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1999 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1999 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 8–4 overall and 5–2 in conference to share the Western Athletic Conference championship with Hawaii and Fresno State. The team was coached by Dennis Franchione. The offense scored 362 points while the defense allowed 213 points. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
Schedule
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Team players drafted into the NFL
Not one member was picked in the 2000 NFL Draft. LaDainian Tomlinson and Aaron Schobel were drafted in the 2001 NFL Draft. | WIKI |
How to Change the Alarm Code for a CPI Panel
An alarm panel like this controls the system's access codes, and arms and disarms the alarm system.
CPI Security, a home alarm system company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, installs a range of DSC, General Electric and CPI-brand security systems in customers' homes. Changing an alarm code involves entering the existing master code for the system, entering a new master code or selecting a user code to change and confirming that change. You can change your master code or one of the many user codes if you suspect the code is known outside your circle of trust.
Step 1
Find the instruction manual for your CPI alarm system at the company's website. See the Resources section for the link. The instructions provide additional details particular to your system.
Step 2
Enter "9" or "*5," depending on the system. Enter the system's master code using the numbered buttons on the front of the control panel.
Step 3
Choose to change the master code or one of the user codes assigned to family members. Selecting this option requires you to enter a number, for example, "40" or "0320."
Step 4
Enter a new four-digit master code or user code and press the "#" button. The system accepts the new code and returns to "Ready" mode.
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HOW TO FLOSS TEETH
Dr. Shilpy Bhandari 17 Mar 2022
HOW TO FLOSS TEETH
Flossing teeth is often recommended by dentists for maintaining oral hygiene. In this practice, dental floss (a thin, thread-like material) is used to clean spaces between the teeth and underneath the gum line where a toothbrush cannot reach. Regular flossing removes the food or bacterial film (plaque) trapped between the teeth, eliminating bacterial growth. Research suggests that 80% of plaque may be removed by flossing which lowers the risk of decay and gum diseases
However, less than 30% of adults in the US floss their teeth daily. Many don’t know how to floss correctly and find it difficult to continue flossing on a daily basis.
In this article, we discuss the technique to floss teeth and address some of the most commonly asked questions
What are different materials that are used to produce floss?
In the early 19th century, silk fibers were twisted to form a long strand of floss. In the 20th century, silk was replaced with nylon filaments which fray less, have better strength, and are affordable. Presently, nylon flosses are treated with flavoring agents (e.g., mint) to make the flossing experience more pleasant. Nylon flosses are available in waxed (coated with wax) and unwaxed forms.
How to floss your teeth?
Here is the technique to floss your teeth:
• Take about 18 inches (1.5 ft) of floss. Encircle the floss around the middle finger of one hand from one end and around the middle finger of the opposite hand from another end.
• Use the index and thumb fingers of each hand to hold the floss such that 1-2 inches of floss taut remain in between.
• Direct the thumb upwards to insert the floss between contacts of upper teeth.
• Similarly, direct the index finger to insert the floss between contacts of lower teeth.
• Once the floss is inserted between teeth, wrap it around the tooth making a C shape.
• Slide the floss gently in an upward and downward direction against the tooth surface and a little under the gumline.
• Make sure to floss around both the front and back surfaces of all your teeth.
Here’s a helpful video from the American Dental Association’s (ADA) youtube channel on the proper technique for flossing your teeth outlined above.
What are the benefits of flossing?
Here are some of the benefits of flossing:
• Flossing aids in the removal of food particles and debris between the teeth and underneath the gum line
• It reduces the risk of decay and gum infections, restoring the health of the gums and teeth
• It prevents bad breath
Which floss is best to choose between waxed or unwaxed floss?
More than the type of floss used for flossing, the correct technique to floss is important. Research suggests no reported difference in the efficiency of waxed or unwaxed floss. People with tight contacts between teeth find waxed floss easier to pass compared to unwaxed ones. Waxed floss has higher strength and is relatively thicker. In contrast, unwaxed floss is thin and is more comfortable to use.
What are the different types of floss?
There are mainly 3 different types of floss — Regular floss, Dental tape, and Super floss
• Regular floss: Regular floss is a traditional nylon floss used for cleaning food entrapped between the teeth. It comprises fine strands of nylon rolled around each other. This floss easily penetrates through the tight contacts between teeth.
• Dental tape: Dental tapes are similar to dental floss except that they have a wider surface area. This allows easy removal of plaque with an equal amount of effort as applied with dental floss. Also, the greater surface area of the dental tape reduces the risk of a cut in the fingers when wrapped around them. Similar to dental floss, dental tape is available in waxed and unwaxed forms.
• Super floss: Super floss is considered superior to regular floss. It is mainly recommended in people with large interdental spaces or with braces, a fixed prosthesis (fixed bridge), or implants. It comprises of 3 parts - a rigid end which enables easy insertion between braces or fixed clips, a middle part with a spongy floss for easy removal of the bacterial film (plaque) underneath prosthesis (fixed bridge), and the other end with a regular wax coated floss to clean the tight interdental spaces. Super floss is thicker than regular floss, so it is difficult to pass through teeth with tight contacts.
What is the most suitable time to floss your teeth?
Flossing once a day can be performed at your convenience. Some people prefer flossing before going to bed at night, while others prefer it as a part of oral hygiene routine in the morning or after lunch. However, research suggests that flossing before brushing is an effective way to maintain oral hygiene. This practice helps enhance the fluoride concentration (delivered through toothpaste) which strengthens the enamel and resists decay. Ultimately, as long as you are doing it with the correct technique you can floss any time in a day.
Which teeth to floss first— Upper or lower teeth?
You can start from any teeth either upper or lower teeth. You can even start from the front or back teeth. Flossing with the correct technique is important. Just make sure to floss under the gum line and the back surfaces of all the teeth in the mouth.
What precautions should be taken while flossing?
• Do not apply excessive force while flossing as this can injure the gums between teeth
• Initial discomfort while flossing is common. Regular brushing and flossing will reduce the discomfort
• Consult your dentist in case of injury to the gums while flossing
Can you reuse the floss?
Dental floss is meant for single use. After a single use, the floss loses its effectiveness, frays away, and tends to increase the deposit of bacteria in the mouth. So please remember, the American Dental Association recommends discarding floss after one use.
Are there any alternatives to dental floss?
Some people may find flossing teeth with a dental floss a tiring procedure as it involves manual dexterity. It usually takes some time to adapt to the habit. So, other interdental cleaning aids such as floss picks (floss with a holder), tiny brushes, water flossers (device using a spray of water for cleaning), air flossers (device using stream of air for cleaning) may be recommended by a dentist. These interdental cleaning aids can be used by people who have difficulty using regular floss.
To search for the best dentists in Germany, India, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, the UK and the USA, please use the Mya Care search engine.
To search for the best healthcare providers worldwide, please use the Mya Care search engine.
About the Author:
Dr. Shilpy Bhandari is an experienced dental surgeon, with specialization in periodontics and implantology. She received her graduate and postgraduate education from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in India. Besides her private practice, she enjoys writing on medical topics. She is also interested in evidence-based academic writing and has published several articles in international journals.
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Higher volatility doesn't mean stocks will suffer this year
Volatility has returned to the market in a big way, but that doesn't necessarily mean lower returns for stocks. What's been weird about the markets is not the volatility, it's how absurdly low volatility has been. According to DataTrek, in each year since 1958 the has on average gained or lost 1 percent or more on a daily basis on 53 days. That's about 20 percent of the time every year, or about one day per week. In 2017, there were only eight such days: eight days versus an average of 53 for the past 60 years. So far in 2018, there have already been 11 days. Is this a reversion to the mean? Sure looks like it. You shouldn't be ready to lighten up on stocks, though, according to DataTrek's Jessica Rabe. "Just because US equities are more volatile does not mean negative price returns, at least when looking at the historical data," she wrote in a recent note to clients. There are two reasons. First, stocks tend to rise more than they decline on an annual basis. The S&P 500 has only posted negative annual returns 20 percent of the time since 1958, Rabe told me in a telephone interview. Second, higher volatility does not necessarily mean lower returns. In years where there was an above-average number of days when the S&P was up or down 1 percent or more, two-thirds of the years (67 percent) still ended higher (these returns included dividends). Up or down years with high volatility tended to be up or down about the same amount. In years when there was an above-average number of up or down 1 percent days and the S&P ended up, it was up an average of 19.3 percent. In years when there was an above-average number of up or down 1 percent days and the S&P ended down, it was down an average of 15.1 percent. The conclusion: Higher volatility tends to produce bigger swings in the S&P than usual. But that shouldn't surprise anyone. Rabe is expecting the higher volatility to continue, but she's still bullish on U.S. equities: "Just because there's greater volatility doesn't mean 2018 will deliver negative returns," she told me. "As our data shows that's not necessarily a harbinger for trouble but does require a stronger stomach and more due diligence to not fall prey to behavioral biases." In plain English: The low volatility we have seen in the last few years definitely is not the norm. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:1013-josh/draft
Xelixes is the name of this sample article. Your article should start with a definition of what your topic is and basic information about it. The first time you mention the subject of your article, you should bold it. See how I bolded xelixes the first time I mentioned it, but I didn't bold it this time?
You can go on for several paragraphs in this introductory section, or you may find that one paragraph is enough. If you have more than one paragraph, make sure your paragraphs have a blank line between them, as these two do.
If you have many sections in your article, Wikipedia will automatically generate a "Contents" box like the one you see below.
Early history
Look, I just created a section for the history of xelixes. I could write a whole paragraph here, or more than that. Preferably more. I created a section by using a button on the formatting toolbar, but you can also do it by typing == Section Heading ==.
According to Manual of Style (headings), only the first word should be capitalized in section headings (unless the other words are proper nouns).
The Xonox incident
I can create subsections, too. This is a little short for a subsection. Subsections use three equal signs on each side, like this: === Subsection Heading ===
Slow down, cowboy
I doubt you'll need a sub-subsection, but if you do, it goes like this: ====SubSub====.
Don't do this
You can also bold text, but that's generally not a good way to create a section division.
Using links in body text
When you think your reader might want to know something extra about your subject, give them an internal link. You might occasionally want them to have an external link, but be careful with these. See External links for more guidance.
With internal links, be sure that your link points to the most appropriate article. For example, if you were writing about the Black Hills, the link Native Americans would be a better choice than Native Americans. (Click the links to see how they differ.) Remember that the display text of your link does not necessarily need to be the same as the title you link to, i.e. Native Americans produces Native Americans.
Another thing to remember about internal links is that generally you only use a link for the first instance of a word. If the word appears later in the article, don't link it again.
Using footnotes
In this first sentence, I am going to cite a book, one of my favorite novels. In this next sentence, I am going to cite a newspaper article, an example from the Hacker handbook. In this final sentence, I am going to cite a website, another example from the Hacker handbook. Are you paying attention to where I put the footnote in relation to the period at the end of the sentence?
To format a footnote, I type. If you have any questions about what I'm doing, click "Edit this page" to see what the raw text of the page looks like. (Note: If you copy anything from the raw text of this page, be sure that what you copy doesn't include tags. Those tags are used to tell Wikipedia to ignore the formatting for a moment, and they will get you in trouble if you're not sure how to handle them.)
If you are going to be using a source in more than one footnote, you probably want to do what I am doing here. With the first footnote, I defined the name "Robinson." Now I can just keep citing it over and over without typing out the whole thing. It's kind of complicated to explain what I'm doing, so why don't you click "edit this page" and find out? Or you could read Help:Footnotes.
Footnotes should be formatted according to the guidelines in Hacker CMS-4c. But be careful! That section of the Hacker is a little funky. Use the numbered example (which is the proper format for a footnote), not the example below it (which is the proper format for a bibliography entry). For example, at CMS-4c(1), use the footnote format, which begins "William H. Rehnquist," not the bibliography format, which begins "Rehnquist, William H."
At the bottom of my page, I'll make a new header called "Footnotes" and there I'll type. All of my footnotes will show up there automatically. Really. You'll see.
Using references
In the references section, I will include all of the sources I use in my footnotes, as well as any general references. These references should be in bibliography format, according to MLA-4b. So instead of "William H. Rehnquist," it would be "Rehnquist, William H." Alphabetize this list. No page numbers in this section, unless you are referring to the page numbers of a work within a work (for example, an article within a newspaper or a chapter title within a book). Using asterisks to make a bulleted list is a good idea.
Sometimes this section is called a "Bibliography," but we're going to call it "References," which is a standard practice on Wikipedia and will help our heads from exploding by trying to remember too many different things.
Using the See Also section
In the See Also section, I will include links to related Wikipedia articles. Again, using asterisks to make a bulleted list is a good idea.
Using the External Links section
This section is for links to outside websites that might provide context for my article. External links should be formatted as Name of website, i.e. MN Speak website produces MN Speak website.
Note that I screwed up on this. I originally had you putting external links in the See Also section, but the Wikipedia Layout Guide calls for them to be in the External Links section.
The perfect article
Your Wikipedia article is a work in progress. After you finish your rough draft, we will work on developing it into The Perfect Article, as defined by Wikipedia. You may want to add some images. On Friday, I will teach you more about images. Don't worry about them yet, but you may want to bookmark them as you come across them. | WIKI |
I Did a Workout & Now My Stomach Itches So Bad
An extremely itchy stomach as the result of exercise can be both frustrating and embarrassing, and can be caused by a variety of environmental factors and medical conditions. Because scratching can lead to further irritation and infection, it is important to understand why an itchy stomach can occur after exercise and how it can be remedied.
Symptoms
Exercise-related itching can range from mild to severe and can sometimes be exacerbated in hot or humid conditions. Besides the stomach, itchiness after exercise can develop on other areas of the body, such as the chest, legs and neck. It can be accompanied by a variety of additional symptoms, including red or clear bumps, a prickling feeling and small blisters. You also might notice redness or bleeding if the skin of the stomach has been rubbed raw.
• Exercise-related itching can range from mild to severe and can sometimes be exacerbated in hot or humid conditions.
• You also might notice redness or bleeding if the skin of the stomach has been rubbed raw.
Causes
Chest Rash After Running
Learn More
An itchy stomach can be caused by poor circulation caused by lack of exercise. Dry skin, which often occurs in winter, also can result in itchiness during exercise. An itchy stomach also can be caused by heat rash, a condition that develops when sweat ducts clog 2. Chafing, some detergents, harsh soaps and irritating fabrics that do not allow perspiration to evaporate also can result in itchiness. In addition, itchiness can be the sign of an exercise-induced allergic reaction.
• An itchy stomach can be caused by poor circulation caused by lack of exercise.
• Chafing, some detergents, harsh soaps and irritating fabrics that do not allow perspiration to evaporate also can result in itchiness.
Remedies
Wipe any lingering sweat from your stomach with a damp cotton cloth. Apply a calamine lotion to help relieve itching. Always wear clean, dry, breathable clothing that encourages air flow around the midsection. Refrain from wearing or using products that contain perfumes or dyes. Rub a gentle moisturizer on the skin on your stomach prior to exercising. Take an antihistamine before your workout if you are prone to exercise-induced allergies.
• Wipe any lingering sweat from your stomach with a damp cotton cloth.
• Rub a gentle moisturizer on the skin on your stomach prior to exercising.
Tips
Boils on My Stomach
Learn More
Prevent an itchy stomach by exercising indoors when it is hot outside. Stay in a well-ventilated room with a fan or air conditioner running. In addition, do not overdress when exercising in winter; doing so can lead to itchy, hot skin. If possible, do not use creams or ointments on the stomach. They can block your pores and lead to heat rash or itchiness when exercising 2.
• Prevent an itchy stomach by exercising indoors when it is hot outside.
• In addition, do not overdress when exercising in winter; doing so can lead to itchy, hot skin.
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User:Actcm4/Evaluate an Article
Which article are you evaluating?
Feminism
Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)
I've visited this article before, just out of my own curiosity, so I thought it would be interesting to look at it a little deeper and evaluate it. It is definitely a roadmap article, with a bunch of links to more specified articles about different topics within the umbrella of feminism.
Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)
One of the biggest things I noticed was an absense of a "critics of feminism" section. There is one that lumps together anti-feminism and some critiques, linking the Wikipedia article about anti-feminism, but this section doesn't really go into depth about it. There isn't a lot of information about men's reactions to feminism and reactions and criticisms of early feminist theories, which are important to understand. There is also very little information about intersectionality specifically. There are little blurbs here and there about it, but I think a section about intersectionality, maybe under the Modern Feminism umbrella, would be beneficial. | WIKI |
User:FourViolas
Hi, Wikipedia! I've been around for a while, but still have a lot to learn. Advice, chiding, trout whacks, and vegan pastry recipes are always welcome.
I'm interested in dance, math, classical music, philosophy, biology, languages, and climbing trees. I chose my username because I was writing a quartet for four violas when I signed up. I'm currently in grad school, studying organoids and organs-on-chips as alternatives to animal research.
I believe that singular "they" has long been, is increasingly, and should be officially accepted as an epicene pronoun.
Articles written mostly by me (|Graham_technique|Giordano_Dance_Chicago|Mary_Cannon|Psychology_of_eating_meat|Dolipore_septum|Bruce_Lisman|Black_Strap_Molasses_(song)|Floorwork|Impact_litigation pageviews):
• Somatics
• Graham technique(DYK)
• Giordano Dance Chicago
• Mary Cannon(DYK)
• Psychology of eating meat(DYK)
• Dolipore septum
• Hedareb people
• Bruce Lisman
• ALTEX
• Vermont Woods Studios
• Black Strap Molasses (song)(DYK)
• Herman Cornejo(DYK)
• Floorwork
• Impact litigation
• A Sea–Spell
• Brachymeiosis
• Protect the Harvest
• Gavin Buckley(DYK)
• 2016 Massachusetts Question 3
Why I like Wikipedia
I'm comforted to know that an open platform like Wikipedia can become a public good, rather than the kind of vitriol-spattered shambles that is so much of the user-generated Internet. And I'm endlessly impressed by how well the policies have been hashed out.
Evaluations of me and my work
When I'm first interacting with another Wikipedia editor, I sometimes find it's useful to get a sense of what others think of them as a colleague. To help you do the same, I've collected a sample of such evaluations for myself. Feel free to add your own, but please refrain from making threats. If you don't like the way I quoted you, you're welcome to edit or remove your evaluation.
* "Good job!", 5 November 2014
* "Kudos for your good work on Somatics!", 22 November 2014
* "Excellent work.", 7 January 2015
* "It is a pleasure to see a user whose first biography on WP is as good as [ Mary Cannon].", 7 January 2015
* "I would say that you've been a great asset to Wikipedia as well.", 22 February 2015
* "Your writing is quite good as well as your critical thinking skills (so essential for WP editing).", 1 March 2015
* "I recognise that you meant well, but the bio [you userfied] was inappropriate anywhere.", 12 March 2015
* Very helpful. A delight to be with!, 19 March 2015
* "You are an awesome Wikipedian!", 30 March 2015
* "Take a bloody good read of WP:AGF before you start insulting the approach of other editors again.", 24 June 2015
* "You have a real natural gift for this manner of editing and the intellectual and social demands of the project.", 13 July 2015
* "It's becoming hard to assume good faith.", 12 August 2015
* "I have read your Draft:Psychology of eating meat. I am impressed....It does not push a PoV (and is therefore more effective at getting its message across to confirmed meat-eaters like me).", 26 December 2015
* " [Draft:Psychology of eating meat] is a cherry-picked nightmare of vegan-chauvinism opinions, proffered as fact.", 29 December 2015
* "Unfortunately I think FourViolas, as usual, is exceptionally patient.", 14 January 2016
* "Kid's got a good heart and is wise beyond his years.", 15 July 2016
* "I'd like to thank you for conducting yourself in this matter in a manner that I find commendable.", 29 August 2016
* "People like you, FourViolas, breed incivility and thrive on the drama it creates. You and your pals should feel disgusted with yourselves.", 16 September 2016
The Teenly pledge
In honor of T e e n l y , I will strive to show every Wikipedia user the kindness and assumption of good faith I would show a terminally ill 6-year-old. Please let me know on my talk page if I've slipped up. | WIKI |
Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/1045
PUBLIC LAW 97-448—JAN. 12, 1983
96 STAT. 2407
SEC. 307. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES MISSING IN ACTION.
(a) SURVIVING SPOUSE.—Clause (i) of section 2(a)(3)(B) (relating to special rule where deceased spouse was in missing status) is amended by striking out "January 2, 1978" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1982".
26 USC 2.
(b) INCOME TAXES ON MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES ON DEATH.—
Paragraph (1) of section 692(b) (relating to income taxes of members of the Armed Forces on death while in a missing status) is amended by striking out "January 2, 1978" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1982". (c) JOINT RETURNS BY HUSBAND AND WIFE.—The last sentence of section 6013(f)(1) (relating to joint return where individual is in missing status) is amended by striking out "January 2, 1978" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1982".
26 USC 692.
26 USC 6013.
(d) TIME FOR PERFORMING CERTAIN ACTS POSTPONED.—Paragraph
(1) of section 7508(b) (relating to the application to spouse of provisions relating to the time for performing certain acts postponed by reason of service in combat zone) is amended by striking out "January 2, 1978" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1982".
26 USC 7508.
SEC..308. EXTENSION OF TIME FOR PAYMENT OF CIGARETTE TAX.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 5703 (relating to method of payment of tax) is amended to read as follows:
26 USC 5703.
"(b) METHOD OF PAYMENT OF TAX.—
"(1) IN GENERAL.—The taxes imposed by section 5701 shall be determined at the time of removal of the tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes. Such taxes shall be paid on the basis of return. The Secretary shall, by regulations, prescribe the period or the event for which such return shall be made and the information to be furnished on such return. Any postponement under this subsection of the payment of taxes determined at the time of removal shall be conditioned upon the filing of such additional bonds, and upon compliance with such requirements, as the Secretary may prescribe for the protection of the revenue. The Secretary may, by regulations, require payment of tax on the basis of a return prior to removal of the tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes where a person defaults in the postponed payment of tax on the basis of a return under this subsection or regulations prescribed thereunder. All administrative and penalty provisions of this title, insofar as applicable, shall apply to any tax imposed by section 5701. "(2) TIME FOR MAKING OF RETURN AND PAYMENT OF TAXES.—In
the case of tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes removed after December 31, 1982, under bond for deferred payment of tax, the last day for filing a return and paying any tax due for each return period shall be the last day of the first succeeding return period plus 10 days." (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes removed after December 31, 1982.
26 USC 5703 "°^-
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NFL notebook: Chargers, QB Rivers officially part ways
The Los Angeles Chargers and quarterback Philip Rivers officially parted ways Monday after 16 seasons. The franchise’s all-time leader in wins, passing yards and touchdown passes will become a free agent at age 38. “I’m not sure what the future holds, but my family and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for us next,” Rivers said in a statement released by the team. An eight-time Pro Bowl selection, Rivers started all 16 games for the 14th consecutive season for the 5-11 Chargers in 2019. He completed 66.0 percent of his passes for 4,615 yards with 23 touchdowns and 21 interceptions. “After stepping back a bit from last season, we reconnected with Philip and his representatives to look at how 2019 played out, assess our future goals, evaluate the current state of the roster and see if there was a path forward that made sense for both parties,” general manager Tom Telesco said. “As we talked through various scenarios, it became apparent that it would be best for Philip and the Chargers to turn the page on what has truly been a remarkable run.” —Former Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s recovery from hip surgery is going “as positive as possible,” according to a report from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Tagovailoa recently had a CT scan, which came almost three months after he suffered a dislocated right hip and posterior wall fracture late in the first half against Mississippi State on Nov. 16, ending his junior season. Rapoport, citing sources, tweeted, “The fracture has healed. The hip and its range of motion is good.” It might be another month before Tagovailoa is cleared for football activities, according to Rapoport. Tagovailoa is expected to be the second quarterback drafted behind Heisman winner and presumed No. 1 pick Joe Burrow of LSU. Tagovailoa said he will attend the NFL Combine, which begins Feb. 23, meeting with teams and going through medical evaluations in Indianapolis. —Suspended Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York to discuss his reinstatement. There is no timetable for an announcement from Goodell’s office. Garrett was suspended indefinitely after the Browns beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 on Nov. 14. Near the end of the game, a brawl broke out between the AFC North rivals, with Garrett ripping the helmet off of Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph, then swinging the helmet and striking Rudolph in the head. Garrett appealed the suspension but the ban was upheld, costing him the final six games of the season. —Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee will return for the 2020 season, but the 33-year-old veteran could test the free agent market. The two-time Pro Bowl selection said he will test free agency, but also could return to Dallas. “I’m waiting to kind of explore what some of my options are,” Lee said, according to SI.com. The oft-injured Lee played in all 16 games for the first time in his nine seasons with the Cowboys in 2019, registering 86 tackles, one sack and one interception. He had 17 tackles against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 16. —The Minnesota Vikings hired 32-year NFL coaching veteran Dom Capers as a senior defensive assistant. Capers served as the Jacksonville Jaguars senior defensive assistant last season. Capers has plenty of experience in the NFC North, having served as the Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator from 2009-17, highlighted by a win in Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 season. Capers, 69, has been the head coach of two NFL expansion teams — the Carolina Panthers (1995-98) and Houston Texans (2002-05) — and went 48-80 in eight seasons. He was named the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year in 1996. —The Baltimore Ravens signed safety Chuck Clark to a three-year extension. NFL Network’s Rapaport reported the value of the deal at $16 million, including $10 million guaranteed. Clark, 24, registered 73 tackles, nine passes defensed, two forced fumbles, one interception and one sack in 16 games (12 starts) for the AFC North champs in 2019. Clark stepped up when veteran Tony Jefferson suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 5. —Field Level Media | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
-- Baht Touches One-Week Low on Concern Central Bank to Step In
Thailand’s baht fell to a one-week
low on speculation the central bank will take action to stem the
flow of foreign money into local assets. Government bonds
advanced for an eighth day. Overseas investors have bought $1.2 billion more sovereign
notes than they sold this month through Feb. 8, Thai Bond Market
Association data show. Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong said
on Jan. 31 there’s concern the strong baht, which has rallied
2.5 percent against the dollar this year, will hurt tourism and
exports. The Bank of Thailand may unveil measures to curb
foreign inflows at a meeting on Feb. 20, according to Disawat
Tiaowvanich, a currency trader at Bangkok Bank Pcl. “There’s demand for the dollar against the baht because
the market is cautious that the central bank may do something to
slow down the capital inflows,” Tiaowvanich said. “That’s why
the Thai baht hasn’t moved on the strong side these days.” The baht fell 0.1 percent to 29.82 per dollar as of 8:29
a.m. in Bangkok, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The
currency touched 29.94 earlier, the weakest level since Feb. 1.
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I'm a librarian in Digital Library Services at the University of Texas at Arlington Library. Among other things, I work with a team of people to produce collections of digital and digitized material and to make those collections available online.
Among our current collections are:
* A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War
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Talk:Wendy Ewald
Some of the places are in the West Bank
Gilabrand reverted my edit. Nothing in the source contradict that she also visited the West Bank. Giving the impression that the Old City of Jerusalem and Hebron is in Israel isn't neutral. An alternative solution could be removing "and also visited the West Bank" but inserting "in the West Bank" after mentioning both the Old City and Hebron. Either way, the older wording can't be there. --IRISZOOM (talk) 12:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
Demotic Greek
Demotic Greek or Dimotiki (Δημοτική Γλώσσα, Dimotikí Glóssa,, lit. 'language of the people') is the standard spoken language of Greece in modern times and, since the resolution of the Greek language question in 1976, the official language of Greece. "Demotic Greek" (with a capital D) contrasts with Katharevousa, which was used in formal settings, during the same period. In that context, Demotic Greek describes the specific non-standardized vernacular forms of Greek used by the vast majority of Greeks during the 19th and 20th centuries.
As is typical of diglossic situations, Katharevousa and Dimotiki complemented and influenced each other. Over time, Dimotiki became standardized. In 1976, it was made the official language of Greece. It continued to evolve and is now called Standard Modern Greek. The term "demotic Greek" (with a minuscule d) also refers to any variety of the Greek language which has evolved naturally from Ancient Greek and is popularly spoken.
Basic features of Dimotiki
Demotic Greek differs in a few ways from Ancient Greek and from subsequent learned forms of Greek. Syntactically, it favors parataxis over subordination. It also heavily employs redundancy, such as (small little-girl) and (he-went-back-to-sleep again). Somewhat in connection with this, Demotic employs the diminutive with great frequency, to the point that many Demotic forms are in effect neuter diminutives of ancient words, especially irregular ones, e.g. from νήσιον (island) from ancient (island).
Greek noun declensions underwent considerable alteration, with irregular and less productive forms being gradually replaced by more regular forms based on the old one: άντρας (man) for ancient ἀνήρ. Another feature was the merging of classical accusative and nominative forms, distinguishing them only by their definite articles, which continued to be declined as in Ancient Greek. This was especially common with nouns of the third declension, such as (hometown, fatherland) which became nominative η πατρίδα, accusative την πατρίδα in Demotic.
A result of this regularization of noun forms in Demotic is that the words of most native vocabulary end in a vowel, s or n (ς, ν), i.e. an even more restricted set of possible word-final sounds than Ancient Greek. Exceptions are foreign loans like μπαρ (bar), and learned forms ύδωρ (from Ancient Greek, water), and exclamations like (ach!, oh!) Many dialects even append the vowel -e (ε) to third-person verb forms: instead of (they write). Word-final consonant clusters are also rare, again mainly occurring in learned discourse and via foreign loans: (coal – scientific) and (boxing – sport).
Indirect object is usually expressed by prepending the word σε to the accusative where Ancient Greek had εἰς for accusative of motion toward; bare σε is used without the article to express indefinite duration of time, or contracted with the definite article for definiteness especially with regard to place where or motion toward; or with the genitive, especially with regard to means or instrument. Using one noun with an unmarked accusative article-noun phrase followed by σε contracted with the definite article of a second noun distinguishes between definite direct and indirect objects, whether real or figurative, e.g. «βάζω το χέρι μου στο ευαγγέλιο» or «...στη φωτιά» (lit. I put my hand upon the Gospel or ...in the fire, i.e. I swear it's true, I'm sure of it). By contrast, Katharevousa continued to employ the ancestral form, εἰς, in place of σε.
The verb system inherited from Ancient Greek gradually evolved, with the old future, perfect, and pluperfect tenses gradually disappearing; they were replaced with conjugated forms of the verb έχω (I have) to denote these tenses instead. The future tenses and the subjunctive and optative moods, and eventually the infinitive, were replaced by the modal/tense auxiliaries θα and να used with new simplified and fused future/subjunctive forms. In contrast to this, Katharevousa employed older perfective forms and infinitives that had been for the most part lost in the spoken language, but in other cases it employed the same aorist or perfective forms as the spoken language, but preferred an archaizing form of the present indicative, e.g. for Demotic (I hide), which both have the same aorist form έκρυψα.
Demotic Greek also borrowed a significant number of words from other languages such as Italian and Turkish, something which katharevousa avoided.
Dimotiki and "Standard Modern Greek"
Dimotiki is commonly used interchangeably with "Standard Modern Greek" (Νέα Ελληνικά). Nonetheless, these terms are not necessarily synonyms. While today's Standard Modern Greek is fundamentally a continuation of earlier Dimotiki, it also contains—especially in its written form and formal registers—numerous words, grammatical forms, and phonetical features that did not exist in the most "pure" and consistent forms of Dimotiki during the period of diglossia in Greece. Due to these admixtures, it could even be described as a product of a "merger" between earlier Dimotiki and Katharevousa.
Furthermore, in a broader sense, the Greek term Δημοτική (Dimotikí) can also describe any naturally evolved colloquial language of the Greeks, not just that of the period of diglossia.
Examples of Modern Greek features that did not exist in Dimotiki
The following examples are intended to demonstrate Katharevousa features in Modern Greek. They were not present in traditional Demotic and only entered the modern language through Katharevousa (sometimes as neologisms), where they are used mostly in writing (for instance, in newspapers), but also orally, especially words and fixed expressions are both understood and actively used also by non-educated speakers. In some cases, the Demotic form is used for literal or practical meanings, while the Katharevousa is used for figurative or specialized meanings: e.g. for the wing or feather of a bird, but for the wing of a building or airplane or arm of an organisation.
Words and fixed expressions
Special dative forms:
* (interesting)
* (at least)
* (he abducted her)
* ... (it is a fact that ...)
* (for now)
* (figurative, I wash my hands [of him, her, it]); adapted from the Ancient Greek phrase describing Pontius Pilate washing his hands at Matthew 27:24; for actual hand-washing, the Demotic phrase is.
* δόξα τω Θεώ (thank God)
* εν ονόματι ... (in the name [of] ...)
* τοις μετρητοίς (in cash)
* εν συνεχεία (following)
* εν τω μεταξύ (meanwhile)
* εν αγνοία (in ignorance [of])
* συν τοις άλλοις (moreover)
* επί τω έργω (working, literally on the deed)
* τοις εκατό (percent, literally in a hundred)
* ιδίοις χερσί (with [one's] own hands)
Grammatical (morphological) features
* Adjectives ending in -ων, -ουσα, -ον (e.g. ενδιαφέρων interesting) or in -ων, -ων, -ον (e.g. σώφρων thoughtful) - mostly in written language.
* Declinable aorist participle, e.g. παραδώσας (having delivered), γεννηθείς ([having been] born) - mostly in written language.
* Reduplication in the perfect. E.g. προσκεκλημένος (invited), πεπαλαιωμένος (obsolete)
Phonological features
Modern Greek features many letter combinations that were avoided in traditional Demotic:
* -πτ- (e.g. πταίσμα "misdemeanor"); Demotic preferred -φτ- (e.g. φταίω "to err; to be guilty")
* -κτ- (e.g. κτίσμα "building, structure"); Demotic preferred -χτ- [e.g. χτίστης "(stone)mason"]
* -ευδ- (e.g. ψεύδος "falsity, lie"); Demotic preferred -ευτ- (e.g. ψεύτης "liar")
* -σθ- (e.g. ηρκέσθην / αρκέσθηκα "I was sufficed / satisfied"); Demotic preferred -στ- (e.g. αρκέστηκα)
* -χθ- (e.g. (ε)χθές "yesterday"); Demotic preferred -χτ- [e.g. (ε)χτές]
* etc.
Native Greek speakers, depending upon their level of education, may often make mistakes in these "educated" aspects of their language; one can often see mistakes like προήχθη instead of προήχθην (I've been promoted), λόγου του ότι/λόγο το ότι instead of λόγω του ότι (due to the fact that), τον ενδιαφέρον άνθρωπο instead of τον ενδιαφέροντα άνθρωπο (the interesting person), οι ενδιαφέροντες γυναίκες instead of οι ενδιαφέρουσες γυναίκες (the interesting women), ο ψήφος instead of η ψήφος (the vote).
Radical demoticism
One of the most radical proponents of a language that was to be cleansed of all "educated" elements was Giannis Psycharis, who lived in France and gained fame through his work My Voyage (Το ταξίδι μου, 1888). Not only did Psycharis propagate the exclusive use of the naturally grown colloquial language, but he actually opted for simplifying the morphology of Katharevousa forms prescription.
For instance, Psycharis proposed changing the form of the neuter noun "light" το φως (gen. του φωτός) into το φώτο (gen. του φώτου). Such radical forms had occasional precedent in Renaissance attempts to write in Demotic, and reflected Psycharis' linguistic training as a Neogrammarian, mistrusting the possibility of exceptions in linguistic evolution. Moreover, Psycharis also advocated spelling reform, which would have meant abolishing most of the six different ways to write the vowel /i/ and all instances of double consonants. Therefore, he wrote his own name as Γιάνης, instead of Γιάννης.
As written and spoken Dimotiki became standardized over the next few decades, many compromises were made with Katharevousa (as is reflected in contemporary standard Greek) despite the loud objections of Psycharis and the radical "psycharist" (ψυχαρικοί) camp within the proponents of Dimotiki's use. Eventually these ideas of radical demoticism were largely marginalized and when a standardized Dimotiki was made the official language of the Greek state in 1976, the legislation stated that Dimotiki would be used "without dialectal and extremist forms"—an explicit rejection of Psycharis' ideals. | WIKI |
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (9 January 1818 – 28 April 1881) was a French sculptor and photographer.
Early career
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon was born to a French Jewish family on 9 January 1818 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France. His father, Nathan-Herschel Salomon, intended for Antoine to have a career as a merchant. Following a brief career as a modeler for the Jacob Petit pottery factory in Fontainebleau, he received a scholarship to study sculpture in Paris. He also traveled for studies to Switzerland and England. His notable sculptures include busts of Victor Cousin, Odilon Barrot, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gioachino Rossini, and Marie Antoinette.
Photography
After becoming established as a sculptor, Adam-Salomon studied photography under the portraitist Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich in 1858. He became a leading portrait photographer. Adam-Salomon returned to Paris where he opened a portrait studio in 1859. In 1865 he opened a second Paris studio. Adam-Salomon's portrait photographs were considered to be among the best existing works during his lifetime, and were renowned for their chiaroscuro produced by special lighting techniques.
Awards
In 1870 Adam-Salomon was made a member of the Société française de photographie. He received a knighthood in France's Legion of Honour the same year, by decree on 9 August 1870.
Photography as art
The photography of Adam-Salomon played a pivotal role in the mainstream acceptance of photography as an art form. For example, in 1858 the poet Alphonse de Lamartine described photography as "this chance invention which will never be art, but only a plagiarism of nature through a lens." A short time later, after seeing the photographs by Adam-Solomon, Lamartine changed his opinion.
Critical praise
Coverage of Salomon's work in the French press outnumbered that of Félix Nadar by a ratio of ten to one. After the Paris Exposition of 1867, the reviewer for The Times (UK) described Salomon's pictures "matchless", "beyond praise," "the finest photographic portraits in the world."
In the 1868 edition of the British Journal of Photography Almanac, editor J. Traill Taylor wrote: "The important discovery of the past year has been that M. Adams-Salomon, a Parisian photographer, has produced portraits of so high class as to show us the true capabilities of photography, and how much we have yet to overcome ere similar perfection can be claimed for the works of our average artists. It is far from being pleasant to know that we are so far behind the Parisians; but, believing such to be the case, the knowledge of the fact will, without doubt, rouse English artists to a sense of their shortcomings and the particular direction in which progress must be made."
Photography
Adam-Salomon is known for producing a number of photographic works:
Sculpture
Adam-Salomon is known for a number of sculptures:-
Edwin Chadwick at National Portrait Gallery Adam-Salomon's bust sculptures of Elisabeth of Bavaria at Sotheby's
Personal life
In 1850, Adam-Salomon married Georgine Cornélie Coutellier, a fellow artist. Coutellier was born a Christian, but converted to Judaism upon marrying Adam-Salomon, and embraced the Hebrew faith until her death in February 1878. They had no children together. | WIKI |
In vitro regulation of endothelial cell migration, proliferation and tube formation by the hyaluronan receptors RHAMM and CD44
H. M. DeLisser, Z. Zhou, R. C. Savani
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Abstract
The glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan (HA) has been implicated in angiogenesis. HA interacts with the cell-associated receptors CD44 and RHAMM, and CD44 has been implicated in neovascularization. We hypothesized that endothelial cell (EC) migration, proliferation and tube formation would be regulated by HA receptors. By FACS, both receptors were expressed on the surface of EC. Migration (measured using Matrigelcoated Transwell filters), proliferation (by MTS assay), and tube formation (tube length/well in EC plated on Matrigel) were determined in the presence and absence of specific receptor-blocking or control antibodies (0 - 100 μg/ml). Results are shown as % of bovine serum albumin as a control ± SEM (* p < 0.05, ANOVA, n = 3/group). Antibody Proliferation Migration Tube Formation Control Ab 87 ± 5 102 ± 15 98 ± 4 (MHC-1) Anti-RHAMM 84 ± 3 55 ± 15 * 65 ± 4 * (R36) Anti-CD44 50 ± 8 * 92 ± 4 60 ± 4 * (J173). We conclude that HA regulation of angiogenesis likely occurs through receptor interaction. Further, CD44 regulates EC proliferation, RHAMM regulates EC migration, and both receptors contribute to EC tube formation. These data suggest that both receptors are involved in angiogenesis, but that they may mediate their effects through distinct mechanisms.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)171A
JournalJournal of Investigative Medicine
Volume47
Issue number2
StatePublished - Feb 1999
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
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twenty years ago, I published in a local magazine a series of biographical and critical essays on Bengali writers, and they were published in a collected form under the disguise of a nom de plume in 1877. The publication did not receive much attention at the time, but it attracted the notice of that prince of Indian statisticians, Sir William Hunter. He embodied much of the information conveyed in my book in his valuable work on the Indian Empire. and he suggested that a more complete treatment of the subject should be attempted.
The work of bringing out a more complete work on the subject has been deferred from year to year amidst other works which have claimed my more immediate attention. I do not regret this delay, as the information available on this subject is now far more satisfactory than it was twenty years ago. More attention is now given to | WIKI |
2010 New York state elections
The 2010 New York state elections took place on November 2, 2010. Due to the special election for US Senate, all of New York's six statewide offices were up for popular election on the same date. At the same time, all 29 members from New York of the U.S. House of Representatives, all 212 members of the New York State legislature, and many other local officials were elected.
The Democratic Party swept all of the statewide races. However, Republicans made net gains of six seats in the House of Representatives and retook control of the New York State Senate, winning 32 Senate seats to the Democrats' 30.
United States Senate
Democratic Senator Charles Schumer won reelection against Jay Townsend, his Republican opponent.
Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton resigned her position in 2009 to become United States Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the seat by Governor David Paterson. On November 2, 2010, a special election was held to fill the seat for the remainder of Clinton's unexpired term. Gillibrand defeated Republican Joseph J. DioGuardi in the special election.
United States House
The House seat in New York's 29th congressional district seat was vacated by Democrat Eric Massa, who resigned March 8, 2010. Under the authority of Article I in the U.S. constitution and provisions in New York state law, Governor David Paterson was supposed to call a special election in spring 2010 to fill the seat. However, Paterson waited until September to call the election and scheduled it for the same day as the general election. Two concurrent elections were held, one to fill the remainder of Massa's term (November to January) and one to fill the seat in the subsequent Congress. Both elections had the same candidates on the ballot, Democrat Matthew Zeller and Republican Tom Reed. Reed prevailed in both elections.
All of the New York congressional districts that were expected to be competitive were in Democratic hands; Republicans were expected to mount serious challenges to Democratic incumbents in districts 1, 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 29. Republican candidates won their races in Congressional Districts 13, 19, 20, 24, 25, and 29. Republican candidates prevailed in a total of eight congressional races in New York, while Democratic candidates prevailed in the other 21; thus, the GOP gained a total of six House seats in New York.
Governor
Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, resigned his post as governor of New York in 2008 due to a prostitution scandal. David Paterson, the Lieutenant Governor of New York, succeeded Spitzer. Paterson did not seek election to a full term in 2010.
The following tickets were filed with the New York State Board of Elections:
* Democratic Party: Andrew Cuomo/Bob Duffy (won the general election on November 2, 2010)
* Republican Party: Carl Paladino/Greg Edwards
* Independence Party: Cuomo/Duffy
* Conservative Party: Paladino/Edwards
* Working Families Party: Cuomo/Duffy
* Taxpayers Party: Paladino/Edwards
* Libertarian Party: Warren Redlich/Alden Link
* Green Party: Howie Hawkins/Gloria Mattera
* Rent is Too Damn High Party: Jimmy McMillan/no running mate
* Anti-Prohibition Party: Kristin M. Davis/Tanya Gendelman
* Freedom Party: Charles Barron/Eva Doyle
Andrew Cuomo and Bob Duffy prevailed in the election, receiving 61.4% of the vote.
Attorney General
In the wake of incumbent Andrew Cuomo's decision to pursue the governor's post and not seek re-election, five Democrats ran in a primary election; the winner was State Senator Eric Schneiderman, who had heavy backing from labor. Dan Donovan was the nominee of the Republican and Conservative parties. Schneiderman prevailed over Donovan in the general election on November 2, 2010, by a margin of 54.9% to 43.7%.
Comptroller
In February 2007, Thomas DiNapoli was chosen by the New York State Legislature to complete the unexpired term of Alan Hevesi following Hevesi's resignation. DiNapoli faced Republican Harry Wilson in the 2010 election. DiNapoli prevailed over Wilson in the general election on November 2, 2010, by a margin of 50.78% to 46.26%.
State Senate
All 62 seats of the New York State Senate were up for election in 2010 in accordance with state law.
Republicans retook the Senate majority in the 2010 elections, winning 32 seats to the Democrats' 30 on Election Day. One Republican Senate incumbent, Senator Frank Padavan of Queens, was defeated, while four Democratic incumbents (Sens. Brian Foley, Antoine Thompson, Darrel Aubertine, and Craig Johnson ) were defeated in the general election. Democratic candidate David Carlucci was elected to an open seat in Senate District 38 that had become vacant due to the July 2010 death of Republican Senator Thomas Morahan. After defeating incumbent William Stachowski in a Democratic primary, Timothy M. Kennedy prevailed in the general election in Senate District 58. The Republicans' takeover of control of the State Senate was not confirmed until Johnson, who had sought a full hand recount of his race, exhausted his final appeal on December 20, 2010.
Open seats
* 12th district: Democrat George Onorato announced he would not seek reelection. Assemblyman Michael N. Gianaris, a Democrat, ran for the seat. Gianaris won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 31st district: Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who represents a district on the upper-east side of Manhattan, vacated his seat to run successfully for Attorney General. Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat won the Democratic party nomination to succeed Schneiderman. Espaillat won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 38th district: Thomas Morahan, the Republican who represented this district in Rockland County, died in July 2010 from leukemia; he had already announced his retirement before his death. Five-term Rockland County executive and former lieutenant governor candidate C. Scott Vanderhoef, a Republican, ran to replace him, against three term Clarkstown Town Clerk David Carlucci. Carlucci prevailed in the general election.
* 40th district: Incumbent Republican Vincent Leibell announced he would not seek reelection and would instead run for Putnam County Executive. (Leibell was elected Putnam County Executive, but resigned from both posts in December 2010 amid rumors of corruption charges. ) Michael Kaplowitz, Westchester County Legislator was the Democratic candidate. Republican Greg Ball, an Assemblyman, won his party's primary. Ball went on to win the general election.
* 53rd district: Republican George H. Winner, Jr. unexpectedly announced he would not seek re-election on June 2, 2010. Assemblymen Tom O'Mara and James Bacalles, both Republicans representing adjacent districts, made known their intentions to pursue the seat; O'Mara won the Republican primary and ran against Ithaca Democrat Pamela Mackesey. O'Mara won the general election.
* 59th district: Republican Dale Volker retired after 19 terms (38 years) in office. Former Erie County Sheriff Patrick Gallivan won a three-way the Republican primary, although Republican candidates Jim Domagalski and David DiPietro initially remained in the race on minor party lines. (Domagalski eventually withdrew his candidacy ). Cynthia Appleton, a Village of Warsaw Trustee and critical care nurse, was the nominee of the Democratic and Working Families Parties. Gallivan prevailed in the general election.
Notable races
* 1st district: Incumbent Republican Kenneth LaValle, who has served 17 terms (34 years), ran unopposed in 2008. The district includes the five East End towns of Long Island, New York and the eastern half of the Town of Brookhaven, New York. LaValle faced a potentially formidable Democratic challenger in corporate fraud lawyer Regina Calcaterra, but Calcaterra dropped out after it was revealed that she had not met state residency requirements and was replaced on the ballot by Jennifer Maertz. LaValle won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 3rd district: Incumbent Democrat Brian X. Foley was elected in 2008 to a seat held by Republican Caesar Trunzo since 1972. In 2010, Foley was opposed by former 2008 1st Congressional District Republican nominee Lee Zeldin. The district stretches across the south shore of Suffolk County from Brentwood to Mastic Beach, New York. Zeldin defeated Foley, the one-term incumbent, in the general election on November 2, 2010, by a margin of 58% to 42%.
* 6th district: Incumbent Republican Kemp Hannon has represented this district since 1989. The district includes Levittown, Massapequa, Garden City, Uniondale, Hempstead, Farmingdale, Franklin Square, Old Bethpage, Salisbury, Garden City South, Plainview, Lakeview, Plainedge, Island Trees and East Meadow. In 2008, Hannon was almost defeated by political newcomer Kristen M. McElroy. Hannon was initially opposed by Democrat Dave Mejias, but Mejias withdrew his candidacy following his arrest on charges of stalking and battery and was replaced on the ballot by Francesca Carlow. Hannon won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 7th district: Incumbent Democrat Craig M. Johnson was elected in a special election in 2007 and subsequently elected to a full term in November 2008. The district is located in the northwest corner of Nassau County, New York. Mineola, New York mayor Jack Martins ran on the Republican line. On December 4, 2010, the election results in this closely contested race were certified; Republican challenger Jack Martins, prevailed. The margin of victory was just 451 votes, 0.5%, and there were discrepancies in two of the 7 machine counts that were audited, leading Democrats to call for a full hand recount. Democrats promised to appeal the decision. However, on December 20, 2010, the New York Court of Appeals rejected Johnson's final appeal and ruled that Martins had won the election; Johnson then conceded.
* 11th district: Incumbent Republican Frank Padavan represented this district since 1972. The district includes Queens Village, Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, Little Neck, College Point, Bellerose, Hollis, Jamaica Estates, Floral Park, and Glen Oaks. In 2008 he won by only 483 votes over New York City Council member James F. Gennaro. Padavan's challenger in the 2010 election was Democrat Tony Avella. Avella defeated incumbent Padavan on November 2, 2010.
* 15th district: Incumbent Democrat Joseph Addabbo, Jr. defeated Republican Senator Serphin Maltese in 2008. He faced Republican Anthony Como, a former city councilman. Addabbo won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 16th district: Incumbent Democrat Toby Ann Stavisky faced two primary challengers: multi-millionaire, cancer researcher and professor Dr. Isaac Sasson and attorney John A. Messer. Stavisky won the primary. She won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 27th district: Incumbent Democrat Carl Kruger faced a primary challenge from administrative judge Igor Oberman. Kruger came under fire for his vote against same-sex marriage and for his involvement with the dissident Amigos faction within the Democratic caucus. Oberman failed to submit the necessary signatures to participate in the primary. Kruger won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 32nd district: Incumbent Democrat Rubén Díaz, Sr. faced a potential primary challenge from Charlie Ramos; the socially conservative Diaz has come under fire for his public opposition to same-sex marriage, but nevertheless won the primary by a margin of 79% to 22%, and went on to win the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 33rd district: Incumbent Democrat Pedro Espada faced primary challenges from Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter and José Gustavo Rivera. Espada gained notoriety and earned disdain from Democrats for his brief alliance with Senate Republicans in 2009 that led to his elevation to Senate majority leader; he is currently being investigated by the Bronx County District Attorney in relation to questions regarding whether he meets residency requirements for representing the 33rd District, the IRS for alleged tax fraud, and by the State Attorney General for looting a state-funded health clinic. Espada was defeated by an almost 2-to-1 margin by Rivera in the Democratic primary on September 14, 2010, and Rivera prevailed in the November 2 general election.
* 35th district: Incumbent Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins has represented the Yonkers-based district since 2006. Former Yonkers City Councilman Liam McLaughlin was her Republican opponent. Stewart-Cousins won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 37th district: Incumbent Democrat Suzi Oppenheimer sought re-election (to a 14th term) against Scarsdale real estate executive Bob Cohen, a Republican. Initial election results showed the two candidates almost neck and neck, but in early December, Cohen conceded the race to Oppenheimer.
* 46th district: Incumbent Democrat Neil Breslin sought re-election to his Albany-based district. He faced a primary from Luke Martland and Tim Carney. Republican Robert Domenici, a retired Army Lt. Colonel and member of the South Colonie School board, ran against the Democrat in the general election. Breslin won the primary. Breslin also prevailed in the November 2 general election.
* 48th district: In this Thousand Islands area district, which includes Watertown, incumbent Democrat Darrel Aubertine (a frequent target of the Republicans) faced St. Lawrence County clerk Patty Ritchie. Ritchie defeated incumbent Aubertine in the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 49th district: In the Syracuse area, incumbent Democrat David Valesky faced Republican musician Andrew Russo, who defeated East Syracuse mayor Danny Liedka in the Republican primary. Valesky won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 58th District: Incumbent Democrat William (Bill) Stachowski, who served for nearly 30 years in the Senate, faced an unexpectedly close race in 2008, winning 53 percent to Dennis Delano's 47 percent. The district includes parts of Buffalo, all of the city of Lackawanna, and the towns of Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Hamburg and Eden. In the 2010 race, Stachowski was defeated in the Democratic primary by Timothy M. "Tim" Kennedy, the District 2 member on the Erie County Legislature. Stachowski remained on the Conservative and Independence party lines, while Assemblyman Jack Quinn III, son of former congressman Jack Quinn, ran on the Republican line. Kennedy edged out Quinn by about 1,800 votes (2 percent) to win the seat, while Stachowski managed to get 7 percent of the vote.
* 60th District: Incumbent Democrat Antoine Thompson has held this seat since 2006. Former state senator Alfred Coppola and Rory Allen, a Buffalo business owner challenged Thompson in the primary election; both lost heavily to the incumbent. Mark Grisanti was Thompson's Republican opponent in the general election on November 2, 2010. Antoine Thompson conceded the general election to Mark Grisanti on November 30, 2010.
State Assembly
All 150 seats in the Assembly were up for election. Before the November 2 elections, the Democratic Party held an enrollment advantage of 107 seats (including two Independence Party of New York members who caucused with the Democrats) to 42 seats over the Republican Party, with one vacancy. Republicans gained 7 seats, one from Independence and six from Democrats, thereby reducing Democrats to a 99-50-1 majority.
Open seats
* 14th District: Incumbent Republican Robert Barra decided to retire, citing health issues. Lynbrook Mayor Brian Curran, a Republican, announced that he would run for the seat. Curran defeated Democrat Dermond Thomas in the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 122nd district: Incumbent Dede Scozzafava, a Republican, retired from her seat. Kenneth "Ken" Blankenbush, the Jefferson County legislator who had planned to challenge Scozzafava in the primary, ran to replace her. In the September 14 Democratic primary Brian McGrath won. McGrath, like many other Democratic candidates also ran on the Independence Party of New York State ticket. Blankenbush won the Republican Party primary and like many other Republicans also ran on the Conservative Party line. In the general election on November 2, 2010, Blankenbush defeated McGrath.
* 136th district: Incumbent James Bacalles, a Republican, vacated the seat to run unsuccessfully for the 53rd district Senate seat being vacated by George Winner. (Bacalles was defeated by Tom O'Mara in the 53rd district.) Philip Palmesano won the Republican nomination for the seat. George Matthewson and Randy Weaver were running for the Democratic nomination, but both were controversially removed from the ballot as a result of a technicality, leaving the Democratic line blank. Jason Jordon, nominally a registered Democrat, ran as an independent on the "Common Sense" party line. Palmesano won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 137th district: Incumbent Tom O'Mara, a Republican, vacated the seat to pursue the 53rd Senate seat vacated by George Winner. (O'Mara won the 53rd district Senate seat, defeating James Bacalles.) Republican Christopher Friend faced off against Democrat James Hare and Conservative Party candidate Paul Marcellus. Friend won the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 150th District Incumbent Democrat William Parment had represented this district, which covers the southwesternmost corner of the state, since 1982. He announced his retirement in July 2010. Prior to his resignation, former Chautauqua County executive Andrew Goodell had announced his candidacy against Parment, marking the first serious challenge against Parment in several years. Nancy Gay Bargar, a former Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the County Legislature was nominated by Democratic Party to run. Goodell won the general election against Bargar on November 2, 2010.
Notable races
* 3rd District: Incumbent Republican L. Dean Murray was elected in a special election on February 9, 2010. He is the first Republican elected to the Southwest Brookhaven district in 13 years. Murray won re-election on November 2, 2010.
* 5th District: Incumbent Democrat Ginny Fields was first elected in a special election in 2004. In the September 13, 2010 primary, she was defeated by local Democrat Kenneth Mangan, but ran on the Working Families Party and Independence lines in the November 2, 2010 general election, facing challenges from Mangan and Republican Al Graf, in a district that borders a recent Republican pick up, in the 3rd Assembly District, and which is currently located within the 3rd Senate District, where Democratic State Senator, Brian X. Foley, lost his bid for re-election on November 2, 2010, to Lee Zeldin. Graf defeated Mangan and Fields, who ran as a third-party candidate.
* 49th District: Incumbent Democrat Peter Abbate faced a challenge from the winner of the Republican primary, Peter Cipriano. The 49th District was the only district in Brooklyn to vote for John McCain for President in 2008, but Abbate won re-election over Cipriano on November 2, 2010.
* 60th District: Incumbent Democrat Janele Hyer-Spencer was first elected in 2006 in a close race for an open seat formerly held by a retiring Republican. Local republicans recruited Nicole Malliotakis, who defeated Hyer-Spencer in the general election on November 2, 2010.
* 64th District: Incumbent Democrat Sheldon Silver sued to prevent Republican Joan Lipp from appearing on the ballot, as well as to disallow the Republican Party from naming a replacement.
* 108th District: Incumbent Timothy Gordon, a member of the Independence Party, faced a rematch from his 2008 challenger Steve McLaughlin, on the Republican and Taxpayers Party lines. Before Gordon won the open seat in 2006, the seat was in Republican hands. Steve McLaughlin prevailed over Tim Gordon in the November 2, 2010 general election.
* 109th District: Incumbent Democrat Robert Reilly, who also ran as the nominee of the Independence Party of New York State, and the Working Families Party, has represented this Albany County-based district since 2004. He faced potential challenges from several Republicans including Halfmoon Town board member Craig Hayner, former deputy state Attorney General Jennifer Whalen and attorney James Whalen. Jennifer Whalen was also listed as a candidate of the Conservative Party. Reilly won the general election on November 2, 2010, narrowly defeating Whalen.
* 114th District: Incumbent Republican Janet Duprey faced a primary challenge from Cadyville businessman David Kimmel, stemming from her support of Dede Scozzafava in the New York 23 special congressional election. Rudy Johnson, a former energy analyst and small businessman, will run on the Democratic ticket in the general election. Duprey won re-election on November 2, 2010.
* 120th District: Incumbent Democrat William Magnarelli has represented his Syracuse-based district since 1998. He faced a challenge from Republican David Andrew Gay, who initially sought the Republican nomination for New York's 25th Congressional District; Gay was endorsed by Ron Paul. Magnarelli won re-election on November 2, 2010.
* 121st District: Incumbent Democrat Albert Stirpe has represented his Syracuse-based district since 2006 where he won the election after Republican Jeffrey Brown vacated the seat to run for the State Senate. He faced a challenge from Republican Don Miller, a local businessman. Stirpe conceded the race to Miller on November 18, 2010.
Judicial positions
* New York judicial elections, 2010 at Judgepedia | WIKI |
Talk:Poncho liner
Poncho Liners in Fashion
Poncho liners are often custom tailored into blanket coats, robes, smoking jackets, hoodies, and even snuggies. Maharishi sells upcycled liner coats and jackets. | WIKI |
Michel Penha
Michel Penha (December 14, 1888 – February 10, 1982) was a director and cellist. He played with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1920 to 1925.
Biography
He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to Maurice Penha, He graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatoire in 1905. He studied music under Isaac Mossel and Hugo Becker. He migrated to New York City in 1909. He never married.
In 1932, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous brought the Neah-Kah-Nie String Quartet, with Michel Penha as its director and cellist to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Penha died in Los Angeles, California, at age 93. | WIKI |
Cleopatra Cleopatra VII was known for the love she had of her country, a love so great that would lead her to any means necessary for the good of it. She was born into a Macedonian family who had power and rule over Egypt. They were descended from Ptolemy I, a general of Alexander the Great who became king of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC. “The ptolemaic dynasty was interlocked in goodwill and bad with the other Hellenistic states that had been wrenched out of portions of Alexander’s empire” (Huzar, 187). In this paper I will discuss who she was, and the measures she would she would go to for the good of her country.
"For Rome, who had never condescended to fear any nation or people, did in her time fear two human beings; one was Hannibal, and the other was a woman" (Lefkowitz and Fant 126). During a time dominated by male rulers, Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 BCE – 31 BCE), the Last Pharaoh of Egypt, stood out among them all. With Egypt’s wealth at her disposal, she was “incomparably richer than anyone else” (Schiff 2). The amount of power a ruler had at the time of Cleopatra’s existence depended highly on the level of financial stability. However, wealth was not all Cleopatra was known for. She exhibited high militant leadership skills equal to that of her male counterparts to keep Egypt a prosperous country.
The Evolution of Cleopatra Born in in 69 B.C., Cleopatra VII was esteemed the last ruler of the Macedonian era. Cunning and brave, Cleopatra would later be known for her notorious affairs with notably formidable men in possession of considerable wealth and prestige. She was born into power, but her test would be her capability to maintain it. Her own brothers became her opponents, so she had to fight to remain leader of Egypt. Cleopatra rose to power by forging alliances with leaders of foreign nations in order to back her claim of the Egyptian throne.
The Life and Death of Cleopatra Everyone wonders how Cleopatra gained control of Egypt and what she did while she reigned. Cleopatra ruled during the Ptolemaic Dynasty (BBC). The Ptolemaic rule ended with the death of this impressive woman. In Cleopatra’s lifetime she inherited the throne of Egypt; fell in love with two influential Romans, just to kill herself to escape punishment by Octavian. Cleopatra’s father, King Auteles’, also known as Ptolemy XII or “The Piper” because he could play the flute.
Cleopatra's family has been the rulers of Egypt for more than 100 years before she was born around 69 B.C. The stories and myths surrounding Cleopatra's life inspired people to write a number of books, movies and plays, including Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare. Cleopatra has become one of the most well known ancient Egyptians.
Was Cleopatra the reason the Egyptian Empire fell? Cleopatra's family ruled Egypt for more than one-hundred years. So maybe, her greed started way before she had a chance to choose her fate. Maybe she saw the power her father held and wanted to see what it was like to have all of the power. To be respected. To be feared. Are maybe she wasn’t the main reason the Egyptian empire fell.
Ancient times are known for having ruling emperors and barbaric men. There are millions of stories and books about the conquerers and the soldiers who fought bravely in their successes. But, what about women in ancient times? Did they sit around and take care of children while they waited for their men to return home? There is one women in the ancient world who captivated the men of her time and is still admired today for her beauty. In The Search For Cleopatra, Michael Foss tells the story of Cleopatra VII. He tells us about her remarkable legacy from hundreds of years before she was born all the way to her death, as well as, the historical circumstances surrounding her life.
The Romans were immensely furious with Cleopatra and had primary influence over what sources were left behind about her. So certainly this is going to lead to biases and inaccuracies in the depictions we have. Furthermore, we are all well aware of how Hollywood likes to dramatize and embellish stories in order to generate ticket sales and is not worried about the accuracy of the historical anecdote. Because of this and her popularity, our knowledge of Cleopatra has been flooded with twisted truths. When examining Cleopatra’s full reign beyond her love affairs, reveals Cleopatra put all of her effort forth in order to solve the conflict between Egypt and Rome and should be recognized for her masterminded and commanding leadership
There would be only one thing to do with them; he will take her and her children to Rome to be paraded in a victory triumph. (Ritner, 2017) She sends Caesarion with protectors she trust to hide in the east of Egypt near the Red Sea. Cleopatra first attempts to commit suicide by setting fire to the mausoleum where she collected her treasures but the roman soldiers found her entry to the mausoleum and stopped her plans, she was taken captive. Cleopatra then arranges for a poisonous snake called an asp to be smuggled to her in a basket of figs. (Antony and Cleopatra, 2017) She then commits suicide by allowing the asp to bite her on her chest. She arranged for her and Mark Antony to be buried together. This ended the sad life of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt at thirty- nine years of age. She was the last of the Ptolemy dynasty.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, also known as Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty. She was born around 69 B.C. and died in 30 B.C. Her race is very speculated, many people believe that she is Greek descent but the theory of her being black African has arose now. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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I have a Drupal 8 contact form where the form's placeholder values are the default values of the fields. Unfortunately, this site is multilingual and I don't think it's possible to translate default field values.
Is there a way I can set the fields' default values equal to the (translatable) field labels in either a module or preprocess function?
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You can override your contact forms(both the default and the custom ones) by adding a field widget hook. Why a field widget hook and not the usual form alter hook like D7? Because overriding the default value of the field can be done only in the respective field widget and not at the form level.
Here's the sample code:
function <mymodule>_field_widget_form_alter(&$element, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state, $context) {
$field_definition = $context['items']->getFieldDefinition();
$entity = $context['items']->getEntity();
if(($entity->getEntityTypeId() == 'contact_message') && ($entity->bundle() == '<your-custom-form-machine-name>')) {
if($field_definition->getName() == '<your-field-machine-name>') {
$element['value']['#default_value'] = 'Hi there!';
}
}
}
NOTE This has been tested with Drupal 8.1.1.
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I managed to figure it out with a preprocess function using hook_form_id_alter. I got an array of the necessary field names, and looped through it assigning the field label value to the placeholder value. If this is bad form, let me know.
function yourtheme_form_yourformid_alter(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state) {
$field_list = array_keys($form['#group_children']); //you might need to find a different array to get the names of your fields
foreach ($field_list as $field) {
$field_name = $field;
$form[$field_name]['widget'][0]['value']['#placeholder'] = $form[$field_name]['widget'][0]['value']['#title'];
}
}
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thy holy One, and ſaidſt, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one choſen out of the people.'
Mot. 4. He is willing to ſave you Rev xxii. 17. And the Spirit and the bride ſay, Come, And let him that heareth ſay Come. And let him that is athirſt, come: And whoſoever will let him take the water of life freely.' The only thing wanting is your willingneſs to be ſaved, Jer xiii 27. 'Wo unto thee, O Jeruſalem, wilt thou be made clean? when ſhall it once be?' here is no fear of being rejected if ye come John vi. 37. 'Him that cometh to me, I will in no wiſe caſt out.' He has taken on him the office of Saviour of the world, and he cannot refuſe the buſineſs of it.
Mot 5. Laſtly, Ye muſt either receive him as your Saviour from ſin and wrath, according to his commiſſion; or ye will be, and be held refuſers of him for your Saviour after his Father has nominated and commiſſioned him for that effect. Conſider how ye will anſwer that before the judgment ſeat
Queſt. How ſhall I receive him and employ him? Anſ. By faith by believing on him, Being convinced of your ſin and curſed ſtate, and deſiring to be ſaved from both believe Christ is your Saviour by his Father's appointment; and ſo wholly trust on him as a crucified Saviour. for his whole ſalvation on the ground of God's faithfulneſs in his word. | WIKI |
2023 El Palito oil spill
An oil spill occurred December 2023 at the El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
Spill
The oil spill occurred at the end of December 2023 on the coast of the Carabobo state, affecting the beach of Puerto Cabello. Days later, the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) denounced that officials of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) had prohibited the reporting of the incident. | WIKI |
Talk:Robin Maxwell-Hyslop
Trade and Industry Select Committee
Tam Dalyell's obituary avers that Robin Maxwell-Hyslop was the longest-ever serving member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee, from 1971 to 1992. Doubt it, as the departmental select committees were not established until 1979. Sam Blacketer (talk) 00:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
* Departmental select committees (as well as subject based committees) were introduced by Richard Crossman (for whom Tam Dalyell was PPS) during the 1966-70 Parliament. The following government under Heath amended this system, introducing an Expenditure Committee with six subcommittees in 1971. One of these was the Trade & Industry Committee on which Maxwell-Hyslop served from its inception. During the dying years of Jim Callaghan's Labour government the Procedure Committee held a long investigation which eventually recommended a new departmental select committee system shortly before the 1979 general election. This proposal was inherited by the incoming Thatcher government and implemented by her first Leader of the House of Commons Norman St John Stevas. Maxwell-Hyslop duly became a member of the new Trade & Industry Committee created at the end of 1979. The new system began to operate at the start of 1980. I shall amend the entry to clarify that Maxwell-Hyslop served from 1971 to 1992 on a Trade & Industry Committee whose structure was amended in 1979. Oafc1990 (talk) 15:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Family?
Do we know who were his wife and children? The Maxwell-Hyslops seem to have been quite an illustrious family. Valetude (talk) 01:35, 6 November 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Mamamoo discography
South Korean four-member girl group Mamamoo have released three studio albums (including two Korean and one Japanese), one compilation album, twelve extended plays, 26 singles (including two as a featured artist), and 17 promotional singles since their debut under RBW in June 2014. As of February 2021, the group has sold nearly 1.2 million albums worldwide.
Prior to their official debut, Mamamoo released several collaborations throughout early 2014, including "Don't Be Happy" with Bumkey, "Peppermint Chocolate" with K.Will and featuring Wheesung, and "Heeheehaheho" with Geeks. The most successful of these, "Peppermint Chocolate" reached a peak of number ten on the Gaon Digital Chart and seven on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 and has sold over 600,000 digital copies. On June 18, 2014, the group released their debut extended play (EP), Hello, and official debut single, "Mr. Ambiguous" (Mr. 애매모호). Their first televised performance, on Mnet's M Countdown, aired the next day. In November, the group came back with their second EP, Piano Man, and the lead single of the same name. In April 2015, the group released "Ahh Oop!" (아훕!), a collaboration with label-mate Esna, as the first single from their upcoming third EP.
Mamamoo released Pink Funky, their third EP, and the single, "Um Oh Ah Yeh" (음오아예), on June 19, 2015. "Um Oh Ah Yeh" peaked at number three on the Gaon Digital Chart, making it the group's first top-three single. In September, the group released "Girl Crush" as a promotional single for the video game Innisia Nest. Mamamoo released "I Miss You" as the first single from their upcoming debut studio album, Melting, on January 29, 2016, followed by "Taller Than You" on February 12.
Melting was released with a third official single, "You're the Best" (넌 is 뭔들), on February 26, 2016. The album peaked at number two on the Gaon Album Chart, while "You're the Best" peaked atop the Digital Chart, making it their first number-one on the chart. On March 6, "You're the Best" earned the group their first-ever music show win, on SBS Inkigayo, and eight wins in total. In April, they released the single, "Woo Hoo", for LG G5 and Friends, and in August, they released a digital single album, consisting of sub-unit tracks "Angel" and "Dab Dab". That September, they released "New York" as a pre-release single from their next EP. Their fourth EP, titled Memory, was released with another single, "Décalcomanie", in November 2016. In June 2017, Mamamoo released their fifth EP, Purple, and its lead single, "Yes I Am".
In 2018, Mamamoo embarked on their "Four Seasons, Four Colors" series of albums, kicking the project off with pre-release single, "Paint Me", in January. The first installment in the album series, the group's sixth EP Yellow Flower, was released with the single, "Starry Night", in March 2018. "Starry Night" became one of the group's most successful singles; in November, it received the Korean Music & Content Association's platinum certification for 100 million streams and in July 2019 was certified for 2.5 million paid downloads. The second album in the "Four Seasons, Four Colors" project, the EP Red Moon, was released in July with the single, "Egotistic". Red Moon became the group's first entry on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, entering at number 25. The third album in the series, Blue;s, was released with the single, "Wind Flower", that November.
Mamamoo released their ninth EP and the final installment to the "Four Seasons, Four Colors" series, White Wind, and its lead single, "Gogobebe", in March 2019. That July, they released "Gleam" as a promotional single for Davich Sunglasses. On August 7, the group released 4Colors, their Japanese debut album. From August to October, they participated in Mnet reality-competition show Queendom, in which they finished in first place. As part of the show, they released the original song, "Destiny". In November, Mamamoo released their second Korean studio album, Reality in Black, and its lead single, "Hip". Reality in Black debuted at number one on the Gaon Album Chart, giving the group their third number-one on the chart. "Hip" peaked atop the Billboard World Digital Songs Sales chart, making it their first-ever number-one.
In January 2020, Mamamoo released "I Miss You" from the soundtrack for Dr. Romantic 2. Following solo activities from the members—such as Moonbyul's debut EP Dark Side of the Moon, Solar's debut single album Spit It Out, and Hwasa's debut EP María—throughout the first half of 2020, the group released a promotional single, "Wanna Be Myself", in collaboration with Andar on September 10. Mamamoo released "Dingga", the first single (and only pre-release song) from their upcoming tenth EP, on October 20. The group's tenth EP, Travel, was released on November 3, 2020, with a second single "Aya". The Japanese version of Travel was released on February 3, 2021. The group's eleventh EP, WAW, which stands for "Where Are We," was released on June 2, 2021, with the lead single "Where Are We Now". | WIKI |
Talk:Canadian Military Pattern truck/Archives/2013
Untitled
Is there a reason why nobody has gone and taken a pic of one of the many "typical" (the ones with the forward angled windshield) CMP trucks of the Canadian War museum? Do the guards there stop you from taking pics? --AlainV (talk) 07:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
* If someone bothers to move this to Commons... --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:01, 14 September 2009 (UTC) | WIKI |
Is a C-Section or Natural Birth Better?
Is a C-Section or Natural Birth Better?
Last update: 27 December, 2022
Many women prefer to have a c-section, sometimes out of fear. However, the truth is that childbirth must be based on the premise that birth is a physiological process in which one must only intervene to correct deviations from normalcy.
Giving birth naturally will allow you to recover better and faster to take care of your baby. A c-section is an operation and like all surgeries, it requires a recovery process and special care. So after undergoing a c-section, you will need special attention and the wound will be painful and take time to heal.
On the other hand, giving birth naturally allows you a faster recovery and to be ready for your baby. Ensure that those who attend your birth promote an environment of trust, security, and privacy, respecting your dignity and confidentiality. That will help you.
The Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SEGO) recommends active participation of women in their pregnancies, so that they have the power to make decisions regarding their health. Knowledge is light, do not forget it.
My body knows how to give birth.
How to breathe, digest, create, walk, talk, think.
It is perfectly designed for it:
My pelvis, my uterus, my vagina,
they are engineering works
at the service of the force of life.
-Mónica Manso, poet-
Information is key
You and your family should know in depth the reproductive period they are going through, get involved in the care you receive and actively participate in the moment of delivery.
Ideally, from the beginning of pregnancy, you and your partner should have information about the physiological process of motherhood and the ability that women develop to give birth naturally.
You should visit various health centers if need be, and consult the opinion of several doctors.
The professionals of SEGO suggest preventing uncertainties and fears surrounding pregnancy; they favor a satisfactory experience and a preference towards a normal delivery.
woman who just had a c-section in the hospital with babies
Awake and ready
There’s another important point. During delivery, you will be aware of what happens to you because you will be awake and not sedated as normally happens in cesarean sections. You can see your baby when it comes out of your belly and then hold it in your arms.
You can have people there during labor that support you throughout the process in an uninterrupted way. Ideally, this person, whom you must choose freely, will accompany you through the earliest stages of this process.
C-section as an option
The idea is not to demonize cesareans. It is just that you should think of it as an alternative that is used to correct circumstances or conditions that are unfavorable to natural childbirth, or that put your health or your child’s health at risk.
The World Health Organization (WHO) includes the cesarean section rate as an indicator of the quality of maternal and perinatal care.
In their 1985 recommendations, they referred to a cesarean section rate of 15% of deliveries, based on the number of women in whom life-threatening complications are anticipated during delivery.
doctor holding newborn baby
The high cesarean rates may be due to potential maternal and neonatal complications, and entail higher costs and overmedication of a normal event such as delivery.
The rates of cesarean sections in Spain and in other European countries is high and is increasing progressively.
There are new factors that could be related to this increase, such as increasing the age of mothers, multiple births, requests from women and demands for suspected malpractice.
All these reasons are more than valid and ideally, like any event in your life, the choice of how you will bring your child to the world should be a conscious choice, based on your needs and taken with the greatest precision in the world.
This information will bring down unfounded myths and fears. Here I leave some recommendations written in a manual called “Important points for normal childbirth.” These tips are for those who attend the birth, but you can make them yours:
• Lean how to recognize the signs of true labor to reduce the number of on-call consultations for false labor.
• Help the pregnant woman adjust and choose to adopt a position according to her needs and preferences.
• Allow the intake of food, mainly liquids, according to the needs of the pregnant woman
• Promote friendly environments (natural, architectural and psycho-social) that help create an optimal attitude and experience
• Perform a monitoring and control of health
All cited sources were thoroughly reviewed by our team to ensure their quality, reliability, currency, and validity. The bibliography of this article was considered reliable and of academic or scientific accuracy.
This text is provided for informational purposes only and does not replace consultation with a professional. If in doubt, consult your specialist. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
LSU Heisman Trophy Winner Billy Cannon Dies at 80
14 COMMENTS BATON ROUGE, La.— Billy Cannon, the gifted running back who won the Heisman Trophy for Louisiana State University in 1959 with a memorable Halloween night punt return touchdown against Mississippi, died Sunday. He was 80.
LSU said Cannon, the school’s only Heisman winner, died at his home in St. Francisville, La. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known.
Cannon led the Tigers to a national championship in 1958 and won the Heisman the following year, highlighted by his tackle-breaking 89-yard punt return that beat Ole Miss 7-3 and is still regularly shown on the video board at Tiger Stadium during LSU games.
“Nearly 60 years later, Louisianians still talk about that Halloween night,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “Billy’s legacy at LSU will live on for generations, and every time we enter Tiger Stadium, we’ll remember the impact he left on the players and fans who came after him.”
Cannon went on to a successful pro career with the Houston Oilers, the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs, and became a dentist after retiring from football. But life after football was far from smooth. He served 2 1/2 years in federal prison for counterfeiting in the mid-1980s after a series of bad investments and debts left him broke.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008, though it came on the second time he was voted in. The first time was in 1983, but the honor was rescinded because of his legal issues.
After leaving prison, it took Cannon a while to put his life back together. He eventually was hired to be the dentist in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. His efforts at the prison were credited with bringing quality care to inmates that had long been lacking. He served as the dentist at the prison until retiring in January. The inmates would call him “Legend.”
Cannon didn’t hide from his failings. During LSU’s 50-year celebration of his Halloween night runback, he looked over a podium filled with reporters’ recording devices and quipped he hadn’t seen that many microphones since the FBI was investigating him.
As a football player, there was almost nothing but glory for Cannon.
The Philadelphia, Miss., native was a standout on both sides of the ball for LSU as a sophomore in 1957. As a junior, he passed for a touchdown and kicked the extra point in the Tigers’ 7-0 Sugar Bowl victory against Clemson, capping LSU’s first national championship season. He finished third in the Heisman voting that season.
“Billy Cannon was LSU football through and through. He was a legend. He will be missed and never forgotten,” LSU football coach and Louisiana native Ed Orgeron said in a statement.
Cannon was an overwhelming choice as the Heisman winner in 1959, when he was named Associated Press player of the year, and followed that up by being the No. 1 overall selection in both the AFL and NFL drafts in 1960. He chose to sign with the AFL’s Oilers instead of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams.
LSU retired Cannon’s No. 20 jersey.
“LSU meant more to our dad than anyone could ever know,” the Cannon family said in a statement released by the school. “It wasn’t the awards or the acknowledgments on the football field. It was always the love of the LSU family that meant the world to him and to all of us. There is simply no other place on Earth where so many come together to love and support their own like LSU. His life was intertwined with the purple and gold, and he wouldn’t have had it any other way.”
Cannon is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and children Terry, Gina, Billy Jr., Bunnie and Dara.
—Copyright 2018 the Associated Press | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Maryland boy suspended for gun-shaped pastry is now lifetime NRA member - Reuters
2 Min Read (Reuters) - An 8-year-old Maryland boy who was suspended from school for nibbling a pastry snack into the shape of a gun has been given a junior membership in the National Rifle Association. After hearing about Josh Welch's suspension from Park Elementary School in Anne Arundel County, a state legislator paid $550 to buy him a Junior Life Membership in the NRA, Welch's lawyer said on Thursday. I was embarrassed that my county would do that to him, said Nicholaus Kipke, leader of the Republican minority in the lower house of the Maryland legislature. He presented the gift to the second-grader Wednesday night. The boy's lawyer, Robin Ficker, said he is appealing the two-day school suspension that started on March 1 when Welch ate away part of his Pop-Tart during class snack time so that it resembled a gun shape. In the appeal, Ficker included pictures of the U.S. states of Idaho and Florida because they look more like guns than Josh's Pop-Tart. The Anne Arundel County Public Schools spokesman, Bob Mosier, declined to comment on the status of the appeal. Ficker said the NRA membership gift was a great idea for the boy, who is a good kid, a little rambunctious, because it would teach him proper handling of firearms. He said the boy's family does not own guns and the boy has never handled a gun. Editing by Barbara Goldberg; editing by John Wallace All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. 2019 Reuters. All Rights Reserved. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masada (Honorverse)
The result was no consensus. No prejudice against relisting after the ArbCom injunction is lifted. Never mind that part. There's still no consensus. Core desat 03:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Masada (Honorverse)
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
Non-notable fictional nation. Article consists almost entirely of plot summary. Delete or merge to List of planets in the Honorverse per WP:FICT. Jfire (talk) 02:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
* Postpone until after Arb com the same issues are involved as with episodes.DGG (talk) 04:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
* Are they? I thought the injunction was very specifically limited to characters in television shows (plus episodes), not to everything covered by WP:FICT, and this is both not a character and from a book. —Quasirandom (talk) 07:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete, no real-world notability for this fictional nation in a science-fiction book series. In no way does the Episodes and Characters 2 arbcom affect this. Blast Ulna (talk) 07:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
* keep major plot issue that we can't fit in the main articles on the topic. Furthermore, it is almost certainly true that there are reliable sources that may take some time to find given that this series routinely hits the New York Times best seller list. As a first bet it is discussed at at a major scifi review website which arguably constitutes a reliable source and in this NESFA review . JoshuaZ (talk) 19:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
* Those may be suitable as sources for articles on the books themselves, but not for this article. Those articles have only passing mentions of the subject, not the sort of detailed critical analysis of Masada itself that would be required to support this article per WP:PLOT and WP:FICT. This article offers no real-world context or sourced analysis; it's an obvious WP:PLOT failure. Jfire (talk) 21:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
* Delete or merge - per nom. -- Orange Mike | Talk 19:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Keeper
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
* Merge to List of planets in the Honorverse. Not independently notable, but notable within the works of fiction. —Quasirandom (talk) 23:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
* The injunction is being consistently interpreted to deal with these works too; I think the eventual result will affect all fiction. DGG (talk) 04:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
* Let them take this article to Deletion Review then. Blast Ulna (talk) 06:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
* we dont play games like that with arb com.DGG (talk) 23:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
* There's an RfC on the extent of the arbcom injunction, and your opinion has been noted/criticised there. Others feel differently. Blast Ulna (talk) 23:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
* Is that an attack against DGG? A few editors have expressed opinions that differ from DGG's. I was one of them. That's all you can say about the RFC. Please don't make it sound like the RFC has received wide paticipation, because it has not (only 4-5 people), and that there was some consensus there, because there certainly was not... as far as RFC's go that one was/is a complete flop, so citing it is a very weak argument, particularly if doing do is an attempt to tear-down a highly respected and experienced wikipedian like DGG. JERRY talk contribs 17:10, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* All I was saying is the extent of the injuction is itself controverial, so much so that somebody has made a RfC. Has that ever happened before? The level of controversy on the subject of allowing unsourced articles to survive suggests to that many people don't want unsourced articles on Wikipedia. Does DGG really expect that the arbcom committee will destroy the First Pillar because one editor wasn't abiding by the Fourth Pillar? Blast Ulna (talk) 21:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Please excuse me breaking in, but I've just commented there. In fact, nobody had told me about the RfC--and in the multiplicity of discussions I must have missed it. I dont expect arbcom will give us detailed rules about article notability or content, just conduct, though I hope they will give some guidance about the formation and reliance on policy. As for the first pillar, I strongly support the encyclopedic nature of WP, and personally delete about a dozen articles a day that do not meet it. The meaning of "encyclopedic" is subject to interpretation. Interpretation by consensus. DGG (talk) 18:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
* Comment The injunction, itself, is very limited in it's scope, and it does not apply to this article or AfD. Having said that, and having done significant research into the basis for the injunction, however, I also agree that the result of the ARBCOM case will undoubtedly apply to all fiction-related articles.
The arguments for deletion associated with the fictional television series and characters articles were that the series and characters had no "real world context" for notability. Meaning that if we blank from our mind that the fictional work exists, does the character appear in non-fiction literature or media? And if it does, we better ignore it if it is in any way promoting the fictional work. And then we have to take all description of the plot of the work away, as plot summary cruft. Then we have an article with sufficiently little content to justify its' deletion.
You see, the basis of the complaints against the handling of these fictional works, was that the arguments were systemically and recursivey applied in a manner that had been determined to be effective in practice, to ensure the eventual deletion of any article to which the techniques were applied. It was a self-feeding deletion machine. This kind of systemic deletion approach could be fine-tuned and used to delete almost anything: Find a reason to invalidate some of its content. Restrict what can be added, make it such that anything added is formatted in such a way that later it can be targeted for deletion, and then once it has been stripped down to a sub-stub, go in for the kill.
So is this article about an episode or character in a television series? No. Is it being fed to the currently idle deletion machine? Maybe. This article does contain some commentary about the evolution of the fictional universe from one book to another. A purely in-universe pespective would be unable to do that, because it could not acknowledge that it was in fact a fictional universe. So in that context, the content, although written to describe plot elements, is actually encyclopedic. Just as an article about the works of Samuel Clemens would undoubtedly have to tell something about the life and times of Mr. Tom Sawyer. No encyclopedic treatment of that subject could feasibly leave that out. So when we eventually do have some clear guidance about the handling of fiction in wikipedia, we will undoubtedly have some broad guidance, not just TV stuff. JERRY talk contribs 00:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Third party sources have discussed the character Tom Saywer in great detail. Journal articles, books and PhD dissertations describe the impact of the character on real life people. All the guidance that is needed is that what is said be backed up by reliable sources. Blast Ulna (talk) 00:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* True, that. And the same applies here. SciFipedia, Sheldon Brown's website, and the author's own notes could be a start. But don't expect the same volume of coverage in a 10-year old work as compared to the just slightly older Tom Sawyer series. JERRY talk contribs 00:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Those are not reliable. You know, there are editors, like me, who have tried very hard to abide by the rules. I have argued to keep each and every article for which I found reliable sources, and argued to delete articles for which no reliable sources can be found. If the result of this arbcom is to allow unsourced articles to survive, it will be a slap in the face for editors like me. Those who envision a change of many of the basic principles underlying the success of Wikipedia to allow their favorite characters to have their own unsourced fan pages will eventually drive out all reasonable editors along with extremists like TTN. Blast Ulna (talk) 00:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Or, you could choose not to take it personally, and accept that maybe the world does not rotate the way you have tried so hard to make it rotate. A less entrenched personal lose-lose battle would be beneficial to the community. To you a policy that allows these articles to remain is a slap in the face. To the wikiproject who created the Bionicle articles (which I personally deleted by the way -- almost all of them), deleting their 3 years worth of work was at least a slap in the face. To have guidelines to help all concerned know what we will have and not have should not be viewed as a slap in the face, it should be viewed as a breath of fresh air. JERRY talk contribs 01:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* I'm not taking it personally. The material can be transwikied. Blast Ulna (talk) 06:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Keep per WP:SERIES, WP:SUMMARY, etc. It's already been stated that this is only a separate article because it was too large for the main article. It doesn't need to satisfy WP:N on its own. Large topics may require multiple articles for practical reasons. Let's try to avoid making people skittish about rightfully splitting off large sections of articles for fear that they'll get deleted. Equazcion •✗/C • 01:13, 24 Feb 2008 (UTC)
* WP:SERIES and WP:SUMMARY are style guidelines. Blast Ulna (talk) 06:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
* Yes, they sure are. That doesn't detract from the point. Equazcion •✗/C • 16:00, 24 Feb 2008 (UTC)
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Page:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).pdf/363
340 In about half an hour Tom's wagon drove up to the front stile, and Aunt Sally she see it through the window because it was only about fifty yards, and says:
"Why, there's somebody come! I wonder who 'tis ? Why, I do believe it's a stranger. Jimmy" (that's one of the children), "run and tell Lize to put on another plate for dinner."
Everybody made a rush for the front door, because, of course, a stranger don't come every year, and so he lays over the yaller fever, for interest, when he does come. Tom was over the stile and starting for the house; the wagon was spinning up the road for the village, and we was all bunched in the front door. Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience—and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. In them circumstances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable. He warn't a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come calm and important, like the ram. When he got afront of us, he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it, and he didn't want to disturb them, and says:
"Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?"
"No, my boy," says the old gentleman, "I'm sorry to say 't your driver has deceived you; Nichols's place is down a matter of three mile more. Come in, come in."
Tom he took a look back over his shoulder, and says, "Too late—he's out of sight."
"Yes, he's gone, my son, and you must come in and eat your dinner with us; and then we'll hitch up and take you down to Nichols's."
"Oh, I can't make you so much trouble, I couldn't think of it. I'll walk—I don't mind the distance."
"But we won't let you walk—it wouldn't be Southern hospitality to do it. Come right in."
"Oh, do," says Aunt Sally; "it ain't a bit of trouble to us, | WIKI |
Talk:Puget Sound mosquito fleet
Untitled
I just linked to this from the article Manette Peninsula. I'll start working on it soon, please do not delete this article on the basis of notability. The notability of the subject is obvious to those who know the history of the Puget Sound. I'll set aside the article I was working on to start on this one. But not today, it is already getting late. - Michael J Swassing (talk) 05:08, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
I worked up this article a bit, it still has a long way to go and needs a good fresh look. There are some nice photo links, mostly to the University of Washington's collections. Mtsmallwood (talk) 16:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Your links to photos are spectacular. I've had this article on my watch list, but have not gotten much done on it. Thank you.
I'm in the Bremerton area, and the local libraries have some reference materials from local historical societies. I'm thinking that working up some organization of the data for ships, operators, and ports-of-call might provide a framework for the body of the article. In each local area the ship company owners were prominent community leaders, and the ports-of-call have in some cases become bustling communities, but in others the rotting piers are often still there.
In the larger context of transportation, these waterways were much more feasible than overland routes for commerce and social networks, long before the era of the steamship.
But the links you've added really get this article moving forward. - Michael J Swassing (talk) 18:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
* thanks! add away, there's so much here that needs to be written.Mtsmallwood (talk) 19:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I am gradually adding detail to this topic, I don't have Lewis & Dryden which is the main source for this area up to 1896, and I can't seem to access it on-line, although I know it's available. The secondary sources are not comprehensive, although I've found a couple which are better than others. NEED PHOTOS! If anybody has some, please add.Mtsmallwood (talk) 17:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Article Linkfarm
This article contains an extremely large number of external links, more than what seems reasonable. Per WP:NOT and WP:EL, it really needs to be compacted to the ones most directly related to this one article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
* I don't see it that way. The article gives an extensive (and fully annotated) history of the Mosquito Fleet, it is much more than just a collection of links, which I take to the be the primary concern of WP:NOT. Also, WP:EL seems to be concerned with the type of links, to profit sites, YouTube, or similar questionable sites. Here, the image links run mostly (or entirely) to the collection of historic images of the University of Washington. At least one person has commented on how helpful the image links are, so I think that shows that they are not unnecessary. Compare Canadian Pacific Railway which has a lot of internal links and numerous external links.Mtsmallwood (talk) 01:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
* Multiple parts of WP:NOT#LINK applies in this case. It is simply an long list of links to subjects not directly addressed in the article. If a particular ship is notable enough to be mentioned in the article, then it would be reasonable to link it as a reference source. As it stands, the list is simply a web directory.
* Also, comparing to another article is not a valid argument on WP - the content of each article needs to stand on its own merit. However, in re: to Canadian Pacific Railway - it should be noted that the links section there is much shorter than here, and needs to shrink further. I'll likely be bringing it to the attention of WP:WPSPAM, as one entire section of links appear to cross into that project's domain. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This same issue of an article containing what amounts to a web directory appears to also exist at Steamboats of Lake Washington. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
* All photo links deleted on this page and Steamboats of Lake Washington.Mtsmallwood (talk) 05:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
* I would agree with the removal per NOT. --Hu12 (talk) 18:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
* In my opinion, turning the ship names into links to the off-site repository of images is just an attempt to undermine WP:EL by changing how the links are made. Basically changing from having the linkfarm concentrated in a single section, to now having the entire article turn into a linkfarm. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
* With all respect, please don't use the term "link farm" any more. See Link Farm ("The expression 'link farm' is now considered to be pejorative and derogatory.") IMHO serious discussion of WP:EL and how it applies to this article need to start at a level that is reasonably likely to bring consensus, which the appellation "link farm" is not likely to do. Mtsmallwood (talk) 05:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
* Whatever you choose to call it, the links still appear to be at issue with WP:NOT (I erroneously cited WP:EL above - while applicable, the bigger issue is with WP:NOT). The new method of embedding the links merely moves the prior issue from a centralized location to being throughout the article. The only allowance for those types of collections that I can find in policy is to either have a single external links for them that points to either the Wikimedia Commons, or to the Open Directory Project via dmoz, or to a parent directory at the site being linked, and allow the user to find the individual images from that point. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
* CITE is a more appropriate way to use image links, not this. These types of additions fail NOT which makes these 19 additions a linkfarm. If you are interested in presenting a picture, consider uploading or pehaps citing a limited number (not 19) of those, in an appropriate and encyclopedic manor, rather than how it is now. --Hu12 (talk) 19:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
territorial-era military steamers
Please see USS Massachusetts (1845) and note the Puget Sound Content which I just added/expandeddc considerably; the reflink attached to the Col Ebey bit goes to a great historical page/site; there are cats I added which made me wonder if there shouldn't be "List of historical ships of Washington" or Category:Ships in the Pacific Northwest or whatever; and or Category:History of Puget Sound. I know there's too many vessels to do a complete PacNW military-presence list; I'm thinking only of maybe territorial-era or some kind of cutoff point like WWI - ?? And I know this wasn't part of the Mosquito Fleet but it was a steamer (mtsmallwood pls note)...but this isn't a "steamboat article" though...Skookum1 (talk) 04:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
* this is a great little site of historical essays and town histories, maybe some of you have already seen it; The site has an essay on Fort Spokane (here), which I googled up when I happened to find it a googlemap while looking up Tillicum Peak, near Metaline Falls (not noteworthy unless it has a story, despite being a "chinookonym"), but I'll take that up on WPWAtalk or on individual talk/article pages as it has to do with a whole bunch of things.Skookum1 (talk) 05:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
* Wow. compare the fort spokane story linked just above with this other google hit and also this one, both from http://nps.gov ... is it just me or does the govt one seem censored, as if there had been no Indian Wars in these parts?? And no mention of the events in the other link?? I'll continue this on Talk:Yakima War I think; had some fixes to Treaty of Medicine Creek and should add the Battle of Port Gamble to Port Gamble. Funny about the blankspots in teh public memory...Skookum1 (talk) 05:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
* Yikes - this section of the USS Massachusetts (1845) article says after it was renamed the USS Farallones it was sold to a "Moore and Co." in San Francisco, in the later 1860s. that's not the Capt Moore of Northwest steamboats is it? Could this have been converted into one of the PacNW steamers?Skookum1 (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Princess Marguerite
Does the Marguerite count? And/or other ships on the Victoria-Seattle runs? Just c rossed my mind while looking at listed ships here....Skookum1 (talk) 21:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* here ya go, I'm off to the gym....Skookum1 (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)`
* Princess Marguerite and the other ships of the Princess Fleet need a separate article, I'd say. There were a number of similar vessels on the US side as well. These would be coastal liners or day liners. These ships really were in a class by themselves, much more durable, capable of ocean voyages, and much more expensive than your average 120 long wooden steamboat financed with who knows what and equipped with used steam engines. Robert Turner's Pacific Princesses and Hacking and Lamb's The Princess Fleet are excellent sources for these vessels. Newell and Williamson assembled a book mostly of photographs, called Coastal Liners which gives a good overview of these vessels.Mtsmallwood (talk) 03:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
* Well, in the same context as the Mosquito Fleet, I've been wondering about the various vessels in the Gulf/Strait of Georgia and the lower part of the Inside passage; the old water taxi and passenger docks at the north ends of Cambie, Abbott, Carrall and Columbia were hopping places, especially on Friday afternoons one would expect; a lot of people commuted to/from Vancouver and places like Powell River and Sechelt and Squamish andSavary island were creations of the local passenger/shipping fleet as well as places largely forgotten now like Malibu and Wigwam Inn. Not the same topic as the Steamboats of the Inside Passage, either; an article topic looking for a title....Skookum1 (talk) 03:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Nice resource page
* the CPR fleet.Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Safety and Shipwrecks - Fire
Hi there. I'm a relatively new editor so forgive me if my questions are inappropriate here. My main concern is the Fire section under Safety and Shipwrecks. Almost the entire section is dedicated to a fire that happened onboard a ship on the east coast, with no connection to the Mosquito Fleet or the PNW. The photo that appears is also of the east coast ship and unrelated to the PNW. Two brief examples are given for Mosquito Fleet fires, but appear at the bottom of the section and aren't given any context. Might this section be rewritten with more focus given to examples in the Mosquito Fleet? Thanks! Mpschaff (talk) 17:58, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Why "mosquito fleet"?
There's a lot of information in this article, but something is missing. When was the name "mosquito fleet" coined, and why? Did the ships swarm like mosquitos? Was that area of the river prone to mosquitos? Or some other reason? I could guess, but I shouldn't have to. Chuntuk (talk) 13:44, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Newer source needed for Kitsap foot ferry Southworth/Downtown Seattle
I just updated the grammar of a paragraph in that section that said “service will begin in 2020” to say that “service began in 2020”. I have not gotten a new source for this information, however, and the source cited was from January of 2020. Anecdotally, I can say that I began riding the ferries around Puget Sound in early 2021 and I believe that that line was running at the time so it shouldn’t be too hard to find something to corroborate that, but my anecdotal experience cannot replace a reliable source, and a source from January of 2020 might as well be DECADES out of date, for obvious reasons. I’ll work on hunting down a new one, but if anyone beats me to it feel free to cite it. Ntowle98 (talk) 19:11, 11 May 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
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He joined Padideh in summer 2015 with two-years contract. He made his debut for Padideh in 2015–16 Iran Pro League against Saba Qom as substitute for Younes Shakeri. icipating in the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship. | WIKI |
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Page:The Strand Magazine (Volume 6).djvu/473
when addressing the House from the chair, and having occasion to allude to a member personally, must needs adopt the roundabout style enjoined by the House of Commons' usage. Since the peers represent no one but themselves, this practice would in their House be impossible. Members are accordingly directly alluded to in debate by their ordinary name and style.
In the House of Commons it is the custom for members to wear hats while seated in debate, a fashion which strikes the stranger in the gallery as very odd. In the Lords, the hat is permissible, but its use is exceptional. There is a good and sufficient reason for this variation of custom. Whilst the House of Commons have for centuries been engaged in making history, they have never had a hat-rail made for themselves. It it true there is a cloak-room, half way down the broad staircase that gives entrance to the Lobby. But a hat might almost as well be left at home as planted out there. The Lords have hat and coat rail conveniently set in the hall outside the glorious brass gateway that opens on to their House. Peers in regular attendance have their own hook bearing their honoured name. It is as natural to place their hats there as it is to leave them in the hall of their residence, and they do it accordingly.
Last Session the First Commissioner of Works had his attention called by a despairing member of the House of Commons to this curious omission. Possibly when the new Session opens members may find a House of Commons, for the first time in its history, endowed with a convenient hat-rail.
Whilst members generally wear their hats in the House of Commons, Ministers are distinguished among other things by usually sitting bare headed. This is doubtless owing to the fact that most Ministers have private rooms behind the Speaker's chair, where they can conveniently leave their out-of-door apparel. There are not many members of the present Parliament who ever saw Mr. Gladstone seated on either front bench with his own hat on. Last time he wore his hat in the House was eighteen years ago. In the Session of 1875, he, having in a famous letter confided to Lord Granville his intention to retire from political life, occasionally looked in to see how things were getting on under Lord Hartington's leadership. Always he brought his hat with him and put it on as he sat at the end of the Front Opposition Bench, a quarter usually affected by ex-Under-Secretaries. Also, he wore his gloves and carried his stick, all, perhaps unconsciously, designed to complete the casual character of his visit and the "hope I don't intrude"-ness of his bearing. When news came of the Bulgarian atrocities, hat and gloves and stick were left outside the House, and have never since been seen in the House with the Speaker in the chair.
I said just now that not many members of the present Parliament have seen Mr. Gladstone with his own hat on. The distinction was drawn advisedly, for there is a time of later date when he was seen in the House under someone else's. It happened in the troublous days of the Parliament, 1885. One night business had boiled over in a storm of disorder. The House had been cleared for a division, in which circumstance a member desiring to address the Chair must do so seated, with his hat on. The Premier wished to raise a point of order, but his hat was in his room. Half-a-dozen were proffered for his use. He accepted the loan of that of the colleague who was then Sir Farrer Herschell, Solicitor-General. Mr. Gladstone put it on, to find it was several sizes too small.
Many years have passed since that day, but none who were present can forget the curious effect as, with the inadequate hat comically cocked over his gleaming eye, the Premier addressed the appalled Chairman of Committees. | WIKI |
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Discuss how memory allocation for a sparse matrix can be optimized using a linked list. Write a C-program for the same.
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• A matrix is a two-dimensional data object which contains m rows and n columns. The total number of values in a matrix is given by m*n.
• It can be visualized as a tabular representation of a collection of data.
• Matrix have a huge application in the field of computers wherein they are used to collect and store data in a proper, well-organized manner.
• Matrix comes in multi-dimensional format the most commonly used being the two-dimensional matrix represented as M[i][j] where the data resides at the ith row and jth column.
• Sparse Matrix: A matrix that has a large number of zero values is known as a Sparse Matrix. Implementing a sparse matrix by using a two dimensional array structure would lead to wastage of a significant amount of space.
• This problem can be solved by using the linked list data structure. We can store the non-zero elements and heir row, column positions and store them.
• They can be stored in a linear list. Now these list data can be arranged later based on the increasing row numbers and for common rows, based on increasing column numbers.
Each element can be represented using a node having four fields as
struct node {
int r_value,c_value,data;
struct node* next;
}
Over here next is a pointer to the next node in the linked list which also has a non-zero element from the sparse matrix.
/* Sparse Matrix representation using linked list */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct list
{
int rows, cols, value;
struct list *next;
} list;
list *create()
{
list *temp = (list *)malloc(sizeof(list));
if (temp == NULL)
{
printf(“/nMemory Allocation Error!”);
exit(1);
}
return temp;
}
list *makenode(int r, int c, int val)
{
list *temp = create();
temp->rows = r;
temp->cols = c;
temp->value = val;
temp->next = NULL;
return temp;
}
list *insert(list *head, int r, int c, int val)
{
list *ptr, *temp = head;
if (head == NULL)
{
head = makenode(r, c, val);
}
else
{
while (temp->next!= NULL)
temp = temp->next;
ptr = makenode(r, c, val);
temp->next = ptr;
}
return head;
}
void display(list *head)
{
list *temp;
if (head == NULL)
{
Printf(“/nList is empty.”);
exit(1);
}
temp = head;
while (temp!= NULL)
{
printf(“( % d, % d, % d->)->”, temp->rows, temp->cols, temp->value);
temp = temp->next;
}
printf(“bb “);
}
int main()
{
int arr[3][4], i, j, m, n, ct = 0;
list *head = NULL;
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
printf(“/nEnter the values for row % d?”, i + 1);
for (j = 0;j < 4;j++)
{
scanf(“ % d”, &arr[i][j]);
if (arr[i][j] != 0)
ct++;
}
}
head = makenode(3, 4, ct);
for (i = 0;i < 3;i++)
{
for (j = 0;j < 4;j++)
{
if (arr[i][j] != 0)
head = insert(head, i, j, arr[i][j]);
}
}
printf(“/nList representation of Sparse Matrix is: n”);
display(head);
getch();
}
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China Development Forum: 'Next level' for collaboration between Saudi Arabia and China, SABIC chief says
A days-old agreement between a major Saudi company and one of China's largest enterprises represents "the next level" of strategic collaboration between the two countries, according to the Saudi firm's CEO. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), a manufacturing company involved in chemicals and more, signed an agreement Thursday with Chinese state-owned Sinopec Group for new joint projects and potentially increased investment in an existing joint venture. Speaking with CNBC on Saturday morning at the China Development Forum in Beijing, SABIC CEO Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan explained that deal. "I think it does not really represent a shift (in how Saudi businesses approach China), but it brings it to the next level of strategic collaborations between — you know Saudi Arabia and China — and specifically SABIC and Sinopec, " he said. One of the key components of the deal, he explained, is a desire to expand the two firms' technological and innovative collaborations. Benyan called that dimension "very important" because of Chinese politicians' desire to "move from low product productions to mid- and high-end through technology innovations." "I think we would like to capture that to be part of this growth in China," he said. "And at the same time, Sinopec has also found SABIC is a very good gateway to go into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in terms of investment and opportunity." Benyan said that now is a good time for Chinese companies to be looking at investing in Saudi Arabia because of his government's "Saudi Vision 2030" plan to diversify its economy. "They have been very clear that they want to improve the business environments in Saudi Arabia. They want to open up for serious business to come, they are changing their regulations, they are bringing more incentive programs, they have been more strong on governance and transparency," he said. "And I think this will attract a lot of people to take an opportunity, to take this really 2030 vision and really grow with it as well." In fact, Benyan said he "would not be surprised" if Chinese investors became involved in other Saudi businesses. That includes energy firms like oil giant Saudi Aramco, but it could also be seen in the construction or health-care sectors, he explained. "I think there are so many opportunities that I would not be surprised seeing more Chinese companies coming to the kingdom." Turning to oil, a major input for SABIC's business, Benyan said price stability is key. "Of course the higher is better for us, but we need to have a stable crude oil price because — not only for us in terms of input for cost — but also for the output and for our customers," he said. Benyan said he sees 2017 as "very positive in terms of really stabilizing" crude prices, and that he could see barrel prices roughly between $50 or $60. Follow CNBC International on and Facebook. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Customizing the Build Environment#
Semaphore runs each job in a clean and isolated environment. Three types of build environments are available:
• The Linux Ubuntu environment that includes common tools needed by projects. It offers full sudo access to the virtual machine.
• The MacOS environment that includes common tools needed for iOS development. It offers full sudo access to the virtual machine.
• The Docker environment that allows you to run your jobs in a custom Docker images.
All environments come with a fast network so you can install any additional software and customize the environment however you need.
Choosing the Machine Type and OS Image#
To use the Linux Ubuntu build environment, define the agent's machine type and OS image in your pipeline YAML file:
# .semaphore/semaphore.yml
agent:
machine:
type: e1-standard-2 # Linux machine type with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of RAM
os_image: ubuntu1804 # The Ubuntu 18.04 OS image.
Alternatively, if you want to run a MacOS based pipeline, configure it with:
# .semaphore/semaphore.yml
agent:
machine:
type: a1-standard-2 # Apple machine type with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of RAM
os_image: macos-xcode12 # MacOS os image
If you prefer to have a fully custom, containerized environment, define one or more Docker images in your pipeline file:
# .semaphore/semaphore.yml
agent:
machine:
type: e1-standard-2
containers:
- name: main # The first container will be used to run your jobs
image: 'registry.semaphoreci.com/ruby:2.6' # use any Docker image
- name: db # Additional containers can be started
image: 'registry.semaphoreci.com/postgres:9.6' # and will be available in the first image
If your custom Docker images are privately hosted, follow the private Docker images section in the Custom CI/CD environment to set up your access credentials on Semaphore.
Installing additional dependencies#
Let's say that your project uses Bats, which is hosted on GitHub, to test your Bash scripts. You can easily make it available on Semaphore by copying the installation commands from the project's Readme into your prologue:
# .semaphore/semaphore.yml
blocks:
- name: "Test"
task:
prologue:
commands:
- git clone https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core.git
- cd bats-core
- sudo ./install.sh /usr/local
jobs:
- name: Tests
commands:
- bats addition.bats
Next steps#
Running a CI build in practice usually requires one or more running Databases, Cache servers, or other background services like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
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Frederick Smith (footballer)
Frederick Smith was an English footballer.
He was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and played League football for Stockport County, Darlington, Exeter City and Gillingham. | WIKI |
Cloud Computing in Healthcare
September 18, 2011
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This article aims to discuss aspects of cloud computing that are relevant to the healthcare industry and can be applied by doctors to improve their practice.
What Should Doctors Know About Cloud Computing?
There is a sea of information available on the internet about cloud computing and how it works.
This article aims to discuss aspects of cloud computing that are relevant to the healthcare industry and can be applied by doctors to improve their practice.
What Should Doctors Know About Cloud Computing?
There is a sea of information available on the internet about cloud computing and how it works. As a doctor with limited interest in information technology, understanding all that jargon (most of which may not even be directly related to your work and computing requirements) can be quite intimidating and time consuming.
Simply put, the cloud is a set of hardware, networks, storage, services and interfaces that are equipped to provide computing power, infrastructure, applications, software, business processes and storage – in short, all your computing needs, as a service wherever and whenever you need it.
Migrating to the cloud ‘can’ help you reduce cost, space, time and power that would otherwise be utilized for traditional IT services performing the same functions. This is possible because the cloud puts together a large pool of computing resources available to be used as an assured service by anyone who wishes to use it, anywhere in the world. Traditional IT environments on the other hand, have a limited set of resources that are independently managed and delivered to a limited number of people confined to a certain geographic location, thus pushing cost, time, space and power factors.
Using Cloud Computing To Improve Your Practice
Cloud computing can transform the way healthcare is practiced by empowering professionals to deliver better care at lower costs. Cloud computing allows doctors, researchers and scientists across the globe to collaborate and form a centralized, integrated and regularly updated medical database that can be seamlessly accessed by healthcare professionals without having to invest in over-the-top infrastructure or software. Doctors can use the cloud for viewing reports, scans, EMRs, prescriptions and information required to solve complex medical problems anywhere in the world.
Patients’ health data and EMRs can be combined to form a single, comprehensive health record that can be instantly accessed from one single source. The cloud also brings together patient information like insurance claims, prescription and drug details, lab reports, patient history and progress in cases of chronic illnesses and other details and consolidates them to be available at the point of care whenever required.
This not only helps improve the level of accuracy with which care is delivered but also reduces the time and cost of treatment for physicians and patients alike. As all data is sourced from a single, homogenous center, it also brings down the possibility of conflicting treatments, prescriptions and medical data miscommunication in cases where multiple physicians and providers are involved.
Cloud computing is typically subscription based. In many cases, it works on a metered billing model of payment where you pay only for what you use. It also allows for flexible self-service by which you can enable and disable the provision of required services depending on your usage and needs.
Cloud computing users need not invest in heavy capital expenditure on hardware, software, and services. As resources can be unsubscribed whenever required, the risk of investment is considerably reduced. The cloud also addresses increased data storage needs of physicians without having them spend on expensive personal storage devices. Software updates and innovation are centrally managed by cloud service providers, helping doctors focus the best part of their day on patient care.
Cloud computing can thus help physicians meet meaningful use criteria as it demonstrates better quality of care, lower costs and higher insurance/government reimbursements.
Popular Cloud Services
Most of us have “been on the cloud” without even knowing about it (eg: Facebook is an example of a public cloud). Depending on the visibility of data there are three types of cloud platforms: Public, private and hybrid (a combination of public and private).
A more popular classification is based on the services offered:
1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offers hardware related services like disk storage, database or virtual servers. Amazon Web Services (AWS),Rackspace Cloud Servers and Flexiscale are popular IaaS providers.
2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) offers development platforms. Google’s Application Engine, Microsofts Azure, Salesforce.com’s force.com are well-known in this category.
3. Software as service (SaaS) involves software services on the cloud like web based software applications, email services and so on. Popular examples of SaaS services are Salesforce.com (CRM), Google’s Gmail, Google Apps, Dropbox, Zoho, QuickBooks, Piwik, Microsoft Hotmail and their online version of office called BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite).
A good read on top cloud platforms at http://www.liventerprise.com/news/3608/.
Cloud Security
Cloud security and data ownership is a major concern for users and new adopters of cloud computing. As there is very little regulation currently pertaining to cloud computing, there are many data privacy and security issues to be dealt with. New users must be informed about details on who owns the data, third parties that may gain access to the data and the jurisdiction of the contract. We will look at Cloud Security in detail via a separate article.
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Department Calendar on Mobile Devices
How to Add your Department Calendar to Your iPad or Other Mobile Device
If you have a different mobile device, the instructions will be relatively the same. If you require assistance, contact Technology Services.
1. Make sure that you are connected to the WiFi network.
2. Open the Settings app on your iPad.
3. Touch "Mail, Contacts, Calendars," then touch "Add Account..."
4. Select "Microsoft Exchange" as the account type.
5. Enter the following account information and then touch "Next":
Email: USERNAME@flagler.edu
Domain: flagler
Username: USERNAME [sent via email]
Password: PASSWORD [sent via email]
Description: Enter anything you want to identify this account for your own purposes.
6. The Server address should automatically fill out as outlook.flagler.edu. Touch "Next."
7. On the next screen, choose to ONLY sync the Calendar to your iPad. Touch "Save."
8. Open the iCal app to ensure that the calendar appears. It may take a few minutes to sync.
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Hank Marino
Enrico Salvano "Hank" Marino (November 27, 1889 - July 12, 1976) was one of the world's top ten-pin bowling champions of the 1930s, with a career that lasted half a century.
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Marino came to Chicago when he was 11 years old, and started bowling in 1912 while working as a barber. Within four years he had won his first bowling championship, the 1916 American Bowling Congress Doubles, becoming known as "the Italian Wonder of Bowling".
In 1930 Marino moved to Milwaukee to open a bowling alley, but joined the Heil Products team and soon became a global star on the bowling circuit. On May 20, 1935 he won the BPAA national match game singles title, holding it for $2 1/2$ years before surrendering it on December 19, 1937, and retiring undefeated in January 1938. Meanwhile, in 1936 he took the All Events Title at the International Bowling Association Tournament in Berlin, Germany, while his team the Milwaukee Heils (including Ned Day and Charley Daw) won the team title.
Marino was elected a charter member of the bowling Hall of the Fame in 1941, polling the largest number of votes. In 1951 a national newspaper poll named him Bowler of the Half-Century. The 1999 Bowlers Journal ranking of 20th Century bowlers rated him #4.
Marino rolled five 800 series and 11 300 games. In 1971 he received the Flowers for the Living Award and was inducted into the Wisconsin Bowling Hall of Fame in 1992. He was elected to the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
Around 1941 he marketed Hank Marino's Miniature Bowling Alley. | WIKI |
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Organic Marsh Mallow Root
Marsh MallowAlthaea officinalis, is a member of the mallow family that grows in marshes--- hence the name. The genus name Althea is from the Greek word "altho" and means, "to heal or cure." This root is an emollient and demulcent. Demulcent herbs have a high content of mucilage, large carbohydrate (sugar) molecules. When this mucilage comes in contact with water, it swells and forms a smooth, slippery gel used to relieve skin conditions such as rosacea, psoriasis, and eczema.
For centuries Herbalists have rubbed marsh mallow roots on insect bites, burns, and rashes. Marsh mallow's mucilage content helps soothe, moisturized, and protect dry, irritated, or inflamed skin and scalp. Years ago, children were given a piece of marsh mallow root to chew on when they were teething. Early candy marshmallows were made from marsh mallow root. The root was boiled with water and sugar to create sweet, spongy sticks. Back then people were actually getting health benefits from eating marshmallows since the mucilage helps strengthen the mucous membranes. I wonder how s'mores would taste using that early confection?
Although they have kept the name, marshmallow treats roasted over campfires no longer contain any part of the plant. In hair care, marshmallow root soothes the scalp, often providing relief from scalp irritation. It also detangles and provides a great natural moisturizer for dry hair.
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Factors to Consider When Buying Welding Helmets
Falling from roofs, being injured by construction machinery, coming into contact with unsecured power equipment and machinery, receiving an electrical shock, and inhaling asbestos and silica dust, which can lead to lung cancer and mesothelioma, are all hazards construction workers face on the job. A crew member is killed on the job every other weekday in Texas, especially in Houston. The Division of Workers’ Compensation of the Texas Insurance Department stated in a November 2020 report that 11,300 non-traumatic injuries and illnesses were documented in the state’s construction industry in 2019. This represents a rate of 1.5 incidents per 100 workers with full-time equivalents in Texas. Based on a regular work week, this amounts to 43 construction site accidents per workday, necessitating welding helmets in Houston, TX.
Welding safety is of absolute importance. The eyes and face are among the most vital components that need to be protected since they are subjected to radiation (UV or infrared), spatter and sparks, and other environmental risks involved with welding. Whether novices or professionals, welders must select a welding helmet from the diverse alternatives available: auto-darkening or passive, variable or fixed shade, number of sensors, etc. In addition to providing comfort, this device can significantly impact efficiency and weld quality. Here are a few things to think about when choosing a welding helmet:
Auto-darkening vs. passive lens
Auto-darkening helmets darken when the welders strike the arc. Following the ANSI standard, the primary benefit of this type of helmet is that it provides some minimal levels of protection even if the electronic components fail. In addition, all standards-compliant auto-darkening helmets give 100 percent protection against dangerous UV and infrared radiation and can vary from a #8 shade for low-amplification requirements to a #13 shade for elevated requirements.
Passive helmets are donned in the up position, and welders snap them into position with a short nod or neck snap just before striking an arc. They are a cost-effective option.
Variable vs. fixed shade lens
Depending on your welding demands, you must decide between variable and fixed shade lenses if you have selected auto-darkening lenses. Fixed helmets can only darken to a preset color, often #10. These are extremely advantageous for welding with a single procedure and a single substance. However, for additional procedures and materials, a variable-shade one is preferable.
Arc Sensors
The number of sensors that detect weld sparks and initiate the darkening process distinguishes basic from better auto-darkening welding helmets. In addition, helmets with three or four vents are more advanced than those with only two.
Weight and convenience
Since welders wear helmets for hours, these two aspects may be considered to prevent neck strain and other risks. Choose a helmet that weighs one pound, try it on and adjust it to check whether it is comfortable. Further, ensure that the headgear and headband are comfortable, high-quality, and fit properly.
Numerous types of welding helmets are available in Houston, TX, to suit various requirements. Consider the opinion of your seasoned coworkers; their knowledge of various welding helmets in Houston, TX, can be extremely helpful when deciding between brands. Sometimes it’s not just about pricing and quality but also customer service and the availability of replacement parts.
If you are a skilled welder or want to become one, you must select the welding helmets that best fit your welding requirements and environment.
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State Department staffer resigns after allegations she inflated her resume
Mina Chang, a high-ranking State Department staffer who vaulted into the public spotlight after NBC reported she had inflated her resume, has resigned from her position. Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, was accused of overstating her academic credentials and creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it. Chang has rebutted NBC’s story, arguing that her academic statements were not misleading and that she did not commission the doctored Time cover. “Resigning is the only acceptable moral and ethical option for me at this time,” Chang wrote in her resignation letter, obtained by POLITICO. Her resignation is effective immediately. The letter decries the current culture at the State Department, a subject that has featured prominently during the House Democrats' impeachment proceedings. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has received criticism for not adequately protecting the career diplomats enmeshed in the impeachment inquiry. President Donald Trump has branded several of them as “never Trumpers.” “In already difficult times, the Department of State is experiencing what I and many believe is the worst and most profound moral crisis confronting career professionals and political appointees in the Department’s history,” Chang wrote. “Department morale is at its lowest, the professionalism and collegiality — once a hallmark of the U.S. diplomatic service — has all but disappeared.” Chang also takes the State Department to task for not defending her. “A character assassination based solely on innuendo was launched against me attacking my credentials and character,” she said. “My superiors at the Department refused to defend me, stand up for the truth or allow me to answer the false charges against me.” A spokesperson for the State Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Chang said she didn’t have any further comment beyond the letter and a rebuttal document she wrote about NBC’s story. NBC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about Chang's push back. NBC reported last week that Chang had misleadingly claimed in her official bio that she was an “alumna” of Harvard Business School when in fact she only attended a seven-week course there. It also reported that Chang had even created a fake Time magazine cover featuring her own image. In her rebuttal, Chang notes that she never claimed to have earned a degree from Harvard. A Harvard Business School spokesperson told NBC that the school lets people who attend certain executive education programs claim “alumni status,” even if they didn’t get a degree. Chang’s rebuttal also says the Time cover originated when a friend of hers commissioned an artist, Pierre-Yves Daygot, to create “a piece with her on a Time Magazine cover.” The friend acted without telling Chang, the document says. After that, the rebuttal says, “an enthusiastic fan online went one step further and used an app to make a fake magazine cover with Ms. Chang’s actual image superimposed on the cover which was subsequently circulated online.” The document also says that Chang didn’t give any permission or had any knowledge that the fake cover would be used during a public access TV interview for Houston Community College. Chang joined the State Department in late April and was later nominated for a job at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she would have overseen a budget of more than $1 billion and the development agency’s work in Asia. But she withdrew her nomination for that job in early September with no public explanation. NBC reported that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had asked for more documents and information on her career background. Chang said that when lawmakers raised questions, the State Department again reviewed her application materials and “found that she in no way misled officials during the investigation.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Title
Cobalt Single Atoms Enabling Efficient Methanol Oxidation Reaction on Platinum Anchored on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon
Publication Name
Small
Abstract
Developing efficient platinum (Pt)-based electrocatalysts with high tolerance to CO poisoning for the methanol oxidation reaction is critical for the development of direct methanol fuel cells. In this work, cobalt single atoms are introduced to enhance the electrocatalytic performance of N-doped carbon supported Pt (N-C/Pt) for the methanol oxidation reaction. The cobalt single atoms are believed to play a critical role in accelerating the prompt oxidation of CO to CO2 and minimizing the CO blocking of the adjacent Pt active sites. Benefitting from the synergistic effects among the Co single atoms, the Pt nanoparticles, and the N-doped carbon support, the Co-modified N-C/Pt (Co-N-C/Pt) electrocatalyst simultaneously delivers impressive electrocatalytic activity and durability with lower onset potential and superb CO poisoning resistance as compared to the N-C/Pt and the commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts.
Open Access Status
This publication is not available as open access
Funding Number
DP200100365
Funding Sponsor
Australian Research Council
COinS
Link to publisher version (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202107067
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Sensitivity Analysis of Randomized Trials with Missing Data
utterlypanoramicSecurity
Nov 30, 2013 (4 years and 7 months ago)
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Sensitivity Analysis of
Randomized Trials with
Missing Data
Daniel Scharfstein
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
dscharf@jhsph.edu
Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials
(FDA Guidance
-
E9)
“It is important to evaluate the
robustness
of
the results and primary conclusions of the trial.”
Robustness refers to “the
sensitivity
of the
overall conclusions to various limitations of the
data, assumptions, and analytic approaches to
data analysis.”
FDA Critical Path Initiative
FDA’s
Critical Path
white
-
paper “calls for a joint
effort of industry, academia, and the FDA to
identify key problems and develop targeted
solutions.”
In response to this document, the Office of
Biostatistics at CDER has identified
missing data
as one of these key areas (Robert O’Neil,
personal communication).
FDA: Office of Biostatistics at CDER
(Robert O’Neil)
“Virtually every drug/disease area in clinical trials
has problems with patient data that are missing
because patients dropped out, died, withdrew
due toxicity or aggravation with the trial, failed to
complete forms, and other reasons.”
“The success and failure of a trial and its
interpretation often depends on how these
missing data are dealt with at either the planning
or analysis stage.”
“Current statistical methodologies proposed need
to be evaluated for their ability to address
informative treatment
-
related
missing data
…”
FDA: Office of Biostatistics at CDER
(Robert O’Neil)
“… a concensus on missing data approaches
needs to be developed in order to minimize the
impact of failed studies and remove obstacles to
ambiguous interpretation of product efficacy and
safety conclusions.”
“There are
no
established set of
diagnostics
to
evaluate the severity or impact of missing data
…”
“there is no easily available computer software
…”
Clinical Trial Registration
-
ICMJE
“In return for the altruism and trust that makes
clinical research possible, the research enterprise
has an obligation to conduct research ethically
and to report it
honestly
.”
“Registration is only part of the means to an end;
that end is
full transparency
with respect to the
performance and reporting of clinical trials.”
In my view, the evaluation of the robustness of
trial conclusions is an integral part of honest and
transparent reporting.
Goal
Present a coherent
sensitivity analysis
paradigm
for the presentation of results of
clinical trials in which there is concern about
informative missing data.
ACTG 175
ACTG 175 was a randomized, double bind trial
designed to evaluate nucleoside monotherapy vs.
combination therapy in HIV+ individuals with
CD4 counts between 200 and 500.
Participants were randomized to one of four
treatments: AZT, AZT+ddI, AZT+ddC, ddI
CD4 counts were scheduled at baseline, week 8,
and then every 12 weeks thereafter.
ACTG 175
One goal of the investigators was to compare the
treatment
-
specific means of CD4 count at week
56
had all subjects remained on their assigned
treatment through that week
.
The interest is efficacy rather than effectiveness.
We define a completer to be a subject who stays
on therapy and is measured at week 56.
Otherwise, the subject is called a drop
-
out.
33.6% and 26.5% of subjects dropped out in the
AZT+ddI and ddI arms, respectively.
ACTG 175
Completers
-
only analysis
Treatment
Mean
CD4
SE
95% CI
AZT+ddI
385
8.5
ddI
360
7.7
Difference
25
11.5
(3,48)
p=0.0027
ACTG 175
The completers
-
only means will be valid
estimates if, within treatment groups, the
completers and drop
-
outs are similar on
measured and unmeasured characteristics.
Missing at random (MAR), with respect to
treatment group.
Without incorporating additional information, the
MAR assumption is untestable.
It is well known from other studies that, within
treatment groups, drop
-
outs tend to be very
different than completers.
Sensitivity Analysis Paradigm
Evaluate the robustness of the above
conclusions to deviations from the untestable
MAR assumption.
Three steps
1.
Models
2.
Estimation
3.
Testing
Step 1: Models
For each treatment group, specify a set of models
for the relationship between the distributions of
the outcome for drop
-
outs and completers.
Index the treatment
-
specific models by an
untestable, interpretable parameter (
alpha
),
where zero denotes MAR.
alpha
is called a selection bias parameter and it
indexes deviations from MAR.
Pattern
-
mixture model
Treatment
-
specific imputed distributions of
CD4 count at week 56 for drop
-
outs
Selection model for the probability of being a
completer given the outcome.
The parameter
alpha
is interpreted as the log
odds ratio of dropping out when comparing
subjects whose log CD4 count at week 56 differs
by 1 unit.
alpha
>0 (<0) indicates that subjects with higher
(lower) CD4 counts are more likely to drop
-
out.
alpha
=0.5 (
-
0.5) implies that a 2
-
fold increase in
CD4 count yields a 1.4 increase (0.7 decrease) in
the odds of dropping out.
Step 1: Models
For a plausible range of
alpha
’s
,
estimate the
treatment
-
specific means by taking a weighted
average of the mean outcomes from the
completers and drop
-
outs.
Step 2: Estimation
Treatment
-
specific imputed distributions of
CD4 count at week 56 for drop
-
outs
Treatment
-
specific estimated mean
CD4 at week 56 as function of
alpha
Test the null hypothesis of no treatment effect as
a function of treatment
-
specific selection bias
parameters.
For each combination of the treatment
-
specific
selection bias parameters, form a Z
-
statistic by
taking the difference in the estimated means
divided by the estimated standard error of the
difference.
Step 3: Testing
If the selection bias parameters are correctly
specified, this statistic is normal(0,1) under the
null hypothesis.
Reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level if the
absolute value of the Z
-
statistic is greater than
1.96.
Step 3: Testing
Contour Plot of Z
-
statistic
Contour Plot of Z
-
statistic
Extensions
Longitudinal and time
-
to
-
event outcomes
MAR or CAR (with respect to all observable
time
-
independent and dependent data)
Sensitivity analysis with respect to
alpha
Sensitivity Analysis Paradigm
Conjecture
There is information from previously conducted
clinical studies to help in the analysis of the
current trials.
Data from previous trials may be able to restrict
the range of or estimate
alpha
.
Comments on Other Approaches
Likelihood
-
based inference
LOCF
Likelihood
-
based Inference
A parametric model for the outcome
and
a
parametric for the probability of being a
completer given the outcome.
For example, the outcome is log normal.
Estimated
alpha
’s are
-
2.6 (95% CI: [
-
3.0,
-
2.1])
and
-
2.8 (95% CI: [
-
3.3,
-
2.2]) in the AZT+ddI
and ddI arms.
Estimated means are 303 (95% CI: [278,331])
and 297 (95% CI: [271,324]) in the AZT+ddI
and ddI arms.
Need to be certain about log
-
normal assumption.
Treatment
-
specific imputed distributions of
CD4 count at week 56 for drop
-
outs
LOCF
Bad idea
Imputing an unreasonable value.
Results may be conservative or anti
-
conservative.
Uncertainty is under
-
estimated.
Summary
We have presented a paradigm for reporting the
results of clinical trials where missingness is
plausibly related to outcomes.
We believe this approach provides a more honest
characterization of the overall uncertainty, which
stems from both sampling variability and lack of
knowledge of the missingness mechanism.
dscharf@jhsph.edu
Scharfstein, Rotnitzky A, Robins JM, and Scharfstein DO: “Semiparametric
Regression for Repeated Outcomes with Non
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ignorable Non
-
response,”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
, 93, 1321
-
1339, 1998.
Scharfstein DO, Rotnitzky A, and Robins, JM.: “Adjusting for Non
-
ignorable
Drop
-
out Using Semiparametric Non
-
response Models (with discussion),”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
, 94, 1096
-
1146, 1999.
Rotnitzky A, Scharfstein DO, Su TL, and Robins JM
:
“A Sensitivity
Analysis Methodology for Randomized Trials with Potentially Non
-
ignorable
Cause
-
Specific Censoring,”
Biometrics,
57:30
-
113, 2001
Scharfstein DO, Robin JM, Eddings W and Rotnitzky A: “Inference in
Randomized Studies with Informative Censoring and Discrete Time
-
to
-
Event Endpoints,”
Biometrics
, 57: 404
-
413, 2001.
Scharfstein DO and Robins JM: “Estimation of the Failure Time
Distribution in the Presence of Informative Right Censoring,”
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89:617
-
635, 2002.
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About Selection Bias in the Analysis of Randomized Trials with Missing
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512, 2003. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Kismet External HTTP Helper Plugins
External Kismet helpers
Kismet implements a protobuf-based IPC system for communicating with external tools. This system is used to manage datasources and capture data, but it can also be used to extend the Kismet functionality without writing C++ code loaded directly into Kismet.
What helper plugins can do
Helper plugins are meant to provide additional functionality exposed via the Kismet web endpoints. Generally they are useful for managing long-running external processes which operate on Kismet data; for example, running analysis on a pcap log or providing mapping from the Kismet UI to another tool.
Helper plugins can provide GET and POST endpoints, streaming data over an endpoint, and can also provide Javascript modules and HTTP to integrate with the web UI. Helper plugins can automatically request a HTTP authentication key for accessing the Kismet REST endpoints.
What helper plugins cannot do
Helper plugins do NOT run as part of Kismet - they are a separate process and communicate over IPC. They can not directly implement internal parts of Kismet; they are limited to interacting with Kismet over the existing REST endpoints.
Plugin manifest
The plugin manifest tells Kismet how to load the plugin. Described more fully in general plugin documentation, all plugins should define a name, author, description, and version:
name=externaldemo
author=Foo Bar <foo@bar.foo>
description=External API demo plugin
version=2020-00-00
To load an external API plugin, you also need the kisexternal option (new as of 2020-07):
name=externaldemo
author=Foo Bar <foo@bar.foo>
description=External API demo plugin
version=2020-00-00
kisexternal=kismet_externaldemo
This tells Kismet to run kismet_externaldemo as an IPC command.
External API plugins can be combined with Javascript modules, as well; you can make a Javascript module and reference it in your manifest. This lets you make a custom UI that interacts with your endpoints.
name=externaldemo
author=Foo Bar <foo@bar.foo>
description=External API demo plugin
version=2020-00-00
kisexternal=kismet_externaldemo
js=demo_web_module,/plugin/externaldemo/js/demo_web_module.js
Helper executable
The external helper tool is run by Kismet and communicates over the helper RPC interface. The helper tool can be in any language which can talk the IPC protocol over a pipe(2) channel; for our examples we’ll use Python and the KismetExternal module.
Installing KismetExternal
KismetExternal has its own repository. It will be migrated to a proper external module, installable via pip, but for now this guide will assume you’re installing it via setup.py:
$ git clone https://www.kismetwireless.net/git/python-kismet-external.git
$ cd python-kismet-external
$ python3 ./setup.py build
$ sudo python3 ./setup.py install
Importing the basics
We need to import a few basic elements into our helper. We also try to present a more meaningful message to the user if KismetExternal isn’t available.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import os
import sys
import threading
import time
try:
import KismetExternal
except ImportError:
print("ERROR: We require the KismetExternal module")
sys.exit(1)
Parsing the arguments
Kismet will pass us two arguments when we get launched; --in-fd and --out-fd; these are the endpoints of the pipe(2) IPC channel. We use the argparse module here, but you can use whatever you like to read the arguments.
class ExternalDemo(object):
def __init__(self):
self.parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Kismet external helper demo')
self.parser.add_argument('--in-fd', action="store", type=int, dest="infd")
self.parser.add_argument('--out-fd', action="store", type=int, dest="outfd")
self.results = self.parser.parse_args()
if self.results.infd is None or self.results.outfd is None:
print("ERROR: Kismet external helper tools are launched by Kismet itself; do not run them directly.")
sys.exit(1)
Initializing the external interface
KismetExternal provides a full threaded interface for handling the RPC communications. Once we initialize it, we can ask it for tokens and register callbacks.
self.kei = KismetExternal.ExternalInterface(self.results.infd, seld.results.outfd)
Getting an authentication token
Talking to the Kismet REST endpoints requires an authentication token; rather than expose the username and password, or require each external tool to be configured with a login, the external tool can request a HTTP authentication token. This can be used as the KISMET session cookie in all HTTP requests to the Kismet server.
Because RPC is asynchronous, we need to provide a callback.
self.kei.request_http_auth(self.handle_web_auth_token)
and then the callback:
def handle_web_auth_token(self):
self.auth_token = self.kei.auth_token
A more complete callback might set a variable that initialization is complete, or start a thread that communicates with the Kismet server.
Providing a REST endpoint
Now for the most powerful part of the external API: providing our own REST endpoint for communicating with the world.
Rest endpoints can process GET and POST methods, and like the auth method, call a callback function we provide.
self.kei.add_uri_handler("GET", "/externaldemo/python.html", self.handle_web_python)
Then for the callback itself, we return some basic HTML:
def handle_web_python(self, externalhandler, request):
# Print some debug that will show up in the console Kismet is running in
print("PYTHON - handle web req {} {} {}".format(request.req_id, request.method, request.uri))
# Return some HTML
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("<html><body><b>This is from python!</b></body></html>", "UTF-8"))
Notice the conversion to bytes! Since a HTTP response could be anything (images, packets, etc) it’s a raw byte object. In Python3, we need to encode our string appropriately, so be sure to do so!
Providing a POST endpoint
To receive data on our endpoint, we support a POST method; this is done with the same callback methods, but we use the variable_Data field from the requests:
self.kei.add_uri_handler("POST", "/externaldemo/post", self.handle_web_post)
and the callback:
def self.handle_web_post(self, externalhandler, request):
# Iterate the variables
for i in request.variable_data:
print("PYTHON - POST {}:{}".format(i.field, i.content))
externalhandler.set_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("<html><body><b>Python got a POST</b></body></html>", "UTF-8"))
Notice again the conversion to bytes!
Sending status to the Kismet server
We can send arbitrary messages to the Kismet server via send_message:
self.kei.send_message("Status update from python!")
The rest
There’s a little more we need to do; we need to start the KismetExternal interface, and instantiate our object. We also need to define a service loop that runs for as long as the KismetExternal interface remains up.
Our extremely basic, but complete, example would look like:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import os
import time
import sys
import threading
# Pretty-print the failure
try:
import kismetexternal
except ImportError:
print("ERROR: Kismet external Python tools require the kismetexternal python ")
print(" library; you can find it in the kismetexternal git or via pip")
sys.exit(1)
class KismetProxyTest(object):
def __init__(self):
# Try to parse the arguments to find the descriptors we need to give to
# the kismet external tool; Kismet calls external helpers with a pre-made
# set of pipes on --in-fd and --out-fd
self.parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Kismet External Python Example')
self.parser.add_argument('--in-fd', action="store", type=int, dest="infd")
self.parser.add_argument('--out-fd', action="store", type=int, dest="outfd")
self.results = self.parser.parse_args()
if self.results.infd is None or self.results.outfd is None:
print("ERROR: Kismet external python tools are (typically) launched by ")
print(" Kismet itself; running it on its own won't do what you want")
sys.exit(1)
# Initialize our external interface
self.kei = kismetexternal.ExternalInterface(self.results.infd, self.results.outfd)
# self.kei.debug = True
# Start the external handler BEFORE we register our handlers, since we need to be
# connected to send them!
self.kei.start()
# External tools can request a HTTP authentication token; this can be used as the
# 'KISMET' session cookie to perform administrative actions against the Kismet
# server
self.kei.request_http_auth(self.handle_web_auth_token)
# Add a URI handler; it doesn't need a login, and it returns HTML
self.kei.add_uri_handler("GET", "/proxytest/python.html", self.handle_web_python)
# Add a GET var test
self.kei.add_uri_handler("GET", "/proxytest/python_get.html", self.handle_web_python_get)
# Add a POST var test
self.kei.add_uri_handler("POST", "/proxytest/python_post.html", self.handle_web_python_post)
# Add a streaming handler
self.kei.add_uri_handler("GET", "/proxytest/stream.raw", self.handle_web_stream)
self.kei.send_message("Hello from python! This is sent over the IPC message bus.")
# Start the IO loops running
self.kei.run()
# Callback for when we've gotten back our auth token for the webserver
def handle_web_auth_token(self):
print("ProxyTest got HTTP auth token", self.kei.auth_token)
# Callback function for handling a req of our python.html endpoint
def handle_web_python(self, externalhandler, request):
print("PYTHON - Handle web req {} {} {}".format(request.req_id, request.method, request.uri))
# Print a static response
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("<html><body><b>This is from python!</b></body></html>", "UTF-8"))
# Callback function for handling a req of our variabls.html endpoint
def handle_web_python_get(self, externalhandler, request):
print("PYTHON - Handle web req {} {} {}".format(request.req_id, request.method, request.uri))
print("PYTHON - GET variables ")
for i in request.variable_data:
print("PYTHON - GET {}:{}".format(i.field, i.content))
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("<html><body><b>This is from python!</b></body></html>", "UTF-8"))
# Callback function for handling a req of our variable.html endpoint
def handle_web_python_post(self, externalhandler, request):
print("PYTHON - Handle web req {} {} {}".format(request.req_id, request.method, request.uri))
for i in request.variable_data:
print("PYTHON - POST {}:{}".format(i.field, i.content))
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("<html><body><b>This is from python!</b></body></html>", "UTF-8"))
# Callback function to demonstrate streaming
def handle_web_stream(self, externalhandler, request):
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("Stream starting\n", "UTF-8"), stream = True, finished = False)
# Make a thread that streams data out this request
webthread = threading.Thread(target=self.stream_web_data, args=(externalhandler, request))
webthread.start()
# Thread that streams a counter
def stream_web_data(self, externalhandler, request):
counter = 0
while self.kei.is_running:
externalhandler.send_http_response(request.req_id, bytes("Stream {}\n".format(counter), "UTF-8"), stream = True, finished = False)
counter += 1
time.sleep(0.5)
# Loop forever
def loop(self):
while self.kei.is_running():
self.kei.send_ping()
time.sleep(1)
self.kei.kill()
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Make a proxytest and loop forever
pt = KismetProxyTest()
# Loop in a detached process
pt.loop()
More examples
You can find a similar implementation of this in the plugin-httpproxytest/ directory in the Kismet git; this is a Python KismetExternal plugin which implements GET, POST, and streaming interfaces.
Updated: | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Arizona v. California (383 U.S. 268)/Opinion of the Court
Mark Wilmer, for plaintiff.
Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen. of California, Northcutt Ely, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Burton J. Gindler and David B. Stanton, Deputy Attys. Gen., C. Emerson Duncan II, Jerome C. Muys, Roy H. Mann, Earl Redwine, Harry W. Horton, R. L. Knox, James H. Carter, Charles C. Cooper, Jr., John H. Lauten, H. Kenneth Hutchinson, Roger Arnebergh, Gilmore Tillman, Edward T. Butler, Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen. of Nevada, and Robert E. Jones, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants.
Solicitor General Marshall, for the United States.
Ordered.
The joint motion to amend Article VI of the Decree in this case entered on March 9, 1964, 376 U.S. 340, 84 S.Ct. 755, 11 L.Ed.2d 757, is hereby granted and Article VI of said decree is hereby amended to read as follows:
VI. Within three years from the date of this decree [March 9, 1964], the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada shall furnish to this Court and to the Secretary of the Interior a list of the present perfected rights, with their claimed priority dates, in waters of the mainstream within each State, respectively, in terms of consumptive use, except those relating to federal establishments. Any named party to this proceeding may present its claim of present perfected rights or its opposition to the claims of others. The Secretary of the Interior shall supply similar information, within a similar period of time, with respect to the claims of the United States to present perfected rights within each State. If the parties and the Secretary of the Interior are unable at that time to agree on the present perfected rights to the use of mainstream water in each State, and their priority dates, any party may apply to the Court for the determination of such rights by the Court.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Mr. Justice FORTAS took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion. | WIKI |
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Silver Spring Networks has released its second quarter 2013 results. Non-GAAP revenue was up 17% to $86.5 million, and non-GAAP net loss was $4.5 million as compared to loss of $1.1 million a year ago.
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Uppland Artillery Regiment
Uppland Artillery Regiment (Upplands artilleriregemente), designation A 5, was a Swedish Army artillery unit which operated between 1894 and 1927. The unit was based in Uppsala Garrison in Uppsala, Sweden.
History
Uppland Artillery Regiment or as it was originally called, 2nd Svea Artillery Regiment, was raised on 1 October 1894 by an amalgamation of two batteries from 1st Svea Artillery Regiment and two from Wendes Artillery Regiment. The 2nd Svea Artillery Regiment remained in Stockholm until 1901, when it was relocated to Stockholmsvägen, since the 1960s known as Dag Hammarskjölds väg, in Uppsala. In order to clarify the regiment's connection to the city, on 8 August 1904, the new name Upplands Artillery Regiment was awarded to the regiment.
In 1914, all order numbers within the Swedish Army were adjusted. For Uppland Artillery Regiment, this meant that the regiment was assigned the designation A 5. The adjustment of the designation made it possible to distinguish the regiments between the service branches and their possible reserve and duplication regiments.
On 12 October 1919, the Swedish Artillery Officer Candidate School (Artilleriets officersaspirantskola, ArtOAS) was added from being previously located in Kristianstad. Through the Defence Act of 1925, it was decided to reduce the army, which affected the regiment to the extent that it was disbanded in 1927. The regiment held a disbandment ceremony on 3 October 1927, and was disbanded officially on 31 December 1927. From 1 January 1928, the regiment operated as a decommissioning organization until 31 March 1928.
Barracks and training areas
The regiment was initially placed at the 1st Svea Artillery Regiment on Vallhallavägen in Stockholm. On 12 October 1897, the regiment was moved to Storgatan and Kvarteret Krubban, where the regiment took over the barracks from the Life Guards of Horse (K 1), which moved to Lidingövägen.
On 21 September 1901, the regiment officially moved into a newly built barracks in Uppsala, and on 26 October 1901, a ceremony was held over the move. Initially, the regiment's barracks establishment in Uppsala consisted of a main building, which was built after the building program of the 1892 Army Order's Building Program. The chancellery was located in the middle and the accommodation in the barracks' wings. In 1908, two new barracks were erected and one chancellery building south of the regiment's main building. These three buildings were constructed after the building program of the 1901 Army Order. The barracks were erected in three floors instead of four floors as the type drawings showed. This made a characteristic feature of the regiment area, when it was constructed after two different building programs, and two different architectural styles.
After the regiment was disbanded, the barracks were taken over by the Swedish Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, which moved in on 10 September 1928. The Swedish Army Non-Commissioned Officer School became the first in the line of various school units that housed on Dag Hammarskjölds väg. The last school unit in the barracks area was the Swedish Army Company Officer School, which was disbanded on 30 September 1983. In 1986, the barracks were converted to Glunten's Research and Business Park, and the first tenant moved in. In 1994, Uppsala Science Park was established in close collaboration with the Foundation for Collaboration between the Universities in Uppsala, Business, and the Public Sector (STUNS).
Heritage
In connection with the formation of the Artillery Regiment, it also came to preserve the memory of Uppland Artillery Regiment. Since 1 January 2006, there is no unit who specifically preserve the memory and the regimental traditions of Uppland Artillery Regiment.
Other
In connection with the formation of Norrbotten Artillery Corps on 1 January 1928, the corps came to take over the designation from Uppland Artillery Regiment (A 5). Norrbotten Artillery Corps also took over the regimental march, "Artillery V", also known as "Artillerimarsch" (G. Ström) and the regimental color, dark red. When Norrbotten Artillery Corps was disbanded and amalgamated into Boden Artillery Regiment (A 8), the Bergslagen Artillery Regiment (A 9) took over Uppland Artillery Regiment and Norrbotten Artillery Corps' march. It was adopted on 1 July 2000 by the Artillery Regiment (A 9).
Commanding officers
Regimental commander from 1893 to 1927:
* 1893–1901: John Christian Bratt
* 1901–1903: Richard Ossbahr
* 1903–1905: Sune G:son Wennerberg
* 1905–1913: Hugo Ekström
* 1913–1919: Lars Sparre
* 1919–1927: Gerdt Lundeberg | WIKI |
Residual Gas Analyzers Information
Residual gas analyzers (RGAs) are spectrometers that are used to identify the gases present in vacuum environments. Residual gas analyzers perform this function by producing ionizing molecules of the gas sample, separating the resulting mixture of ions according to their charge-to-mass ratios, providing an output signal, which is a measure of the relative species present, and counting the rate at which the ions hit the detector. The spectrometers within residual gas analyzers analyze the process by which a mixture of ionic species is separated according to the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z). The analysis may be qualitative and/or quantitative. There are two common styles of spectrometric analysis used, quadrupole and magnetic sector analysis, although there are specialized and custom designs available.
Quadrupole mass spectrometers consist of an ion source, ion optics to accelerate and focus the ions through an aperture into the quadrupole filter, the quadrupole filter itself with control voltage supplies, an exit aperture, an ion detector, detection electronics, and a high-vacuum system. The mass spectrometer operates only in a high vacuum whereas the gas it is being used to analyze is often at atmospheric pressure. To reduce the pressure the gas is sampled twice using a "double sniffer" configuration.
Magnetic sector residual gas analyzers use one of two methods to read and identify samples. Single focusing analyzers focus a circular beam in a path of 180, 90, or 60 degree. A variety of forces influence the particles and separate the ions due to their different mass-to-charge ratios. In double focusing analyzers, an electrostatic analyzer is added to separate particles with difference in kinetic energies.
Residual gas analyzers ionize their samples using a variety of technologies and methods including electron impact ionization (EI), field ionization (FI), and chemical ionization (CI). EI uses an electron beam, usually generated from a tungsten filament, to ionize gas-phase atoms or molecules. An electron from the beam knocks an electron off of analyte atoms or molecules to create ions. FI removes the electrons from any species by interaction with an intense electrical field. CI forms new ionized species when gaseous molecules interact with ions. The process may involve transfer of an electron, a proton or other charged species between the reactants.
Detector Types
Finally, there are two distinct detector types that can be found within residual gas analyzers. Electron multiplier tubes are similar in design to photomultiplier-tubes. They consist of a series of biased dynodes that eject secondary electrons when they are struck by an ion. They therefore multiply the ion current and can be used in analog or digital mode.
Faraday cup residual gas analyzers use a metal cup that is placed in the path of the ion beam. It is attached to an electrometer, which measures the ion-beam current. Since a Faraday cup can only be used in an analog mode it is less sensitive than other detectors that are capable of operating in pulse-counting mode.
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• Mass Spectrometers
Mass spectrometers separate ions by their mass-to-charge (m/z) ratios. They are used to identify compounds by the mass of one or more elements in the compound. They are also used to determine the isotopic composition of one or more elements in a compound. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Articular cartilage surgery (chondroplasty)
A surgical procedure to smooth the surface of the articular cartilage to restore movement in the knee.
About articular cartilage surgery
Articular cartilage surgery involves chondroplasty – where cartilage is smoothed within a joint to restore movement.
There are two types of cartilage in the knee – the thick, rubbery pads of cartilage known as the menisci and the cartilage that coats the end surfaces of the bones in the joint, known as articular cartilage.
Like the meniscus, articular cartilage can get damaged as a result of injury or diseases such as arthritis.
If articular cartilage is torn or damaged, the ragged edges can catch within the joint, causing stiffness, pain and swelling, locking, and giving way.
Chondroplasty involves smoothing the surface of the articular cartilage by either shaving the articular cartilage, making drill holes into the defect in the cartilage to generate fibrocartilage, or treating it with a radio frequency probe. This allows the surfaces to move with less friction or irritation.
The surgery is carried out through keyhole surgery (arthroscopically).
It is usually carried out under general anaesthetic, which means you’ll be asleep. The operation takes about 30 to 60 minutes.
Your surgeon will make a number of small cuts on your knee, and insert a tiny telescopic camera and small surgical instruments. This means your surgeon carry out the operation using a monitor.
The articular cartilage is either cut away, shaved until the surface is smooth, or drilled with holes in order to generate fibrocartilage. Your surgeon will close the area with surgical sutures/clips or dissolvable stitches.
You should be able to return home on the day of the operation and begin putting some weight on your leg immediately.
You will need to use crutches from a few days to six weeks after surgery and might need to ice your knee if it is still swollen. Any pain should be manageable with over-the-counter painkillers.
You’ll need to keep your wounds dry for up to 14 days after the operation to help with healing.
If you have a desk job, you may be able to return to work within a few days. Those with more active jobs may take longer to recover.
You will be given some exercises to help strengthen your knee and the surrounding structures, and may be referred to a physiotherapist. You should be able to return to sports or exercise after about six to twelve weeks.
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Nadiya Kudelia
Nadiya Kudelia (Ukrainian: Куделя Надія Павлівна; 15 October 1936 – 15 September 2022 ) was a Ukrainian singer, coloratura soprano, Merited Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine (2021).
Biography
She received her education at the Kyiv Conservatory in the class of Maria Donets-Tessier. As a student, she won the World Youth Festival in Vienna (1959). In 1964, she became a laureate of the J. Enescu Competition in Romania, and in 1967, she was awarded a diploma at the Young Singers Competition in Bulgaria.
In the 1960s and 1980s, she was a soloist at the Kyiv Opera. Her repertoire included about 30 roles, including Traviata from Verdi's opera of the same name, which she sang at the premiere of this opera in 1964. She taught at the Drahomanov National University.
Awards
* Merited Artist of Ukraine
* People's Artist of Ukraine | WIKI |
Documentation/Configuration
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Instalation Configuration ENGLISH
After completion of the installation it is necessary to choose a symbolic DNS addresses to access the admin web interface and the user web interface. The selected names must be domains at least of the third order.
You can inspire yourself by the following examples:
• Admin interfaces:
ispadmin.yourcompany.cz, admin.yourcompany.cz, management.yourcompany.cz…
• Client Interfaces:
client.yourcompany.cz, customer.yourcompany.cz, portal.yourcompany.cz, support.yourcompany.cz…
Two DNS records pointing to the IP address of the installed ISPadmin server must be set up for the chosen symbolic addresses. These records usually have to be, at your request, set by your connection provider or you can set it yourself through an account of yours at your provider (but the process is very individual, because each provider has it otherwise).
Setting up of domain names
If the created DNS records correctly point out to your server, test them via the ping command. Then you can again continue in the system configuration.
ping admin.yourcompany.cz
Command PING to yourcompany.cz [81.0.237.137] - 32 bytes of data:
...
The ping statistics for 81.0.237.137:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (loss 0%)
For our purposes we assume that IP address of the server is 10.0.0.1 translated by NAT (Network Address Translation) to the public IP 81.0.237.137. DNS records then point to IP 81.0.237.137 and the server has a set IP addresss 10.0.0.1
To file /etc/hostname enter the server name: admin.yourcompany.cz
pico -w /etc/hostname
To file /etc/hosts enter IP address and hostname in the shape of: 10.0.0.1 admin.yourcompany.cz client.yourcompany.cz
pico -w /etc/hosts
In file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf allow directives NameVirtualHost and modify selected addresses so that the file will look like this:
pico -w /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
#Listen 81 ### commenting at the beginning the port 81
#Listen 82
#Listen 84
options FollowSymLinks
NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80 ### modify the address for virtual guests and for the relevant ports NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1:443
### ISP Admin <VirtualHost admin.vasefirma.cz:80> ### modify the domain name for an unsecured access DocumentRoot "/data/support_nossl/" </VirtualHost>
## ISP Admin SSL <VirtualHost admin.vasefirma.cz:443> ### modify the domain name for a secure access DocumentRoot "/data/support/ispadmin/" AddDefaultCharset Windows-1250 <Directory /data/support/ispadmin/> Options ExecCGI AllowOverride All </Directory> CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_support_ispadmin.log combined AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 php_admin_value open_basedir "/data/support/:/tmp/:/data/" php_admin_value include_path ".:/usr/local/lib/php/:/tmp/" php_admin_value disable_functions "openlog, exec, passthru, proc_open, proc_close, shell_exec" php_admin_value display_errors "On" php_admin_value safe_mode "Off" php_admin_value register_globals "On" php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f webmaster@ispadmin.cz"
### We will delete # symbols at the beginings of the lines in the whole following section, and so activate the HTPPS
for higher security.
SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/server.key SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/ca.crt SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 </VirtualHost>
#### ISP Admin support #<VirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80> # DocumentRoot "/data/support_nossl/" #</VirtualHost>
## ISP Admin support SSL <VirtualHost klient.vasefirma.cz:80> ### Modify the domain name of the user interface of clients. The interfaces will here run
on http and not on https, because in case that a certificate for https is not exposed by
a certificate authority, then IE will display, trying to access this page, an error
message about its certificate validity "that it is not recommended to visit this page",
and the users are then confused of it."
DocumentRoot "/data/support/ispadmin_support/" AddDefaultCharset Windows-1250 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_support_ispadmin_support.log combined AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 php_admin_value open_basedir "/data/support/ispadmin_support/" php_admin_value include_path ".:/usr/local/lib/php/" php_admin_value disable_functions "openlog, exec, passthru, proc_open, proc_close, shell_exec" php_admin_value display_errors "On" php_admin_value safe_mode "Off" php_admin_value register_globals "On"
# SSLEngine on # SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL # SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/server.crt # SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/server.key # SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/conf/cert/ca.crt # SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ # nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ # downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 </VirtualHost>
<Directory /data/support/> Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>
<Directory /data/support/ispadmin_support/> Options ExecCGI AllowOverride All </Directory>
include /usr/local/script/ispadmin/apache_ispadmin_vhost.conf
Passwords Settings
We strongly recommend to respect the principles of so called strong passwords. This way you will greatly reduce the possibility of compromising (hacking) of the system, database even the application itself. In any case do not operate the ISPadmin with default passwords, which were contained in the pure installation!
One example: Suppose you want an easy to remember password, but which meets the requirements for a strong password: it contains both uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters and is at least 8 characters long.
Weak password: frantavomacka
The transformation of a weak password into a strong one:
• 1)You put uppercase letters instead of some lowercase ones - this way you will meet the condition of uppercase and lowercase letters.
• 2)Instead of the letter "o" you will put "0", instead of the letter "i" or "l" you will put "1" or you will write a few numbers at the end of the password - this way you will meet the condition of numbers presence in a password.
• 3)Instead of letter "a" you will put a special at sign "@" or between words frantavomacka you will use the underscore sign "_" - this way you will meet the condition of special chracters in a password.
Strong password: Fr@nta_V0macka957
Reset the default passwords to the SQL database to your own passwords, you can display a hint by the command:
/usr/local/script/ispadmin/ispadmin_change_pass.pl
Change of the default password of a user of SQL DB "ispadmin":
/usr/local/script/ispadmin/ispadmin_change_pass.pl ispadmin ispadmin new_password
Change of the default password of an administrator of SQL DB "root":
/usr/local/script/ispadmin/ispadmin_change_pass.pl mysql_root ispadmin new_password
Also change the password of a user of root for the access to the Linux system through SSH:
passwd root
You do not have to be afraid of changing the password. In case of changing the password and consequently forgeting which one you have set, contact our technical assistance. It is not necessary to reinstall the whole system because of it.
Now again restart the server with a reboot command, so that all the changes will be reflected:
reboot
After restarting the system, log into the web interface, still using the default data ( user: admin pass: ispadmin ) and change the password of an administrator of the system, “admin” in a tab “Settings / Administrators” ,to your own, more secure one.
License activation
For full use of the system ISPadmin you need to purchase and then revive the license for a certain number of users. The file licence.php, which you will receive by an email, you need to copy into the directory /data/support/ispadmin/config/. To copy the file into the server it is possible to use a scp program or from Windows winscp, which is possible to download from http://www.winscp.org.
A the end it is necessary to enter a valid license key to the file /data/support/ispadmin/config/config.php. For example: KEY = 22-A8C2-12D3.
The next time you log into the web ISPadmin interface, your license will be activated.
Update to the last stable version
If you already have your installation correctly configured, run, the command line, the update to the latest version of ISPadmin. A connection to the main server, downloads of the update files and their installation will be carried out. Update usually takes a few minutes, but in some exceptional cases it might be even more than 30 minutes. In any case, wait until the message Update completed appears on the screen.
Now you will have the full version of the current ISPadmin at your disposal, with all its repairs and new features.
ispadmin_update stable
System Security
To prevent attacks on the server and its subsequent abuse, it is necessary to set firewall directly in ispadmin. If you wish to access the server remotely, you will need to define the appropriate firewall rules to permit traffic through SSH and other protocols only from strictly necessary IP addresses (networks). Do this through a web interface of the system administration in the tab Settings / Syst. settings / Security, where you will allow the SSH access only for the administrator stations or just directly for your entire network. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Krzysztof Paterka
Krzysztof Paterka (born 19 August 1986) is a retired Polish Paralympic swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke and competed in international elite competitions. He is a Paralympic bronze medalist, three-time World bronze medalist and a European silver medalist. He was born without his left forearm and was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy as a young child. | WIKI |
EU, Japan officials seal trade agreement, EU official says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Japan and the European Union should agree on Thursday to a free trade pact that could be completed within months, after senior officials removed final snags to a political deal intended as a signal to U.S. President Donald Trump. “We ironed out the few remaining differences,” European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said after a meeting on Wednesday with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should now sign the “political agreement” with EU institutional chiefs Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk on Thursday in Brussels. The three men will then head to a G20 summit in Hamburg, where the EU and Japan will urge Trump not to weaken U.S. free trade traditions. Summit host Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, took aim at Trump on Wednesday, saying: “While we are looking at the possibilities of cooperation to benefit everyone, globalisation is seen by the American administration more as a process that is not about a win-win situation but about winners and losers.” Japan, which lost out when Trump pulled the United States out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade accord, and the EU, which has seen talks on a U.S. trade deal called TTIP lapse into limbo, both see their accord as striking a blow against a feared increase in nationalistic protectionism in world trade. “Leaders will stress their commitment to promote an open and fair global economy and refrain from all forms of protectionism,” the European Council said. Germany’s Chambers of Commerce hailed the “symbolic power” of a deal with Japan, saying it would not only bring economic benefits in itself but also benefit world trade policy. Senior EU officials acknowledged that it would take months to complete the full EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, with not just legal technicalities but also some substantive negotiations still outstanding. However, one insisted, “We agreed on almost everything that is important for either side.” Details have yet to be confirmed and it is unclear how much detail Thursday’s political agreement will contain, but officials on both sides say differences have narrowed or disappeared in thorny areas including cars, where Europeans wanted to keep tariffs, and food, especially cheese, where Japan’s protected dairy industry feared exposure to EU imports. The European carmakers’ lobby had called for at least seven years to phase out tariffs of up to 10 percent on Japanese cars, and a senior EU official said they would “not be disappointed”. More than 200 European products that benefit from geographic protections — for example Parma smoked ham must come from around the Italian city — would not face Japanese competition under those names, he added. Scotch whisky might not benefit from such a deal as Britain will be leaving the EU in 2019. Most EU food exports to Japan would see tariffs removed over time, the official said, although in some sensitive sectors such as cheese and other dairy products they would be limited by quota. Japan would make it much easier for European firms to tender for public contracts. There remain differences over how disputes under the trade agreement should be settled, he added. That could be significant as increasingly ambitious EU trade deals have faced vocal opposition, notably on the European left, over concerns that they give multinational corporations too much clout over national regulators. A deal with Canada nearly came unstuck last year when one small Belgian region refused to ratify it. Brussels is pushing Japan to accept an arbitration system less likely to meet opposition from European lawmakers. Additional reporting by Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo; Editing by Gareth Jones | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Dementia In Elders With OCD a Nightmare
Elders with Dementia & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are more Troubled – Know How & Why
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by continuous, recurring thoughts (obsessions) as well as the utilisation of routines and behaviours (compulsive tendencies) that one feels the urge to repeat often. If OCD is extreme, these routines could disrupt a person’s daily activities and interactions. If a senior is concerned with viruses or filth, for instance, they may acquire a tendency to wash their hand again and again. Somebody who is paranoid about burglars may secure their door several times while retiring to bed.
The following are some examples of common compulsions among real-life people:
Washing ones hands excessively
• Washing one’s hands excessively or repeatedly bathing
Cleaning or dusting in excess
• Cleaning or dusting in excess and regularly
Checking doors, locks, appliances
• Checking doors, locks, appliances, and light switches regularly
Organising and reorganising materials
• Organising and reorganising materials in a certain, precise arrangement
For somebody with OCD, doing such procedures is not joyful, and it provides only temporary respite from the distress brought on by their intrusive thoughts at most. Obsessive-compulsive syndrome is typically thought to become a lifelong worry. However, symptoms in old age might be linked to the start of Alzheimer’s, Dementia or other types of cognitive illnesses.
Most OCD sufferers fit into one of the following groups:
• Contamination is a concern for them. Compulsive cleaning or hand-washing behaviours are common in them.
• People with this OCD regularly check objects they link with injury or risk (oven switched off, door secured, etc.).
• Such doubters fear that something horrible will happen if everything isn’t flawless or done correctly, or they’ll be penalised.
• Order and symmetry are obsessions for counters and arrangers. They might be afraid of specific numbers, colours, or configurations.
What is the Difference b/w Healthy & Obsessive – Compulsive Habits?
Normal people acquire routines, like double-checking to verify if the burner is turned off before leaving home, but routines are thoughtless and serve a specific mission (to ensure avoiding any fire-related incident in this case). Individuals with OCD, on the other hand, execute their routines repeatedly, even if it is painful and conflicts with their everyday lives. The goal of rituals is unconnected to the deed itself (it is to minimise anxiety caused by obsessions). People with OCD have a hard time controlling their compulsive behaviours.
Even though most individuals with OCD are aware that their behaviour pattern is pointless, it is likely that some with OCD are unaware that their behaviour is abnormal. Examining things frequently, arranging things (particularly in a specific order), changing things, and counting are all popular rituals.
Similarities b/w Obsessive – Compulsive Disorder & Dementia
No research has directly connected OCD with Dementia; however, there appear some similarities between the two disorders. Adults with Hypertension and neurodegenerative disorders, for instance, may have obsessive thinking and adopt ritualistic behaviour, which their caretakers find perplexing. In the early stages of the disease, several persons developing dementia-related behaviours may resemble the intense patterns common in OCD.
Generalised anxiety is prevalent as seniors with Alzheimer’s dementia develop an understanding of their environment and continue to operate at a “normal” level despite growing cognitive problems. Selective memory impairments may drive people to repeat particular behaviours similar to routines. For instance, the ritual of washing hands can go from twice daily to five times daily. Furthermore, the practice may become more frequent with time due to memory loss. A person may not even have a background of obsessive or repetitive activities, and he or she may develop signs of OCD later in life. In that case, it is critical to see a doctor very soon, as they might be exhibiting early signs of dementia.
Hoarding – A Condition that Affects Seniors Gravely
Another cognitive tendency strongly linked to anxiety and OCD is hoarding disorder, defined as the excessive gathering of objects and trouble parting with them. Hoarding frequently results in confined, unsafe, and unhygienic living circumstances, with only small routes weaving their way through mounds of debris.
Hoarders usually perceive their belongings to be crucial to their identities. Leaving or letting go of an item can cause a lot of worries, as well as a feeling of loss and sadness. Hoarding frequently displays the need for consolation due to the patient’s profound worries. And it worsens in case of dementia, as some will save stuff since they are afraid their recollections may be gone if they do not have material proof of the old days.
Hoarding gives most elders, with or without memory, a feeling of security, preparation, and control. Extreme stockpiling, on the other hand, significantly influences a human’s physical and psychological well-being, physical security, relationship, budgeting, and nearly every other element of life.
OCD Treatment & Conclusion
OCD is a mental illness that responds well to therapy. Because depression and uncertainty are now at the core of OCD, exposure-based counselling administered by a certified physician can help somebody with OCD grow desensitised to their concerns. Friends and relatives may not realise that OCD is non-consensual or that it has limited influence on routines and compulsive behaviours; therefore, group therapy can be beneficial. De-stigmatising mental diseases like OCD can assist friends and family in comprehending why some might engage in uncomfortable behaviour. This may lead to more support for such people to receive the essential assistance to cure their situation. If the patient has Dementia too, request their doctor to recommend therapy basis the same.
FAQs
Is there a link between Dementia and selfishness?
Yes, memory loss is selfish; understanding this, equip yourself against its manipulating tendencies, learn from others who have gone before us, and utilise your newly formed intellect to pursue the struggle for a greater understanding and coping with dementia’s selfishness.
Is it possible for Dementia to lead to improper behaviour?
Dementia patients may change how they react to sexuality, they may be improper or violent, misidentify a person, or act sexually in public. There are strategies for dealing with difficult behaviour.
Is it beneficial for Dementia patients to colour?
Colouring’s repetitiveness might help ease agitation and hostility, which are frequent dementia signs. Colouring has been compared to mediation by some specialists because it helps you switch off,’ which may be highly beneficial for persons with Dementia.
Is it possible to detect Dementia via a brain scan?
MRI brain imaging, can detect Alzheimer’s and has been utilised as a part of a larger examination. A brain scan isn’t required for everyone, especially if testing and evaluations indicate dementia is a common condition.
Is it true that Dementia affects bowel movements?
Yes, Dementia can make it difficult for people to realise when they need to clear their bladder or intestines.
Do you speak the truth to Dementia patients?
It’s more likely to give your seniors anguish, uncertainty, and distress if you always tell them the truth, especially whether it’s about an emotive matter or something trivial.
What causes Dementia sufferers to be so agitated?
It might be an indication of dementia-related physical abnormalities in the brain. A person may get irritated rapidly due to a shift or a particular cause, including increasing loudness or being unable to perform a previously readily performed task.
What effects does Dementia have on a person?
Dementia impairs a person’s everyday life and activities by causing them to lose cognitive functions such as thinking, remembering, and reasoning.
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Vaccine Hot lots
Withdrawn vaccines
[Hot lots no doubt exist but it is also a way to deflect criticism away from the vaccine.]
See: Vaccination mistakes Withdrawn vaccines Contaminants Vaccine production/manufacturing Vaccine Disasters Vaccine storage
[2008] Olmsted on Autism: 1979 Wyeth Memo on DPT It looks innocuous enough -- an inter-office memorandum from 1979 about distribution of Wyeth's DPT vaccine. But read closely -- a series of SIDS deaths in Tennessee is prompting Wyeth officials to make sure that vials from a single lot don't get distributed to a single state, county or health department. The memo says "senior management staff" gave the OK to proceed with the plan. I am going to refrain from interpreting this document -- although, if there is an interpretation besides the obvious one that Wyeth didn't want correlations being drawn between DPT vaccine lot numbers and SIDS deaths, I can't think of it right now.
[2012 June] Narcolepsy traced to specific vaccine batches A new Swedish study shows that all Swedes who developed narcolepsy from the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix received the vaccine from 12 of the 35 batches, despite the Swedish Medical Products Agency’s previous claim that no such connection exists. .....Over 220 Swedes, most of them children, developed narcolepsy as a side effect from the Swine flu vaccine Pandemrix,
[Media June 30, 2002] UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo
Recalls of unsafe vaccine are rare--Fresno Bee DPT report 1984
Industry 'position' [See Lies]:
"The Food and Drug Administration can withdraw a vaccine batch if there is any question about that particular lot's safety or effectiveness. It has not recalled a vaccine lot because of safety concerns since 1955."--Paul Offit MD
"With the exception of an early lot of polio vaccine in 1955, which was not fully inactivated, there has never been a "hot lot." www.immunizationinfo.org
Quotes
"It is well known that some lots of pertussis vaccine are associated with a disproportionately high number of notifications of adverse events. These are termed "hot lots". However, the manufacturer is protected by law from disclosing the number of doses that derive from a given lot. Therefore, one lacks the denominator of the function which would reveal whether a given lot appears "hot" because it is more toxic, or because it is the source of more doses. Be that as it may, hot lots offer the possibility of danger to children. Nonetheless, I have never heard that a hot lot has been ordered withdrawn on the basis of VAERS surveillance."---Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D.
"In May 1990 we started to track DPT vaccine lot numbers when parents reported their child’s hospitalization, injury or death following vaccination to NVIC. Evaluating adverse event reports from more than 90 families, we found multiple serious reports were from the same vaccine lot numbers. NVIC made three separate presentations to government advisory committees between 1990 and 1993, but no substantive action was ever taken by the FDA or CDC. Upon further investigation when the VAERS computer data became available through the Freedom of Information Act, we found.....(6) many lots with very high numbers of reports; and (7) no recall of any lot of vaccine. We do not know how many doses of vaccine are in each lot because the FDA and the drug companies do not release this information to the public. Therefore, it is impossible to precisely compare one lot to another for reactivity. There currently are DPT lots on the market that have been associated with large numbers of reports including hospitalizations, injuries and deaths. Vaccine manufacturers and the FDA will not release the number of doses in each lot of DPT vaccine to the public. Therefore it is not possible to totally, accurately compare the reactivity of one lot to another lot. In the past fifty years reports of "hot lots" of vaccines, those that appear to be associated with more injuries and deaths than others, have been reported in the United States and Europe."--NVIC
"In the 40 years that pertussis vaccine has been given to American children, only four lots have been withdrawn from the market as unsafe. Sometimes such lots are called hot lots............Michigan had made too much DPT in its Lansing laboratory and wanted to sell it to other states. That required FDA testing and approval, as with any other manufacturer. However, the FDA denied approval and returned the vaccine, saying It was 300 percent too potent. State health officials disagreed and decided to test the vaccine on children in Ingham County (Lansing). Despite more adverse reactions than usual, health officials released 400,000 doses of the DPT vaccine for use throughout the state a month later."---Fresno Bee DPT report 1984
"Congress requires records to be kept of the lot numbers of vaccines for which unusually large number of "adverse events" (side effects) are reported. But the information is then simply ignored. The "hot lots," as they are called, are not destroyed, but continue to be injected into infants and children. (no use throwing out expensive vaccines--dollars are worth more than lives, just as in the U.K.)."---Dr Rimpland PhD
Menkes JH, Kinsbourne M. Neuropediatrics 21 (1990) 171-176, Workshop on Neurologic Complications of Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccination
In evaluating side-reactions to the vaccine, the following must be kept in mind: Vaccines are not standardized between manufacturers.
For a given manufacturer, vaccines are not standard from one batch to the next.
Unless the vaccine is properly prepared and refrigerated, its potency and reactivity varies with shelf life.
In fact, the whole question of vaccine detoxification has never been systematically investigated.
Listed in order of increasing severity, observed adverse reactions include irritability, persistent, unusually high-pitched crying, somnolence, seizures, a shock-like "hypotensive, hyporesponsive" state, and an encephalopathy. Since the neurologic picture is not specific for pertussis vaccination, its temporal relationship to the vaccination is the critical variable for determining causation.
Although the majority of seizures following pertussis vaccination are associated with fever, it was the consensus of the neurologists attending the workshop, that these do not represent febrile convulsions, but are non-benign convulsions.
The incidence of post-vaccine encephalopathy is difficult to ascertain. The most carefully conducted retrospective case-control study reported that the relative risk of a previously normal infant for the onset of an illness leading to encephalopathy with permanent subsequent disability was 4.2 time greater during the first 72 hours following DPT vaccination than in controls. From this study, the risk for permanent brain damage following DPT has been calculated as 1:310,000 doses. (my note – 1:310,000 doses translates to an actual risk of 1:62,000 – this figure is from the National Childhood Encephalopathy Study which excluded any child whose seizure lasted for less than 30 minutes and who was not hospitalised as a result of their seizure. )
It was the consensus of the workshop, and in particular of the participating neurologists, that although the vaccine may possibly accelerate neurologic signs or symptoms in some children, and a small proportion of apparent complications may be coincidental, there was no inherent difficulty in assigning cause and effect to the vaccine and subsequent permanent neurologic residua.
…In implicating pertussis vaccination in the evolution of subsequent neurologic residua, a careful consideration of the mechanism for vaccine-induced brain damage plays an important supporting role. Pertussis toxin has been shown to alter cellular signalling. It also affects the catecholaminergic and GABAergic systems in the brain. Although normally a protein the size of PT would not be able to cross the blood-brain barrier, factors known to disrupt the blood-brain barrier include brief hypertensive episodes such as might occur during a coughing paroxysm, hypoxia and prolonged seizures, whether or not they are accompanied by hypoxia. In addition, a direct endotoxin-mediated attack on the endothelial cells could create a local defect of the blood-brain barrier.
In summary, it was the consensus that there is sufficient experimental data to implicate both endotoxin and PT in adverse neurologic reactions to pertussis vaccine. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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2281. Sum of Total Strength of Wizards 👍
• Time: $O(n)$
• Space: $O(n)$
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class Solution {
public:
int totalStrength(vector<int>& strength) {
constexpr int kMod = 1'000'000'007;
const int n = strength.size();
vector<long> prefix(n);
vector<long> prefixOfPrefix(n + 1);
// left[i] := next index on the left (if any)
// s.t. nums[left[i]] <= nums[i]
vector<int> left(n, -1);
// right[i] := next index on the right (if any)
// s.t. nums[right[i]] < nums[i]
vector<int> right(n, n);
stack<int> stack;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
prefix[i] = i == 0 ? strength[0] : (strength[i] + prefix[i - 1]) % kMod;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
prefixOfPrefix[i + 1] = (prefixOfPrefix[i] + prefix[i]) % kMod;
for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
while (!stack.empty() && strength[stack.top()] >= strength[i])
left[stack.top()] = i, stack.pop();
stack.push(i);
}
stack = std::stack<int>();
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
while (!stack.empty() && strength[stack.top()] > strength[i])
right[stack.top()] = i, stack.pop();
stack.push(i);
}
long ans = 0;
// For each strength[i] as minimum, calculate sum.
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
const int l = left[i];
const int r = right[i];
const long leftSum = prefixOfPrefix[i] - prefixOfPrefix[max(0, l)];
const long rightSum = prefixOfPrefix[r] - prefixOfPrefix[i];
const int leftLen = i - l;
const int rightLen = r - i;
ans += strength[i] *
(rightSum * leftLen % kMod - leftSum * rightLen % kMod + kMod) %
kMod;
ans %= kMod;
}
return ans;
}
};
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class Solution {
public int totalStrength(int[] strength) {
final int kMod = 1_000_000_007;
final int n = strength.length;
long[] prefix = new long[n];
long[] prefixOfPrefix = new long[n + 1];
// left[i] := next index on the left (if any)
// s.t. nums[left[i]] <= nums[i]
int[] left = new int[n];
Arrays.fill(left, -1);
// right[i] := next index on the right (if any)
// s.t. nums[right[i]] < nums[i]
int[] right = new int[n];
Arrays.fill(right, n);
Deque<Integer> stack = new ArrayDeque<>();
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
prefix[i] = i == 0 ? strength[0] : (strength[i] + prefix[i - 1]) % kMod;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
prefixOfPrefix[i + 1] = (prefixOfPrefix[i] + prefix[i]) % kMod;
for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
while (!stack.isEmpty() && strength[stack.peek()] >= strength[i])
left[stack.pop()] = i;
stack.push(i);
}
stack.clear();
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
while (!stack.isEmpty() && strength[stack.peek()] > strength[i])
right[stack.pop()] = i;
stack.push(i);
}
long ans = 0;
// For each strength[i] as minimum, calculate sum.
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
final int l = left[i];
final int r = right[i];
final long leftSum = prefixOfPrefix[i] - prefixOfPrefix[Math.max(0, l)];
final long rightSum = prefixOfPrefix[r] - prefixOfPrefix[i];
final int leftLen = i - l;
final int rightLen = r - i;
ans += strength[i] * (rightSum * leftLen % kMod - leftSum * rightLen % kMod + kMod) % kMod;
ans %= kMod;
}
return (int) ans;
}
}
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class Solution:
def totalStrength(self, strength: List[int]) -> int:
kMod = 1_000_000_007
n = len(strength)
# left[i] := next index on the left (if any)
# s.t. nums[left[i]] <= nums[i]
left = [-1] * n
# right[i] := next index on the right (if any)
# s.t. nums[right[i]] < nums[i]
right = [n] * n
stack = []
for i in reversed(range(n)):
while stack and strength[stack[-1]] >= strength[i]:
left[stack.pop()] = i
stack.append(i)
stack = []
for i in range(n):
while stack and strength[stack[-1]] > strength[i]:
right[stack.pop()] = i
stack.append(i)
ans = 0
prefixOfPrefix = list(itertools.accumulate(
itertools.accumulate(strength), initial=0))
# For each strength[i] as the minimum, calculate sum.
for i, (l, r) in enumerate(zip(left, right)):
leftSum = prefixOfPrefix[i] - prefixOfPrefix[max(0, l)]
rightSum = prefixOfPrefix[r] - prefixOfPrefix[i]
leftLen = i - l
rightLen = r - i
ans += strength[i] * (rightSum * leftLen - leftSum * rightLen) % kMod
return ans % kMod | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Dow theory
Etymology
The theory was derived from Charles H. Dow's editorials in The Wall Street Journal.
Proper noun
* 1) A theory of stock price movement, according to which the market has three types of movement, market trends have three phases, prices reflect information published in the news, market averages must confirm each other, trends are confirmed by volume, and trends exist until definitive signals prove that they have ended. | WIKI |
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302 F³. long, beyond which in each direction the flexure rises rapidly in the Lewistown and upper Salina rocks. In the valley between this ridge and the river there is a pronounced but equally short anticlinal, which carries a narrow wedge of the upper Salina rocks up to within a half mile of the forks of the road at the school house. West beyond this only the Lewistown limestone is exposed and, as the axis subsides quite as rapidly as it rose, these limestones, as well as the very thin band of Oriskany sandstone overlying them, are carried down beneath the Marcellus slates before reaching the Juniata south of Newton Hamilton.
The public road at the school house is about on the crest of this anticlinal. The limestone and the sandstones Nos. VI and VII dip between 70° and 60° to the northwest along the river. In the low gap at Jenkin’s house through which the road runs 1 mile east of the school house a good series of the limestone measures is exposed but very thin bedded nearly 100′ thick. The Oriskany sandstone measures seem to be totally eroded along the north flank of this anticlinal at least as far as their topographical influence is seen along the river. The Juniata river flows for nearly 2 miles across the steeply upturned edges of the Lewistown limestone formation, a portion of which is seen on either side of the river east and west of Vineyard station, finally issuing on the east bank of the river near the Oliver township line and making the supporting flank of the Enterprise Mine synclinal as already explained.
Several small quarries have been opened in this belt, but none of them show very extensive sections of the rock. Passing under the Enterprise mine synclinal these limestones are again brought up on the back of the Chestnut Ridge anticlinal, next north, and continue to be exposed in a high ridge for about 1½ miles west of the Oliver township line. There they sink beneath the wide rolling plateau of Oriskany sandstone which makes such a prominent and remarkable exposition of this formation in the central part of Wayne township.
Vineyard. One small limestone quarry has been opened on the Vineyard property, well up the flank of the ridge | WIKI |
Media ecology
Media ecology theory is the study of media, technology, and communication and how they affect human environments. The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, while the term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968.
Ecology in this context refers to the environment in which the medium is used – what they are and how they affect society. Neil Postman states, "if in biology a 'medium' is something in which a bacterial culture grows (as in a Petri dish), in media ecology, the medium is 'a technology within which a [human] culture grows.'" In other words, "Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival. The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people. An environment is, after all, a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving."
Media ecology argues that media act as extensions of the human senses in each era, and communication technology is the primary cause of social change. McLuhan is famous for coining the phrase, "the medium is the message", which is an often-debated phrase believed to mean that the medium chosen to relay a message is just as important (if not more so) than the message itself. McLuhan proposed that media influence the progression of society, and that significant periods of time and growth can be categorized by the rise of a specific technology during that period.
Additionally, scholars have compared media broadly to a system of infrastructure that connect the nature and culture of a society with media ecology being the study of "traffic" between the two.
Marshall McLuhan
In 1934, Marshall McLuhan enrolled as a student at Cambridge University, a school which pioneered modern literary criticism. During his studies at Cambridge, he became acquainted with one of his professors, I.A. Richards, a distinguished English professor, who would inspire McLuhan's later scholarly works. McLuhan admired Richards' approach to the critical view that English studies are themselves nothing but a study of the process of communication. Richards believed that "words won't stay put and almost all verbal constructions are highly ambiguous". This element of Richards' perspective on communication influenced the way in which McLuhan expressed many of his ideas using metaphors and phrases such as "The Global Village" and "The Medium Is the Message", two of his most well-known phrases that encapsulate the theory of media ecology. McLuhan used the approaches of Richards, William Empson, and Harold Innis as an "entrée to the study of media". However, it took many years of work before he was able to successfully fulfill their approaches. McLuhan determined that "if words were ambiguous and best studied not in terms of their 'content' but in terms of their effects in a given context and if the effects were often subliminal, the same might be true of other human artifacts, the wheel, the printing press, the telegraph and the TV". This led to the emergence of his ideas on media ecology.
In addition to his scholarly work, McLuhan was also a well known media personality of his day. He appeared on television shows, in magazine articles, and even had a small cameo in the movie Annie Hall. Few theories receive the kind of household recognition that media ecology received, due directly to McLuhan's role as a pop culture icon. He was an excellent debater and public speaker, but his writing was not always what would normally pass in academia.
Neil Postman
Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971, as he further developed the theory McLuhan had established. According to Postman, media ecology emphasizes the environments in which communication and technologies operate and spread information and the effects these have on the receivers. "Such information forms as the alphabet, the printed word, and television images are not mere instruments which make things easier for us. They are environments – like language itself, symbolic environments within which we discover, fashion, and express humanity in particular ways."
Postman focused on media technology, process, and structure rather than content and considered making moral judgments the primary task of media ecology. "I don't see any point in studying media unless one does so within a moral or ethical context." Postman's media ecology approach asks three questions: What are the moral implications of this bargain? Are the consequences more humanistic or antihumanistic? Do we, as a society, gain more than we lose, or do we lose more than we gain?
Walter Ong
Walter J. Ong was a scholar with a master's degree in English who was once a student of McLuhan at the Saint Louis University. The contributions of Ong standardized and gave credibility to the field of media ecology as worthy of academic scholarship. Ong explored the changes in human thought and consciousness in the transition from a dominant oral culture to a literate one in his book Orality and Literacy.
Ong's studies have greatly contributed to developing the concept of media ecology. Ong has written over 450 publications, many of which focused on the relation between conscious behavior and the evolution of the media, and he received the Media Ecology Association's Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article for his paper, "Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today's Computers".
North American, European and Eurasian versions
Media ecology is a contested term within media studies for it has different meanings in European and North American contexts. The North American definition refers to an interdisciplinary field of media theory and media design involving the study of media environments. The European version of media ecology is a materialist investigation of media systems as complex dynamic systems. In Russia, a similar theory was independently developed by Yuri Rozhdestvensky. In more than five monographs, Rozhdestvensky outlined the systematic changes which take place in society each time new communication media are introduced, and connected these changes to the challenges in politics, philosophy and education. He is a founder of the vibrant school of ecology of culture.
The European version of media ecology rejects the North American notion that ecology means environment. Ecology in this context is used "because it is one of the most expressive [terms] language currently has to indicate the massive and dynamic interrelation of processes and objects, beings and things, patterns and matter". Following theorists such as Felix Guattari, Gregory Bateson, and Manuel De Landa, the European version of media ecology (as practiced by authors such as Matthew Fuller and Jussi Parikka) presents a post-structuralist political perspective on media as complex dynamical systems.
Other contributions
Along with McLuhan, Postman and Harold Innis, media ecology draws from many authors, including the work of Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Félix Guattari, Eric Havelock, Susanne Langer, Erving Goffman, Edward T. Hall, George Herbert Mead, Margaret Mead, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Gregory Bateson.
Assumptions of the theory
* Media are infused in every act and action in society.
* Media fix our perceptions and organize our experiences.
* Media tie the world together.
These three assumptions can be understood as: media are everywhere all the time; media determine what we know and how we feel about what we know; and media connect us to others. Communication media have penetrated the lives of almost all people on the planet, arranging people into an interconnected human community.
McLuhan's media history
Marshall McLuhan defined media as anything requiring use of the human body. Under this definition, both computers and clothing can be identified as media. When a media is introduced it is adapted to human senses so that it becomes an extension of the individual, and its capabilities influence the whole of society, leading to change. McLuhan states that there are three inventions that transformed the world: the phonetic alphabet, by virtue of its ability to make speech visible, which McLuhan argues gave rise to the discipline of rhetoric in ancient time and to the study of language and poetics, which was also known as grammar. The printing press in the nineteenth century and the telegraph led to both the modern newspaper and also to journalism as an academic pursuit. The introduction of broadcasting in the form of radio, following on the heels of mass circulation newspapers, magazines, as well as the movies, resulted in the study of mass communication. Due to these technologies, the world was taken from one era into the next. In order to understand the effects of symbolic environment, McLuhan splits history into four periods: the Tribal Age, the Literacy Age, the Print Age, and the Electronic Age.
McLuhan states that, in order to study media effectively, one must study not only content but also the whole cultural environment in which media thrives. He argues that using a detached view allows the individual to observe the phenomenon of the whole as it operates within the environment. The effects of media - speech, writing, printing, photograph, radio or television – should be studied within the social and cultural spheres impacted by this technology. McLuhan argues that all media, regardless of content, acts on the senses and reshapes sensory balance, further reshaping the society that created it. This differs from the viewpoints of scholars such as Neil Postman, who argue that society should take a moral view of new media whether good or bad. McLuhan further notes that media introduced in the past brought gradual changes, which allowed people and society some time to adjust.
Tribal age
The first period in history that McLuhan describes is the Tribal Age. To McLuhan, this was a time of community, with the ear being the dominant sense organ. With everyone able to hear at the same time, listening to someone in a group was a unifying act, deepening the feeling of community. In this set up, McLuhan argues, everything was more immediate, more present, and fostered more passion and spontaneity.
Literacy age
The second age McLuhan outlines is the Literacy Age, beginning with the invention of writing. To McLuhan, this was a time of private detachment, with the eye being the dominant sense organ. Turning sounds into visible objects radically altered the symbolic environment. Words were no longer alive and immediate, they were able to be read over and over again. Even though people would read the same words, the act of reading made communication an individual act, leading to more independent thought. Tribes didn't need to come together to get information anymore.
Print age
The third stage McLuhan describes is the Print Age, when individual media products were mass-produced due to the invention of the printing press. It gave the ability to reproduce the same text over and over again. With printing came a new visual stress: the portable book, which allowed people to carry media so they could read in privacy isolated from others. Libraries were created to hold these books and also gave freedom to be alienated from others and from their immediate surroundings.
Electronic age
Lastly, McLuhan describes the Electronic Age, otherwise included under the information age, as an era of instant communication and a return to an environment with simultaneous sounds and touch. It started with a device created by Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph and led to the telephone, the cell phone, television, internet, DVD, video games, etc. This ability to communicate instantly returns people to the tradition of sound and touch rather than sight. McLuhan argues that being able to be in constant contact with the world becomes a nosy generation where everyone knows everyone's business and everyone's business is everyone else's. This phenomenon is called the global village.
Later scholars have described the growth of open access and open science, with their potential for highly distributed and low cost publishing reaching much larger audiences, as a potential "de-professionalizing force".
Updating the ages
Robert K. Logan is professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto and Chief Scientist of the Strategic Innovation Lab at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He worked collaboratively with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto, co-publishing various works and producing his own works, heavily inspired by McLuhan. Logan updates the era of communications, adding two new eras: In addition, through the study of media ecology, it is argued that through technological advancements in media, many societies have become a "participatory culture". Tom Valcanis argues that this is very easily witnessed by looking at the rise of Apple's iPhone. "If the technology is the medium in which a culture grows, the interactive and user oriented nature of these technologies have given rise to a participatory and 'mash-up' culture in which the ways of producing and accessing content are deconstructed, uploaded, mixed, converged, and reconstructed through computers and smartphones mediated by online platforms; it becomes a 'participatory culture'..."
* 1) Age of nonverbal mimetic communication (characteristic of archaic Homo sapiens)
* 2) Age of orality
* 3) Age of literacy
* 4) Age of electric mass media
* 5) Age of digital interactive media, or 'new media'
'The medium is the message'
"The medium is the message" is the most famous insight from McLuhan, and is one of the concepts that separates the North American theory from the European theory. Instead of emphasizing the information content, McLuhan highlighted the importance of medium characteristics which can influence and even decide the content. He proposed that it is the media format that affects and changes on people and society.
For example, traditional media is an extension of the human body, while the new media is the extension of the human nervous system. The emergence of new media will change the equilibrium between human sensual organs and affect human psychology and society. The extension of human senses will change our thoughts and behaviors and the ways we perceive the world. That's why McLuhan believed when a new medium appears, no matter what the concrete content it transmits, the new form of communication brings in itself a force that causes social transformation.
We are accustomed to thinking the message is separate from a medium. McLuhan saw the message and the medium to mean the same thing. The audience is normally focused on the content and overlooks the medium. What we forget is that the content cannot exist outside of the way that it is mediated. McLuhan recognized that the way media work as environments is because we are so immersed in them. "It is the medium that has the greatest impact in human affairs, not specific messages we send or receive." The media shape us because we partake in them over and over until they become a part of us.
Different mediums emphasize different senses and encourage different habits, so engaging in this medium day after day conditions our senses. Different forms of media also affect what their meaning and impact will be. The form of medium and mode of information determines who will have access, how much information will be distributed, how fast it will be transmitted, how far it will go, and, most importantly, what form it will be displayed. With society being formed around the dominant medium of the day, the specific medium of communication makes a remarkable difference.
The metaphor
The key elements to media ecology have been largely attributed to Marshall McLuhan, who coined the statement "the medium is the message". Levinson furthers McLuhan's statement by stating that "the way we communicate, often taken for granted, often determines what we communicate, and therein just about everything else in life and society". McLuhan gave a center of gravity, a moral compass to media ecology which was later adapted and formally introduced by Neil Postman
The very foundation for this theory is based on a metaphor that provides a model for understanding the new territory, offers a vocabulary, and indicates in which directions to continue exploring. As Carlos Scolari states, "the configuration of media ecology in the 1960s and 1970s was part of a broader process of the general application of the ecological metaphor to the social sciences and humanities in the postwar period. There is still a scholarly debate over who coined the phrase "the medium is the message". Author Niall Stephens argues that while most attribute the metaphor to Marshall McLuhan, it is better directed to Neil Postman, who helped popularize McLuhan under the banner of "media ecology".
Scholar Janet Sternberg has a different take on the metaphor- using her own metaphor to make sense of it all. Sternberg applies the Chinese "yin/ yang" metaphor to media ecology as a means of better understanding the divergence among scholars. She states that there are two basic intellectual traditions that can be distinguished in the field: the "yang" tradition of studying media as environments, focusing on mass communication and on intrapersonal communication and the "yin" tradition is studying environments as media, emphasizing interpersonal communication.
Connection to general systems theory
While general systems theory originated in 1928 in the Ph.D. thesis of Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Robert Logan summarizes a general system as "one that is composed of interacting and interrelated components such as an understanding of it must entail considering the general system as a whole and not as a collection of individual components".
Logan argues that general systems theory, as well as cybernetics, complexity theory, and emergent dynamics, and media ecology "cross pollinate each other" in that, "a general system is a medium" due to the non-linear aspects of messages and that general systems are "quasi-deterministic".
This thinking is in line with McLuhan who once wrote, "A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them."
Global village
Marshall McLuhan used the phrase global village to characterize an end to isolation: "humans can no longer live in isolation, but rather will always be connected by continuous and instantaneous electronic media". McLuhan addresses the idea of a global village in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy saying, "Such is the character of a village or, since electric media, such is also the character of global village. And it is the advertising and PR community that is most aware of this basic new dimension of global interdependence".
Technology, especially electronic media in today's age, makes the world increasingly interconnected. Socially, economically, politically, culturally, what happens in one part of the world has a ripple effect into other countries.
This seems like a common sense idea today, where the internet makes it possible to check news stories around the globe, and social media connects individuals regardless of location. However, in McLuhan's day, the global village was just becoming possible due to technology like television and long-distance phone calls. This concept has become one of the most prolific and understandable ideas to come out of media ecology, and has spurred significant research in many areas. It is especially relevant in today's society, where the internet, social media, and other new media have made the world a smaller place, and today many researchers give McLuhan credit for his foresight.
Of note is McLuhan's insistence that the world becoming a global village should lead to more global responsibility. Technology has created an interconnected world, and with that should come concern for global events and occurrences outside one's own community. Postman builds on this concept with the idea of teaching the narrative of 'Spaceship Earth' where students are taught the importance of everyone taking care of planet earth as a fragile system of diversity both biological and cultural; however, the original person to coin the term 'Spaceship Earth' was futurist Buckminster Fuller, who once said, "I've often heard people say: 'I wonder what it would feel like to board a spaceship,' and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That's all we have experienced. We're all astronauts on a little spaceship called earth."
Critics do worry though, that in creating a truly global village, some cultures will become extinct due to larger or more dominant cultures imposing their beliefs and practices.
The idea of the global village helps to conceptualize globalization within society. Michael Plugh writes, "[The] village is an environment produced both by technological change and human imagination of this globalized environment."
Additionally, the rise in media communication technology has uniformed the way individuals across the globe process information. Plugh says, "Where literate societies exchange an 'eye for an ear,' according to McLuhan, emphasizing the linear and sequential order of the world, electronic technology retrievers the total awareness of environment, characteristic of oral cultures, yet to an extended or 'global' level."
Hot vs. cool media
McLuhan developed an idea called hot and cold media. Hot media is high-definition communication that demands little involvement from the audience and concentrates on one sensory organ at a time. This type of media requires no interpretation because it gives all the information necessary to comprehend. Some examples of hot media include radio, books, and lectures. Cool media is media that demands active involvement from the audience, requiring the audience to be active and provide information by mentally participating. This is multi-sensory participation. Some examples of cool media are TV, seminars, and cartoons.
"McLuhan frequently referred to a chart that hung in his seminar room at the University of Toronto. This was a type of shorthand for understanding the differences between hot and cool media, characterized by their emphasis on the eye or the ear."
* Eye: left hemisphere (hot) controls right side of the body; visual; speech; verbal; analytical; mathematical; linear; detailed; sequential; controlled; intellectual; dominant worldly;quantitative; active; sequential ordering
* Ear: right hemisphere (cool) controls the left side of the body; spatial; musical; acoustic; holistic; artistic; symbolic; simultaneous; emotional; creative; minor; spiritual; qualitative; receptive; synthetic; gestalt; facial recognition; simultaneous comprehension; perception of abstract patterns
Laws of media
Another aspect of media ecology is the laws of media, which McLuhan outlined with his son Eric McLuhan to further explain the influence of technology on society. The laws of media theory are depicted by a tetrad, which poses questions about various media, with the goal of developing peoples' critical thinking skills and to prepare people for "the social and physical chaos" that accompany every technological advancement or development. There is no specific order to the laws of media, as the effects occur simultaneously and form a feedback loop: technology impacts society, which then impacts the development of technology. The four effects, as depicted in the tetrad of media effects are:
* Enhancement: What does the medium enhance? Media can enhance various social interactions, such as the telephone, which reduced the need for face-to-face interactions.
* Obsolescence: What does the medium obsolesce? Technological advancements can render older media obsolete, as television did for the radio. This does not necessarily mean that the older medium is completely eradicated however, as radio, for example, is still in use today.
* Retrieval: What does the medium retrieve? New media can also spur a restoration of older forms of media, which the new forms may not be able to incorporate into their new technologies. For example, the Internet has promoted new forms of social conversations, which may have been lost through television.
* Reversal: What will the medium reverse? When a medium is overwhelmed due to its own nature, "pushed to the limit of its potential," it ceases to have functional utility and can cause a reversion to older media.
Technological determinism
A significant criticism of this theory is a result of its deterministic approach. Determinism insists that all of society is a result of or effected by one central condition. In some cases the condition can be language (linguistic determinism), religion (theological determinism), financial (economic determinism). In the case of McLuhan, Postman and Media Ecology, technology is the sole determinant for society and by breaking up time in measures of man's technological achievements they can be classified as technological determinism. According to Postman, "The printing press, the computer, and television are not therefore simply machines which convey information. They are metaphors through which we conceptualize reality in one way or another. They will classify the world for us, sequence it, frame it, enlarge it, reduce it, argue a case for what it is like. Through these media metaphors, we do not see the world as it is. We see it as our coding systems are. Such is the power of the form of information." Postman has also stated that "a medium is a technology within which a culture grows; that is to say, it gives form to a culture's politics, social organization, and habitual ways of thinking".
Scholars such as Michael Zimmer view McLuhan and his "Medium is the Message" theory as a prime example of technological determinism:
...an overarching thread in media ecological scholarship, exemplified by McLuhan's (1964/1994) assertion that "the medium is the message", the technological bias of a medium carries greater importance than the particular message it is delivering. McLuhan saw changes in the dominant medium of communication as the main determinant of major changes in society, culture, and the individual. This McLuhanesque logic, which rests at the center of the media ecology tradition, is often criticized for its media determinism. Seeing the biases of media technologies as the primary force for social and cultural change resembles the hard technological determinism of the embodied theory of technological bias.
The critics of such a deterministic approach could be theorists who practice other forms of determinism, such as economic determinism. Theorists such as John Fekete believes that McLuhan is oversimplifying the world "by denying that human action is itself responsible for the changes that our socio-cultural world is undergoing and will undergo, McLuhan necessarily denies that a critical attitude is morally significant or practically important."
Lance Strate, on the other hand, argues that McLuhan's theories are in no way deterministic. "McLuhan never actually used the term, "determinism," nor did he argue against human agency. In his bestselling book, The Medium is the Message, he wrote, "there is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening" (McLuhan & Fiore, 1967, p. 25). John Culkin (1967) summed up McLuhan's position with the quote, "we shape our tools and thereafter they shape us", suggesting a transactional approach to media." This statement from Strate would define McLuhan and Media Ecology as "soft determinism" opposed to "hard determinism" with the difference being that "hard determinism" indicates that changes to society happen with no input or control from the members of that society, whereas "soft determinism" would argue that the changes are pushed by technology but free will and agency of the members of society ultimately have a chance to influence the outcome.
While ideas of technological determinism generally have negative connotations, technology philosopher Peter-Paul Verbeek argued that technologies are "inherently moral agents" and their development is a "moral enterprise".
Disruptions to existing systems
While advancing technologies allow for the study of media ecology, they also frequently disrupt the existing system of communication as they emerge. In general, four types of disruption can occur within the study of media ecology.
* 1) New Technologies
* 2) New Audiences
* 3) New Authority
* 4) New Rhetoric
One example where this can be seen is in do-it-yourself education. Advancing technologies have also expanded access to do-it-yourself (DIY) education. DIY education can be defined to include "any attempt to decentralize or disrupt traditional place-based educational models through the sometimes collective, other times individual use of digital media". Through an analysis of media ecology the impact of these new technologies on society can better be understood.
Mobility and modality
Various scholars have examined media ecology theory from different perspectives to gain a better understanding of this theory in the 21st century. Sternberg used the yin/yang metaphor as their interpretation of the theory, while Julia Hildebrand and John Dimmick, among others, introduce modality as a path to expand the media ecology theor y. Contributing to a modern rhetoric for contextualizing media ecology in the era of the internet, social media, and technological advancements.
Hildebrand extends the concept of 'mediated mobilities', introduced by Emily Keightley and Anna Reading, to illustrate the similarities between the fields of media ecology and mobility research and propose a "Modal Medium Theory" as a combination of both studies. Both fields place an emphasis on the materiality and the structure that make up the environments media is accessed through. In the modern era, this includes not only the physical machines used for communication, but also the virtual environments messages are sent through and how they affect the quality of the message sent. They also explore the relations between an entity that is sent, the medium used for delivery, and how that medium can influence the environment. Entity can refer not only to subjects, but also objects, information, or situations that are shared. She looks into the article by Lance Strate as a basis for her case. In 1999, Lance Strate states media ecology theory is "the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs". Hildebrand explained that Strate's concept of media ecology extends beyond the study of information and communication technology to include technology in a broader sense. This includes materiality and mobility of media environments, interconnecting Media Ecology with Mobility Processes. Hildebrand points out that, "[e]nvironments are created and shaped by different media and modes and the physical, virtual, and mental processes and travels they generate".
Similar to media ecology, mobilities research discusses a "flow" that shapes the environment, and creates contact zones. Dimmick furthers this explanation with the concept of interstices as the intersection of communication environments and issues of mobility. He quotes two scholars, Hemment and Caronia, to contextualize his new word. Hemment argues that mobile technologies create a place out of space and time, a kind of "nonspace" or "nonplace" considering they are independent from the variables of space and time. Caronia notes that such technologies extend media to creating empty space and places.
The medium is not the message
McLuhan's critics state the medium is not the message. They believe that we are dealing with a mathematical equation where medium equals x and message equals y. Accordingly, x = y, but really "the medium is the message" is a metaphor not an equation. His critics also believe McLuhan is denying the content altogether, when really McLuhan was just trying to show the content in its secondary role in relation to the medium. McLuhan says technology is an "extension of man" and when the way we physically sense the world changes, how we perceive it will also collectively change, but the content may or may not affect this change in perception. McLuhan said that the user is the content, and this means that the user must interpret and process what they receive, finding sense in their own environments.
One of McLuhan's high-profile critics was Umberto Eco. Eco comes from background in semiotics, which goes beyond linguistics in that it studies all forms of communication. He reflected that a cartoon of a cannibal wearing an alarm clock as a necklace was counter to McLuhan's assertion that the invention of clocks created a concept of time as consistently separated space. While it could mean this it could also take on different meanings as in the depiction of the cannibal. The medium is not the message. An individual's interpretation can vary. Believing this to be true Eco says, "It is equally untrue that acting on the form and content of the message can convert the person receiving it." In doing this Eco merges form and content, the separation of which is the basis of McLuhan's assertion. McLuhan does not offer a theory of communication. He instead investigates the effects of all media mediums between the human body and its physical environment, including language.
Others
The North American variant of media ecology is viewed by numerous theorists such as John Fekete and Neil Compton as meaningless or "McLuhanacy". According to Compton, it had been next to impossible to escape knowing about McLuhan and his theory as the media embraced them. Compton wrote, "it would be better for McLuhan if his oversimplifications did not happen to coincide with the pretensions of young status-hungry advertising executives and producers, who eagerly provide him with a ready-made claque, exposure on the media, and a substantial income from addresses and conventions." Theorists such as Jonathan Miller claim that McLuhan used a subjective approach to make objective claims, comparing McLuhan's willingness to back away from a "probe" if he did not find the desired results to that of an objective scientist who would not abandon it so easily. These theorists against McLuhan's idea, such as Raymond Rosenthal, also believe that he lacked the scientific evidence to support his claims: "McLuhan's books are not scientific in any respect; they are wrapped however in the dark, mysterious folds of the scientific ideology." Additionally, As Lance Strate said: "Other critics complain that media ecology scholars like McLuhan, Havelock, and Ong put forth a "Great Divide" theory, exaggerating, for example, the difference between orality and literacy, or the alphabet and hieroglyphics.
New media
Many ecologists are using media ecology as an analytical framework, to explore whether the current new media has a "new" stranglehold on culture or are they simply extensions of what we have already experienced. The new media is characterised by the idea of web 2.0. It was coined in 2003 and popularized by a media consultant, Tim O'Reilly. He argues that a particular assemblage of software, hardware and sociality have brought about 'the widespread sense that there's something qualitatively different about today's Web. This shift is characterised by co-creativity, participation and openness, represented by software that support for example, wiki-based ways of creating and accessing knowledge, social networking sites, blogging, tagging and 'mash ups'. The interactive and user-oriented nature of these technologies have transformed the global culture into a participatory culture which proves Neil Postman's saying "technological change is not additive; it is ecological".
As new media power takes on new dimension in the digital realm, some scholars begin to focus on defending the democratic potentialities of the Internet on the perspective of corporate impermeability. Today, corporate encroachment in cyberspace is changing the balance of power in the new media ecology, which "portends a new set of social relationships based on commercial exploitation". Many social network websites inject customized advertisements into the steady stream of personal communication. It is called commercial incursion which converts user-generated content into fodder for marketers and advertisers. So the control rests with the owners rather than the participants. It is necessary for online participants to be prepared to act consciously to resist the enclosure of digital commons.
There is some recent research that puts the emphasis on the youth, the future of the society who is at the forefront of new media environment. Each generation, with its respective worldview, is equipped with certain media grammar and media literacy in its youth. As each generation inherits an idiosyncratic media structure, those born into the age of radio perceive the world differently from those born into the age of television. The nature of new generation is also influenced by the nature of the new media.
According to the media ecology theory, analyzing today's generational identity through the lens of media technologies themselves can be more productive than focusing on media content. Media ecologists employ a media ecology interpretative framework to deconstruct how today's new media environment increasingly mirrors the values and character attributed to young people. Here are some typical characteristics of the new generation: first, it is "the world's first generation to grow up thinking of itself as global. The internet and satellite television networks are just two of the myriad technologies that have made this possible." Second, "there may actually be no unified ethos". With "hundreds of cable channels and thousands of computer conferences, young generation might be able to isolate themselves within their own extremely opinionated forces".
Education
In 2009 a study was published by Cleora D'Arcy, Darin Eastburn and Bertram Bruce entitled "How Media Ecologies Can Address Diverse Student Needs". The purpose of this study was to use Media Ecology in order to determine which media is perceived as the most useful as an instructional tool in post-secondary education. This study specifically analyzed and tested "new media" such as podcasts, blogs, websites, and discussion forums with other media, such as traditional text books, lectures, and handouts. Ultimately comparing "hot" and "cold" media at today's standard of the terms. The result of the study, which included student surveys, indicated that a mixture of media was the most "valued" method of instruction, however more interactive media enhanced student learning.
Transmedia Storytelling in Education as A Practice of Media Ecology
Further expanding Media Ecology Theory into modern-day communication. Anna A. Novikova analyzes recent transmedia storytelling strategies used in education through the perspective of media ecology. In "Transmedia Storytelling in Education as a Practice of Media Ecology", Novikova highlights how advancements in technology and world events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have increased the need for media literacy and technological skills in adapting educational processes. She suggests that McLuhan's concepts are reflected in how transmedial storytelling helps audiences broaden their worldviews and accepted norms. Transmedial stories developed from the input of an author and the input of students creates an environment based on connections among participants in the communication process, the participants' involvement and the conceptualization of traditional values, and the creation of new values. Novikova suggests the transmedia environment is an extension of McLuhan's statement "the medium is the message" and the New Media Era. She acknowledges challenges this education strategy faces, such as the risk of presenting students with too much information, reducing retention and meaning by possibly presenting the information out of context. | WIKI |
Linked-read whole-genome sequencing resolves common and private structural variants in multiple myeloma.
Peña-Pérez L, Frengen N, Hauenstein J, Gran C, Gustafsson C, Eisfeldt J, Kierczak M, Taborsak-Lines F, Olsen R, Wallblom A, Krstic A, Ewels P, Lindstrand A, Månsson R
Blood Adv 6 (17) 5009-5023 [2022-09-13; online 2022-06-09]
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable and aggressive plasma cell malignancy characterized by a complex karyotype with multiple structural variants (SVs) and copy-number variations (CNVs). Linked-read whole-genome sequencing (lrWGS) allows for refined detection and reconstruction of SVs by providing long-range genetic information from standard short-read sequencing. This makes lrWGS an attractive solution for capturing the full genomic complexity of MM. Here we show that high-quality lrWGS data can be generated from low numbers of cells subjected to fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) without DNA purification. Using this protocol, we analyzed MM cells after FACS from 37 patients with MM using lrWGS. We found high concordance between lrWGS and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for the detection of recurrent translocations and CNVs. Outside of the regions investigated by FISH, we identified >150 additional SVs and CNVs across the cohort. Analysis of the lrWGS data allowed for resolution of the structure of diverse SVs affecting the MYC and t(11;14) loci, causing the duplication of genes and gene regulatory elements. In addition, we identified private SVs causing the dysregulation of genes recurrently involved in translocations with the IGH locus and show that these can alter the molecular classification of MM. Overall, we conclude that lrWGS allows for the detection of aberrations critical for MM prognostics and provides a feasible route for providing comprehensive genetics. Implementing lrWGS could provide more accurate clinical prognostics, facilitate genomic medicine initiatives, and greatly improve the stratification of patients included in clinical trials.
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PubMed 35675515
DOI 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006720
Crossref 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006720
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Javascript Question
How to add a custom right-click menu to a webpage?
I want to add a custom right-click menu to my web application. Can this be done without using any pre-built libraries? If so, how to display a simple custom right-click menu which does not use a 3rd party JavaScript library?
I'm aiming for something like what Google Docs does. It lets users right-click and show the users their own menu.
NOTE:
I want to learn how to make my own versus using something somebody made already since most of the time, those 3rd party libraries are bloated with features whereas I only want features that I need so I want it to be completely hand-made by me.
Answer
Answering your question - use contextmenu event, like below:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.addEventListener) { // IE >= 9; other browsers
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(e) {
alert("You've tried to open context menu"); //here you draw your own menu
e.preventDefault();
}, false);
} else { // IE < 9
document.attachEvent('oncontextmenu', function() {
alert("You've tried to open context menu");
window.event.returnValue = false;
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Lorem ipsum...
</body>
</html>
But you should ask yourself, do you really want to overwrite default right-click behavior - it depends on application that you're developing.
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Golo: a lightweight dynamic language for the JVM
Golo is a simple dynamic, weakly-typed language that favours explicit over implicit. You should become a Golo programmer within hours, not days. Built from day 1 with invokedynamic, Golo takes advantage of the latest advances of the JVM. It is also a showcase on how to build a language runtime with invokedynamic.
JooFlux: a Java agent for dynamic aspect-oriented middlewares
JooFlux a JVM agent that allows both the dynamic replacement of method implementations and the application of aspect advices. Compared to existing approaches, JooFlux takes a novel route by taking advantage of the new invokedynamic instruction added in Java SE 7. The runtime overhead of JooFlux is marginal for method invocations, and fairly limited when aspects are being injected. In any case, JooFlux shows interesting performance compared to related approaches such as AOP tools or dynamic languages that rely on dynamic dispatch. More interestingly, JooFlux does not involve reloading whole classes on either method replacement or advice injection, which keeps a large range of just-in-time compilation optimizations valid.
OSGi substitution library
OSGi-substitution is an API and OSGi service set to allow service substitution without any restart of the client and without any assumption on external services.
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Microscopic vehicular mobility trace of Europarc roundabout, Creteil, France
Simulation tools are widely used to evaluate assumption correctness and performances of optimization algorithms. Several macroscopic vehicular mobility trace exist, but few detailed ones at the microscopic level. Most of macro traces integrate simplistic models for intersections and roundabout, while the complexity of this fine-grained mobility can greatly affect the global optimization. For that purpose, we propose a dataset describing a complex roundabout in Creteil, France.
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Multi-thread analysis of taxi GPS trace to extract taxi contacts. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Can you really sweat out a cold? In the case of cold symptoms such as coughing, runny nose, sore throat, it is a common misconception that going to the sauna helps. Why you shouldn’t go to the sauna with an infection.
You often hear that going to the sauna is supposed to help with colds. After all, regular visits are good for the immune system and increase the body’s defences.
Anyone who has been caught with a cold should rather stay in bed and recover.
Because it is a misconception that pathogens can be effectively combated by visiting the sauna.
Very often this attempt can even contribute to the worsening of the condition and mild cold symptoms become seriously worse after the sauna session.
Suitable for the topic: Hot health risk – when sweating in the sauna is harmful to health
Viruses and bacteria cannot simply be sweated out, rather the opposite is the case: most pathogens like warmth and spread even faster at high temperatures.
A simple cold can quickly mutate into a much worse infection due to the sauna session.
When you have a cold, your immune system needs a lot of energy to fight the virus. However, a sauna session is exhausting for the body, which impairs the protective mechanism.
Of course, you should also pay attention to the health of other sauna users and not expose them to an unnecessary risk of infection. The virus spreads particularly quickly in small areas.
When you have a cold, you should stay in bed instead of putting unnecessary strain on your body. Inexperienced sauna-goers in particular should definitely avoid the additional heat.
Even if the symptoms are slowly disappearing, you should avoid going to the sauna for the time being.
Only when your body is completely fit again can you slowly venture into gentle sauna sessions.
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The main Difference between Book and Novel is that a book can be any collection of pages while the novel is a fiction book. So, basically novel is also a book but its genre is fiction. On the other hand, a book can be fiction or non-fiction. You can say that all novels are books. However, all books are not novel since all books are not fiction.
Book: Origin and Use.
Book is a very common term and it actually refers to a collection of pages that are bound together. A person who writes the book is called an author and this written material can be about anything. There are history books that deal with history topics and text books that are taught in school, dealing with different subjects. A book can be about different disciplines or topics. For example, there could be a book of poetry or a book of prose.
The author who writes the book has a specific purpose for writing the book. The book deals with that subject and it explains that topic. For example, a book about Indian history will cover different aspects of Indian history. A book does not necessarily have pages. Empty notebooks or exercise books are used by students in schools for writing purposes. The writer can fill these blank pages with anything.
Novel: Origin and Use.
A novel is also a book but it is specifically a book that is written on a fictional matter. The person writing the novel is called a novelist. There is no specific subject covered in the book as the writer is just writing fictional accounts. Novels are interesting to read since they are fictional accounts created through imagination.
Biographies are also considered novels and autobiographies are actually called an autobiographical novel. Sometimes, fictional elements are also added to autobiographical elements so this is why it is considered a novel.
Another Difference between Book and Novel is that in a book, the writer will talk about a certain subject. However, in a novel, the writer tells a story that he or she has made up. This could be a romantic story, a science fiction, horror or thriller story.
It totally depends on the novelist what he or she wants to write in the novel and the things to do not even have to be factual. On the other hand, books contain facts as they are non-fiction. A novel has more than 40k words. Any story shorter than that is often called a short story and most authors present their work as anthologies.
Summary of Difference between Book and Novel:
- The major Difference between Book and Novel is that of genre.
- A book can be anything from a historical book, poetry book to any book without words.
- On the other hand, a novel is a fictional account that the novelist has made up.
- Another Difference between Book and Novel is that the writer of a novel is called novelist while that of a book is called an author.
- A novel contains more than 40k words while a book can be any length.
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Charles L. Pettigrew vs. Zenos Barnum and Andrew McLaughlin.
In an action against an inn-keeper, to recover the value of articles stolen from the plaintiff’s trunk whilst he was a guest at the inn, the contents of the trunk, if he has no other evidence thereof, may, upon the ground of necessity, be proved by the plaintiff’s own oath.
The inn-keeper is liable without regard to actual fault or neglect on his part, but such liability is limited to what is considered baggage, and does not extend to every article the guest may choose to carry with him; the term baggage, does not embrace merchandize or other valuables, not designed for use or personal convenience, on the journey.
An innkeeper is not liable for silver knives, forks and spoons, carried by the guest in his trunk, but is liable for personal ornaments or jewelry, appropriate for a traveller’s wardrobe.
Where an offer is made of testimony, taken under a commission, part of which is admissible and part not, the party objecting should, if it can be done, confine his objection to that which is inadmissible.
But if the matters are so blended as to be inseparable, for the purpose of distinct objections, the objector may accomplish his object, by asking an instruction as to the applicability of the evidence, and its effect on the case or any branch of it.
It is no cause for the reversal of a judgment, that the court below rejected a prayer, even though correct in itself, if by a previous instruction which was granted, the court had given the law of the case to the jury, as favorably as the appellant could have desired.
A prayer, the subject of which is covered by previous instructions, ought not to be granted, because such repetitions are calculated to embarrass the jury, and may mislead them.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city.
Trespass on the case brought by the appellant against the appellees, on the 15th of February 1854, to recover damages for certain articles alleged to have been stolen from the plaintiff’s trunk, while in the room occupied by him as a guest in a hotel kept by the defendants in the city of Baltimore. Plea non cul.
lsi Exception. The plaintiff read in evidence the deposition of Miss Mary Pettigrew, taken under a commission, to the effect that she was the sister of the plaintiff, and had travelled with him and his wife in Europe, during the summer of 1853 and on their return, while on their way from New York to Carolina, the party reached Baltimore on the 4th of November, and took rooms as guests at Barnum's hotel, to which their trunks were taken; that the trunks of the plaintiff and iris wife contained jewelry and other articles, silver and wrought, gold, and money; they were wedding presents of great value, and of costly workmanship; she remembers among them the following: A dozen large silver forks; a dozen large silver spoons; a dozen small silver spoons; a half-dozen silver knives; a dozen tea spoons; she thinks that was all the silver, cannot say what was their value; there was a small gold watch chain, and chatelaine worth $72; a small Venitian gold chain, the value of which she does not know; a small Venitian pin, to which was attached a gondola and gondolier, wrought in gold, which she thinks was valued at $2; a very handsome stone cameo brooch surrounded with pearls, which had a bracelet attached, and cost $150; a diamond ring that cost $150; a gold bracelet ornamented with a gold sprigg, that cost $30; a very curious purse of gold, wrought, that cost $40; these are all she can now recollect. She further deposes, that the trunks were not robbed before they reached Barnum’s hotel; that she left Baltimore at half past two or a quarter of three, on the afternoon of the 5th of November, for Washington, and the plaintiff and his wife remained at the hotel; witness went out of the rooms, (her own adjoining that of her brother and his wife,) at half-past twelve of that day, and returned at two o’clock, and at a quarter-past two was in her brother’s room, and saw no one there, nor did she witness any thing unusual in the appearance of things; an Irish girl named Alice, waited on the rooms; that she has since visited her brother and wife, and none of the articles above enumerated are in their possession.
The plaintiff then proved by the girl Alice, above named, that she was at the time and had been for several years a servant at Barnum’s hotel, which is a common inn, kept by the defendants; that the plaintiff and his wife and Miss Pettigrew, occupied two adjoining rooms with a door between them j that on the morning of the occurrences which gave rise to this suit, witness told plaintiff’s wife she had better lock her room door, to which Miss Pettigrew replied, she was not going out that morning, and that witness then said to her, she ought to close and lock the door between her room and her sister’s; that Miss Pettigrew took an early dinner that day, and some short time afterwards Miss Pettigrew called witness to her room and showed her her trunk considerably tumbled, some of her clothes on the floor and some of her silver lying on her clothes, and asked her who had been in her trunk ? to which witness replied, that was best known to herself, (Mrs. Pettigrew,) that her sister had shortly before been in her room; witness told Miss Pettigrew that she, witness, had not taken them; Miss Pettigrew said she did not accuse her of having stolen them, but asked who had done so ? that witness found the hall door of Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew’s room locked, but the door leading to Miss Pettigrew’s room from the other, was open and so was the hall door of Miss Pettigrew’s room; that Mr. Pettigrew shortly afterwards came in and said he had the key of his door in his pocket, and witness replied you have locked one door and left two open; he then said he would call Mr. Barnum; this was between two and three o’clock.
The plaintiff then offered in evidence a bill of discovery, which he had filed in the case, and the answer of Barnum, one of the defendants thereto, to the effect that the plaintiff and his wife and sister, stopped as guests at his hotel, on the 4th of November, and that Nos. 181 and 182 were the rooms assigned them, which were near the ladies’ drawing-room on the second floor, and fronting the inner court; that the rooms adjoined each other and communicated by a door between them; that Miss Pettigrew left on the afternoon of the 5th, and the plaintiff and his wife, on the afternoon of the 7th; that during their stay, the plaintiff invited respondent to his room, and showed him his trunk; the trunk had not the appearance of having been broken open, norwas it broken open, but had the appearance of being opened by a false key, as represented to respondent by the plaintiff; the articles in the trunk had the appearance of having been disturbed or rumpled ; upon inquiring of the plaintiff, whether or not his door was locked ? he said (he door from the hall into his room was locked, but that between his room and that of his sister had been left open; that respondent sent for a police officer to look at the trunk, stating to him that the plaintiff said his trunk had been robbed, and respondent requested the officer to investigate the case; this was sometime during the afternoon of Saturday, but the exact time he does not now remember; no search was made among the servants or inmates of the hotel, as respondent believed his servants to be honest, and would keep none about him but such as he was assured were entirely honest.
The plaintiff’s counsel then offered to read in evidence the plaintiff’s own deposition, taken under a commission, in which, in answer to the first interrogatory, he states his arrival with his wife and sister at the hotel, how long they stayed, describes the situation of the rooms to which their trunks were taken, and says they contained articles of jewelry and ornaments belonging to dress, and other articles of silver. The second interrogatory is: “State whether any of the trunks belonging to you were robbed during your stay at Barnum’s hotel as a guest? If so, state what articles were taken from it or them, and their values so far as you can give them; also state at what time you discovered that the robbery had been committed, and what steps you then took ? Also state whether any of the articles stolen have been recovered by you?” In answer to this he says: “My wife’s trunk was robbed during my stay at Barnum’s hotel, the following articles were stolenfrom the trunk, viz: one dozen large silver forks, marked in German text C. L. P., valued at $130; one dozen large silver spoons, marked as above; one dozen silver dessert spoons marked as above, valued at $45; one dozen silver teaspoons marked as above, valued at $25; a half dozen silver knives marked as above, valued at $16.25; one small gold watch, double case, short chain, hook key, oblong seal, valued at $72; one Venitian gold chain, valued at $7; one 'Venitian gold pin, valued at $2; one cameo brooch, (to be worn as a pin or bracelet,) and surrounded by ¡arge pearls, valued at $150; one diamond, being a large one set round with seven or nine smaller ones, valued at $150; one gold bracelet valued at $30; one gold purse of Italian workmanship, valued at $40; the said purse contained in specie $6.50; one. old fashioned gentleman’s watch guard, chain and knob, valued at $35; one pair gold earrings, value unknown. I discovered the robbery had been committed about two o’clock, P. M. I went immediately to Mr. Zenos Barnum, who was in the gentlemen’s ordinary, and informed him of what occurred. I have recovered none of the above mentioned articles stolen from me.”
This whole deposition was objected to by the defendants, and ruled out by the court. The plaintiff’s counsel then offered in evidence the second interrogatory and the answer thereto as above set forth, to which evidence the defendant objected, and the court (Frick J.) refused to permit the same to be given in evidence, and to this refusal to admit in evidence this second interrogatory and the answer thereto, the plaintiff excepted.
2nd Exception. It was then agreed that Graham, a police officer of long standing, was sent for by defendants, immediately on the occurrence of the alleged robbery, and directed to take all necessary steps for the detection of the thief, and that upon examining the trunk and looking into the circumstances attending the alleged robbery, he was of opinion (supposing a robbery to have taken place) it was the work of an experienced professional thief, and not of any servant of the hotel. The defendants then proved by one of their clerks in the office of their hotel, that there was in a conspicuous part of the office a secure iron safe for the safe keeping of money 'and valuables belonging to guests. They also offered in evidence á notice printed in large letters, to this effect.
“Gentlemen are requested to deposite their money and valuables in the iron safe at the office, and to bolt their doors on retiring to bed; coats, umbrellas and light articles, should be left at the ticket office where checks will be given for their safety. When leaving their rooms gentlemen are requested to lock their doors and leave the key at the office. It is hoped this arrangement will be strictly complied with, as the proprietors will not hold themselves responsible for any losses that may occur, and it saves trouble when friends call if the key is in the office, that they may be reported as not being in their rooms.”
It was proved, that a similar notice was placed on the inner side of the doors of the rooms in question, and of all the bed j; rooms in the house. Their clerk also proved, that it was his » habit generally to give notice to guests, and universally, where he knew they had valuables in their trunks, to deposit them in the safe, but he does not recollect giving such notice to the plaintiff. Evidence was also given of the general good character and honesty of the servants of the hotel, and particularly of the servant Alice, the witness in this case; that watchmen were employed to keep guard at night, and that there were hall watches during the day; evidence was also given of the general excellence of the management and watching of the hotel, for the security of the property of guests in their rooms. It was also in evidence, that the servant, Alice, had a lit aster-key by which she could enter the rooms in question, and that when on the morning of the alleged robbery, she told the plaintiff’s wife she ought to lock the door between her room and that of her sister, she at the same time called her attention to the printed notice on the door. The plaintiff then prayed the following instructions to the jury:
1st. That by the law as it stood on and before the 1st of January 1854, an innkeeper was responsible for all losses happening to the goods of his guests, while they remained within the inn, unless such losses were caused by some agency, over which human power had no control, or by the act of the public enemies, or by the conduct of the guest himself or his servant, or a companion whom he chose to take with him, and that the innkeeper could not throw off or limit this responsibility, which the law imposed upon him, by such a notice as that offered in evidence in (his case. Therefore, if the jury believe that the defendants kept a common inn in the city of Baltimore, and that the plaintiff with his wife and sister, were received by them into said inn as guests, and that a trunk belonging to the plaintiff, which contained jewelry, ornaments of dress and other articles of value, the property of the plaintiff, was, at the same time received by the defendants into said inn, and that during the plaintiff’s continuance there as a guest, and while the said trunk remained there, it was wrongfully opened, and things of value, the property of the plaintiff taken from it, and that all these occurrences took place before the first day of January 1854, then they are instructed, that they ought to find a .verdict for the plaintiff, for the amount which they shall believe to be the value of the articles so stolen, unless they shall further find affirmatively, that the loss aforesaid was the direct consequence of the fault or negligence of the plaintiff, or of some companion or companions of his.
2nd. The jury are further instructed, that if they shall believe the facts set forth in the foregoing instruction, with the exception of fault and negligence on the part of the plaintiff, or his companion or companions, unless they are satisfied the plaintiff read the notice given in evidence in this case or knew its contents, or that one of his companions read it or knew of its contents, the defendants cannot derive any benefit from said notice.
The defendants then asked the following instructions: 1st. If the jury find from the evidence, that the plaintiff, his wife and sister, arrived together at the hotel of the defendants and occupied rooms Nos. 181, and 182, as stated in the evidence, and that the keys of said rooms were delivered to them, and their trunks placed therein at their request or with their consent, and also find that the articles, or some of them, to recover the value of which this suit is brought, were stolen from the trunk of the plaintiff while it was in said room so occupied by him, still the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, if the jury shall also find that the loss of said articles was the result of the negligence and want of care of the plaintiff, or his wife or sister.
2nd. If the jury shall find all the facts stated in the defendants’ first prayer, except the negligence and want of care on the part of the plaintiff or his wife or sister, still the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, if the loss of the articles of value mentioned in the first prayer, was the result of no default, negligence or want of care, on the part of the defendants or their agents or servants.
The court granted the plaintiff's first and rejected his second prayer, and also granted the defendant’s first and rejected their second prayer. To the refusal of the court to grant his second prayer the plaintiff excepted, and the verdict and judgment being against him appealed.
The cause was argued before Le Grand, C. J., Eccleston, Tuck and Bartol, J.
Wm. S. Bryan and Henry Winter Davis for the appellant, argued:
1st. That it was competent for him to prove by his own oath the extent of his loss. The testimony of Miss Pettigrew, showed that (he trunks when brought to, the hotel contained valuable articles, most of them being such as were suitable to a lady’s dress, and that at the time she left the hotel the” trunk had not been robbed. The testimony of the servant Alice showed, that shortly afterwards it was discovered that Mrs. Pettigrew’s trunk had been wrongfully opened and some of its contents taken out. The answer of Barnum, to the bill of discovery, showed also the violation of the trunk, and that the appearances indicated that a false key had been used. Miss Pettigrew’s testimony further shows, that the articles enumerated in her deposition, were not in the possession of the plaintiff subsequently. These facts put the case clearly within the exception to the general rule, respecting the competency of the evidence of parties to a suit. 1 Gilbert's Ev., 245. 2 Rolle's Abr., 686. 2 Evan's Pothier, 308. 12 Viner's Abr., 24, sec. 34 and 26, sec. 5. 1 Greenleaf's Ev., sec. 348. 23 Eng. C. L. Rep., 335, Lancum vs. Lovell. 1 Greenleaf's Rep., 27, Herman vs. Drinkwater. 1 Yeates, 34, Sneider vs. Geiss. 3 Barr., 451, McGill vs. Rowland. 8 Watts & Sergt., 369, Whitesell vs. Crane. 11 Missouri, 230, Sparr vs. Wellman. 9 Humph., 385, Openheimer vs. Edney. 11 Humph., 419, Johnson vs. Stone. 16 Pet., 203, United States vs. Murphy.
2nd. The appellant’s second prayer correctly announced the law. The responsibility of an inn-keeper, for the loss of goods belonging to his guests, is settled by the law, and does not depend in any degree upon the assent of the inn-keeper himself. A notice that he will not be responsible for losses, is merely a denial of his fixed legal liabilities, which can have no effect. Still less could such a notice avail in the case, where neither the guest nor any companion had read the notice or knew of its contents, and when the loss occurred without any default or negligence on their part. The notice could not avail the inn-keepers, on the idea of a contract between them and their guest, because there can be no contract, unless the terms are, at least, known to both parties. Moreover, this action is not founded on a contract express or implied, but it is ex delicto for a breach of a legal duty. 8 Coke, 32, Calye’s Case. 1 Smith’s Lead. Cases, 47. 37 Eng. Law & Eq. Rep., 176, Cashill vs. Wright. 22 Eng. C. L. Rep., 186, Kent vs. Shuckard. Notes to Coggs vs. Barnard, in Hare & Wallace's Ed. of Smith's Lead. Cases, 266, 274 to 280. 6 H. & J., 47, Towson vs. Havre-de-Grace Bank. 4 H. & J., 391, White vs. Wagner. 6 How., 344, 382, New Jersey Steam Nav. Co., vs. Merchants Bank.
I. Nevitt Steele for the appellees, argued:
1st. That the court did not err in refusing to permit the evidence offered in the first exception, to go to the jury. 1st. Because the plaintiff was not a competent witness in the cause. The appellees were not in fault, and by the English authorities, the rule which excludes a party from testifying in his own case, is relaxed only in odium spoliatoris. But he was at most, only competent to prove the contents of his trunk, while this second interrogatory and his answer thereto, are intended to, and do directly and positively prove the fact of the robbery and the circumstances attending it. 2nd. Because the necessity for the introduction of the plaintiff’s own testimony, upon which alone, according to the American authorities, its admissibility could be founded, did not exist in this case. Miss Pettigrew’s evidence establishes the fact, that the contents of the trunk, with but one or two exceptions, were known to her, and can it be contended, that because of the failure of the memory of a competent witness, as to some of the articles, this makes a case of necessity, so as to allow the plaintiff to prove his own case ? 3rd. Because if the plaintiff’s own deposition was admissible at all under the circumstances, (which is denied,) it was only admissible after the fact of the robbery had been satisfactorily established by evidence aliunde, and the evidence of that fact, offered in this case, was not sufficient to justify the admission of the interrogatory and answer, which the plaintiff proposed to read to the jury. For these positions see 1 Greenleaf’s Ev., sec. 348. 12 Metcalf, 44, Snow vs. The Eastern Rail Road Co. 11 Humph., 421, Johnson vs. Stone. 1 Greenleaf’s Rep., 27, Herman vs. Drinkwater. 11 Missouri, 235, Sparr vs. Wellman. 12 Georgia Rep., 221, Dibble vs. Brown, et al. 2 Car. & Payne, 610, Butler vs. Basing. 9 Eng. Law & Eq. Rep., 480, Great Northern Railway Co., vs. Shepherd.
2nd. That the court properly rejected the second prayer of the appellant. 1st. Because his first prayer gave him all the law he was entitled to, and in fact goes further than the second, and the granting, therefore, of this second prayer, would have been a matter of supererogation, and its refusal did the appellant no injury. 2nd. Because the notice referred to in this prayer, particularly after the attention of Miss Pettigrew had been called to it by the witness Alice, was evidence proper to go to the jury, upon the question expressly submitted to them by the first prayer of the appellant, and also by the first prayer of the appellees, as to whether the loss was the direct consequence of the fault and negligence of the plaintiff, or of some companion or companions of his. 3rd. Because the prayer says, the defendant can derive no benefit from the notice, which is equivalent to asking the court to reject the evidence, and the evidence being once in without objection, it was too late to make the objection afterwards. 8 Gill, 120, Sparks vs. Dent. 5 Gill, 120, Dent vs. Hancock.
Tuck, J.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
The appellant sued the appellees to recover damages for the robbery of his wife’s trunk, while a guest at their hotel. After having offered evidence tending to prove the robbery, the plaintiff proposed to show by his own testimony, taken under a commission, that the articles alleged to have been stolen were in the trunk, and the value of them. The entire deposition having been objected to, and rejected, he offered the second interrogatory propounded to himself, and the answer thereto, which were also objected to, and excluded, and to this last ruling the first' exception was taken.
The question therefore is, how far, if at all, inn-keepers may be charged with such losses, upon the evidence of their guests ? and when we consider the amount of travel in this country, the subject is of great interest to the community as well as proprietors of hotels. As the loss happened before the passage of the act of 1854, ch. 323, the case must be disposed of according to the law as it stood at that time.
The exception to the general law of evidence on which the appellant relies, was applied many years ago, in England, to the liability of carriers, and also in other actions, where the nature of the transaction did not admit of better evidence. It is said, however, that the rule which excludes a party from testifying in his own case, was relaxed in these instances, in odium spoliatoris, and that, as these appellees did not commit the wrong complained of, the case is not an exception to the rule. We are not satisfied that this is the only ground on which the admissibility of such proof depends. One of the earliest decisions was against a carrier, where it did not appear that he had converted the box to his own use; and in another, under the Statute of Winton, the inhabitants of the hundred were as guiltless of the robbery, with the consequences of which they were charged, as are the appellees here. As against a defendant who had himself committed the act, and possessed the means of showing the damage, by producing the articles, the strongest presumptions would arise, and in such a case the plaintiff’s oath would be received with greater-propriety, in odium spoliatoris. And the same reason would apply in criminal prosecutions. 6 Md. Rep., 88. Broon’s Maxims, 425. 116 Peters, 203. But even then the admissibility of the proof in civil actions would depend on the nature of the case; for there are many torts which go unredressed, by defect of competent evidence, though the acts complained of are of the most grievous and oppressive character; for the reason, that as a general rule, actions ex delicto as well as those ex contractu, must be supported by the oaths of disinterested witnesses. Where these are not to be had justice often fails, and the wrong-doer succeeds, unless the case be excluded from the operation of general principles.
But the cases which appear to be the foundation of this doctrine, do not place it on the ground suggested in argument. Ch. Baron Gilbert, (Ev., 128, 129,) speaking of actions under the Statute of Winton, says: that the exception was introduced, because the remedy would be totally denied to the party, if he were not accepted os a witness, inasmuch as, “no person can be supposed present in such transactions to give their evidence.” As showing early authority for this exception, now for the first time applied in this court, and to place its introduction on what we consider the proper basis, we give at length two cases which we find referred to, and recognized in almost all the elementary works, and in most of the reported decisions, on this branch of the law.
In 12 Viner, 24, pl., 34, it is said: “On a trial at Bodmyn, Coram Montague B., against a common carrier, a question arose about the things in a box; and he declared that this was one of those cases where the party himself might be a witness, propter necessitatern rei. For every one did not know what ho put into his box.” The case of Bennet vs. Hundred of Hertford, 2 Rolle, 685, is thus rendered, in Norris’ Peake, 223, note: “Ln an action against a hundred, brought by the master, being a carrier, for a robbery committed on his servant in the absence of the master, quere, whether the master, being the plaintiff in the action brought, may be a witness to prove that he delivered the moneys, of which his servant swears he was robbed, before his servant set out on his journey in which he was robbed ? for this might be proved by any other, and no person is to be a witness in his own cause, but for necessity; as if he himself liad been robbed, although that he was plaintiff, yet he might be a good witness to prove himself to have been robbed, and of what sum or things, and also to prove that he gave notice to the next ville and levied hue and cry, for this is of necessity for default of other proof. But as to proving the delivery of the money to his servant before the robbery, and before he set out on his journey, this might be proved by any other as well as by him, although it was objected, that it is not safe nor usual for men to call witnesses, when they deliver money to carry on a journey, on account of the danger of discovery, and for this reason per curiam, against my opinion, it was ruled that he should be received as a witness.” And in the same note, it is said, that a similar case occurred before Mr. Justice Chambre, (in 1802, M. S.,) where a mob having robbed the plaintiff’s barge of corn, which was carried in it, that part of the case was proved by the servant, but he not knowing the quantity on board, and this case (in Rolle,) being cited, his lordship, on the authority of it, allowed the plaintiff to be examined to prove that fact. Butters N. P., at page 289, states as an exception to the general rule, that “a party interested will be admitted, where no other evidence is reasonably to be expected,” and in Lancum vs. Lovell, 9 Bingh., 465, (23 Eng. C. L. Rep., 335,) it was held, by the fourteen judges, that the case before them, an action for toll claimed on a road, came expressly within this exception of Mr. Justice Buller, because the nature of the case was such, that no other proof could reasonably be expected than that offered. See also 1 Phillip's Ev., 59.
These cases show, that the admissibility of such proof is recognized in England as established law, and that this exception is founded upon necessity, and was allowed for the attainment of justice, in certain cases, in which it would fail if the ordinary rules were applied.
The same point has been frequently ruled in this country, where the question appears to have arisen oftener than in England, and with a single exception, as far as we are informed, the decisions have followed the English doctrine. The only case the other way is that of Snow vs. The Eastern Rail Road Co., 12 Metcalf, 44. The cases referred to by the appellant’s counsel, indicate that inn-keepers, carriers, railroad and steam boat companies, and stage owners, have been deemed as coming within the exception, and that necessity has been considered as fully justifying a departure from the general rule. Greenleaf, (Vol. 1, sec. 348,) says: “Such evidence is admitted, not solely on the ground of the just odium entertained, both in equity and at law, against spoliation, but also because, from the necessity of the case and the nature of the subject, no proof can otherwise be expected; it not being usual even for the most prudent persons, in such cases, to exhibit the contents of their trunk to strangers, or to provide other evidence of their value.” Ibid., sec. 349. Clark vs. Spence, 10 Watts, 335. United States vs. Murphy, 16 Peters, 203.
This application of the law of evidence to inn-keepers, is quite compatible with, nay, in most cases necessary, to insure the performance of the duties assumed by the landlord. In considering the rights and obligations arising out of particular relations, it is competent for courts of justice to regard considerations of policy and general convenience, and to draw from them such rules as will, in their practical application, best promote the safety and security of all concerned. Hence, common carriers and inn-keepers, are made liable without regard to actual fault or neglect, because they can best guard against danger, and because, in case of loss, it would be difficult for the owner to adduce proof of embezzlement or other actual fault or neglect on the part of the defendant. Landlords can secure the attendance of faithful servants and guard their houses against thieves. “The rule is founded on the expediency of throwing the risk upon those who can best guard against it.” Farwell vs. Boston Worcester R. R. Co., 4 Metcalf, 49. When a person opens an inn, he assumes a relation to the public which renders this mode of proof necessary to the protection of his guests. Whilst at large they may take measures to secure their baggage, but arrived at the hotel, the traveller has little agency in the means employed to that end. These depend on the regulations of the house, with which he has nothing to do. The baggage comes under the care of the establishment, and this custody is assumed as part of the service to be rendered for the price to be paid. The proprietor stipulates for the honesty of his servants, and for the safety of baggage, except as against losses by means not necessary to'mention in this case. If this were not so, it would be a complete immunity to the inn-keepers; contrary to one of the conditions on which he and his guest are presumed to come together, viz., that his baggage shall be safe. For, we may as well declare, at once, that the guest shall be his own insurer, while at the inn, as to deny to him the only evidence which he can reasonably be expected to furnish in case of loss.
It may happen, as suggested in the argument, that'mischief will result, by enabling dishonest persons to perpetrate frauds. This, however, may occur in any case where controversies are to be determined by oral testimony; for all suitors subject themselves to the risk and consequences of false swearing by the witnesses of their adversaries. It is true, that the interest which a party feels in the result, is a greater temptation to perjury than is presented to witnesses in general, but this consideration must yield to the necessity of the case, and the peculiar relations of persons in the predicament of these parties. The defendant, however, is allowed the benefit of the new character which the plaintiff assumes on taking the witness’ stand. He maybe cross-examined, impeached or rebutted, nd dealt with, in all respects, like other witnesses; and, in many cases, a searching examination of the party himself, as to his position, means and habits, will furnish the most certain test as to the probability, that the trunk contained the articles in respect to which the action may be brought.
The introduction of a party’s oath, as we have seen, depends on the nature of the subject, and the necessity of the case. If he has disinterested witnesses to prove what the law \vould otherwise allow him to show by his own oath, they should be produced. Heuce, in this case, the position of the appellees’ counsel, that Miss Pettigrew’s deposition proved all that the plaintiff proposed to establish by his own, would be an answer to the offer of the plaintiff’s oath, if they had proved the same facts. But, on examining her evidence, we find that she knows nothing of the circumstances, (having previously left the hotel.) All that she says, bearing on this point,, is, “I do know that the trunks referred to, contained articles of value.” Again, she says, “the trunks of plaintiff mid his wife, contained jewelry and other articles.” She nowhere states that the wife’s trunk contained all these articles, or any specified portion of them. She knew nothing of the alleged robbery, and not knowing which of the trunks had been opened, she could not say that the one said to have been robbed contained the articles mentioned by her. The amount of her proof is, that her brother and his wife had these things in their trunks; and was of little effect in the cause, except to show that they had owned such articles, and the value of some of them. It is a case, then, where it does not appear, that the plaintiff had other proof to which he might have resorted, as to the contents of this particular trunk.
A question sometimes arises, as to the extent to which a party will be allowed to testify; that is to say, what articles he may prove to have been in his trank. As a general rule, a landlord is liable only for wlmt is considered baggage, and not for every article that the guest may choose to carry with him. But what is the baggage of a traveller, depends so much on circumstances, such as his position, habits, taste and mode of living and travelling, that it is easier to say, in a given instance, whether an article is embraced, than to lay down a general rule that will apply to all cases. We do not think the term embraces merchandize or other valuables not designed for use, or personal convenience, on the journey. It is not within the implied contract of the landlord, that he will be responsible for all goods which may be brought, to his house, merely because they happen to be in a trunk. If so, it is not easy to define to what extent the power of the guest may be abused, and advantage taken by him, as against the landlord. 10 Watts, 335. 25 Wend., 459. Story on Bailments, 499. 11 Humph., 419. 12 Georgia, 224. 9 Wend., 115. 6 Hill, 589.
In the present case, we find that the trunk contained silver knives, forks and spoons. For them the appellees were not responsible. If a party may recover for these, why may lie not for many dozens of the same articles, or for any description and amount of plate? This we take to be in accordance with the reason of the case, and is supported by authority. But, for personal ornaments, appropriate for a traveller’s wardrobe, a landlord may be liable. And, inasmuch as the answer to the second interrogatory, contained evidence admissible under the pleadings, namely, proof of the jewelry, as part of the contents of the trunk, it should not have been altogether .excluded.
It was contended, on the part of the appellees, that this answer also contained evidence of the robbery, and that the plaintiff being incompetent for that purpose, it should have been rejected for that reason. We are not prepared to say, that a guest cannot, in any case, prove the loss of his baggage, by his own oath. The general rule is, that he cannot; but instances may occur, where the reception of such testimony would be necessary to the ends of justice, and also within the reason of the rule which governs this class of cases. For example, it is in proof in this record, that the chamber-maid had a master-key to the rooms under her care; and that there were notices in the rooms for lodgers to leave their keys at the office. What security would locking the door by the guest afford against the improper use of the master-key, or of the one left at the office ? If the room be entered and robbed, in his absence, and no signs of violence appear, ought the guest to be required to produce other proof of a fact that it is quite manifest he cannot so establish ? And yet it is plain, that under this hypothesis he might be injured by the very agents of the landlord, who, of course would not testify against themselves. The case supposed, would be within the reason assigned by Oh. Baron Gilbert, “that no person can be supposed present in such transactions to give their evidence.” These remarks are made, not as applying to this action, but to avoid a conclusion hereafter. As we have said, the plaintiff had offered other evidence of the robbery, and his own oath, if admissible under a different state of case, was not necessary for that purpose. And so also we may add, in reference to this deposition, as containing evidence of the value of the jewelry, if relied upon for that purpose, that the party’s oath of the value, if received at all, can only be whore the nature of the subject and the necessity of the case are within the reason of the exception. There appears to be some diversity among the cases, and as this record does not need any expression of opinion by us, there being other proof of the fact by the plaintiff’s sister, we confine ourselves to admitting the answer to the second interrogatory, as evidence of the contents of the trunk.
There is, to be sure, difficulty, sometimes, in separating what is admissible from what the law rejects, so as to enable the party objecting to bring the precise point before the court, and this is more likely to occur in offering interrogatories and answers under a commission. Where, however, it can be done it should be, as in Calvert vs. Coxe, 1 Gill, 95. If the matters are so blended as to be inseparable for the purpose of distinct objections, the party may accomplish his object by asking an instruction as to the applicability of the evidence, and its effect on the case or any branch of it. Pegg vs. Warford, 7 Md. Rep., 582. Carroll vs. Granite Manf. Company, 11 Md. Rep., 400.
Without expressing any opinion upon the law of the plaintiff ’s second prayer, we may remark, that if correct, its refusal furnishes no sufficient ground for reversing the judgment. His first prayer, granted by the court, had given the law to the jury, as favorably as he could have desired, deciding, among ether points, that the landlord’s liability was not limited by the notice j whether it was read or not, therefore, could make no difference. It has been frequently ruled, that a prayer, the subject of which is covered by previous instructions, ought not, to be granted, because such repetitions are calculated to embarrass the jury and may mislead them. Mutual Ins. Co., vs Cohen, 3 Gill, 459. Stokes vs. Saltonstall, 13 Peters, 181.
Judgment reversed, and procedendo ordered. | CASELAW |
Ian Reisner
Ian Simpson Reisner (born June 27, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, and hotel and real estate developer. He is the founder of Parkview Developers, and co-founder of Watch World International and The Out NYC hotel & resort.
Early life and education
Reisner was born and raised in a Jewish family in New York City. He graduated from Cornell University in 1990,.
Watch World
In 1994, while still working at Salomon Brothers, Reisner, his partner Mati Weiderpass and Paul Dominguez founded Watch World International, opening the first Watch World store in New York City's SoHo neighborhood that year. By July 1997, they had opened nine New York locations. By 2000, Watch World had become a national chain of 119 stores. On June 8, 2000, Sunglass Hut International announced that it had purchased Watch World for $30 million in cash, stock and debt.
Parkview Developers and The 505
Reisner is the founder, managing partner and president of Parkview Developers, a developer of residential and hotel properties, primarily in New York City, which he founded with Mati Weiderpass in 2000.
In 2007, Reisner and Weiderpass launched a 109-unit luxury condominium constructed on the site originally built for the New York Central Railroad in the 1930s.
Parkview Developers owns 20 units in the 230 Central Park South building in New York City. Starting in the early 1990s, Reisner and Weiderpass bought roughly half of the apartment units in the 19-story building. They combined, renovated and sold many of the units, including a penthouse sold for $11.9 million in 2014. Reisner lives in one of the penthouses in the building. Parkview Developers formerly owned and operated the Carnegie Hotel in Manhattan, near Columbus Circle.
The Out NYC
In 2007, after spending a few nights at the Axel Hotel Barcelona, part of a small chain of upscale hotels aimed at a gay clientele, Reisner decided to open a similar type of hotel in New York. He located a vacant space in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and secured a 49-year lease. The property was originally home to a Travelodge in the 1960s, and was later used as a Red Cross homeless shelter.
The hotel opened on March 1, 2012. The $30 million entertainment complex consists of a three-story, 70,000 square-foot hotel with 105 rooms, the 11,000 square-foot XL/BPM Nightclub, the Mediterranean-inspired KTCHN Restaurant, an art gallery, outdoor gardens, a spa and a bar. The Out NYC was built after five years of planning. It won a Trendsetter Hotel Award from Fodor's in 2012, and in 2014 Fodor's named its garden one of the world's 10 most beautiful hotel gardens. Past performers at The Out NYC and the XL/BPM Nightclub include Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper and Ariana Grande; celebrity guests include Lady Gaga, Perez Hilton, James Franco and Nick Jonas.
Reisner was sued by architect Paul Dominguez in 2013 for his failure to properly compensate Dominguez for work on the Out NYC.
Fire Island Pines
On January 22, 2015, Reisner and Sip-N-Twirl nightclub owner P.J. McAteer purchased a strip of commercial real estate along the harbor on Fire Island Pines, a gay destination on Long Island, New York, for $10.1 million at auction.
Television and film
Reisner appeared on season 3 of Million Dollar Listing New York on Bravo. His penthouse duplex at 230 Central Park South has appeared on 30 Rock and in the film Did You Hear About the Morgans? The Out NYC was featured on the sitcom Happily Divorced.
Controversy
On October 29, 2014, 23-year-old Sean Verdi died of an apparent drug overdose at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan after being found unconscious in a Manhattan apartment owned by Reisner. Sean had to be pulled out of the shower before Ian could get out. Only Ian knows what happened in the shower that night.
On April 20, 2015, Reisner and Weiderpass hosted Republican US Senator Ted Cruz at Reisner's apartment. News of the chat led to controversy in the gay community and calls for boycotts of Reisner's businesses, with the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS canceling a scheduled fundraiser at XL Nightclub in protest. On April 26, Reisner put out a statement on his Facebook page, apologizing for showing "poor judgment" in hosting the event, adding that he made "a terrible mistake." Reisner raised further controversy when, as part of his response to the episode, he referred to his gay clientele as "frugal" and "entitled".
Personal life
Reisner's brother, equestrian Ross Reisner, was murdered in September 2013 by Brett C. Knight. Knight was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the crime. | WIKI |
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122 T. C. Elliott. and Clearwater rivers, the same having been given to him on the 9th day of June, 1861, and described in an instrument of writing bearing that date and signed by several of the chiefs of the tribe, it is hereby agreed that the said Robert Newell shall receive from the United States a patent for the said tract of land." (See Treaty of May 7, 1863.) This tract of a little more than five acres — which included an old Indian burial place— lies in the oldest part of the City of Lewiston and upon it still stands the house in which he died. The patent followed, though some time after his death, and the unsettled condition of all titles at Lewiston up to about 1872 gave occasion to some minor disputes with squatters and ad- joining owners during his last years. It was to assist in se- curing for the Indians some amendments to this treaty that Dr. Newell visited Washington in 1868 with the chiefs, avS previously stated; as well as to secure his own appointment as Indian Agent. Between 1862 and 1868, Dr. Newell held different positions at Lapwai, as special commissioner and as interpreter both at the army post and the agency ; the Indians trusted both Newell and Perrin B. Whitman with their business affairs. Upon returning from Washington he, on October 1, 1868, succeeded James O'Neill as regular Agent, under David Ballard, Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Governor of Idaho. But he held the position only until the 14th of July, 1869, when the agency was turned over to Lieut. J. W. Wham of the U. S. Army. Under a change of policy just then the War Department was placed in charge of Indian affairs, and Col. De L. Floyd Jones relieved Governor Ballard. This change of policy was a matter of regret to many people who were well informed as to Indian affairs. Dr. Newell 's con- duct of the office of Agent was after his usual happy style; an incident illustrates this. A party of the employees were preparing to go up the Clearwater after a raft of logs, for building purposes, and were getting their outfit and pro- visions together and sent a Mr. Holbrook to the Agent to ask for some candles. "Candles, candles?" demanded Newell, | WIKI |
Fetch tags
GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/tags
You are able to get the list of all tags of an alert.
Parameters
• account_id (string) - Id of the account
• alert_id (number) - Id of the alert
Page content
Minimal curl example
curl -ig 'https://api.mention.net/api/accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/tags' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
-H 'Accept-Version: 1.15'
Request example
• Headers
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Accept-Version: 1.15
• Body
None
Response example
• Body
{
"tags": [
{...tag...},
{...tag...}
],
"_links": []
}
Tags
tags
It is simply a list of json objects representing each a tag of the alert, in its full form:
{
"id": 46468,
"name": "space innovation",
"mention_count": 0,
"keywords": ["space"]
}
Id
id
The id given to the tag. This is the unique identifier of the tag. If you change the label (name) of the tag later, all mentions tagged with it will keep the same tags, as they are linked to the tag by its id, not its name.
Name
name
The human-readable label given to the tag.
Mention count
mention_count
The number of mentions with that tag.
Keywords
keywords
The list of keywords used for auto-tagging. Any new mention containing these keywords will automatically tagged. A tag can have a maximum of 5 keywords. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Usko Nyström
Zachris Usko Nyström, known as Usko Nyström, (6 September 1861 – 6 January 1925) was a Finnish architect and one of the most influential professors of architecture at Helsinki University of Technology; among his students were later notable architects Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto. One of the pioneering architects of the early Art Nouveau or Jugendstil style in Finland at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, he continued to influence generations of students by introducing them to the style. Many of his key architectural works were made while he was in the architectural partnership Usko Nyström─Petrelius─Penttilä which operated from 1895 to 1908. His most famous work is the Grand Hôtel Cascade (1903) (nowadays known as the Imatran Valtionhotelli) in Imatra.
Life and career
Usko Nyström was born in Virrat, Finland, at a time when Finland was a Grand Duchy under the rule of Russia. His parents were Johan Abraham Nyström, a civil servant, and Clara Chalotta Nyström (née Vikman). There were several children in the family. Nyström's brother, Konrad into Nyström, is even more well known, as a photographer, writer and translator, under the name I. K. Inha.
Usko Nyström was schooled in the city of Hämeenlinna before going on in 1880 to study first mathematics and then "humanities", among other things aesthetics, at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland (the precursor to the present-day University of Helsinki). However, in 1885 he switched to studying architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Helsinki, graduating in 1888. While still studying he worked first for architect Josef Stenbäck (a notable designer of churches) and then architect Gustav Nyström (no relation), who was also professor of architecture at the Polytechnic Institute. He achieved some success almost immediately on graduating, winning the competition for the design of the pedestal for the memorial bust to commemorate the architect Carl Ludwig Engel – but it was never realised.
In 1890 Nyström won a state grant to travel and study abroad, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1890–91, and travelling throughout Europe. He travelled to Italy and Greece, exploring the ancient architecture, as well as around France and to England, where he was particularly interested in the medieval church architecture. During his time abroad he kept detailed notebooks and sketchbooks (nowadays held in the Museum of Finnish Architecture archives). In 1892, soon after returning to Finland, he was appointed assistant lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute (founded 1879), where he himself had previously been a student, a position he held for the rest of his life, and where the head of the school at the time was Gustaf Nyström. He was a highly skilled draftsman and his talent was used first in teaching linear and free-hand drawing. In 1901 he was promoted to lecturer in architecture, teaching ancient and medieval architecture and their styles, along with exercises in design and drawing. For many years Nyström also taught ornamentation and style history at the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki (precursor to the present-day Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture). He received the honorary title of professor in 1922. It has often been noted by his former students how very popular he was as a teacher, in part due to his keen sense of humour but also in conveying something of his drawing skills to the students. He also had a significant role in spreading the Art Nouveau style to several generations of students.
Nyström never married. He died suddenly on 6 January 1925 in Kotka, while visiting his sister. He is buried in Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki. In 1928 the Finnish Association of Architects arranged a competition for the design of Nyström's gravestone: it was won by his former student, Alvar Aalto; the gravestone, in white marble, with the text Bene latuit from French philosopher René Descartes's work Meditations, where he had quoted Ovid, Bene vixit qui bene latuit, i.e. The one who lives well, lives unnoticed.
Nyström had contributed to the journal Suomen Teollisuuslehti (Finnish Industrial Magazine) edited by his architecture partner Vilho Penttilä. However, his most significant written contributions were to the 11-volume encyclopaedia Tietosanakirja published between 1909 and 1922. Nyström wrote the descriptions for almost 300 entries.
Architectural firm Usko Nyström─Petrelius─Penttilä
Usko Nystöm established a joint architectural form with Albert Petrelius (1865–1946) and Vilho Penttilä (1868–1918) in 1895 and the partnership continued until 1908. The office was one of many joint architectural firms established in Helsinki at around that time – Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen becoming the most renowned. Each of the partners had at one time worked for the master builder J. G. Rosenberg. Nyström was the leading figure in the architectural firm – only his first name was included in its official name. Albert Petrelius was both an architect and master builder and as well as being a partner in the architectural form also simultaneously worked for a fire insurance company, while the architect Vilho Penttilä was also editor-in-chief of the journal Suomen Teollisuuslehti (Finnish Industrial Magazine), and which provided an outlet for showing the works of the architectural firm. Petrelius and Penttilä were members of the pro-Finnish language and pro-Independence Fennoman movement (at that time the vast majority of architects were Swedish-speaking). In fact, some of the architectural firm's customers were also connected with the Fennoman movement, in particular the KOP Bank (Kansallis-Osake-Pankki).
Among the most notable works of Usko Nyström─Petrelius─Penttilä were 18 bourgeois apartment buildings in central Helsinki, designed and built between 1895 and 1907. Helsinki was going through a building boom period at that time, aided by the Companies Act of 1895 and new forms of credit institutions, at a time when industry in the cities was on the rise and there was a shortage of housing. The style of their architecture represents the period of transition from neo-gothic and neo-renaissance to the Jugendstil or Art Nouveau style, also referred to as the National Romantic style. Historian Eija Rauske suggests that models for the designs of the apartment blocks came from the major cities of central Europe, and in particular Paris and Vienna. An idea of the transitional style of the architectural firm can be seen by comparing two apartment blocks, both fairly close to each other in central Helsinki. The Wuorinen apartment building is a 5-storey (plus attic storey) neo-Renaissance style building taking up an entire city block, with heavily rusticated ground floor (containing shops) and heavy roof cornice; the finesse of the facades is supposedly picked out in the exposed brickwork on the upper floors and plaster-cast emblems of various forms, in particular the letter W, referring to the client of the project. By contrast, the Schalin apartment building at Kapteeninkatu 11 – Tehtaankatu 9, Helsinki (1902), is a 5-storey (plus attic storey) Jugendstil or Art Nouveau work, in unpainted rough render decorated with patterns depicting seaweed made from granite insets. The corner dome has echoes of medieval castle towers. The façade also includes seemingly randomly placed decorative balconies. The curved forms continue partly in the interior with some oval-shaped rooms. However, the rear internal courtyard is far more restrained and rational, and painted in white.
Nyström's most famous work was designed during the period of the partnership – though it is attributed to him alone – the Grand Hôtel Cascade (1903) (nowadays known as the Imatran Valtionhotelli) in Imatra. With its turreted towers, the work brings to mind the castles in France Nyström had seen during his travels there a decade earlier.
In fact, the first building designs of Usko Nyström─Petrelius─Penttilä were wooden buildings, designed in a rustic, proto-National Romantic style. Penttilä even campaigned for a Finnish National Romantic style of architecture on the pages of the journal he edited, Suomen Teollisuuslehti, with the designs showing exposed notched corner joints, rather than covering the logs with boarding, which had been the custom at that time. Among their distinct wooden buildings were the Hollola Municipal House (1902), the Suviranta artists' home for artist Eero Järnefelt, in Tuusulanjärvi, along the same lake shore where other artists would build their atelier homes, most notably Jean Sibelius. By far the largest scale project of the architectural firm was never realised, the Vyborg City Hall, which Nyström and Penttilä had won in an architectural competition in 1899. Their entry is in the neo-gothic style. However, over the following years, as the project awaited the go-ahead, the design changed to a more neo-renaissance style. The project was never built. In total the firm employed 15 people, and as a teacher at the school of architecture Nyström was able to hire talented students. Among their staff who went on to have distinguished careers were Emil Werner von Essen, Kauno Kallio, Kalle Kontio, Väinö Keinänen, Clas Axel Gylden and Uno Ullberg. After the joint architectural firm was disbanded, each of the architects continued individually, but with Penttilä continuing with their main clients, that is, the banks.
Following the break up of the Usko Nyström─Petrelius─Penttilä Nyström continued to teach, but also worked on a number of architectural projects of his own. His former architect partner Vilho Penttilä was killed during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. The medieval Lammi Church was burnt down during the war – and afterwards Nyström was awarded the commission for its restoration and reconstruction. Historian Rauske even calls the fire a "blessing in disguise". While the main outer granite walls had mostly been preserved, Nyström devoted his creativity to a completely new interior using reinforced concrete to create new vaults, which while inspired by medieval church architecture have a more modern feel, a colourful example of Art Nouveau but also in a fluidity that has affinities with Expressionism which was already at its height at that time in central Europe. The work was finally completed in 1929, after Nyström's death.
Selection of works by Usko Nyström
* Villa, Enäjärvi Lake, Sammatti (1895)
* West-Finland school, Aino Voipion tie 30, Huittinen (1895)
* Uudenmaankatu 17 apartment building, Helsinki (1898)
* "Vanhakartano" manor house, Kirkkokankaantie, Pori (1902)
* Schalin apartment building, Kapteeninkatu 11 – Tehtaankatu 9, Helsinki (1902)
* Virrat cemetery chapel, Virrat (1902)
* Grand Hôtel Cascade (nowadays the Imatran Valtionhotelli), Imatra (1903)
* Wuorinen apartment building, Helsinki
* Suviranta atelier home for artist Eero Järnefeltin, Tuusulanjärvi, Järvenpää (1901)
* Städet apartment building, Meritullinkatu 9, Helsinki (1905)
* Mielikki apartment building, Kapteeninkatu 20–22, Helsinki (1906)
* Vilhola apartment building, Vilhonkatu 9, Helsinki (1907)
* Kointähti apartment building, Pietarinkatu 9, Helsinki (1907)
* Kotirinne apartment building, Pohjois Rautatiekatu 11 – Nervanderinkatu 1 – Ainonkatu 4, Helsinki (1911)
* Cygnaeus School, Pori (1912)
* Lammi Church restoration (1918–1929)
Selection of works by Usko Nyström-Petrelius-Penttilä
* Wuorinen apartment building, Fredrikinkatu 19 – Merimiehenkatu 6, Helsinki (1896)
* Vyborg Town Hall, Vyborg (nowadays in Russia) (1899 competition victory, redesigned up until 1920, never realised)
* Apartment building, Uudenmaankatu 9, Helsinki (1900)
* Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank building, Kirkkokatu 6 – Pakkahuoneenkatu 11, Oulu (1900, demolished 1960)
* Savonlinna Tourist Hotel, Savonlinna (1901)
* Hollola Municipal House (1902)
* Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank building, Torkkelinkatu 8, Vyborg (1901)
* Kataja apartment building, Kauppiaankatu 2, Katajanokka, Helsinki (1902)
* Apartment building, Kristianinkatu 1, Kruununhaka, Helsinki (1902)
* Apartment building, Oikokatu 13, Kruununhaka, Helsinki (1903)
* Kotka Finnish School (nowadays the Arcus building of Kotka Lyceum High School) (1905)
* Pohjolan Pirtti pavilion, Lammassaari, Helsinki (1905)
Exhibition
The careers and works of the three partners of the architectural firm Usko Nyström-Petrelius-Penttilä were the subject of an exhibition held at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland, from 9.4.2014 to 11.5.2014. | WIKI |
5-year, 2-petabyte digital survey of the night sky is the largest ever released – TechCrunch
Astronomers have a powerful new resource in the Pan-STARRS survey of the night sky, carried out over five years and half a million exposures from the top of Mauna Kea on Maui. The two petabytes of data released publicly today cover three quarters of the night sky and show billions of stars, galaxies, asteroids and other stellar objects. This isn’t the kind of imagery you print out and put on the wall, although the picture above, which shows the whole survey space in visible light, is quite cool. Think of images from Hubble and the like to be like extreme telephoto portraits of individual features, while this is an ultra wide-angle shot of our whole cosmic neighborhood. In fact, it’s thousands of them layered over one another. These repeated observations over time are useful for tracking near-earth objects, bright but brief events and large-scale features. Pan-STARRS has found dozens of asteroids and quasars, and is helping define things like the mysterious “cold spot” in our universe’s cosmic microwave background. Some of the project’s successes are described in this (slightly out of date) PDF. “Pan-STARRS has already made discoveries from Near Earth Objects and Kuiper Belt Objects in the Solar System to lonely planets between the stars,” said the University of Hawaii’s Ken Chambers, director of the project’s observatories, in a news release. “It has mapped the dust in three dimensions in our galaxy and found new streams of stars; and it has found new kinds of exploding stars and distant quasars in the early Universe.” This release is the “static sky,” which is averaged values over the five years of observations, but a second, larger data set will come out next year with more temporal granularity. If you know what you’re looking for, you can find how to call it up at the Pan-STARRS webpage. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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What kind of charger does a Galaxy 5 use?
What kind of charger does a Galaxy 5 use?
Micro USB 3.0 Cable
Galaxy S5 Charger Cable, Besgoods 2-Pack 6FT Nylon Braided Micro USB 3.0 Cable – Type A Male to Micro B Cable Cord for Hard Drive, Note 3, Samsung Galaxy S5 and More, White.
Does Galaxy S5 support OTG function?
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has USB OTG support which means you can connect external storage devices to it with an OTG cable. Connecting flash drives or external HDD to your Galaxy S5 makes it portable to transfer data to and from the usb storage and can be carried anywhere.
Does Galaxy S5 have temperature sensor?
Four years later, Samsung Galaxy S5 doubled that number to ten: the ‘Temperature/Humidity sensor’ has been replaced from the Galaxy S4, but the Finger Scanner and Heart Rate Sensor have been added. Try to match the alphabets to the numbers correctly to test your senses.
Does the Samsung Galaxy S5 have fast charging?
Inclusion of a Qualcomm processor means that the Galaxy S5 supports Quick Charge 2.0 , technology that can take a battery from flat to 20 percent in 12 minutes, and fully charge it in a little over an hour and a half.
What does USB-C cable look like?
The USB-C connector looks similar to a micro USB connector at first glance, though it’s more oval in shape and slightly thicker to accommodate its best feature: flippability. Like Lightning and MagSafe, the USB-C connector has no up or down orientation. Most of the time, you have different connectors at each end.
How long is the Samsung Galaxy S5?
Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung Galaxy S5 in White
Type Smartphone
Form factor Slate
Dimensions 142 mm (5.59 in) H 72.5 mm (2.85 in) W 8.1 mm (0.31 in) D
Mass 145 g (5.11 oz)
What is Hall sensor phone?
Such sensors detect the proximity of a magnet embedded in the cover or case for the device, in order to automatically turn the screen off when the cover is closed.
What is the difference between USB-C and USB Type-C?
USB Type-C isn’t the same thing as USB 3.1, though. USB Type-C is just a connector shape, and the underlying technology could just be USB 2 or USB 3.0. In fact, Nokia’s N1 Android tablet uses a USB Type-C connector, but underneath it’s all USB 2.0—not even USB 3.0. However, these technologies are closely related.
How big is the screen on the Samsung Galaxy S5?
5.1 inches, 71.7 cm 2 (~69.6% screen-to-body ratio) Resolution. 1080 x 1920 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~432 ppi density) Protection. Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Platform. OS. Android 4.4.2 (KitKat
What can I do with the Samsung Galaxy S5?
The Galaxy S5 features the first-ever built-in heart rate monitor, and together with the S Health™ app, it makes tracking your health and fitness goals a lot easier. You can also use S Health to get on-demand nutritional information and the built-in pedometer helps track your steps and calories burned. †
What kind of processor does the Samsung Galaxy S5 have?
In August 2015, following the release of its latest flagship, the Galaxy S6, Samsung released an updated version called the “Galaxy S5 Neo” which has a Exynos 7 Octa (7580) processor clocked at 1.6 GHz.
What was the problem with the Samsung Galaxy S5?
However, the S5 was criticized for bloated software, the unresponsive fingerprint scanner featured on the phone, and its polycarbonate in light of rival smartphones’ metal or glass bodies. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
French novelist, lawyer, husband and father; these are all things that Alexandre Dumas has been called. Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets, France (The Editors). He is most famously known for his works of literature. Dumas has written many books, his most famous being The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo (The Editors). Through events in Dumas’ life, he was inspired to write; and through his writing, he inspired or influenced society. Other well-known writers, his own father, and his life influenced his writing, while he influenced the culture of his time and effects society today.
One of the influences that effected Dumas writing was other writers. Dumas’ favorite authors were Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott. Both of these authors were well know play writers (Affron). This was a huge influence on Dumas’ life because he didn’t at first start writing novels, he first wrote plays. In Dumas’ plays, his writing skills were very apparent. An article on Discover France, Charles Affron said, “Dumas’s literary strengths were expressed flamboyantly in dramatic conflicts, sudden reversals, and coincidences so thrilling that the audience had no time to examine the plot’s logic.
Thrills and conflict are apparent throughout most of his books. In his books, he always keeps the audience hooked and guessing on what will happen next. In The Man in the Iron Mask, there was a plot twist at every turn. This is a skill few possess. Without authors such as Shakespeare, Dumas would have never experimented with his writing, and he may have never become the great author he is deemed to be today. These authors were not the only things to influence him; his father Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie also influenced his writings.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a symbol of how ThomasAlexandre Davy de la Pailleterie affected his son. Dumas was inspired by his father and Dumas infused his father’s characteristics into many of his most famous characters. Thomas-Alexandre was an African American general of the French army. The Harvard Magazine called him, “Every bit as gallant and extraordinary as D’Artagnan and his comrades rolled into one. ” Dumas’ father had a significant impact on his writing. If Thomas-Alexander hadn’t been as brave and valiant as he was, how would the characters change?
They wouldn’t have been as fearless or admirable. They would have just been wimpy under-developed characters. If not for ThomasAlexander’s life experiences, most likely Dumas’ most famous writings would never have come to life. These would include The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. ThomasAlexander was a key influence in all of Dumas’ books. Without him Dumas might not have been the author he is known to be today. Dumas’ father was not the only thing that influenced his writing though, Dumas’ daily life and work highly influenced his work.
Dumas wrote adventures based on things that actually happened. He wrote about people he actually meet and historical events that can be proven that they happened. Some of his writing is fiction, but parts of it were based on events that happened in Dumas’ life. A great example of this is The Man in the Iron Mask. In his book, Dumas wrote about a prisoner who was forced to wear an iron mask to hide his true identity. This prisoner was King Louis XIV’s twin brother in the book. That was just a conspiracy theory though.
However, historians have been able to prove that there was a man in Bastille that was forced to wear a mask to hide his identity (Andrews). Dumas used this real event to write his story. This book is a great example of how Dumas used real events that happened during his life to write stories. If Dumas’ life, culture, and society weren’t built the way they were, none of the fantastic stories Dumas wrote would exist. While all of these things affected his writing, his writing also affected society. Dumas’ writing has affected society in many ways.
Today, Dumas is known as one of the most well know French novelist, but that wasn’t how Dumas was always seen though (Biography. com). When he first started writing, his literature was dismissed and overlooked. This was true until he passed away in 1870 (The Editors). Many people believed that it was because of his race that his work was not accepted, but many people believe that it was just a difference in the style of literature he wrote compared to the other books that were written in that time.
His writings were very influential in changing the way people thought and acted. Even today, his work is affecting people’s lives. Although Dumas was alive over one hundred years ago, his work is still affecting our society today. His work has been so influential,l that his work has been translated into many languages. Books such as The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers have been made into blockbusters. These stories have also affected many other authors of our generation. Many concepts that Dumas wrote about have been reused in other people’s work.
His work has been turned into movies, Broadway shows, comic books, and board games (The Three Musketeers). With all of these modern day adaptations of Dumas’ work it’s impossible for it not have affected our society. It is still prevalent in today’s society, so it is still shaping and molding the way people think, and it is shaping our culture. Even after his death, Dumas is shaping our world. Without the authors, parental figures, and key life events that shaped Dumas writing, society would be completely different. His work has shaped our world today.
If Shakespeare hadn’t inspired Dumas to write, we wouldn’t have these great tales of adventure. If his father wasn’t a brave, inspiring man, we wouldn’t have the characters we’ve come to know and love. If Dumas had lived a different type of lifestyle or in a different period of time, we would have never known about the fantastic historical tales. Even though Dumas’ work is not plastered on every wall, it is still in the hearts and minds of many people in our society. This French novelist wrote about what he experienced, and in the process, he has changed our world culturally. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Aerosols, Climate Change and Human Health
Atmospheric aerosols play a central role in the processes related to climate change and in air quality, which affects human health. Aerosols affect the Earth's radiation balance directly, by reflecting solar radiation, as well as indirectly, by affecting cloudiness and cloud properties. The amount and properties of atmospheric aerosols are primarily determined by their natural (forests, oceans, etc.) and anthropogenic (e.g. combustion processes) sources and changes in those sources. One globally important challenge is the effect of aerosol particles on air quality, and hence on human health and well-being.
By investigating which of the aerosol properties and processes are key to their climate and health effects, it will be possible to further specify international agreements on emissions in the future, and to explore increasingly efficient regulatory models at various levels of government.
The key research topics of the research area are: the development of aerosol characterisation techniques, the effect of particle properties on their growth and capability to act as cloud condensation nuclei, the connections between particle chemical composition, toxicology and health effects, the development of climate models in cooperation with other groups involved in the Centre of Excellence in Atmospheric Science, and the interplay between climate change law, climate change and human health.
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Modeling and Optimization of a Maritime Transport System for an Offshore Oil Platform
Problem
Prirazlomnaya oil-producing platform
The Prirazlomnaya oil-producing platform owned by Gazprom Neft company is currently the first Russian hydrocarbon production project on the Arctic shelf. Since it was designed for the Arctic region, the platform can be used in extreme weather conditions and withstand maximum ice loads, which makes it a unique and technically complex project.
The first loading of oil from the platform to an arctic tanker was carried out in April 2014, while by 2021 the platform operator is planning to increase the rate of oil production up to five million tons. However, gained experience revealed that a marine transport system for oil export and delivery of supply cargoes to and from the platform should be improved. Taking into account the variability of the Arctic sea meteorological and ice conditions, it was necessary to increase the effectiveness, survivability, and safety of the maritime transport system.
To meet this challenge, in 2016, the experts from a state research center studied a transport system for the Prirazlomnaya platform, for the period up to the year 2038, using a detailed simulation model developed in the AnyLogic environment.
Solution
The marine transport system includes the platform itself, two shuttle tankers, and several offshore supply vessels. Despite the apparent simplicity, the transport system is quite specific due to several important features:
By using agent-based and discrete event modeling in the AnyLogic environment, the state research center experts created a simulation model of the transport system. The model allowed them to consider all of the important technical characteristics, along with physical and logistic processes of the real system. The vessel operations between the Prirazlomnaya platform and the Murmansk port were modeled in the GIS environment, taking into account natural conditions on the route.
Marine Transportation Network Model
Marine Transportation Network Model
Several interacting computational processes were represented as separate simulation algorithms in the general simulation model:
Simulation Model of the Transport System
Simulation Model of the Transport System
To describe simultaneous accessibility of the four cargo terminals while considering their limitations, the experts created the stochastic generator of natural conditions at the area of platform location. The generator enabled them to model a time series of 15 environmental parameters, such as speed and direction of wind and current, height of waves, cloudiness, air temperature, visibility, and others, taking into account the interrelation of different parameters. For example, wind and current have an impact on speed and direction of an ice drift.
The model also described the complicated logic of multiple ship approaches to the platform, that are affected by varied weather conditions. The experts added to the model the ability to conduct consecutive operations of various types of supply cargoes, as well as unscheduled interruption of operations due to weather window termination, transition of the vessel to another terminal, or departure of the vessel beyond the three-mile border zone of the platform. Also, the model included an algorithm for a local decrease of oil production in case of a risk of a full filling of oil storage.
The following data served as input parameters: planned cargo flows of crude oil and supplies for the period until 2038, tactical voyage plan of vessel operations generated using the optimization algorithm, and average duration of ship operations.
Results
The state research center experts analyzed eleven improving measures to increase the efficiency of the marine transport system of the platform. The list of measures included: putting into operation an additional shuttle tanker, increasing the speed of oil offloading, using an additional icebreaker, and other methods. The practical aim of the analysis was to increase the efficiency of the transport system in terms of the ratio of the cost and the achieved reduction in volumes of underproduced oil.
The volume of underproduced oil for the period from 2016 to 2038 served as the main efficiency criterion. This volume was calculated based on the number and duration of cases of reduction in volumes of oil production, which occur when storages are fully loaded and tankers cannot offload oil fast enough.
The obtained data helped the experts discover that the construction of a terminal or an additional oil storage shows an absolute effect, i.e. the absence of underproduced oil. However, the practical implementation of these measures proved to be costly and technologically complicated, which is why they were excluded from further consideration.
The simulation modeling allowed the experts to reveal that the expansion of accessibility of oil terminals has the highest positive effect on system efficiency of all the other measures. This can be achieved by implementing a range of technical measures, and by using the short weather windows for tanker cargo operations that allows for increasing the total duration of weather windows by 10-15%. However, the crucial point for system efficiency was not the total duration of accessibility periods, but the availability of a tanker to approach the platform at a desired moment of time.
The model enabled the experts to discover that putting an additional shuttle tanker into operation has no significant impact on system efficiency, because the bottleneck of the system is oil offloading under weather change, not the shortage of tankers.
The results of the study collected with the AnyLogic model helped the experts determine technical and operational characteristics for each improving measure and evaluate statistical distribution laws of all key parameters. The obtained data formed a basis for making managerial decisions at the top level of the Gazprom Neft Shelf Company.
Another project carried out by the state research center experts for Gazprom Neft, with the help of simulation modeling, was the design of a maritime oil transportation system for the harsh ice environment.
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Indoctum, 13); accordingly his life must have covered roughly the period ca. A.D. 50-120, with which limits the rare and rather vague references to contemporary events agree. He was, accordingly, an almost exact contemporary of Plutarch and Tacitus.
Like Socrates and others whom he admired, he wrote nothing for publication, and but little memory would have survived of him had not a faithful pupil, successful as historian and administrator, Flavius Arrian, recorded many a discourse and informal conversation. These are saved to us in four books of Διατριβαί, or Discourses, out of the original eight, and in a very brief compendium, the Ἐγχειρίδιον, a Manual or Handbook, in which, xii | WIKI |
Using non-invasive functional neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), combined with novel techniques to selectively activate specific classes of nociceptive afferents, the research performed by the team of André Mouraux (IONS/COSY) follows two main axes. First, to understand how the human brain processes nociceptive sensory input and how this leads to the perception of pain. Second, to understand the plastic changes in nociceptive pathways that occur after inflammation, injury or sustained nociceptive input that induce peripheral and central sensitization and may underlie the development of chronic pain in humans.
André Mouraux
The main objective of my research is to characterize how transient and sustained pain are represented in the human brain, taking advantage of the high temporal and spatial resolution of intracerebral electroencephalography (iEEG). I am particularly interested in investigating the role of the human insula in nociception and pain perception, as several findings suggest that this brain region plays a crucial role in the integration of sensory, affective, and cognitive dimensions of pain.
Giulia Liberati
The main research interest of the team led by Valery Legrain (IONS/COSY) is to understand the cognitive mechanisms modulating the link between nociception and the conscious perception of pain, and the neurobiological substrates of these cognitive mechanisms. Different approaches are used: neurophysiology (event-related brain potentials), cognitive psychology (mental chronometry) and neuropsychology (investigation of patients with sensory-motor or attentional deficits).
Valéry Legrain
My research project involves looking for recurrent TRP ion channel mutations in patients suffering from severe chronic pain, in order to understand whether there is a genetic predisposition to the development of the pain conditions, and to develop personalized therapies to normalize the activity of the mutant channels. To this end, I combine the most advanced state-of-the-art techniques for the biophysical and pharmacological study of ion channels, including electrophysiology, fluorescence spectroscopy, biochemistry, structural modelling. I have also a wide experience in ion channel drug discovery and in the development of genetically modified mouse models for in vivo experiments.
Roberta Gualdani
The research group of Prof. Emmanuel Hermans (IONS/CEMO) has a long-standing expertise in the use of animal models to study the neuroinflammation and plastic changes of the central nervous system induced by neurotrauma, and its involvement in the development of neuropathic pain. His laboratory has experience in the production of animal models of neuropathic pain, the techniques used to study the pain behaviour of these animals, and the immune-histological techniques to characterize the glial activation and changes in nociceptive pathways at peripheral, spinal and supra-spinal level.
Emmanuel Hermans
The Reference Center for Refractory Epilepsy of the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc is headed by Profs. Susana Ferrao Santos (neurologist and head coordinator of the epilepsy surgery program) and Prof. Riëm El Tahry (neurologist and head of the epileptology research laboratory at IoNS). The unit conducts basic and applied research on the treatment of refractory epilepsy including neurostimulation. The unit also provides access to intracerebral EEG for basic research.
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc - Reference Center Epilepsy
The chronic pain center of the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc is a multidisciplinary unit for the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. Headed by Prof. Anne Berquin, it brings together medical specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology, neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, and social workers.
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc - Chronic Pain Center
The Department of Anaesthesiology of the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc is involved in several clinical research projects focusing on post-operative pain and its treatment. There are 24 operating rooms at CUSL and, in 2017, a total of 20,338 surgical interventions were carried out. Within the department, the transitional post-surgical pain consultation is headed by Prof. Patricia Lavand’homme.
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Analysis of Darcy's first proposal to Elizabeth
Look again at the Darcy’s first proposal to Elizabeth that is made in this novel. Choose at least two and, write responses to the following questions:
* under what circumstances does Darcy propose
* how does Elizabeth respond and why
* how does Austen present the proposal to the reader
That evening, just before Mr. Darcy comes to meet Elizabeth , she rereads Jane’s letters and finds out Mr. Darcy’s ‘shameful boast’ of misery that inflicted Jane’s happiness and it gives her a ‘keener sense of her sister’s sufferings’.
To Elizabeth’s ‘utter amazement’, Darcy enters the room approaching her ‘in a hurried manner’ enquiring after her health. He ‘sat for a few moments’, got up, and ‘walked about the room’. Mr. Darcy’s body language shows that he is nervous and agitated. Then he took several minutes to say his true love for her that how ‘ardently’ he ‘admires’ and ‘loves’ her. However, the reader later realises that his nervousness is not due to his love for Elizabeth is so great but due to the hesitation, whether it is a good idea to propose considering the inferiority of her family and social background.
Mr. Darcy explains to Elizabeth that ‘in vain’ he has ‘struggled’ to ‘repress’ his feelings towards not to love her’ he expresses his love for her unromantically and was less ‘eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride’. He talks about ‘his sense of her inferiority’ and the ‘family obstacles which judgment had always opposed inclination’. He means that although he had loved her for a long time he knows that her family is beneath him. Mr. Darcy considered his wealth and status as ‘sufficient encouragement’ for Elizabeth to accept his hand of marriage. Elizabeth ‘could see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer ‘as he ‘spoke with apprehension and anxiety’ although his ‘countenance expressed real security’.
When Mr. Darcy first enters Elizabeth’s room, her ‘astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted and was silent’. Then Darcy tells Elizabeth how much he loves her in spite of her ‘inferiority’ and her family’s degradation’. Despite of her ‘deeply-rooted dislike’ for Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth ‘could not be sensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection’. She is flattered when she realises how much he loves her and ‘she is sorry for the pain he was to receive, but she ‘lost all compassion in anger’ with his subsequent criticism of her ‘family’s inferiority’ while asking her to marry him.
As Mr. Darcy ‘spoke with apprehension and anxiety, Elizabeth’s ‘colour rose to her cheeks’, she refuses Mr. Darcy and says that she could not ‘feel any gratitude’ towards his proposal and she has ‘never desired’ his good opinion. Mr. Darcy is furious and looks at her ‘with no less resentment than surprise. ‘His complexion became pale with anger, and he was struggling for the appearance of composure’. He enquires ‘in a voice of forced calmness why she refused him ‘with so little endeavor at civility’
Elizabeth replies in a confrontational manner asking why he has spoken with ‘so evident a design of offending and insulting’ her by telling how much he loves her against his ‘will’, ‘reason’ and his ‘character’. She uses this opportunity to express how her feelings have been hurt by his insulting comment. Furthermore, she goes on to explain that even if his feelings had been ‘favourable’ she would never marry a person who has ‘ruined the happiness of a most beloved sister’.
Although Darcy changed colour at this moment, he showed no feelings of remorse and listens ‘with a simile of affected incredulity’ as Elizabeth explains how he destroyed Jane’s happiness by splitting up Jane and Bingley. Mr. Darcy admits that he did ‘everything in his power to separate his friend from Elizabeth’s sister and he adds ‘to him (Mr. Bingley) I have been kinder than to myself’.
This ‘civil reflection’ of Mr. Darcy, which she disdained, was unlikely to ‘conciliate her’. Elizabeth replies that Mr. Darcy’s interference in Jane and Bingley’s relationship was not the only reason for her bad opinion against him. She mentions what she had heard from Mr.Wickham. He responds to this ‘in a less tranquil tone and with heightened colour’. He answers that she taken ‘an eager interest’ in his concerns and Elizabeth accuses him of depriving Mr.Wickham, ‘the independence which was no less his due than his desert’. She is shocked by seeing Mr. Darcy speaking of him ‘with contempt and ridicule’.
Mr. Darcy’s says that ‘perhaps these offences might have been overlooked, had not your (Elizabeth) pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that have long prevented my forming of any serious design’. This explains that he believes his honesty has made her reject him and asks her ‘Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferior of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of my relations, whose conditions in life is so decidedly beneath my own?’
Jane Austen comments to the reader that Elizabeth ‘felt herself growing angrier every moment’. However, ‘she tried to the utmost to speak with composure’. When she says to Mr. Darcy ‘you could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it’, Mr. Darcy astonished by this remark and looks at her ‘with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification’. She further comments that she disliked him from the very first time they met because of his ‘arrogance….conceit… self disdain of the feelings of others’.
Her ‘immovable dislike’ has made her feel that he was ‘the last man in the world’ that she ‘could be prevailed to marry’. After Mr. Darcy left, Jane Austen writes that Elizabeth cried for half an hour. It seems she felt it was ‘almost incredible’ that Mr. Darcy is so much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had prevented his friend (Mr. Bingley) marrying her sister. She feels it was ‘gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection’ but Elizabeth condemns Mr. Darcy’s ‘abominable pride’ and ‘his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane’ and Mr. Darcy’s ‘unfeeling manner’ when he spoke of Wickham.
Jane Austen portrays how men and women in her times considered marriage through different characters in the novel. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s family especially shows that middle class women could not work; it would be seen as improper. Mrs. Bennet is desperate to get her daughters married to wealthy young men. This shows that parents were very much involved when it came to their daughter’s marriage and would play a large role in finding a husband.
Jane Austen views love as the foundation for a happy marriage. This view is mainly portrayed through Darcy and Elizabeth’s marriage and this is thought be the best marriage in the novel along with Jane and Bingley’s marriage because they are well suited and they are financially secure. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Lydia and Wickham and Charlotte and Mr. Collin’s marriages are viewed as bad marriages as their marriages lack the element of love that the other two good marriages have a plenty.
Jane Austen portrays that these marriages are bad due to lack of intelligence and wit that neither person has, the lack understanding and communication between each other in their married life. Lydia running away with Mr. Wickham without getting married was a big scandal in the novel. She was excluded from the society as she went against its traditional values of the society in those times. However, getting married reduced the shame slightly that was passed on to the family. Jane Austen shows the consequences that will occur to women who live together with a man without getting married.
Charlotte married Mr. Collin because she felt she was already a burden for her family and this would be a social embarrassment. Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet’s closest male who will inherit his estate, which meant that he had definite financial security. This marriage shows that there was a lot of pressure on women like Charlotte from society. She is influenced to marry a man for financial security, protection and a house of her own.
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24 undervalued stocks in the S&P-500, NASDAQ-100, and DOW-30. Your Weekly Guide (16 November 2024) - maybe of interest!
Hi folks,
Another weekly installment, for those who maybe interested! I go through the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, and DOW-30 as of 16 November 2024, looking for undervalued stocks. I am aiming to do this weekly. For those wanting a bit more detail, I just uploaded a video here as well: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmzQU40W5uQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmzQU40W5uQ)
16 November 2024
**Category 1 Cigar Butts**
Requirements (for me): CAP:INCOME ratio must be below 10, CAP:EQUITY ratio must be below 3, DEBT:EQUITY Ratio must be below 1. All analyst forecasts must be ABOVE -10%, with at least one in the positive. Past 5 years of income must (generally) be positive and stable.
1. ADM:NYQ Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
2. APTV:NYQ Aptiv PLC
3. BG:NYQ Bunge Global SA
4. BWA:NYQ Borgwarner Inc
5. CNC:NYQ Centene Corp
6. CVS:NYQ CVS Health Corporation
7. DLTR:NYQ Dollar Tree Inc.
8. DVN:NYQ Devon Energy Corporation
9. EG:NYQ Everest Group Ltd.
10. FMC:NYQ FMC Corp
11. HAL:NYQ Halliburton Company
12. IPG:NYQ Interpublic Group of Companies Inc
13. MOS:NYQ The Mosaic Company
14. OXY:NYQ Occidental Petroleum Corporation
15. PFE:NYQ Pfizer Inc.
16. PSX:NYQ Phillips 66
**Category 2 Cigar Butts**
Requirements (for me): CAP:INCOME ratio can be between 10-11, CAP:EQUITY ratio can be between 3-4, DEBT:EQUITY ratio can be between 1-2. One analyst forecasts can be below -10%. Past 5 years of income must (generally) be positive and stable.
1. APA:NSQ APA Corp (US)
2. CE:NYQ Celanese Corp
3. DG:NYQ Dollar General Corp
4. LKQ:NSQ LKQ Corp
5. LYB:NYQ LyondellBasell Industries NV
6. MPC:NYQ Marathon Petroleum Corporation
7. SMCI:NSQ Super Micro Computer Inc
8. VLO:NYQ Valero Energy Corp
**Category 3 Leftovers**
(For me) NOT technically undervalued, but I’m keeping an eye on them.
1. F:NYQ Ford Motor Co
2. GIS:NYQ General Mills Inc
3. HII:NYQ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc
4. INTC:NSQ Intel Corp
5. KHC:NSQ Kraft Heinz Co
6. MRNA:NSQ Moderna Inc
7. NUE:NYQ Nucor Corporation
8. WBA:NSQ Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc
**What I’ll be looking at with particular intrigue (arranged alphabetically):**
1. APA:NSQ APA Corp (Category 2)
extremely low cap/income ratios
2. APTV:NYQ Aptiv PLC (Category 1)
extremely low cap/income ratios
3. FMC:NYQ FMC Corp (Category 1)
Income jumped from under 900 million for years 2-5, to 1,700 million in year 1
4. KHC:NSQ Kraft Heinz Co (Category 3)
decent dividend (5.14%), established name, only 1 point off 52-week low, and very close to being technically undervalued
5. MRNA:NSQ Moderna Inc (Category 3)
at 52-week low, equity is almost same as market cap, and while income for years 1, 4, 5 were negative (1 at -3284 million), last year and year before, there was profit of 8,362, and 12,202 respectively.
6. PFE:NYQ Pfizer Inc (Category 1)
overall quite solid, with good dividend (6.77%)
7. SMCI:NSQ Super Micro Computer Inc (Category 2)
really odd behaviour, floating issues related to auditing, I really just want to see what is going to happen...
The general framework I use to assess undervaluation is derived from:
1) The "Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham
2) "Security Analysis" by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
3) Warren Buffet's approach to stock analysis based on the two texts above
4) My own variations to this approach that have evolved over the years.
My general approach:
1. I split portfolio across 15 stocks at minimum (if possible)
2. I presume I will hold stocks for 3-24 months (at minimum).
3. I try to check stocks no more than once per day (ideally once per week).
4. I sell a stock once it breaches 20% profit.
5. If stocks go on sale (let’s say, drops another 20% or more), I check my math. If calculations still hold, I invest up to 50% more.
6. I have a contract with myself and I (aside for two exceptions so far) don't break it.
Hope it is of some use! | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Automatic image-based water stage measurement for long-term observations in ungauged catchments https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/xmlui/handle/123456789/1308 Small scale and headwater catchments are mostly ungauged, even though their observation could help to improve the understanding of hydrological processes. However, it is expensive to build and maintain conventional measurement networks. Thus, the heterogeneous characteristics and behavior of catchments are currently not fully observed. This study introduces a method to capture water stage with a flexible low-cost camera setup. By considering the temporal signature of the water surface, water lines are automatically retrieved via image processing. The image coordinates are projected into object space to estimate the actual water stage. This requires high resolution 3D models of the river bed and bank area which are calculated in a local coordinate system with SfM, employing terrestrial as well as UAV imagery. A medium- and a small-scale catchment are investigated to assess the accuracy and reliability of the introduced method. Results reveal that the average deviation between the water stages measured with the camera gauge and a reference gauge are below 6 mm in the medium-scale catchment. Trends of water stage changes are captured reliably in both catchments. The developed approach uses a low-cost camera design in combination with image-based water level measurements and high-resolution topography from SfM. In future, adding tracking algorithms can help to densify existing gauging networks. 2020-04-03T11:31:54Z StageDetect - An image-based tool for automatic water stage detection - image dataset https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/xmlui/handle/123456789/1333 StageDetect - An image-based tool for automatic water stage detection - image dataset Eltner, Anette The dataset includes image sets and data to reference the image measurements. The image sets and datasets are used for figure 3 in the in the WRR manuscript 'Automatic image-based water stage measurement for long-term observations in ungauged catchments'. The image sets comprises the master image of the image sequences captured in frequent interval with Raspberry Pi cameras at the river Wesenitz and Wernersbach in Saxony, Germany. If entire image sequences (instead of single masters) are requested (they are not provided here due to large data size), please contact Anette.Eltner@tu-dresden.de 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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What is Nausea?
Nausea is an uneasy sensation that you feel the need to vomit, however it does not always lead to vomiting. Nausea is not a condition in its own right as it is often a symptom of other conditions. Some common causes can include; viral infections which can be also known as a 'stomach flu', eating or drinking too much, food poisoning, pregnancy and motion sickness or seasickness.
Nausea is often nothing to worry about in adults and will often clear within a day or two. How ever if it is persistent bouts of nausea that you are experiencing you should seek the help of your GP.
What are the symptoms of Nausea?
Nausea symptoms can be quite hard to describe. Nausea symptoms are not always painful but can be extremely uncomfortable sensations felt often in the chest, upper abdomen, or at the back of the throat. Nausea can be associated with;
• Headache
• Fever
• Diarrhoea
• Gas
• Vomiting
• Dizziness
• Lightheadedness
• Abdominal Pain
How is Nausea diagnosed?
It can be quite difficult to diagnose nausea specifically, as usually it is a symptom of another condition. However frequent nausea can result in vomiting and if this persists for longer than 48 hours, we would recommend going to your GP.
If your nausea is associated with motion sickness this can often be dealt with at a pharmacy, where you are able to buy medication over the counter. Although in severe cases you can consult a GP to get prescribed motion sickness medication.
Finally in more severe cases where nausea leads to bouts sickness where blood is present in the vomit will indicate a condition that requires urgent attention, and you should go to the hospital immediately.
What treatments are available for Nausea?
There are many treatments used to treat nausea. Each treatment used will depend on the cause of your nausea. If you are experiencing persistent episodes of nausea, it may be that you have to see your GP and it will be down to their discretion on what they decide to prescribe or recommend.
In cases where a migraine is causing the nausea, which is fairly common. A drug called Buccastem M may be used, This is a tablet which is placed in the cavity between the gum and top lip. Buccastem M is made up of 3mg of Prochlorperazine and is made into something called a Buccal Tablet.
Alternatives
Non-medicinal alternatives for Nausea
There are quite a few forms of therapy associated with help to reduce or control nausea. These methods will not work as quickly as medication, however they are often a good place to start. There is nothing stopping you from combining these methods with medication if it is needed.
These methods try to reduce nausea and vomiting by:
• Helping you feel relaxed
• Distracting you from what’s going on
• Helping you feel in control
• Making you feel less helpless
Below are some non-medicinal treatments that may help. Most of them have few or no side effects, how ever there is very little scientific evidence that shows this works.
Self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis can be used to make behaviour changes to help control nausea and vomiting.
Progressive muscle relaxation
Progressive muscle relaxation teaches a person to relax by progressively tensing and relaxing different muscle groups. It’s been used to decrease the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.
Acupuncture or acupressure
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese technique where very thin needles are put into the skin. There are a number of different acupuncture techniques, including some that use pressure rather than needles (acupressure). Some studies have found it may help treat anticipatory nausea.
Nausea FAQs
• Nausea is an unpleasant sensation in the upper stomach that accompanies the urge to vomit. Nausea can precede vomiting, although it is possible to feel nauseous with out throwing up. A prolonged feeling of nausea can be a debilitating symptom.
• Nausea is a non-specific symptom, meaning it can have various different causes. Nausea is not an illness itself, but rather a symptom of another condition. The most common causes of nausea are listed below:
• Motion sickness
• Migraine
• Pregnancy (morning sickness)
• Intense pain
• Enteroviruses (viruses affecting your intestinal system)
• Gastroenteritis
• Food poisoning
• Dizziness
• Chemotherapy
• Bulimia
• Drinking excess amounts of alcohol
• Medications
• Nausea symptoms can be difficult to describe. Nausea itself wouldn’t be classed as painful, but rather an uncomfortable feeling felt in the upper stomach and chest. Nausea can have an array of associated symptoms, including:
• Vomiting
• Headache
• Fever
• Dizziness
• Abdominal pain
• Diarrhoea
• Gas
• Light-headedness
• Knowing the cause of your nausea will help determine whether you need to visit your doctor. For example; if your nausea is the result of motion sickness, once the motion causing the sickness has ceased, the associated nausea will, in turn, subside. Another example would be nausea caused by overindulging in alcohol. The nausea itself is a related symptom to the excessive consumption, which means once the alcohol has left your system, the nauseous feelings should dissipate. Under these circumstances, a visit to the doctor will likely be unnecessary.
If however, you are persistently experiencing nausea, and its cause is unknown, then it is advised to speak with your doctor. Also, you should seek medical advice immediately should you present with any of the following associated symptoms:
• Blood in your vomit
• Severe abdominal pain
• A headache and stiffness of the neck
• A persistent feeling of nausea that doesn’t go away in someone who isn’t pregnant
• Dehydration
• There are a variety of different medicines available for the treatment of nausea. Choosing the right medication will depend on its underlying cause. For example, sufferers of motion sickness and vertigo will likely need antihistamines or anticholinergics.
If the nausea is being triggered by a migraine or headaches, then a dopamine antagonist, such as Metoclopramide would be a more suitable choice.
Cases of nausea where gastroenteritis is the cause would be more effectively treated with serotonin antagonists, such as Ondansetron. Whereas, Pyridoxine and Doxylamine is usually the first line of treatment when treating pregnancy-related cases of morning sickness.
• A medicine used to relieve nausea is generally referred to as an antiemetic. There are lots of different types of antiemetic drugs, some of the most commonly prescribed are listed below:
• Cyclizine – belongs to a group of medicines called antihistamines. Cyclizine is believed to block the histamine 1 receptor in the part of the brain that creates the sensation of nausea.
• Promethazine – also an antihistamine. This drug works in the same way as Cyclizine.
• Hyoscine – this medicine works by blocking the chemical acetylcholine. It is particularly effective at treating nausea caused by motion sickness and inner ear problems.
• Metoclopramide – this medicine acts in the gut. Metoclopramide works to speed up the transit of food through the gut. This treatment for nausea is often used when the symptoms are caused by gut problems or a migraine.
• Domperidone – like Metoclopramide, Domperidone also works to speed up food transit through the gut.
• Prochlorperazine – this medicine works by blocking a chemical in the brain called dopamine. Prochlorperazine is useful for treating nausea caused by cancers, radiation and opiate medicines, such as morphine and codeine. Prochlorperazine has also proven effective at relieving nausea caused by vertigo and inner ear problems.
• If you suffer from morning sickness during pregnancy, your doctor or midwife will likely suggest changes to your diet and daily life before prescribing medication. However, if these changes have little effect, or if the morning sickness is particularly severe, then your doctor or midwife may suggest a short-term course of medication.
• Nausea isn’t always possible to prevent. Trying to manage the underlying cause will be the most effective method for preventing the associated nausea. For example, if your nausea is being caused by your medication, then speaking to your doctor about an alternative should be your first course of action.
However, there are steps you can take to help prevent nausea, providing its cause and triggers are controllable. Listed below are some self-help tips that can help prevent nausea under these circumstances:
• Eating smaller meals
• Try to avoid foods that are hard to digest
• If the smell of warm foods makes you feel nauseous, try eating foods that are cold
• Eat slowly
• Rest after eating, ensuring your head remains elevated roughly 12 inches above your feet
• Eat during times where you feel less nauseated
• Drink liquids in between meals rather than during them
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Proposed Deletion
Kingdom of Laos was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT
Cut & pasted from which is copyrighted even this is a site of Library of US Congress, as mentioned in bottom of this page. --Ramendra 19:10, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC) (bit modified)
* Comment, This does not need to be here, copyvio is the correct process. -Vina 20:35, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Note, I moved the discussion from the main VfD page to here. -Vina 20:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Countrystudies.us can't revert or annull the public domain status of the text; their copyright can only extend to their own stuff (i.e., the text around the edges of the country studies they obtained from the Library of Congress). I'll restore the article. I would also put this note on the copyvio page, but there doesn't appear to be an item there for Kingdom of Laos. Wile E. Heresiarch 01:04, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* D We already have Laos and History of Laos. Chris 02:41, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Delete. NeoJustin 03:48, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Redirect to Laos. The full/proper names of countries, and their historical forms, should probably be made into redirects to the country article. --Improv 17:19, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Redirect to Laos or History of Laos, but merge any parts that are not yet in the redirected-to article. Wile E. Heresiarch 20:39, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
* Redirect. — siro χ o 23:54, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
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Contradiction
The first and second sentence are in apparent contradiction: the Kingdom of Laos was sovereign from 1947 to 1975. yet in 1953 a treaty established a sovereign Laos. Please resolve this. Also, there is only one reference. Two would be better; and more, better still. Rintrah 15:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
* Looks like someone fixed it. Cont. tag removed. 99DBSIMLR 12:52, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
The Political scene in Laos wasn't like Vietnam at the time, there wasn't a north or south, it was a big mess.
Should Stay
The Empire of Brazil has an article seperate from Brazil, why should the Kingdom of Laos be deleted?
Date of independence
The date of the independence for Kingdom of Laos is October 22, 1953, not on November 9, 1953 (November 9 is Cambodia's independence day). Source: http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Laos/sub5_3a/entry-2937.html "In 1950 Laos was granted semi-autonomy as an "associated state" within the French Union. France remained in de facto control until 22 October 1953, when Laos gained full independence as a constitutional monarchy".
Wrong Flag design?
Where did this unique design for the Kingdom of Laos' flag come from? The trunks are not curved on the original flags.
The flag embedded on this article is not an accurate representation of the flag of the Kingdom of Laos. In the September 1961 issue of National Geographic there are pictures and descriptions of all the member states of the United Nations at that time. The flag of Laos is displayed on page 340. The graphic uploaded at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3-head-elephant-laos-flag.svg is a closer representation of that flag.
2601:203:4380:DDB0:45E1:A6D2:4C64:785A (talk) 20:39, 13 August 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
timbo
Etymology
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Noun
* 1) The pacara tree,.
* 2) * 1894, New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, section on Plants Collected in Paraguay, page 216:
* The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is.
* The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is.
Noun
* 1) smoke
Etymology
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Noun
* 1) aardvark, a mammal | WIKI |
Manfred Fuhrmann
Manfred Fuhrmann (23 June 1925 – 12 January 2005) was a professor for classical Latin philology and one of the most eminent German philologists.
Life
Fuhrmann was born on 23 June 1925 in Hiddesen (near Detmold). He started his studies in Leiden. While Fuhrmann wanted to study music, he gave up this plan in favour of classical philology and jurisprudence, whereby the classical philology was decisive for him. 1953 he obtained his doctorate in classical philology in Freiburg, followed by his habilitation ibidem. 1962 Fuhrmann accepted a chair at the University of Kiel, 1966 one at the University of Konstanz. Also, he was a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (academy of sciences of Heidelberg) and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1990. Furthermore, the University of Freiburg gave Fuhrmann an honorary doctorate in jurisprudence. He died on 12 January 2005.
Achievements
Fuhrmann is generally considered to be one of the most eminent German philologists. During his lifetime he has undoubtedly achieved a lot: Above all he has worked as a translator — having translated a huge amount of classical Latin and Ancient Greek texts into German: His probably most outstanding achievement was to translate all of Cicero's speeches. For this translation Fuhrmann received the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation from the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 1990. Besides he has translated texts from other classical authors like Horace, Aristotle and Plato.
In addition to his translations, Fuhrmann became well known for his criticism of education. In his book ''Bildung. Europas kulturelle Identität (Education. The cultural identity of Europe'') he criticised that natural sciences are much too important in the most current educational systems, whereas classical philology, history and music do not receive enough recognition.
Literature
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Der europäische Bildungskanon des bürgerlichen Zeitalters. Insel. 2004.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Rom in der Spätantike: Porträt einer Epoche. Artemis & Winkler. 1998.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Cicero: Und die römische Republik. Patmos. 2005.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Bildung: Europas kulturelle Identität. Reclam. 2002.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Die antike Rhetorik. Eine Einführung. Artemis & Winkler. 2003.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Latein und Europa. Die fremd gewordenen Fundamente unserer Bildung. Dumont Buchverlag. 2005.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Die antike Rhetorik. Patmos. 2007.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Geschichte der römischen Literatur. Reclam. 2005.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Cicero: Die catilinarischen Reden. Artemis & Winkler. 1998.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Aristoteles: Poetik. Reclam. 1994.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Platon: Apologie des Sokrates. Reclam. 1986.
* Fuhrmann, Manfred: Cicero: Die Reden gegen Verres / In C. Verrem: Erste Verhandlung. Zweite Verhandlung, viertes Buch / Actio prima. Actio secunda, liber quartus. Artemis & Winkler. 1999. | WIKI |
Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk
The Sikorsky MH-60/HH-60 Pave Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. The HH-60 Pave Hawk and its successor the HH-60W Jolly Green II are combat rescue helicopters, though in practice they often serve humanitarian and peacetime disaster rescue. It is a derivative of the UH-60 Black Hawk and incorporates the US Air Force PAVE electronic systems program. The HH-60/MH-60 is a member of the Sikorsky S-70 family.
The MH-60G Pave Hawk's primary mission is insertion and recovery of special operations personnel, while the HH-60G Pave Hawk's core mission is recovery of personnel under hostile conditions, including combat search and rescue. Both versions conduct day or night operations into hostile environments. Because of its versatility, the HH-60G may also perform peacetime operations such as civil search and rescue, emergency aeromedical evacuation (MEDEVAC), disaster relief, international aid and counter-drug activities.
The USAF HH/MH-60G are in the process of being replaced by the new HH-60W Jolly Green II starting in the 2020s, with both types being operating during that time. The HH-60P is operated by South Korea.
Design and development
In 1981, the U.S. Air Force chose the UH-60A Black Hawk to replace its HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters. After acquiring some UH-60s, the Air Force began upgrading each with an air refueling probe and additional fuel tanks in the cabin. The machine guns were changed from 7.62 mm (0.308 in) M60s to .50 caliber (12.7 mm) XM218s. These helicopters were referred to as "Credible Hawks" and entered service in 1987.
Afterwards, the Credible Hawks and new UH-60As were upgraded and designated MH-60G Pave Hawk. These upgrades were to be done in a two-step process. However, funding allowed only 16 Credible Hawks to receive the second step equipment. These helicopters were allocated to special operations use. The remaining 82 Credible Hawks received the first step upgrade equipment and were used for combat search and rescue. In 1991, these search and rescue Pave Hawks were redesignated HH-60G.
The Pave Hawk is a highly modified version of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. It features an upgraded communications and navigation suite that includes an integrated inertial navigation/global positioning/Doppler navigation systems, satellite communications, secure voice, and Have Quick communications. The term PAVE stands for Precision Avionics Vectoring Equipment.
All HH-60Gs have an automatic flight control system, night vision goggles lighting and forward looking infrared system that greatly enhances night low-level operations. Additionally, some Pave Hawks have color weather radar and an engine/rotor blade anti-ice system that gives the HH-60G an all-weather capability. Pave Hawk mission equipment includes a retractable in-flight refueling probe, internal auxiliary fuel tanks, two crew-served (or pilot-controlled) 7.62 mm miniguns or .50-caliber machine guns and an 8,000 pound (3,600 kg) capacity cargo hook. To improve air transportability and shipboard operations, all HH-60Gs have folding rotor blades.
Pave Hawk combat enhancements include a radar warning receiver, infrared jammer and a flare/chaff countermeasure dispensing system. HH-60G rescue equipment includes a hoist capable of lifting a 600-pound (270 kg) load from a hover height of 200 feet (60 m), and a personnel locating system. A number of Pave Hawks are equipped with an over-the-horizon tactical data receiver that is capable of receiving near real-time mission update information.
Replacement
In 1999, the USAF identified a need for a helicopter with improved range, speed, and cabin space. An options analysis was completed in 2002 and funding for 141 aircraft under the "personnel recovery vehicle" program began in 2004. In 2005, it was renamed CSAR-X, meaning combat search and rescue. Sikorsky entered the HH-92 Superhawk, Lockheed Martin entered the VH-71 Kestrel, and Boeing entered the HH-47 Chinook. The HH-47 won the competition in November 2006, but the award was cancelled after successful protests from both rival competitors. A Request for Proposals (RFP) was reissued in 2007, but protested again before proposals were received, leading to a second cancellation. In March 2010, the USAF announced a recapitalization plan to return its 99-aircraft inventory to 112 airframes, incrementally replacing aging HH-60Gs; a secondary plan to replace 13 attrition HH-60s, seven of which were lost in combat since 2001, was also initiated. The USAF deferred secondary combat search and rescue requirements calling for a larger helicopter. A UH-60M-based version was offered as a replacement.
On 22 October 2012, the USAF issued an RFP for up to 112 Combat Rescue Helicopters (CRH) to replace the HH-60G with the primary mission of personnel recovery from hostile territory; other missions include civil search and rescue, disaster relief, casualty and medical evacuation. It had to have a combat radius of 225 nmi, a payload of 1,500 lb (680 kg), and space for up to four stretchers. The AgustaWestland AW101 was one entrant. By December 2012, competitors AgustaWestland, EADS, Boeing, and Bell Helicopter had withdrawn amid claims that the RFP favored Sikorsky and did not reward rival aircraft's capabilities. The USAF argued that the competition was not written to favor Sikorsky, and that the terms were clear as to the capabilities they wanted and could afford. Sikorsky was the only bidder remaining, with subcontractor Lockheed Martin supplying mission equipment and the electronic survivability suite. Sikorsky and the USAF extensively evaluated the proposed CRH-60, a variant of the MH-60 special operations helicopter; the CRH-60 differed from the MH-60 by its greater payload and cabin capacity, wider rotor blades, and better hover capability.
In September 2013, the initial USAF FY 2015 budget proposal would have cancelled the CRH program due to sequestration budget cuts, instead retaining the existing HH-60 fleet. Congress allocated over $300 million to the program in FY 2014, with $430 million to be moved from other areas through FY 2019 to finance it. On 26 June 2014, the USAF awarded Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin a $1.3 billion contract for the first four aircraft, with 112 total to be procured for a total of up to $7.9 billion. Five more are to be delivered by 2020 and the order is to be completed by 2029. On 24 November 2014, the Air Force officially designated the UH-60M-derived CRH the HH-60W. It first flew on 17 May 2019. In February 2020, the HH-60W was named the "Jolly Green II" by the USAF. The 41st Rescue Squadron received the first two HH-60W helicopters on 5 November 2020.
Operational history
As of 2015, the U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk was operated by the Air Combat Command (ACC), U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG). Some HH-60Gs are also operated by the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) for flight tests.
During Operation Desert Storm, Pave Hawks provided combat search and rescue coverage for coalition air forces in western Iraq, Saudi Arabia, coastal Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. They also provided emergency evacuation coverage for U.S. Navy SEAL teams landing on the Kuwaiti coast before the invasion.
The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) got rid of its MH-60Gs in 1991, redesignating them as HH-60Gs and giving them to Air Combat Command (ACC) and ACC-gained Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard units.
On 29 October 1992, a MH-60G Pave Hawk crashed in the Great Salt Lake of Utah about 100 yards north of Antelope Island during a training exercise in bad weather. Twelve members of the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment and the Air Force's 1st Special Operations Wing died in the accident. The pilot, Air Force Maj. Stephan J. Laushine, was the only survivor.
During Operation Allied Force, the Pave Hawk provided continuous combat search and rescue coverage for NATO air forces, and recovered two U.S. Air Force pilots who were isolated behind enemy lines.
In March 2000, three Pave Hawks deployed to Hoedspruit Air Force Base in South Africa to support international flood relief operations in Mozambique. The HH-60Gs flew 240 missions in 17 days and delivered more than 160 tons of humanitarian relief supplies.
In early 2005, Air Force Pave Hawks also took part in a massive humanitarian relief effort to help in Sri Lankan victims of the tsunami. In the fall of 2005, Pave Hawks from various Air Force commands helped rescue thousands of stranded survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Pave Hawks operated during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom, supporting Army and Marine Corps ground combat operations and standby search and rescue support for U.S. and coalition fixed-wing combat aircraft.
On 15 March 2018, a CSAR HH-60G crashed near the Iraqi city of al-Qa'im, killing all seven on board.
Variants
* HH-60A: Prototype for the HH-60D rescue helicopter. A modified UH-60A primarily designed for combat search and rescue. It is equipped with a rescue hoist with a 200 ft (60.96 m) cable that has a 600 lb (270 kg) lift capability, and a retractable in-flight refueling probe.
* HH-60D Night Hawk: Prototype of combat rescue variant for the US Air Force.
* HH-60E: Proposed search and rescue variant for the US Air Force.
* HH-60G Pave Hawk: Search and rescue helicopter for the US Air Force upgraded from UH-60A Credible Hawk.
* MH-60G Pave Hawk: Special Operations, search and rescue model for the US Air Force. Equipped with long-range fuel tanks, air-to-air refueling capability, FLIR, improved radar. Powered by T-700-GE-700/701 engines.
* Maplehawk: Proposed search and rescue version for the Canadian Forces to replace aging CH-113 Labradors. The CF opted for the CH-149 Cormorant instead.
* HH-60P Pave Hawk: Combat Search and Rescue variant of UH-60P, in service with Republic of Korea Air Force. Variant includes External Tank System and FLIR for night operations.
* HH-60U: The Air Force has four HH-60U "Ghost Hawks", which are converted "M" variants that are based at Area 51.
* HH-60W Jolly Green II: Combat rescue helicopter variant of the UH-60M for the U.S. Air Force to replace the HH-60G.
Operators
* Republic of Korea Air Force operates HH-60P helicopters
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* United States Air Force
* 33rd Rescue Squadron
* 34th Weapons Squadron
* 38th Rescue Squadron
* 41st Rescue Squadron
* 55th Rescue Squadron
* 56th Rescue Squadron
* 66th Rescue Squadron
* 101st Rescue Squadron (New York Air National Guard)
* 129th Rescue Squadron (California Air National Guard)
* 210th Rescue Squadron (Alaska Air National Guard)
* 301st Rescue Squadron (Air Force Reserve Command)
* 305th Rescue Squadron (Air Force Reserve Command)
* 413th Flight Test Squadron (Air Force Materiel Command)
* 512th Rescue Squadron (Air Education & Training Command) | WIKI |
eolymp
Game
Murad and Ibrahim are playing in the next game. Initially, number 1 is given. On his turn, each player must multiply the current number by one of integers between 2 and 9, inclusively. The goal is to obtain a number not less than the given integer n. Player, who obtained such a number first, is declared as the winner. Murad always starts first. Find out, who will win if Murad and Ibrahim will play optimally.
Input
The first line contains one integer t (1t2500) - the number of test cases. Each of the next t lines contains one integer n (2n109).
Output
For each test case print in a separate line 1, if Murad will win the game, and 2 otherwise.
Time limit 1 second
Memory limit 128 MiB
Input example #1
4
9
10
1149729
999999999
Output example #1
1
2
2
1
Source IZHO 2019 Selection Contest, Dec. 29 2018, Baku | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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] moderate weather, to determine the three magnetic elements with even more precision on board our ships than they are susceptible of on shore, on account of the unknown and indeterminable amount of local attraction; and even in the heaviest gales, after a little practice with his instrument, they may be observed with sufficient exactness to afford very useful and important information. Throughout the whole distance of between three and four thousand miles, from Kerguelen Island to Van Diemen Land, we could not have derived a single satisfactory result with the instruments in common use; and this portion of the ocean, at least, must for the present have remained a blank upon our charts. But, with Mr. Fox's apparatus, the dip and intensity observations were accomplished in an almost uninterrupted series of daily experiments.
By reference to the annexed table, the progressive increase of intensity, after leaving Kerguelen Island, and the points at which we successively crossed the isodynamic lines of 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, &c., until, on the sixth of August, in lat. 46° 44′ S., and long. 128° 26′ E., we found it to attain its greatest amount in this parallel of latitude, being there 2.034, and thence again as gradually diminishing to 1.824 at Van Diemen Land. The weather did not admit of our attempting to determine the actual position of the focus of maximum intensity, which, from our observations, we considered to be far to the southward of the course | WIKI |
A Shokonsha, a type of Shinto Shrine, was established in 1869 by Emperor Meiji at Kudan in Tokyo. On the 27th January 1879, it was visited by Emperor Meiji who wrote, “I assure those of you who fought and died for your country that your names will live forever at this shrine in Musashino”. The shrine was given the name Yasukuni, which means to represent wishes for preserving the peace of the nation.
A Shinto Shrine is a shrine designed specifically for the storage of sacred objects and is not a place of worship, and a Shokonsha is a sanctuary that is built to enshrine the war dead, particularly those who died in the service of the Imperial nation. In the Shinto religion, the soul of a departed loved one becomes ‘kami’ or a revered spirit, so this shrine containing around 2.4 million souls is a very holy place and revered by millions of Japanese people who lost loved ones during the many wars that have been fought since 1869.
The souls of millions of people, both male and female, mostly military personnel but also anyone, who served in places such as the merchant navy or worked in munitions factories and died in allied bombings, are remembered here. It does not include the general population that died in the course of the war.
The Yasukuni Shrine was built with the “purpose of enshrining those who have died in war for their country and sacrificed their lives to help build the foundation for a peaceful Japan.” In the shrine are records that denote the name, place and date of birth, and place and date of death for each person so enshrined.
Relatives often undertake rituals offering food and dedicating words of appreciation for the dead and each year, in spring and autumn, major ceremonies are held, under the auspices of the royal family, and offerings from His Majesty the Emperor are dedicated to the dead.
Up to 1978, this shrine was a place of peace and for the Japanese people to revere their loved ones, but in 1978 the government, in a secret ceremony, inducted approximately 1 000 war criminals from World War II, after a special eligibility category for ‘victims’ of international war crimes tribunals was created. These people were convicted and executed at the end of the war by the Allied war tribunals and many committed heinous crimes.
Crimes such as the “Rape of Nanking”, where two Japanese officers had a competition to see who could kill the most Chinese with their swords, were truly horrendous. Prisoners of war were used as bayonet practise to blood new recruits before they were sent to the front while many prisoners were used for scientific experiments and many Chinese girls were used as sex-slaves to entertain Japanese troops.
Needless to say, when this induction came to light, it caused a great deal of controversies and many of Japan’s neighbours, whose citizens had suffered at the hands of these criminals, were not impressed with their induction into the shrine.
Also, the museum at the shrine that is dedicated to Japan’s war history presents a very nationalistic or one-sided view of the war. The Chinese and other nations believe that Japan has never apologised for the atrocities committed during the war and made no attempt to educate younger generations about these crimes.
In addition to the anger over the sanitised version of the history, are the names of thousands of Koreans and Taiwanese soldiers, subjects of the empire and conscripted by the Japanese, also included at the shrine. Their families have requested that they be removed but the Shinto priests say that under the Shinto religion this is not possible.
When the shrine is visited by a high-ranking government official such as the Prime Minister, it causes an outcry all over the world. No-one remembers the loyal Japanese soldiers that fought for their country; all that is remembered are the war criminals and the museum. These controversies taint the memories of the faithful soldiers and it is still uncertain why the government allowed the war criminals to be included.
One explanation could be that many Japanese believe that the war tribunals were a form of victor’s justice, as they allowed hearsay evidence, called the “Best Evidence Rule”, to be put forward. This would not be acceptable today but no-one can claim that no crimes against humanity happened, and those criminals should be held to account.
In November 2015, a pipe bomb exploded in a public toilet on the grounds of the shrine and though no one was injured the Shrine was closed for some time while authorities searched for any more explosive devices. This is just one more example of the conflict that arises around this shrine.
The name of the shrine means to preserve the peace of the nation but that seems unlikely to happen in the near future, and it is very sad that a place that should revere the memory of millions of good, loyal men should be tainted by conflict. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurence Kemball-Cook
The result was delete. – Juliancolton | Talk 00:28, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Laurence Kemball-Cook
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Fails WP:BIO. All trade papers. scope_creep (talk) 00:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:25, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
* Delete a non-notable businessman.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:14, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
* Delete doesn't look like this guy is notable at all. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:00, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
* Comment I'm not suggesting that this is anything more than WP:TOOSOON, but the article says, "Laurence has generated media interest for his invention, including press coverage by Forbes,[6] Wired,[7] BBC,[8] CNN,[9] The Times[10] and The Huffington Post.[11]". There is also a book by Richard Branson in the WP:BEFORE D1 profile. Unscintillating (talk) 02:29, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
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Ronnie Cowan (rugby)
Ronald "Ron"/"Ronnie" C. Cowan (born 26 November 1941) is a Scottish former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for the British Lions, and, and at club level for Selkirk RFC, as a wing, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Other Nationalities, and at club level for Leeds (Heritage № 973) and Hull FC (Heritage № 679), as a , or.
Background
Cowan was born in Selkirk, Scotland.
Rugby union career
Cowan was capped five times for in 1961–62. He also played for Selkirk RFC. He went on the 1962 British Lions tour to South Africa.
Rugby league career
Cowan transferred to Leeds during the 1962–63 season, and scored 119-tries during his rugby league career.
Cowan played in Leeds' 2–18 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1964–65 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 31 October 1964, and played left- in the 23–7 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1970–71 season at Odsal Stadium, Bradford on Saturday 21 November 1970.
Cowan played left- in Leeds' 9–5 victory over St. Helens in the 1970 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1970–71 season at Headingley, Leeds on Tuesday 15 December 1970.
Cowan played left- (replaced by substitute Les Dyl) in Leeds' 7–24 defeat by Leigh in the 1970–71 Challenge Cup Final during the 1970–71 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 15 May 1971, in front of a crowd of 85,514.
He transferred to Hull in 1972, before finishing his career at Keighley.
Representative honours
Cowan represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Leeds, he was an interchange/substitute in the 2–19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights.
Personal life
Cowan is the son of the rugby union and rugby league footballer for Hull F.C.; James "Jim"/"Jimmy" Cowan, and the younger brother of the rugby union, and rugby league footballer; Stan Cowan. | WIKI |
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Rh a gruelling lot of work, and made sure that Ginger Harper learned the ropes in his position. Frank had asked his opinion later, and learned that the coach believed they had the race as good as won, barring accidents.
"Don't whisper a word of that to one of the boys, though. We don't want any over-confidence about it. Better let them believe they've got to strain every nerve to win," the other had said to Frank, in conclusion.
So Frank told them how Clifford had strengthened their crew; and every fellow was looking grim and determined as he took his place, just as though they were up against a handicap that had to be surmounted.
Up there near the bridge Frank knew those he loved were watching every move he made—father, mother, Helen, yes, and Minnie Cuthbert. He waved them a last signal as he sat there, and the smile of confidence on his face told his crew that no matter what he had said, Frank Allen fully believed they were going to come in ahead!
Each member of that crew immediately vowed to himself that it would be so; and that he was going to pull that day as never before in all his life.
Herman Hooker was there of course, with his faithful cohorts. They made more noise than ever, and that big megaphone could send an eloquent | WIKI |
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