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GCD and LCM-like identities for ideals in commutative rings
D. D. Anderson, Shuzo Izumi, Yasuo Ohno, Manabu Ozaki
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Let A1,.,An(n ≥ 2) be ideals of a commutative ring R. Let G(k) (resp., L(k)) denote the product of all the sums (resp., intersections) of k of the ideals. Then we have L(n)G(2)G(4)G(2⌊ n/2⌋) ⊂ G(1)G(3) G(2⌈ n/2 ⌉-1). In the case R is an arithmetical ring we have equality. In the case R is a Prüfer ring, the equality holds if at least n-1 of the ideals A1,.,An are regular. In these two cases we also have G(n)L(2)L(4) L(2⌊ n/2 ⌋) = L(1)L(3) L(2⌈ n/2 ⌉-1). Related equalities are given for Prüfer v-multiplication domains and formulas relating GCD's and LCM's in a GCD domain generalizing gcd(a1, a2)lcm(a1, a2) = a1a2 are given.
本文言語English
論文番号1650010
ジャーナルJournal of Algebra and its Applications
15
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DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2016 2 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• 代数と数論
• 応用数学
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Mark Bathum
Mark Bathum (born October 1, 1958) is an American Paralympic alpine skier. He has competed at two Winter Paralympics, two World Cups and two World Championships.
Personal history
Mark Bathum was born on October 1, 1958, in Seattle, Washington. He was then brought up in Seattle. At age 9, he began skiing, and three years later, at 12, began ski racing.
Bathum graduated from Mercer Island High School in 1977, the University of Washington in 1981 (Finance and Marketing) and earned an MBA from UCLA in 1986. | WIKI |
Ohio State Route 131
State Route 131 (SR 131) is a 30.05 mi east–west state highway in the southwestern quadrant of the U.S. state of Ohio. The western terminus of SR 131 is at a signalized intersection with U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in the eastern Cincinnati suburb of Milford. Its eastern terminus is at a T-intersection with SR 138 approximately 7.50 mi southwest of Hillsboro.
Route description
The path of SR 131 takes it through northern Clermont County, northwestern Brown County and western Highland County. There are no segments of SR 131 that are included within the National Highway System (NHS), a network of highways deemed to be most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the country.
History
The SR 131 designation was applied in 1923. Originally, the highway was routed along its present alignment from its current western terminus in Milford to its junction with US 50, at the time designated as SR 26, southwest of Fayetteville. In 1946, SR 131 was extended east along its current alignment to its present eastern terminus at SR 138 southwest of Hillsboro, utilizing a previously un-numbered roadway between its previous eastern terminus and SR 134, and the entirety of what was SR 780 between SR 134 and SR 138. | WIKI |
@article {642, title = {Geobacter sulfurreducens sp. nov., a hydrogen- and acetate-oxidizing dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganism.}, journal = {Appl Environ Microbiol}, volume = {60}, year = {1994}, month = {1994 Oct}, pages = {3752-9}, abstract = {A dissimilatory metal- and sulfur-reducing microorganism was isolated from surface sediments of a hydrocarbon-contaminated ditch in Norman, Okla. The isolate, which was designated strain PCA, was an obligately anaerobic, nonfermentative nonmotile, gram-negative rod. PCA grew in a defined medium with acetate as an electron donor and ferric PPi, ferric oxyhydroxide, ferric citrate, elemental sulfur, Co(III)-EDTA, fumarate, or malate as the sole electron acceptor. PCA also coupled the oxidation of hydrogen to the reduction of Fe(III) but did not reduce Fe(III) with sulfur, glucose, lactate, fumarate, propionate, butyrate, isobutyrate, isovalerate, succinate, yeast extract, phenol, benzoate, ethanol, propanol, or butanol as an electron donor. PCA did not reduce oxygen, Mn(IV), U(VI), nitrate, sulfate, sulfite, or thiosulfate with acetate as the electron donor. Cell suspensions of PCA exhibited dithionite-reduced minus air-oxidized difference spectra which were characteristic of c-type cytochromes. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA sequence placed PCA in the delta subgroup of the proteobacteria. Its closest known relative is Geobacter metallireducens. The ability to utilize either hydrogen or acetate as the sole electron donor for Fe(III) reduction makes strain PCA a unique addition to the relatively small group of respiratory metal-reducing microorganisms available in pure culture. A new species name, Geobacter sulfurreducens, is proposed.}, keywords = {Acetic Acid, Acetic Acids, Base Sequence, DNA Primers, DNA, Bacterial, DNA, Ribosomal, Electron Transport, Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria, Hydrogen, Metals, Microscopy, Electron, Molecular Sequence Data, Oxidation-Reduction, Phylogeny, RNA, Bacterial, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Soil Microbiology}, issn = {0099-2240}, author = {Caccavo, F and Lonergan, D J and Lovley, D R and Davis, M and Stolz, J F and McInerney, M J} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Registration Dossier
Diss Factsheets
Administrative data
Link to relevant study record(s)
Description of key information
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Bioaccumulation potential:
no bioaccumulation potential
Absorption rate - oral (%):
100
Absorption rate - dermal (%):
30
Absorption rate - inhalation (%):
60
Additional information
INHALATION
Three studies performed with rats (two with F344 and one with SD rats) and 3 studies performed with B6C3F1 mice were reported. In one study, the distribution of 2-butoxyethanol (2BE) and its metabolites was studied in relation with time. This study clearly showed that the liver and the forestomach were the main target organs. The great amount of radiolabelling found in the gastro-intestinal tract demonstrated that 2BE was ingested during grooming and by muco-cilliary clearance from nasopharynx and not directly via inhalation route. However this mechanism alone cannot explain the large amounts found in the forestomach. 2BE metabolism led to the formation of a majority of butoxyacetic acid (BAA), ethylene glycol (EG) and 2BE glucoronide (BEG) conjugate along with 2 metabolites unidentified in small quantities. BAA and EG formation followed a saturable mechanism and increased doses of 2BE lead to a greater formation of BEG conjugate compared to BAA and EG. Like the other routes of administration, elimination via urinary route was rapid and predominant. A small amount of the administrated dose was eliminated via inhalation route in the form of CO2(less than 10 %).
The blood half-life of 2BE was about 10 minutes in rats and 5 minutes in mice whatever the level of exposure. Unlike BAA which seemed to be eliminated by a saturable mechanism, elimination of 2BE followed a linear kinetic. When repeated doses of 2BE were administered, the rate of BAA elimination tended to decrease with increasing doses of 2BE.
In rats, elimination of BAA varied with the sex of animals: females tended to eliminate BAA slower. This difference between the sexes could be due to a difference in the renal excretion between males and females. This sex difference was not found in mice. A species difference was also reported, with mice eliminating 2 fold faster than rats. An age difference was also described in mice, the older mice eliminating BAA 10 fold slower than the younger mice for a unique administration of 2BE. When exposures were repeated, the difference between aged and young mice tended to disappear. After 3 months of daily exposure, no difference was seen for the elimination of BAA when age is considered.
DERMAL
Dermal uptake of 2-butoxyethanol is rapid. Peak blood levels occur about 2 hours after application. Metabolism, as with other routes, mainly leads to the formation of BAA and also to smaller quantities of BEG conjugate. The half-life of metabolites in plasma was about 4 hours. The majority of metabolites were eliminated via urinary excretion and only very small amounts were found in faeces. A small fraction of administered 2BE was metabolised to CO2 and eliminated via respiration, this amount increasing with the increasing dose. Otherwise, the amounts absorbed, the route of excretion, and the pattern of urinary metabolites was independent of dose, with urinary excretion of butoxyacetic acid the main route of elimination. Water can also dramatically facilitate the percutaneous absorption of 2-butoxyethanol. One study showed aqueous solutions in the range 40-80% penetrate twice as quickly as neat or more dilute solutions of 20% or less. However, a second study showed the rate of increase to be of the order of 15x when present as a 50% aqueous solution compared to neat material (albeit from a relatively low baseline level). Metabolism of 2 -butoxyethanol to 2 -butoxyacetic acid was found to be insignificant; dermal exposure to 2 -butoxyethanol will lead to systemic exposure of the parent (same) compound. A figure of 30% was selected for the dermal uptake in the EU risk assessment of this substance and is retained here.
ORAL
Numerous toxicokinetic studies have been performed in rats and mice and lead to the following conclusions:
Absorption of orally administered 2BE was rapid and essentially complete (assumed to be 100 %). Target organs in which the most radiolabeled compound was found were: the forestomach, the liver and the kidneys. The major metabolite of 2BE is BAA which is formed through a mechanism involving alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases which seems to be saturable. Other metabolites were, in order of magnitude: the glucuronide conjugate of 2BE (whose percentage increases relative to the dose at the expense of the BAA formation) and two minor metabolites, the sulphate-conjugate of 2BE and ethylene glycol (which was not observed in all studies). Elimination is rapid and occurs mainly by urinary excretion. A small amount of metabolised 2BE is eliminated as CO2 in expired air (0 to 20 % for a high and low dose respectively). A small amount of unchanged 2BE (approximately 1 %) is also eliminated in expired air. In two studies, BAA, BEG and 2BE were found in bile. 2BE did not accumulate in tissues. The metabolic profile was not changed after repeated exposures compared to acute exposure. Age-related difference was observed: young rats eliminating 2BE via CO2 and urine (with significantly less BAA and more BEG) to a greater extent than adult rats. Simultaneous administration of 2BE and a primary alcohol (ethanol, n-propanol or n-butanol) in sufficient quantity inhibits BAA formation through competition for the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme.
OTHER ROUTES
Two studies have been performed via the intravenous route (one in rats, the other in mice), two studies via the intraperitoneal route and one via the subcutaneous route in rats. Target organs evidenced in the previous described studies were confirmed in these studies: spleen, liver, thymus and stomach. However, a slight difference was seen in the distribution of the substance between the forestomach and the glandular stomach after an IV injection. The distribution to stomach comes from systemic circulation and also from ingestion of 2BE (which could come from salivary glands).
In these studies, which are generally mechanistic studies, it was demonstrated that the BAA formation was the results of Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase metabolism in the liver. This finding is validated by competitive inhibition studies performed with Ethanol. Inhibition of renal tubular anion transport caused a decrease in the renal excretion of BAA and therefore an increase of the 2BE toxicity.
STUDIES IN HUMANS
Three studies were reported in which human volunteers were exposed to 2BE by the inhalation route. Theoretical absorption (calculated) of 2BE was found to be 80 %. However, measurements performed showed a real absorption of 55 to 60 %. This difference is explained by a “wash in / wash out” mechanism: due to its hydrophilic properties, 2BE is adsorbed to the surface of the respiratory tract during inspiration and it desorbed during exhalation leading to a decrease in the real uptake of substance.
A number of in vivostudies on volunteers and in vitro studies are available to quantify the dermal uptake of 2BE in humans. The in vitro studies, measuring the rate of absorption of liquid 2BE through human skin, gave results that varied by a factor of 25 (0.064 mg/cm2/hr for the lowest and 1.66 mg/cm2/hr for the highest). In vitro, rate of absorption is highly dependent on the concentration of the aqueous solution of 2BE used. From the in vivo studies, one suggested an estimation of the skin penetration in the range: 7 to 96 nmol/min/cm2 (0.008 mg/cm2/hr to 0.0114 mg/cm2/hr) for pure liquid 2BE. Another study performed with liquid 2BE showed that absorption was greater when the substance was in aqueous solution than when pure (dermal flux 1.34 mg/cm2/h and 0.26 mg/cm2/h respectively). This is consistent with data available in vitro and in animals. This observation needs to be borne in mind during risk characterisation. If temperature and humidity conditions increased, the percutaneous uptake increased also (in contrast with the inhalation uptake which remained constant).
The half-life of 2BE in the bloodstream of humans was consistently around 1 hour in all studies whereas BAA half life was about 5 hours.
In one in vivostudy, percutaneous absorption of vapour 2BE was assessed. Depending on the external conditions during exposure, the internal dose of 2BE due to percutaneous absorption varies between 11 % and 39 %. The percentage of 11 % was found for “normal” conditions of use (temperature, humidity) and most scenarios found the percentage compared to inhalation to be in the range 10-15%. A single observation of 39 % was found for the worst case of industrial use (high temperature, high humidity and wearing overalls).
PBPK modeling estimated that for a worst-case exposure to 2BE vapour (100 % of the body exposed and no cloths), percutaneous absorption would account for 15-27 % of the internal dose of 2BE. A figure of 60% is selected for inhalation absorption, which is in line with the conclusions drawn in the EU risk assessment (2006).
In a human volunteer study, venous blood samples were collected from 4 human male volunteers during and for 4 hours after a 2 hour exposure to 2-butoxyethanol vapour. Blood and urine were analysed for butoxyacetic acid (BAA). BAA levels peaked 2 -4 hours after exposure commenced with an average half life for elimination from blood of 4.3 hours.
OTHER DATA – INCLUDING PBPK MODELS
In vitro studies have showed that 2BE transformation to BAA is primarily via the alcohol dehydrogenase isotype 3. This enzyme is more active in females than in males. Moreover, it has been demonstrated than metabolic rate in rat was 10 to 20 fold higher than in human.
Substantial work has been carried out to develop and refine a PBPK model using experimental data collected in humans and in animals to both populate and validate the model. The present model covers multiple exposure routes (inhalation, oral, dermal, iv), the differences between humans and animals, the kinetic parameters of the main metabolite BAA, and age related parameters to all of the modeling of chronic exposures. Recent studies have produced results which are consistent with the current PbPk model which can therefore be considered sufficiently validated for use in determining cross species toxicokinetic assessment factors.
DERMAL ABSORPTION
Five studies were reported on 2BE absorption properties via the dermal route including in vitro studies examining the percutaneous uptake of 2BE in various species, and at different concentrations in different solvents and with various patterns of application (occlusive or not occlusive). Under semi-occlusive conditions, dermal uptake of pure 2BE was between 20 and 30 % of the administrated dose. Dermal uptake of aqueous dilutions of 5, 10 and 20 % 2BE was similar to that of the pure substance. Uptake was increased and was maximal for the 40 and 80 % aqueous solutions of 2BE (from in vivo studies: 1.3 -1.4mg/cm2/hr from a 50% solution compared to 0.2 - 0.4mg/cm2/hr from pure 2BE; from in vitro studies: 0.8 - 1.9mg/cm2/hr from 10-50% solutions compared to 0.1 -0.9 mg/cm2/hr for pure 2BE.) The rate of penetration was less for pure substance than for concentrated aqueous solutions and less in in vivo studies compared to in vitro studies. Some in vitro studies demonstrated that dermal uptake for pig skin was 2 or 3 times slower than rat skin. The results found with human skin were more or less equivalent to those seen with pig skin. If 2BE was administrated under non-occlusive conditions, the dermal uptake decreased dramatically (uptake 10 %), mainly because of the volatility of 2BE.
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Talk:Rio Grande leopard frog
Taxonomy
The statement: "Recent research has placed Rio Grande leopard frogs in the subgenus Scurrilirana.[2][4]" is biased and not commonly accepted. This taxon was proposed in invalid fashion, as a ranked subgenus nested within three other subgenera. Use of this subgenus also results in multiple and superfluous subgenera being applied to the small number of species included in the master heading of "Leopard Frog". Reliance on these references also constitutes an institutional bias, as it excludes references which reflect considerable subsequent disagreement and discussion. FrogO Oeyes (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
Western Australian economy at crisis point say builders
June 7, 2008
Western Australian Master Builders Association (MBA) yesterday demanded the Carpenter Government call an emergency cabinet meeting to avoid a "state of emergency" over the energy crisis gripping WA. A MBA spokesperson said that hundreds of workers have already been stood down, many without pay, and that the cost of building material is soaring.
The Minister for Energy, Fran Logan has admitted that the gas shortage caused by Tuesday's fire is damaging the economy as mining, manufacturing and construction industries wind back operations. Western Australia's two major brick producing companies have shut operations and Wesbeam's $A100 million Neerabup pine production facility has been closed, their 130 employees have been stood down.
Wesbeam chief executive James Malone said, "It's an industrial tsunami in my view. It's a little ripple that has very quickly had a huge multiplying effect on the whole community".
Michael McLean, Master Building Association director said "It's a worst-nightmare scenario, and not one we could have imagined in our wildest dreams," building supplies are expected to start running out by the middle of next week.
Premier Carpenter has announced a meeting of ministers and industry representatives to take place on Sunday to discuss solutions to the growing crisis. Tim Wall, managing director of Apache Corporation has said Apache is conducting a worldwide search for the parts need to repair the pipeline.
Major mining companies and Apache partners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have already reported they are suffering with the loss of gas supply; the Chamber of Minerals and Energy has talked down the effect saying that they don't expect the crisis to take the heat off the booming mining industry. Opposition leader Troy Buswell has describe the performance of Fran Logan as "absolutely dismal" noting that Mr Logan had experienced a similar incident in January this year, when a fire at Woodsides Karratha operations had a similar effect. | WIKI |
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PEARL # 1 – LOCATION/LANDMARK: Minimize skin to pleural distance.
• Often the region with the least amount of adipose/muscle tissue will be in the 4th to 5th ICS, mid to anterior axillary line. This is often more superior than expected. Palpating along the 5th rib at the level of the nipple/breast fold, and following it posteriorly as it travels superiorly can be helpful.
• In certain circumstances, an anterior approach in the 2nd ICS, mid-clavicular line, may be desired. PITFALL: Remember that the clavicle ends at the acromion, and so the mid-clavicular line is often more lateral than expected.
PEARL # 2 – ADEQUATE LOCAL ANESTHESIA: This can obviate the need for sedation.
• Enter the rib space slightly above the rib below, to avoid major neurovascular bundles running underneath the rib, and collaterals running above the rib.
• Advance your needle in small increments. Aspirate first, and then inject. Once you enter the pleural space, pull back again until you feel resistance once more. Your needle should now be sitting in between the internal intercostal and innermost intercostal muscle. This is where the neurovascular bundles travel – inject the rest of your local anesthesia here.
• BONUS TIP: This should also help you estimate the depth of the chest wall (skin to pleural distance).
PEARL #3 – DILATING: Do it in a controlled manner.
• PITFALL: First make sure to make a big enough nick in the skin. Your guidewire should be able to move side to side through this small nick.
• Once you insert the dilator, avoid the urge to push through the resistance with force. Instead, with a bit of force directed towards the chest wall, twist your dilator to try and catch some of the fascia, and then pull back as if to try and tear it. This will likely require a few attempts, but you should feel the loss of resistance once you are successful.
PEARL #4 – USING THE OBTURATOR: Needless to say, it is there for a reason.
• Insert the obturator all the way into the pigtail catheter with the stop cock, and lock it in place. This will ensure that your chest tube is rigid and make it easy to feed over the guidewire and through the chest wall. This will also assist you in aiming the tube (superiorly and anteriorly for pneumothorax).
• Advance until the second line on the pigtail catheter, then pull back the obturator part way, and advance the pigtail catheter to the third line. Then completely remove the obturator and guidewire.
PEARL #5 – INTERPLEURAL BLOCK: Provide your patient with ongoing analgesia.
• Inject long acting local anesthetic (e.g. bupivacaine) through the pigtail catheter into the pleural space. This provides your patient with ongoing analgesia.
• Common dose: Bupivacaine 0.25% 10-20ml (even up to 30ml).
PEARL #6 – STOPCOCK AND ONE-WAY VALVE IN THE CORRECT POSITIONS
• The tap points to the off position.
• The blue port connects to the patient side.
• Confirm with cup of water and patient cough. Look for bubbles. This confirms the presence of an air leak and the correct positioning of stopcock and one-way valve.
PEARL #7 – USE A GOOD SUTURE: Don’t let that chest tube come out.
• Use a large suture (Size 0 or bigger) with good tensile strength (Silk)
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William Penlington
William Penlington may refer to the following New Zealanders:
* William Penlington (mayor) (1832–1899), builder and mayor
* William Penlington (teacher) (1890–1982), school principal and educationalist | WIKI |
Phillipkeith Manley
Phillipkeith Alexander Manley (born May 7, 1990) is an American football offensive guard who is currently a free agent. He signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He played college football at Toledo.
Early years
He was ranked at No. 63 in the state of Ohio by Ohio High Magazine. He was selected for the first-team all-league and first-team All-Butler County.
College career
He played college football at Toledo. He started 13 games in his Junior season at left guard for the Toledo Rockets. In his senior season, he helped anchor an offensive line and offense to rush for 2,777 rushing yards, including Toledo running back Adonis Thomas who also rushed for a team-high 1,071 rushing yards.
Atlanta Falcons
On April 30, 2012, he signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent. On August 31, 2012, he was released. On September 11, 2012, he was signed to the practice squad. On November 6, 2012, he was promoted to the active roster after the team placed offensive guard Garrett Reynolds on injured reserve.
Two days after the team signed him to the practice squad, the Falcons reached an injury settlement with Manley on September 3, 2013.
Dallas Cowboys
On November 6, 2013, he was signed to the Dallas Cowboys practice squad. On November 12, 2013, he was released from the practice squad.
Cleveland Gladiators
Manley was assigned to the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League. He was reassigned on June 9, 2014.
Carolina Panthers
Manley signed a one-year contract with the Carolina Panthers.
Washington Valor
On July 7, 2017, Manley was claimed off reassignment by the Washington Valor. On July 10, 2017, he was placed on refused to report.
Philadelphia Soul
Manley was assigned to the Philadelphia Soul on March 20, 2018. | WIKI |
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Simulation free fall of a steel ball
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This example shows how to build physical component model based on physical connections to modeling free fall of a steel ball using Simulink
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In free fall the distance fallen h is proportional to the square of the time t taken to fall that distance. The coefficient of that proportionality can be used to calculate the gravitational acceleration g.
Since the ball is not moving before it starts to fall at time t0 = 0 its initial velocity is zero, i.e. v0 = 0. Therefore the distance covered in time t is given as follows
h=1/2∙g∙t^2
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Rh “Eleven dollars and fifty cents,” said Doan.
“You owe twenty.”
“I aim to pay it when the hens begin to lay.”
Hazen laughed scornfully.
“You aim to pay! Damn you, Marshey, if your old farm was worth taking I’d have you out in this snow, you old scamp!”
Doan pleaded dully: “Don’t you do that, Mr. Kinch! I aim to pay.”
Hazen clapped his hands on the table.
“Rats! Come! Give me what you’ve got! And, Marshey, you'll have to get the rest. I’m sick of waiting on you.”
Marshey came shuffling toward the table. Hazen was sitting with the table between him and the man and I was a little behind Hazen at one side. Marshey blinked as he came nearer, and his weak nearsighted eyes turned from Hazen to me. I could see that the man was stiff with the cold.
When he came to the table in front of Hazen he took off his thick gloves. His hands were blue. He laid the gloves on the table and reached into an inner pocket of his torn coat and drew out a little cloth pouch and he fumbled into this and I heard the clink of coins. He drew out two quarters and laid them on the table before Hazen, and Hazen picked them up. I saw that Marshey’s fingers moved stiffly; I could almost hear them creak with the cold. Then he reached into the pouch again.
Something dropped out of the mouth of the little cloth bag and fell soundlessly on the table. It looked to me like a bill, a piece of paper currency. I was about to speak, but Hazen, without an instant’s hesitation, had dropped his hand on the thing and drawn it unostentatiously toward him. When he lifted his hand the money—if it was money—was gone.
Marshey drew out a little roll of worn bills. Hazen took them out of his hand and counted them swiftly.
“All right,” he said. “Eleven-fifty. I'll give you a receipt. But you mind me, Doan Marshey, you get the rest before the month’s out. I’ve been too slack with you.” | WIKI |
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#20051 Hello,
this is a simple q&d solution that enables me to send files over the network to my esp. It is supposed to be helpful in situations where one is testing code in a esp connected to the uart using maybe luauploader, and when he is happy with the results, he can then send them to another esp over the air.
The code that goes to the esp is the following:
m_upload.lua
Code: Select allupload=nill
upload=net.createServer(net.TCP,10)
upload:listen(88,function(c)
c:on("receive", function(c, fileName)
-- print(fileName)
if (fileName=="file_upload_start")then
c:send("**enter the file name**\n")
print("**file upload started**")
upload_mode=1
elseif (fileName=="file_upload_stop")then
file.close()
c:send("**file "..savedFile.." saved**\n")
c:send("heap :"..node.heap().."\n")
print("\n\r**file "..savedFile.." saved**")
print("heap :"..node.heap())
savedFile,fileName,upload_mode=nill,nill,nill
elseif (upload_mode==1)then
c:send("**opened file "..fileName.." for writing**\n")
c:send("heap :"..node.heap().."\n")
print("**opened file "..fileName.." for writing**")
print("heap :"..node.heap().."\n")
savedFile=fileName
file.remove(fileName)
file.open(fileName, "w+")
upload_mode=2
elseif (upload_mode==2)then
c:send(">>"..fileName.."\n")
print(fileName.." >> " ..savedFile)
file.writeline(fileName)
end
end)
end)
--file.format()
--dofile("m_upload.lc")
--node.compile("m_upload.lua")
--print(node.heap())
--file.remove("init.lua")
you upload it to the esp, then call it by dofile("m_upload.lua") (or lc if you compile it) and it listens on port 88
for a connection from the pc
You can then use this script on linux (netcat is needed)
save it as an sh in the same folder as your lua scripts(chmode +x uploadtoesp.sh) and call it using the filename.lua and the ip of the remote esp as arguments, like so
uploadtoesp.sh test.lua 192.168.4.10
Code: Select all#!/bin/bash
echo -n file_upload_start | nc -w 1 $2 88
echo -n $1 | nc -w 1 $2 88
echo ""
#while read -r x; do sleep 0.2; echo "$x"; echo -n "$x" | nc -w 1 $2 88 ; done < $1
while read -r x; do sleep 0.2; echo -n $x | nc -w 1 $2 88 ; done < $1
echo ""
echo -n file_upload_stop | nc -w 2 $2 88
from windows use the following 2 files:
uploadtoesp.bat (again call it like uploadtoesp.bat XXX.lua X.X.X.X)
Code: Select all@echo off
echo | set /p dummyName="file_upload_start" | nc.exe -w 1 %2 88
echo | set /p dummyName="%1" | nc.exe -w 1 %2 88
echo.
nc.exe -e "parse.bat %1" %2 88
type %1
echo.
echo.
echo | set /p dummyName="file_upload_stop" | nc.exe -w 1 %2 88
parse.bat
Code: Select all@echo off
set wait=50
echo wscript.sleep %wait% > wait.vbs
for /F "delims=" %%a in (%1) do ( echo | set /p dummyName=%%a
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How to Stop Refrigerator from Making Loud Noise?
How to Stop Refrigerator from Making Loud Noise?
Refrigerators are unsung heroes of our daily lives. They work round the clock to keep our food and drinks fresh and cold. However, while we rely on them to maintain the freshness of our groceries – they can sometimes become a source of annoyance due to loud and distracting noises.
These noises can range from subtle humming to loud rattling, cracking noises, or banging sounds, which can be quite disruptive and bothersome. So, how can we stop our refrigerator from making loud noises?
In this guide, we will explore some common reasons for a noisy fridge and discuss ways to fix them. Let’s get started!
Why is My Refrigerator Making Noise?
There can be several reasons why your refrigerator is making loud noises. Here are some possible culprits for that racket:
• Loose Components: Over time, the components inside your refrigerator may become loose due to frequent usage. This can result in vibrations and rattling noises.
• Malfunctioning Parts: Like any mechanical device, refrigerators can suffer from wear and tear. Damaged or worn-out parts, such as the condenser fan or motors, are often the root cause of the noise.
• Unbalanced Fridge: If your refrigerator is not standing on a flat and stable surface, it can cause it to wobble while running. This can lead to loud noises.
• Poor Maintenance: Lack of regular maintenance can also contribute to loud refrigerator noises. Dirt, dust, and grime build-up can affect the performance of the fridge and result in strange sounds.
If you ignore these issues, they can snowball into larger problems, resulting in costly repairs or even premature refrigerator replacement. It’s crucial to address the noise promptly to save yourself from the hassle and expense.
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How to Fix a Noisy Refrigerator?
1. Listen for the Source of the Noise
woman listening to the source of the noise
The first step in addressing a noisy refrigerator is to pinpoint the source of the problem. Is the noise coming from the back or the bottom of your fridge? Is it a constant buzzing, rattling, or scraping sound? Identifying the source and type of noise can help you determine the cause and find a solution.
Begin by removing all items from the inside of the refrigerator. If the noise stops after doing this, it’s likely that an object inside the fridge was causing the noise. For example, if there is an unbalanced jar or shelf, it can cause rattling noises.
Once you’ve ruled out any internal objects, you should be able to hear the noise more clearly. Try to locate where it’s coming from by listening closely to the back, bottom, and sides of the fridge. If you can’t pinpoint the source, it’s best to call a professional for help. They have the expertise and tools to diagnose and fix the issue.
2. Secure the Drain Pan
secure refrigerator drain pan
If the loud refrigerator noise is coming from the bottom of your fridge, it’s likely caused by a loose or damaged drain pan. The drain pan is located at the bottom of the fridge and collects condensation from the refrigerator’s cooling process. Over time, it can become loose or cracked, causing it to vibrate and make noise. To fix this, you will need to secure or replace the drain pan.
First, unplug your refrigerator and remove any items on the bottom shelf. Locate the drain pan and check if it’s loose or damaged. If it’s a loose drain pan, use a screwdriver to tighten the screws holding it in place. If it’s cracked or damaged, you will need to replace it with a new one. You can purchase a replacement drain pan from an appliance store or online. Once you have a new one, simply remove the old pan and install the new one in its place.
If you’re not comfortable replacing the drain pan yourself, it’s best to call a professional for assistance. They can ensure that it is properly installed and prevent any further issues.
3. Listen for a Faulty Defrost Timer
check faulty defrost timer
If the refrigerator noise occurs periodically and seems to be coming from inside the fridge, it could be due to a faulty defrost timer. The defrost timer controls when the refrigerator goes into a defrost cycle, which is necessary to prevent ice build-up on the evaporator coils. If this timer is malfunctioning, it can cause loud rattling noises as it tries to initiate the defrost cycle.
To check if the defrost timer is causing the noise, you’ll need to listen carefully for when it occurs. If it happens at regular intervals, it’s likely due to the timer. You can also try manually turning off the defrost cycle and see if the noise stops. If it does, then you know that the timer is the issue. In this case, you will need to replace the defrost timer with a new one.
You can find the correct replacement timer by referencing your refrigerator’s model number.
4. Examine the Evaporator Fan
examine the evaporator fan
Another possible cause of refrigerator noise could be a faulty evaporator fan. This fan is responsible for circulating air over the evaporator coils, which helps to keep the fridge cool. If the fan becomes loose or damaged, it can create a loud rattling noise as it spins.
To check if the evaporator fan is causing the noise, you will need to access it. This may involve removing some panels or covers on the inside of your fridge. Once you can see the fan, inspect it for any signs of damage or looseness. If you notice any issues, such as a broken blade or loose mounting screws, you’ll need to replace the fan with a new one. A professional technician may be able to repair the fan instead of replacing it, so it’s worth considering this option as well.
If the evaporator fan appears to be in good condition, you may still want to try cleaning it. Dust and debris can sometimes build up on the fan blades, causing them to become unbalanced and create noise. Use a soft cloth or brush to gently clean the blades and see if that helps reduce the rattling or sizzling sound. If not, then it is likely another issue is causing the problem.
5. Check the Compressor
check the refrigerator compressor
The compressor is another component of your refrigerator that could be causing refrigerator noise. This part is responsible for compressing refrigerant gases and circulating them through the fridge’s cooling system. If the compressor is wearing out or becoming loose, it can create a loud humming or vibrating sound.
To check the compressor, you’ll need to access it from the back of your fridge. It’s best to have a professional technician do this, as it can be a difficult and dangerous component to repair or replace. They will be able to determine if the compressor needs to be repaired or replaced and can perform the necessary work safely.
The Wrap Up
As you can see, there are a few possible causes for refrigerator noises. By following these steps and inspecting the fan and compressor, you can pinpoint the source of the noise and take appropriate action to reduce or eliminate it. Remember to always prioritize safety and consider hiring a professional technician if needed.
At All Appliance & Refrigeration, we have experienced technicians who can diagnose and fix any issue with your refrigerator. Whether it’s a rattling noise or another problem, we can help get your fridge running smoothly again.
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The amazing brain
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It is in the human nature to be curious about how we feel pain, see the world, hear bird's songs, remember, forget, reason. We want to understand the nature of love, anger, satisfaction, desire and madness. This is a short story about the evolution of the science on the human brain and about major brain discoveries. It gives a concise historic perspective of the understanding of the nervous system - from ancient Egypt to the birth of Renaissance, with the works of Vesalius and his esteemed contemporaries. The contributions of 17th century neuroanatomists such as Tomas Willis followed by the pre-modern neuroscience researchers Camillo Golgi and especially Santiago Ramon y Cajal are highlighted. The contribution of transgenic mouse models and the application of modern noninvasive imaging methods such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for ground braking functional studies on the human brain are briefly reviewed. Important 21st century projects such as the Human and Mouse Connectome projects and the White House Brain Initiative are also presented.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-12
Number of pages12
JournalBiomedical Reviews
Volume26
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Keywords
• Census communis
• Connectome
• FMRI
• NGF
• PET
• Psychikon pneuma
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Making plots with world coordinates (WCSAxes)
WCSAxes is a framework for making plots of Astronomical data in Matplotlib. It was previously distributed as a standalone package, but is now included in astropy.visualization.
Getting started
The following is a very simple example of plotting an image with the WCSAxes package:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from astropy.wcs import WCS
from astropy.io import fits
from astropy.utils.data import get_pkg_data_filename
filename = get_pkg_data_filename('galactic_center/gc_msx_e.fits')
hdu = fits.open(filename)[0]
wcs = WCS(hdu.header)
plt.subplot(projection=wcs)
plt.imshow(hdu.data, vmin=-2.e-5, vmax=2.e-4, origin='lower')
plt.grid(color='white', ls='solid')
plt.xlabel('Galactic Longitude')
plt.ylabel('Galactic Latitude')
(png, svg, pdf)
../../_images/index-1.png
This example uses the matplotlib.pyplot interface to Matplotlib, but WCSAxes can be used with any of the other ways of using Matplotlib (some examples of which are given in Initializing axes with world coordinates). For example, using the partially object-oriented interface, you can do:
ax = plt.subplot(projection=wcs)
ax.imshow(hdu.data, vmin=-2.e-5, vmax=2.e-4, origin='lower')
ax.grid(color='white', ls='solid')
ax.set_xlabel('Galactic Longitude')
ax.set_ylabel('Galactic Latitude')
However, the axes object is needed to access some of the more advanced functionality of WCSAxes. An example of this usage is:
ax = plt.subplot(projection=wcs, label='overlays')
ax.imshow(hdu.data, vmin=-2.e-5, vmax=2.e-4, origin='lower')
ax.coords.grid(True, color='white', ls='solid')
ax.coords[0].set_axislabel('Galactic Longitude')
ax.coords[1].set_axislabel('Galactic Latitude')
overlay = ax.get_coords_overlay('fk5')
overlay.grid(color='white', ls='dotted')
overlay[0].set_axislabel('Right Ascension (J2000)')
overlay[1].set_axislabel('Declination (J2000)')
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../../_images/index-2.png
In the rest of this documentation we will assume that you have kept a reference to the axes object, which we will refer to as ax. However, we also note when something can be done directly with the pyplot interface.
WCSAxes supports a number of advanced plotting options, including the ability to control which axes to show labels on for which coordinates, overlaying contours from data with different coordinate systems, overlaying grids for different coordinate systems, dealing with plotting slices from data with more dimensions than the plot, and defining custom (non-rectangular) frames.
Reference/API
astropy.visualization.wcsaxes Package
Classes
Conf()
Configuration parameters for astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.
CoordinateHelper([parent_axes, parent_map, …])
Helper class to control one of the coordinates in the WCSAxes.
CoordinatesMap(axes[, transform, …])
A container for coordinate helpers that represents a coordinate system.
Quadrangle(anchor, width, height[, …])
Create a patch representing a latitude-longitude quadrangle.
SphericalCircle(center, radius[, …])
Create a patch representing a spherical circle - that is, a circle that is formed of all the points that are within a certain angle of the central coordinates on a sphere.
WCSAxes(fig, rect[, wcs, transform, …])
The main axes class that can be used to show world coordinates from a WCS.
WCSAxesSubplot(fig, *args, **kwargs)
A subclass class for WCSAxes
astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.frame Module
Classes
RectangularFrame1D(parent_axes, transform[, …])
A classic rectangular frame.
Spine(parent_axes, transform)
A single side of an axes.
BaseFrame(parent_axes, transform[, path])
Base class for frames, which are collections of Spine instances.
RectangularFrame(parent_axes, transform[, path])
A classic rectangular frame.
EllipticalFrame(parent_axes, transform[, path])
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Since he has been working in Florence, currently presiding over the Chiropractic Association in Paris. Belig has co-written a book published in Italy about the prevention of cranial-cervical-mandibular disorders. Applied Kinesiology A. The inventor of this method was Dr.
What is AK? | ICAK-USA
George Goodheart, an American chiropractor, man of amazing curiosity and culture. His research gave birth to A. David Leaf,continues the research and teaching of A. In synthesis, it can be said that specific muscle testing allows studying the central state of integration of the nervous system and its ability to respond to stimulus. The weakness observed in muscle testing needs to be interpreted by the clinician in accordance with other examination and instrumental data.
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Clinical A. The usefulness of A. Note: Applied kinesiology should be distinguished from kinesiology biomechanics , which is the scientific study of movement. AK proponents claim that nutritional deficiencies, allergies, and other adverse reactions to foods or nutrients can be detected by having the patient chew or suck on them or by placing them on the tongue so that the patient salivates.
Some practitioners advise that the test material merely be held in the patient's hand or placed on another part of the body. A few even perform "surrogate testing" in which the arm strength of a parent is tested to determine problems in a child held by the parent.
According to a book for the general public written with help from two leading chiropractic AK practitioners:. The practicing AK is a graduate chiropractor who can explain to you how your glands and organs appear to be functioning with specific muscle tests. He can suggest nutrition to help improve various conditions, and he can demonstrate with your muscles that you probably need particular nutrients.
He can correct problems in your spine and in joints, and can stretch or compress muscles to improve your structural condition. He may massage certain junctures of nerve, lymph, blood, and acupuncture meridians to stimulate glandular or systemic activity.
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He can advise you on how to stay healthy and he will pay particular attention to your posture and your feet. He can offer an excellent second opinion if you are under a physician's care, are seeing a chiropractor who is not an applied kinesiologist, or if you have been in an accident [5]. Many muscle-testing proponents assert that nutrients tested in these various ways will have an immediate effect: "good" substances will make specific muscles stronger, whereas "bad" substances will cause weaknesses that "indicate trouble with the organ or other tissue on the same nerve, vascular, nutrition, etc.
If a patient is diagnosed as having a liver disturbance and the associated pectoralis major [chest muscle] tests weak, have the patient chew a substance that may help the liver, such as vitamin A. Finding a "weak" muscle supposedly enables the practitioner to pinpoint illness in the corresponding internal organs in the body. For example, a weak muscle in the chest might indicate a liver problem, and a weak muscle near the groin might indicate "adrenal insufficiency.
If the muscle tests "stronger," the substance supposedly can remedy problems in the corresponding body parts.
Applied Kinesiology - AK
Testing is also claimed to indicate which nutrients are deficient. If a weak muscle becomes stronger after a nutrient or a food high in the nutrient is chewed, that supposedly indicates "a deficiency normally associated with that muscle. According to this theory, when a muscle tests "weak," the provocative substance is bad for the patient. AK "treatment" may include special diets, food supplements, acupressure finger pressure on various parts of the body , and spinal manipulation [7].
Goodheart states that AK techniques can also be used to evaluate nerve, vascular, and lymphatic systems; the body's nutritional state; the flow of "energy" along "acupuncture meridians"; and "cerebro spinal fluid function.
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Its pamphlet on infections and child health states:. When an infection develops, have your child examined by your doctor using applied kinesiology. He can evaluate the energy patterns and usually find the reason that the infection developed in the first place. By correcting the energy patterns within the body and paying specific attention to nutritional supplements and dietary management, the infection which your child using natural health care does develop will be adequately taken care of in most cases [9].
Although the claims of applied kinesiology are so far removed from scientific reality that testing them might seem a waste of time, competent researchers have subjected the muscle-testing procedures to several well-designed controlled tests and demonstrated what should be obvious to rational persons.
Introduction to Kinesiology
Some have found no difference in muscle response from one substance to another, while others have found no difference between the results with test substances and with placebos. One study, for example, found that three practitioners testing eleven subjects made significantly different assessments; their diagnoses of nutritional deficiencies did not correspond to the nutrient levels obtain by blood serum analysis; and that the responses to nutrient substances did not significantly differ from responses to placebos [10].
Another study found no effect from administering the nutrients "expected" to strengthen a muscle diagnosed as "weak" by AK practitioners. Five out of nine did so [13]. Some people who undergo AK muscle-testing report that although they resisted as hard as they could, the practitioner was still able to pull down their arm. Distraction can also play a role.
Touching another part of the body just before pulling down the arm may cause the patient to focus less on resisting.
But trickery deliberate or unconscious may also be a factor. A sudden slight upward movement can cause a "set" muscle to relax so that it can be immediately pulled downward. I have found that when this is done quickly, the person being tested is unlikely to detect the upward motion.
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The International College of Applied Kinesiology ICAK , founded in the mids, has set "standards" based on the work of Goodheart and his followers who allege they have subjected AK to "extensive scientific study. According to ICAK's status statement:. Applied kinesiology procedures are not intended to be used as a single method of diagnosis.
Applied kinesiology examination should enhance standard diagnosis, not replace it. There are both lay persons and professionals who use a form of manual muscle testing without the necessary expertise to perform specific and accurate tests.
Applied Kinesiology: Nonsense on Full Automatic
Some fail to coordinate the muscle testing findings with other standard diagnostic procedures. These may be sources of error that could lead to misinterpretation of the condition present, and thus improper treatment, or failure to treat the appropriate condition [14]. Muscle testing and "meridian" theories are involved in many other treatment systems used mainly by chiropractors:. NOT's proponents claim that "blocked neural pathways" caused by misaligned skull bones can cause learning disorders, cerebral palsy, schizophrenia, Down's syndrome, colorblindness, bedwetting, nightmares, and various other problems.
Its practitioners claim that "adjusting" these bones by applying pressure to various structures of the head can cure these problems. This claim is not only unsubstantiated but clashes with the fact that the bones of the skull are tightly fused by age two. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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The way that bacteria grow – either floating in liquid or attached to a surface – affects their ability to evolve antimicrobial resistance and our ability to treat infections.
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Think about the last time you or a loved one had a bacterial infection and needed antibiotics. What if the antibiotics hadn’t worked? Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common around the world, causing at least 700,000 deaths per year (O’Neill, 2016). Resistance to antimicrobial treatments, also known as AMR, evolves rapidly, often over the course of a single infection. It occurs either by bacteria exchanging with one another the genes that confer resistance, or by an individual bacterium becoming resistant through mutations in its own genes. Resistant bacteria are more likely to survive antimicrobial treatments and go on to spread the infection to other people.
During infections, bacteria tend to grow on surfaces in communities called biofilms (Koo et al., 2017). Biofilms promote communication and cooperation, and physically shield bacteria from antimicrobials and the host immune system. These properties make biofilm infections hard to treat, even in the absence of AMR. It has been suggested that bacteria growing in biofilms may evolve AMR more rapidly, making treatment outcomes harder to predict. However, few studies have explored how different modes of growth influence the ability of bacteria to evolve (Steenackers et al., 2016).
Now, in eLife, Vaughn Cooper and colleagues at the University of Pittsburg — including Alfonso Santos-Lopez and Christopher Marshall as joint first authors — report how 'bacterial lifestyle' affects the evolution of resistance to an antibiotic called ciprofloxacin (CIP) in the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii (Santos-Lopez et al., 2019). To do this, they compared bacteria that had been floating in liquid culture as they grew to bacteria that had been growing as biofilms. The bacteria growing in liquid culture were experimentally evolved by transferring small amounts of culture to a new container with fresh growth medium every day (Figure 1A). Biofilms were evolved by growing A. baumannii on plastic beads submerged in liquid culture, and transferring these biofilm-coated beads to a new container with fresh medium and a clean bead each day (Figure 1B). At the start of the experiment, cells were exposed to a very low dose of CIP, and the CIP dose was then doubled every 72 hours as resistance evolved over a 12 day period.
Experimental evolution of resistance to ciprofloxacin (CIP) in liquid-grown and biofilm-grown bacteria.
To understand how bacterial lifestyle influences the evolution antimicrobial resistance, strains of the bacterium A.baumannii were experimentally evolved either in liquid culture (A) or as biolfims on plastic beads (B). Santos-Lopez et al. found that liquid-grown and biofilm-grown strains of A.baumannii evolved resistance to the antimicrobial CIP in different ways: liquid-grown bacteria evolved a single resistant lineage that dominated the population (C), whereas biofilm-grown bacteria evolved multiple resistant lineages that co-exist within the population (D). Other important characteristics of the two evolved strains (such as resistance to CIP) are discussed in the main text.
Samples of bacteria were collected from each culture at various times during the experiment and also at the end of the experiment. Whole genome sequencing of these samples revealed that liquid-grown and biofilm-grown A. baumannii take different, but repeatable, paths during experimental evolution. For the bacteria grown in liquid culture, Santos-Lopez et al. found that the most resistant CIP lineage outcompetes the other bacterial lineages, allowing its offspring to rapidly take over the population (Figure 1C). However, for the bacteria grown in biofilms, the researchers found that there was less competition between lineages – presumably because they are not as free to move as the liquid-grown bacteria – and that multiple co-existing lineages were able to emerge (Figure 1D).
Further experiments showed that liquid-grown and biofilm-grown bacteria had evolved unique strategies to resist CIP, resulting in different degrees of CIP resistance. Liquid-grown bacteria evolved low-level CIP resistance via mutations that increased the number of pump proteins that transport CIP out of cells. These resistant cells took over rapidly and then gained additional mutations that prevented CIP from binding to its target proteins. Bacteria with both types of mutations could resist doses of CIP that were far higher than those used during the evolution experiment. Biofilm-grown bacteria also evolved low-level CIP resistance through increased pump protein production but used different pumps than their liquid-evolved counterparts. However, biofilm-grown bacteria failed to evolve high-level resistance through additional mutations. The selective pressures imposed by the different lifestyles seem to interact with the pressure of CIP exposure and limit the evolutionary pathways, and thus outcomes, available to each lifestyle.
Santos-Lopez et al. found that in the absence of CIP, liquid-evolved CIP resistant bacteria were less fit than the ancestor strain and could be easily outcompeted. Notably, similar fitness trade-offs have been reported before and reduced fitness is thought to slow the spread of AMR bacteria. Disturbingly, biofilm-evolved CIP-resistant strains were at least as fit as their ancestor when grown without CIP. Whilst the liquid-evolved strain frequently became resistant to additional antimicrobials, biofilm-grown bacteria usually evolved increased sensitivity to at least one other antimicrobial treatment. This means that although biofilm-evolved strains may be fitter and more likely to spread to new patients, they also may be easier to kill with other antimicrobials.
In this work, Santos-Lopez et al. have focused on how biofilms affect competition and selection pressures during evolution. However, biofilms may alter evolution in other ways and bacterial lifestyle is only one of many factors that shape the evolution of AMR 'in the wild.' For example, many species of bacteria experience increased gene sharing and mutation rates when forming a biofilm, both of which could also drive the evolution of AMR (Steenackers et al., 2016). Additionally, AMR evolution may be driven by increases in mutation rate caused by antimicrobials (Cirz et al., 2005; Kohanski et al., 2010; Gutierrez et al., 2013; Pribis et al., 2019) and other stressors, such as starvation, encountered by bacteria during infection (Fitzgerald and Rosenberg, 2019).
These findings have important implications for treatment of A. baumannii, which is already resistant to multiple drugs and has been deemed a critical threat by both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. A better understanding of the variables shaping AMR evolution will improve predictions of evolutionary outcomes, antimicrobial stewardship efforts, and clinical outcomes for individual patients.
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Devon M Fitzgerald is in the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, and the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States
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Bug #10204 Memory DB: Restriction of 4 GB table size should not apply to 64-bit servers.
Submitted: 27 Apr 2005 15:01 Modified: 14 Jun 2013 0:18
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[27 Apr 2005 15:01] Disha
Description:
Memory DB Engine: Restriction of 4 GB table size should not apply to 64-bit servers.
The MySQL restriction when creating tables with database engine set to 'Memory' is that table size cannot be greater than 4 GB.
This restrication is applicable to 32-bit machines since they can address 4 GB of memory space. However, this is NOT true for 64-bit machines as they can address memory space of 17179869184 GB.
How to repeat:
On a 64-bit machine:
1. Select @@max_heap_table_size;
This shows 16777216; #default heap size
2. Set @@max_heap_table_size = 5000000000; ##set to more than 4 GB.
3. Select @@max_heap_table_size
ACTUAL
The maximum heap size is set to 4294966272 (This is 4GB).
EXPECTED
On 64-bit servers, user should be able to set heap size to more tha 4GB, because it is possible to have memory tables larger than 4GB. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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was one of the most beautiful cities in the Netherlands. It was situated on a tributary of the river Rhine, and was interlaced with canals, upon whose sides were rows of stately poplar and lime trees. The houses were elegant, the public buildings imposing and substantial, the streets wide, and public gardens and squares numerous. The pastures reclaimed from the ocean were filled with sleek cattle, and the kitchen gardens and the orchards bore witness to the thrift and prosperity of the people.
"Leyden is besieged!" was the startling announcement which Dr. Chenoweth brought to his little household one morning. "The Spaniards have surrounded us with a cordon of forts and redoubts!"
The faces of the women blanched. The Spanish army lay between them and their dear ones. The Prince of Orange would therefore be powerless to aid them. 256 | WIKI |
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The Bueng Kan Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases shall open from the 20th day of May 2554 BE onwards, and shall have jurisdiction throughout Bueang Kan province.
[As regards] all the cases which the Nong Khai Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases has, since before the opening date of the Bueng Kan Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases, ordered to be heard at the Nong Khai Provincial Court, the Nong Khai Provincial Court shall continue to have the power to try and adjudicate upon them until their finish, save where the head judge of the Nong Khai Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases finds it appropriate to transfer [any] case to the Bueng Kan Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases. In addition, the proceedings already conducted by the Nong Khai Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases shall be deemed to be proceedings before the Bueng Kan Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases.
The President of the Supreme Court of Justice shall be in charge of the execution of this Royal Decree. | WIKI |
Validea Kenneth Fisher Strategy Daily Upgrade Report - 2/28/2018
The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Price/Sales Investor model based on the published strategy of Kenneth Fisher . This value strategy rewards stocks with low P/S ratios, long-term profit growth, strong free cash flow and consistent profit margins.
FORWARD AIR CORPORATION ( FWRD ) is a small-cap growth stock in the Air Courier industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 50% to 80% based on the firm's underlying fundamentals and the stock's valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: Forward Air Corporation is a freight and logistics company. The Company provides less-than-truckload ( LTL ), truckload, intermodal and pool distribution services across the United States and in Canada. The Company's segments include Expedited LTL, Truckload Premium Services (TLS), Intermodal and Pool Distribution. Expedited LTL segment provides expedited regional, inter-regional and national LTL services. TLS segment is a provider of transportation management services, including, but not limited to, expedited truckload brokerage, fleet services, as well as security and temperature-controlled logistics services in the United States and Canada. Intermodal offers first- and last-mile transportation of freight both to and from seaports and railheads through fleet and third party transportation providers. Pool distribution involves managing high-frequency handling and distribution of time-sensitive product to numerous destinations in specific geographic regions.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
For a full detailed analysis using NASDAQ's Guru Analysis tool, click here
NUTRISYSTEM INC. ( NTRI ) is a small-cap growth stock in the Personal Services industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 68% to 90% based on the firm's underlying fundamentals and the stock's valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: Nutrisystem, Inc. is a provider of weight management products and services, including nutritionally balanced weight loss programs, multi-day kits available at retail locations and digital tools to support weight loss. The Company's program customers purchase monthly food packages containing four-week meal plan consisting supply of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks and flex meal plan recipes, which they supplement with fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy. Its customers order on an auto-delivery basis (Auto-Delivery), where means it sends a four-week meal plan on an ongoing basis until notified of a customer's cancellation. The Company offers its pre-selected favorites food pack or personalized plans, where customers can hand pick their entire menu or customize plans to their dietary preference. As of December 31, 2016, its meal plans featured over 150 menu options at different price points, including frozen and ready-to-go entrees, desserts, snacks and shakes.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
For a full detailed analysis using NASDAQ's Guru Analysis tool, click here
FOOT LOCKER, INC. ( FL ) is a mid-cap value stock in the Retail (Apparel) industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 90% to 100% based on the firm's underlying fundamentals and the stock's valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: Foot Locker, Inc. is a retailer of shoes and apparel. The Company operates through two segments: Athletic Stores and Direct-to-Customers. The Company is an athletic footwear and apparel retailer, which include businesses, such as include Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, Runners Point, Sidestep and SIX:02. The Direct-to-Customers segment is multi-branded and sells directly to customers through Internet and mobile sites and catalogs. The Direct-to-Customers segment operates the Websites for eastbay.com, final-score.com, eastbayteamsales.com and sp24.com. Additionally, this segment includes the Websites, both desktop and mobile, aligned with the brand names of its store banners (footlocker.com, ladyfootlocker.com, six02.com kidsfootlocker.com, champssports.com, footaction.com, footlocker.ca, footlocker.eu, runnerspoint.com and sidestep-shoes.com).
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
For a full detailed analysis using NASDAQ's Guru Analysis tool, click here
APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS INC ( AAOI ) is a small-cap value stock in the Electronic Instr. & Controls industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 50% to 80% based on the firm's underlying fundamentals and the stock's valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. is a vertically integrated provider of fiber-optic networking products, primarily for networking end markets, such as Internet data center, cable television (CATV), fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and telecommunications (telecom). The Company designs and manufactures a range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies and modules to turnkey equipment. To Internet-based data center operators, it supplies optical transceivers that plug into switches and servers within the data center and allow these network devices to send and receive data over fiber optic cables. The Company supplies a range of products, including lasers, transmitters and transceivers, and turnkey equipment, to the CATV market. The Company designs, manufactures and integrates its own analog and digital lasers using a combination of Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and its Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) fabrication process.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
For a full detailed analysis using NASDAQ's Guru Analysis tool, click here
SANDRIDGE ENERGY INC. (SD) is a small-cap value stock in the Oil & Gas Operations industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 58% to 70% based on the firm's underlying fundamentals and the stock's valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: SandRidge Energy, Inc. is an oil and natural gas company. The Company focuses on exploration and production activities in the Mid-Continent and Rockies regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2016, the Company had 3,122 gross producing wells and approximately 1,364,000 gross total acres under lease. The Company's primary areas of operation are the Mid-Continent area of Oklahoma and Kansas and the Niobrara Shale in the Colorado Rockies. As of December 31, 2016, the Company held interests in approximately 1,185,000 gross leasehold acres located primarily in Oklahoma and Kansas. As of December 31, 2016, the Company's interests in the Mid-Continent included 1,972 gross producing wells. As of December 31, 2016, the Company had approximately 1,087,000 gross acres under lease and 1,471 gross producing wells in the Mississippian formation. As of December 31, 2016, the Company's Rockies properties consisted of approximately 140,000 gross acres and 25 gross producing wells.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
For a full detailed analysis using NASDAQ's Guru Analysis tool, click here
Since its inception, Validea's strategy based on Kenneth Fisher has returned 401.02% vs. 174.31% for the S&P 500. For more details on this strategy, click here
About Kenneth Fisher : The son of Philip Fisher, who is considered the "Father of Growth Investing", Kenneth Fisher is a money manager, bestselling author, and longtime Forbes columnist. The younger Fisher wowed Wall Street in the mid-1980s when his book Super Stocks first popularized the idea of using the price/sales ratio (PSR) as a means of identifying attractive stocks. According to his alma mater, Humboldt State University, Fisher is also one of the world's foremost experts on 19th century logging. Appropriately, Fisher's firm, Fisher Investments, is located in a lush forest preserve in Woodside, California, where the contrarian-minded Fisher says he and his employees can get away from Wall Street groupthink.
About Validea : Validea is aninvestment researchservice that follows the published strategies of investment legends. Validea offers both stock analysis and model portfolios based on gurus who have outperformed the market over the long-term, including Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch and Martin Zweig. For more information about Validea, click here
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Why Silicon Valley Falls Short When It Comes To Education Remember when big banks used to offer high-interest but well-branded credit cards to college students? The “10 CDs for a penny” scam? Or worse, student loans marketed to a sophomore mulling a spring break trip who wound up saddled with decades of debt? You’ll be glad to know that after a sustained regulatory assault (and, perhaps, a wiser generation of college students), 1990s-era on-campus marketing by credit card companies and financial institutions has been, largely, cleaned up. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the risk — and opportunity — for students and financial institutions has diminished, as college is likely the second-largest expense for a person (after buying a home) and will drive their financial future for a generation. Nearly half get their first credit card before turning 21. Twelve million Americans take out student loans, which now exceed credit card debt, each year. Recent graduates frequently check their student debt status more than once per month, providing loan servicers with unprecedented insight into the financial habits of tens of millions of young Americans. As a result, a new generation of tech-enabled startups are beginning to reimagine how students finance their education — and make the financial transition from college to career. Higher education’s transformation is, in turn, fueling a trillion-dollar convergence of fintech and edtech that aims to blur the line between learning and earning — and will force students, colleges and financial institutions alike to think differently about return on education investment. Here are four mega trends driving the shift. Gone are the days when students read through college guides or US News and World Report to find the right college match. More than a million students have downloaded the Schoold app, which allows them to do their college searches from their mobile devices. Soon, high school students will be using smartphones to compare post-graduate salaries, by major, by school. Raise.me, which raised $4.5 million in 2015, helps high school students choose which courses (and extracurricular activities) to pursue to earn-down the cost of college by telling colleges enough information to underwrite a scholarship. Full financial aid forms are being filled out on SaaS platforms like CampusLogic, which radically alter the loan experience by allowing schools to, for example, recommend how much debt is appropriate for each degree program. These new apps are quickly changing the dynamic of the customer relationship away from banks and financial institutions and toward companies at the intersection of edtech and fintech. Loans are no longer the only option for how students can pay for college. Students now have an equity alternative. Income share agreements, or ISAs, conceived in the 1950s and recently made famous through Purdue’s Back a Boiler program, now offer graduates flexibility: Payment obligations scale with a graduate’s ability to pay, preventing undue burden during times of financial hardship. This pay-later model enables graduates to pursue lower-paying, high-satisfaction or public interest career pathways. For low-income students, it means the cost of college will be based on their performance, more than their parents’ tax returns. The intersection of fintech and edtech is not, of course, without risk. The Back a Boiler program, powered by Vemo Education, allows schools to price programs differently (e.g. an engineer may have a larger percent of income due per year than a history major). On the other side of the risk equation, colleges can now purchase, through LRAP, an insurance policy that pays out if a student is unable to pay back their loans. Suddenly the “price” of failure becomes clear, and students (and perhaps regulators) can quickly ascertain which colleges (and even which programs) are adequately preparing students for employment. Purdue University announced a new initiative to help other colleges and universities adopt and adapt this model, offering a way to quickly scale this approach. A new generation of millennial entrepreneurs is correcting what the big banks and colleges got wrong by turning the aggressive marketing tactics of yesteryear into an “education first, sales second” perspective. Student aid pioneer SoFi built itself on a community of borrowers hosting career networking sessions. Lower rates were a key selling point; however, as SoFi’s first chief community officer, Pete Hartigan, told me, “millennials are smart, and they want to be treated in a transparent and fair manner. Like the original days of small-town banking, digital brings back the importance of community with the goal of trying to help all players in the market to feel economically smart together as a community.” This community translates into a redefinition of the lender-to-student relationship. Lenders are realizing that they are better off providing career counseling to students behind on their payments rather than initiating court proceedings. Some lenders estimate that helping a borrower find a job will increase their financial return (by as much as 10 percent) without the criticisms dogging many traditional lenders (see the recent Navient lawsuit, for instance). In the not-too-distant future, “A” students may pay lower interest rates than their less studious peers. Dan Feshbach, who exited fintech platform LoanPerformance, has turned his sights toward developing a FICO alternative dubbed a “Merit score,” to provide lenders, historically dependent on the credit scores of a student’s parents, with forward-looking insight into their risk or potential. Here’s why: Eighteen-year-olds have a “thin” credit file, with little data for FICO to generate a score — making FICO almost irrelevant for a student borrower, which forces parents to “co-sign” loans for their children. Lower-income students rarely have high-FICO parents, putting them at a radical disadvantage for receiving loans. Students with rich parents may have an easy time finding a co-signer, but their grades may indicate they are not yet prepared for college. Backed by data, suddenly a student’s transcript and historical academic performance creates an alternative Merit score, where — in a transparent manner — a student, their parents and their college can have an evidence-based, specific way of measuring whether or not a student will repay debt. College students are trend setters for cheaper, technology-enabled financial products. Once these products gain traction in colleges and universities, it’s only a matter of time before the power of disruptive innovation is unleashed. It should come as no surprise if tomorrow’s fintech unicorns start out as edtech companies. PeerTransfer (renamed Flywire) started in 2010 to help colleges process payments from international students. Today, they’re taking on the Western Union monopoly of international money transfers. Marketplace lenders like SoFi, Common Bond and Earnest began as student loan consolidation plays and have now raised billions in the transition into next-generation financial institutions. Together, these lenders have more than $5 billion of market value between them, and will originate close to 10 percent of all private loans in 2017. The intersection of fintech and edtech is not, of course, without risk. The plight of credit card hawkers crowding college walks on orientation day should loom large. But there are risks that must be mitigated by government subsidy or other charitable investment. For example, with increased transparency, certain courses of study will be shown quite clearly as uneconomical — fewer history students and artists. There also is a risk for fewer second chances for students who struggle academically, perhaps for reasons unrelated to their own abilities. However, done well, the new generation of lenders and information providers can create a new breed of company that can potentially apply pressure to education providers to invest in outcomes. These companies can help expand access, and unlock the promise of higher education for low-income students who might otherwise be left on the economic sidelines. The Trump administration is expected to relax regulations to allow the free market to reign across the education landscape. These new “fedtech” companies would radically increase the information required for the free market to operate, but we should be mindful that the regulatory pendulum swings, and so each business model should be able to survive the free-market test of the current administration while also maximizing survivability in an era of increased regulation. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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This version of the V-REP remote API enables the shared memory based communication for Windows and POSIX platforms. Tests have been conducted on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Why using shared memory
In one word: speed. The original method uses a TCP connection between the client (your program) and the server (V-REP). When transfering a significant amount of data between the client and the server the latter will become sluggish mainly because of all the data being copied multiple times. The result is a low real time factor when using the synchronous mode or data not being updated at every time step in the other case. Shared memory allows the client and the server to share a common memory segment and thus avoiding all unnecessary copies. This connection mechanism is only viable if the client and the server run on the same machine, otherwise the TCP communication must be used.
Installation
Both the server (V-REP) and client (your application) parts need to be updated with this version. You can try to directly use the precompiled versions:
• lib/libv_repExtRemoteApi.so and lib/libremoteApi.so for Linux
• lib/libv_repExtRemoteApi.dylib and lib/libremoteApi.dylib for macOS
• lib/Release/libv_repExtRemoteApi.dll and lib/Release/remoteApi.dll for Windows
but if it doesn't work for you, try to recompile them (see next section) before following the installation instructions.
The first step is to update the V-REP's remote api plugin. To do so, simply replace the libv_repExtRemoteApi.[so|dll] file into your V-REP installation directory with this one.
For the second step, it will depend on how you use the remote API library:
• You link your application to a shared library? replace that shared library with (lib)remoteApi.[so|dll]
• You link your application to a static library? change the following line add_library(remoteApi SHARED ${client_side_src}) in CMakeLists.txt to add_library(remoteApi STATIC ${client_side_src}), recompile the library then link your application with the newly generated one.
• You include the remote API files into your application? you need to replace your files with the content of the remoteApi folder and to add include/shared_memory.h and common/shared_memory.c to your build.
Compilation
To compile the libraries, you will need a C++ compiler (e.g. GCC, Clang, VC++), CMake, Git and Make (non-Windows systems).
Linux & macOS
From a terminal run:
1. git clone git@github.com:BenjaminNavarro/vrep_remote_api_shm.git
2. cd vrep_remote_api_shm
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake ..
6. make
Windows
Visual Studio needs to be installed and the compiler (cl) must be in the PATH. Open the Git Bash application then run:
1. git clone git@github.com:BenjaminNavarro/vrep_remote_api_shm.git
2. cd vrep_remote_api_shm
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..
6. cmake --build . --config Release
Usage
To start a remote API server using shared memory you need to use negative port numbers. More info on that at http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/helpFiles/en/remoteApiServerSide.htm.
Once the server is started, you can connect to it from your client using: simxStart("", port, waitUntilConnected, doNotReconnectOnceDisconnected, timeOutInMs, commThreadCycleInMs) whith the same negative port as given to the server.
Performance gain
It depends on both your scene and your OS. You can use the test_shm application to check is using the shared memory can be beneficial on your machine (compare the real time factors printed at the end). On the same laptop, with V-REP 3.4.0, I get the following real time factors by running the test_shm benchmark:
• Linux (4.11): 0.98 (shared memory) / 0.21 (TCP)
• Windows 10: 0.86 (shared memory) / 0.84 (TCP)
• macOS Sierra: 0.99 (shared memory) / 0.99 (TCP), with increased data size: 0.87 (shared memory), 0.52 (TCP)
It can seen that the performance rely heavily on the system and the amount of data exchanged. More tests are needed to determine the specific cases where it is trully usefull.
Acknowledgements
Even if it has not been release by Coppelia, the implementation for Windows was already done but deactivated (both a compile flag and commented sections). I just made an abstraction layer to make it work with Windows and POSIX systems and improved the system a bit. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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CHM 106W - Technical Chemistry II
Credits: 5
Provides inorganic and organic chemistry knowledge and technical skills' foundation essential for employment as a technician in a variety of chemistry-based professions. Includes analytical instrumentation use.
Prerequisite(s): READING LEVEL 2 and WRITING LEVEL 2 and MATH LEVEL 3; CHM 101W or CHM 105W with a minimum grade of C (2.0).
Corequisite(s): None
Lecture Hours: 60 Lab Hours: 60
Meets MTA Requirement: Natural Science Lab
Pass/NoCredit: Yes
Outcomes and Objectives 1. Regain familiarity with general chemistry concepts needed for understanding of introductory organic chemistry.
A. Understand atomic structure including subatomic particles and electron configuration
B. Use electronegativity to predict the nature of bonds as either covalent or ionic and be able to represent with appropriate Lewis Dot
structures
C. Recognize the common notations for isotopes
D. Understand atomic mass and the relationship to molar mass
E. Recognize the relationship between empirical and molecular formulas
F. Differentiate between acids and bases in accordance with the Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis theories
G. Understand oxidation, reduction, oxidizing agent, reducing agent
H. Understand occurrence and significance of hydrogen bonding
2. Understand the structure, nomenclature and some reactions of saturated hydrocarbons.
A. Describe the tetrahedral nature of the carbon atom
B. Explain the role of hybridization in formation of single bonds around the carbon atom
C. Express alkanes and halogenated alkanes as Lewis structures
D. Know the IUPAC names and formulas for the C1-C10 alkanes
E. Become familiar with both natural sources and commercial uses of alkanes
F. Understand isomerization
G. Recognize the utility of structural formulas, condensed formulas, Lewis structures, ball and stick models and space-filling models
H. Write structural formulas and IUPAC names for the isomers of an alkane or halogenated alkane
I. Learn common names for short chain branched alkanes
J. Give the IUPAC name of a hydrocarbon or a halogenated hydrocarbon when given the structural formula
K. Give the structural formula of a hydrocarbon or a halogenated hydrocarbon when given the IUPAC name
L. Write equation for the halogenation of an alkane including all possible mono-substituted product isomers
M. Write structure formulas and names for cycloalkanes C3-C6.
N. Understand the two conformations for cyclohexane.
O. Understand the derivation and utility of the octane number system
P. Understand and be able to use the following terms: acyclic, alkane, alkyl group, axial position, CFCs, catalytic cracking, conformational
isomer, cycloalkane, equatorial, functional group, halide, halogenated, homologous series, hydrocarbon, isomer, isomerism,
monosubstitution, paraffin, petrochemical, saturated, sigma bond, unsaturated
Outcome 3: Understand the structure, nomenclature and some reactions of unsaturated hydrocarbons.
A. Explain the sp2 and sp hybridization of carbon atoms and the formation of a pi bond, double and triple bonds
B. Distinguish, by formulas, the difference between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
C. Name and write structural formulas of alkenes, alkynes, cycloalkenes, and aromatic compounds
D. Determine from structural formulas whether a compound can exist as geometric isomers
E. Correctly use the terms “cis” and “trans” to describe isomers
F. Write equations representing addition reactions of alkenes and alkynes
G. Explain the formation of carbocations and their role in chemical reactions
H. Understand Markovnikov’s rule for addition of HCl, HBr, HI, and H+/H2O to alkenes and alkynes
I. Recognize the results of the Baeyer test for unsaturation
J. Explain simple chemical tests that can be used to differentiate between alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
K. Compare benzene structure and properties to cyclohexane
L. Relate IUPAC names for substituted benzene compounds to structural formulas
M. Write equations for the following reactions of benzene compounds
N. Halogenation with chlorine or bromine
O. Nitration
P. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
Q. Oxidation of side chains
R. Understand and be able to use the following terms: alkene, alkyne, aromatic compound, geometric isomer, cycloalkene, cracking,
pyrolysis, dehydration, addition reaction, carbocation, Markovnikov’s rule
4. Have an understanding of the structure, nomenclature and some reactions of alcohols, ethers, phenols and thiols.
A. Name alcohols, ethers, phenols and thiols by common and IUPAC methods
B. Write the structural formula for the above when given the name
C. Recognize and identify primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols.
D. Understand the common sources, means of preparation, uses and hazards for common alcohols, ethers, phenols and thiols
5. Have an understanding of the structure, nomenclature and some reactions of aldehydes and ketones.
A. Recognize the aldehyde and ketone functional groups within a molecule
B. Name aldehydes and ketones by common and IUPAC methods
C. Write formulas of aldehydes and ketones when given their names
D. Write equations showing the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones
6. Understand the structure, nomenclature and some reactions of carboxylic acids and esters
A. Give the common and IUPAC names of selected carboxylic acids
B. Write the structural formulas for saturated, unsaturated, aromatic and dicarboxylic carboxylic acids
C. Understand correlation between molecular mass and the properties of solubility in water and boiling point
D. Write equations for the preparation of carboxylic acids by:
E. Oxidation of alcohols and aldehydes
F. Hydrolysis of esters
G. Saponification of fats
H. Oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons
I. Write equations for the reactions of carboxylic acids to form salts and esters
J. Write common names, IUPAC names and formulas of esters
K. Identify the portion of an ester that is derived from a carboxylic acid and the portion derived from an alcohol
L. Compare and contrast the cleansing action of a soap and synthetic detergent
M. Recognize differences in the composition of natural fats and oils and the effect on the properties of the triacylglycerols (triglycerides, fats).
N. Differentiate between: fat and oil; salt of a carboxylic acid and a soap; hydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, hydrolysis and saponification;
cationic, anionic and nonionic surfactants,
7. Have an appreciation for the utility of polymers and an understanding of the relationship between structure and function.
A. Recognize naturally occurring polymers including fibers
B. Be able to represent polymers in terms of their repeating units
C. Write formulas for condensation polymers, given the monomer
D. Identify polymers from their tradenames using standard reference materials
E. Recognize characteristics of common polymeric materials and thereby classify the polymer into major categories such as polyethylene,
polystyrene, polyurethane, silicone polymer, PET, etc.
F. Demonstrate understanding of the functional characteristics of common polymers
G. Understand the difference between addition and condensation polymers
H. Understand thermoset vs. thermoplastic resins
I. Differentiate between a polymeric fiber, resin and film.
J. Understand the role of polymer additives
K. Recognize the role of polymer properties in determining recycling capability
Outcome 8: Understand of the relationship between structure and function of amide and amine compounds.
A. Recognize the amide functional group
B. Use IUPAC nomenclature system for amides
C. Predict hydrolysis products of amides in acid and base solutions
D. Recognize the amine functional group
E. Recognize heterocyclic compounds and be able to name using reference information
F. Appreciate the uses of urea and the alkaloid group of pharmaceuticals.
9. Understand of the relationship between structure and function of carbohydrates and lipids.
A. Recognize optical isomers
B. Classify carbohydrates as monosaccharide, disaccharide, oligosaccharide and polysaccharide
C. Differentiate between glucose and fructose
D. Describe hydrolysis of disaccharides
E. Recognize the significance of sugars and sugar substitutes
F. Discuss the utility of polysaccharides (polymers) starch and cellulose
G. Recognize the classification of lipids as being simple lipids, compound lipids, steroids or fat-soluble vitamins
10. Understanding of the relationship between structure and function of amino acids, polypeptides and proteins.
A. Recognize foods that are major sources of protein
B. List the elements usually contained in protein molecules
C. Recognize the names of the amino acids and be able to use a reference to determine their structure; identify the functional groups present
D. Predict the structure of a peptide linkage between two amino acids
E. Differentiate between primary and secondary structure of a protein
F. Discuss the role of enzymes in biodegradation
Outcome 11: Work independently to locate chemical information and analyze data effectively.
A. Use reference books to locate physical and chemical properties as well as safety information.
B. Use internet search engines to locate chemical information above and also vendor information, career opportunities, and opinions on social
issues regarding chemicals.
C. Evaluate the credibility of information retrieved from the internet
D. Understand the implementation of risk assessment
E. Determine the information required to make a chemical decision
F. Make decisions based on data and observations
G. Pay close attention to detail and observe trends
H. Have a general understanding of the considerations in choosing a chemical container (sampling size or industrial)
I. Utilize appropriate sampling techniques
J. Understand the concept of calibrating an instrument against a standard
K. Use chemical principles to explain observed phenomena
L. Follow a standard operating procedure
12. Perform writing tasks to promote learning.
13. Write effectively for a specific audience and purpose.
14. Demonstrate the learning of concepts through writing.
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Bug #28872 strings with different collation cannot be joined!
Submitted: 4 Jun 2007 11:55 Modified: 19 Jun 2007 20:15
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:any OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
[4 Jun 2007 11:55] Peter Laursen
Description:
I am definitely not satified with the silly and robotized reply here:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28768
If strings with different character sets can be joined is is NO LESS THAN SILLY that strings with differenct collations cannot!
It may not be a bug in the code, but it is a (design) bug in the implementation of collations then!
I am definitely NOT a quality contributor here any more, if I continue to get such replies!
How to repeat:
see old post
[5 Jun 2007 11:02] Sveta Smirnova
Please do not submit the same bug more than once. An existing bug report already describes this very problem. Even if you feel that your issue is somewhat different, the resolution is likely
to be the same. Because of this, we hope you add your comments to the original bug instead.
Thank you for your interest in MySQL.
Additional information why current behaviour is correct is in the comment to bug #28768
[19 Jun 2007 17:33] Sergei Golubchik
Ok, let me try to explain why joining strings with different character sets is ok, while strings with different collations is not.
Example: two strings. One is "Maß", latin1_german2_ci, the other "Mass", utf8_unicode_ci.
When you compare them, the first string (in latin1) is converted to utf8 - it is safe, as latin1 is a subset of utf8. Then they are compared using utf8_unicode_ci rules. Both in latin1_german2_ci and in utf8_unicode_ci "ss" == "ß". So using utf8_unicode_ci is correct.
Similarly, in your example it was correct to convert a string from latin1 (latin1_danish_ci) to utf8, and use utf8_danish_ci for both strings.
A different example - same character set, different collations: one string is "Maß", latin1_german2_ci; the other "Mass", latin1_danish_ci.
They're both latin1, but if you compare them using danish rules the strings will be different, if you compare them using german rules they will be equal. The example is symmetrical, there's no reason to prefer danish collation over german or vice versa. Thus, MySQL has no other choice but to return an error.
To summarize: it is an error to compare strings in different collations. It is possible to compare strings in different character sets, if one is a superset of the other and both strings use the same (or compatible) collation.
[19 Jun 2007 20:15] Peter Laursen
I think I have understood what you think!
I think it is a silly usablility restriction!
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Exploring the Comprehensive Overall health Positive aspects of CBD Oil: A Holistic Strategy to Discomfort Reduction, Stress Reduction, and Anti-Inflammatory Homes
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Cuomo Tells Trump Loss of U.S. Funds Would Hurt New York
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo emerged from an hourlong meeting with Donald J. Trump on Wednesday saying that he had delivered his primary message to the president-elect: Their home state, New York, benefits from federal support for housing, health care and infrastructure and would be harmed if that support diminished. Their conversation, in Mr. Trump’s office at Trump Tower with no aides present, came two days before Inauguration Day and a little more than a month after Mayor Bill de Blasio had a similar sit-down with the president-elect. Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio, both Democrats, have sought to walk a line between opposition to and conciliation with Mr. Trump, a Republican, aiming to find areas of agreement with the next president even as they position themselves, separately, as bulwarks against his administration. After the meeting, Mr. Cuomo described it to the permanent gaggle of reporters staked out in the lobby of Trump Tower, near a display case with merchandise like Ivanka Trump-brand clothing, “Make America Great Again” hats and a Trump scent called Success. “It was not adversarial,” Mr. Cuomo said in response to a question about whether the two men, as sons of Queens, had established an easy rapport. “I don’t know what you mean by two Queens boys chewing the fat. We didn’t chew the fat.” The governor said he wanted Mr. Trump to be thinking about New York as he weighed decisions about infrastructure spending, federal tax deductions for state and local taxes, and the Affordable Care Act. “I wanted to make sure that he was aware of the impact on places like New York,” the governor said, adding that he had mentioned to Mr. Trump that three million New Yorkers will lose health insurance if the health law is repealed. “That’s three million families,” he said. Mr. Cuomo said he and Mr. Trump had also discussed housing and the role of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, which Mr. Cuomo led in the 1990s during President Bill Clinton’s administration. “We have record homelessness in New York City,” he said. “HUD could be a great, great ally to cities and states in actually combating homelessness.” Mr. Cuomo, after initially reacting to Mr. Trump’s election by saying that it could be a “bonus” to have a New Yorker in the White House, has been more critical of the president-elect’s policy positions, arguing that they are contrary to those that define New York and the country. Last week, Mr. Cuomo called New York “a safe harbor for our progressive principles and social justice.” In recent weeks, Mr. Cuomo has been discussed as a possible Democratic challenger to Mr. Trump in the 2020 presidential campaign. A spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo declined to say whether the two men discussed that possibility on Wednesday. The governor, who faces re-election in 2018, has denied that he is considering a presidential run. The subject of how much time Mr. Trump would spend in the state after the inauguration did not come up, Mr. Cuomo said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Epigenome-wide association of infant feeding and changes in dna methylation from birth to 10 years
Abstract
Epigenetic factors have been suggested as mediators of early-life nutrition to future health. Prior studies focused on breastfeeding effects on DNA methylation (DNAm), ignoring other feeding modes. In this analysis of the Isle of Wight birth cohort, feeding modes were categorized as exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), exclusive formula feeding (EFF), and mixed feeding based on whether the respective feeding mode lasted for at least 3 months. In addition, in the past, infant feeding modes were assessed using DNAm at one time point in childhood, not changes of DNAm. In this paper, methylation differences (delta DNAm) were calculated by subtracting residual methylation values at birth from age 10 years (adjusting for cell types and season of blood collection at both ages). These deltas were estimated for all methylation sites where cytosine was followed by guanine (cytosine guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites). Then, we performed an epigenome-wide association study contrasting EBF, EFF, and mixed feeding with delta DNAm that represents changes in methylation from birth to 10 years. A total of 87 CpGs (EBF: 27 CpGs, EFF: 48 CpGs, mixed: 12 CpGs) were identified using separate linear regression models adjusting for confounders and multiple testing. The sum of all changes in methylation from birth to age 10 years was significantly lower in the EFF group. Correspondingly, the number of CpGs with a methylation decline was 4.7% higher reflecting 13,683 CpGs. Lower methylation related to exclusive formula feeding and its adverse potential for the child’s development needs future research to reduce adverse health effects.
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The 100 season 7
The seventh and final season of the American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama The 100 premiered on May 20, 2020, on The CW, for the 2019–20 United States network television schedule. The series, developed by Jason Rothenberg, is based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan, and follows a group of post-apocalyptic survivors, chiefly a group of criminal adolescents, including Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley), Octavia Blake (Marie Avgeropoulos), Raven Reyes (Lindsey Morgan), and John Murphy (Richard Harmon). They are among the first people from a space habitat, the Ark, to return to Earth after a devastating nuclear apocalypse. After airing sixteen episodes, the season concluded on September 30, 2020.
Main
* Eliza Taylor as Clarke Griffin
* Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake
* Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia Blake
* Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes
* Richard Harmon as John Murphy
* Tasya Teles as Echo / Ash
* Shannon Kook as Jordan Green
* JR Bourne as Russell Lightbourne / Malachi / Sheidheda
* Chuku Modu as Gabriel Santiago
* Shelby Flannery as Hope Diyoza
Recurring
* Sachin Sahel as Eric Jackson
* Jarod Joseph as Nathan Miller
* Adina Porter as Indra
* Luc Roderique as Penn
* Luisa D'Oliveira as Emori
* Jessica Harmon as Niylah
* Tati Gabrielle as Gaia
* John Pyper-Ferguson as Bill Cadogan
* Lola Flanery as Madi Griffin
* Ivana Miličević as Charmaine Diyoza
* Karen Holness as Blythe Ann Workman
* Dean Marshall as Jae Workman
* Lee Majdoub as Nelson
* Tom Stevens as Trey
* Alaina Huffman as Nikki
* Jason Diaz as Levitt
* Neal McDonough as Anders
* Jonathan Scarfe as Doucette
Guest
* Paige Turco as Abby Griffin / the Judge
* Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa / the Judge
* Erica Cerra as Becca Franko
* Sara Thompson as Josephine Lightbourne I
* Dakota Daulby as Malachi/Sheidheda
* Camden Filtness as James Crockett
Episodes
The number in the "No. overall" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the "No. in season" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season. Numerous episodes are named after similarly named episodes from the original series. "Production code" refers to the order in which the episodes were produced while "U.S. viewers (millions)" refers to the number of viewers in the U.S. in millions who watched the episode as it was aired.
Production
On April 24, 2019, The CW renewed The 100 for a seventh season ahead of its sixth-season premiere. On August 4, 2019, it was announced by Mark Pedowitz and series developer Jason Rothenberg that the new season would be the show's last, and that it would contain sixteen episodes, to finish the series with a grand total of 100 episodes. Various cast members who had recurring roles in previous seasons of The 100 returned to star in the seventh season, including Sachin Sahel as Eric Jackson, Jarod Joseph as Nathan Miller, and Adina Porter as Indra. On September 19, 2019, Alaina Huffman was cast as Nikki, a character described as being "a bank robber and spree-killer who is both unpredictable and fierce." Additionally, on September 25, 2019, Chuku Modu was upped to series regular in the role of Gabriel Santiago. In the series finale, Paige Turco and Alycia Debnam-Carey both returned in guest appearances in the roles of Abby Griffin and Lexa, respectively.
Filming for the series finale began in Vancouver on March 4, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and concluded on March 15.
Release
On March 4, 2020, it was revealed that the last season of The 100 would premiere on The CW on May 20, 2020, and that it would feature a timeslot change for the season moving from Tuesday's to Wednesday's at 8 PM ET.
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the seventh season of The 100 holds an approval rating of 100% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10.
From Entertainment Weekly, Dalene Rovenstine opined that, "Overall, I'm not crazy that this very sci-fi show suddenly went supernatural/spiritual at the end. There were certainly rocky spots in this season for sure, just like the series in general. But honestly, I'm just happy that Clarke, Raven, and Octavia finally get to be happy. And I'm thankful for all the seasons we've got to spend with them." Writing for Collider, Haleigh Foutch lauded the show's characters, and their development throughout the season, stating that "Every character is forced to pull their own personal lever of sorts, placed in a position where they have to make a snap survival judgment that puts their values to the test. Some of their choices may surprise you." Linda Maleh, writing for Forbes, gave positive feedback to the season's suspenseful storyline, saying that the series helped her go through the quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that "There's a new set of mysteries and stakes this season that will keep fans on the edge of their seats [...]." From CBR.com, Sam Stone also praised the series for its cast, and suspenseful story, stating that "The 100's new season hits the ground running—literally—barely giving its characters and, by extension, its audience, the chance to breathe as the stakes are raised once again." | WIKI |
Rokas Volkovas
Rokas Volkovas
Application of Neuroevolution to General Video Game Playing
In the field of artificial intelligence, great advancements in developing AI capable of playing specific games has been made over last few decades. Over the years, the potential of General Game Playing (GGP) AI, was realized, and thus a new area of research was spawned, focusing mainly on turn-based board games. Rapidly expanding, it was just recently extended to include video games and has morphed into General Video Game Playing (GVGP). The studies in this space of AI are highly attractive due to their solution capacity of being highly transferable.
As the field is relatively new, there are many different paths to explore. Some effort has already been put into incorporating the established Genetic Algorithm techniques into the area. The goal of the proposed research is to further develop models using the more complex evolutionary algorithms to find generalist solutions to the problems exposed in GVGP. More specifically, the research will aim to discover the appropriate applications and the modifications necessary of approaches such as Competitive Coevolution, circumventing its drawbacks and evolving populations capable of playing multiple games. Furthermore, in addition to other methods it will be concerned with the application of models developing generalist memory on a slower scale evolution (compared to individual in a population) with continuous state perturbations, to find closer to optimum results - adapting networks of individuals to the fitness landscape.
In order to reach the goals of the research a number of experiments will be conducted, using a select few video games as a base performance measure. Training the populations evolved will involve tuning the evolutionary operators as well as altering pre-designed system be- haviours to suitably compare the viability of applied procedures. The success of bridging EA with GVPG, along with its advantages and drawbacks in the field will be readily deter- mined, comparing the solutions found to those of other existing approaches. Specifically, the similarity of the behaviour in evolvability using genetic networks searching for solutions and learning theory, via neural networks, has recently been suggested. Evolution is defined to not have any foresight, but models were built showing how it can remember previously discovered solutions, which would imply that natural selection leans towards long term evolvability. Kostas Kouvaris et. al. further establishes the underlying equivalence of the approaches, applying machine learning techniques to improve the generalisation of EA. The generalization allows combining the features from previous experience to find individuals with new feature combinations, better adapted to unseen environments.
Were the exploratory learning methods developed in EA to perform no less satisfactorily in the gaming industry environment, given enough sample data from a handful of well defined behaviours, the AI units could be trained to adapt to the new levels they are placed in. In theory, this would then translate to the same amount of effort producing a larger variety of content or, alternatively, producing the same amount of content with less effort, distributing the excess to other areas of development or eliminating it to lower the total production cost.
Rokas is an MEng Electronic Engineering graduate from University of Southampton. Initially, pushed away from programming in school due to being taught Pascal, he realized its power in the compulsory C course in University. Applying the knowledge to building games caused the gradual shift from electronics to software development, with the 4th year modules all having the CS tag. During the undergraduate studies Rokas held the UKESF scholarship and did 2 summer internships at Imagination Technologies. Interests in game and software development got him researching neuroevolutionary machine learning for video games.
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Talk:Manchester Cathedral
Page history
Pimpin'... Started work on this because someone pointed out in #wikipedia that it contained no actual article text (though some nice pictures and a link). This isn't good for one of the more notable of English Cathedrals. Mostly pulling history from the cathedral's website, which has an extensive timeline.
Yay, assistance has arrived in the form of the indefatigable User:CatherineMunro. Thanks for adding, let's see this trickle become a stream. :-) nsh 05:06, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
Queries
These are all questions which are probably answered somewhere on pedia that I'm too lazy to find, but I had some questions when adding content:
* Do we have a naming convention for notable UK families (aristocracy, houses)? I made one up, but it'd be nice if there was a policy on it
* We do -- see Naming conventions (names and titles). — Catherine\talk 23:27, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The name is The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester
Not Manchester cathedral, wiki policy is to use the offical name. If you doubt it's the offical name explain why it says this on the offical web site.--Jirate 21:24, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
* That is indeed the official name. However, the policy of the English Wikipedia is that the titles of articles should generally match the most common unambiguous name, and this is not an exception; the relevant convention is at Naming conventions (common names). --rbrwr± 22:57, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* WHat happens when the cathedrals have different names to different groups?--Jirate 23:36, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
* We try to find the one most commonly used by English speakers, and mention the others in the lead section (although not necessarily in the first paragraph). These are also bolded as alternate names, explaining how common the usage is, and redirects should be created from those names. What other names did you have in mind? — Catherine\talk 23:58, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Who is this we? It wasn't actually cathedral I had in mind. In Liverpool refering to the Anglican or Protestant Cathdral is the norm and Catholic for the other. The names being used here are not represntative, it makes senese to use the full name and then redirect from all common versions. It also looks better in the layout. The full name in big type gives more of a feeling of the history and complexity of the building, in this case. --Jirate 00:08, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)
* There are exactly two cathedrals in Liverpool and the very first paragraph of the official website of the Roman Catholic cathedral says: "it helps avoid confusion to refer to one as 'Liverpool Cathedral' and the other [itself] as 'The Metropolitan Cathedral.' " . Local media in Liverpool (eg, http://www.icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk ) also seem to follow this simple common-name convention. In actual practice, there is no confusion. And what are we to make of "The full name in big type gives more of a feeling of the history and complexity of the building" ? Your idiosyncratic naming criteria, alas, are not part of any official Wikipedia policy. Naming conventions (common names), on the other hand, is. -- Curps 22:38, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* The we is the Wikipedia community. I disagree that the full official name looks better in large type, imho the most common name should be in the largest type. The full official name can be given in the first paragraph. Thryduulf 12:50, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* So basically what your saying is the Munro believes she speaks for everyone on Wikipedia? Sounds like fairly typical bullying.--Jirate 13:09, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)
* What Catherine is doing is not bullying, she is expressing a mix of policy and convention that is used on Wikipedia by the Wikipedia community, which has developed through consensus editing. As a member of the Wikipedia community, she is entitled to use the pronoun "we" to describe actions performed by the community. Thryduulf 13:42, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* No what she was doing was bullying, claiming that she represents all wikipedians. As I said bullying. It's faily typical play ground stuff You wrong and everyone thinks so etc. It typical coward activity.--Jirate 15:02, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)
I'm sorry if you misread me, Jirate, I certainly wasn't trying to impose my will (or the semi-mythical "will of the majority") on you -- I was just trying to answer your question. I read "WHat happens when the cathedrals have different names to different groups?" as a sincere question about "what do you -- the folks who have been on Wikipedia for a while -- do when there's more than one name?" That's all I tried to answer, with what "we", meaning the people just like you, have been doing in the past. It's a consensus decision, reached with lots of discussion by people just like you who offered their opinions on the best way to do something. No cabal, no conspiracy, no bullying. The decision we/they came to is that common names are more useful and understandable to the average researcher than full formal names (which virtually no one is going to type into a search engine), and since all full and alternate names are mentioned right in the lead section (and created as redirects), there's no loss of clarity. Since you weren't here when that consensus was reached, you're welcome to comment on the policy, and see if people are willing to change it now that Wikipedia has grown a bit more.
You might want to have a look at Wikiquette, Assume good faith, Writers rules of engagement, and Staying cool when the editing gets hot. Again, these are not rules being foisted upon you from on high, but guidelines written by an individual like you, and then debated and polished by others -- all of us seeking the kind of behavior that is most conducive to writing an encyclopedia. A better way of doing things will be recognized as such on its own merits (eventually), but you can create a lot of unnecessary obstacles for yourself by not striving for a little bit of tact and grace in the way you present your ideas, and by attacking those who ultimately have the same goals you do -- clarity, completeness, and accuracy. It's only natural that some people disagree on the means to those ends, but rational discussion has triumphed so many times on so many difficult subjects here that I have developed great faith in the policies I linked above in helping people to overcome their differences.
As it happens, I agree with you that we need a better distinction between the Anglican and Protestant cathedrals, now that you've explained the problem more thoroughly -- there was very little for me to go on when you asked your question. I'm still not certain that the full formal title is the best solution, but I'm interested in hearing your opinions on the matter. — Catherine\talk 21:46, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think this wiki should be updated...
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Computer Game Controversy
The Very Reverend Rogers Govender,
* "Somebody told me that there is a game in the making that is based on the roman inquisition with graphical depictions of the 16th century. Nonetheless, the game is based on killing people who do not agree with the rationality of the church, you can get extra points by taking little boys to a back room ( I do not know the point of the back room) ..... I do not know the creator of the game but I will found out for you....."
thanks D
P.S. : I also found this other information, maybe you want to do something about it!
The Manchester Cathedral was the setting for a marriage at the start of the 2006 episode of cracker. The series concerned a criminal psychologist : Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald a classic antihero, unfaithful to his wife, alcoholic, chain smoker, overweight, addicted to gambling, manic, foulmouthed and sarcastic; and yet cerebral and excellent at his speciality: getting into the heads of violent criminals. As Fitz confesses in "Brotherly Love": "I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much."
Of course if the Church got paid....... do not take action against Granada television... lets do not forget that this is about money to help the millions of Africans dying everyday of hunger...something that your church has accuse the English parliament and had demanded action for years....Am I right very reverend.....
* Two things. The Cathedral costs a lot to run and upkeep. Isn't it right that those wanting to exploit it for financial gain put towards this upkeep? Or were Sony going to donate all the money to the poor? Secondly, the Cathedral was asking for a donation to an anti-gun crime charity - that's hardly lining their own pockets. Pbhj 16:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Why does it state that Sony have apologised, at no point did they apologise, they stated that permissions had been sought, and that it was wrong to blame a science fiction game set in an alternative 1950's reality for the social issues in contemporary Manchester <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
* Sony's apology - "As a result, it is also clear that we have offended some of the congregation by using the cathedral in our science fiction game. It was never our intention to offend anyone in the making of this game, and we would like to apologise unreservedly to them for causing that offence, and to all parts of the community who we might also have offended" Mr Stephen (talk) 12:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough, that comment didn't get anywhere near as much publicity as it should've, I apologise for being misinformed <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Choir
Not sure if this image is worth including in the article, so I've placed it here for consideration. Russ London (talk) 22:38, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
gig venue
Is it worth adding a section about its use as a gig venue. I think it is reasonably notable that they have had a series of rock/pop bands play there. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:37, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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There is a story that the Sri Lankans hold dear. It goes back to somewhere around the 6th BCE when a banished prince, the grandson of a princess of Kalinga (who had eloped with a lion), made his way to the island deep south with a band of 700 men. He defeated the local inhabitants the yakkhas and went on to rule Sri Lanka as King Vijaya. By now, he had taken the title of his father and grandfather (the lion) and that is how his people came to be known as the Sinhalese.
This story is mentioned in the Buddhist text Mahavamsa and the earlier Deepavamsa which chronicle the history of the people of Sri Lanka. They were both written somewhere between the 3rd and 5th CE – roughly 900 years later. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Closing Time (Hole song)
"Closing Time" (also referred to as "Drunk in Rio" and, incorrectly, "It's Closing Soon") is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, drummer Patty Schemel and Love's husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
Origin and recording
The song's origins are obscure due to lack of official information, however, the earliest known recording of the song dates back to January 1993, at which time Hole were writing new material for their second studio album, Live Through This (1994). The in-studio performance was recorded in Studio B at BMG Ariola Ltda., a recording facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 21, 1993. The session was a pre-production studio session, produced by Craig Montgomery, for Nirvana for their forthcoming album, In Utero (1993) and lasted for three days. On the third and final day of the session, Love and Schemel joined the band in-studio and were given the opportunity to practice and record new Hole material during Nirvana's session breaks. At least three other Hole songs are known to have been recorded; "Miss World," which featured Cobain on bass, "Softer, Softest," "She Walks on Me" and "I Think That I Would Die," which featured Nirvana touring guitarist Big John Duncan on bass. Towards the end of the session "Closing Time" was recorded. This recording, circulating unofficially in bootleg trading circles, featured Love on vocals and lead guitar, Cobain on bass and Schemel on drums and lead to the song being referred to as "Drunk in Rio," due to fact that all three musicians were intoxicated when recording.
In 1995, Love forwarded a copy of the studio version of "Closing Time" to BBC radio host John Peel on cassette tape, after the death of Cobain, and broadcast it on his radio show, The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1. It is assumed that the radio broadcast version of the song was recorded and then distributed to various bootleggers, leading to the song's inclusion on the Nirvana bootleg series Outcesticide, however Blue Moon Records, the label on which the bootleg series was released, claimed that the recording was sourced from Love's own tape.
Composition
The original version of the song is completely improvised, both musically and lyrically, and the vocals are indecipherable due to their inaudibility in the recording mix and the mumbling vocal style. However, the song's three main chords (A-G-C) are repeated throughout the verses and choruses apart from a bridge which uses experimental chords. The song's theme is reputedly based on a bitter relationship and the term "closing time" is often seen as referring to the end of the relationship itself.
A more structured and lyrically-coherent version of the song was performed by Hole on various occasions throughout 1994 and 1995, during their tours promoting Live Through This. These live versions also featured bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson and the lyrics of the song varied in performance.
Related projects
Love, Schemel and Cobain also wrote and recorded various other songs unrelated to the recording session in Rio de Janeiro. A side project, known as Nighty Nite, arose the following month, in February 1993, in which Love and Schemel musicians "pretended [they] were two sisters from Marysville, [aged] seventeen and sixteen, [called] Dottie and Clara. [They] put the pitch way up on the four-track and [they] made up these really stupid songs" and Cobain also contributed. Three songs are known to exist; "Lemonade Nation," "Hello Kitty" and "Twister." Copies of the recording were sent to Maximumrocknroll, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, members of Bikini Kill and Fugazi, Calvin Johnson, and Slim Moon. | WIKI |
Esther Goris
Esther Goris (born 5 March 1963) is an Argentine actress. Her film career started in 1983 with Los enemigos and Gracias por el fuego (Thanks for the Fire, based on Mario Benedetti's homonymous novel). In 1996, she starred in Eva Perón: The True Story as Evita during the last year of her life, with Víctor Laplace as Juan Perón.
Early life
Goris was born in Buenos Aires to Galician parents from Vila de Cruces and A Estrada, Pontevedra. They met in Galicia and emigrated to Argentina in 1950 and 1951, respectively. While working in the fields, her father contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalized for 14 months at Hospital Muñiz. Her parents got married on, 19 November 1954, the same day he was discharged from the hospital. They lived in Monte Grande, but when Goris was three, they moved to Banfield, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires.
Career
Goris has appeared in several TV series and mini-series, the last ones in 2004: Epitafios and El Deseo (The Desire). | WIKI |
Protectin DX, a double lipoxygenase product of DHA, inhibits both ROS production in human neutrophils and cyclooxygenase activities. - Inserm - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale Access content directly
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Protectin DX, a double lipoxygenase product of DHA, inhibits both ROS production in human neutrophils and cyclooxygenase activities.
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Neutrophils play a major role in inflammation by releasing large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by NADPH oxidase (NOX) and myeloperoxidase (MPO). This ROS overproduction is mediated by phosphorylation of the NOX subunits in an uncontrolled manner. Therefore, targeting neutrophil subunits would represent a promising strategy to moderate NOX activity, lower ROS, and other inflammatory agents, such as cytokines and leukotrienes, produced by neutrophils. For this purpose, we investigated the effects of protectin DX (PDX)-a docosahexaenoic acid di-hydroxylated product which inhibits blood platelet aggregation-on neutrophil activation in vitro. We found that PDX decreases ROS production, inhibits NOX activation and MPO release from neutrophils. We also confirm, that PDX is an anti-aggregatory and anti-inflammatory agent by inhibiting both cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 (COX-1 and COX-2, E.C. 1.14.99.1) as well as COX-2 in lipopolysaccharides-treated human neutrophils. However, PDX has no effect on the 5-lipoxygenase pathway that produces the chemotactic agent leukotriene B4 (LTB4). Taken together, our results suggest that PDX could be a protective agent against neutrophil invasion in chronic inflammatory diseases.
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Paper 2016/560
Memory-Efficient Algorithms for Finding Needles in Haystacks
Itai Dinur, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir
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One of the most common tasks in cryptography and cryptanalysis is to find some interesting event (a needle) in an exponentially large collection (haystack) of $N=2^n$ possible events, or to demonstrate that no such event is likely to exist. In particular, we are interested in finding needles which are defined as events that happen with an unusually high probability of $p \gg 1/N$ in a haystack which is an almost uniform distribution on $N$ possible events. When the search algorithm can only sample values from this distribution, the best known time/memory tradeoff for finding such an event requires $O(1/Mp^2)$ time given $O(M)$ memory. In this paper we develop much faster needle searching algorithms in the common cryptographic setting in which the distribution is defined by applying some deterministic function $f$ to random inputs. Such a distribution can be modelled by a random directed graph with $N$ vertices in which almost all the vertices have $O(1)$ predecessors while the vertex we are looking for has an unusually large number of $O(pN)$ predecessors. When we are given only a constant amount of memory, we propose a new search methodology which we call \textbf{NestedRho}. As $p$ increases, such random graphs undergo several subtle phase transitions, and thus the log-log dependence of the time complexity $T$ on $p$ becomes a piecewise linear curve which bends four times. Our new algorithm is faster than the $O(1/p^2)$ time complexity of the best previous algorithm in the full range of $1/N<p<1$, and in particular it improves the previous time complexity by a significant factor of $\sqrt{N}$ for any $p$ in the range $N^{-0.75}<p< N^{-0.5}$. When we are given more memory, we show how to combine the \textbf{NestedRho} technique with the parallel collision search technique in order to further reduce its time complexity. Finally, we show how to apply our new search technique to more complicated distributions with multiple peaks when we want to find all the peaks whose probabilities are higher than $p$.
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Published by the IACR in CRYPTO 2016
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CryptanalysisNeedles in HaystacksMode DetectionRho Algo- rithmsParallel Collision Search
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orrd @ cs haifa ac il
dinuri @ cs bgu ac il
nkeller @ math biu ac il
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2016-06-03: received
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@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/560,
author = {Itai Dinur and Orr Dunkelman and Nathan Keller and Adi Shamir},
title = {Memory-Efficient Algorithms for Finding Needles in Haystacks},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/560},
year = {2016},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/560}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/560}
}
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Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wifione/Evidence
Clarifications are needed
The big scary manilla templates at the top of the pages for this case might have something to do with why the crickets seem so loud. It seems to me that part of the meat of this particular case may be that a particular user (who also happens to be an admin) may have a pattern of accusing people of harassment if they might be seen as having questioned his actions. If the previous sentence seems a reasonable description of the case to you, then there's a serious problem.
If that's too philosophical, perhaps a direct question: will people be punished for linking to the (clearly relevant) Wikipediocracy blog posts and/or forum threads about this topic? If yes: why? If no: why not?
I think the committee needs to either answer these questions, or rescind the case, because I suspect that the interested parties on one or both sides will be unwilling to volunteer their efforts on this case if it looks like they're going to be shot in the back by you if they say something impolitic. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:09, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Speaking myself, I feel that any presenting of initial evidence (subject to it not being outing or solely accusations) is not harassment. It's when users go to the point of excessively pinging each other, or continuing to initiate multiple replies that are not presenting evidence but only disrupting the case, and making more to read. Another issue is accusations without diffs. If accusations without diffs are presented as case evidence and are there just to disrupt the case, then I see enforceable action. Specifically in regards to Wikipediocracy, I think it depends on what they are linking too. If they are linking to outing, then that's not appropriate. They should also be able to present evidence in their own words, not point us to another discussion and read their views. Evidence is for us to hear from those members of the community, not removed members. If they have written something at Wikipediocracy, and wish to show it here, and it fits within our policies, then just post it directly. Does that explain where I feel the committee's intentions were in the notice? I encourage other Arbs to comment on this thread also. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 07:48, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Agree with DQ, if you have evidence to present, please present it on-wiki and not via links to an external site. If it involves privacy issues, please email it to the committee. Evidence not posted here or emailed to the committee, but instead hosted solely on an external site, is likely to be ignored. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:11, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* . The way the community and the committee has usually handled this kind of situation in the past is by holding the person introducing the link responsible for all the content of the link. So if the linked material outs someone, or makes personal attacks on someone, or is grossly offensive, then the person introducing the link can be sanctioned. Here, you should err on the side of caution. It's similar to the way the BLP rule works, I suppose. Safest might be to paraphrase factual stuff and present it as your own, complete with supporting diffs (and, as you know, the rule there is that if an allegation can't be fully supported with diffs it shouldn't be made). Roger Davies talk 08:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* For the avoidance of doubt, I completely agree with what my colleagues say above, Roger Davies talk 08:19, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* The problem I have personally is that there appears to be so much off-wiki evidence that it simply wouldn't fit in the named party's evidence section, unless they're either extremely good at cutting things down, or have a massive expansion of the amount of evidence they can give. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Everyone gives evidence in their own section and has their own limits so that doesn't really apply here;) Other than that, I'm not quite sure what this preoccupation with off-wiki evidence is all about. To expand a little ... COI-editing is not forbidden (though strongly discouraged) and an apparent COI doesn't matter if despite it the editor is able to edit neutrally. What's more, attempting to prove a COI is far from easy and usually involves all sorts of intrusion and speculation, which in turn are often prohibited by policy. However, the "big scary manilla template" doesn't mention COI or paid editing at all. Instead it talks about the neutral point of view policy. This explicitly prohibits POV-pushing and the possible breaches of it which are the usual consequence of COI-editing. In sharp contrast to COI allegations, POV-pushing can be determined fairly easily by examining diffs and doesn't usually need any off-wiki evidence at all. Roger Davies talk 17:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* The mountain of evidence has already been presented off-wiki; I really don't personally feel comfortable supporting the case when you're not considering that evidence. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 17:27, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Whereas I am not comfortable with evidence presented in some external venue the Committee have no control over being used to judge someone's actions on Wikipedia. We have no guarantee that any evidence that allegedly exists at an external site will remain there, nor that what it says today will be the same as what it says tomorrow. If you want the evidence to be considered as part of this case, then it must be presented as part of this case. Thryduulf (talk) 17:48, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* The forum threads and blog post in question are well anchored by "diffs" from WP. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* It doesn't matter how well "anchored" (whatever that means) the content is, the issue is that we (the Committee) have no certainty that it will remain available and unchanged - diffs and/or context and commentary could be added, removed or altered. Thryduulf (talk) 00:33, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* I'm happy to see the evidence. This can either be done by posting it publicly here (subject to the caveats in the BSM template) or, if you have outing or personal attack concerns, send it to us by email. (The template says how to do this.) Roger Davies talk 20:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* The issue is that there's years worth of research on the subject on a blog post and on several forum threads (I'd guess about 300 posts, though over half of those are probably disposable silliness). If the Committee wants to get to the bottom of things, they should read it. If it's just a wikijousting match with high stakes for anyone who says something of substance, you'll only see (more of) the knowledgeable witnesses drop out, which might ironically simply serve to reinforce the problem that the case should be about (and it's not about getting paid, it certainly might be about gaming the system though). -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:01, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
User:Peter Damian who is banned from editing en wiki and who leads an independent research on an external site (Wikipediocracy) should be in my opinion allowed to join this case as a party. In my own presentation, I focus mainly on providing examples of Wifione's tendentious and manipulative edits to Wikipedia articles about competing subjects. Peter Damian provides broader additional evidence which could be of interest to the committee. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 09:22, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* There would need to be a very good reason for the Committee to override and overturn a community ban. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:33, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* I can tell you that what I've seen in Damian's research is a very good reason for his temporary (?) unban. Damian was banned years ago and many of the editors who endorsed his ban over the years are either retired or blocked (!) while P. Damian is still interested in Wikipedia. To me, such a "ban for life" is hardly understandable ... But above all, the ArbCom can reblock/ban in a second if he makes any inappropriate comments. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 10:02, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* And he is free to appeal the ban to either the community or BASC, but appeals from third parties are rarely granted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:17, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
* Just an idea, but if ARBCOM is truly keen to get to the bottom of this case, and, given what folks above say about the large contribution Peter Damian could make to that thorough review, there is another option, surely. He could post evidence to his talkpage, to be copied here. I'm sure I've seen that mechanism used before. That way we could avoid the technicalities which are obviously causing a problem, and ensure that the committee has all the relevant, factual evidence it needs, to complete its analysis. No unblock necessary. Problem solved. Begoon   talk 15:59, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for the courteous reply, and for considering this. Begoon   talk 00:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
about Peter Damian
I don't know why the arbs and clerks are being so quick to shut down discussions here... it's just discussion, and discussion is rarely harmful. Please stop doing that.
As far as Peter actually coming back "provisionally", that's probably not going to happen. He's a scholar with The Big Degree, an Academic Position, and has had an awful lot of bad experiences with people ordering him around and demanding apologies that he doesn't feel had any right to order him around or demand apologies, and whether you think he's right or wrong to see it that way, that's how he sees it, and if you look at it imagining yourself in his shoes you have to admit he's got a point, if you happen to see it as he does of course.
Anyway I don't think it's much of a big deal because he's going to help someone else put together a compactly worded case, BUT that brings us back to the need for clarification: will the person who has helpfully volunteered to do this be strung up for acting on the behalf of a banned user? If someone on Wikipediocracy says "fuck it" and doxxes Mr. Wifione (his identity has already been established, I'm told), will the helpful volunteer -- who is, after all, only giving evidence because he thinks it will improve Wikipedia -- "Hasten the DayTM" Wikipediocrats wouldn't bother -- be tarred, feathered, and forced to walk the plank?
Yes, my metaphors are colorful and perhaps I'm not seeming serious, but I really am asking a serious question. This is the first case for a very new Arbcom, and it's a doozie of a case you've picked to start things off with. I don't envy you even a bit, but you do need to clarify the stakes for anyone who bears witness here, because part of the meat of this case is that an administrator has (allegedly) made a habit of intimidating people who have tried to bear witness against her. -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 00:32, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Policy is that anyone can post at the behest of a banned user but not on behalf of a banned user. Simply ut, this means that the person physically posting assumes full personal responsibility for the content of the post. In other words, they can't say (for example, in an article context): "I didn't know it was a copy vio, I just posted what XXX asked", or "I don't know what the sources say, I've just cut and paste this from an email". And, or course, any material touching on privacy needs to go by email to ArbCom (instructions above) rather than being posted publicly. Roger Davies talk 01:03, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* I agree with Roger. I'm not seeing why this has to be so complex. If you have evidence you want to post, then post it. If it involves privacy or outing concerns, email it instead. If you post at the behest of another person, be aware that you become responsible for the contents of what you post or send. -- Euryalus (talk) 01:42, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Also agreed with Roger. There's not an issue with a user posting evidence, even if it's been assembled by a banned user. The issue arises only if the evidence contains information disallowed onwiki, such as privacy violations, because the poster is taking responsibility for that evidence. GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks for the simple and clear answer :-). -- SB_Johnny | talk✌ 03:05, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Request for exemption
I'm in the midst of assembling a large volume of evidence that focuses on whether Wifione is the same person as Nichalp. This would obviously exceed the maximum character count, so I was hoping I could receive an exemption in order to do so. Kurtis (talk) 06:03, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* How many characters do you think you need? -- Guerillero | My Talk 06:47, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* I feel any sock-puppetry issues are better taken up at the proper venue, rather than the ArbCom case, and then based on the result of that you should be able to input within the limit into your evidence. Though, stand-by while I get the exact venue cleared up with my colleagues. Would also be nice to know the character count. Maybe a "best ____ characters that presents the evidence the best" with a collapsed additional section? -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 07:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* You are aware that one of the longstanding allegations against Wifione is that he is a sockpuppet of Nichalp, right? I think it's perfectly relevant to this case. Remember, I'm not necessarily trying to prove sockpuppetry; it could also be an attempt to disprove the allegations based on my investigative work (or more accurately, presenting the evidence that I've gathered and leaving it open for interpretation). Kurtis (talk) 08:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* It appears that this is more or less similar fact evidence. While proving (or disproving) a correlation between Nichalp would potentially show a tendency in behavior or character, it in no way shows that Wifione engaged in these behaviors: only that he has a higher tendency to. When Nichalp halted editing, they were not under sanctions, or discussion regarding conduct. Hence, they could have utilized clean start. And we're five years past the retirement of this particular user (quite a long time on Wikipedia). At the end of the day, evidence relating Nichalp to Wifione would need to be both strong and relevant to present behavior. In the current situation, I find it very doubtful any evidence would be strong and clear-cut, and I'm concerned it would lead to further non-evidence based speculation (i.e. these two users may be related, hence there may be a higher chance that they violated said policies, hence they may have). Along these lines, I'm not inclined to grant your request for an exemption. NativeForeigner Talk 10:18, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Would you mind if I sent it to you in private, then? I don't feel that much of what I've written is speculative — and anything that is would have been based off of observation. Kurtis (talk) 10:39, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* While your evidence could be based off of observation, I'm concerned it would just lead to massive speculation in practice. If you have something concrete and clear (clearly put, a smoking gun), send that to Arbcom for consideration. Personally, due to the amount of scrutiny already applied to both accounts, I find such a smoking gun almost impossibly unlikely. NativeForeigner Talk 10:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* I've sent you a private message with my prepared evidence (however, it is written in Wiki-markup, so you may want to use a sandbox + preview feature to see it as it was intended). Kurtis (talk) 11:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Just for the record, based on what I've read (and sent to NF), I do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to implicate Wifione as a sockpuppet of Nichalp. Kurtis (talk) 11:06, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
* Judging by the evidence you've posted, you need around 1000 words. Or is there more you're planning to post? GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* That's all I'm intending to post. I've since trimmed some of the evidence so the word count could go down, meaning that 988 is no longer an accurate number. Kurtis (talk) 02:31, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm too aware that my presentation is too long, is there any chance that the ArbCom would accept if my evidence exceeds the limit? I'm trying to focus on diffs with brief explanations, but this is too complex. Thank you for your consideration/advice. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 16:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Try and keep it as concise as you can manage but as there are so few parties here, I'd personally have no trouble with 2000 words and 200 diffs as the evidence limits for this case. I would need a great deal of persuading to go further than that though. I'll discuss this with the other drafters and we'll confirm. But in the meantime, you can proceed on the assumption that it will be increased. Roger Davies talk 17:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Currently I'm at 1281 words according to wordcounter.net but I realize I use a lot of unnecessary repetition (Removes criticism ... etc.) I'll try to correct that as soon as possible. 200 diffs should suffice for what I want to say here. Thank you. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 17:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* , might I assume the above mentioned limits (of 2000 words and 200 diffs) for my rebuttals too on the Evidence page? Additionally, due to the fact that apart from the rebuttals, I might place further evidence, would there be some leniency on the 2000 word limit (till say, another 1000 words)? I'll try my best to stick to 2000, whether or not there is approval for the requested leniency. Thanks. Wifione Message 17:47, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Absolutely, yes. I'm proposing an increase right across the board for all the existing parties. Roger Davies talk 17:51, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thank you. Wifione Message 17:53, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* , two suggestions if I may. To the best of my knowledge (I might be wrong but, as I've not researched that deeply), Nichalp never edited the IIMP article. You could perhaps correct that evidential statement to that small extent in your last assertion. Also, you could perhaps (if you think it makes sense), soften the corners on the term "on behalf of IIPM" in your first assertion. Thanks. Wifione Message 17:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Vejvančický I had a request of you too. Would you consider, if it's possible, numbering your diffs in the evidence section? It would help me in referring to them sequentially in my rebuttals. Thanks. Wifione Message 20:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* The problem is that I'm not yet finished - I plan to add more diffs and if I add numbers now it could make confusion. You can use sections and dates (chronological order) I provide in most of the diffs as a clue. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 08:04, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
* Sure. Thanks. I had a slight issue - even though I'd like to start providing responses to your diffs, I realize that in case you're going to add more diffs in the between, then my responses might miss the additional points or might even be completely misdirected. So whenever you believe you've put all the evidence links in your section, do tell me and I'll start responding. I hope that sounds sensible. Wifione Message 09:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
* Is there, then, some sort of "taking turns thing" here? I have a tiny little bit of evidence I haven't decided whether it's worth posting or not yet, but I'm damned if I can work out the dance steps from this conversation. I thought there was just a date everyone posted by, and that was it. I can kinda see the value, from one side, of a "have you finished yet?" question, but the implications do boggle the mind, I confess. Understand why you are concerned, though. Begoon   talk 14:47, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
You needn't concern yourself with "dance steps" as you put it. Just post the evidence in the ordinary way, Roger Davies talk 15:06, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks Roger. My concern was more the waltz above about "numbers" on diffs, and whether it was important if someone had "finished" or not. If I think my evidence is important at any point, you may be assured I will post it. I was also confused about why one party would be continually be pushing their requests for "finesse" to comments already made in evidence towards other parties, on the talkpage, resulting in several retrospective alterations to the evidence page. Probably unimportant, but felt wrong to me. Your quick response to my concerns is appreciated, and impressive. Thanks for that. Begoon   talk 15:14, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
* , requesting permission for going beyond 2000 words to hopefully a maximum of 3000 words. I'm right now at around 1300 words I think. I expect my responses to Vejvančický's evidence would take me beyond the 2000 word limit. Thanks. Wifione Message 18:59, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
* I don't think this presents a problem in this case as there are so few other participants. Try to keep your evidence as concise and factual as you can. You also need to get a move on as the evidence phase closes later down. Roger Davies talk 08:30, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Jayen466 just added evidence. Wifione should be given sufficient time to respond to this and any other evidence that might be posted today. Jehochman Talk 10:37, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Absolutely, and I'm open to any reasonable request from Wifione, Roger Davies talk 11:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Guidance required on non-parties
& other arbitrators, needed guidance on a particular issue. Can evidence be provided against non-parties at this stage? If no, then is there a procedure for me to request Arbcom to include the non-parties as parties? Thanks. Wifione Message 18:24, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* We can certainly consider it. Who would you like added, and why, and wny now not a week ago? Roger Davies talk 18:33, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* I can provide a list by this evening or maximum by tomorrow morning. The main reasons would be to document evidence of breaches of the outing policy. The reason I may request now is because it took me some time to read and connect threads on this project. Thanks. Wifione Message 18:48, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* Who do the breaches concern? Roger Davies talk 19:45, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
* The breaches concern me. Wifione Message 02:22, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* I believe Roger was asking who you are requesting to be added to the case based upon the incidents you reference. Seraphimblade Talk to me 06:30, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* We will want to see example diffs (email them if sensitive), demonstrating outing and (obviously) identifying the alleged outers. Roger Davies talk 10:52, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks Seraphimblade Roger I've sent the email. Wifione Message 18:57, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thank you for your email. After reviewing your statement and the supporting evidence, we have concluded that the request be declined. Roger Davies talk 17:25, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
* Roger thanks for the note. Wifione Message 15:23, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
* I hope any alleged outers will have to be named on-wiki, so that they know they've been named and have a chance to explain/defend themselves. No issue personally with particularly sensitive diffs being handled privately though. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:39, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
* If we add parties, they'll be added to the case in the usual way and, if they are mentioned in FOFs/Remedies, have an opportunity to comment either onwiki for public stuff or by email for private stuff. This is outlined in ArbPol. Roger Davies talk 12:15, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Query
In order to avoid going over the evidence limit, is it against the rules for me to provide evidence compiled by someone else? This is related to User talk:Vejvančický. I can't see why it would be, but I want to check. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 17:20, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
* It's probably just easier and clearer if asks for an extension of the word/diff limit and post it themselves. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:28, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
* And quicker. So in the interests of expediency, Vejvančický could just post the extended evidence and we'll see where that takes us word-lenbth wise. Roger Davies talk 08:00, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Evidence phase closure
Just a note to remind everyone that the evidence phase for this case closes in around 18 hours, meaning that submissions and rebuttals will not be permitted after that time. If you have any concerns regarding that please reply below (or email the Committee if required). As as a case clerk for this case I just want to thank everyone for the way they have behaved throughout the case so far! It's been a wonderful break from what other cases are sometimes like. Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:51, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* There is a flaw in this process. Some apparently new evidence was just posted. Wifione should be given for chance to respond to it. What if somebody posts new evidence at 23:59? Jehochman Talk 10:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Absolutely, and I'm open to any reasonable request from Wifione, Roger Davies talk 11:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Generally if evidence is presented close to the closure time parties whom the evidence is presented about will be given extra time to respond. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:19, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* May I request for a general time extension for posting my rebuttals and updating rebuttals already posted to around 24 hours from right now? I'll try and finish my replies today itself. Just in case I am not able to, would appreciate if the extension requested is granted. Thanks. Wifione Message 12:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* User:Wifione, that sounds reasonable. Let us know if you need a little while longer. A word length extension for up to 3000 words is also acceptable. Dougweller (talk) 15:02, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Concur with Doug. Let's say by 23:59 UTC on 17 January. Roger Davies talk 15:05, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks Doug, Roger. Wifione Message 15:26, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
* My apologies, , I am not able to complete my rebuttals despite the extension given. While making the rebuttals, the editing and re-editing (to ensure I am able to concisely present the issues concerned) took away some considerable time. I don't want this to be seen otherwise, but may I please request for 24 more hours as an extension (to 23.59 UTC on 18 January)? I shall not require more than that. I'll be thankful if this final extension requested is granted. Wifione Message 19:36, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
* User:Wifione granted, hopefully that will suffice. Dougweller (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
* ,, I'm about to post my response. Due to the fact that the issue had to be responded to in-depth, and there were multiple diffs, I've unfortunately and obscenely exceeded even the advised word count limit. My current word count is 4900 (including word counts of diffs). For the sake of covering the issue appropriately, I request an exemption and permission to post my response with the current word count. In case the same is not accepted, then I request that I may be allowed to post the response now and given a day more to reduce the word count to the advised limit. I'll do as per your advice. Thanks. Wifione Message 21:10, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
* Please post it now and then cut it down by midnight tomorrow UTC, Roger Davies talk 21:15, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thank you Roger Can I get allowance till 4000 words? That would assist me considerably. Wifione Message 21:17, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
* In the interests of expediency, yes. Roger Davies talk 08:00, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
* ,, I have tried hard to cut. Yet, have been unable to progress significantly on limiting the word count. With the number of diffs I have had to respond to, and given the fact that I've addressed each party's concerns separately to provide as much clarification as I could, the current word count without counting diffs+section headings is around 4575 words, and counting diffs and section headings is 4971 words. May I request the response posted to be considered despite the same exceeding the allowed word limit? I'd appreciate this extraordinary leeway, if the same is granted. If this request is not accepted, I'll propose simply cutting the Contemporary Context section from my reply. But of course, I'll request otherwise. Thanks to all for the patient replies to each and every query of mine and the support granted for my earlier requests. Wifione Message 19:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
More background reading
* Stacey Mickelbart, Siddhartha Deb’s Publishing Odyssey, The New Yorker
* Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, ‘Why I Took On Arindam Chaudhuri’, Wall Street Journal --Andreas JN 466 13:04, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Edit request to clerks
In the Contemporary context subsection, I had had to put a wrongly titled ANI link because Kudpung, when he had archived the said ANI discussion, had missed a section header. Now the section header in the archive has been corrected, therefore the said link should be replaced with the correct link as follows:. Thanks. Wifione Message 10:27, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
* Yes check.svg Done Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:55, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
* Thanks. Wifione Message 10:59, 29 January 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
IκB is a substrate for a selective pathway of lysosomal proteolysis
Ana Maria Cuervo, Wei Hu, Bing Lim, J. Fred Dice
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Abstract
In lysosomes isolated from rat liver and spleen, a percentage of the intracellular inhibitor of the nuclear factor κ B (IκB) can be detected in the lysosomal matrix where it is rapidly degraded. Levels of IκB are significantly higher in a lysosomal subpopulation that is active in the direct uptake of specific cytosolic proteins. IκB is directly transported into isolated lysosomes in a process that requires binding of IκB to the heat shock protein of 73 kDa (hsc73), the cytosolic molecular chaperone involved in this pathway, and to the lysosomal glycoprotein of 96 kDa (lgp96), the receptor protein in the lysosomal membrane. Other substrates for this degradation pathway competitively inhibit IκB uptake by lysosomes. Ubiquitination and phosphorylation of IκB are not required for its targeting to lysosomes. The lysosomal degradation of IκB is activated under conditions of nutrient deprivation. Thus, the half-life of a long-lived pool of IκB is 4.4 d in serum-supplemented Chinese hamster ovary cells but only 0.9 d in serum-deprived Chinese hamster ovary cells. This increase in IκB degradation can be completely blocked by lysosomal inhibitors. In Chinese hamster ovary cells exhibiting an increased activity of the hsc73-mediated lysosomal degradation pathway due to overexpression of lamp2, the human form of lgp96, the degradation of IκB is increased. There are both short- and long-lived pools of IκB, and it is the long-lived pool that is subjected to the selective lysosomal degradation pathway. In the presence of antioxidants, the half-life of the long-lived pool of IκB is significantly increased. Thus, the production of intracellular reactive oxygen species during serum starvation may be one of the mechanisms mediating IκB degradation in lysosomes. This selective pathway of lysosomal degradation of IκB is physiologically important since prolonged serum deprivation results in an increase in the nuclear activity of nuclear factor κ B. In addition, the response of nuclear factor κ B to several stimuli increases when this lysosomal pathway of proteolysis is activated.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1995-2010
Number of pages16
JournalMolecular biology of the cell
Volume9
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1998
Externally publishedYes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Molecular Biology
• Cell Biology
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Carl Cederschiöld
Carl Cederschiöld is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician.
He was an active member of the Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students and was chairman between 1972 and 1973. He was elected to Stockholm City Council in 1976. With the Moderate election victory in 1991, Cederschiöld became Mayor and Commissioner of Finance. The Moderate Party, however, lost the election in 1994 and Cederschiöld returned to leading the opposition.
The 1998 election saw the return of the Moderate Party to power in Stockholm and Cederschiöld to the post of Mayor. The new Moderate Party administration launched a wide-reaching reform programme with cuts in both taxes and welfare benefits. The 2002 election, however, was catastrophic for the Moderate Party on the national level and that also swept the Social Democrats into power in Stockholm. After the election he retired from politics. He was replaced as leader of the Moderates in Stockholm by Kristina Axén Olin.
Carl Cederschiöld is married to Charlotte Cederschiöld, a Moderate Party Member of the European Parliament. The Cederschiöld family belongs to the Swedish nobility. | WIKI |
What’s the difference between Data, Information, and Insight
In this era of “Big Data,” I often hear terms like data and information being used almost interchangeably; and so I thought that I’d write an explanation of these terms and also include what should be the ultimate goal of data analysis – “insight”.
Data? Big or Small.
Data is raw. It has no meaning on its own. On a website, it would be the IP address of a visitor. For weather, this is the temperature, air pressure, humidity, and so on. For a class of students, it is their individual grades.
And for the grammar police out there, it is now acceptable to use the term data as both a singular or plural noun. Yes, I know standards have fallen and the world is coming to an end but who wants to use the word datum anyway?
Datafication
One of my favourite “new words” that has emerged in recent times is “datafication.” Remember digitisation? When we converted our analog music recordings into digital versions? Or scanned our old photographs and saved them on computers as digital copies? Well, datafication is the process of storing digital copies of raw data that is currently not being recorded – because we can and because you never know what may or not be useful. This is the original definition of this term, although it has been hijacked to mean the turning of a business into a “data business” (whatever that is) more recently.
As we begin to see the rise of the “internet of things,” datafication will become increasingly more commonplace and popular. It is already being used in the agricultural industry where farmers can collect hundreds and thousands of data points about their land covering soil moisture, air temperature, nutrient levels, etc.
And these same devices are being rolled out to consumers right now. Yes, you can collect soil moisture levels of your house plants if you like but you are also datafying your movement and sleep patterns with products like FitBit.. or are doing something similar about your dog with a product called FitBark.
How information is created
So data is raw, unorganised and useless on its own. It is only when we start to process and organise this data that it starts to become information. This is when we interpret the data and give it meaning.
We can analyse web visitors and turn those IP addresses into geographical locations and map where our visitors come from, or calculate the historical average temperature for a location based on past weather data, or simply report on the average grades of those students we mentioned earlier. If you use FitBit, you can see how many steps of you’ve taken each day and have that converted into miles walked or understand how frequently you awaken in the night by processing the data about your sleep.
But that is not insight.
All of this is information but none of it is insight (or insights as you see it sometimes).
We gain insight when we draw conclusions from data and information. And this is really the ultimate goal for data analysis and the world of “big data”.
Knowing the average temperature for your location might be helpful, but knowing that the average is increasing steadily every five years gives you a better understanding and puts the information into context. And that context is really only relevant to you or your business – information about buying habits of FMCG consumers will provide very little insight about the customers of your small B2B accountancy practice.
Revealing insights
There are two ways to go about gaining insight. First, you go looking for it. Create a hypothesis and seek to prove or disprove it – scientifically. This would be something like “what is the effect that social media mentions has on my sales orders?”. You then ensure that you are collecting all the relevant data, organise it and then look for the causation and correlation.
This is the pretty standard approach to data analysis but it has some flaws. The main one is that you don’t know what you don’t know – in other words, you will only find what you are seeking. What if social media mentions didn’t cause a direct impact on orders, but it did have a positive impact on sentiment, affiliate activity, or even contract extensions/renewals? If this wasn’t the outcome your were seeking, you may have missed it.
Correlation is all that matters
When it comes to Big Data, there is another school of thought – one where causation is ignored or is deemed to be irrelevant and where correlation is the only thing that matters. New data tools are being released focused on correlation analysis which is the process of analysing data with little regard to the logical relationships and focus purely on data relationships.
A classic example of this is with Walmart. When they applied correlation analysis to their massive sets of data, they identified that sales of PopTarts increased in an area that had been issued with a hurricane warning. Now who would have hypothesised that relationship? This insight was clearly “actionable” and so they monitored the weather and moved the product to more prominent positions and increased sales further.
Umm, so what is insight again?
As we’ve discussed, data is the raw product that when structured and organised becomes information. This information is useful as it is – but when we are able to extract something that may lead to competitive advantage – something novel and profound – then we are gaining insight. And this should be your ultimate aim with any and all of your information systems right now — actionable insight.
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You survived Hurricane Matthew: Now what?
(CNN)If you are in the areas where hundreds of thousands of people have lost power because of Hurricane Matthew, these tips are for you. Safety tips Return to your home only when local officials say it is safe.Drive only when necessary and watch for hazards such as debris or standing water. Avoid drinking or preparing foods with tap water until you are sure it's not contaminated.Watch the food in your fridge. Here are some guidelines on when to toss it. Use flashlights in the dark. Do not use candles, which could pose a fire risk. Watch out for debris and keep away from loose or dangling power lines and report them to the power company. Avoid walking through floodwater. Check your home for damage. Take pictures for insurance purposes.Try to distract your kids and give them some extra attention. If there's no power, make it an adventure. Your kids sense your mood. Don't let your pets drink floodwater, which may be contaminated.Keep a close eye on your animals. They can step on sharp debris or eat items that could make them sick. How to get internet access when the power is out Use your smart phone as an internet hotspot to allow other devices to connect.Save your phone's battery. Turn your brightness down, close unused apps and try power-saving mode. The Federal Communications Commission offers these helpful hints on how to communicate during a storm. Where to get important information and updates Check the CNN app for constant updates and live coverage.Listen to a NOAA Weather Radio. Watch or listen to your local news. National Hurricane Center audio briefings. Let friends and family know you're safe Text or use social media tools, such as Twitter or update your status using Facebook's Safety Check feature. Register on the American Red Cross Safe and Well website: RedCross.org/SafeandWell, or call 1-866-GET-INFO if internet is unavailable. For more advice on what to do after a hurricane, view this Red Cross checklist or this info from Ready.gov. If you're OK, think of others Check on your neighbors, the elderly and those in need.A shelter in your area might need volunteers. Bring spare power strips with you in case others need them.If you are a lucky one with the power still on, let people know and invite them to come over and charge up.Not in the storm's path but want to help? CNN's Impact Your World shares how to help those affected. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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John Wren
John Wren (3 April 1871 – 26 October 1953) was an Australian bookmaker, boxing and wrestling promoter, Irish nationalist, land speculator, newspaper owner, racecourse and racehorse owner, soldier, pro-conscriptionist and theatre owner. He became a legendary figure thanks mainly to a fictionalised account of his life in Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory, which was also made into a television series. After his death in 1953, Wren was buried at Boroondara Cemetery in Kew, Victoria.
Early life
John Wren was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, on 3 April 1871. He was the third son of Irish immigrants John Wren Snr., a labourer, and Margaret, née Nester. He left school at the age of 12 and worked in a woodyard and as a boot clicker, while supplementing his wage through various gambling activities. Losing his job in the 1890s depression, he commenced a successful horse-racing gambling venture at his Johnston Street totalizator, which eventually earned him £20,000 per year (A$2,646,000 in 2021 terms).
In 1916, he took over J. L. Garvan's Stadia Ltd, of which Snowy Baker was general manager, and parlayed it into a major business — Stadiums Pty Ltd.
Power Without Glory
In 1950, the novelist Frank Hardy portrayed Wren negatively in his self-published 1950 novel Power Without Glory, in which Wren appears thinly disguised as a character called John West. The book also included characters based on other important Victorian and Australian political figures, including Victorian Premier Sir Thomas Bent and Prime Minister James Scullin, as well as Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix. Due to the fact that Hardy was a member of the Communist Party of Australia, the book, and its criticisms of Wren, became politically embroiled in the anti-communist culture of the Cold War. John Wren's wife, Ellen Wren, sued Hardy for libel after the book's publication.
Other books about John Wren
Frank Brennan's son, the author Niall Brennan, gave a favourable portrayal of Wren in his 1971 biography, John Wren: Gambler. Hugh Buggy's The Real John Wren (1977), with a Foreword by Arthur Calwell, Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Deputy Leader, was also very favourable. An alternative account was given by Chris McConville's article in Labor History, "John Wren: Machine Boss" (1981). John Wren: A Life Reconsidered by James Griffin (2004) presented an essentially positive view of Wren's life and career.
Family
Wren's granddaughter Gabrielle Pizzi also achieved renown as an art dealer credited with raising the profile of Aboriginal art. Others of his children had troubled lives. His son Anthony committed suicide after being disinherited following an argument with Wren, while his daughter-in-law Nora and grandchildren only received a meagre allowance. When another of Wren's grandchildren, Susan Wardlaw, died, her two brothers had her buried without notifying her husband Greg, who was then given 24 hours to leave the family home, while another of Wren's daughters, Angela, purportedly died of malnutrition when she was 39, leaving an estate worth £97,000.
Collingwood benefactor
Wren was well known for supporting exemplary Collingwood players in the VFL's pre-professionalised era. While players were paid a per-game salary, the amount was meagre until the late 20th century when the sport became professionalised. To compensate for this, Wren was known to send monetary gifts to players who performed well, often paying ten to twenty times the normal game salary to certain Collingwood players. Among the beneficiaries included Collingwood legend Gordon Coventry after he scored a then-record 16 goals in a game in 1929; however, in his case, League Laws prevented him from doing this, so he exploited a loophole by gifting A£50 to Coventry's wife (A$ in terms) to buy a suite of furniture.
In 1952, Wren donated A£500 (A$ in terms), which was to be distributed among Collingwood players.
In another example of generosity, Lou Richards recalled on The Sunday Footy Show a time when Wren asked Richards how much he was paid the week prior. When Richards replied "a pound note, sir", Wren gifted Richards A£20 (potentially up to A$ in terms, as the year this happened was not clarified). | WIKI |
Will the name “North Macedonia” catch on? - Daily chart
WHAT’S IN a name? On January 25th, after months of negotiations, lawmakers in Greece voted to recognise its northern neighbour Macedonia as “North Macedonia”, thus ending a 28-year-old dispute with the tiny Balkan nation and paving the way for NATO and EU membership. The outcome was hailed as a historic achievement. But Macedonia is not the only country to have changed its name lately. In 2016, the Czech Republic adopted “Czechia” as the official short version of its name. And last year the African kingdom of Swaziland was renamed “eSwatini” by its all-powerful monarch. Countries change their names for a variety of historical and cultural reasons. In Macedonia’s case, the goal was to settle rival claims over a name that dates back to the ancient kingdom of Alexander the Great. For eSwatini, the aim was to move beyond its colonial past and assert an African identity—it was one of the handful of African countries that chose to keep the name used by its European colonisers after gaining independence. Czechia’s objective was far more practical. The country hopes that the snappier name will be better suited for informal use, in the same way that “Slovakia” is used for Slovak Republic. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. Alas, new country names can be slow to catch on. A look back at some of the most significant such changes of the 20th century using data from Google Ngram Viewer, a database of over 5m printed works, suggests it can take years for a new name to gain widespread usage. After the former British colony of Ceylon adopted the name Sri Lanka in 1972, it took nearly a decade for the new name to gain more literary mentions than its predecessor. The name Zimbabwe surpassed Rhodesia in about half that time. When Burma’s ruling military junta changed the country’s name to Myanmar in 1989, some foreign governments were reluctant to acknowledge the change, on the basis that doing so could be seen as granting the regime legitimacy. By 2008, the name Burma was still being mentioned in English-language books more than twice as often as Myanmar. Whether North Macedonia will win over the public remains to be seen. The name has yet to be submitted to the United Nations’ database of geographical names, and Google Maps still labels the country “Macedonia (FYROM)”. Change takes time. But within a few years the dispute over the name of the kingdom once ruled by Alexander the Great may finally have passed into history. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
CNN's Alisyn Camerota stumps spelling bee champs with her first name | TheHill
CNN "New Day" anchor Alisyn Camerota stumped the winners of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee when she asked them to spell her first name during a segment Friday. After conferring for more than 30 seconds, the eight co-champions answered with: “A-L-Y-S-S-O-N.” "That's a good guess. That's a really good guess," Camerota replied. “Unfortunately, that is incorrect," added her co-anchor, John Berman. “Wait. What?” some in the group replied, as Camerota held back laughter. “They broke the dictionary. But we broke the Spelling Bee champions with the name Alisyn Camerota,” Berman noted before congratulating the champs. "I am awe of what you do," he said. The Scripps National Spelling Bee made history on Thursday night after organizers were forced to declare eight co-champions. Each of them had successfully spelled every word correctly after 17 rounds. The words included auslaut, erysipelas, bougainvillea, and pendeloque. Each of the Scripps winners will take home $50,000. View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Ernie Roderick
Ernie Roderick (25 January 1914 – 5 June 1986) was a British boxer who was British champion at both welterweight and middleweight, and European champion at welterweight and was a World title challenger losing on points against Henry Armstrong who BoxRec recognised as the second greatest pound for pound boxer of all time.
Career
Born in Liverpool. Ernie Roderick took up boxing as a schoolboy and began his professional boxing career in 1931. Defeated only once in his first two years as a pro, Roderick travelled to Australia in 1933, where he drew with Bobby Blay and suffered defeats to Bobby Delaney and Young Pluto. Back in the UK, he lost seven fights in 1934, but he returned to form in 1935, winning seventeen and drawing one fight in an unbeaten run which included victories over Len "Tiger" Smith and Pat Butler. His run of form continued between 1936 and 1938, beating Jake Kilrain twice among many others.
In March 1939 he faced Kilrain for the British welterweight title, winning via a seventh-round knockout. He fought Henry Armstrong for the World welterweight title in May 1939, losing on points.
He defended the British title successfully in July 1940 against Norman Snow. In September 1940 Roderick joined the Royal Air Force. The following year beat Jack Kid Berg on points at the Royal Albert Hall. He made his second successful defence of his British title in September 1941 against Arthur Danahar.
In May 1945 he fought Vince Hawkins for the British middleweight title vacated by Jock McAvoy; Roderick won on points to hold two British titles simultaneously.
In June 1946 he fought Omar Kouidri for the vacant European welterweight title, winning on points over 15 rounds. He defended his British middleweight title in a rematch with Hawkins in October 1946, this time losing a points decision.
In February 1947 he lost his European title to Robert Villemain in Paris. He successfully defended his British welterweight title twice later that year, against Gwyn Williams and Eric Boon. He lost the title in November 1948 to Henry Hall on points, ending a nine-year reign as champion. Roderick formally protested the decision, but to no avail. He fought Eddie Thomas in September 1949 in a final eliminator to challenge for the title once again, but lost a points decision. He fought only once more, a defeat to Cliff Curvis in February 1950, before retiring from the sport. | WIKI |
Sunshine And Improved Sleep Quality
Sunshine And Improved Sleep Quality
How Sunshine Can Improve Sleep Quality
If you are one of the many that have trouble sleeping, the solution might be in a place you did not expect, the morning sun. Morning sunlight, how much and when you get it, actually has a significant impact on your sleep quality.
The first hour in the morning can make or break whether you sleep soundly at the end of the day. For a good night's sleep, you should decrease your light exposure in the evening. However, in the morning you want to aim to do the opposite and ensure you get into a brightly lit environment.
Sunshine And Improved Sleep Quality
• Daylight Suppresses Melatonin. Melatonin is a good thing at night when we want to sleep, but when the alarm goes off in the morning, melatonin is not the thing we want coursing through our bodies. Even though we typically think of the sun as yellow, the light it emits is full-spectrum light. It incorporates those same bright blue wavelengths of light your technical devices have, but in a more powerful form. By exposing your eyes to this bright light in the morning, you signal to your brain that it’s time to suppress melatonin production. In response to this light exposure, your brain will increase cortisol production.
• Kickstart Your Day. Cortisol and melatonin work in opposites, when one is high, the other is low. Cortisol and melatonin play a huge part in determining your circadian rhythms and the quality of sleep in general. Their roles are entirely different. Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland in the brain, melatonin helps control sleep-wake cycles. Cortisol is popularly known as a stress hormone and though too-high levels of cortisol can be dangerous, in healthy amounts cortisol is good for you as it is the activating hormone energizes your body and prepares you to meet the day.
• Soak Up The Warmth. Another great reason to up and into the sunshine in the morning is to soak up those warming infrared rays to help signal to the body that day has come. Equally as important as light cycles are for our sleep, temperature cycles are just as powerful. As your body prepares you to wake up, cortisol gets released, energizing your body and warming up your core body temperature. Your temperature usually reaches its highest point during the day before it begins to fall again in the evening, thus signaling to your brain that it’s time to start falling asleep.
• Sunshine And Serotonin. If you were to expose your body, face, and eyes to sunlight your body will increase its production of Serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates everything from mood to sleep. Serotonin is also a precursor to Melatonin. Melatonin is needed for deep restorative sleep. By getting some sun in the morning, it will ramp up production of Serotonin. In turn, after 12 hours or so, this serotonin is then converted into melatonin which helps us sleep later that night.
The Takeaway
If you struggle to sleep well at night, try regularly exposing yourself to morning sunlight. You may find that your sleep and daytime function improve significantly, and that can have a big positive impact on your life.
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Mega1284P-Xplained
Support for the Mega1284P-Xplained board. More...
Detailed Description
Support for the Mega1284P-Xplained board.
General information
The Mega1284P-Xplained is an evaluation kit by Atmel (now Microchip) for their ATmega1284P microcontroller.
Flash the board
You can change the fuses and flash the board using an SPI ISP programmer such as the Bus Pirate, or using a JTAG programmer such as the Atmel-ICE with a JTAG adapter.
If using the Atmel-ICE as a JTAG programmer, connect the adapter with the square pin on the adapter connecting with the square pin on the board.
1. First, make sure the default fuse settings are correct.
WARNING: setting the fuses incorrectly can brick your board!
If using the Buspirate:
avrdude -p m1284p -c buspirate -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U efuse:w:0xFF:m
avrdude -p m1284p -c buspirate -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U hfuse:w:0x99:m
avrdude -p m1284p -c buspirate -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U lfuse:w:0xE2:m
If using the Atmel-ICE:
avrdude -p m1284p -c atmelice -U efuse:w:0xFF:m
avrdude -p m1284p -c atmelice -U hfuse:w:0x99:m
avrdude -p m1284p -c atmelice -U lfuse:w:0xE2:m
2. After the fuses are set, flash the application.
If using the Buspirate:
BOARD=mega-xplained make -C examples/hello-world flash
If using the Atmel-ICE:
BOARD=mega-xplained PROGRAMMER=atmelice make -C examples/hello-world flash
Accessing STDIO via UART
STDIO can be accessed through the USB connector. The on-board UART-USB adapter is not affected by flashing. It shows up as /dev/ttyACM0 on Linux. It will be used automatically with make term:
BOARD=mega-xplained make -C examples/hello-world term
Pin Change Interrupts
More pins can be used for hardware interrupts using the Pin Change Interrupt feature. See ATmega common for details.
Files
file adc_params.h
Board specific configuration of direct mapped ADC.
file gpio_params.h
Configuration of SAUL mapped GPIO pins.
file mega-xplained_pinmap.h
Mapping from MCU pins to Mega Xplained pins.
file periph_conf.h
Common configuration of MCU periphery for Mega Xplained.
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Sekolah Menengah Atas Kristen Penabur Gading Serpong
Sekolah Menengah Atas Kristen PENABUR Gading Serpong, often shortened to SMAK PENABUR Gading Serpong (or AGS), is a Christian private high school located in Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. It is organized by the BPK PENABUR Jakarta Foundation. The school provides tenth to twelfth grade programs as implemented nationally in Indonesia. The school has two programs, one being the regular senior high school program and the other the Brilliant Class program for academically gifted children. This school used to be known as SMAK 6 PENABUR but the name was changed because its location is outside Jakarta.
The school is located within the same complex as SMPK Penabur Gading Serpong, SDK Penabur Gading Serpong, and TKK Penabur Gading Serpong.
Courses offered
There are 2 majors available: science and social. Students who picked science as their major has to pick all Science lessons, Compulsory lessons, and 1 Art lesson. Socials students therefore has to pick all Social lessons, Compulsory lessons, and also 1 Art lesson. In Grade 10, Students are required to pick 1 Language lesson and 1 lesson from the opposing major, while Grade 11 and 12 students are required to choose one out of the two. As of August 2016, the school uses the 2013 curriculum standard deployed by the Indonesian Minister of Education.
Brilliant Class
The Brilliant Class is a program for gifted students in science. They are taught in accordance with both the Indonesian national curriculum and the University of Cambridge International Examinations curriculum. They are trained to compete in national and international competitions, especially in science majors. The teachers for the Brilliant Class typically have higher credential than those that teach the regular classes ranging from lecturers at the University of Indonesia and science olympiad trainers. Non-science subjects are still taught by regular teachers.
Achievements
Most of the achievements of the school come from the Brilliant Class' students as they are specially trained. The school's students have achieved medals in the National Science Olympiad as well as the International Science Olympiad. However, there are also non academic achievers such as Maria Felicia Gunawan, who in 2015 was in charge of carrying the Indonesian Flag at the National Palace on Indonesia's independence day. | WIKI |
Hiram J. Brendlinger
Hiram J. Brendlinger (April 15, 1825 – May 14, 1894) was an American politician. He served as Mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1864 to 1865.
Biography
He was born in 1825 in New Hanover, Pennsylvania to John Brendlinger and Theresa Edmonia Herman. He served as Mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1864 to 1865. He died on May 14, 1894. | WIKI |
Understanding the Potential Benefits and Convenience of CBD Capsules
Through the ages, the cannabis plant provided our ancestors with a source of fabrics, food and herbal medicine. The evidence of the historical usage of the cannabis plants, marijuana, and hemp, has been recorded throughout the continents and cultures globally. Cannabis use is deeply rooted in the traditions of herbal medicine. Centuries passed before anybody could understand why cannabis had the potential to alleviate a lot of apparently unrelated symptoms.
With time, marijuana use dropped from favor. Many nations started restricting marijuana use beginning in 1906; prohibition started in the 1920s. While the original goal might have been curtailing marijuana use, once it was found that hemp was also various cannabis saliva, both plants were both prohibited, although hemp was nevertheless considered a valued resource.
The Unexpected Outcomes of Government Intervention
In the 1980s, our government spent tens of thousands of millions of dollars to show that marijuana use caused brain damage. When these suspicions were proven false, the Reagan administration funded several studies leading scientists into a pretty surprising discovery.
While exploring the effects of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the cannabis responsible for marijuana’s psychoactive properties, researchers found a fascinating system of hormones and receptors which enable your body and mind to communicate.
While the study of the system remains in its infancy, science has found this system is, what this system does and how it possibly interacts with cannabis (Private Label CBD Capsules). This recently discovered communication process is named after the plant which led researchers down the path for their discoveries. It’s called the endocrinologist system.
The Marvels of Your Endocrinologist System Revealed
You’ve got endocannabinoid receptors throughout the entire body. These receptors will need to be activated by neurotransmitters. This constant communication system is responsible for the maintenance and function of almost every system in your body, for example:
• Social behavior, mood management, and stress responses
Sleep cycle regulation
Inflammation and pain perception
The features of the Immune system
Learning and memory
The circulatory system
Digestive procedures and appetite
Thermal control and metabolism
Muscle function and protectionist
Reproductive procedures
The Endocrinologist Messengers
Now that you understand what your endocannabinoid system does, you might have to learn how it works before you can see the possible benefits of supplementing your body’s communication system. The receptors throughout the body require a messenger (neurotransmitter) to unlock the receptor and create a response. There are two different types of messengers.
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Agyneta milleri
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Other Presidential Documents Presidential Determination No. 2007-22 of June 5, 2007 Partia] Resumption of Trave] to Lebanon To Promote Peace and Security Memorandum for the Secretazy of Transportation /]y virtue of the authority vested in me by 49 U.S.C. 40106(b) and for the purpose of promoting peace and security in Lebanon, I hereby determine that the prohibition of transportation services to Lebanon estab]ished by Presidentia] Determination 85-14 of Ju]y \177, \177985, as amended by Presi- dentia] Determination 92-4\177 of August \1777, 1992, and Presidentia] Deter- mination 98-32 of June \1779, \177998, is hereby further amended to permit U.S. air carriers under contract to the United States Government to engage in foreign air transportation to and from Lebanon of passengers, including U.S. and non-U.S. citizens, and their accompanying baggage; of goods for humanitarian purposes; and of any other cargo or material. All other prohibitions set forth in the above-referenced Presidential deter- minations remain in effect. You are directed to implement this determination immediately. You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Fed- eral Register. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, June 5, 2007. Memorandum of June 12, 2007 Assignment of Certain Reporting Functions of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 Memorandum for the Secretmy of State[,] Secretmy of Defense[, and the] Director of National Intelligence By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 30\177 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby assign to the Secretary of State the functions of the Presi- dent under sections \17721\177(b), \1772\1773(b), and \177226(c) of the John Warner Na- tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109- 364). In the performance of such functions, the Secretary of State should coordi- nate with the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of other departments and agencies, as appropriate. 337
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The World’s Most Dedicated All-Natural Perfumer
On Beauty ‘‘OUR TIME IS MORE impoverished, aromatically, than it’s ever been in the past,’’ Mandy Aftel told me last April. We were sitting beneath a fig tree in her Berkeley backyard, at the edge of a rose garden whose flowers had been chosen specifically for their pungent fragrances. The obscenely vibrant blossoms spread to the edge of the property, stopping only at the fence that separates her yard from Chez Panisse, the famous California-cuisine-catalyzing restaurant. Aftel, 67, was sneezing a bit and struggling to speak through snags of dryness in her throat. ‘‘It makes me sad,’’ she said, referring to her spring cold. ‘‘I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of stuff.’’ That ‘‘stuff’’ includes antique ambergris, 100-year-old cassia bark, rose oil from Isparta, vanilla absolute imported from Madagascar via water bottle, iris-root butter, Tahitian gardenia and deer musk, all of which are stored only a few yards away inside Aftel’s two-story Craftsman house, where she lives with her husband and business partner, Foster Curry. Zoological prints hang on the walls (sperm whales, civets); crumbling 19th-century aromatics books line the shelves. Sunlight rakes through the windows, refracting through dozens of amber bottles and dappling the floor with a fawn-printed glow. It’s here that she runs Aftelier Perfumes, a tiny company celebrated with cultish enthusiasm by the obsessive devotees of natural fragrances. ‘‘Most people,’’ she continued, before we headed indoors, ‘‘have only ever had the olfactory equivalent of McDonald’s.’’ THE NATURAL INGREDIENTS that Aftel sources and studies are among the world’s oldest luxuries, scents that have been prized for millennia. They come with exotic provenances and marvelous histories. That she would find them seductive is no surprise. What’s rarer than Aftel’s ardor for the ingredients is her steadfast loyalty to them and her refusal to supplement essences of the natural world with the man-made synthetics that have dominated the perfume industry for over a century. Brought to the market in the late 1800s, synthesized products are present in every perfume you’ve ever heard of. Unlike a natural essence, which is made up of dozens of molecules (lemon oil contains approximately 20 different molecules; rose oil has more than 100), a synthetic aromachemical is often just a single molecule, which, according to Aftel, makes its scent less complex. Fragrance chemistry began in 1868 with artificially produced coumarin, the main component of tonka beans, which have a nutty, tobacco-like smell. The following year, scientists artificially produced heliotropin, which smells a bit like baby powder and is found in vanilla. Later, chemists figured out how to mimic the scent of ‘‘mute flowers’’ such as lily of the valley and lilac, whose fragrance cannot be extracted because they don’t produce enough oil. ‘‘Without synthetics,’’ says By Kilian founder Kilian Hennessy, ‘‘you don’t have Shalimar, you don’t have L’Air du Temps, you don’t have Chanel No. 5.’’ To demonstrate the differences between synthetics and naturals, Aftel put before me three tiny bottles of jasmine: synthetic, natural and natural aged. I inhaled them in that order, sniffing a swatch of wool between each to offset nasal fatigue, and it was like seeing a graphite sketch transform into a value study that in turn became a fully finished portrait. Had I been given only the synthetic, I would have found it divine — syrupy, sweet, like something I’d like to lap up — but the natural jasmine and even more so the aged natural jasmine made the synthetic seem, in retrospect, simplistic, shallow, somehow relegated only to the front of my nose as opposed to the deep recesses of my throat and tongue. After a series of unbecoming groans and unconscious gestures of revelation, I said as much to Aftel. She nodded, her eyebrows raised into twin arches of I-told-you-so amusement. Like a chef who only uses ingredients grown within 100 miles of her kitchen, a large part of Aftel’s pride and satisfaction is derived from the sacrifice that comes out of self-imposed constraints. That those constraints result in a limited but more exuberant lexicon is more than just a pleasant side effect; it’s arguably what Aftel’s business is all about — exposing the uninitiated to the world’s most precious products and talking about them. But the complexity afforded by natural essences — which often transform across the duration of even a single inhale, differ from supplier to supplier and change, like wine, from year to year — comes with a cost. Their sillage (the industry term for a scent’s trail) is weak; perfume made without synthetics tends to fade quickly on the skin, becoming perceptible only to the nose-to-the-wrist wearer. And by refusing to work with synthetics, perfumers limit their options for ingredients tremendously. ‘‘By four-fifths,’’ estimates Francis Kurkdjian, a French perfumer famous for creations including Le Male by Jean Paul Gaultier, My Burberry and Narciso for Her. Like many others, Kurkdjian sees abstaining from synthetics as an arbitrary kind of atavism. ‘‘Synthetics bring new colors to the palette, and I don’t think there’s any reason to go back,’’ he says. Aftel disagrees. Though synthetics can be made into scents that don’t already exist in the world, she prefers the ephemeral qualities of natural fragrance, the intimacy of a scent that only the wearer and those in extremely close proximity can smell. ‘‘The things that make a perfume last all day are also what make it radiate in that obnoxious way for everyone else,’’ she said. ‘‘I think that’s actually kind of unsensual.’’ EACH CHRISTMAS, Aftel opens her house up for three days and invites people — many who come from out of state — to do their holiday shopping. Otherwise, Aftelier is online-only. She currently stocks 18 scents, which sell for $180 to $400 per quarter ounce — up to three times the price of department-store perfume. Leonard Cohen is a fan, as is Lucinda Williams. Aftel compares perfumery to working with fine jewels, in the sense that she is making a luxury product from valuable and esoterically sourced materials. ‘‘You have to love this stuff. Nobody needs perfume. It’s not like it’s the cure for cancer.’’ She sees herself as a champion of an underloved dimension of the world, a human conduit leading her clients to an aesthetic awareness they didn’t even know they were missing. Eighteenth- and 19th-century European philosophers who argued that sight was the perception most integral to reason are in large part to blame for the West’s demotion of smell to the lowest rung in the hierarchy of the senses. In other times and places, it’s been central to culture: Musk was added to the mortar of Byzantine mosques to make the walls themselves aromatic; the aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal organized their calendar year according to the fragrances emitted by flowers. ‘‘Your sense of smell is connected to so much of what makes life pleasurable: eating, gardening, drinking,’’ Aftel said. ‘‘It’s a shame that the world of larger commercial perfume is the biggest experience people have with these very, very beautiful smells.’’ Though giant fragrance conglomerates including LVMH and its company Sephora have approached Aftel, she’s always turned them down. Aftel buys essences in small quantities, often from suppliers who don’t have enough of any one thing to permit more than a few hundred bottles’ worth of fragrance, and she throws out batches that aren’t precisely what she wants. ‘‘I’m in a position to use the absolute best ingredients,’’ she told me. And the best isn’t cheap. High-quality oud is $44,000 per kilo; boronia is $14,000 per kilo. She has one fragrance in which four ingredients each cost in excess of $10,000 per kilo. Mainstream perfume purveyors typically allot much less (about $60 to $120 per kilo) for the ‘‘juice’’ and spend more on advertising and packaging and distribution. Meanwhile, Aftel has almost no overhead. She has the freedom to spend her days sourcing new scents and finding more vivid versions of ones she already owns, and teaching small workshops in perfume-making out of her house. She writes books, and is in the early stages of converting her garage into a scent museum. Aftel has an unusual biography for a perfumer. Born in Detroit to upper-middle-class Jewish professionals, she associates her childhood with the artificial aromas of suburbia: asphalt, detergent, chlorinated swimming pools. She attended the University of Michigan, married her first husband, moved to Berkeley, took up weaving and, as she put it, ‘‘kind of fell into writing a book about Brian Jones.’’ She kind of fell into perfume, too. She’d been working as a therapist to artists and writers for 30 years when she began writing a novel and decided to make the protagonist a perfumer. ‘‘I have no idea why,’’ she said. ‘‘I thought it sounded sexy and interesting; I didn’t really think about it.’’ In researching the book, she became entranced by scents, took a class in making solid perfume, and within a few short years quit her therapy practice and started a natural-fragrance line with a friend that was subsequently sold at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. The company dissolved, but Aftel continued concocting scents, and also began writing about them. A formally trained ‘‘nose,’’ which Aftel is not, typically apprentices with established perfumers and undergoes courses in organic chemistry; traditionally, many noses spent time in Grasse, France, but the industry no longer has a precise epicenter — there are creative offices in New York and Paris, as well as labs in New Jersey. Aftel, however, is a self-taught nose whose entire schooling has taken place in her home. A FEW HOURS into our conversation, Aftel led me to her organ, the industry term for a perfumer’s workstation. Aftel’s is made from Douglas fir, custom-built and lined with hundreds of vials. She thinks of the oils, she said, ‘‘as friends.’’ Top notes, which are the light-colored distilled essential oils that reach your nose first, take up five shelves on the left. By and large, they’re the least expensive of her ingredients: citruses, herbs, light woods. The middle notes, which are stored in the center of the organ, last about two to four hours on the skin. They’re darker in color and consist of the spices and heavier florals. The right wing of the organ is devoted to the thick, sometimes even resinous base notes. These are the precious, famous things — patchouli, sandalwood, oud, myrrh. Aftel sat me down and instructed me to take off my glasses. It was time to make me a perfume. ‘‘You need to respond to the materials in a way that’s 100 percent yes,’’ she said. ‘‘Do not be polite.’’ I nodded. We began with citruses, the only essences stored not on the organ’s shelves, but in a fridge. She put a tiny bottle in front of my nose. It smelled like. . . citrus: zingy and fresh and immediately identifiable as sour if eaten. I would have liked to eat it, but I did not want it on my body. I shook my head no. Aftel gave me another. If it had been the first I would have described it, too, as merely ‘‘citrus,’’ but now it was wildly different. Again: edible but not wearable. She repeated this again and again; already my palate was becoming more sophisticated. I finally gave an enthusiastic yes to an oil that smelled like tea; it was somehow deeper than the others, less abrasive. ‘‘This is yellow mandarin,’’ Aftel said. ‘‘Yellow mandarin is like a tangerine, but it’s got a very floral back note to it.’’ She dipped a paper strip and planted it into a book with an accordionlike structure that served as a holder. We were done with the citruses. ‘‘This smells piney to me,’’ I said, upon receiving the next scent. ‘‘It’s a wood,’’ she confirmed. I disliked it, and told her so, and we moved on without discussing what it was. This volleying continued for another hour. She gave me blood cedar and pencil shavings from Virginia. There was an olive extract and something I thought was grapefruit but was really juniper berry. Saffron, mushrooms, cranberry absolute, tarragon, petrified rock-badger poop, partially crystallized sarsaparilla, castoreum (a beaver secretion), roasted seashells, orris butter (‘‘it can go toward old lady in a hot second’’), something that smelled like the reptile room at the Bronx Zoo. Strangely, I couldn’t identify the smell of coffee blindly, and I had to swab my nose with rubbing alcohol after somehow dunking it in lavender oil. By the end, I had in front of me a fan of dozens of glistening paper strips, including some dipped in oak moss (the smell of lichen, like a wet forest), jasmine, siam wood, the ‘‘very expensive and very hard to get 4-vinylguaiacol’’ (a leathery derivative of guaiac wood, once used to treat syphilis), and, my favorite, indole, which I’m ashamed to report that, though present in certain flowers, also appears in human feces. Aftel separated the strips into top notes, middle notes and base notes, and asked me to organize them on the organ from favorite to least, so she could record my ranking. I left feeling dizzy and a bit drunk. A few weeks later, a UPS package arrived. Nestled inside a padded foil envelope was, as a heavy ecru card indicated, ‘‘Alice’s Perfume,’’ in several forms: bottles large and small, a beeswax solid. I sat on the floor, tore away the paisley tissue paper, freed the largest of the bottles, unscrewed the cap and inhaled. It was almost nauseatingly rich; my throat contracted, and my eyes watered with pleasure. The fragrance was loamy, primeval, a tiny bit putrid. I’ve worn it nine months now, and each morning when I spray it on my wrists, I’m overcome with a feeling of awe at my own good fortune. I think of something Aftel said under that fig tree, that ‘‘luxury is sold as general, but it’s actually very specific.’’ It’s true: What could be more luxuriously specific than being granted access to a pleasure you had never even thought to pursue? | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashaneesse and Nasharin Holderness
The result of the debate was delete. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 05:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Ashaneesse and Nasharin Holderness
Nn baby-actors. Have not appeared in anything since 1995, only roles was as babies/props. Bjelleklang - talk 22:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, nn, twincruft. Didn't we delete, like dozens of these a little while back? See for lots more. · rodii · 23:40, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete them and all the ones like them. Sorry Rodii, we've barely begun to scratch the surface. Like the link you put up, check the edit history on the creator of any of the baby articles and see how many others were created by the same person at the same time. Some people apparently think Wikipedia is a bulletin board for baby "actors". Fan1967 00:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. Not notable. DarthVad e r 02:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. --F a ng Aili 說嗎? 03:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
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BonoboPersist
BonoboPersist — Interface for anything that can save / load itself.
Synopsis
BonoboPersist;
BonoboPersistClass;
Bonobo_Persist_ContentTypeList * bonobo_persist_generate_content_types
(int num,
...);
BonoboPersist * bonobo_persist_construct (BonoboPersist *persist,
const gchar *iid);
void bonobo_persist_set_dirty (BonoboPersist *persist,
gboolean dirty);
Object Hierarchy
GObject
+----BonoboObject
+----BonoboPersist
+----BonoboPersistStream
+----BonoboPersistFile
Description
BonoboPersist is an abstract base class that is useless by itself. It implements some methods to handle content type querying for use by the derived BonoboPersistStream interface.
Details
BonoboPersist
typedef struct _BonoboPersist BonoboPersist;
BonoboPersistClass
typedef struct {
BonoboObjectClass parent_class;
POA_Bonobo_Persist__epv epv;
Bonobo_Persist_ContentTypeList *
(*get_content_types) (BonoboPersist *persist,
CORBA_Environment *ev);
} BonoboPersistClass;
bonobo_persist_generate_content_types ()
Bonobo_Persist_ContentTypeList * bonobo_persist_generate_content_types
(int num,
...);
num :
the number of content types specified
... :
the content types (as strings)
Returns :
a ContentTypeList containing the given ContentTypes
bonobo_persist_construct ()
BonoboPersist * bonobo_persist_construct (BonoboPersist *persist,
const gchar *iid);
Initializes the BonoboPersist object. You should only use this method in derived implementations, because a BonoboPersist instance doesn't make a lot of sense, but the iid private field has to be set at construction time.
persist :
A BonoboPersist
iid :
OAF IID of the object this interface is aggregated to
Returns :
the BonoboPersist.
bonobo_persist_set_dirty ()
void bonobo_persist_set_dirty (BonoboPersist *persist,
gboolean dirty);
Sets the dirty status of the interface which is reported via the isDirty method.
persist :
A BonoboPersist
dirty :
A flag indicating the dirty status of this object.
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RNLB Keith Anderson (ON 1106)
RNLB Keith Anderson was an Arun-class lifeboat which served at Newhaven Lifeboat Station for six years, in the relief fleet for one year and finished her RNLI career in Hartlepool in 2003 after serving for three years.
History
The Keith Anderson was ordered to replace the Waveney-class at Newhaven which had served at the station for eight years. This important East Sussex station needed an improved class of lifeboat to enhance the stations capabilities. The Arun-class was considered to be suitable for this stations mooring facilities on the River Ouse which runs through the Port of Newhaven. She was laid down by VT Halmatic, and was sent to William Osborne in Littlehampton to be fitted out. During spring 1985 she underwent her self-righting trials following which all her electronic equipment was installed and commissioned. She was then sent to the RNLI depot at Poole.
The lifeboat, which cost £394,928, was funded by a gift from Esma Anderson of Grosvenor Square in London in memory of her husband Keith Anderson, after whom the boat was named. The Keith Anderson arrived in Newhaven on 9 August 1985. The official naming service took place in Newhaven on 27 May 1986 when Anderson officially handed over and named the lifeboat. By the time of this ceremony the lifeboat had already been launched to service on 33 occasions and had been accredited with saving the lives of four people.
Relief fleet service
In October 1999 the Keith Anderson was transferred from Newhaven and was placed in the RNLI’s relief fleet at the RNLI depot at Poole. This was a short-lived arrangement as in October 2000, she was reassigned to be the Hartlepool lifeboat. She remained on that station for three years until 2003.
Disposal
Between 2003 and 2006 the Keith Anderson was placed in storage at the Poole Depot until a deal was negotiated by the RNLI to send three Arun-class lifeboat to China to join the China Ministry of Transport Rescue and Salvage organisation. She, along with her sisters were loaded aboard a container ship at Felixstowe and shipped to China. Once there the China Rescue & Salvage Bureau placed her on station at the city of Dalian, a seaport in the south of Liaoning province. She was renamed Huaying 395. | WIKI |
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USDA Food Pyramid Updated for Special Needs of Older Adults
Focus on better nutrition, fluid balance, and the importance of senior exercise
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The USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid, has been updated to meet the special nutritional needs of older adults.
The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults, developed by researchers at Tufts University, continues to emphasize nutrient-dense food choices and the importance of fluid balance, but adds additional guidance about forms of foods that could best meet the unique needs of older adults. The importance of regular physical activity is also stressed.
"Adults over the age of 70 have unique dietary needs," said Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc., director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts, in a news release.
"Older adults tend to need fewer calories as they age because they are not as physically active as they once were and their metabolic rates slow down. Nevertheless, their bodies still require the same or higher levels of nutrients for optimal health outcomes.
"The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults is intended to be used for general guidance in print form or as a supplement to the MyPyramid computer-based program."
In 2005, the USDA introduced MyPyramid, an Internet-based program capable of proiding dietary guidance that could be personalized, based on sex, age, height, weight, and exercise habits.
When MyPyramid was presented, Tufts researchers wondered about potential problems for older adults, including limited computer use and the adaptability of MyPyramid to print form. As a result, the Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults is available as a graphic print-out with icons that highlight the importance of the age-specific dietary and exercise recommendations.
Recommendations from the Modified USDA Food Pyramid for Older Adults
1. Whole, enriched, and fortified grains and cereals such as brown rice and 100% whole wheat bread
2. Bright-colored vegetables such as carrots and broccoli
3. Deep-colored fruit such as berries and melon
4. Low- and non-fat dairy products such as yogurt and low-lactose milk
5. Dry beans and nuts, fish, poultry, lean meat and eggs
6. Liquid vegetable oils and soft spreads low in saturated and trans fat
7. Fluid intake (water is best)
8. Physical activity such as walking, house work and yard work
Good Nutrition + Exercise: A Winning Combination
Added to the new pyramid is a foundation depicting physical activities characteristic of older adults, such as walking, yard work and swimming.
"Regular physical activity is linked to reduced risk of chronic disease and lower body weights. Government statistics indicate that obesity in adults 70 years and older has been increasing. Physical activity is one way to avoid weight gain in later years and its adverse consequences," Lichtenstein said. "In addition, regular physical activity can improve quality of life for older adults."
Increased Convenience Makes Good Nutrition Easier
The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults includes icons depicting packaged fruits and vegetables in addition to fresh. Bags of frozen pre-cut vegetables that can be resealed or single-serve portions of canned fruit may be easier to prepare and more cost-effective for people living alone.
"These choices are easier to prepare and have a longer shelf life, minimizing waste. Such factors are important to consider when arthritis kicks in or dark, cold days mean it is less likely someone will go out to replenish their refrigerator stores," Lichtenstein said.
Don't Forget the Fiber
"We continue to emphasize the importance of consuming adequate amounts of fiber rich foods, which means choosing mainly whole grain products rather than highly refined forms, and whole fruits and vegetables rather than juices. The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults is replete in good examples," Lichtenstein said. "Fresh, frozen, canned and dried fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of fiber, as well as a whole host of other nutrients. The increased availability of whole grain products lowers the barrier on making those choices."
Drink Water Throughout the Day
A row of glasses is the foundation for the Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults, stressing the importance of consuming fluids, especially during hot weather. "As we age there can be a disassociation between how hydrated our bodies are and how thirsty we feel," Lichtenstein explained. Foods and beverages with high water content, such as lettuce, vegetable juice and soups, are important contributors of fluid in an older person's diet.
Add Important Vitamin Supplements
A flag at the top of the Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults suggests that older adults may need certain supplemental nutrients, and should discuss this with their health care providers. "The need for calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B12 can increase as we age and some people find it difficult to get adequate amounts from food alone, especially when calorie needs go down," Lichtenstein said. "However, we continue to emphasize that the majority, if not all, of nutrients an older adult consumes should come from food rather than supplements."
Note: While the Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults provides general diet and exercise guidelines for older adults, each person's health and dietary requirements are unique and depend on factors including illness and medications.
Please check with your health care provider to determine the best diet and exercise program for your special needs.
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For Jill Abramson, who studied history at Harvard, the interplay of politics past and present is a longstanding preoccupation.
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When Jill Abramson was assigned to her first presidential campaign, in 1976, elections had become media spectacles. The first presidential debates since 1960 were held that year, and the candidates’ high and low moments were instantly assessed and picked apart, just as they were in 2012. But much else has changed. Today we inhabit the age of incessant, up-to-the-nanosecond polling, deep-pocketed PAC ads, round-the-clock “messaging” from candidates and their handlers, and — do we need to add? — blanket newspaper coverage, in print and online. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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TGF-beta signalling in the adult neurogenic niche promotes stem cell quiescence as well as generation of new neurons.
J. Cell. Mol. Med. 18, 1444-1459 (2014)
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Members of the transforming growth factor (TGF)- family govern a wide range of mechanisms in brain development and in the adult, in particular neuronal/glial differentiation and survival, but also cell cycle regulation and neural stem cell maintenance. This clearly created some discrepancies in the field with some studies favouring neuronal differentiation/survival of progenitors and others favouring cell cycle exit and neural stem cell quiescence/maintenance. Here, we provide a unifying hypothesis claiming that through its regulation of neural progenitor cell (NPC) proliferation, TGF- signalling might be responsible for (i) maintaining stem cells in a quiescent stage, and (ii) promoting survival of newly generated neurons and their functional differentiation. Therefore, we performed a detailed histological analysis of TGF-1 signalling in the hippocampal neural stem cell niche of a transgenic mouse that was previously generated to express TGF-1 under a tetracycline regulatable Ca-Calmodulin kinase promoter. We also analysed NPC proliferation, quiescence, neuronal survival and differentiation in relation to elevated levels of TGF-1 in vitro and in vivo conditions. Finally, we performed a gene expression profiling to identify the targets of TGF-1 signalling in adult NPCs. The results demonstrate that TGF-1 promotes stem cell quiescence on one side, but also neuronal survival on the other side. Thus, considering the elevated levels of TGF-1 in ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, TGF-1 signalling presents a molecular target for future interventions in such conditions.
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Schlagwörter Tgf-1 ; Smad2 ; Stem Cells ; Cell Cycle ; Doublecortin ; Differentiation; Growth-factor-beta; Central-nervous-system; Neural Progenitor Cells; Transforming Growth-factor-beta-1; Transgenic Mice; Hippocampal Neurogenesis; Subventricular Zone; Alzheimers-disease; Mouse-brain; Tgf-beta-1
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Quellenangaben Band: 18, Heft: 7, Seiten: 1444-1459 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Blackwell
Verlagsort Hoboken
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Consumer Sector Update for 11/05/2021: PTON, DKNG, SHAK, XLP, XLY
Consumer stocks were advancing premarket Friday. The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF (XLP) was up 0.21% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF (XLY) was gaining 0.64% recently.
Peloton Interactive (PTON) was retreating more than 34% as it swung to a fiscal Q1 loss of $1.25 per share, compared with a net profit of $0.20 per share for the same period in 2020.
DraftKings (DKNG) was more than 4% lower after reporting that its Q3 loss widened to $1.35 per diluted share from a year-ago loss of $1.11 per diluted share. The consensus estimate of analysts polled by Capital IQ was for a loss of $1.06 per share.
Shake Shack (SHAK) was rallying past 11% after it reported a net loss of $0.05 per share in Q3, narrowing from last year's net loss of $0.11 per share. The consensus estimate from analysts surveyed by Capital IQ was for an adjusted net loss of $0.06 per share.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Period-over-Period Comparison
Introduction
Period-over-Period Comparison (PoP) enables non-technical users to visually compare data from different time periods, like comparing revenue data this quarter with same quarter last year.
Setting up
The general steps are as follows:
1. Select (at least) an aggregrated field or measure from dataset
2. Enable PoP in Visualization Settings
3. Select a date field used for period comparison
4. Select compare period
5. Filter the PoP Date Field (optional): Require if you're using a non-time-series chart. Read below to learn more about this case.
Mechanism
Period-over-Period Comparison measures metrics in the present and compares them to a comparable period of time in the past. The goal is to adjust the slice of the past you are looking at, so the same amount of time has passed in the two periods you are comparing.
For each metric, PoP will generate an additional data series whose data points are shifted by a certain time. Then two series will be overlaid on top of each other.
Applying date filter for non-time-series charts
In general, there are two main kinds of charts when comparing date period:
1. Time-series chart
2. Non-time-series (categorical) chart
Time-series chart visualizes a sequence of data points indexed in time order. While non-time-series chart visualizes a sequence of data points without timestamps. Metric KPI is a non-time-series chart.
For non-time-series charts, you need to set a filter on the PoP Date Field to narrow down the range. Without a filtering condition, two periods will return the same result.
FAQs
Which period does the date filter apply to?
Date Filter only applies to the original range.
If users want to limit the data from both ranges for privacy purposes, we suggest using Row-level Permission.
Why do two periods return the same result?
For non-time-series charts, you need to set a filter on the PoP Date Field to narrow down the range. Without a filtering condition, two periods will return the same result. The detail can be found in Mechanism section.
What if present month and previous month don't have the same number of days?
If present month has more days than previous month, then the end date of previous month will be extended to compare with exceeding dates of present month.
For example, when comparing March (have 31 days) with the previous month, February (have 28 days).
If the present month has fewer days than the previous month, then the exceeding dates of the previous month will be hidden.
The two cases above are only applied when the date field is aggregated by day. It won't affect data value when the date field is aggregated by week, month, quarter, or year.
What happens if I compare weeks from this year to last year?
This type of comparison is highly dependent on your business, so the way we do it may not match your expectation.
We will first calculate the date range of weeks from the original range. The start date of the original range follows the rule of Week Start Day setting. Then we shift the start date and end date of the week to a length of time selected by users to create another period. Therefore,
• Week start day of the original range will follow the rule of Week Start Day setting.
• Week start day of the previous range might NOT follow that rule.
For example, when comparing weekly Revenue of January 2021 and February 2021 with their previous 1 year. The Week Start Day is Monday.
Important Notes
This feature is unsupported for Clickhouse DB
• Due to the limitations in Clickhouse's JOIN operations, we cannot support Period-over-Period for data models created from Clickhouse database.
On the Roadmap
Below is the list of features that are to be implemented in the future:
• Compare two arbitrary ranges
• Select preceding period
• Compare more than two periods
• Select Delta, Growth Rate, etc, between two values
The order above is not our prioritized order. Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] if you have any suggestions for improvement.
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Why don't many convertibles have roll bars?
Update Time:2018-01-19
Most modern convertibles have roll bars.
They are deployed through the convertible top/bodywork/rear seats in a fraction of a second when sensors in the car detect that the cars pitch has transferred to a dangerous angle.
Some cars are offered with optional roll bars (think Mazda MX-5) that are attached to the frame of the vehicle and protrude out of the vehicle. When fitted, these roll bars replace the factory system, which is then either removed or deactivated. The obvious benefit to this addition of aftermarket rollover protection is the reduction in weight of the motors/electronic assembly associated with the OEM units.
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Comment from my friend Karen (yes, that’s really her name) got me thinking
All of my friends know I’m let’s say, frugal. I hate spending money on “things.” If it’s not on sale, it’s not being bought. I grew up without money and now I have money (well, it’s currently YOLO’d haha), but I usually won’t use it to buy anything for me. The reason for this is 3 fold:
1. It’s probably shit I don’t need (lessons from my Dad).
2. I think experiences > things.
3. I love giving money and stuff away. It’s addictive. Giving someone something they don’t expect or helping out with a need brings me way more joy than anything I could ever buy myself (lessons from my Mom).
Anyway, so I’ve told Karen all about GME and we were talking about a friend of mine the other day:
Me: “Yeah, he just bought a XX million $ jet.”
Karen: “Wow! Well, when GME goes off, you can buy your own plane!”
Me: “Nah, I probably wouldn’t use it that much. I’d just take NetJets because you do that for like $40k.”
Karen: (Laughing) “You’re going to be the cheapest ass millionaire ever!”
I laughed, but it got me thinking. I hope that’s the case! We talk about life-changing money, and it will be and I’m sure I’ll buy myself some stuff and go some cool places...but I honestly hope I stay cheap, er, responsible. I want to be a good steward with all we’re about to receive. They say money can change people, but I don’t want to change! I just want more to do more! I think a lot of us feel that way and that’s what I love about this community and why I feel so connected here. From all the stories I have read here, we have given when we didn’t have much to give, we have supported when that’s all we could do, we have dreams to help family, friends and those we’ve never met. I’ve never been more proud to be a part of something and I feel so blessed to be on this journey with you all. I can’t wait to meet you all on the moon! 😊❤️🚀 | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
A History Of Andromeda’s Galactic Cannibalism
The Andromeda galaxy is a galaxy that’s pretty close to ours, but it’s bigger, with a truly insane star mass.
The Andromeda galaxy is named after its resemblance to a female figure in Greek mythology.
Andromeda is the largest galaxy in its cluster, a cluster that our own galaxy the ‘Milky Way’ is a part of.
A History Of Andromeda's Galactic Cannibalism
There are over 1 trillion stars in this galaxy and what else? What else? Oh yeah, it eats other galaxies!
Yeah, you read that right. Andromeda is a cannibal galaxy that has been eating up other galaxies since it was a wee one.
While we have no idea just how far back this goes, scientists believe that Andromeda started consuming galaxies when it was young.
What Exactly Is Galactic Cannibalism Anyway?
Put simply, galactic cannibalism happens when galaxies of different sizes collide, and the smaller of the two becomes trapped within the larger, adding to its overall mass.
Andromeda’s Rumblin’ Tum
Andromeda’s appetite for other galaxies grew as it devoured smaller galaxies, eventually growing into the massive and beautiful thing it is today.
So although it looks more or less like a star field (which it is), all those black dots aren’t actually individual stars; they’re just little pieces of other galaxies that the Andromeda galaxy gobbled down years ago.
And unlike us, Andromeda has lots of room to grow because there’s plenty of space between the rest of the Milky Way galaxy.
As mentioned earlier, we don’t really have a full account of Andromeda’s cannibalistic past, but we know for sure that it has devoured at least two significant galaxies.
The first of these galaxies (Andromeda’s starter course) was consumed between 7 and 10 billion years ago, and the second, (the entrée), in the last few billion years, and now we may be for dessert!
The Andromeda galaxy is currently being pulled towards our own by a vast amount of dark matter that surrounds it.
This can be seen if you look at the constellation Ursa Major which contains many stars near where the Andromeda galaxy once resided before it moved away from Earth.
Even though the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda has increased dramatically over time, both galaxies are still bound together by powerful gravity.
The Andromeda galaxy is headed for a collision with our own. Both galaxies will collide around 4 billion years from now.
By then, our Milky Way Galaxy may not even exist anymore!
Scientists estimate that the galaxies closest to Andromeda will fly past us on average once every 40 million years.
But don’t worry: none of these near-misses will affect life here on Earth.
Our home will be okay as long as we manage to avoid a direct hit.
If our planet was ever threatened by a close encounter with another galaxy, astronomers would likely send out probes to attempt to find habitable planets orbiting nearby stars.
These distant worlds could provide clues to whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
More good news… kind of — in 5 billion(ish) years, when the collision between our own galaxy and Andromeda is set to occur, the temperature on Earth will have increased to the point where no liquid water will exist on the planet.
This means that all life as we know it will have perished, so even if something were to go incredibly wrong during the collision, we wouldn’t be around to witness it.
Weirdness From Andromeda
Weirdness From Andromeda
In some cases, the Andromeda galaxy doesn’t only gobble up entire galaxies but also makes them explode.
This occurs when the Andromeda galaxy slams into a small galaxy causing an explosion.
These explosions occur when a large quantity of matter collides with a smaller quantity resulting in gravitational forces exceeding those necessary to maintain equilibrium.
Because there is very little mass left behind, the leftover material forms a highly energetic blast.
When this happens, it emits more energy than any nuclear bomb you’ve ever heard of.
In fact, sometimes there are so many supernovae going off at once in Andromeda that they create huge amounts of radiation detectable throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.
Some supernovae emit too much light for the human eye to detect, however.
It takes telescopes equipped with sophisticated cameras and spectrographs to see these events.
There is one peculiar type of supernova known to happen in Andromeda that is thought to be unique to it.
Called hypervelocity stars, these are believed to result when a star born within the Andromeda galaxy gets ejected from its planetary system early in its evolution.
This usually happens when a giant gas cloud collapses under its own weight and begins to form a new star.
The newly formed star quickly becomes unstable, throwing off huge quantities of stellar debris.
If the ejected star travels fast enough, it can escape the gravitational pull of the parent galaxy.
Hypervelocity stars have been observed leaving Andromeda.
They travel faster than most stars and appear to come from the far side of the galaxy.
In fact, scientists believe that they came from a dwarf galaxy that was swallowed up by Andromeda billions of years ago.
Is Andromeda A Threat To Earth?
Is Andromeda A Threat To Earth
This particular type of supernova is interesting because it could help explain why Andromeda appears to be moving closer to the Milky Way.
A recent study suggests that the Milky Way and Andromeda are slowly drifting closer due to their mutual gravitational attraction.
This means that if Andromeda has been eating other galaxies, it might eventually devour the Milky Way.
However, the authors of the study say that this scenario is unlikely.
Instead, they think that Andromeda is simply approaching the Milky Way on a more gradual basis.
The researchers used computer simulations to model how the two galaxies move toward each other over time.
Their results suggest that Andromeda will pass through the Milky Way about four billion years from now.
At that point, the two galaxies will begin to merge. During the merger, both galaxies will produce lots of tidal tails of stars, gas, and dust.
Eventually, all of this material will fall back onto the central region of the merged galaxy forming a single disk.
Scientists predict that the combined mass of the two galaxies will increase by about 1% during the next few billion years.
This means that the total gravity acting upon our solar system will increase slightly.
As a result, the orbits of planets like Mercury and Venus will become less stable.
This could cause the inner planets to be flung out of orbit or even pulled into the Sun.
If this were to happen, It’s possible that Earth would be no more. Fortunately, astronomers aren’t worried about this happening.
They say that the chances of such a catastrophe occurring are extremely low.
They estimate that the probability of this event occurring is no greater than 0.1%.
What Is Andromeda Made Up Of?
It turns out that Andromeda isn’t just full of stars, but also full of planets.
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets orbiting stars in the Andromeda Galaxy.
And since all of these planets are located relatively close to their host stars, they are considered “hot Jupiters”.
Hot Jupiters are Jupiter sized planets that orbit very closely to their stars. As such, they experience extremely high temperatures.
For example, Mercury experiences surface temperatures of about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius).
On the other hand, hot Jupiters like Kepler 45b experience surface temperatures of over 3200 degrees Fahrenheit (1680 degrees Celsius) which is almost as hot as the surface of the sun!
Since hot Jupiters are so close to their host stars they receive a lot of heat.
This causes them to lose a significant amount of atmosphere through evaporation.
Over time, the planet loses its ability to retain water. Eventually, the planet becomes completely dry.
Final Thoughts
If the Andromeda Galaxy were to consume the Milky Way, it would likely swallow the solar system along with it.
However, astronomers aren’t sure exactly what will happen next. Will the Milky Way survive? Or will Andromeda devour us?
Only time will tell.
Gordon Watts | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Einar Stray Orchestra
Einar Stray Orchestra is a Norwegian indie-pop and post-rock band. The young quintet have released three albums to rave critics, two EP's, and have played more than 300 concerts in Europe/Asia. Combining classical and folk music with pop and rock they have played several sold-out headliner tours and festivals. Einar Stray Orchestra is influenced by bands such as Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
History
Einar Stray started recording songs in his bedroom in Sandvika, a little town located in the south west of Oslo in 2006 and uploaded them to Myspace. As an experimental singer/songwriter he brought musician friends with him on stage, and together they produced music both delicate and grandiose with strings, blows, percussion, choir parts, noisy guitars, and a classical inspired piano style - counting 11 band members at its most.
After meeting the Norwegian artist Moddi in 2008, they quickly joined forces and released their debut EPs together, as a split-vinyl. "Favors And Fields/Rubato EP" resulted in their first tour through Norway, including big festivals like Slottsfjell, By:larm and Øya. Moddi and Einar has appeared in each other's bands ever since.
In 2011, the band got compressed into a five-piece, and released their debut album, Chiaroscuro, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Norway of which Terese Blåklokke did the artwork.
With a range from noisy post-rock ballads to stripped down a cappella songs the band toured all of 2012, and gave also birth to "For The Country EP". They ended the year opening for Múm and Under Byen in Russia.
The second album Politricks was released in 2014 which had been rated by The Line of Best Fit as following:
“There's so much going on that it's difficult to glean much upon initial listens – it's probably a little alienating, but if you do manage to persevere and penetrate the gloopy outer shell, you'll be rewarded with an opulent, everchanging chimera of a record.”
It was Simen Sandbæk Skari of the band Team Me who did the artwork of this cover.
In May 2015 the band announced that they are working on their third album, coming out in 2016.
Albums
* 2011: Chiaroscuro (Nordic version - Spoon Train Audio)
* 2012: Chiaroscuro (European version - Sinnbus)
* 2014: Politricks (Riot Factory/Sinnbus)
* 2017: Dear Bigotry (Sinnbus)
EPs
* 2008: Favors And Fields (EP - Spoon Train Audio)
* 2012: For the Country (EP - Sinnbus) | WIKI |
How to Measure Your PC’s Power Consumption
How To Measure Your Pcs Power Consumption Featured
Computers are integral to today’s society. They are incredibly powerful machines that are capable of completing amazing tasks. This begs the question: how much electricity is your PC consuming? This means learning to measure PC power consumption using a PC power calculator.
Why Do You Need to Measure Your PC’s Power Consumption?
If you use a computer for basic tasks like word processing and social media, your PC probably isn’t chewing through much power. However, more demanding tasks like video-editing or gaming can cause a spike in power usage. If you’re responsible for paying the utility bills in your household, it’s a good idea to know how much power your PC draws. Knowing how much juice your PC is consuming can help you with budgeting.
Note: if you are worried about your bill, here are some ways to reduce your PC’s power consumption.
Pc Power Gpu
Are you planning on building a new PC? If so, knowing how much power each component consumes is critical. Anyone who has ever built a PC knows the importance of an adequate power supply. More powerful components can require a significant amount of power. After spending your hard-earned dollars on high-end parts, you’re going to want to make sure your power supply can deliver the necessary juice.
What Are PC Operating Costs?
Overall, the average operating costs for running a PC aren’t going to break the bank unless you’re doing something extreme, such as cryptocurrency mining.
Overclockers broke down various use cases and how much it may cost on average to operate a PC. The site used a PC wattage calculator to determine average watts used for different tasks.
How To Measure Your Pcs Power Consumption Power Usage
For 24/7 high-power use, it could cost over $50/month to run your PC. For 24/7 gaming, costs vary (based on the type of processor) between $18 to just over $37 per month.
Naturally, most people aren’t running their PCs full out all day, every day. Overclockers performed the same tests for eight and four hours a day, assuming the same usage each day of the month. The more extreme cost for four and eight hours a day, respectively, were $8.65 and $17.30/month. Gaming dropped the costs to $6.26 and $12.51/month.
Lower-end PCs will use less power overall, but they won’t perform as high on certain tasks, such as gaming. For someone just browsing or scrolling through social media, power usage is going to be even lower than these averages.
How PC Upgrades Change Things
Every power supply is only able to handle a set amount of usage at a time. This is also why’s it’s important to use a power consumption calculator for PC to measure usage to determine if your power supply is able to handle any upgrades. If you’re making major upgrades, it may be necessary to also upgrade your power supply to be able to handle the new load.
How To Measure Your Pcs Power Consumption Gpu
For example, higher-end graphics cards can pull over 250 watts. That doesn’t account for any other PC components. This means measuring how much power your PC currently uses and how much more additional components it can support is important.
How to Measure Power Draw Using Online Tools
One of the easiest ways to accurately tally the power consumption of your PC is to use an online power draw calculator. Outervision has a popular, accurate calculator that is easy to use by both novices and power users. To use the calculator, you need to know details about the components of your PC.
The basic version of the calculator simply asks for you to input general information about your components. You can select from a drop-down list of CPUs, graphics cards and RAM to populate the necessary fields. Finally, plug in some information about your usage and click on the calculate button. Outervision’s basic calculator will give you a pretty good estimate of your PC’s power draw. That being said, if you want a more detailed and accurate estimation, you’re going to want to use the “Expert” calculator.
Pc Power Outervision
Outervision’s Expert calculator lets you input more information about your PC. This includes everything from the basic calculator as well as things like the number of storage drives, fans, PCI cards and even liquid cooling devices. Furthermore, to get the most accurate reading, you’ll need to know things like the clock speed of your CPU and graphics card. In addition, you can even factor in CPU and GPU overclocking. As with the basic calculator, once you’ve entered the relevant information, you can enter how much time you use your computer in a day and whether it will be used for any gaming or other heavy lifting.
How to Measure Power Draw with Software
Another way you can monitor your PC’s power draw is with a lightweight software application. There are a few different ones available; however, one of the most popular is Open Hardware Monitor. Open Hardware Monitor is a free, open-source application that gives users real-time power draw readouts.
Pc Power Openhardwaremonitor
In addition to power consumption information, Open Hardware Monitor can tell you much more about your PC. This includes things like the temperatures of CPUs, GPUs and hard drives, as well as fan speeds and load and clock speeds. This information can be presented in a graphical window, a desktop widget or hidden as an icon in the system tray. Furthermore, Open Hardware Monitor is compatible with all versions of Windows, stretching back to XP and any x86 Linux distro.
How to Measure Power Draw with Meters
One of the easiest ways to measure the overall power consumption of your PC build is to invest in an external power meter. Using these power meters couldn’t be simpler. All you need to do is plug the device into a wall outlet, then plug your PC’s power cable into the plug built into the power meter. The next time you fire up your PC, the power meter will give you an accurate reading of how much electricity your PC is consuming.
Pc Power Meter
This is particularly handy for understanding how much power is being consumed during various tasks. However, the downside to this is that an external power meter won’t help you determine which Power Supply unit is suitable for your build.
That being said, getting on-the-fly readings of your PC’s power draw can be useful. There are a number of these power meters on the market, so finding one should be easy. R
One of the highest-reviewed units is the Kill-A-Watt electricity usage meter, which boasts a 4.5 star rating from over 6,000 reviews. The best part is that they’re pretty cheap, with most hovering in the $20 to $30 mark. There are other, more expensive units that offer additional features, like the ability to record power consumption, but these can be significantly more expensive. For the average user, the cheaper units do the job.
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1997 FIBA Oceania Championship
The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1997 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1998 FIBA World Championship. The tournament was held in Wellington and Palmerston North. won the tournament to qualify for the World Championship.
Results
Final standings
Australia qualified for the 1998 FIBA World Championship in Greece. | WIKI |
However, the main impact of the Tea Party was not only at national level but also globally. The importance of Tea as a symbol of the Revolution is due to the fact that it represented British imperial power. Since 1700, the East India Company had a monopoly on trade with Asia, and the most important resource was tea. Tea became a consumer good worldwide and was highly demanded everywhere. However, at the end of the 18th century tea could only be bought in one country;
Tea then began its global journey, and was spread across the world. The first documented cultivation of tea in Taiwan began in 1717 in a region called Shui Sha Lian (水沙連) (Allee, 1994). The British were later responsible for bringing tea to my own home country, India, where the tea culture is also very strong and significant. My own country’s strong tea culture allows me to look at China’s tea culture with much more depth and understanding. Tea was popularized as a beverage by the Tang dynasty, and the Europeans including the Portuguese and the Britons who brought the tea to the west.
In the early 17th century, members belonging to the East India Company traveled for the first time to the Mughal Court to negotiate trading relations with the empire (Major). As word spread about Britain’s affairs, the Dutch became furious they would interfere with the Indian spice market which the Dutch relied on for trade revenue. The Dutch conducted a attack upon the East India Company and other competitors that sought after the spice market. In 1623, the company underwent the attack in Indonesia and decided to enter the empire’s textile trading industry and focus its trade in India (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). With the
However, finding the Spice Island was not so easy so the Dutch needed help from the locals. When the Portuguese went away from Indonesia, the Dutch had a chance to monopolize the commodities like spices. Kings and princes used to rule their own territories and commodities before the Dutch came. In 1602, the Dutch founded VOC (Vereenidge Oost- Indische Compagnie) or Dutch East India Company that the purpose was to gain as much money as possible. According to Epic World History, the VOC was permitted by the Dutch government to have diplomatic relations and to have foreign powers so they are allowed to have military actions and have their own weapons.
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the British still had control of India? The effect that British colonialism had on India was that most of the people there were forced to work for the British. They were not able to handle their own government which caused them to revolt against their own people. As a result the British people took away all of their riches. They were also forced to stay away from the temples and their foods.
This, in turn, made it possible for European goods to be sold in the market for outrageously high prices. As a result, some restrictions were made regarding the prices of goods beginning in 1593. These trade restrictions led to the closure of Manila 's port to other countries. This gave rise to the monopoly
Exerting power through numerous methods, the British influence and control in India increased to an extent that it was controlling many parts of the country. European states required raw materials and a market to sell and trade their commodities. At length, these imperative resources were lacking and were needed in sufficient quantities due principally the Industrial Revolution. Henceforth, these European states competed for industries and markets in Africa and Asia. With this in mind, Britain joined the scramble for countries to colonize.
A: India The British imperialism had a great impact on India and they wanted to establish and English speaking nation. It started in the 1600s when the East India Trade Company made its way on the trading post. The post made way for the British to export most of their goods back to Great Britain and to take over India. With the armed forces forming with Sepoys and the British army, the military was able the free India from the other European territories. By 1715 the EIC and Britain and completely taken over India after the Battle of Plassey against the French.
In this way, in the wake of having acquired the data on the sea routes to the East, Dutch maritime force was utilized to assault the Portuguese fortresses and posts on the source to some products such as the wellspring of nutmeg, mace and cloves. Despite the fact that the strategy of Dutch was prosperous and spice trading monopoly was secured, they confronted the solid rivalry of Britain’s developing sea interests. This competition caused the wars in seventeenth century, such as
Abstract The research is focus on how localization and globalization had been effected in Hong Kong, and find the reason that how local culture will started disappear in nowadays. Therefore, this proposal had found Hong Kong citizens living in an unhealthy lifestyle, it is because of the western fast food culture and long working hours. This project aims are re-build the localization culture and reduce the human health issue. Since the increasing frequency of exchanges around the world, the cultures of various have begun to learn and fuse with each other. People can learn different culture and their behavior, they can explore their cultures deeper and gains knowledge. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Talk:Telco cable
Cable types
There are many other standard cable types within the Telecommunications industry around the world. It simply isn't factual to imply that this cable is what is generally accepted by the term "Telco cable" as this article appears to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 09:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Conductor material
It might be useful to mention the conductor material, i.e. is it copper, single strand, multi strand. Article states the cable is made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), but surely this is only the outer insulation? Grobertson4 (talk) 12:30, 9 July 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Portable Document Format (PDF) files are a popular file type due to their cross-platform compatibility and ability to preserve formatting. However, PDF documents are primarily meant for viewing rather than editing.
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Wondering why does google doc format change when converted to PDF? When converting a Google Doc to a PDF, some formatting changes occur because PDFs handle text and images differently than Docs.
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The easiest way is to upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click on it, choose "Open with" and select "Google Docs".
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Go through an intermediate Word doc to retain formatting. Convert the PDF to Word first using Adobe Acrobat or an online tool, then upload that Word file to Drive and open it with Docs.
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Converting PDF documents into the Google Docs format unlocks powerful collaboration and editing capabilities. With just a few clicks, you can transform a static PDF into a living, editable Doc.
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mense waft of calm, sentimental happiness had descended upon him. Merely because he had imagined her! He imagined her little, fair, rather pug-nosed face: under a fur cap, he did not know why. Leaning forward she would be, on the seat of the general's illuminated car: glazed in: a regular raree show! Peering out, shortsightedly on account of the reflections on the inside of the glass
He was saying to Levin:
"Look here, Stanley why I said you are a silly ass is because Miss de Bailly has one chief luxury. It's exhibiting jealousy. Not feeling it; exhibiting it."
"Ought you," Levin asked ironically, "to discuss my fiancée before me? As an English gentleman. Tietjens of Groby and all."
"Why, of course," Tietjens said. He continued feeling happy. "As a sort of swollen best man, it's my duty to instruct you. Mothers tell their daughters things before marriage. Best men do it for the innocent Benedict And you're always consulting me about the young woman"
"I'm not doing it now," Levin grumbled direly.
"Then what, in God's name, are you doing? You've got a cast mistress, haven't you, down there in old Campion's car" They were beside the alley that led down to his orderly room. Knots of men, dim and desultory, still half filled it, a little way down.
"I haven't," Levin exclaimed almost tearfully. "I never had a mistress"
"And you're not married?" Tietjens asked. He used on purpose the schoolboy's ejaculation "Lummy!" to soften the jibe. "If you'll excuse me," he said, "I must just go and take a look at my crowd. To see if your orders have come down." | WIKI |
In the 1950s, there was a great racial segregation in the United States. The white people did not like the black people, and this caused the blacks to be treated badly. In this short story “Jesse” we see how a young girl forms her own impression of the black people.
“Jesse” is a short story written by Joy Boothe in 2012. The main theme in the short story is racial segregation and the treatment of black people in the 1960 in USA.
The essay is about a girl and her mom, dad and sister. We also hear a little bit about her uncle. In the short story we follow a girl from when she was a little girl to, she is a grown woman.
She had an uncle called Jesse. He was a drunk and she was scared of him. And therefore, she hated the name, but this changes in the short story. She got to know another Jesse.
Her father worked at a glue mill, and Jesse also worked here. Jesse was nigger, and in the short story we see how the young girl forms her own impression of black people. At the end of the short story the girl names her son after Jesse.
The main character in the short story is the narrator. The story is told from her point of view from age 5 to age 27.
In the short story we are told how she feels and thinks about the people, the setting and the events that occur.
The girl changes throughout the story both knowing that she grows up from the age of 5 to 27, but she also changes her view of black people and the prejudices that her grandmother has pushed on her.
She also changes by going from hating the name “Jesse” to naming her son after “Jesse”. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Elinor Z. Taylor
Elinor Zimmerman Taylor (April 18, 1921 – July 27, 2010) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 156th legislative district from 1977 through her retirement in 2006. Taylor served in the House Republican leadership as Majority Caucus Chair.
She attended West Chester High School, graduating in 1939. In 1943, she graduated from West Chester University, where she later received a Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa. In 1958 she earned a Master's in Education from Temple University. At various times, she attended classes at Columbia University and University of Delaware.
She was first elected to represent the 156th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1976. During her career, she focused on higher education and constituent service. In 1982, she famously engineered a deal that led to the downfall of a West Chester University President Charles G. Mayo. She was elected Republican (Majority) Caucus Secretary in 1995 and alter served in the mostly-ceremonial leadership position of caucus chairwoman.
She retired prior to the 2006 elections with her health deteriorating. She said, "My approach has always been the idea that I could make a difference. And as long as I have been able to do that, you end the day with great satisfaction. I'm very very pleased to look back on what I consider to be a very productive experience." | WIKI |
Gold gains after Trump's debt ceiling agreement hurts dollar
The price of gold rose to a one-year peak on Thursday after the dollar tumbled on the back of weak U.S. jobs data and an unchanged growth and inflation outlook from the European Central Bank. Spot gold climbed to an intraday peak of $1,348.91 an ounce, the strongest showing since September 2016. It eased 0.3 percent in the previous session. Spot gold was last up 0.92 percent at $1,346.04 an ounce. U.S. gold futures for December delivery rose 0.88 percent to $1,350.80. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in more than two years last week amid a surge in applications in hurricane-ravaged Texas. The weak data helped push the dollar index down to 91.405, the lowest since January 2015. "The weaker U.S. economic data pushed the odds for a rate hike to ground. Clearly the Fed cannot be comfortable with weaker job market and the fact is that worse is still yet to come," said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Think Markets. Higher interest rates tend to boost the dollar and push up bond yields, putting pressure on gold prices by increasing the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion. Also pressuring the dollar on Thursday was a resurgent euro, which jumped to a nine-day high after the ECB broadly stuck to its outlook for growth and inflation. Continuing tensions with North Korea over its nuclear tests provided further support for safe-haven gold. "Geopolitical tensions remain elevated surrounding North Korea, so I'd expect that would keep gold pretty well supported in the short term and in the week ahead," said Jonathan Butler, commodities analyst at Mitsubishi in London. China agreed on Thursday that the United Nations should take more action against North Korea after its latest nuclear test, while also pushing for dialogue to help ease tensions. The market will soon start to shift its focus to the next U.S. Federal Reserve's next monetary policy meeting, due to begin on Sept. 19. "I expect some downward pressure on gold starting next week and a rebound in the dollar short-term," said Samson Li, an analyst with Thomson Reuters-owned metals consultancy GFMS. Silver rose 1.23 percent to $18.05 an ounce, while platinum increased 1.05 percent to $1,013.55 an ounce. Palladium added 1.67 percent to $955.20 an ounce. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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when she went with the Prince to live in the land of Bye-and-Bye.
But one day the King found his daughter very unhappy, and when he begged her to tell him why she was in tears, she said that she had given away five hundred and forty-two mansions, but she still had many friends, and she did not know what to do with the one mansion that remained. It was the one which stood the very nearest to the palace of the Prince.
Then the wise King said, "There, there! We'll settle this matter easily. That one home shall go to the one who loves you best."
"But how—," began the Princess.
"Never mind how," interrupted her father, and then they both laughed so merrily that all the canary birds in the kingdom began to sing.
The very next day the King of Forgotten Land issued a proclamation which set all the people to talking.
Among those who read the copy that was posted outside the palace gates was a maiden known as Little Sister Kindness.
"So the Princess is to be married one month from today," she exclaimed. Then, | WIKI |
The Bamboo Saucer
The Bamboo Saucer is an independently made 1968 Cold War science fiction film drama about competing American and Russian teams that discover a flying saucer in Communist China. The film was re-released in 1969 under the title Collision Course with an edited down runtime of 90 minutes.
This was the final film for both actors Dan Duryea and Nan Leslie.
Plot
Test pilot Fred Norwood is flying the experimental X-109 (actually an U.S. Airforce Lockheed F-104 Starfighter jet aircraft accompanied by a chase plane (another F-104). During the flight testing, Norwood finds himself pursued by a flying saucer and believes he has to engage in a series of tricky aerobatics to protect himself. The ace pilot amazingly pulls out of a dive at Mach 3.12 (2,320.00 MPH, 3,402 Ft. per Second from 30,000 Feet), and Fred and the "experimental" X-109 plane fortunately survive the wild flight.
Once on the ground, Norwood is informed that the radar tracking his jet picked up no other aircraft near him except the chase plane. Though Norwood insists on what he saw, his superiors, who were monitoring his vital signs, think he has had a series of hallucinations, they chastise him and order him off the project. Blanchard, the USAF pilot of the chase plane, exits the room in an obviously frightened and nervous state; he parrots words about not seeing another aircraft on the flight and that the reported event was merely an aerial inversion. When shaky Blanchard falters with his explanation, he is again prompted what to say by the panel members in the room.
Now angered and determined, Fred Norwood decides to prove what he saw by patrolling the area in a USAF surplus North American P-51 Mustang equipped with futuristic laser radar until he reaches the point of exhaustion. As Norwood sleeps, his best friend, Joe Vetry, a fellow pilot who is married to Norwood's sister Dorothy, takes off in the Mustang when the radar set picks up an unidentified flying object. Fred and Dorothy view Joe's aircraft vanish off the radar screen; later Federal Aviation Administration crash investigators tell Fred that his friend's Mustang disintegrated in mid air in a manner similar to the accounts of the Mantell UFO incident.
Fred Norwood finds himself summoned to Washington D.C. to meet with Hank Peters, a member of an influential, unnamed agency of the United States Government. Hank Peters believes Fred Norwood's account and shows him a sketch that Fred identifies as the same kind of blue saucer that buzzed the X-109. Peters tells Norwood that the sketch was provided from intelligence sources based in Red China. Because of Fred's familiarity with a variety of aircraft, he is asked to accompany Peters and two scientists who will be parachuted into Red China. Peters informs Fred that there are reliable sources that report the two humanoid aliens in the saucer died, likely from exposure to Earth bacteria; and due to rapid deterioration, their bodies were reported as cremated by Chinese peasants.
At the Chinese drop zone, they are met by American agent Sam Archibald who leads them to the saucer now hidden inside the ruins of a Catholic church. Due to the Communists having destroyed the church, the upset locals assist the Americans in any way possible. On traveling to their destination while evading units of the People's Liberation Army, they run across a party of Russian scientists led by their own version of Agent Hank Peters, Comrade Zagorsky. Among the group of 4 Russians is scientist Anna Karachev. After some tense moments the two competing parties begrudgingly decide to cooperate in investigating the hidden saucer.
Soon they are discovered by The Chinese Army, and after a wild firefight when 2 Russians and 2 Americans and 1 Chinese (all 5 are eventually killed) stand off the Chinese Army, killing at least 61 Chinese soldiers. The three survivors, two Americans and one of the Russian scientists board the saucer, activate it, take off, and fly out of Chinese airspace. A pre-programmed autopilot course instantly takes control and flies them away from Earth past the Moon, past Mars, and on a collision course with Saturn. Unable to return unless they work together to control the alien UFO, they are finally successful and able return to Earth in less than a minute. The trio decides to land in Geneva, Switzerland. Then a quote from President John F. Kennedy about mutual human cooperation in space flashes on screen.
Cast
* Dan Duryea as Hank Peters
* John Ericson as Test Pilot Fred Norwood
* Lois Nettleton as Anna Karachev
* Robert Hastings as Garson (as Bob Hastings) Fresh from McHale's Navy
* Vincent Beck as Zagorsky
* Bernard Fox as Ephram - previous known as TV's Dr. Bombay Bewitched, Malcom Merriwether Andy Griffith Show, Colonel Crittenden Hogan's Heroes and went down with the Titanic twice, once in 1958 and once again in 1997.
* Robert Dane as Miller
* Rico Cattani as Dubovsky
* James Hong as Sam Archibald
* Bartlett Robinson as Rhodes, his company is developing the X-109
* Nick Katurich as Gadyakoff
* William Mims as Joe Vetry (as Bill Mims)
* Nan Leslie as Dorothy Vetry
* Andy Romano as Blanchard
* Frank Gerstle uncredited as control room technician
Production
Jerry Fairbanks was a producer and sometimes director of a variety of cinematic short subjects series such as Strange as It Seems and Popular Science. A 1954 film trade article stated that Fairbanks was preparing his first theatrical motion picture, titled Project Saucer that was to be filmed in widescreen and color. A 1964 article stated that Fairbanks was moving production of his film Operation Blue Book from a runaway production in Spain to be filmed in the USA.
Fairbanks persevered and had a collaborator, Frank Telford, rewrite the screenplay by Alford "Rip" Van Ronkel and special effects man John P. Fulton with Telford directing the film in 1966. Fairbanks contacted the office of the United States Secretary of Defense about his screenplay. In a April 12, 1966 reply, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense informed Fairbanks that they had a "negative reaction" to Project Saucer. They recommended that the screenplay delete any reference to the CIA, saying it would not be appropriate to place one of their operatives in the fictionalized situation. Furthermore, the flying saucer investigation was not factually set up; the Air Force's General was an unnecessarily uncomplimentary character and would not act as he does in the screenplay; it was also not clear just what part the Air Force played in the aircraft testing; any one of the aircraft manufacturers could clarify the film's opening sequence; finally, the Air Force should not be utilized or included in the air drop inside Chinese air space.
Fairbanks incorporated the changes in the finished screenplay. Co-screenwriter, associate producer, and special effects expert John P. Fulton died during filming. The film was retitled The Bamboo Saucer, though it had no relation to the 1967 published science fiction novel The Flight of the Bamboo Saucer. The experimental X-109 aircraft was actually Air Force stock footage of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The film was shot in 1966 by cinematographer Hal Mohr at Lone Pine, California, where a standing Western Street set was turned into a Chinese village for the production.
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# coding: utf-8
from datetime import datetime
from pywinauto import application
app = application.Application.start("notepad.exe")
app.Notepad.Edit1.SetText(unicode(datetime.now()))
app.Notepad.MenuSelect(u"ファイル->名前を付けて保存")
dialog = app[u"名前を付けて保存"]
dialog.Edit1.SetText(u"datetime.txt")
dialog.Button1.Click()
confirm = app[u"名前を付けて保存の確認"]
if confirm.Exists():
confirm.Button1.Click()
app.Notepad.TypeKeys("%FX")
以下内容のエラーが出るのですが、
Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
a[besti+bestsize] == b[bestj+bestsize]:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "L:/tools/Python/pyauto/notepad.py", line 7, in <module>
app.Notepad.MenuSelect(u"ファイル->名前を付けて保存")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\HwndWrapper.py", line 1316, in MenuSelect
self.MenuItem(path, exact=exact).Select()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\HwndWrapper.py", line 1266, in MenuItem
return self.Menu().GetMenuPath(path, appdata = menu_appdata, exact=exact)[-1]
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\menuwrapper.py", line 470, in GetMenuPath
self.Items())
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\findbestmatch.py", line 139, in find_best_match
raise MatchError(items = text_item_map.keys(), tofind = search_text)
pywinauto.findbestmatch.MatchError
ユニコードがおかしいのでしょうか？
当方プログラム初心者の為、解決策を見出すことができません。
ご教授いただけませんでしょうか？
Pythonは2.79 pywinautoは0.41を使用しております。
お手数ですがよろしくお願いいたします。
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• pywinautoはきっとASCIIのみの環境でしかテストされていないのでしょう。WindowsのコントロールのIDに日本語が入っているわけで、その文字列がUTF8以外の可能性があると思います。まさか今時SJISでもないとは思いますが。findbestmatch.pyを編集してfind_best_match()の引数のsearch_textとitemsの中身を`print repr()でプリントすればどんな文字列（バイト列）を比較しようとしているのかわかるでしょう。解決策はそれを確認してから考えましょう。 2015年7月16日 18:53
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pywinauto/controls/menuwrapper.pyというファイルには、win32gui.GetMenuItemInfoが使われているのですが、その関数はユニコードを対応しないと思います。
より古いバージョンのpywinautoのコードをチェックすると、pywinauto/win32functions.pyGetMenuItemInfoが使われています。win32functionsというファイルには、GetMenuItemInfoctypes.windll.user32.GetMenuItemInfoWというユニコードを対応する関数に送信しています。
MenuItemというクラスの_read_itemTextを古いコードに置き換えると、動くようになるみたいです：
# coding: utf-8
import ctypes
from datetime import datetime
from pywinauto import application
from pywinauto.controls.menuwrapper import MenuItem, win32structures, win32functions, win32defines
def _read_item(self):
"""Read the menu item info
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/menus/menureference/menufunctions/getmenuiteminfo.asp
for more information."""
menu_info = win32structures.MENUITEMINFOW()
menu_info.cbSize = ctypes.sizeof (menu_info)
menu_info.fMask = \
win32defines.MIIM_CHECKMARKS | \
win32defines.MIIM_ID | \
win32defines.MIIM_STATE | \
win32defines.MIIM_SUBMENU | \
win32defines.MIIM_TYPE #| \
#MIIM_FTYPE #| \
#MIIM_STRING
#MIIM_DATA | \
ret = win32functions.GetMenuItemInfo (
self.menu,
self.index,
True,
ctypes.byref(menu_info))
if not ret:
raise ctypes.WinError()
return menu_info
def Text(self):
"Return the state of this menu item"
info = self._read_item()
# if there is text
if info.cch:
# allocate a buffer
buffer_size = info.cch+1
text = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(buffer_size)
# update the structure and get the text info
info.dwTypeData = ctypes.addressof(text)
info.cch = buffer_size
win32functions.GetMenuItemInfo (
self.menu,
self.index,
True,
ctypes.byref(info))
text = text.value
else:
text = ''
return text
MenuItem._read_item = _read_item
MenuItem.Text = Text
app = application.Application.start("notepad.exe")
app.Notepad.Edit1.SetText(unicode(datetime.now()))
app.Notepad.MenuSelect(u"ファイル->名前を付けて保存")
dialog = app[u"名前を付けて保存"]
dialog.Edit1.SetText(u"datetime.txt")
dialog.Button1.Click()
confirm = app[u"名前を付けて保存の確認"]
if confirm.Exists():
confirm.Button1.Click()
app.Notepad.TypeKeys("%FX")
なので、pywinautoというモジュール内のユニコードバグみたいです。
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Spherical 3-manifold
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In mathematics, a spherical 3-manifold M is a 3-manifold of the form
where is a finite subgroup of SO(4) acting freely by rotations on the 3-sphere . All such manifolds are prime, orientable, and closed. Spherical 3-manifolds are sometimes called elliptic 3-manifolds or Clifford-Klein manifolds.
Properties[edit]
A spherical 3-manifold has a finite fundamental group isomorphic to Γ itself. The elliptization conjecture, proved by Grigori Perelman, states that conversely all compact 3-manifolds with finite fundamental group are spherical manifolds.
The fundamental group is either cyclic, or is a central extension of a dihedral, tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral group by a cyclic group of even order. This divides the set of such manifolds into 5 classes, described in the following sections.
The spherical manifolds are exactly the manifolds with spherical geometry, one of the 8 geometries of Thurston's geometrization conjecture.
Cyclic case (lens spaces)[edit]
The manifolds with Γ cyclic are precisely the 3-dimensional lens spaces. A lens space is not determined by its fundamental group (there are non-homeomorphic lens spaces with isomorphic fundamental groups); but any other spherical manifold is.
Three-dimensional lens spaces arise as quotients of by the action of the group that is generated by elements of the form
where . Such a lens space has fundamental group for all , so spaces with different are not homotopy equivalent. Moreover, classifications up to homeomorphism and homotopy equivalence are known, as follows. The three-dimensional spaces and are:
1. homotopy equivalent if and only if for some
2. homeomorphic if and only if
In particular, the lens spaces L(7,1) and L(7,2) give examples of two 3-manifolds that are homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic.
The lens space L(1,0) is the 3-sphere, and the lens space L(2,1) is 3 dimensional real projective space.
Lens spaces can be represented as Seifert fiber spaces in many ways, usually as fiber spaces over the 2-sphere with at most two exceptional fibers, though the lens space with fundamental group of order 4 also has a representation as a Seifert fiber space over the projective plane with no exceptional fibers.
Dihedral case (prism manifolds)[edit]
A prism manifold is a closed 3-dimensional manifold M whose fundamental group is a central extension of a dihedral group.
The fundamental group π1(M) of M is a product of a cyclic group of order m with a group having presentation
for integers k, m, n with k ≥ 1, m ≥ 1, n ≥ 2 and m coprime to 2n.
Alternatively, the fundamental group has presentation
for coprime integers m, n with m ≥ 1, n ≥ 2. (The n here equals the previous n, and the m here is 2k-1 times the previous m.)
We continue with the latter presentation. This group is a metacyclic group of order 4mn with abelianization of order 4m (so m and n are both determined by this group). The element y generates a cyclic normal subgroup of order 2n, and the element x has order 4m. The center is cyclic of order 2m and is generated by x2, and the quotient by the center is the dihedral group of order 2n.
When m = 1 this group is a binary dihedral or dicyclic group. The simplest example is m = 1, n = 2, when π1(M) is the quaternion group of order 8.
Prism manifolds are uniquely determined by their fundamental groups: if a closed 3-manifold has the same fundamental group as a prism manifold M, it is homeomorphic to M.
Prism manifolds can be represented as Seifert fiber spaces in two ways.
Tetrahedral case[edit]
The fundamental group is a product of a cyclic group of order m with a group having presentation
for integers k, m with k ≥ 1, m ≥ 1 and m coprime to 6.
Alternatively, the fundamental group has presentation
for an odd integer m ≥ 1. (The m here is 3k-1 times the previous m.)
We continue with the latter presentation. This group has order 24m. The elements x and y generate a normal subgroup isomorphic to the quaternion group of order 8. The center is cyclic of order 2m. It is generated by the elements z3 and x2 = y2, and the quotient by the center is the tetrahedral group, equivalently, the alternating group A4.
When m = 1 this group is the binary tetrahedral group.
These manifolds are uniquely determined by their fundamental groups. They can all be represented in an essentially unique way as Seifert fiber spaces: the quotient manifold is a sphere and there are 3 exceptional fibers of orders 2, 3, and 3.
Octahedral case[edit]
The fundamental group is a product of a cyclic group of order m coprime to 6 with the binary octahedral group (of order 48) which has the presentation
These manifolds are uniquely determined by their fundamental groups. They can all be represented in an essentially unique way as Seifert fiber spaces: the quotient manifold is a sphere and there are 3 exceptional fibers of orders 2, 3, and 4.
Icosahedral case[edit]
The fundamental group is a product of a cyclic group of order m coprime to 30 with the binary icosahedral group (order 120) which has the presentation
When m is 1, the manifold is the Poincaré homology sphere.
These manifolds are uniquely determined by their fundamental groups. They can all be represented in an essentially unique way as Seifert fiber spaces: the quotient manifold is a sphere and there are 3 exceptional fibers of orders 2, 3, and 5.
References[edit]
• Peter Orlik, Seifert manifolds, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 291, Springer-Verlag (1972). ISBN 0-387-06014-6
• William Jaco, Lectures on 3-manifold topology ISBN 0-8218-1693-4
• William Thurston, Three-dimensional geometry and topology. Vol. 1. Edited by Silvio Levy. Princeton Mathematical Series, 35. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997. ISBN 0-691-08304-5 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Five minutes with... Jo Fox | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Wednesday 20 April 2011 05.39 EDTFirst published on Wednesday 20 April 2011 05.39 EDT I've always been interested in how people and the environment interact – no doubt growing up with the extremes of the Australian climate helps – but it was at university whist studying palaeontology that I realised how fragile life on earth could be. After this I spent many years working with indigenous communities in remote Australia which really brought home how differently people see and interact with natural resources in different ways. It's this background that shapes my thinking on sustainability and how you reconcile different needs and views. When we talk about sustainability, we don't just mean environmental action or corporate responsibility programmes. For us, sustainable thinking is a fundamental approach, sitting at the heart of our business strategy. Sky's Environment Steering Group, chaired by Jeremy Darroch (our CEO) and made up of employees from across the business is one of the best ways we have found to deliver on our commitment to act responsibly and do the right thing in our day to day operations. Our biggest challenge as a media company is also our biggest opportunity. We have the ability to inform and inspire, to help our customers understand the problem of climate change better and then inspire them to act. Continually re-energising a sustainability programme and galvanising the business behind it is the constant challenge. I'm lucky to be a part of a company culture which thrives on change and naturally embraces a fast-paced environment. Our ethos of 'Believe in Better' is all about challenging ourselves from the inside out to do better, and it is my job to apply this thinking to our sustainability actions. Sustainability leadership that comes from the very top is key, but what we see happening more and more is our employees pushing at the door themselves and driving us to do better. The Environment Steering Group was responsible, amongst other things, for spearheading the creation of Sky Rainforest Rescue – our three-year fundraising campaign with WWF to help save one billion trees in the Amazon rainforest. A campaign such as this, based on an original idea by the very people that make our business what it is, is an example of how we are harnessing the culture of our organisation and applying it to our environmental work. Look at your existing business culture – what unlocks enthusiasm? Your employees are your biggest asset and, once engaged and enthusiastic, potentially your greatest ambassadors too. At Sky, people like to get behind big ideas and feel a part of important projects. Making sure employees feel part of the bigger picture, even if they are individually contributing small actions, is key to unlocking positivity and driving real change. Taking on a collaborative approach and integrating sustainability into our day to day business. Across the business Sky employees at every level take ownership of the focus for their own areas. Seeing their ideas succeed is the best reward. The landscape in which we operate has arguably changed beyond recognition in recent years: consumer trust has taken a beating and people want to transact with companies that they trust. Businesses must be agile and engage with everyone who touches there businesses. It didn't used to be this way, but actually it's a win-win situation – businesses perform better and communicate in an honest and authentic way with their customers. We know there is a wealth of business expertise out there. If we can find a way to unlock this expertise and apply it to sustainability issues, achievements are surely endless. It's comfortable to talk on these issues to people who already get them. We don't preach to the converted at Sky. Our aim is to talk to people who are not necessarily engaged with the sustainability agenda and help them connect, hopefully in an interesting way. We're still learning, but so are our customers. I'm famous for having a cold flat. As an Australian, my long-haul flights back home to family are a bitter sweet inevitability. The desire to act now, whilst looking to the future and seeing different points of view and collaborating. Born: Sydney, AustraliaLives: LondonEducation: Bachelor of ScienceCareer: non-government organisations, politics, government and now SkyLikes: difficult people, humour, shoesDislikes: people who can't see other points of view. EmoticonsBook: a tussle between Middlemarch and Midnight's ChildrenFilm: BladeAlbum: Led Zeppelin IVCareer ambition: yesLife ambition: to continue to be surprisedIf I wasn't doing this I would be… travelling in the style of Gertrude Bell This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. Become a GSB member to get more stories like this direct to your inbox | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
The mission began on July 26 and ended on August 7, with the lunar surface exploration taking place between July 30 and August 2. Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed near Hadley Rille and explored the local area using the rover, allowing them to travel further from the Lunar Module than had been possible on previous missions. They spent 18$1/2$ hours on the Moon's surface on four extravehicular activities (EVA), and collected 77 kg of surface material.
At the same time, Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden orbited the Moon, operating the sensors in the scientific instrument module (SIM) bay of the service module. This suite of instruments collected data on the Moon and its environment using a panoramic camera, a gamma-ray spectrometer, a mapping camera, a laser altimeter, a mass spectrometer, and a lunar subsatellite deployed at the end of the moonwalks. The Lunar Module returned safely to the command module and, at the end of Apollo 15's 74th lunar orbit, the engine was fired for the journey home. During the return trip, Worden performed the first spacewalk in deep space. The Apollo 15 mission splashed down safely on August7 despite the loss of one of its three parachutes.
The mission accomplished its goals and also saw the collection of the Genesis Rock, thought to be part of the Moon's early crust, and Scott's use of a hammer and a feather to validate Galileo's theory that when there is no air resistance, objects fall at the same rate due to gravity regardless of their mass. The mission received negative publicity the following year when it emerged that the crew had carried unauthorized postal covers to the lunar surface, some of which were sold by a West German stamp dealer. The members of the crew were reprimanded for poor judgment, and did not fly in space again.
Background
In 1962, NASA contracted for the construction of fifteen Saturn V rockets to achieve the Apollo program's goal of a crewed landing on the Moon by 1970; at the time no one knew how many missions this would require. Since success was obtained in 1969 with the sixth SaturnV on Apollo 11, nine rockets remained available for a hoped-for total of ten landings. These plans included a heavier, extended version of the Apollo spacecraft to be used in the last five missions (Apollo 16 through 20). The revamped Lunar Module would be capable of up to a 75-hour stay, and would carry a Lunar Roving Vehicle to the Moon's surface. The service module would house a package of orbital experiments to gather data on the Moon. In the original plan Apollo 15 was to be the last of the non-extended missions to land in Censorinus crater. But in anticipation of budget cuts, NASA cancelled three landing missions by September 1970. Apollo 15 became the first of three extended missions, known as J missions, and the landing site was moved to Hadley Rille, originally planned for Apollo 19.
Crew
Scott was born in 1932 in San Antonio, Texas, and, after spending his freshman year at the University of Michigan on a swimming scholarship, transferred to the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1954. Serving in the Air Force, Scott had received two advanced degrees from MIT in 1962 before being selected as one of the third group of astronauts the following year. He flew in Gemini 8 in 1966 alongside Neil Armstrong and as command module pilot of Apollo 9 in 1969. Worden was born in 1932 in Jackson, Michigan, and like his commander, had attended West Point (class of 1955) and served in the Air Force. Worden earned two master's degrees in engineering from Michigan in 1963. Irwin had been born in 1930 in Pittsburgh, and had attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1951 and serving in the Air Force, receiving a master's degree from Michigan in 1957. Both Worden and Irwin were selected in the fifth group of astronauts (1966), and Apollo 15 would be their only spaceflight. All three future astronauts had attended Michigan, and two had taken degrees from there; it had been the first university to offer an aeronautical engineering program.
The backup crew was Richard F. Gordon Jr. as commander, Vance D. Brand as command module pilot and Harrison H. Schmitt as Lunar Module pilot. By the usual rotation of crews, the three would most likely have flown Apollo 18, which was canceled. Brand flew later on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project and on STS-5, the first operational Space Shuttle mission. With NASA under intense pressure to send a professional scientist to the Moon, Schmitt, a geologist, was selected as LMP of Apollo 17 instead of Joe Engle. Apollo 15's support crew consisted of astronauts Joseph P. Allen, Robert A. Parker and Karl G. Henize. All three were scientist-astronauts, selected in 1967, as the prime crew felt they needed more assistance with the science than with the piloting. None of the support crew would fly during the Apollo program, waiting until the Space Shuttle program to go into space.
Mission Control
The flight directors for Apollo 15 were as follows:
* Gerry Griffin, Gold team
* Milton Windler, Maroon team
* Glynn Lunney, Black team
* Gene Kranz, White team
During a mission the capsule communicators (CAPCOMs), always fellow astronauts, were the only people who normally would speak to the crew. For Apollo 15, the CAPCOMs were Allen, Brand, C. Gordon Fullerton, Gordon, Henize, Edgar D. Mitchell, Parker, Schmitt and Alan B. Shepard.
Planning and training
Schmitt and other scientist-astronauts advocated for a greater place for science on the early Apollo missions. They were often met with disinterest from other astronauts, or found science displaced by higher priorities. Schmitt realized that what was needed was an expert teacher who could fire the astronauts' enthusiasm, and contacted Caltech geologist Lee Silver, whom Schmitt introduced to Apollo 13's commander, Jim Lovell, and to its Lunar Module pilot, Fred Haise, then in training for their mission. Lovell and Haise were willing to go on a field expedition with Silver, and geology became a significant part of their training. Geologist Farouk El-Baz trained the prime crew's command module pilot, Ken Mattingly to inform his planned observations from lunar orbit. The crew's newly acquired skills mostly went unused, due to the explosion that damaged the Apollo 13 spacecraft, and caused an abort of the mission. Apollo 14's CMP, Stuart Roosa, was enthusiastic about geology, but the mission commander, Shepard, less so.
Already familiar with the spacecraft as the backup crew for Apollo 12, Scott, Worden and Irwin could devote more of their training time as prime crew for Apollo 15 to geology and sampling techniques. Scott was determined that his crew bring back the maximum amount of scientific data possible, and met with Silver in April 1970 to begin planning the geological training. Schmitt's assignment as Apollo 15's backup LMP made him an insider, and allowed him to spark competition between the prime and backup crews. The cancellation of two Apollo missions in September 1970 transformed Apollo 15 into a J mission, with a longer stay on the lunar surface, and the first Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). This change was welcomed by Scott, who according to David West Reynolds in his account of the Apollo program, was "something more than a hotshot pilot. Scott had the spirit of a true explorer", one determined to get the most from the J mission. The additional need for communications, including from planned experiments and the rover, required the near-rebuilding of the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia.
Geology field trips took place about once a month throughout the crew's 20 months of training. At first, Silver would take the commanders and LMPs from the prime and backup crews to geological sites in Arizona and New Mexico as if for a normal field geology lesson, but closer to launch, these trips became more realistic. Crews began to wear mock-ups of the backpacks they would carry while hiking near the Rio Grande Gorge, and communicate using walkie-talkies to a CAPCOM in a tent. The CAPCOM was accompanied by a geologist unfamiliar with the area who would rely on the astronauts' descriptions to interpret the findings, and familiarized the crew members with describing landscapes to people who could not see them. Considering himself a serious amateur, Scott came to enjoy field geology.
The decision to land at Hadley came in September 1970. The Site Selection Committee had narrowed the field down to two sites—Hadley Rille, a deep channel on the edge of Mare Imbrium close to the Apennine mountains or the crater Marius, near which were a group of low, possibly volcanic, domes. Although not ultimately his decision, the commander of a mission always held great sway. To David Scott the choice was clear, as Hadley "had more variety. There is a certain intangible quality which drives the spirit of exploration and I felt that Hadley had it. Besides it looked beautiful and usually when things look good they are good." The selection of Hadley was made although NASA lacked high resolution images of the landing site; none had been made as the site was considered too rough to risk one of the earlier Apollo missions. The proximity of the Apennine mountains to the Hadley site required a landing approach trajectory of 26 degrees, far steeper than the 15 degrees in earlier Apollo landings.
The expanded mission meant that Worden spent much of his time at North American Rockwell's facilities at Downey, California, where the command and service module (CSM) was being built. He undertook a different kind of geology training. Working with El-Baz, he studied maps and photographs of the craters he would pass over while orbiting alone in the CSM. As El-Baz listened and gave feedback, Worden learned how to describe lunar features in a way that would be useful to the scientists who would listen to his transmissions back on Earth. Worden found El-Baz to be an enjoyable and inspiring teacher. Worden usually accompanied his crewmates on their geology field trips, though he was often in an airplane overhead, describing features of the landscape as the plane simulated the speed at which the lunar landscape would pass below the CSM.
The demands of the training strained both Worden's and Irwin's marriages; each sought Scott's advice, fearing a divorce might endanger their places on the mission as not projecting the image NASA wanted for the astronauts. Scott consulted Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton, their boss, who stated what was important was that the astronauts do their jobs. Although the Irwins overcame their marital difficulties, the Wordens divorced before the mission.
Spacecraft
Apollo 15 used command and service module CSM-112, which was given the call sign Endeavour, named after HMS Endeavour, and Lunar Module LM-10, call sign Falcon, named after the United States Air Force Academy mascot. Scott explained the choice of the name Endeavour on the grounds that its captain, James Cook, had commanded the first purely scientific sea voyage, and Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing mission on which there was a heavy emphasis on science. Apollo 15 took with it a small piece of wood from Cook's ship, while Falcon carried two falcon feathers to the Moon in recognition of the crew's service in the Air Force. Also part of the spacecraft were a Launch Escape System and a Spacecraft-Lunar Module Adapter, numbered SLA-19.
Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center had some problems with the instruments in the service module's scientific instrument module (SIM) bay. Some instruments were late in arriving, and principal investigators or representatives of NASA contractors sought further testing or to make small changes. Mechanical problems came from the fact the instruments were designed to operate in space, but had to be tested on the surface of the Earth. As such, things like the 7.5 m (24 ft) booms for the mass and gamma ray spectrometers could be tested only using equipment that tried to mimic the space environment, and, in space, the mass spectrometer boom several times did not fully retract.
On the Lunar Module, the fuel and oxidizer tanks were enlarged on both the descent and ascent stages, and the engine bell on the descent stage was extended. Batteries and solar cells were added for increased electrical power. In all this increased the weight of the Lunar Module to 36000 lb, 4000 lb heavier than previous models.
If Apollo 15 had flown as an H mission, it would have been with CSM-111 and LM-9. That CSM was used by the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975, but the lunar module went unused and is now at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Endeavour is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, following its transfer of ownership from NASA to the Smithsonian in December 1974.
Launch vehicle
The Saturn V that launched Apollo 15 was designated SA-510, the tenth flight-ready model of the rocket. As the payload of the rocket was greater, changes were made to the rocket and to its launch trajectory. It was launched in a more southerly direction (80–100 degrees azimuth) than previous missions, and the Earth parking orbit was lowered to 166 km. These two changes meant 1100 lb more could be launched. The propellant reserves were reduced and the number of retrorockets on the S-IC first stage (used to separate the spent first stage from the S-II second stage) reduced from eight to four. The four outboard engines of the S-IC would be burned longer and the center engine would also burn longer. Changes were also made to the S-II to dampen pogo oscillations.
Once all major systems were installed in the SaturnV, it was moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, Launch Complex 39A. During late June and early July 1971, the rocket and Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) were struck by lightning at least four times. There was no damage to the vehicle, and only minor damage to ground support equipment.
Space suits
The Apollo 15 astronauts wore redesigned space suits. On all previous Apollo flights, including the non-lunar flights, the commander and lunar module pilot had worn suits with the life support, liquid cooling, and communications connections in two parallel rows of three. On Apollo 15, the new suits, dubbed the "A7LB", had the connectors situated in triangular pairs. This new arrangement, along with the relocation of the entry zipper (which went in an up-down motion on the old suits), to run diagonally from the right shoulder to the left hip, aided in suiting and unsuiting in the cramped confines of the spacecraft. It also allowed for a new waist joint, letting the astronauts bend completely over, and sit on the rover. Upgraded backpacks allowed for longer-duration moonwalks. As in all missions from and after Apollo 13, the commander's suit bore a red stripe on the helmet, arms and legs.
Worden wore a suit similar to those worn by the Apollo 14 astronauts, but modified to interface with Apollo 15's equipment. Gear needed only for lunar surface EVAs, such as the liquid cooling garment, was not included with Worden's suit, as the only EVA he was expected to do was one to retrieve film cartridges from the SIM bay on the flight home.
Lunar Roving Vehicle
A vehicle that could operate on the surface of the Moon had been considered by NASA since the early 1960s. An early version was called MOLAB, which had a closed cabin and would have massed about 6000 lb; some scaled-down prototypes were tested in Arizona. As it became clear NASA would not soon establish a lunar base, such a large vehicle seemed unnecessary. Still, a rover would enhance the J missions, which were to concentrate on science, though its mass was limited to about 500 lb and it was not then clear that so light a vehicle could be useful. NASA did not decide to proceed with a rover until May 1969, as Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, made its way home from lunar orbit. Boeing received the contract for three rovers on a cost-plus basis; overruns (especially in the navigation system) meant the three vehicles eventually cost a total of $40 million. These cost overruns gained considerable media attention at a time of greater public weariness with the space program, when NASA's budget was being cut.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle could be folded into a space 5 ft by 20 in (1.5 m by 0.5 m). Unloaded, it weighed 460 lb (209 kg) and when carrying two astronauts and their equipment, 1500 lb (700 kg). Each wheel was independently driven by a $1/4$ horsepower (200 W) electric motor. Although it could be driven by either astronaut, the commander always drove. Travelling at speeds up to 6to 8mph (10to 12km/h), it meant that for the first time the astronauts could travel far afield from their lander and still have enough time to do some scientific experiments. The Apollo 15 rover bore a plaque, reading: "Man's First Wheels on the Moon, Delivered by Falcon, July 30, 1971". During pre-launch testing, the LRV was given additional bracing, lest it collapse if someone sat on it under Earth conditions.
Particles and Fields Subsatellite
The Apollo 15 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-1) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the SIM bay just before the mission left orbit to return to Earth. Its main objectives were to study the plasma, particle, and magnetic field environment of the Moon and map the lunar gravity field. Specifically, it measured plasma and energetic particle intensities and vector magnetic fields, and facilitated tracking of the satellite velocity to high precision. A basic requirement was that the satellite acquire fields and particle data everywhere on the orbit around the Moon. As well as measuring magnetic fields, the satellite contained sensors to study the Moon's mass concentrations, or mascons. The satellite orbited the Moon and returned data from August 4, 1971, until January 1973, when, following multiple failures of the subsatellite's electronics, ground support was terminated. It is believed to have crashed into the Moon sometime thereafter.
Launch and outbound trip
Apollo 15 was launched on July 26, 1971, at 9:34am EDT from the Kennedy Space Center at Merritt Island, Florida. The time of launch was at the very start of the two-hour, 37-minute launch window, which would allow Apollo 15 to arrive at the Moon with the proper lighting conditions at Hadley Rille; had the mission been postponed beyond another window on July 27, it could not have been rescheduled until late August. The astronauts had been awakened five and a quarter hours before launch by Slayton, and after breakfast and suiting up, had been taken to Pad 39A, launch site of all seven attempts at crewed lunar landing, and entered the spacecraft about three hours before launch. There were no unplanned delays in the countdown.
At 000:11:36 into the mission, the S-IVB engine shut down, leaving Apollo 15 in its planned parking orbit in low Earth orbit. The mission remained there for 2hours and 40 minutes, allowing the crew (and Houston, via telemetry) to check the spacecraft's systems. At 002:50.02.6 into the mission, the S-IVB was restarted for trans-lunar injection (TLI), placing the craft on a path to the Moon. Before TLI, the craft had completed 1.5 orbits around the Earth.
The command and service module (CSM) and the Lunar Module remained attached to the nearly-exhausted S-IVB booster. Once trans-lunar injection had been achieved, placing the spacecraft on a trajectory towards the Moon, explosive cords separated the CSM from the booster as Worden operated the CSM's thrusters to push it away. Worden then maneuvered the CSM to dock with the LM (mounted on the end of the S-IVB), and the combined craft was then separated from the S-IVB by explosives. After Apollo 15 separated from the booster, the S-IVB maneuvered away, and, as planned, impacted the Moon about an hour after the crewed spacecraft entered lunar orbit, though due to an error the impact was 146 km away from the intended target. The booster's impact was detected by the seismometers left on the Moon by Apollo 12 and Apollo 14, providing useful scientific data.
There was a malfunctioning light on the craft's service propulsion system (SPS); after considerable troubleshooting, the astronauts did a test burn of the system that also served as a midcourse correction. This occurred about 028:40:00 into the mission. Fearing that the light meant the SPS might unexpectedly fire, the astronauts avoided using the control bank with the faulty light, bringing it online only for major burns, and controlling it manually. After the mission returned, the malfunction proved to be caused by a tiny bit of wire trapped within the switch.
After purging and renewing the LM's atmosphere to eliminate any contamination, the astronauts entered the LM about 34 hours into the mission, needing to check the condition of its equipment and move in items that would be required on the Moon. Much of this work was televised back to Earth, the camera operated by Worden. The crew discovered a broken outer cover on the Range/Range Rate tapemeter. This was a concern not only because an important piece of equipment, providing information on distance and rate of approach, might not work properly, but because bits of the glass cover were floating around Falcon's interior. The tapemeter was supposed to be in a helium atmosphere, but due to the breakage, it was in the LM's oxygen atmosphere. Testing on the ground verified the tapemeter would still work properly, and the crew removed most of the glass using a vacuum cleaner and adhesive tape.
As yet, there had been only minor problems, but at about 61:15:00 mission time (the evening of July 28 in Houston), Scott discovered a leak in the water system while preparing to chlorinate the water supply. The crew could not tell where it was coming from, and the issue had the potential to become serious. The experts in Houston found a solution, which was successfully implemented by the crew. The water was mopped up with towels, which were then put out to dry in the tunnel between the command module (CM) and Lunar Module—Scott stated it looked like someone's laundry.
At 073:31:14 into the mission, a second midcourse correction, with less than a second of burn, was made. Although there were four opportunities to make midcourse corrections following TLI, only two were needed. Apollo 15 approached the Moon on July 29, and the lunar orbit insertion (LOI) burn had to be made using the SPS, on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with Earth. If no burn occurred, Apollo 15 would emerge from the lunar shadow and come back in radio contact faster than expected; the continued lack of communication allowed Mission Control to conclude that the burn had taken place. When contact resumed, Scott did not immediately give the particulars of the burn, but spoke admiringly of the beauty of the Moon, causing Alan Shepard, the Apollo 14 commander, who was awaiting a television interview, to grumble, "To hell with that shit, give us details of the burn." The 398.36-second burn took place at 078:31:46.7 into the mission at an altitude of 86.7 nmi above the Moon, and placed Apollo 15 in an elliptical lunar orbit of 170.1 by.
Lunar orbit and landing
On Apollo 11 and 12, the Lunar Module decoupled from the CSM and was piloted to a much lower orbit from which the lunar landing attempt commenced; to save fuel in an increasingly heavy lander, beginning with Apollo 14, the SPS in the service module made that burn, known as descent orbit insertion (DOI), with the lunar module still attached to the CSM. The initial orbit Apollo 15 was in had its apocynthion, or high point, over the landing site at Hadley; a burn at the opposite point in the orbit was performed, with the result that Hadley would now be under the craft's pericynthion, or low point. The DOI burn was performed at 082:39:49.09 and took 24.53 seconds; the result was an orbit with apocynthion of 58.5 nmi and pericynthion of 9.6 nmi. Overnight between July 29 and 30, as the crew rested, it became apparent to Mission Control that mass concentrations in the Moon were making Apollo 15's orbit increasingly elliptical—pericynthion was 7.6 nmi by the time the crew was awakened on July 30. This, and uncertainty as to the exact altitude of the landing site, made it desirable that the orbit be modified, or trimmed. Using the craft's RCS thrusters, this took place at 095:56:44.70, lasting 30.40 seconds, and raised the pericynthion to 8.8 nmi and the apocynthion to 60.2 nmi.
As well as preparing the Lunar Module for its descent, the crew continued observations of the Moon (including of the landing site at Hadley) and provided television footage of the surface. Then, Scott and Irwin entered the Lunar Module in preparation for the landing attempt. Undocking was planned for 100:13:56, over the far side of the Moon, but nothing happened when separation was attempted. After analyzing the problem, the crew and Houston decided the probe instrumentation umbilical was likely loose or disconnected; Worden went into the tunnel connecting the command and lunar modules and determined this was so, seating it more firmly. With the problem resolved, Falcon separated from Endeavour at 100:39:16.2, about 25 minutes late, at an altitude of 5.8 nmi. Worden in Endeavour executed a SPS burn at 101:38:58.98 to send Endeavour to an orbit of 65.2 nmi by 54.8 nmi in preparation for his scientific work.
Aboard Falcon, Scott and Irwin prepared for powered descent initiation (PDI), the burn that was to place them on the lunar surface, and, after Mission Control gave them permission, they initiated PDI at 104:30:09.4 at an altitude of 5.8 nmi, slightly higher than planned. During the first part of the descent, Falcon was aligned so the astronauts were on their backs and thus could not see the lunar surface below them, but after the craft made a pitchover maneuver, they were upright and could see the surface in front of them. Scott, who as commander performed the landing, was confronted with a landscape that did not at first seem to resemble what he had seen during simulations. Part of this was due to an error in the landing path of some 3000 ft, of which CAPCOM Ed Mitchell informed the crew prior to pitchover; part because the craters Scott had relied on in the simulator were difficult to make out under lunar conditions, and he initially could not see Hadley Rille. He concluded that they were likely to overshoot the planned landing site, and, once he could see the rille, started maneuvering the vehicle to move the computer's landing target back towards the planned spot, and looked for a relatively smooth place to land.
Below about 60 ft, Scott could see nothing of the surface because of the quantities of lunar dust being displaced by Falcon's exhaust. Falcon had a larger engine bell than previous LMs, in part to accommodate a heavier load, and the importance of shutting down the engine at initial contact rather than risk "blowback", the exhaust reflecting off the lunar surface and going back into the engine (possibly causing an explosion) had been impressed on the astronauts by mission planners. Thus, when Irwin called "Contact", indicating that one of the probes on the landing leg extensions had touched the surface, Scott immediately shut off the engine, letting the lander fall the remaining distance to the surface. Already moving downward at about .5 ft per second, Falcon dropped from a height of 1.6 ft. Scott's speed resulted in what was likely the hardest lunar landing of any of the crewed missions, at about 6.8 ft per second, causing a startled Irwin to yell "Bam!" Scott had landed Falcon on the rim of a small crater he could not see, and the lander settled back at an angle of 6.9 degrees and to the left of 8.6 degrees. Irwin described it in his autobiography as the hardest landing he had ever been in, and he feared that the craft would keep tipping over, forcing an immediate abort.
Falcon landed at 104:42:29.3 (22:16:29 GMT on July 30), with approximately 103 seconds of fuel remaining, about 1800 ft from the planned landing site. After Irwin's exclamation, Scott reported, "Okay, Houston. The Falcon is on the Plain at Hadley." Once within the planned landing zone, the increased mobility provided by the Lunar Roving Vehicle made unnecessary any further maneuvering.
Stand-up EVA and first EVA
With Falcon due to remain on the lunar surface for almost three days, Scott deemed it important to maintain the circadian rhythm they were used to, and as they had landed in the late afternoon, Houston time, the two astronauts were to sleep before going onto the surface. But the time schedule allowed Scott to open the lander's top hatch (usually used for docking) and spend a half hour looking at their surroundings, describing them, and taking photographs. Lee Silver had taught him the importance of going to a high place to survey a new field site, and the top hatch served that purpose. Deke Slayton and other managers were initially opposed due to the oxygen that would be lost, but Scott got his way. During the only stand-up extravehicular activity (EVA) ever performed through the LM's top hatch on the lunar surface, Scott was able to make plans for the following day's EVA. He offered Irwin a chance to look out as well, but this would have required rearranging the umbilicals connecting Irwin to Falcon's life support system, and he declined. After repressurizing the spacecraft, Scott and Irwin removed their space suits for sleep, becoming the first astronauts to doff their suits while on the Moon.
Throughout the sleep period Mission Control in Houston monitored a slow but steady oxygen loss. Scott and Irwin eventually were awakened an hour early, and the source of the problem was found to be an open valve on the urine transfer device. In post-mission debriefing, Scott recommended that future crews be woken at once under similar circumstances. After the problem was solved, the crew began preparation for the first Moon walk.
After donning their suits and depressurizing the cabin, Scott and Irwin began their first full EVA, becoming the seventh and eighth humans, respectively, to walk on the Moon. They began deploying the lunar rover, stored folded up in a compartment of Falcon's descent stage, but this proved troublesome due to the slant of the lander. The experts in Houston suggested lifting the front end of the rover as the astronauts pulled it out, and this worked. Scott began a system checkout. One of the batteries gave a zero voltage reading, but this was only an instrumentation problem. A greater concern was that the front wheel steering would not work. However, the rear wheel steering was sufficient to maneuver the vehicle. Completing his checkout, Scott said "Okay. Out of detent; we're moving", maneuvering the rover away from Falcon in mid-sentence. These were the first words uttered by a human while driving a vehicle on the Moon. The rover carried a television camera, controlled remotely from Houston by NASA's Ed Fendell. The resolution was not high compared to the still photographs that would be taken, but the camera allowed the geologists on Earth to indirectly participate in Scott and Irwin's activities.
The rille was not visible from the landing site, but as Scott and Irwin drove over the rolling terrain, it came into view. They were able to see Elbow crater, and they began to drive in that direction. Reaching Elbow, a known location, allowed Mission Control to backtrack and get closer to pinpointing the location of the lander. The astronauts took samples there, and then drove to another crater on the flank of Mons Hadley Delta, where they took more. After concluding this stop, they returned to the lander to drop off their samples and prepare to set up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the scientific instruments that would remain when they left. Scott had difficulty drilling the holes required for the heat flow experiment, and the work was not completed when they had to return to the lander. The first EVA lasted 6hours and 32 minutes.
Second and third EVAs
The rover's front steering, inoperative during the first EVA, worked during the second and third ones. The target of the second EVA, on August 1, was the slope of Mons Hadley Delta, where the pair sampled boulders and craters along the Apennine Front. They spent an hour at Spur crater, during which the astronauts collected a sample dubbed the Genesis Rock. This rock, an anorthosite, is believed to be part of the early lunar crust—the hope of finding such a specimen had been one reason the Hadley area had been chosen. Once back at the landing site, Scott continued to try to drill holes for experiments at the ALSEP site, with which he had struggled the day before. After conducting soil-mechanics experiments and raising the U.S. flag, Scott and Irwin returned to the LM. EVA2 lasted 7hours and 12 minutes.
Although Scott had eventually been successful at drilling the holes, he and Irwin had been unable to retrieve a core sample, and this was an early order of business during EVA 3, their third and final moonwalk. Time that could have been devoted to geology ticked away as Scott and Irwin attempted to pull it out. Once it had been retrieved, more time passed as they attempted to break the core into pieces for transport to Earth. Hampered by an incorrectly mounted vise on the rover, they eventually gave up on this—the core would be transported home with one segment longer than planned. Scott wondered if the core was worth the amount of time and effort invested, and the CAPCOM, Joe Allen, assured him it was. The core proved one of the most important items brought back from the Moon, revealing much about its history, but the expended time meant the planned visit to a group of hills known as the North Complex had to be scrubbed. Instead, the crew again ventured to the edge of Hadley Rille, this time to the northwest of the immediate landing site.
Once the astronauts were beside the LM, Scott used a kit provided by the Postal Service to cancel a first day cover of two stamps being issued on August 2, the current date. Scott then performed an experiment in view of the television camera, using a falcon feather and hammer to demonstrate Galileo's theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass, in the absence of aerodynamic drag. He dropped the hammer and feather at the same time; because of the negligible lunar atmosphere, there was no drag on the feather, which hit the ground at the same time as the hammer. This was Joe Allen's idea (he also served as CAPCOM during it) and was part of an effort to find a memorable popular science experiment to do on the Moon along the lines of Shepard's hitting of golf balls. The feather was most likely from a female gyrfalcon (a type of falcon), a mascot at the United States Air Force Academy.
Scott then drove the rover to a position away from the LM, where the television camera could be used to observe the lunar liftoff. Near the rover, he left a small aluminum statuette called Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing the names of 14 known American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in the furtherance of space exploration. The memorial was left while the television camera was turned away; he told Mission Control he was doing some cleanup activities around the rover. Scott disclosed the memorial in a post-flight news conference. He also placed a Bible on the control panel of the rover before leaving it for the last time to enter the LM.
The EVA lasted 4 hours, 49 minutes and 50 seconds. In total, the two astronauts spent 18$1/2$ hours outside the LM and collected approximately 77 kg of lunar samples.
Command module activities
After the departure of Falcon, Worden in Endeavour executed a burn to take the CSM to a higher orbit. While Falcon was on the Moon, the mission effectively split, Worden and the CSM being assigned their own CAPCOM and flight support team.
Worden got busy with the tasks that were to occupy him for much of the time he spent in space alone: photography and operating the instruments in the SIM bay. The door to the SIM bay had been explosively jettisoned during the translunar coast. Filling previously-unused space in the service module, the SIM bay contained a gamma-ray spectrometer, mounted on the end of a boom, an X-ray spectrometer and a laser altimeter, which failed part way through the mission. Two cameras, a stellar camera and a metric camera, together comprised the mapping camera, which was complemented by a panoramic camera, derived from spy technology. The altimeter and cameras permitted the exact time and location from which pictures were taken to be determined. Also present were an alpha particle spectrometer, which could be used to detect evidence of lunar volcanism, and a mass spectrometer, also on a boom in the hope it would be unaffected by contamination from the ship. The boom would prove troublesome, as Worden would not always be able to get it to retract.
Endeavour was slated to pass over the landing site at the moment of planned landing, but Worden could not see Falcon and did not spot it until a subsequent orbit. He also exercised to avoid muscle atrophy, and Houston kept him up to date on Scott and Irwin's activities on the lunar surface. The panoramic camera did not operate perfectly, but provided enough images that no special adjustment was made. Worden took many photographs through the command module's windows, often with shots taken at regular intervals. His task was complicated by the lack of a working mission timer in the Lower Equipment Bay of the command module, as its circuit breaker had popped en route to the Moon. Worden's observations and photographs would inform the decision to send Apollo 17 to Taurus-Littrow to search for evidence of volcanic activity. There was a communications blackout when the CSM passed over the far side of the Moon from Earth; Worden greeted each resumption of contact with the words, "Hello, Earth. Greetings from Endeavour", expressed in different languages. Worden and El-Baz had come up with the idea, and the geology instructor had aided the astronaut in accumulating translations.
Results from the SIM bay experiments would include the conclusion, from data gathered by the X-ray spectrometer, that there was greater fluorescent X-ray flux than anticipated, and that the lunar highlands were richer in aluminum than were the mares. Endeavour was in a more inclined orbit than previous crewed missions, and Worden saw features that were not known previously, supplementing photographs with thorough descriptions.
By the time Scott and Irwin were ready to take off from the lunar surface and return to Endeavour, the CSM's orbit had drifted due to the rotation of the Moon, and a plane change burn was required to ensure that the CSM's orbit would be in the same plane as that of the LM once it took off from the Moon. Worden accomplished the 18-second burn with the SPS.
Return to Earth
Falcon lifted off the Moon at 17:11:22 GMT on August2 after 66 hours and 55 minutes on the lunar surface. Docking with the CSM took place just under two hours later. After the astronauts transferred samples and other items from the LM to the CSM, the LM was sealed off, jettisoned, and intentionally crashed into the lunar surface, an impact registered by the seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15. The jettison proved difficult because of problems getting airtight seals, requiring a delay in discarding the LM. After the jettison, Slayton came on the loop to recommend the astronauts take sleeping pills, or at least that Scott and Irwin do so. Scott as mission commander refused to allow it, feeling there was no need. During the EVAs, the doctors had noticed irregularities in both Scott's and Irwin's heartbeats, but the crew were not informed during the flight. Irwin had heart problems after retiring as an astronaut and died in 1991 of a heart attack; Scott felt that he as commander should have been informed of the biomedical readings. NASA doctors at the time theorized the heart readings were due to potassium deficiency, due to their hard work on the surface and inadequate resupply through liquids.
The crew spent the next two days working on orbital science experiments, including more observations of the Moon from orbit and releasing the subsatellite. Endeavour departed lunar orbit with another burn of the SPS engine of 2minutes 21 seconds at 21:22:45 GMT on August4. The next day, during the return to Earth, Worden performed a 39-minute EVA to retrieve film cassettes from the service module's scientific instrument module (SIM) bay, with assistance from Irwin who remained at the command module's hatch. At approximately 171,000 nautical miles (197,000 mi; 317,000 km) from Earth, it was the first "deep space" EVA in history, performed at great distance from any planetary body. As of, it remains one of only three such EVAs, all performed during Apollo's J missions under similar circumstances. Later that day, the crew set a record for the longest Apollo flight to that point.
On approach to Earth on August7, the service module was jettisoned, and the command module reentered the Earth's atmosphere. Although one of the three parachutes on the CM failed after deploying, likely due to damage as the spacecraft vented fuel, only two were required for a safe landing (one extra for redundancy). Upon landing in the North Pacific Ocean, the CM and crew were recovered and taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Okinawa (LPH-3), after a mission lasting 12 days, 7hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds.
Assessment
The mission objectives for Apollo 15 were to "perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface features in a pre-selected area of the Hadley–Apennine region. Emplace and activate surface experiments. Evaluate the capability of the Apollo equipment to provide extended lunar surface stay time, increased extravehicular operations, and surface mobility. [and] Conduct inflight experiments and photographic tasks from lunar orbit." It achieved all those objectives. The mission also completed a long list of other tasks, including experiments. One of the photographic objectives, to obtain images of the gegenschein from lunar orbit, was not completed, as the camera was not pointed at the proper spot in the sky. According to the conclusions in the Apollo 15 Mission Report, the journey "was the fourth lunar landing and resulted in the collection of a wealth of scientific information. The Apollo system, in addition to providing a means of transportation, excelled as an operational scientific facility."
Apollo 15 saw an increase in public interest in the Apollo program, in part due to fascination with the LRV, as well as the attractiveness of the Hadley Rille site and the increased television coverage. According to David Woods in the Apollo Lunar Flight Journal, "Though subsequent missions travelled further on the Moon, brought back more samples and put the lessons of Apollo 15 into practice, this feat of unalloyed exploration still stands out as a great moment of human achievement. It is remembered still for its combination of competent enthusiasm, magnificent machinery, finely honed science and the grandeur of a very special site in the cosmos beside a meandering rille and graceful, massive mountains – Hadley Base."
Controversies
Despite the successful mission, the careers of the crew were tarnished by a deal they had made before the flight to carry postal covers to the Moon in exchange for about $7,000 each, which they planned to set aside for their children. Walter Eiermann, who had many professional and social contacts with NASA employees and the astronaut corps, served as intermediary between the astronauts and a West German stamp dealer, Hermann Sieger, and Scott carried about 400 covers onto the spacecraft; they were subsequently transferred into Falcon and remained inside the lander during the astronauts' activities on the surface of the Moon. After the return to Earth, 100 of the covers were given to Eiermann, who passed them on to Sieger, receiving a commission. No permission had been received from Slayton to carry the covers, as required.
The 100 covers were put on sale to Sieger's customers in late 1971 at a price of about $1,500 each. After receiving the agreed payments, the astronauts returned them, and accepted no compensation. In April 1972, Slayton learned that unauthorized covers had been carried, and removed the three as the backup crew for Apollo 17. The matter became public in June 1972 and the three astronauts were reprimanded for poor judgment; none ever flew in space again. During the investigation, the astronauts had surrendered those covers still in their possession; after Worden filed suit, they were returned in 1983, something Slate magazine deemed an exoneration.
Another controversy surrounding the Fallen Astronaut statuette that Scott had left on the Moon, arose later. Before the mission, Scott had made a verbal agreement with Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck to sculpt the statuette. Scott's intent, in keeping with NASA's strict policy against commercial exploitation of the US government's space program, was for a simple memorial with a minimum of publicity, keeping the artist anonymous, no commercial replicas being made except for a single copy for public exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum commissioned after the sculpture's public disclosure during the post-flight press conference. Van Hoeydonck claims to have had a different understanding of the agreement, by which he would have received recognition as the creator of a tribute to human space exploration, with rights to sell replicas to the public. Under pressure from NASA, Van Hoeydonck canceled a plan to publicly sell 950 signed copies.
In 2021, Scott published a document entitled "Memorandum for the Record", in which he stated that the figurine left on the Moon was designed and fabricated by NASA personnel. While testifying before a Senate committee in 1972, he had stated that the figurine had been made and provided by Van Hoeydonck at Scott's request.
During those congressional hearings into the postal covers and Fallen Astronaut matters, two Bulova timepieces taken on the mission by Scott were also matters of controversy. Before the mission, Scott had been introduced to Bulova's representative, General James McCormack by Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman. Bulova had been seeking to have its timepieces taken on Apollo missions, but after evaluation, NASA had selected Omega watches instead. Scott brought the Bulova timepieces on the mission, without disclosing them to Slayton. During Scott's second EVA, the crystal on his NASA standard issue Omega Speedmaster watch popped off, and, during the third EVA, he used a Bulova watch. The Bulova Chronograph Model #88510/01 that Scott wore on the lunar surface was a prototype, given to him by the Bulova Company, and it is the only privately owned watch to have been worn while walking on the lunar surface. There are images of him wearing this watch, when he saluted the American flag on the Moon, with the Hadley Delta expanse in the background. In 2015, the watch sold for $1.625 million, which makes it one of the most expensive astronaut-owned artifact ever sold at auction and one of the most expensive watches sold at auction.
Mission insignia
The Apollo 15 mission patch carries Air Force motifs, a nod to the crew's service there, just as the Apollo 12 all-Navy crew's patch had featured a sailing ship. The circular patch features stylized red, white and blue birds flying over Hadley Rille. Immediately behind the birds, a line of craters forms the Roman numeral XV. The Roman numerals were hidden in emphasized outlines of some craters after NASA insisted that the mission number be displayed in Arabic numerals. The artwork is circled in red, with a white band giving the mission and crew names and a blue border. Scott contacted fashion designer Emilio Pucci to design the patch, who came up with the basic idea of the three-bird motif on a square patch.
The crew changed the shape to round and the colors from blues and greens to a patriotic red, white and blue. Worden stated that each bird also represented an astronaut, white being his own color (and as Command Module Pilot, uppermost), Scott being the blue bird and Irwin the red. The colors matched Chevrolet Corvettes leased by the astronauts at KSC; a Florida car dealer had, since the time of Project Mercury, been leasing Chevrolets to astronauts for $1 and later selling them to the public. The astronauts were photographed with the cars and the training LRV for the June 11, 1971, edition of Life magazine.
Visibility from space
The halo area of the Apollo 15 landing site, created by the LM's exhaust plume, was observed by a camera aboard the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE and confirmed by comparative analysis of photographs in May 2008. This corresponds well to photographs taken from the Apollo 15 command module showing a change in surface reflectivity due to the plume, and was the first visible trace of crewed landings on the Moon seen from space since the close of the Apollo program. | WIKI |
Sondra Locke, 74, Is Dead; Oscar-Nominated Actress
Sondra Locke, an actress who received an Oscar nomination for her first film and starred in a series of movies with Clint Eastwood, with whom she had a turbulent relationship, died on Nov. 3 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 74. Her death, which was not widely reported at the time, was caused by cardiac arrest related to brain and bone cancer, The Associated Press reported on Thursday, citing a death certificate. Ms. Locke’s Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actress, was for her performance in “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” a 1968 drama, with Alan Arkin, based on a novel by Carson McCullers. She went on to star in several movies with Mr. Eastwood in the 1970s and ′80s, including their first film together, “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” and “Sudden Impact,” part of the Dirty Harry thriller series. Ms. Locke and Mr. Eastwood’s romance began on the set of their first film, and they lived together for more than a decade. After the couple separated, Ms. Locke sued Mr. Eastwood twice, turning their breakup into a high-profile court battle in the 1990s. In an autobiography, “The Good, the Bad & the Very Ugly,” published in 1997, Ms. Locke wrote that her involvement with Mr. Eastwood ended up essentially derailing her career. “He’s like the emperor,” Ms. Locke told The Washington Post in 1997. “He always had his own company store. If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren’t in the movie business. You weren’t part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.” Around the time of the lawsuits she learned she had breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. Ms. Locke received her big break in the 1960s when Warner Bros. took notice of her during a talent search for an actor to play the adolescent protagonist of “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Ms. Locke said her entrance into Hollywood had been based on luck. “In Los Angeles, I learned quickly that it really doesn’t make much difference whether you’re the best for the part, or whether you have talent,” she said in an interview with The New York Times in 1983. “It’s a matter of some fluky thing that can’t be described.” She dreamed of developing and directing films herself, but said her professional entanglement with Mr. Eastwood made that goal difficult to attain. “You get into a rut being associated with Clint,” she told The Times. Ms. Locke made her directorial debut in 1986 with “Ratboy,” a somewhat satirical tale of an alien boy with ratlike features. “In sociological terms, he exists somewhere between E. T. and the Elephant Man, as an innocent alien adrift in an unsympathetic world,” Janet Maslin wrote in a largely unfavorable review in The Times. Ms. Locke also starred in the movie. After many years off screen, she re-emerged this year in “Ray Meets Helen,” a romantic drama, directed by Alan Rudolph, about two lonely late-middle-aged strangers (Ms. Locke and Keith Carradine) who meet after separately coming into money. “Filled with imaginative visuals populated by the ghosts of the gone and hopes for the future, the movie is wonderfully, magically humane,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The Times. Ms. Locke was born Sandra Louise Smith on May 28, 1944, in Madison County, Ala., to Raymond Smith and Pauline Bayne, according to a biographical sketch in the Internet Movie Database. Her father was stationed at an Army facility and left before Sandra was born. Sandra took the name Locke from a subsequent husband of her mother’s and grew up in Shelbyville, Tenn. She attended Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro but did not graduate. Early on she worked for a Nashville television station, did modeling and voice-over work, acted in community theater and was married for a time to a former high school and college classmate, Gordon Anderson, an actor who accompanied her to Los Angeles and was later the voice of the title character in “Ratboy.” There was no immediate information on Ms. Locke’s survivors. An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of a film website on which a biographical sketch of Ms. Locke appears. It is the Internet Movie Database, not the International Movie Database. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Il ricco d'un giorno
Il ricco d'un giorno is a dramma giocoso in three acts composed by Antonio Salieri. The Italian libretto was by Lorenzo Da Ponte after a work by Giovanni Bertati.
Performance history
The opera was first given on 6 December 1784 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. | WIKI |
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Yellow Fever: A Looming Threat
The spectrum of diseases spread by mosquitoes is no news to mankind. These miniature aerial beings carry diseases that can occasionally be fatal. Dengue, malaria, and chikungunya are the most common mosquito-borne diseases affecting people globally. Among these, lies one more disease that has shown a resurgence in several countries and can potentially develop into an outbreak if not administered caution. This short read discusses yellow fever- an impending doom waiting for its comeback.
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Being aware of yellow fever is the primary step towards averting the unwelcome crisis. It is a mosquito-borne viral infection that can easily infect humans from the concerned mosquito’s bite. Yellow fever, caused by the arbovirus, is an epidemic-prone disease transmitted mainly by infected Aedes and Haemagogus mosquitoes. The best time of day for these mosquitoes to bite people is during the day. Bearing incredibly diverse habitats that range from homes to untamed forests, these mosquitoes can be found anywhere!
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Within three to six days following a mosquito bite, yellow fever manifests itself. Many people frequently show up with almost no symptoms at all! Fever, body aches, headache, muscle exhaustion, appetite loss, nausea, and vomiting are typical symptoms. After they have recovered from the initial symptoms, a regrettable number of individuals may go on to endure a second episode of the disease within a 24-hour period. Elevated body temperatures, jaundice, involvement of the kidneys and liver, and severe abdominal discomfort are indicative of this phase. This stage's recuperation time may take longer than you would want!
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Yellow fever poses a serious global threat that asks us to think of better strategies to deal with the potential outbreak. Such viral fevers do not have a specific medication to treat the condition. You must rest, stay hydrated, and get timely medical treatment as required. Yellow fever poses a serious and potentially dangerous threat to worldwide health security due to its significant impact and potential for international spread. Yellow fever may be a looming threat, that can prove to be a hollow one if one adheres to the prevention protocol as stated.
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Riley played one collegiate season at Eastern Kentucky under Travis Ford. He graduated in 2005 from EKU.
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56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery (RA), which converted from the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). During the Second World War, it first served with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division in the Battle of France and Dunkirk evacuation in May–June 1940. In 1942, it was sent to join the 70th Infantry Division in India, where it was converted into a Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment. In this guise, it served in the Burma Campaign, mainly with the 5th Indian Infantry Division. It reconverted to the anti-tank role in late 1944 and in June 1945 it returned to India as a training unit. It continued serving in the TA postwar until 1961, when it re-merged into the King's Own.
Origin
56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed in 1938 by the conversion of the 4th Battalion, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), a Territorial Army (TA) battalion based at Ulverston in the Furness area of north Lancashire (now in Cumbria). It formed the anti-tank regiment of the TA's 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. The regiment comprised four anti-tank batteries: 221, 222, 223 and 224.
The TA was doubled in size after the Munich Crisis and 56th A/T Rgt formed a duplicate regiment at Crosby, near Liverpool, on 9 May 1939. Originally, this was to be 61st A/T Rgt, but the designation was changed to 66th Anti-Tank Regiment on 1 June, and it was recruited to full strength by July. The regiment consisted of 261, 262, 263 and 264 A/T Btys.
Mobilisation
In September 1939, the unit was mobilised at Ulverston and went to guard important points at Barrow in Furness docks.
Battle of France
The 42nd Division joined the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France in April 1940. The 56th provided the defence on a section of the Dunkirk perimeter before being evacuated:
* 3 April 1940 – Advance party of regiment move to France.
* 21 April 1940 – All of the regiment are now in France.
* 10 May 1940 – The German attack begins. The Regiment is bombed by air but received no casualties.
* 27 May 1940 – In area of Cassel with the 42nd Division. Regiment is ordered to withdraw to Dunkirk.
* 28 May 1940 – 223 Battery is in a heavy engagement with the Germans and accounted for the destruction of ten German tanks.
* 29 May 1940 – Regiment at Rousbrugge protecting Loc.
* 30 May 1940 – Some elements of the Regiment are withdrawn from Dunkirk whilst others defend. The remainder of the unit was later evacuated.
* June 1940 – Regiment based in the North East and Yorkshire in a defensive role.
Home service
Following its return to the UK, the 56th lost men and batteries to form other units.
In September 1941, 224 battery transferred to the newly formed 83rd A/T Rgt (see below), and raised a new 290 A/T Bty to replace it.
In November 1941, 223 Battery became 1st Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery. It became the first Royal Artillery unit to fly into battle – on board gliders – serving with 1st Airborne Division in Sicily in 1942 and later at Arnhem in September 1944.
223 Battery, having been permanently detached to 1st Air Landing Rgt, was replaced by 203 (Ross) A/T Bty. This battery had been part of 51st (West Highland) A/T Rgt of 51st (Highland) Division, most of which was captured at St Valery in 1940, remnants of the artillery escaping through Cherbourg. 51st A/T Regiment was placed in 'suspended animation' and 203 Bty transferred to 56th A/T.
Far East
The 56th had a wonderful record as a fighting unit; firstly, in Flanders during the 1940 campaign, after which it was evacuated at Dunkirk. Then, after a period at home on Beach Defence and Anti-Invasion roles, it went to the Far East.
In 1942–3, Fourteenth Army adopted a new policy with the formation of composite Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank regiments, each containing two LAA and two A/T batteries. This format was intended to help divisions distribute sub-units with balanced firepower and mutual support in close jungle fighting where battle groups often had to move independently. 56th A/T Regiment was one of those selected for conversion, transferring 203 and 290 Btys to 55th (Devon) LAA Rgt (thus retaining the two original King's Own batteries), and receiving 163 and 164 LAA Btys in exchange in July and August 1943. These were equipped with the Bofors 40 mm gun. The regiment was in training with XV Corps in September 1943, before joining 5th Indian Infantry Division in Burma in October.
The 5th Indian Division was facing the Japanese 55th Division on the coastal flank of the Arakan front. The defeat of the Japanese 55th Division, to which a large share of the credit must go to the Indian 5th Division, was the first decisive victory against the Japanese since they had invaded Burma two years previously. From the victory in the Arakan sector, the 5th Indian Infantry Division was air-lifted to the central front. 161 Brigade joined XXXIII Corps, which was beginning to arrive at Dimapur, and fought in the Battle of Kohima while the remainder of the division reinforced IV Corps, whose land victory at Kohima and Imphal, in which the Division played an important part, proved to be the turning-point of the Burma Campaign. Except for one period of rest and reorganization, the Indian 5th Division continued to fight and to advance throughout the rest of the war, and took part in the final thrust by IV Corps down to Rangoon.
Demobilisation
During the period from June to August 1945, the 66th A/T Rgt was gradually placed into a state of "suspended animation" and its personnel were posted to the 56th, which had just come out of the line in Burma and was reforming as a Self-Propelled unit in India - approximately 80% of the original 56th's personnel were sent back to England for repatriation and replaced by personnel from the 66th. The 56th was itself also placed into a state of "suspended animation" while its remaining personnel and equipment were returned to England.
Commanders
The following officers commanded 56th A/T Rgt during the war:
* Lt. Col. B.H. Palmer. (1940–1941)
* Brigadier Claude M. Vallentin (Jul 1941 – Jun 1942)
* Brigadier Robert Mansergh (Jun 1942 – Sep 1944)
* Brigadier Geoffrey B.J. Kellie (Sep 1944 – Jun 1945)
* Brigadier R.G. Loder-Symonds (Jun 1945 – Aug 1945)
66th Anti-Tank Regiment
This regiment mobilised in September 1939 as part of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division. In November, it transferred to 59th (Staffordshire) Division, which was being organised as a duplicate of the 55th. In June 1940, it returned to the 55th Division.
At this time, the 55th Division was part of XI Corps defending Essex and Suffolk against possible German invasion. There was very little equipment available: 66 A/T Rgt had only two guns and was acting as infantry, providing a reserve for 164th Brigade. In August, it was assigned to man a number of static 4-inch Naval guns until they were taken over by a medium artillery regiment. That month it received more A/T guns, bringing it up to a total of 10.
In September 1941, 66 A/T Rgt also transferred one of its original batteries (262 Bty) to 83 A/T Rgt, and raised a new 306 Bty to replace it in December. 66th Anti-Tank Regiment remained with 55th Division, serving in various parts of the UK, including a spell in Northern Ireland until July 1944, when it transferred to Home Forces. The regiment remained in the UK throughout the war.
83rd Anti-Tank Regiment
This regiment was formed at Clacton in September 1941 for service overseas. It was assembled from batteries of four existing regiments:
* 68 A/T Battery from 14th Anti-Tank Regiment, a Regular Army unit of 4th Division
* 224 A/T Battery from 56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment, see above
* 262 A/T Battery from 66th Anti-Tank Regiment, see above
* 265 A/T Battery from 67th Anti-Tank Regiment, the 2nd Line TA duplicate of 57th (East Surrey) Anti-Tank Regiment, in 56th (London) Division.
Half of the regiment was therefore drawn from the King's Own, and it was included in the Regimental History. In December 1941, it sailed round the Cape in the same convoy as 56th A/T Rgt, and landed at Basra in Iraq on 1 February 1942, where it joined 8th Indian Division. In April, it was split up between the division's three brigades:
* 68 A/T Bty to 18th Indian Infantry Brigade
* 262 A/T Bty to 17th Indian Infantry Brigade
* 265 A/T Bty to 19th Indian Infantry Brigade
Meanwhile, Regimental HQ and 224 A/T Bty moved to Persia and, together with two field batteries, formed 'Y' Field Regiment (later 165th Field Regiment) under the command of 25th Indian Infantry Brigade of 10th Indian Division:
* RHQ from 83rd A/T Rgt
* 224 A/T Bty from 83rd A/T Rgt
* 463 Bty from 87th (1st West Lancashire) Field Rgt
* 486 Bty from 121 (West Riding) Field Rgt
In July 1942, 26th Indian Brigade moved to Egypt, where 224 A/T Bty left 165 Field Rgt to rejoin the reforming 83rd A/T Rgt, whose other batteries re-assembled from Iraq during August. The regiment then served in North Africa, where it was commanded by Lieut-col Bill Leggatt, and Palestine until it was disbanded in December 1944.
Postwar
When the TA was reconstituted in 1947, the 56th and 66th A/T Rgts reformed as 380 A/T and 390 LAA Rgts respectively.
380 Anti-Tank Regiment
The regiment reformed at Ulverston as 380 Anti-Tank Regiment (King's Own) in 42nd (Lancashire) Division. In 1951 it was reorganised and redesignated as a Light Regiment instead of A/T. In 1955, with the disbandment of Anti-Aircraft Command and the reduction in AA units, the regiment absorbed 293 (East Lancashire) LAA Rgt and 556 (East Lancashire) Heavy AA Rgt to form:
380 Light Regiment (King's Own)
* P (Church) Bty from 556 HAA Rgt
* Q (Burnley) Bty from 293 LAA Rgt
* R (Furness) Bty from 380 Light Rgt
Two years later, R Bty was redesignated R (King's Own) Bty.
In a further reduction of the TA in 1961, 380 Light Regt was absorbed into 288 (2nd West Lancashire) LAA Rgt, but R (King's Own) Bty was converted back into infantry and joined 5th Bn King's Own to form A Company in a new 4/5th Bn King's Own, thus completing its journey back to its original regiment.
390 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
This regiment reformed as 390 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (King's Own) with its HQ at Altcar Ranges at Hightown and forming part of 95th Army Group Royal Artillery (AA). However, in 1950 it was amalgamated into 306 HAA Regiment (Lancashire Hussars), becoming R Bty in that unit.
Equipment
As an Anti-Tank Unit, the 56th was supplied with the then new Ordnance Q-F 6 Pounder 7cwt, which replaced the previous equipment of 2 Pounders, used in France and England. During the regiment's time in England in 1940 to 1941, it underwent training on the new 6 Pounder Anti-Tank Gun, which was continued in India prior to its deployment with the 5th Indian Division.
Insignia
Initially upon conversion to artillery, the 56th A/T Rgt retained the King's Own cap badge in white metal, though in October 1939 this was replaced by the RA's grenade collar badge, worn as a cap badge. However, all ranks retained the King's Own buttons in service dress. While serving in Burma the regiment wore a white metal King's Own lion collar badge on a red/blue RA diamond patch on the turn-up of their bush hats. While serving with 1st Airborne Division, 223 Bty wore an embroidered shoulder title bearing the words 'ANTI-TANK BATTERY'. The 66th A/T Rgt also retained King's Own buttons on service dress. After the war the regiment wore a red lanyard in place of the white RA one, which it retained as R Bty of 306th HAA Rgt.
Museums
* Kings Own Museum
* Royal Artillery Museum
Re-enactment Group
'Beyond The Chindwin, British in Burma' (non-profit organisation).
External sources
* British Army units from 1945 on
* British Military History
* Burma Star Association Last accessed 14/10/2015.
* Peter Donnelly Army:56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (The King's Own) at BBC People's History (20 January 2006). Last accessed 14/10/2015
* Kings Own Museum. (2014). 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, RA. Last accessed 14/10/2015.
* The Royal Artillery 1939–45
* Graham Watson, The Territorial Army 1947 | WIKI |
Talk:Operation Car Wash
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Title Translation
I don't think "Lava Jato" means "Car Wash" in portuguese, but rather any use of a pressure washer (or the washer itself). Maybe "Pressure Wash", "Power Wash" or even "Jet Wash" (Lava - Wash, Jato - Jet) would be better translations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:09, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
You are correct that 'lava jato' means 'pressure wash' (literally 'jet wash') but in Brazil 'lava jato' is the name for a car wash because they use a jet spray to clean the car. I know - I just picked up my car from the 'lava jato' where it was washed. Every car wash place in Brazil has a sign 'lava jato' and everyone knows that's a car wash. I believe your comment as well as the discussion below are due to a cultural misunderstanding and not referring to English language sources. Every English news source reporting on the story that I know of has called the scandal 'operation car wash' because that is the term that Brazilians use. There is also another term occasionally used - 'petrolão' - because the scandal involved the state controlled oil company Petrobras. American In Brazil (talk) 17:12, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Only for a better clarification, expression "lava jato" is wrong in Brazilian grammar (despite this, is the consecrated form to define the operation - and the process of wash cars). The correct spelling is "lava a jato" ("wash by jet"). Strictly, "lava jato" means "wash a jet" (airplane).--PauloMSimoes (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , I think the title should have never been translated. I suggest we keep the original "Lava Jato", and in the introduction we clarify what it means. --Bageense(disc.) 17:04, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* I, , as most of interwikis. With a footnote in lead as "The name of the operation - Lava Jato - is originate from the use by a network of gas stations and car washers (called lava jato in Brazil, due to use of jet of pressurized water to wash the cars) to transfer illicit resources of one of the criminal organizations initially investigated. Although the work has advanced to other directions, the initial name was established.", translation of "O nome do caso - Lava Jato - decorre do uso de uma rede de postos de combustíveis e lava a jato de automóveis para movimentar recursos ilícitos pertencentes a uma das organizações criminosas inicialmente investigadas. Embora os trabalhos tenham avançado para outros rumos, o nome inicial se consagrou.", in "Por que Lava Jato?" ("Why Lava Jato?" Look at the correct grammar used in the source ("lava a jato")--PauloMSimoes (talk) 20:05, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , Do you think we should open a move proposal? --Bageense(disc.) 20:36, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* I think that is better to wait more opinions here.--PauloMSimoes (talk) 20:46, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
I can´t to open this RM. Can you do it, within the detailed procedures ?--PauloMSimoes (talk) 21:56, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , typically, en-wiki uses the Requested move process not Rfc for page moves. There were two RMs about this in 2016 (oddly, this discussion is placed above those earlier ones on this Talk page): see here and here. Arguments in those RMs were considered sufficient to support the current title.
* The usage of an expression can change over time, and if you believe it has, then feel free to open a new RM discussion. Note that en-wiki's Article title policy governs the titles of all articles at English Wikipedia, and RM arguments should be based on it. What the title is called in Portuguese, or what is considered proper grammar in Portuguese, or the fact that every other language calls it Lava Jato, will not affect the outcome of an RM discussion here. If you wish to request a move, please do so (and at the bottom of the page, please; not here). Just be aware that you should follow en-wiki policy and guidelines, not pt-wiki ones. When starting the process, please follow the procedures given at Requested moves. This move would likely be controversial, so please read Requested moves/Controversial and follow the recommendations at WP:RM. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 21:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* Tanks, !
* , Let me try --Bageense(disc.) 22:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , ✅, it is at the bottom of the page. Leave your arguments there as well. --Bageense(disc.) 22:12, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Political Implications
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/ this seems relevant to the article and should be included — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:54, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
* I posted a topic about The Intercept revelations down below. Erick Soares3 (talk) 12:58, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Title
you renamed Lava Jato to Petrolão. Google gives twice as many hits for the former than for the latter (15 million vs. 768 thousand). Therefore, I kindly request you to undo the renaming. Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 16:34, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
The corruption scandal was originally named 'lava jato' for the reason named in the article. It has since been called 'petrolão' in slang parlance. Both are correct. American In Brazil (talk) 17:16, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Requested move 10 March 2016
The result of the move request was: To be Moved to Operation Car Wash. Note: requires admin assistance, which I will request at WP:RMT. — Amakuru (talk) 11:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Operação Lava Jato → ? – Per WP:ENGLISH, the article title should be the name that is most common in the English language. From my research, "Operação Lava Jato" isn't commonly used in English language sources. There are two, common, recognizable names in English: "Operation Car Wash" (also "Carwash", sometimes using both spellings in the same article ) and "Petrobras scandal." . I'm slightly leaning towards Operation Car Wash, as the translation of the Portuguese name, but would support any of the suggestions I made. -- Tavix ( talk ) 22:14, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
* Support - "Operation Car Wash" per OP. InsertCleverPhraseHere 05:01, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
* Support - "Operation Car Wash" as per usage in http://news.google.com/ fgnievinski (talk) 16:37, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Requested move 14 May 2016
The result of the move request was: Moved. There are three supports, one oppose, and one for the alternative Lava Jato. The oppose is somewhat weak, as noted by RGloucester, as most of the sources cited also call it Car Wash. As Jenks said, this would be moved even with a no consensus result, but in fact I think there is just about a consensus to move back to the result of the previous RM anyway. — Amakuru (talk) 12:24, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Operation Lava Jato → Operation Car Wash – Per this Requested Move, another move of this page should be considered controversial and be discussed before moving it. – -- Tavix ( talk ) 20:34, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
* This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:25, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose – Looking at that previous RM discussion, it seems that the new title "Operation Lava Jato" would have been accepted if it had been considered, since it's more than twice as common in English sources as the one they made up there by literal translation. Let it go. Dicklyon (talk) 21:40, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
* Support – I strongly dispute the above claim that "Operation Car Wash" was "made up" in the previous RM. This is a nonsense. "Operation Car Wash" is the common English name for this. One can see its appearance in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, and even a BBC article dating back to November 2014. This name has existed since the start of the investigation, and it is even more important to mention that none of these articles use the half-translated "Operation Lava Jato" at all. I struggle to understand why this controversial WP:BOLD move is being allowed to stand, given the result of the last RM. If you've got evidence to counter this usage, Mr Lyon, I'd suggest you present it. RGloucester — ☎ 15:59, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* I was looking at search hit counts; but looking again, I see I must have made a mistake. I withdraw my opposition. Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* Thanks for taking a second look. I've asked for the assistance of Jenks24 in cleaning this up. RGloucester — ☎ 16:50, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose Lava Jato is used in the majority of English-language media: BBC, The Guardian, Washington Post and others, , , ; The Guardian reports 177 hits of Lava Jato and "car wash" is not even a right translation. Google has less hits for "Operation Car Wash" than for "Operation Lava Jato" while a lot, lot more cover refers to it just as "Lava jato" as in Google News. Frenditor (talk) 18:41, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* It doesn't matter whether it is a "right translation". It is the translation used by the vast majority of English reliable sources. All of your hits include "car wash" or "carwash" (there are two spellings possible) alongside "lava jato", and none use mixed form "Operation Lava Jato" as opposed to using the Portuguese for "operation". Your searches are not demonstrating anything in support of "lava jato". RGloucester — ☎ 20:14, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* Pinging past participants. RGloucester — ☎ 20:16, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* Let's go with simply Lava Jato (with no operation or operação), as per Google News search results in English (in decreasing order):
* brazil "lava jato": 57,700
* brazil "operação lava jato": 29,000
* brazil "carwash" (or "car wash"): 21590 = 4,290 + 17,300
* brazil "operation carwash" (or "operation car wash"): 2,049 = 439 + 1,610
* brazil "operation lava jato": 374
* fgnievinski (talk) 10:08, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* Support, Don't half translate a title, the sources don't (per RGloucester ), we shouldn't either. I am confused as to why moved this page to "Operation Lava Jato" in the first place, as this was not the decision that was made in the last RM. InsertCleverPhraseHere 22:34, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
* Well, actually, very many sources do exactly use that half translation. Google searches seem to disagree as to what's more common. Dicklyon (talk) 04:37, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* "Many sources" is somewhat of an overstatement, don't you think? The search for the mixed form produces results from a selection of minor publications, whereas "car wash" or "carwash" appear in all of the top-rate publications. A search for "lava jato", as provided above, nearly always shows that most of the results are something like "Operation Car Wash (lava jato), and so the fact that "lava jato" appears in articles that put "car wash" in the primary position is not an indication that we should use "lava jato". Indeed, it tells us that we should not use it. More importantly, the above searches include results in Portuguese, which certainly cannot be accepted here. RGloucester — ☎ 13:48, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* I was searching for the complete quoted phrase, getting 13700 and 38,600. That's many, though not close to half. Dicklyon (talk) 14:55, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* I see. These two searches seem more in line with what I expected. I don't know why we all get different results sometimes even if we type in the same thing. Regardless, I'd say that this makes "Car Wash" the clear winner. RGloucester — ☎ 15:18, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* Usually operations name aren't translated, Operation Weserübung for example. Frenditor (talk) 19:49, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* Operation names are not translated if English language reliable sources do not translate them. In this case, they do. We base our usage on the preponderance of WP:RS. If RS refer to "Operation Weserübung", so do we. If RS refer to "Operation Car Wash", so do we. We don't invent our own usage per WP:UCN. RGloucester — ☎ 16:04, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* It's just you pretending they don't exist. Plenty of occurrences were already showed. Frenditor (talk) 17:55, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* I'm not pretending "they don't exist". All of the searches have shown that "Car Wash" dominates, and should be used per WP:UCN. "Lava Jato" does appear, but usually in parentheses following "Car Wash", or in less reliable sources, not as the common name of the operation in English language. RGloucester — ☎ 19:22, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* Procedural note. Should this RM end as no consensus then the status quo ante title, "Operation Car Wash", should be restored. Jenks24 (talk) 01:16, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
* Agreed.fgnievinski (talk) 10:08, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Impact on politics
Section does not stress the impact of Lava Jato operation on the presidential campaign of 2014. While it was a possibly sensitive election, the resulting impeachment was definitely affected by the investigation into Petrobras and the government accounts.
There is no citation to the report on Edison Lobão being investigated.
There is also a typo in "Impact on Politics section" :"In late 2017, it was claime in an investigative interview". Change "claime" to "claimed" please.
Thanks,
Mtucundu (talk) 06:57, 9 November 2017 (UTC)mtucundu
Improvements for article
Hello everyone! I will try to update this article a bit more. I will mostly focus on expanding the summary, because in my opinion this should be the main focus of the article and at this moment it is quite poor of information. This will certainly lead to me updating some other subjects. Besides and because of this I will try to add some more academic articles as sources.Ief O (talk) 10:57, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
I was looking through this article and noticed that the introduction seems very sloppy- there are some repetitions and some weird grammar and punctuation errors that seem out of place. I just wanted to notify people of this. SnowballEffect (talk) 03:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
* The summary is very sloppy. I dont think the article represents the conflict of opinions on the topic. I do not think this statement is very clear: "The scandal interrupted the rule of the PT coalition that had started in 2003, thanks to the independence of the judiciary and public prosecuters, and freedom of the press."
* The source is also from Sergio Fausto who is the executive superintendent of Fundação Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso. An organisation founded by Henrique Cardoso and the article.. is unsurprisingly very complementary of Cardso and critical of Lula.
* Sure such an opinion is valid in an article.. but is that statement widely accepted? I don't know but I am not sure a poorly paraphrased statement in a brief that has only got one academic citation tells you that.
* If the source is considered to be critical a bit of contextualisation would work..
* Such as "The scandal interrupted the rule of the PT coalition that governed from 2003. Political scientist, Sergio Fausto, saw the crisis and subsequent collapse of the PT coalition as a prevention of Brazil becoming a semi-democratic regime by the independent judiciary and public prosecuters as well as the freedom of the press."
* The rest of that paragraph is also a complete mess that risks making operation carwash all about PT and a mish mash of various opinions without any recognition that the opinions come from widely different visions of what happened. This is particularly odd as it doesnt match the rest of the page very well that has a much wider scope.
* The article should represent quite well that Operation Carwash, particularly when it comes to Lula and Dima, is a controversial, highly politicised moment. Giving space for those who saw it as essentially a partisan undemocratic take over and those that saw it as a much needed investigation that actually protected Brazils. As well as more level headed balanced opinions.
* Yes Wikipedia shouldn't give credence to all views but it seems like it is actively ignoring the conflict which I feel paints a very unsatisfactory picture of the incident particularly given how utterly critical it is to contemporary politics. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:13, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
translator/researcher/edit notes
This scandal has not gotten all that much coverage in english, in part because of its scope and complexity, but also because of a fairly steep learning curve and language barrier. First of all, if anyone speaks good Brazilian Portuguese, I would welcome someone just verifying the accuracy of this and related articles. My Portuguese just barely allows me to decipher the English Google translate gives me, and I absolutely could misunderstand some piece of idiom somewhere. Next, it is important to understand the legal system, which is not based on common law, ie British/American systems. It is similar to but not the same as the Napoleonic system. In particular what is often translated as "prosecutor" is in fact more like the French juge d'instruction, an investigating magistrate. Sérgio Moro is a *judge*.
Two specifically Brazilian laws affect all the litigation, plea bargaining and maneuvering:
* A law passed several years ago says that you cannot run for office if you have a criminal record. I have seen this referred to as the Clean Hands law or the Clean File law. This law does not, as of February 2018, prevent Lula da Silva from running for president because he still has two more venues where he can appeal his conviction. So he is allowed to run, but if he loses his appeals he may not be able to serve even if he wins the election. It is also possible, in the special judicial proceedings for office-holders, to be barred from participating in politics for a period, for example eight years.
* At some point in the Rousseff administration (I think) a law was passed or modified to allow an investigating magistrate to offer defendants substantial reductions in their sentence in return for cooperating with prosecutors and/or testifying against other defendants. Many of the politicians charged in this investigation have recorded other defendants, and wiretap transcripts and surveillance video have also been released.
Some of the vocabulary is -- I am not sure if the right word is "specialized". Frequently translated in a confusing way? I am listing some of these, which I have gradually deciphered, to save other people some time. Pease free to comment or correct
* "answers for/to" = faces charges of
* "award-winning report/performance/file/submission" is testimony given in return for a sentence reduction
* "mandate" = the term of office, or sometimes perhaps the eligibility to hold office. Has nothing to do with public opinion or political support
* tip - sometimes refers to a bribe
* crime of responsibility - a crime which is only possible while in office, such as influence peddling
So. The special judicial proceedings for politicians are spelled out in the 1988 Constition currently in effect. Essentially, a petition must be made at the Chamber of Deputies. The president of the Chamber of Deputies accepts the petition (or not), and the House forms a committee which eventually recommends (or not) that the charge be forwarded to the Senate. The Senate accepts (or not) the matter and if it does constitutes itself into a judicial body with the head of the Supreme Court presiding. This is the impeachment process -- at least for a president, and if the Senate votes to impeach the the president is removed from office. I think this needs to be blessed by the Supreme Court. For other office-holders such as Senators the vote can also result in removal from office, and/or suspension of political rights. Politicians who are removed from office are no longer immune to charges in the criminal court sytem. Thus, the politician who was videotaped with a briefcase full of bribe money for Temer was removed from office and now faces charges in the criminal system. Temer cannot be charged while he is still in office, and the Senate voted *not* to refer that charge to the Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction over a sitting president. Since the charge was quashed before it got to a court with jurisdiction, the investigators cannot proceed against him until he leaves office.
In an impeachment proceeding the charges need not be criminal. Rousseff was charged with ordering the social security checks sent out (essentially) even though the budget was tied up in the Chamber of Deputies. While this is not a crime, it does violate the certain provisions of the Constitution and something that keeps being called the Budget Law. Overstepped her constitutional role (?) In any event, impeachment is a political process not a criminal one and one of the things that made this such drama was that she was removed from office for (some say) allowing Operation Car Wash investigators to proceed. Most of those who voted to impeach her were implicated in one of the investigations.
So. I am trying to build out the documentation of events, although coverage has been spotty and quite often I find something about someone being released from pre-trial detention but no specific documentation in that reference on why. I am sure all this got saturation coverage in Brazil and a lot of the media is operating on the assumption that we know more (as english speakers) that we do, or that I do anyway. Hope that helps.
Things that need doing: -* read this and associated articles to proofread the portrayal of the legal process. -* many of the politicians have very sketchy articles (NOTARESUME) or articles only in Portuguese -* articles on players/events need to be interlinked. Many BLPs do not mention, or glide over, criminal charges etc, which are definitely notable -* document changes in economic/environmental policy due to Temer replacing Rousseff -* document the many political parties to at least some extent; also verify that the runoff election procedures are explained somewhere. -* The state-owned oil company was involved in all sorts of corruption and this appears to extend to almost any government procurement process such as highway construction contracts
Also, it seems to me that there are decolonization/land reform/resource extraction aspects of this that may be tied to World Bank and foreign creditors. Someone should look up a couple of solid academic histories of recent Brazilian history. On a side note, one reason (I think) that Temer supporters were so vehement about Rousseff's removal from office *not* constituting a coup is that Hillary Clinton said at one point that the US could not provide foreign aid to Guatemala if it called Zelaya's removal a coup. This traces back to some Monroe Doctrine-era treaties in Central America. However, Brazil is a fairly large economy and definitely not reliant on foreign aid. Also, it turns out that the equivalent Brazilian treaty with the US was signed when it was a military dictatorship and the US was worried about Communists. It specifically says Communists. So while Rousseff has repeatedly said that her impeachment was a coup a) the constitutional process was meticulously followed. Possibly her removal was wrong or a symptom of corruption or whatever, but the legal process was in fact observed. b) without discussing whether that process was properly engaged or should have taken place, ok, it did remove her from office, and that removal has overturned a number of labor, land and environmental reforms implemented in her adminstration and that of her predecessor Lula da Silva. She and Lula, while not communists, are certainly further left than the Temer administration that took power after her impeachment.
-There also appear to be some questionable economic development projects with Venezuela and Cuba (PDVSA, BNDES) - see port of Mariel for example. -Many of the politician involved in this scandal were involved in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers leaks as well. Cross-referencing between the articles is certainlu needed, and the Brazil section of the PP artlces probably needs tobe updated, since I haven't touched either in about a year.' - as someone mentioned above, a lot of the sources are news updates and while they are better than not mentioning or referencing events at all, it would be very good indeed if someone can build out the conceptual framework with some academic/historic texts.
* The opinions expressed above are of course not something that I'd wite into the article, but I believe them to be correct, which means that the associated articles aren't all that accurate or complete, if that's the case, so *much* needs to be addressed. Naturally if things turn out to be otherwise as more coverage and explainers emerge, the important thing is that the articles be accurate, whatever that may turn out to mean. Thanks to anyone who applies brainpower to any part of this. Elinruby (talk) 10:32, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
* Thank you for your comments. As an American living for six years in Brazil with a Brazilian wife and daughter, and also fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, I appreciate your perspectives on the scandal, the largest in Latin American history. I have made some comments above on the corect title of this article, which you can read by scrolling up. I would point out, however, that as good Wikipedians we must cite reliable sources WP:RS and not interject our own personal opinions into the article WP:OR. Your opinions on this 'Talk' page about how to improve the article are most welcome. It is perhaps ironic that I am writing this while my wife went to the polling station to cast her vote in the presidential election runoff, which has been greatly influenced by the scandal. (I am not a Brazilian citizen and therefore cannot vote.) American In Brazil (talk) 17:53, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I am coming back to this some time later and.....really? It's a bit insulting to be lectured on reliable sources when I went to such pain to spell out what I knew, what I was confused about, and what was speculation. To be completely clear, since apparently I wasn't, I welcome any help with this article, and have gone to great lengths to balance coverage of these events. The opinions are based on many hours of research and limited to the last two paragraphs of this post. They also seem to have been totally on point based on subsequent events. So yeah. Did you help with any of the areas where I identified room for improvement? If so, great. Elinruby (talk) 01:31, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
DMY dating style & source language
Not sure, but I apologize if it was I who used MDY dating style awhile back, which may have facilitated the break with DMY. Not wanting to be the proverbial "Ugly American," I was careful to use DMY when formatting someone else's source today. I did also delete a foreign language source because it is an English language page, so that seems appropriate. Lindenfall (talk) 19:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Infobox
Is there a specific reason this article isn't using a standard infobox template? – Muboshgu (talk) 20:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
A lead and a summary?
I do not recall seeing a summary section in an article in other Wikipedia articles. It is my understanding that the Lead serves as a "...an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents." I propose the Summary be merged into the Lead. Dig deeper talk 22:36, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
* I agree AmplifyWiki (talk) 23:35, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* Thanks.
* Hearing no additional feedback, I'll be bold and make the change. Dig deeper talk 00:07, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Intercept
Yesterday The Intercept released 4 articles about corruption that happens inside the Operation Carl Wash. Someone could read and put in the article? My English only allows English - Portuguese translation.
* How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro - Part 1;
* Brazil Prosecutors Plotted Against Lula's Party in 2018 Election - Part 2;
* Triplex: Deltan duvidava de provas horas antes de denúncia - Part 3 (Portuguese);
* Leak Reveals Ethics Failures in Brazil's Operation Car Wash - Part 4.
Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 18:25, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
, what do you think? Erick Soares3 (talk) 18:55, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
* From now!: Leia os diálogos de Sergio Moro e Deltan Dallagnol que embasaram a reportagem do Intercept. Erick Soares3 (talk) 01:12, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
* English: WATCH: Glenn Greenwald Explains the Political Earthquake in Brazil Caused by Our Ongoing Exposés Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:31, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
* I think The Intercept articles are highly relevant and should be summarized. American In Brazil (talk) 01:20, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
* Agreed. In addition, The Intercept is partnering with several other respected media in Brazil, including Veja (center-right, and formerly a strong Bolsonaro supporter), Folha, and others, and now media in Argentina as well. This partnership, imho, both spreads the responsibility for informing the public based on the readings by other editorial staff besides just The Intercept, but also lends credibility to The Intercept as well, as they are sharing the primary documents, with other sites drawing their own conclusions, sometimes worded more strongly than The Intercept did. Mathglot (talk) 04:31, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Article Bias
The Car Wash Operation has been ongoing since years before Lula's indictment. Its first targets weren't even politicians. A total of hundreds of people have been indicted, convicted and arrest for an enormous varied of crimes. Some of the most notorious politicians arrested are members of right wing parties, such as former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha. Even former president of the Republic Michel Temer, one of Lula's main enemies, has been jailed for a while.
Although the Intercept scandal is worthy of mention, taking it to mean that the whole operation has been an illegal attempt to persecute Lula and drive the Workers Party from power is a ridiculously narrow minded and partisan interpreation. One cant reasonably reduce the Operation's importance to a mere witch hunt against one man. The Operation Car Wash has been revolutionary to Brazil. Every one politician has been given reason to fear breaking the law. The Operation has proven for the first time in Brazilian history that powerful politicians and businesmen are not above the law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Es157 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
* I agree with the statement above. Although there may have been improper contacts between Judge Moro and the prosecution, the scandal itself was not about Lula or any other single politician. Dozens of politicians and businessmen were caught up in it, tried and convicted. In monetary terms it was the largest political scandal publicly exposed of any country in history. As good Wikipedians, we all have a duty to report it fairly, accurately and without bias. American In Brazil (talk) 01:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Additions of unnecessary foreign language sources
@, @: Foreign language sources should only be added to English Wikipedia when no English WP:RS is available, per WP:NONENG. I've recently removed a spate of them. Information can be added again, using English sources which, having checked, are available. There is a reason that Wikipedia is published in various languages — this edition happens to be in English. Continuing to re-add such content is WP:EDITWARRING, and against policy. Lindenfall (talk) 20:10, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
* Folha de S.Paulo, for instance, has an English-language edition: Folha de S.Paulo English edition online. Lindenfall (talk) 20:14, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
* u|Lindenfall: If you know an English version language of that piece, then use it. I've googled and haven't been able to find it. This is a Brazilian history entry, it's normal that there are Portuguese sources in it. I'm reversing your edits. You should search for an English source yourself instead of destroying other people's edits without even making sure that your demands can be met.Rafe87 (talk) 02:50, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
* And by the way, the fact that Folha has an English language operation doesn't mean that their every article in Portuguese has an English version. In fact, most likely only a tiny minority of their original texts are translated. An English translation of their entire website would be too time consuming and too expensive for what is likely very small return.Rafe87 (talk) 02:58, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
* The most important aspect, coming out of the above discussion is, that @ tends not to follow basic WP rules, especially: improve instaed to delete! Obviously having knowledge of an english version of the source, he deletes. By the way, nowadays everyone has got the means to use – at least in essence understandable – an foreign language source. AVS (talk) 06:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
, you are misreading the policy on English sources. Nowhere does it say that "Foreign language sources should only be added to English Wikipedia when no English WP:RS is available." What it does say, is this: "English-language sources are preferred over non-English ones when available and of equal quality and relevance" which is a very different thing. This in no way equates to, "delete all the Portuguese references".
The key thing to remember behind all of this, is Wikipedia's core principle of Verifiability; it must be possible to verify the assertions we make in articles, by reference to a citation to a reliable source. If a source of equal quality is available in English, it should be used in preference. If the quality of the Portuguese source is better, then the English one is not preferred. There is nothing in the policy that is "either-or", and they may both be used. In a Brazilian story like Lava Jato, you're going to have a certain number of stories in both languages, and the ones in Portuguese are going to be more detailed. I've been following the story in both languages for some time, and I can tell you for a fact, that the English versions are more simplified, and also spend a 1/4 of the story, just explaining what Lava Jato is, for English-speaking readers who never heard of it, bringing them up to speed. Brazilian stories never do that; they assume you've been following the story for the last several years, and you don't need any introduction to any of the main characters, so they get into the meat of the story immediately, with a lot more detail. That's just normal.
In order to avoid harming verifiability of the article content, please refrain from removing reliable, independent, secondary sources in *any* language, unless there is already an English source present of equivalent quality that covers that ground, or unless you are able to replace the foreign language sources with an English one of the same quality. If you are comparing an English with a Portuguese story (or stories) and you're not sure if the English one is of the same quality or covers the same ground, feel free to ping me and I'll be happy to have a look and give you my opinion. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:27, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
* Something else you can do to improve verifiability in case of foreign-language sources, is to request that the param be added to the cite templates for any Portuguese sources that need it, and/or that someone add a translation of a portion of the source which verifies the content. I've done this for two of the sources, namely Folha and Carta Capital, previously removed in this edit and subsequently restored by another editor. If you need any more, please drop a message here. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:56, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
* I understand that the events are relevant to Portuguese sources and apologize if I misread "English-language sources are preferred over non-English ones when available and of equal quality and relevance" which, after all, states that "English-language sources are preferred over non-English ones when available and of equal quality and relevance". Apparently, the stated preference is set aside for no apparent reason, if the same facts are verifiable via an English source. (Nor should readers be required to additional tools to check sources.) The very first source in the additions that I looked up was available from the very same source, in English. So, it looked to me that others couldn't be bothered to include English language sources on English Wikipedia, hence my reversals of brand new content. (Had the content been dated, I'd have undertaken adding English sources instead, at a later date, when I had time, but that looked to be in the adding editor's interest on this one.) I do fail to see why no English language sources were included and why that's acceptable when, for instance, the exact same Folha de S.Paulo sources were available in English on its website, being "preferred", which I had pointed out, specifically, prior to the above mention, as: "19:37, 4 September 2019 Lindenfall... 32 Undid revision 912995782 by Avernarius... Re-add by replacing cited source with English language source, per WP:NONENG, ie: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/04/supreme-court-orders-release-of-aldemir-bendine-ex-president-of-petrobras-imprisoned-during-lava-jato.shtml" Lindenfall (talk) 00:12, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* I did not "destroy" your edits; they remained accessible to you, and I also left notes here and pinged you, entirely as a courtesy. Nonetheless, I do understand your angst over my reversals. Try just looking up the same sources, and click on the English version on that source's Portuguese version; that's how I found the one I had provided already (above). Fact-checking trumps "most likely" assumptions in any encyclopedia. Lindenfall (talk) 00:12, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* [whose edits, unlike this signature, appeared as "Avernarius", as does their user page]: I provided the exact source in English (as reprinted above). This is an unfounded accusation and a WP:PERSONALATTACK. "Lindenfall tends not to follow basic WP rules, especially: improve instaed to delete! Obviously having knowledge of an english version of the source, he deletes. By the way, nowadays everyone has got the means to use – at least in essence understandable – an foreign language source. AVS (talk) 06:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)" Lindenfall (talk) 00:12, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* Than you for your constructive tips, . I think that this article, which is riddled with foreign language sources, would be better served with equal English sources that English readers can readily verify, which appeared to be available, and a "See Also" link to the Portuguese language page, for those who wish to use translation tools, or who speak Portuguese. Lindenfall (talk) 00:12, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* I appreciate your willingness to meet them “more than half-way”, but I don’t think “See also” links to articles in Portuguese are necessary on en-wiki—assuming you really meant “See also”, which is for linking other Wikipedia articles, and weren’t thinking of External links, which of course is quite different. Mathglot (talk) 01:24, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Just wanted to say that I believe I have a solution that will make everybody happy regarding the sources/language issue, but I’m mobile now and it’s hard to thumb-type. Just want to preface it by underlining that in my opinion, what we all have in common trumps these relatively minor disagreements; namely: I can easily see that everyone is here to improve the article, and we are all volunteers. We just have some slight disagreements about the best way to do that. But our goal is the same. So, let’s hold onto that thought for a minute, and maybe dial down the snipping at each other; I consider us all on the same team, here. I’ll be back later with a proposal that I hope will meet with your approval. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* I think, that all four of us are willing to contribute at our best. As there was a lot of vandalism here (see history), I was reacting too harsh. I will be glad, to meet You all on other articles . And: Sorry!!!! AVS (talk) 04:53, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* My apologize, as well. While, ultimately, my opinion is that any English article is better served by English language sources; I suppose this would have gone a lot better had I started here with a discussion instead of by reversing. Apparently, I acted too harshly, or, at least, too hastily. I, too, was probably reacting to the history of this page, having worked on it a fair amount, with such as this bit of history giving me some false sense of being correct in the reversals:
* "20 October 2018 Lindenfall... Undid revision 864594386 by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) An English language source is still required for English WP, when available, and several are.", and
* "19 November 2018 Cloudz679... article now exists on English Wikipedia".
* Looking forward to formulation of the Mathglot Solution. Lindenfall (talk) 21:31, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
* So, I'm once again short of time, but don't want to leave you in suspense, so I'll try and explain what I mean, at least in outline and come back later with details and examples. What I have in mind is to pair English and Portuguese articles in a single reference in a kind of hybrid of bundled citations and interlanguage link template, in those cases where paired sources for the same article exist in two languages.
* The reasoning behind this as follows. On the one hand, there's no doubt per policy that on en-wiki, English sources are to be preferred, when available in equal quality. In theory, that could mean that once an equivalent (or better) English source was found, we could eliminate the Portuguese one as superfluous. On the other hand, we have Brazilian or other editors with Portuguese or Brazilian knowledge, who are graciously giving their time and are willing to help out here at en-wiki, which is great, and we should do everything we can to encourage that. As someone who contributes occasionally in other languages, I can tell you that it is much harder than doing so in your own language.
* Given a good English source, there's nothing in Verifiability policy that requires us to keep a Portuguese equivalent of the same thing. However, the policy doesn't forbid it, either. So my compromise offer is as follows: given that we want to encourage our Brazilian friends to stay and help improve the article, let's make it as easy as possible for them: when we have both an English version of an article, and a Portuguese version of the same article (i.e., either translational equivalents, or nearly so) then let's reference the English source first, and then use cite bundling to incorporate an abbreviated version of the foreign language source, possibly just a link and a symbol, the way ill does, possibly longer.
* To the reader reading the article, there will just be one number in brackets, say, like this, so the main body portion of the article is no longer than before. But if the reader follows the footnote link, when you go to the reference section at the bottom, that one reference will have two links: one to the English source (primary; fully fleshed out by citation or whatever system is used), and a second link to the foreign source. This means that for those articles available in two languages, a single footnote will offer a choice of languages in which to read the article. This will make it easier for those editors whose native language is Portuguese or something else and who want to help out here, to choose the foreign source when reading the article. (It also gives all editors the opportunity to compare the two, and decide if the two versions are really equivalent or not.) If this seems opaque or not well described, I apologize, and I'll come back with some examples later.
* For this to work, it requires some compromise, but nobody loses anything; at the worst, the footnote section gets longer, but let's face it, most people never go there anyway; the body of the article doesn't get any longer., are you okay with leaving a paired link to a Portuguese article in the footnotes, even in those cases where an equivalent or better English one is available? and , are you okay with leaving English references in the article and not deleting them, even if the foreign-language one is better? As a second portion of this, can you please include to all of your citations to Brazilian articles in Portuguese? You can leave "trans-title" blank, or if you can add the English equivalent of the article title, so much the better. But at least add the blank parameter, to encourage someone else to fill it in.
* If everybody is good with this, it will allow us to stop quibbling and get back to just improving the article. I'll try and create some concrete examples later, but there are several ways to do it, including bundled citations and named references, or List-defined references. More later. Thanks all, Mathglot (talk) 00:55, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
* Seems like an excellent solution for many articles with subjects of foreign origin. Thanks for figuring it out, . Lindenfall (talk) 20:57, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
* , that is my hope, yes. I'll make an initial attempt at some examples here, so we have something concrete to look at and discuss, and it isn't so hand-wavy. Just one heads-up: as a preface to making the concrete example(s) possible, I'll need to make a change to section Leaked Telegram conversations in the article, to move some of the link clutter there into list-defined references. This won't show up in the rendered page at all (assuming I do it right); that is to say, before and after examinations of the article page will appear to show that nothing has changed. But under the hood, in the wikicode, there will be a big change, where all that giant mess of reference clutter will move into the #References section, all nice, and neat, and separate, and named. So, you may notice a series of changes in the article history coming up, but that is not the example I'm talking about; that's merely the groundwork required before I can begin. When I do have a concrete example for you to look at, I'll come back here and mention it. Mathglot (talk) 21:12, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Apparently I am late to this discussion, but...as someone who spends a great deal of time on articles about events in non-English speaking countries, I have to say that no, there is no requirement that sources be either online or in English. Sources must be verifiable but need not be easily verifiable if the information is contained only in foreign-language texts, as was the case when I first came to this article. I am about to take a detailed interest in the article again, so it is important that this be clear. For my own ease of editing I do prefer English sources, btw. Meanwhile, it is important to realize that there is a great deal of partisan emotion around these events, and that there may be someemotional edit warring. There is no question that Operation Car Wash exposed a great deal of corruption, and that all of the facts may not yet be known. I am going to go look at the article itself now. Elinruby (talk) 01:46, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
* notice to interested editors: In the next day or two I intend to do a serious update/copyedit/verification/wikilinking/referencing. I only skimmed what seems to be the consensus here on references; please let me know if I am doing anything against consensus. But. I have a different reference question/
* Let me get really specific about what I think we are doing here. I have not done very much with this but wiki-gnoming since before the Intercept documents emerged, but I came in here via Panama Papers and Dilma Rousseff. Highly emotional topics with a LOT of foreign sources, incomprehensible writing, and obvious machine translation done by people who care about the article and want it to be accurate but often don't speak much English. Meanwhile, as I have noted elsewhere, english-language sources and Brazilian politics tend to be news bulletins, and Portuguese sources to assume the reader has been following Brazilian politics in extreme detail and doesn't need to be told which parties were in which coalitions when. So I had a lot of very testy conversations with well-meaning editors who thought I was questioning ... something... when I asked things like "what is a wedge proposal?". Seriously, somebody had rejected it and it had to do with legislative process in the impeachment, so it was important, but. The other editor finally understood, after repeatedly being assured that the sentence in English made no sense in English, finally realized that Cunha is Portuguese for wedge and sometimes a rude word, but in any event "wedge proposal" in context meant "Cunha's legislative text". Just saying. I personally prefer English language or French-language sources. Anyone who is interested enough in the topic to break out Google Translate will have an additional reliable source, and non-English speakers can follow better. Make sense to everybody? For me, 1st choice of source for news is something like Reuters, Agence France-Presse, AP, New York Times, Washington Post for news. The Atlantic, New Yorker, Time, that kind of magazine for explainers. Next, short news items such as are found on broadcast news web sites. In general, big dailies are usually considered reliable sources, yes? So Portuguese and South American sources that seem to meet that are definitely preferred sources. A lot of the coverage seams to be TV news briefs. Hopefully everybody has no objection to these sources.
* I do have two questions, while I maybe have other editors here:
* 1) what is Box 2? Nobody answered me. I am unsure whether this is some skimming or payoff scheme, or an election with an embedded referendum. Nor can I tell from this article. Somebody please explain; this is not something that googles well.
* 2) Someone told me at one point (on another article) that Telesur is not reliable because it is Venezuelan and therefore its politics were suspect. Does anyone have an opinion on whether Telesur is a reliable source for the purposes of this page or the associates pages?
* Thanks for any thoughts. Elinruby (talk) 03:54, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Not sure yet if this goes here or Petrobras' article
I do not see a mention of Car Wash https://www.reuters.com/article/us-petrobras-corruption-tbg-exclusive/exclusive-petrobras-unit-head-removed-amid-bribery-allegations-idUSKCN1VQ2XV Elinruby (talk) 02:24, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
NPOV problem
I removed the following text from the section on Lula and the PT. I am not up to date enough to rewrite it in a less biased form, and it definitely needs a citation also, as well as spell check. The information can be re-added if these problems are addressed: "Ilegally obtained documents leaked to The Intercept in mid-2019 supposed that Judge Moro had supposedly conspired with prosecutors to advance their case, although it all is being showed to be a big fraud involving people being investigated as well or with connection with the opposition (PT) the worker's party. (See Leaked Conversations, below.)" Elinruby (talk) 06:13, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
* Elinruby, You did well to remove it. And nice to see you on Brazil again. I have some pending edits I need to get back to, as you saw in the previous section, when I get some other things off my plate. Thanks for adding those ills and other wlinks as well, and other stuff. Mathglot (talk) 06:49, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
* Thanks. Just nibbling around the edges of this and related articles, mostly fixing typos and idiom and adding wls right now, as I re-read. This is complicated stuff and it's been a while. All of it needs to be updated for people appealing their sentences and such, it looks like, but as always English-language sources are a problem, and the Portuguese ones tend not to give background. Knocking out some low-hanging fruit.Elinruby (talk) 07:20, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Box two
Someone remind me what this is? I know it has something to do with payments but it's unexplained in the text Elinruby (talk) 07:01, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
* , I think it's a type of anticorruption measure issued by prosecutors of LavaJato, and/or proposed new law, involving undeclared campaign donations that often cover up serious crimes like money laundering. Need to find a good reference for it. "Caixa dois" or "Caixa 2" in pt. In general, a slush fund. See the article, "Ten anticorruption measures", section "Amnesty for box 2". Dez medidas contra a corrupção. Mathglot (talk) 19:19, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
* Checking more, but imho, "Box" is not the right translation of this, even though I see it in some sources. It should be something like "teller", "cash register", "safe", "cashier" and so on. I.e., it's a secret stash where the "other money" is. Something like, "cash box 2". Going to see if there are some English sources that use any of those, but "Box 2" is really not right. What sometimes happens, is one English news medium makes a mistranslation, and everybody else believes and copies them, and then we're stuck because of RS rules; but if there's any support for somethin like "money box" or "safe #2" or anything similar, we should use that.
* The caixa dois article mentions that that term is Brazilian Portuguese, and that the equivalent expression in Portugal is saco azul, a term of uncertain origin. Was thinking of creating an English stub article for "caixa dois", but picking an article title for it is a stumbling block. Since it has such ties to Brazil, it might be better to just leave it in the original Portuguese even as the title of the English article. Mathglot (talk) 19:37, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
. Created article Caixa 2, and modified this article to use this term once, thereafter slush fund. Mathglot (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
* late thanks for that Elinruby (talk) 04:25, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 28 November 2019
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 08:48, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
Operation Car Wash → Operation Lava Jato – As discussed here: Talk:Operation_Car_Wash, the Portuguese "Lava Jato" doesn't seem to have a precise translation in any other language. Not to mention that the name of the operation itself is already grammatically wrong (it should be "lava a jato"). My desire is to keep the original name and I don't see why I shouldn't at least try to change it. --Bageense</b><sup style="color:#AA0000;">(disc.) 22:12, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* Opposed – Article titles are not based on correct or incorrect grammar, or what it is called in other languages, but rather, on policy. According to Wikipedia's Article title policy, the article title should be "the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources)" according to WP:COMMONNAME. "Operation Car Wash" is preferred by about 6::1 over "Operation Lava Jato" in English sources. Compare searches and (case-insensitive; the two extra words in the searches are necessary to ensure that we are comparing only English results). Mathglot (talk) 22:37, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. <b style="color:red">Please do not modify it.</b> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Developments in Operation Car Wash
Just advertising the existence of a new draft stub as the kernel of a proposed future translation of Desdobramentos da Operação Lava Jato. Please join the discussion at Draft talk:Developments in Operation Car Wash. Pinging. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:40, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Related articles on pt-wiki in need of translation
Not surprisingly, pt-wiki has a lot of articles that relate directly to the topic of Operation Car Wash, not to mention many biographies and other articles that touch on it in one way or another. Some of these have been recently translated (Offshoots of Operation Car Wash, Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement, Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act, Caixa 2) or are in progress now (Draft:Operation Car Wash investigation phases). But there are many more on pt-wiki in need of translation.
There is a very useful tool at Wmflabs that can find all the articles present in Portuguese Wikipedia in a given category that are missing from en-wiki (or between any two Wikipedias). There are lots of ways to configure it, but here is one sample run, showing the first hundred articles in pt-wiki related to Operation Car Wash, that are not present in en-wiki. Mathglot (talk) 23:49, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
* The "Phases" draft mentioned above is finally done, and can be found at Phases of Operation Car Wash. Your help improving it would be welcome! Mathglot (talk) 08:33, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Status of Car Wash articles: where to from here?
I'd like to get feedback from interested editors about the current status of the Car Wash suite of articles, and where we should go from here. .
Besides Operation Car Wash which has been around for a while but is much improved lately (hat tip to ), this year has also seen the release of: Offshoots of Operation Car Wash, Phases of Operation Car Wash, and the navigation template Operation Car Wash. (The nav template is brand new and probably needs much work.)
"Offshoots" and "Phases" also have redirects, so that Operation Lost Treasure, for example, takes you straight into the "Offshoots" article at the right section. For phases that have names, same thing; for example: Operation My Way and Operation X-Files. The "Phase" redirects are also linked through Wikidata to the Portuguese articles, so if you go to pt:Operação My Way, or pt:Operação Arquivo X and click the 'English' link in the left sidebar, it will take you straight to the correct section of our "Phases" article. (This involves linking the redirect page to a foreign Wikipedia article, something I previously thought impossible. Only the "Phase" redirects currently do this.)
So now we have a "suite" of three related articles on Lava Jato, plus the Nav template. These seem like the "Big Four" articles for Car Wash on en-wiki. Note that we also have a bunch of what I'd call, "supporting" or "minor" articles in en-wiki, including: Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement, Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act, Caixa 2, Condução coercitiva, and I may have forgotten some. Oh, and there's the new, Glossary, as well, to help make sense of terminology.
If you can find any other major article about Lava Jato that exists on pt-wiki that we don't have on en-wiki, could you please list them below and say why you think they should be translated? (There are dozens of minor articles at pt-wiki about this topic, but I don't know if it makes sense to try and import most of those for an English-speaking viewership.) You can use the Portuguese category pt:Categoria:Operação Lava Jato as a starting point. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:45, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Are you yelling me that we can do interlanguage redirects? Elinruby (talk) 01:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
* Not interlanguage redirects, but interwikis (the language list in the left sidebar, that point to all the translations of the article in other Wikipedias. A lot of times, our article corresponds to only a redirect in some other language, or vice versa. In the case of Car Wash, they have way more articles than we do, and sometimes an entire article in pt is only a redirect to a section here (if we even have it at all). It used to be, you couldn't interwiki-link an article to a redirect, but you can. Mathglot (talk) 09:55, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
* at one point I was tring to ensure that all of the major players (ie Cuñha, Lula, the various Odebrechts, the plea bargain law passed just before this, the Brazilian legal system, etc, etc.) I lost track of the various operations about three years in. Some of these I had never heard of. There is a lot there and it probably all needs review and updates. For example, if so and so was arrested, what happened to that charge? And who got turned in in return for the charge going away? It is also important to review all mentions of judges and prosecutors, since many of the English-speaking editors, myself initially included, did not realize that thus is a civil law juridiction (not common law) Elinruby (talk) 01:59, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
* This thing has been ongoing for five years now and has taken so many twists and turns. I believe all the articles related to it should be consolidated into this one article for easier understanding. I realize that may make a very long article. Any thoughts from other editors? American In Brazil (talk) 13:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
* Several of the child articles are already maxed out in size, and we are missing many that exist in Portuguese, so the number and size of articles will only increase. I can't imagine how merging child articles here would make it any easier. We should be going in the opposite direction. Mathglot (talk) 09:55, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
* The way to make it easier to understand, is to follow WP:Summary style, keep the top level parent article (this one) relatively small, with frequent use of Main and Further to link to child articles with more detail about individual subtopics. Another way, is to take another look at the lead, and edit it for clarity and proper summary-level overview of the rest of the article. Remember that most people never read past the Lead, so all the important points should be there, in summary form. Mathglot (talk) 00:30, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Should these sources be trusted?
On 19 Feb 2021, the Indian news website The Wire published an article about "shocking levels of US involvement in Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption case". It alleged that the prosecutors and judge had illegally colluded with the US Department of Justice, saying 'Ex-judge Sergio Moro and head of the Lava Jato task force Deltan Dallagnol have been accused of “treason” for their illegal collusion with United States authorities ... In 2019 the US Department of Justice attempted to pay the Lava Jato task force a $682 million dollar kickback, ostensibly for them to set up a “private foundation to fight corruption”.'
The article says that "A petition filed with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) by the defence of ex-president Lula presents such new evidence that ex-judge Sergio Moro colluded with foreign authorities in conducting the process ..." and that "the latest leaked Telegram conversations ... are now official court documents". Can any Brasilians comment on whether these documents would be publicly available or whether any local media have reported on these?
The article also quoted a 2020 article from Brasil Wire, in turn paraphrasing in English a 5-part series by Natalia Viana from the Brazilian investigative journalism site Agência Pública, which additionally said that:- These are extremely serious allegations that should ideally be backed by articles from multiple major newspapers as well as local sources. However, I could not find any such recent articles. (Older sources and .) Therefore, should I use Wire / Brasil Wire as sources? Can anyone provide more sources? Jose Mathew (talk) 14:48, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
* "public prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, received financial compensation through an asset sharing scheme based on kickbacks from fines that the US Government collected from Brazilian companies and individuals"
* "prosecutors suggested ways for the US to bypass the Federal Supreme Court to interrogate Brazilians. A Telegram message reads “Now we have a way to convince companies and individuals to reveal facts: threatening to inform the American authorities about corruption and international crimes (laughs)”
* Leslie Backschies, who now coordinates the FBI’s International Corruption Unit, said in an interview that they had seen Presidents toppled in Brazil. [points 16 & 24]
* Added as a new paragraph under the section 'Leaked Conversations. -Jose Mathew (talk) 11:05, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
* sticking my head back in after a long break from this article: The corruption exposed in this scandal was extremely wide-reaching and pervasive and involved huge conglomerates in at least a dozen countries, so it would not be shocking that the US was one of them. There was an extremely sketchy Texas refinery deal under Rousseff as president, by Petronbras, which she used to manage, but it may simply have been a bad business decision — I never connected Rousseff but I have not looked at this in a very long time. For sure, there were scandals at Petrobras and with bribes for almost everyone, and road contracts all over South America, diamond mines in northern Brazil, bag men, the Peruvian President... I am currently committed elsewhere but if anyone has questions I will try to help. Not familiar with Wire as a sources though, but there used to be a few Brasilians who answered language questions here; they may know. Feel free to ping Elinruby (talk) 04:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City/Archive 4
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Moving Day (New York City)...
Should probably be a good article; very well written and a quirky piece of history =) Res Mar 20:56, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
SoNoLita
AfD discussion here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Late 19th century near Brooklyn Bridge
If anyone can characterize what is in the foreground of this (where exactly this was taken from, building in foreground), please expand the description (on Commons). Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 15:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
* I've added a close-up cropping and enhancement to help identification. It look to me as if the image was taken from the Manhattan side, south of the bridge, looking up the East River. Further than that I can't say, except that I wonder if the building in the foreground might not be along Broadway or William Street, something basically parallel to the river. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:42, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
* I'd agree with all that. Manhattan side, south of the bridge is certainly true. The main thrust of my question is whether anyone can actually pin down a geolocation and/or identify the (presumably long-since-demolished) building. - Jmabel | Talk 05:47, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Turning "New York" into a disambiguation page
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Some 19th century images of Brooklyn
I just went through Commons:Category:Stereo cards of buildings in Brooklyn and added some reasonable categories to these images (which were all previously only in a temporary category generated when a bot uploaded the NYPL Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views). However, most of these could use further categorization in terms of year they were built (and, in many cases, year they were destroyed, or their current use which is likely to be different after more than a century). Doubtless someone who knows Brooklyn history well could come up with additional useful categories and useful description of locations, etc. For example, I imagine it should be possible to add quite a bit of information about the theater and post office in the picture I've included in this post. Some could doubtless be pinned down better for their dates, as well. - Jmabel | Talk 19:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
(Former?) fountain in Central Park
Does anyone know anything about this fountain at "the Fifth Avenue entrance" to Central Park? Photos are about 140 years old, so it might no longer be there. - Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Got at least part of my own answer. It was apparently called "Swan and Cygnet", sculpted by John S. Moulton, and I suspect it is no longer there. - Jmabel | Talk 19:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
* Neither the Parks Department website nor the Central Park Conservancy's list that statue or fountain, so I believe you are correct that it is no longer there. I haven't found anything yet that says what happened to it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Shadow lengths suggest to my mind a midday midsummer picture, which with shadow directions would make the heading northwest. 1870 parlance would be inclined to label the entrance at now Grand Army Plaza as the "Fifth Avenue" one and be more specific in referring to another of the gates on 5th. Together this all suggests, at least me, three chances out of four that the camera was sitting within a dozen yards of 40.76583°N, -73.97361°W and the fountain in the water of "The Pond" a dozen yards northwest of there. And one chance out of four I'm wrong by miles. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:16, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I agree it's probably either the Pond or something right by the Pond. Oh, well, there's a Commons category for it now; sooner or later someone will run across something about the sculptor. - Jmabel | Talk 06:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
19th century photo of "Trinity Church" (not the one one Wall Street)
The NYPL at least tentatively describes this as "Trinity Church", but clearly it's not the famous one at Broadway & Wall. Most likely no longer extant, but can anyone identify it? By the way, there are several unidentified churches in Commons:Category:Stereo cards of churches in Manhattan, New York City if anyone wants to have a go at identifying them. - Jmabel | Talk 06:12, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
* Looks like the Church of the Ascension, an Episcopal church also by Richard Upjohn, built at about the same time as the current (third) Trinity Church was being built. See here for a period drawing of it. It's still standing, at Fifth Avenue and 10th Street in the Village. Not connected with Trinity, as far as I can tell. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:58, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks! Yes, I'm sure that's it. - Jmabel | Talk 22:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Another church
I continue to work my way through Commons:Category:Stereo cards of churches in Manhattan, New York City. I've been able to identify most of these (even some others that had misleading descriptions) and to add relevant categories. Again, help from someone who knows NYC history better than I would be useful. Here's one where I have no idea, but am intrigued: obviously, some church that was gutted by a fire in the 19th century. Any thoughts? - Jmabel | Talk 07:45, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
* The image's alternate title says it's "St. George's", so I think this would probably be St. George's Episcopal Church (Manhattan) on Stuyvesant Square. It had a fire in 1865 -- one source says the roof was damaged, another says it "burnt down", but whatever the specifics it had to be rebuilt. I can't find the date it re-opened, but I assume it would have taken some time, even with J.P. Morgan's money behind it (he was a member). St. George's does indeed have two towers, one on the north side of the building and one on the south, so that fits the description as well. Like the Church of the Ascension, St. George's in also still standing (although it's now part of a combined parish with Calvary Church on Park Avenue South). Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:57, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Yup. Quite familiar with that church (& I'd already tagged quite a few other pictures of it) and even knew it had an 1865 fire. I don't know why I didn't put two and two together. Good detective work! - Jmabel | Talk 05:25, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks! I've done a re-write & expansion of the church's article, which you might want to take a look at. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:34, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
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I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 20:01, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
My last thread (I hope) on those stereo cards of Manhattan churches
Commons:Category:Stereo cards of churches in Manhattan, New York City: a lot of these could use a more specific geographic category (neighborhood) if anyone is so inclined. Also, as of this writing, 10 distinct images (with a PNG and a JPEG for each) are also in Commons:Category:Unidentified churches in Manhattan, New York City. Some even have a church name, denomination, or even a street name from NYPL (though we've seen already that 2-4% of those have been inaccurate), but remain basically unidentified. (I wouldn't consider a church really to be identified until we have at least most of denomination, pretty precise location, approximate date of construction, whether it is extant and if it isn't then when it was destroyed, etc.) For some of these where I have guesses, I've made remarks on their respective talk pages. User:Beyond My Ken has been incredibly helpful on this, and his thoughts on the unidentified ones are at User talk:Beyond My Ken. Of the ones discussed there, the only one I'd consider now to be firmly identified is the old Mariners Church. - Jmabel | Talk 19:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
* If anyone wants to use the Notes area of my talk page (linked by Jmabel above) as a central repository for any facts picked up about these churches, that's fine with me. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
* I think I've done what I can, with two definites and a probable. Nothing else has panned out, and some of the images just don't offer any affordances for me to latch on to and investigate. (Frankly, I don't know all that much about churches per se, so I need something in thye image to kick-start my inquiry.) If something pops up, I'll let you know. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Talk:The Limelight
More participation in this discussion would be a good idea. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Suggested policy change to the tagging of non article items
I have submitted a proposal at the Village pump regarding tagging non article items in Wikipedia. Please take a moment and let me know what you think. --Kumioko (talk) 02:18, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Nelson Antonio Denis
Article on ex-New York politician, created by sock and plagued by COI issues, could use more eyes. ScottyBerg (talk) 02:58, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Marshall Chess Club
If anyone lives in New York near 23 West 10th Street, and has a camera, a photo for Marshall Chess Club would be lovely. Front door, interior, anything would be great. Oh, and on the way out, scream "CHECKMATE!" as loud as you can.
Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
* I've added an image I took this afternoon -- I was (more or less) in the neighborhood and went by. Unfortunately it's only an exterior shot, as I didn't have the time to take up the invitation of a very nice gentlemen I met om the sidewalk to come inside. If someone else can do the inside, that would be great, or I may go back if the occasion arises. (Probably not until after the holidays, though.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
* Wow! So quick. You are a wonderful editor. Thank you kindly. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:03, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Locust Manor, Queens
The article Locust Manor, Queens has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
* Neighborhoods generally don't meet WP:N, no indication of notability fails WP:V
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 12:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
* Prod removed, article modestly expanded with refs. Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:27, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
New York by Gehry
The article "Beekman Tower" should be renamed "New York by Gehry" or "8 Spruce Street". "Beekman Tower" is not the name of the building.
Other information about this building, found online:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgeorgenyc (talk • contribs) 02:06, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
* I've deleted the material you left here, as it was clearly a copyright violation: we're not allowed to post large blocks of copyrighted material, even on talk pages, although it can be used as source material for the facts included. Yes, I agree that the article should be at "8 Spruce Street", which is where it was until December 5th when another editor moved it without prior discussion. I objected at the time (you can see my half of the conversation here), and I still hold that opinion. The building will always be 8 Spruce Street, but I have grave doubts that "New York by Gehry" will stand the test of time. Here's what I propose: I'm going to move it back to 8 Spruce Street, and make a redirect to it from "New York by Gehry". If the editor who moved it last month thinks my revert is not a good idea, he can start a request move discussion, and we'll see what consensus is. If that happens, I'll post a notice here for interested parties. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:30, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
NEW SKYSCRAPER - 885 Sixth Ave
NEW BUILDING - The Continental 885 6th Avenue New York City NY United States
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=69708http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=69708 http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/10/20/tower_111_with_a_new_name_about_to_start_leasing.php
—Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:57, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
* I've deleted the material you posted here. Large blocks of copyrighted information cannot be posted anywhere on Wikipedia, incuding talk pages. The links will suffice. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:04, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Inaccurate map in The Bronx
I just noticed that the map in the article does not include the carve-out of Marble Hill. The question is, should the current map stay or go? More opinions welcome, as we have a stalemate on the talk page. ScottyBerg (talk) 15:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
* I would note that there's a reciprocal problem in the map in the infobox of Manhattan. I have added notes regarding the error to both images captions. The images really should remain until corrected. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 18:57, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
* I've reverted to older, more accurate maps in both articles until the newer ones can be corrected. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 19:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, I think that helps greatly. Thanks very much. The new Manhattan map is fine. The new Bronx map is better, as it shows Marble Hill, but remains problematic as it shows the neighborhood in the same color as the rest of the Bronx. I've contacted the map creator in Commons and also nominated both maps for deletion there. Hopefully that will result in a better map. ScottyBerg (talk) 19:39, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
* Actually both of the older maps display Marble Hill with a cross-hatch of grey and yellow. I would speculate that is a compromise from an editing dispute, but I'm not interested enough to dig through the page histories and archives to find out for sure. The deletions aren't the best idea as I've pointed out at the discussions on Commons. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 20:05, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
* Those cross-hatchings aren't visible in the size shown in the article. ScottyBerg (talk) 20:09, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Beekman Tower vs. 8 Spruce Street
Input from this project is requested here for a requested move discussion about the proper name for the article on this building. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Prospect Park Parade Ground / Neighborhood Confusion
I would like to write an article on Prospect Park's Parade Ground. Also, I would like to mention it in the Prospect Park article where currently no mention of it is found.
It is an official part of the park and I am not sure why it isn't mentioned anywhere in the Prospect Park article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)
Here is the page for it on Prospect Park's official site: http://www.prospectpark.org/parade_ground
It is an important historically significant site in Brooklyn and I think deserves mention.
While researching this I discovered that the Prospect Park article says "public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden." In keeping with no mention of the Parade Ground, no mention of the southern border of the park is to be found.
According to the list of Brooklyn Neighborhoods article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brooklyn_neighborhoods), the neighborhood to the south of the parade grounds is "Prospect Park South" which would sound like it makes a lot of sense to be the neighborhood at the southern border. However, on the Prospect Park South article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_South,_Brooklyn) it says the northern border of the neighborhood is Church Ave., exactly one block south of the bottom of the park.
I have found mention that "Caton Park" is the "micro-neighborhood" immediately south of the park and north of prospect park south. (http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/our-neighborhood/caton-park/). There doesn't seem to be any mention of Caton Park on wikipedia.
In addition to the Brooklyn Neighborhoods article's designation of the neighborhood as "Prospect Park South", Google Maps also makes this distinction. I have also seen all of the neighborhoods in the area referred to as "Victorian Flatbush".
You can see the confusion. Any recommendations for what should be done?
Sssnole (talk) 01:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)sssnole
(Very) old post office
This would predate the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse (New York City). Does anyone know where it would have been? - Jmabel | Talk 06:01, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
* Before the new General Post Office was built in City Hall Park, the main post office was at the Middle Dutch Church in Nassau Street from 1845 on - which this image doesn't look like at all. That covers the photographic era, so I suggest that maybe "Old post office" doesn't mean "The old main post office" but instead " An old post office", meaning that it's a branch office rather than the GPO. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:08, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
* Maybe, but it's in a large set, most of which say "New post office" and show the one near city hall. - Jmabel | Talk 07:58, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
* Hmm. I wonder if the p.o. at the Middle Dutch Chuch got so overcrowded that they had to build an annex to accomodate the overflow? The building here looks very temporary. I've no evidence for this, it's just speculation. There must be some monograph on NYC Post Offices out there somewhere. Beyond My Ken (talk) 12:03, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
* Just checked the Encyclopedia of NYC, which confirmed the facts above, but also said that the original city p.o. was in the rotunda on Chambers Street, but that a branch opened near Wall Street in 1835. In 1845 when the main p.o. moved to the church, the branch moved to Chatham Square -- so I suppose what's pictured could be the Chatham Square branch. Beyond My Ken (talk) 12:08, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
* Interesting. I'll hold off for now on trying to say anything definitive, but at least that gives a direction for research. - Jmabel | Talk 01:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
* This is the "Old Dutch Church" (Middle Dutch Church) at Nassau and Cedar Streets, but shown from the back (Nassau and Liberty) "where mail bags and carriers received attention[?]". Shown after P.O. had moved in 1875. See back of card at NYPL website. Station1 (talk) 05:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
* Nice work! Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:29, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Manhattan photo request
Would someone mind snapping a shot of the Entrance to the Air France ticket counter on the 56th Street side of Avenue of the Americas Plaza? It will be helpful for the Avenue of the Americas Plaza article and for the Air France article
Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 04:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
* I can probaly do it, but I don't think I can get up there until Monday at the earliest, so if someone can do it before that, go to it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:10, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
* Either option is fine. Please let me know once somebody gets a photo :) WhisperToMe (talk) 05:13, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
* While you are there, go across the street to the Parker Meridian Hotel. Hidden in the lobby is Burger Joint, the best burgers in Manhattan (IMHO). :) --ChrisRuvolo (t) 02:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
* That sounds great, I will definitely try that. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to rain all day tomorrow (Monday) and into Tuesday, so it may be a few more days. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
@WhisperToMe: Ok, so I'm a bit uncertain about what you are looking for. The 56th street entrance to 125 West 55th Street is addressed as 120 West 26th Street. Most of that side of the building is obscured by scaffolding, and there's no Air France ticket counter, although there is an empty retail space under the scaffolding. I took a shot of the 55th Street entrance and a couple of the 56th Street entrance, none of which are particularly interesting, as the subject is pretty unphotogenic, at least to someone of my modest abilities. Do you want me to post those so you can take a look, or was there something specific you were hoping to get? Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, please post the photos. Even if it isn't exactly the take I'm looking for, they will be helpful in illustrating the article about the building. By the way, the shot from Google Maps view I posted showed an Air France logo on the pane of one side of the building - It may be outdated, though. The logo may be gone. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
* Yeah, it's gone. That space is the empty retail space I mentioned above, under the scaffolding. I'll post my shots later tonight -- right now my eyes are dilated from an eye doctor appointment, so I can't do any image work for a while. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:13, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* For what they're worth, you can find my two images on Wikimedia Commons at Category:125 West 55th Street Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* Thank you very much for taking the photos! WhisperToMe (talk) 17:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* Hmmm, http://www.airfrance.us/US/en/local/avotreservice/pointsdeventes/agence_nyc.htm at the Air France website doesn't list the 55th Street building anymore. It only lists JFK and EWR airports. Maybe Air France closed its city ticket office? As per http://www.airfrance.us/US/en/local/resainfovol/meilleuresoffres/marketing_Week_of_Romance.htm the airline's USA executive offices are still in the building. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* This "Air France Agency." link shows that the NYC ticket office was in that building as recently as May 17, 2008. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:44, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* http://nycaviation.com/forum/threads/38631-Air-France-Closing-NY-Ticket-Office-new-A380-Service - This forum post said that it closed after December 31, 2010. Lemme see if I can find a RS that says this WhisperToMe (talk) 19:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* A Flickr user ended up fulfilling the request by relicensing his image of the AF ticket office: File:AFOfficeNYC.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 21:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Great historical photo resource
This may be old news to everybody here, but it's news to me: the entire Berenice Abbott archive of photos of "Changing New York" from the mid-1930s, all public domain (she was working for a federal project) are on Flickr. There seem to be hundreds of them, but only two dozen are uploaded to Commons. ScottyBerg (talk) 16:27, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
* I think, although I could be wrong, that all of the Abbott photos were already available on the NYPL Digital Gallery, but it's great to see them collected together and given wider circulation. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
* They are, but the ones on Flickr are all public domain, which not all her photos are. ScottyBerg (talk) 04:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Queens photo request: Bulova Corporate Center
Hi! Is anyone near Jackson Heights? Would someone mind photographing the front of the Bulova Corporate Center? It is at 75-20 Astoria Blvd; East Elmhurst, New York - Here is a front view - It would be for the article Bulova
Also, I wonder if the text on this side reads "British Airways" - If it does, it would be nice if that side of the building was also photographed
Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 01:36, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
* Yes it's a lovely building which I haven't seen up close in about ten years. Two weeks ago, biking with a gang to Jackson Dinver we were a quarter mile east of it, and I was half a mile west of it returning alone to Manhattan via Hobart Street. The north or front side which I remember well will be a nice sunrise or sunset picture in midsummer; the other sides might be good any time of the year. I'll keep it in mind, next time I visit Laguardia Airport or South Corona. Jim.henderson (talk) 10:16, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
* Alrighty :) WhisperToMe (talk) 22:14, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Jerry "What's the Story" Rosenberg
Does anybody have any additional information on that 1970's pitchman Jerry Rosenberg of Jamaica Gas & Electric? I've been trying to create an article on him for a while, but so far I'm stumped. DanTD (talk) 12:58, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* That's a tough one. I looked around and all I could find was what you've already found. It doesn't help that he has a common name which is the same as a famous jailhouse lawyer. ScottyBerg (talk) 14:34, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* Unbelievable. You'd think there'd be more on this guy. He was the Billy Mays of the 1970's. For a while when I was a little kid, I confused him with Jerry Carroll. DanTD (talk) 17:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* Rosenberg was the guy in the hard hat, right? Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* Yup. This guy. I just wish I could find more video clips of his other commercials. DanTD (talk) 22:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* I looked, and couldn't find any. That video dates back to before the creation of the 718 area code in 1984. ScottyBerg (talk) 01:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* I'm pretty sure they all do. That was actually one of his more recent business ventures. I vaguely remember reading that the guy died in 1984, but I can't remember where I read that. DanTD (talk) 01:42, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Looking through Google News, I found this. Looks like his name was Gerald Rosenberg, and that the city didn't think much of him! ScottyBerg (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Heh. The Times reported in 1977 that he was put out of business by the city for deceptive advertising and was looking for a job. At that point he apparently faded into history. There's lots of coverage. You know, you don't need a death date to start an article. ScottyBerg (talk) 01:54, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Well, I wanted a lot more than just the death date. Unfortunatley, reading that article either requires buying it directly from the New York Times or reading on LexisNexis. DanTD (talk) 02:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* I can get those articles without charge, if you need 'em. ScottyBerg (talk) 02:12, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Go for it. In fact, you can even add it to my sandbox, along with anything else you can find. Just out of curiosity, are you old enough to remember any of those commercials? DanTD (talk) 02:19, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Good idea. And yep, I remember. ScottyBerg (talk) 02:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Me, too. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* It would be nice to know if he's still alive. Kind of strange to have neither a birth or death date. ScottyBerg (talk) 02:41, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* I've had this in my sandbox for a while, and ScottyBerg was a great help with it before he was unjustly blocked, but I can't find anything else on the guy. Anyone think I should just post the article as is, and stick an Expert-subject tag on it? DanTD (talk) 15:40, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
* I think it's enough to post as an article and see what else turns up. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:15, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire centennial ceremony
...will take place tomorrow (Friday March 25) at Washington Place and Greene Street. User:Shirtwaist suggested on his talkpage that it would be nice to have an image of the ceremony in the article. I'm going to try and get down there, but any one else interested should too - the more coverage, the better. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
* I went, but got there too late to get close enough to take any worthwhile pictures. I hope someone else was abl to get something. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:38, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Oh no. I went, but didn't bring my camera as I thought you would. Seriously. ScottyBerg (talk) 20:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* Darn. I didn't realize that the turnout was going to be so big, or I would have tried harder to get there earlier. As it was, I was so far away I didn't even bother to shoot anything. Oh, well. There were many people with cameras there, hopefully some of them were Wikipedians, or something will show up on Flickr that we can use. (There goes my budding career as a news photographer.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
* I feel horrible. I was there a bit early, and while I couldn't see the stage I got up close and could have got some great photos. Terribly sorry about that. ScottyBerg (talk) 02:39, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
* Always carry a little camera; not just to a staged scheduled event but always. At least a camera phone. The best camera at home is not as good as the camera you've got with you. Yesterday in Southside Pittsburgh I got plenty of nice shots with my compact camera until its battery ran down and I finished the day using the camera phone. Back to sweet home Manhattan tomorrow. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:31, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Concourse, Bronx et al
I'm troubled by a number of the Bronx neighborhood articles, which seem to be thinly sourced and filled with OR. This Concourse article is especially problematic because I'm not finding evidence that there is such a neighborhood, though there is an "East Concourse" and "West Concourse" (though not in wide use). I've started a discussion in the talk page of the article and would appreciate input and suggestions. ScottyBerg (talk) 17:04, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Undue?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Rosie O'Donnell. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:57, 20 April 2011 (UTC) (Using )
* I'm not seeing the relevance to WPNYC. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
NRHP Categories for The Five Boroughs
This morning I created the Category:National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York. At some point during the week, maybe even today, I'm going to create more categories for the other four boroughs. I hope they'll be populated with all the NRHP-related articles for New York City, and I already brought this issue to WP:NRHP. DanTD (talk) 18:06, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
* Don't all these categories exist already? Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:58, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
* Perhaps you're confusing them with categories for New York City Landmarks. When I look here, the only borough I see is for Queens. DanTD (talk) 03:58, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, you seem to be correct - sorry about that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:25, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
* There's already Category:National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan and everything else is already in Category:National Register of Historic Places in New York City - not sure if there's enough there to split up without overcategorizing, but if you do I recommend using just Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island. That's much more common usage in NYC than "county", and the state is then unnecessary. Station1 (talk) 05:04, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
* @DanTD: I second what Station1 said. New Yorkers almost never deal with counties, which are coextensive with boroughs in any case. Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
* Well, I saw Church of the Resurrection (Queens, New York) and Congregation Tifereth Israel (Queens, New York) incorrectly listed in Category:National Register of Historic Places in New York by county, and I just had to do something about it. DanTD (talk) 12:59, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Wall Street has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011
Wall Street, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 20:43, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Complaint
P L E A S E !!!! Just give us a map -- a simple copy of bus routes in Manhattan and the boroughs!! I can't even find a Bus route map on a city bus!! WHY ??Do the people who design this SO overdone web site only travel by limousine?? Have they ever had to unravel the mysteries of city bus routes? Give them a bus pass and set them to the task for a minimum of seven days before they're allowed to write a single word more. Most of what is shown on these pages is useless. No -- let me amend that -- EVERYTHING that is shown on these pages is useless -- in finding one's way around New York City on a bus. I'm sure no one except other exasperated -would be travelers will ever read what I've written here, which is obvious when reading the comments of others. THAT is the MOST exasperating. Its like giving your writers permission to condescendingly pat us on the head and mummer sweet nothings in our ears. . . and then tell us to go play in the traffic. Larry Conroy <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:04, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
* Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a travel guide, so you're looking in the wrong place for what you want to find. We can't copy the MTA bus map because its copyrighted, and making our own from scratch woul dbe a prohibitive amount of work. Try http://mta.info. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:49, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
* Graphic Lab/Map workshop is pretty backlogged, but it's probably your best bet for having someone create a map. --Gyrobo (talk) 19:09, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
image:Nathan's Famous at Coney Island, NY IMG 1264.JPG
file:Nathan's Famous at Coney Island, NY IMG 1264.JPG has been nominated for deletion. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Talk:8 Spruce Street
Could use some eyes on this - the editor seems to have a unique definition of "link rot". I'm backing off. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Addional Info
The movie "Glenngary, Glennross" was filmed in the Homecrest section near the Neck Rd. subway station I believe. Can someone please verify and/or post, as I am new to this. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:15, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
* Our article, Glengarry Glen Ross (film), and IMDB both say that location shooting was in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
F-V (New York City Subway service) and A-C (New York City Subway service)
Both these were being listed as Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup from May 2011 and both have been converted to something other than dab pages, but it might be useful for someone from NY to check them. PamD (talk) 09:59, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Outerbridge Crossing construction
The Outerbridge Crossing is described as a cantilever bridge. Isn't it an over-deck truss beam bridge? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuzzFlood (talk • contribs) 13:22, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Photo request
Hi! The Barnes and Noble headquarters is at 122 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Would anyone mind photographing that building?
Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 16:39, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* Already been done: File:Barnes & Noble Fifth Ave flagship.jpg. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:00, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* Or do you want the whole building? Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* Please try to get the whole building. Since the address is 122 5th and not 105 5th (as indicated in the photo of the main store), the corporate offices are probably in a building, so please try to get an overall view of the building. The website of the owner of 122 5th is at http://www.bromco.com/properties/ WhisperToMe (talk) 21:23, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* Sorry, yes, I realized that belatedly. Since the building is around the corner from me, I popped out into the heat and took some shots. It should be up on Commons shortly. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:05, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* File:122 Fifth Avenue.jpg Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:22, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
* Thank you so much :) WhisperToMe (talk) 23:30, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Queens photo request: Bulova Corporate Center is still outstanding
Hi again! The following photo request for the front of the Bulova Corporate Center at 75-20 Astoria Blvd; East Elmhurst, New York is still outstanding, as far as I know: Here is a front view - It would be for the article Bulova
Also, I wonder if the text on this side reads "British Airways" - If it does, it would be nice if that side of the building was also photographed
Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 06:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Digitalized New York newspapers
This may not be news to the rest of you, but it was to me. I just learned that the Library of Congress has digitalized a bunch of newspapers from throughout the country, including the old New York Tribune, New York World and New York Sun, from the 1800s through 1922. The available dates for each newspaper vary; some have just a few days and some many years, This is a treasure trove of hard-to-find source material, including public domain photographs (such as this one I just uploaded). A full directory of all the newspapers can be found here. ScottyBerg (talk) 15:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
* That's excellent, a very good find! Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:16, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
File:Flickr - …trialsanderrors - The tallest buildings in the world, New York City, 1901.jpg
I think this view is looking northeast from near the Hudson, indeed near the once and future World Trade Center. The two towers on the right are obviously the Park Row Building and the pointy spire at extreme left is probably the Tribune Building, but what is that big white building in the middle? The other spire in middle left cannot be Trinity Church unless I'm thoroughly confused (Could Trinity be the POV?) Jim.henderson (talk) 00:02, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
* Jim - I don't have an answer for you, but try going to this website (the city's GIS page), click on the "use aerial map" icon (looks like a camera), the, after the current photo loads,, dial it back to 1924, that might give you a better idea of the buildings that were extant in 1901. Unfortunately, the "i" information icon only seems to work with the current map, though. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:33, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
* I think it's looking toward the northwest from closer to the East River. The tall building is probably the St. Paul Building and the spire is St. Paul's Chapel. Station1 (talk) 21:29, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
New York City Peer Review
Hello, I would like to inform this project about your most important article New York City. I would welcome any peer reviews of the article as I need a lot of information over what's wrong with the article and once those are addressed, help get it re promoted to FA-class. You may peer review it at: Wikipedia:Peer review/New York City/archive2. Thanks. OIFA (talk) 16:30, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
99 Percent Declaration
I recently created the 99 Percent Declaration article, and now it's been nominated for deletion and rescue. I have lots of possible sources on the talk page, but I would feel more comfortable if there were other editors. Would you please help improve it? Or at least chime in on the deletion discussion or respond to the questions on the talk page? Thank you. Dualus (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Luchow's
More eyes needed, please. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:04, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
* Is there any particular issue that needs to be addressed? ScottyBerg (talk) 22:24, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
* The primary editor, User:BruceWHain, was exhibiting some pretty extreme ownership tendencies. Other editors have since stepped in, and BHW received a couple of blocks for edit-warring and disruptive editing. The article still needs some trimming, tightening and stylistic re-working, so other input would be valuable. I'm also concerned that the ownership issues haven't gone away, so other eyes to keep a watch on it for when BWH comes off his block would be a good idea as well. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:59, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Photo requests in Manhattan Chinatown
Hi! I have some photo requests in Manhattan's Chinatown: Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 22:03, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
* PS 124, The Yung Wing School, 40 Division Street, New York, NY 10002
* P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto - 143 BAXTER STREET MANHATTAN, NY10013
* Shuang Wen School - 327 Cherry Street, New York, New York 10002
WTC 7 RfC
I have submitted a request for comment on a subject of interest to this WikiProject. Please feel free to provide your input on the issue.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 17:32, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Newspaper Article Pull
Can anybody do article pulls from local newspapers, like The New York Times?
My library does not have access, and I can't afford the $$$$ to do it.
Thanks, > Best O Fortuna (talk) 23:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Zuccotti Park
Eyes here, please. An editor is attempting to add material about Occupy Wall Street protestors re-taking the park. Unfortunately, the source is a blog, and the event (if it is indeed happening) is ongoing, so both WP:SPS and WP:NOTNEWSPAPER are being violated. If the protestors do indeed re-take the park, there will be an article about it in a WP:RS sooner rather than later, and there's no reason not to wait for it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Through the magic of WikiProject templates, 14 more featured pictures
Feast your eyes here: Category:FM-Class New York City articles NYCRuss ☎ 16:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
* Now 30 featured pictures total. NYCRuss ☎ 18:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
The Japanese School of New York
Hi! About the The Japanese School of New York... before it moved to Connecticut in 1992, it occupied two campuses in Queens.
Did the school move from one Queens campus to another? Did it occupy both campuses at the same time? Also, which neighborhoods definitively were the campuses in? It sounds like several newspapers have conflicting info over which neighborhoods the school was located in. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:12, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
BTW does anybody know anything about the Japanese Children's Society ? Apparently it's another NYC area Japanese school, but I have little info about it... http://japaneseschool.org/
* Okay, I definitively found the situation regarding The Japanese School of New York. It was in one location, then moved to another Queens location. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hispanic immigrants in NYC speaking indigenous languages
Hi! I found a newspaper source about Hispanic immigrants in New York City who speak indigenous languages: I hope it's a useful source! WhisperToMe (talk) 15:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
* Torrens, Claudia. "Some NY Immigrants Cite Lack of Spanish as Barrier." ABC News. May 28, 2011.
WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:New York City will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in NYC's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation COI updates
Someone working for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been trying to update the page to the museum's latest mission statement and brand identity, using copyrighted copy-pastes from http://www.guggenheim.org/guggenheim-foundation. After a couple copyvio warnings, they enlisted a sockpuppet or meat puppet for the same copyvio edits.The article is probably out of date and should be updated, but with non-copyright violating text, and with third party citations. Anyone care to help? (Cross-posted from Talk:WikiProject Museums). --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:18, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Lack of References and Citations on many street articles
Many articles for New York City streets, particularly in the outer boroughs like Brooklyn do not have proper references and citations proving their notability and historical significance. This has been the case ever since the articles were created. Where can we find proof that these streets are well known enough to be on Wikipedia? I would nominate some of them for deletion, but do not want arguments to erupt like in this this AfD because of people who have no knowledge of street notability voting to keep a street article just because a single subway station serves it. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 00:58, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), which proposes to move:
* Perth → Perth, Western Australia
* Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
* Perth (disambiguation) → Perth
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:43, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Where'd the references go?
Clearly, this page once had a bunch of references attached (11, at least). What happened to them? SparkE303 (talk) 01:35, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
* What makes you think that? There are no " " markers in it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:21, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Carl Fischer Music edit
Hi. Carl Fischer Music is a NYC based music publishing firm that desperately needed heavy editing. Before undergoing major edits, this page was disorganized and confusing to read. However, after my edits were made, the page was given a notification that it sounded too much like an advertisement. I don't see how or where, and it was not intended to be an advertisement. The purpose of my edits was to provide a fluid background and relevant history of Carl Fischer Music. How can I be rid of the advertisement claim? CFtemp5 (talk) 16:37, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
FAR
I have nominated Stuyvesant High School for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:45, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Manhasset Bay
Is the Manhasset Bay article significantly related to the city to be under this project? Perhaps because food from there fed the city and yacht owners from the city docked their boats there? If so, wouldn't the California article also be appropriate for the project? --Bejnar (talk) 16:10, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
* I deprojected it, assuming a simple error. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:13, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
* Good, because it's too far into Nassau County to be part of this project. Little Neck Bay, on the other hand, can still be part of both. DanTD 23:49, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Are these schools in Coney Island or Brighton Beach?
Hi! At Talk:Brighton_Beach I realized that even though some NYT newspaper sources said that some schools were in Brighton Beach, some maps accompanying different NYT articles about those two neighborhoods would place the schools in Coney Island, and those NYT articles express the boundaries in writing.
Which neighborhood should Wikipedia say that the schools are in? This is going to affect lists on the English and Russian Wikipedias (Russian because I'm making a list of schools serving Brighton Beach on the Russian Wikipedia) Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 19:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Article assessment in relation to WPNY
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York. – T M F (talk) 21:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Stapleton
Can someone update Stapleton, Staten Island to cover Hurricane Sandy (and if needed, Irene)? Would adding the John B. Caddell grounding be appropriate? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:12, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
* Done; thanks for the suggestion.
Mistake in Ludlow Street Jail entry
Minimal research leads me to believe that the Ludlow Street Jail was not a Federal prison, as stated in the article, but the county jail for New York County.
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/ludlow/ludlow.html
I suggest someone more knowledgeable check this out and make a correction if necessary.
ArtSiegel (talk) 03:01, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
image:Sphere before Sept 11.jpg
file:Sphere before Sept 11.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
WP New York City in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject New York City for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 05:42, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Good news - NYC missing coordinates
Just wanted to inform the project that over the past few months, I have been adding missing coords to NYC articles. When I started, the list was at 732. I got it down to: 54. The remaining one are very difficult to locate, and I am pretty much stuck. Here are the remainders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_City_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data TiMike (talk) 16:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Talk:The Sherry-Netherland
Participation requested. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:41, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Columbia University
A discussion on WP:WikiProject Columbia University is going on at WT:NY -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:04, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)
The usage of the name "Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)" is under discussion, see talk:Hell's Kitchen (U.S.) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:12, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Language knowledge
How many of you know Haitian Creole, Albanian, Polish, or Hebrew? The article New York City Department of Education should have stubs in those languages since it has significant numbers of families of students who speak those languages (The department has a Haitian Creole website, and it hosts documents in Albanian, Polish, and Hebrew) Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
* Ah... this is English Wikipedia. If you want stubs in those other languages, best to approach the Wikipedias written in those languages. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:41, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
* The idea is that we get people on the English Wikipedia to then write articles on the Wikipedias of those other languages (especially since some on here may not have thought about contributing in other languages). There's nothing wrong with cross-wiki efforts, is there? BTW I've made multiple requests for starting articles about the New York City DOE in multiple languages and so many of those requests have been fulfilled. Also I tried the Haitian Creole Wikipedia, and I can't find any active users... WhisperToMe (talk) 06:48, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
* English Wikipedia has nothing to do with Wikipedias in other language. Post messages on those Wikipedias if you're concerned about them, or run the English Wikipedia article through a mechanical translator, or something, but this is not the place to post these concerns of yours. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:55, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
* They are separate projects, but they are all related to each other as they are all Wikimedia Foundation projects. There are many users who go across the various language projects with their contributions. In terms of policy (as in 'you guys need to do something about this XYZ policy') one shouldn't campaign on other wikis since they all have separate policies dictated by separate user bases, but I don't see a problem simply asking for users who speak other languages to go on other Wikimedia Foundation projects to help coverage in a subject. And cooperation among the language projects is useful. For instance some Russian Wikipedians had questions about the identity of a Korean person, and so they went across to the English Wikipedia to get more info, and I helped them out by contacting Korean and English Wikipedians: ru:Обсуждение_участника:WhisperToMe WhisperToMe (talk) 14:14, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Help needed
I wrote an article on Eduardo Darino, filmmaker working in New York City since 1973. I think it can be linked to this Wiki. Can you consider -and if I must do it, How is it done? Thanks. Bodora (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
* I looked through your article quickly (and did some cleanup and wikification on it, but not as much as it needs - which is a thorough copyediting for grammar and style), and in my opinion the subject's connection to NYC is not strong enough to justify linking to this project. Others may differ, though, so see what kind of response you get. But, in any event, the article does cry out for cleaning up, so you would be well advised to find someone who's willing to do that for you -- maybe someone from the Film Project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:10, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Theatre District, New York
There was recently a move discussion on Theatre District, New York, to move the article to Theater District, New York. This discussion took place without any notification to this project, which is the logical place for such a notification to be made. The move was closed by User:RegentsPark. I reverted it, totally unaware that it was the result of a RM discussion: I thought it was simply an inadvertent (and incorrect) move by an editor (not an admin - there was no indication that the move was the result of an RM discussion). RegentsPark decided not to revert my reversion, but editor User:Epeefleche decided otherwise, and reverted. I am asking for another RM to put this article back where it belongs, at Theatre District, New York. I have stated that I will stand by whatever the result of the discussion is, but I do insist that the move discussion be representative of the Wikipedia community, and not simply the result of the opinions of a few people. I urge members of the New York City Project to express their opinions, which I will stand by. Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:02, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* Hi BMK. The move discussion was noticed as required. It attracted robust participation from many editors. Was open for a week. Had a consensus, sysop close. That discussion and that close were both reflected on the talkpage whose move you reverted.
* The closer then indicated to you, in subsequent discussion, that though your view differed from the consensus, he did not believe your view was correct. You then anyway edited directly against that consensus, on the article page.
* The discussion just closed -- under the circumstances, I'm not clear why we would reopen a just-closed robust discussion, just because an editor dislikes it. There is more on this issue here.--Epeefleche (talk) 10:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* The discussion was not properly publicized and I have re-opened it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 10:54, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* The discussion was open for a week, and publicized as required. It had robust input from a good number of editors. What is your basis for asserting that it was not "properly" publicized? Greater publication is acceptable, but certainly the level of publication here met our requirements, and was proper.--Epeefleche (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* To avoid the communication issue, if someone activates Alerts bot for this project and then each add the Alerts on your watchlists it will automatically pick up any AfDs RMs etc. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
New here
Hello all. I'm new here and not really sure how the Wikiproject works, but I've written an article that I think falls under the aegis of Wikiproject NYC (Chelsea Recreation Center) and I would be interested to find out how it could be categorized here. I'd also be very appreciative of any feedback/edits and discussion re: potentially adding/categorizing other notable Parks & Rec facilities, as well as any guidance on how to better contribute here. Thanks! -Thomas Craven (talk) 23:16, 24 February 2013 (UTC). Editing to add tag. -Thomas Craven (talk) 23:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
* To have an article recognized by WikiProject New York City, place WikiProject New York City on the page's talk page. Camyoung54 talk 00:43, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks! -Thomas Craven (talk) 00:50, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
World Trade Center
World Trade Center, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 06:50, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
The Cooper Square Hotel
Hi,
I work for Black Frame PR, who represents The Standard Hotel chain, which currently owns what used to be The Cooper Square Hotel. They have requested that the page be taken down as the building no longer goes by this name, nor is it owned in any way shape or form by those who constructed the building. It is also undergoing a major renovation, to be unveiled this Fall, which will render the facade virtually unrecognizable. Thanks for any help you have to offer.
All the best,
Nick Spain — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickSpain (talk • contribs) 20:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
* I have moved the article to The Standard, East Village. When the renovation is complete, if it is significant as you say it will be, we will add information about it to the article. In the meantime, I have added a cited mention that renovations are taking place. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:10, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
* P.S. Since you are a P.R. person for the hotel, please do not make changes to the article yourself, this is editing with a conflict of interest which we generally try to avoid here. Instead, you can make suggestions on the article's talk page, so that one of the editors who is watching the page can implement them. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:10, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Lists of intersections, crosswalks and traffic lights
Some of our articles about New York City streets and avenues include long lists of every intersection along the street, including whether it's controlled by traffic lights, and mid-block cross walks. These lists are largely trivia and aren't encyclopedic. The list of intersections might be encyclopedic (but surely a map is a better way to express this) but the traffic lights and cross walks surely are not. Wikipedia is not a GPS nor is it a travel guide. I propose that we stop adding these lists to street articles and remove them from articles where they already exist. (See, for example, this). Pburka (talk) 21:47, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
* We could put it in another article, just for reference. Like this one. Epicgenius(talk to me • see my contributions) 01:31, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
* What encyclopedic purpose would that serve? Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Users wishing to navigate Manhattan should use a map, such as Wikimapia. Pburka (talk) 01:58, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
* A list of intersections is encyclopedic because it shows which streets intersect with what. Just saying... Epicgenius(talk to me • see my contributions) 13:13, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
My present
I made a userbox for residents of the fine folks of the Metropolitan area:
If you want to use, place this on your user profile:
If you want to use, place this on your user profile:
Also, I've been making Category:Sports in the New York metropolitan area, Category:Transportation in the New York metropolitan area and Category:Geography of the New York metropolitan area if that's okay with you guys! Dwscomet (talk) 04:22, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
The Bowery
in a repeat of the brouhaha about The Bronx, which finally ended with the article at the correct name, an editor is roaming around Wikipedia changing instances of "the Bowery" to "Bowery". Discussion is at Talk:Bowery, and more participants would be welcome. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Damrosch Park
I have been working on Damrosch Park, but have never visited the park. Perhaps an editor who is familiar with the park could improve the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
New York City GAR
New York City, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 02:37, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
"The" in NYC apartment building names
There is a discussion concerning the use of "The" in the names of historic and significant NYC apartment buildings at Talk:The Dakota. This should be considered a centralized discussion for this topic, covering a number of different buildings. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:18, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
File:Newarklocator.jpg
File:Newarklocator.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:49, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
File:Milledoler.jpg
File:Milledoler.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:15, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
New York Subway redirects
See WP:RFD where several NYC subway redirects have come up for deletion recently -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
MorristownMunicipalAirport.jpg
image:MorristownMunicipalAirport.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:41, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Wallack's Theatre
This article looks really terrible, but the primary author is resisting any changes I make to improve the readability & layout, so I'm backing off. Other eyes may want to take a look. There are also plagirism issues: large blocks of text, suitably credited, but somehow "abridged" and "rearranged" (primary author's words) despite being presented as direct quotes, with no indication (via ellipses, etc.) what changes were made to the text. The amount quoted also seems excessive - even when the text is not still copyrighted, we discourage large amounts of direct quoting instead of paraphrasing or re-writing the information. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:38, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
File:LouisBuchalter.gif
File:LouisBuchalter.gif has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Incorrect URL
For a brand search for the Ritz-Carlton hotel (The Ritz-Carlton Central Park), the Hotel St Moritz is showing up in the knowledge graph, pulling from Wikipedia. Could you please seperate the two Wiki pages?
The URL of this page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz-Carlton_New_York_Central_Park, when it should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_St._Moritz. All of the content is about Hotel St. Moritz. Shouldn't there be a unique page about The Ritz-Carlton, Central Park? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:16, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
* I've added a bit of info about the Hotel St. Moritz to the Ritz-Carlton article and changed the Ritz-Carlton New York Central Park page to link to the parent company instead of the building. Pburka (talk) 22:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
More input needed...
...at Talk:Grace Church (Manhattan). Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:35, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Untagged articles
There are a lot of articles relevant to WP:NYC that are not duly tagged with the project template. I just added 2009 World Series and 1926 World Series, both of which were partially hosted by Yankee Stadium. Does anyone else want to help me go through Category:New York City and all its subcategories adding the project banner? This is definitely a task for AutoWikiBrowser. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
* I'd be happy to help, I've wanted to do similar tasks with AWB before but wasn't sure how... so just let me know! If it's an extreme amount of work, I know you can request AnomieBOT to handle it. — MusikAnimal talk 16:30, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
* Great! I've been doing similar tagging for other projects through AWB by compiling a list based on the relevant category and its subcategories, converting to the talk page, and then having a "skip" defined as when AWB finds the project banner. It might be best to get a bot on it, actually. I looked at it a while ago and it is literally thousands of articles. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:51, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
* Cool, well I was looking at the WikiProjectTagger info on AnimoeBOT's talk page, and looks like including all subcategories is not generally done anymore, I guess that means it's not allowed to recurse, and that we should instead provide the list of categories to process. In addition, those categories must be approved by the WikiProject, shown via a linked discussion. Do we have that? I guess we could publicly approve all of them here, unless someone objects... I don't see why any child category of Category:New York City should be excluded from this WikiProject. — MusikAnimal talk 17:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
GA review for Rakim
Rakim has been nominated for Good Article review. Editors are invited to comment on the article, especially those who have not made significant contributions to the article. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 08:51, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
College basketball team navigation templates
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Creation of these templates will impact articles on NYC related teams such as SJU, Columbia, Manhattan, and Fordham. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Commercialization of Macy's Parade coverage by NBC
I think it would be interesting if any insiders could share what NBC charges to feature particular floats and have the hosts read scripted commercials for those products, such as Kool-Aid and McDonalds. Newsboy0224 (talk) 16:05, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
* That would be WP:OR. If you want to include that information, please find a reliable secondary source. Pburka (talk) 17:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Manhattan-centric infobox photo
I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I noticed that the infobox photo in the New York City article only contains one image from outside Manhattan. (Plus the Statue of Liberty). There are no photos of Brooklyn (except for a sliver in the Brooklyn Bridge shot), or the Bronx or Staten Island. I realize there are simply more landmarks in Manhattan, but this struck me as a bit inaccurate. Thoughts? Delaywaves •  talk 03:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* If the Brooklyn Bridge counts as being in Manhattan, then it counts as being in Brooklyn as well. The Statue of Liberty is in New York Harbor, so of 7 images, only 4 are actually of Manhattan, per se. I agree that a picture from the Bronx or Staten Island would be a nice thing. What instantly identifiable iconic landmark from those boroughs would you suggest? Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:29, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* Since the vast majority of the city consists of apartment buildings and houses, I thought that a simple streetscape photo belongs somewhere in this infobox. I couldn't find any great examples, but maybe something like this, this, or some kind of aerial view. Delaywaves •  talk 15:09, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* Most American cities consist of apartment buildings and houses, so I can't see the value in including them in an image which is supposed to identify what's unique about New York. Plus street and streetscape photos tend to be very boring. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* Same goes for aerial views - seen one, you've pretty much seen them all. They have value when they're presented at a large enough size to see some details, but in an infobox, as part of a collage of images, an aerial view will have zero impact. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* And, we have the Manhattan skyline. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* For the Bronx, what about Yankee Stadium or the New York Botanical Garden? (Although including Yankee Stadium could cause Mets fans to feel left out, I guess.) Pburka (talk) 18:18, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* Yes, Yankee Stadium would fill the bill, but there's nothing instantly recognizable about the Botanic Garden, or the Bronx Zoo, for that matter. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:35, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* When people think about NYC, they usually only think about Manhattan. Not many people would recognise the hills of Staten Island as being part of New York City at first glance. And a tourist would have to look closely to see that this photo was taken in the city. Epicgenius (talk) 20:46, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* True, but my entire point is that for a city of 8+ million people, there ought to be something in the infobox photo that goes beyond the obvious touristy/famous locations and portrays what 90% of the city actually looks like. But I agree that the photo must be somewhat interesting, not just a shot of an average city block. Delaywaves •  talk 23:46, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
* I actually don't think that's a very good point at all. What makes a city unique -- and identifiable -- is not its prosaic residential or business neighborhoods, which tend to look remarkably similar from one city to another, but the things that make the place special and memorable in the mind of the visitor, resident or casual inquirer. If we were to go with your conception, then all city articles would feature images of apartment buildings and office towers in their infoboxes, but those are simply the background from which the really notable things pop out. The infobox image needs to feature the instantly identifiable and iconic places of a city. After all, it's not a sociological essay or a political tract on egalitarianism, it's an infobox which synopsizes the information about the subject, both textually and visually. In every city that's ever existed, the majority of places are fairly unremarkable; it's the tiny minority of really special places which serve to define the image of the city. The infobox needs to show them. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:37, 2 December 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Ruby Build an Address Book in Ruby Input and Output Saving The Address Book
Extra credit solution - slightly different approach
I took a slightly different approach to the solution for extra credit.
I added the option to the menu (abbreviated code below)
puts "r: Remove a contact"
case input
when 'a'
add_contact
when 'r'
remove_contact
Then, in the print_contact_list method I added a number to each contact
def print_contact_list
puts "Contact List"
i = 1
contacts.each do |contact|
print "#{i}. "
print "#{contact.to_s('first_last')}"
i = i + 1
end
end
So when the contact list is printed it now produces the following output
1. Contact 1
2. Contact 2
3. Contact 3
This means that when I ask the user for a contact, they can give a number so they can target a specific contact rather than a name which could result in multiple returns if more than one contact shares an identical name.
In my remove_contact method, I added a check in there to make sure they'd picked the person they wanted as well as a way of backing out if they changed their mind...
def remove_contact
# Check that there are contacts to delete
if contacts.length > 0
# Present contact list to choose from
print_contact_list
# Loop to verify that a valid contact is chosen
loop do
print "Select a contact (number): "
id = gets.chomp
# Checks for a valid contact number
if id.to_i <= contacts.length
puts "You have selected contact #{id} - #{contacts[id.to_i - 1].first_name}"
print "Please confirm you wish to delete this contact (y/n): "
confirm = gets.chomp
case confirm
when 'y'
puts "Removing contact"
contact = id.to_i - 1
contacts.delete_at(contact)
puts "Here is the updated contacts list"
# Display updated contact list
print_contact_list
break
when 'n'
# Allows user to change their mind
puts "No problem, the contact will not be deleted."
break
end
else
puts "Please try again!"
end
end
else
puts "There are no contacts to remove."
end
end
It also gives the user an updated contact list after they have deleted so they get immediate feedback on their action.
2 Answers
Dillon Wyatt
Dillon Wyatt
5,990 Points
def print_contact_list
puts "Contact List"
i = 1
contacts.each do |contact|
print "#{i}. "
print "#{contact.to_s('first_last')}"
i = i + 1
end
end
Might I add a suggestion to help clean up this bit?
Ruby offers a method "each_with_index". You can use it on an array, pull out both the content of the slot and its position in one shot. This way you don't need to create an counter that must be incremented.
Thus
contacts.each_with_index do |contact, index|
print "#{index + 1}" # Indexes start at 0
print "#{contact}"
Thanks for the suggestion, works perfectly.
Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
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Nice work! Easy to read and does way more than the basic requirement. You're practicing a good paradigm making deletion of a contact require an explicit confirmation. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Father’s homemade bus helped children in Depression
During the Depression, children in the community of Cedar Bluff, Texas, faced having to drop out of school because of a lack of transportation to get them there. But thanks to the efforts of one industrious father, getting to school was not a problem.
The year was 1934, and although school bus transportation had begun to catch on after a Model T Ford bus came out in 1927, no such progress had reached deep east Texas.
The nearest high school to Cedar Bluff was in Garrison – six miles away. Therefore, parents would seriously consider boarding a child in town so that they could continue their education.
Two such parents were D.L. and Rosa Hancock. They were strong believers in education, and when their son graduated from Cedar Bluff Elementary School, they sent him to live with relatives in Garrison so that he could continue his studies.
That was only a temporary solution, however. At the time, the couple had two younger daughters who would soon be ready for high school. Their peers were other youngsters who needed to continue their education, as well, but they wouldn’t be able to unless someone did something to solve their transportation problem.
After giving the matter some thought, D.L. Hancock approached the County Superintendent of Schools and the Garrison School Superintendent. He outlined a plan for a school bus route he proposed to serve.
It was a bold move for a quiet country farmer – and the offer was accepted. Hancock bought a Chevrolet truck without a cab and hired a neighbor to convert it into a bus.
The homemade body of the carriage was constructed to sit on the bed of the truck. It had a glass window on the driver’s side and a door on the passenger side. Long, wooden benches filled the seating area, and there were open windows to admit air, as well as curtains of heavy cotton sack material to roll down when the weather was bad.
The bus was painted yellow-orange, and one of the Hancock daughters, Virginia Lee, recalls helping her sister trace the words ‘SCHOOL BUS’ on the exterior and painting them black.
It was exciting when the bus began to roll, Lee said, its headlights blazing in the early-morning dark as it picked up students from Cedar Bluff, Pisgah, Center, Wanders and Garrison.
But it wasn’t an easy commute, she says.
‘Both the rural roads and Highway 35 were crooked as a barrel of snakes, and sometimes Naconiche Creek would overflow,’ she said. ‘Proud as we were of that bus, I have to admit it was one rough ride – but it was our lifeline to getting an education, and we knew it.’
For years, Hancock drove students to Garrison High School in his homemade bus while also providing rides in the summer and on weekends to families who needed transportation to town, church and community gatherings. It was finally retired in the early 1940s, when more modern services became available.
All these years later, there are still people in east Texas who fondly remember the bus that a country farmer made, and they are grateful for the part it played in their lives. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Symptons & Treatment of Mesothelioma
October 5, 2009 1 comment
What are some common symptoms of mesothelioma
Some of the initial symptoms of mesothelioma mirror those of other lung diseases and illnesses. Because of the rarity of disease, it is more likely that a person exhibiting similar symptoms has a different illness. If you have had asbestos exposure, however, it is critical that you let your doctor know. Some Mesothelioma symptoms many of times include the following
• Chest pain
• Palpable lumps under the skin of the chest
• Unintentional weight loss
• Pain when breathing or coughing
• Persistent, dry cough
• Shortness of breath
• Difficulty swallowing
As mesothelioma spreads, its symptoms become more severe, often leading to death from heart failure, lung failure, or stroke.
Diagnosis
An examination by your doctor should be conducted if they believe you are at rist of mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease. This may include a physical examination, x-ray or lung test.A chest x-ray cannot detect asbestos fibers, but it can identify the early signs of lung disease. Detailed imaging tests can also be ordered by your doctor, such as a CT scan or an MRI. Once a diagnosis has been reached, the doctors will attempt to assign one of the following stages of mesothelioma cancer:
• Stage I mesothelioma is limited to one section of the lining of the lungs.
• Stage II mesothelioma may have spread to the diaphragm or a lung.
• Stage III mesothelioma may have spread to other parts of the chest and to nearby lymph nodes.
• Stage IV mesothelioma has spread or metastasized to other parts of the body, most commonly the lymph nodes, the brain, or to distant portions of the lungs.
Treatment
Mesothelioma, unfortunately is usually not diagnosed until it is in an advanced stage. Regardless of the stage, mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer that is rarely cured. It may be possible in very young stages to remove the cancer through surgery. Otherwise, treatment options such as surgery, chemotherapy & radiation may be chosen to reduce the signs and symptoms of the cancer & to slow its growth. If you are a victim of asbestosis exposure or mesothelioma, be sure to get a dedicated mesothelioma lawyer as soon as possible | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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