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On the Non-Linear Diophantine Equations $4^{x} - a^{y} = dz^{2}$ and $4^{x} + a^{y} = dz^{2}$
Authors
• Suton Tadee
• Umarin Pintoptang Naresuan University
Keywords:
Diophantine equation, integer solutions, congruence
Abstract
In this article, we study Diophantine equations $4^{x} - a^{y} = dz^{2}$ and $4^{x} + a^{y} = dz^{2}$ where $a, d, x, y,$ and $z$ are non-negative integers. Under some conditions of integers $a$, $d$ and by using congruence properties, we give all non-negative integer solutions of $4^{x} - a^{y} = dz^{2}$ and we show that $4^{x} + a^{y} = dz^{2}$ has no non-negative integer solution.
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2023-09-30
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Tadee, S., & Pintoptang, U. (2023). On the Non-Linear Diophantine Equations $4^{x} - a^{y} = dz^{2}$ and $4^{x} + a^{y} = dz^{2}$. Thai Journal of Mathematics, 21(3), 563–567. Retrieved from https://thaijmath2.in.cmu.ac.th/index.php/thaijmath/article/view/1527
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1929 Australian timber workers' strike
The 1929 Timber Workers strike was a labour dispute in Australia caused by Justice Lukin of the Arbitration Court handing down an industrial award decision on 23 December 1928 to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers from a 44-hour week to a 48-hour week. It was the first strike in Australia after the onset of the Great Depression.
An initial response by workers at mass meetings on 3 January in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide was to refuse to work the four hours extra stipulated by the Lukin award. This then precipitated the employers applying to the court that a strike existed. The penalties of the Arbitration Amendment Act, enacted in 1928, were then invoked. The urban nature of timber mills meant that industrial action was concentrated around the working-class areas of the affected cities, notably Glebe in Sydney. The dispute widened with carters and crane drivers striking in solidarity. A special conference of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) on 7 February 1929 agreed to extend the strike to a general movement; to boycott the Federal Industrial Court; and for the conduct of the strike to be managed by the ACTU Disputes Committee.
On 25 February, Justice Lukin ordered a secret ballot of the timber workers in Victoria and New South Wales. This was the first attempt to enforce a secret ballot in an industrial dispute. On 1 March Lukin imposed a fine of £1000 on the Timber Workers Union, followed by a fine of £50 on Jack Holloway, Secretary of Melbourne Trades Hall Council. A protest meeting outside the Sydney Trades Hall on 25 March was attended by 25,000 trade unionists. At this meeting 3000 strikers publicly burnt their ballot papers. The crowd then marched to Hyde Park where an effigy of Justice Lukin was burnt.
The secret ballot was largely boycotted by the workers. When the votes that were cast were counted they were 5000 to 7000 against acceptance of the award in New South Wales and Victoria.
Women's involvement in trade unions and their direct participation in industrial action has been the subject of growing interest for labour historians and industrial relations scholars. Some research has also concentrated on women's indirect participation to paid work. However just as this field of investigation has made inroads into the study of labour history, some have advised a return to 'traditional' concerns of institutional labour history. The following article takes up this debate through an investigation of the 1929 strike in the timber industry. It suggests that hitherto unexplored aspects of mobilisation may be more fully appreciated by analysing those closely associated with strikers and their unions. Specifically, it emphasises the role of community and gender relations. Women played a particularly active role in the dispute holding weekly meetings, attending picket lines, and collecting money. Several women were prosecuted and sent to gaol for collecting money for the strikers. There was considerable community and union support mobilised for the strikers, which enabled them to survive on strike for so long.
After five months the strike came to an end on 24 June on the basis of a 48-hour week, but with an independent inquiry to be appointed into the financial condition of the industry. At the end of July seven union leaders, including Jock Garden, the Secretary of the Trades and Labor Council; John Culbert, the Secretary of the Timber Workers Union; and the Chairman of the ACTU Disputes Committee were charged with "unlawful conspiracy by violence and threats of violence" to prevent timber workers from working. A jury subsequently acquitted all those charged. | WIKI |
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y is inversely proportional to x, y ∝ 1/x:
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k = constant of proportionality
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Joint Variation / Jointly Proportional
y is directly proportional to x and z:
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k = constant of proportionality
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This Top Growth Stock Is Looking Cheaper Than Ever
One smart way to find success in the market is by investing in stocks that offer growth at a reasonable price. But the so-called "GARP" strategy is harder to execute than it sounds. After all, a lot of growth stocks, especially in sectors like software, already trade at speculative valuations that jeopardize their ability to beat the market over the long term.
For a long time, MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) was one of them. The Latin American e-commerce leader has long delivered high growth, but its profits had been minimal.
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Growth at a reasonable price
In Q4, currency-neutral revenue jumped by 56.5% to $3 billion, edging out the analysts' consensus estimate of $2.96 billion. Once again, that growth was driven largely by e-commerce, with gross merchandise volume up 34.7% to $9.6 billion, and MercadoPago, which saw total payment volume jump 80% to $36 billion.
However, the bottom-line growth was the real highlight for investors as the company posted an operating margin of 11.6%, a new record, which translated into $349 million in operating income. Earnings -- where it booked a loss of $0.92 per share in the prior-year quarter -- surged into the black to the tune of $3.25 per share, easily topping analysts' consensus estimate of $2.40 per share.
Even better, the company reported free cash flow of $2.5 billion for 2022. As such, the stock trades at just 24 times trailing free cash flow. That's an excellent valuation for a company growing as fast as MeracdoLibre with large addressable markets in several categories to penetrate.
Management credited that growth to a number of "building blocks" it has invested in over the last few years. Those include increasing the speed of its logistics network, which went from delivering 44% of its gross merchandise volume in 2019 to almost 80% in 2022; building a suite of financial services including cards, credit, insurance, and savings that leveraged its customer base of 44 million MercadoPago users to grow fintech revenues by a factor of five over the last three years; and continuing to grow its high-margin ads business, where revenue reached 1.4% of gross merchandise volume in the fourth quarter, meaning that it's more than five times larger than it was three years ago.
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While the e-commerce business anchors MercadoLibre, its brightest star may be MercadoPago, which extends beyond the company's ecosystem. Its point-of-sale (POS) systems have been installed in brick-and-mortar stores across Latin America, and that part of the business reached $25 billion in off-platform total payment volume in the quarter.
Meanwhile, the company is just starting to ramp up its credit business, which reached the end of the quarter with a $2.8 billion portfolio, though it's exercising caution until it's confident that the credit cycle has turned.
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Obtaining adjacency matrix from vertex connection information
Asked by Hayden
on 6 Oct 2012
I am given a list of XYZ vertices (mx3 matrix) and a list of vertex connections (nx2 matrix, X and Y are a pairing of connected vertices.) I ultimately need to be able to plot a projection on the X-Y plane from this information, and while I've found a way on this site to do this using gplot and the adjacency matrix, I can't find anything on how to use MATLAB to take the list of vertex connections and convert it to an adjacency matrix. Obviously this can be achieved manually, and I've done so for a small cube to ensure the rest of the program works, but it needs to be done automatically for any lists that could be loaded.
I have absolutely no idea where to start, and would appreciate some guidance.
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Answer by Walter Roberson
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adjmatrix = zeros(m,m);
for K = 1 : n
p1 = vertices(K,1);
p2 = vertices(K,2);
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adjmatrix(p2,p1) = 1;
end
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Hayden
on 6 Oct 2012
Once an understanding of the code was achieved it worked perfectly. Likely something I should have been able to arrive at myself with more familiarity in Matlab, but I clearly was not there.
Thank you sincerely.
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He want to be an actor by profession. But by some family issues he could not made that happen. He is currently working as an Engineer in Gurgaon. | WIKI |
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As of August 28, 2014, KXRY began simulcasting on translator K296FT 107.1 FM. From June 15, 2016 through the end of 2020, KXRY would also simulcast on KQAC's HD3 subchannel. Beginning in July 2022, the station expanded to the Oregon Coast with a translator on 91.7 FM in Nehalem, OR.
History of the Reed College Radio Club
The Reed College Radio Club was founded in 1954 by a group of students with the goal of pursuing "the technical and programming aspects of radio broadcasting." The club was one of the most popular on campus, and launched KRCB-AM in October 1955, at 660 AM.
Reed students financed the station, and physics students built some of the equipment, including a 40-watt transmitter. The station used a system that transmitted the signal through area power lines, eliminating the need for antennae. The station carried programming atypical of radio in the area from its earliest days, as well as programming tied in with classes and campus activities.
The station moved to 89.3 FM on May 14, 1958, and became KRRC. When classes began the next fall, the station's inaugural broadcast featured messages from U.S. Senator Wayne Morse and other prominent Oregonians.
KRRC encountered numerous technical problems over the years, often dropping off the air, and its continued existence was sometimes doubted. In 1981 it moved to 107.5 FM. The station's signal was barely audible outside the Reed campus.
In the 1980s and '90s, college radio stations across the country had a heavy influence on the music industry, promoting "alternative rock" bands like R.E.M. and The Pixies; but KRRC took a more maverick approach, playing a wider variety of music.
In 1992 the station petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for permission to locate its transmitter on the KGON tower in the West Hills, to get a better range from its weak signal, but the request was declined. By 1994, the station was using a 10-watt transmitter, and its operating budget for one semester was $6,000. This station now airs online at krrc.fm
In the early 2000s, a Christian radio station from Tillamook moved to Portland and took over the 104.1 frequency. Between 2000 and 2011, the station broadcast at 97.9 FM. A network stream of programming is available for those on the campus network.
Like the Quest, the school newspaper, KRRC was run entirely by students, although its early days involved cooperation among students, faculty, and staff.
In November 2011, KRRC ceased broadcasting at 97.9 FM and moved to an online-only format.
XRAY.FM
On November 9, 2012, Portland progressive talk radio station KPOJ changed to a sports talk format. BlueOregon founder Kari Chisholm launched a petition to continue progressive talk radio in Portland.
In 2012, Cascade Educational Broadcast Service formed a board of directors and entered into a Local Management Agreement with Common Frequency, LLC, who had received the station from Reed College that year, to broadcast on KRRC. Common Frequency arranged to move the signal to 91.1 FM, thereby achieving better coverage of Portland. (By 2015, the frequency 107.1 had been added.)
The original intention of the group behind Cascade Educational Broadcast Service was to found an all-music station that focused on local DJs. On March 11, 2013, the station changed its call sign to KXRY. The new call sign invoked Portland's iconic X-Ray Cafe, a 1990s community music venue, and while there was no formal affiliation, the cafe's founders were supportive of the launch of the new radio station. A fundraiser held in June 2013 featured performers who had come up at the X-Ray Cafe.
An October 2013 announcement published on the blog BlueOregon noted that the previous demise of KPOJ, a local progressive talk station, had led to a popular effort to continue host Carl Wolfson's show, initially online, and later on KXRY. Nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann, also a KPOJ alumnus, was also part of the launch of progressive talk programming on the station.
KXRY launched a crowdfunding campaign on the website Kickstarter on December 16, 2013, with the goal of raising $40,000 to fund the launch of the station. The campaign saw unexpected success and reached over $100,000 during its month-long funding period.
On March 15, 2014, KXRY began broadcasting a full schedule of programming under the name XRAY.fm. The initial program included talk and music, and hosts Jefferson Smith and Adam Klugman joined the lineup. KXRY started broadcasts from a studio on SE 8th and Main Street in Portland, Oregon, and then built and moved into a new studio on N Killingsworth and N Albina.
As of 2017, Smith, a founder of the station, held the position of executive director, but intended to step down. XRAY.FM had an affiliation with the fledgling Vancouver, Washington station KXRW-LP and a role in the founding of KNUM-LP, also known as "The Numberz," a low-power FM station dedicated to Black music.
Effective June 7, 2018, Common Frequency sold KXRY 91.1 FM's license assets to Cascade Educational Broadcast Service (D/B/A XRAY.FM) for $16,000.
Early in the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, XRAY.FM was noted as one of the few hubs of local music culture in Portland.
In late 2020, several XRAY.FM staffers went public with allegations of unprofessional behavior of then executive director, Jefferson Smith. On March 5, 2022, XRAY’s Board of Directors confirmed that they had severed ties with Smith. As of July 2021, the station has pivoted to cooperative management from a single executive model, with a group of longtime staff members leading as a collective as part of several changes approved by XRAY's Board of Directors. | WIKI |
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Oumuamua: Why humans should be open minded about life in outer space
For the first time in history, scientists have detected the first interstellar object ever observed. In October 2017, an elongated interstellar object named "Oumuamua" — the first to enter the solar system — was detected by a survey telescope in Hawaii. A new study published this week in the Astronomical Journal, coauthored by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, uncovered new information that suggested there was a limit to how big Oumuamua actually is, and gave astronomers a better indication of its size. Scientists have been looking for signs of extraterrestrial life for decades. So does the appearance of Oumuamua mean the elusive "E.T" has finally been detected? Perhaps: Experts say it is exceedingly unlikely, but the possibility can't be ruled out just yet. "I personally think the odds are much better that is something natural, but I don't want to dismiss the possibility that it could be from an alien civilization. But we have to have an open mind," Michael Wall, a writer at Space.com and a biologist, told CNBC recently. Scientists believe Oumuamua is shaped like a cigar, approximately 400 feet long and 40 feet wide. However, they are only able to guess based on its changing brightness as it spins. But scientists' biggest unanswered question is the object's thickness. As far as the scientific community is aware, there is no naturally occurring object that is as big as Oumuamua that appears so thin at the same time, increasing the likelihood that it was created by another life form. Given the speed the object is moving, experts believe that it may be a light sail — an object that is thin enough to be pushed by the sun or another star, almost like a plastic bag in the wind, according to Matija Cuk, a research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. Seth Shostak, a SETI research fellow, told CNBC that for that to be true, Oumuamua would have to be about a millimeter thick—about as thick as 5-10 sheets of paper stacked together. According to Wall, scientists originally hypothesized that Oumuamua was a comet or an asteroid. However, both theories were ruled out: Unlike comets studied here on earth, this object does not have a tail, nor jets of gas that a comet would normally emit. If Oumuamua is not a comet or an asteroid, chances of it being a light sail increase. According to SETI's Cuk, it is possible that outside our solar system, composition of space objects are different. "Maybe in other solar systems comets could be made differently," Cuk said. That suggests the object could be naturally occurring, despite the fact that nothing like it has ever been seen anywhere near earth before. Shostak said there are likely many objects similar to Oumuamua in the depths of space. This time, the object "hit the bullseye" by reaching the earth's solar system. "This implies a number of these things are drifting through the cosmos, as ubiquitous as fire hydrants," Shostak said. These objects have also likely reached our solar system in the past and gone unnoticed. Scientists are building another telescope similar to the one in Hawaii that detected Oumuamua. Once it is completed in Chile, it will be used to search for similar objects. "Unless a miracle has occurred, these are entering our solar system all the time. This is just the first one we've found," Shostak said. He acknowledged the alien hypothesis was plausible, adding that Oumuamua acted more like a rock than a spaceship. "If they really wanted to target our solar system, they'd hang around longer and probably come closer to the earth," he said. Scientists also would have been able to detect any sort of signal the object had if it were as advanced as a cell phone, Shostak said. That does not prove anything, but decreases the likelihood that it was deliberately sent. Oumuamua is now drifting further away from our solar system. The longer the distance, the harder it will be for earthlings to study it. Yet as technology increases, scientists may discover more objects similar to Oumuamua, perhaps in the next three to ten years. "If we don't keep finding them, this will be increasingly peculiar," Shostak said. Correction: Oumuamua was first discovered in October 2017. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
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opt_tutorial5.py
DAE Tools: pyDAE module, www.daetools.com
Copyright (C) Dragan Nikolic
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DAE Tools is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software
Foundation. DAE Tools is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the
DAE Tools software; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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"""
__doc__ = """
This tutorial shows the interoperability between DAE Tools and 3rd party optimization
software (scipy.optimize) used to fit the simple function with experimental data.
DAE Tools simulation object is used to calculate the objective function and its gradients,
while scipy.optimize.leastsq function (a wrapper around MINPACK’s lmdif and lmder)
implementing Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is used to estimate the parameters.
"""
import sys, numpy
from time import localtime, strftime
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Qt5Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.optimize import leastsq
from daetools.pyDAE import *
class modTutorial(daeModel):
def __init__(self, Name, Parent = None, Description = ""):
daeModel.__init__(self, Name, Parent, Description)
self.x = daeVariable("x", no_t, self)
self.A = daeVariable("A", no_t, self)
self.k = daeVariable("k", no_t, self)
self.theta = daeVariable("θ", no_t, self)
self.y = daeVariable("y", no_t, self)
def DeclareEquations(self):
daeModel.DeclareEquations(self)
eq = self.CreateEquation("y")
eq.Residual = self.y() - self.A() * Sin(2 * numpy.pi * self.k() * self.x() + self.theta())
class simTutorial(daeSimulation):
def __init__(self):
daeSimulation.__init__(self)
self.m = modTutorial("opt_tutorial5")
self.m.Description = __doc__
def SetUpParametersAndDomains(self):
pass
def SetUpVariables(self):
self.m.x.AssignValue(1)
self.m.A.AssignValue(1)
self.m.k.AssignValue(1)
self.m.theta.AssignValue(1)
def SetUpSensitivityAnalysis(self):
self.SetNumberOfObjectiveFunctions(1)
self.ObjectiveFunction.Residual = self.m.y()
self.A = self.SetContinuousOptimizationVariable(self.m.A, -10, 10, 0.7);
self.k = self.SetContinuousOptimizationVariable(self.m.k, -10, 10, 0.8);
self.theta = self.SetContinuousOptimizationVariable(self.m.theta, -10, 10, 1.9);
# Function to calculate either Residuals or Jacobian matrix, subject to the argument calc_values
def Function(p, simulation, xin, ymeas, calc_values):
Nparams = len(p)
Nexp = len(xin)
if(len(xin) != len(ymeas)):
raise RuntimeError('The number of input data and the number of measurements must be equal')
values = numpy.zeros((Nexp))
derivs = numpy.zeros((Nexp, Nparams))
for e in range(0, Nexp):
# Set initial conditions, initial guesses, initially active states etc
# In this case it can be omitted; however, in general case it should be called
simulation.SetUpVariables()
# Assign the input data for the simulation
simulation.m.x.ReAssignValue(xin[e])
# Set the parameters values
simulation.A.Value = p[0]
simulation.k.Value = p[1]
simulation.theta.Value = p[2]
# Run the simulation
simulation.Reset()
simulation.Reinitialize()
simulation.Run()
# Get the results
values[e] = simulation.ObjectiveFunction.Value - ymeas[e]
derivs[e][:] = simulation.ObjectiveFunction.Gradients
print('A =', simulation.A.Value, ', k =', simulation.k.Value, ', theta =', simulation.theta.Value)
if calc_values:
print(' Residuals:')
print(values)
else:
print(' Derivatives:')
print(derivs)
if calc_values:
return values
else:
return derivs
# Function to calculate residuals R = ydata - f(xdata, params):
# R[0], R[1], ..., R[n]
def Residuals(p, simulation, xin, ymeas):
return Function(p, simulation, xin, ymeas, True)
# Function to calculate a Jacobian for residuals:
# dR[0]/dp[0], dR[0]/dp[1], ..., dR[0]/dp[n]
# dR[1]/dp[0], dR[1]/dp[1], ..., dR[1]/dp[n]
# ...
# dR[n]/dp[0], dR[n]/dp[1], ..., dR[n]/dp[n]
def Derivatives(p, simulation, xin, ymeas):
return Function(p, simulation, xin, ymeas, False)
# Function to calculate y values for the estimated parameters
def peval(x, p):
return p[0] * numpy.sin(2 * numpy.pi * p[1] * x + p[2])
def run():
log = daePythonStdOutLog()
daesolver = daeIDAS()
datareporter = daeTCPIPDataReporter()
simulation = simTutorial()
# Do no print progress
log.PrintProgress = False
# Enable reporting of all variables
simulation.m.SetReportingOn(True)
simulation.ReportingInterval = 1
simulation.TimeHorizon = 5
simName = simulation.m.Name + strftime(" [%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S]", localtime())
if(datareporter.Connect("", simName) == False):
sys.exit()
simulation.Initialize(daesolver, datareporter, log, calculateSensitivities = True)
simulation.SolveInitial()
simulation.m.SaveModelReport(simulation.m.Name + ".xml")
simulation.m.SaveRuntimeModelReport(simulation.m.Name + "-rt.xml")
# Exact values of the parameters
A, k, theta = [10, 33.33333333, 0.523598333]
# Starting point for parameters
p0 = [9.0, 43.0, 0.3]
# Input data for the model
x = numpy.arange(0, 0.06, 0.002)
# The values of y for given x and exact values of A, k, and theta
y_true = A * numpy.sin(2 * numpy.pi * k * x + theta)
# Measured values for y
y_meas = numpy.zeros_like(x)
y_meas = [ 5.95674236, 10.03610565, 10.14475642, 9.16722521, 8.52093929,
4.78842863, 2.87467755, -3.93427325, -6.13071010, -9.26168083,
-9.25272475, -10.42850414, -4.71175587, -3.60403013, -0.11039750,
3.80372890, 8.51512082, 9.78232718, 9.91931747, 5.17108061,
6.47468360, 0.66528089, -5.10344027, -7.12668123, -9.42080566,
-8.23170543, -6.56081590, -6.28524014, -2.30246340, -0.79571452]
# Call leastsq
p, cov_x, infodict, msg, ier = leastsq(Residuals,
p0,
Dfun=Derivatives,
args=(simulation, x, y_meas),
full_output=True)
# Print the results
print('------------------------------------------------------')
if ier in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
print('Solution found!')
else:
print('Least square method failed!')
print('Status:', msg)
print('Number of function evaluations =', infodict['nfev'])
chisq = (infodict['fvec']**2).sum()
dof = len(x) - len(p0)
rmse = numpy.sqrt(chisq / dof)
print('Root mean square deviation =', rmse)
A, k, theta = p
print('Estimated parameters values:')
print(' A =', A)
print(' k =', k)
print(' theta =', theta)
print('------------------------------------------------------')
# Plot the comparison between the exact values, measured and fitted data
plt.plot(x, peval(x, p), x, y_meas, 'o', x, y_true)
plt.title('Least-squares fit to experimental data')
plt.legend(['Fit', 'Experimental', 'Exact'])
plt.show()
if __name__ == "__main__":
run() | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Anglius
* ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.
Anglius
Final (closed early) (0/34/3) ended 14:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC) (intended time 01:53 18, January, 2006 (UTC))
– Self-nomination. I am quite occupied the present week, but I would like to able to "delete" articles and revert editings quickly. I promise to behave properly and with scrutiny. I have always attempted to be polite to other 'users' and shall continue to do so. I shall also attempt remove vandalistic editings promtly. Albeit, I did not become a member very long ago, I was an 'editor' of this "encyclopaedia" prior to then. I know that I may have appeared to have been obnoxious or biased before, but I shall try to behave more tactly.Anglius 01:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept.
'''Ladies and gentlemen, I intend to begin to reply to your comments and accusations(as well as Deathphoenix and Zoe's questions) upon Saturday. I apologise for the inconvenience. Would it be possible to extend the duration of the nomination?'''--Anglius 03:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* I would say that 2 days will be enough time after your responses. If some people switch to support or neutral following your response, and it appears that other people have not noticed your reply, the nomination could be extended. r3m0t talk 19:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* I appreciate your reply, sir.--Anglius 21:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Support
Oppose
* 1) Has shown inability to respect other editors who have differing views by him and blatantly looks down on users he does not agree with. I also do not feel that he would be trustworthy not to let his biases effect his performance in administrative actions. Jtkiefer T 02:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 2) This editor opposed my original request for adminship for the reason that I am a woman; he has never recanted or apologized for his position. While I would never oppose an editor merely for opposing my adminship, misogyny is not a trait to be favored in administrators. Wikipedia has many female editors and an admin who cannot fairly deal with them is a liability to the project. Kelly Martin (talk) 02:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 3) This editor has only 1184 edits. Normally, this would not be a problem, however looking at the way he treats other editors, particularly Kelly Martin and other editors, and the moral POV-pushing he seems to frequently engage in, I must vote Oppose. Lack of experience is also a large issue, considering most of his talk page is people getting annoyed at him for POV-pushing and general disrespect and disdain for the Wikipedia community. I particularly disagree with his discrimination against female editors and other indications that he will not use his admin-tools responsibly - as Kelly rightly pointed out, an administrator who cannot fairly deal with female editors, or any editors in general, is a liability to the project. Werdna648T/C\@ 02:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 4) Oppose Not enough editing across the namespaces, very little user interaction, project work, and little to no category or template work, just don't think is familiar enough with all the areas yet. xaosflux Talk / CVU 03:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 5) Oppose Not enough edits. Very pushy, and apparently will make a bad admin judging from above complains. Olorin28 03:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Oppose per Kelly Martin and Werdna648 above. JHMM13 (T | C) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px| ]] [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|25px| ]] 04:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 7) Oppose. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-11 05:17Z
* 8) Oppose. Not only lacking some experience, but sexism and discrimination of any sort cannot be allowed in a potential admin. -- Phædriel *whistle* 05:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 9) Oppose. Stereotyping users on gender or similar characteristic instantly destroys any suitability one may have had for becoming an administrator. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Oppose until email enabled. --TheParanoidOne 06:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Oppose. Too abrasive. --Carnildo 07:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 12) Oppose. Opposition to Kelly Martin's adminship some months ago is the most ridiculous I have ever seen. Not tolerant enough for an admin. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 13) Oppose Piling on in response to users request for extension at Jimbo's talk page. Hipocrite - « Talk » 13:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 14) Oppose Charges against editor (POV pushing and misogyny) are serious. Even in his request for extension, Gentlemen(and ladies),... And posting a Request for admin and being unprepared to answer questions? Poor form. Ifnord 14:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 15) Absolutely not. I, for one, do appreciate the diversity Mr. Anglius brings to Wikipedia, but do not consider him to be fit for adminship for the reasons already mostly outlined above.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Strong Oppose per reasons stated by others above, user's talk page, and answers to questions. KillerChihuahua?!? 15:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 17) Oppose per Kelly --Duk 16:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 18) Contributions are so-so, civility is somewhat lacking. --King of All the Franks 17:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 19) Oppose primarily due to lack of experience. Silensor 19:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 20) One of the easiest no-brainers in RFA history. I'm going to go as far as to say Never. No need to respond; my opinion will not change. Mike H. That's hot 20:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 21) Oppose not want to say "comhrá" to you - but if your nominator does not support you, I see little reason to. If you are chauvinistic, as Kelly Martin has said, you do not meet my personal admin. standards. Maybe if you addressed some of this, I'd rethink it - but as of now I will oppose. ε γκυκλοπ αίδεια * 22:44, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 22) Oppose did not answer the questions. KI 21:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 23) Oppose Not very active recently, Kelly Martins comment is concerning (to say the least), self nom then declaring a couple of hours later that they won't be around doesn't inspire confidence --pgk( talk ) 21:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 24) Oppose. Blanket labelling the reasons to oppose as "accusations" does not reflect well on attitude. Elle vécu heureuse à jamais (Be eudaimonic!) 22:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 25) Oppose, even lack of questions aside. Politeness is often present but civility is wanting, as only a brief perusal of his interaction will reveal. Lord Bob 23:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 26) Oppose --NaconKantari 01:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 27) Oppose For reasons already stated. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 05:32, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 28) Oppose -- JamesTeterenko 06:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 29) Oppose as per above. Also, while a 70% edit summary is decent, I'd like to see you strive for a higher number (~85%+). --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 09:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 30) "Oppose". "the wub" "?!" "RFR" - a "good" idea? 11:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 31) Oppose per Kelly Martin --Admrboltz (T | C) 23:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 32) Oppose I don't like chauvanists D a Gizza Chat (c) 02:08, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
* 33) Oppose. All other things aside... < 1200 edits? You must be kidding! Matt Yeager 06:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
* 34) Oppose We don't need sexists to admin, tyvm. NSL E (T+C) 10:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
* 1) Oppose We don't need sexists to admin, tyvm. NSL E (T+C) 10:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Neutral Comments
* 1) Oppose considering this "user"'s "inappropriate" behaviour, I consider it "unreasonable" to support him. That includes attitudes to Kelly Martin and the request that Jimbo Wales (of all people!) extends this RfA. r3m0t talk
* Neutral until reponse is given - that's my interpretation of WP:AGF. :) r3m0t talk 19:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 1) Neutral Is there anyway some can delist this now? --Jaranda wat's sup 00:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* I suspect many non-bureacrats would hesitate to remove the nomination in the face of User:Anglius's request both on this page and on Jimbo's talk page that the nomination be extended. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* 1) Neutral, I dislike how he opposed in Keely Martin's RFA. --Terence Ong Talk 12:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
* Edit summary usage: 70% for major edits and 99% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and and 150 minor edits outside the Wikipedia, User, Image, and all Talk namespaces. Mathbot 02:00, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* See Anglius's edit count with Interiot's tool.
* Self-nomination for an RFA in a week when he is too busy to actually take part in it, doesn't strike me as very good judgement. Also, the questions haven't been answered. --TheParanoidOne 06:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
* 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
* A.
I shall revert vulgar or irrelevant editings when I am able to. I shall also attempt to 'delete' articles that are redundant or "unrepairably" undesirable and cope with 'vandals' (and to fulfill all other duties that administators are expected to perform).
* 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
* A.
One of them was probably Seven Champions of Christendom, for I was the author of and, I believe, predominate contributer to it.
* 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
* A.
I have been falsely accused of being a "troll" before, but I believe that I responsed to the accusation properly. I was also accused of being anti-Semitic, but I apologised for having unwittingly allowed myself to be perceived as such. I shall respond respectfully and with tact.
The following are some optional questions. There are no correct answers to these questions and I simply want to know your opinions rather than see a correct answer. Thanks! --Deathphoenix 02:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 4. When would you use {{test1}}, and when would you use {{bv}}?
* A.
* 5. What would you do if a user reverts an article four times in slightly more than 24 hours? (Thus obeying the letter of WP:3RR.)
* A.
* 6. In your opinion, when would you speedy delete an article under CSD A7 (unremarkable people or groups) and when would you nominate it for an AFD instead?
* A.
* 7. How would you tell the difference between a sockpuppet and a new user?
* A.
* 8. How would you use WP:NPOV when writing or editing a disputed article?
* A.
* I have a question for you. On your User page, you say, Anglius previously appeared 'under' many other 'names.'. What other 'names' have you appeared under? User:Zoe|(talk) 21:14, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
--Fangz 04:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
* I have a few additional questions, and will appreciate it if you answer them:
* Suppose that during an conflict situation, a number of users act uncivily towards one another on a talkpage, and you, as an admin, happen to wander onto the page. How will you resolve the situation?
* How will you determine if an article is redundant or "unrepairably" undesirable?
* The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page. | WIKI |
Tribhuvan Sadan
The Tribhuvan Sadan (त्रिभुवन सदन) is a mansion in the Narayanhiti Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal. It is known for being the site of the Nepalese royal massacre where ten members of the royal family, including King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya, and Crown Prince Dipendra were killed. The mansion was formerly occupied by King Tribhuvan and his family and later by Dipendra, Crown Prince of Nepal. The Tribhuvan Sadan was demolished after the orders of the Queen Mother Ratna however It is currently being reconstructed.
History
King Tribhuvan lived in the Tribhuvan Sadan with his family and he rebuilt the mansion after it was destroyed by the 1934 Nepal earthquake. It was originally known as the Happy Cottage but it was later renamed after King Tribhuvan. It was later occupied by Dipendra, Crown Prince of Nepal who had lived with his family at the Shree Sadan, but, he had moved after the coronation of King Birendra as the king of Nepal as he was not allowed to live with his father until he turned 18 due to royal tradition.
On 1 June 2001, the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan where ten members of the royal family, including King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya, and Crown Prince Dipendra, were killed in a mass shooting. The Tribhuvan Sadan was demolished after the orders of the Queen Mother Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah. However, this decision became controversial and it aided in conspiracy theories about the massacre. After its demolition, only a small portion of the wall and the layout of the building remained. After the downfall of the monarchy, Narayanhiti Palace was turned into a museum and the museum had added labels where the rooms of the Tribhuvan Sadan were located.
In 2009, then Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said in a speech that the Tribhuvan Sadan would be rebuilt. In 2015, part of the mansion was built and other parts were being reconstructed. Next year, the reconstruction of the Tribhuvan Sadan was reported to be nearly finished. Ministry of General Administration said that the reconstruction of the mansion will provide proof about the massacre to Nepalis. | WIKI |
BUNDUKI is a sport boat built to Australian John Georgalas’s Deep V 16′design. Initially, the design was to be a one-off for an American friend, but the drawings have since been made available through John’s company, Classic Wooden Boat Plans (CWBP). For this design, John was inspired by the 17′ WYNN-MILL II, designed by Jim Wynn in the early 1960s. That boat was raced with great success, including a victory in the six-hour Paris Race. Wynn subsequently collaborated with Walt Walters and Don Aronow on a production version, the Ski Sporter, which was later dubbed, and became much better known as, the Sweet 16. That was the first boat built by Aronow’s company, Donzi Marine, after it was formed in 1964.
The Sweet 16 was about a foot shorter than WYNN-MILL II, and it lacked the original boat’s pronounced tumblehome aft, presumably because of the practicalities of molding it in fiberglass. At the height of production, 20 of these boats were produced each month. President Lyndon Johnson owned one, and the Israeli armed forces had a dozen of them, some of which saw action in the 1967 Six Day War.
The original brochure for the Sweet 16 described it as the “softest riding, driest high-speed sports boat ever built.” The 24-degree deadrise would have contributed to those characteristics, and this has been retained in the Deep V design, as has WYNN-MILL II’s tumblehome, which John and his American friend particularly admired.
Brian Reford, a student at Lyme Regis Boatbuilding Academy, built BUNDUKI with an eye toward wake-boarding and water-skiing. He was particularly drawn to the design’s pronounced tumblehome at the transom.all photographs by the author
Brian Reford, a student at Lyme Regis Boatbuilding Academy, built BUNDUKI with an eye toward wake-boarding and water-skiing. He was particularly drawn to the design’s pronounced tumblehome at the transom.
In March 2013, Brian Reford enrolled in the nine-month Boat Building, Maintenance and Support course at the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy, where he had an opportunity to build a boat for himself. He wanted one that could be used for water-skiing and wake-boarding and, after looking at “masses of designs” on the Internet, he found the Deep V and ordered a set of plans from CWBP.
Having printed the drawings full size, Brian decided there was no real need to carry out any lofting, although he later came to regret that decision. His starting point was to make the eight permanent frames—mostly ring frames to include the deckbeams, but with three hull frames in the open cockpit area, which needed temporary braces across them. The way he decided to construct them—from ¾″ red cedar, 8″ deep in the keel area but much narrower in the topsides and across the deck, and with halving joints between their various components—was quite different from the detail in the CWBP drawings. He made those changes with the guidance of his course tutors, and from then on he gradually came to rely less on the plans and more on his own instincts and the tutors’ advice, a course of action which, he later realized, allowed him to learn much more than he would otherwise have done.
BUNDUKI, built to John Georgalas’s Deep V 16’ design, is a descendant of WYNN-MILL II, a legendary raceboat that gave rise to the speedboat company Donzi Marine.
BUNDUKI, built to John Georgalas’s Deep V 16’ design, is a descendant of WYNN-MILL II, a legendary raceboat that gave rise to the speedboat company Donzi Marine.
The various fore-and aft components came next: the 3″ x 2″ mahogany keel, with four laminations along the majority of its length and twelve around the stem; the spruce chine logs, which started off at 1 ¾″ x 1″ before they were beveled; and three 1 ¼″ x ½″ red cedar stringers each side on the bottom and one at the sheer. The bottom was then cold-molded with three layers of 3/16″ Robbins Elite plywood, all in the same diagonal orientation but with their joints staggered. Brian decided to turn the hull the right way up to fit the stringers and the two layers of 3/16″ ply to the topsides, not because it would be any easier to do so—although it would be in the tumblehome area aft it would be harder at the flared bow—but because it gave him the chance to first check the fairness of the chine in the forward sections by eye and make small adjustments to it.
BUNDUKI is built of three 3⁄16” layers of cold-molded plywood laid over stringers set into notched frames. The angles of the deadrise and transom almost exactly matched those of the jet ski that provided the engine.
BUNDUKI is built of three 3⁄16” layers of cold-molded plywood laid over stringers set into notched frames. The angles of the deadrise and transom almost exactly matched those of the jet ski that provided the engine.
Now it was time for Brian to turn his attention to the power unit. He could, of course, have fitted a similar type of engine to the one originally specified for the Sweet 16—a 110-hp Volvo Penta with an outdrive—but he had other ideas. Primarily for safety reasons when water-skiing, he wanted to fit a jet drive, and he decided the best way to acquire one would be to take one out of an old jet ski. He managed to find a suitable one—a Kawasaki STX 3-Person Cruiser with a three-cylinder, two-stroke 130-hp engine—on eBay. Having removed its important parts, he cut a hole in the underside of his boat, rabbeted the outside of the hull around the hole, fitted the jet unit’s flange (which had been part of the jet ski’s hull) into the rabbet, and bolted it in. Fortunately the angles of his boat’s deadrise and transom almost exactly matched those of the jet ski. He could have kept the engine and jet as one unit and fitted them into the boat together—and his course tutors encouraged him to do so—but he wanted “the engine to be part of the boat and not the jet ski,” so he fitted conventional engine beds for it.
The bottom was reinforced with 15-oz biaxial cloth, and the entire hull was then sheathed in 6-oz cloth before being filled, faired, and painted.
The bottom was reinforced with 15-oz biaxial cloth, and the entire hull was then sheathed in 6-oz cloth before being filled, faired, and painted.
But before installing the engine itself, he had more work to do on the bottom. After fitting a ¼″ plywood sub-deck and machining a 2″-wide rabbet around its perimeter, he turned the hull upside down again to allow the outside of it to be fiberglassed with 15-oz biaxial cloth over the bottom panels and then a 6-oz plain-weave cloth over the whole of the outside, around the sheer, and into the rabbet. The hull was filled, faired, and painted, and then turned the right way up again.
The visible deck is an overlay applied to a ¼” subdeck. It consists of a khaya kingplank and covering boards, and spruce planks caulked with black polysulfide.
The visible deck is an overlay applied to a ¼” subdeck. It consists of a khaya kingplank and covering boards, and spruce planks caulked with black polysulfide.
A 3mm-thick decorative deck was then fitted. This consisted of a khaya kingplank and margins, and fore-and-aft-laid spruce planks caulked with Sikaflex and then varnished: three coats of two-pack followed by seven coats of single-pack. The dashboard and engine box top are both veneered with ash, with khaya trims and inlays. After every piece of plywood was epoxy-coated, the visible areas of the cockpit—the seat fronts, the inside of the hull, and the cockpit—were all lined with a polypropylene carpet.
The “gear shift” lever of the controls operates a bucket that diverts the jet drive’s water either forward or astern. The controls take some getting used to, for the shift’s neutral position directs the water straight down, causing the boat to move slightly.
The “gear shift” lever of the controls operates a bucket that diverts the jet drive’s water either forward or astern. The controls take some getting used to, for the shift’s neutral position directs the water straight down, causing the boat to move slightly.
On the Lyme Regis Launch Day, which is the culmination of the course, Brian christened his boat BUNDUKI, which is Swahili for “rifle,” in memory of his father, who once ran a gunsmith shop in Nairobi and who had recently died. BUNDUKI managed to get up to 38 knots that day, but when I met up with Brian six months later on a small lake adjacent to the River Thames at Pangbourne, environmental considerations would have restricted us to about 5 knots even if local by-laws didn’t.
Power is supplied by a two-stroke, 130-hp engine harvested from a Kawasaki Jet Ski.
Power is supplied by a two-stroke, 130-hp engine harvested from a Kawasaki Jet Ski.
The principle of a jet drive is that the engine, which is always in gear, drives a large impeller, which draws water through an intake in the bottom of the boat and discharges it at high velocity through a nozzle at the stern. The “gear lever” controls a bucket which diverts the water to drive the boat forward or astern, but when the lever is in neutral the flow is downward; this often results in a very slow, somewhat disconcerting, movement of the boat. With no rudder, the wheel turns the discharge nozzle to port or starboard.
BUNDUKI’s steering system allows about one-and-a-half turns hard-over to hard-over. This differs from jet skis, which have bike-type handlebars. At very slow forward speeds, BUNDUKI is difficult to steer in a straight line. However, steering became noticeably easier at about 5 knots, and Brian told me that at higher speeds it isn’t an issue at all. She is very easy to turn: At slow speeds with the wheel held hard over she will just keep going round in a circle in her own length, and Brian said that she “banks massively” when turning at top speed. When going astern, however, she takes a long time to respond to any turn of the wheel. The engine sounds a bit rough when it’s ticking over, but at slightly higher rpm it is much smoother, albeit with a deep throaty roar. With the whole timber hull acting like an acoustic musical instrument, it sounds very different from a jet ski. Brian thinks that the 55-liter fuel tank located under the foredeck will provide “just a few hours’ playing and that’s it; it isn’t very economical, but it’s a toy, so you’ve got to look past that.” He advances a similar argument to justify his tolerance to the high-speed noise levels.
When I rode with him, Brian had yet to use BUNDUKI for water-skiing or wake-boarding. In fact he still hadn’t fitted a ski pole, but he wants to take some care with this to make sure it is removable so as not to spoil the look of the boat. He will then be ready to take her to one of the several lakes near his home on the Thames. “But really the ideal place would be one of those lakes in America,” he told me. “A bit far away, but maybe one day.”
Nigel Sharp is a lifelong sailor and a freelance marine writer and photographer. He spent 35 years in managerial roles in the boat building and repair industry and has logged thousands of miles in boats big and small, from dinghies to schooners.
You can see BUNDUKI at speed in a video posted on the Boat Building Academy’s Facebook page.
BUNDUKI Particulars
LOA 16′ 4″
LWL 14′
Max Beam 6′ 9″
Draft (est.) 1′
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The Deep V 16’ is similar to the legendary Donzi Sweet 16 model, which in turn was a development of WYNN-MILL II. The Sweet 16, however, did away with the alluring tumblehome—presumably to ease production. Designer John Georgalas has revived the shapely hull in the Deep V 16’.
The Deep V 16’ is similar to the legendary Donzi Sweet 16 model, which in turn was a development of WYNN-MILL II. The Sweet 16, however, did away with the alluring tumblehome—presumably to ease production. Designer John Georgalas has revived the shapely hull in the Deep V 16’.
Plans for the Deep V 16 are available from Classic Wooden Boat Plans. The cost for the set is US $195. Plans are supplied as PDF files, which buyers must have printed.
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OKC CORP. v. Harold WILLIAMS, John R. Evans, Philip A. Loomis, Jr., Irving M. Pollack and Robert S. Karmel, Individually and as Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Richard M. Hewitt, Cecil S. Mathis, Wayne M. Whitaker, Benjamin F. Simms, Jr., Kathleen N. Stewart, Theodore A. Levine, Edward D. Herlihy, Steven K. McGinnis and David A. Watson, Individually and as officers and employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, an Agency of the United States of America.
Civ. A. No. CA-3-78-1021-G.
United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.
Nov. 22, 1978.
George B. Davis of Brice & Barron, Dallas, Tex., John J. Witmeyer, III, and Richard B. Marrin of Ford, Marrin, Esposito, Witmeyer & Bergman, New York City, Arthur Mitchell, Gen. Counsel, Robert A. Miller, G. Scott Damuth, OKC Corp., Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.
Michael J. Stewart, Regional Administrator, Walter E. Keller, Jr., of counsel, SEC, Fort Worth, Tex., James H. Schropp, Asst. Gen. Counsel, SEC, Washington, D. C., for Cecil Mathis, David A. Watson and Steven K. McGinnis.
MEMORANDUM ORDER
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
This is a clash between a New York Stock Exchange listed company and its principal regulator, the Securities Exchange Commission. In a self-policing effort, OKC employed outside legal counsel to gather information and give advice regarding a situation viewed as a potential problem by its board of directors. Counsel prepared a report, the contents of which were to be held in confidence, but have fallen into the hands of the SEC. Thus the effort at self-regulation has failed and the potential problem has shifted in its focus. The core of this fight is the use by the SEC of this report.
Facts
In early 1978, the SEC obtained the report which the Dallas law firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely prepared for OKC. How this report came to the Commission is unclear. (McGinnis affidavit, August 15, 1978, p. 5; Mathis affidavit, September 5, 1978, p. 5; OKC memorandum, September 29, 1978, pp. 4-5; Mitchell affidavit, August 29, 1978, p. 4). When the SEC became aware of its existence, or of the internal OKC investigation is also contested. (SEC memorandum, September 25, 1975, pp. 2-9; OKC memorandum, September 29, 1978, pp. 5-7, 13.) In any event, on March 27, 1978, the Commission entered an order appointing certain of the individual defendants as officers of the Commission for the purpose of conducting a private investigation to determine whether OKC, Cloyce K. Box, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of OKC, and others have violated antifraud and filing provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. After the SEC inquiry was underway, OKC lodged with the Commission a motion to halt the investigation. OKC director John Kelsey, the First City National Bank of El Paso and OKC also filed motions to quash subpoenas duces tecum. On August 15 and 16, 1978, the Commission commenced in the United States District Courts for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas and the Northern District of Oklahoma actions to compel compliance with the subpoenas.
The Commission learned during the summer of 1978 that Ghaith Pharaon was contemplating a tender offer to purchase OKC common stock. Specifically how and when it learned is disputed. (SEC memorandum, September 25, 1978, p. 11; McGinnis affidavit, September 21, 1978, p. 4; OKC memorandum, September 29, 1978, pp. 11 — 12; Mitchell affidavit, August 29, 1978, pp. 5-7.) Officers of the Division of Enforcement scheduled a meeting with Pharaon’s representatives in Washington, D. C. For reasons yet unresolved, the Commission staff advised Pharaon’s representatives of the SEC investigation. Whether other matters were discussed with Pharaon is disputed. (Miller affidavit, September 28, 1978, p. 3, Exhibit B; Herlihy affidavit, pp. 6-7, and attached exhibit.)
In late June, 1978, OKC requested from the SEC’s Freedom of Information Act officer all documents relating to the Commission’s OKC investigation. The Commission extended through July 21, 1978, its time to respond and on July 20, 1978, refused the request. OKC filed no additional administrative requests.
On August 15, 1978, OKC filed with this court a lengthy complaint in which it charged that defendants are:
1. Conducting an investigation which allegedly is “without the jurisdiction of the Commission and flouts the will of Congress”;
2. Conducting the investigation based upon a report allegedly covered by the attorney-client privilege and unlawfully obtained from OKC in violation of OKC’s fourth and fifth amendment rights;
3. Conducting the investigation pursuant to the Commission’s rules relating to investigations, 17 C.F.R. 203, which, it is alleged, violate OKC’s fifth amendment due process rights;
4. Allegedly intimidating witnesses and otherwise conducting the investigation in bad faith; and
5. Causing plaintiff, its officers, directors, agents, employees, shareholders, and customers irreparable injury.
In addition, OKC alleges:
1. That the SEC has violated the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a(b) (hereinafter referred to as the Privacy Act), by providing to and receiving from various government agencies and other persons information relating to OKC;
2. That the defendants violated the Privacy Act, §§ 14(e) and 24(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and OKC’s fifth amendment rights by disclosing the existence and nature of the Commission’s investigation to Pharaon’s representatives and by requesting Pharaon not to proceed with the tender offer; and
3. That the defendants have conspired to violate the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552 (hereinafter referred to as FOIA), as well as the Commission’s rules relating thereto, by denying, without adequate grounds, OKC’s FOIA request for all records relating to the investigation of OKC, all in violation of OKC’s fifth amendment due process rights.
Based upon these allegations, OKC requested this court:
A. Temporarily and permanently to enjoin the Commission’s investigation of OKC and enjoin SEC from commencing or recommending any proceeding based upon the investigation, information derived from the investigation, or information upon which the investigation is based;
B. In the event that it denies A. above, order that the investigation be conducted under trial-like procedures, that the defendants stop conducting the SEC’s investigation in furtherance of any investigation being conducted by the federal Department of Energy or any other agency, that the defendants cease intimidating witnesses in the investigation, and that certain witness testimony be suppressed;
C. Declare the Commission’s order of investigation “unauthorized, invalid, and void” and declare the SEC’s Rules Relating to Investigations unconstitutional;
D. Order the SEC to grant OKC’s FOIA requests;
E. Order the defendants to surrender to OKC all reports, files, and other records of OKC, which, without the consent of OKC, are in the possession of the defendants, and enjoin the defendants from disclosing or using such reports, records, or files in or as the basis of any investigation or other proceeding;
F. Enjoin the defendants from disclosing to or receiving from any agency or person records of or records pertaining to OKC in violation of the Privacy Act, § 24(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78x(b), or 18 U.S.C. § 1905; and
G. Award the plaintiff $15,000,000 in damages.
Following an August 25,1978, status conference with the parties, this court issued an order on August 29, 1978, which restrained the SEC’s use of the Locke, Purnell report and ordered expedited discovery regarding “the circumstances applicable to the SEC’s receipt, acceptance, and use of such report as the basis for its proceedings with respect to OKC Corp.” The SEC conceded that it could not proceed if its use of the report was enjoined and all parties consented to the order to preserve the status quo.
The order enjoining use of the report pending completion of expedited discovery was premised on the concession of counsel that there was no dispute as to the privileged status of the report. It was then envisioned that this discovery could be completed in less than thirty days. On August 31, 1978, the parties scheduled depositions of two defendants for September 11, 1978. On September 5, 1978, however, the SEC’s Washington office disavowed the concession and withdrew from the agreement negotiated by its Fort Worth, Texas, office and filed with the court an application for protective order, or, in the alternative, a motion for postponement for discovery.
On September 5, 1978, the court ordered the report sealed.
On September 6, 1978, the court held a status conference in which in an effort to expedite discovery it probed the scope of factual disputes by inquiring into possible stipulations of facts. The court inquired if the SEC contested OKC’s claims that:
1. The Locke, Purnell report was subject to the attorney-client privilege in the hands of OKC;
2. OKC had not waived the attorney-client privilege; and
3. The motive of the persons who provided the report to the defendant is irrelevant to a determination of the claim that the SEC’s use of the report must be barred.
The SEC asked for time to consider the proposed stipulations and agreed not to pursue its investigation in the meantime. The SEC advised that it did contest those claims and on September 21, 1978, asked the court to continue the status quo pending resolution of a planned motion challenging the court’s subject matter jurisdiction. The SEC then filed with this court on September 25, 1978, a 47-page memorandum, accompanied by lengthy affidavits and exhibits. On September 29, 1978, OKC submitted an equally voluminous response.
The SEC’s Motion
The SEC’s motion deals only briefly with jurisdiction. It actually represents an attempt to have this court dismiss each of OKC’s claims on the merits. Several of its objections may be classified as Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. The bulk of its arguments, however, are motions for summary judgment. The SEC asserts that its recitation of events and affidavits resolve any fact questions presented in its summary judgment motions and argues that OKC has failed to prove its case. As discussed at length below, at this point in the case, summary judgment on many of these complaints is singularly inappropriate. Littlejohn v. Shell Oil Company, 456 F.2d 225, 229 (5th Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1116, 94 S.Ct. 849, 38 L.Ed.2d 743 (1973). Rule 56(f), Fed.R.Civ.P. permits the court to defer ruling on a motion for summary judgment and “to permit affidavits to be obtained or depositions to be taken or discovery to be had.” Should this court grant the motions for summary judgment, it would deprive OKC of its right fully to present its own position.
The court remains of the opinion (as held in the first conference with counsel) that the case will proceed most effectively in two phases — Phase I, the report, and Phase II, all other matters. It will conduct the proceeding in that sequence. This is logical because the SEC concedes that without use of the report, it cannot proceed. Moreover, there is little overlap in the discovery necessary to a resolution of this question and the remaining claims. This order, however, will address certain matters properly in Phase II. The court has chosen to do so at this time because their disposition may simplify the proceeding and enable the parties to concentrate their efforts on the remaining serious and complex issues.
Jurisdiction
Generally, unless it has exhausted prescribed administrative remedies, a party involved in an administrative proceeding is not entitled to judicial relief. Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 303 U.S. 41, 50-51, 58 S.Ct. 459, 82 L.Ed. 638 (1938); Frito-Lay, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, 380 F.2d 8 (5th Cir. 1967). Complaints that an agency is violating either specific statutory language or constitutional rights, however, are excepted from this general rule. Coca-Cola Company v. Federal Trade Commission, 475 F.2d 299 (5th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 877, 94 S.Ct. 121, 38 L.Ed.2d 122 (1973); see, e. g., Breen v. Selective Service Board, 396 U.S. 460, 90 S.Ct. 661, 24 L.Ed.2d 653 (1970); Leedom v. Kyne, 358 U.S. 184, 79 S.Ct. 180, 3 L.Ed.2d 210 (1958). It is well settled that when a complaint is so drawn as to seek recovery directly under the constitution or laws of the United States, the federal court with rare exception must entertain the suit. Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 681-82, 66 S.Ct. 773, 90 L.Ed. 939 (1945). Where, however, plaintiff’s claim “clearly appears to be immaterial and made solely for the purpose of obtaining jurisdiction or where such a claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous,” the federal court must dismiss it for want of jurisdiction. Id., 682-83, 66 S.Ct. at 776. In Coca-Cola Company v. Federal Trade Commission, supra, the Fifth Circuit warned that a claim does not confer jurisdiction merely because it is framed in conclusory language of a denial of due process.
OKC complains that in obtaining and using the Locke, Purnell report, the SEC violated OKC’s fourth and fifth amendment rights, and that in conducting the investigation the SEC is depriving OKC of due process. The fourth amendment complaint and the due process complaint concerning the investigation raise not insubstantial questions of constitutional infringement and are matters over which this court has jurisdiction. OKC’s fifth amendment allegation concerning use of the report, however, is precisely the sort of conclusory due process complaint against which, in Coca-Cola Company v. Federal Trade Commission, supra, the Fifth Circuit warned. In that case the plaintiff contended that if the court did not enjoin the FTC’s proceedings, Coca-Cola would be forced to defend multiple lawsuits and would risk inconsistent decrees. Plaintiff argued that such a result would violate its due process rights. The court rejected Coca-Cola’s position and emphasized that “the ‘right’ to be free from defending a multiplicity of lawsuits is not a statutory right, not a constitutional right and, in the context of the present case, not a right at all but an equitable principle.” 475 F.2d at 304. Similarly, the attorney-client privilege, the root of OKC’s due process claim, is not a principle of constitutional proportions but a rule of evidence. While unquestionably valued and significant, the attorney-client privilege has not been elevated to the stature of a constitutional right. It is a claim over which this court does not have jurisdiction.
Motions to Dismiss
A. Monetary Damages and the Fourth Amendment.
The Supreme Court has firmly established that a citizen suffering injury from an invasion of his fourth amendment rights may obtain from the responsible federal official an award of monetary damages. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). The SEC contends, however, that its officials have absolute immunity from such liability, and relies for support on Butz v. Economou, - U.S. -, 98 S.Ct. 2894, 57 L.Ed.2d 895 (1978). In that case the Supreme Court stated:
‘[The] officers of the government from the highest to the lowest are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it’ . We therefore hold that, in a suit for damages arising from unconstitutional action, federal executive officials exercising discretion are entitled only to the qualified immunities specified in Scheuer [v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, [94 S.Ct. 1683, 40 L.Ed.2d 90] (1974)], subject to those exceptional situations where it is demonstrated that absolute immunity is essential for the conduct of the public business. Id.
The court held that the measure of an “exceptional” situation was the law of immunities which governs cases under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Justice White stated that agency officials who perform functions analogous to those of prosecutors, who decide to initiate or continue adjudicatory proceedings are, like prosecutors, “entitled to absolute immunity from damages liability for their parts in that decision.” Id. As it did in Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 430-31, 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976), the court left open the question of whether a prosecutor is absolutely immune for acts committed in his investigative capacity. -U.S.-n.37, 98 S.Ct. 2894. (Imbler held prosecutors sued under § 1983 for damages arising from actions committed in their adversary rather than investigative role have absolute immunity.) Circuit courts have addressed this open issue, however, and have held that a prosecutor’s absolute immunity does not extend to acts done while investigating. Guerro v. Mulhearn, 498 F.2d 1249, 1256 (1st Cir. 1974); Hampton v. Chicago, 484 F.2d 602, 608-09 (7th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 917, 94 S.Ct. 1413, 39 L.Ed.2d 471 (1973); Robichaud v. Ronan, 351 F.2d 533, 537 (9th Cir. 1965). See, Madison v. Purdy, 410 F.2d 99 (5th Cir. 1969); Lewis v. Brautigam, 227 F.2d 124 (5th Cir. 1955) [in which the Circuit held that a prosecutor cannot claim immunity for acts committed outside the scope of his jurisdiction and without authorization of law].
' [7] This appellate authority is persuasive. If SEC officials in their adversary capacity committed the acts of which plaintiff complains and those acts violated the fourth amendment, then the immunity to which they are entitled is absolute. If on the other hand they committed those acts in their investigative role, then they may claim qualified immunity. In the latter case, only if they acted in good faith can they escape liability. Until this court determines in Phase II of this case whether the SEC’s seeming investigatory proceedings are actually adjudicatory, the question of whether the officials are entitled to absolute or qualified immunity cannot be fully resolved. A finding that the inquiry is in fact an adjudication will mean that the individual defendants are entitled to absolute immunity for some of the acts they committed, but not all. There can be little question that until the officials decided to initiate the challenged proceedings, they were merely investigating OKC. As to these actions, the question of their good faith arises. Because the question is one of fact, it may not at this time be decided. Rather the parties need the opportunity for discovery.
B. The Exclusionary Rule.
The SEC argues that in asking this court to exclude the Locke, Purnell report from SEC proceedings, OKC has failed to state a claim on which relief may be granted. It contends that the exclusionary rule cannot be invoked in SEC investigative proceedings, and relies for support on United States v. Janis, 428 U.S. 433, 96 S.Ct. 3021, 49 L.Ed.2d 1046 (1976). In that case the Supreme Court refused to extend the exclusionary rule to a civil proceeding instituted by the federal government and to bar the use of evidence illegally seized by a state criminal law enforcement agency. The court reasoned that the application of the exclusionary rule to federal and state criminal proceedings provided adequate deterrence, and that the societal costs of excluding concededly relevant evidence from civil cases outweighed whatever additional, marginal deterrence would result. Arguably, neither rationale applies here.
Justice Blackmun in Janis emphasized that the primary purpose of the exclusionary rule is “ ‘to deter future unlawful police conduct.’” Id., 428 U.S. 446, 96 S.Ct. at 3028. When the officer who commits the unconstitutional search or seizure has no responsibility or duty to, or agreement with the sovereign seeking to use the evidence, “the deterrent effect of the exclusion of relevant evidence is highly attenuated.” Id., 458, 96 S.Ct. at 3034. The desired deterrence can only result from excluding evidence from a case in which the officer is an agent of the sovereign seeking to use the evidence. Id. The court in Janis specifically observed that the facts of that case did not raise the question of such an intrasovereign violation. Id. at 455-56, n.31, 96 S.Ct. 3021. This case, however, appears to present precisely that circumstance. The individuals whom OKC accuses of violating its Fourth Amendment rights are all officers and employees of the SEC. Their duty is to the Commission alone. The SEC and no other sovereign is now seeking to use the report as evidence. Under Janis, therefore, the deterrent impact of applying the exclusionary rule to this report in these proceedings is in no way attenuated; its force is not incremental but primal.
The court in Janis emphasized that the existence of other more directly felt sanctions — specifically, the exclusion of the evidence from both state and federal criminal prosecutions — rendered the additional civil application of the rule unnecessary. Again, Janis’ logic is inapposite to this case. If the defendants are able to use this report in the investigation, there is no certainty that any situation will arise in which other deterrent sanctions will be imposed. First, after the investigation, the SEC might not initiate further proceedings in which the rule could apply. It may discover during the investigation either that no probable cause exists to justify an enforcement action, or that criminal proceedings, which the Commission is not empowered to prosecute are appropriate. Second, while it is true that the defendants may turn the report over to other governmental agencies or departments, including the Department of Justice, the applicability of the exclusionary rule to proceedings initiated by such other entities is unresolved.
The SEC also relies on United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 94 S.Ct. 613, 38 L.Ed.2d 561 (1974). In that case the Supreme Court held that the exclusionary rule should not be extended to grand jury proceedings. It reasoned that the grand jury does not adjudicate but merely investigates to determine probable cause. Invocation of the exclusionary rule would impede the orderly progress of the grand jury investigation and result in preliminary trials on the merits. Analogizing grand jury proceedings to its own investigation, the SEC contends that the exclusionary rule has no place in its inquiry into possible OKC wrongdoing.
A motion to dismiss requires the court to look only at the face of the pleadings. The SEC misreads OKC’s complaint. That complaint unequivocally alleges that the SEC’s investigations are actually adjudications. The SEC does not and could not contend that Calandra applies to adjudications. Taking OKC’s complaint as true, this court must find that OKC does state a valid claim. If in Phase II this court finds that the SEC’s proceedings are investigatory rather than accusatory, however, the SEC should resubmit as a Rule 56 motion its contention that OKC cannot invoke the exclusionary rule and the court will reconsider the applicability of Calandra.
C. Monetary Damages and Due Process.
OKC alleges that the SEC, by conducting an accusatory inquiry without procedural safeguards and by disclosing information to Pharaon’s representatives, violated its fifth amendment due process rights. These complaints cannot support a claim for monetary relief. The Fifth Circuit sitting en banc recently ruled that no right of action for monetary damages may be implied from the due process clause of the fifth amendment. Davis v. Passman, 571 F.2d 793, 801 (5th Cir. 1978). Accordingly, to the extent that these claims seek monetary relief, they are dismissed.
D. Section 14(e).
OKC also claims that during their meeting with Pharaon’s representatives, the individual defendants violated § 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act. Section 3(c) of the Securities Exchange Act, 15 U.S.C. § 78c(c), excepts from its reach officers or employees of the Commission acting in the course of their official duties. All of the individual defendants are officers and employees of the Commission who aré being sued for actions taken in the course of their official duties. The mere fact that OKC alleges that these defendants violated the law does not remove them from the protection of § 3(c). OKC’s claim under § 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act is< therefore dismissed for failure to state a claim.
E. FOIA.
OKC has alleged a violation of the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552. That statute will not support a private right of action other than one against a federal agency. See 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4). Accordingly, under that Act OKC does not state a claim for money damages against the individual defendants. Thus, to the extent that OKC’s FOIA claim is directed to the individual defendants, it is dismissed. This court cannot grant the SEC’s motion to dismiss OKC’s FOIA complaint against the agency, however. Whether the SEC timely complied with OKC’s request for documents and whether these documents are exempted from disclosure are both disputed issues which cannot be resolved by examining the face of the pleadings. See, e. g., Pacific Architects & Engineers, Inc. v. Renegotiation Board, 164 U.S.App.D.C. 276, 278, 505 F.2d 383, 385 (1974). In Phase II of this proceeding, if either party believes summary judgment is appropriate on this point, each should submit whatever evidence and arguments it deems necessary.
F. The Privacy Act.
OKC also alleges that the defendants violated the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, by providing information to and receiving information from the Department of Energy and other agencies, and by disclosing the existence of the OKC investigation to Pharaon. Because the Privacy Act does not grant protection to corporations, these allegations must be rejected as failing to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. An “individual” is defined by the Act as a “citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(a)(2). “This definition is intended to distinguish between the rights which are given citizens and individuals under this Act as opposed to the rights of proprietor-ships, businesses, and corporations which are not intended to be covered by the Act.” Office of Management and Budget, Privacy Act Guidelines, 40 Federal Register, No. 132, p. 28951 (July 9, 1975). Similarly, in Stone v. Export-Import Bank of the United States, 552 F.2d 132 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1012, 98 S.Ct. 726, 54 L.Ed.2d 756 (1978), the Fifth Circuit noted that the Senate Report regarding the Privacy Act stated that the “term [‘individual’] is used instead of the term ‘person’ throughout the bill in order to distinguish between the rights which are given to the citizen as an individual under this Act and the rights of proprietorships, businesses and corporations which are not intended to be covered by this Act.” 552 F.2d at 137, n.7. Accordingly, OKC’s Privacy Act complaint is dismissed for failing to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
Motion to Strike
The SEC has filed a motion to strike OKC’s claims arising out of the meeting between Commission personnel and the representatives of Ghaith R. Pharaon. Specifically, the SEC contends that paragraphs 15 and 16 of OKC’s complaint are impertinent and scandalous. An impertinent pleading is one that is immaterial. Mitchell v. American Tobacco Company, 28 F.R.D. 315 (D.C.Pa.1961). Scandalous .matters are those casting an excessively adverse light on the character of an individual or party. Budget Dress Corporation v. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO, 25 F.R.D. 506, 508 (S.C.N.Y.1959). Motions to strike are disfavored and rarely granted. Augustus v. Board of Public Instruction, 306 F.2d 862 (5th Cir. 1962). Unless the matter of which the movant complains bears no possible relation to the controversy or may cause the objecting party prejudice, such motions should be denied. Id.
In determining whether a party’s pleading is impertinent or scandalous, a' court should view all well-pleaded facts in their most favorable light. Budget Dress Corp. v. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO, supra. The SEC has not shown and indeed does not contend that OKC’s pleadings concerning SEC’s contact with Pharaon are on their face scandalous or impertinent or that they have caused any prejudice. When taken as true, the challenged paragraphs are certainly relevant to OKC’s claims and do not contain the extreme sort of accusation that unnecessarily reflects adversely on the defendants. Instead, despite the general rule that in deciding motions to strike a court should not consider matters outside the pleadings, the SEC wants this court to look beyond the complaint. Ciprari v. Servicos Aeros Cruzerio do sul, 245 F.Supp. 819 (S.D.N.Y.1965), aff’d on other grounds, 359 F.2d 855 (2nd Cir. 1966). See, Wright & Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure § 1380 (1966). Furthermore, a disputed fact question cannot be decided on a motion to strike. Augustus v. Board of Public Instruction, supra, at 868. The SEC nonetheless has submitted for this court’s consideration various affidavits and letters. Acknowledging that the court halted all discovery in this action, the SEC criticizes OKC for not coming forward with' any firsthand controverting information. Because this case has not yet progressed beyond the pleading stage, the fact issues that OKC raises in its complaint and that SEC contests in its memorandum, affidavits, and letters in support of this motion must be considered to be disputed. The motion to strike therefore is denied. After the parties have completed discovery on this issue, however, the SEC is free to resubmit its arguments in the form of Rule 56 motion for summary judgment.
The Fourth Amendment: Summary Judgment
The SEC asserts that it is entitled to summary judgment on OKC’s claim that in obtaining and using the Locke, Purnell report, the SEC violated OKC’s fourth amendment rights. We reach this question only because we reserved the issues, supra, of whether OKC in seeking monetary damages and the application of the exclusionary rule, states claims on which relief may be granted. If the SEC is correct, and there has been no constitutional violation, then this court need not later resolve those issues of remedy. In determining whether summary judgment is appropriate, this court must undertake a two-step analysis. First, it must establish whether there are any set of circumstances supporting plaintiff’s complaint under which the SEC could have violated OKC’s fourth amendment rights. If there are no such circumstances, then the SEC is entitled to summary judgment. If, however, the SEC could have violated the fourth amendment, the court must then decide whether the parties have presented facts sufficient to prove the SEC’s actual role in the report’s seizure.
The fourth amendment protects private citizens from unreasonable governmental searches and seizures. It does not shield persons from the intrusions of private parties. If a private individual turns a seized item over to a government entity whose officials have no connection with or knowledge of the seizure until after it occurs, then the fourth amendment has not been violated. Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 41 S.Ct. 574, 65 L.Ed. 1048 (1921); United States v. Mekjian, 505 F.2d 1320 (5th Cir. 1975). A federal official who actively participates in a private party search, or stands by watching it with approval and then reaps its benefits, however, implicates the federal government. Such conduct intrudes on the victim’s fourth amendment rights. Lustig v. United States, 338 U.S. 74, 69 S.Ct. 1372, 93 L.Ed. 1819 (1949); United States v. Mekjian, supra. A private party search conducted under the active supervision of the governmental authority is equally unconstitutional. United States v. Mekjian, supra.
As governmental connection with the search becomes more attenuated, the precise point at which the fourth amendment violation occurs becomes increasingly difficult to determine. The Fifth Circuit in United States v. Mekjian, supra, established the point at which the government is unconstitutionally involved in a search. If a government official either knew or should have known at the time of its occurrence that a private party search was to be conducted, the government cannot accept its benefit. 505 F.2d at 1328. Thus under Mekjian, if any SEC official knew or should have known at the time of the seizure’s occurrence that the informant was obtaining the Locke, Purnell report, then the SEC violated OKC’s fourth amendment rights.
OKC relies on Knoll Associates, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, 397 F.2d 530 (7th Cir. 1968) to support its claim that even after-the-fact governmental approval of a private party search violates the Fourth Amendment. It thus overlooks the Fifth Circuit holding in Mekjian which is directly contrary to OKC’s proffered distillate of Knoll. Mekjian specifically held that absent the government’s actual or implicit knowledge of a seizure at the time that it was occurring and absent governmental encouragement and cooperation, the fourth amendment is not violated. 505 F.2d at 1328. Furthermore, although Knoll is less than lucid on this point, the Fifth Circuit has not read that case as broadly as OKC would like. Rather, in Mekjian, the court cited Knoll for the narrower proposition that if at the time a private party search and seizure occurs the governmental official knows of and consents to it either tacitly or explicitly, then even .though the official removes himself from the scene of the search, the fourth amendment is violated. Id.
OKC urges that if the Locke, Purnell report is privileged, a more rigorous fourth amendment standard applies than is appropriate to those cases involving unprivileged materials. It relies on Roaden v. Kentucky, 413 U.S. 496, 93 S.Ct. 2796, 37 L.Ed.2d 757 (1973), in which the Supreme Court held that a county sheriff’s warrantless seizure of a sexually explicit film at a local drive-in theatre violated the fourth amendment, not because he could easily have obtained a warrant, but because his actions constituted a form of prior restraint on expression. Chief Justice Burger stated that an intrusion into first amendment rights
calls for a higher hurdle in the evaluation of reasonableness. The setting of the bookstore or the commercial theatre, each presumptively under the protection of the First Amendment, invokes such Fourth Amendment warrant requirements because we examine what is “unreasonable” in the light of the values of freedom of expression. Id. at 504, 93 S.Ct. at 2801.
Roaden is arguably not limited to seizures which infringe on First Amendment rights; the court’s language and rationale is more sweeping. Warning that the fourth amendment should not be read in a vacuum, the court stated:
A seizure reasonable as to one type of material in one setting may be unreasonable in a different setting or with respect to another kind of material. Id. at 501, 93 S.Ct. at 2800.
Roaden teaches that in determining the reasonableness of the SEC’s possession and use of the Locke, Purnell report, this court should consider the value of the attorney-client privilege. This privilege is premised on the judicial belief that if clients are encouraged to make full disclosures to their attorneys, the attorneys will be better able to advise and represent them. Such relationships will facilitate the proper administration of justice. “While it relates to the rights of an individual, [the privilege] is nonetheless recognized, as so many of our fundamental rights are, as essentially in the public interest.” SEC v. Harrison, 80 F.Supp. 226, 230 (D.D.C.1948). The privilege is deemed to be so important that neither the SEC, see, e. g., McMann v. SEC, 87 F.2d 377, 378 (2nd Cir.), cert. denied, 301 U.S. 684, 57 S.Ct. 785, 81 L.Ed. 1342 (1937); SEC v. Harrison, supra, nor the grand jury, see, e. g., In Re Grand Jury Subpoenas Served Upon Field, 408 F.Supp. 1169, 1172 (S.D.N.Y.1976), may intrude upon it.
Because documents enjoying the attorney-client privilege have an intrinsic high expectation of privacy, arguably, a more rigorous fourth amendment standard ought to be applied to their seizures than to seizures of other materials. But we are not here deciding the reasonableness of the seizure; the question is the government’s participation in the seizure. Here the heightened expectation of privacy expected in a report of legal counsel is relevant in judging the facts sufficient to implicate the government in its seizure. Before attempting a statement of that standard, however, we must explore two fact questions. First, we must establish the degree of the SEC’s participation in and knowledge of the informant’s actions. Second, we must determine whether the Locke, Burnell report is actually privileged.
The SEC has submitted affidavits supporting its assertion that a former OKC employee contacted the defendants Mathis and Simms, provided them with the report, and gave them no reason to believe it had been stolen. The affidavits further state that neither Mathis nor Simms had any prior knowledge of the report’s existence or participated in any way in the informant’s acquisition of the report. The SEC concludes that since the government played no role in obtaining the report, it did not violate OKC’s fourth amendment rights.
Defendant misconceives the nature of summary judgment. This court with the concurrence of the SEC and OKC halted all discovery. Thus far, OKC has not had the opportunity to engage in discovery on this issue such as interrogating SEC officials who have knowledge of how the agency received the report. Under Rule 56(f), Fed. R.Civ.P., plaintiff is entitled to discovery in-order to file responsive affidavits. Until the ordered discovery is complete, this court will not consider the SEC’s motion. As to the privileged nature of the report, the SEC argues that because the relevant facts are exclusively within OKC’s knowledge and because OKC has failed to produce affidavits establishing its privileged status, the SEC is entitled to summary judgment. But privilege is not a determinant but a factor in the fourth amendment analysis and the court will withhold that determination pending discovery.
Farther Proceedings: Phase I
The parties may proceed with discovery on the following matters: the extent of the SEC’s knowledge of and involvement in the private party seizure of that document; the closely related question of the individual defendants’ good faith; and, if necessary, the report’s privileged status. The SEC is entitled to assert the informer’s privilege. In so ruling, this court has balanced the public interest in protecting the flow of information and assistance to the SEC against OKC’s need for this discovery in the preparation of its case. Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53, 77 S.Ct. 623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957). Thus, in the course of discovery, OKC should not inquire into the identity of the informant(s) or seek to obtain his deposition. At the same time, because of the unique factual posture of the case, the informants) ought not go unexamined. The court has struck a balance between the strong competing interests and orders SEC counsel to examine the informant(s) in chambers with only court personnel, informant, and SEC counsel present. That testimony will be filed and sealed, and will be available only to the court. After all Phase I discovery has been completed, the court will examine all affidavits and depositions, including the sealed statements of the informant(s) to determine whether disclosure of the informant’s identity is required. It will then before January 19, 1979, issue further orders either granting summary judgment or requiring certain additional discovery.
All Phase I discovery [and the in camera examination of the informant(s)] must be completed before December 31, 1978. The parties will cooperate to meet this deadline by agreeing to proceed with short notices and by agreement. The only present restraint now imposed upon the SEC is that it can make no use of the Locke, Purnell report pending completion of the ordered discovery. Should it develop that there is no fact question with regard to the SEC’s contention as to how it obtained the report, this restraint will be lifted and discovery may proceed. The SEC investigation may then proceed with use of the report absent any further preliminary injunctive relief.
Summary
This court has granted defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction OKC’s claim that in obtaining and using the report, the SEC is violating OKC’s fifth amendment due process rights, but has found that it has jurisdiction over plaintiff’s remaining claims.
The court has dismissed for failure to state a claim the following OKC claims:
1. That the SEC’s investigation violates OKC’s fifth amendment due process rights to the extent that OKC seeks monetary damages;
2. Its complaint under the Privacy Act;
3. Its FOIA complaint to the extent that it claims monetary damages from the individual defendants; and
4. Its complaint that the defendants violated § 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act.
It has denied the SEC’s motion to strike certain of OKC’s pleadings. Finally, pending ordered discovery, the court has deferred ruling on the SEC’s motions for dismissal or in the alternative for summary judgment on OKC’s fourth amendment and remaining fifth amendment claims, and its FOIA claim to the extent that it seeks relief other than monetary damages from the individual defendants.
. Plaintiff alleges that it suffered damages in the amount of $15,000,000 but does not state which of the defendants’ acts of which OKC complains caused this great loss. The court will inquire into whether the complaint can support a claim for monetary relief.
. This law of qualified immunity places both OKC and the SEC in difficult positions. It puts OKC in the posture of arguing on the one hand that the SEC officials were functioning in their investigatory capacity and on the other that the SEC’s investigatory procedures are actually adjudicatory. Conversely, the SEC must argue that its officials have been acting in their advocate’s role, and yet that its proceedings are merely investigatory.
. “The rule is unsupportable as reparation or compensatory dispensation to the injured criminal; its sole rational justification is the experience of its indispensability in ‘exertfing] general legal pressures to secure obedience to the Fourth Amendment on the part of law-enforcing officers.’ ” Id. at 454-55, n.29, 96 S.Ct. at 3032, quoting Amsterdam, Search, Seizure and Section 2255: A Comment, 112 U.Pa.L.Rev. 378, 388-89 (1964).
. We raise this possibility without deciding it.
. Indeed, the logic of Janis would indicate that the rule might not apply.
. The FOIA only permits a court to award reasonable attorneys’ fees or other litigation costs reasonably incurred. 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(E). Thus, OKC must find some other alleged violation to support its damage claim for $15,000,000.
. In Knoll, Prosser, an employee of Knoll’s sales representative, purloined from Knoll an incriminating document for the purpose of assisting the FTC in a proceeding against Knoll. At some point, Prosser telephoned the FTC and informed the agency that he had information that would “hang” Knoll. Id. at 532. The Seventh Circuit did not make clear, however, whether Prosser made this phone call before or after he seized the documents. Although there apparently was no evidence that the FTC participated in the theft or even requested that Prosser produce the document when it learned he possessed it, it was clear that when the FTC received the document, the agency knew that Prosser had stolen it. The court found that the FTC, “by its use of the documents knowingly gave its approval to Prosser’s unlawful act,” id. at 533, and thereby violated Knoll’s fourth amendment rights. Recently the Seventh Circuit itself has limited Knoll significantly. United States v. Marzano, 537 F.2d 257, 271 (7th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1038, 97 S.Ct. 734, 50 L.Ed.2d 749 (1977); United States v. Billingsley, 440 F.2d 823, 826 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 403 U.S. 909, 91 S.Ct. 2219, 29 L.Ed.2d 687 (1971).
. It is unquestionable, however, that the privilege does impede the search for truth. Consequently, the trend has been toward its strict application. See, e. g., United States v. Friedman, 445 F.2d 1076, 1087 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 958, 92 S.Ct. 326, 30 L.Ed.2d 275 (1971); Laughner v. United States, 373 F.2d 326, 327 n.1 (5th Cir. 1967). Despite the drawbacks of protecting attorney-client communications, courts have long held that the benefits which spring from enforcing the privilege outweigh the harms and are essential to our system of justice.
. The informer’s privilege is well recognized, Mitchell v. Roma, 265 F.2d 633, 635 (3rd Cir. 1959); see, Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53, 77 S.Ct. 623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1967), and is applicable to civil proceedings. Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Burlington, 122 U.S.App.D.C. 65, 72-73, 351 F.2d 762, 769-70 (1965).
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American Stevedores v. Porello/Dissent Frankfurter
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER, with whom The CHIEF JUSTICE concurs, dissenting.
Without disregarding the significance which we have heretofore attached to legislative history, I cannot give the Public Vessels Act the scope given it by the Court.
It can hardly be maintained that, in the setting of legal history, the phrase 'damages caused by a public vessel' must cover personal injuries due to failure to provide proper working conditions for a longshoreman. The problem for construction is not whether the term 'damages' may be applied to money compensation for hurt to person or property. What is to be construed is 'damages caused by a public vessel'. Standing by itself, that phrase, spontaneously read, may well mean damage inflicted by a public vessel rather than 'damages' incurred in connection with its operation. All we held in Canadian Aviator, Ltd. v. United States, 324 U.S. 215, 65 S.Ct. 639, 89 .l.Ed. 901, was that its personnel was part of the public vessel for purposes of 'causing' damage to another vessel.
The words do not stand alone. They are illuminated by the legislative history of the Public Vessels Act. This history has been so accurately summarized in the Government's brief that we shall avail ourselves of it:
'On May 29, 1924, Mr. Underhill introduced H.R. 9535, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., which became the Public Vessels Act without change so far as the present provision is concerned. At that time, there were already pending two other bills, H.R. 6989 and H.R. 9075, both of which would also have authorized suit in case of damage by a public vessel. H.R. 6989, likewise introduced by Mr. Underhill, was the successor of a series of bills introduced at each session of Congress since 1920. It provided for suit 'for damages caused by collision by a public vessel,' and had the approval of all interested Government departments. H.R. 9075, a new measure, was designed to revise the Suits in Admiralty Act and, at the same time, remove its existing limitation to only such vessels as are operated by the Government as merchant vessels. It would have resulted in making the United States liable for personal injuries by all public vessels exactly as it was already for those by its merchant vessels. H.R. 9075 had the powerful support of the Maritime Law Association of the United States and of Judge Hough, then the country's outstanding admiralty judge. It did not have the unqualified approval of the interested departments, which were insisting on important changes.
'The omission of H.R. 6989 and its predecessors to cover personal injuries had been the subject of criticisms, some of which are cited in the brief of respondent Porello. But protracted delays were apparent if an attempt were made to rewrite H.R. 9075 so as to meet the objections thereto. Instead of proceeding further with either H.R. 6989 or H.R. 9075, Mr. Underhill, for the Committee, introduced H.R. 9535, which, in place of limiting its grant of jurisdiction to suits 'for damages caused by collision by a public vessel,' covered all suits 'for damages caused by a public vessel.' The purpose, of this change is nowhere discussed. Mr. Underhill, in explaining the intent of the proposed legislation, stated, however (66 Cong.Rec. 2087): 'The bill I have introduced simply allows suits in admiralty to be brought by owners of vessels whose property has been damaged by collision or other fault of Government vessels and Government agents.' Never at any time in the course of the debates in the House or Senate was it expressly stated that the bill extended to suits for personal injuries. Many statements in the course of the debates, some of which are cited in petitioner's brief, seem to indicate that only relief for property damage was intended. We accordingly submit that, if decisive weight is to be given to the legislative history, it would appear that the Public Vessels Act was not intended to cover suits for personal injury.'
In scores of cases in recent years this Court has give 'decisive weight' to legislative history. It has done so even when the mere words of an enactment carried a clear meaning. An impressive course of decisions enjoins upon us not to disregard the legislative history of the Public Vessels Act unless it is so completely at war with the terms of the statute itself that we must deny one or the other. We can find such a conflict only by reading the Act itself with dogmatic inhospitality to the usual illuminations from without.
We cannot escape the conclusion that there was no jurisdiction for this libel in the District Court. | WIKI |
1. Rivaroxaban was not associated with a lower rate of cardiovascular events and death compared to vitamin K antagonist treatment in patients with rheumatic heart disease-associated atrial fibrillation.
2. There was no significant differences between groups in the incidence of major bleeding safety outcomes.
Evidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent)
Study Rundown: Previous randomized trials have demonstrated the efficacy of non-vitamin K antagonist oral coagulants, such as the factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban, for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation. Compared to vitamin K antagonist treatment, Rivaroxaban treatment does not require regular blood sampling to monitor anticoagulation status. However, these trials have largely excluded patients with rheumatic heart disease. This randomized control trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban for preventing cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatic heart disease-associated atrial fibrillation. Patients were followed for an average of 3.1 years. The incidence of a primary outcome event, defined as a composite of stroke, systemic embolism, myocardial infarction, or death, was higher in the rivaroxaban compared to the vitamin K antagonist group. Mortality was higher in the rivaroxaban group, owing to higher rates of sudden cardiac death or mechanical or pump failure. Rates of hospitalization for heart failure and valvular replacement surgery were not significantly different between groups. There were no significant differences in rates of major bleeding, the primary safety outcome, between groups. As a limitation, there was a higher incidence of discontinuation of rivaroxaban than vitamin K antagonist, which may lead to more cardiovascular events in the rivaroxaban group. In addition, outcome measures had to be redefined during the trial due to lower rates of cardiovascular events than expected.
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In-Depth [randomized controlled trial]: In the present randomized control trial, adults aged 18 and over with documented atrial fibrillation and echocardiographically-confirmed rheumatic heart disease (n=4,531) were recruited at 138 trial sites in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either rivaroxaban (n=2,275) or a locally available vitamin K antagonist (n=2256). According to renal function, Rivaroxaban was administered at a daily dose of 15 or 20mg. The most administered vitamin K antagonist was warfarin (79 to 85% of patients in the group). Patients were followed for up to one month after randomization and every six months afterward for a mean follow-up of 3.1 (standard deviation, 1.2) years. The incidence of trial discontinuation was higher in the rivaroxaban group compared to the vitamin K antagonist group (79.0% and 96.4% adherence respectively at year four). A primary-outcome event, defined as stroke, systemic embolism, myocardial infarction, or death, occurred in 560 and 446 patients in the rivaroxaban and vitamin K antagonist groups, respectively (proportional-hazards ratio, 1.25; 95% Confidence Interval [CI], 1.10 to 1.41). For secondary outcomes, both incidences of stroke (90 and 65 patients in the rivaroxaban and vitamin K antagonist groups, respectively) and mortality (difference in restricted mean survival time, -72 days; 95% CI, -117 to -28) were higher in the rivaroxaban group. Rates of hospitalization for heart failure or valvular replacement surgery were not significantly different between groups. There were no significant differences in rates of major bleeding. Results from this trial support current guidelines that recommend vitamin K antagonists, and not rivaroxaban, for stroke prevention in patients with rheumatic heart disease-associated atrial fibrillation.
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Pearls are a true treasure of the ocean. Not only did people throughout millennia appreciate and treasure pearls for their exceptional beauty, but pearls captured imaginations and instilled a yearning desire for ownership.
What makes pearls so significant compared to other gems is that they don’t need to be cut and polished like others to bring out their beauty – they come out of the oyster in its full glory.
In this third part of the series we’re looking at the influence pearls have had on culture throughout the ages.
During the Middle Ages, pearls were used as talismans since people believed that they would provide protection during battle. Kings and other nobles took their valuables onto the battlefield in the hopes that the mysterious powers of pearls would protect them, causing many pearls to be lost or destroyed. The Roman Catholic church accumulated a tremendous amount of pearls during the 7th to 11th centuries. These gems and other treasures were offered up by churchgoers, often as penance for their sins. With so many built-up treasures, the church started to find creative ways to use these gems. One example is a religious manuscript, the Ashburnham manuscript of the Four Gospels (once owned by JP Morgan) which was decorated with jewels. The cover was made up of gold, colored stones, and about 98 pearls, and took about four years to complete.
Back in Europe, pearls were perceived as the ultimate display of wealth. The difficulty in gathering pearls from nature is the main reason why pearls were so exclusive, and so expensive that only the super-rich could afford it. Because of their popularity, the Duke of Saxony, England, passed a law in 1612 allowing only the royals to wear pearls. Doctors, rich merchants, and their wives were suddenly excluded, and the desire for these gems instantly increased.
Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603) always wore a great deal of pearls. She never went out in public without elaborate costumes, heavy makeup and jewelry, which you can also see in portraits painted of her throughout her lifetime.
Another interesting story from this time is the one of La Peregrina, the famous pearl the size of a quail egg. This pearl was found by a slave diver in the Gulf of Panama (or possibly Venezuela) in 1579. The pearl made its way into the Spanish Crown Jewels during the reign of King Ferdinand V. It was later presented to Queen Mary I of England (Bloody Mary). After Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain, he made his brother, Joseph, the king of Spain. Five years later he was defeated by the Duke of Wellington, and was forced to flee Spain. He took some of the Spanish crown jewels with him, including La Peregrina, which he later sold to James Hamilton, the Duke of Abercorn. In 1969, Richard Burton bought La Peregrina on auction for his wife, Elizabeth Tailor, who wore the pearl in its original setting in the 1969 film, Anne of the Thousand Days.
Lastly, we come to the 20th century. Some famous pearl lovers included Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Princess Diana, and more recently, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
Jackie Kennedy’s famous strand of pearls was apparently not pearls, but made of glass. In the cult movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Audrey Hepburn wore the iconic 5-strand pearl necklace, inspiring women around the globe to copy her elegant style.
In 1917, the jeweler Pierre Cartier bought his first shop on New York’s Fifth Avenue with $100 in cash and a two-strand natural pearl necklace, which was valued at $1 million at the time. The same necklace was auctioned in 1957 for only $157,000.
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imageLoad addressing past 1gb boundary
I seem to be running into an issue where image units can't be accessed past 1gb (I get zeroes instead of actual data).
gvec4 imageLoad(gimage1D image, int P);
Here, a signed integer is taken for the index, which I would expect limits addressing to 2gb as half the range is lost to negatives.
1. Is it normal to not not be able to address past 1gb, or have I made a mistake elsewhere?
2. If so, why at 1gb and not 2?
3. Is there a workaround that doesn't require two separate buffers? Maybe binding my 1D texture buffer as a 2D image instead?
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How do you know that you're accessing "past 1gb"? It's a 1D image. Which means that your texture size will be limited to GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE, which almost certainly is nowhere near 1gb.
So it would seem that you're just accessing data outside of the texture. Which is (if you're not using robustness stuff) going to lead to undefined behavior.
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I know I'm accessing past 1gb, because I have a buffer that dynamically resizes as needed. As it gets past 1gb (on-screen display), I start to see artefacts which would be caused by not reading correctly outside 1gb.
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: params returns one value. The value gives a rough estimate of the largest texture that the GL can handle.
IIRC I've been able to successfully go past GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE before, and assumed it was more of a suggestion for portability (not an issue in my situation, I just need it to work for me).
I have a titan with 6gb total memory and nowhere near the limit, checking with https://www.opengl.org/registry/spec...emory_info.txt and also tracking every new texture/buffer call I make.
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE gives 32767 for me. Lets say I were to allocate a 2D 32767x32767x4x4 byte texture. That's 16gb. In my case I'm creating a buffer object and mapping it to a texture buffer, which I then bind as a 1d image. My buffer size goes well past 32767 (pixels of arbitrary size?, "rough estimate", but whatever) and still seems to work, so I assume this max size doesn't apply here. I do not get GL errors from this, and I don't get zeroes from every access, I only get zeroes for the reads past ~1gb; everything else works fine.
I had a very brief skim through
https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt. Can you point out the parts you were referring to?
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* 1) narrow-minded, square, petit bourgeois, outmoded
* 2) disgruntled, (unjustifiedly) offended, surly, unfriendly
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Theodore Spencer
Theodore Spencer (1902–1949) was an American poet and academic.
Life
He graduated from Princeton University in 1923, and a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1928. He then taught there, from 1927 to 1949. He was appointed lecturer in English literature at Cambridge University, England, in 1939. In 1942, Spencer gave the Lowell lectures on Shakespeare, published as Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, his most important work. Spencer also published essays, short stories, and poetry.
His notebook is at Princeton University, and papers are at Harvard University.
Awards
* Golden Rose Award | WIKI |
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Dead with thy death, a whirlwind that passed by,
And left all desolate; thy father’s gone,
And I am dead in thee, and thou art lost;
And our foes laugh. That mother, mother none,
Whose crimes, as oft thou gav’st me secret word,
Thou wouldst thyself full speedily avenge,
Is mad for joy. But now malignant fate,
Thy fate and mine, hath blasted all and sent me,
Instead of that dear form I loved so well,
Cold ashes and an unavailing shade.
Ah me! Ah me!
O piteous corse!
Ah woe is me!
O woeful coming! I am all undone,
Undone by thee, beloved brother mine!
Take me, O take me to thy last lone home,
A shadow to a shade, that I may dwell
With thee for ever in the underworld;
For here on earth we shared alike, and now
I fain would die to share with thee thy tomb;
For with the dead there is no mourning, none.
Child of a mortal sire, Electra, think,
Orestes too was mortal; calm thy grief.
Death is a debt that all of us must pay.
Ah me! what shall I say where all words fail?
And yet I can no longer curb my tongue.
What sudden trouble made thee speak like this?
Is this the famed Electra I behold? 217 | WIKI |
Rebound in banks, trade sentiment boosts FTSE 100; Metro Bank plummets
(For a live blog on European stocks, type LIVE/ in an Eikon news window) * FTSE 100 up 0.2%, FTSE 250 down 0.3% * Blue-chip financial stocks bounce back * U.S.-China trade sentiment also supports market mood * Metro Bank falls after ditching bond issue * Close Brothers slips after results, CEO departure Sept 24 (Reuters) - London’s FTSE 100 moved higher on Tuesday, bolstered by financial stocks that rebounded from a sharp sell-off in the previous session and good news that U.S.-China trade talks would resume next month, while small-cap Metro Bank sank after scrapping a bond issuance. The main index added 0.2% by 0706 GMT. However, the more domestically-focussed FTSE 250 index shed 0.3%, ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament was unlawful. Mid-caps were dragged lower by a 4.7% drop in merchant bank Close Brothers after its annual profit fell and it said Chief Executive Officer Preben Prebensen would leave. Among smaller stocks, Metro Bank sank 12% as the troubled lender ditched a 250-million pound bond issue on Monday after failing to attract investors, while ad agency M&C Saatchi slid 8% after warning annual profit would fall 5%-10% below estimates. (Reporting by Indranil Sarkar and Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard Orr) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Barbell hack squat
Exercise details
• Target muscle: Quadriceps (Rectus Femoris, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis, Vastus Intermedius)
• Synergists: Gluteus Maximus, Adductor Magnus, Soleus
• Mechanics: Compound
• Force: Push
Starting position
1. Stand in front of a barbell with your feet shoulder-width apart and pointing slightly out to the sides.
2. Bend down and grasp the barbell from behind using a pronated (overhand) grip.
3. Keeping your back straight and your chest up, stand up and lift the barbell up the backs of your legs.
Execution
1. Inhale as you flex your knees and hips and lower the barbell either to the floor or at least until your thighs are horizontal.
2. Exhale as you stand back up and lift the barbell up along the backs of your legs, driving through your heels.
3. Repeat.
Comments and tips
• Keep your back and arms straight and your chest up.
• To improve mechanical leverage, keep the barbell close to your body.
• Keep your feet flat, and your feet and knees pointing slightly out to the sides, in the same direction.
• Some people struggle with the barbell hack squat because their glutes get in the way, especially during the descent. If this happens to you, allow your knees to flex forward as you descend.
• The barbell hack squat is great for developing your quadriceps. Compared with the barbell deadlift and barbell squat, it places less stress on your lower back, which makes it more suitable for those who suffer from lower back pain.
• With the barbell hack squat, your hamstrings and gastrocnemii only act as dynamic stabilizers, which is why they have not been highlighted. I only highlight the target and synergistic muscles.
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy - NY Times Health Information
Spinal muscular atrophy is a group of inherited diseases that cause muscle damage and weakness, which get worse over time and eventually lead to death. Werdnig-Hoffmann disease Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a collection of different muscle diseases. Grouped together, it is the second leading cause of neuromuscular disease, after Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Most of the time, a person must get the defective gene from both parents to be affected. About 4 out of every 100,000 people have the condition. The most severe form is SMA type I, also called Werdnig-Hoffman disease. Infants with SMA type II have less severe symptoms during early infancy, but they become weaker with time. SMA type III is the least severe form of the disease. Rarely, SMA may begin in adulthood. This is usually a milder form of the disease. A family history of spinal muscular atrophy is a risk factor for all types of the disorder. Often, weakness is first felt in the shoulder and leg muscles. Weakness gets worse over time and eventually becomes severe. Symptoms in an infant: Symptoms in a child: The health care provider will take a careful history and perform a brain/nervous system (neurologic) examination to find out if there is: Tests: There is no treatment for the weakness caused by the disease. Supportive care is important. Attention must be paid to the respiratory system because affected people have trouble protecting themselves from choking. Breathing complications are common. Physical therapy is important to prevent contractions of muscles and tendons and abnormal curvature of the spine (scoliosis). Bracing may be needed. People with SMA type I rarely live longer than 2 - 3 years because of respiratory problems and infections. Survival time with type II is longer, but the disease kills most of those who are affected while they are still children. Children with type III disease may survive into early adulthood. However, people with all forms of the disease have weakness and debility that gets worse over time. Call your health care provider if your child: Breathing difficulty can rapidly become an emergency condition. Genetic counseling is recommended for people with a family history of spinal muscular atrophy who want to have children. Sarnat HB. Spinal muscular atrophies. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics . 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier; 2011:chap 604.2. February 19, 2017 February 19, 2017 February 19, 2017 February 18, 2017 February 18, 2017 More Blog Headlines » | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Title: Allelic variations in the vitamin D receptor gene, insulin secretion and parents' heights are independently associated with height in obese children and adolescents
Authors: FERRAREZI, Daniela A. F.BELLILI-MUNOZ, NaimaNICOLAU, ChristianeCHEURFA, NadirGUAZZELLI, Isabel C.FRAZZATTO, ElianaVELHO, GilbertoVILLARES, Sandra M.
Citation: METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL, v.61, n.10, p.1413-1421, 2012
Abstract: Polymorphisms in the VDR gene were reported to be associated with variations in intrauterine and postnatal growth and with adult height, but also with other traits that are strongly correlated such as the BMI, insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion and hyperglycemia. Here, we assessed the impact of VDR polymorphisms on body height and its interactions with obesity- and glucose tolerance-related traits in obese children and adolescents. We studied 173 prepubertal (Tanner's stage 1) and 146 pubertal (Tanner's stages 2-5) obese children who were referred for a weight-loss program. Three single nucleotide polymorphisms were genotyped: rs1544410 (BsmI), rs7975232 (ApaI) and rs731236 (TaqI). BsmI and TaqI genotypes were significantly associated with height in pubertal children, but the associations did not reach statistical significance in prepubertal children. In stepwise regression analyses, the lean body mass, insulin secretion, BsmI or TaqI genotypes and the father's and the mother's height were independently and positively associated with height in pubertal children. These covariables accounted for 46% of the trait variance. The height of homozygous carriers of the minor allele of BsmI was 0.65 z-scores (4 cm) higher than the height of homozygous carriers of the major allele (P=.0006). Haplotype analyses confirmed the associations of the minor alleles of BsmI and TaqI with increased height. In conclusion, VDR genotypes were significantly associated with height in pubertal obese children. The associations were independent from the effects of confounding traits, such as the body fat mass, insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance.
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Impacts of Contact
Stó:lō artistic traditions and practices were greatly impacted by contact. The Potlatch Ban, the prohibition on practicing traditional spirituality, along with residential schools, and the “Sixties Scoop” caused substantial intergenerational trauma that disrupted thousands of years of traditional artistic knowledge.
The Potlatch Ban, also known as the Indian Act of 1884, was a law that aimed to suppress and eradicate Indigenous cultural practices, including traditional ceremonies. Stó:lō artistic tradition is closely tied to their cultural and spiritual practices. The potlatch was a central part of this tradition, as it was a way for the Stó:lō to exchange gifts, display their wealth and status, and strengthen their social and political networks. The Potlatch Ban, however, made it illegal for Indigenous people to engage in potlatches, which had a significant impact on Stó:lō artistic traditions. Along with this Act, a prohibition was also placed on practicing traditional spirituality. Many items which were used in ceremonies, such as masks, drums, woven blankets (which indicated status), and regalia, were confiscated and destroyed or put into museums. Traditional skills such as carving, weaving, and drum-making were forced to go underground, and some knowledge was inevitably lost.
The suppression of culture and forced assimilation of Stó:lō children into Euro-Canadian culture that resulted from the residential school system (1862-1985) and the “Sixties Scoop” (which refers to the mass removal of Stó:lō children from their families into the child welfare system, during the 1960s), also had a profound and devastating impact on the transmission of Stó:lō artistic traditions, as the knowledge needed to create works are passed down orally, and through hands-on learning. Additionally, the removal of children from their communities disconnected them from Stó:lō Téméxw, which, as has been shown, is an essential inspiration for creativity.
Despite these challenges, many Stó:lō artists continue to create and adapt their artistic traditions in the face of adversity. Today, Stó:lō creative works are a vital part of cultural expression and serve as ways to celebrate and preserve a rich history. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Pushy Guy: Condoms, Good Fats and Public Health
IN the reception area outside the supersize office of Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the small-of-scale envelope pusher who seems a perfect fit as New York City's health commissioner, sits an elegant metal bowl worthy of a Cézanne still life: all except for its contents. Rather than holding an arrangement of healthy fruit, or summery blooms, the bowl brims with condoms. Freebie condoms. Each is discreetly sheathed in white and, like a souvenir matchbook, stamped with a witty abbreviation: B.Y.O.C. Get the message? Visitors to 125 Worth Street apparently do. The bowl sees plenty of action and required a refill just this morning. The commissioner prefers it fully stocked. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Plácido Benavides was a Mexican government official. He contributed greatly to the settlement of Victoria, Texas, and to the Texas Revolution.
Benavides was born in 1810 in the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico. After finishing school, Benavides was sent to Texas in 1828. At the time, Texas was part of Mexico. Benavides was the secretary to a high-level official in Victoria. He was also the town’s teacher. In 1832 Benavides was elected alcalde, a position whose duties included those of a mayor, sheriff, and judge. He was reelected in 1834.
In 1833 Antonio López de Santa Anna was elected president of Mexico. Santa Anna acted like a dictator. He put many restrictions on Texas that went against the constitution. The people in Texas did not like this. Benavides was loyal to Mexico, but he did not like how Santa Anna ruled. Benavides agreed to fight against the Mexican government in the hopes that Santa Anna’s changes would be reversed. Benavides took part in many battles and was important in conveying messages to the leaders of the revolution. He fought alongside James Bowie.
Texas declared itself independent from Mexico on March 2, 1836. Benavides did not agree with this. He wanted Texas to remain a part of Mexico. Benavides was discharged from the army and returned to Victoria. He declared himself neutral, meaning he did not take sides. However, he turned a wounded Texan soldier over to Mexican forces. After Texas won its independence at the Battle of San Jacinto, Benavides was exiled to New Orleans, Louisiana. He died in Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1837. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Hourglass (Kate Rusby album)
Hourglass is the debut studio album by English contemporary folk musician Kate Rusby, released on 1 March 1997 on Pure Records. It was updated and remastered in 2022, to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Track listing
* 1) "Sir Eglamore" (Traditional; Rusby) - 4:14
* 2) "As I Roved Out" (Traditional) - 3:45
* 3) "Jolly Ploughboys" (Traditional) - 4:05
* 4) "Annan Waters" (Traditional) - 5:23
* 5) "Stananivy" (McCusker, Rusby) - "Jack and Jill" (Rusby; Traditional) - 3:06
* 6) "A Rose in April" (Rusby) - 5:38
* 7) "Radio Sweethearts" (Miller, McCusker) - 3:32
* 8) "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" (Frank O'Connor, Rusby) - 2:58
* 9) "Old Man Time" (Rusby) - 3:48
* 10) "Drowned Lovers" (Traditional) - 5:14
* 11) "Bold Riley" (Traditional) - 4:37
Personnel
Produced by John McCusker
Engineered by Moray Munro
Recorded at Temple Record Studio, Midlothian, Scotland
Mastered by Andy Seward
* Kate Rusby - vocals, piano, guitar (3, 6, 9)
* Ian Carr - guitar (1, 5, 7, 10)
* Andy Cutting - diatonic accordion
* Donald Hay - percussion
* Conrad Ivitsky - double bass
* Alison Kinnaird - cello
* John McCusker - fiddles
* Michael McGoldrick - flute, whistles
* Tony McManus - guitar (2, 8)
* Alan Reid - harmony vocals (4)
* Eric Rigler - uilleann pipes
* Davy Steele - harmony vocals (3, 11)
All tracks arranged by Kate Rusby and John McCusker
(Additional arrangement by Ian Carr on tracks 1, 4, 7, 10) | WIKI |
Ashley Swearengin
Ashley Emile Swearengin (née Newton; born May 24, 1972) is an American politician who served as the 24th mayor of Fresno, California. She is Fresno's second female mayor. She was first elected in a run-off election in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012. Swearengin ran for State Controller in 2014. After leaving the mayor's office, she became the president/CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation.
Early life and education
Swearengin was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas. Her family moved to Fresno in 1987. She graduated from Fresno Christian High School and subsequently attended California State University, Fresno.
Swearengin holds a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) and a Master of Business Administration (summa cum laude) from California State University, Fresno. Her husband, Paul, and she have two children, Sydney and Samuel.
Early career
In 2000, she became Director of the Office of Community and Economic Development at California State University, Fresno.
In 2002, she co-founded the Regional Jobs Initiative (RJI), an industry-focused effort aimed at helping the unemployment in Fresno County. She served as the Chief Operations Officer.
In 2005, she became lead executive for the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, a group formed by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Today, she serves as the deputy chair of the Partnership's board of directors.
Elections
In 2008, she ran for Mayor of Fresno, California. Alan Autry, who had served as Mayor for two full terms, endorsed Swearengin as his successor before he left office under California term limit rules. Swearengin campaigned on the four "priority issues" of Jobs and Education; Safe, Quality Neighborhoods; Effective and Responsive Government; and Regional Leadership. She defeated Henry T. Perea 54%-45%.
In 2012, she won re-election to a second term with 75% of the vote, defeating four other candidates.
Tenure
In her first week in office, she and Police Chief Jerry Dyer introduced Operation Monitor: designed to allow GPS tracking devices on registered sex offenders after being released on parole. She inherited a difficult budget shortfall. She stated "I don't think anybody thought that within an 11 month window we'd have to close a $55 million dollar budget shortfall. When I started this job the general fund was $255 million dollars. So a $55 million dollar hole is significant for an organization of our size."
In March 2012, Ashley Swearengin announced that the City was facing a fiscal emergency because of the state's continued economic troubles combined with high cost contracts for certain segments of the city's labor force. A USA Today listed Fresno among 10 cities that could follow Stockton and Vallejo into Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
The unemployment level of the city of Fresno was 12.5% in August 2013, having fallen from 17% since Mayor Swearengin came into office. She proposed a plan called "Fresno's First Steps Home," which will battle chronic homelessness in the city.
Other elections
In 2014, she ran for the office of California State Controller. She advanced to the general election, where she lost to Democrat Betty Yee, 54%-to-46%. | WIKI |
dry-rb/dry-system
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---
title: Introduction
layout: gem-single
name: dry-system
type: gem
sections:
- container
- component-dirs
- booting
- auto-import
- component-providers
- plugins
- settings
- test-mode
---
Object dependency management system based on [dry-container](/gems/dry-container) and [dry-auto_inject](/gems/dry-auto_inject) allowing you to configure reusable components in any environment, set up their load-paths, require needed files and instantiate objects automatically with the ability to have them injected as dependencies.
This library relies on very basic mechanisms provided by Ruby, specifically `require` and managing `$LOAD_PATH`. It doesn't use magic like automatic const resolution, it's pretty much the opposite and forces you to be explicit about dependencies in your applications.
It does a couple of things for you:
* Provides an abstract dependency container implementation
* Handles `$LOAD_PATH` configuration
* Loads needed files using `require`
* Resolves object dependencies automatically
* Supports auto-registration of dependencies via file/dir naming conventions
* Supports multi-system setups (ie your application is split into multiple sub-systems)
* Supports configuring component providers, which can be used to share common components between many systems
* Supports test-mode with convenient stubbing API
To put it all together, this allows you to configure your system in a way where you have full control over dependencies and it's very easy to draw the boundaries between individual components.
This comes with a bunch of nice benefits:
* Your system relies on abstractions rather than concrete classes and modules
* It helps in decoupling your code from 3rd party code
* It makes it possible to load components in complete isolation. In example you can run a single test for a single component and only required files will be loaded, or you can run a rake task and it will only load the things it needs.
* It opens up doors to better instrumentation and debugging tools
You can use dry-system in a new application or add it to an existing application. It should Just Work™ but if it doesn't please [report an issue](https://github.com/dry-rb/dry-system/issues).
### Rails support
If you want to use dry-system with Rails, it's recommended to use [dry-rails](/gems/dry-rails) which sets up application container for you and provides additional features on top of it.
### Credits
* dry-system has been extracted from an experimental project called Rodakase created by [solnic](https://github.com/solnic). Later on Rodakase was renamed to [dry-web](https://github.com/dry-rb/dry-web).
* System/Component and lifecycle triggers are inspired by Clojure's [component](https://github.com/stuartsierra/component) library by [Stuart Sierra](https://github.com/stuartsierra) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
BUSINESS DIGEST
Senate Leaders Reach Deal to Offer Citizenship to Most Illegal Immigrants Senate leaders reached agreement on a broad compromise that would put the vast majority of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. The plan would also create a temporary worker program that would allow 325,000 foreigners to fill jobs in the United States each year. If passed, it would be the most sweeping immigration accord in two decades. But the plan quickly ran into resistance from conservative Republicans. [Page A1.] U.S. to Name Outside Experts to Monitor Heart Units The Food and Drug Administration is planning to strengthen how it monitors heart devices like defibrillators by appointing outside medical experts to help it review the safety of units on the market, an agency official said. [C1.] Next Task for Massachusetts: Workable Health Plan The Massachusetts plan to achieve nearly universal health coverage now faces the challenge of creating a viable market in affordable insurance policies, so that businesses and individuals will buy the coverage mandated by the state's legislature. [C1.] Reality Series to Focus on Aspiring Filmmakers Television's most successful reality-show producer, Mark Burnett, left, will work with the film director Steven Spielberg on a Fox series devoted to finding the ''American Idol'' of unknown movie directors. The series, called ''On the Lot,'' will combine elements of several previous reality series to form an elimination contest for aspiring filmmakers. Mr. Burnett said the show would try to take advantage of the enormous number of self-made video and film shorts that have become ubiquitous on the Internet. [C6.] CBS Looks to Couric to Turn Viewing Tide in Key Cities CBS is betting millions of dollars that Katie Couric's move to its evening news program from the ''Today'' show will have a major impact on the television-watching habits in ''battleground'' television markets like Grand Rapids, Mich. In the cities and suburbs of western Michigan, more than half of the televisions that are turned on at 6:30 p.m. are tuned in to one of the three network newscasts, as compared with about a third nationally, according to Nielsen Media Research. [C1.] NBC named Meredith Vieira to the co-host position of the ''Today'' show, to succeed Katie Couric. [C4.] Morgan Stanley Hires Prominent Deal Maker Morgan Stanley, which has suffered a series of executive defections, announced one of its biggest coups, hiring Robert A. Kindler, who was the global head of mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan Chase. Mr. Kindler will become vice chairman of investment banking at Morgan Stanley. [C6.] Ford President to Retire; Chief Executive to Take Post Ford Motor said that its president, James Padilla, would retire July 1. His duties will be assumed by Ford's chief executive, William Clay Ford Jr., who is forming a new executive operating committee to help run the company. [C6.] European Bank Catches Markets Off Guard on Rates In a surprise to financial markets, the European Central Bank doused widespread expectations that it would raise interest rates next month as part of its gradual tightening of monetary policy. [C6.] Gold and Silver Hit Highs Not Seen Since 1980's Gold touched $600 an ounce for the first time in 25 years and silver hit a 22-year high as investors continued to pour money into precious metals. [C7.] The Dow Jones industrial average fell 23.05 points, to 11,216.50. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 2.52 points, to 1,309.04, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 1.42 points, to 2,361.17, its best close since Feb. 16, 2001. [C7.] News Corporation Settles Suit on Antitakeover Plan The News Corporation settled a shareholder lawsuit two weeks before the opening of a trial in a lawsuit that accused the company of defrauding investors by denying them a vote on whether to extend an antitakeover resolution adopted in 2004. [C6.] Former Merck Chief Takes Stand in Vioxx Case The punitive damages phase of the fourth Vioxx case to reach a jury began with testimony from Raymond V. Gilmartin, the former chief executive of Merck, who faced the plaintiff lawyer, W. Mark Lanier. Mr. Gilmartin took the stand the day after a New Jersey jury awarded $4.5 million to John McDarby, a 77-year-old who had a heart attack in 2004 after taking Vioxx for four years. Mr. Gilmartin seemed relatively unfazed after a day of difficult questions from Mr. Lanier, who in August won an even larger verdict against Merck in the first Vioxx personal injury case. [C3.] Pfizer to Acquire a Biotechnology Company Pfizer will acquire Rinat Neuroscience, a privately held company developing drugs for pain, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders. [C6.] Armenia Settles Gas Conflict With Russia In a settlement of the latest natural gas dispute in the former Soviet Union, Armenia will receive natural gas supplies from Russia at prices well below European averages until 2009. In exchange, it will surrender a small but crucial section of gas pipeline to Russia. [C6.] In Russia, Warning of a Bubble That Might Burst Russia's top market regulator is warning that the surging Russian stock market is showing some ''alarming signs'' of become too expensive. [C5.] | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
-- U.K. to Rank Suppliers to Cut Costs, Sunday Telegraph Says
The U.K. government will rate
suppliers based on their performance in a bid to improve
efficiency and lower costs, the Sunday Telegraph said today,
citing an unidentified spokesman in the Cabinet Office . The office has called 22 companies which together provide
the government 15 billion pounds ($23.4 billion) of supplies to
meetings to warn them that it plans to get “tough” in
assessing their performance, the newspaper reported. The
companies include Balfour Beatty (BBY) Plc, BT Group Plc (BT/A) , Sodexho Inc.
and G4S Plc (GFS) , according to the Sunday Telegraph. To contact the reporter on this story:
Andrea Gerlin in London at
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Hypothermia commonly occurs as a result of the body being exposed to ultra-cold conditions and an inability to retain heat as fast the body loses it. Hypothermia's earliest stage, mild hypothermia, is the easiest and least complicated to manage. By recognizing its symptoms and most common causes, the effects of mild hypothermia can be treated quickly.
1
Treating Mild Hypothermia
1. 1
Check the person's body temperature. If you have quick access to a thermometer, you can check the person's temperature. The typical body temperature usually sits around 98°F (36.7°C). Mild hypothermia can manifest with a body temperature of 96–97.5°F (35.6–35.4°C). If it's lower than this, the hypothermia may be severe and you should seek medical help. [1]
• Make sure to check his pulse and breathing. A person with severe hypothermia may appear unconscious, have a low pulse and difficulty breathing. If his breathing has stopped and you are trained in CPR, you can administer it immediately to get him breathing again. In all cases that breathing or pulse is abnormal, contact emergency medical service immediately by calling 911. [2]
2. 2
Move the person out of the cold. If the person was outside in inclement weather without protection, in cold water, or even an elderly person in air conditioning for too long, make sure to remove her from the situation. The body will not be able to warm back up until the root cause of the temperature drop is changed.
• If the person was in water, remove her wet clothes immediately. You will want to keep her movement as minimal as possible, so if needed, use scissors to cut the clothing away. Dry her off with towels, and cover her with blankets, being sure to put a blanket beneath her to insulate her from the ground.
• If you are unable to get the person inside quickly, insulate her from the cold best you can. For example, put dry blankets or clothing below her so that she is not sitting on the cold ground.
3. 3
Cover the person in warm, dry blankets. You want to avoid warming him up too quickly as this can cause the body to go into shock. Blankets are a great way to gradually raise body temperature while allowing the person to retain his own body heat, without making the changes too dramatic. [3]
4. 4
Introduce warm liquids to the person. Hypothermia can cause dehydration. Introducing a warm, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free liquid. Broth, soup, warm milk or decaffeinated tea can be good options.[4]
• If possible, give her a liquid that contains calories such as broth, soup, or warm milk. Carbohydrate-rich food will quickly release energy into the bloodstream, which causes a brief and sudden surge of heat. Also, proteins will help over time build up heat as her body attempts to metabolize it.
5. 5
Share body heat to raise temperatures. Remove both of your clothing and lay skin-to-skin with the person under a blanket. This will raise the person's body heat gradually. [5]
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Recognizing and Avoiding Mild Hypothermia Risks
1. 1
Know when to seek medical help. What starts as mild hypothermia can worsen into a condition that needs immediate help. Some signs to look for include confusion, shallow breathing, a weak pulse, or body parts like limbs or lips turning colors, which can indicate moderate to severe hypothermia.
• If you see these signs do not try to move the person as these jarring movements can cause severe complications, especially to the heart. Severe hypothermia can cause complications like deadening of tissue like frostbite or even death. However, be sure to cover the person in dry blankets and remove wet clothing while you wait for help to arrive. [6]
2. 2
Do not apply direct heat to the afflicted person. This includes a heating pad or hot water because this can cause irregular heartbeats or a burn injury. If you have access to something like a warm first-aid compress, apply this to her neck, chest, or groin. Do not apply to arms or legs because this forces cold blood from her extremities back into her lung or heart. This can be fatal.
3. 3
Avoid prolonged exposure to cold environments. Do not stay out in the cold too long, particularly if you are not wearing the proper clothing.
• Just because someone is indoors does not eliminate the risk of hypothermia. People, especially infants or elderly, that are in places with inadequate heating or air conditioning that is too cold can get hypothermia. [7]
4. 4
Understand who is at risk for hypothermia. A number of factors like age, health, and medications can make someone more prone to hypothermia. You can take extra steps to make sure these at-risk people are not exposed to environments conducive to hypothermia. [8]
• People who are very young or very old. Older people can have trouble regulating temperature and are more susceptible to environmental problems. Children lose heat faster than adults and may also lack the development and faculties to remove themselves from a situation, such as playing too long in the cold.
• Alcohol and drug users. Alcohol causes blood vessels to dilate which means the body will lose heat faster. Also, the shiver response to cold that can help warm the body naturally is diminished when intoxicated. If you or a friend are intending to drink alcohol, avoid situations that can lead to hypothermia.
• Medical conditions can affect the body's ability to regulate body temperature. These include an underactive thyroid, nerve damage, or even arthritis. If you or someone you know has these medical conditions you'll want to be aware of their sensitivities to environmental extremes like cold. Also, medications to treat a variety of conditions can affect how the body is able to regulate its own temperature. If you have any questions about the risk factors of a certain medication you should consult your physician. [9]
5. 5
Take steps to prevent hypothermia risk. Make sure to wear warm clothing in the cold, stay dry, and avoid activities that would make you sweat too much in cold weather.
• Watch children carefully. Make sure they are adequately dressed. If they begin to shiver or are outside for too long, make sure they are coming inside regularly to warm up.
• Keep emergency kits in your car. Anytime you are driving in the winter, a simple car malfunction can put you at risk for hypothermia. Keep candles, matches, blankets, and food and water in the back of the car in case you get stuck. If you break down somewhere cold, take the supplies in the car with you and if there are more than one of you, huddle together for warmth.
• Be careful of exposure to cold water. Water does not need to be extremely cold to cause hypothermia and prolonged exposure to even cool water can bring it about. If you fall in cold water, get out as soon as possible. While you are in the water, do not attempt to swim unless you are close to safety as this can use up energy. Do not remove your clothing while in the water since this can help insulate you from the water.
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• Avoid alcohol, which increases the heat lost; caffeine, which acts as a diuretic and increases dehydration; and tobacco or nicotine, which constrict blood vessels and can increase the risk of frostbite to appendages not staying warm enough.
• If there is any doubt about the person's medical condition, make sure to call for help as soon as possible. In the meantime of help arriving, you can take the above steps.
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Bonnetts Energy Centre
Bonnetts Energy Centre, formerly known as Revolution Place, Canada Games Arena and Crystal Centre, is a 2,960-seat (plus standing) multi-purpose arena in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. The arena was built in 1995, for the Canada Games.
It is home to the Grande Prairie Storm of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
It has also hosted the 2004 Royal Bank Cup, 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, and 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Concerts
Nickelback played at the arena during The Long Road Tour on March 20, 2004.
Ariana Grande played at the arena during The Last Hiccup Tour on April 15, 2006.
Nelly Furtado performed at the arena during the Get Loose Tour on March 25, 2007.
Rihanna performed at the arena during the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour on September 17, 2007, with Akon as her opening act.
The Backstreet Boys performed at the arena during their Unbreakable Tour on November 15, 2008.
Janet Jackson performed at the arena during the Unbreakable World Tour on September 5, 2015.
Shania Twain performed at the arena on October 21, 2015 during her Rock This Country Tour.
Marianas Trench performed at the arena on February 8, 2017 during their Marianas Trench and the Last Crusade tour. | WIKI |
Talk:Qal3ah
Here's some quick whois info:
Whois info for, qal3ati.net:
Registrant: Self Hmdan street abu dhabi, abu dhabi 25852 AE
Domain name: QAL3ATI.NET
Administrative Contact: Qalaah, Qalaah<EMAIL_ADDRESS> Hmdan street abu dhabi, abu dhabi 25852 AE +971.506258852 Technical Contact: Technical, Host Europe<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Portland Street Beeston Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG9 2LP UK +44<PHONE_NUMBER> Fax: +44<PHONE_NUMBER>
Registration Service Provider: PIPEX Communications Hosting Ltd<EMAIL_ADDRESS> +44.115-917-0000 http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords, DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC. Record last updated on 24-Nov-2003. Record expires on 17-Sep-2005. Record created on 17-Sep-2003.
Domain servers in listed order: NS1.HOSTWORLD4U.NET <IP_ADDRESS> NS2.HOSTWORLD4U.NET <IP_ADDRESS>
Domain status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
So, proof they are from the UAE.
Natalinasmpf 7 July 2005 15:17 (UTC)
Natalina! Nice to see you here. But I can't seem to access the any mirriors of this website... I always get a 500 error.
How is a site which is little more than a list of mirrors a "reactionary site"?
It's not a "little more". It attacks the site owner, and other sites...not a mere list. Of course, these allegations probably have some basis, but they are not an NPOV link. -- Natalinasmpf 8 July 2005 13:48 (UTC)
Still, though, "reactionary?"
Seems very inappropriate --Cruci 8 July 2005 20:00 (UTC)
Not really. See, I had suspicions Al-Faqih might not even own the site, and clearly those sites are dedicated to attacking his reputation, whether those attacks have basis or not. Hence, not POV. We label the external links the same for global warming. -- Natalinasmpf 9 July 2005 04:26 (UTC)
Current status
Does this site still exist? Everything I hear about it comes from 2005. I'm beginning to think this site was only used to co-ordinate the July 7th bombings, and then was discontinued. Xaxafrad 02:31, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
* Excuse me, but honestly, when I saw this article I was thinking "does wikipedia have articles on forums as well, now? In that case, there's like a billion other forums to start articles for." I think articles for forums either should not - or should - be included. But I dont think it's really necessary (or encyclopedic). - <IP_ADDRESS> 11:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
* Well, al-Faqih's forum isn't just any forum. Or rather, it wasn't. It has been shut down by the Law. BTW it had numerous aliases. I'll come back to this. LDH 05:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I've brought the article up to date, and organized the references, deleting the dead references to the forum itself.
Are we sure that SOFIR is Israel-based? I know Haganah has a dot-il URL, but still...
LDH 07:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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Does this article meet Wikipedia's relevance criteria? Apparently we are talking about someone who was a postdoctoral researcher in physics for some time, and has left academia years ago as far as I can see. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dongdong42 (talk • contribs) 10:33, 13 June 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Exercise as it relates to Disease/Physical exercise vs cognitive behavior therapy for the treatment of panic disorder sufferers
What is the background to this research?
Panic Disorder, commonly referred to as PD, is a mental disorder affecting up to 5% of the world’s population at some stage in life. PD, often complicated by agoraphobia, is a disabling disorder that is associated with a reduced quality of life. PD not only affects quality of life but has also displayed an increased use of health care utilities, low workplace productivity, and absenteeism. Although an increased yet imprecise understanding of the cause of PD has arisen, there has been evidence of the use of effective treatments for this condition, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), pharmacological intervention, and physical exercise (PE).
Martinsen, Sandvik and Kolbjornsrud conducted a naturalistic study in 1989 with a mixed inpatient sample. Within this sample, groups of eight participated. Exercise sessions were performed each day for a minimum of one hour. These exercise regimes displayed an immediate and significant reduction of symptoms among patients with PD who were participating in the exercise treatment. In saying this, the effect of the exercise treatment did not have a long-lasting effect, with patients displaying less success at the 12-month follow-up assessment. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is currently regarded as the most effective and successful treatment of choice for patients suffering with PD, making it an appropriate intervention, also noting that research shows the effectiveness of CBT being delivered in a group setting.
Where is the research from?
The National Program for Integrated Clinical Specialist and PhD-training for Psychologists in Norway supported the production and conduction of this study. This study was a joint cooperation between the Universities of Oslo, Bergen, Tromso, the Regional Health Authorities, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the Norwegian Psychological Association. The funding of this program was jointly contributed by the Ministry of Health and Care Services and The Ministry of Education and Research.
What kind of research was this?
This was a randomised controlled trial which administered treatments in groups, running for 12 weeks. Physical exercise was conducted three times each week, whereas cognitive-behaviour therapy was conducted once a week. For PE and CBT intervention, a booster session was offered to each participant as a 3-month follow-up, as well as a 6- and -12-month follow up.
Follow up assessments were not a compulsory part of the study, suggesting that the overall results and effectiveness of the treatments could have been different if each participant was required to be assessed in the follow up. This research task also did not identify whether or not the participants would be medicated over the duration of the trial, which also hinders symptoms. Psychiatrist Jonathan R. T Davidson describes the long-term drug treatment as necessary and safe in the treatment of PD. Without an accurate and succinct diagnostic and pre-assessment of each participant, the assessment and result cannot be accurate.
What did the research involve?
Primary contact was initiated by telephone, where 141 subjects were supplied with information about the nature of the study and purpose. Out of the 141 subjects, 66 were invited for a detailed diagnostic interview and were scheduled for an on-site evaluation. Subjects, prior to treatment initiation, were informed that each intervention is shown to be effective treatment options for PD, however CBT has shown a higher level of documented effectiveness.
As participants were informed of the success rates regarding each treatment option, and CBT being the most successful, the participants entered treatment with higher expectations of CBT than PE. Following these two assessments, the 36 eligible participants were immediately and randomly allocated to one of the two interventions being offered. The demographic of participants sat at 80.6% female, and 19/4% male with a mean age of 37.9. Within the 36 patients, 57% lived alone. Studies show that anxiety is an increasingly common health problem among individuals who live alone. As not all of the participants lived alone, the results do not represent a fair test of treatments working to treat PD.
What were the basic results?
Over the course of the treatment, only one participant withdrew themselves from the CBT treatment, in the second session. Therefore, a total of 35 participants received treatment as planned. Several participants did not complete the follow-up assessments. With a mean age of 37.9 years, and a randomised allocation to each treatment programme, patients’ enthusiasm and self-efficacy towards their treatment options may have been low. The treatment of these sessions was administered by two members of the team, as well as attendance being monitored. If participants were unable to participate, they were instructed to perform an equivalent exercise on their own and record the details, however this was not recorded as attendance.
Sufferers of PD may avoid situations they have little to no control over and can fear oncoming situations, thus making the above compulsory participation/attendance ruling intimidating, unpleasant and uncomfortable. For sufferers of PD, unpleasant experiences of treatment could discourage participation in future.
The aim of this study was to identify the long-term benefits of PE and CBT as treatment for PD, however similar long-term studies for the treatment of PD progressed over the course, and consistent follow-ups were administered between 2 and 4 years after treatment began. To consider a 12-month treatment as evidence of ‘long-term’ results is not reliable, accurate, or succinctly measured. Studies show that consistent follow-ups and check-ins are proven to improve symptoms of PD, which this treatment did not offer.
What conclusions can we take from this research?
When the effects of PE and CBT were assessed in a combined analysis, CBT was found to have performed significantly better. Overall, physical exercise has proven to be associated with improvement to panic disorders, for more consistent and larger results we recommend the use of cognitive behaviour therapy.
The limitations of this study lies within the therapists’ ratings which were not blinded from participants, meaning an idea of superiority and academia was instilled before treatments had begun. High expectations and furthermore trust was already established before treatment commenced, meaning the conduction of the treatment may not have been equitable or a fair test.
A 6-minute walk test was administered initially, however the exercise conducted throughout the treatment got progressively harder. For patients with little to no confidence in this area or field of treatment, undergoing this form of therapy would have been stressful and fearful, while potentially lowering their expectations and success of this form of treatment for the remainder of the 12 weeks. Following on from this, agoraphobia and PD are syndromes where patients avoid places or situations they feel uncomfortable with. Being monitored during PE for 3 days a week over 12 weeks is a scenario in itself that promotes fear of the unknown, embarrassment, and social anxiety.
Although this is not the purpose of the study, the grouping and monitoring component and the randomised allocation of treatments does not support the wellbeing needs of participants involved.
Practical advice
Symptoms of panic disorder
* Feelings of fear of death, out of control and impending doom
* Intense worry about oncoming situations
* Fear or avoidance of specific places
Physical symptoms include:
* Chills
* Trembling
* Difficulty breathing
* Chest Pain
* Dizziness/Weakness
* Nausea
The first step in curing a panic disorder is to first get a diagnosis from a health care professional.
Further information/resources
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22874661/ | WIKI |
Calculation of time difference via timedelta obejct
In Python, the timedelta object calculates a time span, that is, the difference between two dates. The timedelta object has useful attributes and methods that can help calculate the time difference.
from datetime import datetime
datetime1 = datetime(2022,12,31,12,12,31,17400)
datetime2 = datetime(2022,1,1,11,10,30,17400)
timedelta = datetime1 - datetime2
print(timedelta)
print(type(timedelta))
Code Explanation
Creating Datetime Objects
• datetime1 and datetime2: Two datetime objects are created using the datetime constructor. Each constructor call specifies a year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond:
• datetime1 represents December 31, 2022, at 12:12:31 PM, including microseconds.
• datetime2 represents January 1, 2022, at 11:10:30 AM, also including microseconds. The microseconds component in both datetime objects is set to 17400.
Calculating the Difference Between Datetimes
• timedelta: This variable is assigned the result of subtracting datetime2 from datetime1. This subtraction yields a timedelta object, which represents the duration between these two points in time. The timedelta object captures the difference in days, seconds, and microseconds.
Printing the Timedelta
• The script first prints the timedelta object, which displays the total duration between datetime1 and datetime2. This duration is displayed in a format that indicates the number of days, and the total seconds remaining after accounting for those days.
• It then prints the type of the timedelta object using type(timedelta), which confirms that the result of subtracting two datetime objects is indeed a timedelta object. This is useful for understanding data types and for debugging purposes in larger applications where type checking might be necessary.
Output
364 days, 1:02:01
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Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Archive/2012/1
Points next year- conclusions reached
In case anyone's not watching, see Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring for how things will be working next year. A few changes (DYK and FL up, GT and FT down, new multipliers, FS gone) but nothing earth-shattering. See that page for details and questions. J Milburn (talk) 12:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Should we close at 72 entrants?
January 1 is all of a few dozen hours away. Right now we have 71 entrants for WikiCup 2012, shall we close nominations upon entrance of the 72nd? At least with 72 we can have Round 2 be 36 in 6, Round 3, 18 in 3 pools, Round 4 the remaining 9 go for the win. Just my theory. The difference between Round 2 and 3, top two in the pool, plus 6 wildcards to make all 18. Round 3 to 4 would be the top 3 from each pool with no wildcards. This might need adjustment, but I haven't seen much in this department.Mitch32(Never support those who think in the box) 21:55, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
* I am not a judge, but I like it. However, I'd like to see a few adjustments. For Round 3, I'd go with top 2 in each pool and 2 or 3 wildcards, that way if say they are the four highest scorers in Round 3 all come in the same pool, the fourth highest scorer can have a chance to make the Finals via wildcard. YE Pacific Hurricane 22:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
* Our rule has typically been to let anyone in who wants to participate. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
* It's a sensible idea, and I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier, but we last year kept the signups open through January, too. We've now crossed that line to 73, and I suspect we will get some more yet- I've sent out messages to a number of people/projects who may be interested, and the competition advertises itself to a certain extent once it gets going. A few years ago, people were turned away so that we could have a round number (I myself only got in at the very last minute because of a drop-out) and there's something a little sad about that. It's not something Ed and I were keen to see again. Also, with only 36 in the second round, we cut a large hunk of the competition out very early- better to keep people a few more people in for longer, even if they aren't very high scorers. J Milburn (talk) 02:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
NARA on-wiki ExtravaSCANza participation
Hello everyone. Please take a look at User:The ed17/NARA to brainstorm ideas and a structure on how we can help the National Archives ExtravaSCANza. My hope is that the success of this event will ensure that others will be organized in the future, even without Dominic as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, so we all benefit from the high-quality, formerly non-digitized media uploaded to the Commons. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:40, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Logo of WikiCup
This is the logo of WikiCup made by me. You may change this. --Il223334234 (talk) 14:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* I actually quite like it; perhaps it's something we could adopt for next year? It could be fun to have suggested submissions.... J Milburn (talk) 14:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* I might suggest changing the yellow to green, perhaps. That yellow-white combo is kind of... blinding. Resolute 16:36, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* Agreed. I like the chain venn-diagram. BCS (Talk) 20:29, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Question
I swear I saw a userbox for the 2012 Wikicup but I can't find it lol. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 15:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* This one? J Milburn (talk) 15:15, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* Lol thanks. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 15:24, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Work done in both years
Two questions: (1) If you work on an article in both 2011 (e.g. in the last few days) and in 2012 (e.g. the next few days) is that eligible for entry into this year's WikiCup? (2) If you start work on an article in userspace (I have some drafts going back a fair amount of time and one of my New Year resolutions is to do more work on those) and then move it into article space, are those eligible? Should some of the work be done in 2012, or is moving it into article space in 2012 enough? In my case, all the drafts will need additional work before they are ready, but I thought I should check. Carcharoth (talk) 18:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
* The issue is "significant work". If you've done significant work on an article in 2012 (light copyediting/moving to mainspace would probably not count, expansion, restructuring and so on probably would) then you can claim. It's mostly an honesty thing, but the judges will be looking. J Milburn (talk) 19:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
* Actually, this seems to come up every year. See 1, 2, 3 (two comments at the end of that thread), 4. The answers are not entirely consistent (if anything, the attitude seems to have hardened over time against allowing any work done over the holiday season), but I think I get the general jist. For next year, you could consider trying to include the holiday season for those for whom that period affords more time to do article work. I realise for some it is the opposite (that the holiday season results in less time to do article work), but you should cater for all those working on articles. Oh, and there are other holiday periods throughout the year as well (and different religions) so probably not workable. It is a bit disappointing that there isn't anything that caters for the period of the year when the WikiCup isn't running, or indeed that there is not a permanent contest running like the Military History WikiProject has (hence people can enter at any point in the year). The WikiCup has always struck me as being rather seasonal and too tied to its usual dates with no flexibility. Maybe next year, try a different starting date and see what people think? But next year is a long way away right now. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 20:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
* You're correct that the attitude has hardened over time. J Milburn (talk) 13:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
* Following up on this, the article in question for me was Victor Negus (which has just been at DYK). I'm happy that I did significant work on this article in 2012, but want to check here first rather than submit it and then have it questioned. The editing history is in a userspace page (I prefer to keep my draft editing separate from my mainspace editing, which is why the history wasn't moved). The article went from a partial timeline and collection of links (26 December 2011) to a more complete timeline and links with some references (28 December 2011). That same day I added a lead section and headings (that is the point where I consider I really started writing the article, as before then it was just notes). By the end of the year that had become two article sections in addition to the lead (31 December 2011). The work done in 2012 spanned two days and brought it to an article with an additional three article sections, pus images and general tidying. The move from userspace to mainspace and the nomination at DYK, all took place in 2012. Would there be any objections if I submitted that DYK for this year's WikiCup? Carcharoth (talk) 06:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Certainly not; there was clearly significant work this year. J Milburn (talk) 07:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 08:29, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
German WikiCup
Just thought people may be interested to know that there is a German version of the WikiCup. J Milburn (talk) 16:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
* Ha, they get points for writing articles about plants. BCS (Talk) 20:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
* No, that's how Google translates it :) That means Articles which are like plants (small ones which will grow) doktorb wordsdeeds 10:26, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
* Whoops... BCS (Talk) 01:48, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Suggestions for articles to work on
Hey all. As the operator of the WikiCup bot, I'm the guy responsible for slapping " " next to your submissions. As such, I'd thought it might be useful to demonstrate that mulitpliers - bonus points for working on articles deemed to be of "higher priority" - are very much within reach for all participants. Thus, here is a list of semi-random suggestions (all are at pre-GA levels): So, as you can see, whether you prefer working in a specific field, or use to the cup to read up on something completely new, multipliers can be a useful way of selecting articles to work on. (If anyone wants me to trawl the list looking for articles in a particular field, let me know!) Happy cup'ing, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Tomb Raider: Legend (double points)
* Billie Holiday (double points)
* Battle of Magnesia (double points)
* Hurricane Katrina (triple points)
* Word processor (triple points)
* Louis Braille (triple points)
* Humphry Davy (triple points)
* Dyslexia (triple points)
* Gulf of Bothnia (triple points)
* Forbes (triple points)
* Flag of Algeria (triple points)
* Asian black bear (triple points)
* Brazil national football team (triple points)
* Battle of Hastings (triple points)
* Francisco Goya (quadruple points)
* Goat (quadruple points)
* I should work on Katrina, though there's too much on it that it'd take probably more than 6 months to finish, though I guess it'd pay off when I get 390 points for it. HurricaneFan 25 16:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Katrina was my attempt to give you "tropical storm" people something to work on :) The full list based on names alone is (some of these could well be GA or even FA already, mind): Hurricane Katrina (3x) ~ Hurricane Irene (2011) (2x) ~ Hawker Hurricane (2x) ~ Carolina Hurricanes (2x) ~ Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale (2x) ~ Hurricane Gustav (2x) ~ Great Hurricane of 1780 (2x) ~ Hurricane Ike (2x) ~ Hurricane Rita (2x) ~ Hurricane Dean (2x) ~ Cyclone Nargis (2x) ~ Cyclone (2x) ~ Tropical cyclone (3x). Regards, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 16:34, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks muchly! I'll be doing Ike, which might take two to three months... HurricaneFan 25 17:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
* Is there some way to look up articles by number of Wikipedias? Speciate (talk) 16:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
* I can get you the number of Wikipedias for given articles or for each article on a list, in a category, etc. I would just publish the full list but it would include a handful of tempting game-y options, not sure if the judges really want to encourage that. Regards, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 16:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
* I reserve the right to deny points for any if all you're doing is tipping it over the edge (that what you mean by game-y?), but if we're able to get a few more widely covered topics through GA/FA (or expand the articles enough to get them on DYK) then I think we're doing a good thing for the project. Jarry, if you have specific concerns about publishing such a list, feel free to email me and we'll have a look at the issue, but if you're able to and don't mind doing so, a full list would be incredibly interesting and helpful. J Milburn (talk) 16:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
* Oh, I meant more that there are some who appear with 100+ multipliers because their creator went around translating their article about their local village (population 200) into different languages. But as long as you're okay to not award points to those, I can publish the list no problem. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:52, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Yeah, I think it would be within the spirit of the rules to ignore those ones- even if it wasn't the participant who created the foreign language articles, chasing them for double points would be gaming the system. J Milburn (talk) 14:33, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* The rules state that that the article is on X Wikipedias "as of 31 December 2011", so someone would have to go back in time to create a Simple English one or whatever. Speciate (talk) 15:12, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Yes, but there are some that already existed on many Wikipedias on that day. The full list (I've hidden calendar days and numbers to improve the visual display) is available (I strongly advise downloading this rather than viewing it in browser) here, or, if you feel like only looking at 3x or 4x, the much reduced list with 2x is available here. Happy editing! - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 18:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Any way we could get those sorted by say wikiprojects? Or categories? Ealdgyth - Talk 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Hmm, it shouldn't be too tricky. Especially with the latter list, you could try just copying it onto a Wikipedia page and using Catscan. Otherwise, it might be necessary to code something specially (not that I'm particularly averse to that). - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 18:57, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* No clue what catscan is, honestly. I'm not particularly technically savvy ... plus I'm on a Mac so I don't have access to a lot of tools. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* This. But actually it can't do what I thought it could, so I'll write a tool specially later in the week :) Regards, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:59, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
* Jarry, thanks for reposting catscan and for compiling those lists. It's a brilliant idea - and catscan is very useful - I remember last year I found a bunch of dog breeds that had several European language articles but not an English language one. Been looking for it ever since but I couldn't remember the name. :) Miyagawa (talk) 13:50, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
* Bleh, tried to write a tool, more work that I hoped. My advice would be to use AWB's list comparer tool (or ask me too). You don't need AWB access, but you do need to be on Windows (or have an emulator). - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 18:03, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Advancing to round 2
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but for the second round how are the participants for each group decided? Round 1 explains that the top 64 contestants will advance to the next round and be put in 8 groups of 8, but is unclear on how these groups are decided. Is it random selection? Alphabetized somehow? This is my first year in the WikiCup, and I haven't been able to find any info on this. Thanks! Ruby 2010/ 2013 04:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
* From recollection, it's semi-seeded, such that in each group there's a mix of people who scored well in the first round, and those for whom the two months were relatively quiet. (This attempts to preserve the incentives to qualify top rather than #64.) I'm sure someone else will recall more accurately than me, though. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 08:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
* I group them. There is a vague attempt to spread the higher scorers, but it's fairly random. It often involves dice rolling. If it was predictable, then I can imagine people playing tactically, and I want to avoid that! J Milburn (talk) 10:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
SOPA and the Cup
If we really blackout, how will the Cup be modified to workaround the "lost time"? Hurricanefan25 ( talk · contribs ) 13:28, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Everyone faces the same challenge, and there's still plenty of time left in the round, so I'm not sure we need to do anything to acommodate any blackout. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* Not necessarily everyone. Ultimately, the "complete blackout" (no editing) looks like it might be worldwide, or might be US-only. Not sure how the 'RFC' will be called (here). Having said that, it's one day. I don't see much of a problem, nor an easy way of fixing it. We apply discretion anyway, and it's not at a time-critical part of the round. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
* I don't think that there is much that can be done about this, I'm afraid. We may, or some of us may, lose a day of editing. I don't think that will or should affect the Cup too much. J Milburn (talk) 14:31, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Question ...
Someone else has nominated my latest article for Did You Know, before I could. Sweet of them to think it worthy, and I hurried up and completed it, but. . . it's been my assumption I can only claim for DYKs that I myself nominate. Am I right in that or have I been misreading the rules? --Yngvadottir (talk) 14:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
* There's no such requirement; you can relax. (You may be thinking of the reverse rule, which is that you can't claim points for article you nominate but do not work on.) - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 14:07, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
* That's correct- you don't need to be the nominator, as long as you've done significant work on the article. J Milburn (talk) 23:46, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
* I take it that it would be the same if two competitors worked on the same article with both doing significant work? (Albeit a purely hypothetical situation)? Miyagawa (talk) 18:51, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
* Completely fine: There was a drive a few years back to get some collaborations going. A rewarding and effecient way to accumulate points, if there's another editor with the same interests as you. As with most other things, it could be abused, and we are ready and willing to remove points if it is. J Milburn (talk) 19:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Submission Pages - DYK's
Just a quick note to say that it might be worthwhile updating the submission page template for DYKs, as they introduced subpages during the latter half of last year. At the moment the template reads: # ARTICLE [diff of nomination], but it would be better if it was updated to read: # ARTICLE Template:Did you know nominations/ARTICLE or LIST. I've been using this different code on my DYK submission page, so you can see how it displays here. Miyagawa (talk) 13:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
* Very sensible. I will send out a note about this in the next newletter, and make sure that the hidden comments reflect this when I update the submission pages. J Milburn (talk) 23:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
* To be honest, actually, a lot of these could probably do with being updated... I'll look into it soon. J Milburn (talk) 23:24, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
* Was that the only limitation on us having ? I'm not great on template-fu, but I could it a look. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:40, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
* I've never had anything to do with those templates; they predate my judge-hood. I don't personally want anything fancy. I will look to redesign them based on the information that I, as a judge, want to quickly see. J Milburn (talk) 23:48, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
* Yes, I wondered about this. I decided to give the diff for when I transcluded the nomination subpage. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:13, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
This message is going to have to wait; the newsletter has ended up longer than anticipated. It will get done, but, in the mean time, just don't worry about it. J Milburn (talk) 23:10, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Pulling out
For the fourth consecutive year I'm pulling out of the competition. Sorry. -- Scorpion 0422 00:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Submissions
I've just signed up for this event for the first time, so I am a bit confused on scoring. I have 3 GAs (Spoken For, Word of God Speak, and Move (MercyMe song)) as well as a DYK (Long Way Home (Steven Curtis Chapman song)) that were confirmed within the time period of the first round but before I signed up. Can these count, or are they not able to? Also, I have a GT nominee, The Generous Mr. Lovewell, that I nominated before I signed up and that has not passed yet. In the (likely) event it does pass, can I get credit for that as well? Toa Nidhiki 05 21:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
* "When was the work done on the articles?" is the more important question to when they were nominated. If substantial work was done this year, then if you'd signed up earlier on they would be eligible - I think this also goes for you, but I'm not sure. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 14:35, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
* That's correct. If you've done significant work on them and then nominated them this year, you can claim for them, regardless of when you were added to the list. However, if they were nominated last year, or for whatever reason you have done little real work on them this year, then you may not claim. As such, while the DYK is elgible, I am afraid that the GAs are not. Sorry- this is something on which we've been strict, and I fully appreciate that you are not seeking to abuse the system, but we need to be consistent with the application of the rules. J Milburn (talk) 17:15, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
* Yeah, I figured that out. Oh well. However, is the GT fine to add when it passes? Toa <font color="green" face="Mistral">Nidhiki <font color="green" face="Mistral">05 19:21, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
* You are only allowed to claim GT points for articles that you worked on this year. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Bi-nationality
Hi, just like some people have two citizenships in real life, am I allowed to have to flags next to my name? --Sp33dyphil ©hat<sub style='position: relative; left: -1.5em;'>ontributions 08:53, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
* Regardless of dual citizenship, people can only represent one nation in (say) the Olympics. J Milburn (talk) 12:01, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
* Also, a lot of us are not from the countries we are using the flags of- I, for one, am not Russian in the slightest. -- Pres N 20:02, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
* OK then, can I design my own flag? --Sp33dyphil ©hat<sub style='position: relative; left: -1.5em;'>ontributions 06:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
* Hi Phil, the rules on flags are here in the last paragraph. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/wikicup/
Just to say that I've fixed this: it'll now show where the cutoff is (i.e. be useful) instead of just being blank. Thanks all, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 17:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
* It is rather sad that I'm sitting on just 10 points right now. The last two months have just been an editing wreck. :/ Resolute 18:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
* Awesome- love it! J Milburn (talk) 23:45, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
First submission
Can someone check out my submissions page for my first entry and make sure I did it right, please? The toolserver url doesn't seem to be working (I'm getting a 504 Gateway Timeout) and I don't know if it's my fault or not. Also, it's an ITN submission and I didn't nominate it, but I did rewrite the blurbline and make all the updates to the relevant articles with refs. Thanks, Matthewedwards : Chat 21:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
* Yes, it is perfect. Jivesh 1205 (Talk) 10:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
* Awesome. Thanks, Jivesh! :) Matthewedwards : Chat 02:50, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Slightly late entry?
Any chance I could still get in? I just returned to Wikipedia after a long hiatus and saw the bot messages on my talk page. Apparently, registration just closed 2 days ago, so I thought I'd see if I could squeak in. If not, no big deal.
Thanks, ThaddeusB (talk) 05:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
* Go on then, I did say the middle of February, and we're slap bang in the middle now. Choose a flag, I'll do the rest. J Milburn (talk) 11:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
* Sweet. I'll go with the Ohio flag: --ThaddeusB (talk) 16:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
* Cool, I'll sign you up when I have 10 mins to spare- hopefully later today sometime. J Milburn (talk) 08:07, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
* Done, sorry about the delay. J Milburn (talk) 16:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks, much appreciated. --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
WikiCup
Needs updating, I think? - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 11:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
* It does, it does. I've got far less time this year, and helpful gnomes used to do some of the work! I'll hopefully get to it at some point. J Milburn (talk) 00:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
* I added a link to the 2012 Wikicup but went no further (I don't think we can add a page on Round 1 until after February 26, right?) Ruby 2010/ 2013 00:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
* Right. 2011 was also missing a round- somehow round 3 got skipped, so round 4 was labeled as round 3 in the template. Now fixed, both tabled and full archives. -- Pres N 00:46, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Tie
What happens in the event of a tie for the last qualifying spot(s)? Do all such competitors move on even if that means more than 64 go through? --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:51, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
* Participation in review processes counts as a tie-breaker. If someone's been participating in FAC, FLC, PR or the like and is tied for the last qualifying place, they will go through over someone who has not. At least, that's how we've done it in the last few years. J Milburn (talk) 09:09, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Question
Hi! If I would promote an article I promoted to GA in Round 1 to GA in the same round- - Would I lose points for the GA promotion, or would I keep both points for the GA and FA promotion? --Khanassassin ☪ 16:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
* You'd get points for both. J Milburn (talk) 16:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks! --Khanassassin ☪ 18:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Legolas
Hope you all are aware of this. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 05:41, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
* The fact that someone has questioned the edits of an individual participating in the WikiCup is not something we can do much about, nor does it particularly relate to the competition. I'm not really seeing why we all need to be aware of it. If it wasn't for the fact I knew that this was just part of your continual drive to discredit the project, I'd assume it was canvassing or hate-mongering. J Milburn (talk) 00:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* J Milburn, it would be considerate of you to remove the most hateful personal attack you lodged above ... should you decide to go the extra mile, you might even consider thanking me for taking the time to let you know that the entries of a participant need to be reviewed for falsification of sources. I'll hold my breath. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 03:18, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* J Milburn, this was a disappointing response. I would have posted the same notice has Sandy not done it. Are you not a contest judge? Are you not interested that a participant in your contest left a streak of very problematic work on Wikipedia and then accepted contest points for it? I would think that step one of trying to deal with these individual issues is to raise them on the project talk page, thus preventing them from becoming systemic issues. -- Laser brain (talk) 04:53, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* Seconded Laser brain's comment. Especially the part about it being a disappointing response. If SandyGeorgia wanted to discredit the project, why the hell would she sink so much time into trying to keep copyright violations out of it? S ven M anguard Wha? 05:04, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* Rather poorly expressed, but that's not a personal attack. It's pretty clear you have never approved of this competition, although I don't personally believe that was the primary motivation in this case. I've restored it until J, as the original poster, decides if he would like to redact it (or not). In any case, I will express gratitude for bringing this to our attention, and I assure you that we will look into this. Sven- discrediting the Cup by linking these copyright issues (or quality, etc., etc.) to a supposed drive to win the competition. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
DYK point credit question
As of right now, I'm definitely on the bubble as it were with my ten points. My question is, right now I have a pending DYK nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Undercover: Operation Wintersun. Would there be any way to receive credit for it now if it gets approved before the end of the month but doesn't go up on the main page? I'd very much like to stay in this competition. Nomader ( talk ) 00:06, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* No, I'm afraid not. Until articles appear on the main page, they cannot be counted. J Milburn (talk) 00:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* I reviewed the hook, and think it looks good (made a few minor link tweaks). Hopefully someone picks it up for the queue soon, but you might want to post it on the DYK talkpage to get it attention (note that I'm not sure if requesting a speedier queue-adoption is accepted there). Good luck! Ruby 2010/ 2013 05:34, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* I doubt that asking for speedy queue adoption would be looked upon favorably; thanks for the review! Here's hoping it gets onto the queue on time. Nomader ( talk ) 15:58, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* I informed WT:DYK of this. I know how I would feel if my approved hook didn't make it in time. :) <span style="-moz-border-radius:1em;border:1px solid black;font-size:11px;background-color:red;color:white;padding:1px 4px 1px 5px">BCS (Talk) 21:14, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* It currently stands to be displayed some time tomorrow (25th) if I'm looking at things correctly. GRAPPLE X 22:54, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks for the help! Nomader ( talk ) 10:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Archives
Could someone please update the way the talk page is archived? Currently the bot is dumping archived threads into Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Archive/2011/4, which I think should be WT:WikiCup/Archive/2012/1. However, I don't know how to go about making this change. The template at the top of the page also needs to be updated to show the new year (I can do this, but the judges probably understand the archive bot better than I do, since I've never used it!). Dana boomer (talk) 16:05, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* Good catch, I've made some changes. I've not used that archiving system before, but I think it should work. J Milburn (talk) 16:23, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
* Awesome, thanks! Dana boomer (talk) 14:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1
Is round 1 over? I know it might be a dumb question, but the top of the project page states that round 1 was suppose to end on the 26th. However, no changes have been made. I just had a GA pass today and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to add it since I think I can claim it in round 2 since it passed after round 1 ended. I don't need the points, as of this moment, to get to round 2 and don't want them to be wasted in a round I've already advanced pass, not trying to be pushy is this is just a time constraint for the judges, I just want to be sure that everything I'm doing is on the up and up. Thanks,--Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 21:48, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* You should wait and claim in round 2; round 1 did indeed finish at the prescribed hour. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 21:52, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Yeah, sorry, I'm running through the necessary bits as we speak. This is why we have the grace period- jumping straight from one round to another would be hell for Ed and I! I'll put a note up on the main page. J Milburn (talk) 21:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Thank you very much for the quick response. I understand that it takes you guys time to sort everything out and I didn't want to be a bother, but I was right on the bubble for round one and if players were still collecting points I didn't want to be eliminated while sitting on 30 points for next round. Thanks again, the competition is lots of fun and I appreciate all of the time and effort you guys must have to put in to keep it going. (bonus points for being a kiss up? ha ha ha). --Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 21:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Hmm, I never thought of the deadline. I guess I should have taken an extra day to respond to the GAN comments at In Flanders Fields, heh. Resolute 23:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Well that will just help me take a quick lead for the WP:ice hockey editors, of course my computer's fried so I'm sure that will be short lived.--Mo Rock...Monstrous (leech44) 19:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
preliminary list on end of round 1
I created the WikiCup/History/2012/Round 1 list. If anything is not according to what it should be please change it accordingly. --Stone (talk) 22:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* There is a small mistake with that list, but, as you posted this, I updated the main page. Sorry! J Milburn (talk) 22:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks. Corrected the error, and I will update that page once the tiebreaker is complete. J Milburn (talk) 22:25, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Timing did not cooperate with me this year. I have been working on several articles (including one currently listed at GAN) and spending a lot of time on Commons lately. While I will not be winning the Cup this year (as if I had a chance!) I look forward to watching the competition and seeing the results of participants' labor. Best of luck! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Tiebreaker
Ok, we are left with 6 user on 10 points, but only one of them will be able to make it through. The tiebreaker is simple- I am asking for any of those tied to tell me of any additional work that they have done that may be deserving of recognition. Examples of this include articles upon which there has not been significant work this year passing during the round, articles upon which work was done in the round passing after the round has finished, review work (perhaps at FAC, PR or something similar) which was not awarded points, or the like. J Milburn (talk) 22:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* I would like to get into round 2, but there is only work on the Antimony article I did this year, but it is not in GAN yet. I will have time to work on ExoMars in real life a little bit this year so no big deal.--Stone (talk) 22:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* I have not contributed anything significant enough to be awarded points based on the criteria, other than what has already been submitted. I have been editing quite infrequently (abnormally, in fact), and I don't expect my editing habits to change until summer. For that reason, I would like to withdraw myself from Wikicup and allow those to whom the 64th spot is more deserving to have a chance to continue. Akihironihongo (talk) 23:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
* Looking at my contributions, it is clear that I have not really contributed in any great factor to any articles this year. The only thing I've been giving any consistent attention to is still in my user space, about three-quarters finished. Besides that I've done some FPC reviewing; however, my most significant contribution at one of those I'm pretty sure resulted in it not passing when I redrew a map. And then redrew it. And then redrew it. Ooops. :-/ Matthewedwards : Chat 04:33, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
* My article work has been pretty limited in January and February. I was planning to pick up the pace at the back end of next month regardless of the Wikicup, but given the size of the bottleneck for this last place I'm happy to pull out. Best of luck to whoever goes through. —WFC— 06:59, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
* I have generally been working on expanding several of the tropical cyclone season articles including the 1997-98 1998-99 and 2011-12 South Pacific cyclone seasons. TBH im not that bothered about getting through to Round 2 - i think i have several things coming up that wont allow me time to contribute to WP.Jason Rees (talk) 15:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
* Well, I came in 65th place last year, so this is a great improvement. :) I worked on a Good Article Review at 00:12 UTC after the deadline - see Talk:Promethium. Will it be counted, and can we still submit entries until the end of 29 February UTC? ~ AH1 (discuss!) 02:43, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* Looking at everyone's comments, the tiebreaker is won by Matthewedwards, for his work in review processes during the round. This has traditionally been the way to call these ties. AH1, that good article review would not have been eligible for points, even if within thr round; it's too short, and accounts for just a "rubber-stamping". That said, it places you as "first reserve"- I am happy for you to replace anyone who drops out during the second round. There is a good chance someone will. Stone, you are second reserve. Thank you to the others for your gracious withdrawals. J Milburn (talk) 17:59, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* AstroHurricane: Because of a change in circumstances, you will now be making it to round two. Stone, you are now our first reserve. J Milburn (talk) 21:01, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* You will have to life with that decision! I will be around and will try to help with the lists like I did it last year. I will be part of the cup next year again! --Stone (talk) 21:04, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* Wha-wha-wha-wha-what??? OK, please give more details on what the changes in circumstances were - I'd be happy to work on more articles, if necessary. Compare my recent review to the one I did last year - what makes that one eligible but not this? Thanks! ~ AH1 (discuss!) 23:26, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* You're in round 2; you fall within the top 64 scorers. The score required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher, so if you hope to stay in the competition, you'll need to increase your output somewhat; how much depends on how well the other contestants perform. As for good article reviews, only reviews of sufficient length will be counted. This is up to the judges' discretion in borderline cases, but as a rough guide, 1kb of useful, critical text in the review will be enough for it to count for points. As such, quick fails or "rubber stamping" will rarely be eligible. This is not necessarily to say that shorter reviews are bad ones; I've seen plenty of good reviews which are short, but they are not eligible. There is deliberately no strict line in this regard and, yes, we are perhaps being stricter on it this year than we were last year. J Milburn (talk) 23:37, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
* Please withdraw me i.f.f someone else will be able to take my place. (I had hoped to have this posted 10 minutes ago, but I got called away.) I had hoped to have time to bring Liao Dynasty, worth double points, to GA or even FA status, but I won't. Also, I've decided I dislike GANs, and my camera broke, so I've got nothing of any realistic point value to put forth. Good luck Stone. S ven M anguard Wha? 00:11, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks for letting me know- Stone, welcome to round 2! J Milburn (talk) 10:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
X-Files GA Reviews
Anyone willing to review some of the X-Files GA's? Quite a few of my nom's (about 30) have built up for awhile, and I've thoroughly gone through most of them, in the mean time, and checked for prose mistakes. I realize you guys can get some points for reviewing, and they are waiting if you want 'em!--Gen. Quon (talk) 17:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
* Incredible! Well done. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
* Holy smokes, is the "Episodes" GAN subsection backed up, or what... Gary King ( talk · scripts ) 01:23, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
* Yeah, it is. It's better than it was though. It was nearly 60, and it's down to about 45-ish.--Gen. Quon (talk) 03:29, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
* For what it's worth, I've always thought WP:WGA should be holding its drives more often; WP:GOCE have one every other month and their backlog grows at a much slower rate (their only struggle is really the huge initial backlog rather than the growth of it). GRAPPLE X 03:40, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
* I'd imagine that less frequent drives are more effective; they'll get people more excited. J Milburn (talk) 08:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikicup Viewer script just created
I just created a Wikicup Viewer script. It was for myself, so I could take a quick look at the standings on WikiCup to see who would be passing and failing if the round were to end right now (it's particularly useful starting in Round 2 and subsequent rounds because it indicates who the wildcards are at the moment). The script therefore also makes it clear exactly how many points would be needed for a person to move on to the next round.
At the moment, the script automatically sorts all tables by "Score" (descending), and then color codes every row either green (for "passing"), red (for "failing"), or yellow (for yourself, to show where you stand). The script's colors, the "green" in particular, are also easier on the eyes than the current colors. Please note that if you install the script, early in the rounds you will see most users of the top two groups to be in green; this is because almost everyone has 0 points, so of course the script just takes users starting from the top group as those that will be "passing" on to the next round.
You guys can use it if you want, I just decided to let you guys know about it just in case anyone is interested; just install it like any other script. Gary King ( talk · scripts ) 01:35, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
* Nice, I love your Nominations Viewer script, and this one seems really useful too. -- Pres N 03:09, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
* Oooh, neat, I hadn't thought of having it as a user script. Pretty cool. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:43, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Withdrawal
AS I have retired and scrambled the password for my main account, please withdraw that one. Thanks -- HurricaneFan Alt ≈≈ ( bad revert? ) 12:45, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks for letting us know, and sorry to see you leave. I would be open to Hurricanefan's place being taken by WaitingForConnection, if (s)he is interested. J Milburn (talk) 15:28, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
* Appreciate the acknowledgement, but I'm going to pull out altogether due to being busier than I had anticipated. The realistic timeframe for me nominating my planned featured list and getting back to the swing of both sides of the GA process will be too late for this round of the WikiCup. —WFC— 20:09, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Creating an unfair DYK burden, skirting the rules, neglecting obligations, and gaming the system
It is not fair that a cup competitor can get credit for dozens of articles, all about one topic, which were nominated by someone else, and not have to do any reviews in return. Doing QPQ reviews is part of the DYK process. Not requiring reviews for nominations of articles by someone else is intended to encourage variety on the main page by including articles on a variety of topics by new users who may be unfamiliar with DYK. That definitely does not include dozens of articles on one topic all by the same person. It is skirting the rules, neglecting obligations, and creating an unfair burden on DYK users who have to review all of those articles which add to the backlog. The rules should be changed so that in order to receive cup credit for a DYK, the competitor should have to do a review, even if someone else nominates their article. This is only fair. Other cup participants do their reviews, so someone who avoids having to do it is gaming the system, getting an unfair advantage, and only doing part of what they should be doing. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:12, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* 1) If you're going to accuse someone of malfeasance, man/woman up and say who you mean. 2) If someone is writing articles, and someone else is nominating them for DYK in their stead but is not doing any reviews, then someone is gaming the DYK system, and DYK should correct that. I notice that you haven't notified DYK that this mysterious person is abusing the system- perhaps that should have been your first stop? The wikicup judges can certainly kick someone out of the competition for abusing DYK, but only if DYK thinks it's an issue and only if they know who that person is. -- Pres N 01:21, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* Who it is isn't very important now. Although what they're doing is not fair or honourable, they may not technically be breaking the rules. I proposed a new cup rule which would apply to all competitors, making it fair for everyone and providing a way to address such problems. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* Actually, it is relevant, because the contest is judged by the spirit of the rules, not the letter of them. Additionally, I agree with PresN that you should raise the issue with DYK, as it would be "abuse" whether or not the person(s) where in this competition. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* The second "overall" rule is Don't be a Dick. That overrides everything (except have fun, I guess) - if someone is being a "dick" at DYK and gaming the system, then the judges can kick them out regardless of if they broke any "rules" here or there. But without a specific editor to look at, all you're asking for is a new rule- "Don't be a Dick at DYK" - and I don't see the point of that. -- Pres N 03:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* I don't think changing the rules in the middle of the competition is really fair. I agree that this may potentially be a concern, and it's something I would certainly raise with the individual concerned, but I must confess that I'm not really sure who it is that you're referring to. J Milburn (talk) 20:59, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* From a DYK perspective, there is no issue. Person A writes an article, person B nominates and does the QPQ review. End result is that process is working as intended. So the only concern is at our end. The question is, are we concerned about someone getting an unfair advantage by this? Based on what little details we have, I have to default to no. The point of this competition is to encourage content creation and improvement. Lacking more information, I don't see a violation of the spirit of the competition here as you would see if, say, person A was nominating for GA and person B was giving weak reviews. Resolute 21:23, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* I think the problem is that when person A writes an article and person B nominates it, neither of them have to do a QPQ review. This is per Did you know, where it says "New nominators...are exempt from this review requirement, as is the nomination of another editor's article." (my bold). As the IP says above, I think this is to encourage people who, for example, do NPP and nominate new editors' articles in part to get them familiar with the DYK process. In this case (and I think I know who it is, but I'm not going to say in case I'm wrong), editor B is following around behind editor A, nominating all of their new articles for DYK, editor A is collecting all of the points and neither editor is doing QPQ reviewing, which helps to backlog DYK and does make it rather unfair for other editors who nominate their own articles and spend the time doing QPQ reviews. Dana boomer (talk) 21:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* Yes; it's by no means the worst crime in the world, but if it is being done in a deliberate attempt to shirk reviewing responsibilities, then it would look like gaming the system. Admittedly, it's not gaming the Cup's system, it's gaming DYK's system with an eye to furthering yourself in the Cup. I will watch out for it when checking over submitted content. I must admit I am somewhat behind in that regard. J Milburn (talk) 21:46, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
* Is the IP referring to TigerBoy's DYKs? (Like this, this, and this)? All were nominated by User:PFHLai with no QPQ reviews, although he partly offers an explanation on his talkpage. Ruby 2010/ 2013 22:34, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I think I am the subject of this discussion. I write and improve articles. That's what I do on wikipedia. If other people nominate them for DYK that's fine by me. I have never asked anyone to nominate articles on my behalf. I am not "gaming" anything. I entered wikicup in late January because I was told about it and it sounded like fun. If there is a feeling that I am spoiling things I will be happy to withdraw from the competition.<font style="color:black;background:orange;font-family:papyrus;"> Tigerboy1966 00:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
* IMO, User:PFHLai has adequately explained the situation and thus it should be a non-issue. It would only be abuse if an editor asked someone to nominate at DYK to avoid the QPQ rule or a team of editors teamed up to nominate each other's articles. If one of the most prolific contributors to DYK nominates some articles of your unsolicited, then you are probably doing something right to get noticed (i.e. writing good articles), not something wrong. --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
* I agree with Thaddeus. So far as I see it, nothing untoward has been done in this instance, but it is something that could be done to game the system. Tigerboy, please do not feel that you have to withdraw. J Milburn (talk) 10:28, 11 March 2012 (UTC) | WIKI |
Does Drinking Alcohol Help with Passing a Drug Test?
A lot of people, after doing their own online research, have been made to believe that alcohol helps in detoxification. The argument is that because alcohol is a diuretic, it can aid in getting rid of THC from the body, and hence increases the chances you have of passing a drug test. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is a chemical that is found in cannabis and is responsible for the high that you may have after taking cannabis. This article will show the effects of alcohol on a drug test.
Can Alcohol Help Flush out Toxins?
Since alcohol is a diuretic, it’s a major factor that people consider when defending the theory that alcohol can help you pass a drug test. Alcohol makes the kidneys release more water by suppressing the action of Anti-Diuretic Hormones, also known as ADH, thus making you pee more. The frequent peeing will in turn help release THC molecules and hence, the more you pee the more you clear THC out of your system.
Alcohol has Diuretic Effects
When you are thirsty, the pituitary gland secretes vasopressin, an anti-diuretic hormone that minimizes the rate of urine production to help the body preserve water. Alcohol consumption greatly reduces the amount of vasopressin that your body releases. As a result of having less vasopressin produced, more water is released as urine.
According to this claim, the more you drink alcohol, the more you will urinate, which increases the rate at which THC is removed from your body. Alcohol often makes you urinate more times than average by producing more water into the kidneys and this explains why it is considered a diuretic. This will dilute the amount of THC in the urine and therefore may help you pass a urine test. The downside to this claim is that no matter how much alcohol makes you pee, it probably won’t help you detox any faster.
Conclusion
Though there are various claims suggesting that alcohol may be used to reduce the levels of THC and help you beat a urine test, we don’t recommend following them. It is true that alcohol is a diuretic and will dilute THC metabolites in urine, but showing up to a drug test intoxicated would be the last thing you’d want to do. Besides, there are many other methods that can help you pass a drug test that are far superior to drinking alcohol.
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How Kamala Harris would prevent the spread of HIV
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released a plan Thursday that would seek to slow the spread of HIV by making a preventive drug more accessible. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has been found to reduce the risk of contracting HIV by up to 92 percent for those who take it on a daily basis. But the drug cost more than $20,000 a year in 2018, according to Harris' office. Harris’ office estimates that just 7 percent of the 1 million Americans who could benefit from the drug have a prescription. Her plan seeks to make the drug free for people with insurance and make it more readily available. “For too many in our country, lack of insurance coverage and exorbitant costs have put PrEP out of reach—and that needs to change,” Harris said in a statement. "Nearly four decades since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis that took so many lives and caused countless others to live in fear, we can and will stop the spread of this disease.” The plan would require that private and public insurance plans cover PrEP without a copay. In addition, insurance companies would be required to cover any tests related to PrEP. The bill also would create a grant program, run through the Department of Health and Human Services, that would give money to states, territories or tribes to increase access to the drug for people without insurance. The legislation would allow for $300 million in grants over five years. The bill would also require that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work with advocacy groups that represent the LGBTQ community and people of color on a public information campaign to raise awareness of the drug. Finally the bill also would make it illegal for life insurance, disability insurance and long-term care insurance companies to charge PrEP users higher premiums. Harris’ office predicts that more than 1 million people would be helped by the proposal, particularly the LGBTQ population and people of color who would benefit from grants to ensure they have access to and information about PrEP. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
GTU WTAD Practical 13 : Write a Servlet to display all the attributes available from request and context. - Adarsh Patel
GTU WTAD Practical 13 : Write a Servlet to display all the attributes available from request and context.
GTU WTAD Practical 13 : Write a Servlet to display all the attributes available from request and context.
GTU WTAD Practical 13
As I have explained earlier with other servlet program that Servlet is used to generate html pages as per the requirement of the user, Here I am going to explain how to use request object and contact object of servlet. Here i have displayed many parameters which is very useful for programmers to track the request of user and take some actions. Serverlet parameters Like IP Address, Port, Server Name etc.
File Name : index.jsp
File Location : Tomcat_Apache\webapps\gtu13\
File Name : web.xml
File Location : Tomcat_Apache\webapps\gtu13\WEB-INF
File Name : AvailableAttributesContext.java
File Location : Tomcat_Apache\webapps\gtu13\WEB-INF\classes
Output
GTU WTAD Practical 13
Adarsh Patel
My Self Adarsh Suryakant Patel. Currently I am working as Assistant Professor at Parul Instiute of Engineering and Technology, MCA Department, Limda, Vadodara. Major Responsibility : * Lectures * Organizing Training and Expert Sessions for * Placement and Recruitment * Faculty Representative | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Collum humeri
Collum humeri is Latin for neck of humerus, and may refer to:
* Anatomical neck of humerus
* Surgical neck of the humerus | WIKI |
Muamer Zukorlić
Muamer Zukorlić (Муамер Зукорлић; 15 February 1970 – 6 November 2021) was a Serbian politician and Islamic theologian who served as the president and chief Mufti of the Islamic Community in Serbia. An ethnic Bosniak, he was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in 2016, later serving as one of its vice presidents from 2020 until his death.
Early life
Zukorlić was born on 15 February 1970 in Orlje near Tutin, SFR Yugoslavia, where he grew up with his family. He attended primary school in the village of Ribariće and the Gazi Husrev Bey's Madrasa in Sarajevo. He studied Islamic sciences at the Emir Abdelkader University in Constantine, Algeria, graduating in 1993. He completed his postgraduate studies in Lebanon.
Islamic community
After finishing studies in Algeria, Zukorlić became a professor at the Gazi Isa-beg madrasa in Novi Pazar. In October 1993, he was elected as the president of the newly established Islamic Community of Sandžak, a role that he held until early 2016. Zukorlić was later elected in 2007 as the president of the Islamic Community in Serbia and as the chief Mufti. He was also a member of the assembly of the Bosniak National Council and a member of the riyaset of Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was also a lecturer and dean in the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Novi Pazar. Zukorlić was also the founder and editor-in-chief of the first Islamic newspaper in Sandžak, the Voice of Islam, and was one of the initiators to establish the publishing house "El Kelimeh" in Serbia and Mekteb for preschool and school age children. During his time as chief Mufti, Zukorlić's bodyguards allegedly included people who illegally carried weapons and those who were convicted of attempted murder, but he denied those statements.
Politics
As a member of the Bosniak National Council, he supported the declaration in which they proclaimed Bosniaks as one of the constituent people in Serbia. After being elected, he said that "the territory of Sandžak will be free and will never be enslaved".
Zukorlić participated in the 2012 presidential election as a candidate representing a civic group. He received support from the Bosniak Democratic Union of Sandžak, which he joined a year later. He campaigned on women's rights issues and reconciliation between Muslim ethnic groups in Serbia and Non-Muslim Serbs, he called to end discrimination against minorities, and compared himself to Barack Obama during election campaigning. Zukorlić placed eleventh in the first round, winning 54,492 votes in total. Shortly after the results were published, Zukorlić claimed electoral fraud.
In 2013, Zukorlić commented that Milo Đukanović promised autonomy for Bosniaks within Montenegro, but that he went on to break their deal and that therefore his "conscience is not clear".
Zukorlić stepped down from his position of chief Mufti in 2016 in order to run in the 2016 parliamentary election. He was chosen as the ballot carrier, and campaigned on reconciliation and his accomplishments as a chief Mufti. The list that he represented won 32,526 votes and managed to win two seats in the National Assembly. Election results also showed that Zukorlić's popularity grew in Sandžak. He supported Aleksandar Vučić in the 2017 presidential election.
Zukorlić held the seat until October 2020, when he was chosen to be one of the vice presidents of the National Assembly. Although he did not attend 695 voting sessions in the National Assembly, he voted 100% in line with the SNS-led government. He held the role of vice president until his death. In 2021, Zukorlić also initially participated in the inter-party dialogue on electoral conditions with delegators from the European Parliament.
Political views
Zukorlić supported peaceful relations with other countries in the Balkans, and campaigned during previous elections on a reconciliation program. In order to combat unequal state development, Zukorlić called for decentralization of Serbia. He also called to end organized crime in Serbia. Zukorlić held socially conservative views and he opposed laws on gender equality and protection against discrimination, even though he previously called to end discrimination against minority groups. In 2020, Zukorlić blamed homosexuality and LGBT pride parades for allegedly spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. He opposed radical nationalism and assimilation of ethnic groups. He supported a complete ban on casinos and betting shops.
Personal life
Zukorlić had three wives and eight children. His mother came from the Radončić family. He was fluent in Arabic. He was a member and one of the founders of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts, and was an educated Islamic theologian.
Death
Zukorlić died of a heart attack in Novi Pazar on 6 November 2021, at the age of 51. He was scheduled to give a lecture at a university that day, but he fell ill immediately before that. A day of mourning was proclaimed in Novi Pazar and his funeral was held a day later.
On 10 April 2022, Zukorlić's son, Usame, stated at a press conference that his family "has a well-founded suspicion that Muamer Zukorlić was poisoned". | WIKI |
cutpoint
cut·point
(kut'poynt),
Arbitrary value on an ordinal scale such as blood pressure, beyond which values are regarded as clinically abnormal.
cut·point
(kŭt'poynt)
Arbitrary value on an ordinal scale such as blood pressure, beyond which values are regarded as clinically abnormal.
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The first cutpoint allows comparisons between the first and second years' data, and the second cutpoint supports comparisons before and after the publication of the CDC Guideline.
Combining the two criteria--a high PMSYS index and positive residuals--a final set of 65 practices (21 percent) were identified as PDs (PD75) when applying the weighted 75th percentile as cutpoint for both criteria; 41 PDs (PD90: 13 percent) using the 90th percentile (Figure 1).
The sensitivity and NPV of each troponin cutpoint for T1MI are shown here in Figs.
Scaling troponin to the 99th percentile of normal yielded a median value that was 4.8 [2.2, 14.1] times higher than the 99th percentile cutpoint among AMI patients, compared to 2.3 [1.5, 6.5] times higher among non-AMI patients (P = 0.04).
That is, each individual has a cutpoint accuracy such that they vote if and only if the accuracy of their private signal surpasses that cutpoint, thereby generating a form of selective participation.
(4) A waist circumference of more than 40 inches (102 cm) for men and more than 35 inches (88 cm) for women is the generally recommended cutpoint to identify elevated risk.
(113) When a vote is perfectly ordered in one dimension, there exists a cutpoint that cleanly separates the majority coalition from the Justices in dissent.
The estimated cutpoint will probably come within about 0.03 RD of the true value, but an error of 0.03 RD can cause a large yield difference for coking coal partitioned at low cutpoints.
* The revision sets the body mass index cutpoint for screening overweight or obese Asian Americans at 23 kg/[m.sup.2], an increase from the prior cutpoint of 25 kg/[m.sup.2].
Using ROC curve construction technique, our research team determined that the optimal cutpoint for HOMA2-IR for our population is 2.00 [21].
A vertex v is a cutpoint of G if G - {v} has more connected components than G. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Period Problems
Having a regular menstrual cycle is usually a sign of good health. When you have a late period or missed period it could be a sign that something is up. There are many different reasons for late periods but if the problem continues for more than one menstrual cycle, make an appointment with your doctor to discuss the issue.
Does a Late Menstrual Period Mean I Am Pregnant?
One of the first signs of pregnancy is a late period. But missed periods do not necessarily mean that you are pregnant. If you're sexually active and have missed a period, then it is worthwhile to take a pregnancy test. You may still want to take a pregnancy test even if you have been using contraception. Since birth control can fail, taking a pregnancy test will allow you to rule out one of the possible causes of missed periods. Your local pregnancy center can provide a test for free.
Learn about the Causes of Late Periods. Could You Be Pregnant?
If you have a late period and a negative pregnancy test, then consider whether or not you've recently been sick, gained or lost a significant amount of weight, have been under excessive stress or have taken any new medications. All of these things can affect your menstrual cycle and cause you to have irregular periods. Additionally, certain types of birth control, including the birth control pill, Depo-Provera and Implanon, can cause you to have menstrual cycles disturbances.
I Have My Period…I Think
Sometimes, you may have your period but, instead of your usual menstrual flow and period length, this time around your period is shorter and lighter. In some cases, it could be a sign that you didn't ovulate during the month. If the problem continues, you should probably make an appointment with your health care provider. A lighter, shorter period is also a common side effect of the birth control pill.
Women who are sexually active may want to take a pregnancy test if their lighter period appears to be pink or brown in color. What you're seeing may actually be implantation bleeding and is an early sign of pregnancy. However, if this bleeding is also accompanied by a sharp pain in your lower abdominal, then make an appointment with your health care provider right away; you could be having an ectopic pregnancy.
My Period Won't End!
Maybe a late menstrual period isn't your problem but a heavier and longer period is. One possible explanation is uterine fibroids. Although these benign uterine tumors won't hurt you, they do need to be investigated by a doctor. In some cases, they can grow to be extremely large and impair your fertility. However, if you're experiencing severe cramps and are noticing a number of clots in your blood, then you may be having a miscarriage. This warrants an immediate appointment with your health care provider.
IUD users may have longer periods due to the IUD irritating the uterine wall. Longer and/or heavier periods can be side effects of the mini-pill, Depo-Provera and Implanon. If your periods have become especially heavy or long, talk with your doctor about changing your birth control.
My Period Isn't Late It's Early!
Sometimes during your menstrual cycle you'll notice a little bit of blood on your panties or when you wipe. This is known as spotting and can be a sign of an infection, a cyst or a polyp in your vagina, cervix or uterus and should be investigated by a doctor. However, if you've been under a lot of pressure lately, you may have a bit spotting because of the extra stress.
Spotting is also a very common side effect during the first few months of using the birth control pill. If you've been using the Pill for a while, though, then you may notice some bleeding between periods when you've forgotten to take your pill or you took it a bit later than usual. Women who use an IUD, though, should make an appointment with their health care provider as spotting may be a sign of inflammation or infection.
Pregnancy
It is also normal for women who are in the early stages of pregnancy to have a bit of spotting. However, it is a good idea to let your health care provider know about the bleeding. If the bleeding becomes heavier or is accompanied by cramps, notify your midwife or doctor right away.
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Lulua Mosque
* ... that the Lulua Mosque (pictured) in Cairo built in 1015–16 AD during the reign of the third Caliph al-Hakim, which partially collapsed in 1919, was refurbished in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras?
* Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Syeda Bilgrami Imam
5x expanded by Nvvchar (talk), Rosiestep (talk), Dr. Blofeld (talk). Nominated by Nvvchar (talk) at 17:30, 5 March 2013 (UTC).
* Symbol possible vote.svg This article is not new enough. Neither is is expanded enough. Proudbolsahye (talk) 22:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
* We do commonly allow a little slop in the submission time. However, technically, the expansion should have been from 751 to 3755 readable prose size. It's currently 3374 B readable prose size, 381 chars or >75 words short. --Lexein (talk) 10:02, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for the above clarification, which I was also about to make. I will add the required text shortly.-- Nvvchar . 10:17, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
* I have now added almost 1000 ch to the article's prose with an additional reference sourced from MIT.-- Nvvchar . 11:41, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
* Symbol question.svg. Expansion is now OK, hook is supported, length ok. Hook might be more interesting with a mention (5 words?) of who the Dawoodi Bohra are - "a community of Indian Muslims"(?). Article citations could use a bit of work. Named refs are good, but aren't as useful when the page# differs at each subsequent citation. I changed that last named ref usage to a shortened style ref to indicate the exact page (129), and linked to that on Google books. Can you fix a few others? --Lexein (talk) 15:20, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for the review and fixing the reference to the hook. I have added additional text as suggested and to keep the length to 200 ch, I am suggesting this hook for ALT1.... that the Mosque (pictured) in Cairo built in 1015–16 during third Caliph al-Hakim's reign, which partially collapsed in 1919, was restored in 1998 by the Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims? -- Nvvchar . 14:27, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
* ALT2... that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo (pictured) built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim's reign, which partially collapsed in 1919, was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims?
* Symbol question.svg ALT2 is all good, length ok, ready to go but DAB is needed. I trimmed out "third", put back "Lulua" & "Dawoodi", and linked to Islam in India. --Lexein (talk) 17:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
* Needs DAB above. Is History_of_Islam any help? Is this Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah the right person? He was the Sixth, not the Third Caliph, so maybe there's a source conflict? --Lexein (talk) 05:27, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
* DAB piped. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks - the last problem is source conflict: Lulua Mosque and the first and ALT1 hooks say "third Caliph al-Hakim", and so does the cited source, but Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah says "sixth Caliph". How is this to be resolved? I think this is worth resolving before DYK goes out... --Lexein (talk) 02:23, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
* The piped wl points to the correct bio. I've made the correction on that article, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah article and included a RS. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:07, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
* MIT says 3rd, this says 6th, these say no number: , . Gotta go for now.--Lexein (talk) 04:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
* The conflict between sources is still of concern to me. I have the sense that the article should acknowledge that his order (3rd or 6th) is a matter of some dispute among historians. Another reviewer should weigh in here. --Lexein (talk) 10:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
* Symbol redirect vote4.png Call for new reviewer to weigh in on what to do with source fact discrepancy in the article. I have struck original and ALT1 hooks, both of which specifically listed "third Caliph", which is contradicted by at least one source. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:47, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
* Question: Is the fact that it was possibly the third caliph of the utmost importance for it to stay in the article and in the hook? Otherwise, aside from defining what a "manzara" is, this is good to go. I'd go with a hook that links this to the Muslims in India. – H T D 05:07, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
* I have left a foot note in the article as suggested by User:Lexein. ALT 2 Hook is fine with us as it refers to Muslims of India. With regard to the meaning of the word "manzara", as provided in the article Megalithic Temples of Malta, it is an Arabic word meaning 'a place with commanding views'.-- Nvvchar . 02:13, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
* ALT3... that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo (pictured), built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim's reign, partially collapsed in 1919 and was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims?
* Symbol confirmed.svg I've added the definition to the article, and ref'd, tidied, and sourced, the source conflict note. My concerns are now addressed. Slightly reworded ALT3 good to go. --Lexein (talk) 04:18, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
* Lexien, Thank you.-- Nvvchar . 07:47, 11 April 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Maud, Renée - One year at the Russian court 1904-1905.djvu/128
102 most primitive kind, consisting of a horrible little cheap stove placed at the end of every carriage, near the corridor by the exit, and all stuffed with birch wood. A pipe ran the length of the carriage, which was thus warmed.
When we arrived at Petrograd the thermometer was more than ten degrees Réaumur below zero; so cold was it that, when opening one's mouth to speak, it seemed as though one had been stabbed to the heels by cold steel.
The cold is doubly increased by the wind—and at Petrograd it nearly always blows hard—tearing with violence along the canals which traverse the town in all directions.
As at Tiflis many friends and relations had come to the station with flowers and bonbons; it is a charming custom, I think. Among them was Uncle Cherwachidze, who in spite of his wish to join us in the Caucasus, which he adores, had been unable to do so on account of his important duties at the Court. Some years before, the younger brother of the Emperor, Grand Duke George, had come to the Caucasus on account of his health, being consumptive, and one day, on his return from a motor drive with my uncle, he died in the latter's arms. It is since that time that the Empress-Dowager has shown my uncle so great an attachment and friendship that she cannot bear to be separated from him for long.
I brought back from the Caucasus a memory that was sunny and full of gratitude for the charming welcome that I found there. My aunt often | WIKI |
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Hammy Down Versace
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Has done nothing to satisfy WP:MUSICBIO. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:57, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
* Delete zero sourcing found. It's all about anything related to Versace (the brand). If he was an artist to watch in 2014, then nothing's happened since, he isn't notable. Oaktree b (talk) 13:13, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
* Seconded Jack4576 (talk) 15:48, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:04, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
* Delete - In 2014, he announced in every conceivable social media and self-promotional outlet that he was entering the studio to record a song. Then what happened? Nothing. In other words, he doesn't even have one single recording. Not even any social media chatter since that fateful day 9 years ago. It's hard to imagine anyone less notable than this. I wonder what he's doing today... wait, no I don't. --- DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:15, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
* Delete Promo Nonescence.Handmeanotherbagofthemchips (talk) 00:56, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Motorsport/Archive 14
Notability of amateurs in professional motorsport
A debate has opened up between myself, User:Pc13, User:Lukeno94, and User:Andy Dingley, specifically here. The discussion started over Lukeno redlinking every single driver listed in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans, as he has been doing for several other Le Mans race reports for a time now, under the belief that every driver who has participated at Le Mans is inherently notable. My belief, as well as the belief of Pc13, is that not all drivers who participate at Le Mans are notable because many of them are pure amateur, gentlemen drivers who simply buy their way into a seat, participate, and have almost no other motorsports activity that would qualify for notability, at least as established by WP:NMOTORSPORT. The contention is that although Le Mans is a famous event and is full of professional and famous drivers, it is not one that requires any sort of achievement in motorsport in order to be allowed to participate (such as speed through qualifying or licensing through past experience), and although it has been part of various national, international, and World Championships, it is itself treated as a stand alone event with its own unique rules and organization. This was then extended further based on the fact that sports car racing in recent years has established a hierarchy for drivers, with emphasis on clearly defining amateur and professional drivers, both with the introduction of purely amateur classes (Blancpain Endurance Series, FIA GT Series, FIA WEC, ELMS, etc), as well as the FIA's ranking system for drivers based on racing experience (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze).
I believe that the key to the first bullet point of WP:NMOTORSPORT is that the emphasis is on professionalism, and in that regard professional drivers, as in ones that are paid for their services through their winnings from that series, are inherently notable, while those that pay their way into the race seat, even if it may be in what would be viewed as a professional series, are of questionable notability. Keep in mind the difference between amateur and paid drivers, in that paid drivers do have some experience and talent in order to qualify to fill a race seat and would likely meet the guidelines for notability anyway.
In the end I believe my point is that, although Le Mans is world famous, participation in it is not grounds for notability simply because almost anyone can participate. The359 ( Talk ) 09:20, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* Although I can understand the viewpoint, I fail to see why an amateur competing in a race is not-notable, when a "professional" driver competing in the same event is. Formula One drivers such as Maldonado and Chilton have bought their way through lower formulae and into F1; although Maldonado won a race, Chilton has not achieved very much of note. You can bring up the Superlicense, but that isn't extremely hard to get, given that people whom have had merely average results in lower formulae, and have done enough distance in an F1 car can get one. NMOTORSPORT, as it stands, makes no differentiation whatsoever between an amateur driver, and a professional driver; it merely places things squarely in the ballpark of the event. As far as I'm aware, there is no amateur category in ELMS, although there is in the FIA WEC. There is a fundamental flaw, however, in some of The359's argument; the late Allan Simonsen, as well as Bruno Senna, neither of whom were amateur drivers, raced in the LMGTE Am category of the WEC in 2013 (Senna on one occasion, Simonsen on three). So just because a driver is competing in an "amateur" class doesn't make them an amateur; it can often mean they're simply less experienced, or, as we see above, it can mean absolutely nothing at all. The report also neglects the fact that I link in teams and cars whenever doing these edits as well; the latter being my main priority, as it occurs whenever I've written a new article on a car, and I also go and clean up any pointless redirects, or create more accurate ones/use better links wherever possible. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 13:22, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* I think I can sum it up on your first statement. A professional is not notable simply because he participated at Le Mans either. He is notable because of his other achivements and his status as a professional racing driver. How many professionals don't participate on a national level? Being a professional inherently makes them notable, not Le Mans.
* Maldonado won the GP2 championship, an international series, how exactly did he buy his way through the lower formula. As I said before, this is confusing a pay driver, who has some talent but is promoted through money, and an amateur driver, who is merely out there for the experience.
* And all drivers at Le Mans are rated. The Amateur category has limits on who can drive. Yes, Simonsen and Senna were not amateurs, because one professional is allowed on the team. However the other drivers have to be Silver or Bronze. Roald Goethe on their team was a Bronze, he's a classic car collector who participates in historic races and only raced because he owned the car he was racing. The point is we can tell quite easily who is amateur by looking at them on a case by case basis and not automatically assuming that Goethe is notable just because he drove Le Mans. The359 ( Talk ) 20:59, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* Maldonado has bought his way through the majority of his career, although he did also win various things on the way. The way things stand though, as I've been saying, it is the event that makes one notable, not whether they're professional or amateur, based on the current wording. Certainly these days, not just anyone can race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans; only entries from teams that are well-regarded can compete. Prior to that, for a long time, you had to set a quick enough time in the test session to be invited to race - but I can't remember exactly when that started, and when it was changed to the current format. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 21:44, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* Le Mans has always been by invitation, and those invitations are only to the team, not to drivers. The team can invite whomever they want to drive for their cars. Le Mans has had a pre-qualifying session for a time in which so many cars were invited, but only so many moved on to the race proper, but the key element is still that they were all invited.
* How Maldonado earned a seat in F1 is irrelevant, he still has earned his notability based on his results. He didn't buy a super license. Maldonado is so far displaced from an amateur driver that it is apples and oranges. Maldonado is not a Roald Goethe or a Kevin Weeda or a Howard Blank or any of these gentlemen drivers. Maldonado is completely off the point. The359 ( Talk ) 22:04, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* The notability is for competing in the race, and you've actually got things backwards; when there was pre-qualifying, only the cars that were successful enough in their class got invited to compete in the race. I wasn't arguing that Maldonado or Chilton weren't notable, just using them as valid examples. And a 24LM driver still has to earn their license, even if the requirements are lower; it's not something you can just pick off a shelf. Most racing series have a mixture of "amateur", "pay drivers" and "professionals"; it's something that extends a long way beyond sports-car racing (although that is the one with the most prevalent "amateur v pro" comparison), from the bottom to the top. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 23:06, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* I thought I'd give my opinion. If all a driver has done is to drive in a single Le Mans race and finished in an relatively insignificant position (say, 35th), then has he really done enough to warrant a whole article about him? I don't think so. If one races in five Le Mans as an amateur, without success, should he have an article? I would say so. I think it really depends on what they did in Le Mans and outside of it. The distinction should not be amateur or professional, or whether they drove in Le Mans; but overall impact they made on motorsport, and a lot of Le Mans drivers have not done enough. Maybe an article (or multiple articles) on Le Mans drivers who fail the notability guidelines could be created, and then all the drivers could be linked, and info could be exist on the drivers who aren't notable enough for a full article. Surely that pleases both sides of this argument? — Gyaro – Maguus — 23:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* If the notability criteria, or consensus, was for multiple races at Le Mans to be needed for an article, then I'd be perfectly happy to edit within that, and to check carefully how many entries each driver has made before linking them; it'll slow things down a lot, but it would get rid of any dispute. So I'd be fine with that proposal (although an article that contained all the drivers who fail the criteria would potentially be enormous, depending on what the criteria actually stated, and would contravene policy). Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 00:11, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* Surely a simple list of all the drivers that have driven in a Le Mans 24 Hours race (similar to the List of Formula One drivers) wouldn't fail the criterion though (however, it may need to be two or three articles due to length). Using that, it shouldn't be too difficult to track down who should and who shouldn't be given articles. — Gyaro – Maguus — 00:50, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* It's fairly easy to establish how many major events each driver has entered; it's just time consuming, that's all. The List of Formula One drivers is not a good comparison, since there is no dispute about their notability, and besides that, the number of drivers who have raced in F1 is several orders of magnitude smaller than the number who have raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (which has been going on for far longer, and has almost always had much bigger grids). Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 10:44, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Scrap that article idea then. — Gyaro – Maguus — 12:40, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, folks! I'm having a similar discussion in the Spanish-language sister wikiproject. I think that relevancy should be determined on results, not on professional status. If drivers win major professional races, then they are relevant. If they win minor races or have poor results in professional races, then they aren't relevant. --NaBUru38 (talk) 17:13, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* That is more or less the agreement here. I, however, would use overall impact on motorsport rather than by sheer results. — Gyaro – Maguus — 17:51, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* I disagree as well with basing things on results. For starters, that would put this Wikiproject at odds with the vast majority of other areas, which determine things based on where a person has competed (and, by extension, how many times they have competed there), not what they have achieved. For starters, what defines a good result? Some drivers will be regarded as doing well for scoring a handful of points, or even a point; others will only get recognition for winning things. The "results" criteria is even less suitable when you consider that different drivers have access to different hardware - and it isn't always the best drivers who get into the best cars (or even decent cars). I'd be more than happy to have the criteria reworked, but not to that angle. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 19:01, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
WP:NMOTORSPORT's first entry has always struck me as problematic, but I'm not sure what is getting people's knickers in a twist here, After all, Le Mans on its own is not a "series". It has formed part of a few, but you don't really "compete in a series" if you just enter one round. Nevertheless it does need some looking at. In the meantime, here's a thought: how about we use the standard WP:GNG as a starting point? To be able to write an article on a driver you should be able to cite multiple, significant, third-party sources for the person, that attest not just to their existence but also their notability. Pretty much all F1 drivers are covered by this as even the the less well known ones have their own dedicated pages at most F1 stats sites and places such as F1 Rejects. Drivers who are professionals in other series of some standing will have been covered in some form by multiple specialist media sources (i.e. profile pieces, significant coverage in race reports, news of their career, etc.). If all you can say about a driver is that they have a name, a birth date, and that they competed in a race then that's not encyclopaedic, that's a directory entry, and Wikipedia is not a directory. Pyrop e 22:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* F1 drivers are going to meet GNG without a problem, and no one is really disputing that. The same goes for GP2 drivers, and for most semi-regular or regular BTCC drivers as well. However, a lot of very notable drivers don't meet GNG, because all the coverage they get is directly linked to the races they've done, and reports on those races. NMOTORSPORT may be problematic, but it's not that much more or less flawed than the vast majority of other sport-related notability guidelines; particularly with regards to "routine" coverage. I wouldn't write an article on a driver whom had only ever competed in one major/"professional" event, and had done nothing else, but as it stands, I could do so and it would be acceptable to do so, hence why I link in everyone that has a full name. Then again, I prefer to focus on the car aspect of things anyway, in article-writing terms. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 23:09, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* These things are context-specific. In the context of a motorsport driver, having your performance in a race discussed in more than a perfunctory "X finished in Y position" manner, in a significant source (e.g. Autosport etc.), does go some way to indicating notability. However, that would still have to be on multiple occasions or in multiple sources. I disagree that NMOTORSPORT suggests that an article could be written for a driver who had "only ever competed in one major/"professional" event, and had done nothing else" as the guideline specifically states they must have competed in a "series". One race does not make a series. Pyrop e 23:36, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
* Perhaps, but the 24 Hours of Le Mans has formed part of a series, and the guideline categorically states "Have driven in a race in a fully professional series." - that's one single race, and that could literally be "drove for 5 metres, car's clutch failed, driver never got another shot". So I'm afraid that what I said is still correct, and your comment isn't accurate. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 00:51, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Entry to the 24h race does not imply entry to any series that might include it. If you can show that they took part in the race and were included in the series entries then perhaps you have a point on that score. But that is why I said I have a small problem with the way that guideline is phrased. And by the way, it seems very odd that you are arguing so hard for a course of action that you apparently don't support, or was all this redlinking just a stalking horse to get people talking about this topic? Pyrop e 02:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'm...honestly quite surprised that this is even being discussed. At the risk of invoking "other stuff" - nobody would be contesting whether or not an otherwise-"amateur" driver who "drove for 5 metres, car's clutch failed, driver never got another shot" in the Indianapolis 500 would be worthy of a page. There are a few - very, very few, but some - individual races that, whether they are, or were, part of a series or not, establish notability for a driver because that driver competed in them. Indy is one. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is another. Period, full stop, Q.E.D.. Now whether or not an article can be written that satisfies WP:V for many of those drivers is very much an open question, but let's not confuse that with a failure to meet WP:N. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Um, no. Starters of the 500 are capped at (usually) 33 people per year, all of whom have to satisfy the organisers that they are sufficiently experienced and competent that they are not going to be a danger to themselves and others. Even 'rookies' like Jim Clark had to pass the speedway's tests before they were allowed to run. How many people since WWII have driven in the 500 but weren't either professional or otherwise notable as amateur drivers? There are over 160 drivers at Le Mans each year, and the entry requirements are quite different. It is perfectly possible for a wealthy businessman – whose only other involvement in motorsport is as a gentleman amateur in a national-level GT championship or recreational historic racing – to participate as long as they have the right licence. Take a look at people like Nick Mason. If he hadn't been a member of a gazillion-selling rock band he would be a nobody in racing terms. Simply competing at Le Mans does not confer any instant notability on a driver; there are simply too many of them for them all to be notable. Pyrop e 02:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* When did there being "too many" become a standard of notability? - The Bushranger One ping only 03:34, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* If every man and his dog can do it, what's notable about it? If you are arguing that participation in an event confers the presumption of notability, then you must demonstrate that participating in the event generally makes people notable. Clearly it does not, as there are plenty of people who have driven at Le Mans for whom the only available record that we have of their life is the presence of their name on the entry list. GNG is not some gold standard to which all pages should aspire and that can be circumvented by a specific category notability standard; it is the minimum standard. As the GNG itself says, even if someone conforms to GNG they may not in fact be notable. That is the point that NMOTORSPORT and others come in. Pyrop e 04:22, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Of course no one would write an article on a driver whose sole action was to drive for 5 metres in one professional race, and never did anything; but it is technically within the notability guidelines. And if they're a regular driver, or have done several races, in a national-level GT championship, particularly if it was one of the bigger ones (the British one obviously springs to mind), then they would pass notability guidelines anyway. But Bushranger's comments about racing in the 24LM being an automatic notability generator is one that I agree with; I'm not talking about everyone who entered being considered as notable. At the end of the day, I don't see why it matters if someone is paying to enter a race, or being paid to enter the same race; it's what the race is, or is part of, that should be important, and indeed that's what the notability guidelines say. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:41, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Your first sentence is based in faulty logic. NMOTORSPORT does not supplant GNG, it augments it. If a driver does not pass GNG then they are not notable, period. Even if they pass GNG they may not be notable, as GNG itself states, and NMOTORSPORT then exists to help determine whether they are notable or not, in a motorsport context. By redlinking a name you are implying that there is a reasonable likelihood of that driver being sufficiently notable for an article to be written. When considering drivers in the 24 hour race this is clearly garbage. There is not a single driver for whom the mere fact of their participation has rendered them notable. Show me the biographies. Show me the magazine profiles. Show me the news articles discussing their ongoing career. Drivers who have won, driven for many years, been killed, or otherwise created some extra news story may become notable because of the race, but even they are very few and far between. I find your blithe insistence that someone who has done "several" national-level GT races "would pass notability guidelines" a bit odd, and also indicates that you don't really understand the purpose of determining notability by using objective criteria. The way people pass the notability test is by providing evidence that other people, not connected to them, have taken notice. It is perfectly possible for someone to have run around in the midfield of the British GT championship for years and for them to fail GNG. Why? Because they aren't sufficiently notable for even the specialist press to have bothered writing an article about them, or for them to have been a significant part of an article about some related topic. If they've won races or appeared on the podium a few times they have a better chance. If they've won the championship then they almost certainly will pass GNG. But just by driving in races? No. Same logic with Le Mans. Driving at Le Mans may be a notable event in someone's life, but does it make that whole life notable? No, again. If Le Mans were an "automatic notability generator" then it would automatically generate notability for those who drive in it. The mere fact that there are plenty of Le Mans drivers who fail GNG proves that both you and Bushranger are wrong in your opinion. Pyrop e 02:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* Some of your comments here border on the nonsensical. By redlinking a name, I am indeed implying that there is a reasonable likelihood of an article being written on these people - because a driver who raced (not entered) in this event is notable based on our notability guideline. It appears that you have absolutely no idea what NMOTORSPORT actually says, and you blindly follow GNG as if it is gospel truth. I'll say this again, maybe you'll understand it; almost all subject-specific guidelines don't rely on GNG, otherwise there is no point in having them. Claiming things such as "no one has bothered writing an article on them makes them non-notable" is utter bullshit; prior to me finding it, no one wrote an article on the Zytek Z11SN, despite that winning the LMP2 class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the ELMS in 2011. With just the example that was brought up on my talkpage, one driver passed GNG easily, one of them had one substantial source, but nothing else, and the other failed it - but all three met NMOTORSPORT, and that's all that matters here based on our guidelines. However, once again, it is clear that you are disregarding those guidelines completely. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:34, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* I love the fact that you chose your Zytek article to try and contradict me, that really does show you don't understand what you are talking about. You see your very first edit comment in that article's history, what does it say? You were the first to write an article on that car on Wikipedia, but you certainly weren't the first ever anywhere. I'm not disregarding NMOTORSPORT, I am merely pointing out that it doesn't replace GNG, it augments it. I mentioned very early here that I don't like NMOTORSPORT as it stands and this whole argument is a very good example of what is wrong with it. Merely having driven in the 24 race does not bring you to the notice of the world at large, as is proven by the lack of sources for so very many drivers, so that guideline is absurd. Pyrop e 22:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* I may not have been the first to write an article on that car anywhere, but thanks for confirming that WP:IDONTLIKEIT is indeed your entire position. The guideline may be "absurd" in your viewpoint, but that doesn't change the fact that nothing I have done has contravened it. And I also said earlier that I'd be happy to see it changed, particularly to follow an NFOOTBALL-style line with a "fully professional races/series" list drawn up. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 11:10, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Oh boy, you are priceless. I disagree with the first line of NMOTORSPORT, as I said to you very early on in this discussion, but that doesn't change the observation that GNG has priority over NMOTORSPORT. I also disagree that merely having driven a car at Le Mans makes people inherently deserving of a Wikipedia article, because the evidence shows that having done so does not automatically make people notable. That's an objective measure, with the yardstick being the fact that articles and other coverage of the subject already exists (or, in these cases, doesn't) outwith Wikipedia. That being the fact, it does rather make that first line of NMOTORSPORT look badly thought out, at best, and misleading at worst. So far you have not offered any hard evidence for your position, just some fetishistic deification of the literally thousands of people who have driven at Le Mans. If you consider these people all notable, please do provide some evidence for that. Pyrop e 18:57, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* But that's not how you should go about linking stuff. You might think that those articles are likely to be written, but until somebody actually writes them, all you get is dozens of red links. Please explain how the article is improved by having a bunch of red links inside a table. If you want to have articles on those drivers, teams and cars, first you write them, then you add links to the pages. Pc13 (talk) 18:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* There is nothing wrong with a redlink. If a name is not linked, it is unclear if there is an article there or not. If there is a red link, you know there isn't an article there. A lot of people will write articles based on turning redlinks to blue; it is less common for them to do the same for no links. And if you haven't noticed, I do write articles, which is why I'm adding in the links whenever I do a new article. I don't understand why people are getting their underwear in a twist and thinking "OMG REDLINKS R BAD THEY MUST GO"; policy supports their inclusion, after all. Once again, the names I link to all meet NMOTORSPORT, and there is no policy that says there has to be an article to link to it; quite the opposite. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 19:17, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* But you're making several mistakes while adding the red links, especially in regards to team names. In the 1978 Le Mans article, you had links to "ROC La Pierre du Nord", which doesn't exist (it should be Racing Organisation Course). Neither does Mogil Motors (it's the sponsor of a group of mechanics based around driver John Cooper), Mondelo ASA Cachia (it's merely ASA Cachia), Grand Touring Cars Inc (it already exists as John Wyer), Cloud Engineering (it's actually linking to an article about data storage), or Haberthur (it should be Porsche Club Romand). There's a link there to Cheetah Racing Cars, when the Cheetah car that raced in Le Mans was from Swiss manufacturer Charles Graeminger, not the Australian brand. So if you don't actually know what you're linking to, why should I assume people are going to create new articles? Based on linking mistakes, even? Pc13 (talk) 16:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* If I'm making mistakes in team names, feel free to draw up a list and I will fix every single error. The Cheetah one must've been an oversight, because I know for a fact that I made sure a lot of the links to Cheetah went to the correct firm (I remember fixing it in the List of Group C cars article, and elsewhere). Some of the complaints you have there are merely non-existent redirects, and aren't inaccuracies; some, like the ROC one (which I should've spotted, in fairness) are errors that I shall fix. Why should you assume people will create new articles? Because I do, and that's one person straight off the bat. It would be more helpful if you wrote some of the articles, rather than moaning about redlinks. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 17:58, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Tangential to this debate, I'm in favor of using more red links on sports car articles. There are a number of times when I have written an article for a notable long-retired sports car racer and it has frankly been very difficult to find every mention of that driver in various sports car articles and link to him. -Drdisque (talk) 16:16, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* That's precisely why I usually link everything; I know how much of a pain it is to have to go digging, and I still find that I've missed things! Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 16:32, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Actually, that is the whole point of the debate. It doesn't really matter bringing up the notability of certain drivers, ultimately because those articles don't exist. And if that's the case, there's no point in linking to them. Especially if new 50 to 100 red links are created in articles that are mostly made up of results table and not text. That's mainly why I've been erasing the links, even to drivers I feel are notable enough to have an article, like Manfred Schurti or Dick Barbour. It's even worse with the team names, which are being done haphazardly and without any research to see if they're applied correctly. Linking to "ROC La Pierre du Nord" in the Le Mans 1978 article, for example, is nonsensical, because La Pierre du Nord was merely sponsoring Racing Organisation Course. Pc13 (talk) 02:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* For the possibility of this discussion resulting in modifying WP:NMOTORSPORT, I'd like to state my opinion. I feel it is very important to realize notability guideline has never been a policy, but a guideline that "editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply". In other words, it is not a rule. (The development of notability in Wikipedia is well outlined in "Notability in the English Wikipedia"). It was born out of the necessity to limit the attempt to create a page on every 'interesting' person including porn stars in tabloid fashion.
* On the other hand, Neutral Point of View is a non-negotiable policy that all editors and articles 'must' follow, and I believe preservation of minor view points comes with the requirement provided a sufficient due weight. Notability (and 'significance' and the weighting) is established only through a view point, and the fact that at least one editor is providing his/her time to create an article with some reasonable effort represents a view point that deems the notability to exist in his/her mind.
* WikiProjects often have the tendency to treat the guideline as the rule, criticized for being "wannabe tin-pot dictators masquerading as humble editors." (Note 5 on the above link). We are lucky not generally having to deal with comics and porn stars, and without arguing for a simple red-linking of drivers, I am against a stricter reinforcement of the guideline.
* This discussion made me wish for the lists of who competed the least distance in Le Mans, Indy 500 and all of F1. Participations in such events require effort, and such a view point on the effort/reward ratio is a valid one at least in my mind. Of course the promotion of variety of view points (and easier notability standards) results in messy presentation of articles which WikiProjects hate, but the last thing Wikipedia wants to be is a cleanly sensored publication with rigidly formed and unified view point. Yiba (talk) 05:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* "Notability ... is used as an editorial metric to determine topics meriting a dedicated encyclopedia article. In general, notability is an attempt to assess whether the topic has "gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time" as evidenced by significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic." That sounds fair to me. To provide pages that are merely a name creates a spotty, disjointed encyclopedia, that lacks the continuity and readability that makes Wikipedia a joy. That's why orphan pages are flagged as well. I'm not sure how you work "point of view" into all that. The whole point behind Wikipedia's notability guide is that there is an objective standard to measure notability against. If you can find sufficient significant secondary sources to demonstrate notability then go ahead and write an article on whomsoever you desire, there's no censorship. Pyrop e 07:50, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* I think the reason NPOV was brought up, is because while GNG is a guideline that is treated as Holy Writ (as was said), NPOV is the policy that is...I wouldn't say 'honored more in the breach than in the observance', but that it is often treated as a secondary concern while the slings and arrows of outraged GNG referencing get shot back and forth.
* It's worth mentioning that the pages in question state "Verifiability, no original research and neutral point of view are Wikipedia's core content policies" - with no mention of "notability" at all. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* If someone values a cleanly organized encyclopedia with non-overlapping contents and well-defined notability and topic organization standards, then Wikipedia is not the place to look for it. What makes Wikipedia a joy, to me, is its variety of view points in the selection of topics and the editing of articles. My point is that notability can't be established without setting a point of view, meaning that the judgement of notability is an automatic reflection of a point of view the judgement was based on. With this background, the necessity to set the notability (or topic selection) standard in Wikipedia resulted in the 'guideline' as a necessary evil, not as a set policy or a rule to be promoted. "Don't allow it if it violates the guideline" is in fact treating the guideline as a rule. If a WikiProject, which often extends its own function from collective improvement of article quality to enforcing (censoring) topic selection, sets and enforce the guidelines beyond the necessity to deal with porn stars and similar nonsense, then there is the danger to supressing/censoring other view points (that deems a driver or a race is notable, for example). But in the end, this is just my opinion that I wanted to state here, and I know many editors in WikiProjects, especially good ones with deep knowledge in a field and a lot of vandals and idiots to deal with, do not agree. Yiba (talk) 11:13, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* I don't remember mentioning "cleanly organised" or "non-overlapping". What I pointed out is that an encyclopedia should be readable (hence Wikipedia's emphasis on prose) and have a structure that allows you to flow from one topic to another. The organisation itself can be all over the place, but dead ends are counterproductive. If all a page says is "X was a person, of unknown age or history, who once drove in this particular race" then what does that add? Hey ho, bang the 'back' button, and swear under your breath at the nincompoop who just wasted 30 seconds of your life by cluttering this encyclopedia with uninformative cruft. If the only place that links to their article is the results table from that particular race then what has clicking through and the consequent disruption to your reading gained you? Yet again I also find your POV argument spurious, and actually lacking in internal consistency. Any topic can be written about so long as you demonstrate that people other than you have taken notice of them. If you are the only person who thinks they are of note then that is a case in point of POV, almost a dictionary definition. You think they are, the rest of the world does not. Which of those positions is the neutral one? Pyrop e 23:03, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* May be the point of discussion is becoming clearer that the issue is of dead-end links. If this is the sole case on the red-linking of drivers, then my bringing up the notability guideline opinion could have been inappropriate, as I am not arguing for the red-linking. I agree that prose and readability is important, but at the same time, there are many other important factors that might come in conflict. It's the matter of prioritizing in the balancing of all those indivisually important matters/goals we should strive after. In this prioritization, the importance scale in Wikipedia is established as NPOV, NOR and Verifiability come on top, followed by other content policies (such as WP:TITLE), and then Notability and other guidelines such as WP:Prose.
* It is so important to realize that "Wikipedia aims to describe disputes, but not engage in them.", and in many cases of Wikiprojects enforcing (deleting/merging) topic selection (often in the name of Notability guideline), I feel the projects may be twisting the scale by suppressing the minor view point that feels the topic is notable in the case that minority editor can satisfy Verifiability and other requirements, including that the minority position is held by a not insignificant group. If such cases arise in an article/subject, Neutrality (not in the general sense, but in Wikipedia term) requires a recognition and description of the minority view with proper weight. Although it seems the application of Neutrality on topic selection and notability has not been published, the same concept/position should apply, and it is healthier, in my mind, to err on the side of letting the minority view stand in the cases with uncertainties because it is closer to Healthy Conflict than an elimination. As I saw the possibility of WP:NMOTORSPORT being modified, and as I didn't like the way it is written now, I just expressed my opinion on it. I don't know who was the first woman to compete in Le Mans, but she is notable not because of the result, professional/amateur status, nor distance raced. Yiba (talk) 11:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Taking your example, the first woman to drive at Le Mans was Odette Siko. She is most certainly notable for that achievement and, guess what, she has been noticed. She has been written about in a number of books – such as Fast Ladies: Female Racing Drivers 1888 to 1970 by Jean François Bouzanquet, and Fast Women: the legendary ladies of racing by Todd McCarthy – and has a few web pages out there that discuss her career. Doubtless there is even more out there in French, but not speaking the language I haven't looked. This is what I mean by an objective measure of notability: people outside Wikipedia have taken notice. If all you have to do to justify a Wikipedia page is show that someone, somewhere, appears in the historical record for having done something then what is the point of worrying about notability in any category? It basically boils down to a single editor saying "I have heard of this person". I agree that NPOV and verifiability are the cornerstones of maintaining Wikipedia as a quality product (well, we try), but to then say that beyond those few nothing else really matters is bizarre. Pyrop e 19:16, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
I have a solution to this. We list, in a sandbox or in a WP:MOTORSPORT subpage, all the Le Mans drivers without an article at the moment (maybe with a little background info, like Le Mans attended). We look at each driver, and judge whether they pass notability requirements (those that make the decisions leave signatures). We make two (or three) sections on this page, one for those who pass the notability requirements, one for those that don't and optionally one for those that need to be reconsidered or discussed. On Le Mans articles, we (red)link those that have passed (since they can have articles) and we leave the ones that either have not passed or do not pass unlinked. I understand that this is a long, difficult and awkward process, but it should be able to solve the issue on a driver-by-driver basis, which is how, in an ideal world, we would be looking at this situation. — Gyaro – Maguus — 13:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* There are 3140 drivers who took part in Le Mans at least once. This isn't F1. It's a lot more common. Do you actually want to make this list? --Pc13 (talk) 16:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* It is a list of the drivers without articles, so not 3140, more like 1250–1750, which yes, I understand is still a lot. The list itself is not an article. And since there is no deadline, it doesn't matter how long it takes. It is solely for deciding which drivers need articles. The list would just be the names of drivers and the years they competed, no wikilinks, just "driver name (####–####)". Once the drivers that should get articles get them, they will be removed from the list. It can be split up into multiple lists if needed. — Gyaro – Maguus — 17:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Fine by me, although it does come down to what exactly we say those requirements are. Certainly anyone who meets GNG is going to be notable, I don't think anyone is disputing that - but what are the race-based requirements? And that's probably the issue; we're struggling to agree on what they should be. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 13:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* I would say a mixture of WP:GNG and WP:NMOTORSPORT. I'm pretty sure that it will be easier on a case-by-case basis, because each driver will be different. — Gyaro – Maguus — 13:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'm more than happy to work through the lot in a gradual process, but I'd need something semi-concrete, like everyone who finished Le Mans is notable, for example. But I will look into it :) Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 13:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm not going to pretend I've read all this, but when I start an article, my main thought is "Can I write a reasonably substantial article about this person/thing?" If all you can muster is a couple of lines, then that person probably isn't notable, and what will you be achieving? What will you really be adding to the encyclopedia? If you can find enough sources to produce a few referenced paragraphs, then there's a fair chance the subject has done enough in his life to be notable enough. I understand the spirit of GNG to be basically that.
I remember when someone tried to delete Xavier Perrot as not notable because his article said that all he'd done was finish 10th in a Grand Prix in an F2 car. I dug around and it turned out he'd been a European hillclimbing champion and won an F2 race, among other things. All added together, it makes for a notable subject and a moderately acceptable article. Any Le Mans driver who is being considered for an article should probably have something similar in his career so that we end up with a half-decent article, not an unexpandable two-line stub. Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:40, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Indeed, I don't like writing two-line stubs, and anyone who takes a look at the articles I've written will see that. Sometimes you have to go digging a little more, and that's the sort of thing I enjoy when writing an article - just as long as it doesn't turn out to be fruitless! Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 21:11, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* This is the crux of the discussion about notability and the over-broad application of NMOTORSPORT. For some series (e.g. F1, GP2, CART/Indy) there is a very high likelihood that merely having participated indicates that you will probably pass GNG – i.e. sources will be out there for you to dig out – as the standard of performance and exclusivity of entry means that only very accomplished individuals with significant experience (some previous record of achievement in their sport) will ever get to that point. Hence NMOTORSPORT included that first clause as an indicator of notability. Unfortunately it was phrased badly (introducing the spurious professional/amateur distinction) and there are some cases of prestigious events where the exclusivity and entry standards are much lower (e.g. Le Mans, Monte Carlo Rally, the old Lombard RAC rally) but which may have formed part of a championship series. In these cases mere participation is not a good indicator that the person may be notable. You have argued above that appearing at Le Mans makes you notable, but there is simply no evidence for this being the case as for a surprisingly large number of drivers (hundreds at least, and possibly >1000) the sources that you would need to write more than just "X was a person who drove in the Le Mans 24h race in year Y" just don't exist. Remember that, in Wikipedia terms, notability "... is used as an editorial metric to determine topics meriting a dedicated encyclopedia article." It is a term that has real utility, and isn't simply a case of an editor thinking that the subject did something noteworthy. Pyrop e 22:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* I think the issue I personally have is that GNG requires non-routine coverage, which a lot of very successful drivers in major, but slightly more niche, events may not have gotten in traditionally accepted reliable sources. It would indeed be absolutely crazy to write an article on anything that you couldn't find any reference on at all, and I doubt anyone would debate that. However, there are plenty of drivers who receive a lot of routine coverage ("X is racing in event y"), but not much beyond that. And this applies for some drivers of reasonable note as well - try finding much that isn't routine "he finished in position x", "he is driving for team y", "he is entering event z" for Alister McRae, for example; there's a little bit, but a lot of it is lost amongst the routine stuff. And if you try and tell me he isn't notable, then I will probably spend the rest of the day laughing. As it is worded, the 24 Hours of Le Mans does convey notability without question for the years it formed part of the World Sportscar Championship, or any other major championship like that. The grey area would therefore be the years that the 24 Hours of Le Mans was not part of a major championship. I would have no problem with any sensible change to NMOTORSPORT, and indeed I would lodge that, at the very minimum, the driver should've finished a race in a professional series, rather than just competed; I would also support the drawing up of a "fully professional series" list, or replace the "professional" criteria with a "series that make you notable" list. I'm perfectly happy to draw a draft up for that list in my userspace; in fact, I probably will do at some point. On a very tangential note, we really need to bring the driver infobox out of the dark ages, and use something better than br tags to separate the entries. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Ok, well for McRae there are plenty of non-routine sources, try here, here, here, here, here, here and, oh flippin' heck there's loads. And that's only just skimming the first couple of pages of a fairly basic Google search. Once you start digging down into newspaper and magazine archives you'll find tons. None of these are routine appearances in entry or results lists, or throwaway mentions in an article devoted to something else. All demonstrate that McRae easily passes GNG. The point I'm making (again) is that notability isn't a merit badge you get for having done something, it is a status that you achieve through people having taken notice of you. If people have taken notice there will be sources such as those I've shown you for McRae, at least a couple. If there aren't, then QED you are not notable. See how that works? Pyrop e 22:45, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Must try harder. #1 is routine; it says he's returning to the championship. #2 is a routine interview after winning a class. #3 doesn't appear to satisfy RS, although feel free to prove me wrong on that. #4 is another routine announcement of him competing in an event. Ditto #5. #6 counts as non-routine coverage. 1/6, not a very good score there. See what I mean? People only ever usually get coverage for entering events, scoring results, moving teams, and that's about it. Which is why GNG being the only benchmark is a bad idea. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* Must try reading. The supporting documentation for GNG states that "it takes more than just routine news reports about a single event or topic to constitute significant coverage. For example, routine news coverage such as press releases, public announcements, sports coverage, and tabloid journalism is not significant coverage. Even a large number of news reports that provide no critical analysis of the event is not considered significant coverage." #1 does not just announce his entry, it discusses his previous career and provides a direct quotation from him discussing his feelings and aspirations (not routine); #2 announces not just his result, but again discusses his career to date, provides background on his entry and preparation, and goes on to discuss his performance in the event in some detail (not routine); #3 you may have a point about RS, but assuming good faith it does seem to be an original, in depth interview with McRae rather than a copyvio blog post or fanboy wittering; #4 has, in addition to the announcement, detailed discussion of not just his but also his family's involvement in motorsport, a discussion of the event, and a quotation from the rally organiser singling out McRae's entry as being special (not routine); #5 singles out McRae as one of only two drivers, from an entry of 500, who are deserving of special note, and whose opinions are sought and quotes provided (not routine); and #6 is an article specifically seeking his opinions and interpretation on an event that affected a few hundred people in the industry, as well as quite a few other drivers who were not asked their views (not routine). The key here is "critical analysis". These aren't just half-inch sidebars stating "X finished Yth", a single sentence in a race article, or mere results table entries, they are lengthy prose pieces that focus on McRae in particular and provide context and analysis of his involvement in whatever the topic under discussion is. Doing this sort of digging and analysis is what establishes notability, not having some mindless cookie-cutter shape that you can stamp onto any topic that says "him is professional, him notable". Pyrop e 23:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'd like to mention a few more things about WP:NMOTORSPORT as I primarily wrote it. I realize it's a very imperfect guideline and if I were to be writing it again now, I'd probably write it a little differently. It is hard to apply even currently. For example there are a number of series such as the F2000 Championship Series or SCCA MX-5 Cup or various countries' Porsche Carrera Cup competitions that are considered "pro racing" by their sanctioning bodies and they do give out prize money. However, most people would consider them Semi-Pro. The guideline has trouble distinguising Semi-Pro series from fully professional series and there's no good way to do it. There's the added problem of when series change statuses. For example, few would argue that the Trans-Am Series was not fully professional in the early 1970's and most of the 1980's, yet few would argue that it IS today. Conversely, the Pro Mazda Championship was decidedly a semi-pro series until the mid 2000's when it became an important feeder series and many would argue that it is a fully professional series today. Additionally, WP:NSPORT has guidelines for "the highest level of competition in their country". This is an issue for motorsport because there is very little organized motorsport in many countries. For example, I'm not aware of any organized motorsport in Moldova. If a group of guys started racing their Dacia Logans around a parking lot in Chisinau and called themselves the "Moldovan Touring Car Championship" and began giving a $100 prize to the winner does that automatically make them all notable? Logic would say not, but the guideline would say yes. I tried the write the original proposal to be as simple and inclusive as possible. I put it out for feedback and got none, so it was approved largely as written. Ideally, I think something like WP:NFOOTY adapted for motorsport would be great. However, any "tier" system we were to create would be completely contrived by us as there is no universal standard for comparing the importance of various racing series to one another. As such, it would likely be heavily biased towards the series that the top WP:MOTOR editors are interested in and would probably not get a lot of buy-in among the greater editing community. That being said 95%+ of the time WP:NMOTORSPORT works as written and exceptions can and are dealt with reasonably and if some editor games the system by saying some racer meets WP:NMOTORSPORT by claiming some series is professional that probably isn't, it's not the end of the world, at least we can make sure the article in question is properly written. -Drdisque (talk) 22:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* NFOOTY is indeed the basis for my "fully professional series"-type list idea. Our coverage is already heavily skewed towards things our members are interested in; very few BTCC drivers or F1 drivers of recent times (if any) haven't gotten articles, but there are massive holes in our sports car and WRC coverage, just as examples; this includes cars and teams as well. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:30, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* I've started drawing up a list at User:Lukeno94/Major motorsport series list, which is based mostly on common precedent of what pertains to a notability-generating series. No individual races on here yet, or very few. :) Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 00:35, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'll take a look at that. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
* Took a look over, I think some of the lower Formulas probably shouldn't be on there, but I've added a few that were likely missed. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:30, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
* Well, it's based on consensus I've seen at AfD, and such places. Certainly, if it gives you the chance to gain a superlicense, then it's a notable series. At AfD and elsewhere, Formula Three levels have generally been held to be enough, or at least borderline enough for the state of the article and such things to perhaps swing people. I've not included any of the minor national F3s, but I did include those that are from the nations known for a slightly bigger racing scene. I've gone and added some sports car series and touring car series, the latter being my strongest interest. I'll wander on to do more of the rallying series, plus some of the missing things (drag racing, drifting, rallycross, etc) soon. :) I'm glad people are contributing to this! Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 09:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Significant coverage is more or less required to determine that an article is notable. But not viceversa.
I think that not every Formula One driver is notable, or Indianapolis 500, much less the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As I said, I think that drivers with poor results in those events should not be considered relevant. --NaBUru38 (talk) 21:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
* I don't think you'll get anywhere with trying to implement Formula One or Indy 500 viewpoint :) Again, what defines a "poor result"? For some people, just finishing an event generates good coverage (rookies and people out of left field), crashing out, a "heartbreaking" retirement close to the end of an event, or even setting some quick times before fading away/retiring. In other cases, anything other than a win is a poor result. You could levy in "points scoring", except that still doesn't help with some series that either give out points just for finishing, or the fact that finishing 12th for a Caterham in F1 is a notable feat. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:10, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
* A person who appears in a Major League Baseball game for one pitch (not even one inning) is considered notable. A person who appears in a National Football League game for one snap is considered notable. A person who plays in association football at the professional level is considered notable even if their career game time is measured in seconds. And accordingly, a racing driver who has competed in a fully-professional series is considered notable, even if they start and parked. Wikipedia does not make value judgements about what is or isn't "relevant" when it comes to sports results. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to dig this up again but I was on vacation, so I missed the end of this. To relate to the last point made, people in stick and ball professional sports are fully paid by their teams. Racing drivers are not. It is not an apt comparison to say that just because it is viewed as a professional series does not mean that all of the participants are on the same level as professional athletes. Everyone in a professional sport is there on merit, you cannot say the same for those that have participated on Le Mans and various other "professional" series. I could easily ask if everyone who participates in the 24 Hours of Daytona is notable? Certainly far more red links there than at Le Mans, yet it is still a famous race in a professional series. Again, there is very little in the way of requirements in order to participate in this race. Are the rent-a-rides notable simply because they participated? Professional atheletes are notable because they have reached a high echelon of sports through a long career, not because they simply bought a seat in one event.
A better comparison than stick and ball professional athletes is this: An Academy Award-winning motion picture. Are all the extras who participated in the film notable simply because they were some small part in a famous film? The359 ( Talk ) 19:30, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
* people in stick and ball professional sports are fully paid by their teams. Racing drivers are not. - Actually, in the vast majority of cases, they are. And comparing it to a film is wholly irrelevant, as a film is not a sporting event. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:00, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
* You think the vast majority of drivers at Le Mans are paid by their teams? The359 ( Talk ) 01:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
* Except that's not what you said; you said "racing drivers are not". Both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona are equivilant to top-level tennis or golf tournaments; it's entirely possible for an "amateur" to make the cut for them, and we don't consider them less notable for being, otherwise, "amateurs". - The Bushranger One ping only 02:57, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
* My point with the "are not" is that not all drivers who participate in top tier racing series, equivilant to MLB, NFL, NBA, FA, etc, are professionals. And tournaments with cuts still have requirements based on scores and skill, while participation in many series do not. Professional stick and ball sports are not a pro-am operation. Most motorsport is. We can't simply use the same criteria as other sports for notability. The359 ( Talk ) 03:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
* The problem here isn't whether those drivers should have articles. When they do, we'll take care of them. What I want to know is how are all of the currently existing articles improved by having a bunch of red links instead of just text. Pc13 (talk) 11:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* The presence of redlinks can draw the attention of those interested and stimulate them to write articles that they feel should exist. Britmax (talk) 11:29, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* This. The fact that the Zytek Z11SN was redlinked, and had won its class in the 24LM and the ELMS, are two reasons why I wrote that article (which I probably should update soon). Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 12:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* You hit the nail on the head though, by your claim that it has won its class in the ELMS and Le Mans. That establishes notability. Simply existing does not. The point of redlinking is for pages that should exist, not to red link everything. The359 ( Talk ) 16:52, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* This is just one immediate example. I've used redlinks in various subject locations to go ahead and write articles (also, what's up with the weasel statement "your claim"?). Simply existing doesn't, but competing in races does - and things don't get put on season entrylists/points charts/race results here unless they've actually competed. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 17:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* No, simply taking part does not establish notability. Getting noticed does. Usually by winning or being near it. If not, for being innovative in a certain area. Which is not the case with the majority of the Debora articles that you wrote. You only established notability on the LMP296, and that's for winning the SR2 class in the 1998 ISRS season, not for taking part in Le Mans. Pc13 (talk) 19:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
* It is long-established WP:CONSENSUS that "simply taking part" does establish notability when it comes to competing at the top level of a sport. Which the events under question here in fact, and indisputiably, are. As for whether or not redlinks should be included, WP:REDLINK may be relevant. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* I do not agree with the claim that Le Mans is the top tier of sports car racing to be indisputable. The most famous event does not make it the highest tier. As stated, the numerous classes encourage different levels of drivers, teams, manufacturers, and commitment. LMP1, Group C, the sports prototypes, those are top tier, yes, but the lower categories are exactly that, lower tiers. How can LMGTE Amateur be considered the top tier of sports car racing? Or the LMP2 class that requires a silver or bronze rated driver to participate? You admit yourself that the criteria on WP:N is not really perfect, so how can there be consensus for this? The359 ( Talk ) 04:46, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Yep, WP:N isn't perfect - it's too restrictive. "How can there be consensus for this?" - Er, by there being agreement that there is no sports car racing event, anywhere, and regardless of class, that is at a higher level of competition than the 24 Hours of Le Mans? Arguing that a driver who competes in the event is an "amateur" and is therefore not notable is like arguing that if a player who is otherwise an "amateur" plays in The Masters, unless he wins he isn't notable despite having played at the highest level of the sport. "Highest level" is not the class, it is the series/event. Saying "X class competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans but isn't notable because ____" is a value judgement. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:14, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Notability should be of some help. If a driver can be established as having done something notable and can be referenced then that dotted line is passed. We just need to recognise that a reference that lists a driver in a results table and is not mentioned anywhere else does not constitute notability.
* How about this for simplicity, if the driver is mentioned in a sentence, good! In a table, not good enough.
* How does that sound as a rule of thumb? --Falcadore (talk) 05:30, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* I spoke to someone a while ago off-Wiki, someone who isn't a Wikipedian, about their thoughts on the notability of Le Mans 24 Hour drivers. You know what he said? "I am a motorsport fan, yes, but I simply cannot see why competing in Le Mans 24 hours wouldn't be notable? it's one of THE major motorsport events in existence!" - a direct quote from someone who is highly interested in motorsport, but not so much a Wikipedian. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 07:52, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Well Lukeno94 if we can't even be sure if a drivers name is correct, then they can't be that notable ;).
* Notability should be establishable with a reference yes? --Falcadore (talk) 07:59, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Well, of course; unlike WP:N, WP:V is policy. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:03, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm restricted to online-only sources, since I don't have the access to libraries full of motor racing literature (more's the pity), but the one article I went through and checked the racing histories of, 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans, is completely unreferenced, so who knows where the names got pulled from. As I don't have access to that literature, I can't try and make some kind of definitive judgement, hence why I state that the articles fail GNG online, but may pass it offline! Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 08:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Bushranger, as I pointed out before, participants in the Masters still have to earn their way in to play based on previous performance. The Masters requires invitations. And so does Le Mans, for that matter, but only to teams, so the argument could be made that all Le Mans teams are notable. However it's impossible to apply a stick and ball sport criteria to motorsport where anyone with money can be a participant. I'd also argue that the various World and International Championships are the pinnacle of sports car racing, with Le Mans being the equivilant of the Monaco GP to F1's World Championship. And yes, Le Mans has been part of the World Championship, but not all participants have been entrants in the championship, they are simply making a one-off at Le Mans.
* As for a requirement that something notable can be said about a driver, that is pretty much what I've agreed with. They must have done something worth mentioning besides simply participated, even if it's not even a mention based on performance. Firsts, record holders, anything, that's fine. The359 ( Talk ) 09:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* "However it's impossible to apply a stick and ball sport criteria to motorsport where anyone with money can be a participant." Why? - The Bushranger One ping only 09:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* What professional sport has players in the top tier leagues who bought a place on their team? All of them have earned their way in through the ladder and are hired for their skill. Even the guys on the bench still have to pass standards from their respective teams to be hired. It's the very definition of professional sports, someone who makes a career out of playing a sport. Who on a professional sports team would still qualify as an amateur? And yes, things like the Olympics are full of amateurs, but again, they still require qualifications of skill in order to participate. Motorsport is an entirely different scheme from this. The359 ( Talk ) 09:56, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* It should be pointed out that Wikipedia is a general purpose encyclopedia. It is not a completist work. Achievement should come ahead of participation. Someone who is a champion at a lower level should come ahead of someone who has just appeared at a higher level. --Falcadore (talk) 08:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* ...and someone who has won a championship will almost certainly pass GNG. We're back here again. Constructing lists of races or series that are assumed to act as an indicator of notability for their participants might be a useful aid for editors, but only if evidence can be shown that participation in those series or races does indeed render people notable or that only already notable people participate in them. Too much of what has been discussed above relies on editors promoting particular events because they "reckon", "feel" or "think" that participation in a series makes someone notable. That isn't good enough. "Notability is not inherited" is a long-standing principle of Wikipedia. Is Le Mans a notable race? Yes, it certainly passes GNG. Do notable people take part in the Le Mans race? Absolutely, there are very many drivers who have driven at Le Mans who also pass GNG. Are all drivers who have ever driven at Le Mans, or even a majority of those drivers, notable people? No, they aren't. Numbers are given above but around 50% of people who have competed fail to come even close to passing GNG. Therefore, Le Mans participation is not a reliable indicator of notability. It is that simple. I know that other sports WikiProjects have simplistic and (frankly) difficult-to-justify specialist notability criteria based on participation alone, but why does that mean we need them? There are orders of magnitude fewer motor racing drivers than even international-level soccer players, let alone professional club players, and perhaps fans of Kevball need all the help they can get, but why use arguments for that sport here? If you are really desperate perhaps a (very) limited list of events and series could be compiled that have been shown to be good indicators of notability for their participants. However, basing a list of such solely on whether a limited group of editors have some nebulous idea about the series' notability isn't a good way of going about this. This whole debate is getting quite silly, and I have yet to see any good arguments put forward as to why we shouldn't just use the GNG gold standard. If that were the case all spurious distinctions between professionals and amateurs fall away and people are judged purely on their own merits. Pyrop e 22:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Because, being blunt, having to have absolutely everything pass GNG is stupid, and would leave us with a very empty WikiProject. GNG is the gold standard, but gold is not the only medal out there. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:14, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Some Olympic bronze medallists don't have articles. Wikipedia doesn't cover all the medals. --Falcadore (talk) 22:23, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* It would absolutely not. If you can't pass GNG then you are going to have a very hard time meeting WP:V, and that is a must. If all you can say about someone on their page is "this person is a person and they race cars" then what are you adding to Wikipedia that wouldn't be taken care of in a simple race results table? That isn't making a full Wikiproject, it is cluttering the encyclopaedia with uninformative cruft. Don't confuse quantity with quality. Pyrop e 22:26, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Uh, what? You can easily meet WP:V without passing GNG, and to suggest otherwise is utterly baffling. I'll use a football example; Soccerbase is a statistics database, and a reliable one; any article sourced entirely around that website would easily meet WP:V, and yet still fail GNG if there were no sites covering anything other than stats. Your comment is nonsensical. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:30, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* And it should be pointed out that Le Mans isn't the pinnacle of its sport. Because of its history, it's nature, it's competitors, it's teams; it operates very much, if indrectly, within the sphere of Formula One. Le Mans greatest names feature a bunch of drivers who tried F1 but couldn't make it to the top, Bell, Ickx, Schuppan, Pirro, McNish, Dalmas, Pescarolo, Gendebien and so on. Yes Le Mans cars or not Formula One cars, but F3000, F2, GP2 etc aren't Formula One cars either. Almost every Le Mans driver would trade for Formula One career or victories. --Falcadore (talk) 22:32, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* And that comment is nonsensical as well. That's like saying every NASCAR driver wanted to win the IRL/CART/ChampCar or whatever - they're completely different disciplines, and your comment about them all wanting to trade their results for F1 results is just baffling. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:34, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* So by consulting Soccerbase you get what? Name, rank and number. Fabulous, what a thrilling article that will make. Wikipedia is not a stats site, and if all you have are basic stats from a stats site then you article is quite likely to fail AFD. What have you gained? Cruft, again with the cruft. And again, if Soccerbase is the one and only source for a person, they simply aren't notable. I know some sports like to pretend otherwise, and that every person who ever tapped a leathern sphere on a grass rectangle in front of a paying crowd is deserving of note, but their arguments are undermined by the inconvenient fact that there isn't any supporting evidence for that. As are yours in this case. If someone is notable they will pass GNG. If they don't pass GNG they aren't notable. It is very very simple. Pyrop e 22:38, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* No it isn't. You are, I suspect deliberately, taking just one component out of the whole section of what I typed out of context and blowing it up. The connection between NASCAR and Indy Car is not even remotely comparable. THAT is a nonsensical statement. It also demonstrates your lack of knowledge of the history of sports car racing.
* Sports car racing evolved directly from Grand Prix racing and ran in parrellel for several decades. Indy car and NASCARs evolution was completely seperate. I'll go into more detail if you like. --Falcadore (talk) 22:48, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* @Pyrope: You've confused WP:N, and WP:V. I did not say that the article would survive an AfD necessarily (unless it met NFOOTBALL in a reasonable manner), or that it would make someone notable. What I said is that the article would easily pass WP:V. Which it would.
* @Falcadore: Sports car racing may have evolved with it, yes, but there is simply no way you can make that sweeping generalization, because it is just ridiculous. F1 is not the be-all and end-all, and not everyone wants to go there, despite what you appear to think. Le Mans is the pinnacle of its sport, which is sports car racing. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Exactly. While those other "F" series "aren't Formula One cars", they are Formula cars. Formula cars, IndyCars, sports cars, stock cars, and drag racing cars are all in entirely and radically different "trees" of the sport; saying that sports cars equate to formula cars as was implied above is directly and precisely equivilant to saying that since Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League involve hitting a (roughly) round object with a stick, then the NHL isn't the pinnacle of its sport because it operates in the sphere of baseball. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Nope, I didn't. If you think they aren't linked then you need to look harder at your editing practices. Creating articles that have no hope of progressing beyond simple stats stubs isn't helpful, and I've already given you my opinion of NFOOTBALL and its ilk. That's just a tired old WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS argument, but applied to guidelines rather than mainspace pages. Just because one Wikiproject uses loose definitions of notability doesn't mean we need to. Even NFOOTBALL only states that professional players other than full internationals are "generally" considered notable. That's hardly a ringing endorsement. And as I said above, there are literally hundreds of professional soccer players for every top level motor racing driver, so the need to establish idiot-proof notability short-cut criteria in this Wikiproject just doesn't exist. There are enough editors and few enough subjects that each can be dealt with on an individual basis. There's a business acronym that's applicable here: K.I.S.S. I think it applies. Pyrop e 23:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Again, I said nothing about the person being genuinely notable, did I? I said that it would pass WP:V, and it would indeed. It would also pass WP:V if I used routine match reports to build an article, and yet would still fail WP:GNG. I believe it is you that needs to re-read what they are actually linking to. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 23:21, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* You most certainly did not say anything about a person being notable. That much has been true for much of this discussion. If you wish to use a source to establish notability then that source should also conform to verifiability standards, but you are right to say that merely adhering to WP:V doesn't establish notability. However, it still would be hard for you to put together a meaningfully informative article without sources that satisfy GNG. Remember that "critical analysis" thing we talked about a while back? Sites such as Soccerbase certainly do not provide that, and nor do routine reports. If the only place a person has appeared is in such places, then why would you assume them to be notable? Nobody has taken notice of them, after all, and that is the crux of this matter. Your article becomes "X is a person who races cars. They raced them here. And they raced them here. And they raced them here..." Which is basically just a results table written out longhand. What are you hoping to bring to Wikipedia by arguing so hard in favour of non-notable people? Pyrop e 23:34, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* I think it's very clear that you are just anti-project guidelines in general. You can achieve some fairly noteworthy results and yet either fail GNG, or not meet it in online sources (which are all most people have access to, myself included). I have no objection whatsoever to shifting the guideline to be something results based, or even to finishing a race, but to scrap the guideline altogether is flat-out stupid, and would indeed leave us with a big hole and a lot of articles to delete. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 23:37, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* I personally believe that the standard is just fine as it is; Wikipedia is not paper, and we need to remember Wikipedia wasfounded to be "the sum total of human knowledge", not "the sum total of knowledge that has to hit a moving and increasingly-hard-to-meet notability target". - The Bushranger One ping only 23:41, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* As I said above, I have no problems with establishing guideline criteria that are evidence-based. Too often though, and certainly in this instance, the arguments put forward for one series or another are simply supported by what some editor likes or thinks or feels or reckons or supposes, or however they like to dress up their personal prejudices as pseudo fact. You are basically arguing that people are notable even though nobody has ever taken enough notice of them to actually bother writing about them. That's a very odd position to take. I have yet to see a person who has achieved a truly noteworthy result who hasn't had some form of coverage in a non-routine manner. That's what noteworthy and notable mean: they are worthy of wider notice. Your earlier exemplar of Alister McRae was a good example of how much material is out there for notable people. The reason I fall back on GNG is because, far from it being a moving target, I have yet to see any evidence that it isn't a simple, straightforward and stable group of criteria, that don't rely on personal feelings and subjective value judgements about an individual or their race series's worth. Pyrop e 00:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* The question once more though; what is a noteworthy result? If I entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a nobody, and came 20th, that may well be very noteworthy. If, say, the son of a famous racing driver did, it may not be. And the argument of "nobody has ever written an article or such on them, therefore they cannot be notable" just doesn't work. Some people are known as "unsung heroes" for that very reason. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 00:52, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* You know how you work out what is and isn't a noteworthy result? By seeing whether anyone in wider society has taken note of it. That is precisely how it works. Finishing 20th at Le Mans as an amateur might well be considered notable by some, but wider society will ignore them until they get written about, or interviewed on the TV, or coverage in other media. If someone is "unsung" that is almost the dictionary definition of non-notable. Just because you reckon someone's achievements are interesting doesn't make them notable. That's only your opinion, and to produce an article on the back of that is verging on OR. Pyrop e 17:35, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* MLB & NHL? That's no better than the NASCAR/Indy Car comparison. No. Olympic Field Hockey and Ice Hockey perhaps. Test Match Cricket and One Day International Cricket is much closer.
* Sports car racing was the original subdivision of motor racing way back a century ago. Grand Prix Racing continued its journey towards Formula One. Sports Car racing split was the equivalent of the the creation of touring car racing post war, then the Production car racing in the 80s/90s. It was a back to road car movement as Grand Prix racing became increasingly specialised. Sports car racing continued to evolve alongside Grand Prix racing, a lot of the same drivers and teams competed in both. Technical developments travelled back and forth. The same engines were widely used in both. Teams and manufacturers would transition from one to the other with budget. This would continue all the way deep into the 60s, and sporadically much beyond. Sauber and Mercedes Benz for example arrived in F1 from Sports Car racing and Sauber's sports car drivers would take up a lot of space in Formula One throughout the 1990s. Half of the professional components of the 1980s World Sports Car Championship moved to F1. Sauber, Mercedes, Peugeot, TWR, Honda, Toyota, Jaguar if you want to push the example further in time. At the same time however there was not the same transition level from Sports Cars to GT racing even though they were competing in the same races. They do not have the same level of technology. GTs are modified road cars. Sports cars are specialised racing cars, essentially two-seat openwheeler with enclosed wheels.
* You make it sound like Sports Car racing and Formula One are completely seperate sports. They are not. They are both aspect of bitumen circuit racing. Think of F1 as Test cricket, Sports cars as ODI cricket and Touring cars as Twenty/20 Cricket. --Falcadore (talk) 01:51, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* The suggestion that a Daytona Prototype car and a Formula One car are substantially similar beyond having four wheels and one driver is perplexing. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:08, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* DPs don't race in Europe. Not perplexing at all.
* You going to list each individual car one-by-one to make a point? --Falcadore (talk) 05:23, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* Sports car racing and Formula One are not completely separate sports, but they are most definitely not two sides of the same coin, and nor does a "F1 is the only notable thing in terms of tarmac racing"-type suggestion that you made make any sense. However much crossover there is does not make any difference. And it would be as ridiculous to say that all OD or 20/20-only cricketers wanted to play test cricket, as it is to say that all 24LM drivers want to compete in F1. Now that is categorically WP:OR territory, and obvious bollocks. Going back to the "unsung heroes" part; just because someone didn't receive a lot of news coverage or whatever, doesn't make them non-notable, or their achievements not worthy of note, it just means that they haven't fitted into a generally fairly narrow-minded media viewpoint. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 18:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* And yet, when interviewed on exactly that question, most of them DO say their ambition is to play Test Cricket. Once again you are betrayed by your lack of knowledge. Not OR in the slightest, its just a comparison.
* Going back to the "unsung heroes" part; just because someone didn't receive a lot of news coverage or whatever, doesn't make them non-notable, or their achievements not worthy of note.
* And yet in reply to this assertion, Wikipedia disagrees with you. I refer you to WP:NPF and WP:BLP1E. --Falcadore (talk) 00:29, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
* I should say I'm concerned by the WP:OWNERSHIP tendancies of a phrase like fairly narrow-minded media viewpoint. --Falcadore (talk) 00:43, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
* How the hell does ownership come into this whatsoever? Why are you constantly pulling things out of your ass like that? NPF doesn't support your case, nor does BLP1E (BLP1E being particularly irrelevant) - not sure why you decided to randomly reference them here. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 01:04, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
* Really? So Le Mans drivers whose claim to fame is an appearance only in results spreadsheets is not People who are relatively unknown or Subjects notable only for one event? You really think that does not apply? Well lets see what other opinions in the group say as to whether I am being 'random' or not. Seeing as we are talking about drivers, who are people then outside of WP:Verifiability, Biographies of living persons should be the first stop on the subject. --Falcadore (talk) 01:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
* No on the BLP1E comment, since I wasn't particularly talking about people who had only competed in one event, and someone competing in a televised race is a public figure, even if they only appear on screen briefly. And that's something a lot of people leave out of the GNG equation; people who receive coverage within races. Beyond that, WP:V is a red herring being presented as though it is a problem; if a reliable statistics resource is available, then it really isn't a problem. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 01:22, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
* Luke, 'notability' isn't a merit badge for achievement, it is a status held by a topic because of society's interest in it. It is not achieved simply by having performed at a level that you or anybody else thinks is impressive, it is conferred by the simple expedient of society having demonstrably taken notice. It is not inherited from any associated topic, but nor is it lost through the mere passage of time; if society once noticed someone or something, it is 'notable' on Wikipedia now. In Wikipedia's context, 'society' having taken notice is reflected in the existence of multiple, significant, reliable, third-party sources, as stated in GNG. (A fleeting glimpse of a driver in a televised race, with no discussion or analysis by the race commentators, fails the 'significant' portion, so your comment above that all competitors in a televised race are thus able to pass GNG is simply wrong.) Any specific topic guideline should build on GNG and help to clarify it in the context of that topic's own nuances and culture, not seek to subvert it or bypass it by inventing subjective free-pass criteria based on what some editors "reckon". This is exemplified by your own arguments here; you state that a 20th place finish for an amateur would be notable, but what about a 21st place finish, or 22nd? And what happens if the race is a very high attrition year and only 20 cars actually make it through the full 24 hours. Is 20th so notable then? These are all subjective value judgements based on your own likes and dislikes, they are not criteria that can be applied across the board to all subtopics within motorsport. If, as a service and a help to editors, you would like to define some criteria that will help editors work out whether someone is notable within a motorsport context then please go ahead, but your criteria should be backed by evidence that the simplifications and generalisations you are making as part of those criteria are based in fact, not your own personal preferences. Pyrop e 19:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
For fuck's sake, when will people like you, Pyrope, stop completely and utterly manipulating what I say, and try to make it seem like I said something totally different? 20 was an arbitrary number, and I was in no way attributing any kind of significance to it whatsoever. I used that to say that a results-based criteria is simply not going to work. And nor did I say everyone who appeared on television is notable; I said that appearing on TV, even fleetingly, makes them a public person - which is true. And that a good interview on-air, or a pre-race piece that goes in-depth into a driver, could and should be considered in the GNG equation. Honestly, are you reading anything here, or just making up a load of rubbish on the spot? Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 21:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* Now now, no need for that. I'm not manipulating what you say, merely looking at it closely. Appearing on TV does not make someone a public person. That very much depends on the context, otherwise each and every runner in the London Marathon (or any major city marathon, come to that) would for ever more be considered a public person. That's clearly bonkers. An on-air interview or other coverage as you suggest might go toward the GNG criteria, but that's not what you said initially to Falcadore, so please don't lecture others about twisting meanings and changing your position. Your comment was ... someone competing in a televised race is a public figure, even if they only appear on screen briefly. And that's something a lot of people leave out of the GNG equation; people who receive coverage within races. That you ran one sentence on from the previous one ("and") very strongly implies that you are claiming that people who appear in fleeting shots are receiving coverage suitable for consideration with respect to GNG. As for the results-based opinions, your initial comment that I was building upon was "If I entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a nobody, and came 20th, that may well be very noteworthy. I don't think I used that at all unfairly. I entirely left out the son-of-a-famous-driver angle and looked only at an unknown amateur. From that point of view my comment basically boiled down to "where do you draw the line', and as you can see that is a wholly subjective and pointless exercise. As you say, a results-based criterion is unworkable. However, you have completely failed to suggest another criterion that might be useful other than putting up an unsupported and subjective list of races and race series that you consider to be important enough to transfer notability on to their participants. As I and others have shown, this just isn't justifiable and flies directly in the face of the Wikipedia concept that notability can't be inherited. Pyrop e 21:50, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* You were categorically manipulating what I said in your previous post, because, quite frankly, it was a bunch of lies. I have not "changed my position", merely made it more obvious to those deliberately trying to manipulate my every word by clarifying one thing that was already suggested beforehand. Not really sure why I should bother replying to the rest of your comment, since you're still trying to manipulate my wording to suit your viewpoint, and since what you're trying to force upon everyone is against a fairly general Wikipedia consensus (ie, that notability guidelines that don't rely on GNG should be scrapped). Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:05, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* Which bits were lies? In one post you strongly hinted that appearing in any form in a televised race meant you were notable, then in a follow up post you claim only to have meant that being interviewed or otherwise covered in a significant way in a race broadcast made you notable. That's not clarification, that's contradiction. In another post you claimed that finishing 20th as an amateur might make you notable, then later you claim that you meant no such thing. Again, that's contradiction, not clarity. Repeatedly misrepresenting my position doesn't help your case either. I have said, quite a few times, that if you can show why participation in a race or race series is a good indicator that a person is notable then by all means write a guideline around that. You have repeatedly failed to come up with anything more than WP:ILIKEIT and WP:OTHERCRAP arguments, and that's pretty shoddy logical base to start from. Pyrop e 22:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* Let's make them clear then. "you state that a 20th place finish for an amateur would be notable" - no, I didn't. I said that it might make you noteworthy, not that it would be notable - and that's not a minor semantics change, that's you deliberately manipulating my comment. "In one post you strongly hinted that appearing in any form in a televised race meant you were notable" - nope, I said that people neglect the television coverage within races aspect when it comes to GNG. Kindly stop manipulating my comments into things they are categorically not. WP:ILIKEIT and WP:OTHERCRAP is your attempt to cover up the fact that your stance is simply against Wikipedia consensus as a whole, where subject guidelines are supposed to add to GNG, not demand that it is the only standard. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:34, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* That "might" is certainly in my last comment, and the whole quotation including both "might" and "noteworthy" is in the one before it. I don't think anyone else involved in this discussion has discounted significant coverage in a television broadcast as being a possible GNG support, where was that said? What I showed was that by using the word "and" to link your sentences you strongly implied that a fleeting glimpse counted as significant. At no point did I discount significant TV coverage, just your definition of "significant". Topic guidelines should indeed add to GNG, but they shouldn't act as a shortcut or a way of circumventing it. That much is stated at WP:WHYN: "[notability criteria] apply to all articles, not solely articles justified under the general notability criteria." There is no exclusion at WHYN for topic-specific criteria. Just to give you an example or two of what I'm talking about, how about looking at a hypothetical case? Let's take 'people who won Le Mans', to stay on-theme with this topic. Now, it is fairly easy to establish that pretty much all recent winners of Le Mans have sufficient coverage in magazines, newspapers, books, websites, television broadcasts, radio programs, and other media sources to demonstrate their notability. The coverage doesn't have to be readily available, or even in English, but it is there, certainly since the early 1960s and (I'm guessing, because my Motor Sport hardcopy magazine archive prior to this date is patchy) likely before that. Now consider Driver X, a winner from the 1930s who, for whatever reason, doesn't have an article yet (this is a hypothetical case study, not reality!) and for whom no suitable sources can be found by a simple Google search. Therefore, you can't take the easy route to 'notability' by passing GNG straight away. What do we do with them? Well, based on the precedent set by a significant majority of other people who meet the 'won Le Mans' criterion, we would assume that the sources are probably out there in a format we can't easily access (old copies of periodicals such as The Motor and Autocar are much more difficult to access, books not indexed at Google Books, etc.) or that at some point soon a writer in a current magazine might decide to do a profile piece on them (and may well raid their own archive or that of the British Library to do so). Writers such as Doug Nye and Gordon Cruickshank in Motor Sport are doing this sort of thing all the time, and Autosport has its retrospective section each week, after all. In this case, based on the precedent demonstrated for other 'people who won Le Mans' we can assume that Driver X is a notable person, it is just that we can't find the sources at the moment that would back this up. Happily there is a very good example of this from the 1960s in Ed Hugus, winner in 1965 and missing from our page list. He has been redlinked on the assumption that he is notable based on his Le Mans win and, surprise surprise, a very simple Google search turns up plenty of sources. The same sort of reasoning but applied to participants in a race series might apply to a rookie driver who has been unexpectedly promoted from an F3 drive to an F1 race seat. Not that unusual, but not an everyday occurrence. Depending on their status within F3 they may or may not have achieved GNG-supported notability at that level, but the mere fact that they are now driving for an F1 team will almost certainly guarantee that within a very short space of time there will be plentiful sources available, so starting a stub article now might be a good idea. These sorts of circumstances are where topic notability criteria are useful, but they have to be justified based on real notability, not some arbitrary and ill-defined list of races and the like that a small group of editors get excited about. Merely having seen up Jacky Ickx's tailpipes on the Mulsanne doesn't make a driver notable. Pyrop e 23:11, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* You can't try and cover up the lies you were making, by referencing your comments after I called you out on them. Nor did I say anyone discounted television coverage, but that people neglect it (meaning they don't necessarily think of it) - nice misrepresentation yet again. Are you simply incapable of not altering my comments to twist them out of shape? This "arbitrary and ill-defined list" is intended to be a rough draft for people to discuss, not to completely bitch about for no apparent reason. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 07:41, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* You two can keep going back and forth on who said what when if you like, but it is straying from the point. So I am going to suggest a... --Falcadore (talk) 08:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Circuit breaker
Any new driver biography is going to have to A) pass GNG and B) not be in violation of BLP. Just as a starting point.
Luke: you've said you lack printed references, so I take it, that it is unlikely you will be going through and creating a huge back catalogue of drivers that have started Le Mans races, am I right in thinking that?
Also, going by the ongoing debate here, nobody much else has any real appetite to be doing the same, yes?
Then as a purely practical measure, adding in a huge swathe of redlinks that nobody amongst the group of regular motorsort editors is doing anything about reducing is a largely pointless activity?
The purpose of redlinks is to encourage the creation of driver articles, but if that is NOT happening then we can assume it is an activity without any real benefit in the short, or even medium turn.
So may I suggest then as then only thing being achieved is changing the colour of the text that perhaps we back-off from creating all these redlinks, until such a time that some DOES start creating a bunch of sports car racing driver articles, and assist anyone who does with the back linking to other articles?
How does that sound as a compromise? Feel free to call me some names, but I'm just trying to bring about a solution. We don't see to be achieving much in the way of solutions, as the 2014 driver order argument is demonstrating. This is an attempt at a logical outcome.
So, comments? --Falcadore (talk) 08:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* WP:BLP is fine, but you cannot unilaterally decide to scrap NMOTORSPORT on your own, as that is clearly not within the consensus here (perhaps two people would agree with it going, everyone else wants it reworking), so demanding everything meets GNG is not something you can do. As it has clearly escaped the notice of everyone who is desperate to discredit me, I have stopped adding links to anything other than the articles I have created, since I'm sick to death of this farce, of people who have nothing better to do than moan about actions that fit within policy and NMOTORSPORT. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 08:37, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* While this is hardly a deletion discussion, I would point out WP:NOEFFORT in response to "[it being] a largely pointless activity" (and without too much of a stretch, WP:CRYSTAL). We don't remove or avoid red links just because "nobody's turning them blue", and suggesting that we do so here, speaking frankly, seems like an attempt not at a 'logical outcome', but rather simply to achieve the originally-desired-but-failed-to-get-WP:CONSENSUS result even though others don't want it. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* It was a suggestion, not a demand (sheesh). I also suggested to back off, NOT to take further action deleting or creating redlinks. I was not after scrapping NMOTORSPORT, I was a suggested starting point.
* If you want to defend your right to create redlinks for no obvious reason out of some sense of personal rights liberation then there is nothing anyone can do because the argument becomes instaantly circular and there is no solution.
* I did not involve myself in early parts of the discussion so I refute any suggestion of trying o force an outcome.
* If you want to continue arguing back and forth on virtually the same points then you can do so because everyone else will loose interest.
* So if you actually want to go any further then I strongly suggest you cease the back and forth and head directly to Dispute Resolution. Seek third opinions or an RFC or DRN.
* I now feel sorry for even trying. So go to Dispute resolution if you are actively uninterested in achieving a compromise. I does not have to be mine, just stop the back and forth. --Falcadore (talk) 09:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* Falcadore, what part of "I have stopped adding links to anything other than the articles I have created" did you not understand? Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 09:52, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* I was asking you to sort out your differences. Anything else is window dressing. Go to DR, I'm no longer interested in debating the topic. Call me what you like. --Falcadore (talk) 09:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Your fitness routine is probably full of exercises that work out different parts of your body. Maybe you’ve been told to do bicep curls, squats, and pushups to work your muscle groups. But what if you could target all the major muscle groups in just one exercise? Then you might have heard of compound movements. There are two broad categories of resistance training exercises, compound movements and single joint movements. For example, the squat is a compound movement while an arm curl is a single joint movement.
An Insight
The main difference between these two types of exercise is in terms of the muscles involved in the exercise. Compound movements work multiple muscle groups at once, whereas single-joint exercises only work one group at a time. That means that if you want to get stronger, it's better for you to do squats than arm curls. A compound movement is an exercise that works more than one joint at a time, like a squat or a lunge. They are also known as full-body exercises because they require coordination of many joints and muscles to execute properly. Compound exercises are especially helpful for those looking to build muscle mass or burn fat. Here are some ways to incorporate these movements into your workout!
Section 1: What Are Compound Movements?
The name compound movement pretty much sums up what these are: they involve multiple muscle groups working together to perform a movement that's controlled by your brain. The compound movement gets its name from the 'big' muscles that make up the majority of the muscle tissue (i.e. the huge glutes, hamstrings, quads, and rear delts).
Single-joint exercises usually involve just a few muscles to perform a movement. This means that the muscle itself gets the majority of the work (which is called 'isometric'). This is why you'll generally see most people do squats versus step-ups, for example. The whole body gets the workout of muscles working at once. The benefit of compound exercises is that they use more muscle, which means they burn more calories per workout.
What Are Single Joint Movements?
One-joint movements don't work multiple muscles at once, so they're better for preventing injury and building mass. One example is a deadlift, which uses the rectus abdominis and lower back. Since it only works one muscle at a time, it's perfect for building mass.
Single-joint movements are also great for endurance training. For example, rowing uses both your quads and calves at once, and you can even combine running with it. Since it's just one exercise, you can increase the intensity at any time.
Compound vs. Single Joint Exercises
There are actually two very different ways to perform exercises. The most basic form of compound movement is one muscle working at a time.
To perform a single-joint exercise, one muscle works to perform a movement while the other is kept static. For example, if you want to work your biceps, then you would perform curls first. To do the biceps curls, your biceps would get tired and you would switch to the triceps to work on that one muscle group.
In general, compound movements are more effective at building muscle and building strength because they use multiple muscles. But if you're only interested in increasing your strength, then you should choose a single-joint exercise. That means doing tricep extensions or pushups.There are many ways to perform compound movements.
The Benefits of Compound Exercises
To get a better understanding of the difference between single joint and compound movements, let's first talk about why you should work them at all. Strength is a relative term. Strength increases with training, which means that the more reps you do, the stronger you get. Muscle mass is a measurable term, and muscle mass also increases with training. So if you're not increasing the number of reps you can do, the number of muscle fibers you're training may be the same or even smaller. By training multiple muscle groups at a time, you ensure that you're getting a greater output of strength, but that doesn't mean you won't lose some muscle if you're only training one muscle group at a time.
The Benefits of Single-Joint Exercises
However, single-joint exercises aren't without their benefits. They're often faster and more effective at stimulating your muscles and stimulating blood flow to your muscles. In fact, a study showed that one-arm curls increased grip strength by 17 percent after just eight weeks of training.
So if you do a lot of arm curls, chances are you'll be disappointed if you're really trying to increase your grip strength. But, if you just want to lift more weight, try your arm curls first, then move on to more compound movements.
Conclusion
When it comes to resistance training, different forms of exercise serve different purposes. That means different exercises can be the best for you at different stages of your progress.
If you want to get bigger and stronger, higher-rep, single-joint movements are the best choice. They're better for building muscle, they don't fatigue as quickly, and they also make the whole exercise much more difficult.
FAQs
What are the suitable exercises for a beginner?
If you're just starting out, lower-rep, compound exercises are the best choice for you, especially if you're new to strength training. They'll help you increase the size and strength of your muscles, and they'll make the entire workout much more efficient.
What are the benefits of Compound Movements?
The benefits of compound movements is that they engage more muscles at one time. An example is the deadlift. You can lift more weight with a compound movement because you're engaging more muscles, which helps you build more muscle.
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DokuWiki Plugin extension (Helper Component)
Author: Michael Hamann
License: GPL 2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
File Size: 626 lines (22 kb)
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Includes or requires: 0 files
Defines 1 class
helper_plugin_extension_list:: (25 methods):
__construct()
startForm()
addRow()
addHeader()
addParagraph()
addHidden()
endForm()
nothingFound()
render()
startRow()
populateColumn()
endRow()
makeHomepageLink()
makeClass()
makeAuthor()
makeScreenshot()
makeLegend()
makeLinkbar()
makeNoticeArea()
shortlink()
makeInfo()
makeLinkList()
makeActions()
makeAction()
makeStatus()
Class: helper_plugin_extension_list - X-Ref
Class helper_plugin_extension_list takes care of creating a HTML list of extensions
__construct() X-Ref
Constructor
loads additional helpers
startForm() X-Ref
Initialize the extension table form
addRow(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension, $showinfo = false) X-Ref
Build single row of extension table
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension that shall be added
param: bool $showinfo Show the info area
addHeader($id, $header, $level = 2) X-Ref
Adds a header to the form
param: string $id The id of the header
param: string $header The content of the header
param: int $level The level of the header
addParagraph($data) X-Ref
Adds a paragraph to the form
param: string $data The content
addHidden(array $data) X-Ref
Add hidden fields to the form with the given data
param: array $data key-value list of fields and their values to add
endForm() X-Ref
Add closing tags
nothingFound() X-Ref
Show message when no results are found
render() X-Ref
Print the form
startRow(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Start the HTML for the row for the extension
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
populateColumn($class, $html) X-Ref
Add a column with the given class and content
param: string $class The class name
param: string $html The content
endRow() X-Ref
End the row
makeHomepageLink(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Generate the link to the plugin homepage
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
makeClass(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Generate the class name for the row of the extensio
return: string The class name
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension object
makeAuthor(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Generate a link to the author of the extension
return: string The HTML code of the link
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension object
makeScreenshot(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Get the link and image tag for the screenshot/thumbnail
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension object
makeLegend(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension, $showinfo = false) X-Ref
Extension main description
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension object
param: bool $showinfo Show the info section
makeLinkbar(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Generate the link bar HTML code
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension instance
makeNoticeArea(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Notice area
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
shortlink($url) X-Ref
Create a link from the given URL
Shortens the URL for display
return: string HTML link
param: string $url
makeInfo(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Plugin/template details
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
makeLinkList($ext) X-Ref
Generate a list of links for extensions
return: string The HTML code
param: array $ext The extensions
makeActions(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Display the action buttons if they are possible
return: string The HTML code
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
makeAction($action, $extension) X-Ref
Display an action button for an extension
return: string The HTML code
param: string $action The action
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension
makeStatus(helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension) X-Ref
Plugin/template status
return: string The description of all relevant statusses
param: helper_plugin_extension_extension $extension The extension | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Repository
Repository module is used for accessing the development artifacts directly from the underlying Repository Component.
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/* eslint-env node, dirigible */
var repository = require('platform/repository');
var response = require('net/http/response');
var bytes = [83, 111, 109, 101, 32, 116, 101, 120, 116, 32, 99, 111, 110, 116, 101, 110, 116]; // Some text content
// create a collection
repository.createCollection("/myRoot/myCollection");
response.println("Collection created.");
response.println("Collection exists? " + repository.hasCollection("/myRoot/myCollection"));
//create a resource
repository.createResource("/myRoot/myCollection/myResource.txt", bytes, false, "plain/text");
response.println("Resource created.");
response.println("Resource exists? " + repository.hasResource("/myRoot/myCollection/myResource.txt"));
// remove resource
repository.removeResource("/myRoot/myCollection/myResource.txt");
response.println("Resource removed.");
response.println("Resource exists? " + repository.hasResource("/myRoot/myCollection/myResource.txt"));
// remove collection
repository.removeCollection("/myRoot/myCollection");
response.println("Collection removed.");
response.println("Collection exists? " + repository.hasCollection("/myRoot/myCollection"));
response.flush();
response.close();
Definition
Functions
Function Description Returns
createCollection(path) Creates a Collection by the given path -
createResource(path, content, isBinary, contentType) Creates a generic Resource by the given path and sets the provided bytes as content object. The isBinary flag indicates whether the provided content represents a text object or not. With contentType you can be more precise of the type of the content provided e.g. text/html, application/json, etc. -
createTextResource(path, text, contentType) Creates a text Resource by the given path and sets the provided string as text object. With contentType you can be more precise of the type of the content provided e.g. text/html, application/json, etc. -
getCollection(path) Returns a Collection by the given path Collection
getResource(path) Returns a Resource by the given path Resource
getRoot() Returns the root Collection Collection
hasCollection(path) Check the existence of a Collection by the given path boolean
hasResource(path) Check the existence of a Resource by the given path boolean
removeCollection(path) Check the existence of a Collection by the given path -
removeResource(path) Check the existence of a Resource by the given path -
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Collection
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create() Persist the Collection object to the Repository -
delete() Removes the Collection object from the Repository -
exists() Check the existence of the Collection object in the Repository boolean
getName() Returns the name of the Collection object string
getParent() Returns the Parent of the Collection object Collection
getPath() Returns the full path of the Collection object string
createCollection() Creates and returns a new child of this Collection object Collection
createResource(name, content, isBinary, contentType) Creates a generic child Resource with the given name and sets the provided bytes as content object. The isBinary flag indicates whether the provided content represents a text object or not. With contentType you can be more precise of the type of the content provided e.g. text/html, application/json, etc. Resource
getCollection(name) Returns a child Collection by name Collection
getCollections() Returns all the child Collections array of Collection
getCollectionNames() Returns all the child Collections’ names array of string
getResource(name) Returns a child Resource by name Resource
getResources() Returns all the child Resources array of Resource
getResourceNames() Returns all the child Resources’ names array of string
isEmpty() Returns true if the Collection object is empty and false otherwise boolean
removeCollection(name) Removes a child Collection form the Repository -
removeResource(name) Removes a child Resource form the Repository -
renameTo(name) Renames the Collection object -
moveTo(path) Move the Collection object to a different path -
copyTo(path) Copy the Collection object to another path -
Resource
Function Description Returns
create() Persist the Resource object to the Repository -
delete() Removes the Resource object from the Repository -
exists() Check the existence of the Resource object in the Repository boolean
getName() Returns the name of the Resource object string
getParent() Returns the Parent of the Resource object Collection
getPath() Returns the full path of the Resource object string
getContent() Returns the content of the Resource object array of byte
getTextContent() Returns the content of the Resource object as string string
isBinary() Returns true if the content of the Resource object is a binary object and false otherwise boolean
isEmpty() Returns true if the content of the Resource object is empty and false otherwise boolean
renameTo(name) Renames the Resource object -
moveTo(path) Move the Resource object to a different path -
copyTo(path) Copy the Resource object to another path -
setContent(content) Sets the content of the Resource object as array of byte -
setTextContent(text) Sets the content of the Resource object as string -
Compatibility
Rhino Nashorn V8
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Michael Cram
Michael Cram (born July 11, 1968) is a Canadian actor and singer-songwriter.
Early life
He grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Hillcrest High School before studying economics at Carleton University. He then studied theatre at The Center For Actor Study in Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Toronto as well as Vancouver and Los Angeles. Cram lives with his wife, an information architect, in Los Angeles. Michael Cram has a younger brother, Bruce, who is a real-estate agent and lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids.
Music career
Cram has been a member of Redchair, Amsterdam and Cold House. On November 6, 2011, he played a gig with his former Flashpoint co-star Amy Jo Johnson at the Free Times Cafe in Toronto.
Acting career
He is best known for his role as Kevin "Wordy" Wordsworth in the hit television series Flashpoint and Tim in the drama-comedy-horror film He Never Died. | WIKI |
Mari Carmen Moreno
María Carmen Moreno Bellido (born 16 July 1972), better known as Mari Carmen Moreno or Nito Moreno is a retired Spanish rhythmic gymnast and coach. During her sporting career she won a total of 7 official international medals as well as a Medal of Gymnastic Merit and the Baron de Güell Cup.
Biography
Mari started her sports career with 8 years in the Club Jitte, when her teacher physical education teacher at school, Paqui Maneus, saw her talent. It was Paqui Maneus who trained her in Alicante until in 1987 she was called up by the national team.
In 1986, she joined Spain's national junior rhythmic gymnastics team, where she was coached by Rosa Menor, Cathy Xaudaró and Berta Veiga. That year, she won gold in the Enna City International Tournament. In 1987, she competed at the first European Junior Championships in Athens, where she won the silver medal along with Alejandra Bolaños, Eva Martín, Carmen Martínez, Arancha Marty, Raquel Prat, Nuria Rico and Carmen Sánchez.
In late 1987 she was invited by Emilia Boneva to join the senior national team as part of the group, where she would be part of the starting lineup for the next two years. During that time, she would train about 8 hours a day at the Moscardó Gymnasium in Madrid under the orders of Boneva herself and Ana Roncero, who since 1982 had been national team head coach and group coach respectively, with Georgi Neykov as choreographer. In addition, she would live with all the members of the team in a house in La Moraleja. Shortly after, she won her first medal in a major competition getting two bronze medals in the All-Around and with 3 hoop & 3 balls along Marisa Centeno, Natalia Marín, Ana Martínez, Marta Pardós, Astrid Sánchez, Elena Velasco with Ana Carlota de la Fuente and Ana Martínez as substitutes, at the World Championships in Varna.
A year later, she won gold both in the all-around and in an apparatus final at the Barcelona Gimnasiada. Later she won bronze with 6 balls at the European Championships in Helsinki. She took 8th place in the all-around with the rest of the group (Beatriz Barral, Vanesa Buitrago, Ana Carlota de la Fuente, Natalia Marín, Eva Martín, Arancha Marty, Raquel Prat, Astrid Sánchez and Carmen Sánchez).
At the beginning of 1989, she won three silver medals in the DTB-Pokal Karlsruhe tournament. Shortly after, she and the other members of the group (Beatriz Barral, Bito Fuster, Lorea Elso, Arancha Marty and Vanesa Muñiz, with Marta Aberturas and Nuria Arias as substitutes) won three bronze medals at the World Championships in Sarajevo. They reached the podium both in the all-around and in the two finals, 12 clubs and 3 ropes and 3 ribbons. At the end of the year she won All-Around bronza at the Wacoal Cup in Japan, her last competition with the national team.
After her retirement in December 1989 she became a coach, training the Torrevieja Rhythmic Gymnastics Club since October 1991. There she integrated the coaching stuff with other former national team members such as Monica Ferrández and Jennifer Colino. Mari Carmen has trained gymnasts such as Claudia Heredia, who became part of the national senior group, or national and regional medalists Tyler Brumitt and Blanca Tomás, who is also her daughter. Blanca, for her rope routine during la Liga Iberdrola, used a leotard that Mari Carmen wore during the World Championships in Sarajevo.
After Boneva's death on 20 September 2019, Mari and other former national gymnasts gathered to pay tribute to her during the Euskalgym held on 16 November 2019. The event took place before 8,500 attendees at the Bilbao Exhibition Center de Baracaldo and was followed by a dinner in Boneva's honor. | WIKI |
Waterford IT GAA
Waterford IT GAA is the GAA club of the Waterford Institute of Technology, established in 1981. Its hurling team play in the Fitzgibbon Cup and Waterford Crystal Cup as well as Higher Education Leagues. Its football team play in the Sigerson Cup and McGrath Cup as well as Higher Education Leagues. Its camogie team competes in the Ashbourne Cup. The ladies Gaelic football team has competed in the O'Connor Cup.
History
In 1981, Waterford IT GAA consisted of one hurling team playing in Division 3. Today, it has sixteen teams competing in twenty-two competitions in the third-level education sector. Teams from Waterford IT have won a total of 71 titles, including: Division 1 Hurling titles, Fitzgibbon Cup trophies, Fresher 1 and Fresher 2 All-Irelands. Ashbourne Cup, Purcell Cups, Division 1 Leagues and numerous men's and Ladies Football titles. Since its foundation, the club has won at least one major title every year. Recent titles include the Fitzgibbon cup in 2003, 2004 and 2006, the Ashbourne cup in 2001, fresher Camogie All-Ireland in 2005, the Division 3 ladies football in 2003, the fresher hurling All-Ireland in 2006 and the fresher hurling and Camogie All-Ireland shield in 2007.
Notable players
* Declan Browne
* Éamonn Corcoran
* Jake Dillon
* Brian Dowling
* Tommy Dunne
* Harry Kehoe
* Pauric Mahony
* Eoin Murphy
* Gavin O'Brien
* Stephen O'Keeffe
* Eoin Reid
* T. J. Reid
* Keith Rossiter
* Henry Shefflin | WIKI |
Mixed Bag (The Troggs album)
Mixed Bag (released in North America as Love Is All Around) is a 1968 studio album by British garage rock band The Troggs.
Reception
Editors of AllMusic Guide scored Mixed Bag three out of five stars, with reviewer Richie Unterberger, calling the name appropriate for a "scrapheap" of songs compiled from singles, with several songs highlighted as strong, but the entire compilation being surpassed by the 2005 collection Hip Hip Hooray. In Colin Larkin's The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, he scores this release three out of five stars.
Track listing
Side one Side two
* 1) "Surprise Surprise" (Reg Presley) – 2:49
* 2) "You Can Cry If You Want To" (Presley) – 2:54
* 3) "Say Darlin'" (Chris Britton) – 2:47
* 4) "Marbles and Some Gum" (Pete Staples) – 2:06
* 5) "Purple Shades" (Presley) – 2:25
* 6) "Heads or Tails" (Britton) – 3:44
* 1) "Hip Hip Hooray" (Geoff Stevens, John Carter) – 2:20
* 2) "Little Girl" (Presley) – 2:59
* 3) "Maybe the Madman" (Britton) – 2:14
* 4) "Off the Record" (Staples) – 3:45
* 5) "We Waited for Someone" (Presley) – 2:52
* 6) "There´s Something About You" (Ronnie Bond) – 2:43
Personnel
The Troggs Additional personnel
* Ronnie Bond – drums
* Chris Britton – guitar, backing vocals
* Reg Presley – lead vocals
* Pete Staples – bass, backing vocals
* Keith Altham – liner notes
* Colin Frechter – production
* Larry Page – production
Chart performance
Mixed Bag peaked at 109 on the Billboard 200. | WIKI |
Internal profiling error 4087:35.
Hello,
At the end of profiling with visual porfiler after execution of the program finishes I get the following error:
======== Error: CUDA profiling error.
==20424== Error: Internal profiling error 4087:35.
Program itself runs fine , cuda-memcheck doesn’t complain (though kernel instrumentation mode doesn’t seem to work)
Any info on what that error might mean and how to workaround it ?
Thanks.
Edit: I’m using latest sdk and latest drivers and windows10 64bit.
Update: I’m trying to isolate what function call is causing the problem and I discovered that it happens to choke on specific cuda calls, for instance, if don’t call cudaGetMemInfo function, then it goes further without an error until it complains about cudaCreateStream call (which I cannot workaround unfortunately).
Hi sergeyn,
Can you please provide more information like,
Exact version of CUDA toolkit
Which GPU are using
Are able to profile other apps successfully?
Or you are getting same error for any app?
Can you profile the apps successfully if you run as an administrator?
Thanks,
Ramesh
Hi Ramesh,
I was able to identify the problem. When I simplified the program to a few cuda calls, in between those 2 lines with the original error message a new line appeared saying something about non-admin user access. Then I checked that the setting which enables profiling for non-admin users and discovered it was reset to disabled, probably by a windows or driver update.
Basically the actual problem was that I didn’t get a proper error message. It would be nice if nvprof would provide more context in addition to internal error code number.
Thanks,
Sergey.
Hi Sergey,
Good to know that you solved the problem.
We have improved related messages in “CUDA toolkit 10.1 Update 2”. Which CUDA toolkit version you are using?
Thanks,
Ramesh
I’m using cuda 10.1.243, which seem to be the latest you have available for downlad.
Regards,
Sergey.
Hi，I also have the same error in a docker container. I use cuda10.0, and when I use nvprof to analyze the TensorFlow example, its output is as follows.
==24928== Error: Internal profiling error 4055:34.
======== Error: CUDA profiling error.
Is any detailed log where I can get?
==24928== Error: Internal profiling error 4055:34.
This error code indicates that application needs to be recompiled nvcc version 9.0 or later. Can you please recheck after recompiling the application?
I got the same problem too, I got 4142:999. error code, and I can’t find any way to remove it, is there any documents contain code detail? or what’s the meaning of 4142:999. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nokia 1600 (3rd nomination)
The result was KEEP (no consensus). TigerShark (talk) 22:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Nokia 1600
AfDs for this article:
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
Previously nominated twice; no consensus was reached the first time, and after almost two years, the article remains unreferenced and establishes no claim to notability. The second nomination was about 8 months ago; no improvement since then. This is just another cellular phone. Wikipedia is not a cell phone guide and Wikipedia is not a Nokia catalog, so this material really doesn't belong here. Mikeblas (talk) 15:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Redirect Strong Delete This seems to illustrate a problem with the Wiki process. People will fight like apes to keep an article but then once the AfD closes they go on their merry way; never trying to make any of the improvements they swore were imminent and were all that was needed to make an article great. This is an encyclopedia not a product guide. L0b0t (talk) 15:07, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Vote changed to redirect per Thetrick. Cheers. L0b0t (talk) 15:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Redirect Redirect to list of Nokia products as is the case with several other models. Thetrick (talk) 15:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Redirect per the above if thelist already exists otherwise delete. Jasynnash2 (talk) 15:54, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Keep, not because I want this article so bad, but List of Nokia products lists them all with links to the product pages, which would mean that deleting them all results in a list without any context, other than numbers. I agree WP is not a product catalog, but that debate can go a long way, since every last combat tank, airplane, car, gameconsole and apple product (etc etc etc) is featured in its own article. Why shouldn't all (nokia) phones be? Or even all types of Coca Cola, or all types of Ferrari? Agreed, a lot of those phone articles need work, but that in itself is no reason for deletion. If the article was nominated twice and twice kept, that's a strong indication that there's some merit to it being kept. Sometimes you just have to wait for someone to eventually pick of the glove and expand this article. Otherwise we will have to AfD a lot more than just this cellphone. Shoombooly (talk) 17:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment. WP:WAX doesn't help much. I nominate articles as fast as I can, and I do wish I could delete all the cataloging articles about unreferenced, non-notable products. -- Mikeblas (talk) 17:24, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment I understand where you're coming from, i have the same with non-notable songs and albums that can't easily be gotten rid of. But looking at the previous 2 AfD's for this article, there was a good bunch of people that wanted this kept, why not just accept the results of 2 other tries (in which you were involved) and move on, surely there's plenty of other things that need cleaning up? Apparently the other 2 times it wasn't deleted because people saw merit to this article. As i've learnt here, a badly written article can sometimes stay, indefinitely, as you know Wikipedia has no deadline. This means it has forever to get improved, when its given the chance. Shoombooly (talk) 17:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* CommentSeeing a large number of article of a given sort which deserve deletion, but perhaps don't fit well as a group nomination, could make one feel a bit as Caligula did when he said that he "wished all Rome had one neck." Edison (talk) 17:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment. I did accept it. I accepted it, then waited several months and noticed no improvement in the article. I did that twice. Note that the first AfD didn't keep the article--it just didn't reach a consensus. The "no deadline" doctrine doesn't apply to articles that don't need to be here because of WP:NOT or WP:OR or WP:N, like this one. -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
* Delete No references to show that it satisfies notability requirements. Simply being a product offered for sale by a large company in no way provides inherent notability. Wikipedia is not a surrogate of the vendor's webpage. If being offered for sale by a large company was sufficient notability to justify an article, then since notability is not temporary, every product ever offered for sale by a large company would be notable. I would not oppose a redirect to a list of Nokia products, although even such a list will sometimes have questionable notability. Imagine a list of every product ever sold by Sears Roebuck in the last 115 years. Edison (talk) 17:31, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment Why not? Wikipedia tries to list every Roman Emperor that ever lived, every invention, every town (2 million or so), every creature...why not every product? I'm sure more people noted the 1600 than one of the hundreds of species of amoebe listed on WP. Also, what about this for example? It's a remote, big deal, yet has a fully fledged article. I'm willing to bet more people had a nokia 1600 than a apple remote. But that's not the point, is it, it went through AfD twice, was kept twice, nothing has changed, so why the need to delete, nothing has changed and there's no deadline? Why the tenacity? Shoombooly (talk) 17:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment. Please see WP:WAX. -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
* switch to Keep, see below Merge and redirect to List of Nokia products. My initial instinct is to support Shoombooly, my WikiProject Orphanage partner-in-crime. However, my friend, I think that your arguments for keeping this article speak more towards the fact that there are a lot of other articles which deserve deletion (see Edison's Caligula quote, above). Doing a cursory Google search for this phone only reveals the specs for this phone, and not any other reason it's notable. The Apple remote is notable, in my opinion, simply because it can be used for so much, and is pretty unique as far as remotes go, in that it is a remote for a PC, which is not a common thing. But cell phones are common as mud these days, and there doesn't seem to be anything unique about this phone that is not already covered by the cellular phone article. If you can find something specifically unique about it, then I would switch to keep. Until then, I would merge all the specs into the Nokia product article. Sorry, pardner.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:14, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Comment I must slap you Aervanath, with this link: PC Remotes. Not that unique, that Apple Remote (better design though). Anyway, i could argue the buttons are different (they are, quite unusable as well), or other things that are slightly different. Point is, i really believe that when people search for gadgets in google, they often end up checking WP. There's no real line when it comes to products. Look for example at BlackBerry. Are they all notable phones? Yet they all have an article. Randomly deleting the Nokia 1600 after it was already kept twice seems a weird thing to do. Just because it is a simple phone doesn't make it less noteworthy than say, a Nokia 3310. I would agree to delete, if there was a policy to do so. But given the list of nokia models had so many articles for so many models, and given that this article survived AfD twice, it seems against my Vulcan logic to delete it this time round. Shoombooly (talk) 19:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Reply Consider me slapped. :) Alright, so I'm obviously wrong on the "PC remote is unique" argument. However, I think my other arguments are still valid. I think there is other stuff like this, so we should keep this one, too, is not a valid argument, and I would probably vote "merge and redirect" for the Blackberry client phones you linked to, as well. As for "it was already kept twice", see WP:Consensus. Especially since, as Wikipedia matures, and our number of articles grows, arguments for inclusion have been undergoing much more rigorous scrutiny than before. I think the other "redirect" votes above are evidence that, for some of us at least, the previous consensus is no longer valid. Also, I would point out that the result of the first discussion was in fact no consensus, which defaults to keep. I would point you to WP:PRODUCT, as well. As for searching for gadgets on google, google WILL still give the redirect as a search result, and since I am urging that we keep all the Nokia 1600 info in the Nokia products article, it is not as if we are therefore preventing users from finding information about the phone.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Reply Well all that being said, the link to your main point of argument is broken! Of course consensus can change, but still, the consensus does not seem to be outright deletion. Also, i think the steady growth of WP isn't necessarily automatically maturing, since there are many new people who post rubbish articles. Again, why bother with this article at all, it's here, it's been here 2 years, not enough people took offense. Again, what's the point of listing all inhabited places in the world, most never ever noted by any of us, but not to include a phone millions of people know from experience. That does not compute for me. And also, WP:OSE is NOT, I repeat, NOT policy! I could just as well write an essay outlining why OSE is a completely valid argument. OSE is used every day in WP, as an argument to create all sorts of stuff. Most of which never gets deleted. Using WP:OSE is just as invalid in this argument as me claiming OSE is. Shoombooly (talk) 20:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Reply to reply to reply to comment I have fixed the link above. I should point out that I did not vote for "outright deletion", either. And I agree with you that OSE is not policy. However, I tend to agree with it, especially, as I said before, because I think that the other articles you are citing probably don't deserve to be independent articles, either. Just because something's not policy doesn't mean it's not right.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* RRRRRRReply But with all the crap there is to delete, this one isn't so necessary. And that's basically my point. Shoombooly (talk) 21:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* They'rrrrrrrrreeeeee grrrrrrreat! So you're voting "keep" on the basis that we should delete the other stuff before we delete this one? Or am I mis-interpreting you?--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 21:40, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Final words on this one I'm voting keep because it is common practice on WP to have articles about consumer goods. Whether it be Big Mac's, Opel Astra, Gameboy Micro, Canon EOS 300, Twinkies, Palm Treo, Sandisk Sansa or whatever else is available. Mind you, I did not even need to check those pages, i just knew they would exist. Are they all revolutionary or notable? No. Perhaps the BigMac, but surely not the Sansa. The thing is, once something is common practice, what's the point of singling out this article and deleting it? Just to make an example? If you allow so many, why bother deleting a few? So yes, my point is that if we refuse to draw a clear line, we should allow the borderline cases as well. Not because the item is so notable, but because deleting a few sets a completely arbitrary precedent. Why delete this one but not that one? There's no strict rule on it. If an item was bought by millions of people, it is at least somehow notable, right? "Nokia 1600" on Google yielded more than 5 million hits (or 1 million depending on the method), surely that's notable? It's all a matter of definition. OSE doesn't help because of SO MUCH OSE. There's no end to what can be deleted under OSE rules, and therefor we should not even start. Other stuff does exist, and because we let it, and have no desire to have it cease existing, this may exist as well. As if the Whopper / Caramac is a notable product...still millions know it, and it gets an article. Same goes for this phone. Millions used it, so it gets an article. 1 million google hits can't be wrong. Just my 2 cents. Shoombooly (talk) 23:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* Final refutation One million Google hits prove nothing if none of them give enough information to make an article with more than just bare specs. Also, the problem with allowing borderline cases is the old "slippery slope" argument. If we allow all the "borderline" cases, then that means that effectively they are all inside the border, which means even less notable articles are now borderline, which by your argument should be allowed, and thus it keeps going. At some point we have to start knocking back the borderline cases.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 01:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
* Keep. Consumer products such as cell phones are like books or movies: they become "notable" when people write about them (for example, reviews). There are published reviews of this cellphone (one is already linked from the article). There are even a couple of articles mentioning this phone on Google scholar; the first one seems very interesting but I can't access it. --Itub (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
* switch to Keep I think the review cited is nothing more than an instruction manual, and therefore doesn't hold much weight for me. However, the article from Google scholar that gave above IS more than that, and I have updated the article to reflect that. It now meets basic notability guideines. --Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 07:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
* Merge with articles about similar phones, like I did with Nokia 6800 seriesTowel401 (talk) 23:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
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Pluck
This function takes a list of objects, and produces a sub-list. It does that by plucking the key specified by key from each object in the input list, and putting those values into an output list. The list input must be a list of objects. The key input defines the key to pluck from each item; it can be a key name in the root of each item, or it can be a dot-delimited path that lets you specify keys in sub-objects. You must set the type of the values output list to be the type of the values at that key path; if you don't set the type correctly, you will very likely encounter type mismatch errors when you execute your flow.
Input Fields
• list (list of objects): The list to operate on. Must be a list of objects.
• key (text): The key to pluck from each input item. Can be a dot-delimited path.
Output Fields
• values: The output list. You must set the type of items in the list to match the type of the values at the key that path defines.
Example
If list is [{"name":"Bob","gender":"male"}, {"name":"Sarah","gender":"female"}]
and key is name
Then values (which should be set to list of text) is: ["Bob","Sarah"]
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information about the program. Some interviewees claimed "verbal" and written NDAs were administered in several instances.
Secondary Narrative
The other narrative is that a cluster of UAP sightings that occurred in close proximity to U.S. nuclear facilities have resulted in the malfunctioning and destruction of nuclear missiles and a test reentry vehicle. AARO interviewed five former USAF members who served in and around U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos at Malmstrom, Ellsworth, Vandenberg, and Minot USAF bases between 1966 and 1977. Some of these individuals claim UAP sightings near the silos, while others claim UAP disruptions to ICBM operations. Specifically, they said the ICBM launch control facilities went offline or experienced total power failure. Additionally, one interviewee and a USAF videographer claimed to have observed and recorded a UAP destroying an ICBM loaded with a "dummy" warhead, mid-flight. AARO is researching U.S. and adversarial activity related to these events, including any U.S. programs that tested defensive ballistic missile capabilities.
Findings
AARO investigated and reached conclusions on the majority of the claims made in these narratives. In most cases, AARO was able to locate the companies, people, and programs that were conveyed to AARO through interviews. AARO will report the results of the unresolved allegations in Volume II. AARO's findings to date are as follows:
No Official UAP Nondisclosure Agreements Discovered
In the conduct of this review, and to meet the direction of Section 1673 of the NDAA for FY 2023, AARO sent guidance and requests to DoD, IC elements, DOE, and DHS to review and provide any NDAs pertaining to UAP (or its previous names). To date, AARO personnel have not discovered or been notified of any NDAs that contain information related to UAP. Also, apart from the standard NDA language contained in Title 18, Section 794 describing the death penalty or jail time for illegally disclosing information relating to the national defense, AARO has not discovered any NDAs containing threats to interviewees for disclosing UAP-specific information. Historically, most if not all NDAs contained standard language stating that the death penalty can be applied for the crime of disclosing classified information. Title 18, Section 794, is referenced in typical NDAs in several places in relation to the transmission of classified information:
"Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits… information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life…." | WIKI |
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Module Version: 0.27 Source
NAME ^
Convert::ASN1 - ASN.1 Encode/Decode library
VERSION ^
version 0.27
SYNOPSYS ^
use Convert::ASN1;
$asn = Convert::ASN1->new;
$asn->prepare(q<
[APPLICATION 7] SEQUENCE {
int INTEGER,
str OCTET STRING
}
>);
$pdu = $asn->encode( int => 7, str => "string");
$out = $asn->decode($pdu);
print $out->{int}," ",$out->{str},"\n";
use Convert::ASN1 qw(:io);
$peer = asn_recv($sock,$buffer,0);
$nbytes = asn_read($fh, $buffer);
$nbytes = asn_send($sock, $buffer, $peer);
$nbytes = asn_send($sock, $buffer);
$nbytes = asn_write($fh, $buffer);
$buffer = asn_get($fh);
$yes = asn_ready($fh)
DESCRIPTION ^
Convert::ASN1 encodes and decodes ASN.1 data structures using BER/DER rules.
METHODS ^
new ( [OPTIONS] )
Contructor, creates a new object.
If given, OPTIONS are the same ones as for "configure ( OPTIONS )" below.
error ()
Returns the last error.
configure ( OPTIONS )
Configure options to control how Convert::ASN1 will perform various tasks. Options are passed as name-value pairs.
encode
Reference to a hash which contains various encode options.
decode
Reference to a hash which contains various decode options.
encoding
One of 'BER' or 'DER'. The default is 'BER'
tagdefault
One of 'EXPLICIT' or 'IMPLICIT'. Default tagging conventions are normally given in the ASN.1 module definition (not supported by the parser). The ASN.1 spec states EXPLICIT tagging is the default, but this option has IMPLICIT tagging default for backward compatibility reasons.
Encode options
real
Which encoding to use for real's. One of 'binary', 'nr1', 'nr2', 'nr3'
time
This controls how UTCTime and GeneralizedTime elements are encoded. The default is withzone.
utctime
The value passed will be encoded without a zone, ie a UTC value.
withzone
The value will be encoded with a zone. By default it will be encoded using the local time offset. The offset may be set using the timezone configure option.
raw
The value passed should already be in the correct format and will be copied into the PDU as-is.
timezone
By default UTCTime and GeneralizedTime will be encoded using the local time offset from UTC. This will over-ride that. It is an offset from UTC in seconds. This option can be overridden by passing a reference to a list of two values as the time value. The list should contain the time value and the offset from UTC in seconds.
bigint
If during encoding an value greater than 32 bits is discovered and is not already a big integer object, then the value will first be converted into a big integer object. This option controls the big integer class into which the objects will be blessed. The default is to use Math::BigInt
Decode options
time
This controls how a UTCTime or a GeneralizedTime element will be decoded. The default is utctime.
utctime
The value returned will be a time value as returned by the time function.
withzone
The value returned will be a reference to an array of two values. The first is the same as with utctime, the second is the timezone offset, in seconds, that was used in the encoding.
raw
The value returned will be the raw encoding as extracted from the PDU.
bigint
If during decoding any big integers are discovered (integers greater than 32 bits), they will be decoded into big integer objects. This option controls the big integer class into which the objects will be blessed. The default is to use Math::BigInt.
null
The value to decode ASN.1 NULL types into. If not set, it defaults to 1.
prepare ( ASN )
Compile the given ASN.1 descripton which can be passed as a string or as a filehandle. The syntax used is very close to ASN.1, but has a few differences. If the ASN decribes only one macro then encode/decode can be called on this object. If ASN describes more than one ASN.1 macro then find must be called. The method returns undef on error.
prepare_file ( ASNPATH )
Compile the ASN.1 description to be read from the specified pathname.
find ( MACRO )
Find a macro from a prepared ASN.1 description. Returns an object which can be used for encode/decode.
encode ( VARIABLES )
Encode a PDU. Top-level variable are passed as name-value pairs, or as a reference to a hash containing them. Returns the encoded PDU, or undef on error.
decode ( PDU )
Decode the PDU, returns a reference to a hash containg the values for the PDU. Returns undef if there was an error.
registeroid ( OID, HANDLER )
Register a handler for all ASN.1 elements that are DEFINED BY the given OID.
HANDLER must be a Convert::ASN1 object, e.g. as returned by "find ( MACRO )".
registertype ( NAME, OID, HANDLER )
Register a handler for all ASN.1 elements named NAME, that are DEFINED BY the given OID.
HANDLER must be a Convert::ASN1 object, e.g. as returned by "find ( MACRO )".
EXPORTS ^
As well as providing an object interface for encoding/decoding PDUs Convert::ASN1 also provides the following functions.
IO Functions
asn_recv ( SOCK, BUFFER, FLAGS )
Will read a single element from the socket SOCK into BUFFER. FLAGS may be MSG_PEEK as exported by Socket. Returns the address of the sender, or undef if there was an error. Some systems do not support the return of the peer address when the socket is a connected socket, in these cases the empty string will be returned. This is the same behaviour as the recv function in perl itself.
It is recommended that if the socket is of type SOCK_DGRAM then recv be called directly instead of calling asn_recv.
asn_read ( FH, BUFFER, OFFSET )
asn_read ( FH, BUFFER )
Will read a single element from the filehandle FH into BUFFER. Returns the number of bytes read if a complete element was read, -1 if an incomplete element was read or undef if there was an error. If OFFSET is specified then it is assumed that BUFFER already contains an incomplete element and new data will be appended starting at OFFSET.
If FH is a socket the asn_recv is used to read the element, so the same restiction applies if FH is a socket of type SOCK_DGRAM.
asn_send ( SOCK, BUFFER, FLAGS, TO )
asn_send ( SOCK, BUFFER, FLAGS )
Identical to calling send, see perlfunc
asn_write ( FH, BUFFER )
Identical to calling syswrite with 2 arguments, see perlfunc
asn_get ( FH )
asn_get provides buffered IO. Because it needs a buffer FH must be a GLOB or a reference to a GLOB. asn_get will use two entries in the hash element of the GLOB to use as its buffer:
asn_buffer - input buffer
asn_need - number of bytes needed for the next element, if known
Returns an element or undef if there was an error.
asn_ready ( FH )
asn_ready works with asn_get. It will return true if asn_get has already read enough data into the buffer to return a complete element.
Encode/Decode Functions
asn_tag ( CLASS, VALUE )
Given CLASS and a VALUE, calculate an integer which when encoded will become the tag.
asn_decode_tag ( TAG )
Decode the given ASN.1 encoded TAG.
asn_encode_tag ( TAG )
Encode TAG value for encoding. We assume that the tag has been correctly generated with "asn_tag ( CLASS, VALUE )".
asn_decode_length ( LEN )
Decode the given ASN.1 decoded LEN.
asn_encode_length ( LEN )
Encode the given LEN to its ASN.1 encoding.
Constants
ASN_BIT_STR
ASN_BOOLEAN
ASN_ENUMERATED
ASN_GENERAL_TIME
ASN_IA5_STR
ASN_INTEGER
ASN_NULL
ASN_OBJECT_ID
ASN_OCTET_STR
ASN_PRINT_STR
ASN_REAL
ASN_SEQUENCE
ASN_SET
ASN_UTC_TIME
ASN_APPLICATION
ASN_CONTEXT
ASN_PRIVATE
ASN_UNIVERSAL
ASN_PRIMITIVE
ASN_CONSTRUCTOR
ASN_LONG_LEN
ASN_EXTENSION_ID
ASN_BIT
Debug Functions
asn_dump ( [FH,] BUFFER )
Try to decode the given buffer as ASN.1 structure and dump it to the given file handle, or STDERR if the handle is not given.
asn_hexdump ( FH, BUFFER )
EXPORT TAGS ^
:all
All exported functions
:const
ASN_BOOLEAN, ASN_INTEGER, ASN_BIT_STR, ASN_OCTET_STR, ASN_NULL, ASN_OBJECT_ID, ASN_REAL, ASN_ENUMERATED, ASN_SEQUENCE, ASN_SET, ASN_PRINT_STR, ASN_IA5_STR, ASN_UTC_TIME, ASN_GENERAL_TIME, ASN_UNIVERSAL, ASN_APPLICATION, ASN_CONTEXT, ASN_PRIVATE, ASN_PRIMITIVE, ASN_CONSTRUCTOR, ASN_LONG_LEN, ASN_EXTENSION_ID, ASN_BIT
:debug
asn_dump, asn_hexdump
:io
asn_recv, asn_send, asn_read, asn_write, asn_get, asn_ready
:tag
asn_tag, asn_decode_tag, asn_encode_tag, asn_decode_length, asn_encode_length
MAPPING ASN.1 TO PERL ^
Every element in the ASN.1 definition has a name, in perl a hash is used with these names as an index and the element value as the hash value.
# ASN.1
int INTEGER,
str OCTET STRING
# Perl
{ int => 5, str => "text" }
In the case of a SEQUENCE, SET or CHOICE then the value in the namespace will be a hash reference which will be the namespce for the elements with that element.
# ASN.1
int INTEGER,
seq SEQUENCE {
str OCTET STRING,
bool BOOLEAN
}
# Perl
{ int => 5, seq => { str => "text", bool => 1}}
If the element is a SEQUENCE OF, or SET OF, then the value in the namespace will be an array reference. The elements in the array will be of the type expected by the type following the OF. For example with "SEQUENCE OF STRING" the array would contain strings. With "SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE { ... }" the array will contain hash references which will be used as namespaces
# ASN.1
int INTEGER,
str SEQUENCE OF OCTET STRING
# Perl
{ int => 5, str => [ "text1", "text2"]}
# ASN.1
int INTEGER,
str SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
type OCTET STRING,
value INTEGER
}
# Perl
{ int => 5, str => [
{ type => "abc", value => 4 },
{ type => "def", value => -1 },
]}
Finally, if you wish to pre-parse ASN.1 and hold it to include inline in your PDU, you can coerce it into the ASN.1 spec by defining the value as ANY in the schema, and then pass the pre encoded value inline.
# ASN.1
int INTEGER,
str OCTET STRING,
pre ANY
# Perl
{ int => 5, str => "text", pre=>"\x03\x03\x00\x0a\x05" }
passes a pre-encoded BIT STRING instance as hex text. -But it could be a previous run of $obj->encode() from another run held in some variable.
Exceptions
There are some exceptions where Convert::ASN1 does not require an element to be named. These are SEQUENCE {...}, SET {...} and CHOICE. In each case if the element is not given a name then the elements inside the {...} will share the same namespace as the elements outside of the {...}.
TODO ^
AUTHOR ^
Graham Barr <gbarr@cpan.org>
SUPPORT ^
Report issues via github at https://github.com/gbarr/perl-Convert-ASN1/issues
To contribute I encourage you to create a git fork of the repository at https://github.com/gbarr/perl-Convert-ASN1 do you work on a fresh branch created from master and submit a pull request
COPYRIGHT ^
Copyright (c) 2000-2012 Graham Barr <gbarr@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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Nitrate test
A nitrate test is a chemical test used to determine the presence of nitrate ion in solution. Testing for the presence of nitrate via wet chemistry is generally difficult compared with testing for other anions, as almost all nitrates are soluble in water. In contrast, many common ions give insoluble salts, e.g. halides precipitate with silver, and sulfate precipitate with barium.
The nitrate anion is an oxidizer, and many tests for the nitrate anion are based on this property. However, other oxidants present in the analyte may interfere and give erroneous results.
Nitrate can also be detected by first reducing it to the more reactive nitrite ion and using one of many nitrite tests.
Brown ring test
A common nitrate test, known as the brown ring test can be performed by adding iron(II) sulfate to a solution of a nitrate, then slowly adding concentrated sulfuric acid such that the acid forms a layer below the aqueous solution. A brown ring will form at the junction of the two layers, indicating the presence of the nitrate ion. Note that the presence of nitrite ions will interfere with this test.
The overall reaction is the reduction of the nitrate ion to nitric oxide by iron(II), which is oxidised to iron(III), followed by the formation of nitrosyl ferrous sulfate between the nitric oxide and the remaining iron(II), where nitric oxide is reduced to NO−.
* 2HNO3 + 3H2SO4 + 6FeSO4 → 3Fe2(SO4)3 + 2NO + 4H2O
* [Fe(H2O)6]SO4 + NO → [Fe(H2O)5(NO)]SO4 + H2O
This test is sensitive up to 2.5 micrograms and a concentration of 1 in 25,000 parts.
Devarda's test
Devarda's alloy (Copper/Aluminium/Zinc) is a reducing agent. When reacted with nitrate in sodium hydroxide solution, ammonia is liberated. The ammonia formed may be detected by its characteristic odor, and by damp red litmus paper's turning blue, signalling that it is an alkali — very few gases other than ammonia evolved from wet chemistry are alkaline.
* 3 + 8 Al + 5 + 18 → 3 + 8
Aluminium is the reducing agent in this reaction that will occur.
Diphenylamine test
Diphenylamine may be used as a wet chemical test for the presence of the nitrate ion. In this test, a solution of diphenylamine and ammonium chloride in sulfuric acid is used. In the presence of nitrates, diphenylamine is oxidized, giving a blue coloration. This reaction has been used to test for organic nitrates as well, and has found use in gunshot residue kits detecting nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose.
Copper turnings test
The nitrate ion can easily be identified by heating copper turnings along with concentrated sulfuric acid. Effervescence of a brown, pungent gas is observed which turns moist blue litmus paper red.
Here sulfuric acid reacts with the nitrate ion to form nitric acid. Nitric acid then reacts with the copper turnings to form nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is thus oxidised to nitrogen dioxide.
* + 4 → + 2 +2 | WIKI |
You can now preorder the iPhone XR
The iPhone XR, Apple’s new lower-priced iPhone option that starts at $749 for a 64GB model, is now available to preorder online (apple.com or the Apple Store app) or by walking into an Apple store. It comes in six different colors, including black, white, red, yellow, blue, and coral. Just for the iPhone XR, Apple’s selling a clear case for the first time, so you can show off the new colors while still protecting the glass back. The iPhone XR offers a lot of the same specs as the iPhone XS, namely the same A12 Bionic processor and primary camera, but has a 6.1-inch LCD screen instead of an OLED screen. It also doesn’t have 3D Touch, nor the secondary telephoto camera and the stainless steel frame of the iPhone XS and XS Max, but it does feel noticeably lighter. Given its price point, the iPhone XR is essentially the successor to the iPhone 8, and early forecasts predict that it may be the more popular model sold. Here are all the different places you can preorder from, including information on how much you can trade in your iPhone X for and the breakdown of each carrier’s payment plans. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Dominican Provisional Government Junta
The Dominican Provisional Government Junta was a day-long military junta established after the coup that overthrew the democratically elected Juan Bosch on September 25, 1963. Headed by General Imbert Barrera, Luis Amiamo Tio, & Victor Elby Vinas Roman it called the leader of 6 right-leaning parties to come together and help form government in the wake of the coup leading to the Triumvirate of 1963. | WIKI |
How do i check for certain words like "hotmail" "gmail" "yahoo" within an email field using Javascript?
I have a form validation function working on my form but it currently only checks that "@." are included the code so far..
Code:
// test if valid email address, must have @ and .
var checkEmail = "@.";
var checkStr = theForm.email.value;
var EmailValid = false;
var EmailAt = false;
var EmailPeriod = false;
for (i = 0; i < checkStr.length; i++)
{
ch = checkStr.charAt(i);
for (j = 0; j < checkEmail.length; j++)
{
if (ch == checkEmail.charAt(j) && ch == "@")
EmailAt = true;
if (ch == checkEmail.charAt(j) && ch == ".")
EmailPeriod = true;
if (EmailAt && EmailPeriod)
break;
if (j == checkEmail.length)
break;
}
// if both the @ and . were in the string
if (EmailAt && EmailPeriod)
{
EmailValid = true;
break;
}
}
if (!EmailValid)
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
theForm.email.focus();
return (false);
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The total fat in your daily diet should average no more than 30 percent of your total calories consumed. And saturated fat should be no more than 10 percent of those 30 percent of calories. The amount of fat and saturated fat you eat depends on the foods you select and consume that have fat in them. Consider consulting with a nutrition professional to learn more about how to calculate your fat needs and to not exceed what are healthy amounts. There are many tools available to help you determine how much fat you should consume each day based on your current energy and nutrition needs. Reading food labels is one way to begin to identify where and how much fat is in particular food items.
Don’t fear the fats! Healthy fats provide the structural component to many cell membranes which are essential for cellular development and carrying various messages (hormones) through our body quickly. Protein is also responsible for hormone production, so it’s important for women to get foods that will provide you with healthy fats and protein. Women’s cycles can also deplete your body of B vitamins, iron, zinc, and magnesium so you should be aware of your whole food intake and possibly choose to supplement (see above for more if it’s right for you).
Look for supplements certified by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), NSF International, or the United Natural Products Alliance, as it indicates a higher standard of quality assessment. (The USP's screening process, for instance, ensures that a product will break down properly and effectively release its ingredients into the body.) These organizations have a certification seal that is typically shown on the product packaging.
It's still an open question, but there is no question that ALA represents a dietary difference between the sexes. For women, it's a healthful fat. For men with heart disease or major cardiac risk factors, it may also be a good choice — but men with more reason to worry about prostate cancer should probably get their omega-3s from fish and their vegetable fats largely from olive oil.
In addition to diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors can also play an important role in bone health. Smoking and drinking too much alcohol can increase your chances of developing osteoporosis, while weight-bearing exercise (such as walking, dancing, yoga, or lifting weights) can lower your risk. Strength or resistance training—using machines, free weights, elastic bands, or your own body weight—can be especially effective in helping to prevent loss of bone mass as you age.
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HTML Goodies: WWW Board
By Joe Burns
Use these to jump around or read it all...
[WWWBOARD.PL] [WWWBOARD.HTML]
[Upload and Set Modifications]
Late in 1998, The HTML Goodies Discussion Groups went up. The purpose of the groups was two-fold. First was to give HTML newbies and those in the know a method of getting together to ask and answer questions. The second was to free up some of my time. I would literally sit and answer email for two hours at a pop. I was burning out, let me tell you.
The discussion groups were created with my new favorite method of creating difficult programming. We paid someone to do it. The groups are PERL CGI driven and work in a "real-time" mode in that as soon as you post, you can refresh and your post or response shows up.
As could be expected, the moment my groups went up, people began writing and posting regarding how they could get their own discussion group. My pat answer that you pay someone to do it for you didn't go over very well.
I actually tried contracting some PERL artists here at school to do the work. There were no takers. Apparently this was a project they all looked at and thought would take too much of their time. The problem was that now I needed one for a class. So I went searching.
I ran into Matt's Script Archive. It's a great site. He doesn't offer a great number of scripts, but the ones he does have work like a dream. I have three or four running on my account at school.
One of his best scripts is what he calls the WWWBoard. It's a discussion group that acts just like the HTML Goodies groups. I have it running on my school system and it has yet to give me a problem. In fact, I got it to run the first time I installed it. That's rare for a PERL driven anything.
So I wrote to Matt himself and asked if I could do a tutorial on the board. He agreed with one stipulation, I can't distribute the files. You do have to go to Matt's site to get them. So, let's start with that. Here's the address:
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/wwwboard.shtml
Once there, you'll have your choice of grabbing the files one by one or in a download packet. My suggestion is to grab that packet. It's so much easier. You'll have your choice of:
• wwwboard.tar.gz (16K)
• wwwboard.zip (18.6K)
• wwwboard.tar.Z (26.6K)
• wwwboard.tar (82K)
I'm a big ZIP guy. I always grab the zip. Once you open that puppy, here are the files you'll find and their descriptions (Taken from Matt's page):
• ALPHA-2
Special information about the 2.1 ALPHA 2 release.
• README
Includes installation instructions and a detailed description of how to set it up to work on your server.
• ADMIN_README
The README file for WWWAdmin.
• wwwboard.pl
The main WWWBoard perl script which runs everything.
• wwwadmin.pl
The admin perl script which helps you maintain WWWBoard.
• wwwboard.html
The html file with the post form and entry spots. All message links will be posted here.
• faq.html
A Frequently Asked Questions HTML file which you can post for your users.
• data.txt
The data file which keeps an incremented log of numbers for messages.
• passwd.txt
A password file for WWWAdmin.
It's best for anyone to actually see what he or she is shooting to make before trying it out. I actually grabbed some screen captures of mine once I got it running. It's a little big to show the detail so give it a moment to come in. You'll note that it's pretty barren at the moment. When you first install it, there are no images, so you'll need to gussy it up a bit yourself.
Matt himself offers a working demo but it was down the last couple of times I went in, but try it for yourself.
WWWBOARD.PL
You'll note that you get a bunch of files in your download packet, but don't fret. You really only have to alter two of them: the wwwboard.pl and wwwboard.html files. Let's start with the wwwboard.pl.
First off, remember that you're dealing with a PERL script here. You first need to make a point of saving a backup of the original file. I always forget to do that and end up having to download the file again to get a new clean copy.
.pl or .cgi?
The file itself is given to you with the extension .pl. That means PERL. Your server may not allow you to use that extension. Mine doesn't. I had to change the extension of the file to .cgi. If you have to do the same, resave the file with that new extension. Do not just go in and alter the extension by right clicking and choosing rename. That can mess up the script. Resave with the new name and work on that resaved file.
Once you have that file saved in the correct format, you need to alter it so that it will recognize all of the paths and files on your server. Here's the text of the script that will open up in a new window so that you can follow along as I go over the parts you need to change.
WWWBOARD.PL Script Text
You Need A Directory
This tripped me up. At this point you need to decide what you will name a directory where all of the information compiled by this script will be held. The basic concept is that you will set aside a directory to hold your files and then put a subdirectory in that one where the messages will be held. So decide on that right now. I went with the suggestion of the author, I named my directory /messages/.
I named the directory where the script's files will be held /wwwboard/ and inside that directory, stuck a subdirectory called /messages/. That was the suggestion of the author, so that's what I did. The directory /wwwboard/ will hold the files that run the program, and the subdirectory /messages/ will be where the program holds the messages posted. Get it?
For the purposes of this tutorial, I'll assume you did the same. Now, throughout the rest of this tutorial use just the path to the directory /wwwboard/ with a leading slash to represent the domain (/directory/directory/wwwboard). Do not use the full URL (http://...)
For the rest of this tutorial I'll use "/directory/directory/wwwboard" as the representation of the path you'll use.
Whereis Perl
No, that's not a typo. Notice the first line of the PERL script: "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" .
That is the path to PERL on your server. What the author has there is the most common path on most servers, but it may not be the same on your server. How do you find out? Telnet into your system and at the prompt, type: "whereis perl".
The path will be returned. If it is the same as what is offered in the script, you're good to go. If it's different, you have to change it.
Define Those Variables!
This is the part we're most concerned with:
# Define Variables
$basedir = "/path/to/wwwboard";
$baseurl = "http://your.host.xxx/wwwboard";
$cgi_url = "http://your.host.xxx/cgi-bin/wwwboard.pl";
$mesgdir = "messages";
$datafile = "data.txt";
$mesgfile = "wwwboard.html";
$faqfile = "faq.html";
$ext = "html";
$title = "WWWBoard Version 2.0 Test";
# Done
The script is set up nicely in that you only need to alter each path once. That path is then put to a variable and is used in the script later. Otherwise, you'd need to alter it every time it appeared. That would be a pain to say the least.
• $basedir
This is the absolute path (all directories - no tildes) to your wwwboard directory. Again, it's up to you whether to use the full URL or the leading slash. If you do not know the absolute path to your directory, contact your service provider or telnet in and type "pwd" at the prompt. The return will be the absolute path.
• $baseurl
This is the URL that someone would put in a browser to reach your wwwboard directory. This must be the full http:// format.
• $cgi_url
This is the URL path to the wwwboard.pl file. Use the /directory/directory/cgi-bin/wwwboard.pl format. You must have this correct because it is used in responses.
• $mesgdir
This is the name of the directory where all of your messages will be kept. If you named it messages, you don't need to touch this. You only need the name of the file here because it will be added to the end of the address you put in the $basedir just above. How simple is that?
• $datafile
This is a text file where all of the messages will be kept. You only need the name of the file here because it will be added to the end of the address you put in the $basedir just above.
• $mesgfile
This is the name of the HTML file (which you got in the packet). Right now it's named wwwboard.html. You'll most likely want to amend it to be index.html. I did. If you do, make sure you change that here.
• $faqfile
This is the faq.html that you received in the packet. Again, this will be added to the end of the $baseurl so there is no need to put in the full URL
• $ext
This is the extension that will be added to each of the files created by the script. Keep it html until you have a very, very good reason not to.
• $title
This is the title that will appear on the responses and posts. You may want to make it a little more exciting than what is currently there.
Basically You're Done
This is the farthest I went with the script. Yes, there are other things you can alter and you can read about them in the Readme file. I didn't touch a thing from this point on so I'm not going to tell you to touch anything either.
WWWBOARD.HTML
You need to make just a couple little changes to this file, then we can upload and begin posting. Here's the file (it will render so View Source is in order).
The HTML Text
Obviously you'll need to change out some of the HTML text like the title and the H1 text so it will be representative of your site. That you can do on your own.
The only coding concern you'll have to get this thing to work is to make sure that the main form command is pointing towards the wwwboard.pl (or cgi).
About 20 lines down in the code, you'll see this:
<form method=POST action="http://your.host.xxx/cgi-bin/wwwboard.pl">
That's the line you're worried about. Alter it so that the action points at the script you just took so much time altering. Remember! That script will be inside your cgi-bin. (I always forget that for some reason).
Save that file. Let's upload and set modifications.
Upload and Set Modifications
The wwwboard.pl script goes into your cgi-bin. That much you probably could have guessed. Set it's modification to 755 like so:
chmod 755 wwwboard.pl
Now take these files:
• wwwboard.html (you may have changed this to index.html)
• faq.html
• data.txt
...and put them all into the /wwwboard/ directory (or into wherever you stated they would be found when you altered the script). Do not put them inside the /messages/ subdirectory. They go inside the /wwwboard/ directory.
The /messages/ directory should be set to a modification of 777 following the same format as above.
The faq.html and the wwwboard.html should be set to a modification of 744 so everyone can read it.
The data.txt file should be set to a modification of 777 so it can be written to.
That's It
You should now be able to log into the /wwwboard/ directory and open the wwwboard.html (maybe now index.html) file and begin posting. Again, I got mine to work on the first shot.
As you might have guessed from the download packets, there are also administrative items available to you. I never played with them, so I don't feel as if I can write on them. So go grab the files, alter them, add them to your site and watch the number of posts grow. It's fun.
Enjoy!
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Babajan may refer to:
People
* Hazrat Babajan (c. 1806-1931), Indian religious figure
* Abdul Wahid Baba Jan, Afghan general
* Baba Jan (politician), political activist from Gilgit-Baltistan administrative territory of Pakistan
Places
* Tsapatagh, Armenia - formerly Babajan
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Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear
WASHINGTON — The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some had lost scholarships. Some had been expelled. A mother stumbled upon her son trying to take his own life, recalled Candice E. Jackson, the top civil rights official at the Department of Education. “Listening to her talk about walking in and finding him in the middle of trying to kill himself because his life and his future were gone, and he was forever branded a rapist — that’s haunting,” said Ms. Jackson, describing a meeting with the mother of a young man who had been accused of sexual assault three months after his first sexual encounter. The young man, who maintained he was innocent, had hoped to become a doctor. In recent years, on campus after campus, from the University of Virginia to Columbia University, from Duke to Stanford, higher education has been roiled by high-profile cases of sexual assault accusations. Now Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is stepping into that maelstrom. On Thursday, she will meet in private with women who say they were assaulted, accused students and their families, advocates for both sides and higher education officials, the first step in a contentious effort to re-examine policies of President Barack Obama, who made expansive use of his powers to investigate the way universities and colleges handle sexual violence. How university and college administrations have dealt with campus sexual misconduct charges has become one of the most volatile issues in higher education, with many women saying higher education leaders have not taken their trauma seriously. But the Obama administration’s response sparked a backlash, not just from the accused and their families but from well-regarded law school professors who say new rules went too far. In an interview previewing her plans, Ms. Jackson, who heads the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights and organized Thursday’s sessions, made clear that she believes investigations under the 1972 law known as Title IX have gone deeply awry. A sexual assault survivor herself, she said she sees “a red flag that something’s not quite right” — and that the rights of accused students have too often been ignored. Hundreds of cases are still pending, some for years, she said, because investigators were “specifically told to keep looking until you find the violation” on college campuses even after they found none — a charge her critics strongly deny. As of Monday, the office had 496 open sexual assault cases, and the average length of a case is 703 days, according to the department. The longest pending higher education cases, against the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Arizona State University, have been open for more than five years. The office is required to complete 80 percent of its investigations within 180 days. Investigative processes have not been “fairly balanced between the accusing victim and the accused student,” Ms. Jackson argued, and students have been branded rapists “when the facts just don’t back that up.” In most investigations, she said, there’s “not even an accusation that these accused students overrode the will of a young woman.” “Rather, the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right,’” Ms. Jackson said. Ms. Jackson later issued a statement clarifying that the conclusion was based on feedback from cases involving accused students, and even if complaints don’t allege violence, “all sexual harassment and sexual assault must be taken seriously.” Such comments infuriate advocates for victims and women, who have spent the last six years waging a concerted campaign to educate college administrators, and the public, on students’ rights under the law, and how to combat what some have called “rape culture” on campus. A 2015 survey commissioned by the Association of American Universities found that more than one in four women at a large group of leading universities said they had been sexually assaulted by force or when they were incapacitated while in college. “We took for granted the fact that the White House and the Department of Education supported accepting and advancing these rights, and we can’t take that for granted anymore,” said Michele Dauber, a professor at Stanford University Law School. “There is going to be a fight.” Women’s groups are girding for battle, and are outraged that some men’s rights groups — including advocates they regard as misogynists — are being included in Thursday’s sessions. Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, which is suing the Department of Education to obtain records related to Title IX, said she was “worried that the department will turn into apologists for the sort of violence that happens on campus,” and that the Trump administration would “allow myths about rape to be perpetuated” — including, she said, “the whole idea that rape is just a drunken encounter gone wrong.” Under pressure from the Obama administration, many universities overhauled their procedures for investigating sexual assault. But college administrators have been chafing against the strictures imposed by the Education Department, said Daniel Swinton, a top official with the Association of Title IX Administrators. Some rape cases have resulted in convictions, but others — such as a University of Virginia rape chronicled by Rolling Stone and another that ensnared the Duke University lacrosse team — fell apart under scrutiny. Appointed by Ms. DeVos in April, Ms. Jackson represented sexual assault victims as a private lawyer before joining the Education Department. She is best known for her involvement in attacks against Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign, when she elevated women who had accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault or harassment, while denouncing women who accused Mr. Trump of such behavior. One question before her is whether to rescind a so-called Dear Colleague letter, issued by the Obama administration in April 2011, that put colleges and universities on notice that the federal government was going to be aggressive on sexual misconduct. The 19-page guidance warned schools they could lose millions in federal funding if they did not comply. Catherine E. Lhamon, who led the Education Department’s civil rights office from August 2013 through December 2016, called Ms. Jackson’s claims that investigators were told to fish for violations “patently, demonstrably untrue.” For the department to distinguish between violent and nonviolent assaults in investigations, she added, “portrays a profound misunderstanding of Title IX.” Ms. Lhamon said investigations under her tenure turned up “jaw-dropping degrees of noncompliance” with sexual assault law. The most controversial part of the 2011 guidance mandated that college officials use a “preponderance of the evidence” standard, which makes it easier to find students responsible than a “clear and convincing” evidence standard that some schools had been using. Advocates for the accused are pushing for Ms. Jackson to revoke the guidance and adopt the “clear and convincing” standard. One of those advocates is C. D. Mock, whose son, Corey, was accused of rape while a student at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, in the spring of 2014. The accusation led to a convoluted process of administrative hearings, Mr. Mock said, in which his son was at first found “not responsible,” then expelled from school, and then readmitted by a judge after the family sued, but kicked off the school’s wrestling team. Corey Mock graduated but was forced to abandon his dream of becoming a college wrestling coach, his father said. “The young men who have been accused have gone through an absolutely horrendous experience,” his father said in an interview. “They have had their entire world turned upside down.” A spokesman for the university declined to comment, citing pending litigation. The April 2011 guidance was only the first step in the Obama administration’s efforts to hold universities accountable for the way they investigate sexual assault. In 2014, the Education Department published a list of schools that faced civil rights investigations related to sexual violence reports, which included some of the nation’s elite Ivy League schools. Advocates saw the guidance, and the list, as powerful tools to raise awareness and persuade universities to take sexual assault complaints seriously. But Ms. Jackson said that college campus representatives have presented it to her as a “list of shame” that even identifies universities where sexual misconduct has not yet been found to have occurred. The department is still deciding whether it will continue publishing the list. Facing what they view as retrenchment by the federal government, some advocates for victims are turning to the courts. Among them is Debra Katz, who represents a feminist group at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. The group filed a Title IX complaint with the civil rights office in 2015, after administration officials refused to investigate threatening messages sent over the now-defunct messaging app Yik Yak. Ms. Katz recently withdrew the complaint and sued the university instead. “It became very clear that this case was going to die on the vine,” she said. Meanwhile, groups like Know Your IX, which teaches students their rights under the federal law, have been promoting a hashtag on Twitter, #DearBetsy, and asking people to post their personal stories about sexual assault on Twitter. Jessica Torres, a 27-year-old Democratic strategist, tweeted to Ms. DeVos that she had been raped as a student at Williams College. “My concern is we’re going back to the years when women and queer students were absolutely terrified of coming forward,” Ms. Torres said in an interview. Ms. Jackson said she planned to draw from her experiences in courtrooms across the country. “We have a justice system where nobody demands that the system itself be weighted in favor of a plaintiff,” she said. “In principle, there is no reason to depart from setting up a Title IX discipline process on campus that is anything other than fairly balanced and doesn’t prejudge and weight the system in favor of a finding. We don’t do that in our court system, our criminal justice system, and I see no reason why we would want to do it in a campus system either.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Annie Sanders
Looking for sources for place of birth, nationality, height
First off, thanks to @Tofu415 for creating this article and @<IP_ADDRESS> for all the housekeeping work. It's pretty good for a subject that's only 15 years old and just starting her career. Though I think we could use a few more sources, specifically for edits by @<IP_ADDRESS> in the infobox. I don't doubt that any of the information is correct, but everything on Wikipedia is to be verifiable. Again, all this is probably true, but biographies of living people require good sourcing. Could <IP_ADDRESS> cite your source? Or if it's original research/firsthand knowledge, then we can remove the information.
* Nationality: It wouldn't surprise me if Sanders had a dual nationality because her mother is from Russia, but it's not mentioned in any reliable source that I can find.
* Birthplace: It was changed from Fort Worth to Gransbury. I haven't found any source that links her to Gransbury. Everything I've read says she's "from" Fort Worth without saying where she was born.
* Height: The IFSC website lists her at 157 cm, which is about 5'1½". I'm guessing the measurement is from her first IFSC competition in August 2021 and she's grown since then.
Thanks for all your work so far. Adeletron 3030 (talk • edits) 13:37, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
* Also, she has a few outdoor bouldering sends, but they're only sourced to her Instagram so I didn't include them in the article. Adeletron 3030 (talk • edits) 13:53, 14 April 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
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What are retainers?
Orthodontic retainers are custom-made plastic or metal devices that hold your teeth in position after the period of teeth realigning or treatment with braces.
Braces are expensive, so retainers protect your investment by holding your teeth in their new, corrected position. Kids notoriously forget to wear their retainers, and it is common for teeth to shift back to their original place, which is frustrating for any parent.
Retainers can be:
• Removable – They are put on and removed daily by the individual wearer. Most are transparent trays made of plastic-like material. Some removable retainers have metal wire attachments as well.
• Fixed – These retainers are custom-fitted wires bonded on the tongue-side of the teeth, both on the upper and lower teeth.
Types of retainers
1. Bonded retainers are permanent retainers custom-fitted mainly on the lower front teeth and occasionally on the upper teeth. The bonded retainers prevent the teeth from future movement where there are large spaces between the teeth.
2. Hawley retainers are the most common retainers. They are reliable and durable. They are made of a plastic base with wires to fit around a patient’s teeth. The retainers prevent the teeth from going back to their original position.
3. Essix retainers are tray-like transparent retainers for a low-profile appearance and are removable during meals or when brushing your teeth. Your orthodontist in Queen, NY, tailors the retainers for your smile and in the shape of your teeth.
What are the DO’s when wearing retainers?
1. Know when to wear retainers
Many orthodontic professionals advise patients to wear retainers nightly for the rest of their lives. However, your dental doctor will offer you a prescription for when and how long you should wear retainers.
2. Remove retainers before eating.
You should remove your retainers when eating. Removal helps keep the retainers clean as tough food can stick to a retainer if an individual wears one while eating. Always brush your teeth after every meal before putting a retainer back in your mouth.
3. Clean your retainers
Thoroughly clean and rinse your retainers with denture cleaner and a recommended retainer cleaning solution. Also, clean your retainers with toothpaste before bedtime and upon waking up.
What are the DON’Ts when wearing retainers?
1. Eating candy
Avoid sticky candy-like gummy worms and taffy, as they destroy retainers. Also, retainers can accumulate plaque, just like teeth. You can drink water when wearing retainers but remove them when drinking beverages or soft drinks.
2. Careless care for your retainers
Don’t wrap your retainers in a napkin or tissue when you remove them. Instead, put them in the container the orthodontist gives you to protect them from drying out or getting thrown away. Keep retainers away from pets, mainly dogs, because they will chew and destroy them.
3. Exposing retainers to heat
Excess heat will destroy the structure of your retainers. Therefore, don’t sterilize them with boiling water. Also, don’t leave retainers outside exposed for long hours but keep them in a cool place, out of the sun, whenever you aren’t wearing them.
Can You Eat With Retainers
What happens if you eat with your retainers?
Because individuals can take out removable retainers themselves, there is no reason to skip this step. You should also remove your retainer while chewing gum. If you regularly wear your retainer while eating, your teeth will likely shift since the constant chewing movement will inevitably loosen the retainer’s fit.
What kind of food can you eat with permanent retainers?
If you have permanent retainers, avoid hard and sticky foods. Foods like nuts, hard candies, and popcorn are likely to exert pressure on the location of bonded retainers, causing them to break. Many people like to chew ice to relieve stress, but you should avoid doing this if you have a permanent retainer.
Are there retainers that will straighten your teeth?
Yes. You can work with an orthodontist near you if your teeth are a bit crowded or crooked to get a custom retainer to correct your teeth.
How much do retainers cost in NYC?
The average cost of permanent retainers ranges between $150-$500 to place them in the mouth or replace or repair a broken piece. Traditional Hawley retainers cost $150-600. Replaceable retainers like Essix cost between $400-$800.
If you are interested in exploring your retainer options, reach out to Amazing Smiles to discuss what will work best for you!
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Tuesday 20 July 2010
User Lifecycle - Part I
Introduction
Originally published July 20th 2010
Updated July 28th 2010
Updated June 2012 - Slow Password Hashing
Management of the user lifecycle in online web applications is generally fairly poor. For example, the forgotten password mechanism is often a weak link. Web applications regularly email out the password in cleartext. This is not good. The password then remains in the user's inbox. Anybody who gets access to the email will be able to see the password.
The lifecycle covers all phases of the user's interaction with the website, starting with the registration/enrolment phase, through logon, logoff, and account deletion.
The password thicket: technical and market failures in human authentication on the web is an academic paper that "report the results of the first large-scale empirical analysis of password implementations deployed on the Internet". It is well worth reading and gives excellent information about logon and password practices.
This series of articles discusses some good practices in relation to the user lifecycle. It covers the important phases. It is aimed at web applications that rely on passwords as the authentication mechanism, as well as secret questions to handle the forgotten password mechanism.
Disclaimer
Your mileage may vary. Passwords are not suitable for all web applications. Depending on the type of data that your application processes, you may need to use two factor authentication or some other approach. This would apply, for example, in the banking sector.
You need to decide if a password based authentication approach and the use of secret questions as the forgotten password mechanism are secure enough for your development.
User Lifecycle- Identification
Some applications may require formal identification of potential users. This could be for anti-money laundering or other legislative purposes. The would-be users may need to provide proof of identity (e.g. passport) and proof of address (e.g. utility bills). They might have to go to a physical location in order to do this.
This scenario is probably beyond the scope of this document. However, it does mean that it might be possible to distribute logon credentials (e.g. passwords or activation codes) during the physical encounter.
User Lifecycle- Registration
If users decide to create an account with your website, these are some steps to consider:
1. On the registration screen, the user enters an email address.
2. The application checks to see if the email address is already being used. This step could be abused by an attacker to harvest a list of valid email addresses. Captcha technology could be used to prevent this. However this can put potential users off.
3. If the email address is available, the application then sends an email containing a unique activation link, to the email address. The main reason for this is to ensure that the user controls this email address.
4. The user clicks on the email activation link and is brought back to the website to complete registration.
5. The user enters the password and confirmation password on the password entry screen.
6. The application then checks that the chosen password meets the appropriate complexity requirements (e.g minimum length, mixture of letters and numbers etc.) and stores the password.
The next step is to prepare for the forgotten password mechanism (otherwise known as the second logon mechanism). The most popular approach is to use some sort of secret questions.
7. The application should present the user with a list of secret questions (e.g. 20). The user must provide answers to a number of these (e.g. six). The good security questions website discusses security questions in more detail and also provides potential lists of questions.
8. When the user has entered the security answers, the user should be forcibly logged out. A notification email should be sent to the user confirming that the account has been created.
9. The user should then have to login again before continuing to use the website.
Some Notes:
• The email activation link should be time limited to something like 24 hours. If the user does not click on the link within this period, the account should be deactivated.
• Once the user has clicked on the activation link, the link should be deactivated.
• The HTML autocomplete field should be disabled on all sensitive fields.
• An attacker could (ab)use steps 1 and 2 to harvest email addresses of accounts which already exist. Consider using Captcha technology to prevent this.
• Use SSL/TLS to protect all communication related to the user lifecycle. In fact, just use SSL/TLS everyplace.
• Sensepost has a password strength checker with more information.
• Password should be stored using salt and hash techniques. Consideration should be given to using slow password hashing algorithms such as bcrypt. Older algorithms such as MSD5 should not be used . The password must not be stored in cleartext. In fact the password should never be visible in cleartext.
Future Article:
In a future article I will cover further phases in the lifecycle:
• Logon
• Forgotten password
• Update password
• Logoff
• Account deletion
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Rory McCrossan Rory McCrossan - 5 months ago 49
C# Question
WebGrid Column Format Issue in MVC3
I've been trying to change the format of a single column in a WebGrid without much success. Said column is this:
grid.Column(
columnName: "EmailAddress",
header: "Email Address",
format:(item) => Html.EmailLink(item.EmailAddress, item.EmailAddress, ""),
canSort: false
),
The error is:
The best overloaded method match for 'System.Web.Helpers.WebGrid.Column(string, string, System.Func, string, bool)' has some invalid arguments
I am confused as the method signature matches. Also, if I change the column to the below then it works without any errors:
grid.Column(
columnName: "EmailAddress",
header: "Email Address",
format:(item) => new HtmlString(String.Format("<a href=\"mailto:{0}\" class=\"{2}\">{1}</a>", item.EmailAddress, item.EmailAddress, "")),
canSort: false
),
For reference,
EmailLink
is a very basic
HtmlHelper
extension method:
public static IHtmlString EmailLink(this HtmlHelper helper, string emailAddress, string linkText, string linkClass) {
return new HtmlString(String.Format("<a href=\"mailto:{0}\" class=\"{2}\">{1}</a>", emailAddress, linkText, linkClass));
}
Can anyone tell me what the issue here is, and how I can solve it?
Answer
This is due to the ugliness of WebGrid and all this dynamic crap. You need a cast:
grid.Column(
columnName: "EmailAddress",
header: "Email Address",
format: item => Html.EmailLink(
(string)item.EmailAddress,
(string)item.EmailAddress,
""
),
canSort: false
)
This being said don't hesitate to checkout MvcContrib Grid or the Telerik Grid which are far better. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
I Am Jazz (book)
I Am Jazz, published in 2014, was co-written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings and illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas. It is based on the real-life experiences of Jazz Jennings, a transgender YouTube personality, Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador, and the main star of the TLC series I Am Jazz. Jazz was assigned male at birth, but from age two, she struggled with having “a girl brain but a boy body.”
Reception
I am Jazz has received multiple awards, including the American Library Association's Rainbow Project Book List Award (2015).
I am Jazz has landed on the American Library Association's list of Top 10 Challenged Books of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019. The book has been challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for having a transgender character, for confronting a topic that is “sensitive, controversial, and politically charged.”
Challenge at Mount Horeb Area School District
On November 23, 2015, a reading of I Am Jazz was scheduled at the Mount Horeb Primary Center, a public elementary school where a student had recently transitioned from boy to girl like the main character in I Am Jazz. School staff had scheduled the reading to "support gender-variant students and their families."
After learning about the event, the Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian nonprofit in Florida, threatened to sue Mount Horeb Area School District. The Liberty Counsel claimed that the school district's decision to read I Am Jazz "substitutes the beliefs of the principal and school psychologist for those parents." Furthermore, Richard Mast, a Litigation Attorney with the Liberty Counsel, stated that the reading "undermines the privacy rights of students, the free speech rights of teachers..., and the religious rights of families."
Following the lawsuit threat, the school district received support from many organizations, including the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Education Association, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Booksellers for Free Expression, National Council of Teachers of English, Association of American Publishers, PEN American Center, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. A letter co-signed by the above organizations stated:"The objecting parents may prefer that their children not be aware of the existence of non-gender-conforming children, but that is not an option: such a child is a student in their midst, with whom they must learn to interact. Her parents have rights equivalent to those of objecting parents, including the right for their child to receive an education that offers the same respect and dignity accorded all other children."Two weeks after the originally scheduled event, members of Mount Horeb High School's Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA), as well as 200 supporters, gathered around the school's flagpole to read I Am Jazz.
Later that week, nearly 600 people gathered at the area's public library for a reading by co-author Jessica Hershel. The Human Rights Campaign donated forty copies of I Am Jazz for the event.
Following the event, the district released the following statement: "Let the word go forth here and now that this board will stand united and we will not be intimidated and we will teach tolerance and will be accepting to everyone."
Support from the Human Rights Campaign
Following the Mount Horeb event, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Welcoming Schools program has continued to show support for I Am Jazz.
On January 14, 2016, the program hosted readings of I Am Jazz in schools, community centers, and churches in eight states.
On December 17, 2017, the HRC and NEA hosted a "I Am Jazz" day wherein 400 U.S. communities read I Am Jazz.
In 2020, over 26,000 people participated in more than 300 readings across the United States, with one of the readings being I Am Jazz.
Translations
In 2022, three major Israeli LGBTQ+ organizations (The Aguda, Gila Project and Hoshen) collaborated on translating the book into Hebrew, and in March the book was published | WIKI |
Hoxie Farm site
The Hoxie Farm site (11Ck-4) is located on Thorn Creek in Thornton, Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve in Cook County, Illinois, near the city of Chicago. It is classified as a late prehistoric to Protohistoric/Early Historic site with Upper Mississippian Huber affiliation.
History of archaeological investigations
Excavations were carried out in 1953 as a salvage project before the site was destroyed by the construction of a highway in the area.
Results of data analysis
Excavations at the site yielded prehistoric artifacts, pit features, burials, plant remains and animal bone.
Features
A total of 56 pit features were identified at the site. Sixteen of these had ash and carbonized material within their fill, and are classified as fire pits. The remainder were classified as refuse or storage pits.
Burials
Eleven badly preserved burials were recovered from Hoxie Farm. Five of them were accompanied by grave goods including pottery vessels, red ochre, a copper bead, and canid bones. A burial of an adult female included an otter skull with copper pieces placed in the eye sockets.
Plant remains
The carbonized remains of maize were recovered at Hoxie Farm. Feature 25 yielded 40 kernels, of which 36 were of the Eastern 8-row race.
Animal remains
Remains from several species were recovered from the site. The main species present were deer, turtle, fish, Canis sp. (dog or wolf), elk, dog, muskrat and duck. These remains were not modified into tools like the bone tools described in the Artifacts section below, and may be considered food remains or, in the case of the dog, the remains of ceremonial activities. Dog sacrifice and dog meat consumption was observed to have ceremonial and religious implications in early Native American tribes.
Artifacts
Artifacts recovered from the site included:
The non-pottery artifacts found at an archaeological site can provide useful cultural context as well as a glimpse into the domestic tasks performed at a site; ceremonial or religious activities; recreational activities; and clothing or personal adornment.
* Pottery – total of over 12,000 sherds. Many vessels were recovered complete or were reconstructable, which greatly aided in the analysis. The pottery artifacts will be discussed in more detail below.
* Stone artifacts – including projectile points, scrapers, knives, chisels, and punches/awls. Of the projectile points, the most numerous category was the small triangular Madison point.
* Ground stone artifacts – including celts, hammerstones/manos, smoking pipes, abraders (aka arrow shaft straighteners) and pieces of hematite (source of pigment for red paint).
* Bone and antler tools – a wide variety of bone and antler tools were recovered from the site, including elk and bison scapula hoes, antler flakers, elk antler punches, matting needles, and bone and antler awls.
* Non-utilitarian bone artifacts – several items were recovered that were used for personal adornment or other social purposes, including bone rasps (musical instruments), bone bracelet engraved with a human figure, bone tubes (possibly hair adornments), a hair pin made from a turkey long bones, a pebble with an engraved "weeping eye" motif, and a bone pendant with an unusual design that resembles a human figure holding a bow. There was also some bone or antler dice or game pieces.
* Metal artifacts – included a copper bead fragment, 2 rolled copper hair beads, one flat copper fragment, 1 serpent effigy made of copper, a copper awl, 3 sheet brass fragments, and 2 small copper sheets with a burial. All of the metal artifacts were aboriginal in manufacture except for the last two, which are of European origin.
Some of the most prominent and diagnostic non-pottery artifacts are presented here in more detail. Due to copyright restrictions, images of the items cannot be shown, but links are provided to public domain images of similar items from other Upper Mississippian-affiliated sites:
Upper Mississippian Huber pottery
Archaeologists often find pottery to be a very useful tool in analyzing a prehistoric culture. It is usually very plentiful at a site and the details of manufacture and decoration are very sensitive indicators of time, space and culture.
Although the Huber tradition was well known by archaeologists for decades following the original excavations at the Huber site, a formalized typology was not developed until Charles Faulkner devised one in his 1972 report on the Griesmer site in northwestern Indiana, just to the east of Chicago.
Huber pottery is characterized by shell-tempered, smooth surface pottery with globular vessel shape and restricted orifices with everted rims. Some vessels also have strap handles. Decoration (when present) usually consists of vertical or obliquely applied incised lines generally running from the lip to the shoulder. Rarely, surfaces are cordmarked or smoothed over cordmarking. The top of the lip is either plain or decorated with fine to wide notching. A minority also have punctate decoration, mostly in combination with the trailed lines.
Of the 7 whole or reconstructed vessels, 5 are of the type Fifield Bold, one of Huber Trailed, and one that is stylistically different from either Fisher or Huber.
18 different rim profile types were identified but almost all of them are everted, mostly sharply everted, and 4 types make up the vast majority of vessels. The most common type is sharply everted with flat lip; the other most common forms are sharply everted with pointed lip, sharply everted and lip thickened to the interior, and sharply everted with flat lip thickened to the exterior. The most common form of decoration observed on body sherds was medium parallel lines. This was true for both plain and cordmarked surfaces but the trend was more pronounced with the cordmarked surfaces. Wide-notched lip decoration was most common; many were medium notched or unnotched but few were fine-notched.
Following Faulkner's typology, this is the proportion of the pottery types at the site:
* Huber Plain – 62.5%, characterized by a plain surface
* Huber Trailed – 6%, characterized by a plain surface decorated with fine incised lines
* Huber Bold – 1.5%, characterized by a plain surface decorated with wide lines, possibly finger-trailed
* Huber Cordmarked – 23.5%, characterized by a cordmarked surface
* Fisher – about 5% of the assemblage was identified as belonging to the Fisher tradition, another Upper Mississippian culture which existed in the southern Great Lakes and was at least partially coterminous with Huber. Fisher pottery is characterized by shell-tempering and predominantly cordmarked surfaces, often decorated with curvilinear designs. 4% of Fisher sherds/vessels were classified as Fifield Trailed and 1% were Fiflield Bold.
* Other types – 1%
Chronology of Hoxie Farm pottery within the Huber sequence
The trends in certain pottery traits are very time-sensitive and can be used as indicators of relative age. Based on information on other Huber sites in the area, archaeologists have determined early Huber pottery is more likely to have cordmarked surface finish; wide-trailed decoration; and notched lips. Late Huber pottery has predominately smooth surface finish; fine-line incised decoration; and unnotched lips.
In the Hoxie Farm site assemblage, 23.5% of sherds are cordmarked, which is more than on any other Huber culture site. Fine-line decoration is present on only 13% of decorated sherds. Also, only 20% of the lips are unnotched, compared to 49% at Huber and 45% at Oak Forest. This indicates a relatively early time placement for Hoxie Farm within the Huber sequence.
Huber phase within the Upper Mississippian culture
Huber ware (and Huber culture) are often mentioned together with Fisher. Both Fisher and Huber are Upper Mississippian cultures which existed in the southern Lake Michigan region in the states of northern Illinois and Indiana and southwest Michigan. Both have shell-tempered pottery but Huber is predominantly plain surface with fine-line decoration and Fisher is predominantly cordmarked surface with wide-line decoration.
The relationship of Huber and Fisher both with each other and with other Upper Mississippian cultures in the area has long been a matter of debate and speculation among archaeologists. James Griffin, upon examining the artifacts from the original 1929 excavations, felt that Huber was a Component of the Oneota Aspect based on the form and design of the pottery, close to the Orr and Lake Winnebago foci, and that Fisher was part of a separate focus. Since that date, we've obtained a great deal more information and now we know that Fisher is the older of the two and Huber is the only one that has been found in association with early Historic European trade goods. Nevertheless, both Fisher and Huber coexist at the same sites seemingly at the same time. Hoxie Farm, Griesmer and Moccasin Bluff are examples of this.
Most archaeologists now believe that both Fisher and Huber are taxonomically-related phases within the Oneota tradition. The relationship between the two is time-related in that Huber is derived from Fisher; but there are also late Fisher sites like Fifield, where Fisher pottery is associated with late Prehistoric artifacts, so it is possible that Fisher also survived until the Protohistoric or early Historic period.
Significance
The artifacts present at Hoxie Farm represent a well-rounded view of life in the Huber culture. Several items of personal adornment were found here, such as hair accessories, bracelets, and pendants. Domestic items include knives, scrapers, chisels, needles, and awls. The bone or antler dice implies games or gambling went on at the site; gambling among Native American tribes has been well-documented. A bone rasp indicates music was being performed for entertainment or for ceremonial purposes. The presence of stemmed pipes and several pieces of art with magical or spiritual overtones reflects on the spiritual life of the community.
There is direct evidence of cultivated plants at Hoxie Farm. The remains of maize were found along with hoes made of bison scapula and elk scapula. Deer bone was also present in abundance, along with arrowheads for bows-and-arrows, indicating the site residents still relied on hunting; and fish and turtle were also present in the animal bone remains, so they were also exploiting food resources of the nearby marshes and creeks.
With regards to seasonality of occupation, based on an analysis of the animal bone remains, the researchers determined the site was occupied from at least spring through fall. In fact the site may have been occupied year-round since there are storage pits to keep food during the winter. The presence of non-utilitarian items for music, games and religion also implies an extended residence.
Despite the fact that the Hoxie Farm site had European trade goods and thus was occupied at a very late date in prehistory, the pottery traits indicate an early placement in the Huber sequence. The answer may be that the site was occupied longer than the other Huber sites, and therefore the pottery from the entire Huber sequence is present, with early and late types intermixed. Since the site was not stratified, there was no way for the researchers to segregate artifacts from different time periods. | WIKI |
Sensorless estimation of wind speed by adaptive neuro-fuzzy methodology
Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Dalibor Petković, Nor Badrul Anuar, Miss Laiha Mat Kiah, Shatirah Akib, Abdullah Gani, Žarko Ćojbašić, Vlastimir Nikolić
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
17 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
The wind speed has a huge impact on the wind turbine output energy and safety. Because of this, many control algorithms use a measure of the wind speed to increase performance. Unfortunately, no precise measurement of the effective wind speed is online available from direct measurements, which means that it must be estimated in order to make such control methods applicable in practice. In this paper, a novel algorithm for wind speed estimation in wind-power generation systems is proposed, which is based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The inputs of the ANFIS wind speed estimator are chosen as the wind turbine power coefficient, rotational speed and blade pitch angle. During the offline training, a specified model, which relates the inputs to the output, is obtained. Then, the wind speed is determined online from the instantaneous inputs. Neural network in ANFIS adjusts parameters of membership function in the fuzzy logic of the fuzzy inference system (FIS). This intelligent estimator is implemented using Matlab/Simulink and the performances are investigated. The simulation results presented in this paper show the effectiveness of the developed method.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)490-495
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
Volume62
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
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Rh tion; but feeling that this would be construed into an act of cowardice, she threw the opium procured for that purpose away.
During their imprisonment the prisoners were allowed to see and converse with each other, and she exerted herself at such times to the utmost to cheer and encourage her fellow-prisoners, She showed them a face bright and buoyant with a brave spirit, if not with hope. Young men and old, looking upon that face in its defiance of the power of death, listening to the brave words of that unflinching soul, grew strong to meet the martyrdom they had dared for dear Liberty's sake, and learned to smile gravely even under the grim shadow of the guillotine, feeling that, after all, their lives had not been lived in vain, when they were to give them up in sacrifice to freedom in such glorious companionship.
Riouffe, one of her fellow-prisoners, who subsequently escaped, says of her: “Something more than is usually found in the looks of women painted itself in those large | WIKI |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2012 November 15
= November 15 =
Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Danial Schon
my article gets rejected again and again, i have added valid information and valid resources as well, kindly help me with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Danial_Schon
Eman ehsan (talk) 05:15, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* Your sources are, in order: An interview with Schon that doesn't provide any sigificant information on him and just uses him as an expert on the Dubai housing market; the publisher apparently also accepts press releases and doesn't seem reliable to me. Wikipedia itself, and Wikipedia does not consider itself reliable (that would be circular). And what superficially resembles a Pakistani version of the Daily Mail, using the Daily Mail logo but getting the "y" wrong, which seems to have no information besides this one article that is credited to an unnamed "special correspondent". Furthermore, two of those sources don't even mention Danial Schon at all. That's hardly the significant coverage in reliable sources we need to establish Schon's notability. Huon (talk) 06:02, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Unitus Seed Fund
I have been trying to submit this page for some time now. But it keeps getting rejected. Can you give me some pointers to improve it Eshaninan (talk) 10:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* The draft needs better sources. Right now two sources are the Unitus Seed Fund and Unitus Labs, primary sources. Another two are blogs or self-published and thus not reliable by Wikipedia's stadards. Bloomberg is just a business directory entry and doesn't contribute much to the Fund's notability either. That leaves us with VCCircle which indeed looks like a good source (though I can't read most of it because it's hidden behind a paywall, but on its own it's a little thin. Has the seed fund received coverage in mainstream newspapers such as The Hindu? That would be a significant help.
* Also, the draft currently follows its sources very closely; the first few sentences are copied from Social Enterprise Buzz, the table at the end from the Unity Seed Fund website. That raises issues of copyright; we should summarize the sources' content in our own words. Huon (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Estakhr&
What you have to do, when there are no peer-reviewed paper citing an article, while article is true!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:59, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* When there are no reliable sources the topic is unsuitable for Wikipedia. Our stadard is verifiability, not truth. And a physical constant that isn't mentioned in the peer-reviewed literature doesn't seem notable either. Huon (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ruth Hagengruber
My Article was declined because of no reliable sources. But it's a Biography of my self (Prof. of Philosophy). I don't really know what sources you wish? The Homepage of my Institution? Please help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagengruber (talk • contribs) 15:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* First of all you might want to read our guideline on conflicts of interest. Writing an autobiography is strongly discouraged.
* Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper coverage. In short, we don't need your or your institution's writings, but we need what other, independent people have written about you. The notability criteria for academics are laid out in WP:PROF; I currently don't see which of those criteria you satisfy. Huon (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Significant figures
What is 0.0565 as 1 significent figure? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* [[Image:Symbol move vote.svg|20px]] This page is for questions about the Articles for creation process. Please consider asking this question at the Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what the Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. I'd say it's 0.06, though. Huon (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Review of User:Will Steinberg/sandbox
Hi,
I notice my submission is titled Will Steinberg/sandbox. Should it read: Wikipedia Talk: Articles for Creation/Shiftgig?
I want to make sure I am submitting properly.
Thanks for your help,
Will Steinberg
Will Steinberg (talk) 16:52, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* The draft was moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Shiftgig (2) by MatthewVanitas; Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Shiftgig already existed and was in a much worse shape than your draft. I had a quick look at the draft and found no obvious problems; I expect it will be accepted soon. Good work! Huon (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* ✅ Accepted. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:27, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
ServiceSource rejected and the live help chat doesn't understand why
Hello,
My article Wikipedia talk: Articles for creation/ServiceSource has been denied four times for being "promotional" and not having "reliable resources". I do not understand how it is promotional, nor do the live chat helpers. Also, my sources are independant, 3rd party sources (analysts, online magazine articles, etc) whereas Cisco sites their website. The live chat helpers told me to use this page to get to the bottom of the issue as they were unable to help me.
Please help explain why the ServiceSource page is being continually rejected, as no one can seem to figure it out.
Thanks Sally Ekman (talk) 18:26, 15 November 2012 (UTC)Sally Ekman
* Firstly, several of the sources are not reliable by Wikipedia's standards. For example, NASDAQ's company description was obviously written by the company itself. OVUM apparently is a consultancy, not a news source, and I cannot tell where that report was published. Gartner Report may be reliable, but since the Executive Advisory is hidden behind a paywall and they demand the small sum of US$1,295.00 for that 35-page report whose title doesn't mention ServiceSource, it won't be of much use to most of our readers. I suspect that it's an attempt at original synthesis anyway: The statements sourced to that report aren't ServiceSource-specific. The link for the other Gartner report which actually mentions ServiceSource points to their homepage, not to the report itself (which surprisingly is available for free). The InformationWeek report is heavily based on information directly from ServiceSource; its lone other source seems to be the Gartner report which we could just as well cite directly.
* Furthermore, the sources don't necessarily support what they're cited for. For example, the TechTarget article is cited in support of the claim that "before every customer engagement, ServiceSource performs a Service Performance Analysis" - the source doesn't say so. Or take this claim: "Across the global business landscape, many businesses cobble together systems or use spreadsheets to manage their recurring revenue." That's not what the source says, and that part of the source is taken directly from ServiceSource's chief product officer anyway, who is hardly a reliable source on the state of the business before ServiceSource came along. In particular, multiple of the draft's sources noted that ServiceSource claimed that this is the only product of its kind in the market - wrongly. That doesn't inspire any confidence in the statements of ServiceSource's representatives, and this little piece of false advertising somehow isn't mentioned in our draft despite the multitude of sources. These are just some examples.
* Conversely, significant parts of the draft don't cite any sources at all, including the "offices", "management", "board members" and much of the "timeline" section. I don't think any of the draft's sources mentioned, say, the Dublin office. The "products and services" section cites sources, but see above: They don't really support the section's content.
* Finally, there are issues of tone. Admittedly I've seen worse, but phrases such as "focused on developing" (instead of "that develops"?) or "leverages" (instead of "uses" or maybe "is based on"?) and the "global business landscape" I mentioned sound as if they were written by PR people.
* In summary, I believe there are sufficient sources to write a short article on ServiceSource, but this draft's text has too little connection to what the sources actually say about the company. What the current sources don't say but what would also be interesting are such basic facts as ServiceSource's own revenues or their number of employees. Huon (talk) 21:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Brewin Dolphin Scottish Schools Cup
Good evening,
I re-submitted the following article for review about ten days ago. I am new to wikipedia and was wondering if there was a problem.
Kind regards,
Gomach. Gomach (talk) 20:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* There's a backlog of several hundred unreviewed submissions, but I expect yours will be reviewed soon. It's pretty much at the top of the list by now. Please be patient. However, I noticed some possible issues with the draft itself: Firstly, the cup seems to have changed sponsors more than once, and a significant number of references doesn't call it the "Brewin Dolphin" Scottish Schools Cup. At the very least, those changes of sponsors should be mentioned in the draft, and it may be a good idea to name the article itself just "Scottish Schools Cup" and not include the current sponsor in the article name. Secondly, only one of the sources for the Scotland Internationalists actually said that the person in question was indeed an Internationalist: Phil Goodman. The others seem to be original synthesis: There are sources noting the person played in the Scottish Schools Cup, there are other sources noting he plays for the national team, but no sources connecting those facts. That's not something we should engage in. [[User:Huon|Huon (talk) 21:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Understanding and managing Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis(JIA) among Children
NOV 05, 2016
Inflammation of the joints is called arthritis. There are various types of arthritis and this can affect any part of the body. The most common type of arthritis in children is called Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) a rare disease that affects about 80-90 out of every 100,000 children. It is more common in girls.
What one needs to understand is that, Arthiritis, though a common condition found in older people, can occur even among babies and children. The type of arthritis among children is very different from the types that happen in adults. Arthritis can be due to various causes such as infections, malignancy and autoimmune disorders. Autoimmune conditions occur when our body’s immune system reacts against our own body causing inflammation, damage and destruction of our own tissues – in this case, the joints. Also, Arthritis can occur either in isolation (Juvenile idiopathic arthritis) or as part of a systemic disease such as SLE/Lupus, Scleroderma, Vasculitis etc.
Identifying the Problem
Children can develop one or more symptoms according to the type of arthritis. Some of the common symptoms are joint pains, joint swellings, limitation of movement, early morning stiffness, persistent unexplained fevers and rash. In babies and children, the symptoms may be more difficult to recognise. Parents may notice that the child is unable to get out of the bed or wants to be carried in the morning. Older children may limp or are noticeably slow in the morning. Symptoms often (but not always) improve during the course of the day but return after a period of prolonged rest. In some types of arthritis, the main feature is severe back pain or pain behind the heel. In fact, Children with the skin condition called psoriasis, may develop swelling of the entire finger or toe.
Diagnosing Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
JIA is a chronic disease characterized by persistent joint inflammation. Inflammatory arthritis starting before the age of 16 years and persisting for more than 6 weeks, when all other causes have been excluded is called JIA. JIA is not a hereditary disease but is the result of a combination of genetic factors and exposure to environmental factors (probably infections).In some children, JIA is associated with inflammation in the eyes(uveitis). However, there are several subsets of JIA.
The diagnosis of JIA is based on the presence and persistence of arthritis and the careful exclusion of any other disease by medical history, physical examination and laboratory tests. Investigations would include blood tests, X-rays and Ultrasound or MRI scans.
Treating JIA
With recent advances in medical treatments, most children with arthritis do well, can lead a normal life and go on to become independent adults.
The prognosis of arthritis depends on its severity, the clinical form of JIA, how early treatment begins and how adequate the course of treatment followed is. However, the prognosis for JIA has considerably improved by the progresses in therapy that have occurred over the last ten years.
The goal of treatment presently is to achieve early disease remission, prevent joint damage and maintain function by early aggressive treatment. The outcomes are even better if Children with the condition are diagnosed early and treated aggressively.
While treatment varies depending on the type of arthritis, the treatment approach and response also varies amongst the different subtypes. This should be done by a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Paediatric Rheumatologist, Paediatric Physiotherapist and Paediatric Ophthalmologist.
Treatment is based mainly on the use of special advanced drugs that inhibit inflammation and on rehabilitation procedures that preserve joint function and help to prevent deformities.
When only a few joints are involved, these can be treated with injection of steroids into the joint. When many joints are involved or in some specific types of JIA, other forms of treatment are necessary. Pharmacological treatment approaches to JIA has changed dramatically over the last 2 decades. The introduction of biologics in the late 1990s further revolutionised the treatment of this condition in children. With these recent advances in medicine, fears that “arthritis implies life in a wheelchair” are now things of the past.
However, if not properly treated, joint inflammation may produce damage by erosion of articular cartilage and bone and cause deformity which in turn can cause long-term problems such as pain, joint damage and disability with knock on effects on education and psychosocial wellbeing. Hence, treatment should continue as long as the disease persists. Though disease duration is unpredictable, the course of JIA often includes periods of remission and exacerbation, which require very different treatments. Therefore, treatment should be withdrawn completely only after prolonged and complete disease remission.
A positive attitude from parents who support and encourage the child to be as independent as possible despite the disease is extremely valuable in helping the child to overcome difficulties, to successfully cope with his peers and to develop an independent, well-balanced personality.
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Up and Down: Layers of the Forest
Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:33AM
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The forest — any forest, really — doesn’t just stretch out across the land like a blanket (or a washcloth if it’s a small patch of woodland). It goes up and down as well. But this vertical dimension is something we overlook, even those of us who find forests endlessly fascinating.
White PineFor instance, we often talk about the tropical rainforest ecosystem, or the spruce-fir ecosystem, or the oak-pine ecosystem. But by characterizing it that way, we’re missing the fact that every forest type has myriad ecosystems, depending on what level of the forest you’re looking at.
You might compare a forest to a skyscraper, where the building goes down far below ground level, anchored to bedrock just as it soars to the sky above. The lowest levels might be devoted to parking, the next up to operating systems like electricity or heating-ventilating and air conditioning. Shops might colonize the ground floor, offices farther up, apartments take over the mid-levels. Then there are the penthouse apartments, the apex of the skyscraper’s canopy. Unless, of course, it’s a modern skyscraper with a rooftop garden.
Each level is used by a particular group of people for a particular purpose, an ecosystem of individuals. But some people move up and down through the building using multiple niches. It’s complex. A forest is complex too. Of course, the analogy isn’t perfect, but it can give you an idea of how to think about the forest in all its vertical glory.
In the forest the mineral soil layer, or even the layer below that, might be thought of as the basement. Tree roots, and their partners, mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria, access these layers for water and nutrients.
Next up is the organic layer. It’s sometimes divided into two — underneath the rich soil where you can’t distinguish individual rotting leaves and the upper layer, commonly called the duff or leaf litter, where you can. It is a veritable megacity of life forms — bacteria, insects, spiders, mites and other invertebrates; amphibians and some mammals too. It is densely woven with plant roots and laced with the whitish strands of fungal mycelium, the vegetative part of fungi that help turn dead wood and leaves into humus and that partner with trees and shrubs to share nutrients.
The next layer is at ground level: herbaceous plants — ferns, mosses, and woodland wildflowers like ladyFerns in the Forest slippers, Canada mayflower, bunchberry. The next level is that of shrubs — hobblebush, beaked hazelnut, huckleberries and blueberries. Then comes the lower canopy of small shade-tolerant trees like striped maple and eastern hop hornbeam as well as saplings of canopy trees struggling to ascend like a young lawyer striving to make partner. Then the canopy of big trees like birches, maples, oaks, beeches, hemlocks.
But the canopy doesn’t stop there. Beyond it are the “super-canopy” trees. Those that punch through the green layer at the top of the forest. “We have a tree that does that here in Maine, the white pine,” said Andrew Barton, a professor of biology at the University of Maine at Farmington and the author of The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods. “It’s a super canopy tree, an emergent tree. In the southern Appalachians the tulip poplar can play that role. In the Pacific Northwest Douglas fir can do that.”
The canopy and “super canopy” trees are themselves home to plants that never touch the ground. They are called epiphytes — lichens and mosses — and get their nutrients from the air, the rain and debris caught in the bark or limb junctions.
While scientists use the idea of “layers” to teach people about how a forest works, many downplay the idea of distinctly separate layers of the canopy, generally dissected as the ground level layer, the mid-canopy and the upper canopy.
“All forests have layers, but those categories are a little bit artificial. “If you truly look at any forest, tropical or temperate, it’s pretty continuous,” said Barton. “But even though it’s arbitrary it’s incredibly helpful to understand that the forest has this vertical dimension.”
Shawn Fraver, a forest ecologist and professor in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, says the same thing. A lot of early research on canopy communities was done on tropical forests, said Fraver, who has done his share of scientific research in the tropics. “But in Maine, the layers are much less distinct. It’s hard to pick them out. Aside from the forest floor I generally don’t recognize distinct layers.”
Tropical RainforestTropical rainforests — rich, constantly moist, tend to have much more complex and diverse ecosystems than temperate forests.
Forty years ago scientists had little understanding of what tropical rainforest canopies and their communities were like. Intrepid ecologists like Nadini Nadkarni pioneered the art of using mountain climbing equipment and techniques to go high in the forest giants. Nadkarni did censuses of rainforest communities in Costa Rica. Others did similar work in the Pacific Northwest’s coastal rainforests.
Fraver said there hasn’t been nearly as much research on canopy communities in the eastern temperate forests, the plant-insect-animal communities of which are admittedly nowhere near as diverse, partly because winter casts a chill over that upper level biodiversity and partly because those canopies aren’t evenly moist and warm.
Maybe that lack of research into canopy communities in the north stems from the fact that they’re harder to work in than a forest in Amazonia or a redwood/Douglas fir forest.
Fraver thinks it might just be a “lack of interest. There’s no scientific basis for the lack of research. It’s just not on anyone’s radar,” he said. There is life up there, he said, and it’s worth getting to know better. Fraver said a friend and fellow researcher, Gregory McGee of the State University of New York at Syracuse has looked at how epiphyte communities differ among Adirondack forests that are managed differently. Epiphytes are plants like lichens and mosses that grow on other plants.
In one project McGee and two colleagues looked at mites that lived in the canopy of an old sugar maple forest in New York State and found 25 species, including three new to science, Fraver said. The researchers found that there were seven times as many mites on a particular species of lichen as on bare bark, and that trees in old growth and managed stands supported entirely different mite communities.
Most birders would not be surprised by the fact that different species of birds use different levels of trees inYellow Warbler - Photo by Pam Wells the forest. The famous ecologist Robert MacArthur looked at how different types of warblers used the woods and found that they divided it up vertically, said Barton.
Cape May and Blackburnian warblers were in the topmost branches, black-throated green warblers in the mid-levels and the ovenbird, a type of warbler, scratches around on the forest floor, notes Barton.
It’s not only lichens and birds that use the canopy of a temperate forest. Mammals do too. Bats, for instance. Flying squirrels. Some animals move up and down through the canopy and spend part of their time on the ground: fishers, raccoons, porcupines, even bears.
“We don’t have forests as complex as tropical forests, but there are species that live up there. We clearly don’t quite have an appreciation for what is going on up there,” said Barton. “Part of the reason tropical rainforests have so much going on in the canopy is that it’s warm and wet and consistently so most of the year. That allows a canopy ecosystem to develop. In temperate forests it is harder to make a living in the canopy because it’s cold in winter and it sometimes dries out.”
Barton notes that the “layers” of the forest are simply an effort by different species and complexes of species to exploit every niche. Each tree, plant, insect, spider, lichen and so on lives where it does because it has developed a “survival strategy.” One tree species grows tall to soak in a lot of light. A shorter one gets along with less light in the shadows of the giants, but both survive, he said.
Fraver muses that, if you think about it, you’ll see that the forest is truly a vertical environment. Water and nutrients are drawn skyward by trees, which use sunlight to make carbohydrates that feed the tree, which produces pollen used by insects, and seeds, which float on the wind or fall to the forest floor to nourish other beings. Bits of bark and lichen and limbs are constantly raining down to the forest floor. “It’s a continuous cycle that takes place in a vertical plane. And it’s that cycling that keeps the forest alive,” Fraver said.
Joe Rankin lives in New Sharon.
Article originally appeared on Forests for Maine's Future (http://www.forestsformainesfuture.org/).
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Laravel & google cloud platform do mix!
Laravel & google cloud platform do mix!
My presentation about running Laravel -the popular PHP framework- on Google App Engine. Session delivered at GDG Cairo through the GCP Next Extended season, on May 7th 2016. Original presentation on GDrive: https://goo.gl/vF5jaX
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1. Laravel & Google Cloud Platform Do Mix! Abdelrahman Omran me@omranic.com
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2. Session Outline This is just a proof of concept session,
you get the concepts and dig deeper. Here’s what we’ll learn today? 1. What’s Google Cloud Platform? & Why? 2. What’s Google App Engine? 3. What’s Google Cloud Console? 4. What’s the other Google Cloud Services? 5. What’s Laravel? & Why? 6. Launch your Laravel Project on GCP in less than 10 minutes! Go ahead and register for a free trial with $300 free credit and make some awesome powerful apps! ;) https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/
3. What’s GCP?
4. What’s GAE?
5. What’s GCC?
6. Other GCP Services?
7. Why GCP?
8. What’s Laravel? & Why?
9. The hybrid mix!
10. Technical Steps #1 1. Download Google App Engine SDK for
PHP & follow installation steps on the same page according to your OS: https://cloud.google. com/appengine/downloads 2. Google Cloud Console > Create New Project “gcpcairo2” https://console. cloud.google.com 3. git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git gcpcairo2
11. Technical Steps #2 3. git checkout 5.1 4. Install `shpasser/GaeSupportL5`
composer package: https://github. com/shpasser/GaeSupportL5 Add the following line to the `require` array in your project’s composer.json "shpasser/gae-support-l5": "~1.0" 5. Run `composer install` inside project’s directory to install all requirements.
12. Technical Steps #3 6. Then include the service provider within
`config/app.php` file: Shpasser\GaeSupportL5\GaeSupportServiceProvider::class, 7. Generate Laravel key: php -r "copy('.env.example', '.env');" php artisan key:generate
13. Technical Steps #4 7. Now it’s time to prepare the
project for Google App Engine: php artisan gae:setup --config gcpcairo2 8. Add the following lines to your `.env` for cache performance: CACHE_SERVICES_FILE=true CACHE_CONFIG_FILE=true CACHE_ROUTES_FILE=true CACHE_COMPILED_VIEWS=true
14. Technical Steps #5 9. Temporary enable debug mode in `.env`
file: APP_DEBUG=true 10. It’s time to deploy your application online: appcfg.py -A gcpcairo2 -V v1 update . --noauth_local_webserver 11. You’re done! Access: https://gcpcairo2.appspot.com
15. Register Now & Get Started Go ahead and register for
a free trial with $300 free credit and make some awesome powerful apps! ;) https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/
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What Causes Tingling on Your Left Arm?
Tingling on the left arm is often caused by damage to local nerves or blood vessels. Follow our guide to find out the exact cause and get proper treatments.
Tingling sensation in the left arm is often described as a pricking or abnormal sensation. Occasionally a burning or numb sensation will accompany this symptom. Tingling or numbness in the left arm is known as paresthesia, and can be caused by a number of different ailments. In most cases this is a sign that blood flow or nerve function in the arm is being interrupted.
Causes of Tingling in Left Arm: an Alarm for a Heart Attack?
Many panic when the left arm begins to go numb or tingle because this side effect is commonly associated with a heart attack. Numbness caused by an impending heart attack will be accompanied by tightness in the jaw or chest. This pain is commonly described as a squeezing sensation or the feeling as if a great deal of pressure is being placed on the chest, which will begin to radiate to the back and down the arms as your condition worsens.
Other potential causes of tingling in left arm include:
• Stroke: Sudden tingling or numbness in left arm can be the sign of an impending stroke. You may start to feel very dizzy or lightheaded and one side of your body will start to droop. You may begin to slur your words and have trouble communicating clearly as the condition takes hold.
• Vitamin deficiencyA lack of vitamin B12 will often cause numbness or tingling in the limbs. This nutrient is essential to healthy brain and nerve development, so a deficiency can cause the body to start feeling strange sensations if your nerves are not being maintained properly.
• Improper circulationDecreased blood flow to any portion of the left arm can cause it to tingle or feel numb. A tight piece of clothing or jewelry may be cutting off the circulation to the rest of the arm, leading to the pins and needles sensation often referred to as the limb "falling asleep." Sitting or lying in an awkward position that does not allow proper blood flow to the arm can also cause this condition.
• Carpal tunnel syndrome or CTSPutting excessive pressure on the joints can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition where the circulation becomes oppressed due to compressed tissue. Those who frequently sit with poor posture or perform activities that are hard on the wrists such as excessive typing are susceptible to developing this condition.
• Vascular disorderIf the blood vessels become damaged or constricted, They can damage the circulation to the left arm. You may notice the fingertips turning blue or a loss of sensation that spreads up the arm. In more severe cases you may begin to notice muscle weakness as the tissue in your arm is deprived of nutrients from your blood.
• Nerve damageNerve damage in the spine, shoulder or neck can cause the left arm to go numb. Ruptured vertebrae, a bulging disk or compressed nerve in the shoulder are frequent offenders for this condition.
Treatments for Tingling in Left Arm
Home care can often help alleviate some discomfort from tingling developing in the left arm. But severe conditions need medical assistance.
• For carpal tunnel syndrome: If you are suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, make an effort to avoid activities that aggravate your condition. Sit in a more appropriate posture and work to keep the wrists straight. Your doctor may recommend exercises that will take the pressure off of your joints to help undo some of the damage.
• For vitamin deficiency: Those suffering from a vitamin deficiency can take supplements to increase their intake of the necessary nutrients.
• For nerve damage: If nerve damage in the arm is stemming from a condition such as diabetes, an adjustment to the diet can help regulate your circulation more effectively to avoid causing further damage.
• For injuries to the arm: Injuries to the arm that lead to tingling sensations can be treated with rest. Avoid straining your left arm. Place a cold compress on bruised or swollen areas and sit with the arm propped above the heart to help take down swelling. In some cases injuries to the arm can be aided with light stretching or massage, but consult your doctor before doing so to ensure this will not aggravate your condition further.
• For severe conditions: If the tingling in left arm is accompanied by a sudden feeling of weakness, confusion, a feeling that you cannot control your body parts or bowel movements, dizziness or increased urination, tingling when you walk or attempt to move your arm or feeling as though you may lose consciousness, it is important to seek medical attention immediately. These are signs of severe damage that could lead to a life threatening condition.
• For other conditions: If you begin to feel numbness after a fall or an injury to the back or neck, contact your doctor to evaluate the extent of the damage. You will also need to inform your doctor if you suddenly experience a tingling sensation in your arm with no apparent cause. You may have caused nerve or muscle damage that will require treatment to avoid worsening your condition. This is especially important if you develop a rash or if the numbness in your arm is accompanied by muscle spasms, dizziness, unusual changes in behavior or personality, or pain in the neck, forearm and fingers.
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Myrsidea
Myrsidea is a genus of lice belonging to the family Menoponidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
Selected species:
* Myrsidea abhorrens (Zlotorzycka, 1964)
* Myrsidea abidae Ansari, 1956
* Myrsidea rustica (Giebel, 1874)
* Myrsidea victrix Waterston, 1915 | WIKI |
LightSail Announces Acquisition by Agile Investment Group
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- LightSail Education today announced that it has been acquired by Agile Group, a technology firm focused on education platforms. Agile was attracted to LightSail's vision of improving the literacy outcomes for students in the US and around the world. LightSail's adaptive platform provides each student with a customized and dynamic library tailored to their individual reading level while providing educators with insightful data to guide their students to success. LightSail is being used by hundreds of thousands of K-12 students in schools and districts nationwide and in more than a dozen countries. The company will continue to operate as LightSail Education.
"LightSail has developed a best-in-class literacy platform in the market and created a collection of high-quality content through our Antares imprint," says Gideon Stein, LightSail's founder. "We are excited to have found the right strategic partner who brings a substantial amount of technical expertise and financial resources to continue the critically important work LightSail set out to do when we launched five years ago."
Agile is investing significantly in the LightSail platform, and LightSail recently deployed several school districts on its new HTML5 platform. In addition, Agile will be rolling out a parent portal shortly and continuing to invest in high quality Antares content for students and schools.
Eric Solat, Agile's Vice President for North America, stated, "We are incredibly excited about our acquisition of LightSail. After visiting numerous LightSail schools, we were deeply impressed with the level of student engagement and the success stories we witnessed in classrooms." He added, "We're focused on continuing to support schools as we expand across the US and abroad."
Good Harbor Partners was the exclusive financial advisor to LightSail Education in this transaction. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About LightSail
LightSail is the adaptive reading platform that helps students, classrooms, and school districts exceed their literacy goals.
LightSail students get access to personalized libraries filled with thousands of engaging, just-right texts to choose from. Its award-winning solution embeds in-text assessments that motivate students to increase the volume of their reading along with the difficulty of the texts they choose.
LightSail teachers get real-time access to meaningful data about student reading behavior, comprehension, Lexile Ⓡ level and growth so they can provide the necessary guidance to enhance learning and encourage a love of reading. For more information, visit lightsailed.com .
LightSail has been honored with many industry awards, including:
● 5-Star Rating Graphite Site for Educators
Common Sense Media
● Winner, 'Mindful Data' Digital Innovation in Learning Award
EdSurge & Digital Promise
● Top Honors in the Literacy Courseware Challenge
Gates Foundation
● Educators' Choice and Most Likely to Succeed
SIIA Ed Business Forum
● Return On Education VentureED Award
ASU-GSV
● One of Ten Companies Revolutionizing Entrepreneurship
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Microsoft tells UK it will license 'Call of Duty' to Sony for 10 years
By Paul Sandle
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - Microsoft MSFT.O said it would license Activision Blizzard's ATVI.O "Call of Duty" (CoD) to Sony for 10 years to address concerns raised by Britain over its $69 billion takeover of the games maker, according to a document published by the regulator.
Microsoft last month struck a similar deal with Nvidia Corp's NVDA.O gaming platform, dependent on it getting the go-ahead for the much-contested acquisition.
Microsoft President Brad Smith had said he hoped that rival Sony - which has strongly opposed the takeover - would consider doing the same type of deal.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in February said the deal could weaken the rivalry between Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation, and stifle competition in cloud gaming.
It suggested that structural remedies could be needed to allay its concerns, including divesting the business associated with 'Call of Duty.'
Sony, in its response to the CMA's findings, said the package of remedies it would offer protected all CoD players in Britain and provided substantial benefits to consumers and developers.
It added that it believed that the criteria for the CMA to consider behavioural remedies, such as those offered, had been met.
Sony, in its own submission to the CMA, rejected Microsoft's proposals, saying the only way to preserve competition in consoles and cloud gaming was to block the deal or subject it to a structural remedy, such as making Microsoft sell CoD.
The biggest-ever deal in gaming, announced in January last year, is facing scrutiny in the United States and in Europe.
Microsoft is expected to secure EU antitrust approval with its offer of licensing deals to rivals, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters earlier this month, helping it to clear a major hurdle.
The CMA will rule on the deal on April 22.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle and Yadarisa Shabong; Editing by Kylie MacLellan and Mark Porter)
((paul.sandle@thomsonreuters.com; +44 20 7542 6843; Reuters Messaging: paul.sandle.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
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Talk:Monarchy of Ceylon
Monarchy of Ceylon
The British Monarchy of Ceylon began when the country became a colony not when the country became independent. This is a colonial link. Please don't edit war.--Blackknight12 (talk) 07:46, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
* Agreed, but should the list go back to 1796 when the British took over the Dutch possessions on the island?-- obi2canibe talk contr 14:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
Hmm. The King of Great Britain was certainly recognized as King of Kandy, unusually, at the British annexation of Ceylon. However, Ceylon until 1948 was not a sovereign independent state, nor a protectorate of Britain, and furthermore the style of 'King/Ceylon of Kandy/Ceylon' was not used in any official, separate way, nor was their supposed to be a distinct Kandyian office held by the British monarch distinct from his/her British dignity, as there is today between the British monarch's separate roles as, say Queen of the UK and as Queen of Canada. Sovereign states (or protectorates or tribute states) have monarchs, colonies do not, and Ceylon after the British annexation and prior to 1948 was a British colony, and no more had a separate 'monarchy' as say, the Falkland Islands do today.
This article, at any rate was intended to be a page detailing the distinct monarchy that existed prior to 1972 and from 1948, under the Commonwealth Realm. It was not intended to have anything to do with the period under British rule JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk) 23:08, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
* The date 1796 was the date the British landed on the Island of Ceylon, however it was not until the signing of the Kandyan Convention, in March 1815, that the British Monarch was recognized by both parties. See here
* The intention of this article was supposed to be the Monarchy of the island under the British, hence 1815-1972.--Blackknight12 (talk) 03:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
There appears to be some confusion here. 1948-1972, Ceylon was not 'under the British': it was a completely independent, sovereign state that was a member of the U.N. It just happened Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom was also at the same time Queen of Ceylon, as she is today as regards Ceylon was fully independent from Britain after 1948, and in no way, shape or form was Ceylon in any way subservient in any way to Britain. It was just in a personal union with Britain.
Yes, under the articles of the 1815 Kandyan convention, Ceylon was ceded to the British and the British monarch was recognised as King of Kandy, (which merits mention in this article), Ceylon 1815-1948 did not constitute a separate state, it was merely British territory, just like, in the case of Fiji, the British monarch was recognised as Tui Viti (and still was til 2012), but Fiji until 1970 was simply a Crown Colony.
Please see the articles Commonwealth realm and personal union, as well as Dominion of Ceylon and Statute of Westminster.
Also, whilst I'm not in any way implying page ownership, I created this page in line with the other pages describing the monarchies of the other former Commonwealth Realms, it was not intended to have anything to do with the period 1815-1948 when Ceylon was a British Crown Colony.JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk) 13:45, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
* There seems to be a lot of information here on the evolution of the monarchy and I don't see why it all cant be placed in the history section.--Blackknight12 (talk) 05:11, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
These articles are about the monarchies as independant commonweatlh monarchies not colonial ones:
* Monarchy of the Gambia
* Monarchy of Ghana
* Monarchy of Guyana
* Monarchy of India
* Monarchy of the Irish Free State
* Monarchy of Kenya
* Monarchy of Malawi
* Monarchy of Malta
* Monarchy of Mauritius
* Monarchy of Nigeria
* Monarchy of Pakistan
* Monarchy of Sierra Leone
* Monarchy of South Africa
* Monarchy of Tanganyika
* Monarchy of Trinidad and Tobago
* Monarchy of Uganda
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
* Also the Monarchy of Fiji is in the process of being improved. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
RfC: Merge and disambiguate
Should the content of this article be merged into Dominion of Ceylon and the page turned into a disambiguation page? 14:46, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
* Yes. The article title, in relation to this topic, is essentially a wikipedia neologism. In older sources, the pre-colonial monarchs are meant when referring to monarchs in Ceylon, e.g.:
* Tribune by Ceylon News Service (1975): "From the beginning of its history, Ceylon has been a monarchy, with two and often three kingdoms within its small..."
* Tribune (1971): "for over 2000 years, it is asserted, Ceylon had a history of monarchy"
* The Approach to Self-Government by Ivor Jennings (1958), p. 8: "There had been a monarchy in Ceylon for some two thousand or two thousand five hundred years."
* The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1957): "The Ramayana refers to Ravana, the Rakshatha king of Ceylon, as a monarch of great culture and prowess"
* On the Chronicles of Ceylon by Bimala Churn Law (1947), p. 15: "Dhatusena is the only king of Ceylon after Mahasena who finds an incidental mention in the Mahdvamsa"
* Commercial Ceylon by Samuel Ernest N. Nicholas (1933), p. 104: "at times help was sought and rendered from ruling dynasties of Southern India, with whom the kings of the Island during the last stages of the Ceylon monarchy were linked by marriage"
* The Early History of Ceylon and Its Relations with India by G. C. Mendis (1932): "received as tribute gems and elephants from the king of Ceylon."
* Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658 by Paulus Edward Pieris (1920), p. 256: "the monarchy that prevailed in Ceylon was the only form of government that the Sinhalese could conceive"
* Ceylon in the Jubilee Year by John Ferguson (1887), p. 391: "the ancient capital of the Sinhalese monarchy in Ceylon"
* Memoir on the History of the Tooth-relic of Ceylon by Joseph Gerson da Cunha (1875), p. 47: "would marry a daughter of the king of Ceylon"
* Ceylon, an Account of the Island by James Emerson Tennent (1860): "crushing by elephants continued to the latest period of the Ceylon monarchy"
* The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1849): Besides having been the great headquarters of Buddhism, and long the seat of an active and splendid monarchy, Ceylon is the theatre were nature has displayed as many and as curious attractions as any portion of the Globe."
* Although nowadays the pre-colonial monarchies are called Sri Lankan monarchies, there are also sources that refer to the post-colonial Dominion of Ceylon and its monarch as Sri Lankan, e.g.:
* Ideas for Constitutional Reform by Chanaka Amaratunga (1989): "the restoration of the British monarchy in Sri Lanka would detract from our independence"
* Sri Lanka Today, vol. 25, p. 12 (1978): "the 1972 Republican Constitution ... broke away from that and vested the sovereignty not in the monarch who was the Queen of Sri Lanka but in the legislature, in the people."
* Therefore, the term "monarchy of Ceylon" is ambiguous and, as far as I can tell, is only used in two books, neither of which refers to the current topic of the article:
* The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1830): "The monarchy of Ceylon is completely elective, according to the fundamental laws of the kingdom".
* Tobias Smollett in The Critical Review (1811): "The monarchy of Ceylon, though situated in an island, does not command an inch of coast." DrKay (talk) 14:46, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
* Tobias Smollett in The Critical Review (1811): "The monarchy of Ceylon, though situated in an island, does not command an inch of coast." DrKay (talk) 14:46, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
* yes - Dominion of Ceylon is quite enough. There do not appear to be sufficient reliable sources specifically for the Monarchy. Note also that Monarchy of India has been recently made a redirect. - Kautilya3 (talk) 00:46, 3 December 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:UK Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 5 Road Markings. 2003 (Sixth Impression 2009).pdf/119
road is prohibited at any time during a period of at least four consecutive months. The single mark (diagram 1019) indicates that the prohibition applies for some lesser time (of day, week or year) than this. The restriction imposed by these markings applies from the centre of the road to the highway boundary on the side the marking is laid.
The kerb mark is 100 mm wide, with a gap of 100 mm between the lines of the double mark. The mark should be 250 mm long and may be extended down the kerb face. Where there is no raised kerb, the 300 mm mark should be used, positioned so that its nearer end is approximately 250 mm from the prohibition of waiting line.
The marks should be laid so that the first and last in the series correspond with the limits of the prohibition. Where two types of prohibition meet, the more restrictive marking should be placed at the point of change (see figure 20-1). The marks should be repeated at approximately 3 m intervals, but may be varied to between 2 m and 4 m to avoid a short length at the end. This spacing ensures that there will always be a mark alongside a stationary vehicle. A larger spacing would allow a vehicle to stop between the marks and a driver might claim that it was not clear that the prohibition extended between them.
The marks must not be laid at a pedestrian crossing, or within its controlled area.
NOTE: In Northern Ireland the colour of diagram 1028.2 may be varied to white. 117 | WIKI |
Twenty-fourth government of Israel
The twenty-fourth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Shamir of Likud on 11 June 1990. This followed the failure of Alignment leader Shimon Peres to form a government, after the Alignment had pulled out of the previous national unity coalition, in an incident which became known as the dirty trick.
Shamir's coalition included Likud, the National Religious Party, Shas, Agudat Yisrael, Degel HaTorah, the New Liberal Party, Tehiya, Tzomet, Moledet, Unity for Peace and Immigration and Geulat Yisrael, and held 62 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. Some authors (including political scientist Clive A. Jones and historians Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris ) later asserted that the 24th government of Israel was the most right-wing government in the country's history. Tehiya, Tzomet and Moledet all left the coalition in late 1991 and early 1992 in protest at Shamir's participation in the Madrid Conference, but the government remained in office until Yitzhak Rabin formed the twenty-fifth government, following the Labor Party's victory in the 1992 elections.
Cabinet members
1 Although Ne'eman was not a Knesset member at the time, he was a member of Tehiya.
2 Although Deri was not a Knesset member at the time, he was a member of Shas. | WIKI |
Dear Doctors: My wife and I are lending my parents a hand during the lockdown. They’re in their 80s, and we’ve noticed how many meds they are taking. They’re from a bunch of different doctors, and some may even be duplicates. How do we get things organized?
Dear Reader: As people age, they often begin to experience a variety of health conditions that lead them to seek out specialists. This can result in multiple diagnoses, each accompanied by prescriptions. If a patient isn’t well-versed in the medications they are taking and there is limited communication between their physicians, it is possible for them to wind up with prescriptions that overlap, or that lead to adverse interactions. Taking more pills than one needs is known as polypharmacy, which has become increasingly common as a large portion of the population ages.
The good news is that, with a bit of detective work and a few organizational tools, you can tame the medication tangle. Start by gathering all the medications that each parent takes. Note the name of the drug and its purpose, the dosage, the prescribing doctor and contact info, and the directions for taking it. Be sure to include over-the-counter meds, vitamins and supplements, as these can contribute to adverse interactions. If possible, make an appointment with each parent’s primary care physician for them to evaluate the meds list and, if needed, recommend changes. Office visits can be difficult to schedule, so if you have pressing concerns, your local pharmacist can identify problematic combinations. However, don’t make any changes without first checking with a health care provider.
Once the necessary and appropriate meds have been identified, create and print out a master list for each parent. Have them take their own list to each medical appointment and share it with that health care provider so the meds list is reevaluated regularly, greatly reducing the risk of duplicate prescriptions or an adverse drug interaction. When changes are made, update the master list.
Invest in weekly pill organizers. When you’re filling the boxes, it’s just as easy to set up two or three weeks’ worth of meds. Keep all of medications in one safe location, away from heat, moisture or direct sunlight, and – this is crucial – secure from children. It’s also important to keep an eye on expiration dates. Review how to dispense of expired meds. Local pharmacies and police stations often have drop-off boxes for them.
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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Armaansinghips/Archive
Suspected sockpuppets
* ( original case name)
Similar user name with "0011", repeating this edit:, ; re-creating "Draft:Department of Central Investigation": , and pages claiming to be from this department: , - Pankajsingh0011's user page was already deleted, but I think it had the same thing, see also User talk:Pankajsingh0011. Please also delete those pages again per G3 / blatant hoax - there is no such thing as the "Department of Central Investigation".
Bonus points / extra credit: The above is enough to block Rahul001177, but there is likely an older master if you want to pursue it, though I'm not sure which is the original. This is related to an ongoing police-impersonation scam/hoax, see the ANI report and news reports:. There may be more than one person involved. Content and pages about a series of non-existent Indian police/intelligence agencies have been created, some purporting to be "official pages", and edits to List of Indian intelligence agencies and similar articles. Compare these edits about the fake "Anti-Crime Organization" with those about the fake "Department of Central Investigation": :, : , :, and Rahul001177: (again, Pankajsingh0011's user page was deleted). Also this edit where Rahul001177 removes the section about "Anti-Crime Organization" from Talk:List of Indian intelligence agencies:. Anti13931, Use4012, Use4022, and have already been blocked for abuse of multiple accounts, see the ANI report. The cu indicated the oldest, Anti13931, might not be the same as the others, but to me, behaviorally they are identical to each other, and also a match to Pankajsingh0011 and Rahul001177.
They are also likely a sock or meatpuppet of and/or, who previously had created pages about another non-existent "Department of Criminal Intelligence", as described in the ANI report above. I haven't been able to find exactly-matching diffs with the others, but I did find matching fake Facebook and Linked In profiles, complete with matching fake logos for the "Department of Criminal Intelligence": and "Department of Central Investigation" ; (at least they corrected the misspelling of "Departmemt" in the new logo) so it's obviously the same group, if not the same person. IamNotU (talk) 13:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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* Based on behavior, I am certain that Rahul001177 is related to Pankajsingh0011. I also agree with IamNotU's assessment that the Anti13931/Use4012/Use4022/Use4011 are probably related to this group, though I think all of them are stale. Throwing a few more very likely socks onto the pile, I'll hand out the blocks for them in a bit:
* (stale)
* (stale, but their block is currently a softblock which should be upgraded to hardblock) GeneralNotability (talk) 20:41, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
* It's pretty clear that there is some kind of coordinated hoaxing/scamming going on here - all of them are creating/editing articles to push the existence of a fictitious government agency and reference the Ministry of Home Affairs as their justification. Armaansinghips and Osama shaikh y2aj fitness have somewhat different behavior from the others, but I think they are all working in concert so I've lumped them in. Since most of these accounts are one-off (and stale), I don't think there is much value in a sleeper check. everyone involved on behavioral evidence. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:01, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
* It's pretty clear that there is some kind of coordinated hoaxing/scamming going on here - all of them are creating/editing articles to push the existence of a fictitious government agency and reference the Ministry of Home Affairs as their justification. Armaansinghips and Osama shaikh y2aj fitness have somewhat different behavior from the others, but I think they are all working in concert so I've lumped them in. Since most of these accounts are one-off (and stale), I don't think there is much value in a sleeper check. everyone involved on behavioral evidence. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:01, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Suspected sockpuppets
Similar names, see e.g. Pankajsingh0011 in previous report. Adding references to a fake "Department of Central Investigation" as part of a police impersonation hoax/scam. New11002 is already indeffed for disruption. The IPs are stale, just adding for reference. IamNotU (talk) 20:28, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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* All named accounts blocked. IP reports were explicitly pro-forma. Closing, Cabayi (talk) 10:04, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Suspected sockpuppets
Another sock or meat puppet perpetuating the same hoax of a fake "Department of Criminal Intelligence", which has not existed since 1920, (other socks have also used the non-existent "Department of Central Investigation") as part of a police-impersonation scheme:, etc. See previous SPI reports. IamNotU (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
* In the meantime I reported them to AIV for ongoing vandalism/hoax edits, and they've been blocked. --IamNotU (talk) 13:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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* , Nothing more to do. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 14:59, 23 December 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
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