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Danilo Gregorić
Danilo Gregorić (Данило Грегорић; 1900–1957) or Gregorič (Грегорич) was a Yugoslav diplomat to Germany and the newspaper editor for Vreme during World War II.
His father Cvetko Gregorić was the secretary of the Industrial Corporation in Belgrade, of Slovenian descent. Danilo Gregorić joined the movement of Dimitrije Ljotić, but soon left and joined the Yugoslav Radical Union of Milan Stojadinović, who knew his father. When President of the Government Dragiša Cvetković formed government, he took Gregorić, who knew perfect German, as one of his direct envoys to Germany. Gregorić was the intermediary between Cvetković and Joachim von Ribbentrop, and had a role in the Tripartite Pact talks. He was often in conflict with Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Marković. Gregorić sought to become the Minister for Propaganda, but did not succeed. When Cvetković changed his views on Germany, Gregorić was appointed the Deputy Commissioner of Vreme, subsequently the Commissioner and editor of the magazine. This was done according to the German government's wish. The tone of the magazine became pro-German, stressing that Yugoslavia needed to join the Axis powers. He was informed that tanks appeared in the streets, then left for Zemun, crossing the bridge, but was apprehended and imprisoned, on 27 March 1941, the day of the Yugoslav coup d'état. He was sentenced to 13 years of prison and forced labor on 16 August 1949 by the Communist Yugoslav court.
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Doku Zavgayev
Doku Gapurovich Zavgayev (Доку Гапурович Завгаев; Завгаев Доку; born 22 December 1940) is a Soviet and Russian diplomat and politician from Chechnya. He was the leader of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR.
Communist leadership
In 1989, Zavgayev, a former collective farm manager and senior Communist Party official, was elected as the first Chechen First Secretary of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR since the Chechens' return in 1957.
In August 1991 Zavgayev, then communist leader of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR, supported the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
On 6 September 1991, supporters of the All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP) led by Dzhokhar Dudayev, stormed a session of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR Supreme Soviet, killing the Soviet Communist Party chief for Grozny, Vitaly Kutsenko, severely injuring several other Soviet members, and establishing the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Zavgayev, the Chairman of the Soviet, was not present. Trying to avoid further bloodshed he was compelled to leave the republic, publicly announcing that he would return.
First Chechen War
By 1994, both the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin and the heads of the "force ministries" were convinced by Zavgayev that Russia should actively intervene in Chechnya. Zavgayev was appointed a pro-Moscow head of state on 24 October 1995, and was elected in December the same year with 96% of the votes.
On 8 December 1995, Zavgayev and Viktor Chernomyrdin signed an agreement as a basis for a Russian-Chechen federation treaty which would give Chechnya broad autonomy akin to that of Tatarstan.
Postwar career
After the 1996 withdrawal of the Russian forces from Chechnya, Zavgayev was appointed Russia's ambassador in Tanzania. From February 2004 he was Deputy Foreign Minister and he was Director General of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from August 2004 to September 2009. From September 2009 to November 2019 he was Russia's ambassador in Slovenia.
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Chobokwane
Chobokwane is a village in Ghanzi District of Botswana. It is located south-west of the district capital Ghanzi, and has a primary school. The population was 771 in 2011 census.
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Raymond Devos
Raymond Devos (9 November 1922 – 15 June 2006) was a French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.
Early life
Devos was born in Mouscron, Belgium, close to the French border. Both his parents were French and he moved to Tourcoing, France, at the age of two. Seven years later, his family moved to Paris. During the Second World War he was sent, like many young men of his generation, to Germany to work. On his return to France, he took acting and mime lessons at the Étienne Ducroux school, where he met Marcel Marceau. In 1948, he was part of a burlesque trio (in the older sense of the word burlesque).
Career
Devos's career took off in the 1950s when he began writing his own one man shows and was the opening act for Maurice Chevalier. Although his act still involved elements of his early years as a clown (such as juggling) he was mostly recognized because of his mastery of the French language. His unique brand of surreal humour and sophisticated puns garnered him much respect throughout the Francophone world. Devos is a leading character in Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist 1957 debut short film Les têtes interverties (a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 play The Transposed Heads). Perhaps his best-known international appearance is a cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou 1965 as a man sitting on a harbourside who is obsessed with the memory of a mysterious love song.
He performed for the last time in 1999 in Paris's Olympia Theater. He died in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, Yvelines, France.
Nationality
Because he was born in Belgium, the nationality of Devos was often, and still is, a source of confusion. Some media reported his death by referring to "Belgian comic Devos" or "French and Belgian comic Devos". He also has a Dutch/Flemish family name. Devos was born of French parents and raised in France, but was always respectful of his country of birth and once quipped that he was still, after all, a "fake Belgian".
Awards and distinctions
* In 1986 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française.
* He was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Académie française's Grand Prix du Théâtre.
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County Route 149 (Sullivan County, New York)
County Route 149 (CR 149) is a 8.69 mi county route in northern Sullivan County, New York, in the United States. The route runs from an intersection with New York State Route 52 (NY 52) in the Callicoon community of Youngsville to an intersection with CR 178 in the Rockland community of Livingston Manor. CR 149 was originally designated as New York State Route 284 in 1930.
Route description
CR 149 begins at an intersection with NY 52 in the community of Youngsville. The route progresses northward, passing and paralleling Tremper Road, a dead-end road. CR 149 passes by several residential homes in Youngsville, along with one local commercial building. After leaving the community, CR 149 continues to the north as Shandelee Road, passing through the residential surroundings. After passing by a few more residences, Shandelee Road makes a bend to the northwest, and into more dense woodlands in the area. About a mile north of Youngsville, CR 149 continues its way northward, passing by a local residence, and intersects with Stump Pond Road, which heads westward from the main highway. Shandelee Road makes another bend, this time to the north, passing through moderate development for about another mile. A short distance into the bend, the woodlands that were surrounding the highway clear and the highway becomes surrounded by fields and residential homes. After a short gap in the clearing, CR 149 intersects with Hardenburg Road, a local road, in another clearing. After Hardenburg Road, Shandelee Road begins to bend in different directions, several times to the west and several times to the east, intersecting with Meyer Road at a fork. CR 149, which continues to the left at the fork, heads to the northwest, paralleling Meyer Road to the west. The residences begin to disappear and CR 149 continues into a more wooded area, where it intersects with Whittendale Road, a local dead-end road. A short distance from Whittendale Road, CR 149 makes a sharp bend to the northeast, intersecting with the northern termini of Stump Pond Road and Meyer Road. Near the intersection with Gilda Lane, CR 149 passes the Sand Pond, and intersects with a series of short local roads. Paralleling the shores of Sand Pond for a short distance, Shandelee Road begins to enter the community of Shandelee. There, the highway intersects with Shandelee Lake Road, a short connector highway in the area. CR 149 makes a curve to the east, following Shandelee Road for a distance, making several winds in direction until the alignment turns towards the northeast. Shandelee Road continues to the northeast, passing through local woodlands and fields. As CR 149 nears Livingston Manor, the name changes from Shandelee Road to Main Street.
After a curve to the northeast, CR 149 passes under some power lines, intersecting with Cattall Road. There the highway turns to the north, and soon to the northeast, entering Livingston Manor. Immediately after entering the community, CR 149 becomes more developed, with residential homes and commercial buildings now surrounding highway. After an intersection with Creamery Road, CR 149 continues to the northeast through downtown Livingston Manor, ending at an intersection with CR 178 (a former alignment of NY 17). Interchange 96 on Route 17 (the Quickway), is not far to the north and is accessible via CR 178 and CR 81.
History
In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the New York State Department of Public Works renumbered several routes assigned during the 1920s and assigned route numbers to hundreds of state highways that had yet to receive a designation. By May, the current alignment of CR 149, then a state highway, was designated as NY 284. The NY 284 designation was short-lived, however, as it was removed c. 1939. The former alignment of NY 284 was designated as CR 149 by the Sullivan County Highway Department by 1995. The NY 284 designation is now assigned to a road in nearby Orange County.
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Mother of a Different Kind
Mother of a Different Kind (不一樣的媽媽) is a 1995 Hong Kong film directed by David Chiang.
Cast and roles
* Lau Ching Wan – Supt Cheung Hung
* Fung Bo Bo – Nurse Lam Sau Mei
* Veronica Yip – Jojo
* Annabelle Lau – Mable, WPC10188
* Michael Tong – Shun, PC10249
* Tam Suk Mooi – Pui
* Tang Chi Lin
* Joe Cheung
* Man Sing
* Ma Suk Jan
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Legarda
Legarda may refer to:
People
* Legarda (singer), Colombian singer and internet personality
* Benito Legarda (1853-1915), Filipino legislator
* Bernardo de Legarda (c. 1700 – 1773), Ecuadorian sculptor and painter
* Katrina Legarda (active from 1975), Filipino lawyer
* Loren Legarda (born 1960), Filipino environmentalist, cultural worker, journalist, and politician
* Trinidad Legarda (1899-1998), Filipina suffragist, clubwoman, philanthropist, and editor
Other uses
* Legarda, Navarre, a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain
* Legarda, Poland, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gostynin, Gostynin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland
* Legarda Elementary School, a public elementary school located in Sampaloc in the City of Manila
* Legarda station, a station on the Manila Line 2
* Legarda Street, Sampaloc district in Manila, Philippines
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Similar to some other programming language and environments, php is subject a form of the dependency hell. That means only one version of a class can be loaded at a time. For simple applications that is less of a problem as you will most likely composer to manage your dependencies. Composer flattens your dependency hierarchy so all required packages and their sub-packages can live next to each other while all version constraints are satisfied. If one library is required with two or more disjoint version ranges, composer will show an error and refuse the installation.
Nextcloud and the Dependency Hell
With Nextcloud apps it’s even a bit more complicated. We use composer for our libraries, but the pluggable architecture allows apps to ship additional code. This code is not only the application code, but also often additional packages via the app’s composer. As the Nextcloud composer and any app’s composer are not aware of each other, both will register a class autoloader therefore there is the chance that two or more app load a dependency multiple times. In the lucky case, nobody notices as both apps use the same (latest) version of the dependency. In the less lucky case, there will be strange bugs as parts of the one version of the package and parts of the other are loaded. When admins who detect the problem report it, it can typically not be reproduced because the developer’s instance might not have both conflicting applications installed.
A Promising Workaround
Again, a typical php application won’t ever run into this problem. But it’s not only Nextcloud which is affected by this problem – Wordpress has the exact same issue with its plugins. Mozart is a small package that promises to help. It rewrites source file from composer’s vendor directory and prefixes the namespaces with a configurable prefix. This means every Wordpress plugin or Nextcloud app can have its own set of dependencies, while they will never cause a conflict thanks to the unambiguous namespaces.
I think this is brilliant, and possibly the only real solution to this problem unless that would be ever addresses on a language level where more than one autoloader could handle the loading of classes inside encapsulated bundles.
A few experiments with the tool in a Nextcloud app have shown that it does work. The only composer package where it broke is Guzzle with HTTPlug, as some libraries are not correctly re-written and thus the service locator logic fails.
Und alles ruft Come and rock me Amadeus
For the discussion around Mozart for Nextcloud apps please see my topic on the community forum.
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312 COBEAN SOCIAL CUSTOMS. Ordinarily, the father of young hopeful begins the preparations for marriage ; but the father of a girl may look out a husband for her at pleasure. Fathers and mothers are even, if possible, more absolute than in China. The father makes enquiries as to who, of all his acquaintances, possesses a daughter eligible in years, appearance, character, and position. Having ascertained, lie consults with his wife, who gets on her long robe, pulls it over her face, and starts for the house of the young lady. If the interview does not satisfy the old lady, the process is repeated. When a good match is met with, a mutual friend of the two parental parties is engaged to perform the task of sounding the girl's parents, who may stop all further advances at once ; or the father of the girl may, in his turn, visit the house of the aspirant, and have an unoflBcial interview with the young man, in the same manner as his daughter was visited before. When both parties are agreeable, formal negotiations are opened by the father of the young man writing a long red-paper letter to his friend; first giving his own name and address, then asking carefully about his friend's health, &c., and expressing the warmest wishes for his welfare ; and last of all, like some postscripts, he mentions that he has one, two, or three sons, as the case may be ; that number one is unmarried, and of marriageable age ; that after careful enquiry among his many friends, he has discovered that his friend has a marriageable daughter, &c., &a This letter is written in presence of the middle man, to whom it is handed for delivery to the girl's father. There is, however, no engage- ment on either side, and either may draw back, until the girl's father replies in an equally formal manner, accepting the proposal for his daughter, after which acceptation the young people are virtually married ; for, if before the final consummation of marriage the young man dies, the girl is a widow, and acts as such, never marrying except with disgrace. It is a queer custom, and a most unequal and unjust one ; for if the woman dies, the youth can marry when he chooses. The custom is borrowed from the Chinese, and is first cousin to Suttee. An auspicious day is discovered by horology, on which the
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Perpetuus
Perpetuus is Latin for "continuous, entire or universal", and can refer to:
People
* Saint Perpetuus, sixth bishop of Tours
* L. Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus II, a Roman consul (see List of late imperial Roman consuls)
Titles
* dictator perpetuo, Latin for "dictator in perpetuity"
* A parish priest of a particular type was called a perpetual curate (curatus perpetuus)
Other
* Perpetuum mobile
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of silk in the web. But, however intrepid and disposed to persevere in commercial pursuits, their vessels were of the rudest description, and their knowledge of maritime affairs, or of the science and art of navigation, was far behind that of the most ignorant of the nations of the South. Nevertheless the Muscovites extended their trading operations farther to the south and east than any of the northern nations had hitherto done; and, not satisfied with the limited markets on the shores of the Baltic, they visited as traders the North or Arctic Ocean, and the Black and Caspian Seas. The internal navigation of the rivers Dwina, Don, and Volga, extending almost from Archangel to Astrakhan, afforded an almost inexhaustible field for inland and maritime commerce. Every year increased the demand from the western countries of Europe for their furs, salt, dried fish, train oil, honey, flax, and caviare; till at length they also started a trade with Persia by the Black Sea, and with India by the Caspian, being thus the first of modern nations to avail themselves of the ancient overland routes to the far East. St. Petersburgh and Moscow still carry on a considerable commercial intercourse with China by the same means.
Although it was not until the ninth century that the Russians are mentioned by name, their monarchy, within one century afterwards, obtained an important place in the map of Constantine, Novgorod and Kief being then considerable entrepôts of commerce. "Between the sea and Novgorod," remarks Gibbon, "an easy intercourse was discovered; in the summer through a gulf, a lake, and a navigable river; in the
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Do Wall Street Analysts Like Caesars Entertainment Stock?
Reno, Nevada-based Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (CZR) owns and operates as a gaming and hospitality company, offering casino, poker, roulette, and other gaming facilities and provides food and beverage services. Valued at $5.2 billion by market cap, the company owns, leases, or manages domestic properties in 18 states and utilizes its hotels, restaurants, bars, entertainment, racing, sportsbook offerings, retail shops, and other services.
Shares of this casino entertainment company have underperformed the broader market over the past year. CZR has declined 28% over this time frame, while the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has rallied nearly 21.1%. In 2025, CZR stock is down 25.6%, compared to the SPX’s 7.9% rise on a YTD basis.
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Narrowing the focus, CZR’s underperformance is also apparent compared to the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY). The exchange-traded fund has gained about 29.1% over the past year. Moreover, the ETF’s marginal dip on a YTD basis outshines the stock’s double-digit losses over the same time frame.
On Jul. 29, CZR shares closed down more than 3% after reporting its Q2 results. Its loss of $0.39 per share did not meet Wall Street's expectations of EPS of $0.07. The company’s revenue was $2.91 billion, beating Wall Street forecasts of $2.88 billion.
For the current fiscal year, ended in December, analysts expect CZR’s loss per share to grow 9.1% to $0.50 on a diluted basis. The company’s earnings surprise history is disappointing. It missed the consensus estimates in three of the last four quarters while beating the forecast on another occasion.
Among the 16 analysts covering CZR stock, the consensus is a “Strong Buy.” That’s based on 12 “Strong Buy” ratings, and four “Holds.”
This configuration is more bullish than a month ago, with 11 analysts suggesting a “Strong Buy.”
On Aug. 1, Susquehanna kept a “Neutral” rating on CZR and lowered the price target to $27, implying a potential upside of 8.5% from current levels.
The mean price target of $40.94 represents a 64.5% premium to CZR’s current price levels. The Street-high price target of $50 suggests an ambitious upside potential of 101%.
On the date of publication, Neha Panjwani did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. This article was originally published on Barchart.com
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Talk:Snapfinger Creek
Name origin
My grandfather was born and raised near the creek and he told me - as we drove across it frequently - that is was good luck to snap your fingers when you cross the creek. ~Kenneth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:806:4301:9DE0:F069:CF53:8C91:6493 (talk) 19:17, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
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A Groovy Situation
A Groovy Situation is the fourth album by American organist Reuben Wilson recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label. The CD reissue added one bonus track.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album three stars and wrote, "With songs like this, there's no question that Wilson is going for a wide audience, and while these smooth, funky grooves will do nothing for jazz purists, it's an entertaining record, and some of the grooves are quite hot indeed".
Track listing
All compositions by Reuben Wilson except where noted
* 1) "While the World Lies Waiting" – 5:13
* 2) "Sweet Tooth" – 6:55
* 3) "(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" (Charles Courtney, Peter Link) – 6:20
* 4) "A Groovy Situation" (Herman Davis, Russell R. Lewis) – 8:47
* 5) "Happy Together" (Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon) – 5:32
* 6) "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" (Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett, Syreeta Wright, Lula Mae Hardaway) – 6:20
* 7) * Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 18 (track 6) and September 25 (tracks 1-5), 1970.
Personnel
* Reuben Wilson – organ
* Earl Turbinton – alto saxophone
* Eddie Diehl – guitar
* Harold White – drums
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Seacoast Christian Academy
Seacoast Christian Academy is a private Christian school located in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Seacoast Christian Academy serves students in prekindergarten through grade 12.
Campus
Seacoast is currently housed in two campuses in the Arlington area of Jacksonville, Florida. Its preschool and elementary buildings, located off the Arlington Expressway. The high school building, located off the Arlington Expressway, has a computer lab, dance studio, art room, chapel, science lab, and large classrooms.
Curriculum
The high school curriculum is college preparatory focused; several Advanced Placement courses and a dual enrollment program at the South Campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) are available to students. Seacoast is also accredited through the Association of Christian Schools International. For the 2024-2025 school year, administration has announced that they will be adopting a STEAM program of education: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
Extracurricular activities
Student activities include dance, drama and music, that are showcased in a performance during the school year at the FSCJ Wilson Center for the Arts. Seacoast's sports teams, known as the Eagles, compete in baseball, softball, women and men's basketball, and volleyball, in the Florida Christian Athletic League. In 2010, Seacoast Christian Academy's high school formed a football team. Former Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Damon Jones (American football) coached the team. The sports scene declined from 2019 to 2021 as there was not enough interest for some sports. In 2022, after four years, baseball was brought back to the school and Seacoast hosted its first soccer team in September 2021. Volleyball and softball are also sports of interest In winter 2022, the 2021-2022 Seacoast Student Council presented the idea of bringing football back to the school. This is currently an idea at this time.
Future plans
In 2010, Seacoast board of directors announced plans for a major high school campus expansion. Which would include adding a gymnasium, a classroom wing, and softball, baseball, football, and soccer fields. During that same time, the school expects enrollment to rise to around 550 students. Construction has not yet begun. With the development in the surrounding area of the school, it seems that this may not become a reality unless acted upon soon, but available space has decreased dramatically as of March 2022.
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Through-wall single and multiple target imaging using MIMO radar
Ram M. Narayanan, Evan T. Gebhardt, Sean P. Broderick
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
12 Scopus citations
Abstract
The ability to perform target detection through walls and barriers is important for law enforcement, homeland security, and search and rescue teams. Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar provides an improvement over traditional phased array radars for through-wall imaging. By transmitting independent waveforms from a transmit array to a receive array, an effective virtual array is created. This array has improved degrees of freedom over phased arrays and mono-static MIMO systems. This virtual array allows us to achieve the same effective aperture length as a phased array with a lower number of elements because the virtual array can be described as the convolution of transmit and receive array positions. In addition, data from multiple walls of the same room can be used to collect target information. If two walls are perpendicular to each other and the geometry of transmit and receive arrays is known, then data can be processed independently of each other. Since the geometry of the arrays is known, a target scene can be created where the two data sets overlap. The overlapped scene can then be processed so that image artifacts that do not correlate between the data sets can be excised. The result gives improved target detection, reduction in false alarms, robustness to noise, and robustness against errors such as improperly aligned antennas. This paper explores MIMO radar techniques for target detection and localization behind building walls and addresses different mitigation techniques, such as a singular value decomposition of wavelet transform method to improve localization and detection of targets. Together, these techniques demonstrate methods that show a reduction in size and complexity of traditional through-wall radar systems while still providing accurate detection and localization. The use of the range migration algorithm in single and multi-target scenarios is shown to provide adequate imaging of through the wall targets in near and far field. Also, a multi-view algorithm is used to provide improved target detection and localization by fusing together multiple wall views.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number70
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
• Control and Systems Engineering
• Signal Processing
• Hardware and Architecture
• Computer Networks and Communications
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Replace String In File : File Read Write « File Stream « C# / C Sharp
Replace String In File
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Diagnostics;
public static class FileUtils
{
public static void ReplaceStringInFile(string fileName, string source, string target)
{
try
{
StreamReader streamReader = null;
StreamWriter streamWriter = null;
string contents = null;
streamReader = File.OpenText(fileName);
contents = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamReader.Close();
streamWriter = File.CreateText(fileName);
streamWriter.Write(contents.Replace(source, target));
streamWriter.Close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Trace.TraceError("File I/O Error: {0}, StackTrace: {1}", ex.Message, ex.StackTrace);
}
}
}
Related examples in the same category
1.Demonstrates seeking to a position in a file from the endDemonstrates seeking to a position in a file from the end
2.Demonstrates opening/creating a file for writing and truncating its length to 0 bytes.Demonstrates opening/creating a file for writing and truncating its length to 0 bytes.
3.Writes the same string to a file and to the screen using a common methodWrites the same string to a file and to the screen using a common method
4.Display a text file
5.Write to a file
6.Copy a file
7.Demonstrate random accessDemonstrate random access
8.Hex value Dump
9.Read all the content from a file as byte array
10.Read all the content from a file as string in default encoding
11.Gets a files' contents
12.Gets a files' contents with MemoryStream
13.Gets a files' contents from a Url
14.Gets a files' contents from a Url and save to an OutputStream
15.Gets a file's contents (Used primarily for text documents on an FTP)
16.Gets a files' contents from an Url with NetworkCredential
17.Read/Write File Transacted
18.Append To File
19.Write To File
20.Writes out a string to a file.
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C# – Add image to listbox
c++imagelistboxreturn-valuewpf
I have a few images with some text, I need to show the image with the relevant text in a listbox.
Browsing google I came across this sample class,
public class Customer
{
public string Fname;
public string Lname;
public Customer(string firstName, string lastName)
{
Fname = firstName;
Lname = lastName;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return Fname + " " + Lname;
}
}
lstCustomers.Items.Add(new Customer("Foo","Bar"));
The above code works fine as it only returns string, how do I return an image and a string together so that it gets added to the listbox?
Best Regards
@nand
Best Solution
Just use a DataTemplate to display your objects in the ListBox.
Create a data object that contains string properties and an Image property:
public class Img
{
public Img(string value, Image img) { Str = value; Image = img; }
public string Str { get; set; }
public Image Image { get; set; }
}
Create a DataTemplate to display this:
<ListBox x:Name="lstBox">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:Img}">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Margin="3" Text="{Binding Str}"/>
<ContentControl Margin="3" Content="{Binding Image}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
Now add the Img items (or your data objects) to the ListBox like so:
lstBox.Items.Add(new Img("Value", myImage));
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Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales
Catherine Hill Bay is a coastal bay and village on the southern peninsula forming Lake Macquarie, south of the Pacific Ocean entrance channel at Swansea in New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area. The village is the oldest continuous settlement in the City of Lake Macquarie. The Aboriginal people in this area, the Awabakal were the first people of this land.
A surf club is sited overlooking the beach that is quite popular for recreation.
Mining
The settlement was first made after land was purchased on 1 April 1865. The town of Cowper was created, to serve as a base for coal mining by the New Wallsend Company in 1873 with the first shipment on 17 December of that year. The name Catherine Hill was adopted to commemorate the schooner Catherine Hill that had run aground in 1867.
Later, the Wallarah Coal Company mined and shipped coal from the area including its nearby Crangan Bay mine. This was taken over by the Coal and Allied Group.
A railway originally was used to transport the coal to the wharf; later, trucks and automated loading belt systems were used.
Rutile was mined from the beach sands during the 1960s.
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 162 people in Catherine Hill Bay. 89.3% of people were born in Australia and 93.5% of people spoke only English at home. There were 111 private dwellings.
At the 2021 census, the population had increased to 943 people and the number of private dwellings had increased to 404.
Development
Proposals for rezoning and redevelopment of the area for housing were opposed by LMCC and residents as the land was zoned for conservation. Environmentalists contended that the heathlands around the village contained a large variety of wildflowers, some dwarfed into unusual forms from the exposed coastal conditions. On 1 September 2009, a court ruled the development agreement illegal.
However, a new Housing Development of 550 houses was approved by the State Government in 2010. This new subdivision, called Beaches Catherine Hill Bay is outside the visual catchment of the heritage village.
Heritage listings
Catherine Hill Bay has been placed on the State Heritage Register as a Heritage Township:
* No. 208 Radar Station RAAF
* Catherine Hill Bay Cultural Precinct
Incidents
* In April 2024, a 'weather incident' led to the failure of a retaining wall next to a road, causing a landslip. On April 5, the Lake Macquarie City Council was notified and closed the road to vehicles. While interim measures were implemented, the council stated that they would work on a permanent solution.
* On April 20, 2024, a dam on a construction site overflowed after the village experienced heavy rainfall. Nearby roads and properties were flooded, prompting the police and SES to close a main street.
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USS Rhode Island
There have been three ships of the United States Navy named USS Rhode Island, after the American state.
* USS Rhode Island (1860), a wooden sidewheel steamer previously named John P. King and Eagle, and later renamed Charleston that saw action in the Civil War.
* USS Rhode Island (BB-17), a Virginia-class battleship, sailed on the first leg of the Great White Fleet's voyage, and provided anti-submarine services during World War I.
* USS Rhode Island (SSBN-730), an Ohio-class submarine, laid down in 1981, and renamed USS Henry M. Jackson soon after.
* USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740), an Ohio-class submarine launched in 1993
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Great diversity evidently existed in the liturgies used in southern Gaul. Lack of documentation, however, makes it difficult to reconstruct some parts of the liturgy. By the ninth century, the Gallican liturgy had become fused with the Roman rite. The spread of Roman influence is clearly shown by early Gallican sources.
The evangelized tribes were, in many cases, nominal believers who retained many pagan customs. But, over time, churches took root and and Christianity thrived.
Irenaeus (c. 2nd century) was born somewhere in western Asia Minor, probably Smyrna. He studied religion and philosophy under Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna.
Ambrose (c. 340-397) was the Bishop of Milan. He was born in Gaul or modern-day France.
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Hathor is the Egyptian goddess of joy, pleasure, fertility, and all things feminine. She was one of the most important goddesses in ancient Egypt and popular among royalty and common people alike. She was worshiped over several thousand years, from the early years of the ancient Egyptian religion (c. 4000 BC) until its end (c. 500 AD).
Dating back to the pre-dynastic era, the cow-headed goddess that appears on the Narmer Palette is said to be either Hathor or Bat, another cow-goddess with whom she was identified. Myth also has it that Hathor was a sky goddess together with Nut. They were associated with the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk flowing from the udders of a heavenly cow.
Hathor was closely linked to Isis, another famous Egyptian goddess who was the mother of Horus. Isis borrowed many of Hathor’s functions but was generally believed to be more merciful.
Because of Hathor’s closeness to Isis, it is perhaps not a surprise that she married Horus. When he took the form of Horus-Behdety, they had a son called Ihy, the god of music and dancing.
As time passed, Hathor’s relationships and manifestations became increasingly complex and confusing. For example, apart from her marriage to Horus, she was not only considered to be the wife and daughter of Ra at some stage, but also the mother of Ra-Horakhty, the composite deity consisting of Ra and Horus.
Hathor was most often depicted as a cow or a woman with the horns or ears of a cow. In human form, a sun disk was typically placed between her horns.
Powers & Duties
Hathor’s character centered around femininity. Though she had power over women’s issues such as fertility, beauty, childbirth, and love, she was also worshipped by men and even had male priests. Among others, she was celebrated as the Mistress of Life.
As the eye of Ra when she took on the role of the sun god’s daughter, Hathor was a goddess of destruction. Ra sent her in the form of a blood thirsty Sekhmet to slaughter people when he faced criticism from the Egyptian people. However, she went from the goddess of destruction to that of love and happiness after she drank too much beer and turned her back on the killing fields.
Over time, she was associated with many other goddesses, absorbing their attributes and leading to various roles that were sometimes contradictory.
Facts About Hathor
- Because of her popularity, more festivals were dedicated to the honor of Hathor and more children named after her than any other ancient Egyptian god or goddess. Her festivals were joyous affairs, filled with music and dancing;
- Hathor was not only worshipped in Egypt, but also Nubia, Semitic West Asia, Ethiopia and Libya;
- Some of the names that Hathor were called include Mistress of Heaven, Lady of Stars, Mistress of Turquoise, Lady of the House of Jubilation, and Mistress of the Offering;
- Apart from her manifestation as a cow and woman, Hathor took the form of a cat, lion, goose, and sycamore fig;
- Hathor was the patron of many things, including miners, dancers, drunkenness, and different art forms such as music. Many of her priests were artists, dancers, and musicians who contributed to the quality of life of Egyptians;
- The ancient Greeks equated Hathor with their own Aphrodite;
- It was believed that Hathor’s motherly character greeted the souls of the dead and assisted them on their final journey to a place called Duat. She even offered them refreshments from the shade of a sycamore tree;
- Hathor sometimes took the form of the Seven Hathors who were worshiped in seven cities (Lunu, Thebes, Sinai, Aphroditopolis, Keset, Herakleopolis, and Momemphis) and who were believed to know the length of every person’s life;
- The cow form of Hathor always had beautifully painted eyes. Her body was often represented in red. Together with the dwarf god BES, they were the only two gods ever pictured in portrait rather than profile;
- Hathor was viewed as the spiritual mother of the pharaoh by ancient Egyptians;
- An archeological excavation revealed ancient turquoise mining camps and a temple to Hathor in the Sinai desert. She was also worshiped at the copper mines of Timna;
- As goddess of beauty and patron of the cosmetic arts, Hathor’s traditional votive offering was two mirrors.
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Describing treatment effects to patients: How they are expressed makes a difference
Annette J. Moxey, Dianne O'Connell, Patricia McGettigan, David Henry
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of different presentations of equivalent information (framing) on treatment decisions faced by patients. DESIGN: A systematic review of the published literature was conducted. English language publications allocating participants to different frames were retrieved using electronic and bibliographic searches. Two reviewers examined each article for inclusion, and assessed methodological quality. Study characteristics were tabulated and where possible, relative risks (RR; 95% confidence intervals) were calculated to estimate intervention effects. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Thirty-seven articles, yielding 40 experimental studies, were included. Studies examined treatment (N = 24), immunization (N = 5), or health behavior scenarios (N = 11). Overall, active treatments were preferred when outcomes were described in terms of relative rather than absolute risk reductions or number needed to treat. Surgery was preferred to other treatments when treatment efficacy was presented in a positive frame (survival) rather than a negative frame (mortality) (relative risk [RR] = 1.51, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.39 to 1.64). Framing effects were less obvious for immunization and health behavior scenarios. Those with little interest in the behavior at baseline were influenced by framing, particularly when information was presented as gains. In studies judged to be of good methodological quality and/or examining actual decisions, the framing effect, although still evident, was less convincing compared to the results of all included studies. CONCLUSIONS: Framing effects varied with the type of scenario, responder characteristics, scenario manipulations, and study quality. When describing treatment effects to patients, expressing the information in more than one way may present a balanced view to patients and enable them to make informed decisions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)948-959
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of General Internal Medicine
Volume18
Issue number11
DOIs
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Externally publishedYes
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Talk:Platon Drakoulis
Dadaoglou and Pantazi as personas of Drakoulis
Centralize discussion at czar 16:57, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
* , per this old discussion, would you be able to translate the relevant parts of Εμμανουήλ Δαούδογλου for this Drakoulis article? czar 13:18, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
* Thanks :) Cinadon36 13:52, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
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Burwell Museum
The Burwell Museum (also known as Burwell Museum and Windmill) is located in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England. The museum depicts life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Opened in 1992, it is housed in a collection of different period and period style agricultural buildings. Some are reconstructed from other sites, such as the 18th century timber-framed barn, and others are built in the local style using mainly reclaimed materials, such as the wagon sheds/granary display area.
The displays are set out as 'scenes' (rather like stage sets) with many individual artefacts making each display, in order to give visitors a better idea of how, where and when items were used. Themes and exhibits include agriculture, period rooms and household items, military life, a blacksmith's shop, a reconstruction of a Roman potter's workshop, Victorian school room, vintage vehicles, carts and farm equipment
The museum is also welcoming to school trips and was used in 2012 to film a TV documentary about Cambridgeshire fen folklore, featuring eight local school children. Adult groups are also welcome.
The neighbouring Grade II* listed windmill, Stevens' Mill, is also part of the museum and can be visited when the museum is open.
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[CentOS-virt] Hot adding USB devices to guests at a fixed address
Tue Nov 26 12:22:30 UTC 2013
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>
I have a device I want a guest to see. I've configured the following:
% cat /etc/libvirt/HotPlug/owon.xml
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source>
<vendor id='0x5345'/>
<product id='0x1234'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
And then in udev:
% cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-owon.rules
ACTION=="add", \
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
SYSFS{idVendor}=="5345", \
SYSFS{idProduct}=="1234", \
RUN+="/usr/bin/virsh attach-device XP_VM1 /etc/libvirt/HotPlug/owon.xml"
ACTION=="remove", \
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
SYSFS{idVendor}=="5345", \
SYSFS{idProduct}=="1234", \
RUN+="/usr/bin/virsh detach-device XP_VM1 /etc/libvirt/HotPlug/owon.xml"
Now this works; I plug the device in and the guest sees it.
The problem is that, each time, it shows up at a different address on
the guest's USB bus. And, Windows XP being Windows, this means it asks
to load a device driver each and every time (I've never understood why
Windows wants to load a new device driver just because you plug a device
into a different port).
Does anyone know of a way of adding a device so that it's at a known fixed
address inside the guest?
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Mervyn Lopez, Born in with the teenage mutant ninja turtles, he was banned by Master Splinter. At the age of five he teamed up with Ashhh Ketchum and transformed to a Pokemonnnnnn. He later betrayed Ashh and went on to the Rugrats. Mervyn fought Reptarr and he was banned from that show. Mervyn life was uneasy, just like Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most. Mervyn moved to Happy Town where he became president. He won the lottery and became a millionaire. He currently resides on the cloud right on top of you.
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Trump's Russian ambassador Jon Huntsman will resign and return to Utah
The American ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, will resign and return to his home state of Utah, NBC News confirmed Tuesday. The former Utah governor sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday morning saying he would step down. His resignation is effective Oct. 3, according to the letter obtained by NBC News. The White House and State Department did not immediately respond to CNBC's request to comment. The Salt Lake Tribune first reported the news Tuesday. Huntsman, a 59-year-old Republican who was Utah's governor from 2005 to 2009, could run for the office again in 2020, according to the newspaper. He left office in 2009 to become President Barack Obama's ambassador to China and later mounted an unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Trump has faced relentless criticism for U.S. relations with Russia. He has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he believes the strongman's denials that Moscow did not interfere in Trump's 2016 presidential election victory. Trump has insisted that he wants to have a good relationship with Russia, which can be a formidable geopolitical foe for the U.S. In Huntsman's resignation letter, he wrote that "we must continue to hold Russia accountable when its behavior threatens us and our allies." He added that "through our diplomacy, we have worked to stabilize years of acrimony and incertitude with the hope of a better relationship." If he decides to run for governor, Huntsman would face Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox in the Republican primary. Read the full Salt Lake Tribune report here. — CNBC's Brian Schwartz contributed to this report
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Sudbury Cyclones
Sudbury Cyclones may refer to:
* Sudbury Cyclones (1976–1980), a Canadian soccer team that competed in the National Soccer League from 1976 to 1980
* Sudbury Cyclones (2023), a Canadian soccer team that competes in League2 Ontario
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Ilana Harris-Babou
Ilana Harris-Babou (born 1991) is an American sculptor and installation artist. Harris-Babou was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her upbringing was discussed in an interview on the Amy Beecher Show in August 2019. She is currently assistant professor of art and the Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow in Art at Wesleyan University.
Artistic practice
Harris-Babou often uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in her practice, often dissecting notions of the American Dream. Her practices engages ideas about intimacy, violence, and consumption. Harris-Babou speaks to her audience through humor and reconstructed consumer culture. She describes her work more in an interview with PIN-UP.
In 2018, she created a fake hardware store at the Larrie Gallery in New York City. This project, titled "Reparation Hardware", features reclaimed furniture to create sculptures that reflect the notion of making the old new again. Her work on "Reparation Hardware" critiques double standards and the modern American ideals of life within the home. She also features political messages reflecting the emancipation and equality of African-Americans in the United States.
Harris-Babou has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design in New York and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also exhibited at the de Young museum in San Francisco, Abrons Art Center in New York, the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia, Le Doc in Paris, France, the Jewish Museum in New York, & SculptureCenter in Long Island City.
Her most recent exhibition is titled "Decision Fatigue" and was featured at Hesse Flatow in New York City from February 20 to March 21, 2020. This exhibit features a video of Harris-Babou's mother, Sheila Harris conducting a makeup tutorial. The artist's mother reflects on her choices to appear youthful and healthy, questioning the reality of her youth. Harris-Babou uses this video to examine how structural problems are sometimes concealed as personal choices. The exhibit also features sculptures that are similar to items found in a boutique but altered to appear abnormal.
Selected exhibitions
* 2016 – In Response: Unorthodox – The Jewish Museum, New York City
* 2017 – One Bad Recipe – The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
* 2018 – Reparation Hardware – Larrie, New York City
* 2018 – Further Thoughts on Earthly Materials – Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
* 2019 – 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta.
* 2019 – Strange Loops– Artspace, New Haven, CT. Curated by Johannes DeYoung and Federico Solmi.
* 2020 – Decision Fatigue – Hesse Flatow, New York City.
Awards
* 2017 Artist Community Engagement Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York City
* 2017 Van Lier Fellow, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
* 2018 Session, Recess Art, New York City
* 2020 National YoungArts Foundation's Jorge M. Pérez Award
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Tidings of comfort and latkes
What am I cooking for Christmas dinner? Well a goose, of course, a fine, fat one, cooked in the Barbara Kafka way that involves high heat and an hour of resting in the cooling oven; and my mom's sweet-and-sour red cabbage; and blanched Brussels sprouts finished in hot fat. There will be no foie gras this year for the obvious reason, so there may be another pât, something absurdly luxurious made from pheasant and juniper berries or some such. But mostly there will be potato pancakes, lots of them: fragrant, brown and served with sauted apples and the best sour cream. I used to think that I made potato pancakes because I was making the dinner Frank Morgan's character describes in the Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner. I liked the idea of a Christmas dinner that was so evidently the food of middle European Jews. Then I watched the film again and realized that what Morgan was hungry for wasn't potato pancakes but boiled potatoes with butter, which is quite a different thing. Observant Jews may not eat buttered potatoes in the same meal as goose as part of the general prohibition against consuming milk with meat. I must have been mishearing the movie for my own reasons. Or maybe I just like making potato pancakes. They're crisp, they're delicious and they provide an excuse to saut apples. Your hands smell like onions the rest of the week. If Hanukkah ends before Christmas, as it did this year, the latkes extend the dreidel fun just a little longer, and when the two holidays coincide, all the merrier. jonathan.gold@latimes.com
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Left in Darkness
Left in Darkness is a 2006 horror film produced by IDT Entertainment, and Soul Eaters Productions Inc. The film stars Monica Keena, David Anders, Jessica Stroup, and Travis Van Winkle.
Plot
A young woman, whose mother died giving birth to her, is facing eternal life in either Heaven or Hell. She must make the choice whom to listen to, her guardian angel, whom she met when she was a child, or the evil ones.
Cast
* Monica Keena
* David Anders
* Jessica Stroup
* Travis Van Winkle
* Tim Thomerson
* Tarah Paige
* Chelsea Cannell
* Shane Bitney Crone
* Jeridan Frye
* Marisa Lauren
* Justin Spraggins
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Trump gets more heat for self-congratulatory Tweet | TheHill
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is facing growing criticism for a self-congratulatory tweet he sent out in the hours after a terrorist attack on an Orlando nightclub in which a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others. Trump tweeted after the attack, "appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism." Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart! The shooter, who was killed at the scene, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. "Today" host Savannah Guthrie asked Trump whether he is taking credit for predicting something “everyone knows will happen." "That's totally false," Trump said. "I've been receiving tens of thousands of tweets, literally, tweets and calls, and letters, because I'm the one who predicted it, and I'm the one that said what you should be doing, and I don't want the credit." "I don't know that everyone knows," Trump added. "I'm not sure if the president knows, if you want to know the truth. He won't even use the term radical Islamic terrorism, I think he thinks everyone is a sweetheart.” As NBC pointed out, Trump offered similar tweets following the shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., one year ago; the Paris attacks last November; the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting last December; and the Brussels attacks in March. Thank you @JakeTapper for giving me credit for my vision on bombing the oil fields. Should have been done long ago. #Trump2016 Thank you CBS & Breitbart-total vindication! Will the mainstream media apologize? Many, many witnesses. #Trump2016 https://t.co/AsxnfFWipJ I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today! The tragedy in South Carolina is incomprehensible. My deepest condolences to all. A few minutes later Trump turned the conversation to himself. Watch my appearance on @Morning_Joe - great interview! http://t.co/ZVftDka774 View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.
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How Car Cooling Systems Work
The Basics
Inside your car's engine, fuel is constantly burning. A lot of the heat from this combustion goes right out the exhaust system, but some of it soaks into the engine, heating it up. The engine runs best when its coolant is about 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93 degrees Celsius). At this temperature:
• The combustion chamber is hot enough to completely vaporize the fuel, providing better combustion and reducing emissions.
• The oil used to lubricate the engine has a lower viscosity (it is thinner), so the engine parts move more freely and the engine wastes less power moving its own components around.
• Metal parts wear less.
There are two types of cooling systems found on cars: liquid-cooled and air-cooled.
Liquid Cooling
The cooling system on liquid-cooled cars circulates a fluid through pipes and passageways in the engine. As this liquid passes through the hot engine it absorbs heat, cooling the engine. After the fluid leaves the engine, it passes through a heat exchanger, or radiator, which transfers the heat from the fluid to the air blowing through the exchanger.
Air Cooling
Some older cars, and very few modern cars, are air-cooled. Instead of circulating fluid through the engine, the engine block is covered in aluminum fins that conduct the heat away from the cylinder. A powerful fan forces air over these fins, which cools the engine by transferring the heat to the air.
Since most cars are liquid-cooled, we will focus on that system in this article.
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Vizianagaram
Vizianagaram, also known as Vijayanagaram, is a city and the headquarters of the Vizianagaram district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in the Eastern Ghats, about 24 km west of the Bay of Bengal and 40 km north-northeast of Visakhapatnam. The city has a population of 228,025 and was established as the capital of the Vizianagaram estate by Raja Vijayaram Raj from the Pusapati dynasty. The rulers had a notable role in the history of the region in the 18th century and were patrons of education and arts.
History
Excavations at this town revealed copper coins belonging to the remains of 900 B.C. (Kalinga period).
Vizianagaram Princely State was ruled by Pusapati Kings & Gajapati Maharajas. Maharaja Vijayarama Gajapati Raju was a notable King. Pusapatis are descendants of Lord Shri Rama. They are Suryavanshi Kshatriyas. Their ancestors are Udaipur Maharanas.
Geography
Vizianagaram is located at 18.12°N, 83.42°W. It has an average elevation of 74 metres (242 feet).
Climate
Vizianagaram has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw) characterised by high humidity nearly year-round, with oppressive summers and good seasonal rainfall. The summer season extends from March to May, followed by monsoon season, which continues to September. October and November constitute the post-monsoon or retreating monsoon season. The normal rainfall of the district for the year is 1,131.0 mm, as compared to the actual rainfall of 740.6 mm received during 2002–2003. The district gets the benefit of both the southwest and northeast monsoon. The season from December to February generally has fine weather.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India, the town had a population of 227,533. The total population constituted 111,596 males and 115,937 females—a sex ratio of 1,039 females per 1,000 males, higher than the national average of 940 per 1,000. 20,487 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 10,495 are boys and 9,992 are girls. The average literacy rate stood at 81.85% with 169,461 literates, significantly higher than the national average of 73.00%.
Telugu is the official language.
Civic administration
The Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation is the civic body of the city, constituted as a municipality in 1888 before being upgraded to corporation on 9 December 2015. The jurisdictional area of the corporation is spread over 29.27 km2 with 38 election wards. During 2010–11, the municipality spent inr<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and generated inr<PHONE_NUMBER>0.000004.
Utility services
Utility services include a water supply, sewer connections, drainage systems, parks, grounds, community centres, and healthcare. The municipality maintains 458 public taps, 749 bore–wells, 330 km of roads, 243.25 km of drains, 32 parks, 2 playgrounds, 49 elementary and 3 secondary schools and 1 maternity and child health centre.
Roadways
The city has a total road length of 317.80 km. The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation operates bus services from Vizianagaram bus station.
Railways
There is a Railway Station in the city,called Vizianagaram Junction Railway Station, Code : VZM, in the division of East Coast Railways, giving it immediate access to several other parts of the state.
Educational
The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools of the School Education Department of the state.
Vizianagaram has educational institutions, including:
* Maharajah's College
* Maharajah's Government College of Music and Dance
* MVGR College of Engineering
* Andhra University – Vizianagaram Campus
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tf.linalg.slogdet
TensorFlow 2 version
Computes the sign and the log of the absolute value of the determinant of
one or more square matrices.
The input is a tensor of shape [N, M, M] whose inner-most 2 dimensions form square matrices. The outputs are two tensors containing the signs and absolute values of the log determinants for all N input submatrices [..., :, :] such that the determinant = signexp(log_abs_determinant). The log_abs_determinant is computed as det(P)sum(log(diag(LU))) where LU is the LU decomposition of the input and P is the corresponding permutation matrix.
input A Tensor. Must be one of the following types: half, float32, float64, complex64, complex128. Shape is [N, M, M].
name A name for the operation (optional).
A tuple of Tensor objects (sign, log_abs_determinant).
sign A Tensor. Has the same type as input.
log_abs_determinant A Tensor. Has the same type as input.
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@article {bnh-3514, title = {A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation}, journal = {Remote Sensing}, volume = {9}, year = {2017}, month = {02/2017}, chapter = {167}, abstract = {
Fire detection from satellite sensors relies on an accurate estimation of the unperturbed state of a target pixel, from which an anomaly can be isolated. Methods for estimating the radiation budget of a pixel without fire depend upon training data derived from the location{\textquoteright}s recent history of brightness temperature variation over the diurnal cycle, which can be vulnerable to cloud contamination and the effects of weather. This study proposes a new method that utilises the common solar budget found at a given latitude in conjunction with an area{\textquoteright}s local solar time to aggregate a broad-area training dataset, which can be used to model the expected diurnal temperature cycle of a location. This training data is then used in a temperature fitting process with the measured brightness temperatures in a pixel, and compared to pixel-derived training data and contextual methods of background temperature determination. Results of this study show similar accuracy between clear-sky medium wave infrared upwelling radiation and the diurnal temperature cycle estimation compared to previous methods, with demonstrable improvements in processing time and training data availability. This method can be used in conjunction with brightness temperature thresholds to provide a baseline for upwelling radiation, from which positive thermal anomalies such as fire can be isolated.
}, doi = {10.3390/rs9020167}, url = {http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/2/167}, author = {Bryan Hally and Luke Wallace and Karin Reinke and Simon Jones} }
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Pituitary abscess
Pituitary abscesses are rare and represent infection of the pituitary gland by organisms, most commonly bacteria.
Epidemiology
Pituitary abscesses represent less than 1% of all pituitary masses and so seem to have gender predilection . Although many cases do not appear to have a predisposing factor, in some patients immunosuppression, prior surgery or infection elsewhere in the body are identified .
Clinical presentation
Often, the presentation is relatively indolent without overt features of infection . Symptoms include those from mass effect (e.g. bitemporal hemianopia and headaches), endocrinological dysfunction (e.g. loss of libido, polydipsia, polyuria, amenorrhea) and only sometimes (~25%) infective symptoms (e.g. fevers and meningism) . As such pituitary abscesses are often not diagnosed pre-operatively but rather are thought to be the far more common pituitary adenoma that not infrequently demonstrate cystic/necrotic degenerative change.
Pathology
As is the case with many other infections, the route of infection is varied and can be haematogenous, extension from an adjacent infection (e.g. sphenoid sinusitis) or direct inoculation after surgery .
In the majority of cases (70%) the underlying pituitary is normal prior to infection . These are sometimes referred to a 'primary' pituitary abscess. In contrast, 'secondary' pituitary abscesses are those that arise in a previously abnormal pituitary (e.g. existing tumor) .
Microbiology
A wide variety of pathogens have been isolated from pituitary abscesses, including :
• bacteria
• Staphylococcus spp and Streptococcus spp (most common)
• Neisseria spp, Citrobacter spp, E. coli, Brucella, Salmonella etc...
• mycobacterium
• fungus (most common in immunosuppressed patients)
• Aspergillus, Candida and Histoplasma
Radiographic features
CT
CT of the brain and base of the skull may demonstrate a low central attenuating mass. With the administration of contrast, vivid peripheral contrast enhancement is usually present.
Thin bone reformats usually do not demonstrate significant enlargement of the sella as the lesion has only been present for a relatively short time, however, erosion of bone may be seen as may evidence of adjacent infection.
MRI
MRI is the modality of choice for evaluating a patient suspected of having a pituitary abscess. It will demonstrate features of an abscess; peripherally enhancing mass with central high T2 signal, high DWI signal and low ADC values. It should be noted, however, that macroadenomas with hemorrhagic change may have similar appearances.
Treatment and prognosis
Treatment is surgical with transsphenoidal hypophysectomy, drainage, and antibiotics . Pituitary function often does not recover and long-term hormone replacement is necessary .
Differential diagnosis
The main differential is that of other pituitary masses, particularly:
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How do I transfer videos from my Samsung?
How do I transfer videos from my Samsung to my computer?
Option 2: Move files with a USB cable
1. Unlock your phone.
2. With a USB cable, connect your phone to your computer.
3. On your phone, tap the «Charging this device via USB» notification.
4. Under «Use USB for,» select File Transfer.
5. A file transfer window will open on your computer.
How do I transfer videos from my Samsung phone to my computer without USB?
Using Wi-Fi is the simplest way to transfer files from PC to Android.
1. Download and install AnyDroid on your phone. Go to App Store to download and install AnyDroid on your computer. …
2. Connect your phone and computer. …
3. Choose Data Transfer mode. …
4. Select photos on your PC to transfer. …
5. Transfer photos from PC to Android.
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How do I transfer files from Samsung to laptop?
Option 2: Move files with a USB cable
1. Unlock your phone.
2. With a USB cable, connect your phone to your computer.
3. On your phone, tap the ‘Charging this device via USB’ notification.
4. Under ‘Use USB for’, select File Transfer.
5. A file transfer window will open on your computer.
How do I enable USB transfer on Samsung?
Open the Settings app. Choose Storage. Touch the Action Overflow icon and choose the USB Computer Connection command. Choose either Media Device (MTP) or Camera (PTP).
How do I transfer videos from Samsung Galaxy S7 to computer?
Samsung Galaxy S7
1. Connect your mobile phone and computer. Connect the data cable to the socket and to your computer’s USB port.
2. Select setting for USB connection. Slide your finger down the display starting from the top edge of your mobile phone. Press the connection icon. …
3. Transfer files. Start a file manager on your computer.
How do I transfer videos from my Android to my computer without USB?
Summary
1. Download Droid Transfer and connect your Android device (Set up Droid Transfer)
2. Open the «Photos» tab from the feature list.
3. Click the «All Videos» header.
4. Select the videos you’d like to copy.
5. Hit «Copy Photos».
6. Select where to save the videos to on your PC.
How do I transfer videos from my phone to my computer wirelessly?
Transfer files from Android to PC Wi-Fi — Here’s how:
1. Download Droid Transfer on your PC and run it.
2. Get the Transfer Companion App on your Android phone.
3. Scan the Droid Transfer QR code with the Transfer Companion App.
4. The computer and phone are now linked.
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How do I transfer videos from my phone to my laptop wirelessly?
Using Feem to transfer data from Android to PC or laptop is straightforward.
1. Set Android as a mobile hotspot in Settings > Network & Internet > Hotspot & tethering. …
2. Launch Feem on Android and on Windows too. …
3. Send a file from Android to Windows using Wi-Fi Direct, choose the destination device, and tap Send File.
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How do I backup my Samsung to my computer?
Step 1: Plug your Android device into your Mac USB port with the USB cable. Step 2: Unlock your phone and swipe down on your screen –> Tap on USB for charging to view more options –>Select on the Transfer File option. You can now view and transfer the data of your Android device on your Mac desktop or laptop.
How do I transfer photos from Samsung phone to laptop without USB?
Guide to Transfer Photos from Android to PC without USB
1. Download. Search AirMore in Google Play and directly download it into your Android. …
2. Install. Run AirMore to install it on your device.
3. Visit AirMore Web. Two Ways to visit:
4. Connect Android to PC. Open AirMore app on your Android. …
5. Transfer Photos.
How do I transfer data from Samsung to USB cable?
Transfer content with a USB cable (iOS)
1. Connect the phones with the old phone’s USB cable. …
2. Launch Smart Switch on both phones.
3. Tap Send data on the old phone, tap Receive data on the new phone. …
4. Next, tap Cable on both phones. …
5. Select the data you want transferred to the new phone.
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How do I enable USB preferences?
On the device, go to Settings > About <device>. Tap the Build number seven times to make Settings > Developer options available. Then enable the USB Debugging option.
How do I change USB charging to transfer on Samsung?
Android file transfer for Windows
1. Unlock your phone.
2. Plug it into your computer’s USB port using a cable.
3. Your Android phone will display a “Charging this device via USB” notification. …
4. Tapping on the notification will display other options. …
5. Your computer will show a file transfer window.
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How do I put my Android in MTP transfer mode?
Information
1. Navigate to ‘Apps’ > ‘Power Tools’ > ‘EZ Config’ > ‘Generator’
2. Open DeviceConfig.xml. Expand ‘DeviceConfig’ > ‘Other Settings’ Tap ‘Set USB Mode’ and set to required option. MTP — Media Transfer Protocol (File transfers) PTP — Photo Transfer Protocol. Select ‘Update Configure’ Save.
3. Reboot the device.
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De La Salle North Catholic High School
De La Salle North High School is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland. The school is located in the Cully neighborhood, co-locating with the St. Charles Parish; De La Salle renovated the old parish elementary school wing and built a commons, courtyard and gymnasium. The doors to the new campus were opened on September 7, 2021.
Background
De La Salle North Catholic High School was founded in 2001. It is sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers and is a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. The founding president was Matthew D. Powell. The current president is Ashleigh de Villiers, and the current interim principal is Maria Cabrera. De La Salle was one of the founding members of the Cristo Rey Network of high schools, the first school after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Chicago to follow this model. By 2018 there were 37 schools in the network.
De La Salle North Catholic serves young men and women of the Portland metro area with limited resources. The school turns no one away because of an inability to pay. An integrated Corporate Work Study Program enables students to earn a large portion of their tuition. Students attend class four days a week and work for a local company one day, gaining work experience, business contacts, and preparing them for education at a four-year college.
Activities
Clubs sponsored by the school have included Anime, Art, Chess, Earth, Hiking, Latinx, Magic, Math, Poetry, Sci Fi, Spectrum. Other activities have included: cheerleading, Peer Helpers, Student Council, and Constitution Team. Service projects, retreats, and leadership opportunities are offered through the Lasallian Youth Ministry department.
Sports
The mascot of the school is a knight.
In 2004, after four years in existence, the De La Salle Knights boys soccer team finished second in the Oregon 2A state playoffs of the Oregon School Activities Association. They defeated the Oregon Episcopal School Aardvarks in the regional playoffs, but then lost 0–5 to Catlin Gabel in the championship game. In 2017, the De La Salle Knights' boy soccer team ranked 5th in state. The boys soccer team would reach the playoffs facing The Delphian School. The boys soccer team will end up winning 1-0. Next up they would face the 4th rank St. Mary's School (Medford, Oregon), the game would finish 2-2, De La Salle defeated St. Mary's in extra time. For the first time since 2004, the De La Salle Knights Boys soccer team would reach the OSAA 3A/2A/1A semifinals but would end up losing to the eventually state champions Riverside Junior/Senior High School 4–0.
In 2014, the Knights' boys' basketball team finished second in Oregon 3A state playoffs, losing to rival Valley Catholic. Reaching the state playoffs again in 2015, the Knights finished in 4th place. Then in 2016, the Knights' boys' basketball team finished second, losing to St. Mary's of Medford in the championship game.
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Top Gear races
In Top Gear, a BBC motoring show, one of the show's regular features since 2002 is various forms of racing the presenters undertake, either against each other or against invited guests. The show has featured a number of epic races, where one of the presenters — Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and occasionally The Stig — drives a car in a race against the others in another form of transport. These races typically involve Clarkson driving the car while Hammond and May take the same journey by combinations of plane, train, or ferry. May has said that the races are planned to be as close as possible. Of the long-distance races so far, the car has won the vast majority of the races, with the exceptions of the cross-London epic, in which the car was beaten by a bicycle, a boat on the Thames and public transport; Ferrari Daytona vs. Powerboat, in which the boat won; Shelby Mustang GT500 vs. High Speed Train, in which the train won; and the Arabian Peninsula race, in which the alternative 'money no-object' transportation options beat the Bugatti Chiron.
Aston Martin DB9 vs. French TGV – distance 900 miles
Series Four, Episode One (9 May 2004)
To prove what was the fastest way to get to the South of France for a summer holiday, Clarkson drove an Aston Martin DB9 from the studio in Dunsfold, Surrey to Monte Carlo, against Hammond and May who took the Eurostar and the French TGV. Hammond and May began by walking two miles to a nearby bus stop, and were confident that it would be "impossible" for the car to win once they boarded their sequence of trains. That being said, Clarkson did manage to build a substantial early lead, covering 40 miles in the DB9 by the time Hammond and May had even reached their bus stop and, despite encountering heavy traffic on the outskirts of Dover, Clarkson managed to make the 10:00am ferry to Calais. By this point, Hammond and May's bus had only just arrived at Guildford railway station, and when their South West Trains service to London Waterloo arrived just over an hour later, Clarkson had already disembarked in Calais. Despite changing to the substantially faster Eurostar at Waterloo station, Clarkson managed to maintain a significant lead; by the time Hammond and May reached Gare du Nord, Clarkson was already south of Troyes and heading towards Dijon, 172 miles ahead of them, and they had just 50 minutes to cross the entire city to catch their TGV connection to Nice. Despite Clarkson making distracting phone-calls to try and slow them down, they successfully took the RER to Gare de Lyon from where they just managed to make their connection to the French TGV which would take them all the way to Nice. Once they were settled in on their train, May compared the contest to the earlier Blue Train Races, won by a Rover Light Six and Bentley Speed Six against Le Train Bleu or The Blue Train.
At this point, however, the race turned. Despite Clarkson covering far more distance in the time he'd taken than either Hammond or May were anticipating, the TGV's significantly faster speeds, allied to the car being hampered by the French speed limits, meant that Hammond and May took the lead for the first time in the race just south of Valence with just 200 miles to go. However, the train's journey had to take Hammond and May first down to Marseille and then along the coastline to Nice. Not only was this a much further distance to travel than Clarkson had to cover in the car which could drive straight to Monte Carlo, but the train had to slow down to accommodate the bends of the coastline. Moreover, because of the DB9 doing an impressive 19 miles per gallon throughout the race, Clarkson would not have to lose any more time stopping for fuel. When Hammond and May arrived in Nice, despite being only 15 miles from Monte Carlo, they had to make another train change to get there, and it was likely whilst they were on this train that Clarkson managed to re-take the lead. He reached the finishing point at the Café de Paris well before his co-presenters, and had even had time to order several drinks and some food before Hammond and May arrived, looking distinctly dishevelled from having run all the way from the train station. Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Top Gear: Revved Up: Thrashing, Crashing and Trashing DVD, where the race was shown in its entirety and with no breaks.
Ferrari 612 Scaglietti vs. passenger jet – distance 650 miles
Series Five, Episode Eight (19 December 2004)
In what proved to be one of the closest Top Gear long-distance races ever staged, Clarkson tried to beat Hammond and May in a race from the studio in Dunsfold, Surrey to Verbier, Switzerland to find out the quickest way to get to the Alps for a skiing holiday. Clarkson drove a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, whilst Hammond and May used public transport, chiefly using a plane to get from Heathrow to Geneva. Setting off at 5:30am, Hammond and May began by walking to a local bus stop, where they had to wait for over an hour before their bus to Guildford arrived. They then took a train to Woking and a RailAir coach to Heathrow Airport. Clarkson meanwhile drove to Dover to catch the ferry to France, and not only managed to leave English soil before Hammond and May had even reached the airport, but by the time Hammond and May did arrive at Heathrow, Clarkson had already disembarked in Calais. However, after a 90-minute check-in, Hammond and May finally boarded their plane whilst Clarkson had only covered 100 miles since docking, far less than he had been hoping to achieve. Indeed, the plane actually arrived in Geneva early, so by the time Hammond and May had got off the plane, Clarkson was still only halfway between Paris and Dijon, about 250 miles behind. This huge deficit, coupled with the fact that Hammond and May were about to transfer onto the extremely efficient Swiss public transport network, made Clarkson start to appreciate the enormity of the task ahead of him and that his chances of winning were almost nil. Clarkson then encountered a contraflow when he was still around two hours away from the Swiss border, which slowed him even further. To make matters even worse, he was stopped by the police just south of Dijon for speeding, which cost him a further 25 minutes as well as a £60 fine.
Whilst Clarkson was talking to the police, Hammond and May were already on their train from Geneva to Martigny. However, this much slower mode of transport allowed Clarkson to start closing the gap, and, by taking advantage of encountering very little traffic after being stopped by the police, Clarkson and the car had more than halved the distance by the time Hammond and May arrived at Martigny. Hammond and May were also forced to wait for a whole hour for their next train, so when they did finally leave Martigny station for Le Châble an hour later, Clarkson had managed to reach the Swiss border. He continued to close the gap so much that he was just 40 miles behind Hammond and May when they reached Le Châble where they boarded their final mode of public transport: a coach ride up 12 miles of mountain road from Le Châble to Verbier. When they arrived at the Verbier bus depot, Hammond and May had to continue their journey on foot, but having caught up on the mountain road, Clarkson drove right past them on the main street of Verbier, barely a few hundred yards away from the finishing point, prompting May to hurl his suitcase after the car in disgust. When Hammond and May eventually reached the finishing point at Lodge Hotel where Clarkson was waiting for them, beer in hand, all three presenters were in total disbelief at how close the race had been, with Clarkson expressing his opinion that no-one would believe that it was "for real". Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Top Gear: The Races and Winter Blunderland DVDs, albeit in a truncated form. It was a never included in a commercial release.
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren vs. cruise ferry – distance 1320 miles
Series Six, Episode Six (3 July 2005)
In what is still the longest Top Gear race in terms of both time and distance, Clarkson in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren raced Hammond and May from Heathrow Airport to Oslo, Norway. With the car having so far beaten a train and a plane, Hammond and May decided to use a Cruise Ferry as their primary mode of public transport. Before setting off, May did admit that he had every confidence in the car being able to beat the boat, but thought that the physical toll of driving the huge distance would be too much for Clarkson. Whilst Hammond and May would still be moving whilst they were sleeping, Clarkson would have to stop at some point to rest. Hammond and May's route would involve taking a flight from Heathrow to Newcastle, before taking a 17-hour long ferry journey across the North Sea to Kristiansand, Norway and would then use a powerboat to cover the short remaining distance to reach the finishing point in Oslo. Clarkson's journey meanwhile would take him through the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, covering a distance of well over 1,300 miles (about 2,100 km).
With the race starting at midday from Heathrow's car park, Hammond and May were able to check in straight away, but the time of their flight meant that Clarkson was able to reach the Channel Tunnel before their plane actually left the runway. However, Clarkson discovered that the 1:30pm train his car was booked on "didn't exist" - whereas Hammond and May presumed that he must have missed it - and so was still stuck in Folkestone by the time Hammond and May had left Newcastle Airport, from where they got on a bus to connect to Newcastle's ferry terminal. Clarkson's journey had been so delayed that by the time he arrived in Calais, Hammond and May's ferry had already departed from Newcastle harbour. Although Clarkson was able to travel through France and Belgium without any difficulty, he encountered appalling rush-hour traffic as he entered The Netherlands, and so he had to work out a new, longer route across the north of the country that avoided the traffic jams. However, as he was crossing the Afsluitdijk, with still over 830 miles to go, Hammond and May's ferry was nearly half-way through its entire journey to Kristiansand. Despite this deficit, he remained confident that any time he had lost in Holland he would be able to make up on Germany's Autobahns, many of which had no mandated speed limits. Indeed, by being able to hit speeds upwards of 160 mph, he took the lead in the race and was able to reach the Danish border just as Hammond and May's ferry was entering the last third of its journey. Even with the significant delays at Folkestone and the traffic in Holland, he had covered 650 miles in 12 hours, but as midnight came and went, Clarkson's tiredness began to kick in. Despite stopping at several petrol stations for coffee, he eventually decided to pull over at a service station just outside Copenhagen and went to sleep in the car.
By the following morning, Clarkson's lead had gone owing to the ferry continuing its journey overnight, and by the time the car had crossed over into Sweden at around 9:00am, the ferry was docking in Kristiansand. After a short bus journey, Hammond and May then transferred to a powerboat which would take them round the southern coast of Norway all the way to Oslo, and with such a short distance to cover, they were certain that victory would be theirs. When Clarkson heard May on the phone tell him what form of transport they were using, he likewise thought that the result was beyond doubt. However, disaster struck Hammond and May as, around a quarter of the way into their journey from Kristiansand to Oslo, the engine on their speedboat burnt out, meaning they had to change to the back-up chase boat. This changeover coupled with the extremely rough seas meant that Clarkson was able to close the gap as he entered Norway. However, Clarkson once again encountered slow moving traffic on the Norwegian border, with the roads being predominantly single carriageways all the way to Oslo. Although the rough seas had made Hammond sea-sick, slowing the boat's progress, the knowledge that Clarkson was just 50 miles away from the finishing point - meaning that they were virtually neck-and-neck - made Hammond and May decide to go for broke and increased their speed again, thinking that lightning couldn't strike twice, but the boat's rib burst, meaning that they had to find the nearest point of dry land as soon as possible. They had to land in an unknown town (Stavern, in Larvik), and because the locals spoke no English and the two presenters had little knowledge of the local currency, it took them the rest of the day to find a bus and get to the destination. Clarkson won the race, flew back to England, and was halfway through supper before Hammond and May called to say they had arrived at the finishing point. Back in the studio, however, Clarkson did make the point that the victory was a slightly hollow one because of the physical toll the 24-hour long journey took on him. Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Top Gear: The Races DVD, albeit in a truncated form, with a running time of 12 minutes. It was never included in a commercial release.
Bugatti Veyron vs. Cessna 182 – distance 813 miles
Series Seven, Episode Five (11 December 2005)
Clarkson (in a Bugatti Veyron) raced Hammond and May (in a Cessna 182) from Alba to the restaurant on the 42nd floor of Tower 42 in London to deliver a truffle. The main difference in premise between this race and previous iterations was that, with James May having become a trained pilot since the Series 5 race to Verbier, Hammond and May would be using a private plane, meaning they would not have to suffer queuing or check-in, saving them a huge amount of time; as a result, both presenters felt extremely confident of victory. Clarkson however was putting his faith in the Veyron's immense power and speed which, at the time, were completely unmatched by any other production car. Hammond and May's planned route would take them from Alba to the local airport in Cuneo, where May would then fly his plane to London, from where they would get a sequence of trains and buses to reach the finishing point. Clarkson, meanwhile, would have to drive round Turin during the morning rush-hour, through the Mont Blanc Tunnel, briefly into Switzerland via Geneva, back into France towards Dijon and then onto Calais, where he would use the Channel Tunnel crossing before heading straight for London.
Hammond and May began by riding scooters to the local airport at Cuneo, where Hammond was slightly dismayed to see that the plane they'd be using looked "like something a builder would leave behind", remarking over the phone to Clarkson that he thought the 182 in the plane's name referred to the "number of quid it cost". Hammond was further disappointed to hear that, despite it being a private plane, May had to do several pre-flight checks to ensure that it was safe to fly. Indeed, the pre-flight checks took so long that by the time Hammond and May finally left the ground, Clarkson had already passed Turin and was entering the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Moreover, when Hammond noticed that he could see the sea, May explained that the plane could not simply fly directly to London but had to fly via the French Riviera since the aircraft was not equipped to fly over mountains above 10,000 feet — in this case, the Swiss Alps — and so Clarkson's lead was growing exponentially. Much to Hammond's annoyance, May then revealed that the plane would then have to stop at Saint-Étienne–Bouthéon Airport in order to refuel, meaning that when Clarkson was in sight of Dijon, he had a lead of around 150 miles.
Clarkson at this point was so sure of victory that he started taking coffee breaks and playing games to amuse himself, such as trying to figure out how much it would cost to insure the car. Meanwhile, French Air Traffic Control had allowed Hammond and May to take a shortcut in their planned route and travel over central France rather than the Eastern border, meaning that by the time Clarkson had reached Troyes, the plane was virtually neck-and-neck with it. Fortunately, as Hammond and May were about to take the lead, May revealed that because of the delays in setting off from Cuneo and from having to refuel in Saint-Étienne, it would get dark whilst they were still flying over Northern France, and because May was not licensed to fly the plane at night, they would be forced to land in Lille. By the time they had touched down, Clarkson was close to Lens, around 70 miles from Calais, meaning that it was still neck-and-neck. However, as Hammond and May had to take a bus from the airport to Lille-Europe station to catch the Eurostar to London, Clarkson's lead was starting to increase again to the point that he arrived on British soil about half an hour before Hammond and May's Eurostar had passed through the Channel Tunnel. Once the train arrived at Waterloo Station, Hammond and May took a route 26 bus to reach Tower 42, whilst Clarkson was entering the city via the Blackwall Tunnel. When all three presenters reached Tower 42, they all struggled to understand the building's series of lifts, none of which directly went to the restaurant on the 42nd floor; indeed Clarkson was shown having to ask some of the staff for directions. When Hammond and May reached the finishing point, they could not see Clarkson there and so began to think that they had managed to win, until they both simultaneously noticed Clarkson's reflection in a window on the far side of the restaurant. As the three of them were sitting together eating dinner prepared with Clarkson's truffle (although May fell asleep with his drink in his hand due to the tiredness of having to fly the plane), Clarkson remarked that his victory was a hollow one, as he knew he would have to go through the rest of his life knowing that he would never own the car that had won him the race, which he would later describe back in the studio as "the best car ever made", and which would later win the Top Gear 'Car of the Decade' Award a few series later. Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Top Gear: The Challenges 1 DVD. A much shorter version was included on the Top Gear: The Races DVD.
Polar race – Toyota Hilux vs. dog sled – distance 400 miles
Series Nine, Episode Seven (25 July 2007)
Clarkson and May drove a modified Toyota Hilux against Hammond, Matty McNair and a dog sled team in a race across the Canadian arctic. Clarkson and May won the race, and became part of the first successful attempt to drive a motor vehicle to the North Magnetic Pole. Winner: Car
DVD release: A director's cut of this race was released on Blu-ray. The televised version was released as part of the Top Gear: The Great Adventures 1 DVD box set.
London race – car vs. bicycle vs. boat vs. public transport – distance 17 miles
Series Ten, Episode Five (11 November 2007)
May (in a Mercedes-Benz GL-Class) raced Hammond (on a Specialized Sirrus Limited hybrid bicycle ), The Stig (using the London public transport system), and Clarkson (in a Cougar motorboat) from Kew across to London City Airport. The Stig started on a route 391 bus to Gunnersbury station, then got on a District line train to Monument station, before taking the Docklands Light Railway from Bank station to London City Airport Station. Hammond took the lead from the start, although traffic lights meant May remained close behind. The speed limit of 9mph on much of the River Thames put Clarkson firmly in last place. Congestion on Piccadilly let Hammond shake off May, who was further slowed after the Metropolitan Police stopped him to check the camera car's permit. With Hammond eight miles from the airport, Clarkson passed under Wandsworth Bridge, at which point the Thames had no speed limit. He therefore shot past May and the Stig, but was shocked to discover Hammond had still won by a fair margin. The Stig arrived a short while later, beating May by 15 minutes. Despite the result shown in the film, the presenters mockingly denied this outcome (by saying things such as Hammond crashing into railings and Clarkson's boat exploding), and insisted that May in the Mercedes-Benz won the race fairly. Winner: Bicycle
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 10 box set. It was also released as part of the Top Gear: The Challenges 2 DVD.
Nissan GT-R vs. Japanese public transit system – distance 355 miles
Series Eleven, Episode Four (13 July 2008)
In what is commonly agreed to be the closest Top Gear race ever staged, Clarkson drove a Nissan GT-R through Japan, from Hakui, Ishikawa to Mount Nokogiri, while Hammond and May took public transport—most notably the 168mph Shinkansen. Before even setting off, Hammond and May were certain that the car couldn't win because of the speed limits on Japan's motorway network, the near constant presence of speed cameras and the fact that the car had to drive through Tokyo which May described at the time as the most congested city in the world, not to mention the fact that Japan had one of the world's most efficient public transport networks. However, Clarkson remained confident he could win, putting faith in Hammond and May not being able to complete the race without making a mistake in the several connections they had to make during their journey, using multiple different modes of public transport.
Hammond and May first took a brisk 25-minute walk to Hakui Station, where they would take a limited express train to Kyoto. They would then get the bullet train to Shin-Yokohama, the Yokohama Subway to Yokohama Station, the suburban train to Kurihama and from there take a short bus-ride to the ferry which would take them to the other side of the bay where they would take a cable-car to the finishing point at the top of Mount Nokogiri. Clarkson's route, however, would take him eastwards of Hakui to the city of Joetsu, Niigata before taking a path through the Japanese Alps towards Tokyo, where he would then have to drive through the city to the famous Aqua-Line which he would use to cross Tokyo Bay, before driving up the mountain road to Mount Nokogiri. Clarkson was heavily relying on his sat-nav system, but was hesitant to make any adjustments to it because all of the instructions were in Japanese.
Two hours into the race, Hammond and May were already two thirds of the way to Kyoto, but Clarkson had not even reached Joetsu, and had started encountering roadworks which further slowed his progress. By the time Hammond and May had started their journey on the bullet train at just after 11:30am, Clarkson had barely made it past Joetsu and still had to cross the entire spine of Japan, and just half an hour later, Hammond and May were passing through Nagoya. However, Clarkson's journey improved to the point he arrived in Tokyo before the train had reached Yokohama station. Moreover, because Hammond and May had less than 10 minutes to make their connection to the subway and couldn't understand the subway's instructions or directions, they had to guess which was the correct train to get on to, and only found out they'd guessed correctly when they were pulling into the first of their 5 stops. However, disaster then struck for Clarkson during a call to Hammond and May as they were waiting for their connection to Kurihama when he accidentally turned off the GT-R's sat-nav system. Because the car's dials were all in Japanese, he couldn't work out how to recover the sat-nav for 45 minutes.
However, whilst Hammond went to try his hand at one of the train's self-serving drinks machines while the train was waiting at the station, the train Hammond and May were on split in half, with the half May was on continuing onwards to Kurihama whilst Hammond's half stayed put in the station and then proceeded to leave without him after Hammond got off to see where May's train had gone. Thanks to some guidance from a kind local, Hammond eventually got himself on a second train going to Kurihama and even more fortunately, May succeeded in holding the bus at Kurihama for him, and the two were successfully reunited. Whist May and Hammond were preparing to cross Tokyo Bay on a ferry, Clarkson had finally managed to recover his satnav and drove straight for the Aqua-Line under Tokyo bay, but due to the time he'd lost in the city centre, he thought that his chances of winning the race had all but vanished. Meanwhile, although the cable-car station was a full mile from the ferry dock, Hammond and May used folding bicycles (carried in their suitcases) to get them there, allowing them to make up time on Clarkson who had arrived on Mount Nokogiri's mountain roads just before the ferry had docked. Whilst Hammond and May were just getting out of the cable-car on top of the mountain, Clarkson reached the mountain's car park and, seeing that Hammond and May weren't there, assumed that he had won the race, only to be told by the film crew that the finishing line was actually at the very top of the mountain next to a large statue of Buddha. All three presenters proceeded to run the rest of the way, converging on the finishing point from two different directions. Clarkson made it to the summit less than 3 minutes before Hammond and May, and was visibly still out of breath when the other two arrived. Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 11 box set. It was also released as part of the Top Gear: The Challenges 3 DVD.
Economy race to Blackpool – Jaguar XJ vs. VW Polo vs. Subaru Legacy – distance 750 miles
Series Twelve, Episode Four (23 November 2008)
With the team booked to switch on the famous Blackpool Illuminations, the three were presented with a challenge to determine which of them would get the honour of pulling the switch. This took the form of a race from Basel to Blackpool, taking a route of their choice and using any unmodified production car, the only restriction being that they could only use a single tank of fuel. All three presenters chose diesel vehicles – May a Subaru Legacy, Hammond a Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion, to the scorn of his compatriots, and Clarkson a Jaguar XJ. He had dismissed the race as pointless, since the figures indicated no production car at the time could make the distance, and therefore decided to "fail in style and comfort". Finally, the Stig was dropped off in Blackpool to pull the switch if no-one arrived.
Each presenter took different routes across France. Hammond opted for the shortest possible, while May added 30 miles to avoid mountains and several towns. Clarkson headed straight for the nearest motorway and drove "like a loony", heating seats, charging his phone and running the radio in the hope of emptying his fuel tank in France. After initially struggling with consumption, both Hammond and May realised their pace was too slow, and decided to pick up speed. May caught up with Hammond, and the two began an overtaking duel all the way to Calais, arriving 40 minutes behind Clarkson.
The presenters had also chosen different routes across England. Hammond again opted for the shortest, via the M1 and M6. May decided to avoid the risk of M6 traffic by heading along the M1 up to Leeds, then switching to the M62. Clarkson chose to use the M40, with his theoretical route changing to the M6 at Birmingham, although he was really trying to run out of fuel near his house. Despite his fuel-wasting, he passed Oxford with a considerable level remaining, and slowed down, finally taking the race seriously. When Hammond found out that Clarkson was still running, he picked up speed and overtook the Jaguar on the M6 toll. Given his near-empty tank, Clarkson decided to remain economical until his range reached 0, as Hammond's charge had reduced the BlueMotion's range drastically.
With May out of the running due to his slow speed and a trouble-free M6, Hammond's theoretical range reached zero. Once the Jaguar did the same, Clarkson accelerated to catch Hammond. However, his charge was too late, as Hammond was greeted with a police escort just outside Blackpool. Clarkson arrived less than a minute later. May did eventually finish, albeit 40 minutes after the celebration ended. With seconds to go before the switch-on, Richard—despite winning—claimed Jeremy should switch the light, and in the ensuing argument, the Stig pulled the switch. Afterwards, it was found Clarkson's car had 120 miles of fuel left, giving the Jaguar a range of nearly 900 miles. Hammond and May both conceded that despite the Polo arriving first, the Jaguar was to be declared the "real" winner. Winner: VW Polo Bluemotion (Jaguar XJ by agreement)
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 12 box set.
Ferrari Daytona vs. powerboat – distance 206 miles
Series Twelve, Episode Five (30 November 2008)
Hammond drove a Ferrari Daytona against May and his co-driver in an XSR 48 powerboat from Portofino to Saint-Tropez. Both were stopped by the Italian police at different points to check documents, but Hammond was forced to follow the police to a nearby police station, whereas May did not; this probably led to May winning the race. Winner: Boat
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 12 box set. It was also released as part of the Top Gear: The Challenges 4 DVD.
London to Edinburgh – Race to the North – Jaguar XK120 vs. Vincent Black Shadow vs. Tornado locomotive – distance 378 miles
Series Thirteen, Episode One (21 June 2009)
On 25 April 2009, the BBC filmed a private charter train hauled by the brand new steam locomotive 60163 Tornado. Clarkson (on the train) raced May (in a 1949 Jaguar XK120) and Hammond (on a 1949 Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle) from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Tornado completed the run in exactly eight hours, with four stops for water, while May and Hammond were restricted to the A1 Road (as no motorways existed yet in 1949). May would later reveal in a newspaper column that he arrived at the finishing line at the Balmoral Hotel barely 10 minutes before Clarkson did. Winner: Car
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 13 box set. It was also released as part of the Top Gear: The Challenges 4 DVD.
Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 vs. French TGV – distance 814 miles
Series Nineteen, Episode Three (10 February 2013)
In what was the first long-distance race between a car and public transport that Top Gear had done for 8 seasons, Clarkson raced Hammond and May from Wembley Stadium to the San Siro in Milan, where the winner would get a free ticket to watch AC Milan play Anderlecht in the UEFA Champions League. However, to stop Clarkson from choosing, in his own words, "a £350,000 supercar made of rhodium and myrrh" as he had previously chosen for similar races, the producers this time set a restriction for him: he could choose any current production car he liked, as long as it cost no more than £35,000. He therefore decided to drive the 662 horsepower Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 while Hammond and May would travel by public transport, primarily using the French TGV. Their route comprised a combination of bus and commuter train to St Pancras International, followed by a Eurostar train to Paris Gare du Nord where they would then take the TGV to Milan, before taking the Milan Metro to Lotto Fiera before reaching the San Siro stadium on foot. Clarkson meanwhile took the standard journey to Dover where he would catch a ferry across the English Channel to France, then proceeding through Mont Blanc tunnel into Italy. However, even before the race began, all three presenters knew that Hammond and May had a huge advantage this time around. Due to the advancements in public transport since the previous Top Gear long-distance race, the Eurostar train from St Pancras to Paris was 20 minutes faster than on previous trips, whilst the ferry journey that the car had to make to cross the Channel was now 40 minutes longer because of a change in the type of boat used. This meant that Hammond and May effectively began the race with an hour's advantage, and both were supremely confident that this would be the first long-distance race they would win.
Beginning at just after 3:30am on Wembley Stadium's pitch-side, Clarkson decided to drive through London rather than go around the North Circular Road and M25, thinking that the lack of traffic would mean the geographically shorter route would on this occasion be the faster. Hammond and May meanwhile took the route 83 bus from outside the stadium to Hendon before taking a First Capital Connect train service to St Pancras International. As they were waiting for the 5:40am Eurostar to depart, the GPS tracker in Clarkson's car showed Hammond that he had managed to reach Dover. However, the Eurostar train made such good progress that, due to the ferry not setting off until well past 6:00am, Hammond and May were already under the Channel by the time Clarkson left British soil. This, coupled with the fact that the ferry journey took 90 minutes (compared to 50 minutes as in previous races), meant that Hammond and May's train arrived in Paris at almost exactly the same time as Clarkson disembarked at Calais, giving then a lead of more than 200 miles. However, because Hammond and May's train from Gare de Lyon to Milan would not leave for another 80 minutes, Clarkson had an opportunity to close the gap. However, whilst stopping for petrol, Clarkson discovered that the GT500 only had a 50-litre fuel tank, meaning that he would on average have to stop for fuel every 140 miles owing to the car's poor fuel economy. To make matters worse, when he received a call from Hammond telling him that he and May had just departed from Paris, Clarkson worked out he had only narrowed their lead to 100 miles, the news of which made him virtually certain he was going to lose the race.
However, as the three presenters continued making their way through France, the race began to turn. As the train neared the French Alps, it was having to navigate the winding tracks on the old section of the TGV network, meaning Hammond and May's speed slowed considerably. This allowed Clarkson to begin to cut into the huge lead the train had built in the first half of its journey, and whilst Hammond and May were stationary just outside Lyon, Clarkson had just passed Dijon, meaning Hammond and May's lead was now only around 130 miles. Moreover, the car's journey to Milan was far more direct than the train's, and the train stopped at almost every single station along the TGV's route through the Alps, meaning Clarkson was very much back in the race. He made such good progress in the ensuing hour that he was virtually neck and neck with the train by the time he was closing in on the Mont Blanc tunnel. However, extensive French roadworks in the form of contraflows in front of the Mont Blanc tunnel slowed the car significantly, allowing Hammond and May to build up their lead again. However, there were no roadworks or traffic on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, meaning that Clarkson still believed he was in with a chance.
Hammond and May's TGV arrived in Milan at 6:00pm, from where they then took two trains on the Milan Metro to Lotto Fiera. With only one ticket up for grabs, and with May refusing to run on television, when their final train arrived, Hammond scampered out of the station to run ahead of him. However, May produced a foldable bicycle out of his bag in hopes of outpacing his colleague, but Hammond was still faster and reached the finishing point first, taking sole possession of the ticket. Clarkson, who had also been hampered by match-day traffic, finished behind both of his colleagues in what is still the only Top Gear long-distance race in which car was beaten by public transport. Clarkson would later attest back in the studio that the roadworks on the French side of the Mont Blanc tunnel, presumably to carry out necessary repairs in advance of the skiing season, had lasted for nearly 100km, and it had been this that had cost him the race. Indeed, considering that Clarkson only finished around 10 minutes behind Hammond and May, it is entirely possible that, had those roadworks not been in place, Clarkson may very well have won. Winner: Train
DVD release: This race was released as part of the Series 19 box set.
Toyota Auris 1.8L vs. AC45 sailing boat – distance 410 miles
Series Twenty, Episode One (30 June 2013)
Clarkson tried to prove that fossil fuels are still superior to alternatives, and raced a blue 1.8L Toyota Auris against May in an AC45 Sailing Boat, helmed by Olympian Ben Ainslie, and crewed by America's Cup winners. The race was in New Zealand, from Fletcher Bay at the top of the Coromandel Peninsula to Spirits Bay in Northland.
When a baffled May questioned his choice of vehicle, Clarkson explained that it was a hire car, which he claimed made it the fastest in the world because he could redline it until he crashed it.
Clarkson had to drive south on the Coromandel Peninsula before he could turn north towards Northland, making his journey 410 miles, over May's direct route of 220 miles. During the race Clarkson heavily abused his car and rendered it undriveable after crashing into a stone wall to avoid a tractor. He was forced to stop, visit a hire car centre, and exchange his broken Auris for another – then hope that May did not notice that his car was now red. May was constantly battered by the rough seas, and lost his satellite phone during the race after being hit by a large wave.
Despite trying to make up ground by using Ninety Mile Beach, Clarkson was beaten to the finish line by May, who had a lead of an hour over the car. Also, May noticed that the car was no longer blue at the end of the race. Winner: Sailing boat
St. Petersburg race – car vs. bicycle vs. hovercraft vs. public transport – distance 18 miles
Series Twenty Two, Episode One (25 January 2015)
The presenters decide to redo the race they did in London between all of them, this time travelling across St Petersburg. Clarkson selects a hovercraft, Hammond chooses a £9,000 (Pinarello Dogma F8) bicycle, May picks a Renault Twizy, and the Stig again relies on public transport. From the start, neither Hammond or Clarkson have it easy with their choice of transport. Clarkson found driving his hovercraft – which he called a Russian design of the presenters' Hovervan – to be quite difficult; along with his instruments and controls being in Russian, he could not keep the craft pointing forward or in a straight line. Meanwhile, Hammond, while managing to overtake and then be overtaken by May, ran afoul of the city's tramlines. Hammond caught a wheel in one of the rails and fell, shearing off the bicycle's derailleur and rendering it useless. The others continued racing and Hammond soon re-entered the race on a second bike, which was borrowed from a passer-by (who was given a lift to his work as compensation).
May, meanwhile, suffered no issues whatsoever, and so was able to enjoy the car he was driving. He remarked how he liked the fact that it was designed for European cities, having two seats in tandem, an electric engine, and scissor doors. However, as he reached the city-centre, he discovered that the city's streets and roads were much wider than he expected them to be. Clarkson, who managed to gain the lead despite the handling issues, soon hit the city-centre, where he attempted to use narrow, peaceful canals to avoid the heavy river traffic he encountered. Unfortunately for him, this led him towards low bridges instead, which required him to deflate the hovercraft's skirts repeatedly to squeeze under the bridges. Although his new bicycle was slower and less comfortable than his first mount, Hammond began to catch up to May and Clarkson.
Clarkson and Hammond soon reached the finish line, with Hammond coming in just moments after Clarkson, only to find that both had been beaten by May, who was waiting in hiding for them. While they commented that the car had redeemed itself in the race, they realised that one of them was missing. The Stig, who had suffered no major issues when using public transport, failed to finish in the end: he had spotted a Porsche 911 and was banging his helmet against the fence that protected it. Winner: Car
Arabian Peninsula race – car vs. alternative "money no-object" transportation: sports bike, private jet, luxury car and motorboat
Series Twenty Four, Episode Four (26 March 2017)
LeBlanc and Harris are competing against each other in a race from Dubai to a mountaintop hotel in Oman. Harris drives the Bugatti Chiron while LeBlanc takes a combination of luxury transports: a motorboat, a luxury car, a private jet and a sports bike. Early in the race, Harris faced rush hour traffic while Matt was stuck on a 5-knot speed limit zone. As traffic cleared, Harris was escorted out of Dubai by the Dubai Police Force while LeBlanc cleared the marina, enabling him to get the boat to speed before entering the second stage, which was being chauffeured in a Bentley Mulsanne EWB by the Stig's "Emirati cousin", but is stuck in Dubai's downtown district, falling 100 miles behind Harris. However, Harris was stuck immediately upon entering Oman as the Chiron had to be re-registered while LeBlanc arrived at the airport to board the HondaJet to Muscat, enabling him to gain significant ground despite the 100-mile distance between Muscat and the finish line. Meanwhile, Harris attempts to take a shortcut through a network of alleyways at a town, slowing his progress significantly. In Muscat, LeBlanc entered the fourth and final stage of his journey, riding the Ducati 1299 Superleggera. At the final leg of the race, both entered the mountains from opposite direction, leading to a tense final sprint. Winner: Alternative "money no-object" transportation
Car versus... challenges
* Car vs. aerobatics plane: Hammond presented a race between the Stig, in a Radical SR3, against British Aerobatic Champion Tom Cassells, in a CAP 232 Aerobatic Plane, around the Top Gear test track. Winner: Plane Series One, Episode Nine
* Car vs. racing pigeons: May used a Ford SportKa equipped with satellite navigation to compete against racing pigeons in a point-to-point race. Winner: Pigeons Series Four, Episode Four
* Car vs. snooker player: Ronnie O'Sullivan had to pot 14 snooker balls while his Mercedes-Benz SL500 was raced around the Top Gear test track by The Stig. Winner: Snooker Player Series Four, Episode Four
* Car vs. all-terrain skateboarder: Hammond presented a pair of races on the "Green Mile", a half-mile downhill course in Wales, between double world champion all-terrain skateboarder Tom Kirkman and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII Group N rally car, and then a Bowler Wildcat, both driven by Ben Collins. Winner Race 1: Skateboarder; Race 2: Car Series Five, Episode Two
* Car vs. bobsleigh: May co-piloted a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution rally car driven by Henning Solberg, racing Hammond and the Norwegian Olympic bobsleigh team down a mountain in Lillehammer, Norway. Winner: Bobsleigh Series Five, Episode Eight (repeated in the Winter Olympics Special)
* Car vs. tank: Clarkson raced a Range Rover Sport across a Dorset field before a Challenger 2 tank could get gun lock on him. Winner: Tank Series Six, Episode One
* Car vs. marathon runner: Clarkson raced a Fiat Nuova Panda against marathon runner A.C. Muir around the London Marathon circuit during the morning rush-hour. Winner: Runner Series Six, Episode Seven
* Car vs. snowmobile – over water: Hammond visited Iceland and raced a modified off-road vehicle against a snowmobile over Lake Kleifarvatn. Winner: Snowmobile Series Six, Episode Ten
* Car vs. rock climbers: Clarkson, in an Audi RS4, competed against two rock climbers, Leo Houlding and Tim Emmett, in a race from the bottom of a French gorge to the top. Winner: Rock Climbers Series Seven, Episode Two
* Car vs. urban downhill cyclist: May raced a Renault Clio III down the narrow streets of Castle of São Jorge's district in Lisbon against downhill bike racer Gee Atherton. Winner: Cyclist Series Seven, Episode Four
* Car vs. greyhound: Hammond drove a Mazda MX-5 against Ireland's most expensive greyhound, Mama Tina, around Shelbourne Park's greyhound track in a one-lap pursuit style race. Winner: Greyhound Series Seven, Episode Six
* Car vs. speed skater: Clarkson, in a Jaguar XK8, raced against speed skater Eskil Ervik, around a speed skating track. Winner: Speed Skater Winter Olympics Special
* Car vs. trail of fuel: Clarkson raced a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 against a trail of fuel. The race began when the quarter-mile-long trail of petrol was lit. Winner: Car Series Eight, Episode Two
* Car vs. motor powered kayak: Hammond visited Iceland and raced a TVR-powered Bowler Tomcat 4x4 against a motorised kayak, piloted by its inventor Shaun Baker, over Jökulsárlón. Winner: Kayak Series Eight, Episode Two
* Car vs. parachutist: Hammond raced two miles (3 km) against a British army parachutist in Cyprus with a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S. Winner: Parachutist Series Eight, Episode Four
* Car vs. traceurs: May raced two traceurs, Daniel Ilabaca and Kerbie, over six miles (10 km) across Liverpool in a Peugeot 207 1.6L Diesel, from the edge of the city to the Liver Building. Winner: Traceurs Series Eight, Episode Seven
* Car vs. DIY Car: Clarkson, Hammond, and May have to build a Caterham 7 as a kit car from scratch, racing against time on another Caterham 7 driven by the Stig, driving from Surrey to Scotland (465 miles). The team has to finish building the car within 8 hours before the Stig arrives at Scotland. Winner: DIY Car (The Stig was arrested for speeding on the last three miles) Series Eight, Episode Seven
* Car vs. fighter jet: Hammond raced a Bugatti Veyron against a Eurofighter Typhoon, piloted by RAF Squadron Leader Jim Walls, to see which one could most quickly travel a distance of two miles (the Bugatti along a runway and back, the Eurofighter climbing a mile straight up and back down). Winner: Jet Series Ten, Episode Three
* Car vs. rollerblades: Hammond drove an Aston Martin V8 Vantage against Dirk Auer, a man on roller skates with a turbo-powered rocket backpack, in a straight half-mile drag race. Winner: Car Series Ten, Episode Five
* Car vs. tall man: May used an Alfa Romeo 159 in a race against Graham Boanas, to discover who could cross the 1.5 mi wide Humber River faster without using the Humber Bridge. Winner: Man Series Ten, Episode Six
* Car vs. BMX bikes: May travelled to Hungary and raced a Fiat 500 against some BMX cyclists (the traceurs from the previous Liverpool challenge) through the streets of Budapest. Winner: Bikes Series Ten, Episode Nine
* Car vs. skiers: Hammond travelled to Les Arcs in the French Alps to race an Audi RS6 estate against two skiers, Antoine Montant (the Columbia world speed flyer champion 2007) and François Bon, down a mountain from Arc 1950 to Villaroger. (Note: Hammond had to find his way around the village to find the pub, giving the skiers extra time.) Winner: Skiers Series Eleven, Episode Two
* Car vs. hunters: Clarkson and Hammond travelled to Gloucestershire to combine Green Laning and Fox hunting into a new sport where the prey is a 'green laner' in an off-road vehicle. Clarkson raced a Daihatsu Terios nine miles (14.5 km) cross-country to the designated finishing point at Tewkesbury Park, while Hammond and a group of hunters chased him. (Note:After that Hammond said that Clarkson was finally eaten by dogs.) Winner: Hunters Series Eleven, Episode Five
* Car vs. Royal Mail: Hammond and May drove a Porsche Panamera in a race against a letter delivered by Royal Mail from the Isles of Scilly to Orkney. Winner: Royal Mail Series Thirteen, Episode Four
* Car vs. British Army: Clarkson, in a Mitusbishi Lancer Evolution VII, raced five miles (8 km) around a plainfield in Dorset against a team from the British Army. Army vehicles used during the race included the Jackal, Mastiff, Panther, and Trojan. At one stage, Clarkson hid beside the Trojan, ending up with the Trojan ripping off part of the car's roof. Winner: British Army Series Thirteen, Episode Four
* Car vs. snowmobiles: Hammond took a modified Volkswagen Touareg to a ski resort in Sweden, in order to race some "Swedish youths" on snowmobiles. The race was a dead heat until the near end, with it all coming down to a drag race across a frozen lake. Winner: Car Series Fifteen, Episode Five
* Car vs. gravity: Hammond raced one mile (1.6 km) against a Volkswagen Beetle dropped from a helicopter on a salt flat in South Africa with a Porsche 997 Turbo S. Winner: Gravity Series Sixteen, Episode One
* Car vs. God: Clarkson, in a supercharged V8 MK IV Jaguar XJ, departed Land's End (Britain's most westerly point) at sunset and raced 432 miles (695 km) to Lowestoft (Britain's most easterly point) attempting to arrive before sunrise. The race was held during the Summer Solstice to add an extra challenge. Winner: Car Series Sixteen, Episode Six
* Car vs. skeleton racer: May returns to Lillehammer and co-pilots a Mini WRC rally car, driven by Kris Meeke, against skeleton racer Amy Williams. Winner: Car Series Seventeen, Episode One
* Car vs. jet propelled man: Hammond and Finnish world rally driver Toni Gardemeister race the world's first jet propelled man, Yves Rossy, in a Škoda Fabia S2000 around an eight-mile special Welsh Rally Stage. Winner: Man Series Eighteen, Episode Five
* Car vs. autonomous military machine: May in new Range Rover vs the TerraMax at Nevada Automotive Test Centre, Nevada. Winner: Car Series Nineteen, Episode Five
* Car vs. quad bike/jet ski hybrid: Hammond in the new Alfa Romeo 4C vs Clarkson in the Gibbs Quadski around Lake Como. Winner: Car (Clarkson allowed Hammond to win because he didn't want the Alfa to lose) Series Twenty one, Episode Two
Small races
* Old cars vs. new cars – drag race (a.k.a. Top Gear Generation Game): Five of Clarkson's older cars face off versus five of Hammond's modern vehicles. The pairings were: Golf GTi MKI vs MKIV, Toyota MR2 old vs new, Ford Escort RS Cosworth vs Focus RS, Peugeot 205 vs 206, Nissan 300ZX vs 350Z. Series Three, Episode Eight
* Diesel vs. petrol: A race between Clarkson in a diesel Škoda Fabia and Hammond in a petrol Mini Cooper to see if diesel had caught up to petrol. Series Four, Episode Eight
* Old cars vs. new cars – road circuit, race vs. showroom: three pairs made up of one classic racer and one showroom car raced against the clock in The Stig's hands. The pairings were: 1974 British Rally Championship-winning Ford Escort vs Ford Focus RS, Four times Le Mans-winning (1966–69) Ford GT40 vs Noble M400; 1983 World Rally Championship-winning Audi Quattro vs Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR FQ-340. Series Five, Episode Eight
* RWD vs. 4WD – rally special stage: May took The Stig to an indoor exhibition rally track of the World Rally Championship at the Millennium Stadium to compare the RWD and 4WD Porsche 997 Carrera. Series Seven, Episode Five
* Old cars vs. new cars – hill climb: May and Hammond oversaw a race against the clock at the Prescott Hill Climb course, which featured an Austin-Healey Sprite and a modified Peugeot 306, both driven by The Stig. Series Seven, Episode Six
* Real life vs. a computer game – road circuit: Clarkson travelled to the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to compare a real life lap in a Honda NSX with one he did earlier using the same car in the PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 4. Series Seven, Episode Six
* Biathlon: Clarkson (in a Volvo XC90) raced May (in an Audi Q7), in a "car-biathlon", with cross-country driving instead of skiing. Winter Olympics Special
* RWD vs. 4WD – off-road slalom: Clarkson (in a RWD Jaguar XK) and May (in a 4WD Land Rover Discovery) created a slalom course on a frozen lake and raced against the clock. Winter Olympics Special
* Supercar MPG – fuel economy part 1: Clarkson staged a race between five supercars (Ferrari 599 GTB, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Lamborghini Murciélago LP640, Aston Martin DBS V12, and Audi R8) to see which could travel the furthest on one gallon of petrol. Series Eleven, Episode One Winner: Audi R8
* Hybrid vs. petrol – fuel economy part 2: Clarkson then held a race between a petrol BMW M3 and Toyota Prius to see if hybrid cars really are more economical than petrol. This wasn't really a race, but a test to see which car used more petrol. The Prius was instructed to be driven as fast as possible around the Top Gear test track for 10 laps, whilst Clarkson, driving the M3, just had to keep up. The Prius averaged 17.2mpg, whereas the M3 averaged 19.4mpg. Series Eleven, Episode One Winner: BMW M3
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István Hatvani (1718–1786) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked on developing some of the earliest elements of probability theory.
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Former US President Obama renews support for France's Macron
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has renewed his support for centrist Emmanuel Macron ahead of the crucial presidential vote in France. Obama dubbed Sunday's presidential runoff as "very important" for the future of France but also to the entire world. "I'm not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don't have to run for office again. But the French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about," Obama said in a video released on Twitter. "I admire the campaign that Emmanuel Macron has run. He stood up for liberal values," Obama said. "He appeals to people's hopes. And not their fears." Macron, 39, is close to becoming the youngest president in French history but before achieving that he needs to win against the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has gathered increasing support using an anti-immigrant rhetoric. In the run-up to the first round of the French election, Obama had also stated his support for Macron. Follow CNBC International on and Facebook.
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English is also found in in the physical domains of the main streets, restaurants, sand shopping areas in Seoul and the rest of South Korea. Sociolinguistically, South Koreans would use English to represent luxury, youth, sophistication, and modernity
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Konglish is relatively understudied and also varied in definition across individuals. However, some experts would agree that its formation parallels that of pidgins and creoles, but can't be defined as those categories because it is not yet its own category of English, but rather a subcategory of Korean that is conceptualized in the form of English words and phrases integrated with the Korean language.
Although Konglish is ambiguous in its category of linguistics, it is similar to the definition of Platt's "New Englishes", which is distinguished from erroneous or temporary forms of English. Konglish aligns with the standards of "New Englishes": developed through the education system, developed in an area where English is not the native language spoken by most of the population, used for a range of functions among the speakers, and has been localized by by adopting some language feature of its own like intonation patterns and expressions.
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Many Koreans who immigrate to the United States and learn English have a distinct Korean-English variation, especially in early stages of acquisition. One reason this is so is due to distinct laterals between English and Korean languages, which affects the articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the languages. American English is often described as having "dark" variants, which involves a primary Alveolar contact gesture as well as a secondary dorsal retraction gesture. In most cases, English in America is spoken with very few anterior contact in the mouth, and instead uses the narrowed upper pharyngeal area with a retracted tongue dorsum. The Korean lateral on the other hand is considered to be "light" in its acoustic and articulatory characteristics. The two gestures that make up the Korean lateral include tongue tip closure and Palatalization (phonetics), which involves the raising of the tongue body.
According to the Speech Learning Model, learning a second language is easier in later stages of acquisition for laterals that are more different than similar because one can recognize the differences in speech sounds more clearly. This is true for Koreans learning English, as they use distinct articulatory tongue shapes, using a low tongue body and a heavily retracted tongue dorsum for their English word-final lateral, similar to native English speakers.
In loanwords used in Konglish, the dark English lateral is often mapped onto the loanwords Koreans use, showing that Koreans see these loanwords as separate from purely Korean, even though it is used in everyday life.
There have also been debates on whether embracing English as another national language in Korea would be harmful to the country as it could bring destruction to South Korea's national identity. In order to embrace the importance of learning English for globalism as well as protect Korea's own language and identity, many Korean institutions encouraged the government to adopt English as a public language instead of an official language for cultural flexibility and familiarity with English.
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What kind of doctor looks for prostate cancer?
If your doctor suspects you may have a problem with your prostate, you may be referred to a urinary tract specialist (urologist). If you’re diagnosed with prostate cancer, you may be referred to a cancer specialist (oncologist) or a specialist who uses radiation therapy to treat cancer (radiation oncologist).
What does a medical oncologist do for prostate cancer?
Many men with prostate cancer receive radiation to delay the spread of cancer and/or relieve pain if the cancer spreads to other parts of the body. A medical oncologist is a doctor specially trained to diagnose, stage, and treat cancer with chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and other medications.
What is the difference between a urologist and an oncologist?
Urologist. A urologist is specially trained to treat problems affecting the urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra) and disorders of the male reproductive system. Urologic oncologist. This specialist diagnoses and treats cancers that affect the urinary tract and male reproductive organs.
Can a urologist diagnose prostate cancer?
A core needle biopsy is the main method used to diagnose prostate cancer. It is usually done by a urologist. During the biopsy, the doctor usually looks at the prostate with an imaging test such as transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) or MRI, or a ‘fusion’ of the two (all discussed below).
THIS MEANING: Can a tumor cause chronic sinusitis?
Can you live 20 years with prostate cancer?
Men with Gleason 7 and 8 to 10 tumors were found to be at high risk of dying from prostate cancer. After 20 years, only 3 of 217 patients survived. Men with moderate-grade disease have intermediate cumulative risk of prostate cancer progression after 20 years of follow-up.
What is the most accurate test for prostate cancer?
The most accurate test for detecting prostate cancer is a prostate biopsy. This biopsy involves taking a tissue sample from the prostate and examining it under a microscope, which can help your doctor determine whether there is an uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate gland.
Who works on prostate?
The urologist helps the patient access other specialists in cancer care, which may include a medical oncologist and radiation oncologist. In some parts of the United States, especially in areas that are far from major medical centers, the local urologist may still be the only expert available to treat prostate cancer.
What is Urology Oncology?
A urologic oncologist is a physician with special training in diagnosing and treating cancers of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs.
What is oncologist?
An oncologist is a doctor who specialises in treating people with cancer. Medical, surgical and radiation oncologists focus on a particular area of cancer. Often, these different types of oncologists work together to diagnose, treat and monitor a person with cancer.
What cancers do urologists treat?
What are the types of urologic cancers, and who’s at risk?
• Prostate cancer.
• Testicular cancer.
• Penile cancer.
What does a reconstructive urologist do?
Genital and pelvic reconstruction aims to restore normal anatomy and function of the genitourinary tract. The function or appearance of these areas can sometimes be affected by certain treatments or diseases, such as cancer.
THIS MEANING: Does cancer make you feel unwell?
What are the four stages of prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer stages range from 1 through 4.
• Stage 1 means the cancer is on one side of the prostate. …
• Stage 2 means the cancer remains confined to the prostate gland. …
• Stage 3 means the cancer is locally advanced. …
• Stage 4 means the cancer has spread to lymph nodes or to other parts of the body.
What is the average age a man gets prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer is more likely to develop in older men and in non-Hispanic Black men. About 6 cases in 10 are diagnosed in men who are 65 or older, and it is rare in men under 40. The average age of men at diagnosis is about 66.
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“Might yet be named.” Or did he mean That years ago he “might have been”? For now he felt a slight misgiving: “Is Louis So and So still living? Fashions in beauty have a way Of altering from day to day. Is ‘Handsome Louis’ with us yet? Unfortunately I forget.”
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Schuylar Oordt
The result was Speedy keep - withdrawn by nominator, no non-keep !votes. (non-admin closure) Ansh666 00:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Schuylar Oordt
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Unsourced page of an NFL player who never played in an NFL game. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NGRIDIRON. Luchuslu (talk) 14:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC) Withdrawn by nominator - Found new sources with the help of Paul McDonald. Luchuslu (talk) 19:55, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Luchuslu (talk) 14:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Luchuslu (talk) 14:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iowa-related deletion discussions. Luchuslu (talk) 14:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* Keep in just a matter of moments, I found multiple reliable articles outlining the notability of the individual. Clearly passes WP:GNG from press generated by his college football days alone. It does not appear that the individual has yet played professionally in a regular season or post season game, so WP:NSPORTS is not cleared, but WP:GNG is the show-stopper. I agree that the sources should be added to the article, but that is an editing issue and not a deletion issue. I encourage the nominator to take the steps outlined in WP:BEFORE prior to nominating articles in the future.--Paul McDonald (talk) 17:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* In the search I did just before nominating Oordt, I found no significant coverage that would warrant him passing WP:GNG. The vast majority were primary sources, his facebook and twitter accounts, and a blog post. If you'd like to discuss Wiki policies with me, I'd be more than happy to do so on our talk pages. But having a pissing contest on AfDs is not appropriate. Luchuslu (talk) 17:44, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* Try clicking on the "news" link above. It's really helpful--there are no twitter accounts, no facebook pages, and (almost) all bona fide news sources. As I wrote before, subject clearly passes WP:GNG.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:36, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
* OK, I see what you mean. I'll tag the article and withdraw the nomination, maybe try to find some time to work on it. Thanks for your patience.
* Keep. A college football player who receives significant coverage in mainstream, independent media sources satisfies WP:GNG even if he never plays in the NFL. This one is a closer call than some, because Oordt played at the FCS level. But, as noted by Paul M., above, Oordt appears to have received some significant coverage, i.e., more than passing references in game coverage. Examples of such coverage include articles from the following sources: Des Moines Register, Burlington Hawke Eye, KWWL, KCRG, The Gazette, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Fox News, WUSA 9, The Northern Iowan, KTVO, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. Cbl62 (talk) 20:23, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 Developer's Guide
Creating Applications That Use the JDBC API
An application that uses the JDBC API is an application that looks up and connects to one or more databases. This section covers these topics:
Sharing Connections
When multiple connections acquired by an application use the same JDBC resource, the connection pool provides connection sharing within the same transaction scope. For example, suppose Bean A starts a transaction and obtains a connection, then calls a method in Bean B. If Bean B acquires a connection to the same JDBC resource with the same sign-on information, and if Bean A completes the transaction, the connection can be shared.
Connections obtained through a resource are shared only if the resource reference declared by the J2EE component allows it to be shareable. This is specified in a component’s deployment descriptor by setting the res-sharing-scope element to Shareable for the particular resource reference. To turn off connection sharing, set res-sharing-scope to Unshareable.
For general information about connections and JDBC URLs, see the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 Administration Guide.
Obtaining a Physical Connection from a Wrapped Connection
The DataSource implementation in the Application Server provides a getConnection method that retrieves the JDBC driver’s SQLConnection from the Application Server’s Connection wrapper. The method signature is as follows:
public java.sql.Connection getConnection(java.sql.Connection con)
throws java.sql.SQLException
For example:
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
com.sun.appserv.DataSource ds = (com.sun.appserv.DataSource)
ctx.lookup("jdbc/MyBase");
Connection con = ds.getConnection();
Connection drivercon = ds.getConnection(con);
// Do db operations.
con.close();
Using Non-Transactional Connections
The DataSource implementation in the Application Server provides a getNonTxConnection method, which retrieves a JDBC connection that is not in the scope of any transaction. There are two variants, as follows:
public java.sql.Connection getNonTxConnection() throws java.sql.SQLException
public java.sql.Connection getNonTxConnection(String user, String password)
throws java.sql.SQLException
Another way to get a non-transactional connection is to create a resource with the JNDI name ending in __nontx. This forces all connections looked up using this resource to be non transactional.
Typically, a connection is enlisted in the context of the transaction in which a getConnection call is invoked. However, a non-transactional connection is not enlisted in a transaction context even if a transaction is in progress.
The main advantage of using non-transactional connections is that the overhead incurred in enlisting and delisting connections in transaction contexts is avoided. However, use such connections carefully. For example, if a non-transactional connection is used to query the database while a transaction is in progress that modifies the database, the query retrieves the unmodified data in the database. This is because the in-progress transaction hasn’t committed. For another example, if a non-transactional connection modifies the database and a transaction that is running simultaneously rolls back, the changes made by the non-transactional connection are not rolled back.
Here is a typical use case for a non-transactional connection: a component that is updating a database in a transaction context spanning over several iterations of a loop can refresh cached data by using a non-transactional connection to read data before the transaction commits.
Using JDBC Transaction Isolation Levels
For general information about transactions, see Chapter 12, Using the Transaction Serviceand the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 Administration Guide. For information about last agent optimization, which can improve performance, see Transaction Scope.
Not all database vendors support all transaction isolation levels available in the JDBC API. The Application Server permits specifying any isolation level your database supports. The following table defines transaction isolation levels.
Table 11–1 Transaction Isolation Levels
Transaction Isolation Level
Description
TRANSACTION_READ_UNCOMMITTED
Dirty reads, non-repeatable reads and phantom reads can occur.
TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED
Dirty reads are prevented; non-repeatable reads and phantom reads can occur.
TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
Dirty reads and non-repeatable reads are prevented; phantom reads can occur.
TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE
Dirty reads, non-repeatable reads and phantom reads are prevented.
Note that you cannot call setTransactionIsolation() during a transaction.
You can set the default transaction isolation level for a JDBC connection pool. For details, see Creating a Connection Pool.
To verify that a level is supported by your database management system, test your database programmatically using the supportsTransactionIsolationLevel() method in java.sql.DatabaseMetaData, as shown in the following example:
java.sql.DatabaseMetaData db;
if (db.supportsTransactionIsolationLevel(TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE)
{ Connection.setTransactionIsolation(TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE); }
For more information about these isolation levels and what they mean, see the JDBC 3.0 API specification.
Note –
Applications that change the isolation level on a pooled connection programmatically risk polluting the pool, which can lead to errors.
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6. (computing) Indicates a series of steps to achieve a task in software.
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User:Ricpierce/Exploring Educational Technology/Visual Literacy
This module explores the fundamentals of graphic images and some techniques for teachers and students to integrate images into their work. Sometime you need to represent data visually. There[ are many ways and rationales for developing visual artifacts to support teaching and learning]See Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. in this module we will experiment with creating and archiving visual artifacts. Consider the following passage. ''"Learning, for visual-spatial learners, takes place all at once, with large chunks of information grasped in intuitive leaps, rather than in the gradual accretion of isolated facts, small steps or habit patterns gained through practice. For example, they can learn all of the multiplication facts as a related set in a chart much easier and faster than memorizing each fact independently." Effective Techniques for Teaching Highly Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners, Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. Gifted Development Center, Denver, Colorado''
A picture really might be worth a thousand words. We want to examine current research regarding muti-modal instructional practices and demonstrate we can create and archive these artifacts.
Contents of the visual literacy module include: Reading (see below)| /Grab a Screen/ | /Online Graphics/ | /Image Formats/
Reading Please download and read the article Multimodal Learning Though Media pages 3-5 and consider these guiding questions: 1.Describe what Dale's Cone of Experience is? 2.How it comports with current research on teaching and learning. After the reading, comment on your opinion of the validity of Dale's Cone of Experience. 3.Distinguish between distributed intelligence and scaffolded achievement Required: Create a blog post and link it to your narrative response.
Basic Skills required for this module 1.How to you create an image? 2.How do you post an image to your blog? 3.How do you publish an image on the web and hyperlink to it? 4.How do you do a screen shot? 5.How do you edit a screen shot? 6.How do you change the program that opens a graphic file? 7.How do you inspect file properties? 8.List and describe some file properties? 9.How do you create a folder? 10.How do you change the views of a folder's contents? 11.How do you change graphic file format? 12.Why would you want to change graphic file format? 13.What is file compression? 14.List several common graphic file formats. 15.List some differences between paint and draw programs. 16.Distinguish between bitmap and raster graphics. 17.Why must teachers pay attention to the file format used to store graphic images and sounds.
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JavaScript hack for those sometimes errors
Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:52:32 PM by Tom Muck
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Have you ever built a page with a simple JavaScript that works most of the time but sometimes gives you a JavaScript error "Object expected"? Many times this is caused by a JavaScript executing before the page is fully loaded. It happens frequently with mouseovers -- especially menus that are at the top of a page. What happens is that a user will type the URL into the browser, and as the page is loading the mouse is brought over a mouseover. Because the document is not fully loaded, the object cannot be located.
One trick (read: cheesy hack workaround) I use to overcome this problem is to use a JavaScript try/catch block. A try/catch block is saying "try this, and if it doesn't work do this instead". A try/catch block effectively stops an error in its tracks. For an error handling routine it is a lifesaver, but for an annoying "sometimes" error, it is simply a nice workaround. The most basic syntax is this:
try {
// code you want to "try"
}catch(e) { // "e" is the error
// code to execute in the event of an error
}
Use it like this:
1. Find the culprit script that throws the error. It's usually a mouseover of some variety.
2. Add the try/catch around it.
Here is a simple example. Suppose a link has a mouseover event like this:
onmouseover="doRollover('myImage')"
Every once-in-a-while you will see a JavaScript error on this bit of script. Add the try/catch:
onmouseover="try{doRollover('myImage') }catch(e){};"
That's it. The catch block does nothing -- it simply exists to fill out the try/catch block, but has no alternative operation. When the page is fully loaded, the script will execute normally.
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Undocumented Dreamweaver: reloadSnippetList, I wonder what this does?
Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:49:00 PM by Paul R. Boon
Paul R. Boon
For developers developing extensions to manipulate snippets, the main issue has been the lack of an API call to force the Snippets panel to refresh itself. This especially becomes an issue when your extension makes dynamic changes to the Snippets folder within Dreamweaver's configuration directory.
An undocumented API call comes to the rescue once again, this time in the shape of:
dreamweaver.snippetPalette.reloadSnippetList()
dw.snippetPalette.reloadSnippetList()
This handy API call simply reloads the Snippet Panel showing any and all changes made to the snippets folder structure.
Category tags: Dreamweaver, Extensibility
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37.5 Celsius To Fahrenheit (2023)
1. 37.5 Degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit - Temperature Conversion
• 37.5 Degrees Celsius = 99.5 Degrees Fahrenheit. Use this calculator to convert 37.5°C to Celsius. How many degrees Fahrenheit in 37.5°c? 37.5°c to degrees ...
• Use this calculator to convert 37.5°C to Celsius. How many degrees Fahrenheit in 37.5°c? 37.5°c to degrees Fahrenheit is 99.5°f. How hot is 37.5°c in Fahrenheit? How cold? Type the information into the input boxes and the degrees in Fahrenheit will update automatically.
2. 37.5 C to F - T TABLE
• Therefore, 37.5 degrees Celsius is approximately equal to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Calculator for Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. If you need to convert other ...
• Learn how to accurately convert 37.5 C to F using a simple conversion formula. Follow our guide for a seamless conversion process.
37.5 C to F - T TABLE
3. 37.5 Celsius To Fahrenheit Conversion – °C to °F - S R Hartley
• How To Convert 37.5 °C to °F ; °F = ( 37.5 x 1.8 ) + 32 ; = 67.5 + 32 ; = 99.5 °F ; ∴, therefore, 37.5 Celsius (°C) is equal to 99.5 Fahrenheit (°F) ...
• View the temperature conversion for 37.5 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit. Includes a worked example, showing how to convert 37.5 C to F.
4. 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit - CoolConversion
• 37.5 Celsius = 37.5 × 9⁄5 + 32 = 67.5 + 32 = 99.5 Fahrenheit. Temperature conversion chart. To Fahrenheit, To Celsius, To Kelvin. From Fahrenheit (F), F ...
• What is 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Celsius-Fahrenheit conversion and calculator.
5. 37.5 c to f | 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit | [+ Examples] - Journeying The Globe
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6. Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit (37.5 C to F) - Convertpedia
• Performing a conversion it is possible to obtain 37.5 degrees Fahrenheit equals 3.06 degrees Celsius. Note then that 3.06 °C is colder than 37.5 °C, so 37.5 ...
• Online temperature conversion tool. Convert 37.5 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit (37.5 °C to °F). Check it out!
7. 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion: Complete Guide (c to f)
• 37.5 Degrees Celsius Equals 99.5 Degrees Fahrenheit · 37.5 C = 99.5 F ...
• What is 37.5 C to F (Degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit)? Learn the fast and easy conversion now!!! 37.5 Degrees C is equal to...
37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion: Complete Guide (c to f)
8. 37.5 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit. What is 37.5C in F? - Paper Toys
• The formula to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit is C x 1.8 + 32. So to convert 37.5 Celsius, the formula would be 37.5 x 1.8 + 32. That equals 99.5° in Fahrenheit.
9. Human Body Temperature: Fever, Normal, Low Readings
• Jan 5, 2016 · It is generally medically accepted that the average body temperature ranges between 36.5 °C (97.7 °F) to 37.5 °C (99.5 °F). ... Celsius (98.6 ...
• Information and conversion charts of human body temperatures include standard, high, and low readings and COVID-19 fever readings.
Human Body Temperature: Fever, Normal, Low Readings
10. 37.5 C to F - Celsius to Fahrenheit
• Celsius to Fahrenheit Converter ; Celsius, Fahrenheit ; You can edit any of the fields below: ; = ; 37.5 degrees Celsius = 99.50 degrees Fahrenheit ...
• 🌡37.5 C to F. °C to °F Calculator.
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11. Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion
• Chart of normal temperature changes in humans body ; Under armpit (or axillary), 36.5 °C to 37.5 °C (97.8 °F to 99.5 °F) ; Ear (tympanic), 35.8 °C to 38.0 °C ( ...
• Convert degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, free conversion tool
12. 37.5 C to F: Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit - Parrotio
• Jun 25, 2023 · Yes, the conversion formula is: °F = (9/5 × °C) + 32. By multiplying Celsius by 9/5 and adding 32, you can convert any Celsius temperature to ...
• In this article, we chose 37.5 c to f as an example temperature for conversion to add specificity and provide a context for the conversion formula.
37.5 C to F: Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit - Parrotio
13. Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit - Calculatio
• Convert 37.5 °C to °F. What is 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? The answer is 99.5. Convert degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit.
• Convert 37.5 °C to °F. What is 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? The answer is 99.5. Convert degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit
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14. 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit | 37.5 °C to °F - Convertilo
• 37.5 37.5 Celsius is equal to 99.5 Fahrenheit. Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion table. Below is the conversion table you can use to convert from Celsius to ...
• Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit (37.5 °C to °F) with our Temperature converter.
37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit | 37.5 °C to °F - Convertilo
15. 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion Calculator - Flightpedia
• Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit · 1 °C = 33.8 °F · 1 °F = -17.2222 °C ...
• Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit with our online conversion.
16. Causes, types, symptoms and treatment for fever - MyMed.com
• For an adult: When the body temperature exceeds between 37.2 and 37.5 degrees Celsius (99 to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit). Fevers can be classified as: Low-grade: ...
• When is a fever something to worry about? We take a look at some of the common causes, symptoms and types of fever.
Causes, types, symptoms and treatment for fever - MyMed.com
17. Convert -37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit - CalculateMe.com
• What is minus 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? How cold is minus 37.5 degrees Celsius? 37.5° below zero from C to F.. This page will convert temperature from ...
• What is minus 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? How cold is minus 37.5 degrees Celsius? 37.5° below zero from C to F.. This page will convert temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
18. Convert 37.5 Celsius to Fahrenheit - CalculateMe.com
• Conversion Formula ; 37.77, 99.986 ; 37.78, 100.004 ; 37.79, 100.022 ; 37.80, 100.040.
• What is 37.5 Celsius in Fahrenheit? How hot is 37.5 degrees Celsius? Translate 37.5° from C to F.. This page will convert temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
19. Fever Symptoms & Causes - Cleveland Clinic
• May 31, 2023 · Overview · What is considered a fever? Common knowledge states that a “normal” body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius).
• A fever is when your body temperature rises higher than normal. Learn more about fevers including what providers consider a real fever.
Fever Symptoms & Causes - Cleveland Clinic
20. What temperature is considered a fever? - Drugs.com
• Jan 28, 2022 · An elevated body temperature is between 37.5°C and 38°C (99.5°F to 100.4°F). A fever is 38°C to 39.5°C (100.4°F to 103.1°F). A high fever is ...
• Official answer: A fever is defined as a body temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) or higher. Normal body temperature is usually...
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Connection to state parks?
It would be better to explain the relationship between the river and the listed state parks, rather than just listing them under "See also" and leaving it for the reader to guess. For example, does the river flow through or along them?--BillFlis 11:54, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
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Mirror of Apache Airavata Django Portal
Clone this repo:
1. 0870a6b Merge branch 'staging' by Marcus Christie · 4 weeks ago master
2. b20d047 fix typo by Marcus Christie · 4 weeks ago staging
3. d2fca49 Option to add Nav Extra links to main menu dropdown by Marcus Christie · 5 weeks ago
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Apache Airavata Django Portal
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The Airavata Django Portal is a web interface to the Apache Airavata API implemented using the Django web framework. The intention is that the Airavata Django Portal can be used as is for a full featured web based science gateway but it can also be customized through various plugins to add more domain specific functionality as needed.
Getting Started
The following steps will help you quickly get started with running the Airavata Django Portal locally. This will allow you to try it out and can also be used as a development environment. If you just want to run the Airavata Django Portal locally, see the Docker instructions below for a more simplified approach.
The Airavata Django Portal works with Python versions 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. You'll need one of these versions installed locally.
You'll also need Node.js and yarn to build the JavaScript frontend code. Please install the most recent LTS version of Node.js. You can also use nvm to manage the Node.js install. If you have nvm installed you can run nvm install && nvm use before running any yarn commands. See the Yarn package manager for information on how to install yarn.
1. Checkout this project and create a virtual environment.
git clone https://github.com/apache/airavata-django-portal.git
cd airavata-django-portal
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
• macOS note: to install the MySQL dependencies you need to have the MySQL development headers and libraries installed. Also, on macOS you need to have openssl installed. See the mysqlclient-python installation notes for more details.
2. Create a local settings file. Copy django_airavata/settings_local.py.sample to django_airavata/settings_local.py and edit the contents to match your Keycloak and Airavata server deployments.
cp django_airavata/settings_local.py.sample django_airavata/settings_local.py
3. Run Django migrations
python manage.py migrate
4. Build the JavaScript sources. There are a few JavaScript packages in the source tree, colocated with the Django apps in which they are used. The build_js.sh script will build them all.
./build_js.sh
5. Load the default Wagtail CMS pages.
python manage.py load_cms_data new_default_theme
6. Run the server
python manage.py runserver
• Note: if you want to use OpenID Connect authentication from the Django Portal when running it locally, you'll need to first set the following environment to allow OAuth over insecure HTTP:
```
export OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1
```
7. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000.
Docker instructions
To run the Django Portal as a Docker container, you need a settings_local.py file which you can create from the settings_local.py.sample file. Then run the following:
1. Build the Docker image.
docker build -t airavata-django-portal .
2. Run the Docker container.
docker run -d \
-v /path/to/my/settings_local.py:/code/django_airavata/settings_local.py \
-p 8000:8000 airavata-django-portal
3. Load an initial set of Wagtail pages (theme). You only need to do this when starting the container for the first time.
docker exec CONTAINER_ID python manage.py load_cms_data new_default_theme
4. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000.
Documentation
Documentation currently is available at https://apache-airavata-django-portal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (built from the ‘docs’ directory).
To build the documentation locally, first set up a development environment, then run the following in the root of the project:
mkdocs serve
Feedback
Please send feedback to the mailing list at dev@airavata.apache.org. If you encounter bugs or would like to request a new feature you can do so in the Airavata Jira project (just select the Django Portal component when you make your issue).
Customization
See the Customization Guide in the documentation for information on how to customize the Airavata Django Portal user interface. To get started we recommend going through the Gateways Tutorial. This tutorial covers the different ways that the user interface can be customized.
Contributing
For general information on how to contribute, please see the Get Involved section of the Apache Airavata website.
Setting up development environment
Run pip install -r requirements-dev.txt to install development and testing libraries.
Use a code editor that integrates with editorconfig and flake8. I also recommend autopep8 for automatically formatting code to follow the PEP8 guidelines. Prettier is used for formatting JavaScript and Vue.js code.
See the docs for more information on developing the backend and frontend code.
Running Django Tests
Run ./runtests.py to run the Django unit tests.
License
The Apache Airavata Django Portal is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information see the LICENSE file.
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What Is Smiling Depression?
When people think of depression, they often think of someone who sleeps all day, isolates themselves, lacks interest in daily activities, etc. Most people would be surprised to hear about a form of depression referred to as “smiling depression.” This is when people appear to be happy and functioning normally in society, but they are masking symptoms of depression.
The key image that represents this disorder is wearing a “mask.” A mask that is smiling and interacting while the person is hurting inside. People with smiling depression can be hard to diagnose because their symptoms are so hidden. They can also be more prone to suicide as they are used to taking action despite the depression.
High-Functioning Depression
You may have heard of a “high-functioning alcoholic.” This is someone who can still maintain many of the expectations of society despite their substance abuse disorder. High-functioning depression acts in much the same way. The person who is affected can still function in society but is hiding their disorder underneath the surface. They may have jobs, a circle of friends, and engage in social activities.
If you’re expecting to find someone who physically looks sad and displays many of the characteristics of depression, such as lethargy and fatigue, think again. When someone is suffering from smiling depression, even their closest friends are unaware of what’s going on internally. This is one of the reasons that people with smiling depression are at such a high risk. No one even suspects that they need help or intervention to manage their symptoms, and they can quickly escalate out of control.
Higher Suicide Risk
People with high functioning depression often have a higher risk of committing suicide. Not only are their symptoms masked, and friends and family don’t see they need to intervene, but they have learned to follow through with things in their life despite the depression.
According to a 2014 article on “The Secret Pain of ‘Smiling Depression’” in Psychology Today, many people who are depressed may have suicidal ideation, but they are so depressed that they fail to act on those thoughts. Not so much in the case of smiling depression. The combination of masked symptoms with suicidal ideation makes them a higher risk than conventional depression. Most people can think of an instance when someone they knew or celebrities have committed suicide, and everyone was shocked because they seemed so happy. That’s a classic case of smiling depression.
What Are the Symptoms?
While someone with high-functioning depression will usually try to mask it, you may suddenly notice that they are sleeping a lot more and taking naps during the day. Conversely, they may show insomnia. Their appetite may change; they eat too much or too little, and, as a result, you may see marked changes in their weight in a short time. They may also experience elevated anxiety or panic attacks.
Some symptoms are a little more subtle, such as irritability, indecision, isolation, a lack of interest in any of the activities they previously enjoyed, and excessive mood swings. They may begin to abuse substances to try to self-medicate to feel better. Whenever there is a significant change in the status quo for a person, there is usually something going on or something wrong that triggers it. It may be a one-time traumatic event, but it could also signal the long-lasting effects of depression.
Taking Action
It can be difficult to confront someone with smiling depression because they will likely deny that there is anything wrong. They may not even realize it themselves. As uncomfortable as it may be, ensuring that someone is not suffering in silence can range from helping their emotional state to saving their life.
People who suffer from smiling depression are often overachievers or perfectionists, and they don’t want to let anyone know they are “failing” from their perspective. They want to try to handle the problem themselves, especially if they broached the subject and it was brushed aside in the past. They may not want to be a burden on other people as they see it.
What if You are Suffering From Smiling Depression?
If the person who needs help is you, you need to reach out to friends and family or even a professional. You may think you can–and should–handle this burden yourself, but nothing could be further from the truth. You only need to reach out to one person you trust and let them know what’s really behind the smiling mask that you’re wearing. There are many treatments for depression, and you don’t have to suffer alone. It’s time to let the burden go or find some help, so you don’t have to carry it all on your shoulders.
“Smiling depression” can be difficult to treat and even harder to diagnose. People suffering from this condition have developed ways to master depression so that family and friends often have no idea of the sadness lurking behind their smiles. They appear happy and may have jobs, friends, and what appears to be a normal life, but are suffering from depression in silence and alone. They are also more at risk for suicidal ideation. At Everlast Recovery Centers, we treat mental health issues as well as substance abuse disorders. At our Riverside, California campus, you will feel at home with our professional staff and home-cooked meals. We can help through counseling and progressive therapies such as our art and equine therapy. We also offer yoga to find your inner balance and hikes in nature. You don’t have to suffer behind with depression alone. We can help. Call us at (866) 338-6925.
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PHP Question
How to auto fill date after selecting current date and number of years
I have 2 text fields and 1 drop down box, if I have selected date in first text box after that I have to select number of year from drop down.
So how can I auto fill the next date in second text box of that selected no of year from drop down.
this is text box code
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-addon"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-tent"></i></span>
<input type="text" name="purchese_date" id="tbDate" class="pwaf form-control" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['purchese_date']) ? $_POST['purchese_date'] : '' ?>" placeholder="Enter Purchese Date eg:dd/mm/yyyy"/>
</div>
<br/>
<div class="form-group">
<select class="form-control pwafs" name="year">
<option value="#">- Select Year-</option>
<option value="1"> 1</option>
<option value="2"> 2</option>
<option value="3"> 3</option>
<option value="4"> 4</option>
<option value="5"> 5</option>
<option value="6"> 6</option>
<option value="7"> 7</option>
<option value="8"> 8</option>
<option value="9"> 9</option>
<option value="10"> 10</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-addon"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-blackboard"></i></span>
<input type="text" name="renual_date" id="tbDate" class="form-control pwafr" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['renual_date']) ? $_POST['renual_date'] : '' ?>" placeholder="Enter Renual Date eg:dd/mm/yyyy"/>
</div>
<br/>
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-addon"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-th-list"></i></span>
<input type="text" name="customer_id" id="tbDate" class="form-control" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['customer_id']) ? $_POST['customer_id'] : '' ?>" placeholder="Enter Customer Id"/>
</div>
<br/>
this is php code
<?php
$domains = new domains;
if (isset($_POST['add-domain'])) {
//print_r($_POST['email']);
//exit;
$errors = $domains->validate_domains_members();
if (count($errors)) {
$emsg = $errors;
$eclass = "alert-danger";
} else {
if ($domains->save($domains->table, $_POST)) {
unset($_POST);
$emsg = "User Added Successfully";
$eclass = "alert-success";
}
}
}
?>
<?php if (isset($emsg)) { ?>
<div class="alert <?php echo $eclass; ?>"><?php echo $emsg; ?></div>
<?php } ?>
Answer Source
try this
$(".pwafs").change(function(){
//alert("ok");
//alert($(".pwaf").val());
var date = $(".pwaf").val();
var year = date.replace("/", "");
var year2 = year.replace("/", "");
var year3 = year2.substring(4, year2);
var add = +year3 + +$(this).val();
var final = date.slice(0,-4);
//alert(final+add);
$(".pwafr").val(final+add);
})
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Davitt McAteer
J. Davitt McAteer is an American lawyer, author, and activist from Fairmont, West Virginia. McAteer was appointed to the position of assistant secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration from 1993 to 2000 under President Bill Clinton. Throughout his career, McAteer has been an advocate for safe working conditions for miners, particularly in the coal industry. After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, where an explosion caused by negligence led to the death of 29 miners, McAteer Served on Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's independent investigation panel to determine the cause of the explosion. McAteer is the author of "Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster".
1966 - 1970
While in law school McAteer conducted a study on the safety of West Virginia mines after the Farmington Mine disaster on November 1968. The findings of his study led to the first Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. This Act led to the creation of MSHA and also provided compensation to miners completely disabled by black lung disease. The findings of the study were also published under the name "Coal Mine Health and Safety: The Case of West Virginia"
1972 - 1983
In 1972 McAteer greatly improved the United Mine Workers Association's health and safety programs by improving the training of safety investigators. In 1976 McAteer joined the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. where he played a major role in developing two mining laws, an expanded mine health and safety law and also a federal strip mining control law. He was a part of the Center for Law and Social Policy until 1983.
1984 - 1993
After leaving the Center for Law and Social Policy McAteer went on to create the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center. The Occupational and Health Law Center is a law firm located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and deals with training and analysis of workplace health and safety issues.
1994 - 2000
McAteer served as the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center until 1993 when he was appointed as the assistant secretary for the Mine Health and Safety Administration (MSHA). During his term as the assistant secretary McAteer played a major role in the administration of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. When he was assistant secretary he mainly focused on changing MSHA regulations on coal dust to eliminate black lung disease. One of the ways he did this was revoking a system where exposure to coal mine dust was calculated using the average of multiple samples. He also was the Solicitor for the Department of Labor in 1996 and 1997.
2001 - present
In 2001 McAteer joined the Benefits Review Board of the U.S Department of Labor. The Benefits Review Board makes decisions in appeals of the administrative law judges under the Black Lung Benefits Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act. In 2005 McAteer was named the Vice President for Special Programs at Wheeling Jesuit University, the University he graduated from in 1966. Mcateer was responsible for overseeing programs that receive federal funding. During the time he was Vice President McAteer also led the investigation into the Upper Big Branch, Sago and Aracoma/Alma No. 1 mine disasters. The Upper Big Branch explosion was responsible for killing 29 coal mine workers and his report concludes it was caused by the neglect of safety regulations.
Legacy
McAteer's publications include “Miner’s Manual: A Complete Guide to Health and Safety Protection on the Job”, which have sold more than 25,000 copies. McAteer has also directed and produced a video named “Monongah 1907”, and also wrote a book about the same mining disaster. He is known for leading the investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, which occurred in 2010. McAteer has been a visiting lecturer at his alma mater West Virginia University School of Law.
Publications
* Monongah the Tragic Story of the Worst Industrial Accident in US History. West Virginia University Press, 2007.
* Coal Mine Health and Safety; the Case of West Virginia. Praeger, 1973.
* Textile Health and Safety Manual: a Complete Guide to Health and Safety Protection on the Job. Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, 1986.
* How to Use Your Right to Know Chemical Hazards: a Guide to the New Hazard Communication Standards. Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, 1986.
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dismal tone. I was rather enjoying them. I always like things like fireworks—bright and fizzy and beautiful and not too long. 'To Delhi,' he said, and positively groaned about it. 'To Delhi in general and to the fireworks in particular.' 'You can't think why you came to Delhi?' I repeated, looking at him to see if he really were serious. He certainly was original. Everybody I had met hitherto had been lauding everything up to the skies. Sir Peter Tweet was the first man I had met who didn't know why he had come. He turned and looked at me solemnly. 'It ought never to have been allowed,' he said ponderously, as if he were delivering judgment. 'It ought never to have been allowed. It's a positive danger to human life.' 'Which?' I exclaimed, 'the Durbar or the fireworks?' He had such a weighty manner with him that anybody imaginative like me began to feel danger to human life hovering about in the air all round one straight away. He waved his hand over the Champs de Mars. 'Could anything be more dangerous than that?' he asked impressively, 'or than this?' waving his hand over the orderly, highly respectable crowd of spectators in the Jumma Musjid. A huge rocket went off with a whizz that positively made me start.
'But why?' I exclaimed, battling against the growing conviction that somehow it must be very dangerous if Sir Peter Tweet said it was. If the Government of India listened to his words with
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Fill histogram with values and their uncertainities
Is there any function of Histogram in root to fill it with values and their uncertainties?
Like I want to plot these values on y axis : 0.44519 ± 0.00054353 , 0.77636 ± 0.0014048 etc.
Hi,
To plot data points with their errors, you can use the TH1 or TGraphErrors class.
Here is an example using two data points, that you can easily extend to more.
Note that I have increase your error for plotting purpose. In your case they are too small and they will not be visible.
{
std::vector<double>y = {0.44519, 0.77636};
std::vector<double> ey = { 0.05 , 0.01};
int n = y.size();
auto h = new TH1D("h","Data Points with errors",n, 0, double(n));
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
h->SetBinContent(i+1, y[i]);
h->SetBinError(i+1, ey[i]);
}
h->SetMarkerStyle(20);
h->Draw("EX0");
}
Ok, thank you.
Now if i want to input data from a file which contains :
x y ey
0.5 0.44519 0.00054353
0.6 0.56459 0.0054027 … (16 lines total)
I dont get a desired histogram where I want ‘x’ values on the x axis and error bars with ‘y’ on the yaxis.
How can I modify this code :
double x, y,ey;
fstream file;
string line;
file.open("pmean",ios::in);
auto h = new TH2D("h","Data Points with errors",16, 0., 16.0,15,0.,15.);
for(int i=0;i<16;i++) {
file >> x >> y >> ey;
h->Fill(x,y);
h->SetBinContent(i+2, y);
h->SetBinError(i+1, ey);
}
h->SetMarkerStyle(20);
h->Draw("EXO");
file.close();
You better use TGraphErrors with this constructor I guess.
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Talk:2015 Sousse attacks
Title
Someone please move this to the plural as 2 hotels were attacked.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:23, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Location of attacks
As a frequent visitor to Sousse in past years, I have altered this article to explain the location of the hotels attacked. They are not situated in the city of Sousse itself, but in the tourist development zone which has been built at Port El Kantaoui. As the existing article on Port El Kantaoui makes clear, the complex is situated about ten kilometres north of the centre of Sousse, and is not within the city of Sousse itself. As frequently is the case, the initial media reports are inaccurate in this regard! Rif Winfield (talk) 07:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
* As Port El Kantaoui is not located within the city limits of Sousse, the article should be moved to 2015 Port El Kantaoui attacks. Regards, Dionysos1988 (talk) 10:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
* Port El Kantaoui is just the suburb of Sousse so we can define the article with Sousse, which is the main city.Wykx (talk) 10:19, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Can someone clarify if the deceased and wounded were actually from two separate hotels? The article implies the attack was only at the RIU Hotel Imperial Marhaba A64ford (talk) 11:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes ... separate hotels. Although the hotels have their own separate private grounds leading to the beach, the beach itself is - well - a beach, i.e. not divided. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:12, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Sourced changes removed
Some sources changes were unilaterally removed twice https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2015_Sousse_attacks&diff=668902888&oldid=668902362. I have restored them.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:33, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Citation clutter
In case any new editors aren't aware, the first sentence has about 8 citations behind it, which is an obvious example of WP:Citation clutter, something we try to avoid. I don't have the time to fix it now, but perhaps a newer editor will learn this from this message. Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 18:01, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
* Why is this not on the In The News template on the main page? Surely the mass murder of 38 people and the corresponding attacks in France and Kuwait are newsworthy for this website. BrayLockBoy (talk) 22:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, there are far too many citations, some of which are less reliable sources, e.g. Daily Mail and Mirror. Danrok (talk) 10:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Two gunmen?
This seems to be nothing more than speculation, as far as I can see there is only one confirmed gunman. Please bear in mind that Wikipedia is not a newspaper. We should not state speculation as if it were fact. It is best to simply wait until the situation is more clear, there is no need to write a running commentary of events as they happen. Danrok (talk) 10:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you and good point. A64ford (talk) 11:39, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Related deletion discussion
Please see this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 16:49, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Sousse attack in 2013
Have read in various sources about a previous attack at Sousse in October 2013. Could this be included in the Background section? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:23, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
17 Unknown victims?
How is that possible? Article makes a big show that British were specifically victims, but no effort made into the unknown 17 victims? Not even an idea of citizenship? What - random people with no ID or history were roaming around?
-G — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:48, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
* Given that most victims were wearing only swimming costumes, identification must be based on dental and medical records. This takes time. Do you have a better solution? WWGB (talk) 00:24, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
* The Russian foreign Ministry confirmed the death of Russian woman http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/54AE0882A55EF58B43257E73005AA5C5 Stasyan117 (talk) 14:56, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
* Certainly if more people could read foreign languages sources, we could find out more and make it more balanced. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:38, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Inconsistency?
* British death toll from Tunisia attack rises to 29 (Reuters 1 July 2015) —Pietadè (talk) 20:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
former professional footballer?
"Among the fatalities was Denis Thwaites, a former professional footballer for Birmingham City, and his wife, Elaine.[34] 39 others were wounded.[17][35][36][37]" Why is this relevant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:45, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
* Because he is notable (and has a Wikipedia article). The others are not/do not. WWGB (talk) 01:02, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Soulkeeper
Soulkeeper is a Sci Fi Pictures original TV-movie that premiered October 13, 2001 on the Sci Fi Channel.
Synopsis
After stealing Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat from a Civil War reenactment and then being subsequently dumped by their unseen boss "Mr M", thieves Corey Mahoney (Rodney Rowland) and Terrence Christian (Kevin Patrick Walls) are at a loss until they are hired by the mysterious Pascal (Brad Dourif). His proposition is for them to acquire the Rock of Lazarus, an ancient relic capable of returning souls back to Earth. In return for this, he guarantees $8,000 up front and $100,000 when the job is done. However, troubles soon arise as they encounter demons and Simon Magus, an evil sorcerer believing he is the son of God.
Cast
* Rodney Rowland as Corey Mahoney
* Kevin Patrick Walls as Terrence Christian
* Robert Davi as Mallion
* Tommy "Tiny" Lister as Chad
* Brad Dourif as Pascal
* Karen Black as Martha "Magnificent Martha"
* William Bassett as Old Bum
* Michael Ironside as voice of Mr. M (uncredited)
Production
Blur Studio produced more than 100 digital visual-effects scenes and several 3D computer-animated characters for the telefilm.
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What Does It Mean to Be an Artist and a Mother?
Notes on the Culture A new retrospective reveals the extent of Ree Morton’s brief career, and the agonizing decision women of her era had to make between their children and their work. IN THE FALL of 1976, the artist Ree Morton, then 40 years old, drafted an application for a Guggenheim Fellowship. She opened the submission with a condensed autobiography. “My career probably began at the age of 3, when I took up watching ant hills and protecting lady bugs,” she wrote. “This caused a long interruption in my artistic progress, because my family read it as an interest in science and directed me to nursing.” Here there is a paragraph break, and on one copy of the document, a faint wrinkle. Morton continued, “As soon as I realized the mistake, I started studying art, but it was already 1965, and I had a naval officer husband, three children and a house in a middle-class neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia.” She summarized her life story, with a winking ironic detachment, as a “feminist classic” and then went on to list some of her accomplishments: “I got a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. I learned to use power tools and to know the difference between needing help and just thinking I did. I got a teaching job in Philadelphia. I moved to a loft in N.Y.C. I learned to take myself seriously. I learned not to take myself THAT seriously. I did some good work, got some shows and some reviews. Not bad, for a girl.” Attached to Morton’s application materials was a checklist of past works. One described an installation, each wall of the gallery painted a different pastel color or wallpapered, covered with flashing lights and hung with arc-shaped sculptures made from Celastic, a plasticized fabric with which she often worked. Another piece, called “Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow,” consists of a blue canvas painted with clouds; three strange, dark flowerlike forms appear to pin up pink banners, which, when read together, make up the work’s title. Her iconography was composed of the very clichés — bright, almost childlike colors; the presence of playground objects like seesaws — that critics might have used to condemn her, as they were those associated with a wife and mother, already into her 30s, who had domestic duties and a parochial life. Present in the selection of pieces are many of Morton’s sentimental, décor-oriented, performatively feminine motifs — bows; ruffles; wallpaper; flowers; fairy-tale-looking flags; loopy, girlish cursive lettering — which collectively one critic would later refer to as “Emily Dickinson in love with Raymond Roussel.” When she prepared the application, Morton had been making artwork for less than a decade, and a few months later, she would be dead. In the 41 years since, Morton — who once described her own artistic ambitions as “light and ironic on serious subjects without frivolity” — has become something of an obsession within the art world. There are neither monographs devoted to her nor a catalogue raisonné; the few public photographs of Morton show her smiling, and the work — colorful, whimsical — has a similar warmth to it, a savvy but noncynical charm. The sculptor Rachel Harrison is an admirer, and many pieces by Robert Gober are reminiscent of Morton’s multimedia works; young artists including Alex Da Corte have cited her as an influence. It is difficult to look at Morton’s installations and paintings and sculptures, to see them mounted in exhibitions (she has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney, among many other places), to notice her name mentioned alongside famous feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Martha Rosler and not wonder what would have come had she been permitted to keep living. “She is now a member of that tragic sisterhood of artists in the 1970s who proved themselves but were never allowed the joy of building on their accomplishments,” the critic Lucy Lippard wrote in 2009, comparing her to other artists of the same era — like Eva Hesse, Suzanne Harris and Ana Mendieta — whose lives were cut short by illness, bad health or worse. In the span of her nine-year career, Morton, whose first major American retrospective in nearly 40 years opens this month at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, had work shown at the Whitney, the Corcoran and the Aldrich. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; taught or lectured at many colleges across the country; forged friendships with Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum (the venue for Morton’s last American retrospective, in 1980) and the artist Laurie Anderson; and exhibited alongside the likes of Sol LeWitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Lynda Benglis and Joseph Cornell. “It was a career of extreme productivity,” Ted Bonin, a partner at Alexander and Bonin gallery in New York, which has represented the artist’s estate since 1993, told me. “The amount of work she made in 1974 alone would be like a decade for another artist. You get the sense that she was trying to play catch-up. Whenever we mount a show of Ree’s work, people come in, and if they aren’t already aware of her, they assume she’s a young artist. She didn’t live long enough to get jaded or for the work to ‘mature.’ ” The work, he said, “all looks like it’s in a forever state of formation.” Considered an early practitioner of installation art and a bridge between the austerity of Minimalism in the 1970s and the more robust and eccentric art of the 1980s, Morton has often been read as similar to a great poet who died before being able to write her masterpiece. She was barely 20 when she married a naval officer, whose work kept her displaced, and she had three children by the age of 25. Living near a base in Jacksonville, Fla., she saw a television commercial for free art classes at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, which set her on a path toward becoming an artist. But like so many women, especially in 1960s America, she had to choose between her family and her career. The conflict appears archetypal to us now, and while it might be tempting to view lives like Morton’s as somehow representative of a bygone era, the private struggles it entailed are omnipresent still. The relationship between being a mother and an artist — and the question of whether one can be simultaneously good at both — has become a kind of national preoccupation, spawning a whole new literary canon. In just the past few months, autobiographical books on the subject by Sheila Heti and Meaghan O’Connell were published, along with a book-length essay by Jacqueline Rose. Other contemporary practitioners of the genre include Elisa Albert, Maggie Nelson, Rachel Cusk, Sarah Ruhl, Diablo Cody, Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante. If Morton has long been considered an obscure, lost talent, she now seems more like a quintessential artist of her era, a symbol of all the ways women have been willfully relegated to the periphery, forced into domestic situations and restless to be recognized for something greater than themselves. LIKE THE PAPIER-MÂCHÉ school projects of children — toiled on for weeks, forgotten and then rediscovered in the family attic 30 years later — Morton’s works are ritualistic, delightful and literal in their influences. Unlike, say, Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton — who were torn between family and work, and whose art was inspired by this tension — Morton did not suffer from debilitating mental illness and did not seem to have a tortured life at home: It was the sheer banality of domesticity that seemed to drive her from it. Regardless of medium, her art appears obviously handmade, and it’s impossible to look at it and not imagine, if only for a moment, Morton herself forging it — perhaps while wondering what time she should pick up her kids, or whether they were out of milk. Her strange, friendly-looking pieces are evidence of a life lived not just in the mind or in the studio but among other people. Having come to the conclusion that she was “totally unsuited” to nursing, Morton dropped out of school and married in 1956. Around 1966, she began taking evening classes at the University of Rhode Island; two years later, at the age of 32, she and her husband separated — they would later divorce — and Morton moved with her children to Pennsylvania, where she got an M.F.A. She worked for years without a dedicated studio, constructing sculptures in suburban basements and behind washer-dryer units. “I still wasn’t able to call myself an artist,” she recalled in a 1974 interview. “I was a mother, I had children, I had a family to take care of.” She went on to talk about how her teachers in art school would talk often about “being committed to your work.” That word — “commitment” — had, as Morton said, “a lot of implications that I couldn’t accept.” Some of Morton’s personal writings — including two notebooks labeled “do not read” — were destroyed by her friends and family after her death, but a series of sketchbooks, maintained between 1968 and 1977 and in the past shown as artworks themselves, are now archived at the Museum of Modern Art. They contain sketches for sculptures, lines copied down from books she was reading (Wittgenstein, Victorian field guides), notes to herself and private treatises. One widely reproduced entry lists, in two vertical columns, Morton’s enthusiasms and antipathies. Her “likes” include Byzantine mosaics, Roman villa murals, Sumerian idols and good liars; among her “hates” are Abstract Expressionism, Greek Hellenistic sculpture, Stephen Greene and good taste. But the notebooks also contain, intermittently but often, the scribbles of a harried, logistically minded mother: reminders about bills and birthdays. On the right-hand page of a spread from 1976, Morton wrote of her desire to “do work which has as its impetus the influences and working processes of the major 20th-century art movements. To do this work with the intention not of simulating the finished products of those historical movements but to confront the art ideas and problems of those times as directly as possible.” On the left-hand page, in identical script, she writes: “milk, juice, bread, cottage cheese, can fruit, tuna, veg soup — onion soup, noodles, hamburger, cookies, soda.” What is left of her notebooks reveals a woman cleaved. The documents suggest that perhaps “emotional labor,” that newly fashionable sociological term used to designate all the ways in which women are forced to internalize other people’s feelings at home and at work, might be a bit of a misnomer. “Cognitive labor” is more accurate. “She seemed like what she was at that time, a harassed housewife,” the art critic Peter Schjeldahl recalled of his first meeting with Morton, in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. “I got the impression of a woman who had spent a lot of years maintaining a lot of lists in her mind.” Nonetheless, he was impressed. “She pulled these notched wooden pieces of work out of her pocket,” he recalled. “The whole thing seemed quite magical.” Schjeldahl admitted to developing a crush on Morton like a lot of people did. “She had great manners; she smiled a lot. I want to say she was shy, but that isn’t quite right. She was reticent, self-possessed and cautious. She was grown up when none of the rest of us were. That’s why we were in the art world in a sense. But she was the adult in the room.” When Morton moved to New York, in 1972, her children went to Virginia to live with their father. Sally, Morton’s middle child, now 57, was 11 at the time, and she told me that she remembers an incident in which someone expressed shock that a woman would give up care of her children. “I think that for her art, it was the perfect thing for her to do, but that as a mother she found it difficult,” she said. “I know she felt guilty and torn,” Linda, Morton’s oldest daughter, who is now 61, told me. She never gave up on the desire to have her children back with her. “Over the years, when she would talk about moving closer, we would discourage it because we saw how happy she was.” (Morton’s youngest child, Scott, is 56.) Cynthia Carlson, an artist who was one of Morton’s best friends, also recalled a snide sense of disapproval surrounding Morton’s decision to trade suburban family life for a child-free loft on Waverly Place. She got a lot of trouble “from a lot of people, from in and out of the art world,” Carlson told an art historian in 2013. “I of course thought it was great,” she said. “But Ree was definitely always divided in her emotions and attention. She wondered in her journals if it was really such a good thing to be an artist.” Sally said that growing up she “didn’t have a sense that my mom was doing anything life-changing.” When you’re a child, she explained, “you only care about what’s happening in your own life.” But now, when she thinks about her mother’s choices, she’s overcome with pride and awe. “It’s almost mind-blowing,” she said. “I’ve always felt that what she did was unusual and marvelous. It’s wonderful and sad at the same time. There’s just this huge sense of loss that’s part of all of this. For me anyway, it’s always present and became more so after I had children of my own.” THE NINE YEARS Morton spent as an artist are represented at the ICA retrospective, called “Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison,” which includes more than 40 works. Missing, however, is any reference to the fraught relationship between Morton’s private life and her work. This was deliberate, according to Kate Kraczon, the exhibition’s curator, who told me that Morton’s children are mentioned in the wall text, but her divorce and custody are not. “When you bring the biography to bear on the legacy of women artists,” she said, “so often it becomes pejorative.” It’s true that in the context of a stifled life, a woman’s work can look smaller than it otherwise might, but not always. It can also look braver, more improbable, more political — just by the fact of its existence. Kraczon explained how viewers have a “morbid fascination” with artists and motherhood, and what it means when mothers choose their work over their children. “We want to punish women who make these choices,” she said. “I do feel like retroactively Ree has been punished, in a certain sense.” She paused, unsure if that was quite what she meant. “I find myself tripping over my words, because we don’t really have the language to address motherhood when we’re talking about women who make art,” she said. “It’s so obvious, it’s hardly worth saying, but were we talking about a male artist we wouldn’t be worrying about mentioning children or divorce — we might not even mention his family at all. Is it a disservice to bring in biographical information into an introductory reading of Morton’s work? I don’t know. It’s something I’ve struggled with.” Whether it imperils her legacy or not, Morton’s own life story has, like the work itself, a kind of undeniable charisma. Who hasn’t contemplated altering, radically and beyond recognition, the very conditions of their existence? Leaving everything, moving away, trading — suddenly and forever — one’s old self-description for something new. For those among us who in too many moments find ourselves unbecomingly obsessed with time and life’s lack of it, Morton’s biography reads like a case study in the benefits of deciding to disregard the sunk costs that accrue through merely living. In April 1977, Morton was living in Chicago. She had moved there to become a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “Manipulations of the Organic,” a series of 14 acrylic paintings accompanied by a text by Louis Sullivan — what was to be her final body of work — was to go on view at a local gallery. The day before the opening, she was seriously injured in a car accident, fell into a coma and died later in the month, while the show was still up. Her death received a brief notice in The Times, which mentions her three children as her survivors. Otherwise, the incident went largely unremarked upon by the press. Just a few months earlier, she had called Carlson on the phone, newly energized and excited about her work. “Now it’s time to really get serious,” she said.
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Derivations for Adding Variables
All ADaMs
derive_var_extreme_flag()
Add a Variable Flagging the First or Last Observation Within Each By Group
derive_var_joined_exist_flag()
Derives a Flag Based on an Existing Flag
derive_var_merged_exist_flag()
Merge an Existence Flag
derive_var_merged_summary()
Merge a Summary Variable
derive_var_obs_number()
Adds a Variable Numbering the Observations Within Each By Group
derive_var_relative_flag()
Flag Observations Before or After a Condition is Fulfilled
derive_var_trtdurd()
Derive Total Treatment Duration (Days)
derive_vars_dt()
Derive/Impute a Date from a Date Character Vector
derive_vars_dtm()
Derive/Impute a Datetime from a Date Character Vector
derive_vars_dtm_to_dt()
Derive Date Variables from Datetime Variables
derive_vars_dtm_to_tm()
Derive Time Variables from Datetime Variables
derive_vars_duration()
Derive Duration
derive_vars_dy()
Derive Relative Day Variables
derive_vars_joined()
Add Variables from an Additional Dataset Based on Conditions from Both Datasets
derive_vars_merged()
Add New Variable(s) to the Input Dataset Based on Variables from Another Dataset
derive_vars_merged_lookup()
Merge Lookup Table with Source Dataset
derive_vars_transposed()
Derive Variables by Transposing and Merging a Second Dataset
get_summary_records()
Create Summary Records
ADSL-specific
Derivation functions helpful for building the ADSL dataset
derive_var_age_years()
Derive Age in Years
derive_var_dthcaus()
Derive Death Cause
derive_var_extreme_dt()
Derive First or Last Date from Multiple Sources
derive_var_extreme_dtm()
Derive First or Last Datetime from Multiple Sources
derive_vars_aage()
Derive Analysis Age
derive_vars_period()
Add Subperiod, Period, or Phase Variables to ADSL
BDS-specific
Derivation functions helpful for building the BDS datasets (e.g. advs, adlb, adeg, adex)
derive_basetype_records()
Derive Basetype Variable
derive_var_analysis_ratio()
Derive Ratio Variable
derive_var_anrind()
Derive Reference Range Indicator
derive_var_atoxgr()
Derive Lab High toxicity Grade 0 - 4 and Low Toxicity Grades 0 - (-4)
derive_var_atoxgr_dir()
Derive Lab Toxicity Grade 0 - 4
derive_var_base()
Derive Baseline Variables
derive_var_chg()
Derive Change from Baseline
derive_var_ontrtfl()
Derive On-Treatment Flag Variable
derive_var_pchg()
Derive Percent Change from Baseline
derive_var_shift()
Derive Shift
OCCDS-specific
Derivation functions helpful for building the OCCDS datasets (e.g. adae, adcm, admh)
derive_var_trtemfl()
Derive Treatment-emergent Flag
derive_vars_atc()
Derive ATC Class Variables
derive_vars_query()
Derive Query Variables
get_terms_from_db()
Get Terms from the Queries Database
Derivations for Adding Parameters/Records
BDS-specific
default_qtc_paramcd()
Get Default Parameter Code for Corrected QT
derive_expected_records()
Derive Expected Records
derive_extreme_event()
Add the Worst or Best Observation for Each By Group as New Records
derive_extreme_records()
Add the First or Last Observation for Each By Group as New Records
derive_locf_records()
Derive LOCF (Last Observation Carried Forward) Records
derive_param_bmi()
Adds a Parameter for BMI
derive_param_bsa()
Adds a Parameter for BSA (Body Surface Area) Using the Specified Method
derive_param_computed()
Adds a Parameter Computed from the Analysis Value of Other Parameters
derive_param_doseint()
Adds a Parameter for Dose Intensity
derive_param_exist_flag()
Add an Existence Flag Parameter
derive_param_exposure()
Add an Aggregated Parameter and Derive the Associated Start and End Dates
derive_param_extreme_record()
Adds a Parameter Based on First or Last Record from Multiple Sources
derive_param_framingham()
Adds a Parameter for Framingham Heart Study Cardiovascular Disease 10-Year Risk Score
derive_param_map()
Adds a Parameter for Mean Arterial Pressure
derive_param_qtc()
Adds a Parameter for Corrected QT (an ECG measurement)
derive_param_rr()
Adds a Parameter for Derived RR (an ECG measurement)
derive_param_wbc_abs()
Add a parameter for lab differentials converted to absolute values
derive_summary_records()
Add New Records Within By Groups Using Aggregation Functions
TTE-specific
derive_param_tte()
Derive a Time-to-Event Parameter
Metadata
Auxiliary datasets providing definitions as input for derivations, e.g. grading criteria or dose frequencies
atoxgr_criteria_ctcv4
Metadata Holding Grading Criteria for NCI-CTCAEv4
atoxgr_criteria_ctcv5
Metadata Holding Grading Criteria for NCI-CTCAEv5
atoxgr_criteria_daids
Metadata Holding Grading Criteria for DAIDs
dose_freq_lookup
Pre-Defined Dose Frequencies
Example Datasets
You can run use_ad_template() to produce additional datasets
admiral_adlb
Lab Analysis Dataset
admiral_adsl
Subject Level Analysis Dataset
ex_single
Single Dose Exposure Dataset
example_qs
Example QS Dataset
queries
Queries Dataset
queries_mh
Queries MH Dataset
Advanced Functions
Admiral Options
get_admiral_option()
Get the Value of an Admiral Option
set_admiral_options()
Set the Value of Admiral Options
Higher Order
call_derivation()
Call a Single Derivation Multiple Times
derivation_slice()
Create a derivation_slice Object
restrict_derivation()
Execute a Derivation on a Subset of the Input Dataset
slice_derivation()
Execute a Derivation with Different Arguments for Subsets of the Input Dataset
Creating Auxiliary Datasets
consolidate_metadata()
Consolidate Multiple Meta Datasets Into a Single One
create_period_dataset()
Create a Reference Dataset for Subperiods, Periods, or Phases
create_query_data()
Creates a queries dataset as input dataset to the dataset_queries argument in derive_vars_query()
create_single_dose_dataset()
Create dataset of single doses
Source Objects
basket_select()
Create a basket_select object
censor_source()
Create a censor_source Object
date_source()
Create a date_source object
dthcaus_source()
Create a dthcaus_source Object
event()
Create a event Object
event_joined()
Create a event_joined Object
event_source()
Create an event_source Object
query()
Create an query object
records_source()
Create a records_source Object
tte_source()
Create a tte_source Object
death_event lastalive_censor ae_event ae_ser_event ae_gr1_event ae_gr2_event ae_gr3_event ae_gr4_event ae_gr5_event ae_gr35_event ae_sev_event ae_wd_event
Pre-Defined Time-to-Event Source Objects
Other
assert_db_requirements()
Check required parameters for a basket
assert_terms()
Asserts Requirements for Terms for Queries
assert_valid_queries()
Verify if a Dataset Has the Required Format as Queries Dataset.
extend_source_datasets()
Add By Groups to All Datasets if Necessary
filter_date_sources()
Select the First or Last Date from Several Sources
format(<basket_select>)
Returns a Character Representation of a basket_select() Object
list_tte_source_objects()
List all tte_source Objects Available in a Package
params()
Create a Set of Parameters
validate_basket_select()
Validate an object is indeed a basket_select object
validate_query()
Validate an object is indeed a query object
Computation Functions for Vectors
All ADaMs
compute_age_years()
Compute Age in Years
compute_dtf()
Derive the Date Imputation Flag
compute_duration()
Compute Duration
compute_tmf()
Derive the Time Imputation Flag
convert_date_to_dtm()
Convert a Date into a Datetime Object
convert_dtc_to_dt()
Convert a Date Character Vector into a Date Object
convert_dtc_to_dtm()
Convert a Date Character Vector into a Datetime Object
impute_dtc_dt()
Impute Partial Date Portion of a '--DTC' Variable
impute_dtc_dtm()
Impute Partial Date(-time) Portion of a '--DTC' Variable
BDS-specific
compute_bmi()
Compute Body Mass Index (BMI)
compute_bsa()
Compute Body Surface Area (BSA)
compute_egfr()
Compute Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) for Kidney Function
compute_framingham()
Compute Framingham Heart Study Cardiovascular Disease 10-Year Risk Score
compute_map()
Compute Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)
compute_qtc()
Compute Corrected QT
compute_qual_imputation()
Function to Impute Values When Qualifier Exists in Character Result
compute_qual_imputation_dec()
Compute Factor for Value Imputations When Character Value Contains < or >
compute_rr()
Compute RR Interval From Heart Rate
compute_scale()
Compute Scale Parameters
Utility Functions
Utilities for Formatting Observations
convert_blanks_to_na()
Convert Blank Strings Into NAs
convert_na_to_blanks()
Convert NAs Into Blank Strings
yn_to_numeric()
Map "Y" and "N" to Numeric Values
Utilities for Dataset Checking
extract_duplicate_records()
Extract Duplicate Records
get_duplicates_dataset()
Get Duplicate Records that Led to a Prior Error
get_many_to_one_dataset()
Get Many to One Values that Led to a Prior Error
get_one_to_many_dataset()
Get One to Many Values that Led to a Prior Error
Utilities used within Derivation Functions
call_user_fun()
Calls a Function Provided by the User
extract_unit()
Extract Unit From Parameter Description
get_not_mapped()
Get list of records not mapped from the lookup table.
signal_duplicate_records()
Signal Duplicate Records
Utilities for Filtering Observations
count_vals()
Count Number of Observations Where a Variable Equals a Value
filter_exist()
Returns records that fit into existing by groups in a filtered source dataset
filter_extreme()
Filter the First or Last Observation for Each By Group
filter_joined()
Filter Observations Taking Other Observations into Account
filter_not_exist()
Returns records that don't fit into existing by groups in a filtered source dataset
filter_relative()
Filter the Observations Before or After a Condition is Fulfilled
max_cond()
Maximum Value on a Subset
min_cond()
Minimum Value on a Subset
Utilities for Quosures
chr2vars()
Turn a Character Vector into a List of Expressions
negate_vars()
Negate List of Variables
Utilities used for Examples and Template Scripts
list_all_templates()
List All Available ADaM Templates
use_ad_template()
Open an ADaM Template Script
Objects exported from other packages
To maximize the user-friendliness of admiral, functions from other packages are provided without changes made to them, follow the links below to see their documentation.
`%>%`
Pipe operator
desc
dplyr desc
exprs
rlang exprs
Deprecated
As admiral is still evolving, functions/parameters may need to be removed or replaced over time. In such cases, the function/parameter will enter the following 6-month deprecation cycle:
• In the first release (0-3 months), there will be a warning issued if you use the function/parameter, but it will still be available to use.
• In the following release (3-6 months), an error will be produced if you use the function/parameter.
• Finally, from the 3rd release (6 months) onwards, the function/parameter will be removed from admiral and its documentation completely.
Note: Guidance on replacement functionality can be found in the warning/error message produced or in the function’s documentation.
Below, you can find a list of functions in the process of being deprecated:
derive_param_extreme_event()
Add an Extreme Event Parameter
derive_var_basetype()
Derive Basetype Variable
derive_var_confirmation_flag()
Derive Confirmation Flag
derive_var_last_dose_amt()
Derive Last Dose Amount
derive_var_last_dose_date()
Derive Last Dose Date-Time
derive_var_last_dose_grp()
Derive Last Dose with User-Defined Groupings
derive_var_merged_cat()
Merge a Categorization Variable
derive_var_merged_character()
Merge a Character Variable
derive_vars_last_dose()
Derive Last Dose
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The quantum Fourier Transform
We are getting closer to the most spectacular early quantum algorithm – Shor’s algorithm for factoring large composite numbers which can be used to break the most widely used public key cryptography systems. But before we can tackle this algorithm, there is one more thing that we need to understand – the quantum Fourier transform.
The discrete Fourier transform
Let us leave the quantum world for a few moments and take a look at a classical area in mathematics – the discrete Fourier transform. To motivate the definition to come, let us for a moment assume that we are observing a time dependent signal, i.e. a function f(t) depending on the time t. Let us also assume that we are interested in processing this signal further, using a digital computer. This will force us to reduce the full signal to a finite number of values, i.e. to a set of values f(0), f(1), …, f(N-1) at N discrete points in time.
Now assume that we wanted to calculate the classical Fourier transform of this function, i.e. the function \hat{f} given by (the exact formula depends on a few conventions)
\hat{f}(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(t) e^{-i x t} dt
If we now replace the function f by the sum of those functions which have value f(i) over a range of length 1, i.e. by its discrete version, this formula turns into
\hat{f}(x) = \sum_{t=0}^{N-1} f(t) e^{-i x t}
Now we could code the discrete values f(0), f(1), .. as a sequence xk of numbers, and we could apply the same process to the Fourier transform and replace it by a sequence Xk of numbers, representing again the values at the discrete points 0, 1, …. The above formula then tells us that these numbers would be given by
X_k = \sum_{j=0}^{N-1} x_j e^{-i j k}
We could now look at this formula as giving us an abstract mapping from the set of sequences of N numbers to itself, provided by (putting in a factor 2 \pi / N )
X_k = \sum_{j=0}^{N-1} x_j e^{- \frac{2\pi i}{N} j k}
This transformation is called the discrete Fourier transform.
There is a different way to look at this which is useful to derive some of the properties of the discrete Fourier transform. For every k, we can build the N-dimensional complex vector u^k with components u^k_n by setting
u^k_n = e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N} k n}
These vectors are mutually orthogonal with respect to the standard hermitian product. In fact, the product of any two of these vectors is given by
(u^k u^{k'})^* = \sum_{j=0}^{N-1} e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N}j(k-k')}
If k = k' , this is clearly N. Otherwise, we can write this as
(u^k u^{k'})^* = \sum_{j=0}^{N-1} q^j
with
q=e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N}(k-k')}
If q is not equal to one, i.e. if k is not equal to k’, then, according to the usual formula for a geometric series, this is equal to
\frac{1-q^{N}}{1-q}
However, this is zero, because q^N = 1 due to the periodicity of the exponential function.
Using this orthogonal basis, we can write the formula for the discrete Fourier transform simply as the hermitian product
X_k = \langle x, u^k \rangle
In particular, the discrete Fourier transform can be seen as the linear transformation that maps the k-th unit vector onto the vector (u^k)^* . By adding a factor 1 / \sqrt{N} , this can be turned into a unitary transformation, i.e. in a certain sense the discrete Fourier transform is simply a rotation. This relation can also be used to easily derive a formula for the inverse of the discrete Fourier transform. In fact, if we expand the vector x into the basis \{u^k\}_k , we obtain
x = \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \langle x, u^k \rangle u^k
and therefore
x_k = \langle x, e_k \rangle = \frac{1}{N} \sum_j \langle x, u^j \rangle \langle u^j, e_k \rangle = \frac{1}{N} \sum_j X_j e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N} jk}
Fourier transforms of a periodic sequence
For what follows, let us adapt and simplify our notation a bit. First, we add a factor 1 / \sqrt{N} to the formula for the Fourier coefficient, so that the Fourier transform is unitary. Second, we use the symbol \eta to denote the N-th root of unity, i.e.
\eta = e^{\frac{2\pi i }{N}}
With this notation, the formula for the Fourier coefficient is then
X_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum_j x_j \eta^{-kj}
and the inverse is given by
x_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum_j X_j \eta^{kj}
Let us now study a special case that is highly relevant for the applications to the factoring of large numbers – the Fourier transform of a periodic sequence. Thus, suppose there is a sequence xk and a number r called the period such that
x_{rs + t} = x_t
for all values of s and t that lead to valid indices. Thus, roughly speaking, after r indices, the values of the sequence repeat themselves. It is also common to reserve the term period for the smallest number with this property. We call the number u = \frac{N}{r} the frequency of the sequence.
Let us now assume that the frequency is a natural number, i.e. that the period divides N, and let us try to understand what this means for the Fourier transform. Using the periodicity, we can write the coefficients as follows.
X_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum_j x_j \eta^{-jk} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum_{s,t} x_{sr + t}\eta^{(-sr+t)k} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} (\sum_s \eta^{-srk})(\sum_t x_t \eta^{-tk})
where s runs from 0 to u-1. We can now write the first of the sums as follows.
\sum_{s=0}^{u-1} \eta^{-srk} = \sum_{s=0}^{u-1} e^{-\frac{2\pi i}{u}s k}
Now this is again a geometric series with q = e^{-\frac{2\pi i}{u}k} ! We can therefore conclude as above that this is zero unless q is one, i.e. unless k is a multiple of the frequency u. Thus we have shown that if the sequence xk is periodic with integral frequency u, then all Fourier coefficients Xk are zero for which k is not a multiple of the frequency.
In the later applications, this fact will be applied in a situation where we know that a sequence is periodic, but the period is unknown. We will then perform a Fourier transformation and inspect the coefficients Xk. We can then conclude that the unknown frequency u must be a common divisor of all those indices k for which Xk is different from zero. This is exactly true if the period divides N, and we will see later that in important cases, it is still approximately true if the period does not divide N.
A quantum algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform
Let us now carry over our considerations to the world of quantum computing. In a quantum computer with n qubits, the Hilbert space of states is N-dimensional with N=2n, and is spanned by the basis |k \rangle . Every vector can be described by the sequence of its coefficients when expanding it into this basis. Consequently, the discrete Fourier transform defines a unitary transformation on the Hilbert by applying the mapping
\sum_k x_k |k \rangle \mapsto \sum_k X_k |k \rangle
Now this is a unitary transformation, and as any such transformation, can be implemented by a quantum circuit. We will not go into details on this, see for instance [1], section 7.8 or section 5.1 of [2] (but be careful, these authors use a different sign convention for the Fourier transform). The important part, however, is that a quantum Fourier transform for N=2n can be realized with O(n2) quantum gates.
In contrast to this, the best known classical algorithms for computing the discrete Fourier transform are commonly known as fast Fourier transform and require O(Nn) steps. Thus it seems that we have again found a quantum algorithm which is substantially faster than its classical counterpart.
Unfortunately, this is not really true, as we have not yet defined our measurement procedure. In fact, if we measure the result of applying a quantum Fourier transform, we destroy the superposition. In addition, the coefficients in which we are interested are the amplitudes of the possible outcomes, and there is no obvious way to measure them – even if we perform the transformation several times and measure over and over again, we only obtain approximations to the probabilities which are the absolute values of the squared amplitudes, so we do not obtain the phase information. Therefore, it is far from clear whether a quantum algorithm can help to compute the Fourier transform more efficiently than it is possible with a classical algorithm.
However, most applications of the Fourier transform in quantum algorithms are indirect, using the transform as a sort of amplification step to focus amplitudes on interesting states. In the next post, we will look at Shor’s algorithm with exploits the periodicity properties of the Fourier transform to factor large composite numbers.
References
1. E. Rieffel, W. Polak, Quantum computing: a gentle introduction, MIT Press
2. M.A. Nielsen, I.L. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, Cambridge University Press
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How to Flush Routing Table from Cache in Linux
Routing Table
In this article, I will describe how to flush routing table in Linux using terminal commands. A routing table in computer networking is a data table that's stored on a router or network server which lists the routes to particular network destinations. Usually, each static route has a metric associated with it. This metric is used by network devices to decide which route to be selected for packets destined to a particular network. When talking in the context of Linux Systems, they also maintain a routing table, mostly when the server has more than one active network interface.
At some point, you may want to flush a routing table or update it so that you can access some networks. The network(s) can be local in your organization, or where traversing the public internet is involved. Most Linux distributions provide two major tools used for this task, namely ip, and route command line tools.
Flush routing table using ip command
ip is a Unix/Linux command line tool used to show and manipulate routing, network devices, interfaces, and tunnels. It is a replacement for the mostly used ifconfig tool. This tool can do almost all kinds of Linux network configurations for an interface. Before you flush any routes, you may first need to check your current routing table using the command::
$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp1s0 proto dhcp metric 600
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.16 metric 600
As you can see from my output, my default route is set to 192.168.0.1. This means all packets destined for networks other than my local subnet 92.168.0.0/24 will be forwarded through 192.168.0.1. This IP 192.168.0.1 is for my router.
For demonstration purposes, I'm going to start docker service on my Laptop. Docker has its own subnet. we'll use this to demonstrate the usage of ip command.
$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp1s0 proto dhcp metric 600
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.16 metric 600
Flush specific route
I now have another route for 172.17.0.0/16 subnet via 172.17.0.1. If I want to flush this route, I'll use:
$ sudo ip route flush 172.17.0.0/16
$ ip route
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp1s0 proto dhcp metric 600
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.16 metric 600
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0 wlp1s0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 600 0 0 wlp1s0
You can confirm that the route has been removed from the routing table.
Flush all routes
To flush all routes on the routing tables, the ip command options route flush table main are used. The full commands to run are:
$ sudo ip route flush table main
$ ip route show
A recheck for the routing table should return empty. This command should be used with caution since it can kick your out of the server if you're not on direct connection or don't have other access methods like a console, modem e.t.c.
Empty a routing cache
The Linux kernel usually refers to the routing cache before fetching a new route from the routing tables. This cache can be cleared using the command.
$ sudo ip route flush cache
The confirm any available cached routes with:
$ sudo ip route show cache
Displaying statistics from the routing cache
If you would like to get more information about the cached routes. use the commands:
$ sudo ip -s route show cache
Additional information like "used" field is given, which indicates the number of times this route has been accessed in the routing cache.
For a persistent static route, you can place routes in any of the below files:
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-<interface> # Red Hat and its derivatives - CentOS, Fedora e.t.c
/etc/network/interfaces # Debian and its derivatives
An example of persistent routes on CentOS 7 is:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0
GATEWAY0=192.168.1.254
NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
ADDRESS0=192.168.5.0
GATEWAY1=10.10.10.1
NETMASK1= 255.255.255.240
ADDRESS1=10.164.234.132
A line on Ubuntu/Debian will look like below:
up route add -net 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.254
down route del -net 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.254
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-- JinkoSolar Gets $58 Million Loan From China Development Bank
JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. said it
signed an agreement with China Development Bank Corp. for a 360
million yuan ($58 million) loan to support its domestic
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this agreement, will reinforce our competitive status and
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company’s strong balance sheet.” To contact the reporter on this story:
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63. Cast-Iron Plates On Girders For Walls
If large and thick walls are to be supported, and several inches intervene between flanges of beams, cast-iron plates are placed on top, providing a good bearing for masonry.
The strength of the girder in this form is generally taken as equal to the sum of two beams used singly.
64. Bolts And Rivets
Bolts And Rivets as used for beams and girders must be proportioned to resist shearing, and the area of their bearing must be such that the metal against which they bear shall not be crushed. The strains allowed per square inch on these members are: shearing, 7500 pounds; crushing, 12,500 pounds. The shearing strain is measured on the area of the cross-section of the bolt or rivet; the crushing strain, on the area obtained by the product of the diameter of the rivet by the thickness of the plate or web on which it bears. It is customary to disregard the friction between the parts joined, as being too uncertain an element to be relied on to any great extent.
65. Shearing And Bearing Of Rivets
Take, for example, two plates of wrought iron 8 inches wide by 1/2 inch thick which overlap each other for a joint, with 45,000 pounds strain on the plates. What number of rivets will be required to resist the strain on the joint?
The area of a rivet J of an inch in diameter is 0.4417 square inch; this multiplied by 7500 pounds, the safe shearing, = 3312.75 pounds, the safe amount of strain each rivet can sustain without shearing. Dividing 45,000 by this, we get 13.6, - say 14 rivets.
The bearing area of each rivet is 3/4 inch by 1/2 inch = 3/8 square inch; this multiplied by 12,500 pounds for crushing would equal 4688 pounds, the safe compression for each rivet. 45,000 ö 4688 = 9.6, - say 10 rivets.
This latter condition is very otten overlooked in riveted work. Its observance in most cases of riveted girders with single webs gives the size and number of rivets to be used, and in thin webs the bearing value may be small, necessitating a thicker web than would otherwise be required.
For the above calculation the plates as overlapped would be in single shear. If the plates butted and a small plate were placed each side of the joint, or as an angle knee each side of a framed or coped beam, the rivets would be in double shear and have twice the value. If there are two cover plates, experience shows that each had better be equal to two thirds the thickness of the butted plates, although theory requires each to be but half their thickness. Plates butting require twice as many rivets as laps, because in the lap each rivet passes through both joined plates; and in the butt through only one, in case one cover plate is used. If the plates joined are sufficiently wide, the rivets should be placed zigzag, this being a much better system of riveting than the chain, that is, rivets following each other in one or more parallel lines.
66. Pins
Pins must be calculated for shearing, bending and bearing strains, but one of the latter two in almost every case determines the size to be used.
The pressure on the pins, multiplied by the leverage with which it acts on the pin supports, is the bending moment. The strain allowed per square inch of the cross-section is 15,000 pounds for iron and 20,000 pounds for steel.
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NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY EXAMINATION
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CONTENT OUTLINE
1. Instrumentation/Procedures/Processing (50%) {Procedures: myocardial perfusion (38%), equilibrium radionuclide angiogram, first pass studies (8%), Cardiac PET (4%)}
1. Acquisition
1. Patient preparation, indications/contraindications, sequencing of procedures
2. Injection techniques and imaging times
3. Acquisition protocols
1. Patient positioning
2. Stopping parameters
3. Matrix size
4. SPECT parameters
5. Gating parameters
1. Framing rate
2. Acceptance window
6. Collimator
2. Processing
1. Cineangiograms
2. Ejection fraction determination
3. Functional images
4. Heart-lung ratio
5. Image manipulation techniques
6. Image filtering
7. Polar plot analysis
8. Wall motion analysis
9. Time-activity curves
3. Quality control/Quality Assurance
1. Camera/system performance
2. Image assessment
3. Assessment of filtering techniques
4. Outcomes
4. Artifacts
1. Radiopharmaceutical distribution
2. Artifacts created by acquisition parameters
1. Uniformity
2. Energy window
3. Gating
4. Motion
5. COR
6. Attenuation
3. Artifacts created by processing techniques
2. Anatomy/Physiology/Pathology (10%)
1. Heart chambers
2. Cardiac electrophysiology
1. Conduction pathways
2. Normal electrocardiogram
3. Coronary artery distribution
4. Heart valves and great vessels
5. Cardiac function
6. Normal and abnormal physiologic responses to stress
7. Cardiac pathologies
1. Coronary artery disease
2. Cardiomyopathies
3. Myocardial ischemia, infarction, hibernation, stunning
4. Valvular diseases and effects on the heart
5. Congenital cardiac anomalies
3. Radiopharmaceuticals and Interventional Drugs (15%)
1. Radiopharmaceuticals
1. Indications
2. Dosages
3. Biodistribution and localization
4. Radiopharmaceutical problems
2. Interventional drugs
1. Types and dosages
2. Indications
3. Pharmacologic stress protocols
4. Contraindications, adverse effects and medication interactions
4. Non-Pharmacologic (Exercise) Stress Testing (15%)
1. Contraindications to exercise stress testing
2. Physiologic measures of exercise capacity/performance
3. ECG acquisition
4. Treadmill tower operation
5. Patient monitoring
6. Bicycle and isometric exercise protocols
7. Patient assessment and monitoring
8. Endpoints
5. Patient Care (10%)
1. Answering patient questions
1. Risks of nuclear medicine procedures
2. Comparison to correlative imaging techniques
2. ECG’s
1. Patient preparation, electrode placement and leads
2. Rate calculation
3. Normal and abnormal rhythms
4. Heart blocks
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Margo Smith (1986 album)
Margo Smith is a self-titled re-recorded studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was released in 1986 in conjunction with Dot Records and MCA Records. The project was Smith's second eponymous release and contained ten tracks of material. While all the material was newly recorded, the songs chosen for the album were re-recordings of music Smith first cut during the 1970s.
Background, content and release
During the late 1970s, Margo Smith had several major country hits with songs like "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You," "It Only Hurts for a Little While" and "Little Things Mean a Lot". After making several changes to wardrobe and musical appearance, Smith went into different stylistic directions during the 1980s and had less commercial success. She continued releasing music to several different labels. In 1985, MCA Records announced a plan to reactivate and take control of Dot Records. With the new label, MCA also announced they would record and release new music by several veteran country artists. The albums were set for release between 1985 and 1986. Smith was among the artists chosen for the new joint venture. She began recording for the project during the fall of 1985 at Studio 19, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The sessions were produced by Al Henson.
The eponymous release contained a total of ten tracks. The project were ten newly re-recorded versions of songs previously cut by Smith while at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. labels respectively. Included were re-recordings of Smith's two number one singles from 1978: "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While". Also included were re-recordings of the top ten hits "Still a Woman," "There I Said It," "Save Your Kisses for Me" and "Little Things Mean a Lot". The album was released in 1986 via Dot and MCA Records. It was issued as a vinyl LP and as a cassette with similar track listings.
Personnel
All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Margo Smith.
Musical and technical personnel
* Clyde Brooks – Drums
* Sonny Garrish – Steel guitar
* Al Henson – Producer
* Hoot Hester – Fiddle
* Roger Morris – Keyboards
* Gary Prim – Keyboards
* Jack Ross – Bass
* Ronny Scaife – Rhythm guitar
* Dale Sellers – Lead guitar
* Margo Smith – Lead vocals
* Bruce Watkins – Rhythm guitar
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Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
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Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
We are using a Fastexport script to export the records from a Teradata table into a pipe delimited output file.
.LOGTABLE dummy.ERR_LOG;
.LOGON serv/dummy1,dummy2;
DATABASE dummy; .
BEGIN EXPORT SESSIONS 4;
.EXPORT OUTFILE Dummy_Out_Path MODE RECORD FORMAT TEXT;
select CAST('"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(id as CHAR(14))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime1 as CHAR(12))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime2 as CHAR(18))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime3 as CHAR(30))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime4 as CHAR(36))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime5 as CHAR(25))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset1 as CHAR(10))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset2 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset3 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset4 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset5 as CHAR(12))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(enrolled_period as CHAR(30))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(work_period as CHAR(65))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric1 (FORMAT '-Z(3)')) as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric2 (FORMAT '-Z(5)')) as CHAR(6))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Numeric3 as CHAR(14))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Numeric4 as CHAR(25))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric5 (FORMAT '-Z(34)9.99')) as CHAR(40))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric6 (FORMAT '-Z(34)9.99')) as CHAR(40))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(Character1),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(Character2),'test')||'"'
||'|'||'"'||TDUSER.hash_md5(CAST('"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(id as CHAR(14))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime1 as CHAR(12))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime2 as CHAR(18))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime3 as CHAR(30))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime4 as CHAR(36))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(DateTime5 as CHAR(25))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset1 as CHAR(10))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset2 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset3 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset4 as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Offset5 as CHAR(12))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(enrolled_period as CHAR(30))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(work_period as CHAR(65))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric1 (FORMAT '-Z(3)')) as CHAR(5))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric2 (FORMAT '-Z(5)')) as CHAR(6))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Numeric3 as CHAR(14))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast(Numeric4 as CHAR(25))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric5 (FORMAT '-Z(34)9.99')) as CHAR(40))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(cast((Numeric6 (FORMAT '-Z(34)9.99')) as CHAR(40))),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(Character1),'test')||'"'||'|'
||'"'||COALESCE(TRIM(Character2),'test')||'"' AS CHAR(520)))||'"' AS CHAR(555)) from dummy.table;
.END EXPORT;
.LOGOFF;
Since we are using an outer cast to remove the extra binary characters that we get if we do not cast the Fastexport output into character.For every row the length of the data is way less than the casting length i.e 555 in this case leading to trailing spaces at the end of every record.We are deciding the casting length(outer) based on the sum of the casting length of the datatypes we are using in the select statement.I was wondering what would be the best approach to remove the space from thev end of the record?
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Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
If you don't want trailing spaces, then you'll want to CAST it as VARCHAR not CHAR. The CHAR data type will pad it with spaces up to the size that you specify.
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
But casting it as VARCHAR will lead to extra binary text at the start of each record.I wanted to avoid that situation so I cast it as CHAR.Any other workarounds?
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
Have you tried using "UNFORMATTED" as the format? You would need to concatenate in your end of line character (x'0A' for Linux or x'0D0A') for DOS, but I would think that would work with VARCHAR and would avoid the length bytes at the beginning of the record.
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
You mean using the word "UNFORMATTED" instead of TEXT .Replacing 'TEXT' as 'UNFORMATTED' in the FORMAT is throwing an error.Also I did not get the expression "You would need to concatenate in your end of line character (x'0A' for Linux or x'0D0A') for DOS"
Could you please explain where do I need to make changes to the code?
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
I was suggesting that you try it with "UNFORMAT" (I put "UNFORMATTED" instead, which was probably why you got a syntax error). However, I have tried "UNFORMAT" myself and it looks like it still puts the length at the beginnng of the record when using that format as well.
What I have done in the past is to use VARCHAR, but then follow the export up with a process (such as an 'awk' in Linux) to remove the length characters at the beginning of the records.
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
The output file generated by FastExport is a huge file in TB's.I was wondering whether using awk or similar process in Linux will be right approach in term of performance overhead it will cause.Are there any other options which will yield better result in terms of performance impact?
Junior Contributor
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
The best "workaround" would be switching to TPT & DELIMITED format.
Enthusiast
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
Since it will take some time to implement the entire thing in TPT.We have already identified that need in the long run but as of now we were seeking for some quick workaround.Will writing an outmod script to trim the spaces seem a viable option.Will be it better in terms of performance compared to 'sed' or 'awk' process in Unix.Any other suggestions are also welcome.
Regards,
Indranil Roy
Junior Contributor
Re: Trailing spaces in Teradata Fastexport
Writing & testing an OutMod might need more time than switching to TPT.
There's no need to trim the spaces, simply concatenate the trimmed columns (VarChars) instead of Chars, no final cast. The result will be a single VarChar column with the two length bytes, but no trailing spaces. Now your OutMod simply strips off the first two bytes.
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Elvis Costello, Carole King and a Song 20 Years in the Making
Two decades ago, Elvis Costello and Carole King kept running into each other at a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan. “It was the lure of the sea urchin,” Costello said. And the meals paid off: Over the course of several omakase dinners, the musicians developed a friendship that led to a writing collaboration — but not before they went through a harrowing experience. In 1995, the two were performing with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison in Dublin. “At the end, it was too dark and when everyone went offstage left, I went stage right,” said King. “Boom! I fell 15 feet onto a concrete floor.” Costello said it was “truly horrifying.” King broke her right wrist and left thumb in the accident. “I think I was saved by landing on a pile of cables,” she said. Not long after, the two musicians decided to write a song together. For more than 20 years, the piece, “Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter,” only existed as a demo, though Costello performed it live on several occasions. But the track finally has a home on “Look Now,” his new album with the Imposters, out Friday. [Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder.] Several weeks ago, the two met at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village (where he recorded the album’s strings) to talk about their work together, as well as their separate histories as collaborators, writers and performers. Settling down on a plush red sofa, King, 76, kept referring to her collaborator by his birth name. “Do you mind if I call you Declan?” she asked Costello, 64, who was looking healthy several months after revealing that he had undergone successful surgery for cancer. “Anything but Gladys,” he answered. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. “Burnt Sugar” fits right into “Look Now,” which recalls the grandeur of those highly arranged, early ’60s pop hits written by artists like you, Carole. When you heard the album, did you recognize yourself in it? CAROLE KING I didn’t, but I did recognize a value I hold dear, which is authenticity in presentation. You take a song that’s good, and you go into the studio and you present it to the band, and they find themselves feeling the groove. Then you give them direction, and they take it to levels you didn’t quite imagine. You [Elvis] probably have more of the big picture going in than I do. ELVIS COSTELLO That’s really true of this record. It’s one of the only ones where I recorded the vocals last. Normally, I arrange outward from a core vocal, which tortures the band. Sometimes the drummer says I drag or speed up a verse. Here, I had it all arranged in my head. In your memoir, Elvis, you wrote about seeing Carole in concert in Manchester in 1971 when you were 17. Do you remember that show? COSTELLO The two most memorable concerts I saw that year were you, with James Taylor, and Joni [Mitchell] doing “Blue” before that album came out. Can you imagine today someone touring before their album came out? You were playing all these songs that had been standards from the ’60s and then your songs from “Tapestry.” But you made sure not to tour until your album was in shops! KING That wasn’t me. It was Lou Adler [the head of her record company, Ode]. COSTELLO I have a Lou Adler story. I was sitting at the Whiskey A Go Go in 1978 watching [the band] Rockpile, and this gentleman passes a piece of paper over the table, so I signed it. I thought he wanted my autograph. Looking floored, he handed the paper back to me and, after I turned it over, I saw it said, “Lou Adler” with his phone number on it. He was trying to sign me! KING He knew your talent. We all knew! You did so many different things and did them all well. If you had begun in our generation of writers you’d be right there with us. COSTELLO I can’t believe you said that! KING A lot of it is just time and place. In some ways, I feel that it’s all undeserved for me. I know that I’ve done the work and I have the gift, but I feel grateful that circumstances put me in a time and place where people have gotten to hear it. COSTELLO Do you remember the first reaction you got performing for people in the business? When I started doing it, they thought I would be coming in with a tape and I could see the look on the guy’s face when I walked in with my guitar. I made him listen to me play, and I’m super loud. I could see him thinking, “When is he going to stop?” I imagine it would be different if you come in playing “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” KING I have to say this as if I’m speaking of someone else: I got everybody’s attention. I think they weren’t expecting a small Jewish girl to have that much power or confidence. They were hungry for new talent. They were small start-up companies. Atlantic Records was in a tiny office on 54th Street. Carole, you made history twice: first as one of the young, New York writers of the ’60s hits; then as part of the singer-songwriter movement of the early ’70s, which asserted that the quirky writer’s voice was more authentic than the “professional” singer. Given your unusual voice, Elvis, was that aesthetic shift an inspiration? COSTELLO You hit the nail on the head. I never planned to be a singer. I was a songwriter. My role model was Robbie Robertson, but I couldn’t find a Levon Helm or a Rick Danko, so I was forced to sing. Had I come up in Carole’s time, I tell myself I wouldn’t have been a performer, which, for a lot of people, would have been a relief because they wouldn’t have to hear me sing. KING I beg to differ. Probably you would have started off as a songwriter, but your vocal ability would have emerged. Your interpretations of your songs are magnificent. COSTELLO When you went from songwriting to singing, you were reclaiming songs that made their name played by other people. KING Look, if you’re following Aretha Franklin [on “Natural Woman”] it’s like … I wasn’t going to try to compete with her vocally because that would be silly. What I did was just present the song I had written. In a way, Carole, that makes you an unlikely collaborator with Elvis. Your songs are unfussy, and his are ornate, especially lyrically. COSTELLO That’s probably because I thought of myself as a writer before I thought of myself as a musician. I knew I was some kind of writer from when I was 8 or 9. I didn’t know I was a musician until I was 17. KING Your lyrics aren’t linear, but you get all the emotional components of what’s going on. There’s a freedom to it, even though you might not be able to draw a line from Point A to Point B. COSTELLO That’s why you listen to the song more than once. KING Well, I go directly from Point A to Point B, and they listen too! Elvis, you’re known for full-album collaborations with everyone from Paul McCartney to the Roots. Carole, you’ve teamed with artists from Paul Westerberg to Mariah Carey. Why do you enjoy the collaborative process? COSTELLO It’s the speed with which it’s done. When I did the songs with Paul McCartney, it was like a tennis match. Reaching across the table, I’ve got this line. I’ve got that line. And then the song was done. Carole, what do you look for in a collaborator? KING You trust that the person is coming from the same place — i.e. let’s write something creative that comes to a conclusion we both want. Most of the people who I collaborate with rise to that occasion. What’s the core of your contribution to the writing? KING I’m very chord oriented. I have been informed in that by Richard Rodgers — the way he wrote melodies that are deceptively simple. [Both Costello and King spontaneously break into the same Rodgers’s song, “If I Loved You.”] COSTELLO That could be one of your tunes! KING I hear that, yeah. COSTELLO People also hear that gospel thing in your songs because of “Natural Woman.” KING That’s an influence too. It’s all down to writing the chords. Sometimes I wander off melodically. I’m wondering, “How the hell do I get from here to there?” To me, bringing it all back home is the magic of writing. When you have a collaborator, you share that joy. It’s so much richer than what you can write on your own. An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Carole King’s stage accident. It was in Dublin, not London.
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Polarity classification using structure-based vector representations of text
Alexander Hogenboom, Flavius Frasincar, Franciska M.G. de Jong, Uzay Kaymak
Research output: Contribution to journalArticleAcademicpeer-review
14 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
The exploitation of structural aspects of content is becoming increasingly popular in rule-based polarity classification systems. Such systems typically weight the sentiment conveyed by text segments in accordance with these segments' roles in the structure of a text, as identified by deep linguistic processing. Conversely, state-of-the-art machine learning polarity classifiers typically aim to exploit patterns in vector representations of texts, mostly covering the occurrence of words or word groups in these texts. However, since structural aspects of content have been shown to contain valuable information as well, we propose to use structure-based features in vector representations of text. We evaluate the usefulness of our novel features on collections of English reviews in various domains. Our experimental results suggest that, even though word-based features are indispensable to good polarity classifiers, structure-based sentiment information provides valuable additional guidance that can help significantly improve the polarity classification performance of machine learning classifiers. The most informative features capture the sentiment conveyed by specific rhetorical elements that constitute a text's core or provide crucial contextual information.
Original languageUndefined
Pages (from-to)46-56
Number of pages11
JournalDecision support systems
Volume74
Issue numberJune
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2015
Keywords
• EWI-25971
• METIS-312577
• IR-96333
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IPv6 Overview And Communication Types
ipv6 header
IPv6, which is invented by IETF consists of 128 bit and it is tought that will replace IPv4 in a few years. When IPv4 is invented, it wasn’t beleived that need for public ip addresses will increase rapidly and today, IPv4 addresses are about to finish. That is why IPv6 was invented by IETF. Because of it consists of 128 bit, much more hosts can be supported according to IPv4.
An IPv6 ip address example: 2001:0050:0000:0000:0000:DABH:1E2B:98AA
* Serial 0s are eliminated once for each address.
* Uppermost 0s are eliminated.
2001:0050:0AB4:1E2B:98AA is written as 2001:50: :AB4:1E2B:98AA
IPv6 Header
Because of IPv6 header is smaller than IPv4, it is easier to process it, it is more reliable and consumes less bandwidth.
ipv6 header
IPv6 Communication Types
* Unicast : One to one communication type.
* Multicast: One to many communication type.(This communication type is used instead of “broadcast” on IPv4)
* Anycast: One to closest communication type.
IPv6 Addressing
* Link-local address : Link local address is a network address that is valid only for communications within the network segment (link) or the broadcast domain that the host is connected to.aLyer 2 domain auto generates it ( Starts with FE80, first 10 bits are 1111 1110 10 and continues with 64 bit 0 ). Last 64 bits are found by replacing “FFFE” to the middle of the MAC Address. For example for the MAC Address 0019.D122.DCF3, link local address is 1111 3110 1000 0000… | 0019.D1FF.FE22.DCF3
* Unique/site local address : Organizations can privately use this address occurs in the block fc00::/7
* Global address : Internet devices use global addressing. First 64 bits are automatically assigned to clients by router. Last 64 bits are created individually by the host clients.
R1(config)# int l0
R1(config-if)#ip add 2001:5511:5522:AAAA | BBBB:1111:2345:1234/ 64
//First 64 bits refer to network //
Differences Between IPv4 And IPv6
• IPv4 is 32 bits while IPv6 is 128.
• IPv4 supports 4.3×109 (4.3 billion) addresses , IPv6 supports 3.4×1038 addresses,
• IPv4 header has 20 bytes, IPv6 header is 40 bytes.
• IPv4 is classful, IPv6 is classless.
• IPv4 address uses a subnet mask , IPv6 uses prefix length.
• IPv6 has a built-in strong security , encyription and authentication.
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STAY INFORMED. VISIT NHIA.ORG/COVID19 FOR INFORMATION AND RESOURCES ABOUT CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19).
COVID-19 RESOURCE CENTER
NHIA Sterile Compounding Guidance
We Need Your Support
NHIA is dedicating extra resources to pursue legislation to allow home infusion providers to serve Medicare beneficiaries during the public health emergency related to COVID-19.
NHIA Sterile Compounding Guidance for the Home and Specialty Infusion Industry During the COVID-19 Outbreak
These guidelines are intended to help providers assure the quality of sterile compounded products (CSPs) during the COVID-19 outbreak. We have developed these recommendations to assist the industry in protecting employees and patients. Always refer to local and state guidelines in development of internal processes and procedures.
1. General Recommendations:
1. Refer to existing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and disaster emergency plans, and update as needed for garb modifications, social distancing, and compounding procedures.
2. Establish remote working capabilities for pharmacy staff where possible.
3. Refer to United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Response to Shortages of Garb and Personal Protective Equipment for Sterile Compounding During COVID-19 Pandemic4
1. Refer to state specific recommendations to ensure compliance with local regulations and guidance.
4. Wear scrubs for one shift only. Use a professional laundry service or an onsite facility, if possible. Change into scrubs onsite.
2. Masks
1. Until shortages resolve, medical-grade masks should be reserved for personnel with direct patient care responsibilities.
2. Do not reuse disposable masks
3. In place of medical-grade masks, use clean, low-linting materials (i.e. polyester fabric, wipe) to cover the nose and mouth.
4. Ensure fabric/handmade masks fit securely using straps or elastic bands
5. Don a clean fabric/handmade mask each time before entering compounding area.
6. If possible, use a professional laundry service or an onsite facility for washing fabric masks. If not available, launder at home to ensure clean face covers are available.
3. Gowns
1. Until shortages resolve, disposable gowns should be reserved for personnel with direct patient care responsibilities.
2. Retain and reuse disposable gowns as long as they are intact and not visibly soiled.
3. Reused disposable gowns should be stored on the clean side of the line of demarcation (LOD) in the ante-room area.
4. Consider the use of sleeves (non-sterile) with gowns being reused for more than one shift. Do not re-use sleeves.
5. Do not reuse disposable gowns if they are used for cleaning.
6. Use of clean, washable dedicated buffer room garments (i.e. gowns, lab coats, scrubs). Long sleeves are preferred or use of sleeves is recommended.
7. Use a professional laundry service or an onsite facility, if possible, for washing fabric gowns. Launder at home if needed to ensure clean gowns are available.
1. Shoe covers
1. Do not reuse shoe covers
2. Use dedicated shoes that are cleaned and disinfected prior to entry into the clean room suite or segregated compounding area
1. Clean dedicated cleanroom shoes with a germicidal agent prior to entering the cleanroom suite
3. Head and Hair Covers
1. If disposable head and hair covers are not available, use shower caps or reusable fabric head and hair cover
2. Use a new/freshly laundered head and hair cover each shift.
3. Use a professional laundry service or an onsite facility, if possible, for washing fabric head and hair covers. Launder at home if needed to ensure clean head and hair covers are available.
4. Gloves
1. Do not discard medical-grade, sterile gloves that are beyond the manufacturer-designated shelf life.
2. If medical-grade, sterile gloves are not available, then use nonsterile medical-grade gloves with frequent application of sterile 70% isopropyl alcohol.
1. If sterile 70% isopropyl alcohol is not available, use nonsterile 70% isopropyl alcohol.
3. The use of hand-sanitizer on gloves is not recommended as it may leave a residue.
1. Hand Sanitizer
1. Consider not applying hand sanitizer upon initial entry into the buffer space since hand hygiene was just performed.
2. Consider use of hand sanitizer only during the glove change process.
3. Consider compounding hand sanitizer per the USP or World Health Organization (WHO) guidance
1. https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
2. https://www.usp.org/sites/default/files/usp/document/about/public-policy/usp-covid19-handrub.pdf
4. Hazardous Drug (HD) compounding
1. Do not reuse garb worn to perform HD compounding
2. Proactively align work and group all HD compounding together to reduce the amount of garb required to be utilized
3. Use closed-system transfer devices for compounding of HDs if essential garb is not available
4. Prioritize gowns and chemotherapy gloves for preparing agents in Table 1 of the NIOSH list
5. Cleaning
1. When not using standard garb, the frequency of cleaning should be increased.
1. Conduct daily cleaning activities at the end of the workday to conserve garb
2. Any garb worn during facility cleaning must be discarded
• Increase the frequency for cleaning shelves, carts, decks and other areas with a higher potential for contamination, especially when implementing a garb conservation strategy
1. Consider weekly triple clean of the cleanroom suite or segregated compounding areas
1. Cleaning and disinfection of the PEC with sterile agents should be performed according to the minimum frequencies in Chapter <797>
2. Consider increasing the usage of your sporicidal cleaning agents during garb conservation
1. Environmental Monitoring
1. When using non-standard garb, consider weekly surface sampling of the PEC(s)
2. Maintain the minimum frequency for conducting air sampling in accordance with the official Chapter <797>
2. Cleanroom Practices
1. Maintain a minimum of 6 feet between compounding personnel in the buffer room
2. Modify break schedules to keep personnel in the buffer area as long as possible
3. Modify staging practices to limit personnel access to the cleanroom suite which will result in a reduction of garb use
4. Walk slowly and deliberately in the cleanroom suite to reduce particulate matter being dispersed into ISO classified air spaces
5. Limit talking in the controlled environment
3. Compounding Practices & Assigning Beyond-Use-Dates
1. Evaluate use of binary connection devices to reduce aseptic manipulations
2. Consider the use of premix IV formulations where possible
3. Assign beyond-use-dates (BUDs) conservatively to CSPs made under sub-optimal conditions (i.e. lack of proper garb, shortage of hand-sanitizer)
4. Develop a risk-based approach to assigning BUDs that balances risk of contamination to the CSP due to garbing practices, compounding environment, and compounding complexity with risk of exposing delivery personnel and workload burden. The BUD strategy should be incorporated into the facility’s current SOPs. Ensure that your facility emergency preparedness plans include pandemic planning and anything that is changed from the normal SOP should be documented and amended for compounding record keeping purposes.
Additional Resources for COVID-19 can be found on our NHIA website at https://nhia.wpengine.com/COVID_19_Resource_Center.cfm
Resources:
1. Critical Point. COVID-19: Downstream Implications for Sterile Compounding. https://www.criticalpoint.info
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
3. World Health Organization https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
4. USP Response to Shortages of Garbing and Personnel Protective Equipment for Sterile Compounding During COVID-19 Pandemic
5. NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings, 2016 at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2016-161/pdfs/2016-161.pdf
6. USP Compounding Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer During COVID-19 Pandemics
DISCLAIMER: The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) produces educational resources as an aid to good clinical practice that reflects the input of its members and experienced clinicians in the field. Information offered in NHIA resources is intended as a guide for information purposes only and does not replace or remove clinical judgment or the professional care and duty necessary for each specific situation. While great effort has been made to assure all information is complete and accurate as of the time this resource was issued, given the continuously evolving health care environment and the particular circumstances of individual cases, no assurance can be given that the information is entirely complete or accurate in every
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Can I use a separate query plan cache per session?
asp.net-mvc-4 c# entity-framework-6 entity-framework-plus
Question
I have a multi-tenant ASP.NET application, and our database is set up with soft deletes. Initially, we handled the restriction of data directly at the query level, e.g:
var foos = context.Foos.Where(foo => !foo.Deleted && foo.TenantId = currentTenantId).ToList();
As you can imagine, this bloats all of the queries in our data access layer, and makes the API very vulnerable if one forgets to add the correct filter conditions. We have decided to apply global filtering to the context with Z.EntityFramework.Plus.EF6:
public class FooDataContextFactory
{
public FooDataContext CreateContext()
{
var context = new FooDataContext();
context.Filter<Foo>(collection => collection.Where(foo=> !foo.Deleted));
var principal = Thread.CurrentPrincipal as ClaimsPrincipal;
if (principal.HasClaim(claim => claim.Type == "TenantId"))
{
var currentTenantId = int.Parse(principal.FindFirst("TenantId").Value);
context.Filter<Foo>(collection => collection.Where(foo => foo.TenantId == currentTenantId));
}
return context;
}
}
This works perfectly for a single user. However, when you switch tenant, we have issues with the filter expression being saved in the query plan cache. This is a known issue with Entity Framework Plus, and since it doesn't appear to be resolved, I need to find a workaround.
The most immediate solution I can think of is to associate the lifetime of the query plan cache to the current session, and when the user logs out or switches tenant, the cache is destroyed. Is this possible, and if so, how can I achieve this?
Accepted Answer
I had this exact same problem and tried to work with Z.EntityFramework.Plus.EF6 with the same issues. I found that the zzzprojects team also has EntityFramework.DynamicFilters which works much better for this purpose. The query that is cached is parameterized and the value is injected at runtime using the selector function you provide.
using System.Data.Entity;
using EntityFramework.DynamicFilters;
public class Program
{
public class CustomContext : DbContext
{
private int _tenantId;
public int GetTenantId()
{
return _tenantId;
}
// Call this function to set the tenant once authentication is complete.
// Alternatively, you could pass tenantId in when constructing CustomContext if you already know it
// or pass in a function that returns the tenant to the constructor and call it here.
public void SetTenantId(int tenantId)
{
_tenantId = tenantId;
}
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
// Filter applies to any model that implements ITenantRestrictedObject
modelBuilder.Filter(
"TenantFilter",
(ITenantRestrictedObject t, int tenantId) => t.TenantId == tenantId,
(CustomContext ctx) => ctx.GetTenantId(), // Might could replace this with a property accessor... I haven't tried it
opt => opt.ApplyToChildProperties(false)
);
}
}
public interface ITenantRestrictedObject
{
int TenantId { get; }
}
}
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Talk:Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
Trivia
* "Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site," at one acre, perhaps should win an award for the smallest ratio of land compared to the length of it name.
* This is the only National Battlefield Site left in the country. All others with that designation (including the nearby and nearly identical Tupelo National Battlefield) have been renamed. Why is this the only one? (Perhaps we will never know, but it is probably related to a lack of interest by Members of Congress in modern times in introducing any bill even remotely related to a site honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest. Redesignating the site would take an act of Congress.)
By the way, the battle really is called "Brice's Crossroads" but the site "Brices Cross Roads." Again, I have no clue why.
— Eoghanacht talk 20:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
* Years ago, the federal gummint went to war against apostrophes in place names. That's why it's Stones River, Harpers Ferry, Sailors Creek, etc. Hal Jespersen 19:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
* Yet there is "Wilson's Creek National Battlefield." Also, it does not explain "Cross Roads" for "Crossroads." — Eoghanacht talk 17:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
* And there's Devils Tower National Monument. When we visited this site, the rangers told us that there's no apostrophe due to a typographical error back when the park was formed, which has stuck (one can imagine the same is true for Devils Postpile National Monument). Nationalparks 17:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
* To risk getting even further off-topic... I heard that Charlotte Amalie (pronounced "Amalia") on St. Thomas, named after Charlotte Amelia of Hesse-Cassel, is spelt that way because of a typo by the U.S. Post Office shortly after acquiring the territory. But my favorite is Clew Bay (see Talk:Clew Bay for the story). — Eoghanacht talk 17:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Requested move 15 August 2020
The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after 9 days. Cúchullain t/ c 15:11, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
– The page for the battlefield site was moved from the proposed name to its current name in 2018 to reflect the official name in the National Register of Historic Places. However, both the current NRHP entry here and official National Park Service site here use the form without the apostrophe. The page for the battlefield site should use the official name used by the NPS. Additionally, given the above, the page for the battle itself should be similarly moved. It seems like both forms of the name are used, but I argue for deference to the NPS given the extent to which they strive to be historically accurate. Mdewman6 (talk) 21:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
* Brice's Cross Roads National Battlefield Site → Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
* Battle of Brice's Cross Roads → Battle of Brices Cross Roads
* The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Done Battle of Brices Cross Roads. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:Scrum King
Have registered here in order to improve the coverage of rugby union pages on Wikipedia.
I am from New Zealand so will mostly focus on NZ rugby pages. To start with my focus will be on improving the statistical information available.
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Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1
Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1 is the second extended play (EP) by American recording artist Sevyn Streeter. It was released on July 17, 2015 through Atlantic Records in collaboration with CBE. Collaborations feature Chris Brown, Hit-Boy and B.o.B. The extended play was preceded by two singles "Don't Kill the Fun" and "Shoulda Been There".
Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1 debuted at number 4 on the US R&B Albums chart and number 15 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Background and promotion
Following the success of Sevyn's debut extended play (EP) Call Me Crazy, But... Streeter released a teaser trailer for a new single, "Don't Kill the Fun" featuring Chris Brown, on January 8, 2015 and announced that the song would be released on January 13, 2015. On April 28, 2015 Streeter released a statement on her Instagram account about "4th Street" stating "I wrote [it] on a day I found out someone I loved broke my heart into a million pieces. . On July 13, 2015 "Shoulda Been There" featuring B.o.B would be the next single.
On October 3, 2015, it was announced that Streeter would embark on a 7-date tour starting on November 2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and finishing on November 22 in Sacramento, California.
Critical reception
The extended play was met with a positive response from critics. Rap-Up stated "While she readies her debut On the Verge, Sevyn Streeter holds fans over with her new project Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1. ."
Singles
Don't Kill the Fun featuring Chris Brown was released as the first single on January 13, 2015. The music video was released to Streeter's YouTube channel on February 15, 2015 and directed by Chris Brown. The song charted on the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks chart at number forty-nine, number sixteen on the Hot R&B Songs chart and number nineteen on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart.
"Shoulda Been There" featuring B.o.B was released as the second single on July 15, 2015. A lyric video was released to Streeter's YouTube channel on July 13, 2015. The song failed to make impact in the United States.
Other songs
A music video for "Boomerang" featuring Hit-Boy was released to promote "Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1" on September 28, 2015.
Acoustic versions of "Love in Competition" and "Just Being Honest" were released to Streeter's YouTube channel on January 5, 2016 and February 23, 2016. The video for "Just Being Honest" was directed Rocko Muir.
Tour
On October 3, 2015 a 7-date tour was announced to promote "Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1" called "Sevyn Streeter Live" starting November 2, 2015 and finishing on November 22, 2015. The tour would feature an intimate performance with discussions about relationships, love, life and everything that inspires her writing while playing songs from her previously released projects. Sevyn will partner up with Music Choice for the L.A. and San Francisco stops to present the “Music Choice Presents: Sound Check Sessions.
Commercial performance
In the United States, "Shoulda Been There, Pt. 1" debuted at number four on the Billboard R&B Albums chart on August 8, 2015. In its second week the extended play dropped to number seventeen on August 15, 2015. In its third week it dropped to number twenty-five on August 22, 2015 spending a total of three weeks on the chart. It also debuted at number fifteen on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart spending one week on the chart.
Track listing
Credits taken from Discogs website.
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Immunity
Definition
The body's ability to resist and combat infections.
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Anitgen
Definition
Any molecular pattern that triggers an immune response.
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Complement System
Definition
Set of proteins that circulate in inactive form in blood. Active kinds attract phagocytes and ehance their binding to antigen, promote inflammation, and induce lysis of pathogens during both innate and adaptive immune responses.
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Innate Immunity
Definition
Immediate, off-the-shelf set of responses to tissue invasion that rid the body of most pathogens. Recognition of a fixed set of conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns triggers phagocytosis, inflammation, and complement activation.
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Cytokine
Definition
Cytokines are proteins that are produced by cells. Cytokines interact with cells of the immune system in order to regulate the body's response to disease and infection. (Signaling molecules that evolved in jawed fishes.)
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Lymphocyte
Definition
A class of white blood cells.
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Adaptive Immunity
Definition
The mechanisms that defend the vertebrate body against specific threats to health, as characterized by self/nonself recognition, specificity, diversity, and memory. All antibody-mediated and cell-mediated responses to antigen.
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Neutrophil
Definition
Abundant circulating white blood cell; mainly phagocytic in innate immunity; its enzymes kill extracellular microbes and stimulates inflammation.
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Macrophage
Definition
Phagocytic white blood cell; in vertebrates, it takes part in nonspecific defenses and adaptive immunity.
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Dendritic cell
Definition
Phagocytic white blood cell; mainly presents antigen to naive T cells.
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Basophil
Definition
White blood cell circulating in blood that secretes histamine and other substances with roles in inflammation.
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Mast cell
Definition
White blood cell in connective tissue; secretes most of the cytokines during an innate immune response.
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Eosinophil
Definition
A white blood cell that, during inflammatory responses, secretes enzymes and taxins that target extracellular parasites too large for phagocytosis.
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B Lymphocyte
Definition
B cell. Type of white blood cell central to immune responses; only cell that makes antibodies.
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T Lymphocyte
Definition
T cell. White blood cell that regulates vertebrate immune responses by way of cytokines; cytotoxic T cells carry out cell-mediated immunity.
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Natural Killer Cell
Definition
(NK cell) One of the cytotoxic lymphocytes of innate and adaptive immunity; touch-kills tumor cells and virus-infected cells.
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Lysozyme
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Infection-fighting enzyme in mucous membranes; e.g., of mouth.
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Acute Inflammation
Definition
A swift response to tissue irritation or tissue damage. Redness, warmth, swelling, and pain are its outward symptoms.
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Histamine
Definition
Local signaling molecule that stimulates inflammation; makes arterioles vasodilate and capillaries more permeable.
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Fever
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An internally induced rise in core body temperature above a set point in the hypothalamic temperature control center.
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MHC Marker
Definition
(Major Histocompatibility Complex) Also called HLA (human leukocyte antigen). Type of proteins at the surface of body cells that T cells recognize as self-markers. Sounds the immune alarm when it becomes complexed with antigen fragments.
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TCRs
Definition
Antigen-binding receptor of T cells.
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Specificity
Definition
Means that a new B cell or T cells makes receptors for one-and only one- kind of antigen.
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Diversity
Definition
Refers to the collection of antigen receptors on all B and T cells in the body.
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Memory
Definition
Refers to the immune system's capacity to "remember" antigen that it vanquished. The first time lymphocytes recognize an antigen, it takes a few days for their population to form. When the same antigen shows up again, the system makes a faster, heightened response.
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Effector cells
Definition
Differentiated lymphocytes that act immediately against the antigen.
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Memory cells
Definition
Long-lived B and T cells that develop during the first exposure to an antigen. They are set aside for any future encounters with the same antigen.
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Complement Function
Definition
Directly cause target's lysis; enhance lymphocyte actions.
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Cytokine Function
Definition
Cell-to-cell and cell-to-tissue communication.
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Interleukin Function (a Cytokine)
Definition
Help in inflammation, fever, chemotaxis by neutrophils, formation of T and B cell populations; stimulate stem cells in bone marrow; activate NK cells
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Interferon Function (a Cytokine)
Definition
Help resist viral infections; activate NK cells.
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TNF Function (a Cytokine)
Definition
Help in inflammation; kill tumor cells.
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Other Chemicals Function
Definition
Antimicrobial enzymes and peptides, complement, clotting factors, protease inhibitors, toxins, hormones with diverse targets and functions.
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Physical Barriers
Definition
Intact skin and epithelia that line the body's tubes and cavities, such as the gut and eye sockets.
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Mechanical Barriers
Definition
Sticky mucus; broomlike actions of cilia; flushing action of tears, saliva, urination, diarrhea.
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Chemical Barriers
Definition
Protective secretions (sebum and other waxy coatings); low pH of urine, gastric juices, urinary and vaginal tracts; infection-fighting chemiclas such as lysozymes; established populations of neutral or beneficial microbes.
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Antibody-Mediated Immune Response
Definition
One of two arms of adaptive immunity in which antibodies are produced in response to a specific antigen; mediated by B cells.
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Intracellular Pathogens
Definition
Pathogens that evade B cells. They hide and often reproduce inside body cells while draining the life out of them. They are vulnerable only for the brief time when they are slipping out of one cell and infecting others.
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Cell-Mediated Immune Response
Definition
Actions of sensitized phagocytes and cytotoxic T cells that directly destroy infected or cancerous body cells.
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Antibody
Definition
Antigen-binding glycoprotein made and secreted only by B cells; during adaptive immunity, activates complement, neutralizes toxins, enhances phagocytosis, immobilizes internal pathogens or parasites.
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Constant Region
Definition
An unvarying domain that forms the molecule's backbone.
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Variable Region
Definition
A domain for one antigen.
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Immunoglobulins (Igs)
Definition
One of the five classes of antibodies, each with antigen-binding and class-specific structural components.
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B Cell Recptors
Definition
The surface immunoglobulins that function as the B cell's antigen receptors.
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Immunization
Definition
A process that promotes immunity from disease; e.g., vaccination.
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Active Immunization
Definition
A peparation that contains antigen.
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Vaccine
Definition
A type of antigen-containing preparation introduced into the body to prime the immune system to recognize the threat before actual infection.
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Allergen
Definition
A normally harmless substance that can provoke immune responses.
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Allergy
Definition
Hypersensitivity to an allergen.
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Autoimmune Response
Definition
Inappropriate lymphocyte attack on normal body cells; misdirected attack against one's own tissues.
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Response Time (Innate Immunity)
Definition
Immediate.
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How Antigen Is Detected (Innate Immunity)
Definition
Fixed gene sequences for unchanging set of about 1,000 receptors.
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What Is Innate Immunity Triggered By?
Definition
Damage to tissues; patterns on microbes.
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Innate Immunity Memory
Definition
None.
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Response Time (Adaptive Immunity)
Definition
Slower.
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How Antigen Is Detected (Adaptive Immunity)
Definition
Random recombinations of genes sequences can code for possibly billions of receptors.
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What Is Adaptive Immunity Triggered By?
Definition
Pathogens, toxins, abnormally altered body cells.
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Adaptive Immunity Memory
Definition
Long-term.
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U.S. consumers should be free to sue banks, credit card companies: agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New rules proposed on Thursday by a U.S. consumer watchdog would block credit card companies, banks and other firms from forcing customers to waive their rights to join class action lawsuits and settle disputes only through arbitration. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said financial firms should be barred from using fine print in contracts that mandates arbitration instead of a group lawsuit in the event of a dispute over products ranging from checking accounts to credit cards. The agency said the clauses prevent consumers who have been wronged from receiving justice and compensation through the courts. U.S. businesses are expected to oppose the proposal and sue if it becomes final. They say arbitration is more efficient and helps avoid costly litigation that rarely benefits the people filing suit. “Companies simply insert these clauses into their contracts for consumer financial products or services and literally ‘with the stroke of a pen’ are able to block any group of consumers from filing joint lawsuits known as class actions,” CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in prepared remarks. “That is so even though class actions are widely recognized to be valid avenues to secure legal relief under federal and state law.” In class actions, people band together to sue over the same alleged wrongdoing to make the lawsuit more affordable. A 2015 study by the CFPB found individuals rarely sue on their own because it is too expensive and that about 6.8 million consumers receive $220 million in payments from class action settlements each year. In arbitration, a private individual settles a conflict. Frequently, companies select the arbitrators, the proceedings are confidential and decisions are hard to appeal. Under the proposal, companies could still use arbitration clauses, but would have to state explicitly that consumers can sign onto class actions. They would also have to give the bureau information on claims filed and awards issued in the arbitrations, as well as correspondence from arbitrators regarding unpaid fees and failure to follow standards of conduct. Requiring customers to agree to “mandatory arbitration clauses” when they sign up for a product has become nearly universal since a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion validated the practice. It has also become a flashpoint for both political parties. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday supported the proposal, saying “mandatory arbitration clauses buried deep in contracts for credit cards, student loans, and more prevent American consumers from having their day in court when they’ve been harmed.” U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat sometimes mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate in November’s election, pledged to push the CFPB to “finalize the rule as soon as possible.” The private sector and conservative political leaders quickly criticized the proposal, saying it only helps attorneys who file class actions and reap fees and shares of settlements. The chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Republican Jeb Hensarling of Texas, called it a “big, wet kiss to trial attorneys” and cast Cordray as a “de facto dictator.” “This move – which will apply to some of the most common financial contracts including credit cards, checking accounts, and even cell phones – essentially hands over the keys of the CFPB’s luxury office building to the wealthy, powerful, and politically well-connected trial lawyer lobby,” he said. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, representing the business sector, said that “in the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs’ lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit.” The CFPB said the proposal would give consumers “a day in court.” It also aims to create a deterrent effect through the threat of group lawsuits and increased transparency, the agency said. “Forced arbitration and class action bans force consumers into a biased, secretive, and lawless forum, preventing either a court or an arbitrator from ordering a lawbreaker to repay all of its victims,” Lauren Saunders, associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, said in a statement. Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Andrew Hay and Dan Grebler
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US Space Stations
The first American space station was Skylab, weighing 75 tones and measuring 25 m (82 ft) long, made from the converted top stage of a Saturn 5 rocket. The Skylab program is more complex and extensive than the Salyut programs.
In 1973 and 1974 the Skylab space station supported three crews of three astronauts each for periods of up to 84 days. Skylab was as large as a small two-bedroom house, contained extensive sanitary facilities, and usually maintained a constant temperature. Skylab astronauts were able to perform many scientific experiments in this environment. Many experiments on the effects of weightlessness were conducted, and astronauts studied the Earth and Sun with the telescope and infrared spectrometer. Solar panels provided the electricity needed to run the station. More than
740 hours were spent in observing the Sun with telescopes, and 175,000 solar pictures were returned to Earth, as were about 64 km (40 mi) of electronic data tape and 46,000 photographs of the Earth's surface. On July 11, 1979, during orbit number 34,981, Skylab plunged to Earth, raining fiery debris over sparsely populated Western Australia and over the Indian Ocean.
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Using fzf to Find, Preview, Then Open Files on the cli
fzf --preview "less {}" | xargs code
The above line does the following:
1. launches fzf in the current directory with a preview on the right that uses the less editor
2. Once you select a file it outputs the path of the file
3. We pipe this output and use it as an argument to the code command which then opens the file in vscode
I'm not quite sure how I'll place this within the cli tool. My main questions are:
1. FZF is installed using a sudo apt-get command. How do I ensure that everyone installing my npm package has FZF installed? This goes for any other tool that's not npm related.
2. On a side note - how do I also add in npm related packages as part of this?
3. Can't remember any more questions, I should have written them out before taking a break. But I'll probably run into them again then write them down
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User:Divini/Eustachio Divini
Eustachio Divini (1610-1685) was an Italian optician and experimenter in Rome
The origins
Eustachio was born on the 4th October 1610 in San Severino Marche, from the illustrious Divini's family. At the age of 4 his mother died and 7 years later his father died, so his brothers Vincenzo and Cipriano looked after him and his basic education before moving to Rome. At that time Divini was initiated into the military career but after a severe disease in 1629 he had to give up. After that he joined again his brothers.
The roman career
His brother Vincenzo, who frequented the literary and scientific circle in Rome, incited him to follow the lessons of monk Benedetto Castelli, disciple of Galilei. So Eustachio began his new fertile formative experience with people of his same age such as Evangelista Torricelli, Alfonso Borelli, Bonaventura Cavalieri and Michelangelo Ricci. Initially Divini practiced as a builder of clocks and lenses, but his good relationship and friendship with Torricelli, subsequently led him to cultivate their common interest, the construction of optic instruments, microscopes and telescopes and their improvement. About mid-century his lenses and glasses spread all over Europe. Many types of telescopes of various lengths were owned by prominent secular and ecclesiastical authorities in Rome. His reputation and earnings were obtained not only thanks to the manufacture of optical instruments, but also thanks to the attend of a circle of scholars of the Roman College, where the astronomical research and the quality of the instruments of observation were both important. Differently from Francini, Galilei’s artisan, this group produced new working methods and new optical systems. These discoveries were published and spread all over Europe. So it isn’t a surprise that the prestigious Science Academy of London dedicated to Divini with the inscription: “Divinus Eustachius De Sancto Severini, Insignis Mathematicus”.
Divini’s first publication was a print appeared in 1649 where he intended to document the possibilities offered by his telescopes. Indeed at the centre he depicted a selenography http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/oggetto/EustachioDiviniCartaLunaZoom.html derived from his observations of the full moon in March, using two telescopes, and around the crescent Saturn, Venus and Jupiter. He deserved fame mainly for his use of micrometer eyepiece consisting in a grid of wires inserted in a biconvex eyepiece, thanks to which he could draw the moonspots in the exact position. A copy of that selenography was given later by Eustachio Divini to his hometown San Severino, his birth town he kept in touch continuously, in spite of a scarce documentation, together with his brother Cipriano, a well-established painter in Rome.
Divini’s contributes to microscope optics and mechanics, shared with Campani brothers (Giuseppe and Matteo) in Naples, are unquestionable. http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/esplora/microscopio/dswmedia/storia/estoria1.swf He designed, among the others, coupled lenses to reduce spherical aberration, devised a mirror to send light onto the specimen to be observed, and created the Vase microscope http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/esplora/cannocchiale/dswmedia/storia/estoria5.html, quoted for having been used by Malpighi in his discovery of red blood cells flowing in capillaries around 1660. http://microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/museum/divinivase.html Eustachio Divini re-discovered the spot, the satellites shadows and the changing shape belt upon Jupiter in 1665, with his telescopes (after the famous astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini who first used Divini’s telescopes when he was living in Rome). These discoveries had permitted previously to argue out the rotation of Jupiter around its axis, whereas Divini was able to demonstrate the amateurs and astronomers community that his instruments were as effective as the ones made by his rivals, Campani brothers, manufacturer of telescopes for Cassini.
Challenges and disputes
It was around the middle of seventieth century, after the development of telescope handicraft initiated by Galilei, Francini, Fontana, Torricelli and others, that direct comparisons of telescopes - paragoni - became regular and exciting events in the Italian world of science. Eustachio Divini was one of the most relevant protagonists, against his will, of these contests. And he was the most honest of all competitors because of his fair and humble nature that prevented him to fraud the tests or to put forward mysterious (as much as sham) theoretical reasons, supposedly based on the laws of optics, to praise his lenses and instruments, as was done by more famous scientists (see Paolo Galluzzi, "Evangelista Torricelli: concezione della matematica e segreto degli occhiali", Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze, A. 1. fasc. 1, 1976, pp.86-89). Divini was sponsor and promoter of himself, based on his expertise, innovation and messages of superior quality that his only his lenses directly communicated to their owners in all Europe.
Divini’s reputation as the best European maker of telescopes begun to be damaged in 1656, when Christian Huygens announced the discovery of a "moon" of Saturno (the satellite that was called Titano later on). The dutch astronomer, discovered it in 1655 using his own telescopes, then followed its movements for months, seeing that the satellite make a complete revolution outer of Saturn “arms” every sixteen days. During those months he recognized also phases of different width in the anses, the formation accompanying the planet, and reasoned that If that body had to rotate remaining attached to the planet in a few days, its appearance should had been changing shape more frequently than it did. He recognized the role of that fortuitous circumstance in permitting him to guess and declare - in 1659 - the real nature of the planet’s ring. Nevertheless, while writing: “I perceive this ring very plainly with the eyes”, he was underestimating the role of his insights for the interpretation of what he had seen. (http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Extras/Huygens_Saturn.html). We can interpret Huygens’ worry to attribute his discovery to a visual fact as a sort of pre-defensive attitude, demonstrating that any change of the heavens based on the strongest logical reason, was still hampered by the Inquisition at that post-Galilean age. So Huygens, in his memorial dedicated to Prince Leopold of Medici (Systema Saturnium, http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/HST/Huygens/huygens.htm), suggested that the previous wrong interpretations as “opposite bodies” or “handle like formations” of Saturn ring were due to the inferior quality of the instruments. In the same opera Huygens attributed to Divini’s silkscreen the most faithful representation of the planet in circulation, while congratulating him as “praestantissimus percillorum artifex”, but he ascribed to Divini’s and criticized as intentional the introduction of “arbitrary nonexistent shadows, darker than the sky, between the body of the planet and the “bent handles”. Divini, who just wanted to represent the best that his telescopes permitted to see and not to solve astronomical queries, resented Huygens’ criticism. Also Divini had noticed in 1657 (Fabri Honoré; Eustachii de Divinis ... Brevis annotatio in systema Saturnium Christiani Hugenii ... una cum Christiani Hugenii responso, 1660) the satellite of Saturn, which previously he had considered a simple fixed star. Actually, the gap of the quality of his observations wasn’t big (all the instruments of that age had a resolution not better than 10’’, as to say that Saturn's ring was invisible to everybody (http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/telescopiogalileo/etel.asp?c=50022). But perhaps, as it often happens in Science, it was the availability or the insight of a good theory to allow Huygens a better representation of the whole Saturn's system. Unfortunately Huygens’s attitude offended Divini and provoked a series of attacks and retorts that led to mutual insults. Being Divini unable to write in Latin, he asked Honoré Fabri (a powerful French Jesuit anti-Copernican who lived in Rome and was user-estimator of Divini's telescopes) to translate his defense of the effectiveness of his own telescopes. But Fabri imposed on Divini by making a issue out of Huygen's avowed Copernicanism, imagining a number of light and dark satellites moving behind the planet in tight formation, in such a way to reproduce the appareance of the anses. The academicians of Cimento in Florence were involved in the quarrel receiving the "Brevis annotatio in Systema Saturnium" signed only by Divini. When also Huygens became aware - thanks to Pierre Guisony that was living in Rome in contact with Fabri - of this double attack he replied diminishing both his opponents, in a letter addressed to the Prince Leopold in Florence, where Divini was humiliated with the name of “ vitrarius artifex” (glassworker). Prince Leopold had built models of both hypotheses by Fabri's and Huygens' and had the academicians of Cimento observed them from a distance with several telescopes, to decide which one was more adequate to explain Saturn's appearances. After this interesting early application of the experimental method, Huygen's ring hypothesis was decidedly preferred (even if this decision remained unpublished to avoid diplomatic troubles). But Prince Leopold, a skilled astronomer, knew that the question of telescopes was disjointed from the theoretical one, and he was yet perfectly acquainted with Divini's telescopes quality. In fact he had viewed the shadow of Saturn's ring on the body of the planet with a telescope made by Divini, a result that Huygens would have been looking for a long time yet. So he proposed Huygens to submit his better telescope to a test in Holland, while the same test would be done in Italy to Divini's better telescope. Huygens did not comply, but he published a reply in 1660, "Brevis Assertio Systematis Saturni". Then followed a counter-reply in 1661, Pro sua Annotatione in Systema Saturnium Christiani Hugenii adversus ejusdem Assertionem, signed by Divini, where Fabri was yet reinforcing his hypothesis of multiple satellites (Saturn's companions), claiming that he and Divini could not help seeing Saturn surrounded by a ring while Divini was suggesting a paragone, in an ironic play, with two hundred scudi bet to the challenger. Huygens rejoiced in his victory over Fabri not responding to this challenge either, being sickened by both Divini and Fabri. The tardy back out of Fabri, who communicated to Huygens the untenableness of his theory in 1664-1665, was not at all enough to recovery Divini's reputation, severely tarnished by this episode, even because Fabri subtly justified his withdrawal to the better quality of the most recent observations with Campani's telescopes, the next rising star in lenses manufacture.
The same academy of Cimento in Florence was involved in another disputation to compare Divini’s and Campani’s instruments in 1664. First tests were not favourable to either of them, notwithstanding the paragoni had been carefully arranged by Matteo and Giuseppe Campani brothers to put Divini at as much of a disadvantage as possible. In the paragone of April, 30th 1664 Divini used a telescope manufactured by him with a very complex optical system and previously sold to the nephew of Pope Alexander VII, Cardinal Flavio Chigi, for a very high price. Since Divini's instruments was in the possession of Cardinal Chigi, the Campani brothers were able to make all the arrangements and substitutions without notifying Divini beforehand. Then Divini arrived in the place of the test to find his telescope arranged on chairs and was not allowed to check the conditions of the lenses or to make any changes on it, while Campani's telescope was beautifully mounted. Divini's telescope gave a worse performance of Campani's, but Divini, rather than making excuses, admitted that Campani's instrument was better than his and begged to be allowed to make the Cardinal a better telescope to replace the manifestly defective one. This easy victory and the humiliation of Divini initiated Campani to the success. The academy of Cimento and Prince Leopold was eager to know if Campani's telescopes were, indeed, better than those of Divini that had served them so well in Florence. So they inquired that the previous paragone in Rome was unfair and commanded specially designed experiments based on the reading of texts at a distance. The first of these does not permitted to establish the winner because the competitors used different telescopes; as Campani refuted to do the experiment in Florence, the test was done in different places and times (autumn 1964), Camapni moved a lamp closer to the sheet whose letters could be recognized also by insight, as being made of known words and famous phrases. The Accademia of Cimento devised better criteria, more similar to nowadays ophthalmic characters tables, but in the subsequent paragoni, in the late 1664, no one's telescope was definitely declared as best performer. In 1665 the Grand Duke Ferdinand II and Prince Leopold acquired a number of Campani and new Divini telescopes and subjected them to tests of their own in astronomical observations. Sometimes no clear advantage accrued either to Campani or Divini, until in July a 50-palm Campani telescope made for Cardinal Borromeo resulted to be much better than all other telescopes of similar lenght. Divini did not take Campani's victory well, arguing a freak or bare luck. Both the antagonists proposed to the Accademia del Cimento an impartial test based on the manufacturing of the best objective lenses with given curvature starting from the same piece of glass divided in two parts. In this way their skills as lens-makers could be assessed, but Prince Leopold did not act on the proposal: the dispute was over and Campani was the undisputed winner. Despite the undeniable merits of Divini's telescopes, it was just one of Campani's telescopes that won the day. Rather than this single defeat, they were mainly Cassini’s discoveries that promoted the products by Campani, up to the end of the century. Divini, resigned to leave the top position of his art to the antagonist, wrote with pride in 1666: “my glasses have lost nothing in this paragoni, in fact after the contest and even today I have new orders from Florence” (from letter to C. A. Manzini). There are also witnesses that as late as in 1671 lenses were commissioned to both Campani and Divini from the great Observatoire de Paris, directed by Cassini.
Back to San Severino
In 1674 Eustachio Divini still lived in Rome, but at some time later he decided to return to live finally in San Severino, preceded by Vincenzo (doctor until 1670) and Cipriano, charged for important public office. He had a considerable wealth, saved during his career. This is demonstrated by Saint Lorenzo’s pastor that registered Divini’s death on the 22nd of February 1685 dedicating an unusual space quoting details of the notorial act of Divini’s donation.
The Technical Institute of San Severino Marche was named after the famous scientist Eustachio Divini in 1983, on the occasion of renewed historical studies on his scientific and technological development.
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The story of Adu Bofo is not wholly documented in the cultural history of his people even though he is one of the greatest military generals ever known in the great Ashanti history of Ghana. His survival throughout the years has depended mainly on a few mentions in research as well as folktales and songs sang among the Ashantis.
But the story of the great military general who fought in many battles, owned and sold many slaves to both local and foreign slave traders is one worth knowing and digging up.
From various readings, he is described as a son of slaves. Among the Ashanti social class systems, slaves were the lowest of people even though tradition expected that they were treated with respect. They were poor people who belonged to other people after being captured, sold or designated.
Adu Bofo’s father, Opoku Frefre managed to rise among the social classes and become a military general. In 1811, Opoku Frefre led the Ashanti army against the Akyem Abuakwa. After emerging victorious, he manipulated the King at the time, Osei Bonsu, to make his sons eligible to the office of Gyasewa stool.
Osei Bonsu agreed to this after a lot of convincing, and Adu Bofo was thus born a “military royal” in his rights, but the significance and recognition of the Gyasewa stool were through the success of Adu Bofo. Adu Bofo became the fifth successor to the Gyasewa stool as the youngest son of Opoku Frefre.
At the time, the British were marking and extending their territory in the hopes of gaining complete rule over the Gold Coast, and the Ashanti and its army were notorious for fighting their way out of colonization.
Adu Bofo was very much feared among the people but loved by the Ashanti locals. In the book written by Sandra. E. Greene West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century Ghana, Adu Bofo makes an appearance in the 1870s and was described as a raider of communities for captives and being served his food by slaves ordered from the Royal Palace.
His most significant role was his Krepi war campaign in the Volta Region of Ghana. The Ashanti were a dominant military force that was facing battles with the Anum and the Krepi. With the help of the Akwamu, the Ashantis attacked their enemies but were defeated due to the steepness of the hill at the time. Many Ashanti and Akwamu officers were killed when their enemies sent down huge rocks from the mountain preventing the Ashantis from reaching the top until Adu Bofo told his mean to retreat.
Despite being ordered to abandon the Krepi War Campaign, Adu Bofo went against the orders of the King and persisted until he defeated them and captured slaves in 1869 including white Basel missionaries who were taken to Kumasi. The missionaries, who were stationed near the east bank of the lower Volta, were identified as Ramseyer, Kuhn, Ramseyer’s wife and an infant child. They documented their captivity which spanned a period of 4 years between 1870 and 1874.
The British governor at the time named Hennessy had sent Plange, an Elmina mulatto with immense European diplomatic training from Holland and a former Dutch envoy, to Kumasi to negotiate the release of the missionaries with Adu Bofo.
Bofo asked the British governor to make a payment of 1,800 ounces of gold in exchange for the captured missionaries. This was how they were released.
In 1870, General Bofo fought and killed Dompre in the Battle at Abutia. With this success, Adu Bofo was ordered to return to Kumasi where the then Asanatehene, Kofi Karikari honoured him.
Adu Bofo was promoted to the position of commander of the army for the South-West while being the commander for the Asante Army as well. He became a very powerful and wealthy military officer and a slave owner /trader capturing people and selling them off as slaves to wealthy locals in Kumasi and Elmina.
He was also sent off on a mission to invade the British protected territories which he successfully did freeing a lot of Ashanti captives and capturing British officials.
Adu Bofo’s role in the Ashanti military and their fight against the British is widely spoken of till date. Many scholars have recorded the trouble that his army brought invading settlements under the British.
Through his role and achievements, Adu Bofo brought much prestige to the Gyasewa stool which before his time, was established as a small supporting staff to the military. In 1883, the Asantehene blackened Adu Bofo’s stool going against the custom and bringing great honour to the Adu Bofo legacy.
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• Stress is highly contagious. Simply observing someone else in a stressful situation typically elicits an empathic stress response in the observer
• Empathic stress can be felt whether you’re observing a stranger or an intimate partner, and via direct observation or television
• Happiness is contagious too. People who are surrounded by many happy people are more likely to become happy in the future
• While stress may damage your health, positive thoughts are able to prompt changes in your body that strengthen your immune system, boost positive emotions, decrease pain and chronic disease, and provide stress relief
• While you can create happiness artificially by taking drugs or drinking alcohol, for instance, the same endorphin and dopamine high can be achieved via healthful habits like exercise, laughter, hugging and kissing, sex, or bonding with your child
Science Says Stress Is Contagious
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By Dr. Mercola
If you're stressed out and you can't put your finger on why, it might be worth considering the company you keep. New research shows that stress is highly contagious, not just in how you feel but in the way your body responds physically as well.
If you surround yourself with others who are stressed (either by choice or circumstance), it's probably affecting your mental and physical health. And get this… the same holds true for watching stressful situations on television.
'Astonishing' Demonstration of Empathic Stress
The new research, published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology,1 revealed that simply observing someone else in a stressful situation typically elicits an empathic stress response in the observer.
For instance, when observing stressed participants (who were asked to solve difficult arithmetic tasks and engage in interviews) through a one-way mirror, 30 percent of the observers experienced a stress response in the form of an increase in the stress hormone cortisol.
When the observer had a romantic relationship with the stressed participant, the emphatic stress response was even stronger, affecting 40 percent. However, even when observing a stressed stranger, 10 percent of observers felt similarly stressed. The stress response was transmitted not only when observers watched the event live, through a one-way mirror, but also via video transmission.
About 24 percent of the observers had increased cortisol levels when they watched a televised version of the stressful event. One of the study's researchers noted that stress has "enormous contagion potential" and called their results "astonishing:"2
"The fact that we could actually measure this empathic stress in the form of a significant hormone release was astonishing… There must be a transmission mechanism via which the target's state can elicit a similar state in the observer down to the level of a hormonal stress response… even television programs depicting the suffering of other people can transmit that stress to viewers."
Why Your Health May Suffer from Empathic Stress
If you're often around stressed-out people, or you choose to watch stressful programming on TV, your health could suffer. Your stress level is a major player in your overall health, impacting your risk of chronic health conditions like heart disease, depression, and obesity.
But unlike other more obvious risk factors, like over-indulging in junk food or not exercising, stress is more insidious, subtly sneaking up on you over time, increasing your risk of health problems even as you don't noticeably feel sick or realize that your chronically stressed-out state is slowly zapping away your vitality.
Stress turns ugly when it is either extremely severe, such as facing combat or another traumatic scenario, or long-term.
It is the latter that poses a risk to many Americans, who live in a chronically elevated state of stress and anxiety – and often pass that stressful state on to those around them. Over time, chronic stress may impair your immune system and cause a number of detrimental events in your body, including:
Decreased nutrient absorption Elevated cholesterol Increased food sensitivity
Decreased oxygenation to your gut Elevated triglycerides Heartburn
As much as four times less blood flow to your digestive system, which leads to decreased metabolism Decreased gut flora populations Decreased enzymatic output in your gut – as much as 20,000-fold!
Further, when your body remains in a stress-induced "fight-or-flight" mode for too long, one of the most common consequences of this scenario is that your adrenal glands, faced with excessive stress and burden, become overworked and fatigued. This can lead to a number of related health conditions, including fatigue, autoimmune disorders, skin problems, and more.
Stress has also been linked to cancer by down-regulating immunosurveillance, potentially triggering the growth of tumors, and even activating multidrug resistance genes within cancer cells. In fact, stress, and by proxy your emotional health, is a leading factor in the majority of diseases or illnesses you can think of.
Birds Have a Unique Way of Handling Stress Better Than Humans
Stress responses in birds (and all vertebrates) are remarkably similar to those that occur in humans. The same hormones are involved, including increases in corticosteroids (corticosterone in birds is basically the same as cortisol in humans).
Also, like (many) humans, birds live a stressful existence, foraging for food, breeding and raising offspring, facing possible predation, and migrating into incredibly unpredictable environments. Interestingly, researchers with the University of California Davis' Birds and Seasonality Project have found that certain songbirds, including Smith's Longspurs and White Crowned Sparrows, which migrate to the Arctic to breed, have developed a way to alter their stress response.3
The Arctic is clearly a very stressful, challenging environment, which would ordinarily prompt an extreme stress response. But the researchers found that the birds are able to dampen, and in some cases, completely "turn off" their stress responses, which essentially allows them to raise their nestlings in the extreme conditions (if a high stress response persisted, it might prompt the birds to abandon their nests). The birds appear to be among one of few vertebrates with this ability, although the researchers are still trying to figure out exactly how the birds essentially flip off their "stress response switch."
Happiness Is Contagious, Too
If stress is contagious, it would seem plausible that happiness would be contagious, too, and research shows it very much is. One of the latest studies toward this end examined the emotional content of one billion Facebook posts and suggested that while both positive and negative emotions seem to be contagious, positive emotions are actually more contagious than negative emotions.4 Other research has shown that people who are surrounded by many happy people are more likely to become happy in the future. The effect applies not only to those in close contact with the happy person, but also extends out to three degrees of separation.5
For instance, in relation to one happy person:
• The spouse has an eight percent increased chance of happiness
• The next-door neighbor has a 34 percent increased chance of happiness
• A friend who lives within a mile has a 25 percent increased chance of happiness
Also like stress, happiness alters your physical health, although in a positive instead of negative way. Positive thoughts and attitudes are able to prompt changes in your body that strengthen your immune system, boost positive emotions, decrease pain and chronic disease, and provide stress relief. One study found, for instance, that happiness, optimism, life satisfaction, and other positive psychological attributes are associated with a lower risk of heart disease.6
It's even been scientifically shown that happiness can alter your genes! A team of researchers at UCLA showed that people with a deep sense of happiness and well-being had lower levels of inflammatory gene expression and stronger antiviral and antibody responses.7 This falls into the realm of epigenetics—changing the way your genes function by turning them off and on.
What Happens to Your Cells When You Experience Happiness?
Positive emotions like happiness, hope, and optimism prompt changes in your body's cells, even triggering the release of feel-good brain chemicals. While you can create happiness artificially by taking drugs or drinking alcohol, for instance, the same endorphin and dopamine high can be achieved via healthful habits like exercise, laughter, hugging and kissing, sex, or bonding with your child. If you're wondering just how powerful and effective this can be, a 10-second hug a day can lead to biochemical and physiological reactions in your body that can significantly improve your health. According to one study, this includes:8
Lower risk of heart disease Stress reduction Fight fatigue
Boost your immune system Fight infections Ease depression
According to Dr. Marianna Pochelli, a doctor of naturopathic medicine:9
"As far as your brain, every thought releases brain chemicals. Being focused on negative thoughts effectively saps the brain of its positive forcefulness, slows it down, and can go as far as dimming your brain's ability to function, even creating depression. On the flip side, thinking positive, happy, hopeful, optimistic, joyful thoughts decreases cortisol and produces serotonin, which creates a sense of well-being.
This helps your brain function at peak capacity. Happy thoughts and positive thinking, in general, support brain growth, as well as the generation and reinforcement of new synapses, especially in your prefrontal cortex (PFC), which serves as the integration center of all of your brain-mind functions."
These physical changes in your cells lead to multiple net benefits, including:10
• Stimulating the growth of nerve connections
• Improving cognition by increasing mental productivity
• Improving your ability to analyze and think
• Affecting your view of your surroundings and increasing attentiveness
• Leading to even more happy thoughts
A Simple Strategy for Boosting Your Happiness
Practicing "mindfulness" means that you're actively paying attention to the moment you're in right now, helping you to keep your internal focus. Rather than letting your mind wander, when you're mindful you're living in the moment and letting distracting thoughts pass through your mind without getting caught up in their emotional implications. Mindfulness can help to reduce stress-induced inflammation, and it's a strong example of how you can harness your own sense of power and control to achieve what you want in life, including a more positive, happier mental state. Simple techniques such as the following can help you to become more mindful:
• Pay focused attention to an aspect of sensory experience, such as the sound of your own breathing
• Distinguish between simple thoughts and those that are elaborated with emotion (such as "I have a test tomorrow" versus "What if I fail my test tomorrow and flunk my entire class?")
• Reframe emotional thoughts as simply "mental projections" so your mind can rest
Still, for many, happiness can be a poorly defined, elusive goal. One way to think about happiness is to define it as "whatever gets you excited." Once you've identified that activity, whatever it is, you can start focusing your mind around that so you can integrate more of it into your daily life. If you feel stuck and don't know where or how to start, I suggest reviewing these 22 positive habits of happy people.
Is Stress Holding You Back? Try This Technique to Set Yourself Free
It's difficult to be happy when you're consumed by stress, which is why regular stress management is crucial. For some, this might include staying away from negative or overly stressed individuals, or at the very least turning off the nightly news if it is too upsetting, to avoid feeling empathic stress. Ultimately, however, what you do for stress relief is a personal choice, as your stress management techniques must appeal to you and, more importantly, work for you. If a round of kickboxing helps you get out your frustration, then do it. If meditation is more your speed, that's fine, too.
Even having a good cry now and then may be beneficial, as tears that are shed due to an emotional response, such as sadness or extreme happiness, contain a high concentration of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) — a chemical linked to stress. One theory of why you cry when you're sad is that it helps your body release some of these excess stress chemicals, thereby helping you feel more calm and relaxed. Energy psychology techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can be very effective as well, by helping you to actually reprogram your body's reactions to the unavoidable stressors of everyday life.
This is important as, generally speaking, a stressor becomes a problem when:
• Your response to it is negative
• Your feelings and emotions are inappropriate for the circumstances
• Your response lasts an excessively long time
• You're feeling continuously overwhelmed, overpowered, or overworked
When you use EFT, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on your head and chest while you think about your specific problem -- whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. -- and voice positive affirmations. This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" -- the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of chronic stress. You can view a demonstration below.
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The result was redirect to Pop Smoke discography. There is no consensus to delete the article, however a redirect will retain the article history if such a time comes when there are sufficient sources to satisfy notability criteria. (non-admin closure) Bungle (talk • contribs) 18:12, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
100k on a Coupe
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Not too many reliable resources. Article should be redirected after to Pop Smoke discography The Ultimate Boss (talk) 03:50, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. HĐ (talk) 04:46, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. HĐ (talk) 04:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
* Redirect to Pop Smoke discography -- Much of the "background" section sounds like trivia. Only two sources for song reviews. This song has not even charted. HĐ (talk) 04:52, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
* Keep: the song may only have a small number of sources, but the appearance in GTA being mentioned helps constitute notability despite it not charting. --K. Peake 06:27, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
* Being featured in GTA does not make it inherently notable, I believe. HĐ (talk) 06:59, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
* Redirect to Pop Smoke discography a lot of trivia. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 12:34, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
* Keep per Kyle Peake. Enough reliably to warrant its own article. The Ultimate Boss (talk) 16:36, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
* Redirect or delete. The sources here are second- or third-tier and being one of hundreds of songs in Grand Theft Auto V doesn't qualify for making this song important enough to warrant its own article. Wasted Time R (talk) 17:45, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
* HĐ and Wasted Time R I added more sources to the article. Lmk if you guys think it's better? The Ultimate Boss (talk) 03:48, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
* It's more of the same kind of sources really. The essence of the article seems to be that the artists thought it would be a hit and people in the online hip-hop world liked it ... and then it didn't chart anywhere. Kind of odd. That said, I don't have strong feelings about this one, so if it's kept, that's okay with me too. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:23, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 06:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
* Redirect to Pop Smoke discography. Not really much here; could be reduced to three sentences in another article or something idk. Heartfox (talk) 19:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
* Keep even if not a lot of sources are independent of the song, they talk about it in good detail rather than just reviews or other fluff. --K. Peake 06:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
* You already wrote "keep" in bold above. Heartfox (talk) 18:18, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
* Discussion was relisted. --K. Peake 21:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
* Striking this as you can't vote multiple times in an AfD. A discussion is relisted to generate a clearer consensus, not to allow editors to reinforce their already expressed opinion (although you're welcome to add followup comments to your original vote). Bungle (talk • contribs) 18:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Warhead (video game)
Warhead is a 3D space combat simulator for Amiga (A500 and A2000) and Atari ST platforms. It was created by British developer Glyn Williams in 1989.
The game takes place during a war between the alien forces of Sirius and the humans of Earth. The player fights for the Earth forces. The game is played as sequential missions. Completing a mission successfully lets the player advance to the next mission. It is possible to save the game status after each mission, but not during a mission. Typical mission objectives include intelligence gathering, search and rescue missions, destroying enemies and protecting friendly forces. The player is sent for missions from "SolBase", a military base orbiting the Sun. The player must travel to different solar systems using a device that allows faster than light travel through quad-space, which is a form of hyperspace.
Warhead spawned a spiritual sequel, XF5700 Mantis in 1992.
Story
The story revolves around the fight between the forces of Sirius and the humans of Earth. The player has been enrolled as a fighter pilot for the "Fist of Earth" space force. The player is led to believe that the forces of Sirius have attacked humans for an unknown reason.
The enemy are an insect-like species from the star system Sirius. It is suspected that their present evolutionary form was achieved at the time there were non-avian dinosaurs on Earth. It is also theorised that insects on Earth and Sirius share the same ancestor.
No one knows why they attacked. It is only speculated that they may have wanted to reduce Earth back to the state of barbarism. It is speculated that the insects, or "Roaches" as they are called, may share a common ancestor with Earth's insects. They are a group-mind and have shared consciousness. Tens or even hundreds are required for any real intelligence. Some even argue that they are more like one entity than numerous individuals.
The group-mind is based on radio communication which is a natural property of the metallic parts in their bodies. It is speculated that spaceship manufacturing technology is relatively new for the Sirians and that the first Sirian vessel was launched in 1897 from Sirius Five.
The Earth was attacked in the year 2045 by a Sirian fleet. The invasion led to a planetary winter and three billion casualties, and within a few years a third of the Earth population died as a consequence.
Political unity and the dissolution of national borders on Earth were the results of the attack. The organisation called the "Fist of Earth" was formed to defend planet Earth. The most significant military base, "SolBase", was built in Earth's orbit. When SolBase became operational, it was moved to orbit the Sun. This was thought to be the most effective position to defend the Solar System as a whole. The Fist of Earth sent a fighter pilot navigating the FOE-57 spacecraft on a series of missions to stop the Sirians and protect humanity.
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How to open a webpage in java?
1. Create a URL object and pass url as string to download the webpage.
2. Create Buffered Reader object and pass openStream().
3. Create a string object to read each line one by one from stream.
4. Write each line in html file where webpage will be downloaded.
5. Close all objects.
How do I open a website link?
How to Open Hyperlinks in a New Browser Tab or Window. The short answer is: just add a target=”_blank” attribute to your links (anchor tags). Now when your visitors click that link, it will open in a new window or tab (depending on which web browser they are using and how they configured that browser).
How do I open a JFrame website?
To show a webpage in a JFrame or JPanel using JTextPane, you should use the setPage() method of JTextPane class. You can either load a website from internet or a web page (web document) from your localhost.
Can you make a web page with Java?
The simplest way to start making websites with Java is to use JSP. JSP stands for Java Server Pages, and it allows you to embed HTML in Java code files for dynamic page creation. In order to compile and serve JSPs, you will need a Servlet Container, which is basically a web server that runs Java classes.
What is scraping a website?
Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract content and data from a website. … Web scraping is used in a variety of digital businesses that rely on data harvesting. Legitimate use cases include: Search engine bots crawling a site, analyzing its content and then ranking it.
How do I open Java in Chrome?
1. // System Property for Chrome Driver.
2. System. setProperty(“webdriver. chrome. driver”,”D:\ChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe”);
3. // Instantiate a ChromeDriver class.
4. WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
Is Python same as Java?
Java is a statically typed and compiled language, and Python is a dynamically typed and interpreted language. … With it, the libraries for Python are immense, so a new programmer will not have to start from scratch. Java is old and still widely used, so it also has a lot of libraries and a community for support.
Can we use Java in HTML?
The Java applet could be embedded into a web page by using the HTML label (also known as an element) “applet.” However, practically all web browsers have discontinued the support for Java applets. Luckily, there are also Java applications that run on the server-side.
What is JSP page in Java?
JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java standard technology that enables you to write dynamic, data-driven pages for your Java web applications. JSP is built on top of the Java Servlet specification. The two technologies typically work together, especially in older Java web applications.
Is website scraping legal?
So is it legal or illegal? Web scraping and crawling aren’t illegal by themselves. After all, you could scrape or crawl your own website, without a hitch. … Big companies use web scrapers for their own gain but also don’t want others to use bots against them.
Is web scraping difficult?
Web-scraping can be challenging if you want to mine data from complex, dynamic websites. If you’re new to web-scraping, then we recommend that you begin with an easy website: one that is mostly static and has little, if any, AJAX or JavaScript. … Web-scraping can be also challenging if you don’t have the proper tools.
Why is web scraping?
Web scraping can help you extract any kind of data that you want. … You would then be able to retrieve, analyze and use the data the way you want. So web scraping simplifies the process of extracting data, speeds it up by automating it and creates easy access to the scrapped data by providing it in a CSV format.
How do I open a browser?
1. Click the Windows “Start” button in the lower left corner of your screen to launch the Start menu.
2. Click the “All Programs” button to load a list of all the programs currently available for use on your computer.
3. Click “Internet Explorer” on the All Programs menu.
How do I run ChromeDriver?
1. Step 1: First download the ChromeDriver.
2. Step 2: Once the zip file is downloaded for the operating system, unzip it to retrieve the chromedriver.exe executable file.
3. Step 3: Now copy the path where the ChromeDriver file is saved to set the system properties in environment variables.
How do I open Chrome browser?
1. Download the latest ChromeDriver binary from Chromium.org download page and place the executable on your local machine.
2. Set the webdriver.chrome.driver property to the chromeDriver.exe’s location as- System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “chromeDriver.exe path”);
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Web conferencing and remote desktop applications require the desktop of one computer to be encoded and transmitted over a network, often the internet, to be displayed on a remote screen. Video compression techniques have to be used to achieve the low data rate needed for real time transmission. However, common video codecs like the well-known H.264/AVC and also the latest standards H.265/HEVC and VP9 are primarily optimized for natural video sequences. To this end, they work using the YCbCr color space involving 4:2:0 chrominance sub-sampling. However, this may lead to annoying artifacts with screen content, e.g. at sharp edges or text.
There are different possibilities to avoid or correct these artifacts. However, to do so in an automatic manner, it is first necessary to automatically detect image areas with a high perceived error. Although there are several widespread image quality measures like the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and the Structural Similarity Measure (SSIM), these measures are generally inappropriate to describe the perceived error in screen content images introduced by the chrominance sub-sampling. Therefore, a more suitable measure has recently been developed.
The task of this Bachelor's thesis is the enhancement of this new measure with regard to automatic classification of disturbing image areas. Special focus should be put on the verification based on a variety of screen content images, where new test images should be created for.
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Berit Allison Johnson, a daughter of B. Kristine Johnson and Robbin S. Johnson of Wayzata, Minn., was married Aug. 26 to Michael Kramer Hoffmann, the son of Jacquelyn W. Hoffmann and Mark H. Hoffmann of San Mateo, Calif. The Rev. Gary L. Langness, a Lutheran pastor, officiated at Flying Diamond Ranch, an events venue in Oak Creek, Colo. The bride, 29, and the groom 31, met at Stanford, from which each received an M.B.A. Mrs. Hoffman works in San Francisco as a senior product manager in the cloud division at Google. She graduated from Yale. Her father retired as a senior vice president for corporate affairs at Cargill, the food, agriculture, industrial and financial products company in Wayzata. Her mother is the president of Affinity Capital Management, an investment company in Minneapolis. Mr. Hoffman also works in San Francisco, where he is a vice president, specializing in leveraged buyouts and other investments in software companies, at Thoma Bravo, a private investment firm. He graduated from Harvard. The groom’s mother is a director, managing allocation of the company’s pension assets into private investment firms, in the financial services division of Siemens, the German conglomerate; she works in Palo Alto, Calif. His father is the operations chief of the Fire Department of Oakland, Calif.
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* Series: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | Specials | Main
June 21st, 2009 [13.1]
* [During the opening sequence]
* Jeremy: Tonight. Richard tries to start a motorbike. James fill his car with petrol. And I get a British Rail sun tan.
* [During the coming-in-this-series preview of the Val Thorens race from 13.5]
* Jeremy: Get out of my way, Frenchists!
* [The steam engine has had a water injector malfunction, then resume operation]
* Jeremy: You know they say steam engines have moods…
* Engineer: It was its time of the month for about ten minutes.
* [on the Stig]
* Jeremy: Some say he invented the curtain, and that he recently submitted a £20,000 expenses claim for some gravel...for his moat. All we know is, he's called the Stig.
* [About the London to Edinburgh race]
* Richard: When we left the action, Jeremy was in the lead just approaching Doncaster, I was in second place and, as you would expect, Captain Slow was bringing up the rear...
* James: Steady.
* Richard: ...Hoping to take me from behind.
* James: Yeah alright.
* Richard: And then press home his advantage and take Jeremy in the tunnel...
* James: Stop saying things like that!
* [on the Black Shadow, in last place due to not being able to start it and then later accidentally stalling it]
* Richard: OK. A few things to get used to. The gear lever is on the other side of the bike. So at the moment, every time I want to brake, I'm changing gear instead and if I want to change gear, I'm braking. It's not ideal. Brakes are the originals, and surprisingly good. The only trouble is, they're full of asbestos.
* [riding the Black Shadow]
* Richard: I am now straddling my boyhood hero! No, no, wait. That's not right, no. Between my legs... No.
* [Jeremy, covered in soot, has just walked into the bar and collapsed after running there from the steam engine]
* James: [holding a glass of beer up to Jeremy's mouth] Jeremy! Speak to me!
* [after James overtakes Richard in the 1949 race, Richard calls Jeremy, who is several miles ahead]
* Jeremy: Hammond, where are you?
* Richard: Um, I'm about thirty miles south of Doncaster.
* Jeremy: Oh, dear! We're in York.
* Richard: What?!
* Jeremy: Where's James?
* Richard: He's just overtaken me, but his Jag is drinking fuel, so with a bit of luck, he'll stop for fuel before I do, and I can overtake him again.
* Jeremy: Or he'll catch fire?
* [Richard hears a tannoy announcement telling him to turn his mobile phone off]
* Jeremy: What's that noise?
* Richard: It's me being told off not to use a mobile phone by the man.
* Jeremy: Go and tell him it's 1949.
* Richard: Yes, so we can't have mobile phones.
* [as the train starts to pull out of the station, it does a wheelspin]
* Jeremy: Yes! That was wheelspin! On a 96-tonne train!
* Richard: You're-- That is a steam train, isn't it? It's not got some nuclear device on board as well?
* [the train is now on the move again]
* Jeremy: [voiceover] No. What it had on board was a fresh crew. And that meant a fresh set of muscles.
* [Jeremy has just left Berwick aboard Tornado, but has found out that James is in the lead.]
* Jeremy: How far north of Berwick are you?
* James: Less than ten miles.
* Jeremy: How far?
* James: Less than ten miles.
* Jeremy: Seventeen?
* James: No, less than ten!
* Jeremy: Thirty?
* James: [losing patience] LESS THAN TEN! [laughs] What a cock-end! Honestly!
* [Jeremy, Richard and James are beginning on the news.]
* Jeremy: Now as we know, to try and shore up the car industry, the Government recently announced that if you scrap your old Singer Gazelle, you get £2000 off the price of a new car.
* James: But why is it just cars?
* Jeremy: What are you suggesting; "Dear The Government, I've just found some rancid bacon in the back of my fridge; can I have a big pile of money to buy a shiny new lobster?"
* [During the news, discussing the Skoda Fabia Scout]
* Richard: ...so presuming that it comes with a 10p piece, bit of string in the glove box, and it pitches up on your doorstep every year to ask for a pound to clean itself.
* James: So I supposed that every summer it goes off and sort of stays in the countryside somewhere, and is... touched inappropriately.
* [crowd laughs]
* Jeremy: No, no James. [crowd continues laughing] No, no James. That's the Skoda Catholic Church.
* [Jeremy is about to discuss a car smaller than the Peel P50.]
* Jeremy: Now, we have some bad news.
* James: [dryly] Dacia Sandero.
* Jeremy: [firmly] No, not the Dacia Sandero.
* Jeremy: Get off topic, just for a moment; you see, I was driving down here this morning and I couldn't help noticing that my Mercedes just said on the dashboard [puts on bad German accent] "your service is due in tventy-six days". [resumes normal voice] I just thought "How Germanic and boring is that?"
* Richard: [whispering] ...and precise.
* Jeremy: And then I was thinking "What's going to happen on the twenty-seventh day when inevitably I still haven't had it serviced?"
* James: [in bad German accent] Cooler, sree veeks... Mezzr. Clarkson...
* [Michael Schumacher as the Stig is driving the Reasonably Priced Car very badly]
* Jeremy: Here he is, final corner... [the car doesn't turn up] ...Michael Schumacher is lost, everybody!!!
June 28th, 2009 [13.2]
* [During the opening sequence]
* Jeremy: Tonight. We throw a chair over a hedge. A Quite Interesting man drives our reasonably priced car. And for the first time ever the Bugatti Veyron races a McLaren F1.
* [During the challenge, inside the Top Gear office, talking to insurance sales people]
* Richard: No, no accidents in the last five years. [immediately looks at the camera]
* [Also talking to insurance sales people]
* Jeremy: But that's 15 times the price of the car! What you're saying is, I'm going to completely write-off the car 15 times a year.
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* Jeremy: Well there's a Top Gear top tip right there. If you're a 17 year old boy and need car insurance, slice your penis off.
* Richard: I would've done.
* James: I did. [Richard and Jeremy laugh out loudly]
* James: Yup. I nearly did.
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* [After Richard and James arrive at the school with their used cars]
* Richard: [Narrating] And then, a geography teacher arrived.
* [The "geography teacher" is, in fact, Jeremy, who is driving a beige Volvo 940 estate]
* James: God above, I thought that was one of the teachers!
* Richard: [Laughing as Jeremy gets out of his car] I'm sorry, I'm 17, "Happy birthday, son!" [Richard fakes crying for a moment]
* Jeremy: [Completely serious] Perfect car for any 17-year-old.
* Richard: Why?
* Jeremy: Why?
* Richard: Yes!
* Jeremy: My turbo!
* Richard: It is a low-pressure turbo.
* Jeremy: [To James] What have you got?
* James: I've got a Golf.
* Jeremy: Has it got a turbo?
* James: No.
* Richard: [Talking about his own car] They did do a turbo--
* Jeremy: What is that?
* Richard: That's a Hyundai S-coupé, and they did do a turbo.
* James: Not on this one.
* Richard: No, not on this particular one.
* Jeremy: So you turn up, at the school, here's my turbo. There's another very important issue that we must address: The most precious thing in your life, your child, speaking as a parent, is sitting in that seat, yes?
* Both: Yes.
* Jeremy: [Indicating the hood] Look at the amount of metal between him and the tree he will inevitably hit!
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* James: [Reading from the first challenge card] You must now imagine that you are 17...
* Jeremy: Yes.
* James: ...and modify your cars accordingly, in order to do what any 17-year-old boy wants to do: attract girls!
* Richard: [Laughing at Jeremy] You've had it! Well look at your beige Volvo!
* Jeremy: Just--get on...
* James: [Continuing] Your budget is whatever you have left from your original £2,500.
* Jeremy: [To James] So how much have you got?
* James: 300 quid.
* Jeremy: [To Richard] You?
* Richard: 500 quid! You?
* Jeremy: ...naught.
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* Jeremy: Guys! Problem!
* James: What?
* Jeremy: I've shoved my anarchy flag through my water lilo!
* Richard: Nobody's ever said that before.
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* [Jeremy is slipping badly on the slope while trying to escape the clutches of the Glastonbury car park.]
* Jeremy: [as if in a crisis] OH, P-L-E-A-S-E!! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME!!!
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* [During the news, about the car insurance]
* Richard: Can I just point out before we do move on, if you do decide to put yourself on your parents' insurance, and you have a crash, and the insurance company find out that it was really your car...
* James: Which they will if it's got a body kit on it.
* Jeremy: Or even half a body kit. [part of Hammond's body kit had fallen off in an earlier challenge]
* Richard: Alright, whatever. The point is, if the insurance company find out that it really was your car after all, they won't pay out. And then they can prosecute you, and then you might have to go to jail. And then one day you'll be in the showers and a big, strange man will come and-
* Jeremy: [interrupting] Oookayy! Okay...
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* [During the news, while commenting on the cheap car challenge]
* James: I thought the best noise that ever came out of a car was the one coming out of the stereo of my seventeen-year-old Golf until you two touched it inappropriately.
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* [commenting on the furore over North Korea's nuclear tests]
* James: Why would the South Koreans nuke Hammersmith?
* Jeremy: They used American guidance systems?
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* [Jeremy has just remembered about the Ferrari FXX lap, and has bad news.]
* Jeremy: Last week, a man came here, claiming to be the Stig. Maybe he is, we don't know. Okay? Maybe he is, but what we do know is he set a time of one minute, ten seconds in a Ferrari FXX round our track, top of our leaderboard. We subsequently discovered he was doing that on slick tyres. Now we have rules on this powerboard here, okay—you can't use slicks, so this time is coming off.
* [Crowd boos as the time comes off.]
* Jeremy: [indignantly] Oh, boo?!! [Crowd laughs] This is a dictatorship! You want to live in a democracy, go to Iran!
* Richard: I have to work with that. Week in, week out.
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* [Richard has parked his car noiselessly and safely, and now it is Jeremy's turn. All is rather quiet until...]
* Jeremy: [in a frustrated yell] OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!
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* James: [Clarkson turned on his stereo while he was trying to quietly park] God's sake. No! [Lights turn on as Clarkson and Hammond laugh] You're so unfunny.
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* [James has sent the supermarket trolleys flying with his handbrake turn, but the teenage girls are paying no attention.]
* Richard: They're hot for James May right now!
* [Jeremy laughs loudly.]
* James: I might as well have cut my penis off for all the good that did.
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* [Richard has crashed his car. Jeremy runs over to it and opens the door.]
* Jeremy: You alright?
* [After hearing no answer from Richard, he closes the door again.]
* Jeremy: [mournfully] Dead.
* James: Really?
* Jeremy: Yeah... [sniffs] Yeah. Anyway, er...
* James: Back to the studio.
* Jeremy: [indignantly] That's my line!
* [Later, in the studio...]
* Richard: [gently] Luckily, children, I got better; you may not be so lucky.
* James: [also gently] Yes, it's like my penis: that grew back. Yours might not.
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* [An irate Jeremy is trying to stop the windscreen wiper while in the studio.]
* Richard: This is consumer advice as well, so...
* Jeremy: [frustrated] SHUT UUUUUP!
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* Jeremy: Well of course, what we have proved there is that the Bugatti Veyron, which we know to be the fastest car in the world, is faster than another kind of car.
July 5th, 2009 [13.3]
* Jeremy: Tonight. We shout at the government. A man drives a Subaru through a building. And a dog goes in a car.
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* Richard: And now we must do the news, and starting off with Citroën, they've made a new C3, here it is, and... well, it's a Citroën, it looks like that, but the most important thing about it is, for this car, they've invented a new word.
* Jeremy: Word?
* Richard: They've actually, they've put it in their publicity material for it, and it's, it's "visiodrive". They confess they've made that up, it's a whole... new word! Visio... drive.
* Jeremy: I'm sort of sympathetic.
* Richard: Why?
* Jeremy: Because none of the words you would normally use to describe a Citroën would work very well in their own publicity blurb, would they? Like... "flimsy".
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* [during the news]
* Jeremy: As men, we all know that you should never, ever buy a woman something with a plug on it. Yeah? We know that.
* James: I did.
* Jeremy: What?
* James: I did.
* Jeremy: You bought your girlfriend an electrical appliance.
* James: Yeah, I got her a power drill.
* Richard: James! James, she's a ballet correspondent.
* James: Well, that's what she wanted! She said "I want that power drill," so I got it for her!
* Jeremy: No, she said that, James, but - do you know nothing? Women say they want a power drill, but they don't, they want soap. Women always - they do!
* James: Yeah, but it's impossible to buy soap for a woman.
* Richard: Eh? No, hang on, soap's soap. You can't -
* Jeremy: Oho!
* James: Hah!
* Jeremy: Whoa ho! Did you hear that, girls? "Soap is soap."
* Richard: Well, it is! It's just -
* Jeremy: Go on, then, buy your wife some Swarfega.
* Richard: Well, that's great! That's an effective cleaning agent! She'd be chuffed, I'm sure!
* Jeremy: However. The worst thing you would ever have to buy, ever have to buy a girl is a handbag.
* Richard: That's pretty bad.
* Jeremy: Because, even if by some miracle you got the right colour, it would be the wrong shape, it wouldn't have the right number of pockets, it would be last season's handbag-
* James: Is there a season for handbags?
* [laughter]
* Jeremy: Did you hear? Is...oh yes!
* James: What, there's certain times of the year I can shoot handbags and it's okay?
* Richard: Yep.
* ''[more laughter]
* Jeremy: No, the fact is, okay, my wife has a handbag; I kid you not, it is this big. [holds up paper cup] And in it, she'll go, "I've lost my mobile phone! Ring it! Ring it, ring it! And you'll say, "If it's in there, you must be able to see it-", "I can't see it!"
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* [During the car sauna clip]
* Richard: Given that we are made of ... what percentage of us is water?
* Jeremy: 98%.
* James: Or less.
* Richard: Water that evaporates. So what we are breathing is each other...
* [Jeremy looks horrified and James looked disgusted]
* Jeremy: [While Richard is pretending to retch] You're breathing my chest.
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* [After showing the car sauna clip]
* Jeremy: Gordon, if you're watching, and you're probably not, if you go to set these ridiculous, er, heatwave level alerts...what was it we got up to?
* Both: Sixty-two.
* Jeremy: [continuing his speech] ...Sixty-two degrees is your bottom.
* Richard: Yeah, it gets a bit toasty...
* Jeremy: A bit uncomfortable.
* Richard: How about that?
* Jeremy: Yeah.
* James: Actually, Gordon, there's something else I've discovered in that test, if you're watching. And that is... I know when I'm too hot.
* Jeremy: I don't need the Government to tell me to have a drink of water and put suncream on. Leave - us - alone!
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* [During Star In A Reasonably Priced Car]
* Michael McIntyre: The only way you could feel better about having such a terrible car is you would occasionally try and overtake nicer cars on the motorway. It's quite a manly moment. You're sitting there, chugging along at 60; you're quite comfortable. You'll see a Porsche in the middle lane, I'd say to my wife, "You see that Porsche?" She'd say, "Yes, what of it?" "I'm having it." She's like, "The Princess couldn't overtake that Porsche, it's a 1.0!" "I can do this!" You pull into the middle lane, you start to get excited, then you get into the fast lane. When you're in the fast lane in a terrible car, you immediately know you don't belong. Big Range Rovers right up behind you flashing, "Retreat to the loser lane, where you belong!" There are horses in the slow lane going, "I've gotta see this. What's going on?" I think the top speed was about 76. You put your foot down and the whole car would shake uncontrollably. It takes somewhere between 40 to 45 minutes to pull alongside the Porsche. My wife's going, [While shaking his head] "I told you!" And you always have to look over, when you're overtaking, to see your victim. [While shaking his head] "Who are you Porsche driver?"
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* [After James has done a lap with a St Bernard dog in the car]
* Jeremy: Oh, that is a miserable-looking dog.
* Richard: Aww! It's making me sad just looking at him!
* James: [indignantly] That's his normal face!
* [After James hears his lap time]
* Jeremy: That's the saddest-looking spectacle I've ever seen--
* James: Rubbish!
* Jeremy: ...and it's your fault. If you're from the RSPCA, write to us at 'James May is a #######, Top Gear, London'.
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* ''[the presenters, in their small cars, are driving through Parliament Square protesting through loudspeakers]
* Jeremy: What do we want?!
* Both: ASTON MARTINS!
* Jeremy: When do we want them?!
* Both: NOW!
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* Jeremy: 2, 4, 6, 8, Jacqui Smith's husband likes to mast...I can't do that one...
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* James: Acceleration, not nationalisation - of the banks (although obviously it's easy to make a credible case for state ownership of other industries such as utilities)!
* Richard: Catchy!
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* [Jeremy, James and Richard are testing the smoothness and quietness of their cars. Things are uncannily silent, until.......]
* Jeremy: [over radio] This may only have a three-cylinder diesel engine, but it's so quiet in here I can hear my hair growing!
* James: [over radio] Jeremy, it's the noise test and the machine is picking up your voice.
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* [Jeremy, James and Richard are testing the speed of their cars with a drag race. Jeremy's Škoda Roomster pulls alongside James' Toyota iQ.]
* Jeremy: Got James!
* [James' Toyota accelerates ahead of Jeremy.]
* Jeremy: [with the same tone as before] Lost James!
July 12th, 2009 [13.4]
* Jeremy: Tonight. The fastest man in the world on our track. The slowest man in the world falls asleep. And we literally set fire to Dorset with a machine gun.
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* [On the powerful, front wheel drive, Ford Focus RS]
* Jeremy: Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling, let's say, more than 170 brake horsepower is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman, while on fire, on stage, in front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.
* [On cornering]
* Jeremy: Eventually, you will slide wide. But only after your face has come off.
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* [On The Stig]
* Jeremy: Some say that he is absolutely baffled by urinals. And that on reflection this was a bad week to launch his debut single. It's a tribute, to Farah Fawcett. All we know is he's called The Stig.
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* James: And now, the news! And we begin the news with the new Lamborghini — here it is — and that has been named after their recently retired chief test driver, Valentino Balboni.
* Richard: Bet they wouldn't have called it after him if he'd been named Ken Shufflebottom.
* James: Actually, their new chief test driver is called Max Venturi.
* Richard: No, he's not, obviously.
* James: No, he is!
* Jeremy: He is, he really is! That's his real name!
* Richard: No, he's not really called Max Ven...
* Jeremy: He is...
* Richard: Nobody outside of a comic strip is called "Max Venturi, Lamborghini Tester"!
* Jeremy: You don't need a driving license to be a Lamborghini test driver. You just turn up for the interview, go, "I'm sorry, I'm drunk and mad but I'm called Velociraptor Clint Thrust." "Right, you start on Monday."
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* [Jeremy, James and Richard are talking about the new Lamborghini Gallardo Balboni]
* James: I like that stripe so much I'd be prepared to buy the whole car just to get it.
* Jeremy: Just for the stripe. Can I just offer one word of warning to anyone who's thinking of buying a Gallardo? James, for you, okay? Have you seen this?
* [A picture of a Gallardo on fire appears on the screen]
* Richard: That's...that's a burning Gallardo.
* Jeremy: Yeah; have you seen this?
* [Another picture of a Gallardo on fire appears...]
* Richard: That's a burning Gallardo.
* Jeremy: Yeah, I know; have you seen this?
* [...and another...]
* Richard: That's a burning Gallardo.
* Jeremy: I know, but have you seen this?
* ''[...and another...]
* Richard: That's a burning Gallardo.
* Jeremy: What about this?
* [...and another...]
* Richard: Er, burning Gallardo.
* Jeremy: What about this?
* [...and one of a Gallardo that's almost totally destroyed by the fire]
* Richard: [laughing] That'd be a burning Gallardo! That's ridiculous!
* James: So I go into the dealer and I say "I'd like a Lamborghini, can I have one that's not on fire?"
* Jeremy: Thing is, though, I have to say, this is what makes driving a Lamborghini so exciting; you drive in a normal car, and it's not on fire.
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* Jeremy: How many children said, "Dad, can we please go to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 'cause I really wanna see a zero-emission Renault van"?
* Richard: Yes, how many of those kids went back to school the next day, "Did you see the chrome-plated Bugatti?" "No, but I saw a Renault van with green windows! Yeah!"
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* [On Porsche Panamera's satellite navigation]
* James: You get the moving map in the dial. [Enthusiastically] Oh, oh!
* Richard: You're not going to crash the car doing this?
* James: Yes, I am!
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* [Jeremy comments on Usain Bolt's 2008 Olympic 100m dash]
* Jeremy: You set a world record with your shoelace undone.
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* [Jeremy reads out Usain Bolt's quote on the day of the 2008 Olympic 100m dash]
* Jeremy: It said, "I didn't have breakfast, woke up at 11:00, sat around watching TV, then had some chicken nuggets..." [Laughter] Oh, no, it gets better! "Slept for two hours, then went back and got some more nuggets." [Laughter]
July 19th, 2009 [13.5]
* Jeremy: Tonight. We save the entire world. We test a fat spaniel from Jaguar. And we annoy France's second best racing driver.
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* [on The Stig]
* Jeremy: Some say, he has twelve GCSEs, all in Domestic Science. And that he has been producing artificial sperm for years. Even though we have repeatedly asked him not to. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
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* Richard: [on the Morris Marina that James is driving] I'll guarantee that nothing exciting, vibrant, dynamic, new, creative, hopeful or beneficial in any way to humanity has ever been done, thought of or driven to in that drab, dreary, entirely beige, wilfully awful pile of misery.
* James: Oh come on its not that bad... it's well equipped. Course it isn't well equipped really - its got one dial. But its tastefully upholstered. Of course it isn't tastefully upholstered really - it's brown. But the seats are velour and look how nicely it's worn!
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* [During the discussion on the new Jaguar XJ]
* James: Come on! Nobody gives a pig’s arse about all that diesel stuff. (Crowd Laughs) It’s the new XJ; the important question is “Is it a proper Jag?”
* Jeremy: Now what you mean is “Is this car slightly caddish?” Is that what you actually mean?
* James: (nods) Yes.
* Jeremy: Is the person who drives it a bit... um, what’s the word? Im not quite sure how to sum it up, but it’s the sort of person who would go away for a weekend with his wife to a hotel, to some romantic place, and spends the entire night... flirting outrageusly with the waitress. And it’s okay because he’s got a “Jaaaaag.”
* (Everyone laughs)
* Richard: That’s the Jag driver; he’d get away with anything! (Changes tone) I’m terribly sorry, I ran over your dog. (Whimpers) ...in my “Jaaaaag.”
* (Crowd laughs)
* James: Is it fair to say? Do you think that no “Jaaaaag” driver is ever entirely trustworthy, but it’s in a really nice likeable way?
* Jeremy: Yes! If you would go to a prison, forget the sort of "stabbists", and you know the stranglers. The ones who are in there for a bit of Tax Dodging...
* (Richard Laughs)
* James: Yeah.
* Jeremy: I bet eighty percent have got “Jaaaaags.” (Crowd laughs) You know what I mean now?
* (Turns to someone in the audience)
* Jeremy:You got a Jag? Who here’s got a Jag? (Stands up then points at someone who responded) You got a Jag? Look at him!
* (Audience laughs)
* Richard: Yup, he’s a Jag driver.
* Jeremy: He goes away with a sort of girl for a weekend, and then goes... “Awfully sorry...”
* Richard: ... bit of an issue with the wallet.
* Jeremy: “Would you mind awfully settling this while I go warm up the “Jaaaaag?”
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* [During the discussion on the Honda FR-V]
* James: That's, actually, that's not the worst bit about those, those six-seater cars, because it could be worse if you had your wife in the front, and both daughters, and you sat in the back.
* Jeremy: [sympathetically] Ohh.
* James: No, but you do see that occasionally. You see the mother in the front, and then, and then there's a bloke sitting in the back seat.
* Richard: On his own.
* Jeremy: It's tragic.
* James: There's nothing more pitiable.
* Richard: Pathetic.
* Jeremy: It's the most pitiable sight you can see.
* James: She's effectively saying, "You've given me the baby, now get in the back."
* Richard: [nodding] Yeah.
* Jeremy: [stares at James for a moment, then bursts out laughing]
* James: [realizes what he said, points at the camera]... No.
* Jeremy: Uh, that... concludes the news, OK? [looks at James and bursts out laughing again, this time taking Richard with him]
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* Jeremy: We have had some problems with the Morris Marina Owners' Club—
* Richard: Problems!? They've declared a fatwa on us!
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* James:[During the Braking test] COCK! [he then crashes into his own piano]
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* [During the Val Thorens race, Jeremy's windscreen has been coated with snow...]
* Jeremy: [panicking] I CAN'T SEE A BLOODY THING!! [accidentally pulls off glove while steering] AAGH, pulled my own glove off!
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* [During the Val Thorens race...]
* Jeremy: [Voiceover] Olivier Panis found the Morris particularly annoying.
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* Jeremy: Ten minutes later, we roared into the first corner [Jeremy, James and Richard creep slowly into view]
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* Jeremy: [almost crashing into James May's Marina at the Val Thorens race] DON'T HIT HIM!! Morris extremists will come if I hit him!
July 26th, 2009 [13.6]
* Jeremy: Tonight! I wear some goggles. Richard falls down a small slope. And James says "Hello" to a man!
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* [On The Stig]
* Jeremy: Some say, that on Thursdays he becomes incredibly bulbous. And that recently pigs in Mexico started to die of something called "Stig flu". All we know is, he's highly contagious!
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* [driving in Majorca]
* Jeremy: [voiceover] Mind you, it wasn't exactly plain sailing for me either.
* Jeremy: [on a motorway at rush hour] Come on please, traffic, please, please, how can they have a rush hour in Majorca? Nobody does anything. Get up, throw a donkey off a tower block, sit in a plastic chair by the side of the road, go to bed. Where does a rush hour come from in that?
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* [About Morris Marina Owners' Club]
* Richard: Last week a piano was accidentally dropped on a Morris Marina as we were filming it.
* Jeremy: Last time this happened the Morris Marina Owners' Club, which is like the provisional wing of the "Morris Men", is absolutely furious.
* James: Actually, there's been a lot of activity on a Morris chatroom: "I'm going to send an e-mail to the BBC and I don't care if they don't read it."
* Jeremy: Now, that's what they said last time, okay. This time - getting worse. They say they're gonna get physical. I'm quoting now, one of them says (and I'm not making this up): "If I see Jeremy Clarkson in the street, I will poo into my hand and throw it at him."
* [Audience laughs]
* Richard: [incredulous] What, they'll poo into their own hand?! That's a stupid way of getting someone! That's like an assassin lining up on the target and then shooting them through his own head! Bang!
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* [Carla Bruni's song about Marina]
* Carla: My heart is sore
* My Marina is no more
* It was the 1.8
* With the optional rear armrest
* And now those Top Gear wazzocks
* Have dropped a piano on its roof
* I hate James May
* And the other two
* But mainly James May
* I want my Morris back
* [cuts to James May laughing]
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August 2nd, 2009 [13.7]
* Jeremy: Tonight, Richard has a crisis. Some sheep on our track. And James and I go to the lavatory.
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* Jeremy: Yes, and welcome to the final show in the series.. [Crowd shows disappointment and sighs] Sad.
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* [On The Stig]
* Jeremy: Some say, that he cut that man's hair [pointing at the man in audience]. And that if he compensated a soldier for getting wounded, he wouldn't try to take it all back again! [huge cheers from audience]
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* Jeremy: Now, eh as I'm sure you know, we don't often do consumer advice on this show, but tonight, we are. Because you see, if you were in a market, for large, fast, spacious, executive saloon cars, you'd imagine, that you'll be spoiled for choice. Me too. However, Richard Hammond, who is quite mad, has decided that every single one of them has a fatal flaw.
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* ''[Richard Hammond explaining the name of the Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst]
* Richard: This car is Australian, and the Bathurst is Australia's most famous race. Basically, it's a place where Holden and Ford fans go to have a massive fistfight, and then in the interval, when the paramedics go in, sometimes a car race breaks out.
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* ''[Richard Hammond commenting on the VXR8 Bathurst
* Richard: I'm sorry, if this car doesn't move you, that is your problem, not the car's. Just the fact!
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* [During the News, after concluding that throwing a G-Wiz electric car into a river would be safe for the fish]
* James: I'm not convinced by that, though, because I think electricity is a mystery.
* [Jeremy rolls his eyes and looks at the audience]
* James: It is! No—I don't actually believe in it.
* Jeremy: You don't believe in electricity?
* James: No, nobody really understands it.
* Jeremy: [Indicating James] What you are witnessing here is Asperger's made real.
* James: [Confused] Is that what makes my wee smell funny?
* Jeremy: No—! [He laughs]
* James: [Laughing as well] Oh no, that's asparagus!
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* [During the News, about forbidding people not interested in cars to drive]
* Richard: If you haven't got the interest, you can't do it...you shouldn't be allowed to do it.
* Jeremy: No, exactly. I mean, it would be like asking him [points to Richard] to cook Sunday lunch. Could you cook a Sunday lunch?
* Richard: Yeah, you... boil the meat or whatever... no, I'm not—
* Jeremy: You see?
* Richard: I'm not interested in food so I'm not interested in cooking.
* Jeremy: There you are, you see? You wouldn't ask him because he's not interested to cook you any food, you wouldn't ask me to do the washing up, you wouldn't ask James to... direct a porn film.
* [The audience laugh as Jeremy looks very matter-of-fact]
* James: Well, hang on. You say that, I think I'd actually direct quite a good porn film.
* Jeremy: If you directed a porn film, it would be you arriving at the house of the woman in the stockings and you'd go [takes on a deep voice in imitation of James] "I've come to fix your boiler". And then you'd just fix it.
* James: [considering] Might be. What's wrong with that?
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* [Talking about Jeremy's 1st VW ad featuring a Scirocco Diesel and some explosions]]]
* Jeremy: What do you think of that?
* James: It's rubbish.
* Jeremy: Why is it rubbish?
* James: It's not funny, and it's not true. We've been to see those clever blokes in the agency, they've told us what VW advertising is like. How can you hint at 55 miles to the gallon with an explosion?
* Jeremy: Well what have you got?
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* [Overlaying shots of Jeremy driving the Aston Martin V12 Vantage in the English countryside.]
* Jeremy: Well, it's an Aston Martin Vantage with a V12 engine. What do you think it's going to be like? It is fantastic. It is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. What it makes me feel, though, is sad. I just can't help thinking that thanks to all sorts of things...the environment, the economy, problems in the Middle East, the relentless war on speed... cars like this will soon be consigned to the history books. [drives past pictures of similar cars that have fallen out of use] I just have this horrible, dreadful feeling that what I’m driving here is an ending. [looks at the camera] Good night.
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1 This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him. 2 Then Abraham took a tenth of all he had captured in battle and gave it to Melchizedek. The name Melchizedek means “king of justice,” and king of Salem means “king of peace.” 3 There is no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors - no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever, resembling the Son of God.
4 Consider then how great this Melchizedek was. Even Abraham, the great patriarch of Israel, recognized this by giving him a tenth of what he had taken in battle. 5 Now the law of Moses required that the priests, who are descendants of Levi, must collect a tithe from the rest of the people of Israel, 1 who are also descendants of Abraham. 6 But Melchizedek, who was not a descendant of Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham. And Melchizedek placed a blessing upon Abraham, the one who had already received the promises of God. 7 And without question, the person who has the power to give a blessing is greater than the one who is blessed. 8 The priests who collect tithes are men who die, so Melchizedek is greater than they are, because we are told that he lives on. 9 In addition, we might even say that these Levites - the ones who collect the tithe - paid a tithe to Melchizedek when their ancestor Abraham paid a tithe to him. 10 For although Levi wasn’t born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham’s body when Melchizedek collected the tithe from him.
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Your diet is important for a number of reasons that go beyond weight loss. For example, there’s some evidence that reducing the amount of saturated and trans fats you eat can reduce the risk of heart disease. Eating more fiber, which can come from fruits, vegetables, and grains, can boost your heart and digestive health.
Of course, nutrition is important for weight loss and muscle gain. The simple theory is that, to lose weight, you simply need to burn more calories than you eat. If only it were that simple. Research shows time and again that losing weight and keeping it off is challenging. There’s a seemingly small but significant problem that researchers frequently encounter that could be derailing your progress: awareness.
The most hardcore and reliable studies involve taking a group of test subjects and placing them in a room for days on end. Researchers bring them food, which has been carefully weighed and measured. They can do things like reduce the number of calories they feed subjects, give them high or low-carb diets, or give them plant-based foods only.
These studies are highly reliable due to the simple fact that researchers can control exactly what the subjects eat. The big problem with these studies is that nobody wants to live in an isolated room for days on end just to help scientists figure out whether or not carbs make you fat.
Most nutrition studies are conducted in the real world for this reason. Subjects will be given a specific meal plan to follow, or are even provided premade meals. Other studies look at self-reporting of food intake. That means the researchers have to trust what their test subjects say.
As it turns out, people are incredibly bad at reporting their food intake. It’s not uncommon for a subject to misreport their calorie intake by 30 to 50 percent. That’s not surprising, since reporting your food can be tricky.
It’s hard to figure out how much food you’re having at each meal. Next time you eat, try to estimate the number of grams of chicken breast you’re eating, or how many cups of pasta you have.
However, it’s important to be aware of what you eat and how much. Without changing your diet habits, try to log your food intake for a couple of days. You can write it down or use an app like MyFitnessPal. If you’re interested in changing your diet, it can help to simply be aware of what you eat.
Many people sit down to eat and are surrounded by distractions, which makes it hard to think about their diet. Ask your friends or colleagues what they ate for dinner the past few nights. You might be surprised to find that most people are simply unaware of what they’re eating.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: CAN I USE MY OWN MODEM WITH YOUR SERVICE?
A: Yes you can! Please check our modem compatibility list to see if yours qualifies, if you have questions please feel free to contact one of our technicians.
Q: CAN THE INSTALL TECHNICIAN BRING MY MODEM?
A: No they cannot.
MyNetworX provides third party internet access. This means that we make use of the incumbent providers’ (Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Telus, etc.) wiring to your home and in turn must use their installation technicians.
As a result of this, it is not possible to supply the technician with your hardware, unless requested (Additional charges will apply). It must be shipped to the post office that serves your address or picked up from our main office. All of our modems are shipped preconfigured to your request.
Q: CAN I STREAM NETFLIX WITH A 6MBPS CONNECTION?
A: Yes! But only up to HD quality (which is still great!).
At the time of this article’s creation, Netflix officially lists the following download speed requirements:
• 0.5 Megabits per second – Required broadband connection speed
• 1.5 Megabits per second – Recommended broadband connection speed
• 3.0 Megabits per second – Recommended for SD quality
• 5.0 Megabits per second – Recommended for HD quality
• 25 Megabits per second – Recommended for Ultra HD quality
For the most up to date listing, you can visit Netflix’s official internet connection speed recommendation page.
Q: DSL VS. CABLE INTERNET
A: DSL
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) provides you with an internet signal over the telephone lines which run to your home.
Traditional telephone service and Dial-up internet only use a very small portion of the available frequency ranges which could pass over a telephone wire.
DSL uses a portion of the remaining frequency ranges. This allows DSL to attain high speeds over the same medium (telephone wires) without competing with your phone service.
Cable
Cable internet provides you with an internet signal over the coaxial cable lines which run to your home.
Cable internet makes use of unused channels (predefined frequency ranges) to pass your data instead of television programming.
So what’s the difference?
In the end, internet is internet. Both DSL and Cable provide high speed access and are generally equivalent under good conditions. There are a few key differences though.
DSL: DSL requires an active phone line. This means that you either need active POTS service with a telephone provider, or you will need to pay an additional monthly fee to run a Dry Loop (a phone line used ONLY for DSL) to your home.
DSL is a dedicated line. Your line is yours and only yours. The speed you get is the speed you will always get.
The quality of a DSL line depends on your distance from the CO/Remote that you are connected to. As your signal flies down the telephone line to get to the CO/Remote, it meets constant resistance and interference which causes the signal to become worse and worse the further it needs to travel. If your home is too far away from this point, you may end up with lower speeds than you expected or you simply may not qualify for service.
Cable:Cable is a shared connection. The line that runs to your home is a branch of a larger trunk which also feeds your neighbor’s homes. This means that if that trunk is not wide enough to feed your neighborhood it may become congested causing decreased speeds.
Cable uses coaxial cables which are very heavily shielded. This means that unlike DSL, distance is of very little concern to a cable connection. If you qualify for service, you should be able to get any of our offered speeds.
Well, what one should I get?
A good way to start is by knowing your current service.
Do you have DSL Internet, but don’t qualify for the speed you desire?
Is your Cable Internet congested all the time causing it to run unbearably slow?
Or do you love your current service and wish to take advantage of the cost savings of not having to swap modem technologies?
Asking these questions gives you a good idea as to what you need. If you currently experience a problem, sometimes changing your service type is a good way to fix it – depending where the problem is of course! But this is a good place to start to figure out what you need, why you need it, and how to go about it.
Q: DO I HAVE TO BE HOME ON DATE OF ACTIVATION?
A: We strongly recommend that you be present at your home on the day that your service is scheduled to be installed.
What if I’m not home?
The technician may not be able to successfully complete the installation if you are not home and they require access to the inside of your residence. If this occurs, we will have to reschedule your installation date which may cause delays.
Can someone else stay at my home instead of me?
Yes, the technician will complete work inside of your home so long as someone over the age of 18 is present.
Q: DO I NEED A MODEM?
A: Yes, a modem is required to use our DSL and Cable internet services.
Why:Modems convert the analogue signals which pass over the phone/cable lines into digital signals that your computer/router can actually understand. Without a modem, you cannot establish an internet connection.
Q: DO I NEED A ROUTER?
A: You do not NEED a router to use our Internet services; however, you will need a modem and you may WANT a router.
Modems: Modems are an essential piece of equipment which is required to use our Cable and DSL internet services. Modems convert the analogue signals which pass over the phone/cable lines into digital signals that your computer can actually understand (and vice versa).
You NEED a modem to use our internet services.
Routers:Routers (in terms of home network applications) are used to provide a single internet connection to multiple devices. Some modems come with built in “routers” such as our SmartRG SR505N; if you have one of these devices then you will not need a stand alone router.
If, on the other hand, you have a single port modem such as the Technicolor TC4300 or Hitron CDA3 you may WANT to get a router in order to supply your internet connection to all of the devices in your home.
Q: DO I NEED PERMISSION FROM MY LANDLORD FOR MY INSTALLATION?
A: You will need written permission from your landlord if the installation technician will need to drill into the house to complete the installation.
For example, if the house you are renting does not have a coaxial cable running into it and you sign up for cable service, the technician will need to drill a hole in the wall to run a cable though.
If drilling will not be required, then you should not need your landlords permission to subscribe to our service.
Q: IF I DON’T HAVE A LANDLINE CAN I STILL GET MYNETWORX INTERNET?
A:Yes!
So long as your address qualifies for service, you can get Cable internet or Dry Loop DSL without having an active telephone line.
Q: WHY HAS MY ACTIVATION DATE CHANGED?
A: When you sign up for one of our services we ask that you provide us with three tentative dates which you would like your service installed on.
We submit these dates to our last mile vendor (the incumbent internet provider in your area such as Bell, Bell Aliant, Shaw, Rogers, Cogeco, Videotron, Telus, etc.) who then selects one of the three dates where they have a technician time slot available in your area.
Generally speaking, we are able to get one of the dates you requested and all is well. Unfortunately, there are instances where no technician slots are open in your area on the dates that you requested. In these cases, our vendor will provide us with an installation timeframe which falls on a date that you did not request or within a timeslot that you did not request.
If this situation has happened to you, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused for you and your family.
Please note that we will send you a confirmation email once we have received a confirmed date from our vendor. Until you receive this email, we recommend that you do NOT book time off work for any specific date if at all possible.
Q: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SWAP MODEMS? (CABLE)
A: Modem swap orders usually take 24-48 hours to be completed once all information is submitted for processing.
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the stone of Obata, has been analysed. Its composition is as follows:—
The modern faience manufactured at Matsumoto is of the Raku type; that is to say, a thick, soft-looking pottery with little lustre of surface and a wooden timbre. The fracture shows a yellowish tinge. The only pieces worthy of note from an artistic point of view have decoration in the Yatsushiro style; designs engraved in the paste are filled with white clay which retains its colour after baking.
Suo is the neighbouring province of Nagato, on the east, and is also included in the Yamaguchi Prefecture. Its keramic productions have never acquired any reputation, and are of modern date, the first kiln of which anything is known having been opened by Matsuō Tobei, at Hachido, in 1850. His faience, and indeed all the faience manufactured in the province, may be described as an inferior variety of Hagi-yaki. Of late years a potter called Yoshika Tosaku, of Nishi-no-ura, has begun to add red and green enamelled decoration to soft craquelé faience, made from materials found at Daido-mura. There are many kilns in the province, but their productions are to be classed as coarse porcelain and faience, of the same type as the wares of Nagato.
Kōchi is the capital of the province of Tosa. The oldest and best known ware manufactured in this
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Retool workflows AI is not working properly
Hi!
the "Generate chat response" module in Retool AI- in workflows, is not working.
Error I'm getting is
{"data":null,"metadata":{},"error":"Internal Error running a block: Error: An internal server error occurred"}
Note: the other modules such as 'summarize text' or 'generate text' work fine, I'm using my own API key (no issues on that end either)
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+1 same problem (I am not using my own API key though)
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@Tess any insight? It's crucial to many workflows
@joeBumbaca any insight?
I believe the issue you're facing is because the Generate chat response action requires a message history in the form of an array to be passed to it. If no history is passed to it you will get a error. If you don't want to pass any history with it you can fill in with [] and that should take away the error for that block at least.
hah yes it solves the issue, thanks @DannyF
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History About Pyramids Of Egypt
The pyramids are very ancient masonry structures situated in Egypt. There are about 138 pyramids in Egypt as per the discovery made till 2008. These were built for the pharaoh’s tombs and for their partner in the middle and the old kingdom era.
The pyramid which is considered as the earliest is the Pyramid of Djoser built at the time of third dynasty. The Pyramid of Djoser, and its complex was planned by Imhotep, an architect and it is known to be the oldest structure with dressed masonry.
The largest of the Egyptian pyramids is the Pyramid of Khufu located at Giza. It is the only wonder out the ancient seven wonders which still exists.
Imhotep is the first to imagine stacking the Mastabas one on another. He created the structure with steps that helped in decreasing the size as the structure reached the apex. It was resulted with the step pyramid of Djoser. It was designed in such a way that the soul of the pharaoh reached the heavens.
The best pyramids are built in the period of great Pharaonic rule. This was the time when the word known pyramids near Giza came up. As the years passed the rulers were not able to build huge structures and the pyramids were built in small size and the rulers did not show much interest.
After the Egyptians ended with the pyramids, they were built by the people in the regions which is now called Sudan when the Egypt was in the hands of the Kings of Napata.
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