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Ardeirhynchus
Ardeirhynchus is a monotypic genus of parasitic worms belonging to the family Polymorphidae. Its sole described species is Ardeirhynchus spiralis (Rudolphi, 1809), which is found in Northern America.
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Sulin Ba
Sulin Ba is a Chinese-American researcher, academic administrator, and professor currently serving as the Dean of the DePaul University Driehaus College of Business, beginning in July 2022.
Early life and education
Sulin Ba was born and raised in China. She pursued higher education in the United States, receiving a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Library and Information Sciences and Management Information Systems, respectively. She completed her undergraduate studies in Library and Information Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.
Career
Before joining DePaul University, Ba was the Treibick Family Endowed Chair at the University of Connecticut School of Business, serving as the school's first Associate Dean of Academic and Research Support and the executive director of the Connecticut Information Technology Institute from 2014 to 2019. Ba served in various other roles at UConn for over 20 years, focusing on research and state-wide initiatives on entrepreneurship and innovation. Ba started her academic career at the University of Southern California.
Research
Ba's research interests include the design of crowdsourcing platforms, online word-of-mouth, and digital health communities. She has been recognized for her contributions to health IT, online behavior, and internal market mechanisms. Her work has influenced policy-making, including testimony before the United States House Committee on Small Business. Ba has been published in notable journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research and Production and Operations Management.
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Alicia Eggert
Alicia Eggert (born 1981) is an American artist known for her installations. Originally from Camden, New Jersey, she attended Drexel University and Alfred University. In 2018 she received the Hopper Prize. In 2019 she presented a TED Talk on her art. In 2021 she was commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center to create The Time for Becoming. It was installed in public space at 2000 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas.
Eggert collaborated with Planned Parenthood to create OURs, a pink neon sign installed in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 2022, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling.
Her work, This Present Moment, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.
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How Does A Sugar-Free Diet Impact Candida
How long does it take for Candida to leave the body on a sugar-free diet?
It doesn’t take long for a sugar-free diet to have an impact on your gut flora. Candida won’t necessarily entirely leave because you could be one of the 20 to 25% of people who have a normal population of this yeast in their gut. Many people have Candida in their gut that is well controlled.
Candida has even been shown to have some benefits in the body when it’s in a relationship with other bacteria.
Of course, if we take a major food source away from Candida, the population is going to drop off.
The question isn’t whether we can rid of Candida, but whether we can tame the beast? And we usually can.
I always tell patients that the best approach is to take a long, hard look at what you’re eating and drinking.
Then gradually take things out of your diet – maybe start with two or three of the sweetest foods in your diet.
Further readings:
Replace the unhealthy foods that you crave the most with healthy foods, and the population of Candida in your gut will steadily come down.
Taking an effective anti-Candida product while reducing your intake of sugar will drop the Candida population even quicker and reduce your cravings.
Don’t be foolhardy and try to wipe out a high Candida load over two weeks. That’s like pulling the emergency brake when you’re doing 60 miles per hour in the car.
Take things slowly and do them properly. Nothing good comes from doing things too quickly.
In the end, it won’t take very long for your Candida levels to drop significantly. All you need to do is start making better food choices and use an effective anti-Candida supplement like CanXida Remove.
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Shark researcher names new species of deep-sea shark after daughter
University of Rhode Island shark researcher Bradley Wetherbee is best known for his studies of mako sharks, the fastest swimming sharks in the world. But when it came to identifying and describing a new species of shark, the process was anything but fast.
It took Wetherbee and his colleagues nearly 30 years to reveal that a group of lantern sharks inadvertently captured in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands were a new species.
Wetherbee named the shark Laila's lantern shark (Etmopterus lailae) after his 17-year-old daughter, Laila Mostello-Wetherbee. They live in Lincoln.
"It's not uncommon for it to take many years for a new species to be recognized as new to science and then properly described and named," said Wetherbee, a professor in the URI Department of Biological Sciences. "This one just took a little longer than usual."
Laila's lantern shark grows up to three feet long, has a dark brown back with a black T-shaped flank marking, spines coming from its dorsal fin, and a longer snout than other lantern sharks. Like most lantern sharks, they are bioluminescent. The new species is found in waters approximately 1,000 feet deep.
Why it took Wetherbee so long to identify it as a new species is a long story.
While studying deep-sea sharks as part of his doctoral research at the University of Hawaii in the early 1990s, he was offered two large boxes of frozen sharks – about 150 individuals – that had been captured in 1988 by scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Service. The scientists were studying armorhead fish and were uninterested in the sharks.
About a year later, Wetherbee examined the specimens and sorted them according to what species he believed they were – smooth lantern sharks and rough lantern sharks. Little was known about either species, so he planned to give the specimens to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu for inclusion in its natural history collection. But before he could do so, the freezer where they were being stored broke down while Wetherbee was away on a research cruise. One box of sharks was salvaged, including specimens that would later be named Laila's lantern shark, but the rest had thawed so much that they had to be thrown out. Just 15 survived intact.
"I had gone through every individual in the boxes and measured many body parts so we had enough information to write a paper about their biology, because hardly anything was known about them," explained Wetherbee. "But then I ran into someone that was working on the classification of lantern shark species in the genus Etmopterus. He wanted to look at the specimens before we wrote our paper, so we had the sharks shipped to his lab in California."
It took that man, David Ebert at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, about five years, but he eventually examined the specimens in great detail and compared them with other species of lantern shark and determined that Wetherbee's sharks did not belong to any of the other already-described smooth nor rough lantern shark species but was a species new to science.
"Since the sharks were essentially mine to begin with, Dave and the others involved agreed to let me name it after my daughter," Wetherbee said.
It then took several more years for them to write the definitive paper describing the new species, which was finally published in the journal Zootaxa in 2017.
According to Wetherbee, the only specimens of the new species ever seen are those individuals he and his colleagues had studied.
"It likely has a very small distribution only around the seamounts northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. That's the nature of lantern sharks. There are different species in different areas, and they tend to be isolated," he said. "If you went to that spot and fished for them, you'd probably catch them. But it's so remote, there's not much of a reason for anyone to go there."
Wetherbee's daughter wasn't especially impressed at first that her father named a shark after her, but she has grown to appreciate it.
"At first it didn't really register with me as anything special, but then when my friends Googled me and saw that I had this shark named after me, they thought it was cool," said Mostello-Wetherbee, a senior at Lincoln High School. "Now I appreciate it a lot more, not because of my friends' reaction, but because as I've gotten older, I understand it more and think it's really neat."
The URI shark expert said that naming the shark after his daughter may have rekindled his interest in the animal nearly 30 years after he first laid eyes on it.
"There are only 500 species of sharks and only a handful of people in the world have a shark named after them," Wetherbee said. "Now that it's called Laila's lantern shark, it certainly gives me motivation to go back to Hawaii to study it.
"People often ask me what my favorite shark is, and I used to say the tiger shark," he concluded. "But now I say it's Laila's lantern shark."
More information: David A. Ebert et al. Etmopterus marshae sp. nov, a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Philippine Islands, with a revised key to the Etmopterus lucifer clade, Zootaxa (2018). DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.2.3
Journal information: Zootaxa
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Missing information
This article is missing information: "Reception", "Plot", "Gameplay" and possibly "Development". Maxeto0910 (talk) 15:39, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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How to Boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode
How to Boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode
This tutorial will guide you on how to boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader mode and Recovery mode using the physical buttons or ADB command.
OnePlus launched its flagship for 2018 a few months ago and it has strived to be the best Android device to date, not just from the OEM, but also among the competition. The phone not only brings improvements in terms of the internal hardware and design but also comes with a lightweight and fast software experience via OxygenOS.
Just like the Google Nexus and Pixel series, OnePlus devices are well-known for there flexibility when it comes to modifications. Which means, you can easily unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery, flash custom ROMs and root the OnePlus 6 with ease.
However, each of the stated processes will require you to boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader mode and Recovery mode, as per the process’ requirement. Before we head off to the process, let us first know what Bootloader mode and Recovery mode actually is and what it is used for.
What is Bootloader Mode? – A bootloader is a program that loads the operating system and other runtime environments such as the recovery mode. When it comes to Android, the Bootloader Mode (Also often referred to as ‘Fastboot Mode‘) is also the state where a PC can communicate with the device over Fastboot. Thus, it is essential for processes like bootloader unlocking, flashing a custom recovery, or flashing/erasing the device partitions.
What is Recovery Mode? – In Android, the Recovery Mode is a bootable partition that has the recovery console installed. It offers tools that can help you perform certain actions such as wiping/clearing the partitions, factory resetting the device, installing OTA packages, etc. We also often deal with custom recoveries, such as TWRP, which facilitates the flashing of custom ZIP packages, such as ROMs, kernels, mods, etc.
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Boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode
How to Boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode
Booting OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode is easy and could be done using three different methods:
1. Using the Advanced Reboot menu
2. Using the special buttons combination while the phone is switched off
3. Or, by using ADB commands
We have covered all the three methods below for each – Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode.
1. Using Advanced Reboot Menu
Stock OxygenOS comes with a hidden option to enable the Advanced Reboot Menu. The menu, once enabled, will allow you to easily boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode.
1. Go to Settings -> About phone.
2. Find the Build number section.
3. Tap on the build number continuously 7 times.
4. Next, go to Settings -> Developer options.
5. Enable the Advanced Reboot option.
Boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode using Advanced Reboot
6. Now, hold the power button until the power menu appears.
7. Tap on Reboot.
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• To boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode, tap on Bootloader.
• To boot OnePlus 6 into Recovery Mode, tap on Recovery.
8. Finally, tap on Touch to Reboot.
2. Using Special Buttons Combination
The next most convenient way to boot OnePlus 6 into Recovery Mode and Bootloader Mode is by using the special buttons combination.
1. First, power off the phone completely.
2. To do so, hold the Power button. Tap on Power off and then on Touch to Power off.
3. Next, hold the Volume Up and Power buttons simultaneously until you see the bootloader mode.
4. Your OnePlus 6 should now be in Bootloader Mode.
5. Should you wish to boot OnePlus 6 into Recovery Mode, follow ahead with the steps.
6. In Bootloader Mode, tap the Volume button until Recovery mode appears on the screen.
How to Boot OnePlus 6 into Recovery Mode
7. Finally, press the power button to enter Recovery Mode.
3. Using ADB Commands
Another way to boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode and Recovery Mode is by using ADB commands. For this, you must first enable USB debugging on the phone and also install Android platform tools on the PC.
1. Connect OnePlus 6 to the PC using the USB cable.
2. Ensure that USB debugging is enabled on the phone.
3. Go to the folder where the ADB/Fastboot binaries are present.
4. Hold the SHIFT key and right-click on an empty space inside the folder.
5. Select Open PowerShell window here.
6. Enter the following commands in the PowerShell window:
• To boot OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode:
adb reboot bootloader
• To boot OnePlus 6 into Recovery Mode:
adb reboot recovery
That’s it! Now that you have booted your OnePlus 6 into Bootloader Mode or Recovery Mode, you can go ahead and unlock the bootloader, install a custom ROM, root OnePlus 6. If you have any questions regarding the procedure, do let us know via the comments.
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Ref errors?
I'm getting errors when I try to use the Iranica template for the Chkeidze and Shaki refs. Can't figure out what the problem is; is it something template related? - LouisAragon (talk) 13:41, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
* fixed it :) Constantine ✍ 17:30, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
* Thank you! - LouisAragon (talk) 22:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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Best Vram optimization strategies for Octane Render
Octane Render is a “GPU rendering engine,” meaning it uses GPU cards for the rendering process. GPUs, or “graphics processing units” are specialized computing hardware cards that you add to your computer in a variety of ways (plug-in slots, specialized cable interfaces, and so on.) GPUs are used in so many areas of computer science and entertainment today, with prices and capabilities ranging from gameplay to bitcoin mining to advanced AI and simulations. Octane Render will run on many different cards, and it is a good idea to know what your hardware needs are to use Octane efficiently and reliably.
And 3D designers often encounter some problems related to computer performance during rendering. Lacking the Vram of the GPU card when rendering a big and complex scene is a case in point. This sometimes prevents them from taking full advantage of this powerful rendering engine. For today’s article, let’s find out some solutions to this dilemma with iRender Cloud Rendering service!
Some of issues when rendering with Octane
GPU cards are blindingly fast, often a thousand times faster than the GPU on your computer’s motherboard. To get that speed, GPUs operate under certain constraints: limited “on-board” RAM (VRAM), a quality, reliable power supply, and so on. These constraints may also affect you under certain conditions, as you create content to render with OctaneRender.
To render with Octane Render from Cinema 4D, you follow a typical workflow:
• Create a scene
• Add objects to your scene
• Add materials, lights, and cameras to your scene (viewing the results in Live Viewer)
• Set your output parameters and render your scene
The C4Doctane plug-in is the bridge between Cinema 4D and the Octane Standalone application. You need both the Standalone and the C4Doctane plugin to render to OctaneRender from Cinema 4D. Alternatively, you can use the C4Doctane plugin to create an orbx or animated orbx file to render directly in Octane Standalone, as well as services such as RNDR. So much happens before you get to the point of sending over a file to render — regardless of whether you render with C4Doctane in Cinema 4D or with Standalone — your VRAM will be consumed in a similar way. Let’s break it down:
1. VRAM usage
This is one of the most important things to know and to keep an eye on. Your memory consumption will affect how much you can render at one time. If you exceed the amount of available VRAM, you won’t be able to proceed, and may even experience a crash. Therefore, understanding how to maximize your VRAM is something you need to know how to do. Fortunately, it is not a difficult task, but it does require a little attention to detail. VRAM is consumed by a combination of polygons (your objects), VDB volumes, Octane volumes, materials, textures, shaders, lights, and cameras. Each GPU card has a specific amount of VRAM available (consult with the manufacturer’s specifications for your card(s)).
Once you start running into your VRAM headroom barrier, your computer may start to act strangely. Cinema 4D or Octane may become slow to unresponsive. In some cases, you may experience a crash. There are several different factors that can contribute to this, outside of software problems:
2. Resources competition
There are many different factors regarding instability and GPUs. Like any add-on product, your GPU card(s) require drivers to operate. These drivers are loaded when you first start up your computer, and they reside in your computer’s RAM. They are like little bots that help your computer to draw images to your screen, make calculations, and so on. These drivers, as well as the operating system in general, tend to take up quite a bit of VRAM on their own, even before you start up Cinema or Octane. So, while you may have a card with 11GB of VRAM, you may only have 8-9 GB to actually use in your scene.
Further, if other applications are running (such as when you use Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D at the same time) more VRAM is allocated, which reduces the amount of available VRAM for OctaneRender. And, sometimes, the operating system allocates these resources in a manner that is incomplete, leading to system instability or performance lags. In certain cases, OctaneRender may try to allocate VRAM that is no longer available, even though OctaneRender thinks it is. This can lead to crashes.
3. The Heat
If you have been heavily using your GPU for a while and pushing it hard, you will likely notice that your GPU temp will climb. GPUs will start to throttle performance as temps climb over 80 degrees centigrade. If your rig is running near 100(c) for any length of time, you risk damaging your GPU and VRAM, and will likely cause your computer to become unstable and crash-prone. You do need to keep an eye on your temps. Many GPU cards are “air-cooled.” These cards have huge fans and heat sinks on board. Air-cooled rigs are the easiest to build, but they are the least efficient, temperature-wise.
Hybrid GPU cards use a combination of self-contained liquid plumbed in and around the GPU chip while letting the VRAM air cool. These cards still use large fans but do perform well under load. They also come with their own radiators and fans connected via tubing. The liquid runs through the tubing, carrying the heat away from the GPU to the radiator, where the fans and radiator fins dissipate enough heat from the hot chips.
The ultimate in GPU rigs are complete water-cooled systems, and can be rather elaborate — in some cases, arguably works of art. These rigs are the kings of chill and allow your GPUs to run at maximum efficiency while under the heaviest loads. However, they are not for the faint of heart and might be more trouble that they are worth for most people.
4. Power supply issues
GPUs are one of the most power-hungry components in your computer. If your rig has more than one GPU card, you may notice a variety of issues if your power supply is failing or a lower-quality part. PSU issues will cause instability, performance problems, and even data corruption throughout your system, so a quality power supply that is rated to handle the power requirements of your system is essential.
Some Vram optimization strategies
If you max out your VRAM, there are several things you can check/do to optimize your scene for best results:
• Use instances for duplicates instead of copies wherever possible. With instancing, only one object is held in memory. In Cinema 4D, use the instance settings when using cloners, etc.
• Limit material duplicates. Material duplicates can happen when you make copies of objects inside of Cinema 4D. You will see these duplicates in the Material Manager in Cinema, often listed as materialname, materialname.1, materialname.2 and so on. Cinema does not know if you merely want to reference a material to create a new one when you duplicate an object, so keep a close eye on the situation.
• Keep textures properly sized. There is a temptation to use ultra-high-resolution images in texture maps. With just a few in a scene, this will likely not cause any issues. However, if you have multiple materials with 8K texture maps at 32-bit, your VRAM consumption will quickly accelerate, and you may find yourself out of VRAM or an unstable system. Reusing materials wherever possible can help to mitigate this.
• Control VBD/Octane volume settings. Settings that produce higher-resolution results will also consume more VRAM (in addition to increasing render times). You may not need as high a setting as you think depending upon your shot.
• Displacements. Displacements require additional polygons be created when objects are loaded onto the GPU card. This is a indirect process and is driven by several factors, meaning that you may be less aware of resources being consumed as it happens. As with textures, only use the density you need for a given shot.
• Save often and save incremental. Just do it. Be smart and be safe with your scenes.
Best solution - Use iRender Cloud Render Service
Unfortunately, not everything is possible on a slow and weak computer with little VRAM. Simulations, High Poly Modeling, or complex animation simply won’t work on your PC. But there is a solution! iRender provides high-configuration rental services to help you save time and costs in the rendering process and it is one of the render farms highly recommended for Octane. We provide dedicated servers for Octane users. In particular, we have servers with Single and Multi-GPU servers: 1/2/4/6/8x RTX 3090, one of the most powerful graphics card currently available, in particular:
• 1/2/4/6/8x RTX 3090 with 10/24 GB vRAM capacity, fitting to the heaviest images and scenes. NVLink/SLI requested for bigger vRAM.
• A RAM capacity of 128/256 GB.
• Storage (NVMe SSD): 512GB/1TB/2TB.
• Intel Xeon W-2245 or AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX CPU with a high clock speed of 3.90GHz.
The servers’ configuration of iRender not only surpasses the minimum hardware requirements of Octane but also exceeds the recommended requirements. Octane supports multi GPUs on one machine, increasing rendering performance multiple times. This is one of the main reasons we recommend these packages for designers to have flexible choices based on their budget and time. Let’s see rendering tests with Octane render on servers at iRender:
Some other outstanding features of iRender:
• Friendly user interface: The user’s interface is designed easily to use. It takes just a few steps to get started. In addition, users can request extra services to make full use of iRender servers, for example, expand image threshold, increase the size of network drive (Z:), open port, install NVLink, and change hardware. Surprisingly, you get all of these services for free.
• Flexible Pricing: You will be charged on a per-minute basis. Depending on the type of server you choose, we will issue you an invoice once you shut down the servers, so that you will control your balance easily. Moreover, you can always save up to 20% with our Fixed Rental feature if you are in need of a server for a long time for a large project, we advise choosing a daily/ weekly/monthly rental package. The discount is attractive and helps to save more for your render.
• 24/7 Real Human Support: If you choose to render your projects with iRender, you can feel extra safe that we have a dedicated CPU & GPU infrastructure and enthusiastic technical supporters available 24/7 to answer any queries you might have regarding your rendering jobs..
So, do not hesitate anymore. Let’s become a member of the iRender community today to get FREE COUPON to test our service. We do the rendering, the creativity is yours!
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PERCENTILE.INC Function
The PERCENTILE.INC function returns the number corresponding to a particular percentage from an array of numbers.
The QUARTILE.INC function just provides a short-hand to the following values:
QUARTILE(array,0) = PERCENTILE.INC(array,0)
QUARTILE(array,1) = PERCENTILE.INC(array,0.25)
QUARTILE(array,2) = PERCENTILE.INC(array,0.50)
QUARTILE(array,3) = PERCENTILE.INC(array,0.75)
QUARTILE(array,4) = PERCENTILE.INC(array,1)
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There is also Percentile functionality included in the Analysis ToolPak add-in.
Which Method ?
There are a number of different ways to calculate a percentile value.
Excel provides two alternatives.
We will refer to them an (N-1) and (N+1).
In the (N-1) method, the ordinal rank is calculated using the formula:
In the (N+1) method, the ordinal rank is calculated using the formula:
Once you have the ordinal rank number the percentile can be easily calculated using the following formula
Split the ordinal rank into an integer component (k) and a decimal component (d)
PERCENTILE.INC - N-1
PERCENTILE.EXC - N+1
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bunion little toe
A bunion typically affects the big toe joint, but it is possible to have a bunion on the little toe as well. This condition is called a "tailor's bunion" or "bunionette." It is characterized by a bony bump on the outside of the foot at the base of the little toe. This bump is formed by the displacement of the little toe joint and can cause pain, inflammation, and difficulty in walking.
Tailor's bunion is caused by an abnormal alignment of the bones of the little toe, which leads to the formation of a bony bump. Wearing tight or ill-fitting shoes, inherited foot structures, certain types of arthritis, and certain foot injuries can contribute to the development of a bunionette.
Treatment options for bunionette are similar to those for a bunion. They include wearing comfortable shoes, using orthotics, physical therapy, and in severe cases, surgery may be necessary to correct the deformity. It's important to see a doctor or podiatrist for a proper diagnosis and treatment plan.
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Community High School, Ileogbo
Community High School, Ileogbo was established on May 25, 1982, by the people of Ileogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. It is situated along Gbongan road. The first principal was Mr. M.O. Ajayi while the second principal was chief S.O. Ogundeji.
Community High School is divided into junior and senior secondary schools. The name of the principal for junior secondary school is Mr. S.A. Nafiu while the name of the principal for senior secondary school is chief B.T. Obisesan.
The principal of senior school, chief B.T. Obisesan is the Akeweje of Ileogbo Land and the president of All Nigeria Confederation of Principal of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) in Osun State.
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Gypsy (comics)
Gypsy (Cynthia "Cindy" Reynolds) is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Creation
Co Creator Chuck Patton discussed the character's creation stating,
"Gypsy came about in the same way except we wanted a ninja-like character but more exotic, and some how the subject of gypsies came up. Being from Detroit, I’ve seen encounters with a few Romany people (aka gypsies), who came into our neighborhood up from the South, and they always carried a certain cultural mystique I thought would be interesting to portray other then the usual cliché. So I suggested her powers were camouflage stealth abilities and Gerry liked that and dubbed her Gypsy."
Publication history
Created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton, Gypsy first appeared in Justice League of America Annual #2 (October 1984).
Fictional character biography
Cynthia Reynolds is daughter to Edward and June Reynolds, who lived their lives in a peaceful, suburban home. Cindy grew up as an intelligent and experienced barefooter, (a person who chooses not to wear shoes) which became one of her trademarks as a teenager. Soon after Cindy's brother was born, Edward and June began to fight. Cindy tried to keep her parents together but also suffered abuse. When her illusion powers began to manifest at the age of fourteen, Cindy bought a one-way bus ticket to Detroit and ran away from home.
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Once Cindy arrived in Detroit, she used her chameleon and illusion-casting powers to protect herself from the normal dangers of city life. As she grew to adulthood, Cindy adopted the identity of "Gypsy", patterning her dress after common stereotypes of Romani dress. The Justice League soon took up residence in a neighborhood near Gypsy's stomping grounds after Aquaman disbanded the original League.
Shortly after the League moved into their new headquarters Gypsy began testing their security measures, eventually penetrating them and gaining access to the Hall Of Justice. Eventually, Gypsy becomes brave enough to follow along with the Justice League and to aid in the battle against the Overmaster and his Cadre. After successfully aiding her idols against Overmaster, the Justice League invited Cynthia to join their ranks to become a full-time member of 'The League.' Gypsy Accepted the League's offer participated in the Justice League's struggles against the power-mad Anton Allegro and a reactivated Amazo.
Gypsy found cause to test her powers to their limits when the new JLA was unexpectedly ambushed by the Royal Flush Gang during a wilderness retreat. While her teammates were incapacitated, Gypsy ventured outside of her body, via astral projection. Gypsy used her astral form to spy on the Gang's activities. During the same retreat, Cindy received a dire premonition about the respective fates of her teammates Steel and Vibe respectively. Despite Gypsy's warnings Steel and Vibe were doomed when they were killed by Professor Ivo during his bid to destroy the then current justice league. Gypsy was able, however, to save the rest of her teammates from the Amazo android Dr. Ivo dispatched to murder her, by finding its conscience. After reaching the android's emotions Cindy convinced it not to kill her. Though Ivo succeeded in killing Vibe (as Gypsy had foreseen), the android saw Cindy safely returned to her parents' custody.
Gypsy's domestic happiness was short-lived, as some time after Gypsy left the JLA, a vengeful Despero arrived at her home and murdered her parents. Gypsy would have been Despero's next victim, if not for the intervention of the Martian Manhunter and the rest of the Justice League. Although devastated by the loss of her family, Gypsy agreed to join Booster Gold's corporate-sponsored super team known as the Conglomerate.
Justice League Task Force
During her time on the U.N's. Justice League Task Force team Gypsy grew close to the Martian Manhunter. Gypsy and Martian Manhunter were both mainstays of the short-lived team and the pair eventually form a sort of father/daughter relationship during their time serving together. During her time on the JLTF, Gypsy was nearly forced to battle Lady Shiva. On a different mission Cindy was left for dead by her teammates. Gypsy later joined a revamped version of the J.L.T.A. along with L-Ron (in the body of Despero), The Ray, and Triumph.
Gypsy and Ray were both later mind-controlled and used by Triumph during his strike against the reformed JLA. Ray forced the J.L.T.F. to attack the J.L.A. because he felt both the world and "the headliners" had forgotten about his team when the "JLA" Reformed. During the battle, Gypsy saw Aquaman, her old teammate in Detroit, confusedly telling him "you went away".
There have also been hints of a romantic relationship between Gypsy and the Bronze Tiger. Gypsy and J'onn keep in touch. At one point, after she had been killed, Gypsy was resurrected by the Manhunter, who plead with his Martian god, Hronmeer, to restore Cynthia to life. Cynthia also aided Wonder Woman during a massive battle against Circe.
Recent history
Recently Gypsy has joined Barbara Gordon's Birds of Prey. In recent times Gypsy has demonstrated greater flexibility with her powers and is now able to extend her powers of invisibility to hide other people and things around her. Gypsy has also teamed up with Vixen to clean up the remnants of an old case. The two heroines rescued Stargirl after they discovered that Amos Fortune had been kidnapping members of the JSA.
Gypsy was one of the imprisoned heroes who were forced to fight at the behest of the Apokoliptan gods on Earth in the Dark Side Club. Gypsy spoke at Martian Manhunter's funeral where she, along with several other heroes, were telepathically compelled by the Martian Manhunter to recall Martian history.
Gypsy was again accosted by Despero, who brought her unconscious body to Happy Harbor and fights Vixen's ragtag Justice League.
During the Blackest Night storyline, Gypsy, Vixen and Doctor Light battle Black Lantern versions of several deceased members of the Justice League that were attacking the Hall of Justice.
The New 52
In The New 52, Gypsy was not a member of the League, and first appeared as one of the captive metahumans imprisoned by Amanda Waller in a government holding facility. In, "The New 52," continuity Gypsy was a refugee from an alternate dimension, fleeing from Vibe's brother Rupture who was enslaved by Mordeth. Rupture revealed that Gypsy's full name in the new continuity is Cynthia Mordeth, as she was Mordeth's daughter.
Powers and abilities
Gypsy's primary power is that of illusion casting, which allows her to blend into her background, effectively becoming invisible. It also allows her to adapt to rapidly changing backgrounds without betraying the illusion. She can camouflage both herself and someone in close proximity to her. In Gypsy's first appearance, only her shadow is shown from the Bunker's monitor, and she appears to teleport at the end of the issue.
Gypsy's illusion-casting can also be used to project frightening illusions into the minds of other people. These illusions usually show what the affected person fears most. This ability can affect other living things besides people, and Gypsy can use this ability in combat situations. Gypsy has the ability to project an illusion to appear as another person, but that person needs to be her approximate height and weight for it to appear authentic.
Gypsy's powers have evolved to the point that she can now cloak not only herself, but a moving vehicle and its passengers. Gypsy also has limited precognitive abilities and astral projection.
Aside from her powers, Gypsy is an expert in hand-to-hand combat. She is also an accomplished acrobat, able to leap high, run fast, swim, and execute unexpectedly quick martial arts tactics with relative ease. Gypsy also has a strong aptitude in electronics and computers, and has become skilled in the use of firearms. She has been trained by Bronze Tiger.
Earth-16
The Earth-16 version of Gypsy appears in The Multiversity.
Television
* Gypsy makes non-speaking background appearances in Justice League Unlimited. This version is a member of the Justice League with the ability to become intangible.
* A character based on Gypsy named Cynthia appears in The Flash, portrayed by Jessica Camacho. This version is a bounty hunter from Earth-19 who possesses similar powers to Vibe. In the fourth season, Cynthia and Vibe enter a long-distance relationship, though they later break up. In the sixth season, she is killed by Vibe's Earth-19 counterpart, Echo.
Film
A villainous, alternate universe incarnation of Gypsy named Gypsy Woman makes a non-speaking appearance in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as a minor member of the Crime Syndicate who can become intangible.
Miscellaneous
Gypsy appears in issue #22 of the Justice League Unlimited tie-in comic book.
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CFWheels Plugin ported from existing CFML Component by Jason Steinshouer for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens (JWT), which in turn is a port of the node.js project node-jwt-simple to cfml.
It currently supports HS256, HS384, and HS512 signing algorithms.
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<cfscript>
// Initialize the component with the secret signing key
jwtObj = jwt(secretkey);
// Encode the data structure as a json web token
// NB, using "token" as a variable name seems to cause issues
thetoken = jwtObj.encode(payload);
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result = jwtObj.decode(thetoken);
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To ignore the exp claim during verification, pass ignoreExpiration=true when instantiating the JWT instance. For example:
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Also supports the aud and iss registered claims during verification. If you don't pass audience or issuer during instantiation, the claims will be ignored during verification. If you do pass them, they'll be included during the verification process. Here's an example:
jwtObj = jwt(key=secretkey, audience="myaudiencevalue", issuer="myissuervalue");
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XS routine returns an extra depth of array refs
by mugwumpjism (Hermit)
on Nov 05, 2001 at 21:48 UTC ( #123361=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
mugwumpjism has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Can anyone tell me why this XS routine returns my RETVAL with one extra depth of array refs?
#include <sys/types.h> #include <dirent.h> #include <stdio.h> SV * readdir_inode(dirname) char* dirname INIT: struct dirent *ent; DIR* dir; SV* record[2]; AV *entry, *ret_val; CODE: ret_val = newAV(); dir = opendir(dirname); if (!dir) perror("Cannot open dir"); while ((ent=readdir(dir))) { record[0] = newSVpv(ent->d_name, 0); record[1] = newSViv((IV)ent->d_ino); entry = av_make(2, record); av_push(ret_val, newRV_inc((SV*) entry)); } closedir(dir); RETVAL=newRV_inc((SV*) ret_val); OUTPUT: RETVAL
That is, I'm getting a structure like this:
$VAR1 = [ [ [ '.', 67586 ], [ '..', 255604 ], ...
Instead of something like this:
$VAR1 = [ [ '.', 67586 ], [ '..', 255604 ], ...
Any ideas why, anyone?
Also, does anyone know of a better way of saying "or die "Can't opendir $file; $!"" (or should I bother? perhaps just return undef and let the caller check $!)
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Re: XS routine returns an extra depth of array refs
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2001 at 22:04 UTC
Let's see your Perl code where you get the results of this function and do a Dumper on it. I expect to see:
$ref = readdir_inode($dirname); print Dumper($ref); # or @a = readdir_inode($dirname); print Dumper($a[0]); # not Dumper(\@a)
I don't see anything obviously wrong with your code, but I want to eliminate some assumptions first before I go digging. :)
You hit the nail right on the head... I had the second, but Dumper \@a instead of Dumper $a[0], and my test code was assuming I was returning a list. Hate it when that happens ;-)
OK, so now at least I have it returning something sensible, which is always good. In which case, the question is why does this:
AV * readdir_inode(dirname) char* dirname INIT: struct dirent *ent; DIR* dir; SV* record[2]; AV *entry, *ret_val; CODE: RETVAL = newAV(); dir = opendir(dirname); if (!dir) perror("Cannot open dir"); while ((ent=readdir(dir))) { printf("%ld %x\n", ent->d_ino, ent->d_name); record[0] = newSVpv(ent->d_name, 0); record[1] = newSViv((IV)ent->d_ino); entry = av_make(2, record); av_push(RETVAL, newRV_inc((SV*) entry)); } closedir(dir); /*RETVAL=*ret_val;*/ /*RETVAL=newRV_inc((SV*) ret_val);*/ OUTPUT: RETVAL
Return an extra level of arrays?
The calling code:
my @ents = readdir_inode("."); print Dumper @ents;
The output:
$VAR1 = [ [ '.', 67586 ], [ '..', 255604
...
When you use RETVAL, XS builds it in such a way that it's functionally the same as the first item on the return stack. Thus, you've effectively stuck an AV into $ents[0], which I'm guessing Perl DWIM's here and turns it into a reference to an array. Hence the additional level of references.
The correct way (I believe) to return a list in this situation is to declare your function with a return type of void and simply push each element onto the return stack instead of trying to return an array, using PUSHs I think.
Re: XS routine returns an extra depth of array refs
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2001 at 22:09 UTC
Returning 'undef' from your function on error and setting $! seems the best way of doing this. If you really want to throw an error directly from your XS, use the "croak" function, which behaves like die in Perl. (There's also a 'warn'.) These act like printf.
croak("Can't opendir %s!", dirname);
Re: XS routine returns an extra depth of array refs
by jeroenes (Priest) on Nov 05, 2001 at 22:28 UTC
Maybe the casting of entry to an SV does the trick. newRC_inc can also take an AV as input.
Update: Tested the following... too lazy for XS, so Inline:
use Data::Dumper; $ref = testRV( 'monks' ); print Dumper( $ref ); use Inline C => <<'END_OF_C' SV* testRV(char* dirname){ SV* record[2]; AV *entry, *ret_val; SV* retarray; int i = 0; ret_val = newAV(); while (i<10) { record[0] = newSVpv(dirname, 0); record[1] = newSViv(i); entry = av_make(2, record); av_push(ret_val, newRV_inc( entry)); i++; } retarray=newRV_noinc( ret_val); return retarray; } END_OF_C #results in: $VAR1 = [ [ 'monks', '0' ], [ 'monks', 1 ], [ 'monks', 2 ], ...
In other words, just a 2D array as you wanted. BTW, Inline didn't complain about the AV* 's, but than, maybe those warnings were suppressed?
So I think Fastolfe has pinpointed it, when he noticed you exc'd the sub in array context...
If you really want to output arrays from C, you need to push your items on the stack.
All the casting does is remove this warning during compilation:
ReadDir.xs: In function `XS_ReadDir_readdir_inode': ReadDir.xs:43: warning: passing arg 1 of `Perl_newRV' from incompatibl +e pointer type
If you really want to output arrays from C, you need to push your items on the stack.
Right, that's the ticket. This seems to work the way I want:
#include <sys/types.h> #include <dirent.h> #include <stdio.h> void readdir_inode(dirname) char* dirname INIT: struct dirent *ent; DIR* dir; SV* record[2]; AV *entry, *ret_val; PPCODE: dir = opendir(dirname); if (dir) { while ((ent=readdir(dir))) { printf("%ld %x\n", ent->d_ino, ent->d_name); record[0] = newSVpv(ent->d_name, 0); record[1] = newSViv((IV)ent->d_ino); PUSHs(newRV_noinc(av_make(2, record))); } closedir(dir); }
At least, I hope that last "newRV_noinc" shouldn't be a "newRV_inc"!
It should be newRV_inc. :-)
Only with inline the refcounter of the SV gets auto-incremented. With XS you have to that yourself.
Update: For clarity, only the refcounter of the SV that gets returned! Other SV*'s you have to inc manually!
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544 His original way of dealing with subjects is well illustrated in his studies of fossil bivalve mollusca. It had been customary to describe the external markings of the shell and when possible the muscular impressions within. Agassiz soon realized the importance of studying the interior contour of the shell, and forthwith proceeded, by means of casts, to bring to light the relations of these fossils with their living representatives. His maxim was to have abundant material—thousands of specimens, if necessary—for any proper research. In studying glaciers he literally rode on the back of one for weeks at a time. He furthermore urged his students to read all that had been written on a subject before publishing.
Agassiz not only defined many new species of animals in various classes, but he was continually dwelling on the affinities and homologies among the various groups; more particularly their classification and their geographical and stratigraphical distribution. His studies in embryology and his familiarity with the work of Von Baer led him to recognize the general truth that the young of higher animals in their respective groups resembled the mature forms of animals lower down in the scale. From these studies he soon grasped the greater conception that this principle was carried out in time as well, and that fossil animals in the early horizons of geological history resembled the embryonic or early condition of higher animals now living and hence the idea of comprehensive or prophetic types. This same broad grasp of fundamental principles was remarkably illustrated in his studies of glacial phenomena in the Alps. One of his biographers says, "With his power of quick perception, his unmatched memory, his perspicacity, and acuteness, his way of classifying, judging and marshaling facts, Agassiz promptly learned the whole mass of irresistible arguments collected patiently during seven years by Charpentier and Venetz, and with his insatiable appetite and that faculty of assimilation which he possessed in such a wonderful degree he digested the whole doctrine of the glaciers in a few weeks," and added a great many new and important facts.
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Shanghai Disney Resort says investigating travel platform over Uighur refusal
SHANGHAI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Walt Disney's DIS.N resort in the Chinese city of Shanghai said on Monday it was investigating after a travel agency apparently refused to let a member of the Uighur Muslim minority use a resort and lodging package sold by a hotel nearby.
Screenshots of a conversation between a customer who identified as ethnic Uighur and was looking to book a Disney resort package at the Aishabao Apartment Hotel in Shanghai, and travel booking platform Zlton.com, were shared on Chinese social media and on Twitter over the weekend.
The guest was shown a notification that the package was not open to Uighurs, foreigners or holders of Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan identification cards, and was told the same by a Zlton customer service representative, according to screenshots of the exchange.
Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the screenshots but a spokeswoman for the Shanghai Disney Resort, referring to them, told Reuters the information Zlton gave about the resort was "completely incorrect". She also said that Disney did not have any partnership with the Aishabao Apartment Hotel.
"All visitors who hold a valid park ticket or annual card, Shanghai Disneyland reservation code, green health code, and pass the temperature test at the entrance of the resort can enter the park normally," Shanghai Disney Resort said in a post on its Weibo social media account.
It also said it was investigating the Zlton platform. A staff member who answered the phone at Zlton's headquarters in the city of Suzhou declined to comment.
A staff member at the Aishabao Apartment Hotel, which sells packages priced as low as 699 yuan ($108) that include Shanghai Disney Resort tickets and an overnight stay, told Reuters that it was not authorised by police to accept Uighur guests.
Hotels and guest houses in China must typically have approval from authorities before being allowed to host foreign guests, who must be registered with the police.
Uighur people speak a Turkic language and most come from the far western region of Xinjiang, where China says separatists want to establish an independent state.
The United Nations estimates at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in camps in Xinjiang under what China calls a counterterrorism and de-radicalisation effort, which has drawn widespread condemnation from around the world.
Beijing says the camps are vocational education and training centres and everyone sent to one had "graduated".
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In recent years, there have been accounts in the media and on social media of Uighurs being refused service at hotels or harassed by police after checking in, even though authorities have not announced any policy restricting their access to hotels.
"What's new about this Disneyland case is that the hotel actually lumps Xinjiang Uighurs together with foreigners and people from Hong Kong and Taiwan," said Ma Haiyun, an expert on Xinjiang and an associate professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
The Shanghai police bureau responsible for the Disney resort area said it had no knowledge of the matter.
Another hotel near the resort, similar to the Aishabao, said police had also said it could not let Uighurs stay.
Five other hotels Reuters reached said they could host Uighur guests but they had to report them to the police.
The Disney Resort's two official hotels, Shanghai Disneyland Hotel and the Toy Story Hotel, said they accept Uighur guests.
Disney faced controversy last year after the release of its movie "Mulan", whose credits showed that it was partly shot in Xinjiang and included thanks to authorities there. Overseas activists called for a boycott of the movie.
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Reviewer: Dough 48 72 01:40, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
* GA review (see here for criteria)
I will place the article on hold to allow for fixes to be made. Dough 48 72 01:40, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
* 1) It is reasonably well written.
* a (prose): b (MoS):
* The sentence "Eventually, the abundance of farms fades into forests and the highway dives into and out of deep glacial ravines, the headwaters of the Pigeon River." sounds awkward.
* "dives through a final ravine." also needs to be reworded.
* "Drivers then proceed west", sounds awkward.
* In the Development section, it jumps from describing dates in the 1800s to the 1900s and back to the 1800s. Is there a reason why this is done or is this perhaps an error?
* 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
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* I do not think the Ontario Back Road Atlas can support the physical surroundings of the road. Try using satellite imagery for this.
* The first paragraph of the Development subsection of the History needs references.
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* Can some more historical information be added to the lead?
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* Did some fixes. Thanks for catching that 1900s issue in the development, those dates should have been all in the 1800s (and are fixed now). I still have to add more refs for the surroundings of the RD, so I will let you know once that is done. The first part of History is a quick introduction, and all the facts should be repeated/sourced in the following two sections. I tried to cram some extra history into the lead, so let me know what you think for that one. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 22:49, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
* All set. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 04:21, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
* I will now pass the article. Dough 48 72 04:24, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
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The Duplication Detector shows some similarities that may need to be addressed. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
* Mea culpa. Forgot that the duplication detector doesn't show quotation marks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:58, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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Guy de Montfort
Guy de Montfort may refer to:
* Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon (died 1228)
* Guy de Montfort, Count of Bigorre (died 1220)
* Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (1244 – c. 1288)
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H. L. Hix
Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960) is an American poet and academic.
Hix is an author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, which was a publication award from Truman State University Press for his volume Rational Numbers (2000). In 2006 he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.
He is a professor and former director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.
Life
Hix received his bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Belmont University in 1982, magna cum laude; his master's degree in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985; and his doctorate in philosophy from the same institution in 1987.
He has taught in a number of positions at the Kansas City Art Institute — lecturer-in-residence, 1987–1988; assistant professor, 1988–1994; associate professor, 1994–1998; professor, 1998–2002; interim vice president for academic affairs, 1996–1998. Later he was vice president for academic affairs and professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been MFA program director and professor at the University of Wyoming since 2005.
Poetry
* Incident Light, Etruscan Press (2009) ISBN 978-0-974-5995-1-9
* Chromatic, Etruscan Press (2006) ISBN 978-0-9745995-6-4
* Shadows of Houses, Etruscan Press (2005) ISBN 978-0-9745995-4-0
* Surely As Birds Fly, Truman State University Press (March 2002, paperback) ISBN 978-1-931112-05-5
* Rational Numbers, Truman State University Press (2000)
* Perfect Hell, Gibbs Smith (August 1996) ISBN 978-0-87905-780-0
* Perfect Hell, Gibbs Smith (August 1996) ISBN 978-0-87905-780-0
Prose
* As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry Etruscan Press (2002)
* Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)
* Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)
* Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)
* Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)
* Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)
Translations
* City of Ash, Eugenijus Ališanka, Northwestern University Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8101-1783-9
* City of Ash, Eugenijus Ališanka, Northwestern University Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8101-1783-9
* City of Ash, Eugenijus Ališanka, Northwestern University Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8101-1783-9
Edited books
* A Casebook on The Tunnel, Web-published, Dalkey Archive (2000)
* Poets At Large: 25 Poets in 25 Homes, Helicon Nine (1997)
* A Casebook on The Tunnel, Web-published, Dalkey Archive (2000)
* Poets At Large: 25 Poets in 25 Homes, Helicon Nine (1997)
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Jim Lang (composer)
James Volker Langknecht (born November 22, 1950), better known as Jim Lang, is an American composer. He is known for scoring the Nickelodeon series Hey Arnold! (1996–2004), its feature film, Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002), and the television film, Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie (2017), as well as working with series creator Craig Bartlett on his other shows such as Dinosaur Train and Ready Jet Go!.
In 2001, Lang was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Song in an Animated Production for the main title song of Lloyd in Space. In 2004, he received an ASCAP Award for Top TV Series for Hey Arnold!
Filmography
* Love or Money (1990)
* The Letters from Moab (1991)
* Body Bags (1993; with John Carpenter)
* In the Mouth of Madness (1994; with John Carpenter)
* Hey Arnold! (1996–2004)
* Lloyd in Space (2001–2004)
* Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002)
* Unstable Fables (2008)
* Fred and Vinnie (2011)
* Dinosaur Train (2009–2017)
* Ready Jet Go! (2016–2019)
* Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie (2017)
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What Is Retinol & Why Does Your Skin Need It?
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If you ask any esthetician or derm what product you should be incorporating into your routine to combat early signs of aging, it's likely that their first answer will be retinol. This supercharged ingredient, which previously was only available with a dermatologist's prescription, has increasingly made its way into the mainstream with more over-the-counter options available. With so many brands creating their own formulas, and many estheticians swearing it's their holy grail ingredient, it has many novice beauty consumers wondering, what is retinol and why do you need it?
"Retinol is a vitamin A derivative that will boost collagen in the skin, minimize fine lines and wrinkles, smooth the overall texture of your skin, and decrease pigmentation," Shani Darden, celebrity esthetician and founder of Shani Darden Skincare, tells The Zoe Report. She continues, "Retinol helps to speed up cellular turnover which brings new skin to the surface faster, and also stimulates collagen production to plump up fine lines and wrinkles. Retinol can also really help to clear up skin. The cellular turnover process helps to remove dead skin cells which can end up clogging pores and eventually turn into breakouts."
So with all of these benefits in mind, there are a few things to know before you decide to invest in a retinol product. Read on to learn more about retinols, including what skin types can use it and what formulations are the most effective.
What Retinol Is: A Restorative & Preventative Ingredient
"Retinol stimulates cell turnover to fade hyperpigmentation and uneven skin tone and helps to increase collagen production to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles," Christine Chang, co-founder and co-CEO of Glow Recipe, tells TZR. "It's known for repairing damage from environmental stressors caused by UV rays, pollution, and more."
While folks with mature skin tend to incorporate retinol into their routines later on in life, it can also work as a preventative treatment starting in your 20s "to prevent blemishes, acne, and skin stress," according to Chang's Glow Recipe Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Sarah Lee. "When retinol is applied to your under-eye area, it helps address dark circles and milia," she says.
Who Should Avoid Retinol: Pregnant Women & People With Skin Sensitivity
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It's a generally known rule that pregnant women shouldn't use retinol because some products have been known to cause spinal and facial deformities in fetuses. "During pregnancy, you want to use products that are non-systemic, which means they do not enter the blood stream," Darden explains. "Ingredients like retinol and salicylic acid should be avoided during pregnancy as a small amount does absorb into the body. As always, it's best to consult with your doctor about what is safe for you and baby." In addition to expectant mothers, people with skin sensitivity shouldn't use it either because the ingredient can sensitize the skin even further and cause further irritation.
Skin Camp esthetician Airi Williams recommends that people with rosacea or open inflamed nodules should absolutely avoid it. "[Retinol] can be drying and sometimes aggravating, even to normal skin, so it could potentially be a trigger to someone with rosacea [or open inflamed nodules]," she explains. "[It can] cause the blood vessels to be more visible [or make] skin the peel and flake more than usual."
She continues, "On the other hand, it could potentially help someone with a more mild case of rosacea to combat the inflammation and/or redness in the skin. It comes down to picking the lesser evil, so to speak. Using retinol could potentially help but could also be trigger, so weigh out your options and ask yourself which problems you would rather deal with."
What Retinol Is Strongest: Over The Counter Serum Retinols Are The Most Potent
Prescription retinols are always going to be the most potent formulas available, but if you're not battling severe acne scarring or hyperpigmentation, it's likely that you won't need something that strong. If you're looking for an over-the-counter option that still packs a punch, look for a serum.
"There are retinol-based oils, creams, serums, and eye creams, but it will always be most effective in serum form," Darden explains. "Serums contain the highest concentrations of active ingredients that are able to better penetrate the skin than a moisturizer will." Darden has a retinol serum in her eponymous skincare line that boasts 2.2% encapsulated retinol, as well as 2% lactic acid to encourage gentle exfoliation.
However, if your skin is more sensitive but you still want to see if retinol is right for you, one of those other formats — oils or creams — might work better for you.
"Traditional retinol has the tendency to activate directly on the skin's surface, which can cause irritation or inflammation," says Lee. "An effective alternative is an encapsulated retinol formula instead, that will slowly time-release the retinol deep into skin's layers instead of all at once. By pairing encapsulated retinol with skin-nourishing ingredients, we found the right recipe to provide gentle, but potent benefits to skin." One great example of this type of formulation is Glow Recipe's Avocado Melt Retinol Sleeping Mask, which can be used as both a nighttime moisturizer in a light layer, or as a rinse-off mask in a heavier layer.
When Should Retinol Be Used: Only At Nighttime
"Retinol should always be used at night. It can make your skin more sensitive to the sun so it should not be used during the day," says Darden. "Also, you're going to get the most benefits from it using it at night because that is when your skin is in repair mode and the most receptive to treatment products."
After using retinol in your night routine, you need to remember to wear sunscreen the next day. "Retinol thins out the the outer skin layer, which explains the dewy glow patients experience with use," says Dr. Joshua Zeichner, a board-certified dermatologist in NYC. "At the same time, that effects makes the skin more sensitive to sunburn. The stratum corneum [i.e. the outer layer of skin] becomes thinner no matter what time of the day you use retinol. The reason for applying at night is not because it makes you less sun sensitive, but rather because it prevents UV-induced inactivation of the retinol itself."
When In Your Skincare Routing Should Retinol Go: Closest To Your Skin
"Retinol should be applied on clean skin," says Darden. "Wash your face, gently pat it dry, and then apply your retinol. Follow up with a hydrating serum like a hyaluronic acid if you need extra hydration and then a great moisturizer for your skin type."
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What Are The Downsides Of Retinol: It Isn't Stable
"While effective, pure retinol is unstable in formulation and is easily inactivated by UV light and heat," says Dr. Zeichner. "Retinol also does not play nicely with other ingredients, and may be broken down by ingredients like hydroxyacids and benzoyl peroxide. You also need to be cautious when combining pure retinol with other temperamental ingredients like vitamin C, which is just as easily inactivated. Combining the two products may lead to breakdown of both compounds."
The best way to find out if retinol might work for you is to slowly introduce it into your routine and eliminate all other actives while your skin gets acclimated to it. Dr. Zeichner recommends that his patients combine retinol with a moisturizer. He has them apply a moisturizer first to prime and hydrate the skin so it acts like a buffer to minimize the risk of skin irritation from retinol.
Dr. Zeichner says, "Look for moisturizers that contain ingredients like ceramides, hyaluronic, acid or colloidal oatmeal to hydrate and repair the skin barrier. It may be counter-intuitive, but I find moisturizing first to be helpful and should not interfere with penetration of retinol to the skin."
How Much Retinol Do You Need: Only A Little Bit
Though it's a strong product, retinol can be applied with your bare hands to your face. "The amount you apply really depends on the particular retinol you're using. With a prescription formula, you should really only apply a pea sized amount to the whole face," says Darden.
She continues, "Over the counter formulas you can use a little more, but you still have to introduce it very slowly. I always recommended starting with 1 night a week and building up slowly from there. Add in one additional night each week, building up to as often as your skin can tolerate. For some people this will be every night, and for others it may be two nights a week or every other night."
If retinol sounds like it would be a good addition to your routine, here are some more products that you should try out.
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-- Ban Ki-Moon Scolds Rich Countries Backtracking on Climate
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon lashed out at rich nations that are watering down
commitments to fight global warming, citing the typhoon that
devastated the Philippines . Some developed countries “that are supposed to be taking
leadership are now backtracking,” Ban said at UN climate talks
in Warsaw today. “That’s quite disappointing. We have to take
urgent action.” The comments were meant to goad envoys from almost 190
nations at the meeting to step up their efforts to cut fossil-fuel emissions blamed for damaging the atmosphere. For the first
time since the UN-led discussions started in 1992, richer
nations led by Japan , Canada and Australia have stepped away
from promises to rein in emissions. Scientists say rising temperatures are spreading droughts,
more violent storms and boosting sea levels. Typhoon Haiyan
struck the Philippines with 195 mile-per-hour winds earlier this
month, killing thousands and leaving more without homes. The tragedy represents “an alarm bell, maybe the last
alarm bell,” Ban said. Japan last week shelved its target to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions from 1990 levels, arguing that the closure of nuclear
reactors following the meltdown in Fukushima in 2011 make
meeting that goal impossible. Inadequate Pledges Ban urged nations to ratify the second commitment period of
the Kyoto Protocol , step up financial aid for developing
countries and commit to more ambitious emissions-reduction
targets to keep warming below the internationally agreed limit
of 2 degrees Celcius (3.6 Fahrenheit) since industrialization. “Current pledges are simply inadequate,” Ban told
delegates at a joint event with Polish President Donald Tusk.
“We must set the bar higher.” Two weeks of talks in Warsaw are due to wrap up on Nov. 22.
The delegates are aiming to put in place the building blocks for
a treaty limiting emissions that could be adopted in 2015 and
come into force in 2020. Ban said there are “serious concerns” about how
industrial nations meet their commitment to boost climate-related aid to $100 billion by 2020. “I am urging you to do
more.” The U.S. is still expected to take a leadership role, Ban
told a press conference. “We need the developed world to lead
this campaign. They have capacity. They have systems and means.
It is absolutely necessary and crucial.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Stefan Nicola in Warsaw at
snicola2@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Reed Landberg at
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The result was delete__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit 11:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Excelacom
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Fails WP:CORP, borderline speedy delete. The only source close to a secondary reference in a reliable source I could find in a WP:BEFORE search was this passing mention on MarketWatch. The rest is press releases and company listings. Wikishovel (talk) 02:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, Technology, and Virginia. Wikishovel (talk) 02:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
* Delete This was created by a user with a few thousand edits, so I don't want to assume the worst of them and say this was paid, but it's really bad, and all of the sources are slop -- of eighteen, all except three are the company's own websites! The other three are to a paid newswire service, a passing mention on a AWS site, and whatever this is. If there's any non-slop found, ping me. jp×g🗯️ 06:42, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
* Keep. This Wikipedia article is about a telecommunications company that started 24 years ago, now has more than 500 employees, and its offices are located in 12 cities spread over 8 countries. This international organization is notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article. Multiple secondary sources are listed as references to support the information in the article. The article quality will improve over time; please have patience and give this article a chance. This article should not be deleted. Any issues can be discussed in the article's talk page. Engineering Guy (talk) 02:55, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
* Delete: It's disappointing that most of the citations are covered by this company and few vlogs which is not counted and fails WP:NCORP. CSMention269 (talk) 07:22, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
* Delete per above. Okoslavia (talk) 04:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
* Delete per previous comments – sources are all WP:SELFPUB. 100% promotionally worded. Speedy deletion would make sense here, honestly.
* TLA (talk) 10:26, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Date of this Version
February 2005
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The availability of multiple sources of food and drink has a profound influence on choice behavior in rodents. It is not known how other taxa might respond to the same kind of variation in availability. We tested European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) with various combinations of unadulterated and repellent-treated (0.025% citronellyl acetate) resources. In Experiment 1, birds drank more plain than repellent-treated water than when given (a) 2 bottles of plain water and 2 of repellent-water, or (b) 3 bottles of plain water and 1 of repellent-water. However, they drank more repellent than water when given 3 bottles of repellent-water and 1 of plain water. Thus, the aversion to the repellent became indifference when repellent-water was abundant. In Experiment 2, birds ate more untreated than treated food when given (a) 1 cup ofuntreated food and 1 cup of treated food or (b) 2 cups of untreated food and 1 of treated food. They ate equal amounts of untreated and treated food when given 1 cup of untreated food and 2 cups of treated food. These results demonstrate the effect of relative availability on choice, and imply that availability should be considered when using repellents.
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Russian-American Painter and Lithographer
Summary of Raphael Soyer
Drawing on his own immigrant experience, Raphael Soyer sensitively portrayed a vast swath of working-class and homeless men and women during the Great Depression and in the decades following World War II. Affiliated with both the Fourteenth Street School and the Social Realists, Soyer's presentation of the plight of the urban population resisted overt politic statements and instead probed the psychological toll of growing consumer capitalism. An ardent opponent of abstraction, which during the 1940s and 1950s was ascendant, Soyer insisted on a humanistic realism in order to communicate with his viewers.
Soyer, along with artists such as Reginald Marsh and Isabelle Bishop, kept alive and expanded the tradition of figurative painting. Their urban subjects and their sympathetic depictions have received new scholarly attention and can be related to the international reprise of figurative painting after World War II.
- Soyer's subjects - unemployed men in breadlines, homeless men waiting for shelter and assistance, the New Women of the workforce - made up the fabric of the urban environment of New York City. In portraying the downtrodden and the underdogs, Soyer wanted to give voice to the overlooked and unseen to elicit recognition and empathy from the viewer.
- Instead of political painting that exposed the structural deficiencies of American urban society like some other Social Realists, Soyer opted to show the more personal and individual costs of such a society, and his work was unique in its psychological explorations. While working from models hired from the streets, Soyer managed to create intimate portraits of specific people, but people who remained nameless and not recognizable to the public and so the portraits become depictions of anyone and everyone to whom viewers can more easily relate and find commonalities.
- In rejecting the trends toward abstraction, Soyer looked to the French Realism of Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas. Closer to home, Thomas Eakins and the Ashcan School painters inspired Soyer's realism. Often employing looser brushstrokes and relying on color instead of line, Soyer's realistic depictions also emphasize the materiality of the paint, thus undercutting idealized and romantic attitudes toward his subjects.
Progression of Art
The Artist's Parents
The most striking aspect of this double portrait is the symmetry of the subjects' expressions; Soyer's parents appear drawn and exhausted and their eyes resigned and tired. His father rests his head in one hand, while his mother's sturdy arms are folded in front of her body. They are sitting at a table, and behind them, one can see a cabinet with a mirror on top, a family photograph, and a light switch. The colors are muted and dull, but the brushwork is energetic, almost impressionistic.
This poignant work epitomizes the feelings and attitudes shared by many during the Great Depression. Drawing influence from the Ashcan School's preoccupation with the ordinary, everyday lives of working-class New Yorkers, Soyer encapsulates their world-weary experience through their whole body - from their slumped postures, their exhausted eyes, and in his father's furrowed brow. The way in which the work draws the viewer to the subjects' eyes invites compassionate and poignant examination. He has not flattered them - that was not his concern - rather he presented the truth of their character. He could have omitted the unappealing wall switch from the painting, but he wanted to present an accurate representation.
As curator Ori Z. Soltes explains, "The work is a powerful statement of how the older generation suffers the pains of the immigrant condition.... With all of its problems, the Old World offered the comfort of familiarity. The New World, with its own language, culture and customs, offers shock and conflict. We see the artist's parents self-isolated, caught between the Old World and the New, their bodies here and their minds there."
Oil on Canvas - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Five men, seated around a counter, drink coffee from tin cups and eat bread. Placed before a blank, featureless background, the men do not interact with each other. The contrast between light and dark creates a bleak atmosphere, and the men stare past each other, save the one in the center, who looks out toward the viewer instead.
Soyer's depiction of newly arrived immigrants and those suffering from the Great Depression led to his reputation as an American Scene Painter, and his paintings and prints are among the most evocative representations of the period - a time when men would spend hours in bread lines in order to obtain a stale loaf for their families. Soyer renders these works with a sympathetic eye, showing his affinity with the immigrant poor and perhaps drawing on his own experience of sadness and isolation.
Soyer was a skilled lithographer, and he considered this to be one of his most important works. The grim portrayal of their silent consumption of basic rations is reminiscent of Vincent Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters (1885), which drew attention to the harshness of Dutch peasant life. Soyer used harsh light to accentuate the gaunt and furrowed face of the malnourished figure in the foreground, who holds a piece of white bread in his hand that recalls the white, stone-like potato in van Gogh's painting. Thus, the 20th century artist updates van Gogh's subject in the setting of Depression-era New York. Using homeless men he befriended in the Bowery as his models, Soyer depicts their dejection and defiance.
Lithograph (Edition of 25) - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Soyer presents a closely cropped snapshot of the bustle of afternoon rush hour. Figures, hemmed in by the skyscrapers in the background, move in various directions; he depicts two women frontally, as if they were walking toward the viewer, and two more women and a man face rightward, with one of the suit-wearing women holding on to her hat. All of the figures are presented in dark clothing except the most visible one: she wears a white blazer over a dark shirt, with pink flowers pinned to her lapel. She carries a bag and a newspaper under her arm, and with her shoulder-length blond hair and tilted hat, she looks out at the viewer.
Soyer sought beauty in the ordinary and everyday and turned to the streets around his Union Square neighborhood for inspiration, and he was fascinated in particular by female subjects, the "New Women" of the city. Soyer often took up as painting subjects these professional women, who worked clerical jobs in offices or as shopgirls in the increasingly popular department stores; he emphasized their independence but also suggested that they were, in his words, "usually not very happy." The urban type of the "New Woman," as she was called, provoked endless commentary. One reviewer, upon seeing Office Girls, declared that the young women were "not particularly enticing" and were "thin, wiry, alert...still showing the nervous strain of their days." As art historian Ellen Wiley Todd explains, the reviewer was offended that their work, though consequential to urban life, undermined their femininity.
As a spokesman for the underdog, Soyer aimed to create art out of common experiences. While often described as a Social Realist, Soyer avoided propagandistic portrayals and preferred not to politicize his subjects, rather he wanted to depict the truth of what he saw before him every day on the streets and in cafes and bars.
Oil on Canvas - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In this dark and powerful piece, twelve men sit in a waiting room. One carries crutches, another reads, and one man in the background hunches over, perhaps asleep. They are homeless and desolate, sitting on rickety chairs waiting to hear if they will be given a place to sleep. The central figure leans towards the viewer, and his earnest expression, submissive pose and positioning of his hands suggest that he is begging for help. Though painted in muddy, earth tones, the artist uses a warm light to highlight his subjects' expressions - expectant, resigned, tired, and bored.
During the mid-1930s, Soyer often painted homeless men; Soyer recalled, "I painted people who were out of work. I mean, they just sat there, either in the sun or in the shade, and did nothing. I painted them a lot. And that too may have been considered Social Realism." In the left foreground of the canvas, a man leans forward, and one sees the face of a familiar character in many of Soyer's works: Walter Broe, an elderly homeless man who had been the only child of poor Irish immigrants. Soyer met him one night trying to fish for pennies using a stick and some chewing gum near the Whitney Museum of American Art. Soyer offered him a job modeling and then recommended him to his friends, helping him off the streets and letting him live in his studio. In life, as in art, Soyer was an advocate for the immigrant, the down-and-out, and the dispossessed. Soyer, like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans who photographed the laborers and downtrodden during the Depression, depicted these men with, as the Blanton Museum explains, "unflinching honesty and uncommon humanity."
Oil on Canvas - Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Girl Standing Semi-Nude
In this portrait, we see a woman, bare chested, looking down, and holding a deep red garment to her breasts. She appears awkward and self-conscious as she stares down at the floor, seemingly, to avoid the viewer's gaze. Her dark messy hair frames a vulnerable face that is deep in thought. While Soyer emphasizes her sexuality by positioning her breasts in the center of the canvas, art historian Bryna Campbell explains that he does not objectify or demean her through a stereotypical depiction but instead highlights the alienating effects of such stereotypes. Soyer presents to the viewer a quiet and sensitive exploration of psychological estrangement experienced by young women and immigrants in the chaotic, urban environment.
The brushwork and light touch of his paint, along with the subject matter, which he returned to often, calls to mind the realism by French painter Edgar Degas. In the 1920s, Soyer's twin brother Moses was working in Paris when he sent Raphael a book on Degas that was to become a treasured possession and a significant influence on his work. Speaking in 1981, Soyer said, "I still have it. It's one of my precious books. I was always more interested in the more psychological art. I mean, artists with a kind of psychological bent." Instead of depicting the structures and mechanisms of the increasingly capitalistic society as many Social Realists did, Soyer opts to explore the psychological toll on the individuals living in and oppressed by the capitalist order.
Oil on canvas - Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in Saint Louis
In Cafe Scene, a woman sits alone at a small table for one. Her bright red lipstick emphasizes her pale face as she stares away from the viewer, lost in thought. Although calm, quiet, and still, her crossed arms and legs suggest an inner-turmoil which is brought into sharp relief by the posture of the only other figure in the canvas: a man in the background, sitting relaxed with hands in pockets. This observation of disquiet, or unease, became a common motif of the artist's and a metaphor for the social isolation of modern life. Her blank expression invites viewers' interpretations and speculations.
Soyer's brushstrokes are rough and imprecise, and he relies on color instead of line to create the scene. As art critic Paul Richard wrote, "Many are the portraitists who harp on props and details, the gleam of a pearl earring, the goblet on the table there, the shine of silk or leather. Soyer is not one of these. Nothing in his pictures is portrayed in sharp focus; they owe nothing to the photograph - except, perhaps, their eerie sense of the instant seized."
Following the example set by the Ashcan School, Soyer was fascinated with the daily lives of working-class New Yorkers. This work displays his unique eye for intimacy and mood. Unlike many painters, Soyer refused to accept commissions; instead his interest was with the personal, and through his portraits of the anonymous working class, he made a study of the effects of the modern world on the psyche.
Oil on canvas - Brooklyn Museum
Homage to Eakins
In this group portrait, Soyer portrays numerous realist painters, including Leonard Baskin, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Jack Levine, John Koch, Edwin Dickinson, Henry Poor III, and John Dobbs, as well as himself, his brother Moses, his daughter Mary, and Lloyd Goodrich, the biographer of Eakins and friend to realist painters. Painted in the first half of the 1960s when Abstract Expressionism dominated the markets, Pop Art was making its way into the galleries, and artists were turning to more experimental modes of art making such as performance, Soyer double-downs on realism and presents its American tradition on a large scale. He painted each figure separately from life (except Marsh who had already died) and arranged them later on the larger canvas.
In the background, one sees Thomas Eakins' paintings hanging on the wall, including his famous The Gross Clinic (1875), Salutat (1898), and William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1908). By positioning these men in front of Eakins' masterpieces, Soyer creates a lineage that underscores the seriousness and thoughtfulness of the realist tradition. He made numerous sketches of each men and wrote about each in his diary, and during this time, Soyer enriched his commitment to realism by studying the works of Delacroix, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt. In a letter to Joseph Hirshhorn, the eventual purchaser of Homage to Eakins and all of the ancillary sketches, Soyer admitted, "I am working on the painting now, inch by inch, and am beginning to have the usual anxieties about overworking it. It is a characteristic of artists - ever apprehensive, anxious, and uncertain." Perhaps Hirshhorn would have heard an echo here of another artist he was collecting around the same time - the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning - who was notorious for not finishing paintings and who said he worked out of anxiety and doubt.
Oil on canvas - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Biography of Raphael Soyer
Raphael Soyer and his twin, Moses, were born in 1899, near the central Russian town Borisoglebsk. His father, Abraham, was a scholar and teacher of Hebrew and the intellectual leader of the family's small Jewish community. His mother, Bella, was an embroiderer. The couple raised the boys in an atmosphere of intellectual inquiry and encouraged their sons to sketch and paint at home, hanging works by Russian artists around the house as decoration. Abraham's liberal ideas and popularity among students, however, led to trouble with the Russian provincial authorities, and the family, being Jewish and needing permission to reside in the town, was denied their Russian residence permit; they were thus forced to emigrate to the United States in 1912, where they moved to Philadelphia before settling in the Bronx, New York, a year later.
Raphael Soyer was one of six children, but the transition was especially challenging for the teenage twins and their older brother. Soyer said, "Moses, Isaac, and myself found it very difficult to acclimate ourselves to this country, this language, because we came at a time of adolescence and we kind of withdrew within ourselves and became kind of alienated people." While his sisters quickly assimilated into the culture, making new friends and thriving at school, the boys struggled during high school.
Education and Early Training
At the age of 16, Soyer was relieved to be able to leave school to help support the family, but he continued to attend free painting classes in his spare time, selling newspapers by day and developing his art by night. He became a dedicated and committed painter. On the day that World War I ended in 1918, he was working on a portrait at the National Academy. He heard distant sounds of celebrations and parades, but while his peers left to join the party, he remained in the studio with the model to finish his work. His passion for painting women earned him the title "the East Side Degas."
As Raphael's painting career took off, so did Isaac's and Moses', inviting the usual sibling rivalry, especially with his twin. Raphael Soyer said, "Moses was outgoing. He brought the first friends to the house. He brought the first girls to the house. I was the more timid. There was, to tell the truth, much rivalry between us. People saw within our work a family likeness which we both sought to destroy. As soon as we were able we went to different schools. We worked in different studios."
Guy Pène du Bois, the artist and critic and later Soyer's teacher at the Art Students League, recognized the young artist's promise and introduced him to the dealer Charles Daniel, who gave Soyer his first solo exhibition in 1929. The show was a success, and in the years that followed, Soyer's work gained national acclaim as a marked departure from the abstraction that had begun to take over the art world.
In 1931 he married Rebecca, a Warsaw-born kindergarten teacher, and he later went on to teach at the Art Students League of New York. They had a daughter, Mary, who would grow up to become a psychiatric social worker.
Soyer was quite short - standing 5'2" - and shy, but he learned to overcome his difference and became popular in artistic circles. In 1932, the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to produce a mural on the wall of the Rockefeller Center, which was later destroyed because of the inclusion of a portrait of Vladimir Lenin. Soyer was taken by Rivera and would sketch him as he worked. He frequented the Communistic John Reed Club and became friends with artists Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, and Henry Poor. While he found common ground with other Social Realists, his adherence to the figurative style was derided as unfashionable by others. In his diaries, he described an encounter with the legendary Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, writing, "Without greeting me he rudely said, 'Soyer, why do you paint like you do?' He pointed to an airplane. 'There are planes flying, and you still paint realistically. You don't belong to our time.' I could have said to Jackson, 'If I don't like the art of our time, must I belong to our time?' But I did not say that. I merely said that I paint the way I like to."
Soyer was among a group of artists, including many who had associated with the Fourteenth Street School, who opposed the dominance of abstraction in the art world, and together they started the magazine Reality in 1953, in which they would publish their ideas. Soyer was known to his friends as a gentle man with quiet resolve, but he was outspoken about the dominance of abstraction in the art world and advocated for realism. "This arbitrary exploitation of a single phase of painting encourages a contempt for the taste and intelligence of the American public. We believe that texture and accident, color, design and all the other elements of painting are only the means to a larger end, which is the depiction of man and his world," he wrote in a letter countersigned by 45 other artists in Reality in 1953. Soyer's proclamation was met with consternation, causing a furor among the art world. During the age of McCarthyism, Soyer and his friends were accused of being under the influence of Communism and became the subject of negative press.
The rich cultural fabric of New York and its immigrant communities provided Soyer with a great source of subjects, and he became known for his sensitive portrayal of people - the transients, shoppers, dancers, and artists with whom he shared the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side - giving rise to his reputation as a Socialist Realist painter. He also painted unemployed men, reflecting his fascination with the Great Depression and how its economic difficulties played out on ordinary people. He was more interested in psychology than politics and avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. Soyer's determination to withstand political pressure and criticism and to tell the stories of these voiceless, marginal figures lends his work greater power.
He was honored at the Whitney Museum of American with a retrospective in 1967, where his steady approach to realism and his dedication to communication were on view. Soyer, himself, responded to the show, "Looking at all these pictures, I didn't know whether to be pleased or distressed by the sameness, the thread of continuity I found there. Though the men and women who people my canvases cover a span of 40 years or more, they have changed little. Their costumes may differ slightly, but their bearing, their gestures, the atmosphere emanating from them are hardly changed."
Soyer continued on this path well into his 80s, and he proclaimed never to get tired or bored of it, adding that he would feel physically or mentally ill if a day went by without working. He said, "My eyes bother me when I don't paint. But when I paint a full day, I feel satisfied and everything seems to be OK. I would never stop, never retire. My brother Moses died while he was painting. He was actually working on a painting, and the last words he said were to the model: 'Phoebe, don't frown.' Then he died. He worked to the very last minute." That was in 1974, and Isaac died seven years later.
Soyer did indeed work right up to the end of his life in 1987. He taught into his seventies and painted for longer. He died of cancer at his home in Manhattan at the age of 87. At the time of his death, his dealer and friend, Bella Fishko, said, "I recently asked him what he was working on. He said, 'Painting disheveled girls, as usual.'"
The Legacy of Raphael Soyer
Just as the Impressionists Monet, Manet and Degas, toppled the wall between studio and real life by taking their art from the streets of post-revolutionary Paris, Soyer's compassionate look at Depression-era and post-World War II New Yorkers lent a new perspective. He hoped that viewers would empathetically respond to his depiction of workers, transients, and immigrants themselves, and not connect the depictions to a strong political message. In many ways, Soyer's eschewal of overt politics and his insistence on humanity and the individual's existential plight in the face of immigration, capitalism, and war was in step philosophically, even if not stylistically, with much post-World War II art of the time. Soyer also has a place within the larger international turn toward figuration seen in the second half of the 20th century with Contemporary Realism and the London School.
His obituary in the New York Times noted his advocacy of realism and his prolific output across mediums, and he was described as the "dean of American Realist painters." Art critic Paul Richard said, "Many artists flare, then fade, but Soyer has been constant. His art, for more than 60 years, has been honest, heartfelt, humble."
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U.S. stock futures are trading higher this morning.
Heading into the open, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are up 0.24%, and S&P 500 futures are higher by 0.21%. Nasdaq-100 futures have added 0.30%.
In the options pits, call trading carried equities into the weekend, even as overall volume settled at above-average levels. Specifically, about 20.4 million calls and 16.9 million puts changed hands on the day.
The action at the CBOE mirrored the bullishness with the single-session equity put/call volume ratio closing near Thursday’s lows at 0.53. At the same time, the 10-day moving average matched Thursday’s close near 0.62.
Options activity was a mixed bag on Wednesday (options traders zeroed in on analyst actions yesterday). Canopy Growth (NYSE:) shares fell after a disappointing earnings report. Microsoft (NASDAQ:) finally succumbed to profit-taking after notching three record highs in a row. Netflix (NASDAQ:) rallied for its fifth day in a row on heavy volume.
Let’s take a closer look:
Canopy Growth Corp (CGC)
Last week’s earnings report provided little help to Canopy Growth Corp’s struggling stock price. By day’s end, the Canadian-based Cannabis company slipped 8% to close near a new five-month low. Fellow pot stocks Cronos Group (NASDAQ:) and Aurora Cannabis (NYSE:) both fell in sympathy, though their losses were pared before the closing bell.
For the fiscal 2019 fourth-quarter, Canopy saw revenue of CAD $94.1 million. The number inched past analyst estimates for CAD $93.7 million and reflected a 13% rise over last quarter’s revenue. Despite the slight bump in sales, CGC reported a net loss of CAD $323.4 million or 98 cents per share.
Friday’s plunge landed CGC at the lower end of its multi-month trading range and places it on precarious footing heading into the new week. Until the stock can reclaim the high ground above resistance at $44.40, steer clear of bullish trades.
On the options trading front, traders favored calls over puts on the session despite the thrashing. Total activity swelled to 404% of the average daily volume, with 115,508 contracts traded. Calls claimed 56% of the session’s sum.
Option premiums were pricing in a $2.95 or 7% gap on the news. That makes Friday’s 8.1% drop slightly outside of expectations, marking a small win for volatility buyers ahead of the event.
Microsoft (MSFT)
Record highs continue to stack up for Microsoft. Last week, the software titan notched three all-time highs in a row before sellers finally stopped the advance on Friday. The snap-back from June 3rd’s wrecking of the tech sector on government oversight concerns has been relentless. Since bottoming at $119.01, MSFT stock has powered higher by 15%.
Volume reached a crescendo ahead of the weekend reflecting powerful accumulation beneath the surface. While the overbought conditions certainly warrant some backing and filling, there’s no doubt institutions highly favor Microsoft right now.
On the options trading front, calls ruled the roost. Activity popped to 131% of the average daily volume, with 206,455 total contracts traded; 62% of the trading came from call options alone.
Implied volatility drifted to 23% or the 18th percentile of its one-year range. Premiums are now pricing in daily moves of $1.99 or 1.5%.
Netflix (NFLX)
The news was light on Friday for Netflix, but that didn’t stop buyers from sending the streaming media giant higher for the fifth consecutive day. Last week’s rally returns NFLX stock to within striking distance of an upside breakout. What began as a well-deserved pause after a red-hot rally to kick-off 2019 has morphed into a tight five-month trading range.
Given the utter lack of directional movement, volatility measures like the Bollinger bands have narrowed considerably on the weekly time frame. At some point, the stalemate will end, and if history is any indication, the breakout should bring fireworks. The two levels to watch for resolution are $386 and $340.
On the options trading front, calls were the clear victor in Friday’s popularity contest. Total activity ramped to 156% of the average daily volume, with 214,525 contracts traded; 63% of the trading came from call options alone.
Implied volatility held steady on the session at 45% or the 41st percentile of its one-year range. Premiums are pricing in daily moves of $10.38 or 2.8%.
As of this writing, Tyler Craig didn’t hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Check out his recently released to learn how to defend your portfolio against market volatility.
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Post Holdings Buys Cereal Business from TreeHouse Foods for $85M
Consumer packaged goods company Post Holdings (POST) has acquired a ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal business from TreeHouse Foods for a consideration of $85 million.
The acquired RTE business includes two facilities situated in Ohio and Nevada with a range of production capabilities in batch and extruded products, an R&D facility, and inventory of about $30 million in value.
Post expects the acquisition to be modestly dilutive to its Fiscal 2021 adjusted EBITDA and accretive in Fiscal 2022. (See Post Holdings Corp stock analysis on TipRanks)
On May 10, Truist Financial analyst William Chappell reiterated a Buy rating on the stock and increased the price target to $125 (8% upside potential) from $110.
Chappell views the stock favorably on account of a stable legacy business and scope for “ample” upside to estimates through past and future acquisitions.
Consensus among analysts is that Post Holdings is a Strong Buy based on 5 Buys and 1 Hold. The average analyst price target of $127 implies 9.8% upside potential. Shares have gained about 31% over the past year.
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The result of the debate was Speedy deleted as non-notable biography. Capitalistroadster 09:29, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Lucian Moynihan
It's juvenile rubbish. NN and claptrap. I tried to speedy it but the editor removed the speedy deletion tag Delete Maustrauser 07:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC) dont delete it, everything that opinional is just amusing, the rest is FACTUAL. i dont see the basis for deletion. Imantisocial 07:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Surprisingly entertaining, but it should be deleted as speedily as possible. bikeable (talk) 07:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete. CSD A6/A7, verging on G1. Ikkyu2 07:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete. Unnotable, nonsense, vanity. Weregerbil 08:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
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Soil Science Society of America
The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), is the largest soil-specific society in the United States. It was formed in 1936 from the merger of the Soils Section of the American Society of Agronomy and the American Soil Survey Association. The Soils Section of ASA became the official Americas section of the International Union of Soil Sciences in 1934, a notable role which SSSA continues to fulfill.
Mission
The mission of the Society is: "1) to enhance the sustainability of soils, the environment, and society by integrating diverse scientific disciplines and principles in soil science for the wise stewardship of soil and natural resources, and 2) to advance the discovery, practice, and profession of soil science through excellence in the acquisition and application of knowledge to address challenges facing society, in the training and professional development of soil scientists, and in the education of, and communication to a diverse citizenry."
Publications
SSSA publishes peer-reviewed scholarly journals, magazines, and books for a variety of audiences. SSSA publications are available in the ACSESS Digital Library.
* Soil Science Society of America Journal (SSSAJ, previously Soil Science Society of America Proceedings), published bimonthly, is the official publication of the Soil Science Society of America. The SSSA Journal has an established emphasis on new developments and advancements in soil science and publishes papers on original research, issue papers, reviews, comments and letters to the editor, and book reviews. Topics include and extend beyond basic and applied soil research in agricultural, forest, wetlands, and urban settings.
* Vadose Zone Journal is a unique publication outlet for interdisciplinary research and assessment of the Critical Zone, which comprises the Earth's critical living surface down to groundwater. VZJ is a peer-reviewed, international journal publishing reviews, original research, and special sections across a wide range of disciplines.
* Journal of Environmental Quality (JEQ) is published by American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and SSSA. Papers in JEQ cover various aspects of anthropogenic impacts on the environment, including terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic systems. Emphasis is given to the understanding of underlying processes rather than to monitoring. The journal publishes contributions under the headings of technical reports, reviews and analyses, environmental issues, short communications, dataset papers, special sections, letters to the editor, and book reviews.
* Natural Sciences Education (NSE, previously Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education and Journal of Agronomic Education) is a peer-reviewed international journal published online continuously during the year. Articles are written by and for educators in the areas of animal science, ecology, natural resources, agronomy, the environment, entomology, and more. NSE is published by the American Society of Agronomy with a number of cooperating societies including SSSA.
* Soil Horizons aim is to share the importance of soil science with a larger audience. It features stories celebrating the diversity and critical impact of soil scientists and their work and also includes peer-reviewed papers on global issues and solutions in the study of soils, along with emerging challenges, ideas, unique field experiences, and findings.
* CSA News is the official magazine for members of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America. It is a monthly member magazine featuring research highlights; membership, science policy, and meetings news; career and education information; and more.
* Books—SSSA publishes books for a wide audience—from children to scholars—with an emphasis on the Society's mission of advancing the knowledge of soils and their importance in the environment and society. SSSA publishes textbooks, professional guides, and special topics books.
Certifications
The SSSA certification programs are voluntary and offer similar benefits to the public as soil science licensing programs. The certification programs set standards for knowledge, skills, and conduct that define the professions of soil science (Certified Professional Soil Scientist - CPSS) and soil classification (Certified Professional Soil Classifier - CPSC). These certifications provide clients, employers, and government agencies with a tool to help them choose professionals with the necessary skills to meet their needs.
Policy
SSSA completed an assessment of the grand challenges facing the soil science discipline in 2011, identifying the most critical future research needs in soil science: climate change; food and energy security; waste treatment and water quality; and human and ecosystem health. More information on the grand challenges in soil science, including a list of short-, medium-, and long-term research goals, is available online.
Major initiatives
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. In celebration of IYS, SSSA developed 12 monthly themes to help communicate the importance of soil. Each month features activities that help participants learn more about soils, and a monthly thematic video to explain the topic.
Discover Soils SSSA's public website has a wealth of information about soils, their preservation and conservation. News topics include: Food & Health, Climate, Environment, Culture & Technology, and Soil Basics. The Soils in the City tab helps urban residents connect more with soils in their environment.
"Dig it! The Secrets of Soil" SSSA is the founding sponsor of this 4000-square foot exhibition revealing the complex world of soil and how this underfoot ecosystem supports nearly every form of life. Originally developed by and displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, it is now hosted at various museums around the U.S.
SSSA created K-12 Education materials provided on Soils4Teachers.org. The website contains learning lessons and activities for K-12 teachers to use in the classroom. In addition, SSSA hosts www.soils4kids.org where children can research soils topics, play games and explore careers. Both sites feature "Ask a Scientist," to submit questions directly to soil scientists, or request a scientist classroom visit. As part of K-12 outreach, SSSA participates in the National Science Teachers Association National conference, and partners with the National Association of Conservation Districts on materials showcasing soils themes.
Soils Matter, Get the Scoop! blog has a goal of educating the public about sustainable practices.
'''Soil! Get the Inside Scoop''' book for grades 3–5. The book explores how soil is part of our life – the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the houses we live in, and more. More than 3000 have been sold and the book is in its second printing.
Notable members
* William Albrecht, SSSA President, 1939
* Johan Bouma, Fellow, 1985
* George Demas - Emil Truog Award
* Mary K. Firestone, Fellow (1995), Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award
* Paul Goldberg
* Majid Hassanizadeh - Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award, 2011
* Hans Jenny, SSSA President, 1949, Fellow (1945)
* Dennis Keeney, SSSA President, 1988
* Rajiv Khosla, Fellow
* Rattan Lal - SSSA President, 2007, and World Food Prize-2020
* Hui-Hai Liu - Emil Truog Award
* Gerald A. Miller
* John Mortvedt, SSSA President, 1989
* Abdul Rashid
* William H. Schlesinger
* Kate Scow, Fellow
* Leslie Denis Swindale
* Emil Truog, SSSA President, 1954
* Jasper A. Vrugt - Early Career Award in Soil Physics
* Betty Klepper
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"Missing" was released on August 19, 2013, as the first promotional single off Underground Luxury. Even an official artwork exists. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:21, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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Strahinja Erac
Strahinja Erac (Страхиња Ерац; born 1994) is a Serbian politician. He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in 2022 as a member of the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (Srpska stranka Zavetnici, SSZ).
Private career
Erac is a graduated social worker from Kraljevo.
Politician
Erac appeared in the twentieth position on the SSZ's electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. In 2019, Erac was attacked and seriously injured by unknown parties in Kraljevo.
In the 2020 parliamentary election, Erac was promoted to the sixth position on the SSZ's list. He also appeared in the lead position on the party's list for Kraljevo in the concurrent 2020 Serbian local elections. The party's list missed the threshold at both levels.
Parliamentarian
Erac was again given the sixth position on the SSZ's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won ten mandates. The Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) and its allies won the election, and the SSZ serves in opposition. Erac is a member of the assembly's defence and internal affairs committee and a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region.
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Ottaviano Canevari
Ottaviano Canevari (1565-1639) was an Italian nobleman, Doctor of law, Magistrate and Senator of The Republic of Genoa.
Biography
Ottaviano was the son of Teramo Canevari (treasurer 1511–1592), and brother of Demetrio Canevari (physician, 1559–1625). Canevari studied in the Jesuit College of Brera in Milan, and was graduated in the same establishment, in 1584.
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A Multi-omics Approach to Understand the Microbial Transformation of Lignocellulosic Materials in the Digestive System of the Wood-Feeding Beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus
Monday, 14 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Javier A. Ceja Navarro1, Ulas Karaoz2, Mari Nyyssonen1, Richard A. White III3, Mary Suzanne Lipton3, Joshua Adkins3, Xavier Mayali4, Meredith Blackwell5, Jennifer Pett-Ridge6 and Eoin Brodie1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (6)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States
Abstract:
Odontotaenius disjuctus is a wood feeding beetle that processes large amounts of hardwoods and plays an important role in forest carbon cycling. In its gut, plant material is transformed into simple molecules by sequential processing during passage through the insect’s digestive system. In this study, we used multiple 'omics approaches to analyze the distribution of microbial communities and their specific functions in lignocellulose deconstruction within the insect’s gut.
Fosmid clones were selected and sequenced from a pool of clones based on their expression of plant polymer degrading enzymes, allowing the identification of a wide range of carbohydrate degrading enzymes. Comparison of metagenomes of all gut regions demonstrated the distribution of genes across the beetle gut. Cellulose, starch, and xylan degradation genes were particularly abundant in the midgut and posterior hindgut. Genes involved in hydrogenotrophic production of methane and nitrogenases were more abundant in the anterior hindgut. Assembled contigs were binned into 127 putative genomes representing Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi and Nematodes. Eleven complete genomes were reconstructed allowing to identify linked functions/traits, including organisms with cellulosomes, and a combined potential for cellulose, xylan and starch hydrolysis and nitrogen fixation. A metaproteomic study was conducted to test the expression of the pathways identified in the metagenomic studyPreliminary analyses suggest enrichment of pathways related to hemicellulosic degradation. A complete xylan degradation pathway was reconstructed and GC-MS/MS based metabolomics identified xylobiose and xylose as major metabolite pools. To relate microbial identify to function in the beetle gut, Chip-SIP isotope tracing was conducted with RNA extracted from beetles fed 13C-cellulose. Multiple 13C enriched bacterial groups were detected, mainly in the midgut.
Our multi-omics approach has allowed us to characterize the contribution of the gut microbiota to the transformation of woody biomass and the distribution of microbial-driven function in the beetle’s gut. Through the study of such highly evolved polymer deconstruction and fermentation system we want to identify criteria for design of improved lignocellulosic fuel production processes.
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Rh road. There seems a sort of ravine here, or something'
The coach was, in fact, all on one side. Markelov clutched the reins handed him by the coachman, and went on as loudly as ever: 'I don't blame you, Alexey Dmitritch! You profited of course. You were right. I only say that I don't wonder at your lukewarmness over our cause; you 'd something else, I say again, in your heart. And I say, too, for my own part, what man can guess beforehand what will take girls' hearts, or understand what it is they want! '
'I understand you now,' Nezhdanov began, 'I understand your mortification, guess who has spied on us and lost no time in telling you'
'It 's not merit in this case,' Markelov went on, affecting not to hear Nezhdanov, and intentionally dwelling on and prolonging each word, 'not any extraordinary qualities of mind or body. No! It 's simply the cursed luck of all illegitimate children, of all bastards!'
The last phrase Markelov uttered abruptly and rapidly, and at once was still as death.
Nezhdanov felt himself grow pale all over in the darkness, and spasms passed over his face. He could scarcely restrain himself from flying at Markelov, seizing him by the throat
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From possibly via, from , from + the combining form of +. The Arabic word entered and was borrowed between European languages repeatedly in various forms; this form is attested in English from the 19th century. .
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* 1) A North African or Arabian inn or hotel.
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-- Amazon Upgrades Kindle E-Reader, Adds New Services
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) updated its Kindle
Paperwhite, adding a sharper screen, faster processor and new
features for the handheld e-reader used to deliver digital
content. The online retailer also introduced a new service giving
customers the option to buy discounted Kindle editions of
printed books already purchased from Amazon, the Seattle-based
company said in a statement today. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is investing in its line
of e-readers even as researchers predict declining sales of the
devices in coming years. E-reader shipments are projected to
fall to 7.1 million units in 2016, a decline of more than two-thirds from a peak volume in 2011, according to IHS Inc. (IHS) “If you logged onto your CompuServe account during the
Clinton administration and bought a book like ‘Men Are from
Mars, Women Are from Venus’ from Amazon, Kindle MatchBook now
makes it possible for that purchase -- 18 years later -- to be
added to your Kindle library at a very low cost,” Russ
Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content, said in the
statement. Prices for the digital editions of already purchased books
will range from free to $2.99, less than the $9.99 price of many
e-books sold via Amazon’s online store, the company said. More
than 10,000 books will be available when the program, called
Kindle MatchBook, starts in October. For the e-reader, Amazon said the new Kindle model is 25
percent faster, letting users to open books and turn pages more
quickly. It features a high-contrast screen that’s
indistinguishable from physical books, the company said. The Kindle Paperwhite, which goes on sales later this
month, sells for $119 to $189, and was first introduced in
September of last year. The device has an 8-week battery life
and a front-lit screen, which lets readers scan books in the
dark. Amazon is also integrating Goodreads, the reading social
network it purchased earlier this year, into Kindle e-reading
software. Amazon advanced 2.8 percent to $288.80 at the close in New
York , leaving the shares up 15 percent this year. To contact the reporter on this story:
Danielle Kucera in San Francisco at
dkucera6@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Pui-Wing Tam at
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char worker_name[20];
float hourly_pay;
int hours;
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int main()
{
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int count, k;
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if(pointer == NULL)
{
printf("The file can not be found.\n\n\n");
printf("Press any key to continue...");
getchar();
return 1;
}
while(!feof(pointer))
{
fscanf(pointer, "%s%d%f", info[count].worker_name, &info[count].hours, &info[count].hourly_pay);
count++;
}
fclose(pointer);
return (count);
}
int display_array(int count)
{
WorkerRecord info[50];
int k;
float gross_pay[50];
printf(" Name\t\tHours\t\tHourly Pay\tGross Pay\n");
printf("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n");
for(k = 0; k < count; k++)
{
gross_pay[k] = (info[k].hourly_pay * info[k].hours);
}
for(k = 0; k < count; k++)
{
printf("%s\t\t%d\t\t$%.2f\t\t$%.2f\n", info[k].worker_name, info[k].hours, info[k].hourly_pay, gross_pay[k]);
}
return 0;
}
Ok, I've done everything that I need to do, but I don't understand anything about pointers. I need to be able to access the data stored in the struct in the fill_array function in my other two functions, but I have no clue how to do this. (I only learned about structs the day before last).
Any help is greatly appreciated,
~Alan
Also, if anyone could just explain to me what pointers are and how to use them, that would be great. I've looked up other tutorials online, but they seem so vague that I can't really understand them as I am more of a hands-on learner rather than someone who can read the basics and then know how to do it. ;S
Pointers are variables that hold memory addresses. That's it. Their power is within how you manipulate them.
In your fill_array() function, you declared the sturcture array as automatic, meaning they eventually vanish in stack memory as soon as the function returns. You can do
WorkerRecord *info = calloc(50, sizeof(WorkerRecord));
which will reserve you basically a 50-element array in the heap which will be pointed to by info pointer. This will not disappear and only ever will if you either use free() on it or upon program termination.
To access a structure pointer, you need to use the '->' operator instead of the '.' operator. They are the same in effect. You don't need to change any of your code.
info[0]->member
info[1]->member
If you want to access this array/data, instead of returning the count variable, return info pointer instead(if you are going to do it as I did. Alternatively, you can declare it as static). Then you should rephrase your function return type to WorkerRecord *fill_array();
Considering that I have never heard of calloc before, I am thinking that maybe static is the way to go? If I use static, will I still be able to return count? That would make it easier, I think.
Oh, so you want to return both count and the structure array? It seems you also have the array in your main(). In that case, you can just declare a pointer to WorkerRecord in your function parameters instead of void.
int fill_array(WorkerRecord *info);
like so. When you call fill_array, pass to it info array and then modify it within the function. You need not declare another instance of info array within the function. When you pass info array to the function, you are passing the address of the first element of the array. This makes it possible to directly(or indirectly) modify info array(or pointer, in this case now). The change to pointer structure operators is still needed.
I didn't notice your main() before. lol sorry I was used to not using prototypes.
Ahh, so if I do as you listed above, it will be directly changing my info array in my main function, even though I'm adding information to it in the fill_array function? (Sorry to sound completely stupid, but for some reason, pointers are hard for me to understand.)
EDIT: Maybe a pseudo code (I think that's what it's called lol) example may help me the best atm. Like, on how pointers work between functions.
Passing the info to the fill_array() creates a 'pass by reference', whatever you do to this reference is pretty much permament(in a way), contrary to a pass by value where a copy of the original data is just passed.
Assuming your above code works, removing the info definition in fill_array() and passing the info array from main to it, with proper operator changeups, will do the trick. Changes done to info array within fill_array() reflects to the info array within main as you are maniplating the actual memory.
int another = 5;
int *pointer1 = &another;
int automatic;
void foo(int *point_param){
/* passing me pointer1 variable which holds the address of variable another gives me the ability to directly modify variable another because of your reference via piointer1 */
*point_param = 1337; /* Hey, I changed variable another's value. It's because I had its memory address.*/
}
void teehee(int auto_var){
/* Passing me variable automatic only gives variable auto_var a 'copy' of the value of variable automatic. In effect, it's simply auto_var = automatic; */
/* Any modification to auto_var does not reflect to variable automatic as you are actually manipulating the memory reserved FOR auto_var, not variable automatic */
/* On the flipside, our previous function modifies the address reserved FOR variable another which pointer1 holds which is given to point_param function paremeter */
/* given our knowledge that an array name evaluates to a memory address/pointer, we can therefore conclude that when we pass this array around, we pass around its address and therefore make affective modifications */
}
Memory addresses are really just like any other 'typical' values, like an integer 5, or a float 3.1415, or a char 'a'. Except, well, they are addresses to memory which gives you the ability to reference this location and change anything that is in it.
So, what's the difference between passing the pointer to fill_array than passing the info variable itself?
int fill_array(WorkerRecord *info);
count = fill_array(&info);
fscanf(pointer, "%s%d%f", *info[count]->worker_name, *info[count]->hours, *info[count]->hourly_pay);
Am I doing that correctly so far? (Those are the only lines I have changed so far.)
The array name itself evaluates to a pointer. The array name is not like a variable which sort of acts like a container. The array name in itself points to the first element of the array(or the whole reserved block, depending on how you think about it).
count = fill_array(info);
is the correct one.
Also, you don't have to use the dereference operator when you're using the structure pointer operator. At least, not in your context.
info[index]->member
in itself references the member. If you apply the dereference operator, that would mean that the structure member you are calling to has to be a pointer type and you are referring to the content of its content(what the memory location it points to contains).
Thanks, all of that makes sense!
Also, sorry for wasting your time, even though I learnt a lot from the making of this thread. My prof sent out an email, just moments ago, saying that she meant to tell us that the array can be globally scoped, so all of this was unnecessary. :(
People will tell you not to globally scope anyways. You'd have to unlearn globalizing and relearn localizing. But I suppose that's good for now.
I figured as much, but I am just learning the basics as this class was meant to be an introduction to basic programming and prepare me for next semester, which is C++ and C#. I am sure that I will be taught how to effectively use pointers in one of those classes, otherwise I will be utterly useless as a programmer. :P
Again, thanks for all of your help though!
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This article reads a bit like an advertisement and underemphasizes the early history and/or primitive aspects of Maine sporting camps. Description of the range of plumbing features might include pit toilets and carrying in water (to avoid piping which would be damaged by freezing when camps are unoccupied). Lighting fixtures might include kerosene lanterns and candles rather than electrical lighting. Description might include facilities or provisions to overcome the inconveniences of the Maine wilderness experience including biting insects during the summer and the possibility of being unexpectedly isolated by deep snow or icy roads during the winter. Timing of legislation or regulations mitigating or eliminating such inconveniences should be documented.Thewellman (talk) 00:16, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Thewellman Thank you, I will work on that! Bulldogcamps (talk) 01:33, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
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The Importance of Protein for Overall Sport Performance
Protein is an essential macronutrient that plays a crucial role in enhancing athletic performance. It is involved in various bodily functions, including muscle repair, growth, and hormone production. In this article, we will explore the importance of protein for overall sport performance and how it aids in achieving optimal results.
Muscle Repair and Growth: Engaging in sports and exercise causes micro-tears in our muscles. Protein is vital for muscle repair and growth as it provides the necessary building blocks, amino acids, to rebuild and strengthen the damaged muscle fibers. Adequate protein intake ensures faster recovery and reduces the risk of muscle fatigue and injury.
Exercise Performance: Protein intake has a direct impact on exercise performance. During physical activity, our muscles contract and require energy to perform optimally. Protein helps supply the body with energy, especially during intense workouts or endurance activities. It also aids in maintaining muscle mass, allowing athletes to sustain their strength and power throughout their performance.
Hormone Production: Hormones play a crucial role in regulating metabolism, energy production, and muscle growth. Protein consumption supports the production of hormones such as insulin and growth factors, which promote muscle synthesis and overall performance. Ensuring adequate protein intake helps maintain hormonal balance and optimize athletic potential.
Recovery and Adaptation: After intense physical activity, our bodies need to recover and adapt to the stress placed upon them. Protein plays a key role in this process by facilitating muscle repair, reducing inflammation, and promoting the synthesis of new muscle proteins. Optimal protein intake aids in faster recovery, enhances muscle adaptation, and prepares the body for future workouts.
Protein Requirements for Athletes: The protein requirements for athletes differ from those of sedentary individuals. It is generally recommended that athletes consume 1.2 to 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, depending on the type and intensity of their training. Protein sources should be diverse and include animal-based products like lean meats, poultry, dairy, as well as plant-based options like legumes, tofu, and quinoa.
Timing and Quality of Protein Intake: Besides quantity, the timing and quality of protein intake are also important. Consuming protein-rich foods or supplements within the first few hours after exercise can maximize muscle repair and growth. Additionally, focusing on high-quality protein sources that contain essential amino acids, such as whey, eggs, or soy, ensures a complete nutrient profile for optimal muscle protein synthesis.
Conclusion: Protein is a vital component of an athlete's diet, contributing to muscle repair, growth, hormone production, exercise performance, and overall recovery. Understanding the significance of protein and meeting individualized protein requirements can help athletes optimize their sport performance and achieve their goals effectively. Remember to consult with a registered dietitian or sports nutritionist to determine the appropriate protein intake based on your specific needs and athletic endeavors.
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In Race for FIFA President, Two Front-Runners and Many Possibilities
The election to select the next president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, is a month away. On Feb. 26, a special — the official word is extraordinary — congress of FIFA’s 209 member associations will be held in Zurich, and the successor to the now-suspended Sepp Blatter will be chosen. While some of the five official candidates have trumpeted commitments recently, plenty of speculation remains about voting support, back-room deals and campaigning tactics. Through interviews with federation officials and people connected to the candidates, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, here is a look at the state of the race with a month to go: It isn’t really a five-man competition. Yes, technically, there are five candidates: Gianni Infantino of Switzerland; Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa; Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain; Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan; and Jérôme Champagne of France. But the reality is that the scale of the candidates’ campaigns and the breakdown of the voting countries, who are grouped in largely continental geographic confederations, point toward either Mr. Infantino or Sheikh Salman winning. To win on the first ballot, a candidate needs two-thirds of the votes, or 139. On subsequent ballots, a candidate needs only a simple majority. Several officials who are closely following the campaigns, when asked to appraise the potential support each candidate would have if the election were held today, gave this rough approximation: Sheikh Salman has about 80 to 90 votes, Mr. Infantino has 70 to 80 votes, Prince Ali has around 30 votes, and the other two candidates have around five votes each. The voting will be less predictable than in past elections. Previously, bloc voting among the confederations was common. This time, however, support within each confederation is more scattered. Sheikh Salman has the endorsement of the Asian confederation’s executive committee, for example, but that does not mean he will get all 46 of Asia’s votes. Prince Ali has support there (Jordan is part of the Asian confederation, and Iraq also had pledged to support him), and Mr. Champagne has worked closely with the Palestinian federation. In Africa, which with 54 votes is the largest bloc, the lone African candidate, Mr. Sexwale, is believed to have limited support. The African confederation supported Mr. Blatter, who beat Prince Ali in last year’s election, in the past but has not yet endorsed a candidate in the special election. Even in Europe, where Mr. Infantino has broad support, there are cracks: much of Europe backed Prince Ali in the last election, and Malta, for example, has said it will do the same this time. Concacaf, which governs soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, is seen by many as a wild card and the location of possible swing votes. Because so many of the 35 Concacaf member federations are reeling after seeing their leaders indicted in the corruption case brought by the United States Justice Department, there will be no bloc vote among the federations’ temporary leaders. The United States publicly supported Prince Ali in the last election, although that was also as much a statement against Mr. Blatter. This time, it is less likely the United States will publicly support a candidate before the vote. Prince Ali could be a kingmaker. If Prince Ali finishes in third place after the first ballot, it is possible that he could endorse one of the other candidates and ask his segment of voters to switch their support. Not surprisingly, Prince Ali has said he has no intention of backing out of the race — and he was loath to even concede victory after trailing by 60 votes to Mr. Blatter on the first ballot last May — but Mr. Infantino and Sheikh Salman are surely aware that the support of Prince Ali on a later ballot could hold the key to victory. While there have been no formal discussions about an endorsement, it is worthwhile to note that Prince Ali publicly criticized Sheikh Salman and questioned his ethics after Sheikh Salman, in his role as president of the Asian confederation, signed a cooperative agreement with the African confederation earlier this month. Prince Ali charged that the agreement “looks like a blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote” — a charge that Sheikh Salman denied — and asked FIFA to investigate. A deal is possible. From the very beginning, there has been speculation that Mr. Infantino and Sheikh Salman would campaign hard and then, shortly before the election, agree on a deal in which the one with more obvious support would remain on the ballot and the one trailing would step aside, perhaps to fill the vacant No. 2 role of FIFA general secretary. This now seems less likely, if only because those close to Mr. Infantino believe he is capable of beating Sheikh Salman outright. Sheikh Salman, too, was never particularly likely to be interested in the less prestigious post of general secretary (a post Mr. Infantino currently holds for European soccer’s governing body). For the moment, both men are continuing to lobby voters individually. Sheikh Salman said in an interview with England’s Sky Sports that he could envision a high-ranking role in his administration for Richard Scudamore, the head of the Premier League. Mr. Infantino has unveiled a proposal that would increase the size of the World Cup to 40 teams as well as potentially allow regions, as opposed to single countries, to bid for hosting rights. Nothing new on Qatar. Since every twist and turn in the FIFA world these days seems to inspire another round of questions regarding Qatar’s hosting the 2022 World Cup, it always seems prudent to point out that construction in Qatar is continuing, and to this point, there is no indication the Cup will be held anywhere else. Neither of the leading candidates has focused on re-evaluating the Qatari hosting contract, which was won in an election that has been riddled by controversy. And with more than 50 votes available from Asia, there is little incentive for them to even suggest stripping the region of the tournament. However, on Tuesday, Mr. Champagne told a French radio station that the United States, which finished second in the voting, should host the Cup if Qatar loses the right to. Russia’s 2018 bid, which was selected in the same tainted vote in 2010, also seems locked in, particularly since the qualifying draw for the tournament has already taken place.
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Autosomal Recessive Renal Tubular Dysgenesis (AR-RTD) is a fatal genetic disorder characterized by complete absence or severe depletion of proximal tubules (PT) in patients harboring pathogenic variants in genes involved in the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. To uncover the pathomechanism of AR-RTD, differentiation of ACE-/- and AGTR1-/- induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and AR-RTD patient-derived iPSCs into kidney organoids is leveraged. Comprehensive marker analyses show that both mutant and control organoids generate indistinguishable PT in vitro under normoxic (21% O2) or hypoxic (2% O2) conditions. Fully differentiated (d24) AGTR1-/- and control organoids transplanted under the kidney capsule of immunodeficient mice engraft and mature well, as do renal vesicle stage (d14) control organoids. By contrast, d14 AGTR1-/- organoids fail to engraft due to insufficient pro-angiogenic VEGF-A expression. Notably, growth under hypoxic conditions induces VEGF-A expression and rescues engraftment of AGTR1-/- organoids at d14, as does ectopic expression of VEGF-A. We propose that PT dysgenesis in AR-RTD is primarily a non-autonomous consequence of delayed angiogenesis, starving PT at a critical time in their development.
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EJB design: Difference between FrameWork and DesignPattern
1. Difference between FrameWork and DesignPattern (5 messages)
pls give me
the Difference between FrameWork and DesignPattern
relation between FrameWork and DesignPattern
2. A framework is a reusable, ``semi-complete'' application that can be specialized to produce custom applications as described by
Ralph Johnson and Brian Foote.
As the definition says, a frame work is a semi complete Application .For eg we have Struts Framework which is used as a base for many custom applications
A Design pattern is not an application but is a solution to a commonly occuring design problem.We can use a Pattern to avoid some of the possible design draw backs in the application being designed. These patterns can be used by all applications( including frameworks to make the application robust )
The Struts Frame work which is Based on MVC model uses patterns like "Front controller" etc in its design
Hope that it clarifies ur doubt
3. Thanks for the clarification
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4. pls give methe Difference between FrameWork and DesignPatternrelation between FrameWork and DesignPattern
See Ralph Johnson's classic paper, Frameworks = Components + Patterns
5. I understood the difference between Framework and Design pattern. But what is the difference between Framework and service? Can I call Log4j is a service or framework. I have developed components such as File Upload, Auto E-Mailer and Search for my website. So Should I call them as services?
6. I think the things which you are mentioning are services because the definition of the services is "work done by one person or group that benefits another;".log4j is a service which provides the logging service to your applications.
If we talk about the differences between the service and the framework, the service can be used directly to see the results but in the case of framework, you have to extend it to see the results. Framework is a skeleton you have to put skin on it to make it live.
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BORGIAS AND SAVONAROLA 239
of a sacred institution placed in desecrated hands enacted so powerfully as in the conflict between him and Savonarola, the great martyr of the Renaissance.
The sermons of Savonarola burst upon a Florence prostituted by power and prodigality, art and beauty, just as a storm might swoop down upon a fair. One cannot believe that this reddish blond son of Ferrara, whose soft eyes blended with the threatening daring of his face, was minus a trace of German blood. A whole generation prior to the religious catastrophe which was to overwhelm Germany, he sought to find a way between the Scylla of Rome and the Charybdis of anti-Rome. He was shipwrecked upon the rock that was sacred to him. He dwelt in the world of the prophets of the Old Testa- ment; and himself was of their tribe, a prophet to the marrow. In other words, he felt himself driven to proclaim to the whole world, in the presence also of the Roman throne placed above that world, the forgotten and betrayed "things of God." Regardless of what might come, he the mysteriously commissioned priest, gifted with mystical insight into the past and the future of historical development, was ready to meet and endure whatever might be exacted of him in behalf of those divine concerns which filled and stirred his soul.
To this day his enemies hurl at this fanatic (but fanwn means "holy ground") the rebuke that a monk should have meditated in his narrow cell at San Marco over learned parchments or knelt on a prie-dieu in Florence to worship God's councils and ordinances, instead of throwing himself headlong into the business of the great world. He had burned the vanities on the Place of the Seigniories, had inaugu- rated a sombre theocratic rule in Florence after France had overthrown the Medici, and had attacked the Pope for his vices as well as refused to obey him. Only poltroons or the corrupt will deny to a prophet the right to say what he must say. Nothing is more natural than that a religious man should take an interest in political trends which seek to bring about the death of religion* But just these did Savona- rola see in progress before his eyes. To him religion was not a mere magical business; but it was often just that to his contemporaries, even in the chambers of the Vatican. He demanded pure hearts and good deeds men able to stand in the presence of God. He lived and died for the sovereignty of the whole inviolate law of Christ the King.
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During World War Two, many types of technology were being invented and advanced. Most types of technology are often discovered by or at least first utilized by the government and military, and there is no time in which this is more evident then in wartime. All countries want to be the most advanced and have the newest technology that would be even unimaginable to their counterparts. World War Two was in some ways, the beginning of a time filled with much technological advancement. All of the more prominent countries of the free world were involved in advancing these new types of technology.
Some countries were the engineers and others were the followers. The United Sates, who remained neural during the first half of the war, were the most prominent engineers of this time of technological advancement. Many new weapons were being used by all of the countries built with technology first developed by the United States. Decoding machines were becoming more prevalent in this War then in any other before. Aviation technology, along with submarines were being advanced. And of the most useful aspects of technology in World War Two, was Nuclear Energy.
The advancement of nuclear technology as used in the invention of the Atomic Bomb was the most valuable of all the types of technological advancement in World War Two. The discovery of x-rays in 1895 was the first step toward nuclear energy research. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895 when he noticed that some fluorescent material was glowing that he had laying near a covered cathode ray tube (Rhodes, 42). When he put his hand between the tube and the material he could see the glow was a little more dull but still visible. He could also see bones of his hand as a refection on the material.
Roentgen realized that whatever the substance was that was making the material glow, was penetrating the black paper cover of the tube and thus creating this reflection. After Roentgen”s discovery of the x-rays, in 1896, Henri Becquerel wondered what the substance was that could make the fluorescent material glow. He conducted some research of his own only to discover radioactivity. However, it was not named radioactivity until later by Marie Curie. Becquerel discovered the first radioactive element of Uranium. Himself, Curie and others went on to discover many other radioactive elements.
Radium was discovered by Curie in 1898 and found to emit more heat at one time then any other substance (Walker). Another chemical/physical process was not found that could change the release rate of energy until 1939 when uranium fission was discovered. These discoveries came right in time for WWII. This was the beginning of atomic research by the United States as well as other countries. President Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein in August of 1939 informing of German Atomic research and the potential for a bomb.
Roosevelt immediately “… ormed committees to investigate military implications of atomic research (EM)”. In the mean time, the United States, whom was neutral prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 by Japan, entered the war. The United States were now in more of a hurry to research atomic energy. After much more research, the United States decides to start the building of an atomic bomb, before the Germans (Rhodes, 431). This secret project was known as the Manhattan Project with General Leslie Groves in charge. Locations that contained research facilities were Washington, Tennessee, and New Mexico.
Much research was also done at many university laboratories that included Columbia, New York and Berkeley, California. Many people, including civilians were hired for this top-secret mission. The employees did not even know what they were working on until the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. The site chosen for the center laboratory in November 1942 was in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer was selected as the director of this site (Hoddeson, 6). The goal to be achieved at this site was to create a bomb small enough that could be carried by an airplane but also contain enough nuclear power.
The scientists at the Los Alamos site were simply told that they were working on a project that may help end the war. Altogether, 5,000 people worked and lived with their families at Los Alamos. 300,000 people across the states were involved in the project. Many experiments and tests of nuclear energy were performed but never a full-scale test of an actual explosive weapon until July 1945, 18 months after a site was established to do so (Rhodes, 667). This site was to be known as Trinity and it opened in March 1944 in Alamagordo, New Mexico. In July 1945, the first successful test of a nuclear weapon was complete.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage. Vice President Harry Truman knew nothing about the Manhattan Project and was briefly informed of it the same day that he took over the Presidency. President Truman, who had taken over office only 4 months sooner, made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Nagasaki, Japan was also bombed on August 9, 1945. The United States had succeeded in being the first in detonating an Atomic Bomb. The time and money that the United States had put into atomic research had paid off.
Japan Surrendered and World War Two would soon come to an end. The end of World War Two brought along with it another beginning – The beginning of the Cold War. The years of the Cold War included a great threat in which many countries were at a race for nuclear warheads. The Soviet Union and the United States were the most prominent of these countries. Between the two, they had more than 40,000 nuclear bombs (Drell, 132). This made up 99 percent of all the nuclear explosives in the world. This threat lasted until the Cold War ended in November of 1990.
This was done by a pact signed at the United Nations Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (EM). In July 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union also signed their own pact to cut back on nuclear arms by more than 30 percent within a time period of seven years. After the United States dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not only did it bring with it the Cold War, but also the after effects of the nuclear explosions. Although World War two ended in August of 1945, the underlying effects of the atomic bomb have stayed with us, not to mention the immediate effects.
The immediate effect of course included the destroyed cities and many casualties. In Hiroshima, the deaths that occurred the same day and were caused by the blast totaled to 45,000. The deaths that occurred 2 days – 4 months afterward came up to 19,000 (Kondo, 4). The numbers of deaths in Nagasaki were slightly less. 22,000 immediate casualties from the initial blast and 2 days – 4 months later there were 17,000 deaths due to the bombing. This is not mentioning the other surviving casualties who suffer from other effects.
There was more surviving casualties then deaths caused by the bombings. The most recent data showed there to be 73,884 people dead and 74,909 people injured (Kondo, 4). Of the people that died 2 days to 4 months after the bombing, the causes of death consisted of burns, lesions, and radioactivity and bone marrow injury. Many of the people that did survive lost their homes and their means of survival. All of the survivors in the areas in and around Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered from immense amounts of radiation and radioactive fall-out caused by the bombings.
Some died of the initial radiation, but more died of residual radiation. Of the people that died of a bone marrow injury, it was mostly because the leukocyte count was so low. The people did not have enough white blood cells, the cells that fight sickness and infection, to heal themselves (Kondo, 7). People with open wounds, lesions, died of infectious disease. And others suffered from heat caused by the blast and serious burns that could not heal. It is believed that the radiation resulting from the bomb is responsible for many defects that occurred in newborn babies.
Atomic energy is a very serious type of technology. It is in no way meant to be taken lightly. This is the one type of technology created by humans that could bring about the destruction of all humankind. While it was very useful in bringing about the end of World War Two, it could just as easily start other wars. Many lives were probably saved by the use of the Atomic Bomb in WWII. Had the war continued, many more people from many countries would have died. It is evident that the bombings created a tremendous amount of grief caused by the pollution and medical effects.
Many efforts still exist to this day to treat people suffering from the underlying effects of the bomb and to clean up much of the land and air pollution that was caused by the radiation. Today, there are many other uses of nuclear energy rather than just bombs. There are many nuclear power plants. Efforts are also being made to keep these plants under control and to regulate the amount of waste and pollution produced by them. I hope that we are all aware of the many advantages of nuclear energy and appreciate it but also to know of the many dangers created by nuclear energy as well.
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These are fairly straight-forward HTML attribute completions for
Sublime Text, including most HTML5 attributes.
It includes completion of many standard values. For example, typing
the letter 'c' in the type="" attribute will complete "checkbox".
If you Backspace and enter the letter 't' it will be replaced
with "text". "text/css" and "text/javascript" for the type-
attribute are inserted by typing 'j' or 'cs' within the quotes.
There are two versions for some boolean attributes. For example:
CHECKED, or
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The Different Types of Advanced Imaging Procedures
Advanced imaging is necessary for identifying and treating a medical condition. A technician uses high-quality equipment to scan a certain area of the body. Your physician looks at the results of the scan to make an accurate diagnosis. The procedure you go through depends on what part of your body needs to be scanned. To give you an idea of what to expect, here are several types of advanced imaging procedures.
Open MRI Scan
Your doctor may order an open MRI scan to check for a condition in your brain, organs or spinal cord. It is also used to check for cancer, a stroke or heart disease. The open design reduces anxiety or claustrophobia because it does not feature a tunnel bore. It can also scan patients of different body types with ease.
Mammography Procedure
A mammography plays an important role in maintaining your breast health. It is an X-ray of the breast that checks for lumps, cysts and cancer. Your doctor may order a mammogram to investigate an ailment or as an annual precaution. Facilities such as North Dover Radiology offer mammography services ranging from mobile screening to advanced diagnostic exams.
Digital X-Ray
Your doctor may order a digital X-ray to diagnose a bone fracture or abdominal condition. It can also be used to find a foreign object in the soft tissues. A digital X-ray involves lying or standing near a cassette holder. The machine only uses a low dose of radiation, and your technician can easily manipulate the images for an accurate diagnosis.
Low Dose CT
A low dose CT scan can be used to scan your bones, organs or soft tissues, and it can also be used to check for lung cancer. A CT scan uses a rotating gantry takes cross-sectional images of the body, which provides different views of the target area. This allows your doctor to accurately diagnose your condition.
If your doctor needs to order an advanced imaging Toms River NJ, they may refer you to North Dover Radiology. North Dover Radiology offers a friendly staff, high-quality equipment fast results.
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Amnesty International UK Media Awards 1996
Six awards were awarded in the categories: National Print; Periodicals; Photojournalism; Radio; Television Documentary; and Television News.
The award ceremony, held on Wednesday 19 June 1996, was hosted by Shahnaz Pakravan.
The overall winners were The News Team at ITN Channel 4 for their coverage of "War Crimes in Bosnia". The overall award was presented by Ken Wiwa.
Marc Jobst said: "I'm enormously proud to receive this award from Amnesty International because I have such respect for their work. The programme they awarded was about Dana Tep and her daughter Ramoni who were subjected to slavery under the Khmer Rouge."
Dana and Ramoni Tep received a standing ovation at the ceremony, as they bravely chose the occasion of the AIUK Press Awards to come out from years of hiding to reveal their true identities.
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%A MENG Zhong-Hua, YANG Peng, ZHOU Ren-Xian %T Influence of Ce/Cr Ratio on 2-CrOx Mixed Oxide Catalysts for the Catalytic Oxidation of 1,2-Dichloroethane %0 Journal Article %D 2013 %J Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. %R 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201212072 %P 391-396 %V 29 %N 02 %U {http://www.whxb.pku.edu.cn/CN/abstract/article_28312.shtml} %8 2013-01-14 %X
CeO2, Cr2O3, and CeO2-CrOx mixed oxides with molar ratios of Ce to Cr of 9/1, 4/1, 2/1, 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 were prepared by coprecipitation. The catalytic performance of 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) decomposition was evaluated on all the catalysts. The results indicate that CeO2-CrOx mixed oxides with different Ce/Cr molar ratios showed higher performance for the removal of DCE compared with pure CeO2. The CeO2-CrOx mixed oxide with Ce/Cr molar ratio of 2/1 exhibited the highest catalytic activity of the samples, generating only small amounts of chlorinated by-products during the decomposition of DCE. The selectivity for HCl decreased as the molar ratio of Ce to Cr decreased. The catalysts were characterized by N2 adsorption/desorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Raman spectroscopy, hydrogen temperatureprogrammed reduction (H2-TPR), and ammonia temperature-programmed desorption (NH3-TPD) to study the effect of the Ce/Cr molar ratio on the physicochemical performance of the catalysts. An appropriate molar ratio of Ce to Cr formed a more stable Ce-Cr-O solid solution, which increased the mobility of reactive oxygen species, oxidative ability, surface acid content and the ratio of strong acidity, promoting the adsorption, activation and deep oxidation of DCE.
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Hemihedrite
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Hemihedrite
Hemihedrite-phoenicochroite-537207.jpg
Red phoenicochroite and orange hemihedrite microcrystals richly cover the matrix
General
Category Chromate mineral
Formula
(repeating unit)
Pb10Zn(CrO4)6(SiO4)2(F,OH)2
Strunz classification 7.FC.15
Crystal system Triclinic
Unknown space group
Unit cell a = 9.49, b = 11.44
c = 10.84 [Å]; α = 120.5°
β = 92.1°, γ = 55.83°; Z = 1
Identification
Color Bright orange, henna-brown, to almost black
Crystal habit Euhedral crystals with hemihedral morphology
Twinning Present
Mohs scale hardness 3
Luster Vitreous
Streak Saffron-yellow
Diaphaneity Translucent to transparent
Specific gravity 6.42
Optical properties Biaxial (+)
Refractive index nα = 2.105 nβ = 2.320 nγ = 2.650
Birefringence δ = 0.545
Pleochroism Feeble, yellow to orange
2V angle 88° (measured)
References [1][2][3][4]
Hemihedrite is a rare lead zinc chromate silicate mineral with formula Pb10Zn(CrO4)6(SiO4)2(F,OH)2. It forms a series with the copper analogue iranite.[2]
Discovery and occurrence[edit]
Hemihedrite was first described in 1967 for occurrences in the Florence lead silver mine in the Ripsey District, Tortilla Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, US.[2] It was named for the hemihedral morphology of its crystals.[1]
It occurs in oxidized veins containing galena, sphalerite and pyrite. Associated secondary minerals include cerussite, phoenicochroite, vauquelinite, willemite, wulfenite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, tennantite and chalcopyrite.[1] It has been reported from several mining districts in Arizona and one in Nevada. It has also been reported from the Antofagasta Region of Chile and the Anarak District of Esfahan Province, Iran.[2]
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Unexpected entry '' of type EndOfNode, when StartOfNode was expected. A value has likely been lost.
Issue #59 resolved
Ivan Wang created an issue
Seeing the error numerous times when starting a project in Unity 5.5.0f3. Likely due to a SerializedMonoBehaviour from the stack trace:
Unexpected entry '' of type EndOfNode, when StartOfNode was expected. A value has likely been lost.
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
Sirenix.Serialization.CustomLogger:LogError(String) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization.Config/CustomLogger.cs:53)
Sirenix.Serialization.DebugContext:LogError(String) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Misc/SerializationConfig.cs:193)
Sirenix.Serialization.ComplexTypeSerializer`1:ReadValue(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Serializers/ComplexTypeSerializer.cs:53)
Sirenix.Serialization.NullableFormatter`1:DeserializeImplementation(Nullable`1&, IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/NullableFormatter.cs:38)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Deserialize(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/BaseFormatter.cs:171)
Sirenix.Serialization.ComplexTypeSerializer`1:ReadValue(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Serializers/ComplexTypeSerializer.cs:103)
System.Object:Dynamic_Void ReadDataEntry(Conditional ByRef, System.String, EntryType, IDataReader)(Conditional&, String, EntryType, IDataReader, Dictionary`2)
Sirenix.Serialization.Emitted.ConditionalFormatter:ReadDataEntry(Conditional&, String, EntryType, IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.EasyBaseFormatter`1:DeserializeImplementation(T&, IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/EasyBaseFormatter.cs:28)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Deserialize(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/BaseFormatter.cs:171)
Sirenix.Serialization.ComplexTypeSerializer`1:ReadValue(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Serializers/ComplexTypeSerializer.cs:307)
Sirenix.Serialization.ArrayFormatter`1:DeserializeImplementation(Conditional[]&, IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/ArrayFormatter.cs:59)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Deserialize(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Formatters/BaseFormatter.cs:171)
Sirenix.Serialization.ComplexTypeSerializer`1:ReadValue(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Serializers/ComplexTypeSerializer.cs:307)
Sirenix.Serialization.Serializer`1:ReadValueWeak(IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Serializers/Serializer.cs:176)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, IDataReader) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Utilities/UnitySerializationUtility.cs:1061)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObjectInEditor(Object, SerializationData&, DeserializationContext, Boolean) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Utilities/UnitySerializationUtility.cs:894)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, SerializationData&, DeserializationContext) (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Utilities/UnitySerializationUtility.cs:742)
Sirenix.OdinInspector.SerializedMonoBehaviour:UnityEngine.ISerializationCallbackReceiver.OnAfterDeserialize() (at C:/Users/Bjarke/Desktop/Projects/Sirenix Development Framework/Sirenix Solution/Sirenix.Serialization/Unity Integration/SerializedMonoBehaviour.cs:26)
I can provide more details (e.g. my SerializedMonoBehaviour class) if necessary, but it's pretty complex. The error started appearing as soon as I upgraded from v0.9.0.5.
Comments (4)
1. Tor Esa Vestergaard
• changed status to open
This looks like an issue with deserialization of nullables. Unity's version of mono had a runtime error that resulted in a crash with these, so we had to do some funky things to get around that. We'll have a look at this promptly - thanks for reporting!
2. Tor Esa Vestergaard
I've so far been unable to replicate this error - could you confirm that the error still happens if you change and then save the scene in which it happens - or change the assets and then save the project (IE, caused the data to be "saved" properly)?
3. Ivan Wang reporter
Strangely, I can no longer reproduce the error myself. I definitely changed and re-saved the scene in between now and the error, so perhaps it was just an issue with upgrading versions that fixed after it reserialized.
4. Tor Esa Vestergaard
After some consideration, the serialization error that occurred here has been downgraded to a warning instead, as the serialization can easily recover from this case that only affects a single serialized value, and it will happen sometimes when data types change.
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Dishwasher not draining video
Dishwasher not draining.
Dishwasher not draining.
If your dishwasher won’t drain, the problem may be as simple as a clogged sink drain, but there are other places that can get clogged, too. This Sears PartsDirect video shows you how to find and clear a clog to get your dishwasher draining again.
Check out our DIY Dishwasher Repair help section for symptoms and troubleshooting tips, repair guides, error code charts and more.
Tools needed
• Plumber's snake
• Screwdriver
• Shop vacuum or container to bail water
• Towel or shallow pan
• Work gloves
Check sink drain, garbage disposal for clog
Hi, this is Wayne from Sears PartsDirect. Today we're going to talk about a dishwasher that won't drain. Before you blame the dishwasher, check the sink drain or garbage disposal for a clog. The dishwasher can’t drain if the sink is clogged. Run the water to see if the water drains. If not, clear the sink drain and your dishwasher should drain properly. If your sink has a garbage disposal, run the disposal to see if the water drains then. If your disposal is clogged, clear it out. But if it’s broken, you’ll likely need to replace it or it will clog again.
By the way, if you just installed a new garbage disposal and forgot to remove the knockout plug, do that now. The knockout plug prevents water from leaking through the dishwasher drain opening until you install the drain hose. It's easy to skip this important step when installing a new garbage disposal. Refer to the installation guide for your garbage disposal for more information on removing the knockout plug.
Check for grease clogs
If the sink or garbage disposal drains okay, pull off the dishwasher drain hose from the sink or garbage disposal connection and check the end of the drain hose for a grease clog. Grease often builds up in this area. Clear the grease clog and reinstall the drain hose.
See if the dishwasher drains by running the drain pump. You can run the drain pump on many dishwashers by pressing the cancel button or by starting a cycle and then pressing the cancel button. The drain pump runs for about 3 minutes on most models that have this feature. If you have a dishwasher with a timer, you can find the drain portion of the cycle by turning the timer to the end of the cycle.
Remove air gap blockages
If the dishwasher used an air gap, you’ll need to check that for clogs as well. Not all dishwashers use an air gap, so you may not see this component next to your sink faucet. If you have an air gap, check for water stains or water trails coming from the vent holes in the air gap cap. Water coming out of the air gap vent holes indicates a clogged air gap.
Remove the air gap cap and then the cover. Run a plumber's snake through the drain hose between the air gap and the sink drain or garbage disposal to clear the clog. Or clear the clog by blowing air through the drain hose or by using a wet/dry shop vac to suck out debris. Reassemble the air gap and run the dishwasher drain pump to see if the dishwasher drains properly.
Check pump drain hose
If the dishwasher still won't drain, you'll need to access the drain hose connection on the drain pump. Disconnect electrical power to the dishwasher by unplugging the power cord or shutting off the house circuit breaker for the dishwasher. Remove the water from the dishwasher tub, either by bailing it out or by sucking it out with a wet/dry vac. Once that’s done, remove the bottom front service panel and toe panel. Remove the mounting screws from each side and then pull off the panels. On some dishwashers, you can remove the outer door panel and control panel to get better access to the drain pump. Before you remove the drain hose, place a towel or shallow pan under the drain pump to catch any water remaining in the dishwasher sump.
Now, let’s check the drain path between the drain pump and the sink drain for a clog. Place the pump end of the drain hose in a shallow pan and pour some water through the drain hose from the sink end of the hose. If you have an air gap, you'll need to pour water through the dishwasher side of the air gap to check the drain hose. You've already checked or cleared the sink side of the air gap drain hose. If water doesn’t move through the drain hose, then you know there's a clog somewhere in the drain hose.
You have to pull the dishwasher out to check the entire drain hose for clogs. Here’s how. First, shut off the water supply to the dishwasher. If the power cord plugs into an electrical outlet, position the power cord so it moves freely when you pull the dishwasher out from under the counter. If your power cord doesn't plug into an electrical outlet, then it’s hardwired into the junction box. Remove the junction box cover and disconnect the supply wires. Remove the strain relief nut to release the power cable from the junction box. Open the dishwasher door and remove the bottom dishrack to avoid damaging interior parts when you tip the dishwasher over to find the drain hose clog. Remove the screws from the mounting brackets that hold the dishwasher under the counter. Carefully pull the dishwasher out from under the counter.
Check each section of the drain hose until you find the clog. Use a plumber's snake to clear the clog from the drain hose. Reassemble the dishwasher, add some water to the tub and run the drain pump to see if water drains. If it does, then you've fixed the problem. If water flows from the sink or the air gap to the pump end of the drain hose, then you know the drain hose is clear. You also know the drain hose is clear if you found and cleared a clog.
Problems requiring a service technician
If water doesn't drain from the dishwasher and you know the drain hose is clear, then a clog in the drain pump, the sump or a defective drain pump is preventing the dishwasher from draining. The dishwasher could also have a defective electronic control board or timer that isn't sending voltage to the drain pump. If you haven't found the cause of the drain problem by now, we recommend that you have a Sears service technician examine the dishwasher. The technician may need to perform live voltage checks, which only should be done by someone with proper training.
I hope this video helped you out. Check out our other videos here on the Sears PartsDirect YouTube channel. Subscribe and we’ll let you know when we post new ones.
Symptoms common to all dishwashers
Choose a symptom to see related dishwasher repairs.
Main cause: damaged rack height adjuster
Main causes: water supply problem, stuck overfill float, clogged water inlet valve screen, water inlet valve failure
Main causes: improper loading, low water temperature, improper detergent dosage, detergent dispenser failure, spray arm or pump problems
Main causes: damaged or stuck spray arm, leaking door seal, damaged door hinge, leaky heating element water seal, cracked water supply line
Main causes: broken door latch, tripped circuit breaker, broken heating element, faulty vent fan, sensor failure, control system problem
Main causes: light switch beside the sink turned off, lack of power, bad dishwasher door switch, control system failure, wiring problem
Main causes: clogged kitchen sink drain, clogged drain hose, drain check valve damaged, drain pump failure, control system problem
Main causes: broken door spring, damaged or broken door hinge
Main causes: glass or popcorn kernel stuck in the chopper blade, drain line vibrating against the cabinet, debris in wash pump or drain pump
Repair guides common to all dishwashers
These step-by-step repair guides will help you safely fix what’s broken on your dishwasher.
How to replace a dishwasher door latch assembly
If the dishwasher door doesn't click shut, a broken door latch is a likely cause. Follow these instructions to replace it yourself.
Repair difficulty
Time required
30 minutes or less
How to replace a dishwasher user interface control
The user interface control houses the selection buttons and display. If it fails, you can't select the cycle and settings. Follow these instructions to replace it yourself.
Repair difficulty
Time required
30 minutes or less
How to replace a dishwasher thermal fuse
A completely dead control panel often indicates that the thermal fuse on the electronic control board is blown; follow these steps to replace a blown thermal fuse in your dishwasher.
Repair difficulty
Time required
15 minutes or less
Articles and videos common to all dishwashers
Use the advice and tips in these articles and videos to get the most out of your dishwasher.
November 13, 2022
7 Tips to Get Your Dishwasher Ready for the Holidays
7 Tips to Get Your Dishwasher Ready for the Holidays
Find professional tips that can help you get your dishwasher ready for the holidays.
December 23, 2021
How to reset a Whirlpool dishwasher
How to reset a Whirlpool dishwasher
Learn how to reset a Whirlpool dishwasher when its control freezes up.
August 17, 2021
How to read a wiring schematic video
How to read a wiring schematic video
Learn how to decipher symbols so you can buy the right part for your problem.
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Tuttle Capital files for ‘alien tech’ ETF
[https://www.ft.com/content/7b83f0f5-4d03-40c4-b79d-36cc4e247d54](https://www.ft.com/content/7b83f0f5-4d03-40c4-b79d-36cc4e247d54)
Tuttle Capital has filed to invest in “reverse-engineered alien technology” with the Tuttle Capital UFO Disclosure AI Powered exchange traded fund, which is one of eight new products the manager has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, regulatory filings show.
With the ticker UFOD, the actively managed UFO Disclosure AI Powered ETF will invest at least 80 per cent of its net assets in a basket of companies that Tuttle Capital “believes have potential exposure to advanced or ‘reverse-engineered’ alien technology, spurred by disclosures about UFOs and alleged advanced technologies”, the registration statement reads.
Those companies will include aerospace groups and defence contractors that may have research and development programmes “rumoured to work with classified technology, potentially leading to groundbreaking advancements”, the filing says.
Matthew Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital, said he had been interested in UFOs — unidentified flying objects — for years.
While they are by definition an unknown quantity, Tuttle said he believed investing in UFOs, and the technology that they may use, could take off once his product hit the market.
“I’m a trader. I look at \[UFOs\] and I say that they’re using a power source that is light years beyond anything that we have . . . If our government has this technology and it’s released, that will be a game-changer,” he said.
Each ETF will be traded on the Cboe BZX Exchange. The forthcoming products do not have set launch dates or listed fees, according to the filing.
The ETF will short companies that are threatened or could be made obsolete because of any “alien-level” technology that is discovered, its registration states.
UFOD’s launch is not a sure thing, however, according to Tuttle. Without sufficient information sourced from government disclosures on UFOs, the product might not go to market, he said.
The risky and opaque nature of alien investment is not lost on Tuttle and his firm.
“Government confirmation or denial of advanced alien tech is uncertain, and rumoured breakthroughs might never materialise. This entire theme is highly speculative and subject to rumour cycles,” reads a paragraph in the registration statement on the speculative nature of the proposed ETF.
The other seven products that Tuttle’s company registered will all employ artificial intelligence tools as part of their stock selection process, according to the filing.
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=Jordanian Political Satire=
Introduction
In a country that has not enjoyed much freedom of speech; political satire in Jordan has been a way to criticize and make claims on the political authorities. Be it expressed in press as in weekly satirical newspapers, cartoons, prose, or as in recent times, on online social media platforms, satire in Jordan represents a unique genre that has reflected a local mode and attitude towards local and global issues. While it is not meant entirely to entertain, political satire in Jordan has been used as a way to poke fun at elected governments and their failure to tend to local issues. Like satirists worldwide, the Jordanian satirists aim to use pun and indirect references to tackle taboos, defy the restrictive laws that inhibit the freedom of speech, and convey public grievances.
Jordanian early satirists
While some might argue that the early accounts of political satire in Jordan can be traced in the works of Jordan’s most well-known poet Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal nicknamed ‘Arar’, as he was cynical of the social life during the formative years of Transjordan, satirical writings in Jordan were only made available to the public in the 1960s. According to rare accounts on the history of the Jordanian political satire as found in the diaries of a Jordanian journalist named Faisal Mohammad Awkal, the writings of Fakhri Qawar were the first satirical accounts published in the old newspaper of Amman in the Evening in Arabic (عمان المساء). Qawar's writings included short essays that mainly leveled light criticism at the government. The newspaper, which inspired the later satirical journalism, came to clash with the Jordanian authorities in 1964, after publishing the diaries of Wasfi al-Tal on the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, followed by the diaries of Ahmad Shukeiri resulting in its final shutdown in 1975. Later in early 1980s, Qawar published the first satirical works including Farhan Farah Sae’ed’s Diaries (which was adapted as a script for a soap-opera that had the same name mid-1980s), published in 1982, and “I am the Patriarch,” published in 1981.
Development of satire in 1980s
Political satire in Jordan started to develop in the 1980s in the writings of Mohammad Tomaliah, who introduced new elements to the genre in his column in Ad-Dustour, entitled “Eyewitness”. He employed a narrative style borrowed from prose using simplistic realism, cynical discrepancies, and a wide array of unusual similes.
Moreover, Tomaliah used brief sentences that drew clear images of reality and candid portrayals, allowing Jordanian specificities to stand out. He was unconventional and his articles were free of flowery language and clichés. According to critics, Tomaliah was a literary figure and not only a columnist.
In one of his articles, 'The Third Bullet", Tomaliah talks about his life saying:
"I personally have not lived yet, and my life is not yet worthy to write about: All my experiences are trivial although I consider growing up in the southern villages and moving during my adolescence years to live in "Al-Hussein Camp" an experience that gave me a special status: on one hand I am a Jordanian of a Palestinian decent, while on the other, I am Palestinian from a Jordanian origin. Therefore, I frame my political stance within this experience, more specifically within the "Catholic" relationship that govern the two peoples. Also, I do tend to think that my education in Baghdad and my father's death and burial in the beloved 'occupied' capital (in reference to Baghdad) made me an Iraqi: Sunni and Shia at the time time, and a Christian like a cross".
For more than 28 years (until his death in 2008), Tomaliah published hundreds of articles, and several books, which mainly talked and described the miseries of the destitute and the marginalized groups, including the people in his neighborhood in east Amman. Talking about the marginalized groups, Tomaliah breached the norms of the Jordanian journalism, which was formal and conservative when tackling social issues. Tomaliah did what many Jordanian writers would not have done at the time; namely criticizing the society, its norms, its traditions and even himself. It is widely argued among Jordanian critics that Tomaliah’s satirical writings and the way they were received encouraged more Jordanian daily newspapers to assign a space for this genre.
In addition to Tomaliah’s column, other satire appeared in the Jordanian satirical newspaper of Shihan (newspaper), founded in 1984. The newspaper assigned pages for the editor's satirical writings under the Pseudonym of "Shiho". The newspaper rose to become one of Jordan most read publication, and despite its satirical nature, it was regarded as one of most valuable forums for news and public affairs. In 2006, Shihan (newspaper) republished Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons resulting in a public fury that culminated in the dismissal of the paper's editor-in-chief, Jihad al-Momani.
1990s- Satire in the era of post-democracy open-up
In early 1990s, Jordan held its first parliamentary elections in 22 years, annulled the martial law in effect for 33 years and allowed for the political parties to exist and operate. The new era promised the emergence of liberal media and art represented in a theatrical boom in the country which coincided with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled Kuwait after the Gulf War in 1991.
In 1993,Nabil Sawalha and Hisham Yanes, who returned to [Jordan|Jordan]] from Kuwait after the war, established Nabil &Hisham theater where they staged several successful plays including Ahlan Barlman (Welcome, Parliament), Ahlan Nizam A'lami Jadid (Welcome, New World Order), Ahaln Mo'tamar Qimma Arabyia (Welcome, Arab Summit) and Ahlan Tatbee' (Welcome, Normalization).
Nabil and Hisham's plays established the phenomenon in Jordanian satire of being able to escape state censorship and being the first Jordanian comedians to ridicule and imitate Arab leaders on an Arab stage. The two comedians viewed their career as being free of dangers, believing there was a margin of freedom at the time, and that they needed to filter their language on certain occasions.
In one of their plays: “Welcome, New World Order”, which came in the aftermath of the Gulf War in 1990, the duo presented a rare Arab perspective at what the new order promised back then. Both Hisham Yanes and Nabil Sawalha used symbolism and implicit language, which at times lacked clarity, when referring to sensitive issues. They were mainly attempting to test the limits of tolerance provided after Jordan’s abolition of the martial law in 1989. The play which continued for 20 months attracted late King Hussein whose attendance limited future censorship.
Under the democratic opening-up, a satirical newspaper was published mid-1990s. In 1996, Abed Rabbo weekly newspaper was launched by the satirist Yousef Ghishan and sold in the first weeks thousands of copies. In 1997 and after an amended version of the press and publication law was endorsed, the paper closed, unable to meet the requirements and fines stipulated by the law.
Press and publication law in 1997
After the short-lived period of media freedom, the cabinet of Abdelsalam al-Majali introduced to the 1993 press and publication law new censorship measures. Under the new amendments, the Press and Publication Department (PPD) was given more powers to regulate the publications and the press, and the PPD was authorized to exercise censorship over the publications allowing it and the government to have an ultimate control over all media bodies.
The law also increased the minimum capital required to issue newspapers. The law also prohibited the publication of rumors or false information and any news or material that might be harmful to national unity and any material that encouraged public strikes and dissent.
In 1998, the Parliament endorsed the Press and Publications Law No. 18 of 1998, which was viewed as almost identical to the law of 1997. In 1999, the government, presented a draft amendment to the Press and Publications Law of 1998 to the Parliament. The amended law of 1999 annulled several restrictions provided for in the law of 1998, reduced the required minimum capital required for weekly newspapers.
This law led to the suspension of several leading privately owned newspapers, the majority of which were law-budgeted, such as Abed Rabbo, Hawadeth Al-Sa'a, among others that failed to comply with this prerequisite. Despite the subsequent amendments, the law remained largely the same, and under it only official media dominated the scene.
Satirical cartoons
Cartoons in Jordan serve as powerful tool to express political views. Emad Hajjaj, is considered a pioneer in drawing satirical cartoons portraying Jordanian political figures, including the King himself. Hajjaj's most famous cartoon character (Abu Mahjoob) made its first debut in 1993 portraying an angry Jordanian man hanging a promotional sign for the elections, which read "No to foreign labor" while at the same time yelling at an Egyptian worker to help him fix it.
In 1999, Hajjaj drew an unprecedented cartoon when he portrayed King Abdullah II disguised as an ordinary citizen, in a way to show Jordanians to be aware of the new monarch’s way of watching things over. Being the first time to depict the monarch, the cartoon raised questions about the extent to which can Hajjaj push the boundaries of satire in Jordan. And While it is a criminal offence to insult the king and the royal family in Jordan, Hajjaj's cartoons were not seen as ridiculing the monarch."
Through thousands of his cartoons, Hajjaj has tackled numerous political as well as social problems in Jordan. He has also critiqued several Jordanian prime ministers and poked fun at the parliament. Several of Hajajj’s cartoons were banned, including many controversial depictions of the post-Arab Spring demonstrations, one of them was published online under the headline of the Dabkeh Al-Islah or the Reform Dance, in which Abu Mahjoob warns dabkeh dancers against performing the Ali Baba dance and instead to choose any other mythical characters, such as Sinbad or Scheherazade. Ali Baba is a nick name that activists in the post-Arab spring demonstrations used to refer to King Abdullah II who, according to them, along with forty thieves, stole the country’s assets.
Another cartoon by Hajjaj that raised controversy was about the escape of a convicted businessman from jail. In 2011 and as the Jordanian public was pressing for a serious corruption fight, officials helped facilitate the escape of a Jordanian official and a businessman, Khaled Shaheen, who was detained over involvement in corruption cases. On thats subject, Hajjaj drew a cartoon in which his main characters discuss the escape of Shaheen, saying the government opens corruption files but the same time opens the prison doors.
Satire in Jordan after 2000
Satirical columns instead of newspapers
With the introduction of laws restricting media freedoms and that forced weekly newspaper to halt publication, Jordanian satirists found their way into daily columns published in Jordan's leading daily newspapers, such as Al Ra’i, Ad-Dustor, and Al Arab Al Yawm (newspaper). Among the most prominent names that became popular in Jordan since 2000 are Ahmad Hasan Al Zoubi, Kamel Nusairat, Yousef Ghishan, and Ahmad Abu Khalil, among others.
Given the rapid dissemination of their articles via social media, Jordanian columnists have become effective in shaping the public opinion in a a subtle way. For instance, Ahmad Hasan Al Zoubi, who writes for Al Ra'i newspaper, has gained fame for his sarcastic writings that have attracted the attention of Jordanians. His style can be best characterized as simple but indirect, hiding bitter criticism of the political, economic and social scene in the country.
In one of Al Zoubi’s most famous articles that raised awareness on a local issue that has not yet been resolved, Jordanians found a voice of reason that employed simple language with a cynical tone to address a serious topic: The establishment of a nuclear reactor. In an article titled "Why do we reject the nuclear reactor?", Al Zoubi refutes the government’s narrative on the guaranteed success of the nuclear reactor as a new energy source. He addresses the officials in charge of project by simply telling them that Jordanians do not have faith in them. Al Zoubi refers to the statements of president of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission defending the scheme and trying to assure Jordanians that what happened to Japan’s nuclear reactor of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot happen in Jordan as it was a ‘Japanese’ administrative mistake. Al Zoubi cunningly argues that if the Japanese given their long expertise in the field committed mistakes, why would Jordanians, given their zero experience, be immune? Al Zoubi's argument was widely circulated via Facebook and played a role in shedding light on the potential danger of the reactor. . The wide circulation of his articles encouraged Al Zoubi to publish two collections of articles in books. The first was Sawaleif (Stories) in 2006 and the second was Al-Mam'out (The Featherless Bird) in 2008.
Prior to Al Zoubi’s collections of articles published in form of a book, Jordan's leading satirist Mohammad Tomaliah published two collections in 2004 and 2007. The first was Yahduth Le Doun Sa'r Al Nas (“Happens to me among all people”) and contained selected cartoons drawn by Emad Hajjaj. The second was Ilayhā bi-ṭabī’at al-ḥāl - nuṣūṣ khādishah lil-ḥiyād al-‘āmm (“To her as a matter of course -- texts that breach public neutrality”).
By choosing the sub-title Nusus Khadishah lil-hiyad al-‘amm (texts that breach public neutrality) (a play on words, instead of the familiar combination ‘public modesty’), Tomaliah, attempted to deviate from the Jordanian mainstream literature. In his book, which takes the form of short articles and stories, Tomaliah alludes to local and Arab political failures. In one of the book's articles titled “Fig Leaf”, Tomaliah reduces the vast areas of the Arab lands to a fig leaf that does not hide the Arab countries' defects. He crtiques the fake borders that separate the 'one Arab homeland' as ones that result in 'border' grudges that disturb the brotherly ties, adding that:
"The borders are often located in the desert, which in case of chaos, issues such as "sovereignty", expulsion of ambassadors, closure of checkpoints and demands to re-draft borders result in the arrival of scientists wearing khaki shorts and caps accompanied by beautiful women on top of Jeep cars. Those who drafted the borders in the past come from all over to draw them again. Each country strives to acquire a new piece of 'wilderness' and you will never understand why those are so keen to expand their area in a 'homeland' where humans cannot afford a piece of cloth to patch their robes, not even with a 'fig leaf'"
Post-Arab Spring satire
Al'an Fahimtkum
The title of the play is inspired by the famous statement of the deposed Tunisian president: Now I Understand You. It is written by Ahmad Hasan Al Zoubi and Musa Hijazeen takes the leading role in the play as Abu Saqer, a dictator Jordanian father whose wife and children decide to rebel against him in the wake of the Arab Spring. The play includes scenes that shed light on pressing Jordanian issues such as corruption, public land acquisition by the regime, the way cabinets are formed in Jordan, national unity, and the outcomes of the national dialogue committee (formed in 2011 to undertake constitutional amendments). The play is a hallmark in the post-2011 Jordanian political satire, as it has crossed red-lines on things that are not usually talked about in Jordanian public arena.
Kharabeesh animations and stand-up comedies
Kharabeesh, a Jordanian company that has produced animated cartoons since 2008, increased its productions after 2011. The company based in Jabal Amman hosted dozens of Jordanian and Arab amateur stand-comedians who performed in videos that addressed social and political issues. Kharabeesh introduced new young names to the Jordanian satire including Rajae Qawas, Nicolas Khouri and Laith Al Abbadi, who made notable appearance on Kharabeesh you tube channel of N2O comedy.
Roya TV After the establishment of Roya TV, a liberal TV channel, young Jordanian comedians found a new platform and space to speak about their opinions on local and regional political issues. The recently banned TV show 7aki Jarayed or “The talk of newspapers” discussed the issues of refugees, elections, poverty, Israel and peace process, Jordanian identity, reform and citizenship. The show distinguished itself by broadcasting reports that interview ordinary Jordanian people asking them about their opinion regarding rising political issues. The show was recently banned due to use of profanity, according to the administration of Roya TV.
=Jordan’s Leading Satirists – Biographies=
=Fakhri Qawar= Fakhri Qawar, in Arabic ( فخري قعوار ), is a Jordanian writer and parliamentarian. He was born in the Jordanian town of Al-Jafour near the border city of Mafraq in 1945. He was educated in Jerusalem and received the General Secondary Education Certificate (Tawjihi) from the Ibrahimieh College in Jerusalem in 1964. He later enrolled in Beirut Arab University to earn a BA in Arabic Language and Literature in 1971. [| Translated from the Arabic Article]
Career
Qawar worked upon graduation as a teacher in several private schools in each of Zarqa and Amman. He also worked at Yarmouk University in Irbid for several months in mid-1970s. The Prime Minister at the time, Mudar Badran dismissed Qawar from his post after the latter published an article entitled "Amman fi el-Qalb" Amman is in the heart" in the Al Ra'i newspaper.
Literary Works
Qawar wrote his first story when he was a student in the preparatory school in Mafraq; the story was aired on the Jordanian Radio in 1961. Qawar published his stories in several Jordanian and Arab newspapers and magazines such as the Egyptian magazine of Al-Qissa (The Story), the Lebanese magazine of AL-Adeeb and Al-Aufq Al-Jadid in Jerusalem among others.
Publications
* 1) "Three Voices", 1972
* 2) "Why did Susie cry too much?, 1973
* 3) "No chess playing is allowed', 1976
* 4) " I am the Patriarch", 1981
* 5) "The Barrel", 1982
* 6) "Job, the Palestinian", 1989
* 7) "The dream of a nigh guard", 1993
* 8) "A man and a woman", translated 1996
Membership
Qawar joined the Jordanian Writers Associations when it was established in 1974. He was elected a chairman of the Association for four rounds and was the editor in chief of Awraq Magazine issued by the Association. He was also the editor in chief of Wisam children magazine in mid-1980s. In 1992, Qawar was elected the General Secretary of the Arab Writers Union in the conference that was held in Amman, he was re-elected for the same position in 1995.[| Translated from the Arabic Article]
Parliamentary Career
Qawar was elected as member of the Parliament of Jordan in 1989, he ran for Amman 3rd district's seat.
Satirical Influence
Qawar wrote the script of one of the earliest comedy TV soap-operas in Jordan called " The Dairies of Farhan Sa'eed Farhan". He also wrote the script for a popular satirical radio program called "Dar Abu Warrad", or the house of Abu Warrad in mid-1990s, in addition to another program called "Kol Youm Hikya or A story for everyday.[| Translated from the Arabic Article] In 2009, Greater Amman Municipality published Qawar's satirical works in one volume. "Satire for Qawar is not merely aimed to rise laughter, but rather a structure based on a form of the artistic discrepancy," Nabeel Haddad, a Jordanian academic and literary critic said about Qawar's collection.
=Mohammad Tomaliah (1957-2008)=
|The Arabic version
Mohammad Tomaliah (1957-2008), in Arabic, (محمد طملية), a Jordanian writer and Journalist, he was born in Karak, south of Jordan in 1957. He is considered one of Jordan’s leading satirical writers, who achieved a local and Arab fame. He started his career at Ad-Dustor daily in 1983. He also wrote for other dailies and was a member of the Jordanian Writers Association and of the Arab Writers Association.
Tomaliah is the first Jordanian writer to write satirical articles and stories. He created a unique literary genre where he combined literary and journalistic style in writing that is free of flowery language and cliches.
Early Life
Mohammad Abdullah Mustafa Tomaliah was born in Abu Tarraba village in the governorate of Karak, south of Jordan. He was born to family who was originally from Innaba village in the Palestinian city of Al-Ramla. Since childhood, Tomalaih was enchanted by world literature, especially Russian words; he would memorize entire excerpts from Russian novels and reincarnated the characters in these novels.
Education
He earned a BA in Arabic literature from the University of Jordan in 1985.
Career
|translated from the Arabic Wikipedia page Tomaliah worked after graduation for the Jordanian Writers Association as an executive secretary and also a manager for the Phoenix Gallery for Arts and Culture. He also was the editor in chief of Qiff (stop) newspaper and later a columnist who wrote for several Jordanian dailies, including Al-Sha’b, Ad-Dustour, Al Arab Al Yawm (newspaper), Al-Bilad, and Al-Raseef.
He started his literary career by writing a collection of stories titled “Al-Mutahmouson Al-Awghad” or the Scoundrel Enthusiasts in 1986. He later wrote several collections and books most prominent and celebrated among them was IIlayhā bi-ṭabī’at al-ḥāl, nuṣūṣ khādishah lil-ḥiyād al-‘āmm or “To her as a matter of course, texts that breach the public neutrality," published in 2007. He also coauthored a novel with Jordan’s leading cartoonist Emad Hajjaj in 2004 titled Yahduth Le Doun Sa’er Al-Nas or “Happens to me among all people”.
Death
Tomaliah died in 2008 after suffering for four years from cancer. He is celebrated by Mohammad Tomaliah Award for Short Stories.
=Ahmad Hasan Al Zoubi=
Ahmad Hasan Al Zoubi or Al Zu’bi, in Arabic (احمد حسن الزعبي) is a Jordanian columnist, playwright and satirist. He rose to prominence in 2004 after he started to write his weekly column in the state-owned newspaper of Al Ra’i. The column titled “Sawaleif”, in English “parables” became on the most read columns in Jordan as the writer cynically addresses political and social problems.
Al Zoubi was born in 1975 in the Jordanian border town of Ar-Ramtha north of Jordan. He earned a BA in accounting from Jerash Private University in 1998. While at the university, he won several awards on national level for writing short stories.
Career
Al Zoubi worked in sales in a company in the United Arab Emirates. He started his writing career in the Emirati magazine of Ahwal under a satirical column entitled “the other street” from 2000—2003. He also published several articles in Al-Khaleej magazine. He came back to Jordan in 2004 and started writing for Al Ra'i newspaper under a satirical column entitled “Sawaleif”, an Arabic word for parables or short stories.
In 2008, Al Zoubi started his website Sawalief, which publishes his banned articles and the works of Jordanian amateur writers. In 2011 and in the wake of Arab Spring, he wrote the famous play of Al'an Fahimtkum, which he described as a work that 300 million Arabs wrote. In 2012, Al Zoubi started cooperation with Kharabeesh which produces his satirical program of Mon3 fe al-Seen, in Arabic “Banned in China”. Al-Zu'bi has also written for Emarat Al Youm newspaper since 2012.
Published works
* Sawalief (parables) 2006
* Al-Mam’out (The featherless bird) 2008
* Awja’ Watan (The pains of the homeland) 2012
* Solo Bleeding 2012
Plays
The political satirical play Al'an Fahimtkum
=Musa Hijazeen= Musa Hijazeen, in Arabic (موسى حجازين), a Jordanian actor, was born in 1956 in the village of Smakia in Karak, south of Jordan. He studied music in Egypt at Helwan University.
Career
Upon graduation, Hijazeen taught music at the National Orthodox School in Jordan. He became popular when he acted in the famous Jordanian soap opera Haret Abu Awaad in 1981. He also co-starred other soap operas and rose to prominence as Jordan’s leading comedian in the 1990s. Hijazeen also co-starred several plays in 1990s and 2000s including: Shi Ghad (go away), Zaman Al-Shaghlabah( the era when everything is upside down), Hi Muwatin (Hello citizen), Hi American and Ila Mann Yahimuh Al-Amr (To whom it may concern).
Hijazeen is famous among Jordanians for his role in the play Al’an Fahimtkum “Now I understand”, performed in 2011 and 2012.
Hijazeen is also a member in Fuheis Folklore Band. He also plays Oud and has a beautiful voice. Hijazeen is married and had a daughter and two boys.
Membership
Hijazeen is a member in the Jordanian Artists Association and was a member in Fuheis Band for Folklore.
=Nabil Sawalha=
Nabil Sawalha was born near the city of Madaba, east of Amman in 1941(?). His family, especially his mother, encouraged him and his brother Nadim Sawalha, a well-Known British actor, to pursue a career in acting, which was not a normal career path in Jordan at the time. Sawalha began his theater career by acting in BBC radio plays in 1950s while studying engineering in the UK. In 1962, he returned to Jordan and joined the Jordanian National Theatre Group. In 1968, Sawalha formed his own production company, Urdon Co., and began producing series for local and regional Arab networks, such as “Tamara”.
Career
Sawalha’s major breakthrough came in 1980 with his own television series, “Beinee wa Beinak” (Between me and you). In 1990, Sawalha met Hisham Yanis, a former colleague from the Jordanian National Theatre Group, who returned to Jordan from Kuwait and the two were urged to collaborate. The duo was formed in an era of democratization and liberalization in the Kingdom, allowing them to push boundaries beyond previous limits, Sawalha noted. Their first television program, “Ahlan Nabil and Hisham”, was aired in the winter of 1991, and the pair began the annual tradition of launching a new play every Ramadan.
In 1992, the pair staged their most daring play: “Hello Arab Summits", in which all contemporary Arab leaders were lampooned in the wide-ranging piece, which covered periods between 1964 and the 1991 Gulf War.
Another turning point in Jordan’s history became yet another milestone in Sawalha’s career when the Kingdom signed the 1994 Wadi Araba Peace Treaty. That year the comedy duo (Nabeel &Hisham) came out with “Peace oh Peace,” a play satirizing wars in the region. In 1995, they performed in Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories. The tour prompted a short-lived blacklisting of the duo theatrical performances in Jordan and stirred criticism from the Jordanian Anti-Normalization Committee.
In 1997, after six years with seven successful plays and several television series, Sawalha went back to England for four years, during which he produced two plays focusing on Arab in UK: “Hello Arabs of London" and "Divided Hearts," before returning to Amman in 2001. After 2001, Sawalha made few appearances on MBC pan-Arab TV. He also cooperated with Kharabeesh, which produced for him several stand-up comedy video clips. In November 2014, Sawalha started a YouTube channel named 5alek Ejabi (Be Positive), a platform for motivational and inspirational talks that hosts successful young men and women.
Awards
Sawalha’s work is recognized by the World Health Organization for contributions to its anti-smoking campaign.
* 1) The Medal of Independence 1st class from King Hussein for achievements in the arts.
* 2) Pioneer Shield from the Artists' Association of Jordan.
* 3) Shields and Certificates of Appreciation from local and international institutions, for spreading tolerance and inter-cultural understanding.
=Hisham Yanes= |translated from the Arabic article on wikipedia
Hisham Yanes is Jordanian comedian. He graduated from law school in Cairo University.
Career
Yanes started his acting career early 1980s when he presented the famous show of Layali Amman (Amman Nights), where he imitated hundreds of personalities in a satirical style. Later in early 1990s, he and Nabil Sawalha co-authored and starred a number of satirical political plays on the stage of the Rainbow Theater in Jabal Amman, later joined by Amal Al-Dabbas.
Yanes is famous among Jordanians for impersonating famous Arab and international politicians, including the late King Hussein, who attended one of Yanes’s plays. . Yanes also co-starred the play Ahlan Huquq Insan Arabi (Welcome Human Rights for Arab Citizens). In 2007, he suffered from a stroke and retired from performing.
Works
Najati (Najati’s series)
Harmo (his wife)
Nouqta (period)
Satir Jadid(new line)
Awards
Al-Hussein Medal of 2nd class from King Abdullah II on 25/5/2013. =Roya TV= "|translated from the Arabic Wikipedia page''
Roya TV is private Jordanian TV station, it was launched on January 1st 2011. It is part of Al-Sayegh Group, a Dubai-based media group. Roya announced its vision as being an institution that is based on establishing a quality media platform with modern content that lives up to the expectations of Arab audience in the 21st century. The station broadcasts a wide range of programs, including news, talk shows, documentaries and entertainment shows. Shows: Roya TV achieved a breakthrough in the Jordanian media industry by introducing diverse and modern media content. Throughout the last three years, the channel broadcasted in addition to news, sports and soap operas a number of satirical and comedy shows that shed light on social and political issues, in Jordan and the Arab World. Haki or a7aki Jarayed is one of the most prominent shows that Roya’ produced and aired for two years, 2012-2014.
=The Play Al’an Fahimtkum=
The play derives its name from the famous phrase of the Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, when he announced to the Tunisian people in 2011 that he finally understood them (Al’an Fahimtkum), before he was deposed in January 2011. The play was written by the Jordanian satirist and columnist, Ahmad Hassan Al Zoubi in 2011. The prominent Jordanian actor, Musa Hijazeen, played the main character in the play, Abu Saqer. He is the head of a Jordanian family of modern means and works as a driver for the government.
Plot
Abu Saqer is a controlling father whose children, in the wake of Arab spring, decide to unite ranks and demand that he give them more freedoms. When their mother joined them, Abu Saqer decided to give concessions, including financial allowances. In the play, Abu Saqer’s brother returns to Jordan after living for 30 years in Canada. Not aware of the Jordanian domestic affairs, he asks his brother, Abu Saqer, to explain to him the situation. Abu Saqer explains how things work in Jordan by satirically alluding to array of controversial issues of interest to all Jordanians, mainly the frequent cabinet re-shuffles (Jordan is famous for the frequent change of cabinets), political parties and national unity.
Political Significance
The play addresses several local political issues, mainly privatization and corruption. One of the powerful messages that resonated among Jordanians after the play was the phrase: “They sold it”, this phrase was repeated throughout the play in reference to the wide-scale privatization of the public institutions. After Jordanians watched the play on Roya TV, they constantly repeat it whenever the topic of privatization is being discussed.
Al Zoubi gives a voice to critics of the government who last year took to the streets demanding an end to political corruption and calling for deep reforms. The play can be seen as a result of the movements' in the Arab streets. On that Al Zoubi said that the play was written by 300 million Arabs.
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Saturday, 18 April 2009
Python variable binding semantics, part 2
Time for me to follow up my previous blog post and explain the code snippets.
Snippet 1
funcs = []
for x in (1, 2, 3):
funcs.append(lambda: x)
for f in funcs:
print f()
Although you might expect this Python code snippet to print "1 2 3", it actually prints "3 3 3". The reason for this is that the same mutable variable binding for x is used across all iterations of the loop. The for loop does not create new variable bindings.
The function closures that are created inside the loop do not capture the value of x; they capture the cell object that x is bound to under the hood (or the globals dictionary if this code snippet is run at the top level), and each iteration mutates the same cell object.
Interestingly, Python does not restrict the target of the for loop to be a variable or tuple of variables. It can be any lvalue expression that can appear on the left hand side of an assignment, including indexing expressions. For example:
x = [10, 20]
for x[0] in (1,2,3):
pass
print x # Prints [3, 20]
Snippet 2
This problem is Python's variable binding semantics is not specific to lambdas and also occurs if you use def.
funcs = []
for x in (1, 2, 3):
def myfunc():
return x
funcs.append(myfunc)
for f in funcs:
print f()
This also prints "3 3 3".
Snippet 3
The remaining snippets are examples of ways to work around this problem. They print the desired "1 2 3".
One way is to use default arguments:
funcs = []
for x in (1, 2, 3):
funcs.append(lambda x=x: x)
for f in funcs:
print f()
This is actually the trick that was used to get the effect of lexical scoping before lexical scoping was added to Python.
The default argument captures the value of x at the point where the function closure is created, and this value gets rebound to x when the function is called.
Although it is concise, I'm not too keen on this workaround. It is an abuse of default arguments. There is a risk that you accidentally pass too many arguments to the function and thereby override the captured value of x.
Snippet 4
funcs = []
for x in (1, 2, 3):
def g(x):
funcs.append(lambda: x)
g(x)
for f in funcs:
print f()
This is quite an ugly workaround, but it's perhaps the most general one. The loop body is wrapped in a function. The x inside function g and the x outside are statically different variable bindings. A new mutable binding of x is created on every call to g, but this binding is never modified.
Snippets 5 and 6
The remaining two snippets are attempts to make the code less ugly, by giving names to the intermediate functions that are introduced to rebind x and thereby give the desired behaviour.
funcs = []
def append_a_func(x):
funcs.append(lambda: x)
for x in (1, 2, 3):
append_a_func(x)
for f in funcs:
print f()
def make_func(x):
return lambda: x
funcs = []
for x in (1, 2, 3):
funcs.append(make_func(x))
for f in funcs:
print f()
I suppose there is a downside to de-uglifying the code. If the code looks too normal, there's a risk that someone will refactor it to the incorrect version without testing that it works properly when looping over lists containing multiple items.
Can the language be fixed?
The root cause is that Python does away with explicit variable binding declarations. If a variable is assigned within a function -- including being assigned as the target of a for loop -- it becomes local to the function, but variables are never local to smaller statement blocks such as a loop body. Python doesn't have block scoping. There are a couple of naive ways in which you might try to fix the language so that the code does what you would expect, both of which have problems. We could change the semantics of function closure creation so that closures take a snapshot of variables' values. But this would break mutually recursive function definitions, and cases where functions are referred to before they are defined, such as:
def f(): # This "def" would raise an UnboundLocalError or a NameError
g()
def g():
pass
We could change the semantics of for loops so that the target variable is given a variable binding that is local to the loop body. But this wouldn't change the status of variable bindings created by assignment, so this code would still have the unwanted behaviour:
for x in (1, 2, 3):
y = x
funcs.append(lambda: y)
Linting
It should be possible to create a lint tool to detect this hazard. It could look for closures that capture variables that are assigned by or in loops. I wonder how many false positives it would give on a typical codebase.
Javascript
Javascript suffers from the same problem:
funcs = [];
for(var x = 0; x < 3; x++) {
funcs.push(function() { return x; })
}
for(var i = 0; i < funcs.length; i++) {
print(funcs[i]());
}
This code prints "3 3 3" when run using rhino.
In Javascript's case the affliction is entirely gratuitous. It happens because var declarations are implicitly hoisted up to the top of the function, for no apparent reason. It is gratuitous because this is not the result of a trade-off.
The good news, though, is that the problem is recognised and a fix to Javascript is planned. I think the plan is for Ecmascript 3.1 to introduce a let declaration as an alternative to var without the hoisting behaviour.
List comprehensions
Back to Python. The same problem also applies to list comprehensions and generator expressions.
funcs = [(lambda: x) for x in (1, 2, 3)]
for f in funcs:
print f()
funcs = list((lambda: x) for x in (1, 2, 3))
for f in funcs:
print f()
These both print "3 3 3".
(Note that I added brackets around the lambdas for clarity but the syntax does not require them.)
This is forgivable for list comprehensions, at least in Python 2.x, because the assignment to x escapes into the surrounding function. (See my earlier post.)
But for generators (and for list comprehensions in Python 3.0), the scope of x is limited to the comprehension. Semantically, it would be easy to limit the scope of x to within a loop iteration, so that each iteration introduces a new variable binding.
5 comments:
Anonymous said...
You just need more lambdas.
funcs.append( (lambda y: lambda: y)(x) )
Michael Foord said...
You're still moaning about this. Good God man. ;-)
Like the solution with the double lambda - that should cause a few head scratches.
Mark Seaborn said...
There is a slide in the Caja folks' presentation on EcmaScript 5 which illustrates this problem in Javascript:
"static scoping isn’t lexical scoping".
Luis said...
Excellent post, thank you! I encountered this very problem when populating a Qt QMenu with dynamic actions. Attempting to connect each action triggered signal to the same function but passing different arguments, always resulted in all actions executing the correct slot, but with exactly the same value all the time. The pattern was the same as your examples:
for name in names:
action = self.ui.menu.addAction( name )
action.triggered.connect( lambda: self.actionTrigeered( action ) )
I like the approach of having a def inside the for loop that simply returns a lambda using the same syntax as above to workaround the issue.
Anonymous said...
This gotcha is also shared with Lisp. Same workarounds as well (i.e. defining a function or a let form to establish new binding per iteration.). Any language that supports closure and comes without implicit loop scope is likely to have this gotcha.
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User:Birterunde/Eyde Cluster
Eyde Cluster is a Norwegian cluster/network for the process industry. The Eyde Cluster is the Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE) for Sustainable Process Industry, working for the transition towards a sustainable future. It was founded in 2007 as an ideal organization. The members range from multinational companies delivering high quality materials to a global marked, to regional suppliers, research organizations and education institutes.
The cluster is actively developing the position as an industry with materials made from renewable energy, and with the lowest environmental footprint, to ensure competitiveness in a world that require sustainability, as provided in the Paris Agreement.
The headquarter is in Arendal and Kristiansand, in the southern part of Norway.
Eyde Cluster participate with group members in Process21, the Norwegian governmental expert group for The Norwegian process industry. The aim is to reduce emissions and lowering the energy used in production, and on the same time build a sustainable and growing industry.
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Bent Over Barbell Row
Main muscle: Middle Back
Other muscles: Biceps, Shoulders, Lats
Equipment: barbell
Mechanics type: compound
Fitness level: beginner
Category: Increase strength
1. Holding a barbell with a pronated grip (palms facing down), bend your knees slightly and bring your torso forward, by bending at the waist, while keeping the back straight until it is almost parallel to the floor. Tip: Make sure that you keep the head up. The barbell should hang directly in front of you as your arms hang perpendicular to the floor and your torso. This is your starting position.
2. Now, while keeping the torso stationary, breathe out and lift the barbell to you. Keep the elbows close to the body and only use the forearms to hold the weight. At the top contracted position, squeeze the back muscles and hold for a brief pause.
3. Then inhale and slowly lower the barbell back to the starting position.
4. Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.
Caution: This exercise is not recommended for people with back problems. A Low Pulley Row is a better choice for people with back issues.
Also, just like with the bent knee dead-lift, if you have a healthy back, ensure perfect form and never slouch the back forward as this can cause back injury.
Be cautious as well with the weight used; in case of doubt, use less weight rather than more.
Variations: You can perform the same exercise using a supinated (palms facing you) grip.
Source: bodybuilding.com
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Square’s Tax Business Could Be Big
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Since reaching about $45 in March, Square (NYSE:SQ) has been on a huge bull run. Note that Square stock closed on Friday at $235, while its market capitalization is $106 billion.
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Now the Covid-19 pandemic did have an averse impact on the company’s POS (Point-of-Service) business as restaurants and retailers came under pressure. But this has been more than offset by other growth drivers, such as its Cash App. The fact is that Square has built a diverse and innovative platform. The company has also quite adeptly adjusted to market conditions.
In its latest reported quarter, Square stated that its sales soared 140% year-over-year to $1.27 billion and its earnings per share, excluding certain items, jumped 36% YOY to 25 cents per share. As for the Cash App, its gross profit soared 212%. The company’s overseas business also grew rapidly.
But the company’s decision to enter the online-tax preparation business did not get as much attention as it should have. And that business could be a nice, long-term, positive catalyst for Square stock.
Let’s see why that’s the case.
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Tax Opportunity
In late November, Square agreed to pay $50 million for Credit Karma’s tax business. The deal was primarily driven by antitrust concerns in the wake of Intuit’s (NASDAQ:INTU) acquisition of Credit Karma. Of course, Intuit is the owner of the mega tax-preparation platform, TurboTax.
Credit Karma’s tax business is relatively small, as more than two million people have filed their taxes with the system. But reviewers have been upbeat about its ease-of-use. On Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes appstore, the Credit Karma app has an impressive rating of 4.9.
As for Square, it is likely to distribute the service much more widely. And that will be done via the Cash App, which has more than 30 million monthly active customers.
True, the tax service is likely to be provided for free. But that is fine. After all, it is likely to attract many new users to Square’s other services, including its payments and debit cards.
But Square could offer premium versions of the tax service for business users, who have more sophisticated requirements. There could also be special versions for investors, those in the real estate business and so on. These offerings would provide Square with recurring revenues.
In the U.S., the market opportunity for online tax preparation is massive. Keep in mind that about 80 million taxpayers use electronic systems.
To put things into perspective, TurboTax is a massive business for Intuit. The product generates annual revenue of over $3 billion, and about 43 million customers use it.
The Bottom Line on Square Stock
When it comes to Square, there are certainly risks. First of all, the company’s competition is getting more intense. Square not only has to fend off up-and-coming fintech startups, but also old-line operators like PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL). Even traditional banks – like Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) — offer better platforms.
And Square stock is far from cheap. Consider that the shares are trading at about 350 times the company’s earnings!
But despite all that, Square is still in a strong position. There is a non-cyclical, global trend towards digital payments, whose value is estimated at a staggering $100 trillion. And the Cash App is one of the best tools on the market. Further, Square is also adding new businesses, such as tax preparation, to the platform. These businesses could nicely boost the company’s growth in coming years.
On the date of publication, Tom Taulli did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article.
Tom Taulli (@ttaulli) is the author of various books on investing and technology, including Artificial Intelligence Basics, High-Profit IPO Strategies and All About Short Selling. He is also the author of courses on topics like the Python language and COBOL.
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Bryce L. West, Baron of Wells (born 1 September, 1963)
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Hadyn Evans
Hadyn Paul "Teddy" Evans (born 15 October 1962) is a Norfolk Island businessman, actor and local government politician. He is also an international lawn bowler.
Biography
Evans was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, as an "eighth-generation descendant of the Bounty mutineers". He was educated at the Norfolk Island Central School. Evans runs a boutique piggery and market garden in Anson Bay. He took up acting relatively late in life and has appeared in a number of theatre productions both on the island and in mainland Australia. In March 2013, Evans was elected to the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate. He remained a member until the assembly's abolition in June 2015.
Lawn bowls
Evans is a lawn bowls player, and was selected as part of the Norfolk Island team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. He won a bronze medal in the Triples with Phillip Jones and Ryan Dixon. He was also given the honour of being the Norfolk Island flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
In 2020, he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, he competed in the men's triples and the men's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent the Norfolk Islands at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He participated in the men's triples and the men's fours events.
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2011 A Lyga
The 2011 A Lyga was the 22nd season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 12 March 2011 and ended on 6 November 2011. Ekranas were the defending champions, having won their third consecutive title at the end of the 2010 season.
Teams
The league will see a change in the number of teams once again as twelve teams were granted a licence for 2011, one more than in the 2010 season.
FK Vėtra were expelled over financial troubles after 16 matches of the 2010 season; their records were annulled and the team was subsequently disbanded. From the remaining ten clubs, Atletas Kaunas, who finished in last place at the end of the season, were the only team not to apply for a 2011 top-level licence. Atletas therefore played at the second level in 2011.
Three new teams were admitted to the league, unbeaten 2010 I Lyga champions FBK Kaunas, seventh-placed team Atlantas Klaipėda and Dainava Alytus, a merger between I Lyga runners-up Alytis Alytus and third-placed city rivals Vidzgiris. FBK Kaunas and Atlantas made their return after two seasons in the lower divisions of the Lithuanian league system, while Dainava had their debut in the A Lyga, as neither of its predecessor clubs played at the Lithuanian top level in its history.
Results
Teams played each other three times, either twice at home and once away or vice versa, for a total of 33 matches per team.
Top goalscorers
Including matches played on 6 November 2011; Source: Lietuvos futbolo statistika
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Hypercorrection for the insertion of the prothetic vowel /i/ (later /ẹ/) before the extrasyllabic /s/.
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Interactions of proteins with ganglioside-enriched microdomains on the membrane: The lateral phase separation of molecular species of GD1a ganglioside, having homogeneous long-chain base composition, is recognized by Vibrio cholerae sialidase
M. Masserini, P. Palestini, B. Venerando, A. Fiorilli, D. Acquotti, G. Tettamanti
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The thermotropic behavior (studied by high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry) and susceptibility to Vibrio cholerae sialidase hydrolysis of large unilamellar vesicles of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine, containing native GD1a ganglioside or the molecular species of GD1a containing C18:1 or C20:1 long-chain base (C18:1 GD1a; C20:1 GD1a), were studied. Vesicles containing ganglioside (10% in molar terms) showed the presence in the heat capacity function of a second minor peak besides the phospholipid main transition peak. The presence of a second peak is much more evident with C20:1 GD1a than with C18:1 GD1a, the difference being potentiated by Ca2+ and indicating a different tendency of the GD1a molecular species to undergo lateral phase separation. The scans of vesicles containing native GD1a showed the features of those obtained with C18:1 GD1a and C20:1 GD1a, indicating that the main components of native GD1a, C18:1 GD1a and C20:1 GD1a, maintain their individual aggregative properties. V. cholerae sialidase affects vesicle-bound GD1a at a much higher rate (17-25-fold) than it does micellar GD1a, the activation by Ca2+ being 3- and 2-fold, respectively. The Vmax values were identical on C18:1 GD1a and C20:1 GD1a in micellar dispersions, whereas they were markedly higher (from 20 to 50%) on C18:1 GD1a than on C20:1 GD1a in vesicular dispersions. Exhaustive sialidase hydrolysis of vesicles carrying native GD1a produced C18:1 GM1 and C20:1 GM1 in the same proportion as the C18:1 and C20:1 species present in native GD1a (53.9% and 46.1%). Conversely, sialidase treatment producing about 10% of GD1a hydrolysis gave origin to C18:1 GM1 and C20:1 GM1 in the proportions of 65-69% and 31-35%, indicating the preference by the enzyme to affect C18:1 GD1a. These data show that V. cholerae sialidase is able to recognize GD1a molecules with different long-chain base moieties on the basis of their tendency to undergo lateral phase separation on the membrane, realizing higher Vmax values of the substrate molecules more dispersed on the surface.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7973-7978
Number of pages6
JournalBiochemistry
Volume27
Issue number20
Publication statusPublished - 1988
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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concourse development
I cant find any information on the forthcoming plans to redevelop the concourse with in the station, which involves expanding M&S, removing whsmiths and placing it at the front of the station. The southern offices moving into the new development by the car park and thus the second floor area opening up to shopssailor iain 11:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
* I've rewritten the section about the concourse and its redevelopment. However, I now have other concerns and questions.
* Due to the hilly nature of the station area, I think terms like "second floor" and so on can cause confusion. Hence could we agree on a standard terminology for the different levels? I suggest "track level" a.k.a. "level 0" to denote the current concourse's floor, "level -1" for where the old gents's toilets were, level 1 for the floor above the current ticket office. This sort of terminology is quite common for stations on multiple levels. What do people think?
* Also, am I to understand there will be an additional concourse on the floor above the current concourse (my "level 1" defined above)? I'm quite confused by the term "second floor". Where will the bar be?
* Who's funding the redevelopment? Network Rail?
* Oh, and all this stuff is unreferenced, and original research. Can someone supply some references, such as planning applications or something?--A bit iffy (talk) 09:04, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
History
I've added a brief history section. Most of the relevant references are provided in the linked articles (Brighton railway works and New England Quarter), both of which go into considerably more detail so I've not copied across non-specific references to this article. – Kieran T (' talk ') 16:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Facilities
Is it really necessary to list the Facilities? Roundtheworld (talk) 18:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Former operators
I'm sure one of South East Trains or Southeastern or Connex South East or something like that was one of the former operators, but it's not listed. I remember there were trains along the East Coastway route from Brighton, but I can't find a suitable ref. Can anyone else remember/help?--A bit iffy (talk) 15:17, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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Alessandro Minelli (footballer, born 1999)
Alessandro Minelli (born 23 July 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Pro Patria on loan from Juventus.
Early career
He started his senior career in Serie D with Olginatese in the 2015–16 season. For the next two seasons he played for the Under-19 squads of Inter Milan and Pescara.
Rende
On 19 July 2018, he signed his first professional contract with Serie C club Rende for a two-year term. He made his Serie C debut for Rende on 16 September 2018 in a game against Paganese, as a starter.
Loan to Rende
On 30 January 2019, he signed a 4.5-year contract with Parma and was loaned back to Rende until the end of the 2018–19 season.
Loan to Trapani
On 2 September 2019, he joined Serie B club Trapani on loan.
Juventus
On 31 January 2020, Parma terminated his loan to Trapani early and sold his rights to Juventus.
Loans
On 4 September 2020, he joined Bari on loan with an option to purchase.
On 6 August 2021, he joined Cosenza on loan.
On 21 January 2022, he moved on a new loan to Pro Vercelli in Serie C.
On 1 September 2022, Minelli was loaned by Virtus Francavilla.
Club
Juventus U23
* Coppa Italia Serie C: 2019–20
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Admitted 29 October, 1602.
On the Register the entry is simply "Henry, Lord Mordaunt." He was the son of Lewis Mordaunt, third Baron, whose Arms are in the Hall, the grandfather of the celebrated Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough {d. 1697). He was summoned to Parliament in 1601, but in 1604 was committed to the Tower on suspicion of implication in the Gunpowder Plot. He died in 1608
Admitted 3 July, 1503.
Son of Sir John Mordaunt of Turvey, who was probably a member of the Inn, as this John is entered as "John Mordaunt, junior." He was a courtier of Henry VIII., who knighted him in 1520, and he attended Henry at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1526 he was made a Privy Councillor and in 1530 took part in the inquisition into the property of Cardinal Wolsey. In 1532 he was made a Baron and in the following year assisted at the reception of Anne Boleyn and subsequently took part in her trial. He lived through the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, and died 1562.
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There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader in 1553. He belonged to a family settled at Kingsthorpe, Northants, where he was born. He was made Serjeant-at-Law in 1555 and a justice of the Queen's Bench in 1558. He survived his appointment but seven months, dying the same year.
Admitted 20 June, 1744.
Second son of Charles Morgan of Kilcolgan, Galway. He was the author of several plays which, though of no particular merit, were placed on the stage and had some success, through the influence of the actor Spranger Barry, a friend of the author. The chief of these were Philoclea, a Tragedy, taken from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and Florizel and Perdita, from the Winters Tale. Morgan is credited also with several poems of a satirical nature. He died in 1762.
Admitted 17 August, 1833.
Second son of George Morley of St. Michael's Place, Brompton. He was called to the Bar 12 Jan. 1838. He first distinguished himself by his study of Eastern manuscripts, a catalogue of which he published in 1854 for the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was a trustee and for some time librarian. In 1848 he edited for the Society of Oriental Texts, The History of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia. In the legal world he is best known by his Digest of Cases decided in the Supreme Courts of India (1849-50). He died in London 21 May, 1860.
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Martin's Point Bridge
Martin's Point Bridge spans the Presumpscot River in Maine, United States, near the river’s mouth with Casco Bay. It connects Falmouth Foreside, at Mackworth Point, in the north, to the East Deering neighborhood of Portland, at Martin's Point, in the south. 1300 ft in length, it carries vehicular and pedestrian traffic of U.S. Route 1. The bridge is two lanes, including a bicycle lane in each, with a pedestrian lane on the eastern side. A similar plan for the western side of the bridge was abandoned.
The bridge passes around 0.5 mi to the west of Mackworth Island and around 0.6 mi east of Interstate 295 on the banks of the river. Route 1 joins I-295 a short distance to the south at the Veranda Street interchange.
The first bridge was erected in 1828. Today's bridge, completed in 2014, is the fifth iteration, replacing one that was built in 1943.
As of 2015, the bridge carries around 15,000 vehicles each day. It is part of the 3,000-mile long East Coast Greenway connecting Maine and Florida.
History
In 1807, Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell and others petitioned for a bridge to provide a crossing of the Presumpscot River at its mouth with Casco Bay. Due to the War of 1812, plans for the bridge were put on hold.
In 1828, the Proprietors of the Martin's Point Bridge committee built the bridge, originally in toll form.
The bridge was destroyed by drifting ice in 1861. Five years later, John Williams and almost two thousand other people petitioned that the bridge be rebuilt, as a toll-free crossing, at the expense of Cumberland County. The motion was authorized, and in 1868 a new, 2,050-foot-long bridge was completed. This bridge also carried the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway between 1898 and 1933.
The bridge was a drawbridge in the 20th century.
The Smelt Hill Dam, the first upriver dam from the bridge, was demolished in 2002. The process revealed the Presumpscot Falls for the first time in several hundred years.
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The Next 100 Years
Over the next 100 years, however, the Bishops of Ely allowed Ely Place to deteriorate. The gardens were unkempt with rabbits running wild and the medieval palace was a palace no longer. Plans for utilising the site, including a debtors’ prison and a distillery, all foundered.
An Act of Parliament in 1772 enabled the Bishop to sell the property to the Crown. The Crown in turn sold the freehold site to a Mr Charles Cole, architect and surveyor. He demolished every building but the Chapel and on the vacant ground in 1775 built the present Ely Place.
He kept the Chapel to serve as a place of Anglican worship for the residents of the neat terraces of Georgian houses he had built. The Chapel he modernised, to bring it into line with Georgian taste. The corner turrets at the East end were removed and two Gothic entrance doors were made under the great East window. These were approached from the street by a central stone stairway with iron rails. He also put up wooden screens to form passages inside the Church and he concealed the magnificent original timber roof by hanging from it a heavy plaster ceiling. It was said the fact that the roof didn’t collapse was a tribute to the ancient joiners’ craft and to Divine Providence as well. A large central pulpit and box pews were introduced, but the modernised Chapel attracted few worshippers and in 1820 it passed into the hands of the National Society for the Education of the Poor, who were trying to win over the Irish who were settling in the area.
A gallery was built on each side of the church for the poor, to separate them from the well-to-do residents of Ely Place. It was hoped that these would continue to pay rents for their pews on the floor of the church, but the attempt to combine charity and profit was a failure and the church was closed.
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What regulates hormone release?
What regulates hormone release?
The anterior pituitary in turn releases hormones that regulate hormone production by other endocrine glands.
How does the endocrine system regulate hormones?
Your endocrine system continuously monitors the amount of hormones in your blood. Hormones deliver their messages by locking into the cells they target so they can relay the message. The pituitary gland senses when your hormone levels rise, and tells other glands to stop producing and releasing hormones.
What is endocrine regulation in the skeletal system?
When applied to skeletal biology the concept of feedback regulation suggests that bone cells may exert an endocrine function. Bone remodeling, the process whereby bones renew themselves, is regulated by multiple hormones.
How are the activities of the endocrine system regulated?
During hormone regulation, hormones are released, either directly by an endocrine gland or indirectly through the action of the hypothalamus of the brain, which stimulates other endocrine glands to release hormones in order to maintain homeostasis.
How are most hormones regulated?
Most hormones are regulated by feedback mechanisms. A feedback mechanism is a loop in which a product feeds back to control its own production. Most hormone feedback mechanisms involve negative feedback loops. Negative feedback keeps the concentration of a hormone within a narrow range.
How does the endocrine system work with the skeletal system to maintain homeostasis?
The glands of the endocrine system secrete hormones into the bloodstream to maintain homeostasis and regulate metabolism. The hypothalamus and the pituitary gland are the command and control centers, directing hormones to other glands and throughout the body.
What is the main responsibility of the endocrine system?
The endocrine system, made up of all the body’s different hormones, regulates all biological processes in the body from conception through adulthood and into old age, including the development of the brain and nervous system, the growth and function of the reproductive system, as well as the metabolism and blood sugar …
What are the 3 main functions of the endocrine system controls?
Below are the 3 vital functions of your endocrine system.
• Makes Hormones for Mood, Development, and Growth. Many different vital hormones are created and controlled within the endocrine system.
• Sends Hormones into Your Bloodstream.
• Regulates the Release of Hormones.
What do hormones regulate and control?
Hormones are found in all organisms with more than one cell, and so they are found in plants and animals. They influence or control a wide range of physiological activities such as growth, development, puberty, regulating sugar levels, bone growth and appetite.
What is an example of the endocrine system maintaining homeostasis?
The control and maintenance of blood sugar levels is an example of homeostatic regulation by the endocrine system. Blood sugar is maintained by two hormones secreted by the pancreas: insulin and glucagon.
How does the endocrine system return to homeostasis?
The endocrine system consists of ductless glands that secrete hormones into the blood stream. These hormones drive the homeostatic feedback loops that keep the body healthy and in equilibrium. The endocrine system is intimately integrated into physiological processes in order for it to carry out its functions.
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Improve CommandExecutor to execute and test the exit code
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• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.12
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: API
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Description
Currently, CommandExecutor.execute() returns the exit code of the executed command.
However, there are many cases in which we expect an internal tool to exit with a given (and possibly set of) exit codes.
CommandExecutor should provide a way, out of the box, to both execute and test the exit code, instead of leaving that logic to its callers.
One option is to add a method such as:
executeAndExpect(command, int acceptableCodes...)
Anoter option is to use a property of a Command, but this might prevent the use case of several executions of the same Command expecting different exit codes across multiple executions.
In order to make it possible to more easily reuse the CommandException class, it should provide a constructor which does not take an inner exception as argument. The current workaround is to pass null as the inner exception argument.
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JavaScript Location port Tutorial
In this section, we will learn what the location port number is and how to use it in JavaScript.
What is port?
In short, port is a number!
You see, computers have a number assigned to them when they connect to the internet (This happens all the time behind the scene without us knowing!). This is known as the IP (Internet Protocol) and each computer gets its own unique IP.
Now computers can communicate with each other on the internet and this is happening because of this IP number!
For example, when you open the Google homepage, your browser basically finds the address (IP) of the Google and sends a request to that IP (Hence the computer that owns the IP which is known as a server) to get a file that we know it as the home page of Google.
Now, on a computer, there might be multiple applications that need to send a request to another computer (server) over the internet! For example, if you have an anti-virus, Internet browser, a chat application like Skype or Facebook etc. all of these applications behind the scene are constantly connecting to the internet!
Now if you think about it, there is one computer (For example, yours) and multiple applications running in that computer! When a request reached to your computer, how can the computer know which application the received data belongs to?
This is where the port numbers come in!
In your computer, each application that wants to connect to the internet, it will get a unique number that we call it the port number.
So, a port number basically represents an application! When your computer sends or receives a request over the internet, in the header of that request, there’s a number known as the port.
This number tells the target computer which application the request or response message belongs to! So now, your computer knows to what application it should submit the request or response to.
JavaScript Location port Property
The `port` property is used to set or get the `port` number in the URL of the currently loaded page.
Note: if there’s no port number, the return value will be an empty string.
Location port Property Syntax:
location.port;
Example: window location port
const value = location.port;
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1// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3// found in the LICENSE file.
4
5#include <stdint.h>
6#include <vector>
7
8#include "base/files/file_path.h"
9#include "base/files/file_util.h"
10#include "base/files/scoped_temp_dir.h"
11#include "base/macros.h"
12#include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
13#include "base/strings/string_util.h"
14#include "base/strings/utf_string_conversions.h"
15#include "base/values.h"
16#include "base/version.h"
17#include "chrome/browser/component_updater/cld_component_installer.h"
18#include "components/translate/content/browser/browser_cld_data_provider.h"
19#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"
20#include "testing/platform_test.h"
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22using component_updater::CldComponentInstallerTraits;
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24namespace {
25// This has to match what's in cld_component_installer.cc.
26const base::FilePath::CharType kTestCldDataFileName[] =
27 FILE_PATH_LITERAL("cld2_data.bin");
28
29} // namespace
30
31namespace component_updater {
32
33class CldComponentInstallerTest : public PlatformTest {
34 public:
35 CldComponentInstallerTest() {}
36 virtual void SetUp() OVERRIDE {
37 PlatformTest::SetUp();
38
39 // ScopedTempDir automatically does a recursive delete on the entire
40 // directory in its destructor, so no cleanup is required in TearDown.
41 // Note that all files created by this test case are created within the
42 // directory that is created here, so even though they are not explicitly
43 // created *as temp files*, they will still get cleaned up automagically.
44 ASSERT_TRUE(temp_dir_.CreateUniqueTempDir());
45
46 // The "latest CLD data file" is a static piece of information, and thus
47 // for correctness we empty it before each test.
48 CldComponentInstallerTraits::SetLatestCldDataFile(base::FilePath());
49 base::FilePath path_now =
50 CldComponentInstallerTraits::GetLatestCldDataFile();
51 ASSERT_TRUE(path_now.empty());
52 }
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54 protected:
55 base::ScopedTempDir temp_dir_;
56 CldComponentInstallerTraits traits_;
57
58 private:
59 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CldComponentInstallerTest);
60};
61
62TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, SetLatestCldDataFile) {
63 const base::FilePath expected(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("test/foo.test"));
64 CldComponentInstallerTraits::SetLatestCldDataFile(expected);
65 base::FilePath result =
66 CldComponentInstallerTraits::GetLatestCldDataFile();
67 ASSERT_EQ(expected, result);
68}
69
70TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, VerifyInstallation) {
71 // All files are created within a ScopedTempDir, which deletes all
72 // children when its destructor is called (at the end of each test).
73 ASSERT_FALSE(traits_.VerifyInstallation(temp_dir_.path()));
74 const base::FilePath data_file_dir =
75 temp_dir_.path().Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("_platform_specific")).Append(
76 FILE_PATH_LITERAL("all"));
77 ASSERT_TRUE(base::CreateDirectory(data_file_dir));
78 const base::FilePath data_file = data_file_dir.Append(kTestCldDataFileName);
79 const std::string test_data("fake cld2 data file content here :)");
80 ASSERT_EQ(static_cast<int32>(test_data.length()),
81 base::WriteFile(data_file, test_data.c_str(), test_data.length()));
82 ASSERT_TRUE(traits_.VerifyInstallation(temp_dir_.path()));
83}
84
85TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, OnCustomInstall) {
86 const base::DictionaryValue manifest;
87 const base::FilePath install_dir;
88 // Sanity: shouldn't crash.
89 ASSERT_TRUE(traits_.OnCustomInstall(manifest, install_dir));
90}
91
92TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, GetInstalledPath) {
93 const base::FilePath base_dir;
94 const base::FilePath result =
95 CldComponentInstallerTraits::GetInstalledPath(base_dir);
96 ASSERT_TRUE(EndsWith(result.value(), kTestCldDataFileName, true));
97}
98
99TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, GetBaseDirectory) {
100 const base::FilePath result = traits_.GetBaseDirectory();
101 ASSERT_FALSE(result.empty());
102}
103
104TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, GetHash) {
105 std::vector<uint8_t> hash;
106 traits_.GetHash(&hash);
107 ASSERT_EQ(static_cast<size_t>(32), hash.size());
108}
109
110TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, GetName) {
111 ASSERT_FALSE(traits_.GetName().empty());
112}
113
114TEST_F(CldComponentInstallerTest, ComponentReady) {
115 scoped_ptr<base::DictionaryValue> manifest;
116 const base::FilePath install_dir(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("/foo"));
117 const base::Version version("1.2.3.4");
118 traits_.ComponentReady(version, install_dir, manifest.Pass());
119 base::FilePath result =
120 CldComponentInstallerTraits::GetLatestCldDataFile();
121 ASSERT_TRUE(StartsWith(result.AsUTF16Unsafe(),
122 install_dir.AsUTF16Unsafe(),
123 true));
124 ASSERT_TRUE(EndsWith(result.value(), kTestCldDataFileName, true));
125}
126
127} // namespace component_updater
128
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Truist upgrades Oshkosh saying stock ‘too cheap to ignore’
Investing.com -- Truist upgraded Oshkosh (NYSE:OSK) Corp to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $127 from $93, citing a compelling valuation, strong backlog in the vocational segment, and trough-level defense margins poised to recover.
“Oshkosh is the cheapest name within our Machinery coverage universe,” the firm wrote, pointing to the stock trading at just 8.3x forward earnings and 5.9x EV/EBITDA, about a 40% discount to the broader group. The new price target implies 29% upside and is based on 11x the firm’s revised 2026 EPS estimate of $12.55.
Truist sees Oshkosh’s vocational segment as a key driver, representing 45% of the company’s $14.6 billion backlog and projected to contribute 58% of FY25 profits. Vocational margins have expanded significantly over the past decade, and a fire truck backlog now extends beyond three years.
In the defense segment, Truist believes the worst is over, with margins expected to improve in 2026 as repriced legacy contracts become accretive and Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) production ramps. Oshkosh is targeting 16,000–20,000 NGDV units annually once full-rate production is achieved in late 2025.
Brokerage noted weakness in the Access Equipment (AE) business, which is guiding to a 15% revenue decline in 2025. However, Truist argued that the market is overly bearish, pricing in a scenario with 22% AE sales declines and steep margin compression. Even under that extreme case, the stock would be trading at 15x EPS, versus a typical trough multiple of 20x.
Calling the setup attractive, Truist sees strong earnings visibility, a healthy balance sheet, and upside potential into 2026 across all business segments.
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DSpace Community: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/300 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:49:35 GMT 2014-09-30T11:49:35Z Expression of Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage antigens in Escherichia coli: detection with antibodies from immune humans http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85671 Title: Expression of Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage antigens in Escherichia coli: detection with antibodies from immune humans Author: Kemp, D.J.; Coppel, R.L.; Cowman, A.F.; Saint, R.B.; Brown, G.V.; Anders, R.F. Abstract: Many proteins produced by blood stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are natural immunogens in man. As an approach to determining which of these are relevant to protective immunity we have constructed an expression library of P. falciparum cDNA sequences, cloned in Escherichia coli. The cDNA sequences were inserted into the beta-galactosidase gene of an ampicillin-resistant derivative of the temperature-sensitive lysogenic bacteriophage lambda gt11. About 5% of the resulting clones expressed P. falciparum sequences as polypeptides fused to beta-galactosidase. We have identified many clones that express P. falciparum antigens by immunological screening in situ with antibodies from immune human sera that inhibit P. falciparum growth in vitro. The antigen-positive clones contain P. falciparum cDNA sequences, as determined by hybridization. Some express polypeptides that are larger than beta-galactosidase and react both with antibodies to beta-galactosidase and with antibodies from humans immune to P. falciparum. The cloned P. falciparum antigens should facilitate new approaches to the identification of potential vaccine molecules. Fri, 31 Dec 1982 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85671 1982-12-31T13:30:00Z The signal sequence influences post-translational ER translocation at distinct stages http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85570 Title: The signal sequence influences post-translational ER translocation at distinct stages Author: Johnson, N.; Hassdenteufel, S.; Theis, M.; Paton, A.; Paton, J.; Zimmermann, R.; High, S. Abstract: The metazoan Sec61 translocon transports polypeptides into and across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum via two major routes, a well-established co-translational pathway and a post-translational alternative. We have used two model substrates to explore the elements of a secretory protein precursor that preferentially direct it towards a co- or post-translational pathway for ER translocation. Having first determined the capacity of precursors to enter ER derived microsomes post-translationally, we then exploited semi-permeabilized mammalian cells specifically depleted of key membrane components using siRNA to address their contribution to the membrane translocation process. These studies suggest precursor chain length is a key factor in the post-translational translocation at the mammalian ER, and identify Sec62 and Sec63 as important components acting on this route. This role for Sec62 and Sec63 is independent of the signal sequence that delivers the precursor to the ER. However, the signal sequence can influence the subsequent membrane translocation process, conferring sensitivity to a small molecule inhibitor and dictating reliance on the molecular chaperone BiP. Our data support a model where secretory protein precursors that fail to engage the signal recognition particle, for example because they are short, are delivered to the ER membrane via a distinct route that is dependent upon both Sec62 and Sec63. Although this requirement for Sec62 and Sec63 is unaffected by the specific signal sequence that delivers a precursor to the ER, this region can influence subsequent events, including both Sec61 mediated transport and the importance of BiP for membrane translocation. Taken together, our data suggest that an ER signal sequence can regulate specific aspects of Sec61 mediated membrane translocation at a stage following Sec62/Sec63 dependent ER delivery. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85570 2012-12-31T13:30:00Z William Herdman Elliott 1925-2012 http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85564 Title: William Herdman Elliott 1925-2012 Author: Rogers, G. Abstract: Bill Elliott graduated in Biochemistry at Cambridge and gained his PhD with enzymologist Malcolm Dixon in the Biochemical Laboratories. Following research appointments at Harvard, Oxford and the Australian National University, he became Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide in 1965. He was an outstanding scholar and stimulating teacher who profoundly influenced the lives of students and staff of his Adelaide department. Early in his career he made important contributions to the understanding of enzyme reactions driven by phosphoryl group transfer from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and discovered the glutamine synthetase enzymes in plant and animal tissues that utilize that mechanism. He later worked on mechanisms of enzyme secretion by certain microorganisms, before turning to the biochemical mechanisms of porphyrin synthesis that lead to the formation of haem and thence haemoglobin, research that he pursued for the rest of his academic life. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85564 2012-12-31T13:30:00Z Phosphorylation of serine 779 in fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 and 2 by protein Kinase C(epsilon) regulates Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and neuronal differentiation http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85557 Title: Phosphorylation of serine 779 in fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 and 2 by protein Kinase C(epsilon) regulates Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and neuronal differentiation Author: Lonic, A.; Powell, J.; Kong, Y.; Thomas, D.; Holien, J.; Truong, N.; Parker, M.; Guthridge, M. Abstract: The FGF receptors (FGFRs) control a multitude of cellular processes both during development and in the adult through the initiation of signaling cascades that regulate proliferation, survival, and differentiation. Although FGFR tyrosine phosphorylation and the recruitment of Src homology 2 domain proteins have been widely described, we have previously shown that FGFR is also phosphorylated on Ser779 in response to ligand and binds the 14-3-3 family of phosphoserine/threonine-binding adaptor/scaffold proteins. However, whether this receptor phosphoserine mode of signaling is able to regulate specific signaling pathways and biological responses is unclear. Using PC12 pheochromocytoma cells and primary mouse bone marrow stromal cells as models for growth factor-regulated neuronal differentiation, we show that Ser779 in the cytoplasmic domains of FGFR1 and FGFR2 is required for the sustained activation of Ras and ERK but not for other FGFR phosphotyrosine pathways. The regulation of Ras and ERK signaling by Ser779 was critical not only for neuronal differentiation but also for cell survival under limiting growth factor concentrations. PKCϵ can phosphorylate Ser779 in vitro, whereas overexpression of PKCϵ results in constitutive Ser779 phosphorylation and enhanced PC12 cell differentiation. Furthermore, siRNA knockdown of PKCϵ reduces both growth factor-induced Ser779 phosphorylation and neuronal differentiation. Our findings show that in addition to FGFR tyrosine phosphorylation, the phosphorylation of a conserved serine residue, Ser779, can quantitatively control Ras/MAPK signaling to promote specific cellular responses. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85557 2012-12-31T13:30:00Z
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I'm trying to write a smart contract with JSLigo. This contract has a storage type with a single string field and 2 functions, to update and reset this string:
type storage = {
name: string
};
type parameter =
| ["Update", string]
| ["Reset"];
type return_ = [list <operation>, storage];
let update = ([store, newValue] : [storage, string]) : storage =>
({...store, name: newValue});
let reset = ([store] : [storage]) : storage =>
({...store, name: ""});
let main = ([action, store] : [parameter, storage]) : return_ => {
return [
(list([]) as list <operation>),
(match (action, {
Update: (newValue: string) => update ([store, newValue]),
Reset: () => reset([store])}))
]
};
When I compile it (using https://ide.ligolang.org/), I get :
Error: File "/tmp/tmp-1WcZCXPyP3f4H.jsligo", line 15, characters 22-24:
Invalid record field "name" in record "store".
When I write my functions like this, it's OK:
let update = ([store, newValue] : [storage, string]) : storage => {
let newStorage : storage = {
name: newValue
};
return newStorage;
}
I don't understand what is my mistake with the record and the functional update. Do you see something wrong ?
1 Answer 1
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The problem came from the [store]:[storage] which is accepted but not well managed by the compiler. An issue has been open for this purpose. Anyway if you want your code to compile remove the opening and closing square brackets as illustrated in the following code fragment:
type storage = {
name: string
};
// ...
let reset = (store : storage) : storage =>
({...store, name: ""});
let main = ([action, store] : [parameter, storage]) : return_ => {
return [
(list([]) as list <operation>),
(match (action, {
Update: (newValue: string) => update ([store, newValue]),
Reset: () => reset (store)
}))
]
};
1
• Ok, I see. Thanks for the tip !
– avl
Mar 18, 2022 at 16:14
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The release of Guard v1.1 introduces some changes to the API used for creating guards. These changes were the result of moving a portion of the internal code that was used inside Guard to detect changes in directories into a new gem called Listen.
Upgrading existing guard to Guard v1.1 is a simple process. This guide will walk you through the new changes in the API for creating guards and how to use them to upgrade existing guards. If you are only intrested in a pracitcal example of upgrading a guard, you can skip to the section about upgrading existing guards.
New methods for handling changes
The run_on_change and run_on_deletion methods which were used to handle changes in directories are considered deprecated. Their use is not recommended as they will be removed sometime in the future.
Guard v1.1 provides developers with four new methods for handling changes:
• run_on_additions: This method will be called when files are added to the watched paths. Use this method when you need to run some code for new files only.
• run_on_modifications: This method will be called when either the modification-time (mtime) or the content of a file is changed in the watched paths.
• run_on_removals: This method still does the same thing that run_on_deletions did, namely running some code when files are removed from the watched paths. Its name was changed to keep the API consistent.
• run_on_changes: This method can be used to DRY the other methods mentioned above. Shared code that needs to run on any change should be put inside it. It can also be the only method implemented if the developer wants to run the same thing on all changes. Please note that this method does not do the same thing run_on_change did before; it is called for all methods that are not implemented (including run_on_removals). When overriding any of the other run_on_* methods, make sure to call super inside the overridden method if you want this method to be called before running the overridden method.
Upgrading existing guards to the new API
Consider the following example implementation of a guard written for Guard before version 1.1:
require 'guard'
require 'guard/guard'
module Guard
class MyGuard < Guard
# Implementation of the other methods...
def run_on_change(paths)
# Do something with the changed paths
end
def run_on_deletion(paths)
# Do something with the deleted paths
end
end
end
Although Guard 1.1 gives developers more control over the type of changes they want to handle (read more about it in the section above), converting that guard to the new API of Guard v1.1 while retaining the same functionality could be done in the following way:
require 'guard'
require 'guard/guard'
module Guard
class MyGuard < Guard
# Implementation of the other methods...
def run_on_changes(paths)
# Do something with the changed paths
# Note: This method will be called from `run_on_additions` and `run_on_modifications`
# because they are not implemented.
end
def run_on_removals(paths)
# Do something with the deleted paths
# Note: `super` is not called here, so `run_on_changes` won't be called
# before running this method!
end
end
end
And you are done. Now your guard is ready for Guard v1.1!
Handling Guard failure
It's a good opportunity to check your Guard's failure handling when upgrading your Guard for the 1.1 release. Whenever Guard catches an exception from your Guard, it will be kicked off the list of active Guards. If you want to signal a problem with your task execution and want to stop further processing by other Guards, you have to throw :task_has_failed
def run_all
if !runner.run(['all'])
throw :task_has_failed
end
end
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Antifouling Paint Today
There have been so many changes to the antifouling paint technology and legislation that most people are pretty confused. Everyone became very fixated with the existence of tin in paints and quickly came to the conclusion that tin was the magic component. And now that it has been banned/restricted it seems to have got a special aura, a bit like marijuana which has gained much mystique through being illegal.
My testing shows very clearly that although the tin copper combination of the successful antifoulings of the past years were very good for the Caribbean (Micron 44 , Islands 44, Proline , Sigma HB), the new paints with a new technology are at least as good, even though they lack the mystique, aura, and reputation of the tin paints . The testing also shows that you can only find that out after you have done an effective testing which includes the application of a barrier coat—and if you don’t, you end up with some impressive disasters. I can strongly recommend to use one of the sealer coats if there is any doubt, or to remove the antifouling entirely, which you will have to do one day in any event as old build up is eventually going to chalk and let go from the hull.
The trouble is, of course, that the prices of the good antifoulings have gone up substantially. Some years ago the cheaper products had a relatively good performance given the price and even then, the interest in them was limited. Now their price has gone up, with the substantial increase in copper prices, with the result that they have become even less interesting. This explains why paint companies are experimenting with copper-free antifoulings and other solutions that avoid the high price components—but the Caribbean anti fouling market does not quickly switch from the tried and tested products.
One of the solutions is called “Foul Release Paint.” As distinct from Anti Fouling which carries biocides which prevent adhesion, the “Foul Release” carries no biocides but is dependent on the slipperiness of its surface to shake off the fouling. This type of product does not stop growth…it just allows it to come off easily. For certain types of boats and certain patterns of usage, it makes a great deal of sense. The story goes that the slipperiness of the surface causes greater risks in hauling and travel lift positioning—but I have not heard of any accidents that happened like this.
Robbie Ferron is Group Manager of Budget Marine.
J. Summer Westman spent the last several months interviewing and researching the different companies with Marine Bottom Painting products to offer you a step-by-step independent application guide based upon our research. Please note… Our research is geared towards the Caribbean region which is considered one of the harshest regions for bottom growth.
Participating companies include: Interlux, Sea Hawk and Pettit Paint
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NCAA committee approves unlimited meals, snacks for college athletes – The Denver Post
Trending: INDIANAPOLIS The NCAA's Legislative Council approved a proposal Tuesday to expand the meal allowance for all athletes. The move occurred eight days after Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier complained during the Final Four that he sometimes went to bed starving because he couldn't afford food. The proposal would allow Division I schools to provide unlimited meals and snacks to all athletes, including walk-ons. The measure still must be approved by the board of directors, which meets April 24. I think the end result is right where it needs to be, committee chairwoman and America East assistant commissioner Mary Mulvenna said in a statement released by the governing body. The proposal has been debated for months, but Napier's comments following last week's national championship game brought attention to the topic. Napier was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA tournament, leading Connecticut to its fourth men's title. Schools have been allowed to provide three meals per day or a stipend for those meals to scholarship athletes. The new rule would allow walk-ons to receive the same allowances and would allow schools to provide more meals and snacks, too. The committee also approved a measure that would reduce the penalty for a first positive drug test if the banned substance is determined to be something other than a performance-enhancing drug. Currently, players who fail the test during NCAA tournaments must sit out one full season. The proposal would cut the penalty to half a season. Committee members said they hope the change will encourage schools to provide more rehab services. The NCAA only tests during its championship events, though schools can implement its own drug tests throughout the school year. In other moves, the committee approved: A measure requiring football players to get a three-hour break between preseason practices. Film sessions and team meetings still could be held during the break; require a school staff member who is certified in CPR, first aid and arterial external defibrillation to be present at all physical, countable athletic activities; and require strength and conditioning coaches to be certified by a nationally accredited certification organization. If approved, the proposals, except the one regarding strength and conditioning coaches, would take effect Aug. 1. The committee has recommended giving strength and conditioning coaches until Aug. 1, 2015, to complete their certification.
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Dunbartonshire
Dunbartonshire (Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann) or the County of Dumbarton is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the west central Lowlands of Scotland lying to the north of the River Clyde. Dunbartonshire borders Perthshire to the north, Stirlingshire to the east, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire to the south, and Argyllshire to the west.
The county covered a similar area to the earldom and later duchy of Lennox. The historic county gives its name to two of Scotland's modern council areas, being East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire.
Name
The town name "Dumbarton" comes from the Scottish Gaelic Dùn Breatainn meaning "fort of the Britons". Historically, the spelling of the county town and the county were not standardised. By the 18th century the names "County of Dunbarton" and "County of Dumbarton" were used interchangeably. The n in "Dunbarton" represents the etymology Dùn "fort"; the "m" in "Dumbarton" reflects a pronunciation with assimilation of to the labial, due to the influence of the neighbouring labial sound.
Different county bodies used the two spellings: the Dunbarton County Constabulary were formed in 1857 by the Commissioners of Supply for the County of Dunbarton.
In 1890 elected county councils were established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, which referred to the area as the "County of Dumbarton". However, one of the county council's first acts was to adopt an official seal, for which it chose to use the spelling "Dunbarton", with an "n", as being closer to the name's etymology, despite protests from some residents who maintained that the spelling with an "m" was better established in general usage. The town of Dumbarton continued to use the spelling with an "m". Statutory recognition of the spelling with an "n" being used for the county came with the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 43).
History
Dunbartonshire's origins as a shire (the area administered by a sheriff) are obscure, but it had become a shire by the end of the twelfth century. The shire of Dumbarton was initially similar in area to the earldom of Lennox, covering an area north of the River Clyde and around Loch Lomond. In the thirteenth century an area north-east of Loch Lomond was transferred to Stirlingshire, whilst the two parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld were transferred from Stirlingshire to Dunbartonshire, despite not adjoining the rest of the county. The changes were reversed in 1504, when Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld were restored to Stirlingshire and the area north-east of Loch Lomond came back to Dunbartonshire, but the change was short-lived, being reverted again in 1509.
Commissioners of Supply were established in 1667 to act as the main administrative body for the shire outside the burghs. Elected county councils were established in 1890 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, taking most of the functions of the commissioners (which were eventually abolished in 1930). The burgh of Dumbarton was deemed capable of managing its own affairs and so was excluded from the administrative area of the county council, although the county council still chose to base itself in that town. The county council held its first meeting on 22 May 1890 at the County Buildings (which also served as the sheriff court) on Church Street in Dumbarton. The 1889 act also led to a review of boundaries; in the case of Dunbartonshire the parish of New Kilpatrick had previously straddled Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire, with the town of Milngavie being in the part of the parish in Stirlingshire. The parish was brought entirely within Dunbartonshire on 15 May 1891.
Reforms to local government in 1930 saw the burgh of Dumbarton brought within the administrative area of the county council. The county council was based at the old county buildings at the sheriff court until 1965, when it moved to new County Buildings on Garshake Road in Dumbarton. The new building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, on 28 June 1965 during a royal visit to the area.
Dunbartonshire was abolished for local government purposes in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, becoming part of the large Strathclyde Region. Strathclyde was divided into nineteen districts, with Dunbartonshire being divided between Dumbarton, Bearsden and Milngavie, Clydebank, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and Strathkelvin Districts. The combined area of these five districts continued to be used as a lieutenancy area.
Local government in Scotland was reorganised again in 1996, with the regions and districts abolished and replaced with unitary council areas. Two of the new council areas include Dunbartonshire in their name. Since 1996 the area of the pre-1975 county of Dunbartonshire has been split between four council areas:
* East Dunbartonshire Council, with its administrative headquarters at Kirkintilloch (also includes parts of the pre-1975 counties of Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire).
* West Dunbartonshire Council, with its administrative centre at Dumbarton.
* Argyll and Bute Council (which took over the Helensburgh and Lomond part of Dumbarton District).
* North Lanarkshire (for the Cumbernauld area).
The Dunbartonshire lieutenancy area continues to be defined in terms of the five districts that existed between 1975 and 1996, with the only change made to the lieutenancy areas at the time of the 1996 local government reorganisation being that the Chryston area of Strathkelvin district was transferred to the Lanarkshire lieutenancy. The historic boundaries of Dunbartonshire are still used for land registration purposes, being a registration county.
Geography
The northern half of the county is sparsely populated and dominated by Loch Lomond (now part of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park), which it shares with Stirlingshire. There are many islands in the loch which form part of the county, the most notable being Island I Vow, Tarbet Isle, Inchlonaig, Inchconnachan, Inchmoan, Inchtavannach, Fraoch Eilean, Inchgalbraith, Torrinch, Creinch, Inchmurrin and Aber Isle. The much smaller Geal Loch, Lochan Beinn Damhain, Lochan Strath Dubh-uisge, and Loch Sloy can also be found here. The area is also home to Ben Vorlich, the highest point of Dunbartonshire at 943 m (3,094 ft) and the 229th tallest mountain in Scotland.
South-western Dunbartonshire has a long coastline along Loch Long, culminating in the Rosneath peninsula which is separated from the main body of the county by Gare Loch. Both of these lead into the Firth of Clyde which forms the southern border. The area east of the river Leven is dominated geographically by the Kilpatrick Hills which also contains a number of small lochs and reservoirs. In the far south-east the county encompasses a portion of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
The Cumbernauld exclave is largely flat and heavily urbanised.
Boundaries and the Cumbernauld exclave
The county retained a large exclave situated 5 mi east of the main part of the county despite the boundary changes in the 1890s elsewhere in Scotland, consisting of the civil parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld, between Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. This area had originally been part of Stirlingshire, but had been annexed to Dunbarton in the reign of David II at the request of Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, the owner of the land, who was also Sheriff of Dumbarton.
The exclave was dealt with in 19th century legislation as greater administrative duties were given to the counties.
The Police (Scotland) Act 1857 established police forces throughout Scotland. Section 70 of the act allowed for the parishes to be transferred to the jurisdiction of either Stirlingshire or Lanarkshire Constabulary on resolution of two-thirds of the Commissioners of Supply for the County of Dumbarton.
Similar provisions allowing for the transfer of the area for all purposes were included in the County General Assessment (Scotland) Act 1868. No such resolution was made, and the two parishes remained in Dunbartonshire.
Section 40 of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 51) provided that for the purposes of that act all detached parts of counties should be placed in the county by which they were surrounded, or with which they had the longest boundary. Accordingly, Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch came under the control of the Stirlingshire Road Board. It was originally anticipated that the area would be transferred to Stirlingshire for all other purposes by the boundary commissioners proposed by the Local Government Bill of 1889. However, a clause was inserted in the bill that stated "the parishes of Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch, including the burghs and police burghs situate therein, shall for the purposes of this Act, be considered as forming part of the county of Dumbarton". The clause was vigorously opposed by the Stirlingshire Commissioners of Supply as they had incurred considerable expense in maintaining the roads of the two parishes. The Act as passed provided that the Dunbartonshire County Council was to financially compensate Stirlingshire on the transfer of road powers.
Transport
The West Highland Line runs through the county connecting Glasgow to Oban and Fort William and is popular with tourist due to its scenic view of the Highlands. The North Clyde line serves the towns of the Vale of Leven, and many suburban and commuter lines serve those parts of Dunbartonshire that form part of the Glasgow conurbation. Two lines run west–east through the Cumbernauld exclave, linking this area to Glasgow and Falkirk.
Various ferries criss-cross Loch Lomond, linking some of the towns along its banks. The Rosneath peninsula is connected by a ferry from Kilcreggan to Gourock in Renfrewshire.
Towns
Clydebank
* Alexandria
* Balloch
* Dumbarton
* Helensburgh
Villages and hamlets
* Aldochlay
* Ardlui
* Ardpeaton
* Arrochar
* Auchenvennel
* Bellsmyre
* Blairglas
* Blairvadach
* Bonhill
* Bowling
* Caldarvan
* Cardross
* Clynder
* Cove
* Craigendoran
* Croftamie
* Dalreoch
* Dumfin
* Edentaggart
* Garelochhead
* Gartocharn
* Hardgate
* Inverbeg
* Inveruglas
* Jamestown
* Kilcreggan
* Luss
* Milton
* Old Kilpatrick
* Portincaple
* Portkil
* Rahane
* Renton
* Rhu
* Rosneath
* Shandon
* Shantron
* Stuckgowan
* Tarbet
Glasgow conurbation
* Bearsden
* Blairdardie
* Clydebank
* Dalmuir
* Drumchapel
* Drumry
* Duntocher
* Faifley
* Kilpatrick
* Knightswood
* Linnvale
* Milngavie
* Netherton
* Old Drumchapel
* Temple
* Whitecrook
Cumbernauld exclave
* Abronhill
* Auchinstarry
* Balloch
* Blackwood
* Carbrain
* Craigmarloch
* Croy
* Cumbernauld
* Dullatur
* Greenfaulds
* Kildrum
* Kirkintilloch
* Lenzie
* Lenziemill
* Merkland
* Seafar
* Smithstone
* Twechar
Civil Parishes
* Arrochar
* Bonhill
* Cardross
* Craigrownie
* Cumbernauld
* Dalreoch
* Dumbarton
* Kilmaronock
* Kirkintilloch
* Luss
* New Kilpatrick
* Old Kilpatrick
* Renton
* Rhu
* Rosneath
* Rossdhu
Military connections
During the expansion of the Volunteer Force, the military presence in Dunbartonshire was widely expanded.
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Giant mole
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Urist likes giant moles for their noses.
Biome
• Underground Depth: 1-2
Attributes
· Steals food · Steals drink
Tamed Attributes
Pet value 350
· Exotic pet · Breeding
Not hunting/war trainable
Size
Birth: 20,000 cm3
Mid: 100,000 cm3
Max: 200,000 cm3
Age
Adult at: 1
Max age: 2-3
Butchering returns
(Value multiplier x2)
Food items
Meat 13-14
Fat 13
Brain 1
Heart 1
Lungs 2
Intestines 1
Liver 1
Kidneys 2
Tripe 1
Sweetbread 1
Spleen 1
Raw materials
Bones 11-17
Skull 1
Skin Raw hide
This article is about the current version of DF.
A gigantic digging creature found underground.
Giant moles are creatures found at the first two layers of the caverns, who'll come to your fortress and attempt to steal your food and drink your alcohol, and so should be kept away from your food stockpiles. While large in size, giant moles are benign and will not start fights on their own. However, due to their thieving disposition, dwarves will react aggressively to their presence and often attack them on sight. Caution should be taken if a giant mole enters a populated area, as they can cause significant damage in the event they fight back. A giant mole infant is called a giant mole pup. Despite the fact that they are members of Eulipotyphla, they have teeth like a rodent.
Due to their thieving behavior, giant moles are easily lured into traps by using food stockpiles as bait. If captured in cages, they can be trained into valuable pets. However, due to their very short lifespan, giant moles make poor long-term companions to dwarves and are better off being sold away or butchered for a nice amount of returns. Products made from giant mole parts are worth twice more than those made from common domestic animals.
Some dwarves like giant moles for their noses.
May have difficulty fitting into cages.
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How To Fix A Broken Tooth With Veneers?
December 7, 2018
When patients feel a broken tooth, see your dentist immediately. If not, this leads to further damage and bacterial infection.
Teeth break without warning and a lot of factors affect it. A dentist solves the problem using a few tools and technique. Remember that some dental office near me shares what they do to help your dental problems.
Self-Care Measures When a Tooth Breaks
If you see broken teeth, make sure to take some over-the-counter pain relievers first. Then, rinse your mouth with salt water for minutes. This relieves the pain from the broken tooth.
When the feeling resembles a sharp point, make sure to cover it temporarily. Do this by using a chewing gum or paraffin wax. With this, you prevent your tongue, lip, or cheek from any cuts. Eating becomes challenging when patients suffer broken teeth. If you wish to eat, make sure to take soft foods only. This prevents you from biting down your tooth. This is according to the dental office near me and experts.
Treatment depends on its damages. If a small portion of the enamel broke, repair takes a few steps. Complex fracture on a tooth involves a more complicated treatment.
Fixing a broken tooth with veneers
When patients break their front teeth, dentist suggest using dental veneers to fix their front teeth. A veneer consists of porcelain or resin composite material that dentists place over the broken tooth. Most of the time, its color resembles the natural color of the remaining teeth.
The procedure for dental veneers fall under cosmetic dentistry since it enhances the way teeth look. Some dental office near me find it very benefitting to patients since it requires little modification of the tooth structure. Also, dental veneers last for a long period of time due to its durability.
When fixing broken teeth, patients need to see and consult their dentist before agreeing to a specific procedure. They know what’s best for your teeth and dental health.
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Break the Ice: How to Unfreeze MacBook Pro
Usually, it starts like a classic horror movie. Nothing portends a tragedy, and a user keeps enjoying their seemingly reliable and shiny MacBook when suddenly it becomes unresponsive. I, like many other Apple aficionados, was surprised to discover for the first time that my MacBook Pro is frozen. When the Mac stopped responding to input, I stared at it blankly with a sinking feeling. Although, it quickly resumed its natural progression forward, the tortuous experience of waiting for it to unfreeze prompted me to find surefire ways of preventing the issue from reoccurring in the future. The article is the result of that search. It will be extremely useful for those who don’t know what to do when MacBook Pro freezes.
Why MacBook Pro Keeps Freezing Randomly
Most firms would be hard pressed to find such loyal customers as those that Apple has. The members of the Apple family recognize that minor performance issues are not the sufficient grounds for reconsidering their allegiance to the company. In most scenarios, hangs can be eliminated with a few simple tricks. The question then arises, “Why does my completely new MacBook Pro keeps constantly freezing up?
It is not unreasonable to ask why a notebook that has been designed to yield strong performance dividends fails to live up to user expectations. Powerful CPU and GPU of the machine are supposed to provide excellent user experience under considerable workloads, which is why it differs from MacBook Air whose key benefit is portability. Notwithstanding the immense processing power of MacBook Pro, it can grind to a halt when performing even seemingly easy tasks. Let’s consider why it happens.
A large number of apps is running in the background;
An opened app has multiple processes that run on their own;
A hard drive of a MacBook Pro is cluttered with junk files;
An excessive number of tabs is opened in a browser;
A notebook uses an outdated version of macOS;
Hardware issues.
For the most part, the problem of unresponsive Mac can be easily eliminated. Here’s how it can be done.
How to Reboot MacBook Pro When Frozen
When a MacBook Pro freezes completely, it’s a dereliction of duty that shouldn’t be tolerated. If a pointer is responsive, do the following:
1. Open the Apple menu;
2. Select the Restart option;
3. Click the Restart button in a menu that opens.
But how to fix the problem if you can’t move the cursor? In such a case, it is necessary to force restart the Mac. To do so:
1. Hold down the Power button to shut down the Mac;
2. Press the button again to turn it on.
You can also force reboot the Apple computer by holding the Control + Command key combination while simultaneously pressing down the Power button. Voila! The Mac is back on track.
MacBook Pro Freezes on Startup. What's the Deal?
The problem of delays and freezes while starting up has been dubbed “the gray screen problem” due to the dull and lifeless color in which the display gets painted. Actually, the screen can also get black to the point at which it is difficult to tell whether the Mac is powered on or not. Sometimes the problem occurs after login or after sleep. To resolve the issue, start by force shutting down the notebook. Afterward, disconnect the Ethernet cable and all peripherals that are plugged into your MacBook Pro. If after turning on the device it functions properly, peripherals are likely culprits of the problem. Reconnect the external devices one at a time to narrow down the list of suspects and find which peripheral is responsible for the hangs.
If you discover that peripherals are not the ones to blame, start the notebook in the Safe Boot mode. The mode allows performing a directory check of the startup drive and minimizing the number of kernel extensions needed for a boot. When the Mac successfully boots in the safe mode, the chances are that its startup drive is corrupted. Try selecting a different startup drive. From the Apple menu, go to System Preferences and click on the Startup Disk tab. Select another disk and save the changes. Then, use the Disk Utility to repair the corrupted drive.
MacBook Pro Keeps Crashing. What Else Can I Do?
When MacBook Pro is running slow and freezing, it is necessary to single out the source of the problem. If the rapid movements of a mouse almost set the table ablaze, but the cursor won’t budge, you can be sure that there are several factors at play. Start by freeing up drive space. Newer versions of macOS come with the Optimized Storage feature that can be used to remove or transfer to the cloud unnecessary files. To make use of the feature:
1. Click on the Apple logo at the top of the screen and select the About This Mac option;
2. Open the Storage tab, which is in the middle of the menu panel, and click on the Manage button;
3. In a window that opens, use action buttons to select one out of four options to remove the clatter.
You can also utilize either free or commercial cleaning tools to lighten up your drive.
Mac Optimized Storage
Activity Monitor on mac
Another way to boost the performance of your Mac Pro is to disable unnecessary apps that drain its RAM. To this end:
1. Open the Activity Monitor;
2. Click on the Memory tab;
3. Select the most memory-consuming processes and click the Quit Process button
If the notebook is still unresponsive, you might want to get rid of excessive add-ons. It can be done in the Extensions section of your browser’s menu. Simply select unused add-ons and remove them by using the – button.
Malware infiltration can also considerably slow down your MacBook Pro. If your browser is bombarded with endless pop-ups that are unrelated to the pages you have opened, it’s a sure sign of a virus infection. Sometimes, a good commercial antivirus can help to alleviate or even eliminate the problem. Other times, it is necessary to reinstall macOS from scratch.Select the most memory-consuming processes and click the Quit Process
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Peter Bradley (priest)
Peter Edward Bradley DL FRSA (born 26 June 1964) is an Anglican priest who served as Dean of Sheffield, 2003–2020.
Early life
Bradley was born on 26 June 1964. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, an all-boys grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He then studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Ordained ministry
Bradley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1988 and as a priest in 1989. He became the Chaplain of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He was Team Vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Abingdon and All Saints’, High Wycombe before his appointment as Dean of Sheffield. He was installed at Sheffield Cathedral on 4 October 2003; on 4 October 2020, Bradley announced his resignation from the Deanery with effect from 31 December 2020.
Since 2024, he has been priest-in-charge of St Bride's Church, Glasgow in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Interviews
Three-part interview conducted by Henk de Berg (2018)
-- Part I (on the existence of God)
-- Part II (on gay marriage and women priests)
-- Part III (on faith, violence and terrorism)
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Mack-Cali Enters DC Multifamily Market - Analyst Blog
Edison-based real estate investment trust (REIT), Mack-Cali Realty Corp. (CLI) , recently acquired a Va.-based multi-family property - Crystal House - through a joint venture (JV) with a fund advised by UBS Global Asset Management of UBS AG (UBS) . The collaborators purchased the property from AvalonBay Communities Inc. (AVB) , another REIT, for roughly $262.5 million. The transaction marked Mack-Cali's debut into the multifamily market of Washington D.C.
In addition to the Crystal House, the acquisition encompasses the purchase of land for construction of around 295 additional units, out of which 252 are currently approved. The JV obtained a mortgage loan worth $165 million from Walker & Dunlop, LLC under the Delegated Underwriting and Servicing program of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) . Notably, Mack-Cali's Roseland subsidiary will manage Crystal House and closely watch the refurbishment of the vacant units for upgrade of the asset to match the best-in-class standards of the Roseland.
The 828-unit Crystal House is strategically positioned in the crystal city section of Arlington and is in proximity with Metro, Reagan National Airport and upscale retail shops at Pentagon City. The property, which is currently 95.7% leased, comprises 2 twelve-story towers with garage and surface parking. Also, Crystal House offers its tenants various lavish amenities such as on-site retail and Olympic-sized swimming pool.
We expect the abovementioned premium acquisition to prove accretive to Mack-Cali's earnings and likely strengthen its top-line growth. Particularly, Mack-Cali currently has around 8 multi-family properties comprising over 2,900 residential units located in the Northeast of U.S.
Lately, Mack-Cali has been focusing on expanding its multi-family apartment portfolio. In Jan 2013, Mack-Cali acquired Alterra at Overlook Ridge IA in Metro Boston for approximately $61.3 million. In addition, the company inked a deal to purchase Alterra at Overlook Ridge IB for roughly $88 million. The properties, which collectively comprise 722 rental units in the master planned community of Overlook Ridge in Revere and Malden, Mass., were acquired from a joint venture of Prudential Insurance Company of America.
Mack-Cali currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Justice Department, Silicon Valley discuss online extremism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department convened a meeting with social media companies and other groups on Wednesday to discuss ways to counter the use of cyberspace by militant extremist groups like Islamic State and support strategic counter-messaging campaigns. The Obama administration has struggled to craft a cohesive strategy to diminish the online presence of Islamic State, which uses Twitter Inc and other Internet platforms to spread violent propaganda and radicalize new recruits. Nine government agencies attended the meeting including the State Department, according to a list of attendees seen by Reuters. Also present were representatives of the United Nations, as well as companies including Twitter, Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Snapchat, among others. Advocacy groups and universities also participated. Social media companies have ramped up efforts to take down jihadist content. Facebook policies explicitly ban support of what it deems terrorist groups, and Twitter announced this month it has taken down more than 125,000 accounts for “promoting terrorist acts.” “We’ve seen more aggressive takedowns across social media platforms, which is a really good thing,” Nick Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said at the meeting, according to a participant. John Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, led the briefing by providing an overview of Islamic State’s media strategy and expressing a desire to increase the “scale (of) counter-narratives and optimistic messaging,” according to an agenda seen by Reuters. Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, who attended the meeting, said he was pleased to see more outside participants and fewer government officials. “It was a better conversation than I’ve seen in the past,” he told Reuters. “It’s great to have a meeting, but what do you actually do next?” U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, a former Google executive, led a discussion, according to the agenda. “The U.S. government recognizes that these private-sector actors, which include NGOs, social media companies, and content producers, have a crucial role to play in developing creative and effective ways to undermine terrorist recruiting,” department spokesman Marc Raimondi said in a statement. “NGO” is an acronym for “nongovernmental organization.” Wednesday’s summit comes amid prolonged tensions between Silicon Valley and the Obama administration. Those strains were exacerbated by the legal standoff between Apple and the Justice Department that erupted last week over access to an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers, Syed Rizwan Farook. The meeting is the second in as many months between Silicon Valley executives and senior administration officials to discuss how companies can clamp down on violent content. But the interest goes beyond content removal. Several agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, have worked recently to involve tech companies such as Facebook, Muslim community groups and university students to create “positive” content to dissuade people from joining violent extremist groups. Several social media firms have responded to pressure from the White House and lawmakers who have urged more cooperation over the past year. Additional reporting by Julia Edwards and Mark Hosenball in Washington and Deborah Todd in San Francisco; Editing by Andrew Hay and Matthew Lewis
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Unable to host custom games - any advice?
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Something is killing your connection to the server and the api before the game can launch.
See the error message below. I would think it is anti virus or something about your network connections
2021-12-24 02:02:21.848 INFO 11796 --- [JavaFX Application Thread] c.f.client.remote.FafServerAccessor : Closing lobby server connection
2021-12-24 02:02:21.849 INFO 11796 --- [JavaFX Application Thread] com.faforever.commons.lobby.FafLobbyApi : Disconnecting from server
2021-12-24 02:02:21.849 INFO 11796 --- [JavaFX Application Thread] com.faforever.commons.lobby.FafLobbyApi : Outbound channel closed
2021-12-24 02:02:21.853 INFO 11796 --- [reactor-tcp-nio-2] com.faforever.commons.lobby.FafLobbyApi : Disconnected from server
2021-12-24 02:02:21.853 DEBUG 11796 --- [pool-3-thread-1] com.faforever.client.theme.UiService : Watcher service terminated
2021-12-24 02:02:21.862 WARN 11796 --- [reactor-http-nio-12] r.netty.http.client.HttpClientConnect : [id:99bd53de-1, L:/192.168.1.11:61749 ! R:api.faforever.com/116.202.155.226:443] The connection observed an error
reactor.netty.http.client.PrematureCloseException: Connection prematurely closed BEFORE response
2021-12-24 02:02:21.866 ERROR 11796 --- [reactor-http-nio-12] c.f.client.game.CreateGameController : Error when updating the map
java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientRequestException: Connection prematurely closed BEFORE response; nested exception is reactor.netty.http.client.PrematureCloseException: Connection prematurely closed BEFORE response
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To me it looks like you are closing your client while it is trying to start the game which is odd. But that is why I think it is some anti virus or something shutting down the client
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Hmm. I'm using Windows defender, default rules.
Any ideas about why this is an issue now, and was not an issue on 1.5.0 and before?
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I tried a few things:
• Reset windows defender firewall settings to defaults
• Turn off firewall
• Run the FAF client from master (89bcab)
• Turn off anti-virus real-time protection
Same results as before - no custom game launched.
Happy to provide more logs. Now that I'm on master, I can easily test specific commits.
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Hmm if you are running from source you should be able see the logs more clearly. Also the updated branch is develop not master. So checkout that one. Also the only thing that changed between 1.5.0 and later is we changed the backed library we use for the tcp connections
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OK - thanks for the info. It seems I was on develop all along, I guess I typed "master" out of habit.
if you are running from source you should be able see the logs more clearly
Should I just copy stdout? Loglevel debug? From what I could see last time, stdout looked similar to what I found in client.log. Any other information we need to understand what's going on?
(Sorry for the fragmented process. I have a Windows computer for playing FAF - and I don't use Windows for other things than FAF. So there is a bit of time between each time I'm on the FAF computer ...).
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When running from source the stdout is the log. And you can set it to debug level and you will also see all the messages that are being sent between the server and you.
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Full logs, loglevel debug. I pressed "Create game" a few times, with not result.
http://subcons.teod.eu/static/2021-12-30-debug.log
I'm also getting some file not found errors:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: META-INF/native/netty_tcnative_windows_x86_64.dll
java.io.FileNotFoundException: META-INF/native/netty_tcnative_x86_64.dll
java.io.FileNotFoundException: META-INF/native/netty_tcnative.dll
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@Sheikah - I was able to narrow down the issue. Are you able to reproduce?
I'm allways getting the failure when the password contains "ø".
Using only english letters in the password does not trigger the error.
I created a github issue: https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/issues/2517
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Okay that makes sense then. Generally things like these game properties are limited to ASCII. I am surprised it didn't give a more informative error but will make sure to restrict it properly
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Rh signaled for Melville to go ahead. Looking back he saw Lieutenant Chipp's boat founder and go down, but caught no sight of De Long's craft. Melville kept his boat head to the wind until the next afternoon, but could get no sight of his commander; and they got under way and after many privations reached their haven, the Russian village of Geeomovialocke. In one hundred and ten days with two hundred and ninety pounds of freight per man they had retreated over two thousand two hundred miles of ice and open sea. The survivors were feeble, ragged and starving. For fifteen days Melville was unable to stand on his frozen limbs. The village could furnish them as food only a limited quantity of geese and fish, and these badly decayed. It took five weeks to get supplies from Bulun, the nearest official Russian settlement; and with the provisions came a dispatch from two of De Long's seamen. Their boat had landed September 17, and these two men had been sent out for food and relief. Melville set out alone for Bulun and there met the two seamen and calculating the time and distance they determined that the De Long party could not be rescued alive. Nevertheless he considered it his duty to find the men dead or alive, and so he set out with two natives, two dog-teams and five days' food and the party traveled over one thousand miles in twenty-three days in the deadly cold of the Arctic winter with but two hours of daylight in the twenty-four. In the face of mutiny he pressed on although scarcely able to move a limb, and never losing control over the men almost as helpless physically as himself, he at last reached the Arctic ocean and there found the instruments and records left by De Long and following the tracks made by the brave commander in his retreat inland he was misled by the chart and lost his trail, and sick, worn to a shadow and dying of slow starvation, he returned to Bulun. In the spring he led a well-equipped party back to the cache where he had found the records and instruments and again getting on the trail on March 23, 1882, he found his dead shipmates. He discovered a perpendicular rock facing the frozen polar sea in the foot hills miles from where the bodies were found; and on its summit Melville built a tomb of heavy timber capped with a massive cross, then turning tenderly the dead faces "toward the East and the rising sun," as he writes, "in sight of the spot where they fell, the scene of their suffering and heroic endeavor where the everlasting snows will be their winding sheet and the fierce polar blasts will wail their wild dirge through all time—
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Use Cases
Use Case 1
Active Power Test
How to stress the inverter with active power to verify the required functionality?
As the number of electric vehicles is increasing, more and more electric components like inverters need to be produced. Before the inverter is installed in the vehicle, a customer defined test content is performed at the End-of-Line. High-voltage (HV) functional tests at the end of the assembly line are essential for the inverters’ quality and functionality check.
With these HV functional tests, the correct and desired functionality of the produced inverter can be verified. In this case, the ALC acts exclusively as an R-L load, the evaluation of the results is carried out by the higher-level control system. As a result, the inverter is classified as passed or failed. Reasons for failed may be for example assembly faults or component defects. The so-called active power tests need to be executed as fast and easy as possible.
The R-L mode of the AVL Active Load Cabinet is the key product of the functional test of the unit under test (UUT) at critical operating points. Due to the active power, the UUT is stressed on both, the AC and DC sides. By having the power flow closed via the DC link between the ALC and the UUT, only the losses of the ALC and the UUT need to be drawn from the grid. With the use of our ALC, power circulates in the system and is not primarily converted to heat (= losses).
This results in significantly lower operating costs of the complete testing environment due to highest energy efficiency in the Active Load Cabinet.
Furthermore, compared to a passive load, the ALC operates with both, active and reactive power. This allows to test the UUT’s power electronics under more realistic conditions. The R-L mode is used for example to detect wrong functionalities in the UUT hardware and is therefore essential for quality checks.
Use Case 2
UUT Sensor Calibration
How to choose appropriate current sensors for the inverter?
During the inverter development phase, decisions regarding subcomponent materials need to be taken. Choosing the appropriate current sensors is a major challenge due to the contradiction accuracy vs. costs. When low-cost current sensors are used, a possible bad behavior needs to be accepted, otherwise expensive current sensors need to be taken.
In general, if the sensor measures incorrectly, the inverter controls the e-motor incorrectly, which could lead to an undesired behavior.
In calibration mode, the AVL Active Load Cabinet acts as a variable current source. Here, the ALC drives a desired DC current through the UUT to determine measurement deviations by the UUT-internal current sensors.
This is done by comparing the current controlled by the ALC, which is measured by an external measurement device, with the value determined by the UUT-internal current sensors.
It should be noted that the ALC acts exclusively as a variable current source, the measurement deviations must be determined by the higher-level control system.
Thanks to the precise current from the ALC, excellent calibration results can be expected. This eliminates the need to move the inverter again which leads to an optimized cycle time.
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Maeshyfryd, Anglesey
Maeshyfryd is an area southwest of the port and town centre of Holyhead in Anglesey, Wales. It was formerly an electoral ward to the county council.
The area is the location for the town's main cemetery, Maeshyfryd Cemetery, which dates from the 1870s.
Prior to the 2012 Anglesey electoral boundary changes Maeshyfryd was an electoral ward to the Isle of Anglesey County Council. It generally elected a Plaid Cymru county councillor, with the exception of the 2004 election when the Plaid Cymru councillor lost to the Labour Party candidate. Maeshyfryd is now part of the larger Caergybi ward though it continues to be a community ward for Holyhead Town Council.
According to the 2011 UK Census the population of Maeshyfryd was 2,286.
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