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Alliance One Announces Arrangements for Fiscal Year 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results Investor Call
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI) today announced that it will hold a conference call to report financial results for its third quarter ended December 31, 2017, on February 8, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. ET. The dial in number for the call is (800) 281-7973 or outside the U.S. (323) 794-2093 and conference ID 4877600. Those seeking to listen to the call may access a live broadcast on the Alliance One website. Please visit www.aointl.com fifteen minutes in advance to register.
For those who are unable to listen to the live event, a replay will be available by telephone from 8:30 p.m. ET Thursday, February 8, 2018 through 8:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, February 13, 2018. To access the replay, dial (888) 203-1112 within the U.S., or (719) 457-0820 outside the U.S., and enter access code 4877600.
Any replay, rebroadcast, transcript or other reproduction of this conference call, other than the replay accessible by calling the number above, has not been authorized by Alliance One and is strictly prohibited. Investors should be aware that any unauthorized reproduction of this conference call may not be an accurate reflection of its contents.
Alliance One International is a leading independent leaf tobacco merchant serving the world's large multinational cigarette manufacturers. For more information on Alliance One, visit the Company's website at www.aointl.com .
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What’s New in NYC Theater
Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. ‘AMÉLIE’ at the Walter Kerr Theater (in previews; opens on April 3). A kooky young woman works her gamin charm on a Paris arrondissement in this new musical written by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen, directed by Pam MacKinnon and adapted from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s beloved 2001 film. Phillipa Soo, a Tony nominee for her work as Alexander’s helpmate in “Hamilton,” plays a waitress with a genius for enchantment.877-874-2502, ameliebroadway.com ‘THE ANTIPODES’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (previews start on April 4; opens on April 23). The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker situates most of her antic, awkward, strangely moving plays in the Northeast, but perhaps she’ll head farther south in this new work, directed by Lila Neugebauer. Josh Charles, Josh Hamilton and Phillip James Brannon star in this “play about people telling stories about telling stories.”212-244-7529, signaturetheatre.org ‘BANDSTAND’ at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater (previews start on March 31; opens on April 26). A new musical, directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler (“Hamilton”), is jitterbugging onto Broadway: Set in 1945, it stars Corey Cott as an ambitious bandleader and Laura Osnes as a war widow with a golden voice, with songs by Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor.212-239-6200, bandstandbroadway.com BRITS OFF BROADWAY at 59E59 Theaters (performances start on April 4). “The Roundabout,” a rediscovered comedy by J. B. Priestley, brightens 59E59’s annual trans-Atlantic festival. In addition to that play, about a man addled by daughter, ex-wife and mistress, the festival carousel includes an updated Iphigenia, a first date, a cocktail party and a possible sighting of the Loch Ness monster.212-279-4200, 59e59.org ‘DANIEL’S HUSBAND’ at the Cherry Lane Theater (in previews; opens on April 4). A comedy and a tragedy of marriage equality, Michael McKeever’s play focuses on Daniel, an architect who wants to live in nuptial bliss, and his boyfriend, Mitchell, a writer who has never seen the point of saying “I do.” Joe Brancato directs this Primary Stages production.212-352-3101, primarystages.org ‘GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM’ at the Public Theater (in previews; opens on April 5). In the years before Grindr, Scruff and Jack’d, a pianist who has very nearly given up on romance gives online dating a try, meeting a much younger lawyer with a sunnier outlook on gay relationships. Will they live merrily ever after? Sean Mathias directs this love story from Martin Sherman (“Bent,” “The Boy From Oz”), starring Harvey Fierstein and Gabriel Ebert.212-967-7555, publictheater.org ‘INDECENT’ at the Cort Theater (previews start on April 4; opens on April 18). Paula Vogel makes her Broadway debut with this lyrical theater history lesson centered on “God of Vengeance,” a 1923 Yiddish drama that sparked an obscenity trial. After seeing Rebecca Taichman’s production off Broadway, Charles Isherwood wrote that the play shed “eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.”212-239-6200, indecentbroadway.com ‘OSLO’ at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (in previews; opens on April 13). J. T. Rogers’s political intrigue, based on true events, comes to Broadway. Jefferson Mays and Jennifer Ehle play a resourceful Norwegian couple who facilitate a peace process. When it played off Broadway, Ben Brantley called the drama “a vivid, thoughtful and astonishingly lucid account of a byzantine chapter in international politics.”212-239-6200, lct.org ‘THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG’ at the Lyceum Theater (in previews; opens on April 2). Mischief Theater’s metafictional farce about an amateur dramatic troupe trying to stage a murder mystery pratfalls onto Broadway. The real mystery: Will the actors get through the play at all? Seeing a production in London in 2015, Ben Brantley called it “one of those breakneck exercises in idiocy that make you laugh till you cry.”212-239-6200, broadwaygoeswrong.com ‘PRESENT LAUGHTER’ at the St. James Theater (in previews; opens on April 5). Ticket buyers can find present mirth when the director Moritz von Stuelpnagel (“Hand of God”) revives Noël Coward’s 1939 comedy about Garry Essendine, an actor in a dressing gown, under siege in his living room. Essendine, a role associated with Albert Finney, Peter O’Toole and Coward himself, will be played by a thinly mustachioed Kevin Kline. With Cobie Smulders, Kate Burton and Kristine Nielsen.877-250-2929, laughteronbroadway.com ‘SAMARA’ at the Mezzanine Theater at the A.R.T./New York Theaters (previews start on April 4; opens on April 16). Richard Maxwell, a paragon of nondramatic theater, typically directs his own work and composes the music, too. But this time he’s outsourced those duties to a couple of exciting collaborators, Soho Rep’s artistic director, Sarah Benson, and the bluesman Steve Earle. They’ll team up for this show about friends at a frontier.866-811-4111, sohorep.org ‘SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION’ at the Barrymore Theater (previews start on April 5; opens on April 25). Get connected to this 1990 John Guare drama, revived on Broadway by the director Trip Cullman. Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey star as a wealthy Upper East Side couple, duped by Corey Hawkins’s plausible young man, in this meditation on intimacy, desire and deception.212-239-6200, sixdegreesbroadway.com ‘VANITY FAIR’ at the Pearl Theater (in previews; opens on April 2). William Makepeace Thackeray’s social satire goes onstage in a new adaptation by the actress Kate Hamill, who recently gave us a galloping, moving “Sense and Sensibility.” The scheming Becky Sharp (Ms. Hamill) and her winsome friend Amelia will intrigue anew, courtesy of the director Eric Tucker.212-563-9261, pearltheatre.org ‘WAR PAINT’ at the Nederlander Theater (in previews; opens on April 6). Broadway is open for beauty with the arrival of this new musical about dueling cosmetics titans, starring the indomitable duo of Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone as Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. Seeing an earlier version in Chicago, Ben Brantley noted that both actresses have “a blessed gift for finding emotional substance, and animating variety,” in the material.877-250-2929, warpaintmusical.com ‘BULL IN A CHINA SHOP’ at the Claire Tow Theater (closes on April 2). Ruibo Qian and Enid Graham star in Bryna Turner’s playful biography of the writers and feminists Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks for LCT3. Laura Collins-Hughes described the play, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, as “pugnacious, tender and gloriously funny.”212-239-6200, lct.org ‘946: THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse (closes on April 9). The British company Kneehigh brings some song and dance to World War II in its adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novella about a girl who loses her cat. Laura Collins-Hughes described Emma Rice’s production as a “larkish and mournful love letter to the past.”866-811-4111, stannswarehouse.org ‘THE OUTER SPACE’ at Joe’s Pub (closes on April 9). Ethan Lipton’s solo sci-fi musical, directed by Leigh Silverman, imagines life light-years from the nearest bodega. Sly, grumpy and thumpingly humane, it tells the story of a couple trading gentrifying New York City for the grayer pastures of Mercury. But it’s less about getting away from it all than it is about getting over yourself. Listen in and lift off.212-967-7555, joespub.com ‘SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON’ at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (closes on April 1). Rachel Bonds’s play about an artistically gifted but emotionally challenged family, directed by Anne Kauffman, sounds its last, yearning chords. Ben Brantley praised this “quietly perceptive portrait” of twin girls returning home and noted “the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs” written by the Bengsons.866-811-4111, arsnovanyc.com, wptheater.org ‘WAKEY, WAKEY’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (closes on April 2). Will Eno’s two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a “glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play,” will make its final exit. It stars Michael Emerson as a dying man, with January LaVoy as a home-care aide.212-244-7529, signaturetheatre.org
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After Oedipus had been in power in Thebes for some time, a plague began to kill Theban citizens. An oracle informed the king that Thebes was being punished because Laius' murderer was dwelling among them. Oedipus, the great riddle-solver, set out to learn the culprit's identity. Finally, he learned that Laius was the man at the crossroads, and worse, that Jocasta and Laius were his true parents. Jocasta was able to put the pieces of the puzzle together some time before her husband-son, and in despair she hanged herself.
Oedipus The play Oedipus The King begins with the king and queen of Thebes, Laius and Jocasta. Laius was warned by an oracle that his own son would kill him and that he would marry his mother, Jocasta. Determined to reverse their fate, Laius pierced and bound his newborn sons feet and sent a servant away with him with strict instructions to leave the child to die on the mountain of Cithaeron. However, the servant felt badly for the infant and gave him to a shepherd who then gave the child to Polybus, king of Corinth, a neighboring realm. Polybus then named the child Oedipus (swollen foot) and raised him as his own son.
The chorus and Jocasta all recall that Laius was killed by thieves where three paths cross. With this in mind, there was no reason to believe that the oracle was right. It was long ago the oracle said that Laius and Jocasta's child would end up killing his father and marrying his own mother. Laius then decided their child should be brought up to the mountain that separated the two cities. He ordered a servant to go to the top if this mountain and leave the baby there to die.
In Sophoclese’ play “Oedipus The King”, the fate of Oedipus, the main character, was foretold at his birth that he would kill his own father and marry his mother. As a young adult, he went to see an oracle after hearing rumors. The oracle told him of his foul fate and he ran away trying to escape the chances of this awful future unaware he running towards what he thought he would escape. Oedipus was partially responsible for his downfall because let curiosity lead him to the oracle where he found out his horrifying fate, he killed his own father when he should have avoided killing anyone, and if he wanted to avoid marrying his mother, he should have never married anyone older than he. After the birth of Oedipus, his parents Lias and Jocasta, King and Queen of Thebes sentenced him to death because the oracle told them that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
So, his parents decided to have him killed, only it did not happen that way. He was passed off by two shepherds and finally to the King and Queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope to raise him as their own. Oedipus finds his way back to Thebes and on the way kills his father, but Oedipus did not know that one of the men he killed was his real father. This is the beginning of the prophecy coming true. In short Oedipus obtains the throne, Marries his mother and has kids with her.
Laius and Jocasta, the childless king and queen of Thebes, were told by the god Apollo that their son would kill his father and marry his mother (page 56). A son was born to them, and they tried to make sure that the prophecy would not come true. They drove a metal pin through the infants ankles and gave it to a shepherd, with instructions to leave it to die. The shepherd pitied the little infant so he gave the child to another shepherd. This shepherd gave the baby to a childless king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope.
The intention (motivation) of Oedipus in Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex, also known as Oedipus the King, is one of the most ironic plays ever written. Sophocles, the author, is a famous philosopher of the ancient times. The Play is about Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. An oracle warned Laius, the king of Thebes prior to Oedipus, that his son would slay him. Accordingly, when his wife, Jocasta, bore a son, he exposed the baby on Mt.
For example if I said that I could not do what I wanted to do I could say it was fate, which is junk. What is fate? Fate is something that is supposedly set out for some one when they are born. Fate pertaining to the play oedipus rex is that the mother queen locasta and the father king Laios have learned from an oracle that their son Oedipus was to kill his father and marry his mother. So in an effort to get away from this horrible fate, they give their son to a shepered to pierce his ankles and to never be seen again.
Oedipus orders him to leave, but before he leaves, Tiresias hints of an incestuous marriage, future of blindness, infamy, and wandering. Oedipus then attempts to gain advice from Jocasta. She told him to ignore prophecies because a prophet once told her that Laius, her husband, would be killed by her son. According to Jocasta, the prophecy did not come true because the baby died, and Laius himself was killed by a band of robbers.Oedipus becomes distressed by Jocasta's answers because just before he came to Thebes he killed a man who resembled Laius. To learn the truth, Oedipus sends for the only living witness to the murder, a shepherd.
He states "I stand revealed at last - cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands! "³ He then finds his mother after she has committed suicide and proceeds to gouge out his own eyes with her brooches. Here in lie's the real tragedy of this play. Oedipus was ignorant of the fact that his father had discarded him at birth because of another prophet's predictions, but the twist of fate reveals all, condemning him to loose all things dear to him and to be pitied by the his loyal followers and the audience.
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Natural Language Processing and Artifical Intelligence
What is the connection amongst Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence? Discover about some of the use circumstances in this posting.
Broadly speaking, AI or Artificial Intelligence is a department of computing that’s devoted to creating and employing devices able of ingesting data, drawing inferences from info, then undertaking steps in a way comparable or superior to the way that human beings react. Natural Language Processing or NLP in AI is the sub-branch of Artificial intelligence whose concentrate works by using natural language as the medium of conversation involving people and equipment.
To make the final results appear all-natural, processing language in AI necessitates a blend of laptop or computer science and linguistics. NLP developers need to very first realize the composition and policies governing language ahead of constructing clever units that can assess, realize, then extract that means from speech or penned text.
With the world wide web contributing vast portions of unstructured info in the sort of text, Pure Language Processing allows programs to make sense of on line news and assessments, social media commentary, consumer communications across various industries, and a host of other text-centered information and facts streams.
NLP also enables for the design and style of industry-distinct applications that harness the electric power of language conversation. A lot of can process information and facts in authentic-time and effectively interpret casual and idiomatic usage of human language although providing responses that are virtually indistinguishable from pure speech or writing. A chatbot utilizing purely natural language processing to give details or client support is one particular example of this amount of NLP know-how.
NLP Mechanics and Methodology
All-natural language processing equipment can renovate textual content into a structure that equipment can understand through a process recognised as text vectorization. The upcoming stage is to feed instruction information into equipment studying algorithms to train programs into producing the accurate association concerning a unique input stream and its corresponding output.
As soon as this preliminary teaching is full, programs can then use statistical analysis approaches to assemble their very own information bases, which help them to establish the capabilities most correct for representing or responding to certain textual content and make educated predictions for new or unseen textual content.
Utilizing sophisticated deep finding out algorithms, it is doable to string together numerous natural language processing responsibilities in sequence and implement them all at when to complete complex examination of textual content streams.
Purely natural Language Processing Approaches
Various procedures are utilized in normal language processing, quite a few with the supreme intention of breaking human language down into portions of info that equipment can study and interpret. They include things like:
Syntactic Investigation or Parsing
In this procedure, NLP devices assess the syntactic or phrase and sentence framework of a piece of textual content and the dependent relationships involving its text. The procedure represents the results in a special kind of diagram recognised as a parse tree.
Semantic Analysis
The goal of semantic assessment is to create the which means of a piece of text. To split down the elaborate architecture of a language, semantic duties seem at sentence structure, interactions and relationships among terms, and other associated ideas. In the end, this assessment should empower a process to detect the meanings of phrases and comprehend the issue of a particular text passage.
Tokenization
A main factor in Normal Language Processing, tokenization deconstructs a string of text into units known as tokens which have a individual semantic worth to an NLP system. Sentence tokenization and term tokenization are employed for the sentences in a textual content passage and the terms in just its sentences, respectively.
As a typical rule, blank areas will separate unique phrase tokens, though stops or intervals come concerning each sentence token. When working with extra elaborate word buildings these kinds of as spot names, systems may utilize superior-level tokenization to identify collocations or text that typically appear together.
Element-of-Speech (PoS) Tagging
An necessary NLP system for establishing the associations amongst words and phrases and the much larger that means of sentences, Component-of-Speech or PoS tagging assigns a aspect of speech tag or category (noun, pronoun, verb, and so on.) to each and every token in a piece of textual content.
Dependency Parsing
Independency parsing, an NLP technique, analyzes the various strategies in which the words and phrases inside of a sentence are connected—identifying how each word is connected or modified by other words and phrases assists in comprehending the syntactic construction of a sentence.
Lemmatization and Stemming
The root variety of a word as it takes place in a dictionary is known as a lemma. NLP techniques use lemmatization to pick out the suitable lemma for a phrase based on context. As an instance, the lemma “be” includes “am, are, were being, is, and been” less than its root umbrella. So an NLP program working with lemmatization would opt for the most proper kind in the context of a supplied sentence.
An additional variety of root variety of a word is named a stem. This phrase is made use of in conditions like “assist,” “assistant,” or “assisting.” In pure language processing, stemming operates on solitary words and phrases without having considering their context. It trims words down to their root or stem variety for simplicity and velocity of equipment comprehension and can direct to a lot less precise or semantically incorrect final results.
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
A common characteristic in semantic evaluation, named entity recognition, extracts entities these kinds of as names and email addresses from a piece of textual content.
Stopword Elimination
This system filters out higher-frequency words and phrases these kinds of as “is,” “to,” “at,” or “for,” which may add minimal or no semantic price to a sentence. Some NLP techniques let you to set up lists of words and phrases that you can securely overlook.
Textual content Classification
In purely natural language processing, textual content classification is employed to assistance make feeling of unstructured textual content by arranging it into pre-defined categories or tags.
Sentiment examination is a popular kind of text classification that aims to classify unstructured text streams primarily based on the psychological response, feeling, or sentiment they have. Language detection, intent detection, and subject matter modeling are other varieties of text classification in NLP.
Term Perception Disambiguation
The same term might have a selection of meanings in unique contexts. A knowledge-centered or dictionary solution to term perception disambiguation tries to extract the meaning of uncertain text in a piece of textual content from their dictionary definition. A supervised method to term sense disambiguation relies on NLP algorithms dependent on machine learning knowledge.
NLP in Action
E-mail filtering is just one of the most broadly made use of kinds of pure language processing. NLP methods for electronic mail filtering, this sort of as people in Gmail, are liable for sorting incoming messages into many logical types (Marketing, Crucial, etc.) centered on their analysis of issue traces and keywords in the message text.
Virtual or voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Apple’s Siri also count on NLP technological know-how for their operation. Normal language processing algorithms allow for these systems to interpret and answer to voice requests from the consumer instantly. They can also enable custom made coaching for a variety of personal buyers and find out from earlier interactions and connected queries.
For Routinely Requested Thoughts, customer provider, and specialized aid across various industries, the normal language processing chatbot has turn out to be a familiar sight and working experience for customers.
Some of these units count on a rule-dependent tactic to their deployment, drawing on a pre-outlined and minimal set of responses to speech or textual content-dependent enter. This has the advantage of pace, but can be missing to the user in phrases of similarity to real human dialogue.
Nevertheless, if your deployment of chatbots depends on artificial intelligence and normal language processing, there is scope for additional truly conversational conversation with the consumer. Programs with intent recognition can quickly set up what the person is receiving at inside of the room of a couple of terms, and provide up a all-natural reaction. By utilizing NLP to differentiate in between the several sorts of requests coming from people, AI-driven chatbots are in a position to increase the shopper experience significantly.
NLP chatbots incorporating sentiment analysis are getting to be more and more sophisticated and capable of accurately determining the thoughts staying displayed by the human they are interacting with. Superior algorithms also help a chatbot with Purely natural Language Processing to interpret and have an understanding of slang, idiomatic phrases, and nuances across a array of unique languages.
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Devern Hansack
Devern Brandon Hansack (born February 5, 1978) is a former Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher who pitched for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed.
Professional career
Hansack, born in Pearl Lagoon, Nicaragua, Hansack is an Afro-Nicaraguan. He originally signed with the Houston Astros as a non-drafted free agent on October 21, 1999. He spent 5 seasons with the organization before being released on March 29, 2004.
From 2004-2005, he played professionally in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League.
Hansack came back to Major League Baseball when he signed with the Red Sox on December 9, 2005. He played for the Red Sox Double-A team, the Portland Sea Dogs where he posted an 8–7 record with a 3.26 ERA in 31 games (18 starts). His performance earned him a September call up on September 19,.
Hansack made his Major League debut against the Toronto Blue Jays on September 23, 2006, pitching 5$1⁄3$ innings and allowing three runs while recording two strikeouts to earn the loss.
In his next appearance on October 1, 2006, against the Baltimore Orioles in the last game of the season, Hansack pitched a no-hitter for five innings before the remainder of the game was rained out. Because the game was rain-shortened, Hansack did not get the credit for an official no-hitter; however, he did get credit for both a complete game and a shutout. Hansack faced fifteen batters, walking only Fernando Tatís, who was then retired in a double play.
Hansack pitched well in spring training, compiling a 2.08 ERA in five appearances. He did not make the major league roster and was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket for the start of the 2007 season. On May 3, 2007, Hansack was called up to the Red Sox to replace Mike Timlin, who was placed on the DL. He was optioned again to Pawtucket on May 11, 2007, when the Red Sox recalled Javier López. On May 18, he was called up to replace Josh Beckett, who had been placed on the 15-day DL.
On May 19, 2007, Hansack pitched the second game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park with the Atlanta Braves. He pitched four innings, allowing six hits and four runs, he struck out two and walked one. He left after the fourth inning due to a bruised finger. The Red Sox lost the game 14–0.
In 2008, he started the year in Triple-A Pawtucket where he had a 6–10 record with a 4.08 ERA. On August 19, 2008, he was placed on the DL after being hit in the forearm with a ball. He was called up to the majors on September 7.
On April 22, 2009, the Red Sox unconditionally released Hansack. Hansack was re-signed as a minor league free agent by the Red Sox on January 25, 2010. In May 2010, the Red Sox released Hansack.
Career highlights
* 2006 Eastern League Champion with the Portland Sea Dogs (AA - Boston)
* 2006 Eastern League Championship MVP
* 2006 Portland Sea Dogs Pitcher of the Year
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188 Public Law 103 June 28, 1955 [H. R. 4426]
Telephone service for flood control, e t c. 64 Stat. 170. 31 USC 680.
State Department and Foreign Service. Carrying of firearms.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the Act approved September 22, 1922 (Public Law Numbered 362, Sixty-seventh Congress), as amended by section 203 of the Act approved May 17, 1950 (Public Law 516, Eighty-first Congress), is amended to read as follows: "That hereafter the provisions of section 7 of the Act of August 23, 1912, as amended (37 Stat. 414; 54 Stat. 175; 31 U.S.C. 679), or any other law prohibiting the expenditure of public money for telephone services installed in private residences, shall not be construed to apply to or forbid the installation and use of such telephones as may be necessary for the prosecution of Government business in connection with the construction and operation of locks and dams for navigation, flood control, and related water uses, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers. Not more than $30,000 shall be expended for such telephone services in any one fiscal year." Approved June 28, 1955.
Canal Zone. Fireworks.
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AN ACT To authorize certain officers and employees of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to carry firearms. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, security officers of the Department of State and the Foreign Service who have been designated by the Secretary of State and who have qualified for the use of firearms, are authorized to carry firearms for the purpose of protecting heads of foreign states, high officials of foreign governments and other distinguished visitors to the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Under Secretary of State, and official representatives of foreign governments and of the Ignited States attending international conferences, or performing special missions. Approved June 28, 1955. Public Law 105
June 28, 1955 [H. R. 4650]
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AN ACT To amend section 7 of the Act approved September 22, 1922, as amended.
Public Law 104 June 28, 1955 [H. R. 5860]
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AN ACT To amend the Canal Zone Code by the addition of provisions authorizing regulation of the sale and use of fireworks in the Canal Zone. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1122), is amended by adding a new chapter, number 26, embracing sections 521 and 522, and reading as follows:
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Campbell Soup Q3 Adj. Profit Rises, Organic Net Sales Up 9%; Reaffirms FY22 Adj. EPS Guidance
(RTTNews) - Campbell Soup Company (CPB) said the company had a strong recovery across the business in the third quarter with high-single-digit sales growth driven by sustained consumer demand for its brands and significantly improved supply. Looking forward, the company raised its fiscal 2022 net sales outlook reflecting strong year-to-date performance. However, the company reaffirmed prior adjusted EBIT and adjusted EPS guidance reflecting the on-going inflation-driven margin pressure.
Third quarter adjusted EPS increased 37% year-on-year to $0.70. On average, 16 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report profit per share of $0.61, for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.
Adjusted EBIT increased 23% to $321 million primarily due to improved adjusted gross margin performance, lower marketing and selling expenses, partially offset by sales volume declines and lower adjusted other income. Adjusted gross margin increased 90 basis points to 31.5% due to inflation-driven pricing actions, supply chain productivity improvements and cost savings initiatives.
Reported EPS from continuing operations increased 15% to $0.62 from $0.54, prior year. Net earnings attributable to Campbell Soup increased to $188 million from $160 million.
Net sales increased 7% year-on-year to $2.13 billion. Organic net sales increased 9%, for the quarter. Inflation-driven pricing and sales allowances of 11% more than offset volume declines of 3%. Analysts on average had estimated $2.05 billion in revenue.
For fiscal 2022, the company now expects: net sales to rise 0% to 1%, while organic net sales is projected to increase in a range of 1% to 2%.
The company remains on track to deliver savings of $1 billion by the end of fiscal 2025.
Shares of Campbell Soup Company were up 3% in pre-market trade on Wednesday.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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XL] infected, and after many meals of banana, they could still be found coiled up in the head or stretched out in the labium. Probably heat and moisture play a part in this respect, as has been shown to be the case by Fülleborn.
Fig. 107.—F. bancrofti in head and proboscis of mosquito.
These observations prove that, like the malaria parasite, the filaria is introduced into its human
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tively be considered as a '^species'' consisting of a number of ^'indi- viduals '' undergoing reproduction by the process of mitosis. There are two very distinct environmental forces in the life of such an embryo. One we may call the '^ external environment,'' as exemplified by the surroundings of the embryo, the other we may call the ''internal en- vironment" which includes the relationships between cells (indi- viduals) within the embryo. During the gastrula stage the internal environment is relatively simple, but as the embryo grows we find that complexities appear one after another. As the number of cells (indi- viduals) increase, we find that the number of types of cells (species) increase as well (differentiation of tissues). This may be considered largely the result of differences in the internal environment in which certain cells or groups of cells find themselves. Nutrition, and un- doubtedly to a large extent internal secretions, play the leading parts among the influences of the internal environment.
The young mammal shortiy before sexual maturiiy has thus reached a point where a steady process of cell division (multiplication of indi- viduals) within many definite types of tissue (many species) is in progress. Now into this more or less balanced condition is introduced the secretions of the newly active sex glands, ovaries or testes, as the case may be. At once the internal environment is fundamentally changed. By the circulation the modifications introduced by these secretions are transmitted through the body, reaching all types of cells in all localities. It is as though in a given isolated geographic unit, populated by a fauna of many species, a certain food tree was intro- duced in great numbers in addition to the somewhat similar types of food trees formerly there. This new tree provides food which gives certain species of animals in certain localities more suitable nutrition than they have yet obtained. The result is rapid growth and repro- duction of that particular species, while the others near it may be un- affected, or may even suffer by the rapid multiplication of the favored species.
It is obvious that changes in the internal environment will be fre- quent. The cyclic changes of the reproductive system, including also the changes of pregnancy and of lactation, undoubtedly represent fun- damental upsets of the equilibrium of the internal environment. The same, of course, holds for retrogressive changes such as accompany the cessation of activity of the reproductive system and the progressive changes of approaching senility.
To any biologist, it will have long ago suggested itself to question the influence of the inherent physico-chemical nature of the cell ma- terial. Undoubtedly this is a matter of fundamental importance, for it is in the reaction of the cells to the influences and agencies of the internal environment that initiation, continuation and control of cell
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Camp Lê Văn Duyệt
Camp Lê Văn Duyệt (also known as Capital Military District Headquarters, Capital Military Assistance Command or CMAC and Camp Goodman ) was a French Army, Army of the Republic of Vietnam and United States Army base located in District 10, Saigon, Vietnam. It remains in use today by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
History
The base was originally built during the French colonial period as the Nouvelles Casernes d'Artillerie Coloniale (new barracks of the Colonial Artillery).
With the departure of the French from South Vietnam in 1954-6 the base was handed over to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and named after Lê Văn Duyệt, an 18th-century military commander. The base was the headquarters of the Capital Military District (CMD) responsible for the defense of Saigon.
On 5 October 1963 CIA officer Lucien Conein met with General Dương Văn Minh at the base to discuss the planned coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem. In preparation for the coup one of the coup leaders General Tôn Thất Đính moved 20 tanks to the base to ensure that the coup supporters enjoyed overwhelming strength against forces loyal to Diem.
In 1964 the ARVN political warfare training center moved to the base but the facilities at the new location were so inadequate that they were moved to the Dalat Military Academy in 1966.
The ARVN 1st Airborne Battalion was headquartered at the base.
On the morning of 31 January 1968 at the start of the Tet Offensive, US II Field Force commander Lieutenant general Frederick C. Weyand directed his deputy, Major general Keith L. Ware, to establish a tactical command post at the base next to the CMD headquarters. Once operational, this headquarters known as Hurricane Forward would assume tactical control over all US units entering the Saigon–Gia Định Province zone.
On the morning of 5 May 1968 at the start of the May Offensive Weyand directed his deputy, Major general John H. Hay, to re-establish Hurricane Forward at the base to perform the same function as in the Tet Offensive.
On 27 June 1968 Weyand published orders establishing Headquarters, Capital Military Assistance Command (CMAC) (Provisional) at the base under the command of Hay, with an effective date of 4 June 1968. In this post, Hay exercised operational control over all US units and advisers in Saigon–Gia Định, with himself serving as adviser to General Nguyễn Văn Minh, the commander of the CMD and military governor of Saigon. Weyand assigned two US brigades, the 199th Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division to CMAC control to protect Saigon against further Vietcong attacks.
The US 5th Special Forces Group's Camp Goodman was located within the camp until late 1968 when it was handed over to CMAC.
In late 1969 II Field Force commander Lieutenant General Julian Ewell transformed CMAC into an advisory organization for the CMD, and charged it with transferring local American sensor and ground radar installations to the South Vietnamese.
Current use
The base remains in use by the PAVN as the headquarters of the Ho Chi Minh City Command (Bộ Tư lệnh TP.HCM), which forms part of the 7th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army). The street address is 291 Hẻm 285 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám, Phường 12, Quận 10, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
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Java - How to Set Path
In Java, setting the path is crucial for the proper execution of Java applications and commands. This guide will walk you through the steps of setting the path in a Java environment.
Syntax
The path in Java can be set using the following syntax in the command prompt or terminal:
• On Windows:
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\java\bin;
• On Unix/Linux:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/java/bin
Example
Let's consider an example where we set the path to the Java bin directory:
• On Windows:
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_281\bin;
• On Unix/Linux:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_281/bin
Output
After setting the path, you should be able to run Java commands and compile Java programs without specifying the full path to the executable.
Explanation
• The PATH environment variable is used to specify the directories where the operating system looks for executable files.
• Adding the Java bin directory to the path allows the system to find the Java executables without specifying the full path each time.
Use
Setting the Java path is necessary when:
• You want to execute Java commands from any directory without specifying the full path.
• You are compiling or running Java programs using the javac and java commands.
Important Points
• The path should point to the bin directory inside the Java installation directory.
• Verify the Java installation path and adjust the example accordingly.
• Changes to the path are temporary; for permanent changes, consider updating system environment variables.
Summary
Setting the Java path is a fundamental step to ensure a smooth development and execution environment. Whether you are compiling Java programs or running Java commands, correctly configuring the path allows the system to locate the necessary Java executables. Keep in mind the platform-specific syntax when setting the path on Windows or Unix/Linux systems.
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* ECUADOR. 636 ECUADOR. ever, are the seasons marked with distinctive regularity. Flora. The flora of Ecuador docs not differ essentially from that of other western coun- tries of South America, and especially resembles that of Colombia and Peru. In the lower por- tions, in the east and on the foot-hills, the vege- tation is purely tropical. Thick forests of cabi- net-wooils and of medicinal plants occupy a con- siderable portion of the territory. .Vbove COOO feet the vegetation is more northern, while above 10.000 feet trees are seldom met with, and the vegetable life consists of shrubs and coarse grasses. Fauna. The fauna includes the common South American species, such as several varieties of monkey, the jaguar, tapir, llama, vicuna, alpaca, etc. Birds, which include the condor and a large number of humming-birds which are restricted to individual volcanic cones, are represented in nu- merous species. Geologv and Mixebal Resources. The Andes contain Arehaan gneisses and granites and sedi- mentary strata of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age, all closely folded and broken in many places by eruptions of volcanic rocks. The coast and the eastern plains are floored by Cretaceous and Tertiary strata. Very little has been done to develop the min- eral resources of Ecuador, and their value is as yet unknown. In the province of Esmeraldas there "are placer deposits of gold along the Santiago, Uimbi, and Cochabibi rivers, which are worked in a small way, and near Zaruma, Province of Oro, gold quartz is mined by an American company. The total output of gold is not more than JS-oOO,- 000. Copper, iron, coal, and [jetroleum are be- lieved to occur in quantities to warrant exploita- tion. Agriculture. The agricultural resources of Ecuador are considerable. The soil in the lower portions, as well as in the elevated valleys, is of singular fertility and produces a large variety of crops. The principal product is cacao, which is cultivated chictly in the provinces of Manabi, Guayas, and Oro, "Estimates in 1H8S placed the number of cacao-trees at over 47.000.000, with an annual productiim of over ■2t),000.000 kilograms (,57,000.000 pounds). Next in imi)ortancc to cacao is coffee, which is cultivated in several dis- tricts. The conditions for sugar cultivation are very favorable, and the industry is gradually extending. Tobacco, ivory-nuts, rice, Indian corn, as well as the common cereals, such as wheat, barley, oats, and a number of medicinal and industrial plants, are also raised for the home market, as well as for export. The rubber-tree abounds, and the collecting of rubber is a grow- ing industrv-. The cattle and sheep holdings are large, aiid considerable alfalfa is cultivated. Cheese is a staple food. Manufactures. Co.mmerce, and Transport.- TION. With the exception of some coarse fabrics for native consumption, straw braid used for the manufacturing of hats and other straw articles, Ecuador has hardly any manufactures. The commerce, although steadily increasing, is as yet unimportant. The exports consist chiefly of cacao. Coffee, sugar, ivorv'-nuts, rubber, are shipped, and some gold. The exports have in- creased from 14,0.52„t14 sucres (48.7 cents) in 1893 to 15,419,222 sucres in 1000. The imports. consisting mostly of textiles, metal ware, and necessaries of life, have risen during the same period from 10,052, l(i3 sucres to 13,431,179 sucres. The trade is mostly with France, Ger- many, Great Britain, and the United States. The commerce with the United States in the period of 1890-1900 has increased as follows: Imports from Ecuador, in IS'JO, .SS3r>,437 ; in 1900, $1,524,378, Exports from the United States in 1890. .$90;!.159: in 1900. .$1.21(J.O0S. The United Stales imports must of Ecuador's rubber and a considerable portion of its cacao, and ex- ports to it railway supplies and foodstuffs. The chief ports are Guayaquil, ilanta, and Esme- raldas, The mountainous surface of the country is unfavorable to the development of transporta- tion facilities. The roads are mostly for pack- animals, being almost impassable during the rainy season. The chief road runs from Quito (q.v. ), the capital, toward Guayaquil and the ocean. Of open rail.way lines Ecuador has only about 67 miles — a short line from Duran, south of Guayaquil, to Cliimbo. A line about 300 miles in length, from Quito to Guayaquil, is to be completed al)Out 1903. It is being put through by foreign capital, and its entire cost is estimated at $18,000,000. The coast rivers are navigated by American and native steamers. There is telegraph communication between Quito and Guayaquil, and also with Colombia, while Guay- aquil has cable connection with Panama and Peru. Go'ERNMENT. The Constitution dates from 1830 and has been frequently altered. The ex- ecutive authority is shared by the President with a responsible ministry. The President is elected directly for a period of four years. The Vice- President is elected in the same uumner, but two years after the election of ihe Prc-^idcnt. serving accordingly across two terms. The Congress con- sists of two Houses. The itiembers of the Senate (two for each province) are elected directly for four years. The House of Representatives con- sists of members elected directly for two years, at the rate of one Deputy for every 35,000 in- habitants, with a Deputy for every additional 15,000 inhabitants or more. The Indians, being practically in a condition of slavery, are tin- represented. Congress meets biennially, but can be summoned for an extra session by the Presi- dent. The voting franchise is restricted to every male citizen of twenty-one years of age who is able to read and write. The local admin- istrators, from the governors of the provinces down to the lieutenants of the parishes, are all appointed by the President and removed at his discretion. For administrative purposes Ecua- dor is divided into sixteen provinces, besides the Galflpagos Archipelago, which is administered by a territorial chief. For tlie administration of justice there are a .supreme court of six judges appointed by the Congress, six superior courts or courts of appeal, whose judges are also appointed by the Congress, and a number of commercial and other inferior courts. For military defense Ecuador has a standing army of .about 3300 men and a national guard about .30,000 strong. Tlie navy consists of a torpedo-boat and a transport. See Armies and Xavie.s. Finance. The revenue of Ecuador is derived mostly from customs duties and to some extent from taxes on real estate and income, and from Government monopolies and property. At
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96 that constitute the motive power behind the present war, because this legend of the defense of the existence, the freedom and civilization of Germany plays an important part in the attitude of our group in the Reichstag and our Socialist press. Against this legend historical truth must be emphasized to show that this is a war that has been prepared by German militarism and its world-political ideas for years, that it was brought about in the Summer of 1914, by Austrian and German diplomacy, with a full realization of its import.
In a discussion of the general causes of the war, and of its significance, the question of the "guilty party" is completely beside the issue. Germany certainly has not the right to speak of a war of defense, but France and England have little more justification. They too, are protecting, not their national, but their world-political existence, their old imperialistic possessions, from the attacks of the German upstart. Doubtless the raids of German and Austrian imperialism in the Orient started the conflagration, but French imperialism, by devouring Morocco, and English imperialism, in its attempts to rape Mesopotamia, and all the other measures that were calculated to secure its rule of force in India, Russia's Baltic policies, aiming toward Constantinople, all of these factors have carried together and piled up, brand for brand, the firewood that feeds the conflagration. If capitalist armaments have played an important role as the mainspring that times the outbreak of the catastrophe, it was a competition of armaments in all nations. And if Germany laid the cornerstone for European competitive armaments by Bismarck's policy of 1870, this policy was furthered by that of the second Empire and by the military-colonial policies of the third empire, by its expansions in East Asia and in Africa.
The French Socialists have some slight foundation for their illusion of "national defense," because neither the French government nor the French people entertained the slightest warlike desires in July 1914. "Today everyone in France is honestly,
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Francisco Ortega (writer)
Francisco Ortega (born Victoria, July 11, 1974) is a Chilean journalist, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, podcaster and editor.
He works as a non-fiction editor, content advisor and contributor to magazines such as Rolling Stone and VIVE. Ortega also writes for different production companies and TV channels. He is the author of the novels 60 Kilómetros, El Número Kaifman, El Horror de Berkoff, the short story collection CHIL3, and the graphic novel 1899, which was one of the top 10 best-selling books in Chile for over 8 consecutive weeks. His short stories have been published in various anthologies.
In 2008 he started working on his most successful novel to date: Logia (Lodge), published by Planeta (2014). It soon became one of Chile's best-selling books for over 25 weeks. Following that record, the same publishers launch (2015) a remake of Número Kaifman (2006) known as Verbo Kaifman. Both Logia and Verbo Kaifman reached the top 10 for Chile's best-selling books in January 2015.
He is currently a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he teaches editing.
Awards and honors
* 2009. CNTV. Serie Adiós al Séptimo de Linea.
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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is an article about a noted author of best selling books like "The Chalk Man". Article was barely past 1 edit when user decided to speedy delete it. More information and citations forthcoming. --Boones 16:23, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
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Edible Garden’s Poultry Mix Launches in Major Retailer Just in Time for Spring Holidays
Thanksgiving and Christmas favorite now in store for Passover and Easter
BELVIDERE, NJ, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edible Garden AG Incorporated (“Edible Garden” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: EDBL, EDBLW), a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), locally grown, organic, and sustainable produce and products, today announced the rollout of its fresh Poultry Mix into ShopRite chainwide. This expansion capitalizes on the Company’s existing retail footprint and long-standing relationship with Wakefern Food Corp., the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States.
The launch comes just in time for the spring holiday season, with the Poultry Mix now available in time for both Passover and Easter. Following its strong performance during the 2024 winter holidays—when sales doubled year-over-year during Thanksgiving, Christmas and into the New Year—this rollout is expected to meet growing consumer demand for fresh, sustainable culinary herbs during key seasonal windows.
Jim Kras, Chief Executive Officer of Edible Garden, commented, “Edible Garden’s Poultry Mix adds incredible flavor and depth to all kinds of dishes. Its success during the winter holidays demonstrated significant consumer appetite for high-quality, ready-to-use fresh herb blends. By leveraging our existing distribution with ShopRite, we are able to efficiently expand access to this product in time for the spring holidays, maximizing its impact at retail and further strengthening our partnership with one of the most trusted grocery retailers in the country.”
ShopRite, which operates as part of Wakefern Food Corporation, has a powerful presence with over 350 stores under banners such as ShopRite and Price Rite across New Jersey, New York, and neighboring states. Headquartered in Keasbey, New Jersey, Wakefern is recognized as the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States. A recent consumer survey conducted in partnership with Newsweek and BrandSpark International named ShopRite the “Most Trusted Grocery Retailer in the Northeast” for three consecutive years, reflecting strong brand loyalty and alignment with Edible Garden’s values of quality, freshness, and community.
Edible Garden’s Poultry Mix, a blend of fresh culinary herbs including rosemary, thyme, and sage, supports the Company’s mission to provide accessible, sustainably grown, Certified USDA Organic, non-GMO produce and value-added products. The product will be merchandised in prominent fresh herb sets and supported by Edible Garden’s robust in-store branding and merchandising tools to maximize consumer visibility.
Kras added, “This launch is another example of how we are deepening our retail partnerships by introducing new, high-velocity products that resonate with consumer demand and seasonality. Our alignment with ShopRite's values—especially around freshness, sustainability, and community focus—makes them an ideal partner for this expansion.”
The launch of Edible Garden’s Poultry Mix at ShopRite positions the Company for continued growth as it scales its value-added product offerings through high-performing retail partners.
ABOUT EDIBLE GARDEN®
Edible Garden AG Incorporated is a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), locally grown, organic, and sustainable produce and products backed by Zero-Waste Inspired® next generation farming. Offered at over 5,000 stores in the US, Caribbean and South America, Edible Garden is disrupting the CEA and sustainability technology movement with its safety-in-farming protocols, use of sustainable packaging, patented GreenThumb software and Self-Watering in-store displays. The Company currently operates its own state-of-the-art vertically integrated greenhouses and processing facilities in Belvidere, New Jersey and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has a network of contract growers, all strategically located near major markets in the U.S. Its proprietary GreenThumb 2.0 patented (US Nos.: US 11,158,006 B1, US 11,410,249 B2 and US 11,830, 088 B2) software optimizes growing in vertical and traditional greenhouses while seeking to reduce pollution-generating food miles. Its proprietary patented (U.S. Patent No. D1,010,365) Self-Watering display is designed to increase plant shelf life and provide an enhanced in-store plant display experience. The Company has been named a FoodTech 500 company by Forward Fooding, a leading AgriFoodTech organization. In addition, Edible Garden is also a Giga Guru member of Walmart's Project Gigaton sustainability initiative. Edible Garden is also a developer of ingredients and proteins, providing an accessible line of plant and whey protein powders under the Vitamin Way® and Vitamin Whey® brands. In addition, the Company’s Kick. Sports Nutrition line features premium performance products that cater to today’s health-conscious athletes looking for cleaner labeled, better for you options. Furthermore, Edible Garden offers a line of fresh, sustainable and functional condiments such as Pulp fermented gourmet & chili-based sauces and Edible Garden's Pickle Party - fresh pickles & krauts. For more information on Pulp products go to https://www.pulpflavors.com. For more information on Vitamin Whey® products go to https://vitaminwhey.com. For more information on Edible Garden go to https://ediblegardenag.com.
A copy of the Company’s latest corporate video is also available here.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to the Company’s growth strategies, ability to expand its distribution network and distribution relationships, and performance as a public company. The words “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “look forward,” “objective,” “plan,” “seek,” “strategy,” “will,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including market and other conditions and the Company’s ability to achieve its growth objectives. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date hereof to conform to actual results or changes in expectations, except as required by law.
Investor Contacts:Crescendo Communications, LLC212-671-1020EDBL@crescendo-ir.com
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82 C. 25. Anno trlcefimo Georgii 11. A. D. 1757. Tippointed and taking the Oaths, and making, repeating and fubfcribing the Declaration aforefaid, to a£l as a Deputy Lieutenant or Commiffion Officer refpeclively, although he fhall not be feifed or pofieffcd of any i'uch Eitate in Manors, MeiTuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, as is required by this Ail; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithflanding. A Commiflion XIL Provided always, and be it enacled. That the Acceptance of a Commiflion in the Militia fhall not does net vacate a yac^tc the Seat of any Member returned to ferve in Parliament. S:at in Parha- ' A* heE d of A ^IH. And be it enadled. That his Majefly's Lieutenant, together with three or more Deputy Lieute- Yea'rs, fucha nants of any County, Riding or Place, and on the Death, or in the Abfence of his Majefty's Lieutenant, Number cfoffi- anv five or more of them fhall, at the End of every four Years, at their annual Meeting, difcharge fuch cers to bedif- a IvTumber of the Officers of the Militia (not exceeding one Field Officer of each Regiment or Battalion, charged. ^j^j o^g x}(xd>. Part of the whole Number of Officers of each inferior Rank refpeclively) as (hall be equal to the Number of Perfons who fhall be fit and willing to ferve as Officers in the Militia of fuch County, Riding or Place, and fhall be duly qualified for fuch Ranks according to the Directions of this Ait; and fuch Lieutenant fhall appoint fuch Perfons to ferve as Officers in the Room of the Officers fo difcharged as aforefaid. Adjutant from XIV. And be it enacled, That his Majefty, his Heirs and SuccelTors may and fhall appoint one pro- theKing'sForces per Perfon, who fhall have ferved, or fhall at the Time of fuch Appointment, aiflually ferve in fome of tube appointed ^^ Majefty's Other Forces, to be an Adjutant to each Regiment or Battalion of Militia in each County, toeachUegi- Ri(j[ji^ Or Place refpedlively; and fuch Adjutant fhall, during his Service in the faid Militia, preferve his '"^" ' Rank in the Army in the fame Manner as if he had continued in that Service j and his Majefly, his Heirs Serjeants to be and Succcflors may and fliall alfo appoint, according to the Proportion of one Serjeant to twenty private appointed cut of j^g^^ j.^^^ ^j. j^^^re proper Perfons to be Serjeants to every Company in the faid Militia, out of and from t e rmy, j^j^ Majefly's other Forces, fuch Perfons having ferved in the faid Forces for the Space of three Years next preceding their Appointment to be Serjeants as aforefaid, or may appoint fuch other Perfons to be Serjeants as aforefaid, as have formerly ferved for the Space of three Years in his Majefty's faid Forces; andtobeinti- and the Service in the Militia of fuch Perfons fo appointed out of his Majefty's faid Forces, fhall intitle tiej toCheifca them to the Benefit o' CheJfea Hofpital^ in the fame Manner as if they had continued to ferve in the faid Hofpital. Forces; and every Perfon appointed to be a Serjeant as aforefaid, out of the Penfioners on the Eftablifh- Serjeantsip- ment of Chelfea Hofpital, fhall be intitled to be put again upon the faid Eflablifhment after he fhall be pointed from difcharged from the Service of the Militia, provided he brings a Certificate of his good Behaviour, under thence, to be re- ^^^^ Hand of the Coloncl or commanding Officer of the Regiment or Battalion in which he fhall have ferved as aforefaid. Alehoufe-keep- XV. And be it ena^ed. That no Perfon who fhall keep any Houfe of publick Entertainment, or who ers, &c. difquaii- {^^ ^q ^j-,y ^^^ Wine, Brandy or other Spirituous Liquors by Retail, fhall be capable of being or con- fied from being ^^^^^^^ ^ Serjeant in the Militia. n"^Y ^ f r- XVI. And be it enaded. That the Number of private Men to be raifed by Virtue of this A6t, in that vi"rMen°ro^be ^^^""^ °^ Great Britain called England, the Dominion of IFales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed (exclu- raifed in each five of the Places herein after excepted) fhall be County, For the County of Bedford, four hundred. , For the County of Berks, five hundred and fixty. For the County oi Bucks, five hundred and fixty. For the County of Cambridge, four hundred and eighty. For the County of Chefter, with the City and County of the City of Chejler^ five hundred and fixty. For the County of Cornwall, fix hundred and forty. For the County of Cumberland, three hundred and twenty. For the County of Derby, five hundred and fixty. For the County of Devon, with the City and County of the City of Exeter, one thoufand fix hundred. For the County of Dorjet, with the Town and County of the I'own of Poole, fix hundred and forty. For the County of Durharn, four hundred. For the County of EJfcx, nine hundred and fixty. For the County of Gloiicefter, with the City and County of the City of Gloucefler^ and the City and County of the City of Brijiol, nine hundred and fixty. For the County of Hereford, four hundred and eighty. For the County of Hertford, five hundred and fixty. For the County of Huntingdon, three hundred and twenty. For the County of Kent, with the City and County of the City of Canterbury, nine hundred and fixty. For the County of Lancaflcr, eight hundred. F'or the County of Leiccjler, five hundred and fixty. For the County of Lincoln, with the City and County of the City of Lincoln, one thoufand two hundred. Hrptaltdby 31 For the Tower Divifion in the County of ATiddlef ex y commonly called The Tow:r Hamlets, one thoufand c.«. a. f. i6./. one hundred and fixty. SS' And for the rcPc of the County of Middlefex, one thoufand fix hundred. For the County of Monmouth, two hundred and forty. For the County of Norfolk, with the City and County of the City of Norwich, nine hundred and fixty. For
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GetCustomRowCellEditEventHandler Delegate
Represents a method that will handle the VGridControlBase.RecordCellStyle event.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.Events
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.v24.1.dll
NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Navigation, DevExpress.Win.VerticalGrid
Declaration
public delegate void GetCustomRowCellEditEventHandler(
object sender,
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Parameters
Name Type Description
sender Object
The event’s source. Identifies the vertical grid that raised the event.
e GetCustomRowCellEditEventArgs
A GetCustomRowCellEditEventArgs object that contains event data.
Remarks
When you create a GetCustomRowCellEditEventHandler delegate, you identify the method that will handle the corresponding event. To associate an event with your event handler, add an instance of the delegate to the event. The event handler is called whenever the event occurs, unless you remove the delegate. For more information on event handler delegates, see Events and Delegates in MSDN.
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Jumei Announces Share Repurchase Plan
BEIJING, April 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jumei International Holding Limited (NYSE:JMEI) ("Jumei" or the "Company"), China's leading online retailer of beauty products, today announced that its board of directors has authorized a share repurchase plan under which the Company may repurchase up to US$100 million of its shares over the next 12 months.
The share repurchases may be made from time to time on the open market at prevailing market prices, in privately negotiated transactions, in block trades and/or through other legally permissible means, depending on market conditions and in accordance with applicable rules and regulations, including requirements of Rule 10b5-1 and/or Rule 10b-18 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Jumei's board of directors will review the share repurchase plan periodically, and may authorize adjustment of its terms and size. The Company expects to fund repurchases made under this plan from its existing funds.
Safe Harbor Statement
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About Jumei International Holding Limited
Jumei (NYSE:JMEI) is China’s leading online retailer of beauty products. Jumei’s internet platform is a trusted destination for consumers to discover and purchase branded beauty products, baby, children and maternity products, light luxury products, health supplements and other products through the Company’s jumei.com and jumeiglobal.com websites and mobile application. Leveraging its deep understanding of customer needs and preferences, as well as its strong merchandizing capabilities, Jumei has adopted multiple effective sales formats to encourage product purchases on its platform, including curated sales, online shopping mall and flash sales. More information about Jumei can be found at http://ir.jumei.com .
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Quassar
Quassar was a Mexican airline which operated from 1992 to 1995. It operated scheduled and charter services throughout Mexico and the USA.
Destinations
* Acapulco
* Cancun
* Cozumel
* Guadalajara
* Leon
* Mexico City
* Miami
* Tijuana
Fleet
* Boeing 727
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When Is A Tooth Too Decayed To Save?
We are all born with teeth, but they can decay and eventually fall out over the years. When is a tooth too decayed to save? The answer to this question can be different for everyone depending on what their oral health goals are.
For some people, losing their tooth might not be an issue at all, while for others, it could cause serious consequences like difficulty chewing food or breaking a tooth when biting down hard on something!
For some people, saving a tooth that has been decayed so much that it cannot be saved may not be possible. If you’re one of these unlucky souls who’s lost a lot of their teeth in your youth due to illness or injury- then there is hope! We will discuss When is a tooth too decayed to save?
When Is A Tooth Too Decayed To Save
Many people are scared of the dentist. When they need to go, they put it off for as long as possible. But if you’re in pain or have a toothache, then there’s no time like the present to visit your dentist and get help! In this blog post, we’ll talk about when teeth become too decayed to save and what you can do about it.
How to know when a tooth is too decayed to save?
There are many signs of tooth decay that can help you decide if a tooth is worth saving. If the tooth has received no treatment, it will most likely need to be extracted. There will also be visible signs on your teeth, such as dark spots and brown streaks. These stains are caused by bacteria in your mouth eating away at the enamel on your teeth over time.
Once a dentist sees these warning signs, they may recommend an X-ray or other imaging tests to determine how bad the decay goes down into the roots of your teeth. However, even with this testing, if there is any sign of infection in the gums around your tooth, it’s best to extract it immediately for safety reasons.
What are the signs of a tooth that needs to be pulled out?
A tooth that needs to be pulled out can have a variety of symptoms. Some of the most common ones include:
• Pain
• Swelling
• Visible decay
If you notice any of these signs in your mouth, it’s essential to see a dentist as soon as possible for an assessment and diagnosis.
What Are The Signs Of A Tooth That Needs To Be Pulled Out
A thorough examination will allow the dentist to determine whether or not the tooth is salvageable through root canal treatment or other means. If there is no other option but extraction, they will provide you with all the necessary information before proceeding with surgery.
The importance of regular dental visits and checkups?
A lot of people overlook the importance of regular dental visits and checkups. It is a shame because they are such an important part of maintaining your oral health. They help keep you from developing serious problems in the future.
The best way to prevent these serious problems is by paying attention to your teeth right now! You can do this by visiting your dentist at least twice per year for an exam and cleaning. These two things will allow you to catch any potential issues early on. So that they don’t worsen and damage more than just your mouth and cause other medical complications.
Questions you can ask your dentist during your next visit?
The dental industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Dental offices are popping up all over, and people are flocking to them for everything from routine checkups to whitening teeth. But before you make an appointment, be sure to ask these five questions:
How often should I brush my teeth?
Do you recommend a certain toothpaste for me?
What are my options for replacing old fillings or crowns?
Would you mind showing me how to floss my teeth, please, properly?
What is your policy on emergency visits and walk-ins?
Tips on how to take care of your teeth at home
It is important to brush and floss regularly to keep your teeth healthy. Here are some tips on how to take care of your teeth at home:
Brushing
Brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste.
Floss
It would help if you needed to Floss once a day.
Floss
Drink Enough Water
Drink water often throughout the day (at least 8 glasses).
Avoid Sugary Foods
Avoid sugary foods as much as possible.
Visit The Dentist Timely
Visit the dentist every 6 months for regular checkups and cleanings.
When Is A Tooth Too Decayed To Save?
Dental decay is a common problem that can lead to tooth loss if left untreated. People need to know when it is too late to save their teeth and what options they have when it comes time for dental care.
It’s not uncommon for people to be self-conscious about missing teeth. The thought of wearing a denture or being fitted with an implant can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be! There are ways we can preserve your natural teeth and avoid costly dental procedures.
A tooth is too decayed if it has a cavity that goes to the nerve or an abscess. Decay can also be caused by poor dental hygiene habits like not brushing teeth twice a day and flossing. If you have one of these problems, your dentist will determine whether your tooth needs to be extracted or treated with fillings and crowns. So it’s clear that when is a tooth too decayed to save?
Brushing your teeth is the best way to Save Tooth Decayed
There are many ways to prevent tooth decay, but brushing your teeth is the best way. Brushing your teeth removes plaque and food particles that can cause tooth decay. It’s important to brush at least twice a day for two minutes each time, preferably after eating or drinking acidic substances like soda or juice.
Flossing helps because it prevents bacteria from sticking in between teeth where a toothbrush cannot reach them. When you visit the dentist, they will look for signs of tooth decay, such as brown spots on the surface of your teeth, and if they find any spots, they will recommend treatments such as sealants that can help protect against cavities.
Signs of Tooth Decay
Have you been wondering whether or not your teeth are healthy? Perhaps, you’ve been noticing some small changes in the look and feel of your teeth that have left you feeling uneasy. If this sounds like something that may be happening to you, then there is no need to worry because it’s very common for people to experience these symptoms.
Signs Of Tooth Decay
There are many signs of tooth decay that can lead individuals to believe they have a problem with their dental health. Here are just a few:
• Sensitivity around the tooth surface
• Swelling on gums surrounding the affected area
• Pain when chewing food
• Sensitivity to hot or cold foods
• Persistent bad breath
• Pain when biting down on hard food items
What to do if your tooth has been diagnosed with decay?
There are many steps to take when you have been diagnosed with tooth decay. The first step is to talk to your dentist about what treatment options are available and which one will work best for you. Some of the treatments may be filling, crowns, or root canals. It would help if you decided on a treatment plan that will help you combat any pain and preserve your teeth as much as possible.
How long does it take for a tooth to heal after being treated for decay?
If you have tooth decay treated, it will take some time for the tooth to heal after being drilled. The length of time is different from person to person depending on how many teeth were treated and what kind of treatment was used. Usually, a dentist will tell you how long they expect it to take for your teeth to recover fully.
How can you prevent future cavities or dental problems?
The best way to prevent future cavities or dental problems is to take care of your teeth by brushing and flossing regularly. Be sure not to brush too hard, as this may cause tooth enamel erosion and leave you vulnerable to further cavities.
Prevent Future Cavities
If you have an overbite or a small mouth, be extra careful with brushing. So that food particles don’t get stuck in the crevices between your teeth. It’s also important to visit your dentist every six months for routine cleanings and checkups!
Can a badly decayed tooth be saved?
A tooth is one of the hardest and most important parts of your body. Your teeth are used to chew food, help you pronounce words properly, and protect your mouth from bacteria. But sometimes, a tooth can become decayed or damaged so badly that it cannot be saved.
If you think this has happened to you, then don’t panic! There are two ways to get dental work done. You can either have it extracted or treated with a filling. Both methods will reduce your risk of developing an infection. So it’s up to you to decide which one is right for you.
The extraction method is the most common treatment option. But if bacteria have already infected the tooth, then this might not be the best choice. If that’s the case and you still want to save your tooth, then having a filling done should do just fine!
When can a dentist not save a tooth if decayed?
Dental Work is a very delicate and intricate process. Many factors can affect the outcome of treatment, including what type of tooth is affected, how much damage has been done to the tooth, if the tooth needs to be pulled or not, and other considerations.
Tooth If Decayed
A dentist will always do their best to save a patient’s teeth. But there are times when it just isn’t possible. Whether it’s because they’re too damaged or have already started causing irreversible health problems for your mouth – sometimes, we have no other choice than to remove them.
Is it better to remove the decayed tooth?
Many people have a lot of questions about dental health. The most common question we hear is, “Is it better to remove the decayed tooth?” Decayed teeth are caused by plaque, which forms on the surface of your teeth and can lead to decay if left untreated.
When you brush your teeth twice daily with fluoride toothpaste, you will dissolve any plaque before it has a chance to become more damaging. And when you visit our office for your regular checkups, our dentists will be able to spot any signs of decay and take care of them right away!
So is it better to remove the decayed tooth? If not treated properly, yes!
What happens if the decayed tooth is not removed?
It is important to know that, if left untreated, the decayed tooth can spread and cause much more damage. Decay eats away at the enamel on your teeth, leaving a hole in its surface, which then exposes the dentin and makes it easier for bacteria to enter.
This will lead to an infection that can result in swelling or pain around your jawbone and even abscesses filled with pus. The decay may also get worse over time because you’re not brushing regularly or flossing properly anymore since you don’t want to come into contact with this area of your mouth at all costs.
These symptoms would require an oral surgeon or other medical professional’s attention, so please see a doctor as soon as possible!
FAQ
Can you leave a dead tooth in your mouth?
The dentist will tell you to remove the tooth as soon as possible, but it’s not always necessary. Sometimes a dead tooth can stay in your mouth for years without causing any pain or discomfort at all.
Do dead teeth smell?
If you’ve ever had a toothache or have had the misfortune of smelling someone else’s bad breath, then you know that teeth can smell. But do dead teeth smell? The answer is no, but some things could cause them to produce an odor.
How can I fix my rotten teeth without going to the dentist?
Use baking soda, saltwater rinses, hydrogen peroxide rinses, and using herbs, you can fix your rotten teeth.
How much does it cost to get a rotten tooth pulled?
Many people wonder how much it costs to have a rotten tooth pulled. The cost of getting a rotten tooth pulled depends on what type of dentist you see and the location. For example, if you are in the United States, for most dental procedures, including removing teeth without surgery, prices range from $100 to $1,000+.
How do they fix tooth decay at the gum line?
If you’ve been dealing with tooth decay in the gum line and have tried various remedies to no avail, it may be time for professional help. Tooth decay is an irreversible dental problem that your dentist can only treat. The good news is that there are many ways dentists can fix this issue.
Is it OK to remove your molar teeth?
A lot of people are wondering if it is OK to remove their molar teeth. The answer to this question is yes, but it depends on the individual and the reason they want to do it.
Bottom Line
We know it can be difficult to decide when a tooth is too decayed or damaged for restoration. Many factors go into this decision, but we hope the information in our blog post has been helpful and may have helped you make a more informed choice on how to proceed with your dental care.
I hope you have learned some helpful tips about when a tooth is too decayed to save. If there are any questions, please let me know in the comments, and always see your dentist for regular checkups!
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James Boylen
Matthew James Boylen (August 10, 1907 – July 7, 1970) was a Canadian businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.
Jim Boylen was born in Weston, Ontario and raised in Alberta. In his early teens he left home and returned to Northern Ontario where he and elder brother Fred eventually operated a trading post. By the time he was twenty years old, Boylen had become a full-time prospector and in 1934 established business offices in the city of Toronto. He would be the founder of Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corp. Ltd in Bathurst, New Brunswick, an operation later acquired by Noranda which is now known as Xstrata.
An art collector, in 1959 Boylen was a founding donor to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, donating twenty-two paintings by Cornelius Krieghoff.
Boylen died at his Toronto home in 1970 and was buried in the city's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Lanson Farm
During the 1950s and 1960s, Jim Boylen operated Lanson Farm in Malton, Ontario, a large Thoroughbred racehorse operation. He and brother Phil both were involved in the sport and famously passed on the opportunity to buy the great Northern Dancer when he was part of the E. P. Taylor annual yearling sale.
Lanson Farm won a number of important races in Canada as well as in the United States. Of their many successful horses, Anita's Son was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
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Distance correlation
In statistics and in probability theory, distance correlation or distance covariance is a measure of dependence between two paired random vectors of arbitrary, not necessarily equal, dimension. The population distance correlation coefficient is zero if and only if the random vectors are independent. Thus, distance correlation measures both linear and nonlinear association between two random variables or random vectors. This is in contrast to Pearson's correlation, which can only detect linear association between two random variables.
Distance correlation can be used to perform a statistical test of dependence with a permutation test. One first computes the distance correlation (involving the re-centering of Euclidean distance matrices) between two random vectors, and then compares this value to the distance correlations of many shuffles of the data.
Background
The classical measure of dependence, the Pearson correlation coefficient, is mainly sensitive to a linear relationship between two variables. Distance correlation was introduced in 2005 by Gábor J. Székely in several lectures to address this deficiency of Pearson's correlation, namely that it can easily be zero for dependent variables. Correlation = 0 (uncorrelatedness) does not imply independence while distance correlation = 0 does imply independence. The first results on distance correlation were published in 2007 and 2009. It was proved that distance covariance is the same as the Brownian covariance. These measures are examples of energy distances.
The distance correlation is derived from a number of other quantities that are used in its specification, specifically: distance variance, distance standard deviation, and distance covariance. These quantities take the same roles as the ordinary moments with corresponding names in the specification of the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.
Distance covariance
Let us start with the definition of the sample distance covariance. Let (Xk, Yk), k = 1, 2, ..., n be a statistical sample from a pair of real valued or vector valued random variables (X, Y). First, compute the n by n distance matrices (aj, k) and (bj, k) containing all pairwise distances
\begin{align} a_{j, k} &= \|X_j-X_k\|, \qquad j, k =1,2,\ldots,n, \\ b_{j, k} &= \|Y_j-Y_k\|, \qquad j, k=1,2,\ldots,n, \end{align} $$
where ||⋅ ||denotes Euclidean norm. Then take all doubly centered distances
A_{j, k} := a_{j, k}-\overline{a}_{j\cdot}-\overline{a}_{\cdot k} + \overline{a}_{\cdot\cdot}, \qquad B_{j, k} := b_{j, k} - \overline{b}_{j\cdot} -\overline{b}_{\cdot k} + \overline{b}_{\cdot\cdot}, $$
where $$\textstyle \overline{a}_{j\cdot}$$ is the $j$-th row mean, $$\textstyle \overline{a}_{\cdot k}$$ is the $k$-th column mean, and $$\textstyle \overline{a}_{\cdot\cdot}$$ is the grand mean of the distance matrix of the $X$ sample. The notation is similar for the $b$ values. (In the matrices of centered distances (Aj, k) and (Bj,k) all rows and all columns sum to zero.) The squared sample distance covariance (a scalar) is simply the arithmetic average of the products Aj, k Bj, k:
\operatorname{dCov}^2_n(X,Y) := \frac 1 {n^2} \sum_{j = 1}^n \sum_{k = 1}^n A_{j, k} \, B_{j, k}. $$
The statistic Tn = n dCov2n(X, Y) determines a consistent multivariate test of independence of random vectors in arbitrary dimensions. For an implementation see dcov.test function in the energy package for R.
The population value of distance covariance can be defined along the same lines. Let X be a random variable that takes values in a p-dimensional Euclidean space with probability distribution $μ$ and let Y be a random variable that takes values in a q-dimensional Euclidean space with probability distribution $ν$, and suppose that X and Y have finite expectations. Write
* $$a_\mu(x):= \operatorname{E}[\|X-x\|], \quad D(\mu) := \operatorname{E}[a_\mu(X)], \quad d_\mu(x, x') := \|x-x'\|-a_\mu(x)-a_\mu(x')+D(\mu).
$$
Finally, define the population value of squared distance covariance of X and Y as
* $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X, Y) := \operatorname{E}\big[d_\mu(X,X')d_\nu(Y,Y')\big].$$
One can show that this is equivalent to the following definition:
\begin{align} \operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y) := {} & \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|\,\|Y-Y'\|] + \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|]\,\operatorname{E}[\|Y-Y'\|] \\ &\qquad {} - \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|\,\|Y-Y\|] - \operatorname{E}[\|X-X\|\,\|Y-Y'\|] \\ = {} & \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|\,\|Y-Y'\|] + \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|]\,\operatorname{E}[\|Y-Y'\|] \\ &\qquad {} - 2\operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|\,\|Y-Y''\|], \end{align} $$
where E denotes expected value, and $$\textstyle (X, Y),$$ $$\textstyle (X', Y'),$$ and $$\textstyle (X,Y)$$ are independent and identically distributed. The primed random variables $$\textstyle (X', Y')$$ and $$\textstyle (X,Y)$$ denote independent and identically distributed (iid) copies of the variables $$X$$ and $$Y$$ and are similarly iid. Distance covariance can be expressed in terms of the classical Pearson's covariance, cov, as follows:
* $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y) = \operatorname{cov}(\|X-X'\|,\|Y-Y'\|) - 2\operatorname{cov}(\|X-X'\|,\|Y-Y''\|).
$$
This identity shows that the distance covariance is not the same as the covariance of distances, cov($\|X − X' \|$, $\|Y − Y' \|$). This can be zero even if X and Y are not independent.
Alternatively, the distance covariance can be defined as the weighted L2 norm of the distance between the joint characteristic function of the random variables and the product of their marginal characteristic functions:
\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)= \frac 1 {c_p c_q} \int_{\mathbb{R}^{p+q}} \frac{\left|\varphi_{X,Y}(s, t) - \varphi_X(s)\varphi_Y(t) \right|^2}{|s|_p^{1+p} |t|_q^{1+q}} \,dt\,ds $$
where $$\varphi_{X,Y}(s,t)$$, $$\varphi_{X}(s)$$, and $$\varphi_{Y}(t)$$ are the characteristic functions of (X, Y), X, and Y, respectively, p, q denote the Euclidean dimension of X and Y, and thus of s and t, and cp, cq are constants. The weight function $$({c_p c_q}{|s|_p^{1+p} |t|_q^{1+q}})^{-1}$$ is chosen to produce a scale equivariant and rotation invariant measure that doesn't go to zero for dependent variables. One interpretation of the characteristic function definition is that the variables eisX and eitY are cyclic representations of X and Y with different periods given by s and t, and the expression ϕX, Y(s, t) − ϕX(s) ϕY(t) in the numerator of the characteristic function definition of distance covariance is simply the classical covariance of eisX and eitY. The characteristic function definition clearly shows that dCov2(X, Y) = 0 if and only if X and Y are independent.
Distance variance and distance standard deviation
The distance variance is a special case of distance covariance when the two variables are identical. The population value of distance variance is the square root of
\operatorname{dVar}^2(X) := \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|^2] + \operatorname{E}^2[\|X-X'\|] - 2\operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|\,\|X-X''\|], $$
where $$X$$, $$X'$$, and $$X''$$ are independent and identically distributed random variables, $$\operatorname{E}$$ denotes the expected value, and $$f^2(\cdot)=(f(\cdot))^2$$ for function $$f(\cdot)$$, e.g., $$\operatorname{E}^2[\cdot] = (\operatorname{E}[\cdot])^2$$.
The sample distance variance is the square root of
\operatorname{dVar}^2_n(X) := \operatorname{dCov}^2_n(X,X) = \tfrac{1}{n^2}\sum_{k,\ell}A_{k,\ell}^2, $$
which is a relative of Corrado Gini's mean difference introduced in 1912 (but Gini did not work with centered distances).
The distance standard deviation is the square root of the distance variance.
Distance correlation
The distance correlation of two random variables is obtained by dividing their distance covariance by the product of their distance standard deviations. The distance correlation is the square root of
\operatorname{dCor}^2(X,Y) = \frac{\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)}{\sqrt{\operatorname{dVar}^2(X)\,\operatorname{dVar}^2(Y)}}, $$
and the sample distance correlation is defined by substituting the sample distance covariance and distance variances for the population coefficients above.
For easy computation of sample distance correlation see the dcor function in the energy package for R.
Distance correlation
1. $0\leq\operatorname{dCor}_n(X,Y)\leq1$ and $0\leq\operatorname{dCor}(X,Y)\leq1$;
this is in contrast to Pearson's correlation, which can be negative.
2. $\operatorname{dCor}(X,Y) = 0$ if and only if $X$ and $Y$ are independent.
3. $\operatorname{dCor}_n(X,Y) = 1$ implies that dimensions of the linear subspaces spanned by $X$ and $Y$ samples respectively are almost surely equal and if we assume that these subspaces are equal, then in this subspace $Y = A + b\,\mathbf{C}X$ for some vector $A$, scalar $b$, and orthonormal matrix $\mathbf{C}$.
Distance covariance
1. $\operatorname{dCov}(X,Y)\geq0$ and $\operatorname{dCov}_n(X,Y)\geq0$;
2. $\operatorname{dCov}^2(a_1 + b_1\,\mathbf{C}_1\,X, a_2 + b_2\,\mathbf{C}_2\,Y) =
3. b_1\,b_2
4. \operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)$ for all constant vectors $a_1, a_2$, scalars $b_1, b_2$, and orthonormal matrices $\mathbf{C}_1, \mathbf{C}_2$.
5. If the random vectors $(X_1, Y_1)$ and $(X_2, Y_2)$ are independent then
\operatorname{dCov}(X_1 + X_2, Y_1 + Y_2) \leq \operatorname{dCov}(X_1, Y_1) + \operatorname{dCov}(X_2, Y_2). $ Equality holds if and only if $X_1$ and $Y_1$ are both constants, or $X_2$ and $Y_2$ are both constants, or $X_1, X_2, Y_1, Y_2$ are mutually independent.
6. $\operatorname{dCov}(X,Y) = 0$ if and only if $X$ and $Y$ are independent. This last property is the most important effect of working with centered distances.
The statistic $$\operatorname{dCov}^2_n(X,Y)$$ is a biased estimator of $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)$$. Under independence of X and Y
\begin{align} \operatorname{E}[\operatorname{dCov}^2_n(X,Y)] & = \frac{n-1}{n^2} \left\{(n-2) \operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)+ \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|]\,\operatorname{E}[\|Y-Y'\|] \right\} \\[6pt] & = \frac{n-1}{n^2}\operatorname {E}[\|X-X'\|]\,\operatorname{E}[\|Y-Y'\|]. \end{align} $$
An unbiased estimator of $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)$$ is given by Székely and Rizzo.
Distance variance
1. $\operatorname{dVar}(X) = 0$ if and only if $X = \operatorname{E}[X]$ almost surely.
2. $\operatorname{dVar}_n(X) = 0$ if and only if every sample observation is identical.
3. $\operatorname{dVar}(A + b\,\mathbf{C}\,X) =
4. b
5. \operatorname{dVar}(X)$ for all constant vectors $A$, scalars $b$, and orthonormal matrices $\mathbf{C}$.
6. If $X$ and $Y$ are independent then $\operatorname{dVar}(X + Y) \leq\operatorname{dVar}(X) + \operatorname{dVar}(Y)$. Equality holds in (iv) if and only if one of the random variables $X$ or $Y$ is a constant.
Generalization
Distance covariance can be generalized to include powers of Euclidean distance. Define
\begin{align} \operatorname{dCov}^2(X, Y; \alpha) := {} & \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|^\alpha\,\|Y-Y'\|^\alpha] + \operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|^\alpha]\,\operatorname{E}[\|Y-Y'\|^\alpha]\\ &\qquad {} - 2\operatorname{E}[\|X-X'\|^\alpha\,\|Y-Y''\|^\alpha]. \end{align} $$
Then for every $$0<\alpha<2$$, $$X$$ and $$Y$$ are independent if and only if $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X, Y; \alpha) = 0$$. It is important to note that this characterization does not hold for exponent $$\alpha=2$$; in this case for bivariate $$(X, Y)$$, $$\operatorname{dCor}(X, Y; \alpha=2)$$ is a deterministic function of the Pearson correlation. If $$a_{k,\ell}$$ and $$b_{k,\ell}$$ are $$\alpha$$ powers of the corresponding distances, $$0<\alpha\leq2$$, then $$\alpha$$ sample distance covariance can be defined as the nonnegative number for which
\operatorname{dCov}^2_n(X, Y; \alpha):= \frac{1}{n^2}\sum_{k,\ell}A_{k,\ell}\,B_{k,\ell}. $$
One can extend $$\operatorname{dCov}$$ to metric-space-valued random variables $$X$$ and $$Y$$: If $$X$$ has law $$\mu$$ in a metric space with metric $$d$$, then define $$a_\mu(x):= \operatorname{E}[d(X, x)]$$, $$D(\mu) := \operatorname{E}[a_\mu(X)]$$, and (provided $$a_\mu$$ is finite, i.e., $$X$$ has finite first moment), $$d_\mu(x, x') := d(x, x')-a_\mu(x)-a_\mu(x')+D(\mu)$$. Then if $$Y$$ has law $$\nu$$ (in a possibly different metric space with finite first moment), define
\operatorname{dCov}^2(X, Y) := \operatorname{E}\big[d_\mu(X,X')d_\nu(Y,Y')\big]. $$ This is non-negative for all such $$X, Y$$ iff both metric spaces have negative type. Here, a metric space $$(M, d)$$ has negative type if $$(M, d^{1/2})$$ is isometric to a subset of a Hilbert space. If both metric spaces have strong negative type, then $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X, Y)= 0$$ iff $$X, Y$$ are independent.
Alternative definition of distance covariance
The original distance covariance has been defined as the square root of $$\operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y)$$, rather than the squared coefficient itself. $$\operatorname{dCov}(X,Y)$$ has the property that it is the energy distance between the joint distribution of $$\operatorname X, Y $$ and the product of its marginals. Under this definition, however, the distance variance, rather than the distance standard deviation, is measured in the same units as the $$\operatorname X $$ distances.
Alternately, one could define distance covariance to be the square of the energy distance: $$ \operatorname{dCov}^2(X,Y).$$ In this case, the distance standard deviation of $$X$$ is measured in the same units as $$X$$ distance, and there exists an unbiased estimator for the population distance covariance.
Under these alternate definitions, the distance correlation is also defined as the square $$\operatorname{dCor}^2(X,Y)$$, rather than the square root.
Alternative formulation: Brownian covariance
Brownian covariance is motivated by generalization of the notion of covariance to stochastic processes. The square of the covariance of random variables X and Y can be written in the following form:
\operatorname{cov}(X,Y)^2 = \operatorname{E}\left[ \big(X - \operatorname{E}(X)\big) \big(X^\mathrm{'} - \operatorname{E}(X^\mathrm{'})\big) \big(Y - \operatorname{E}(Y)\big) \big(Y^\mathrm{'} - \operatorname{E}(Y^\mathrm{'})\big) \right] $$
where E denotes the expected value and the prime denotes independent and identically distributed copies. We need the following generalization of this formula. If U(s), V(t) are arbitrary random processes defined for all real s and t then define the U-centered version of X by
X_U := U(X) - \operatorname{E}_X\left[ U(X) \mid \left \{ U(t) \right \} \right] $$
whenever the subtracted conditional expected value exists and denote by YV the V-centered version of Y. The (U,V) covariance of (X,Y) is defined as the nonnegative number whose square is
\operatorname{cov}_{U,V}^2(X,Y) := \operatorname{E}\left[X_U X_U^\mathrm{'} Y_V Y_V^\mathrm{'}\right] $$
whenever the right-hand side is nonnegative and finite. The most important example is when U and V are two-sided independent Brownian motions /Wiener processes with expectation zero and covariance $|s|$ + $|t|$ − $|s − t|$ = 2 min(s,t) (for nonnegative s, t only). (This is twice the covariance of the standard Wiener process; here the factor 2 simplifies the computations.) In this case the (U,V) covariance is called Brownian covariance and is denoted by
\operatorname{cov}_W(X,Y). $$
There is a surprising coincidence: The Brownian covariance is the same as the distance covariance:
\operatorname{cov}_{\mathrm{W}}(X, Y) = \operatorname{dCov}(X, Y), $$ and thus Brownian correlation is the same as distance correlation.
On the other hand, if we replace the Brownian motion with the deterministic identity function id then Covid(X,Y) is simply the absolute value of the classical Pearson covariance,
\operatorname{cov}_{\mathrm{id}}(X,Y) = \left\vert\operatorname{cov}(X,Y)\right\vert. $$
Related metrics
Other correlational metrics, including kernel-based correlational metrics (such as the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion or HSIC) can also detect linear and nonlinear interactions. Both distance correlation and kernel-based metrics can be used in methods such as canonical correlation analysis and independent component analysis to yield stronger statistical power.
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What dinosaur is not a dinosaur?
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Well, let me tell you, there are quite a few creatures that are often mistaken for dinosaurs but are not actually dinosaurs. One group of these creatures is the marine reptiles. Now, I’ve always been fascinated by dinosaurs and their incredible diversity, but I must admit that I also find these marine reptiles quite intriguing.
First off, let’s talk about ichthyosaurs. These creatures looked a lot like dolphins or fish, with streamlined bodies and fins. They lived during the Mesozoic era, just like dinosaurs, but they were not actually dinosaurs. They were reptiles, yes, but not dinosaurs. It’s easy to see why people might confuse them though, with their similar time period and their aquatic lifestyle.
Next up, we have the plesiosaurs. These creatures had long necks and large bodies with flippers. They were also marine reptiles, not dinosaurs. Plesiosaurs were quite diverse, with some species having short necks and others having incredibly long ones. But no matter the length of their necks, they were not dinosaurs.
Now, let’s talk about mosasaurs. These were another group of marine reptiles that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. They were fierce predators, with long bodies and powerful jaws. While they lived alongside dinosaurs, they were not dinosaurs themselves. Instead, they were more closely related to lizards and snakes.
Moving on from the marine reptiles, let’s talk about Dimetrodon. Now, this creature is often mistaken for a dinosaur because it lived during the same time period as some early dinosaurs. However, Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur. In fact, it wasn’t even a reptile. Dimetrodon belonged to a group of creatures called synapsids, which are often referred to as “mammal-like reptiles.” These synapsids eventually gave rise to mammals, but they were not dinosaurs.
So, to sum it all up, while ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and Dimetrodon may have lived during the same time period as dinosaurs, they were not actually dinosaurs. They were all fascinating creatures in their own right, but they did not share the characteristic upright stance of dinosaurs. It just goes to show how diverse and amazing the prehistoric world was, with so many different types of creatures roaming the Earth.
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Best-Paying Industry? It’s Not Banking
31 COMMENTS Most companies that pay six figures to the majority of their workers aren’t big banks or money managers, but biotech firms that rely on medical researchers, and energy and technology companies with a large number of engineers and technical staff.
More than 100 companies in the S&P 500 routinely awarded employees $100,000 or more in 2017, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nearly half of those were in the energy industry, including oil and gas drillers, refiners and electric utilities. Together, the energy companies employ more than 600,000 people, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of federal filings and company-employment data from S&P Global Market Intelligence Capital IQ.
Public companies in the U.S. are offering a first-ever glimpse into how they compensate rank-and-file employees, thanks to disclosure requirements under the federal Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that took effect this year. The disclosures show total compensation for the median employee at each company; until this spring companies were only required to detail the millions that top executives often take home in bonuses and stock.
Not So Middling S&P 500 companies with the highest median-employee pay in select sectors. Pharmaceuticals
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Incyte
Celgene
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Nektar Therapeutics
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Technology
Facebook
Alphabet
Netflix
Verisign
Salesforce.com
Energy
Valero Energy
DTE Energy
Phillips 66
First Energy
Consolidated Edison
Finance
Affiliated Managers
CBOE Global Markets
Blackrock
Intercontinental Exch.
Goldman Sachs
Sources: WSJ analysis of SEC filings; S&P Capital IQ
The data reveal the types of firms where lucrative jobs are the norm rather than the exception. Some of the highest reported median wages were paid by pharmaceutical companies. Four firms in the S&P 500 paid workers in the middle of their payrolls more than $200,000. Facebook Inc. was one of them ; the other three are developing drugs to fight everything from cancer to psoriasis. At Incyte Corp. , Celgene Corp. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., the middle earners last year made $253,000, $213,000 and $211,500, respectively.
One financial firm ranked in the top 25 for highest median earnings: At boutique asset manager Affiliated Managers Group Inc. last year, the typical pay package was $157,384. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. came in 46th, with $135,165, the midpoint among roughly 34,000 employees at the bank.
Several big tech and oil companies disclosed larger median pay packages. Exxon Mobil Corp. ranked 20th, with its typical worker earning $161,562. Salesforce.com Inc. ranked 28th, with a median pay of $155,284.
Ten of the 25 highest median salaries last year were found at companies based in the Midwest or South, where $150,000 stretches farther than it would in many cities on the coasts.
The average overall compensation figure for the roughly 400 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported median pay so far is $78,830. The median for all U.S. workers was just under $38,000 last year, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Industries where the public-company analysis shows high median pay also tend to feature higher pay in Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which cover the entire economy. For instance, in pharmaceutical manufacturing, the median salary is around $58,000 a year, while pay for people employed in oil and gas extraction comes to roughly $71,600, according to BLS data, placing both sectors well-above the norm across all industries.
On average, the best-paying jobs were with companies that employ around 17,000 people, compared with an average head count of roughly 53,000 for all S&P 500 firms, according to the Journal analysis. Companies had an average of 82,000 employees for where pay for rank-and-file workers was the lowest.
Two of the biggest factors pushing median pay up or down are the proportion of low-wage employees in countries where overall income is lower, including at many manufacturers, and the share of seasonal or part-time employment, such as at retailers and restaurants.
Half of the 25 lowest-paid median employees worked part time at companies such as Gap Inc. and Yum Brands Inc., which owns Taco Bell and KFC. Wages for clothing maker Hanesbrands Inc. were the lowest in the S&P 500. Nearly 90% of the North Carolina company’s 67,200 employees work outside the U.S. The middle earner is an equipment operator in Honduras, taking home $5,237 a year.
Employers also have a lot of leeway in how they calculate the range of pay packages. Some used salary alone to identify their median worker, while others chose to include stock options or even paid vacation time—and so two identical figures for total compensation could entail completely different paychecks.
The SEC also gave companies the choice of excluding some international workers or independent contractors when analyzing pay—though no more than 5% of the global total workforce.As a result, median salary got a boost at some companies that rely on thousands of such workers, who often earn much less than typical employees. For example, Facebook like many other tech firms didn’t include contractors or workers employed by an outside staffing agency in their pay analysis.
Incyte, the Wilmington, Del., drugmaker that tops the list, said it calculated its 2017 median by comparing salaries, bonuses, stock options and retirement savings for all full-time and part-time staff. It included all 220 overseas workers and converted pay for people in Europe and Japan into U.S. dollars. The company didn’t disclose how much workers take home in their base salaries.
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At Facebook, Median Pay Tops $240,000 Facebook, which ranked second to Incyte with a median pay package of $240,000, and big tech peers Netflix Inc. NFLX 0.66% and Alphabet Inc., the parent of Google, included equity in their compensation calculations. All three companies declined to break out base salaries from stock options they granted.
At some traditional companies, compensation tended to be a combination of base pay and overtime. At DTE Energy Co. , an electric and natural gas utility based in Detroit, and Valero Energy Corp. , a refiner based in San Antonio, last year’s median pay of more than $170,000 included salary, bonuses and overtime.
Some of these firms offered more detailed portraits of their workforce. The median-paid DTE employee is a senior-level professional holding two master’s degrees and earning $173,839 a year, according to a filing.
At CMS Energy Corp. , a Michigan company that ranked 17th highest in median pay, the typical employee held a senior-level budget or finance job that required a bachelor’s degree and received more than $66,000 in pension and other annual benefits, on top of a $101,000 salary, the company said. At Consumers Energy Co., a CMS subsidiary, the median typical employee is an electrical worker who was hired after completing an employer-sponsored training or apprentice program and made $152,000 after adding overtime and benefits to a salary of $79,000.
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Rh Mr. George L. Kilmer, of the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, in his article entitled "The Dash into the Crater," published in the same number (September number, 1887) of the Century, makes some striking statements. He says:
"Some few declared that they would never follow 'niggers' or be caught in their company, and started back to our own lines, but were promptly driven forward. Then the colored troops broke and scattered, and pandemonium began. The bravest lost heart, and men who distrusted the negroes vented their feelings freely. Some colored men came into the Crater, and there they found a worse fate than death on the charge. It was believed among the whites that the enemy would give no quarter to negroes, or to whites taken with them, and so to be shut up with blacks in the Crater was equal to a doom of death. It has been positively asserted that white men bayoneted blacks who fell back into the crater. This was in order to preserve the whites from Confederate vengeance. Men boasted in my presence that blacks had been thus disposed of, particularly when the Confederates came up."
It will be asked what was the number of Federal soldiers who were actually in possession of our works at the time of the charge made by Mahone's brigade.
As the expression, "an effective force of not less than 3,000 men," used in General Mahone's congratulatory order to the three brigades, Mahone's, Wright's, and Saunders', embraced not only the force of about 800 men of Mahone's brigade who made the charge a little before nine o'clock in the morning, but also the forces engaged in the several unsuccessful charges made by Wright's brigade and the final successful charge made about one o'clock in the afternoon by Saunders' brigade, and probably the co-operating artillery and other infantry, so the statement made by General Mahone in this order that "the enemy had massed against us three of his corps and two divisions of another," and Captain McCabe's statement that "Meade had massed" for the assault "65,000 troops," must be understood as embracing not only those who were actually in possession of our works but those immediately in, or massed a short distance behind, the Federal works near by, who were taking part or ready to take part in the affair.
But we are not without data by which to ascertain the probable number of men that occupied the Confederate works when the
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Bone Conduction Hearing Devices
A bone conduction hearing device is worn either on a soft band or attached to a metal implant, which has been surgicaly implanted behind the ear. Sound in transmitted through the bone of the head directly to the inner ear, instead of travelling down the ear canal like traditional hearing aids.
A bone conduction hearing device may be recommended if a child has a conductive hearing loss or if it it not possible to use a conventional hearing aid.
The vibrating transducer is positioned on the bone behind the ear. The band needs to be fitting well so that the transducer is in close contact with the head and the vibrations can be conducted through the skull. It is important to check that the bone conduction device is working every day. This can be done by turning it on, cupping the transducer in your hand and speaking into the microphone, to check that the transducer is vibrating. The NDCS provides information for families about devices worn on a softband.
A trial of a bone conduction hearing device on a softband can take place to see if this is a suitable option, prior to considering bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) surgery.
A fact sheet, 'Bone anchored hearing aids: information for families' by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children explains the different types of BAHA's.
References
GOSH NHS Foundation Trust (2020) Bone anchored hearing aids: information for families Online: Available at: https://media.gosh.nhs.uk/documents/Bone_anchored_hearing_aids_F0433_FINAL_Nov20.pdf [Accessed: 14th February 2021].
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What Is the Difference Between a Flu Epidemic and a Flu Pandemic?
You may read about or hear in the news that there is a flu epidemic occurring, but do you know what that means? How do public health officials determine that flu levels are high enough to declare an epidemic? And how does it differ from a pandemic?
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What is a Flu Epidemic?
Although the word "epidemic" sounds scary, the flu reaching epidemic levels isn't entirely uncommon. In fact, seasonal flu epidemics happen almost every year.
An epidemic is a rise in the number of cases of disease beyond what is normally expected in a specific geographical area. The increase in cases is sudden, the disease stays contained to a specific geographical area—like a city or region—and doesn't spread across countries and continents. It may not even spread across an entire state.
What counts as a flu epidemic changes a little from week to week. Each week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compares the percentage of flu-related deaths to an epidemic threshold value. If this number exceeds the threshold, the CDC declares the flu to be at epidemic levels. Only when the percentage of flu deaths drops below the threshold is the epidemic over.
What is a Flu Pandemic?
Flu pandemics happen when a new strain of the flu A virus appears. The virus quickly spreads because most people aren't immune and a vaccine is not widely available to offer immediate protection. As a result, it spreads across several countries around the world, causing widespread illness.
In order for a flu pandemic to occur, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the following conditions must be met:
• The virus is able to infect humans
• The virus is able to spread easily from human to human
• The virus must cause serious illness or death in humans
While flu pandemics are rare, they do occur periodically. There have been four flu pandemics since the beginning of the 20th century, the most severe being the Spanish flu of 1918:
• 1918 Spanish flu pandemic: Killed approximately 675,000 in the U.S.
• 1957 Asian flu pandemic: Caused an estimated 116,000 U.S. deaths
• 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic: Linked to around 100,000 deaths in the U.S.
• 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic: Responsible for an estimated 12,469 U.S. deaths
Just like with an epidemic, a flu pandemic is over when the high number of cases disappears. However, once a pandemic virus has been established it can continue to circulate in humans. Take the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic: Even though WHO declared an end to this pandemic in 2010, H1N1 continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, causing illness and hospitalization worldwide every year.
Differences Between a Flu Epidemic and a Flu Pandemic
Unlike a seasonal flu epidemic, pandemic flu is a new flu strain that hasn't circulated in person for a long time, if ever. Because of this, humans have little to no immunity against the virus and it spreads quickly and globally, causing widespread sickness and deaths.
Flu Epidemic
• Happens every year, usually in winter
• Caused by flu viruses that are similar to those already affecting people
• Specific to one city, region, or country
• Vaccine available at the beginning of flu season
• Causes an average of 23,607 deaths each year in the U.S.
• Infants and elderly most at-risk for serious complications
Flu Pandemic
• Rarely happens (only four times since 1918)
• Caused by a new flu virus that people have not been exposed to before
• Spreads worldwide
• Vaccine not available in the early stages of a pandemic
• Number of deaths can be significantly higher. The Spanish flu of 1918 caused approximately 675,000 deaths in the U.S.
• Healthy people at-risk for serious complications
A Word From Verywell
Flu vaccines are the best way to protect people during flu epidemics and pandemics. Seasonal flu vaccines are available every year before the flu season. Unfortunately, these vaccines only protect against epidemic-causing flu viruses. Vaccines against pandemic flu strains typically aren't available in the early stages of a pandemic.
Regardless of the epidemic status, the flu is a serious illness that everyone should take steps to avoid. By properly washing your hands, covering your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing, and disinfecting hard surfaces, you can keep yourself and your family healthy throughout the flu season.
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Civil Service Cricket Club
Civil Service Cricket Club (CSCC) is one of Ireland's oldest cricket clubs. Formed in 1863 in Dublin's Phoenix Park, the club currently has over 40 members and competes in league and cup competitions arranged by the Leinster Cricket Union.
The club's first games were played on the lawn of the Viceregal Lodge (Now Áras an Uachtaráin) in 1863, the same year that the club had its ground donated to it – the ground it still uses today.
History
In the early 1860s, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland decided that his civil servants needed some quality rest and recreation. He sponsored a Bill through Parliament, granting civil servants a cricket ground in Phoenix Park, beside the Dog Pond, where the Civil Service Cricket Club plays to this day. The club played its first match on the front lawn of the Viceregal Lodge in April 1863.
Back in its early days, the club had trouble fielding sides, or to be more precise, fielding sides punctually. In those days the Civil Service worked on Saturday mornings, and as most matches were played on that day, starting at noon, the club was almost always a late starter. This situation gradually improved as office managers in Dublin Castle and the Custom House developed a blind eye on match days.
The club built a wooden pavilion with a bar in its basement, and attracted visiting sides from all parts of Ireland. Charles Stewart Parnell brought a Wicklow side to Civil Service in the 1870s. Club membership was opened to civil servants’ families and James Penny, the son of a civil servant, was the club's first international. The club produced several Irish international cricketers like George Christian and Paddy Murphy.
Civil Service was at its peak just before the First World War but things were changing, with the Gaelic Athletic Association establishing its dominance. After the Second World War, Civil Service reverted to its junior status and it has since prospered to varying degree. Now, the club's membership includes Australians, Indians, Pakistanis and South Africans. The Civil Service link lives on – club president Fintan Butler, is based in the Office of Public Works and his son Owen, who started his career in Civil Service, later went on to play for Ireland. Aidan Kinsella, who was the captain of the club's second team, is also based in the Office of Public Works.
Teams
Currently Civil Service Cricket club has four teams that compete as follows:
* 1st XI - Division 3
* 2nd XI - Division 8
* 3rd XI - Division 10
* 4th XI - Division 14
Documentary
On 5 July 2006, RTE broadcast a documentary on Civil Service Cricket Club
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Introduction to using git locally
Wednesday 14th January 2009
Categories: Guides, Code, FLOSS
Why git?
Why bother using git? This is something of a loaded question. The first question this asks is: why use source control? There are various reasons, but the simplest is to keep hold of old versions, in case you need some piece of code that you've deleted, or if you've introduced a bug and need to revert a change.
Using a distributed version control system (DVCS), which git is, allows us to do certain things more easily that more traditional centralised version control systems, such as CVS or Subversion. In particular, a DVCS makes it painless to create branches with your own changes, and merge in other people's changes, picking and choosing what changes you want to include.
Finally, we have the question of: why git specifically? One reason might be popularity - there are plenty of users of git, so getting help shouldn't be too hard. (Of course, there are plenty of other popular DVCSs around.) Speed is another factor - what can take minutes on certain version control systems can take mere seconds using git. Providing some proof for this paragraph is way beyond the scope of this article, but there is a plethora of articles online on the topic.
This guide aims to show just some of the commands that git lets you use - there are certainly far more than are listed here. It also assumes that you're only going to working locally. Much of git's usefulness becomes apparent when you start working with other people, but even for one-man jobs using git can be tremendously helpful.
Of course, any corrections or suggestions are welcome! So, let's get going.
Getting started
For any git command, git-<command> and git <command> usually do the exact same thing. Especially helpful are the man pages for each command i.e. man git-<command>.
To start, we probably want to create a git repository. This is easy enough - in the directory you want to track, just run the command:
git init
This will create a repository containing a single branch, master. Anything in this directory is said to be the working tree.
To get things into the git repository, we first need to move them into the index. The index can be thought of as the staging area for the next commit. This can be done using:
git add <my-file> <some-other-file>
This will add <my-file> and <some-other-file> to the index. If you instead specify some directory in the list of things to add, it will add everything in that directory. Since a single dot represents the current directory, we can add everything in the working tree by typing (assuming you're in the working directory):
git add .
Once you're happy with the state of the index, you can commit your changes by typing
git commit
Change the commit message as you see fit, and your changes should enter the repository. Note that the first line of the message will be used a summary for that commit.
If you use the -a flag when committing i.e.
git commit -a
git will add everything that it tracks to the index and commit it. Say we've already committed a file foo. We then modify foo and add a new file bar. When we use the command git commit -a, git will commit the new version of foo, but not bar.
If you want to remove <my-file> from the index, use the command:
git rm --cached <my-file>
This will only remove the file from the index, so that it won't be part of the next commit. If you actually want to delete the file as well as remove it from the index, just drop the --cached flag:
git rm <my-file>
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I really like how your article starts out with a broad definition, and then branches out to different sectors of participatory surveillance. I think you should add a hyphen in between “non freely.” For the phrase saying “More so, disease outbreak researchers can study social-media based patterns to decrease the time it takes to detect an outbreak, an emerging field of study called infodemiology," I think you should change it to “Through an emerging field of study called infodemiology,, disease outbreak researchers can study social-media based patterns to decrease the time it takes to detect an outbreak.” In your History section, I think you should change “This is participatory surveillance within a web-based paradigm” to “This scenario is an example of participatory surveillance within a web-based paradigm.” Other than that, the history section seems pretty good! Moreover, I like how your Social Media section is broken up into subsections, and then more subsections, as it makes it easier for the reader to understand the topic. Your tone in this section was also very good. One thing I noticed is that there is not a citation after you mentioned “Bieber Fever,” so I would add that. Is there another example of fieldwork that you can provide other than cholera to provide a more omniscient view of the topic? Lastly, I think you should add a “see also” section.
Overall, your article was a great read and had a great tone. It was very encyclopedic and an interesting read. Fantastic job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simhhyena (talk • contribs) 18:43, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
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Laser Ablation Tomography (LAT™) is a tomography technology that combines laser ablation and fluorescence microscopy to produce cross sectional images and three-dimensional models. The method is used in numerous scientific fields, namely biology, geology, and materials science.
LAT™ scans produce cross-sectional images of samples that can be manipulated to generate 3D renderings, which can be processed to determine structural parameters of interest.
Process
The LAT™ process uses a high peak-power laser to repeatedly vaporize a thin surface layer of a sample. The emitted light is routed through an optical system for filtering and imaging. The data is processed and reconstructed into a high-resolution model that can be viewed, manipulated, or virtually dissected. Depending on the aspects in which a client is interested, 3D processing algorithms are used to extract and quantify relevant data associated with these features. With resolution as fine as 800 nanometers at 18 million voxels per slice, Laser Ablation Tomography can provide excellent level of detail while simultaneously capturing the larger context.
Avizo, a visualization and analysis software,
Biology
LAT™ technology can provide key insight into important contemporary scientific and engineering applications, such as designing bio-inspired materials, next generation crops, or studying pathogens. By acquiring data at an unprecedented rate with virtually no sample preparation requirements, LAT™ can characterize specimens in minutes rather than hours or days, facilitating more rapid scientific discovery. Additionally, the combined fluorescent and hyperspectral imaging enables queries into composition as well as structure.
* High Throughput Phenotyping:Phenotyping of biological specimens is becoming increasingly important throughout the agricultural industry. Optimization of crops is a multi-billion dollar industry. However, there is a bottleneck in phenotyping due to an inability to rapidly acquire and analyze structural parameters of interest.
* LAT™ technology stands as the only tool capable of high-speed 3D analysis that is well suited for high-throughput phenotyping, delivering cellular resolution and precise compositional and structural quantification.
* Penn State researchers are utilizing LAT™ technology to simultaneously improve the quality of data and accelerate discovery of genetic traits associated with fitness in high-stress environments.
Geology
* Natural Resource Exploration
* LAT™ can characterize samples for natural resource exploration. With fluorescent imaging, material composition, porosity, permeability, and microstructure can be differentiated easily.
* Determining total organic content, thermal maturity, and mineralogy are possible applications of LAT™. With the desire to characterize these properties on-site and with the ability to determine organic content in drill cuttings, LAT™ Scans provide near real-time date for fracking operations.
Material Analysis
Aided by recent advancements in design technology and 3D printing, scientists are designing next-generation materials for new high-tech applications in virtually all industries. Fabricating these complex three dimensional structures is now possible, facilitating the creation of materials with exotic properties. Understanding the nature of these structures is critically important to research and development efforts, underscoring the need for rapid, robust feedback.
LAT™ presents a novel approach to quickly gather and model complex structural data. Whether for additive manufacturing or improving design, LAT™ can provide comprehensive datasets on demand.
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Http_response plugin shows all data along side latest result code in grafana dashboard
• What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
10.2.2 Fedora Workstation 39
• What are you trying to achieve?
I am trying to show http response status of some systems using http_response telegraf input plugin.
• How are you trying to achieve it?
I added system URL into telegraf.conf file, and test it in Influxdb to only fetch result_code, after that I copied the flux query to grafana panel selecting influxdb as data source. Here is the flux query
from(bucket: "system_stat")
|> range(start: v.timeRangeStart, stop: v.timeRangeStop)
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["_measurement"] == "http_response")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["_field"] == "result_code")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["host"] == "fedora")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["method"] == "GET")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["server"] == "https://liyumfi.com/")
|> aggregateWindow(every: v.windowPeriod, fn: last, createEmpty: false)
|> yield(name: "last")
• What happened?
Instead of showing one result_code at a time it is showing multiple results which are from different time.
• What did you expect to happen?
To show one result_code at a time.
• Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
• Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
No, there is no error being shown.
• Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
No
Your above function did not match that shown in your screenshot (where it showed fn: mean), but nevertheless, I do not think that will resolve your issue.
Can you try this? Maybe fiddle around with the fields box?
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Hello @grant2
Your above function did not match that shown in your screenshot (where it showed fn: mean), but nevertheless, I do not think that will resolve your issue.
Yeah, I was trying to change mean to last and vise-versa just to check if it works, unfortunately it doesn’t.
I have tried changing the reducer function options as you suggested, but in all case it shows two stats at the same time.
@grant2
I couldn’t figure out the problem I also couldn’t even override values. I have posted the problem here
@usman.ahmad
Any ideas here, please.
same problem here.
I have configured a outputs.prometheus_client.
If I scrape the prometheus endpoint during a transition of the http_response endpoint, I get two states at a time:
=> START
# HELP animals_http_response_code Telegraf collected metric
# TYPE animals_http_response_code untyped
animals_http_response_code{host="telegraf-polling-service",method="GET",result="response_status_code_mismatch",result_type="response_status_code_mismatch",server="http://localhost:3000/animals",status_code="201"} 201
=> after next polling (10s)
# HELP animals_http_response_code Telegraf collected metric
# TYPE animals_http_response_code untyped
animals_http_response_code{host="telegraf-polling-service",method="GET",result="response_status_code_mismatch",result_type="response_status_code_mismatch",server="http://localhost:3000/animals",status_code="201"} 201
animals_http_response_code{host="telegraf-polling-service",method="GET",result="success",result_type="success",server="http://localhost:3000/animals",status_code="200"} 200
=> after about 1min
# HELP animals_http_response_code Telegraf collected metric
# TYPE animals_http_response_code untyped
animals_http_response_code{host="telegraf-polling-service",method="GET",result="success",result_type="success",server="http://localhost:3000/animals",status_code="200"} 200
@lormey could this be a problem with the input plugin it self? I am not getting it, this thing works fine on my other Grafana server, but not on current system.
Finally, it worked for me, and the issue was not with Grafana, my telegraf and influxdb config was incorrect. I defined [[outputs.influxdb_v2]] twice and used two different buckets with that, that was the reason why I was seeing two results at the same time.
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Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer.
Education and career
Sierra attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a major in exercise physiology and spent 10 years working in the fitness industry. She changed careers after attending programming classes at UCLA, later returning to teach a course on "new media interactivity" for UCLA Extension. She led the new media team at Mind over Macintosh, a Los Angeles training center that provided training to advertising and entertainment corporations adapting digital technologies in the mid-1990s. She was the lead programmer on the computer games Terratopia, a 1998 children's adventure game released by Virgin Sound & Vision, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, a film-based game released as a free cereal premium by MGM. She also worked as a master trainer for Sun Microsystems, teaching Java instructors how to introduce new Java technologies and developing certification exams. In 1998, she founded the Java programmers' online community JavaRanch.
She is the co-creator of the Head First series of books on technical (primarily computer) topics, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with Head First Java in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of teaching programming. Sierra's books in the series have received three nominations for Product Excellence Jolt Awards, winning in 2005 for Head First Design Patterns, and were recognized on Amazon.com's yearly top 10 list for computer books from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 she coined the phrase "The Kool-Aid Point" to describe the point at which detractors emerge purely due to the popularity of a topic being promoted by others.
Sierra says that her interest in cognitive science was motivated by her epilepsy, a condition for which she takes anti-seizure medication. "My interest in the brain began when I had my first grand mal seizure at the age of four," she wrote on her personal weblog.
After years of being mostly absent from the open internet, in July 2013 she started the site "Serious Pony" including a blog, together with a Twitter account, although as of October 2014 the latter had been deleted due to ongoing harassment.
Harassment and withdrawal from online life
In 2007, Sierra became the target of online harassment over her support of moderating comments on the internet, which was seen by harassers as infringing on internet freedom. In March 2007, Sierra abruptly canceled her appearance at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Diego due to threatening blog posts and emails, including death threats. Sierra's harassers posted doctored images of her face next to a noose or being strangled. The harassment increased after the threats were reported in the news. The hacker and self-professed "Internet troll" Andrew Auernheimer, known as weev, told the New York Times that he was responsible for posting false information about Sierra online, along with her address and Social Security number, a form of harassment known as doxing.
Sierra gave up her technology career as a result of the harassment, withdrawing from most public-speaking events and no longer blogging. In her final post, she wrote that she did not want to be involved with the culture of the Blogosphere as long as such harassment was accepted. She later wrote, "I had no desire then to find out what comes after doxxing, especially not with a family".
The issue triggered public discussion on the concept of a bloggers' code of conduct. Some bloggers, including Robert Scoble, author of the technology blog Scobleizer, temporarily suspended their blogs in a show of support for Sierra. One of the larger issues Scoble felt was highlighted by the incident was online hostility to women: "It's this culture of attacking women that has especially got to stop," Scoble said "[W]henever I post a video of a female technologist there invariably are snide remarks about body parts and other things that simply wouldn't happen if the interviewee were a man."
Selected publications
* Mike Meyers' Java 2 Certification Passport (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2001) ISBN 0-07-219366-2
* Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2002) ISBN 0-07-222684-6
* Head First EJB (O'Reilly Publishing, 2003) ISBN 0-596-00571-7
* Head First Servlets and JSP (O'Reilly Publishing, 2004) ISBN 0-596-00540-7
* Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly Publishing, 2004) ISBN 0-596-00712-4
* SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2005) ISBN 0-07-225360-6
* Head First Java (O'Reilly Publishing, 2005) ISBN 0-596-00920-8
* OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065) (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2010) ISBN 0-07-226088-2
* ''OCA/OCP Java SE 7 Programmer I & II Study Guide (Exams 1Z0-803 & 1Z0-804) McGraw-Hill 2014
* Badass: Making Users Awesome (O'Reilly Media, 2015) ISBN 1-4919-1901-9
* OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-808) 1st Edition McGraw-Hill 2017 ISBN 1-260-01139-9
* OCP Java SE 8 Programmer II Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-809) 7th Edition McGraw-Hill 2018 ISBN 1-260-11738-3
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Dominic Zapata
Dominic Zapata (born February 14, 1971), is a Filipino television and film director. He is a graduate of the De La Salle University and Don Bosco Technical Institute-Makati. He took up AB Communication Arts and BSC Marketing Management (CAM-MMG) at De La Salle University, where he entered the communication arts program in 1988. He is now one of the resident directors of GMA Network since 1997. His most noted work is My Husband's Lover, nominated as Best Telenovela in the 2014 International Emmy Awards held at New York City. The same project also got him a nomination nod for Best Director at the Asian TV Awards in Singapore that same year. Zapata first became known for directing large-scale soaps, namely Mar's Ravelo's Darna (both versions, first with Angel Locsin and the updated Marian Rivera starrer) and Captain Barbell. He showed his versatility with the musical soap, Diva. He did local adaptations of international titles like the Kim Samsoon (Korea), La Lola (Argentina), Zaido (Japan) and Zorro (US). His Filipino version of the Korean drama, Temptation of Wife and My Beloved were aired in 2012 while Carmela: Ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Mundong Ibabaw was aired in 2014. Then came the commercial and critical success of My Husband's Lover. Aside from television shows, Dominic directed films such as Kuya, Mulawin: The Movie, My Valentine Girl, and Boy Pick-up the Movie. In 2005, he won the Metro Manila Film Festival People's Choice Award for Best Director for his work on Mulawin, the Movie. He also won five citations in the 5th Golden Screen TV Awards. He was nominated in the 2014 Asian Television Awards in the Best Direction category, nominated in the 9th Seoul International Drama Awards and also nominated for an International Emmy Award under the Telenovela category, given by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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How to Maintain Truck Tire Air Pressure
Why maintaining air pressure is the single most effective way to maximize tire return on investment, and how to do it right
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Maintaining correct tire air pressure is the single most effective way to control truck tire wear and improve casing life and tire performance.
Too much air creates a handful of performance and handling issues but too little air pressure is far more common and expensive. An under-inflated tire flexes more as it rolls down the road, resulting in increased friction that raises the rubber's temperature.
"Heat is a tire's greatest enemy; it causes a tire's components to deteriorate and may even damage the steel cords," says Tim Miller, communications manager for Goodyear Commercial Tire. "Insufficient inflation also hurts fuel economy, since under-inflated tires force truck engines to work harder."
How much air do you need in tires? Most Class 8 trucks will require about 105 psi in each tire, but the ideal pressure varies with axle load, the number of tires per axle, typical cruising speed of your trucks and even weather.
Discover proper air pressure for your truck tires by plugging information about your axle loads and speeds into the Tire and Rim Association's load and inflation-pressure tables.
Tire-industry guidelines allow tires to carry heavier loads at slower speeds. Slowing down also offers a fuel-efficiency bonus.
Ambient temperature affects tire air pressure. Recommended inflation pressure drops one pound for every 10-degree increase in ambient temperature (See the Tire and Rim Association's load and inflation-pressure tables).
Perfect tires and rims lose air. As much as 2 psi worth of air molecules can work their way right through tire rubber. An effective tire management program includes checking all inflation pressures, including inside duals, and visually inspecting tires monthly or more often.
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-- China Local Debt May Top Estimates, Former Minister Says
China ’s local governments may have
more than 20 trillion yuan ($3.2 trillion) of debt, former
Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said, almost double the figure
given in a 2011 report by the National Audit Office. The combined debt of China’s central governments and the
nation’s provinces and cities may currently be more than 30
trillion yuan, Xiang, who served as finance minister from 1998
to 2003, said at the Boao Forum for Asia . Local governments had
10.7 trillion yuan of debt at the end of 2010, the auditor said
in its report. “It seems the central government’s debt level is quite
transparent, while local government debt isn’t, and therefore
it’s not easy to get a clear picture,” Xiang said April 6. He
added that since he retired, he’s no longer “within the
system” and that his comments on government debt are based on
his own personal estimates. China has sought to curtail borrowing by local governments
because of concerns that banks will be saddled with bad debts.
The nation’s central bank estimated in 2011 that local
governments, which are barred from directly taking bank loans or
selling debt, had set up more than 10,000 financing arms to fund
the construction of roads, bridges and sewage plants. “We recognize some progress has been made by the central
authorities to keep that level of indebtedness and the local
public finance under better watch,” International Monetary Fund
Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at the Boao Forum
yesterday. “To make sure the borrowing by local authorities is
actually kept under control and not diverted through various
agencies or off-balance sheet structures, is critical to
actually keep public finances under control.” Strengthen Controls Wen Jiabao said on March 5 in his final work report to the
National People’s Congress as premier that China will strengthen
management over the debt of provinces and municipalities. Loans
to China’s local government financing vehicles, or LGFVs,
currently total about 9.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 2
percent in two years, the China Securities Journal reported on
March 8, citing bank regulator Shang Fulin. The public doesn’t need to be alarmed by the level of
government debt because as a ratio of China’s gross domestic
product it is “not particularly high” and because the
borrowings are mostly domestic, Xiang said at the forum. There’s
also no sign of lending going to “very, very bad” projects or
work with “very, very low efficiency,” Xiang said. He also applauded efforts by new Finance Minister Lou Jiwei
in overseeing a study on local government debt levels, saying
the review shows China is taking the issue seriously. “Right now our situation is very good,” Fred Hu, founder
of the private equity firm Primavera Capital and former Greater
China chairman at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said at the Boao
Forum. “But what about in the coming five years, 10 years, 20
years?” he said, adding that if the issue of local government
borrowing isn’t addressed China could face a debt crisis. To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story:
Henry Sanderson in Beijing at
hsanderson@bloomberg.net ;
Feiwen Rong in Beijing at
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Benefits Of Saline For Babies
The Benefits Of Saline For Babies
Ohmymag explains the importance of saline for your baby's health.
Saline For Babies
1. What is saline: Saline is an isotonic solution of sodium chloride (salt). An isotonic solution is a liquid that has the same molecular weight as the naturally occurring fluids in the body. Saline is therefore a mixture of water and salt, very similar to the chemical composition of tears.
2. Why is it good for baby: The skin and mucous membranes of a toddler are extremely fragile. It is therefore essential to use products that will not attack it. Indeed, the baby's skin is permeable, which means that everything we apply to their skin is found in their body. It's a bit like you're feeding them everything you put on their body!
In addition, the child's immune system is still weak and any external aggression can cause inflammation or allergies. Saline, which mimics body fluids, is the perfect solution for cleaning your child's fragile mucous membranes.
As an adult, you too can benefit from the benefits of saline - if you have dust in your eye or a dry nose, the solution can help you as well as your child. Remember to buy saline in individual pods and discard any remaining solution a day after opening to avoid the risk of bacteria.
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3. When to use saline: The serum is used in the baby's daily routine. You can clean their eyes, nose and possible small superficial wounds with it. However, do not overdo it - it is better to throw a little product away than to put too much on the fragile mucous membranes of your child at the risk of irritating them. If your baby has a cold, you can use saline to clean their nose.
To do this, lay your baby on one side and squeeze the solution into the nostril opposite the side on which they are lying. The mucous will be expelled by the other nostril. Repeat on the other side to clear both nostrils. It may seem a little barbaric, babies are surprised by nose cleansing and will usually vigorously protest!
Don't worry, it is a very effective and painless solution that can prevent your child from superinfection of the ENT sphere.
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User:R8R/Elements
This presentation is about the future of our project, or, to be exact, about what we have to do to make it keep on being good. It is written for some perspective; be good not now but ever. There are little human resources. We thus need to find out how to use them effectively and how to make the future incoming workforce especially useful. Despite the small size, this project can go through a small organization work. The editing paradigm could also be altered. This report is broken into several parts. This is done to discuss different topics closer.
Articles
They are the most important articles-- they thus go first. For the same reason, it will be the biggest part.
About FAs
There are currently 17 FAs. 17/118=0.144. If we add the 4 A-class articles, it is only 17.8%. All the 10 years brought us only 17.8% FAs (and near FAs). We can therefore conclude the dream of coloring the whole table blue will take more than a generation if even there is a two-fold acceleration.
We should also remember that the editors will not edit articles that are GAs already. Thus, making it green and not blue is a path leading us into the evergreen table. Which we are approaching: the GAs make 46.6% of our articles.
Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Let us think closer
Bringing an article through GAN is a relatively time- and effort-cheap process. It also shows us that the article is of reasonable quality. FAC is the top of development. The best we could do (it should be noted that it is because our editors reach it, not because the review is so good).
Not all our articles are as important as others. For the less important articles, it should be okay to simply GA it, given the limited resources. Why to FA, then?
Really good quality. FAs will be a good reward to those who read it. Especially that our more-read articles are read by professionals (I do not know why). Anyway, if we satisfy them, we can be sure we can satisfy anyone coming for info, except maybe those who look for something very specific, which we do not include normally. Also, more readers means more requirement, since we want to satisfy them all (as long as the article remains a Wikipedia article and is structured properly). They are our showcase. They are supposed to be as good as possible. Those less-viewed articles attract pros less commonly. Not our showcase. Not our number 1 priority (but do not have to be neglected either, read “About editor interest” for more).
But what needs to be featured?
Every (excluding FAs and A-class articles for now) article needs to be improved. To different extent, but need to be improved. We are reader-oriented. Thus, we should think about readers first.
I propose the following scheme as a reference point:
We multiply the number of views by the quality coefficient (FA - 0.0, A - 0.05, GA - 0.25, B+ - 0.35, B - 0.4, C - 0.6, Start - 0.8, Stub - 1). The higher the number is, the greater the need is.
Here is the result for the Top 30 (view Top30, not index Top30):
* 1) 143933 Gold
* 2) 87830 Aluminum
* 3) 82516 Magnesium
* 4) 78539 Sodium
* 5) 70450 Iron
* 6) 65227 Iodine
* 7) 65215 Calcium
* 8) 60884 Isotope
* 9) 58517 Nitrogen
* 10) 53843 Copper
* 11) 52808 Sulfur
* 12) 52507 Silver
* 13) 45596 Silicon
* 14) 44663 Chlorine
* 15) 43005 Mercury (element)
* 16) 42568 Phosphorus
* 17) 39287 Carbon
* 18) 33607 Potassium
* 19) 29543 Lead
* 20) 29009 Platinum
* 21) 26642 Lithium
* 22) 26614 Tungsten
* 23) 26489 Palladium
Even though it covers only the view Top 30, it is safe to say the improving Gold and Aluminum (B-class) would benefit much more than livermorium (C-class, index: 9142) or History of the periodic table (C, 26168). That should always be had in mind.
About grouping
It is no secret that different groups of elements are written differently. How does that help?
It is always useful to have an article to go after. Having such an article does not mean it should be exactly replicated as many times as needed, with only figures and some uses differing; but it may provide a few useful ideas. We may therefore wish to have at least one FA in each element category (here, I mean a different thing than our element coloring). Here is an approximate list:
* Alkali metals: Li-Cs
* (FA: Cs)
* (GA: Li, Na, K, Rb)
* Alkaline earth metals: Be-Ba
* (GA: Be, Ca, Sr, Ba)
* ≤C: Mg
* REE: Sc, Y, La-Nd, Sm-Lu
* (FA: Y)
* (GA: Sc, La, Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu, Dy, Tm, Yb, Lu)
* ≤C: Nd, Gd, Tb, Ho, Er
* (Relatively) Common metals: Al, Ti-Mn, Co, Ni, Zn-Ge, Zr, Mo, Cd, In, Sb, W, Tl, Bi
* (FA: Ti, Zn, Ge)
* (GA: V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Ga, Zr, Mo, Cd, In, Sb, W, Tl, Bi)
* ≤C: Al
* Antique metals (all very common): Fe, Sn, Pb, Hg, Au, Ag, Cu
* (FA: Pb)
* (GA: Cu, Fe, Ag, Hg)
* ≤C: Sn, Au
* Rare metals: Nb, Hf, Ta, Re, Os, Ir
* (FA: Nb, Ir)
* (GA: Hf, Ta, Re, Os)
* Precious metals: Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt
* (GA: Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt)
* Solid nonmetals with past to honor: B, Si, P, S, As
* (GA: B, Si)
* B: As
* ≤C: P, S
* Major atmospheric gases: N, O
* (FA: O)
* (GA: N)
* Halogens: F-I
* (FA: F)
* (GA: Cl, Br, I)
* Heavy chalcogens: Se, Te
* (GA: Se, Te)
* Noble gases: Ne-Xe
* (FA: Xe)
* (GA: Ne, Ar, Kr)
* Radioactive, not mined: Po, Ra, Ac, Pa
* (GA: Po, Ac, Pa)
* B: Ra
* Radioactive, mined: Th, U
* (FA: U)
* (GA: Th)
* Synthetic (including later actinides): Tc, Pm, At, Fr, Np-Es
* (FA: Tc, At, Fr, Cf)
* (GA: Pm, Np, Am, Cm, Bk, Es)
* Last actinides: Fm-Lr
* (GA: Fm, Md, No, Lr)
* SHEs with chem.: Rf-Hs, Cn-Fl
* (FA: Db)
* (GA: Rf, Sg, Bh, Hs, Cn, Nh, Fl)
* SHEs w/o chem.: Mt-Rg, Mc, Lv
* (GA: Mt, Ds, Rg, Mc, Lv)
* No nucleosynthesis section SHEs: Ts, Og
* (FA: Ts, Og)
* Undiscovered SHEs: 119, 120, 121
* (GA: 119, 120, 121)
* Also, H, He, C, Rn, and Pu cannot be included into a group comfortably, because no such group exists (H, C) or the element stands out too much (He, Rn, Pu).
* (FA: H, He, Pu)
* (GA: C, Rn)
* Unsatisfactory:
* B (easier to improve quickly to become satisfactory): As, Ra
* ≤C (long-haul attempts): Mg, Al, P, S, Sn, Nd, Gd, Tb, Ho, Er, Au
If you think the list should be corrected, okay, let us discuss. The whole point is to group elements into groups of elements that are as similar in writing rather than finding element with similar properties (that is what our normal PSE is for). In over a half of the offered groups there is already at least one FA. Only the groups “Solid nonmetals with past to honor,” “Heavy chalcogens,” “Radioactive, not mined”, “Last actinides,” “SHEs with chem.,” and “SHEs w/o chem.,” there is a problem. In a short term (say, 12-24 months), we essentially need to work only on the first three. The others can be waiting for its enthusiasts. Such classification, if implemented, can be kept after we fix all the groups, just to make new (and sometimes old) editors look where could something similar be. That is not necessary, though; but having such an example is necessary. Remember, if a new editor finds an article to follow, the task gets x2 easier, so he is more likely to stay.
Even outside the “helping the editor” context, it is still a useful idea in context of editor activity diversification. Especially that within the limits of a group, you can pick up article that is the most interesting to you. (Read “About editor interest” for more)
About editor interest, activity diversification, and goals
As said, we are reader-oriented.
However, since it is also a non-commercial project and we work on articles because we want to and not because of money, etc, we should consider that setting a hard task will mean ignoring the hard task (already true for some of our short goals). We need therefore to please the editor as well.
For that, our tasks should be often very flexible. That would help bring it more activity. And they have to be “hard” at the same time. (To be more exact: flexible contents and a hard limit) With a little enthusiasm in mind, that is the most effective scheme possible.
Like “get us at least 2 stable element FAs in the following 12 months.” Or, even better, change “Short term” to (say) “To do until March 2014” and get there points like “get us at least 2 stable element FAs.” Flexible contents (2 stable element FAs leaves much space to choose from), and the hard date as a limit. There is choice, there is an external pressure. Perfect combination for productivity for a non-binding community. Some criteria should be stricter, but agreed on with in mind that someone will have to do that.
The goals instrument has its potential; it was very useful during some time before I showed up (hope the two are unrelated). If we decide what to put there after a discussion, it may be useful. After an agreement on want to do based on what we want to do (which combines personal preferences and responsibility for the reader’s interests), the work will get a significant stimulation. Any changes should be agreed. Some criteria fulfilled should stay stroke until the term expires, if the term system will go.
If anyone cares, of course.
If anyone is tired of writing about articles on one kind of articles, the goals are also the best way to switch (even though they will be agreed with personal interests in mind).
About improving GAs you have not written and why it is not always needed to do the most important task right now
Because if we do all the neat-o’s now, we will have little left for future. This, in response, is a sign of the project’s slowdown. “Nonsense!” you say. It is not. It is a question of psychology. It is not the right place to discuss that (leave me a message if unsure). The basics are, since the important job is done, editing a non-important article is not help but a relative waste of time (while you could write something about stars or languages or whatever).
Of course, it will slow down sometime anyway, but let us try to delay that until the PTQ is green-blue.
And also, what to do with to-be-FAs GAs? Improve them to the FA status. There are few articles which really need it; those are only Li, W, Pt, Pb, Cu, C, Hg (see the list). And that's it. (Note: "need" does not equal "could use") It would be a really good improvement for reader. Even though they are already GAs. We would show everyone real quality. This is a great benefit for our readers. The only article in my watchlist that has a comment option is Astatine (A-class, not FA yet because needs a small beauty work, but otherwise FA-worthy). And the comments like “this was a great page!! I really appreciate wikipedia.... thanks for making this website free” and “The same in Spanish please! This is the only one totally correct and full of information, not the same in the rest of languages.” is what we are working for.
A related question is, some our TM GAs are not GA-worthy anymore. This should cause the rethinking of statuses of some of them; this, in return, may some of the articles not GA anymore, easing the problem.
Other articles
In general, the same works for our other articles.
Some specifics where appreciable:
Groups: We should FA Alkali metal, Halogen, and Noble gas. Alkaline earth metal, a TM group, and one more main group element group would also be neat.
Periods: 1 FA would be enough.
Other articles are not worth it going through FAC (unless someone wants to).
* I would rather say: FA alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, halogen and noble gas. Don't bother about the rest, they're too heterogenous; for example, pnictogen breaks immediately into N separately, P separately, and As, Sb, and Bi together. (I realise At breaks off similarly for the halogens, but it is difficult to find a naturally occurring element that people could care less about.) [DS]
* Maybe add the carbon group, it tends to be covered in full even in pre-university UK syllabi (along with 1, 2, 17, and rather obviously 18)
New guidelines
The question is, why bother?
Because we will systemize our knowledge and ease the getting involved for the possible newcomers.
Our Guidelines section is outdated: all our articles already developed to that standard.
What could come there? The lists of similar elements (see above), some tips, useful links (like how to instructions), and encouragement for research. Or whatever. The point is that by doing this, we will learn or at least systemize what we know. And get rid of a section outdated for years.
Field to discuss the current and future development
“Wait, isn’t our talkpage enough?”
In principle, it is. But we need a space to see how the work goes. Somewhat like /Articles’ talkpage, but everything related. There is a need for space where one says, “I’m working on X.” and lets that know/seeks help.
This is easily established.
It will not improve productivity, just the visual presentation of how we go. In fact, I have many ideas how that could be used. Not sure if any of them will be implemented. But, again, I think, graphic representation should be.
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2024 PEI Tankard
The 2024 PEI Tankard, the men's provincial curling championship for Prince Edward Island, was held from January 25 to 28 at the Summerside Curling Club in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. The event was held in conjunction with the 2024 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's championship.
The winning Tyler Smith rink represented Prince Edward Island at the 2024 Montana's Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan where they finished tied for third in Pool B with a 5–3 record. Smith and his rink almost became the first team from PEI to make the playoffs since Peter MacDonald in, but PEI lost their final round robin game, a winner-take-all game against Jamie Koe's Northwest Territories rink in an extra end 9–8.
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout Brackets
Source:
Knockout Results
All draw times are listed in Atlantic Time (UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
Thursday, January 25, 2:00 pm
Draw 2
Thursday, January 25, 7:00 pm
Draw 3
Friday, January 26, 9:00 am
Draw 4
Friday, January 26, 2:00 pm
Draw 6
Saturday, January 27, 9:00 am
Draw 7
Saturday, January 27, 2:00 pm
Draw 8
Saturday, January 27, 7:00 pm
Playoffs
Source:
No playoff was needed as Team Smith won all three events.
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Metallic Character Definition
Zinc is an element that displays metallic character. It has a metallic luster, is hard, has high melting and boiling points, and forms cations.
Zinc is an element that displays metallic character. It has a metallic luster, is hard, has high melting and boiling points, and forms cations. Bar?s Muratoglu / Getty Images
Metallic Character Definition: Metallic character describes the set of chemical properties that are associated with the elements classified as metals in the periodic table. Metallic character depends on the ability of an element to lose its outer valence electrons.
Also Known As: metallicity, metal character
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Your Citation
Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "Metallic Character Definition." ThoughtCo, Dec. 6, 2016, thoughtco.com/definition-of-metallic-character-605338. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. (2016, December 6). Metallic Character Definition. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-metallic-character-605338 Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "Metallic Character Definition." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-metallic-character-605338 (accessed January 18, 2018).
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Ferrars is one of the most affectionate mothers in the world.”
Elinor was silent.
“We think now”—said Mr. Dashwood, after a short pause, “of Robert’s marrying Miss Morton.”
Elinor, smiling at the grave and decisive importance of her brother’s tone, calmly replied,
“The lady, I suppose, has no choice in the affair.”
“Choice!—how do you mean?”—
“I only mean, that I suppose from your manner of speaking, it must be the same to Miss Morton whether she marry Edward or Robert.”
“Certainly, there can be no difference; for Robert will now to all intents and purposes be considered as the eldest son;—and as to any thing else, they are both very agreeable young men, I do not know that one is superior to the other.” Elinor
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Cover image for classList API in forest
Sergey Sova for Core
Posted on • Updated on • Originally published at dev.to
classList API in forest
Forest is a reactive JavaScript/TypeScript rendering engine based on an effector — business logic manager.
The main idea of the forest is "initialize once, never render". Here we don't have such things as to render calls like in React.
Let's show you an example:
import { h, using } from 'forest'
function App() {
h('div', {
text: 'Hello',
fn() {
h('span', { text: 'World' })
},
})
}
using(document.querySelector('#root'), App)
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I need to highlight 3 things:
1. There is no JSX or another specific syntax
2. Forest doesn't require return from components
3. Each function/component is called only once
Let's explain:
There is no JSX or another specific syntax
JSX looks like HTML, but do more with javascript embeds. But, when we trying to pass something that not looks like attributes, we need to build tricks:
function ReactComponent(props) {
return <div
onClick={handleClick}
data-someid={props}
style={{ height: props.height }}
{...props.extras}
>content</div>
}
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Please note that we also have CSS custom attributes accessible from javascript. We can customize handlers setup (capture, preventDefault, stopPropagation, and so on). DOM API also supports setting many text nodes.
But JSX doesn't support them and for already solved tasks we have a very strange API.
Also, JSX requires passing all kinds of properties to the same place, to the same object, and it shifts responsibility to solve conflicts on end developers.
Also, any specific language requires installing specific tools and learning how to solve specific issues with the new language.
Data-attributes
JSX has anti-DX:
<div data-first={1} data-second={2} />
// instead of, ex:
<div data={{ first: 1, second: 2 }} />
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Look at the DOM API:
element.dataset.first = 1
element.dataset.second = 2
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Forest:
h('div', {
data: { first: 1, second: 2 },
})
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Event handlers
JSX compels libraries to invent the wheel with the naming of the props:
<div onClick={fn1} onClickCapture={fn2} />
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But we have beautiful DOM API:
element.addEventListener('click', fn2, { capture: true })
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Forest:
h('div', {
handler: { click: fn1 },
})
h('div', {
handler: { config: { capture: true }, on: { click: fn2 } },
})
// or in the same element
h('div', () => {
spec({ handler: { click: fn1 } })
spec({ handler: { config: { capture: true }, on: { click: fn2 } } })
})
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Style properties
Ok, inline styles are not the best practice, but we have cases for them. What JSX can offer us?
<div style={{ height: 'auto', maxHeight: '100px' }} />
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I need to remind, that inline styles allows to pass css custom properties:
<div style="height: auto; max-height: 100px; --color: black"></div>
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Forest:
h('div', {
style: { height: 'auto', maxHeight: '100px' },
styleVar: { color: 'black' },
})
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But JSX in React with TypeScript doesn't allow passing CSS custom properties without tears.
Whole picture
function ForestComponent({ fn, someId, height }) {
h('div', {
handler: { click: handleClick },
data: { someId },
style: { height: height },
text: 'content',
fn,
})
}
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Note, that each kind of properties and attributes is separated from each other, we don't need to solve conflicts. But also, in the forest way in the most cases we don't need props at all, just call spec() inside fn(){}:
function ForestComponent({ fn }) {
h('div', {
text: 'content',
fn,
})
}
ForestComponent({
fn() {
spec({
handler: { click: handleClick },
data: { someId },
style: { height: height },
})
},
})
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Yep, we like OCP from SOLID, and props allow it. But as you can see, you HAVE a choice.
Forest doesn't require return from components
React and JSX requires returning some elements from components because this library builds a diff-tree to compare with the previous view-state. Forest uses the same mechanism as react-hooks to solve the same problem.
It is called declarative stack-based DOM API. Proof of concept implementation.
When you called using with some App function, forest saves each call of h, spec, list, and other methods to the stack, it looks like virtual DOM, but you don't need to compare tree with each other. There is no render. Forest knows each point where is reactivity is applied: the user just passed effector Store instead of a literal value. When the store is updated, forest batches change and apply it to a DOM with 60 frames per second rate. Concurrent rendering out from the box.
This is why each function/component is called only once. And this is why you as a forest user need to change your habits to design forest components. You can't just put if where you want, you need to use reactive Store and visible properties to declaratively show/hide any element you want.
What was before classList
I need to explain how the spec() method works.
h("input", {
attr: { type: "number" },
fn() {
spec({ attr: { class: "w-full" } })
},
})
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All method called inside fn(){} property applies on the input element created by h(). So, we can create children elements if we call h() inside fn(){}.
spec() just add new properties, handlers, and so on on the already created element. In our case we should have <input type="number" class="w-full" />.
But with string attributes, we will have some problems.
h("input", {
attr: { class: "first" },
fn() {
spec({ attr: { class: "second" } })
},
})
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What value we should set for the class attribute? First or Second? Or we should merge? If merge, what if I need to override or disable some classes?
function Component({ fn }) {
h("input", {
attr: { class: "w-full text-red" },
fn() { fn() },
})
}
Component({ fn() {
spec({ attr: { class: "w-20 text-blue" } }) // Oops! We already set w-full and text-red
}})
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There we have the same problem with reactivity:
function Component({ $enabled }) {
const $class = val`w-full ${$enabled.map(is => is ? 'text-red' : 'text-gray')}`;
h('input', {
attr: {
class: $class,
type: 'number',
},
})
}
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What do we have now?
New API allows to set up each class independently. Proposal. It is based on browser API classList.
h("input", {
classList: ["first"],
fn() {
spec({ classList: ["second"] })
},
})
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Now classes can be combined, because forest operates each class independently, instead of a string of something inside.
Also, you have reactivity out from the box:
function Component({ $enabled }) {
h('input', {
attr: {
class: "w-full",
type: 'number',
},
classList: {
'text-red': $enabled,
'text-gray': $enabled.map(is => !is),
},
})
}
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Attribute class and classList will be merged. And nested spec() call also supported:
function Component({ fn }) {
h("input", {
classList: ["w-full", "text-red"],
fn() { fn() },
})
}
Component({ fn() {
spec({
classList: {
"w-full": false,
"w-20": true,
"text-red": false,
"text-blue": true,
},
})
}})
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Thank you for the reading! 🧡 ☄️
Forest is still in the development stage, you can help us improve its API or ecosystem: github.com/effector ⭐️
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Rehab Is A Phone Call Away
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Union Medical Detox
Medical detox is the most effective method of detox, and it takes place through an inpatient or outpatient drug or alcohol treatment program. Medical detox requires medical supervision, and during the process, doctors prescribe medications as needed to alleviate the severity of withdrawal symptoms or prevent the onset of dangerous conditions associated with alcohol and sedative detox.
Learn about the most up-to-date detox methods and treatments available when you call Union Drug Rehab at (908) 329-2286.
Why Medical Detox is Essential for Safety and Effectiveness
Detoxification, or detox, is the process of allowing traces of drugs to be flushed from the body in order to break the physical addiction so that brain function may begin to return to normal.
Detoxing is generally uncomfortable, but for five percent of people who experience the onset of delirium tremens during unsupervised alcohol withdrawal, this condition is fatal. Medical detox is essential for preventing or treating this condition as well as dangerous shifts in heart function that may occur when central nervous system sedatives like Xanax and Klonopin are suddenly withheld from the body.
But detox isn’t just potentially dangerous when it’s done at home. It’s also largely ineffective. Because withdrawal symptoms can cause extreme discomfort and almost always include intense cravings, most patients who try to quit drugs on their own without medical assistance turn back to the substance very quickly to ease the pain and stop the cravings.
Types of Medical Detox Programs
Detox can take place at a residential treatment facility or through an outpatient program.
• Inpatient detox is critical for those who have a history of intense drug abuse or a long-term addiction as well as for those who are ambivalent toward recovery. Inpatient programs provide the patient with respite from the stresses and triggers of the outside world, and they offer strong emotional support from staff and other patients in various stages of recovery. Whenever possible, those considering treatment should choose inpatient rehab, which is more comprehensive and intensive than outpatient treatment.
• Outpatient detox is effective for people who have intrinsic motivation to recover and a strong support system at home. Outpatient detox offers more privacy and enables patients to continue meeting obligations at home and in the community.
• Inpatient medical opiate detox is a controversial method of detoxing from opiates and involves putting the patient under general anesthesia for the entirety of the process. Patients wake up detoxed with medications blocking cravings.
Withdrawal Symptoms and Medications Used to Treat Them
Not every patient will experience all of the symptoms of withdrawal from any given substance, and the intensity of symptoms may range from mild to severe.
• Alcohol withdrawal causes symptoms like nausea, sweats, tremors, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, and seizures. Symptoms may also include delirium tremens, or DTs, which can be dangerous or fatal. Medications used during medical alcohol detox include Paxil to alleviate insomnia and depressive symptoms, Neurotonin to prevent or treat seizures and help restore normal brain function, and Chantix, which reduces the intensity of cravings.
• Opiate withdrawal from the illegal drug heroin and prescription drugs like OxyContin and Vicodin produces symptoms that include irritability and anxiety, insomnia, hot and cold sweats, muscle and body aches, and vomiting and diarrhea. Medications used during medical opiate detox include Methadone to suppress withdrawal symptoms, Clonidine to alleviate anxiety and relieve aches and pains, and Subutex to reduce the intensity of symptoms and shorten the duration of the detox process.
• Stimulant withdrawal associated with illegal drugs like cocaine and meth and prescription medications like Adderall and Ritalin causes symptoms that include deep depression and suicidal thoughts, intense anxiety, excessive lethargy, and paranoia and psychosis. Since no medications have been approved to treat these particular symptoms, physicians often prescribe drugs like Zyban to address the depression and reduce cravings.
• Sedative withdrawal from prescription medications like Valium and Klonopin produces symptoms that are potentially dangerous or fatal, including an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. No medications are approved for treating these symptoms, so withdrawal from these drugs is a process of tapering off the doses to prevent the onset of symptoms altogether.
Find out how you can receive treatment as soon as possible when you call Union Drug Rehab at (908) 329-2286.
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Subject: Multiple values for locators
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/25/1997 17:26:36
I have a severe need to express multiple values for a locator for
indirect devices. e.g. I need to be able to do:
sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 1 drq 1,5
gus0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 1 drq 5,7
Right now, where this is done at all, it's typically done via some
hack involving the `flags' field.
The way I propose to do this is non-invasive; it will not affect any
drivers for busses that do not support multiply-valued locators. The
idea is as follows:
* Extend the attribute definition syntax to allow multiple
initializers. e.g.:
device isa {[port = -1,-1,-1,-1], [size = 0,0,0,0],
[iomem = -1,-1,-1,-1], [iosiz = 0,0,0,0],
[irq = -1,-1], [drq = -1,-1]}
* Extend the device definition syntax to allow multiple values, as
above. e.g.:
sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 1 drq 1,5
gus0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 1 drq 5,7
* Use the number of initializers to size the space used in cf_loc[]
for the values. Always allocate space for the maximum number of
values. (Thus the values are still at fixed locations in the array,
as they are now.)
[An alternative to counting the initializers would have been to
introduce a syntax for explicitly specifying the maximum number in the
attribute declaration. But there'd still need to be a way to specify
the multiple initializers anyway.]
* Have the macros in locators.h point to the beginning of the list for
a given value (e.g. you'd use `cf_loc[ISACF_PORT + 0]',
`cf_loc[ISACF_PORT + 1]', etc., to reference the values), and have the
foocf_locnames[] array contain `locator[N]' (e.g. `port[0]' and
`port[1]'). For attributes with only one initializer, have
foocf_locnames[] just contain the name, as before.
* Count the number of values specified for each locator, and put these
counts at the end of cf_loc[], introducing another set of constants
(FOOCF_NLOCATOR) to access them.
So, does anyone have a reasonable objection to the above?
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Brisbane Christian College
Brisbane Christian College is an independent, non-denominational Christian, co-educational, Pre-Prep-12, school, located in the Brisbane suburb of, in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by Independent Schools Queensland, with an enrolment of 1,046 students and a teaching staff of 64, as of 2023. The College is separated into three campuses, and is a ministry of Life Church Brisbane.
Campuses
* Pre-Prep Centre in Coopers Plains, Brisbane,
* Primary School in Salisbury, Brisbane,
* Middle and Secondary Campus also in Salisbury, Brisbane which is about 9 km south of the Brisbane CBD. The Middle and Secondary Campus is on a 10.016 ha site and was the previous location of Nyanda State High School (also known as Salisbury High School).
History
The college opened on 15 April 1985, under the name Assembly of God's Southside Christian College.
The following individuals have served as Principal:
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User:Jabadahut
My Wikipedia username is Jabadahut. My real name is Rusty Archibald and I am a student at Mid-East Career and Technical Center in Zanesville, Ohio.
I am participating in the CNET program.
More to come at a later date.
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User:AdmiresCycles
AdmiresCycles is a newcomer Wikipedian who is finding considerable joy in adding to the weaving web of linked articles on this project. He has been an avid Reader since high school, where Wikipedia was "an OK place to start" but too taboo to tool with it below the surface. The whispering zoo is closing, more to come soon.
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PubMed
PubMed is a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
From 1971 to 1997, online access to the MEDLINE database had been primarily through institutional facilities, such as university libraries. PubMed, first released in January 1996, ushered in the era of private, free, home- and office-based MEDLINE searching. The PubMed system was offered free to the public starting in June 1997.
Content
In addition to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
* older references from the print version of Index Medicus, back to 1951 and earlier
* references to some journals before they were indexed in Index Medicus and MEDLINE, for instance Science, BMJ, and Annals of Surgery
* very recent entries to records for an article before it is indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and added to MEDLINE
* a collection of books available full-text and other subsets of NLM records
* PMC citations
* NCBI Bookshelf
Many PubMed records contain links to full text articles, some of which are freely available, often in PubMed Central and local mirrors, such as Europe PubMed Central.
Information about the journals indexed in MEDLINE, and available through PubMed, is found in the NLM Catalog.
, PubMed has more than 35 million citations and abstracts dating back to 1966, selectively to the year 1865, and very selectively to 1809. , 24.6 million of PubMed's records are listed with their abstracts, and 26.8 million records have links to full-text versions (of which 10.9 million articles are available, full-text for free). Over the last 10 years (ending 31 December 2019), an average of nearly one million new records were added each year.
In 2016, NLM changed the indexing system so that publishers are able to directly correct typos and errors in PubMed indexed articles.
PubMed has been reported to include some articles published in predatory journals. MEDLINE and PubMed policies for the selection of journals for database inclusion are slightly different. Weaknesses in the criteria and procedures for indexing journals in PubMed Central may allow publications from predatory journals to leak into PubMed.
Website design
A new PubMed interface was launched in October 2009 and encouraged the use of such quick, Google-like search formulations; they have also been described as 'telegram' searches. By default the results are sorted by Most Recent, but this can be changed to Best Match, Publication Date, First Author, Last Author, Journal, or Title.
The PubMed website design and domain was updated in January 2020 and became default on 15 May 2020, with the updated and new features. There was a critical reaction from many researchers who frequently use the site.
PubMed for handhelds/mobiles
PubMed/MEDLINE can be accessed via handheld devices, using for instance the "PICO" option (for focused clinical questions) created by the NLM. A "PubMed Mobile" option, providing access to a mobile friendly, simplified PubMed version, is also available.
Standard search
Simple searches on PubMed can be carried out by entering key aspects of a subject into PubMed's search window.
PubMed translates this initial search formulation and automatically adds field names, relevant MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms, synonyms, Boolean operators, and 'nests' the resulting terms appropriately, enhancing the search formulation significantly, in particular by routinely combining (using the OR operator) textwords and MeSH terms.
The examples given in a PubMed tutorial demonstrate how this automatic process works:
"Causes Sleep Walking is translated as ("etiology"[Subheading] OR "etiology"[All Fields] OR "causes"[All Fields] OR "causality"[MeSH Terms] OR "causality"[All Fields]) AND ("somnambulism"[MeSH Terms] OR "somnambulism"[All Fields] OR ("sleep"[All Fields] AND "walking"[All Fields]) OR "sleep walking"[All Fields])"
Likewise, "soft Attack Aspirin Prevention is translated as ("myocardial infarction"[MeSH Terms] OR ("myocardial"[All Fields] AND "infarction"[All Fields]) OR "myocardial infarction"[All Fields] OR ("heart"[All Fields] AND "attack"[All Fields]) OR "heart attack"[All Fields]) AND ("aspirin"[MeSH Terms] OR "aspirin"[All Fields]) AND ("prevention and control"[Subheading] OR ("prevention"[All Fields] AND "control"[All Fields]) OR "prevention and control"[All Fields] OR "prevention"[All Fields])"
Comprehensive search
For optimal searches in PubMed, it is necessary to understand its core component, MEDLINE, and especially of the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary used to index MEDLINE articles. They may also require complex search strategies, use of field names (tags), proper use of limits and other features; reference librarians and search specialists offer search services.
The search into PubMed's search window is only recommended for the search of unequivocal topics or new interventions that do not yet have a MeSH heading created, as well as for the search for commercial brands of medicines and proper nouns. It is also useful when there is no suitable heading or the descriptor represents a partial aspect. The search using the thesaurus MeSH is more accurate and will give fewer irrelevant results. In addition, it saves the disadvantage of the free text search in which the spelling, singular/plural or abbreviated differences have to be taken into consideration. On the other side, articles more recently incorporated into the database to which descriptors have not yet been assigned will not be found. Therefore, to guarantee an exhaustive search, a combination of controlled language headings and free text terms must be used.
Journal article parameters
When a journal article is indexed, numerous article parameters are extracted and stored as structured information. Such parameters are: Article Type (MeSH terms, e.g., "Clinical Trial"), Secondary identifiers, (MeSH terms), Language, Country of the Journal or publication history (e-publication date, print journal publication date).
Publication Type: Clinical queries/systematic reviews
Publication type parameter allows searching by the type of publication, including reports of various kinds of clinical research.
Secondary ID
Since July 2005, the MEDLINE article indexing process extracts identifiers from the article abstract and puts those in a field called Secondary Identifier (SI). The secondary identifier field is to store accession numbers to various databases of molecular sequence data, gene expression or chemical compounds and clinical trial IDs. For clinical trials, PubMed extracts trial IDs for the two largest trial registries: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT identifier) and the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register (IRCTN identifier).
Mapping to MeSH
PubMed automatically links to MeSH terms and subheadings. Examples would be: "bad breath" links to (and includes in the search) "halitosis", "heart attack" to "myocardial infarction", "breast cancer" to "breast neoplasms". Where appropriate, these MeSH terms are automatically "expanded", that is, include more specific terms. Terms like "nursing" are automatically linked to "Nursing [MeSH]" or "Nursing [Subheading]". This feature is called Auto Term Mapping and is enacted, by default, in free text searching but not exact phrase searching (i.e. enclosing the search query with double quotes). This feature makes PubMed searches more sensitive and avoids false-negative (missed) hits by compensating for the diversity of medical terminology.
PubMed does not apply automatic mapping of the term in the following circumstances: by writing the quoted phrase (e.g., "kidney allograft"), when truncated on the asterisk (e.g., kidney allograft*), and when looking with field labels (e.g., Cancer [ti]).
My NCBI
The PubMed optional facility "My NCBI" (with free registration) provides tools for and a wide range of other options. The "My NCBI" area can be accessed from any computer with web-access. An earlier version of "My NCBI" was called "PubMed Cubby".
* saving searches
* filtering search results
* setting up automatic updates sent by e-mail
* saving sets of references retrieved as part of a PubMed search
* configuring display formats or highlighting search terms
LinkOut
LinkOut is an NLM facility to link and make available full-text local journal holdings. Some 3,200 sites (mainly academic institutions) participate in this NLM facility, from Aalborg University in Denmark to ZymoGenetics in Seattle. Users at these institutions see their institution's logo within the PubMed search result (if the journal is held at that institution) and can access the full-text. Link out is being consolidated with Outside Tool as of the major platform update coming in the Summer of 2019.
PubMed Commons
In 2016, PubMed allows authors of articles to comment on articles indexed by PubMed. This feature was initially tested in a pilot mode (since 2013) and was made permanent in 2016. In February 2018, PubMed Commons was discontinued due to the fact that "usage has remained minimal".
askMEDLINE
askMEDLINE, a free-text, natural language query tool for MEDLINE/PubMed, developed by the NLM, also suitable for handhelds.
PubMed identifier
A PMID (PubMed identifier or PubMed unique identifier) is a unique integer value, starting at, assigned to each PubMed record. A PMID is not the same as a PMCID (PubMed Central identifier) which is the identifier for all works published in the free-to-access PubMed Central.
The assignment of a PMID or PMCID to a publication tells the reader nothing about the type or quality of the content. PMIDs are assigned to letters to the editor, editorial opinions, op-ed columns, and any other piece that the editor chooses to include in the journal, as well as peer-reviewed papers. The existence of the identification number is also not proof that the papers have not been retracted for fraud, incompetence, or misconduct. The announcement about any corrections to original papers may be assigned a PMID.
Each number that is entered in the PubMed search window is treated by default as if it were a PMID. Therefore, any reference in PubMed can be located using the PMID.
Alternative interfaces
The National Library of Medicine leases the MEDLINE information to a number of private vendors such as Embase, Ovid, Dialog, EBSCO, Knowledge Finder and many other commercial, non-commercial, and academic providers. , more than 500 licenses had been issued, more than 200 of them to providers outside the United States. As licenses to use MEDLINE data are available for free, the NLM in effect provides a free testing ground for a wide range of alternative interfaces and 3rd party additions to PubMed, one of a very few large, professionally curated databases which offers this option.
Lu identifies a sample of 28 current and free Web-based PubMed versions, requiring no installation or registration, which are grouped into four categories:
* 1) Ranking search results, for instance: eTBLAST; MedlineRanker; MiSearch;
* 2) Clustering results by topics, authors, journals etc., for instance: Anne O'Tate; ClusterMed;
* 3) Enhancing semantics and visualization, for instance: EBIMed; MedEvi.
* 4) Improved search interface and retrieval experience, for instance, askMEDLINE BabelMeSH; and PubCrawler.
As most of these and other alternatives rely essentially on PubMed/MEDLINE data leased under license from the NLM/PubMed, the term "PubMed derivatives" has been suggested. Without the need to store about 90 GB of original PubMed Datasets, anybody can write PubMed applications using the eutils-application program interface as described in "The E-utilities In-Depth: Parameters, Syntax and More", by Eric Sayers, PhD. Various citation format generators, taking PMID numbers as input, are examples of web applications making use of the eutils-application program interface. Sample web pages include Citation Generator – Mick Schroeder, Pubmed Citation Generator – Ultrasound of the Week, PMID2cite, and Cite this for me.
Data mining of PubMed
Alternative methods to mine the data in PubMed use programming environments such as Matlab, Python or R. In these cases, queries of PubMed are written as lines of code and passed to PubMed and the response is then processed directly in the programming environment. Code can be automated to systematically query with different keywords such as disease, year, organs, etc.
In addition to its traditional role as a biomedical database, PubMed has become common resource for training biomedical language models. Recent advancements in this field include the development of models like PubMedGPT, a 2.7B parameter model trained on PubMed data by Stanford CRFM, and Microsoft's BiomedCLIP-PubMedBERT, which utilizes figure-caption pairs from PubMed Central for vision-language processing. These models demonstrate the significant potential of PubMed data in enhancing the capabilities of AI in medical research and healthcare applications. Such advancements underline the growing intersection between large-scale data mining and AI development in the biomedical field.
The data accessible by PubMed can be mirrored locally using an unofficial tool such as MEDOC.
Millions of PubMed records augment various open data datasets about open access, like Unpaywall. Data analysis tools like Unpaywall Journals are used by libraries to assist with big deal cancellations: libraries can avoid subscriptions for materials already served by instant open access via open archives like PubMed Central.
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John Lloyd (30 April 1945 – 1 June 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Career
Lloyd was recruited to Carlton from Yarrawonga in the Ovens & Murray Football League. He made his debut in round four of the 1965 VFL season but played just two more games that year, in rounds 17 and 18. In 1966 he played every game from round two to 11, before a broken arm ended his season. He made 16 appearances for Carlton in 1967, including their semi-final loss to Richmond.
He got a clearance to Eaglehawk in 1968 and spent two years in the Bendigo Football League club. In 1970 he began playing for Werribee and won their best and fairest award the following year. He spent the 1972 season with Port Melbourne, then joined Footscray District Football League club Braybrook as coach and steered them to three successive premierships (1973, 1974, 1975).
Family
Lloyd was the father of former Essendon full-forward Matthew Lloyd, who kicked 926 league goals. His two other sons are also involved in football, with Brad Lloyd playing 11 games for Hawthorn and Simon Lloyd playing at lower levels for Carlton and Williamstown and is currently the general manager of football at Geelong, after previously working at Fremantle, Collingwood and Hawthorn.
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Re-installing Rfactor 2 question regarding the Steam workshop
Discussion in 'rFactor 2' started by Andy_J, May 11, 2017.
1. Andy_J
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I can't seem to find a definitive answer to this one, maybe you Rfactor 2 experts can help me please?
If I delete everything relating to Rfactor 2 off my hard drive and unsubscribe from all the content in Steam workshop, will I be able to have a fresh install without still being subsrcibed to loads of mods and content etc?
Basically I am just wanting to fresh install it and have the basic RF2 content but in the past I have not been able to un-subscribe properly.
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I think if you unsubscribe from everything in the game first. Let it update, not sure if it would delete the content, then delete the game and any folders that had files in them it would download and fresh install only the Base game. I could be wrong of course but I did a fresh install without unsubscribing and it installed 13GB with everything I had before.
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So, @Andy Jackson I can give you a definitive answer but it is slightly more complicated than a simple yes or no...
The only content that you are automatically subscribed to, is content that is added to the workshop by "ImageSpaceIncorporated". Most of our recent content updates are now added by "Studio 397" so you already explicitly need to subscribe to those to get that content.
The most effective way of unsubscribing from that ISI content is to add a command line parameter to the launcher called: "-workshop" (without the quotes, but with the minus sign in front). If you do that, as soon as you start the Launcher, it will unsubscribe you from that content and will not resubscribe you on subsequent runs. If you ever want to reverse that, use a parameter called "+workshop".
There is no need to wipe or re-install anything. And before you ask, we intend to make a few changes to this whole mechanism as we start introducing our new UI, so some of these things will change in the upcoming months.
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Do you turn off the air conditioner or turn on the air conditioner in yoga class?
“Can I turn on the air conditioner for yoga in summer?” On this topic, careful Jiaren will find that many formal Yoga halls do not turn on air conditioning, and some people will think, “is this to save the electricity bill?” You can greatly wronged the owner of the museum, so in order to meet the strong requirements of Jia people, Xiaobian will answer in detail “can you turn on the air conditioner for yoga in summer”, “why can’t you turn on the air conditioner” and what are the disadvantages of turning on the air conditioner? ” In summer, it’s not only not cool outdoors, but also muggy indoors without air conditioning
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Severe will occur in summer; If it is not serious, cold and moisture are hidden in the body and attack in the winter of that year, manifested as shoulder and neck stiffness, low back pain, arthritis, etc
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119 THE COMMONSENSE OF MR. ARNOLD BENNETT That Mr. Bennett could have given us a better book than The Card ; ^ that much of it is frankly just frivolling and more of it almost rowdily rollicking ; that though it deals once again v^ith those confounded Potteries it has nothing of the dark dignity of Clay- hanger — these are bound to be some of the things our Cockney cousins will be printing as they solemnly decide that The Card, like The Grand Babylon Hotel and How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day, is another of the things they must try to overlook for the sake of The Old Wives' Tale. There is a crumb or two of reason on their side ; The Card is a sort of skylarking, a Mei^y Wives of Windsor, bearing much the same relation to Clayhanger that snap does to responsible bridge or Cinquevalli's cue-play to Biggie's ; but to regard it as a giddy aberration, an indiscretion, is to get a wholly wrong idea about both it and its maker. The Card is genuine Bennett : it flings a happy light on the whole fascinating Bennett pro- blem ; and indeed the really fundamental thing to say about it, comparatively, is not that it ought to have Clayhanger s qualities, but that Clayhanger would be better if it had some of the qualities of The Card. But that is a fact not easily seen in a London fog. ' The Card. By Arnold Bennett (Methuen, 1911). U9
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Rh surprised here, that so many tints and shades can be taken or formed from "the bridge of colours seven." This is the raw material that goes abroad, in every direction and to every distance, to be worked up in cathedral, church, chapel, and college, and other ornamental windows. Really the stock in store of this stained glass is so vast, that one might wonder why it should be sold by the square foot instead of the square rod. To estimate it by the foot seems almost like computing the national debt of Great Britain in.
The other is the department in which the working artistry of the establishment is carried on. This is its Royal Academy, where more paintings are produced and exhibited in a year than in the National Gallery in London. They are done on glass instead of canvas, but are none the less artistic for that. The Raphael or Michael Angelo of this great studio has a salon by himself, in which he develops into outline and shape his conceptions. Here he passes before his eye all that Adam saw and named, and more too—all things that bloom and breathe with sweet odours in Nature's realm: the flowers of every zone; the birds of every land and plumage; every beast from the elephant to the winged mouse; every fish from the whale to the minnow of the thinnest brook; human histories reaching back to the holiest hours of Eden; pictures and dreams of angels. These
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If the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear is to be deleted, then it is only fair that all of the following horror conventions be deleted.
WHICH WOULD BE WRONG
The point being, all of the following horror conventions have merit, and the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear is no different then the following conventions.
You my as well delete the term [HORROR CONVENTION] on Wiki as well, wouldn't that make sense????
The bottom line is that you cannot have one without the other, and people who are saying to delete the RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR are wrong to be saying to delete the convention, as well as saying it has no merit. The Rue Morgue Festival Of Fear attracts more people and celebrities than most of the following horror conventions which are already included in the Wiki pedia.
* 1) Arcana_(convention)
* 2) Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
* 3) Fantastic Fest
* 4) Flashback Weekend
* 5) From The Land Beyond, Horror & Science Fiction Convention
* 6) World Horror Convention
* 7) Spooky Empire's Ultimate Horror Weekend
* The above unsigned comment by Americanmoviecritic may or may not be right. I have no knowledge of how notable this or any other horror convention may be. I have, however, removed some sections and text which described the Fan Expo Canada and not just Rue Morgue Festival of Fear, which according to this article is part of Fan Expo Canada. The text I removed is included in the Fan Expo Canada article, which is linked in the introductory paragraph of this article. So no information has been removed from Wikipedia, and this article should be better focussed on its subject. Coyets (talk) 11:23, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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Handling WM_NCPAINT message in a none CWnd derived class!
Ah hello.
I need to specially handle painting messages, in particular WM_NCPAINT, in my frame windows/dialogs. For this reason, I am trying to use a special class that handles just these messages:
// .h
class CPaintHandler : public CCmdTarget
{
DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CPaintHandler)
public:
CPaintHandler( CWnd* pwndTarget);
virtual ~CPaintHandler();
virtual BOOL OnCmdMsg(UINT nID, int nCode, void* pExtra, AFX_CMDHANDLERINFO* pHandlerInfo);
protected:
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
CWnd* m_pwndTarget;
};
// .cpp
BOOL CPaintHandler::OnCmdMsg(UINT nID, int nCode, void* pExtra, AFX_CMDHANDLERINFO* pHandlerInfo)
{
switch ( nID )
{
case WM_NCPAINT:
{
ASSERT ( FALSE );
return 1;
}
}
return FALSE;
}
// Dialog app calling code:
// Assume m_pPaintHandler is a CPaintHandler, constructed with "this" via DialogAppDlg::OnInitDialog().
BOOL DialogAppDlg::OnCmdMsg(UINT nID, int nCode, void* pExtra, AFX_CMDHANDLERINFO* pHandlerInfo)
{
BOOL bRet = m_pPaintHandler ? m_pPaintHandler->OnCmdMsg ( nID, nCode, pExtra, pHandlerInfo ) : FALSE;
if ( !bRet )
bRet = CDialog::OnCmdMsg(nID, nCode, pExtra, pHandlerInfo);
return bRet;
}
As you can see, I have added a dummy handler into my CPaintHandler class for the WM_NCPAINT message. However, this is never getting called.
Now, I looked into OnCmdMsg, and found that it only deals with the handling of command user-interface objects. This is hence probably why I am not getting CPaintHandler::OnCmdMsg() called.
I cannot see another way around this however.
Can anyone suggest a fix please?
Thanks in advance.
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Hm, I guess hooking your windows is even better hre - you can just handle the messages you need, get the measurements from the handle passed in etc. And it should be less overhead.
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jkrCommented:
That dummy handler is probably never called because you don't seem to have a message map entry for it. BTE, if you want to handle messages in MFC classes, I'd rather derive from CWnd than from CCmdTarget - the latter is the base class for CWnd anyway, see the MFC hierarchy chart.
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Yeah, I tried adding the handler but it would not let me:
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPaintHandler, CCmdTarget)
ON_WM_NCPAINT()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
/*afx_msg*/ void CPaintHandler::OnNcPaint()
{
}
Gives me:
'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'void (__thiscall CPaintHandler::* )(void)' to 'void (__thiscall CWnd::* )(void)'
>> BTE, if you want to handle messages in MFC classes...
I thought of that, but I want to have one class that is responsible for handling the paint messages in windows *and* dialogs. If I derive from CWnd:
CPaintHandler : public CWnd {};
CMyWnd : public CPaintHandler {};
CMyDialog : public CDialog, public CMyWnd {};
I cannot do the above as I would need to use virtual inheritance, but I would have to put the virtual keyword at the CWnd level, which would mean modifying the MFC code. Hence I chose to use CCommandTarget...But it also seems I will have this problem anyway since CWnd is derived from CCommandTarget....arghhhhhhhhh!
Any ideas on how to get around this?
(The end result is that I want to have one class responsible for handling all painting related messages in the window that it is created within. The message handlers can then call virtual functions, which derived classes can then override as suitable.)
Would a hook, hooking all messages, be suitable do you think?
TIA
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jkrCommented:
Have you tried adding the message handler likke the following?
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPaintHandler, CCmdTarget)
ON_MESSAGE( WM_NCPAINT,OnNcPaint)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
LRESULT CPaintHandler::OnNcPaint(WPARAM, LPARAM)
{
return 0;
}
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mrwad99Author Commented:
OOO, had a glimmer of hope that that was the answer, but no:
'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LRESULT (__thiscall CPaintHandler::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)' to 'LRESULT (__thiscall CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
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jkrCommented:
OK, let's try to be brutal:
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPaintHandler, CCmdTarget)
{ WM_NCPAINT, 0, 0, 0, AfxSig_lwl, \
(AFX_PMSG)(AFX_PMSGW) \
(static_cast< LRESULT (AFX_MSG_CALL CPaintHandler::*)(WPARAM, LPARAM)>\
(OnNcPaint)) },
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
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jkrCommented:
Or, maybe better:
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPaintHandler, CCmdTarget)
{ WM_NCPAINT, 0, 0, 0, AfxSig_lwl,(AFX_PMSG)(AFX_PMSGW)(static_cast< LRESULT (AFX_MSG_CALL CPaintHandler::*)(WPARAM, LPARAM)>(OnNcPaint)) },
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
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mrwad99Author Commented:
Heh, we are getting somewhere: that now compiles at last, so thanks.
Now. The problem is that the handler is not getting called. In fact, I added a breakpoint on DialogAppDlg::OnCmdMsg(), with the condition that nID was 0x85 (WM_NCPAINT). The breakpoint never gets hit, so my CPaintHandler never gets called. Now, I looked into OnCmdMsg, and found that it only deals with the handling of command user-interface objects. WM_NCPAINT is not a command user-interface related message, so I guess that is why it is not being called.
Hmm...
I thought about WindowProc, that would do it, but then my CPaintHandler can't have a WindowProc because it is not a window!
Stuck.
Any ideas?
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jkrCommented:
>>The problem is that the handler is not getting called.
I was more afraid that there might be a crash ;o)
Could you try to add a 'TRACE()' to 'OnNcPaint()' and check the debug output? If that does not work also, a local hook really might be the way to go...
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jkrCommented:
Er, forget the last comment - if there is no window associated with the class, you won't receive messages anyway...
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mrwad99Author Commented:
OK. I might have to look into that then.
A quick overview of what I would like to achieve:
I want all windows in my app to follow a "theme". I have the functionality for painting various areas of windows all ready to go, but I don't want to have to keep duplicating the same code over and over for dialogs and frame windows etc. I want it all in one place.
My first thought was to have "CThemedWnd", derived from CWnd. I could derive dialogs and frames from that, but wait: the virtual inheritance problem I mentioned above.
(CThemedDlg : public CThemedWnd, public CDialog gives us two CWnds: the virtual keyword would need to go at the CWnd level, which I can't do as it is not my source code).
So I thought "put the functionality for theming in a helper object. It can handle the painting messages etc. Each window to be themed could have one of these objects in each window to be themed, virtual functions could be exploited etc etc: lovely.
But then the problems I encountered as above.
Having (hopefully :) ) read that, is there any other way to do this other than hooking my "window to be themed" for messages, handling those I am interested in that way (if that is possible - is it?)
TIA
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mrwad99Author Commented:
Thank you. If I have any problems with the hooking, expect another question from me :)
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Thsnx. No problem ;o)
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No one ever wakes up in the morning wanting to be an addict. Opioid addiction typically starts innocently enough with a prescription from a doctor or taking a pill for temporary pain relief. But it is these exact circumstances that have led to the opioid crisis gripping our nation.
A new study published in June 2017 by one of our nation’s largest health insurance providers found that there was a 493% increase in opioid use disorder diagnosis from 2010 through 2016.1
No matter how your opioid use began, recovery starts by understanding the effect of painkillers on the brain.
Keep reading to learn how opioids work and the help and support that is available to you if you feel your dependency has turned into an addiction.
First, What Are Opioids, Exactly?
Opioids are highly addictive pain medications that are effective at managing and treating persistent or severe pain. Doctors prescribe opioids to patients recovering from an injury or surgery or suffering from chronic pain.
Why Are Opioids So Dangerous?
When opioid medication is taken as directed by a doctor, it will safely control pain symptoms. The danger lies in tolerance levels.
As opioid use continues, the mind builds a tolerance for the drug and begins to require a higher dose to experience the necessary pain relief. As drug tolerance levels rise, the risk of physical dependency, abuse, addiction and overdose significantly increases.
How Opioids Affect the Brain
Addiction can happen fast and without many warning signs. Once addiction is present, a vicious cycle ensues that takes control over the brain.
How Prescription Opioids Work
Prescription opioid drugs attach to opioid receptors in the brain and signal an extreme release of dopamine.
• Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure system and important daily behaviors, such as movement, emotion and memory.
• Naturally occurring opioids help calm the body by releasing a normal amount of dopamine, producing organic reward and pleasure functions.
• Synthetic opioids cause an excess release of dopamine.
• Synthetic opioids are successful at binding to the brain’s opioid receptors because their chemical structure mimics that of a natural neurotransmitter.
Once dopamine is released, the brain’s reward system is inundated, producing a very powerful, euphoric high. In this state, pain is blocked, breathing rate is reduced and a sense of relaxation and calm floods the body.
• Pain medication is essential with chronic and severe pain because the body cannot produce enough natural opioids to block high levels of pain.
• Although synthetic opioids mimic natural brain chemicals, they can’t activate nerve cells, which leads to abnormal communication functions between the brain and the body.
The brain associates the action of taking pain pills with pleasure or reward and naturally wants to repeat the action over and over.
• The brain is wired to repeat activities that trigger or stimulate the reward and pleasure system.
• When the reward and pleasure system is activated, the brain takes note that an activity is important and should be repeated.
• Synthetic opioids trick the brain into associating taking painkillers with pleasure or reward.
An opioid addiction begins and tolerance builds.
• A tolerance grows because the brain becomes less responsive to prescription opioids the longer they’re used.
• The more opioids are consumed, the larger the dose needs to be in order to achieve the desired high.
• Additionally, natural endorphins are no longer released because of the increased opioid use. This makes opioid users more vulnerable to pain symptoms and reduces their ability to naturally feel happy.
In summary, the brain essentially trains itself to be addicted to opioids.
Once addicted, the withdrawal process can produce unpleasant, sometimes dangerous, symptoms. Because of how opioids affect the brain, the vast majority of opioid addicts face many challenges when trying to detox at home, unassisted – often leading to relapse or overdose.
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The result was delete. – Juliancolton | Talk 18:17, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Mike Stathis
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Sources in the article are almost all either run by him or fringe and not acceptable for a BLP. The CNN source has a one sentence mention. His books are self-published. I couldn't find anything convincing when I searched. I don't think his appearance on the Thom Hartmann show etc is enough. Doug Weller (talk) 14:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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* Delete as I found some links at News and browser but nothing convincingly better. Pinging tagger as the only other tagger Toddst is unfortunately no longer active. SwisterTwister talk 06:22, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
* I rarely add catimprove to an article, when I do it usually means as with this one that it is so far outside my area of expertise that I can't properly categorise it. In this case I added living people and catimprove. Then came back later and removed something 404 sourced and negative..... As for the deletion, notability is marginal at best and the subject is contentious - deletion is probably for the best unless others can find good sources. Ϣere Spiel Chequers 16:13, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
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Rh entreating him to take pity and forgive her, but he spoke not a word. He was thinking of Rohini. How beautiful and clever she was! And what was Bhramar by her side? What recommendation had she save that she was a good and gentle girl? But he did not mean to forsake her; he wanted only to live apart from her for a time. And Rohini—he could throw her over any moment when he had got tired of her.
"Oh, have pity on me," entreated Bhramar, her eyes bathed in tears. "Speak a kind word, oh, do! O God! and this was in store for me!"
Her appeal surely rose to heaven, but Gobindalal paid no heed to it.
"Oh, speak but one kind word," she urged again. "Will you not?"
"I want to leave you," said Gobindalal deliberately, and steeling his heart against all pity.
She was stunned. She said no more. She rose from her lowly position; paused; moved up to the door. Going out she stumbled, fell down and swooned away.
"What have I done that you want to leave me?" This question Bhramar never put to Gobindalal, but after the scene described in the preceding pages this was upon her mind night and day. Gobindalal too asked himself what her fault was. Bhramar was surely in the wrong, he thought, for she ought to have considered before she wrote such a sharp letter to him. We will, however, give the debate that he had with his conscience.
Gobindalal. Her fault is she was jealous. And isn't it quite as bad as anything?
Conscience. Hadn't she a good reason to be jealous? You cannot deny your illicit connection with Rohini.
G. When she first had her suspicions I was quite innocent.
C. Yes; but in your mind you knew you were guilty. And since by your conduct you gave your wife reason to be jealous as much before as after committing yourself to evil, could she have been anything but jealous?
G. But it seems to me that had she not been jealous I should never have gone wrong. Do we not sometimes drive an honest man to go astray by giving him a bad name?
C. The fault then, in your opinion, lies not at the door of him who goes to the bad, but him who gives him a bad name. Nice argument this!
G. Nice or not nice, I am sure she ought never to have gone to her father's since she was told that I was coming home and was on the way. Besides I think she could never have found it in her heart to write such a stinging letter to me if she had had the least regard for my feelings.
C. If she knew that she had had good grounds for her suspicion she was perfectly justified in acting as she had done. Can a wife see her husband go wrong and not resent it?
G. But she knew nothing for certain; and she acted on a mere rumour, which she should not have done. She ought to have asked me.
C. And did you care to ask her?
G. I did not.
C. Then how could you hold her wrong for never telling her suspicions to you? But that's not it. I will tell you what it really is.
G. And that is?
C. It is just this. You took a fancy to Rohini, and so you wished in your mind to get her. But why did Krishnakanta give your share of the property to your wife? Because, besides feeling sure she would soon want to make it over to you, he hoped that such a step might open your eyes to your folly and win you back from the path you are treading.
G. She does want to make it over to me, but I will not accept it, not I.
C. Why? The property is yours. It was acquired by your late father, and you are his heir.
G. But since my uncle, on his death-bed, had bestowed it upon her, it is no longer mine.
C. Your uncle had no right to bestow it upon your wife. He knew that very well; but he did so, thinking it might disenchant you, as I have said, and make you turn from the path you are pursuing.
G. But I will not stoop to accept a gift from my wife. I had much rather starve than do so.
C. In other words you would sooner give up your wife and give up your property than lose Rohini. Well, then go your way. If you are resolved upon your ruin no one can help it.
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Sceloporus occidentalis taylori
Sceloporus occidentalis taylori is a subspecies of the western fence lizard, commonly called the Sierra fence lizard. Several subspecies of the western fence lizard, a species of phrynosomatid lizard, are found in the far western part of North America. The subspecific epithet, taylori, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor.
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Yvonne Wilder
Yvonne Wilder (born Yvonne Othon, September 21, 1937 – November 24, 2021) was an American actress, comedian, writer, and artist. She appeared in West Side Story on stage and in the 1961 film, and had a busy career in American television from the 1960s into the 1990s.
Early life
Yvonne Othon was born in the Bronx, New York City. Her parents were from Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Othon did not learn to speak Spanish as a child. She attended the High School for Performing Arts, with further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Career
As a young actress and dancer, Yvonne Othon appeared in shows starring Imogene Coca and Carol Burnett. While she was studying in London, Othon appeared in a West End production of West Side Story, and later played Anita in the first international touring company of the show. Othon's first screen credit was as Consuelo in West Side Story (1961). She and Rita Moreno were among the few Puerto Rican performers playing Puerto Rican characters in the film, and they both worked with Natalie Wood on her accent as Maria. She attended some reunion events related to West Side Story. "She was a worldly, wiseass New Yorker, intelligent and very funny," recalled her friend and fellow dancer from West Side Story, actress Nobuko Miyamoto.
Wilder was also known for roles in the vampire film, The Return of Count Yorga (1971), which she co-wrote; and in Silent Movie (1976), Bloodbrothers (1978), Why Not Stay for Breakfast? (1979), The Last Married Couple in America (1980), and Seems Like Old Times (1980).
Most of Wilder's work was in television, including roles in Hennesey (1962), CBS Workshop (1964), Hey, Landlord (1967), Bracken's World (1969), Room 222 (1969–1970), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1972), The Partridge Family (1971–1972), The Girl with Something Extra (1973), Death Sentence (1974), On the Rocks (1975–1976), The Practice (1976), Police Story (1977), Operation Petticoat (1977–1978), The Tenth Month (1979), One Day at a Time (1979), Archie Bunker's Place (1981–1982), Mama's Family (1983), Gimme a Break! (1986–1987), 227 (1988), The Equalizer (1986–1989), and Full House (1988–1991).
Wilder was also half of a comedy duo with Jack Colvin. Later in life, she was a painter and sculptor, and wrote a play, Weehawken, performed in Los Angeles in 1988.
Personal life
Wilder married five times. Her third husband was Bob Kelljan (Robert Kelluchian). Her fifth husband was Zach Kleiman. She had one son, Chris. She died at home in Los Angeles on November 24, 2021, at the age of 84.
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Johannes Gilleberg
Johannes Gilleberg (1 August 1915 – 8 August 2002) was a Norwegian politician who represented the Centre Party in Troms in the Norwegian Parliament for three election periods from 1965 to 1977.
Gilleberg had a priestly education (cand.theol. 1946, internship 1948). He then worked in Hammerfest as assistant professor and assistant priest until 1955. He became concerned with the situation of persons with intellectual disabilities, or the mentally impaired, which was the term of the time. He became concerned with the situation of persons with intellectual disabilities, or the mentally impaired, which was the term of the time. He was central to the work to establish a Northern Norwegian intellectual home, and later chairman of the building and planning committee for such a home at Trastad farm in Kvæfjord. From 1955 he was employed as manager at this home for the mentally impaired in Northern Norway. In 1956 he had a scholarship to study social care in the Nordic countries and in 1963 to study the educational program in "mentally impaired care" in Denmark and Germany.Gilleberg was a member of the municipal council in Kvæfjord from 1963 to 1971. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in the autumn of 1965 and re-elected in 1969 and 1973. The last two times he ran on joint lists with the Christian People's Party and the Liberal Party respectively. He was a member of the Social Affairs Committee, with the exception of a period in 1971–72 when he served on the Administrative Committee.
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Talk:разказъ
There's a discrepancy between the headword and the title. Which is right? Per utramque cavernam 13:12, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
* Neither haha. Should be . --WikiTiki89 19:50, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
* Since it does (well did) exist as a Bulgarian word, I've changed it to Bulgarian. --WikiTiki89 19:58, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
* Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Per utramque cavernam 20:11, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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''That a sample or excerpt given from this book while as yet save in design unfinished should have found such favour in your sight and won such approval at your hands as you then by word alike and action so cordially expressed, is reason enough why I should inscribe it with your name: even if I felt less pleasure in the reflection and the record that this little labour of a lifelong love had at once the doubly good fortune and the doubly grateful success, to be praised by those who have earned the praise and thanks of all true Shakespearean scholars, and dispraised by such as have deserved their natural doom to reap neither but from the harvest of their own applause or that of their fellows. It might be hard for a personally unbiassed [sic] judgment to strike the balance of genuine value and significance between these two forms of acknowledgment: but it will be evident which is to me the more precious, when I write your name above my own on the votive scroll which attaches my offering to the shrine of Shakespeare.''
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
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Medianomic
The economics of media on the web.
This page will help in defining media economics in the Internet Age. It will attempt to define the attributes of this perspective and argue the case for a paradigm shift in the media industry.
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According to Wikipedia,
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. After a trial that lasted a day, he was sentenced to death. He spent his last day in prison, refusing offers to help him escape.
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Pot-Bouille
Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical Le Gaulois before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883.
The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. It is set in a Parisian apartment building, a relatively new housing arrangement at the time and its title (roughly translating as stew pot) reflects the disparate and sometimes unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade.
Explanation of the novel's title
Like Zola's earlier novel L'Assommoir (1877), the title is extremely difficult to render in English. The word pot-bouille is a 19th-century French slang term for a large cooking pot or cauldron used for preparing stews and casseroles and also the foods prepared in it. The title is intended to convey a sense of disparate ingredients, the various inhabitants of the building mixed together, to create a potent and heady mix like a strong stew. The impression is to hint at the greed, ambition and depravity which lies behind the pretentious façade of the outwardly well behaved bourgeois apartment block. There is no equivalent word in English to convey this. The closest English term would probably be an expression such as melting pot.
In the 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola, the novel's title is rendered as Piping Hot.
Plot summary
Pot-Bouille recounts the activities of the residents of a block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul over the course of two years (1861–1863). The characters include:
* The Campardons. Madame Campardon has a mysterious medical condition that keeps them from having sex (probably a prolapse since the maids describe her as "blocked"). The husband is having an affair with her distant cousin, who eventually moves in and manages the household while continuing the affair. Despite their best efforts, they cannot conceal this arrangement from their daughter Angèle, who learns all the secrets in the building from the family servant.
* The Duveyriers. Monsieur Duveyrier detests the bourgeois respectability of his wife's household, particularly her piano playing and takes refuge with a bohemian mistress Clarisse, an arrangement that suits his frigid wife perfectly. When Clarisse aspires to domesticity and respectability, Monsieur Duveyrier attempts suicide and later begins an affair with one of the maids.
* The Josserands. Madame Josserand is relentless in her hunt to find husbands for her daughters. Zola compares the business of husband-hunting to prostitution and indeed Madame Josserand trots her daughters out in society to snare any man who will have them, under the cover of respectability and decorum. Madame Josserand instills her contempt for men (including her husband) in her younger daughter Berthe, who is able to compromise Auguste Vabre and force a marriage.
* The Vabres (Théophile and Valérie). The wife, described as neurotic and somewhat hysterical, is involved in multiple, loveless affairs (it is common knowledge that her son is not her husband’s). The husband is a possibly impotent hypochondriac living in perpetual suspicion of his wife's behaviour.
* The Pichons. Going through the motions of marriage, they have subjugated all passion in every aspect of their lives, including rearing their daughter, subduing any romance (Madame Pichon has an affinity for the novels of George Sand) beneath cold, hollow propriety.
Condoning the behaviour of these characters are the local priest and doctor, who use their positions to cover up everyone's moral and physical failings. The characters' habits and secrets are also guarded by the concierge, who turns a blind eye to everything going on. The sham respectability of the residents is contrasted with the candour of their servants, who secretly abuse their employers over the open sewer of the building's inner courtyard.
The novel follows the adventures of 22-year-old Octave Mouret, who moves into the building and takes a salesman's job at a nearby shop, The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames). Though handsome and charming, Octave is rebuffed by Valérie Vabre and his boss's wife Madame Hédouin before beginning a passionless affair with Madame Pichon. His failure with Madame Hédouin prompts him to quit his job, and he goes to work for Auguste Vabre in the silk shop on the building's ground floor. Soon, he begins an affair with Berthe, who by now is Auguste's wife. Octave and Berthe are eventually caught but over the course of several months, the community tacitly agrees to forget the affair and live as if nothing had happened, thereby restoring the veneer of respectability. Octave marries widowed Madame Hédouin and life goes on in the Rue de Choiseul the way it has always done, with outward complacency, morality and quiet.
Relation to the other Rougon-Macquart novels
Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show how heredity and environment worked on members of one family over the course of the Second Empire.
The family representative in Pot-Bouille is Octave Mouret, first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon and playing a larger but background role in La conquête de Plassans. Octave is the son of first cousins Marthe Rougon and François Mouret and great-grandson of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress from whom the family members inherit varying degrees of what today might be called obsessive-compulsive disorder. Zola describes him in Le docteur Pascal (the last novel) as an example of indirect heredity, bearing a physical resemblance to his uncle Eugène Rougon (Son Excellence Eugène Rougon). Like his uncle, Octave is obsessed with power, in the nephew's case over women. He is not ruthless or predatory but uses his charm and good looks to captivate women.
This aspect of his personality is explored further in Au Bonheur des Dames, the next novel, which finds Octave the owner of a giant department store catering to female desire. (Octave also appears briefly or is mentioned in La faute de l'Abbé Mouret, La joie de vivre, L'œuvre and Le docteur Pascal.)
In addition to examining Octave as representative of the Rougon-Macquart line, Zola explores the effects of personal history and environment on the other residents of the apartment building.
Translations
Pot-Bouille was translated into English by Henry Vizetelly in 1886 and Percy Pinkerton in 1895; both translations are available in reprints. There have been other English translations since (as Piping Hot!, Pot Luck, Restless House and Lesson in Love), the most recent being by Brian Nelson for Oxford World's Classics (1999).
* Piping Hot! (1885, tr. unknown for H. Vizetelly, Vizetelly & Co.)
* Pot-Bouille (1895, tr. Percy Pinkerton, Lutetian Society)
* Restless House (other versions of Pinkerton's translation)
* Pot Luck (1999, tr. Brian Nelson, Oxford University Press)
Adaptations
William Busnach adapted Pot-Bouille as a play, produced at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in 1883.
It was adapted into a French film, Lovers of Paris (original French title Pot-Bouille) in 1957, directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Gérard Philipe and Anouk Aimée.
It was also adapted as a French TV series, Pot-Bouille, in 1972.
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pySym
Python Symbolic Execution
Build Status Coverage Status Documentation Status
Disclaimer
While I'm still using this as a test ground to learn, the script itself has at least gotten somewhat useful. Feel free to let me know if you find things that aren't right. For now, it will do very basic things. For loops, while loops, List Comprehensions, arithmetic, booleans, etc. If you start wondering into a lot of built-in commands or methods, you probably will not have success.
For more information on what is and isn't implemented, check out WhatIsImplemented.md
For examples of what is possible, probably the best resource right now is the unit tests. I'll post more detailed examples later.
Docs
Please see my ReadTheDocs for the most updated documentation: http://pysym.readthedocs.org/en/latest
Install
Pypi
pySym is now structured as a python package. You can use pip to install it:
$ git clone https://github.com/bannsec/pySym.git && cd pySym
$ (optional) virtualenv --python=$(which python3) pySym && . pySym/bin/activate
(pySym)$ pip install .
Docker
pySym has a docker build for easy install and use. Just do the following:
$ sudo docker pull bannsec/pysym
$ sudo docker run -it --rm bannsec/pysym
Tests
Just open up your environment and run pytest from the root directory.
$ workon pySym
(pySym)$ pytest
Basic/Medium Example
Since the first example, I've implemented more things. It's still very much in development, but you can do better things with it now. Here's an example program:
def test(x,y):
out = 2
while x < y:
out *= x
x += 1
return out
x = 0
z = 0
while x < 5:
y = 0
while y < 3:
z += test(x,y)
y += 1
x += 1
You can use a path group to automagically walk through the program as follows. First, save that example as 'test.py'. Now, do the following:
import pySym
proj = pySym.Project("./test.py")
pg = proj.factory.path_group()
pg.explore()
That will tell pySym to attempt to find all the paths through the program to completion. Once it completes, you can ask what the value of z was at completion.
In [4]: pg
Out[4]: <PathGroup with 45 deadended, 1 completed>
In [5]: pg.completed[0].state.any_int('z')
Out[5]: 26
Basic Example
A lot of the layout for pySym is shamelessly stolen from the angr project. If you're familiar with their calls, this will make sense to you.
As an example of what is currently working, take the following script:
x = 1.5
y = 1
if x == 1:
y = 2
else:
y += x
While basic, it can show how stepping through a program works. The following python script excersizes this functionality:
from pySym.pyPath import Path
import ast
import logging
from pySym import Colorer
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,format='%(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', datefmt='%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p')
source = """
x = 1.5
y = 1
if x == 1:
y = 2
else:
y += x
"""
b = ast.parse(source).body
p = Path(b,source=source)
p = p.step()[0]
p = p.step()[0]
ifSide,elseSide = p.step()
elseSide = elseSide.step()[0]
Note that I put the source inline. It doens't have to be. You could read it from a file or really anywhere else that gives you a string. What happens in this script is the following:
b = ast.parse(source).body -- This call parses out the mini script into functional blocks that we use.
p = Path(b,source=source) -- This sets up our initial path variable. For now, this starts at the top of the script and works its way down.
p = p.step()[0] -- These are stepping through the program. The path itself does not get modified. However, a copy of the path returns. Note on the third step we encounter an if statement that causes the path to branch into two (taking both).
elseSide = elseSide.step()[0] -- Perform our final step, executing "y += x"
We can see if our given path is viable by checking path.state.isSat()
In [2]: ifSide.state.isSat()
Out[2]: False
In [3]: elseSide.state.isSat()
Out[3]: True
As expected, the else is the only viable path through here. We can also ask what the variable should be at this point:
In [4]: elseSide.state.any_real('y')
Out[4]: 2.5
Again, nothing fancy but it does give us the value we would expect from this path. If we wanted to discover what this elsePath looked like from start to finish, we can ask that as well:
In [5]: elseSide.printBacktrace()
Line 2 x = 1.5 <_ast.Assign object at 0x7f9263f8a438>
Line 3 y = 1 <_ast.Assign object at 0x7f9263f8d080>
Line 4 if x == 1: <_ast.If object at 0x7f926985b550>
Line 7 y += x <_ast.AugAssign object at 0x7f9263f8d400>
Much work left to do as I have only implimented a limited set of operations. However, this is pretty neat!
To-Do
Here's a list of things I have left to implement. This is really just a subset of things, but these are high on my list.
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Bridges of Time
Bridges of Time (Laiko tiltai) is a 2018 Lithuanian documentary film directed by Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys. It was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Documentary Film at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival.
Premise
A documentary about the "Baltic New Wave", avant-garde filmmakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the 1960s.
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User:KMBenison/James Haskins/Bmharden2 Peer Review
General info
KMBenison
* Whose work are you reviewing?
* Link to draft you're reviewing:
* User:KMBenison/sandbox
* Link to the current version of the article (if it exists):
* James Haskins
* James Haskins
Evaluate the drafted changes
* Your content is great overall! I especially enjoyed learning about James Haskins' life from the Biography section of the page. It makes me want to do more research on his life! I really like how you broke his biography into early life and later years to make it more expansive.
* The main critique I have would be to do some editing on grammar! There are some mistakes throughout that could be fixed by running it through a Microsoft Word spelling and grammar check. I would also recommend Grammarly to catch those mistakes before publishing. Here are a couple of examples of what I'm referencing:
* There should be an apostrophe after Haskins in the second sentence. It should read, "Haskins' hometown..."
* There should also be an apostrophe after parents when you say, "parents' white boss."
* When you say Haskins received an education across the globe, but just name states int he U.S., I would instead say he received an education from institutions across the country.
* Instead of "him and his fellow peers," it should read, "he and his fellow peers."
* (Those are just a few examples of some grammar mistakes. Grammarly will be able to catch all of them)!
* Beware of run-on sentences. Try to break them up when you can.
* I know you're likely not done yet, but make sure to add in your sources throughout your page.
* Like I said, great work overall. I look forward to your final presentation!
-Brina Harden
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How to Create, Rename and Delete Classes
Applies to TestComplete 15.51, last modified on May 31, 2023
The object-driven testing (ODT) functionality is deprecated. Do not use it to create new tests. It will be removed from the product in one of the future releases. As an alternative, you can create custom classes in your scripts. For more information, see Alternatives to the ODT functionality.
To create a new class
1. Right-click the ODT | Classes item in the ODT editor or the Classes item in the Classes editor.
2. Select New Item from the context menu.
3. TestComplete will create a new class and give it a simple name, e.g. NewClass1. You can then rename the class as you wish.
Names of classes are used for referring to classes in scripts and keyword tests. That is why these names must consist of the A..Z, a..z, 0..9 and _ characters only (that is, they must be valid identifiers in the scripting language you use). The class names are case-sensitive in JScript, C++Script and C#Script scripts, and case-insensitive in VBScript and DelphiScript scripts.
Note: The name OleObject is reserved. You cannot create classes with this name.
Creation of a new class is an analogue of declaring a class in programming. It does not create an instance of this class. To create a class instance, you need to create a new object.
To rename a class
1. In the ODT or Classes editor, right-click the class that you want to rename and select Rename from the context menu, or choose the desired class in the tree view and press F2. TestComplete will activate an in-place editor.
2. Enter the desired name for the class.
3. To apply changes, press Enter or click somewhere outside of the in-place editor. To cancel changes, press Esc.
To copy and paste a class
You can copy and paste class declarations within a project or between different projects. The names and values of class properties and methods are preserved.
To copy a class declaration to the clipboard:
• Right-click the desired class name in the ODT or Classes editor and choose Copy from the context menu.
To paste a class declaration from the clipboard:
1. Select the position in the editor, where you want the new class to be located. A class can only be pasted to the same hierarchy level from which it was copied.
2. Click the right mouse button and select Paste from the context menu.
Note: When copying a class from one project to another, the names of script routines for class methods are copied without any changes. Thus, it is very likely that a new project would not contain the routines with the specified names. Therefore, you should redefine method handling routines in order to utilize the new class.
To change the class position
By default the classes names are shown in the same order that they were created in. However, you can rearrange them in whatever order you like. To do this:
• Right-click the desired class name in the editor and choose Move Up or Move Down from the context menu to move the class in the corresponding direction.
To delete a class
1. In the ODT or Classes editor, right-click the class you want to delete and select Delete from the context menu.
2. TestComplete will display a message box asking you if you want to delete the selected class. Click OK to delete the class, or Cancel to cancel the deletion.
Note: When you delete a class, all objects that are based on this class are also deleted.
See Also
Object-Driven Testing
ODT Editor
Classes Editor
How to Create, Rename and Delete Data Groups
How to Create, Modify and Delete Properties
How to Create, Modify and Delete Methods
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A simple, fast, and reliable Coursera crawling & downloading tool
Project description
Todo
• Lectures (videos, subtitles, slides)
• Readings
• Quizs
• Jupyter notebooks
Install
Python 3.x is required. It is recommended to install this tool in a virtual environment.
$ pip install -U dl_coursera
$ dl_coursera --version
How-to
1. Get the cookies.txt file
Sign in to Coursera, then use a browser extension to export cookies as cookies.txt. The cookies.txt will expire in about two weeks, so you don't need to do this so frequently.
For Chrome, you can use the cookies.txt extension.
For Firefox, you can use the Export Cookies extension.
2. Enroll
Navigate to homepage of the course/specialization you'd like to download, you can see its slug at the address bar. Enroll it.
3. Download
$ dl_coursera --help
usage: dl_coursera_run.py [-h] [--version] [--cookies COOKIES] --slug SLUG
[--isSpec] [--n-worker {1,2,3,4,5}]
[--outdir OUTDIR] --how
{builtin,curl,aria2,aria2-rpc,uget,dummy}
[--generate-input-file]
[--aria2-rpc-url ARIA2_RPC_URL]
[--aria2-rpc-secret ARIA2_RPC_SECRET]
A simple, fast, and reliable Coursera crawling & downloading tool
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
--cookies COOKIES path of the `cookies.txt`
--slug SLUG slug of a course or a specializtion (with @--isSpec)
--isSpec indicate that @--slug is slug of a specialization
--n-worker {1,2,3,4,5}
the number of threads used to crawl webpages. Default:
3
--outdir OUTDIR the directory to save files to. Default: `.'
--how {builtin,curl,aria2,aria2-rpc,uget,dummy}
how to download files. builtin (NOT recommonded): use
the builtin downloader. curl: invoke `curl` or
generate an "input file" for it (with @--generate-
input-file). aria2: invoke `aria2c` or generate an
"input file" for it (with @--generate-input-file).
aria2-rpc (HIGHLY recommonded): add downloading tasks
to aria2 through its XML-RPC interface. uget
(recommonded): add downloading tasks to the uGet
Download Manager
--generate-input-file
when @--how is curl/aria2, indicate that to generate
an "input file" for that tool, rather than to invoke
it
--aria2-rpc-url ARIA2_RPC_URL
url of the aria2 XML-RPC interface. Default:
`http://localhost:6800/rpc'
--aria2-rpc-secret ARIA2_RPC_SECRET
authorization token of the aria2 XML-RPC interface
If the command succeeds, you shall see `Done :-)`. If some UNEXPECTED errors
occur, try decreasing the value of @--n-worker and/or removing the directory
@--outdir. For more information, visit `https://github.com/feng-lei/dl_coursera`.
# download the course, of which slug is "mathematical-thinking"
# saving files to the directory "mt"
# using the "built-in" downloader
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how builtin
# download the specialization, of which slug is "algorithms"
# saving files to the directory "alg"
# using the "built-in" downloader
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug algorithms --isSpec --outdir alg --how builtin
Examples
using the "built-in" downloader
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how builtin
using the "curl" downloader
# make sure curl (https://curl.haxx.se/download.html) is installed and in PATH
$ curl --version
The "curl" downloader can be used in two different ways: invoking curl, or generating an input file for curl.
invoke curl
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how curl
generate an input file for curl
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how curl --generate-input-file
$ curl --config mt/mathematical-thinking.download.curl_input_file.txt
using the "aria2" downloader
# make sure aria2 (https://aria2.github.io) is installed and in PATH
$ aria2c --version
The "aria2" downloader can be used in two different ways: invoking aria2c, or generating an input file for aria2c.
invoke aria2c
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how aria2
generate an input file for aria2c
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how aria2 --generate-input-file
$ aria2c --input-file mt/mathematical-thinking.download.aria2_input_file.txt
Using the "aria2-rpc" downloader
# make sure aria2 (https://aria2.github.io) is installed and in PATH
$ aria2c --version
# start aria2 with its XML-RPC interface enabled
$ aria2c --enable-rpc
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how aria2-rpc
Using an aria2 GUI like webui-aria2 is highly recommended.
Using the "uget" downloader
# make sure uGet (https://sourceforge.net/projects/urlget/files/) is installed and in PATH
## on Windows
$ uget --version | more
## on Linux
$ uget-gtk --version
# start uGet
## on Windows
$ uget
## on Linux
$ uget-gtk &
$ dl_coursera --cookies path/to/cookies.txt --slug mathematical-thinking --outdir mt --how uget
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Anime_brigade is a school club run by students in year 10, Callaghan College Wallsend. Anime_brigade is the name of the club. The club usually runs on a Friday after school, 1:45 till 3:00pm. Anime_brigade has only just started, so we only have 6 people. Anime_brigade welcomes any new people who are interested in Anime, Manga or anything to do with those topics.
What do we do? Well its quite simple. We meet in Wallsend library and discuss and talk about Anime and Manga! Its also a great group to meet new people and enjoy what everyone else likes!
Why are you doing this? Because we have nothing to do with our lives!
Is it free? Yes, at the moment. Soon when we have more people, it would be $2 a week to buy Anime, Manga, food, ect.
So please contact us if you are interested! www.myspace.com/anime_brigade And
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Your Questions About the U.S. Election, Answered
Abroad in America Declan Walsh, who has been reporting on the U.S. presidential campaign as a foreign correspondent, is answering questions from readers as the election nears. Below, he responds to readers interested in the tenor of the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump; the practice of voters who split their ballot; and what states will ultimately decide the election. Q. How is it possible for the American democracy to produce two presidential candidates who are so widely disliked, and who are not representative of America; its people, its values? Cannot a democracy serve up a better, more honest, more decent choice? — PETER SMITH, INDIA, BY WAY OF AUSTRALIA A. Tens of millions of Americans are asking the same question. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump have little in common, except they are the least popular candidates for president in recent history. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds that eight in 10 voters are repulsed rather than excited about this presidential campaign. This unsavory choice is a product of many factors, but can be traced most directly to the primaries and caucuses — the state-by-state voting, early this year, in which Democrats and Republicans chose their parties’ presidential nominees. This time around, Republican primary voters defied all conventional political wisdom in selecting Mr. Trump from a crowded field of candidates, including Jeb Bush, a member of one of America’s dominant political clans, and Senator Ted Cruz, the Tea Party firebrand from Texas. In the Democratic primary, Mrs. Clinton got a scare from her more liberal opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who performed better than she expected. But her unpopularity, even among some Democrats, is an enduring problem for her campaign: Some people who supported Mr. Sanders, who is now backing Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the White house, have defected from the Democrats and intend to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party (who has no chance of winning). No matter who wins, he or she will urgently need to establish his or her popular legitimacy. After all, the purpose of an election is to find a leader the people want — not the one they deem to be the least unpopular candidate. Q. Why vote for one party for president and the other party for Congress? That just immobilizes the president’s agenda. Why are the campaigns focused on smearing each other instead of laying out their plans and how they will benefit the general public? — CESAR GAMEZ; MONTERREY, MEXICO A. You’re right. Splitting the ticket — choosing a candidate from one party for the presidency and the other for Congress — doesn’t seem to make much sense for voters. In recent years the practice has fallen to record lows. In the 2012 election, 10 percent of voters divided their votes between the parties, resulting in split outcomes in 6 percent of Congressional districts — the lowest rate in 92 years. This year that trend may be sharply reversed. As some Republican voters desert their party in disgust at Mr. Trump’s candidacy, the party is hoping to persuade them to stick with it in Congressional races. In recent weeks major Republican donors, believing Mr. Trump is doomed to lose, have started to shift funds toward “down-ballot” races in a bid to retain Republican majorities in the House and the Senate. In an extraordinary development, some embattled Republican senators have even gone on the campaign trail in support of Mrs. Clinton, encouraging their supporters to split their ballots. Your second question, about the ugly tenor of this year’s campaign, has many possible answers — celebrity culture, social media and popular disillusionment with politics, among others. But by far the greatest factor is Mr. Trump, whose outlandish statements have loomed large over every day of this campaign. Q. Why do you think women at all support Trump? — KELLY STRODL, LONDON, ENGLAND, BUT A NATIVE OF CALIFORNIA A. Implicit in your question is the idea that women should be more offended by Mr. Trump’s demeaning and vulgar comments, and suggestions of sexual assault. I understand that sentiment, but I think that men should be equally disturbed by those ideas. Beyond that, I think it’s simply a measure of the deep polarization of American society. For some people who hate Mrs. Clinton, it seems they would vote for virtually anyone else to keep her out of power. Q. How many states do you truly think are tossups at this point in the campaign? — EVAN SASLOVE, OTTAWA A. Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot, says there are eight states in the Upshot model where the leading candidate has less than an 85 percent chance of winning. As of Thursday afternoon, those states were North Carolina, Nevada, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Arizona, Utah and Georgia. Other states, including Colorado, are right on the edge of that cutoff. (The numbers change often.) Depending on what you mean by “truly” a tossup, the list could be narrower. The Cook Political report currently rates only two states as tossups: Florida and North Carolina. Q. This election has seen the death of impartial news media. Will we ever see it again? — JACK JAMESON, SWEDEN, FORMERLY OF NEW JERSEY A. It is certainly true that the polarized atmosphere of the election has spilled into the American news media. At conservative Fox News, the television host Sean Hannity has openly declared for Mr. Trump and uncritically aired conspiracy theories. At CNN, the political analyst and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance with the Clinton campaign. (The network severed its ties with Ms. Brazile this week.) Early in the campaign many news outlets, including The New York Times, faced criticism that they had failed to subject Mr. Trump’s unorthodox candidacy to sufficient scrutiny. Yet in recent months, news outlets have aggressively held both candidates accountable. The Times exposed Mr. Trump’s tax records from 1995, showing nearly $1 billion in losses that allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for years. The Washington Post published a tape of Mr. Trump’s aggressive sexual comments about women. Revelations from leaked emails published by WikiLeaks continue to embarrass the Clinton campaign. A bigger problem, I think, is that a growing number of Americans voters are losing confidence in major mainstream news sources and turning instead to social media, like Facebook and Twitter. One result is an echo chamber of like-minded views. This can increase the sense of political polarization, as Americans of opposing views desert the common ground where they once held their national conversation. That’s the paradox of this election: Americans have never had more access to so much information about the candidates; the question is whether they believe any of it. Q. Why is the election process so very long and exhausting? Every other country I know has a limit. — SUE BURGESS, AUSTRALIA The grueling 18-month stretch of debates and campaigning is supposed to produce a pair of battle-hardened candidates who are ready for the rigors of the world’s most powerful elected position. The downside is that, with four-year presidential terms, Americans seem to be almost perpetually in election mode. And Candidates must engage in feverish fund-raising — about $2.5 billion was spent on the 2012 election, and probably much more this time. This year’s exhausting race has shown that the campaign can test the public’s patience — and may hurt their faith in democracy itself.
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FinecoBank
FinecoBank S.p.A., known as FinecoBank or just Fineco is an Italian bank that specializes in online brokerage. Launched in 1999 with its Fineco Online service for retail traders, Fineco became a listed company in 2014 and has been independent from UniCredit banking group since 2019.
FinecoBank is a constituent of FTSE MIB (since 2016), the blue chip index of the Borsa Italiana. Since 2015 it has over a million customers in Italy, where its role has been compared to that of Schwab in USA.
FinecoBank has been designated in 2021 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.
Predecessors
The predecessor of Fineco was a financial institution known as GI-FIN S.r.l. in 1982 and then GI-FIN S.p.A. from October 1982. In 1983, the institution was incorporated as Istituto per le Cessioni del Quinto S.p.A. (ICQ), which later known as Novara ICQ S.p.A. and then ICQ Banca Cisalpina S.p.A.. ICQ Banca Cisalpina was a subsidiary of Banca Popolare di Novara (BP Novara). In 1990–91, BP Novara owned 51.21% shares of ICQ Banca Cisalpina. ICQ Banca Cisalpina was also a listed company, which was delisted in 1996 by its new owner Banca Popolare di Brescia (Bipop).
In 1999, Bipop merged with Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia (Carire) to form Bipop Carire. As of 1990, Banca Popolare di Brescia also partially owned the namesakes Fin-Eco Leasing (33.33%) and Fin-Eco Factoring (30%). As of 1994, Bipop owned the aforementioned companies via an intermediate holding company Fin-Eco Holding. The Holding also owned another subsidiary Fin-Eco SIM. Bipop also attempted to acquire another namesake Cisalpina Gestioni in 1994.
After the 1999 merger, the banking group re-organized ICQ Banca Cisalpina as well as Fin-Eco Leasing and Fin-Eco Factoring.
FinecoBank
ICQ Banca Cisalpina was renamed to "Fin-Eco Banca ICQ S.p.A." (Banca Fin-Eco in short) in 1999, which was considered as the launch date of the current Fineco. In 2002, Bipop Carire and Fineco became part of Capitalia banking group. In 2007, Capitalia was absorbed into UniCredit banking group, while Fineco was kept as a separate subsidiary.
In 2014 FinecoBank started its initial public offering. In 2016 UniCredit sold a further 30% shares to public market. In May 2019, UniCredit sold another 17% shares of FinecoBank. As UniCredit owned 18% shares of FinecoBank after the transaction, FinecoBank is no longer an associate company of UniCredit.
In 2020, Fineco decided to spend 7 million euros on a marketing campaign to grow its services in UK, whose launch was authorised earlier in the same year.
FinecoBank Banca Fineco serves customers in the United Kingdom and Italy.
UniCredit sold its remaining stake in FinecoBank in 2019.
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Building an API Rate limiter using Go
Building an API Rate limiter using Go
Apr 1, 2022·
6 min read
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In today's article we're going to be taking a quick look at how to implement rate limiters for APIs.
What are rate limiters?
They're basically a way to stop spamming requests to an API, where there is a cool down window for that specific user and he's going to have to wait until being able to do requests again.
This tutorial will be a simplistic approach into how to rate limit APIs
Getting Started
To get started simply initialize a new directory called rate_limiter and run
go mod init rate_limiter
Then inside the directory create 2 files main.go and limiter/limiter.go, these will contain our code that we'll dive into in the next step.
We'll start off by creating a global rate limiter (not user specific) and then we'll modify our code accordingly. We'll use an algorithm called Token Bucket Algorithm where basically you have a bucket of tries (e.g 3 tries) and the bucket gets filled by 1 each n seconds (we'll get to adjust this in the implementation) so if we for example refill a bucket by 1 try every 1 second then if I used all 3 tries in the first second I will have to wait for a bucket refill to be able to access the API again.
Firstly implementing the limiter function which will act as a middleware in our server. We'll use the time/rate package provided by go, this package implements the token bucket algorithm and provides us with the needed functions to start the implementation!
Inside limiter.go
package limiter
import (
"net/http"
"golang.org/x/time/rate"
)
var rate_limiter = rate.NewLimiter(1, 2)
func limit(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if rate_limiter.Allow() == false {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(429), http.StatusTooManyRequests)
return
}
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}
What we did here was simply initialize a http handler func which we'll use as our middleware. But firstly define a rate_limiter which is from the package time/rate, the first value is the time required for filling 1 try into the bucket, so this limiter fills in a try every 1 second, the second value is the total number of tries in a bucket which is in our case 2 We simply check if he has any tries in the bucket, that's what Allow returns, it returns true if he has any tries and false if he doesn't. If he doesn't we return a 429 status error which is too many requests.
In main.go we will have the following code
package main
import (
"log"
"net/http"
"rate_limiter/limiter"
)
func main() {
mux := http.NewServeMux()
mux.HandleFunc("/", helloWorldHandler)
log.Println("listening on port 3000")
http.ListenAndServe(":3000", limiter.Limit(mux))
}
func helloWorldHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Write([]byte("Hello World!"))
}
This code is a simple server running on port 3000, and we wrap the mux which is the request handler with the middleware limiter.
Running a curl command once will yield us this response Hello World, but successively running it will print 2 hello worlds and the 3rd response will be a too many requests response, as follows
~|⇒ curl -i localhost:3000
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:11:39 GMT
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hello World!%
~|⇒ curl -i localhost:3000
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:11:39 GMT
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hello World!%
~|⇒ curl -i localhost:3000
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:11:40 GMT
Content-Length: 18
Too Many Requests
Rate limiting by user
Till now we rate limited the API from everyone basically trying to access it. What if we can do that per user? We need a way to track maybe the IPs of the users and for each user add a rate limiter just for him. It's best to store them in a map where every ip maps to the limiter of the user. Also to avoid this map getting bigger than necessary we can cleanup and remove the users that no longer access the api, let's get to implementing this.
We'll update our limiter.go with the following code
package limiter
import (
"net"
"net/http"
"sync"
"golang.org/x/time/rate"
)
var clients = make(map[string]*rate.Limiter)
var mu sync.RWMutex
func getClient(ip string) *rate.Limiter {
mu.RLock()
limiter, exists := clients[ip]
mu.RUnlock()
if !exists {
mu.Lock()
limiter = rate.NewLimiter(1, 2)
clients[ip] = limiter
mu.Unlock()
}
return limiter
}
func Limit(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
ip, _, _ := net.SplitHostPort(r.RemoteAddr)
limiter := getClient(ip)
if limiter.Allow() == false {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(429), http.StatusTooManyRequests)
return
}
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}
What we did here is in our handler obtain the IP address of the user and call getClient which basically checks a built map of IPs to limiters and if the client is a new entry it adds it and returns its limiter, otherwise it returns the limiter of the client that exists. Inside getClient we implement a RWmutex lock to control concurrency issues that might occur accessing the same shared memory space by multiple concurrent users. It basically gives out a shared lock for reads and exclusive write locks. So only 1 can write at a time but several users can read at one time. For more info about concurrency and mutex locking checkout my blog here
This change returns the same response as before but now multiple users each have a limiter of their own when accessing this API. One last thing left is cleaning up users that no longer access the API to free up that memory. A good solution Is implementing a last seen where every client has this last seen on him and if it exceeds for example 2 minutes we clear him from the map! This could be done by a different goroutine that runs in the background and cleans the map so it doesn't keep on growing forever.
Our limiter.go should now look like the following
package limiter
import (
"net"
"net/http"
"sync"
"time"
"golang.org/x/time/rate"
)
type client struct {
limiter *rate.Limiter
last_seen time.Time
}
var clients = make(map[string]*client)
var mu sync.RWMutex
func getClient(ip string) *rate.Limiter {
mu.RLock()
user, exists := clients[ip]
mu.RUnlock()
if !exists {
mu.Lock()
limiter := rate.NewLimiter(1, 2)
clients[ip] = &client{limiter, time.Now()}
mu.Unlock()
return limiter
}
user.last_seen = time.Now()
return user.limiter
}
func CleanupUsers() {
for {
time.Sleep(time.Minute)
mu.RLock()
for ip, v := range clients {
if time.Since(v.last_seen) < 2*time.Minute {
delete(clients, ip)
}
}
mu.RUnLock()
}
}
func Limit(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
ip, _, _ := net.SplitHostPort(r.RemoteAddr)
limiter := getClient(ip)
if limiter.Allow() == false {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(429), http.StatusTooManyRequests)
return
}
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}
And simply add this in main.go
go limiter.CleanupUsers()
What we did is simply add a type client with a last seen and his normal limiter, and we update the time according to every visit for that client. We also added CleanupUsers which would run on a separate goroutine and clean up the map by removing users that haven't been using the api for 2 minutes and invoked it upon server start.
By doing the previous implementation we implemented a user specific rate limiter that limiters the user from spamming the api. Before I conclude the article I would love to thank Alex Edwards and his amazing website full of insightful articles that helped me make this article. Here's a reference to his article on the same topic. That was it for this article and see you on the next one!
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Bugzilla:Moving From CVS To Bazaar
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This page applies to people whose installation of Bugzilla is a checkout from the CVS version control system, and who wish to upgrade from Bugzilla 4.0 or earlier to Bugzilla 4.2 or later. Bugzilla 4.2 and up are not available from our legacy CVS repository, only our Bazaar (bzr) repository. Therefore, you will need to change your installation over to pull code from bzr before upgrading beyond 4.0.
You can tell if you need to follow these instructions by looking in your top-level Bugzilla directory. If there is a subdirectory called "CVS", then your installation is a checkout from CVS.
The switching procedure is as follows:
Update Your Bugzilla To The Latest Point Release
The aim when switching is to switch between two identical versions of Bugzilla, to minimise the risk of conflict or problems. Any upgrade, e.g. to 4.2, can then happen as a separate step, using the improved merge algorithms in bzr rather than those in CVS. It is recommended that you switch while using the latest point release for your version. You can update to the latest point release using CVS. The instructions on doing that are on the Bugzilla website. You should use the update command of the following form:
cvs update -rBUGZILLA-X_Y-STABLE -dP
where X.Y is your Bugzilla version number (e.g. 3.6). Don't forget to run checksetup.pl afterwards.
You should then test your Bugzilla carefully, or just use it for a day or two, to make sure it's all still working fine.
Save Any Local Customizations
If you have customizations to your Bugzilla, and you made them by changing the Bugzilla code itself (rather than using the Extension system), you will have to keep a copy of those changes. If you made no changes, or all changes are contained into extensions, jump to the next step. If you aren't sure, do the below, and see if patch.diff has non-zero size.
To generate a patch with all the changes you made, go into your Bugzilla directory and run this command:
cvs diff -puN > patch.diff
The file patch.diff will contain all the changes you made to your current installation. If it's empty, then you didn't make any local code customizations.
Download Code from bzr
Download a copy of your current version of Bugzilla from the bzr repository into a separate directory.
You will need a copy of the bzr program. All Linux installations have it; search your package manager for "bzr". On Windows, you can download it from Canonical; get the most highly-numbered stable release from the "Standalone" section.
Once bzr is installed, run this command to download Bugzilla:
bzr co -r tag:bugzilla-stable bzr://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/X.Y bugzilla-bzr
Replace X.Y with the version number of your current Bugzilla, e.g. 3.6. "bugzilla-bzr" is the name of the local directory into which the source code will be downloaded.
Shut Down Bugzilla
At this point, you should shut down Bugzilla to stop anyone changing the data you are about to copy. Go into the administrative interface and put an appropriate message into the "shutdownhtml" parameter, which is in the "General" section of the administration parameters. As the name implies, HTML is allowed.
This would be a good time to back up your database. We shouldn't be affecting it, but you can't be too careful.
Copy Across Data and Modules
Copy the contents of the following directories from your current installation of Bugzilla into the corresponding directory in bugzilla-bzr/:
lib/
data/
extensions/
You should only copy extensions you have written or installed, not ones which ship with Bugzilla. To find which ones shipped with your version of Bugzilla, look in the extensions/ directory in the new checkout from bzr. Only copy across things which are not present there already.
Then, copy the following file from your current installation of Bugzilla into the corresponding place in bugzilla-bzr/:
localconfig
This file contains your database password and access details. Because your two versions of Bugzilla are the same, this should all work fine.
Reapply Local Customizations
If you recorded any changes to your current Bugzilla installation in the earlier step, then you have to apply the patch.diff file you created earlier to your new installation. If you made no changes, you can jump to the next step. If you are on Windows and you don’t have the 'patch' program, you can download it from GNUWin. Once downloaded, you must copy patch.exe into the Windows directory.
Copy patch.diff into the bugzilla-bzr directory and then do:
patch -p0 --dry-run < patch.diff
The patch should apply cleanly because you have exactly the same version of Bugzilla in both directories. If it does, remove the --dry-run and rerun the command to apply it for real. If it does not apply cleanly, it is likely that you have managed to get a version mismatch between the two directories.
Swap The New Version In
Rename your old Bugzilla directory to bugzilla-cvs, and rename your bugzilla-bzr directory to whatever name your Bugzilla directory had. Run checksetup.pl to confirm that all is well.
mv bugzilla bugzilla-cvs
mv bugzilla-bzr bugzilla
cd bugzilla
./checksetup.pl
Running checksetup.pl should not result in any changes to your database at the end of the run. If it does, then it's most likely that the two versions of Bugzilla you have are not, in fact, the same.
Re-enable Bugzilla
Go into the administrative interface and clear the contents of the "shutdownhtml" parameter.
Upgrade Bugzilla
Use your Bugzilla for several days to check that the switch has had no detrimental effects. Then, follow the normal instructions for upgrading a bzr install of Bugzilla to the latest version.
(Rollback)
If something goes wrong at any stage of the switching process (e.g. your patch doesn't apply, or checksetup doesn't complete), you can always just switch the directories back (if you've got that far) and re-enable Bugzilla (if you disabled it) and then seek help. Even if you have re-enabled Bugzilla, and find a problem a little while down the road, you are still using the same version so there would be few side effects to switching the directories back a day or three later.
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Mikhail R. Mikhail R. - 3 months ago 13
Bash Question
Output redirection to the same file without a temporary file
Let's say I have a tab-delimited data file. I would like to convert every tab in the file to a single space character.
$ cat junk
John Doe 35 New York
Bob Smith 24 Boston
Jane Doe 31 Los Angeles
To do that, I can use the
expand
command. If I do it like this:
$ expand -t 1 junk > junk
it will clobber the junk file and all the data will be lost. The simplest solution that comes to mind is, of course, redirect the output to a temporary file and then redirect the output from the temporary file back to the original one. That would look something like this:
$ expand -t 1 junk > temp
$ cat temp > junk
$ rm temp
$ cat junk
John Doe 35 New York
Bob Smith 24 Boston
Jane Doe 31 Los Angeles
I think this is too much hassle. Maybe there's a simpler way that I could use to do the whole thing in one go?
Answer
If you have GNU sed (the question is tagged linux so that probably is the case), you can use its -i or --in-place option which deletes its temporary files (unless you provide a backup suffix).
Use the s (substitute) command to replace each tab with a space; the g (global) modifier replaces all tab characters on the line being processed, i.e., not just the first tab character:
sed -i 's/\t/ /g' junk
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ARK Server Hosting Cheap: Everything Dev Needs to Know
Hello, Dev! Are you looking for a way to host your ARK server without breaking the bank? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about ARK server hosting that fits your budget.
What is ARK Server Hosting?
ARK: Survival Evolved is a popular online game that allows players to explore a vast world filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. To play the game online, you need to host a server where you and your friends can join and play together.
ARK server hosting is a service that provides a dedicated server to host your game. This means you don’t have to worry about setting up your own server or maintaining it. Instead, you can focus on playing the game and having fun with your friends.
How Does ARK Server Hosting Work?
When you sign up for an ARK server hosting service, you’ll be given access to a server that is dedicated to hosting your game. You can customize your server settings, such as the game mode, difficulty level, and more, to create your own unique gaming experience.
Your hosting provider will take care of maintaining the server, ensuring that it is always up and running, and that it has the necessary resources to support your game. This includes things like CPU, RAM, and bandwidth.
You’ll also be able to manage your server through a web-based control panel, which allows you to make changes to your server settings, install mods, and more.
How Much Does ARK Server Hosting Cost?
The cost of ARK server hosting varies depending on the hosting provider and the plan you choose. Prices can range from as little as $5 per month to more than $100 per month for a dedicated server.
The cheapest option is often a shared server, where multiple users share the same server resources. While this can be a cost-effective solution, it can also lead to performance issues if the server becomes overcrowded.
If you have a large number of players or want more control over your server, a dedicated server may be a better option. This gives you access to all of the server resources and ensures that you won’t experience any performance issues due to overcrowding.
What Features Should You Look For in ARK Server Hosting?
When choosing an ARK server hosting provider, there are several features you should look for to ensure that you get the best possible experience:
Feature
Description
DDoS Protection
Protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks that can disrupt your server.
Control Panel
A web-based control panel that allows you to manage your server settings and install mods.
Technical Support
24/7 technical support to help you resolve any issues that arise.
Server Location
Choose a server location that is close to your players to minimize lag.
Uptime Guarantee
A guarantee that your server will be up and running at least 99% of the time.
FAQ
Is it possible to host an ARK server for free?
While it is technically possible to host an ARK server for free, it is not recommended. Free hosting services are often unreliable and may not provide the necessary resources to support your game. Additionally, free servers may be more susceptible to hacking or other security issues.
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Do I need a dedicated server for hosting an ARK server?
No, you don’t necessarily need a dedicated server to host an ARK server. Shared server hosting can be a cost-effective solution for small groups of players. However, if you have a large number of players or want more control over your server, a dedicated server may be a better option.
What should I do if my server experiences performance issues?
If your server experiences performance issues, there are several things you can do to improve the situation. First, check to see if there are any mods or settings that may be causing the problem. Additionally, make sure that your server has sufficient resources to support your game, and consider upgrading to a more powerful hosting plan if necessary.
Can I customize the settings on my ARK server?
Yes, you can customize the settings on your ARK server to create a unique gaming experience. This includes things like the game mode, difficulty level, and more. You can also install mods to add new features or change the gameplay mechanics.
What are the benefits of using an ARK server hosting service?
Using an ARK server hosting service offers several benefits, including:
• Reduced setup time and maintenance requirements
• Access to high-performance servers and resources
• 24/7 technical support
• Protection against DDoS attacks
Conclusion
ARK server hosting can be a great way to enjoy the game with your friends without having to worry about setting up and maintaining your own server. By choosing a reliable hosting provider and taking advantage of the features they offer, you can create a fun and unique gaming experience that fits your budget.
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Prithiraj Rava (born 1959) is a politician and actor of Assam. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Tezpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Asom Gana Parishad. He is the son of Bishnu Prasad Rabha an artist of Assam. He starred in the Assamese films Srimanta Sankardeva (2010), Ahetuk, Lakhimi and Firingoti.
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@article {1551, title = {Unraveling ultrafast photoinduced proton transfer dynamics in a fluorescent protein biosensor for Ca(2+) imaging.}, journal = {Chemistry}, volume = {21}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Apr 20}, pages = {6481-90}, abstract = {
Imaging Ca(2+) dynamics in living systems holds great potential to advance neuroscience and cellular biology. G-GECO1.1 is an intensiometric fluorescent protein Ca(2+) biosensor with a Thr-Tyr-Gly chromophore. The protonated chromophore emits green upon photoexcitation via excited-state proton transfer (ESPT). Upon Ca(2+) binding, a significant population of the chromophores becomes deprotonated. It remains elusive how the chromophore structurally evolves prior to and during ESPT, and how it is affected by Ca(2+) . We use femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy to dissect ESPT in both the Ca(2+) -free and bound states. The protein chromophores exhibit a sub-200 fs vibrational frequency shift due to coherent small-scale proton motions. After wavepackets move out of the Franck-Condon region, ESPT gets faster in the Ca(2+) -bound protein, indicative of the formation of a more hydrophilic environment. These results reveal the governing structure-function relationship of Ca(2+) -sensing protein biosensors.
}, issn = {1521-3765}, doi = {10.1002/chem.201500491}, author = {Tang, Longteng and Liu, Weimin and Wang, Yanli and Zhao, Yongxin and Oscar, Breland G and Robert E Campbell and Fang, Chong} }
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Where peace and interior joy abound there also cheerfulness of mien and manner ought to be found. Happiness presupposes peace a threefold peace: Peace with God, peace with ourselves, and peace with our neighbor That man is happy who lives in peace.
In the holy night when our Saviour was born, the angels sang: "On earth, peace." On the eve of His Passion, Our Lord said to His disciples in His touching farewell address: "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you" And after the Resurrection, He greeted His followers repeatedly with the words: "Peace be to you." Peace must be a great blessing, a priceless treasure; it is indeed happiness.
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The result was redirect to the Damilola Taylor article, consistent with the outcome of Articles for deletion/Ricky Preddie. Consensus in this debate was muddy, but I believe this solution is in line with the delete comments as well. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 19:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Danny Preddie
Oh boy. I'm sort of afraid to tackle this one. I would have tagged the article with "mergeto" Damilola Taylor, but the information already exists in the Taylor article. As such, this page duplicates information already existing in the encyclopedia. Additionally, it is not clear whether the images are copywrited. Suggest delete. CPAScott 14:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. Duplicates the info in the Taylor article without adding to it. Unnecessary. Richardjames444 14:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete I think too. Appears to be the third time a pair of people has been charged for this crime. Let's wait to see if these become particularly notable (convicted?!) and need their own articles, as opposed to being covered in Damilola Taylor. Encyclopedic notability not known (as opposed to news notability), Recentism, let's wait if these people have anything encyclopedic in their lives that isn't already covered in a more helpful article. Weregerbil 14:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete These two people were charged with a crime, and that crime is the only reason for the page Danny Preddie to exist. That page already contains these two people, and therefore, they don't need their own page. Also, they haven't been convicted yet! --Porqin 15:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Duplicates info. They have been convicted... but they have achieved nothing more than become semi reknowned for swearing in court and killing a young boy. They are not really worthy of anything more than a passing mention. Kouros 15:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* The Danny Preddie article states as of today, they have been charged with the crime, but they have not been convicted. Either way, it doesn't change my opinion on deletion. --Porqin 15:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Looks like duplicate info, also being common criminials doesn't make them noteworthy. Wildthing61476 15:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete This Damilola kid wasn't even murdered. He fell down and cut himself - just because he is black the police need to charge someone to stop themselves being seen as racist. User:Danieljohnson
* This comment is neither helpful nor appropriate. --CPAScott 21:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Uh, I trust you are all aware that Danny and Ricky Preddie have both been convicted today by a jury of the manslaughter of Damilola Taylor, and probably qualify as two of the UKs most notable juvenile criminals as a result? -Splash - tk 22:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* OK, but I still assert we don't need three articles to discuss it. One will suffice. --CPAScott 22:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* I'd suggest two. Obviously Damilola Taylor, but maybe then Danny and Rickie Preddy (or full names...whatever) to go with it. At the absolute minimum, there should be redirects from both their individual names to somewhere. -Splash - tk 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
* Looking now in some newpapers they are calling them the Preddy Brothers. So mabye just a page about Preedy Brothers. tk 23:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
* Delete There only really needs to be one article. There would not be much information on the "Preddy Brothers", and all the necessary information would already be in the Damilola Taylor article. - A Shade Of Gray 12:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of UK-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 09:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* Merge and redirect to Damilola Taylor, or just delete it completely. RFerreira 18:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Damilola Taylor, he is only notable in the context of that article. Do not keep separately, but the name in our search index will be valuable. -- nae'blis 18:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Damilola Taylor. AnnH ♫ 19:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
* delete duplicated info at Damilola Taylor article. Funky Monkey (talk) 04:06, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Damilola Taylor. the wub "?!" 16:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Damilola Taylor per Nae'blis, search ability for this name is useful. Yamaguchi先生 08:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
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Recognising text in real scenes
P Clark, M Mirmehdi
Research output: Contribution to journalArticle (Academic Journal)peer-review
77 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
We present two different approaches to the location and recovery of text in images of real scenes. The techniques we describe are invariant to the scale and 3D orientation of the text, and allow recovery of text in cluttered scenes. The first approach uses page edges and other rectangular boundaries around text to locate a surface containing text, and to recover a fronto-parallel view. This is performed using line detection, perceptual grouping, and comparison of potential text regions using a confidence measure. The second approach uses low-level texture measures with a neural network classifier to locate regions of text in an image. Then we recover a fronto-parallel view of each located paragraph of text by separating the individual lines of text and determining the vanishing points of the text plane. We illustrate our results using a number of images.
Translated title of the contributionRecognising text in real scenes
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)243 - 257
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
Volume4 (4)
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2002
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Daniel Fonseca
Daniel Fonseca Garis (born 13 September 1969) is a Uruguayan former footballer and a current football agent. A former forward, throughout his playing career, he played for Uruguayan side Nacional, as well as Italian clubs Cagliari, Napoli, Roma, Juventus, and Como, and Argentine side River Plate, winning titles with both Nacional and Juventus. At international level, he represented Uruguay on 30 occasions between 1990 and 1997, scoring 11 goals, and also took part at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the 1995 Copa América, winning the latter tournament.
Club career
Fonseca, nicknamed el castor ("the beaver"), started his football career at Nacional, his local team in Uruguay, in 1988. He played 14 games in two years and scored 3 goals.
In 1990, he moved to Cagliari, scoring 17 goals in 50 appearances, playing mostly on the left rather than in his more habitual central position.
In 1992 Napoli signed him and Fonseca managed a more impressive strike rate, scoring 31 goals in two seasons in Naples, including 5 goals in a 5–1 win against Valencia in the first knock-out round of the UEFA Cup on 16 September 1992. His form and performances drew attention from Roma, who promptly signed him in 1994.
During his time with Napoli, he would occasionally put on the socks of the Uruguay national team, which is a shade lighter in colour than Napoli's socks, saying that they would bring him good luck.
However, his three seasons (from 1994 to 1997) were far from successful. Fonseca usually played as a second striker, supporting the Argentine centre forward Abel Balbo, but, because of the many injuries he suffered, he played discontinuously.
Juventus signed Fonseca in 1997, but he was once again played out of position on the left wing, as he had been at Cagliari and Roma. His goalscoring record in Serie A was very good considering he was not always a first choice player with Roma and Juventus. Fonseca was always regarded as a "super sub", and scored several important goals coming off the bench. During his time with the Turin club, he won one Serie A title, a Champions League runner-up medal and the Supercoppa Italiana.
Injuries ruled him completely out of the 1999–2000 season, (aside from an UEFA Cup match against Levski Sofia on 4 November 1999, which ended in a 1–1 home draw, and a Coppa Italia match against Napoli on 16 December 1999, which ended in a 1–0 home win ), which saw him transferred to River Plate in Argentina. There, he infamously played only during the club's 2000 pre-season. His only match was a pre-season encounter against archrivals Boca Juniors, and Fonseca helped his club to earn a win by scoring the final penalty in the shootout. A few days later, Fonseca would resign from his contract and join Como in 2001. He retired in 2003 after the coach told him that he was no longer a part of the first team's plans.
International career
Fonseca represented the Uruguay national football team on 30 occasions between 1990 and 1997, scoring 11 goals. He was a member of the team that took part at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, scoring in injury time in the final group game against South Korea, and was also in the squad that won the 1995 Copa América.
Style of play
Fonseca was a quick, opportunistic, and hard-working striker, with good dribbling skills, vision, and a powerful shot from distance. This made him capable of both scoring goals and creating chances for teammates. A versatile and well-rounded attacker, Fonseca was also effective in the air, and was capable of playing in several offensive positions. His pace, technique, defensive work-rate, and passing ability meant he could play on the left wing, as well as in a central role, or even in a more creative role as a second striker alongside or behind another striker. He was also an accurate penalty kick and set-piece taker. Despite his ability, however, he was also injury prone.
After football
Fonseca currently works as a football agent, and has represented several of his compatriots, including Martín Cáceres, Fernando Muslera, and Luis Suárez.
Personal life
Daniel is the father of footballers Nicolás Fonseca and Matías Fonseca.
Controversies
In April 2016, he was named in the Panama Papers.
Club
* Nacional
* Recopa Sudamericana: 1989
* Copa Interamericana: 1989
* Primera División Uruguaya: 2002
* Juventus
* Serie A: 1997–98
* Supercoppa Italiana: 1997, Runner-up: 1998
* UEFA Champions League Runner-up: 1997–98
* UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999
International
* Uruguay
* Copa América: 1995
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3.9 feature voting round
Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 18:19:53 UTC 2006
I still have that old "voting" software I once wrote as a
proof-of-concept of what we could do with SqP's web of trust. I
thought it'd be neat to do a round of voting about what should land in
v3.9, now that the 3.9a team is considering going to beta.
The team also thought it'd be need to get some structured input, so I
cleaned up the database and it's now available for voting.
The idea is simple:
- Go to http://de-1.tric.nl/seaside/sqp/list
- Login with your Squeak People account
- Create an issue or vote on issues.
You will see the number of votes you have constantly updated. Note: I
haven't yet added the possibility to delete issues, and if you add an
issue, you have to allocate at least one vote to it. So think before
creating issues! In fact, you can't even edit an issue - which is
logical, otherwise you could rig the voting (editing an issue should
logically imply losing all votes that were on it before the issue).
The SqP angle is that the higher your ranking, the more votes you get
- Observers get none, Apprentice gets 5, Journeyer 10, Master 15. This
is an entirely unfounded distribution and I'm not going to debate it
here ;-).
Note: this voting round serves two purposes:
- Advise, I repeat: advise, the 3.9a team. They're entirely free to
completely ignore the outcome of this stuff, although if many many
many people vote for something and they don't do it, it'd be nice if
they'd give a reason;
- Check whether this sort of utility is useful.
The software can be found in the SqueakPeople repository on SqueakSource.
Have fun!
Cees
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B.A.BALASUBRAMANIAM, my father, born in November 1931, came from a family of leather manufacturers, which he continued from his father Achutha Mudaliar, who lived in Pernambut, a village famous for tanneries. He was king pin and head of joint family with 4 younger brothers and 3 sisters.He got them married, and me sivakumar is the 3rd of his 5 children. His company B.A.Balasubramaniam Bros & Co. exists and runs till today from 1950s as the oldest company that is still in partnership HUF.In 2018 December 24, my beloved father died and all members of the HUF praise him for his love and truth preaching..
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Denise Martin
Denise Martin (married name Plain; born 4 March 1959) is an Australian former cricketer who played as a left-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches and 17 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1982 and 1987. She played domestic cricket for Western Australia.
Martin was a member of the Australian team that won the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup.
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The history recorded that early concept of Mother’s Day in the United States was to ensure women's roles at home and their contributions to their families. It was not a celebration like many. It was a celebration of the political power of motherhood by which mothers could organize themselves for the benefit of the larger society and for the betterment of their future generations. It was an influence beyond the realm of home and family. It was for their participation in public and political areas.
In the mid -1800s, activist Anna Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia organized Mother’s Work Days for the purposes of working in their communities to improve health and sanitary conditions. Its very purpose was also to assist mothers suffering from tuberculosis with supplying of medicine, food and bottled milk. Thereafter, it was shifted for the care of soldiers affected in then civil war. Later Julia Ward Howe, women's right activist came forward to serve civil war affected families. And Howe wrote, ‘Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World' which was known as “Mother's Day Proclamation." Her call was to organize mothers everywhere and demanded a Mother’s Day for peace.
After expiry of Anna Reeves Jarvis in 1905, her daughter named Anna Jarvis pledged to establish a nationally recognized Mother’s Day. In 1914, it was adopted as official holiday by then the Congress. The ultimate goal of this day was to empower the woman and motherhood outside home. It was an entry point of women’s participation in larger society. Now every year second Sunday of May is being celebrated as Mother’s Day.
Now Mother’s Day becomes a consumer-driven. Its focus is exclusively on a privatized view of motherhood. It becomes a celebration to honour mothers. It is marketed to the mass public, specifically in urban and educated as well well-off families by the flower, greeting card, and jewelry industries, and so forth. A mother's self-sacrificing activity all year long is to buy her a simple token of their affection and dote on her for a day.
In fact, this celebration is not attaining it’s ultimately goal for mother and womanhood. Mothers as well as women are till in deep crisis. There is very less effort to realize the hidden pain of womanhood. Women have to face multifarious problems in daily life. They are being abused differently every day. The mothers of poor families have no alternative to get relief from their daily suffering. Today elderly mothers are becoming neglected. If they have no financial sufficiency, they are becoming orphan. Mothers of almost all ages are in emotional and financial crisis. Celebration of this day is just a symbol of consumerism. Where is the respect to the womanhood and mothers? Where is their safety and security? How much they should pay to make this society alive? We have to remember before the celebration of the very personal day – Mother’s Day.
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Tiguent (تكنت) is a small town and commune in south-western Mauritania, not far from the coast. In 2013, it had a population of 12,579.
Transport
It is proposed to be served by a new station on railway to serve the phosphate mines at Kaedi.
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Adjective
* 1) stressful
* 2) stressed; irritable
* 3) * 2009, Cathy Cassidy (quoting a letter), Letters To Cathy
* My dad's job is under threat and he is so stressy these days it's a nightmare being anywhere near him. He yells a lot and he's so unfair!
* My dad's job is under threat and he is so stressy these days it's a nightmare being anywhere near him. He yells a lot and he's so unfair!
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Getting Started with NVIDIA Clara Parabricks on AWS Batch using AWS CloudFormation
This post was contributed by Gary Burnett, Technical Marketing Engineer at NVIDIA, and Olivia Choudhury, PhD, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS.
Genomic sequencing is faster and cheaper than ever. This results in an enormous amount of data that needs to be processed and it can quickly exhaust the resources available using traditional CPU tools, especially those in an on-premises data center.
This is where NVIDIA Parabricks and AWS Batch can help. Parabricks is a GPU-accelerated tool for secondary genomic analysis. It reduces the runtime of variant calling on a 30x human genome from 30 hours to just 30 minutes. AWS Batch creates an interface to easily scale up compute jobs across multiple nodes.
In this blog post, we’ll show how you can run NVIDIA Parabricks on AWS Batch leveraging AWS CloudFormation templates.
Our environment
This guide will show you how to spin up an Amazon ECS cluster autoscaling that can be monitored through the AWS Batch console. This cluster has two nodes for demo purposes, and you can send one job to each node.
Prerequisites
Before you get started on AWS Batch, you need to modify the Parabricks container to make it compatible with the workflow on AWS. That’s because in a traditional installation, the Parabricks Docker container is spun up in the background using the pbrun Linux command. For Batch, we need to expose the full container. To do that that, you just remove the entry point and untar some files inside the container.
You can use Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) to host the container and make it accessible to AWS Batch. This is a short process, involving just four steps:
1. Create a container repository on Amazon ECR
2. Install Parabricks via Docker on a single node
3. Make modifications to the Parabricks docker image
4. Upload the modified Docker image to ECR
Create a container repository on Amazon ECR
Create a private container repository on Amazon ECR.
Figure 1: Create a private container repository on Amazon ECR.
Figure 1: Create a private container repository on Amazon ECR.
Navigate to the Amazon ECR Console and click “Create repository” in the upper right corner. Choose the repository to be private and give the repository a name. Then click “Create repository”.
Install Parabricks via Docker on a single node
This can be done on a local machine or on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you choose to install locally, make sure the machine has the AWS CLI and is configured with your AWS credentials.
If you already have a working Parabricks Docker installation, you can skip this step. Otherwise, fill out the Parabricks Trial License Request form on the NVIDIA website and follow the instructions in your email to perform a Docker installation (this is the default installation). You can verify your Parabricks installation by running the following command:
$ pbrun --version
Please visit https://docs.nvidia.com/clara/#parabricks for detailed documentation
pbrun: 3.7.0-1
Make modifications to the Parabricks docker image.
This and the following steps should be done on the machine with the Parabricks installation. You will use the Docker image from the standard install as your base image and the following Dockerfile to build on top of it. Make sure to add your Parabricks version number (ex. 3.7.0-1) where it says <VERSION NUMBER>.
$ cat Dockerfile
FROM parabricks/release:<VERSION NUMBER>
# Untar this folder to access the pbrun executable
RUN cd /parabricks && tar xzvf release-$version.tar.gz
# Add the pbrun executable to the path
ENV PATH="/parabricks/release-<VERSION NUMBER>:${PATH}"
# Remove the entrypoint from the container to work with AWS Batch
ENTRYPOINT [""]
Now build the Docker image and tag it with the URI for the ECR repository from step 1.
$ docker build -t <URI for your ECR repository> .
Upload the modified Docker image to ECR
Lastly, you will upload this modified version of the Parabricks container to the ECR repository.
aws ecr get-login-password --region us-west-2 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin <URI for your ECR repository>
Now you are ready to kick off the Batch pipeline.
Using AWS Batch with AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation allows users to programmatically provision hardware resources. You can read more about it on the CloudFormation homepage. The templates provided in the Parabricks Quick Start Guide are configured to create the following architecture:
Architecture for running Parabricks jobs on AWS leveraging AWS Batch
Figure 2: Architecture for running Parabricks jobs on AWS leveraging AWS Batch
Here you have two EC2 instances, each in its own availability zone, ready to accept Parabricks jobs. The guide will download sample data and send one job to each EC2 instance.
Visit the deployment guide and click on Get Started. This will open the CloudFormation console with the template loaded into the GUI, ready to be filled in.
First, give this stack a name (Ex. “Parabricks Test”).
Enter stack name for AWS CloudFormation.
Figure 3: Enter stack name for AWS CloudFormation.
Under Network Configuration select two availability zones for this project. You can also configure which subnets to use. For most users, the defaults will work.
Figure 4: Enter parameters (availability zone and CIDR) for AWS CloudFormation.
Figure 4: Enter parameters (availability zone and CIDR) for AWS CloudFormation.
Under Parabricks Quick Start Configuration add the link to the URI for the Parabricks ECR repository you made in during the pre-requisite steps. Next for this section, select a Key Pair from the dropdown. This is so you can log onto the nodes that are running our jobs if you so desire. Select your instance type from the dropdown. All other fields can be left with their default values.
Figure 5: Enter configuration for Parabricks Quick Start.
Figure 5: Enter configuration for Parabricks Quick Start.
Under AWS Quick Start Configuration you can leave the defaults as they are.
Figure 6: Use default setting for Amazon S3.
Figure 6: Use default setting for Amazon S3.
You can skip the Configure stack options section and jump straight to the Review page. Review the options you have selected and check they are correct. Now you can click Create Stack which will take you to the stack creation page.
Figure 7: Dashboard to view status of stack creation with AWS CloudFormation.
Figure 7: Dashboard to view status of stack creation with AWS CloudFormation.
Once the stack has finished creating, you can see the jobs starting in the Jobs section of the AWS Batch dashboard.
And that’s it. Congratulations! You’ve successfully run Parabricks on AWS Batch using AWS CloudFormation. These templates are available on GitHub and can be adapted to scale up to more nodes and to more complex pipelines.
Conclusion
In this blog post, we demonstrated how to use the Parabricks Quick Start on AWS, leveraging AWS Batch and AWS CloudFormation, for secondary analysis of next-generation sequencing data. Visit the Parabricks Quick Start Deployment Guide and try out the demo for yourself. For more information on Parabricks check out the homepage and documentation.
The content and opinions in this blog are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this blog.
Gary Burnett
Gary Burnett
Gary Burnett is a Technical Marketing Engineer at NVIDIA. He helps customers use CLARA Parabricks software to accelerate their genomics pipelines. Gary received his bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Neuroscience from MIT and is currently working towards a master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University.
Olivia Choudhury
Olivia Choudhury
Olivia Choudhury, PhD, is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. She helps partners, in the Healthcare and Life Sciences domain, design, develop, and scale state-of-the-art solutions leveraging AWS. She has a background in genomics, healthcare analytics, federated learning, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Outside of work, she plays board games, paints landscapes, and collects manga.
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Berte Rognerud
Berte Rognerud (29 March 1907 – 27 January 1997) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
She was born in Østre Toten.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1954, and was re-elected on four occasions.
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Cheryl Elizabeth Gamble (formerly Clemons; born June 13, 1970), better known by her stage name Coko, is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of the R&B vocal trio Sisters With Voices (SWV). Aside from her R&B career, Gamble also has a solo gospel career. As a member of SWV, Coko has sold 10 million records in the US, and 25 million records worldwide, and is a four-time Grammy Award nominee.
Early life and career
Gamble was born in The Bronx, New York as Cheryl Gamble to gospel singer Mother Lady "Clyde" Tibba Gamble, Gamble was raised in the South Bronx section, Gamble also lived in Brooklyn before moving back to The Bronx. Gamble began singing at age 3, beginning her recording career as a choir member in Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.
Sisters With Voices (SWV)
From 1990 to 1998, Gamble sang with the platinum recording group, Sisters With Voices (SWV). Collectively the female trio released five albums - with their debut It's About Time (1992) selling over three million copies making SWV a big hit and earning the group numerous awards and accolades, including a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 1994 Grammy Awards. After their 1997 Christmas album, SWV disbanded. To commemorate their tremendous success and huge contribution to the contemporary R&B genre in the early 1990s, six compilation albums were released compiling their best efforts. Gamble made the final decision to disband the group. In an interview, Gamble stated it was not a mutual decision, that many people tried to convince her to stay but it was inevitable. Gamble went on to say that she didn't feel appreciated, that there was no unity within the group and the communication was gone. Gamble did not speak to founding member Leanne "Lelee" Lyons for several years. SWV eventually reunited and released two albums in the 2010s.
Solo career
After SWV disbanded, Gamble went on to work with other artists such as Will Smith, most notably on his Grammy Award-winning hit single "Men in Black" from the blockbuster film of the same name (1997). Gamble went on to release her first solo album under RCA, titled Hot Coko, released in August 1999. The first single, "Sunshine," which was dedicated to her son Jazz, reached the Top 40 position in the R&B charts that summer. However, both the album and singles did not gather the same mainstream success as Gamble once did with SWV. Meanwhile, Gamble was working on a second solo album titled Music Doll in early 2001, but RCA closed the black music division and the project was shelved.
In 2001, Gamble and her Mother Lady "Clyde" Tibba Gamble did a remake of the song "Tears in Heaven" (originally recorded by Eric Clapton) on the album Rhythm and Spirit: "Love Can Build a Bridge". The album featured other artists such as Jennifer Holliday, Patti LaBelle, and Tramaine Hawkins. Gamble sang on the Brent Jones and the T. P. Mobb single "Midnight" in 2002. Gamble also appeared on Youthful Praise's 2003 gospel album Thank You for the Change singing lead on "Up There". Coko's full gospel solo debut, Grateful, was released in the United States on October 31, 2006 and debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Independent albums chart. Grateful includes an all-star cover of The Clark Sisters' "Endow Me" which features R&B singers Faith Evans, Fantasia Barrino and Lil Mo. An alternate version, minus Faith Evans was performed on BET's Celebration of Gospel '07. A special edition of Grateful only available through Wal-Mart includes two bonus tracks "I Wish" and Brent Jones' "Midnite" featuring Gamble on lead vocals. Gamble was reported to have joined an all-black touring cast performing the critically acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues, along with Sherri Shepherd, Star Jones, Vanessa L. Williams, and others. In June 2008, Coko performed in Japan for the Billboard Live Tour. Gamble sang some of her solo hits "Sunshine", "Clap Your Hands", and the SWV song "Right Here/Human Nature".
Reuniting with SWV
Gamble reunited with SWV and performed during their first live performance in eight years in Los Angeles for urban radio station KKBT 100.3 "The Beat"'s Summerjam concert on August 20, 2005. They also appeared on the 2006 New Jack Reunion Tour. SWV was featured in the XXL where they discussed single releases from their debut album It's About Time. In the interview, Gamble mentioned that the group would no longer perform sexually-explicit songs such as "Downtown" and "Can We" anymore out of a new respect for her beliefs as a Christian. The group's final performance took place in Toronto in late June 2007. On April 4, 2008, Coko returned with SWV to perform some of their hits for the local DJ Kid Kutts' birthday. As SWV was in the midst of new shows for early 2011, Gamble posed for a shoot in Jackson, Mississippi with photographer Will Sterling. The photos were in fashionable gowns, set against the natural beauty of the Mississippi Delta.
Personal life
Coko has a son with Digable Planets member Ishmael Butler, Jazz Butler, better known by his professional name, Lil Tracy (b. 1995).
Gamble married gospel producer and drummer for Israel and New Breed, Mike "Big Mike" Clemons on October 19, 2003. They have a son, Jalen Clemons, who is also known as a singer under the stage name Jayye Michael. The couple divorced in 2018 after 15 years of marriage.
Gamble currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Singles
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Other performances
* Will Smith: "Men In Black (featuring Coko)" Men In Black Soundtrack (Columbia, 1997)
* LSG: "All The Times (featuring Faith Evans, Coko, & Missy Elliott)" (Elektra, 1997)
* Johnny Gill & Coko: "Fire and Desire" Booty Call Soundtrack (Jive, 1997)
* Jon B., Coko and Jay-Z "Keep It Real" Hav Plenty soundtrack (Yab Yum, 550 Music, 1998)
* Coko, Missy Elliott: "He Be Back" Why Do Fools Fall In Love Soundtrack (Elektra, 1999)
* Tevin Campbell: "Everything You Are (featuring Coko)" (Qwest, 1999)
* Brent Jones and the T. P. Mobb: "Midnite (featuring Coko)" (EMI Gospel, 2002)
* Coko: "Got A Hold Over Me (Easy Lover)" Urban Renewal: The Songs of Phil Collins (Atlantic, 2001)
* Bishop Eric Mcdaniels "Somehow Someway" featuring Coko We Are Healed Butterfly (2003)
* Youthful Praise: "Up There (featuring Coko)" (Evidence Gospel, 2003)
* Onitsha: "My Life" (featuring Coko, Mary Mary and Deborah Cox) (Stillwaters Records, 2007)
* Case & Coko: "Face To Face" Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns soundtrack (Atlanta Records, 2008)
* George Huff "Destiny" featuring Coko and Tasha Collins George Huff (Koch Records, 2009)
* Keith Sweat My Valentine featuring Coko Til The Morning (KDS Entertainment Inc & Entertainment One Us, 2011)
* Jeff Bradshaw So Thankful featuring Coko Bon Appetit Volume 1 (Hidden Beach Records, 2012)
* Donald Lawrence "Might God" featuring Coko Best For Last (Quietwater Entertainment, 2013)
* MC Lyte featuring Coko and Faith Evans "Last Time" Legend (Sunni Gyrl, 2015)
* Charles Butler & Trinity featuring Coko "Bless Your Name" (Anointed Sound Records LLC, 2016)
* Travis Malloy featuring Coko "World Go Round" (Malloy Entertainment, 2020)
* Charles Butler & Trinity featuring Coko "By My Spirit" (Red Alliance Media/Fair Trade Services, 2020)
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OBJECTIVE The role of uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) in pancreatic β-cells
OBJECTIVE The role of uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) in pancreatic β-cells Adenosine is highly debated partly because of the broad tissue distribution of UCP2 and thus limitations of whole-body UCP2 knockout Adenosine mouse models. membrane potential islet ATP content reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) glucagon secretion glucose and insulin tolerance and plasma hormone levels. RESULTS UCP2BKO β-cells displayed mildly increased glucose-induced mitochondrial membrane hyperpolarization but unchanged rates of uncoupled respiration and islet ATP content. UCP2BKO islets had elevated intracellular ROS levels that associated with enhanced GSIS. Surprisingly UCP2BKO mice were glucose-intolerant showing greater α-cell area higher islet glucagon content and aberrant ROS-dependent glucagon secretion under high glucose conditions. CONCLUSIONS Using a novel β-cell-specific UCP2KO mouse model we have shed light on UCP2 function in primary β-cells. UCP2 does not behave as a classical metabolic uncoupler in the β-cell but has a more prominent role in the regulation of intracellular ROS levels that contribute to GSIS amplification. In addition Adenosine β-cell UCP2 contributes to the regulation of intraislet ROS signals that mediate changes in α-cell morphology and glucagon secretion. Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) was discovered based on sequence homology to UCP1 (1) a well-studied UCP involved in thermogenesis. UCP1 induces a strong proton leak in the inner mitochondrial membrane which dramatically dissipates the proton motive force Adenosine (PMF) consequently halting the driving force for ATP production and dissipating energy as heat (2). Despite homology to UCP1 the precise physiological function of UCP2 remains unclear (3). A moderate metabolic uncoupling function whereby UCP2 facilitates a proton leak particularly when activated by superoxide or lipid peroxidation products has been exhibited (4-6); however evidence exists that disputes this classical metabolic uncoupling function (7-9). A growing body of evidence now suggests that UCP2 contributes to the control of mitochondrial-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) production (3 4 10 11 This may provide an important mechanism to fine-tune mitochondria-generated ROS signals that regulate cell function and/or to prevent oxidative stress a condition that results from chronic ROS accumulation and ultimately leads to oxidative damage and cytotoxicity (12 13 To combat oxidative stress β-cells express relatively high amounts of the superoxide dismutase (SOD) family of antioxidants (～50% of that found in liver) which convert superoxide into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) yet β-cells have relatively low expression of H2O2-scavenging enzymes (1% of that found in liver) (14). Some argue that this makes β-cells particularly susceptible to oxidative stress and cytotoxicity Cd19 whereas others argue that this creates an environment highly sensitive to ROS-related signaling. Since ROS production is directly coupled to the metabolic rate in most tissues (15) ROS could provide a vital regulatory link between glucose metabolism and insulin secretion (16-18) and UCP2 may be an important regulator of such ROS-related signals. Since its discovery numerous studies have exhibited a negative link between UCP2 and β-cell function (1). UCP2 expression is usually upregulated in response to chronic high glucose (19 20 and fatty acid exposure (19 21 and is thus associated with obesity hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes. More recently mutations in the gene expressing UCP2 have been directly associated with congenital hyperinsulinemia in humans further demonstrating this link between UCP2 and insulin secretion (24). Approximately a decade ago whole-body UCP2 knockout (UCP2KO) mice were created on a mixed 129/SVJxC57BL/6 background (25) to explore UCP2 function in the β-cell. UCP2KO mice have reduced blood glucose levels improved glucose tolerance higher islet ATP content enhanced glucose-stimulated Adenosine insulin secretion (GSIS) (25) and increased intracellular ROS levels in islet cells (26 27 compared to control mice. Comparable results have been exhibited in rat insulinoma β-like cells (INS-1E) where acute knockdown of UCP2 also increased intracellular ROS and enhanced GSIS (18). However this view of UCP2 as a negative regulator of GSIS has not been consistently supported. Backcrossing UCP2KO mice for several generations onto highly congenic background strains resulted in increased oxidative stress and impaired Adenosine GSIS (28). Although the precise contribution of genetic background to these disparate effects of UCP2 on GSIS is currently.
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Quanta Earnings Beat in 1Q - Analyst Blog
Quanta Services Inc. ( PWR ) released first-quarter 2013 results with GAAP earnings per share of 34 cents beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 29 cents by 17.2% as well as the prior-year earnings of 22 cents by 54.5%.
Non-GAAP earnings in the reported quarter were 38 cents a share, up 31.0% from the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 29 cents a share. The reported figure was also 46.2% higher than the prior-year quarter. Profits were primarily driven by increasing demand for the company's services.
Revenue
Total revenue for the quarter was $1.59 billion, up 19.3% from $1.33 billion in the prior-year quarter, aided by increased revenues from the company's Electric Power Infrastructure Services segment. Quanta reported revenue growth across all of its operating segments.
Segment Details
Electric Power revenues in the quarter were $1.2 billion, up 26.7% from $932 million in the prior-year period. Revenues during the quarter were positively impacted by higher revenues from electric power transmission projects and solar power generation projects as a result of increased capital spending by customers. The segment had a backlog of $132.5 million compared to $114.2 million in the prior-year quarter.
Natural Gas and Pipeline revenues came in at $358.9 million, flat year over year as the increased project costs as a result of performance issues caused by adverse weather conditions on certain projects. The segment had a backlog of $10.4 million compared to negative $10.5 million in the prior-year quarter
Fiber Optic Licensing revenues were up 15.7% to $45.8 million from $39.5 million in the comparable quarter last year. The segment had a backlog of $16.9 million compared to $14.5 million in the prior-year quarter
Income and Expenses
Operating income in the quarter was $119.2 million compared to $78.8 million in the prior-year quarter, reflecting an increase of 51.4%. SG&A expense was $113.7 million compared to $98.1 million in the comparable quarter last year.
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the quarter were $366.6 million and shareholders' equity was $3.83 billion.
Capital expenditures were approximately $56 million, which resulted in $12 million in negative free cash flow for the first quarter of 2013 compared with $104 million in negative free cash flow for the first quarter of 2012.
Outlook
Quanta is positive about its performance going forward. Quanta expects revenues for the second quarter of 2013 to be in the range of $1.45 billion to $1.55 billion. GAAP earnings are expected to be in the range of 30 cents to 32 cents while non-GAAP earnings for the quarter are projected in the range of 35 cents to 37 cents.
Quanta expects revenues for the full year 2013 to range between $5.9 billion and $6.3 billion. GAAP earnings for the year are expected to be in the range of $1.20 and $1.40 per share and non-GAAP earnings are expected to range from $1.37 to $1.57 per share.
Quanta currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). However, some other players operating in the same industry and worth considering are Chicago Bridge & Iron ( CBI ), Orion Marine Group Inc . ( ORN ) and Fluor Corporation ( FLR ), all having Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Nitroprusside Toxicity
Definition
Mechanism of Action of Sodium Nitroprusside:
Sodium nitroprusside causes toxicity by three primary mechanisms: 1) the most common adverse effect is direct vasodilation resulting in hypotension and dysrhythmias; 2) thiocyanate toxicity occurs infrequently, resulting in tinnitus, altered mental status changes, nausea, and abdominal pain; 3) in rare cases, cyanide toxicity can occur, resulting in coma, metabolic acidosis, or respiratory arrest. In very rare cases, and in susceptible patients, methemoglobinemia can occur, which, if levels reach greater than 15 percent, can result in symptomatic cellular hypoxia.
Toxicity associated with sodium nitroprusside is usually related to prolonged administration or occurs in patients with renal or hepatic failure.
Cyanide toxicity
Acute cyanide toxicity occurs when the cyanide ions bind to tissue cytochrome oxidase and interfere with normal oxygen utilization. This as a result leads to metabolic acidosis, cardiac arrhythmias, and increased venous oxygen content (as a result of the inability to utilize oxygen). Another early sign of cyanide toxicity is the acute resistance to the hypotensive effects of increasing doses of sodium nitroprusside (tachyphylaxis). (It should be noted that tachyphylaxis implies acute tolerance to the drug following multiple rapid injections, as opposed to tolerance, which is caused by more chronic exposure). Cyanide toxicity can usually be avoided if the cumulative dose of sodium nitroprusside is less than 0.5 mg/kg/h.
Symptoms: Cyanide toxicity is often associated with the odor of almonds on breath and can result in acidosis, tachycardia, mental status changes, and death.
How to intervene: Patients with cyanide toxicity should be mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen to maximize oxygen availability.
Pharmacological treatment: Treatment of cyanide toxicity depends on increasing the kinetics of the two reactions by administering sodium thiosulfate (150 mg/kg over 15 min) or 3% sodium nitrate (5 mg/kg over 5 min), which oxidizes hemoglobin to methemoglobin, or by limiting the administration of nitroprusside.
Methemoglobinemia
Methemoglobinemia from excessive doses of sodium nitroprusside or sodium nitrate can be treated with methylene blue (1–2 mg/kg of a 1% solution over 5 min), which reduces methemoglobin to hemoglobin.
Thiocyanate toxicity
Symptoms: Thiocyanate toxicity causes anorexia, fatigue, and mental status changes, including psychosis, weakness, seizures, tinnitus, and hyperreflexia. Thiocyanate is usually excreted in the urine. Toxicity can be minimized by avoiding prolonged administration of nitroprusside and by limiting drug use in patients with renal insufficiency. If necessary, thiocyanate can be removed by dialysis.
From: https://www.openanesthesia.org/nitroprusside_toxicity_treatment/
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