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Analytical Sciences
Abstract − Analytical Sciences, 20(11), 1553 (2004).
Electroneutrality Coupling of Electron Transfer at an Electrode Surface and Ion Transfer across the Interface between Thin-layer of 1-Octyl-3-methylimidazolium Bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)imide Covering the Electrode Surface and an Outer Electrolyte Solution
Kazuyuki TANAKA, Naoya NISHI, and Takashi KAKIUCHI
Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyoku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
The electrode reaction of decamethylferrocene (DMFc) dissolved in a thin layer of a room-temperature molten salt (RTMS), 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (C8mimC1C1N) or 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(pentafluoroethylsulfonyl)imide (C8mimC2C2N), on a self-assembled monolayer-modified gold electrode is coupled with the ion transfer across the interface between the RTMS and the outer aqueous solution (W) to give a voltammogram whose shape resembles a voltammogram of a simple one-electron transfer process. The electroneutrality of the RTMS layer during the oxidation of DMFc to decamethylferricenium ion is maintained by the concomitant dissolution of C8mim+ ion from the RTMS phase to the W phase, and the reduction of decamethylferricenium ion to DMFc is accompanied by the transfer of either C1C1N- or C2C2N- from RTMS to W. The midpoint potential of the voltammogram varies with the concentration of the salt in the aqueous phase, C8mimCl or LiCnCnN (n = 1 or 2), in a Nernstian manner, showing that the phase-boundary potential between the RTMS and the W is controlled by the partition of these ions. Although the phase-boundary potential across the RTMS | W interface is Nernstian with respect to the ions common to both phases at the equilibrium, the polarization at the RTMS | W interface under current flow distorts the shape of the voltammograms, resulting in a wider peak separation in the voltammogram.
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The Black River Gorges National Park, Mauritius' sole National Park, is a spectacularly wild expanse of thick forest covering 3.5% of the island’s surface and is home to over 300 species of flowering plants and nine species of bird unique to Mauritius, including the famous pink pigeon which is staging a very gradual comeback from the brink of extinction.
Many endemic plants and animals still occur in the park including the Mauritian flying fox and all of the island’s endemic birds: Mauritius kestrel, pink pigeon, Mauritius parakeet, Mauritius cuckoo-shrike, Mauritius bulbul, Mauritius olive white-eye, Mauritius grey white-eye and Mauritius fody. Some of the most remarkable plants within the National Parks are the following Nesocodon mauritianus, Calophyllum parviflorum and Lomatophyllum purpureum.
The Vallée d’Osterlog Endemic Garden is a jewel of biodiversity with an exceptional flora and fauna species being present in the valley such as Sideroxylon grandiflorum (Tambalacoque), Diospyros Boutoniana (Ebene Marbré à grosse feuilles), Eugenia bojeri (Bois Clou), Pandanus iceryi (vacoas), Olax psittacorum (Bois Perroquet). Rare fauna species such as Hypsipetes olivaceus (Mauritius Black Bulbul), Zosteropus mauritianus (Mauritius Grey White Eye), Pteropus niger (Mauritius Fruit Bat), Taphozous mauritianus (Grey tomb bat), Phelsuma ornate (Ornate day Gecko), Phelsuma cepediana (Blue-tailed day Gecko) have been inventoried at the Garden.
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React - ReactDOM.render
About
ReactDOM.render 1) is the main function that renders an element into a DOM element.
It will be:
Note that the rendering is updated when the state changes. See this page for more information about re-rendering: React - Rendering (Lifecycle)
Example
Javascript
In Native Javascript, you need to create the element of the virtual dom
// equivalent to `<h2>It is ...</h2>`
let h2 = React.createElement('h2', {key:2}, `It is ${new Date().toLocaleTimeString()}`);
• Second Node of the tree: A user element called also component (ie a function with a single object parameters called a props that returns an react element
let welcomeComponent = function (props) { return React.createElement(
'h1',
{key:props.key,className: 'greeting'},
`Hello, ${props.name}!`
);
};
• The root of the tree with its two children node
// equivalent to `<div><h1><h2> ...</h2></h1></div>`
let root = React.createElement('div',{},
[
welcomeComponent({key:1,name:"Foo"}), // the user component
h2 // the html element
]
);
// render
ReactDOM.render(root, document.getElementById('root'));
• The HTML
<div id="root">
<!-- called the "root" DOM node because the rendering of the root node is done inside -->
</div>
• Result:
When using jsx, the text and the javascript variable of the user component are split into two elements making potential update more granular
Jsx
jsx is a language that compiles to React Javascript and permits to create easily react element in an HTML declarative way.
Demo:
• Rendering an element (jsx) at interval every second - The tree is created each time to fake an update of the state
function tick() {
const element = (
<div>
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
<h2>It is {new Date().toLocaleTimeString()}.</h2>
</div>
);
ReactDOM.render(
element,
document.getElementById('root')
);
}
setInterval(tick, 1000);
<div id="root">
<!-- called the "root" DOM node because everything inside it will be managed by React DOM -->
</div>
Below React will modify only the time part
Note that the text It is is not modified as React split them in different element. React Render Element Splittsing
Multiple root
See the dedicated page
Documentation / Reference
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How to inject multi React components in a page? A Multiple Root demo
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server-rendered markup is the dynamic possibility of server-side rendering (vs static). The steps are: the web server returns a web page where the root component has been rendered as HTML with special...
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Topix Caps Nine-Day Loss on Earnings Concern, Utilities
Japanese stocks fell, with the Topix
Index capping its longest losing streak since July 2009, on
concern the global economic slowdown will weigh on corporate
earnings. Utilities plunged on amid renewed concern about
nuclear safety. Sumco Corp. (3436) , a maker of silicon wafers for semiconductors,
lost 4.8 percent after industry bellwether Intel Corp . forecast
sales will miss estimates. Hokuriku Electric Power Co. and
Kansai Electric Power Co. fell on a report regulators will
request studies of fault lines running the utilities’ nuclear
plants. Hulic Co. paced gains among real estate stocks after
Nomura Holdings Inc. (8604) reported that condominium sales may pick up. The Topix fell 0.4 percent to 740.46 at the 3 p.m. trading
close in Tokyo, extending its losing streak to nine days. The
Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) lost 0.3 percent to 8,726.74 after
rising as much as 0.5 percent. The gauge dropped after failing
to break a resistance level, indicating the market’s lack of
upward momentum, according to Okasan Securities Co. “What’s behind the downward trend is global economic
slowdown concern, with too many uncertain factors,” saidYoshihiro Ito, chief strategist at the online division of 89-
year-old Okasan Securities. “Government regulators’ actions
have been crashing utility shares.” The Topix rebounded about 6 percent from a 29-year low on
June 4 as concern eased about Europe’s debt crisis and central
banks around the world cut interest rates to shore up growth. Shares on the index are valued at 0.9 times book value,
compared with 2.1 for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 1.4
for the Europe Stoxx 600 Index. A number below one means
investors can buy companies for less than the value of their
assets. Intel Outlook Semiconductor-related stocks fell after Intel, the world’s
largest chipmaker, cut its annual sales forecast yesterday amid
slumping demand for computers in the U.S. and Europe. Sumco slid
4.8 percent to 581 yen. Advantest Corp. (6857) , a maker of memory-chip
testers, dropped 1.2 percent to 1,056 yen. Power generators fell the most on the Topix after the
Nikkei newspaper reported that regulators will ask two utilities
to conduct geological studies after surveys showed that a fault
under a Hokuriku Electric nuclear plant is probably active.
Experts can’t rule out the possibility that a fault under Kansai
Electric’s Ohi plant is active, according to the report. Utilities Drop Kansai Electric slid 6.3 percent to 758 yen. Hokuriku
Electric plunged 21 percent to 877 yen, falling the most since
at least 1974. Among other stocks that declined, department-store operator
Uny Co. plunged 9.9 percent to 815 yen after announcing a share
sale to raise as much as 29.8 billion yen ($377 million). Stocks rose earlier after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
S. Bernanke said the central bank is prepared to act to
stimulate growth if the labor market doesn’t improve. The S&P
500 (SPXL1) closed 0.7 percent higher in New York yesterday after
Bernanke’s remarks boosted optimism for further easing. Exporters to the U.S. advanced. Nissan Motor Co., an
automaker that gets almost a third of its sales in North America ,
added 1.9 percent to 713 yen. Canon Inc. (7751) rose 0.6 percent to
2,896 yen. Property Stocks Real estate shares gained after Nomura said condominium
sales are expected to climb ahead of the consumption tax
increase and as interest rates remain low. The number of
condominiums put up for sale in Tokyo rose 16 percent in June
from a year earlier, the Real Estate Economic Research Institute
Co. reported today. Hulic Co. jumped 6.1 percent to 401 yen, while Tokyo
Tatemono Co. rose 1.4 percent to 286 yen. The Nikkei 225 Volatility Index (VNKY) declined 1 percent to 18.56,
indicating traders expect a swing of about 5.3 percent on the
benchmark gauge over the next 30 days. Trading volume on the
Nikkei was 2 percent above the 30-day average. To contact the reporter on this story:
Yoshiaki Nohara in Tokyo at
ynohara1@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Nick Gentle at
ngentle2@bloomberg.net .
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TREASURIES-U.S. yields advance as risk appetite increases
NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields rose to four-week highs on Tuesday, bolstered by gains on Wall Street that have raised appetite for risk, as well as expectations of more positive U.S. and Chinese economic data this week. In a week shortened by the Good Friday holiday, investors are awaiting U.S. retail sales data on Thursday, which could show that the economy is far more stable than expected, analysts said. At the same time, significant Chinese data due late on Tuesday - gross domestic product, retail sales, among others - could provide some insight on how the world's second-largest economy has been performing. After a sluggish start to the year, Chinese reports have been more upbeat than expected as monetary authorities increased stimulus measures. That has eased concerns about a Chinese slowdown. "There's the thought that with China's stimulus, people are going to focus more on Chinese retail sales and the bigger numbers that we get out of China this evening and without momentum in Treasuries right now, it's possible that that's bringing some insurance selling in Treasuries that you wouldn't necessarily anticipate," said Jim Vogel, interest rates strategist, at FTN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee. He added that this expectation on China draws even more focus on U.S. retail sales data. "Today's moves are what you would expect if retail sales numbers are above expectations," Vogel said. U.S. retail sales for March are expected to rise 0.9%, following a 0.2% decline in the previous month, according to a Reuters poll of analysts. In late morning trading, U.S. 10-year note yields rose to 2.581%, up from 2.553% late on Monday. Ten-year yields hit a four-week peak of 2.587%. Yields on U.S. 30-year bonds were also higher, at 2.986% , up from 2.963% on Monday. Thirty-year yields also touched a four-week high of 2.996%. On the short end of the curve, U.S. 2-year yields advanced to 2.402%, compared with Monday's 2.392%. The note's yield hit a four-week peak as well of 2.41 percent. U.S. yields, however, dipped after data showed U.S. manufacturing output was unchanged in March after two straight monthly declines, leading to the largest quarterly decrease in production since 2017. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast manufacturing output edging up 0.1 percent in March. April 16 Tuesday 10:32AM New York / 1432 GMT Price Current NetYield % Change (bps) Three-month bills 2.3875 2.4355 -0.002Six-month bills 2.3925 2.4622 0.002Two-year note 99-182/256 2.4021 0.010Three-year note 99-166/256 2.3723 0.013Five-year note 98-192/256 2.394 0.024Seven-year note 98-128/256 2.4861 0.02110-year note 100-96/256 2.5814 0.02830-year bond 100-72/256 2.9856 0.023 DOLLAR SWAP SPREADS Last (bps) Net Change (bps) U.S. 2-year dollar swap 10.00 0.25 spread U.S. 3-year dollar swap 6.75 0.25 spread U.S. 5-year dollar swap 3.25 -0.25 spread U.S. 10-year dollar swap -1.25 0.00 spread U.S. 30-year dollar swap -23.75 0.25 spread (Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Steve LOrlofsky)
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Patrick Henry High School (California)
Patrick Henry High School is a four-year public high school in San Diego, California, United States. It is part of the San Diego Unified School District. It is attended by students residing in Del Cerro, San Carlos, Allied Gardens, Mission Valley and the College Area.
Patrick Henry High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The 57 acre campus includes a counseling center, child development center, computer and science labs, a cafetorium, library and a performing arts theater. The mascot of Patrick Henry High School is the Patriot, a reference to Patrick Henry, the American Founding Father.
Patrick Henry High School participates in the Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment Program (VEEP) whereby approximately 600 students travel daily from an underrepresented minority community and are regularly enrolled, full-time students. In 2020, the ethnic composition of the school represented more than 20 ethnic groups, Patrick Henry High School is approximately 39.5% White, 29.8% Hispanic, 15.7% Asian, 8.6% Biracial, 5.8% Black, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 0.2% Not specified, and 0.1% Native American.
History
Patrick Henry High School opened in 1968, and had a grant from the Danforth Foundation as an experimental public school. Founding Principal Donald W. Giddings designed the curriculum as experimental independent learning around a twenty-minute modular system, independent study and an open campus. Within five years, Patrick Henry became more of a traditional school benefiting from its experimental foundation by the early adoption of advanced placement courses including Art History.
Academics
In 2019, Patrick Henry High School was ranked in the top 4% of the most challenging public high schools in America (888th of 22,000). The rank was determined by the Challenge Index defined as the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests taken in a year relative to the number of seniors who graduate. Patrick Henry High School offers Advanced Placement and Honors courses in World History, Art History, English, Chemistry, Biology, Calculus. The school offers a modern Visual and Performing Arts program in theater, tech theater, band, orchestra, and choral music. Through a longstanding collaboration with Mesa College, high school students can take introductory college courses for credit. Patrick Henry High School has Engineering Academy to support students’ science, engineering, architecture, design electronics and design interests. In 2017 the school's robotics club, the Patribots, won the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) San Diego Regional and competed at the international championships in Houston. In 2019, the Patribots won the Utah Regional and competed in international championships.
School Within A School
Patrick Henry High School offers a School Within A School program focused on psychology and child development classes called the Teaching Academy. The Teaching Academy is specifically designed to prepare students for college and career experiences in teaching and early childhood education.
Athletics
Patrick Henry Athletics participates in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and offers the following programs:
Coed Badminton | Basketball (Boys and Girls) | Boys Baseball | Coed Cross Country | Girls Field Hockey | Boys American Football | Golf (Boys and Girls) | Coed Ice Hockey | Lacrosse (Boys and Girls) | Rugby (Boys and Girls) | Girls Sideline Cheer | Coed Sideline Cheer | Girls Softball | Soccer (Boys and Girls) | Coed Swimming | Coed Surfing | Tennis (Boys and Girls) | Coed Tennis | Coed Track | Volleyball (Boys and Girls) | Water Polo (Boys and Girls) | Boys Wrestling |
The Patrick Henry High School Varsity Football team led by Ricky Williams, competed in the 1994 CIF Championship, losing to Morse High School 13-0. The Patrick Henry High School Varsity Football team won the Division IV CIF Championship over University City High School on November 26, 2021, for the first football CIF title in school history.
Twinning arrangements
The high-school has long established exchange partnerships with the Institution Saint Michel located in Solesmes, France. Common projects were carried out with Saint-Michel for the World Forum Lille where cohorts of Patrick Henry High School students presented their work in France on water pollution and the environmental impact of pesticides.
Notable incidents
On January 5, 1984, the San Diego Police Department executed a narcotics raid arresting 63 Patrick Henry High School students, who had allegedly sold drugs to an undercover officer posing as a student.
On January 3, 2007 the San Diego Police Department executed a narcotics raid resulting in the arrest of 15 students from Patrick Henry and University City High Schools who allegedly sold narcotics to undercover San Diego Police Department officers posing as students.
In October 2011, Patrick Henry elected the nation's first lesbian couple as homecoming king and queen. The story was covered internationally and led to both support and opposition.
In February 2012, a teacher allegedly told a female student who asked to go to the bathroom that she would have to urinate in a bucket in a back room, and the student obliged; the teacher was consequently fired.
On March 17, 2012, a campus police officer was arrested on charges of auto theft and driving under the influence, after taking the wheel of a shuttle-bus while intoxicated.
On March 22, 2012, three Patrick Henry students organized a protest to defend their teachers who had recently been terminated by the San Diego Unified School District. Students signed a petition, wrote letters to the Superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District and other members of the school board. Additionally, over 200 students participated in a walk-out for an hour to show their support for their teachers.
Alma Mater
On our City’s eastern border,
Midst the hills and the sky,
Home of our most Valiant Patriots,
Patrick Henry High.
In our many halls of learning,
On our fields of play,
Goals of excellence and honor,
Always lead the way.
As we march along together,
Let’s be brave and bold.
All hail to Patrick Henry High School,
Hail to the green and gold.
-Thomas Leslie, 1968
Notable alumni
* Annette Bening, four time Academy Award nominee, two time Tony Award nominee, and winner of a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Golden Globe Awards (Class of 1975)
* Ariana Berlin, four-time All-American UCLA Bruins gymnast (Class of 2005)
* Melissa Berton, 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) winner (Class of 1985)
* Brandon Bogotay, former National Football League player, kicker, Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Class of 2007)
* Dante (Jay Dante Rusciolelli), stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director (Class of 1988)
* Garth DeFelice, National Football League referee, officiated Super Bowl XL (Class of 1972)
* Hayden Epstein, former National Football League player, kicker, Jacksonville Jaguars and Minnesota Vikings (Attended 1995-96)
* Steve Fairchild, former National Football League coach, Colorado State head coach (Class of 1975)
* Anthony Farace, former professional soccer player
* Aaron Harang, former Major League Baseball pitcher (Class of 1996)
* Tony Harnell, singer–songwriter for 1980s hard rock band TNT (Attended 1977-78)
* Eric Helfand, former Major League Baseball player, catcher, Oakland Athletics (Class of 1987)
* David Hensley, Major League Baseball player, infielder, Houston Astros (Class of 2014)
* Eric Karros, former Major League Baseball player, first baseman, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and Oakland Athletics, National League Rookie of the Year, Silver Slugger Award winner, commentator (Class of 1985)
* Ken Kocher, former National Football League player, defensive lineman, Green Bay Packers; Arena Football League, Columbus Destroyers (Class of 1998)
* Joel Kramer, former National Basketball Association player, power forward/center, Phoenix Suns (Class of 1973)
* Joe LaCava, member of the San Diego City Council from the 1st district, 2020–present (Class of 1972)
* Russ Lorenson, actor, singer, composer (Class of 1981)
* Ericka Lorenz, US Olympic water polo player (Class of 1999)
* Rosemary Bryant (Merims) Mariner, first female military pilot to fly a tactical jet (Class of 1970)
* Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony Award winning actor, singer, and composer (Class of 1974)
* Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award winning author and screenwriter (Class of 1976)
* Matt Nokes, former Major League Baseball player, catcher (Class of 1981)
* DeWayne Patmon, former National Football League player, safety New York Giants, (Class of 1997)
* Dezmon Patmon, National Football League player, wide receiver Indianapolis Colts (Class of 2016)
* David Plaut, Emmy Award winning filmmaker at NFL Films (Class of 1971)
* John Rogers, President of San Diego Comic-Con (Class of 1978)
* RuPaul (Andre Charles), celebrity drag queen, television judge, recording artist, and model (Class of 1979)(note: RuPaul took his GED and did not graduate with his 1979 classmates. )
* Brenda Ann Spencer, incarcerated convicted murderer (Class of 1980) (note: Spencer committed her crime in 11th grade and did not graduate with her 1980 classmates)
* Ricky Williams, former National Football League player, running back New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens, Heisman Trophy winner (Class of 1995)
* Kellen Winslow Jr., former National Football League football player, tight end, Cleveland Browns, incarcerated convicted sex offender (Attended 1997-99)
* Joshua D. Wright, antitrust law expert and former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (Class of 1995)
* Joanna Zeiger, Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author (Class of 1988)
* Sal Zizzo, former professional soccer player, Bundesliga, Major League Soccer, United States men's national soccer team, San Diego Loyal SC (Class of 2005)
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wTO.aux.each: wTO.aux.each
Description Usage Arguments
Description
wTO.aux.each calculte the wTO for each one of the resamplings.
Usage
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wTO.aux.each(n, Data, Overlap, method, method_resampling, lag, ID)
Arguments
n
Number of bootstraps / reshuffles to be run for the estimatives of the "Threshold" or "pval".
Data
data.frame containing the count / expression data for the correlation.
Overlap
Nodes of interested, where the Overlapping weights will be computed.
method
Type of the correlation that should be used. "s" / "spearman" will compute the rank spearman correlation, "p" / "pearson" will compute the linear correlation. If no value is given, the default is to use "s".
method_resampling
method of the resampling. Bootstrap or Reshuffle. Bootstrap null hypothesis is that the wTO is random, and Reshuffle tests if the wTO is equal to zero.
wTO documentation built on May 1, 2019, 8 p.m.
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Total mesopancreas excision for periampullary malignancy: a single-center propensity score-matched comparison of long-term outcomes
Giuseppe Quero, Roberta Menghi, Fausto Rosa, Sergio Alfieri, Claudio Fiorillo, Antonio Pio Tortorelli, Maria Cristina Giustiniani, Frediano Inzani
Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista
2 Citazioni (Scopus)
Abstract
Purpose: Few comparative studies are available on the long-term prognostic role of mesopancreas (MP) excision after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). We compared the long-term outcomes of patients undergoing standard PD (sPD) and PD with MP excision (PD-MPe). Methods: Sixty sPDs were compared to 60 matched PD-MPe patients for intraoperative and postoperative data, histopathological findings, and long-term outcomes. Results: R0 rate was similar in the two groups (p = 0.17). However, PD-MPe related to a lower rate of MP resection margin positivity (16.7% vs 5%; p = 0.04) and to a higher harvested lymph nodes number (19.8 ± 7.6 vs 10.1 ± 5.1; p < 0.0001). Local tumor recurrence was more frequent in the sPD cohort (55.5% vs 26.8% in the PD-MPe group; p = 0.002), with a consequent worse disease-free survival (DFS) (14.8% vs 22.3%; p = 0.04). An inferior 5-year overall survival (OS) was noted in case of MP margin positivity compared with MP margin negativity (0% vs 29%; p < 0.0001). MP positivity resulted as an independent prognostic factor for both a worse OS and DFS at the multivariate analysis. Conclusion: PD-MPe offers clinical advantages in terms of MP resection margin status, local recurrence, long-term mortality, and DFS. The lower MP positivity rate, achieved with PD-MPe, leads to better outcomes both in terms of OS and DFS.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)303-312
Numero di pagine10
RivistaLANGENBECK'S ARCHIVES OF SURGERY
Volume405
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2020
Keywords
• Long-term outcomes
• Mesopancreas
• Pancreaticoduodenectomy
• Periampullary malignancy
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Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, originally a supergroup from Halmstad, formed in 1995. Its members were in bands such as Carcass, Armageddon, Carnage, Mercyful Fate, Spiritual Beggars, The Agonist, Nevermore, and Eucharist. It was founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, who were both originally from the death metal band Carnage. The band has released eleven studio albums, three live albums, three video albums and four EPs. The band was originally fronted by Johan Liiva, who was replaced by German vocalist Angela Gossow in 2000. Gossow left the band in March 2014 to become the group's manager and was replaced by Canadian vocalist Alissa White-Gluz.
Early years and Black Earth (1995–1997)
Arch Enemy was formed in 1995 by Michael Amott, and the debut album Black Earth was recorded during nine days in Studio Fredman and released by the now defunct Wrong Again Records in 1996.
Stigmata, Burning Bridges, and Gossow (1998–2000)
After the release of Black Earth the band switched labels, signing a contract with Century Media. In 1998 Arch Enemy released Stigmata, for which bassist Martin Bengtsson and drummer Peter Wildoer joined the band. The album gained a wider audience and popularity in Europe and America. This was also the first Arch Enemy album to be released worldwide.
In 1999, Sharlee D'Angelo (ex-King Diamond, ex-Mercyful Fate) assumed the role of Arch Enemy's bassist, and Daniel Erlandsson (Eucharist, ex-Carcass) was again recruited as the drummer. Burning Bridges was released, and was followed by the live album Burning Japan Live 1999. During the touring-cycle for Burning Bridges, D'Angelo was temporarily replaced twice; first by Dick Lövgren (Meshuggah, ex-Armageddon) and then by Roger Nilsson (ex-Spiritual Beggars, Firebird, the Quill).
In November 2000, vocalist Johan Liiva left and was replaced by German death metal vocalist Angela Gossow.
Wages of Sin and Anthems of Rebellion (2001–2004)
The first album with songs featuring Gossow was Wages of Sin, released in 2001. In December of the same year, Arch Enemy took part in the "Japan's Beast Feast 2002" concert, playing alongside Slayer and Motörhead.
Anthems of Rebellion was released in 2003 and brought some innovations, such as the use of a second voice singing in harmony; such as in the "End of the Line" and "Dehumanization" tracks. In November of the following year, the band released the EP Dead Eyes See No Future, which featured live recordings, along with covers of Manowar, Megadeth and Carcass songs. In June 2004, the band embarked upon yet another Japan tour.
Doomsday Machine (2004–2006)
In June 2005, Arch Enemy finished the recording for their sixth album, Doomsday Machine. In July 2005, guitarist Christopher Amott left the band in order to focus on his personal life. He was temporarily replaced by guitarist Gus G. (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind) and then by Fredrik Åkesson in September 2005. Christopher returned on a permanent basis in March 2007, shortly before the band entered the studio to begin recording their new album with producer Fredrik Nordström (who had previously worked with the band on their first four albums). Åkesson went on to become Opeth's new lead guitarist in May 2007.
Rise of the Tyrant (2007–2008)
Arch Enemy's seventh album, entitled Rise of the Tyrant was released on 24 September 2007 in Europe and 25 September 2007 in the United States. Rise of the Tyrant debuted at number 84 on the Billboard 200 chart. This surpassed the Doomsday Machine chart entry, making it the band's highest charting effort to date. Gossow said the new album has more emotion and less double vocals, as well as less vocal processing, yielding a more "raw" presentation.
Arch Enemy played the Bloodstock Open Air Festival in August 2007, between Sabbat and In Flames. They then performed on the Black Crusade tour at the end of 2007 with Machine Head, Trivium, DragonForce and Shadows Fall.
On 8 March 2008 Arch Enemy filmed a live show in Tokyo, Japan for the live DVD Tyrants of the Rising Sun. Arch Enemy also co-headlined the "Defenders of the Faith" tour in April 2008 with Opeth, while DevilDriver and 3 Inches of Blood opened for them. They then headlined the "Tyranny and Bloodshred" tour in May 2008 with Dark Tranquillity, Divine Heresy, and Firewind as supporting acts.
The Root of All Evil (2009–2010)
A compilation album titled The Root of All Evil was released on 28 September 2009 in Europe, 30 September in Japan, and 6 October in the United States. The Root of All Evil features twelve re-recorded songs spanning the band's career before Gossow joined as vocalist, with some material pre-dating D'Angelo as their bassist. In the first half of 2009, the band toured Europe and South America, and then played at the annual "Dubai Desert Rock Festival" alongside Opeth, Chimaira, and Motörhead. Following the release of The Root of All Evil on 28 September 2009, the band embarked on an Asian and Australian tour, which included their first visit to New Zealand. The tour started at the "Loud Park festival" in Japan on 17 October supplementing other acts including Megadeth, Judas Priest, Slayer, Anthrax, Rob Zombie and Children of Bodom. They also toured in South Korea on 25 October headlining at the Melon AX Hall in Seoul.
Khaos Legions and Christopher's second departure (2011–2013)
According to a September 2010 interview with Angela Gossow, Arch Enemy entered the studio on 1 December to begin recording their eighth album, Khaos Legions, for a release in June 2011, according to the band's website. The first single from the album was released on the Century Media website on 31 March entitled "Yesterday is Dead and Gone". The album was released on 31 May 2011. On 12 December the band announced that they would be filming a show in Cologne the following day for an upcoming live DVD entitled "World Khaos Tour".
On 3 March 2012 it was announced on the band's Facebook page that Christopher Amott had once again departed from the band. He was replaced by Nick Cordle from Arsis. Arch Enemy released their third music video from Khaos Legions on 25 April 2012 for "Under Black Flags We March". Not only does Nick Cordle appear in the video, he also recorded a new guitar solo, making this his debut track with the band.
Gossow's departure and War Eternal (2013−2015)
On 3 March 2014 the band revealed their ninth album would be titled War Eternal, released in June 2014.
On 17 March 2014, Gossow released a statement announcing her departure from the group and welcoming her replacement, former vocalist of Canadian metalcore band the Agonist, Alissa White-Gluz. In the statement, she wrote that while she had enjoyed her time with the group, it was time for her to move on, be with her family and pursue other interests. Gossow did confirm that she would remain Arch Enemy's business manager and would be "passing the torch to the super talented Alissa White-Gluz, whom I've known as a dear friend and a superb vocalist for many years. I always thought she deserved a chance to shine – and now she's getting it. Just like I got that chance back in 2001."
White-Gluz also released a statement saying: "I am very honoured and happy to announce a new chapter in my life and musical career. Wages of Sin was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen. It is not often that you get a phone call from your favorite band asking you to join! I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such amazingly talented musicians whom I also consider great friends. I look forward to being able to write and perform at a whole new level now with Arch Enemy! Music is forever, metal is limitless and this is only the beginning!"
During Arch Enemy's North American tour in support of their album War Eternal, guitarist Nick Cordle left the band on 10 November 2014. Specifically, he left the stage with only a few songs remaining in the set during the show at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom. Christopher Amott temporarily re-joined the band for the remainder of the tour, while famed guitarist Jeff Loomis (formerly of Nevermore) was announced as the official replacement and joined the band for their European tour with Kreator and subsequent events.
New project Black Earth (2016–2017)
On 22 January 2016, the founding members of Arch Enemy formed a side project named Black Earth. Consisting of former members Liiva and Christopher Amott, and current members Daniel Erlandsson, Michael Amott, and Sharlee D'Angelo, the band played a sold out Japan tour in May 2016 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of both Arch Enemy and the release of their debut album, Black Earth, they only performed songs from the band's first three albums.
Will to Power (2016–2019)
On 26 August 2016, it was announced that Arch Enemy was working on their tenth studio album which would be released in 2017. On 22 May 2017, the band revealed that the album would be entitled Will to Power, to be released on 8 September 2017 by Century Media Records.
The first single, "The World Is Yours", was released on 14 July 2017, along with a music video that gained more than 1.1 million views on YouTube in the first two days.
On 2 August 2017, the band announced a co-headlining North American tour with Trivium in fall 2017 with While She Sleeps and Fit for an Autopsy as support acts.
In an October 2018 interview, Michael Amott announced that he has been "writing a little bit here and there" and has "a few new ideas" for the next Arch Enemy album.
Covered in Blood (2019)
On 18 January 2019, Arch Enemy released Covered in Blood, a compilation album of songs covered over the years.
European tour, Deceivers, and Jeff Loomis' Departure (2020–present)
On 30 November 2020, Arch Enemy announced their participation in the European Siege Tour 2021 with Behemoth, Carcass and Unto Others (later postponed to 2022). On 21 October 2021, Arch Enemy premiered the music video for their new single "Deceiver, Deceiver". On 10 December 2021, they released a music video for another single, "House of Mirrors". On 27 January 2022, Arch Enemy announced their eleventh album, entitled Deceivers, released on 12 August 2022 (originally announced for 29 July 2022, but later postponed). Along with the album announcement came the third single "Handshake with Hell", with yet another music video. The song was listed as Loudwire's "best metal/rock song" of 2022, after "We'll Be Back" by Megadeth. On 22 April 2022, the band announced the fourth single from the new album, "Sunset over the Empire", released on 20 May 2022, digitally and as a limited 7" vinyl with a B-side "The Judging Eyes", an instrumental remake of "You Will Know My Name" from 2014’s "War Eternal". On 11 July 2022, came the fifth single announcement - "In the Eye of the Storm", out on 14 July 2022.
In December 2023, Loomis left Arch Enemy on good terms to "enter a new chapter in my life." Joey Concepcion was announced as his replacement.
Musical style
Arch Enemy's musical style has been classified as melodic death metal. AllMusic critic Steve Huey describes the band's sound as a "blend [of] progressive and death metal influences." Earlier albums, such as Burning Bridges, while still classified as melodic death metal, are more centered around classic death metal.
Band members
Current members
* Michael Amott − guitar, backing vocals (1995–present), bass (1995–1997, 1998)
* Daniel Erlandsson − drums (1995–1997, 1998–present)
* Sharlee D'Angelo − bass (1998–present)
* Alissa White-Gluz − lead vocals (2014–present)
* Joey Concepcion − guitar (2023–present)
Former members
* Christopher Amott − guitar, backing vocals (1995–2005, 2007–2012, touring member 2014, guest 2015, 2016)
* Johan Liiva − lead vocals (1995−2000, guest 2015)
* Martin Bengtsson − bass (1997–1998)
* Peter Wildoer − drums (1997–1998)
* Fredrik Åkesson − guitar, backing vocals (2005–2007)
* Angela Gossow − lead vocals (2000–2014)
* Nick Cordle − guitar, backing vocals (2012–2014)
* Jeff Loomis − guitar, backing vocals (2014−2023)
Discography
* Black Earth (1996)
* Stigmata (1998)
* Burning Bridges (1999)
* Wages of Sin (2001)
* Anthems of Rebellion (2003)
* Doomsday Machine (2005)
* Rise of the Tyrant (2007)
* Khaos Legions (2011)
* War Eternal (2014)
* Will to Power (2017)
* Deceivers (2022)
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Tabbed Panels
Introduction. While there are any number of other directions in which we could go next with GUIs, I am going to spend a webpage on JTabbedPanels. Having tabbed panes can be very useful in order to get more in a GUI. As you'd expect, each pane can have its own layout and tab identifier.
JTabbedPanes are configured to work with ChangeListener in order to respond to user actions.
But first we present the constructor.
Constructor Description
JTabbedPane( ) This constructor is used with no arguments
In order to work with tabbed panes there are a significant number of methods that the developer is likely to require at some point in time.
Method Description
insertTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component, String tip, int index) insert a tab with the specified values at location index
addTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component, String tip) add a tab with the specified characteristics
addTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component) add a tab with the specified characteristics
addTab(String title, Component component) add a tab with the specified characteristics
removeTabAt(int Index) remove a tab at the specified index
getSelectedIndex( ) returns the index of the selected tab
setSelectedIndex(int Index) sets the selected tab to the one with the specified index
getSelectedComponent( ) returns the selected component
getComponentAt(int Index) returns the component at a particular index
setComponentAt(int Index, Component component) sets the particular component at the specified index
indexOfTab(String title) gets the index of a tab based on the title
indexOfComponent(Component compnent) gets the index of a tab based on the component
getTabCount( ) gets the number of tabs
Each pane in a GUI can be quite different from another, or there can be similar patterns. The example I've developed builds the GUI based on a particular pattern. It also makes use of arrays of things like text fields and panels to do this.
An Example. While the input error trapping and array developments are not as elegant as they probably should be, this example will demonstrate the issues of importance at present. You should call the applet TabbedPanelArrayApplet.java.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class TabbedPanelArrayApplet extends JApplet
{
String strNumberOfClients;
int numberOfClients;
JPanel[] panel = new JPanel[10];
JTabbedPane tabbedPane;
JTextField[] txtField = new JTextField[30];
public void init( )
{
strNumberOfClients = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter the number of client stations.\nThis number must be less than 11:");
numberOfClients = Integer.parseInt(strNumberOfClients);
JPanel topPanel = new JPanel( );
topPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout( ));
getContentPane( ).add(topPanel);
tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane( );
for (int i=0; i < numberOfClients; i++)
{
// create the tab pages
panel[i] = createPage(i);
// create a tabbed pane
tabbedPane.addTab("Page " + i, panel[i]);
}
topPanel.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
} // ends init( )
public JPanel createPage(int j)
{
int numberTextField;
numberTextField = 3 * j;
panel[j] = new JPanel();
panel[j].setLayout( new GridLayout(3,2));
panel[j].add(new JLabel("Field 1: "));
txtField[numberTextField] = new JTextField(5);
panel[j].add(txtField[numberTextField]);
panel[j].add(new JLabel("Field 2: "));
txtField[numberTextField+1] = new JTextField(7);
panel[j].add(txtField[numberTextField+1]);
panel[j].add(new JLabel("Field 3: "));
txtField[numberTextField+2] = new JTextField(9);
panel[j].add(txtField[numberTextField+2]);
return panel[j];
} // ends createPage( )
} // ends TabbedPanelArrayApplet
I am also including the code for the HTML file which you should call TabbedPanelArrayApplet.html.
<html>
<applet code="TabbedPanelArrayApplet.class" width=300 height=200>
</applet>
</html>
When you initially run the program you should get a JOptionPane asking you for how many client stations you need.
The GUI should look like the following.
Notice how each panel is essentially the same to the user's perspective except for the tab that tells them which station they are working with.
There are other things about the code that we will discuss in class.
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Understanding The Benefits Of The ENERGY STAR Label
Many consumers have seen the ENERGY STAR label on appliances and other devices, but few really know what the name and symbol mean. In addition, they have no idea of the savings that these products offer in terms of energy and water efficiency. But once they get some background information, looking or the ENERGY STAR label becomes a significant selling point for many devices purchased for your home.
Who And Why
The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency collaborated on this project to promote energy efficiency and to give consumers a reliable resource when fact-checking the efficiency of various appliances, electronics, and other residential devices. The result of their efforts has been much more awareness about the conservation of energy, natural resources, and the health of our planet in general.
What They Do
ENERGY STAR is a label manufacturers must earn to place on their products from DVD players to refrigerators and furnaces. However, it is not a brand name or associated with any specific brand or product manufacturer. Instead, it is an independent testing program that provides consumers with their results for the energy efficiency of a variety of products.
The reason that this rating process and ranking system is so valuable is the fact that the manufacturer has no input in the process. It is common knowledge that some manufacturers are less reliable than others when rating their products or how efficiently they operate. No manufacturer will ever tell consumers that they have built an energy hog that could be much more efficient, but they chose not to.
What ENERGY STAR Covers
Of course, not all devices that use electricity or water can be evaluated using the same criteria, so the ENERGY STAR program has created several categories and stringent qualifications that items in the class must meet to display their label. Some of the most well-known classes include:
• Home Electronic Devices- Televisions are one of the most significant items in this category. For a TV to qualify as an ENERGY STAR product, it must consume 30% less energy than the typical model of its size and capability. This group also covers items with an external power adapter like cordless phones and battery chargers. For these items to qualify for the label, they must consume 90% less power than the average products on the market.
• Lighting- For fluorescent light bulbs to qualify, they must use 75% less energy than a similar incandescent bulb. LED lights must use only 25% of the power consumed by an incandescent bulb that delivers similar lighting.
• Heating And Cooling Systems- The ENERGY STAR program covers heat pumps, furnaces, boilers, and air conditioners. Overall, these items should be considered to deliver around a 10% energy savings over a typical unit of similar size and capability.
• Home Appliances- Appliances are some of the largest energy consumers behind the HVAC system in most homes. For these items to display the ENERGY STAR logo, they must each meet a different standard. For example, dishwashers must be 41% more energy efficient than the average unit, while refrigerators must offer only a 20% decrease in energy consumption.
• Entire New Homes- A newly constructed house can be rated as an ENERGY STAR home if it is overall 10% more energy efficient than a typical new home. However, most new ENERGY STAR homes deliver about 20% or more energy savings for their owners.
To learn more about having ENERGY STAR appliances installed in your home, call (325) 221-3616. The licensed electricians at Legacy Electric are happy to provide you with a free installation cost quote.
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Protocol + drm for live stream?
hi
i wanna play live stream with drm on webos 3.0+
which protocol this device supports? i looked into the docs and saw this
Playready + HTML5 MSE/EME
AES128 + HLS
WIDEVINE + HTML5 MSE/EME
but what does it mean?
i can play HLS/DASH/MSS(?) in HTML5 (MSE)
i tried DASH + playready (shaka) it doesnt work (shaka is using MSE)
i tried DASH + widevine (shaka) it doesnt work (shaka is using MSE)
which protocol + drm should i use for playback live streams on webos 3.0 +?
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In the webOS TV app, only some specific streaming protocol and DRM combinations are supported. To use PlayReady or Widevine Modular DRM, you should implement your own player with HTML5 MSE/EME or use third party solutions like Shaka Player. So DRM-related specifications are up to the app.
We support HTML5 MSE/EME, not DASH. You cannot use DASH with the native player. If you are using an HTML5 MSE/EME player, DASH support is up to the player. If your player supports DASH, you can use DASH. But this means that DASH is processed by the player, not the webOS TV. Therefore, most cases we cannot help you.
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About Me
I am currently a senior at Winona State University in my POLS 410: Political Research Seminar Class. I am in the very beginning stage of conducting a research study about determining whether race or socio-economic status plays a greater role in the academic achievement gap between African American Students and their white counterparts. My research population will be public elementary schools in the Minneapolis Public School District. I will be looking at Mathematics, Reading, and English test score for the entire school on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment. I am also considering analyzing the same test scores for a school district in an upper class suburban neighborhood. My hypothesis while still not completely thought out, is that, soci-economic status plays a larger role in the achievement gap, and that African American Students in affluent neighborhoods are very capable of performing as well, if not very close to their white counterparts.
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first of all, a HUGE thanks to the person who put up the bondage boys photo.
now, we need info on the names of all the members of the bondage boys, who played what instruments, and whether or not they ever recorded anything.
Gringo300 08:40, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
update: a few minutes ago i found this website: www.tartareandesire.com/bands/bondageboys.html
Gringo300 10:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Why in this article does it state "was the lead singer of the 1980s sleaze rock band Faster Pussycat" The WAS really annoyed me. Someone possibly add something about the new incarnation of Pussycat. Trivium9786 14:11, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
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Posts Tagged 'toxicants'
The impacts of seawater acidification on Ruditapes philippinarum sensitivity to carbon nanoparticles
In the present study, the impacts of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), one of the most important NMs used in broad industrial and biomedical applications, on the clam Ruditapes philippinarum were evaluated under actual and predicted ocean acidification conditions. For this, oxidative stress, metabolic capacity and neurotoxicity related biomarkers were measured after a long-term exposure of clams to different conditions. The results obtained revealed that under low pH conditions the toxicity of MWCNTs was similar to the impacts measured under control pH. In both cases the energy-related responses in contaminated clams were altered with an increase of their metabolism which resulted into the expenditure of their energy reserves (lower glycogen content). Moreover, R. philippinarum showed oxidative stress when exposed to MWCNTs expressed by higher lipid peroxidation, lower ratio between reduced and oxidized glutathione and activation of antioxidant defences and biotransformation mechanisms. Additionally, neurotoxicity was observed by inhibition of Cholinesterases activity in organisms exposed to MWCNTs at both pHs.
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Global proteome profiling of a marine copepod and the mitigating effect of ocean acidification on mercury toxicity after multigenerational exposure
Previously, we found that ocean acidification (OA) mitigates mercury (Hg) toxicity to marine copepod Tigriopus japonicus under multigenerational exposure (four generations, F0-F3). To determine the response mechanisms of T. japonicus against long-term exposure to OA and Hg pollution, we investigated the proteome of F3 copepods after multigenerational exposure to four conditions: pCO2 400 μatm + control; pCO2 1000 μatm + control; pCO2 400 μatm + 1.0 µg/L Hg; and pCO2 1000 μatm + 1.0 µg/L Hg. Functional enrichment analysis indicated that OA enhanced the copepod’s energy production mainly by increasing protein assimilation and proteolysis as a compensatory strategy, which explained its physiological resilience to reduced pH. Conversely, Hg treatment decreased many critical processes, including ferric iron binding, antioxidant activity, cellular homeostasis, and glutathione metabolism, and these toxic events could translate into higher-level responses, i.e., restrained reproduction in copepods. Importantly, the mediation of Hg toxicity in T. japonicus by OA could be explained by the enhanced lysosome-autophagy pathway proteomes that are responsible for repairing/removing damaged proteins/enzymes under stress. Overall, this study provided molecular insights into the response of T. japonicus to long-term exposure of OA and Hg, with a particular emphasis on the mitigating impact of CO2-driven acidification on Hg toxicity.
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Physiological and biochemical impacts induced by mercury pollution and seawater acidification in Hediste diversicolor
The present study evaluated the impacts of predicted seawater acidification and Hg pollution, when stressors were acting alone and in combination, on the polychaete Hediste diversicolor. Polychaetes were exposed during 28 days to low pH (7.5), Hg (5 μg/L) and pH 7.5 + Hg, and physiological alterations (respiration rate), biochemical markers related to metabolic potential (glycogen and protein content, electron transport system activity) and oxidative status (activity of antioxidant and biotransformation enzymes, lipid peroxidation) were evaluated. The results obtained clearly showed that polychaetes were sensitive to low pH and Hg contamination, both acting alone or in combination. Organisms used their energy reserves under stressful conditions, which decreased by up to half of the control content, probably to fuel defence mechanisms. Our findings further demonstrated that polychaetes exposed to these stressors presented increased antioxidant defence mechanisms (3 fold compared to control). However, organisms were not able to prevent cellular damage, especially noticed at Hg exposure and pH 7.5. Overall, although all the tested conditions induced oxidative stress in Hediste diversicolor, the combined effect of seawater acidification and Hg contamination did not induce higher impacts in polychaetes than single stressor exposures. These findings may indicate that predicted climate change scenarios may not increase Hediste diversicolor sensitivity towards Hg and may not significantly change the toxicity of this contaminant to this polychaete species.
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Alleviation of mercury toxicity to a marine copepod under multigenerational exposure by ocean acidification
Ocean acidification (OA) may potentially modify the responses of aquatic organisms to other environmental stressors including metals. In this study, we investigated the effects of near-future OA (pCO2 1000 μatm) and mercury (Hg) on the development and reproduction of marine copepod Tigriopus japonicus under multigenerational life-cycle exposure. Metal accumulation as well as seven life history traits (survival rate, sex ratio, developmental time from nauplius to copepodite, developmental time from nauplius to adult, number of clutches, number of nauplii/clutch and fecundity) was quantified for each generation. Hg exposure alone evidently suppressed the number of nauplii/clutch, whereas single OA exposure negligibly affected the seven traits of copepods. However, OA exposure significantly alleviated the Hg inhibitory effects on number of nauplii/clutch and fecundity, which could be explained by the reduced Hg accumulation under OA. Such combined exposure also significantly shortened the development time. Thus, in contrast to earlier findings for other toxic metals, this study demonstrated that OA potentially mitigated the Hg toxicity to some important life traits in marine copepods during multigenerational exposure.
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Benzo[a]pyrene exposure under future ocean acidification scenarios weakens the immune responses of blood clam, Tegillarca granosa
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are known to converge into the ocean and accumulate in the sediment, posing great threats to marine organisms such as the sessile bottom burrowing bivalves. However, the immune toxicity of POPs, such as B[a]P, under future ocean acidification scenarios remains poorly understood to date. Therefore, in the present study, the impacts of B[a]P exposure on the immune responses of a bivalve species, Tegillarca granosa, under present and future ocean acidification scenarios were investigated. Results obtained revealed an increased immune toxicity of B[a]P under future ocean acidification scenarios in terms of reduced THC, altered haemocyte composition, and hampered phagocytosis, which may attribute to the synergetic effects of B[a]P and ocean acidification. In addition, the gene expressions of pathogen pattern recognition receptors (TLR1, TLR2, TLR4, TLR6), pathway mediators (TRAF6, TAK1, TAB2, IKKα and Myd88), and effectors (NF-ĸB) of the important immune related pathways were significantly down-regulated upon exposure to B[a]P under future ocean acidification scenarios. Results of the present study suggested an increased immune toxicity of B[a]P under future ocean acidification scenarios, which will significantly hamper the immune responses of T. granosa and subsequently render individuals more susceptible to pathogens challenges.
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CO2-induced pH reduction increases physiological toxicity of nano-TiO2 in the mussel Mytilus coruscus
The increasing usage of nanoparticles has caused their considerable release into the aquatic environment. Meanwhile, anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused a reduction of seawater pH. However, their combined effects on marine species have not been experimentally evaluated. This study estimated the physiological toxicity of nano-TiO2 in the mussel Mytilus coruscus under high pCO2 (2500–2600 μatm). We found that respiration rate (RR), food absorption efficiency (AE), clearance rate (CR), scope for growth (SFG) and O:N ratio were significantly reduced by nano-TiO2, whereas faecal organic weight rate and ammonia excretion rate (ER) were increased under nano-TiO2 conditions. High pCO2 exerted lower effects on CR, RR, ER and O:N ratio than nano-TiO2. Despite this, significant interactions of CO2-induced pH change and nano-TiO2 were found in RR, ER and O:N ratio. PCA showed close relationships among most test parameters, i.e., RR, CR, AE, SFG and O:N ratio. The normal physiological responses were strongly correlated to a positive SFG with normal pH and no/low nano-TiO2 conditions. Our results indicate that physiological functions of M. coruscus are more severely impaired by the combination of nano-TiO2 and high pCO2.
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Habitat selection disruption and lateralization impairment of cryptic flatfish in a warm, acid, and contaminated ocean
Anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases is leading to significant changes in ocean physicochemical properties. Although marine organisms will have to deal with combined effects of ocean warming and acidification, little is known about the impact of interactions between these climate change variables and contaminants. Nowadays, mercury emissions are mostly of anthropogenic origin, and part of these emissions is deposited in the ocean sediment. Within this context, our goal was to determine the acclimation potential of a benthic flatfish, Solea senegalensis, to future climate change scenarios and methylmercury (MeHg) neurotoxicity. After 28 days of exposure under three-factor crossed treatments of MeHg contamination (non-contaminated and contaminated feed, 0.08 ± 0.02 and 8.51 ± 0.15 mg kg−1 dry weight, respectively), high CO2 (ΔCO2 ≈ 500 ppm), and temperature (ΔT = 4 °C), we investigated brain mercury accumulation, habitat preference, and relative/absolute lateralization, as well as acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in five brain regions. Our results indicate a differential effect of hypercapnia (decrease) on brain mercury accumulation. MeHg-contaminated flatfish displayed decreased AChE activity, impaired lateralization, and bottom choosing judgment. Contaminated fish spent significantly higher amounts of time in the complex habitat, where they could neither bury nor match the background. While warming led to higher enzymatic activity, acidification decreased Hg accumulation, but also affected AChE activity and disrupted habitat selection. Present-day MeHg environmental concentrations may lead to severe disruption of behavioral and neurological functions, which, combined with ocean warming and acidification, might further jeopardize the ecological fitness of flatfish.
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Acts Church
Acts Church is a non-denominational Church and contemporary worship music band founded by Pr. Kenneth Chin in the year 2000 in Subang Jaya, Malaysia. The church currently has over 3,000 attendees across 26 churches in 8 nations.
History
This Church began in 2000, when Pastor Kenneth Chin started this church in Subang Jaya, Malaysia. Over the years, the church has grown to over 26 churches in 8 countries. Acts Church also has a few ministries under it. Notably, Acts Teens, Acts Kids, Acts Working Adults, Acts Campus and Acts Family.
Music
In the year 2005, Acts Church released their first single titled God of Everything. Over the years, they have released multiple Albums and singles in English, Bahasa Melayu and Mandarin Chinese.
Discography
These albums and singles are independently recorded by Acts Church.
Albums
* Actsperiment 3.0: You Are Always Good (June 2010)
* Actsperiment 4.0: Fire Wall (November 2012)
* All to Jesus (June 2019)
* Hatiku Milikmu (2021)
Singles
* God of Everything (2005)
* I will Praise (2020)
* Guiding Light (2021)
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Draft:Madeleine Gans
Madeleine Gans (1920-2018) was a distinguished representative of the French school of Genetics having dedicated her professional life (1945-1990) to research and teaching in this discipline. Her doctoral degree, obtained in 1951 under the direction of Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979) was based on a study of classical genetics on the Drosophila melanogaster zeste mutant. From 1956 to 1970, Madeleine Gans associated herself with Georges Prévost setting up a new genetic model the mushroom Coprinus radiatus. They embarked on the genetic study of metabolic pathways thereby establishing the first large-scale genetic map of a Basidiomycete. In 1970, she switched back to the Drosophila model and initiated an original genetic methodology to identify oocyte determinants involved in embryonic development. Her discovery of the dominant female-sterile ovoD mutations and their reverting properties greatly improved clonal analysis in the female germline and, furthermore, opened up the way to the study of the regulation of transposon mobilization by small non-coding RNAs. She exerted her teaching activity from 1953, was nominated professor in 1961 at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris and from 1968 at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. In 1987, she was nominated corresponding member of the French Académie des Sciences.
Early life, education and the Second World War (1920-1945)
Madeleine Gans, birth name Madeleine David, was born on June 5th, 1920, in Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, France. Her father was an engineer and her mother a school teacher in mathematics. She attended high school in Pont-à-Mousson and graduated in June of 1939. Starting that same year, she pursued her education at the University of Nancy, entering both medical and scientific tracks. She showed a great interest for the physics lectures by Professor Marcel Laporte. In 1940, due to the Second World War, Madeleine Gans and her family left Pont-à-Mousson and Nancy to take refuge first in Britany (Rennes), then in Larche and Toulouse, in non-occupied south-west France. From October 1940 to September 1945, Madeleine Gans was able to continue her education in Toulouse where she obtained degrees in medicine and in science.
Doctoral years in Boris Ephrussi's laboratory at the IBPC in Paris 1945-1955
In October 1945, Ephrussi recruited Madeleine Gans in his laboratory. In February 1946, a lemon yellow eyed spontaneous mutant appeared in the Drosophila melanogaster laboratory collection. Ephrussi assigned Madeleine Gans to study this mutant, named zeste, for her training in genetics. She immersed herself with enthusiasm in this new subject and five years later, on December 21st 1951, she defended her doctoral thesis "Etude génétique et physiologique du mutant zeste de Drosophila melanogaster". Upon her arrival in the Ephrussi laboratory in 1945, Madeleine Gans was supported by an IBPC grant. Then, in 1946 she got a position as "Attachée de recherche" (Research associate) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) which had been created in 1939. In 1952, she became "Chargée de recherche" (Research project leader). From 1953 onwards she switched to a university teaching career, first as « Chef de travaux pratiques » (Head of the laboratory courses) at the Sorbonne, then as a professor from 1961 until her retirement in 1990.
A beautiful study of classical genetics
From the beginning of Madeleine Gans’ thesis work it was clear that the Drosophila zeste (z) mutant was peculiar. In fact, its mutant phenotype (yellow eyes) is present in females but not in males, varies with temperature and shows variegation under certain conditions. Madeleine Gans performed a large and rigorous analysis, constructing numerous strains with chromosomal rearrangements and studying thousands of flies. She showed that the z mutation is localized very near the white+ (w+) gene. She studied genic dosage between z, z+, and w+, and demonstrated that the z mutant phenotype strictly depends on the presence of two doses of the w+ gene. She showed that this property is subject to position effect as the w+ gene activity is abolished or reduced when it is transferred close to centromeric heterochromatin via chromosomal rearrangements. Finally, she precisely characterized conditions leading to variegated eye pigmentation, such as external parameters (temperature) or genetic contexts. Madeleine Gans thesis work was published in French in 1953. It should be noted that it is the sole publication of Madeleine Gans’on her thesis work. Nevertheless, this work was translated in several american laboratories as a textbook case of genetic analysis. Madeleine Gans’ thesis work approaches fundamental phenomena such as position-effect, transvection, and variegation.
A new subject
In 1955, Georges Prévost, a new young researcher, recruited as « Chef de travaux pratiques» in the Department of Genetics at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris was encouraged by Ephrussi "to look for a new material to broaden the spectrum of research in the laboratory and could assert his originality in the exploration of a new material . The association with Georges Prévost was an opportunity for Madeleine Gans, who was 35 years old at the time, to participate to an exciting new project. They chose the Basidiomycete Coprinus for its major advantage compared to Ascomycetes, namely the long and stable dicaryotic phase during which two haploid nuclei coexist in the same cytoplasm constituting a precious tool for genetic analysis.
Coprinus research subjects
The research subjects quickly followed two main paths: isolation of mutants and analysis of their metabolism and the use of the dicaryotic phase to answer fundamental questions concerning nuclear exchanges. A collection of hundreds of mutants was constituted leading to the first large scale genetic mapping of a Basidiomycete. In 1957, Georges Prévost and Madeleine Gans left the IBPC to establish their team in the CNRS Physiological Genetics Centre in Gif-sur-Yvette. Over the years, a diversification of the subjects undertaken by the team occurred, all, nonetheless, using genetic methodology: somatic recombination , karyological study confirming the genetic mapping previously established and analysis of biosynthetic pathways using the numerous biochemical mutants isolated by G. Prévost. The work mainly focused on the study of the pyrimidine and arginine pathways. The fine structure map of the ur-1 complex locus was determined. This locus is composed of two genes belonging to a single transcription unit. These two genes, as in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, control the first two stages of the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway. In Coprinus, as in Neurospora crassa , the results obtained led to a model whereby carbamyl-phosphate would be produced by two enzymatic complexes having different cellular localizations: mitochondrial for the enzymes of the arginine chain and cytoplasmic for those of the pyrimidine chain. However, under certain conditions, “decanalization” of the carbamyl-phosphate from arginine biosynthesis could take place. All these studies advanced knowledge on the biology of a representative species of Basidiomycetes. In addition, metabolic regulation circuits identified could be compared with equivalent circuits of relatively close species belonging to Ascomycetes or to more distant prokaryotic and eukaryotic species. In total, twenty-seven articles were published and thirteen thesis defended by sixteen searchers on Coprinus in the laboratory until the late 1980’s, the last subject concerning genetic instabilities. Unfortunately, the research topics on Coprinus radiatus have been poorly recognized internationally as nearly all papers were published in French journals, mainly in "Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences". In addition, research on this fungus was stopped just before the emergence of molecular biology that would go on to benefit a closely-related fungus, Coprinus cinereus.
Evolution and end of the Gans-Prévost team
Besides their research activity, Madeleine Gans and Georges Prévost were also significantly involved in teaching genetics. In 1956, they participated to the creation of a new postgraduate course. In 1968, Georges Prévost was promoted professor filling the Chair of General Biology at the new Faculty of Sciences of Orsay and setting up his team in the Genetics Institute of this campus. Madeleine Gans joined the new Molecular Genetics Centre (CGM) at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, marking their separation. Subsequently, Madeleine Gans stopped working on the Coprinus model.
Maternal-effect mutants
As of 1970, Madeleine Gans returned to the Drosophila model and immersed herself and her whole team, collaborators and students, with great enthusiasm, in the identification and analysis of mutants involved in development. The application of genetics methodology for understanding developmental processes had been clearly proposed previously. Thus, in the introduction of their 1936 paper, G.W. Beadle and B. Ephrussi wrote: "Probably the one factor which has played the most significant role in retarding progress in this field is the fact that relatively little is known from a developmental point of view about those organisms that have been studied most thoroughly from the genetic point of view, and on the other hand, little is known genetically in those organisms that have been most studied from the developmental point of view. One of the two obvious (and alternative) ways of overcoming this difficulty would be to study development in a genetically well-characterized organism. Drosophila, with its numerous mutant types, offers a favourable opportunity for a study of this kind". In his seminal 1963 paper, Ed. Lewis highlighted the strength of genetic analysis for the study of developmental pathways in Drosophila. He went on to report on the genetic analysis of bithorax mutants affecting the adult pattern of body segments along the antero-posterior axis. In France, Madeleine Gans clearly initiated the genetic approach to the analysis of development. Her work was based on what was known about Drosophila oogenesis In fact, the oocyte is a large cell polarized along the antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axis, prefiguring the same axis in the embryo, larva and adult. This polarization, present before fertilization, was postulated to result from the presence, in the cytoplasm of the oocyte, of substances deposited under control of genes acting in the female during oogenesis, the so-called “maternal-effect genes”. At this time, a few papers had described localized defects of blastoderm formation in mutants of such maternal-effect genes. In addition, in Drosophila, germ cells are the first cells to be formed at the posterior pole of the oocyte and this depends on the integrity of posterior polar plasma; removal of this polar plasma leads to flies devoid of germ cells and thus to sterile adults. A grandchildless mutant had already been described in Drosophila subobscura. Madeleine Gans and collaborators undertook several systematic mutagenesis using Ethyl-Methane-Sulfonate (EMS) to screen for such female-sterile mutations linked to the X chromosome, leading to specific anomalies in the embryo, larva or adult specifically. From more than 1000 lines examined, 93 mutants were isolated corresponding to 58 genes on the X chromosome. Mutations in 30 of these genes led to sterile females laying no eggs or eggs unable to develop. Mutations in the remaining 28 genes led to sterile females laying morphologically normal eggs whose development began normally but was arrested at a subsequent step. It was postulated that this class of mutants might affect synthesis or deposition during oogenesis of maternal products involved in the constitution and polarization of the oocyte. Subsequent analysis was performed in Gans laboratory by collaborators and students. A lot of phenotypic heterogeneity was observed in the mutants recovered with no defect affecting any specific structure. Though in most cases, development arrested before gastrulation, in some cases, it went on into organogenesis before arrest. Two grandchildless mutant lines were obtained, the mutant females giving viable but sterile adult progeny. In those grandchildless mutants, the absence of germ cells was often accompanied with other defects affecting posterior structures in the adult progeny. Only later, at the end of the 1980’s, would this absence of specificity be understood. Indeed, maternal-effect genes encode determinants distributed in density gradients each covering different broad regions of the early embryo, thereby explaining that, in mutants, anomalies affect different large regions of the embryo rather than specific organs. Madeleine Gans work was pioneering as her screens involved five steps to identify recessive female-sterile mutations and an additional one to recover grandchildless mutations. The few teams in the world also performing screens for female-sterile mutations at the same time were not implementing this additional step in their screen strategies. Subsequently, other screens for maternal-effect mutations affecting embryonic pattern formation were performed in a number of laboratories
. In parallel, systematic screens for zygotic mutations affecting embryonic pattern formation along antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axis were also undertaken by others, and the ground-breaking results obtained confirmed the strength of the genetic approach for the analysis of development. This was universally recognized with the awarding of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Ed. Lewis, C. Nüsslein-Volhard and E. Wieschaus.
The ovoD mutations and clonal analysis in the female germ line
Three dominant female-sterile mutants named ovoD were obtained in one of the mutagenesis screens cited above. Their striking properties were immediately recognized by Madeleine Gans. The sex-linked ovoD mutations are dominant, leading to complete sterility of females, while mutant males are entirely fertile. They are only active in the germ line but not in the somatic line of the female ovary. Further studies would go on to show that the ovoD products are implicated in the viability and sexual identity of the female germ line. Madeleine Gans understood the great advantage that these ovoD mutations offered to study the role in oogenesis of other sex-linked mutations on the X chromosome leading to zygotic lethality of X/X mutant flies. Heterozygous females such as ovoD X+/ovo+ Xm are totally sterile and do not lay eggs. However, mitotic recombination can produce twin germ-line clones, namely, ovoD X+/ovoD X+ clones and ovo+ Xm /ovo+ Xm clones, the latter being susceptible to give viable germ cells and thus possible progeny. The analysis of the phenotype of the putative progeny will give information on the possible germinal role of the X-linked mutations. Norbert Perrimon developed many of the potentialities afforded by this extremely useful genetic tool, first as a pre-doctoral student in Madeleine Gans’ laboratory, then during his thesis in Anthony Mahowald’s laboratory. Norbert Perrimon provided two major improvements to this technique. First, combining the ovoD mutation and the Flip-FRT recombination system from yeast allowed induction of germinal clones at a much higher frequency. Second, using P element transgenesis, the introduction of ovoD mutations on autosomal arms allowed the extension of germ-line clonal analysis to autosomal mutations. These genetic tools were used by all teams working on developmental genetics in Drosophila. An example of Madeleine Gans’ scientific intuition: analysis of the high frequency reversion of ovoD mutations (1983-2007)
High frequency reversion of ovoD mutations
In the course of her thorough analysis of the germ-line clone progeny using ovoD mutations, Madeleine Gans uncovered an unexpected phenomenon: some viable flies among the progeny did not result from mitotic recombination but rather from phenotypic reversion of ovoD mutations in the female germ line. The reversion event occurred with high frequency, up to 6% of ovoD/+ females producing such revertant clones. Moreover, this frequency depended on the genotype of the mothers giving ovoD/+ females. In these strains, the ovoD mutations were shown to be converted into ovo0 mutations behaving like loss of function mutations associated with recessive female sterility. Also, these reversions were often accompanied with other lethal or morphological mutations, arising either near the ovoD mutation (4%) or elsewhere on one of the two X chromosomes (5%). The reversion events never occurred in the male germ line.
From high frequency reversion to transposon mobilization
These properties, namely the high rate of ovoD reversion and the simultaneous occurrence of numerous lethal and morphological mutations, immediately suggested the mobilization of a transposable element. The authors proposed that the ovoD mutations corresponded to classical point mutations which were, in certain conditions, the target for the insertion of a transposable element. In 1989, Gans and collaborators showed that the mobilization of gypsy and copia transposons was able to induce ovoD reversions. The analysis was pursued in collaboration with Alain Bucheton and Alain Pélisson’s team and the conditions of the transposon mobilization were more precisely characterized. As suggested in the princeps paper, this mobilization depends on the genotype of the mothers of ovoD/+ females. The genetic element involved, that was named flamenco, is localized in the heterochromatin of the X chromosome. In most strains, gypsy is stable and does not transpose, and it was postulated that the presence of an allelic restrictive form of the flamenco locus, flamR, permits the repression of gypsy. In some strains, however, flamenco is present as an inactive permissive form, flamP, which cannot repress gypsy: gypsy is unstable and transposes at a high frequency in the germ line of the daughters of flamP/flamP homozygous females. A. Bucheton and A. Pélisson’s team as well as V. Corces’ team, were able to further characterize the conditions of gypsy mobilization.
The control of transposon mobilization by piRNAs: an up-to-date story
Where was the flamenco locus exactly and how did it function precisely? A lot of studies were performed to answer these questions by a relatively small community of scientists. The subject then took on an international dimension when it merged with the extensive small RNA world The first data concerning the locus were published by A. Bucheton and A. Pélisson’s team and Chantal Vaury’s team. They showed that the flamenco locus (also named COM for « Centre Organisateur de Mobilisation ») was involved in the control of many other transposons, besides gypsy and copia, such as ZAM and Idefix. They localized it to a 130kb region in the B pericentromeric heterochromatin of the X chromosome. In 2007, G.J. Hannon’s team published a systematic analysis of the genomic localization of piwiRNA (piRNA) sequences recovered from Drosophila ovaries. They identified the loci corresponding to the production sites of piRNAs, the major site being the flamenco/COM locus, composed of repetitions of fragments of retro-transposon sequences from several families, extending over a region of 179kb. From their analysis, the authors proposed that the flamenco locus is a platform generating long antisense precursor transcripts, which are then cleaved into small RNAs and charged with Piwi protein. Hybridization of the small RNAs to the transcripts of active transposons present in the genome will lead to transposon silencing. In conclusion, the story of the analysis of ovoD mutations illustrates how the mastery of the genetic methodology by Madeleine Gans, and her scientific intuition, opened the promising paths offered by those mutants, both for the development of clonal analysis in the female germ line and for the discovery of small RNA control of transposon mobilization. Therefore, she laid the foundations for studies still active today, several decades after the initial work.
Life in Madeleine Gans’ laboratory, a landscape of genetic research in France from the seventies to the nineties
From 1970 onwards, Madeleine Gans’ laboratory expanded considerably. Several students who defended their thesis on the Coprinus projects followed Madeleine Gans in her conversion to the Drosophila model and established independent groups thereafter. Numerous doctoral and postdoctoral students joined her laboratory in the following years. Madeleine Gans’ notoriety attracted brilliant young researchers such as Eric Wieschaus who spent several months in her laboratory in 1975 on an EMBO short-term fellowship to study fs(1) mutants and Norbert Perrimon who started the ovoD clonal analysis during his 1983 pre-doctoral rotation with her. Madeleine Gans welcomed foreign researchers with the aim to enrich her own research with their particular expertise. They constituted active groups in her laboratory. Marco Zalokar was there from 1969 to 1984, bringing his expertise on nuclear transplantation and cell manipulation. Pedro Santamaria, a student of Antonio Garcia-Bellido, brought both the clonal analysis methodology and the study of homeotic genes. He formed an independent group from 1975 to 2008 publishing numerous articles (about 30) and directing a number of thesis. Patricia Simpson spent five years from 1976 to 1981, bringing her expertise on clonal analysis, as well as topics around cellular growth and division, and actively collaborating with foreign researchers, namely R. Nöthiger, G. Morata, and P.A. Lawrence. As it was the period of the emergence of molecular biology, Madeleine Gans attracted two developmental biochemists from Belgium, Hermann Denis and Maurice Wegnez. They entered the CGM in 1975 but chose to pursue work on amphibian models rather than Drosophila and thus constituted independent groups. Madeleine Gans exerted a non-hierarchical direction of her team. She never showed any obvious career ambition. Her sole motivation was science, experiments, and discoveries. She spent a lot of time at the bench, crossing and examining flies, with her famous slow-burning long-ash cigarette despite the presence of ether used to put the flies to sleep. She had a special and quick intelligence for genetics, able to follow the results of several-generation complicated cross schemes directly in her mind, leaving her students far behind. When experiments went well, she sang, " à tue-tête" (at the top of her lungs), « Toreador » for a good result and « C’est la lutte finale » for an exceptional result. Surely, it was the latter she sang when she discovered ovoD mutations! She was a very cheerful and gay person, transmitting her enthusiasm to every person working with her, researchers, students, technical assistants, thus conferring a congenial ambience in the lab. Madeleine Gans recruited many women, perhaps because she got along better with them, or possible, because girl, more than boy, students preferred a laboratory directed by a woman. She spoke very approximate English but this never prevented her from establishing fruitful interactions with English-speaking researchers. However, she did not like to put herself ahead preferring to send her students to international meetings rather than going herself. Also, she possessed high ideals for ethical and humanist considerations. She was always very aware of the personal difficulties that her students or researchers might be undergoing. It is worth to place Madeleine Gans’ research in the larger context of scientific politics in France. From the end of fifties, the French government invested in scientific activity, especially in the biological sciences, creating positions and opportunities for young people. The CGM in Gif-sur-Yvette was created in 1967 as a CNRS institute. It was first directed by Boris Ephrussi until 1971, then by Piotr Slonimski, a yeast geneticist, until 1991. As the director of the CGM, Slonimski constantly supported Madeleine Gans’ research (Fig. 4). They had been acquainted since a long time, since they were both students of Ephrussi at the IBPC. They mutually appreciated each other, despite their very different characters. Piotr Slonimski had a real admiration for Madeleine Gans. She told us that, against her will, he had submitted her candidature to the French Académie des Sciences. She was elected as a corresponding member in 1987 but she confessed that she had never participated to assemblies. Madeleine Gans retired from teaching in 1990 and from the laboratory in 1994. She spent the remaining years of her life in a small pleasant house full of plants and flowers in Gif-sur-Yvette, not far from the laboratory. She died on April 18th 2018 at 97 years of age. Some months later, in the new Integrative Biology Institute replacing the CGM in Gif-sur-Yvette, a warm symposium focused on "Developmental genetics: the impact of Drosophila" was held in her memory. Several generations of students and eminent biologists who had been marked by their interaction with Madeleine Gans presented the recent advances of paths she had forged.
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Awards and honors
in 1987 Gans was named a correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Does the olfactory nerve pass through the cribriform plate?
Does the olfactory nerve pass through the cribriform plate?
The cribriform plate is here. The filaments of the olfactory nerve, here they are in close-up, pass through the cribriform plate and run just beneath the mucous membrane to reach nerve endings in this olfactory area on the lateral and medial surfaces of the nasal cavity.
What Fibres does the olfactory nerve have?
The Cranial Nerves for Smell and Vision. Cranial nerve I, the olfactory nerve, is actually a plexus of thin fibers that unite in about twenty small bundles called fila olfactoria. The olfactory receptors are situated in the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity.
What nerve passes through the cribriform plate?
the olfactory nerves
Function. The cribriform plate is perforated by olfactory foramina, which allow for the passage of the olfactory nerves to the roof of the nasal cavity. This conveys information from smell receptors to the brain.
What is found within the olfactory foramina of the cribriform plate?
cribriform foramina openings in the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, transmitting approximately 20 bundles of nerve fibers that collectively constitute the olfactory nerve (CN I).
Are olfactory bulbs superior or inferior to the cribriform plate?
Olfactory Receptors. The olfactory bulb lies on the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone. In this location it is inferior to medial aspects of the frontal lobe (Fig.
Which of the following bones contains the cribriform plate which is involved in olfaction smell and the perpendicular plate which forms the majority of the nasal septum?
The cribriform plate is the portion of the ethmoid bone that forms the roof of the nasal cavity. This narrow bony structure contains deep grooves known as olfactory fossa, which supports the olfactory bulb.
Which bone structure has the Cribriform Foramina for the olfactory nerves?
the ethmoid bone
1 Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone. It is through the cribriform plate that the olfactory nerve fibers reach the nasal fossa.
Where are the olfactory receptor neurons located?
nasal epithelium
Olfactory sensory neurons, located in the nasal epithelium, detect and transmit odorant information to the central nervous system. This requires that these neurons form specific neuronal connections within the olfactory bulb and express receptors and signaling molecules specific for these functions.
Where are olfactory nerves located?
The olfactory nerve divides into two branches. These are: Lateral olfactory nerves- located in the superior nasal concha. Medial olfactory nerves- located along the nasal septum.
What is the purpose of the cribriform plate?
This bone, the cribriform plate, transmits the olfactory nerves that carry the sense of smell.
How does the structure of the olfactory nerves differ from the other cranial nerves?
In which ways does the olfactory nerve (N I) differ from the other cranial nerves? A) It contains somatic motor as well as autonomic components. B) The olfactory tract is actually a part of the cerebrum, and not truly a nerve.
What does the cribriform plate articulate with?
It is located between the orbits, centered on the midline. It articulates with thirteen bones: the frontal, sphenoid, nasals, maxillae, lacrimals, palatines, inferior nasal conchae, and vomer.
What are the 3 types of cells associated with the olfactory epithelium and what are their functions?
The olfactory epithelium consists of 3 cell types: basal, supporting, and olfactory receptor cells. Basal cells are stem cells that give rise to the olfactory receptor cells (seen in the image below). The continuous turnover and new supply of these neurons are unique to the olfactory system.
What structure does the olfactory nerve innervate?
Olfactory nerve (CN I) Cranial nerve 1 is a special somatic afferent nerve which innervates the olfactory mucosa within the nasal cavity. It carries information about smell to the brain.
What is unique about the olfactory nerve and its neurons?
The olfactory nerves (cranial nerve I) are unique in that their cell bodies lie in the olfactory epithelium (the surface membrane lining the upper parts of the nasal passages), each sending a nerve fibre back to the brain.
How is the cribriform plate involved and what cranial nerve is formed?
The cribriform plate roofs the nasal cavities, and because it is perforated by many tiny foramina it looks like a sieve. Olfactory nerves (cranial nerve 1) perforate this plate as they pass up to the brain from the mucous lining of the nose.
What type of cells are found in the olfactory mucosa?
Olfactory mucosa lines the roof and portions of the walls of the nasal cavity. It contains several cell types: basal cells, brush cells, olfactory cells and sustentacular cells. Basal cells are located in the basal lamina. Brush cells are involved with general sensation of the olfactory mucosa.
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Albania Ali Pasha of Tepelen (b. about 1750), an able, cruel and unscrupulous man, subdued the neighbouring pashas and chiefs, crushed the Suliotes and Khimarrhotes, and exercised a practically independent sovereignty from the Adriatic to the Aegean. He introduced comparative civilization at Iannina, his capital, and maintained direct relations with foreign powers. Eventually he renounced his allegiance to the sultan, but was overthrown by a Turkish army in 1822. Shortly afterwards the dynasty of Scutari came to an end with the surrender of Mustafa Pasha, the last of the house of Bushat, to the grand vizier Reshid Pasha, in 1831.
The opposition of the Albanians, Christian as well as Moslem, to the reforms introduced by the sultan Mahmud II. led to the devastation of the country and the expatriation of thousands of its inhabitants. During the next half-century several local revolts occurred, but no movement of a strictly political character took place till after the Berlin Treaty (July 13, 1878), when some of the Moslems and Catholics combined to resist the stipulated transference of Albanian territory to Austria-Hungary, Servia and Montenegro) and the Albanian League was formed by an assemblage of chiefs at Prizren. The movement, which was instigated by the Porte with the object of evading the provisions of the treaty, was so far successful that the restoration of Plava and Gusinye to Albania was sanctioned by the powers, Montenegro receiving in exchange the town and district of Dulcigno. The Albanian leaders, however, soon displayed a spirit of independence, which proved embarrassing to Turkish diplomacy and caused alarm at Constantinople; their forces came into conflict with a Turkish army under Dervish Pasha near Dulcigno (November 1880), and eventually the league was suppressed. A similar agitation on a smaller scale was organized in southern Albania to resist the territorial concessions awarded by the powers to Greece. In the spring of 1903 serious disturbances took place in north-western Albania, but the Turks succeeded in pacifying the revolted tribesmen, partly by force and partly by concessions. These movements were far from displaying a genuinely national character. In recent years attempts have been made by Albanians resident abroad to propagate the national idea among their compatriots at home; committees have been formed at Brussels, Bucharest, Athens and elsewhere, and books, pamphlets and newspapers are surreptitiously sent into the country. Unity of aim and effort, however, seems foreign to the Albanians, except in defence of local or tribal privileges. The growth of a wider patriotic sentiment must depend on the spread of popular education; certainly up to 1908 no appreciable progress had been made in this direction.
.—F. C. H. Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grèce (Paris, 1820); W. M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (London, 1835); J. G. von Hahn, Albanesische Studien (Jena, 1854), Reise durch die Gebiete des Drin und Vardar (Vienna, 1867); F. Bopp, Über das Albanesische (Berlin, 1854); J. P. Fallmerayer, Das albanesische Element in Griechenland (Munich, 1864); N. Camarda, Saggio di grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese (Leghorn, 1865); Viscountess Strangford, The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic (London, 1865); H. F. Tozer, Researches in the Highlands of Turkey (London, 1869); F. Miklosich, Albanes. Forschungen (Vienna, 1870); C. Hopf, Chroniques gréco-romaines inédites ou peu connues (Berlin, 1873); H. Hecquard, Histoire et description de la Haute Albanie ou Guégarie (Paris, undated); S. Gopchevich, Oberalbanien und seine Liga (Leipzig, 1881); V. Tajani, Le Istoria Albanesi (Salerno, 1886); G. Gelchich, La Zedda e la dinastia dei Balshi (Spalato, 1899); S. Lambros, in the (Athens, 1896); Theodore Ippen “Beiträge zur inneren Geschichte der Turkei im 19. Jahrhundert speciell Albaniens,” in the Österreichisch-Ungarische Revue, vol. xxviii.; A. Philippson, Thessalia und Epirus (Berlin, 1897). See also Murray’s Greece, ed. 1900, pp. 720-731 and 760-814, and Blue-book Turkey, No. 15, Part ii., 1886.
ALBANUS LACUS (mod. Lago di Albano), a lake about 12 m. S.E. of Rome. It is generally considered to have been formed by a volcanic explosion at the margin of the great crater of the Albanus Mons; it has the shape of a crater, the banks of which are over 400 ft. in height from the water-level, while the water is as much as 560 ft. deep in the S. portion. It is fed by subterranean springs. According to the legend, the emissarium (outlet) which still drains it was made in 398–397, the Delphic oracle having declared that Veii could only be taken when the waters of the lake reached the sea. It is over a mile in length, hewn in the rock, and about 6 ft. high and 4 ft. broad; it has vertical shafts at intervals, and a sluice chamber at its egress from the lake. In the time of Domitian the whole lake belonged to the imperial domain. (See .) ALBANUS MONS (mod. Monte Cavo, from an early city of the name of Cabum? ), the highest point of the volcanic Alban hills, about 13 m. S.E. of Rome, 3115 ft. above sea-level. It is upon the line of the rim of the inner crater of the great volcano, while Tusculum and Algidus Mons mark the edge of the earlier outer crater, which was about 7 m. wide. The lakes of Albano and Nemi were probably formed by volcanic explosions at the margin of the great crater; though a view has also been expressed that the basins are the result of subsidence. The name Albanus Mons is also used generally of the Alban group of hills in which there seem to have been some remains of volcanic activity in early Roman times, which covered the early necropolis of Alba Longa, and occasionally produced showers of stones, e.g. in the time of Tullus Hostilius (Liv. i. 31), and perhaps much later. In 193 it is recorded (ib. xxxv. 9) that such a shower occurred at Aricia, Lanuvium and on the Aventine. Upon the Mons Albanus stood the temple of Jupiter Latiaris, where the annual festival of the Latin League was held. The foundations and some of the architectural fragments of the temple were still in existence until 1777, when they were used to build the Passionist monastery by Cardinal York. The road which ascended to the temple from the rim of the lake is still well preserved. ALBANY, DUKES OF. The territorial designation of Albany was formerly given to those parts of Scotland to the north of the firths of Clyde and Forth. The title of duke of Albany was first bestowed in 1398 by King Robert III. on his brother, Robert Stewart, earl of Fife (see I. below); but in 1425 it became extinct. The dukedom was re-created, c. 1458, in favour of Alexander Stewart, “lord of Annandale and earl of March” (see II. below), whose son and successor (see III. below) left no legitimate heir. The title of duke of Albany was next bestowed upon Henry Stuart, commonly known as Lord Darnley, by Mary, queen of Scots, in 1565. From him the title passed to his son, James VI. of Scotland and I. of England. The title was by him given, at his birth, to Charles, his second son, afterwards King Charles I. By Charles II. it was again bestowed, in 1660, on James, duke of York, afterwards King James II. On the 5th of July 1716 Ernest Augustus, bishop of Osnaburgh [Osnabrück] (1715–1728), youngest brother of King George I., was created duke of York and Albany, the title becoming extinct on his death without heirs in 1728. On the 1st of April 1760 Prince Edward Augustus, younger brother of King George III., was created duke of York and Albany; he died without heirs on the 17th of September 1767. On the 29th of November 1784 the title of duke of York and Albany was again created in favour of Frederick, second son of George III., who died without heirs on the 5th of January 1827. The title of duke of Albany was bestowed on the 24th of May 1881 on Prince Leopold, youngest son of Queen Victoria (see IV. below).
I., duke of Albany (c. 1345–1420), regent of Scotland, was a son of King Robert II. by his mistress, Elizabeth Mure, and was legitimatized when his parents were married about 1349. In 1361 he married Margaret, countess of Menteith, and after his widowed sister-in-law, Isabel, countess of Fife, had recognized him as her heir, he was known as the earl of Fife and Menteith. Taking an active part in the government of the kingdom, the earl was made high chamberlain of Scotland in 1382, and gained military reputation by leading several plundering expeditions into England. In 1389 after his elder brother John, earl of Carrick, had been incapacitated by an accident, and when his father the king was old and infirm, he was chosen governor of Scotland by the estates; and he retained the control of affairs after his brother John became king as Robert III. in 1390. In April 1398 he was created duke of Albany;
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Overview of Microtia Deformity of the Ear
microtia
Microtia is an ear deformity that occurs once in every 6,000-12,000 births. There are several degrees of microtia, ranging from a portion of the external ear missing to the complete absence of an external ear. When there is a microtia present, there is usually no ear canal present. This is called atresia.
A child with a microtia and atresia will usually have normal sensorineural hearing and moderate to severe conductive hearing loss. All this means is that the child’s inner ear is normal (normal sensorineural status), but because there is no ear canal, there is no way for sound to “conduct” to the inner ear via the ear canal. When hearing loss occurs because of an outer or middle ear problem, this is called conductive hearing loss. When hearing loss occurs because of an inner ear problem, this is called sensorineural hearing loss.
It is felt that microtia may be caused by ischemia or decreased blood flow during development.
Luckily, the inner ear (the location of the hearing and balance organs) forms at a different time as the outer and middle ears. As a result, the inner ear will function at a normal level, even in a child with a microtia. The kidneys develop about the same time as the ears, so an evaluation is commonly done prior to leaving the hospital after birth. Microtia is more common in Japanese and Navaho American Indians, and also more common in males. If only one ear is affected, it is more typically the right ear that is affected. About 10% of the time, both ears are involved. The chances of this condition recurring in a future pregnancy are less than 6%.
The first priority will be to test the child's hearing. In all cases, it is urgent to give the child maximum sound input to maximize brain development and speech development. A BAER (brain auditory evoked response) test will be recommended, with a behavioral hearing test when the baby is a bit older. A CT (computerized tomography) scan will also be done to determine the anatomy of the bony structures and middle and inner ears.
It Is Not the Parent's Fault
It is important to see a Genetics specialist in order to evaluate family history. Some children with microtia will have other conditions such as Goldenhar syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, and hemifacial microsomia (under-development of the structures on one side of the face). Children can have middle ear abnormalities as well. Dental and jaw abnormalities can also be associated with microtia.
There are various options to help the hearing status of children with microtia and atresia.
A bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) is an option for ear canal surgery to improve the hearing.
Treatment plans will be unique to each child because of the variation in this condition. An interdisciplinary team will need to work together to give the child the best-coordinated care. This team will consist of an otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat specialist), a plastic surgeon, an audiologist (hearing specialist), genetic specialist, a dentist, a speech therapist, and a pediatrician or pediatric nurse practitioner. In some cases, a social worker or psychologist can help support the family in coping with this condition and making decisions.
Even if one ear is unaffected and hearing well, a bone conduction hearing aid is recommended to provide auditory stimulation and promote auditory brain development on the affected side. Until the child is old enough for surgery, a bone conduction hearing aid can be worn on a headband-like strap.
Typically the child will be about 4-10 years of age if ear reconstruction surgery is done. The external ear will typically be reconstructed, sometimes using a piece of rib bone to form the structure of the ear. This external ear is allowed to heal for several months before the second-stage surgery to create the ear canals.
If children also have defects of the middle ear (such as Treacher-Collins Syndrome) the reconstructive surgery of the ear canal may not improve hearing. An option may be a bone-anchored hearing aid that is ideal for a child who has middle-ear problems but an intact inner ear and nerve structure to the brain.
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Yu Jing (born 22 September 1983) is a Chinese ice sledge hockey player.
At the 2022 Winter Paralympics, Yu became the third female para ice hockey player at the Winter Paralympic Games after Norwegians Britt Mjaasund Øyen and Lena Schrøder and the first Chinese woman to do so. She was also a member of China's bronze medal-winning team in para ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, thus becoming the second woman to win a Paralympic medal in this sport.
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Project: Forensic Science: Building Your Own Tool for Identifying DNA
Scientist: Sandra Slutz
Science Buddies' Difficulty Level: 7-9
Sometimes, when I'm supposed to be sitting down and concentrating on a task, my mind wanders. You never know what will come of those momentary mental strolls. In this case, the result was a pretty cool Do-It-Yourself project to build one of the very basic tools used in a biotechnology lab: an electrophoresis chamber.
I was supposed to be working on a science project called Investigate Native Plant Evolution with Chloroplast Sequencing. The project shows students how to harvest plants indigenous to the area in which they live, extract DNA from the plants, and then sequence the DNA. Then (drum roll for the really awesome part) if the sequence is new, meaning if no one has ever recorded that information before, they can submit the data to GenBank — the public gene sequence data bank — for scientists worldwide to see and use!
The only downside to the project is that it requires access to some specific biotechnology equipment. As I started to write down the list of materials and equipment that the project calls for, I asked myself, "Hey, I wonder if you can build any of this stuff yourself?"
From there my mind went racing through a list of possibilities. What I finally settled on was an electrophoresis chamber, the fancy title for a box that you pass current through to separate DNA into different size pieces and get a look at those pieces. The electrophoresis chamber is one of the most common pieces of equipment in any biotech laboratory. Why? There are literally dozens of reasons, but here's an example:
Imagine you are working in a forensics lab trying to determine if the hair left at a crime scene belongs to any of the suspects. How would you do it? You would isolate DNA from the crime scene hair and some DNA from each suspect. Then you'd cut up each DNA sample using enzymes. When you cut the DNA this way, each person has his or her own unique pattern of pieces (similar to the way each person has a unique fingerprint—in fact the DNA pattern is referred to as a DNA fingerprint). To look at the DNA pattern, you would use an electrophoresis chamber. If one of the suspects' DNA pattern matched the crime scene hair's pattern, you'd be able to place that suspect at the scene of the crime.
As you can see, the electrophoresis chamber is an important tool for forensics research!
It turns out you can make a simple version of an electrophoresis chamber on your own kitchen counter using just a few household items like batteries, a plastic soap dish, some stainless steel wire, and baking soda.
Once you've built your electrophoresis chamber, you have lots of options for putting it to use. Don't feel up to processing DNA on your home-made electrophoresis chamber? No problem! You can use the same equipment to examine food dyes. Did you know that some of the primary colors (like red) in food dyes are actually blends of several colors? Can you guess which colors? Give it a try! You might just find yourself hooked on the power of kitchen biotech.
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152 chamber, saw him asleep, with the damsel by his side, and thought to slay her, but said in himself, ‘I will leave the damsel for myself.’ Then he went up to his brother and cutting his throat, severed his head from his body, after which he left him and went away. Therewithal the world was straitened upon him and his life was a light matter to him and he sought his father Suleiman Shah’s lodging, that he might slay him, but could not win to him. So he went forth from the palace and hid himself in the city till the morrow, when he repaired to one of his father’s strengths and fortified himself therein.
Meanwhile, the nurse awoke, that she might give the child suck, and seeing the bed running with blood, cried out; whereupon the sleepers and the king awoke and making for the place, found the child with his throat cut and the cradle running over with blood and his father slain and dead in his sleeping chamber. So they examined the child and found life in him and his windpipe whole and sewed up the place of the wound. Then the king sought his son Belehwan, but found him not and saw that he had fled; whereby he knew that it was he who had done this deed, and this was grievous to the king and to the people of his realm and to the lady Shah Katoun. So the king laid out his son Melik Shah and buried him and made him a mighty funeral and they mourned passing sore; after which he addressed himself to the rearing of the infant
As for Belehwan, when he fled and fortified himself, his power waxed amain and there remained for him but to make war upon his father, who had cast his affection
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Same language subtitling
Same language subtitling (SLS) refers to the practice of subtitling programs on TV in the same language as the audio. Initially introduced in the early 1970s as a means to make services available to the hard of hearing, closed captioning as it became known was standardized for Latin alphabets in the 1976 World System Teletext agreement. Non-Latin character set services have subsequently been introduced, and are used in India, and in China to also aid literacy.
In the mid-1980s Pioneer introduced a range of Laserdisc based Karaoke machines, with subtitled Music video playback combined with a Karaoke PA system, the concept was subsequently adapted for the 1986 multi-format Disney Sing-Along Songs series, and later transferred to the PlayStation 2, and subsequent games consoles, and has in parallel been adapted to classroom use of synchronized captioning of musical lyrics (or any text with an Audio and/or Video source) as a Repeated Reading activity.
The 1996 DVD-Video standard was published with support for up to 32 separate synchronised subtitling streams to be packaged with a video file.
Literacy promotion
This idea was struck upon by Brij Kothari, who believed that SLS makes reading practice an incidental, automatic, and subconscious part of popular TV entertainment, at a low per-person cost to shore up literacy rates in India.
Brij Kothari was watching a Spanish film on video with English subtitles during a break from dissertation writing in 1996 when the thought hit him that if all Hindi film songs were subtitled in Hindi, on television in India, it would bring about a revolution in literacy. Upon completion of his academic pursuits Kothari returned to India. In late 1996 he joined the faculty of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. While continuing to teach communication to MBA students, he started work on SLS and it became a project of IIM. The idea of SLS was first innovated, researched, pioneered and nationalized by the Centre for Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad under Kothari. The program took off on a national scale by August 2002.
Before Kothari's study, most available research on captioning had demonstrated limited results. As a direct result of Kothari's success with subtitled music video there are several new related studies using technology and music video that are also showing remarkable results.
Implementation
During the last 10 years in India, SLS has been implemented on Doordarshan's film song programmes in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, and Punjabi. For each language the subtitles are in the same language as the audio.
A 2002–2007 Nielsen-ORG study demonstrated that the ability to read a paragraph among schoolchildren jumped from 25% to 56% when exposed to 30 minutes a week of the Rangoli program with subtitles. Over 90% said they prefer having subtitles on songs owing to their interest in the lyrics.
The basic SLS reading activity involves students viewing a short subtitled presentation projected on-screen, while completing a response worksheet. Ideally, the subtitling should have high quality synchronization of audio and text, text should change colors in syllabic synchronization to audio model, and the source media should be dynamic and engaging.
Outside India
Chinese-language programmes are often subtitled, because speakers of other varieties of Chinese can read Standard Written Chinese, even if they cannot understand the spoken dialect. Hebrew language programming is also subtitled, mainly the imported programs on channels like Arutz Heyalim.
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What concerns should be understood about data communications being sent over wireless networks?
Discuss the pros and cons of one method of transmission, such as Wireless Application Protocol (Search the Internet for help in wireless networks).
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In the business environment, most companies or businesses rely on the computers wireless networks. This allows them to communicate vital information either to their clients, investors, suppliers or even internally between the manager and his subordinates or subordinates to subordinates. Information system security aims at protecting this information or information systems from unauthorized access, disruption, modification, disclosure, usage and destruction (Hossain et al., 2015).
The concerns that should be understood by individuals and companies about data transfer are the data security and data privacy as they try to send data via air through the wireless networks. Hackers have tried to penetrate network connections to spy, tamper and steal the information about companies, products, and customers and they can also change the information or make softwares dysfunction (Hossain et al., 2015).
Wireless Application Protocol
The wireless Application protocol is defined as a protocol in communication mostly for the purposes of data access wirelessly using networks of mobile wireless (Sarkar et al., 2016).
Pros
Wireless application protocol has enhanced the efficiency of data transfer since most of the of the network operators, hardware manufacturers and software application developers have worked to in co-operating WAP in their worldwide products in the bid of reaching as many users as possible. WAP has managed to add features like personalization and wireless telephony application which has improved the privacy level and users can even make calls using the application without needing to enter the telephone number. WAP is easier and cheaper to install especially in business setup since there is no need to buy and install internet cables. WAP offers a higher level of flexibility since the workers in an office-based wireless setup can network without sitting in a dedicated computer and be productive even while away from the office (Sarkar et al., 2016).
Cons
WAP is more exposed to attacks from unauthorized users who may tend to access information of individuals or companies requiring more expenses in security installations. WAP is slower and less efficient compared to wired networks and will, therefore, require a wired backbone network. WAP usually have a network coverage problem resulting in black sports where there are no signals for example in buildings with steel reinforcements. WAP has installation problems especially in areas where other wireless technologies are in use or radio interference exists which slows down the wireless communication (Sarkar et al., 2016).
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Hossain, M. M., Fotouhi, M., & Hasan, R. (2015, June). Towards an analysis of security issues, challenges, and open problems in the internet of things. In Services (SERVICES), 2015 IEEE World Congress on (pp. 21-28). IEEE.
Sarkar, S. K., Basavaraju, T. G., & Puttamadappa, C. (2016). Ad hoc mobile wireless networks: principles, protocols, and applications. CRC Press.
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MIDEAST STOCKS-Major Gulf markets rise as Aramco lifts Saudi index
Nov 3 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's stock market rose in early trade on Tuesday, supported by gains in Saudi Aramco after the oil giant posted a quarterly profit slump in line with analysts' estimate, while the Qatari index was on track to end three sessions of losses.
The kingdom's benchmark index .TASI edged up 0.2%, with the world's top oil producing company Saudi Aramco 2222.SE rising 0.6% after Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser pointed to early signs of recovery in the third quarter.
The company's quarterly profit was hit as the coronavirus crisis continued to choke demand and weigh on crude prices.
In Qatar, the index .QSI gained 0.9%, as most of the stocks were in positive territory, including petrochemical firm Industries Qatar IQCD.QA, which advanced 1.7%.
Dubai's main share index .DFMGI rose 0.3%, with Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) DISB.DU increasing 0.5%. The sharia-compliant lender on Monday completed the integration of Noor Bank with successful migration of all banking relations into DIB.
Among gainers, Dubai Investments DINV.DU traded up 0.9%, after the company reported a net profit of 213.1 million dirhams ($58.02 million) in the third quarter, up from 105.5 million dirhams a year earlier.
The Abu Dhabi index .ADI added 0.7%, led by a 1.1% rise in First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) FAB.AD and a 0.2% increase in telecoms firm Etisalat ETISALAT.AD.
FAB, the country's largest lender, announced its plan to carve out its existing payments business into a fully owned subsidiary with regional growth ambitions.
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Woolley Green, Berkshire
Woolley Green is a village to the west of Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England.
Location
Woolley Green is a ribbon development along Cherry Garden Lane in the extreme north-east corner of the civil parish of White Waltham in Berkshire. It sits just south of the Bath Road, immediately to the west of Junction 9b of the A404(M) and east of Littlewick Green. It is surrounded, on the north and west, by Maidenhead Thicket. The hamlet of Altwood adjoins it to the south.
Buildings
Interesting buildings in Woolley include Feens Farm, Woolley Hall and Woolley Grange. Feens Farm is the old manor house of Woolley Fiennes. It is said to be haunted by a Roman hunting dog, the 'Black Dog of Feens'. Woolley Hall became the manor house when it was built in the 1780s.
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Dental Implants as Ideal Solution for Missing Teeth
The most advanced method for the restoration of teeth is the dental implant. A small titanium rod (the actual implant) is connected to a dental crown which feels and looks natural. When you use this technique to replace your tooth, only the crown is seen whenever you smile or speak. The implant’s titanium post is fixed into the jawbone at the point of the tooth’s old root.
A few crowns or an entire arch of either upper or lower replacement teeth can be secured with two, four, or more implants. Patients and doctors prefer dental implants to replace one, a few, or all teeth.
Why choose dental implants?
It’s not attractive to have missing teeth in your smile, which could harm your health. Implants aren’t just necessary when patients are missing teeth; they are also a type of restorative dentistry that can aid in restoring a smile. Learn why dental implants are superior to other dental replacements.
1. Looks Natural
The natural teeth are connected to your jawbone via roots. In a similar fashion, implant teeth fuse firmly with the jawbone. Your newly-created tooth (or teeth) secured with implants will function and look identical to your teeth. They will feel and function like your teeth and look completely natural. Implanted teeth last for a long time.
It lets you take a bite, talk, and smile without worrying about your replacement teeth falling out. To gain an idea of the implant teeth price, you can ask your dentist or do a quick search on the web.
2. Prevents Bone Loss
Perhaps you aren’t aware of this, but as tooth loss occurs, we also lose bone. The bone needs to be stimulated regularly to maintain its health and ability to heal. The teeth are the source of stimulation to the jawbone. If a person loses a single tooth, the bone supporting that tooth begins to resorb.
If left untreated, this can make your face look older than it is and raise the likelihood of suffering from jaw fractures. Implants made by facilities like Elite Dentistry can prevent the loss of bone mass by connecting with the jawbone for stability. The other types of replacement teeth do not offer this benefit.
3. Lasts Long
Dental implants are a lasting treatment for tooth loss as they bind with the jawbone. Implants that replace teeth can last a very long time if appropriately maintained, whereas bridgework and removable dentures may require repair or replacement as time passes. This is why the option of tooth replacement is the least expensive in the long run.
4. Easy to Maintain
Denture implants in Austin require similar care to that of natural teeth. A daily brush and floss are necessary. However, like dentures, you will not need to apply lotions and glue or soak them for a long time. They won’t require fillings or root canals, like bridge teeth. Implants won’t break down, but gum disease can harm implants. Good oral hygiene, frequent dental check-ups, and cleanings are the best methods to prevent gum disease and ensure dental implants last for the rest of your life.
5. Safe for Adjacent Teeth
In contrast to other types of tooth replacement, dental implants don’t cause harm to the natural teeth situated close to the implanted tooth. The natural teeth on the opposite side of a tooth gap must support a bridge. This stresses neighboring teeth, making them more decay-prone.
Partially, dentures depend on natural teeth to support them; they can weaken over time. Implants are replacement teeth that function in isolation from the regular teeth around them and don’t rely on the support of their surrounding teeth.
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* Keep Notability is not about the content of the article (WP:CONTN), but about the subject. The German Wikipedia article lists 34 films, 23 of which have articles on German Wikipedia. She starred in 4 and had significant roles in 6, so she certainly meets WP:NACTOR. The German WP article also gives an alternate form of her name, Sascha Bogojevic, which brings up more Google results. Access to German language sources for the 1970s and 80s would no doubt give more sources. (The book which is currently the sole reference is not unknown - it's on Google Books, for one thing. It appears to only include one of her films, so is not a great reference, but it's certainly not unknown.) RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:21, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* And still all they offer is IMDb and "filmportal.de", neither of which are reliable sources. Trillfendi (talk) 16:37, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* Keep. A supporting role should not be dismissed as a "bit part". "40 years ago" doesn't matter – once notable, always notable. And the book cited as a reference is held by 124 libraries worldwide, according to Worldcat. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 16:32, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* A supporting role can be big or small, in this case clearly it's a smattering of unnotable "bit parts"–many of them uncredited. Not one of these. Really what's the point. Appearances doesn't = notability. Trillfendi (talk) 16:37, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* And the four starring roles? Hardly "bit parts". RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:09, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* "starring" without top billing in direct-to-video movies? Yeah ok. Trillfendi (talk) 20:44, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
* + Three of the four films in the article including two prominent roles were cinema releases in Germany in the 1970s before video was invented Atlantic306 (talk) 16:27, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
* Touche Coolabahapple (talk) 11:22, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:24, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
* Keep a simple check of the German language page for this person indicates that they are indeed notable and there is much room for expansion of the English language page. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 16:52, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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time it was decided to send over Irish troops to England, but the attempt to fill the ranks of English regiments with Irishmen was in great measure defeated by the firmness of the officers. The Irish soldiers were very unwilling to leave their own country, but Tyrconnel is said to have promised that they should be the king's bodyguard and have lands given them. Lady Tyrconnel was present at the birth of the Pretender on 10 June 1688 (Hist. MSS. Comm. 13th Rep. App. ii. 53), but rejoined her husband in Ireland later.
Shortly before James's flight from England Tyrconnel began to raise a large new force. Suitable officers could not be obtained in sufficient numbers, and commissions were given to many who had nothing to recommend them but their religion and their Irish names. As these troops were seldom paid, they could not be prevented from plundering. Trinity College was invaded and all horses and arms taken away (, p. 131). ‘It pleased God,’ said George Walker (True Account), ‘so to infatuate the counsels of my lord Tyrconnel that when the 3,000 men were sent to England to assist his master against the invasion of the prince of Orange, he took particular care to send away the whole regiment quartered in and about Londonderry.’ Tyrconnel told an envoy from Enniskillen that he could not restrain the rabble, and that if they persisted in resistance they must be prepared to see a general massacre of protestants in the northern counties (, Actions of the Enniskillen Men). This was just the way to make brave men resist. Tyrconnel sent Lord Antrim to occupy Londonderry, but the citizens refused to receive him and his disorderly followers. In the negotiations which followed with Mountjoy [see, first ], Tyrconnel did everything in his power to earn the name of ‘lying Dick Talbot’ which has been so freely given him by whig writers. For a moment William thought it possible to make terms with Tyrconnel, and perhaps the latter wavered. Richard Hamilton [q. v.] was sent over to sound him in January 1688–9, but it came to nothing, and Hamilton himself joined the jacobite ranks.
James landed at Kinsale on 12 March. Tyrconnel went to him at Cork on the 14th, and carried the sword of state before him when he entered Dublin on the 24th. He had hoisted over the castle a flag with the inscription, ‘Now or never, now and for ever.’ It was announced by proclamation that parliament would meet on 7 May, and James set out a few days later for Londonderry, leaving Tyrconnel in charge at Dublin. Writing to Louvois on 29 March 1689, Avaux observed that Tyrconnel was much less sanguine than James about the fall of Londonderry, and about the prevalence of Jacobite feeling in England. Avaux and Tyrconnel had advised James not to leave the capital, where they had him at their disposal, and could overrule Melfort [see, titular , (1649–1714)]. When James returned to Dublin he proposed to send Tyrconnel to the siege of Londonderry ‘to make the more noise’ (, i. 58), but he did not go, probably on account of his health. Just before the meeting of parliament Tyrconnel sat for a day with Avaux, Melfort, Fitton, Nugent, and Nagle to decide upon the measures to be passed. All Avaux's suggestions were adopted, and James approved of everything (, p. 63). Among the measures so hatched were the repeal of the act of settlement and the attainder of 2,455 protestant landowners. A few days later Tyrconnel was ill again, Avaux attributing this to his vexation at Melfort's ascendency over the king. Avaux got on very well with Tyrconnel, who, he said, was as zealous for King Louis as any French viceroy could be, being convinced that nothing could be done without his help. In July James made Tyrconnel a duke. In September the fellows of Trinity College were turned out to make room for a garrison of foot, and a Roman catholic priest was, by Tyrconnel's advice, made provost (, p. 134). Though still ill, Tyrconnel went to Drogheda, where he assembled twenty thousand men to keep Schomberg in check (, p. 17). The English army was much reduced by sickness, and made no progress, but the Irish officers spent the winter feasting in Dublin instead of making their ground good. The result was that Schomberg took Charlemont as soon as he could move in the early spring of 1690 (Macariæ Excidium, p. 41). Tyrconnel succeeded in getting rid of Justin Maccarthy [q. v.], who was his most powerful opponent, and who was chosen to take six thousand Irishmen to France in exchange for the French troops brought by Lauzun. Writing to Avaux on 22 March 1689–90, Tyrconnel remarked that Lauzun would be a long time getting to the front if he waited at Cork for everything needful.
Avaux's great object had been to get rid of Melfort, and Lauzun was not much better pleased with Dover [see, first ]. Acting on instructions from Louvois, Lauzun told James that he could not attend his council because he spoke no English. To meet the difficulty, James
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Ex-Reagan political director supports Clinton over Trump
Washington (CNN)A former Ronald Reagan political director says he's voting for Hillary Clinton, rejecting the Republican nominee for the first time in 40 years. Frank Lavin, who was Reagan's political director from 1987 to 1989, became the latest GOP official -- following Reps. Scott Rigell and Richard Hanna and operatives like former Jeb Bush aide Sally Bradshaw and ex-Chris Christie communications aide Maria Comella -- to announce he won't back Donald Trump. And former GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman -- CEO of Hewlett Packard -- says she will vote for and donate money to Hillary Clinton. "It might not be entirely clear that Hillary Clinton deserves to win the presidency, but it is thunderingly clear that Donald Trump deserves to lose," Lavin wrote in an op-ed for CNN. "From this premise, I will do something that I have not done in 40 years of voting: I will vote for the Democratic nominee for president," he wrote. "The depressing truth of the Republican nominee is that Donald Trump talks a great game but he is the emperor who wears no clothes." Lavin also worked in the Commerce Department for George H.W. Bush and as US ambassador to Singapore, and then in George W. Bush's under secretary of Commerce for international trade. His announcement comes amid consternation within the GOP over Trump's attack on the parents of a slain US soldier and his refusal last week to endorse several key Republican figures -- though he reversed coursed and endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Sen. John McCain and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte Friday night in Wisconsin. Note: Frank Lavin is the brother of Carl Lavin, Vice President of News and Opinion at CNN Digital.
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Computer controlled optical tracking system
A system for tracking a target comprises an acquisition sight used by a pilot of an aircraft to acquire and begin tracking the target. Once the pilot acquires the target an operator can use a track handle to track the target. The operator monitors the target utilizing narrow and wide field of view monitors. A computer receives azimuth and elevation data from the tracking device which may be the acquisition sight, track handle, a video tracking system or a tracking radar coupled to an infrared display system. The computer then processes the azimuth and elevation data and provides azimuth and elevation angle signals to a gimbal mirror interface which steers the gimballed mirror to the target. The gimballed mirror receives image forming light from the target and then directs the image forming light to a wide field of view camera and a zoom telescope. The wide field of view camera is connected to the wide field of view monitor to display the target on the wide field of view monitor. The zoom telescope provides a narrow field of view image which is directed to a narrow field of view camera which is connected to the narrow field of view monitor allowing the narrow field of view image of the target to be displayed. The airborne video tracking system also provides for the automatic calibration of the gimballed mirror, the acquisition sight and the infrared display system.
Inventors:
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-- Palestinian Abbas Pares His Statehood Aspirations at UN
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas appeared to put off efforts to achieve full
statehood at the United Nations as he told the world body time
is running out for a lasting peace with Israel . The 77-year-old Abbas, facing a cash crisis at home,
returned today to the setting where last year he waved an
application for statehood recognition from the podium of the
United Nations General Assembly . This time, Abbas is seeking a
limited upgrade from observer “entity” to “non-member state”
in the 193-member General Assembly. Abbas offered no timeline and gave little sense of urgency,
an indication he will hold off on any new initiatives until
after the U.S. elections in November. “We have begun intensive consultations with various
regional organizations and member states aimed at having the
General Assembly adopt a resolution considering the State of
Palestine as a non-member state of the United Nations during
this session,” Abbas said in the UN hall. “In our endeavor, we do not seek to delegitimize an
existing State -- that is Israel; but rather to assert the state
that must be realized -- that is Palestine,” he said in the
English text of his remarks. While becoming a non-member state may open the door for the
Palestinian Authority to sign treaties such as the Rome Statute
that set up the International Criminal Court , it would alienate
the U.S., the UN’s biggest financial contributor and a key aid
donor to the Palestinians. Funds Cut When the Palestinian Authority was accepted last year into
the UN cultural agency Unesco, best known for its designation of
“world heritage” sites, the U.S. response was to cut off
funding that provides almost a quarter of the agency’s budget.
The U.S. has said that American law would require similar
cutoffs for any UN agency that grants the Palestinians the same
status as member states. “Developments over the past year have confirmed what we
have persistently drawn attention to and warned of: the
catastrophic danger of the racist Israeli settlement of our
country, Palestine,” Abbas said today. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke less
than an hour later, he responded, “We won’t solve our conflict
with libelous speeches at the UN. We won’t solve our conflict
with unilateral declarations of statehood.” ‘Mutual Compromise’ “We have to sit together, negotiate together, and reach a
mutual compromise, in which a demilitarized Palestinian state
recognizes the one and only Jewish state,” Netanyahu said. Still, Netanyahu, who last year devoted his rhetoric to
fending off the Palestinian statehood bid, this year focused
most of his attention on convincing the leaders gathered that
military action may be required to stop Iran’s nuclear program
from advancing. The dispute over Iran has drawn attention away from the
difficulties facing the Palestinians. Deteriorating economic conditions in the West Bank have
fueled social-welfare protests. In the Gaza Strip , the
Palestinians say the situation is becoming untenable. Palestinians are also no closer to achieving statehood,
either in terms of territory or UN recognition, and the Israeli-
Palestinian peace process is moribund. No ‘Serious’ Talks Abbas acknowledged as much today, attacking Netanyahu for
not wanting to engage in “serious” peace negotiations. The
last round of direct talks broke down in 2010 over the issue of
limiting Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas. In what appeared to be a gesture to Netanyahu, Abbas cited
the Holy Land’s connection to Muhammed, Jesus and Abraham. Last
year he omitted Abraham, the biblical progenitor of both Jews
and Muslims, from his UN address -- a slight noted by Netanyahu
when he said, “We are both sons of Abraham.” Expressing “anger” at the state of affairs, Abbas said
chances for a two-state solution were disappearing. UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week also said “the door may
be closing” on that option. “Despite all the complexities of the prevailing reality
and all the frustrations that abound, we say before the
international community: there is still a chance -- maybe the
last -- to save the two-state solution and to salvage peace,”
Abbas said. -- With assistance from Fadwa Hodali in Ramallah
Editors: Larry Liebert, Terry Atlas To contact the reporters on this story:
Flavia Krause-Jackson in United Nations at
fjackson@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
John Walcott at
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10.1016/0301-4622(74)80034-7 Revzin, Arnold Arnold Revzin Neumann, Eberhard Eberhard Neumann Conformation changes in rRNA induced by electric impulses 1974 2018-07-24T12:59:33Z 2018-07-24T12:59:33Z journal_article https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/1774401 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/1774401.json urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17744019 bytes application/pdf We have investigated the effects of electric field pulses (of about 44 kV/cm magnitude and 30 [mu]sec duration) on E. coli ribosomal RNA in solution (5 x 10-4 M sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7, 20° C). The time course of changes in ultraviolet absorbance and electric dichroism can be resolved into contributions from orientational and conformational changes. The fast part of the relaxation spectrum (completed in less than 1 [mu]s) is attributed to alignment of double-helical segments of rRNA with the external electric field; the slower part (relaxation times in the ms and [mu]s range) is shown to be due to changes in orientation of the entire rRNA molecule, concomitant with electric field-induced helix-coil transitions of oligomeric base-paired regions.
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Morita Kan'ya XIV
Morita Kan'ya XIV (十四代目 守田 勘弥) was a Japanese kabuki actor. He was a tachiyaku actor (performer of male roles), specializing in playing the roles of young, handsome lovers in the wagoto style, a type of role known as nimaime. Kan'ya is also known for his early postwar film career, and as the adoptive father of Bandō Tamasaburō V, the most famous and popular onnagata (specialist in female roles) of today.
Lineage
Kan'ya was the fourteenth in the line of actors and theatre managers to hold the name Morita Kan'ya. Previous bearers of the name were managers (zamoto) of the Morita-za kabuki theatre in Edo (later Tokyo) until 1894.
Kan'ya was adopted by Morita Kan'ya XIII, and in turn was the adoptive father of Bandō Tamasaburō V.
Life and career
Kan'ya made his first appearance onstage at the age of seven, at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo, under the stagename Bandō Tamasaburō IV. He would later take the name Bandō Shūka III and, following the death of his adoptive father in 1932, became Morita Kan'ya XIV in 1935. He was, like most kabuki actors, quite prolific, and for a number of years in the 1930s was a member of a group of young actors called "Seinen Kabuki" (Young men Kabuki) who performed regularly at the Shin Kabuki-za in Tokyo, then called the Shinjuku Daiichi Gekijō (First Shinjuku Theatre).
In the early postwar years, Kan'ya acted in a number of films, including Surōnin Makaritōru (1947), Otomi to Yosaburō (1950), and Edo no Hanamichi (1953).
Remaining quite active on the kabuki stage as well, Kan'ya performed in many revivals at the National Theatre, taking part as well in the Theatre's 1966 opening ceremonies and the associated performance of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami. He also often performed alongside his adopted son Bandō Tamasaburō V.
Kan'ya made his last Tokyo stage appearance in December 1974, in a production of Kanadehon Chūshingura at the National Theatre, and his final stage appearance the following month, at Nagoya's Chunichi Theatre. He died on 28 March 1975.
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Is Interval or Cardio Training Better for Burning Fat?
fitnes, runWhat's best for fat burning – interval training or cardio training? If you read a lot of fitness blogs you will see that expert opinions seem to differ on the subject. The truth might not be black and white. Interval training alternates high intensity cardio workouts with periods of reduced activity whereas traditional steady state cardio is more consistent. Some say that interval training is more likely to induce weight loss than moderate training at a steady rate. There is no doubt that interval training supports weight loss and there have been many studies to back up the results but that doesn't mean a steady state cardio routine won't work for you. One of my rules of thumb has always been that an exercise routine you can stick with and perform regularly is the best routine for you even if it is not necessarily the one selected by professionals for extreme results. It all depends what your goals are. After all today's popular trend is tomorrow's old approach and there is always a newer, better way to do something.
One advantage I will cite for interval training is that you can get a great workout in a shorter amount of time. The variety is also good for keeping the mind engaged on the exercise and relieving boredom. Interval training is a good stress buster because your mind is active the whole time thinking about timing and what exercise to move to next so you have less time to focus on things that might be worrying you. Running on the treadmill for an hour at a time gives you plenty of time to let your mind wander back to everyday problems. Exercise bands lend themselves well to interval training.
If you opt for steady state cardio training, experts recommend working up to the highest heart rate you can maintain and then try to stay there for 20 or 30 minutes or longer depending on your fitness level. Interval training can be used to introduce variety to your cardio workout but if a steady cardio workout is what you prefer there is no really good reason not to stick to it.
When you are working with exercise bands, a good plan is to start with 10 minutes of cardio (skip rope or running on a treadmill) then go into your resistance routines. End with 5-10 minutes of stretching. You can introduce interval training by alternating the easier exercises with the harder ones or by alternating one rep tightening the bands to add more resistance and one rep with the bands slightly looser to lessen resistance.
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Talk:Mark Nicholas
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Known, as longest range aircraft in world. hahahahaha excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
"Swashbuckling", "suave", "urbane"
Is it just me, or does the Playing Career section sound rather flowery with rather less than one would expect from a "playing career" synopsis? Cyril Washbrook 05:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Floery is a very apt word to describe Mark Nicholas. I edited the entry that changed him from swashbuckling to limited and I'm afraid that's just what he was - limited. I've watched a lot of domestic English first class cricket in my time - particularly in the late 1980s and there was a feeling around that Mark Nicholas was very suspect against short pitched quick bowling - against which he most definitely was not swashbuckling. Fair enough to take the word out from a libel point of view —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
* Swashbuckling, suave and urbane are here being used as code words. They mean that he was a slogger with a propensity for amour propre. In short, flash. Sounds about right to me. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 18:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
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Who wrote the broadcaster bit? R. Slickhan? Why no mention of him getting his eye blacked?Keith-264 (talk) 10:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Why is there so much of his commentary of England playing well in the 2005 Ashes included and nothing else? Seems sus to me. He obviously sucks up to any teams that's hosting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Dreadful
"He served as anchor during the Ashes of 2005 for Channel 4, producing several memorable commentary lines, demonstrating genuine excitement and elation at the events he was describing. The most famous was:
"Oh! Stephen Harmison, with a slower ball; one of the great balls! Given the moment, given the batsman and given the match, that is a staggering gamble that's paid off for Harmison. He bowled it perfectly" after Harmison's slower ball dismissed Michael Clarke at the end of Saturday's play in the 2nd Test at Edgbaston.
Others include, "Crikey O'Reilly!" after a Kevin Pietersen six, "Beauty, yes! Magnificent cricket from this man" after Andrew Flintoff had Ricky Ponting caught behind, and "Oh, yes! That's that, Andrew Flintoff is very special!" after Flintoff wrapped up Australia's innings, also at the 2nd Test at Edgbaston.
During the 3rd Test at Old Trafford, his particularly insightful "That is very good" after Simon Jones's dismissal of Michael Clarke after the ball, which looked to be a safe leave, cut back and knocked over the batsman's off stump. He also gave a memorable description of Ricky Ponting being out on the final day at Old Trafford. When umpire Billy Bowden put up the finger, Nicholas shouted "He's given it out! Out! Ricky Ponting is out!"
It must be noted however that Nicholas now expresses similar elation at home wickets with his new Australian employers, for example he "couldn't see" in his words, that Australian batsman Brett Lee was lbw to English spinner Monty Panesar in the 2006/07 Ashes, even though replays showed it to be "plumb". His signature cry is "By Heaven!" whenever something remarkable happens during play (usually a six-hit), although this has been scarcely used in the 2006/07 Ashes series. He is also notable for the saying, "That's maximum" when a six has been hit."
What the hell is this? No citations, sweeping statements, and frankly doubtful value. It almost sounds like parody.
Actually, this entire page is not cited. Aren't there rules about that?
* Blast, forgot to sign this. Anyway, it's been a while and nobody has said anything, so I've gone ahead and removed it. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
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Natural gum
Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large increase in a solution's viscosity, even at small concentrations. They are mostly botanical gums, found in the woody elements of plants or in seed coatings.
Human uses
Gums are used in the food industry as thickening agents, gelling agents, emulsifying agents, and stabilizers, and in other industrial adhesives, binding agents, crystal inhibitors, clarifying agents, encapsulating agents, flocculating agents, swelling agents, foam stabilizers, etc. When consumed by humans, many of these gums are fermented by the microbes that inhabit the lower gastrointestinal tract (microbiome) and may influence the ecology and functions of these microscopic communities.
Commercial significance
Humans have used natural gums for various purposes, including chewing and the manufacturing of a wide range of products – such as varnish and lacquerware. Before the invention of synthetic equivalents, trade in gum formed part of the economy in places such as the Arabian peninsula (whence the name "gum arabic"), West Africa, East Africa (copal) and northern New Zealand (kauri gum).
Examples
Natural gums can be classified according to their origin. They can also be classified as uncharged or ionic polymers (polyelectrolytes). Examples include (with E number food additive code):
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Irritant diaper dermatitis
Irritant diaper dermatitis (IDD, also called a diaper or nappy rash) is a generic term applied to skin rash in the diaper (in British and Australian English "nappy") area that are caused by various skin disorders and/or irritants.
Generic irritant diaper dermatitis is characterized by joined patches of erythema and scaling mainly seen on the convex surfaces, with the skin folds spared.
Diaper dermatitis with secondary bacterial or fungal involvement tends to spread to concave surfaces (i.e. skin folds), as well as convex surfaces, and often exhibits a central red, beefy erythema with satellite pustules around the border.
It is usually considered a form of irritant contact dermatitis. The word "diaper" is in the name not because the diaper itself causes the rash but rather because the rash is associated with diaper use, being caused by the materials trapped by the diaper (usually feces). Allergic contact dermatitis has also been suggested, but there is little evidence for this cause. In adults with incontinence (fecal, urinary, or both), the rash is sometimes called incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD).
The term diaper candidiasis is used when a fungal origin is identified. The distinction is important because the treatment is different (antifungals).
Causes
Irritant diaper dermatitis develops when skin is exposed to prolonged wetness, increased skin pH caused by the combination, and subsequent reactions, of urine and feces, and resulting breakdown of the stratum corneum, or outermost layer of the skin. This may be due to diarrhea, frequent stools, tight diapers, overexposure to ammonia, or allergic reactions. In adults, the stratum corneum is composed of 25 to 30 layers of flattened dead keratinocytes, which are continuously shed and replaced from below. These dead cells are interlaid with lipids secreted by the stratum granulosum just underneath, which help to make this layer of the skin a waterproof barrier. The stratum corneum's function is to reduce water loss, repel water, protect deeper layers of the skin from injury, and to repel microbial invasion of the skin. In infants, this layer of the skin is much thinner and more easily disrupted.
Urine
Although wetness alone has the effect of macerating the skin, softening the stratum corneum, and greatly increasing susceptibility to friction injury, urine has an additional impact on skin integrity because of its effect on skin pH. While studies show that ammonia alone is only a mild skin irritant, when urea breaks down in the presence of fecal urease it increases pH because ammonia is released, which in turn promotes the activity of fecal enzymes such as protease and lipase. These fecal enzymes increase the skin's hydration and permeability to bile salts which also act as skin irritants.
There is no substantial difference in rates of diaper rash in conventional disposable diaper wearers and reusable cloth diaper wearers. "Babies wearing superabsorbent disposable diapers with a central gelling material have fewer episodes of diaper dermatitis compared with their counterparts wearing cloth diapers. However, keep in mind that superabsorbent diapers contain dyes that were suspected to cause allergic contact dermatitis (ACD)." Whether wearing cloth or disposable diapers they should be changed frequently to prevent diaper rash, even if they do not feel wet. To reduce the incidence of diaper rash, disposable diapers have been engineered to pull moisture away from the baby's skin using synthetic non-biodegradable gel. Today, cloth diapers can use newly available superabsorbent microfiber cloth placed in a pocket with a layer of light permeable material that contacts the skin. This design serves to pull moisture away from the skin in to the microfiber cloth. This technology is now widely used in commercial pocket cloth diapers brands in developed markets.
Diet
The interaction between fecal enzyme activity and IDD explains the observation that infant diet and diaper rash are linked because fecal enzymes are in turn affected by diet. Breast-fed babies, for example, have a lower incidence of diaper rash, possibly because their stools have higher pH and lower enzymatic activity. Diaper rash is also most likely to be diagnosed in infants 8–12 months old, perhaps in response to an increase in eating solid foods and dietary changes around that age that affect fecal composition. Any time an infant's diet undergoes a significant change (i.e. from breast milk to formula or from milk to solids) there appears to be an increased likelihood of diaper rash.
The link between feces and IDD is also apparent in the observation that infants are more susceptible to developing diaper rash after treating with antibiotics, which affect the intestinal microflora. Also, there is an increased incidence of diaper rash in infants who have had diarrhea in the previous 48 hours, which may be because fecal enzymes such as lipase and protease are more active in feces which have passed rapidly through the gastrointestinal tract.
Secondary infections
The significance of secondary infection in IDD remains controversial. There seems to be no link between presence or absence of IDD and microbial counts. Although apparently healthy infants sometimes culture positive for Candida and other organisms without exhibiting any symptoms, there does seem to be a positive correlation between the severity of the diaper rash noted and the likelihood of secondary involvement. A wide variety of infections has been reported, including Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Proteus mirabilis, enterococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but it appears that Candida is the most common opportunistic invader in diaper areas.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of IDD is made clinically, by observing the limitation of an erythematous eruption to the convex surfaces of the genital area and buttocks. If the diaper dermatitis occurs for greater than 3 days it may be colonized with Candida albicans, giving it the beefy red, sharply marginated, appearance of diaper candidiasis.
Differential diagnosis
Other rashes that occur in the diaper area include seborrhoeic dermatitis and atopic dermatitis. Both Seborrheic and Atopic dermatitis require individualized treatment; they are not the subject of this article.
* Seborrheic dermatitis, typified by oily, thick yellowish scales, is most commonly seen on the scalp (cradle cap) but can also appear in the inguinal folds.
* Atopic dermatitis, or eczema, is associated with allergic reaction, often hereditary. This class of rashes may appear anywhere on the body and is characterized by intense itchiness.
Treatments
Possible treatments include minimizing diaper use, and using barrier creams, mild topical cortisones, and antifungal agents. A variety of other inflammatory and infectious processes can occur in the diaper area and an awareness of these secondary types of diaper dermatitis aids in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Overall, there is sparse evidence of sufficient quality to be certain of the effectiveness of the various treatments. Washcloths with cleansing, moisturising and protective properties may be better than soap and water, and skin cleansers may also be better than soap and water, but the certainty of evidence with regard other treatments is very low.
Diaper changing
The most effective treatment, although not the most practical one, is to discontinue use of diapers, allowing the affected skin to air out. Another option is simply to increase the frequency of diaper changing. Thorough drying of the skin before diapering is a good preventive measure because it is the excess moisture, either from urine and feces or from sweating, that sets the conditions for a diaper rash to occur.
Diaper type
Some sources claim that diaper rash is more common with cloth diapers. Others claim the material of the diaper is relevant insofar as it can wick and keep moisture away from the baby's skin, and preventing secondary Candida infection. However, there may not be enough data from good-quality, randomized controlled trials to support or refute disposable diaper use thus far. Furthermore, the effect of non-biodegradable diapers on the environment is a concerning matter for public policy.
Creams, ointments
Another approach is to block moisture from reaching the skin, and commonly recommended remedies using this approach include oil-based protectants or barrier cream, various over-the-counter "diaper creams", petroleum jelly, dimethicone and other oils. Such sealants sometimes accomplish the opposite if the skin is not thoroughly dry, in which case they serve to seal the moisture inside the skin rather than outside.
Zinc oxide-based ointments such as zinc and castor oil cream, Sudocrem or Pinxav can be effective treatments, especially in prevention, because they have both a drying and an astringent effect on the skin, being mildly antiseptic without causing irritation.
A 2005 meta-analysis found no evidence to support the use of topical vitamin A to treat the condition.
Dangers of using powders
Various moisture-absorbing powders, such as talcum or starch, reduce moisture but may introduce other complications. Airborne powders of any sort can irritate lung tissue, and powders made from starchy plants (corn, arrowroot) provide food for fungi and are not recommended by the American Academy of Dermatology.
Antifungals
In persistent or especially bad rashes, an antifungal cream often has to be used. In cases that the rash is more of an irritation, a mild topical corticosteroid preparation, e.g. hydrocortisone cream, is used. As it is often difficult to tell a fungal infection apart from a mere skin irritation, many physicians prefer a corticosteroid-and-antifungal combination cream such as hydrocortisone/miconazole.
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* Alanna Ubach (born 1975), American actor
* Anthony Ubach (1835–1907), Roman Catholic missionary
* Christiana Ubach (born 1987), Brazilian actress
* Miguel Vila Ubach (born 1972), Spanish jockey
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All /{website-id}/field-testing endpoints accept a large number of filters that can be used to drill down to highly specialized reports. This page describes each filter.
Filter syntax
The filters are added to the REST API call as querystring parameters:
/{website-id}/field-testing/pages?browser=chrome
Multiple values
If a filter has multiple values, simply separate the values with a plus sign:
/{website-id}/field-testing/pages?browser=chrome+edge+safari
Negative values
If you want to add "does not equal" or "has none of the following" filters, simply start the value with a tilde (~) sign. This example means "everything BUT Chrome and Edge browsers":
/{website-id}/field-testing/pages?browser=~chrome+edge
Combining filters
You can add many filters in one report, simply by adding multiple querystring parameters:
/{website-id}/field-testing/pages?browser=~chrome+edge&os=windows®ion=gb
Filter list
The following filters can be used in all Field Testing endpoints:
FilterExampleDescription
date20230401-20230501The date range in yyyyMMdd-yyyyMMdd format. Defaults to last 90 days
regioneurope / us / dkA two-letter country code or a region name (eu, europe, latam, apac, emea, north_america, americas, oceania, asia, africa)
devicedesktopdesktop, mobile or tablet (or a combination)
browserchrome+edgeBrowser type - chrome, edge, firefox, safari, opera, ie, android
osmac_osOperating system - windows, mac_os, linux, ios, android
page/productsOne or more pages to filter by
tagsemail_campaignOne or more custom tags set via the JS API
referrer_typeextReferrer type - none, self (internal link) or ext (external link)
Timing and percentile settings
Some Field Testing reports support setting the timing metrics and the percentile of the metrics:
FilterExampleDescription
p90The percentile used in the metric values. Can be 50(median), 75, 90, 95 and 99. Defaults to 75th.
timinglcp+fid+clsA list of the metrics to be used in the Field Testing reports*
*) Only supported in the Pages and Countries reports. Click on documentation for those reports to see the metric list.
Custom variables
If you have added custom variables to your website, you can also use them as filters. You can add both string variables and numeric variables, as described here.
String variables
A string variable (example: cache_state) can be used in filters like this:
OperatorExampleDescription
Equalscache_state=coldMatches a single variable value
One ofcache_state=cold+warmMatches one of a list of values
Does not equalcache_state=~coldThe variable must not equal the value
None ofcache_state=~cold+warmThe variable must not match any of the values in the list
Is setcache_state=*The variable is set to any value
Is not setcache_state=~The variable is not set
Numeric variables
A numeric value (example: react_hydrate_time) can be used in filters like this:
OperatorExampleDescription
Equalsreact_hydrate_time=100Matches an exact number
Greater thanreact_hydrate_time=100..The variable value is greater than the given value
Less thanreact_hydrate_time=..100The variable value is less than the given value
Betweenreact_hydrate_time=100..200The variable value is between the two given values
Is setreact_hydrate_time=*The variable is set to any value
Is not setreact_hydrate_time=~The variable is not set
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Artificial Inspiration:
a. After artificial expiration, the rescue worker should slowly release the pressure on the back of the victim.
b. This will cause the chest cavity to expand and air rushes into the lungs of the victim.These should be repeated for about 16 to 18 times in a minute till the patient begins to breath by himself, while artificial breathing is being given, the rescue worker should take assistance from others and change the wet clothes of the victim. The victim should be covered with warm clothing. As soon as the patient is consicious and able to swallow, hot dirnks like coffee (or) tea should be given to the victim.
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Mining in Namibia
Mining is the biggest contributor to Namibia's economy in terms of revenue. It accounts for 25% of the country's income. Its contribution to the gross domestic product (10.4% in 2009, 8.5% in 2010, 9.5% in 2011, 12.3% in 2012, 13.2% in 2013, 11.6% in 2014) is also very important and makes it one of the largest economic sectors of the country. Namibia produces diamonds, uranium, copper, magnesium, zinc, silver, gold, lead, semi-precious stones and industrial minerals. The majority of revenue (7.2% of GDP in 2011) comes from diamond mining. In 2014, Namibia was the fourth-largest exporter of non-fuel minerals in Africa.
Overview
Namibia has a long tradition of mining. In 2018, mining contributed 14% of GDP and expanded 28%. Extensive exploration in Namibia for base metals, diamonds, gold, natural gas, and uranium has been attributed, in part, to the rise in world commodity prices. Under the Mining Act, the natural resources of Namibia belong to the State. However, the state in Namibia is limited to the role of a grantor-regulator than an owner-operator. One of the main challenges of the mining industry is the lack of water resources, as the availability of fuel and electric power.
A mining policy in Namibia was developed in 2003 through research with the information made available by key stakeholders.
Production
World Bank pointed out that mining in Namibia grew an average of 4.6% over the 2000–2012 period. The growth of the mining sector is influenced by the global economy and demand, in contrast to the agricultural industry in Namibia, which is influenced by environmental conditions.
In 2019, the mining industry contributed over 300 million dollars to government revenue. The whole industry contributed around 2.2 billion dollars to the national economy in the same period. However, a drop in diamond and uranium production caused a contraction of 11,1%. Lower mineral commodity prices led to the declining expenditure on exploration.
In 2006, manganese, diamond, and fluorspar output increased by 158%, 24%, and 15%, respectively, compared with that of 2005, and copper, lead, wollastonite, and zinc posted significant production declines.
The increase in manganese was attributable to the expansion of production at the reopened Purity Mine (formerly the Otjisondu Mine). The decline in copper output could be attributed in part to instability during the transition of ownership of Ongopolo Mining and Processing Ltd. Lead and zinc output declined in part because of a short strike by workers at the Rosh Pinah mine.
Employment
In 2019, the mining industry paid over 300 million dollars in wages and salaries and provided 16,324 direct jobs with 9,027 permanent employees. Temporary jobs figured out 800, while 6,515 were contractor jobs.
In February 2020, mining operations were suspended at Tschudi because the oxide ore body was depleted, provocating the loss of 66 direct contractor jobs. For the same cause, mining operations ceased at Skorpion Zinc, and the mine closed due to safety concerns. Around 1,500 jobs were lost.
Depending on economic up and downswings, mining provided for around 6,000 to 8,000 direct jobs between 2007 and 2014. The artisans for the industry are educated in the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) in Arandis, Keetmanshoop, and Tsumeb, as well as at University of Namibia (UNAM)'s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in Ongwediva. Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)'s Faculty of Engineering in Windhoek also provides mining education.
Structure of the mineral industry
The Government encourages private sector exploration and development according to guidelines set out in its 2003 paper entitled "The Mineral Policy of Namibia". The Ministry of Mines and Energy and its Diamond Affairs, Energy, and Mining Directorates regulate Namibia’s mining and petroleum industries, and the Ministry concerns itself with the provision of national exploration and mining databases and competitive exploration and mining policy and regulations. The Ministry of Trade and Industry is responsible for regulating manufacturing activity, which includes mineral beneficiation, the production of cement, and the processing of semiprecious stones; the Ministry also promotes resource-based development.
Epangelo Mining is a mining company owned by the government. It was founded in 2009 with the aim to govern the rights on six mineral resources that are deemed strategic for Namibia, and for which new exploration rights must be held by government. The six resources are: diamonds, gold, coal, uranium, copper, and rare earth minerals.
The larger mining operations in Namibia tended to be funded and operated by domestic and international investors. Numerous local operations were involved in smaller-scale industrial mineral production, especially the semiprecious gemstone sector.
Cement
Cement had been imported since the closure of the Otjiwarongo factory of African Portland Cement several years ago. Holcim (Namibia) (Pty.) Ltd., which was owned by Holcim S.A. of Switzerland, 54%, and the Aveng Group of South Africa, 46% (and known as Alpha Cement prior to 2004), imported about 25,000 metric tons per month of cement to meet local demand. In 2005, Cheetah Cement Factory, which was a joint venture of Whale Rock Cement of Namibia and CP Cimento e Participacoes S.A. of Brazil, proposed to import cement from Brazil until a 500,000-t/yr-capacity cement plant near Otjiwarongo was built. In late 2005, Cheetah Cement imported 36,000 metric tons of cement from Brazil.
Ohorongo Cement near Otavi started production in 2010. Cheetah Cement also got a factory in 2018, so that there is now an oversupply of cement to the Namibian market.
Copper
In 2006, Weatherly International plc of the United Kingdom agreed to acquire 56% interest in financially distressed Ongopolo; Weatherly subsequently increased its equity interest in the company to 100%. Ongopolo operated the Kombat, the Matchless, and the Otjihase Mines. Ongopolo suspended operations at the Tsumeb copper smelter in mid-2006, relined the 30,000-metric-ton-per-year (t/yr)-capacity reverberatory furnace, and reopened the smelter in August. A second reverberatory furnace at Tsumeb remained inactive, pending renovation.
Ongopolo evaluated the development of an underground mine at the Tschudi copper-silver prospect. Other copper exploration activity in Namibia included that of Copper Resources Corp. of South Africa on the Haib project, Helio Resource Corp. of Canada on the Honib prospect, Teck Cominco Ltd. of Canada on the Kaoko project, and Yale Resources Ltd. of Canada on the Leicester prospect.
Companies that explored for gold in 2006 included Forsys Metals Corp. of Canada on the Ondundu prospect, Teal Exploration & Mining Inc. of Canada on the Otjikoto prospect, and Teck Cominco on the Vredelus prospect. Yale Resources worked on the Makuru (also known as the Otjimakuru) project. , the only operational gold mine in Namibia is the Navachab Gold Mine. Now new company called Auryx Gold Namibia was formed and exploring the Otjikoto Gold deposit
Diamond
Diamond remained the most economically significant mineral commodity produced by the mining industry of Namibia. The country produced about 2% of the world’s gem-quality diamonds, which placed it as the eighth-ranked producer of gem diamond in terms of value. Diamonds contributed N$2,5 billion (US$235 million) in revenue to the government in 2013.
In 2020, the Bank of Namibia forecasted a record decline of 24.6% in real terms due to a lower demand caused by COVID-19 outbreak. The president of the Chamber of Mines of Namibia Zebra Kasete said the decline in demand dampened the flow in the diamond pipeline.
Namdeb Diamond Corp. (Pty.) Ltd., which was a joint venture between De Beers Centenary AG and the Namibian Government, with each having 50%, was the country’s leading diamond producer. During 2006, Namdeb, its contractors, and its subsidiaries produced more than 2000000 carat. The partners also negotiated the Namdeb Sales Agreement in 2006, which created the Namibia Diamond Trading Co., to sort and value the volume of Namdeb’s production that would be marketed to the domestic diamond-cutting industry.
Granite
Granite is mined in Walvis Bay.
Iron
Lodestone’s Dordabis iron ore mine is a small mine that produced 4,000 tons of low-grade iron ore when it started in 2015. It is Namibia’s only iron mine and also produces magnetite and hematite products. Ohorongo uses the magnetite of this mine for cement manufacturing. Lodestone mine yielded 91,000 tons of iron ore between 2015 and 2022.
Lead and zinc
Contributing to the decline in Namibian zinc output in 2006 was the nearly 3-week fire-related suspension of zinc metal production operations at the Skorpion zinc facility and a strike at the Rosh Pinah Mine for higher wages, which lasted for about 2 weeks and adversely affected lead and zinc concentrate production. Kumba Resources Ltd. of South Africa proposed to reduce its 89.5% equity interest in Rosh Pinah to about 50%. A local investor group, which included PE Minerals (Namibia) (Pty.) Ltd., was expected to acquire Kumba’s divested interest.
Lithium
Lithium deposits have long been known to exist in Namibian mines but were rarely exploited. Lithium was extracted from lepidolite between 1939 and 1950, and from petalite between 1947 and 1998. Since 1990, the only traceable lithium production was a 500 tons export in 2018. In light of increased global demand in the 2020s, Lithium mining is expected to restart in Namibia. An initial production of Lithium concentrate at Uis mine occurred in 2023.
Marble
Marble is mined near Karibib.
Petroleum
Offshore petroleum activity included exploration on Block 1711 by the joint venture of Z.A.O. Sintezneftegas of Russia (70%), Petroleum, Oil & Gas Corp. of South Africa (PetroSA) (10%), EnerGulf Resources Inc. of the United States (10%), and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR) (7%). Onshore exploration included that of the joint venture of Circle Oil Namibia Ltd. (90%) and NAMCOR (10%). In 2006, Mitusi Atlantic Energy BV (15%) joined the joint venture of BHP of Australia (75%) and PetroSA (10%), which held Blocks 2813A, 2814B, and 2914.
Phosphate
The Sandpiper phosphate mine is a planned activity on the seabed of the Atlantic off the shore of Walvis Bay. An exploration license has been granted in 2011 but an environmental clearance certificate for Sandpiper was revoked in 2017.
Salt
Salt is produced at the Atlantic coast of Namibia through solar evaporation of sea water. There are two major producers. Walvis Bay Salt produces around 1 million tons per annum, both for the chemical industry and, under the "Cerebos" brand, for domestic use. Salt Company Swakopmund produces only table salt. The annual production is approximately 120,000, the salt is marketed as "Light Flow".
Uranium
Namibia was the sixth ranked producer of uranium, producing about 8% of the world’s uranium in 2006. Due to the opening of the Langer Heinrich Uranium (LHU) mine in 2007, the country in 2009 had raised its share to nearly 10%, but when Uranium prices fell after the Fukushima incident production was reduced. In 2012, Namibia produced 7.1% of Uranium oxide, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, and Niger.
Rössing Uranium Ltd. processed about 12 million metric tons of ore in 2006 and produced 3,617 t of U3O8. Production was exported to the Asia and the Pacific, the European, and the North American markets by Rio Tinto Uranium; Rössing shareholders had no offtake rights.
Earlier this decade, Rössing had announced that the Rössing Mine would be closed in 2009. By 2005, the increase in the world market price of uranium allowed Rössing to plan to extend operations to 2016. In 2006, positive exploration results and continued favorable uranium market conditions allowed Rössing to propose that the mine’s life could be extended to 2021.
In late 2006, Paladin Resources Ltd. commissioned the Langer Heinrich uranium (LHU) mine and oxide (U3O8, or yellowcake) plant. LHU produced 1 170 tonnes of processed uranium called yellow cake in 2009. This mine is under care and maintenance since 2018, awaiting higher uranium prices.
Exploration activity and evaluation of uranium mineralization in Namibia in 2006 included that of Bannerman Resources Ltd. of Australia on the Goanikontes and Swakop River prospects, Extract Resources Ltd. of Australia on the Husab Uranium Project, Forsys Metals on the Valencia project, Metals Australia Ltd. of Australia (formerly Australian United Gold Ltd.) on the Engo Valley and Mile 72 projects, Rössing Uranium on the SH and SK anomalies on Rössing’s mining lease near Arandis, UranMin Inc. on the Trekkopje deposit, and Western Australian Metals Ltd. of Australia on the Marinica project. In early 2006, Xemplar Energy Corp. of Canada acquired Namura Minerals Resources (Pty.) Ltd., which held the Aus, the Cape Cross, and the Warmbad uranium projects. Namura subsequently acquired a reconnaissance license in the Engo Valley area.
Mining towns
Several towns and settlements in Namibia were established solely for mining. Some of them are today ghost towns, and some are in danger of becoming one due to a lack of diversification of economic activities. The major mining towns in Namibia are:
* Arandis was established in 1978 for the workers of the Rössing uranium mine and until 1992 administered by its owner, Rössing Uranium Limited. The settlement was then handed over to the newly established Government of Namibia, and gained 'town' status in 1994. Arandis is close to three of Namibia's biggest mines: Rössing uranium, Husab Mine, and Trekkopje mine, all of which extract uranium. It is also the home of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology.
* Karibib is close to the Navachab Gold Mine, by far the largest employer in town. It is also strategically situated for road and rail transport; 1,000 trucks pass the town per day. Marble is also mined near Karibib.
* Oranjemund was established in 1928 when rich alluvial diamond deposits were discovered north of the Orange River. Industrial diamond mining started in 1935 by the diamond mining company Consolidated Diamond Mines (today Namdeb). Houses for workers were erected in 1936. Oranjemund was privately owned, run and subsidised by the mining company and had no political leadership. The first mayor was elected in 2015 after the settlement was handed over to the Government of Namibia and declared a town in 2011. The entire area along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean had been proclaimed restricted (the Sperrgebiet) in 1908 due to the occurrence of alluvial diamonds. Since then the public was forbidden to enter it, and Oranjemund itself was accessible only for mine workers and their families. Entrance to town required an invitation from within, and crossing the border from South Africa required prior application. Only in 2017 was the town opened to the general public.
* Otjiwarongo services the B2Gold mine which is the largest employer in the Otjozondjupa region. There is also the Okorusu fluorspar mine 48 km north of the town. Mining overall constitutes 20% of the town's economy.
* Rosh Pinah is home to, and entirely dependent on, two mines, both mainly extracting zinc and lead. The Rosh Pinah mine was established in 1969 and has since then been in continuous operation. Skorpion Zinc opened in 2001 and is the eighth-largest zinc mine in the world. It employs 1,900 people.
* Tsumeb is situated directly on a large mineralised pipe which was mined since prehistoric times. The town was founded as a mining and smelting town and until today runs an annual Copper Festival. The Tsumeb mine operated from 1907 to 1996, extracting copper, lead, zinc, gold, germanium and cadmium.
* Uis was established in 1958 as workers' settlement to exploit local tin deposits. Mining started in 1960 and grew to be the world's largest open cast tin mine. Yield was very low, and the mine was sustainable only because South Africa was economically isolated due to its apartheid politics. When sanctions were lifted in 1990, the Uis mine was no longer viable. In the 2010s investments and work started again at the old mine.
Notable mines
* B2Gold mine, an open-pit gold mine established in 2014 and owned by B2Gold. It is located approximately 70 km northwest of Otjiwarongo and 50 km southwest of Otavi within the Otjozondjupa region.
* Husab Mine, uranium mine near Arandis
* Langer Heinrich Mine uranium mine near Swakopmund
* Navachab Gold Mine near Karibib
* Okorusu Mine, fluorspar mine near Otjiwarongo
* Rössing uranium mine in Arandis
* Rosh Pinah mine, zinc and lead mine in Rosh Pinah
* Skorpion Zinc mine in Rosh Pinah
* Three Aloes mine, tantalum mine in Uis
Legal framework
Related to the mining industry, the main legislation is the Minerals (Prospecting and Mining) Act 33 of 1992 (Minerals Act). In the terms of this act, owners of the land don't have mining rights because natural resources belong to the state. For getting the right prospect or mine an area, a mining license or a mining claim is required, provided by the Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia.
Namibia’s mining industry is regulated by the Diamond Act, 1999; the Minerals (Prospecting and Mining) Act, 1992; and the Minerals Development Fund of Namibia Act of 1996. The petroleum sector is governed by the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act, 1991; the Petroleum (Taxation) Act, 1991; the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Amendment Act, 1993; the Petroleum Laws Amendment Act, 1998; the Model Petroleum Agreement, 1998; and the Petroleum Products and Energy Amendment Act, 2000.
In 2006, the Government confirmed a royalty schedule that originally had been introduced in 2004. A 3% royalty was levied on the market value of base, precious, and rare metals and nonnuclear mineral fuels. A 2% royalty was levied on industrial minerals and nuclear mineral fuels.
In Namibia, mining legislation is under revision. According to the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development (IGF), Namibia counts with a strong regulation around the development of environmental impact assessments and environmental management plans through the Environmental Management Act. However, legislation on occupational health and safety, and water and waste management is outdated.
Environmental legislation related to mining
Environmental Management Act 7 of 2007 promotes the sustainable management of the environment and the use of natural resources. This act gives the Minister of Environment and Tourism the authority to regulate activities that could damage the environment. Activities of mining and exploration require a certificate of an environmental commissioner.
Labour legislation related to mining
Labour legislation for mining consists of Labour Act 11 of 2007 and Labour Act of 1992. The Labour Act, 2007 requires a safe working environment, and without risk to the health of employees; safe plants, machinery, and systems of work; and safe use, handling, storage, and transportation of articles or substances. Labour Act, 1992 relates to the health and safety of workspace. It sets requirements for medical surveillance, first-aid and emergency arrangements, and safety of machinery, welfare, and facilities in the workplace.
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How to debug a code in R
This recipe helps you debug a code in R
Recipe Objective
How to debug code in R
While writing a piece of code, no matter how big or small, bugs and errors are likely to happen. These errors can be found out and corrected by three methods: traceback(), debug(), browser() The debug () function in R returns the execution of a code line by line, i.e in order to find out which line of code has caused an error, the debug () function can be used. When the debug () is executed, it enters the debug mode. In the debug mode, the line of code that is suspected to be a cause of error is highlighted. This helps understand exactly which line of code contains an error, and corrections can be made. This recipe demonstrates an example of debugging a code in R.
Step 1 - Define a function
new_func <- function(x,y){ add <- x + y multiply <- add * 3 total <- sum(multi) total }
Step 2 - Generate some random data
set.seed(1) x <- rnorm(50)
Step 3 - Try using the traceback()
new_func(10,x) # traceback() returns this as the error, we cannot exactly find out which line of code has generated the output traceback()
"Output of traceback()" :
Error in new_func(10, x): object 'multi' not found
Traceback:
1. new_func(10, x)
Step 4 -Use the debug()
debug(new_func) d <- new_func(10,x)
"Output of debug()" :
debugging in: new_func(10, x)
debug at #1: {
add <- x + y
multiply <- add * 3
total <- sum(multi)
total
}
Browse[2]>
debug at #2: add <- x + y
Browse[2]>
debug at #3: multiply <- add * 3
Browse[2]>
debug at #4: total <- sum(multi)
Browse[2]>
Error in new_func(10, x) : object 'multi' not found
Step 5 - Use the undebug()
undebug(new_func) # brings user out of the debugging mode. new_func(50,x) # returns back to undebug mode {"mode":"full","isActive":false}
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Against the night sky, fireflies advertise their availability with a whole lot of burning love. How do they do it?
• Cynthia Berger
• Apr 01, 2004
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania, is famous for its Fourth of July fireworks. But my new hometown has another light show, one I like even better—and I don’t have to fight the crowds for a good view. I just drag a patio chair into my yard at dusk, when twinkling fireflies light up the lawn.
Entranced by those lights, poets through the ages have linked fireflies to love. But if the "fairy lights" strike a spark in the human soul, their real raison d’être is romance among fireflies themselves. Typically, males flash while flying, as if to say "Notice me!" Females watch the show while perched and, if they like what they see, flash back.
Also known as lightning bugs, fireflies are neither flies nor bugs but soft-winged beetles. There are about 170 species in the continental United States; most range east of the Mississippi. The vast majority flash to attract mates, with each species flashing in a distinct way.
Many members of the firefly genus Photurus, for example, glow green, while Photinus flash yellow. Photuris versicolor is distinctive because it flashes four times, fast: bright, dim, dim, dim. Males of Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly, light up for a solid half second while flying in an unmistakable pattern—picture a glowing letter "J" sketched in the night air, starting from the hook and moving upwards.
The firefly’s light comes from a controlled chemical reaction that takes place inside the light-producing organs on the underside of the abdomen. Light without heat is the by-product.
Once you’ve studied the luminous language spoken by your local fireflies, try some cross-species communication. With a small penlight, you can mimic the female’s response and lure a male right to your fingertips. Or, here’s a tip from Richard Moore, a professor of rural sociology and environmental sciences who sometimes leads summer firefly walks at the Ohio State University arboretum: If you see fireflies dancing in a meadow or woodland edge, point your car headlights in that direction, then flash like a male. To this supersized signal, males and females will wink back en masse.
My backyard light show fades by late summer, which raises the question: What are fireflies doing the rest of the year? Females lay eggs right after mating and the larvae hatch after three or four weeks. The little grubs are ferocious predators. Some live at the edges of farm ponds and lumber into the water after snails; others tunnel through leaf litter or loose soil after small insects, or even pursue earthworms in their burrows.
Life histories vary with species, but typically larvae spend winter buried in soil, then feed in spring before pupating and then transforming into beetles. As winged adults, most fireflies don’t feed at all; although, a few species sip nectar, and female tiger fireflies mimic the flashes of other species to lure in males they make a meal of, rather than a mate.
Fireflies might seem less common than they used to be. The truth may be that, with the advent of air conditioning and television, fewer people are out on their porches to see fireflies put on their show. Or the widespread use of lawn and farm chemicals could be a factor in their decline, along with excess outdoor lighting, which interferes with the fireflies’ luminous courtship rituals. "But there hasn’t been any real study that I know of," says Marc Branham, a University of Florida firefly expert. "You do seem to find fewer fireflies on well-manicured lawns."
Fireflies couldn’t survive without their fairy lights—so essential for courtship and reproduction. And now it seems that the firefly’s glow may help keep humans alive as well. Scientists have found a way to genetically engineer firefly light genes into other living cells. Possible applications include tests for tainted meat, wastewater treatment and even, perhaps, a cure for cancer. For me, knowing that firefly light may have this kind of power makes watching fireflies at dusk even more magical.
Cynthia Berger last wrote about Arctic owls in the February/March 2004 issue.
Create a Firefly-Friendly Backyard
To encourage fireflies to visit your property:
Limit or eliminate the use of pesticides in your garden and on your lawn—they kill harmless bugs along with those you consider pests.
Turn off outside lights from mid-June to the end of July. Fireflies can’t communicate with one another against a bright background.
All Together Now
On a nighttime water taxi ride along a brackish river in Thailand or Malaysia, you can see what looks like the world’s largest display of Christmas lights: fireflies perched on the branches of mangrove trees, flashing in perfect unison.
North American fireflies were thought to lack this skill—until 1992, when Jonathan Copeland of Georgia Southern University and Andrew Moiseff of the University of Connecticut checked reports of coordinated flashing in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and confirmed that Photinus carolinus engages in showy group displays. (The Georgia coastal plain firefly, Photuris frontalis, and the Photinis pyralis in Ohio are other in-sync flashers.)
How do the bugs coordinate their flashes? Moiseff and Copeland think fireflies notice others flashing nearby and speed up or slow down just a bit to match their neighbors. A similar process occurs at concerts when random clapping converts to synchronized applause. Why coordinate? Perhaps to send a clear signal to females. "If a whole lot of males are flying," says Moiseff, "and each one flashes on his own, the female may see so many flashes, she can’t actually see the species-specific signal. Synchrony avoids the issue; even though there are a lot of males flashing, the pattern is recognizable."
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An interval branch and bound algorithm for bound constrained optimization problems. (English) Zbl 0760.90085
Summary: We propose modifications to a prototypical branch-and-bound algorithm for nonlinear optimization so that the algorithm efficiently handles constrained problems with constant bound constraints. The modifications involve treating subregions of the boundary identically to interior regions during the branch-and-bound process, but using reduced gradients for the interval Newton method. The modifications also involve preconditioners for the interval Gauss-Seidel method which are optimal in the sense that their application selectively gives a coordinate bound of minimum width, a coordinate bound whose left endpoint is as large as possible, or a coordinate bound whose right endpoint is as small as possible. We give experimental results on selection of problems with different properties.
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Much as the planned ''Amerika'' Heavy Bomber was to be Nazi Germany's attempt at long range bombing of The United States with conventional and later planned Atomic devices, The Junkers Ju 488 Heavy Bomber was in that category as a Heavy Strategic Bomber. Plans were developed in 1944 to create The Junkers 488, with plans to use it against England. The massive Bomber was said to have supported (3) Crewmen. The length of The 488 was 80-feet with a wingspan of 102-feet. (4) Jumo 22A - 24 cylinder, liquid-cooled Engines would have given The 488 2,500-HP each. Capable of ranging over 3,000-miles, The 488 could achieve a maximum speed of 300-mph. It would have been able to operate at a ceiling of 40,000-feet.
Armament was speculated at (2) 20mm Machine Guns on the dorsal and (2) .51-inch Machine Guns in the turret. All systems were electrically operated (hence the low crew number). Finally, The 488 was rated to carry up to 12,000-pounds of combined munitions. One such prototype was actually built in late 1944 by Germany, but French Resistance Forces were able to raid the Airbase it was kept and blew it up. No known photographs of The 488 exist, but eyewitness draws and surviving specifications blueprints have allowed for a few drawings of the formidable Junkers Ju 488.
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Bogota: City of the Lost
Bogota: City of the Lost is an upcoming South Korean crime drama film directed by Kim Seong-je, starring Song Joong-ki, Lee Hee-joon and Kwon Hae-hyo. It tells the story of immigrants who start dangerous deals to survive in Bogota, the last land for the hopeless lives.
Synopsis
In the 1990s, 19-year-old Guk-hee moves to Bogota with his family, wishing for a better life only to end up living from hand to mouth. Beginning at the bottom of the ladder, he goes through hell and high water and now dominates the black market of Bogota.
Cast
* Song Joong-ki as Guk-hee
* Lee Hee-joon as Soo-yeong
* Kwon Hae-hyo as Park Byeong-jang
* Cho Hyun-chul
Production
Filming began in January 2020, in Bogotá, Colombia, but in March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production was halted after completing about 40% of the filming. After that, the production team reorganized the entire production and resumed filming in Korea in June 2021.
On July 2, 2021, it was reported that the filming was temporary suspended after it was confirmed that Song Joong-ki had been in contact with a COVID-19 confirmed person from the outside. Actor tested negative but was self-isolated per protocol. On July 15, filming resumed after Song completed self-quarantine.
Filming concluded in October 2021.
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Sheila May Edmonds
Sheila May Edmonds (1 April 1916 – 2 September 2002) was a British mathematician, a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Vice-Principal of Newnham College from 1960 to 1981.
Early life and education
Born in Kingston, Kent, Edmonds studied at Wimbledon High School and entered Newnham College, Cambridge in 1935 to study for the Mathematical Tripos. At this time women could attend lectures and sit examinations but were not permitted to graduate with a degree. She had an excellent undergraduate career and finished Part II as a "Wrangler", Cambridge nomenclature for a student achieving a First Class award. Edmonds followed this with a Distinction in Part III, and then studied for a PhD with G H Hardy. During her doctoral research she spent a year at Westfield College, London, and a year at the University of Paris. She received PhD for her dissertation "Some Multiplication Problems" in 1944.
Career
Edmonds's first papers were published while she was studying for her PhD, with two in 1942 on infinite series and on Fourier transforms. These led to a series of papers over the following years, exploring these topics and building on her PhD research into Parseval's theorem.
She was a dedicated teacher, supervising students in all branches of pure and applied mathematics, as well as lecturing courses in the Mathematical Tripos. Edmonds served on the University Faculty Board of Mathematics for many years, and was its chair in 1975 and 1976.
In 1960 Edmonds was appointed Vice-Principal of Newnham College, one of the senior offices of the college, a post which she held until her retirement in 1981. She also served on the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and the boards of governers of several schools including Rodean.
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* Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia (1992−1994) — formerly in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
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I'm a reviewer from California who enjoys Geo-tagging wikipedia articles. My main focus has been counties, cities, and lakes in Nova Scotia, which doesn't make any sense as I don't live anywhere near there and have never visited. Oh well.
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RFD discussion: August 2020–December 2022
Ancient Greek. Unneeded, is perfectly sufficient. PUC – 16:29, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
* Delete, certainly an odd one out in CAT:Ancient Greek prefixes. This, that and the other (talk) 11:06, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
* RFD-deleted. Thadh (talk) 15:55, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
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says, we must each try our own way and see what comes of it. But there’s something in Inspector Baynes which I can’t quite understand.”
“Just sit down in that chair, Watson,” said Sherlock Holmes, when we had returned to our apartment at the Bull. “I want to put you in touch with the situation, as I may need your help to-night. Let me show you the evolution of this case, so far as I have been able to follow it. Simple as it has been in its leading features, it has none the less presented surprising difficulties in the way of an arrest. There are gaps in that direction which we have still to fill.
“We will go back to the note which was handed in to Garcia upon the evening of his death. We may put aside this idea of Baynes’s that Garcia’s servants were concerned in the matter. The proof of this lies in the fact that it was he who had arranged for the presence of Scott Eccles, which could only have been done for the purpose of an alibi. It was Garcia, then, who had an enterprise, and apparently a criminal enterprise, in hand that night, in the course of which he met his death. I say criminal because only a man with a criminal enterprise desires to establish an alibi. Who, then is most likely to have taken his life? Surely the person against
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GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''
Reviewer: Hahc21 (talk · contribs) 02:32, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi All. I'll be reviewing this article for the next few weeks. --Hahc21 (talk) 02:32, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Round 1
I've seen some things on the article that i believe needs to be extended:
* 1) The allmusic review doesn't have quotation. It needs one.
* The grade on the website is all. The author didn't review anything except giving a grade.
* Mmm ok. Ok. So the're nothing to be done on that. --Hahc21 (talk) 21:36, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
* 1) The information regarding the DVD release and the single release should be in different paragraphs to avoid confusion. ✅
Round 2
* I've found some problems with 4 references. I've fixed 3 of them. The 4th is a link which needs registration to read info, so there's nothing to do with it.
* OK.
* I've also modified some lines to match the formatting...
* OK.
--Hahc21 (talk) 21:45, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
* About the reception section: How many critics reviewed the DVD? Only the allmusic score is mentioned. I'll make a little search to see what i find. Please somebody also help me in this...
* Believe me; everything I could find is in the article. There are no other professional reviews other than the Allmusic review. So there's just one review. However, it also appeared in Vibe's list of "Get in Tune With New Music" and influenced singer Adam Lambert...
Round 3
Ok. External research is done. Nothing new to add. Please don't forget to sign the posts... :)
* Now, i'll spend the next day checking the syntax and semantics more in detail and applying changes in order were needed --Hahc21 (talk) 03:24, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
* I've checked the syntax and semantics already. I'll make a final read tomorrow and put the article against the GA criteria to make my final vote. --Hahc21 (talk) 05:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
The Verdict
Ok, it was a rainy day so i stayed in home today. I've checked the article again and is ready. Congratulations to all who worked on the article, most of all to for his great job. Here, my final verdict:
* Final commentary: Live at Wembley cannot be further improved and it covers the topic very broadly. It is well-written, information is correctly organized and is factually accurate and verifiable. This means that it complies with all the good article criteria and then it's promoted to good article status.
* Thank you. My love is love (talk) 16:35, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Miss India Worldwide 2000
Miss India Worldwide 2000 was the tenth edition of the international beauty pageant. The final was held in Tampa, Florida, United States on November 25, 2000. About 16 countries were represented in the pageant. Ritu Upadhyay of the United States was crowned as the winner at the end of the event.
Delegates
* 🇨🇦 Canada – Retu Jahlan
* 🇫🇯 Fiji – Sapna Malini
* 🇩🇪 Germany – Unknown
* 🇬🇾 Guyana – Unknown
* 🇮🇳 India – Sheetal Shah
* 🇯🇲 Jamaica – Munchan Ahmed Ghelani
* 🇰🇪 Kenya – Preeti Ghelani
* 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Jayalaxmi Appadorai
* 🇳🇵 Nepal – Nikita Bhandari Kshatriya
* 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Rovana Shankar
* 🇸🇬 Singapore – Vanitha Veerasamy
* 🇿🇦 South Africa – Subashnie Devkaran
* 🇸🇷 Suriname – Namita Ajodhia
* – Unknown
* – Simran Kochar
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javascript – Uncaught SecurityError：无法从“HTMLIFrameElement”中读取“contentDocument”属性：阻止源代码“https：// localhost” - 代码日志
javascript – Uncaught SecurityError：无法从“HTMLIFrameElement”中读取“contentDocument”属性：阻止源代码“https：// localhost”
我正在面对下面的问题,同时尝试捕获G按钮的点击事件.
未捕获SecurityError：无法从“HTMLIFrameElement”中读取“contentDocument”属性：阻止源“https://localhost”的帧访问原始帧“https://apis.google.com”.协议,域和端口必须匹配.
我发现了类似的讨论,Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the ‘contentDocument’ property from ‘HTMLIFram.
This issue fired when you try to call ajax to another domain, please check this article for more info about Same origin policy
Mozilla’s Same Origin article
For fix this, you will need to add this code
document.domain = 'yourdomain.com'
从文章本身：
A page may change its own origin with some limitations. A script can set the value of document.domain to a subset of the current domain. If it does so, the shorter domain is used for subsequent origin checks. For example, assume a script in the document at 07002 executes the following statement:
document.domain = "company.com";
After that statement executes, the page would pass the origin check with 07003. However, by the same reasoning, company.com could not set document.domain to othercompany.com.
The port number is kept separately by the browser. Any call to the setter, including document.domain = document.domain causes the port number to be overwritten with null. Therefore one cannot make company.com:8080 talk to company.com by only setting document.domain = “company.com” in the first. It has to be set in both so that port numbers are both null.
翻译自：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28272933/uncaught-securityerror-failed-to-read-the-contentdocument-property-from-html
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Warren Buffet Live today 4pm - Yahoo Link
For those interested in what the Oracle of Omaha has to say about his investments and the markets.
[Buffet - Yahoo](https://finance.yahoo.com/brklivestream/)
Yahoo Finance is the exclusive online host of the 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting which takes place on Saturday, May 2nd. Live coverage begins here at 4:00pmET.
Investors and non-investors alike can witness history, live, as Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett shares his unscripted views on the company, the markets, the economy, corporate governance, and a lot more. Please join us here for this unique event on Saturday May 2nd at 4:00pmET.
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Pandas multiply column by scalar – Java Program to Find Scalar Multiplication of a Matrix
Pandas multiply column by scalar: In the previous article, we have discussed Java Program to Sort the elements of a Matrix
In this article we are going to see how we can write a program to find the transpose of a matrix in JAVA language.
Java Program to Find Scalar Multiplication of a Matrix
Matrix multiplication in java: A 3*3 Matrix is having 3 rows and 3 columns where this 3*3 represents the dimension of the matrix. Means there are 3*3 i.e. total 9 elements in a 3*3 Matrix.
Let’s understand it in more simpler way.
| A00 A01 A02 |
Matrix A = | A10 A11 A12 |
| A20 A21 A22 | 3*3
• Matrix A represents a 3*3 matrix.
• A‘ represents the matrix element
• Aij‘ represents the matrix element at it’s matrix position/index.
• i‘ represents the row index
• j‘ represents the column index
• Means A00=Aij where i=0 and j=0A01=aij where i=0 and j=1 and like this.
• Here we have started row value from 0 and column value from 0.
Let’s see different ways to find Scalar Multiplication of a Matrix.
Method-1: Java Program to Find Scalar Multiplication of a Matrix By Static Initialization of Array Elements
Approach:
• Initialize and declare one array of size 3×3 with elements.
• Use two for loops to iterate the rows and columns.
• For each element multiply it with the integer.
• Print the resultant array.
Program:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class matrix
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
// Initializing the 3X3 matrix i.e. 2D array
int arr[][] = {{7,2,4},{3,2,6},{7,5,6}};
//resultant matrix
int res[][] = new int[3][3];
int row, col, n = 5;
System.out.print("The matrix elements are : ");
printMatrix(arr);
// Multiplying the matrix using a constant
for(row=0;row<3;row++)
for(col=0;col<3;col++)
arr[row][col] *= n;
System.out.print("\nThe matrix after multiplication with : "+n);
printMatrix(arr);
}
// Method to print the matrix
static void printMatrix(int arr[][])
{
int row, col;
// Loop to print the elements
for(row=0;row<3;row++)
{
// Used for formatting
System.out.print("\n");
for(col=0;col<3;col++)
{
System.out.print(arr[row][col]+" ");
}
}
System.out.print("\n");
}
}
Output:
The matrix elements are :
7 2 2
4 2 6
7 2 6
The matrix after multiplication with : 5
35 10 10
20 10 30
35 10 30
Method-2: Java Program to Find Scalar Multiplication of a Matrix By Dynamic Initialization of Array Elements
Approach:
• Declare two arrays of size 3×3. One to hold the original matrix and another to hold the resultant matrix.
• Ask the user for input of array elements and store them in the one array using two for loops.
• Ask the user to enter an integer to multiply.
• Use two for loops to iterate the rows and columns .
• For each element multiply it with the integer.
• Print the resultant array.
Program:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class matrix
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
//Scanner class to take input
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
// Initializing the 3X3 matrix i.e. 2D array
int arr[][] = new int[3][3];
//for resultant matrix
int res[][] = new int[3][3];
int row, col ,n;
// Taking matrix input
System.out.println("\nEnter matrix elements : ");
for(row=0;row<3;row++)
for(col=0;col<3;col++)
arr[row][col] = scan.nextInt();
// Taking the number input
System.out.println("Enter a number to multiply : ");
n = scan.nextInt();
System.out.print("The matrix elements are : ");
printMatrix(arr);
// Multiplying the matrix using a constant
for(row=0;row<3;row++)
for(col=0;col<3;col++)
arr[row][col] *= n;
System.out.print("\nThe matrix after multiplication with : "+n);
printMatrix(arr);
}
// Method to print the matrix
static void printMatrix(int arr[][])
{
int row, col;
// Loop to print the elements
for(row=0;row<3;row++)
{
// Used for formatting
System.out.print("\n");
for(col=0;col<3;col++)
{
System.out.print(arr[row][col]+" ");
}
}
System.out.print("\n");
}
}
Output:
Enter matrix elements : 9 8 3 4 5 6 7 3 8
Enter a number to multiply : 4
The matrix elements are :
9 8 3
4 5 6
7 3 8
The matrix after multiplication with : 4
36 32 12
16 20 24
28 12 32
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#35425 new enhancement
Return HTTP status code in WP_Error objects
Reported by: danielbachhuber Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: REST API Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: Cc:
Description
The REST API has an existing pattern of using a HTTP status code to better describe the nature of a WP_Error object:
if ( ! empty( $request['id'] ) ) {
return new WP_Error( 'rest_post_exists', __( 'Cannot create existing post.' ), array( 'status' => 400 ) );
}
Throughout WordPress, it would improve the quality of error reporting to include an equivalent HTTP status when generating a new WP_Error object.
This ticket can serve as placeholder for improvements to this effect.
Previously: https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API/issues/153#issuecomment-170734687
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This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by joehoyle. View the logs.
5 years ago
#2 @voldemortensen
5 years ago
35425.wp-admin.diff updates all returned WP_Errors in the wp-admin dir.
#3 @knutsp
5 years ago
After r36294: Should the new WP_Http::CONSTANTs be used?
#4 @voldemortensen
5 years ago
Feels like cruft to me, but if that's the direction its headed I can update the patch.
#5 @danielbachhuber
5 years ago
I think it makes sense to use the new class of constants.
#6 @voldemortensen
5 years ago
I still think its a load of cruft, but here's an updated patch.
#7 follow-up: @rmccue
5 years ago
I don't think we can change the data already being passed in WP_Error objects, as this'll break compatibility. Also, we can skip specifying WP_HTTP::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR explicitly, just falling back to the default should be fine.
#8 in reply to: ↑ 7 ; follow-up: @danielbachhuber
5 years ago
Replying to rmccue:
I don't think we can change the data already being passed in WP_Error objects, as this'll break compatibility.
Can you clarify what the alternative should be? I thought changing the data included in WP_Error objects was the original intent.
#9 @dd32
5 years ago
Altering the data returned by existing WP_Errors is going to be a no-go.
Potentially it could be "upgraded" to accept array( 'status' => 404, 'data' => ... ) and return the data element as the get_error_data() and status via get_error_type() / get_error_status().
This will need some clear cut explanations of what HTTP code represents what as well, for example, a 404 being returned on download failure (as in the patch above) is the closest to what was actually encountered, but probably isn't what should be returned to the Browser or REST client (but it might be?).
#10 in reply to: ↑ 8 @rmccue
5 years ago
Replying to danielbachhuber:
Can you clarify what the alternative should be? I thought changing the data included in WP_Error objects was the original intent.
If the error object already has data, we can't change that (unless it's an assoc array we can just add a key to), since plugins may be relying on accessing that data as-is. For errors without data attached, we can add it, since plugins can't be relying on something that's not there. (Technically they could be relying on it being empty, but I doubt anyone ever does that.)
Replying to dd32:
Potentially it could be "upgraded" to accept array( 'status' => 404, 'data' => ... ) and return the data element as the get_error_data() and status via get_error_type() / get_error_status().
I think at that point, we'd be better off just adding a separate status property. Incidentally, I'm fine with that, but we'd need to keep BC for having it in data anyway, so I don't think it's worth the cruft.
#11 @joehoyle
3 years ago
Given no movement on this, and I don't see a great way to solve the original issue here I'm +1 on closing this out.
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Gandhi Stadium
Gandhi Stadium or Burlton Park or BS Bedi Stadium is located in the city of Jalandhar, Punjab and is used for cricket matches. As of 19 August 2017 it has hosted 1 Test and 3 ODIs. The stadium should not be confused with the 10,000-capacity Gandhi Stadium in Ambikapur, which is used for cricket and football.
History
The stadium was built in 1955 and serves as the home ground for two Indian domestic cricket teams: Punjab and North Zone. The stadium hosted a solitary Test Match against Pakistan as well as 3 ODI matches with the host team - India winning both of these matches.
With the advent of Mohali Cricket Stadium outside Chandigarh, it is unlikely that other stadiums in the state of Punjab will get an opportunity to host international cricket matches. The highest score in Test cricket was made by India who scored 374 against Pakistan. The most runs scored were by Anshuman Gaekwad (201 runs), Wasim Raja (125 runs) and Javed Miandad (66 runs). The most wickets taken were by Wasim Raja and Kapil Dev (4 wickets), along with Ravi Shastri (3 wickets). The highest score in ODI cricket was made by West Indies who scored 226 against Pakistan. The most runs scored were Dilip Vengsarkar (88 runs), Richie Richardson (77 runs) and Aamer Malik (77 runs). The most wickets taken were by Venkatapathy Raju (3 wickets), Graham Gooch (2 wickets) and Kapil Dev (2 wickets).
Demolition and Reconstruction
Currently, there is a plan to construct a sports complex in Jalandhar City. Reconstruction of this cricket ground and converting it into an international level cricket stadium is also included in the project. All the stands were demolished. However, due to some legal problems, this project was stopped for a while. A few months later some reconstruction was seen. The stadium is not hosting any matches currently because the main pitch is also being reconstructed. Although practice sessions for budding cricketers have not been stopped.
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma Survival Rate and Prognosis
Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive cancer that affects the peritoneum, the lining of the abdominal cavity. The prognosis and survival rate for individuals with peritoneal mesothelioma can vary based on several factors, including the stage at diagnosis, the type of treatment received, and the overall health of the patient. Here are some key points to consider regarding peritoneal mesothelioma survival rates and prognosis:
1. Stage of Diagnosis: Like many cancers, the stage at which peritoneal mesothelioma is diagnosed plays a significant role in determining prognosis. In general, earlier-stage cancers have a better prognosis than those diagnosed at an advanced stage. Peritoneal mesothelioma is typically staged from I to IV, with stage I indicating localized disease and stage IV indicating advanced, metastatic disease.
2. Treatment Options: Treatment for peritoneal mesothelioma often involves a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and sometimes radiation therapy. One of the most promising treatments for peritoneal mesothelioma is cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), which has shown improved survival rates compared to other treatment approaches.
3. Survival Rates: Survival rates for peritoneal mesothelioma can vary, but they have been improving in recent years due to advancements in treatment. It’s important to note that survival rates are typically reported as percentages and can vary based on various factors. Five-year survival rates for peritoneal mesothelioma have been reported to range from around 20% to 60% in some studies, with higher rates often associated with earlier-stage disease and successful CRS/HIPEC procedures.
4. Prognostic Factors: Several factors can influence the prognosis of individuals with peritoneal mesothelioma, including age, overall health, tumor size and location, the extent of disease spread, the success of surgical resection, and the response to chemotherapy.
5. Individual Variability: It’s essential to remember that survival rates and prognoses are statistical averages and do not predict the outcome for any specific individual. People diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma can have different experiences and outcomes based on their unique circumstances.
6. Ongoing Research: Research into peritoneal mesothelioma is ongoing, and new treatment approaches and therapies are being developed. Clinical trials may offer additional treatment options for some patients.
It’s crucial for individuals diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma to consult with a team of medical professionals, including oncologists and surgeons, to determine the best treatment plan tailored to their specific situation. Additionally, seeking support from a healthcare team, support groups, and mental health professionals can be beneficial for coping with the challenges associated with this rare cancer.
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History explorer: Stephen and Matilda's fight for the throne
Professor David Crouch and Charlotte Hodgman visit Wallingford Castle in Oxfordshire, which played a key role in a vicious civil war in the 12th century...
With its impressive central mound and tower, high protective walls and deep defensive ditches, Wallingford Castle must have posed a formidable sight to besieging forces in the medieval period, among them those of King Stephen, who sought to take the fortification from his would-be usurper, Empress Matilda, on a number of occasions between 1139 and 1153.
Today little remains of the mighty fortress that overlooked a key crossing point of the river Thames. Small, scattered sections of the castle’s stone walls can be found at various points in the 41-acre site now known as Wallingford Castle Meadows. The most complete section, however, is the ruins of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, a building that stood within the castle walls and can now be accessed via a relatively steep set of steps. Standing in the shadow of the huge motte – accessible via a wooden suspension bridge – the limestone ruins remind us of the castle’s long history and its strategic importance in the fight for the English crown following the death of Henry I in 1135.
“Succession was a flashpoint in any medieval nation’s history,” says Professor David Crouch, professor of medieval history at the University of Hull, “but England was notorious for having no succession customs. The person who took the throne was generally he – or she – who made the most of the opportunities available to them.”
Henry made every effort to ensure a straightforward succession, nominating his only surviving legitimate child, Matilda, as his heir before his death. The great barons and nobles of England had sworn to support Matilda’s claim to the throne and she had been married to one of the most powerful men in France: Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. Henry, it seemed, had set his daughter up to move smoothly into the role of England’s first reigning queen.
“Henry’s death couldn’t have come at a worse time,” says Crouch. “He died in the middle of a ferocious row with his son-in-law – a dispute that saw Matilda side with her husband against her father – and it is even said that Henry had released his magnates from their oath of support for Matilda’s succession. Whether this was the case or not, when Henry died after more than 35 years on the throne, the scene was set for a desperate scramble for power.”
Henry, like his father William the Conqueror before him, had ruled both Normandy and England, and after his death the Norman barons decided to ignore Matilda’s claim in favour of Henry’s nephew Theobald, Count of Blois, whom they felt would benefit their interests the most, as well as bring the principalities of Normandy and Blois into alignment.
But as Theobald arrived triumphantly in Rouen, confident of his support, he must surely have been shocked to discover that his younger brother, Stephen, had dashed ahead to London where he had already been crowned.
“London was a huge city in medieval terms, and the opinions of its people carried great weight,” says Crouch. “Stephen’s appeal to Londoners lay partly in his personality – he was by all accounts a very affable man – but also with the fact that his wife was Countess of Boulogne, a town that was a point of access for trade on the continent. Stephen’s coronation, therefore, was seen to be in London’s best interests.”
But what of Matilda, Henry’s nominated heir? Without the support of the Norman barons, Matilda could do little to stake her claim to the throne. Her uncle, David, king of Scotland, had invaded England on her behalf after Henry’s death, but had been unsuccessful and in 1136 he made a peace settlement with Stephen at Durham. All Matilda could do was wait for an opportunity to present itself.
The first years of Stephen’s reign went well, but in 1137 tensions surfaced among certain factions at court as the king began to neglect those key men who had served at the core of Henry’s government, and favour his friends, notably the charismatic Waleran de Beaumont. The king’s failure to put down a rebellion against English occupiers in Wales was the last straw, and in 1138 growing dissatisfaction became open revolt.
“England can be seen to have staggered into rebellion in 1138,” says Crouch, “and when civil war did finally break out, it was very territorial. Generally speaking, Matilda’s support could be found in the south-west of England, where Matilda’s half-brother and chief supporter, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, had land. Yorkshire, East Anglia and London were for the king, while the Cotswold area in between became something of a war zone.”
One baron who eventually switched his allegiance from Stephen to Matilda was Brian fitz Count, Lord of Wallingford and Abergavenny. Like many other barons, fitz Count had initially accepted Stephen’s rule, but defended his later defection by citing the oath he had taken under Henry I to support his daughter’s claim. Soon after, Stephen attacked fitz Count’s castle in Wallingford, which had become an important stronghold for Matilda’s faction (Stephen made further attempts to take the castle in 1145/6 and again in 1152, but failed in his endeavours).
Matilda herself arrived in England in 1139, landing in Arundel and staying under the protection of Henry I’s widowed second wife, Adeliza of Louvain, at the town’s castle. Unwilling to risk offending Adeliza by attacking the castle, Stephen instead decided to broker a deal with the empress, and she was granted safe passage to Bristol, where she was reunited with Robert of Gloucester.
Stephen most probably regretted his decision to allow Matilda to return to her faction when, in February 1141, he was captured by the combined forces of Robert of Gloucester and the Earl of Chester after being defeated in battle outside Lincoln’s city walls. At the mercy of his captors, the king was taken to Bristol Castle where he was held, in chains, for some 10 months on Matilda’s orders.
“Stephen’s treatment in Bristol reveals much about Matilda’s character,” says Crouch. “He was placed in leg irons, despite being an anointed king; this seemingly vindictive act shocked his subjects and did little to increase the empress’s popularity.
“Matilda’s lack of discretion and sensitivity in the way she treated her magnates at court is well documented by medieval chroniclers. After Stephen’s capture, her route to the throne looked clearer than it had ever been, yet she is described in contemporary sources as alienating members of her court with her uncontrollable and spiteful behaviour.”
With Stephen imprisoned and unable to marshal his support, Matilda seized the initiative and made it as far as Westminster in her bid for the crown. There, she was accepted by the population of London – as Stephen had been some six years earlier – and preparations began to take place for her coronation.
“By 1141, victory looked to be well within Matilda’s reach,” says Crouch. “Her rival to the throne was in prison and the inhabitants of the most important city in England had accepted her as their reigning queen. But the tables turned dramatically when, just two days before her coronation, she alienated both new and old sources of support.
“As tradition dictated, Matilda was petitioned by Londoners for tax concessions and other favours in the run-up to her coronation. But, instead of wooing her new subjects with generosity and magnanimity, Matilda, as was her way, granted no favours, shrieked at her petitioners and banished them from her presence. In one fell swoop she had lost the city and its support.”
Realising they would gain nothing from Matilda’s reign, the rejected Londoners returned to the city where they proceeded to ring the bells. Men of London’s militia poured into the streets and an angry mob advanced on Westminster, forcing Matilda to flee to Oxford for her own safety.
Matilda’s bad luck continued when, in September 1141, Robert of Gloucester was captured at Winchester by Stephen’s queen – also Matilda – who had led an army of Flemish mercenaries and loyal barons there to fight Stephen’s cause.
A prisoner exchange took place soon after, and Stephen was free to resume his place on the throne and pursue his would-be usurper to Oxford, where Matilda had based her campaign. As Stephen attacked the city, laying siege to Oxford Castle where the empress was residing, Matilda managed to escape. She fled first to the abbey at Abingdon before moving on to Wallingford Castle.
The war dragged on with neither side able to deliver the crucial final blow, but, with Robert of Gloucester’s death in 1147, the military heart went out of Matilda’s campaign and she finally left England for Normandy, resigning her rights to the English throne to her son, Henry (later Henry II), who made several expeditions to England to try where his mother had failed.
“The final showdown took place in 1153, at Wallingford,” says Crouch, “but it was far from the decisive battle Stephen had waited for. The two armies set up camp either side of the Thames, near Wallingford Castle, but in a dramatic twist, barons in both armies – many of whom had already made private peace treaties among themselves – refused to fight, forcing Henry and Stephen to iron out a peace settlement.”
The agreement – which became known widely as the Treaty of Wallingford – was sealed in Westminster in December 1153, and saw Stephen formally acknowledge Henry as his adopted son and successor.
“The treaty was a remarkable event in British history,” concludes Crouch, “and laid the groundwork for Magna Carta in 1215. Ultimately, the war was ended, not by the anointed king, but by a group of barons who decided to stand up to their king in order to ensure the peace of the realm.”
Stephen and Matilda: five more places to explore
Where Matilda made a daring escape
Matilda based herself at Oxford Castle in 1141 but quickly found herself under siege from Stephen’s forces. Surrounded, the empress was forced to escape under the cover of darkness, allegedly lowered down the walls and dressed in white as camouflage against the snow. You can visit the castle’s medieval motte, crypt and tower.
Where allegiances changed constantly
Built in the 12th century, Wareham Castle was often employed as a transit point for armies just arrived in England from western Normandy. The castle was seized on a number of occasions, allegedly changing hands five times between Stephen and Matilda. Today, only the motte and ditches of the castle remain.
Where an earl promoted peace
The conflict was effectively ended by barons who made private peace treaties with each other to limit the effects of war. One of these was Robert de Beaumont, twin brother of royal favourite Waleran, who held Leicester Castle. A supporter of the king, Robert was one of those who led the movement for peace among England’s greater earls. The great hall is among the medieval remains that are accessible.
Where a peace treaty was announced
Stephen’s brother, Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester, was one of the most powerful men in England, but transferred his support to Matilda after Stephen’s capture in 1141. He later rejoined his brother, defending the city from Matilda. The treaty that ended the war was announced in the city’s cathedral in November 1153.
Where Matilda’s claim was defended
In 1138, David I of Scotland invaded England for a second time to defend his niece’s claim to the throne. At the ensuing battle just outside Northallerton, David was defeated and forced to return north.
Words by Charlotte Hodgman. The historical advisor was David Crouch, professor of medieval history at the University of Hull.
Catherine Hanley will be speaking about 'Matilda: The Greatest King England Never Had' at our Kings and Queens Weekend in March 2019. Find out more here
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In these realistic virtual clinicals, the learner, in a hospital setting, conducts a virtual office visit with the remote patient, reviewing data and selecting telehealth tools to monitor specific parameters. In-depth dialog, and immediate feedback with rationales for correct and incorrect answers, immerses the learner in the telehealth visit.
Each virtual clinical includes a faculty guide, feedback and rationales, a dashboard with evaluative report, and a learner dashboard.
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Telehealth provides long-distance clinical care and professional health education using electronic data and telecommunications technology (Health Resources and Services Administration) including videoconferencing (synchronous and asynchronous), remote patient monitoring, and mobile health (mHealth) to improve access to care, support quality patient-centered outcomes, and enhance efficiency in the healthcare system.
By identifying the assessment skills required to use home-based telehealth devices, learners interpret alerts, developing the necessary clinical judgment and communication skills to assess, monitor, and evaluate the care of patients remotely.
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Merge with CDMA Subscriber Identity Module (CSIM) article?
Both the R-UIM and CSIM articles are ~very~ short. While small portions are distinct, most of the information overlaps. Perhaps these two articles should be merged until enough information is present to bother having separate articles? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:37, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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Dennis Willis (born January 17, 1967 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is an American radio and television personality, as well as screenwriter and director. He currently reviews films and provides entertainment industry commentary at KGO AM 810, in San Francisco.
Television
In 2008, Willis completed the final season as host, producer and editor of Soundwaves, a Bay Area-based music entertainment show that left the airwaves after a record-setting 25 years (he began hosting the show at 16 years old).
Willis also produced and co-hosted two film-based shows, Reel Life (1993 TV Series) and FilmTrip (1997-98), with Steve Wagner. He is currently in pre-production on a third syndicated film-based show, that will launch in Fall 2009.
Radio
Willis originally took his film critic act to radio to promote FilmTrip (which aired on KGO-TV and KCWB in Kansas City), but the radio gig long outlasted the TV show, which lasted one season. He has had several stints as KGO Radio’s Afternoon News film critic, from 1997-99, 2001-2002, 2004, and recently from September 2005 to the present.
Film
Willis and Steven Kirk wrote and directed Unwrapped (2006), an acclaimed indie short about exploitation in the Internet age; and have collaborated on several screenplays they plan to direct. Their 2006 short documentary The Life and Legacy of George Reeves was released on DVD through VCI Entertainment.
They own and operate Capricorn Entertainment and have collaborated for over 20 years.
Fundraising
Since 1989, Willis and Steven Kirk have produced and hosted the annual Soundwaves Christmas Party, a food, clothing and toy drive to benefit local Bay Area neighborhoods and noteworthy national non-profit organizations.
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Eider Gardiazabal
Eider Gardiazabal Rubial is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 elections.
Political career
Since joining the European Parliament, Gardiazabal Rubial has been serving as a member of the Committee on Budgets. She is also her parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee. In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on the 2015 budget (along with Monika Hohlmeier) and on the COVID-19 pandemic recovery fund in 2020 (along with Siegfried Mureşan and Dragoș Pîslaru). In 2019, she drafted (together with Petri Sarvamaa) legislation on cutting EU funds to member states that undermine the rule of law.
In addition to her committee assignments, Gardiazabal Rubial is a member of the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. She is also part of the Spinelli Group, the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights and of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime).
Personal life
Her mother Lentxu Rubial and grandfather Ramón Rubial were both members of the Senate of Spain (Biscay constituency) representing the PSOE, the latter also serving as president of the party between 1976 and 1999.
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The Colonial Bank was a bank in the British territories of the West Indies during the colonial era. The bank was established in 1836 and had opened offices in most of the territories by 1837.
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KRSK
KRSK (105.1 FM, "Bella 105") is a commercial radio station licensed to Molalla, Oregon, and broadcasting to the Portland metropolitan area. It is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs a hot adult contemporary radio format. The station broadcasts in HD Radio. The HD-2 subchannel carries Audacy's "Channel Q" LGBTQ service
KRSK's studios and offices are located in Portland's South Waterfront district on SW Bancroft Street. The transmitter site is in the city's West Hills, off NW Skyline Boulevard. KRSK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 22,500 watts.
History
On July 3, 1970, KSLM-FM signed on the air. It was originally licensed to Salem, about 40 mi south of Portland. It was owned by Oregon Radio, Inc. and was the FM counterpart of KSLM (now KZGD).
In 1973, it changed its call sign to KORI. In 1978, KORI changed call letters to KSKD and aired the automated "TM Stereo Rock" Top 40 music service as "Cascade 105". On March 7, 1986, KSKD changed call letters to KXYQ and aired a live and local Top 40 format as "Q-105", later switching to adult contemporary. On June 15, 1995, at 5 p.m., after a few hours of stunting, KXYQ changed its format to classic rock, branded as "Earth 105", with the call letters becoming KKRH on July 17, 1995.
Entercom (now Audacy) acquired the station in 1998 for $605,000. On June 5, 1998, at 5 p.m., KKRH began its current hot adult contemporary format as "Rosie 105." It changed its call letters to the current KRSK on August 28, 1998. In January 2000, the spelling changed to "Rosey 105" after a copyright lawsuit by Rosie O'Donnell.
On April 14, 2003, KRSK rebranded as "105.1 The Buzz".
The station moved from Salem into the more lucrative Portland radio market in 2004. The city of license was changed to the Portland suburb of Molalla, and the transmitter was moved to Portland's West Hills.
In 2011, KRSK began adding more contemporary pop currents, moving the station in an Adult Top 40 direction.
On March 1, 2024, at noon, KRSK relaunched as "Bella 105".
HD Radio
KRSK broadcasts in the HD Radio format. In 2006, KRSK added an HD2 subcarrier to its transmitter. The HD-2 subchannel carried a comedy radio format. In July 2011, KRSK-HD2 switched to a blues format as "The Delta." On March 14, 2017, KRSK-HD2 flipped to the Radio Disney children's radio service. On June 1, 2018, KRSK-HD2 switched to a love songs/Soft AC format. In March 2019, KRSK-HD2 switched from love songs to LGBTQ talk/dance, branded as "Channel Q".
In June 2010, KRSK added an HD3 subchannel to its lineup, which broadcast ESPN Deportes Radio, a Spanish-language sports radio format, which would only last a couple of months. In August, it switched to ESPNews. That lasted until July 2011, when the HD3 subchannel was discontinued.
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Donovan (disambiguation)
Donovan is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Donovan may also refer to:
People
* Donovan (name), a given name and surname
Places
* Castle Donovan, a ruined castle 12 kilometers east of Bantry, County Cork, Ireland
* General Donovan Department, Argentina
* Donovan, Georgia, United States
* Donovan, Illinois, United States
* Donovan Lake, a lake in Minnesota, United States
* Donovans, South Australia, Australia
* Donovans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Ships
* HMS Donovan, a minesweeper launched 1918, sold 1921
* Empire Battleaxe, an Infantry Landing Ship that operated as HMS Donovan from 1944 to 1946
Music
* HMS Donovan (album), a 1971 album by Donovan
* Donovan P. Leitch (album), a Donovan compilation
* "Donovan", a song by Happy Mondays from their 1990 album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
* Donovan (album)
Fictional characters
* Donovan (American Horror Story), an American Horror Story: Hotel character
* Donovan Baine, a character from the Vampire/Darkstalkers series of games by Capcom
Other uses
* Donovan (horse), winner of the 1889 Epsom Derby
* Donovan Data Systems, a software and computer services company
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Palace survival depends on Zaha staying fit, says Townsend
March 19, 2018 / 7:24 AM / Updated 2 hours ago Palace survival depends on Zaha staying fit, says Townsend Reuters Staff 2 Min Read (Reuters) - Crystal Palace’s hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation this season rely on playmaker Wilfried Zaha maintaining his fitness during the run-in, winger Andros Townsend has said. Soccer Football - Premier League - Huddersfield Town vs Crystal Palace - John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield, Britain - March 17, 2018 Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha REUTERS/Peter Powell Palace have lost all nine league games that Zaha has missed this season and the 25-year-old’s return to action from a knee injury in the defeat at Chelsea earlier this month was a welcome boost for Roy Hodgson’s team. The Ivory Coast international was influential in Palace’s 2-0 victory at Huddersfield Town, which helped the visitors end a four-game losing streak in the league and climb to 16th in the table. “Wilf coming back gives us a massive boost,” Townsend told British media. “He’s an incredible player for us. We’ve all seen the stats about what happens when he’s not in the team. We need to keep him fit if we’re going to stay up.” Zaha was substituted off in the closing stages at John Smith’s Stadium after picking up a knock following numerous hard tackles by the hosts but Townsend believes that his team mate is experienced enough to handle the constant pressure. “When you’re as good as Wilf and when you’re the team’s talisman you have to take that punishment,” Townsend added. “The likes of Eden Hazard and Harry Kane take the same tackles. Wilf is robust enough to ride those challenges. “The most impressive thing about him is that he didn’t let it affect him, he didn’t lose his head. He kept getting on the ball and he kept taking people on.” Palace are two points above 18th-placed Southampton having played one game more and host third-placed Liverpool in the league on March 31. Reporting by Aditi Prakash in Bengaluru; editing by Amlan Chakraborty
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@article {111, title = {In vivo quantitative studies of dynamic intracellular processes using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.}, journal = {Biophysical journal}, volume = {91}, year = {2006}, month = {2006 Jul 1}, pages = {343-51}, abstract = {It has been a significant challenge to quantitatively study the dynamic intracellular processes in live cells. These studies are essential for a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms regulating the signaling pathways and the transitions between cell cycle stages. Our studies of Cdc20, an important mitotic checkpoint protein, throughout the cell cycle demonstrate that fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is a powerful tool for in vivo quantitative studies of dynamic intracellular processes. In this study, Cdc20 is found to be present primarily in a large complex (>1 Mda) during interphase with a diffusion constant of 1.8+/-0.1 microm2/s and a concentration of 76+/-24 nM, consistent with its association with the APC/C. During mitosis, however, a proportion of Cdc20 dissociates from APC/C at a rate of 12 pM/s into a soluble pool with a diffusion constant of 19.5+/-5.0 microm2/s, whose size is most consistent with free Cdc20. This free pool accumulates to 50\% of total Cdc20 (approximately 40 nM) during chronic activation of the mitotic checkpoint but disappears during mitotic exit at a rate of 31 pM/s. The observed changes in the biochemical assembly states of Cdc20 closely correlate to the known temporal pattern of the activity of APC/CCdc20 in mitosis. Photon counting histograms reveal that both complexes contain only a single molecule of Cdc20. The underlying mechanisms of the activities of APC/CCdc20 throughout the cell cycle are discussed in light of our experimental observations.}, keywords = {Cell Cycle, Cell Cycle Proteins, Cell Line, Intracellular Fluid, Kinetics, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton, Potoroidae, Spectrometry, Fluorescence}, issn = {0006-3495}, doi = {10.1529/biophysj.105.077891}, author = {Wang, Zifu and Shah, Jagesh V and Berns, Michael W and Cleveland, Don W} }
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Using the Registers Window
The Registers window displays register contents. If you keep the Registers window open as you step through your program, you can see register values change as your code executes. Values that have changed recently appear in red.
To display the Registers window
• From the Debug menu, choose Windows and click Registers. (The debugger must be running or in break mode.)
Note Register information is not available for script or SQL applications.
To reduce clutter, the Registers window organizes registers into groups. You can display or hide groups as you see fit. For more information, see Displaying and Hiding Register Groups. The Registers window displays SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow! registers in the following way:
3DNow! Registers
The debugger splits each MMX register into two 32-bit floats of the form MMnm, where n is the MMX register number, and m is zero or one for each half. 3DNow! registers are available on the AMD (Athlon) K6 processor and its successors.
SSE Registers
The debugger splits each XMM register into four 32-bit floats of the form XMMnm, where n is the XMM register number and m is 0-3 to denote which part of the register is used. These registers are available on the Intel Pentium III processor and its successors.
SSE2 Registers
The debugger splits each XMM register into two halves, both as integer and floating point. The notation is XMM followed by the register number, then D (for double), then L (low half) or H (high half). SSE2 integer registers (I registers) do not appear in the Registers window. To view I registers, enter the register name in the Watch window. These registers are available on the Intel Pentium 4 processor and its successors.
You can edit the value of a register in the Registers window. If you choose to display the register flags group, you can edit register flags. For more information, see Editing a Register Value. For Intel x86 processors, you can set the following register flags:
Register Window Flags
Flag Set value
Overflow O = 1
Direction D = 1
Interrupt I = 1
Sign S = 1
Zero Z = 1
Auxiliary carry A = 1
Parity P = 1
Carry C = 1
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Ferguson: Sean Bell's parents call for peace (Opinion) - CNN.com
Editor's note: William and Valerie Bell are the parents of Sean Bell, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by New York police officers on November 25, 2006. The officers who shot Bell were acquitted. The opinions in this commentary are solely those of the writers. (CNN) -- The intense situation in Ferguson, Missouri, is disturbingly familiar to us. In November, it will be eight years since we suffered the same tragedy as Michael Brown's parents. Our unarmed son, Sean Bell, was killed in a barrage of 50 shots fired by New York plainclothes police officers on his wedding day, November 25, 2006. Our prayers go out to the Brown family, and we offer Michael's parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., our hearts and support. We know how it feels to have your child snatched away, slain by the police. I remember the gut-wrenching moment we learned the details of our son's brutal final moments. As if that wasn't enough, we also had to deal with the public defamation of our son's character, which seemed to be saying: He was an animal, he deserved to die. The killing of unarmed black men has become a staggering pattern across the United States, and for the city of Ferguson, the outrage has reached its boiling point. But we are concerned about the effects the citizens' outrage and their retributive actions might have on the grieving family. My wife, Valerie, believes the racial situation in Ferguson has forced its citizens to aggressively rebel against the infringement of their civil rights. It's true, protesters initially responded to the killing with violence and looting -- which, if continued at that level, would have ultimately destroyed their community and produced the opposite of what they were fighting for in their search for justice. The Brown family called for peace in the midst of looting and violent protesting. Although the looting has stopped, clashes between protesters and police stayed heightened this week, with the Missouri National Guard, troopers and police in riot gear confronting angry demonstrators. The chaos is reminiscent of the Civil Rights movement. I was born and raised in Alabama and clearly recall the protesters armed with passion for change, protest signs, and their voice of power confronting police armed with batons, water hoses, shotguns and police dogs. In this new day, things are different. Various reports, often contested, say police and protesters were in full battle, with armed police using armored vehicles, tear gas and rubber bullets as shotguns rang out and some protesters threw Molotov cocktails. The tactics have changed in the new generation's battle, but the causes remain the same: justice and equality. My wife and I stand in solidarity with Ferguson's call for justice in the killing of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown. But we also stand with the Brown family's call for peaceful protesting. It seems protests are calming down, which is very good news. During this dynamic climate of change in Ferguson, it is imperative not to lose sight of what is in the best interest of the family. Ferguson seems to be in a civil war as Michael Brown's family struggles with the legal complexity of this fight. They are at the core of it all. Many miles must be traveled in their journey for justice. My wife and I know well the transitional process the Brown family must endure. Finding a balance between fighting for justice and mourning the loss of your child can become overwhelmingly challenging. When their time comes to lay their son to rest, it should be a time of peace, giving the family space for grieving and moving forward. Many emotions are running high in Ferguson. However, not one of those emotions can compare with the anguish the family is experiencing; and that should be considered throughout this journey for justice. Read CNNOpinion's new Flipboard magazine. Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion. Join us on Facebook.com/CNNOpinion.
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Rh sake, as some robbers are chasing me, and I want to get away from them; please hide me."
The man, full of pity for so charming a girl, threw off his boats, and putting her under the very last one, threw the boats on again.
He had hardly finished when up rode the robbers, who asked him,—
"Have you seen any richly-dressed maiden come this way?"
"No, gentlemen, I have not."
"You lie! Throw off your boats at once, and let us see; she may be hidden under them."
The peasant threw them off one by one, as slowly as he could, till he came to the two or three last ones, then he said,—
"You see, gentlemen, there is nothing here!"
Off went the robbers, while Alyonushka asked the old peasant to let her out.
She ran and ran until she heard the robbers galloping at some distance behind her; just at that moment she saw another old peasant with a cart full of leather.
"Hide me, little father," she said, "under the last bit of leather in your cart, for there are some robbers coming after me, and I don't want them to find me."
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Ellie Caulkins Opera House
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House is located in Denver, Colorado as part of the large Denver Performing Arts Complex. It seats 2,225. The Caulkins family pledged $7 million towards the enhancement of the lyric opera house and adjacent public spaces which were constructed inside of the Newton Auditorium.
History of the theatre
The Municipal Auditorium, the largest in America except for Madison Square Garden in New York, was completed in time to host the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Mayor Robert W. Speer and the Chamber of Commerce raised $100,000 to celebrate the July 7 grand opening of the Auditorium with Denver's first national political convention, when William Jennings Bryan was nominated to run for President for the third time.
Originally, the building was a multi-purpose structure: it accommodated concerts, operas, theatrical shows, conventions, basketball, auto shows and even circuses, with flags flying from its domes and light bulbs outlining its pediments, cornice, and corners. The proscenium of the original building was designed to be portable so as to create different-sized spaces for different events. When the proscenium was in place, the building was a 3,326-seat theatre with an extraordinarily large backstage area. When the proscenium was raised, increasing the seating capacity to 12,000, the stage and backstage area became large enough to hold circuses and rodeos.
For several years in the 1920s and 1930s, Music Week was an annual event in Denver. Various communities of the state presented musical programs and most of the performances were in the Auditorium. An opera or operetta was commonly included in the offerings.
In 1921, a company of Denver musicians performed Flotow's Martha in May; of special historical significance was the fact that the two performances were broadcast by radio station 9ZAF, the first time ever that a full-length opera was broadcast.
The Auditorium became the de facto opera house for Denver, and the most enduring. For more than 75 years, until the 1980s and 1990s when other halls opened in an adjoining complex, the Auditorium hosted almost all visiting opera companies and opera concerts, as well as local opera productions.
In 1955 the Auditorium was closed and renovation was begun to make the grand old house a modern theatre. In September 1956, the project was completed and the seating capacity was decreased to 2,240.
In the 1980s other theaters were constructed next to the Auditorium, including Boettcher Concert Hall, Bonfils Theatre Complex and the Denver Center Theatre, to which the Seawell Ballroom was added in the 1990s (these now make up the Denver Performing Arts Complex). The Auditorium arena received another makeover in the early 1990s when the Temple Hoyne Buell Theater was built into it. This theater was a reincarnation of the Municipal Auditorium's old theater and basketball and wrestling arena.
In 1992, after the construction of the Buell Theatre, the facade of the Municipal Auditorium was renovated and the seating capacity became 2,065. The Auditorium was renamed Quigg Newton Denver Municipal Auditorium in 2002.
Renovations
In need of major work, the Newton Auditorium underwent a renovation funded primarily through seat tax revenues collected at city-owned facilities and the proceeds of a bond issue approved by Denver voters in 2002.
In all, the city spent $75 million, while private donors provided $17 million more. The gift from the Caulkins family was used to fund additional enhancements to the lyric opera house and adjacent public spaces inside the Newton Auditorium.
The “Ellie” opened as Opera Colorado's new home on September 10, 2005 with a gala benefit for the Colorado Opera Foundation and featured some major singers from the world of opera. Opera Colorado's first season in the new opera house opened on November 3, 2005 with a production of Carmen starring internationally known mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the title role.
The historic shell of the old Auditorium Theatre was rebuilt and named the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, honoring "Denver's First Lady of Opera".
The architect of record, Semple Brown Design, created the performance space, described as "three tiers of balconies curve like lyres; uninterrupted sight lines from every seat focus viewers onto a deep, wide stage.... Sleek staircases and flying bridges pull patrons into the hall. Ellie Caulkins herself is quoted as saying "They say it was like building a ship in a bottle".
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NuCypher is using proxy re-encryption to lift more enterprise big data into the cloud – TechCrunch
After spending time at a London fintech accelerator last year, enterprise database startup ZeroDB scrapped its first business plan and mapped out a new one. By January this year it had a new name: NuCypher. It was no longer going to try to persuade enterprises to switch out their Oracle databases — but rather to sell them on a specialized encryption layer to enhance their ability to perform big data analytics by tapping into the cloud. Its slogan: body armor for big data. Today it’s launching an open source version of its general release product here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. At this point, the almost 1.5-year-old startup is also running a handful of pilots with major banks, says co-founder MacLane Wilkison. “It’s a combination of cloud and big data,” he says of the underlying drivers which the team reckons are creating a need for the technology. “Now all of a sudden you’re working in computing environments that are distributed across hundreds or thousands of machines, and that could be spanning both some on-prem, some private and even public cloud. And that sort of scenario presents a lot of new and different security challenges.” Instead of building an open source end-to-end encrypted database, NuCypher is selling a proxy re-encryption platform for corporates with large amounts of sensitive data stored in encrypted databases to let them securely tap into the power of cloud computing. An idea that might need a bit of explaining to appreciate, but one that’s grounded in a genuine need — at least based on what NuCypher’s early banking partners are telling it. On the competitors front Wilkison names the likes of HP-owned Voltage and Protegrity as the largest existing players in the space. Albeit, he says they’re both doing tokenization of data, whereas NuCypher reckons proxy re-encryption technology offers greater security for certain types of data. Unlike some other approaches to processing big data in the cloud, he emphasizes that NuCypher is not using tokenization to mask any data — arguing this is necessary for the target customers because certain types of data when masked with tokens can be vulnerable to statistical attacks. While proxy re-encryption is an existing area of cryptography, applying it to big data is what’s novel here, according to Wilkison, who says the tech has mostly been used in academia thus far. “We’re the only people that applied it to big data platforms like Hadoop and Spark,” he says. “As far as I know we’re the only one using proxy re-encryption in business.” So while the team’s early ideas focused mostly on looking at data archiving and encryption to enable banks to make use of cloud storage, he says the business was pulled onto its current rails after banks asked if they could apply the encryption tech the team had been building for data archiving to big data cloud processing. Safe to say, this mini pivot is a familiar story for enterprise startups — after all, who knows better the business needs than the target customers? “When we originally started the company, my co-founder and I had built an open-source database and then an encrypted database that allows you to operate unencrypted data without sharing encryption keys with the database server… What the banks were particularly interested in was taking some of what we had built for that and applying it to more compute-heavy type of workloads,” says Wilkison. “After a period of talking to customers… we took some of what we had built for that and made it into a more generalized encryption layer for different platforms — specifically for the big data space. So Hadoop, Kafka and Spark.” So what is proxy re-encryption — aka NuCypher’s “secret sauce,” as Wilkison puts it — and why is the technique useful for banks? “Proxy re-encryption is a set of encryption algorithms that allow you to transform encrypted data. Specifically… it allows you to re-encrypt data — so you have data that’s encrypted under one set of keys, you can re-encrypt the data without de-encrypting it first, so that now it’s encrypted under a second, different set of keys,” is how Wilkison explains it. He gives the example of a person who has some encrypted files stored in Dropbox. If they want to share the files with someone else that could be achieved by downloading them, decrypting them with their key and then re-encrypting them with the public key of the person they want to share with. But obviously — at scale — that’s a pretty network-intensive and cumbersome process. Even more naively, this person could just share their private encryption key with the person they want to share the file with. But then they’re abandoning all control of their security. Clearly neither scenario is ideal for NuCypher’s target customers — with their vast lakes of sensitive, highly regulated data. This is where NuCypher reckons proxy re-encryption can step in to offer an edge. “What I can do with proxy re-encryption that’s much more elegant and secure than either of those alternatives is I can basically delegate access to my encrypted data to someone else’s public key,” he adds. The platform creates a re-encryption token off of the public key of the entity with whom its customers wants to share data. That token can then be uploaded to the cloud where the third party can access it — in turn enabling them to decrypt and access the data. Wilkison says re-encrypted tokens can be created and used to delegate access to “as many people as I like.” Ensuring compliance with regulations around the processing of sensitive data — data such as a bank or healthcare company might hold — is one key selling point for the platform. He points to a regulation like HIPAA, which sets standards for protecting healthcare data, as one example where a lot of care is needed when handling data to ensure compliance. He also flags up the European Union’s incoming GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which ramps up penalties for violations of rules on processing citizens’ personal data, as another instance of data-centric laws creating data processing pain-points that NuCypher’s platform is setting out to fix. Other target data-laden industries could include telecoms and insurance, though the team has kicked-off focusing on financial services, and the current pilot phase of the platform is with “major banks.” Wilkison says there are essentially three main use-cases for the platform: Another benefit he notes is that NuCypher’s proxy re-encryption technology enables it to give customers the ability to manage access controls without needing to provide full access to the data — which means it can remove any single point of failure (i.e. via an admin who has to have full access control to all of the data). “With NuCypher a hacker would have to hack into each node individually in order to get all the data,” he adds. Given the complexities of the technology, customer education is clearly one of the big challenges, with Wilkison saying this boils down to explaining how the approach differs from standard encryption. And on that front, he says one selling point for the platform is that the proxy re-encryption tech works with NIST standardized encryption algorithms. Which means NuCypher customers don’t have to abandon the tried and tested encryption algorithms they’re comfortable using, such as AES-256, in order to make use of the tech. “That was one of the pieces that we added that took a pretty significant amount of research to develop for us — to get proxy re-encryption to work with things like ECIES, which is a standard elliptic curve, NIST-certified,” he notes. “So we can go to a customer and say, everything that we’re doing on a crypto level is very standardized, very well understood by industry. So they’re not having to rely on newly rolled crypto.” NuCypher’s platform exists as an SDK and an encryption library, so its business model is licensing the software — it’s not hosting any data itself, confirms Wilkison; customers can install the software on premise, such as within an existing Hadoop deployment, or directly in the cloud on the infrastructure they’re managing. Funding-wise, the team has raised a $750,000 seed round to date, from Valley investors including Base Ventures, NewGen Capital and some angels. It also went through Y Combinator last summer. Wilkison says it will be looking to raise again in Q3 this year. How big do they reckon this market is? Wilkison says he’s hoping the current six to seven pilot customers of NuCypher will turn into “high double digit” or maybe “low triple digits” in a year’s time. But with those target large enterprises typically spending vast amounts of money on securely storing the sensitive data they’re entrusted with, there’s also a very sizeable incentive for them to shift some of that compute load into the cloud. And, potentially, a lot of money at stake if NuCypher can convince them to buy in. [gallery ids="1490532,1490543,1490542,1490539,1490537,1490533"] Judges Q&A Q: Can you talk a bit more about how far along you are with some of the early clients?
A: We’re in pilot stage right now. The bulk of our early customers are in financial services. We’re starting to get traction in healthcare and telcos as well. Pilot phase at this stage. Q: Tell me a bit more on the competition
A: There’s a couple of ways to look at this. One: the platforms that we support do have some native data protection built in. So Hadoop for example. These tend not to be robust enough for the types of enterprise customers that we’re working with. Other alternatives include data masking and tokenization. HP Voltage for example. Q: You worked before at Morgan Stanley. Why did you leave a steady job with nice salary and Wall Street and went into this kind of adventure?
A: Ultimately I wanted to get back to a more technical role, and actually start building a product in a company again – as opposed to building financial models and pitch decks Q: And this is the actually launching of the product?
A: We’re launching the open source version. We’ve had Hadoop available for a while. And then Kafka is launching as well Q: What did your mother say when you told her that you were leaving Morgan Stanley for this adventure?
A: She was supportive. Although maybe didn’t quite understand what we were doing Q: Can you tell me more about the implementation? What does it look like as you deploy to enterprise – how do you get all of their existing data encrypted and how do you do key management?
A: On the key management side we actually integrate with hardware security modules – so at lots of banks we use HSM from vendors like Thales or SafeNet. For Hadoop we encrypt at the HFS layer. And everything is transparent to applications running on top of Hadoop, so it doesn’t change the experience for someone running Hive queries for example. And we also integrate with access control tools like Ranger and Sentry. So people can keep using the standard tools that they use. Q: Is your business a classic SaaS model?
A: We’re not hosting anything. It’s not software as a service. We have term-based subscriptions, and then also a consumption-based model for cloud deployments. Q: How do you intend to go to market? Sales force? direct sales?
A: Some combination of direct sales, which we’ve done today, and then also the channel partners and big data vendors… and the cloud service providers as well, folks like Amazon and Microsoft. Q: Who are your main competitors?
A: The data masking and tokenization companies are the one we run into most regularly. Voltage which is now part of HP. In Europe we see a company called Protegrity pretty frequently. And then as I mentioned before a lot of the underlying platforms will have some sort of protection tools natively. Q: Do you run into people like Ciphercloud or Ionic?
A: Not so much anymore. We’re similar in some ways to them… we’re more focused on infrastructure like Hadoop and data platforms Q: How many people are you now?
A: We’re the two founders and then seven people total on the team Q: And how much money did you raise?
A: We’ve raised $750K so far from Y Combinator, NewGen Capital and Base Ventures Q: How long ago?
A: Last fall Q: How hard would it be for your competitors to replicate the work that you’ve done?
A: Certainly it’s a lot easier now that it’s open source… That said we do have an open core approach so we have certain enterprise features that are still proprietary that are only available in the enterprise version. Additionally if the Hadoop vendors integrated what we’re doing natively into Hadoop that’s still just for Hadoop. So NuCypher’s meant to be layered, it sits across all of the organization’s big data platforms. Right now they’ve use Hadoop, Kafka, Spark. In the future that could include some new SQL databases, and potentially structured databases as well Q: Judging from your experience with your colleague how do you compare the American level of mathematics and physics to the Russian one?
A: The American approach is lacking. I’m hugely impressed. Not only is my co-founder Russian educated, and Russian born, a lot of our engineers are as well, so we’ve been very fortunate in that regard
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Clinton Book Puts Familiar Foe Back in Conservatives' Sights
Many of former Pres Bill Clinton's old antagonists gear up to attack him as he promotes release of his book My Life; Citizens United--conservative lobbying group--buys advertising time in several markets during Clinton's interview on '60 Minutes' to argue that he is responsible for failing to prevent Sept 11 terrorist attacks; conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh calls book 'My Lie' and column in American Spectator, once leading journal of Clinton-bashing, derides Clinton's expressions of contrition for his affair with Monica Lewinsky; Bush campaign allies revive talk about honor and dignity of Oval Office in their thinly veiled references to Clinton years; book's official release June 21 stirs avid debate on its potential impact on Nov elections; Clinton plans to use his promotional appearances to praise Sen John Kerry and to deprecate Pres Bush; some conservatives argue that reminders of Clinton years may hurt Kerry, especially if Bush's allies are able to redirect attention toward Clinton administration's failures in fight against terrorism; photo (M)
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One of the issues that Harrisburg faced in the late 1800s was lighting the city. This responsibility fell to the Water and Lighting Department. In 1888, the Department, who was made up of newly elected members, promptly decided to conduct inspections in several municipal areas, including that of lighting, to determine what steps they needed to take first. The inspection of the city’s street lamps revealed quite a few that were, according to the City of Harrisburg 1888 Report, “broken and in bad condition” (21). They had them taken down and left the functional street lamps in place. Unsure of what to do next, since they had only recently been elected to the department, they wrote to the City Solicitor and several councils to obtain a more concise description of their repsonsiblities in the area of lighting. By the time the 1888 report was written and published, they were still awaiting an answer. Department officials recognized the need to care for the city’s lights but were reluctant to move forward without the sanction of other city officials.
Although information is scant on the actions that Harrisburg's officials took to maintain its streetlights in the late nineteenth century, the commission was still inspecting and removing broken lamps in the 1890s. The limited amount of information suggests that although lighting was not a priority in the late 1800s compared to other municipal issues (like floods and sewage), it was still given some attention.
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Alcohol Treatment: Your Options
Alcoholism can have detrimental effects on the body. When consumed regularly alcohol abuse can cause a physical and mental dependence. Alcohol increases the body’s feel good chemical dopamine which then creates a need for more alcohol to feel the same. Consuming alcohol can lead to liver damage, heart disease, and pancreatitis. There are medication and therapy options available to treat alcohol use disorder. Medications often require administration by a loved one at least during the initial time frame, to ensure the medication is taken as prescribed. Alcohol treatment counseling requires consistency and dedication to improve your thought process and behaviors over time. In this blog post, we will go over some of the most common modalities below such as naltrexone for alcohol cravings among others.
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Naltrexone for Alcohol Cravings
Naltrexone is a medication that has been used to treat alcohol abuse and alcohol use disorder for many years. It is a part of the opioid receptor antagonist family, and it helps to block the effects of opioids in the brain. This can be helpful for people who are struggling with alcohol addiction, as it can help to reduce cravings for alcohol. Naltrexone is also used to treat other addictions, such as opioid addiction. If you are struggling with alcohol abuse, naltrexone may be a good option for you.
Naltrexone can reduce cravings up to 80% and can be an effective treatment for alcohol abuse when used in combination with other therapies. It is important to note that naltrexone should not be taken if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, as it can cause serious side effects in newborns. If you are interested in learning more about naltrexone and how it can help with alcohol abuse, speak to your doctor or therapist. They will be able to advise you on whether naltrexone is the right option for you.
Antabuse: Immediate Physical Adversion
Another medication which is not as widely used due to side effects when consumed with alcohol is called antabuse. It is a pill taken once daily like naltrexone and it creates an aversion to alcohol so that when people have even the slightest sip they will have intense GI symptoms (leave to the imagination), increased heart rate, palpitations, sweating, and will experience feelings of malaise. Antabuse has been used as a treatment for alcoholism for 50 years, but its use is declining because of naltrexones better side effect profile.
Topamax Proven to Curve the Edge
Topamax is another option for alcohol treatment. It is an anti-seizure medication that has been shown to be effective in treating alcohol use disorder, although not FDA approved and not fully understood. Topiramate is thought to have its effect on alcohol cravings and alcohol use by interacting with GABA and potentially decreasing the release of dopamine, which is involved in the pleasure caused by alcohol consumption.
Side effects of topamax include drowsiness, fatigue, and dizziness. When starting a new medication your doctor will often start with the lowest dose and titrate according to tolerability and medication effectiveness.
Campral and the Multi-dose Detriment
Campral is also an option for alcohol abuse however it requires a multi-dose daily administration to be effective which can be difficult for compliance. Common side effects include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, gas, stomach pain, loss of appetite, headache, drowsiness, dizziness, constipation, fatigue, weight gain/loss, muscle/joint pain, change in sexual desire or decreased sexual ability may occur. Acamprosate is the active ingredient in campral and it helps to restore the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain that were disrupted by alcohol use disorder.
Side effects of medications listed above should dissipate once your body adjusts to the medication. If any side effects are long-lasting or impairing then you must speak to your doctor to change treatment modalities.
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Abstinence vs Harm Reduction
Alcoholics Anonymous is a popular modality which includes groups many find helpful in conjunction with medication or therapy. AA meetings take place all over the world and are free to attend. The 12 step program followed by AA is based on abstinence from alcohol, and members support each other through their recovery journey. If you would like to find an AA group near you, please visit this link.
If AA or an abstinence program is not for you there are other options available to reduce harmful drinking. Hazardous drinking reduction has experienced its share of controversy, especially from leaders in the abstinence community who believe that true alcoholics must abstain from alcohol completely. Harmful drinking reduction program ideologies require accountability and deep reflection to truly identify how drinking impacts your life and how reduced drinking can improve areas such as relationships, legal problems, motivation, physical health, your career, and others. Including medication to decrease cravings, having a support network, and working with a counselor or coach can be beneficial in your recovery process if you are not ready to fully quit.
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Alcohol Abuse As a Symptom
Lastly alcohol use disorder may also be a symptom of an underlying anxiety, depression, or even a reaction to trauma. In these cases dual diagnosis treatment may be necessary to help address both the alcohol abuse as well as the anxiety, depression, ptsd, or another condition. Untreated or poorly managed ADHD can also commonly lead to alcohol abuse due to poor impulse control and dysregulation of certain neurotransmitters.
Two common therapies which can be used to treat alcoholism are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and exposure therapy. CBT is a type of therapy that helps people to learn how to change their thoughts and behaviors. Exposure therapy is a type of therapy that helps people to face their fears in order to overcome them for example if you are struggling with unresolved trauma.
Alcoholism is a complex disease that manifests itself in different ways for different people. There are many treatment options available, and the best option for you will depend on your individual circumstances. If you are struggling with alcohol use disorder or alcoholism, please seek professional help. New Age Psychiatry can provide you with the resources you need to get started on the road to recovery. Naltrexone, topamax, campral, and antabuse are all common medications that can be used to help with alcohol addiction. Hazard reduction programs or abstinence programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12 step program that can be helpful for people in recovery. If you would like to learn more about any of these options, please speak to your doctor or therapist. They will be able to advise you on the best course of treatment for your individual needs.
Want to learn more? Read on here to learn why alcohol causes cravings and the effect on the brain.
New Age Psychiatry Difference
New Age Psychiatry offers licensed and certified psychiatric services through virtual telehealth appointments within the state of Florida. We understand the fears and consequences that often come with alcoholism and alcohol use disorder, and we will work hard to help you manage your condition.
New Age Psychiatry is a modern mental health service in Florida that approaches addiction and other mental health issues with compassion and forward-thinking techniques. New Age Psychiatry offers certified psychiatric services through telehealth appointments in Florida. Some of the highlights of the New Age Psychiatry approach include:
• Online Screening – We will begin with certified online screening to provide an overview of psychiatric care. We also offer a personalized, specific diagnosis through our psychiatric Telehealth services.
• Diagnosis, Recovery, & Treatment – Our full range of comprehensive psychiatric telehealth services can aid in treating a multitude of psychiatric illnesses and assist in the recovery process in alcoholism.
• Telehealth Services – Our psychiatric telehealth services are available throughout the state of Florida and can assist you in psychiatric care through counseling and medication management
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Rufous-throated fulvetta
The rufous-throated fulvetta (Schoeniparus rufogularis) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is found in southeastern Asia from the Himalayas through Indochina to southwestern Cambodia.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
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Decided 3 June, 1902;
rehearing denied.
UNITED STATES MORTGAGE CO. v. MARQUAM.
[69 Pac. 37, 41.]
Conclusiveness of Findings Where Evidence is Not Brought Up.
1. A finding of the trial court that a trustee, empowered by a trust deed executed by a mortgagor to take possession of the mortgaged property, and to collect the rents and profits, and apply them to the payment of interest and taxes, was not the agent of the mortgagee, is conclusive on appeal, where the evidence is not brought up.
Postponement or Forfeiture of Mortgage Lien.
2. A mortgagor on the date of the mortgage deeded the property covered thereby, together with certain other property, to a trustee; the latter to take possession and collect the rents and profits, and apply them to the payment of interest and taxes, etc. The trustee was further empowered to lease the property, and to extend the term beyond the maturity of the mortgage, not exceeding one year. The court found that the trustee made two leases extending beyond the maturity of the mortgage, neither of which was at the instance of the mortgagee. Held insufficient to postpone or forfeit the mortgage lien.
Usury — Statutory Construction.
3. Under Section 3593 of Hill’s Ann. Laws, providing that contracts made in this state on which the rate of interest is 8 per cent or less, whereby one party shall agree to pay the taxes on the debt, credit or mortgage, shall not be usurious, parties may lawfully contract to pay the taxes, and any or all other charges or rates that may be mutually agreed upon, provided all such charges and the interest together, exclusive of the taxes, do not exceed 8 per cent.
Pleading — Facts—Conclusions.
4. A mortgagor on the date of the mortgage deeded the property covered thereby, together with certain other property, to a trustee; the latter to take possession and collect the rents and profits, and apply them to the payment of interest and taxes, etc. The trustee was further empowered to lease the property, and to extend the term beyond the maturity of the mortgage, not exceeding one year. Held, that an answer in a suit to foreclose the mortgage, showing that some five leases were executed beyond the time designated, but not showing what rents were stipulated for, or how they were injurious to the mortgagor’s reversionary estate, but merely averring that the leases were apparent incumbrances and clouds on the mortgagor’s title, was insufficient to show an estoppel, or to require a forfeiture of the mortgage lien.
Fraudulent Mortgage — Validity of as Between the Parties.
5. An objection that a mortgage and deed of trust executed by a party is a fraud on his creditors is available only to the latter, and cannot be made by the party himself, it appearing that the instruments themselves had a good consideration.
Termination of Mortgage Trust — Eights of Trustee.
6. A mortgagor on the date of the mortgage deeded the property covered thereby to a trustee, the latter to take possession and collect the rents and profits, and apply them to interest, taxes, etc. The deed obligated the trustee to make certain advances for the benefit of the mortgagor. The life of the trust was made dependent on the’ existence of file mortgage, and the trustee was given a lien for advances made. . Held,, that foreclosure of the mortgage terminated the- trust, and,- where made a party defendant to the foreclosure suit, the trustee was entitled to file a cross complaint seeking to have its own lien foreclosed.
Construction of Mortgage Trust Agreement.
7. The trust contract and agreement executed between the trustee and the defendants herein did not require the trustee to make advancements to pay interest On the mortgage loan.
Foreclosure of Lien — Relief on Cross Suit.
8. A cross complaint brought against a mortgagor by one of the parties defendant to a suit to foreclose the mortgage may extend to all the property covered by th’e' croás co'mplainsint’s lien, and need not be confined to the property covered by the' original mortgage, for such an answer is really a suit to foreclose such lien, and the' party should not be obliged to assert his rights' by piecemeal.
Execution Sale — Objection—Not Made Before Trial Court.
9. An objection that there was not sufficient proof of the publication of a notice of’sale on execution could, not be taken for the first time on appeal from a decree confirming the sale, but should have been raised in the trial court.
.Execution Sale — Evidence of Being a Sunday Paper.
10. A paper denominated the “Sunday Welcome," issued on Saturday of each week between 1 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and delivered to subscribers on that day, notwithstanding its name, is not a Sunday publication in a legal sense.
Term “Newspaper” Considered.
11. A weekly paper having a circulation through the mails, by delivéry and by news stands of from 1,000 to 1,100 copies and not confined to any particular class or sect of individuals, sensational in its tone, containing the sporting news, some news of general interest, and many advertisements , of a business nature, is a newspaper within the purview of Hill’s Ann. Laws §' 291, requiring notice of an execution sale to be published in some “newspaper.”
Execution Sale — Sufficiency of Sheriff’s Return.
12. A sheriff's return on an execution reciting, “I further certify that I advertised said sale also by posting copies of the said notice in three public places in the county of M. and State of Oregon,” etc., was sufficient, and an objection that it did not set forth facts showing that the places where the^ notices were posted were public places was untenable.
From Multnomah: John B. Cleland, Judge. ■
This is a suit by the United States Mortgage & Trust Co. to foreclose a mortgage given by P. A. Marquam and wife, and the defendant Title Guarantee & Trust Co. filed a cross bill asking the foreclosure of a trust deed given as security for' sundry loans. There was a decree in favor of- the plaintiff; and the cross-plaintiff, from which the defendants Marquam appeal. The mortgaged property having been sold, objections were filed to the confirmation of the sale, and from an order' overruling them the defendants Marquam again appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinions, which are both written by Mr. Justice Wouverton, and are reported together.
- On November" 13, 1894, P. A. Marquam and Emma Marquam, his wife, executed and delivered to plaintiff, the United States Mortgage & Trust Co. a mortgage on certain real property to secure the payment of $300,000 in five years from date, Avith interest at 7 per cent per annum, payable quarterly.There is a stipulation in the mortgage that, in case of default in payment of interest or in complying with the conditions thereof, and as often as there Avas a failure in either respect, the mortgagee might at any time declare the whole of the principal due, and foreclose at once. The quarterly interest due in February, May, and August, 1899, being defaulted, shortly prior to November 13th following, the date upon which the principal sum was made payable, the mortgage company commenced this suit to foreclose. The Title Guarantee & Trust Co. Avas made a party defendant, AAdth numerous others having or claiming interests in the premises mortgaged. On the date of the execution of the mortgage Marquam and Avife and the Title Company entered into a trust agreement with relation to the property mortgaged, together with four lots in block 120, in the City of Portland, all of Avhieh was conveyed to the Title Company, AArhich recites, in brief that whereas, in consideration of the premises and of the agreements on the part of Marquam and Avife, hereinafter contained and herefore understood between the parties hereto, said Title Company has rendered certain services, and will advance certain sums of money, and has secured for Marquam and wife a loan in the sum, of $300,000 from the Mortgage Company, to secure the payment of Avhieh they have executed -their mortgage on certain real property (describing it): Now, therefore, it is mutually, agreed that Marquam and wife Avill pay .the Title Company the sum of $4,500 for exchange, title insurance, abstract of title, and brokerage in the matter of said loan, and during the life of said trust will pay said Title Company for its services rendered in the financial management and oversight of said property $1,000 per annum and certain specified commissions ; and it is further agreed that during the life of said trust the Title Company shall have the entire control and management of said property for the use and purposes hereinafter set out; and whereas, under a certain preliminary agreement entered into between Marquam and wife and the Title Company and others on the 30th of August, 1894, the Title Company agreed to advance for Marquam, when said loan of $300,000 should be consummated, the funds in excess of said loan necessary to discharge certain specified indebtedness and expenses; and whereas,, it may be necessary in the matter of said trust for said Title Company to advance money from time to time to Marquam and wife, — it is further mutually agreed that when any of such advances are made they shall execute their promissory note for each sum advanced, to become due and payable on or before two years, unless they would mature at a date subsequent to the maturity of the mortgage, in which event they should be so drawn as to fall due contemporaneously with said mortgage; that the lots in block 120 should be held in trust as collateral security, and the remainder of the property in trust to carry out the purposes of this agreement, and to collect the rents and profits arising therefrom for the following purposes: (1) To pay operating expenses, repairs, for services in collecting rents, interest on loan, taxes, and ptiblic charges; (2) to pay all amounts advanced and to be advanced to Marquam and wife; (3) to pay certain other indebtedness specified; (4) to pay the Title Company for services in executing the trust; and (5) after said loan shall be discharged, and all requirements of the trust satisfied, to re-convey the property.
On February 13, 1895, the parties entered into a, supplemental agreement, whereby the original is so construed as to authorize the Title Company to execute leases to any and all of said property, and, where necessary to secure desirable tenants, to extend the time beyond the life of the trust, not exceeding one year, having due regard for Marquam’s interest after the life of said trust as to the amount of the rentals, and not to collect beyond the life of the trust in advance. Still another agreement was entered into with reference to the trust property, to which the Northern Counties Investment Co. became a party, but it is not important within the range of the present controversy. On December 1, 1899, Marquam and wife filed an answer in abatement denying the mortgagee’s authority to declare the whole of the principal sum due for the nonpayment of interest charges, and setting up that the Title Company was the agent of the plaintiff, and that as a part consideration for said loan, and as an essential condition thereof, the agreement was entered into between Marquam and wife and the Title Company as hereinafter set forth; that said Title Company has collected sufficient funds with which to discharge the unpaid interest notes, over and above the expenses and cost of management of the property, but has misapplied and misappropriated them in violation of said trust, and that by neglect of duty it has failed to obtain and collect a large sum of rentals it could and should have collected by the exercise of proper diligence and oversight, and that an accounting is necessary to a proper determination of the matter. And for a further defense it is alleged that the Title Company, while acting as such trustee for the Mortgage Company, and a-t its instance and with its approval, but without consent of Marquam and wife, made divers leases of divers parcels of real property extending beyond the 13th of November, 1899, — all of which were in violation of the conditions of the trust; that such leases were incumbrances and clouds upon the title to said realty; and that any sale under foreclosure during the period in which any of said leases have to run will cause Marquam and wife irreparable loss and injury, and pray for a dismissal of the suit.
A trial being had under issues tendered by a denial of all the material allegations of the answer, it was found, among other things, that the trust agreement was not a part of the contract with the Mortgage Company for the loan of $300,000, and. that the Mortgage Company was not a party thereto; that the Title Company was not the agent of the Mortgage Company in any sense in so far as it related to the trust agreement, nor has it collected rents and profits sufficient with which to meet said interest payments, over and above costs and expense of operating and managing the property; that it made the leases complained of at its own instance, without the approval of the defendants Marquam and wife, and that .the Mortgage Company as mortgagee did not consent to the making of more than two of them; and thereupon dismissed the plea.
Later, Marquam and wife answered the complaint, again alleging that the trust agreement was entered into as a part consideration for the loan made by the Mortgage Company, and that its execution was an essential condition precedent to the making of said loan; that for a long time prior to the date of said mortgage and trust agreement the Title Company had been and was the agent for the Mortgage Company for making loans and the investment of its funds in and about the City of Portland and collecting and remitting interest under an agreement that the Title Company should charge and collect from the parties to whom money had been loaned by the Mortgage Company a reasonable compensation for its services in making such loans, and collecting and making remittances in the form of brokerage, and thereby wholly relieve the Mortgage Company from such expense; that the loan to Marquam and wife was made in pursuance of such agreement, and that said trust agreement was entered into for the benefit of said Mortgage Company, to enable it to collect and have remitted its interest and principal sum, whereby the brokerage and commissions for such services were to be paid by Marquam and wife; that the said Title Company, while in possession of the property under said trust, has received and retained to its own use commissions amounting to the sum. of $3,000, and claims brokerage and salary in the further s.um of $9,000, adding which to the stipulated interest of 7 per cent would make the rate unlawful and usurious; and that the loan is therefore void, and the principal sum should be forfeited to the school fund. For a second defense it is alleged, as in the plea in abatement, that leases have been made extending beyond the date of the maturity of the mortgage at the instance and by and with the consent of the mortgagee to the end that it might realize more than it was entitled to from the rents, issues, and profits of the • property, and without the consent of Marquam and wife, whereby their title had been clouded and irreparably damaged, and the lien of plaintiff’s mortgage waived, and it is estopped from foreclosing the same. For a third defense it is alleged that the property conveyed in trust to the Title Company was substantially all the property that Marquam and wife owned at the time; that Marquam was then indebted to divers persons other than the plaintiff and the Title Company in the sum of more than $70,000, and the conveyances operated to harass and hinder them in the collection of their demands, and that such was the intent and purpose of the trust agreement and the Mortgage Company in instigating it; and that such mortgage and trust agreement was, in effect, an assignment for the benefit of a part, only, of Marquam’s creditors, and was therefore illegal and void. For a counterclaim it is alleged that the Title Company, acting as the agent of the Mortgage Company, has collected large sums of money, which it has wrongfully and negligently failed to apply towards the payment of said interest notes, and has converted the same to its own use in the aggregate of over $50,000; and that an accounting is necessary for the ascertainment of the true amount thereof, and a dismissal of the suit is demanded.
The answer was held to be insufficient in every particular tested by motion and demurrer directed to specific parts and to the whole thereof. On November 6, 1899, the Title Company filed a cross complaint setting up its trust agreement with Marquam and wife, the subsequent modification, and its operations and doings thereunder; that it has made large advances to Marquam Wd wife from time to time, and taken their notes therefor; and has made further advances for which notes have not been given, and has rendered to them from time to time statements of account, which were approved and have been settled, and that at the date of the filing of said cross complaint there was due and owing from Marquam and wife to the Title Company a large sum of money amounting to $40,897.81, with accrued interest.
Marquam and wife answered again, setting up the trust ' agreement, and alleging that the requirements of the trust have not been fully satisfied; that it has not yet terminated; that by the terms thereof the Title Company was obligated to make further advances and to perform further services, and that the trust must yet continue for an indefinite period. The second defense is akin to this, and avers that the Title Company is now in possession of the property, assuming and pretending to be engaged in the performance of its duties under the trust. By the third it is alleged that the Title Company has been negligent in its duty in leasing the property, to the damage of Marquam and wife in the sum of $90,000; and a fourth defense is of like tenor, alleging damages in the sum of $36,000, arising from the same cause. A fifth defense alleges that the Title Company failed to pay the taxes or to make advances to Marquam and wife as it had agreed, whereby they are damaged in the further sum of $50,000, and it was sought to have the cross complaint dismissed, or an accounting had before the trust should be wound up. The first and second defenses were held insufficient upon demurrer, and other parts of the answer were stricken out on motion. After trial upon the merits under the remaining issues between Marquam and wife and the Title Company, the court found, among other findings of fact, that the Title Company, upon the execution of the first agreement with the Marquams entered into possession of the trust property, and has since controlled and managed it; that from time to time and frequently during the supervision thereof, and as late as January 13, 1899, the Title Company rendered them statements of account, whereby it fully disclosed and truly stated the matters of account between them arising from said trust; that no objections were ever made thereto prior to the month of July, 1899, and that on the 13th day of May, 1900, there was then due the Title Company $28,667, exclusive of attorney’s fees; that the Title Company has been prudent, careful, and diligent in renting the various properties, and in the conduct and management of said trust, and has been guilty of none of the acts of negligence, carelessness, or maleficience specified in the answer of defendants. By the final decree it was considered that the trust agreement had been fully carried out and completed ; that it was, in effect, .a mortgage, and constituted the company a mortgagee in possession, and a foreclosure decreed; and the assets to arise from* a sale under execution were marshaled with reference to the relative equities of the plaintiff and the several parties defendants. Marquam and wife appeal.
Affirmed.
For appellants there was a brief over the names of U. S. Grant Marquam, and Watson & Bookman, with an oral argument by Mr. Edw. B. Watson, and Mr. Marquam.
For Title Guarantee & Trust Co., and J. Thorburn Ross, Trustee, there was a brief over the name of Snow & McGamant, with an oral argument by Mr. Wallace McCamant.
Mr. Justice Wodverton,
after stating 'the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
We will consider the numerous questions presented as they appear to arise upon the record. It is first urged that the Title Company was the agent of the mortgagee under the trust agreement for the collection of rents and profits and their application to the payment of taxes and interest, and that, such agent having collected sufficient of the rents to discharge the interest notes, the suit was prematurely instituted. These are matters of fact, and were disposed of under the plea in abatement, and, as the evidence has not been brought up, the findings of the trial court are conclusive.
In this connection there was another question presented relating to the leasing of divers parcels of realty to continue beyond the maturity of the mortgage, whereby it is claimed that the lien of the plaintiff acquired by virtue of the mortgage has been waived and forfeited, or at least postponed until all damages arising from said unauthorized leasing are made good. The court found, however, that the Title Company had made two leases, only, extending beyond the maturity of said mortgage, neither of which was at the instance of the Mortgage Company. This was not effective to postpone or forfeit the plaintiff’s mortgage lien. Plaintiff’s action in relation thereto, as so found, cannot be construed to extend beyond the bare assent of a mortgagee to the leasing. It was not an affirmative impairment upon its part of the value of the mortgaged property, and such was not its purpose by any inference that can be drawn from the transaction.
The next question presented by appellants is that the loan was usurious. This contention is necessarily based upon the hypothesis that the Title Company was the agent of the lender in the control and management of the trust property and the collection of the rents, issues, and profits, for which services it charged and received a commission from Marquam and wife. Such relation, however, was found not to exist under the plea in abatement; but, even if it did, the contract is not shown.to usurious. The statute (Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 3593,) provides that all contracts made or entered into in this state on which the rate of interest is 8 per cent or under, whereby one party shall agree to pay the taxes on the debt, credit, or mortgage, shall not be deemed or taken to be usurious ; and the argument is that any contract to pay anything beyond the rate agreed upon, however small, with taxes, although such rate is under 8 per cent, is usurious; that is to say, as applied to the case at bar, the parties having agreed upon 7 per cent, with taxes added, any further charge for the use of the money in addition to the agreed rate would render the contract invalid, whether it was made thereby to exceed 8 per cent or not. This is neither the spirit nor the intendment of the statute. Parties are permitted to contract for interest as high as 8 per cent, with taxes added; and if all rates, charges, or other compensation agreed upon for the use of the money do not exceed the rate, aside from the taxes on the debt or obligation, the transaction does not fall within the interdiction of the law, and is, therefore, not usurious. Now, it is alleged that the Mortgage Company charged commissions for collecting rents, etc., diming a period of five years, amounting to $3,000, and claim brokerage and salary, covering the same period, of $9,000, aggregating $12,000, or $2,400 per annum. At 8 per cent, the interest charge would be $24,000 per annum on the amount of the loan, but the rate agreed upon was 7 per cent, or $21,000, per annum, thus leaving a margin of $3,000, which exceeds the alleged additional charges and commissions; so that, conceding the allegations of Marquam and wife to be true, — as we must where the pleadings are tested by demurrer, — usury has not been established.
The second separate defense proceeds upon the idea that the plaintiff has forfeited its mortgage lien, and is estopped to insist upon its foreclosure, by reason of having been instrumental in the execution of the unauthorized leases of parcels of realty. It appears by the answer that some five leases were executed extending beyond the time designated in the supplemental trust agreement, which permitted the trustee to execute them for one year beyond the maturity of such mortgage. It is not shown, however, what rents were stipulated for, or in what respect they were injurious to Marquam’s reversionary estate, and the statement that the leases are apparent incumbrances and clouds upon Marquam’s title is a mere conclusion of law; so that the facts pleaded are wholly insufficient to create an estoppel, much less to require a forfeiture of the Mortgage Company’s lien.
It is next urged that by the mortgage and deed of trust Marquam and wife transferred substantially all their property to the mortgage and title companies, which operated as a hindrance and fraud upon divers other of their creditors, and was so intended by the parties concerned, and that the mortgage is void on that account. Giving to the allegations of the answer their strongest interpretation in favor of the pleader, the transaction, being founded upon a consideration, was voidable only at the instance of the creditors, but valid as between the parties to the contract, and enforceable in equity: Bradtfeldt v. Cooke, 27 Or. 194 (40 Pac. 1, 50 Am. St. Rep. 701). The plea is therefore unavailable, as held by the trial court.
The last defense interposed to the complaint is that the Title Company, as plaintiff’s agent, collected the rents and profits of the property deeded in trust, which it failed and neglected to apply in discharge of the interest notes, and converted the same to its own use, and that an accounting is necessary to- a determination of the amount thus collected. If it be conceded that the answer is technically sufficient, the issue was tried out between Marquam and wife and the Title Company, and after a full hearing it was found that the company had conducted and managed said trust carefully and honestly, and had punctiliously accounted for all sums collected and received by virtue thereof. This, in effect, disposed of all the matters in controversy on the merits, and the comet of equity would not be warranted in reversing the decree of the trial court upon a purely technical objection, which could not result in any difrerent adjudication in the end.
It is next urged that the Title Company could have no relief by cross complaint, because the trust agreement had not terminated, either by performance or by rescission, and that no final accounting could be had, nor a lien decreed against the property in favor of the trustee, until one or the other of these conditions existed. The trust agreement, as shown by its terms and conditions, was entered into to enable the Title Company to manage the property, and from the rents and profits arising therefrom to discharge the expenses of management and interest charges on the mortgage so far as they were sufficient, and, if there was a surplus, to apply it pro rata to certain specified indebtedness of Marquam and Avife, and after these to apply it on the principal sum for which the mortgage was given. The life of the trust was made dependent upon the existence of the mortgage, and the Title Company was given a lien for advances made in pursuance of the stipulations contained in the trust agreement, so that a foreclosure of the mortgage would necessarily put an end to the trust relations. Regardless of any stipulations of the parties, such foreclosure would deprive the trustee of the subject of the trust to operate upon, and the agreement would henceforth become inoperative. It was, therefore, incumbent upon the Title Company, when made a party, to answer, setting up its duties and obligations in the premises, as well as its rights and interest in the property; and having a lien, whether it comes by a trust agreement, technically speaking, or an instrument more properly denominated a mortgage, it has as good a right to have it foreclosed as if it were plaintiff in the suit: Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 416.
The agreement is not susceptible of the construction that the Title Company undertook to advance the money necessary to meet the interest payments upon the mortgage loan as they came due. There is a recital in the agreement that it may become necessary in the matter of the trust for the Title Company to advance moneys to Marquam and wife, but we look in vain throughout its terms and conditions for any stipulation to advance the interest on the loan as it became due, or to pay it otherwise than out of the funds collected and realized from the rents and profits. Other advances are specifically mentioned, and the agreement by the most liberal construction, cannot be extended so as to include interest payments. So the Title Company was not remiss in failing to make advances of interest to prevent the mortgagee from declaring the mortgage due before the date of its maturity.
It is no answer to the cross complaint of the Title Company to say that it is now engaged in the performance of its obligations under the instrument, because the institution of the suit to foreclose the mortgage necessarily required the winding up of the trust affairs, and hence it is perfectly legitimate to insist upon an accounting with reference thereto at the present time. This disposes also of the second defense to the cross complaint. In this connection it is contended that the Title Company cannot foreclose as to the lots in block 120, as they are not covered by plaintiff’s mortgage, and not the subject of its foreclosure proceedings. These lots were hypothecated, however, by the same instrument, to secure the same obligations to the Title Company, as the property covered by plaintiff’s mortgage, and is as much subject to a foreclosure at the suit of the Title Company as the other premises. A cross complaint of a defendant having a lien is, for all purposes, a complaint against the holder of the equity of redemption (Ladd v. Mason, 10 Or. 317), and may also extend to all property covered by his lien, and thus he may have full relief at once, and not be driven to a foreclosure by piecemeal: Phillips v. Anthony, 47 S. C. 460 (25 S. E. 294); and Stockton Sav. & Loan Soc. v. Harrold, 127 Cal. 612 (60 Pac. 165).
Decided 3 June, 1902.
Messrs. Edward B. Watson and U. S. Grant Marquam, for the objections.
Mr. Wallace McCamant, contra.
The matter of damages appears, as we have seen, to have been disposed of upon the merits, notwithstanding certain alleged items may have been stricken out of the motion, and concludes further controversy as to them. These considerations affirm the decree of the court below, and it is so ordered.
Affirmed.
On Supplemental Appeal From an Order.
Confirming a Sale.
Mr. Justice Wolverton delivered the opinion.
This is an appeal from a decree confirming the sale of real property under execution. The first objection insisted upon is that there is not sufficient proof of the publication of the notice of sale, there being no affidavit of the printer of the newspaper, Ms foreman, or principal clerk annexed to the sheriff’s return showing the publication. But this question was not raised in the trial court, and hence no error is assignable respecting it. It is not a question like want of jurisdiction, or insufficiency of facts to constitute a cause of suit, that may be raised at any stage of the proceeding, but must be interposed at the proper time in the trial court; otherwise it cannot be urged in this court for the first time. Such is the rule in actions at law (State v. Anderson, 10 Or. 448; State v. Abrams, 11 Or. 169, 8 Pac. 327), and there exists no good or sufficient reason why it should not prevail in equity.
It is next contended that the Sunday Welcome is not a newspaper, within the purview and meaning of Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 291, because it is a Sunday paper, and not of general circulation. The paper, as shown by the evidence, is issued on Saturday of each week, from 1 to 4 o’clock in the afternoon, bears date and is mailed and delivered to subscribers on that day, so that, whatever may be its name, it is clear that its issuance and circulation takes place on a secular day, and not on Sunday: 16 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (1 ed.), 491; Pratt v. Tinkcom, 21 Minn. 142. The Sunday Welcome is therefore not a Sunday publication in a legal sense, and the objection to it on that ground is not well taken.
The statute requires that a copy of the notice be published in a newspaper of the county, and it is assumed that it should be of general circulation. The circulation of the Sunday Welcome through the mails, by delivery, and by news stands is from 1,000 to 1,100 copies, and it is not confined to any particular class or sect of individuals. It is sensational in tone, contains the sporting and some current news of general interest, many advertisements of a business nature, and has been made the medium for legal publications for more than two years, beyond which the evidence does not extend. Such a publication would seem to fall within the legal acceptation of a newspaper. Mr. Justice Mitchele, in Hull v. King, 38 Minn. 349, 350 (37 N. W. 792), in attempting to give a very general definition of a newspaper, says that according to the business world, and in ordinary understanding, it is ‘ ‘ a publication, usually in sheet form, intended for general circulation, and published regularly at short intervals, containing' intelligence of current events and news of general interest.” A publication may be devoted to the dissemination of knowledge or intelligence of a particular kind, or to the advocacy of particular views; but if it also contains information of current events, and news of importance and interest to the general reading public, it is nevertheless a newspaper within the meaning of the term. So it is that publications devoted mainly to the promulgation of religious news and doctrines of a religious sect, or essentially to the dissemination of legal learning and literature, when devoting a portion of their columns to news matters of current and public interest, have been held to come within the designation: Hull v. King, 38 Minn. 349, 350 (37 N. W. 792); Kellogg v. Carrico, 47 Mo. 157; Keer v. Hitt, 75 Ill. 51; Railton v. Lauder, 126 Ill. 219 (18 N. E. 555) Pentzel v. Squire, 161 Ill. 346 (43 N. E. 1064, 52 Am. St. Rep. 373); Lynch v. Judge of Probate, 101 Mich. 171 (45 jun. St. Rep. 404, 59 N. W. 409); Lynn v. Allen, 145 Ind. 584 (44 N. E. 646, 33 L. R. A. 779, 57 Am. St. Rep. 223). Kerr v. Hitt is fairly illustrative of the subject-matter, where it was held that the Chicago Legal News, published once a week, devoted principally to the dissemination of legal intelligence, but making reference to passing events and containing advertisements, brief notices of legislative bodies, and personal and political items of interest to the general reading as well as the legal profession, was a newspaper of the character contemplated by statute. We are therefore of the opinion that the Sunday Welcome falls within the category of a newspaper. It was further urged that the immoral tone of the paper inhibits its dissemination among respectable people; but its publication is not prohibited by law, nor is it denied access to the mails, so that its issuance and promulgation is at least lawful; and, so long as it publishes current news items of general public interest, we must assume that, with the circulation it has, it is read more or less by the general public. ■ ;?!
The return of the sheriff upon the execution, as it pertains to the posting of the notice of sale, is as follows: “I further .certify that I advertised said sale also by posting copies of the said notice in three public places in the County of Multnomah and State of Oregon for four weeks immediately prior to said sale, said notices so posted being identical in form with the notices so published;” and it is objected that such proof of posting is insufficient, in that it does not set forth facts showing that the places where the notice was posted are public places. Like returns of sales under execution, however, have received the sanction of this court (Bank of British Columbia v. Page, 7 Or. 454; German Loan Soc. v. Kern, 38 Or. 232, 62 Pac. 788, 63 Pac. 1052); so that the sufficiency and validity of the present one is established by precedent. Aefirmed.
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Although I tried to follow the links below, I do not know how to access only the specific team members...
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http://devcenter.kinvey.com/rest/guides/business-logic#Triggeringpushnotifications
Could you please tell me how to modify?
Please help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks very much in advance,
What does your data model look like? How are you defining groups in relation to users? The correct way to do this would be to get the group for the user, then use the collectionAccess module to query all users associated with the same group and send them push notifications.
Hi Michael Salinger,
Thanks very much for your feedback. I really appreciate.
Here are the data model of my collections.
What I want to do is that...Once a team member (user10) finished running, the members in the same team will be notified. In this structure, when any of the values in the 'RunResult' collection changes, members in the 'RunningTeamA' will be notified.
RunResult
{
_id: '43878217492...42013948',
runner: {
_id: '019324029...190827428',
name: 'user10'
},
avgSpeed: {
date: '2013-1023',
value: '5.3'
},
maxSpeed: {
date: '2013-1023',
value: '8.3'
},
totalDistance: {
date: '2013-1023',
value: '14.3'
}
}
RunningTeamA
{
_id: '2314723897491230412384',
teamName: "teamName1",
members: {
{
_id: '019324029...190827428',
username: 'user1',
},
{
_id: '019324029...190827428',
username: 'user2',
},
...
{
_id: '019324029...190827428',
username: 'user10',
}
},
location: 'Chicago, IL'
}
Please give me any advise (which will be really helpful to me), and let me know if you need more details.
Thanks in advance,
John Moon.
Assuming the _id for each member in the group matches the user collection's _id field for each user:
First, you need to retrieve all of the _id values of the users in RunningTeamA that you want to send push notifications to. Then, query the user collection for those IDs to obtain the user documents. Finally, pass that array of user documents to the push module in order to send the push notifications.
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Autoliv Retained at Neutral - Analyst Blog
On Jan 10, we maintained our Neutral recommendation on Autoliv Inc. ( ALV ) based on raised guidance, dividend hike and expectation of organic sales growth. However, we are concerned about stiff competition and high dependence on a few customers. Moreover, the Eurozone crisis is weighing on the company's performance.
Why the Reiteration?
On Oct 24, 2013, Autoliv reported third-quarter 2013 earnings of $1.29 per share, lagging the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.33. Earnings improved 5% from $1.23 per share reported in the third quarter of 2012. The improvement can be attributed to lower effective tax rate and interest expense.
Consolidated revenues rose 9% year over year to $2.12 billion, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.07 billion. The rise was driven by higher organic sales in all regions, particularly Europe, along with favorable vehicle mix in China.
Following the release of third-quarter results, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for Autoliv's 2013 earnings fell 0.7% to $5.64 per share. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2014 increased 0.3% to $6.32 per share.
Autoliv increased its dividend for the first quarter of 2014 by 4% to 52 cents per share. The dividend will be payable on Mar 6, 2014, to shareholders of record as on Feb 20, 2014. The company also renewed the mandates to repurchase up to 3.2 million shares. These strategies will help maintain the efficient capital structure of the company.
The company expects consolidated and organic sales growth of 9% in the fourth quarter with an operating margin of 9%, excluding capacity alignments and anti-trust investigations costs. For full-year 2013, the company increased the guidance for organic sales growth to 5% from the previous estimate of 4%. Operating margin is expected to be around 9%.
However, we are concerned about the Eurozone crisis due to operating inefficiencies related to underutilized capacity, capacity alignment action and strong growth in steering wheels, which further pressurizes the capacity alignment. The company also faces a challenging situation in Brazil owing to supply-chain issues.
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Better-ranked stocks in the industry in which Autoliv operates include Gentex Corp. ( GNTX ), Visteon Corp. ( VC ) and Modine Manufacturing Co. ( MOD ). All these stocks carry a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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The Zika Virus Is Very Problematic
Explainer: Where did Zika virus come from and why is it a problem in Brazil?
The yellowfever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Note the marking on the thorax in the form of a lyre.
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida
From October 2015 to January 2016, there were almost 4,000 cases of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil. Before then, there were just 150 cases per year.
The suspected culprit is a mosquito-borne virus called Zika. Officials in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica have suggested that women delay becoming pregnant. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised pregnant women to postpone travel to countries where Zika is active.
Countries and territories with active Zika virus transmission.
Countries and territories with active Zika virus transmission
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The World Health Organization says it is likely that the virus will spread, as the mosquitoes that carry the virus are found in almost every country in the Americas.
Zika virus was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil and other nations in South America?
Where did Zika come from?
Rhesus monkey By J.M.Garg
Rhesus monkey By J.M.Garg (Own work) GFDL or CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons
Zika virus was first detected in Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947 in a rhesus monkey, and again in 1948 in the mosquito Aedes africanus, which is the forest relative of Aedes aegypti. Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus can both spread Zika.
Sexual transmission between people has also been reported.
Aedes aegypti.mosquito
Aedes aegypti. Emil August Goeldi (1859-1917).via Wikimedia Commons.
Zika has a lot in common with dengue and chikungunya, another emergent virus. All three originated from West and central Africa and Southeast Asia, but have recently expanded their range to include much of the tropics and subtropics globally. And they are all spread by the same species of mosquitoes.
Until 2007 very few cases of Zika in humans were reported. Then an outbreak occurred on Yap Island of Micronesia, infecting approximately 75 percent of the population. Six years later, the virus appeared in French Polynesia, along with outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya viruses.
How did Zika get to the Americas?
Genetic analysis of the virus revealed that the strain in Brazil was most similar to one that had been circulating in the Pacific.
Brazil had been on alert for an introduction of a new virus following the 2014 FIFA World Cup, because the event concentrated people from all over the world.
However, no Pacific island nation with Zika transmission had competed at this event, making it less likely to be the source.
There is another theory that Zika virus may have been introduced following an international canoe event held in Rio de Janeiro in August of 2014, which hosted competitors from various Pacific islands.
Another possible route of introduction was overland from Chile, since that country had detected a case of Zika disease in a returning traveler from Easter Island.
Most people with Zika don’t know they have it
male with Zika virus rash across chest
By Cramunhao (Own work) CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
According to research after the Yap Island outbreak, the vast majority of people (80 percent) infected with Zika virus will never know it – they do not develop any symptoms at all.
A minority who do become ill tend to have fever, rash, joint pains, red eyes, headache and muscle pain lasting up to a week. And no deaths had been reported.
However, in the aftermath of the Polynesian outbreak it became evident that Zika was associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a life-threatening neurological paralyzing condition.
In early 2015, Brazilian public health officials sounded the alert that Zika virus had been detected in patients with fevers in northeast Brazil. Then there was a similar uptick in the number of cases of Guillain-Barré in Brazil and El Salvador.
And in late 2015 in Brazil, cases of microcephaly started to emerge.
At present, the link between Zika virus infection and microcephaly isn’t confirmed, but the virus has been found in amniotic fluid and brain tissue of a handful of cases.
How Zika might affect the brain is unclear, but a study from the 1970s revealed that the virus could replicate in neurons of young mice, causing neuronal destruction.
Recent genetic analyses suggest that strains of Zika virus may be undergoing mutations, possibly accounting for changes in virulence and its ability to infect mosquitoes or hosts.
The Swiss cheese model for system failure
diagram showing swiss cheese failure model
The Swiss cheese model of accident causation.Davidmack via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
One way to understand how Zika spread is to use something called the Swiss cheese model. Imagine a stack of Swiss cheese slices. The holes in each slice are a weakness, and throughout the stack, these holes aren’t the same size or the same shape. Problems arise when the holes align.
With any disease outbreak, multiple factors are at play, and each may be necessary but not sufficient on its own to cause it.
Applying this model to our mosquito-borne mystery makes it easier to see how many different factors, or layers, coincided to create the current Zika outbreak.
A hole through the layers
picture showing destruction of rain forest
Slash and burn agriculture in the Amazon by Matt Zimmerman
The first layer is a fertile environment for mosquitoes. That’s something my colleagues and I have studied in the Amazon rain forest. We found that deforestation followed by agriculture and regrowth of low-lying vegetation provided a much more suitable environment for the malaria mosquito carrier than pristine forest.
Increasing urbanization and poverty create a fertile environment for the mosquitoes that spread dengue by creating ample breeding sites. In addition, climate change may raise the temperature and/or humidity in areas that previously have been below the threshold required for the mosquitoes to thrive.
The second layer is the introduction of the mosquito vector. Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus have expanded their geographic range in the past few decades.
Urbanization, changing climate, air travel and transportation, and waxing and waning control efforts that are at the mercy of economic and political factors have led to these mosquitoes spreading to new areas and coming back in areas where they had previously been eradicated.
A woman walks away from her apartment as health workers fumigate
A woman walks away from her apartment as health workers fumigate the Altos del Cerro neighborhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador January 21, 2016.Jose Cabezas/Reuters
For instance, in Latin America, continental mosquito eradication campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s led by the Pan American Health Organization conducted to battle yellow fever dramatically shrunk the range of Aedes aegypti.
Following this success, however, interest in maintaining these mosquito control programs waned, and between 1980 and the 2000s the mosquito had made a full comeback.
The third layer, susceptible hosts, is critical as well. For instance, chikungunya virus has a tendency to infect very large portions of a population when it first invades an area. But once it blows through a small island, the virus may vanish because there are very few susceptible hosts remaining.
Since Zika is new to the Americas, there is a large population of susceptible hosts who haven’t previously been exposed. In a large country, Brazil for instance, the virus can continue circulating without running out of susceptible hosts for a long time.
The fourth layer is the introduction of the virus. It can be very difficult to pinpoint exactly when a virus is introduced in a particular setting.
However, studies have associated increasing air travel with the spread of certain viruses such as dengue.
When these multiple factors are in alignment, it creates the conditions needed for an outbreak to start.
Putting the layers together
My colleagues and I are studying the role of these “layers” as they relate to the outbreak of yet another mosquito-borne virus, Madariaga virus (formerly known as Central/South American eastern equine encephalitis virus), which has caused numerous cases of encephalitis in the Darien jungle region of Panama.
There, we are examining the association between deforestation, mosquito vector factors, and the susceptibility of migrants compared to indigenous people in the affected area.
In our highly interconnected world which is being subjected to massive ecological change, we can expect ongoing outbreaks of viruses originating in far-flung regions with names we can barely pronounce – yet.
Amy Y. Vittor, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Further Reading On Zika Virus
Zika Virus, birth defects and abortion
Do your best to avoid mosquito bites.
Mass gatherings are festering pots for spreading disease and impossible to eliminate
Since most people do not have symptoms, the Zika virus may be underreported.
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Should You Add Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) to Your Portfolio? - Analyst Blog
On Dec 5, we issued an updated research report on Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. ( BWLD ).
On Oct 27, Buffalo Wild Wings posted strong third-quarter 2014 results with both earnings and revenues beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Adjusted earnings of $1.14 per share grew 20% year over year backed by solid top-line growth and lower cost of sales.
Total revenue increased 18.3% from the year-ago period to $373.5 million driven by strong comps and new unit openings. The FIFA World Cup and Fantasy football draft parties helped Buffalo Wild Wings - a leader in the sports bar and wings segment - to continue the sales momentum.
The restaurateur registered company-owned comps growth of 6.6% down from prior-quarter comps growth of 7.7% but better than comps growth of 4.8% in the year-ago quarter.
The company is continuously expanding its business domestically, and is looking for investment opportunities in the fast-growing small restaurant chains such as PizzaRev, fast-casual pizza restaurant, famous for its Craft Your Own initiative, and Rusty Taco, Inc. which owns and operates Rusty Taco restaurants, headquartered in Dallas, TX.
We believe that these investments will likely help broaden Buffalo Wild Wings' reach in the U.S. quick-service restaurant industry and also tap the fast causal restaurant segment, which is gaining popularity in the U.S.
Rising food costs, however, remain a concern for the restaurant operator. Chicken prices have increased due to widespread drought conditions and supply shortages and are expected to increase further in the second half of the year, thereby hurting the company's profitability. Earlier, the company benefited by serving chicken wings by portion. However, now it would have to devise another way of serving as prices continue to rise putting tremendous pressure on its margins.
Also, the company's sales initiatives like unit expansion and addition of Guest Experience Captains at its restaurants will put margins under pressure. These would automatically increase labor costs and pre-opening expenses.
Buffalo Wild Wings carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Better-ranked stocks in the same industry include BJ's Restaurants, Inc. ( BJRI ), DineEquity, Inc. ( DIN ) and Bloomin' Brands, Inc. ( BLMN ). While BJ's Restaurants and DineEquity sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Bloomin' Brands has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Haminan Palloilijat
Haminan Palloilijat (( "Hamina Ballplayers") is a Finnish sports club from Hamina. It was founded in 1928. Haminan Palloilijat has participated in many sports in Finland over the years. The club's main successes have been in pesäpallo. Haminan Palloilijat is playing in the top-tier Superpesis.
Haminan Palloilijat has won the men's Finnish Pesäpallo Championship (Superpesis) seven times in years 1939, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1955 and 1974. The home ground of Haminan Palloilijat is the Rampart Field.
History
Haminan Palloilijat was founded in 1928 and its greatness largely dated back to the dawn of pesäpallo. The club's first of seven championships came in 1939 and the next five between 1943 and 1955. In addition to the six championships, the club won five silver and two bronze medals in the years leading up to its greatness in 1955. Together with Helsingin Pallonlyöjät, Helsingin Pallo-Toverit and Lahden Maila-Veikot, Haminan Palloilijat was one of the main clubs in pesäpallo.
After the 1950s, however, success began to wane, but in the 1970s the club rose to success again. In 1970, Hamina celebrated a bronze medal and in 1974 the club won its seventh Finnish championship. Since the 1970s, the club has not won any more medals.
Hamina is 14th in the men's marathon table. During the club's successful years, the series was played as a single series with only 11-13 teams. This meant that HP played only 10-12 matches in the summer. Hamina has 48 main series seasons. Only Jyväskylän Kiri, Vimpelin Veto and Kouvolan Pallonlyöjät have more main series seasons.
Stadiums
Since 1956, Haminan Palloilijat has played its home games at the legendary Rampart Field. Before that, the club played its home matches at Hamina Square until the war years 1939–1945 and then at Hamina Sports Ground. There was also a field in front of the main building of the Reserve Officer School, but it was mainly used for women's and junior matches.
Supporters and rivalries
The club's strong position is illustrated by the fact that it was a strong spectator team from the very beginning. In the 1940s and 1950s, matches often attracted between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. The club's record attendance of 5,215 was set in June 1968 in a series match against Vimpelin Veto.
The status of pesäpallo in Hamina is illustrated by the fact that the City of Hamina has a named street to the Rampart Field after the club's greatest legend, Kari Lindberg.
The club's local rivalry is Kouvolan Pallonlyöjät.
Achievements
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The Dangers of Lead in Your Tap Water and How to Protect Yourself
In 1986 scientists in the US announced just how dangerous lead in the water is.
The government proceeded to put a ban on lead in water pipes, but this did not take care of older buildings. As it turns out this is not limited to the US.
There is lead and other impurities in water in the UK as well. Lead is a dangerous metal, as many became aware from the recent events in Flint, Michigan. It is dangerous especially to children – when brain cells absorb it it affects learning and cognition, and it can lead to lifelong mental disabilities.
The Guardian in the Uk reported on this subject as well, you can find the article here.
Lead can also lead to visible effects such as skin rashes and hair loss.
The good news is that with a few simple steps you can strip your tap water of lead and other impurities that can affect you and your family’s health.
The first step is to invest in a water filter jug. These are specialwater filter jugs that have filters in them that strip lead and other impurities. There are many brands of water filter jugs in the market but not all of them are very good.
It is important that you choose one that has a reputation for effectiveness. A water filter jug is a great idea because it allows you to purify water without spending too much money. For many people the way to avoid lead in tap water is to buy bottled water.
Unfortunately, a lot of the bottled water available in shops is nothing more that tap water. It also costs a lot of money to consume bottled water on a daily basis – if you work out how much you spend annually it may go into thousands of pounds especially if you have a family.
A water filter jug is a cheaper way to ensure that you all get pure drinking water. The only additional expense will be the filters but these are cheap and only need to be changed about once a month.
When you are shopping for a water filter jug make sure that you buy a brand that actually works – the market is flooded with many that don’t and if you end up with one of these you will end up drinking impure water anyway.
One way to do this is to test the water that it purifies – ask the vendor to perform an experiment before you take the filter home. I.e. poor a glass of red wine through the water filter jug and make sure the end result is clean and pure water.
Lastly, make sure that it is a filter that is built to last.
The best advise we can give you is to buy a water filter jug from a reputed vendor such as ZeroWater today.
ZeroWater has some of the best water filter jugs in England. ZeroWater tries to educate the public on how-to hydrate your body correctly. More, they provide a wealth of information on all things ‘water’ related and the science and technology to purify your tap water at home. They provide industry leading water purification filters too.
You can find out more on their website here: https://zerowater.co.uk/.
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Hiram Cox
Captain Hiram Cox (1760–1799) was a British diplomat, serving in Bengal and Burma in the 18th century. The city of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is named after him.
Biography
As an officer of the East India Company, Captain Cox was appointed Superintendent of Palongkee outpost after Warren Hastings became Governor of Bengal. Captain Cox was specially mobilised to deal with a century-long conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains (see Rakhine State). He embarked upon the mammoth task of rehabilitating refugees in the area and made significant progress. A premature death took Captain Cox in 1799 before he could finish his work. To commemorate his role in rehabilitation work, a market was established and named after him: Cox's Bazar ("Cox's Market").
Cox was a member of the Asiatic Society, contributing scholarly articles on Asian culture to its journal Asiatic Researches. He is most noted for his long-debunked theory of the origin of chess as a four-player game, known as the Cox-Forbes theory.
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List of ambassadors
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Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey
Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey (ca.1958 – 4 May 2010 ) was a Somalian journalist killed in the line of duty. Abkey worked for Radio Mogadishu-Voice of Somali Republic in Somalia's capital city. He had a long career as a journalist and worked under difficult conditions during the last two decades of his career.
Career
Abkey was a well-known journalist in Somalia who had been working for media concerns since at least 1988 or possibly 1970. He had worked for East Africa Radio, SONA (the Somali News Agency), the radio station HornAfrik and for the Somali Television Network as a comedian and news anchor before going to work for Radio Mogadishu where he trained journalists with the country's Information Ministry. Associates said he turned down suggestions that for security he should live at the radio station and that he refused to be intimidated by the factions fighting in Mogadishu.
Death
He was abducted by armed hooded men early on the morning of 4 May and then later that day shot to death near his home in the Wardhigley neighbourhood of the capital. The editor of Radio Mogadishu, Abdirahman Yusuf, was quoted as saying, "Al Shabaab men have killed Sheikh Nur Abkey ... after they killed him, they called us and told us they killed him." Abdolaziz Mohamed Guled, Radio Magadishu's political correspondent said that Abkey was tortured before he was killed by his kidnappers and eyewitnesses stated that Abkey's body was dumped on a Mogadishu street.
It is believed that Abkey was killed because he was an employee of the government-run Radio Mogadishu, which had been against the extreme insurgents.
Reaction
Almost immediately, the International Press Institute condemned Abkey's murder. and in July 2010, Amnesty International condemned the killing of journalists and called for both the government forces and the armed militias to respect freedom of expression.
The Secretary-General of the National Union of Somali Journalists, a partner-organization with Reporters Without Borders, said, "Somali journalists are being murdered just for reporting their stories independently or because they work for a particular news media. The loss of this experienced journalist is heartbreaking for his family and colleagues, but it is also a blow to the entire Somali people."
Irina Bokova, the director-general of UNESCO, said, "I condemn the murder of Sheikh Nur Abkey. His brutal killing is a heinous crime against a brave journalist and against Somali society as a whole. Nothing good will come to the people of Somalia from those seeking to deprive citizens of the right to know and journalists of the basic human right of freedom of expression..."
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Phil Andrews (racing driver)
Phil Andrews (born 20 December 1966) is a British former racing driver from Birmingham.
Andrews began his professional career in Formula Ford then raced in the British Formula Three Championship in 1987 where he finished 18th. He returned for a full season in 1988 but failed to score points. In 1989 he raced in International Formula 3000 for Middlebridge and failed to score in 9 starts. He returned to the series in 1990 with Superpower Engineering but again failed to score in 8 starts. In 1991 he raced in British Formula 3000 for Superpower and finished sixth in points. He returned to International F3000 in 1992 with Vortex and again failed to register points in nine starts. He raced part-time in both International F3000 and British F2 (formerly British F3000) in 1993. He was the runner up in the 1994 British F2 season and drove in his first 24 Hours of Le Mans for ADA Engineering. He made sporadic sports car appearances in 1995 and 1996 and was away from racing until 2000, when he raced in the National Saloon Cup and finished seventh in a Ford Focus.
He signed to drive a Ford Focus for GR Motorsport in the Production Class in the 2001 British Touring Car Championship but never raced despite being on the official entry list. (https://www.crash.net/btcc/news/6776/1/bumper-btc-entry-lists-announced)
In 2002, he raced in EuroBOSS driving a Benetton and finished third in the championship. He made assorted sports car starts for Taurus Sports Racing in 2003 and 2004, including his first American Le Mans Series appearance. In 2006 he competed in Ferrari Challenge Europe, which would be his last racing appearance.
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Aéroports de Montréal
ADM Aéroports de Montréal, often abbreviated ADM, is the main airport authority in the Greater Montreal area. It is headquartered in Suite 1000 of the Leigh-Capreol Place in Dorval, Quebec. It is responsible for both Montréal–Trudeau International Airport and Montréal–Mirabel International Airport. It is a non-profit private enterprise that does not issue share capital or receive government funding. Its missions are to provide quality airport service for the Montréal region, help the economic development of the Montréal region, and develop a harmonious coexistence with the surrounding environment.
History
Dorval Airport and Mirabel Airport were built and operated by the government of Canada until 1992.
In 1987 the federal government developed a national policy to give the operation and maintenance of all major airports to the private sector. The airports remained property of the government. In 1992 Aéroport de Montréal was created to maintain and operate Dorval Airport and Mirabel Airport.
At its inception, the ADM faced many challenges, mainly maintaining two underused airports with similar mission serving one city. In 1995, ADM announced that it will invest in order to modernize the aging Dorval Airport and improve the Mirabel Airport. At that time the passenger traffic was split between the two airports; intercontinental flight flying from Mirabel and local flight from Dorval. In 1997, in order to simplify connecting flight, Dorval was chosen to receive all scheduled passenger flights. Mirabel was to remain operational but with limited traffic. Cargo and charter flight were to fly from Mirabel.
From 2002 and 2006, ADM invested $716 million in the Dorval Airport. ADM added several new features to the airport, including a new international jetty and a new arrival complex. In 2004, ADM further consolidated the passenger traffic by moving all charter flights from Mirabel to Dorval. Since then Mirabel only operates cargo flight, aircraft construction and maintenance. In 2004, the Canadian government renamed Dorval Airport to Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
Current projects
ADM development of the Montréal's airports is not over and still in the process of improving Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. A project to connect Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Montréal downtown via express-trains is currently in development and was given a priority status. ADM is also financing the Aérogalerie program, which aims to gives the airports a Montréal character and to support local artists by displaying Montréal artistic creations in the airport.
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