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1997–98 Minnesota Timberwolves season
The 1997–98 NBA season was the Timberwolves' 9th season in the National Basketball Association. During the off-season, the Timberwolves acquired Stanley Roberts from the Los Angeles Clippers, and later on signed free agent Tom Hammonds in November. In October, All-Star forward Kevin Garnett signed a six-year contract extension with the Timberwolves, which was worth $126 million. After a 4–1 start to the season, the team played around .500 before posting a seven-game winning streak in January. However, they would lose Tom Gugliotta for the remainder of the season to an ankle injury after 41 games. Chris Carr, who became the team's starting shooting guard this season, also went down with an ankle injury, only playing 51 games. At midseason, the team traded long-time guard Doug West to the Vancouver Grizzlies in exchange for Anthony Peeler. The Timberwolves held a 26–20 record at the All-Star break, and won seven of their final eight games posting their first winning record at 45–37, third in the Midwest Division, and making their second consecutive playoff appearance.
Garnett and second-year star Stephon Marbury both continued to establish themselves as two of the brightest stars in the NBA, as Garnett averaged 18.5 points, 9.6 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, and was selected for the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, while Marbury averaged 17.7 points, 8.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game. In addition, Gugliotta provided the team with 20.1 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game, while Sam Mitchell provided with 12.3 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, Carr contributed 9.9 points per game, and Terry Porter contributed 9.5 points and 3.3 assists per game off the bench. On the defensive side, Cherokee Parks averaged 7.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, while Roberts contributed 6.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, and Hammonds provided with 6.1 points and 4.8 rebounds per game off the bench.
In the Western Conference First Round of the playoffs, the Timberwolves faced off against the 2nd-seeded Seattle SuperSonics. After losing Game 1 on the road, 108–83, the Timberwolves won their first ever playoff game with a 98–93 road win in Game 2. Despite taking a 2–1 series lead, the Timberwolves would lose the next two games to the SuperSonics, thus losing the series in five games.
Following the season, Gugliotta signed as a free agent with the Phoenix Suns, while Porter signed with the Miami Heat, Roberts signed with the Houston Rockets, Parks signed with the Vancouver Grizzlies, and the oft-injured Michael Williams, who returned to play for the Timberwolves for the first time in two years due to a left heel injury, was released to free agency.
Roster Notes
* Rookie center Paul Grant missed the entire season due to foot and ankle injuries.
Season standings
* z - clinched division title
* y - clinched division title
* x - clinched playoff spot
Playoffs
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* 1
* April 24
* @ Seattle
* L 83–108
* Kevin Garnett (18)
* Kevin Garnett (18)
* Stephon Marbury (5)
* KeyArena 17,072
* 0–1
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* 2
* April 26
* @ Seattle
* W 98–93
* Stephon Marbury (25)
* Anthony Peeler (14)
* Stephon Marbury (7)
* KeyArena 17,072
* 1–1
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* 3
* April 28
* Seattle
* W 98–90
* Anthony Peeler (20)
* Kevin Garnett (8)
* Stephon Marbury (11)
* Target Center 19,006
* 2–1
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* 4
* April 30
* Seattle
* L 88–92
* Kevin Garnett (20)
* Kevin Garnett (10)
* Stephon Marbury (7)
* Target Center 19,006
* 2–2
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* 5
* May 2
* @ Seattle
* L 84–97
* Anthony Peeler (28)
* Reggie Jordan (8)
* Stephon Marbury (8)
* KeyArena 17,072
* 2–3
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Iset (daughter of Thutmose III)
Iset or Isis was a princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, a daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut.
She is one of six known children of Thutmose and Merytre; her siblings are Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Prince Menkheperre and princesses Nebetiunet, Meritamen and the second Meritamen. She is depicted together with her sisters and Menkheperre on a statue of their maternal grandmother Hui (now in the British Museum); she is depicted as smaller than her siblings, so she is likely to have been the youngest of them.
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Re-election of Venezuelan president denounced as sham, calls grow for more sanctions
close Video US condemns Venezuela election as a sham Phil Keating reports from Miami.
Trump administration officials on Monday denounced the Venezuelan presidential election as fraudulent, and ramped up economic and diplomatic pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s beleaguered government. The White House announced that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order restricting the Venezuelan government’s ability to liquidate assets for pennies on the dollar at the expense of the Venezuelan people -- in so-called “fire sales.” The order, which stopped short of imposing crippling oil sanctions on the nation’s economy, was the latest effort by Trump to punish Maduro’s government. “This order is the most recent in a strong, consistent stream of actions my Administration has taken targeting the Maduro regime,” Trump said in a statement. “We call for the Maduro regime to restore democracy, hold free and fair elections, release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, and end the repression and economic deprivation of the Venezuelan people.” Desperate Venezuelans emigrating as country near collapse Food and medicine shortages force thousands of Venezuelans cross into neighboring Colombia; Rich Edson reports from the State Department. Many other nations issued similar condemnations of Sunday&aposs election, which saw one of the lowest voter turnouts in decades, and which resulted in a new six-year term for socialist leader Maduro. The Lima Group, a coalition of 14 nations from throughout the Americas, including Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, pledged to scale back diplomatic relations with Venezuela and urge international organizations not to issue Venezuela any new credit. “Venezuela’s election was a sham,” tweeted Vice President Mike Pence. “America stands AGAINST dictatorship and WITH the people of Venezuela calling for free and fair elections. @POTUS has taken strong action on Venezuela and there’s more to come… The U.S. will not sit idly by as Venezuela crumbles. FreeVenezuela” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement: “Until the Maduro regime restores a democratic path in Venezuela through free, fair, and transparent elections, the government faces isolation from the international community. Sunday’s process was choreographed by a regime too unpopular and afraid of its own people to risk free elections and open competition.” Pompeo said the Maduro government had practically ensured its victory by eliminating challengers through jailing political adversaries and banning major opposition parties and leaders from participating in the election. “The United States stands with democratic nations in support of the Venezuelan people and will take swift economic and diplomatic actions to support the restoration of their democracy,” Pompeo warned. Most opposition organizers had urged Venezuelans not to participate in an election from which the most popular anti-government leaders had been banned. Leaders with the nation’s fragmented opposition declared the widespread abstention a silent but forceful protest and vowed to regroup moving forward. A senior U.S. official said Sunday the Trump administration might press ahead on threats of imposing crippling oil sanctions. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who has repeatedly pushed for a tougher U.S. response on Venezuela, declared in Spanish on Twitter that “now there is no doubt that there is not an electoral exit.” Both of Maduro’s opponents accused electoral authorities of ignoring blatant violations before the vote and on election day. Presidential candidate Henri Falcon said that at 86 percent of voting centers, ruling party activists set up so-called “Red Points” where they used cellphones to scan QR codes on government-issued “Fatherland Cards.” U.S. experts on Venezuela said that the election illustrated Maduro’s determination to hold on to power. “He has dug in to a point of no return in terms of normal relations between Venezuela and the rest of the world,” said Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs under President George W. Bush. “We have to ratchet up the pressure. We need to declare that he is not a legitimate leader, we should break diplomatic relations with him and sit with the [opposition-led] National Assembly to prepare for a transition.” Noriega, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said strong actions by the Trump administration might encourage those in the Maduro government and the military who have misgivings to take steps against him. At the same time, Noriega said that Maduro has important business and political ties to Cuba, China and Russia, which give him a lifeline. “One caveat is we should not equate the collapse of the [Venezuelan] economy with the collapse of the regime,” Noriega said. Sen. Robert Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, called on the administration to work with Congress and other nations in the Western Hemisphere to bring democratic reform to Venezuela. “Nicolas Maduro must not be allowed to believe he can hide from this brazen decision to rob the Venezuelan people of their right to a free and fair election,” said Menendez, of New Jersey, in a statement to Fox News. “Beyond universal condemnation, the international community needs to expand coordinated diplomatic pressure on the Maduro regime, including addressing the rampant criminal activities of Venezuelan officials and the growing refugee crisis stemming from a failed economic model.” Former Venezuelan journalist Sonia Schott, now a political analyst in Washington D.C., said the dependence of some Latin American countries on Venezuela&aposs oil makes them reluctant to criticize the Maduro government. "A big hindrance to there being pressure in the region on the Maduro government is that there&aposs not a lot of consensus, especially in the Caribbean, on getting tougher on Venezuela," Schott told Fox News. "Their economies are weak, and Venezuela gives them oil." Opinion polls say the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans distrust the electoral council. Official turnout figures in last year’s elections for a constitutional assembly, which the opposition also boycotted, were inflated by at least 1 million votes, according to the company that provided technology for Venezuela’s electronic voting machines for more than a decade. Fox News&apos Mike Arroyo and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Stuhleck
Stuhleck (1,782 m) is a mountain in Steiermark, Austria. It is the highest mountain of the Fischbach Alps and of the Prealps east of the Mur.
Lying in the sparsely populated commune of Spital am Semmering, Stuhleck is a grassy mountain with gentle slopes, although its lower slopes are heavily wooded. With the summit being above the treeline, it offers fine views of some of the higher alpine ranges to the west, and it is a fairly easy hike to the top.
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Transactional File System
Warning!
Microsoft strongly recommends developers investigate utilizing the discussed alternatives (or in some cases, investigate other alternatives) rather than adopting an API platform which may not be available in future versions of Windows.
– MSDN
What?
Microsoft introduced Transactional NTFS (TxF) with Windows Vista. This enabled developers to make a number of file system operations and they would need to complete all or everything is rolled back (like in database transactions)
It uses unmanaged C++ operations from the Kernel32.dll. Also the Distributed Transaction Coordinator is used for managing the transaction.
Why?
Ever wanted to process a set of files as a whole? What if the last of 100 files is not moved / deleted / written? You would need to do a corrective action. What if the corrective action fails?
How?
I’m investigating the TxF for reading and moving a set of files. The files need to be parsed, loaded into a database and archived as a set. When a file fails every file needs to be left in the input folder. This can be achieved by starting a transactionscope and completing it when everything succeeds.
using (var scope = new TransactionScope()) {
foreach (var file in files) {
var source = Path.Combine(directory, file);
using(var stream = TransactedFile.Open(source,
FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.None))
{
// read file and put in database
}
var destination = Path.Combine(archive, file);
TransactedFile.Move(source, destination);
}
scope.Complete();
}
Again: Microsoft is planning to deprecate the TxF API’s. Maybe if we all start using it Microsoft will hang on to it.
References
Transaction File System wrappers on github
Alternatives to using Transactional NTFS on MSDN
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Tropical Storm Hanna (2002)
Tropical Storm Hanna was a moderately strong tropical storm that affected the Gulf Coast and Southeastern regions of the United States. The ninth tropical cyclone and eighth named storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, Hanna formed through the complex interaction of a surface trough, a tropical wave, and an upper-level low pressure system, a disturbance in the upper atmosphere. Designated a tropical depression at 0000 UTC on September 12, the storm remained disorganized throughout its duration, though it attained tropical storm status and a peak intensity of 1001 mbar, with winds of 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). Hanna crossed extreme southeastern Louisiana, and made a second landfall along the Alabama–Mississippi border.
Because most of the associated convective activity was east of the center of circulation, Louisiana and Mississippi received minimal damage. However, on Dauphin Island, Alabama, the storm caused coastal flooding which closed roads and forced the evacuation of residents. Florida received high wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and strong surf that resulted in the deaths of three swimmers. 20,000 homes in the state lost electricity. The heavy rainfall progressed into Georgia, where significant flooding occurred. Crop damage was extensive, and about 335 structures were damaged by the flooding. The storm caused a total of about $20 million (2002 USD; $23.96 million 2008 USD) in damage.
Meteorological history
A broad surface trough extended from the western Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of Mexico in early September 2002. At the same time, a westward-moving tropical wave entered the gulf on September 10 and spawned a weak low along the trough, with little associated thunderstorm activity. On September 11, an upper-level low over the United States moved into the Gulf and became cut off from the flow, allowing atmospheric convection to develop to the east of the tropical wave. The surface low organized, and convection formed closer to the center of the low. At 0000 UTC on September 12, a Hurricane Hunters aircraft was able to find a well-defined center of circulation; the National Hurricane Center (NHC) thus designated it a tropical depression while it was about 280 mi south of Pensacola, Florida.
After being designated, the cyclone became disorganized, and contained little deep and persistent convection; with dry air infringing on the western edge of the storm, substantial intensification was deemed unlikely. Despite being sheared, the cyclone neared tropical storm status later that day, though it remained a depression due to a partially non-tropical appearance. Initially, the depression meandered towards the northeast due to weak steering currents, and it intensified into a tropical storm at 0600 UTC. As such, it was named Hanna by the National Hurricane Center. Over the next 24 hours, the low-level center rotated around the mid- and upper-level centers, and the entire tropical storm turned southwestward by late September 12. After a jog to the northwest, the low-level center became separated from the convection. Meandering, the storm started to turn northward under the steering currents of a southwesterly flow associated with an approaching mid-level trough. Hanna then strengthened sharply to reach to its peak intensity of 60 miles per hour (100 km/h) at 0000 UTC on September 14.
Convection shifted towards the eastern semicircle of the circulation, while the still-exposed center became malformed and elongated. On September 14, the poorly organized cyclone crossed southeastern Louisiana, turned towards the north-northeast and made a second landfall close to the Alabama–Mississippi border at 1500 UTC that day, still at its peak strength. The storm dissipated rapidly as it proceeded inland, and the remnant low pressure area moved into Georgia and South Carolina.
Preparations
Shortly after the formation of the storm, the National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch for the coastal area between Pascagoula, Mississippi and the Suwannee River in Florida. A tropical storm warning for the region between Grand Isle, Louisiana and Apalachicola, Florida replaced the watch, though it was discontinued east of Apalachicola. All tropical cyclone warnings and watches were discontinued by 1800 UTC on September 14, as there was no longer a need for the advisories. After the landfall, officials issued flood watches for inland parts of Mississippi and Alabama as well as for western portions of Georgia and the Carolinas. On Dauphin Island in Alabama, some residents boarded up windows and filled sandbags provided by local fire departments to prepare for Hanna. The Red Cross opened 10 shelters throughout the Gulf Coast region.
Impact
The total damage caused by Tropical Storm Hanna amounted to about $20 million—equivalent to $23 million in 2008 USD.
U.S. Gulf Coast
In Louisiana, damage was light, as the majority of Hanna's convective activity was to the east. Rainfall was mostly less than 1 inches (25 mm), and little rise in tide was reported. Little or no damage occurred in neighboring Mississippi, where similar effects were reported.
Damage was greater in Alabama, where rain reached 7.55 in at Coden and 5.75 in at Belle Fontaine. Sustained winds of 40 mph were reported at Dauphin Island, with gusts up to 51 mph. The lowest barometric pressure was also at Dauphin Island; it reportedly fell to 1005 mb. Storm tides of 3.7 ft caused minor coastal flooding and beach erosion in some areas, including along the causeway that crosses the Mobile Bay. One tornado, an F0 on the Fujita Scale, touched down in south Mobile County, knocking down trees. Some residents were left without electric power, and there was flooding on both ends of Dauphin Island, leading to road closures. The storm forced the evacuation of some residents on the western end of the island. In addition to the heavy rains, trees were downed in parts of Baldwin County.
In Florida, peak gusts were recorded at 68 mph near Pensacola Beach. The winds, combined with associated thunderstorms, caused minor damage, and brought down small trees and power lines. Throughout Walton County, Hanna left approximately 15,000 customers without power, forming a statewide total of 20,000 power outages. Due to high winds, bridges to offshore islands were closed. Minor beach erosion was reported along the coast of Walton, Bay and Gulf counties. Three people drowned in high surf; one near Pensacola Beach, one at Seagrove Beach and another at Panama City Beach. The fatalities prompted a local Police Major to comment, "People are getting into the water and not paying attention to the warning flags." Heavy rain fell throughout the central and western Panhandle; the highest reported total was 9.68 in, at Chipley. As a result, rivers topped their banks, while county roads and homes in Perry, as well as streets in the Tallahassee region, were flooded. The total damage in Florida is estimated at $400,000 (2002 USD).
Eastern United States
Hanna dropped heavy rainfall across much of Georgia, peaking at 15.56 in at Donalsonville, 12.47 in at Carrollton, and 11.23 in at Embry. Although the heaviest rainfall was mostly confined to southwestern parts of the state, precipitation was widespread within a northwest–northeast feeder band over central and northern Georgia. Associated with the band was up to 2 in of rainfall in a matter of hours, as well as gusty thunderstorms. The highest rainfall totals from this individual band were limited to an area north of a line from Atlanta to Athens. The heavy rainfall helped to relieve a persistent drought, bringing vegetation back to life. However, climatologists determined that the rainfall did not fully alleviate the dry conditions. The band of thunderstorms produced gusts of 40 to 50 mph, downing trees and power lines. In the Atlanta metropolitan area, 48,000 customers received power outages. The winds tore a roof off a house and damaged a number of mobile homes. The heavy rainfall caused severe flooding; in Donalsonville, 250 houses and 50 businesses suffered water damage, while another 35 were damaged in nearby Miller County. Roads were flooded, including parts of U.S. Route 27. Crop damage was significant in the state. According to the Georgia Farm Services Agency, $19 million (2002 USD; $22 million 2008 USD) in damage to cotton and peanut crops were reported. Due to the flooding and damage, Governor Roy Barnes declared Seminole, Miller and Decatur counties federal disaster areas.
Moderate to heavy rain extended as far north as the Carolinas, and light showers reached the Delmarva Peninsula. Locations in western South Carolina picked up around 3 inches (75 mm) of rainfall, causing flooding on some roads and highways. Various streams and ponds topped their banks, and flood waters on some roads reached an estimated 4 to 6 in deep. On South Carolina Highway 20, a motorist became stranded in high waters, and nearby houses were damaged. The rainfall delayed a football game at Williams-Brice Stadium for about 50 minutes. Farther northward, the remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna contributed to around 1 inch (25 mm) of rainfall in New England, particularly in Vermont.
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Talk:Behenic acid
Cholesterol?
The reference Nilo B. Cater and Margo A. Denke: "Behenic acid is a cholesterol-raising saturated fatty acid in humans" Am J Clin Nutr 2001 73 41-44 is cited to support the contention that behenic acid is a cholesterol-raising saturated fatty acid in humans. The reference is a paper covering a study of seven adult male humans. The cholesterol-raising conclusion was based on comparisons of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol produced by a high-behanate diet compared to a high-oleate diet.
For total cholesterol, the high-behenate result was 5.87±0.8 mmol/L, the high oleate result was 5.12±0.5 mmol/L, according to Table 3, p. 43. The difference, 0.75±0.94 is claimed to be significant at the 98.33% level, according to the Student's t test (subsection "Statistical analysis, also on page 43.) For seven measurements, the t value (average / standard deviation of average) must be no less than 2.365 to be significant at the 97.5% level, and no less than 2.998 to be significant at the 99% level. The standard deviation of the average is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the number of subjects (seven in this case). Thus, for the claimed level of significance, 0.75 divided by 0.356 (= 2.106) must be greater than 2.365. It is not.
For LDL cholesterol, the published results were 4.40±0.8 and 3.70±0.6, yielding an average difference of 0.70, a standard deviation of the average difference of 0.380, and a t value of 1.84, which still is not greater than 2.365.
According to the data in the referenced paper, the significance claimed in the referenced paper based on the data is not there. Consequently, I have tagged the reference as unreliable. Jay L09 (talk) 14:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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GLUtesselator, zero-area triang, & T-intersections
I came across this issue when I was trying to triangulate Text entities using GLUtesselator. However, it can occur during triangulation of any polygon using GLUtesselator. The problem is that sometimes GLUtesselator generates zero-area triangles. Most of the times you can ignore them but there are cases where they can’t be ignored. I am trying to find a solution so that final triangulation of a given polygon do not have any zero-area triangles or T-intersections. As far as I know, GLUtesselator is one of the most robust and stable tesselator available so I would like to stick to it and won’t mind doing some post-processing to fix the triangulation rather than writing a new tesselator myself.
I will try to demonstrate the problem with tessellation of character ‘H’. Input vertices to the GLUtesselator are:
Vertex |x |y |z |Edge flag
V1 |298 |381 |0 |True
V2 |298 |0 |0 |True
V3 |266 |0 |0 |True
V4 |266 |185 |0 |True
V5 |32 |185 |0 |True
V6 |32 |0 |0 |True
V7 |0 |0 |0 |True
V8 |0 |381 |0 |True
V9 |32 |381 |0 |True
V10 |32 |212 |0 |True
V11 |266 |212 |0 |True
V12 |266 |381 |0 |True
This is how it was triangulated using GLUtesselator. I set the winding to GLU_TESS_WINDING_ODD and GLU_TESS_TOLERANCE was set to default 0.
After preliminary inspection of the triangulation, it seemed as if there were T-intersections at vertex 5 and 10 which raised a red flag as the geometry was further processed by half-edge data structure and T-intersections were not allowed.
However, generating the list of triangles showed that tessellation actually generated zero-area triangles and not T-intersections. Here is the list of generated triangles:
Triangle | Vertex indices | Edge flags |Comment
T1 | (1, 11, 12) |(F, T, T) |
T2 | (11, 1, 4) | (F, F, F) |
T3 | (4, 1, 3) | (F, F, T) |
T4 | (3, 1, 2) | (F, T, T) |
T5 | (11, 5, 10) | (F, F, T) |
T6 | (5, 11, 4) | (F, F, T) |
T7 | (9, 7, 8) | (F, T, T) |
T8 | (7, 9, 6) | (F, F, T) |
T9 | (6, 9, 10) | (F, T, F) |Zero-area
T10 | (6, 10, 5) | (F, F, T) |Zero-area
Legend : T = True , F = False
The problem is that I can’t use zero-area triangles either as I can’t calculate normal or equation of plane correctly for zero-area triangles. Normals and equation of planes can be very critical for implementing smoothing and shadow generation algorithms so they need to have a valid value.
So, I am stuck here with a very bad situation: If I have zero-area triangles then I can’t calculate normal and equation of plane correctly which is a must. It is trivial to remove zero-area triangles but if I remove them then I am stuck with T-intersections and I can’t live with them either.
So I would like to make sure that in cases where GLUtesselator generates zero-area triangles, my application will re-triangulate a sub-portion of the polygon such that there are no zero-area triangles or T-intersections. For our example case, triangulation should look some thing like this:
I think its a very fundamental problem and a solution to it will benefit lot of developers working in a similar area. I am sure I am not the first one to stumble upon it. Any suggestions how it can be done? Any alternate approach is very welcome as well.
If you have trouble reading the tables clearly, you can also check this post at GLUtesselator : Issues with zero-area triangles and T-intersections
-Prasad
Yes, I’ve encountered this problem too, using GLUtesselator to create 3D text, and it almost always
creates degenerate triangles. And if you try to remove these degenerate triangles, T-junctions
are created, which are just as bad, since the mesh is no longer a closed mesh. Now, you have
a bunch of open edges, which causes a lot of headaches.
You might be tempted to go the long route try to remove T-junctions, but the act of removing
them may create even more T-junctions. So, in the end, you’ll have to live with zero-area triangles
if you want a closed mesh, or need to find another tesselator.
Alternatives:
You might want to look at Delaunay triangulation. Delaunay triangulation has some nice properties
which prevent zero-area triangles from being created.
From wikipedia:
Delaunay triangulations maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation;
they tend to avoid skinny triangles.
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Cloud Migration Checklist: what to do and why to do it
Every company has to perform a cloud migration at some point of their scaling up. We provide a cloud migration checklist to help you make the right choices and avoid mistakes.
We have already covered the most common mistakes made during cloud transition and mentioned the right approaches to dealing with the challenges that arise. Today we describe the best-case scenario of cloud migration and explore the steps needed to make everything work fine:
1. IT infrastructure audit
2. Identifying the existing issues and designing the solutions for them
3. Designing a migration plan
4. Designing the optimal cloud infrastructure
5. Completing a pilot project in parallel with the legacy processes to test the system
6. Improving the infrastructure based on the pilot project feedback and outcomes
7. Moving the system components to the cloud (product code, databases, media content and scripts, etc.)
8. Configuring the CI/CD pipelines, cloud monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
Below we describe each of these steps in more details.
IT infrastructure audit
As the business grows, their IT infrastructure grows with them. In the perfect world, the growth goes along the planned lines and the infrastructure is built according to a long-term strategy to support that growth. In real life, however, the IT infrastructure is usually expanded in a somewhat chaotic way.
Thus said, the first step to the cloud transition is performing a thorough audit of existing IT infrastructure, workflows, tools and processes in place. This audit can be performed internally, by your IT department, or by hiring a dedicated DevOps team to assess the situation. The audit involves interviewing the stakeholders and gathering all the data and documentation available to form a holistic picture of the processes and tasks your IT infrastructure must support.
There can be two outcomes of such an audit. The infrastructure can be either lifted-and-shifted to the cloud or rebuilt from scratch using the cloud-native components when the databases are synchronized with their cloud analogs and the rest is replaced with new modules. The latter approach is longer, costs more but provides the best results long-term. However, most of the customers prefer to choose the former variant and try to lift-and-shift their systems to the cloud.
Omitting the IT infrastructure audit can be the doom of the whole project, and is highly inadvisable for any business. The only exclusion might be moving the really small systems with a clear structure, but these are usually created in the cloud from the start nowadays.
Identifying the existing issues and designing the solutions for them
Once the audit is complete, certain bottlenecks and weak spots become visible. Taking them with you to the cloud is wasteful, so the solutions for these issues must be designed. Most of these problems are usually solved by the cloud structure itself, like providing the horizontal scalability and high-availability, but some flaws usually need correction before passing on. These improvements become the parts of the global cloud migration plan.
Otherwise, cloud migration will not provide any tangible benefits, as all the old discrepancies and inefficiency will remain in the cloud processes and will hamper your further growth.
Designing a migration plan
A migration plan is a holistic roadmap of the goals the business wants to achieve through the cloud migration, the means to reach these goals and the milestones for measuring the progress of the project. The better the preceding audit, the more detailed Key Performance Indicators can be selected, and the more visible the project status will be.
Moving on without a plan can be devastating for the project, as it is quite clear that the totally incorrect sequence of actions will lead to a disaster.
Designing the optimal cloud infrastructure
There are multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) like AWS or Azure, GCP or DigitalOcean. Depending on the needs of your business, some offers might be better suited for your systems than others. In addition, modern DevOps tools allow building cloud-agnostic infrastructures, when the data is stored with GCP, but processed by AWS and the scripts are executed using Azure Functions. Usually, however, such complex structures are not needed, and selecting the optimal cloud destination helps satisfy all the needs of the project.
However, opting blindly for provider-specific features and products (like AWS RDS, Google Bigquery, AWS Fargate or AWS Aurora) can lead to overpaying for the services you do not actually need. Thus said, an in-depth knowledge of the cloud products and offers from various CSPs helps to understand the optimal selection of modules for your case.
Completing a pilot project in parallel with the legacy processes to test the system
Once the new cloud infrastructure for your business is completed, it should be tested by moving some of the lesser systems there as a pilot project. This will allow determining if your assumptions of the workloads were correct, if the system is scalable to your needs, if the transition handling is adequate, etc.
Going full-on with migrating all the systems at once can result in major system breakdown and prolonged service downtime, which is unacceptable in the nowadays business.
Improving the infrastructure based on the pilot project feedback and outcomes
Once the pilot is completed and the feedback is gathered, the cloud systems can be tuned based on the results of the project. For example, sometimes it becomes obvious that Auto-Scaling groups should be used instead of configured instance clusters, that a bastion host should be used to provide secure admin access to the system, or that an automated database backup should be configured using Terraform, instead of the platform-specific tools.
Moving the system components to the cloud
Once everything is ready, the actual cloud migration can begin. The product code can remain in GitHub, but the rest of the resources (databases, website media content, scripts, etc.) must be moved to the cloud. The most important part of this transition is moving the domain name to the cloud service provider beforehand, to avoid post-migration downtime. This is due to the fact, that CSPs allow setting the TTL for nameserver records as little as 3 seconds, so the migration will be seamless.
The legacy databases must be synced with the cloud databases. Be aware, that MySQL can be 100% synced with MySQL only, so swapping the database (to Redis or Cassandra) during the cloud migration requires writing lots of custom code and is generally inadvisable. The cloud replica of your DB must run in parallel with the legacy one to synchronize, then the legacy DB is shut down and your database operates from the cloud from now on. Moving the media content and scripts is usually simpler, as they are not updated as intensely as the DB records.
Configuring the CI/CD pipelines, cloud monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
Once your products or services arrive at the cloud, you gain access to DevOps best practices like Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and managing the Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This means that instead of provisioning and configuring each separate server, cloud-based businesses manage their resources with the help of configuration scripts, like Kubernetes and Terraform manifests, which can be stored at GitHub, versioned and adjusted as any other code. This helps in decreasing the environment setup time significantly.
In addition, most of the mundane daily IT tasks can be automated using Jenkins, Ansible and other CI/CD tools, so that your IT team will be able to concentrate on moving your business forward, instead of doing the repetitive configuration and maintenance jobs. One of the most popular CI/CD pipelines involves the automated process of provisioning the testing and staging servers for the new batch of code and pushing the new product release into production automatically, should the code pass the automated unit tests. This way, every developer can deliver new code without waiting for Ops to provide the server resources, dramatically decreasing the time to market for new product features.
Similar CI/CD pipelines can be created for monitoring, logging and alerting systems. This enables the AIOps approach to infrastructure monitoring, where most of the repetitive incidents are solved before they even occur, removing much of the mundane workloads of the IT team. This can be done using the tools like Zabbix, Prometheus+Grafana and other components of the DevOps monitoring toolkit.
Conclusions on the cloud migration checklist
As you can see, cloud migration is quite a doable endeavor, if it is executed according to a straightforward checklist. However, there are multiple underwater reefs that pose a grave danger for the project, should it be performed by a team without previous experience of such kind.
Thus said, cloud migration is one of the most popular services provided by reliable Managed Services Providers worldwide. These companies have ample experience designing and implementing the cloud migration plans, allowing their customers reach the business goals set, optimize their product or services performance and deliver more value to their customers while spending less on their IT infrastructure maintenance.
Are you planning a cloud migration now? IT Svit stands ready to help!
Originally published at itsvit.com on October 30, 2018.
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How to Create Voice Memos on iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch
Need to record a conversation, speech, or note? Here's how to use the Voice Memos app for iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS devices.
With Apple's Voice Memos app, you've long been able to create voice memos on your iPhone to record conversations, dictation, and other audio notes. With iOS 12, Voice Memos segued to the iPad, and with iOS 13 and watchOS 6, the app is nestled on the Apple Watch.
Creating a voice memo seems simple enough; just tap the record button, right? There's more to it than that. You can name and save your recordings, edit an audio file, share it via email, save it to an online service, and more.
With iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.1, the app adds more accessible actions to copy and save your recordings to the Files app and Dropbox. The overall process for creating voice memos is similar on an iPhone and iPad, but some steps and tools are different, so we'll cover each device separately, concluding with the Apple Watch.
Update iPhone or iPad
To take advantage of all the new features in the Voice Memos app, make sure you are running the most up-to-date version of iOS and iPadOS. On iPhone, go to Settings > General > Software Update. If you have iOS 13.1 or higher, you're good to go. If not, install the latest version.
On iPad, go to Settings > General > Software Update. If you have iPadOS 13.1 or higher, you're set. If not, install the latest version.
Record on iPhone
Open the Voice Memos app on your iPhone and tap the record button to start the recording. The recording kicks off with a graph showing the audio levels. When you're done, tap the record button to stop and save the recording. Alternatively, you can tap the recording to display it in full screen. In this mode, you can pause the recording and then resume it, or tap Done to stop and save the recording.
Manage Recordings on iPhone
The recording is saved as a voice memo. From here, you can play and pause the recording as well as skip ahead or go back 15 seconds. To give the recording a specific name, tap the default title of New Recording and rename it.
If you don't want to keep the recording, tap the trash can icon to delete it. If you change your mind and want it back, open the entry for Recently Deleted and tap the recording. Tap Recover and then select Recover Recording. Don't wait too long, though. By default, any deleted recordings are purged after 30 days.
Replace Audio on iPhone
Maybe you want to keep the recording but would like to edit parts of it. Tap the recording and then tap the ellipsis icon () at the left. From the menu, tap the command to Edit Recording. To replace parts of the recording with new content, move the recording to the area you'd like to replace. Tap the Replace button and record the new audio portion.
After you've finished recording the replacement audio, tap Pause to stop the recording. You can then move back to the start of the section you replaced and tap Play to hear the new audio. Tap Done if finished.
Remove Portions of a Recording on iPhone
To remove certain portions of a recording, tap the crop icon in the upper-right corner of the editing screen. You now have two options. Trim removes the sections of the audio before the left yellow marker and after the right yellow marker. Delete removes all the audio within the two yellow markers.
On the lower yellow graph, move the left marker to the starting position and move the right marker to the ending position. Then tap either Trim or Delete, depending on whether you want to remove the sections outside or inside the two markers.
Play the audio to make sure you removed the right section. If not, just tap Cancel on the upper-left corner and try again. If you're happy with your changes, tap the Save button and then tap Done.
Share Recordings on iPhone
After you've finalized the recording, you can copy, share, or duplicate it, and perform other actions. Tap the ellipsis icon () for that recording to see your sharing options. Tap the Copy icon to create an M4A file of your recording and Share to send the recording via email or messaging app.
The file can also be copied to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or another storage site. Tap Duplicate to create another copy of the recording. Tap Save to Files to save it to any service set up through the iOS Files app, such as Box, DropBox, OneDrive, or iCloud.
Finally, tap the link to Edit Actions, and you can enable or disable certain actions accessible from the menu, including Save to Files and Save to Dropbox. You can also change the order in which the actions appear. By default, actions tagged as Favorites appear at the top of the list. Add all the actions to your Favorites and then press and hold on its hamburger icon () to raise or lower it in the list.
Record on iPad
At the Voice Memos screen, tap the record button to start the recording. On an iPad, the recording displays full screen with the necessary buttons to control it: Pause, Resume, and Done.
Rename Recordings on iPad
The recording is saved as a voice memo. From here, you can play and pause the recording and skip ahead or go back 15 seconds. To give the recording a different name, tap the default title of New Recording and rename it.
Delete Recordings on iPad
To delete the recording, tap the trash can icon. To recover it, open the entry for Recently Deleted and tap the recording. Tap Recover and then select Recover Recording.
Replace Audio on iPad
To edit the recording, tap the Edit link in the upper right. At the editing screen, move to the start of an area you want to replace. Tap the Replace button and record a new audio portion. After you've finished recording the replacement audio, tap Pause to stop the recording. You can then move to the start of the section you replaced and tap Play to hear the new audio. Tap Done if finished.
Edit Recordings on iPad
You can also remove portions of the recording. At the editing screen, tap the crop icon in the upper-right corner. Trim removes the sections of the audio before the left yellow marker and after the right yellow marker. Delete removes all the audio within the two yellow markers.
On the lower yellow graph, move the left marker to the starting position and move the right marker to the ending position. Tap either Trim or Delete, depending on what you want to remove.
Play the audio to make sure you removed the correct section. If not, just tap Cancel on the upper-left corner and try again. If you like the changes, tap the Save button and then tap Done.
Share Recordings on iPad
After you've finished the recording, you can copy, share it, duplicate it, and perform other actions. Tap the Share icon for that recording. You can then share it as an M4A file with a specific person or through a service or app such as AirDrop, Messages, Mail, or Notes.
Copy the recording as a file to attach it to a message or document. Or edit the recording, duplicate it, and save it to Dropbox or to a specific online service via the Files app.
Tap the link to Edit Actions where you can enable or disable certain actions and change the order in which the actions appear.
Change Voice Memos App Settings
You can change certain settings for the Voice Memos app by opening Settings > Voice Memos on iPhone or iPad. Review the type of access you want give to Voice Memos and make any necessary changes.
Tap the setting for Clear Deleted if you want to change how long deleted files will be available to restore within the Voice Memos app. Choose to remove your files immediately, after one day, seven days, or never. If you do nothing, the default is 30 days.
Tap Audio Quality to tweak those settings. Keeping a recording as Compressed uses a lower audio quality but a smaller file size. Changing it to Lossless beefs up the quality but bumps up the size of each recording. You can also turn off location-based naming if you don't want the location to be attached to your recordings.
Sync Your Voice Memos
Sync your voice memos through iCloud so that any recordings you make on one of your devices will appear on others, including an iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To do this on each of your mobile devices, go to Settings. Tap your name at the top of the screen and then tap the setting for iCloud. Swipe down the screen and turn on the switch for Voice Memos if it's off.
Update Apple Watch to watchOS 6
Voice Memos also now works on Apple Watch, but you must upgrade to watchOS 6 first. Open the Watch app on an iPhone running iOS 13 or higher. In the My Watch section, go to General > Software Update. The app will tell you if you're up to date. If not, let watchOS 6 download and install.
How to Use Voice Memos on Apple Watch
After watchOS 6 is installed and running, open the Voice Memos app on your watch. Tap the record button to start the recording. Press the record button again to stop it. Tap the recording to display it and tap the Play button to play it. You can jump ahead 15 seconds or go back 15 seconds.
To change the name, tap the default name and type your new name through either dictation or scribbling. Tap the ellipsis icon and you can delete the recording. Otherwise, the recording will sync to your other supported Apple devices via iCloud. You can always go back to the Recording screen and tap the Record button to create another voice memo.
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Despite all efforts to avoid bugs, software sometimes crashes in the field, leaving crash traces as the only information to localize the problem. Prior approaches on localizing where to fix the root cause of a crash do not scale well to ultra-large scale, heterogeneous code bases that contain millions of code files written in multiple programming languages. This paper presents Scaffle, the first scalable bug localization technique, which is based on the key insight to divide the problem into two easier sub-problems. First, a trained machine learning model predicts which lines of a raw crash trace are most informative for localizing the bug. Then, these lines are fed to an information retrieval-based search engine to retrieve file paths in the code base, predicting which file to change to address the crash. The approach does not make any assumptions about the format of a crash trace or the language that produces it. We evaluate Scaffle with tens of thousands of crash traces produced by a large-scale industrial code base at Facebook that contains millions of possible bug locations and that powers tools used by billions of people. The results show that the approach correctly predicts the file to fix for 40% to 60% (50% to 70%) of all crash traces within the top-1 (top-5) predictions. Moreover, Scaffle improves over several baseline approaches, including an existing classification-based approach, a scalable variant of existing information retrieval-based approaches, and a set of hand-tuned, industrially deployed heuristics.
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Finally, at Port in the Caribbean. Now, How to Escape it?
Frugal Traveler When I disembarked and took a look at Amber Cove, my initial thought was: “Oh, no.” We had just docked in the Dominican Republic after a full travel day at sea — a fairly smooth, tranquil journey (this was, thankfully, weeks before Hurricane Matthew struck the region) through the Caribbean on our ship, the Adonia. I was on the third day of a weeklong Fathom “impact” cruise, the goal of which is to engage the several hundred passengers in on-the-ground volunteer activities in and around the Dominican town of Puerto Plata, on the northern coast of the country. In addition to volunteering, I was excited to do some exploring of the surrounding area. Where we had landed, however, an $85 million “town” called Amber Cove, didn’t instill in me a lot of hope. The port of call, built specifically by Carnival to entertain cruise passengers (and separate them from their money) is a complex of cabanas, overpriced shops and deck chairs that’s about as interesting as a tract housing development. I knew that if I were going to get any real sense of the country during my limited time there, I would have to escape Amber Cove. Armed with nothing more than some cash, my passport and my cruise card (which I needed to be readmitted to Amber Cove and the ship), I made the long walk to the front gate of the town. The taxis inside the complex had friendly drivers and well-maintained cars, but are on the pricier side, so I decided to take my chances outside on the street. I was immediately approached by a group of men with their personal automobiles, and we began to haggle. Haggling happens constantly in the Dominican Republic, and I would encourage travelers to embrace it. Big gestures, overreactions and feigned outrage are commonplace — just keep a good sense of humor and remember that the price difference probably means more to them than it does to you. I negotiated a half-day trip around the nearby town of Puerto Plata with a middle-aged man named Modesto Toribio. He quoted me $50. After a few grand gestures and some faux exasperation we settled on $30. Our first stop was the teleférico, or cable car, which bills itself as the only one in the Caribbean. The fee is 350 Dominican pesos (about $8) or 100 pesos for Dominican citizens. The brightly colored teleférico is suspended high above ground like a ski lift. It lurched into the air and I was treated to a gorgeous view of the town below. After roughly 10 minutes, we arrived at the top of Mount Isabel de Torres, greeted by an enormous Christ the Redeemer statue. Once at the top, I wandered around the lush, peaceful surrounding national park. You’ll probably be approached by people trying to sell you souvenirs or offering to take you on a tour — feel free to say no in a firm but friendly manner. Modesto met me back at the bottom of the mountain and we drove into town. We got to talking as the day went on, and I asked him about the economic situation in the country. He spoke eloquently about the income inequality and poverty that afflicts the Dominican Republic, but said he had hope. “But many things have to change,” he said. He also said that, on balance, he appreciated the influx of tourists. “For many Dominicans, tourism is the only way they make money.” We drove through the center of town, past hawkers of candy, magazines and fresh fruit, until we arrived at the Fortaleza San Felipe, a 16th-century Spanish fortress that sits imposingly on the shore, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The old weapons, armaments and homage to Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the country’s founding fathers, are interesting (there’s also an English-language audio tour), but what was really breathtaking were the grounds around the fort and vistas. Puerto Plata is famous for its beaches, which are quite lovely. Modesto and I drove along the coast until we came to a pair of adjacent beaches, Cosita Rica and Long Beach. Modesto called out to a man on the sidewalk, “Levántale la cabeza, levántale!” — “Lift up your head!” It turned out they were old friends. “Tranquilo,” said the man, with a smile. “Luchando.” Struggling. We sat at a beachside cafe called D’Mariolis and ordered a café con leche and a milkshake made with sapote — a soft tropical fruit that tastes vaguely of caramel and blends wonderfully into icy, milky drinks. The total cost was 115 pesos, or about $2.50. Beach chairs can be rented for 100 pesos. I had a great time exploring with Modesto, but some activities are more fun when done in a group. On a different day, I set out with 10 fellow cruise passengers in a rented white minibus (my share was $10) for 27 Charcos, the waterfalls of the Damajagua river. Yes, there are 27 waterfalls, and yes, it is possible to jump, splash and slide down each and every one of them. Visitors can pay for access to seven, 12 or all 27 waterfalls; we decided to do the whole thing, and each forked over $12. Plan to be gone most of the day, and bring food and water. If you want, lunch can be provided for you, which adds $7 to the price of your waterfall adventure. Our dutiful guides outfitted us with helmets and life jackets, and we began a long, uphill trek that took about an hour. We stopped periodically to catch our breath, our guides forging ahead and encouraging us by happily shouting, “Only five more minutes — Dominican time!” After five minutes had passed, then 10, we soon learned the meaning of “Dominican time” — whenever you get there, you get there. But even the most out-of-shape of us got there, and that’s when the fun began. One by one, we slid, jumped or otherwise traversed down more than two dozen waterfalls of varying length and ferocity. Some were just trickles into a deep pool, others were mammoth 20-foot plunges off a rocky cliff. For some of the scarier jumps, those who didn’t wish to plunge were able to glide down the smooth rock, as if on a waterslide. Access to the different falls depends on precipitation, one of the guides explained; if there hasn’t been enough rain, some of the pools will be too shallow to jump into. A few words of advice: Wear a swimsuit, one that you don’t mind getting slightly damaged. Also, wear sneakers. 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Plumbing Excavation Issues That Are Common
There are several reasons why you may need to dig up your plumbing. Perhaps your home’s pipes are bursting due to age. You may need to replace the plumbing as part of a large remodeling. If you are beginning from scratch, you may need to put up all of the necessary infrastructures. Whatever the cause, it’s critical to understand when plumbing excavation is required. This post will look at some of the most prevalent reasons for plumbing excavation.
Construction of New Buildings
Excavation is a terrific option to install or update plumbing systems in homes or businesses because it allows you complete control over how pipes are laid out across the property. Because all of the essential equipment and materials must be brought together at the same time, this approach is frequently utilized while building a house or a structure. Before beginning installation, our plumbers ensure that their designs match the unique requirements of each building type as well as the client’s expectations.
Lines of Gas
Many individuals are unaware that they will have to dig up their land if their gas pipes need to be replaced. You must dig to reach the subterranean gas pipes. Because of the danger, it is critical to engage specialists to perform any excavation job. You must ensure the protection of your family and house. If you replace your gas lines, you may be able to avert a calamity that might be caused by harmful gas leaks. You will also be able to examine your gas lines and repair them if necessary by digging up your land.
Pipe Breakage
When pipes are damaged or old, they must be dug up and repaired or replaced. In some circumstances, a short repair may be all that is required to get everything functioning again. If the damage was caused by cracks that spread throughout the pipe system, the only method to prevent it from happening again is to replace the pipes.
Pipe Blockages
The first step in removing a blockage is determining what created it. If a garbage accumulation is preventing water from flowing correctly, you should remove it. However, if tree roots are creating the issue, you may need to dig instead. So, our staff at Towers Plumbing is ready to assist you anytime you require it, so don’t hesitate to contact us!
Soil Situation
When considering whether to repair or replace a drain pipe, it is critical to evaluate the soil around it. If the soil is sandy or crumbly, the pipe is more prone to break over time when the earth shifts. Furthermore, if tree roots develop near the pipe, they may cause harm if they grow into or around the pipe. If all of these conditions are met, it may be required to replace the entire pipe rather than simply a segment. The age of the pipe is also an essential consideration. Because of rust or other issues, old pipelines are more liable to break. As a result, it’s critical to consult with a professional before selecting whether to repair or replace a drain pipe.
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Contact Generator
Contact Generator helps you to generate random people information such as names, email, addresses, social security numbers, credit card numbers, occupations, and more absolutely free. You can specify the country and gender to have the best contact information that you want. Contact Generator also offers RESTful API that helps your application to generate the data easily.
Andrew Christian
CONTACT INFORMATION
BASIC INFO
Firstname: Andrew
Lastname: Christian
Gender: Male
Birthday: 2000-02-01
SSN: 030-99-3058
Phone Number: 1-994-649-7349
Address: 55993 Hubbard Keys
Danielmouth, LA 28816-0787
ONLINE
Email Address: [email protected]
Username: amandahenry
Password: N8RuOxYk38
Website: https://jackson.com/
IPv4 Address: 216.139.73.175
IPv6 Address: 640f:437c:5be7:ef8b:b447:8b51:c849:4043
Browser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/5321 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.892.0 Safari/5321
EMPLOYMENT
Company: Cervantes Group
Occupation: Museum/gallery conservator
FINANCE
Card Provider: Discovery
Card Number: 6011290858898852
Expires: 06/28
CVV2: 257
OTHER
Geo coordinates: (-71.0651165, 43.178451)
Blood Group: AB+
Your API
GET https://mmoapi.com/api/contact-generator?token={your-token}
To find your token, please Login
Sample Output
{
"gender": "Male",
"fullname": "Andrew Christian",
"online": {
"website": "https://jackson.com/",
"ipv4": "216.139.73.175",
"username": "amandahenry",
"ipv6": "640f:437c:5be7:ef8b:b447:8b51:c849:4043",
"password": "N8RuOxYk38",
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/5321 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.892.0 Safari/5321",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"lastname": "Christian",
"phone_number": "1-994-649-7349",
"employment": {
"company": "Cervantes Group",
"occupation": "Museum/gallery conservator"
},
"birthdate": "2000-02-01",
"firstname": "Andrew",
"current_location": [
-71.0651165,
43.178451
],
"credit_card": {
"card_cvv": "257",
"card_provider": "Discovery",
"card_number": "6011290858898852",
"card_expire": "06/28"
},
"avatar": "https://mmoapi.com/static/images/avatar/men/61.jpg",
"address": "55993 Hubbard Keys<br/>Danielmouth, LA 28816-0787",
"blood_group": "AB+",
"ssn": "030-99-3058"
}
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You can customize your contact generator api by Gender, Localization or both.
GET https://mmoapi.com/api/contact-generator?gender={gender}&token={your-token}
Available genders:
- Male: Male contact only.
- Female: Female contact only.
- Random: Male and Female contact randomly.
GET https://mmoapi.com/api/contact-generator?=localization={localization}&token={your-token}
Available localizations:
- bg_BG: Bulgarian
- cs_CZ: Czech
- de_DE: German
- dk_DK: Danish
- el_GR: Greek
- en_AU: English (Australia)
- en_CA: English (Canada)
- en_GB: English (Great Britain)
- en_US: English (United States)
- es_ES: Spanish (Spain)
- es_MX: Spanish (Mexico)
- et_EE: Estonian
- fa_IR: Persian (Iran)
- fi_FI: Finnish
- fr_FR: French
- hi_IN: Hindi
- hr_HR: Croatian
- hu_HU: Hungarian
- it_IT: Italian
- ja_JP: Japanese
- ko_KR: Korean
- lt_LT: Lithuanian
- lv_LV: Latvian
- ne_NP: Nepali
- nl_NL: Dutch (Netherlands)
- no_NO: Norwegian
- pl_PL: Polish
- pt_BR: Portuguese (Brazil)
- pt_PT: Portuguese (Portugal)
- ru_RU: Russian
- sl_SI: Slovene
- sv_SE: Swedish
- tr_TR: Turkish
- uk_UA: Ukrainian
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Thomas John Burgoyne (1775 – 20 October 1847) was an English first-class cricketer who made 24 known appearances from 1796 to 1816. His place of birth is Marylebone; he died in London. He was mainly associated with Middlesex. He played for the Gentlemen in the second Gentlemen v Players match in 1806.
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Why Aurora's Upcoming Quarterly Results Could Make or Break the Stock in 2021
This month, Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) will release earnings for its second quarter in fiscal year 2021 -- the first quarter during which new CEO Miguel Martin was at the helm for the entire time. He's the third person in charge of the company within the past year, following the departures of Terry Booth and Michael Singer. This report will offer some indications as to whether investors are dealing with the same old Aurora, or if it's finally making some real progress.
Arguably, Aurora's biggest problem has been its own inability to stay out of the red. And in recent quarters, even its top line hasn't been looking all that great, either. Here's a closer look at both of those items and what investors should be watching for when Aurora releases its results.
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Positive adjusted EBITDA -- often promised, never delivered
The key thing investors will be looking at in the results for the quarter, which ended on Dec. 31, is the bottom line -- adjusted EBITDA, specifically. Aurora Cannabis has consistently struggled with profitability.
During theearnings callfor fiscal 2019's third quarter, management said the company was on track to post a positive EBITDA for the fiscal fourth quarter. That didn't end up happening. Then, in June of last year, the company again said it was on track to achieve positive adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2020's Q1, but just a few months later, it pushed the goal again to fiscal Q2.
On Dec. 16, the company said that while it expects to report an improvement on the adjusted EBITDA metric in fiscal Q2, due to a change in strategy to focus more on consumer packaged goods, it would once again be a negative number. And management did not provide a new forecast about when it might achieve the goal of positive adjusted EBITDA.
Investors will still be looking for some significant improvements in adjusted EBITDA, especially since the company is focusing more on selling its higher-priced, premium brands. This is a change in direction; under previous leadership, the company launched Daily Special, a value brand that focused on a low price point, seeking to be more competitive with the black market. While it's not abandoning the value brand, by pivoting toward higher-margin products including vapes and edibles, the company's bottom line should improve.
When the Alberta-based company released its first-quarter fiscal 2021 results on Nov. 9, it recorded an adjusted EBITDA loss of 57.9 million Canadian dollars for the period, which ended Sept. 30. That was a worse result than the previous quarter's CA$34.6 million loss.
The bottom line isn't the only issue
Another problem is that Aurora is struggling to grow its sales. In fiscal Q1, net sales of CA$67.8 million were down 1.3% sequentially. And that slide came despite its strength in the Canadian market. As Martin noted at the time, "we remain the leader by revenue in the high-margin Canadian medical market, our international medical business experienced more than 40% net revenue growth this quarter, and our CBD brand Reliva is No. 1 ranked by Nielsen in the U.S. CBD sector."
The company's poor sales numbers are also surprising given that the Canadian pot market has fared well on the whole during the pandemic. Data from Statistics Canada show that retail cannabis sales rose from CA$154.1 million in January 2020 to as high as CA$270 million in October.
The ability to act on growth potential is what attracts (and reattracts) many investors to the marijuana sector, and Aurora simply hasn't been delivering on that of late.
Is Aurora worth the risk?
Since Nov. 1, just before U.S. election that resulted in four more states legalizing recreational marijuana, Aurora's stock has been flying. It's up by around 225%, and performing far better than sector-tracking Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, which is up by 130% over that period. That surge could set the pot stock up for yet another sell-off, especially if the company disappoints investors with its upcoming earnings report, and its new CEO isn't able to give investors a reason to remain optimistic.
But it may be too soon to expect some of the changes management has been making to significantly impact financial results. In December, Aurora announced it would be laying off 214 workers reducing operations at its Aurora Sky greenhouse by 75%. That move came after its November decision to pause operations at its Aurora Sun facility.
However, that still shouldn't excuse the company from showing some improvements in the upcoming report, as struggling sales numbers and a weak bottom line aren't new problems for Aurora, and they're issues Martin would have been well aware of when taking over as CEO.
For now, Aurora Cannabis should be viewed as too risky of a buy for the average investor. Until the company posts results that indicate otherwise, you're better off avoiding the stock and investigating other cannabis sector picks instead.
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This volume, VII., is the largest that was ever issued, for it has 876 pages; yet several others have exceeded the appointed number.
Mrs. Seba Smith has the honor of ushering in the year 1841 with a poem on "Youth and Old Age," and afterwards attention is directed to her "Sinless Child," her "Powhatan" and other productions. The editorial, "The New Year; to our subscribers," is rather stilted, but thankful and hopeful, and has some remarks which are here quoted: "It is true we hold our Messenger as peculiarly the herald of Southern talent. * * * We have made and, by every consideration of kindred and sympathy, shall make our Journal the medium for the defence and exposition of Southern interests and Southern rights. * * * In all this we have been sectional, and we humbly opine that if we had not been so, not only would the proud word that stands first in our title be a mockery and a sound, but we should stand recreant to gratitude and to duty. * * * Above the discordant strife of sectarism and the heated atmosphere of party, in a region of
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Facebook Expands Tor Support To Android Orbot Proxy – TechCrunch
Facebook has added what it dubs “experimental support” for accessing its services via Tor on Android, using the Orbot proxy app for Android. The feature will be rolling out over the next few days, Facebook said yesterday. It’s not the first Tor-related move for the social network, which created a Facebook onion address in October 2014 to make it easier for people to connect to Facebook directly via the anonymizing layer of Tor. Necessary because Facebook’s security infrastructure conflicts with Tor’s intentional browsing obfuscation — so the direct link route offers a way for Facebook users to access the site through Tor “without losing the cryptographic protections provided by the Tor cloud”, as Facebook put it then. It also at the time dubbed supporting its mobile-friendly website via an onion address as a “medium-term goal.” Facebook says now that the expansion of support for the Orbot proxy is aimed at generally improving the experience of using its site over Tor on Android . So if you want to be able to access Facebook from your Android smartphone without other entities monitoring that you are doing so, that’s now a little easier to achieve. Thing is, it’s rather unclear why you would want to anonymously connect to a social network that’s explicitly designed to track and profile everything its users do. It’s kinda missing the point — if the point is to preserve your privacy. Or to put it another way… Using Tor to connect to Facebook is like taking an armoured car to your own execution. — Aral Balkan (@aral) January 19, 2016 Let me spell it out: it’s not “secure socializing” because Facebook is analyses everything you say and do. https://t.co/ziIeRWXET8 — Aral Balkan (@aral) January 19, 2016 So, yeah… For its part the Tor Project has previously blogged about why Facebook users might want to use its cloak of anonymity to access the site. Such as when a country shuts off Facebook access, for example. Or to prevent an ISP from knowing you’re accessing Facebook. Or Facebook from knowing your current location (albeit you’re clearly sharing other data with Facebook).
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From Two to Six
From Two to Six is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Albert Parker and starring Winifred Allen, Earle Foxe and Forrest Robinson.
Cast
* Winifred Allen as Alice Stevens
* Earle Foxe as Howard Skeele
* Forrest Robinson as John Stevens
* Robert Fischer as Baron Kuno Von Wiederholtz
* Margaret Greene as Madame Elsa
* Clarence Handyside as Richard Skeele
* Charles Wells as George Worth
* Madeline Marshall as Margaret Worth
* Amy Somers as French Maid
* Riley Hatch as House Detective
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Threading
Overview
Python supports threading in much the same way as many other languages do. Most threading functions are made available by adding the code import threading to the top of your Python script.
Gracefully Exiting Multiple Threads
I followed this example at regexprn.com for the most part, except I discovered the example code was buggy and had to make some tweaks, as outlined below.
Note that the code in class MyThread1 can be copied to create as many threads as you want (for example, to create MyThread2).
Examples
The Columbus Radio project uses multiple Python threads for the UI control. The code is in the ColumbusRadio repo on GitHub. The threads should gracefully exit if Ctrl-C is pressed in the terminal while they are running.
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Is Nvidia Stock a Buy Now?
As 2023 draws to a close, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has clearly been one of the standout performers on the stock market with terrific gains of 211%. Investors may be wondering if they should be buying this high-flying chipmaker right now in anticipation of more gains, especially considering its dominance in the lucrative market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
Nvidia's eye-popping surge this year has inflated the company's valuation. The stock is now trading at almost 25 times sales as compared to 13 times sales at the end of 2022. However, a closer look at Nvidia's valuation, stellar growth, and bright prospects will tell us that investors are still getting a good deal right now. Here's how.
Nvidia's valuation is relatively attractive right now
Nvidia is carrying a rich price-to-sales ratio right now compared to where it was at the end of 2022. However, it is worth noting that the current sales multiple of 25 isn't very high when compared to its five-year average sales multiple of 20. What's more, Nvidia's sales multiple has come down in recent months thanks to the outstanding acceleration in its top-line growth.
NVDA PS Ratio data by YCharts
What's more, Nvidia's trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 60 is slightly lower than its earnings multiple of 62 at the end of 2022. Also, Nvidia's P/E ratio right now is well below its five-year average earnings multiple of 77. If we put these multiples in the context of Nvidia's growth in the previous and ongoing fiscal year, it becomes evident that buying this stock is a no-brainer right now.
Nvidia finished fiscal 2023 (which ended in January 2023 and coincided largely with calendar year 2022) with $27 billion in revenue, which was flat from the year-ago period. Nvidia has already generated almost $39 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the ongoing fiscal 2024, an increase of 85% over the same period last year.
The company's fiscal Q4 revenue guidance of $20 billion suggests that it could finish the current fiscal year with $59 billion in revenue. That would be a massive 118% increase over its fiscal 2023 revenue. So, Nvidia has been growing at a much faster pace right now than it was last year, and its earnings and sales multiples haven't inflated at a similar pace. In simpler words, Nvidia has been able to justify its valuation with rapid growth in revenue and earnings.
The good part is that the stock's forward sales and earnings multiples are cheaper.
NVDA PS Ratio (Forward 1y) data by YCharts
This can be attributed to the outstanding growth Nvidia is anticipated to deliver in fiscal 2025.
NVDA Revenue Estimates for Current Fiscal Year data by YCharts
The chart above indicates that Nvidia's revenue could jump 51% in the next fiscal year to almost $90 billion. But don't be surprised to see the company deliver a bigger revenue jump, as its primary growth driver could get even bigger next year.
The stock is set for more upside
Nvidia's data center business has been the primary growth driver for the company as it includes the revenue that the company gets from selling AI chips. The data center business has produced nearly three-fourths of Nvidia's total revenue in the first nine months of the current fiscal year at $29 billion.
The company's fourth-quarter revenue forecast of $20 billion suggests that its data center revenue could come in at $15 billion in the current quarter (assuming it gets 75% of its revenue from this segment once again). So, Nvidia's data center business could finish fiscal 2024 with $44 billion in revenue, which would be nearly triple the revenue it delivered in the previous fiscal year.
The massive demand for Nvidia's AI-focused graphics cards is the reason behind this impressive surge. Nvidia's AI GPU supply is capacity-constrained, and management said on the November earnings conference call that it has "significantly increased supply every quarter this year to meet strong demand and expect[s] to continue to do so next year."
Supply chain reports suggest that Nvidia is planning to triple the production of its flagship H100 AI GPU next year, and it is all set to come out with another, more powerful chip that could further accelerate its top-line growth. All this suggests that Nvidia's data center business could multiply once again next year and power the company's revenue beyond the $90 billion revenue estimate.
Even if Nvidia simply lives up to analysts' forecasts and delivers $90 billion in revenue next year, its market cap could increase to $1.8 trillion (based on its five-year average sales multiple of 20, which represents a discount to its current sales multiple). That would be a 60% jump from current levels, so investors on the sidelines who wonder if they should buy this AI stock may want to make their move before it jumps further.
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The link between trauma and fibromyalgia
18 Jun 2021
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition, characterised by widespread deep musculoskeletal pain accompanied by various other non-specific symptoms, including chronic fatigue, sleep and mood disturbances and cognitive problems (1–5). The condition is relatively common, occurring in around 2–8% of the adult population (2–6) and is much more common in women than in men (1,2,4). For years, the existence of FM was a controversial topic but, nowadays, it is generally accepted as a real entity. However, there is still no available test to confirm diagnosis and the reporting of symptoms is entirely subjective. It has been suggested that, in up to one-third of cases, FM may be triggered by previous traumatic events in the patient’s life, with the other two-thirds occurring spontaneously (2). Dr Ivan Ramos-Galvez, Consultant in Pain Medicine and experienced expert witness, explores the link.
Physical trauma, often in the form of an accident at work or a traffic collision, is commonly cited as a precipitating event for FM. However, it is difficult to prove causation, particularly where an incident has not caused any visible injury (2). Despite this, increased rates of FM following accidents have been widely reported. Studies in the UK, US and Israel have reported incidence rates of between 1% and 22% for FM or diffuse pain for individuals involved in car and train accidents (2,3,7). These rates appear much higher than would be expected in the general population, particularly in individuals in whom the original injury occurred in the neck (3). Furthermore, in one study, an ‘at-risk’ group could be identified on the basis of poorer health and psychological variables. However, a study conducted in Lithuania, where disablement is both less common and less compensated, no cases of chronic neck pain following a motor vehicle accident were found (2).
Workplace injury is also often cited as a causal factor in FM. Prospective studies of new workers have reported that 12 months after starting the job rates of chronic widespread pain were as high as 15% (3). The majority of cases appear to be due to a single injury, with the lower back and shoulder being the most commonly cited areas of damage (2). However, generalised activities such as repetitive movements; lifting, pushing or pulling heavy weights; kneeling or squatting and working with the hands at or above shoulder height have also been claimed as triggering factors. Psychosocial factors, such as monotonous work and low social support, appear to increase the risk even further (3).
As well as physical trauma, many studies have reported an increased prevalence of psychological trauma in FM patients. Adversity in early life appears to be particularly important. Factors such as being taken into care, the death of a parent, family financial hardship, emotional neglect and behavioural problems have all been linked to chronic widespread pain later in life (1,4,5,8), and these associations appear to be more marked in patients who are not concurrently suffering from depression. A clear gradient of increasing loss of function in participants with higher trauma scores, which again was seen more clearly in non-depressed individuals, has also been reported (8). Childhood abuse nearly doubles the risk of developing a chronic pain condition, including FM, in adulthood (1). However, lifelong history of sexual abuse does not show an association with FM (8), suggesting that the timing of the trauma may be critical.
When taken as a whole, there does appear to be evidence of a link between trauma and the development of FM. A review of 51 studies found that the majority reported a significant association between physical or emotional trauma and the onset of chronic widespread pain or FM. The evidence appeared to be strongest for psychological trauma and FM, where the link was widely demonstrated. However, many of the studies on which this review was based provided data which was of low-quality, when assessed by GRADE criteria (9).
One major problem with most of the evidence regarding trauma and FM is that it comes from retrospective studies, which are reliant on the participants’ recollection of traumatic events (2). Patients who are suffering from a disease with no obvious cause may look for past events in an attempt to explain their condition (10). However, research shows that adult recall of adverse childhood experiences actually tends to underreport such events (8,10,11). This would tend to dilute any associations seen between trauma and FM (8). Some adults do not report childhood trauma because they feel they have ‘moved on’ and no longer identify as a trauma survivor. Others will simply not remember events that happened in very early childhood. Individuals who continue to report trauma may have been more negatively affected by the event and thus more likely to experience greater pain-related disability in later life (11).
Another issue with retrospective studies, particularly those of a cross-sectional design, is that the temporal relationship between trauma and FM cannot always be established. A clear and logical time sequence is critical in trying to prove causality (2). Finally, physical trauma, such as a serious accident, is almost always accompanied by psychological sequelae (1) and it is difficult to separate out the role that each plays in the causation of FM.
The mechanisms by which trauma leads to FM are not entirely clear. It has been suggested that certain aspects of physical work may result in centralised pain sensitivity (3). Traumatic experiences in early life may predispose to FM by excessively activating stress responses during a critical period of development, thus altering normal development and reactions to stress and painful stimuli through hyperalgesic priming (1,4,8). As the resulting pain is a stressor, it may lead to a positive feedback loop, which serves to increase anxiety levels and further impact on stress regulation (1).
Alteration of the stress response appears to be mediated via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (2,4,6,8), although the precise way in which this happens is not yet known (8). Trauma increases the responsiveness of the central nervous system due to decreased functional connectivity in the descending pain-modulating system and heightened sensory responses. Furthermore, childhood abuse has been linked to a disruption of normal diurnal cortisol levels, a hormone associated with stress, and this effect has also been observed in FM patients (4). The observation that experiences in early life can lead to FM many decades later suggest that the neuroplastic changes associated with stress are part of a chronic process that develops slowly (6). It is also likely that the effects of traumatic events are mediated by the individual’s genetic predisposition and psychological status (1,2)
FM is a difficult condition to treat. Pharmacological treatments are not effective for many patients. As a result, non-pharmacological interventions, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) are often recommended but frequently only lead to modest improvements in the patient’s condition (5). Recently, research has examined the concept of customising treatment on the basis of psychosocial needs to increase its efficacy (7). One approach, called Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), combines techniques from several other psychologically based therapies. This approach tries to reduce pain and other symptoms by framing FM as a central nervous system-based process that is strongly influenced by emotions relating to trauma, adversity or conflict that are avoided or unexpressed. The model also encourages awareness and expression of these emotions. Compared to other non-pharmacological treatments, patients treated with EAET reported a reduction in pain, psychological symptoms and cognitive difficulties and improvements in functioning and life satisfaction. These results were comparable to those achieved through medication but had the advantage of lasting for at least 6 months after treatment was stopped. As the model of EAET used in this trial did not include many CBT components, it is likely that combining these two therapies would produce even better results (5).
While the available evidence may not prove that trauma is linked to FM, it also does not prove that the condition cannot be caused by an injury or adverse event (2). However, it appears unlikely that trauma is the sole factor in the onset of FM. Instead, a combination of factors, including previous physical and psychological health and genetic susceptibility, are likely to work together to initiate and maintain FM (1,2,10), and it is difficult to determine the relative importance of any single factor in any one individual (3). By identifying risk factors that occur early in life, it may be possible to prevent chronic pain later in life (1,6) and provide more effective treatments when it does occur.
About Dr Ivan Ramos-Galvez
Dr Ivan Ramos-Galvez‘, Consultant in Pain Medicine, current NHS practice is at the Royal Berkshire Hospital with a private practice at Spire Dunedin and Circle Hospitals in Reading.
After extensive training in spinal surgery at the Oxford Deanery, he undertook further specialisation in pain medicine. His understanding of the interactions between these complex areas of medicine means he is often called upon to provide an opinion within his clinical practice or as an expert witness where spinal surgery has led to complications.
His range of expertise with regards pain is widespread and his particular areas of expertise include, but are not limited to:
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Fibromyalgia
• Spinal Pain
• Chronic and chronic widespread pain
• Chronic Pain Syndromes
• Neuropathic pain
• Pelvic Mesh Pain
• Phantom limb pain and Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome
• Multi-disciplinary pain management
Dr Ramos-Galvez has developed close links into several other specialisms including spinal surgery and cancer/palliative care and is frequently called upon to treat patients when conventional methods of pain relief have failed.
Read his full CV here.
References
1. Tan AC, Jaaniste T, Champion D. Chronic Widespread Pain and Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Life-Course Risk Markers in Young People. Pain Res Manag. 2019;2019:6584753.
2. Fitzcharles M-A, Ste-Marie PA, Mailis A, Shir Y. Adjudication of fibromyalgia syndrome: challenges in the medicolegal arena. Pain Res Manag. 2014;19(6):287–92.
3. Harth M, Nielson WR. Fibromyalgia and disability adjudication: no simple solutions to a complex problem. Pain Res Manag. 2014;19(6):293–9.
4. De Roa P, Paris P, Poindessous JL, Maillet O, Héron A. Subjective Experiences and Sensitivities in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Quantitative and Comparative Study. Pain Res Manag. 2018;2018:8269564.
5. Lumley MA, Schubiner H, Lockhart NA, Kidwell KM, Harte SE, Clauw DJ, et al. Emotional awareness and expression therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Pain. 2017 Dec;158(12):2354–63.
6. Ablin JN, Buskila D. Predicting fibromyalgia, a narrative review: are we better than fools and children? Eur J Pain. 2014 Sep;18(8):1060–6.
7. Buskila D. Developments in the scientific and clinical understanding of fibromyalgia. Arthritis Res Ther. 2009;11(5):242.
8. Filippon APM, Bassani DG, Aguiar RW de, Ceitlin LHF. Association between childhood trauma and loss of functionality in adult women with fibromyalgia. Trends psychiatry Psychother. 2013;35(1):46–54.
9. Yavne Y, Amital D, Watad A, Tiosano S, Amital H. A systematic review of precipitating physical and psychological traumatic events in the development of fibromyalgia. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2018 Aug;48(1):121–33.
10. Näring GWB, van Lankveld W, Geenen R. Somatoform dissociation and traumatic experiences in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2007;25(6):872–7.
11. Nelson S, Cunningham N, Peugh J, Jagpal A, Arnold LM, Lynch-Jordan A, et al. Clinical Profiles of Young Adults With Juvenile-Onset Fibromyalgia With and Without a History of Trauma. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2017 Nov;69(11):1636–43.
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Elisabeth Holland
Elisabeth Holland is an American climate scientist who focuses on how the carbon and nitrogen cycles interact with earth systems. She has become a key player in the international climate debate. She is currently a professor of climate change at the University of the South Pacific. She is also the director of the Pacific Center for Environmental and Sustainable Development.
Early life and education
Holland grew up in the deserts of New Mexico. Her father was an engineer and a scientist. She grew up using scientific instruments and developed a curiosity for the world around her. However, she was not immediately interested in oceans. Holland did not even see her first ocean until she was sixteen. She attended Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins. Here she earned her B.S. in zoology and an M.S. in soil sciences. In 1985, Holland finished her masters' thesis: "Crop residue placement on soil processes." In 1989 she completed her Ph.D. in ecology and environmental sciences at CSU. Her thesis is titled: Plant carbon allocation and nitrogen cycling in a perennial grassland: The role of herbivory." Her interests were not purely academic. While in Colorado she pursued rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, and was even a glider pilot. After completing her Ph.D. Holland served as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford.
Career and research
Holland works on understanding the interactions between the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and the earth system. She worked for the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She worked as a senior scientist and became the leader of the Biogeosciences program at NCAR. She studied how atmospheric composition effects ecosystems on earth, especially in the context of climate change.
In Boulder, Colorado Holland served as graduate faculty at CU Boulder for the Environmental, Organismic Biology, and Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences department. She is also a member of the graduate faculty at Colorado State University. While in Colorado, she studied nitrogen and methane content in alpine soil. She also looked at controls of nitrogen emission from Colorado steppe soils. She was a fellow with the Natural Resource Ecology Lab at CSU and the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Ecology at CU Boulder. At the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Holland served as a professor and senior research scientist. Holland helped author the article "Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils." This article examined the amount of carbon stored in soil, the residence time of carbon in soil, and the ratios of carbon to nitrogen. She found that there is a positive correlation between carbon content and clay content. She also concluded that increased temperature releases nitrogen, which is available to flora. This increases the amount of carbon taken in by plants by around 100%.
Holland moved away from research and began work the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She has served as a representative for the United States, Germany, and currently represents Fiji. She is a listed author on four of the IPCC’s climate assessment reports. Holland worked to communicate her science to policymakers. She believes that communication is one of the most important aspects of science.
In 2012, Holland accepted a position at the University of the South Pacific (USP) as a professor of Climate Change. The following year she became the Director of the Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development at USP. She uses science, policy, and tradition to prepare for, and fight, the coming impacts of climate change on South Pacific nations.
Awards and honors
* 2007, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Authoring several climate assessment reports, Holland was a key member of the IPCC.
* 2007, Women of Achievement Award by the Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County.
* 2005, Leopold Fellow. The Leopold Leadership Program operates through the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
* 2003, NCAR Leadership Academy, 2003
* 2010, NCAR Faculty Fellowship
Publications
* “Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry”, 2007, IPCC’s Climate Assessment Report.
* “Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils”, 1994, Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
* “Long term sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to warming,” 2005, Nature: Journal of International Science.
* Consistent Land- and Atmosphere-Based U.S. Carbon Sink Estimates”, 2001, Science.
* “Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development”, 2009, Science.
Public engagement
Holland is involved in protecting the rights of Pacific island states. She works with these nations to develop climate change action plans. Additionally, she represents them on the world stage. At the Conference of the Parties (COP), Holland represented Fiji. At the UN Climate Summit, she spoke on behalf of all South Pacific island nations.
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Victoria Martinez de la Cruz 375ddd1e9e Add support for CentOS
This change aims to add the foundations for CentOS support
on manila-image-elements.
In this patch-set, the following has been modified
- Added elements for manila-centos-minimal
- Added elements for centos-nfs
- Added elements for centos-cifs
- Renamed all elements for the different protocols to distro-protocol
to facilitate automation
- Modified the main script to take the distro param
Follow-up patches will add centos-based elements
for all other protocols supported.
Change-Id: Ie1469a8b3973b9a15c3fa27688df3b7e7e8da688
Partial-Bug: #1675538
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#!/bin/sh
SCRIPT=/usr/local/sbin/unfsd
RUNAS=root
PIDFILE=/var/run/unfs3.pid
LOGFILE=/var/log/unfs3.log
start() {
if [ -f /var/run/$PIDNAME ] && kill -0 $(cat /var/run/$PIDNAME); then
echo 'Service already running' >&2
return 1
fi
echo 'Starting service...' >&2
local CMD="$SCRIPT &> \"$LOGFILE\" & echo \$!"
su -c "$CMD" $RUNAS > "$PIDFILE"
echo 'Service started' >&2
}
stop() {
if [ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] || ! kill -0 $(cat "$PIDFILE"); then
echo 'Service not running' >&2
return 1
fi
echo 'Stopping service...' >&2
kill -15 $(cat "$PIDFILE") && rm -f "$PIDFILE"
echo 'Service stopped' >&2
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
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Why Do-It-Yourself Mold Test Kits Are Not Accurate or Advised
Why Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Mold Test Kits Are Not Accurate or Advised
While it might be tempting to use DIY Mold Tests—petri dishes set out over a period of time to determine mold presence—to diagnose your household mold, these over-the-counter methods can be deceiving and inaccurate. The results lack enough credibility that lawyers, doctors, insurance companies, and remediation companies do not accept the results. Consumer Reports, in fact, rated four different brands of DIY mold tests “Not Recommended,” citing the following: “In some samples, the vials with media leaked over entire kit. In one, an unopened kit was moldy. No expiration dates on the kit; old media could affect the accuracy and reliability of the results. Label claims that kit can identify toxic mold, but the report the lab sends can’t tell you this. One unused plate came back positive for mold growth, indicating contamination at some point; not very reassuring for post remediation use.”
Let’s take a closer look at the problems associated with DIY mold test kits:
1) No Expiration Dates – DIY mold test kits sit on hardware shelves or storage areas for undisclosed amounts of time, subjecting the agar (gooey stuff) to contaminants. Because there is no readily identifiable expiration date for these kits, despite the requirement that they be sterile, consumers cannot determine how much potential handling or exposure these kits have had..
2) No Air Flow to Measure Mold In Cubic Units– Most standards and guidelines refer to mold spores per cubic meter or coliform forming unit, but obtaining a level of mold per volume of air is impossible without a controlled airflow through the use of a mechanical pump.
3) No Control Sample – A control sample is necessary to validate the elevation of spores and provide a meaningful reference point, but many DIY kits do not offer a dish to take such a comparison sample from another room or outside.
4) Misleading Marketing – Consumers often think that the DIY kit they purchase will quantify and qualify they types of mold they have, but this is not the case. For an additional costs, the petri dishes must be sent out to the lab for analysis (see point 1, 2, 3 for why this is meaningless).
5) No Accredited Laboratory Certification, Endorsement or Chair of Custody – The labs associated with DIY kits are rarely certified (those listed with AIHA-LAP LLC Accredited Labs) and are not endorsed by any accredited agency. Often there is no chain of custody (COC) to properly document the transfer of the kit or to note acceptance of the kit by the lab and critical data such as the date, time of analysis, lab location etc…are often omitted.
6) Kits Do Not Account For Dead Spores: Settling plates and other DIY kits are focused on growing mold, but dead spores can also impact your health. Water damage-makers such as Stachybotys, Chaetomium and Ulocladium may not show up on the DIY kit.
7) No Inspection – DIY kits do no provide an overall understanding of your mold contamination. A critical part of a comprehensive mold investigation is the inspection process, which requires specialized instrumentation along with an expert visual observation.
8) Spore Characteristics Make Some More Likely to “Stick” – Mold spores have unique weight, density and air flow characteristics and do not settle at the same rate. Heavier spores, for example, settle on the petri dishes at a quicker rate and take up more of the sample plate. Sticky molds, especially water damage indicators and Black Mold, might not appear as readily on the DIY kits, but this absence could indicate greater growth elsewhere.
All homes will contain some level of spore activity when air samples are collected because mold is a common part of the environment. DIY kits, then, are essentially useless for diagnosing the complexity of your airborne mold contamination and should be handled by professionals. The EPA agrees: “Sampling for mold should be conducted by professionals who have specific experience in designing mold sampling protocols, sampling methods, and interpreting results. Sample analysis should follow analytical methods recommended by…professional organizations.”
While DIY tests can be used for entertainment value, much like a Chia Pet, true mold concerns should be handled by companies that understand the diagnostic process necessary to qualify and quantify potentially hazardous mold growth.
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India's top court allows a month longer for citizens' list in Assam
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday gave authorities in a northeastern state an extra month to complete a citizenship list to identify illegal immigrants in an exercise that has stoked concern for millions of people, most of them Muslim. Residents of state of Assan, which borders Bangladesh, have to produce documents proving that they or their families lived in the country before March 24, 1971 - the year that hundreds of thousands of people fled Bangladesh during its India-backed war of independence from Pakistan. “We extend the deadline for final publication of National Register for Citizens in Assam from July 31 to August 31,” chief justice Ranjan Gogoi said, adding that floods in Assam made work on the list difficult. Millions of people have been displaced by the floods after torrential rains battered the region. Work on the Supreme Court-ordered citizenship register has been going on since 2015 and a draft list published last year excluded more than four million of the state’s residents, triggering widespread fears of deportation and jail. Critics accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government of using the citizenship exercise to further marginalize minority Muslims and bolster its support in the majority Hindu community. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party denies any bias but says it is opposed to the appeasement of any community. Last week, the Modi government sought more time to compile the final list, saying thousands of people had produced fake documents to try to become Indian citizens. Aman Wadud, a lawyer in Assam who is fighting cases for some of those declared illegal immigrants, said he hoped the extension would give authorities time to make the register “free, fair and credible”. Additional reporting and writing by Zeba Siddiqui in NEW DELHI; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani
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Hefty pipeline to test resilience of sterling high-yield
* Sterling junk bonds in focus as supply builds * Debut issuers on the cusp of taking the plunge * NewDay provides stiff test of demand for LBO paper By Robert Smith LONDON, Oct 14 (IFR) - The sterling junk bond market’s resistance to renewed fears over a so-called “hard Brexit” is about to be put to the test, as bankers ready a slew of deals from UK issuers. There are a growing number of debut loan-to-bond and M&A deals waiting in the wings to test high-yield buyer appetites for paper. The gaming sector alone could see two such deals in the coming weeks, as Jackpotjoy plots its debut and Ladbrokes looks to bring the long-awaited bond backing its merger with Coral. Many in the market were initially surprised how quickly sterling high-yield bounced back after the UK voted to leave the European Union in June. Mydentist sold a £425m Single B rated bond less than a month afterwards, which has been followed by £1.4bn of supply in September and October. But the bulk of these deals were bond-to-bond refinancings, meaning many investors were rolling existing exposures rather than taking on additional risk. And the potential supply surge has coincided with a sharp slide in the value of the pound over concerns that the UK is on course to exit the single market, meaning bankers are keen to gauge the appetite for sterling new issues. “Everyone is interested in the strength of the sterling demand in high-yield, because while the euro loan market is happy with covenant-lite, the sterling loan market has been more selective,” said Diarmuid Toomey, head of European high yield capital markets at Deutsche Bank. “This means loan-to-bond refinancing is an attractive option for UK companies.” Demand for such deals is about to be tested, as sources told IFR that a company in the telecoms, media and technology sector is on the cusp of launching a sterling bond to take out leveraged loans. “It’ll have quite a chunky yield,” one person familiar with the deal said, adding it could be announced on Monday. Steven Logan, global head of high yield at Aberdeen Asset Management, said that their funds are not closed to buying sterling high-yield as long as it is priced appropriately. “I think it will have its challenges, but I don’t think Brexit will trigger a series of credit events,” he said. “We could see slowing economic growth and more margin pressure on certain sectors, while immigration controls may crimp access to cheap labour, but those are longer-term trends.” But while there may be no imminent credit headwinds, technical factors could still knock demand. The wild currency swings seen since the Brexit vote can create additional problems for euro funds holding sterling bonds, for example, as it creates the potential for losses when they have to roll foreign exchange hedges. “If you’re a continental investor it’s not in your benchmark, so you don’t need to get involved,” said Logan. “People won’t want to talk to prospective end-investors about why they have sterling in their funds when it’s off-index.” The back-up in Gilt yields has already wreaked havoc on a number of recent investment-grade deals, with a Gatwick Airport 30-year sold last week now bid at a cash price of just 92. High-yield is typically a short-duration asset class, so is less sensitive to these rates moves, but several new issues have underperformed as supply has built up. A slew of recent deals from UK debt purchasers, which buy defaulted loans looking to profit from collecting on them, have traded particularly badly. A £350m bond Cabot priced at par to yield 7.50% on September 29 is now bid at just 96, for example. “There’s a subset of people who love that sector and they’re getting really full,” said one fund manager. “When there were three or four little bonds they were like gold-dust and were held very tightly, but now the technical is completely different.” The softening demand for these high-yield financials could have implications for the underwriters of credit card company NewDay’s LBO. Cinven and CVC Capital Partners are financing the acquisition with a holding company sterling bond, which sources said Credit Suisse and Citigroup have underwritten. A key part of the company’s business is issuing store cards for UK retailers, and one banker away from the deal said it could suffer if investors are overly wary of exposure to retail. “You’ve seen how the high-yield retail sector has reacted, and this is basically taking a levered bet on the UK consumer,” he said. “Even if the structure is fantastic and the price is right, are people willing to take a view on the UK consumer right now?” (Reporting by Robert Smith; editing by Alex Chambers, Julian Baker)
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This article fails to mention he is a world class cunt.
* He is a 'Sunday sport' tabliod hack (refuse to call him a journalist :) DavidAnstiss (talk) 15:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
"McMullan had obtained information from the police that she had been living on the streets and working as a prostitute." This is incorrect - McMullan admitted that he managed to persuade Elliot's drug-addict daughter to have sex with him for cash. He also admitted that she said that she didn't normally do that sort of thing. As soon as she agreed to have sex with him, he had the prostitution angle he was looking for - and not that long afterwards she killed herself after he splashed her name over the tabloids. In other words, he's personally responsible for the death of a female drug addict, who was only targeted because she was the daughter of someone famous. "world class cunt" doesn't come anywhere near to describing what this human shitstain really is.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/03/deborah-orr-paul-mcmullan http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/nov/27/paul-mcmullan-operation-elveden http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/29/paul-mcmullan-leveson-inquiry-phone-hacking http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/29/notw-journalist-paul-mcmu_n_1118764.html http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/11/privacy-mcmullan-evidence http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/8923487/Paul-McMullan-Piers-Morgan-encouraged-unethical-practices-at-NOTW.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f97389a-1c16-11e1-9631-00144feabdc0.html http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2013/march/14/former_tabloid_journalist.aspx http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Phone-hacking-whistleblower-Paul-McMullan-assault/story-16433585-detail/story.html http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/dec/02/former-news-world-reporter-paul-mcmullan-testifies-leveson-inquiry/transcript/
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The documentation you are viewing is for Dapr v1.1 which is an older version of Dapr. For up-to-date documentation, see the latest version.
Configure Dapr to send distributed tracing data
Configure Dapr to send distributed tracing data
It is recommended to run Dapr with tracing enabled for any production scenario. You can configure Dapr to send tracing and telemetry data to many backends based on your environment, whether it is running in the cloud or on-premises.
Tracing configuration
Configuration sepc下的 tracing 部分包含以下属性：
spec:
tracing:
samplingRate: "1"
zipkin:
endpointAddress: "https://..."
下面的表格给出了调用链追踪功能可配置的属性
属性 数据类型 描述
samplingRate string 设置采样率，可以用来控制追踪功能是否开启。
zipkin.endpointAddress string 设置 Zipkin 服务器地址。
Zipkin in self hosted mode
The following steps show you how to configure Dapr to send distributed tracing data to Zipkin running as a container on your local machine and view them.
For self hosted mode, create a Dapr configuration file locally and reference it with the Dapr CLI.
1. Create the following config.yaml YAML file:
apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Configuration
metadata:
name: zipkin
namespace: default
spec:
tracing:
samplingRate: "1"
zipkin:
endpointAddress: "http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans"
2. Launch Zipkin using Docker:
docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin
3. Launch Dapr with the --config param with the path for where the config.yaml is saved :
dapr run --app-id mynode --app-port 3000 --config ./config.yaml node app.js
Zipkin in Kubernetes mode
The following steps show you how to configure Dapr to send distributed tracing data to Zipkin running as a container in your Kubernetes cluster, and how to view them.
设置
First, deploy Zipkin:
kubectl create deployment zipkin --image openzipkin/zipkin
Create a Kubernetes Service for the Zipkin pod:
kubectl expose deployment zipkin --type ClusterIP --port 9411
接下来，在本地创建以下YAML文件：
apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Configuration
metadata:
name: zipkin
namespace: default
spec:
tracing:
samplingRate: "1"
zipkin:
endpointAddress: "http://zipkin.default.svc.cluster.local:9411/api/v2/spans"
Finally, deploy the Dapr configuration:
kubectl apply -f config.yaml
为了启用您的 Dapr sidecar 的配置，请在您的pod spec模板中添加以下注释：
annotations:
dapr.io/config: "zipkin"
就这么简单！ Your sidecar is now configured for use with Zipkin.
查看追踪数据
To view traces, connect to the Zipkin service and open the UI:
kubectl port-forward svc/zipkin 9411:9411
On your browser, go to http://localhost:9411 and you should see the Zipkin UI.
zipkin
参考资料
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Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill, angering China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views the self-ruled island as a wayward province. The bill, which is non-binding, would have gone into effect on Saturday morning, even if Trump had not signed it, said the White House. The move adds to strains between the two countries over trade, as Trump has enacted tariffs and called for China to reduce its huge trade imbalance with the United States, even while Washington has leaned on Beijing to help resolve tensions with North Korea. Earlier on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang reiterated that Beijing was opposed to the legislation and urged the United States to abide by the “one China” policy, that stipulates that Taiwan is part of China, and cease official exchanges with Taiwan. In a statement after Trump’s signing of the bill, the Chinese embassy said clauses of the legislation “severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship”. “China is strongly dissatisfied with that and firmly opposes it,” the statement said, adding that the United States should “stop pursuing any official ties with Taiwan or improving its current relations with Taiwan in any substantive way.” Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry expressed its thanks for the “friendly move” by the Trump administration, saying the government would continue to deepen its cooperation and partnership with the United States at all levels. The United States does not have formal ties with Taiwan but is required by law to help it with self-defense and is the island’s primary source of weapons. Douglas Paal, who served as U.S. representative to Taiwan from 2002 to 2006, said the legislation did not change anything real as it was non-binding. U.S. administrations already had discretionary authority to permit visits by senior Taiwanese officials and visits by senior U.S. officials and military officers to Taiwan, he said. “They don’t authorize these trips because the policy judgment is that the costs in relations with China would outweigh the benefits in relations with Taiwan,” Paal said. The bill, which was passed by Congress last month, says it should be U.S. policy to allow visits at all levels. High-level Taiwan officials should be permitted to enter the United States “under respectful conditions” to meet U.S. officials, while Taiwanese economic and cultural representatives should be encouraged to conduct business in the United States. China’s hostility toward Taiwan has risen since the election of President Tsai Ing-wen, of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, in 2016. It suspects Tsai wants to push for formal independence, which would cross a red line for Communist Party leaders in Beijing, although Tsai has said she wants to maintain the status quo and is committed to ensuring peace. Defeated Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war to the Communists. Reporting by Makini Brice; Additional reporting by Yimou Lee in TAIPEI; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Nick Macfie
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In the current study we wanted to investigate the anabolic properties of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA; leucine, isoleucine and valine) and their ketoanalogues, the branched-chain ketoacids (BCKA; ketoleucine, ketoisoleucine and ketovaline).
BCKA do not contain nitrogen in their molecular structure and can, therefore, be of particular interest for clinical populations such as patients with chronic kidney disease, as these patient populations have difficulties to excrete nitrogen.
To investigate the effects of BCAA and BCKA ingestion on muscle protein synthesis, we compared it with the ingestion of an equivalent amount of high-quality protein. We assessed the muscle protein synthetic response to the ingestion of 6 g BCAA, 6 g BCKA and 30 g milk protein in healthy, older males.
In the current study we observed that ingestion of BCAA, BCKA, and milk protein all stimulated muscle protein synthesis over the first 2 hours after ingestion, with no differences between treatments. However, the next 3 hours (2-5 h) elevated muscle protein synthesis rates were only observed following the ingestion of milk protein.
We concluded that BCAA, BCKA and milk protein all have strong anabolic properties, but that these effects are short lived following BCAA and BCKA ingestion when compared to the ingestion of milk protein.
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in alliance with Egypt and Ethiopia, which aimed at throwing off the oppressive tyranny of Assyria; as usual, however, the city-states of Phoenicia could not combine even against a common foe, and several broke away from Tyre, so Menander tells us, and sided with Assyria. In the great campaign of 701 Sennacherib came down upon the revolting provinces; he forced Lulī, king of Sidon, to fly for refuge to Cyprus, took his chief cities, and set up Tuba’lu (Ethbaal) as king, imposing a yearly tribute (K B. ii. 91). The blockade of Tyre by sea, significantly passed over in Sennacherib’s inscription, is described by Menander. The island-city proved to be impregnable, but it was the only possession left of what had been the extensive kingdom of Elulaeus. Sennacherib, however, so far accomplished his object as to break up the combination of Tyre and Sidon, which had grown into a powerful state. At Sidon the successor of Ethbaal was Abd-milkath; in alliance with a Cilician chief he rebelled against Esarhaddon about the year 678, with disastrous consequences. Sidon was annihilated; Abd-milkath fell into the hands of Esarhaddon, who founded a new Sidon on the mainland, peopled it with foreigners, and called it after his own name. The old name, however, survived in popular usage; but the character of the city was changed, and till the time of Cyrus the kingdom of Sidon ceased to exist (K B. ii. 125 seq., 145, K A T.3 88). Tyre also came in for its share of hardship. Elulaeus was followed by Baal, who in 672 consented to join Tirhaka, the Ethiopian king of Egypt, in a rebellion against Assyria. Esarhaddon, on his way to Egypt for the second time, determined to deal out punishment; he blockaded Tyre, and raised earthworks on the shore and cut off the water-supply; but he did not capture the city itself. His monument found at Zenjirli represents the great king holding Baal of Tyre and Tirhaka of Egypt by cords fastened in their lips, there is no evidence, however, that he actually took either of them prisoner. Early in the reign of Assur-bani-pal Tyre was besieged again (668), but Assur-bani-pal succeeded no better than his predecessors. Nevertheless Baal submitted in the end, along with the princes of Gebal and Arvad, Manasseh of Judah, and the other Canaanite chiefs; in the island of Cyprus the Assyrians carried all before them (K B. ii. 149 seq., 169, 173). On his return from the Arabian campaign Assur-bani-pal severely punished the rebellious inhabitants of Ushu (Palaetyrus) and Akko, and transported the survivors to Assyria (ibid. 229). In Phoenicia, as elsewhere, Assyrian rule created nothing and left nothing behind it but a record of barbarous conquest and extortion. An interesting sidelight is thrown upon this period by the list of the Thalassocracies in the Chronicon of Eusebius (p. 226, ed. Schoene), which places the 45 years of the sea-power of Phoenicia at a date which, with much probability, may be conjectured to lie between 709, when Cyprus submitted to Sargon, and 664, when Egypt threw off the rule of Assyria. If this dating is correct, and the Phoenician sea-power was at its height during these years, we can understand why Tyre gave so much trouble to the Assyrian kings.
In the last crisis of the dying power of Assyria the Egyptians for a short time laid hands on Phoenicia; but after their defeat at the battle of Carchemish (605), the Chaldaeans became the masters of western Asia. Jeremiah’s allusion (xxv. 22) in 604 to the approaching downfall
of the kings of Tyre and Sidon and the coast-land beyond the sea, i.e. the Phoenician settlements on the Mediterranean, seems to imply that the Phoenician states recovered some measure of independence; if they did it cannot have lasted long. In 588 Apries (Pharaoh Hophra) made an attempt
to displace the Chaldaean supremacy; he defeated Tyre and Sidon, and terrorized the other cities into submission (Herod. ii. 161; Diod. Sic. i. 68). Some of the Phoenician chiefs, among them Ithobal II., the new king of Tyre, while forced to yield to a change of masters, were bold enough to declare their hostility to the Babylonians. This state of affairs did not escape the vigilance of Nebuchadrezzar. After the fall of Jerusalem he marched upon Phoenicia; Apries withdrew his army, and the siege of Tyre began. For thirteen years the great merchant city held out (585–573; Jos. c. Ap. i. 21; cf. Ezek. xxvi. 1 seq.). Ezekiel says that Nebuchadrezzar and his host had no reward for their heavy service against Tyre, and the presumption is that the city capitulated on favourable terms; for Ithobal’s reign ends with the close of the siege, and the royal family is subsequently found in Babylon. The king appointed by Nebuchadrezzar was Baal II. (574–564), after whose death a republic was formed under a single suffete or “judge” (shōfēt). Josephus (loc. cit.) is again our authority for the changes of government which followed until the monarchy was revived. At length under Hiram III. Phoenicia passed from the Chaldaeans to the Persians (538), and at the same time Amasis (Aḥmosi) II. of Egypt occupied Cyprus (Herod. ii. 182). There seems to have been no struggle; the great siege and the subsequent civil disorders had exhausted Tyre, and Sidon took its place as the leading state. About this time, too, Carthage made an effort for independence under Hanno the Great (538–521), the real founder of its fortunes; the old dependence upon Tyre was changed for a mere relation of piety observed by the annual sending of delegates to the festival of Melkarth (Arrian ii. 24; Polyb. xxxi. 20, 12). The disasters and humiliations which befell Tyre during this and the foregoing period might suggest that its prosperity had been seriously damaged. But Tyre always counted for more in commerce than in politics; and in the year 586, just before the great siege, Ezekiel draws a vivid picture (ch. xxvii.) of the extent and splendour of its commercial relations. Even when cut off from its possessions on the mainland the city itself was not captured; its seafaring trade went on; and though by degrees the colonies were lost, yet the ties of race and sentiment remained strong enough to bind the Phoenicians of the mother-country to their kindred beyond the seas.
Constitution.—At this point it is convenient to mention what little is known about the constitution of the Phoenician states. All Canaanite analogy speaks for kingship as the oldest form of Phoenician government. In the native inscriptions the chief of the city in Phoenicia itself and in Cyprus is always called king. The royal houses claimed divine descent, and the king could not be chosen outside their members. His power, however, was limited by the wealthy merchant families, who possessed great influence in public affairs; thus it was possible for war or peace to be decided at Tyre in the king’s absence, or at Sidon against his will (Arrian ii. 15 and 16; Curtius iv. 1, 15). The priest of Melkarth at Tyre was the second man in the kingdom. Associated with the prince was a council of elders; such was the case at Gebal (Byblus) from the earliest times to the latest (Ezek. xxvii. 9); at Sidon this council consisted of 100 members (Diod. xvi. 45), perhaps also at Tyre. Inscriptions of the 3rd and 2nd centuries mention a Rab (chief) in Sidon, Cyprus and Gaulus (Gozo); what his position was it is difficult to say; in the colonies he may have been a district governor. During Nebuchadrezzar’s time, as we have seen, a republic took the place of the monarchy at Tyre, and the government was administered by a succession of suffetes (judges); they held office for short terms, and in one instance two ruled together for six years. Much later, in the 3rd century, an inscription from Tyre mentions a suffete (NSI. No. 8) without adding more to our knowledge. Carthage, of course was governed by two suffetes, and these officers are frequently named in connexion with the Carthaginian colonies (NSI. p. 115 seq.); but we must be careful not to draw the inference that Phoenicia itself had any such magistrates. Under the Persians a federal bond was formed comprising Sidon, Tyre and Aradus, whose duty it was to contribute 300 triremes to the Persian fleet (Herod. vii. 89),
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Exxon Mobil: Phase I of Sakhalin-1 project reaches target
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. said Wednesday phase one of the Sakhalin-1 project offshore eastern Russia has reached its targeted peak production rate of 250,000 barrels of oil per day. The project is being led by Exxon subsidiary Exxon Neftegas Ltd., and includes affiliates of Rosneft , RN-Astra and Sakhalinmorneftegas-Shelf, Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co. and ONGC Videsh Ltd. Phase one of the project consists of the Chayvo field onshore processing facility and a 140-mile pipeline to transport crude west across Sakhalin Island and the Tatar Strait to the DeKastri terminal. Natural gas production for the peak winter season in 2007 has been 140 million cubic feet per day, Exxon said.
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PUBLIC LAW 103-337—OCT. 5, 1994 108 STAT. 2765 (B) in subsection (e), by striking out "of the military department"; and (C) in subsection (f)(2), by striking out "of the mihtary department". (5) Section 580 is amended— (A) in subsection (a)(4)(B), by inserting ", or severance pay computed under section 286a of title 14, as appropriate," after "section 1174 of this title"; and (B) in subsection (e)(6), by inserting "and the Secretary of Transportation, when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy," after "Secretary of Defense". (6) Section 581(a) is amended by striking out "in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps". (c) TRANSITION FOR CERTAIN REGULAR WARRANT OFFICERS lo use 571 note. SERVING IN A HIGHER TEMPORARY GRADE BELOW CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER, W-5.—(1) A regular warrant officer of the Coast Guard who on the effective date of this section is on active duty and— (A) is serving in a temporary grade below chief warrant officer, W-5, that is higher than that warrant officer's permanent grade; (B) is on a list of officers recommended for promotion to a temporary grade below chief warrant officer W-5; or (C) is on a list of officers recommended for promotion to a permanent grade higher than the grade in which that warrant officer is serving; shall be considered to have been recommended by a board convened under section 573 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by this subsection (b), for promotion to the permanent grade equivalent to the grade in which that warrsuit officer is serving or for which that warrant officer has been recommended for promotion, as the case may be. (2) An officer referred to in subparagraph (A) of paragraph ' (1) who is not promoted to the grade to which that warrant officer is considered under such subsection to have been recommended for promotion because that officer's name is removed from a list of officers who are considered under such paragraph to have been recommended for promotion shall be considered by a board convened under section 573 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by subsection (b), for promotion to the permanent grade equivalent to the temporary grade in which that warrant officer was serving on the effective date of this section as if that warrant officer were serving in the permanent grade. (3) The date of rank of an officer referred to in paragraph (1)(A) who is promoted to the grade in which that warrant officer is serving on the effective date of this section is the date of that officer's temporary appointment in that grade. (d) TRANSITION FOR CERTAIN RESERVE WARRANT OFFICERS ^^ use 571 note. SERVING IN A HIGHER TEMPORARY GRADE BELOW CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER, W-5. — (1)(A) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a reserve warrant officer of the Coast Guard who on the effective date of this section is subject to placement on the warrant officer active-duty list and who— (i) is serving in a temporary grade below chief warrant officer, W-5, that is higher than that warrant officer's permanent grade; or (ii) is on a list of warrant officers recommended for promotion to a temporary grade below chief warrant officer, W-
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which fell into the hands of the allies revealed the fact that his conduct had been directed from Peking, and that the imperial court was responsible for his refusal to open negotiations for treaty revision or the redress of grievances. Among those documents were also found the Chinese originals of the British, American, and French treaties of 1842 and 1844, and from this fact it was inferred that they had never been sent to Peking nor their terms known to the emperor; but this was afterwards shown to be incorrect, as they had been officially published by the court.
After the fall of Canton, the allies announced a disposition to forego further hostile operations, if the Chinese government would appoint plenipotentiaries and open negotiations for a revision of the treaties. Meanwhile a Russian minister had reached Hongkong, after an unsuccessful effort to communicate with the emperor by way of the Peiho. His instructions were similar to those of the United States minister,—to press negotiations upon the Chinese, but by peaceful methods only. Mr. Reed, after his cavalier treatment by Yeh, and after a brief experience in Chinese affairs, was led to the same conviction as his predecessors,—that only coercive measures would be effective in bringing the imperial government to terms. In his review of the situation to the Secretary of State he said: "I do not hesitate to say that a new policy towards China ought to be . . . initiated, and that the powers of Western civilization must insist on what they know to be their rights, and give up the dream of dealing with China as a power to which any ordinary rules apply." And a
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How to Pass While Towing
There are times when you're not allowed to pass another vehicle and other times when you simply shouldn't pass another vehicle. See more truck pictures.
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Most drivers can relate to the frustration of following a cement mixer or even a huge recreational vehicle over a steep, seemingly never-ending mountain highway, or possibly down a twisty, single-lane country road. There's no place to go -- you're stuck. The vehicle in front of you is moving at a snail's pace, and for a reasonable amount of time, you're patient. "Surely this guy is going to turn off," you think to yourself. But as mile after mile ticks away on your odometer, you realize that you're simply stuck where you are right now -- staring at the back end of a giant camper with tourism stickers from all 50 states.
It's time to do something about this. First, you make a few tentative moves to the edge of your lane, avoiding oncoming traffic as you do, just to see if you can survey the situation ahead of the camper. It's exactly as you suspected: The trailer is the only thing standing between you, the open road ahead and the posted speed limit -- which happens to be nearly double the speed that you're traveling right now. Just as you have so many times in the past, you safely and successfully accelerate around the lumbering dinosaur and slip back into the correct traffic lane. Just as simple as that, you're back on schedule.
Now imagine that the shoe is on the other foot. Well, maybe not completely on the other foot, because we want to find out what it takes to be able to pass while towing. So, in the new scenario, imagine that you're driving a pickup truck that's pulling a large camper, one that's several feet longer than your tow vehicle, as a matter of fact. Now imagine that you're on that same two-lane country road. About a quarter of a mile ahead, you see that a farmer has just entered the roadway hauling a trailer full of freshly cut hay. It's a slow-moving rig, so you quickly find yourself approaching the farmer's rear bumper. Now, of course you're excited to get to your lake property to begin the long weekend of camping, backpacking and boating; however, there's just one thing in your way -- this load of hay.
It's important to understand that you might not be able to handle this situation the same way you would in your sleek sedan. Passing while towing is an entirely different ballgame. In fact, as you'll find out on the next page, there are times when passing may not even be an option -- at least not a safe option.
Precautions for Passing While Towing
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Is this driver planning to pass?
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Even if you're pulling a heavy trailer down the road, there may be times when you encounter slower traffic. Maybe it's a heavy piece of construction equipment or that trailer overloaded with hay that we just mentioned. Whatever the situation may be, you will probably be tempted to pass. Sometimes, passing is an appropriate action; other times, it may not be so wise.
It's true: Passing while towing requires more effort from the driver and a lot more effort from the tow vehicle. Good judgment on the part of the driver is essential to a successful (and safe) pass.
Of course, there are always going to be unlimited variables in every passing situation. These may include environmental issues like rain, glaring sunlight or even high winds, but in general, you should keep the following few key points in mind when you're passing while towing:
• Signal early: When you're towing a trailer, it's a good idea to signal a little earlier than you normally would simply to alert the other drivers around you to exactly what you're up to. Ideally, they'll give you the extra room that you need to complete your passing maneuver.
• Pass only on level ground: Never attempt a pass while towing on an incline or steep descent. Remember, you're pulling a significant amount of trailer weight behind you, and your tow vehicle won't behave the same as it does when there's no camper or boat attached. Trying to accelerate around slower traffic as you climb a hill may leave you stuck beside the vehicle that you're trying to pass. Attempting a pass on a steep decline may lead to higher speeds that are unsafe, too. Pass only on level ground when you can see what's ahead of you clearly.
• Use your mirrors: Seeing what's in front of you is important, but seeing what's behind you can be just as important when you're passing another vehicle. Use your mirrors to make sure that another vehicle isn't attempting to pass you as you pull out into the passing lane. Your mirrors are also important tools to use to determine when you can merge back into your lane of traffic after the pass is complete.
• Make slow movements with the wheel: Ease out into the passing lane, and ease back into your traffic lane once the pass is complete. Never make abrupt movements with the steering wheel when you're passing another vehicle. Rapid movement of the steering wheel could cause trailer sway -- and you definitely don't want that.
• Regain control of trailer sway: Trailer sway can be caused by several things -- high winds, fast movement of the steering wheel at high speeds or even wind buffeting from passing vehicles (including the vehicle you're attempting to pass). No matter what the cause, trailer sway is always a little bit scary and rarely easy to recover from, so you should know what to do if it happens. First, release the accelerator, but do not brake. Braking will only magnify the situation. Keep both hands firmly on the steering wheel and allow your vehicle to slow down and straighten out. If you experience extreme trailer sway, you should activate your trailer brakes by hand. Again, don't use the tow vehicle brakes to stop trailer sway.
• Allow for the extra length of the trailer: As simple as this seems, a lot of accidents are caused by drivers simply forgetting about the extra length of their trailer and returning to their traffic lane a little too soon. Using your mirrors throughout the passing procedure can prevent this from happening.
• Be aware of your position on the road: This one is self-explanatory. Just stay alert, know what's happening all around you (in every direction) and perhaps, most importantly, use good judgment.
To read more about passing while towing, safety and other related topics, follow the links on the next page.
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Sources
• Auto Zone. "Trailer Towing." (Sept. 19, 2008) http://www.procarcare.com/icarumba/resourcecenter/encyclopedia/icar_resourcecenter_ encyclopedia_towing2.asp
• Ingle, W.H. "Trailer Towing Tips: Towing Your New Trailer." MotorPoint. (Sept. 19, 2008) http://www.motorpoint.com.au/trailer-usage.asp
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Towing a Trailer: Being Equipped for Safety." Sept. 17, 2002. (Sept. 19, 2008) http://www.escapees.com/edocs/Towing.pdf
• RV Basics. "RV Fifth Wheel & Travel Trailer Towing Safety Tips." (Sept. 19, 2008) http://rvbasics.com/techtips/travel-trailer-towing-safety-tips.html
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New biscoumarin derivatives-cytotoxicity and enzyme inhibitory activities
Bioorg Med Chem 14(23):7 (2006) PMID 16919464
A series of biscoumarin derivatives were screened for their cytotoxicity and enzyme inhibition activity against phosphodiesterase 1 from snake venom, and human nucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase-1. K"i and IC"5"0 values of biscoumarins were found to be in the range of 50 to 1000 and 164 to >1000@mM against the human recombinant phosphodiesterase 1 enzyme, and 8.0 to 1150 and 9.44 to >1000@mM against the snake venom phosphodiesterase 1. Most of the active compounds were found to be non-cytotoxic and non-competitive inhibitors.
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KFC unleashes a Cheetos chicken sandwich and honestly, it looks delicious
(CNN)It's a match made in finger-lickin' heaven. For four weeks starting July 1, KFC and Cheetos will marry their signature fare in a new collaboration that sprinkles magical, orange Cheeto dust on a chicken sandwich. In a win for advocates of chips on sandwiches, the KFC Cheetos Sandwich drenches KFC's crispy fried chicken in a "special Cheetos sauce" on top of a bed of Cheetos. Kentucky Fried Chicken's own Colonel Sanders tweeted on Thursday that he was "finger lickin' thrilled" to announce the mashup. Chester Cheetah echoed the sentiment with a birth announcement for the companies' Frankenfood. It's the latest development in fast food's love affair with the crunchy cheese-flavored snacks. In June 2016, Burger King launched Mac n' Cheetos, which stuffed fried mac and cheese into the shape of a Cheeto puff, and Cheetos Chicken Fries. The former became so popular that it returned in the summer of 2017 with a comeback commercial with the Burger King and Chester Cheetah superimposed onto Mark Morrison in the video for his 1996 song, "Return of the Mack." There's even a frozen version of the Mac n' Cheetos available at Walmart for those who prefer to coat their fingers in Cheeto dust in the comfort of their own home. New York fans of this whole idea can taste an even more exciting line up that includes "Cheetos-Fied KFC Hot Wings," "Cheetos Loaded Fries" and "KFC Mac and Cheetos Bowl," all slathered in Cheetos sauce and a Cheeto dust finish, at a pop-up party at KFC's downtown location on July 27 from 4 to 8 p.m.
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Having issues when trying to figure out how to make a PDF searchable? Easily search through long PDF files with a lot of text. Learn how to make scanned PDF documents searchable.
Once you scan a paper document into a PDF file, you may notice that you can’t search the text. Your scanner captures the pages as a flat image, which means there’s no text your PDF viewer can recognize. This can be a problem, especially with text-heavy documents.
Fortunately, it’s easy to resolve this issue. Read on to learn how to make a PDF file searchable.
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Convert a PDF to a searchable PDF with Word.
First, you’ll need to get your PDF viewer to recognize the text on your PDF file before you can search through it. You can do this by converting your PDF to a Word file with Adobe Acrobat online services — just follow these three easy steps:
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A Heart Stops Beating
A Heart Stops Beating (Hungarian: Egy szív megáll) is a 1942 Hungarian drama film directed by László Kalmár and starring Katalin Karády, Tivadar Uray and Árpád Lehotay. It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ferenc Daday.
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* Katalin Karády as Anna
* Tivadar Uray as Futó Lajos - Anna férje
* István Nagy as Dr. Monostori
* Árpád Lehotay as Bakkari - impresszárió
* Tibor Halmay as Pál
* Ferenc Pethes as Péter
* Manyi Kiss as Pallósné színésznõ
* László Pálóczi as Pallós,bonviván
* Zoltán Makláry as Köszörûs
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May 5 (Reuters) - Australia's Downer EDI DOW.AX said on Friday it was served with a second class action lawsuit by certain shareholders alleging breach of disclosures regarding a maintenance contract undertaken by the company's segment in July 2019.
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i) Case study
James is 28 years old and sustained a traumatic brain injury following an assault. He participated in a 3-month inpatient rehabilitation program at a Brain Injury Unit in a hospital. As a result of his injury, James has weakness down his left side, making it difficult for him to walk long distances or carry heavy objects. James also has difficulty planning and organising his time. Often on the ward in the hospital he became frustrated because he couldn't seem to get to his appointments on time.
It is now eight weeks since James's discharge. He has returned to live in his two-bedroom unit. He is living alone and receiving carer support for main meal preparation and heavy household cleaning tasks. James has been finding that he is tired all the time and that he is not managing to get on top of all the household chores. He is finding this very frustrating and is often having aggressive outbursts due to this frustration.
James also has difficulty remembering exactly what he has done during the week and what appointments he needs to attend. This often makes it difficult when James meets up with friends who inevitably ask, "what have you been doing lately?" It also means that he has to be extremely careful that he doesn't double-book himself.
James has parents and a sister who regularly keep in touch with him.
Questions
There are questions about this case study on each of the tabs.
Whatever your role try and answers the questions for all the other roles as well.
This will help provide a holistic view of the case and how to respond.
ii) Information and referral workers questions
Answer the following question:
James rings your service up wanting additional support for cleaning in the home? How do you respond?
Check your answers here
The essence of approaching a good response is to:
a) not make assumptions and
b) ask specific questions to tease out what is happening and
c) gather more information at a later time and/or from others if necessary
d) pick things that you can work on
Ask specific questions. For example:
What's going wrong?
Have you got anyone coming now?
Who pays for them?
Discover why he is asking for additional support.
Don't make assumptions.
It may be that he is getting the cleaning but he is not letting them clean.
Just because the person thinks they need more workers doesn't mean that is the answer.
Question his assumption that this is the answer.
E.g. he may not be at home and so they don't come.
Get more information at a later time from him or another person.
What about you go away and write down what the problems are and ring me again.
Who lives with you? Can I talk to them about this?
Pick things that you can work on
If he has difficulty remembering appointments, is he using a diary? If not who could help him with this?
Answer the following question:
James' parents ring up wanting to know what services are available to help James with his frustration and anger? How do you respond?
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The essence of approaching a good response is also to
a) not make assumptions and
b) ask specific questions to tease out what is happening and
c) gather more information at a later time and/or from others if necessary
d) pick things in the case that you can work on
Ask specific questions:
When do these things happen?
What services are being provided?
What happens when he is frustrated?
Do not make assumptions:
It may be that James only experiences frustration at specific events, e.g. missing appointments.
If so the solution may be practical e.g. using a diary and a reminder in a mobile phone rather than psychological.
It may be that James experiences frustration in a wide range of different situations, he may need an assessment from a clinical psychologist. If so do they know if there has been an assessment done? Is he seeing a clinical psychologist? What is the history? This will help identify what the referral network was/needs to be.
It may be that the parents are having difficultly dealing with the frustration because they are tired, worn out and need some respite.
Pick the things in the case that you can work on.
He is missing appointments. He has a memory problem.
Has he got a diary or a weekly planner? Who can help him with this.
If the parents need respite, who can help with this?
iii) Support workers questions
Answer the following question:
1. Identify the skills and tasks that James has difficulty with.
Check your answers here
1. Difficult for him to walk long distances or carry heavy objects.
2, Difficulty planning and organising his time.
3. He is tired all the time and that he is not managing to get on top of all the household chores.
4. He is having difficulty managing frustration.
5. James also has difficulty remembering what he has done and the appointments he has.
Answer the following question:
2. What are some of the strategies you might use to help James to manage these difficulties?
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1. Difficult for him to walk long distances or carry heavy objects.
Use a small shopping trolly for carrying items (e.g. shopping) for smaller distances.
Plan ahead so that heavier items that must be moved can be moved by someone else (so frustration with things not being done is minimised).
2. Difficulty planning and organising his time.
Use a weekly planner on a white board
Provide specific lists of steps for specific tasks e.g. the steps to take for specific household chores.
Keep belongings and things he needs to work with in regular places
3. He is tired all the time and that he is not managing to get on top of all the household chores.
Schedule the chores into the weekly planner. Ensure there is not too much to do on any one day.
4. He is having difficulty managing frustration.
Identify what causes the frustration.
Put in place strategies to reduce the causes.
5. He has difficulty remembering what he has done and his appointments.
Use a white board for bigger events
Use a mobile phone to put in future events with an alarm before the event.
Use a diary to record what has happened at events
Use the calendar function in a mobile phone to record things that have been done.
iv) Program staff questions
Answer the following question:
5. James has started to attend your social activities program. He often misses his appointments. When he does come he gets frustrated easily and makes other participants uncomfortable. What do you do?
Check your answers here:
Look at the referral information to see if it is adequate.
Adequate equals: this person has been referred to us because he has a brain injury and this is the effect of the injury on the person and strategies you may need to take to work with these effects.
Don't make assumptions
Ask specific questions of both him and his family members. E.g.
Is there something going wrong for you?
e.g. I don't like the person.
There is loud music in the background and I can't concentrate
I have this problem every time I go anywhere.
Do you want to do something about this?
What's the goal?
How do we work on this goal?
Is he being sent along because other people thought it was a good idea?
Does he like the activity?
What are his likes/wants/goals?
Is there something he would prefer to be doing?
If the specific issues are identified then explore strategies for how to address them.
If he can't concentrate: What support is needed for him to concentrate?
If there is one particular person he doesn't get on with: What can we do to minimise this an a problem
If needs support to do some of the activities and he is not getting it: How can we get him the additional support he needs?
Examine how what he is being asked to do matches with his skills and abilities.
If he is being asked to do things he does not have the skill to do: Are there alternative activities he cold do? Could he do the activity with support? What supports are needed? Where will they come from?
What support is needed to achieve the same outcomes as other people are achieving?
Has he attended other groups? What kinds of problems if any did he have with them?
What did they do for him to help him achieve things?
What strategies is he using to help with memory problems and missing appointments? Would other strategies be useful?
Does he have a white board weekly planner?
Does he have a mobile phone calendar and reminders?
If not would these be helpful to address the specific issue of missing appointments.
Could he, for example, get a text message reminder 2 hours before the activity?
v) Case managers questions
Answer the following question:
8. James' case has been referred to you. You are to work with James to develop a plan for the next 12 months. What are the sources of the information you need?
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Agency reports
Obtain copies from family, hospitals, legal representatives
Discharge summaries - can be obtained from acute hospitals or rehabilitation services, Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, private rehabilitation providers.
Neuropsychological reports – done by neuropsychologist or clinical psychologists. Usually focus on changes to cognitive function. Some assessments include I.Q. score, usually not very helpful as the overall score does not usually vary greatly from the preinjury score.
Rehabilitation/medical reports – done by rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, speech pathologists, social workers, rehabilitation counsellors.
Other therapist reports – include occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology, social work and rehabilitation counsellor reports.
Self report
Pre-morbid functioning vs. current status - It is important to get an idea of a person's ability before the injury and compare that with current functioning. Otherwise you can make any number of erroneous conclusions about the impact of the TBI.
Verbal vs functional ability - Some people are verbally articulate, but still have significant problems at a practical level that may be identified in an interview.
Difficulties with insight - Some people have reduced awareness about their needs, and may not fully understand the level of support being provided by key people in their lives.
Family report
Impact on the family - Families are often a key support for people with ABI. Information from families can provide valuable additional information in making an assessment.
Under reaction vs over-reaction - Family members sometimes minimise or over-emphasise the disabilities of their relative.
Others
Other people may have valuable additional information - This may include agency/staff/friends/ employers, etc. The more sources of information, the better the quality of the assessment.
Where relevant sources of information are not available
Case managers may need to make arrangements to have a person with an ABI assessed appropriately.
Answer the following question:
11. What are likely to be some of the barriers to accessing services for James? What can you do about these potential barriers?
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All of the following are common barriers if they are not present:
The service is available in the area. If the most appropriate service is not available then what are the alternatives? Would the service be suitable if James had support? Would the service be suitable if modified in some way?
Diagnosis - if James doesn't have a diagnosis he may find he doesn't get in to the service. Get a diagnosis if he doesn't have one.
The program aims and James needs matched: What is the program aiming to achieve? What are James goal? Do they match? If no, could the service be modified in some way to match James' goals?
There is adequate support for James to participate. What support does James need to participate in the program?
Maybe he needs a worker to facilitate interaction with other people.
Social inclusion - e.g. there may be a mens social group for Vietnamese people - but the problem for James in this mens group is he isn't social - so they many not want him to/ he many not want to continue coming.
Affordable - Can he afford any associated costs? Has get got the skills to manage the money?
Transport available - Is he able to get to the service?
vi) Managers questions
Answer the following question:
15. James' support staff are finding working with James difficult because of his anger outbursts? How will you deal with this?
Check your answers here
Have the support staff had appropriate orientation and training for working with people with acquired brain injury? If not, provide them with the orientation/ training e.g. Self-Study Module 1 : An Introduction to ABI
Work with the support staff on reinforcing key messages:
Uniqueness of the individual
Injury - effect - behaviour - behaviour management
You are part of a team
Be attuned to managing yourself, know what pushes your buttons and what you will do when it happens.
Stick to your role.
Analysing the problem behaviour:
• When does it occur?
• Where does it occur?
• Who does the behaviour occur with?
• Does it start suddenly or build up gradually?
• How long does it last?
• What is the history of the problem?
• What solutions have been tried in the past?
• How are people reacting?
Other factors to consider when analysing problem behaviour
• Physical factors ie: excess noise, overcrowding, appropriateness of house or room.
• Are they treated with respect?
• Are they part of the decision making process/do they have choices?
• Are they able to communicate effectively?
• Will they benefit from being taught coping skills ie: relaxation etc
Develop strategies to specifically deal with the problem behaviour.
work with all the staff on agreeing on the specific strategies to be adopted - so there is consistency across all staff.
See: Understanding and Managing Behaviour Changes following a TBI Although this resources is for traumatic brain injury much of it is relevant for most sudden onset ABIs.
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Yıldız (Istanbul Metro)
Yıldız is an underground station on the M7 line of the Istanbul Metro in Beşiktaş. The station is located on Barbaros Boulevard in the Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş. With a depth of 71 meters, it is the second deepest station in the Istanbul Metro system, after the M11's Gayrettepe station.
The station has 3 entrances; Ertuğrul Sitesi, Yıldız University and Dikilitaş.
The M7 line operates as fully automatic unattended train operation (UTO). The station consists of an island platform with two tracks. Since the M7 is an ATO line, protective gates on each side of the platform open only when a train is in the station.
The station opened on 2 January, 2023 as the first phase of the Mecidiyeköy-Kabataş extension.
Surroundings
The station serves the Yıldız, Balmumcu and Dikilitaş neighborhoods, the Yıldız Technical University, the Yıldız Park and the Sait Çiftçi State Hospital.
Services
As of November 2023, the M7 line is 20 kilometers long and has a service frequency of 10 trains per hour in each direction. The line runs 24/7 on weekends and state holidays and from 6 am to midnight on weekdays.
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What is NextMD Patient Portal?
A patient portal enables patients and providers to securely access and manage your health information online and communicate easily, promoting provider-patient interaction and improving patient care.
What is a token?
The patient will receive a unique token number from the clinic. The token number is required when setting up your account for the first time. The token number will expire in (30) thirty days if you haven’t registered. The patient will have to contact the office to receive a new token number if the token has expired
How do I enroll and login to NextMD Patient Portal website?
To access NextMD Patient Portal, the patient must have requested to enroll with an employee from DECM. The patient will receive a unique token number from the clinic prior to logging on to NextMD Patient Portal. The patient will receive a welcome email that will allow you access to setup your username and password
What if I forgot my username and password?
The patient may retrieve their username and password by clicking “need help with your username and password?” and select the option that you need. Patients who have lost or forgotten their password, can click this link to retrieve their password.
Features of Patient Portal
• Schedule, reschedule or cancel appointment
• Request a prescription refill
• Send a message to the clinic
• View summary of health history
• View lab results
• 24 hour access
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Taming of the Shrew, 1926
In the earliest days of television development, Philo Farnsworth was a man with a mission. The earliest broadcasts were not being sent into American homes, but generally, from room to room, or building to building. Very little attention was being paid to Farnsworth's work, as most of the focus in the industry was on silent films and radio.
In 1926, however, Farnsworth looped a segment from a Mary Pickford - Douglas Fairbanks silent classic, The Taming of the Shrew. Simply a loop of Ms. Pickford combing her hair, this repeat performance over a span of many weeks proved genius. Farnsworth repeated the loop, improving the image quality with each passing day.
That real stroke of genius, however, was inviting the Hollywood superstars Pickford and Douglas to see his invention. A mild media frenzy ensued as the married couple traveled from Hollywood to New York to witness his invention. Unfortunately, by the time the couple arrived, Farnsworth's last minute tinkering with his invention reduced the image quality. As the stars arrived, Farnsworth manically attempted to correct his error. Pickford and Douglas were not impressed. But the real story was the excitement created of combining top stars with his new invention, television. It was a publicity coup and exactly what televsion needed to move forward.
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SARA S. MARSHALL v. STEPHEN P. MARSHALL STEPHEN P. MARSHALL v. SARA S. MARSHALL
(AC 30207)
(AC 30442)
Bishop, Lavine and Borden, Js.
Argued October 20, 2009
officially released February 2, 2010
Kenneth J. Bartschi, with whom were Karen L. Dowd and, on the brief, Arnold H. Ruthin, for the appellant (defendant in the first case, plaintiff in the second case).
Anthony L. Cenatiempo, with whom, on the brief, was Gaetano Ferro, for the appellee (plaintiff in the first case, defendant in the second case).
Opinion
BORDEN, J.
In this consolidated appeal, the defendant, Stephen P. Marshall, appeals from the judgments of the trial court dissolving his marriage to the plaintiff, Sara S. Marshall, and granting her motion to strike his petition for a new trial. On appeal, the defendant claims that the court improperly: (1) precluded a future court from considering the plaintiffs income in a motion to modify alimony, (2) fashioned its financial orders with a punitive motive, (3) failed to correct erroneous financial orders concerning the distribution of the parties’ tangible personal property and (4) granted the plaintiffs motion to strike his petition for a new trial for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted. We affirm in part and reverse in part the dissolution judgment of the trial court. We reverse the judgment as to the petition for a new trial.
The following facts and procedural history are relevant to our resolution of the defendant’s appeals. The parties were married on October 8,1977. hi September, 2006, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint seeking a dissolution of her marriage to the defendant, claiming that their marriage had broken down irretrievably. The plaintiff was fifty-four years of age and the defendant was fifty-seven. Both were in relatively good health. At the time of the trial, they had two children bom of the marriage, both of whom were adults.
By memorandum of decision filed on May 30, 2007, the court, Tierney, J., dissolved the parties’ marriage. It found that the plaintiff, a real estate broker in New Canaan, had a gross weekly income of $1231 in 2006. The court noted that her earnings recently had “been reduced due to the trauma of the divorce, the adverse real estate market and ten days of this dissolution trial.”
As for the defendant, a thirty-three year career employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) who had “proceeded up the corporate ladder” during the marriage and received “an excellent promotion to client executive for IBM’s American Express account,” the court found his gross weekly salary to be $4651. The defendant also “received stock options and incentive commissions. In 2006, he received $577,497 gross [income] in the form of cash and stock from stock options as well as $1,085,246 as incentive commissions for 2005 paid in early 2006. . . . Based on [his] earnings history, he anticipated receiving incentive commissions for the year 2006 early in 2007.”
In addition to assessing the parties’ financial state of affairs, the court examined the reasons for the marital breakdown and discussed these events in connection with the parties’ proposed financial orders. The court found that the defendant’s conduct, namely, an extramarital affair with another woman and the dissipation of assets in her favor, was, in fact, the cause of the marital breakdown.
The court entered comprehensive financial orders in connection with the parties’ extensive assets. The plaintiff was awarded periodic alimony payments in the amount of $7410 per month along with one-third of the defendant’s annual gross cash income in excess of $250,000. Several additional assets, including the net proceeds of the sale of the marital home located in New Canaan, a multitude of checking and savings accounts and a series of retirement, pension and IRA accounts that had been accrued by the defendant were ordered to be divided equally between the parties. The defendant also was ordered to pay the plaintiff a lump sum of $700,000 from his one-half share of the proceeds upon the sale of the marital home.
The financial orders also provided that the defendant was entitled to retire upon reaching the age of fifty-nine and that in the event of his retirement the periodic alimony payments to the plaintiff would be reduced to $1 per year. Furthermore, the alimony order would terminate upon the death of either party or the plaintiffs remarriage. The defendant expressly was permitted to seek modification of the alimony award pursuant to General Statutes § 46b-86 (b) if the plaintiffs financial needs were altered as a result of cohabitation. In accordance with § 46b-86 (a), however, the alimony order was otherwise “nonmodifiable as to term and amount.” The provision precluding modification specifically provided that there was to be “no modification of the periodic alimony orders based on the [plaintiffs] employment, earnings or her income from any source, earned or unearned.”
With regard to the parties’ personal property, the plaintiff was awarded all of the furniture, furnishings, fixtures, bric-a-brac and appliances located in the New Canaan residence, and the defendant was awarded the same contents in what the court referred to as his Nor-walk residence. It is undisputed, however, that this Nor-walk residence, and the alleged contents within, were in fact nonexistent. See part IC of this opinion. Additional details concerning the court’s property distribution orders will be set forth as required.
On June 18, 2007, the defendant filed a postjudgment motion to open and reargue and for articulation and clarification of several of the court’s financial orders (postjudgment motion). In relevant part, the defendant claimed that the terms and conditions concerning the alimony payments—specifically, the provisions providing for the modifiability and nonmodifiability of the order—were in conflict with one another and, therefore, reargument and clarification were necessary to resolve this alleged ambiguity. The court disagreed. In its memorandum of decision, issued in response to the defendant’s postjudgment motion, the court denied the defendant’s requested relief and stated that the provisions concerning the modifiability of the order were not in conflict because the clause permitting the modification of alimony was “relate[d] to cohabitation only.”
The defendant also sought reargument as to the court’s distribution of all the furniture, furnishings and household items located in the New Canaan marital home to the plaintiff. In connection with this claim, the defendant directed the court’s attention to the problematic order awarding him the furniture, furnishings and household items located in the defendant’s “current residence” in Norwalk. Because this residence, along with any personal property contained within, were in fact nonexistent, the defendant claimed that the court mistakenly had awarded the plaintiff all of the marital furnishings and household items. According to the defendant, these marital furnishings and household items included the defendant’s own home office equipment, “significant” personal home entertainment items and pieces of art accumulated during the marriage.
In its memorandum of decision on the defendant’s postjudgment motion, the court conceded that its financial orders erroneously had attributed nonexistent furnishings in a nonexistent residence to the defendant. The court went on to state that it was “inclined to grant a new evidentiary hearing on the division of personal property in order to properly and completely allocate the personal property to each of the parties.” Nevertheless, the court refused to open the personal property aspect of the judgment, in part, on the basis of the “ ‘mosaic rule.’ ” The court feared that opening the judgment, even for the limited purpose of reallocating the parties’ personal properly, necessarily would subject the entire complex financial distribution plan to review. Furthermore, the court concluded that it lacked the authority to order a postjudgment reallocation of the parties’ personal property because the language of § 46b~81 expressly calls for the division of marital assets “[a]t the time of [the dissolution] decree . . . .” General Statutes § 46b-81 (a). Accordingly, the court denied the defendant’s motion to open the personal property component of the financial order. The court noted, however, that an appellate court is neither bound by the “mosaic rule” nor that jurisdictional limitation.
In August, 2007, while the defendant’s postjudgment motion was pending, the defendant also filed a petition for a new trial pursuant to General Statutes § 52-270 (a). The substance of this petition concerned a highly contentious letter that had been erroneously filed with the court by counsel for the plaintiff only weeks into the underlying dissolution of marriage action. The letter was ruled inadmissible at trial but also was attached to a request for production that the plaintiff improperly had filed with the court. In his petition for a new trial, the defendant claimed that the filing of this request constituted a mispleading and a reasonable cause to order a new trial.
In response, the plaintiff filed a motion to strike the petition, claiming, inter alia, that the improper filing of the inadmissible letter accompanying the request for production was not a mispleading within the purview of § 52-270 (a). The defendant’s petition for a new trial, therefore, according to the plaintiff, did not state a legally sufficient claim. The court agreed and concluded that because the document was not a pleading, the improper filing of it could not constitute a mispleading. Accordingly, the court granted the plaintiffs motion to strike the defendant’s petition for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted. The defendant thereafter appealed. Additional facts will be set forth as necessary.
I
DISSOLUTION JUDGMENT
The defendant claims that the court abused its discretion with respect to its financial orders by improperly (1) precluding a future court from considering the plaintiffs income in connection with a potential motion to modify alimony, (2) punishing him for being the cause of the marital breakdown and (3) failing to correct its erroneous award regarding personal property in the nonexistent Norwalk residence. The defendant seeks a new trial on the basis of any one of these alleged improprieties.
“The standard of review in family matters is well settled. An appellate court will not disturb a trial court’s orders in domestic relations cases unless the court has abused its discretion or it is found that it could not reasonably conclude as it did, based on the facts presented. ... It is within the province of the trial court to find facts and draw proper inferences from the evidence presented. ... In determining whether a trial court has abused its broad discretion in domestic relations matters, we allow every reasonable presumption in favor of the correctness of its action. . . . [T]o conclude that the trial court abused its discretion, we must find that the court either incorrectly applied the law or could not reasonably conclude as it did.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Elia v. Elia, 99 Conn. App. 829, 831, 916 A.2d 845 (2007).
A
The defendant first claims that the court abused its discretion by precluding a future court from considering the plaintiffs income in connection with a motion to modify its alimony order. We disagree.
As set forth previously, the court ordered that the alimony award was nonmodifiable, with the sole exception that the defendant had the right to seek modification in the event of the plaintiffs cohabitation. See General Statutes § 46b-86 (b). The order precluding modification further stated that “no modification of the periodic alimony orders based on the [plaintiffs] employment, earnings or her income from any source, earned or unearned” was to be permitted.
It is a well settled principle of matrimonial law that courts have the authority under § 46b-86 to preclude the modification of alimony awards. See, e.g., Eckert v. Eckert, 285 Conn. 687, 693, 941 A.2d 301 (2008) (“[n]onmodifi cation provisions that are clear and unambiguous . . . are enforceable”); Wichman v. Wichman, 49 Conn. App. 529, 534-35, 714 A.2d 1274, cert. denied, 247 Conn. 910, 719 A.2d 906 (1998). Section 46b-86 (a) itself provides in relevant part that il[u]nless and to the extent that the decree precludes modification . . . any final order for the periodic payment of permanent alimony . . . may at any time thereafter be continued, set aside, altered or modified by said court upon a showing of a substantial change in the circumstances of either party.” (Emphasis added.) “This statute clearly permits a trial court to make periodic awards of alimony nonmodifiable.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Wichman v. Wichman, supra, 535. The defendant does not suggest otherwise.
Instead, the defendant takes issue with the language found in the nonmodification provision that explains that a change in the plaintiffs employment or income is not a sufficient justification for modification. The defendant claims that this explanatory language also could be construed by a court in the future as restricting consideration of the plaintiffs income sources should he seek modification of alimony on the basis of cohabitation. The defendant contends that the court was without the authority to issue such a restriction because it conflicts with the language of General Statutes § 46b-82 that expressly calls for the consideration of the parties’ income when fashioning an alimony award. The defendant’s argument is without merit.
The court’s language that is directed at the consideration of the plaintiffs income sources does nothing more than emphasize the point that modification of the alimony award “based on the [plaintiffs] employment, earnings or her income from any source” was not to be sought. That language, however, is entirely unrelated to that portion of the financial order permitting modification under § 46b-86 (b). Indeed, the court in its memorandum of decision on the defendant’s postjudgment motion made clear that the clause permitting modification related only to the plaintiffs cohabitation. The language in question immediately follows the sentence prohibiting modification and in no way implies that it is applicable to the order discussing the defendant’s right to seek modification of alimony in the event of the plaintiffs cohabitation. Furthermore, the section discussing nonmodification is found several paragraphs away from and under a different sectional subheading than the order discussing the defendant’s rights under § 46b-86 (b). Consequently, we fail to see how this superfluous explanatory language reasonably could be read in conjunction with the provision permitting the right to modify should the plaintiff cohabitate. The language pertaining to the nonmodifiabilify of alimony does not hinder the ability of a court from considering the income sources of the plaintiff upon confronting a potential motion to modify alimony pursuant to § 46b-86 (b). Accordingly, we conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion when ordering the nonmodifiable component of the alimony award.
B
We turn next to the defendant’s claim that the court abused its discretion by fashioning the financial orders with the intention of punishing the defendant for causing the breakdown of the marriage. We disagree.
The defendant contends that certain components of the court’s financial orders, particularly the $700,000 lump sum distribution to the plaintiff from his one-half share of the proceeds from the sale of the marital home and the “substantial portion” of his income included in the alimony award, demonstrate that the property allocation was tainted by a punitive motive. The defendant maintains that this inequitable distribution conflicts with “the principle that alimony is not designed to punish, but to ensure that the former spouse receives adequate support.” Greco v. Greco, 275 Conn. 348, 361, 880 A.2d 872 (2005).
As our Supreme Court has repeatedly stated: “[Judicial review of a trial court’s exercise of its broad discretion in domestic relations cases is limited to the questions of whether the [trial] court correctly applied the law and could reasonably have concluded as it did. . . . With respect to the financial awards in a dissolution action, great weight is given to the judgment of the trial court because of its opportunity to observe the parties and the evidence. . . . Moreover, the power to act equitably is the keystone to the court’s ability to fashion relief in the infinite variety of circumstances which arise out of the dissolution of a marriage.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Fitzsimons v. Fitzsi-mons, 116 Conn. App. 449, 458-59, 975 A.2d 729 (2009).
Upon our thorough review of the record, we conclude that the financial orders were not fashioned with a punitive motive and were well within the court’s broad discretionary power. We cannot say that the court’s orders concerning the alimony award, the lump sum distribution or the financial plan as a whole were conceived as a means for punishing the defendant. To the contrary, given the parties’ almost thirty year marriage, the amount of the defendant’s earnings, the total value of their marital assets and the fact that the defendant was the cause of the marital breakdown, the financial orders are within the court’s broad discretion. The non-punitive nature of the judgment is further demonstrated by the court’s permitting the defendant to retire upon reaching the age of fifty-nine and having the alimony payments reduced to $1 per year.
C
We next address the defendant’s final claim that takes issue with the court’s financial orders. The defendant claims that the court abused its discretion by refusing to open the judgment and to permit reargument to correct certain errors made in connection with the distribution of the parties’ personal property. The defendant urges us to order that the entire dissolution judgment be opened and a full evidentiary hearing be held to resolve properly the reallocation of these assets. We agree in part.
As previously stated, “[t]he standard of review in family matters is that this court will not disturb the trial court’s orders unless it has abused its legal discretion or its findings have no reasonable basis in fact. . . . [W]here the factual basis of the court’s decision is challenged we must determine whether the facts set out in the memorandum of decision are supported by the evidence or whether, in light of the evidence and the pleadings in the whole record, these facts are clearly erroneous.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Szegda v. Szegda, 97 Conn. App. 426, 432, 904 A.2d 1266, cert. denied, 280 Conn. 932, 909 A.2d 959 (2006). “A finding of fact is clearly erroneous when there is no evidence in the record to support it . . . .” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Cifaldi v. Cifaldi, 118 Conn. App. 325, 331, 983 A.2d 293 (2009).
In this case, the court’s decision was clearly erroneous insofar as it awarded the defendant “[a]ll furniture, furnishings, fixtures, bric-a-brac and appliances in [his] current residence, Norwalk, Connecticut.” As set forth previously, the Norwalk residence and accompanying property were in fact nonexistent. The court acknowledged this mistaken finding in its memorandum of decision issued in response to the defendant’s postjudgment motion and stated that it was inclined to grant a new hearing to sort out this error. The court, however, refused to open the judgment in light of perceived jurisdictional problems and potential “mosaic rule” conflicts.
Although “[w]e will not substitute our judgment for that of the trial court”; (internal quotation marks omitted) O’Bymachow v. O’Bymachow, 12 Conn. App. 113, 116, 529 A.2d 747, cert. denied, 205 Conn. 808, 532 A.2d 76 (1987); we may conclude that a court abused its discretion by misapplying the relevant law. Bartel v. Bartel, 98 Conn. App. 706, 713, 911 A.2d 1134 (2006). With respect to its jurisdictional concerns, the court maintained that it was constrained by § 46b-81 from reallocating the parties’ property postjudgment. The court, relying on Rathblott v. Rathblott, 79 Conn. App. 812, 814, 832 A.2d 90 (2003), concluded that it had “no jurisdiction to enter an order dividing the personal property after the [marital dissolution] decree.” This reliance was misplaced.
In Rathblott, the defendant former husband filed a postjudgment motion seeking a hearing to address the division of certain marital personalty three years after the court had rendered judgment dissolving his marriage to his former wife. Id., 815. This property, including the Rathblotts’ furniture, furnishings and miscellaneous tangibles, was not awarded to either party at the time of the dissolution decree. Id., 814. Instead, the court ordered that the Rathblotts were to complete the division of the property on their own. Id. The parties failed to agree on the allocation of this property, and, on the basis of the defendant’s motion, the court ordered that it was to be auctioned. Id., 816.
On appeal, this court reversed the order and concluded that the trial corut lacked the authority to issue orders concerning the distribution of the Rathblotts’ personalty postjudgment. Id. “[A] court’s authority to divide the personal property of the parties, pursuant to § 46b-81, must be exercised, if at all, at the time that it renders judgment dissolving the marriage.” Id., 819.
The present case is distinguishable from Rathblott in two critical respects. First, in this case, the court expressly stated that it “reserve[d] continuing jurisdiction over the division of [the] personal property.” In Rathblott, this court emphasized that cases in which a trial court expressly retains jurisdiction over its orders to ensure they are effectuated are “factually distinguishable” from those cases in which the court does not exercise this authority. Id., 819-20; see, e.g., Bee v. Bee, 79 Conn. App. 783, 796-97, 831 A.2d 833, cert. denied, 266 Conn. 932, 837 A.2d 805 (2003).
Furthermore, in Rathblott the parties were seeking resolution as to the distribution of property that the court properly had considered and adequately ruled on in its underlying orders. In the case before us, the defendant was requesting that the court correct an erroneous component of its judgment. “It is familiar law that a court has the inherent authority to open, correct or modify its judgments.” Bridgeport v. Triple 9 of Broad Street, Inc., 87 Conn. App. 735, 744, 867 A.2d 851 (2005).
In Rome v. Album, 73 Conn. App. 103, 807 A.2d 1017 (2002), this court addressed the tension between the nonmodifiable nature of personal property orders as required by § 46b-81 and the provisions of General Statutes § 52-212a, which provide for the discretionary opening of judgments. Id., 110. Noting that there was no authority for the position that a trial court should not be allowed to correct a clear oversight in connection with certain marital property orders, this court “conclude[d] that the law does not prevent the exercise of the trial court’s authority to correct an omission in orders transferring personal property in a manner completely consistent with its earlier findings as to its disposition . . . .” Id., 113.
Insofar as the court’s financial orders mistakenly awarded the defendant nonexistent furnishings in a nonexistent residence, the court must retain the authority to correct this error when confronted with a properly filed motion to open the judgment. To conclude otherwise would yield an untenable result. Because our case law is consistent with such an approach, we conclude that neither Rathblott nor § 46b-81 presented an obstacle that prohibited the court from mending its erroneous personal property orders.
Next, we address the court’s conclusion that it could not open the judgment for the limited purpose of reallocating the parties’ personal property without disrupting the “mosaic rule.” Often, an isolated impropriety in a court’s property distribution orders requires a review of all of the financial orders because it is part of the “ ‘carefully crafted mosaic’ ” that comprises the entire asset reallocation plan. Casey v. Casey, 82 Conn. App. 378, 389 n.9, 844 A.2d 250 (2004). “Under the mosaic doctrine, financial orders should not be viewed as a collection of single disconnected occurrences, but rather as a seamless collection of interdependent elements. Consistent with that approach, our courts have utilized the mosaic doctrine as a remedial device that allows reviewing courts to remand cases for reconsideration of all financial orders even though the review process might reveal a flaw only in the alimony, property distribution or child support awards.” Id. The defendant asserts that the “mosaic rule” requires the opening of the entire financial judgment so that the improprieties concerning the personal property orders can accurately be remedied. We disagree.
“Every improper order . . . does not necessarily merit a reconsideration of all of the trial court’s financial orders. A financial order is severable when it is not in any way interdependent with other orders and is not improperly based on a factor that is linked to other factors.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Id. In our view, the court’s personal property distribution orders—including the plaintiffs award of all of the furniture, furnishings, fixtures, bric-a-brac and appliances in the New Canaan marital home and the problematic order awarding the same contents in the nonexistent Norwalk residence to the defendant—are only interwoven insofar as they relate to the parties’ tangible personalty. They have no impact on or relationship to the rest of the court’s financial mosaic and are completely severable from the other financial orders. Indeed, it is clear from the parties’ proposed financial orders that they regarded the tangible household and personal items as severable from the rest of their considerable assets. The plaintiff, in the “Nonretirement Assets” section of the orders she proposed to the court prior to its rendering of the dissolution judgment, requested that she be awarded the contents of the marital home, except for certain items that specifically belonged to the defendant. The defendant countered that all of the personal property be divided equally with any disputes regarding the allocation of these assets being settled by binding arbitration. Furthermore, neither party itemized these assets or attributed values to them in a manner that was consistent with the proposed distribution of their other assets.
It is not necessary, therefore, to remand the case for reconsideration of all of the court’s financial orders. See Montoya v. Montoya, 91 Conn. App. 407, 438, 881 A.2d 319 (2005), rev’d in part on other grounds, 280 Conn. 605, 909 A.2d 947 (2006). Accordingly, we issue a limited remand ordering the court to review only the allocation of the parties’ personal property set forth in §§ six and seven of the court’s May 30, 2007 financial orders in its memorandum of decision.
II
PETITION FOR NEW TRIAL
Finally, we address the defendant’s claim that the court improperly granted the plaintiffs motion to strike the defendant’s petition for a new trial for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted. We agree with the defendant.
The following additional facts are necessary for our resolution of the defendant’s claim. On September 6, 2006, the first day of the marital dissolution trial, the plaintiff offered a certain three page letter as her first exhibit. The letter purported to be from an individual who the plaintiff believed to be the husband of the defendant’s alleged paramour as well as an incarcerated sex offender. As far as the record reflects, this letter discussed certain events that precipitated the parties’ marital breakdown and was highly prejudicial to the defendant. Accordingly, the defendant objected to its admission into evidence, and preliminary argument concerning the admissibility of the letter followed.
On October 17, 2006, the defendant filed a motion in limine to preclude this letter from evidence. The defendant claimed that the letter could not be authenticated properly and that the substance of the letter was inadmissible hearsay. Additionally, the defendant requested that any discussion relating to the specific content of the letter, potentially for the purpose of weighing the prejudicial nature of the document against its probative value, be conducted outside the presence of Judge Tierney. The following day, Judge Tierney ruled that the letter was inadmissible.
In July, 2007, counsel for the defendant, while reviewing the court file, inspected a document entitled “Plaintiffs Second Request for Production of Documents at Trial” (request for production) that the plaintiff had filed with the court on October 12, 2006, just days before the court’s evidentiary ruling on the controversial letter. The defendant’s counsel discovered that a copy of the inadmissible letter had been attached to this request for production by the plaintiffs counsel and, thus, improperly filed and mistakenly included in the court file.
On the basis of this discovery, the defendant filed a petition for a new trial in August, 2007. In his petition, the defendant claimed that the improper filing of the request for production and the attachment of a copy of the highly prejudicial inadmissible letter thereto “constitute[d] mispleading and [was] reasonable cause to order a new trial.” Furthermore, the defendant contended that the introduction of the letter into the court file by the plaintiffs counsel was a blatant attempt to bias the court by placing the letter before it in a deceitful manner that bypassed the rules of evidence.
The plaintiff subsequently filed a motion to strike the defendant’s petition for a new trial. She asserted that the petition was legally insufficient because the improper filing of the request for production was not a misplead-ing within the definition of § 52-270 (a). The court agreed with the plaintiff and concluded that the document filed by her counsel was technically not a pleading. In the court’s view, therefore, the improper filing of this document could not constitute a mispleading. The court did note that, in addition to circumstances relating to a mispleading, the statutory basis for a new trial also includes situations involving “ ‘other reasonable cause’ . . . .” The court, however, “left for another day” the determination of whether the defendant could satisfy the reasonable cause provision of § 52-270 (a). Accordingly, the court granted the plaintiffs motion to strike the defendant’s petition for failure to state a claim. The defendant thereafter appealed.
We begin our analysis by setting forth the appropriate standard of review. “Because a motion to strike challenges the legal sufficiency of a pleading and, consequently, requires no factual findings by the trial court, our review of the court’s ruling on the [defendant’s motion] is plenary. . . . We take the facts to be those alleged in the complaint that has been stricken and we construe the complaint in the manner most favorable to sustaining its legal sufficiency. . . . Thus, [i]f facts provable in the complaint would support a cause of action, the motion to strike must be denied. . . . Moreover, we note that [w]hat is necessarily implied [in an allegation] need not be expressly alleged. ... It is fundamental that in determining the sufficiency of a complaint challenged by a defendant’s motion to strike, all well-pleaded facts and those facts necessarily implied from the allegations are taken as admitted. . . . Indeed, pleadings must be construed broadly and realistically, rather than narrowly and technically.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Bloom v. Miklovich, 111 Conn. App. 323, 328, 958 A.2d 1283 (2008).
“Although ... § 52-270 permits the court to grant a new trial upon proof of reasonable cause, the circumstances in which reasonable cause may be found are limited. . . . The basic test of reasonable cause is whether a litigant, despite the exercise of due diligence, has been deprived of a fair opportunity to have a case heard on appeal. ... A new trial may be granted to prevent injustice in cases where the usual remedy by appeal does not lie or where, if there is an adequate remedy by appeal, the party has been prevented from pursuing it by fraud, mistake or accident.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Murphy v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 86 Conn. App. 147, 152-53, 860 A.2d 764 (2004), cert. denied, 273 Conn. 910, 870 A.2d 1080 (2005). “[Section 52-270] does not furnish a substitute for, nor an alternative to, an ordinary appeal, but applies only when no other remedy is adequate and when in equity and good conscience relief against a judgment should be granted.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Jacobs v. Fazzano, 59 Conn. App. 716, 724, 757 A.2d 1215 (2000).
The plaintiff does not contend that the defendant cannot satisfy the reasonable cause test for a new trial on the basis of the underlying facts. Instead, she maintains that the petition itself is technically deficient in that it fails to set forth adequately the claim that a new trial is warranted for “other reasonable cause.” Consequently, the defendant’s petition for a new trial, according to the plaintiff, fails to state a cause of action on which relief can be granted.
“[T]he [petition] must be read in its entirety in such a way as to give effect to the pleading with reference to the general theory upon which it proceeded, and do substantial justice between the parties. ... As long as the pleadings provide sufficient notice of the facts claimed and the issues to be tried and do not surprise or prejudice the opposing party, we will not conclude that the [petition] is insufficient to allow recovery.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Anderson v. Commissioner of Correction, 114 Conn. App. 778, 786, 971 A.2d 766, cert. denied, 293 Conn. 915, 979 A.2d 488 (2009).
Upon our careful examination of the petition, construing it in the light most favorable to the defendant, we conclude that a claim for a new trial on the basis of “other reasonable cause” was sufficiently pleaded. There is no question that the plaintiffs filing of the request for production violated Practice Book § 13-9 (e), which provides that “[t]he party serving such request or notice of requests for production shall not file it with the court.” Furthermore, although the primary thrust of the petition is centered on the claim that the filing of the request for production and accompanying inadmissible letter constituted a mispleading, the petition also alleges certain actions on the part of the plaintiff that go beyond the scope of a mispleading, including the allegation that the improper filing “was a blatant attempt to bias the court with respect to important issues in the trial.” The petition further alleges that the plaintiffs improper filing of the letter sought to take advantage of Judge Tierney’s “well known reputation ... for diligently reviewing the entire file in pending actions before [him] . . . .” The reasonable inferences that can be drawn from this allegation are that Judge Tierney accidentally read the offending letter when reviewing the fde, and that it influenced his dissolution judgment and accompanying financial orders. Accordingly, the allegations set forth in the petition and their accompanying implications, if proved, could support the granting of a new trial for “other reasonable cause.” See Davis v. Fracasso, 59 Conn. App. 291, 298, 756 A.2d 325 (2000) (“[o]ther reasonable cause includes every cause for which a court of equity could grant a new trial, such as, for example, fraud, accident and mistake” [internal quotation marks omitted]). We conclude, therefore, that the court improperly granted the plaintiffs motion to strike the defendant’s petition for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted.
The dissolution judgment is reversed only as to the erroneous orders concerning the parties’ tangible personal property and the case is remanded for a new hearing on those orders. The dissolution judgment is affirmed in all other respects. The judgment on the petition for a new trial is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings according to law.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.
Stephen Marshall filed his initial appeal concerning the court’s financial orders as the defendant in docket number AC 30207. Sara Marshall was the plaintiff in that action. Stephen Marshall filed his subsequent appeal with regard to the stricken petition for a new trial in docket number AC 30442. Sara Marshall was the defendant in that action. Subsequently, AC 30207 and AC 30442 were consolidated under Practice Book § 61-7. For clarity and convenience, throughout this opinion we refer to Stephen Marshall as the defendant and Sara Marshall as the plaintiff.
In a subsequent memorandum of decision on the defendant’s motion to open and reargue and for articulation and clarification, the court found that the plaintiffs 2006 gross weekly earnings were $1299.
The “mosaic rule” is premised on the concept that “[t]he rendering of judgment in a complicated dissolution case is a carefully crafted mosaic, each element of which may be dependent on the other.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) McMellon v. McMellon, 116 Conn. App. 393, 395, 976 A.2d 1, cert. denied, 293 Conn. 926, 980 A.2d 911 (2009). The disturbance of a particular financial order, therefore, often requires the reconsideration of all orders. Kaczynski v. Kaczynski, 294 Conn. 121, 125 n.4, 981 A.2d 1068 (2009).
Although the plaintiff styled the motion as a motion to dismiss the petition for a new trial, the trial court properly treated it as a motion to strike because it challenged the legal sufficiency of the petition. We do likewise.
General Statutes § 46b-86 (b) provides in relevant part: “In an action for . . . dissolution of marriage ... in which a final judgment has been entered providing for the payment of periodic alimony by one party to the other, the [court] may, in its discretion . . . modify such judgment and suspend, reduce or terminate the payment of periodic alimony upon a showing that the party receiving the periodic alimony is living with another person under circumstances which the court finds should result in the modification, suspension, reduction or termination of alimony because the living arrangements cause such a change of circumstances as to alter the financial needs of that party.”
General Statutes § 46b-82 (a) provides in relevant part: “At the time of entering the decree, the [court] may order either of the parties to pay alimony to the other .... In determining whether alimony shall be awarded, and the duration and amount of the award, the court . . . shall consider the . . . occupation, amount and sources of income [and] employability . . . of each of the parties . . . .” These same factors are relevant in deciding whether an alimony award should be modified. Borkowski v. Borkowski, 228 Conn. 729, 736, 638 A.2d 1060 (1994).
When presented with a motion to modify alimony brought pursuant to § 46b-86 (b), “once the court finds (1) cohabitation and (2) a change in the financial needs of the party receiving alimony and cohabitating, the court should engage in the . . . consideration of the § 46b-82 factors. . . . The use of the § 46b-82 criteria serves to ensure that the court has an updated picture of the parties’ financial situation.” Gervais v. Gervais, 91 Conn. App. 840, 854-55, 882 A.2d 731, cert. denied, 276 Conn. 919, 888 A.2d 88 (2005). Because we conclude that the language precluding consideration of the plaintiffs income would not be applicable in a motion to modify on the basis of cohabitation, a future court would have no difficulty considering this factor, along with the rest of the criteria enumerated in § 46b-82, when making a potential § 46b-86 (b) determination.
General Statutes § 46b-81 (a) provides for the assignment of marital assets “[a]t the time of entering [the dissolution] decree . . . .”
Section six of the court’s financial orders provides: “The [plaintiff] shall receive as her own assets, free and clear of any claims by the [defendant], the following items of personal property:
“[a] The $800 loan set forth in the [defendant’s] December 12, 2006 financial affidavit. Paragraph IV H.5.
“[b] 2002 Mercedes Benz E320 automobile.
“[c] All furniture, furnishings, fixtures, bric-a-brac and appliances located at 307 Okenoke Ridge, New Canaan, Connecticut.
“[d] [The] [plaintiffs attorney’s retainer held on account.”
Section seven of the court’s financial orders provides: “The defendant shall receive as his own assets, free and clear of any claims by the [plaintiff], the following items of personal property:
“[a] 2005 Porsche Carrera S automobile.
“[b] Unvested IBM restricted stock.
“[c] Unvested IBM stock options.
“[d] Wine collection valued in the [defendant’s] financial affidavit at $19,753 regardless of the current fair market value of [the] said wine collection.
“[e] [The defendant’s] personal [e]ffects such as clothing, books, documents, sports equipment, gifts he received, material from his family and employment and the Kraus oil painting, that are currently located at 307 Okenoke [Ridge], New Canaan, Connecticut;
“[f] All furniture, furnishings, fixtures, bric-a-brac, and appliances in the defendant’s current residence, Norwalk, Connecticut.
“[g] [The] [defendant's attorney’s fees held on account.”
The plaintiff claims that the defendant’s failure to list specific values for the disputed personalty in his financial affidavit was “an admission” that these assets were valueless. See O’Bymachow v. O’Bymachow, supra, 12 Conn. App. 118-19 (court entitled to conclude that “ ‘unknown’ ” value attributed to plaintiffs businesses in financial affidavit was zero). Consequently, the plaintiff argues that any error with respect to the distribution of this property was either harmless or induced by the defendant.
Although we recognize that “a misrepresentation of assets and income is a serious and intolerable dereliction on the part of the affiant which goes to the very heart of the judicial proceeding”; (internal quotation marks omitted) Spilke v. Spilke, 116 Conn. App. 590, 596, 976 A.2d 69, cert. denied, 294 Conn. 918, 984 A.2d 68 (2009); we conclude that the defendant was not attempting to misrepresent the value of his assets in his financial affidavit. Unlike the party in O’Bymachow, the defendant did not attribute an “unknown” value to these assets. Instead, the defendant simply proposed that all of the personal property that was not specifically valued in his affidavit—including the disputed furniture, furnishings, fixtures and appliances in the marital home—be divided equally. Therefore, the plaintiffs claim that the court’s error was harmless or induced by the defendant’s failure to value this personalty fails.
General Statutes § 52-270 (a) provides in relevant part: “The [court] may grant a new trial ... for mispleading ... or for other reasonable cause . . .
Portions of the plaintiffs brief that refer to the colloquy between Judge Tierney and the defendant concerning whether Judge Tierney actually reviewed the improperly filed letter have been stricken. Accordingly, we do not consider this content in our disposition of this case.
“A petition for a new trial is collateral to the action in which the new trial is sought and by its nature is a distinct and separate proceeding. . . . [It] is instituted by writ and complaint served upon the adverse party in the same manner as in any other new action. Although the action so stated is collateral to the action in which the new trial is sought, it nevertheless is a distinct suit in itself.” (Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Redding v. Elfire, LLC, 98 Conn. App. 808, 818-19, 911 A.2d 1141 (2006). Because the petition for a new trial is essentially the procedural equivalent of a complaint, it follows that the broad construction of pleadings applies with equal force to a petition for a new trial.
Because we conclude that the defendant has pleaded sufficient facts to state a claim for a new trial pursuant to the reasonable cause provision of § 52-270 (a), we decline to address whether the improperly filed request for production technically constituted a mispleading.
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Livio Bendaña (footballer, born 1969)
Livio José Bendaña Morales (born 22 October 1969) is a Nicaraguan retired footballer.
Club career
Nicknamed el Pollo (the Chicken), he made his professional debut for Diriangén on 8 March 1986 against Juventus Managua and scored his first goal against Real Estelí on 4 May that year. He also played for Hermanos Molina, Juventus, Real Estelí and Walter Ferretti. He scored 130 league goals in the 1990s to complete a career total of 148, scoring 4 goals in one match three times and making 6 hat-tricks.
International career
The moustached Bendaña made his debut for Nicaragua in an April 1991 UNCAF Nations Cup qualification match against El Salvador and has earned a total of 11 caps, scoring 1 goal. He has represented his country in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 1993 and 1997 UNCAF Nations Cups.
International goals
* Scores and results list Honduras' goal tally first.
Personal life
Bendaña is son of legendary Nicaraguan footballer of the 1950s, Livio Bendaña Espinoza. His own son, Livio Gabriel Bendaña Quintanilla, was at 12 years invited to train with Spanish giants Real Madrid.
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Women and Weights: Why you Should be Lifting
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Women lifting weights lead to bulky women right? WRONG! Lifting weights actually has numerous benefits!!
With all due respect to cardiovascular excercises, women stand a better chance of losing fat while weight training, even after the workout is finished! Your metabolism and the calories you burn are largely linked to the muscle mass you have. So the more muscle your body has, the more energy your body burns. So you could just be burning calories sitting down and reading this article...that is if you weight train.
There are two benefits of weight training. Firstly it causes one to be stronger. The entire principle of failing under training is not only building endurance but also character. Secondly, lifting weights strengthens your bones. When you perform a curl your muscles tug on your arm's bones. This in turn causes the development of new bone cells. Postmenopausal women stand a greater chance of getting osteoporosis because their bodies no longer secrete estrogen. Weight training it has been shown increased spinal bone mass by 9%!
Benefits of weight training
Other benefits of weight training for females include an increase in flexiblity, caused by performing the full range of motion for all excercises, which strengthen your core muscles which furthermore will actually help you do more cardio thus losing fat. Weight training will also improve your heart health. A study from the American Heart Association shows that women who lift weight are actually less likely to have heart disease factors like large waist, elevated blood pressure and glucose levels!
Reasons why women should lift weights: Most interestingly, women are actually going to drop in dress size while weightlifting! Weight training has had a notoriously bad reputation for making women bigger and bulkier. Not true. The more your weight comes from muscle rather than fat, the smaller your frame will be. Bodyweight will go up because of weight training but dress size will surely come down. Any of you women worried that you will become like a bodybuilder? This is next to impossible. Not because of the weights but because your bodies will never naturally boost testosterone to bulk you up.
So ladies, lift heavy. Your bodies will thank you!
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Study Finds New Risks in Hormone Therapy
Further analysis of data from Women's Health Initiative reveals that combination estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy not only stimulates growth of breast cancer, as reported in July 2002, but also makes tumors harder to detect, leading to dangerous delays in diagnosis; women taking combination therapy are also more likely to have changes in their breast tissue that lead to abnormal mammograms, problems that can show up as soon as first year of hormone use; study raises questions about safety of even short-term use of combination therapy, and Wyeth, maker of Prempro, most popular brand, says it should be taken for shortest duration of time at lowest dose; editorial in Journal of American Medical Assn, where study is published, say it provides further compelling evidence against use of combination therapy; more than half of six million women who were taking combination therapy in July 2002 have since given it up; second study finds that women who take estrogen only, without progestin, have no increased risk of breast cancer, even if they take hormone for 25 years or more; estrogen alone can cause cancer of uterus and is prescribed only for women who have had hysterectomies (M)
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Claude Bernard – Founder of Endocrinology
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Claude Bernard
(July 12, 1813, Saint-Julien – February 10, 1878, Paris, France) (Aged 64)
Nationality: France
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Physiologists, Physicians
Unique distinction: The founder of experimental medicine, the founder of Endocrinology, the author of terms “homeostasis” and “milieu interieur”.
Gender: Male
Quotes: 1. Art is I; science is we. 2. Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. 3. Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill-prepared for making discoveries; they also make poor observations. 4. Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. 5. Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. 6. A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. 7. The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. 8. The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. 9. The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived. 10. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
Achievements:
Social and professional position: Claude Bernard was a French physiologist and physician.
The main contribution to (what is known): He was the first to define the terms “milieu interieur” (the environment within) and homeostasis. He was one of the first to establish the use of the scientific method in medicine.
Contributions: Claude Bernard was a French physiologist who was one of the great scientific investigators.
He is known by his work on digestive processes, metabolism, especially the discovery of the glycogenic function of the liver and of the action of pancreatic juice, and on the vasomotor mechanism. He was the first to define the terms “milieu interieur” (the environment within) and homeostasis.
Bernard was the Founder of Endocrinology and also made important discoveries in chemistry, pharmacology, and neurophysiology.
He was a leading figure in the development of experimental science as a system of hypothesis, proof, and refutation. He was one of the first to establish the use of the scientific method in medicine and to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
Bernard’s first paper, which appeared in 1843, gave an account of the chorda tympani nerve.
Claude Bernard’s first important work was on the functions of the pancreas gland, the juice of which he proved to be of great significance in the process of digestion.
In 1857 he discovered glycogen, the starch like substance in the liver, in the course of this he was led to the conclusion, which throws light on the causation of diabetes.
Bernard also did valuable work on the vasomotor system, demonstrating that certain nerves control the dilation and constriction of blood vessels. He showed how nerves controlled the diameter of blood vessels, and hence blood flow (1858).
He also carried out important work on the actions of drugs, such as the opium alkaloids, curare (curarine) and carbon monoxide, on the sympathetic nerves.
From 1860 he turned to the philosophy of science.
He emphasized the need in planning experiments for a clear hypothesis to be stated, which may then be either proved or disproved.
“Art is I; science is we”-wrote Bernard.
He coined the terms “milieu intérieur” (the environment within) and homeostasis. His concept of the internal environment of the organism led to the present understanding of homeostasis.
Bernard’s phrase: “The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for the free and independent life” (1878) has become well known.
Historian of science Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard “one of the greatest of all men of science”.
Honors and Awards: Bernard was awarded the French Legion of Honor, chevalier (1849), commander (1867).
Major works: Introduction à la médecine expérimentale (1865), Physiologie générale (1872), La Science expérimentale (1878).
Life:
Origin: Bernard was born in 1813 in the small city of Saint-Julien in Villefranche-sur-Saône. He was the son of Pierre Jean François Bernard a poor wine grower.
Education: Jesuit school in city of Saint-Julien , and the college at Lyon, Medical Faculty of the College de France.
Career highlights: During his study in the Medical Faculty of the College de France, he was brought into contact with the great physiologist, François Magendie and from 1841 he worked as an assistant in his laboratory.
In 1843 he received the honorary degree of Doctor Of Medicine for his investigation, into the role of gastric juice in digestion.
He taught at several major French institutions such as Medical School: MD, Collège de France (1843),
University: DSc, Collège de France (1853).
In 1847 he was appointed Magendie’s deputy-professor at the college de France and in 1855, after his death, he succeeded him as full professor. Soon he had been chosen the first chair of physiology at the Sorbonne.
In 1860 he was elected a foreign member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1868 he was admitted a member of the Académie française. In the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1869 he was elected Senator of France for life.
Personal life: He received his early education in the Jesuit school of that city, and then proceeded to the college at Lyon, which, however, he soon left because his family could not afford to continue his education.
He was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Lyons and began writing plays and vaudeville comedy to earn money.
At the age of twenty-one in 1834 he went to Paris, armed with prose drama in five acts, Arthur de Bretagne. But the critic dissuaded him from adopting literature as a profession, and urged him rather to take up the study of medicine.
This advice Bernard followed, and in due course, in 1834, he became interne at the Paris hospital Hotel Dieu. In 1839 he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the College de France.
In this way he was brought into contact with the great physiologist, François Magendie and from 1841 he worked as an assistant in his laboratory.
In 1845 Bernard married Françoise Marie (Fanny) Martin for convenience. His marriage was arranged by a colleague and her dowry helped finance his experiments.
He died in Paris on the 10th of February 1878.
When he died he was accorded a public funeral – an honor which had never before been bestowed by France on a man of science. He was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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在VB.NET中給菜單加上表徵圖
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菜單 Adding icons to menus in VB.NET
'IconsMenuMain.vb
'Module for adding icons to menus...
Imports System
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Imports System.Drawing.Text
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Module IconsMenuMain
Dim m_Font As New Font("Arial", 8)
Sub MeasureItems(ByVal EvMeasureItem As System.Windows.Forms.MeasureItemEventArgs, _
ByVal Mi As MenuItem)
Dim sf As StringFormat = New StringFormat()
sf.HotkeyPrefix = HotkeyPrefix.Show
sf.SetTabStops(60, New Single() {0})
EvMeasureItem.ItemHeight = 22
EvMeasureItem.ItemWidth = CInt(EvMeasureItem.Graphics.MeasureString(GetRealText(Mi), _
m_Font, 10000, sf).Width) + 10
sf.Dispose()
sf = Nothing
End Sub
Sub DrawItems(ByVal EvDrawItems As System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs, _
ByVal Mi As MenuItem, ByVal m_Icon As Icon)
Dim br As Brush
Dim fDisposeBrush As Boolean
If Not m_Icon Is Nothing Then
If Not Mi.Checked Then
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawIcon(m_Icon, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Left + 2, _
EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 2)
Else
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawIcon(m_Icon, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Left + 2, _
EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 2)
Dim nPen As System.Drawing.Pen
If Not Mi.Enabled Then
NPEN = New Pen(Color.DarkGray)
Else
nPen = New Pen(Color.Gray)
End If
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawRectangle(nPen, 1, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top, 20, 20)
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawRectangle(nPen, 3, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 2,
16, 16)
End If
Else
If Mi.Checked Then
Dim nPen As System.Drawing.Pen
If Not Mi.Enabled Then
NPEN = New Pen(Color.DarkGray)
Else
nPen = New Pen(Color.Gray)
End If
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawRectangle(nPen, 1, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top, 20, 20)
Dim Pnts() As Point
ReDim Pnts(2)
Pnts(0) = New Point(15, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 6)
Pnts(1) = New Point(8, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 13)
Pnts(2) = New Point(5, EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 10)
If Mi.Enabled Then
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawLines(New Pen(Color.Black), Pnts)
Else
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawLines(New Pen(Color.Gray), Pnts)
End If
End If
End If
Dim rcBk As Rectangle = EvDrawItems.Bounds
rcBk.X += 24
If CBool(EvDrawItems.State And DrawItemState.Selected) Then
br = New LinearGradientBrush(rcBk, Color.MidnightBlue, Color.LightBlue, 0)
fDisposeBrush = True
Else
br = SystemBrushes.Control
End If
EvDrawItems.Graphics.FillRectangle(br, rcBk)
If fDisposeBrush Then br.Dispose()
br = Nothing
Dim sf As StringFormat = New StringFormat()
sf.HotkeyPrefix = HotkeyPrefix.Show
sf.SetTabStops(60, New Single() {0})
If Mi.Enabled Then
br = New SolidBrush(EvDrawItems.ForeColor)
Else
br = New SolidBrush(Color.Gray)
End If
EvDrawItems.Graphics.DrawString(GetRealText(Mi), m_Font, br, _
EvDrawItems.Bounds.Left + 25, _
EvDrawItems.Bounds.Top + 2, sf)
br.Dispose()
br = Nothing
sf.Dispose()
sf = Nothing
End Sub
Function GetRealText(ByVal Mi As MenuItem) As String
Dim s As String = Mi.Text
If Mi.ShowShortcut And Mi.Shortcut <> Shortcut.None Then
Dim k As Keys = CType(Mi.Shortcut, Keys)
s = s & Convert.ToChar(9) & _
TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(GetType(Keys)).ConvertToString(k)
End If
Return s
End Function
End Module
'**************
'In the items of menu which you want add icon modify the property OwnerDraw to TRUE
'For use this code only add the next references in the form...
Private Sub MenuItem3_DrawItem(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs) _
Handles MenuItem3.DrawItem
Dim Ic As New Icon("C:\Documents and Settings\Yo\Escritorio\iconmenu\Save.ico")
DrawItems(e, MenuItem3, Nothing)
End Sub
Private Sub MenuItem3_MeasureItem(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MeasureItemEventArgs) _
Handles MenuItem3.MeasureItem
MeasureItems(e, MenuItem3)
End Sub
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Agadez and Arlit attacks
On 23 May 2013, two coordinated attacks perpetrated by Islamist affiliates targeted the two Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit, the first being a military base the other a French-owned and operated uranium mine. In the first attack on the Niger military base, in which eight attackers participated, 23 soldiers and a civilian were confirmed dead by the next day. The second attack by two suicide bombers also claimed a worker at the mine. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) later claimed responsibility, saying "We attacked Niger for its cooperation with France in the war against Sharia (Islamic law)". They also promised more attacks to come in retaliation for Niger's involvement in the Northern Mali conflict. Reports suggested Islamist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar of being the "mastermind" of both attacks, supervised by his brigade the "Signatories of Blood". These were the first such attacks within the country in Niger's history.
Agadez attack
At 5:30 local time during morning prayers, the first of the two suicide attacks hit Agadez, a city situated in northern Niger, when a group of eight extremists attacked the local army barracks. A suicide car bomber en route to the barracks drove through the base's barricades and exploded inside the barracks, killing several soldiers. This car bomb was then followed by a twin vehicle that entered the base while opening fire on soldiers. A lengthy gun battle followed as Islamists took hold of the barracks dormitory and an office. In a matter of hours the fight spread throughout the base and into the streets where a civilian was killed in the cross-fire. By late afternoon, extremist elements took refuge in the barracks' dormitory, taking five soldiers hostage. The hostage-takers threatened to blow themselves up with explosives but negotiated with the army. By the next morning, three of the hostages had been killed before Niger troops, with help from French special forces based in Mali, raided the building, killing two of the extremists and capturing one. The two surviving hostages were freed. According to the Niger army, 23 soldiers were killed in the Agadez base attack, plus a foreign-training Cameroonian soldier. In addition, all eight of the attackers were confirmed killed. Rumors spread about a ninth attacker being taken alive.
Arlit attack
A few minutes following the Agadez attack, two suicide bombers disguised in military fatigues drove their car into an Areva uranium mine in Arlit, the largest such mine in the country, operated by a French company. The car exploded in front of a pick-up bus carrying workers to the facility. Besides the two suicide bombers, one worker was killed and sixteen others were injured. The plant was forced to shut down from the damage caused by the blast. The main target was said to be French officials operating at the plant.
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as to make the vernal equinox fall on the same day as it did then, and to do this it was necessary to strike ten days out of the calendar. The yearllGOO was not a leap-year according to either system of reckoning ; but as 1700 was not by the Gregorian rule and was by the Julian, when the former rule was adopted in England in 1752, eleven days had to be dropped. After 1800 (which was also a leap-year by the Julian rule and not by the Gregorian) the Russian calendar differed by twelve days from ours, and from this year (1900) it differs by thirteen unless a change is now effected. W. T. LYNN.
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FIRST EDITION OP MOLI^RE. Of the first collected edition of Moliere's 'Works' only two volumes are known, although it is gener- ally supposed that at* least', five volumes were published. I have just purchased a first edition of 'Le Sicilien ; ou, 1'Amour Peintre,' 1668, and between the title-page and first page of the text is interleaved the following title-page :
"Les Oeuvres De Monsieur De Moliere. Tome Troisiesme. [Woodcut.] 'A Paris chez Jean Ribou au palais vis a vis la Porte de la S. Chapelle & 1'image S. Louis. M.DC.LXVIII. Avec privilege du Roy."
As no other edition before 1673 contains more than two volumes, the above title-page must refer to the first collected edition of Moliere. MAURICE JONAS.
THEATRICAL ANECDOTE. The conflicting statements of history are well illustrated by the following anecdote as related by two reputable authorities, and worthy, I think, of a place in the pages of ' N. & Q.' In the ' Life of Fitz-Greene Haileck,' the^American poet, written by James Grant Wilson, pub- lished by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1869, pp. 366-7, we read :
" Another Kemble anecdote, which Haileck re- lated to me with great gusto, was as follows, the dramatis personce being John Philip and Charles Kemble, and a son of the Emerald Isle ; scene, Drury Lane Theatre, London. The gifted brothers sat one night in the' pit, listening to a play written by the 'divine William.' In the course of the evening Charles Kemble said to his brother, 'I really think this is the best play for representation that Shakespeare ever wrote.' No sooner had he made this remark, than a huge and red-headed, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, ferocious - looking Irishman, who sat immediately behind him, leaned forward, and tapped him on the shoulder to secure his attention. 'I think, sir,' he observed, with a strong brogue, 'ye said it was one Shakespeare what wraught that play. It was not, Shakespeare, sir, but my friend Linnard McNally what wraught that play.' ' Oh, sir,' replied Charles Kemble, coolly, ' very well.' A short time after this the Irishman tapped him on the shoulder again. ' Do you belave,
sir, that it was my friend Linnard McNally what wraught that play ?' ' Oh yes, certainly, sir, if you say so,' was the peaceable reply. For a while the brothers remained unmolested ; but at length Charles felt the heavy hand once more upon him. ' Your friend, what sits on your left side,' ex- claimed the Irishman, ' don't look as if he believed it was my friend Linnard McNally what wraught that play.' This was too much for the Kembles ; they rose and left the theatre together, not deeming it either pleasant or perfectly safe to remain in such belligerent society. Who the man was they never knew ; but the friend whom he was so determined to pass off as the greatest dramatic genius of every age was an obscure writer of plays and songs, who is entitled to remembrance only as the author of ' The Lass of Richmond Hill.' "
Michael Kelly, in his ' Reminiscences,' pub- lished by Colburn in 1826, 2 vols., at pp. 261-2, second volume, relates the anecdote, minus the many-ad jectived Irishman, in this way :
' I went one day to dine with my witty country- man Curran, the Master of the Rolls, at his pretty place at Rathfarnham. Among his guests was Counsellor MacNally, the author of the opera of ' Robin Hood.' I passed a delightful day there. Many pleasant stories were told after dinner ; amongst others, one of MacNally's, to prove the predilection which some of our country- men formerly had, for getting into scrapes when they first arrived in London. The night his opera, ' Robin Hood,' was brought out at Covent Garden Theatre, a young Irish friend of his, on his first visit to London, was seated on the second seat in jhe front boxes ; on the front row were two gentle- men, who at the close of the first act were saying low much they liked the opera, and that it did ?reat credit to Mrs. Cowley, who wrote it. On bearing this, my Irish friend got up, and tapping one of them on the shoulder, said to him, ' Sir, you say his opera was written by Mrs. Cowley ; now I say t was not. This opera was written" by Leonard MacNally, Esq., Barrister at Law, of No. 5, Pump Court, in the Temple. Do you take my word for it, sir?' 'Most certainly, sir, replied the astonished gentleman; 'and I feel much obliged for the in-
* ormation you have so positively given me.' 'Umph ;
very well,' said he, and sat down. At the end of the second act, he got up, and again accosted the same gentleman, saying, ' Sir, upon your honour as a gentle- nan, are you in your own mind perfectly satis- icd that Leonard MacNally, Esq., Barrister at Law, of No. 5, Pump Court, in the Temple, has actually written this opera and not Mrs. Cowley ?' 'Most )erfectly persuaded of it, sir,' said the gentleman, bowing. ' Then, sir,' said the young Irishman, ' I wish you a good-night'; but just as he was leaving
* he box, he turned to the gentleman whom he had
* >een addressing and said, ' Pray, sir, permit me to
ask, is your friend there convinced that this opera was written by Mr. MacNally, Barrister at Law, of S"o. 5, Pump Court, in the Temple?' 'Decidedly, sir,' was the reply ; ' we are both fully convinced of the Hibernian, ' except that if you had not both assured me you were so, neither of you would be sitting quite so easy on your seats as you do now.'"
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Perhaps the fall off in procedures from the peak to trough is exaggerated a bit, but you get the point. This has happened twice in Intuitive Surgical's history.
The first occurred in early 2012, when the U.S. medical community decided to change the standard operating procedures when it came to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, and opted for non-surgical procedures. Here's what happened to the growth curve for daVinci's use in prostatectomies (dVP).
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In the three years leading up to this PSA decision, dVP operations grew by 16% per year. But that growth came to a screeching halt immediately following the change.
The exact same thing happened with hysterectomy procedures (dVH) in 2013. Leaders in the medical community began publishing pieces questioning the efficacy of daVinci for benign hysterectomies. The company, the medical community feared, was convincing far too many doctors and patients to opt for robotic surgery than necessary. The effect was similar.
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What had been a five-year track record of 43% growth per year , slowed to less than 1% growth overnight.
Why that applies today
The main reason that Intuitive stock has done so well is because while dVP and dVH procedures stagnated, those in "U.S. General Surgery" (a catch-all for most procedures outside of dVP and dVH) have grown at a remarkable pace since 2011.
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While specific numbers have never been made available, management has made no secret of the fact that hernia procedures account for the majority of the growth in U.S. General Surgery. The problem for us investors is the fact that we may have now experienced the full upside of the boom in this category, and I'm left wondering if/when the first shoe will drop questioning the efficacy of the procedure.
I'm not a medical professional, nor am I clairvoyant, so saying that this outcome is bound to occur is absurd. However, I know that while history doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes.
Slowing growth in hysterectomy procedures would not make me sell my shares of the company. Indeed, in the cases of dVP and dVH, there was still a material demonstration of efficacy for these procedures -- just at slightly less elevated levels than investors had gotten used to.
I highly doubt that daVinci's growth will be limited to hernias in the near future -- already, the company has singled out colorectal procedures as the next area where daVinci can add value. But knowing that a slowdown in hernias is possible in the near future helps prepare me for what's around the corner, and keeps this growth story's narrative in perspective.
At the end of the day, that's just what I -- and hopefully other Foolish shareholders of Intuitive -- need to sleep soundly at night.
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procedure. And as a result, the center column of rule 30 cannot be considered truly random according to such definitions.
But while definitions of this type have a certain conceptual appeal, they are not likely to be useful in discussions of randomness in nature. For as we will see later in this book, it is almost certainly impossible for any natural process ever to generate a sequence which is guaranteed to be truly random according to such definitions.
For our purposes more useful definitions tend to concentrate not so much on whether there exists in principle a simple way to generate a particular sequence, but rather on whether such a way can realistically be recognized by applying various kinds of analysis to the sequence. And as discussed above, there is good evidence that the center column of rule 30 is indeed random according to all reasonable definitions of this kind.
So whether or not one chooses to say that the sequence is truly random, it is, as far as one can tell, at least random for all practical purposes. And in fact sequences closely related to it have been used very successfully as sources of randomness in practical computing.
For many years, most kinds of computer systems and languages have had facilities for generating what they usually call random numbers. And in Mathematica—ever since it was first released—Random[Integer] has generated 0's and 1's using exactly the rule 30 cellular automaton.
The way this works is that every time Random[Integer] is called, another step in the cellular automaton evolution is performed, and the value of the cell in the center is returned. But one difference from the picture two pages ago is that for practical reasons the pattern is not allowed to grow wider and wider forever. Instead, it is wrapped around in a region that is a few hundred cells wide.
One consequence of this, as discussed on page 259, is that the sequence of 0's and 1's that is generated must then eventually repeat. But even with the fastest foreseeable computers, the actual period of repetition will typically be more than a billion billion times the age of the universe.
Another issue is that if one always ran the cellular automaton from page 315 with the particular initial condition shown there, then one would always get exactly the same sequence of 0's and 1's. But by using different initial conditions one can get completely different
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Sam Altman says he doesn't want to run for office. "I think I have the greatest job in Silicon Valley," said Altman, the leader of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most prominent start-up incubator. "And I think there are people who will be much better than me at being politicians," he told CNBC. Instead, Altman is hoping to spearhead change through a progressive policy initiative called The United Slate. Altman, who won't disclose how much money he's spending on the initiative, is focusing on California and tackling issues like housing, health care and transportation. Ultimately, he hopes to recruit a slate of candidates for state offices to push forth that agenda. Here are some of the subjects he talked about: "I think if we don't solve the housing crisis, we will continue to perpetuate the greatest economic inequality that I have certainly ever seen," said Altman. "I think we need, and this sounds so obvious to say that it's almost ridiculous, we just need Silicon Valley to treat female founders with respect. That shouldn't be a controversial statement that should be absolute minimum table-stakes," said Altman. "But, you've got to enforce that so you do need channels for people to report problems they face and you do need organizations to take actions for their own programs." "It's important that that not just belong to one person and just be used for one person once. But this is something that all of us should benefit from," says Altman. While Altman says he stands by that tweet, he still remains hopeful during the Trump administration. "He's our president, he's my president, he's your president. I want him to succeed. I want him to well on behalf of all Americans. I do think that, you know, they will hopefully make some progress towards a more pro-growth environment. And I do think economic growth is important for the success of everybody."
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#JusticeforCarla
* 1) JusticeforCarla, was created on Facebook by Maria Patricia Abuel. This Facebook group was created after an accident that happened on February 12th, 2014 involving the death of Nastasha Carla Abogado and an officer who was on-duty at the time of the accident.
The Accident
On the evening of February 12th 2014 Nastasha Carla Abogado died at St. Clair Ave East near Warden Avenue in Toronto was hit by an unmarked York Regional Police vehicle that was being driven by an on duty officer who was working on an Undercover operation in that area that evening. Natasha Carla Abogado was 18 years old and had recently graduated from Notre Dame High School (Toronto) in the summer of June 2013. She worked at Victoria Secret, where she was working many hours to save up money so that she could go to school but also so that she could pay for tuition. According to The Toronto Star, the family was informed by Toronto Police Service that the accident happened a little before 8:30pm that evening. At the time of her death she was coming back from working a day shift at Victoria Secret and was supposed to be home for 8. Her parents started to worry about their daughter as she was not home yet, and her father decided to go see what the commotion was near the house. As her father got to the yellow tape, he asked the police officer if her name was Carla. The officer never answered her father, and her father knew it was her. He returned home and gave the sad news to his wife and his other two children. As of recently, there is still the memorial cross hanging on the phone pole near the Abogado's home on St.Clair near Warden. In the news video done by CBC, talking about the lawsuit (which will be discussed later), her parents want justice for their daughter as in their opinion their daughter deserves to have lived a full life, then rather die the way she did on that winter evening.
The Investigation Aftermath
As the accident occured with an on duty officer, as well that a death occurred, the Special Investigations Unit was assigned to oversee the investigation to determine what happened. The Special Investigation Unit assigned seven investigators, two forensic experts and one collision reconstructionist to the case, as it was a high-profile case that involved death and a police officer. As of June 12th 2014, the SIU investigation on the officer was concluded. The officer at the wheel of the car was Detective-Constable Remo Romano was charged with dangerous driving causing death. As of September 12th 2014, the Abogado family has filed a civil Lawsuit against the York Regional Police and Detective-Constable Remo Romano for $2.2 Million Dollars. The Abogado Family is represented by lawyer John A. McLeish who filed the civil suit for the Abogado family would like to see the data from the black box that was in the Detective-Constable car at the time. Since the lawsuit has recently come out, the family and the police service have not spoken publicly about the lawsuit.
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We're back at iconic Muscle Beach Venice to learn which exercises helped turn Muscle Beach Nutrition-sponsored athlete Ike Catcher into the biggest man on the bars. Today, Catcher is taking us through his chest-and-shoulder workout.
As Catcher explains, "I'm going to show you how to get that shoulder and chest armor to have you looking like a warrior, like a gladiator."
The general rep range for this workout is 4-5 reps. So, you'll want to go heavy, and only take a short break of about a minute. Catcher starts with the chest first because it's a bigger muscle group than the shoulders. What's more, since your shoulders work while you're working the chest, you'll pre-exhaust your shoulders and generate a massive pump. Another unique aspect of this workout is supersets that pair a chest move with a shoulder move.
"That's why I combine the shoulders and the chest," says Catcher. "You can really get those muscle-tearing pumps!"
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Incline Barbell Bench Press
According to Catcher, this is the most important exercise to build a broad look.
Try to keep your back flush against the bench, even if you're a human skyscraper like Catcher.
"It's sometimes a little harder for us tall guys," he explains. "But it's important that your back is on the bench and your feet are firm on the ground. After all, you push off your feet."
When working in a heavy rep range like 4-5, you need to use your entire body to push that weight up, from your feet up through your chest into your arms. Make sure your feet are firmly planted and your back is steady against the bench.
Side Lateral Raise
Since you've already primed your shoulders with the incline bench, next up is the side lateral raise. Don't use your body to create momentum on this exercise. It's easy to damage your lumbar spine if you start swinging on these.
That said, Catcher is not against sacrificing a little bit of form to nail the last couple of reps.
"One thing I've got to say: It's nice to have good technique," he explains. "But it's also OK to get a little unclean toward the end of the set." (Emphasis on the word little.)
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Barbell Bench Press
"Get a weight you're even a little scared of," recommends Catcher. "Lie up in there and push that weight 4 or 5 times. That's how we grow: We confront our fears and keep it intense."
It's easy to get lazy on such a fundamental exercise, so follow Catcher's advice and try to keep the intensity high. When you push the weight, focus on the rep and, as Catcher says, scream if you have to "let that beast out." Hype yourself up for this exercise and see what you can do for 4-5 heavy reps.
Superset: Incline Dumbbell Press and Incline Dumbbell Fly
Catcher likes the transition from a heavier move to a lighter one.
"Put the heavier weight down, get the light weight, and rep it out," he say. "Do 'open' flyes. Arnold used to do that, too."
Stretching wide on the flyes produces an amazing stretch, which helps create a wider chest.
Dumbbell Press
Seated Military Press
Here the focus shifts back to the shoulders with a heavy shoulder exercise: the military press. Use a heavy weight, and try to do as many as 6-8 reps—but with a twist.
"I like to start with 3 reps behind the head," says Catcher, "then 3 reps in front of the body, too."
Behind your head, lower the bar about halfway down the back of your head. In front of your head, come down to about eyebrow level. Or, if you want a really good stretch, come all the way down to your chest. Behind the head is a personal preference for Catcher.
"I feel like pressing in front of the body really works the front delt," he explains, "but behind the head gets those shoulders wide and adds to the wideness of the body."
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Superset: Incline Dumbbell Shoulder Press and Incline Dumbbell Fly Press
In this workout, you do compound exercises first, then move on to the little muscles. This last superset combines a compound shoulder press with a more targeted fly press. This combination is very similar to the superset from earlier, except this one targets your shoulders.
Do the shoulder press with a fairly heavy set of dumbbells. Then, grab lighter weights and open your arms up into more of a fly, still targeting the shoulders, but stretching wide with each rep.
"This superset complements what you just did with the military press," explains Catcher. "Use this movement to expand and open up the muscles in your shoulders to let more blood in and get more of a pump."
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Side Cable Raise
For this exercise, use one arm at a time, setting the pulley low and adding a bit of external rotation at the top of the movement.
"I like to do these cable pulls at the end, just to finish up the shoulder and get a little rotator cuff in there, too," explains Catcher.
Lateral raises help define the shoulder muscle, giving it that striated, feathered look. Focusing on each arm individually helps build and shape each shoulder, putting the finishing touches on your upper-body aesthetics.
But working out isn't just about aesthetics for Catcher. If anything, he's in it for the pure joy of the process.
"The most beautiful thing about training, I think, is the happiness in life you get," he says. "Every time I go in there to train, I'm exorcising my negative emotions."
This workout is good to do 2-3 times per week. Pair it with Catcher's Muscle Beach Arm Workout to get that super-swole, super-pumped, Golden Age Muscle Beach physique.
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Submissions for variant NM_000540.2(RYR1):c.7354C>T (p.Arg2452Trp) (rs118192124)
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Total submissions: 13
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Submitter RCV SCV Clinical significance Condition Last evaluated Review status Method Comment
Athena Diagnostics Inc RCV000119706 SCV000614914 pathogenic not provided 2016-11-03 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing
GeneDx RCV000119706 SCV000567693 pathogenic not provided 2015-09-02 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing The R2452W missense variant in the RYR1 gene has been reported previously in association with autosomal dominant malignant hyperthermia and central core myopathy (Chamley et al., 2000; Taylor et al., 2012; RYR1 LOVD). Functional studies indicate that R2452W hypersensitizes the receptor leading to significantly higher calcium release in response to agonist (Roesl et al., 2014). R2452W is a nonconservative amino acid substitution that occurs at a position that is conserved across species. Additionally, missense variants at the same position (R2452P, R2452Q) and in nearby residues (I2453T, R2454C/H, R2458L/H) have been reported in the Human Gene Mutation Database in association with RYR1-related disorders (Stenson et al., 2014). Therefore, R2452W is considered a pathogenic variant.
GeneReviews RCV000056226 SCV000087315 pathologic Myopathy, Central Core 2010-05-11 no assertion criteria provided curation Converted during submission to Pathogenic.
Invitae RCV000527240 SCV000660025 pathogenic RYR1-Related Disorders 2018-10-16 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing This sequence change replaces arginine with tryptophan at codon 2452 of the RYR1 protein (p.Arg2452Trp). The arginine residue is highly conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between arginine and tryptophan. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This variant has been reported in individuals affected with malignant hyperthermia and congenital myopathies, and was shown to segregate with disease in multiple families (PMID: 10823104, 22473935, 23394784, 25086907, 24433488, 22030266, 14985404). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 65979). This sequence change is located in a region of the RYR1 protein where a significant number of previously reported RYR1 missense mutations are found (PMID: 16084090). Experimental studies have shown that cells expressing this variant release Ca2+ significantly higher than the cells expressing wild-type in response to RYR1-specific agonist, which causes hypersensitive receptor (PMID: 25086907, 27857962). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.
Leiden Muscular Dystrophy (RYR1) RCV000119706 SCV000154613 not provided not provided no assertion provided not provided
PharmGKB RCV000786553 SCV000925375 drug response desflurane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786554 SCV000925376 drug response enflurane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786555 SCV000925377 drug response halothane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786556 SCV000925378 drug response isoflurane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786629 SCV000925451 drug response methoxyflurane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786630 SCV000925452 drug response sevoflurane response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PharmGKB RCV000786631 SCV000925453 drug response succinylcholine response - Toxicity/ADR reviewed by expert panel curation PharmGKB Level of Evidence 1A: Annotation for a variant-drug combination in a CPIC or medical society-endorsed PGx guideline, or implemented at a PGRN site or in another major health system.
PreventionGenetics RCV000119706 SCV000852767 pathogenic not provided 2016-03-28 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing
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Religious Groups Take Early Lead in Iraqi Ballots
Religious groups, particularly main Shiite coalition, take commanding lead in early voting results announced by Iraqi electoral officials; with nearly two-thirds of ballots counted, secular coalition led by Ayad Allawi wins only meager support in crucial provinces where it expected to do well, including Baghdad; front-runner among Sunni Arab voters is religious coalition whose leader calls for resistance to American military and demands that Pres Bush set timetable for withdrawing from Iraq; important question is whether Sunni Arab parties, which disagree with religious Shiites on fundamental issues, will be invited to join in new government; their exclusion could further inflame insurgency; voting results are blow to Allawi, a White House favorite; he has accused Shiite coalition of campaign malfeasance and vote fraud; prominent secular candidate Ahmad Chalabi wins less than 1 percent of vote in Baghdad, possibly denying him seat in Council of Representatives; main Kurdish coalition overwhelmingly dominates three northern Kurdish provinces, as does main Shiite coalition in south; photo; maps (M)
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Modifying an Open XML Document in a SharePoint Document Library
Modifying an Open XML Document in a SharePoint Document Library
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On a fairly regular basis, I need to write an example that retrieves an Open XML document from a SharePoint document library, modify the document, and save the document back to the document library. The correct approach is to use a CAML query to retrieve the document. This post presents the minimum amount of code to use the SharePoint object model to do this.
This code requires the Open XML SDK, so you will need to download and install it. You need to add a reference to the assembly. In addition, you need to add a reference to the WindowsBase assembly and the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly.
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See the Open XML Developer Center for lots of information on building applications that work with Open XML documents.
When building console applications for SharePoint 2010, you must target the .NET 3.5 framework. In addition, you must target ‘Any CPU’, not X86. The post Developing with SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services contains explicit instructions for targeting .NET 3.5 and Any CPU.
Here is the smallest C# console application to do this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string siteUrl = "http://localhost";
using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite(siteUrl))
{
Console.WriteLine("Querying for Test.docx");
SPList list = spSite.RootWeb.Lists["Shared Documents"];
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.ViewFields = @"<FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' />";
query.Query =
@"<Where>
<Eq>
<FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' />
<Value Type='Text'>Test.docx</Value>
</Eq>
</Where>";
SPListItemCollection collection = list.GetItems(query);
if (collection.Count != 1)
{
Console.WriteLine("Test.docx not found");
Environment.Exit(0);
}
Console.WriteLine("Opening");
SPFile file = collection[0].File;
byte[] byteArray = file.OpenBinary();
using (MemoryStream memStr = new MemoryStream())
{
memStr.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
using (WordprocessingDocument wordDoc =
WordprocessingDocument.Open(memStr, true))
{
Document document = wordDoc.MainDocumentPart.Document;
Paragraph firstParagraph = document.Body.Elements<Paragraph>()
.FirstOrDefault();
if (firstParagraph != null)
{
Paragraph testParagraph = new Paragraph(
new Run(
new Text("Test")));
firstParagraph.Parent.InsertBefore(testParagraph,
firstParagraph);
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Saving");
string linkFileName = file.Item["LinkFilename"] as string;
file.ParentFolder.Files.Add(linkFileName, memStr, true);
}
}
}
}
Here is the same example in VB. One thing that is cool about VB is that you can use XML literals to write the CAML query, and then call ToString() to set the Query field of the SPQuery object.
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Threading
Imports Microsoft.SharePoint
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim siteUrl As String = "http://localhost"
Using spSite As SPSite = New SPSite(siteUrl)
Console.WriteLine("Querying for Test.docx")
Dim list As SPList = spSite.RootWeb.Lists("Shared Documents")
Dim query As SPQuery = New SPQuery()
query.ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' />"
query.Query = ( _
<Where>
<Eq>
<FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef'/>
<Value Type='Text'>Test.docx</Value>
</Eq>
</Where>).ToString()
Dim collection As SPListItemCollection = list.GetItems(query)
If collection.Count <> 1 Then
Console.WriteLine("Test.docx not found")
Environment.Exit(0)
End If
Console.WriteLine("Opening")
Dim file As SPFile = collection(0).File
Dim byteArray As Byte() = file.OpenBinary()
Using memStr As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
memStr.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length)
Using wordDoc As WordprocessingDocument = _
WordprocessingDocument.Open(memStr, True)
Dim document As Document = wordDoc.MainDocumentPart.Document
Dim firstParagraph As Paragraph = _
document.Body.Elements(Of Paragraph)().FirstOrDefault()
If firstParagraph IsNot Nothing Then
Dim testParagraph As Paragraph = New Paragraph( _
New Run( _
New Text("Test")))
firstParagraph.Parent.InsertBefore(testParagraph, _
firstParagraph)
End If
End Using
Console.WriteLine("Saving")
Dim linkFileName As String = file.Item("LinkFilename")
file.ParentFolder.Files.Add(linkFileName, memStr, True)
End Using
End Using
End Sub
End Module
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• Wow ... that's so much simpler than the approach I came up with. :) Thanks for sharing!
• How easy this would be using the SharePoint web services? I need similar functionality from the remote servers.
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the related page
It would be the helpful reference to see the history of the page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Inter-Korean_Peace_House#Split Goodtiming8871 (talk) 03:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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Woman holding a cotton swab up to her ear canal
You’ve probably never noticed, but on the back of any package of cotton swabs there’s a warning that is some version of this:
“Caution: Do not enter the ear canal with this product. Penetrating the ear canal could lead to injury.”
If you have a package of cotton swabs, go check it out for yourself.
The truth is, it’s not just doctors, audiologists, and hearing specialists who advise against the use of cotton swabs to clean the ears—even the manufacturers of cotton swabs think it’s a bad idea!
So why, if the use of cotton swabs is such a common technique of ear cleaning, should it be refrained from? Why are the manufacturers so insistent that you don’t use their product in this way?
We’re glad you asked: the following are four good reasons to never use cotton swabs to clean your ears again.
1. Earwax is invaluable
Earwax has several useful functions apart from being gross. It has antibacterial characteristics to protect against infections, it functions as an insect repellent to keep bugs out of your ears, and it helps to lubricate the ear canal, which prevents dried out, itchy skin.
2. Cotton Swabs push earwax up against the eardrum
Using cotton swabs is actually dangerous. When you force any foreign object into the ear canal, you’re moving most of the earwax up against the eardrum. This can rupture the eardrum or can develop into an impaction that will bring about hearing loss.
3. Earwax removes itself
The ear is configured to remove its own earwax. The normal movements of your jaw—from talking, eating, or yawning—will move the earwax to the external ear. All that’s called for on your part is normal showering and cleaning the external ear with a washcloth.
4. Excessive earwax removal causes dry skin
Earwax has lubricating and antibacterial qualities, so if you eliminate too much, you’ll have a dry, itchy sensation and will be more predisposed to infections.
What you can do instead
There are several commercialized (and do-it-yourself) solutions you can use to flush out your ears, which is considerably less dangerous than inserting foreign objects into the ear canal. But bear in mind, if you’re having issues with too much earwax or you’re having difficulty hearing, it’s always best to consult a hearing professional.
Hearing professionals are extensively educated in the structure and function of the ear, and can diagnose any ailments you may have with earwax buildup or hearing loss. It’s always a good idea to rule out more significant problems, and if cleaning is all that’s required, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that it’s being done the right way.
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I just wanted to say that this page looks like it's an advertisement. With sentences containing such phrases as "Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew and many many more" and "FedCon XVIII looks to be yet another winner", it seems terribly unbaised. Unfortunately, I know NOTHING of FedCon (which is exactly why I looked it up), and I think this needs a tuneup. I hope that someone can help fix this page. --Anglais jardain (talk) 22:30, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
* I removed the "Advert"-tag and the "Inappropriate tone"-tage . The phrases mentioned above had been changed a lot before apparently, but I changed some phrases anyway trying to make it look more "appropriate" encyclopedia style, removing double entries and some unnecessary information. I also changed the IMAGE, because an image showing the convention itself is more explaning as an image of one person who might have been there one time. -- LLieven (talk) 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Previous Cons - Update
Hello, thought I would do something good, and updated FedCon table of former cons. I copied the missing part over from deWP, now I realize that I should have changed some German phrases, words and links first. If it's okay to do this later, I'll do it, but It will take some time. If not, feel free to revert. Thank you --Maresa63 (talk) 12:01, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
* Done, at least the easy part. Maresa63 (talk) 12:40, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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Abdulah Nakaš
Abdulah Nakaš (November 27, 1944 – November 27, 2005) was chief surgeon at Sarajevo's State Hospital for over 30 years.
He was a graduate of the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Medicine.
Following the outbreak of the War in Bosnia and Hercegovina in May 1992, the state hospital (one of the Yugoslav national army's network of health facilities), cared for military personnel, dignitaries and local residents.
During the Siege of Sarajevo, the hospital rapidly filled with casualties. The building itself was repeatedly shelled. Nakaš faced many difficult medical challenges. He would operate using temporary lighting, with little or no standard equipment, anesthesia or analgesia. Nakaš is said to have worked 1500 consecutive days during the war and its aftermath.
In the post-war period, Nakaš was instrumental in founding the Union of Health Workers. Nakaš also was elected a member of the parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and then the state for the Party of Democratic Action of Alija Izetbegović. He was considered to be a moderate, but was distressed by the breakup of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
Sarajevo awarded him the Sixth of April Sarajevo Award for his service to the city and the nation.
He died in 2005, having suffered from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm which was followed by haemorrhagic pancreatitis and kidney failure. His fame was such that his funeral was one of the largest ever held in the country, drawing thousands of mourners. He was survived by his wife and two children. He was buried in the Kovači Cemetery in Sarajevo, also known as the Martyrs' Memorial, dedicated to soldiers and civilian victims of the war. A hospital in Sarajevo was named for him.
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The Paper Bag Players are a New York City based theatre troupe for children and was founded in 1958 by Judith Martin, Shirley Kaplin, Sudie Bond, and Remy Charlip. Their goal was to create a theater for children that would incorporate the experimental art scene of Manhattan's downtown.
Awards
The company has won many awards, including several Obies and repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and City of New York.
Members
* Founding: Judith Martin, Shirley Kaplin, Sudie Bond, and Remy Charlip
* Acted or toured with: Betty Osgood, Irving Burton, James Lally, Jan Maxwell, Ted Brackett, Guy Gsell
* Musical director: Donald Ashwander
* Artists: Red Grooms, Natalie Westbrook, Jonathan Peck
Music
A distinctive feature of the Paper Bag Players is their modern ragtime music, this is largely the work of Donald Ashwander, who worked closely with Judy Martin until Ashwander's passing in 1994.
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Thank you very much, Andrew for your very kind introduction and I’d like to say that I really appreciate the work that Andrew and Matt, our U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern and Western District of Michigan our doing here for the people of Michigan and all the law enforcement community from Michigan, that is here today. We really appreciate your work and as Andrew said, after my remarks they are going to put on a presentation of the China Initiative, which I think you’ll find very interesting, so if you have the time I urge you to stay for that. I would like to thank
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Asymmetric division of clonal muscle stem cells coordinates muscle regeneration in vivo
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Science 08 Jul 2016:
Vol. 353, Issue 6295, aad9969
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad9969
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Dividing asymmetrically to fix muscle
Resident tissue stem cells called satellite cells repair muscle after injury. However, how satellite cells operate inside living tissue is unclear. Gurevich et al. exploited the optical clarity of zebrafish larvae and used a series of genetic approaches to study muscle injury. After injury, satellite cells divide asymmetrically to generate a progenitor pool for muscle replacement and at the same time “self-renew” the satellite stem cell. This results in regeneration that is highly clonal in nature, validating many decades of in vitro analyses examining the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle.
Science, this issue p. 136
Structured Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Mammalian skeletal muscle harbors tissue-specific stem cells that are triggered to replace damaged fibers after injury. Genetic ablation of satellite cells in the mouse results in a failure to regenerate muscle, which indicates that these cells are the major (and possibly only) mediators for repair of skeletal muscle. Further evidence for the central role of satellite cells in muscle regeneration comes from transplantation experiments with genetically marked cells, which demonstrate that satellite cells are highly proliferative myogenic precursors capable of self‐renewal and the resumption of quiescence, properties deemed important in a cell population responsible for muscle repair. Considerable in vitro evidence, derived from cultured fibers and myoblasts, is suggestive of a role for asymmetric division in generating both a self-renewing “immortal” stem cell and a differentiation-competent progenitor cell that proliferates and ultimately replaces damaged muscle. However, asymmetric division of satellite cells has not been documented in vivo. Furthermore, considerable doubt remains over how accurately in vitro studies can model satellite cell behavior, given that the isolation and culture of individual muscle fibers and cells stimulates satellite cell proliferation. Finally, it is not clear whether the environment an activated satellite cell encounters in a single fiber explant, or in culture, mimics the molecular and biophysical architecture of a regenerating muscle injury in vivo. Consequently, what role, if any, the wound environment itself plays in regeneration and self-renewal is difficult to address in these systems.
RATIONALE
Using the optical clarity and genetic tractability of the zebrafish system, we developed tools to track and image the regeneration of living muscle tissue after injury. Marking muscle stem and progenitor cells with transgenes and using long-term imaging and lineage-tracing modalities enabled us to visualize cell movements and behaviors during regeneration in vivo.
RESULTS
In vivo cell tracking permitted high-resolution imaging of the entire process of muscle regeneration, from injury to fiber replacement. Using this approach, we were able to determine the morphological, cellular, and genetic basis for zebrafish muscle regeneration. Our analysis identified a stem cell niche in the zebrafish myotome that is equivalent to the mammalian satellite cell system, revealing that this evolutionarily ancient stem cell is probably present throughout the vertebrate phylogeny. Complex interactions were observed between satellite cells and both injured and uninjured fibers within the wound environment. Among the most notable of these was the identification of filopodia-like projections, emanating from uninjured fibers, which adhere to and “lasso” the activated satellite cell to guide it to the wound edge. Furthermore, we documented the in vivo occurrence of asymmetric satellite cell division, a process that drives both self-renewal and regeneration via a clonally restricted progenitor pool.
CONCLUSION
Asymmetric divisions occur during in vivo muscle regeneration to generate clonally related progenitors required for muscle repair. This finding resolves a long-term debate surrounding the existence of this mechanism of stem cell self-renewal and muscle repair in vivo. Our results also reveal the highly dynamic nature of the wound environment, where uninjured fibers at the wound edge play a crucial role in directing differentiating progenitors to regions of the wound that are most in need of new fiber addition.
Mechanism of in vivo muscle repair.
(A to C) Muscle regeneration is clonal. Regenerating fibers (outlined in white) express the same color after fluorescent lineage tracing, indicating clonal derivation from a single stem cell. Sagittal, transverse, and coronal sections are shown in (A) to (C), respectively. (D) Regeneration dynamics in vivo. Quiescent satellite cells, activated upon injury, undergo asymmetric division, which results in self-renewing or proliferating cells. Proliferative cells undergo myogenesis to generate de novo immature fibers.
Abstract
Skeletal muscle is an example of a tissue that deploys a self-renewing stem cell, the satellite cell, to effect regeneration. Recent in vitro studies have highlighted a role for asymmetric divisions in renewing rare “immortal” stem cells and generating a clonal population of differentiation-competent myoblasts. However, this model currently lacks in vivo validation. We define a zebrafish muscle stem cell population analogous to the mammalian satellite cell and image the entire process of muscle regeneration from injury to fiber replacement in vivo. This analysis reveals complex interactions between satellite cells and both injured and uninjured fibers and provides in vivo evidence for the asymmetric division of satellite cells driving both self-renewal and regeneration via a clonally restricted progenitor pool.
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Clean Up Function Syntax Mess with decltype
he auto keyword presented here is related to another C++09 proposal: the decltype operator. decltype(e) retrieves the type of the expression e. By combining decltype and auto, you can simplify complex function declarations and reduce maintenance costs. The following sections will show you how to use decltypeto make your functions sing.
Your function consists of a simple return statement. Alas, the manual declaration of a complex return type makes your code brittle and illegible.
Use the decltypeoperator to extract the return type from an expression instead of spelling it out explicitly.
The Point of No return
Suppose you have a function template that returns an iterator designating the end of a vector. The body of such a function is trivial:
return myvector.end();
Similarly, the parameter list of the said function is intuitive:
template /*return type omitted*/ vector_end( vector& myvector);
Here’s the snag: In C++98 you must specify the return type in every function declaration. To do that, you must check what the type of the expression myvector.end() is, and copy that type to the function’s declaration. After digging into the declarations of all vector::end()overloads, you decide to use the following return type:
template typename vector::iterator vector_end(vector& myvector){ return myvector.end();}//usage vector vi(5);vector::iterator itr=vector_end(vi);
This code works fine, but it’s not ideal. If the implementer of vector_end() decides to change its parameter to const vector&, the code will break:
template typename vector::iterator //wrong vector_end(const vector& myvector){ return myvector.end();}vector vi(5);vector::const_iterator itr=vector_end(vi);//error
The return type of vector_end() is the problem. Since the parameter is const vector&, you must change the return type accordingly to const_iterator:
template typename vector::const_iterator vector_end(const vector& myvector){ return myvector.end();}vector vi(5);vector::const_iterator itr=vector_end(vi);//now OK
You already know that the definition of itr can be simplified by using auto:
auto itr=vector_end(vi);
In a similar fashion, you want the return type of vector_end() to be deduced automatically from the expression myvector.end(). This is exactly what decltypedoes.
Type Querying
The delctype operator takes an expression and retrieves its type. In this example, the retrieved type of decltype (myvector.end()) is identical to the return type of myvector.end(). The compiler, not the programmer, traces down the declaration of the particular overloaded vector::end() invoked by myvector.end() and captures its return type. Note that the expression used in a decltype isn’t evaluated; the compiler simply looks up its type. Therefore, you can safely use a function call inside a decltypeto capture the return type of that function. The function itself will not not be invoked. You can now write something like this:
//note: pseudo-codetemplate decltype(myvector.end())vector_end(const vector& myvector){ return myvector.end();}
Of course, the line containing the decltype will not compile because the compiler hasn’t seen a declaration of myvectorat that point. To solve this problem, C++09 pulls another rabbit from its hat: the return type of a function can be specified after the function’s parameter list:
//note: it's almost workingtemplate vector_end(const vector& myvector) -> decltype(myvector.end()); //return type
The ->after the function’s parameter list indicates the return type of that function.
There’s one more thing that’s missing here, though. To use the new -> notation, the function must be declared auto:
//now it's readytemplate auto vector_end(const vector& myvector) -> decltype(myvector.end());
The above declaration reads: vector_end is a function template taking const vector& and returning whatever the return type of myvector.end()is.
With decltype, any modification of the parameter list propagates automatically to the return type:
template auto vector_end(vector& myvector) -> decltype(myvector.end()); //returns vector::iteratortemplate auto vector_end(string& myvector) -> decltype(myvector.end()); //string::iteratortemplate auto vector_end(const vector& myvector) > decltype(myvector.end()); //vector::const_iterator
In the examples above, the return type is automatically deduced. However, you can use the ->notation for spelling out an explicit return type as well:
auto func(int n) -> bool;
func() takes a single parameter of type int and returns bool. A more realistic example is a function that returns a pointer to another function:
int handler(); auto get_handler(int signal)-> decltype(handler);
In C++98, the declaration of get_hander()is a monster:
int (*gethandler (int (*pf)()))();
A human programmer would unquestionably prefer to use a typedefinstead:
typedef int(*IF)();IF gethandler(int signal);
However, the typedef solution is still problematic. The programmer must examine the declaration of handler(), declare a typedef serving as an alias for that type, and modify that typedef whenever handler()changes its signature.
The Golden Trio
The C++09 auto and decltype keywords delegate the task of querying the return type to the compiler. By moving the return type past the parameter list, you can use decltype(whatever-the-return-statement-contains)to deduce the return type automatically.
The new function declaration syntax consists of the following ingredients:
• Declare the function as auto.
• Place -> after the parameter list.
• Add a decltype expression indicating the return type after the ->.
The decltype facility is already used in the range libraryand other C++09 libraries.
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Bump github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6 from 6.2.1 to 6.3.0 in /dependabot (#140)
* Bump github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6 in /dependabot
Bumps [github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6](https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server) from 6.2.1 to 6.3.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/compare/v6.2.1...v6.3.0)
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- dependency-name: github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
* Add python2 dependency
Apparently something in 6.3.0 is using python2 for the first time?
* Use node v15 by default
We are now getting this error when building:
/build/.node-gyp/16.13.2/include/node/v8-internal.h:492:38: error: 'remove_cv_t' is not a member of 'std'
which the internet suggests is a problem with node 16 and node-sass. According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67241196/error-no-template-named-remove-cv-t-in-namespace-std-did-you-mean-remove , supposedly newer versions of node-sass support node 16, and the other solution is to pass -std=c++14 instead of c++0x (which is what is being done right now), but I can't say for sure whether this build script will work with CXXFLAGS or not. The other fix would seem to be to update node-sass to a version that supports node16, but that would presumably be more patching of files, this time in mattermost-webapp, so I'm trying the least-invasive option first.
* Update release.mk patch
* Update how we retrieve the Mattermost version
With mmctl in the require list in the go.mod, mattermost-server no longer appears on the same line as the require statement, so splitting by spaces means we now need the second split entry instead of the third.
We could also fix this by removing mmctl from the go.mod, which I was going to do, but that means every Dependabot update would no longer work. So going forward we will need to ensure that the go.mod always has the mattermost-server require on its own line instead of inline with the require statement.
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- name: Set environment from runtime properties
run: |
echo "MATTERMOST_RELEASE=$(grep 'mattermost-server' dependabot/go.mod | cut -d' ' -f3)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "MATTERMOST_RELEASE=$(grep 'mattermost-server' dependabot/go.mod | cut -d' ' -f2)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "MMCTL_RELEASE=$MATTERMOST_RELEASE" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Pull docker image
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diff --git a/build/release.mk b/build/release.mk
index 017746342..3c3e76bea 100644
index faa027239..df40f0c68 100644
--- a/build/release.mk
+++ b/build/release.mk
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ package-prep:
@ -11,22 +11,14 @@ index 017746342..3c3e76bea 100644
cp -RL fonts $(DIST_PATH)
cp -RL templates $(DIST_PATH)
rm -rf $(DIST_PATH)/templates/*.mjml $(DIST_PATH)/templates/partials/
@@ -159,13 +159,14 @@ else
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ else
cp $(GOBIN)/$(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH)/$(MM_BIN_NAME) $(DIST_PATH_GENERIC)/bin # from cross-compiled bin dir
endif
- #Download MMCTL for $(MMCTL_PLATFORM)
- scripts/download_mmctl_release.sh $(MMCTL_PLATFORM) $(DIST_PATH_GENERIC)/bin
+ @#Copy cross-compiled MMCTL
+ cp "${HOME}/go/src/github.com/mattermost/mmctl/mmctl" $(DIST_PATH_GENERIC)/bin
+
ifeq ("darwin_arm64","$(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH)")
- echo "No plugins or mmctl yet for $(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH) platform, skipping..."
+ echo "No plugins yet for $(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH) platform, skipping..."
else ifeq ("linux_arm64","$(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH)")
- echo "No plugins or mmctl yet for $(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH) platform, skipping..."
+ echo "No plugins yet for $(CURRENT_PACKAGE_ARCH) platform, skipping..."
else
- #Download MMCTL for $(MMCTL_PLATFORM)
- scripts/download_mmctl_release.sh $(MMCTL_PLATFORM) $(DIST_PATH_GENERIC)/bin
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NODE_KEY="${NODE_KEY:-9FD3B784BC1C6FC31A8A0A1C1655A0AB68576280}"
NODE_RELEASE="${NODE_RELEASE:-16}"
NODE_RELEASE="${NODE_RELEASE:-15}"
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The result was delete. The Bushranger One ping only 00:27, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
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A UK based free publication that I don't see passing the GNG. The article has been unsourced since its creation in 2005, and after searching around, I have found none to add. There is some claim of notability by the statements that several notable musicians have been contributors to the magazine, but notability is not inherited solely because notable people were involved, and I can find no reference to their connection to this publication anyways. The only sources I'm finding out there are mirrors of this article. Rorshacma (talk) 21:54, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
* Delete This doesn't meet WP: NOTABILITY and is unsourced. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 22:34, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
* Delete Does not meet WP:GNG. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 19:26, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
* Delete – After searching, the topic appears to fail WP:NOTABILITY guidelines. Not finding any coverage in reliable sources. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:39, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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RIVERMEADOWS, INC., a corporation, and Donald H. Albrecht, Appellants (Defendants), Security Pacific National Bank, a National Banking Association, (Defendant), v. ZWAANSHOEK HOLDING AND FINANCIERING, B.V., a Netherlands corporation, Appellee (Plaintiff), Meadowrivers Corp., a Wyoming corporation, Appellee (Defendant).
No. 86-278.
Supreme Court of Wyoming.
Sept. 20, 1988.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 24,1988.
Frank Hess of Dill & Hess, Jackson, and Richard H. Floum and Greg David Derin of Derin, Mason & Floum, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.
Charles G. Kepler of Simpson & Kepler, Cody, Leo P. Larkin, Jr. of Rogers & Wells, New York City, and John A. Karaczynski of Rogers & Wells, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee Zwaanshoek Holding and Finan-ciering, B.V.
Ross D. Copenhaver of Copenhaver, Co-penhaver & Kath, Powell, for appellee Mea-dowrivers Corp.
Before THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ., and O’BRIEN, District Judge.
Case assigned October 1, 1987; opinion circulated for comment November 2, 1987.
MACY, Justice.
In this action, plaintiff-appellee Zwaan-shoek Holding and Financiering, B.V. (Zwaanshoek) commenced a civil action against defendants-appellants Donald H. Albrecht (Albrecht) and Rivermeadows, Inc. (Rivermeadows), defendant-appellee Meadowrivers Corp. (Meadowrivers), and defendant Security Pacific National Bank (Bank) seeking judgment on a defaulted $1 million promissory note and foreclosure and sale of the property securing the payment of the promissory note. Albrecht and Rivermeadows answered the Zwaanshoek complaint, asserting numerous affirmative defenses and counterclaims as well as cross-claims against Meadowrivers. After the jury returned a special verdict, the court entered judgment in favor of Zwaan-shoek and Meadowrivers.
We affirm.
Albrecht and Rivermeadows present the following issues on appeal:
A. Did the District Court commit reversible error in granting Zwaanshoek judgment notwithstanding the verdict (hereafter “nov”), vacating the special verdict (Issue No. 3) in which the jury found by a preponderance of the evidence that “there is such a unity of interest and ownership between defendant Meadowrivers Corp. and plaintiff Zwaan-shoek that they should be treated as a single entity,” on the presumed grounds that there purportedly was no substantial evidence in the trial record to support that special verdict?
B. Did the District Court abuse its discretion and commit reversible error in denying defendants’ motion to stay this action in light of the pre-existing California action?
C. Did the District Court abuse its discretion and commit reversible error in denying defendants’ motion to join MIG and MIG-U.S.A. as parties to this action?
D. Did the District Court commit prejudicial error in denying appellants’ motion to realign parties so that they would have the same number of peremptory challenges as putative defendant Meadowrivers and plaintiff Zwaanshoek?
E. Did the District Court commit reversible error in failing to grant appellants’ motion for judgment nov and for new trial based upon (1) the inconsistency of the jury’s verdicts, (2) defendants’ rights of offset (including utilization of accrued and payable interest and lot installment payments due to Albrecht under his $2.5 million promissory note, and reimbursement for expenses and compensation due Rivermeadows under the Development Agreement), and (3) prejudicial errors regarding jury instructions and various pre-trial rulings?
F. Did the District Court commit prejudicial error in refusing to give appellants’ proposed jury Instructions Nos. 5A (dealing in part with their offset claims), 9A (dealing with Rivermeadows’ claimed breach by Zwaanshoek of its loan agreement), and 22 (dealing with Meadowri-vers’ obligations to pay development costs outside the Development Agreement)?
G. Did the District Court commit prejudicial error in refusing to admit Exhibits A-38 and A-93 proffered by defendants?
H. Did the District Court commit prejudicial error in refusing to allow defendants to conform their pleadings to the proof regarding their entitlement to compensation for development services, including repairs to the water system, on a quantum meruit theory?
(Footnotes and record references omitted.)
Early in 1981, Albrecht sold unimproved real property to Meadowrivers, a Wyoming corporation, and Albrecht’s Wyoming corporation, Rivermeadows, entered into an agreement with Meadowrivers to develop that property. On February 19, 1981, Riv-ermeadows borrowed approximately $828,-000 from Zwaanshoek in exchange for a $1 million promissory note and Meadowrivers’ agreement to mortgage its unimproved property to secure the payment of the promissory note. Albrecht then unconditionally guaranteed the payment of River-meadows’ $1 million promissory note to Zwaanshoek.
Meadowrivers also executed and delivered to Albrecht a promissory note in the amount of $2.5 million. To secure the promissory note, Meadowrivers mortgaged the same unimproved real property which was subject to the $1 million promissory note. In turn, Albrecht delivered a subordination agreement to Zwaanshoek, subordinating the $2.5 million promissory note and mortgage to the $1 million promissory note. Albrecht also sent a letter to Zwaan-shoek stating that, in the event of default by Meadowrivers on its $2.5 million promissory note and mortgage, he would look solely to the mortgaged property and would not hold Meadowrivers liable. Al-brecht then assigned the $2.5 million promissory note and mortgage to the Bank for security purposes.
Both Rivermeadows and Albrecht defaulted on the $1 million promissory note with Zwaanshoek, and Zwaanshoek filed suit against them and Meadowrivers claiming breach of the promissory note and seeking to foreclose on the Meadowrivers’ property used as collateral. In their answer, Albrecht and Rivermeadows asserted affirmative defenses and counterclaims against Zwaanshoek and cross-claims against Meadowrivers, contending fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of contract, quantum meruit, acceleration of promissory note, foreclosure of mortgage, maintenance of action without a certificate of authority, lack of accounting, merger of mortgage, failure of consideration, violation of the “Alien Land Act,” and unenforceable guaranty and asserting that the damages resulting from their counterclaims should be offset against the damages found pursuant to the claims made by Zwaanshoek.
On April 1,1985, Albrecht and Rivermea-dows filed a motion to stay the case until an earlier California action was concluded among Rivermeadows, Albrecht, Arab Investors Group, S.A. a.k.a. Mediterranee Investors Group, S.A. (AIG (MIG)), Mediter-ranee Investors Group-U.S.A., Inc. (MIG-U.S.A.), Zwaanshoek, Meadowrivers, and others alleging fraud, rescission, and breach of contract relating to a complex series of transactions among the parties, including the $1 million promissory note involved in this action. The motion was denied by the trial court in a summary order without a hearing or the filing of briefs in opposition.
Albrecht and Rivermeadows also filed a motion with supporting brief to join AIG (MIG) and MIG-U.S.A., alleging that these entities along with Zwaanshoek and Mea-dowrivers were each the alter ego of the other and hence necessary parties in the action. Without holding a hearing but after allowing Zwaanshoek to file a brief in opposition, the trial court denied the motion. The trial court further denied River-meadows’ and Albrecht's motion for reconsideration on the matter without a hearing.
At a prehearing conference, the trial court assigned three peremptory challenges each to Zwaanshoek, Meadowrivers, and the Bank, and it assigned three peremptory challenges combined to Albrecht and Rivermeadows. In light of the trial court’s actions, Albrecht and Rivermea-dows filed a motion for realignment of peremptory challenges. After selection of the jury had been completed, the motion for realignment of peremptory challenges was denied. Additional argument ensued upon the matter, and the trial court reaffirmed its prior ruling.
At the conclusion of the trial which began on July 7, 1986, the jury returned a special verdict. Albrecht and Rivermea-dows brought a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and a new trial, and Zwaanshoek brought its own coun-termotion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. In response to these motions, the trial court entered a nunc pro tunc judgment in favor of Zwaanshoek and Mea-dowrivers. In that judgment the trial court ruled, contrary to the jury’s finding of a unity of interest in ownership, that Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers were to be treated as separate entities apart from one another for the purposes of the transaction which was the subject of the suit on the basis of the intent of the parties as clearly shown by the evidence. Albrecht and Riv-ermeadows noticed this appeal.
I
In Albrecht’s and Rivermeadows’ first issue, they contend that the trial court improperly overruled the jury’s special verdict which found that Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers were one entity. They argue that the judgment rendered by the trial court through the jury’s interpretation by special verdict is inconsistent with the evidence presented at trial showing that Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers were involved in an alter ego relationship. They claim the trial court improperly placed itself in a role of trier-of-fact which was in excess of the trial court’s jurisdiction.
The standards we employ when reviewing the sufficiency of evidence to support a jury verdict are well stated in Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. v. Admiral Beverage Corporation, Wyo., 638 P.2d 1272, 1274-1275 (1982):
“[W]e assume the evidence in favor of the successful party to be true, leaving out of consideration entirely the evidence in conflict, and assigning every favorable inference to the evidence of the successful party that can be reasonably and fairly drawn from it. In addition, when reviewing a jury verdict, we leave to the jury the duty of ascertaining the facts, reconciling conflicts therein and drawing its own inferences if more than one inference is permissible. Also, when the facts permit the drawing of more than one inference, then it is for the jury to choose which one will be utilized and, if supported by substantial evidence, the jury’s choice will be held by us to be conclusive.” (Citations omitted.)
Reese v. Dow Chemical Company, 728 P.2d 1118, 1120 (Wyo.1986). Further, we note:
The general rule regarding a court’s role in evaluating the consistency of findings in special verdicts is stated in Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil § 2510, pp. 515-517 (1971):
“It is the duty of the court to attempt to harmonize the answers, if it is possible under a fair reading of them. ‘Where there is a view of the case that makes the jury’s answers to special interrogatories consistent, they must be resolved that way.’ In determining whether there is inconsistency in the jury’s findings, the findings are to be construed in the light of the surrounding circumstances and in connection with the pleadings, instructions, and issues submitted.” (Footnotes omitted.) (Quoting Atlantic and Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd., 369 U.S. 355, 82 S.Ct. 780, 786, 7 L.Ed. 2d 798 (1962)).
Id. at 1119-20. Applying these rules to the present case, we can reconcile the jury’s findings and the trial court’s judgment without difficulty.
In its special verdict, the jury made the following applicable findings:
ISSUE NO. 1.
State the amount of principal and interest to which Plaintiff Zwaanshoek is entitled as a result of Defendant River-meadows’ failure to pay the $1 million note.
$489,284.86
ISSUE NO. 2.
Is Albrecht excused or otherwise relieved from performance of his guaranty agreement for the $1 million note?
Yes_ No X
ISSUE NO. 3.
Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that there is such a unity of interest and ownership between Defendant Meadowrivers Corp. and Plaintiff Zwaanshoek that they should be treated as a single entity?
Yes X No_
ISSUE NO. I
Is the $2.5 million promissory note from Defendant Meadowrivers Corp. to Defendant Albrecht due and payable?
Yes_ No X
* * # # * #
ISSUE NO. 6.
Is the non-recourse agreement in Exhibits 18 and 68 binding on Defendant Albrecht?
Yes X No_
ISSUE NO. 7.
Is Defendant Rivermeadows entitled to recover from Meadowrivers for a breach by Meadowrivers of the Development Management Agreement?
Yes_ No X
* # * # # #
ISSUE NO. 9.
Is Plaintiff Zwaanshoek’s $1 million mortgage enforc[e]able?
Yes X No_
ISSUE NO. 10.
Is the Subordination Agreement, Exhibit 11, binding?
Yes X No_
ISSUE NO. 11.
Is Defendant Rivermeadows entitled to recover from Plaintiff Zwaanshoek for a breach by Plaintiff Zwaanshoek of the Loan Agreement?
Yes_ No X
¾< * * * #
ISSUE NO. 13.
Did Meadowrivers have a duty to develop, manage and market the property after December 31, 1982 so as to pay off the obligations to Plaintiff Zwaanshoek and Defendant Albrecht?
Yes_ No X
Although some of the evidence presented at trial showed that Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers were involved in an alter ego relationship, the evidence also showed that Albrecht was a businessman, investor, and attorney who had been involved in real estate development projects for over twenty years and that he knew how to structure such transactions so as to obtain optimal financial leverage and favorable tax advantages. It is also apparent from the record that Albrecht guided his own corporation, Rivermeadows, with his expertise in the field with regard to its transactions with Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers. Both Al-brecht and Rivermeadows knew of the relationship between Zwaanshoek and Meadow-rivers. They knowingly intended to and did treat Zwaanshoek and Meadowrivers as separate entities, contracting with each of them independently and giving them their own distinct rights, duties, and obligations under each of the contracts involved in the transactions in an attempt to further their own advantages. Also, in no way did Zwaanshoek or Meadowrivers ever defraud Albrecht or Rivermeadows with regard to their corporate makeup.
As stated in Opal Mercantile v. Tamblyn, 616 P.2d 776, 778 (Wyo.1980):
Each case involving the disregard of the separate entity doctrine must be governed by the special facts of that case.
In cases such as this where the parties are aware of the corporate status and they knowingly enter into transactions with no fraud being evidenced, there is no rationale or policy which requires that the corporate entity be disregarded. Id.; Arnold v. Browne, 27 Cal.App.3d 386, 103 Cal.Rptr. 775 (1972), overruled in part on other grounds by Reynolds Metals Company v. Alperson, 25 Cal.3d 124, 158 Cal.Rptr. 1, 599 P.2d 83 (1979). Courts have refused to pierce the corporate veil in cases where “the intent and consequences of [the relevant transactions] were known and understood by all of the parties, who were all represented by legal counsel.” Arnold, 103 Cal.Rptr. at 782.
We hold that, under the facts and circumstances of this case, the district court did not commit reversible error by vacating Special Verdict No. 3.
II
In Albrecht’s and Rivermeadows’ second issue, they assert that the trial court abused its discretion and committed reversible error when it denied their motion to stay this action in light of a preexisting action filed in the state of California. Specifically, they contend that, because this case is such a small fragment of an unraveling series of transactions among the parties and the parent companies of Zwaan-shoek and Meadowrivers involving all the complex disputes currently and comprehensively being litigated in California, the principles of comity and justice dictate that the case should have been stayed until the California case has been concluded.
Albrecht and Rivermeadows direct this Court’s attention to the cases of Dodge v. Superior Court in and for Los Angeles County, 139 Cal.App. 178, 33 P.2d 695 (1934), and Simmons v. Superior Court in and for Los Angeles County, 96 Cal.App. 2d 119, 214 P.2d 844, 19 A.L.R.2d 288 (1950), in support of the rule of law that:
Abuse of discretion will be found if the trial court denies the stay under circumstances in which an injustice would be perpetrated on the party seeking the stay, and no hardship, prejudice or inconvenience would result to the party against whom it is sought.
However, neither Albrecht nor Rivermea-dows has shown this Court that it was prejudiced in any way by the trial court’s decision to not stay this case. The trial court permitted the filing of amended pleadings allowing Albrecht and Rivermea-dows to eliminate certain matters to be heard before the Wyoming court so as to preserve them for California determination. Albrecht and Rivermeadows were given a full and fair opportunity in Wyoming before a jury to try all their defenses, counterclaims, and cross-claims pertaining to the Wyoming transactions.
The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied Albrecht’s and River-meadows’ motion for stay. As stated in Barringer v. Ray, 74 Wyo. 317, 287 P.2d 629, 634-35 (1955):
So we said in In re Smith’s Estate, 55 Wyo. 181, 200, 97 P.2d 677, 684: “Every state has plenary jurisdiction and control of the property, real and personal, within its borders.” To the same effect is In re Holden’s Estate, 110 Vt. 60, 1 A.2d 721, 119 A.L.R. 487, 489, and cases cited. In 11 Am.Jur. § 30, pp. 328, 329, 330, it is stated:
“A principle of law which is acquiesced in by the jurists of all civilized nations and thus part of the jus gentium is that all real or immovable property is exclusively subject to the laws of the country within which it is situated, and no interference with it by any other sovereignty can be permitted. Therefore, all matters concerning the title and disposition of real property are determined by what is known as the lex loci rei sitae, which can alone prescribe the mode by which a title to it can pass from one person to another or an interest therein of any sort can be gained or lost. This general principle includes all rules which govern the descent, alienation, and transfer of such property and the validity, effect, and construction of wills and other conveyances.”
* * * The cases on the subject are numerous and so nearly unanimous that it would be useless to attempt to discuss them all.
The reasoning used in the case of Beach v. Youngblood, 215 Iowa 979, 247 N.W. 545 (1933), is also persuasive. In that case, a note and mortgage had been executed in Iowa but the mortgaged property was located in Minnesota. Upon default in payment of the note, the holder thereof brought an action in Iowa, seeking to foreclose the mortgage upon, the Minnesota land. The trial court entered judgment for the amount of the note, declared the mortgage a lien superior to the claims of all other parties, and directed the county sheriff in Iowa to advertise and sell the Minnesota property in the same manner as sales are made of Iowa property. On appeal it was argued that the Iowa court had no jurisdiction of the foreclosure phase of the action and that consequently the order of foreclosure was a nullity. After discussing the applicable principles at length and referring to numerous cases, all of which deny the power of the courts of one state to decree a foreclosure on property within another state, the court made the following statement:
It is a well and universally established principle that the disposition of real estate, either by deed, descent, or any other method, must be governed by the law of the state where the same is situated.
Id. 247 N.W. at 549. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied Al-brecht's and Rivermeadows’ motion to stay.
III
In their third issue, Albrecht and Rivermeadows claim that the numerous transactions among Albrecht, Rivermea-dows, Zwaanshoek, and Meadowrivers were all negotiated by Albrecht with the parent companies of Zwaanshoek and Mea-dowrivers; i.e., AIG (MIG) and MIG-U.S.A. They contend that the trial court abused its discretion and committed reversible error in denying their motion to join AIG (MIG) and MIG-U.S.A. as parties to the action pursuant to W.R.C.P. 13(h).
W.R.C.P. 13(h) states:
Persons other than those made parties to the original action may be made parties to a counterclaim or cross-claim in accordance with the provisions of Rules 19 and 20.
W.R.C.P. 19(a) provides:
A person who is subject to service of process shall be joined as a party in the action if (1) in his absence complete relief cannot be accorded among those already parties, or (2) he claims an interest relating to the subject of the action and is so situated that the disposition of the action in his absence may (i) as a practical matter impair or impede his ability to protect that interest or (ii) leave any of the persons already parties subject to a substantial risk of incurring double, multiple, or otherwise inconsistent obligations by reason of his claimed interest. If he has not been so joined, the court shall order that he be made a party. If he should join as a plaintiff but refuses to do so, he may be made a defendant. If the joined party objects to venue and his joinder would render the venue of the action improper, he shall be dismissed from the action.
This Court has long recognized the traditional definition of an indispensable party with regard to W.R.C.P. 19(a). In American Beryllium & Oil Corporation v. Chase, 425 P.2d 66, 68 (Wyo.1967) (quoting from Amerada Petroleum Corporation v. Rio Oil Co., 225 F.Supp. 907, 910 (D.C.Wyo.1964)), quoted in Reilly v. Reilly, 671 P.2d 330, 332 (Wyo.1983), we stated:
“An indispensable party has been defined as one without whose presence before the court a final decree could not be made without either affecting his interest or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final determination might be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience. Whether or not a person is an indispensable party cannot be determined by a prescribed formula because the facts peculiar to each case are determinative of that question.”
(Citations omitted.) See also Johnson v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. of Hartford, Conn., 608 P.2d 1299 (Wyo.1980).
After a careful review of the record, we determine that AIG (MIG) and MIG-U.S.A. are not indispensable parties to this action. Their participation is not required to resolve the claims and defenses alleged in this case. Zwaanshoek’s claims are solely on the bases of Rivermeadows’ $1 million promissory note, Albrecht’s personal guaranty, and the mortgage given to Zwaan-shoek by Meadowrivers. Likewise, the parties to the agreements underlying Al-brecht’s and Rivermeadows’ counterclaims and cross-claims are named parties in this action. The Bank, which has an interest in the subject property, is also a named party. Neither AIG (MIG) nor AIG-U.S.A. needs to be joined in this action for its proper litigation, and they are not indispensable parties.
W.R.C.P. 20 provides in part:
(a) Permissive joinder. — * * * All persons may be joined in one (1) action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative, any right to relief in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action. * * *
(b) Separate trials. — The court may make such orders as will prevent a party from being embarrassed, delayed, or put to expense by the inclusion of a party against whom he asserts no claim and who asserts no claim against him, and may order separate trials or make other orders to prevent delay or prejudice.
In the case of England v. Simmons, 728 P.2d 1137 (Wyo.1986), we extensively discussed the provisions of W.R.C.P. 20 and its application. Therein, we stated:
Rule 20, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which is identical to Wyoming’s rule, is explained in 7 Wright, Miller & Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil 2d §§ 1653 and 1660. It is stated at § 1653, p. 382:
“Instead of developing one generalized test for ascertaining whether or not a particular factual situation constitutes a single transaction or occurrence for purposes of Rule 20, the courts seem to have adopted a case by case approach. As stated by one district court judge:
‘there can be no hard and fast rule, and that the approach must be a general one of whether there are enough ultimate factual concurrences that it would be fair to the parties to require them to defend jointly [the several claims] against them * *
And at § 1660, pp. 436-438:
“The general philosophy of the join-der provisions of the federal rules is to allow virtually unlimited joinder at the pleading stage but to give the district court discretion to shape the trial to the necessities of the particular case. * * * 11
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This court has defined abuse of discretion numerous times. Recently, we said:
“ ‘A court does not abuse its discretion unless it acts in a manner which exceeds the bounds of reason under the circumstances. In determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion, the ultimate issue is whether or not the court could reasonably conclude as it did. * * *’ Martinez v. State, Wyo., 611 P.2d 831, 838 (1980).
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“Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means a sound judgment exercised with regard to what is right under the circumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously. Byerly v. Madsen, 41 WashuApp. 495, 704 P.2d 1236 (1985).
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“* * * Each case must be determined on its peculiar facts. * * * ” Martin v. State, Wyo., 720 P.2d 894, 896-897 (1986).
England, 728 P.2d at 1139-40.
In this case, the order denying joinder states no rationale as the basis for denial. Conjecture by this Court as to the specific ground for denial is not required.
“Our consideration is limited to a determination of whether the trial court was clearly wrong in denying this motion.”
Id. at 1140 (quoting from Martellaro v. Sailors, 515 P.2d 974, 976 (Wyo.1973)). W.R.C.P. 20 is entitled “Permissive join-der of parties.” (Emphasis added.)
Under our statutes relating to joinder, the trial court is entitled to exercise considerable discretion in determining who should be joined or retained.
England, 728 P.2d at 1140. Applying the current definition of abuse of discretion and its standard of review, we must give due deference to the trial court and its denial of joinder of the parties. Any one of the reasons given under W.R.C.P. 20 may have been plausible reason for denial of joinder. We fail to see how or why Al-brecht and Rivermeadows were prejudiced by the trial court’s actions with regard to their motion for joinder.
IV
The trial court treated Zwaanshoek, Meadowrivers, and the Bank as separate sides, granting them each three peremptory challenges, while it treated Albrecht and Rivermeadows as one side, giving them collectively three peremptory challenges. As a result, Albrecht and Rivermeadows claim that the trial court committed prejudicial error and deprived them of their constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury when the court denied their motion to realign the parties so that they would receive the same number of peremptory challenges as Meadowrivers, Zwaanshoek, and the Bank received.
W.S. 1-11-202 provides:
In the trial of civil cases in the district courts of this state, each side is allowed three (3) peremptory challenges.
In the case of Distad v. Cubin, 633 P.2d 167 (Wyo.1981), we held that, in determining whether multiple defendants constitute one side, consideration must be given to the nature of the claim against them and to whether the defendants’ interests are or may be antagonistic. Applying the holding of Distad with regard to peremptory challenges, we conclude that the trial court did not err in its assignment of peremptory challenges in this case. Zwaanshoek sued Albrecht, Rivermeadows, and Meadowri-vers, alleging breach and default on a $1 million promissory note and seeking foreclosure on the property used as collateral. The Bank entered the suit claiming an interest in the property adverse to Zwaan-shoek. It follows that Zwaanshoek became the adversary of each of the parties — Al-brecht, Rivermeadows, Meadowrivers, and the Bank. Albrecht and Rivermeadows counterclaimed against Zwaanshoek, cross-claimed against Meadowrivers, and asserted numerous affirmative defenses with a favorable outcome of each of those being advantageous to both of them. Not only did an adversarial relationship exist between Zwaanshoek and Albrecht/Riv-ermeadows, but an additional antagonistic relationship arose between Albrecht/River-meadows and Meadowrivers collectively. No adversarial relationship ever developed between Albrecht and Rivermeadows. They chose to assert defenses in tandem. The record clearly evidences that the relationship between Albrecht and Rivermea-dows was not antagonistic but rather “allied,” or that of one side.
V
Albrecht and Rivermeadows also assert that the trial court committed reversible error when it ruled against them on their motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial and several pretrial matters; when the trial court refused to give some of Albrecht’s and Rivermea-dows’ proposed jury instructions dealing with their right to offset on various contentions; and when the trial court refused to admit certain exhibits offered by Albrecht and Rivermeadows. We do not further address the trial court’s action with regard to Albrecht’s and Rivermeadows’ motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial or to the trial court’s pretrial rulings since we have already dealt sufficiently with those issues. We choose to collectively dispose of the remaining issues asserted by Albrecht and Rivermeadows because of the similarity in their nature and argument.
Turning first to the issue of jury instructions, we recognize that:
Our rule is that a party is entitled to have a jury instruction upon its theory of the case but only if such theory is supported by competent evidence and a proper request for the instruction is made.
Short v. Spring Creek Ranch, Inc., 731 P.2d 1195, 1199 (Wyo.1987). See also Con dict v. Whitehead, Zunker, Gage, Davidson & Shotwell, P.C., 743 P.2d 880 (Wyo.1987).
We have also stated that:
There is no error when the matter complained of is covered in another instruction or by taking the instruction as a whole.
Id. at 883.
In some instances the evidence presented by Albrecht and Rivermeadows was not sufficient to require the giving of some of the proposed instructions. Taking the instructions in totality, we hold that the jury was adequately instructed as to Albrecht’s and Rivermeadows’ alleged right to offset. Albrecht and Rivermeadows were not prejudiced in any way with respect to their claims of offset by the instructions given to the jury.
The trial court’s ruling on an instruction will not constitute reversible error absent a showing of prejudice, and prejudice will not be said to result unless it is demonstrated that the instruction confused or misled the jury with respect to the proper principles of law.
DeJulio v. Foster, 715 P.2d 182, 186 (Wyo.1986).
Finally, Albrecht and Rivermeadows contend that the trial court committed prejudicial error in refusing to admit exhibits A-38 and A-93 offered by them. As stated in McCarthy v. Whitlock Construction and Supply, 715 P.2d 218, 220-21 (Wyo.1986):
Our standards of appellate review require reversal only where an asserted error is prejudicial to a substantial right of a party affected. Our rules of appellate procedure phrase the concept as follows:
“Any error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded.” Rule 7.04, W.R.A.P. Accord Rule 103(a), W.R.E.[] * * *.
It is the burden of the appellant to establish an error as prejudicial. We have held that
“ ‘for an error to be harmful, there must be a reasonable possibility that in the absence of error the verdict might have been more favorable [to the losing party].’ ” Herman v. Speed King Manufacturing Company, [Wyo.,] 675 P.2d [1271,] 1278 [(1984)], quoting ABC Builders, Inc. v. Phillips, Wyo., 632 P.2d 925, 935 (1981).
Evidentiary rulings are largely within the discretion of the trial court. In order to determine the harmful effect of such rulings, we have examined them in the context of all the evidence at trial. In the present case, our review does not support appellant’s claim of prejudice.
(Citations omitted.) Albrecht and River-meadows failed to demonstrate how they were prejudiced by the trial court’s rulings regarding the admission of their exhibits A-38 and A-93. Albrecht and Rivermea-dows were allowed a full and fair opportunity before a jury to present and try all their defenses, counterclaims, and cross-claims in this case. The trial court did not abuse its discretion or commit error when it refused to admit Albrecht’s and River-meadows’ exhibits A-38 and A-93.
AFFIRMED.
URBIGKIT, Justice,
dissenting.
I would not concur with the majority’s conclusion to approve the decision of the trial court in setting aside what was probably the most significant and factually justified finding in the special verdict, nor with the action of this court in approving a clearly discriminatory application of peremptory challenges. Consequently, I dissent.
Implicit in the trial jury’s findings as then reversed by the trial court, issue number three demonstrates the pre-existing error in allocation of peremptory challenges.
ISSUE NO. 3. Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that there is such a unity of interest and ownership between Defendant Meadowrivers Corp. and Plaintiff Zwaanshoek that they should be treated as a single entity? Yes X No '
This finding is persuasive, if not manda-torily dictated, by the evidence provided by the trial record. However, this unity, to be considered as a single entity under the evidence adduced (in Jackson, Wyoming as considering the general community acquaintanceship with the project, persons and participating lawyers) received six peremptory challenges. Conversely, defendants, with two more clearly defined separate entities, received only three. I would find in this result a clear trial error in denial to appellants of equal protection and due process as constitutionally required, as well as a clear violation of W.S. 1-11-202.
By the action taken, the trial court and this court, by approval, rejects the validity of the jury verdict. Cf. Clarke v. Vandermeer, 740 P.2d 921 (Wyo.1987); Jones v. Sheridan County School Dist. No. 2, 731 P.2d 29 (Wyo.1987); DeJulio v. Foster, 715 P.2d 182 (Wyo.1986).
In a finding, which is sustained by the clear substance of trial evidence, it is those trial facts, and not Distad v. Cubin, 633 P.2d 167 (Wyo.1981), from which our conclusions should be made as contrary to what is decided in majority decision.
In Distad, 633 P.2d at 171, this court determined:
We hold that in determining whether multiple defendants constitute one side, consideration must be given the nature of the claim against them and whether the defendants’ interests are or may be antagonistic.
* * * * * *
Our use of the term “antagonistic” does not mean that parties must express as between them dislike, hatred, unfriendliness, ill-will, or spite; it should be read in accord with our adversary system.
Since a parent corporation with ownership of what was essentially a minimal asset affiliate is involved, unpersuasive justification for the doubled assignment of peremptory challenges is presented.
The fallacy of trial court action in setting aside a factual, well justified finding to support an earlier decision of denied peremptory challenges, is equally objectionable in evaluation of the complete jury verdict. Meadowrivers, as buyer, was newly created for the transaction without meaningful capital. It was only a conduit for the real party in interest, Zwaanshoek, and associated companies of many diverse names and character, to be generally called the Arab Group, as controlling functionary. In result, the majority, by reversal of the jury finding, exonerates acquisition of the lands by the Arab Group without purchase price payment by charging the seller for improvement costs on land which they did not own and for which they will not be paid. It is doubly unfortunate that the erroneous decision in allocation of peremptory challenges was then followed by setting aside a portion of the jury verdict in order to justify the error earlier made and thus eliminating the invalidating relationship between correlative trial issues.
Negotiative gamesmanship and consequent judicial approval has its condonation limitations which were here crossed by this affirmed judgment. The fairness normally sought in judicial inquest should at least require equality in utilization of the specific factual findings in the jury verdict as well as approval of unequal allocation of preemptory challenges.
Consequently, I respectfully dissent.
. W.R.E. 103(a) provides in applicable part:
Error may not be predicated upon a ruling which admits or excludes evidence unless a substantial right of the party is affected * * *.
Dissent circulated December 22,. 1987.
. In a detailed analysis of the entire transcript and litigative record, I would conclude that if a portion of the verdict was to be set aside and a portion retained, I would have retained issue number three and perhaps set aside most of the remaining findings.
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Published Jan 9, 2018
Updated Sep 27, 2019
jQuery mouseover: Main Tips
• The .mouseover() method in jQuery can either trigger a mouseover event, or attach an event handler to it.
• The mouseover event occurs when the cursor enters an element.
• While this method works very similarly to .mouseenter(), it reacts to event bubbling (.mouseenter() does not).
.mouseover() Method Explained
The jQuery .mouseover() method attaches an event handler, running a function when the mouseover event occurs. The method can also trigger the jQuery mouse over event.
In the example, the background color of the paragraph changes to red as you move the cursor over it:
Example
$("p").mouseover(() => {
$("p").css("background-color", "red");
});
Theory is great, but we recommend digging deeper!
Syntax for .mouseover() in jQuery
To trigger a mouseover event manually, use the jQuery .mouseover() method without any arguments:
$("selector").mouseover();
To attach an event handler, you will have to include at least one parameter:
$("selector").mouseover(data, callback);
The callback parameter defines the callback function that you wish to attach as the event handler. If the function you chose needs some data to execute properly, you can add it in the brackets before specifying the function.
Note: when adding an event handler with jQuery .mouseover(), remember that it is a shortcut for .on( "mouseover", callback). Thus, you can remove the handler simply by using .off().
jQuery .mouseover() or .mouseenter()?
A common issue beginners face is understanding the difference between jQuery .mouseenter() and .mouseenter(). You won't see any difference using them on elements with no descendants. However, when elements do have children, these methods behave differently:
Example
var i = 0;
$( "div.overout" )
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$( "p:first", this ).text( "mouse over" );
$( "p:last", this ).text( ++i );
})
.mouseout(function() {
$( "p:first", this ).text( "mouse out" );
});
var n = 0;
$( "div.enterleave" )
.mouseenter(function() {
$( "p:first", this ).text( "mouse enter" );
$( "p:last", this ).text( ++n );
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$( "p:first", this ).text( "mouse leave" );
});
The difference is caused by event bubbling, which jQuery .mouseover() supports and .mouseenter() does not. Event bubbling means that when an event occurs, its handlers are executed on the specified element first and then run on its parent (and other ancestors, if found).
Note: while the CSS :hover selector might seem like a similar option, it does the job of both .mouseover() and .mouseout() at once: the applied effect disappears after you move the cursor out.
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UNITED STATES of America v. Thomas J. GILLEN, Appellant.
No. 78-2082.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued Feb. 12, 1979.
Decided May 8, 1979.
J. Shane Creamer (argued), Peter Gold-berger, Carroll, Creamer, Carroll & Duffy, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
John H. Shenefield, Asst. Atty. Gen., Barry Grossman, Daniel J. Conway (argued), Attys., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee; John J. Hughes, Warren Marcus, Roger L. Currier, Attys., Dept, of Justice, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.
Before ALDISERT, ADAMS and HIG-GINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Thomas J. Gillen, was found guilty of conspiring to fix prices in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. 15 U.S.C. § 1. He argues that the district court erred in not making specific findings on intent and that the evidence is insufficient to support the judgment of conviction. We disagree and affirm.
I.
Gillen was charged, along with James J. Tedesco, with conspiring to fix, stabilize and maintain prices of anthracite coal in unreasonable restraint of interstate trade and commerce in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act from 1966 through 1973. The companies named in the indictment were engaged in the mining, processing and marketing of anthracite coal and were among its major producers and sellers in the United States. Substantial quantities of anthracite coal were sold and shipped to customers located outside of Pennsylvania.
From 1961 through November, 1973, the Anthracite Producers Advisory Board, composed of representatives of the major anthracite organizations, met monthly to consider and recommend the total anthracite production quota as provided in the federally authorized Production Control Plan for the Anthracite Industry. Four or five times a year, after adjournment of the Advisory Board meetings, the same company representatives who constituted the Advisory Board would discuss and reach tentative agreements on the prices each represented company would charge for the various sizes of coal for the ensuing months. In addition, agreements were reached at these so-called “after meetings” on the timing of the price change as well as the company to initiate the change. After the tentative agreement was reached, the representatives would report to their superiors for their approval. When approved, as they generally were, anthracite price circulars were issued by the companies. These circulars which were issued three or four times a year were price lists for the sale of coal to line dealers. These line dealers were dealers who were not located in the immediate vicinity of the colliery and who generally received coal shipments by rail or truck.
Gillen became president of Blue Coal Corporation in 1967 and continued as such until late 1973. He was also a part owner of Blue Coal from 1966 until November 26, 1973. The government’s chief witness, Carl Tomaine, was Blue Coal’s vice president in charge of domestic and retail sales from 1968 through 1973. The court below found that Tomaine as sales representative for Blue Coal reported what occurred at the “after meetings” to Gillen, who was then president of the company. It found further that Gillen knew and approved of the actions of Tomaine in the agreements reached at these meetings. It concluded that Gillen was a knowing participant in the price-fixing conspiracy from 1966 to November 26, 1973. Gillen was sentenced to a suspended prison term of six months, a $35,000 fine and two years probation.
II.
A. PRECEPTS OF LAW
With commendable vigor, Gillen’s present counsel contends that “The district court erred in holding that intent is not an element of a criminal price-fixing conspiracy charge.” The validity of appellant’s argument depends on whether the United States Supreme Court in United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 98 5. Ct. 2864, 57 L.Ed.2d 854 (1978) changed the law of more than four decades on proof of intent in a price-fixing conspiracy case. Gypsum was decided a week after the trial judge filed his Memorandum of Decision containing findings of fact and verdict of guilty. We must nevertheless consider Gypsum because we must apply the law in effect as of the time we render this decision. Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, 416 U.S. 696, 94 S.Ct. 2006, 40 L.Ed.2d 476 (1974).
In determining the applicability of Gypsum to the instant case we have within the “hierarchy of legal precepts” a situation where “the rule of law is clear and the sole question is application to the facts at bar.” Aldisert, Writing Judicial Opinions, III — 2 (1979) (unpublished manuscript); See also Aldisert, The Judicial Process, 59-71 (1976).
B. THE DIFFERENT FACTUAL SITUATIONS
At issue in Gypsum was whether an exchange of price information for purposes of compliance with the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 13, was exempt from Sherman Act scrutiny. The defendants claimed that the purposes of these price exchanges were to permit them to take advantage of the “meeting competition” defense of Section 2(b) of the Robinson-Patman Act and to prevent customer fraud. The government alleged that this system of interseller price verification had the effect of stabilizing the price of gypsum board in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act. The Court concluded that interseller price verification could not be used to establish a good faith defense under Section 2(b) by sellers with “lying buyers.”
Thus Gypsum was not a situation where the parties agreed that a certain price would be charged; at most the parties sought information on what price had been or was being charged with no agreement or request for information on the price a competitor would charge in the future. In contrast, we have parties in the instant case who met three or four times a year “to discuss the coal prices that would appear on the circulars” . . and to “reach a tentative agreement concerning the prices to be charged by the companies. . . . ” Memorandum, Findings of Fact and Verdict, p. 2.
C. THE PRECEPTS ANNOUNCED BY THE TRIAL COURT AND THE SUPREME COURT
The trial judge, relying on United States v. Patten, 226 U.S. 525, 33 S.Ct. 141, 57 L.Ed. 333 (1912) and United States v. Griffith, 334 U.S. 100, 68 S.Ct. 941, 92 L.Ed. 1236 (1947), held:
There is no need to show any specific intent to restrain trade if a conspiracy to fix prices is shown to exist in an industry, the very nature of which involves large shipments of coal from the District in Pennsylvania to other states. See U. S. v. Griffith, 334 U.S. 100, 105[,] [68 S.Ct. 941,] 92 L.Ed. 1236, 1242 (1947); U. S. v. Patten, 226 U.S. 525, 543[,] [33 S.Ct. 141, 145,] 57 L.Ed. 333, 342 (1919). In the Patten case it was said:
“ . . . [t]he conspirators must be held to have intended the necessary and direct consequences of their acts, and cannot be heard to say the contrary. In other words, by purposely engaging in a conspiracy which necessarily and directly produces the result which the statute is designed to prevent, they are, in legal contemplation, chargeable with intending that result.”
“Proof that there was a conspiracy, that its purpose was to raise prices, and that it caused or contributed to a price rise is proof of the actual consummation or execution of a conspiracy under § 1 of the Sherman Act.” U. S. v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. 150 [60 S.Ct. 811, at 842], 84 L.Ed. 1129 (1939) at 1166.
The above holding by the trial court stated the principles set forth in cases for more than four decades. Thus Judge Herman was merely following the traditional precepts long accepted in price-fixing cases, most notably in United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. 150, 60 S.Ct. 811, 84 L.Ed. 1129 (1940) which he explicitly cited.
Appellant contends that, regardless of the prior law, the trial judge erred because the Supreme Court in Gypsum, speaking through Chief Justice Burger, announced a different principle of law when it stated:
[A] defendant’s state of mind or intent is an element of a criminal antitrust offense which must be established by evidence and inferences drawn therefrom and cannot be taken by the trier of fact through reliance on a legal presumption of wrongful intent from proof of an effect on prices.
98 S.Ct. at 2872.
Thus the ultimate issue is whether this language changed the long-established rule of law on price-fixing cases by requiring a more stringent burden of proof on the issue of intent.
Recognizing that the parameters of the conduct regulated by the Sherman Act may be at times elusive, we believe the Supreme Court’s statement in Gypsum on intent was bom out of a concern for borderline violations and was not meant to modify past precedent on price-fixing conspiracies, for the Court stated:
With certain exceptions for conduct regarded as per se illegal because of its unquestionably anticompetitive [side] effects, see, e. g., United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. 150, 60 S.Ct. 811, 84 L.Ed. 1129, the behavior proscribed by the Act is often difficult to distinguish from the gray zofie of socially acceptable and economically justifiable business conduct. Indeed, the type of conduct charged in the indictment in this case — the exchange of price information among competitors — is illustrative in this regard. The imposition of criminal liability on a corporate official, or for that matter on a corporation directly, for engaging in such conduct which only after the fact is determined to violate the statute because of anticompetitive effects, without inquiring into the intent with which it was undertaken, holds out the distinct possibility of overdeterrence; salutary and procompetitive conduct lying close to the borderline of impermissible conduct might be shunned by businessmen who chose to be excessively cautious in the face of uncertainty regarding possible exposure to criminal punishment for even a good-faith error of judgment, (emphasis added)
Id. at 2875-76.
We submit that the Court did not intend any extraordinary change in the rules of law on price-fixing cases because by its very citation of Socony-Vacuum the court acknowledged that price-fixing cases are an exception. Moreover, price-fixing is clearly not “conduct which only after the fact is determined to violate the statute.” Id.
Price-fixing is an area of the law in which people either can or ought to be able to predict the legal consequences of their actions. Price fixers do not even approach “the gray zone of socially acceptable and economically justifiable business conduct,” 98 S.Ct. at 2875, for the Supreme Court nearly forty years ago created a bright-line prohibition by declaring:
Any combination which tampers with price structures is engaged in an unlawful activity. Even though the members of the price-fixing group were in no position to control the market, to the extent that they raised, lowered, or stabilized prices they would be directly interfering with the free play of market forces. The Act places all such schemes beyond the pale and protects that vital part of our economy against any degree of interference. Congress has not left with us the determination of whether or not particular price-fixing schemes are wise or unwise, healthy or destructive.
Under the Sherman Act a combination formed for the purpose and with the effect of raising, depressing, fixing, pegging, or stabilizing the price of a commodity in interstate or foreign commerce is illegal per se.
United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. 150, 221, 223, 60 S.Ct. 811, 843-844, 84 L.Ed. 1129 (1940).
Thus in price-fixing conspiracies, where the conduct is illegal per se, no inquiry has to be made on the issue of intent beyond proof that one joined or formed the conspiracy. The conduct at issue in Gypsum concededly was of such a nature as to warrant a further inquiry into intent. The Supreme Court’s concern with those who unwittingly violate antitrust laws has no place here. Here, defendants have fixed prices, “probably the clearest violation of the antitrust laws and the one most obnoxious to the underlying policy of free competition.” The act of agreeing to fix prices is in itself illegal; the criminal act is the agreement.
Moreover, even if read to apply here, Gypsum does not require a reversal because the intent requirements will always be met in a case involving a price-fixing conspiracy. If a defendant intends to fix prices, he necessarily intends to restrain trade. In Gypsum, the element lacking was a finding that the defendants knew that the exchanges of price information would have the probable effect of fixing or establishing prices. 98 S.Ct. at 2877. In defining the standard, the Court held that knowledge that the actions will result in restraining trade is enough. Here, where their actions were nothing less than price-fixing, the violators cannot be heard to argue that they did not know that their meetings and discussions of prices would result in an unreasonable restraint of trade.
Additionally, the mere existence of a price-fixing agreement establishes a defendant’s illegal purpose. As the Court stated in United States v. Trenton Potteries Co., 273 U.S. 392, 397, 47 S.Ct. 377, 379, 71 L.Ed. 700 (1926), “The aim and result of every price-fixing agreement, if effective, is the elimination of one form of competition.” Thus, the conscious object of every price-fixing conspiracy is an illegal act.
Unlike Gypsum where the defendants allegedly did not appreciate the consequences of their actions, here the law is clear and the conduct egregious. The conspirators met and set prices. They did not engage in any subtle or sophisticated scheme; their actions were in no way ambiguous. We agree that fairness requires caution in presuming intent from a mere effect on prices where the defendant’s actions might reasonably be considered not to violate the antitrust laws. But where, as here, individuals have fixed prices in a most unequivocal and flagrant manner, questions of knowledge of probable consequences and indeed of “conscious object” appear clearly answered.
III.
A.
On review, we must determine whether there is substantial supportive evidence for the district court’s findings on the ultimate factual question of guilt. United States v. Delerme, 457 F.2d 156, 160 (3d Cir. 1972). With respect to the elements of the crime, the Supreme Court has held “that a corporate officer is subject to prosecution under § 1 of the Sherman Act whenever he knowingly participates in effecting the illegal contract, combination, or conspiracy — be he one who authorizes, orders, or helps perpetrate the crime.” United States v. Wise, 370 U.S. 405, 416, 82 S.Ct. 1354, 1361, 8 L.Ed.2d 590 (1962). As a result, we must determine whether there is substantial evidence of knowing participation by Gillen in the price-fixing conspiracy. Our review of the evidence satisfies us that substantial supportive evidence of such knowing participation exists.
First, it is undisputed that a price-fixing conspiracy existed. Second, we think that there is substantial evidence to support the district court’s finding that Gillen knew of the conspiracy. Tomaine, sales representative for Blue Coal, reported to Gillen what occurred at the “after meetings” keeping Gillen abreast of coal pricing. Tomaine testified that he informed Gillen that at the “after meetings” they had “agreed to go along on certain prices.”
Finally, with regard to Gillen’s participation in the conspiracy, Joseph J. Fauzio, President of the Greenwood Stripping Company, and one of the unindicted co-conspirators, testified that:
Q. On the occasion of the Anthracite Committee meetings, Mr. Fauzio, do you recall any discussion on the occasion of such meetings either before, during or after with regard to the topic of price circulars?
A. The only discussion would be in a social atmosphere, whereas, someone would make the statement that it’s about time that the boys get together and start thinking about the circular. This was done, to my knowledge, it had been mentioned by Mr. Tedesco, Mr. Ulmer, Mr. Gillen and myself.
Q. What is the full name of Mr. Gillen that you are referring to?
A. Mr. Tom Gillen.
Transcript 41 — 42.
Additional evidence of direct involvement by Gillen is the testimony of several witnesses regarding a meeting in the winter of 1966-1967 at Brutico’s Restaurant, Old Forge, Pennsylvania. The meeting was attended by owners, producers and sales representatives who agreed to re-establish price stability by attempting closer adherence to the circular price. Gillen was present and actively participated in criticizing the sales people for their price cutting activities.
Furthermore, as president of the company, Gillen was in a position to order the price-fixing halted, but did not do so. When a company president has knowledge that his company is involved in a price-fixing conspiracy and takes no action to stop it, he may not insulate himself from liability by leaving the actual execution of the scheme to his subordinates. See United States v. Wise, 370 U.S. 405, 82 S.Ct. 1354, 8 L.Ed.2d 590 (1962). If this were not the rule, the highest corporate officers would, in effect, be beyond the reach of the antitrust laws even when their companies are actively engaged in price-fixing.
B.
For the first time on appeal, Gillen pointed to an apparent ambiguity in the transcript with respect to testimony relied on by the Government in support of an affirmance:
Q. Did you ever explain to him that you were up there agreeing on prices?
A. I explained to him that we were up there discussing prices and what we were going to do for the coming circular whether there was an increase or decrease.
Q. You told them you were discussing prices?
A. And we agreed to go along on certain prices, yes, sir.
Q. And you told them that you were — these were the prices that you were going to charge at Blue Coal?
A. Yes, sir.
Transcript 468 (emphasis added).
Defendant argues that the references to “them” make the testimony too vague and unclear to support a finding of knowledge of the conspiracy. Alternatively, counsel for Gillen urged at oral argument a remand to clear up the record on this point. We disagree. First, the trial judge in fact considered the matter during closing argument concluding that “It doesn’t say to him but it’s implied,” and “I don’t believe I said them, I was intending to say did you tell him.” It seems clear from the context, and Judge Herman so indicated, that the witness understood what was meant. Second, despite the discussion of this matter by the trial judge and government counsel, Gillen’s trial counsel did not object to the trial judge’s determination of the question and alluded to it only in passing in his brief on appeal. It is not this Court’s practice to allow arguments of this nature to be raised on appeal if they were not pressed below. See United States v. Dansker, 537 F.2d 40, 64 (3d Cir. 1976).
C.
Finally, we find Gillen’s argument of withdrawal totally without merit. He argues that he began removing himself in 1972 from Blue Coal except for labor negotiations and his efforts to sell the company. From this he argues that the government was required to prove his continuous participation in the conspiracy by introducing evidence of continued overt acts. The burden is, however, on the defendant to prove “[a]ffirmative acts inconsistent with the object of the conspiracy and communicated in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co-conspirators.” United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 98 S.Ct. at 2887; United States v. Heckman, 479 F.2d 726, 729 (3d Cir. 1973). In addition, Tomaine testified that he continued to inform Gillen of the price-fixing meetings until the business was sold in late 1973.
For these reasons, the judgment of sentence will be affirmed.
ADAMS, Circuit Judge
concurring.
I concur in the judgment of the Court and join in parts I and III of the majority’s opinion. However, because the discussion by the majority regarding the issue whether intent must be shown in a price-fixing case diverges from my understanding of the present state of the law on this important subject, I have undertaken a separate statement.
Specifically, the majority appears to adhere to the position that intent is not a necessary element in establishing a price-fixing violation under § 1 of the Sherman Act. Rather, the majority asserts that “the Supreme Court’s statement in [United States v. United States Gypsum Co. [438 U.S. 422] 98 S.Ct. 2864 [57 L.Ed.2d 854] (1978)] on intent was born out of a concern for borderline violations and was not meant to modify past precedent on price-fixing conspiracies.” In my view, this stance cannot be squared with the explicit conclusion arrived at in Gypsum: “The criminal offenses defined by the Sherman Act should be construed as including intent as an element.” This conclusion by the Supreme Court was specifically grounded on its “unwilling[ness] to construe the Sherman Act as mandating a regime of strict liability criminal offenses.”
Accordingly, whereas under the majority’s approach a defendant who is prosecuted for participating in a price-fixing conspiracy or in any other combination that constitutes a per se violation of the Act would not be entitled to a jury charge on intent, I regard such an instruction, when requested, to be mandatory after Gypsum. However, in Gillen’s case it appears that the failure of the trial judge — who sat without a jury and operated without the benefit of the Gypsum pronouncement — to make an explicit determination regarding intent did “not affect the substantial rights of” Gillen. Therefore, I join the majority in its affirmance of the judgment of the district court.
As I understand the Gypsum opinion, it instructs that whether the criminal offense charged under section 1 of the Sherman Act is a per se violation or whether at the other end of the spectrum it approaches “the gray zone of socially acceptable and economically justifiable business conduct,” the government must meet its burden of establishing intent. Gypsum declares that the prosecution may meet this responsibility under one of two standards. If a defendant is charged with engaging in illegal conduct the anticompetitive effects of which did not come to fruition, Gypsum directs that an “elevated standard of intent” must be satisfied before criminal liability may be imposed^ — namely, that the defendant had the specific intent or conscious purpose to produce the anticompetitive consequences. On the other hand, if anticompetitive effects actually resulted from the defendant’s actions, the government need prove only that the defendant had knowledge of the probable consequences of his acts. Moreover, in establishing knowledge, the government, under the guidelines set forth in Gypsum, may not rely on a presumption that a defendant intends the necessary and direct consequences of his acts, although an anti-competitive effect “may well support an inference that the defendant had knowledge of the probability of such a consequence at the time he acted.”
In sum, the Supreme Court held in Gypsum “that a defendant’s state of mind or intent is an element of a criminal antitrust offense which must be established by evidence and inferences drawn therefrom and cannot be taken from the trier of fact through reliance on a legal presumption of wrongful intent from proof of an effect on prices.” Contrary to the majority’s reading of Gypsum, these two aspects of the holding appear to have clarified an unsettled area of law and to have overruled prior precedent that had developed in the wake of United States v. Patten, 226 U.S. 525, 33 S.Ct. 141, 57 L.Ed. 333 (1913). The Supreme Court stated in that early case, which reversed the dismissal of a criminal indictment:
And that there is no allegation of a specific intent to restrain such trade or commerce does not make against this conclusion (sic), for, as is shown by prior decisions of this court, the conspirators must be held to have intended the necessary and direct consequences of their acts and cannot be heard to say the contrary. In other words, by purposely engaging in a conspiracy which necessarily and directly produces the result which the statute is designed to prevent, they are, in legal contemplation, chargeable with intending that result.
Patten had been regarded, first, as negating a requirement of specific intent in criminal antitrust cases. Indeed, it had been thought, as the district court’s jury charge in Gypsum attests, that no intent whatsoever need be established in criminal antitrust cases when it is shown that the defendant’s conduct had anticompetitive effects. Patten has also been cited for the proposition that it may be conclusively presumed that a defendant intends the necessary and direct consequences of his acts. Neither of these interpretations of Patten would appear to survive Gypsum intact. The first — that proof of specific intent is not required— now applies only to cases where anticompet-itive effects have been demonstrated. The second — that a defendant may be conclusively presumed to intend the necessary consequences of his acts — has been discarded altogether.
Turning to the present case, it appears that there was no need for the prosecution to establish that Gillen had a conscious purpose to achieve anticompetitive results — the level of intent required in cases where anti-competitive effects cannot be shown. Rather, it was sufficient for the government to demonstrate that Gillen knew that the price-fixing conspiracy would produce such effects. This is so because the district court found that Gillen and the other parties named in the indictment knowingly entered into a conspiracy to fix prices, whereby the prices contained in the corporate defendants’ price lists during the years 1966-73 were set by agreement among competitors. Such a price-fixing arrangement is a per se violation of the Sherman Act, which means that there necessarily are anticompetitive effects, since the per se characterization is reserved for those combinations “which because of their pernicious effect on competition and lack of any redeeming virtue are conclusively presumed to be unreasonable.” And, inasmuch as an ongoing price-fixing scheme spanning at least seven years was found to exist rather than an incipient conspiracy that had not yet borne fruit, it cannot be said that the anticompetitive effects “did not [yet] come to pass” so as to necessitate the establishment by the government of the “elevated standard of intent.”
The Supreme Court has narrowly circumscribed the situations in which a fact-finder may reasonably conclude that a defendant lacked the requisite knowledge to support criminal liability for violating section 1 of the Sherman Act. Under the Court’s teaching in Gypsum, all that is demanded for purposes of satisfying the knowledge requirement is that the defendant have a rudimentary awareness of economic cause and effect, and therefore “that the defendant had knowledge of the probability of . [the anticompetitive] consequence at the time he acted.” Thus the government need not prove that the defendant knew that the effects of the conduct or the conduct itself were proscribed, since mistake or ignorance of the law is no defense. Nor is it generally essential under this lesser intent standard that the prosecution prove that the defendant engaged in the illegal conduct with an improper purpose in mind.
Where, as here, the conspirators have been found to have met systematically and periodically for at least seven years to fix prices, it is implausible that they did not know that they were tampering with the supply and demand curve of the competitive market. To paraphrase the Supreme Court, “[t]he business behavior which [gave] rise to criminal antitrust charges [here] is conscious behavior normally undertaken only after full consideration of the costs, benefits and risks.” Accordingly, I cannot say on the record before us that the omission by the trial judge of a specific finding that the defendants knew that their conduct would produce anticompetitive results affected the substantial rights of Gil-len so as to warrant a reversal, particularly where such a finding was not requested.
Therefore, I concur in the judgment of the Court.
. Tedesco pleaded nolo contendere. Six corporations and three individuals were also named in the indictment as co-conspirators: Blue Coal Corporation, Glen Burn Colliery, Inc., Greenwood Stripping Corporation, Lehigh-Navigation-Dodson Company, Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Company, Inc., Reading Anthracite Coal Company, William R. Dougan, Joseph A. Frank, and Carl J. Tomaine. Each of the companies and two of the individuals named in the indictment as co-conspirators pleaded nolo contendere in a related case. M.D.Pa.Crim. No. 76-149. The case against one of the individuals was dismissed because of his poor health.
. Virtually all anthracite coal produced in the United States during the period in issue, 1961 through November, 1973, was mined and processed in Pennsylvania. It was estimated that total sales per year exceeded fifty million dollars.
. These “after meetings” were held a month or so prior to the time price circulars would be issued. No mention of these price discussions was ever made in the official minutes of the Advisory Board. These “after meetings” were not authorized by the Production Control Plan and were not part of the Advisory Board’s function.
. “In almost all instances all companies agreed to the same price.” District Court Memorandum of Decision at 5-6. It was understood, however, that some of the prices printed by one or more of them could, at times, vary somewhat from the others if necessary to compensate for a peculiar market or inventory situation or other problems that a producing company might be encountering.
. The circular represented the published price for the sizes of coal listed thereon, and the prices at which the companies actually sold it. At times, however, the companies sold above or below the circular price. When sales were made below the circular price, however, the circular price was used as the level from which discounts were determined.
. On June 21, 1978, the trial judge filed his Memorandum finding Gillen guilty as charged. The Supreme Court decided Gypsum on June 29, 1978.
. Mid-west Paper Products v. Continental Group, Inc., 596 F.2d 573[,] 597, (3d Cir. 1979) (Higginbotham, J., dissenting).
The Supreme Court recently reemphasized:
In construing and applying the Sherman Act’s ban against contracts, conspiracies, and combinations in restraint of trade, the Court has held that certain agreements or practices are so “plainly anticompetitive,” National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States, 435 U.S. 679, 692 [, 98 S.Ct. 1355, 55 L.Ed.2d 637] (1978); Continental TV, Inc. v. GTE Sylvania Inc., 433 U.S. 36, 50 [, 97 S.Ct. 2549, 53 L.Ed.2d 568] (1977), and so often “lack . any redeeming virtue.” Northern Pac. R. Co. v. United States, 356 U.S. 1, 5, 78 S.Ct. 514, 2 L.Ed.2d 545 (1958), that they are conclusively presumed illegal without further examination under the rule of reason generally applied in Sherman Act cases.
Broadcast Music, Inc. v. CBS, Inc., - U.S. -, -, 99 S.Ct. 1551, 1556, 60 L.Ed.2d 1, 9 (1979).
. By Mr. Currier:
Q. From 1966 to the end of 1973, to your knowledge did Blue Coal ever issue a circular without your attending one of these meetings?
A. Not that I can recall.
Q. Did you inform anyone at Blue Coal about these price meetings?
A. Yes.
Q. Who was that?
A. Well, if Mr. Gillen was available, I spoke to him about it.
Q. When did you begin telling him of these meetings?
A. I would just have to assume sometime after he became President.
Q. For how long thereafter did you talk to him about these meetings?
A. Throughout 1973 whenever he was available 1 would talk to him about it.
Q. I didn’t understand your answer, sir.
A. Throughout 1973 whenever he was available I would talk to him about it, yes.
Q. Did you speak to him in years prior to that about it?
A. Yes.
Q. What would you tell Mr. Gillen during these discussions?
A. The proposed price increase or decrease.
Transcript 379-380.
. [By the Court]
Q. Did you ever explain to him that you were up there agreeing on prices?
A. I explained to him that we were up there discussing prices and what we were going to do for the coming circular whether there was an increase or decrease.
Q. You told them you were discussing prices?
A. And we agreed to go along on certain prices, yes, sir.
Q. And you told them that you were— these were the prices that you were going to charge at Blue Coal?
A. Yes, sir.
Transcript 468.
. Gillen contended that this was merely a “social gathering” during which concerned coal executives met to advocate a stabilization of a depressed industry. The government characterized the meeting as a mechanism for shoring up deviations from the price stability promoted by the circular “after meetings.” After having been exposed to these conflicting scenarios, Judge Herman was apparently persuaded that the Brutico meeting was an indication that Gil-len was a participant in the overall conspiracy. (See Appendix at 58; Memorandum Decision at 12). Several witnesses described the nature of the meeting and testified that Gillen attended.
. Transcript of Proceedings on Argument at 8-11.
. Transcript, supra, note 8.
. Supra at 544.
. 98 S.Ct. at 2876 (footnote omitted).
. Id. at 2872-73 (footnote omitted).
. See 28 U.S.C. § 2111 (harmless error rule). Also, inasmuch as no plain error was committed by the district judge, reversal would not appear to be warranted since no request was made at trial for a determination regarding intent. See note 22 and accompanying text infra.
. 98 S.Ct. at 2875.
. Id. at 2877 n.21.
. Id.
. Id. 98 S.Ct. at 2878.
. Id. 98 S.Ct. at 2872.
. 226 U.S. at 543, 33 S.Ct. at 145.
. See, e. g., United States v. Champion Int’l Corp., 557 F.2d 1270, 1274 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 938, 98 S.Ct. 428, 54 L.Ed.2d 298 (1977).
. See Gypsum, supra, 98 S.Ct. at 2872.
. See, e. g., United States v. Hilton Hotels Corp., 467 F.2d 1000, 1002 (9th Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1125, 93 S.Ct. 938, 35 L.Ed.2d 256 (1973).
. See Handler, Antitrust — 1978, 78 Colum.L. Rev. 1363, 1399 (1978).
. See United States v. Gillen, 458 F.Supp. 887, 890 892 (M.D.Pa., 1978) (memorandum).
. Northern Pacific Ry. Co. v. United States, 356 U.S. 1, 5, 78 S.Ct. 514, 518, 2 L.Ed.2d 545 (1958).
. See Gypsum, supra, 98 S.Ct. at 2877 n.21.
. 98 S.Ct. at 2878.
. See The Supreme Court, 1977 Term, 92 Harv.L.Rev. 1, 297-98 (1978).
. See 98 S.Ct. at 2879 n.23.
. Gypsum, supra, 98 S.Ct. at 2878. In this respect, the conduct involved here is to be distinguished from the exchange of price information that marked Gypsum, where it may well be doubted whether the defendants knew that anticompetitive consequences could be expected to flow from their activity. See id. at 2875 & n.16. See also Handler, supra note 14, at 1399-1400.
. See note 4 supra. Gillen’s defense, which was predicated in large measure on the assertion that he had no knowledge of, and never authorized or ratified the price-fixing agreements entered into by Tomaine, his company’s sales representative, addressed the different question whether Gillen knowingly joined the conspiracy. As the Supreme Court explained in Gypsum, “[i]n a conspiracy, two different types of intent are generally required — the basic intent to agree, which is necessary to establish the existence of the conspiracy, and the more traditional intent to effectuate the object of the conspiracy. See LaFave and Scott, Criminal Law 464-465 (1972). Our discussion here focuses only on the second type of intent.” 98 S.Ct. at 2876 n.20. With respect to the first type of intent — whether the defendants in this case intended to agree upon a conspiratorial course of conduct, the district court determined both that a conspiracy was knowingly formed and that Gillen was a knowing participant. The trial judge also held that there was no need for the government to prove specific intent to restrain trade, a holding that properly reflects the law even after Gypsum. 458 F.Supp. at 893-894.
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11. Hop, step and shuffle
Imagine, for a moment, that Achilles decides to step through Zeno’s sequence of points. Right foot first, then left, every point along the way. Towards the end, we find him shuffling rapidly towards the doorway.
Everything else is otherwise the same – he takes half a second to reach point 2, another quarter of a second to reach point 3, and so on, throughout the sequence.
Many people readily think in these terms, as they contemplate Achilles moving through Zeno’s points. They treat each pointwise movement as a unit and pair it with some familiar unit of bodily motion. (Hopping through the points will also do.)
Of course, we could simply think in the normal way, with Achilles walking steadily towards the doorway, but many gravitate to this alternative mode of thinking, especially when contemplating the problem in slow motion.
Assuming that Achilles can hop, step or shuffle sufficiently fast, the problem seems unchanged, since the essential thing is that he moves from point to point in the required time, and not how he does so. Indeed, one thinks that he may even pause briefly at each point, so long as he gets to the next one in time.
Unfortunately, however, these natural thoughts are disastrous, because in redrawing the problem this way, we unwittingly reduce it to the case of the man and the pie and open ourselves up to the awaiting bodily disjoint!
Thus, after exactly one second, Achilles is at the doorway. But which foot does he have forward? And why? Or if he is hopping through the points, is he up in the air or down on the ground at the instant he crosses the doorway?
As we know, no answers are forced upon us. All answers are permitted. So let’s suppose he has his right foot forward when he reaches the doorway. It will then be disjoint from its prior states of motion, in the way previously explained. And so we must imagine Achilles “popping out” of Zeno’s sequence after exactly one second in some random bodily state disconnected from his previous ones, and being perplexed over how that can be.
In contrast, if we imagine Achilles walking towards the doorway in the normal way, the difficulty simply does not arise. His body and limbs will transit past the doorway as smoothly as his center of gravity does, and no disjoint of the sort in question will surface.
We may illustrate the difference with Achilles’s right leg. Whether he steps through the points, or just walks normally, his leg will repeatedly assume a range of different positions. Consider these three, and the obvious ones in between:
The following diagrams illustrate how his leg will repeatedly cycle through these positions, depending on his gait:
If he steps from point to point, his leg cycles ever more rapidly as one second nears, rendering its position at one second indeterminate, thereby raising the problem. But if he just walks normally, his leg will cycle in a much more regular way and its position at one second will be smoothly determined. (Red dot.)
So the Achilles hop, step or shuffle is not as innocuous as it first looks! On the contrary, it is quite disastrous to redraw Zeno’s problem in that way. If Achilles just walks in the normal way, the dreaded bodily disjoint will not arise.
We need not worry about whether Achilles can get through the doorway with one of the alternate gaits just mentioned. It certainly isn’t humanly possible for him to do so, since, beyond a point, the hop, step or shuffle cannot be performed that fast. A philosopher might wonder if it is nevertheless logically possible for him to do so, but this is like asking about the man and the pie, and need not detain us here!
So we have removed yet another barrier between Achilles and the doorway. The vaguely perceived difficulty with the endlessness of Zeno’s sequence proved to be quite genuine but it can also be addressed. The problem doesn’t really arise, after all, but we can see why one might unwittingly think that it does, especially if one contemplates the problem in slow motion!
There are likely to be hidden depths in Zeno’s problem but I hope that the above has yielded some idea of how to tackle such a fiendish problem. Everything we have said applies just as well to Achilles and the tortoise, so we might usefully sum everything up in those terms.
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Trevor Murphy
Trevor Murphy (born July 17, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Arizona Coyotes.
Playing career
Trevor was raised in Windsor, Ontario, and played for the Sun County Panthers AAA, where he played on the blue line with Calder Trophy winner Aaron Ekblad. That same year he had an outstanding 92 points in 59 games. He was selected by the Peterborough Petes in the 3rd Round of the OHL Priority Draft.
On November 22, 2012, Murphy was traded from the Petes to his hometown Windsor Spitfires. After the 2013 season, Murphy was assigned assistant captain. That season he ranked as the 4th best scoring defence, earning 63 points and leading his team.
After going unnoticed in the 2014 and 2015 NHL Entry Drafts, he attended the Nashville Predators prospect camp. On September 17, 2015, he signed an entry-level contract with the Predators and was assigned to their farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals.
During the 2018 trade deadline and while in the final year of his rookie contract, Murphy, along with Pierre-Cédric Labrie were traded by the Predators to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Tyler Gaudet and John Ramage. He made his NHL debut on March 24, 2018, in a game against the Florida Panthers. He recorded his first NHL goal in a 4–1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 26, 2018.
In the following 2018–19 season, Murphy continued in the AHL with the Coyotes' affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners. Murphy was leading the Roadrunners with 5 goals from the blueline and collected 13 points in 27 games before he was traded by Arizona to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Giovanni Fiore on December 28, 2018. He was assigned for the remainder of the season to AHL affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, helping the club reach the Western Conference Finals with 6 points in 16 post-season games.
After four North American professional seasons with limited NHL time, Murphy opted to sign his first contract abroad, agreeing to a two-year contract with Chinese club, Kunlun Red Star of the KHL, on June 7, 2019.
In the midst of his second year with Kunlun Red Star in the 2020–21 season, after collecting 8 assists through 17 games, Murphy was traded to contending club, Ak Bars Kazan, on December 4, 2020. Murphy registered a further 8 points through 21 regular season games with Ak Bars, before helping the club advance to the Eastern Conference finals, adding 4 points in 8 games.
Prior to the 2021–22 season, Murphy was traded by Ak Bars Kazan to HC Sibir Novosibirsk in exchange for monetary compensation on 17 August 2021.
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PRESS DIGEST- British Business - Oct 28
Oct 28 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times Freeup, which is developing technology to offer salary advances to workers, has been sold to SoftBank-backed finance firm Greensill. bit.ly/36aPDk6 Retail investors may be separated from institutional funds to protect individuals better in the wake of the collapse of Neil Woodford's business, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority has said. bit.ly/2Jtx7d7 The Guardian Mike Ashley has stepped up his campaign for an investigation into the collapse of Debenhams, claiming MPs are more interested in their own PR than rooting out corporate wrongdoing. bit.ly/2BPykqR Britannia Hotels has been rated the worst hotel chain in UK for the seventh year in a row, with guests repeatedly describing its rooms as "filthy" and complaining about mouldy bathrooms and peeling paintwork. bit.ly/2NlrhvH The Telegraph U.S. health giant Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc is plotting a break up of Priory Group, best known for its 5,000-pounds-a-week celebrity rehab in West London used by model Kate Moss and actor Johnny Depp. bit.ly/2NgpJ5T Metro Bank Plc has been left more than 2 million pounds ($2.56 million) out of pocket after the collapse of Orla Kiely, the fashion brand favoured by the Duchess of Cambridge and model Alexa Chung. bit.ly/36b6SC1 Sky News MW&L Capital Partners, a private investment vehicle launched last year, is to become a substantial shareholder in Well-Safe Solutions with an investment of more than 65 million pounds. bit.ly/32W6C7S $1 = 0.7800 pounds
Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom
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Fixed URL ports. Added creators to catalog in dcat api.
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Carbon
Element Project by Veronia Patino
Symbol: C
Atomic Mass: 12.0107
Atomic Number: 6
# of Protons, Electrons & Neutrons: 6
# of valance electrons: 4
Carbon is a nonmetal it is located in the periodic table in group 14 and period 2.
His electron configuration is [He]2s22p2.
Carbon bonds with Hydrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Sulfur, Phosphorus & Halogens.
It forms Carbon dioxide (CO2), Carbon monoxide (CO), Carbon disulfide (CS2), Chloroform (CHCI3), Carbon tetrachloride (CCI4), Methane (CH4)
Carbon is found in nature in the Sun, Stars, & Comets
The Ancients discovered it in 3750BC
Its used as a fuel (coal)
Carbon is important to the human body is about 18% carbon.
Cited: www.rsc.org and the text book
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Odostomia galapagensis
Odostomia galapagensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Description
The conic shell is, milk-white. It measures 2.0 mm. The whorls of the protoconch number at least two, forming a depressed helicoid spire, which is slightly tilted to one side and for the greater part immersed in the first of the succeeding turns. The tilted edge of the nucleus shows traces of spiral lirations. The six whorls of the teleoconch are appressed at the summit They are ornamented by two very strong, lamelliform keels, whose edges are decidedly upturned, forming deeply channeled troughs. The posterior of the two lamellae is feebly crenulated. The periphery of the body whorl is marked by a spiral keel which is about half as strong as those between the sutures. A fourth keel, a little weaker than the peripheral one, marks the middle of the base. The deep concave channels between the keels are marked by strong lines of growth. The sutures are strongly channeled. The aperture is irregularly oval. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is rendered angular by the spiral keels. The columella is stout, curved, reinforced by the base. The parietal wall is covered with a thin callus.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands.
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Man calls for seizure of Justice Souter home, under eminent domain ruling
In the wake of a United States Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London on eminent domain last week, a California man has proposed that Justice David Souter's New Hampshire home be seized by the state and a hotel be built on the site. Logan Darrow Clements faxed a letter to town officials in Weare, New Hampshire June 28, 2005 that justified the action as such:
"The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development and higher tax revenue to Weare."
Justice Souter, who was in the majority ruling in the Kelo case, has lived at the farmhouse in Weare since he was 11 years old. Clements indicated that it was necessary to build on that location because "it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans." The action has given rise to a great deal of support nationwide, as many are writing to the councilors of the small town of Weare to voice their approval for the proposal.
The proposal for the "Lost Liberty Hotel", as it is to be called, features a number of components which seem to focus on the libertarian leanings of its designer. A dining room, called the "Just Desserts Cafe" and a museum based on the "loss of freedom in America" are two such components. Instead of a Bible provided by the Gideons (a standard item placed in most American hotel rooms), each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
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Mohammad Reza Nasehi
Mohammad Reza Nasehi Arjomand (, born 4 March 1944) is an Iranian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal at the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games, He also participated at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Butler B. Hare
Butler Black Hare (November 25, 1875 – December 30, 1967) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Born to James and Elizabeth Hare (née Black), he was one of nine sons born to the Civil War Confederate veteran. He graduated from Newberry College and earned his law degree from George Washington University. He served his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1924, representing the 2nd district of South Carolina. He served from 1925 to 1933, and then did not run again after redistricting eliminated a seat from South Carolina's congressional delegation.
He returned to the House in 1939 after defeating incumbent John Taylor. He served from 1939 to 1947 as the representative from the 3rd District. His main accomplishment as a Representative was authoring the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, which grants a 10-year Commonwealth status and proposed that the former US Territory of the Philippines become an independent nation. It was later rejected by the Philippine Senate. The Act was later replaced with the Tydings–McDuffie Act in 1934.
His son James Butler Hare, whom he outlived by a year, served a single term from 1949 to 1951 in South Carolina's 3rd district.
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solvabiliteit
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Noun
* 1) solvency, the ability to honor one's financial obligations, notably debts.
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HostUtils Properties
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HostUtils Properties
The HostUtils type exposes the following members.
Properties
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Public propertyStatic memberComputerSerialNumber
Gets the serial number of the computer running Rhino.
Public propertyStatic memberDeviceId
The DeviceId is a unique, stable ID that anonymously identifies the device that Rhino is running on. It is computed based on hardware information that should not change when the OS is upgraded, or if commonly modified hardware are added or removed from the computer. The machine-specific information is hashed using a cryptographic hash to make it anonymous.
Public propertyStatic memberDeviceName
Name of the computer running Rhino. If the computer is part of a Windows Domain, the computer name has "@[DOMAIN]" appended.
Public propertyStatic memberRunningInMono
Tests if this process is currently executing under the Mono runtime.
Public propertyStatic memberRunningInRhino
Tests if RhinoCommon is currently executing inside of the Rhino.exe process. There are other cases where RhinoCommon could be running; specifically inside of Visual Studio when something like a windows form is being worked on in the resource editor or running stand-alone when compiled to be used as a version of OpenNURBS.
Public propertyStatic memberRunningOnOSX
Tests if this process is currently executing on the Mac OSX platform.
Public propertyStatic memberRunningOnWindows
Tests if this process is currently executing on the Windows platform.
Public propertyStatic memberSendDebugToCommandLine
Gets or sets whether debug messages are printed to the command line.
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Statue of Magic Johnson
A statue of basketball player Magic Johnson by Omri Amrany and Gary Tillery is installed outside Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena, in the U.S. state of California. The sculpture was unveiled in 2004.
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Talk:Royal Trucks
clean up
I cleaned up the vandalized "current team" section. And compared it with Royals website. It's possible that I deleted some previous members, that I should have put in the list of previous members. Is that previous members list necessary at all? --Stanzilla (talk) 12:38, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
adding to team list
When you add someone to the team list, please check if he is currently in the team. http://www.royalskateboardtruck.com/team.html Guy Mariano might be a cofounder and skateboarder, but he is not in the team list. Think he is mentioned somewhere in the article, that should be enough. :) --Stanzilla (talk) 11:27, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
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User:Abednego adjei mensah tsakle/sandbox
Abednego Tsakle (born 25 june 1991) is a Ghanaian football player who plays Centre back. Abednego primary position is as a defensive midfielder,height 1.96 m (6 ft 5)
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Aula Magna
Aula Magna (Latin, 'great hall') may refer to:
* Aula Magna (Bruxelles), great hall of the Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels
* Aula Magna (Central University of Venezuela)
* Aula Magna (Stockholm University), Sweden
* Aula Magna (UCLouvain), Belgium
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Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 112 Part 3.djvu/623
PUBLIC LAW 105-275—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2453 (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking "not more than 50"; (B) by striking "1999" and inserting "1999 (or, in the case of an individual who is not an employee of the United States Senate Restaurants, on or after the date of the enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999 and before October 1, 2001)"; and (C) by adding at the end the following new sentence: "The number of employees of the United States Senate Restaurants to whom voluntary separation incentive pay- ments may be offered under the program established under the previous sentence may not exceed 50."; (3) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively; and (4) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: "(4)(A) No voluntary separation incentive payment may be paid under this section on or after the date of enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999, unless the Architect of the Capitol submits a plan described under subparagraph (B) to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives and such committees approve the plan. "(B) The plan referred to under subparagraph (A) shall include— "(i) the positions and functions to be reduced or eliminated, identified by organizational unit, occupational category, and pay or grade level; "(ii) the number and amounts of voluntary separation incentive payments to be offered; and "(iii) a description of how the Architect of the Capitol will operate without the eliminated positions and functions. "(5)(A) In addition to any other payments which the Architect of the Capitol is required to make under subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, the Architect of the Capitol shall remit to the Office of Personnel Meuiagement for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount equal to 15 percent of the final basic pay of each employee who is covered under subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to whom a voluntary separation incentive has been psiid under this section. This subparagraph shall not apply to any employee of the United States Senate Restaurants. "(B) For the purpose of this paragraph, the term 'final basic pa/, with respect to an employee— "(i) means the total amount of basic pay which would be payable for a year of service by such employee, computed using the employee's final rate of basic pay; and "(ii) includes an appropriate adjustment to the amount computed under clause (i) if the employee is last serving on other than a full-time basis.". (d) RETRAINING, JOB PLACEMENT, AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL. —Section 310(e) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (40 U.S.C. 174j- 40 USC I74j-i 1(e)) is amended— note.
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HTC’s next flagship smartphone will reportedly feature customizable sensors in the metal band
Way back in September 2016, a rumored device called the HTC Ocean leaked out in a video showing off a novel feature — sensors in the metal band around the phone that allowed for customizable functions. Back then it seemed like a nice concept device, but now VentureBeat is reporting that the Ocean is real, and it will be announced as the HTC U next month. Remember the HTC Ocean? (https://t.co/q5ghm3vQ8Z) pic.twitter.com/GtpqowETjM The HTC U will reportedly feature a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 display, Snapdragon 835 processor, 12MP rear and 16MP front-facing cameras, up to 128GB of storage, and Edge Sense, the sensor-laden metal band around the phone that will let you control a number of different features. It will also run Android Nougat 7.1, and HTC’s Sense 9 interface. Despite being HTC’s flagship phone for 2017, the HTC U will be the third “U” phone it has released this year, following up the HTC U Play and U Ultra. Why? Who knows. The HTC U is expected to be announced in April, and a global release will follow in May.
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* 1992 — The board of directors at General Motors forces president Lloyd Reuss to step aside in favor of John F. Smith, and Robert Stempel loses his chairmanship.
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Rh On fatning mast, the swine well pleas'd, are fed; And every wood with arbutus is red. Benignant autumn smiling on the fields. All various fruits in rich abundance yields; While ev'ry rocky mountain vines displays, Whose grapes are mellow'd by the fun's warm rays.
The mulberry grows well here, and is not so much in danger from blights and thunderstorms as in Italy, and the south of France; so that whenever Corsica enjoys tranquillity, it may have abundance of silk. We must not omit the laurel, to which Corsica has surely a very good claim. The box tree is a very common plant here. In most countries it is dwarfish, and generally used only for hedges; but it grows to a good size in Corsica, and may be reckoned a timber tree. Bochart has very ingeniously shewn, that the benches of the Tyrian ships, which according to the common translation of Ezechiel, chap, xxvii. ver. 6. are said to have been made of ivory brought out of the isles of Chittim, were most probably made of Corsican boxwood.
Theophrastus in his history of plants expatiates on the wonderful size of the Corsican trees;
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America is no stranger to popular diets such as the Atkins diet and South Beach diet which focus on eliminating carbohydrates from the diet to achieve weight loss. Low carbohydrate diets have led many people to people that carbohydrates are bad for the body which is actually wrong. There are different kinds of carbohydrates in foods and some may lead to weight gain but some are actually good for the health. Anything in excess is bad for the health and it is not just carbohydrates that can lead to weight gain but other nutrients such as protein and fats as well especially when consumed in excessive amounts.
The Basics of Carbohydrates
Despite the popularity of fad diets like a low carb diet, carbohydrates are actually needed by the body for normal growth and function. Carbohydrates are nutrients that provide the body with much of its energy through glucose. Glucose is the product of carbohydrate when it is broken down during digestion and can immediately used by the cells or stored in the liver and muscles for future use. Carbohydrates are present in foods such as bread, fruits, vegetables, cookies, and cakes. Not all food sources of carbohydrates can be good for the health and should be avoided especially those that have added sugars and do not provide dietary fiber. Also known as bad carbohydrates, foods with excessive sugar add calories to the body without providing important nutrients.
Types of Carbohydrates
There are two types of carbohydrates found in foods. These are simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates are commonly known as the bad carbs while complex carbohydrates are known as the good carbs.
Simple Carbohydrates
Simple carbohydrates are sugars that are quickly utilized by the body. Simple carbohydrate foods include fruits, milk, milk products, and vegetables which contain natural sugars. Some foods also have added sugars like processed foods which may contain refined sugar, corn syrup, and sucrose. Foods with added sugar have less nutrients compared to those containing natural sugar and are touted to be bad for the health. Diabetics should also avoid simple carbohydrates, especially those with added sugar, to prevent blood sugar levels from increasing too rapidly.
Complex Carbohydrates
Complex carbohydrates need to be broken down by the body through digestion before these can be used as a fuel source for the body. There are two types of complex carbohydrates in food including dietary fiber and starch. Dietary fiber can be soluble (oatmeal, nuts, fruits like apples and strawberries) or insoluble (wheat bran, brown rice, barley) which are both important for good health. Complex carbohydrate foods with starch include potatoes, bread, and cereals.
Bad Carbs vs. Good Carbs vs. No Carbs
While some diets have made it popular belief that carbohydrates are the main culprit behind weight gain and excess body fat, carbohydrates are still needed by the body for energy. Studies show that a low carb diet can help individuals achieve weight loss more quickly but the evidence is only applicable for the short term.
Instead of avoiding carbohydrates in general, it is best to choose good carbs over bad ones. Whole grains and fresh whole fruits and vegetables are good sources of carbohydrates that will not only help provide the body with much needed energy but will also provide essential nutrients like vitamins, mineral, and antioxidants. Avoid foods with added sugars which are sources of bad carbs such as sweetened drinks, cakes, and cookies as well as foods with refined grains like white rice and white bread. These sugars provide the body with empty calories and can also promote development of cavities in the teeth.
Weight gain is not caused by carbohydrates per se. It is usually brought about by lack of exercise and excessive consumption of foods, regardless of whether it is high in carbohydrates, proteins, or fats. A healthy diet and regular exercise can help you achieve a desirable weight which is essential for better health.
Published On: February 19th, 2021 / Categories: General Health /
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CAPEC Details
Name Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
Likelyhood of attack Typical severity
Medium High
Summary Applications often need to transform data in and out of serialized data formats, such as XML and YAML, by using a data parser. It may be possible for an adversary to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the parser when it is being processed. By supplying oversized payloads in input vectors that will be processed by the parser, an adversary can cause the parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization, and potentially cause execution of arbitrary code. An adversary's goal is to leverage parser failure to their advantage. DoS is most closely associated with web services, SOAP, and Rest, because remote service requesters can post malicious data payloads to the service provider designed to exhaust the service provider's memory, CPU, and/or disk space. This attack exploits the loosely coupled nature of web services, where the service provider has little to no control over the service requester and any messages the service requester sends.
Prerequisites An application uses an parser for serialized data to perform transformation on user-controllable data. An application does not perform sufficient validation to ensure that user-controllable data is safe for a data parser.
Execution Flow
Step Phase Description Techniques
1 Explore An adversary determines the input data stream that is being processed by an serialized data parser on the victim's side.
2 Experiment An adversary crafts input data that may have an adverse effect on the operation of the data parser when the data is parsed on the victim's system.
Solutions Carefully validate and sanitize all user-controllable serialized data prior to passing it to the parser routine. Ensure that the resultant data is safe to pass to the parser. Perform validation on canonical data. Pick a robust implementation of the serialized data parser. Validate data against a valid schema or DTD prior to parsing.
Related Weaknesses
CWE ID Description
CWE-19 Data Processing Errors
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-112 Missing XML Validation
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Related CAPECS
CAPEC ID Description
CAPEC-130 An adversary causes the target to allocate excessive resources to servicing the attackers' request, thereby reducing the resources available for legitimate services and degrading or denying services. Usually, this attack focuses on memory allocation, but any finite resource on the target could be the attacked, including bandwidth, processing cycles, or other resources. This attack does not attempt to force this allocation through a large number of requests (that would be Resource Depletion through Flooding) but instead uses one or a small number of requests that are carefully formatted to force the target to allocate excessive resources to service this request(s). Often this attack takes advantage of a bug in the target to cause the target to allocate resources vastly beyond what would be needed for a normal request.
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'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' Lock Screen
'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' Lock Screen Description
Computer users have reported problems with the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen, a white rectangular box with a blue background that instructs them to enter their Windows activation number and to call the (888) 524-0577 phone number. This lock screen prevents access to the affected computer. Computer users are unable to bypass the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen and regain access to their computers. Essentially, the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen takes the affected computer hostage. The 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen combines ransomware tactics with a well-known technical support hoax.
The Hoax Behind the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' Lock Screen
The 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen combines the tactic of taking the user's computer hostage, which is used by most ransomware threats with fake technical support phone numbers with common technical support hoaxes. If the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen appears on your computer, it is important to ignore its instructions. This may mean that a threat infection has been installed on your computer.
The 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen is designed to trick inexperienced computer users into believing that their computers are in trouble, and they need to call this fake technical support number. The people answering will always try to convince the caller to pay for fake products and services. In the case of the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen tactic, the computer users will be told that their Windows product key is invalid and will attempt to charge $99.99 USD for a new 'product key.'
How the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' Lock Screen Works
When the threat responsible for the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen is installed, it makes several changes to the user's computer settings, which allow this threat to display the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen, filling up the entire screen and preventing the victim from terminating it in any way. The following is the full text of the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen:
Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578
Your product key should be on the box that the Windows DVD came in or in an email that shows you bought Windows. The product key looks similar to this:
Product Key: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Activate this edition of Windows
Some versions of the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen will include three buttons on the bottom, which read 'Server 1,' 'Server 2' and 'Server 3.' These buttons do nothing and are merely there to give the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen an air of legitimacy via the use of confusing technical language (in the same way as the fake 'error code'), which can be effective for convincing inexperienced computer users to call the included phone number.
Dealing with the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' Lock Screen
The 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen is a tactic that depends entirely on computer users calling the included phone number. Because of this, avoid calling this phone number at all costs, or purchase any type or product or service from the purveyors of this technical support tactic. To deal with the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen, PC security analysts advise computer users to use alternate start-up methods, such as Safe Mode and starting up from an external device or in Recovery Mode to prevent the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen from loading. Once the 'Windows Activation Error Code: 0x44578' lock screen has been bypassed, it is a matter of using a reliable security application that is fully up-to-date and undoing any changes made by this threat infection to the Windows Registry and settings.
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