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Whirlwind Whirlwind - 1 year ago 130
Swift Question
Updating pods (Charts) to the latest Swift syntax
Currently I am using Charts pod in my Objective-C project, so I had to open it today in Xcode 8.1 and of course, I got this message:
warning
This wouldn't be a problem if it was my code, but we are talking here about pods. So, what would be the proper way to handle this warning and switch to Swift 3 syntax for this pod?
What I have tried:
I have run pod update command, and updated it hopefully to the latest version...Still, I am getting the same message when I open Xcode. This is my Podfile:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '9.2'
pod 'Charts', '~> 3.0'
use_frameworks!
target 'drivingCOACH' do
pod 'Charts', '~> 3.0'
end
Answer Source
The Charts pod is documented on https://cocoapods.org/pods/Charts. Current version (at the time of the question) is using Swift 3.0. So when using it, all your dependencies must be using Swift 3.0 too (you can't mix dependencies of different Swift versions when using Frameworks, which is currently a mandatory requirement).
You could manually change build settings to specify that each pod target is for Swift 3.0 (by setting "Use legacy Swift" value to NO). But because your project is in Objective-C, you may end up to do this operation each time you run pod install.
To avoid that trouble, you can extend the installation script of your Podfile to include those lines, and it will perform exactly the same as above on your next pod install:
post_install do |installer|
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
target.build_configurations.each do |config|
config.build_settings['SWIFT_VERSION'] = '3.0'
end
end
end
Those lines won't be needed anymore the day you decide to integrate some Swift code to your app, because CocoaPods will then match the dependencies Swift version to what you are using.
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Activist in South Korea Dies of Injuries From Police Water Cannon
SEOUL, South Korea — An activist farmer who was expelled from school twice for protesting the rule of the military dictator Park Chung-hee of South Korea died on Sunday as a result of injuries he sustained while opposing Mr. Park’s daughter, President Park Geun-hye. The farmer, Baek Nam-gi, 68, was struck by a police water cannon last November during the largest antigovernment demonstration under Ms. Park. He had remained in a coma at Seoul National University Hospital since, becoming a symbol of what government critics call rising police brutality and the erosion of freedom of assembly under Ms. Park. After the hospital announced that Mr. Baek had died of kidney failure on Sunday afternoon, hundreds of students and other supporters gathered there. Thousands of police officers were deployed to the hospital out of fear that his death might lead to antigovernment protests. In June, Maina Kiai, the special rapporteur at the United Nations on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, cited Mr. Baek’s case in criticizing what he called an excessive use of water cannons by the police and shrinking space for exercising the right to peaceful assembly under Ms. Park. “In footage made available to the special rapporteur, the water cannon was used against largely peaceful crowds. In certain cases, lone individuals were targeted, a use difficult to justify,” he wrote. “The case of Mr. Baek Nam-gi is a tragic illustration of this.” Mr. Baek was born in 1947 in Boseong in rural southwestern South Korea. He was expelled from Chung-Ang University in Seoul in 1971 for leading a demonstration against Mr. Park’s deployment of troops on college campuses to intimidate student activists. He was later allowed to re-enroll but was soon on the run from the police for organizing protests against Mr. Park’s constitutional revision aimed at extending his dictatorship. While in hiding in a cathedral in Seoul, he became a Roman Catholic. He was expelled again from school in 1975 but returned after the assassination of Mr. Park by his intelligence chief in 1979. Mr. Baek then led students in a march against Chun Doo-hwan, an army major general who seized power in a coup after Mr. Park’s death. Mr. Chun’s martial-law troops arrested Mr. Baek during raids on school dormitories in 1980. He was expelled from school a third time and was later sentenced to two years in prison. He was freed in 1981. Unlike former student activists who entered politics and became national figures, Mr. Baek devoted himself to fighting for the rights of poor rural farmers. Few other South Koreans had heard of Mr. Baek again until the news media reported that a farmer had been knocked unconscious by a police water cannon in Seoul in November. The water cannon continued to blast Mr. Baek as he lay on the ground. Doctors later reported that he had a cerebral hemorrhage that they suspected was caused by the water cannon. Prosecutors are still investigating the case.
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hi, just bought a sansa connect today and go to install the drivers from the CD and it won’t let me because I am running 64 bit windows xp… it says its only good for 32 bit windows… any idea if there are 64 bit drivers in existance out there??? Hopefully they start putting 32bit vs. 64bit on boxes for this kind of stuff, because I didn’t think about it until after I already bought it…
thanks
Yeah, i’ve noticed that Windows XP 64 Bit has some problems with MTP devices. The device might work but it can still encounter some other dilemmas due to this compatiblity inconsistency. So, in essence, it’s the operating system causing the conflict.
Agreed. If the OS supports MTP, the Connect should work with it. (although libmtp on Linux does not support the Connect, it’s just because that’s not a robust API and is constantly being developed)
Take the issue up with Windows Media, if their MTP on x64 is not working, I would say the issue belongs to them.
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Invasion of Panama
The invasion of Panama occurred in 1989 when the United States of America invaded the place. The invasion of Panama occurred during the presidency of George H. W. Bush Senior. The reason for the invasion was because the President of Panama by then called Manuel Noriega was claimed to be a dictator and was known for drug trafficking. The government of US wanted to bring Noriega to justice. Noriega became the head of the National Guard in 1983 thus becoming a powerful person in Panama. The fact that he had this position of power he was then able to have control over the military and thus was able to make it easy to manipulate the elections. When Noriega was the President, corruption became widespread and he was able to kill or arrest anyone he thought was opposing him. When the United States of America heard that Noriega was working with some drug producers caused them to make sanctions on the country (Harding). This angered Noriega because the sanctions were affecting the economy of the country.
When Noriega was declared to be the president he made it clear that the US and Panama were at war. The war started when an American Marine was shot dead by someone from Panama. This action caused the American president Bush to declare war on Panama by the name of Operation Just Cause. In the operation, Panama lost the fight and had Noriega surrendering in 1990. The aftermath of the invasion saw the deaths of so many Panamas’ people who were innocent or had no connections to Noriega (Harding). This is what has caused many people to have outrage over the actions America took over the matter. There were key players that took part especially in decision making in the invasion of Panama by the United States and they are the military, the intelligence, the president, the presidential advisors and the National Security Council. Some of the people who took part in the decision making of the invasion of Panama wrote memoirs about the events.
The president and his advisors are primarily the people who are in charge of a country and whatever events that might, happen. They are the ones who make or break a country. In looking at the invasion of Panama, it is clear that the president’s decision to let it occur was influenced by many people who surround him. This therefore, means that if the decision was the wrong one then many people especially his advisors should be blamed.
The Presidential Advisers
The presidential advisers are very important people in America and the world as a whole. The reason for stating this is that they are usually involved in most decisions made by the president affecting the nation. The presidential advisers are claimed to be the people who help the president in making certain decisions about some matters in the nation. Some of the notable president advisors during the Bush administration are the secretary of defence Dick Cheney and some of his friends whom he had appointed as senior officials in the government. They were the ones who encouraged and suggested some of the decisions that were made during the invasion of Panama. There are some policies, which they also suggested that were used in the fight and invasion.
The most powerful person in a nation is stated to be the president. This is because he is the one who is responsible n making decisions that are considered to be extremely difficult and complex both domestic and international. Most of the decisions made by the president sometimes are influenced by the team of experts that are surrounding the president. The personality of the president especially towards the experts is what makes up the decisions that they make. According to some researches, it is stated that president Bush was a navigator therefore, he listened for more ideas on what to do before coming up with a good decision on the invasion of Panama. After President Bush took over as the President, he assigned most of the people he worked with as the experts that he would use to make decisions about the country. The President Bush of United States has had earlier interaction with Noriega when he was the director of CIA (Harding).
Noriega was the informant of the United States of America especially about the drug trafficking problems that are occurring in Panama and its surrounding. President Bush was the one who worked closely with him and thus they were able to be friends. When Noriega was acting as a spy and informant for the United States of America, he was given immunity for so many things. This caused him to do whatever he wanted. As an informant, he had shady deals with some of the drug lords whom he did business with in Panama (Lindsay-Poland). At the time Bush was in office at the CIA, he should have captured him at that time before he ended up being the powerful man in Panama. There were many things the American government could have prevented the events that led up to the invasion.
The President is the one who has the last word in decision he can overrule all the advisors or policy makers and pass a decision that he wishes. The president agreed to the Invasion of Cause when the American state was declared to be in a state of war by Panama as declared by president Noriega. The reason that made the President come to war with Panama was because of the lives of the Americans that were in Panama whose lives were in danger. A marine from America was killed as a statement from Panama. This action caused many advisers for the President and other people in the nation especially those in the National Government to pressure the President to take serious actions as America as whole was been targeted. This made President Bush to sign the necessary papers in order to give consent that the war should push through. Before the Operation Just Cause pushed through there had been previous operations that were formulated in order to take down Noriega. This was when Noriega was very powerful in that he was able to rig the elections in order to have a puppet President that he could control. If these operations had been carried before then it would have been easier to prevent the aftermath of the invasion in 1989. The president did not let the operation occur because he did not want any problems with the state of Panama.
The military and defence forces
The military and the defence forces were the ones who carried out the invasion of Panama. In the military and defence personnel, is made up of a hierarchy of command. The president is considered to be the chief commander of the armed forces. This therefore, means all military and defence personnel are under the president. The meaning in this statement is that all the orders that were carried out in the invasion came directly from the president. The fact that the president and the military and defence personnel work together has caused them to be part of the decision-making before the invasion (Fishel).
It has been claimed the military personnel had intensive preparations before the invasion even took place. In the preparations, the troops practiced and had intense training. This made is easy for the troops while they were on the ground to fight and achieved what they achieved in Panama. In the invasion, it has been stated that the military personnel that took part in the invasion were from the southern command of the United States, which had the 82nd Airborne division, the 7th infantry division, the navy, the aviation brigade, the marine corps and the special forces of the united states of America. The first troops that were taken to panama were done in 20th December 1989 with the troops estimated to be over 2700 (Fishel). There were many operations that were conducted by the military and defence forces in the invasion. These operations were spearheaded by the commanders of the troops. Most of the operations was done with communication between the commanders he president and the troops before any decision was done on the ground. General Brent Scowcroft is considered to one of the key decision makers in the invasion of Panama (Yates). He communicated with the troops from the white house. There are some operations that were done with the troops because of the spar of the moment or because they had to think and act immediately. These actions are done when there is immediate danger or the lives of the soldiers were in danger.
The decisions for this action are usually done by the troop’s leader (Brent & Zbigniew). Some of operation that are known are the operation of Nifty Package in which the SEALs were to destroy any route or vessel that Noriega would use to escape the nation and also they were supposed to capture him. These actions are what led to the capture of Noriega who surrendered to the US military people. The reason that caused to be captured is that the intensive training that the troops had made it easy for them to know all the routes that Noriega would use. The operation was also well organized by the commanders and the troops were dutiful in all their actions.
The operation Acid Gambit was formulated in order to help rescue Kurt Muse. Kurt was a broadcaster from the US living in panama. In his broadcast, he was known to be providing speeches, which were anti-Noriega. The other notable operations were the Raid at Renacer Prison, which is stated that about 64 prisoners were rescued and the operation Purple Storm in the American freedom was to be asserted, displayed and exercise especially when it comes to movement of the people (Lindsay-Poland). The operations were created in order to help in the invasion and make it easy to defeat Noriega and his troops.
National Security Councils
The national Security Council are the ones who are responsible in responding to any national threat of a nation, therefore, they make decisions that will benefit the nation (Rothkopf). In looking at the case of Panama, it proved to be a national threat. Some of the well-known NSC who made decisions on the invasion of Panama is Brent Scowcroft, Robert Gates, Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, secretary of state James Baker, Chief of Staff, John Sununu and defence secretary Dick Cheney (Brent & Zbigniew). The reason for stating this is that the dictator Noriega had already declared that there was a war between the United States and Panama.
The declaration of war always sends red flag to the National Security Council who will then fear for their country. Secretary Baker was among the members of NSC who commented that the Government should intervene in Panama. This will make them take actions in, which they will inform the president and come up with a solution such as the one made in the invasion of Panama. The United States national security is made up of different agency such as the president, the vice president, the National Secretary of Defence, the Secretary of States, National Security Adviser and Chief of Staff. These are just but few of the people make up the National Security Council.
The National Security Council was the one responsible in most of the actions that were carried out in Panama (Brent & Zbigniew). They made the decisions and agreed upon the actions that were taken by the military and defence personnel’s in the invasion. This shows how the council is powerful for a nation because they are the ones who are responsible in making the decisions about how the nation should handle some matters. It has been claimed that the national security had the mandate to take actions against anyone who seems to be a problem especially for a nation. In the mandate, they have a right to kill the individual without any question. However, in the invasion the council only wanted the dictatorship brought on by Noriega to stop and the people to be free. The council also took this initiative because of the ties that Noriega had with the nation as an informant.
Histories of the foreign policy of the particular president,
President George H. M. Bush was very conscious about the foreign policy therefore, he took his sweet time to analyse all policies regarding international community. Once he was able to make a decision then it was with determination and conviction. He sorted the advice from his close advisers such as Brent and James Baker before he made a decision. He has worked with international communities and thus he had experiences with foreign policies. President Bush did not involve himself and the nation by not taking serious actions on china when they killed hundreds of people who were protesting in 1989.
The policy that he sure got involved with was in Panama when Noriega was considered to be a drug baron and a dictator. He accented for troops to invade Panama and apprehend Noriega. Bush improved the soviet-US relationship. This was done when he did not show any emotion when the Berlin Wall collapsed. Many conservatives did not like this reaction and were comparing him to Ronald Reagan who would have celebrated. Bush also signed a broad arms reduction agreement with Gorbachev where the two countries will reduce the nuclear arsenals. The Bush administration was involved in the Persian Gulf War where they assemble a number of people in order to oppose Iraq. This occurred in 1990 when he sent a number of troops in Kuwait to help the nation from Iraq.
Memoirs of the actual decision-makers in the invasion of panama
The memoir of General Brent Scowcroft showed the position he had in the presidency of George H.M. Bush. Brent was one of the most trusted people for Bush because he was among the people who remained loyal to him. He was a member of the NSC who was claimed to have showed so much strength in the council. He was good at voicing his opinions and pointing out the mistakes of another opinion stated. Most of the decisions that were made during the invasion of Panama was due to him. In the memoir it showed how actively, General Brent was in the decision making because he was involved in the communication between Panama and the white house (Brent & Zbigniew). According to the records, it showed that, he was the communicating for 53 times for the 69 times the communication was done.
Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski. America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy. Basic Books, 2008. Print
Fishel, John T. Civil Military Operations in the New World. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997. Print
Harding, Robert. The History of Panama. Greenwood Publishing, 2006. Print
Lindsay-Poland, John. Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama. Duke University Press, 2003. Print
Rothkopf, David J. Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. PublicAffairs, 2006. Print
Yates, Lawrence. The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning and Crisis Management, June 1987 – December 1989 (First ed.). Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Publishers, 2008. Print
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UK student jailed for 'racist' Twitter posts about footballer Fabrice Muamba
March 27, 2012 A student who mocked footballer on Twitter has been sent to prison for his 'racist' comments. Police forces around the UK received complaints about Liam Stacey who made the remarks after Muamba collapsed on the pitch during a match.
Stacey, 21, admitted an offence of inciting racial hatred. He was today given a 56-day sentence at Swansea Magistrates' Court. He wept as he was handcuffed and led away. His defence noted he admitted his guilt as soon as police in Swansea arrested him, that he was drunk at the time, and claimed he was not a racist and had friends from ethnic minorities.
He had, however, claimed initially his Twitter account had been hacked and tried to delete it when he learned police had been summoned. Former England international player was among those to contact police.
Shortly after Muamba collapsed Stacey posted "LOL, Fuck Muamba. He's dead." When other users responded, he called them "wogs", telling one "go pick some cotton". Some sexual comments were also made. The prosecution had hoped to see the case transferred to a more senior court for a sentence longer than the six-month maximum the magistrates' court could impose.
Stacey is suspended from in Wales, where he is a biology student. His lawyer had asked for a non-custodial sentence so he could complete the course, saying Stacey was doing well. However, a campaign among other students is calling for him to be expelled from university entirely.
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Dravet syndrome is the most severe form of a group of epilepsy disorders known as Dravet spectrum disorders, and usually appears in infants within their first year of life. During this time, seizures are often associated with a fever and can be prolonged, lasting more than five minutes.
Later, different types of seizures start to occur, such as myoclonus or involuntary muscle spasms.
Currently, there is no cure for Dravet syndrome. Effective treatments options are limited, and seizures are usually resistant to medications.
Physical challenges
Sleeping
Night-time seizures can be a common problem in children with Dravet syndrome, because the electrical activity in the brain changes in a way that can trigger seizures when a child is falling asleep or waking up.
Children with Dravet may also experience difficulty sleeping, awaken too early, and have sleep apnea (repeated breaks, or stops and starts, in breathing during sleep). Besides causing the child to be tired during the day, poor night-time sleep is considered a key trigger for seizures.
Eating
Difficulty eating is a common problem in children with Dravet syndrome. Children may over- or under-eat due to side effects of the medications they are taking. Eating problems may also arise due to a lack of control or as a coping technique. In severe cases, children may need to undergo a surgery known as a gastrostomy to be tube-fed.
Walking
After the age of 10, children with Dravet syndrome often begin to experience problems with gait, or walking. These problems are progressive, continuing as the child ages, and affecting independence as well as movement.
Other conditions, or comorbidities
Dravet syndrome often occurs with comorbidities, or other conditions that occur alongside the primary disease. These may include autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dysautonomia, low bone density, a curvature of the spine, loss of voluntary muscle coordination, excessive muscle tone, spasticity, and slow growth. Managing these associated conditions can improve patients’ quality of life.
Education
Children with Dravet syndrome can experience developmental delays, with a slowing in development often beginning around age 2. Education and schooling can be affected, although the degree of development delay or difficulties in these patients varies, possibly depending on their seizure frequency.
These children may also miss a number of school days because of their illness. Providing them with extra support can be helpful, such as tutoring or one-on-one aid in the classroom, if available.
Parents should work with their physicians to develop an emergency plan for teachers and nurses. This plan should include steps to follow in case of a seizure at school. Parents should also work with teachers to develop a flexible teaching plan and safe school environment. Teachers of children with Dravet syndrome need to be aware that the child’s behavior and mood may change due to disease treatment and progression.
Lifelong care
Dravet syndrome patients need constant care and supervision that extends throughout adulthood. Few patients with the disease live on their own because of the risk of seizures at any time. Seizures and fever sensitivity become less frequent after childhood, while problems with ataxia and gait are more common in adults.
Seizure control is critical to improving patients’ quality of life. Parents and doctor need work to identify a child’s seizure triggers and do their best to avoid them. Triggers can include stress, temperature changes, excitement, light, loud noises, poor sleep, and repetitive patterns. Reducing exposure to these triggers can help to improve quality of life.
Support networks
Providing constant care and supervision to a child with Dravet syndrome can be draining. Caregivers are encouraged to be patient with themselves and to ask others for help. It can also be helpful to train an extra person to share the care burden in case of emergency, or at night, so caregivers can sleep well. Connecting with other parents of children with Dravet can also help.
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Dravet Syndrome News is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.
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Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn (born in Sydney, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian journalist.
Career
A graduate of Dalhousie University, she began her career in broadcasting at the age of 21 as a weather girl at CJCB-TV in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1975. She quickly moved to CBC Halifax where she was hired as the 6 o‘clock news anchor, and from there became the anchor at CBC's flagship station, CBLT in Toronto for Newshour (earning the highest ratings that station had ever recorded).
Dunn also hosted CBC-TV's Newsfinal, and Reach for the Top. Dunn left CBC to have her first child, and became a columnist for the National Post interviewing such celebrities as Woody Harrelson, Suzanne Somers, Ivana Trump, Johnny Cochrane, Margaret Atwood, and Johnny Depp.
Dunn also wrote stories for Reader's Digest and Maclean's magazine (her article about her son's scoliosis (Amazing Brace, MacLean's ), was a finalist in the Health and Science category for the 2008 National Magazine Awards). She has also been syndicated by The New York Times.
Dunn's husband was renowned horse breeder, John Sikura, who died in 1994. They have two sons.
Personal life
Dunn is currently a writer living in Toronto, Ontario. She was in a much publicized relationship with Mike Harris when he was premier of Ontario.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Andrew of Rhodes
(Sometimes, of COLOSSUS)
Theologian, d. 1440. He was Greek by birth, and born of schismatic parents. In early youth he had no opportunities for education, but afterwards devoted himself to Latin and Greek, and to theology, especially the questions in dispute between the Latin and Greek Churches. The study of the early Fathers, both Greek and Latin, convinced him that in the disputed points, truth was on the side of the Latin Church. He therefore solemnly abjured his error, made a profession of faith, and entered the Dominican Order about the time of the Western Schism. He led thenceforth an apostolic life. He was especially earnest in his efforts to induce his fellow-Greeks to follow in his footsteps and reunite with Rome. In 1413 he was made Archbishop of Rhodes. The Dominican biographer, Echard, credits him with having taken an active part in the twentieth session of the Council of Constance (1414-18). Others maintain that there is here a confusion with Andrew of Colaczy, in Hungary. At the Council of Basle, he delivered an oration in the name of the Pope (Mansi, XXIX, 468-481). He took part in the Council of Ferrara-Florence, and was one of the six theologians appointed by the Papal Legate, Cardianal Julian, to reply to the objections of the Greeks. He proved that it was fully within the province of the Church to add the Filioque to the Creed, and that the Greek Fathers had been of the same opinion. After the close of the Council, trouble arose between the Latins and Greeks in Cyprus; the latter accused the former of refusing to hold communion with them. Andrew was sent thither by Eugene IV, and succeeded in establishing peace. He also succeeded in overcoming the local forms of the Nestorian, Eutychian, and Monothelite heresies. The heretical bishops abjured and made a profession of faith at a synod held at Nicosia; some of the prelates went afterwards to Rome to renew their profession before the Holy See. There are preserved in the Vatican manuscript copies of his treatise on the Divine essence and operation, compiled from the commentaries of St. Tomas Aquinas, and addressed to Cardinal Bessarion also a little work in the form of a dialogue in reply to a letter of Mark of Ephesus against the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Church (P.G., CL, 862).
QUETIF and ECHARD, SS. Ord. Praed, I, 801; HEFELE, Concilieng., VII, 472, 681, et al.; SCHMIDT, in Kirchenlex, I, 835; TOURON, Hommes ill. de l'ourdre de S. Dominique, s.v.; HURTER, Nomenclator (2d ed.), II, 821; see Bzovius, Ann. Eccl. ad an, 1438, x 8, and HERGENROETHER (ed.) The Mystagogia of Photius, 146 sqq.
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Convolution of symmetric, radially decreasing functions
A function $f \: \R^d \to \R$ is radially symmetric if $f(x) = F(|x|)$ for some $F \: [0,+\infty) \to \R$. We say a radially symmetric function is radially increasing if its corresponding $F$ is increasing, and similarly for radially decreasing.
I want to give a simple proof of the fact that the convolution of nonnegative, radially symmetric, and radially decreasing functions is again radially decreasing. We used this in a recent paper on the heat equation, and we found that it is almost directly a consequence of Lemma 2.2 (i) in [Lieb1983] (thanks to Rupert Frank for the reference!). In Lieb’s paper the proof is not explicitly given (though the main arguments are given in another lemma), and I was not able to find a full proof anywhere. Since it is not an obvious proof, I want to record it here in case it is useful.
Here is the precise result with its proof:
Lemma 1. Let $d \geq 1$ and $f, g \: \R^d \to [0,+\infty)$ be nonnegative, radially symmetric functions for which the convolution $f * g$ is well defined for all $x \in \R^d$. Then $f * g$ is radially symmetric and furthermore:
1. If both $f$ and $g$ are radially nonincreasing, then $f*g$ is radially nonincreasing.
2. If $f$ is radially nondecreasing and $g$ is radially nonincreasing, then $f * g$ is radially nondecreasing.
Proof. The fact that $f*g$ is radially symmetric is a basic property of convolution which can be checked by a change of variables $y \mapsto Qy$, with $Q$ any given orthogonal transformation of $\R^d$. In order to check the other properties, call (for $R \geq 0$ and $x \in \R^d$) \begin{equation*} 𝟙_R (x) := \begin{cases} 1 &\text{if $|x| < R$,} \\ 0 &\text{if $|x| \geq R$.} \end{cases} \end{equation*} It is clear that for any $R,S \geq 0$ we have that $𝟙_R * 𝟙_S$ is radially nonincreasing, since the volume of the intersection of $B_R(0)$ and $B_S(x)$ is radially nonincreasing in $x$. Now, if $f$ and $g$ are radially nonincreasing we can use the layercake decomposition to write \begin{equation*} f(x) = \int_0^\infty 𝟙_R(x) \d \mu(R), \qquad g(x) = \int_0^\infty 𝟙_S(x) \d \nu(S) \quad\text{almost everywhere in $\R^d$}, \end{equation*} where $\mu$ and $\nu$ are minus the distributional derivatives of $f$ and $g$ in the radial direction. Notice that $\mu$ and $\nu$ are finite nonnegative measures on $[0,+\infty)$. Then, for all $x \in \R^d$, \begin{equation*} f * g (x) = \ird f(x-y) g(y) \d y = \int_0^\infty \int_0^\infty \ird 𝟙_R(x-y) 𝟙_S(y) \d y \d \nu(S) \d \mu(R), \end{equation*} which is clearly radially nonincreasing in $x$ since the inner integral is. On the other hand, if $f$ is radially nondecreasing we call \begin{equation*} 𝟙_R^{\mathrm{c}} (x) := 1 - 𝟙_R(x) = \begin{cases} 0 &\text{if $|x| < R$,} \\ 1 &\text{if $|x| \geq R$.} \end{cases} \end{equation*} Since $𝟙_R * 𝟙_S$ is radially nonincreasing, $𝟙_R^{\mathrm{c}} * 𝟙_S = (1 - 𝟙_R) * 𝟙_S$ is radially nondecreasing. We can write, again with almost everywhere equality, \begin{equation*} f(x) = \int_0^\infty 𝟙_R^{\mathrm{c}} (x) \d \mu(R), \end{equation*} where the measure $\mu$ is now the distributional derivative of $f$ in the radial direction, again a nonnegative measure. As before, \begin{equation*} f * g (x) = \ird f(x-y) g(y) \d y = \int_0^\infty \int_0^\infty \ird 𝟙_R^{\mathrm{c}}(x-y) 𝟙_S(y) \d y \d \nu(S) \d \mu(R), \end{equation*} which is radially nondecreasing, since the inner integral is. ∎
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FM HD-R Implementation Options Abound
This is one in a series of tips about HD Radio implementation. The series is archived at radioworld.com.
Unlike AM stations, FMs considering HD Radio conversion have a lot of implementation options.
High-level combined, low-level combined (common amplification) and separate antenna are just three of the available choices. While people may tell you that one option is “best,” the truth is that the most suitable option for your site is only determined by careful analysis of the situation.
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A reject load is required for high-level combined FM systems. Outdoor loads like this help with costs by keeping the heat outside. Credit: Photo by Cris Alexander
Some of the variables that enter the equation are the TPO and antenna gain, age/type of existing transmitter and antenna, auxiliary antenna availability, transmitter building type and configuration, cooling/ventilation system size/type and condition, generator capacity and even headroom in the transmitter building.
The high-level combined option has the advantage of allowing a station to continue to use its existing analog transmitter, provided that it has adequate power capacity to overcome injector losses (typically 10–11 percent). The analog transmitter continues to operate with its Class C (or solid-state) efficiency, without the need for a linearized power amplifier.
The disadvantage is that a 10 dB injector must be used, meaning that 90 percent of the power of the digital transmitter and 10 percent or so of the analog power are dumped overboard into a reject load.
LLC
The low-level combined option has the advantage of simplicity — one transmitter taking care of both analog and digital signals. RF plumbing is simplified, as is audio routing, remote control, etc.
The downside is that efficiency is low because of the required linear power amplifier operation. A typical Class C power amplifier may exhibit 75 percent efficiency or more, and non-linear, solid-state power amplifiers can be even more efficient.
A linearized power amplifier capable of undistorted FM + HD-R operation may exhibit efficiencies from the low 40s to the mid-50s.
By way of comparison, while a Class C power amplifier operating at 10 kW with typical Class C efficiency would require in the neighborhood of 13 kW input power; a linearized PA operating at 10 kW output could require 25 kW or more input power. That’s a lot of additional power for the convenience and simplicity of a single FM + HD-R transmitter!
The separate antenna option offers the advantage of requiring no injector, no reject load and a much smaller digital transmitter. A 10 kW TPO station using a separate digital antenna, with gain comparable to the analog antenna, would require a digital transmitter capable of only 100 watts average.
Compare that to 13 kW TPO for an FM + HD-R transmitter and 11 kW/1 kW analog/digital for high-level combined operation. The downside is that dual-input antennas and interleaved antennas tend to be heavy. Structural analysis of the tower is almost always required and a structural upgrade may be needed.
Use of an existing, licensed, auxiliary antenna has the advantage of not requiring additional tower loading, but such antennas typically are located lower on the tower than the main antenna. As such, the digital coverage could well be considerably less than the analog coverage.
Depending on the location of the transmitter site relative to the target coverage area, this could be a big factor. In my experience, there seems to be a break point around 7 kW TPO where the low-level combined option becomes less attractive.
This is changing as manufacturers are now beginning to offer single-box transmitters capable of producing HD-R + FM power levels of up to 25 kW with 50 percent or better efficiency. But even with a transmitter capable of producing the desired HD-R + FM power level, the low-level combined approach may be more expensive, both in the short term, due to one-time capital costs, and long term, because of operating costs, than the high-level combined option.
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Cold invading the Large Intestine
At a glance
Key attributes
Chinese name: 寒犯大肠 Pinyin name: Hán Fàn Dà Cháng
Pattern nature: Full
Causes
Precursor patterns: Spleen Yang Deficiency
Common causes: Cold environment
Diagnosis
Common symptoms: Diarrhea Abdominal pain Feeling of cold Cold sensation in abdomen
Pulse type(s): Deep (Chen), Tight (Jin)
Tongue description: Thick white coating
Treatment
Treatment principle: Expel Cold from the Large Intestine, warm the Lower Burner.
Common formulas: Liang Fu Wan Tao Hua Tang
Pathology
Like the Stomach and the Uterus, the large Intestine is one of the three Organs that the external Cold can invade directly. It is a Full Cold pattern and the Cold Evil penetrates the Defensive Qi and resides in the Large Intestine. The Cold then impairs the Qi circulation of the Lower Burner, hence the symptoms of sudden abdominal pain and cold sensation in the abdomen. The Cold also disturbs the Large Intestine's function of absorbing Body Fluids and it causes diarrhoea with pain.
The thick tongue coating indicates a Pernicious Influence sudden invasion. The Deep pulse reflects this Pernicious Influence is in the Interior and the Tight pulse suggests there are actual Full Cold.
Causes
Precursor patterns: Cold invading the Large Intestine can derive from Spleen Yang Deficiency
Cold environment: This pattern happens if the patients' abdomens are exposed to cold weather without being covered properly or they spend a long time sitting on cold or wet surfaces.
Diagnosing Cold invading the Large Intestine
Pulse type(s): Deep (Chen) or tight (Jin)
Tongue description: Thick white coating
Main symptoms: Diarrhea Abdominal pain Feeling of cold Cold sensation in abdomen
Diagnosis commentary: Key characteristic symptoms of this pattern are the sudden abdominal pain, diarrhoea and feeling of cold.
Treating Cold invading the Large Intestine
Treatment principle
Expel Cold from the Large Intestine, warm the Lower Burner.
Herbal formulas used to treat Cold invading the Large Intestine
Liang Fu Wan
Source date: 1842 AD
Number of ingredients: 2 herbs
Key actions: Warms the Middle Burner. Dispels Cold. Promotes the movement of Qi. Alleviates Pain.
Formula summary
Liang Fu Wan is a 2-ingredient Chinese Medicine formula. Invented in 1842 AD, it belongs to the category of formulas that promote Qi movement.
Besides Cold invading the Large Intestine, Liang Fu Wan is also used to treat Cold invading the Stomach or Large Intestine Cold.
Read more about Liang Fu Wan
Tao Hua Tang
Source date: 220 AD
Number of ingredients: 3 herbs
Key actions: Warms the Middle. Dispels Cold. Binds up the bowels and stops dysenteric disorders.
Formula summary
Tao Hua Tang is a 3-ingredient Chinese Medicine formula. Invented in 220 AD, it belongs to the category of formulas that bind up Intestines and secure abandoned conditions.
Besides Cold invading the Large Intestine, Tao Hua Tang is also used to treat Large Intestine Cold or Kidney and Spleen Yang Deficiency with Empty Cold.
Read more about Tao Hua Tang
Consequence patterns
Spleen Yang Deficiency
Cold in the Large Intestine can harm Yang and causes Spleen Yang Deficiency.
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(IT) Will soon be unable to afford working (payments keep getting delayed by company I work for)
Last January I started an internship at a big company. I chose it because it is a prestigious brand, which on the paper pays well enough for me.
Problem is, it's not.
Being an intern, I *de facto* have few to no rights. That said, I am under an apprenticeship contract granting 700 € per month. Furthermore, it is common practice for the company to pay for its employees' meals. This is what I and the other guys who were hired the very same day, in the very same city, and under the very same contract as me were expecting. Easy and smooth. Which, for them was.
Me, instead, I got moved to a close-by town. Here is where the problems started arising. In fact, exactly one month after my internship had started, as I went to my boss to ask about my salary, he only then decided to kindly inform me that in the city I got moved to interns get paid every three months. Which is fine, because I can survive three months without getting paid, as long as payments are punctual. I mean, fortunately I had saved enough money to keep going for another two months.
Things got worse, though, when the reimbursement stuff did not go as expected, either. In fact, while I was hoping to receive meal tickets or stuff like that, they just told me to pay for my lunch myself, keep the receipts and file a reimbursement request every month or so. Which I've done three times now. Three, as in "three months of going to the cafeteria and spending a whopping 6.50 € a day for lunch". (I would have never spent that much money on a lunch, if it weren't for the promise of full reimbursement.) I filed my first request at the beginning of February, the second one in early March, the last one on Thursday. None of those have yet been granted. To be fair, they have a complex accounting system here, which makes this kind of stuff quite slow, but still, WHAT THE HELL! This should be solved in days, perhaps weeks, not months!
Anyway, the company now owes me ~300 € in lunch reimbursements and a 2100 € salary. I have no idea when to expect being paid.
For some, this might look like an exiguous amount. It kind of is. Still, I'm 23, just started working, almost ran out of savings, and really REALLY need that money.
I tried to talk to my direct superior, but all she could do was sending emails (to her boss, the HR rep, the head of accounting), but after two weeks none of these has received an answer.
I don't know what to do, as soon I will have to pay for rent and bills.
I was a student before I started working. It was fine, as I had access to a university fund my family had put together. Then stuff happened, and I had to put university on hold and look for a job. This opportunity looked perfect. Now I just don't know what to do, as it really sounds ridiculous, but, yeah, I will soon be unable to afford working.
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**UPDATE**: turns out, reddit is good at motivating people. After harassing the whole HR and accounting branches for two full days, the first of my reimbursements has been accepted and is due tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
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Nexius Inc. is an international consulting firm that delivers wireless services and software solutions to industries worldwide. The company's services fall into three unique practice areas:
* Technology Strategy
* The Nexius Technology Strategy team advises network operators, vendors, and investors on emerging technologies and helps them formulate strategies for future growth.
* Software Solutions
* The Nexius Software Solutions team offers application integration services to drive new revenues and deliver the service intelligence to provide new levels of insight and reduce future costs. The team increases operational efficiencies through OSS assessment and roadmap planning, tools design and deployment services, and managed services.
* Network Services
* The Nexius Network Services team offers network engineering and network deployment services to operators. The company executes all aspects of planning, designing, building, deployment and optimization of networks.
The company has executed a number of high-profile projects in the areas of small cell technology, DAS, Wi-Fi offloading, LTE network deployments, business intelligence, smart grid deployments, and performance optimization, among other services.
Customers
The company sells its services to wireless operators, cable operators, utilities organizations, and technology companies. According to the company's website, Nexius has worked with over 45 clients in more than 25 countries and include among their customers companies such as AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, America Movil, Samsung, Telcel, Qualcomm, and more.
Offices
The company employs over 500 personnel and is headquartered in Allen, Texas, near the Dallas metropolitan area.
Nexius has offices strategically located in several of the prime telecom corridors in the U.S. and abroad including:
* Allen, TX (Headquarters) - 1301 Central Expressway South, Suite 200 | Allen, TX 75013 | Telephone: +1<PHONE_NUMBER> or Fax: +1<PHONE_NUMBER> | Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS> * Reston - 11951 Freedom Dr, Floor 10th | Reston, VA 20190
* Seattle - 800 Bellevue Way, Suite 400 | Bellevue, WA 98004
* Pittsburgh - 503 Martindale Street 5th floor | Pittsburgh, PA 15212
* West Allis (Milwaukee) - 6737 W. Washington Ave. Suite 2265 | West Allis, WI 53214
* Dubai - Caterpillar Building, 2nd Entrance, 2nd Floor, Deira | Dubai UAE
* London - 81 Oxford St. London, W1D 2EU | London, United Kingdom
* Puerto Rico - 221 Plaza Building, Ave. Ponce de Leon, Suite 801 | Hato Rey, PR 00917
* Brazil - Regus Financial District – Avenida Paulista 1079, 7º and 8º floors | Sao Paulo, CEP 01311-200, Brazil
* Mexico - Alvaro Obregon No. 250-4, Col Roma Norte – Delegacion Cuauhtemoc | Mexico, D.F. C.P. 06700
* Argentina - Av Núñez 3868, 2nd Floor | Córdoba, Argentina
History
Nexius was co-founded by two brothers, Ned Taleb and Nabil Taleb, in 2001. The brothers personally invested in the company which remains privately held.
In July 2010, Nexius was split into two companies: Nexius Inc., a product company, and Nexius Solutions Inc., a services company. That same year, Nexius Inc. was sold, for three times the company’s revenues, to comScore, a major NASDAQ SAAS company (SCOR) with revenues exceeding $100M. The sale was highly regarded by analyst Deutsche Bank, and covered by leading publications including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
Awards
Nexius has been selected for the Inc. Magazine 5000 fastest growing companies list 5 times and is currently rated by the magazine as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in telecommunications. Over the course of its 11 year history, Nexius has averaged over 60% growth per year and has consistently been ranked on the Entrepreneur Magazine Hot 500 List and the Deloitte Fast 50 Technology list.
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How to Turn Off Compatibility Mode for New Documents in MS Word
Have you ever encountered this problem? Every time you create a new document, Word appends Compatibility Mode to the title bar. If you have, then know you're not alone. It seems this is caused by older versions of MS Word that were either previously installed or that still exist on your system. Say for example you had Word 2007 then decided to install Word 2013. New documents on Word 2013 will be created in compatibility mode.
Compatibility Mode in Word 2013 Document
The culprit responsible for this is not some hidden setting in Word as I had assumed so don't sweat yourself burrowing away in there. As it turns out, Word creates new documents based on particular templates, so if you install a new version of Word and a template for an older version of Word still exists, it defaults to compatibility mode since it's not using the much newer template it shipped with. The solution, just rename the old template and let it create a newer template. This is how you do it on Windows 7 and later:
Steps
TIP: If you don't quite get the steps here's a video tutorial instead.
1. Exit Word if it’s running
2. Launch the Run dialog using Win Key + R. Type %appdata% and press Enter. Alternatively, you can just open the "roaming" folder by following this path:
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming
where C is the Windows Partition and xxx your account user name
3. In the roaming folder open the Microsoft folder then Templates
4. In the Templates folder find a file called Normal.dotm and rename it to something you like, for instance OldNormal.dotm
Note: If you don't have extensions enabled, the file in question appears as Normal in which case you should rename it to something like OldNormal
5. That's it. Word shouldn't create documents in compatibility mode anymore.
If you’ve problems following any of the steps, please refer to the youtube video I’ve linked to at the start of the steps. A like or subscribe to this blog's channel would be highly appreciated. If you’ve any questions just leave them in the comments and I’ll get to them as soon as I can.
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worm
worm, any of various unrelated invertebrate animals that typically have soft, slender, elongated bodies. Worms usually lack appendages; polychaete annelids are a conspicuous exception. Worms are members of several invertebrate phyla, including Platyhelminthes (flatworms), Annelida (segmented worms), Nemertea (ribbon worms), Nematoda (roundworms, pinworms, etc.), Sipuncula (peanutworms), Echiura (spoonworms), Acanthocephala (spiny-headed worms), Pogonophora (beardworms), and Chaetognatha (arrowworms).
The term is also loosely applied to centipedes and millipedes; to larval (immature) forms of other invertebrates, particularly those of certain insects; and to some vertebrates—e.g., the blindworm (Anguis fragilis), a limbless, snakelike lizard. At one time all phyla of wormlike animals were classed as Vermes, a term no longer in common use.
The major groups of worms include various species of flatworm, annelid, ribbon worm, spiny-headed worm, and aschelminth. Worms typically have an elongated, tubelike body, usually rather cylindrical, flattened, or leaflike in shape and often without appendages. They vary in size from less than 1 mm (0.04 inch) in certain nematodes to more than 30 m (100 feet) in certain ribbon worms (phylum Nemertea).
Worms are universal in distribution, occurring in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. Some types of worms are parasitic, others are free-living. From a human perspective, worms are important as soil conditioners (e.g., annelids, aschelminths) and as parasites of people and domestic animals (e.g., platyhelminths, aschelminths) and of crops (e.g., aschelminths). Ecologically, worms form an important link in the food chains in virtually all ecosystems of the world.
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the market be bad to-day it will probably be good to-morrow. And even Dutch woodcutters will become civilized when the schoolmaster gradually makes his way among them. But I did express myself as disappointed when I was told that nothing was ever done to restore the forests as the hill-sides are laid bare by the axe. There will be an end to the wood even on the spurs of the Outiniqua range, if no care be taken to assist the reproduction of nature. The Government of the Cape Colony should look to this, as do the Swiss Cantons and the German Duchies.
The Knysna is singularly English, being, as it is, a component part of a Dutch community, and supported by Dutch labour. I did not hear a Dutch word spoken while I was there,—though our landlady told us that her children played in Dutch or in English, as the case might be. Our schoolmaster was English, and the parson, and the magistrate, and the innkeeper, and the tradesmen of the place who called in during the evening to see the strangers and to talk with the magistrate from distant parts about Kreli and the Kafirs who were then supposed to be nearly subdued. It is a singularly picturesque place, and I left it on the following morning at 5 with a regret that I should never see the Knysna again.
There was to have been a cart to take us; but the horse had not chosen to be caught, and we walked to the ferry. Then, at the other side, at Belvidere, the wicked eggs would not get themselves boiled for an hour, though breakfast at an appointed time, 6, had been solemnly promised to us. Everything about the George and the Knysna gratified me
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Grassroots lobbying
Grassroots lobbying (also indirect lobbying) is lobbying with the intention of reaching the legislature and making a difference in the decision-making process. Grassroots lobbying is an approach that separates itself from direct lobbying through the act of asking the general public to contact legislators and government officials concerning the issue at hand, as opposed to conveying the message to the legislators directly. Companies, associations and citizens are increasingly partaking in grassroots lobbying as an attempt to influence a change in legislation.
The unique characteristic of grassroots lobbying, in contrast to other forms of lobbying, is that it involves stimulating the politics of specific communities. This type of lobbying is different from the more commonly known direct lobbying, as it is naturally brought upon by the organization.
Tactics
There are several tactics used by groups in order to promote or advocate different issues politically, but the main two tactics used in grassroots or "outside" advocacy are education of constituents through holding press conferences or organizing press releases, and mobilizing targeted people who will be impacted negatively or positively to create a movement.
Media Lobbying
Grassroots lobbying often implement the use of media to expand their outreach. Campaigns are developed and are published in all forms of media ranging from television to magazines and internet. Because grassroots lobbying is geared toward local organizations and communities, these types of media outlets are used mainly by large associations that can afford them. Smaller organizations tend to use free media on public television, radio and other smaller outlets. Other forms of free media that make a large impact are things like boycotting, protesting and demonstrations.
Social media
The trend of the past decade has been the use of social media outlets to reach people across the globe. Social media are by nature grassroots organizers. They provide a way for communities, not only to interact, but to form around topics. Implementing social media tactics in grassroots lobbying would provide a much broader outreach and would allow activists to not only inform but interact with various people about their cause.
Some advocates are now using social media to reduce the cost of traditional campaigns, and to more precisely target public officials with political messages.
An example of the use of social media as a tool of grassroots lobbying is in the Black Lives Matter movement. Social media created platforms for broad discourse that allowed for the information sharing of both policy issues and solutions as well as mobilization. In interviews conducted by Mundt and Ross, social media administrators for BLM groups emphasized the importance of promoting action plans for members on social media to achieve concrete results. These action plans include grassroots lobbying in the form of directly contacting legislators about policy reform.
Another example is Urban Legend, a Virginia-based startup launched in 2020 by former Trump administration staffers that recruited social media influencers including makeup artists, Nascar drivers, home improvement gurus, mommy bloggers, NFL athletes and Olympians.
Mass movements
By mobilizing the group that the lobby has built, this puts pressure on the legislature to listen and take notice of what concerns they may have. These tactics are used after the lobbying group gains a portion of the publics trust and support through speaking out in crowded areas, passing out flyers and even campaigning through web and television outlets. More recently, due to the potential of other modern communication devices, grassroots lobbying is expected to only increase as a form of shaping public opinion.
In India, examples of successful mass movements include the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan's campaign to introduce the 2005 Right to Information Act and Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign to introduce the 2011 Lokpal Bill.
Tea Party
Several grassroots lobbying groups have become popular over time, due to their prominent stances and eye catching tactics to get the publics attention. Most recently in the United States, the Tea Party Movement of 2011 wished to limit government spending. Most of the movements started by the group have to do with less government, tax cutting; something they believe will bring the United States back to what it used to stand for. The Tea Party sees themselves as a "movement that calls awareness to any issue that challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America."
Due to the Tea Party's successful tactics in grassroots, they get their point across and potentially sway the general public on a very large scale. Now, somewhat indirectly (as is the intention of grassroots lobbying), the Tea Party holds a great deal of influence over legislation. This has gone as far as penetrating Congress with candidates personally supported by the Tea Party Movement, therefore giving them a direct outlet for their ideals.
Large company campaigns
Large companies take advantage of grassroots lobbying as a means of impacting change in legislation. There are certain steps that need to be implemented before the outcome of the lobbying can take place.
* The first step is a 'legislative action program'. This is the role of the management to make the action important in the eyes of the rest of the organization. Not only must they identify specific legislation concerns to the rest of the company, the lobbyists must also perform a type of study identifying the sectors of the public that are being affected.
* The second step is to sensitize the members of the organization to writing, calling or visiting officials and the Member of Congress as soon as an 'alert' is given. This will bring about internal communication with levels of authority.
* Finally, the third step is media planning. There must be use of advertising, posting articles, commercials and TV programming that feature people impacted by the specific cause. These will be geared to those representatives of a Congressional district.
Trends
Trends from the past decade in grassroots lobbying have been the increase in aggressive recruiting of volunteers and starting campaigns early on, way before the legislature must make a decision. Also, with increasing technology and modern communication techniques, lobbying groups have been able to create interactive web pages to email, recruit volunteers, assign them to tasks and keep the goal of the lobbying group on the right track. With the added devices of today such as Facebook and Twitter, Grassroots lobbyists have an even easier, cheaper, and faster way to reach the masses and develop a strong base for their issues to be heard.
However, there is concern that trends in grassroots lobbying in the digital age could weaken the success of interest groups. An experiment completed by John Cluverius, published in Political Research Quarterly, found that due to the ease and inexpensive nature of emails, legislatures are now untrusting of mass lobbying efforts. Cluverius found that astroturfing and the grassroots movement efforts of interest groups have a negative effect on legislators’ perception of issue salience because their inauthenticity provides no information about constituencies. The research finds that interest groups have more success utilizing grassroots mobilization to influence campaigns and elections rather than policy matter. Concerns about the efficacy of grassroots lobbying were existent before the digital age as well. Legislator are subject to a diverse group of influences, weakening any potential impact of grassroots organization. Fowler and Shaiko found that members of Congress are partial to the stances of their party within their constituency while also balancing policy disputes on focal issues. Their study of the influence of environmentalists on Senate voting found that the general opinion of the lobbyists did not influence the members of Congress, it was their personal partisanship in addition to their policy position that had the most influence. Representatives favored lobbyists within their coalition which hurt the environmentalists in the study who were attempting to appeal to republican Congressmen without being in the party themselves.
Hot topics for lobbyists
The major concerns of the general public do not reflect those of the lobbying groups. This is why the lobbying groups feel that they must use the aforementioned tactics to sway the public a certain way on an issue that they may never knew existed. To the general public, crime is the number one problem in nation, followed by the state of the economy and international affairs. However, the main concern for lobbying groups in the past has been on health concerns. A study done in 2009 shows that over 20 percent of lobbying groups put health concerns such as disease prevention, Medicare, or prescription drugs as a top priority. This interest in health is followed closely by environmental concerns as well. Although Grassroots lobbying has changed the stage of such advocacy, it is still concerning the same issues as other more traditional or direct lobbying.
Grassroots lobbyists typically differ from traditional lobbyists in their funding as well as their ideological goals. Typical lobbying is done on behalf of a corporation with the intentions of swaying legislation in their favor for economic gain. A study by JAMA Internal Medicine found that from 1999-2018 the pharmaceutical and health product industry spent the most money on lobbying and campaign contributions in the US, totaling $4.7 billion. Personal medical expenditures in the US, the costs of prescription drugs, and the efficiency of Medicare remain prominent policy issues. Congress passed a 2019 repeal of taxes in relation to the Affordable Care Act which benefits medical device manufacturers and health insurance companies. While grassroots organizations are concerned about issues like health and medical policy in the US, it is typically from a disadvantages stance.For example, Patients Against Affordable Drugs is an independent organization that promotes the mobilization of Americans against monopoly pricing of pharmaceutical products. Unlike traditional corporations who have the funding to directly influence legislators through campaign donations and partisan financing, interest groups are often nonprofit and rely on outreach efforts to successfully influence policy decisions. Debra Salazar at Western Washington University completed a study comparing mainstream environmental interest groups vs grassroots groups in Washington. The study found that the institutionalized groups were more concerned with political tactics and bureaucratic practices whereas grassroots organizations were primarily concerned with mobilization resources. The study also found that the grassroots groups receive less external funding and reliance on member sponsorship discourages the conservation actions of the group. In grassroots organizations, member participation is the most important factor to achieve outreach goals and to promote conservation in this environmental example.
Regulations
Lobbying and the stimulation of grassroots lobbying, is protected by the First Amendment rights of speech, association, and petition. Federal law does not mandate grassroots lobbying disclosure, yet, 36 states regulate grassroots lobbying. 22 states define lobbying as direct or indirect communication to public officials, and 14 additional states define lobbying as any attempt to influence public officials. A group or individual classified as a lobbyist must submit regular disclosure reports. Reports accurately disclose activities and all financial support, however, reporting requirements vary from state to state. Some states disclosures are minimal and require only registration, while some states disclosure requirements are extensive, including but not limited to: filing of monthly to quarterly expense reports, including all legislative activity relevant to the individual or groups activities, amounts of contributions and donations, as well as the names and addresses of contributors and specified expenses. The grassroots lobbying disclosure law in Washington requires that any person or group that spends more than $500 per month or $1000 in three months from grassroots lobbying expenditures is required to file with the states Public Disclosure Commission and disclose his or hers name/ groups name, business, occupation, and address. Also the names and addresses of anyone or any group the grassroots lobbyists are working with, as well as anyone who contributes more than $25 towards lobbying efforts. Part-time employment or expenses of $500 per month on communications efforts is a common onset for disclosure reports, varying from states. Penalties range from civil fines to criminal penalties if regulations are not complied.
IRS
Grassroots lobbying is classified under Schedule C (form 990 or 990-EZ), Political Campaign and Lobbying Activities. Schedule C is used by Section 501 (c) and Section 527 organizations. These organizations are required to use Schedule C to provide additional information on political campaign activities and lobbying activities.
Astroturfing
A common misconception about the grassroots style lobbying is that it goes hand in hand with what is known as Astroturf lobbying or Astroturfing. Astroturf-style activism has been deemed by many as "artificial", being because it uses techniques different from the original grassroots style of over-all citizen participation. Unlike genuine grassroots activism which tends to be money-poor but people-rich, astroturf campaigns are typically people-poor but cash-rich. The lobbyists in charge of this type of activism usually come from non-governmental organizations and political public relations firms. Inside these Astroturf organizations are workers hired to rally up people to support a particular cause and instruct them on how to take political action. Many times grassroots organizations have felt interference by these organizations when their efforts are reorganized with an Astroturf –Lobbying approach. Although many don't agree with this form of activism because it somewhat dismisses the general public's involvement, Astroturf lobbying groups defend their position, saying that monitoring the collection of peoples voices would infringe on First Amendment rights.
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City of Mildura
The City of Mildura was a local government area on the Murray River, in northwestern Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 29.86 km2, and existed from 1920 until 1995.
History
Mildura was initially part of the Swan Hill Road District, which covered basically all of what is now northwestern Victoria. Swan Hill was incorporated on 8 July 1862, and became a shire on 14 August 1871. On 10 January 1890, the Shire of Mildura was incorporated from parts of the Lower Murray Riding.
A new shire, Walpeup, was formed in western Victoria on 1 October 1911, taking in some southern areas of Mildura and sections of five other shires. A small part of the shire in and near Mildura was severed on 18 May 1920, and incorporated as a borough, which became the Town of Mildura on 17 July 1922, and the City of Mildura on 21 March 1934. Parts of the Sandilong and Lake Ridings were annexed to the city on 1 October 1971.
On 20 January 1995, the City of Mildura was abolished, and along with the Shires of Mildura and Walpeup, was merged into the newly created Rural City of Mildura.
Wards
The City of Mildura was not divided into wards, and its nine councillors represented all electors of the city.
Population
* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.
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X-Day (Church of the SubGenius)
X-Day is a traditional part of the Church of the SubGenius, a religion formed as a parody of cults and extreme religious groups, and their pamphlets and claims. X-Day fell on July 5, 1998, the scheduled "end of the world", and has been celebrated on July 5 each year since then. From its inception in 1980, the Church had prophesied that an army of alien invaders (known as the "X-ists" or "Men From Planet X") would land on the planet Earth and destroy the world of "normals", "pinks", and "glorps," while the members of the Church of the SubGenius would be rescued by the aliens and taken away into space. Chapters 10 and 11 of Revelation X: The "Bob" Apocryphon supply additional details as to the precise kinds of fates which supposedly await the "pinks" and "normals" (as well as SubGenii who have not paid their membership fees) left behind when X-Day comes, saying, among other things, that those who are not immediately killed by the aliens will be enslaved by a society of evil clowns known as the "Bozo Cult" until eventually their souls are devoured by the Elder Gods. The book also tells readers that if they want more information, they should send one million dollars to Ivan Stang so that he can remake his 1973 film Let's Visit the World of the Future.
First event
When July 5, 1998 arrived and no alien fleet appeared in the sky, members of the Church began citing a large number of conspiracy theories to explain why the predicted end of the world did not take place. The manual page of the ddate program claims that the Church "declared that it had got the year upside down" and that X-Day will actually take place in 8661. The most popular explanation for the failure of the prophecy in the Church is usually summarized with the statement, "the calendar is wrong and July 5th, 1998 has not really arrived yet." Because of this, the Church has held annual gatherings around July 5 of each year since 1998 to celebrate X-Day and greet the arrival of the anticipated alien "Sex Goddesses." No flying saucer rendezvous has been confirmed as of 2022, but members of the Church have been undaunted. A more recent theory suggests that the X-ists did indeed come to Earth on July 5, 1998 as foretold by "Bob," but through one of the most pervasive Conspiracy coverups, Earth and Mars were switched, and the "Earth" we know is actually Mars. And thus, as there was nobody on the True Earth at the time of their arrival, there was nobody there to witness the Rupture.
The X-Day celebration has become well known in underground culture circles, especially in pagan communities. Many underground rock bands have performed at X-Day, and the event has evolved into a festival similar to Burning Man, lasting for three to five days, with rock concerts, artistic events, bonfires, and parties taking place day and night. Of the various X-Day celebrations that have taken place, the largest and most popular each year was held at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York until 2011, when it was relocated to the Wisteria Event Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio. In 2021 it was announced that the "official" X-Day would be moved again to the Land of ID resort in Land o' Lakes, Florida.
Event activities
Regular events at X-Day include a symbolic effigy burning of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (the founder of the Church of the SubGenius); a baptism ("Bob"tism) where participants have their sins "washed away", "and receive new ones in return"; concerts and performances by underground rock bands and performance artists; theme camps; and an auction where participants are encouraged to donate strange, unusual, and offensive items of all sorts (including themselves).
"Burners" familiar with the Burning Man event have been upset by the fact that X-Day is not a commerce-free event in the fashion of Burning Man – the bands and participants at X-Day are, in fact, encouraged to sell their own items, music CDs and albums, and other paraphernalia. The Church of the SubGenius has responded to these complaints with the statement that it is not a non-profit church: "We're for-profit, we want profit, and we want to cast out false prophets." However, the Church's status as an independent corporation with no corporate affiliations has ensured that large, mainstream companies have avoided the X-Day celebration, allowing independent artists and underground performers to flourish. The Church claims to be the only religious organization that is "proud to pay its taxes".
History
In 2007, the celebration notably coincided with Roswell, New Mexico's 60th anniversary celebration of a purported 'UFO incident'.
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1579 in science
The year 1579 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration
* June 17 – Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I of England as Nova Albion.
Physiology and medicine
* Hieronymus Fabricius discovers the membranous folds that serve as valves in the veins.
Births
* January 12 (bapt.) – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644)
* July 13 – Arthur Dee, English physician and alchemist (died 1651)
Deaths
* June 17 – Johannes Stadius, Flemish mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1527)
* approx. date – Hans Staden, German adventurer (born c. 1525)
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Mahl, Texas
Mahl is an unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. It is located on Highway 259 near the City of Nacogdoches.
History
Mahl was founded in the early 1900s during the Gilded age when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built. The town derived its name after the last name of a local railroad official, albeit spelled backwards. The post office was built later that year and the local school was founded in 1904, serving nearly 60 students. The time that the town was the most popular was in the mid 1910s, when the town had two stores, the school, saloon, blacksmith, cotton gin, and home to approximately 100 residents. Then, the two world wars caused the town to decline in residents, and by the 1950s the school and the last few businesses shut down. In 1990, one household was recorded as a "Mahlite".
Education
The Central Heights Independent School District serves the one household in Mahl.
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Global warming and flowering times in Thoreau's Concord: a community perspective.
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Ecology (Impact Factor: 5). 03/2008; 89(2):332-41. DOI: 10.1890/07-0068.1
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ABSTRACT As a result of climate change, many plants are now flowering measurably earlier than they did in the past. However, some species' flowering times have changed much more than others. Data at the community level can clarify the variation in flowering responses to climate change. In order to determine how North American species' flowering times respond to climate, we analyzed a series of previously unstudied records of the dates of first flowering for over 500 plant taxa in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. These records began with six years of observations by the famous naturalist Henry David Thoreau from 1852 to 1858, continued with 16 years of observations by the botanist Alfred Hosmer in 1878 and 1888-1902, and concluded with our own observations in 2004, 2005, and 2006. From 1852 through 2006, Concord warmed by 2.4 degrees C due to global climate change and urbanization. Using a subset of 43 common species, we determined that plants are now flowering seven days earlier on average than they did in Thoreau's times. Plant flowering times were most correlated with mean temperatures in the one or two months just before flowering and were also correlated with January temperatures. Summer-flowering species showed more interannual variation in flowering time than did spring-flowering species, but the flowering times of spring-flowering species correlated more strongly to mean monthly temperatures. In many cases, such as within the genera Betula and Solidago, closely related, co-occurring species responded to climate very differently from one another. The differences in flowering responses to warming could affect relationships in plant communities as warming continues. Common St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) and highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) are particularly responsive to changes in climate, are common across much of the United States, and could serve as indicators of biological responses to climate change. We discuss the need for researchers to be aware, when using data sets involving multiple observers, of how varying methodologies, sample sizes, and sampling intensities affect the results. Finally, we emphasize the importance of using historical observations, like those of Thoreau and Hosmer, as sources of long-term data and to increase public awareness of biological responses to climate change.
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ABSTRACT: Premise of research. Flowering times are sensitive indicators of climate change. This study explores important methodological issues in the use of samples of phenological records, quantifies change in flowering times, and examines causes of variability among species. Methodology. I used Monte Carlo simulations to explore effects of sample size on estimates of phenological statistics. I documented 60 yr of change in temperature and flowering times of forbs in Worcester County, Massachusetts, a largely nonurban area, using a combination of herbarium specimens and observations, and I tested several hypotheses using these data. I also compared changes in flowering times in eastern North America from several published studies. Pivotal results. Average spring temperatures increased 1.4°C (0.24°C/decade) during the last 60 yr. Mean and median flowering dates were most robust for small sample sizes, while early and late flowering dates and ranges were least stable. Mean flowering time advanced 2.9 d (0.4°C/decade), with greatest advances in early-flowering species. The predicted advance for a spring-flowering species was 4-10 d (0.6°-1.5°C/decade) using different models, corresponding to 2.5-6.3 d/°C of springtime warming. Flowering advanced more in species with shorter blooming periods than in species with longer blooming periods. Flowering advance was unaffected by a species’ native status and by whether it was locally increasing or declining. Phenological advances reported for the same species in different studies showed no significant correlation. Conclusions. Advances in flowering times were comparable to those in other north temperate studies, as was the large change in spring-flowering species. Contrary to other studies, phenological changes were unrelated to a species’ native status and to changes in species frequency. Results of simulations and comparisons across studies suggest that sampling error may contribute substantially to reported variation among species.
International Journal of Plant Sciences 02/2015; 176(2):107-119. DOI:10.1086/679619 · 1.69 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Environmental conditions associated with climate change, such as earlier snowmelt, warmer spring temperatures, and increased soil mineralization, have resulted in shifts in the timing of plant phenological events. We assessed the effects of fertilizer and herbivory on the phenology of 7 plant species from a boreal forest understory using long-term experimental plots in the southwest Yukon. Fertilizer and fencing treatments were initiated in 1990, and discontinued in half of each plot in 2000. There were few effects on phenology of either fertilizer or fencing. In some species, fertilizer affected the final phenological stage reached, but the presence and direction of the effect was species-dependent. Epilobium angustifolium was the only species where the timing of phenological stages responded to fertilization; early phenological stages were advanced with fertilizer. First leaf expansion for Arctostaphylos uva-ursi occurred earlier in fenced plots, although this effect disappeared in plots where the fencing treatment had been discontinued. We conclude that previously observed changes in species abundance with fertilizer treatments are likely not caused by changes in the phenology of these species, and are more likely due to fertilization imposed changes in vegetative growth.
Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research 08/2011; 43:389-396. DOI:10.1657/1938-4246-43.3.389 · 1.53 Impact Factor
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National Agricultural and Fisheries Policy
The National Agricultural and Fisheries Policy was an act of Seychellois law passed in 2002 which was intended to set out the boundaries of fishing policy in the country between 2002 and 2013.
The policy aims toward “the promotion of sustainable and responsible fisheries development and optimising the benefits from this sector for the present and future generations.”
The policy focuses principally on the promotion of sustainable exploitation in fishing practices, and a degree of responsibility for fishing in the islands whilst providing for food, employment, income, and foreign revenue.
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Convert an outcome
This topic describes how to convert an outcome that was triggered from the tracker into a custom CarPurchaseOutcome before it is saved to xConnect.
using Sitecore.XConnect;
using Sitecore.XConnect.Collection.Model;
using System;
namespace Documentation
{
public class CarPurchaseOutcome : Outcome
{
public static Guid CarPurchaseEventDefinitionId { get; } = new Guid("2b7e9e7e-f7ac-4ac2-8f8e-26a9c8644b23");
public CarPurchaseOutcome(DateTime timestamp, string currencyCode, decimal monetaryValue, string model, string make)
: base(CarPurchaseEventDefinitionId, timestamp, currencyCode, monetaryValue)
{
Model = model;
Make = make;
}
public string Model { get; set; }
public string Make { get; set; }
}
}
Create an outcome conversion processor
1. Create a pipeline processor that inherits ConvertToXConnectEventProcessorBase<OutcomeData>.
2. Implement CreateEvent and CanProcessPageEventData as shown. This handler assumes that the make and model of the car are stored in the CustomValues dictionary.
using Sitecore.Analytics.Model;
using Sitecore.Analytics.XConnect.DataAccess.Pipelines.ConvertToXConnectEventPipeline;
using Sitecore.Framework.Conditions;
using Sitecore.XConnect;
namespace Documentation
{
public class ConvertCarPurchaseOutcome : ConvertToXConnectEventProcessorBase<OutcomeData>
{
protected override Event ConvertToEvent(OutcomeData entity)
{
var make = entity.CustomValues["Make"] as string;
var model = entity.CustomValues["Model"] as string;
var carPurchase = new CarPurchaseOutcome(entity.Timestamp, make, model, entity.CurrencyCode, entity.MonetaryValue);
return carPurchase;
}
protected override bool CanProcess(Sitecore.Analytics.Model.Entity entity)
{
if (entity is OutcomeData)
{
OutcomeData outcomeData = (OutcomeData)entity;
return (outcomeData.OutcomeDefinitionId == CarPurchaseOutcome.CarPurchaseOutcomeID);
}
return false;
}
}
}
Register outcome conversion processor
Create a new configuration file named MyBrand.CustomEvents.config and patch in your handler as shown:
Important
Your processor must be patched in before the final outcome handler.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore>
<pipelines>
<convertToXConnectEvent>
<processor patch:before="processor[@type='Sitecore.Analytics.XConnect.DataAccess.Pipelines.ConvertToXConnectEventPipeline.ConvertOutcomeDataToOutcome, Sitecore.Analytics.XConnect']" type="Documentation.ConvertCarPurchaseOutcome, Documentation"/>
</convertToXConnectEvent>
</pipelines>
</sitecore>
</configuration>
Trigger the outcome
Trigger the outcome with the custom data that the outcome conversion pipeline processor expects:
var ev = Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.MarketingDefinitions.Outcomes[CarPurchaseOutcome.CarPurchaseOutcomeID];
if (ev != null)
{
var outcomeData = new Sitecore.Analytics.Data.OutcomeData(ev, "DKK", 100000.00m);
outcomeData.CustomValues.Add("Make", "Mazda");
outcomeData.CustomValues.Add("Model", "MX-5");
Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.CurrentPage.RegisterOutcome(outcomeData);
}
Note
From 9.0 Update-1 onwards, you can also trigger an outcome with custom data for the current interaction.
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'The Walking Dead' season 10 trailer released at Comic-Con
AMC released the first trailer for "The Walking Dead" season 10 at San Diego Comic-Con Friday afternoon and it teases a lot with Carol, Michonne, Ezekiel, and more.After killing her son last season, Carol (Melissa McBride) and Alpha (Samantha Morton) will confront one another and it looks like Michonne (Danai Gurira) may be in a relationship with King Ezekiel (Khary Payton). (But what about Carol!?)Season 10 of the series will be the final one for Gurira. Norman Reedus and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will all be back as Daryl and Negan, respectively. It was announced Friday Thora Birch ("American Beauty") and Kevin Carroll ("The Leftovers") will join the series as two new characters Gamma, a Whisperer, and Virgil, a man who encounters some of the group."The Walking Dead" will return to AMC Sunday, October 6 at 9 p.m. Watch the trailer below.
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Talk:Four exponentials conjecture
I removed this sentence because it is not true, as proven by the statement log2(4) = log3(9): At present it is unknown if there exist integers m and n, not both equal to 1, such that log2m = log3n. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Xi Jinping, Brexit, White House: Your Thursday Briefing
Asia and Australia Edition Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • President Trump stunned many Americans by embracing elements of gun control: expanded background checks, keeping guns from the mentally ill and restricting sales to some young adults. Across the country, protests against the gun lobby in the wake of the Florida chool massacre has been coalescing into a powerful movement. In one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America, a huge sporting goods chain is ending sales of assault-style rifles and barring gun sales to those under 21, regardless of local laws. (Some of the weapons offer military-level firing power.) _____ • Hope Hicks, above, said she would resign as White House communications director, a day after acknowledging that she sometimes told white lies for Mr. Trump. She did not say what her next job would be, and it was unclear when she would leave. She said she had “no words” to express her gratitude to the president, who responded with effusive praise. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner’s White House portfolio is expected to shrink significantly after he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance. _____ • Civilians did not evacuate, volunteer helpers stood idle, the wounded were not ferried out, aid did not flow in, and fighting persisted. Russia’s calls for a “humanitarian pause” in eastern Ghouta — the rebel-held Damascus suburb under fierce bombardment by government forces — have been ignored. “Shelling is calmer than before, it’s true, but there is still shelling,” a resident said. _____ • Xi Jinping’s power grab this week has sparked rare public dissent in China, where citizens urged lawmakers to reject the Communist Party’s plans to scrap presidential term limits. Above, Mr. Xi in Hong Kong last year. The Chinese president, our Interpreter columnist writes, is essentially doubling down on the idea that China can refashion authoritarianism for this age — possibly setting the country on a collision course with history. China’s moves are also eroding the American sense that China’s path would bring it closer to the U.S. _____ • In Taiwan, young protesters carrying anti-China banners splashed red paint on the tomb of Chiang Kai-shek. In the capital, two former presidents called for a referendum on declaring a Republic of Taiwan. Both demonstrated the island’s urgency for more political self-determination, complicating President Tsai Ing-wen’s efforts to navigate tense relations with China. And the timing? The events happened on a national holiday commemorating an uprising that led to a massacre of Taiwanese by Chiang’s soldiers. _____ • Canada’s immigrants — whether from China, India, Europe or elsewhere — are embracing their adopted country’s way of life, especially on the slopes. “Skiing is a part of Canadian life and culture,” an Indian arrival said. “If you plan to stay, you should adapt.” _____ • Whatever you imagine a flying car to be — stop. Some companies are planning for flying taxi services, and what they envision is something like a helicopter or a drone, and much more affordable. • Germany is weighing whether to tighten the rules on when an investor needs to disclose holdings, after China’s Geely surprised markets by revealing its $9 billion stake in Daimler. • The U.S. treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said he had been in talks with other countries about what it would take to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership. • A Dutch supermarket has introduced a plastic-free aisle at its store in Amsterdam. It’s just one of many moves around the world to curb waste. • Amazon acquired a maker of internet-connected doorbells and cameras as part of its push into the smart-home market. • U.S. stocks were mixed. Here’s a snapshot of global markets. • The chief executive of the U.S. Olympic Committee stepped down under pressure from the gymnastics sex-abuse scandal. [The New York Times] • Australia has issued a compulsory recall for all 2.7 million vehicles with defective Takata airbags, which the government has linked to at least 23 deaths. [Associated Press] • The North Korean leaders Kim Jong-un and his father, Kim Jong-il, reportedly used fraudulent Brazilian passports to apply for visas in the 1990s. [Reuters] • The E.U. proposed keeping Northern Ireland in a customs union with the European Union when Britain leaves the bloc. [The New York Times] • In his latest overture to the Taliban, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan offered to treat the insurgent group as a legitimate political party and provide them with passports if they agreed to peace talks. [The New York Times] • The death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea this week rose to 20. [CNN] • Most of the roughly 90 people who drowned when a boat capsized off Libya’s coast in February were Pakistani migrants. Seven were from a single tiny village, which has been rocked by the tragedy. [The New York Times] • Indonesia seized a luxury yacht sought by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a corruption investigation related to a Malaysian state fund. [Reuters] • Barbra Streisand cloned her dogs. (For $50,000, you can clone yours.) [The New York Times] Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life. • If your marriage is in a rut, try these “love hacks.” • “Smart” items may have more features, but sometimes the original is better. • Recipe of the day: Pair your morning tea with maple scones. • In London, a collaborative exhibition by Takashi Murakami, a Japanese fine artist, and Virgil Abloh, an American designer, has attracted an unusual crowd that includes sneakerheads and blue-chip art collectors. • Xiao long bao, high-speed trains and dozens of art galleries: Our Frugal Traveler columnist found plenty to eat, see and do in Shanghai. • Our audience growth editor in Sydney is getting married. In this week’s Australia Diary, she tells the story of when her fiancé tried to pay for his guitar lesson with a pineapple. It has been called “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” The Peace Corps got its start on this day in 1961, established under an executive order by President John F. Kennedy. The idea to send American volunteers around the world to assist with development projects and to promote the image of the United States existed in various forms after the end of World War II. But it was during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan a few weeks before he was elected president that Kennedy asked a crowd of students, “How many of you who are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in Ghana?” Kennedy would repeat that call to service a few months later during his inaugural address, when he urged Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” The Peace Corps has not been without criticism: Richard Nixon said it was a haven for draft dodgers, and, more recently, the organization has faced questions about the health and safety of its volunteers, particularly women. But after initially operating in only handful of countries, the Peace Corps has sent more than 230,000 volunteers to 141 nations. Chris Stanford contributed reporting. _____ Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. Sign up here to get it by email in the Australian, Asian, European or American morning, or to receive an Evening Briefing on U.S. weeknights. And our Australia bureau chief offers a weekly letter adding analysis and conversations with readers. Browse our full range of Times newsletters here. What would you like to see here? Contact us at asiabriefing@nytimes.com.
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Cesar Hakizimana, born 5th January is a Rwandan scientist. He was born and raise in Rwanda. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from National University of Rwanda.
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BRIEF-Virgin Money half-year underlying pretax profit rises
July 26 (Reuters) - Virgin Money Holdings (UK) Plc * 2016 half-year results * Total capital ratio of 17.5 per cent and a leverage ratio of 3.8 per cent at h1 2016. * Gross mortgage lending of £4.3 billion, 19 percent higher than H1 2015. Net lending of £2.2 billion in H1 2016, 29 percent higher than H1 2015. * Although Bank of England did not cut bank rate in July 2016, interest rates are now expected to stay lower for longer * Underlying profit before tax increased by 53 per cent to £101.8 million, from £66.4 million in h1 2015 * Underlying return on tangible equity improved to 12.2 per cent from 9.5 per cent in h1 2015 * Strong capital base, with a common equity tier 1 ratio of 15.3 per cent at h1 2016. * Credit card balances increased to £2.1 billion at end of june 2016, 31 per cent higher than FY 2015 * A lower for longer forecast interest rate may put pressure on banking sector net interest margins and therefore business and financial performance * Completed a second RMBS issuance in May 2016 securing that tranche of funding and enhancing group’s strong balance sheet position in preparation for referendum Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom: +91 806 749 1136)
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EU - NICE - New Integrated Combustion System for future Passenger Car Engines
Project: Research project
Project Details
Description
The main objective of NICE is to develop a new integrated combustion system that, independent of the type of fuel (i.e. neutral fuel), is able to achieve todays highest fuel conversion efficiency of the DI diesel engine (43%), while complying with a zero-impact emission level. As a result of the gained knowledge and realised technologies of such an integrated combustion system, innovative diesel- and Otto-cycle engines, to be considered as by-products of the NICE research, will be developed. These by-products will allow Europe to maintain the leadership in the production of internal combustion engines in the years 2010-2015, while allowing the completion of the integrated combustion system in an innovative powertrain, which will take us to 2020. The fully flexible powertrain will be characterised by very high fuel conversion efficiency, mainly using newly designed bio and/or alternative fuels and gas, in the given emission constraints.
Description of work
The NICE IP is divided into four sub-projects:
1. enlarged HCCI-diesel/CAI-Otto combustion process under transient operation
2. compressed/spark ignited variable engine: based on gasoline or diesel engines combining the advantages into a new combustion system, with high EGR, supercharged and adapted to bio-fuels
3. future gas internal combustion engines with diesel equivalent fuel consumption
4. improved CFD tools and modelling: the main R&D objectives are:
* sensible increase of HCCI/CAI region in the engine map
* bio-fuel specifications addressed to the new combustion system
* the combination of different electronic control units (ECU) to define new advanced systems including ECU-algorithms, real-time models and software tools for automatic validation, hardware-in-the-loop tests and calibration
* advanced control systems for mixture preparation and combustion, required to adapt the injection and combustion strategy to the recognised fuel composition
* a predictive, affordable and useful in practice numerical tool describing new low emission highly efficient combustion processes.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/0431/12/06
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A person from Atlanta, who writes a biography for up and coming hip hop artists from Atlanta and the rest of the United States.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. XL MAY 22, 1915.
The ' Dictionary of National Biography ' (Second Supplement) says that Florence Nightingale was christened by the wounded men " The Lady of the Lamp," but where is the contemporary authority ?
As to the term "ministering angel," used by Macdonald (above), there is the follow- ir g reference in a letter to the editor of The Times, 20 Jan., 1855, p. 7, col. 6 : "To quote one man's language, ' She was more of a ministering angel than anything else.' ' ROBERT PIERPOINT.
The phrase "The Lady of the Lamp" seems to have been bestowed on Florence Nightingale by the soldiers under her care in the military hospital at Scutari. As early as about 1856 a plaster statuette of Miss Nightingale (standing figure with lamp in right hand) was executed by Miss J. H. Bonham-Carter.
In ' Santa Filomena,' by Longfellow, which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, circa 1858, is the following :
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.
[Several other correspondents thanked for send- ing Longfellow's lines.]
JULIUS C^SAR AND OLD FORD (US. xi.
190, 289). Referring to MAJOR G. YARROW BALDOCK'S re >ly, permit me to say that a score of bewildering conclusions "of anti- quaries concerning the oldest East London road over the River Lea might be quoted. Most of them forget that the Lea down to the time of Alfred the Great was, in effect, an estuary, and then a delta, for many miles from the coast of Essex. If there is any evidence of Roman use of the modern so- called " Roman Road " in North Bow, it should be discoverable, for, unlike so many other places around London, the area remained a lonely heath or morass on both sides of the Lea until almost within living recollection, only used for pasture at favour- able seasons, and subject to tidal floods. The so-called " Roman Road " is not yet three quarters of a century old, and the exploiters of that extension of the old Green Street from the village of Bethnal Green found themselves dealing with virgin marlv bottom land suitable for brickmalurig, but yielding nothing interesting to the antiquary. 'Drifts Way," as the bridle-path through unhedged fields was called, was entered by the side of a beerhouse called The Roman Arms " ; and it was, as is
indicated in Old English and Dutch ~by its name, a way to the Old Ford over the Lea. In Roman -British times the greater part of Essex to the sea -coast, and along the wide and wandering course of the Lea up to Ware, must have been fen-country, through the bogs and morasses of which, not one, but many streams meandered and over- flowed. Not one, but many causeways would therefore be necessary for giving the Roman legions access to the British strong- holds and fastnesses and forests in the heart of the great county of Essex. Mr. Lethaby's conclusion, " There may have been a Roman Road by way of Old Ford ; there must have been one by way of Whitechapel, Mile End, and Bow," is still valid ; and so is Mr. Harper's view that " the Old Norwich Road from Aid gate yet follows the Roman Way into the country of the Iceni." And evidences of any indubitable road-work of the Romans in the Old Ford area are still to come. MAC.
THOMAS SKOTTOWE : SOUTH CAROLINA BEFORE 1776 (11 S. x. 509; xi. 31). Accord- ing to a map of about the date of Queen Anne, printed in MacCrady's 'History of South Carolina,' this colony was originally divided into three counties, Colleton, Berkeley, and Craven, named after three of the original grantees, to which was afterwards added a fourth, Granville, named after another Palatine, Lord Granville. These settlements stretched about thirty - five to sixty miles from the coast, and were well cultivated with maize, cotton, rice, and silk. Beyond these limits were " back blocks " which stretched away to "the Great Savane," "the vacant lands," and "the Indian lands" in the north-west. Granville County, the most southern, lay between the Savannah and Combahee Rivers, and is represented now by Beaufort and Hampton Counties and a small extension to the north-west between those rivers. Its own name disappeared after the Independence. Colleton County, named after Sir John Colleton, had a much larger coast -line than now, stretching from Combahee River to Stono River as now, and bulging back very considerably between Combahee River and Four Hole Creek, a branch of Edisto River. Berkeley County's coast-line, according to MacCrady, ran from Stono Creek on the south to Sewee River on the north Sewee being probably the Black River and did not include the piece between the mouths of the Edisto arid Stono Rivers. On the other hand, it included a piece between the Sewee and Santee Rivers not now given
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Yum Brands' KFC testing vegan 'chicken' burger in UK
June 13 (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc’s KFC is looking to tap into the popularity of plant-based protein foods by rolling out a vegan version of its classic chicken burger at some outlets in the UK. The new burger, called “the Imposter Burger”, will have a fillet made from a meat substitute product, Quorn, instead of its classic chicken breast fillet, the company said in a statement on Thursday. Plant-based substitutes for meat have been all the rage as more people shift towards vegan or vegetarian diets, amid growing concerns about health risks from eating meat, animal welfare and the environmental hazards of intensive animal farming. KFC said the burger is being tested in London, Bristol and the Midlands for four weeks before it decides to roll it out nationally. KFC is hoping to replicate the success that Greggs Plc has witnessed with its wildly popular vegan sausage rolls. In April, McDonald’s Corp started selling burgers in Germany with a patty made from soy and wheat, while Del Taco launched “Beyond Taco” in late April, using U.S.-based Beyond Meat’s plant-based protein. (Reporting by Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru)
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Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign/Participants
Please sign up for the rolls of the kindness campaign! This will encourage others to do so too... The following list is sorted alphabetically according to display name. Please place your name onto the list A-Z instead of adding it directly to the bottom -- and thank you for signing!
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* 1) I'm ready to be nice. 5dsddddd 13:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
* 2) Im in 5faizan 16:22 15 February 2008(UTC)
* 3) 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:34, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
* 4) I am kind. Lets spread it to wiki! 19maxx 23:43, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
* 5) Showing kindness is a sign of strength, not weakness. 47thPennVols (talk) 09:15, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) A NobodyMy talk 08:44, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* 2) Be kind, rewind. -- A3RO (mailbox) 18:32, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
* 3) ?? --Aaron Walden 08:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
* 4) Great idea! --Abaraibar 11:59, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
* 5) Lets make Wikipedia a better place for everyone!! Abcdefghijklm 20:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Can't belive I didn't see this earlier! Abce2 | Access Denied 16:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
* 7) I'm fifth? Bah! Ab e g92 contribs 02:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
* 8) This is a super way to build the Wiki community.Ablecore 5:55 January 11 2006
* 9) Acetic Acid It's time for me to stop receiving and start giving. :P Ryan 12:18, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
* 10) Showing users that they're welcomed, no-matter what, is the real spirit of Wikipedia. I'm glad I can help ~ AdvertAdam talk 08:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
* 11) "Love thy neighbour as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18). "And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt" (Exodus 23:9). Just some gentle reminders to do what everyone should be doing, even without these reminders, but too many people forget about. -- AFriedman (talk) 20:58, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
* 12) I'll join! Aldrinv (talk) 04:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
* 13) Sure will --Alegoo92 16:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
* 14) Love it!! America69 (talk) 16:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
* 15) Why not? Amists 13:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Yeah, will help! ↔ A NAS - Talk 23:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
* 17) Count me in. | A ndonic O Talk 18:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
* 18) Without kindness, Wikipedia simply would not work. Andrewa (talk) 21:09, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
* 19) Andre ( talk ) 20:09, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)
* 20) A nicer Wikipedia would result in higher quality articles and more respect for the project, not to mention a better working environment for editors. Andrew327 18:53, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
* 21) Andy_F I'm always up for a bit of kindness.
* 22) Couldn't agree more. Flies, Honey and Vinegar, and all that. --Wade, Andy 21:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
* 23) You are a good person. 'Angel'
* 24) With pleasure. I like this Idea. ? Anonymous anonymous ?: ''Have A Nice Day'' 11:44, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
* 25) Yes.- a.n.o.n.y.m t 21:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
* 26) Absolutely. Antandrus (talk) 14:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
* 27) This is a great idea to humanize Wikipedia! :) --Antonielly (talk) 00:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
* 28) It's a chance to do something nice every day. [[Image:Peace.gif|15px]] :) AP clark 19:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
* 29) I believe being nice and spreading kindness is a great idea not only on Wikipedia, but all wikis! Arcane21 (talk) 02:36, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
* 30) Arknascar44 What a great way to end those pesky edit wars!
* 31) We were taught at a young age that we could be anything we wanted. I choose to be kind -- A Rose Wolf 18:44, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
* 32) Count me in--Artjo (talk) 05:51, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
* 33) Delighting idea!!!!!! Arturo #7 02:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
* 34) I love this idea! Ashertheaxolotl (talk) 23:45, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
* 35) Peace be with you! AthulBiju94 19:53, 6 November 2016 (IST)
* 36) Love and peace! Atilim Gunes Baydin 02:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
* 37) Atomic -Super -Suit What Have I Done?! 20:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
* 38) "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:32) AutomaticStrikeout ? 03:25, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
* 39) Kia orana! avaiki reporting in from the southern tip of Polynesia. Been up most of the night, dropping a friend off at the airport. Sleepy ...
* 40) Axl 12:17, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
* 41) why not ? Aza Toth 08:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
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* 1) This is a GREAT idea!! I wish you all all the luck in improving the mood of our fellow editors. Badbilltucker
* 2) User:Bakanov (talk • contribs) 21:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Bangabalunga More kindness makes the world better --Bangabalunga 22:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 4) Basketball110 9:44, 25 December 2007 (CDT)
* 5) BassGuitarist182 (talk) 01:52, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
* 6) Kindness is a Good Thing. — Bcat (talk | email) 20:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
* 7) The idea is close to my heart--Dami 17:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
* 8) Beccaynr (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
* 9) Bee-eautiful! Bee goode (talk) 17:58, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
* 10) Yay Kindness! (we need more "B" usernames on here...) -- benwildeboer D (talk - contribs) 03:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Count me in :-) benzband ( talk )
* 12) I totally agree ... kindness would not go ammiss on Wikipedia... Bhaveer 00:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
* 13) I love this idea, we definitely need more affection on this site! Bigfreesample 09:54:28, 1 February 2021 (CST)
* 14) Bigroger27509 I hope that I can help in any way.
* 15) What a lovely idea. (: ― Bio chemistry 🙴 ❤ 17:07, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
* 16) Blackkrash As a very kind person, I hope I can help.
* 17) Blooded Edge A smile a day keeps the doctor away!
* 18) Bloddyfriday Bloddyfriday Ready to serve!
* 19) Blufawn Excellent idea, theres some quite mean people out there! Am I mean or saying that???
* 20) BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 05:08, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
* 21) bookworm415 Cute idea!
* 22) Boricuaeddie:Spread the love! Boricuaeddie Talk • Contribs • Spread the love! 21:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
* 23) Kindness makes the world go round. Bratsche talk 5 pillars 15:00, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
* 24) Brian 08:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
* 25) Kindness is Kickass! BrianZ (talk) 02:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
* 26) Excellent! Brisvegas 09:38, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
* 27) I'm in, too --Bugtrio 11:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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* 1) The Prophet Wiz ard of the Cray on Cake -- Kindness is yummy.
* 2) Céad Míle Fáilte! A hundred thousand welcomes! Canaen 06:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
* 3) We need more kindness in this world. Let's do it. User:Canticle
* 4) Most certainly. Capt. Mozart (talk) 05:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
* 5) Kindness sounds like a good thing to support on Wikipedia. Captain panda In vino veritas 11:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
* 6) Civility Rules. User:Carolfrog 06:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
* 7) Without kindess you have ill-feeling and that's not good for any community, not just Wikipedia. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 18:20, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
* 8) Kindness rocks. Cephyr 22:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
* 9) sure! cf38 talk 17:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
* 10) Chairman S. Talk
* 11) Go Kindness! --Chesaguy 04:48, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
* 12) Chicken-7 talk 07:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
* 13) Great!-- Chi l i 1 4 13:48, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
* 14) Make Wikilove, not flamewar! Chokolattejedi 04:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
* 15) Sure! Chris the speller 20:19, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
* 16) Peace.--Chuck Marean 09:20, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
* 17) I'm always willing to help Wikipedia out. Chyel 04:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
* 18) Cicero Dog kindness rocks!
* 19) It is good to be kind! Isn't that what Wiki is all about? Ck lostsword 11:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
* 20) Count me in -Classicfilms (talk) 19:59, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
* 21) Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:32, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
* 22) User:Clintong i think this is a really good way to pass kindness on 16 July 2007
* 23) ClockworkSoul 15:02, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
* 24) Cocoaguy 15:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
* 25) As me mum said, it's nice to be nice. Colonel Tom 10:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
* 26) I want to be nice. Connorflanagan (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
* 27) User:Covington Count me in.
* 28) Love, Love, Love. Creeper jack1 (talk) 19:05, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
* 29) Sounds great! I'm in. Creepydude (talk) 20:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
* 30) Peace and fun are a part of Wikipedia, in my opinion. From your invisible friend, Ⲕⲣⲓⲟղետ (talk if you want) 16:46, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
* 31) Why not. Willing to help. Crna Gora 03:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
* 32) Culv e rin ? Talk 01:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
* 33) (Most enthusiastically wish to help make Wikipedia a kinder, more courteous and stress-free kind of place - although the Peace Dove idea needs reworking)--Cyberjunkie | Talk 07:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
* 34) Kindness is better than the alternative. Cynicism addict 01:22, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
* 35) Splendid and great idea! --Thomas, Cyril 16:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
* 36) Spread that WikiLove! --Cameron* 20:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
* 37) — Ched : ? 16:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC) Definitely something that there should be more of; count me in. ;)
* 38) Kindness makes the world go round. :) Clovermoss (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
* 39) Be kind, do no harm to others! CanadaMaple123 (talk) 05:39, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
* 40) Keep on keepin' on. CivilianArthur (talk) 21:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
* 1) Keep on keepin' on. CivilianArthur (talk) 21:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) I'm already part of Esperanza and Concordia. Don't see why I can't join here. I love you all! -- D -Day on WHEELS!!! 20:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
* 2) Ready to give away barnstars! D a Gizza Chat 21:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Of course! helping make wiki better- dagurlwonder 05:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
* 4) Dan100 19:53, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
* 5) Always helps to be kind!--Dan (Talk) 15:26, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Me too. Killfest2 (Critique my new user page design please) 06:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
* 7) Daniel Collins 21:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
* 8) DanielDemaret 16:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
* 9) Love it! DanielT5 12:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
* 10) I figure this is a good step in the right direction for me right now, and there are many people on here that don't get the credit they deserve. Griz 16:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
* 11) In a land that's mean and cruel, one group stands above the fray, a shining beacon of light and clarity through the murky darkness. I'm definitely in. =David ( talk )( contribs ) 07:59, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
* 12) Absolutely. --Deathphoenix 03:49, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* 13) This is a great idea. There are many people due for a barnstar or some sort of reward in addition to realization of kindness. Deckiller 00:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
* 14) Kindness is important, and I believe that it should be recognized and rewarded. If not, then some people would still continue to help others, and those are the ones I most admire. Dee man45 04:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
* 15) Deebki 09:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!--Deep Impact05:19, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
* 17) Important for any community. deeptrivia (talk) 06:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
* 18) I try to be kind anyway, as the most admirable people do, and this will further my cause. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). (talk) 16:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
* 19) Denmise 08:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
* 20) Kindness is so important amid the Internet flames. I'm in! -- Denstat 05:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
* 21) Cormier,Derek (talk) You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Derek Cormier 05:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
* 22) De ryc k C. who used to give barnstars away twice or 3 times a week. Signed up at 03:06, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
* 23) Dev920
* 24) This will help us all function better as a community. I'm in. Dfrg.msc [[Image:DFRG. MSC.jpg|10px|link=Special:FilePath/DFRG._MSC.jpg]] 23:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
* 25) Spot On! Sounds great--Dicdoc 16:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
* 26) Virtually Perfect! --digitalmischief (talk) 13:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
* 27) Great idea! I'll help as best as I can. --Discharger12 06:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
* 28) Spread the Love! -- Dishita Bhowmik 07:48, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
* 29) Cool :) --The cool Dister304 (talk) 20:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
* 30) Probably one of the best wikiideas. Divide et Impera (talk) 21:13, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
* 31) Djembayz
* 32) Spreading kindness is a Joy-- DocOfSoc (talk) 20:35, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
* 33) An excellent prescription to counteract Wikistress and burnout. - Do c t or W 10:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
* 34) Excellent idea :) That's what we need. Dr Debug (Talk) 04:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
* 35) Sounds good to me. I love it when people are joyous :) --dragfyre 01:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
* 36) Excellent idea. --Draicone (talk) 09:41, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
* 37) Let's do this!--Ðrdak (T) 10:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
* 38) I suppose the User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle puts me into your fold. Best regards, Durova Charge! 04:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
* 39) This is a great idea! -- (Dustimagic 01:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC))
* 40) I'm in--Dylan Lake (talk contributions) 01:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
* 41) Woopee!!! I'm in! This is great... I hope to have a lot of friends here. Dan-gee-rous (talk) 15:19, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
* 42) -- Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:35, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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* 1) I'm in, even though I don't know what I'm doing! Earofdoom (talk) 22:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
* 2) Same here — "I'm in, even though I don't know what I'm doing!" — Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk | ☮✌☮ 02:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
* 3) Good project!!--Ed
* 4) I love kindness. --eddie 21:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
* 5) We're losing too many great contributors - a little kindness would go a long way to fixing that. Edwardx (talk) 20:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
* 6) Is a good project :) --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC) (Einstein2)
* 7) EinsteinBaby :D EinsteinBaby (talk) 14:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
* 8) Kindness defines us human beings. --Ekabhishektalk 17:42, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
* 9) I'll join this campaign! Kevin Ray 09:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Better than being a pendejo ? ??????? ?????? * 17:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
* 11) this is good Enigmaticanant --ANANT SINGH अनंत 22:44, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
* 12) I like to be kind EoinMahon (talk) 17:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
* 13) Sure.-- eskimospy ( talk • contribs • review me ) 02:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
* 14) Yes. Evan Robidoux 00:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
* 15) Sounds like a plan- a nice break from dealing with vandals... EvocativeIntrigue 16:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Evaunit666 04:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC) this is just what we need!
* 17) Good news is always more empowering than bad news. Earthstories 21:22 Wednesday January 5, 2011 (UTC)
* 18) Everyone needs some good news & encouragement !! Ellin Tuesday February 15, 2011
* 19) For what have we if not civility? EW i kist Talk 21:37, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
* 20) A little means a lot. Exceedingly Rare (talk) 17:08, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
* 21) One should be Kind to others. Ezoruan (talk) 10:07, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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* 1) I think wikipedia needs something like this. I also think I could lift my game somewhat so sign me up. Factoid Killer 21:45, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
* 2) I'm in, lets make Wikipedia a better place! Falkirks 23:55, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
* 3) Groovy. --Fang Aili 19:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
* 4) Cool, im on Fattyjwoods 01:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
* 5) Here we go. I'm glad to be a part of the Wikipedia Community. It's time for a better future Fatedbreath (talk) 16:07, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
* 6) It is better to be kind than to be "right". Thanks for the campaign. FClef (talk) 14:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
* 7) Lovely. fetch comms ☛ 18:28, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
* 8) In the most sincere manner, - A Sprig of Fig & a lock of holly 18:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
* 9) Its nice to be nice! FeydHuxtable 11:21, 25 August 2008
* 10) I think that there should be more kindness and cosideration shown by some users towards their fellow Wikipedians, so I am joining to try to help promote this ideal. Figaro 15:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Why not. Anything to improve the air. Filiocht | The kettle's on 08:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
* 12) I'm in. -- Fingers-of-Pyrex 02:52, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
* 13) Fir e Fox T C 18:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
* 14) Let's promote civility on Wikipedia! Firestar464 (talk) 04:20, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
* 15) Wonderful idea! Let's spread kindness, people! --Floramage! 17:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
* 16) Definetly in. it's not great, but this type of thing should be done a lot more on wikipedia. Flyingv123 18:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
* 17) F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 05:06, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
* 18) What a great idea! cøøki? ? (talk) 01:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
* 19) [[User:Franky210|Turtopotamus]] 03:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
* 20) The world will always need more thankfulness. Thank you all! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:10, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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* 1) Better than the Be A Jerk Campaign. — Gaff ταλκ 01:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
* 2) Kindness is ... like the fragrance of honeysuckle and roses. Galoubet (talk) 09:57, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
* 3) O.K. Project.--Gangsta-Easter-Bunny 00:16, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
* 4) "Be Nice" proposal - please lend a hand. Wikipedia Chairman appeals for kindness,here, discussed here. Count me in. Geoffjw1978 T L C
* 5) Let's all hold hands :-) Gflores Talk 06:24, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
* 6) i think that kindness is really good in terms of helping people User:Gill1994
* 7) Sure! Gl ac ier Wo lf 18:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
* 8) Sounds good. Plus I might get to meet a nice girl! Gormenghastly 14:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
* 9) I love being kind and :) I'll go for it! --GoldenPhoenix 10:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
* 10) Good Idea. -Gphoto (talk) 19:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Shiny Happy People... :-) Greatgavini kindness post 09:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
* 12) I'm all for WikiLove and I often give away barnstars! Greeves (talk • contribs • reviews) 18:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
* 13) Love is the answer. Gregkaye (talk) 10:56, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
* 14) If only everyone was part of this project, Wikipedia would be a much kinder place. Growly 11:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
* 15) Non-violence is the way to go, whether by actions or by words. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 01:09, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)
* 16) Sounds like a very worthwhile project! Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 05:06, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* 17) I think it´s time many users stopped being rude and started being nice. I´m signing up and hope this will make a difference. Gryffindor 18:56, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
* 18) I'm a big fan of kindness! GTBacchus(talk) 19:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
* 19) There are enough helping hands in wikipedia, & their contribution should be judged based on their motive & not always on the Results, cause someday these motivations would be the Results--Goutam (talk) 09:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
* 20) Hello all! --GoldenGlory84 (talk) 01:30, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
* 21) WP:TIGERS. Guy Macon (talk) 18:30, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
* 22) Only discovered this last night. Excellent idea! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 10:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
* 23) I discovered it today! --Greenmaven (talk) 06:33, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
* 24) Kewl! Just what's needed around here. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 22:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
* 25) Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:36, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
* 26) Good afternoon (talk) 04:48, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
* 27) Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Kill 'em with kindness! 13:58, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
* 28) As The Crown S3E3 says, kindness "is not only permitted. It's expected." Gerald WL 12:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
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* 1) Kindness and Love does it all, if we can all be honest about it. Let's do this!! -- HakimBalogun Let's Talk
* 2) This is a wonderful idea, and I'm proud to be part of it. Hall Monitor 18:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
* 3) Support. -- Hammelsmith (talk) 09:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
* 4) HappyCamper 01:45, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* 5) Remember to welcome newcomers and be nice to everyone, even vandals if possible! :) -- <sub style="color:#336611;">Hdt83 <sup style="color:blue; font-family:Arial;">Chat 05:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
* 6) Fantastic idea --Heidijane 13:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
* 7) I am strict to Vandals but Warm to newbies. --Hellboy2hell (talk) 12:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)--
* 8) Hennap (talk) 05:41, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
* 9) Let's keep WP:KC always in "active" status! History DMZ ( talk )+( ping ) 02:56, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
* 10) Hmlarson (talk) 06:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* 11) good idea Howabout1 23:05, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
* 12) I may have seven heads, but I'd like to not bite. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 05:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
* 13) Sounds good! Hydrogen Iodide 02:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
* 14) User:Jessica0Peace
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* 1) I dream of horses (talk) 01:55, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
* 2) Great! Ian 13 10:34, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
* 3) After a week on Wikipedia, I have decided to join! :) Imoeng 10:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
* 4) ImpalerBugz User talk: ImpalerBugz 08:39, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
* 5) Great idea! Information Center 10:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Support. <b style="color:#006040;">Insane</b> phantom (my Editor Review) 12:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
* 7) Peace. Isaacbruner1234 (Talk)18:41, 27 May 2014 (EST)
* 8) Yes! That's the spirit! IslandGyrl (Talk) 03:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
* 9) Exceptional idea :) Iinag parle-moi!
* 10) More kindness, the better. --Itsmejudith 08:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Kindness promotes collaboration! --Isleofbelle (talk) 22:38, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
* 12) INeverCry (talk) 21:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
* 13) As Princess Diana said “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” so be the people who sincerely kind to everyone without expecting anything then one day someone might do the same for you. 😊 𝕿 📱 ✍ 17:16, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) Jamison Lofthouse (talk) 22:31, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
* 2) J.Steinbock (Talk Page)
* 3) Jack ?! 19:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
* 4) Kindness is contagious people!!!! Jack345110 (talk) 22:03, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
* 5) Like the Dalai Lama, kindness is my religion. Well, that's the theory anyway. Practice makes perfect. This is a really good idea, and so simple. JackofOz 22:21, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
* 6) I am Jacobshaven3 and I wish to help with this campaign in any way I can.
* 7) Jam01 Yes! Jam 01 05:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
* 8) JamesMay
* 9) I'm in! JamieJones talk 01:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Just what I've been looking for! Jenhawk777 (talk) 03:28, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
* 11) Will do what i can to make things better! J e n o v a 20 13:28, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
* 12) JesseW 04:57, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
* 13) Jet123 (Talk) 20:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
* 14) User:Jill OrlyThis message provided by the campaign to provide barnstars. J.Rly (talk) 02:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
* 15) I'm willing to help raise spirits on wikipedia JIMOTHY T 08:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 16) I'm in --JLM 00:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
* 17) João Correia 20:38, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
* 18) Jobberone 21:10, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
* 19) John Moore 309 11:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
* 20) I'm Jokermage and I approve this campaign! J|undefinedTimor Mentum Occidit 02:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
* 21) <p style="font-family: Bradley Hand ITC, Comic Sans MS;"> Journalist / Holla @ me! |undefined
* 22) Jumbolino (talk) 09:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
* 23) --Juthani1 (talk) 22:38, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
* 24) Happiness is Wikipedia... — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 20:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
* 25) yay for kindness! JWJW Talk Long Live E speranza! :) 16:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
* 26) If I'm not already good at this, I want to be. :-) I can't think of anything likelier to end edit wars and promote consensus and collaboration. Jwrosenzweig 08:26, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
* 27) I would love to join this amazing cause! User:Jay Starz 18:05, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
* 28) Hope to help in any way I can. Jodie25 16:35, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
* 29) Jamzze (talk) 08:21, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) Kindness is the best kind of contagion! :D k2trf (talk) 14:31, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
* 2) I'll join in! Kamope • ? • ! Sign! 11:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
* 3) I've got a bad temper, but i'm working on it :-) Karmafist 02:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
* 4) [[Image:Animated flower.GIF|16px]]Karmela
* 5) Born to be nice to each other Kartsriv (talk)
* 6) Kentuckay 20:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC) great idea!
* 7) -throws rainbows and joy around- =D Kitty the Random 03:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
* 8) I LOVE this idea! Kntrabssi 10:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
* 9) Anything to help! Commo 14:57, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Count me in. Kukini 15:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* 11) Brilliant idea! –- kungming• 2 | (Talk •Contact) 07:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
* 12) What a kind idea!--Kushan I.A.K.J (talk) 12:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
* 13) Raymond Giggs 06:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
* 14) I think my heart's in the right place, I just hope the brain goes along! ~Kylu ( u | t ) 03:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* 15) I've started this long before I've joined. Spreading Wikilove is key. I consider all Esperanzians (and Wikipedians) as family. K yo cat ¿Qué tal?♥meow! 01:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
* 16) Why didn't I sign up before? Great idea. -- Kyok o joined 18:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC), changed to new account and signature 17:47, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
* 17) I'll try Kwiki (talk) 18:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
* 18) Komchi Count on me :D !
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* 1) I'll do my very best, & have fun! This is totally awesome! ~Lopezjaylo98
* 2) This is great! Hugs for all! Lady6String
* 3) I'll do my best. LaleenaTalk to me Contributions to Wikipedia 21:28, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
* 4) Wow! I hope I'm nice enough to help out. I'm trying really hard! LambaJan
* 5) -- L A X 08:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
* 6) Share the WikiLove, DUDE! -- LB22 (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
* 7) -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles Tally-ho! 05:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
* 8) Fantastic idea!--Le Grey Intellectual 17:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
* 9) And I've been promoting this on my user-page for months, but never signed in...sigh Lectonar 15:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
* 10) Mean people really tick me off! Be nice Please!!! Lego3400: The Sage of Time 16:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
* 11) People need to be kind in a place like Wikipedia. --l E ☺N2323 21:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
* 12) I will be a better Wikipedian - more civil always and kind to noobs Lethaniol 00:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
* 13) Happy to help leujohn
* 14) Shannon 23:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC) There's a time and a place for everything, but kindness is usually good.
* 15) Mean people SCARE me... Be nice, okay? Littleghostboo [ talk ] (Win an argument and leave your mark in history.)
* 16) I can do this! LittleOldMe 14:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* 17) There's nothing wrong with promoting random acts of kindness. Sure beats being an asshole. -- Longhair | Talk 13:39, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
* 18) loolylolly1997 5:33, 30 September 2007
* 19) For great ideas and kindness! Lord Spring Onion (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
* 20) Since 1988, one woman's persistent quest to spread kindness - Thanks " Lorraine" for Be Kind 2 HumanKind Week
* 21) Nice idea. I'm in. Lost 10:23, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
* 22) A great big hug from Lova Falk (talk) 15:43, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
* 23) This is great! Keep it up :)Lovelaughterlife 03:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
* 24) I'm in. Luk suh 03:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
* 25) Hell to the yeah! :D londonsista <sup style="color:#ff66cc; font-family:alois light;">Prod 03:51, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
* 26) I love nice people! let's do it! --The Haze Master (talk) 23:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
* 27) This Kindness Campaign/Participants list is the best page I've read on Wikipedia so far LeoRomero (talk) 18:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
* 28) The fragrance of kindness is lingering in many Wikipedians. Lotje (talk) 16:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
* 29) This is an amazing idea! I'll do my best. --Lakshmisreekanth (talk) 05:56, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
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* 1) There is a lot of people out there that deserve a big "Thank you" from the community... Macarism (Talk to me) 10:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
* 2) I'm onboard. Macboots 07:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
* 3) Kindness, strongly guarded, is not a weakness. -- Mac Davis ญƛ.
* 4) Bon chance! •Malinaccier• 22:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
* 5) Mamawrites 21:14, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
* 6) I'm game! Manu - vetalk pro Skicontribs 21:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
* 7) I like this idea. — mark ✎ 20:46, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
* 8) Yay Kindness!! -MarkBuckles 21:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
* 9) Yeah... I'll do it. MasterRadius ...please talk to me!10:00, 18 Oct 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Kindness is an important part of life, without it there would be next to nobody with happiness out in the world, it is nice to see that some people have decided to extend a WP to the art of being nice to others and I gladly accept a position within this WikiProject. MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 10:54, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
* 11) Kindess Rocks!!! =] Mcoop06 02:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
* 12) Sounds great. Count me in! Meloras 07:31, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
* 13) The littel dove of peace:):)Merkinsmum 21:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
* 14) I've had the userbox on my page promonently for years, but apparently forgot to add my name to this list! Time to fix that! :D <span style="color: #F0F; text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #F0F, 0 0 1em #F0F;">Mesmerus 📬 📷 21:33, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
* 15) Those little flowers. How wonderful. ॐ <strong style="color:orange;">Metta Bubble <sup style="color:red;">puff 06:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
* 16) Sounds great! —M ICLER ( Мыклр ) June 28, 2005 23:03 (UTC)
* 17) Yay, kindness :) Midorihana ~いいです ね？ 03:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
* 18) This sounds like a nice gesture. Michael 06:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
* 19) Yeah! Miniapolis (talk)
* 20) I'm wondering why I haven't joined this earlier... —Mirlen
* 21) Whee! Let's do this thing! ~ Missionedit (talk) 16:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
* 22) Fine, but only on days that end with the letter "y". MJ94 (talk) 19:23, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
* 23) Sweet. God Bless. I'm in...too! ...what exactly do I do? Mjbookster 21:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* 24) Driving Force behind Wikipedia is kindness GO WIKI!!! MKS 04:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
* 25) It would be my pleasure to be a member, it's what Sophisticated Gentleman YouTubers like myself do after all. MK8 Master 12:27pm, 6th of October 2019 (AEST)
* 26) I'm in! This is brilliant! Monkeyblu e 13:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
* 27) Be kind people. Mountain cirque 09:53, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
* 28) Kindness is kool. --(Mr.) Bouncy 08:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
* 29) I like welcoming people and ing! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊|🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦|☎️|📄 19:11, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
* 30) Count me in. Mr. Turcotte 11:05, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
* 31) Mr.Whiskers - Here to help, good idea
* 32) This is a good idea. Wikipedia needs more kind users. -- M s c h e l 22:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
* 33) Mushroom (Talk) 02:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
* 34) Good idea! AnnH (talk) 23:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
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* 1) Count me in. - [[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px|link=Special:FilePath/Ottawa_flag.png]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] nath a nrdotcom ( Talk • Contribs ) 04:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
* 2) Peace and goodwill to all, yes, all. Good scheme. Naturenet | Talk 5 July 2005 12:32 (UTC)
* 3) Neutralitytalk 06:41, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
* 4) Wikipedia has enough frustration and anger. I hope joining and participating will help people be happier on Wikipedia. Nihiltres 01:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
* 5) I totally wanna be part of this!!! -- Sergio Á.(nodoubt9203) ' '' 18:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
* 6) Why not? NSLE ( ?? + extra ) 09:12, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
* 7) This is a great idea and I'd be proud to be a part of it. Nutiketaiel (talk) 12:06, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
* 8) I am proud of being a Wikipedian. I am serious. Nxn 0405 chl 17:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
* 9) I will continue to do what I do best, I mean it; I am always nice and Mensch. -- ' The Ninjalemming ' 18:03, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
* 10) Sounds like a great initiative. nerd fighter 23:38, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
* 11) This idea is AWESOME! I definitely support it.🙂 Not a very active user (talk) 17:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
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* 1) OlEnglish 00:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC) Remember the golden rule..
* 2) Ombudsman 03:34, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
* 3) OlifanofmrTennannt 05:15, 21 September 2023 (UCT)
* 4) Ottawa4ever 13:55, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
* 5) Overlasting Peace 21:52, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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* 1) Let's spread the WikiLove! -- P.B. Pilhet 02:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
* 2) Pacluc Kindness is philanthropist and I am a philanthropist.Pacluc (talk) 21:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
* 3) Painbearer "I love my work here. I think it's one" of the best experiences in my life. I am glad to be part of it.
* 4) Pandelver The real reason why studies show that those who greet random people they don't know are happier, is that they are treating the world as the community about which they care and which cares for us all.
* 5) Yay for wikilove! --- Papercutbiology♫ (talk) (Sign here!) 19:25, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
* 6) THE World could use friendliness. United We Stand, Divided we fall. We must be Inseparable and Undivided. PASTOR11 (talk) 15:18, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
* 7) Newly joined! --Pathbinder 06:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
* 8) Patman2648 Great idea and a great community project. 21:21 1 February 2006
* 9) Kindness is the only way to bypass differences that might lead to (edit) wars or POV conflicts that devastate the Wikipedia, the Wikipedians and whoever reads it. --PaxEquilibrium 20:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Kindness is the most powerful weapon humanity ever had(by me) Peatta (talk) 15:03, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
* 11) A wonderful example of the heart and spirit of our encyclopedia. Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk) 15:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
* 12) I added the KC userbox to my userpage quite some time ago; completing the journey by signing here today. Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk) 09:50, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
* 13) CaseyPenk (talk) Much-needed.
* 14) I'm a kind person. Perl 18:17, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
* 15) An excellent project which I am glad to be a part of. Peter McGinley 09:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
* 16) Pheonix15 18:57, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
* 17) PhilKnight (talk)
* 18) PhishRCool 14:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Yay!
* 19) PigeonOfTheNight -- Some deem kindness useless. I deem it essential.
* 20) PinkElixir- The world could always use more kindness :) PinkElixir (talk) 19:06, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
* 21) I thought I joined this years ago. Now, it's formal :) --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 20:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* 22) I (pkirlin ) think this is an admirable mission. Keep up the good work. It's true -- a little kindness goes a long way, and people love feeling appreciated.
* 23) PokeOnic (Talk) KINDNESS!
* 24) Politics rule i believe in being kind and civil to one another, it helps!!
* 25) Polluxian - "The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life" --William Wordsworth. I believe it!
* 26) PositivelyJordan (talk) 21:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
* 27) PotatoMan01 21:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
* 28) Pratyya Ghosh (talk)- Great project.05:38, 05 December 2012 (UTC)
* 29) PrincessWortheverything (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
* 30) Primate#101 I'm glad to give a little kindness
* 31) ॐ Priyanath "A small flower tinged with affection, or a word fragrant with kindness, can do much to patch up old wounds." — P.Y.
* 32) Kindness is definitely something Wikipedia could use more of! And I'm happy to help. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 06:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
* 33) Ps103ankit (talk) 05:57, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
* 34) Pydos Fantastic idea, hope i get a barnstar 19:55 11 November 2005 (UTC)
* 35) Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 18:37, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) Life is too short; kindness makes the journey better. Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 17:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
* 2) Wow what a lovely thing!!! QueenCake (talk) 18:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
* 3) Golden rule. :) Quiddity (talk) 23:14, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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* 1) "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." - Jebediah Springfield -- Rachmaninoff123 17:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
* 2) Feel the love, Wikipedia! -- Andre ( Talk ) 23:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Screw equality, its love for all! Ran da l l l in 23:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
* 4) I'm felling kind. I shall join this valiant quest! Randfan 23:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
* 5) I shall join your campaign, even if it means cutting down my newbie abuse. RandyWang ( chat me up/fix me up ) 10:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
* 6) RaptorX Happy to Help! RaptorX 10:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
* 7) I'm in. Rat235478683
* 8) Raystorm 18:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Kindness for all, and HAPPY NEW YEAR! ^_^
* 9) I sure would have joined earlier had I known of this campaign's existence! Appreciating all the great work done here, RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 23:08, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
* 10) ReduxParla! 05:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
* 11) I'm in! (Already in WP:WC) Redwolf24 08:22, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
* 12) I love this idea! Why isn't it more broadcast?Regeane Silverwolf
* 13) Have awarded over 500 barnstars, mostly through WP:GOCE, WP:CAN10K and WP:1M. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:59, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
* 14) We all need to be nicer.--Res2216firestar 20:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
* 15) "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." -U.S. President Barack Obama --Resetti 4 Prez (talk) 23:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
* 16) Random acts of kindness! Random acts of kindness! --Revolución (talk) 06:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
* 17) The Kindness Campaign... cuz making love is fun... heh TrianaC 08:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
* 18) Rick Kindness is supreme. ...
* 19) Richar I agree with #20
* 20) RichardOwen97 Being kind will brighten up a persons day!
* 21) This gave me pause and made me feel good! Let's all make WikiLove to other Wikipedians! Ricotalk
* 22) Kindness will make someone's day just a little better and will make everyone smile....-Robbie--<IP_ADDRESS> 09:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
* 23) RobertG ♬ talk 16:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
* 24) Kindness helps improve the encyclopedia and a person's day. Treat a person with utmost respect and kindness not only on Wikipedia but in your everyday life. <span style="font-family:Papyrus, sans-serif; color:#775ca8;">Rgoodermote 00:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
* 25) Robin Patterson (talk) 19:53, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
* 26) Robin.rueth 21:53, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
* 27) Being kind is fun -- and guaranteed to be a worthwhile contribution to Wikipedia! Robnpov 21:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
* 28) It's better to embiggen than to belittle. RomanSpa (talk) 05:50, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
* 29) I think this idea can work - surprisingly well even, with some luck and a big dose of persistence. --Ronja Addams-Moring 22:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
* 30) Rory This'll be good... RoryReloaded (talk) 20:56, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
* 31) Improving wikipedia one kind gesture at a time :) Rushton2010 (talk) 12:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
* 32) Russia Moore
* 33) I've received way too many barnstars, I think this is a good place to thank others. :D -- RyRy5 ( talk ) 00:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
* 34) Rahber Nazir
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* 1) One Act of Random Kindness every edit! Sabaybayin (talk) 00:05, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
* 2) Thank you all so much for your hard work! Saber_girl08
* 3) Let kindness prevail! Sainsf
* 4) Love is where compassion prevails and Kindness rules !! Samkit
* 5) This is going to really help people. Sakuraluver
* 6) Kindness forever Samillia 22:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
* 7) Sango 123 17:51, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
* 8) Love to the World! ~ Sarabi1701 00:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
* 9) Why not? Sceptr e ( Talk ) 14:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
* 10) I've been remiss in not joining this sooner. Scimitar parley 16:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
* 11) Sea dog .M.S Kindness is a Virtue
* 12) Sean (talk || contribs) 20:52, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
* 13) Never been so welcome to join a campaign like this!-- S e an gort e r {mind a chat?} e@ CVU
* 14) Happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy... --Seans Potato Business 14:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
* 15) I believe in kindness Searching for Orion 19:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
* 16) I want to help too! Selphie 17:05, 3
* 17) Glad to be at your assitance.SenatorsTalk 02:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
* 18) Brilliant idea, I'd be happy to join! --Sendura 23:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
* 19) Time to smile! SensibleMenace Talk 18:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
* 20) Life is too short to be Mr Angry or Ms Angry. The Kindness Campaign is just great. Seth Whales talk 20:30, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
* 21) Neat idea.-- Shella * 22:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
* 22) It's more fun this way.Shelshula (talk) 18:48, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
* 23) People work better in a happy atmosphere. SilkTork 18:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
* 24) --Sir james paul I really want wikipedia to be a friendly place.
* 25) I would be honored to join this nice and wonderful campaign. Sjones23 18:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
* 26) People who are dedicated to being nice? How sadly rare! Skittleys (talk) 11:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
* 27) Great idea!! I agree with this!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 02:44, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
* 28) Love for all! -- S M S Talk 17:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
* 29) Let's make the world a better place! Smaug123 06:23, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
* 30) What a nice idea, amidst all the chaos that can be Wikipedia editing... Smee 20:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
* 31) I'm in! Sobar (talk) 12:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
* 32) Happiness for all! şœśэїŝәқιￆṱᾅἻқￂ 03:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
* 33) Great idea! SparrowHK (talk) 12:12, 31 December 2014 (UTC)SparrowHK
* 34) K is for Kind! -- Spe bi 01:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
* 35) Yay for great ideas! I'm in! spider1224 12:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
* 36) A great companion to any campaign for genuine civility. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 10:46, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
* 37) What a great campaign -signs up- Storm Horizon 16:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
* 38) Count me in. --Storye book (talk) 01:46, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
* 39) Love the idea! It's great! Count me in, User:Strawberry Sara
* 40) Swat (talk) 15:30, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
* 41) kind people are groovy %% -SYKKO- %% (talk to me) 00:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
* 42) We need more of this and less of the mean, ego-driven sick s#!t, both here and in the real world. -- Sys Hax 06:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
* 43) Great idea. Those who work hard on making Wikipedia better deserve to be recognized. --Syed Kazim | Talk 16:35, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
* 44) Not sure if this project is still active, but, I feel I should have my name here :) SarahStierch (talk) 20:38, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
* 45) Shriram (talk) 12:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
* 46) Infinite Love. SFeltych89 (talk) 22:42, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
* 47) User:SeaBeeDee I love spreading joy and happiness!
* 48) Great initiative! Signimu (talk) 09:00, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
* 49) I love love and Kindness SungYandy (talk) 2:54 pm
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* 1) Kindness ROCKS! And so do all of you! Tarastar42 (talk) 04:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
* 2) T-dot 16:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Glad to be on board! ♦Tangerines BFC ♦ • Talk 17:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
* 4) What a great idea. Hopefully, this will make Wikipedia an even better place. Tblore 17:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
* 5) Really an excellent campaign! Tellervo 11:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
* 6) Great campaign!! <b style="color:#0066FF;">Telly</b><b style="color:#66ff33;">addict</b> 23:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
* 7) Of course I'm participating! Wow, I forgot how amazing Wikipedia is as a community. Terra (talk) 18:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
* 8) Be nice to each other, and life will be easier! 19:56, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
* 9) Nice project --Thameen 13:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
* 10) Positive reinforcement - I like :o) (ThatPeskyCommoner (talk) 06:58, 12 February 2011 (UTC))
* 11) I awarded my first barnstar today, so why not? There should be more positive user interaction on Wikipedia! --Grace 04:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
* 12) By joining this, I'm sure I'll be feelin' the love soon. :P -- T HE F OUNDERS I NTENT TALK 13:52, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
* 13) Great idea -- Ra nd om <sup style="color:olive;">Say it here! 02:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
* 14) But of course! -- The Helpful One (Review) 18:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
* 15) "You will never regret being kind" The Living love Be kind! 07:17, 01 April 2019 (UTC)
* 16) Let's make the world - and Wikipedia - a better place! ^^ TheMysteriousShadeheart (talk) 19:57, 08 February 2023 (UTC)
* 17) There's not enough genuine kindness on the internet (or the world in general). People work best together when they're getting along amicably.--&レア (talk) 17:11, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
* 18) Definetly Thetruthbelow<sup style="color:blue;"> [[Image:Wikipedia minilogo.gif|20px|link=Special:FilePath/Wikipedia_minilogo.gif]] (talk)
* 19) Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 05:01, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
* 20) Yes. Truth and quality matter. Humility and feelings matter as well. This lousy t-shirt (talk) 20:57, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
* 21) Excellent idea! Glad to participate. --Thomprod (talk) 13:46, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
* 22) Have a nice day :) Thruxton (talk) 19:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
* 23) Like the name change to Kind Bud from Killer Weed. :) --Timeshifter 23:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
* 24) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:54, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
* 25) This is a great Idea!!!Tobi is a good boy 21:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
* 26) Perfect Idea! Unfortunately, kindness sometimes is lacking here on Wikipedia, but this certainly helps! Totally willing to be kind... ♠ Tom @ s Bat 21:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
* 27) Topicality 19:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC) Yay!!!
* 28) My pitch (and burden): Don't forget that honest forthrightness can be mistaken for abruptness and criticism. Thank and compliment, don't just comment.TransporterMan (talk) 21:39, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
* 29) Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 12:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
* 30) Thinker78 (talk) 21:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
* 31) Tram1203
* 32) I am trying, but some people make it very hard. I can only hope others resolve to try too. I agree with comments above - editors need to remember there is a person on the other side of the screen.--TrottieTrue (talk) 13:26, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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* 1) Anyone can use a little bit of extra kindness in their life --Ubardak (talk) 06:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
* 2) Wonderful idea!! Underneath-it-All 03:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
* 3) Woot! Count me in! Unionhawk (talk) 03:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
* 4) Really, thank you everyone supporting this campaign. We should always be polite and thanking members for their contribution encourage members to contribute as well :))) --Universal Life (talk) 08:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
* 5) Wikilove. Especially to newbies. Unrudh (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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* 1) Awesome idea. And sweet, I'm the first V. --V2Blast 23:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
* 2) It's about time I spread some love and appreciation. It cannot hurt (to say the least) to let other editors know they are appreciated. Fantastic campaign. Vassyana 09:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
* 3) I enjoy awarding barnstars to others. Fun. (Vegavairbob (talk) 03:34, 18 January 2010 (UTC))
* 4) Fun. Visiting Guest (talk)
* 5) Wiki rocks! Vatsan34 (talk) 09:03, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
* 6) Its fun and a good practice. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 17:21, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
* 7) Make love, not war. flixwito ^(•‿•)^ (talk) 11:53, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
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* 1) Share the love. Wanderingatlarge (talk) 04:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
* 2) Good idea. Whisp e ring
* 3) This is cool! White Arabian mare ( Neigh ) 14:04, 6 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
* 4) Okey Dokey, let's go. ¿ Why 1 9 9 1 <i style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:green;">ESP.</i>
* 5) Whether it helps or not, its still a good thing to do. Widders
* 6) Kindness is great. Great idea! Wikipediaman123TALK)
* 7) Peace and blessings to you ALL! CAN"T we all just get aong? --Wikiyotl 11:25, 31 March 2007
* 8) It's a good idea for a project. Willscrlt ( Talk · Cntrb )
* 9) I try to be kind in real life, why not in virtuality? Wisdom89 (talk) 07:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
* 10) Awesome idea
* 11) I'm in. Worley-d 22:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
* 12) Ya you betcha! Heaven knows every little bit helps. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
* 13) wwesocks 04:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
* 14) After a user I came in contact with got somewhat unreasonably blocked, I've decided to join. Wekn reven i susej eht Talk• Follow 16:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
* 15) I just joined this campaign. I think it is obvious we need more kindness in Wikipedia. Bill Pollard (talk) 21:25, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
* 16) Count me in! Mark D Worthen PsyD 05:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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* 1) Very cool idea. Oreo Jan 21st, 2007
* 2) Awesome. WhiteFox (talk) 02:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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* 1) Yaoi_Kat_na-no-da This is a great idea! I love it!
* 2) Everytime we smile we make someone feel special. Keep on smiling! Yuanchosaan
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* 1) Everybody SMILE- Zachary crimsonwol f 13:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC) 13:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
* 2) Yeay, last on the list! Every good article I read here cheers me up a bit, keep this going... - Zeibura S. Kathau (Info 18:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
* 3) Great isea! Love and Peace to all!--Zara-arush (talk) 18:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
* 4) Love and Unity. Working together we are amazing.... Zoebuggie☺ whispers 20:40, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Biological Toxins employed by the Kansas Herpetofauna
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a poison in broad terms (noun. A substance that through its chemical action usually kills, injures, or impairs an organism) and venom as (noun. A toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect). These definitions have been in common usage, however, they don't adequately encapsulate the intricacies and variation observed within biological toxins.
Recently, scientists have proposed more rigorous definitions (see 2014. Nelson, et al. Biological Reviews 2014(89): 450-465.) of toxic biological secretions to eliminate the rampant inconsistency and ambiguity while facilitating better communication for such a medically important topic.
The standards and stringency of clarity by which scientists discuss poisons/venoms and the organisms that produce them, should not be held to the general public. The layperson referring to a "poisonous snake" is not wrong and the message is clear.
The study of biologically produced toxins is toxinology. Toxinologists have adopted the mechanism of delivery and transfer to delineate a biological toxin as a poison, venom, or toxungen.
Critical components and features that distinguish the three major categories of biological toxins
Biological toxinDelivery mechanismPenetration woundMechanism of transfer or deployment
PoisonNoNoIngestion, inhalation, or absorption across the body surface
ToxungenYesNoDelivered to body surface without accompanying wound
VenomYesYesDelivered to internal tissues via a wound
Poison — An exposure via self-infliction (whether on purpose or by accident). It doesn’t have to be just ingestion-inhalation as dermal contact is common for this as well. Licking an American Toad or Pickerel Frog is a poisonous exposure. Poisonous exposures are typically thought of as “passive”. A unique area of poisoning would be someone injecting themselves with snake venom (i.e. to produce antibodies/immunity) and whether it should be considered a poisonous (not animal mediated) or venomous (injection) injury.
Examples of poisonous herps in Kansas include True Toads (Anaxyrus spp.), Cope's/Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis/versicolor), and Pickerel Frog (Lithobates palustris).
Venom — Where the organism that produces the toxin(s) is the one delivering said toxin to the person-historically this has been via a bite or other means of mechanical injury or wound (injection typically). Venomous exposure is typically thought of as “active”, however, there are some exceptions with some species of caterpillars that always have erect spines to result in envenomation if touched and don’t have to actively do anything different even in reflex to deliver the toxin.
Examples of venomous herps in Kansas are five species of the family Dipsadidae (harmless rear-fanged snakes; Carphophis vermis, Diadophis punctatus, Heterodon spp., and Hypsiglena jani), several species of the family Natricidae (e.g. Thamnophis spp. [Gartersnakes]), several species of the family Colubridae (e.g. Tantilla spp. [Crowned Snakes]), and five medically significant species of the family Crotalidae (pit-vipers) (Agkistrodon spp., Crotalus spp. and Sistrurus tergeminus).
Toxungen — There is a specific term for topically applied venom such as the case with spitting cobras where it does not cause a mechanical injury but is actively applied. The Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) is an example of a possible toxungenous Kansas herp species.
The overarching definition for all of these falls under biological toxins. Most biological toxins are a complex mixture of several toxins, each with unique physical and pathological properties. A species may be both poisonous and venomous (e.g. Rhabdophis of Southeast Asia). But you also have many venomous snakes that are not poisonous because people can eat them with no issues. Sometimes with large amounts of ingested venom, you can have GI effects or an ulcer develop, but our stomach acids and associated proteases can denature many of the enzymes found in venoms.
Dangerously vs. Harmlessly Venomous — Dangerously venomous herps are a threat to human life or limb and bites from these snakes should always be considered medically significant. Harmlessly venomous herps use their venom to subdue prey but are typically not dangerous to humans because a) they have an ineffective venom delivery mechanism, b) their mouths are too small to gain purchase, and c) their venom is not adapted for causing physiological damage to mammals. The distinction is largely based on the general function of the venom itself, however, humans may react differently to any envenomation based on their unique physiology. It is a good precaution to immediately monitor any suspected snakebite.
Venomous Snakebite — If you happen to be bitten by a venomous snake follow these steps. The immediate pain and swelling should confirm that you have been envenomated, however, if you have any questions about it, assume that you have been.
• Seek medical attention as soon as possible (dial 911 or call local Emergency Medical Services EMS). Do not wait for the person to look or feel sick.
• If you are alone, get to a place where you can call 911, be seen, or otherwise attract attention.
• Keep calm.
• Call The University of Kansas Hospital Poison Control Center (KU-PCC) at 1-800-222-1222. The Poison Control Center will advise you on the correct treatment and help you determine whether you need to go to a hospital or a doctor’s office and what care they should provide. There is a broad range of experience among care facilities in treating venomous snakebites, the KU-PCC will bring a toxinologist into every snakebite call.
• Antivenom is the treatment for serious snake envenomation. The sooner antivenom can be started the sooner irreversible damage from venom can be stopped.
• Driving oneself to the hospital is not advised because people with snakebites can become dizzy or pass out.
• Apply first aid while waiting for EMS personnel to get you to the hospital.
• Lay or sit down with the bite in a neutral position of comfort.
• Remove rings and watches in anticipation of swelling.
• Wash the bite with soap and water.
• Cover the bite with a clean, dry dressing.
• Mark the leading edge of tenderness/swelling on the skin and write the time alongside it.
• DO NOT: try to collect the snake, apply a tourniquet, cut or suck on the bite, apply ice, drink alcohol, take painkillers or antihistamines, or any other activity not listed above.
* Thank you to Elizabeth Silver, (PhamD, DABAT) and Stephanie Baines, (MA, CHES) at The University of Kansas Health System, Poison Control Center for discussion and explanation.
Last Updated: 1/23/2022 6:42:23 AM CST — Travis W. Taggart
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Robinson House
Robinson House may refer to:
* Judge Elisha Robinson House, Ashville, Alabama
* John Robinson House, Huntsville, Alabama
* Mrs. William Robinson House, Huntsville, Alabama
* Collins-Robinson House, Mobile, Alabama
* Chambers-Robinson House, Sheffield, Alabama
* Dr. Robinson House, Leslie, Arkansas
* Joseph Taylor Robinson House, Little Rock, Arkansas
* Pearson-Robinson House, Little Rock, Arkansas
* Virginia Robinson Estate, Beverly Hills, California
* Elias H. Robinson House, Santa Cruz, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson House (Denver, Colorado), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson House (Louisville, Colorado)
* Robinson House (Claymont, Delaware)
* Jesse Robinson House (Seaford, Delaware)
* Robinson-Stewart House, Carmi, Illinois
* Robinson House (Maywood, Illinois)
* William Robinson House (Sycamore, Illinois)
* Horney Robinson House, Fort Wayne, Indiana
* Allison-Robinson House, Spencer, Indiana
* Sage-Robinson-Nagel House, Terre Haute, Indiana
* James Robinson House (Mitchellsburg, Kentucky), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson Hall-Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* William A. Robinson House, Auburn, Maine
* Edwin Arlington Robinson House, Gardiner, Maine
* Robinson-Parsons Farm, Paris, Maine
* Seavey-Robinson House, South Portland, Maine
* Robinson House (Severna Park, Maryland)
* Robinson-Lewis-G. F. Fessenden House, Arlington, Massachusetts
* Robinson House (Arlington, Massachusetts)
* Capt. Joel Robinson House, Attleboro, Massachusetts
* Robinson House (Williamstown, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson House (Muir, Michigan), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Leonard Robinson House, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* George R. and Elsie Robinson House, Kirkwood, Missouri, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* William P. Robinson House, Lexington, Missouri
* Lizzie Robinson House, North Omaha, Nebraska
* J. C. Robinson House, Waterloo, Nebraska, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* John Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson House, New York, New York
* Robinson Rock House Ruin and Plantation Site, Charlotte, North Carolina
* Col. William H. Robinson House, Mayville, North Dakota
* Byron W. Robinson House, Akron, Ohio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Edmund Robinson House, Lebanon, Ohio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson-Pavey House, Washington Court House, Ohio
* Spies–Robinson House, Portland, Oregon
* Jesse Robinson House (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania)
* Robinson House (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania)
* Robinson-Hiller House, Chapin, South Carolina
* Robinson-Macken House, Austin, Texas
* Florence Robinson Cottage, Hawkins, Texas
* Daniel Webster Robinson House, Burlington, Vermont
* James E. Robinson House, Beaver, Utah, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* William Robinson House (300 West, Beaver, Utah), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* William Robinson House (State Route 153, Beaver, Utah), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
* Robinson House (Richmond, Virginia)
* Robinson House (Manassas, Virginia)
* Hedges-Robinson-Myers House, Hedgesville, West Virginia
* Robinson-Tabb House, Martinsburg, West Virginia
* Charles Robinson House, Greenbush, Wisconsin
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Caranna
Caranna is a hard, brittle, resinous gum, obtained from the West Indian tree Bursera acuminata (family Amyridaceae) and the South American trees Protium (plant) carana, P. altissimum, and Pachylobus hexandrus. It has an aromatic flavor, and was used in pre-modern medicine.
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Slavery today is a large concern to many people, just as it always has been. Any type of slavery is considered immoral and unjust in today’s society and standards. However, before the Civil War, slavery was as common as owning a dog today. Many in the United States, particularly in the South, viewed slavery as a “positive good” and owned slaves that were crucial to their business and income. However, the Civil War then changed the lifestyle of many southerners in a negative way.
Many economic, social, and technological forces have played a part in the decline of slavery around the globe. The first definition that comes to mind when we hear this term, is the act of being a slave or a person who does not own their own labor. While, yes, this is a definition of slavery; it’s only one of many. For example, our textbook defines slavery as the most extreme form of forced labor (Ember). Another definition would include: the state of one bound in servitude as the property of slaveholder or household (“Definition”).
Slavery was an evil institution because it was a brutal practice, it reinforced a racial caste system in the South and it was sexually demeaning. Slavery was a brutal practice because it forced African Americans into hard physical labor, tore their families apart, and failed to provide them with necessities for living. Some argue that masters actually treated their slaves as their own children, that they took care of their slaves, and that they did not let them work long hours in the field. Such was the story of a former slave, Jerry Boyd, whose mother worked as a cook and he himself completed various household chores. When Jerry was cold, his master would take him to sleep in his bed (Rawick 436).
Plus, a wedding vow would sometimes say “Until death or distances do you part,” because families would often be split up. This was done to keep slaves from bonding together and causing up risings. It was just another way the slave owners held power over their slaves. Even though this was true, most children were still rais... ... middle of paper ... ...nst slavery and became a well recognized abolitionist. One idea tossed around by many abolitionists was the North seceding from the South.
Most of the disagreement came from Southern slave owners. They thought that Douglass was crazy for wanting to abolish slavery and have total equality because that would cripple their income. These were the kind of men that were fighting, like Douglass and most Northerners, a war about slavery. Even though most men in the South owned and depended on slavery they had different motives for fighting in the war. Jim Kepler, a Confederate soldier, said, “Damn fool… He still thinks it’s about slavery” pg66.
There are multiple reasons why slavery caused a lot of problems between the whites and the blacks. “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people”. -Luther King, Jr Most African Americans were enslaved “95 percent of the African Americans in the United States was slaves.” (Problems of Slavery – Murphy). Many problems evolved due to slavery racism became a really big problem. The problem was that most slaves didn’t understand that there was other life out there they thought that because they were black that they had to be enslaved and couldn’t live their own lives.
Slavery was also seen as a threat to democracy; Northerners believed that a corrupt oligarchy of rich planters, the Slave Power, dominated Southern politics, and national politics as well. Northerners also objected on moral grounds to being legally required to enforce fugitive slave laws. Abolitionism as a cause of the war By the 1830s, a small but outspoken abolitionist movement arose, led by New Englanders and free blacks, including William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Lucretia Mott. Many people North and South considered slavery an undesirable institution, but by the 1840s the militant abolitionists went much further and declared that owning a slave was a terrible sin, and that the institution should be immediately abolished. Southerners bitterly resented this moralistic attack, and also the stereotypical presentation of slave owners as heartless Simon Legrees in the overwhelmingly popular (in the North) book and play by Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852).
Due to their different views on society and ways of generating money, many people such as abolitionists and pro-slavery apologists had entirely different views. Americans proved to have too many differences that violence and other virulent events were inevitable. Slavery was just too much of a convoluted problem for a juvenile nation, such as America to figure out. As stated in lecture, the impact of slavery shaped both the societies and economies of the North and South, which ultimately led to numerous conflicts. These conflicts include; the Tariff of 1828, the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise, which eventually formulated the start of the American Civil War.
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I am now convinced that Richard America is the name sake of America, but John Cabot "was the first European after the Vikings who is known to have sighted North America"?? We all know Christopher Columbus wasn't the first European by a long shot to successfully cross the Atlantic, but what about the others who made the voyage between the 11th and 15th centuries? The Basque fisherman of the 14th century, Henry Sinclair in the early 15th century, even some of the Knights Templar are widely held to have made the journey when fleeing from France in 1307 - landing somewhere in Massachusetts/Rhode Island. See more on: http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/wrhagen.html I move for the sentence to be changed. --Gabbe 14:16 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)
* In fact we don't all know about "the others who made the voyage between the 11th and 15th centuries." The text during the years from 1480 onwards several expeditions had been sent out to look for Hy-Brasil, an island that would lie somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean according to Celtic legends. Some people think Newfoundland may have been found on (one of) these voyages is not even backed up by the links at this entry. A brief description from the Day letter might be more in order... yesWetman 07:48, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It's indeed too strong a statement. However he is still the first one of which we are sure; with the exception of the Vikings (and the Native Americans if you want to count them in), none of the pre-Columbian discoveries is more than a 'maybe'.
For the cases you mention:
Basque (as well as Breton, Portuguese or English) fishermen may well have discovered North America, and more in particular the Newfoundland banks, before Cabot. There are certainly later cases where the Europeans that were supposed to 'discover' certain region met European fishers or whalers there, for example Jacques Cartier in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. However, very little information is known on these fishing voyages, and there is no positive evidence before the first decennium of the sixteenth century.
The claim for Henry Sinclair does not have much evidence; its main written source is the story of the Zeno brothers, which is connected to him by some, but may as well have been a 16th century fake.
The story of the Knights Templar I have never heared before, so I cannot comment on it.
Andre Engels 16:29 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)
* Have you read Holy Grail Across the Atlantic (esp re Henry Sinclair theory)? I grant it's quite a rope (ie a lot of yarns put together) but IMO valuable as a set of questions to explore. You sound more an historian than I am...Kwantus 04:34, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC) (PS: another maybe to put in there...is it St George or St Brennan?)
* Well, it just happens to hit on one of my favorite subjects, it's not without reason that I am the author of the website http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/. And, as said, what you mention is the problem with most of them - there's much "perhaps" and "could have" and such, but too few hard facts to get a positive (or negative) decision on whether the voyage actually took place and/or whether it actually reached America.
* As for the saint, it's Saint Brendan you're thinking of. His story is certainly valuable as a source on the Irish travels, and parts of it have been identified with existing islands, such as the Shetlands. Other parts have been identified by some with America (e.g. Newfoundland), but those are rather uncertain. It is also not known whether the story tells about an actual voyage, or whether it is combined from various reports. Andre Engels 12:12, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)
* I don't believe the Templar Knights' story as any more than fluff to their reputation. Ahh, knights in shining armour and their brave deeds, eh? The only verified Irish or Welsh excursions before the vikings anywhere, have been at the furthest extent, Iceland. This is proved by archeology. Fantasise as much as you want, but it doesn't fit the FACTS. Such hopeful people without any care for the truth. Lord Kenneð Alansson 16:18, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
* <f'get what I wrote here - the best evidence so far is Oak Island, and it struck me that could just as well be one treasure-hunting group realising they've been had and baboozling the next into buying them out. And the nearby tunnels supposedly found in '80s sewer construction were never studied.> Kwantus 00:11, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
Vinland
There's a revert war going on about the following:
''Vinland is largely speculated to be Newfoundland, amongst other Atlantic Canada areas and the east coast of North America in the United States, depending on who you talk to. Adam of Bremen's account may have inspired John Cabot's mission across the Atlantic Ocean during the Americas' colonial times. That voyage would appear to have traced the former account, which led Cabot to claim Newfoundland for England, paving the way for the establishment the first chartered city in the New_World at St.John's. That place is generally considered where Cabot's first landfall was.''
This section was first in Adam of Bremen, where it didn't belong. If it is to fit in here, it definitely needs to be rewritten heavily, as the suddenly launching into a discussion on Adam of Bremen and Vinland is extremely confusing. If there are indeed theories that Adam of Bremen's accounts inspired Cabot's journey then it would be good to mention them here. Is there anything in the literature about this? A googling didn't turn up anything on this. Martijn faassen 15:07, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
* I agree, perhaps it jumped out of nowhere. It had been a generalistation that anybody who sought to seek out the far end of the ocean had been told or referred to such stories as the Hy-Brasil, Vinland and others like Atlantis, otherwise, what could have inspired these people to risk their lives(don't forget royal integrity from financings) but mania? Lord Kenneð Alansson 16:18, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
* Do we have some source text that talks about what inspired Cabot? That would be interesting to put in the article. Martijn faassen 16:25, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
* I am not sure, but I do not believe it is entirely specific. Most people of his class seem to have been raised with stories and they go out to find the truth, to be brave sailors and report the unknown. They might end up being similar reasons to Columbus', but I think sometimes, Columbus' reasons seem overblown to increase his fame, by linking it to greater people. Cabot does not seem to get the Americanisation attitudes, but a merely Canadian outlook on his achievments that aren't so much stars and gold. I do not believe we'll ever know for certain. I suppose I was implying that most men who attempted the excursions would at least heard of a reference to such former voyages, whether simple claims or fiction. Lord Kenneð Alansson 16:37, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
what was his childhood like
what did his parents do _ how do u thank Giovanni Caboto died
i dont know how to fix this but the pic of him on the site is not him. it is his son, sebastian. other sites on the web have pics of him posted. this pic was even used on a canadian stamp once. but its still not him. i think that it is him.It says so in my social studies book.I'm not really sure, but i'm just guessing.since u got points, probrally you're the one who is right.I'm still not really sure though.Maybe you are actually right.
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From Gaeta, please. If it can be disputed, however, I never heard I came from Genoa. --Attilios 15:32, 16 November 2006 (
John Cabot
Please, write a serious article about the life of John Cabot instead of mentiong the vikings, the fake map of vinland, erik the red and other bulls. lol John Cabot, whose real name was Giovanni Caboto (1450-1498) was born in Gaeta, not Genoa, and he was son of a rich family. In 1470 he married the Venetian Mattea Bragadin, who gave birth to Ludovico, Sebastiano and Sante (not Sancio). In 1498 Caboto and his son Sante were killed in Canada by natives, according to the portuguese papers of 1501, October 19. You can find more about him trying to translate from Italian into english the following books, which are absolutely accurate: - "I Caboto Cives Caietani" by Salvatore Riciniello - "La Passione per Scoprire" by Frank Alusio A short article about Cabot: http://<IP_ADDRESS>/tribuna/article.asp?article=82&item=27&n=309&month=4&year=2003 Jack 22:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
* Go ahead and write it! Wikipedia is a community work and anyone can contribute. If you have the facts, let's have them in the article - Adrian Pingstone 21:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
* Hi Adrian Pingstone, I'd like, but I am busy with the Univ. However you have the sources. Good Luck.
* Jack 22:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
* I have to dispute this; if the information is widely available, it must be based upon some academic research. From an Italian-to-English translation of the URL you provide, to me it seems like it is merely conjecture, as the article does not site references. Further, if there is disagreement within the academic community, there should be more in-depth research available on the web that will back this article up. I believe we should leave the article as it was until such time as there is a collaboration of evidence that supports changing something as important as a birth city and some of his history. On the other hand... if this information is incorrect, the article really should be stripped down and re-done based off of credible sources. -- KirinX 22:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
* Dear KirinX, if you had read or translated from italian into english the article in question, you would have discovered that it was composed by a Canadian scholar who based his own study on Bertolini's historical writings and on papers of the Renaissance. The Italian article is an extrapolation and comes from Frank Alusio's book, written in english language and published in Canada in the year 1997, when the president of the Italian Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II went to Canada to commemorate the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's arrival in Newfoundland.
* The book is more accurate than many other sources I have found, here s why I mentioned it. You say "if there is disagreement within the academic community" and I agree with you. But is our wikipedia article accurated, reliable and based on true academic reasearch? Honestly, did you read it? You can find: "Giovanni Caboto was a Genovese navigator". Can you tell me where s the proof that he was from Genoa? Our Encyclopedia Britannica reports that he was perhaps from Genoa. It s wrong. If we want to know Caboto s birthplace we must go to Italy, in a small country today belonging to Latium and best known as Gaeta. We can find the first info about Caboto only in that country.
* In fact, if we consider the original papers of the time, there is no "Caboto" in Genoa. (In Genoa we can find the Cabotos only during the late XV century.) Do you consider the complete Encyclopedia Britannica as an academic source? I do not. You can read: "There is some evidence to suggest that Cabot reached America again, but at least one contemporary source indicates that the expedition was lost at sea". Lost at sea. Where is the proof? Pietro Pasqualigo's papers of 1501, and they are contemporary sources, lead us to think that Giovanni and Sante Caboto reached the coasts but were killed by Canadian natives near Grates Cove, in Terranova.
* The proof is given by Caboto's personal belongings (eg. silver earrings of Venetian origin, Italian sword etc.) worn by Canadian natives, later caught by a Portuguese sailorman, Gaspar Corte Real. This info comes from Frank Alusio's book. There is a link in english language where you can read something about Gaspar etc., but it shows some old mistakes and fake info.
* http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34223.
* Please, consider that the link is based on old sources (1831-1962), while Frank Alusio s book was published in 1990s. Historically speaking, it is a little bit more reliable.
* -- Jack 23:59, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Why does the article stop
Why does the article stop just when he arrives in England? Bastie 22:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
* It seems the article was originally much longer but was truncated on 5 January. Why was this done? Bastie 07:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Bastie, IMHO there are many idiots who never studied history. They are nationalists, love to cut the truth and add their own bulls and opinions. Someone should stop them. -- Jack 18:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
lol, is there some sort of Italian vs. English quarrel over this article? I don't think anyone seriously denies he was Italian. Bastie 18:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
No Bastie, there is no quarrel between Italian and English wikipedians. The fact is that some guys love to act as idiots, or love to write bulls about Caboto. First of all Caboto was from Gaeta and not from Genoa. Second, Gaeta is in Latium and not near Naples. Some writers ignore that in Italy there are two countries with the same name, Gaeta! In fact it is in Latium that we have the first papers about Caboto's family and ancestors. In addition some idiot continues to delete the proved data we know about him (eg. the name of his wife Mattea Bragadin etc., the data about England etc.) There is another disagreement, and it is about the vikings names. Stop writing those bulls, please. We only know that the colonizers of Canada were men of northern origin (from Iceland? Great Britain? Norway? Ireland?..) but historically speaking there is no proof of who, really, they were, from which country they came etc. Also, we don't know their real names (eg. Leif Ericson is only supported by Myths and Sagas, not history.) Theories and personal opinions, especially about a fake map named Vinland, are useless here. Jack 02:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes there is! If some writes something bad about Cabot, you would be mad too!
fix the Born/Death date
Can someone fix the Born/Death date? Its been vandalized since February.
Sudden Ending of Article
For some reason or another, there is no information on the actual voyage. Is this caused by vandalism, lack of information, or simply no one having bothered to continue? A Max J 13:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Yes the article is very poor. Surprising, since this should be one of the most important pages on English wiki. Drutt 16:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Surprisingly it's the end of May and still nothing on the actual voyages. I'm going to see if I can change that. Esprix 12:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Copied Text
Just thought I should let you all know that a lot of the text in this article is copied straight from this site. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/cabot.html
Added Expand Section
Can anyone help with the exploration section? DangerousNerd talk 20:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Caboto?
Why has this been moved from John Cabot? That has always been his name in English. Drutt 09:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
IMO, it should work the other way, Giovanni Caboto links to John Cabot. This is English Wikipedia, most people are going to search for "John Cabot" Benkenobi18 15:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Picture
I don't know what to do about this, but the picture of Cabot (J) is actually a picture of his son, Cabot (S). See John Pope's book, the Many Landfalls of John Cabot, and also note the wacky double beard. Does anyone know of a real picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
===I removed this inaccurate picture. I found it in Golay and Bowman's North American Exploration too.
Picture has been removed. It is not a reliable source. The picture was linked to a 3rd Grade explorer project. In the sources for the Grade 3 project the Mariner's Museum lists the picture as Sebastian Cabot (if you scroll over it). It is an inaccuracy and an oversight.
Malachi is survivin (talk) 03:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Theory
Has anyone ever looked into the theory proposed by Rodney Broome that John Cabot was murdered after he sailed down the coast of North American and his maps were taken from him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
How long did John Cabot stay in North America before he returned?
I just wanna know. And also, did he have any significant contact with the Native tribes during his expedition? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennisjiewenliu (talk • contribs) 02:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Contradiction
If John Cabot is recognized to have landed in Newfoundland, he cannot be the discoverer of the North American mainland, because Newfoundland is an island. As far as I know, any visits to the mainland are unrecognized speculation. So the intro should be reworded.--Boffob (talk) 15:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
* I have done some edits to try and resolve the matter. The Newfoundland page mentions a document in the Spanish National Archives, by a Bristol merchant. This may refer to the Cape Bauld and Belle island areas which are quite near the mainland. 16 May 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:05, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
* OK, I removed the tag. I also removed the Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada links, because neither Canada nor the province existed at the time, also because mentioning the province name with the island sounds redundant.--Boffob (talk) 19:31, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
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Overview
TMJ stands for our left and right temporomandibular (jaw) joints. The acronym TMJ is very often incorrectly used to describe a disorder of these joints. However, the correct acronym of the disorder is TMD, meaning temperomandibular disorders and when we include the many symptoms of head, neck, facial and jaw pain it is recognized as "craniomandibular disorders."
Long term studies now prove that the following symptoms are linked to the incorrect alignment of the upper (maxilla) and lower (mandibular) jaws and changes in the integrity of the TMJ. This produces physiologic stress, pain and dysfunction in the joints, supporting ligaments and associated muscles:
• Headaches
• Dizziness facial, neck, or back, pain
• Pain or soreness of the jaw joints clicking, popping, or grating sounds as jaw joints are in motion
• Congestion or stuffiness of the ears
• Numbness of the arms and fingers, chipped, or cracked teeth
• Pain in teeth that seems to move around
• Loose teeth
• Ear pain
• Ear ringing/ buzzing sounds in ear
• Loss of auditory acuity
• Limitations of motion of jaw joins
• Jaw locking upon opening or closing
• Tired face/jaw
• Snoring
• Difficulty swallowing
• Tingling fingers/hand numbness
Left untreated, the problems progress, getting worse over time and the stress and tension it produces can cause everything from mild discomfort to severe chronc pain throughout the body.
Craniomandibular disorders can also exacerbate:
• Fibromyalgia
• Tinnitis
• Migraine
Causes
The factors responsible for craniomandibular disorders may be single or multifactorial. These include:
• Developmental: A malrelationship of the maxilla and mandible produces symptoms that may emerge during childhood or may not occur until adulthood after years of day to day trauma.
• Improper occlusion/bite: When teeth do not fit together properly it causes sustained microtrauma to the joints. Over time the body compensates by involving other muscles of the body
• Direct trauma to jaw
• Indirect trauma to jaw: A significant number of cervical whiplash injuries are accompanied with mandibular whiplash-a stretching or tearing of the ligaments of the jaw joints and cause damage within the supporting musculature.
• Tooth loss: Losing teeth without adequate replacement results in a change in jaw position; improper restorations that change the jaw relationship or make an incorrect one worsen.
• Poor sleep habits/position
• Poor posture: Places unnecessary wear and tear on all joints, including jaw joints and resulting damage is similar to direct trauma
• Bruxism/clenching of teeth: Some patients do this unconsciously and in some patients we are uncertain why this is occurring. This produces stress on jaw joints and muscles of face and neck
• Sleep apnea: It is theorized that some patients clench and brux their teeth unconsciously to maintain the muscles of the throat and mouth in a patent open airway. This will help maintain an airway but will put stress on jaw joints and muscles of face.neck
• Stress: Some patients unconsciously brux and or clench their teeth in response to increased stress
Classification
Craniomandibular disorders are classified as intracapsular or extracapsular. Intracapusular Disorders are characterized by structural alterations in the joint itself.
Intracapsular:
The normal physiologic relationship between the part of the lower jaw called the condyle, the disc that moves between it and the part of the skull called the fossa have been altered and compromised. This interferes with form and function and frequently produces pain.
Degenerative osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and neoplasms are intracapsular disease. Trauma induced to the joint directly or indirectly can result in intracapsular disorder. A common problem is a slipped or dislocated disc of the jaw joint. Due to tearing or stretching of the disc and its attachments the disc assumes an abnormal position forward of the condyle instead of cushioning the condyle with the fossa.
Opening movements produce a clicking sound as the disc slips back into the proper position (a process called disc reduction) momentarily over the condyle. Frequently upon closing, as the disc assumes its abnormal position and slips off the condyle forward of it click can be heard again. These clicks may be audible, but frequently require a stethoscope or sophisticated instrumentation to hear it.
If this anterior disc displacement is left untreated, it may ultimately result in an "anterior disc displacement without reduction" meaning the disc never goes between the condyle and fossa. This causes limitations in movement laterally and opening and is called "closed lock" as the disc now acts a mechanical obstruction, getting in the way for normal condyle movement.
Long term worsening frequently results in degenerative osteoarthritis producing severe alterations in form and function. Most often internal/intracapsular problems/ derangements produce pain from the joint itself with or without referred pain to other areas of the head or muscle dysfunction such as spasm and myofascial trigger points.
Extracapsular:
TMJ disorder - right side of the face | NYC Smile DesignExtracapsular disorders occur when the musculature of the TMJs have an altered acquired postural rest position. Over a prolonged period of time the muscles maintain themselves in an altered state of hyperfunction which the brain perceives as an accommodated "balanced position."
This change from a physiologic rest position to an accommodated rest position occurs when the mandibular trajectory of closure is not coincident with the TMJ/neuromuscular trajectory of closure. This trajectory is directly affected by how the teeth meet-their "occlusal relationship" and how their proprioceptive input causes a change in jaw position forcing muscles to function at less than their optimal lengths.
This all results in the musculature and TMJs existing in a "stressed" condition. The subjective symtoms are similar to intacapsular problems including joint pain as well as muscle dysfunction such as spasm and myofascial trigger points. No joint noises are found with extracapsular disorders.
A strong and direct biomechanical relationship exists between all the muscles of the head and neck. As a result of reciprocal muscle function, dysfunction and pain in the head and face muscles, frequently results in dysfunction and pain in the cervical muscles-neck pain- that can eventually involve the whole upper back. Due to unbalanced posturing of muscles of the head neck and shoulders, these patients maintain what is called a forward head posture.
Neurologically there is a strong relationship between the head and neck muscles and the ear. Ear symptoms, including congestion, pain, buzzing, ringing and even loss of hearing are frequently found in craniomandibular disorders.
The best way to treat these symptoms is to establish their origin, by using the sophisticated diagnostic techniques of neuromuscular dentistry, evaluating the results to determine the best course of treatment. These can include orthotics, orthodontics, correction of existing restorations — all the way up to full-mouth rehabilitation where indicated for orthopedic and musculoskeletal stabilization. Finding the best treatment for them not only repairs the damage that has been done, but also prevents them from getting worse and stabilizes their physical condition at its optimal point.Neuromuscular Treatment
You are central to the process: The more accurately you describe your symptoms (and your goals), the more precisely we can test for and diagnose the best course for treating and attaining them. When a patient chooses the benefits of the diagnostic process, they can look forward to a thorough discussion of the test results in order to be able to select the options that seem most promising for long-range comfort. The process works like this:
• At our initial consultation, we make detailed notes of all the chronic symptoms you experience.
• Next, using the most sensitive cutting-edge technology, we record and interpret the sounds of both your left and right TMJs in motion with computerized electrosonography to objectively determine the pathologic nature and extent of joint sounds. In addition, we measure the pre and post relaxation status of muscles with highly sensitive electromyography (EMG) that records the electrical activity of your facial and neck muscles.
• A computerized jaw scanner is used to track the spatial movement of your jaw as you open and close. TMJ X-rays show us any pathology that may or may not exist, changes to bone structure and the position the lower jaw is in with your skull. These measurements enable us to map out all your unique facial, bone, and muscle tissue functions.
• By determining where you are presently, we can then move on to the next step- finding the most relaxed position of your jaw.
Finding that most relaxed position from which your muscles will act most efficiently and comfortably is accomplished through the use of a TENS machine. Once it has been confirmed, our goal for the first stage of the treatment will be the maintenance of this position. This position can be maintained through the use of occlusal guards and orthotics.
The second stage of the treatment begins once your symptoms are diminished, and we are assured that our goal of establishing the most comfortable position has been accomplished. The goal of this stage is also to create a bite that will preserve the corrected alignment of the jaw so that jaw, muscles, and teeth can work together in harmony. Completion of the second stage will include decisions about future use of any guards, orthotics and/or orthodontics as well as the benefits of full-mouth rehabilitation.
After choosing the direction of the treatment, we begin by creating a jaw position for the remainder of treatment. This can be accomplished in several ways: with a removable orthotic or a fixed orthotic, or can be achieved by moving the teeth through orthodontic treatment. Once the position has been stabilized we move to the second stage of treatment previously agreed upon.
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The Great Victory ... now available at gutenberg.org
His address The Great Victory: its Cost and Value (1865) has recently been published at Gutenberg.org: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49477 (I don't know how to add it to the article, so I post it here as info for the editors.) --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:49, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
* Done. - Gutenberg-Link is added.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:45, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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Lambton County
Lambton County is a county in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is bordered on the north by Lake Huron, which is drained by the St. Clair River, the county's western border and part of the Canada-United States border. To the south is Lake Saint Clair and Chatham-Kent. Lambton County's northeastern border follows the Ausable River and Parkhill Creek north until it reaches Lake Huron at the beach community of Grand Bend. The county seat is in the Town of Plympton-Wyoming.
The largest city in Lambton County is Sarnia, which is located at the source of the St. Clair River at Lake Huron. The two Blue Water Bridges cross the river at Sarnia, connecting it to Port Huron, Michigan. The bridges are one of the busiest border crossings between the two countries. The river is also traversed by one passenger ferry further south, and a rail tunnel, also at Sarnia, runs underneath it. The CN rail tunnel accommodates double stacked rail cars. Along with Sarnia, the population centres in Lambton County are: Corunna, Petrolia, Grand Bend, Wyoming, Forest, and Watford. Lambton County started as a part of the District of Hesse. The district of Hesse included British territories west of Long Point (practically all of western Ontario). The district was later divided and renamed using English district names (Essex, Suffolk, Kent, etc.). Lambton was part of Kent county. In 1849 districts were abolished and the County of Lambton was formed. Lambton and Kent first shared the capital city of Sandwich (since renamed as Windsor, Ontario). In 1852 the partnership was dissolved and Lambton become a full county. It is named in honour of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, who visited the area in the late 1830s.
Subdivisions
Lambton County consists of 11 municipalities (in order of population):
* City of Sarnia
* Township of St. Clair
* Municipality of Lambton Shores
* Town of Plympton–Wyoming
* Town of Petrolia
* Township of Warwick
* Township of Enniskillen
* Township of Brooke-Alvinston
* Village of Point Edward
* Township of Dawn-Euphemia
* Village of Oil Springs
Independent First Nation reserves
Independent of the County, but located within the Lambton census division, are three First Nations reserves:
* Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, in the Kettle Point area
* Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located near many of the refineries in Sarnia's Chemical Valley
* Walpole Island, near Wallaceburg
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lambton County had a population of $128,154$ living in $55,205$ of its $60,322$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $126,638$. With a land area of 2999.93 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
Economy
Total employment for Lambton County is 66,370. Of those, 9,760 (14.7%) are employed in manufacturing; 7,545 (11.4%) in retail trade; 5,080 (7.7%) in accommodation and food services; and 3,155 (4.8%) are employed in agriculture.
Petrochemical and refining is the largest manufacturing sector in Lambton County's economy. Established during World War II, Sarnia and the area along the St. Clair River is home to a major processing centre for oil from Alberta.
In late 2010 and early 2011 a number of companies announced plans to provide ethane from the Marcellus Shale in the United States to Lambton County industries, providing a potential new feedstock for the production of ethylene in Lambton County.
Lambton County is the site of North America's first drilled commercial oil well at Oil Springs in 1858.
Tourism is another important industry in Lambton County, especially along the lake and river. The community of Grand Bend and the Pinery Provincial Park are especially popular tourist destinations, attracting thousands of people each week throughout the summer to their long, uninterrupted beaches. The part of Lambton County along Lake Huron known as Lambton Shores depends almost entirely upon the seasonal industries of tourism and agriculture for its well-being. There are also popular conservation areas along the St. Clair River, and a conservation area named Rock Glen Falls near Arkona along the Ausauble River internationally known for its Devonian period fossils.
Lambton County has 2,346 farms with a total of 592,793 acres. The largest single use of farmland in Lambton is crop production, with 85% of total farmland reported as land in crops. Over the last 20 years, soybeans, wheat, and grain corn have accounted for over 80% of total area crop production in Lambton. The fourth and fifth leading crops are sugar beets and hay. Oats, barley and mixed grains are also produced. Top animal production includes dairy, beef, hog, and poultry.
Highways
* ends in Sarnia at the Blue Water Bridge, where it meets at the U.S. border and connects with.
Emergency services
The County of Lambton Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides land ambulance services to the residents of Lambton County. The County of Lambton EMS has stations in Brigden, Corunna, Forest, Grand Bend, Petrolia, Thedford, Watford, and two stations in Sarnia. Lambton EMS has ten ambulances and employs approximately 150 full- and part-time Primary Care Paramedics.
Policing is provided by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), which has detachments in Grand Bend, Petrolia, Corunna, and Point Edward. The area of Kettle & Stony Point which is one of three native reservations in Lambton County, is policed by the Anishinabek Police Service (APS) but dispatched by the OPP. Walpole Island, another first nations reservation has its own police service, the Walpole Island Police Service. The remaining first nations reservation, Aamjiwnaang First Nation, which falls geographically within the City of Sarnia, is covered by the Sarnia Police Service.
Communities
* Alvinston
* Arkona
* Brigden
* Brights Grove
* Corunna
* Courtright
* Forest
* Grand Bend
* Osborne
* Petrolia
* Port Franks
* Port Lambton
* Sarnia
* Sombra
* Thedford
* Walpole Island
* Watford
* Wyoming
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mdlTerminate
Perform any actions required at termination of the simulation
Required
Yes
Languages
C, C++
Syntax
void mdlTerminate(SimStruct *S)
Arguments
S
SimStruct representing an S-Function block.
Description
This method performs any actions, such as freeing of memory, that must be performed when the simulation is terminated or when an S-Function block is destroyed (e.g., when it is deleted from a model). This method is called at the end of every simulation in Fast Restart mode.
In C MEX S-functions, the mdlTerminate method is called after a simulation (mdlStart is called).
In addition, if the SS_OPTION_CALL_TERMINATE_ON_EXIT option is set for a given S-function, and if mdlInitializeSizes is called, then the user is guaranteed that Simulink will call mdlTerminate. One reason to set the SS_OPTION_CALL_TERMINATE_ON_EXIT option is to allocate memory in mdlInitializeSizes rather than wait until mdlStart.
Note that Simulink calls mdlInitializeSizes under a number of circumstances, including compilation and simulation. Simulink will also call mdlInitializeSizes during model editing if you perform an operation such as the setting of parameters.
In C MEX S-functions, use the UNUSED_ARG macro if the mdlTerminate function does not perform any actions that require the SimStruct S to indicate that the S input argument is required, but not used in the body of the callback. To do this, insert the line
UNUSED_ARG(S)
after any declarations in mdlTerminate.
Note
If you have Simulink® Coder™, when generating code for a noninlined C MEX S-function that contains this method, make sure the method is not wrapped in a #if defined(MATLAB_MEX_FILE) statement. For example:
#if defined(MATLAB_MEX_FILE)
static void mdlTerminate(SimStruct *S)
{
/* Add mdlTerminate code here *
}
#endif
The define statement makes the mdlTerminate method available only to a MATLAB® MEX file. If the S-function is not inlined, Simulink Coder cannot use this method, resulting in link or run-time errors.
Example
Suppose your S-function allocates blocks of memory in mdlStart and saves pointers to the blocks in a PWork vector. The following code fragment would free this memory.
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i<ssGetNumPWork(S); i++) {
if (ssGetPWorkValue(S,i) != NULL) {
free(ssGetPWorkValue(S,i));
}
}
}
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Tips for Strengthening the Immune System
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Nutritious Diet: A balanced diet rich in vitamins and minerals is crucial for supporting a robust immune system. Encourage your aging parents to consume plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Foods high in vitamin C, such as oranges, strawberries, and bell peppers, can help boost immunity and ward off infections.
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By implementing these tips, you can help your aging parents and loved ones strengthen their immune systems and navigate flu season with confidence. Proactive measures, such as maintaining a healthy lifestyle, practicing good hygiene, and staying current with vaccinations, can significantly reduce the risk of illness and promote overall well-being. Together, let’s prioritize the health and vitality of our loved ones, especially during cold and flu season.
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Rhinitis
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Rhinitis is a condition that typically involves nasal obstruction or congestion, runny nose or post-nasal drip, itchy nose, and/or sneezing. There are various causes for these symptoms, although they are broadly divided into two types: allergic rhinitis (nasal symptoms related to allergy) and non-allergic rhinitis (nasal symptoms that are not related to allergy).
What Are the Symptoms of Rhinitis?
Symptoms of rhinitis may include:
• Nasal blockage or congestion
• Sneezing
• Runny nose or postnasal drainage
• Itchy nose
Rhinitis may occur before a case of sinusitis or with sinusitis, a condition where infection or inflammation affects the sinuses. If you have facial pressure, decreased sense of smell, or a greenish-yellow nasal drainage, you may also have sinusitis. A qualified ENT (ear, nose, and throat) specialist, or otolaryngologist, can provide a thorough evaluation and appropriate treatment for your nasal/sinus condition.
What Causes Rhinitis?
Allergic rhinitis occurs when your body’s immune system over-responds to specific, non-infectious particles such as plant pollens, molds, dust mites, animal proteins, chemicals, foods, medicines, insect venom, and other triggers. During an allergic attack, a special antibody (fighting protein), called IgE, attaches to cells that release histamine and other chemicals in the lungs, skin, and the mucous linings of the body. These chemicals open the blood vessels and produce skin redness and swollen membranes. When this happens in the nose, sneezing, itching, runny nose, and congestion occur.
Seasonal allergic rhinitis depends on specific plants that are pollenating at that time. In the United States, springtime allergic rhinitis is typically due to pollinating trees. Early summer allergic rhinitis is often due to grass pollination, and allergic rhinitis in the fall is usually due to weeds pollinating. Hypersensitivity to ragweed is very common in autumn. Also in the fall, you may experience allergic symptoms from mold spores on falling leaves.
Perennial allergic rhinitis can be felt year-round and can result from sensitivity to animal proteins, mold, houseplants, and dust mites in carpeting and upholstery. When seeking a medical evaluation for suspected allergic rhinitis, it is important to be aware of the pattern of symptoms (seasonal triggers, indoor vs. outdoor, specific triggers, animal exposure, etc.).
Non-allergic rhinitis and vasomotor rhinitis (a type of non-allergic rhinitis) do not depend on the presence of IgE antibodies, and is not due to an allergic reaction. You can have non-allergic rhinitis even if you test positive for allergies. Some of the causes of non-allergic rhinitis include:
• Certain infections
• Certain medications (various over-the-counter and prescription preparations)
• Eating and drinking (sometimes specific foods, sometimes all food/drink consumption)
• Weather or temperature changes
• Aging
• Hormonal changes or pregnancy
• Consumption of alcohol, especially red wine
• Inflammation or irritation in the nose unrelated to allergy
• Nasal symptoms of other medical conditions
Are There Related Factors and Conditions?
Depending on the type of rhinitis, certain conditions may be associated, such as:
• Asthma
• Acute sinusitis
• Inflammation of the eye (conjunctivitis)
• Atopic dermatitis or eczema
• Poor ventilation of the ears (or eustachian tube dysfunction)
• Laryngitis (inflammation causing hoarseness of voice)
• Eosinophilic esophagitis
• Sleep disturbance
What Are the Treatment Options?
Treating rhinitis depends on the specific cause or diagnosis. If there is a specific trigger that can be avoided, this may be a successful treatment. For example, in people with cat allergy, avoidance of cat exposure and direct contact with cats may help to control symptoms.
Often, medications are used to control symptoms. Depending on the specific cause of the rhinitis symptoms, some of the medications that may be used include:
• Intranasal saline spray or rinse
• Antihistamines (oral or intranasal)
• Corticosteroids (usually applied as an intranasal spray)
• Ipratropium bromide intranasal spray
For allergic rhinitis, allergen immunotherapy may be an option. This is most commonly provided via allergy shots or tablets or liquid drops taken under the tongue. Again, a qualified ENT specialist or allergist should assess your situation to determine whether allergen immunotherapy is an option.
For severe runny nose or nasal obstruction/congestion that does not respond to medications, your ENT specialist may consider additional office procedures or surgery appropriate to your situation.
What Questions Should I Ask My Doctor?
1. What is the most likely cause of my rhinitis symptoms?
2. Is allergy testing a consideration in my case?
3. Will avoiding certain triggers help to improve my symptoms?
4. Which medications are best suited to treat my condition?
5. Are any additional evaluations necessary? Lab tests? Consultations with other specialists?
Copyright 2021. American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. Last reviewed April 2020.
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Rh frock." "Leave that to me," exclaimed Fanny, "you know she is my child, and as she has said her lesson, will you let me curl her hair?"
"Yes, and thank you into the bargain," replied the teacher, glad to get rid of the job.
The little West Indian's lot was very different from that of her protector. She came to school straight from her native island, ignorant, spoilt, and with even more than a usual share of the indolence belonging to a warmer climate. She had however more indulgences than the other children, her father seemed desirous of making up to her for the necessity of sending her from home. The allowance made on her account was more than liberal, it was extravagant; her pocket-money was quite unfit for a child of her age, so was her dress, and for the first year of her residence in England, she laboured under all the disadvantages of undue preference, and improper indulgence. Fortune however had a severe lesson in store. She had not been above some fifteen months at Mrs. Cameron's before the usual remittances failed.
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Does Anticipating Back Pain Make It Worse?
Can I make my back pain worse if I'm afraid to move? In other words, if I expect my back to hurt, will it?
Expecting something to hurt doesn't really produce pain, but it can affect how you breathe and how you move. These two factors can increase your awareness of pain that is already present. Muscle tension from holding your breath and avoiding movements can make your pain seem worse. Relaxation is an important key in cases like this.
Anticipating a pain response can also delay muscle contraction, or sometimes the muscle contracts too early for the intended movement. This kind of muscle imbalance can lead to spinal instability. Pain and injury is more likely when the spine is unstable.
Michael Kramer, MD, et al. Surface Electromyography of the Paravertebral Muscles in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. In Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. January 2005. Vol. 86. No. 1. Pp. 31-36.
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How You Can Secure Your Data Effectively in the Cloud
Cloud technology has been a boon to the world of technology and the Millennials for apparent reasons. With cloud computing, you enhance your data management and storage without using the traditional storage devices such as flash discs and hard drives. Cloud computing is basically thousands of virtual servers that are connected to one another and located in many geographical locations all over the globe. This technology also enabled the staff and management of an organization to access data anywhere and at any time. This means that all you need is a mobile device such as a smartphone or a tablet and accessibility to the internet to get your hand on organization’s documents.
Data that is stored in the cloud is also safe from natural elements such as fires and hurricanes. However, any information that is found online cannot be termed as 100% safe. Questions of data security will always arise since cyber-criminals have also upped their game when it comes to hacking techniques. Public cloud is always susceptible to compromise from these cyber-criminals. In this article, we are going to discuss the useful tips that you can use to ensure that your data is safe when stored using cloud computing.
Backup your data locally
One of the most crucial things to put into consideration in data management is ensuring that you have backups for your information. It is always advisable to have electronic backups for your data in the form of flash drives and hard disks. This ensures that you will always have access to data whenever your original copies get corrupted. You can either choose to back the data up in some sought of external storage device or use the services of another cloud computing provider. Using both electronic media and cloud technology is critical for the safety of your data. Electronic media becomes very helpful when internet connectivity is poor.
Avoid the storage of sensitive information in the cloud
To be honest, there is nothing like 100% privacy on the internet today. The federal government issued the nist-800-171 publication last year to control unclassified information. The rising number of cases that have been reported involving identity fraud is enough proof. Finding alternative storage media for your debit/credit card details and passwords other than the cloud is essential. Copyrights, patents and other forms of intellectual property information are also sensitive information that should not be stored in the cloud. Such information may land in the database management systems of another company or individual even after taking all the necessary precautions.
Use cloud service providers that utilize data encryption
It is advisable for companies and other organizations to look for a cloud service provider that offers data encryption to your data. This provides double security and better privacy since the data has to be decrypted for anyone to access it. Data encryption protects your sensitive information even from system administrators and cloud service providers. It is very helpful to encrypt your data before the files are uploaded to the cloud. This is also the case in even where the cloud computing services provider encrypts the data. A company or an individual can use third-party encryption tools to make their data much more secure.
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People's Republic of Zanzibar
The People's Republic of Zanzibar (Jamhuri ya watu wa Zanzibar) was a short-lived African state founded in 1964, consisting of the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago. It existed for less than six months before it merged with Tanganyika to create the "United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar", which would be renamed the United Republic of Tanzania in November of that year.
History
In the wake of the Zanzibar Revolution, a Revolutionary Council was established by the ASP and Umma parties to act as an interim government, with Abeid Karume heading the council as President and Abdulrahman Mohammad Babu serving as the Minister of External Affairs. The country was renamed the People's Republic of Zanzibar; the new government's first acts were to permanently banish the Sultan and to ban the Zanzibar Nationalist Party and Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party. Seeking to distance himself from the volatile John Okello, Karume quietly sidelined him from the political scene, although he was allowed to retain his self-bestowed title of field marshal. However, Okello's revolutionaries soon began reprisals against the Arab and Asian population of Unguja, carrying out beatings, rapes, murders, and attacks on property. He claimed in radio speeches to have killed or imprisoned tens of thousands of his "enemies and stooges", but actual estimates of the number of deaths vary greatly, from "hundreds" to 20,000. Some Western newspapers give figures of 2,000–4,000; the higher numbers may be inflated by Okello's own broadcasts and exaggerated reports in some Western and Arab news media. The killing of Arab prisoners and their burial in mass graves was documented by an Italian film crew, filming from a helicopter, for Africa Addio and this sequence of film comprises the only known visual document of the killings. Many Arabs fled to safety in Oman, although by Okello's order no Europeans were harmed. The post-revolution violence did not spread to Pemba.
By 3 February, Zanzibar was finally returning to normality, and Karume had been widely accepted by the people as their president. A police presence was back on the streets, looted shops were re-opening, and unlicensed arms were being surrendered by the civilian populace. The revolutionary government announced that its political prisoners, numbering 500, would be tried by special courts. Okello formed the Freedom Military Force (FMF), a paramilitary unit made up of his own supporters, which patrolled the streets and looted Arab property. The behaviour of Okello's supporters, his violent rhetoric, Ugandan accent, and Christian beliefs were alienating many in the largely moderate Zanzibari and Muslim ASP, and by March many members of his FMF had been disarmed by Karume's supporters and the Umma Party militia. On 11 March Okello was stripped of his rank of Field Marshal, and was denied entry when trying to return to Zanzibar from a trip to the mainland. He was deported to Tanganyika and then to Kenya, before returning destitute to his native Uganda.
In April, the government formed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and completed the disarmament of Okello's remaining FMF militia. On 26 April, Karume announced that a union had been negotiated with Tanganyika to form the new country of Tanzania. The merger was seen by contemporary media as a means of preventing communist subversion of Zanzibar; at least one historian states that it may have been an attempt by Karume, a moderate socialist, to limit the influence of the radically left-wing Umma Party. However, many of the Umma Party's socialist policies on health, education and social welfare were adopted by the government.
Foreign reaction
British military forces in Kenya were made aware of the revolution at 4:45 am on 12 January, and following a request from the Sultan were put on 15 minutes' standby to conduct an assault on Zanzibar's airfield. However, the British High Commissioner in Zanzibar, Timothy Crosthwait, reported no instances of British nationals being attacked and advised against intervention. As a result, the British troops in Kenya were reduced to four hours' standby later that evening. Crosthwait decided not to approve an immediate evacuation of British citizens, as many held key government positions and their sudden removal would further disrupt the country's economy and government. To avoid possible bloodshed, the British agreed a timetable with Karume for an organised evacuation.
Within hours of the revolution, the American ambassador had authorised the withdrawal of US citizens on the island, and a US Navy destroyer, the USS Manley, arrived on 13 January. The Manley docked at Zanzibar Town harbour, but the US had not sought the Revolutionary Council's permission for the evacuation, and the ship was met by a group of armed men. Permission was eventually granted on 15 January, but the British considered this confrontation to be the cause of much subsequent ill-will against the Western powers in Zanzibar.
Western intelligence agencies believed that the revolution had been organised by communists supplied with weapons by the Warsaw Pact countries. This suspicion was strengthened by the appointment of Babu as Minister for External Affairs and Abdullah Kassim Hanga as Prime Minister, both known leftists with possible communist ties. Britain believed that these two were close associates of Oscar Kambona, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Tanganyika, and that former members of the Tanganyika Rifles had been made available to assist with the revolution. Some members of the Umma Party wore Cuban military fatigues and beards in the style of Fidel Castro, which was taken as an indication of Cuban support for the revolution. However, this practice was started by those members who had staffed a ZNP branch office in Cuba and it became a common means of dress amongst opposition party members in the months leading up to the revolution. The new Zanzibar government's recognition of the German Democratic Republic (the first African government to do so), and of North Korea, was further evidence to the Western Powers that Zanzibar was aligning itself closely with the communist bloc. Just six days after the revolution, The New York Times stated that Zanzibar was "on the verge of becoming the Cuba of Africa", but on 26 January denied that there was active communist involvement. Zanzibar continued to receive support from communist countries and by February was known to be receiving advisers from USSR, East Germany and China. At the same time, Western influence was diminishing and by July 1964 just one Briton, a dentist, remained in the employ of the Zanzibari government. It has been alleged that Israeli spymaster David Kimche was a backer of the revolution with Kimche in Zanzibar on the day of the Revolution.
The deposed Sultan made an unsuccessful appeal to Kenya and Tanganyika for military assistance, although Tanganyika sent 100 paramilitary police officers to Zanzibar to contain rioting. Other than the Tanganyika Rifles (formerly the colonial King's African Rifles), the police were the only armed force in Tanganyika, and on 20 January the police absence led the entire Rifles regiment to mutiny. Dissatisfied with their low pay rates and with the slow progress of the replacement of their British officers with Africans, the soldiers' mutiny sparked similar uprisings in both Uganda and Kenya. However, order on the African mainland was rapidly restored without serious incident by the British Army and Royal Marines.
The possible emergence of an African communist state remained a source of disquiet in the West. In February, the British Defence and Overseas Policy Committee said that, while British commercial interests in Zanzibar were "minute" and the revolution by itself was "not important", the possibility of intervention must be maintained. The committee was concerned that Zanzibar could become a centre for the promotion of communism in Africa, much like Cuba had in the Americas. Britain, most of the Commonwealth, and the United States withheld recognition of the new regime until 23 February, by which time it had already been recognised by much of the communist bloc. In Crosthwait's opinion, this contributed to Zanzibar aligning itself with the Soviet Union; Crosthwait and his staff were expelled from the country on 20 February and were only allowed to return once recognition had been agreed.
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Low temperature test of rubber O-ring
First. Purpose
The purpose of this test is to evaluate the performance of rubber O-ring in low temperature environment, determine its sealing effect at low temperature conditions, physical properties and aging trend, etc., to provide a basis for ensuring product quality and safety.
Second. the test principle
Rubber O-ring is a common seal, widely used in a variety of mechanical equipment and systems. At low temperatures, the physical properties of rubber materials change, such as increased hardness and reduced elasticity, which may affect the sealing performance of the sealing ring. This test tests the performance of rubber O-ring seals by simulating different low temperature environments.
Third. Test method
1. Sample preparation: Select different kinds of rubber O-ring samples to ensure that the sample surface is free of damage and impurities.
2. Temperature setting: According to the actual use needs, set the temperature of low temperature test, such as -25, -40, etc.
3. Performance test: Rubber O-ring performance test at room temperature, such as hardness, tensile strength, compression permanent deformation and other indicators.
4. Low temperature test: Put the sample into a low temperature environment, keep it for a certain period of time, take it out, and then perform the performance test again after returning to normal temperature.
5. Data recording: Record the performance test data of each sample and compare the difference between normal temperature and low temperature.
6. Aging trend analysis: Through long-term low temperature test, observe the aging trend of rubber O-ring and evaluate its service life in low temperature environment.
Fourth. Test standards
1. Sealing performance: in low temperature environment, rubber O-ring should maintain a good sealing effect, no leakage phenomenon.
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3. Aging trend: Through long-term low temperature test, the aging trend of rubber O-ring should meet expectations to ensure the service life of the product.
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2. Select the appropriate low temperature test temperature according to the actual needs to ensure the reliability of the test results.
3. Keep the sample clean during the test to avoid the influence of impurities or pollutants.
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Jun Natsukawa
Jun Natsukawa (夏川 純) is a Japanese gravure idol from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
Career
The spectacle society debuts with "Weekly young jump" gravure in 1999. In 2003 started work with Pyramid Art House. Photography collection Believe is the first work. In 2004 become a member of TV Asahi corporation project Angel Eye. KYOURAKU image girl "Miss surprise" in 2006.
In October 2005, she released a CD titled Himetra Trance in which she covered the theme song from the anime Cat's Eye. She made an appearance on the Japanese television show Pink no Idenshi, as a schoolgirl who falls in love with her teacher; and as herself on the reality show Geirinji. She has also been featured in a commercial for Kantan Kirei-na Fudeo.
Although she announced that she was born in 1983 until March 2007, she confessed in her blog that she was actually born on September 19, 1980.
She was featured in the PlayStation 2 game, Yakuza. Though it was just a few pictures, upon entering "Kyushu No. 1 Star", a magazine called "Sabra" can be seen on a table. If you choose to read it, 5 pictures of her will appear.
Photography collection videos (DVD)
* BELIEVE (2003)
* CROVER (2003)
* ぴゅあ (2003)
* Virtual love (バーチャルラブ) (2004)
* Se-woman (Se-女) (2004)
* Jerry Beans (2004)
* Costume play star - Bore (コスプレスター★ボーリング)2005)
* Not a Little Girl (2005)
* Honey Bee×2 (2005)
* False start (フライング...) (2005)
* Pure Love (2005)
* Doll (2005)
* Astraea (2006)
* Perfect collection (2006)
* ONE (2006)
* Pure Heart (2006)
* SCRATCH (2006)
* Midsummer Days (2006)
* Angelic Smile (2007)
* Always Together (2007)
* Pure Summer (2007)
* Naturally (2007)
* Breeze (2008)
Personal life
In November 2010 Natsukawa Jun's engaged with her boyfriend, and on the New Year's Day, January 1, 2011, she has announced on her official blog that she registered her marriage officially.
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The Nature of Earthquakes
John Muir had been living in Yosemite Valley for less than four years when, during the early morning hours of March 26, 1872, while asleep in a small cabin he had built near Sentinel Rock on the valley floor, he was awakened by strong shaking. "Though I had never before enjoyed a storm of this sort," he later wrote, "the strange, wild thrilling motion and rumbling could not be mistaken."
He ran outside into a clear, moonlit night, feeling "both glad and frightened." "A noble earthquake, a noble earthquake!" he shouted. He was sure that something important would be discovered.
And it was. Though it was someone else who would make the discovery. And it was twenty years before that important discovery was made.
The person who made the discovery was Grove Carl Gilbert who was conducting one of the early geologic surveys of the America West. He made his way into Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, the side opposite Yosemite Valley. He found a wall of huge boulders that continued for many miles. Those who were living in Owens Valley at the time of the 1872 earthquake said the wall had formed during the earthquake, when the ground shook so violently that the ground had ruptured. Gilbert inspected the wall and came to a fundamentally different conclusion.
The wall of boulders near Lone Pine, California. This is the surface rupture of the 1872 earthquake that caused the western block to move upward suddenly by as much as twenty feet.
Gilbert closely inspected the wall of boulders. He noticed that he could match features that indicated the ground had shifted as much as 15 feet horizontally. If ground shaking had formed the wall, then there should not have been so much horizontal movement. From that, Gilbert concluded that the wall of boulders was not an effect of the earthquake, but the cause.
That is, the earthquake was caused by the sliding of huge crustal blocks against each other. Imagine, he said, that you are in a railway car and the brake is set. Then if the car is being pushed or pulled, at first the car remains stationary, held in place by friction of the iron wheels against the rails. But eventually the pushing or the pulling becomes too great and the wheels slide a short distance along the rails, causing the entire railway car to shake momentarily.
Earthquakes are produced in a similar way. The Earth's crust is constantly being pushed and pulled. But friction holds crustal blocks stationary. That is, until the friction is overcome and the blocks slide, producing earthquakes.
The eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. The 1872 fault scarp is along the low hills in front of the mountains.
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Energy Vampires
There Are Vampires Among Us
Before installing a solar power system for your house, homeowners should become more aware of their household energy use, and try to cut back whenever possible. There are many little things that you can do to improve your energy efficiency. One of these involves controlling your vampires.
What are Energy Vampires?
Vampires are not only in romantic movies. As you walk through your dark house at night, the vampires will light your way. Energy vampires are electrical products that have a stand-by mode and cannot be completely switched off unless they are unplugged. They suck small amounts of energy 24 hours a day. Some examples of vampires include cable and satellite boxes, digital clocks, and video game consoles. The wall chargers for cell phones, power tools, or hand-held vacuums will use energy even though the device has finished charging.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has studied the energy consumed by these gadgets. Although the energy used to power these devices is relatively small, when all the household products are added together, the standby power can amount to 10% of the residential energy use. Here is a list that they have compiled that shows different products and their standby energy usage.
What’s a Mortal to Do
Unplug–Although it is not always practical, the best way to save energy is to unplug the devices when they are not in use. For something like digital clocks, or cable systems, this is not always practical because of the time that it takes to reboot. If you are going to be gone for long periods of time, it is worthwhile to unplug everything. Items like cell phone or power tool chargers can be easily unplugged when the item has finished charging. The trick is remembering that they are there.
Use Power Strips–Plug your items into a power strip that can be turned off when you leave the house, or go to sleep. Power strips will help save time where you have multiple gadgets plugged together. There are even smart power strips available that will turn themselves off when the items are not being used.
Turn on the Energy Saving Features–Some devices, like personal computers, have energy saving devices built into them. Take some time to look for the settings, and set them for the lowest possible energy usage.
Look for the Energy Stars–When buying new appliances or gadgets, always look for energy star labels. These don’t just come on big appliances anymore. Even phone chargers, and ceiling fans now come with a rating. The energy star website has a big list available. Gadgets with an energy star certification mean that the products have reached a high level of energy efficiency and have met requirements established by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Controlling your energy vampires is a good place to start when trying to cut back on your household energy usage.
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AutoFiller
AutoFiller class
Represents a class to receive data from database or other datasource, fills them into the designed fields of the template pdf and at last generates new pdf file or stream. It has two template file input modes:input as a stream or a pdf file. It has four types of output modes:one merged stream, one merged file, many small streams, many small files. It can recieve literal data contained in a System.Data.DataTable.
public sealed class AutoFiller : ISaveableFacade
Constructors
Name Description
AutoFiller() The default constructor.
Properties
Name Description
BasicFileName { get; set; } Gets or sets the basic file name if many small files will be generated. The generated file will be like “BasicFileName0”,“BasicFileName1”,… It works with another property GeneratingPathGeneratingPath.
GeneratingPath { get; set; } Gets or sets the Generating Path of the small pdf files if many small pdf files to be generated. It works with another property BasicFileNameBasicFileName. One of the four output modes.
OutputStreams { get; set; } Gets or sets the many Output Streams. One of four output modes.
UnFlattenFields { set; } Sets the fields which will not be flattened. If this property is not set, all the fields will be flattened.
Methods
Name Description
BindPdf(Document) Binds a Pdf document.
BindPdf(Stream) Binds a Pdf file.
BindPdf(string) Binds a Pdf file.
Close() Closes the object and output streams.
Dispose() Closes the object and output streams.
ImportDataTable(DataTable) Imports data of DataTable type. Every column’s name of the dataTable must be the same as one field name of the template pdf in case sensitive.
Save(Stream) Saves all the pdfs.
Save(string) Saves all the pdfs.
Examples
[C#]
//Note: mail.pdf is a template pdf which has seven text fields. NorthWind.mdb is the microsoft access db.
////Common part: Get the data from the database NorthWind.mdb fill it into the DataTable.
OleDbCommand mQueryCommand;
OleDbDataAdapter mDbDataAdapter;
OleDbConnection mDbConnection;
//Construct the data table.
DataTable mDataTable = new DataTable("MailMerge");
DataColumnCollection columns = mDataTable.Columns;
columns.Add("CompanyName",typeof(string));
columns.Add("ContactName",typeof(string));
columns.Add("Address",typeof(string));
columns.Add("PostalCode",typeof(string));
columns.Add("City",typeof(string));
columns.Add("Country",typeof(string));
columns.Add("Heading",typeof(string));
//Connect to the database source and query the data.
mDbConnection = new OleDbConnection();
mDbConnection.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" +
DbPath + "NorthWind.mdb";
mQueryCommand = new OleDbCommand();
mQueryCommand.Connection = mDbConnection;
mDbConnection.Open();
mQueryCommand.CommandText = "select CompanyName, ContactName, Address, PostalCode, City, Country from Customers;";
mDbDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(mQueryCommand);
mDbDataAdapter.Fill(mDataTable);
for (int i = 0; i<mDataTable.Rows.Count;i++)
{
mDataTable.Rows[i][mDataTable.Columns.Count - 1] = "Dear " + mDataTable.Rows[i][0].ToString() + ",";
System.Console.WriteLine("postalCode:" + mDataTable.Rows[i][3].ToString());
System.Console.WriteLine("Heading:" + mDataTable.Rows[i][mDataTable.Columns.Count - 1].ToString());
}
mDbDataAdapter.Dispose();
mDbConnection.Close();
////End of Common part.
////case one:
////Input template pdf is a pdf file and output is a big merged stream.
AutoFiller autoFiller = new AutoFiller();
autoFiller.InputFileName = "mail.pdf";
autoFiller.OutputStream = Response.OutputStream;
autoFiller.ImportDataTable(mDataTable);
autoFiller.Save();
////case two:
////Input template pdf is a pdf file and output is a lot of small files.
AutoFiller autoFiller = new AutoFiller();
autoFiller.InputFileName = "mail.pdf";
autoFiller.GeneratingPath = ".\\";
autoFiller.BasicFileName = "outputFile";
autoFiller.ImportDataTable(mDataTable);
autoFiller.Save();
[Visual Basic]
'Note: mail.pdf is a template pdf which has seven text fields. NorthWind.mdb is the microsoft access db.
'Common part: Get the data from the database NorthWind.mdb fill it into the DataTable.
mQueryCommand As OleDbCommand = Nothing
mDbDataAdapter As OleDbDataAdapter = Nothing
mDbConnection As OleDbConnection = Nothing
mDataTable As DataTable = Nothing
mPath As String = Nothing
mTemplatePdf As String = Nothing
'Construct the data table.
mDataTable = New DataTable("MailMerge")
Dim columns As DataColumnCollection = mDataTable.Columns
'Create columns for the datatable.
'Every column's name should be the same as one field's name of the templatePdf.
columns.Add("CompanyName", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("ContactName", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("Address", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("PostalCode", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("City", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("Country", Type.GetType("System.String"))
columns.Add("Heading", Type.GetType("System.String"))
'Connect to the database source and query the data.
mDbConnection = New OleDbConnection
mDbConnection.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + DbPath + "NorthWind.mdb"
mQueryCommand = New OleDbCommand
mQueryCommand.Connection = mDbConnection
mDbConnection.Open()
'Query the data and insert into the datatable.
mQueryCommand.CommandText = "select CompanyName, ContactName, Address, PostalCode, City, Country from Customers;"
mDbDataAdapter = New OleDbDataAdapter(mQueryCommand)
mDbDataAdapter.Fill(mDataTable)
'Construct the last column of the Datatable.
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To mDataTable.Rows.Count - 1 Step i + 1
mDataTable.Rows(i)(mDataTable.Columns.Count - 1) = "Dear " + mDataTable.Rows(i)(0).ToString() + ","
System.Console.WriteLine("postalCode:" + mDataTable.Rows(i)(3).ToString())
System.Console.WriteLine("Heading:" + mDataTable.Rows(i)(mDataTable.Columns.Count - 1).ToString())
Next
mDbDataAdapter.Dispose()
mDbConnection.Close()
'End of Common part.
'case one:
'Input template pdf is a pdf file and output is a big merged stream.
Dim autoFiller As AutoFiller = New AutoFiller
autoFiller.InputFileName = "mail.pdf"
autoFiller.OutputStream = Response.OutputStream
autoFiller.ImportDataTable(mDataTable)
autoFiller.Save()
'case two:
'Input template pdf is a pdf file and output is a lot of small files.
Dim autoFiller As AutoFiller = New AutoFiller
autoFiller.InputFileName = "mail.pdf"
autoFiller.GeneratingPath = ".\";
autoFiller.BasicFileName = "outputFile"
autoFiller.ImportDataTable(mDataTable)
autoFiller.Save()
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Mnesia
User's Guide
Version 4.15.1
Chapters
1 Introduction
The Mnesia application provides a heavy duty real-time distributed database.
1.1 Scope
This User's Guide describes how to build Mnesia database applications, and how to integrate and use the Mnesia database management system with OTP. Programming constructs are described, and numerous programming examples are included to illustrate the use of Mnesia.
This User's Guide is organized as follows:
• Mnesia provides an introduction to Mnesia.
• Getting Started introduces Mnesia with an example database. Examples are included how to start an Erlang session, specify a Mnesia database directory, initialize a database schema, start Mnesia, and create tables. Initial prototyping of record definitions is also discussed.
• Build a Mnesia Database more formally describes the steps introduced in the previous section, namely the Mnesia functions that define a database schema, start Mnesia, and create the required tables.
• Transactions and Other Access Contexts describes the transactions properties that make Mnesia into a fault tolerant, real-time distributed database management system. This section also describes the concept of locking to ensure consistency in tables, and "dirty operations", or short cuts, which bypass the transaction system to improve speed and reduce overheads.
• Miscellaneous Mnesia Features describes features that enable the construction of more complex database applications. These features include indexing, checkpoints, distribution and fault tolerance, disc-less nodes, replication manipulation, local content tables, concurrency, and object-based programming in Mnesia.
• Mnesia System Information describes the files contained in the Mnesia database directory, database configuration data, core and table dumps, as well as the important subject of backup, fall-back, and disaster recovery principles.
• Combine Mnesia with SNMP is a short section that outlines Mnesia integrated with SNMP.
• Appendix A: Backup Callback Interface is a program listing of the default implementation of this facility.
• Appendix B: Activity Access Callback Interface is a program outlining one possible implementation of this facility.
• Appendix C: Fragmented Table Hashing Callback Interface is a program outlining one possible implementation of this facility.
1.2 Prerequisites
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, system development principles, and database management systems.
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Nick Ahrens
Nick Ahrens (born November 11, 1983, in Minneapolis) is an American designer and art director. He is a partner in iam8bit, a production company, marketing boutique and artist collective, along with Jon M. Gibson, Amanda White and Taylor Harrington.
Career
After a career in professional snowskating, Ahrens held a position at Game Informer magazine for six years. He helped oversee the reinvention of the publication's digital presence, which won a "People's Voice Award" Webby Award in 2010. Ahrens also served as the magazine's Media Editor, where he wrote and curated the monthly "Gear" section, as well as writing regular videogame reviews and previews. He also regularly took on design and photography duties for both the magazine and website.
Ahrens joined iam8bit in October 2010, and is currently a partner and art director.
Books
* SUPER iam8bit: More Art Inspired by Classic Videogames of the 80s (2011), a follow-up collection of the iam8bit exhibition's best pieces from the years 2006–2010. Foreword by Kevin Pereira. Co-authored with Jon M. Gibson, Amanda White and Taylor Harrington.
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Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019
Presentation information
[J] Poster
M (Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary) » M-IS Intersection
[M-IS28] Fluid-sediment migration and geo-bio interaction
Mon. May 27, 2019 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall8, Makuhari Messe)
convener:Robert Jenkins(School of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University), Tomohiro Toki(Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus), Akira Ijiri(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Takami Nobuhara(Science Education (Geology), Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University), Hiromi Kayama WATANABE(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Miho Asada(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
[MIS28-P01] An offshore mud volcano that indicates a heterogeneous subseafloor geological environment: a case study along southwest Japan
*Miho Asada1,2, Kazuya Kitada2 (1.JSPS Research Fellow, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
Keywords:Mud Volcano, offshore area along SW Japan, subseafloor environment
Mud volcanoes (MVs) are geological features that derive fluids and sediments from the depth to surface. Offshore MVs require continuous mud emission to maintain the shape on the seafloor against erosion (Kopf, 2002). Brown and Orange (1993) mentioned that gas is required for sediments moving up from the deep. These necessary conditions for the existence of mud volcanoes restrict the subseafloor environment beneath MV fields.
In Japan, MVs are found both on land and in offshore areas (e.g., Tajika et al., 2009; Kuramoto et al., 2001). A forearc basin, the Kumano Basin, which is bordered by the Nankai Trough along its southern edge, is a representative MV field in Japan. There are at least 14 MVs in the basin (Kuramoto et al., 2001; Morita et al., 2004; Pape et al., 2014; Asada et al., 2017). The recent morphological changes in an MV and the emission of gas bubbles from the top of the MV were discovered through acoustic investigations in the Kumano Basin in 2016 (Menapase et al., 2017), which implies that these MVs actively emit fluid and sediment on the seafloor. Additionally, a group of offshore MVs is known in the off-Tanegashima area in the southeastern part of the Kyusyu Island (Kitada et al., 2018). There are at least 14 MVs, and life moved from the MV to the seawater (Hoshino et al., 2017). Moreover, several MVs have been reported in the off-Miyazaki area of the eastern Kyusyu Island. The Hyuga-nada area, a northeastern part of the Kyusyu Island, probably holds other MVs that exhibit similar bathymetric and acoustic (backscatter) characteristics as MVs in the Kumano Basin and the off-Tanegashima areas. Only one MV candidate feature and the hardened seafloor around it have been recognized in the off-Shikoku Island; however, there are no more MVs in the area. These results indicate that there are discontinuous MV fields along southwest Japan, and there is a vast MV field over the eastern offshore area of Kyusyu Island. This indicates a heterogeneous subseafloor environment in these areas.
Within what type of subseafloor environment can MVs exist? Maintaining a continuous emission of fluid and sediment on the seafloor may restrict the subseafloor environment.
1. A budget of “fluidized mud” or continuous production of “fluidized mud” should exist under the seafloor.
- Large amounts of seawater are trapped when deposits are buried without being drained.
- Dehydration owing to clay minerals collapses the mud rock to form fluidized mud.
- Gathering fluids come along the strata and/or fault to collapse mud rock and make fluidized mud.
2. Gas is required for making intrusions, which can be a root of MVs.
- Sediment can yield enough thermogenic and/or biogenic gas.
- There is an environment for collecting enough fluid coming through the strata and/or fault.
3. Both gas and fluidized mud under the seafloor can be the origin of MVs on the seafloor. Only one of them may not lead to MVs.
The subseafloor temperature of the accretionary prism of the Kumano Basin (e.g., Marcaillow et al., 2012) satisfies the condition for the dehydration of clay minerals. The dehydration may cause the collapse of mud rock, yielding fluidized mud. Gas generation causes sediment intrusion. This fluid may flow along the strata and fault and gather together to cause MVs. As with Hyuga-nada/off-Tanegashima area, there is a business gas field along the eastern coast of Kyusyu Island, and it may affect the area. However, in the off-Shikoku area, there is not enough subseafloor environment to generate gas and fluidized mud; this may be affected by the high-temperature subduction of the ancient plate-spreading axis in the Shikoku Basin. This subseafloor heterogeneity may be related to other geological phenomena, such as the patchy distribution of the seismogenic zone.
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A return to the past with Cahergall Stone Fort, near Cahirciveen on the Ring of Kerry, in south west Ireland. The name Cahergall comes from the Gaelic words, Chathair Gheal, which means “The Bright Fort”.
Ring forts are difficult to date as they are often multi-period sites, it appears this dry-stone walled ring fort probably dates from late Iron Age or early Medival period.
The walls, with several stairways all along the inner side, are 5 metres thick at the base. Inside the fort which was recently partially reconstructed can be seen the remains of a circular stone house.
Traditionally their circular remains were associated with fairies and leprechauns, and called “Fairy Forts” imbued with druid’s magic and believers in the fairies did not alter them. The early pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland, known as the Tuatha De Danaan and Fir Bolg, came to be seen as mythical and were associated with stories of fairies, also known as the “Good People”. Fairy forts and prehistoric Tumuli were seen as entrances to their world.
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Valea Roșie (Crișul Negru)
The Valea Roșie or Roșia (Rossia-patak or Remete-patak) is a river in Romania, Bihor County, right tributary of the Crișul Negru. Its length is 38 km and its basin size is 308 km2.
The river starts at the Roșia karst spring in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains. It flows through the hills of the Beiuș Depression and joins the Crișul Negru near Pocola. The most important villages on the river are Roșia, Remetea and Pocola.
Hydronymy
Valea Roșie had two Hungarian names. Originally it was called Remete-patak (referring to Remetea/Magyarremete village on its shore). That name was used until the 18th century, last time consequently in the 1720 conscription. During this century the remaining small community of Hungarians in the valley adopted the more frequently used Romanian name in the form of Rossia-patak. This name has been used since then. The older name means hermit in Hungarian.
Tributaries
The following rivers are tributaries to the Valea Roșie:
* Left: Șoimuș, Sohodol, Meziad
* Right: Albioara, Strâmtura (Valea Ușorilor), Drăgoteni
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You probably know how to use the MAX() and MIN() functions, to return the latest and earliest dates, respectively, in a range. But, how would you grab a corresponding value for that date? For instance, let’s suppose you want to know the amount sold for the latest date in the sheet shown below. In the case of a simple sheet, like this one, you can easily see the answer, but that’s not a solution.
Returning the latest date is simple enough. Enter =MAX(range), which in this case is A2:A9. The latest date is November 14.
The value you’re really after, is the sold amount for November 14. Excel’s VLOOKUP() function finds a specific value in the leftmost volume of a data range and returns a value to the right in the same row. How many columns to the right depends on your specifications.
In this case, you want to find the latest date, not the literal date November 14. So, MAX() is the first argument:
=VLOOKUP(MAX(A2:A9,
The data range is the next:
=VLOOKUP(MAX(A2:A9,A2:C9,
The last argument is the column offset. In this case, the value you want to return is two columns to the right of the lookup value (the date), so it’s the third column in the data range:
=VLOOKUP(MAX(A2:A9),A2:C9,3,0)
The last argument, 0, forces VLOOKUP() to find an exact match. For more on this argument, read Troubleshoot VLOOKUP() formula gotchas.
It’s just as easy to find the earliest date. Simply substitute the MIN() function for the MAX() function.
Keep in mind that the lookup range (column A) contains unique values. You can use this solution with duplicate lookup values, but VLOOKUP() will use the first matching value.
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Annan Annan - 11 months ago 61
Javascript Question
How to get nodes lying inside a range with javascript?
I'm trying to get all the DOM nodes that are within a range object, what's the best way to do this?
var selection = window.getSelection(); //what the user has selected
var range = selection.getRangeAt(0); //the first range of the selection
var startNode = range.startContainer;
var endNode = range.endContainer;
var allNodes = /*insert magic*/;
I've been been thinking of a way for the last few hours and came up with this:
var getNextNode = function(node, skipChildren){
//if there are child nodes and we didn't come from a child node
if (node.firstChild && !skipChildren) {
return node.firstChild;
}
if (!node.parentNode){
return null;
}
return node.nextSibling
|| getNextNode(node.parentNode, true);
};
var getNodesInRange = function(range){
var startNode = range.startContainer.childNodes[range.startOffset]
|| range.startContainer;//it's a text node
var endNode = range.endContainer.childNodes[range.endOffset]
|| range.endContainer;
if (startNode == endNode && startNode.childNodes.length === 0) {
return [startNode];
};
var nodes = [];
do {
nodes.push(startNode);
}
while ((startNode = getNextNode(startNode))
&& (startNode != endNode));
return nodes;
};
However when the end node is the parent of the start node it returns everything on the page. I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious? Or maybe going about it in totally the wrong way.
MDC/DOM/range
Answer
The getNextNode will skip your desired endNode recursively if its a parent node.
Perform the conditional break check inside of the getNextNode instead:
var getNextNode = function(node, skipChildren, endNode){
//if there are child nodes and we didn't come from a child node
if (endNode == node) {
return null;
}
if (node.firstChild && !skipChildren) {
return node.firstChild;
}
if (!node.parentNode){
return null;
}
return node.nextSibling
|| getNextNode(node.parentNode, true, endNode);
};
and in while statement:
while (startNode = getNextNode(startNode, endNode));
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Mahatma Gandhi viewed the process of education from many different angles and saw that it must achieve something more than one objective. That is why he ascribed to it many different aims. At times a superficial study of these aims may give the impression that they are mutually contradictory or self-defeating, but a deeper examination will show that they complement each other. Gandhiji’s educational plan exhibits all the major qualities found in the Western educational patterns. For this reason, the following points must be kept in mind in attempting an evaluation of his plan:
Gandhiji’s educational philosophy gives due recognition to biological naturalism because it lays stress on man’s complete development. He laid more stress on the child’s environment than on books. He wanted to give an indigenous touch to education, and make it capable of achieving independence and naturalness. But, at the same time, he did not neglect discipline. His education is centered on the child, not around textbooks.
On the one hand one finds a strong element of realism in Gandhiji’s philosophy of education but on the other it also exhibits some signs of idealism. There is no denying that he was always an idealist because he always was a religious individual. He felt that the aim of man’s life was realization of God, and that is why he stressed the importance of moral and religious education. He wanted to use education as a means of developing a harmonized personality in the child. Like Pestelozzi, he wanted to make the child the center of educational progress and like Herbart he felt that the aim of education was building up a moral character. He attached the greatest importance to the child’s interests and inclinations.
Despite his inclination towards idealism, Gandhiji always attended to the practical aspect of education. That is why he entitled his autobiography ‘My Experiments with Truth’. In keeping with the pragmatic tradition he also believed that the child should gather for himself all the knowledge from the environment and select from it that which he should put to use in later life. Like Dewey, Gandhiji also felt that that child should learn through actual work besides, he also agreed with Dewey that education should seek to establish the democratic values in life. In short, he wanted to relate education to life as far as possible.
4. Educational System is Based on Psychological Facts
Although Gandhiji was not a professional psychologist, he had gained remarkable insight into human psychology through his acute observation of life around him. He felt that education should aim at arousing curiosity and providing motivation to the child so that he should himself achieve his own physical, mental and spiritual development. He was very much in favour of the students indulging in games and sports and gymnastic activity, because he felt that physical development is an essential prerequisite of mental development. He also felt that education should not be allowed to become mechanical but should be acquired through play.
5. Importance of Impressions and Actions
Gandhiji’s opinion that impressions of early childhood have a tremendous impact on later development is in agreement with the modern psychologists. Most educationists agree that learning through doing helps in the complete development of the child and that this also enables him to earn his livelihood later in life.
6. Sociological Importance of Gandhiji’s Plan
Gandhiji’s plan of education is not only psychologically valid but it has sociological significance also. While thinking of his plan of education, Gandhiji was not concerned with one or two individuals, but with the vast multitude of illiterate men and women who make up the country’s population. He advocated discipline as an essential part of freedom and liberty. He wanted that education should help the individual to become an ideal democratic citizen. He stressed the importance of social service, labour, agriculture, handicrafts, hygiene, collective living, etc. and pointed out that they were more important than any curriculum. Sarvodaya was as much his guiding principle in education as it the field of politics. This concept of a Sarvodaya Society was based on traditional Indian and modern democratic values.
7. Education Conforming to the Country’s Needs
Whatever the arguments one may advance against Gandhiji’s plan of education one cannot question his sincerity, because it is only too obvious that in presenting it, he was perfectly aware of the needs of his countrymen. He considered this the only kind of education, which can be successful in this country. Most villagers cannot afford to pay for their children’s education and in addition most of them require their children’s assistance in their own occupations. Ganhiji wanted the students to be engaged in gainful work the product of which could be sold to pay for his education.
8. Teaching Methods
The teaching methods in the Gandhian scheme of education can be deduced from his Basic Education. As has been pointed out, Gandhiji pleaded that the child should be educated through a basic craft. He should first be tought a basic craft from among the different types of it and other subjects such as Arithmetic, Language, Geography, History and Civics should be taught in association with the basic craft. In his educational institutions children were busy in craft activities for hours.
As has already been pointed out an important characteristic of the teaching method in Gandhian scheme was synthesis. Projects were drawn for the years, quarter, month, week and the day.
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Talk:The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610-1639, Abridged
Original
The original is available here - https://archive.org/details/cihm_07535/page/n21/mode/2up -- Beardo (talk) 14:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
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Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The shadow secretary of state for health and social care is an office within British politics held by a member of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The duty of the office holder is to scrutinise the actions of the government's secretary of state for health and social care and develop alternative policies. The office holder is a member of the Shadow Cabinet and appointed by the leader of the opposition.
It is currently held by Victoria Atkins
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Zainudin Ismail
Zainudin bin Haji Ismail (19 November 1959–5 December 2017) was a Malaysian politician from Negeri Sembilan. He was a Member of Parliament Jelebu from May 2013 to December 2017 representing the Barisan Nasional (BN) from United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).
Death
He died on 5 December 2017 at the age of 58 due to a brain tumor.
Due to the year has passed less than two years before Parliament is dissolved, the Election Commission of Malaysia did not hold a by-election to fill the vacant seat.
Honours
* Negeri Sembilan :
* Dato’ Paduka Negeri Sembilan.svg Knight Commander of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (DPNS) – Dato' (2015)
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Preparation of ultra-porous UPM/PHBV nanofibres using solvent-etching technology and drug-loading efficiency
Jin, Lanming ; Jiang, Gaoming ; Liu, Shuiping
Abstract
In this study, ultra-porous fibres have been produced by partly washing out poly(3-hydroxybutyrateco-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) from the heat-crosslinked electrospun unsaturated polyester macromonomers/poly(3-hydroxybutyrateco-3-hydroxyvalerate) (UPM/PHBV) fibrous composite using chloroform. Tetracycline hydrochloride has been used as the module drug to test the drug-loading efficiency of porous fibres. Field emission scanning electron microscope images show that the etched UPM/PHBV fibres have lost the original smooth surface. The result demonstrates that the PHBV is successfully washed by chloroform, but most of UPM is remained because of the heat-crosslinking. Furthermore, with the increase of PHBV ratio in composite fibres, the etched fibres show much rougher surface. The drug absorption behavior also varies with the different PHBV ratios.
Keyword(s)
Drug loading efficiency; Electrospinning; Poly(3-hydroxybutyrateco-3-hydroxyvalerate); Solvent etching; Ultra-porous fibres; Nanofibres; Unsaturated polyester macromonomers
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sleep (rapper)
The result was keep. Courcelles 08:24, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Sleep (rapper)
* – ( View AfD View log Stats )
Non notable musician, fails WP:GNG. Koala15 (talk) 20:07, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
* This is a waste of time. Firstly, he does meet WP:GNG, as demonstrated by the references included in the article and any cursory Google search for his albums. Secondly, as a musician, the specific criteria he has to satisfy are WP:MUSICBIO, which he does - easily meeting criterion #1 (see references in article/more easily found via Google), criterion #5 (Strange Famous Records), and criterion #6 (The Chicharones and Oldominion [the latter don't have an article, but I'd remind you that that implies nothing about notability and the group also meets criterion #6 re: independently notable members]). - Wetdogmeat (talk) 21:49, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
* Well i only found one review from a notable publication and i don't think that is enough. Koala15 (talk) 00:49, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
* Sources are either reliable or unreliable; "notability" has nothing to do with it. Familiarise yourself with the criteria for reliability. A website can be notable (can be eligible for its own Wikipedia article) without being a reliable source (say, 4chan), and a source can be reliable without being notable by Wikipedia standards (this applies to most sources, most websites, including Hip Hop DX and other sources we use all the time). Some of the references in the article are dead links, but even there there are at least two indisputably reliable sources, the Boston Phoenix and All Music Guide. Did you not check the existing references? Here are a few more from a quick google:, , , The appropriate action for you to take would have been to add a Refimprove template, not call for the article's deletion. - Wetdogmeat (talk) 01:40, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
* Well the reliable sources for this artist are scarce besides the Boston Phoenix review or the AllMusic source. But i guess we shall see what the other users think. Koala15 (talk) 03:23, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
* I've just given you four other sources from a cursory google. And that was leaving out any sources on The Chicharones or Oldominion. This AfD should not have happened; you obviously did no research and possibly didn't read/understand the notability guidelines. The appropriate course of action was a Refimprove. - Wetdogmeat (talk) 03:32, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
* Keep. Enough coverage in reliable sources to be covered here, but perhaps a merge to The Chicharones would be an option. --Michig (talk) 19:00, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:12, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:12, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
* Delete Not enough reliable sources to establish notability. With the exception of the Phoenix review and AllMusic (which is a fishing net that indexes all musical acts and can't be used to establish notability), the only references are to blogs, a Facebook page, and Sleep's own label's website. DocumentError (talk) 04:20, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
* Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 00:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
* Keep. I'll sum up the arguments made thusfar:
* 1) Koala15 nominated the article for deletion because of the subject's "failure" to meet the general notability guidelines. This assessment is false, as Sleep "has received significant coverage in (multiple) reliable sources that are independent of the subject", as demonstrated by the sources provided in the article and the further sources provided in this AfD.
* 2) As a musician, the specific notability guidelines the subject has to meet are WP:MUSICBIO. These criteria were not consulted by Koala15 before noninating the article for deletion.
* 3) Sleep meets criterion #1: Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself. - Sources so far provided include: Exclaim, XLR8R, URB, Willamette Week, Spinner, The Boston Phoenix, and All Music Guide. DocumentError claims that All Music Guide cannot be used to establish notability, but this is only true for artists who have been merely indexed, not for artists who have received non-trivial coverage in the form of biographies or album reviews. In addition to these sources, here are three interviews with Sleep as one half of The Chicharones, from Yahoo, IndyMojo, and Spinner.
* 4) Sleep meets criterion #5: Has released two or more albums ... on one of the more important indie labels (i.e., an independent label with a history of more than a few years, and with a roster of performers, many of whom are notable). - Sleep has released two albums (and will soon release a third) on Sage Francis's record label Strange Famous Records, whose roster of notable artists includes Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Cecil Otter, Buck 65, No Bird Sing, Metermaids, Curtis Plum, Buddy Peace, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Prolyphic, Reanimator and 2Mex.
* 5) Sleep arguably meets criterion #6: ...is a musician who has been a reasonably-prominent member of two or more independently notable ensembles. - Sleep is one half of The Chicharones with Josh Martinez, and is a founding member of the Pacific Northwest hip hop collective Oldominion. Oldominion don't have a Wiki article, but they are probably eligible for one, as they almost certainly meet criterion #1 and possibly #6, as other notable member acts include Onry Ozzborn and Grayskul. If Oldominion meet the notability criteria, then Sleep meets criterion #6. If Sleep meets criteria #1 & #5, then he becomes further justification for Oldominion meeting criterion #6, which would circularly further justify Sleep's own article.
* That's about all I have to say I think. - Wetdogmeat (talk) 02:38, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
* Keep. The coverage listed above (such as the reviews in Exclaim!, The Boston Phoenix, and URB) demonstrate that this person meets WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO. Gong show 03:26, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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APMAdvances in Pure Mathematics2160-0368Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/apm.2014.46030APM-46583ArticlesPHYSICS & MATHEMATICSA New Integral Equation for the Spheroidal Equations in Case of m Equal to 1GuihuaTian** E-mail:tgh-2000@263.net, tgh20080827@gmail.com;University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China;0606201404062292337 January 20147 February 2014 15 February 2014© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The spheroidal wave functions are investigated in the case $m = 1$. The integral equation is obtained for them. There are two kinds of eigenvalues in the differential and corresponding integral equations, and the relation between them is given explicitly. This is the great advantage of our integral equation, which will provide useful information through the study of the integral equation. Also an example is given for the special case, which shows another way to study the eigenvalue problem.
Spheroidal Wave Functions Integral Equation Green Function
1. Introduction
The spheroidal wave equations are extension of the ordinary spherical equations. There are many fields where spheroidal functions play important roles just as the spherical functions do. So far, in comparison to simpler spherical special functions (the associated Lengdre’s functions), their properties are still difficult to study. The equations for them are
with −1 < x < 1 and the natural conditions that Θ is finite at the boundaries x = ±1. This is a kind of the singular Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem. To satisfy the boundaries condition, the parameter E can only take the values “,” which are called the eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem, and the corresponding solutions (the eigenfunctions) are called the spheroidal wave functions [1] -[3] .
Under the condition β = 0, they reduce to the Spherical equations and the solutions to the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem are the associated Legendre-functions Pml(x) (the spherical functions) with the eigenvalues. The spheroidal equations only have one more term β2x2 than the spherical ones (the associated Lendgre’s equations). However, the extra term β2x2 in the equation presents many mathematical difficulties [1] -[3] . The difference between these two kinds of wave functions is far greater than their similarity. The former belongs to the Hune equations in contrast to that the spherical equations belong to the hyper-geometric equations. The Hune equations have four regular singularities; hence present much more difficulties in mathematical ground.
Usually, one studied the spheroidal equations by the perturbation method in the basis of the spherical functions and resulting in the continued fraction to determine the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions [1] -[3] . Recently, new methods are used to re-investigate the problems again [4] -[6] . The new methods mainly include the perturbation one in supersymmetry quantum mechanics (see [7] for the theory of supersymmetry quantum mechanics and more references in there), which give rise to many nice results [4] -[11] . Some of the results are the extension of the recurrence relation of the spherical functions to the spheroidal functions, and make the excited spheroidal functions available from the ground one. Other results might give new method in their numerical calculation [4] -[11] . There are also the integral equations, which provide another way to numerically study the spheroidal functions [1] . In [12] , the integral equations are extended to the spin-weighted spheroidal case.
In this paper, we mainly concern ourselves with the integral equations for them. For example, the integral equation for the prolate spheroidal wave equation is already existed [1] [12]
where the kernel is
with. There are two eigenvalues appear in the differential and the integral Equations (1), (2), that is, the quantities. However, the relation between the eigenvalues is unclear [1] [12] . In this letter, we will report a new integral equation for the spheroidal equation in the case of. Because the integral equation is derived from the Green function of the Equations (1), it provides the concise relation between the eigenvalues. This is the main advantage of the new integral equation.
2. A New Integral Equation for the Spheroidal Equations
In order to obtain a new integral equation for the spheroidal equation with, we apply the transformation
to the Equation (1) and obtain the following
The above equation becomes very simple when, that is,
where
It is easy to find the Green function for the Equation (6), that is
The Green function satisfies the following
and the boundary conditions
Hence the the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem turns into the integral equation form:
The great advantage of the new integral Equation (12) lies in that the relation between the integral eigenvalues
and of the differential Equations (1) for the spheroidal is given explicitly by
Though the Green function is symmetric with respect to the variables, the kernal in the Equa- tion (12) is not symmetrical at all. Nevertheless, it is easy to make the kernal be symmetry. That is, changing
into, the Equation (12) becomes
as desired by our requirement. It is well-known that one could easily to study the integral equations if their kernels are symmetry. Hence, the usual method to solve the integral equations could be used to treat the problem here too. We will stop here.
The Green function for the spheroidal equations in includes all cases of the parameter as a complex number. When is pure imaginary, the corresponding equation is the prolate spheroidal equation and the Green function turns out as
where is real.
If one supposes the parameter, the parameter will stand in the position of the eigenvalues in the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem. Of course, the parameter or is no longer a fixed quantity in this case. Notice that the case is special because the parameter is not a fixed quantity in contrasting with the usual cases. In this special case, the original equation correspondingly becomes
The Green function in the Equation (16) will give much information about the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in this special case. Now it could be regarded as the functions of the parameter. One could expand this Green function in the form
The eigenvalues are determined by the poles of the Green functions, that is
Hence, , are the eigenvalues, and the residues of the corresponding pole are
and
the nth eigenfunction is
Except for the normalization constants, these results are the same as those in Ref. [1] , though they are derived from the different way. As stated in Ref. [1] , the function
are one kind of the eigenfunctions for the fixed parameter of the original Equation (1) in case, so does
for the fixed parameter.
The above example just provides some clues on the connection between the Green function and the solutions to the corresponding the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem. If the Green function is the one corresponding with the parameter, they will more useful than just giving the integral equation. However, one could not obtain directly the information on the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions from the the Green function corresponding with the parameter. In this situation, the useful information could be obtained through the study on the integral equation. Here the Green function satisfies he Equation (10) rather than the following
This Green function is connected with the eigenfunctions by
Our Green function related to by
Of course, contains much more useful information on the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions than that of, but it is much harder to obtain. Even it is inferior to, still could provide useful information through the integral equation, which will be our further study.
Acknowledgements
The work was partly supported by the National Natural Science of China (No. 10875018) and the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program: No.2010CB923202).
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SQLskills SQL101: How can a SELECT cause a database to change?
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong way, or where there are many misunderstandings that lead to serious problems. If you want to find all of our SQLskills SQL101 blog posts, check out SQLskills.com/help/SQL101.
This is an interesting misconception that I was asked about last week: (paraphrasing) Surely a SELECT operation can’t cause a database to change, because it’s just reading data, not altering it in any way, right?
Well, no. There are actually quite a few side effects of queries that only read data and never perform data changes (not counting a SELECT … INTO, of course). Here are four that spring to mind…
Statistics Creation
If the database property Auto Create Statistics is set to True, when a query is being compiled and the query optimizer determines that a statistic could be created that would aid the optimization process, it will create that statistic before optimization continues, thus changing the database. Your SELECT statement could cause this to happen.
Statistics Update
If the database property Auto Update Statistics is set to True, when a query is being compiled and a necessary statistic is determined to be out-of-date, it will be automatically updated before optimization continues, thus changing the database. Your SELECT statement could cause this to happen. Additionally, if the Auto Update Statistics Asynchronously property is enabled, the statistic will be automatically updated, but after the optimization process (so the compiling query doesn’t have to wait).
Ghost Cleanup
Ghost cleanup is the funky process for removing deleted records. For all indexes, and for heaps when some form of snapshot isolation is involved, deleting a record just marks it as deleted. After the deleting transaction commits, the deleted record is later removed by a background process called the ghost cleanup task. The interesting thing though is that a deleted record is not immediately entered in the task’s list of things to do. It’s usually not until the *next* use of the data file page that the Storage Engine sees that there’s a deleted record and enters it in the task’s to-do list. So, your SELECT statement could be that ‘next’ use of a data file page with a recently deleted record on that causes the record to be cleaned up by the ghost cleanup task.
Query Store
From SQL Server 2016 onward, if you have the Query Store enabled, by default every query execution will cause some metrics to be captured and stored in the Query Store’s system tables (which you can query with various DMVs). You can stop it capturing information for all queries by setting the QUERY_CAPTURE_MODE to AUTO, which causes it to not capture “insignificant” queries, but you can’t specify what “insignificant” means. Anyway, your SELECT statement could cause this to happen.
Summary
So as you can see, just because you’re not deliberately making a change in a database, that doesn’t mean that you won’t trigger something else in SQL Server to make a change. And then there’s the Auto Shrink option for a database, which of course should *never* be enabled! (see here for explanation…)
New class: Immersion Event on Clustering and Availability Groups
We have a third exciting new class debuting this October in Chicago: Immersion Event on Clustering and Availability Groups.
It’s a 2-day class, taught by Jonathan Kehayias, our resident expert on all things AlwaysOn. We’ve seen a huge surge in clients using FCIs and AGs, so this class will be really useful to many organizations, and is a partial replacement for our previous 5-day IEHADR class.
The modules are as follows:
• Windows Server Failover Clustering Essentials
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• Implementation Case Studies
You can read a more detailed curriculum here and all the class registration and logistical details are here.
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SQLskills SQL101: Why is restore slower than backup
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong way, or where there are many misunderstandings that lead to serious problems. If you want to find all of our SQLskills SQL101 blog posts, check out SQLskills.com/help/SQL101.
One question I get asked every so often is why it can sometimes take longer to restore a database from a full backup than it took to perform the backup in the first place. The answer is that in cases like that, there’s more work to do during the restore process.
A full backup has the following main phases:
1. Perform a checkpoint.
2. Read all in-use data from the data files (technically, reading all allocated extents, regardless of whether all 8 pages in the extent are in use).
3. Read all transaction log from the start of the oldest uncommitted transaction as of the initial checkpoint up to the time that phase 2 finished. This is necessary so the database can be recovered to a consistent point in time during the restore process (see this post for more details).
4. (Optionally test all page checksums, optionally perform backup compression, and optionally perform backup encryption).
A full restore has the following main phases:
1. Create the data files (and zero initialize them if instant file initialization is not enabled).
2. Copy data from the backup to the data files.
3. Create the log file and zero initialize it. The log file must always be zero initialized when created (see this post for more details).
4. Copy transaction log from the backup to the log file.
5. Run crash recovery on the database.
6. (Optionally test all page checksums during phase 2, perform decompression if the backup is compressed, and perform decryption if the backup is encrypted.)
Phase 3 above can often be the longest phase in the restore process, and is proportional to the size of the transaction log. This is done as a separate phase rather than being done in parallel with phases 1 and 2, and for a deep investigation of this, see Bob Ward’s recent blog post.
Phase 5 above might be the longest phase in the restore process if there were any long-running, uncommitted transactions when the backup was performed. This will be even more so if there are a very large number of virtual log files (thousands) in the transaction log, as that hugely slows down the mechanism that rolls back uncommitted transactions.
Here’s a list of things you can do to make restoring a full backup go faster:
• Ensure that instant file initialization is enabled on the SQL Server instance performing the restore operation, to avoid spending time zero-initializing any data files that must be created. This can save hours of downtime for very large data files.
• Consider backup compression, which can speed up both backup and restore operations, and save disk space and storage costs.
• Consider using multiple backup files, each on a separate volume. SQL Server will recognize this situation and use parallel write threads (one per volume) to write to the files during the backup, and to read from them during the restore – speeding things up. If you have multiple database data files, a similar I/O parallelism will occur – providing even more of a speed boost.
• Try to avoid having long-running transactions that will take time to roll back.
• Manage your transaction log to avoid having an excessive number of virtual log files, so if there are transactions to roll back, the roll back will go as fast as possible. See this blog post for more details.
Hope this helps!
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Pork Peninsula
The Pork Peninsula is a cape located in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Hudson Bay, 30.1 km from the Inuit hamlet of Whale Cove, and 43.5 km from Rankin Inlet. The peninsula separates Corbett Inlet and Pistol Bay. Igloo Point is the eastern extremity of the peninsula.
History
The spit of land was named by the residents of Rankin Inlet, commemorating an experimental chicken and pig farm established there by the Canadian government.
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User:RyanCGregg/sandbox/Johnny Melfah
Johnny Melfah (born 14 December 1960) is a British former boxer and musician. He was born in Gloucester.
During his professional career, Melfah had 13 wins, 13 losses, and 1 draw. Melfah retired from boxing in 1994. Since retiring as a professional, Melfah was diagnosed with lupus.
Musical career
In addition to a successful career in boxing, Johnny Melfah was also drummer of punk rock band Demob.
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Angular or React as my first JS framework?
My goal is to get a job in front end web development in ~ 6 months from now. Looking at the job posts in my local area for front end development, I noticed that React is barely present, while Angular is requested in almost all of them. I currently have a solid knowledge of javascript, html, and css that’s why now I consider learning a js framework.
Is it a mistake if I learn Angular now?Would I be better learning React or even Vue.js?(I heard it is pretty popular too)
Well if you in a market for a job now wouldn’t it make sense to learn Angular?
React is mostly just vanilla JavaScript. The things you’ll learn while building React applications, can be applied to just about any other JavaScript you write. Where as a lot of the things you’ll learn in Angular 1, can only be applied in Angular 1.
Both frameworks are great and it’s hard to place one above the other. There are comparisons all over the web.
Angular may be easier to get started but if you’re pretty comfortable with vanilla JS React offers a lot of flexibility and plays well with other libraries.
Angular is more HTML-centric and React is more JS-centric.
Do you have time to learn a bit about both and progress with the one that you like?
Good luck.
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* Russia is a very big country so it would be hard to keep it all under control. One-sixth of the world.
* Because it was big it was hard to communicate with people with the lack of technology they had.
* It was also hard to get to place so it would be hard to keep people under control if something happened as it would take a long time to get there.
* Because of the geographical landscape of Russia it was hard to get trade into Russia.
* There were many different tribes and religions so many people wouldn’t help or talk to each other.
* Not everybody spoke Russian as many neighbouring countries started where taken by Russia but didn’t speak Russian.
* Lack of communication.
* Many different religions
* People would start little conflicts between religions.
* It was hard to get the army to a certain place of Russia if there was a war because of the size and geographical landscape.
* Many people wanted rights and a democratic government but other people wanted the opposite. This made people unhappy.
* The economy was bad as it was hard to collect money or even get money because of the sheer size of Russia.
How far were these difficulties likely to cause problems for the tsarist government in the first decades of the twentieth century? There were many difficulties that caused problems for the tsarist government. One main reason involved politics and how the country was ruled. The Russia of the tsars in the 19th century was a monarchy. The Tsarist government experienced many difficulties with the opposition. There were many political parties who disagreed with the policies of the Tsar. The aim of the Liberals was to introduce parliamentary democracy similar to those in the USA, France and Great Britain.
This group achieved some success with the establishment of the Russian parliament, in 1906. The second major opposition group was the Social Revolutionaries who wished to create a new Russian society based on the traditional community of the peasant village. This would make it hard for the government as the opposition would get other people from Russia to join them and as there were many people in Russia this would make it easy for the parties but hard for the government as they weren’t able to control the people and make them obey by their way of governing the country.
The problems which the Tsar faced had been mostly brought upon himself before there was even a suggestion of war. Throughout his reign, Tsar Nicholas II had increasingly not talked with his people. On his orders, Cossack guards brutally murdered the 1905 revolution, memorialised as ‘ Bloody Sunday’, and the 1912 Lena goldfields protests. This would increase to more violence against the Tsar which would eventually lead to the downfall of his government.
After this people realised that their leader was not the benevolent idol they had previously adored, but a ruthless official determined to keep order so that he would benefit from it. Tsar was doomed from the beginning because they could not adapt. Before long, calls for a more representative parliament were being demanded by the people of Russia. This wasn’t good as Russia was the biggest country in the world therefore there would be many people against the Tsar. The best way for Nicholas II to deal with such demands would have been to prevent future unrest by granting them, but this would have weakened the Tsars.
One big problem which may have made the Tsar collapse was World War One as it hit Russia hard and showed the weakness in Nicholas II. This may have forwarded the collapse of the Tsar as the people could see that he was not doing a good job at keeping the country safe. The main reason which caused the collapse of the government was the sheer size of Russia as it started to be too much too control. This didn’t help the Tsars as they couldn’t communicate that easily with the people who live all over the country as the technology needed to do that had not yet been invented.
This would allow the people of Russia to start riots and not get affected by the government. This also meant that laws were being broken and chaos was occurring. As Russia was so big Nicholas II thought that taking control of the army would make less people try to oppose him, but this did not help him as people didn’t think that he should control the army and this would make the people of Russia want to get him out of the government which later happened in 1918.
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Philip Morris International Inc. Fights Back as Stronger Sales Point to a Better 2015
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Among U.S. companies, international tobacco giant Philip Morris International has been one of the clearest losers from the strength of the U.S. dollar, as its foreign revenue translates into fewer dollars and weighs down the company's overall results. Yet one thing that few investors expected coming into Thursday morning's first-quarter financial report was that Philip Morris would manage to buck the long-term trend toward falling cigarette demand. Yet that's exactly what it did last quarter, and even though most of the company's headline numbers reflected the huge headwinds from the strong dollar, the underlying fundamentals of the business showed enough strength to impress shareholders. Shares were up 7.8% as of 10:35 a.m. Let's look more closely at exactly how Philip Morris International fared in the first quarter and what it says about the company's future.
Philip Morris vs. the dollar
At a glance, Philip Morris International's numbers looked a bit gloomy. Revenue fell more than 4% to $6.62 billion, and adjusted earnings came in at $1.16 per share, down 2.5% from last year's first-quarter results. Yet the impact of the dollar was huge, cutting $939 million from Philip Morris' revenue and $0.31 per share in earnings. When you back out those figures, Philip Morris posted considerable currency-neutral growth of about 9% in sales and 24% in earnings per share. Moreover, investors had expected the company to produce just $6.13 billion in sales and $1.01 in earnings per share, proving that Philip Morris fared much better than most of those following the company had believed possible.
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Geographically, Philip Morris saw its strongest results from its Asian and Western Hemisphere segments. In Asia, revenue fell 1.2%, but operating company income rose 2.1% even before accounting for a sizable hit from the dollar. On a currency-neutral basis, operating income in Asia jumped 10.7%. Latin America and Canada were even stronger, boasting 1.8% dollar-sales growth and a nearly 14% rise in operating income, even incorporating double-digit percentage currency hits. Even in the European Union and in the Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa segment, falling sales and profits were due entirely to currency impacts, with all segments posting reasonably strong results in currency-neutral terms.
The big news for Philip Morris, though, was that cigarette shipment volumes were surprisingly healthy. Worldwide volume rose 1.4% to 198.8 billion units, with the two European segments producing the company's growth by offsetting small declines in Asia and the Western Hemisphere. Specifically, the Marlboro brand saw a 2.1% gain, with France, Italy, and Spain driving a substantial portion of the rise. Market share in the European Union climbed to 39.6%, and Philip Morris continued to play a dominant role in countries across the world, with Argentina, Mexico, the Philippines, and Italy all having more than half their tobacco sales controlled by Philip Morris brands.
Philip Morris International sees a better year ahead
Philip Morris International's results came as something of a surprise to the company. CEO Andre Calantzopoulos commented that "our organic volume and market-share performance was better than we originally forecast" and therefore "our robust business momentum is such that we are raising our guidance for the year."
CEO Andre Calantzopoulos. Image: Philip Morris.
Specifically, Philip Morris raised its full-year 2015 guidance to earnings of $4.32 to $4.42 per share, a nickel higher than the projected figures it gave last quarter. The company still believes that the strong dollar could cost it roughly $1.15 per share, but the resulting growth of 9% to 11% in earnings is a percentage point better than previously expected.
Notably, one element of Philip Morris International's capital management strategy has come to a standstill. The company made no share repurchases in the first quarter, as it remains committed to "managing our cash flow prudently." Given the currency headwinds that the company faces, it's reasonable for Philip Morris to rein in its buyback activity until conditions improve.
Investors in Philip Morris reacted very favorably to the news, as shares jumped Thursday morning. If Philip Morris can keep demand for tobacco strong worldwide, then it will have accomplished a feat many people thought was impossible, which would justify higher share prices for the foreseeable future.
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Quiverfull
Quiverfull is a Christian theological position that sees large families as a blessing from God. It encourages procreation, abstaining from all forms of birth control, natural family planning, and sterilization reversal. The movement derives its name from Psalm 127:3–5, where many children are metaphorically referred to as the arrows in a full quiver.
Some sources have referred to the Quiverfull position as providentialism, while other sources have simply referred to it as a manifestation of natalism.
It is most widespread in the United States but it also has adherents in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. One 2006 estimate put the number of families which subscribe to this philosophy as ranging from "the thousands to the low tens of thousands".
Historical background
As birth-control methods advanced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many conservative Christian movements issued official statements against their use, citing their incompatibility with biblical beliefs and ideals.
In addition, there are those who contend that Quiverfull's "internal growth" model is a manifestation of a broader trend which is reflected in the lifestyles of such groups as Orthodox Jews (particularly Haredi and Hasidic Jews) and certain Christians including Orthodox Calvinists of the Netherlands, traditional Anabaptists (such as Old Order Amish, Old Colony Mennonites, and certain Conservative Mennonites), some traditional Methodists of the conservative holiness movement, and Laestadian Lutherans of Finland. The former may also be a case of a manifestation of a movement of opinion within some ethnic, linguistic, religious, regional, or other identifiable groups whose members have expressed concern about their continued existence for historical or other reasons. Such philosophies and groups are diverse amongst themselves—being found in all segments and sectors of the political spectrum—and they usually represent, to varying extents, the diversity within their group. The manifestations of such movements and opinions include everything from comparatively high rates of in-group marriage being applauded and gently suggested, to more explicit calls for endogamy such as is the case with the Druze, to concerns which were expressed by Protestants in Northern Ireland about a higher birth rate amongst Catholics, to Decree 770 which was issued by Nicolae Ceaușescu's government in Romania with regard to contraception, and other population topics as part of its local variant of the North Korean ideology of Juche.
Anglican allowance of birth control
In 1930, the Lambeth Conference issued a statement permitting birth control: "Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, complete abstinence is the primary and obvious method", but if there was morally sound reasoning for avoiding abstinence, "the Conference agrees that other methods may be used, provided that this is done in the light of Christian principles". Primary materials on the contemporary debate indicate a wide variety of opinion on the matter. In the decades that followed, birth control became gradually accepted among many other mainline Protestants, even among some conservative evangelicals.
Early Quiverfull authors
In the 20th century, Quiverfull as a modern Christian movement began to emerge. Nancy Campbell began publishing her magazine Above Rubies, which promotes and glorifies stay-at-home mothers who have as many children as possible, in 1977. While Campbell is in measure responsible for formulating Quiverfull ideas, the movement sparked most fully after the 1985 publication of Mary Pride's book The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality.
In her book, Pride chronicled her metaphorical journey away from what she labeled feminist and anti-natal ideas of happiness (within which she had lived as an activist before her conversion to conservative evangelical Christianity in 1977) toward her discovery of happiness surrounding what she portrayed as the biblically mandated role of wives and mothers as bearers of children and workers in the home under the authority of a husband. Pride wrote that such a lifestyle was generally biblically required of all married Christian women, but feminism had duped most Christian women without their awareness, especially in their acceptance of birth control.
As the basis for her arguments, Pride selected numerous Bible verses in order to lay out what she saw as the biblical role of women. These included verses which she interpreted as perpetuating her advocacy of compulsory childbearing and her opposition to the use of birth control which (in her view) was promoted by "the feminist agenda" by which she had formerly lived. Pride's explanations then became a spearheading basis of Quiverfull.
The name of the Quiverfull movement comes from, which Pride cited in The Way Home:
Lo, children are an heritage of the : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
— KJV
Pride stated in her book: "The church's sin which has caused us to become unsavory salt incapable of uplifting the society around us is selfishness, lack of love, refusing to consider children an unmitigated blessing. In a word, family planning."
Consolidation and growth of the movement
After the publication of Pride's The Way Home, her ideas spread through informal social networks. Around this time, numerous church pastors issued sermons which were in accord with Pride's ideas and various small publications and a few Quiverfull-oriented books appeared.
As the Internet expanded several years later, the informal networks gradually took on more organized forms as Quiverfull adherents developed numerous Quiverfull-oriented organizations, books, electronic mailing lists, websites, and digests, most notably The Quiverfull Digest. The largely decentralized "Quiverfull" movement resulted.
From their onset, Quiverfull ideas have sometimes had a polarizing effect among Christians who hold to them and Christians who are skeptical of or disagree with them.
Obedience to God
Quiverfull authors and adherents express their core motivation as a desire to obey God's commandments as stated in the Bible. Among these commandments, "be fruitful and multiply", "behold, children are a gift of the Lord", and passages showing God acting to open and close the womb are interpreted as giving a basis for their views. Quiverfull adherents typically maintain that their philosophy is first about an open, accepting and obedient attitude toward the possibility of bearing children. Within the view, this attitude may result in many, few or even no children, because God Himself maintains sole provenance over conception and birth. The duty of the Quiverfull adherent is only to maintain an "open willingness" to joyfully receive and not thwart however many children God chooses to bestow. Contraception in all its forms is seen as inconsistent with this attitude and is thus entirely avoided, as is abortion.
Missionary effort
Quiverfull's principal authors and its adherents also describe their motivation as a missionary effort to raise up many children as Christians to advance the cause of the Christian religion. Its distinguishing viewpoint is to eagerly receive children as blessings from God, eschewing all forms of contraception, including natural family planning, and sterilization.
Population and demography
According to journalist Kathryn Joyce, writing in the magazine The Nation: "[T]he Quiverfull mission is rooted in faith, the unseen," even if "its mandate to be fruitful and multiply has tangible results as well." Others remark that Quiverfull resembles other world-denying fundamentalist movements that grow through internal reproduction and membership retention such as Orthodox Jews (particularly Haredi and Hasidic Jews), and certain Christian denominations (such as the Amish and Mennonites, and Laestadian Lutherans in Finland). Many are thriving as seculars and moderates have transitioned to below-replacement fertility.
Beliefs
The principal Quiverfull belief is that Christians should maintain a strongly welcoming attitude toward the possibility of bearing children. With minor exceptions, adherents reject birth control use as completely incompatible with this belief.
Majority doctrine
Most Quiverfull adherents regard children as unqualified blessings, gifts that should be received happily from God. Quiverfull authors Rick and Jan Hess argued for this belief in their 1990 book:
"'Behold, children are a gift of the Lord.' (Psa. 127:3) Do we really believe that? If children are a gift from God, let's for the sake of argument ask ourselves what other gift or blessing from God we would reject. Money? Would we reject great wealth if God gave it? Not likely! How about good health? Many would say that a man's health is his most treasured possession. But children? Even children given by God? 'That's different!' some will plead! All right, is it different? God states right here in no-nonsense language that children are gifts. Do we believe His Word to be true?"
Quiverfull authors such as Pride, Provan, and Hess extend this idea to mean that if one child is a blessing, then each additional child is likewise a blessing and not something to be viewed as economically burdensome or unaffordable. When a couple seeks to control family size via birth control they are thus "rejecting God's blessings" he might otherwise give and possibly breaking his commandment to "be fruitful and multiply."
Accordingly, Quiverfull theology opposes the general acceptance among mainline Protestant Christians of deliberately limiting family size or spacing children through birth control. For example, Mary Pride argued, "God commanded that sex be at least potentially fruitful (that is, not deliberately unfruitful). ... All forms of sex that shy away from marital fruitfulness are perverted." Adherents believe that God himself controls via Providence how many and how often children are conceived and born, pointing to Bible verses that describe God acting to "open and close the womb" (see Genesis 20:18, 29:31, 30:22; 1 Samuel 1:5-6; Isaiah 66:9). Hess and Hess state that couples "just need to trust God to provide them with the perfect number of children for their situation."
Some Quiverfull adherents base their rejection of birth control upon the belief that the Genesis creation and post–Noahic flood Bible passages to "be fruitful and multiply" (see Genesis 1:22; 9:7) are un-rescinded biblical commandments. For example, Charles D. Provan argues:
"'Be fruitful and multiply'... is a command of God, indeed the first command to a married couple. Birth control obviously involves disobedience to this command, for birth control attempts to prevent being fruitful and multiplying. Therefore birth control is wrong, because it involves disobedience to the Word of God. Nowhere is this command done away with in the entire Bible; therefore it still remains valid for us today."
Quiverfull advocates such as Rick and Jan Hess and Rachel Giove Scott believe that the Devil deceives Christian couples into using birth control so that children God otherwise willed to create are prevented from being born. In addition, a Quiverfull adherent was quoted in the 2001 Calgary Herald as making this statement: "Children are made in God's image, and the enemy hates that image, so the more of them he can prevent from being born, the more he likes it."
Infertility
Adherents view barrenness, referred to as an "empty quiver", as something to be accepted from God as His choice, which then becomes a matter of prayer in the hope that God may decide to miraculously intervene. Quiverfull adherents also see infertility treatments as a usurpation of God's providence and accordingly reject them. Adoption is viewed as a positive option through which couples can also rely on God's providence to send children. Biblical references to God's love for the orphan and the belief that people are saved through adoption into God's family are often noted.
Some circles do accept medical interventions, since improving opportunities for pregnancy is not seen to guarantee it any more than with any healthy couple. Also, some reproductive health problems may be seen as symptomatic of other health problems which need to be addressed generally.
Minority doctrine
Not all Quiverfull families and authors agree with each statement which was made by the movement's principal authors.
Samuel Owens considers the possibility that some aspects of a fallen universe may sometimes justify the option to use a non–potentially abortive birth control method. These aspects of a fallen universe include serious illnesses, inevitable Caesarean sections, and other problematic situations, such as disabling mental instability and serious marital disharmony. Owens additionally argues that birth control may be permissible for married couples who are called to a "higher moral purpose" than having children, such as caring long-term for many orphans or serving as career missionaries in a dangerous location.
Despite some variances, all Quiverfull families and authors agree that God's normative ideal for happy, healthy and prosperous married couples is to take no voluntary actions that will prevent them from having children.
Non-use of contraception
Quiverfull adherents maintain that God "opens and closes the womb" of a woman on a case-by-case basis, and that any attempts to regulate fertility are usurpation of divine power. Thus, the defining practice of a Quiverfull married couple is not to use any form of birth control and to maintain continual "openness to children," that is to say, engaging in routine sexual intercourse with no attempt to limit the possibility of conception. This practice is irrespective of the time of the month during the menstrual cycle, and is considered by Quiverfull adherents to be the principal—if not the primary—aspect of their Christian calling in submission to the Lordship of Christ.
Proponents of the Quiverfull movement also regard contraceptive pills and other similar contraceptives as unacceptable abortifacients.
Some Quiverfull adherents advocate for birth spacing through breastfeeding, so that the return of fertility after childbirth could be delayed by lactational amenorrhea.
Family organization, homeschooling, homesteading
Quiverfull authors and adherents advocate for and seek to model a return to biblical patriarchy. Mary Pride has more recently attempted to distance herself from the patriarchy movement and from a focus on the father's role in training daughters. In a column published in her magazine Practical Homeschooling in 2009, as well as in the afterword to the 25th-anniversary edition of The Way Home, Pride clarified her position that it is primarily mothers, not fathers, who should teach girls about women's roles and duties. As Emily McGowin notes in her 2018 book Quivering Families, however, "[Pride] differentiates herself from these approaches without denying the underlying gender hierarchy and pronatalism."
Quiverfull authors typically organize family governance to reflect an "umbrella of protection" with the mother as a homemaker under the authority of her husband and the children under the authority of both. Parents seek to largely shelter their children from aspects of culture deemed adversarial to their religious beliefs. Additionally, Quiverfull families strongly incline toward homeschooling and toward homesteading in a rural area. However, exceptions exist in substantial enough proportions that these latter two items are general and are often idealized correlations to Quiverfull practices and not integral parts of them.
Sterilization reversal surgery
Quiverfull adherents Brad and Dawn Irons run Blessed Arrows Sterilization Reversal Ministry. The couple advocates for Quiverfull ideas while providing funding, physician referrals, and support to Christians wishing to undergo sterilization reversal surgery. Institute in Basic Life Principles founder Bill Gothard advocates for reversals, saying that sterilized couples have "cut off children" and should devote themselves instead to "raising up godly seed".
Criticism
The movement has been criticized by journalists from Glamour Magazine for what they perceive to be sexism and a demeaning approach to women.
Criticism from other Christians
James B. Jordan maintains that, while children are indeed blessings, they are only one among a wide range of blessings God offers, and prayerfully choosing foci among them is part of prudent Christian stewardship.
John Piper's Desiring God Ministries has published some comments that relate to Quiverfull:
Just because something is a gift from the Lord does not mean that it is wrong to be a steward of when or whether you will come into possession of it. It is wrong to reason that since A is good and a gift from the Lord, then we must pursue as much of A as possible. God has made this a world in which tradeoffs have to be made and we cannot do everything to the fullest extent. For kingdom purposes, it might be wise not to get married. And for kingdom purposes, it might be wise to regulate the size of one's family and to regulate when the new additions to the family will likely arrive. As Wayne Grudem has said, "it is okay to place less emphasis on some good activities in order to focus on other good activities."
Criticism from former Quiverfull adherents
Some women who have left the Quiverfull movement are now vocally critical of it. Vyckie Garrison spent 16 years living the Quiverfull lifestyle and had seven children before leaving her husband and ultimately becoming an atheist. She told Vice that her health was negatively affected by so many births and that over time, her husband became "a tyrant." Garrison founded the blog No Longer Quivering to share her own story and the stories of other women who had been harmed by the Quiverfull lifestyle. The blog is now maintained by Suzanne Titkemeyer, another former Quiverfull adherent who describes her years in the movement as "disastrous."
Likewise, some children who were raised in Quiverfull homes have grown up to speak out against the movement. In 2018, Eve [Hännah] Ettinger and Kieryn Darkwater started a podcast called Kitchen Table Cult in which they discuss their experiences of being raised Quiverfull and connect the ideology to current events such as the election of Donald Trump. In a 2015 interview about their upbringing, Ettinger said that in Quiverfull families, "the parents are just as confused as the kids, and often are struggling with deep-set psychological issues and need as much therapy and compassion as the kids do to recover from the dehumanizing reality of trying to have a perfect Quiverfull family to please a demanding and holy God."
CFCtoo, an advocacy group for survivors of the Quiverfull community Christian Fellowship Center, is advocating for New York to amend their mandated reporting laws to include clergy. CFCtoo argues that such laws are necessary to combat the Quiverfull movement's propensity for "incest, child sexual abuse, and systematic abuse coverups based on a twisted understanding of biblical forgiveness."
Notable adherents
* Doug Phillips, a Calvinist Christian and the son of U.S. Constitution Party leader Howard Phillips. From 1998 to 2013, Doug Phillips was the president of Vision Forum Ministries, a now-defunct organization which advocated biblical patriarchy, creationism, homeschooling, and Quiverfull. Phillips and his wife, Beall, have seven children.
* Charles D. Provan, whose book The Bible and Birth Control is routinely cited by Quiverfull adherents as providing an important theological justification for their movement. Provan was mentioned in a November 27, 2006, article about Quiverfull in The Nation. He also authored books and articles on other Christian topics. Before Provan's death in 2007, he and his wife had 10 children.
* R. C. Sproul, Jr., a Calvinist Christian theologian and the son of the noted Reformed theologian and founder of Ligonier Ministries, Robert Charles Sproul. Sproul Jr. and his wife, Denise, had eight children before Denise died.
* Nancy Campbell, an author, speaker, and mother of 10 children. Nancy and her husband Colin run Above Rubies, "a ministry to encourage women in their high calling as wives, mothers, and homemakers. Its purpose is to uphold and strengthen family life and to raise the standard of God's truth in the nation." Campbell's magazine has a worldwide circulation of over 160,000 and her daughters Serene and Pearl have launched a successful rebranding of Quiverfull values in their Trim Healthy Mama line.
* Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, known for the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting.
Books advocating a Quiverfull position
* Adams, Shelly and Morgan. Arrows in His Hand (children's book). Monument Pub., Monument, CO: 2007.
* Andrews, Robert. The Family: God's Weapon for Victory. Winepress Publishing 1996. ISBN 1-883893-24-0 ; Sentinel Press 2002. ISBN 0-9715694-0-1
* Campbell, Nancy. Be Fruitful and Multiply. Vision Forum, San Antonio, TX: 2003. ISBN 0-9724173-5-4
* Flanders, Jennifer. Love Your Husband/Love Yourself: Embracing God's Purpose for Passion in Marriage. Prescott Publishing, Tyler, TX: 2010. ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>900
* Hess, Rick and Jan. A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ. Wolgemuth & Hyatt Publishers, Brentwood, TN: 1990. ISBN 0-943497-83-3
* Houghton, Craig. Family UNplanning. Xulon Press, Longwood, FL: 2006. ISBN 978-1-60034-851-8
* Owen, Jr., Samuel A. Letting God Plan Your Family. Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL: 1990. ISBN 0-89107-585-2
* Pride, Mary. The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality. Good News Pub, Wheaton, IL: 1985. ISBN 0-89107-345-0
* Provan, Charles D. The Bible and Birth Control. Zimmer Printing, Monongahela, PA: 1989. ISBN 99917-998-3-4
* Chapter of Provan's book available here. Audio files of Provan's complete book available by searching with his name at sermonaudio.com
* Scott, Rachel. Birthing God's Mighty Warriors. Xulon Press, Longwood, FL: 2004. ISBN 1-59467-465-5
Books which advocate Quiverfull as a secondary focus
* Farris, Vickie. A Mom Just Like You. B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, TN: 2002. ISBN 0-8054-2586-1
Sources which are critical of Quiverfull
* Ettinger, Eve, and Kieryn Darkwater. Kitchen Table Cult podcast.
* Joyce, Kathryn. Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born.
* Joyce, Kathryn. Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. Beacon Press, Boston, MA: 2009. ISBN 0-8070-1070-7.
* McFarland, Hillary. "Quivering Daughters: Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy". Darklight Press, 2010.
* McGowin, Emily. Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
* McKeown, John. "US Protestant natalist reception of Old Testament "fruitful verses": a critique." Liverpool University PhD thesis, 2011. Revised as book God's Babies: Natalism and Bible Interpretation in Modern America, OpenBook, 2014.
* No Longer Quivering blog (originally created by Vyckie Garrison).
* No Longer Quivering blog (originally created by Vyckie Garrison).
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Per Hegna
Per Hegna (born 22 July 1945) is a Norwegian former professional tennis player.
A native of Oslo, Hegna played out of the Berg Tennisklubb and won 26 national championships, including eight outdoor and six indoor singles titles. His Davis Cup career for Norway started in 1962 but most of his appearances came in the period of 1973 to 1983. He featured in 17 ties, for 15 wins across singles and doubles.
Hegna played collegiate tennis in the United States for the University of Wyoming. He featured in several Grand Prix tournaments during the 1970s, reaching a best singles world ranking of 180. As a main draw qualifier at the 1976 Swedish Open he upset seeded players Juan Gisbert and Julián Ganzábal en route to the quarter-finals.
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Today on April 7th 1915, the legendary jazz singer, Billie Holiday, is born.
Eleanora Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, was born in Philadelphia to an unmarried teenage couple. Her father quickly abandoned the family to pursue a successful career as a jazz musician. Likewise, her mother Sadie struggled to financially support her daughter, often leaving her alone for to fend for herself. Billie’s unstable and challenging childhood led to ongoing drug and alcohol abuse throughout her life. However, she found solace in music and moved to New York as a young woman. She began singing in local clubs under the name Billie for the hollywood star Billie Dove.
The legendary jazz singer-songwriter went on to a brilliant career in music spanning thirty years. She revolutionized the jazz industry by turning it into mainstream music for mass audiences. She was known for her strong vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which helped cover up her lack of formal music education. Her friend and music partner Lester Young nicknamed her "Lady Day". Billie earned four Grammy Awards posthumously for Best Historical Album and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Diana Ross starred in a film about Holiday’s life called “Lady Sings the Blues” in 1972.
On May 25th 1959, she was rushed to the hospital after giving what would be her final performance in New York City. By now she had become severely addicted to heroine and suffered heart and liver problems. She died less than two months later at the age of 44. Complications caused by various alcohol and drug related addictions ultimately led to her death.
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Baháʼí Faith in Nigeria
After an isolated presence in the late 1920s, the Baháʼí Faith in Nigeria begins with pioneering Baháʼís coming to Sub-Saharan West Africa in the 1950s especially following the efforts of Enoch Olinga who directly and indirectly affected the growth of the religion in Nigeria. Following growth across West Africa a regional National Spiritual Assembly was elected in 1956. As the community multiplied across cities and became diverse in its engagements, it elected its own National Spiritual Assembly by 1979. Estimates of membership vary widely - a 2001 estimate by Operation World showed 1000 Baháʼís in 2001 while the Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 38,000 Baháʼís in 2005.
Early years
Richard St. Barbe Baker lived and worked in some of the southern provinces of Nigeria in 1927-29, extending his Men of the Trees project of environmental conservation, and as a Baháʼí since 1925. In 1941 Nigerian Kingsley MBadiwe spoke at the New York Baháʼí center.
Wide-scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa was observed to begin in 1950s and accelerated in the 1960s. In 1953, Shoghi Effendi, the head of the religion, planned an international teaching plan termed the Ten Year Crusade. During the teaching plan, Mr. and Mrs. Ali Nakhjavani drove by car with two African pioneers from Uganda to open new countries to the religion. The first pioneer settled in what was then French Equatorial Africa, and later Enoch Olinga went on to British Cameroon. By 1954, growth in the Baháʼí Faith in Cameroon resulted in five young Baháʼís who pioneered surrounding areas, each becoming a Knight of Baháʼu'lláh including Ghana, and Togo. Meanwhile, a Baháʼí book belonging to Olinga, Paris Talks, became the basis of a Baháʼí Church in Nigeria, in Calabar, which operated in 1955-56. Concurrently in 1956 there were over 1000 Baháʼís across North-West Africa, resulting in a regional National Spiritual Assembly including Nigeria with Olinga as the chairman with its seat in Tunis. The church was disconnected from the Baháʼí community, but it applied the Baháʼí teachings with virtually all of the Cameroonian men on one large palm plantation. The church was established, flourished, and then collapsed utterly unrecognized and unknown to the Baháʼí pioneers and to the international Baháʼí community until one of the founders tried to return the book. Both leaders of the church later officially joined the religion, and they helped form the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Calabar in 1957 and served in other positions.
Development of the community
By 1964, while associated with the regional National Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa, Nigeria had a Local Spiritual Assembly in Aba (Nigeria), Afikpo, Akpabuyo, Aningeje, Asata Enugu(?), Calabar, Ibadan, Lagos, Nyaje, Owom, and Sapele, and smaller groups of Baháʼís in Ebute Metta, Ikot Okriba, Ojok, Old Ndebeji, Onitcha, and Oron, and isolated Baháʼís in Abakaliki, Abeokuta, Kontagura, Kwa Falls, Mbeban Village, and Umuahia. Following the death of Shoghi Effendi, the elected Universal House of Justice was head of the religion and began to re-organize the Baháʼí communities of Africa by splitting off national communities to form their own National Assemblies, from 1967 though the 1990s. From January to March 1970 Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khanum crossed Africa from east to west visiting many of these country's communities including Nigeria meeting with individuals and institutions both Baháʼí and civic. After a Nigerian Civil War in 1967-70, the Baháʼí of Nigeria elected its own National Spiritual Assembly by 1979.
In 1982 the Baháʼí of Nigeria hosted one of five continental Conferences called for by the Universal House of Justice, held in honor of the anniversary of the death of Bahíyyih Khánum.
In 1983 a National Baháʼí Children's committee developed several materials for Baháʼí schools in Nigeria, including lessons for children on the topics "Baháʼí History", "Living the Baháʼí Life", and "Baháʼí Teachings".
In 1984 a West African Center for Baháʼí Studies presented papers at University of Ife, in Ile Ife.
Founded in 1986, by 2004 the Baháʼí Justice Society had members in several countries including Nigeria.
In 1996 Nigeria assisted in the election of the São Tomé National Spiritual Assembly.
Modern community
The Baháʼís of Nigeria maintain a diversity of schools like the Harmatan Baháʼí school in Uyo, nursery schools and development projects in six communities in the fields of literacy, child education and farming.
The National Spiritual Assembly has appointed a National Baháʼí Office For The Advancement Of Women in Lagos. The Baháʼís of Ibadan and Idi-Ose held interfaith conferences with Christian, Hindu, and Moslem women, on "Women, Equality and Religion".
Demographics
Estimates of membership vary widely - a 2001 estimate by Operation World showed 1000 Baháʼís in 2001 while the Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 38,172 Baháʼís.
Notable individuals
Richard St. Barbe Baker was a well known forest conservationist and in 1927-9 he was the Assistant Conservator of Forests for the southern provinces of Nigeria.
Suheil Bushrui, who has done work on Perennial philosophy and is a noted scholar on Khalil Gibran and inaugurator of the University of Maryland, College Park Baháʼí Chair for World Peace, first taught in Nigeria at University of Ibadan before leaving for Lebanon in 1968.
Helen Elsie Austin lived in Lagos as a US Foreign Service Officer from 1960 to 1970, and serving as a Cultural attaché with the United States Information Agency. She also served in several roles on Baháʼí Spiritual Assemblies (the elected form of governance of the religion.)
Kiser Barnes was first elected as a member the Universal House of Justice in 2000. In the 1980s and 90s Barnes lived, worked professional, and served in the administration of the religion, in Nigeria. He was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria from 1980 to 1993, and earned a master's degree. He was appointed to progressively higher positions of service from 1981 to 1993.
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edu.rit.mp.buf
Class ShortArrayBuf_1
java.lang.Object
extended by edu.rit.mp.Buf
extended by edu.rit.mp.ShortBuf
extended by edu.rit.mp.buf.ShortArrayBuf
extended by edu.rit.mp.buf.ShortArrayBuf_1
public class ShortArrayBuf_1
extends ShortArrayBuf
Class ShortArrayBuf_1 provides a buffer for an array of short items sent or received using the Message Protocol (MP). The array element stride must be 1. While an instance of class ShortArrayBuf may be constructed directly, normally you will use a factory method in class ShortBuf. See that class for further information.
Field Summary
Fields inherited from class edu.rit.mp.Buf
myLength
Constructor Summary
ShortArrayBuf_1(short[] theArray, Range theRange)
Construct a new short array buffer.
Method Summary
short get(int i)
Obtain the given item from this buffer.
Buf getReductionBuf(Op op)
Create a buffer for performing parallel reduction using the given binary operation.
void put(int i, short item)
Store the given item in this buffer.
protected int receiveItems(int i, int num, ByteBuffer buffer)
Receive as many items as possible from the given byte buffer to this buffer.
protected int sendItems(int i, ByteBuffer buffer)
Send as many items as possible from this buffer to the given byte buffer.
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Methods inherited from class edu.rit.mp.ShortBuf
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length
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ShortArrayBuf_1
public ShortArrayBuf_1(short[] theArray,
Range theRange)
Construct a new short array buffer.
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theArray - Array.
theRange - Range of array elements to include in the buffer. The stride is assumed to be 1.
Method Detail
get
public short get(int i)
Obtain the given item from this buffer.
The get() method must not block the calling thread; if it does, all message I/O in MP will be blocked.
Overrides:
get in class ShortArrayBuf
Parameters:
i - Item index in the range 0 .. length()-1.
Returns:
Item at index i.
put
public void put(int i,
short item)
Store the given item in this buffer.
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put in class ShortArrayBuf
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i - Item index in the range 0 .. length()-1.
item - Item to be stored at index i.
getReductionBuf
public Buf getReductionBuf(Op op)
Create a buffer for performing parallel reduction using the given binary operation. The results of the reduction are placed into this buffer.
Overrides:
getReductionBuf in class ShortArrayBuf
Parameters:
op - Binary operation.
Throws:
ClassCastException - (unchecked exception) Thrown if this buffer's element data type and the given binary operation's argument data type are not the same.
sendItems
protected int sendItems(int i,
ByteBuffer buffer)
Send as many items as possible from this buffer to the given byte buffer.
The sendItems() method must not block the calling thread; if it does, all message I/O in MP will be blocked.
Overrides:
sendItems in class ShortArrayBuf
Parameters:
i - Index of first item to send, in the range 0 .. length-1.
buffer - Byte buffer.
Returns:
Number of items sent.
receiveItems
protected int receiveItems(int i,
int num,
ByteBuffer buffer)
Receive as many items as possible from the given byte buffer to this buffer.
The receiveItems() method must not block the calling thread; if it does, all message I/O in MP will be blocked.
Overrides:
receiveItems in class ShortArrayBuf
Parameters:
i - Index of first item to receive, in the range 0 .. length-1.
num - Maximum number of items to receive.
buffer - Byte buffer.
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Number of items received.
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Mastering OLED Pixel Cleaning
OLED displays are known for their vibrant colors, deep blacks, and flexible form factor, making them a popular choice for a wide range of electronic devices such as smartphones, televisions, and wearable devices. However, one common issue that users may encounter with OLED displays is the occurrence of pixel degradation or burn-in over time.
Pixel degradation or burn-in occurs when a pixel on the OLED display ages at a different rate than its neighboring pixels, resulting in an uneven display with visible spots or ghost images. This can be caused by prolonged exposure to static images or bright colors, high display brightness settings, and a combination of other factors such as temperature and humidity.
To address this issue, manufacturers have incorporated pixel cleaning features into their devices to mitigate the effects of pixel degradation and burn-in. Understanding how pixel cleaning works can help users prolong the lifespan of their OLED displays and maintain optimal viewing quality.
Pixel cleaning is a process that involves refreshing or recalibrating the pixels on an OLED display to prevent or reduce the effects of burn-in. There are several methods that manufacturers use to accomplish this, including:
1. Pixel Refresher: Many OLED devices come with a built-in pixel refresher feature that automatically runs at regular intervals to recalibrate the pixels and minimize the effects of burn-in. This process typically involves cycling through different colors or displaying a series of patterns to ensure that all pixels are evenly activated.
2. Screen Saver: Devices may also include a screen saver feature that activates after a period of inactivity to prevent static images from being displayed for an extended period. Screen savers can display moving patterns or dim the screen to minimize the risk of burn-in.
3. Manual Calibration: Some devices allow users to manually initiate a pixel calibration process through the settings menu. This gives users more control over when and how the pixel cleaning process is performed, allowing them to address any potential issues before they become more noticeable.
4. Automatic Brightness Adjustment: OLED displays often include a feature that automatically adjusts the screen brightness based on ambient light conditions. Lowering the brightness when the device is in a dark environment can reduce the risk of pixel degradation and burn-in.
It’s important to note that even with these pixel cleaning features in place, OLED displays may still experience some level of pixel degradation over time. However, by understanding how these features work and taking proactive measures to minimize the risk of burn-in, users can help prolong the lifespan and performance of their OLED displays.
In conclusion, pixel cleaning is an essential aspect of maintaining the long-term performance and image quality of OLED displays. Whether it’s through automated pixel refreshing, screen savers, manual calibration, or automatic brightness adjustment, these features play a crucial role in mitigating the effects of pixel degradation and burn-in. By utilizing these tools and following best practices for display usage, users can enjoy the benefits of OLED technology without being hindered by the potential drawbacks.
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Hawaii After Pearl Harbor
Beginning just before 0800 on December 7th, 1941, the world changed. Families lost loved ones, people across the United States were stunned, and tensions in the Pacific exploded. While the world soon felt the effects of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the most directly affected region was undoubtedly Hawaii.
Once it was understood that a foreign enemy had flown to the islands with the intent of destroying ships at Pearl Harbor with no concern for the men and women stationed there, the islands—especially Oahu— were immersed in terror.
During the attack, residential and commercial streets were struck with bombs and chipped away at by machine gun fire. Lunalilo Elementary School, a completely innocuous building with no ties to Pearl Harbor or the US Navy, was damaged by enemy fire. People were forced to flee their homes and businesses in fear of the structures being hit and collapsing. On the ground, there was no indication of where or why the Japanese fleet was bombing the island. All anyone knew is that it was happening.
Schools were far from the only institutions affected by the attack. The islands as a whole wouldn’t be the same as the war came to their own waters. A feeling of safety wasn’t guaranteed any more; a drive along the coast was met with long stretches of barbed wire and defensive measures to halt an invasion.
Knowing that the attack came from Japan, suspicion of spies in the islands was heavy and eyes started to fall on all residents of Japanese descent. Even those who had called Hawaii their home for generations and were friends and neighbors with other residents came to be seen as potential enemies of the state simply by national heritage. Japanese-Americans were rounded up and sent to internment camps, ostensibly to further protect the islands—and the nation—from another unexpected attack.
Still, it was impossible to feel any sense of security.
Hawaii After the War
Though Hawaii faced many hardships after Pearl Harbor and throughout World War II, life after the war’s end was a somewhat different. Being known as the site of the Pearl Harbor attack brought attention to the island chain, specifically Oahu, and by 1946, tourism had started to become a vital part of the local economy.
Over the years, Pearl Harbor has become host to the national monument it’s known for being today, drawing in countless visitors annually and becoming one of Hawaii’s most popular destinations.
Once a place fearing the worst, Oahu now welcomes all to experience the history that started with the surprise Japanese attack over 75 years ago.
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How Can I Use a Script to Create a Sequential Series of User Accounts?
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Hey, Scripting Guy! Question
Hey, Scripting Guy! For purposes of testing, I often need to create multiple user accounts like this: pgeorge01, pgeorge02, etc. How can I write a script that automatically creates the next account in the sequence; that is, pgeorge03?
— RG
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Hey, RG. You know, after our last experiment went horribly, horribly wrong, we vowed never to get involved in anything that even smacked of human cloning ever again. (In case you’re wondering, creating an army of uncontrollable zombies that rise up and terrorize the countryside does not look good on your performance review.) Still, we’re not really cloning people here, we’re just kind of cloning user accounts. That seems safe enough.
Besides, you know what they say: you can’t keep a good man (or woman) down.
Turns out, you can’t keep the Scripting Guys down, either.
Although there are several different ways we could approach this task we decided to stick with an old favorite: an Active Directory search. What we’re going to do is search Active Directory for all the user accounts that have a samAccountName beginning with the letters kenmyer. We’re then going to count the number of users we get back from this search. Why? Well, suppose we get back 3 users. Assuming we’ve stuck to the naming convention (something that our script hinges on) that can only mean that we already have these three user accounts in Active Directory:
kenmyer01
kenmyer02
kenmyer03
That also means that all we need to do is increment the record count by 1 and we’ll know which user account to create next: kenmyer04. Again, assuming you stick with the naming convention, everything should work just fine.
Note. What do we mean when we say “stick with the naming convention?” Well, suppose you manually create two users accounts: kenmyer and kenmyer03. Is that a problem? As a matter of fact, it is. When we search Active Directory we’ll discover that there are two accounts that have samAccountNames beginning with the letters kenmyer. The script will thus assume that the next account to be created should be kenmyer03. Unfortunately, though kenmyer03 already exists. Admittedly, there are ways that we can handle that problem, but we won’t worry about it today. If there’s enough interest in this, we’ll return to it in a future column.
Let’s take a look at the script:
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
strName = “kenmyer” strSearchName = strName & “*”
Set objConnection = CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”) Set objCommand = CreateObject(“ADODB.Command”) objConnection.Provider = “ADsDSOObject” objConnection.Open “Active Directory Provider” Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties(“Page Size”) = 1000 objCommand.Properties(“Searchscope”) = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
objCommand.CommandText = _ “SELECT AdsPath FROM ‘LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com’ WHERE objectCategory=’user’ ” & _ “AND samAccountName = ‘” & strSearchName & “‘” Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
intRecordCount = objRecordset.RecordCount intRecordCount = intRecordCount + 1
If intRecordCount < 10 Then strNewName = strName & “0” & intRecordCount Else strNewName = strName & intRecordCount End If
Set objOU = GetObject(“LDAP://OU=Finance,dc=fabrikam,dc=com”) Set objUser = objOU.Create(“User”, “cn= ” & strNewName) objUser.samAccountName = strNewName objUser.SetInfo objUser.SetPassword “password” objUser.AccountDisabled = False objUser.SetInfo
As you can see, we start out by defining a constant named ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE and setting the value to 2; we’ll use this constant to tell the script to search all of Active Directory. Having said that, that’s pretty much all we will say about the code we use to conduct an Active Directory search. If you’re unfamiliar with Active Directory search scripts then you might want to take a look at our two-part Tales from the Script feature Dude, Where’s My Printer?
After defining the constant we then assign values to a pair of variables:
strName = “kenmyer”
strSearchName = strName & “*”
You can probably figure out what we’re going to do with the variable strName: that variable contains the string of letters (kenmyer) we’re searching for. It might not be so obvious, however, why we’re assigning the value kenmyer* to the variable strSearchName. Oh, right: considering the fact that we named the variable strSearchName it actually is kind of obvious, isn’t it? Well, you’re right: strSearchName is simply the search string we’re going to use; as we noted earlier, we want to get back a collection of all the user accounts where the samAccountName begins with the letters kenmyer. To do that we simply specify the letters we want to search for and then tack on an asterisk to use as a wildcard character.
Note. When searching Active Directory the wildcard character simply represents “anything,” meaning that, in this script, we’re searching for all samAccountNames that begin with kenmyer followed by anything (or even by nothing).
After assigning values to our two variables we then encounter a big block of code that actually performs the Active Directory search. Like we said, we won’t discuss that code in any detail today; all we’ll do is point out the query we use for retrieving the user accounts:
objCommand.CommandText = _
“SELECT AdsPath FROM ‘LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com’ WHERE objectCategory=’user’ ” & _
“AND samAccountName = ‘” & strSearchName & “‘”
We’re just searching for all the user accounts (objectCategory = ‘user’) that have a samAccountName equal to the search variable strSearchName. Pretty simple, really.
That brings us to this part of the script:
intRecordCount = objRecordset.RecordCount
intRecordCount = intRecordCount + 1
In the first line of code we’re setting a variable named intRecordCount to the value of the RecordCount property; it probably comes as no surprise that RecordCount simply tells us the number of records in the returned dataset (or, more specifically, the number of users with a samAccountName that begins with kenmyer). In the second line of code we then increment the value of intRecordCount by 1. Why? Well, suppose we get back two records. That means the next account we create should be kenmyer03. Because 2 + 1 = 3, we increment the current record count by 1.
And, yes, all those years of high school and college math have resulted in this: we know that 2 + 1 = 3. Time and money well-spent!
Note. What if the record count equals 0? That’s OK: that just means we don’t have any kenmyer* accounts at the moment. That also means that when we increment the record count by 1 we’ll get, well, 1; thus the next account we create will be kenmyer01. Which is just as it should be.
In the next section of code we then create a name for the new account:
If intRecordCount < 10 Then
strNewName = strName & “0” & intRecordCount
Else
strNewName = strName & intRecordCount
End If
What we do here is first check to see if the record count is less than 10. If it is, we create a user account using these three elements:
The user name (kenmyer), as stored in the variable strName.
A 0.
The record count.
Why do we toss the 0 into the middle? That’s easy: that gives us accounts like kenmyer02 and kenmyer03 rather than kenmyer2 and kenmyer3. That maintains consistency, and also makes it easier to view and sort the account names. If the record count is 10 or more we create the user name using only the variable strName and the record count. For example:
kenmyer + 11 = kenmyer11
And now we’re ready to create the account:
Set objOU = GetObject(“LDAP://OU=Finance,dc=fabrikam,dc=com”)
Set objUser = objOU.Create(“User”, “cn= ” & strNewName)
objUser.samAccountName = strNewName
objUser.SetInfo
objUser.SetPassword “password”
objUser.AccountDisabled = False
objUser.SetInfo
This really isn’t the time or place to discuss the ins and outs of creating user accounts in Active Directory. If the preceding code looks a bit mysterious to you, don’t fret; instead, check out the Active Directory Users chapter in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide.
And that’s it: each time we run the script we’ll create a new, properly-incremented kenmyer* account. Turns out that this human cloning thing isn’t that big of a deal after all.
Note. Nonetheless, we do need to set the record straight on one thing. The army of clones we created didn’t actually go around terrorizing the countryside. Instead, being clones of the Scripting Guys they pretty much lounged around the office all day, surfing the Internet, taking coffee breaks, and then going home early in order to coach baseball. Or at least they said they were going to “coach baseball ….”
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Liam Spencer
Liam Spencer (born 1964) is a British artist.
Early life
Spencer was born in Burnley, Lancashire and attended St Theodore's RC High School. He studied at Burnley College and the Manchester School of Art (now Manchester Metropolitan University).
Career
Spencer, a leading figure of the Manchester art scene since the 1990s, came to prominence when he was invited to do the first solo exhibition of contemporary art "Urban Panoramas" at the Lowry Centre, Salford in 2000.
In 2006 he was the youngest artist to have a retrospective at the Manchester City Art Gallery "From Manchester to Shanghai". This coincided with a short documentary on the BBC series, Inside Out, that showed several of the collections of his work.
He produced motifs and artwork for the 2008 UEFA Cup Final in Manchester. His art was featured on promotional material and signage for the event.
Spencer's best known paintings are impressionist pieces focusing on urban scenes - motorways, shops, petrol station - most frequently of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North West England, such as "Crown Chippy, Rawtenstall" (2003) and "Salford Panorama" (2000). He has painted other urban centres, including New York City, "Times Square, New York" (2003), Venice, Hong Kong and Shanghai. A popular format for his paintings are the "Panoramas", long thin paintings.
Spencer's work is exhibited in public collections, the largest collection is believed to be part of the Elspeth and Imogen Turner Collection.
Liam Spencer lives in the North West and has a studio close to Rawtenstall.
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Can't mmap /dev/zero
Hi there, I’ve got an application that mmap’d /dev/zero. This isn’t particularly an insecure operation, all the application needs is some zero’d pages. However, the operation is being denied.
audit: type=1400 audit(1542964976.932:3722): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“file_mmap” profile=“snap.e820-bios.e820-bios” name="/dev/zero" pid=2876 comm=“e820-bios” requested_mask=“m” denied_mask=“m” fsuid=0 ouid=0
Any ideas how to solve this?
Is the code under your control? If so, could you modify it to use the MAP_ANONYMOUS flag instead? That avoids the need to open /dev/zero, and should work with the current policy.
This code is not under my control, it’s from libx86
I suspect that the binary or a library it uses has an executable stack: Snap and executable stacks
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Cashew nuts are considered to be one of the healthiest foods in the world. Unfortunately only a small percentage of the database for natural medicines comprehensive is dedicated to this amazing nut. In order to grow, cashew nuts need humid and hot climate, which is the reason why some countries, such as Tanzania, Nigeria, Brazil and Mozambique, are the largest producers of Cashew Nuts in the world.
5 Health Benefits of Cashew Nuts
#1. These nuts possess an abundance of calories. About 50 grams of these nuts contain 275 calories. In addition to that, they are rich in vitamins, minerals, soluble dietary fiber and numerous phytochemicals that prevent severe diseases, including cancers.
#2. Cashews are also filled with monounsaturated fatty acids, such as palmitoleic and oleic acids, which are great for the heart’s health. They belong in the group of essential fatty acids which can decrease the level of harmful cholesterol (LDL
) and also increase the level of good cholesterol (HDL) in our blood.
Scientific studies have proven that the well known Mediterranean diet, which is based mostly on monounsaturated fatty acids, can help organism system protect itself from coronary artery disease and strokes by supporting the blood lipid profile.
#3. These tasty nuts are also rich in essential minerals. Some of the most useful minerals that can be found in cashew nuts are potassium, magnesium, copper, zinc, selenium and iron.
By consuming just a handful of cashews daily you will provide the necessary amount of the abovementioned minerals and protect your organism from deficiency-related diseases. Selenium is a highly important micronutrient and it works like a co-factor for antioxidant enzymes, such as Glutathione peroxides, which is known as one of the strongest antioxidants in the human body. Copper also acts as a co-factor for many important enzymes such as cytochrome c-oxidase and superoxide dismutase. Zinc, on the other hand, plays the same role with enzymes responsible for regulation of the progress of digestion, DNA synthesis and gonadal function.
#4. Cashews can be quite useful due to their numerous essential vitamins, such as pyridoxine (vitamin B6), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), thiamin (vitamin B11) and riboflavin. Just 3.5 Oz (100 grams) of these nuts will provide about 30% of the daily recommended levels of B6 (that is about 0.147 mg). B6 can significantly lower chances of developing homocystinuria and sideroblastic anemia.
On the other hand, niacin improves protection against dermatitis or pellagra. In addition, aforementioned vitamins are crucial for fat, protein and carbohydrates metabolism at a cellular level.
#5. Furthermore, cashews also contain a very small quantity of zeaxanthin, which is a very important pigment of flavonoid antioxidant. Zeaxanthin is selectively absorbed inside the retinal macula in the eyes. It is believed that it provides antioxidant and protective UV ray filtering features and also that it protects us from ARMD also known as “age-related macular degeneration” in old people.
Besides all the above-mentioned benefits of Cashew Nuts, they also are considered to be one of the best alternative treatment for depression.
How Treat Depression Naturally – A Basic Guide to Cashew Nutrition
Cashew nuts are more than great source of tryptophan, which is a vital amino acid our body needs to take it throughout the food. This amino acid helps children develop and grow, regulates mood, balances our behavior, improves sleep and can significantly lower the level of stress, anxiety and depression.
Just two handfuls of cashews contain somewhere between 1.000 and 2.000 mg of tryptophan. This compound has been proven to be as equally successful as prescription antidepressants. The best thing about treating depression with cashews is that you will surely avoid side effects that are usually caused by antidepressants. Of course, this is yet another thing big pharma carefully hides from us.
According to FDA Deputy Commissioner for Policy’s David Adams, who was part of the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting back in 1993, we need to pay close attention to the things happening around the legal arena and dietary supplements. If producers of natural remedies manage getting the support, there will most likely be a completely new class of products, which will be competing with the already existing drugs. This is why we need a special law that will have the function to regulate the supplements.
In addition, back in 1993, FDA Dietary Task Force has released a report saying that the selling and existence of dietary supplements will not jeopardize efforts for creating new drugs.
As you are probably aware by now, big pharma is a huge business. However, there is much effective and safer natural depression treatment they want to hide from the common people because thus they will lose lots of money.
An introduction to Cashew Nut Allergy
Beside allergies caused by eating walnuts, almonds and other nuts, cashew nut cause allergy in both adults and children and is one of the commonest food allergies. Same as peanuts, cashews can lead to occurrence of some very severe allergic reactions, even if the individual has consumed just a small quantity of cashews.
The healthy nuts we dedicate this article to are a hidden ingredient in many common foods such as ice cream, cakes and Asian dishes. Anyway, if you ever experience symptoms of cashew nut allergy, it is mandatory to look for professional help
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Flight Regularity Messages and Flight Safety Messages
Flight Regularity Messages They include the messages that require immediate action on the part of flight crews, aircraft operators, or agencies acting for aircraft operators for the efficient and expeditious utilization of aircraft to avoid serious delays or travel interruptions to passengers and/or cargo, or to avoid situations that could cause the aircraft operator to
Compass Locator
When a radio beacon is used in conjunction with the ILS markers, it is called compass locator. Compass locator is low or medium frequency NDB co-located with MM or OM beacons to help establish the pilot on localizer for ILS approach. Also check: ILS Critical and Sensitive Area
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
CRC is defined as mathematical algorithm applied to digital expression of data that provides level of assurance against loss or alteration of data. Also Read: Part 1: PBN – Performance Based Navigation
Approach Procedure With Vertical Guidance (APV)
APV is defined as instrument procedure which utilizes lateral and vertical guidance but does not meet the requirements established for precision approach and landing operations. Part 4: PBN – RNP APCH, RNP AR APCH, RNP AR DP and A-RNP
Hot Spots
Hot Spots are defined as the intersection of complex and confusing taxiways and runways in any combination. These areas have history or potential for runway incursions or surface incidents due to variety of causes not limited to airport marking, traffic flow, signage and airport lighting.
TACAN
TACAN stands for Tactical Air Navigation. It is used for military or naval operations. TACAN ground equipment consists of either fixed or mobile transmitting unit also TACAN does not operate through conventional VOR equipment. TACAN is pulse system and operates in Ultrahigh Frequency (UHF) band of frequencies. Also Read: Frequency Bands and Frequency Allocation for
Takeoff Funnel
Takeoff funnel represents the area surrounding the take off flight path, withing which all obstacles must be cleared, assuming they are all projected on the intended track.
Obstacle free zone (OFZ)
Obstacle free zone is the airspace above the inner approach surface, inner transitional surfaces, and balked landing surface and that portion of the strip bounded by these surfaces, which is not penetrated by any fixed obstacle other than a low-mass and frangible mounted one required for air navigation purposes.
Runway Incursion
Runway incursion is occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect present of person, aircraft or vehicle on the protected area of surface designated for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
Approach Lighting System Explained!
Approach light system(ALS) is part of aviation ground lighting patters primarily used for identification and aircraft alignment with runway center line. ALS is made of several parts collectively working to serve the said purpose. Availability of ALS category for runway depends on its licensing category and need for continuous operation during period of poor visibility.
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-- Nickel, Gas Rally After U.S. Payrolls Gain: Commodities at Close
The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot
Index of 24 raw materials rose to the highest level in six days,
increasing 0.6 percent to 707.22 at 4:07 p.m. in New York , after
U.S. payrolls gained more than forecast, boosting the outlook
for economic growth. Nickel, natural gas and copper led the
gain. The UBS Bloomberg CMCI index of 26 prices advanced for a
third day, by 0.7 percent to 1632.259 at 4:19 p.m. in New York. BASE METALS Copper gained the most in two weeks on speculation that
China, the world’s biggest metals user, will take steps to boost
growth and on signs the U.S. economy is improving. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index of equities climbed as much as
1.4 percent on bets that Chinese authorities will act to
stimulate growth after reports showed lower-than-expected
industrial output and slowing inflation. U.S employers boosted
payrolls by 227,000 last month, topping economists’ median
projection of 210,000. Copper has jumped 12 percent this year. Copper futures for May delivery gained 1.8 percent to
settle at $3.8585 a pound at 1:24 p.m. on the Comex in New York,
the biggest advance since Feb. 21. Nickel rose 2.7 percent to $19,300 a ton on the LME, the
biggest gain since Jan. 26. Aluminum, zinc and tin also climbed
in London, while lead slipped. NATURAL GAS Natural gas futures rose in New York for the first time in
three days on speculation that prices near the lowest since 2002
will bring buyers into the market. Gas gained 2.3 percent after settling at 10-year lows the
past two days. The futures have traded between $2.25 and $2.81
per million British thermal units for most of this year and
holding above a January low of $2.231 provided technical
support, said Dominick Chirichella, senior partner at the Energy
Management Institute in New York. Natural gas for April delivery rose 5.2 cents to $2.324 per
million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile
Exchange after dropping 1.3 percent yesterday to $2.272, the
lowest settlement price since Feb. 15, 2002. The futures this
week dropped 16 cents, or 6.4 percent. The price discount, or spread, of the April contract to May
futures widened 0.1 cent to 10.1 cents. Gas has dropped 22 percent this year, making it the worst
performer on the Standard & Poor’s GSCI commodity index, as a
stockpile surplus ballooned because of above-normal winter
temperatures and record production. GRAINS, OILSEEDS Corn rose the most in three weeks on speculation that
China, the world’s top pork consumer, will increase U.S. grain
purchases to meet rising demand for livestock feed. Soybeans
fell from a five-month high. Shuanghui Group, China ’s biggest hog processor, plans to
boost production volume by 50 percent this year. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture forecasts that China’s corn imports
will quadruple this year. Global inventories of the grain will
fall to five-year low, the agency said today. Corn futures for May delivery rose 1.5 percent to $6.45 a
bushel at 1:15 p.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, the biggest
gain for a most-active contract since Feb. 13. The price fell
1.5 percent this week on speculation that warm, dry weather in
the central U.S. will lead to early planting and higher yield
potential as farmers plant the most acres since 1944. Soybean futures for May delivery dropped 0.1 percent to
$13.3775 a bushel. Earlier, the price reached $13.555, the
highest since Sept. 19. The oilseed advanced 0.4 percent this
week, the fourth straight gain. Wheat futures rose the most in a week after a U.S. forecast
on domestic and global inventories trailed estimates by
analysts, signaling more demand for the grain used in food and
livestock feed. Wheat futures for May delivery rose 1.3 percent to settle
at $6.43 a bushel at 1:15 p.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade,
the biggest gain since March 2. The commodity tumbled 4.7
percent this week on speculation that rain will boost crops in
the U.S. Great Plains, adding to world supplies. PRECIOUS METALS Gold rose for a third straight session, tracking gains in
equities and commodities, after a report showed U.S. payrolls
gained more than forecast, boosting the outlook for economic
growth and raw-material demand. U.S. employers boosted payrolls by 227,000 last month,
topping economists’ median projection of 210,000, the Labor
Department said today. The S&P 500 Index of equities climbed as
much as 0.6 percent. Automatic purchases by computer programs
may have contributed to the rally after prices rose above $1,700
an ounce, said Adam Klopfenstein, a market strategist at Archer
Financial Services Inc. Gold futures for April delivery gained 0.8 percent to
settle at $1,711.50 at 1:55 p.m. on the Comex in New York.
Prices rose 0.1 percent this week, the third gain in four. Silver futures for May delivery rose 1.1 percent to $34.212
an ounce on the Comex. The metal declined 0.9 percent this week,
the second straight loss. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, palladium futures for
June delivery advanced 1.5 percent to $709.95 an ounce. Platinum
futures for April delivery climbed 1.7 percent to $1,684.90 an
ounce. SOFT COMMODITIES Arabica-coffee futures fell, capping the biggest weekly
slump since September, on signs that supplies will be plentiful
as harvest time nears in Brazil , the world’s top grower. Sugar
slid, while cocoa rose. Global coffee output will climb to a record next season as
production in Brazil enters the high-productive cycle of the
biennial crop, according to CoffeeNetwork, a unit of INTL
FCStone Inc. Harvesting is starting in the South American
nation, and the export season will commence in July. Arabica coffee for May delivery tumbled 1.7 percent to
settle at $1.862 a pound at 2 p.m. on ICE Futures U.S. in New
York. This week, the commodity sank 7.7 percent, the biggest
drop since Sept. 23. Prices are down 18 percent this year. Raw-sugar futures for May delivery slumped 1.3 percent to
23.66 cents a pound on ICE, marking the fourth decline in five
sessions. The sweetener tumbled 5.2 percent this week, the
biggest decline since Sept. 23. Cocoa futures for May delivery climbed 0.6 percent to
$2,410 a metric ton in New York, bringing the weekly gain to 3.3
percent, the biggest since Feb. 17. In London futures trading, robusta coffee and refined sugar
dropped, while cocoa advanced on NYSE Liffe. LIVESTOCK Cattle futures fell, capping the biggest weekly decline
this year, on speculation that U.S. consumers are slowing
purchases of meat because of high costs. Hogs gained. Wholesale beef reached $1.988 a pound on Feb. 29, the
highest since at least January 2004, Agriculture Department data
show. Beef at the supermarket may rise as much as 5 percent this
year, more than any food category, the government has forecast.
Slowing demand is pressuring prices, said Chad Henderson, a
market analyst at Prime Agricultural Consultants Inc. Cattle futures for April delivery declined 0.5 percent to
close at $1.26025 a pound at 1 p.m. on the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange. Prices fell 3 percent this week, the biggest decline
for a most-active contract since Dec. 9. Spot-steer prices averaged $1.2677 a pound in the first
four days of this week, down 1.7 percent from a week earlier,
USDA data show. Feeder-cattle futures for May settlement slid 0.9 percent
to $1.5715 a pound. Hog futures for April settlement rose 0.1 percent to 87.825
cents a pound in Chicago. Prices dropped 2.9 percent this week,
the biggest loss since Dec. 16. OIL PRODUCTS Gasoline rose for a third day as the U.S. added more jobs
in February than projected, indicating the labor market may be
strengthening and fuel demand will improve. Futures advanced as U.S. employment increased by 227,000 in
February, more than the 210,000 gain projected in a survey by
Bloomberg News. The jobless rate held steady at 8.3 percent
while the participation rate, which indicates the share of
working-age people in the labor force , improved to 63.9 percent
from 63.7 percent. Gasoline for April delivery rose 1.84 cents, or 0.6
percent, to settle at $3.3324 a gallon on the New York
Mercantile Exchange. Prices were up 1.8 percent this week and
have gained 24 percent this year, making the motor fuel the best
performer in Standard & Poor’s GSCI index of 24 commodities. April-delivery heating oil slipped 0.57 cent to $3.2638 a
gallon on the exchange, after touching a low of $3.2481. Prices
rose 1.9 percent this week and have gained 11 percent in 2012. Regular gasoline at the pump, averaged nationwide, was
unchanged at $3.758 a gallon yesterday, according to AAA data.
Prices have increased 15 percent this year, and are 6.6 percent
higher than a year earlier. CRUDE OIL Oil climbed for a third day in New York after U.S.
employers boosted payrolls more than forecast, bolstering
optimism that the world’s largest economy and fuel demand will
grow. Futures rose 0.8 percent after the Labor Department said
payrolls increased by 227,000 in February. A gain of 210,000 was
projected, according to the median estimate of economists
surveyed by Bloomberg News. Crude also advanced as Greece pushed
through the biggest sovereign restructuring in history. Oil for April delivery climbed 82 cents to settle at
$107.40 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices
advanced 0.7 percent this week and 8.7 percent this year. Brent oil for April settlement gained 54 cents, or 0.4
percent, to $125.98 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures
Europe exchange. To contact the reporter on this story:
Lynn Doan in San Francisco at
ldoan6@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Dan Stets at dstets@bloomberg.net
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Ben Taggart
Ben Taggart (April 5, 1889 – May 17, 1947) was an American actor.
Taggart's stage experience began in Seattle, and he went on to play leading roles in Washington, Portland, San Francisco, Trenton, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. He was described as "an adept comedian as well as a delineator of the more serious parts."
Selected filmography
His first movie was The Woman Next Door in 1915; from 1931 to 1945 he appeared in a number of minor uncredited roles. Credited roles include:
* The Woman Next Door (1915) - Tom Grayson
* The Fixer (1915) - Mr. William Fowler
* The Sentimental Lady (1915) - Tom Woodbury
* She (1917) - Leo Vincey
* Oh, Boy! (1919) - Charles Hartley
* The Hidden Light (1920) - Victor Bailey
* Mammy (1930) - Sheriff (uncredited)
* Kick In (1931) - Detective Johnson (uncredited)
* Newly Rich (1931) - Mr. Black (uncredited)
* Smart Money (1931) - Hickory Short (uncredited)
* Silence (1931) - Alderman Conners
* Monkey Business (1931) (with the Marx Brothers) - Captain Corcoran (uncredited)
* 24 Hours (1931) - Detective (uncredited)
* Under Eighteen (1931) - Detective French (uncredited)
* Ladies of the Big House (1931) - Guard Tompkins (uncredited)
* Taxi! (1932) - Detective (uncredited)
* High Pressure (1932) - Attorney General's Officer (uncredited)
* Strangers in Love (1932) - Crenshaw
* Amateur Daddy (1932) - Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
* The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) - Policeman in Car (uncredited)
* Million Dollar Legs (1932) (with W.C. Fields) - the ship's captain (uncredited)
* Horse Feathers (1932) (with the Marx Brothers) - the cop who tries to give Harpo a ticket (uncredited)
* Hold 'Em Jail (1932) - Doorman (uncredited)
* Faithless (1932) - Officer Clancy (uncredited)
* Afraid to Talk (1932) - Detective Burke (uncredited)
* Central Park (1932) - Policeman Mike (uncredited)
* Fast Life (1932) - Catalina Cop (uncredited)
* A Lady's Profession (1933) - Lieutenant (uncredited)
* Fast Workers (1933) - Millie's Dance Partner (uncredited)
* Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - Cabinet Member (uncredited)
* The Mayor of Hell (1933) - Sheriff (uncredited)
* Hold Your Man (1933) - Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
* Duck Soup (1933) - Trench Officer (uncredited)
* From Headquarters (1933) - Third-Degree Detective (uncredited)
* Sitting Pretty (1933) - Cop (uncredited)
* The Big Shakedown (1934) - Policeman at Regan's (uncredited)
* No More Women (1934) - Cop (uncredited)
* The Crosby Case (1934) - Police Inspector (uncredited)
* The Thin Man (1934) - Police Captain (uncredited)
* Shoot the Works (1934) - Detective
* The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) - Police Capt. Thompson
* Among the Missing (1934) - Police Officer Flannagan
* Ready for Love (1934) - Pullman Conductor (uncredited)
* Romance in Manhattan (1935) - Plainclothesman (uncredited)
* Carnival (1935) - Policeman (uncredited)
* The Whole Town's Talking (1935) - Traffic Officer (uncredited)
* Stolen Harmony (1935) - Sergeant / Cop at Motel (uncredited)
* Vagabond Lady (1935) - Hotel Detective (uncredited)
* Unknown Woman (1935) - Shanley
* Men Without Names (1935) - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
* The Murder Man (1935) - Dave - Sing Sing Guard (uncredited)
* Coronado (1935) - Marine (uncredited)
* It Had to Happen (1936) - New York Cop (uncredited)
* Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936) - Rancher (uncredited)
* Florida Special (1936) - Trainmaster (uncredited)
* Neighborhood House (1936) - Cop
* San Francisco (1936) - Cop (uncredited)
* Straight from the Shoulder (1936) - Detective (uncredited)
* Wives Never Know (1936) - (uncredited)
* The Longest Night (1936) - Policeman Helping Eve (uncredited)
* Oh, Doctor (1937) - Policeman (uncredited)
* Michael O'Halloran (1937) - Officer Reardon (uncredited)
* This Is My Affair (1937) - Police Captain (uncredited)
* Souls at Sea (1937) - Ship's Officer (uncredited)
* Bad Guy (1937) - Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
* The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937) - Plainclothes Officer (uncredited)
* The Women Men Marry (1937) - Lieutenant Haggerty (uncredited)
* Youth on Parole (1937) - Convict (uncredited)
* Partners in Crime (1937) - First G-Man (uncredited)
* The Jury's Secret (1938) - Jenkins (uncredited)
* The Overland Express (1938) - Postal Agent Adams
* Hold That Kiss (1938) - Apartment Doorman (uncredited)
* Wives Under Suspicion (1938) - Fred - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
* Little Tough Guy (1938) - Detective (uncredited)
* The Chaser (1938) - Policeman Reading Law to Motorman (uncredited)
* Personal Secretary (1938) - Detective (uncredited)
* Topper Takes a Trip (1938) - Policeman in Bank (uncredited)
* Risky Business (1939) - First Detective (uncredited)
* The Saint Strikes Back (1939) - New York Detective Vance (uncredited)
* King of Chinatown (1939) - Henchman (uncredited)
* Sergeant Madden (1939) - Detective (uncredited)
* Tell No Tales (1939) - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
* S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939) - (uncredited)
* The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939) - Policeman (uncredited)
* Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939) - Dixon
* I Stole a Million (1939) - Police Guard at Hospital (uncredited)
* Rio (1939) - Second Guard (uncredited)
* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Pompous Man (uncredited)
* The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939) - Policeman (uncredited)
* Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) - Postal Inspector (uncredited)
* The Big Guy (1939) - Owner of Station (uncredited)
* The Green Hornet (1940, Serial) - Phil Bartlett [Chs. 3-4]
* Double Alibi (1940) - Policeman (uncredited)
* The Ghost Comes Home (1940) - Tim Leary (uncredited)
* Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940, Serial) - General Lupi [Chs. 1-2]
* Babies for Sale (1940) - Police Sgt. Mike Burke (uncredited)
* Son of Roaring Dan (1940) - Sheriff (uncredited)
* Mystery Sea Raider (1940) - Cop (uncredited)
* Pier 13 (1940) - Detective (uncredited)
* The Durango Kid (1940) - Flynn (uncredited)
* Before I Hang (1940) - Warden Thompson
* Junior G-Men (1940, Serial) - Severn
* Nobody's Children (1940) - Mr. Millar
* Girls Under 21 (1940) - Police Chief (uncredited)
* The Wildcat of Tucson (1940) - Judge John Barlow
* The Face Behind the Mask (1941) - Burn Treatment Doctor (uncredited)
* The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941) - Train Conductor
* Double Date (1941) - Policeman (uncredited)
* Man Made Monster (1941) - Detective Sergeant Regan
* Penny Serenade (1941) - Policeman (uncredited)
* The Big Boss (1941) - Sheriff Dugan (uncredited)
* The Medico of Painted Springs (1941) - John Richards
* Hello, Sucker (1941) - Policeman (uncredited)
* Two in a Taxi (1941) - Sweeny
* They Meet Again (1941) - Sheriff (uncredited)
* Harmon of Michigan (1941) - Mr. Davis (uncredited)
* I'll Sell My Life (1941) - Police Lt. Hammer
* Hard Guy (1941) - Ben Sherwood
* Three Girls About Town (1941) - Doorman (uncredited)
* The Miracle Kid (1941) - J. Hamilton Gibbs
* Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941) - Police Sergeant (uncredited)
* Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) - John Blake
* A Tragedy at Midnight (1942) - Cop (uncredited)
* The Man Who Returned to Life (1942) - Horace Turner (uncredited)
* The Remarkable Andrew (1942) - Bailiff (uncredited)
* Alias Boston Blackie (1942) - Warden
* The Spoilers (1942) - Banker (uncredited)
* Men of Texas (1942) - Banker (uncredited)
* The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - Conductor (uncredited)
* Escape from Crime (1942) - Warden Kirby
* Overland Mail (1942, Serial) - Lamont [Chs. 7-8]
* Police Bullets (1942) - Chief Detective W. A. Barlow
* Daring Young Man (1942) - Fire Chief (uncredited)
* Underground Agent (1942) - Police Chief (uncredited)
* Pittsburgh (1942) - Police Sergeant (uncredited)
* The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942, Serial) - Editor Parker (uncredited)
* Secrets of the Underground (1942) - Bob the Detective (uncredited)
* No Time for Love (1943) - City General Manager (uncredited)
* Something to Shout About (1943) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
* Chatterbox (1943) - Foreman (uncredited)
* Mission to Moscow (1943) - Guest at Davies' Speech (uncredited)
* A Stranger in Town (1943) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
* So This Is Washington (1943) - Senator Vickers (uncredited)
* The Fighting Seabees (1944) - Aircraft Carrier Captain (uncredited)
* Beautiful But Broke (1944) - Pullman Conductor (uncredited)
* Captain America (1944, Serial) - Police Sgt. Donovan [Chs. 5, 9] (uncredited)
* Cowboy Canteen (1944) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
* Week-End Pass (1944) - Forean (uncredited)
* Sailor's Holiday (1944) - Director (uncredited)
* Jam Session (1944) - Willie (uncredited)
* The Girl in the Case (1944) - Turnkey (uncredited)
* The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944, Serial) - Deputy Marshal (uncredited)
* Man from Frisco (1944) - Superintendent (uncredited)
* Louisiana Hayride (1944) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
* Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) - Army Doctor (uncredited)
* Raiders of Ghost City (1944, Serial) - Dan #2 (uncredited)
* Atlantic City (1944) - Businessman (uncredited)
* One Mysterious Night (1944) - Traffic Cop (uncredited)
* Enemy of Women (1944) - News Chief (uncredited)
* The Master Key (1945, Serial) - Apartment Thug (uncredited) (final film role)
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Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009
Generic Aliases/Joins with Hibernate Criteria
hibernate
In my last project I had the demand to create generic hibernate queries for any associations paths through the entity objects graph. The next code is an example where I want to filter users by street name and by role name. The association paths are "addresses.street" and "role.name" as you can see in the UserManager.
public class User {
private String id;
private Set<Address>; addresses = new HashSet<Address>();
private Role role;
}
public class Address {
private String id;
private String street;
...
}
public class Role {
private String id;
private String name;
...
}
public UserDao {
public List<User> get(String filterPath, String value) {
Query query = new Query("from User u where u." + filterPath + "="+value)
return query.list();
}
}
public UserManager {
/** Dosen't work because addresses is a collection **/
public List<User> getByStreet(String street) {
return userDao.get("addresses.street", "Longstreet");
}
/** This works **/
public List<User> getByRoleName(String roleName) {
return userDao.get("role.name", "roleName");
}
}
The problem is we have to insert joins and create aliases to make restrictions work via collections. Doing this in a generic way is pretty error-prone. Let's try this with Criteria instead of Query.
With criteria we have to create "subcriterias" on the root criteria for every join. We also have to consider not create multiple subcriterias for the same node in the object graph because this ends in an exception. The public "createAlias" methods of the following code adds subcriterias on a criteria a returns the alias for it. If you don't want to make a inner join you can specify it with CriteriaSpecification.
public static String createAlias ( Criteria criteria, String associationPath )
{
return createAlias( criteria, criteria, criteria.getAlias(),
associationPath, CriteriaSpecification.INNER_JOIN );
}
public static String createAlias ( Criteria criteria, String associationPath,
int joinType )
{
return createAlias( criteria, criteria, criteria.getAlias(),
associationPath, joinType );
}
private static String createAlias ( Criteria rootCriteria,
Criteria currentSubCriteria, String alias,
String associationPath, int joinType )
{
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer( associationPath, "." );
if ( st.countTokens() == 1 )
{
return alias + "." + associationPath;
}
else
{
String associationPathToken = st.nextToken();
String newAlias = alias + "_" + associationPathToken;
Criteria criteriaForAlias = findCriteriaForAlias( rootCriteria,
newAlias );
if ( criteriaForAlias == null )
{
currentSubCriteria = currentSubCriteria.createCriteria(
associationPathToken, newAlias, joinType );
}
else
{
currentSubCriteria = criteriaForAlias;
}
String newKey = associationPath.substring( associationPathToken
.length() + 1, associationPath.length() );
return createAlias( rootCriteria, currentSubCriteria, newAlias,
newKey, joinType );
}
}
public static Criteria findCriteriaForAlias ( Criteria criteria, String alias )
{
Iterator subcriterias = ( ( CriteriaImpl ) criteria )
.iterateSubcriteria();
while ( subcriterias.hasNext() )
{
Criteria subcriteria = ( Criteria ) subcriterias.next();
if ( subcriteria.getAlias().equals( alias ) )
{
return subcriteria;
}
}
return null;
}
Now it's possible to make queries with association paths via collections into to the depths of our object graph.
public UserDao {
public List<User> getStreetStartingWithA() {
Criteria criteria = new Criteria(User.class);
String streetAlias = createAlias(criteria, "addresses.street");
criteria.add(Restrictions.like( streetAlias, "A", MatchMode.START);
return criteria.list();
}
public List getStreetNamesOrderedAsc() {
Criteria criteria = new Criteria(User.class);
String streetAlias = createAlias(criteria, "addresses.street");
criteria.add( Projections.distinct( streetAlias);
criteria.addOrder( Order.asc( streetAlias ) );
return criteria.list();
}
}
The next thing is to add some classes to make adding restrictions more convenient.
With the "createCriteria" method it's possible create a criteria and add restrictions from FilterCriterias.
public UserDao {
public List<User> getStreetStartingWithA() {
Filter filter = new Filter();
filter.addFilterCriteria( "addresses.street", "A", Matcher.START);
Criteria criteria = createCriteria( session, User.class, filter);
return criteria.list();
}
}
public static Criteria createCriteria ( Session session, Class persistentClass, Filter filter )
{
String alias = persistentClass.getSimpleName().toLowerCase();
Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria( persistentClass,
alias );
if ( filter != null )
{
for ( FilterCriteria filterCriteria : filter.getFilterCriterias() )
{
String restrictionPath = createAlias( criteria,
filterCriteria.getPath() );
if ( filterCriteria.getValue() instanceof String )
{
criteria.add( Restrictions.like( restrictionPath,
( String ) filterCriteria.getValue(), filterCriteria
.getMatcher().getMatchMode() ) );
}
else if ( Collection.class.isAssignableFrom( filterCriteria.getValue().getClass() ) )
{
Collection coll = ( Collection ) filterCriteria.getValue();
criteria.add( Restrictions.in( restrictionPath,
coll ) );
}else if ( Object[].class.isAssignableFrom( filterCriteria.getValue().getClass() ) )
{
Object[] coll = ( Object[] ) filterCriteria.getValue();
criteria.add( Restrictions.in( restrictionPath,
coll ) );
}
else
{
criteria.add( Restrictions.eq( restrictionPath,
filterCriteria.getValue() ) );
}
}
}
return criteria;
}
public class Filter
{
private List< FilterCriteria > filterCriterias = new ArrayList< FilterCriteria >();
public Class getEntityClass()
{
return entityClass;
}
public List< FilterCriteria > getFilterCriterias()
{
return filterCriterias;
}
public void addFilterCriteria( String path, Object value )
{
filterCriterias.add( new FilterCriteria( path, value ) );
}
public void addFilterCriteria( String path, Object value, Matcher matcher )
{
filterCriterias.add( new FilterCriteria( path, value, matcher ) );
}
}
public class FilterCriteria
{
private Matcher matcher = Matcher.EXACT;
private String path;
private Object value;
public FilterCriteria ( String path, Object value )
{
this.path = path;
this.value = value;
}
public FilterCriteria ( String path, Object value, Matcher matcher )
{
this.path = path;
this.value = value;
this.matcher = matcher;
}
public Matcher getMatcher()
{
return matcher;
}
public Object getValue()
{
return value;
}
public String getPath()
{
return path;
}
}
public enum Matcher
{
EXACT( "filter.matcher.exact", MatchMode.EXACT ), ANYWHERE(
"filter.matcher.anywhere", MatchMode.ANYWHERE ), START(
"filter.matcher.start", MatchMode.START ), END(
"filter.matcher.end", MatchMode.END );
private String messageKey;
private MatchMode matchMode;
Matcher ( String messageKey, MatchMode matchMode )
{
this.messageKey = messageKey;
this.matchMode = matchMode;
}
public String getMessageKey()
{
return messageKey;
}
public MatchMode getMatchMode()
{
return matchMode;
}
}
1 Kommentar:
1. Collection.class.isAssignableFrom( filterCriteria.getValue().getClass() )
should be written as
filterCriteria.getValue() instanceof Collection
Object[].class.isAssignableFrom( filterCriteria.getValue().getClass() )
should be written as
filterCriteria.getValue() instanceof Object[]
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Reynolds’ World
What’s it like for little things like bacteria to move around? How do they swim from place to place?
We know that swimming feels different from walking. Part of it is the feeling of being suspended, where instead of the firm solidity of the earth and the insubstantial give of air, we have the water on all sides, supporting not just our feet but our legs, arms, and body. But also, it’s a lot harder to move through water! The same quality that makes us feel supported also impedes movement, so that even a very efficient swimmer will be easily outpaced by someone strolling along on dry land.
Scientists have a way to quantify that difference, using a measure called the Reynolds number. The Reynolds number compares how strong inertial forces are in a fluid, which come from the particle size and the weight of the particles, with the viscosity of the fluid. If a fluid has low inertial forces compared to its viscosity, it has a low Reynolds number, and if it has high viscosity compared to its inertial forces, then its Reynolds number is low. So fluids with a high Reynolds number are easier to move through, and fluids with a low Reynolds number are harder to move through. The pitch of the Trinity pitch drop would have a very low Reynolds number! And fluid flow in high Reynolds number environments tends to have more chaos, vortices and eddies that can arise because of how easy it is to move light things that don’t stick together, like molecules of air.
So it turns out that what strategy you use to move in a low Reynolds number environment is different from what you’d use in a high Reynolds number environment. Of course, we already know that, because if we try to walk or run in water, it doesn’t work very well! Running is a great way to get around when you are moving through thin air with the solid ground beneath you, but humans have developed various modes of swimming for water, that take advantage of our anatomy and account for the different nature of water.
But remember, we are largely made up of water! So what about our moving cells and bacteria, which have to get around in a low Reynolds number environment all the time? And keep in mind that our cells are very small, subject to molecular forces and a lot closer to the size of water molecules than we are. Not surprisingly, there are different forms of swimming that take place in our cells. One of the most common is using a rotating propeller, a little like the blade on a helicopter, to move forward. These structures are called flagella and are common on the surface of various types of cells, to use rotary motion as a way of easily moving through the high Reynolds number environment.
So the next time you are walking around with ease, take a moment to imagine how different it is for everything moving from place to place in and around your cells. It is a whole different world, right inside our own!
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Mapping the conformational space accessible to BACE2 using surface mutants and cocrystals with Fab fragments, Fynomers and Xaperones
David Banner, Bernard Gsell, Maja Debulpaep, Toon Laeremans, Jan Steyaert, Armin Ruf
Onderzoeksoutput: Articlepeer review
28 Citaten (Scopus)
251 Downloads (Pure)
Samenvatting
The aspartic protease BACE2 is responsible for the shedding
of the transmembrane protein Tmem27 from the surface of
pancreatic b-cells, which leads to inactivation of the b-cell
proliferating activity of Tmem27. This role of BACE2 in the
control of b-cell maintenance suggests BACE2 as a drug target
for diabetes. Inhibition of BACE2 has recently been shown
to lead to improved control of glucose homeostasis and to
increased insulin levels in insulin-resistant mice. BACE2 has
52% sequence identity to the well studied Alzheimer's disease
target enzyme b-secretase (BACE1). High-resolution BACE2
structures would contribute significantly to the investigation
of this enzyme as either a drug target or anti-target. Surface
mutagenesis, BACE2-binding antibody Fab fragments, single-
domain camelid antibody VHH fragments (Xaperones) and
Fyn-kinase-derived SH3 domains (Fynomers) were used as
crystallization helpers to obtain the first high-resolution
structures of BACE2. Eight crystal structures in six different
packing environments define an ensemble of low-energy
conformations available to the enzyme. Here, the different
strategies used for raising and selecting BACE2 binders for
cocrystallization are described and the crystallization success,
crystal quality and the time and resources needed to obtain
suitable crystals are compared.
Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)1124-1137
Aantal pagina's14
TijdschriftActa Cryst D
Volume69
DOI's
StatusPublished - 1 jun 2013
Vingerafdruk
Duik in de onderzoeksthema's van 'Mapping the conformational space accessible to BACE2 using surface mutants and cocrystals with Fab fragments, Fynomers and Xaperones'. Samen vormen ze een unieke vingerafdruk.
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Coyote
COYOTE is the story of Ben Clemens (Michael Chiklis), who after 32 years as a border patrol agent, is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.
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Talk:千本
RFV discussion: November 2011
Entry added by known-suspect IP user. Not finding any other dictionaries that list this term with the meanings listed. Just from the kanji, this means +, and has nothing explicitly to do with acupuncture. The linked JA and EN WP articles don't exist. The included picture is also included on the Acupuncture page, but the IP user edited the caption from there to replace "acupuncture" with this apparently spurious word "senbon".
Hit counts, searching for "千本" (this term) + 鍼 ("needle", more specifically referring to acupuncture: needles and thus likely to occur in this context) + の (the Japanese possessive particle, pretty much guaranteed to appear just on Japanese pages and thus a good way to weed out Chinese hits): The page lists as a derived term. Hits:
* : 0
* : 5, but all in the wrong contexts, such as "千本の萩" ("one thousand bush clover plants")
* : 182K, but the first page of hits shows almost only uses such as "鍼千本" ("one thousand needles"), i.e. using 千本 as a number of long slender things, with a few place names sprinkled into the mix.
* : 0
* : 0
* : 5, of which two show use as all or part of a person's name, two show use in role-playing game contexts, and one is about a character in a fictional universe.
Has anyone else heard of this? Or shall we just pull the big lever that opens the trap door under the stage, and send this dancing monkey down the garbage chute? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 23:29, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
* I believe 千本 literally translates to a thousand (counter for long thin objects such as needles). I highly doubt it's used to mean a needle for acupuncture (which is most likely written as 鍼と針 or 鍼の針 - needle used for acupuncture). Its usage as a ninja weapon seems to be mainly inspired by Naruto. There is simply no evidence I can find that shows it is in fact a traditional throwing weapon used by REAL ninjas. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 02:18, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
* Great, thank you James for confirming my suspicions. I'll strip the page down to a bare-bones proper lexicographical entry for the meaning of "one thousand long thin objects", ideally at some point later today. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
* ✅, striking. I also tracked down Wikipedia user w:User:Samuraiantiqueworld who added a mention of senbon to the Shuriken page in this edit, and asked them if they had a source for any real-world instances of an acupuncture tool or ninja weapon called a senbon. If they (really a "they", as best I can tell, as the user account seems to be shared by employees of SamuraiAntiqueWorld.com) get back to me with any valid sources, I'll edit the page accordingly. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 17:37, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
* Note: Samuraiantiqueworld got back to me. Their post and my reply from User_talk:Eirikr are included below:
* FWIW, I can only find manga- and anime-related uses for as an English term. Until such time as this has entered more mainstream (and citable) use, I'm not sure if it yet merits inclusion here. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:31, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
* What's wrong with manga- and anime-related uses? As long as we can find three independent uses, in printed sources or Usenet, it merits inclusion. I'm not finding anything on Google Books, so I don't know what you're looking at--any possible uses of senbon as an English word are drowned out by proper noun usages and transliterated Japanese.--Prosfilaes 02:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
* I had a look at:
* -- quite a bit, with many hits having to do with the Japanese drama Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura.
* -- a more specific search, since this term was ostensibly related to ninja weapons and acupuncture, but most of these are Naruto terms.
* -- and now we get hardly anything at all, two place names, and one kabuki-related book that doesn't appear to actually include the senbon term, nor the alternate romanization sembon.
* As the searches become more restrictive, it becomes clearer that the term senbon as English appears to show up pretty much exclusively in Naruto contexts, which fails the CFI for fictional universe terms of use in at least three fictional universes.
* (I should have been more specific previously; it's not that I'm opposed to manga or anime as a genre, though I am quite unfamiliar with this area. My concern is rather that many of these anon IP user terms from manga and anime come from only one fictional universe.) -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 04:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
* I have googled the term. It seems to be used in the ninja manga カムイ伝 and then adopted by Naruto. The standard word for the weapon is 棒手裏剣, which we already have. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 09:37, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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Carlos Mejia (equestrian)
Carlos Helario Mejia (born 1894, date of death unknown) was a Mexican equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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