s but has lately seemed dormant. Yves-François Blanchet, the Bloc Québécois’s leader, downplayed its separatist aspirations during the election campaign. The party’s surprising resurgence is probably largely the result of identity politics, a more potent theme in Quebec than in other provinces. Mr Blanchet endorses a controversial law passed by Quebec’s right-leaning government this year that prohibits many civil servants from wearing religious symbols, including turbans, hijabs and kippas. The Bloc owes some of its electoral success to the collapse in support in Quebec for the NDP, whose leader, Mr Singh, is Sikh and wears a turban. Mr Blanchet says his party will back the Trudeau government when its policies are good for Quebec and seek to thwart those that are not. It could endorse much of the Liberals’ economic and environmental programme. But a clash may occur over Quebec’s religious-symbols ban. Mr Trudeau is under pressure from supporters to challenge it in court. All this means Mr Trudeau will find his second term harder than his first. The son of a former prime minister, he must hope that his fortunes follow his father’s. In an election in 1972 Pierre Trudeau saw his Liberal majority government reduced to a minority. Two years later he won a new majority. He ended up governing, with a brief interruption, until 1984. His son no doubt hopes for a similar comeback.■ | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Subsistence Homesteads Division
The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a New Deal agency that was intended to relieve industrial workers and struggling farmers from complete dependence on factory or agricultural work. The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. However the new residents were not allowed to purchase the new homes.
Philosophy
The subsistence homesteading program was based on an agrarian, "back-to-the-land" philosophy which meant a partial return to the simpler, farming life of the past. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt both endorsed the idea that for poor people, rural life could be healthier than city life. Cooperation, community socialization, and community work were also emphasized. However, going "back-to-the-land" did not always sit well with people stuck in outlying "stranded communities" without jobs. According to Liz Straw of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the most controversial were those rural communities of long-unemployed miners or timber workers whom opponents of subsistence homesteading thought unlikely to thrive without better job opportunities.
Definition and description
In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. Subsistence Homesteads Division Director, Milburn L. Wilson, defined a "subsistence homestead" as follows:
A subsistence homestead denotes a house and out buildings located upon a plot of land on which can be grown a large portion of foodstuffs required by the homestead family. It signifies production for home consumption and not for commercial sale. In that it provides for subsistence alone, it carries with it the corollary that cash income must be drawn from some outside source. The central motive of the subsistence homestead program, therefore, is to demonstrate the economic value of a livelihood which combines part-time wage work and part-time gardening or farming.
DSH projects "would be initiated at the state level and administered through a nonprofit corporation. Successful applicants were offered a combination of part-time employment opportunities, fertile soil for part-time farming, and locations connected to the services of established cities." The homesteads were organized to combine the benefits of rural and urban living - communities meant to demonstrate a different path towards a healthier and more economically secure future.
History
The Division of Subsistence Homesteads was created by the Secretary of the Interior as an order to fulfill the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. Milburn Lincoln Wilson, then belonging to the USDA's Agricultural Adjustment Administration, was selected by President Frank D. Roosevelt to lead the new Division under Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes. Wilson and his advisory committee determined that they wanted the project to prioritize areas hit especially hard by Depression. Initially, the cost of the houses was not to exceed $2,000 and the homesteads would fall under the administration of the Division and local non-profit corporation created specifically for the community. The same year, Carl Cleveland Taylor, the 36th President of the American Sociological Society, was appointed sociologist with the SHD. Some of the subsistence homesteading communities included African Americans; Assistant Supervisor John P. Murchison wrote to W. E. B. Du Bois in April 1934 for advice on racial integration and how to incorporate African Americans into the program. Eleanor Roosevelt took personal interest in the project, and became involved in setting up the first community, Arthurdale, WV after a visit to the stranded miners of Scotts Run.
There was strong opposition to the idea of subsistence homesteads, as undercutting agricultural prices, unions, and the labor supply for manufacturing. Nonetheless, as of 2011, some communities, such as Arthurdale, West Virginia, in which Eleanor Roosevelt was personally involved, maintain an active memory of the program. By March 1934, 30 projects had been started. Twenty-one were considered garden-home projects, two were full-time farming projects near urban areas, five were for unemployed miners and two were combinations of the aforementioned types. In June 1935, the powers granted to DSH under the National Industrial Recovery Act expired. On April 30, Executive Order No. 7027 had created the Resettlement Administration ; part of their mandate gave them authority "to administer approved projects involving resettlement of destitute or low-income families from rural and urban areas, including the establishment, maintenance and operation, in such connection, of communities in rural and suburban areas." By another Executive Order (No. 7530), the Subsistence Housing Project was transferred from the Department of Interior to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1936. By the next year, the program had been transferred once again, this time to the Federal Public Housing Authority, where it was formally abolished. Various architects including Mary Almy, helped design the buildings and homes built under the project.
List of Subsistence Homesteads Division communities
These communities were planned and built:
Current status
Of the communities listed, five are considered national or local historic districts, including Aberdeen Gardens (VA), Arthurdale (WV), Phoenix Homesteads (AZ), Tupelo Homesteads (MS), Cahaba Homesteads/ Slagheap Village (AL), and Tygart Valley Homesteads (WV).
Communities
* Complete List of New Deal Communities, of the Resettlement Administration, the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, from the National New Deal Preservation Association | WIKI |
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* 1) The rare surviving pieces of Nantgarw porcelain are considered today to be among the most valuable artefacts ever produced in Wales, and are among the most exquisite examples of British Porcelain ever made. (revision)
* Yes.(ish), it definitely needs a "who?" template after "most valuable artefacts ever produced in Wales". If an RS says that, and there's reference, I'd have no problem with it. Red Fiona (talk) 09:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) Frustrated by the lack of radio airplay received by previous Wilco albums, the band decided to branch out into television advertising. (revision)
* No, because the opinion is attributed to the band. (t · c) buidhe 01:20, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) Within a few decades of Christopher Columbus's landing on the coast of what is now Venezuela in 1498, South America had been effectively conquered by Spain and Portugal. (revision)
* No issue with this (t · c) buidhe 01:20, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
Discussion
Put any of your general thought about our POV issue detection here --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 00:40, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
Clarity (CLARIFY issues)
For each statement below, let us know if it needs clarification (WP:CLARIFY).
Statements
* 1) Badgworthy Water is one of the small rivers running north to the coast and is associated with the Lorna Doone legends. (revision)
* No. The link to Lorna Doone means I can find out what that means without repetition across multiple pages. Red Fiona (talk) 09:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>The success of 1997's Good Will Hunting, which Affleck co-wrote and acted in, marked a turning point in his career.</tt> (revision)
* No. Red Fiona (talk) 09:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>The washbacks that Glen Scotia had were more than 40 Years Old and were made out of Corton Steel. </tt> (revision)
* Yes., but could be fixed with a link to washbacks. Red Fiona (talk) 09:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>Its annual meetings are held alternately in San Diego, California in even-numbered years, and in Washington, D.C., in odd-numbered years.</tt> (revision)
* No. Red Fiona (talk) 09:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt> He was appointed on 30 September 1886, succeeding Francis Flemming, and held the office until 1892. </tt> (revision)
* No. Red Fiona (talk) 09:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
* Your assessment here ~
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* 1) <tt>Hayle parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937.</tt> ("Lead" section) (revision)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>Eastward, a difficult mountain route led to Guiyang in Guizhou province and thence to Hunan province.</tt> ("Sustainable_development" section)(revision)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>In 2004, Willow Island hosted the fifth year of the ESPN Great Outdoor Games, which feature athletes competing in outdoor activities including fishing, sporting dog events, target shooting, and timber events.</tt> ("Willow_Island" section) (revision)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) <tt>A commander of one of the sections of the Polish front during the Siege of Warsaw of 1939, after the war he became one of the most renowned historians documenting the history of the Invasion of Poland.</tt> ("LEAD" section) (revision)
* Your assessment here ~
* 1) Palm's Tungsten E was the cheapest of the Tungsten series, and as such, has been one of the most successful .. ("Models" section) (revision)
* Your assessment here ~
Discussion
* It all depends on where in the article the statement is: if followed by another sentence with citation it is not an issue; ditto if in the lead of the article (MOS:LEADCITE, not required.) I doubt that AI helps with this problem. (t · c) buidhe 01:22, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
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Is Softonic Safe to Download? Pros and Cons
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Softonic is a Catalonia based Spanish company which was founded in the year 1997 with the sole intention of providing content to the users free of cost. Initially, it started as a file hosting service called Shareware Intercom. They developed Softonic for Windows and DOS-based Operating Systems. But as per the demands of the time, this is now available for Mac, iOS, and Android as well. The website started in Spanish for obvious reasons, is currently available in a total of nine languages including English, French, and Japanese.
Why the Question?
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Initially, Softonic was regarded as a nice place to visit for getting the desired files in the simplest way possible. There were no registrations, no checks, and no caps either. At first, it seemed to be a nice idea and Softonic, at a point reached to around one hundred million visitors per month with an equal number of downloads. But over the time, due to Repeated complaints about the websites on a variety of platforms attract some suspicion to the site.
The discussion regarding the safety of Softonic as a website makes sense because, Under the name of providing a free file, it might be invading the personal space of the users which is potentially very harmful in the modern era where there is already a risk of data theft.
3 Reasons Why Softonic is Safe
Over the time, as the reports regarding the content provided by Softonic being malicious have emerged, Softonic came out quick to inform its users that the platform they are using is safe from all attacks. One of the employees has even revealed the check the process that the company followed to prevent any malicious software from creeping in.
According to some of the employees at the company, the company conducts a three-phase test for the content hosted by the website before it is available for its users.
There are no exceptions to this rule, and every single file that Softonic hosted is through the three-phase process. This process involves the following phases:
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The software company says that in this stage, the files that have uploaded to the website will manually screen according to their titles. If any files are suspected to be suspicious or are expected to contain any malware, they are removed straightaway. But, this is not the only screening the files have to go through. The sources from where the files have uploaded will also get the scan and check for potentially harmful content. Thus, it becomes challenging for malware to creep in.
2. Scanning using Anti Virus Software
After the files have been screened for harmful content manually. They are put to scanning through some of the best antivirus programs that are available in the market. The number of times we scanned the files for malware and explicit content is at least 50. Thus, the chances of getting malware on the website reduce drastically since all the antivirus programs cannot fail at once. Most of the malware was removed at this stage of screening, and only the harmless content gets to the website.
3. Using Google Safe Check
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Once the antivirus programs have scanned the files, they checked it for security via Google. In this stage, they check if the source of the files is somewhere which is notorious for sending malware. If such is the case, the files will not put on the website. After all, in the modern era, no one knows more than Google itself.
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Why is Softonic Not Safe?
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In its initial days, Softonic was a great website to download content. It received various types of positive reviews from the users and was growing at a fast pace. But over the years, the company changed the policies and Terms of Use that have created a lot of security flaws in the content that they put on the website.
A lot of users have reported that the company has embedded various malware and adware. This is to increase its revenue without making proper checks. This has led to data theft, continuous ads, and redirection to various harmful websites. A user went on the report that the files downloaded from the website contained so much explicit content that he had to degrade his operating system to enable the smooth running of his system. If such are the instances of malware distribution, then how can someone trust the content on the website?
There have been reports stating that the files downloaded from Softonic contained some types of zombie viruses which had infected their computer. The antivirus checks were not at all useful.
They had to end up changing their computer to get back to its normal functioning. Not only that, but some files are also able to make changes to the registry of various programs and also to that of the Windows. When the registry gets corrupt, the program rendered useless. Thus, Softonic cannot regard safe as before.
One of the primary reasons that the content on Softonic is too vulnerable to tamper with is that the users do not need to register themselves. Any person can show up and upload content on the website and get away without getting book for his actions. This way, even if you know that the material is harmful, you cannot do much to prevent it.
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Conclusion
Now that we know how Softonic distributes the content free of cost. We also know how it is open to approach if one wants to upload malicious files. At one point, it seems that Softonic is trying way too hard to prevent the malware from infecting its users. But these claims made by the ones who work for it.
Who knows if the company is doing such things to prevent the malware. If they were trying to clean up their services, why have the complaints increased over the time and not declined? Thus, it is not safe to say that Softonic is safe. It might be improving the quality, but it still has a long way to go.
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Enhancing Independence and Well-Being: The Vital Role of Aged Care Physiotherapy
Aged Care Physiotherapy, a specialized branch of physiotherapeutic care, is dedicated to supporting elderly individuals in managing their physical health and preserving their independence. This unique field focuses on boosting the resilience of senior citizens, preventing falls, and alleviating chronic pain. Highly skilled physiotherapists discern the specific needs of geriatric patients and create tailored treatment plans. They also collaborate with other healthcare professionals to achieve the best outcomes for their patients. Aged Care Physiotherapy is essential for improving the quality of life for the elderly by addressing physical ailments and promoting overall well-being.
Definition of Aged Care Physiotherapy
Aged Care Physiotherapy, also known as geriatric or gerontology physiotherapy, is a specialized area of healthcare that aims to improve the well-being of seniors in their golden years. This field provides physical therapy for older individuals dealing with age-related issues and disabling conditions. Click here for aged care physio. Practitioners in this domain work as skilled therapists, helping seniors regain mobility, strength, and independence through tailored exercise programs and other techniques.
Aged Care Physiotherapy focuses on maintaining independence, allowing seniors to continue living in their homes rather than moving to care facilities. This approach not only addresses age-related health problems like arthritis and osteoporosis but also enhances the quality of life. It enables seniors to enjoy a more active and pain-free lifestyle.
Benefits of Aged Care Physiotherapy
Aged Care Physiotherapy offers numerous benefits that enhance the physical well-being of older adults. One of the most significant advantages is an improved quality of life. Physiotherapists work diligently to maintain seniors’ physical fitness, ensuring they stay active and mobile. They also target areas like balance, coordination, posture, respiratory capacity, and joint mobility. This comprehensive approach helps prevent falls, a common concern for the elderly.
Physiotherapy also plays a crucial role in managing chronic conditions like arthritis and diabetes, providing relief from symptoms and improving long-term function. The result is a more enjoyable and pain-free daily life, where walking becomes a comfortable and effortless activity.
Types of Aged Care Physiotherapy
Aged Care Physiotherapy offers various therapeutic strategies to address the unique needs of older individuals. Rehabilitation therapy is one facet, designed to restore movement and function after injury or illness. It includes exercises with weights and resistance bands, joint mobilization techniques, and therapeutic modalities like ultrasound and electrical stimulation. Depending on the severity of the condition, this treatment can extend over several weeks or months.
Maintenance therapy focuses on preserving mobility and muscle strength, particularly in the context of age-related conditions like arthritis or osteoporosis. This type of therapy involves stretching exercises to maintain joint flexibility and balance and posture training to prevent falls. Aquatic classes, often an extension of maintenance therapy, offer a unique form of exercise in a water environment, promoting rejuvenation and recovery.
Who Can Benefit from Aged Care Physiotherapy?
Aged Care Physiotherapy benefits seniors dealing with mobility and balance issues due to age-related conditions such as arthritis, osteoporosis, or joint pain. Physiotherapists tailor treatment plans to each individual, helping them regain strength, flexibility, and comfort while providing massage therapy and exercise programs. Balance and posture training, along with walking aids like canes or walkers, assist in daily activities.
Surgical and injury convalescents can also benefit from Aged Care Physiotherapy. This form of therapy aids in regaining mobility and function following surgery or injuries. It includes manual therapy techniques, massage, stretching exercises, balance training, posture training, and the use of mobility aids like wheelchairs or walkers to help individuals regain their vitality and independence.
Common Conditions Treated with Aged Care Physiotherapy
Aged Care Physiotherapy is instrumental in addressing various conditions that affect seniors. Arthritis, characterized by joint pain, is a primary concern. Physiotherapists tailor exercises to reduce pain, improve joint flexibility, and enhance muscle strength. They also provide massage therapy and hydrotherapy to alleviate the discomfort associated with arthritis.
Osteoporosis, a condition involving decreased bone density, is another focus of Aged Care Physiotherapy. Physiotherapists employ exercise regimens, massage therapy, and hydrotherapy to help individuals maintain bone health and reduce the risk of fractures.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Aged Care Physiotherapy is a vital symphony that enhances the well-being of older individuals as they journey through the later stages of life. This specialized field, led by skilled physiotherapists, plays a significant role in preserving mobility, alleviating pain, and promoting independence. The personalized approach ensures that seniors actively participate in their well-being, resulting in improved mobility, strength, flexibility, and an enhanced quality of life. Aged Care Physiotherapy is not merely a service but an ode to a healthier and more vibrant lifestyle, a blessing for robust longevity, and a tribute to the enduring spirit of the elderly. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
-- How Republican Governors Are Pretending to Cut Taxes
Republican governors across the U.S. are engaged in an income tax-cutting frenzy , moving to reduce or even eliminate individual income taxes in their states. The changes will increase economic growth and reduce the size of government, they say, and their plans are drawing strong praise from conservative stalwarts. Unfortunately, the architects and supporters of these plans are laboring under two misunderstandings -- both of which undercut arguments in favor of their efforts. First, most of these "cuts" are more properly understood as tax swaps, with the lost income-tax revenue almost always offset by higher sales or property taxes. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, for instance, plans to partly offset his proposed income tax cut by making permanent a "temporary" sales tax increase that was set to expire this year. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal similarly wants to pay for an income tax cut with a sales tax increase. Second, these tax cuts are politically possible largely because they're financed by the federal government. Governors may be lessening their state's bloat, but they're doing so at the expense of all U.S. taxpayers. Here's how: Taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal tax return have long been able to claim state and local income-tax payments and property taxes. That may be good for their budget, but such itemized deductions cost the U.S. about $1 trillion each year. For the past several years, taxpayers have also been able to deduct sales taxes instead of income taxes. This change was part of the 2009 stimulus package, and the provision was extended through 2013 as part of the law passed late last year to avert the fiscal cliff. As one would expect, the sales-tax deduction has been embraced, particularly in the nine states that currently have no (or very limited) income tax. In Texas, for instance, nearly 21 percent of all taxpayers claimed the sales-tax deduction, and in Tennessee, which has the highest sales tax in the nation, 20 percent of taxpayers claimed it, according to Internal Revenue Service data . The annual cost of the sales tax deduction is about $3 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service. The tax break has no doubt made the recent round of tax swaps more politically palatable. After all, it's really nothing more than a federal subsidy for states, which is why it has long been blamed for encouraging states to raise taxes. Politicians know many taxpayers will be able to deduct some of the increase from their federal tax bill. So what's the problem, you ask, in simply swapping one tax for another? There are several. Sales taxes are among the most regressive taxes, in that they take a larger portion of income from lower- and middle-class families. A report by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds that poor families pay eight times more of their income in sales and excise taxes than wealthy families, while those in middle income pay five times more. The report also finds that five of the 10 most regressive states "derive roughly half to two thirds of their tax revenue from sales and excise taxes, compared to a national average of roughly one third." And make no mistake -- when a state reduces or eliminates its income tax, it ultimately increases sales or property taxes. A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that states with no income taxes have property taxes that are 8 percent to 12 percent above the national average and sales taxes 18 percent to 21 percent above the national average. (Property taxes are set by localities, which often raise them after state income tax cuts to offset the revenue losses that trickle down.) The regressive nature of sales taxes is compounded by the fact that the tax deduction largely benefits wealthier taxpayers, who are more likely to itemize their deductions and pay higher marginal rates, making the deduction that much more valuable. The biggest problem with this tax-swap strategy, however, may be that it won’t last: The state and local tax deduction is caught in the budget-deficit crosshairs and could wind up being eliminated or greatly reduced as part of broader tax reform. Several tax-reform panels, including commissions in 1985 and 2005 , have called for abolishing the deduction, and some members of Congress are toying with capping deductions at a set amount. Such a move would be good for the federal budget deficit, but would essentially raise taxes on millions of taxpayers. It would also make it much harder for governors and other state politicians to "cut taxes." Or even to pretend to. (Deborah Solomon is a member of the Bloomberg View editorial board. Follow her on Twitter.) Read more breaking commentary from Bloomberg View at the Ticker . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Blender Git Statistics -> Developers -> bdiego
Diego Borghetti (bdiego)
Total Commits : 214
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Latest Commit : November 23, 2013
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Revision 4c4aeaa by Diego Borghetti (master)
November 23, 2013, 23:20 (GMT)
Fix: Wrong variable used to check for metrics files on BLF
Looks like this is has been there since the initial commit
of BLF.
The blf_dir_metrics_search was using the pointer to the
extension of the file and not the full path to check for
metrics files (.afm/.pfm).
Never notice before probably because is not common to use a font
with additional metrics files.
Revision 5ba14fd by Diego Borghetti (master)
January 6, 2012, 16:40 (GMT)
Move glTexEnvi to draw__start/draw__end.
As Campbell point, this is to avoid call glGet/glTexEnvi
on each character.
Revision b197a7e by Diego Borghetti (master)
January 3, 2012, 19:41 (GMT)
Fix:
[#25834] no color of textobjects in game engine when combined with
textured objects
[#26893] Curruption of displayed text (debug properties/fps info or bgui)
when using animated/tile uv mode
The first bug was beacuse a bad mode on the texture environment, now
we save the current glTexEnvi, set the one that we need, draw and
restore the original at the end.
The second was because a missing call to glLoadIdentity for the
texture matrix and as we do before, now we do a gl-Push/Identity/Pop
for this matrix to.
The first problem was solved by Kanttori and the second by Dalai.
Revision 65ce537 by Diego Borghetti (master)
February 19, 2011, 13:43 (GMT)
Rename global_ft_lib and make it static.
Remove the XXX code from blf_glyph.c and use the pointer
inside the FontBLF struct.
If still have problem, let me know.
Revision 44fbbe7 by Diego Borghetti (master)
January 20, 2011, 20:24 (GMT)
Ghost:X11 Set the default max width and max height value.
Some window manager can set default value of this to be the
screen size, so running blender with -p or --window-geometry
don't work with value bigger than that.
This commit try to "avoid" the bug #25709, but at the end
depend on the window manager, so maybe work or maybe not.
Revision 545cc48 by Diego Borghetti (master)
December 9, 2010, 22:27 (GMT)
Change the BLF_aspect function to handle 3d text.
This is need to properly handle 3d text (dalai work on GE), before
the BLF_aspect only take one argument, and the result was a call to:
glScalef(aspect, aspect, 1.0)
Now the three value are store in the font (x, y and z) and also
need to be enable using BLF_enable(BLF_ASPECT).
By default all the code that don't have BLF_ASPECT enable work with
a scale of 1.0 (so nothing change to the current UI).
I also remove all the call of BLF_aspect(fontid, 1.0) found in
the editors, because is disable by default, so no need any more.
Campbell the only thing to check is the python api, right now
I modify the api to from:
BLF_aspect(fontid, aspect)
to:
BLF_aspect(fontid, aspect, aspect, 1.0)
This is to avoid break the api, but now you need add the BLF_ASPECT
option to the function py_blf_enable and in some point change
py_blf_aspect to take 3 arguments.
Revision b25c323 by Diego Borghetti (master)
December 9, 2010, 04:36 (GMT)
Add the possibility to set a 4x4 matrix to be used on blf.
This option allow the user to set a 4x4 matrix to be
multiplied before draw the text, for example:
double *m;
/* Get the matrix or build it! */
BLF_matrix(m);
BLF_enable(BLF_MATRIX);
/* set color, size, etc and draw! */
BLF_disable(BLF_MATRIX);
You don't need the last line (disable), but remember
that if you use the font to draw in any other place,
the matrix will be used!.
The GL code is:
glPushMatrix();
glMultMatrixd(m);
glTranslatef();
glScalef();
glRotatef();
glPopMatrix();
Let's Dalai test this!!! :D
Revision 3209077 by Diego Borghetti (master)
December 9, 2010, 01:05 (GMT)
Testing commit! Remove an empty file.
Revision 7925de1 by Diego Borghetti (master)
July 21, 2010, 19:49 (GMT)
Fix #22894
[#22894] SEQUENCER; Drag & Drop into VSE as strip sends user to
file manager for import - MS Windows
The invoke function for both operator don't check the the filepath
property (this come from the drop event), so always open the
file browser.
Note that this problem is still there for Image, but there is something
else there, because the op SEQUENCER_OT_image_strip_add never got
this property (filepath). I check and the problem seems to be the
missing WM_FILESEL_FILEPATH when call WM_operator_properties_filesel.
The problem is that if I put this flag in the function, the image
strip stop working, so have to check a little more about this.
(Any idea why ?)
Revision a725cac by Diego Borghetti (master)
July 20, 2010, 16:54 (GMT)
Fix #22905
[#22905] Adding objects with a grid size of <1m results in a 0 size object
The problem here is that the return value of the function
ED_object_new_primitive_matrix is a float, not an int.
This come from an old revision, before the two dia and depth
multiplication was using the function (two call to the same
function). This was change to only call the functio one time
and store the value in the "scale" variable, but the scale
was declare as int, not float.
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I have the jupyter executable here: /usr/local/bin/jupyter
I know historically I've been using Python 2 from the Ubuntu distribution (no Anaconda) so I think that jupyter came from a system pip2 install, but I can not find a way to prove this, is there any?
Assuming the previous scenario, I've done both this: sudo /usr/local/bin/pip2 uninstall jupyter and this sudo /usr/local/bin/pip2 uninstall notebook (even if in /usr/local/bin, I still need sudo cause it seems all the files in there belong to root, for some reason), but I keep seeing that executable in here: /usr/local/bin/jupyter
Also: I know that jupyter is the affected one because now the command: jupyter notebook gives this output Error executing Jupyter command 'notebook': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.
How do I uninstall it? Why pip2 is not removing that executable file?
Edit:
I currently see this on my filesystem:
ls -lah /usr/local/bin | grep jupyter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 222 May 6 2017 jupyter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221 May 6 2017 jupyter-console
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 264 May 6 2017 jupyter-kernelspec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 222 May 6 2017 jupyter-migrate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224 May 6 2017 jupyter-nbconvert
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224 May 6 2017 jupyter-qtconsole
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243 May 6 2017 jupyter-run
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 227 May 6 2017 jupyter-troubleshoot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 255 May 6 2017 jupyter-trust
When unistalling jupyter I've seen this:
sudo pip2 uninstall jupyter
[sudo] password for <MY_USERNAME>:
The directory '/home/<MY_USERNAME>/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Uninstalling jupyter-1.0.0:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/RECORD
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/metadata.json
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/pbr.json
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter-1.0.0.dist-info/top_level.txt
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter.pyc
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled jupyter-1.0.0
The directory '/home/<MY_USERNAME>/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
When unistalling notebook I've seen this:
sudo pip2 uninstall notebook
The directory '/home/<MY_USERNAME>/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Uninstalling notebook-5.0.0:
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-bundlerextension
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-nbextension
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-notebook
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-serverextension
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook-5.0.0.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
[...]
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/tree/tests/__init__.pyc
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/tree/tests/test_tree_handler.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/tree/tests/test_tree_handler.pyc
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/utils.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/utils.pyc
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/view/__init__.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/view/__init__.pyc
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/view/handlers.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/notebook/view/handlers.pyc
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled notebook-5.0.0
The directory '/home/<MY_USERNAME>/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
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I have uninstalled the jupyter using the following lines of code so try it.
$ sudo -H python3 -m pip uninstall jupyter_core jupyter_qtconsole nbformat nbconvert notebook
Uninstalling jupyter-core-4.4.0:
Would remove:
/usr/bin/jupyter
/usr/bin/jupyter-migrate
/usr/bin/jupyter-troubleshoot
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jupyter.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jupyter_core
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jupyter_core-4.4.0.egg-info
Uninstalling nbformat-4.4.0:
Would remove:
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-trust
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nbformat-4.4.0.dist-info/*
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nbformat/*
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled nbformat-4.4.0
Uninstalling nbconvert-5.3.1:
Would remove:
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-nbconvert
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nbconvert-5.3.1.dist-info/*
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nbconvert/*
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled nbconvert-5.3.1
Uninstalling notebook-5.6.0:
Would remove:
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-bundlerextension
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-nbextension
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-notebook
/home/varun/.local/bin/jupyter-serverextension
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/notebook-5.6.0.dist-info/*
/home/varun/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/notebook/*
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled notebook-5.6.0
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I've tried to reproduce your scenario, and I don't have jupyter installed. So at first:
sudo pip2 install jupyter
It downloaded jupyter as well as quite a few other packages, but ended first with some stray error, then, on re-run, repeatedly with:
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c _scandir.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_scandir.o
_scandir.c:14:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
Nevertheless, seems like at least jupyter executable has been already installed:
$ jupyter
usage: jupyter [-h] [--version] [--config-dir] [--data-dir] [--runtime-dir]
[--paths] [--json]
[subcommand]
jupyter: error: one of the arguments --version subcommand --config-dir --data-dir --runtime-dir --paths is required
$ whereis jupyter
jupyter: /usr/local/bin/jupyter
But when I've tried to uninstall it:
sudo -H pip2 uninstall jupyter
Skipping jupyter as it is not installed.
In case you got the same when uninstalling, the problem might be that jupyter haven't been installed correctly at the first place.
However, I was finally able to install it correctly by installing Python dev headers: sudo apt install python-dev. And yes, sudo pip2 uninstall jupyter executed successfully, yet I still could run /usr/local/bin/jupyter after that.
Uninstalling jupyter-console package (found via pip-autoremove -L) didn't do the trick too, even though by name one may think it should.
But then I've tried to do it in an old "Norton Commander" way, to check what's inside /usr/local/bin/jupyter. Luckily, it's just a plain simple Python code, and I've noticed an interesting package reference there at line 7:
from jupyter_core.command import main
And then it was done!
$ jupyter
usage: jupyter [-h] [--version] [--config-dir] [--data-dir] [--runtime-dir]
[--paths] [--json]
[subcommand]
jupyter: error: one of the arguments --version subcommand --config-dir --data-dir --runtime-dir --paths is required
$ sudo -H pip2 uninstall jupyter-core
Uninstalling jupyter-core-4.4.0:
Would remove:
/usr/local/bin/jupyter
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-migrate
/usr/local/bin/jupyter-troubleshoot
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_core-4.4.0.dist-info/*
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jupyter_core/*
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled jupyter-core-4.4.0
$ jupyter
bash: /usr/local/bin/jupyter: No such file or directory
So the entire trouble is about pip not removing on uninstall the dependencies it has auto-downloaded during install..
UPDATE: Regarding the messages you've encountered while uninstalling jupiter / notebook - I didn't get any of these, but they seem not to be related to the problem discussed:
The directory '/home//.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
I also get this if I run sudo pip <anything>, not sudo -H pip <anything>. Seems to be harmless.
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
I already have pip 10.0.1 - that's why I don't see this.
Except these warnings, both packages are getting uninstalled correctly, as I can see.
Regarding the need for sudo, I'm not surprised as normally pip install * installs the package system-wide, and it's unlikely you will be able to write to /usr/local/lib/python* without root. The parameter --user exists in pip to get around this, the more detailed answer is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-purpose-pip-install-user
• I've updated the question with more details. Thanks – TPPZ May 27 '18 at 13:24
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* Our Farm of Two Acres—Terrain and Tillage
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Sympathy vs. Empathy
Empathy and sympathy are often confused. Their meanings are similar, as well as their spellings and pronunciations. Even the most seasoned speakers of the English language can use these two words incorrectly. Let's spend some time looking at the meanings of empathy and sympathy so that you will avoid the same mistake.
Empathy is a noun that refers to the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone else. It goes beyond feeling compassion for someone else's misfortune, as it means that you feel the sorrow or pain as if it were your own.
1. Because I had a brother who died when we were young, I have empathy for the family of the boy who was killed in the car accident last week.
2. When Sara tripped over her shoelaces, fell, and was laughed at by the entire lunchroom, I felt empathy for her.
3. Some people seem to have a greater capacity for empathy than others, often crying at sad commercials and movies as if they were real.
Sympathy is a noun that refers to a feeling sorrow or pity for another person's sadness or misfortune. While you feel for the person-have compassion for them-you don't necessarily empathize with them-or feel their sadness or pain as your own.
1. When my dog died, my friends expressed sympathy for me by giving me cards and pictures that they had drawn.
2. It's very difficult to know what to say to express sympathy when a family loses a loved one.
3. When Kevin broke his leg and couldn't play football anymore, I felt sympathy for him, but I couldn't empathize because I've never broken my leg . . . or liked to play football.
In summary, the two words are similar, but they are not interchangeable. Empathy is more personal, as you take on the feelings of the other as if they were your own. Sympathy is about feeling compassion for the other without taking on their pain.
Difference between Words
Science Related Words Difference and Comparison | FINEWEB-EDU |
Here I Stand (Game)
Here I Stand is game devised by Ed Beach and published by GMT Games. It provides a dynamic account of the Reformation from 1517 to 1555, starrting with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. There are three scenarios:
* 1517 start
* 1532 start
* Tournament game (an abbreviated version of the game which starts in 1532, but gets off the ground quicker and ends sooner)
Game Concept
The players in the game are the Ottomans, Hapsburgs, England, France, the Papacy and the Protestants. The game can consist of a maximum of 9 turns if playing from the 1517 scenario. Each turn is long, consisting of a maximum of 9 phases, though most turns use only 7 of those. The first turn starts out with Luther's 95 Theses, with the Protestant player receiving the chance to start the Reformation. This phase is used only on the first turn. Then there is the Card Draw Phase. This is where you deal out cards, the "currency" of the game. All cards can be used either for its CP or command point value or for the specific event listed on the card. Different powers receive different numbers of cards, usually varying from 3-5. All powers receive an additional home card, which gives them a specific event, such as France's, which gives them a VP if played for the event. All home cards are worth 5 CP. Then, on the first turn only, the Hapsburgs, Papacy and Protestants must all discard a card for the Diet of Worms, which allows either side to make gains. The next phase is the Diplomacy phase, which features secret deal-making and allows players to declare war, make alliances, ransom leaders or remove excommunication. After that comes Spring Deployment, when each power (except the Protestants) can move troops from his capital to a space he controls. Then comes the meat of the game: the Action Phase. Here is when players play cards. Some of the actions include raising troops or ships, moving them, launching voyages of conquest, exploration or colonization, calling theological debates, assaulting fortresses, burning books and initiating piracy. The Action phase is divided into impulses where a player plays a card. This phase is always the longest, taking about 40 minutes. After they have played a certain number of cards, a power can pass, bringing the Action Round to a close. After this comes Winter, when all players must return troops home. Then, the New World voyages are resolved, and lastly, victory conditions are checked. If anyone has won, the game ends.
Victory
Victory is usually achieved by accumulating 25 VP, or victory points through conquest, the New World, religious struggle, or their power's unique abilities. Other ways of winning are conquering the required number of other keys (usually five). This victory ends the game automatically. The Protestants do not have keys; they can win by converting 50 spaces to Protestantism. Keys are the most important spaces and give extra cards and VPs.
Here I Stand as a learning resource
This game has a wealth of historical material including a number of historical personages - both as temporal leaders, explorers and as Protestant Reformers and Catholic debaters for the Counter Reformation. These are placed in the context of Europe in the sixteenth century, with the impact of the Ottoman Empire and the discovery of the New World also represented. With the specific ways of gaining victory points assigned to different players, participants get to understand the varying viewpoints which arose in Europe as the Reformation took place.
The game board
The game board consists of a map of Europe in the sixteenth century, excluding Russia and Scandinavia but including Turkey and North Africa. There is also an area depicting the New World and charts of game information. The map focuses on control of areas laid out in a point to point style. The religious debates are also affected by language with the protestant efforts to have the Bible translated into German, English and French affecting the debates in those language zones. There is also a Spanish and an Italian language zone, but these are less significant. There is naval as well as land movement and combat.
Game roles
Each player is given a 'Power Card' which gives details of the possible actions for that player, and the cost of that action in 'Command Points' (CPs), attributes of the initial ruler and a holding area for markers which can be added or moved to indicate how the player is doing during the game, both in terms of how many cards they can draw and in terms of how many Victory Points they have accrued. The roles are assymetric with players representing:
Ottoman
The Ottomans are one of the more straightforward powers. In the 1517 scenario you start At War with Hungary, a minor power, and from there you should take Belgrade and Buda, two keys. By 1532 you have control of these two keys and most of Hungary. Once the Barbary Pirates come into play, you can initiate piracy, with can be very rewarding. You also gain two VPs by defeating Hungary.
Hapsburg
The game covers the period when Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor (1519 - 1556). The way he continually moved around his Empire dealing with different problems is reflected in the Hapsburg Home card which allows him to immediately move to any Hapsburg space and then conduct 5 CPs. The Hapsburgs have the opportunity to gain extra VPs through excursions to the New World, and by the control of electorates in Germany.
England
The game replicates Henry VIII's desire to produce an heir. Although there is some variation from history allowed in the game, the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I all have religious consequences. England has the opportunity to gain extra VPs through excursions to the New World. England also gains significant VPs from the religious struggle. (See Tudor Origins of the British Empire for an additional learning resources for England during this period.)
France
France can gain extra victory points (up to 6) while Francis I is alive by using their Home Card to build Chateaux. This is no longer available after Henry II has succeeded to the throne. France has the opportunity to gain extra VPs through excursions to the New World. France can be quite challenging to play as you are surrounded by the English and Hapsburgs to the north, the Hapsburgs to the south, and the Papacy in Italy.
Papacy
In this simulation the papacy can concern itself with three principal ways of gaining VPs:
* Defeating the Reformation
* Building St Peters
* Military conquest, primarily in Italy
Protestant
The reformation in Germany is central to how the Protestants start the game. A key turning point in the game for the Protestants is the founding of the Schmalkaldic League. They gain VPs for translating the Bible into German, English and French - which also enables them to speed up the Reformation. They have a number of Reformers, some of whom play a role on the map board, others of whom confront the Catholics in debates.
Links
* Here I Stand on Board Game Geek
* Here I Stand Review
Game Blogs
* Battle of the Brothers: The French Perspective]
* We Stood There] | WIKI |
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1. Apache Drill
2. DRILL-3359
Drill should throw and error when window function defined using WINDOW AS uses ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
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as part of DRILL-3188, the following query is not supported and Drill displays the proper error message:
0: jdbc:drill:zk=local> select sum(salary) over(partition by position_id order by salary rows unbounded preceding) from cp.`employee.json` limit 20;
Error: UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION ERROR: This type of window frame is currently not supported
See Apache Drill JIRA: DRILL-3188
But when defining the same window using a WINDOW AS, Drill doesn't throw any error:
0: jdbc:drill:zk=local> select sum(salary) over w from cp.`employee.json` window w as (partition by position_id order by salary rows unbounded preceding) limit 20;
+-----------+
| EXPR$0 |
+-----------+
| 80000.0 |
| 30000.0 |
| 135000.0 |
| 135000.0 |
| 135000.0 |
| 215000.0 |
| 215000.0 |
| 25000.0 |
| 15000.0 |
| 50000.0 |
| 6700.0 |
| 14700.0 |
| 34700.0 |
| 34700.0 |
| 5000.0 |
| 13500.0 |
| 58500.0 |
| 5000.0 |
| 11700.0 |
| 20000.0 |
+-----------+
20 rows selected (0.348 seconds)
The results are, of course, incorrect
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I tried to find a solution to this problem, but I didn't have any luck finding anything, other than people who were also looking for a way to get around it.
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But they are real technologies, which are the basis of new app development - we need a version of . Right now our position is manageable: we isolate "legacy" (really: platform-specific) dependencies into their own components which are net461 specific. The port to 1.x is almost entirely a lateral one, there are few features in it for us.
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120 STAT. 358
26 USC 1445.
26 USC 897 note.
PUBLIC LAW 109–222—MAY 17, 2006
For purposes of subclause (II), a nonresident alien individual, foreign corporation, or qualified investment entity shall be treated as having acquired any interest acquired by a person related (within the meaning of section 267(b) or 707(b)(1)) to the individual, corporation, or entity, and any interest which such person has entered into any contract or option to acquire. ‘‘(ii) APPLICATION TO SUBSTITUTE DIVIDEND AND SIMILAR PAYMENTS.—Subparagraph (A) shall apply to— ‘‘(I) any substitute dividend payment (within the meaning of section 861), or ‘‘(II) any other similar payment specified in regulations which the Secretary determines necessary to prevent avoidance of the purposes of this paragraph. The portion of any such payment treated by the taxpayer as gain from the sale or exchange of a United States real property interest under subparagraph (A) by reason of this clause shall be equal to the portion of the distribution such payment is in lieu of which would have been so treated but for the transaction giving rise to such payment. ‘‘(iii) EXCEPTION WHERE DISTRIBUTION ACTUALLY RECEIVED.—A transaction shall not be treated as an applicable wash sales transaction if the nonresident alien individual, foreign corporation, or qualified investment entity receives the distribution described in clause (i)(I) with respect to either the interest which was disposed of, or acquired, in the transaction. ‘‘(iv) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN PUBLICLY TRADED STOCK.—A transaction shall not be treated as an applicable wash sales transaction if it involves the disposition of any class of stock in a qualified investment entity which is regularly traded on an established securities market within the United States but only if the nonresident alien individual, foreign corporation, or qualified investment entity did not own more than 5 percent of such class of stock at any time during the 1-year period ending on the date of the distribution described in clause (i)(I).’’. (b) NO WITHHOLDING REQUIRED.—Section 1445(b) (relating to exemptions) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(8) APPLICABLE WASH SALES TRANSACTIONS.—No person shall be required to deduct and withhold any amount under subsection (a) with respect to a disposition which is treated as a disposition of a United States real property interest solely by reason of section 897(h)(5).’’. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2005, except that such amendments shall not apply to any distribution, or substitute dividend payment, occurring before the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 507. SECTION 355 NOT TO APPLY TO DISTRIBUTIONS INVOLVING DISQUALIFIED INVESTMENT COMPANIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
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Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil
Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil (1936 - 2000) was a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese businessman, diamonds and commodities trader. He attained prominence in the diamond industry across Africa and Antwerp and became an influential figure in the politics of Sierra Leone through his close association with President Siaka Stevens. Jamil also came to dominate other business sectors including fisheries, tourism construction and aviation.
In 1987, he and several prominent politicians, including Vice President Francis Minah, were implicated, convicted and sentenced to death in the failed assassination plot against President Joseph Momoh. Jamil escaped and was exiled from Sierra Leone.
He returned to Freetown before leaving it again during the 1999 RUF invasion.
Early life
Jamil was born in Freetown in 1936 to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Lebanese father.
Career
Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil built his vast fortune by exporting diamonds to Antwerp during the seventies and eighties. He was arguably the most successful Lebanese trader in West Africa. As a result of his activities, he was considered one of the richest and most powerful men in Africa along with then-President Siaka Stevens.
Association with Siaka Stevens
Jamil found a kindred spirit in President Siaka Stevens who was equally keen to exploit Sierra Leone's gold and diamonds resource for personal gain. In Sierra Leone's post-colonial era, Siaka Stevens association with Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil would have a dramatic effect on government policy. Both of them would, for a time, count themselves among Africa's wealthiest men.
The alliance of Stevens and Jamil was one of convenience. Stevens had access but as a head of state he was prohibited from engaging in commerce.
Jamil became a beneficiary of the kleptocracy established by President Siaka Stevens. His stewardship of the president's personal finances made him the second most powerful man in Sierra Leone. Together they plunged the economy of the fledgling nation in to a state of economic chaos. Jamil encouraged Stevens to ally himself with the Lebanese merchant community who controlled a portion of the official diamond trade and also ran the majority of the unofficial diamond trade. Stevens supported illegal diamond smuggling so much so that on 3 November 1969, $3.4 million worth of the Sierra Leonean government's monthly production of diamonds vanished, allegedly at the order of Stevens and Jamil.
The president granted Jamil's National Trading Company a monopoly to import more than eighty-seven commodities. and turned a blind eye as Jamil become the foremost smuggler of the country's rare gems and minerals, raking in over $300 million. Jamil was christened the "Diamond King".
By 1971 the President had put an end to the De Beers monopoly at the request of Jamil, who had already managed to acquire 12% of the concession. By 1984 Jamil bought the remaining shares from De Beers. That marked the first time De Beers ever lost a monopoly in Africa.
Tommy Taylor-Morgan, the Minister of Finance, warned that Sierra Leone was losing in excess of US$160 million of diamond income annually to diamond smuggling. Corruption and smuggling reached such a level that official diamond production dropped significantly.
In 1985 national currency, the Leone was devalued by nearly 60 per cent and foreign exchange became scarce. Between 1968 and 1985 Stevens and Jamil successfully depleted the finances of Sierra Leone until they had rendered one of the world's biggest producers of diamonds and gold the poorest country on earth.
In a profile of Jamil, C. Magbaily Fyle in his book "Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone," writes that "By the end of the 1970s, Jamil was influencing government and ministerial appointments, and he was dreaded, feared or admired, depending on the perceptions of the viewer."
In 1978, International Construction Company, a construction company owned by Jamil was given the contract to build a presidential residence by President Stevens Located atop Juba Hill in Freetown and spanning over 25 acres, the construction of Kabassa Lodge took two years months to complete. It was finished in time for the 1980 O.A.U. Summit.
In December 1987 Stevens was in London recovering from a stroke. He was to later learn that Jamil had not kept his side of the bargain in all the years they have been associated. In fact the house Stevens was living in, in West London was supposed to have been bought for him by Jamil Said. It turned out this was not the case. It was reported that he told Stevens, he had not put his name [Stevens] on the house to protect him. Stevens reminded him that this was two years after he had resigned from office. Stevens was reported to have confided in his grandson living with him at the house as follows: "that man has used me". "God go pay him"
The Palestine Liberation Organization connections
So great was Jamil's influence that he managed to persuade Stevens's handpicked successor, President Joseph Saidu Momoh, to invite Yasir Arafat for a state visit, at the behest of his personal friend, King Hussein of Jordan. The purpose of Arafat's visit was to secure a deal with Momoh to run a Palestinian paramilitary training camp on one of the islands off Sierra Leone's coast. Arafat offered Momoh $8 million but Momoh eventually caved to Western pressure and officially said no. Instead he permitted Jamil to keep a so-called 500 strong "personal security force" which included Palestinian exiles...
Second exile
Jamil fled from Sierra Leone during the 1999 invasion of Freetown by the RUF rebels. One of his sons was a victim of the atrocities committed by the rebels and was shot dead, in Jamil's presence, when the rebels attacked his house in Freetown. The son was said to have taken the bullet for his father. His old friend, Lebanese Speaker, Nabih Berri arranged for him to escape to Lebanon on a diplomatic passport. Lebanon's legislature.
Jamil died of a stroke in Lebanon. | WIKI |
When Does Linea Nigra Appear?
Pregnancy brings lots of changes to our bodies. Some of it is unexpected- like that growing bump and bigger breasts. But some will catch you by surprise – like the appearance of that vertical black line running from your pubic bone to your belly button.
That vertical line is called Linea Nigra. But why does it appear? What does it mean? And most importantly, when does line nigra appear? Well, this article aims to answer all your questions, so read on to find out!
What is Linea Nigra?
Linea Nigra is a Latin term for black line, and as mentioned above, it pertains to that black vertical line that starts from the pubic bone and ends below the belly button of a pregnant woman. At times, the line even extends from the belly button up to the diaphragm.
What Causes It?
The truth is, that line has been there all along. Before you got pregnant, you already have the connective tissue where your abdominal muscles and meet. At that time, it is still called the linea alba (Latin term for white line).
When you get pregnant, the linea alba starts to darken in color, earning it the term linea nigra. The change in tone comes from an increase in the production of hormones- progesterone and estrogen – during pregnancy. These hormones are needed for the development of your baby.
The surge in these hormones’ levels stimulates the melanocytes in the skin, leading them to produce more melanin. Melanin is the pigment that makes the skin look darker than before. This pigment is also the main reason why you develop darker patches all over your skin during pregnancy.
Will All Pregnant Women Have It?
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Although linea nigra is considered a pregnancy trademark, you will be surprised to know that not all pregnant women may have it. This is most especially true for women who have fair and pale skin. Expect the line to be more evident and apparent in women with naturally darker skin.
But does this mean that there is something wrong with you? Of course, not! Keep in mind that this black line is not a sign or an indication of a normal healthy pregnancy. The absence of the line is just about how your skin responded to the higher levels of hormones in your body – not about your health.
Is It Dangerous?
Seeing a black vertical line suddenly appear in your tummy may be disconcerting, but it is perfectly normal and completely harmless. Dr. Michelle Tollefson, an assistant professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver, claims that the change is just cosmetic and nothing to worry about.
When does Linea Nigra Appear? And When Will It Go Away?
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You will start seeing a brown line running down your belly button to your pubic bone during your second trimester, most probably on your 23rd week.
But will it go away? Or will it stay there forever? Good news, pregnant women! In general, this black line resolves a few months after you give birth to your little one. However, it may never completely disappear, or the brown color will only fade in some women.
When you get pregnant again, you can expect to see this line appear again. If the line did not fade or go away a year after you have given birth and you are a bit worried about it, it is recommended that you consult a dermatologist to determine what are the safe ways that you can deal with it.
What Should You Do About It?
Since linea nigra is a result of hormonal imbalance (which is quite expected during pregnancy), there is nothing much that you can do about it. But if you want to prevent it from making the line even darker, Health Line recommends that you wear sunscreen and, as much as possible, avoid too much sun exposure.
If you wish to wear bikinis or sarees to the beach, the best thing that you can do is to lighten or conceal it. However, you should avoid using bleaching creams as those contain hydroquinone, which can be harmful to your baby. Instead, you should opt for the following lightening and concealing techniques:
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Use Unrefined Cocoa Butter
When you are pregnant, the best thing you can do is stick to organic treatments like using unrefined cocoa butter. This item has been proven effective in lightening linea nigra and addressing stretch marks. It is also perfectly safe for use during pregnancy.
Use Vitamin E Gel Caps
Vitamin E is known for its amazing skin health benefits, and that includes skin lightening! To use this, punch a small hole into the gel caps and squeeze it to get the gel extract. Apply the extract to the belly to lighten the black line.
Conceal It with Makeup
If you will be attending a party and plan to show off your tummy and baby bump, your best option is to cover it using makeup. It will do a great job hiding it even for just a few hours.
Conclusion
Linea nigra – is one of the changes that you will encounter during your pregnancy that you will never expect. It comes from a hormonal imbalance that leads to the production of more melanin in the skin, making your linea alba look darker.
But when does linea nigra appear? You can expect to see this brown to black line appear any time during your second trimester, probably in your 23rd week of pregnancy. And you can expect the line to go away on its own a few months after you have delivered your baby.
Do you have any more questions about this mysterious black line? Or maybe you have more information to tell us? If so, the comments section is wide open for you! You can share your thoughts there!
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Fitting foils to powerboats is all the rage, but how do they work and why is foiling back in fashion?
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What is foiling?
Foiling refers to the use of hydrofoils attached to the hull of fast boats, which provides additional lift at planing speeds – often enough to lift the hull completely clear of the water.
What is the benefit of this?
Efficiency. The enemy of fast boats is the amount of effort required to push them through the water. Planing boats go some way to addressing this by rising up over their own bow wave and skimming across the surface, but the stern sections are still immersed, creating significant hydrodynamic drag. It follows that if you can lift the boat completely clear of the water, hydrodynamic drag is only acting on the foils themselves and the sterngear that propels and steers it.
Any advantages beyond efficiency?
Lifting the boat clear of the surface can reduce the disturbance of waves, smoothing the ride, but only up to a point. It’s not just about lift though – active foils can also be used to improve stability or handling and in some circumstances, can improve efficiency even without lifting the boat.
How do foils work?
Foils work in a similar way to aircraft wings. In simple terms, as they move through the water they deflect the flow, which exerts a force on the foil. If that force is upward, the faster they move, the greater the lift.
So why are they so much smaller than aircraft wings?
Because water is much denser than air – almost 800 times, in fact. The foils have far more to push against than aircraft wings, so don’t require the same surface area.
Photo superyacht Oceanco © Guillaume Plisson
Is this new technology?
Far from it. Foiling technology can be traced back to 1898 when Italian inventor Enrico Forlanini began work on a ‘ladder’ foil system, obtaining patents in both the UK and the USA. He had a prototype operating on Lake Maggiore soon after. British boat designer John Thornycroft followed up with a series of scale models featuring stepped hulls and a single foil, and by 1909 had a full-scale 22ft prototype running. During WWII, the German military developed a 17-tonne foiling mine layer that was tested in the Baltic at speeds of up to 47 knots. By the early 1950s, the first commercial hydrofoil ferry was running between Italy and Switzerland and a decade later, a private hydrofoil yacht featured in the Bond movie Thunderball.
Why did they never catch on in production boating?
Traditionally, high-speed hydrofoils used large V-shaped foils that jutted out beyond the boat’s beam. This made berthing tricky and increased the draught. They were also costly to construct, vulnerable to damage and difficult to power, as the propellers of conventional shaftdrives would be clear of the water once foiling. Lastly, although hydrofoils were often more efficient than monohulls, high-speed cats could usually match the efficiency without the drawbacks.
Why are they back in the news?
Foiling technology came back into public focus when the 2013 America’s Cup contenders started to use foil-shaped daggerboards to hit speeds of more than 40 knots. Ben Ainslie’s spectacular last-gasp victory for the Oracle USA team and his subsequent BAR Land Rover Cup Challenger brought foiling to a global audience. More recently, we’ve seen the emergence of several foiling motor boats, including the SEAir RIB and the Sunreef Open 40 Power. More exciting still is the news that Princess will use an advanced Active Foil System on its new R Class superboat.
What has changed?
Technology has overcome many of the shortfalls of older systems. Simon Schofield, chief technology officer at BAR Technologies, told MBY the real game changer has been the adoption of ‘Dalí’ foils. Instead of two fixed V-shape foils, Dalí foils use four independent L-shaped blades that stick out of the hull at an angle before curving up like Salvador Dalí’s famous moustache. They are far more efficient and can be retracted, solving the berthing and draught issues. In addition, computer-controlled active systems allow the foils to be adjusted to suit speed and sea conditions.
This doesn’t just improve efficiency, it can enhance the ride and handling too. When cornering, for example, a traditional hydrofoil boat doesn’t lean into the turn, making it uncomfortable for passengers. An active system can adjust each foil to induce the correct degree of lean. Modern materials also reduce drag and cavitation.
How about propulsion?
The Enata Foiler uses twin BMW diesel 320hp engines, but instead of being connected to the propellers with hefty drag-inducing shafts and gearboxes, these generate electric power which can be sent down a thin flexible cable to slender electric motors mounted on the retractable rear foils.
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Ringgold Place
Ringgold Place is a set of 26 historical, American, rowhouses located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
History and architectural features
These rowhouses were built circa 1862, and their scale reflects the material shortages during the American Civil War. The three-story brick residences measure fourteen feet by twenty feet, with spartan facades and interiors, and sit on raised basements.
The properties were acquired in 1925, by noted Philadelphia architect George Howe (1886–1955). His office was located at 1900 Ringgold Place and he owned the houses until 1934. He, or Tilden, Register & Pepper, a firm he employed, modernized the dwellings and introduced some decorative elements to the 19th Street facades.
The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. | WIKI |
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Nepali Hero waiting to be world's CNN Heroes Dr. Sanduk Ruit is the CNN Heroes, has performed 1,00,000 eye surgeries alone.His low cost technique (Ruitectomy)has alone benefited 3-4 million people in the poorer part of the world.French and American surgeon train under him for this technique. He has developed cheapest intraocular lens available($5). The man of this expertise can earn millions in the most developped country but he choosed Nepal and scarified his life for the vision of poor people. | WIKI |
Judge John Hodgman on Coerced Equestrianism
Judge John Hodgman Morgan writes: I’m on my university’s equestrian team. I attend weekly riding lessons and compete in weekend horse shows while dressed like a cowboy. My best friend, Mac, attends team meetings and never misses a horse show. Her family also owns horses. But every time I suggest she join the team, she shoots me down. Please order her to begin riding with us. Since you claim you are friends, you must acknowledge that Mac is a human being whom you cannot make jump and canter for your pleasure, or lead to water and make drink from your horse-club Kool-Aid. Accept that she enjoys your company but does not want to join the team or dress like a cowboy. The court understands. In a similar vein of affluent collegiate weirdness, I partied with the Yale Whiffenpoofs a lot (come at me, ladies), but never wanted to be a Yale Whiffenpoof. Too much work and tux time! Some of us are just in it for the hang. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Mesopotamia is located in Asia and lraq and the two main rivers that helped the civilization be successful were the Tigris and Enphrates Rivers.
People moved to the rolling foothills of the Zagros. Then farmers in the Zagros foohills did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing population, so they had to move between the plains of the Tigris and Enphrates River
One problem for farmers who moved was uncontrolled water supply, but farmers created irrigation systems and buit levees along sides of the river to prevent flooding.
Canals had to be cleaned regularly because it was clogged with silt. people worked together so well they began to create larger communities.
As cities grew more people fought over the right to used water.
The solutions to these challenges faced by the Sumerians had transformed Sumerian farming villages into walled city- states. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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by the distant thudding of the guns that were opening fire at long range upon Namur."
But as yet Barnet had seen no more than the mildest beginnings of modern warfare. So far he had taken part only in a little shooting. The bayonet attack by which the advanced line was broken was made at a place called Croix Rouge, more than twenty miles away, and that night under cover of the darkness the rifle pits were abandoned and he got his company away without further loss.
His regiment fell back unpressed behind the fortified lines between Namur and Sedan, entrained at a station called Mettet, and was sent northward by Antwerp and Rotterdam to Haarlem. Hence they marched into North Holland. It was only after the march into Holland that he began to realise the monstrous and catastrophic nature of the struggle in which he was playing his undistinguished part.
He describes very pleasantly the journey through the hills and open land of Brabant, the repeated crossing of arms of the Rhine, and the change from the undulating scenery of Belgium to the flat, rich meadows, the sunlit dyke roads, and the countless windmills of the Dutch levels. In | WIKI |
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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.
Option 1
* Article title
* Britain 'ghost' flight scandal
* Article Evaluation
* No article has been published on wiki yet. Thousands of UK flights have taken off with less than 10% capacity or even no passengers. This scandal has contributed to both the climate crisis and environmental crisis.
* Sources
* National Geographic, The Guardian, Euro News.
Option 2
* Article title
* 2021-Present Global Energy Crisis
* Article Evaluation
* The article discusses the current shortages that have been happening globally and the effects they have had on areas like food shortages and inflation. It also discusses the effects different countries have been experiencing. The article also mentions the responses and actions countries have taken.
* Sources
* Weforum, foreign policy, bloomberg, relief web.
Option 3
* Article title
* 2020-Present Global Chip Shortage
* Article Evaluation
* Discusses the causes of the chip shortage and events that have contributed to the delay of the production of these chips.
* Sources
* JP Morgan, Bain & Company, Wall Street Journal, Computer World.
Option 4
* Article title
* Peloton Treadmill Crisis
* Article Evaluation
* There has not been an article done on this topic. The crisis resulted in lack of communication from the company recalling their treadmills after a death and several injuries.
* Sources
* PR Daily, Forbes, Washington Post, New York Post, BBC. | WIKI |
Facebook’s fact-checking deal with the Daily Caller, explained
Facebook knows that the spread of fake news on the platform during the 2016 presidential campaign was almost its undoing, so it has chosen to partner with third-party media organizations to fact-check publishers on its platform in order to stave off more criticism. That makes sense. But some of its choices in partners — including a new fact-checker funded by a right-leaning news outlet founded by Tucker Carlson — has only invited more. Last week, Facebook announced that it’s partnering with Check Your Fact — a subsidiary of the right-wing Daily Caller, a site known for its ties to white nationalists — as one of six third-party organizations it currently works with to fact-check content for American users. The partnership has already come under intense criticism from climate journalists (among others) who are concerned that the Daily Caller’s editorial stance on issues like climate change, which is uncontroversial among scientists but isn’t treated as such on right-wing media, will spread even more misinformation Facebook. In an interview, Facebook spokesperson Lauren Svensson defended the partnership. She noted that Check Your Fact, like all fact-checkers Facebook partners with, is certified by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Asked about the right-wing proclivities of Check Your Fact’s parent company, Svennson referred to the IFCN’s certification processes and said that “we do believe in having a diverse set of fact-checking partners.” Check Your Fact, for its part, says it operates independently from the Daily Caller, and touts its record of accurate fact-checks. The reality is that Facebook has a fake news problem that could hurt its bottom line, but it also has a political problem. If it doesn’t give credence to popular but disreputable websites like the Daily Caller, it runs the risk of angering Republicans who use the platform. But in credence to sites of that sort, the platform runs the risk or perpetuating the same “fake news” problem third-party fact-checkers are meant to solve. As Timothy B. Lee explained for Vox days after the 2016 election, “fake news” was a big problem on Facebook during that year’s presidential campaign: Over the course of 2016, Facebook users learned that the pope endorsed Donald Trump (he didn’t), that a Democratic operative was murdered after agreeing to testify against Hillary Clinton (it never happened), that Bill Clinton raped a 13-year-old girl (a total fabrication), and many other totally bogus “news” stories. Stories like this thrive on Facebook because Facebook’s algorithm prioritizes “engagement” — and a reliable way to get readers to engage is by making up outrageous nonsense about politicians they don’t like. After a ton of public scrutiny, including in the form of high-profile congressional hearings, Facebook after the election began partnering with news organizations like the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, Lead Stories, PolitiFact, and Science Feedback to fact-check publishers. That’s all well and good — those organizations have reputations for nonpartisanship and accuracy. But in attempting to stifle “fake news,” Republicans have noticed that right-leaning news outlets, ideas, and politicians sometimes got caught up in the purge. Just look to Alex Jones, who actively spread conspiracy theories due to his popularity on platforms like Facebook and YouTube. Conservatives began to complain they were unfairly targeted. Earlier this month, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) held hearings interrogating big tech precisely on the issue of bias against conservatives. To counter those (mostly unfounded) allegations that the platform is biased toward liberals, Facebook is partnering with right-wing sites as well. This leads to situations where Facebook partners with right-leaning organizations to fact-check liberals sites. Some liberal sites have been targeted as “false,” thereby limiting distribution of the “false” article by as much as 80 percent — a big problem considering Facebook is still the most commonly used platform in the country for news, despite reductions in distribution that have hurt liberal and conservative news sites alike. The first conservative site Facebook partnered with for fact-checking was the Weekly Standard, which ceased operations last December. That partnership became a source of controversy three months before then, when conservative fact-checkers flagged an article from the liberal publication ThinkProgress as “false” on semantic grounds. (Full disclosure: I am a former ThinkProgress employee, as are several other current Vox staffers.) As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explained at the time, while the article’s thesis was arguably accurate, the headline likely went too far. But the punishment resulting from the Weekly Standard’s “false” designation was worse than the crime: Last week, the liberal publication ThinkProgress published a piece on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing with the headline “Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade and almost no one noticed.” The fact-checker for the Weekly Standard ruled it was false. Facebook’s punishment mechanism kicked in, and the ThinkProgress article was cut off from being seen by about 80 percent of its potential Facebook audience. On Tuesday, the author of the ThinkProgress piece — editor Ian Millhiser — publicly defended the thesis of his piece and accused Facebook of “pandering to the right” by allowing a conservative magazine to block liberal articles. The stakes here are high: Facebook provides about 10 to 15 percent of ThinkProgress’s traffic, which means that getting choked off from readers there is a nontrivial hit to its readership. Svensson told Vox that there was no direct connection between the Weekly Standard shutting down and Facebook partnering with another conservative site. Facebook reportedly has been interested in partnering with the Daily Caller for some time. In December, the Wall Street Journal reported that Joel Kaplan, a former White House aide to George W. Bush who now serves as Facebook’s global policy chief and is the company’s “protector against allegations of political bias,” made a failed push to partner with the Daily Caller last year: This summer, Mr. Kaplan pushed to partner with right-wing news site The Daily Caller’s fact-checking division after conservatives accused Facebook of working only with mainstream publishers, people familiar with the discussions said. Conservative critics argued those publications had a built-in liberal bias. Mr. Kaplan argued that The Daily Caller was accredited by the Poynter Institute, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based journalism nonprofit that oversees a network of fact-checkers. Other executives, including some in the Washington, D.C. office, argued that the publication printed misinformation. The contentious discussion involved Mr. Zuckerberg, who appeared to side with Mr. Kaplan, and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The debate ended in November when The Daily Caller’s fact-checking operation lost its accreditation. According to IFCN director Baybars Örsek, Check Your Fact was expelled from IFCN’s verified signatories last November because “they failed to disclose one of their funding sources [the Daily Caller News Foundation] in their application,” but were reinstated earlier this year after reapplying. But even though Check Your Fact is now being more transparent about its funding sources, those funding sources in and of themselves present problematic conflicts of interest — ones that the IFCN’s certification process doesn’t account for. All the fact-checkers Facebook partners with are certified by Poynter’s International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). Poynter evaluates applicants based on a set of criteria including “nonpartisanship and fairness,” “transparency of sources,” “transparency of funding and organization,” “transparency of methodology,” and an “open an honest corrections policy.” IFCN certification is a necessary condition for partnering with Facebook, but once a site is certified, it’s up to Facebook to decide whether to partner with it. There are currently 62 organizations with IFCN certification globally, but Facebook only partners with six in the United States. “We don’t believe we at Facebook should be responsible for the veracity of content,” Facebook spokesperson Svensson told me. “We believe in the credibility of fact-checkers that [IFCN] certifies.” Notably, however, the IFCN’s criteria for certification does not include conflicts of interest. That’s the source of one of the concerns climate journalists are raising about Check Your Fact. According to a report published last month by PRWatch, the Charles Koch Foundation accounted for 83 percent of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s revenues in 2016, and the Daily Caller News Foundation employs some of Check Your Fact’s fact-checkers. Greenpeace reports that the Koch Family Foundations spent more than $127 million from 1997 to 2017 financing groups “that have attacked climate change science and policy solutions.” That conflict of interest has raised concerns that Check Your Fact’s fact-checking role could have a chilling effect on climate journalism on Facebook. As leading climatologist Michael Mann told ThinkProgress, “It is appalling that Facebook has teamed up with a Koch-funded organization that promotes climate change denial. ... Facebook must disassociate itself from this organization.” Facebook says it wants a “diversity” of organizations for fact-checking, but according to Media Bias/Fact Check, none of the fact-checkers Facebook currently partners with in the US are left-leaning, and Check Your Fact is the only one with a right-of-center rating. Facebook is essentially buying into the argument conservatives have laid forth — that mainstream news outlets have a liberal bias and that conservatives need special consideration in the process. Check Your Fact’s website pledges that the site is “non-partisan” and “loyal to neither people nor parties — only the truth.” (Full disclosure: Check Your Fact has also fact-checked one of this author’s own tweets). It also talks up the website’s “editorial independence.” Indeed, a perusal of Check Your Fact’s website doesn’t indicate that there’s anything factually wrong with the site’s fact-checks, but the stories it chooses to fact-check speak to a bias of its own. For instance, as of April 30, the site’s homepage features more fact-checks of statements made by Hillary Clinton — for example, “FACT CHECK: Did Hillary Clinton Once Say That Democratic Voters Are ‘Just Plain Stupid’?” (the site notes there’s no evidence Clinton ever said it) — than it does statements from the current president, Donald Trump, who just surpassed a historic 10,000 false or misleading claims from mainstream fact-checkers. And as Scott Waldman recently detailed for E&E News, even when Check Your Fact does fact-checks of claims like Trump’s recent one about wind turbines causing cancer that ultimately arrive at the correct conclusion (Trump’s claim was false), the site elevates fringe voices in the process. While the website labeled the claim as false — and quoted cancer experts saying as much — it also quoted National Wind Watch, an antiwind group that organizes and fights against wind turbines throughout the country. A spokesman for that group claimed the president was correct; he said turbines cause a lack of sleep and stress, which can lead to cancer. In March, Check Your Fact gave credence to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s claims that the Green New Deal would cost more than every dollar the federal government has spent in its history. The Kentucky Republican and Check Your Fact relied on a single study, produced by a conservative think tank, the American Action Forum. But the author of that study has acknowledged that its calculation of a $93 trillion price tag is essentially a guess, since the Green New Deal is currently a vague resolution. E&E News has reported on how the American Action Forum is connected to a web of conservative groups that fund political attacks through undisclosed donors and that have been funded by fossil fuel lobbying interests opposed to environmental regulations (Climatewire, April 1). It would be hard to complain if Facebook partnered with reputable websites for fact-checking. But in order to preempt accusations of left-wing bias, the platform has repeatedly partnered with outlets that draw into question how committed the platform really is to rooting out fake news. (In a statement sent to Vox, Check Your Fact editor David Sivak pushed back on characterizations of his site as being biased toward the right, writing, “[t]hese last couple of weeks have been revealing, as a number of news outlets have resorted to misrepresenting our work. Even when we fact-check conservatives for putting words in Hillary Clinton’s mouth, that’s somehow misconstrued as conservative ‘bias’ on our part. The truth is, Check Your Fact has a two-year track record of fair, evenhanded articles that hold figures on both sides of the political aisle accountable, including Trump.”) There are indications that Facebook’s fact-checking problems go deeper than its partnership with the Daily Caller. In February, one of the sites that was working with Facebook, Snopes, announces it was ending the partnership. Two months before that announcement, the Guardian reported on some of the frustrations that may have motivated that decision. “Current and former Facebook factcheckers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration with outside reporters has produced minimal results and that they’ve lost trust in Facebook, which has repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the impacts of their work,” the Guardian reported. Facebook knows that it faces a tough situation. Much of its value lies in the fact that it has such a wide user base — liberal or conservative, old or young — and that it can monetize those users. The prevalence of misinformation threatens its ability to survive in a very real way, but so does potential regulation from Republican politicians who don’t seem to have a firm grasp of how the internet works but harp on about liberal bias anyway. Facebook, by partnering with a right-wing fact-checking organization, is making a concession to conservative arguments. But by not including liberal sites, it’s also tacitly suggestion that mainstream outlets have a liberal bias — which isn’t necessarily true. There’s no doubt that Facebook has had a tough year in a lot of ways. Its valuation dropped roughly $120 billion last summer, it suffered a number of security breaches, and it’s been accused of helping incite genocide. In some ways, offering up a right-leaning fact-checking organization to mollify Ted Cruz might seem like the least of its worries. But it has a very heavy thumb on the scale of which news outlets survive in an era when so much news is obtained online. The way it responds to conservative critics says a lot about which ones are the most useful for its own survival. The news moves fast. To stay updated, follow Aaron Rupar on Twitter, and read more of Vox’s policy and politics coverage. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
How to Fix iPhone 12 Keeps Restarting by Itself
Are you facing a dilemma where your very new iPhone 12 keeps restarting by itself? This post is created to help you resolve the problem. Read further and find out how to rectify this issue on your new iPhone.
How to Deal with iPhone 12 that Keeps Restarting by Itself
A bad battery connector or a defective hardware component can be the main reason on why an iPhone will keep on restarting. However, software issues can also contribute to power problems on the device. The procedures found on this post is recommended to address software glitches.
If you are confident that the phone has not incurred any physical stress that could result in a restarting symptom, then go ahead and follow the steps that you can read below.
First Solution: Force Restart your iPhone 12
Initiating a force restart will allow you to do an aesthetic battery calibration on your iPhone. This process will cut off the power distribution on the device and might be able to fix the restarting on its own problem if this is caused by a software glitch.
1. Press and release the Volume Up button quickly.
2. Press and release the Volume Down button quickly.
3. Lastly, press and hold the Side button for a few seconds until you see the Apple logo.
Let’s say that you are able to fix the problem and the phone has stopped restarting after the force restart, then update all apps on your device. Rogue apps could also contribute to power issues and may have been the reason why your iPhone 12 keeps restarting by itself.
1. From the Home screen, tap on App Store to open it.
2. Tap on Today tab at the bottom-left corner.
3. Then tap on the user profile icon on the top right corner of the screen.
4. You should see the account details.
5. Scroll down to the Available Updates section.
6. Tap on Update next to the app to update individual apps.
7. Tap on Update All to update all apps simultaneously.
Second Solution: Restore your iPhone 12 via Recovery Mode
Restoring the phone’s software should be done if it experiences vague issues like restarting on its own. This procedure is an advanced solution that’s being used to address iOS glitches.
You’ll just need to have a Mac or Windows computer with the latest iTunes installed, plus a good internet connection. Also ensure that your computer runs on the latest operating system that is compatible with your iPhone.
Once you have that, connect your device to the computer using the Apple-supplied USB/lightning cable. Then allow iTunes to sync with your iPhone and backup files, if possible. Once the backup is secured, follow these steps to put your iPhone 12 in recovery mode and then restore iOS in iTunes:
1. Press and release the Volume Up button quickly.
2. Press and release the Volume Down button quickly.
3. Then press and hold the Power/Side button once prompted with Connect to iTunes screen. Do not release the button when the Apple logo appears as you will need to enter recovery mode state.
4. Once you enter the recovery mode, you’ll see either Update or Restore option.
5. Select Restore if you want to reinstall and download iOS on your device without erasing data.
Do not disconnect your phone and keep it connected until the entire restore process is finished. On-screen prompts should tell you if it is time to unplug your iPhone from the computer. Once software restoration is done, test your device and see if it fixes the issue.
Third Solution: Put your iPhone 12 in DFU Mode
Device Firmware Update (DFU) mode restore is the most in-depth type of restore that you can do to your iPhone. It addresses severe issues caused by software bugs and glitches as it can put your device in a state to communicate with iTunes even when the bootloader is not sync or activated.
1. Connect your iPhone 12 to the computer using the supplied USB/Lightning cable. Once connected, open iTunes on your computer.
2. Press and quickly release the Volume up button.
3. Press and quickly release the Volume down button.
4. Press and hold the Side/Power button until the screen goes black.
5. After the screen turns black, press and hold the Volume down button while keep holding down the Power/Side button
6. Wait for 5 seconds then release the Power/Side button but keep holding the Volume down button until your iPhone 12 shows up in iTunes.
7. Release the Volume down button once you see your iPhone in iTunes then follow the rest of the on-screen instructions to start restoring your iPhone through iTunes.
After a successful DFU mode restore, perform a force restart to exit from this mode. Then check if your iPhone 12 will still restart on its own.
Still Getting an iPhone 12 Keeps Restarting by Itself Issue
If the issue has not been rectified by the procedures listed above, then it is time that you bring your phone to the nearest Apple service center in your area. This problem should be checked by an authorized personnel as this could be a hardware issue. If that is something that is covered under warranty, a replacement might be initiated to fix the iPhone 12 that keeps restarting by itself.
Also Read: How to Fix Facebook Keeps Crashing on iPhone 12
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Honorable Tamra GORMLEY, Family Court Judge, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Appellant, v. JUDICIAL CONDUCT COMMISSION, Appellee.
Nos. 2009-SC-000736-RR, 2010-SC-000010-RR.
Supreme Court of Kentucky.
Aug. 26, 2010.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing Jan. 20, 2011.
John Wickliffe Hays, William A. Hos-kins, III, Jackson Kelly PLLC, Lexington, KY, Counsel for Appellant.
James D. Lawson, Executive Secretary, Judicial Conduct Commission, George F. Rabe, Lexington, KY, Counsel for Appel-lee.
MEMORANDUM OPINION OF THE COURT
The Honorable Tamra Gormley, Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Family Court Division, pursuant to SCR 4.290, appeals from two final orders of the Judicial Conduct Commission, which found three counts wherein Judge Gormley violated the Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct. For the violations in Counts I and II, the Commission imposed a public reprimand and suspended Judge Gormley from her duties as Family Court Judge, without pay, for a period of forty-five days. For the violations in Count V, the Commission imposed a public reprimand. We affirm in both appeals.
COUNT I
Count I arose out of a marriage dissolution action and a domestic violence action in the Scott County Family Court. Judge Gormley received a report from the Family Violence Project on December 19, 2007, concerning a social worker’s belief of the husband’s dangerous propensities. A hearing was scheduled for February 20, 2008, to consider a pro se motion filed by the wife for a modification of the no contact provision of the domestic violence order against her husband. Although both parties had counsel of record, both parties appeared that morning without their lawyers. While the parties were waiting in the hall way of the courthouse for their case to be called, they had a conversation.
A bailiff informed Judge Gormley that witnesses had reported that the husband had contact with the wife in the hallway and had attempted to convince her to leave the courthouse. Judge Gormley interviewed two of the witnesses before the hearing and also heard that the previous night, the husband, at the wife’s invitation, had visited the wife at her home. Judge Gormley had the parties called into the courtroom.
Neither party had his/her lawyer present. Judge Gormley, without notice to the husband that a criminal contempt of court hearing was to be held, proceeded to conduct the hearing. Judge Gormley failed to advise the husband that he had the right to counsel, that he did not have to respond to questions by the Court, and that his answers to the Court’s questions might be used to subject him to criminal contempt sanctions. Judge Gormley conducted an impromptu summary hearing by calling one witness for questioning about the occurrence in the courthouse hallway. She did not allow the husband to question this witness and denied the husband’s request to review security tapes from the hallway cameras that may have provided information about the events in the courthouse hallway (then being denied by the husband). Judge Gormley questioned the husband under oath and learned that he had contact with his wife the night before and again that day in the hallway of the courthouse.
Based on the ex parte information she had obtained from the two witnesses, the bailiff, and the information obtained from the husband in her questioning, Judge Gormley found the husband in contempt of court and sentenced him to six months in jail for criminal contempt. On appeal, the Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed Judge Gormley’s contempt finding and remanded the matter to the Scott Family Court “for an appropriate evidentiary hearing concerning all the allegations of contempt.”
By a vote of 6-0, the Commission found that as to Count I:
Judge Gormley engaged in misconduct in office and failed to observe high standards of conduct in violation of Canon 1, failed to respect and comply with the law and to act in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary in violation of Canon 2A, failed to adhere faithfully to the law in violation of Canon 3A and B(2), failed to accord a party (the husband) the right to be heard, considered ex parte communications with witnesses, and independently investigated facts in violation of Canon 3(B)(7), and failed to dispose of judicial matters fairly in violation of Canon 3(B)(8).
COUNT II
Count II arose out of a dissolution of marriage action in Woodford County. The parties were divorced on March 26, 1998, in Woodford County. The parties were awarded joint custody of their two minor children, a daughter, age four, and a son, age two. The husband was designated primary custodian of both children. Shortly after the divorce, the husband moved to Rowan County with the children; and the wife moved to Franklin County. On July 15, 2008, the husband still lived in Rowan County; and the wife still lived in Franklin County. On this date, the wife visited the Circuit Clerk in Woodford County seeking custody of the children. The wife received a blank motion form, on which she wrote the following request: “Emergency temporary custody order. Evaluation and Assessment for children for emotional, verbal and physical abuse. Medical and psychological assessments.” The wife signed the form (not verified), and it was filed with the divorce case number. The wife visited Judge Gormley the same date and requested emergency ex parte relief, stating that her daughter, now fourteen, had recently called her to state that her father, the husband, had physically abused her by yanking her - out of bed by her hair. The wife also stated that recently, when she picked up her daughter from the husband’s house to attend a church event, her daughter stated to her that she did not want to go back to her father’s house because she did not feel safe there. Based on these oral statements from the wife, Judge Gormley converted the motion for a change of custody (in the divorce case) to a petition for an emergency protective order (EPO), with a new case number. She issued an EPO and noticed the husband for a hearing on July 24, 2008, to consider a domestic violence order (DVO).
The husband appeared on July 24, 2008, with his attorney, who was a bit confused as to why the husband had been summoned because there was no petition for an EPO on file. Counsel’s motions to dismiss or to transfer to Rowan County (where the children lived) were denied by Judge Gormley. She did, however, continue the case until August 14, 2008, to give the attorney time to prepare for the DVO hearing.
On that date, the husband, through counsel, renewed his motions to dismiss or to transfer the case to Row an County. The motions were summarily denied. At that point, Judge Gormley announced that she was ready to go forward on the DVO but would rather get an agreement from everybody for a modification of custody in the divorce case. She explained that if there were an agreed order in the divorce case, she would convert the DVO to a restraining order, dismiss the DVO, and take it out of the court’s electronic database. She would then give the wife primary custody of her daughter with certain conditions for visitation with the father, such as counseling for the father and the daughter. Counsel resisted an agreed order, informing the judge that if that was going to be the order, to enter it as the court’s order. Judge Gormley was irritated with that suggestion, insisting that it had to be an agreed order with no right to appeal and that it had to be settled that day, once and for all. When counsel again declined to agree, Judge Gormley addressed the husband directly, informing him there would be an agreed order (in the divorce case) changing custody to the mother with visitation under certain conditions, with no appeal, or she would enter a DVO with no contact between the father and his daughter. The father quickly consented to an agreed order. The father explained to Judge Gormley that “you’re all talking a lot of things I don’t understand,” but he would agree to whatever it took to get visitation with his daughter. Judge Gormley then had the daughter brought into the courtroom and worked out the conditions of visitation and related matters.
On September 2, 2008, the Woodford County Attorney made a motion to transfer the case to Rowan County for purposes of determining the mother’s child support arrearages. Judge Gormley denied the motion and sua sponte suspended support payments for the daughter.
Sometime after the September 2, 2008, hearing, Judge Gormley learned that the mother had been arrested on a flagrant nonsupport warrant and was still in jail. Judge Gormley sua sponte scheduled a hearing on custody for September 11, 2008. At that hearing, counsel for the father inquired of Judge Gormley the purpose of the hearing. Judge Gormley explained that she was upset that the father had started the nonsupport action because he lost the custody battle for the daughter and that she (Judge Gormley) was going to have the Cabinet investigate the father’s relationship with his son because she (Judge Gormley) was of the opinion that the father should not have custody of the son.
When the Woodford County Attorney explained that the flagrant nonsupport case started long before the start of the change of custody hearing, Judge Gormley put the father under oath and demanded to know what actions he took concerning the non-support, both before and after the August 14, 2008, custody hearing. Judge Gormley did order a “[h]ome evaluation of [the father’s] home re: safety and well being of son”; and because the mother was in jail, Judge Gormley transferred custody of the daughter to friends of the mother with a provision of no contact with the father until further order of the court.
The father’s attorney received an emergency stay and eventually a writ of prohibition from the Court of Appeals (which this Court affirmed), prohibiting the Woodford County Family Court from enforcing its orders in this case and from any further action stemming from the motion for a change of custody. The daughter was ordered returned to her father’s custody immediately.
The Judicial Conduct Commission, by a 5-1 vote, found
by clear and convincing evidence that Judge Gormley’s actions in the litigation described in Count II violated SCR 4.020(l)(b)(i) and (v) and constitutes misconduct in office and violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct. Specifically, the Commission finds that Judge Gorm-ley failed to observe high standards of conduct in violation of Canon 1, that she failed to respect and comply with the law and to act in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary in violation of Canon 2A, that she failed to maintain faithful obedience to the law and impartiality in violation of Canon 3A and B(2), that she acted with bias and prejudice and was not impartial in violation of Canon 3B(5), that she failed to accord a party (the father) the right to be heard according to law and considered ex parte communications with the mother in violation of Canon 3B(7), and failed to dispose of judicial matters fairly in violation of Canon 3B(8).
COUNT y
Count V arose as a result of a standing order (Standing Order Re: Toyota Child Support Modification) dated May 8, 2009, of Judge Gormley for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit. The standing order arose as a result of concerns that the Scott County Attorney’s Office had in its child support office. Based on a rumor that a semiannual bonus was not going to be paid by Toyota that year, the office staff was afraid of being inundated with requests by Toyota workers for child support modifications. The Scott County Attorney requested a written order be entered providing no modification of child support would be considered for Toyota employees until after December 31, 2009. Judge Gormley signed an Order on May 8, 2009; and it was entered May 11, 2009, in the Scott Circuit Court Clerk’s Office. The Order was also entered May 12, 2009, with the Bourbon Circuit Court Clerk and entered May 14, 2009, with the Woodford Circuit Court Clerk. The Order was styled, “STANDING ORDER RE: TOYOTA CHILD SUPPORT MODIFICATION.” The body of the Order provided:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that no modifications of child support shall be considered until December 31, 2009[,] for employees of Toyota Motor Manufacturing. If at that time the statutory 15% has been met[,] then the Court may consider modification at that time.
The Order was an outright prohibition on child support modifications. Even though the original concern was with the anticipated increase in filings due to the possibility of no semi-annual bonuses, the Order contained no reference to said bonus issue nor did the Order exempt modification for other reasons, such as salary increases, medical expenses, or other changes in circumstances that are normally considered by a court.
Within days of the Order being entered, Toyota announced that it would be paying the bonuses. Also, near the end of May 2009, the Executive Secretary of the Judicial Conduct Commission notified Judge Gormley of the Commission’s concern over the May 8, 2009, Order. Nevertheless, Judge Gormley waited some six weeks, until July 13, 2009, to rescind the May 8, 2009, Order.
As a result of entering the May 8, 2009, Order in the three counties, the Judicial Conduct Commission found, by a 5-1, vote that Judge Gormley
violated SCR 4.020(l)(b)(i) and (v) in that her actions constituted misconduct in office and violated SCR 4.300, the Code of Judicial Conduct. Specifically, she failed to observe high standards of conduct in violation of Canon 1; she failed to respect and comply with the law and to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary in violation of Canon 2A; she failed to be faithful to the law in violation of Canon 3A and B(2); she failed to accord every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person’s lawyer, the right to be heard according to law in violation of Canon 3B(7) and she failed to dispose of all judicial matters promptly, efficiently and fairly in violation of Canon 3B(8).
PENALTY
For the violations in Count I and Count II, the Commission imposed a public reprimand and suspended Judge Gormley from her duties as a Family Court Judge, without pay, for a period of forty-five days. For the violations in Count V, the Commission imposed a public reprimand. The Commission found Judge Gormley not guilty of the remaining counts, which need not be discussed further.
APPEAL
Judge Gormley appealed from both Final Orders of the Judicial Conduct Commission. We consolidated the appeals.
A. Standard of Review.
Section 121 of the Kentucky Constitution authorizes the Commission to suspend without pay, or to remove, a judge or justice for good cause, with judicial review directly to the Supreme Court. The evidence to sustain the charges before the Commission must be “clear and convincing.” On appeal, this Court must accept the findings and conclusions of the Commission “unless they are clearly erroneous” or “unreasonable.” This Court has the power to affirm, modify, set aside, or remand orders of the Commission.
B. We Affirm as to Count I.
On appeal, Judge Gormley argues that the Judicial Conduct Commission does not have jurisdiction over what should have been appeals of judicial decisions. That is, the Commission reviewed judicial decisions for alleged legal errors and sought to impose sanctions by calling it judicial misconduct.
1. Improper Summary Criminal Contempt.
More specifically, as to Count I, Judge Gormley asserts that she had the authority and the right to punish the husband in a summary proceeding for direct criminal contempt; and that if any errors were made, the husband’s remedy was through an appeal, not through the Judicial Conduct Commission. She cites for authority SCR 4.020(2), which provides that “[a]ny erroneous decision made in good faith shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.”
An explanation of a court’s contempt powers is in order. “Contempt is the willful disobedience toward, or open disrespect for, the rules or orders of a court.” Contempt can be classified as civil or criminal. Civil contempt is when someone fails to follow a court order to do something. That something is usually for the benefit of a party litigant (e.g., pay child support, allow visitation, fix something by a certain date, move a driveway, clean up a spill, close a business by a certain hour, provide discovery, etc.). A judge may incarcerate someone for civil contempt in order to motivate the person to obey the court order, but the contemptuous one is entitled to be released upon compliance with the court’s order. Criminal contempt, on the other hand, is when a person disobeys a court order out of disrespect for the rules or orders of court. A contemptuous person can be incarcerated for criminal contempt; but unlike civil contempt, the primary purpose of criminal contempt is to punish the contemptuous conduct.
Criminal contempt can be either direct or indirect. A direct contempt is committed in the presence of the court and is an affront to the dignity of the court. It may be punished summarily by the court, and requires no fact-finding function, as all the elements of the offense are matters within the personal knowledge of the court. In re Terry, 128 U.S. 289, 9 S.Ct. 77, 32 L.Ed. 405 (1888). Indirect criminal contempt is committed outside the presence of the court and requires a hearing and the presentation of evidence to establish a violation of the court’s order. It may be punished only in proceedings that satisfy due process. Cooke v. United States, 267 U.S. 517, 45 S.Ct. 390, 69 L.Ed. 767 (1925).
Judge Gormley summarily held the husband in contempt of court for his actions that occurred, outside of her perception, in the hallway and at the wife’s home. However, as this was a case of indirect criminal contempt, summary proceedings were inadequate. As the Commission correctly held:
"While a court undoubtedly has the power to hold a person in contempt of court for actions that occur outside the sensory perception of the judge (as was true in this situation), the court may not exercise that power without holding a hearing that provides the person with advance notice of the contempt proceeding and with a full opportunity to be heard and that is conducted in full accord with a person’s rights to due process of law (including right to assistance of counsel, right not to answer questions that could result in criminal sanctions, the right to cross examine witnesses, and the privilege against self-incrimination).
Judge Gormley clearly erred in holding a summary criminal contempt proceeding for indirect criminal contempt in Count I, and the Commission so found.
2. SCR 4.020(2) is Inapplicable to the Misconduct in this Case.
Finding Judge Gormley clearly erred on the law is only the first half of the analysis. Judge Gormley, citing SCR 4.020(2), asserts that she made the decision in good faith and cannot be subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction for good faith, but erroneous, decisions. To err is human. Our present Kentucky Constitution, Section 115, recognizes that a judge may err by providing most judgments are subject to at least one appeal. A party that believes the judge erred has the right to appellate review to seek a change in the judgment— that is judicial review. If the judge erred, the judgment can be corrected. Incompetent judges can be eliminated at the ballot box.
i. Judge Gormley acted in bad faith.
Judicial misconduct is different. The Judicial Conduct Commission’s review is not focused merely on the judge’s findings, conclusions, and ultimate judgment, but on the judge’s demeanor, motivation, or conduct in following (or in not following) the law. The Commission conducted its review and concluded the errors in Count I were so egregious that Judge Gormley could not claim the errors were made in good faith. We believe Judge Gormley’s handling of the matter, together with the egregious rulings, displayed a bias or preconception or a predetermined view against the husband so as to impugn the impartiality and open-mindedness necessary to make correct and sound rulings in the case. In other words, we agree with the Commission’s implicit finding that Judge Gormley acted in bad faith.
ii. Judge Gormley engaged in a pattern of misconduct.
Judge Gormley argues that precedent requires her to have engaged in a pattern of misconduct before she may be subjected to sanctions. Although Hinton does seem to suggest such a requirement, we refuse to continue to adhere to an inflexible rule that a judge must have engaged in a pattern of misconduct before being subjected to sanctions. Instead, although a judge may properly be sanctioned for engaging in a pattern of misconduct, we now affirmatively hold that even one egregious or bad faith incident of judicial misconduct may properly subject a judge to discipline. To the extent that it holds to the contrary, Hinton is overruled. But, regardless, we believe Judge Gorm-ley’s commission of three serious acts of misconduct within approximately fifteen months is sufficient to support a conclusion that she engaged in a pattern of misconduct.
iii.The “egregious error” method of committing sanctionable judicial misconduct.
We agree with Judge Gormley that SCR 4.020(2) prevents a judge from being sanctioned for committing a good faith legal error. Something more than committing a good faith legal error is obviously required before a judicial officer may be properly disciplined. But Courts have sometimes struggled to define precisely what that “something more” must be and have used various formulas to attempt to explain what differentiates a good faith legal error from sanctionable misconduct. Perhaps what constitutes misconduct would be apparent to the members of this Court and the Commission. But we agree with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s observation that “[w]hile it may always be possible for this or any court to determine on an T know it when I see it’ basis whether judicial conduct violates [the Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct], that approach is plainly unsatisfactory.”
Judge Gormley contends that the Commission erred by finding her guilty of misconduct without having found that she engaged in a pattern of misconduct or acted in bad faith. She also takes issue with our purported failure in our original opinion in this matter to set forth clearly when a judicial officer may be subjected to sanctions. So, for the benefit of the bench, bar, and citizens of the Commonwealth, we shall expressly set forth when a judicial officer may be properly sanctioned for legal error.
As previously discussed, a judicial officer may be properly sanctioned for acting in bad faith or having engaged in a pattern of misconduct. Because the bad faith and pattern of misconduct methods of committing sanctionable misconduct do not sufficiently address all improper conduct that crosses the line into being sanctiona-ble judicial misconduct, we now join the Commission in expressly adopting the rationale of our sister court in Louisiana that a judge may be disciplined for “a legal ruling or action made contrary to clear and determined law about which there is no confusion or question as to its interpretation....”
Accordingly, a judicial officer may be sanctioned if the judge committed at least one serious, obvious, egregious legal error that is clearly contrary to settled law. Judge Gormley argued on rehearing of our original opinion that we had essentially de facto adopted a new “egregious error” standard without openly so stating and without affording her an adequate opportunity to defend herself under that “new” standard. But our express adoption on rehearing of the Louisiana court’s egregious error standard causes Judge Gorm-ley to suffer no prejudice because we affirm the Commission’s conclusions that Judge Gormley acted in bad faith and engaged in a pattern of misconduct, both of which were already established methods of committing sanctionable judicial misconduct. Although we believe Judge Gorm-ley’s actions fall precisely within it, our adoption today of the “egregious error” standard utilized in Louisiana courts does not really affect the outcome of Judge Gormley’s cases. We address whether Judge Gormley’s actions fall within the egregious error standard only as an illustrative guide for future cases.
iv. Application of egregious error standard.
A Family Court judge must not only graduate from law school, but pass the bar examination, and have practiced law for at least eight years before becoming a Family Court judge. All Kentucky judges are provided with computers and a subscription for online legal research. Most, if not all, Family Court judges are given support staff, one of whom is a licensed attorney. Judge Gormley knew, or should have known, that she was acting erroneously in this case but proceeded to plow forward seemingly without regard for fundamental rights and with a seeming disregard for the law. In other words, even if we had determined that Judge Gormley’s actions in Count I did not constitute bad faith, we would conclude that Judge Gormley violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by making egregious “legal ruling[s] ... contrary to clear and determined law about which there is no confusion or question as to its interpretation ....” Also, Judge Gormley’s actions in Count I are a component of her having engaged in a pattern of misconduct. In short, as a reviewing court, we cannot say the Judicial Conduct Commission was clearly erroneous in its finding of fact, misconstrued the law, or was unfair in its judgment against Judge Gormley as to Count I.
C. We Affirm as to Count II.
Count II stems from a case similar to Count I. In Count II, the husband filed for a writ of prohibition from the Court of Appeals to prevent enforcement of Judge Gormley’s order changing custody. The legal question before the Court of Appeals was whether the Woodford Family Court was the proper venue/forum for a change of custody when the parties no longer had any connection with Woodford County (the dissolution forum). Both parents/parties had moved out of Woodford County ten years before, and neither had had contact with Woodford County until the wife filed the motion for a change of custody. Both children had lived in Rowan County since shortly after the 1998 divorce. The Court of Appeals decided that the proper forum would be Rowan County, and this Court affirmed.
Again, an erroneous ruling by Judge Gormley; but was it a good faith erroneous ruling on the law, or something more (ie., bad faith, part of a pattern of misconduct, or a sanctionable egregious error)? The Commission reviewed the record and concluded that
Judge Gormley failed to provide the father even the most basic elements of procedural due process. She acted without assuring him notice and an opportunity to be heard, she thwarted his every attempt to present evidence in support of his position (revealed in a video transcript of the August 14 proceeding), and most importantly acted as judge of a Family Court that had no jurisdiction over the matter that had been presented to her through an unusual and extraordinary procedure (an unverified form or motion containing no statement of facts and no grounds for relief). And, most egregiously, Judge Gormley took actions on August 14, 2008[,] that were intended (although unsuccessfully) to have the effect of denying to the father a right to appeal decisions of the Woodford Family Court to-a higher judicial authority.
We agree with the Commission’s implicit finding that Judge Gormley acted in bad faith. When the father’s counsel would not be bullied into going along with Judge Gormley’s attempts to circumvent procedures and the law, she excluded the attorney and dealt directly with the father, threatening him with the loss of custody of his other child unless he accepted Judge Gormley’s “agreed” order. Judge Gorm-ley knew, or should have known, that she was acting erroneously but pushed on. Even if we did not find that Judge Gorm-ley’s actions rose to the level of bad faith, Judge Gormley’s actions in Count II also constitute the type of outrageous and egregious error that may properly subject a judicial officer to sanctions. Finally, Judge Gormley’s actions in Count II also are one component of a pattern of judicial misconduct. We cannot say the Commission’s findings in Count II were clearly erroneous or that the Commission misunderstood the law or the significance of the violations as compared to the sanction.
D. We Affirm as to Count V.
Count V dealt with the “standing order” which denied a class of persons (Toyota employees, and any person looking at the employee’s salary to increase or lower support payments) access to the judicial system. The “standing order” was nothing more than an administrative order which attempted to deal with the rumored influx of “motions for modification of child support orders.” While it is true that administrative matters may be dealt with by local rules, local rules must be approved by the Chief Justice; and rules, especially local rules, cannot deny individuals access to the courts or decline jurisdiction in matters where there is clear statutory authority for filing said motions. There is no doubt that it was error for Judge Gormley to promulgate the standing order.
That being said, did the judicial error cross over to judicial misconduct? The Order was entered May 8, 2009. Less than a week later, Toyota announced the semi-annual bonuses would be paid. The Order was not rescinded. When a representative of the Judicial Conduct Commission contacted Judge Gormley in May about its concerns over the Order, the Order was not rescinded. Not until six weeks later was the Order rescinded. Judge Gormley offered no explanation for her delay in rescinding the Order. The Judicial Conduct Commission thought the evidence was clear and convincing of Judge Gormley’s lack of good faith in handling the matter in Count V. We cannot say its decision was clearly erroneous.
Had the questionable Order been rescinded immediately after the announcement of the bonuses (or shortly thereafter), or within a reasonable time after the Commission expressed its concerns to Judge Gormley, we would be more sympathetic to the “good faith” argument. But when a judge waits, without explanation, another six weeks to rescind a highly questionable order, an order that was based on a rumored (and now moot) fear, we can only conclude that the Commission did not err by concluding that Judge Gormley’s actions in Count V crossed over to judicial misconduct (i.e., we again accept the Commission’s implicit finding that Judge Gorm-ley acted in bad faith). We also note that even if Judge Gormley’s actions in Count V were not made in bad faith, those actions were of a sufficiently outrageous and egregious nature as to satisfy the egregious error standard for judicial misconduct. Moreover, her actions in Count V also are a component of her having engaged in a pattern of misconduct. Although a public reprimand seems light, we will defer to the Judicial Conduct Commission.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, we cannot say the Judicial Conduct Commission was clearly erroneous or unreasonable in holding Judge Gormley guilty of judicial misconduct in Count I, Count II, and Count V. Therefore, we AFFIRM the Judicial Conduct Commission’s order of suspension and public reprimand. The forty-five day suspension without pay shall commence at a date to be set by the Chief Justice by order after this opinion becomes final.
MINTON, C.J.; ABRAMSON, CUNNINGHAM, SCHRODER, SCOTT, and VENTERS, JJ., sitting. MINTON, C.J.; ABRAMSON, CUNNINGHAM, and VENTERS, JJ., concur. SCHRODER, J., concurs in result only by separate opinion in which SCOTT, J., joins. NOBLE, J., not sitting.
SCHRODER, J.,
Concurring In Result only:
As the author of the original Opinion of the Court in the case, rendered August 26, 2010, which upheld the Judicial Conduct Commission’s imposition of a 45-day suspension and public reprimand for Judge Gormle/s violations of the Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct, I concur in result with the majority opinion as modified, because it upholds the sanctions as well. I disagree, however, with the majority’s decision to modify the previously rendered Opinion. CR 76.32(l)(b) requires that a petition for rehearing be granted only when it appears the court has overlooked a material fact in the record, or a controlling statute or decision, or has misconceived the issues presented on the appeal or the law applicable thereto. The majority agrees that there should be no rehearing.
CR 76.32(l)(c) allows a modification or extension, but it is only to be used to simply point out and have inaccuracies corrected, or to have the opinion extended to address matters that were in issue but not discussed. Neither party requested modification or extension, and no basis for modification exists. Nevertheless, the Court, on its own motion, proceeds to modify the opinion to rewrüe the opinion. The new opinion muddles the distinction between misconduct in general (sanctionable conduct per SCR 4.020(l)(b)) and sanctionable “legal errors” per SCR 4.020(2); misinterprets the Hinton holding; and eliminates language from the original Opinion, which the majority decided was too harsh for a fellow judge.
Judge Gormley argues in her petition for rehearing that Hinton v. Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission, 854 S.W.2d 756 (Ky.1993), requires a pattern of misconduct before she may be subject to sanctions. The majority misreads Hinton to say it “suggests” such a requirement and then announces that
we refuse to continue to adhere to an inflexible rule that a judge must have engaged in a pattern of misconduct before being subjected to sanctions. Instead, although a judge may properly be sanctioned for engaging in a pattern of misconduct, we now affirmatively hold that even one egregious or bad faith incident of judicial misconduct may properly subject a judge to discipline.
This paragraph contains a number of errors. First, this Court has never had a rule that a judge must have engaged in a pattern of misconduct before being subjected to sanctions. See SCR 4.020(l)(b). The majority’s holding that it now takes one egregious or bad faith incident to be subject to discipline is actually a limitation on SCR 4.020(l)(b), which has no such requirement.
Judge Gormley, and the majority, are misreading Hinton. The Hinton Court discussed two issues: whether or not Judge Hinton was guilty of violating the Code of Judicial Conduct; and, if guilty, whether a public reprimand (the sanction imposed by the Judicial Conduct Commission) was appropriate where there was not a pattern of misconduct. After reversing the Judicial Conduct Commission and opining that Judge Hinton was “not guilty” of misconduct, the Court added, in dicta, that had Judge Hinton been found guilty, a public reprimand would be too harsh a sanction for the isolated incident at issue, without a pattern of misconduct. The majority for gets that there are sanctions below a public reprimand (a private reprimand or an admonition), and the Hinton Court did not say there can be no sanctions unless there is a pattern of misconduct. The dicta regarding the pattern of conduct was in the context of addressing the severity of the sanction.
To understand the errors in the majority opinion, one must refer back to SCR 4.020, which is divided into two sections. SCR 4.020(l)(b) defines a sanction to be an “admonition, private reprimand, public reprimand or censure” all the way up to “suspension without pay or removal or retirement from judicial office.” SCR 4.020(l)(b) gives the Judicial Conduct Commission authority to sanction judges and justices for the following conduct:
(i) Misconduct in office.
(ii) Persistent failure to perform his duties.
(iii) Incompetence.
(iv) Habitual intemperance.
(v) Violation of The Code of Judicial Conduct, Rule 4.300.
(vi) Any willful refusal or persistent failure to conform to official policies and directives....
(vii) Conviction of a crime punishable as a felony.
Subsections (i) and (v), the first part of subsection (vi), and subsection (vii), all require but a single incident or infraction to merit a sanction. The presence of a pattern of misconduct may be considered in determining the appropriate sanction, but has never been a requirement for finding guilt and grounds for sanctions. Nor is bad faith a requirement In this regard, the majority’s reading of Hinton is in error. Subsections (ii), (iii), (iv), and the second part of subsection (vi), require persistent or habitual conduct to merit a sanction.
SCR 4.020(2) covers erroneous rulings made by a judge and exempts from sanctions those erroneous decisions or rulings made in good faith. SCR 4.020(2) does not distinguish between single or multiple instances of erroneous legal rulings (hereinafter referred to as legal errors). A single legal error made not in good faith may subject a judge to sanctions. A pattern of legal errors (good faith notwithstanding) may also subject a judge to sanctions. By substituting the general term “pattern of misconduct” for “pattern of legal errors” throughout the opinion, the majority creates a murky rule. The original Opinion concluded that Judge Gormley’s legal errors were not made in good faith.
Finally, I disagree with the majority’s omission of language in the original Opinion which it believed was too harsh on Judge Gormley. Modifications are not for writing style and the language was appropriate for the conduct involved.
SCOTT, J., joins.
. The Fourteenth Judicial Circuit includes Bourbon, Scott, and Woodford Counties.
. 2009-SC-000736-RR covers the Order, dated October 30, 2009, containing Counts I and II; 2010-SC-000010-RR covers the Order, dated December 22, 2009, containing Count V. The appeals were consolidated by this Court.
. SCR 4.300.
. Case No. 07-CI-00726.
. Case No. 05-D-00153-002.
. Case No. 95-CI-00306.
. Case No. 08-D-00050-001.
. Case No. 95-CI-00306.
. Gormley v. Dameron, No. 2009-SC-000292-MR, 2009 WL 3526500 (Ky. Oct. 29, 2009).
. Pursuant to SCR 4.290.
. SCR 4.160; Wilson v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Comm'n, 673 S.W.2d 426, 427 (Ky.1984).
. Id. at 427-28.
. Kentucky Judicial Conduct Comm’n v. Woods, 25 S.W.3d 470, 472 (Ky.2000); SCR 4.290(5).
. Commonwealth v. Burge, 947 S.W.2d 805, 808 (Ky.1996).
. Id.
. Id.
. Id.
. Id.
. Id.
. See In re Oliver, 333 U.S. 257, 275, 68 S.Ct. 499, 92 L.Ed. 682 (1948).
. See Nicholson v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Comm'n, 573 S.W.2d 642 (Ky.1978) (the decision on remand).
. Nicholson v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Comm’n, 562 S.W.2d 306, 310 (Ky.1978).
. See Hinton v. Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission, 854 S.W.2d 756, 759 (Ky.1993) ("The Commission did not find the trial judge had engaged in a pattern of impatient, undignified or discourteous conduct so as to merit public censure.... The audio tapes in this case reveal that the exchange between Anderson and Judge Hinton never went beyond normal conversational tone. In view of the fact that this is the first report of alleged misconduct, we believe that public reprimand is an inappropriate sanction.").
. The preamble to SCR 4.300 (the Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct), relied upon by Judge Gormley to demonstrate the necessity of proving that a judge engaged in a pattern of misconduct before sanctions may be imposed, merely provides that whether sanctions are appropriate, and the degree of any sanctions to be imposed, should be determined "on such factors as the seriousness of the transgression, whether there is a pattern of improper activity and the effect of the improper activity on others or on the judicial system.” We construe that preamble as meaning only that the existence of a pattern of improper conduct is one of the factors that may be considered in determining if sanctions are appropriate (and is also a factor that can be used to determine the severity of any sanctions). We disagree with Judge Gormley’s argument that the preamble requires the presence of a pattern of misconduct before a judicial officer may be subjected to sanctions.
.Matter of Benoit, 487 A.2d 1158, 1162-63 (Me. 1985) ("Every trial judge will from time to time commit legal errors in decisions later reversed on appeal, but judicial discipline would be in order in almost none of those cases. Something more than a mere error of law is required to constitute misconduct. ..
. See Cynthia Gray, The Line Between Legal Error and Judicial Misconduct Balancing Judicial Independence and Accountability, 32 Hofstra L.Rev. 1245, 1270-75 (2004).
. Matter of Benoit, 487 A.2d at 1163.
. See Hinton, 854 S.W.2d at 759.
. In re Quirk, 705 So.2d 172, 180-81 (La. 1997).
. See Ky. Const. § 122.
. Judge Gormley acknowledged her staff included a licensed attorney.
. In re Quirk, 705 So.2d at 180-81.
. Dameron, 2009 WL 3526500.
. SCR 1.040(3)(a).
. The Hinton Court deemed the judge's action in jailing an attorney for contempt in that case appropriate and held that the judge did not violate any standards of judicial conduct.
. SCR 4.020(1 )(b)(iii) sanctions incompetence. Nicholson v. Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission, 573 S.W.2d 642, 644 (Ky.1978), recognizes a pattern of legal errors as incompetence.
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PEP Technology For Optimal Shot-Blasting Equipment Effects For Purge Of Castings Of Ferrous And Aluminium Alloys
PEP wheel
Standard shot-blasting machine with hanging hook
Custom-made shot-blasting machine for the process for destroying radioactive elements
In the Spotlight
Gostol-T.S.T. d.o.o. Slovenia – Company Profile GOSTOL - T.S.T. d.o.o. TOLMIN is an internationally recognized company with a long manufacturing tradition. The company production programme takes in shot blasting equipment, foundry equipment, welding construction, design engineering and technical consultancy, and after-sales servicing. The company employs around 100 people. With more than 50 years of technical experience and more than 800 buyers in more than 30 countries Gostol-TST is recognized for its high-quality products.
Key Words: Shot blasting, PEP blasting technology, blast turbine, custom-made shot-blasting machines, costs, savings.
PEP technology in shot blasting
By means of great investment in research and development in recent years Gostol-TST has developed a throwing wheel with curved blades known as PEP, and an automatic ADV PEO abrasive dosage valve, both connected with what has become known as PEP technology. The ADV automatic abrasive dosage valve is used for dosing abrasive means into the throwing wheel. It enables automatic abrasive flow regulation dependent on the desired turbine power and automatic adaptation of abrasive flow depending on the turbine rotating velocity. It removes the possibility of reduced efficiency and overloading and reduces the influence of the human factor on blasting capacity and quality.
With a combination of different types of material it is possible to achieve very different characteristics of blasting, blasting times and cost. PEP technology offers:
-reduced costs of blasting-cleaning
-increased productivity due to shorter blasting time
-increased wearing parts of turbine wearing parts (reduced maintenance costs and breakdowns)
-blasting process controlled ‘on line’
-precise blasting direction of the abrasive jet
-archive abrasive jet power regulation with PEP ADV automatic dosage valve
PEP technology has been developed for reducing blast cleaning costs, meaning approx. 20 % lower energy costs, approx. 10 % lower abrasion costs, and approx. 20 % lower maintenance costs.
The PEP throwing wheel is used for abrasive acceleration, and reaches an outlet speed up to 30 % higher than a classic wheel. The blasting time is shorter by between 20 – 30 %. Two types of rotor with curved blades are installed depending on the working conditions, with carbide blades for heavy-duty conditions such as in a foundry or cast blades. The life span of carbide blades is at least 20 times longer than that of cast blades.
Standard machines for automated blasting
PEP technology is suitable both for new machines and for the adaptation of old machines.
When choosing standard machines it is necessary to consider:
-high-capacity requirements for shot-blasting
-mid-quality requirements of shot-blasting
-mid requirements for iterate processing
-labour costs and energy costs have a crucial impact
In the case of small-batch production an optimal purchase would be a universal machine for automated blasting. These machines are assembled from a parcel or continual universal transportation system that transports the products through the blasting module by universally provided blasting wheels. A high capacity of blasting is achieved by these machines, as well as an appropriate quality of the blasting surface. Different types of products can be processed thanks to the universality of these machines. A high purchase price and relatively low labour costs are characteristic features of the given machines.
High capacities are achieved with mass blasting of work-pieces in large blasting machines. Under mass blasting the complete surface of a separate work-piece is not blasted under the same angle and with the same intensity.
As regards energy these machines are very suitable. Additional savings may be achieved by the installation of modern and highly efficient turbines that besides additional savings of energy also provide savings of abrasive.
Custom-made machines for automatic blasting
Typical requirements for the selection of blasting equipment are as follows:
-mid-capacity requirements for blasting
-high-quality requirements of the blasted surface
-high requirements for iterate processing
-labour costs and energy costs have a crucial impact.
The purchase of a custom-made machine for automatic blasting is optimal in the case of large-batch production or special production or cleaning environment, for example the nuclear industry as seen from the pictures. The transportation system is adjusted to the work-piece and accelerators are ranged in the blast module so as to enable the optimal coverage of the complete surface of the item related to the angle of incidence of the abrasive blast, as well as the intensity of blasting per unit of surface. All these ensure high blasting quality. These machines may also have a fast phase of operation, besides high iteration, mainly under smaller work-pieces and where transportation and handling are not difficult. A purchase price that is relatively high and low labour costs are characteristic of these machines.
Author: Ivan Markocic and Ales Jurman, BSc. in mechanical engineering
GOSTOL-T.S.T. d.o.o. TOLMIN, SLOVENIA
Tel: +386.5.380 1280, Fax: +386.5.380 1290
E-mail: info@gostol-tst.si, www.gostol-tst.com | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
RBC market analyst: Tech is an area of risk in the stock market
The technology sector is an area of risk in the stock market despite it drawing strong interest on Wall Street, an RBC Capital Markets investment strategist told CNBC on Thursday. "And I do think you've got to see some other major sectors take over the leadership," said Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity strategy at RBC. "I'm still pretty optimistic about financials, I think they can continue to do well." "[Tech] has been very crowded by just about every investor camp that you can look at," she said in a "Fast Money Halftime Report " interview. Stocks were lower Thursday, with the at one point down 1 percent, below its 200-day moving average, before regaining some ground. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was lower intraday Thursday, down about 0.5 percent. The Nasdaq has fallen in seven of the past 10 trading days and is down more than 2 percent over the past three months. Better-than-expected earnings failed to push stocks higher as investors were worried about trade and geopolitical events. Calvasina, whose firm is underweight on tech, said she's reined in her enthusiasm a bit on the broader market, adding RBC has lowered its S&P target for the year from 3,000 to 2,890. "We described it as the bull is limping, but he is still moving forward a little bit," said Calvasina, a former chief U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. She said it appears investors don't believe they've overshot their expectations for the year, however. "They're not going to pay up for inflated earnings on tax boosts," Calvasina said. "What they want is confirmation that the real underlying fundamentals are improving. That they're still good. That they're getting better." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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The Video gives you a short overview of how you can jump-start your website testing with testup.io.
The Three Parts of the Editor
On the left side of the editor, you see the browser window of your website you like to test.
On the right, there is the list of checks and inputs.
Anchor Areas
You need to select an anchor area, which indicates that the website is correctly loaded and the next action can be performed.
Anchor areas are easyly recorded by selecting the desired area with the mouse.
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By clicking the play button you execute the action(s). Then you can select the next area for a check.
If the testup.io AI finds all recorded areas on the page, the page is good.
Clicking on a Button
A common command on webites is to perform a search on the site by clicking the search button.
The precondition for the search is that the search button is visible on the site. To check this you can mark the area with the search button and schedule a click.
Clicking the play button searches the magnifying glass icon and clicks on it. The search input field will then appeare on the left.
Enter Text
If you want to enter text to a input field, you have to check first, if that input field appeared. If so, you can send text keys to it.
That means your test checks the search input field by selecting it as an anchor area. Then, you schedule a click and play the action.
Then you can schedule text input simply by typing the text you want with your keyboard and press the play button. The text appears then in the input field.
Enter Special Keys
Entering special keys works in the same way as entering text. Just press the key and the command is recorded.
But it is also possible to press one of the special keys in the insert section in the control center.
Pressing the play button will perform the action.
In this test the search results appear.
Swiping
In order to see the picture of the first item in full, you need to scroll.
You can schedule a swipe in the test, just by swiping on the browser screen.
Then you can check that the item is visible in full.
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Chudinovo
Chudinovo (Чудиново) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
* Chudinovo, Arkhangelsk Oblast, a village in Vyysky Selsoviet of Verkhnetoyemsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast
* Chudinovo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a selo in Chudinovsky Selsoviet of Oktyabrsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast
* Chudinovo, Kirov Oblast, a selo in Podgorodny Rural Okrug of Orlovsky District of Kirov Oblast
* Chudinovo, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Osminskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast
* Chudinovo, Moscow Oblast, a village in Barantsevskoye Rural Settlement of Chekhovsky District of Moscow Oblast
* Chudinovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a village in Grudtsinsky Selsoviet of Pavlovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
* Chudinovo, Novgorod Oblast, a village in Velikoselskoye Settlement of Starorussky District of Novgorod Oblast
* Chudinovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, a selo in Maslyaninsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast
* Chudinovo, Perm Krai, a village in Nytvensky District of Perm Krai
* Chudinovo, Kimrsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Kimrsky District, Tver Oblast
* Chudinovo, Kuvshinovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Kuvshinovsky District, Tver Oblast
* Chudinovo, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Vyaznikovsky District of Vladimir Oblast
* Chudinovo, Vologda Oblast, a village in Andronovsky Selsoviet of Kaduysky District of Vologda Oblast
* Chudinovo, Chudinovsky Rural Okrug, Bolsheselsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Chudinovsky Rural Okrug of Bolsheselsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Markovsky Rural Okrug, Bolsheselsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Markovsky Rural Okrug of Bolsheselsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Borisoglebsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Yakovtsevsky Rural Okrug of Borisoglebsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Osetsky Rural Okrug, Lyubimsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Osetsky Rural Okrug of Lyubimsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Osetsky Rural Okrug, Lyubimsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Osetsky Rural Okrug of Lyubimsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Glebovsky Rural Okrug, Rybinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Glebovsky Rural Okrug of Rybinsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Mikhaylovsky Rural Okrug, Rybinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Mikhaylovsky Rural Okrug of Rybinsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
* Chudinovo, Tutayevsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Velikoselsky Rural Okrug of Tutayevsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast | WIKI |
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Typed functional programming in TypeScript
fp-ts provides developers with popular patterns and reliable abstractions from typed functional languages in TypeScript.
Disclaimer. Teaching functional programming is out of scope of this project, so the documentation assumes you already know what FP is.
Core Concepts
The goal of fp-ts is to empower developers to write pure FP apps and libraries built atop higher order abstractions. It includes the most popular data types, type classes, and abstractions from languages like Haskell, PureScript, and Scala.
Functions
Functional programming is all about pure functions and how to compose them into bigger structures. fp-ts provides a few general functions to support you with composition, constant functions, and more.
Data Types
Data types are the practical part of fp-ts: you can instantiate them with your data to gain properties and functionality that are useful for solving a specific need. Because data types all share common interfaces (through type classes), once you learn how to use one data type, you can apply the same concepts to the others.
Many functions in fp-ts use ad hoc polymorphism, meaning that they have a single implementation that can deal with arguments of different types. To make this work, it is often necessary to provide a data type instance that provides functionality that is specific to the data type.
Note. Data types are not stack safe and there is no trampolining implementation. But for traversing and sequencing lists there is a stack safe and optimized version in each data types.
Type Classes
Type classes provide the theoretical underpinnings of fp-ts: they describe what you can do with your data. To guarantee that they can be safely composed, they are built on laws rooted in abstract algebra and category theory.
Higher Kinded Types
A distinctive feature of fp-ts with respect to other functional libraries is its implementation of Higher Kinded Types, which TypeScript doesn’t support natively. The idea for emulating higher kinded types in TypeScript is based on Lightweight higher-kinded polymorphism. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Source
mediatr / signals.py
import mimetypes
import os.path
from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
from helpers import make_hash
# init mime types dict
mimetypes.init()
class WrongObjectException(Exception):
"Passed objects did not match requirements"
pass
def add_mime_type(instance, **kwargs):
"""
Adding mime-type to uploaded file (for future use).
Would be called on post-save.
"""
if not hasattr(instance, 'mime') or not hasattr(instance, 'file'):
raise WrongObjectException("Object %s does not have 'mime' attribute! Can't set mime-type!" % instance)
if instance.file:
extension = os.path.splitext(instance.file.path)[1].lower()
instance.set_mime(mimetypes.types_map[extension])
#instance.save()
def make_slug(instance, **kwargs):
"""
Set random hash as slug for unnamed items.
"""
if not hasattr(instance, 'slug'):
raise WrongObjectException("Object %s does not have slug attribute! Can't set random slug!" % instance)
if not instance.slug:
if hasattr(instance, 'name') and instance.name:
instance.slug = slugify(instance.name)
else:
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bear all that in mind. Doubtless he can, more or less; but I am inclined to believe more strongly in the less. At any rate he will much more certainly have them in view whilst he keeps them visibly before his eyes. One thing that deters him is the fear of offending the client, who will not believe, when he sees leads and bars in a drawing, how little they are likely to assert themselves in the glass.
Very much the same thing applies to designs and working drawings generally. A thorough craftsman never suggests a form or colour without realising in his own mind how he will be able to get such form or colour in the actual work; and in his working drawing he explains that fully, making allowance even for some not impossible dulness of apprehension on the part of the executant. Thus, if a pattern is to be woven he indicates the cards to be employed, he 256 | WIKI |
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Rh taking She paused a moment. she asked.
she said,
said Charlie.
asked Charlie, with the vague jealousy of everybody characteristic of a man in love.
said Charlie.
On the top of Charlie's tongue was but he was not English enough for that.
he asked.
She stopped in the middle of her sentence.
said Charlie, rather too quickly.
she said—
Charlie made the noise usually written
he said,
Sybil Massington stopped.
she said. You | WIKI |
Jon Huntsman, Trump's former Russia ambassador: Vladimir Putin is 'probably joyful' about claims of Ukraine meddling in 2016 election
(CNN)A former US ambassador to Russia said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "probably joyful" about -- and may have enabled -- the conspiracy theory circulated by some Republicans that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 elections. "He's probably joyful that he has the world talking about something he may have been behind," former Ambassador Jon Huntsman told The Associated Press of Putin in an interview published Friday. "That's the way they operate in Moscow, to try to sow seeds of discontent between the United States and Kiev." The criticism from Huntsman, President Donald Trump's own nominee, comes as Trump and several of his allies have propagated the conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election as the impeachment inquiry into the President intensifies. Huntsman, who resigned in October, is not alone in pushing back on the Ukraine hypothesis. At least nine witnesses in the impeachment inquiry testified that claims of Ukrainian meddling in 2016 were fabricated by the Russians or unsupported by evidence. Others said they weren't aware of anything to corroborate these claims. But the unsupported assertions of Ukrainian involvement are widespread. House Republicans' report analyzing impeachment inquiry evidence thus far asserted that "senior Ukrainian government officials worked in 2016 to support Secretary (Hillary) Clinton." Claims of such a top-down effort by the Ukrainian government to defeat Trump are not supported by the evidence. The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee had looked into allegations that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election and found no evidence to support the claims, sources familiar with the matter told CNN this week. Sources also told CNN that no US intelligence agency has ever produced a product accusing the Ukrainian government of interfering in the 2016 US election. Putin has been linked to efforts to stymie US-Ukraine cooperation before. The Washington Post reported in October that Trump's urging of Ukraine's President to investigate political rivals coincided with Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pushing a disparaging view of the country to Trump. When Trump asked Putin during a May call for his impressions of the new Ukrainian President, Putin said he had yet to speak with him but criticized him as a former comedian linked to a Kremlin-hated oligarch, a Western official familiar with the conversation told the Post. Trump and Putin also met during the G20 summit in June and spoke days after Trump's July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. CNN's Tara Subramaniam, Marshall Cohen and Jake Tapper contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
SMS Spalato
SMS Spalato was a torpedo cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the second member of the Zara-class cruiser. She was laid down in September 1878, launched in August 1879, and commissioned in September 1881. Too slow to be used in her intended roles as a fleet scout and a flotilla leader, she was immediately taken ashore for several modifications to her propulsion system in an unsuccessful attempt to rectify the problem. As a result, she saw little active service, being used primarily for training purposes. She served in the artillery training school for most of the period between 1897 and 1914. During World War I, she served as a guard ship in Pola, and after the war was ceded to Italy as a war prize. She was broken up for scrap sometime thereafter.
Design
Spalato was 62.71 m long overall, with a beam of 8.22 m and a draft of 4.1 m. She displaced 833 LT. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of two-cylinder vertical compound steam engines, with steam provided by five cylindrical fire-tube boilers. On trials, Spalato reached a speed of 12.63 kn from 1370 PS. Her crew numbered 13 officers and 135 enlisted men.
The ship's gun armament consisted of four 9 cm 24-caliber (cal.) Breech-loading guns in single mounts, along with one 7 cm 15-cal. breech-loading gun and two 25 mm Nordenfelt guns. She was also armed with four torpedo tubes. The torpedo tubes were located singly, two in the bow and at either beam. Spalato was protected with a thin 19 mm armored deck.
Service history
Spalato was laid down in September 1878 by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino at their San Rocco shipyard and launched on 30 August 1879. She was towed to Pola on 27 July 1880 to have her originally-fitted propellers replaced with larger screws, as had been done to her sister ship SMS Zara in an attempt to increase her speed, as she had not reached her design speed of 15 kn. Spalato was commissioned into the fleet in September 1881. She was also too slow for use as a reconnaissance vessel or a leader of a torpedo boat flotilla. As a result, she saw little active service. Immediately after commissioning, Spalato was laid up ashore for major modifications. The bow torpedo tube was installed and her propulsion system was completely rebuilt. On 23 November 1884, she was re-launched and began sea trials, which had to be stopped on 24 October 1885 after the starboard engine was damaged in an accident. Full-power trials were finally conducted on 26 January 1886, during which Spalato proved to be even slower than Zara, managing only a maximum of 12.63 kn. Her average sustained speed was only 12.34 kn.
In 1886, a 47 mm Hotchkiss gun was installed on her bow. Beginning on 25 May, Spalato replaced Zara in the torpedo training school while her sister was being modified for training duties. Spalato received four 47 mm 33-cal. quick-firing guns during this period. From 1888 to 1895, Spalato was decommissioned and placed in reserve. She was reactivated for four and a half months in 1896 for training exercises, and again for seven months in 1897 for training. On 1 August 1897, she was assigned to the artillery school with the old screw-frigate Radetzky. For this role, she received several 12 cm and 15 cm guns, all mounted on her stern. She began service with the artillery school on 14 January 1898 and was moored along the mole at Vergarolla outside Pola. In 1900, she was again reduced to the reserve; the following year, she was re-boilered and rearmed. She began sea trials on 24 December, reaching a speed of 11.13 kn. She returned to the artillery school in 1902, and remained there into 1914.
On 14 March 1914, Spalato was decommissioned, as she was by this time in very poor condition. After the outbreak of World War I, she was stationed as a guard ship outside Pola from 15 April 1914 to 24 May 1915. At some point in 1915, most of her guns were removed, apart from two of the 12 cm guns and the four 47 mm QF guns. With Austria-Hungary's defeat, the Allies seized most of the Austro-Hungarian fleet as war prizes, and Spalato was allocated to Italy, which scrapped her thereafter. | WIKI |
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Rh dealt with, have done so under the compulsion of a landlord. In other words, and to display the case still more explicitly in relation to the whole subject, during the only period for which we have trustworthy statistics, evictions have been effected (supposing the responsibility for them be distributed over the entire landlord class, which is the theory insisted on) at the rate of one, once in every five years, on each estate; or, to put the case geographically, at the rate of one a year over every area of 10,000 acres of occupied land. It is further to be remarked that evictions have been fewest in Munster, the Province from whence the largest emigration has taken place.
Not only, however, do we know the number of evictions during the last ten years, but we also know what proportion of these evictions was necessitated by the non-payment of rent. It is true the returns which give this information again confound the urban with the rural districts, but it may fairly be supposed that the same proportions prevailed in either category; and if that be taken for granted, it would appear that of the total number of evictions which the landlords have effected in Ireland two-thirds were for non-payment of rent. | WIKI |
CPAP (disambiguation)
CPAP is continuous positive airway pressure, a form of positive airway pressure ventilator.
CPAP may also refer to:
* Center for Public Administration and Policy, an academic department of Virginia Tech
* Centrosomal P4.1-associated protein, a protein
* Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems, a public advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.
* Consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, a mathematical term relating to prime number series
* C/PAP, a code for paper and cardboard/plastic/aluminum composite in recycling code #84 | WIKI |
Comments:Gunman kills eight at Jerusalem school
So, Israel is vilified for doing its best to take out militants that wantonly hide in densely-populated areas with absolutely no respect for the very people they are supposedly fighting for, while Hamas is given a pass for targeting and killing innocents? --Kitch - (talk) 01:29, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
* I reread the article as I was the primary contributor, but I do not see the bias that you allege. --SVTCobra 01:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
* What was that quote along the lines of, "It's not mass-murder when done to the sounds of trumpets and drums?" When it's state-sponsored killing, it's justifiable in war; otherwise it's disgusting terrorism. Perhaps the only difference between a terrorist and the government in that region is that one flies the flag over the capital, the other wishes to. There is no "Bias" to be spoken of, only politics. I think you did a better job writing the article than I could, thank you for writing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
* I wasn't talking about the article. I was talking about the Israel situation in general. --Kitch - (talk) 03:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
== This sad thing, a human kills a human, this will not tolerate on judgement day, because of dirty politics, innocent people was killed, last week's Gaza killing is not good thing, so please stop. ==
--<IP_ADDRESS> 06:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)jonovic
I would wipe Gaza
off the face of the world for this —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Understanding Delays in AF_XDP-based Applications
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Packet processing on Linux can be slow due to its complex network stack. To solve this problem, there are two main solutions: eXpress Data Path (XDP) and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). XDP and the AF XDP socket offer full interoperability with the legacy system and is being adopted by major internet players like Open vSwitch or Facebook. While the performance evaluation of AF XDP against the legacy protocol stack in the kernel or against DPDK has been studied in the literature, the impact of the multiple socket parameters and the system configuration on its latency has been left aside. To address this, we conduct an experimental study to understand the XDP/AF XDP ecosystem and detect microseconds delays to better architect future latency-sensitive applications. Since the performance of AF XDP depends on multiple parameters found in different layers, finding the configuration minimizing its latency is a challenging task. We rely on a classification algorithm to group the performance results, allowing us to easily identify parameters with the biggest impact on performance at different loads. Last, but not least, we show that some configurations can significantly decrease the benefits of AF XDP, leading to undesirable behaviors, while other configurations are able to reduce such round trip delays to an impressive value of 6.5 µs in the best case, including the tracing overhead. In summary, AF XDP is a promising solution, and careful selection of both application and socket parameters can significantly improve performance.
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Interleukin-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in endothelial cells is suppressed by hemodynamic flow
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Ni CW, Hsieh HJ, Chao YJ, Wang DL. Interleukin-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in endothelial cells is suppressed by hemodynamic flow. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2004;287:C771-80.
Abstract:
Endothelial cells (ECs) are constantly exposed to shear stress, the action of which triggers signaling pathways and cellular responses. During inflammation, cytokines such as IL-6 increase in plasma. In this study, we examined the effects of steady flow on IL-6-induced endothelial responses. ECs exposed to IL-6 exhibited STAT3 activation via phosphorylation of Tyr705. However, when ECs were subjected to shear stress, shear force-dependent suppression of IL-6-induced STAT3 phosphorylation was observed. IL-6 treatment increased the phosphorylation of JAK2, an upstream activator of STAT3. Consistently, shear stress significantly reduced IL-6-induced JAK2 activation. Pretreatment of ECs with an inhibitor of MEK1 did not alter this suppression by shear stress, indicating that extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2) was not involved. However, pretreatment of ECs with an endothelial nitric oxide synthase inhibitor (nitro-l-arginine methyl ester) attenuated this inhibitory effect of shear stress on STAT3 phosphorylation. Shear stress-treated ECs displayed decreased nuclear transmigration of STAT3 and reduced STAT3 binding to DNA. Intriguingly, ECs exposed to IL-6 entered the cell cycle, as evidenced by increasing G(2)/M phase, and shear stress to these ECs significantly reduced IL-6-induced cell cycle progression. STAT3-mediated IL-6-induced cell cycle was confirmed by the inhibition of the cell cycle in ECs infected with adenovirus carrying the inactive mutant of STAT3. Our study clearly shows that shear stress exerts its inhibitory regulation by suppressing the IL-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway and thus inhibits IL-6-induced EC proliferation. This shear force-dependent inhibition of IL-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 activation provides new insights into the vasoprotective effects of steady flow on ECs against cytokine-induced responses.
Notes:
Ni, Chih-WenHsieh, Hsyue-JenChao, Yuen-JenWang, Danny LingengResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't2004/05/21 05:00Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2004 Sep;287(3):C771-80. Epub 2004 May 19. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Isabelle BUGS -- history of reported faults
===========================================
1. Symptom: hyp_subst_tac does nothing if the selected equality involves type
unknowns. Cause: it uses the simplifier, which ignores such equalities.
Fix: check for type unknowns in hypsubst/inspect_pair; change interface
function dest_eq to return the type of the equality. (lcp, 5/11/97)
2. Symptom: read_instantiate_sg has problems instantiating types in some
simultaneous instantiations (Message-id: <199710301432.PAA20594@sirius.Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE> on isabelle-users)
- res_inst_tac bug:
val [p1, p2] = Goalw [o_def]
"[| f : Funs (range g); !!h. f = g o h ==> P |] ==> P";
by (res_inst_tac [("h", "%x. @y. f x = g y")] p2 1);
by (res_inst_tac [("h", "%x. @y. (f x::'b) = g y")] p2 1);
^^^^ required!
Problem: lift_inst_rule only refers to syntactic context of current
dynamic proof state; old-style goal initially does not contain hyps
(!!);
Fix: either make assumptions statically scoped (included as hyps in
goal), or pass additional environment to lift_inst_rule (this would
improve upon Isar's res_inst_tac as well);
- type infer / inst bug:
Goal "x = (x::?'a)";
by (cut_inst_tac [("t", "x")] refl 1);
- bug in prove_goal (!?):
forall_elim: Variable ?uu has two distinct types
'a
'b
*** The exception above was raised for
*** (!!uu uua. PROP P (uu, uua)) ==> PROP P xa | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:The History of the Bohemian Persecution (1650).djvu/32
Prague, and through the whole Kingdome: o that the more contant among them, could not celebrate and receive the Sacrament after their accutomed manner, except in private houes, and after that in Woods and Caves; and there not without hazzard of their lives, and perecutions: for they were et upon in the ways, plundered, beaten, and drown’d in rivers, o that at length they were neceitated to go together armed, and in trong companies. Which from that time continued until the days of Hue.
4. Letters Patents alo were extorted from Charles (although Hajec. ayth, it was ent to the Prelats of his own accord) wherein an inquiition is ordained, and punihment by fire determined to bee inflicted upon thoe, who departed from the faith and ceremonies of the Church of Rome. It is extant in ''Hajec. fol.'' 349. throughout proclaimed the 18. of September in the year 1376. where of this was the chief effect, that diligent care was afterwards had, that none but the Popes-creatures, might beadmittedbe admitted [sic] unto places of Magitracy, & publick Offices, which might be a bridle to retraine the Commonalty. And therefore Wencelaus the King son to Charles, choe 16 Germans, and only 2 Bohemians, in reforming of the Senates of Prague, uppoing that the Germans were more contant in the Pontificiall Religion (as they were) than the Bohemians. 5. We | WIKI |
User:Kawshik201/Peoples Pharma Limited,Bangladesh
Peoples Pharma Limited,Bangladesh Peoples Pharma Limited is a Pharmaceutical company of Bangladesh.The owner of this company is Muzib Khan.He is a pharmacist & businessman of Bangladesh. Contents [hide]
* 1 Corporate history * 2 Factories * 3 External links * 4 Address
1 Corporate history: The People Pharma started operations in 1990.It a medium type of pharmaceutical company of Bangladesh. It supplies a small amount of medicine of country's total medicinal needs.But it has plan to grow it's business & becoming a leading company of the country. Factories: The factory of PPL situated in BSCIC Industrial Estate Tongi Gazipur,Bangladesh. External links: Bangladesh Trade Info:http://www.bdtradeinfo.com/yellowpages/des_data.asp?page=6&subcategory_id=498 Address: 334, Segunbagicha Dhaka - 1000 Bangladesh Telephone:+880-2-9330048-9 Fax:+880-2-9345892 | WIKI |
It's too early to turn bullish on stocks, Louise Yamada warns
Louise Yamada believes the market downturn is not securely in the past. According to the Wall Street technician, a retest of the December low is possible. "It's too soon to know from our perspective whether it's a rally in a bear market or an extension of the 2009 bull because rallies can retrace through to the high and still fail," she said Thursday on CNBC's "Futures Now. " Yamada, who runs Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, acknowledges that 2800 is a key level on the But she contends getting through that threshold doesn't ensure stocks are out of the woods. "[You] still have to look at the characteristic of the market as it approaches the old high because sometimes it can roll over once again," she said. She uses 2015 as an example of a rally that failed to hold. "If you look back at the 2015 chart, there it went through it considerably three times and couldn't progress much beyond it," said Yamada. "So, I think we're due for a little testing." The S&P 500 hit its all-time high of 2940 on Sept. 21, 2018. By December, the index was getting battered by a deep correction — with the biggest plunge happening on Christmas Eve. Since the December low, the S&P 500 has surged 18 percent and closed Friday at 2775.60. "The best case would be for the markets to go sideways here between 2600 and 2800 which would be constructive and allow for a period of repair which thereafter a push through 2800 could be more meaningful," Yamada said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
esProc Integration & Application: Java Invocation(I)
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esProc can be embedded in a Java application. Invoking an esProc cellset program is like accessing a database via JDBC. During the invocation the cellset program is packaged as a stored procedure, so it is called in the same way as that the latter is called.
1. Basic usage
esProc JDBC resembles a database JDBC driver without a physical table and can be simply regarded as a database with only the stored procedure. Besides, esProc JDBC is a fully embedded computing engine that all computations can be performed within it, whereas the JDBC provided by ordinary databases is only an interface and computations are performed in an independent database server.
First deploy the application as the article esProc Integration & Application: Deploying JDBC introduces.
1.1 Cellset files used by esProc JDBC
Similar to the cross-cellset call with call function, the cellset code used in an esProc JDBC will return a result set through result statement, as shown in the following cellset file – createTable1.dfx：
A B
1 =create(ID,Amount)
2 for 100 >A1.insert(0,#A2,rand(100*100))
3 return A1
The computation in this cellset is simple: A table sequence holding 100 records and with an orderly-set ID field and a randomly-generated Amount field is created. In A3, the result statement returns A1’s table sequence.
This cellset file will be used in the following to explain how to make a call via esProc JDBC in Java.
1.2 Basic method of Java invocation
Before calling esProc to execute the cellset file, you need to configure related information according to the following instructions:
1) Load the necessary jars when launching a Java application (see esProc Integration & Application: Deploying JDBC for the introduction of jars) . With a WEB application, these jars can be put into WEB-INF/lib folder.
2) Deploy dfxConfig.xml and config.xml
config.xml contains esProc’s basic configuration information, like registration code, searching path, main path, datasource configuration and so on. The file is located in esProc’s [installation directory]\esProc\config folder, in which the information is the same as the settings on esProc’s Option page. Its configuration can be adjusted before the deployment.
During the deployment, config.xml is allowed to be renamed esprocJDBCconfig.xml in case there are already config.xml files for other purposes under classpath. esProc JDBC driver will find and use esprocJDBCconfig.xml first in preference to config.xml, which will be used when the former does not exist.
Configure in dfxConfig.xml the concurrency value of esProc, information about logs, connection pool, and etc. This file is located in esProc’s [installation directory]\esProc\classes folder.
Note: The configuration files should be copied and put into the application project’s classpath, their names must remain dfxConfig.xml and config.xml, or esprocJDBCconfig.xml , and must not be changed. For detailed explanation about the files, please refer to esProc Integration & Application: Deploying JDBC.
3) Deploy dfx file
The above createTable1.dfx can be put into either the application project’s claspath or the searching path specified by config.xml’s <paths/> node, or the main path specified by <mainPath/>.
4) Call dfx in Java
public void testDataServer(){
Connection con = null;
com.esproc.jdbc.InternalCStatement st;
try{
// establish a connection
Class.forName(“com.esproc.jdbc.InternalDriver”);
con= DriverManager.getConnection(“jdbc:esproc:local://”);
// call the stored procedure; createTable1 is the name of dfx file
st =(com. esproc.jdbc.InternalCStatement)con.prepareCall(“call createTable1()”);
// execute the stored procedure
st.execute();
// get the result set
ResultSet rs = st.getResultSet();
// process the result set simply by printing out its field names and data
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
int colCount = rsmd.getColumnCount();
for ( int c = 1; c <= colCount;c++) {
String title = rsmd.getColumnName(c);
if ( c > 1 ) {
System.out.print(“\t”);
}
else {
System.out.print(“\n”);
}
System.out.print(title);
}
while (rs.next()) {
for (int c = 1; c<= colCount; c++) {
if ( c > 1 ) {
System.out.print(“\t”);
}
else {
System.out.print(“\n”);
}
Object o = rs.getObject(c);
System.out.print(o.toString());
}
}
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
finally{
// close the connection
if (con!=null) {
try {
con.close();
}
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
}
Use “call createTable1()” statement to run the cellset file – createTable1.dfx and return the result as the ResultSet object when calling an esProc file. In the subsequent program, simply print out the data of the result set. After the program is executed, the printed out result is as follows:
esProc_integration_java_2
2. Call different cellset files
Basic method of Java invocation in 1.3 explained how to call a cellset file in a Java program. But what will you do with different cellset files? Take the following cellset file – createTable2.dfx – as an example:
A B
1 =connect(“demo”)
2 =A1.query(“select * from EMPLOYEE”) =A2.select(month(BIRTHDAY)==month(Date)&&day(BIRTHDAY)==day(Date))
3 >A1.close
4 if B2.len()>1 rerun B2.new(EID,NAME+ ” “+ SURNAME:NAME, GENDER, BIRTHDAY)
5 else return “None”
In this cellset file, data are got from demo, the datasource, and a date parameter – Date – is used:
esProc_integration_java_4
The datasource demo used in the cellset needs to be configured in config.xml. In this respect, please refer to esProc Integration & Application: Deploying JDBC for details. The connection to the datasource established in the cellset should be closed using db.close() function after it accomplishes its mission.
For the call from Java, the code for establishing a connection and outputting the result is the same as the previous example. The difference lies in the method of calling the file:
// call the stored procedure; createTable2 is the name of dfx file and ? represents the to-be-set parameters
st =(com. esproc.jdbc.InternalCStatement)con.prepareCall(“call createTable2(?)”);
// set the parameters
java.util.Calendar calendar = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(1980, 0, 1);
st.setObject(1, calendar.getTime());
// execute the stored procedure
st.execute();
// get the result set
ResultSet rs = st.getResultSet();
This cellset file uses a parameter, so, to call the cellset, use “call createTable2(?)“, in which ? represents the parameter waiting to be set. In this case, st.setObject() needs to be used to set the parameters according to their order; this is irrelevant to the parameter names in the cellset. In this cellset file, employees whose birthdays are on the day presented in the parameter will be listed. Note that the month will start with 0 when the date is set for Calendar. The printed out result is as follows:
esProc_integration_java_5
During parameter setting, the parameter objects can be directly set according to different parameter types; but the date parameter can be entered in the form of a string, which will be automatically parsed by esProc:
// set the parameter
st.setObject(1, “1/1/1980”);
Note that the format of the string you entered should be in consistent with the date format set in config.xml. After the program is executed, the result is the same as that of the previous example.
In addition to the above calling method, the parameters can be fixed in the statement. For example:
// call the stored procedure; createTable2 is the name of dfx file and the parameter is fixed in the statement
st =(com. esproc.jdbc.InternalCStatement)con.prepareCall(“call createTable2(\”2/29/1980\”)”);
// execute the stored procedure
st.execute();
// get the result set
ResultSet rs = st.getResultSet();
With this calling method, the parameter objects cannot be set according to different parameter types; the parameters can only be either the numerical type or the string type which will be parsed automatically by esProc. After the above code is executed, the result is as follows:
esProc_integration_java_6
Since no employees were born on February 29, B5 returns a string – None – using result statement. As can be seen from this result, the column name will be automatically generated for the result set, making it a standard Result for returning, even if the data returned from the cellset is a single value.
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Minimum swaps to reach permuted array with at most 2 positions left swaps allowed
Given a permuted array of length N of first N natural numbers, we need to tell the minimum number of swaps required in the sorted array of first N natural number to reach given permuted array where a number can be swapped with at most 2 positions left to it. If it is not possible to reach permuted array by above swap condition then print not possible.
Examples:
Input : arr = [1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
Output : 2
We can reach to above-permuted array
in total 2 swaps as shown below,
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] -> [1, 2, 3, 5, 4] ->
[1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
Input : arr[] = [5, 1, 2, 3, 4]
Output : Not Possible
It is not possible to reach above array
just by swapping numbers 2 positions left
to it.
We can solve this problem using inversions. As we can see that if a number is at a position which is more than 2 places away from its actual position then it is not possible to reach there just by swapping with elements at 2 left positions and if all element satisfy this property (there are <=2 elements smaller than it on the right) then answer will simply be total number of inversions in the array because that many swaps will be needed to transform the array into permuted array.
We can find the number of inversions in N log N time using merge sort technique explained here so total time complexity of solution will be O(N log N) only.
// C++ program to find minimum number of swaps
// to reach a permutation wiht at most 2 left
// swaps allowed for every element
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
/* This funt merges two sorted arrays and returns inversion
count in the arrays.*/
int merge(int arr[], int temp[], int left, int mid, int right)
{
int inv_count = 0;
int i = left; /* i is index for left subarray*/
int j = mid; /* j is index for right subarray*/
int k = left; /* k is index for resultant merged subarray*/
while ((i <= mid - 1) && (j <= right))
{
if (arr[i] <= arr[j])
temp[k++] = arr[i++];
else
{
temp[k++] = arr[j++];
inv_count = inv_count + (mid - i);
}
}
/* Copy the remaining elements of left subarray
(if there are any) to temp*/
while (i <= mid - 1)
temp[k++] = arr[i++];
/* Copy the remaining elements of right subarray
(if there are any) to temp*/
while (j <= right)
temp[k++] = arr[j++];
/*Copy back the merged elements to original array*/
for (i = left; i <= right; i++)
arr[i] = temp[i];
return inv_count;
}
/* An auxiliary recursive function that sorts the
input array and returns the number of inversions
in the array. */
int _mergeSort(int arr[], int temp[], int left, int right)
{
int mid, inv_count = 0;
if (right > left)
{
/* Divide the array into two parts and
call _mergeSortAndCountInv() for each
of the parts */
mid = (right + left)/2;
/* Inversion count will be sum of inversions
in left-part, right-part and number of inversions
in merging */
inv_count = _mergeSort(arr, temp, left, mid);
inv_count += _mergeSort(arr, temp, mid+1, right);
/*Merge the two parts*/
inv_count += merge(arr, temp, left, mid+1, right);
}
return inv_count;
}
/* This function sorts the input array and returns the
number of inversions in the array */
int mergeSort(int arr[], int array_size)
{
int *temp = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int)*array_size);
return _mergeSort(arr, temp, 0, array_size - 1);
}
// method returns minimum number of swaps to reach
// permuted array 'arr'
int minSwapToReachArr(int arr[], int N)
{
// loop over all elements to check Invalid
// permutation condition
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
{
/* if an element is at distance more than 2
from its actual position then it is not
possible to reach permuted array just
by swapping with 2 positions left elements
so returning -1 */
if ((arr[i] - 1) - i > 2)
return -1;
}
/* If permuted array is not Invalid, then number
of Inversion in array will be our final answer */
int numOfInversion = mergeSort(arr, N);
return numOfInversion;
}
// Driver code to test above methods
int main()
{
// change below example
int arr[] = {1, 2, 5, 3, 4};
int N = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int);
int res = minSwapToReachArr(arr, N);
if (res == -1)
cout << "Not Possible\n";
else
cout << res << endl;
return 0;
}
Output:
2
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Opinion Win, lose or draw, there’s no legitimacy in America anymore. Credit...Ben Wiseman Opinion Columnist I’ll let you in on a little secret about media coverage of prime-time political debates: What happens in the first half, even the first quarter, gets much more attention than what happens as the night drags on. We all have deadlines bearing down on us and must produce our stories immediately after the debate’s end, so we start formulating thoughts and fashioning sentences before then. If there are fireworks early in the event, we say a cheer of gratitude and let them light up our commentary. So it was with Mike Bloomberg’s miserable performance in Las Vegas. He established his awfulness right off the bat. We ran with it. I know I did. But in the case of this debate, what happened at the bitter end was probably most meaningful. All six candidates onstage were asked to envision a situation — utterly plausible this year — in which none of them went into the Democratic convention in Milwaukee in July with a majority of pledged delegates and, therefore, an unequivocal claim to the nomination. Should the politician with a plurality of delegates be the nominee? Only Bernie Sanders, who currently has the best shot at being that person, said yes. The others said no. That would mean a brokered convention, in which the votes of uncommitted “superdelegates” or alliances formed among certain candidates are necessary to put someone over the top. And it would be a nightmare scenario for the Democratic Party, which is deep into a bad dream already, because it would invite further cynicism, second-guessing, cries of illegitimacy and irresolution in a country that’s paralyzed by all of that. Something unsettling is going on in American politics — in America, period — and the chaotic Democratic race exemplifies it. The rules are all blurry. The processes are all suspect. Or at least they’re seen that way, so more and more judgments are up for debate and more and more defeats are prone to dispute. President Trump is a prime player in this, but it didn’t start with him and isn’t confined to him. He’s exploiting and accelerating a crisis of faith in traditions and institutions, not causing it. He’s improvising, and he’s hardly alone. Everywhere I look: incipient or latent pandemonium. The Iowa caucuses were a mess that motivated some candidates to press self-aggrandizing grievances. Bloomberg’s rivals argue (understandably) that he’s using his billions to game the system and pervert the whole shebang. And in a reprise of four years ago, Sanders’s supporters fume that the media, the Democratic National Committee and other supposed pillars of the establishment are conspiring against him in some underhanded, corrupt way. I’m no soothsayer, but I foresee intensifying quarrels over whether whoever is leading the field deserves to be in that position and whether his or her competitors got a raw deal. It’s 2016 all over again, except maybe worse. Back then both Sanders and Trump, who was braced to lose, insisted that the process was rigged. Sanders’s supporters questioned the legitimacy of Hillary Clinton’s victory in the Democratic primary before Clinton’s supporters questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s victory in the general election. There were good reasons all around, but it was striking nonetheless how fervently the disappointed rejected the denouement. It was also corrosive. I’m not recommending a pliant surrender to injustice, but I see more value in plotting carefully for the next fight than in raging boundlessly over the last one. At some point, doesn’t everyone have to move on? Not anymore. In Washington, there’s the prospect of impeachment beyond impeachment, of new hearings to supplement the old ones, of additional evidence that will spiritually nullify the president’s ludicrous acquittal by the Senate. John Bolton continues his national-security version of a strip tease; he’s both a man of — and a metaphor for — an era in which nothing finishes, everything festers and all can be revisited and revised. Bill Barr junks sentence recommendations. Trump commutes sentences. There are investigations into investigators. Cries of cheating and fraudulence fly in every direction. I blame the internet, because I like to and because it’s true. I mean that I blame the way it encourages people to choose their own information and curate their own reality, so that no official pronouncement competes with a pet theory. I blame a national epidemic of selfishness, too. It seems to me that fewer and fewer people are easily moved off their particular worries, their special wants. Any outcome that displeases them is ipso facto a bastardized one. “The refusal to grant victors legitimacy bundles together so much about America today: the coarseness of our discourse; the blind tribalism coloring our debates; the elevation of individualism far above common purpose; the ethos that everybody should and can feel like a winner on every day,” I wrote during the last presidential election, and I wondered then if this were a passing phase. Nope. It’s the context — aggravated if anything — for the current race for the Democratic nomination, which features a scrum of sharp-elbowed aspirants, room galore for recriminations and the very, very real possibility of a brokered convention. Imagine that Sanders — with a plurality but not a majority of delegates — loses the nomination that way. He and many of his supporters would probably say that Democratic voters had been betrayed, and they wouldn’t be wrong. They could be furious enough to abandon the party’s pick, to the advantage of Trump. Now imagine the opposite: Although Sanders lacks a majority, Democrats who aren’t on his train feel too intimidated not to ride it, and so rules and dynamics set up expressly to make sure that the nominee represents as close to a party consensus as possible aren’t properly applied. His nomination would be deemed unjust in some quarters, straining party unity. What would salvage either set of circumstances is the acceptance and acknowledgment by Democrats who don’t get what they want that perpetually sore feelings serve little purpose. But that perspective — that maturity — is in retreat. We certainly can’t expect it from Trump if (please oh please) he’s defeated in November. He’ll manufacture any and every argument to say that he was robbed. And in a country in which the messy guts of our institutions are increasingly conspicuous and the merchants of cynicism grow ever bolder, he’ll find takers aplenty. After all, getting worked up is so much less tedious than getting along. I invite you to sign up for my free weekly email newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter (@FrankBruni). The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here’s our email: letters@nytimes.com. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Page:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7.djvu/148
HAKODATE
116
HAEON
^v. Car., 11,267 sqq.), in which he relates the spiritual experiences of Wettin, president of the monastic school of Reichenau. The day before his death (4 November, 824) Wettin saw in a vision bad and good spirits; an angel took him through hell, purgatory, and heaven, and showed him the torments of the sin- ners and the joys of the saints. The book, which bears some resemblance to Dante's " Divina Com- media", was soon afterwards put into verse by Wala- frid Strabo (Mon. Germ. Hist., loc. cit.). While Bishop of Basle, he issued a number of regulations in twenty- five chapters, known as the "Capitulare Haitonis" (P. L., CV, 763 sqq. ; Mon. Germ. Leg., Sect. II, Capitular. Reg. Franc, I, 363 sqq.; Mansi, XIV, 393 sqci.), in which he legislated on matters of diocesan discipline. The statutes were probably published in a synod.
Vautrey. Histoirp de^ I'veques fie Bale, I (Eifi-siedein. 1S.S41; Wattenb.\ch, Deulschlands Gmchichtsquellen (Berlin. 1904 >. 1; Hauck, Kirchengeschichte DeuLschlands (Leipzig. 1890), II; BuCHi in Kirchliches Handlexikon, I; Schrodl in Kirchenlex., V; WiEGAND in Realencyktopddie, VII.
Francis J. Schaefer.
Hakodate, Diocese of, situated between 13S° and 157° E. long., and between 37° and 52° N. lat., comprises the six northern provinces of the island of
Xippciii, flif i-I:iiid iif Yi'Z'), :iiid tbf Kurilc T-land~. as
AiNua, DescENUANTS of the PitiMirivB Inhabitants OF Japan
well as the administration of the southern part of the island of Saghalin, which still belongs to the Dioce.se of Mohilcv. It contains about 9,000,000 .lapanese in- habitants, 17,000 of whom arc .Vino aliorigines, the last representatives of the primitive population of the Japanese archipelago; they are confined to the Island of Yezo and the Kuriles. At the last census (15 Au- gust, 190S) the number of Catholics was 4427. The Vicariate Apostolic of Hakodate, created 17 April, 1891, was made a diocese on 15 .June of the same year. It was confided to the missionaries of the Soci(5t6 des Missions ferangeres of Paris, who in 1891 numbered twelve and resided at si.K stations in the territory designated above. The undersigned was the first bishop. The staff is at present composed of twenty- four missionaries of the .same society, one Japanese priest, and seventeen regulars. The residences number twenty. As auxiliaries the mission has three commu- nities of men and four of women: Trappists (1896), Friars Minor (1907), and Fathers of the Society of the Divine Word (1907); Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres (1891). the Reformed Cistercians (189S). the Sisters of Steyl (1908), and the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
Christianity was widespread during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the only vestiges now- left of these earlier missions are a few religious objects, crosses, statuettes, medals, pictures, and images, secretly preserved in families or preserved in the treasuries of pagodas. The actual Catholics are ex- clusively neophytes, recruited for the most part before 1895, at which time it was still believed that Chris- tianity was the sole basis of true civilization. At present the in.struction of all classes is dominated by materialism, and pride of success blinds the Japanese intelligence; consequently conversions to Catholicism have become rare and difficult. Each year, however, yields its small harvest of baptisms. During 1908 there were baptized in this diocese 345 adults. The writer is persuaded that the Japanese will yet come in large numbers to the Catholic Church. There is yet manifest among them a strong love of truth, despite the deceptions of material civilization; to this we may add a growing respect and esteem for Cathol- icism, whose orderly hierarchy, unity of faith, purity of morals, and .self-sacrificing missionaries it admires. The apostolic spirit newly arou.sed in English-speak- ing countries is also a precious pledge of hope, for it foreshadows the irresistible union of all Catholic forces, hitherto widely scattered.
K.itli.ili^cheMissionen, 1S96, p. 142: 1903. 87; Compte rendu df la sorielc des missions Mrangires, 1905 (Paris. 1906). 23-31 : Dei.aporte. ha decouverie des anriens rhretiens au Japan in Etudes (1897). 577-603: LlGNEri- and Verret. L'Evanoile au Javon au XX' sircte (Paris, 1904): Joly. Le Christianisme el V Extreme-Orient, II: Missions ratholiqries du Jtipon (Paris, 1907): Batchelor. The Ainu of Japan (New York, 1892).
A. Berlioz.
Hakon the Good King of Norway, 935 (936) to 960 '.161), youngest child of King Harold Fair Hair an<l Chora Mosterstang. Harold, several years previous to the birth of H:ikon, had divided his realm among' his sons by former wives and, except fur a species of suzerainty over the whole, retained only the central portion of the country (Gidathingslagen) for himself. Hakon remained under liis mother's care, and devel- oped into a beautiful youth, in every respect like his father. But as his elder half-brothers showed but little love for him and even tried to compass his death, Harold determined to remove him out of harm's way and accordingly sent him to the court of his friend, King Athelstan of England, who lirought him up (hence his nickname Adelstenfostre) and gave him a splendid education. Hakon was destined never to see his father again, as the latter expired at the advanced age of eighty-three in 932 (or 933) at his residence at Hange, after a glorious reign of seventy years. His successor as ruler of the kingdom was Eric Blodoexe, who disarmed his brothers by craft and war, and earned the hatred of the people l)y his despotic temper. The disaffected nobles (.iarls) consequently turned to Hakon in the hope that he might take the reins of government into his hands and at the same time restore their old-time rights. The ambitious youth glailly agreed to their views. .\bove all Hakon won the support of Sigurd, the leader of the nobility, who had given proofs of a sin- cere attachment to "liim from the very beginning, by promising him increased power; moreover, he man- aged to gain the goodwill of the freedmen by his clemency and liberality. Eric soon found himself deserted on all sides, and saved his own and his family's lives by fleeing from the country. Hakon was now undisputed master of the nation, the unity of which seemed to be assured; of course the royal power was signally curtailed to the advantage of the people. Before he could feel secure on his throne, Hakon had to fight a dangerous war with the Danes. Having emerged victorious from this, he directed his efforts towards the improvement of domestic con- ditions as well as to the extension of his powjer abroad. Judiciously planned reforms in the admin- | WIKI |
Federal Writers' Project – Life Histories/2024/spring/Section13/Frank Nesbeth
Overview
Frank Nesbeth was an African-American restaurant cook and bootblack working to make ends meet for his family. He came from a sharecropping background in the rural town of Tryon, North Carolina, which is just north of Greenville, South Carolina. He was interviewed by writer Adyleen G. Merrick on December 12, 1938 as part of an entry to the Federal Writer's Project. The struggles that he faced in his life most notably align with the social contexts of the polio virus, sharecropping in the rural South, and high child mortality rates during the Great Depression.
Early Life
Nesbeth was born into an African-American sharecropping family in Tryon, North Carolina, located in Polk County. He and his family's experience on the grape farm was tough, but they were treated to better conditions as a black family opposed to others around him. Nesbeth and his family were grateful to have a schoolhouse instituted for him and the other black children on the land. His mother, “Aunt Ella,” raised Nesbeth under their “boss,” as she tried to keep him in line accordingly during his youth. He gained both his education and early working experience from the grape farm, and Nesbeth was lucky enough to survive as many of his own siblings died before reaching maturity.
Adulthood
After leaving the farm and working a series of odd jobs in Chicago, Illinois, Nesbeth was diagnosed with infantile paralysis, which forced crutches upon him for the rest of his life. After being diagnosed with the disease, he would endlessly pray for a secure job and better life. Nesbeth was able to convince a white man to allow him to work as a horse-drawn carriage driver until automobiles would eventually killed the industry. He then worked more contract work before finding his place as a cook in a black restaurant back in North Carolina, along with having a bootblack set for the weekends. Nesbeth would barely provide enough money taking care of his mother and father while severely crippled, as he would commonly only scrape by while taking care of his parents.
Sharecropping in the Poor, Rural South
The rural South was incredibly poor during its share-cropping era, and there was a massive economic difference between white and black farmers during this period. The inequality arose as “the share-cropping system was a compromise solution to serious conflicts between landowners and the emancipated slaves ." White farmers who already had capital from the use of slavery enforced a system of oppression over sharecropping black families who relied on manual labor and their “bosses” to stay afloat. While the period of Southern Reconstruction had shortly ended at this time in American history, Southerners still felt largely oppressed given the lack of industries that were available to prosper compared to the North. Many had to continue the destructive cycle of farming on the same property or plantation as their parents had, and the pattern of relying on the black, Southern population did not pass with these transitions. Sharecropping continued to exert the form of racial superiority over black sharecroppers, as the South found a loophole to lessen some of the harsh aspects of slavery, but not the effect it had on the black population. The lack of technological advancements in the region did not help with social reform either, as the South stayed true to its roots dealing with the traditions of racism, farming, and the lack of social fluidity that it emitted upon its residents.
Infantile Paralysis during the Great Depression
Infantile paralysis, the former name for polio, causes those who are diagnosed to have crippled limbs in many cases. In 1914, the disease was sweeping the East coast of the US as a burden which would cause stress, the deterioration of health, and even death. The polio virus deals harm when "a localized hematogenous myelitis has attacked the cord and has destroyed more or less at random certain areas of spinal nerve centers ." The vaccine to prevent polio was not released until 1955, and thousands of children who grew into infantile paralysis faced the difficulties of terminal crippled limbs that forced many out of ever landing future work. While the virus did not always kill the victim of its contamination, it would lead to difficulties they would have to thrive against if they wanted a decent life at all. The disease caused many rough situations, especially in a period of American history where so many people were already struggling in a poor economy and society. The polio vaccine put a general end to the virus's existence in the United States in 1955, but many other countries in lesser-developed regions struggle with the disease to this day, as cases still arise from multiple areas around the world.
Infant and Child Mortality Rates
From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, infant and child mortality rates were incredibly high in the US, especially in the more rural South. Added with the racial inequalities that were largely prevalent in this region, it was very hard for African-Americans to find sufficient health outlets for their children at the time. Medical discoveries and advancements were lacking compared to Europe, as it was a difficult struggle given the much more elementary technology when it came to tackling health issues during these years. Contributing to the state of failure regarding health, “medical journals carried little information about the European developments, and medical research was poorly organized and under-funded ." Common diseases included polio, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and enteritis, and the general economic poorness surrounding the Great Depression also saw rates of malnutrition rise, especially in the deaths of children . Unfortunately, the general lack of communication that existed during the Depression caused increased casualties in many cases, as doctors and researchers had no way of sharing successes on their mission to end many of these deadly diseases that killed a huge portion of children and infants during these years. The early 1900s acted as a sort of awakening for many aspects in America, as with the increasing acts of reform during the period, medical technology and researched prospered during the following New Deal era. | WIKI |
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North American Service Co., Inc., Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent. North American Service Co., Inc., North American Service Company and Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc., Petitioners, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Docket Nos. 61968, 61969.
Filed January 18, 1960.
Ralph E. Da/vis, Esq., and William P. Sutter, Esq., for the petitioners.
Don S. Hamack, Esq., for the respondent.
Train, Judge:
Respondent determined deficiencies in income taxes of petitioner North American Service Co., Inc., for the period October 17,1951, to December 31, 1951, in the amount of $9,044.67 and of petitioners North American Service Co., Inc., et ah, for the calendar year 1952 in the amount of $37,874.62. The issues are:
(1) Whether the liquidation of North American Service Co. on October 31, 1951, was a complete liquidation within the meaning of section 112(b) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as contended by the respondent, so that the basis of the assets acquired remains the same in the hands of petitioner (transferee) as in the hands of the transferor, or whether the petitioner is entitled to its cost of acquisition as the basis of the assets ;
(2) If petitioner’s basis is its cost of acquisition, what portion of the*total cost of acquisition of the North American Service Co., Inc.’s assets is properly allocable to service contracts acquired in the liquidation; and
(3) Whether petitioner may deduct, in either 1951 or 1952, interest properly accruable in 1951 but paid on or after May 31, 1952, to its controlling stockholder.
FINDINGS OF FACT.
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are hereby found as stipulated.
Petitioner, North American Service Co., Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Service, Inc.), is a Delaware corporation organized on October 17, 1951, with its principal office at 341 West Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois. Petitioner, North American Service Company (hereinafter referred to as Service Co.), was an Illinois corporation organized in 1919. Its principal office was likewise at 341 West Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois. Petitioner, Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Highway), is an Illinois corporation. Service Co. and Highway were wholly owned subsidiaries of Service, Inc., during the calendar year 1952.
Petitioner, Service, Inc., an accrual basis taxpayer, filed its income tax return for the taxable period October 17, 1951, to December 31, 1951, with the collector of internal revenue for the first Illinois district. A consolidated income tax return for the calendar year 1952 was filed by petitioners with the collector of internal revenue for the first Illinois district.
Service Co. was in the highway advertising business. It manufactured highway advertising signs of various sizes, up to and including displays measuring 11% feet by 23 feet, obtained leases for the erection of the displays and rented the displays to various customers. Service Co. employed erection and maintenance fieldmen, salesmen, factory men, general office employees, supervisory employees, and art employees. The principal salesmen were D. A. Brumbaugh, Service Co.’s founder and principal owner, and Robert Hubbard. Brumbaugh was one of the early members of the Roadside Business Association, and, as owner of Service Co., had earned the reputation of being a good businessman and strong competitor by 1940. The business of Service Co. was national in scope and considered an excellent operation by its competitors and customers during the period around 1940.
D. A. Brumbaugh originally had intended to build up the business and leave it to Ms sons upon Ms death. However, the son whom he expected to take over the operation of Service Co. was killed during World War II. He had little confidence in the other sons so that after the war he began to lose the keen interest and competitive spirit that had characterized Ms activities in the advertising business in earlier years. However, he remained a competent salesman and Service Co. was able to continue the rate of business previously enjoyed, despite the fact that Brumbaugh did not give the same attention as previously to customer relations. He allowed the signs to become rundown and in many cases they were in need of rebuilding or repainting. At times the reflecting material known as “Starltob” fell off the signs so that the latter could not be seen at night. Although customers complained about the condition of the displays and stated that they were not getting their money’s worth out of the displays allowed to deteriorate, Brumbaugh made no real effort to satisfy them or correct the condition of the signs.
Sometime around 1951, Brumbaugh decided to sell the business. Morris F. Swaney heard from individuals in New York that Brumbaugh was going to sell the business and Swaney in turn contacted Hubert E. Howard and discussed the possibility of acquiring the business. Howard was to supply the capital.
Swaney and Howard contacted Brumbaugh in June 1951 and offered to buy the assets of Service Co. Brumbaugh, however, stated that he would not consider selling the assets because a double tax would result. Instead, he offered to sell the stock of Service Co. Again, in the early fall of 1951, a group headed by Howard entered into further negotiations for the purchase of the business of Service Co. After negotiating for the purchase of the assets and being told that Brumbaugh would sell only the stock of the corporation because of the double tax which otherwise would result, the group organized Service, Inc., to acquire Service Co.
On October 22, 1951, a special meeting of the board of directors of Service, Inc., was held at which time the acquisition of Service Co. was discussed. The minutes of the meeting and resolutions passed at that time include the following:
The chairman then stated that negotiations had been carried on for the purchase of the business assets of North American Service Co., an Illinois corporation, however, that company was not willing to sell its business assets. He pointed out that the stockholders of that company were quite willing to sell their stock. The chairman then stated that in order to acquire the business assets of North American Service Co. it would be necessary for this company to purchase all of the issued and outstanding stock of that company and to immediately, after such acquisition, partially liquidate that company in order to get the assets desired, and he stated that he deemed it advisable for this company to do so. The chairman then presented to the meeting a copy of a proposed contract between the stockholders of North American Service Co. and the company. He stated that if this company should purchase the stock of North American Service Co., the partial liquidation of that company would be effected through the distribution to this company, the sole stockholder of North American Service Co., of all of its assets, subject to its liabilities, except for $6,000. in cash, and that the final liquidation and dissolution of that company should not be effected earlier than April 1,1966, and not later than December 31, 1955, and that the authorized capital of North American Service Co. should be reduced to $5,000, represented by 50 shares of common stock, par value $100 each.
After a full discussion of the matter, on motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the following resolutions were adopted:
Wheeeas, this company desires to obtain the business assets of North American Service Co. and negotiations have been carried on to that end; and
Whereas, North American Service Co. has refused to sell its assets; and
Whereas, the stockholders of North American Service Co. are quite willing to sell their stock in that company and it appears that in order to obtain the business assets of North American Service Co. it will be necessary to purchase the stock of that company and follow such purchase by an immediate partial liquidation of North American Service Co.; and
Whereas, this Board of Directors deems it advisable and necessary for this company to borrow the sum of $900,000, to obtain the funds needed in connection with the purchase of the stock of North American Service Co. and in order to meet current obligations;
Now, Therefore, be it Resolved, That the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Secretary of this company be and they are hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the purchase by this company, at a total price not exceeding $965,000, of all of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of North American Service Co., including both common and preferred stock, from the shareholders thereof, such contract to contain substantially the same terms and conditions as the aforementioned contract presented to this meeting, and that a copy of said contract be appended to these minutes.
On October 26, 1951, Service, Inc., through its officers, executed a contract for the purchase of all of the outstanding stock of Service Co. from its shareholders for a total consideration of $965,000. The contract of purchase provided in part as follows:
Whereas, SELLERS are the owners of all of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, with principal place of business in Chicago, Illinois (hereinafter called the “Company”), consisting of 700 shares of common stock of the par value of $100.00 each, and 500 shares of preferred stock of the par value of $100.00 each, owned by SELLERS as follows:
Common Preferred Stock Stock
D. A. Brumbaugh_ 600 600
Stanley L. Brumbaugh_ 25 -
Lavara II. Jacobsen- 25 -
Robert T. Brumbaugh- 25 -
Nell Brumbaugh- 25 -
Total_____ 700 500
and the Company has in its possession 550 shares of common stock of the Company, and 250 shares of preferred stock of the Company which is all treasury stock, and
Whereas, PURCHASER is desirous of acquiring the assets and business of North American Service Company, but that Company is unwilling to sell the same, and in order to get such assets and business PURCHASER is desirous of acquiring all, but not less than all, of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of the Company, including both common and preferred stock, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth;
Now Therefore, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual agreements and undertakings hereinafter set forth, SELLERS agree to sell and PURCHASER agrees to purchase 700 shares of the common stock of the par value of $100.00 each of the Company, and 500 shares of the preferred stock of the par value of $100.00 each of the Company, upon the following terms and conditions:
1. SELLERS represent and warrant:
1.1 That the Company is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, and that the authorized capital of the Company is $200,000.00, consisting of 1,250 shares of common stock, par value $100.00 each, and 750 shares of preferred stock, par value $100.00 each; and that of such authorized common stock of 1,250 shares, 1,250 are issued, fully paid and non-assessable, 550 thereof being held in the treasury of the Company and 700 thereof being outstanding; and that of such authorized preferred stock of 750 shares, all are issued and outstanding and are fully paid and non-assessable, 250 thereof being held in the treasury of the Company and 500 thereof being outstanding; and that no change in the authorized or issued stock of the Company will be made between the date hereof and the closing date hereafter specified.
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2. PURCHASER represents and warrants:
2.1 That PURCHASER will hold SELLERS free and harmless from any and all liability to Stuart W. Cochran and Company, or any individual connected with that firm, in connection with a commission, finder’s fee, or any other similar charge sought to be recovered from SELLERS in connection with the sale of the stock both common and preferred, mentioned herein to PURCHASER. It is represented that any known claim for a commission of Stuart W. Cochran and Company, or any individual connected with that firm, will be adjusted by the Purchaser concurrently with the closing hereunder, and that satisfactory evidence of such settlement will be furnished to SELLERS upon closing.
2.2 That the execution and delivery of this agreement has been duly authorized by PURCHASER’S Board of Directors.
3. SELLERS will deliver to PURCHASER on the date of the closing, the resignations of each and all of the directors and officers of the Company and of Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc.
4. On the closing date and at the time and place specified therefor, PURCHASER agrees to pay to SELLERS for delivery of said 700 shares of common stock of the Company, and the said 500 shares of preferred stock of the Company, a total fixed consideration of $965,000 cash, $915,000 of which shall represent payment for said 700 shares of common stock and $50,000 of which shall represent payment for said 500 shares of preferred stock.
5. Payment of said $915,000 to be made to SELLERS under this agreement for the common stock of the Company shall be divided and made to each SELLER in the proportion that the number of shares of the common stock of the Company sold by him or her bears to the 700 total number of such shares sold pursuant to this agreement.
6. That D. A. Brumbaugh, one of the SELLERS herein, agrees to indemnify PURCHASER only for any federal income tax deficiency which may be assessed against and paid by North American Service Company and/or Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc. for calendar years prior to calendar year 1951.
7. The date of closing herennder shall be not later than November 1, 1951, at the office of Hopkins, Sutter, Halls, De Wolfe & Owen, 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, the PURCHASER to notify SELLERS in advance of the time of closing.
8. The PURCHASER shall notify D. A. Brumbaugh in writing when it has received notice from the United States Internal Revenue Bureau that the government proposes to make an audit of the accounts of North American Service Company and/or Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc., or any action by the government to establish a deficiency in federal income tax for a calendar year prior to 1951, and D. A. Brumbaugh shall have the right to be present at such examination in person, or by agent, and shall have the right to contest and defend such action or assessment in the name of the taxpayer at his own expense; and D. A. Brumbaugh, or his agent, shall have access to the books and records of said companies at any time it shall be necessary and requisite for these purposes.
In the event the PURCHASER fails to notify D. A. Brumbaugh of any proposed income tax examination by the government or denies him the right to contest or defend in the name of the taxpayer any proposed income tax deficiency or assessment, the provision for indemnification mentioned in Section 6, insofar as it relates to such taxable year examined, audited, or assessed by the government, shall be null and void.
Likewise, the PURCHASER agrees to give SELLERS access to the books and records of said companies at any time for the purpose of contesting or defending any proposed federal income tax liability or establishing the cost of their stock in connection with the personal income tax liabilities of any of the SELLERS. * * * ❖ * * *
EXHIBIT A
STATEMENT OP ASSETS AND LIABILITIES NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE COMPANY
SEPTEMBER 30, 1951
Assets
Current Assets:
Cash_ $25, 482. 09
Check on hand — (not deposited)- 16, 993. 68
U.S. Treasury Certificates & Government Bonds- 261, 727. 50
304, 203. 27
Contract Payments_ 498, 437. 10
Inventories_ 29, 169. 84
Sundry Receivables_ 2, 765. 14
834, 575. 35
Stock of Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc— 24, 000. 00
Contract Payments due Later_ 812, 560. 30
Machinery, Furniture & Fixtures, Automobiles & Trucks and other Equipment — Less Reserve_ 15, 441. 84
Formulae — Less Reserve_ 150. 46
Inter-Company Account (Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc.)_ (6, 736. 97)
Deferred Commissions_ 7, 030. 50
Prepaid Insurance_ 2, 317. 86
Total Assets_-1, 689, 339. 34
Liabilities
Current Liabilities:
Accounts & Commissions Payable_ $11, 734. 30
Unpaid Taxes_ 62, 669. 09
Accruals_ 1, 267. 67
Total Current Liabilities_ 75, 671. 06
Deferred Contract Revenue — Less Unamortized Costs_ 1, 104, 649. 28
Unearned Commission Revenue (already received from Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc.)_ 9, 261. 07
Surplus Reserve_ 10, 339. 14
Capital & Surplus:
Preferred Stock_ $75, 000. 00
Common Stock_ 125, 000. 00
Earned Surplus_ 329, 564. 00
529, 564. 00
Less: Treasury Stock 40, 145. 21 489, 418. 79
Total Liabilities & Capital. 1, 689, 339. 34
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EXHIBIT H
STATEMENT OP ASSETS AND LIABILITIES HIGHWAY ADVERTISING COMPANY OP NEW YORK, INC.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1951
Assets
Current Assets:
Cash____$15, 396. 33
U.S. Treasury Certificates & Government Bonds_ 25, 000. 00
40, 396. 33
Contract Payments_ 52, 324. 80
Sundry Receivables_ 275. 97
92, 997. 10
Contract Payments due Later_ 86, 083. 75
Deferred Commissions_ 9, 270. 07
Total Assets 188, 350. 92
Liabilities
Current Liabilities:
Commissions Payable_ 9. 00
Unpaid Taxes_ 3, 437. 43
Total Current Liabilities_ 3, 446. 43
Deferred Contract Revenue — Less Unamortized Costs_142, 017. 26
Inter-Company Account (North American Service Company)_ (6, 736. 97)
Capital & Surplus:
Common Stock_ $25, 000. 00
Earned Surplus- 24, 624. 20
- 49, 624. 20
Total Liabilities & Capital. 188, 350. 92
Highway was a wholly owned subsidiary of Service Co. on the date of the sales agreement. In accordance with the contract, Service, Inc., acquired all of the stock of Service Co. and expended $965,000 in cash plus a broker’s fee paid on acquisition of the stock in the amount of $12,067.50.
A special meeting of the board of directors of Service, Inc., was held on October 26, 1951, at 2 p.m. The corporate minutes of that meeting include the following:
The chairman stated that a contract had been entered into with the stockholders of North American Service Co. for the purchase from them, at a total price of $965,000, of all of the issued and outstanding stock, both common and preferred, of North American Service Co., and that in that connection $900,000 had been borrowed pursuant to prior authorization by this Board. He further stated that the full purchase price, $965,000, had been turned over to the stockholders of North American Service Co. in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding stock, both common, and preferred, of North American Service Co. He then stated that since the stock had been acquired in order to obtain the assets of North American Service Co., he considered it advisable that steps be taken for the partial liquidation of North American Service Co. through the distribution to this company, its sole stockholder, of all of its assets, subject to its liabilities, except $5,000 in cash, and that since, in his opinion, it would take several years to wind up the company’s affairs, including its liability, if any, for federal income taxes, he recommended that the final liquidation and dissolution of the company should not be effected earlier than April 1, 1955 and not later than December 31, 1955, and that the authorized capital of North American Service Co. should be reduced to $5,000, represented by 50 shares of common stock, par value $100 each. The chairman suggested that these recommendations be passed on to the Board of Directors of North American Service Co. with a suggestion that it call a special meeting of the sole stockholder to consider and pass upon these matters.
After fully discussing and considering the statement of the chairman, on motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the following resolutions were adopted:
Whekeas, in the opinion of the board of directors of this company, it is for the best interests of this company, as sole stockholder of North American Service Co., that North American Service Co. be partially liquidated and that all of its assets, subject to its liabilities, with the exception of $5,000 in cash, which is to be retained, be transferred to this company, as sole stockholder, at or prior to the close of business October 31,1951; and
Whekeas, it is the opinion of the board of directors of this company that it will take several years to wind up the affairs of this company, including its liability, if any, for federal income taxes, and that it is advisable that the final distribution and liquidation be made after April 1, 1955, but not later than December 31, 1955.
Now, Thekeeoke, be it Resolved, That the directors of this company do hereby recommend to the board of directors of North American Service Co. that North American Service Co. be partially liquidated and that its assets, subject to its liabilities, with the exception of $5,000 in cash, be distributed in partial liquidation to this company, as sole stockholder, at or prior to the close of business October 31, 1951.
Be it Further Resolved, That since the board of directors of this company believe that it will take several years to wind np the affairs of this company, including its liability, if any, for federal income taxes, it is recommended that the final distribution in liquidation of North American Service Co. be made after April 1, 1955, but not later than December 31, 1955.
Be it Further Resolved, That these recommendations for the partial liquidation of North American Service Co. be submitted to the board of directors of North American Service Co. at a meeting thereof.
The chairman then stated that he deemed it advisable for the company to enter into an employment contract with D. A. Brumbaugh, the president of the company, and, further, that the company obtain from D. A. Brumbaugh a covenant not to compete for a period of five years in any of the states of the United States except Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode' Island, Tennessee and Vermont. The chairman then presented to the meeting a copy of a proposed contract between the company and D. A. Brumbaugh, and suggested that such proposed contract be made a part of the minutes of this meeting. After a full discussion of the matter, and upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the chairman of the board of directors and the secretary of the company be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute an employment contract with D. A. Brumbaugh which shall include a covenant .on the part of D. A. Brumbaugh not to compete with the company for a period of five years in any state in the United States except Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont, such contract to be substantially in the form of the aforementioned contract which was made a part of the minutes of this meeting.
A special meeting of the board of directors of Service Co. was held on October 31,1951, at 2 p.m., at which time the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the board of directors of this company recommends to its sole stockholder that this company, North American Service Co., be partially liquidated at the close of its business October 31, 1951, such partial liquidation to be effected through the distribution to the sole stockholder of $50,000, in exchange for and cancellation of all of the preferred stock of this company and the further distribution to the sole stockholder of the balance of its assets (except $5,000 in cash) subject to its liabilities, in exchange for and cancellation of all of the common stock of this company, except $5,000, represented by 50 shares of common stock, par value $100 each;
Further Resolved, That in order to complete the winding up of the affairs and business of this company, including the determination and satisfaction of its liabilities, it is recommended to the stockholder that final distribution and the dissolution of this corporation not be complete until after April 1, 1955, such liquidation and the dissolution of the corporation to be completed, however, not later than December 31,1955;
Further Resolved, That this board of directors also recommends to the stockholder that the authorized capital of this company be reduced to $5,000 represented by 50 shares of common stock, par value of $100 each, and that the proper officers of this corporation be authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary and advisable to carry out this resolution;
Further Resolved, That this board of directors recommends to the sole stockholder that upon the transfer of the assets of this corporation to said sole stockholder, except for $6,000 as herein recommended, and the surrender and cancellation of all outstanding shares (except 50 common shares), appropriate action be taken for the cancellation of all shares of the corporation now outstanding, except said 50 shares of common stock, in comformity with the statutory provisions relating thereto.
Further Resolved, That this board of directors recommends to the sole stockholder that upon the transfer of the assets of this corporation to said sole stockholder, in the manner and to the extent provided in the foregoing resolutions, steps he taken for the voluntary dissolution of this corporation and for the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois of a Statement of Intent to Dissolve by Voluntary Action pursuant to Section 76 of the Business Corporation Act of Illinois.
Further Resolved, That the matters referred to in these resolutions be submitted to a special meeting of the stockholders of this company to be held, subject to waiver of notice by the stockholder, on October 31, 1951, at the hour Of 2:15 P.M., to consider and act upon these matters.
At 3 p.m. on October 31, 1951, a special stockholders meeting and an adjourned meeting of the board of directors of Service Co. was held at which time the directors set forth the above resolution and upon their recommendation the resolution was adopted.
Pursuant to the action by the stockholders at the 3 p.m. meeting, Service Co. was partially liquidated as of the close of business on October 31,1951, and all of its assets, except $5,000 in cash, subject to its liabilities of $87,872.42, were conveyed by appropriate instrument to Service, Inc., its sole stockholder, in exchange for all but 50 shares of its $100-par-value common stock. The authorized capital of Service Co. was reduced to $5,000, and the company was withdrawn from all States in which it was authorized to do business as a foreign corporation. It carried on no business activity subsequent to October 31, 1951. Service Co. was dissolved formally December 31, 1955.
Service, Inc., allocated the cost of acquisition of Service Co. stock to the assets received in liquidation based on the fair market value of those assets on the date of acquisition as determined by it. The allocation of the cost to the assets acquired, other than the service contracts, was as follows:
Cash---$269,452.80
Inventories_ 34, 572. 09
U.S. Treasury bonds, Series F_ 31, 990. 00
Fixed assets (automobiles, furniture and fixtures, manufacturing equipment, and service equipment)_ 14, 989. 62
Erected displays_ 187, 668. 26
Deferred charges and formulae_ 9, 090. 10
Notes and accounts receivable — customers_ 4, 827. 00
Sundry accounts receivable_ 219. 47
Accounts receivable from Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc. (wholly owned subsidiary)_ 8, 456. 09
Highway Advertising Company of New York, Inc. — Common stock__:___ 47, 754. 61
Total__ 609, 020. 04
Among tbe assets acquired by Service, Inc., in tlie liquidation, in addition to those listed above, were contracts covering 1,795 leases with. 446 customers of Service Co. Those contracts had remaining consideration due to Service Co., as of October 31, 1951, in the amount of $1,268,269.04, payable over varying periods extending from 1 month to 10 years. Of the 446 customers, the largest accounts were the following:
Number of Customers displays
Stroehmann Brothers Co_ 125
Purity Bating Co_ 24
Heath Holsum Bakery_ 30
B. Kuppenheimer & Co., Inc_ 257
Pearl Brewing Co_ 86
During the period preceding the acquisition of Service Co. by Service, Inc., and particularly during the year 1951, each of the above customers and approximately 75 per cent of all customers were very dissatisfied with the service of the displays and Service Co.’s interest in their accounts.
The total revenue collectible each year by Service, Inc., under the contracts was as follows:
Service, Inc., obtained Eobert Bey, a certified public accountant, to review the records of Service Co. and determine the relationship of the cost of maintaining and servicing the boards to the revenue from the contracts. Bey determined that maintenance and servicing-costs were roughly 18 per cent of contract revenue. Based on this determination, and the costs of obtaining the property lease and service contract, Bey estimated that the overall costs averaged out to about 30 per cent of the contract revenue.
Service, Inc., valued the $1,268,269.04 service contracts as being at least $450,919.88 and amortized the latter amount over the life of the contracts based on the percentage of revenue payable from month to month.
Shortly after acquiring Service Co., the operations of Service, Inc., were increased so that the customer goodwill, which had been faltering in the last few years, could be restored. Customer relationship had deteriorated to the point that some customers discontinued their monthly payments. At the time of its acquisition of Service Co., Service, Inc., was not aware of the state of the customer relationship. By the end of 1952, Service, Inc., had expanded its work force from 23 to 45 employees, with the largest increase in service and maintenance. Service, Inc., endeavored to repair or replace all signs which were in rundown condition. In those cases where the customer had indicated definitely that contracts for advertising would not be renewed, largely due to the poor relationship which existed under Brumbaugh, Service, Inc., arranged periods of free advertising in the hope that the customer management would change its mind. Service, Inc., was partially successful in securing new service contracts with some of the customers who had previously discontinued outdoor advertising. The management of B. Kuppenheimer & Co., Inc., the largest customer of Service Co., informed the retail outlets for its clothes that Service Co. was under new management and that they, Kuppenheimer, were encouraging greater participation in outdoor advertising by sharing in the advertising cost with their dealers.
Service, Inc., had the right to Brumbaugh’s services for a period after acquisition of Service Co. but found that his past relationship with customers hindered its plans to rebuild goodwill. Accordingly, Service, Inc., terminated Brumbaugh’s employment. Service, Inc., continued the use of “StaRlume,” the trade name of the reflecting material used on the boards. Service, Inc., also continued to use the stationery heading and correspondence forms previously used by Service Co. The only change in this regard was that the name of the company on the letterhead was altered from Service Co. to Service, Inc. Service, Inc., expanded its coverage of the outdoor advertising field from 40 to 44 States and sought additional customers for its operation.
Subsequent to 1951, respondent questioned the taxable liquidation status of the assets received by Service, Inc., and its valuation of the assets. In valuing the assets and goodwill of Service Co. as of October 31, 1951, respondent determined from Government publications, Department of Commerce records, and another outdoor advertising company in the Chicago area, that the normal rate of return for companies in the advertising field was 12 per cent on tangible assets and 15 per cent on intangible assets. Respondent then used the balance sheets filed with the tax returns of Service Co. for the period 1946 through October 31, 1951, to determine the actual return on assets. The computations were as follows:
No value was given in tbis computation to the $1,268,269.04 contract revenue collectible over the period, subsequent to acquisition.
On October 23, 1951, Howard, then majority stockholder of Service, Inc., and one of the original incorporators, loaned Service, Inc., $18,000 evidenced by a promissory note dated October 23,1951, bearing 3 per cent interest and due 5 years from date. The note plus accrued interest of $2,866.50 was paid in full on January 14, 1953. On October 25, 1951, Howard loaned Service, Inc., $150,000 evidenced by a promissory note dated October 25, 1951, bearing 3 per cent interest per annum and due 90 days from date. This note plus interest was paid as follows:
$4,640.52, included in the above total of interest paid, was accrued prior to December 31, 1951. No interest payment was made by Service, Inc., prior to May 31, 1952, but the $4,640.52 interest was deducted by it in computing its net income for the taxable period from October 17, 1951, through December 31, 1951. Howard owned at least 52 per cent of Service, Inc., stock from October 17, 1951, until January 14, 1953. Howard kept his books and prepared his returns on the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting.
The value of the $1,268,269.04 service contracts received by Service, Inc., in liquidation of Service Co. on October 31, 1951, was $500,000. Service, Inc., acquired goodwill in the liquidation of Service Co., and the fair market value of that goodwill on October 31, 1951, was $156,938.53.
OPINION.
Issue 1.
Respondent determined that Service, Inc., acquired the assets of Service Co., in a nontaxable liquidation of a subsidiary within the meaning of section 112(b) (6) of the 1939 Code. If this determination is correct, then the basis of the property acquired remains the same in the hands of the transferee as in the hands of the transferor. Petitioner, on the other hand, urges that the rule of Koppers Coal Co., 6 T.C. 1209 (1946), and Kimbell-Diamond Milling Co., 14 T.C. 74 (1950), affirmed per curiam 187 F. 2d 718 (C.A. 5, 1951), certiorari denied 342 U.S. 827 (1951), is applicable to the facts here before us. That rule provides that where a going business desires to acquire the asset of another corporation and the only means available by which it can acquire that asset is to purchase all of the outstanding stock and liquidate the acquired corporation, the complete liquidation of the acquired corporation will be treated as one of the steps of a single transaction, namely, the purchase of an asset. The effect of this rule is that the purchase price of the stock becomes the basis of the asset acquired in the liquidation, consistent with the standard basis provision of section 113(a) that the basis of property is its cost.
Respondent argues that the Kimbell-Diamond rule is not applicable where a corporation acquires a going business and then continues that going business in a new corporate form, citing Trianon Hotel Co., 30 T.C. 156 (1958), and John Simmons Co., 25 T.C. 635 (1955), both of which found the Kimbell-Diamond rule inapplicable, and Estate of James F. Suter, 29 T.C. 244 (1957), in which the rule was applied. The petitioner contends that the Kimbell-Diamond rule should be extended to the situation where a going business is acquired and continued in a new corporate form, citing M. O. J. Corporation v. United States, —F. Supp. —(S.D. Tex., Mar. 17, 1959), on appeal (C.A. 5).
We are convinced that the Kimbell-Diamond rule is not necessarily made inapplicable simply because a going business is continued in a new corporate form. The rule itself was developed on the principle that substance, not form, should govern the tax consequences of a particular transaction. In determining whether, in substance, the objective of the transaction was the acquisition of property, it is necessary to consider all the relevant evidence, of which the failure to integrate the purchased assets into the business of the acquiring taxpayer may well be an important element. However, to make such failure conclusive of the determination, as contended by respondent, would introduce a new artificiality of form and create a rigidity of application inconsistent with the underlying purpose of the rule.
A similar view was expressed recently in United States v. Mattison, 273 F. 2d 13 (C.A. 9, 1959), where the court stated:
The Kimbell-Diamond rule is not to be applied unless tbe purpose of tbe transaction was to acquire tbe assets of tbe company whose stock bas been purchased. Evidence of such contemporaneous purpose is found” where tbe acquired assets are immediately integrated into tbe business operations of tbe purchaser. But to conclude from this that integration must be shewn to give application to tbe rule is to confuse tbe rule with one method of establishing its applicability.
There is no question but that certain of the decided cases lend at least superficial support to the respondent’s position. In Trianon Hotel Co., we stated that the Kimbell-Diamond rule does not apply when the acquiring corporation does not intend to integrate the acquired assets into its own operations, a declaration which seems plainly at variance with the views expressed above. However, in that case we found that the underlying purpose of the transaction was not to acquire assets but rather to supply certain of the acquired corporation’s majority stockholders with readily available funds which would not be depleted by a dividend tax. In view of this finding, the Kimbell-Diamond rule was clearly inapplicable so that the declaration referred to above was not necessary to the decision.
In John Simmons Co., supra, we pointed out at page 642 that in the leading cases resulting in the application of the Kimbell-Diamond rule “the acquiring corporation had no purpose of continuing the business of the old corporation in a new corporate form.” However, nowhere in the decision did we suggest that such a showing was a prerequisite to a finding of a purpose to acquire assets. On the contrary, it is apparent from the opinion that the fact that the old business was continued in a new corporate form ivas but one of several circumstances which the decision took into account. We found, for example, that there were at no time any negotiations whatsoever for the acquisition of any of the assets, as opposed to the stock, of the predecessor, a fact which, among others, distinguishes Simmons from the instant case.
In Estate of James F. Suter, supra, we found that the purpose of the stock acquisition was to acquire assets rather than stock in a going business. Again, it is clear from the opinion that we based our conclusion upon a consideration and weighing of all the circumstances involved.
In the two cases referred to above in which we refused to apply the Kimbell-Diamond rule, the facts disclose that there was a significant relationship between the interests who controlled and operated the acquired corporation and the interests who controlled and operated the acquiring corporation, a continuity of interest entirely absent from the instant case. In John Simmons Co., supra, the stock of the new corporation was held, in large part, by the president and vice president of the old corporation and their families. The evidence established that it was the desire of the individuals who were in active conduct of the business of the predecessor to continue that business in corporate form. In Trianon Hotel Co., supra, we found that the successor was owned by substantially the same stockholders as the predecessor and was managed by substantially the same officers.
We are satisfied from all the relevant evidence in the instant case that the primary purpose of the transactions involved was, in substance, the acquisition of assets. Therefore, the Kimbell-Diamond rule applies and petitioner is entitled to a basis in the assets it acquired equal to its cost of acquisition.
Issue 2.
The parties are in agreement as to the total cost of acquisition, $1,064,939.92, of the assets received in the liquidation and are in disagreement only as to the proper allocation of that cost between the different assets acquired.
The petitioner allocated $609,020.04 to the assets other than the service contracts, allocated an additional $5,000 to the 50 shares of Service Co. stock still outstanding, and allocated the entire remaining balance of the cost, $450,919.88, to the service contracts. Petitioner does not contend that $450,919.88 represents the fair market value of the service contracts on October 31, 1951. Rather, petitioner contends that the contracts had a fair market value of more than the amount it allocated to them, but that after allocation to the other assets there remained only the assigned sum for allocation to the service contracts.
In his deficiency notices, the respondent disallowed in their entirety all deductions for amortization of the service contracts. However, recognizing that this Court might decide as we have that the petitioner is entitled to the cost of the assets as their basis, the respondent maintains alternatively that the petitioner erred in not allocating $156,938.53 to goodwill, an unamortizable asset. Moreover, on brief, the respondent asserts “the record amply supports a determination by this Court that * * * the amortizable value of the service contracts obtained in the liquidation does not exceed $319,870.10.”
Respondent made a computation for the purpose of arriving at a value of the goodwill, if any, among the assets acquired by petitioner from Service Co. Respondent’s valuation engineer testified that he made the computation in accordance with the formula set forth in A.R.M. 34, 2 C.B. 31. The formula in question has been employed frequently for the valuation of intangible assets, particularly goodwill, and the petitioner does not contest its use, in principle, in this instance. However, the petitioner contends that the respondent has erred in the computation, primarily in that he assigned little or no value to the service contracts.
The formula in question .provides essentially as follows: To the “average tangible assets” of a business over a period of years (usually 5) is applied a normal rate of return (here 12 per cent); the return so computed is compared with the actual average earnings over the same period; the difference is considered “surplus” earnings attributable to intangible assets; the value of those intangible assets is then arrived at by capitalizing the so-called surplus earnings. The valuation engineer who made the computation determined that Service Co.’s average net tangible assets had a book value according to the balance sheets filed with its tax returns of $365,145.27. Of this amount, the sum of $18,679.96 represented the value of the service contracts taken into account in the computation. Thus, the book value of the tangible assets other than the service contracts was $346,465.31.
The $18,679.96 which the respondent took into account in his computation with respect to the service contracts was the net between the $1,286,949 “Accounts Receivable” carried by Service Co. on its balance sheet as an asset and the $1,268,269.04 “Deferred Contract Revenue” carried as a liability. Under Service Co.’s method of accounting, contract revenue was not entered as an asset on its balance sheet without a corresponding liability or credit until it had been earned. The $18,679.96 which the respondent did take into account in his computation represents simply amounts currently receivable as of the closing date of the balance sheet. Thus, the respondent assigned a zero value for the purpose of A.R.M. 34 to the entire $1,268,-269.04 future earnings under the service contracts.
Those contracts did not constitute true accounts receivable, a fact recognized by the method by which Service Co. carried them on its books. The service necessary to mature these expectancies into true accounts receivable was still to be performed in the future. It is true that a considerable portion of the costs of acquisition and of display erection already had been incurred. However, it is equally true that a substantial portion of service and maintenance costs remained to be incurred. Recognizing that the contracts had a revenue expectancy is not to say that Service Co. had a net tangible asset of the same amount upon which normal earnings should be computed for purposes of A.R.M. 34. Under these circumstances, we cannot agree that respondent erred in his A.R.M. 34 computation by failing to assign an asset value to the contracts.
It is true that an A.R.M. 34 computation would not be conclusive of the existence and value of goodwill if better evidence were available, and the petitioner has endeavored to show that Service Co.’s relations with its customers were so bad that there was in fact no goodwill, although the testimony of Howard indicated that this supposed situation was not discovered by Service, Inc., until after the acquisition. That there was dissatisfaction among Service Co.’s customers there can be no denying but that is far from establishing that Service Co. had no goodwill. Indeed, the fact of the continuing and expanding business, including renewals, during the years up to the sale establish otherwise. In the light of all the evidence, the assignment of goodwill value by the respondent was not unreasonable, and we have found that Service Co. possessed goodwill valued at $156,-938.53 at the time of liquidation.
The mere fact that a predecessor business possesses goodwill does not constitute proof that an acquiring corporation has purchased that goodwill. Nevertheless, having found the existence of goodwill in Service Co., and in view of the respondent’s determination, the burden is upon petitioner to prove that it did not acquire that goodwill. The only possible indication to that effect was the testimony of Howard and Swaney that the objective of the acquisition was to liquidate the business over a period of years at a profit rather than to continue the business indefinitely. However, from its very inception, the history of Service, Inc., was that of a continuing and growing business. It was still actively engaged in the highway advertising business at the time of the trial. The entire course of activity of the petitioner is inconsistent with the stated purpose of liquidation. In the light of all the evidence, therefore, such weight as might conceivably be attached to the testimony of Howard and Swaney in this regard is insufficient to overcome the respondent’s determination that goodwill was acquired by Service, Inc.
Of the total cost of $1,064,939.92 allocated by the petitioner to the various assets acquired from Service Co., the respondent has disputed only the $450,919.88 allocated to the service contracts. This amount was the only portion of the allocation disallowed in the deficiency notices. We conclude that this remaining cost should be allocated between the goodwill and the service contracts on the basis of the fair market value of each at the time of acquisition.
The fair market value of the goodwill has been established as $156,938.53. The respondent’s valuation engineer testified that the value of the service contracts was $319,810.10. This value was not based upon expert opinion because the engineer was not qualified as such. He simply arrived at the stated value by a process of mathematical computation. The engineer took the total expected contract revenues, subtracted the ordinary expenses of selling, sign manufacturing, sign erection, and servicing, and then discounted the remainder back to October 31,1951. However, from the very nature of these expenses it is obvious that a large portion of them already had been incurred by Service Co. at the time the contracts were entered into and the signs erected and that those same costs would not be incurred by Service, Inc., in earning the contract amounts. Therefore, using the method of computation employed by respondent’s engineer, it is clear that the value of the contracts would be in excess of the $319,-870.10 assigned. A witness who qualified as an expert testified that under normal conditions the service contracts in question would have a fair market value of $650,000. However, he testified that the value would be less if the display signs were not in good condition. Using our best judgment on tbe entire record, it is our conclusion and we have found as a fact that the contracts in question had a fair market value of $500,000 at the time of acquisition by petitioner. Murray Thompson, 21 T.C. 448 (1954), affd. 222 F. 2d 893 (C.A. 3, 1955). Allocating the remaining cost between the contracts and the value of goodwill, the amortizable cost properly allocable to the contracts is $343,196.92.
Issue S.
Eespondent determined that $4,640.52 interest accrued during the period ending December 31, 1951, was not an allowable deduction in 1951 by reason of section 24(c) of the 1939 Code.
Section 24(c) provides:
SEO. 24. ITEMS NOT DEDUCTIBLE.
(c) Unpaid Expenses and Intebest. — In computing net income no deduction shall be allowed under section 23(a), relating to expenses incurred, or under section 23(b), relating to interest accrued—
(1) If witbin tbe period consisting of tbe taxable year of tbe taxpayer and two and one balf months after tbe close thereof (A) such expenses or interest are not paid, and (B) tbe amount thereof is not includible in tbe gross income of tbe person to whom tbe payment is to be made; and
(2) If, by reason of tbe method of accounting of tbe person to whom tbe payment is to be made, tbe amount thereof is not, unless paid, includible in tbe gross income of such person for tbe taxable year in which or with which tbe taxable year of tbe taxpayer ends; and
(3) If, at tbe close of tbe taxable year of tbe taxpayer or at any time witbin two and one balf months thereafter, both the taxpayer and the person to whom the payment is to be made are persons between whom losses would be disallowed under section 24(b).
The interest in question accrued in 1951, the year it became due. It was due from Service, Inc., to Howard. The latter owned more than 50 per cent of the outstanding stock of Service, Inc., so that the petitioner and Howard are persons between whom losses would be disallowed under section 24(b). The interest was not paid in 1951, the year in which accrued, or within 2% months after the close of that year. We have found as a fact that Howard was a cash basis taxpayer. No evidence on this point was offered at the trial and, on brief, the petitioner contends that respondent failed to prove that Howard was not an accrual basis taxpayer. However, the burden of proof is on the petitioner and not on the respondent and, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, we have assumed Howard to be on the cash basis, a fact essential to the applicability of section 24(c) and, thus, to the respondent’s determination. Likewise, the petitioner has offered no evidence that the amount of the interest was includible in Howard’s gross income “for the taxable year in which or with which the taxable year of the taxpayer ends.” In the absence of such evidence, we must conclude that the interest was not includible in Howard’s income for the taxable year so described. Under these circumstances, section 24(c) clearly prohibits the deduction of the interest in 1951 as determined by the respondent.
The petitioner asserts alternatively that the interest is deductible in 1952, the year in which paid. In this case, section 24(c) would be inoperative because the interest payment presumably would have been includible in Howard’s income. The only question is whether petitioner is entitled under section 23 (b) for a deduction in 1952 for an interest payment made in that year but which had accrued in the prior year.
This specific problem has been discussed in detail in longstanding regulations of the respondent. Eegulations 118, section 39.24(c)-l contains the following example, clearly applicable here:
Exam-pie. A is tie holder and owner of an interest-bearing note executed by the M Corporation, all the stock of which is owned by him. A and the M Corporation make their income returns on the basis of a calendar year but the M Corporation makes its returns on the accrual basis and A makes his returns on the cash receipts and disbursements basis. The M Corporation does not pay any interest on such note during the calendar year 1952 or within two and one-half months after the close thereof, but claims a deduction for the year 1952 with respect to the interest accruing on the note in that year. A, being on the cash receipts and disbursements basis, does not include such interest in his return for the year 1952. By the application of section 24(c), no deduction for such interest is allowable in computing the net income of the M Corporation for the year 1952. The 'provisions of section 24(c) do not otherwise affect the general rules governing the allowance of deductions under the accrual basis. Bence, in the event the M Corporation should pay such interest after March 15, 1958, no deduction therefor would he allowable in computing its net income for the year in which the payment was made. [Emphasis supplied.]
Under closely related situations, we have denied accrual taxpayers a deduction for interest paid in the taxable year if the interest had accrued in a prior year. Lincoln Storage Warehouses, 13 T.C. 33 (1949), affd. 189 F. 2d 337 (C.A. 3, 1950); and Burton Swartz Land Corp. v. Commissioner, 198 F. 2d. 558 (C.A. 5, 1952), affirming a Memorandum Opinion of this Court on this point. Accordingly, since the petitioner here is an accrual taxpayer, it cannot deduct the interest payment made in 1952.
Reviewed by the Court.
Decisions will be entered u/nder Bule 50.
Murdock, J.,
dissenting: The interest in the amount of $4,640.52 should be allowed as a deduction for 1952. The amount was not deductible in 1951. However, it was not the purpose of section 24(c) to eliminate completely such an item as a deduction merely because it was not paid within 2% months after the close of the year in which it accrued. The intention was merely to delay the deduction until it was actually paid. Congress had noted that closely held corporations were accruing items as deductions whereas the stockholders to whom they were payable were not taking them into income because the stockholders were on a cash basis and had not actually received the payments. Congress enacted the quoted provisions of section 24(c) to make the deduction by the corporation depend upon payment to the stockholder, with consequent tax liability to the stockholder. It did not intend to deny the deduction permanently if the amount was actually paid. Section 24(c) modified section 23(b) to this extent.
FoeRester, J., agrees with this dissent.
The above example first appeared In Regulations 111, section 29.24-7, which were issued with respect to section 24(c) of the 1939 Code, effective for all tax years beginning after December 81, 1941, and including tax years which begin prior to December 31, 1951.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed an agreement Tuesday committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” in exchange for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, as Trump said the two were ready "to write a new chapter" between the nations. The agreement, and a surprise decision by Trump to call off joint military exercises with South Korea, capped a historic summit that represented the first ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. “I think our whole relationship with North Korea and the Korean Peninsula is going to be a very different situation than it has in the past,” Trump said at a signing ceremony on the agreement. “We’ve developed a very special bond,” he said of his relationship with Kim. Trump added that he would “absolutely” invite Kim to the White House to continue their talks. Kim called the document “historic” and said it would lead to a new era in the U.S.-North Korea relationship. “We had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind, and we are about to sign a historic document,” he said through a translator. “The world will see a major change.” Kim also thanked Trump for making “this meeting happen.” Photos of Trump at the signing ceremony holding up the document, which was not immediately released to the press, revealed its contents. "President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to [North Korea], and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," the statement said. Trump called the document “pretty comprehensive” despite its lack of specifics. “I think both sides are going to be impressed with the result,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world.” The statement touts the “great significance” of the “epochal event” of the first ever U.S-North Korea summit, adding it will help the “opening of a new future.” The document does not elaborate on what steps the United States will take to guarantee North Korea’s security, nor does it lay out the steps North Korea will need to take to denuclearize. It does commit to holding further negotiations led by Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE and a “relevant” North Korean official at “the earliest date possible.” The statement refers to denuclearization of the entire Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s favored language. And while the United States in the past has demanded so-called CVID — or complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization — the statement does not include the words “verifiable” or “irreversible.” Asked at press conference later Tuesday whether the exclusion of those two words was a concession, Trump said “not at all.” Trump and Kim agreed to four broad commitments, according to the signed document: to establish new U.S.-North Korea relations “in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity”; to join “efforts to build a lasting and stable peace” on the peninsula”; to reaffirm the declaration Kim signed at his summit with South Korea’s president; and to recover the remains of Americans lost or killed during the Korean War. At the press conference, Trump in particular touted the commitment on repatriating Korean War remains, saying he had received "countless calls" and letters from asking for help on the issue. “The remains will be coming back," Trump said. "They’re going to start that process immediately.” Trump had mocked the North Korean leader as "Little Rocket Man" as the two exchanged barbs over their weapons programs. Kim responded by dismissing the president as a "mentally deranged dotard" who would "pay dearly" for his threats against Pyongyang. Trump and Kim, however, appeared to have a friendly rapport during their day together at the Singapore island resort. "The past worked as fetters on our limbs, and the old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward. But we overcame all of them, and we are here today," Kim said through a translator as the two met for the first time. The pair shook hands and met in a one-on-one setting before conferring with aides. The president even showed the North Korean leader the inside of his limousine after their sessions were over. “It's going great. We had a really fantastic meeting. A lot of progress. Really, very positive, I think better than anybody could have expected, top of the line, really good,” Trump said after a working lunch with Kim. Despite the optimistic rhetoric, the summit did not produce an ironclad nuclear agreement or a peace treaty to end the Korean War — two possibilities Trump raised ahead of the talks. “We’re starting that process very quickly. Very, very quickly. Absolutely,” Trump said at the signing ceremony when asked by reporters if Kim had agreed to denuclearize. At the press conference later, Trump also said he knows "for a fact" that Kim is going to "start a process" when he returns home that will "make a lot of people very happy and very safe." “I don’t think they’ve ever had the confidence, frankly, in a president that they have right now for getting things done and having the ability to get things done,” Trump said. “I think he might want to do this as much or even more than me because they see a very bright future for North Korea.” Pompeo told reporters it would provide a “framework” for future negotiations. Critics had said a summit that ended without a declaration on denuclearization would amount to a propaganda win for Kim, elevating him to legitimacy on the international stage. Regional experts are also skeptical Kim will give up any of his weapons regardless of his declarations, saying the Kim family playbook is for the regime to make promises, drag out its efforts to carry out those pledges as it gets concessions and then later renege altogether. Trump had lowered expectations for the results of the summit in the last couple weeks, saying it was the start of a process meant for the two leaders to get to know each other. The change in tone came after Trump first canceled the meeting, citing Kim’s “open hostility,” then decided to move forward after a visit to Washington by a high-ranking North Korean official. Analysts had expected both Trump and Kim to sell the summit as a success regardless of outcome since both have much at stake. At the signing ceremony, Trump said he was “very proud” of what happened Tuesday and thanked Kim, reiterating that it was an “honor” to meet. Trump did not answer a reporter's question on whether the two spoke about Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after his release from North Korean imprisonment in a coma exactly one year ago. In the lead-up to the summit, North Korea released three other Americans who had been held hostage. Pompeo brought them home last month on the second of his two visits with Kim to lay the groundwork for Tuesday. After the ceremony, Trump and Kim walked back to the platform where they started the morning with a handshake, shaking hands once again. Responding to reporters, Trump, who prides himself on his dealmaking skills, called Kim a “worthy negotiator.” “We had a terrific day, and we learned a lot about each other and about our countries,” Trump said. “I learned he’s a very talented man. I also learned that he loves his country very much.” Updated at 5:54 a.m. View the discussion thread. 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Anura C. Perera
Anura C. Perera (born 18 June 1947) is a Sri Lankan science writer and astronomer. He resides in the United States.
Early life
Perera was born in Colombo to parents Aleck Fedrick Perera and Dona Charlet Benaragama. He was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo. He has an elder sister Indrani and younger brother Suraj.
Career
He was deputy editor of Sri Lanka's first science magazine, Vidumina. In 1971 he was awarded the Science award for his book Sun & Planets. | WIKI |
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“I videoed myself picking it up and posted it online. I knew it was from a dinosaur”Digging for dinosaurs, page 20 You’re in good company if you’ve ever dreamed of stumbling upon a dinosaur skeleton, or of breaking open a rock to discover an impression of past life, hidden for millions of years. But there are only a handful of locations in the world where that fantasy is a real possibility. In our cover feature on page 20, we’ve explored how ancient animals and plants are fossilised in different ways. We’ve also spoken to a scientist and professional fossil hunter who recently found a new species of dinosaur on a British beach. Discover what you can do to increase your chances of finding fossils, and the best places to go to…
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Nikole Production Editor Venice, the famous ‘floating city’, is well known for its canals. Explore how its amazing architecture was built on page 28. Scott Staff Writer Each year millions of crop plants are destroyed by insects. Discover the ways farmers can safeguard our food on page 32. Baljeet Research Editor How do magnets work, how can we magnetise metals and where can we find them around our homes? Page 40 has all the info. Duncan Senior Art Editor With climate change a looming threat, electric cars look to be the future of driving. Peek inside the all-electric Honda e on page 54. Ailsa Staff Writer How have past missions enabled us to further explore space? Look at major milestones of spaceflight on page 60.…
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Found burning in the barren wasteland of the desert of northern Turkmenistan, Central Asia, is a fiery pit called the Darvaza gas crater, commonly known as the ‘Door to Hell’. This hellish 30-metre-deep crater is believed to have been burning since 1971, although how it collapsed and was ignited remains a mystery. What we do know is that the crater remains alight due to a large amount of methane gas that’s being naturally pumped at high pressures from below the desert surface. Turkmenistan sits on the sixth-largest reservoir of natural gas in the world, and some geologists believe that there is enough fuel beneath the crater to allow the fire to rage for another 20 years.…
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A global extinction event that occurred around 359 million years ago may have been triggered by the death blast of a distant star. Towards the end of the Devonian Period, 416 million to 358 million years ago, there was a mass extinction known as the Hangenberg event; it wiped out armoured fish called placoderms and killed off approximately 70 per cent of Earth’s invertebrate species. But scientists have long puzzled over what caused the event. Recently preserved plant spores offered clues about this ancient extinction. Fossil spores spanning thousands of years at the boundary of the Devonian and the Carboniferous periods showed signs of damage caused by ultraviolet (UV) light. This find suggested that a cataclysmic event had caused a long-lasting disruption of Earth’s ozone layer, which shields the planet from…
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The stunning, razor-sharp spires of stone forests can form in deceptively simple conditions, a sugary new experiment has found. Using sticks of candy, researchers discovered that cylindrical shapes can naturally sharpen into points in still water as they dissolve, with no complicated flow required. This phenomenon could explain why sharp stone pinnacles are often found where easily dissolvable limestone rock predominates. “We found the simplest recipe for how to make one of these pinnacles,” said Leif Ristroph, an experimental physicist and mathematician at New York University. The recipe was simple indeed. Ristroph and his team cooked up hard candy, like a lollipop, in the shape of a cylinder with a domed top. They stuck the candy upright in a tank of water and simply let it dissolve. You might imagine that the… | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Mandarin rat snake
The mandarin rat snake (Euprepiophis mandarinus) is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to Asia. It is closely related to Euprepiophis conspicillata, the Japanese forest rat snake. Mandarin rat snakes are one of the most popular rat snakes found in the pet trade.
Description
It is a relatively small rat snake; adult size is no more than 1.4 m in total length (body + tail).
Distribution
India (Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, China (Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tianjin, Tibet, Yunnan, Zhejiang)
Type locality: China: Chekiang, Chusan island (modern transliteration: Zhejiang, Zhoushan) (Cantor, 1842).
Taxonomy
In recent years there has been some taxonomic controversy over the genera of rat snakes. Based on mitochondrial DNA, Utiger et al. (2002) argued for a splintering of the genus Elaphe and suggested a reworking of the genera.
Natural history
The mandarin rat snake is a secretive species, often using rodent burrows for shelter. It feeds primarily on small rodents, prefers cooler temperatures, and is predominantly crepuscular. It occurs from sea level to at least 3,000 m. | WIKI |
@article{07e21d3818074d63a24f56939abf1916, title = "A Bayesian belief network framework for nuclear power plant human reliability analysis accounting for dependencies among performance shaping factors", abstract = "A challenge to Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) for Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) lies in the fact that dependencies among Performance Shaping Factors (PSFs) are difficult to deal with due to insufficient knowledge, information and data available. Existing treatment relies heavily on the subjective expert judgment and the dependencies are compromised with the quantities of PSFs, simultaneously, neglects their uncertain interactions. This study proposes a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) framework for structuring the uncertain dependencies among PSFs and estimate the Human Error Probabilities (HEPs) giving due account to such dependencies. An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) technique is used to analyze human error events and cluster the dependent PSFs into clusters, which serve as the nodes connecting the parent PSF nodes with the child HEP node. Monte Carlo (MC) sampling operationalizes the framework, accounting for the uncertainty that affects PSF clustering and the data filling of conditional probability tables is performed by a Fenton approach. The framework is illustrated by considering 89 human error reports of China NPPs. The results show that the human mental related PSFs complexity, stress/stressor and fitness for duty are highly and steadily dependent, however, the dependencies of the PSFs experience/training and work processes are determined by the specific system situations. {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.", keywords = "Bayesian belief network, Dependency, Human reliability analysis, Monte Carlo, Nuclear power plant, Performance shaping factor, Uncertainty", author = "Jianqiao Liu and Yanhua Zou and Wei Wang and Enrico Zio and Chengwei Yuan and Taorui Wang and Jianjun Jiang", year = "2022", month = dec, doi = "10.1016/j.ress.2022.108766", language = "English", volume = "228", journal = "Reliability Engineering and System Safety", issn = "0951-8320", publisher = "Elsevier Ltd", } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Amine Ennali
Mohammed Amine Ennali (born 17 March 1997) is a Moroccan footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Dutch club AVV SDZ. | WIKI |
Max Ferrari (soccer)
Maximilian Ferrari (born August 20, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for York United of the Canadian Premier League.
Early life
Ferrari grew up in Newmarket, Ontario. He is of Italian and German descent. He began playing youth soccer at age three or four with Newmarket SC. Afterwards, he played for Richmond Hill SC and ANB Futbol, before later moving to Aurora Youth SC. He also played hockey in his youth, winning two titles at the International Silver Stick hockey tournament.
College career
In 2019, Ferrari attended Humber College where he played for he men's soccer team, winning the OCAA title. He scored his first goal on September 21, 2019, against the St. Clair Saints. He was named an OCAA West Division First-Team All-Star and was named the Humber College Coaches Pick.
Club career
From 2017 to 2019, Ferrari played with Aurora FC in League1 Ontario. On July 29, 2018, he scored two goals to lead Aurora to a 3–2 victory over North Mississauga SC. In November 2019, he was named to the CPL's U-21 Showcase Match for Team Ontario.
In February 2020, Ferrari signed his first professional contract with York9 (which became York United the following season) of the Canadian Premier League. He made his debut on August 15, 2020, against Atlético Ottawa, recording an assist. In October 2020, he extended his contract through the end of 2022, with a club option for the 2023 season. In August 2021, he further extended his contract through 2024. In September 2021, he was named the CPL Player of the Week. After scoring three goals and adding four assists in 30 appearances during the 2021 season, he was nominated for the CPL U21 Player of the Year Award, which was ultimately won by Alessandro Hojabrpour. After the season, York United confirmed that they had received interest from various foreign clubs interested in signing Ferrari. After missing a large portion of the 2022 season due to injury, he returned to full health in 2023, often playing in a full-back role, rather than his usual winger role, as a result of injuries to other players on the squad. On September 17, 2023, he captained the side for the first time, in his 77th appearance for the club, which made him the club's all-time appearance leader. | WIKI |
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* 1) return; (agent) returns to origin/earlier state from ; moves/gives back to from. | WIKI |
Talk:Victor Amadeus III
Move
Well, this is going to be messy. The page should really be at Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia but some well-meaning but misguided editor apparently moved Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to that namespace without understanding that the styles start over again with the new title. Right now there are many links going to "Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia" that really want to go to "Victor Amadeus II of Savoy", who was "Victor Amadeus I of Sardinia". The move shouldn't occur before all those links get cleared up. We don't want people going to the wrong page.
It's worth researching and noting if it's common in English now to call this guy "Victor Amadeus III" just so he can be treated as part of a straight line with his family... but if we're keeping VA3 it has to be "of Savoy" or "of the House of Savoy", not Sardinia. It's simply not what they were styled under that title. — Llywelyn II 11:24, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
3rd of Sardinia???
III refers to Savoy, not to Sardinia. The dinastic number of all members of the House of Savoy refers to Savoy not to the other title. In fact, en.wiki is quite the sole or very few wikis with this erroneous title. In few days I’ll move to Of Savoy or King of Sardinia, but not Of Sardinia which is simply wrong (and an original research). Revolution Yes (talk) 20:46, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 12 January 2024
The result of the move request was: All Moved - Consensus that the proposed moves are more concise and aligned with WP:NCROY.
Whilst there have been multiple other discussion that have failed to find consensus, with roughly equal !votes and arguments, in this discussion the consensus for moving is very clear both numerically and in terms of argument-strength, particularly around name-accuracy. Relisting the discussion has only emphasised that. (non-admin closure) FOARP (talk) 14:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
* Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia → Victor Amadeus III
* Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia → Charles Emmanuel III
* Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia → Charles Emmanuel IV
* Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia → Victor Emmanuel I
* Victor Emmanuel III of Italy → Victor Emmanuel III
– As noted in the previous section, the present formula yields nonsensical results: Victor Amadeus III was not the third of his name to rule Sardinia but Savoy. The subsequent rulers' ordinals likewise refer neither to Sardinia nor to Italy but to Savoy.
More importantly, these moves will bring the articles in line with the WP:CONCISE policy and the WP:NCROY guideline. The present titles contain unnecessary disambiguation, which is explicitly against both WP:CONCISE and WP:NCROY.
Note that Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia→Victor Amadeus II and Victor Emmanuel II of Italy→Victor Emmanuel II were moved in 2023 and 2022, respectively. Surtsicna (talk) 10:55, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 14:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
* - Why are you relisting? GoodDay (talk) 19:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
* @GoodDay, apologies for not seeing this earlier. because on the overall, it seems that almost every recent discussion relating to NCROY has resulted in almost equal numbers of contributions to the both sides of the discussion. The relist was to ensure that the discussion has run its course beyond the minimum 7 days. – robertsky (talk) 07:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
* oppose 'Name number country' is still the best title in terms of clarity and recognizabllity—blindlynx 15:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* blindlynx, appending the country actively hinders clarity and recognizability: these men are better known as "of Savoy" or "of Piedmont" than as "of Sardinia". We should not pretend that "of Sardinia" was ever here for clarity and recognizability. Surtsicna (talk) 17:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Then they should be moved to 'of Savoy' or 'of Piedmont'—blindlynx 23:15, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Why? It does not improve clarity or recognizability if the reader saw them associated with one of the other states. On the contrary. And it does not disambiguate either. All we are left with is that more elaborate titles sound grander. Surtsicna (talk) 10:28, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* With the exception a handful of monarchs, numbers after a first name is not sufficient information for most readers to identify who an article is about—blindlynx 17:35, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* It is not the purpose of the article title to define the subject. The name John Ballance is not enough for most readers to identify him as a prime minister of New Zealand, yet we do not call him John Ballance of New Zealand. Per WP:RECOGNIZABILITY, the article title should be recognizable to people who are familiar with the subject, not to most people. Surtsicna (talk) 12:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
* People familiar with monarchs will struggle to identify monarchs based on just name and number. Particularly when it comes to higher numbers where even experts in the field won't necessarily know at which number there's only one country with that named monarch left—blindlynx 15:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
* They do not need to know any of that. They just need to be familiar with Victor Amadeus III. That is what WP:RECOGNIZABILITY says. Everyone familiar with Victor Amadeus III will know that the article titled Victor Amadeus III is about Victor Amadeus III. Surtsicna (talk) 16:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
More broadly, and speaking just for myself: omitting the country makes the titles less clear and recognizable, and doesn't aid the reader. I understand it's not our goal to maximize recognizability with lengthy and detailed titles, but I also recognize that the most concise title that disambiguation allows is not necessarily the best one either; reasonable and encyclopedic titles often tend to lie somewhere in between, and I think that's true here. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 16:28, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Oppose. The direction in the NCROY guideline (to include the territorial designation only when required for disambiguation) has in practice failed to garner consensus support at various other recent RMs — e.g., Christian I, Edward I, etc. In light of this I think the best approach is to revisit NCROY, not use it to invoke still more RMs that are likely to be contentious.
* At Christian I and Edward I ambiguity was cited as an issue (notwithstanding WP:PRIMARY). There is no ambiguity here. These men cannot be more recognizable under "of Sardinia" titles when they are more commonly called "of Savoy" or "of Piedmont" in reliable sources; the argument has no basis in reality. Surtsicna (talk) 17:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* There's also no ambiguity for (say) Oprah or Missoula — yet we title their articles Oprah Winfrey and Missoula, Montana. As WP:CRITERIA makes clear, the determination of what constitutes the best and most encyclopedic title for an article is about more than whether the title is distinct from others or maximally concise; it should instead balance relevant considerations in a manner that's supported by consensus, and that puts the interests of readers ahead of editors. To judge from other recent RMs, the push to drop the nation from the titles of articles such as these doesn't seem to have clear consensus in practice, and some contributors (like me) feel that the nation is an important clarifier that helps the reader. If you disagree, that's fine, but suggesting that such concerns have "no basis in reality" is unhelpful. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 18:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* What lacks basis in reality is your assertion that adding "of Sardinia" to "Victor Amadeus III" increases recognizability. That is not true because, in the world outside Wikipedia, he is more frequently associated with Savoy and Piedmont. I do not think it unhelpful to note that. A reader is therefore less likely to recognize who the article is about with Sardinia in there. Surtsicna (talk) 19:02, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* If the claim is that Victor Amadeus III is most commonly associated with Savoy, then I have no objection to using “of Savoy”. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 19:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* revisiting it is probably for the best between this discussion and Talk:Ferdinand_VI there seem to be serious reservations about the recent changes to it—blindlynx 23:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Go ahead. Revisit. Start an RfC. Surtsicna (talk) 10:28, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* oppose I agree with blindlynx. Dimadick (talk) 18:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Oppose. This reduces recognizability and is unhelpful to readers. Also agree with ╠╣uw on revisiting NCROY. Walrasiad (talk) 18:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Comment - I realize that the purging "of country" (via NCROY), will continue across many 'monarch bio' pages. But, why hasn't anyone ever suggest (or maybe they have) something like Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)? GoodDay (talk) 20:42, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Presumably because that's unnecessary disambiguation. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 23:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* It appears that parenthetical disambiguation is preferred to be avoided whenever possible. 2601:249:9301:D570:64DF:D866:61C7:7E28 (talk) 03:03, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per WP:SOVEREIGN. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 23:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
* Why aren't Charles Albert, Umberto I and Umberto II included in this RM? They are all primary redirects. Note that was part of an RM last year, despite the obvious ambiguity of the latter. This would still leave Charles Felix of Sardinia hanging there in space, doing its own thing. Editors should know that Victor Amadeus II was moved by RM, but Victor Emmanuel II was moved without a discussion. An RM for VEIII failed back in August. I feel that participants in that discussion should be notified of this one. Srnec (talk) 15:23, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* They are not included because I did not want the entire move request to fail on account of the technical ambiguity of Charles Albert, Umberto I and Umberto II. That is a lesson learned from the Richard III discussion. Those three will be discussed separately because for them PRIMARYTOPIC needs to be defended. Surtsicna (talk) 00:35, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
* Comment - I don't understand why so many of these RMs are popping up, since the changes to NCROY. Why not just make a list of all the monarch pages (that are deemed as being in need of having "of country" dropped) & put them in 'one' RM. GoodDay (talk) 18:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* I imagine that proposing a very large number of articles together could be seen as a Wikipedia:TRAINWRECK. 2601:249:9301:D570:64DF:D866:61C7:7E28 (talk) 03:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per nomination. The suggested targets are unambiguous and more concise. The title's job isn't to further define the subject - that's for the lead. If a reader searches for or follows a link to Victor Emmanuel III and is confused who the subject is, they find out he was King of Italy in the very first sentence. Seltaeb Eht (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support as per WP:SOVEREIGN and nomination. Generalissima (talk) 05:53, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per WP:SOVEREIGN. As much as I personally disagree with these changes, our policies and guidelines are in support of this. estar8806 (talk) ★ 21:22, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support, I agree with estar8806. Regards, Robertus Pius (Talk • Contribs) 23:41, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
* Oppose - Sardinia monarchs aren't well know enough, without the inclusion of their country as a designator. Also, the Italian monarchs should all have "of Italy". GoodDay (talk) 03:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
* Comment - But they are not most well known as monarchs of Sardinia, they are most well known as monarchs of Savoy. There was no Victor Amadeus I of Sardinia, nor was there a Charles Emmanuel I or II of Sardinia. UmbrellaTheLeef (talk) 22:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
* Courtesty ping to all involved in the previous RM for VEIII in August. Srnec (talk) 03:26, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
* Strong Support. There is absoutely no chance of ambiguity here, so WP:NCROY is clear that these should be moved. Bensci54 (talk) 14:57, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per the revised WP:NCROY guideline, and per CONCISE, PRIMARYTOPIC, COMMONNAME, and the DAB principle that we don't disambiguate except when necessary. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per WP:NCROY and WP:CONCISE. Векочел (talk) 03:44, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support removing unnecessary (and potentially misleading) disambiguation, in line with applicable policy and guidelines. Rosbif73 (talk) 09:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support, even though I am quite against omitting the "of [country]" from monarchs, such as in Frederik X or Margrethe II. But, since this trend has been picking up speed on Wikipedia lately, along with the fact that these Italian monarchs' ordinals are for their rule over Savoy (plus the fact that two have already been moved previously), I am in support. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 22:59, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
* People keep asserting that these ordinals are for Savoy, but Victor Emmanuel III never ruled Savoy. These ordinals are not later inventions. They were used by the kings themselves and that's what matters. Srnec (talk) 21:09, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per @Srnec Killuminator (talk) 16:46, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support per Surtsicna and WP:SOVEREIGN. Векочел (talk) 17:38, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support moving of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy to Victor Emmanuel III only per nom and WP:SOVEREIGN. I have no comments on the other proposed articles where there might be a case about Sardinia versus Savoy. I came across this discussion as someone about to wikilink to the article; I was dumbstruck by the title, which to me suggested a disambiguation. cf. Victor Emmanuel II. IgnatiusofLondon (talk) 17:38, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
* Support VE3 as he is very commonly known. No opinion on the others. Curbon7 (talk) 06:39, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
* Support, per nom. Contrary to ’s claim, the direction in the NCROY guideline (to include the territorial designation only when required for disambiguation) has not in practice failed to garner consensus support at various other recent RMs. The only recent failures involving removal of “of country” from NCROY-related titles were in TRAINWRECK large multi move proposals with exceptions sprinkled among them that arguably were not unnecessary disambiguation. An apt example is the proposal to move Ferdinand VI of Spain and VII to their respective CONCISE titles which succeeded despite an 8 to 3 Opposing majority (a decision which was Endorsed at MR) because, like here, opposition to removing unnecessary disambiguation from these titles has no basis in policy. —В²C ☎ 21:00, 12 February 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Tittmann
Tittmann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Fritz Tittmann (1898–1945), German politician
* Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (1893–1980), American diplomat
* Karl Christian Tittmann (1744–1820), German theologian
* Otto Hilgard Tittmann (1850–1938), American geographer and astronomer | WIKI |
User:Thejournalista
Christina Angelique Garr (born September 5, 1977) is an American journalist, writer and entertainment publicist who has contributed to such international publications as The Source Magazine, Basic Magazine, Rhyme and Reason Magazine and many more. Also known as The Journalista, she was first exposed to the music industry and entertainment world while interning for Universal Music Distribution and serving as evening news reporter for Dallas radio station KNTU 88.1 FM. Garr has also served as Managing Editor and Marketing Director for Basic Magazine (available in Wal-mart stores.) She is also the author of the entertainment/celebrity gossip blog Journalicious!. | WIKI |
Manizha (disambiguation)
Manizha may refer to:
* Manizha Bakhtari Afghan diplomat
* Manizha Wafeq Afghan entrepreneur | WIKI |
Klymaxx discography
This is the discography of American pop/R&B group Klymaxx.
Studio albums
* Album was never released
Compilation albums
* Greatest Hits (1996, MCA)
* 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Klymaxx (2003, MCA) | WIKI |
Neue Liebeslieder
Neue Liebeslieder (New Love Songs), Op. 65, written by Johannes Brahms, is a collection of Romantic pieces written for four solo voices and four hands on the piano. They are also known as Neue Liebesliederwalzer. Neue Liebeslieder were written during the Romantic period between 1869 and 1874. The text of the songs is adapted from folk songs of various areas of Europe including Turkey, Poland, Latvia and Sicily. The text for songs 1 through 14 were translated and compiled by Georg Friedrich Daumer in his poem series, Polydora; the text for the fifteenth and final song, entitled "Zum Schluß" ("In Conclusion"), was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Neue Liebeslieder were written following the success of the popular Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52.
Musical aspects
The Neue Liebeslieder differs from the earlier Liebeslieder in that only seven of its 15 songs are for the ensemble quartet, while seven others are solo songs for individual members of the quartet, and one is for a duo.
Throughout the quartet songs, Brahms uses innovative techniques to portray a central idea. For example, in the first song, measures 16–21, he depicts the rocky shores by the repeated cry of "zertrümmert", which in English means "wrecked". Brahms also enhances the text "Well auf Well" ("wave after wave") with octave leaps in all four parts in measure 4 and 29. In No. 8, Brahms's use of the musical rest in the middle of the words mixed with the chorus singing dolce helps to create a gentle atmosphere.
The seven solo songs and one duet differ from the quartet songs in that the soloists illustrate different characters who behave in certain ways when it comes to love. The soprano is a female who continuously has no luck when it comes to men; the alto is depicted as a female who has suddenly abandoned her lover; the tenor is portrayed as a male who is selfish and irresponsible when it comes to sexual relationships with women; and the bass is one who is hopelessly in love with his married lover.
The final song in this cycle, "Zum Schluß", written for the entire vocal quartet, moves away from the subject of lovers and puts the spotlight on the muses and thanks them for inspiring not only the author (Goethe), but also all of the artists in the world. With this change in subject comes the change in meter. When Brahms changes the standard meter to, the nine beats are grouped into three groups of three; thus, it is a waltz within a waltz. In addition, "Zum Schluß" has a Baroque influence in two respects: the music is much more contrapuntal than the previous songs in this cycle, and the song is actually a passacaglia, with the theme (F–C–B♭–A–D–C) running throughout the outer sections. At the climax of this song in measure 16, the piano drops out and the choir sings a cappella and moves from the dominant key back to the tonic key of F major. J. A. Fuller Maitland, in Grove's Dictionary, wrote:
"One of the most beautiful of all the quartets not in waltz-rhythm, is the epilogue to the second set of ‘Neue Liebeslieder’, a true lyric for four voices, with a gentler style of accompaniment than is provided for the rest. (Maitland 1904, 390)"
It is self-evident that Zum Schluß, whose text and music are in stark contrast to all of the other waltzes in both Op. 52 and Op. 65, is a personal statement by Brahms, who throughout the troubled relationships in his life (sich Jammer und Glück wechseln in liebender Brust) found solace in music (Linderung kommt einzig, ihr [Musen], von euch). | WIKI |
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