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Schlumberger's Earnings Break Out of Their Funk in the Third Quarter
Anyone who thought the oil and gas industry's recovery was going to be linear was kidding themselves. For the past several quarters, we have seen the industry grow in fits and starts, especially oil services companies that have had to react to the booming North American market.
This past quarter, though, oil services giant Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) posted third-quarter results that suggest we are finally on the upswing. Here's a brief look at the company's most recent results and some of the more captivating moves management made recently to give Schlumberger some new growth opportunities.
By the numbers
Data source: Schlumber earnings release. EPS = earnings per share.
Those in the oil service industry have been patiently waiting for their international clients to increase their investment levels. This is especially true for Schlumberger since it has a higher concentration outside of North America than its peers. That didn't come about this past quarter, as some might have expected, but fortunately, the company was able to make up for it with another quarter of double-digit growth in North America.
In the third quarter, Schlumberger's North America revenue grew 18% compared to the prior quarter for the second straight quarter and 53% year over year. The substantial gains came almost entirely from its exposure to shale as land drilling revenue grew 23% and hydraulic fracturing revenue specifically gained 42%. According to CEO Paal Kibsgaard, the company has redeployed almost all of its available idle equipment capacity in North America. Redeploying a lot of those assets meant higher costs, which suggests that we could see significant margin expansion in the coming quarter.
Outside North America was a bit of a mixed bag, though. There were some gains in Northern Europe, Russia, and Central Aisa because a lot of maintenance and turnaround work happens in the summer months. Declines in Iraq and Mexico mostly offset those gains as the company wrapped up major service contracts in those two countries.
Across Schlumberger's various business segments, the most substantial change still came from its U.S. shale operations. Production was by far the largest gain for the quarter, but it was even surprised to see that its Cameron segment saw an uptick. Cameron's business is typically associated with offshore activity since it builds a lot of subsea equipment. This past quarter, though, management did say that some of those gains came from sales of the land equipment that it manufactures as well.
Turning to the balance sheet, the thing that sticks out is the sizable uptick in free cash flow. Much of that gain came from a slowdown in building working capital as well as a $685 million tax refund in the U.S. -- Schlumberger did take some sizable losses last year, after all. The company used some of that cash and cash on hand to reduce its total debt load by $1.6 billion. At the end of the quarter, Schlumberger had $12.2 billion in net debt.
Let's make a deal...again
Schlumberger's management has made some audacious moves recently to expand the scope of its business. The acquisition of Cameron was the most notable, but the company has signed several joint venture deals since then. The most notable deals are the OneLNG venture with Golar LNG , the OneStim venture with Weatherford International , and the acquisition of Eurasia Drilling Company. That is just the tip of the iceberg, though. In 2017 alone, the company has signed five joint venture deals where the company would shore equipment or expertise with another oil services company.
Then, there are also the deals it's signing that get it into the production game. So far this year, it has signed a joint venture deal with Argentinian oil company YPF to develop assets, a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco to boost production in the Kingdom, and an offshore agreement with the Nigerian National Petroleum company to front the capital to develop a reservoir. This past quarter, management took it one step further as it outright purchased 800,000 acres of oil & gas development rights with operating wells and infrastructure assets from Cenovus Energy for $1 billion. Schlumberger and its partner, private company Torexen Energy, will drill 1,600 wells in the formation starting in 2018.
What management had to say
CEO Paal Kibsgaard has probably been one of the more negative voices on the oil and gas industry's outlook for some time. The past couple of quarters, though, his tone has changed, and it appears that he is much more optimistic about the oil & gas industry's future.
What a Fool believes
Schlumberger's results took another step in the right direction this past quarter. It was encouraging to see its North American business segment grow faster than the rig count, which means it's taking market share from someone. Hopefully, that will continue once the OneStim deal is closed later this year.
The rest of the oil market is still in a holding pattern, but it's hard to envision a situation where it gets much worse from here. With that in mind, it appears that the company is in full recovery mode, and we can expect to see steady gains in profitability from here.
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Woodlawn National Cemetery is located in Elmira, NY, in Chemung County. In 1861, the town was both a training and marshalling center for Union soldiers during the Civil War. As trainees were eventually assigned to military units and the barracks emptied, the federal government used the buildings as a prisoner-of-war camp. Originally known as Camp Rathbun, and designated Camp No. 3 during its existence from summer 1864 until the end of the war, this camp housed approximately 12,000 Confederate enlisted men. Approximately 3,000 men died here.
Confederate POWs were transported by rail from locations such as Point Lookout, MD, and Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC, to Elmira. Upon arrival, most of the captives were in poor physical condition, which was only exacerbated by their incarceration. While the weather was mild during summer and fall, in its first year approximately 900 prisoners were without housing until early January. Prison records show that men died from typhoid fever, dysentery and pneumonia, as well as malnutrition. The Confederates lacked adequate rations and medical care thanks to insufficient medical supplies. Prisoners infected with smallpox were often moved to a remote location and forgotten. It was not uncommon to see a frozen body lying outside a tent waiting to be loaded for transportation to the cemetery. Another contributing factor to the problem of disease was a stagnant pool known as Foster's Pond. This pond stood between the camp and the river.
Each day, deceased soldiers were placed in coffins and loaded on a buckboard wagon, up to nine at a time. The wagons traveled approximately a mile and a half to the cemetery, where a long trench was dug and the coffins placed in it side by side. At the time of the Confederate burials, John Jones, an escaped slave who found freedom in Elmira, was the sexton of Woodlawn Cemetery. He kept a meticulous record of each Confederate burial so that when, in 1907, the federal government was authorized to erect a small marble headstone at each grave, it was possible to inscribe them with the soldier's name, company regiment and grave number.
Beginning in February 1865, prisoners who swore allegiance to the Union were deemed eligible for release. Groups of approximately 500 men were allocated food rations, money and/or transportation vouchers and placed on a train bound for the major Union army supply depot in City Point, VA, where arrangements were made for the final trip home.
Soldiers who survived were released in groups at the end of the war and provided the same assistance. Approximately 140 went to the regional army hospital in Elmira where they were treated until fit to travel. Seventeen of them never recovered and died in New York. By the end of 1865, the camp was fully closed and all buildings razed or moved to nearby locations.
Woodlawn National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 2004.
Monuments and Memorials
The United States government erected the Shohola Monument in 1911 to commemorate a tragic railroad accident that took the lives of both Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War. Starting in 1906, the government began a program to mark the graves of Confederate prisoners of war and this monument was one of the earliest monuments to be erected. One side of the Shohola monument honors 49 Confederate prisoners of war who were killed in the accident. According to 1864 newspaper accounts of the accident, the Confederate soldiers killed were among 853 Confederate prisoners being transported by train from the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, to Elmira, NY, in July 1864. The 18-car passenger train which carried the prisoners of war was hit by a 50-car coal train on July 15, 1864. A total of 64 Confederate and Union soldiers were killed, along with the passenger train's engineer, 2 firemen, and a brakeman. One hundred and twenty other passengers were wounded. The other side of the Shohola monument commemorates the 17 Union guard sentinels—all privates of the 11th Veteran Reserve Corps—who accompanied the prisoners enroute to Elmira. Original burial location for the dead was in a trench near the accident site. They were later reinterred at Woodlawn National Cemetery and their individual remains were unidentifiable.
In 1937, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument in memory of those Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned at Elmira and who are buried at Woodlawn National Cemetery. The bronze figure and granite monument overlooks the entire length of the Confederate area, facing eastward.
On August 13, 1988, the Chemung County Veterans dedicated a monument in memory of all veterans from New York and Pennsylvania. The granite and bronze plaque memorial features military insignia from all five branches of the military.
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Havaianas officially became a global brand in 2000, despite other brands imitating its style. Angela Hirata, the director of foreign trade for Alpargatas has explained that Havaianas was marketed to both the low-end market and the high-end market for all classes to purchase the shoe and attain popularity. The sandal can be purchased for US$1.50 to $6 in Brazil, but more expensive variations of the shoe are also worn by models on the runways.
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How can others help a person with dementia?
How can others help a person with dementia?
Helping a person with dementia have a social life You can offer support by: including them in social activities and events. encouraging them to join a conversation. involving them in an activity they enjoy.
What strategies can a family member who is caring for a person with dementia implement?
Self-care strategies for dementia carers
• Maintain good physical health. It can be easy to neglect your own wellbeing when you devote all your time and energy to another person.
• Take care of your mental health.
• Take a break.
• Build a strong support network.
• We’re here to help you.
What are the ways in which carers can be supported in their role?
Key strains for carers and ways to help:
• Physical respite (taking a break).
• Financial support (governmental and charitable).
• Emotional support (helping the carer’s wellbeing).
• Charities that can help.
Why is there a need to know the unique individual behind the dementia?
Seeing the person behind the dementia is ‘perhaps the most crucial aspect of care’ Helping a person to live well with dementia does not only mean treating the illness, but ensuring their physical and mental wellbeing is maintained to allow them to continue to have fulfilling life experiences.
How do you make someone with dementia feel valued?
People can recognise this by being as supportive as possible. Carers, friends and family, can help a person with dementia to feel valued and included. Support should be sensitive to the person as an individual, and focus on promoting their wellbeing and meeting their needs.
How can you support carers?
Support services for carers
1. Carers Australia. 1800 242 636.
2. Carers online support. An online eight-session course from Carers Australia, providing mental health foundations for carers new to their role.
3. Mental Health Carers Australia (formerly ARAFMI National) 1300 554 660.
4. Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia (MIFA)
Why do Carers need support?
Carers play a critical role in reducing the need for formal care. They are often the lynchpin between the person being cared for, social care, the GP, and other care workers and professionals. They provide an important network of support from within the family, from friends, neighbours and the local community.
How do you cheer up someone with dementia?
Listening to music, dancing, or contact with babies, children or animals provide positive feelings. People with dementia often have excellent memories of past events, and looking through old photos, memorabilia and books can help the person to recall earlier times.
What’s the best way to support someone with dementia?
Support should be sensitive to the person as an individual, and focus on promoting their wellbeing and meeting their needs. When supporting a person with dementia, it can be helpful for carers to have an understanding of the impact the condition has on that person.
What are the challenges of being a carer for someone with dementia?
However, it can also be stressful. You may experience frustration, grief, fatigue, social isolation, and financial pressure. Many carers also experience guilt at not being able to do enough. Understanding more about dementia and reaching out to support services can help you in your carer journey.
Can a person with dementia change their care?
As you look after a person living with dementia, their care needs can change. You may notice changes in their: If any changes occur, you may feel unsure about what to do. For information about how to support changing needs, visit the Dementia Australia website.
Is it important to treat people with dementia with respect?
It’s very important that people with dementia are treated with respect. It is important to remember that a person with dementia is still a unique and valuable human being, despite their illness. This factsheet looks at ways that you can help the person to feel valued and good about themselves.
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Agivavik, Alaska
Agivavik is a former Inuit settlement and ghost town in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States. It was located on the west bank of the Nushagak River. The site is approximately 6 miles southwest of the city of New Stuyahok and 3 miles northeast of the city of Ekwok. It was initially noted by the Nushagak Russian Orthodox Church vital statistics in 1863 and was visited by a missionary. In 1879, it was noted to have 47 residents. A Father Vasili Shishkin visited the settlement in 1882 and noted it was "one of only three" occupied villages along the river. The 1880 census did not mention the number of homes occupied, though the 1890 census stated there were two (surveyed by A.B. Schanz).
Agivavik would not be mentioned again until noted anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička in his survey of Alaska, visited the site in 1931 and was told by his guide that the village had been abandoned around 1900. Reports and maps had erroneously placed the location of the village on the wrong side of the river or in the wrong location entirely. Orth's Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, which was also referenced by the USGS, also was in error in its location, noting it to be along the "right bank of the Ugashik River."
James Vanstone noted in "Historic Settlement Patterns in the Nushagak River Region" that this settlement had also been occupied in prehistoric times.
Demographics
Agivavik first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated Inuit village with 52 residents, all Inuit. It appeared again on the 1890 census with 30 residents, 2 homes and 6 families (all native). Owing to its abandonment around 1900, it has not appeared again on the census.
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English Array
English Array was a British fascist group founded and led by Lord Lymington.
Foundation
In 1930, the English Mistery was founded by William Sanderson. Sanderson was by all accounts a "difficult" man to deal with, and by 1935 the Mistery was being divided into two factions, one loyal to Sanderson and another to Lymington. The breaking point occurred when Lymington's first marriage ended in divorce in 1936 on the grounds of unfaithfulness on his part and he promptly married his mistress. Sanderson felt that Lymington's behavior was not proper for the "chief syndic" of the Mistery and asked him to resign. The majority of the members of the Mistery followed Lymington who founded the English Array in December 1936 while Sanderson remained the leader of a rump Mistery that soon faded into irrelevance. The ideology of the English Array was precisely the same as the English Mistery while the other differences being that the new leader was Lymington.
The English Array used as its symbol a red rose set on the Saint George's Cross flag (the flag of England) along with elaborate titles as the English Array was led by "Marshals" whose "Musters" corresponded to the counties of England. As suggested by its name, the English Array identified with England instead of Britain and did not operate in the Celtic lands of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The British historian Martin Pugh wrote that the "English Array was Gothic in style and frankly reactionary in inspiration". Like the English Mistery, the English Array did not accept women as members. The English Array saw the end of the feudal system in England as the greatest disaster that ever befell the English people, and longed to restore a highly idealised vision of the Middle Ages with the English people united in deference to the king and the aristocracy. The British historian Richard Griffiths wrote that the leaders of the English Array took "...fanciful and faintly medieval titles. Lymington was Marshal of the Array. The Hon. Richard de Grey, brother of Lord Walsingham, was Lieutenant of the King Alfred Muster in Dorset. Sir Geoffrey Congreve, who owned about 3, 000 acres in Staffordshire was Area Marshal for that county. A certain Richard Marker was Leader of the New Muster at Gittesham, East Devon. Captain R.J.M. Wilson was Stewart of the Fens". The membership of the English Array was almost entirely rural with the Array being very strong in East Anglia.
Activities
The center of the English Array was Farleigh Wallop, the estate of Lymington in the Hampshire countryside. The English Array maintained contacts with other groups such as the British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosely to the Kinship in Husbandry led by Rolf Gardiner. The Conservative MP Reginald Dorman-Smith was one of the English Mistery members who left to join the English Array. Dorman-Smith joined the cabinet in January 1939 as minister of agriculture, which gave the English Array hopes that their vision would soon be realised. The English Array was a "back-to-the-land" movement and called for the deurbanisation of Britain. Alongside the calls for a rural society to led both politically and economically by the aristocracy was an ecologist message about preserving the environment and promoting organic farming. The clearest expression of the ideology of the English Array was the 1938 book Famine in England by Lymington, which contained praise for the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, the "white northern races of Europe" and the beauty of English countryside along with attacks on the "scum" and "aliens" in England and "international finance". Gardiner who like most of the other members of the English Mistery left in 1936 to join the English Array was very active in settling up "National Service Camps" designed to train the future elite of the English Array who would take over Britain once democracy collapsed. Like the English Mistery before it, the basic concept of the English Array was that the United Kingdom was heading towards a catastrophic collapse which would see the end of democracy with the king staging a self-coup to take power, and at which point the English Mistery/English Array would step forward to assist the royal dictatorship. A major theme of both the English Mistery and the English Array was that the Great Depression was only the first stage of the expected catastrophe while the widespread perception that both Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin were ineffectual prime ministers was the second stage of the expected disaster.
The ideology of the English Array was very strongly influenced by the "blood-and-soil" ideas of the Völkisch movement in Germany. Like the völkisch activists in the Reich, the English Array linked race to the landscape with healthy landscapes equating healthy bodies and healthy races.. Lymington believed that the Industrial Revolution along with the accompanying urbanisation were disasters for Britain as it caused a "racial degeneration", which only be stopped by a return of the population to the rural areas. Lymington wrote: "The conviction that the healthy state of the soil is the foundation of human health as well of that of the crops and animals is one that does not need any explanation for the men of the English Array...If we serve our soil, we can bring back the fertility of the strong breeds that will people the Empire with the desired men and women who will hold it against tides of yellow men and brown". Lymington called for a protectionist policy designed to keep foreign agricultural products out of British markets while agriculture would be made the center of the British economy via state subsides and land banks. Lymington believed that the "international finance" (i.e. a codename for Jews) was intentionally starving British farms of capital, and that Britain could achieve agricultural self-sufficiency by settling up land banks that would provide the necessary capital to modernise farming. Like the English Mistery, the English Array was anti-Semitic and depicted Jews as "eternal foreigners" who could never be English under any conditions. The English Array did not accept Jews as members and likewise banned all non-white people from its ranks as Englishness was understood by the English Array to be Christian and white. The English Array believed that the English people were a race whose bloodlines needed to be protected from foreigners, which led for the group to be strongly anti-immigrant. As part of "back-to-the-land" ideology, members of the English Array were encouraged to move to rural areas and engage in organic farming. A major concern for the English Array was stopping the sale of pasteurised milk, which seen as a deadly health threat to the English.
Lymington favored an absolute monarchy for Britain as he stated that for the English Array: "We speak of our Sovereign Lord the King. The phrase enshrines the deepest political instinct we have. It is not a sentiment of wishfulness; it is the strength which binds us back to our ancestors and drives us forward to build the future with purpose from binding back. It has two sides, mystical and practical". The English Array was openly opposed to democracy and any man wanting to join the English Array had to take the following oath: "I have faith in the surviving stock of my own people. I have love for them and for the English soil from which I have sprung. I have hope that though the regeneration of that stock and its soil. I hate the system of democracy which is in effect a tyranny that dupes men by allowing them to agitate in Hyde Park while it refuses them the right to be responsible for their own family". The English Array believed in the traditional divine right of kings with the British monarchs as accountable only to God, and the English Array presented the monarchy in mystical terms as a semi-divine institution whose powers had been usurped by parliament. The group believed that the king was a "prisoner" and the English Array attempted to infiltrate the court with the aim of freeing the king in order to restore his rightful powers.
The English Array supported the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War and accepted at face value the claim that the botched military coup d'état of 18 July 1936 was necessary to forestall a planned Communist coup. Lymington wrote: "About Spain it is only necessary to say that Franco's is not a military rebellion, but a popular uprising against great material odds to save Spain from a foreign planned Communist revolution". In its writings on European affairs, the English Array was very pro-Nazi and consistently portrayed the Third Reich in a positive light. In the Quarterly Gazette of the English Array for April 1938, Lymington praised the Anschluss and wrote "we must do what we can to save our country from being forced into a war which would mark the end of white civilisation". In the July 1938 edition of the Quarterly Gazette praised the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany as much superior to British democracy. The anonymous article wrote in the United Kingdom "the degenerate and morally deficient are free to propagate their bad stock, which becomes a charge on the rest of the community; the aliens are free to enter the country at the rate of one hundred and fifty per month and take many jobs which might go to British men and women while they are also free to destroy our culture and lower our health by miscegenation...in those countries [Italy and Germany] duty to the whole body politic comes before the selfish interests of any particular individual or group". The article ended by praising the Nazi regime for "constructive racial regeneration" of the German people. In September 1938, the English Array held its annual rally at Lymington's estate at Farleigh Wallop where Dorman-Smith and Gardiner both spoke. In his speech, Gardiner praised the Nazi regime for having "showed how hope can be given to a defeated and degenerate nation by sacrifice and singleness of mind working outside the ordinary bureaucratic standards; how the regeneration of Hitler's Germany was made possible beforehand by a few pioneers".
In the October 1938 edition of Quarterly Gazette, Lymington wrote: "Few stopped to think that such a war would benefit no one, but the Jews and the international communists...The fault did not lie with those whose standards were so warped that they believed alliance with the Czechs and the Bolsheviks against a regenerate Germany was right, but with us who have so far failed to carry regenerate values through the country". The same issue contained an anonymous article that read: "Ostensibly, we were to fight to save a small nation from German aggression. In our ignorance we did not or could not realise that we were to use force to prevent Germans using force to finish, once and for all, a miserable people using force to oppress and hold within their boundaries better people than themselves. Never once did we enquire, who are these Czechs? If we had, we would have realised that we proposed to sacrifice the best for the worst in Europe. The Czechs are in fact the inferiority-complex whites of Europe. Their fellow Slavs, the Serbians, have called them the white Jews of Europe...They have been a centre for Communist intrigue and promise after promise made by Benes, a prominent member of the Grand Orient, has been broken. It is symbolical that Prague is a moneylenders' centre...It was the perfect way to overthrow everything decent in Europe and leave a few master moneylenders, orientals, clever degenerates and a mass of subhuman beings in control of Europe".
Dissolution
In August 1939 at the height of the Danzig crisis, Lymington sent out a message to the English Array reading "should there be a war, it must be treated as an interval in full Array activities". In October 1939 edition of the Array's journal The New Pioneer, Lymington complained about the "fratricide" in Europe which only served the Soviet Union. The marked similarity of ideas of the English Array to the National Socialists in Germany was much noted at the time, and led Lymington to dissolve the English Array in 1940 as he feared he would be interned as a fascist..
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Outline for Family in Advertising
I. Introduction In this section, I will provide a brief overview of the history of 'family in advertising' and also motivate why the issue is important for sociology, particularly sociology of the family or sociology of marriage. I will mention that advertising is not only sociologically important in its ability to capture the needs or wants of the American family, thus reflecting their values, but that advertising is also meant to create need and wants and change values; thus, it is not a mere passive reflection of family but an active force that, by originating images and urges, creates the family (i.e. how the family is perceived).
* Overview (Nelson)
'''II. Historical Background'''
* How has the depiction of family in advertising changed with the advent of new technology like the television and more recently the internet? (Ali)
Here I will describe how the different ways the family has been portrayed throughout history has been shaped by the development of new technology. I will begin with talking about the depiction of the family in early print media such as in newspaper and magazine ads. Next, I will discuss the ways in which the development of television and television ads influenced the image of family in marketing. Finally, the family and the internet (including possibly depiction in social media) will be elaborated on.
It is not without reason that advertisements of the 1940's and 1950's targeted the family. It is not a coincidence that they did this at that particular time period rather than today. It was successful then, but would likely have less success today. This section of the article will show the context for the success of family images in advertising, such as this 7up advertisement. It will also show how today advertising reaches its family audience without showing the family audience.
* Discussion of how the image of the family has been used in marketing throughout history up to present day. (Nelson)
'''III. Imagery'''
* What types of imagery of the family are used in advertising?
Americans are bombarded by advertisements everyday. One theory of advertising suggests that advertisements are merely a reflection of the society that one lives in (need citation). A second theory involving advertising is that it actually is a force that influences the way society functions. Some sociologists posit that advertisements are a form of instructions that direct people how to live day by day. I will make extensive use of the book Images of family life in magazine advertising. Additional research will be conducted in order to create a comprehensive review of all the imagery that should be included in this section.
Additionally, an image gallery will be included in this section. Providing visual evidence will not only be interesting for readers but will also be further evidence of the different depictions of the family in advertising.
'''IV. Criticism'''
* How have scholars criticized the use of family imagery in advertising. Discussion of both negative and positive societal effects of advertising on the family. (Nelson)
In this section, I will present the argument that advertising has had negative societal affects, such as making people unsatisfied with what they have, materialistic and narcissistic. In order to argue negatively, I will draw on papers by University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Sut Jhally, who boldly argues that advertising "is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and ... [it] will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it." In particular, I will be referencing his paper titled "Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse" where he argues that advertising prevents true happiness.
In order to keep the criticism section neutral, I will also show the positive impacts of advertising: that it stimulates the economy and from wealthy economies comes better social conditions (e.g. people can be with their family more, forming closer bonds, and in less stressful environments). I will conduct more research on this topic to find resources
Alimosser61 (talk) 02:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC) Pittsoc25 (talk) 01:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
* That seems like an excellent start, guys. You will likely need some more references, and if you want to discuss a specific image, you should upload it to Wikipedia (take a look at Non-free content and Images. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:03, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Suggestions after reviewing Double Burden article
After reviewing our classmate's article on Double Burden, I had a possible idea for additional sub-sections and possible introduction of new information. The group exploring double burden has separate sections for the idea of double burden as it affects women and how it affects men. I think it might be advantageous for us to explore the possibility of how advertising portrays each member of the family. Perhaps a section on Men, Women, and children and how each individual is portrayed and consequently affected. This could be an interesting angle to take. In addition, we should begin to explore possible images to use. I'm excited to delve into the book I received from the library and to expand our page!
Ali Alimosser61 (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Tfinnegan20 (talk) 03:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Suggestions after reviewing your article
I like where you are headed with the information regarding advertising to the family which will be covered by Nelson. I think you should look for information regarding the current advertising method of targeting individuals within the family unit as apposed to appealing to the family as a whole which was done during the '50s and '60s. With the change in purchasing power (i.e. women having jobs and no longer primarily house wives, and even young adults[16-18]) advertising has the task of taking on a new social attitude. Additionally, I think in the historical background section it would be a good idea to include information of the change in gender advertisment. For a good example look to Folgers ads circa 1950s which were very demeaning to women, and where as today's Folgers advertisements do not attempt to belittle women. I like where this article is headed and look forward to reading it!Tfinnegan20 (talk) 03:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.457, 193-201, 2006
Facile and efficient route to prepare luminescent terbium containing covalently anchored hybrids equipped with molecular bridge
A kind of monomer (abbreviated as BrBAA-APES) was prepared by modifying 2-bromophenylacetic acid (BrBAA) with a coupling agent (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APES). Then it was used to coordinate to Tb3+ and to react with tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) in the presence of water molecules simultaneously. During the reaction, cohydrolysis and cocondensation occurred at the same time as complexation happened to Tb3+, which is called an in situ process. After 5 days, a kind of hybrid material was prepared. The hybrid exhibits the characteristic luminescence of Tb3+, and the change of the hybrid's excitation wavelength also testifies to the energy couple and intramolecular energy transfer between the triplet state energy of BrBBA-APES and emissive level of Tb3+.
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D440 Battalion
The VC D440 Battalion, also known as the Viet Cong D440 Provincial Mobile Battalion, was a Local Force battalion of the Viet Cong (VC) during the Vietnam War. The battalion operated in the Phước Tuy and Long Khánh provinces usually along Route 2. It was formed in 1968 under the command of Comrade Hai Tinh and consisted mainly of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) personnel.
From 1966 to 1971 Phuoc Tuy Province was the area of South Vietnam that was assigned to Australian and New Zealand forces to defend against Communist incursions and provide support to South Vietnamese government, as part of the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF).
The battalion's first major encounter with the Australians and New Zealanders was during Operation Lavarack launched by 1 ATF in May 1969, and concluding 30 June 1969. During Operation Lavarack the battalion along with other People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and VC guerrilla elements participated in the battle of Binh Ba but were expelled by 1 ATF forces. The village of Binh Ba was completely destroyed during the battle. As a result of the failure at Binh Ba all PAVN forces including D440 Battalion were temporarily forced out of Phuoc Tuy, retreating to Long Khánh Province.
Overall the unit generally performed poorly against Australian and New Zealand forces however, and it was eventually disbanded in August 1970 with most of its personnel transferred to the locally manned D445 Battalion.
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Gas vs Electric Air Compressor: Which One Should You Get?
Gas vs Electric Air Compressors: Which One Should You Get?
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If you’re shopping for an air compressor, you’ll probably spend some time comparing electric and gas-powered ones. And if you’re unsure which of them to get, I’ll help you decide with this article.
Which One Should You Get?
Electric Air Compressors
Electric air compressors are more common than their gasoline counterparts as they’re more versatile, quiet, and easier to maintain.
They’re the ideal choice for working indoors, using in a garage, workshop, or even at home.
This is also true as they require extension cords to function, which limits mobility.
Depending on the model of your inflator, it’ll work with a 120-volt household outlet or a 12-volt vehicle accessory outlet.
Gasoline-Powered Air Compressors
Contrary to electric models, gasoline-powered air compressors are better suited for outdoor work areas where you wouldn’t need an electrical outlet.
Furthermore, their motor runs on high horsepower, and they’re far superior in terms of PSI (Pounds per Square Inch).
The Specs of an Air Compressors
Work Environment
If you’re going to be working in a damp or wet area, you should steer away from electric compressors.
On the other hand, if you work indoors or in an unventilated area, don’t use a gasoline-powered compressor.
Horsepower (HP) Rating and PSI
The horsepower rating is equivalent to the power output you’ll get from your motor and is measured in PSI (Pressure per Inch Squared).
The higher the horsepower, the more your tool can pressurize air and deliver higher PSI.
And as the PSI gets higher, the more air you’ll be able to store in the tank. Consequently, running your compressor for more extended periods.
Generally, electric-powered motors can’t be run for as long as gasoline-powered ones can and don’t give as powerful performance.
Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM) and Standard
Cubic Feet per Minute (SCFM)
CFM and SCFM measure the volume of air that your air compressor is capable of delivering at specific PSI levels.
The lower the PSI output, the higher the CFM.
Usually, a compressor with a higher CFM rating will deliver more air and is suitable for heavier-duty applications such as operating air wrenches or framing nail guns.
The Storage Tank Size
Storage tank sizes are measured in gallons.
4 to 6 gallons is suitable for many small projects such as airbrushing, operating brad nailers, and nail guns. Things that electric-powered compressors are good at doing.
On the other hand, a larger tank can store more compressed air at higher pressures.
So they’re more suitable for heavier-duty tasks that require a regular and consistent flow of air such as remodeling projects or automotive work.
A gasoline-powered motor is a suitable choice for such jobs.
Note: Although the horsepower is what indicates a compressor’s power output, it’s important to mind the CFM ratings at specific PSI levels as that’s what dictates the tools with which you can work.
Air Tools Run by Air Compressors
Air tools have specific air pressure and volume requirements that your compressor has to meet to optimize the function of the device.
To understand how this adds up, determine the highest CFM at the highest PSI. Then, add around 50% as a safe margin and get a compressor that matches that.
For example, if your tools require 3 CFM and 90 PSI, get a compressor that works at 4.5 CFM at 90 PSI.
Such tools include ratchets, impact wrenches, staple and nail guns, air hammers, chisels, rotary tools, grinders, and paint sprayers.
How Does an Air Compressor Work?
Drive
The drive is the part that powers up the compressor’s pump to begin the process of pressurized air into the tank.
Pump
The pump uses the energy from the drive to suck in atmospheric air and compress it until it reaches very high levels of pressure.
This compressed air is then sent to the storage tank for later use through the discharge tube.
Storage Tank
The storage tank is the part that has the check valve. This valve is responsible for preventing the compressed air from applying back pressure on the pump.
Features Found on an Air Compressor
There are more things to an air compressor than the basic features, and these include the following:
An oiled vs oil-free pump
An oil-free pump is typically found on electric compressors and requires little to no maintenance as its bearings are permanently oiled. However, it can’t handle heavy-duty jobs.
Belt Drive System
A belt drive system works on reducing the operating noise of the unit as opposed to a direct drive system.
If you want a quieter compressor, go for an electric-powered one.
Thermal Protection Stops
These work on protecting your compressor from suffering any damage that may be inflicted by overloads.
Adjustable Exhaust
An adjustable exhaust enables you to project the exhaust away from your working area to provide you with more visibility and a cleaner work area.
Multiple Couplers
To handle various tasks without having to connect and disconnect tools, some compressors are equipped with various couplers. They’re more commonly found on the more powerful gasoline-powered air compressors.
Accessories
Although hoses aren’t always included, you can still find some accessories with your compressors such as nailers and blowguns.
Some units even allow you to buy separate auxiliary tanks to increase the capacity of the air tank.
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Chiesmans
Chiesmans was a department store group based in Lewisham, London. The business was established in 1884 as a general draper, expanding to become the largest department store in south-east London and operator of a network of branches stretching from Essex to the Isle of Wight. The group was acquired by House of Fraser in 1976. The former Lewisham flagship store closed in 1997.
Early history
Chiesman Brothers was started by the brothers Frank and Harry Chiesman in September 1884 in Lewisham. They bought Cross Brothers drapery business at 59 High Street, Lewisham, which was known as Paris House, and specialised in the sales of remnants and job lots. The brothers changed the business, selling new lines across a variety of product categories in addition to drapery.
The store expanded into neighbouring properties and in 1899, waiting rooms and a tea room were added to the store. Within a few short years the brothers had established Lewisham's leading department store. By 1908 the store encompassed 41-59 High Street. The premises were divided by a road and a tunnel was constructed connecting the two buildings. The furniture department was a particularly successful part of the business and Chiesmans purchased several properties to hold their stock.
After the First World War, the brothers' sons Stewart, Russell and Howard joined the firm and in 1921 a new store was constructed. In the same year the company was incorporated as Chiesmans Limited. During the 1930s the store was extended and other properties were purchased, including property on the opposite side of the High Street. By 1939, a new bridge was built spanning Granville Grove linking the two halves of the main store.
Expansion
In 1933, Chiesmans began a period of expansion beyond Lewisham with the purchase of Denniss Paine & Co. of Maidstone, Kent. The next acquisition was that of Martins of Canterbury in 1949, while a third store was added in 1957 at Gravesend (previously Bon Marche).
In 1957, the business became a Public Limited Company, with most of the shares being retained by the Chiesman family. Over the next two years stores were purchased in Tunbridge Wells (Waymarks, 1958), the Isle of Wight (Edward Morris, 1959), Ilford (Burnes, 1959), Upton Park (John Lewis, 1959) and Rochester (Leonards, 1959). The Lewisham store was extended again in 1960. Additions included a new fabric hall and self-service restaurant. The Rochester store was closed in 1967, with the company blaming Rochester Council's failure to redevelop the city centre and parking policy.
Takeover
In 1976 Chiesmans was purchased by House of Fraser. The stores were brought under the same management as Barkers and Army & Navy as part of the Southern Division trading group of House of Fraser. The former Chiesmans offices at Lewisham became the head office for the regional group.
Further branches were added to the Chiesmans nameplate under House of Fraser's ownership. A number of the former Hide group stores in London and the south-east, which had been acquired in 1975, were initially renamed Chiesmans, including the eponymous Kingston upon Thames store and the J R Roberts branch at Southend. A store was also opened in Bexleyheath.
Closure
Eventually the Chiesmans stores were renamed Army & Navy. Maintenance costs and changing retail patterns led firstly to the Lewisham store shrinking to half its size and later closing down entirely in 1994. Lewisham Police Station stands on the site of the former Chiesmans flagship store. All of the former Chiesmans stores are now closed.
Legacy
Harry Chiesman served as Mayor of Lewisham in 1920 and laid the foundation stone of Lewisham War Memorial, which was given Grade II listed status on 13 July 2016.
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Measuring cyclosporine in whole blood in kidney transplantation
BACKGROUND: Cyclosporin A is a potent immunosuppressive drug effective in combatting rejection following organ transplantation. In na effort to replace a radioimmunoassay (RIA) for whole blood determination of cyclosporine (Cya) we compared RIA with fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIAm). METHOD: 65 blood samples were analysed from kidney transplanted patients. The samples were collected into tubes containing EDTA as anticoagulant and analysed by RIA and FPIAm. RESULTS: The statistical analysis revealed a difference between both methods (p<0.05). The linear-regression comparassion of Cya concentration measured by RIA and FPIAm showed the following relationship: Cya(FPIAm) = 1.06 x Cya(RIA) + 5.8 (r=0.9817). CONCLUSION: We conclude that FPIAm provides na alternative method for measuring cyclosporine in whole blood with the added advantages of being reasonably rapid, precise and easy to perform.
Cyclosporine; Kidney transplantation; Radioimmunoassay; Fluorescence polarizatiion immunoassay
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Power BI Workspace Scripts
If you’re a Power BI administrator you’re probably already familiar with the Power BI Management module of PowerShell cmdlets. Additionally, as an alternative to PowerShell, you may have seen the recent announcement for the new Workspaces page in the Power BI Admin Portal.
While more features and improvements to the Workspaces page will be implemented over time, it may still be useful to have several pre-built PowerShell scripts to access and analyze workspaces in your Power BI tenant. As just one simple example, you may want to retrieve all the users of workspaces assigned to premium capacity.
Workspace Scripts
I’ve uploaded the following 14 PowerShell scripts to GitHub:
Power BI Workspace Scripts
With the exception of the Workspace and User Summary script, each PowerShell file contains the following three parts:
1. Retrieve a subset of workspaces or users of those workspaces
2. Compute the count of the subset of workspaces or users of those workspaces
3. Export a subset of workspaces or users of those workspaces to a CSV file
Depending on your scenario, you may only need one or two of the three parts. To export out the details of the PowerShell scripts to a CSV file for further analysis in a tool like Excel or Power BI Desktop you can just revise the export file variable (part 3) to a directory on your PC or network. Of course you can tweak or extend the scripts to your preferences such as choosing to include personal workspaces (excluded in the scripts).
Workspace Dimensions
Essentially the scripts just filter down the workspaces of the organization based on the following four dimensions:
• IsOnDedicatedCapacity (true or false)
• State (Active, Deleted, Removing)
• Type (Workspace, Group, PersonalGroup)
• IsReadOnly (true or false)
The blog post on the new Workspaces page describes the available values for these columns. Probably the most important columns are IsOnDedicatedCapacity (Is the workspace in Premium or Shared Capacity?) and Type (Is the workspace a modern workspace or the legacy Office 365 group-based workspace). There are of course serious performance and functionality implications for the content and consumption of that content based on these values.
Script Example: Active Premium Workspaces
Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount
#1. Active Premium workspaces
Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Scope Organization | Where {($_.IsOnDedicatedCapacity -eq $true) -and ($_.State -eq "Active") -and ($_.Type -ne "PersonalGroup")}
#2. Count of active premium workspaces
$ActivePremiumWorkspaces = Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Scope Organization | Where {($_.IsOnDedicatedCapacity -eq $true) -and ($_.State -eq "Active") -and ($_.Type -ne "PersonalGroup")}
$ActivePremiumWorkspaces.Count
#3. Export of active premium workspaces to CSV file
$ExportFile = "C:\Users\Brett Powell\Desktop\ActivePremiumWorkspaces.csv"
$ActivePremiumWorkspaces | Export-Csv $ExportFile
The scripts use the Where-Object to filter the workspaces down based on one or multiple columns such as excluding personal workspaces. The User scripts build on top of the workspace object to access the users for each workspace and then remove duplicates.
Note: You need to be a Power BI service admin to execute the scripts given the organization-wide scope.
Workspace and User Summary
In some cases you may not need the details of workspaces or users but rather just a high level count of workspaces and users by the various dimensions. For example, you want to know how many of your workspaces are in premium capacity versus shared capacity, how many are active, and the split between modern workspaces and the legacy Office 365 group-based workspaces.
The Workspace and User Summary script targets this use case by passing the counts of variables to a formatted Write-Host cmdlet:
Workspace and User Summary
Just like the example above, the counts of users by workspace segment are also output to a formatted Write-Host cmdlet. However, I’ve only retrieved three different lists of users for now.
*Obviously these scripts are focused exclusively on reading the data, not writing to the Power BI service such as adding users or changing permissions. A future blog post may feature this scenario.
PowerShell in Visual Studio
As mentioned in a previous blog post, you may consider using PowerShell Script projects in Visual Studio as a means of organizing and managing your BI administration related PowerShell scripts such as processing Tabular models, scaling up/down resources, or these workspace scripts:
PowerShell Script Project in Visual Studio
I still use the Windows PowerShell ISE significantly but I’m increasingly comfortable with the support available inside Visual Studio (e.g. PowerShell Interactive Window). These tools can be downloaded here.
Wrapping Up
As in so many cases, the graphical interface tool (Workspaces page in Power BI Admin portal) may be sufficient for many or most scenarios thus rendering custom scripts pointless. However, if (when) it’s necessary to do anything not supported out-of-the-box by the GUI, having a solid set of pre-built scripts to work with or extend could be very useful.
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Hi Experts!
I need to develop a secure PHP login using MySQL and cookies to validate a member. What I need to do is ONLY allow a member to login if the cookie on his PC is valid. So if he deletes is cookies he needs to be verified again before login is allowed. I know there is allot of samples using cookies to remember a user, but I need to use cookies to VALIDATE a user/memeber.
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Not sure if I understand what you mean... normally, to validate a user, you check if the password he enters matches a password you have stored in the database for this member. A cookie can then be used to maintain a "session", so that the user does not need to login for every page. The special PHP array $_SESSION is usually stored in a cookie, and can be used also to remember the user name and other information related to the current session.
You say you don't need the cookie to remember the user, but to VALIDATE the user. What do you mean by this? How would the cookie validate the user?
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Sorry for not explaining properly.
I need to develop a secure login that not only validates the user from the username and password stored in the MySQL database, but ALSO identify the user as the user that is allowed to login. In other words, if a user registers the first time, somehow his identity needs to be confirmed.
The real situation is that, if the user username and password is given out or stolen, and another user tries to use his login and password, it will ONLY work from the computer that the REAL users has registered from.
I thought that this could be achieve my storing a UNIQUE computer ID or something...
Does this make sense?
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It makes sense, but it can not be done. There is no unique computer id. There is no way to confirm a users identity. If the username and password is given out or stolen, you can not distinguish the real user from the "fake" user.
You CAN put a cookie on the computer where the registration was done, but this is not secure: a cookie can be stolen/copied to a different computer, and it would require that the user registers again if he is forced to change to a different computer (for instance after a system crash) or wants to use a different browser, or if he accidentily deletes his cookies.
You can associate a user with a specific IP address, but this approach have similar problems: IP addresses can be spoofed, and the user would have to register again if he for any reason gets a new IP.
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Yes spot on.
Thanks for the feedback I think you solved my issue.
Do you have any references to some examples of where I CAN put a cookie on the computer where the registration was done?
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Just set a cookie with a timeout far into the future (10 years).
setcookie('SecurityToken',md5(SECRET_SALT.$userid),time() + (60*60*24*365*10));
http://php.net/setcookie
When checking the validity of the Cookie, do like this:
if($_COOKIE['SecurityToken']!=md5(SECRET_SALT.$userid))
die('No access, bad security token');
Define the secret salt like this, with a different set of random characters, obviously:
define('SECRET_SALT','hiIi5f(s8!w+W0?9s_Od3=Qlow#3N3fE4,j');
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Thank you for your assistance
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Weemalla
Weemalla is a heritage-listed detached house at 62 Ruthven Street, Corinda, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1908 to 1909 by Hall and Mayer. It is also known as Steele House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 August 2013.
History
Weemalla, located at 62 Ruthven Street, Corinda, a south-western suburb of Brisbane, was built in 1908–09. This single-storey timber house was designed by acclaimed architect Robert Smith (Robin) Dods as the suburban home of Robert Moore Steele, Queensland manager of the Victorian Insurance Company Ltd. It is an excellent example of Dods' residential designs for prosperous clients.
Located 11 km from the centre of Brisbane, Corinda, initially part of a leasehold from 1851, opened for selection in the 1860s and a number of farms of between 25 and 70 acres were established. The opening of a railway bridge at Indooroopilly in 1876 reduced the area's isolation and encouraged subdivision. During the Brisbane land boom of the 1880s, when Brisbane's population doubled, many allotments were sold and residential building commenced. Corinda in the 1890s was one of Brisbane's sparsely settled new suburbs where the scattered estates of the wealthy, often set on hills, merged with small farms.
Typically, Brisbane's elite resided in spacious properties located on hilltops or beside the river away from the polluted air, noise and commotion of the city, where breezes could counteract the summer heat. Members of Brisbane's elite "society" at the beginning of the twentieth century, which may be described as upper middle class, comprised pastoralists and wealthy merchants and those in managerial positions, such as Weemalla's first owner, RM Steele. Weemalla, located on Corinda Hill, a popular site for the homes of members of this echelon from the 1880s, was appropriately sited for an elite residence.
By comparison to its southern counterparts Brisbane, by the 1890s was not a wealthy city and had few notably rich merchants or financiers. It was the location of headquarters for Queensland organisations and branch offices for interstate firms in the finance sector. None of the 87 insurance companies with offices or agents in Brisbane during the 1890s had its head office in Queensland.
As manager of the Queensland branch of the Victoria Insurance Company Ltd from 1901, Steele was a member of this upper echelon of Brisbane society. He was a member of the Brisbane Club, an exclusive men's club, and an early member of the Toowong Bowling Club (established 1904), which at the time was a sport with elite connotations. Accompanied by his wife and son, Steele arrived from South Australia where he had opened and managed the Victoria Insurance Co. in Adelaide. Initially they lived in Toowong then Indooroopilly, both middle-class residential areas of Brisbane.
In April 1908 Steele purchased two blocks of land, comprising 2 rood, as the site of a new house for his growing family. In the following month local architecture firm, Hall & Dods advertised a tender for its construction. The job was won by Hall & Mayer and the house was completed during 1908-09 for £953.
Hall & Dods was a partnership between architects Francis Richard Hall and Robin Dods. Dods (1868-1920) was a New Zealand-born architect who lived briefly in Britain before coming to Brisbane in the 1870s. He later trained as an architect in Scotland and England under a number of esteemed architects who were working in the Arts and Crafts idiom. His architectural career began in Edinburgh in 1886, articled with architects Hay & Henderson. He attended evening classes at the Edinburgh Architectural Association until 1890 and formed a lasting friendship with (Sir) Robert Lorimer (1864-1929), eminent Scottish architect and fellow proponent of Arts and Crafts. In 1890 Dods moved to London, where he worked with the Fortifications Branch of the War Office and in the office of notable architect (Sir) Aston Webb. In 1891 he was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects and travelled in Italy. In 1894 Dods visited his mother in Brisbane and while there won a competition for a nurses' home at the Brisbane General Hospital (Royal Brisbane Hospital Nurses' Homes). He returned to Brisbane in 1896 and started in practice with architect Francis Hall as Hall & Dods. Dods has been acknowledged as "one of the most significant early 20th century Australian architects" and as a rare practitioner of the Arts and Crafts style in Queensland.
Arts and Crafts was an international design movement flourishing between 1860 and 1910, its influence continuing into the 1930s. It was led by artist and writer William Morris and architect Charles Voysey and was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and Augustus Pugin. The style championed traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. Importantly, it valued local variations in traditions so that good design would have relevance within its context. Arts and Crafts architecture is characterised by solidity and heaviness through well-proportioned solid forms, wide porches and prominent steep roofs. The texture of ordinary materials is expressed in the detailing and building composition is asymmetrical.
The practice of Hall & Dods was the most influential source of modern design in Brisbane, producing a wide range of accomplished buildings, and was credited with achieving an "architectural revolution" in Brisbane. Dods was responsible for most of the design within the firm, integrating contemporary British design philosophies with the traditions of Queensland housing and the requirements of a subtropical climate, and producing practical, attractive, and finely-detailed houses. The partnership ended in 1913, when Dods left to practice in Sydney. Dods died prematurely in 1920.
Dods' residential work employed local building techniques combined with a sophisticated discipline and a common-sense response to climate. Dods' houses were mostly built of timber with detailing that was a celebration of craftsmanship. The most noticeable characteristic of his Queensland houses (built between 1896 and 1917) was a general feeling of solidity and substance. This was the result of a number of design decisions, including designing a generous roof (often the largest element) continuous over the verandah and over a lower, rear washhouse. The roof was always simple in geometry and often finished with terracotta tiles, flat shingles or pan-and-tile profile, flat iron sheeting with a prominent rolled joint. Corrugated iron was used only as cost-saving measure. Generally low-set, the houses often had an enclosed or screened understorey to give the house a visually solid base. Individual elements were oversized to appear substantial as if under heavy loads. Bold, dark, earthy colours, darkly-stained timber, rough-sawn weatherboards with mitred corners, roughcast rendering and face brickwork in dark colours were used to give the house a weighty gravity. The building materials and finishes were chosen to allow the building to mellow over time, providing it with a well-established appearance.
The house designs take a formalist approach to planning including formal entry halls and traditional planning arrangements. The plans were generated through a consideration of aspect, with living spaces well-oriented and internal layouts permitting cross ventilation. They are also notable for their informal spaces, a particular feature being the inclusion of generous verandah piazzas. The plans respond to the social needs of the clients in an honest and functional way. The houses were often provided with generous, considered service spaces including back halls and wash houses. The health and comfort of the occupants were major considerations. Ventilation devices included wide window and door openings, ventilated gables and ridges, and ventilation fleches. Piazzas were generous, allowing comfortably furnished, semi-outdoor living. Operable shading and enclosure of the piazza was sometimes achieved by adding timber vertical louvres above the verandah handrail, creating a room habitable in most weather. Interiors included fine decorative timber joinery and panelling. Fireplace surrounds and built-in cupboards were also a feature.
The composition of facades and circulation routes is a more nuanced element of Dods' houses and highlights his originality and artistic skill. Facades often only implied symmetry. Entries were often off-centre or perpendicular, emphasised by wide and expressive entry stairs. Projecting bay windows and corner fireplaces were recurrent elements.
Dods designed gardens as a setting for the house, a practice more common in Britain than in Queensland. They featured formal parterre gardens, terraces and walls, flower beds, tennis courts, hedges, topiaries, flowering ornamental trees, and geometric path and lawn layouts. Garden furniture and structures were designed including seats, pergolas, trellises, fences and gates.
Weemalla bears Dods' architectural signature fully. The house was a low-set, detached, timber structure with a large, carefully modelled roof. The house front faced north and the land sloped to the north-east providing ideal orientation. The front facade had an implied symmetrical composition with a small gable at either end, although in reality the plan was not symmetrical. Under the eastern gable were the wide entry stairs with emphatic, large balustrade. The western gable was enclosed and a hexagonal bay window projected from the centre. The entry stairs led to a wide piazza that took advantage of the north-eastern corner with views to the distant horizon. Entry into the house was at 90 degrees via a small, square entry hall that had a projecting bay window with built-in timber seat. The entry hall was centrally placed but access to it was from the side through a glazed front door with an over-scaled, semi-circular fanlight. A central corridor ran from front to back with living rooms on the east and bedrooms on the west. The lounge and dining room were the principal interior spaces and opened onto the front piazza. The dining room had a large chimney breast with a timber mantle and surround. Verandahs ran around all sides of the house, connecting with a large back hall/verandah at the rear. The western verandah, which faced Dewar Terrace, was semi-enclosed above the balustrade to provide privacy to the adjacent bedrooms as well as sun control. The northern end of the western verandah was enclosed to form a bathroom. The service spaces were at the rear of the house, with a semi-enclosed rear stair leading to a laundry under the kitchen.
The house sat centrally within the yard; if Dods designed a garden scheme, evidence of it has not been located.
In 1916 ownership of Weemalla was transferred to Steele's wife, Beatrice. Steele was resident at Corinda and served as the Queensland Manager for the Victoria Insurance Co. Ltd until July 1928 when he was transferred to Sydney as the New South Wales manager of the company. In September 1937 Weemalla was advertised for auction and described as a sound, commodious bungalow with a north-eastern aspect set on 99.5 sqperch. It was well built, with extra wide verandahs, four bedrooms, a maid's bedroom, a hall, large dining and lounge with an arch and brick fireplace. It had gas and fuel stoves, enamel bath, basin, and geyser. Its laundry had set-in tubs on a concrete floor. There was car accommodation and beautiful grounds with space for a tennis court. The house was not sold, however, and in September 1939 Steele's elder son William and his family moved into the house and resided there for the next two decades.
RM Steele died in Sydney in August 1940, aged 74, only a month after his retirement from more than 58 years service with the Victoria Insurance Co., during which he had represented it in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney. He was survived by his widow and two sons. Beatrice Steele died in 1960 leaving Weemalla to son William who subsequently sold the house in 1963.
Weemalla remains largely unchanged since construction. It has been sold several times since 1963 and minor modifications have occurred including the enclosure of parts of the verandahs with glazing, the erection of a carport at the western side c. 1989 by Riddel Architecture, and the construction of an in-ground pool on the eastern side. In 1964 an extension accommodating a bedroom and bathroom was added to the rear (south-western) corner of the house. The design for the small extension was by Brisbane architecture firm Job & Froud, well known for their design of the Torbreck home units completed in 1960. Consistent with their other work, the extension at Weemalla was designed in an International style. This extension has been refurbished and reconfigured several times including in c. 1989 by Riddel Architecture when the entrance stair was rebuilt and the bathroom and kitchen refurbished.
In 2013 Weemalla remains a family residence.
Description
Weemalla is a detached timber house in a suburban area of Corinda, located 11 km south-west of the centre of Brisbane. It is on a corner comprising two allotments totalling 2516 m2 with Ruthven Street to the north and side access from Dewar Terrace to the west. The surrounding allotments are of similar size and have houses of similar age and scale. Weemalla is located centrally on its land with large trees, an in-ground swimming pool, and carport.
The house, approximately 14 x, is timber-framed and -clad, set on timber stumps with a large hipped and gabled roof. It is in an Arts and Crafts style. The roof is conspicuously large and clad with corrugated metal sheets with a ventilated ridge cap. There are two brick chimneys of red face brick with bands of maroon brick and cement rendered cappings. The wide eaves have soffits either of fibrous sheet material or spaced timber battens, the latter being the original condition. A timber verandah with over-scaled posts and a battened balustrade wraps the north and east sides. The walls are clad with weatherboards that also enclose the majority of the understorey.
The north-facing front elevation is flanked by small projecting gables with decorative awnings and timber dentil work. The roofs of the awnings are clad with pan-and-rib metal sheets. A narrow verandah runs across the front of the house between these gables, widening at the north-eastern corner to form a generous verandah piazza. Entry is via a wide timber stair onto the piazza under the north-eastern gable. The stair balustrade and entrance feature timber battens, large brackets, and other over-scaled timber elements. The north-western gable shelters a projecting room (the bathroom) and has a bay window supported on large timber brackets.
The western elevation, facing Dewar Terrace, has a verandah enclosed with aluminium-framed, sliding windows and weatherboards. At the southern end of the verandah is a small lattice-enclosed entrance into the back hall.
The rear elevation has a wide verandah enclosed with aluminium-framed, sliding windows and a large projecting gable at the eastern end containing the kitchen and service zones. Below the kitchen, the understorey is enclosed to form a laundry. A large painted, brick chimney breast is at the centre of the gable and is flanked by windows.
A verandah runs the length of the eastern (side) elevation and is enclosed at the southern end by weatherboards and timber-framed casements.
The main entrance timber door has bolection moulded panels and glazing surrounded by fan and side lights forming an unusual semi-circular feature. The glazing is clear and green leaded glass and the fanlight is operable, retaining an original brass mechanism. The door opens into a small foyer with a bay window with built in timber seat. The foyer ceiling is plaster with decorative mouldings.
The house layout is organised off a central hall with rooms either side; bedrooms are to the west and living rooms are to the east. At the back of the house the hall ends in a wider back hall adjacent to a kitchen/service zone including a pantry and servant's room. A lattice-enclosed external stair connects the back hall with a laundry enclosure under the house. A bathroom is located at the north-western corner, accessible from the western verandah and from the master bedroom. Two small toilets are accommodated within enclosures on the western verandah.
Generally, the rooms have timber board floors, timber tongue-and-groove board walls and ceilings with moulded timber skirtings, architraves, belt rails, and cornices.
The ceilings are generally 3.3 m high with a lower ceiling (2.7 m) in the hall. The principal rooms (drawing and dining rooms) are connected by a large square opening with an elaborate architrave. These two rooms have larger and more elaborate skirtings and cornices than other rooms and the dining room has a fireplace with a decorative fire surround of painted timber panelling including a small amount of white marble.
Internal doors are timber with moulded panelling and operable timber panelled fanlights that retain original brass opening mechanisms. Timber French doors with fanlights have fine, moulded glazing bars and clear glass lights and open onto the verandah from most rooms. One set of French doors has been modified into one large sliding door and another set has been relocated to enclose the verandah nearby. Other windows are double-hung timber sashes or timber casements with fine, moulded glazing bars and clear glass. Much of the original door and window furniture is retained. The house has several built-in storage cupboards with timber shelves. The opening between the foyer and the hall has an arched and battened fanlight. An early bell system survives with buttons in the main bedroom and the drawing room connected to bells in the back hall.
The kitchen, servant's room, pantry, and large storage cupboard open from the back hall. The kitchen has a fireplace with a painted brick chimney breast.
The laundry under the kitchen has a concrete floor. The room retains early or original fixtures including a concrete washtub and a copper tub built into the chimney breast.
A small, timber-framed building is connected by a covered walkway to the south-western corner of the main house. The building has a hipped roof clad with corrugated metal sheets, weatherboard clad walls and accommodates a bedroom and bathroom. It is not of cultural heritage significance.
The garden includes a large Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia), Camphor Laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), and Macadamia (possibly Macadamia tetraphylla). An early timber fence post is located at the north-west corner of the yard. It bears two different sets of post notches suggesting the Dewar Terrace fence was post-and-rail and the Ruthven Street fence was more finely crafted. The grounds contain a carport and swimming pool.
The north-eastern piazza has views to the north-east of the surrounding suburbs and distant horizon. It is well positioned to receive the cool summer breezes from this direction as well as winter sun.
Heritage listing
Weemalla was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 August 2013 having satisfied the following criteria.
Weemalla (1909) is important in illustrating the contribution of notable architect, Robert Smith (Robin) Dods, to the evolution of Queensland architecture.
Weemalla is important for providing evidence of the lifestyle of Brisbane's prosperous elite in the outer suburbs in the early twentieth century. Built for the manager of a national insurance company, it also reflects the development of Brisbane as a commercial centre from the 1890s, not only as headquarters of Queensland companies but also as a branch centre for overseas and interstate companies.
Weemalla is a fine, intact example of the high-quality residential work of Dods that is characterised by a pervading sense of tradition, solidity, and an honest use of materials. Designed in an Arts and Crafts idiom, the low-set timber house has deliberately oversized timber elements and openings; verandah piazza; steep dominant roof; finely-detailed, built-in timber furniture; a well-considered service zone; and an interior layout that optimises cross ventilation and solar orientation.
Standing on a rise within a leafy suburban landscape, the low-set house with dominant roof and generous garden is important for its Arts and Crafts aesthetic. Notable for its fine craftsmanship, it features a skilful arrangement of informal and formal living spaces. A sense of simple elegant suburban domesticity is engendered by its generous verandahs and piazza and spacious living rooms.
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Chinese state nuclear firm CGN Power proposes plan for Shenzhen listing
HONG KONG, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned nuclear company CGN Power Co Ltd said Sunday it plans to raise up to $794 million in a domestic listing on the Shenzhen stock exchange. The firm said in a Hong Kong stock exchange filing it plans to offer no more than 5,049,861,100 new shares at 1 yuan ($0.16) per piece for the listing and will use the proceeds for the construction of nuclear power units and for working capital. CGN Power said its Shenzhen listing plan has received approval from the company’s board but is still subject to approval from shareholders and regulatory authorities including the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Shenzhen-based CGN Power has a current market cap of around $12 billion. (Reporting by Kane Wu; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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Use This ETF to Tiptoe Into Tech Shares
The Kiplinger ETF 20 , our favorite exchange-traded fund picks, have done their job and kept pace with their respective benchmarks so far this year. Given recentglobal marketdeclines, though, that means most have lost ground since the start of 2018. For example, after leading the stock market higher for most of 2017, tech stocks fell hard and fast this year. Over a four-week period in March and April, tech shares declined 7.2%, compared with a 4.2% drop in the broad stock market.
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Several factors converged to drag down the sector. Growing unease about high share prices was one-especially for the FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon.com, Apple, Netflix and Google's parent, Alphabet). There were also worries about rising interest rates, increasing inflation and escalating trade tensions. Then came the news about privacy gaps at Facebook, raising the specter of possible regulation, and a barrage of negative tweets from President Trump directed at Amazon. It was a perfect setup for a price tumble, says Anthony Saglimbene, aglobal marketstrategist at Ameriprise.
We weren't surprised by the pullback. Months earlier, in 5 Super Low-Cost ETFs , we predicted that tech stocks were due for a breather. In the Kiplinger ETF 20 , we swapped a tech-only fund, Vanguard Information Technology (Symbol VGT ), for a more diversified, growth-oriented fund, iShares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF ( MTUM ).
It was a well-timed move. Ishares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor, which emphasizes companies with rapidly rising share prices, holds a big slug in tech firms-36% of its assets at last word. (Tech stocks make up 25% of Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.) But the fund also has hearty exposure to financials, industrials and firms that make or sell nonessential consumer goods. As a result, the fund held up better than the tech sector during the recent slump, though it still lost ground. And over the past 12 months, ishares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor beat its peers-funds that invest in large, growing firms-and tech-only funds.
Is the recent sell-off in tech shares a sign that the market is shifting away from fast-growing firms? Not yet. The current U.S. economic cycle, albeit in its late stages, bodes well for growth-oriented stocks, especially given the synchronized growth of global economies. That doesn't mean share prices for the sector won't fall further, especially with the wild card of a potential trade war, says Saglimbene. If no trade war materializes, and if earnings growth meets expectations, then investors who can stomach some volatility should step cautiously into tech stocks, he says.
Other news. Following Invesco's acquisition of Guggenheim's ETF division last fall, Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care Portfolio is now known as Powershares S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care Portfolio. The symbol, RYH , remains the same.
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The influence of pH on membrane conductance and intercellular resistance in the rat lens.
S. Bassnett, G. Duncan
Research output: Contribution to journalArticle
27 Scopus citations
Abstract
1. The conductance of the rat lens was measured using a two‐internal‐microelectrode technique. The voltage response to a step of current consisted of two components arising from bulk and membrane resistance respectively. 2. The potassium permeability was calculated by applying Goldman theory to 86Rb+ efflux data. 3. The internal pH (pHi) and internal free calcium (pCai) were measured directly using single‐ and double‐barrelled ion‐sensitive microelectrodes. 4. Lens pHi was 6.9 in control solution (external pH, pHo = 7.3) and was reduced on lowering pHo. The presence of propionate or 100% CO2 in the external solution accentuated this effect. 5. Internal acidification was accompanied by a depolarization of membrane potential, an increase in membrane and cell‐to‐cell resistance and a decrease in potassium permeability. The acidification had no effect on pCai. 6. The intracellular pH was increased by perifusing with trimethylamine or NH4Cl. Both treatments induced a membrane depolarization with little change in potassium permeability. Subsequent removal of NH4Cl led to a sustained decrease in pHi. 7. In every case where pHi decreased, the changes in membrane potential and conductance could be explained largely on the basis of a decrease in potassium permeability. The concomitant increase in cell‐to‐cell resistance was less pronounced and probably insufficient to uncouple the lens system.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)507-521
Number of pages15
JournalThe Journal of Physiology
Volume398
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 1988
Externally publishedYes
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After Trump meeting, Ukraine to import U.S. thermal coal for the first time
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian state-run energy company Centrenergo said on Monday it had struck a deal with U.S. trader Xcoal to import 700,00 tonnes of thermal coal this year - the first time Ukraine has imported the commodity from the United States. The contract is a result of an agreement between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has promised a “golden era” of U.S. energy business by boosting exports. Ukraine was once a major producer of anthracite, used in power generation, but it has faced a shortage in recent winters as it lost control of key mines after the outbreak of a pro-Russian separatist conflict in industrial eastern regions in 2014. Under the trial contract, the first vessel from the United States will bring around 85,000 tonnes to Ukraine in early September at a cost of $113 per tonne, Centrenergo chief Oleh Kozemko said at a joint briefing with Xcoal at the US embassy. “Thanks to the 700,000 tonnes we will get through the autumn-winter period without a problem,” he said, declining to say how much the company would pay for the rest of the shipments this year. The volume amounts to about 8 percent of Ukraine’s total anthracite demand in 2016, although the energy ministry has forecast consumption falling by around a third this year. Kozemko said Poroshenko and Trump discussed Ukraine purchasing coal from the United States during the former’s official visit to Washington in June. Trump has vowed to revive the fortunes of struggling U.S. coal miners, whose output last year sank to the lowest level since 1978. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities are anxious to retain U.S. support in its standoff with Russia following the ouster of a Kremlin-backed president in 2014 U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross welcomed the deal with Pennsylvania-based Xcoal, which is one of the largest exporters of coal from the United States. “As promised during the campaign, President Trump is unshackling American energy with each day on the job. This has brought enormous benefit to our nation’s coal communities, and will now also benefit an important international partner,” he said in a statement. Ukraine suffered widespread power cuts in the winter of 2014/15 due to the squeeze on anthracite supplies. It used to depend heavily on Russian gas but has had to find other energy sources since relations deteriorated with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. Additional reporting by Natalia Zinets; editing by Susan Thomas
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United Technologies' Derco Aerospace Signs Marketing Deal - Analyst Blog
Derco Aerospace, Inc., a part of United Technologies Corporation ( UTX ) under the Sikorsky segment, was selected by Tronair - a maker of ground support equipment for the global aviation market - as the latter's exclusive channel partner for the military aftermarket.
Per the three-year agreement, Derco Aerospace will be responsible for the marketing of Tronair's products, which include ground power and hydraulic units, servicing products, jacks, stands, electrical stands, etc. The deal is expected to unlock value for international operators and MRO (Maintenance, repair and overhaul) facilities as it will leverage Derco's strong presence in the military aftermarket for Tronair's reputable product portfolio.
Derco Aerospace also renewed a distribution agreement with UTC Aerospace Systems, which is a segment of United Technologies. Per the agreement, Derco Aerospace will support the VPV 54H60 Propeller Program that UTC Aerospace Systems recently won from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency.
Additionally, UTC Aerospace Systems chose Derco Aerospace as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) authorized repair facility for its military wheel and brake component repairs.
United Technologies is presently in the spotlight as its CEO and Chairman Louis Chenevert retired abruptly on Sunday, which came as a surprise for the investment community. Gregory Hayes, CFO of United Technologies for the past six years, will take over the reins of the company as it grapples with slowing Chinese real-estate markets, weak macro conditions in Europe and pressurized margins.
While many questions remain unanswered about the hasty leadership transition, the conglomerate is also facing challenges in most of its business segments. It is striving to boost its slowing Otis elevator business in China, and is on the verge of launching a major new engine program in Pratt & Whitney, which is combating rising competition from peers like General Electric Company ( GE ), Honeywell International Inc. ( HON ), and Rolls Royce.
United Technologies currently sports a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A better-ranked conglomerate that is worth a look now is Federal Signal Corp. ( FSS ), holding a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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Jez Harris
Jeremy Charles Harris (born 22 February 1965) is a retired rugby union fly-half who played 225 games for Leicester Tigers in both the amateur and professional eras. He also played for Coventry and was player/coach at Nuneaton.
Career
Harris was born in Kettering, and started his junior career at Kibworth RFC as a 10-year-old, his first session was coached by former Tigers fly-half Bleddyn Jones. He joined the youth ranks of Leicester Tigers at 14 and made his first team debut aged 19 against Saracens on 29 September 1984 at Welford Road.
Harris was considered the principle back up to fly half Les Cusworth until Cusworth's retirement in 1990 and was expected to succeeded him but instead had to wait as Brian Smith, in 1990/91, and then Gerry Ainscough, in 1991/92, were preferred ahead of him.
In the 1992/93 season he became the undisputed starting fly half playing in 32 of 37 games that season including at Twickenham as Leicester won the Pilkington Cup against Harlequins. He was the top points scorer for Leicester in the 1993/94 season and again in 1994/95. Leicester were Courage League champions in 1994-95 and Harris started in 16 of the 18 games. Considered a drop goal specialist he scored drop goals in 10 matches including a hat-trick against Bath, the second time he did this feat in league match.
In August 1995 rugby union became professional. Harris had a new rival for Leicester's fly half shirt in Niall Malone and feeling that no professional contract was forthcoming he joined Coventry in the second division. Coventry finished 3rd in his first season and lost the promotion play off against London Irish. Harris played one more season for Coventry before moving onto Nuneaton. Following the death of his father, who had watched every match he played, he retired aged 34.
Harris also played for the Midlands Division and, at the age of 28, for Emerging England. During his time at Leicester he scored 1,171 points placing him 6th highest all time for the club. His 70 drop goals is second only to Les Cusworth.
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Whats a good internet speed?
Whats a good internet speed?
An internet speed of at least 25 Mbps is good for Wi-Fi. That will make sure that multiple people get adequate bandwidth on your Wi-Fi network while multiple devices are being used at the same time. For larger households, a speed of 100 Mbps is even better.
Is 100 Mbps good for a family of 4?
An internet speed of 100 Mbps is fast enough for a household of up to four people if they’re streaming videos in HD, participating in video chat meetings over Skype or Zoom, and playing multiplayer online games.
What is the fastest WiFi speed?
In most cities, the fastest internet speeds are around 1 gigabit per second, which is the same as 1,000 megabits per second. You may see this written as 1 Gbps or 1,000 Mbps. In some areas, you may find speeds twice that fast or be limited to slower cable or DSL internet service.
How do I fix slow Wi-Fi at home?
There are many different things you can do to make your WiFi faster, including:
1. Use a more suitable WiFi channel.
2. Find a better place for your router.
3. Protect your WiFi network with a password.
4. Eliminate signal interference.
5. Upgrade to a high-end WiFi router.
Does a router affect internet speed?
Routers affect internet speed by their ability to handle internet speed from the ISP and prioritize traffic among the devices connected to it. Essentially, the best way to discuss internet speeds on a home Wi-Fi network (and why they slow down) is to think of the weak link analogy.
How many devices can 100Mbps handle?
If you’re using a broadband internet connection with download speeds of 100Mbps, you can comfortably stream ultra-HD quality video on up to 4 devices at the same time.
Is 100Mbps slow?
An internet speed of 100 Mbps is fast—but it’s not extremely fast. It’s just above average for most internet users. While 100 Mbps is powerful enough to let you stream, game, and Zoom with ease, some users don’t need internet that fast, while others need something much faster.
Which is faster 100mbps or 1gbps?
100 Mbps is 100 megabits per second. 1 Gbps or “a gig” is 10 times faster and equal to 1,000 Mbps.
How fast is NASA Wi-Fi?
91 gigabits per second
What is the highest speed of internet in NASA? The internet speed of NASA is exceptionally high thanks to the kinds of data they deal with. Their networks are capable of 91 gigabits per second, as they found out from an experiment they did in 2013. But it does not mean that their entire network is that fast.
Who has the fastest Wi-Fi?
Google Fiber is the fastest internet provider in the United States, delivering the fastest average speeds to its customers on the most consistent basis. With maximum advertised speeds up to 2,000 Mbps and 12-month average download speeds of 161.6 Mbps, the fiber provider earns an integrated speed score (ISS) of 170.0.
Is 7mb s fast?
7 Mbps internet operates at download speeds of 7 megabits/second and upload speeds up to 0.5 megabit/second. With this bandwidth, a 24 MB file or video takes 27 seconds to download. This is DSL high-speed internet that is perfect for 1-2 person businesses which require basic broadband capabilities.
What app makes your WiFi faster?
NetSpot — is our favorite WiFi booster app because it has successfully combined professional features with simplicity and usability. WiFi Analyzer — is a popular Android WiFi booster app that you can use to discover WiFi networks in your area to pick the least cluttered channel for your own network.
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ZALITA v. BUSH, AL QAHTANI v. BUSH, OTHMAN v. BUSH, MAJID KHAN v. BUSH: Notice of Joinder
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Undersigned counsel notifies the Court and counsel for Respondent that Petitioners in the above-captioned matters have joined in “Petitioners’ Response to Respondents’ Motion for Relief from Scheduling Order,” filed in the miscellaneous docket on September 8, 2008.
Dated: August 9, 2008 Respectfully submitted,
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Shtetl of Kretinge. 1914. Courtesy of The Lost Shtetl Museum.
Shtetl means “small town” in Yiddish. Jews lived in shtetls together with Christians: Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox believers. Jews usually formed the majority in a shtetl. They lived in the same town, but kept to themselves, often living on separate streets.
In addition to Yiddish, people in shtetls also spoke Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Belarusian, German, and other languages from the region. Much depended on where the shtetl was located and what the Jewish residents called it in their native Yiddish. In Lithuanian, a small town is called a miestelis, in Polish miasteczko, and in Russian – mestechko.
How and when did the shtetls appear? Early on, in the 16th century, shtetls began developing in the united Polish-Lithuanian state, also known as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Most shtetls appeared later, however, after wars with Sweden in the 17th century. After considerable devastation from war and disease, the country needed to be rebuilt, so some of the country's nobles invited Jews to settle on their lands. The first shtetls were private, small towns owned by noble families.
Why were Jews invited to settle? Jews weren't able to become serious rivals in the country under Christian rule. In other words, Jews didn't pose any political threat – as a result of which they were also sometimes taken advantage of. In addition, Jews knew how to read, write, and count in a country where most inhabitants were still illiterate. Thus, Jews were able to work as agents or stewards on manor estates or engage in crafts and trade, in which they excelled, in the shtetls. It was also important that Jews had established commercial relationships throughout Europe and often beyond.
Why did Jews move to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? First, the rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian state offered Jews protection from the persecution and violence they had experienced in Western Europe because of their faith. The rulers allowed them to practice their faith openly and protected them from the church. Generally speaking, the country’s rulers weren’t concerned about other religions: Tatar Muslims had lived in the country since the time of Vytautas the Great.
Second, the leaders of the country granted trade privileges to Jews so that newcomers could earn a living. Thus, it's not surprising that, by the end of the 18th century, more than half of the total Jewish population of the region lived in shtetls. This was how Jews established and grew new small towns in a country of villages largely inhabited by farmers.
What did shtetls look like?
The heart of a shtetl was its marketplace, the center of shtetl life. The market was surrounded by a large number of kromels, or small shops. Markets were held once a week and brought together Jews, Lithuanians, Roma and other residents of the shtetl and surrounding areas. In more affluent shtetls full of tireless organizers and civic-minded people, marketplaces were paved in stone. In towns without paved markets, both merchants and customers (and any curious onlookers) had to wade through the mud.
Annual fairs held at the marketplace attracted crowds of people from around the country. The fair promised such rare things as never before seen products and entertainment including the circus, games, and new and exotic melodies and tricks. During such fairs, many people visited Jewish-run inns where local residents and visitors ate and drank, discussed deals, shared news and gossip, gambled, held wedding celebrations, and sorted out their differences, either in a civilized way or with their fists.
Near the marketplace there would be a synagogue and a church (Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox), very often standing directly across from one another or located nearby. After the long work week, Jews scurried to the synagogue on the Sabbath, while Christians went to church to pray the following day - Sunday. The houses of prayer were made of wood or brick, depending again on the size of the wallets of town residents and the generosity of donors.
Generation after generation lived out their lives in the shtetls. People knew each other from birth to death. When there was trouble, someone was there to help. There were Jewish welfare associations active in the shtetls, providing money or materials after fires, arranging for the burial of those whose relatives were unable afford a ceremony, and raising money to help the chronically ill or help collect dowries for impoverished brides.
Shtetls also had Jewish ritual baths, butcher shops, and Jewish schools. Such institutions served the needs of the Jewish residents, improved their health and hygiene, supported local religious and community needs, and instilled better discipline. Jews buried their departed in a Jewish cemetery while Christians brought their dead to a Christian cemetery. And, as the circle of life turned, newborns would be welcomed into the world with unique ceremonies and customs.
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Hazel Creek (Courtois Creek tributary)
Hazel Creek is a stream in southwest Washington County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Courtois Creek. Hazel Creek lies within the Mark Twain National Forest and the community of Palmer and the Hazel Creek Recreation Area are within the stream valley. Hazel Creek most likely was named on account of hazel trees near its course.
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BRIEF-Kate Spade & Company says reviewing strategic alternatives
Feb 16 (Reuters) - Kate Spade & Co * Kate Spade & Co - company is in process of reviewing strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value * Kate spade & company reports fourth quarter and full year 2016 results and is reviewing strategic alternatives * Q4 earnings per share $0.67 from continuing operations * Q4 sales $471 million versus I/B/E/S view $472.8 million * Q4 earnings per share view $0.35 — Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Q4 adjusted earnings per share $0.41 from continuing operations * Kate Spade & Co - no forward-looking guidance will be provided at this time * Kate Spade & Co - direct-to-consumer comparable sales growth of 9% for q4 * Kate Spade - in consultation with perella weinberg partners as financial advisor co is conducting process to explore and evaluate strategic alternatives Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Parish of Goorooyarroo
Goorooyarroo Parish is a parish of Murray County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles.
Geography
It is located to the north-east of the Australian Capital Territory.
History
About a third of the parish was transferred to the Federal Capital Territory (later renamed the Australian Capital Territory) in 1909, which included what is now the northern suburbs of Gungahlin.
A small part of the New South Wales electoral districts of Monaro and Burrinjuck were in the parish as mentioned in their electoral district profiles.
The parish's name is commemorated by two areas of nature reserve, each called Goorooyarroo (NSW) and Mulligan's Flat / Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve (ACT), which were originally part of the parish.
Research
In Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve within the ACT, the Mulligan's Flat - Goorooyarroo Woodland Experiment is conducting research into remnant plant and animal life in the area, notably reintroduction of the eastern bettong (marsupial) and brown treecreeper (bird), and remnant yellow box (Eucalyptus melliodora) and Blakely's red gum (Eucalyptus blakelyi). This study is led from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, along with involvement from the CSIRO and ACT Government.
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Post-MVC part 2: MVC and JavaScript
Intro
Last week we discussed what MVC is and how it was used to render application and websites from the server. But our application's user interfaces became too ambitious and our code became spaghetti. This week we will discuss MVC and JavaScript, and the birth of the Component.
MVC and JavaScript
Taking full control of the UI meant things had to be programmed on the browser side. Meaning that things had to be programmed in JavaScript.
This gave rise to the era of the browser based MVC controller frameworks. Backbone was the early pioneer showing us that we could straighten our jQuery Spaghetti. Angular and Ember improved upon Backbone by giving us automatic bindings, when the model changed the views were automatically updated.
Backbone, Ember, Angular are all MVC frameworks, which took the tried and true architectural pattern, and allowed us to make great applications.
And for a while everything was good.
Trouble in paradise
But there was trouble brewing in paradise.
MVC comes with a particular problem: it is very difficult to reason about what is going on in a larger application. Once you have multiple Controllers and Views which manipulate the same Model things get confusing.
Imagine an application for buying and selling groceries. Which has a model for the 'Shopping cart' of what the user wants to order. The model for the shopping cart can be manipulated through various ways:
1. Opening the shopping cart detail page and removing items.
2. Opening a product detail page and pressing 'add to cart'
3. Clicking on special banners giving personalized discounts.
Each of these three ways have their own View and Controller, but share the same Model of the shopping cart. If you were to create a graph of the relationships between these objects you will find that things get very complex.
Each new View and Controller adds ways in which the state of the model can be manipulated. Trying to mentally understand shopping cart's state and how it can be influenced becomes difficult if not impossible. If a bug triggers things to be added to the cart twice, where do we look? It could be in any of the three controllers and views that influence the shopping cart.
The 'shopping cart' example shows how a Model for a single entity can be difficult to manage. Imagine a situation were multiple entities can affect each other, the mental gymnastics you will need to perform to keep the whole picture in your head would be heroic.
To figure out how we can solve this problem we need to make a detour.
Abstracting Views
Consider what a view is. A view normally shows a bunch of widgets on the screen for the user to interact with. A button here, a table there and some input elements on the side. We can use them to manipulate and view the Model.
In our applications we almost never use the basic HTML widgets as is. We style them using CSS to change their appearance. We also give them new behaviors such as an auto-complete functionality. Sometimes we even create completely new Widgets such as a 'Maps' widget to show a geographical location.
Of course we abstract these widgets away into reusable code. In Angular we might make a bunch of directives. In Ember we would create Components. They have different names but they represent the same principle.
Our Views are basically build using regular HTML and these widget abstractions the various MVC frameworks provide.
The common term for these abstractions is called "Component".
The birth of the Component
A Component is like an island. It has nothing to do with the outside world, as such that it will not affect it. This means you can use the same Component multiple times on the same View without them interfering with each other.
Since a Component is isolated from the rest of the system, that means that if you want to interact with the Component you must send messages to it. But the same is true the other way around, if the Component wants to talk to the outside world he must send messages to the outside as well.
The great benefit of having isolate components is that they are easy to reason about, to understand how the component works you can study just the components source. If you know a components incoming messages and outgoing messages you understand how to use the component.
There is a proposal to make Components available in the web natively called: "Web Components". The proposal is to make it possible for us to create truly isolated components with their own tags.
Study of a Google Maps Component in Polymer
Google Maps is a service by Google which shows geographical maps in the browser. Using Polymer, which is a framework made by Google to create web components, Google made a component for Google Maps:
To use the Component we write the following HTML:
<google-map fit-to-markers="" latitude="37.77493" longitude="-122.41942">
<google-map-marker draggable="true" latitude="37.779" longitude="-122.3892" title="Go Giants!">
</google-map-marker>
</google-map>
If you study the code snippet above it is easy to guess what the Component does. It creates a google-map widget centered on a particular longitude and latitude but is wide enough to fit all markers. Inside the map there is a marker on a coordinate which is draggable and has the title: 'Go Giants'.
The point is that a Component is very declarative in use. You don't write how you want something to get done, you write what you want the end result to be.
The Google Maps Component itself can be very complex. I imagine that it is certainly not trivial to implement the code behind it. However the usage of the component is not difficult at all, it has a very simple interface.
To communicate with the component that we want another latitude and longitude we simply change the attribute on the <google-map>'s element. The same goes for the title of the marker.
If the Component wants to communicate with us we must listen to the correct channel. A component in Polymer communicates through events. For example to listen to a click on the map:
var map = document.querySelector('google-map');
map.addEventListener('google-map-click', function(e) {
alert('The user clicked on the Map!');
});
The channel in this case would be the 'google-map-clicked' string. With it we tell the Google Map Component that we are interested in these type of events. The callback function lets us 'do our thing' when that event actually occurs. The Component however stays responsible for determining when the event takes place. The Component calls the outside world.
The concept of Components are implemented in various frameworks such as: ReactAngular 2.0Ember and Polymer. A Component's "code" will be different in each framework, but they follow the same principles: isolation, declarative interfaces, and explicit channels of communication.
A realization about Components
A Component has behaviors and a look and feel, it also has a state. For example: a button component can be enabled or disabled, a person component shows a certain person's details the person which is shown is the state.
Reading the above paragraph it might dawn upon you that a Component is in some ways a version of MVC, but on a much smaller level. A Component has behaviors which map to the Controller. A Component has a look and feel which maps to the View. A Component has some state which maps to
the Model.
Can a Component do anything an normal MVC pattern can do? The answer is yes. If a Component can do anything a normal MVC pattern can do, why do we still use traditional MVC, why not go all in with Components. They are more declarative, they are easier to reason about because they live in isolation, they fit in one single file.
But what about the View that ties all Components together surely we need those? The answer is no. You can define Components in terms of other Components, using them as building blocks to create new abstractions. This capability can completely replace the traditional View.
This realization was the beginning of the Post-MVC Age. Which is the topic of next week's post. In that post we will try to discover how an application that uses only Components works.
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I've got a small cluster running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on all of the nodes. I recently set up ganglia to monitor the cluster, and it's working beautifully except for one issue. I wanted to add a CPU temperature metric to the monitor, so I created a 'temps' function in /usr/local/bin/ that consists of the following line:
sensors|grep temp$1|awk '{print $2}'|grep -o '[0-9.]\+'
I then added the following lines to my crontab to update the temperature every 2 minutes:
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/gmetric --name temp1 --value `/usr/local/bin/temps 1` --type int16 --units Celcius
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/gmetric --name temp2 --value `/usr/local/bin/temps 2` --type int16 --units Celcius
After setting this up, I noticed that the temperature isn't ever changing. It reports 27.8 for temp1 and 29.8 for temp2 all of the time. This is what 'sensors' is reporting regardless of the load on the machine. Here's the full output from 'sensors':
root@NUCTest:~# sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +106.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +106.0°C)
What am I missing here? Thanks.
• Err... that is a "Virtual device" you sure is a real sensor? BTW, what version of Ubuntu are you using? – Braiam Nov 8 '13 at 18:56
• Good call Braiam. That got me thinking. I re-ran sensors-detect and answered yes to the question about adding the lines to /etc/modules. I think I selected the default of no the first time through. Now I get a much more complete output from sensors that includes non-virtual devices. – KevinC Nov 9 '13 at 2:09
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I figured it out thanks to some direction from Braiam's comment on my original question. I re-ran sensors-detect and answered yes to the question about adding the lines to /etc/modules. I think I selected the default of no the first time through. Now I get a much more complete output from sensors that includes non-virtual devices. Here's what I'm getting out now:
root@NUCTest:~# sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +106.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +106.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0: +35.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0: +33.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +36.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
nct6776-isa-0a30
Adapter: ISA adapter
Vcore: +0.65 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V)
in1: +1.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
AVCC: +3.36 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
+3.3V: +3.34 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in4: +1.06 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in5: +0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V)
3VSB: +3.33 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
Vbat: +3.28 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
fan1: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) ALARM
fan2: 3183 RPM (min = 0 RPM) ALARM
SYSTIN: +65.0°C (high = +0.0°C, hyst = +0.0°C) ALARM sensor = thermistor
CPUTIN: +36.5°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) sensor = diode
AUXTIN: +87.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) ALARM sensor = thermistor
PECI Agent 0: +29.0°C
cpu0_vid: +2.050 V
intrusion0: ALARM
intrusion1: ALARM
It's interesting that the virtual device is still there. I'd love to learn what that actually is.
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While cloud computing brings numerous benefits such as economies of scale, consumption-based pricing and the ability to get applications to market quickly, there are indications that on its own, it might not be able to cater for the evolving needs of new age technology. This is where edge computing is going to step up.
If cloud computing is all about centralising computing power in the core, edge computing, as the name suggests, is about taking that power back out to the periphery. In simple terms, the edge is about enabling processing and analytics to take place closer to where the endpoint devices, users or data sources are located.
Why would we want processing activity to happen at the edge?
One of the main drivers is the rise of the IoT (Internet of Things) and other applications that require real-time decision making or artificial intelligence based on the fast processing of large, multiple data sets.
Take the example of a self-driving car that might rely on 100+ data sources tracking areas such as speed, road conditions, the trajectory of nearby vehicles, etc. If a child steps into the road, the car needs to make an immediate, real-time decision to stop. If it waited for the data to be sent into the cloud, processed in the core, and for instructions to come back, it’s going be too late.
Edge computing allows the processing to happen locally within or near the deviceClick To Tweet
It’s the same for an AI based drone or robot that has to perform services equivalent to a human being. It needs the data it collects to be acted upon swiftly and not have to wait for the analysis to arrive from somewhere at some time.
Edge computing allows the processing to happen locally within or near the device – right where the action is. In doing this, it eliminates the latency involved in waiting for data to go to the core and back.
The demand for applications that rely on real-time or near real-time processing and analytics on edge is on the increase. Retailers, for example, are wanting to use big data analytics to help identify shoppers who walk into their stores so they can deliver personalised real-time offers and products ads.
As well as driving out latency, the move to the edge delivers numerous other benefits. For example, if more processing is done at the periphery, this means fewer data overall needs to be transmitted across the network into the cloud, which can help reduce cloud computing costs and improve performance. And with processing power located at numerous points throughout the edge rather than centralised at the core, there is no single point of failure.
The edge architecture may see greater deployment of micro data centres – small, modularised systems that host less than ten servers – to provide localised processing. Or the smart devices themselves will become more compute and storage intensive. Or the architecture may include edge gateways that are located near the devices and sensors and act as processing engines and a conduit to the core/cloud based setups.
So does all this mean the end of the cloud?
No. It’s likely that we’ll see a co-existence of edge computing alongside the centralised cloud model. The real time “instantaneous” insights will be processed near the endpoint or data source, while the cloud acts as the big brother that processes and stores the large data sets that can wait. The cloud may also act as the central engine to control and push policies towards the edge devices and applications.
Both cloud and edge computing are required to work in tandem to ensure both hot and cold insights are delivered on time, cost effectively and efficiently
For instance, a connected and smart locomotive engine would need instantaneous insights to be processed in order to support its smooth operation while it is travelling. It will generate massive amounts of data that would have to be combined with external data (environment, overall temperature, track health etc.) and processed immediately, often in less than nanoseconds. This function has to be performed using the edge architecture (either the engine acts as the edge or will be in constant communication with the edge gateways).
On the other hand, to maintain and manage the overall health of the engine, the insights may not be required in real time. Here the data sets could be transferred back to the central core where they can be processed to gain insights. There would be a segregation of functions: some real-time insights will be required immediately for smooth operations while others can take longer and be processed in the core.
Similar use cases can be found with autonomous cars, drones, other connected devices and IoT applications. As more data is collected and needs to be processed in real-time or near real-time at the margins, so there will be a greater need for edge computing to complement the cloud.
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TINKER HISTORY: Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Aircraft
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --
The Boeing C-97 “Stratofreighter” was designed as a four-engine cargo and troop transport using components and design features from two previous Boeing designs, the B-29 and B-50 bombers, to make an entirely new transport aircraft. The large “pinched” fuselage is formed by taking two B-29 fuselage sections and fusing them together around a straight wing which intersects the fuselage in the lower section. The four-engine aircraft has a standard tail configuration and blunt cockpit area.
The aircraft sat on retractable tricycle landing gear.
The C-97 cargo aircraft entered service with the recently formed United States Air Force in 1949, but was soon followed by the first aircraft manufactured from the outset as an air-refueling tanker in the form of the KC-97, which entered service in 1951. The KC-97 was the first air-refueling aircraft equipped with a refueling boom versus a hose dragged behind.
Both cargo and refueling aircraft played important roles in the early days of the U.S.A.F. as missions were expanded and defined. Moving outsized cargo great distances with Military Air Transportation Command, as well as refueling bombers with Strategic Air Command and fighters with Tactical Air Command, helped it stake a claim in history.
Tinker’s work with the C-97 and KC-97 involved conducting heavy maintenance, overhaul and repair as well as removal of refueling equipment for some KC-97 aircraft during its twilight years to make them cargo-configured C-97s. With the introduction of the all-turbojet Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in large numbers in the late 1950s, the radial engine KC-97s were quickly deemed too slow in comparison as fighter aircraft like the F-4 Phantom II could hardly stay in position during refueling due to the slow speeds. The counter to this was the addition of jet-augmentation using surplus General Electric J47 engines to 82 TAC and Air National Guard KC-97Gs in 1965-1966. These faster aircraft were re-designated KC-97L and served until 1976 when the last examples of the C-97 family were retired from the Texas Air National Guard.
Of the 888 C/KC-97 aircraft delivered to the U.S.A.F. there is only one flyable aircraft left in the world currently, a former KC-97L which has been de-configured and represents a C-97 cargo aircraft. This aircraft, C-97G, serial 52-2718, “Angel of Deliverance,” has been restored over the last 17 years and was scheduled to return to the skies during the first week of June 2017. A maintenance discrepancy kept the aircraft on the ground, but it is anticipated to fly soon and will likely be touring the country as a warbird representing those who delivered cargo and fuel during the early formative years of the U.S.A.F.
Manufacturer: Boeing
Aircraft type: C-97
Nickname: Stratofreighter
Crew: 5+
Power plant: Four Pratt & Whitney R4360 radial engines (two General Electric J47 turbojet engines added on KC-97L)
In-service dates: 1949-1976
Number produced: 888
Tinker connection: Maintenance, repair and overhaul
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Coolest C Preprocessor Trick of the Year
Probably everyone knew about this but me, but here goes anyway. (hat tip: Google's ANGLE library)
By suitably defining SHADER_SOURCE, you can write your shader program as though it was just inline source in your larger C(++) program:
const char * fs = SHADER_SOURCE
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precision mediump float;
void main()
{
gl_FragColor = vec4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
}
);
The definition of SHADER_SOURCE is simple:
#define SHADER_SOURCE(...) # __VA_ARGS__
This works as long as your shader is a valid sequence of preprocessor tokens. If you need to also use shader language directives like #version, you will need to write them as strings. But due to the way string catenation works, you can do
const char * fs =
"#version 100\n"
SHADER_SOURCE(...);
and keep most of the inline shader source outside of strings.
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New York Yankees - PlayerWatch
RHP Luis Severino tied a career high by pitching eight innings for the second time. He also did it April 18 against the Chicago White Sox when he allowed three earned runs. This time, he did not allow a run and threw a career-high 114 pitches. Among them was a full count changeup to Royals 3B Eric Hosmer, resulting in a called strike three after he fell behind 3-0. “No, no way,” Severino said when asked if he would have thrown that pitch last season. 1B Greg Bird said he felt fine Wednesday after continuing his rehab from a bruised right ankle by doing an array of activities on the field about four hours before the first pitch. He ran from the right field foul line to right-center field and ran from first to third. He also took ground balls and line drives, and made throws to second and home plate. The drills concluded with him fielding throws from shortstop and third base. Before going on the field, Bird took swings in the batting cage. He is scheduled for an off-day Thursday followed by batting practice Friday and Saturday. After those activities, he will get some swings during workouts in Tampa and followed by a minor league rehab assignment with Class A Tampa. LHP Aroldis Chapman (left rotator cuff inflammation) will see Yankees team physician Dr. Chris Ahmad on Friday. If his consultation goes well, the Yankees hope he can begin a throwing program Saturday. Chapman was placed on the disabled list May 14 and the progression falls in line with the Yankees saying he would not throw for two weeks. RHP Masahiro Tanaka starts Thursday afternoon against Kansas City and is coming off arguably his worst two starts as a major leaguer. Tanaka is 5-3 and has a 2.78 ERA in his wins and a 17.51 ERA in his other starts. Manager Joe Girardi reiterated Wednesday that Tanaka’s issues are not physical. When asked if Tanaka went for any scans, Girardi said: “You just don’t scan people. You just don’t light them up inside and you don’t want to turn them into Spiderman or Superman or something like that. Radiation is something you have to deal with, so you don’t scan people to scan them. We have to do that at the airport and none of us like it.” CF Jacoby Ellsbury was placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list following Wednesday’s game. He exited the contest with a concussion and a neck sprain after crashing into the wall making a catch on SS Alcides Escobar’s fly ball. Ellsbury was injured for the second time this season crashing into the wall. On May 1, he sustained a nerve injury to his left elbow after colliding with the wall to catch a ball hit by Toronto IF Ryan Goins. He missed three games with the injury.
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What kind of border wall does Trump want? It depends on who's asking.
(CNN)Big. Beautiful. Impenetrable. For nearly two years now, citizen, candidate and President Donald Trump has agitated for the means to build a wall on the southern border. Better yet, he told supporters during his campaign, it would be American-made and Mexican-paid -- "believe me." Now, as Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill get down to the gritty business of hashing out a deal to codify protections for Dreamers, the White House is insisting that there can be no agreement, either on the full Dream Act or a revival of former President Barack Obama's stopgap Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, without a guarantee of new federal funds for "the wall." That's the official line -- one Trump recited again Wednesday afternoon during a brief question-and-answer session with reporters. The reality, though, as we've seen over the past year, is not quite so simple. Reversing a reversal During a rare televised negotiating session Tuesday, Trump suggested in response to a question from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, that he would be on board with passing a clean Dream Act before progressing to other immigration-related issues -- a position, if actually taken, that would all but eliminate the wall as a negotiating tool. California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, sensed danger and quickly jumped in to reroute the conversation. "Mr. President, you need to be clear, though," he explained. "I think what Senator Feinstein is asking here: When we talk about just DACA, we don't want to be back here two years later. We have to have security, as the secretary would tell you." And so she did. Three times in the course of a brief back-and-forth with the skeptical Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen insisted "the wall works." At least as a political product, there's no debating Nielsen -- "the wall" worked wonders in vaulting Trump above and beyond the 2016 GOP primary field. The pledge has its roots, according to an anecdote from Joshua Green's book, "Devil's Bargain," in a conversation from the summer of 2014, as Trump more seriously considered a run. "Roger Stone and I came up with the idea of 'the Wall,' and we talked to Steve [Bannon] about it," on-again-off-again aide Sam Nunberg told Green. "It was to make sure he talked about immigration." It worked. First during a speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit in January 2015. Then again, to a much larger audience that June, when the freshly minted candidate introduced the notion to voters around the country. "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me," Trump said, "and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall." For all that followed, those two sentences might represent the purest distillation of Trump's pitch to American voters. Who better to deliver a large-scale border wall, elusive even after the passage of a 2006 law calling for one, than Donald J. Trump, real estate mogul. Even better, he'd make the Mexican government foot the bill. No other line so consistently won candidate Trump such sustained and rapturous approval during what would be more than 16 months on the trail. A wild night out West A look back at the scene in Phoenix on the evening of Wednesday, August 31, 2016, tells the story. Trump had spent the past month plummeting in the polls, spurring a campaign shake-up that placed Steve Bannon as its chief executive. Two weeks later, Trump was back in Arizona, where he'd stomped the remaining GOP competition in the March primary. "We will build a great wall along the southern border," he said to approving roars, which he allowed to build as he patiently stepped back from the podium. "And Mexico will pay for the wall." His candidacy might have been free fall, written off widely and openly at odds with itself, but the message -- the promise, the broadsides against Mexico -- still resonated deeply with his base of support. When the pushback got more colorful, and a former Mexican leader used a four-letter word to make clear that his country would not pay for the wall, Trump shot back that any opposition would be met with consequences. "The wall just got 10 feet taller," he said during a CNN primary debate in February of 2016. Eleven months later, Trump found himself engaged with a rather different audience -- current Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. A 'private' conversation The transcript of their January 27 phone call, first revealed by The Washington Post, offered a rare glimpse into Trump's unvarnished calculations. The Mexican leader plainly rejected the idea of his country funding a border barrier, setting up a showdown that Trump was, in his new environs, desperately hoping to avoid. "The fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall -- I have to," he told Peña Nieto. Acknowledging the public impasse, Trump added: "Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important (to) talk about." Publicly, Trump's straddling of the wall became more pronounced as the demands of his new job -- like passing a budget to keep the government running -- closed in. On April 23, 2017, he sought to manage expectations in a tweet claiming, "Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall." A day later, Trump told a group of conservative reporters he wouldn't walk away from budget negotiations over a deadlock on border wall funding. As word of those conversations spread, the President, sniffing out a potential backlash from his base, accused reporters of misrepresenting his position. "Don't let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL," he tweeted early on April 25. "It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc." Keeping up appearances -- and angling for a deal In October, as congressional Republicans wrangled with other more pressing political conundrums, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled prototypes at a photo op near the border in San Diego. But as time passes, Trump's rhetoric, even as he insisted again Wednesday that a wall must be part of any DACA deal, has mellowed, somewhat. A more holistic approach, not entirely unlike those embraced by older Washington hands, seems to be the flavor of the day. Immediately after Election Day, he told Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" it could consist of some fencing, in addition to heavier wall. "I'm very good at this, it's called construction," he told her. "So part wall, part fence?" she asked. "Yeah, it could be," he said, "it could be some fencing." The length has also shrunk since the campaign. "We don't need a 2,000-mile wall," Trump said Tuesday -- in remarks similar to those he had made in July and again in September -- during bipartisan talks. He'd suggested in those summer comments that the structure needs to be transparent, lest smugglers heave "sacks of drugs over" the top --"60 pounds of stuff" -- and onto unsuspecting American heads. In addition to possible transparent and fencing portions will be natural barriers already in existence. "We don't need a wall where you have rivers and mountains and everything else protecting it," Trump added, addressing the roundtable of congressional officials. "But we do need a wall for a fairly good portion."
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How to Unlock SIM on iPhone 7(Plus)/6s(Plus)/6(Plus)/5s/5c/4/3GS
Mar 01,2020 • Filed to: Remove Device Lock Screen • Proven solutions
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When you buy an iPhone, you sign up with AT&T (in the United States), because it is Apple's exclusive carrier. This happens because you buy the iPhone at a subsidized rate. But there might be any number of reasons for which you might like to unlock the SIM on your iPhone. One of the most common reasons is if you are traveling outside the country, say Europe, and you want to utilize more favorable payment plans there rather than use AT&T's partners. However, if your iPhone gets locked, you might want to know how to unlock sim on iPhone. And you can unlock your iPhone easily, with the right simple steps. Here is how to unlock sim on iPhone the easy way.
Part 1: How to unlock SIM on iPhone 7(Plus)/6s(Plus)/6(Plus)/5s/5c/4?
Is it legal to unlock the iPhone?
If you want to change your phone company but don't want to buy a new iPhone, you might want to unlock your SIM on the iPhone. This process used to be illegal, but is legal since August 1, 2014 in the United States. And a good software can help you unlock your iPhone in minutes.
How to unlock your SIM?
There are various methods, some of which may not be entirely safe for your phone and others that simply don't work well. A simple software that helps you unlock your SIM is the DoctorSim Unlock services. You can not only unlock the iPhone, but a thousand other kinds of smartphones. This service covers over a hundred carriers in more than sixty countries.
The Steps to unlock SIM on iPhone
By using DoctorSIM - SIM unlock service, you can unlock the SIM in, say, your iPhone 6s, in just simple three simple steps. You don't need any special technical expertise to be able to do this. Here are the steps:
Step 1. Choose your phone model
Choose Apple from the various brands displayed on the DoctorSIM unlock service page. You will see different models of smart phones to choose from and it is important that you choose only the smart phone that you own. So, if you own an iPhone 6, please only select that from the list available.
Step 2. Choose Country and Phone Carrier
You will now need to choose your Country and carrier that you are using. You can also choose between a Standard Service or Premium Service. Go for the latter if you need 100% success. If it's a simple problem that you don't want to waste time solving, go for the Standard option.
Step 3. Enter your contact details
You will now have to enter your contact details. The things that you need to include are your phone's IMEI number, your name and your email.
Step 4. Check Your Phone's IMEI Number
If you do not know your phone's IMEI number, do not worry. Just type *#06# on your iPhone and click the call button. You will get a 15 digit number. Just copy it down to this screen.
Step 5. Receive the Instructions
That is all that you need to do. You will receive the instructions soon in your mailbox. It's easy to unlock your iPhone, so that you can use it just the way you want, without any restrictions.
Part 2: How to turn your SIM PIN on or off?
Another one of the best online sim unlock service for iPhone is iPhoneIMEI.net. It promises to unlock your iPhone using an official method and it supports iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6 (plus), iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4. The phone unlocked by iPhoneIMEI will never be relocked no matter you upgrade iOS or sync it with iTunes/iCloud.
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Steps to unlock Vodafone iPhone with iPhoneIMEI.net
Step 1. on iPhoneIMEI.net official website, select your iPhone model and the network provider your iPhone is locked to. Then click on Unlock.
Step 2. On the new form, follow the instruciton to find imei number of your iPhone. Enter your iPhone imei number on the window and click on Unlock Now.
Step 3. Then it will direct you to finish the payment process. After the payment is successful, the sytem will send your iPhone imei number to the network provider and whitelist it from Apple's database. Within 1-5 days, your iPhone will be unlocked successfully. You can use a new sim card from any carrier to check whether the phone is unlocked.
Part 3: How to turn your SIM PIN on or off?
You can use a SIM PIN to help stop anyone else from using your SIM for phone calls or cellular data. What happens if you have your SIM PIN activated is that every time you restart your phone or put in the SIM in another phone, you have to enter the SIM PIN before you can use it for calls or data. Don't try to guess your SIM PIN, it can get your SIM permanently locked.
Follow these steps to turn your SIM PIN on or off:
Step 1. Go to Settings
Open Settings on your iPhone. Next, tap on the Phone option. From here, tap on SIM PIN.
how to unlock SIM on iPhone 7
Step 2. Turn SIM On or Off.
how to unlock SIM on iPhone
Here you will see an option to turn your SIM PIN on or off. Choose what you want.
Step 3. Enter Your SIM Pin if needed.
how to unlock SIM on iPhone
You might be prompted to enter your SIM PIN. Enter if you know what it is. If you haven't set one yet, use the default SIM PIN for your carrier. You will probably find it in the service documents etc. Also try the customer service page of your carrier. If you aren't aware of the default SIM PIN, do not venture a guess. Contact your carrier.
Step 4. Tap on done.
That's about it. You're done with the process.
Part 4: How to check iPhone unlock status?
You might want to have an unlocked iPhone if you are traveling abroad or because you don't want to use the default carrier. But if you don't know whether your iPhone is unlocked or not, what do you do? There is a simple method to check this. Just pull out the default carrier's SIM card, Swap it for another GSM SIM card. If your iPhone fires up after this swap, it is unlocked and you can use other carriers. If not, you will have to unlock it yourself.
Part 5: What do I do after unlocking my iPhone?
Once you have communicated with your carrier about wanting to unlock your iPhone, your network will communicate this to Apple. A period, typically fourteen years, goes by before Apple adds your device to the central database it maintains of unlocked phones. Finally, you just have to connect to iTunes. You will get a message here that tells you that your iPhone has been unlocked.
That is all that you need to do to unlock your sim on iPhone. Some of the methods are easy, and can help you get things done quickly. However, if you are having difficulty, it is always advisable to go to for DoctorSIM - they are solve all your SIM lock worries.
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Pectic Enzyme Near You
Pectic enzyme is a natural enzyme that is used in winemaking and . It is an important ingredient that helps to break down pectin, a jelly-like substance found in fruits and plants. Pectin is responsible for providing structure and rigidity to fruits and vegetables, and it can be difficult to break down during the fermentation process.
Fortunately, pectic enzyme can be used to help break down pectin and improve the clarity and flavor of and . This enzyme is available at many homebrew and winemaking supply stores, making it easy to find pectic enzyme near you.
Pectic enzyme is typically sold in liquid form, and it is added to the must or wort befoe fermentation begins. This allows the enzyme more time to break down the pectin as the ferments. However, if you have not added any enzyme to your juice or discover that your fermented wine or beer is cloudy, you can still add pectic enzyme after fermentation is complete.
When using pectic enzyme, it is important to follow the manufacturer's instructions carefully. The amount of enzyme needed will depend on the type and quantity of fruit or vegetable being used, as well as the desired end result.
Pectic enzyme is an essential ingredient for anyone interested in winemaking or brewing. It can help to improve the clarity and flavor of your finished product, and it is readily available at many homebrew and winemaking supply stores. So if you're looking for pectic enzyme near you, be sure to check out your local supplier and give this useful enzyme a try.
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What Is A Natural Pectic Enzyme?
A natural pectic enzyme is an enzyme that is naturally present in fruits and plants and is responsible for breaking down pectin, a natural polysaccharide found between the primary and secondary cell walls of these organisms. Pectin is responsible for providing structure and rigidity to the plants and fruits, and the action of pectic enzymes helps in breaking down the pectin, thus softening the fruits and making them more digestible. Pectic enzymes are used in various industries, including food processing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, due to their ability to break down pectin and improve the texture, flavor, and nutritional vlue of the products. These enzymes are available in various forms, including liquid, powder, and granules, and are used in different applications based on their specific properties.
Where Is Pectic Enzymes Found?
Pectic enzymes are primarily found in plants, particularly in the cell wall and middle lamella. These enzymes are involved in breaking down pectin, a complex heteropolysaccharide present in the cell wall and middle lamella of fruits and vegetables. Some of the fruits and vegetables where pectins have been detected include apple, citrus, and beet. Pectic enzymes play an essential role in various industrial applications, such as food processing, brewing, and textile industries, to name a few.
When Should I Add Pectic Enzyme?
Pectic enzyme is a crucial ingredient in winemaking that helps break down the pectin in fruits and vegetables, resulting in clearer and smoother wine. The best time to add pectic enzyme to your juice or must depends on the winemaking process you are using.
If you are using a cold maceration process, it is recommended that you add pectic enzyme before starting the maceration process. This will give the enzyme more time to break down the pectin and improve the clarity of your wine.
On the other hand, if you are using a hot process like pasteurization, it is advisable to add pectic enzyme after the heating process. This is bcause the heat can destroy the enzyme and reduce its effectiveness.
If you have already started fermenting your wine and have not added any pectic enzyme, don't worry. You can still add it after fermentation to improve the clarity of your wine. In this case, it is best to add the enzyme about 24 hours before racking the wine to allow it sufficient time to work.
The best time to add pectic enzyme to your juice or must depends on the winemaking process you are using. If you are unsure, it is always best to consult a winemaking expert or follow the instructions on the package.
Conclusion
Pectic enzyme is an essential ingredient in winemaking and making. It helps to break down the pectin in fruits and vegetables, making it easier to extract juice and ferment it into wine or cider. While tere is no alternative or substitute for pectic enzyme, it is widely available in stores and online. Therefore, it shouldn't be difficult to find pectic enzyme near you. Adding pectic enzyme to your juice before fermentation can help to ensure a clear and smooth finished product. So, whether you're a beginner or an experienced winemaker, it's always a good idea to have pectic enzyme on hand.
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Thomas Ashford is a highly educated brewer with years of experience in the industry. He has a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry and a Master Degree in Brewing Science. He is also BJCP Certified Beer Judge. Tom has worked hard to become one of the most experienced brewers in the industry. He has experience monitoring brewhouse and cellaring operations, coordinating brewhouse projects, and optimizing brewery operations for maximum efficiency. He is also familiar mixology and an experienced sommelier. Tom is an expert organizer of beer festivals, wine tastings, and brewery tours.
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-- Harvard Joins Rivals Reporting Record Low Admission Rates
Harvard (3252) , Yale, Princeton and Columbia universities reported record-low freshman admission rates for the 2013-2014 academic year as applications climbed above or held near all-time highs. Harvard offered seats to 2,029 students, or 5.8 percent of a record 35,023 applicants, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school said yesterday in a statement . Yale accepted 6.7 percent, Princeton offered admission to 7.3 percent and Columbia accepted 6.89 percent, the schools said in statements. Top U.S. colleges that offer generous financial aid are luring record numbers of applicants even as the cost to attend increases faster than the pace of inflation and the number of high school graduates declines. The Common Application, an online form that lets students apply to multiple schools, has helped drive the surge, said Robin Mamlet, former dean of admissions at Stanford University. “More students are going for their reach or dream colleges through the use of the Common App,” Mamlet said in a phone interview. In years past, completing laborious paperwork for each school limited the number that most students applied to, Mamlet said. “That barrier has been taken away.” Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut , offered admission to 1,991 students, and expects 1,350 to attend, the college said in a statement. It received 29,610 applications. It admitted 6.8 percent last year. Princeton accepted 1,931 students from a pool of almost 26,500, and expects about 1,290 to attend, the Princeton, New Jersey-based school said . A year ago, it accepted 7.9 percent, a record low at the time. Financial Aid The four schools, which make up half of the northeastern U.S.-based Ivy League, are among the wealthiest universities in the U.S. They are “need blind” institutions, where a student’s ability to pay isn’t taken into consideration for admissions. Harvard increased its financial-aid budget for the coming year by 5.8 percent to $182 million, the school said earlier this week. Almost 60 percent of the new freshman class will need assistance, said financial-aid director Sarah Donahue. Much of the application increase over the past few years has been driven by students seeking Harvard’s aid, said William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, in a phone interview. Harvard hasn’t increased marketing to potential applicants because it would be “counterproductive to invite people into a pool and then turn them down,” Fitzsimmons said. Princeton said 60 percent of its current student body receives financial aid, and the average grant in the coming year is expected to be more than $39,000. Tuition, fees, room and board will rise 3.8 percent for the next academic year, totaling $53,250, Princeton said in January. Ivy-Bound? Columbia offered freshman seats to 2,311 students out of a pool of 33,500, the New York-based school said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. It accepted 7.4 percent of applicants a year ago, and 6.92 percent in 2011, less than half a percentage point above this year’s rate. The competition for spots at the most selective colleges is also behind the surge in application numbers as students apply to more schools and cast wider nets, said Brenda Poznanski, president of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling . “Our high-achieving, No. 1 students are not necessarily Ivy-bound anymore,” said Poznanski, a counselor at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, New Hampshire. “It’s very discouraging to the students. What we try to do is help them see that it’s not personal, it’s not because they’re not good enough.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein are alumni of Harvard. Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush attend Yale. President Barack Obama is an alumnus of Columbia’s undergraduate college, while first lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attended Princeton. Students have until May 1 to accept the schools’ offers. To contact the reporter on this story: Janet Lorin in New York at jlorin@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Lisa Wolfson at lwolfson@bloomberg.net
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Mary Hill, Countess of Hillsborough
Mary Hill, Countess of Hillsborough (née Stawell; 27 January 1726 – 29 July 1780) was an English peeress, a daughter of Edward Stawell, 4th Baron Stawell.
On 11 September 1750, she married Henry Bilson-Legge (a son of the 1st Earl of Dartmouth) and they later had a son, Henry (1757–1820). Upon the death of her father in 1755, she inherited her father's estate but not his title, but was later created Baroness Stawell, of Somerton in the County of Somerset, in 1760, in her own right.
Her husband died in 1764 and in 1768 she married the 1st Earl of Hillsborough and became Countess of Hillsborough. Her second husband was created Marquess of Downshire after her death.
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Steve Taylor (missiologist)
Steve Taylor (born 1968) is a New Zealand pastor and missiologist. He is a leading voice in the emerging church movement in New Zealand.
Taylor has degrees from Lincoln University, the University of Auckland, and the University of Otago. He served as the senior pastor of Opawa Baptist Church, and the founding pastor of Graceway Baptist Church in Ellerslie, New Zealand. Taylor taught at Carey Baptist College, Laidlaw College and Flinders University before serving as Principal of the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology from 2012 to 2015. He then took up the position of Principal of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand's Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, serving from 2015 to 2021.
Taylor has written The Out of Bounds Church?: Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change (2005), Built for change: A practical theology of innovation and collaboration (2016), and First Expressions: Innovation and the Mission of God (2019). He is co-editor of the journal Ecclesial Futures.
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self.fail('expected comma between arguments')
self.skip_ws()
+ if self.skip_string('...'):
+ args.append(ArgumentDefExpr(None, '...', None))
+ if self.skip_string(')'):
+ break
+ else:
+ self.fail('expected closing parenthesis after ellipses')
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argtype = self._parse_type()
argname = default = None
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File tests/test_cpp_domain.py
x = 'explicit module::myclass::foo::foo()'
assert unicode(parse('function', x)) == x
+ x = 'int printf(const char* fmt, ...)'
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x = 'std::vector<std::pair<std::string, long long>> module::blah'
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-- Cotton Futures Climb to Highest Since May; Cocoa, Sugar Advance
Cotton futures climbed to the
highest in almost 10 months as output is set to decrease in the
U.S., the world’s top exporter, just as global demand gains.
Cocoa and sugar also rose, while coffee and orange juice slid. American farmers may sow 9.4 million acres of cotton in
2013, as they switch to more profitable crops, Macquarie Group
Ltd. said today in a e-mailed report. That compares with 12.3
million a year earlier, government data show. On March 8, the
U.S. Department of Agriculture may boost its estimate for global
demand as mills in India, Pakistan and Turkey increase use,
according to a Bloomberg News survey. “The Macquarie estimate is another signal along the story
that producing countries are decreasing plantings,” Chris McGowan, a trader with Newedge Group in New York, said in a
telephone interview. Cotton for delivery in May jumped 0.8 percent to 86.98
cents a pound at 2:30 p.m. on ICE Futures U.S. in New York,
after touching 87.45 cents, the highest since May 8. While the projected drop for plantings “adds to the
speculative bullish sentiment, to get above 90 cents we will
probably need another catalyst,” McGowan said. Also in New York, cocoa futures for delivery in May rose
0.1 percent to $2,059 a metric ton, while raw-sugar futures for
May delivery gained 0.6 percent to 18.19 cents a pound. Arabica-coffee futures for May delivery dropped 3.8 percent
to $1.4115 a pound on ICE, the biggest fall since Jan. 22. Growers in Brazil, the largest producer, will harvest a
record crop for a lower-yielding half of a two-year cycle,
according to growers cooperative Cooparaiso. “Production ideas are still big,” Jack Scoville, a vice
president at Chicago-based Price Futures Group Inc. said in an
e-mailed report today. Orange-juice futures for May delivery slid 0.4 percent to
$1.235 a pound on ICE. To contact the reporters on this story:
Marvin G. Perez in New York at
mperez71@bloomberg.net ;
Oliver Renick in Chicago at
orenick1@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Steve Stroth at
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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international goals scored by Robin van Persie/archive1
* The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:31, 26 June 2018 (UTC).
List of international goals scored by Robin van Persie
* Nominator(s): The Rambling Man (talk), TheSoccerBoy (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Next in the list of national top scorers. Looking forward to receiving and dealing with any and all review comments. Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
* Support Great work ! Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 09:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* "He made his debut, coming on as a substitute for Ruud van Nistelrooy in a 2–0 victory over Romania in June 2005" - that comma looks a bit odd. I'd move everything after van Nistelrooy's name before the comma.
* Reworded. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* "the qualification campaign for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Helsinki" - could be read as if the World Cup was in Helsinki.........
* Reworded. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* "he scored four goals in a 11–0 victory" => an 11-0 victory
* Added "n".
* "a 11–0 victory UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match against San Marino" - think there's a word missing here somewhere
* Indeed, but worse, we both failed to spot the repeat of "September 2011"...! Reworded.
* "Twenty of his goals were scored in his home stadium, the Johan Cruyff Arena" - the reference to it being his home stadium reads a bit oddly. He's never played for Ajax, whose stadium it is, and it isn't the sole stadium used by the Dutch team, so it isn't really their "home stadium". I'd be inclined to remove those words altogether.
* Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* Think that's it..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:30, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* thanks, I think I've got 'em all. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* Now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:43, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
* Support--Lirim | T 21:18, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Source review passed; promoting. -- Pres N 15:36, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
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-- GDP Warrants Post Longest Rally in a Year on Soy Gains: Argentina Credit
Argentine securities linked to gross
domestic product are having their longest rally in a year as
investors bet that a surge in commodity exports will bolster
economic growth. Dollar-denominated GDP warrants rose 7 percent to 13.18
cents in the 30 days through yesterday, the sixth consecutive
monthly gain, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The
performance is the best since the nine months through November
2009. The warrants have jumped 72 since June as South America’s
second-biggest economy benefitted from a record 55-million
metric ton soybean harvest that pushed reserves to an all-time
high of $52.3 billion. The economy will expand 8.25 percent this
year, the most of any country in Latin America, according to
analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. “The big driver of growth in Argentina this year is the
very good harvest,” Carola Sandy , an economist at Credit Suisse
Group AG in New York, said in a phone interview. “What is also
helping is the improvement in the global economy, the industrial
sector is doing well because Brazil, which is one of the main
buyers of Argentine products, is growing strongly so the import
demand is strong.” Crops Gain Argentina’s trade surplus widened to $1.07 billion in
September, fueled by grain exports and automobile sales to
Brazil, according to the national statistics agency. The nation’s soybean crop is forecast to cover about 18.7
million hectares this season (46.2 million acres), compared with
19 million hectares in the prior planting period. Harvesting in
Argentina, the world’s third-largest producer, usually starts in
March. Argentina’s wheat crop is also forecast to rise to about
12.7 million tons this season from last year’s 7.47 million,
according to the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange. Crops last year
were damaged by the worst drought in at least 70 years.
Argentina is South America’s largest producer of the grain. Automobile exports rose 11.2 percent in October from a year
earlier, the country’s Automakers Association said in a Nov. 3
statement. Production rose about 18 percent to 67,495 vehicles. The economic expansion will slow to 4.8 percent in 2011,
matching that of Colombia for the second biggest after Chile,
according to the Bloomberg survey of analysts. Brazil’s GDP will
expand 7.1 percent in 2010 and 4.5 percent next year, according
to the survey. Strong Growth “It’s pretty strong growth in relation to even other
countries in Latin America,” said Alejandro Urbina , a Chicago-
based emerging-market debt manager at Silva Capital Management,
which has about $800 million under advisory and management,
including Argentine dollar-denominated warrants. Argentina created the GDP warrants as an incentive to win
over creditors in the 2005 restructuring of $95 billion of
defaulted debt. In June, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s
government issued more of the securities when she renegotiated
$12.2 billion of defaulted notes that investors held out of the
2005 settlement. The annual payment on the GDP warrants is triggered when
economic growth is above 3 percent and the inflation-adjusted
value of the country’s GDP is above the government’s base-case
scenario laid out in the warrants. The cost of protecting Argentine debt from default with
credit-default swaps has tumbled 296 basis points over the past
six months, according to CMA. ‘Major Upgrade’ “Most of the rally was directly due to reassessments of
the risk premium, rather than a major upgrade of the growth
expectations,” Alberto Ramos , an economist at Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. in New York, said in a phone interview. Argentine warrants will pay investors 4.21 cents in
December 2011 should the economy grow at the 9.2 percent this
year as projected by RBS Securities Inc., according to estimates
from Siobhan Morden , head of Latin America strategy at the firm. The government made a payment of 3.11 cents per warrant on
Dec. 15 after the economy grew 6.8 percent in 2008. The warrants rally has weakened in the past two weeks as
commodities dropped 7.6 percent since reaching their highest
level in two years on Nov. 9, according to the UBS Bloomberg
Constant Maturity Commodity Index. The price of warrants
declined 5.3 percent over that period. The extra yield investors demand to hold Argentine dollar
bonds instead of U.S. Treasuries fell 5 basis points to 532 at
4:42 p.m. New York time, according to JPMorgan. The peso was little changed at 3.9735 per dollar today from
3.9747 on Nov. 19. The currency didn’t trade yesterday as
markets in Argentina were closed for a national holiday. Fed Purchases The cost of protecting Argentine debt against non-payment
for five years with credit-default swaps fell 11 basis points
yesterday to 673, according to data compiled by CMA. Credit-
default swaps pay the buyer face value in exchange for the
underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a government
or company fail to adhere to its debt agreements. Even as the pace of growth in Argentina slows next year,
the country may benefit as the U.S. Federal Reserve buys $600
billion more in government debt to push borrowing costs lower in
the world’s biggest economy, said Ramos. “Easing monetary conditions in the U.S. tend to make
liquidity more abundant and cheap for emerging markets to borrow
and leverage the growth process,” said Ramos. “It supports
exports and commodity prices, which benefits Argentina. To contact the reporter on this story:
Ben Bain in New York at
bbain2@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
David Papadopoulos at
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2 Midstream Names Offer 2024 Financial Guidance
Two midstream names have announced positive 2024 growth outlooks.
TC Energy Corporation (TRP) and Enbridge (ENB) this week provided 2024 financial guidance. Both companies are top holdings in the Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (ENFR), a composite of North American midstream energy infrastructure companies.
Positive updates to 2024 financial guidance are particularly welcome in the current environment, characterized by volatile energy commodity prices. Midstream is more defensive than other subsectors of energy due to the segment’s fee-based business model, which limits the impact of commodity prices on cash flows.
Enbridge, the top holding in ENFR by weight, on Wednesday reaffirmed its 2023 full-year EBITDA and DCF guidance. The company also declared a 3.1% quarter-over-quarter increase to its first-quarter dividend. The dividend, payable March 1, marks Enbridge's 29th consecutive dividend increase.
The firm expects 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $16.6 billion to $17.2 billion. This figure excludes the gas utilities acquisitions announced in September that are expected to close in 2024.
Furthermore, the company expects its 2024 base business EBITDA to grow by more than 4% and its DCF to increase by approximately 3% compared to the midpoint of its 2023 guidance.
See more: “3Q23 Midstream Dividend Recap: MLPs Bring the Growth”
TC Energy
TC Energy, a top 10 name in ENFR by weight, provided an updated growth outlook at its investor day on November 28.
The company now expects 2023 comparable EBITDA to be roughly 8% higher than 2022. TC Energy expects its 2024 comparable EBITDA to be roughly 5% to 7% higher than 2023.
For more news, information, and analysis, visit the Energy Infrastructure Channel.
vettafi.com is owned by VettaFi LLC (“VettaFi”). VettaFi is the index provider for ENFR, for which it receives an index licensing fee. However, ENFR is not issued, sponsored, endorsed, or sold by VettaFi, and VettaFi has no obligation or liability in connection with the issuance, administration, marketing, or trading of ENFR.
Read more on ETFTrends.com.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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my laptop not connecting to the internet
In today’s connected world, having access to the internet is essential to most daily activities. From work to school, to entertainment and staying in touch with friends and family, having a reliable internet connection is key. Unfortunately, laptops, notebooks, and other mobile devices often have difficulty connecting to the internet. Understanding the most common internet connection issues can help you troubleshoot and fix the problem quickly and easily.
Maybe your laptop is connected by still not internet?
The Importance of Internet Connectivity
The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. We rely on it for work, school, entertainment, communication, and more. Without a reliable internet connection, many of our activities become difficult or impossible. It is important to understand the common internet connection issues that can affect your laptop so that you can identify and fix them quickly.
Types of Internet Connections
There are several types of internet connections available, depending on your location and the type of service you have. The most common types of internet connections are Wi-Fi and cellular. Wi-Fi is the most common type of internet connection and is often available in public places such as coffee shops, airports, hotels, and even your own home. Cellular connections are becoming increasingly popular, especially for laptops and notebooks, as they are often more reliable and have better coverage than Wi-Fi.
Identifying the Problem
When you encounter issues with your laptop’s internet connection, the first step is to identify the problem. Common issues include poor signal strength, slow connection speeds, and intermittent connection drops. You can use a variety of tools to help identify the cause of the problem. For example, a Wi-Fi signal strength meter can help you determine if the problem is related to the signal strength or range of your Wi-Fi connection. If the problem is related to your cellular connection, you can use a mobile network speed test to determine if the problem is related to the speed or reliability of your cellular connection. Once you have identified the cause of the problem, you can begin troubleshooting the issue.
Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
Network Connectivity
Having trouble connecting your laptop to the internet? This is a frustrating problem that can have many possible causes. Fortunately, it is possible to troubleshoot and resolve most internet connectivity issues. Here is a step-by-step guide to help you get back online.
Step 1: Checking Physical Connections
The first step to troubleshooting any internet connection issue is to check the physical connections. Make sure all cables, power supply, and other components are securely connected and powered on and that all parts all working.
Inspecting Ethernet Cables
If you are using an Ethernet cable to connect to the internet, check that the cable is securely connected to the laptop and to the router or modem. Make sure the cable is not damaged or frayed. If you are using a splitter, also make sure that it is correctly connected.
Verifying Wi-Fi Adapter Status
If you are using a Wi-Fi connection, make sure that the Wi-Fi adapter is enabled on your laptop. To check this, open the Device Manager and look for the Wi-Fi adapter under the Network Adapters category. If the Wi-Fi adapter is disabled, right-click on it and select Enable.
Step 2: Restarting the Devices
Sometimes a simple restart of your laptop and router can solve the problem.
Rebooting the Laptop
To restart your laptop, click on the Start menu, select Power, and then click Restart.
Power Cycling the Modem and Router
To power cycle your modem and router, unplug the power cable from both devices. Then wait at least one minute before plugging the power cable back into the modem. Allow the modem to fully restart before plugging the power cable back into the router.
Step 3: Diagnosing Network Issues
If restarting the devices didn’t fix the issue, it is time to run some tests to diagnose the problem.
Running Network Troubleshooters
Windows 10 includes several troubleshooters that can help diagnose and resolve network issues. To access these troubleshooters, open the Settings app, select Update & Security, and then select Troubleshoot. Select the appropriate troubleshooter from the list and follow the on-screen instructions to diagnose and resolve any network issues.
Checking IP Configuration
If the troubleshooter didn’t find anything wrong, it is time to check the IP configuration. To do this, open the Command Prompt and type the command “ipconfig /all”. This will output the IP address configuration of your laptop. Make sure that the IP address is valid and that the DNS servers are configured correctly.
Step 4: Resetting Network Settings
If all else fails, it may be necessary to reset the network settings on your laptop.
Resetting TCP/IP Stack
To reset the TCP/IP stack, open the Command Prompt and type the command “netsh int ip reset”. This will reset all TCP/IP settings on your laptop.
Resetting Wi-Fi Settings
To reset the Wi-Fi settings, open the Settings app, select Network & Internet, select Wi-Fi, and then select Manage Known Networks. Select the network you are trying to connect to and then select Forget. This will remove the saved Wi-Fi settings for that network and allow you to connect to it again.
Hopefully, one of the steps above has helped you get your laptop back online. If you are still having trouble, it may be best to contact a professional for help.
Fixing Software and Driver Related Problems
When a laptop is not connecting to the internet, the issue is often related to software and drivers. A laptop user may need to update their network drivers, disable VPN and proxy settings, and manage firewall and antivirus software.
Updating Network Drivers
Network drivers are responsible for enabling the laptop to communicate with the internet. If the drivers are out of date, the laptop may not be able to access the internet. To check if the drivers need to be updated, open the device manager by right-clicking the start button and selecting “Device Manager” from the menu. Expand the “Network adapters” section and check if there is a yellow exclamation mark on any of the drivers. If so, right-click the driver and select “Update driver.”
Disabling VPN and Proxy Settings
If a laptop is connected to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a proxy server, it may be unable to connect to the internet. To disable these settings, open the network settings by clicking the start button and selecting “Settings” from the menu. Select the “Network & Internet” tab and click “Proxy” in the left-hand menu. If a proxy server or VPN is enabled, click the “Disconnect” button and try to connect to the internet again.
Managing Firewall and Antivirus Software
Firewall and antivirus software can also interfere with a laptop’s internet connection. To ensure that these programs are not blocking the internet, open the security settings by right-clicking the start button and selecting “Security and Maintenance” from the menu. Expand the “Security” tab and click “Windows Firewall” in the left-hand menu. Ensure that the firewall is enabled and that all of the options are configured correctly.
Dealing with Router Configuration Issues
If the laptop is connected to a router, the router may be configured incorrectly, preventing the laptop from accessing the internet. To check the router’s settings, the user may need to access the router’s admin panel.
Accessing the Router’s Admin Panel
The router’s admin panel can be accessed by typing the router’s IP address into a web browser. The IP address is typically written on the router itself or in the router’s user manual. If the IP address is not known, the user can try to find it by typing “ipconfig” into the command prompt. Once the IP address is known, type it into a web browser and enter the router’s username and password.
Verifying Wi-Fi Settings
Once connected to the router’s admin panel, the user should check the Wi-Fi settings. Ensure that the Wi-Fi network is enabled, and that the security settings are configured correctly. If the router is using an outdated security protocol, update it to the most secure option.
Changing DNS Servers
The user should also check the DNS server settings. If the DNS servers are not set correctly, the laptop may not be able to connect to the internet. To change the DNS server settings, select the “Network” tab in the router’s admin panel and enter the desired DNS server IP addresses.
Resolving Specific Internet Connection Problems
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The following sections address some of the most common internet connection problems that laptop users may encounter.
Wi-Fi Connection Dropping Frequently
If the laptop is losing its connection to the router frequently, the user should check the router’s signal strength. If the signal strength is weak, the user should move the router closer to the laptop, or consider using a Wi-Fi range extender. Additionally, the user should check the router’s Wi-Fi settings and ensure that the channel is set to the least congested option.
No Internet Access, but Wi-Fi Connected
If the laptop is connected to the Wi-Fi network but cannot access the internet, the user should check the router’s connection status. If the router is connected to the internet, the user should check the laptop’s network settings and ensure that the DNS servers are set correctly. If the DNS settings are correct, the user should try to disable the firewall and antivirus software temporarily.
Unable to Connect to Specific Websites
If the laptop is unable to access specific websites, the user should check the router’s DNS settings. If the router is using an external DNS server, the user should try to switch to a different server. Additionally, the user should check their antivirus and firewall software and ensure that the websites are not being blocked.
Slow Internet Speeds
If the internet connection is slow, the user should check the router’s signal strength and Wi-Fi channel. Additionally, the user should check the router’s bandwidth settings and ensure that the bandwidth is not being limited. Finally, the user should check the internet service provider’s speed and ensure that the speeds are as promised.
IPv6 Connectivity Issues
IPv6 is the latest version of the internet protocol and is increasingly being used by websites and services. If the laptop is having trouble connecting to IPv6 websites and services, the user should check the router’s settings and ensure that IPv6 is enabled. Additionally, the user should check the network adapter’s settings and ensure that IPv6 is enabled.
Additional Tips and Considerations
Updating Firmware and Router Software
If the laptop is still having trouble connecting to the internet, the user should try to update the router’s firmware and software. This can be done by accessing the router’s admin panel and downloading the latest software version.
Performing a System Restore
If the laptop still cannot connect to the internet, the user should try to perform a system restore. This will restore the laptop to an earlier, working configuration and may resolve the issue.
Seeking Professional Help
If the laptop still cannot connect to the internet, the user should consider seeking professional help. A qualified technician may be able to identify and resolve the issue quickly.
Conclusion
Ensuring a Stable and Reliable Internet Connection
If a laptop is not connecting to the internet, the issue is often related to software and drivers. A laptop user may need to update their network drivers, disable VPN and proxy settings, and manage firewall and antivirus software. Additionally, the user should check the router’s settings, such as the Wi-Fi settings and DNS server settings. If the laptop is still not connecting to the internet, the user should consider performing a system restore or seeking professional help. By following these steps, laptop users can ensure a stable and reliable internet connection.
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using less than operator and combination of if and for statement
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I'm trying to use the less than operator and getting the following error (for vertical Height 102 Error: Invalid operator use). also Is the for and if statement combination I'm using correct?
%calculate Rim to disc ratio
shortestRimLength=minDistance;
DiameterOfDisc=verticalHeight
%Rim to disk ratio estimation
RDR=shortestRimLength./DiameterOfDisc;
for DiameterOfDisc<102
if RDR>0.4
disp('NORMAL')
msgbox('NORMAL')
elseif RDR <0.2 && RDR>=0.4
disp('EARLY GLAUCOMA ')
msgbox('EARLY GLAUCOMA ')
else RDR<=0.2;
disp(' ADVANCED GLAUCOMA ')
msgbox(' ADVANCED GLAUCOMA ')
end
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 3 Dec 2022
You cannot use a condition in for : if you need to use a condition you should be using while
Note that when you use while, at least one of the variables involved in the test needs to be changing inside the loop, or else you will end up with an infinite loop (unless you do have something changing and you use break)
Your RDR is not changing inside the loop, so if you entered the loop at all, you would never exit the loop.
I have to wonder if what you want is instead
if DiameterOfDisc < 102
rather than a loop at that point.
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Fifteen12
Fifteen12 on 3 Dec 2022
Your for loop is using a conditional as its input. In MATLAB you need to specify a list.
Try:
for DiameterOfDisc = 1:102
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuck in different languages
The result was Fucking redirected. The Land 16:40, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Fuck in different languages
You have got to be foking, naaiing, steeking, qiing, tebedaing, neeking, kuneling, ?????ing, ?????????ing, jebatiing, ебаing, oeing, ma aye loeing, nga loe ma thering, hna ma loeing, diuing, diaoing, caoing, ganing, follaring, cardaring, fotreing, iyoting, jebatiing, fukatiing, karatiing, sevitiing, prcatiing, píchating, kneppeing, knaldeing, neukening, fikiing, nikkumaing, nussimaing, keppimaing, kantoting, vittuing, nussiaing, baisering, foutreing, niqueing, putaining, fourrering, fodering, მოტყნვაing, mot'q'nvaing, fickening, gamaoing, gamoing, gamisiing, Γαμάωing, Γαμώing, Γαμήσιing, choding, lezayening, choding, baszniing, ríðaing, futuaring, ngentoting, Feisighing, fottereing, scopareing, trombareing, ciulareing, chiavareing, stantuffareing, yaruing, kay-yiing, Qu'vatlhing, ssi-baling, pisting, futuereing, pistiing, dulkintiing, kruštiing, feckening, Ng'othruoking, ?? ???ing, pukiing, Punning, onioniing, झव,Zaving, chiknuing, knulleing, puleing, گاییدن ga-yee-daning, jebaćing, pierdolićing, kurwaing, fodering, a futeing, ебатьing, ебатьсяing, Dàiriching, јебатиing, jebaťing, drbaťing, cogering, culearing, picharing, tiraring, singaring, tiraring, pisaring, chingaring, cacharing, jodering, knullaing, Okkalaamaing, Denguing, เย็ด yeting, sikmeking, چودناing, đụing, địting, đéoing, שטופּןing, fucking kidding me. Wow, that took a long time to type. Unencyclopaedic listcruft. --Rory096 10:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, original research. – Chacor 10:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Fuck, the "in other languages" on the left should cover this. Good article though. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 10:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Comment some of the contents of this page could be beneficial to the "in other languages" of Fuck, as it is rather lacking. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 10:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Fucking Delete - the bigger problem here (to me) is that this is a very severe case of WP:OR. What the fuck are the chances that the author knows all these languages well enough to be sure the correct connotation is there? I bet half these terms would just make you look like a fucking idiot if you tried to use them in the same way. My Alt Account 10:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Comment - oh, this is a legitimate nomination. Sorry for tagging this with a speedy. MER-C 10:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* [[Image:symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Delete, Unencyclopedic and OR thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 10:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Fuck, merge anything that isn't already there if it can be sourced. VegaDark 10:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Keep This The language thing and everything can be sourced. This is an early stuff done by everybody in Wikipedia,, you still can found it it older version of wikipedia article "fuck", this is totally not an original research, so it is not a original research, not offese to No original research policy.--<IP_ADDRESS> 10:53, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Wish I could agree with you, but the info in that link doesn't do anything to support 97% of the material in this article. My Alt Account 11:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* The link change already--<IP_ADDRESS> 11:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Uh, that's just a mirror of Wikipedia. WP isn't a reliable source. --Rory096 11:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* 'This is an important research, it is everybody's work, you can find this article in year 2005 middle'' "fuck" article, I really hope it can keep at here. --From the original editor of this editor.--<IP_ADDRESS> 11:28, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete completely unsourced and WP:OR, if sources can be found then the more common languages should be merged and redirected into Fuck. Best AFD nomination statement ever, btw. jam es (talk) 10:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Fucking delete. At least the Czech words are correct (there are more) but WP is not dictionary. Pavel Vozenilek 11:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete --Peta 13:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete or merge with Fuck. Preferrably delete as original research, it looks like it's been taken straight from a book and it's totally unsourced. -- Al e x (talk here) 13:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete WP:NOT a translation dictionary. Guy 13:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, please en wiki is not your English - (foriegn language) dictionary, violates WP:NOT. --Ter e nce Ong (T 13:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, do not merge or redirect anything. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. We don't have and won't have dog in different languages. Words that tickle kids' sense of humor are not an exception. Weregerbil 14:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, non-notable. It might be useful when travelling, but scarcely material for an encyclopedia. Legis 14:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Transwiki to Wiktionary. Perhaps some of this should be merged into Fuck itself, especially the ones that show widely distributed roots, like the jebat'- shared by most Slavic languages, as well as Sanskrit (yabhati) but I generally tend to agree that Wiktionary should be the go-to place for pure lists of synonyms in different languages. - Smerdis of Tlön 15:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete as this is not WP:V and violates WP:NOT and {apparently} WP:NOR. I suppose anything that does get verified could be merged to Fuck... but only if it gets verifed.--Isotope23 16:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Get the fuck outta here (lol in how many AFD nominations can I say that?).UberCryxic 16:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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is highly probable that much valuable information may still remain unnoticed amongst ancient records, such more especially as the fabric rolls preserved with the muniments of cathedral or collegiate foundations, which would throw a new and important light on the technical practices of medieval architects, the rules and terms of art, or the mechanical contrivances by which their operations were facilitated. Much may be anticipated from the intelligent research which in recent times has been bestowed upon these subjects, more particularly in Germany. A valuable specimen of the evidences serving to illustrate the practice and rules of design, observed by architects in the middle ages, has recently been brought forward in that country, to which, as connected with the subject of Mr. Rickman's enquiries in the preceding paper, we would take this occasion to call the attention of our readers. It is a treatise on the construction of "Fialen," or pinnacles, written, about the year 1486, by Mathias Roriczer, an architect of Ratisbon, in the peculiar local dialect familiar to him, and recently reprinted in its original obsolete language, as also in the form of a modernized version.
This little essay is extremely interesting and valuable, from the period at which it was written and published, whilst Gothic Architecture was still flourishing, proving as it does the strictly geometrical principles on which the architects of that period constructed their working drawings; and as the traditions of the two previous centuries could scarcely then have been lost, we may fairly presume that the freemasons of an earlier age were equally well acquainted with geometry, both in theory and practice. So precise and minute are the instructions here given, from the first drawing of the simple square block through every stage. of the process, till we have
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Brittnee Cooper (born February 26, 1988) is an American volleyball player. She played for Rabita Baku for the 2013/14 season in the Azerbaijan Superleague as a middle-blocker. She played collegiately for Louisiana State University (LSU) as a middle-blocker. She was named 1st-team AVCA All-American and SEC Player of the Year in 2009.
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Cooper was also a member of the U.S. National A2 team in 2008 and 2009.
Cooper's club, Rabita Baku, won the bronze medal of the 2013–14 CEV Champions League after falling 0–3 to the Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals, but defeating the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul, 3–0, in the third place match.
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* 2013–14 CEV Champions League – [[Image:Med 3.png]] Bronze medal, with Rabita Baku
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Derwent London Says First-Half Net Income Declined on Lower Disposal Gains
Derwent London Plc (DLN) , a developer of
mid-priced office buildings in central London, said first-half
profit fell as its assets appreciated by a smaller amount than a
year earlier. Net income dropped to 169.3 million pounds ($280 million)
from 208.3 million pounds a year earlier, the London-based
company said in a statement today. The value of Derwent’s assets
rose by 117.3 million pounds compared with a gain of 197.5
million pounds a year earlier. The company plans to raise its
interim dividend to 9.45 pence a share from 8.75 pence. “Recent concerns over the weakness of the global economic
recovery, the levels of sovereign debt in Europe and the U.S.
budget deficit have made the outlook for the second half more
uncertain,” the company said in the statement. Derwent and two competitors were downgraded last week by
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, which said market growth
appeared to be dissipating. In June, commercial real-estate
values rose 0.1 percent from the previous month, the smallest
gain since the start of a recovery from the global recession
that ended in 2009. Derwent gained 15 pence, or about 1 percent, to 1,570 at
12:02 p.m. in London , giving the real estate investment trust a
market value of 1.59 billion pounds. The shares have dropped 3
percent in the past six months. Adjusted net asset value rose 10 percent in the six months
through June to 1,621 pence a share. To contact the reporter on this story:
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Andrew Blackman at
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Weak Q3 Earnings for Walmart, Narrows View - Analyst Blog
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc .'s ( WMT ) poor run in the first half of fiscal 2014 continued well into the third quarter as well. The retail giant beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings in the third quarter of fiscal 2014 but missed the same for revenues due to a gloomy consumer spending environment globally. Moreover, the company narrowed its earnings expectations for the fiscal year.
Walmart's fiscal third quarter 2014 adjusted earnings (excluding discontinuing operations related to Vips restaurants in Mexico) of $1.14 per sharebeat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. Earnings were up 5.6% year over year and were within the company's guidance range of $1.11 and $1.16 per share.
Total revenue of the world's largest retailer climbed 1.7% to $115.7 billion (including membership and other income) but missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $116.5 billion. Currency fluctuations reduced sales by $1.6 billion in the quarter. A challenging retail environment in the U.S. as well as in most international markets due to cautious consumer spending also hurt the top line in the quarter.
Total revenue comprised net sales of 114.9 billion (up 1.6% year over year or 2.7% on a constant currency basis) and membership and other income of 0.8 billion (up 12.3% on a year-over-year).
On a constant currency basis, operating income increased 5.0% to $6.4 billion, driven by productivity improvements.
Segment Details
Walmart U.S.: The segment posted net sales growth of 2.4% to $67.7 billion in the quarter, including the impact of fuel sales. Operating income increased 5.8% to $5.1 billion.
U.S. same-store sales (comps) for the 13-week period ending Oct 25 declined 0.3%; much lower than 1.5% growth in the prior-year quarter. Weak consumer spending environment hurt comps in the quarter. However, it was marginally better than the company's guidance of flat comps. Comp traffic declined while average ticket increased in the quarter.E-commerce sales also positively impacted comp sales in the quarter.
Walmart International: Segment net sales, including fuel sales, increased 0.2% (4.1% on a constant currency basis) to $33.1 billion. Segment sales were softer than management expectations due to sluggish consumer spending environment in both mature and emerging markets.
Currency fluctuations also negatively impacted the sales. Operating income increased 1.7% to $1.46 billion owing to improved operating expense leverage.
Sam's Club: The segment, which comprises membership warehouse clubs, posted net sales growth, including fuel impact, of 1.1% to $14.1 billion. Net sales, excluding fuel impact, increased 2.1% to $12.4 billion. Sam's Club operating income grew 9.2% to $0.47 billion in the quarter.
Sam's Club's comps, excluding the impact of fuel sales, grew 1.1% in the quarter as positive traffic increase was offset by decline in average ticket. Same-store sales growth was within the guidance range of flat to 2.0%but lower than comps growth of 2.7% in the prior-year quarter.
FY14 Outlook Lowered
The company expects a challenging sales environment and currency headwinds to continue to hurt fiscal year results. Walmart has revised its adjusted earnings expectations from a range of $5.10 - $5.30 to $5.11- $5.21 per share. The adjusted earnings figure will exclude the impact of closing approximately 50 under-performing stores in Brazil and China. It will also exclude the impact of end of its franchise agreement with India-based Bharti Retail for the retail business.
For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, Walmart expects its adjusted earnings to range between $1.60 and $1.70 per share. Walmart expects U.S. comp sales to be relatively flat for the 14-week period ending Jan 31, lower than last year quarter's growth of 0.3%. Sam's Club comp sales growth, without the impact of fuel sales, is expected to range between flat and 2% for this 14-week period, compared with last year quarter's growth of 1.8%.
Other Stocks to Consider
Walmart carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Other retailers worth considering include Best Buy Inc ( BBY ), Conn's Inc ( CONN ) and Gamestop Corp Holding Co. ( GME ). While Best Buy carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Conn's and Gamestop hold a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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¤’¤¤¤¤8» 1910- Br mm Pmzsmmzr or run Unrrnn Srarms or Amzzmca A PROOLAMATION ¤¤¤>¤i¤¤ N¤¤¤¤¤l WHEREAS it a ears that the ublie good will be promoted by F°ii¤°;i¤‘i»i:' eliminating eertainllgnds from the goconino National_Forest, to said Forest certain lands within the Temtory of Arizona which are in part covered with timber or undergrowth, and giving by proclamarw, p. ma. tion of this date, the name of Tusayan N atxonal Forest to certam lands heretofore reserved and proclaimed as parts of the Coconino National Forest; · ' _ B¤·¤·¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤·· Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, President of the United States V°*- °°» P· 3**- of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and_ninety-seven, entitled " In Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal {ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and or other purposes," do reclaim that on and after July first, nineteen hundred and ten, th)e boundaries of the Coconino National Forest shall be as shown on the diagram forming a art hereof. _ mlxgr Maw wt •¤· Pfhe withdrawal made by tlus proclamation shall, as to all lands ' which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any ubhc purpose, be sub`ect to and shall not interfere with or defeat lggal rights nmder such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of lands so reserved, so long as guch appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in oree. $§pc3¤:¤¤¤¤£$¤¤¤s· This gi-eelamation shall not prevent the settlement and entry of ‘ "" ‘ my lan s heretofore opened to settlement and entry under the Act of Co1§ress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, pntitle "An Act to provide for the entry of Agricultural lands within orest reserves." EHr¤1¤¤¤¤¤¤- A pprtion of the land eliminated in accordance with this proclamation om the Coconmo National Forest on July first, nineteen hundred and ten, is shown on the diagram forming a part hereof; the PM. v- me. remainder is shown on the diagram forming a part of the proclamation for the Tusayan National Forestof this date. Such of sand eliminated lands as are not embraced m withdrawals for admimstrative sites for use in the management of the Coconino and Tusayan National Forests, me mmm w cr- ur may other reservation or appropriation, shall be restored to the ’° public omam and become subject to settlement under the general provisions of the homestead laws on such date and after such notice y publication as the Secretary of the Interior may rescribe, but shall not become subixect to_entry, filing; selection, or officr form of a propriation until the expiration of t irty days from the date so gxed, except that on the same date as the lands eliminated become subject 27lB I
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Swedish company Northvolt raises $2.75B to accelerate European battery production
Swedish battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt AB has raised $2.75 billion in capital as it prepares to ramp up to an annual production capacity of 150 GWh in Europe by 2030. The funding round – Northvolt’s largest thus far – was co-led by existing investors Goldman Sachs and Volkswagen, and new investors including the Swedish pension funds AP1-4, and OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension plans. AMF, ATP, Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, Bridford Investments Limited, Compagnia di San Paolo through Fondaco Growth, Cristina Stenbeck, Daniel Ek, IMAS Foundation, EIT InnoEnergy, Norrsken VC, PCS Holding, Scania and Stena Metall Finans also participated in the raise.
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On yonder hill a Castle stands, With walls and towers bedight. And yonder lives the Child of Elle, A young and comely Knight.
The Child of Elle to his garden went, And stood at his garden Pale, When, lo ——— he saw fair Emmeline,s page Come tripping down the dale,
The Child of Elle he hy,d him thence I wat he stood na still And soon he met fair Emmeline's page Come climbing up the hill
Now save thee save, thou little foot Page Now come the saifesafe [sic] and free Oh tell me how does thy lady gay And what may thy tydings be
My lady she is woe-begone The tears they fa frae her eyne; And aye' she laments the deadly feud Between her house and thine.
And here she sends thee a silken scarf, Bedew’d wi mony sa [sic] tear
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Types of Turbos & Effects on Exhausts
Wastegated Turbo’s:
In a wastegated turbo, a certain percentage of the exhaust gas will bypass the main turbine wheel to limit how fast it spins (reducing or limiting boost pressure)
It is imperative that a large open dump pipe be used in this system to promote mixing of wastegate gas, and turbine gas.
As most wastegates open, it blows directly into the path of the turbine flow. Resulting in turbulent gas that will not flow readily in the one direction it is being sent.
If you open the dump pipe up, it helps get this turbulent gas mixed, and flowing well down the rest of the exhaust system.
If you have a very narrow or small dump pipe, the gas will continue to be turbulent and continue mixing much further down the system. Lowering overall flow.
The ideal solution to this is to have a divider in the dump pipe that straightens the wastegate gas out, and points it in the right direction before it has to start the mixing process.
Some people play around with divorced dump pipes. The problem with this is, it really limits the size of the pipe you can use for either/or.
Off boost you want as much flow as possible for the main turbine, and on boost you need alot more for the wastegate. So limiting your pipe size one way or the other will only benefit one condition (more flow on boost or more flow off boost). This is why large bell mouth dump pipes work the best under all conditions.
VNT/Variable Vane Turbo/Variable Geometry Turbo:
The boost control of these turbo’s is achieved effectively by altering the size of the exhaust housing through use of ‘vanes’ (to direct the exhaust gas at different areas of the turbine) to spool the turbo.
The best analogy I can use for this is a large bicycle wheel.
If you spin it with your hand on the Tyre you can very easily get the wheel turning, but you will not get it turning fast.
If you spin it with your finger in close to the sprocket it is very difficult to get it moving, but once it is you can move it considerably faster with little effort.
It is important to note with a VNT turbocharger, as no wastegate gases need to be mixed in the dump pipe. It can effectively be made much smaller than a wastegated turbocharger with no ill effect to performance.
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x During the troubles of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, of the Civil Wars and Revolution in the seventeenth, and of the Parliamentary Union and Jacobite Rebellions in the early part of the eighteenth, the mind of Scotland was entirely engrossed with politics, and the Highlands themselves were continually unsettled. No thought, therefore, could be given to the possibility of literary remains existing among the clans. It was only in the latter half of last century that secure government began to allow leisure for the growth of that culture which a few years later was to earn for Edinburgh the title of "The Modern Athens;" and then it occurred to some of the men of letters in the Scottish capital to examine the value of the traditional lore which was known to survive in the Highlands and western isles.
At length, however, the Rev. John Home, author of the tragedy of "Douglas," found a means of furthering his enquiries on the subject of Celtic poetry. At the little watering-place of Moffat, among the Dumfriesshire hills, in the summer of 1759, he met a young Highland schoolmaster named James Macpherson, who was travelling as tutor to Mr. Graham the younger, of Balgowan, and who had in his possession several transcripts of Gaelic poems taken down from the recital of old people in the north. Mr. Home obtained
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I am making a game from a batch file and one of the inputs can accept any character (~!@#$%^&*()`) and any other. Is there any way to look for any character other than numbers and use the GOTO command? This is my script so far:
set /p guess=
echo "%guess%"|findstr /L "[a-z][A-Z]~`!@#$%^&*()-_=+\^|^^;:"',<.>/?*"
if %errorlevel% == 0 goto Invalid_Number
if %guess% == %number% goto Correct
... everything else here ...
:Invalid_Number
echo Invalid Number. Input must be a number
pause
Is there any way to make this work, all it says is Access Denied, I am testing this on a school computer though, it might not work.
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Put this at the bottom of your script:
:isInt <str>
for /f "delims=0123456789" %%a in ("%1") do exit /b 1
exit /b 0
Then to invoke it, do
call :isInt %guess% && success || fail
Here's a more complete example:
@echo off
setlocal
set /a rand = %RANDOM% %% 10 + 1
:begin
set /P "guess=Guess a number between 1 and 10: "
call :isInt %guess% || goto invalid
if %guess% gtr 0 if %guess% lss 11 (
if %guess% equ %rand% (
echo Lucky guess!
exit /b
) else (
echo Oooh, so close. Try again.
goto begin
)
)
:invalid
echo Please enter a valid integer between 1 and 10.
goto begin
:isInt <str>
for /f "delims=0123456789" %%a in ("%1") do exit /b 1
exit /b 0
This is the same basic idea as MC ND's solution, but instead of using the for statement to unset %guess%, it sets %errorlevel% and stops looping at the first non-numeric character. This makes it infinitesimally more efficient. :)
And with either success or fail, I like to use conditional execution (the && and || stuff).
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Nice, but : 1) While the call makes the code more organized (and yes, i usually code that way) the call command is SLOW and makes the full process less efficient. 2) Have you tried to input a single "? The delayed expansion used in the in clause was included to avoid this kind of problems on input validation. – MC ND Jan 30 '15 at 17:55
• Good points :) Is call really slower than goto? I suppose it makes sense, since call invokes a child runtime. Still faster than findstr or similar, though. – rojo Jan 30 '15 at 19:13
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call makes aditional tests not present in goto , but obviously it is faster not to call nor goto to do the test. But call does not execute a child runtime. The batch file is executed inside a "batch context" in memory. The call command creates a new "batch context structure" in memory (independtly of calling another batch or calling a label in current batch), and is executed inside the same running cmd instance after swapping pointers to the new "context". On end of called code, its "context" is discarded and the caller "context" regains control – MC ND Jan 30 '15 at 19:36
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:ask
set /p "guess=?" || goto :ask
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=0123456789" %%a in ("!guess!") do set "guess="
endlocal & set "guess=%guess%"
if not defined guess (
echo invalid input
goto ask
)
echo valid input
The basic idea behind the test is to use the numbers as delimiters in a for /f command, so they are removed from the input. If anything remains it is not a number and the code in the do clause is executed.
The delayedexpansion is enabled/disabled to handle problematic characters (specially double quotes) that could be typed in the input field.
• Thank you so much, there is a problem, If the guess var includes & it says & was unexpted, can you help? – JacobRocks12 Jan 30 '15 at 21:33
• @JacobRocks12, i can not reproduce the indicated behaviour. For me, the posted code works with all input, including &. – MC ND Jan 31 '15 at 8:55
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May I suggest you a different, better approach? Instead of read any line and then check if it contains a number, your program may directly read a number, so the checking is not necessary. The way to do that is emulating SET /P command via a subroutine. This way, you may add additional constraints to the input, like read a maximum number of digits, for example.
@echo off
rem Read a number emulating SET /P command
rem Antonio Perez Ayala
setlocal
rem Define the following variable before call InputNumber subroutine
set "thisFile=%~F0"
call :InputNumber number="Enter a number of up to 5 digits: " 5
echo Number read: %number%
goto :EOF
:InputNumber var="prompt" [digits]
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem Initialize variables
if "%~3" equ "" (set numDigits=9) else set "numDigits=%3"
set "digits=0123456789"
for /F %%a in ('copy /Z "%thisFile%" NUL') do set "CR=%%a"
for /F %%a in ('echo prompt $H ^| cmd') do set "BS=%%a"
rem Show the prompt and start reading
set /P "=%~2" < NUL
set "input="
set i=0
:nextKey
set "key="
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('xcopy /W "%thisFile%" "%thisFile%" 2^>NUL') do if not defined key set "key=%%a"
rem If key is CR: terminate input
if "!key:~-1!" equ "!CR!" goto endRead
rem If key is BS: delete last char, if any
set "key=!key:~-1!"
if "!key!" equ "!BS!" (
if %i% gtr 0 (
set /P "=!BS! !BS!" < NUL
set "input=%input:~0,-1%"
set /A i-=1
)
goto nextKey
)
rem If key is not a digit: ignore it
if "!digits:%key%=!" equ "%digits%" goto nextKey
rem If can not accept more digits: ignore it
if %i% equ %numDigits% goto nextKey
rem Else: show and accept the digit
set /P "=%key%" < NUL
set "input=%input%%key%"
set /A i+=1
goto nextKey
:endRead
echo/
endlocal & set "%~1=%input%"
exit /B
You may also add any other processing to the input line, like show asterisks instead of digits, etc. For a large example on this topic, see this post
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Sans : — Tumburu.
Vern: — Tejbal, tumru (H) ; Nepáli dhaniá (B). Sungrúkúng (Lepcha) ;
Habitat. — Hot alley of the Sub-tropical Himalaya; from Jamu to Bhotan ; Khasia Mountains.
Hot valleys in forest undergrowth s up to 6000ft. in Jaunasar, Tehri-Gurkwal and the Outer-Himalaya from above Rajpur, Dharmigadh, Tons, and Bamsu valleys ; Korwa, Koti Forest (Kanjilal), Monghyr, Khasia and Naga hills, Hills of Vizigapatam and Ganjam.
A shrub or small tree almost entirely glabrous with a strong aromatic smell. Bark corky. Young stems with thick conical prickles from a corky base. Wood close-grained, yellow, says Gamble, white, says Brandis. Prickles shining, strong, broad, Hat on branchlets petioles and midrib ; thin on older branches, often on a corky base. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, small. Leaflets 2-6 pair commonly ; petiole and rachis narrowly winged opposite, obtusely acuminate, more or less serrate, 1-3 by ⅓ by ¾in., elliptic-lanceolate, pellucid-punctate ; secondary nerves distinct. Flowers small, yellow, usually unisexual, in dense lateral panicles ; sparingly branched. Calyx 6-8-fid. Petals none. Stamens 6-8, much exceeding the Calyx. Anthers large. Fruit usually a solitary carpel dehiscing ventrally, size of a pepper corn, tubercled, strongly aromatic : rugous, red; rarely 2-3.
Parts used : — Seeds, bark and fruit.
Uses: — Seeds and the bark are used as an aromatic tonic in fever, dyspepsia, and cholera ; the fruit as well as the branches and thorns are used as a remedy for tooth-ache, also deemed stomachic and carminative and employed to intoxicate fish.
The carpels of the fruits, which resemble those of coriander, yield an essential oil, which is isomeric with turpentine and is somewhat similar to eucalyptus oil in odor and properties. The oil may be found to possess
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142 142 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. IV. The Relation between Depositors having a Community of Lit: rest in a Safe, Where two or more individuals rent a safe together, it is cus- tomary for them to sign an agreement on the books of the com- pany reading somewhat as follows: "We agree to hire and hold safe No. — as joint tenants, the survivor or survivors to have access thereto in case of the death of either." In the case of Hackett v. Patterson (i6 N. Y. Supp. i/o), the court was called upon to define the nature of such a tenancy and the rights and interests of the parties in the safe. They were here regarded in the same way as co-tenants of real property, and, whether joint tenants or tenants in common, as coming within the rules govern- ing the similar relation in the holding of real property. The plaintiffs' testator and the defendant leased a safe in the vaults of the New York Safe-Deposit Company, and, on the death of the testator, his interest in these was, with the defendant's consent, transferred to the plaintiffs on the books of the company for the period of one year. A few days before the expiration of such year, the defendant procured a renewal of the lease in his own name, to the exclusion of the plaintiffs. The receipt for rent paid by the plaintiffs stated that the safe would not be deemed to be relin- quished until the keys should be returned. The plaintiffs retained the keys until some months after the expiration of the lease. It was held that the renewal, privately acquired by the defendant in his own name, inured to the benefit of the plaintiffs, his co-tenants. In rendering the opinion of the court, Bischoff, J., said : — ''The new lease constituted the plaintiffs and defendant Patterson joint lessees, and whether their relation thereunder was that of joint- tenants or tenants in common is equally immaterial in disposing of the question presented for adjudication, since either relation involves the application of the same principles of equity jurisprudence. * Equality is equity,' and, steadily adhering to the application oflhis familiar maxim, courts of equity have ever regarded the rights of joint tenants and ten- ants in common respecting their common estate to be reciprocal, neither being permitted during the continuance of the co-tenancy furtively to acquire and hold any advantage which would not also inure to the other's benefit, provided the latter manifests a willingness to assume his just proportion of any burdens attending its acquisition and maintenance. . . . The only adequate relief was to accord plaintiffs that access to the safe to which, as beneficiaries of the leasehold interest, they were entitled,
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Rafet Rudi In Kosovo's musical world, represents the most prominent and active personality in the last 2-3 decades. His activity as a composer, conductor, and intellectual work in journalism and philosophy of music and continuous membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Art constitute such a statement.
Compositional formation
Rafet Rudi, Albanian / Kosovar composer, was born in 1949 in [|Mitrovica, Kosovo]. He studied at the Academy of Music in Belgrade. He graduated in Composition (1974) and Conducting (1973), in the class of composer Predrag Milosevic, a student of Jaroslav Křička and Josef Suk. During his studies and training as a composer, he encountered a high level of musical life in the former Yugoslavia, where renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, etc. frequented the state with world-known artists such as H. von Karaja, J.Krips, G. Rozhdestvensky, D. Schostakovich, J. Cage etc. The avant-garde Music Festival in Opatija “Yugoslav Creativity Tribune” and “Zagreb Biennale” also made Rudi’s musical life dynamic. During his five years in Belgrade, he composed works of various genres: solo, chamber and symphonic. During this time, he was awarded the laureate prize of the prestigious festival BEMUS, for the piece Symphonic Block - Symphony. After completing his bachelor studies in Belgrade, he returned to Pristina (1974). He worked briefly as a teacher at the School of Music and as a producer at the Radio Prishtina Symphony Orchestra. From 1976 until retirement (2014), he worked as Professor of Analysis of Music and Composition Forms at the Academy of Music in Prishtina
Influences from the European avant-garde (1975-1980)
In the mid-’70s, Rudi left the neoclassical phase behind, and through the work “Concert time for piano and orchestra” (work inspired by dodecaphonic music), he tried to define the creative space more clearly, becoming familiar with the avant-garde currents. Familiarity with the works of composers of the new Polish school (Lutoslavski, Penderecki, Serock, etc.) and the Avant-garde music festival “Autumn in Warsaw, he adapted to new trends in atonal music (Metamorphosis for three soloists and string orchestra, “Rrojtja” guitar and strings etc). These works, and other solo works, composed at this time, were performed by Yugoslav orchestras at the Modern Music Festival in Opatija. The works of R.Rudi, in this period and further on, relied on the expression of national music but during this time he started to explore the deeper layers of this type of music. In addition, Rudi maintained the stylistic context corresponding to the newest and most avant-garde currents of the time. “In R. Rudi I see a real musician. He is a very talented composer who possesses special invention and sensitivity.” (Claude Ballif, Prof. at the Paris Conservatory) “R. Rudi is an extremely inventive composer, who has something to say, a creator who has a special sensitivity.” A few years ago, he was a discovery for Belgrade (Ana Kotevska, musicologist, after the performance of “Concert time” for piano and orchestra)
Parisian influences (1980-2000)
An important period in R. Rudi’s compositional career was his stay in Paris, as a scholarship holder of the French Government (1979-1980). There he lectured on CNSM (Composition and Music Analysis) in the class of composer Claude Ballif. A reflection of his studies in Paris, are the works such as Small Guitar Suite (1981) Cantata “Sacrifice” (1983), “Fantasia in Si” (1985) for violin and piano, Guitar Concerto and String Orchestra (1986). Gradually, with these works, Rudi began a new creative phase, where the idiom of postmodern music was discreetly integrated, in which case we see in Rudi’s works the rediscovery of tonality, which serves as the source of a new creative impulse (Prof. Ajgyl Temirzhanova-Basha). This appears especially with Rudi’s works of the ’90s, such as “Icare ubi es” for soloist, Choir, two pianos and percussions, and especially in the cycle of Afresk Arbëresh: “Arbëresh bells” for solo piano, “Afresk Arbëresh III” for 2 pianos, Choir, percussion, narrator and Tape etc.
Style Development - Archaism and Modernity (2000 -)
In the early 2000s, Rudi returned to the Afresk Arbëresh cycle and explored further with commitment and dedication, the most archaic forms of Albanian music. The whole cycle (of 5 works) was based on the traditional liturgical chants of the Italian Arberesh (Albanians who moved to Italy in the 15th century). The piece “Laudatio funebris” for soprano and string orchestra stands out from this cycle. The work relies on the melodic structures of Arbëresh liturgical singing and has a minimalist compositional elaboration. In the last two decades, Rudi composed various works as commissioned from around the world or in collaboration with international ensembles of internationally renowned artists: Aki Takahashi, Rafael Andia, Marcel Worms, Ehat Musa, Sheppard Skaerved, Petrit Çeku, Sihana Badivuku, Peter Arnaud Dumond, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble-Wien, Amici della Musica-Cagliari to name but a few. Completely free from the ideo-aesthetic limitations of the stylistic platforms that the twentieth century determines, Rudi, at this time, began to clarify his language of expression freely between the archaism of indigenous music and modernity. The works that characterize this tendency of Rudi are: “Fantasia koncertante” for violin and Choir, “Le tombeau Oublié” for solo piano, “In A”, for 2 sopranos, Choir and percussion and “Lament of the Sea” for Choir acapella. Rudi is the winner of many competitions, awards and recognitions. R.Rudi’s works are played in many countries globally: France, Switzerland, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Albania, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Japan, etc. He is the author of numerous publications in the country and abroad (France, Germany, Monaco and the Netherlands), by some prestigious houses (Editions musicales Transantlantiques of Paris, Peermusic of Hamburg, etc.)
Founder of the Festival “ReMusica” (2002 -2015)
Rudi is the founder of the Kosovar Center for New Music (1999) and the Prishtina International Festival “ReMusica Festival”. He was a director of the festival from 2002 through 2015. The Center for New Music was established at the end of the 1999 year, with the help of Vanessa Redgrave and the support of composer Philip Glass (as a continuation of the Festival “The Return”, held in September 1999 that was for the purpose of seeking help for Kosovo after the war) Within the activity of this Center, since 2002, the ReMusica Festival was established, with which Rudi developed a great music activity in Kosovo, specifically in the popularization of contemporary music, as well as the promotion of Albanian contemporary music.
Rudi as conductor
Another important activity of Rudi’s is conducting. In the period 1980-1987, he acted as the Conductor of the Professional Choir of Radio-Television of Prishtina. With this ensemble, he performed in all the former Yugoslavia countries and was present at important Festivals of the time: ‘Dubrovnik Summer Festival’, ‘Ohrid Summer Festival’, the Festival of Modern Music, in Opati-Croatia, at the Belgrade Festival- Serbia, etc. After a long hiatus, Rudi returned to work as a conductor in 2006 and now works as the lead conductor of the Kosov Philharmonic Choir. He has made hundreds of public appearances with acapella programs. He has performed in many countries such as Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Italy, England. Under his direction, the Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra has performed many important vocal-instrumental works such as Missa D-dur of Mozart, ‘Vespro della Beata Virgine 1610’ of Monteverdi, Cantata Nr. 28 of Bach, ‘Gloria’ of Vivaldi, Mass of C-dur of Beethoven, Requiem of Mozart, etc. In the recent years, Rudi has been dedicated to discovering, restoring, and adapting the choral literature of old Albanian authors. For the Albanian public this is the first time where the works of great historical importance of Gjergj Danush Llapacaj (XVI century), Jan Kukuzeli (XIII century) and Niketa Dardani (Niketa i Remisiana, from IV century) appeared. These works are becoming part of the standard choral repertoire.
Rudi as publicist
Rudi is actively involved in journalism. There are over 400 different writings, in the field of essays and various writings from the field of aesthetics and musical philosophy. He is the author of many textbooks and the theoretical book (Publisher “Dukagjini”), which completes his creative profile. However, he represents “one of the most emblematic figures of Albanian / Kosovar culture” (N. Kraja), and undoubtedly “Rudi has extraordinary value… and a weight, I would say, key in the pan-Albanian musical art” (E. Krantja)
Rafet Rudi, is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of the '''Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
WORKS
Orchestral Works
* Symphony 1974 (Award of the International Festival BEMUS, 1974)
* Concerto for piano and symphonic orchestra 1975 (Symphonic Rondo, 1977)
* Rondo simfonike, 1977
* "Rrojtja" for guitar and strings orchestra, 1978 (Annual Award of the KCA for 1982)
* Metamorphosis, for flute, piano, mezzosoprano and strings orchestra, 1979 Second Price at the RTV Pristina Competition
* Largo for strings orchestra, 1978 (ver. 2012)
* Concerto, për kitarë dhe orkestër harqesh, 1986
* Laudatio Funebris for soprano and string orchestra 2004
* The Return / Kthimi for mezzosoprano and symphonic orchestra
* IMPRESIONE (Meditime dhe Vallja) for flute and Symphonic Orchestra 2010
* Dialog Koncertant për flaut dhe Orkestër simfonik / Concert Dialogue for flute and symphonic Orchestra 2010
Chamber and Solo Works
* Suitë for piano
* Sonata for violin and piano, 1970
* Variacione for clarinet, violin and piano, 1971
* Kuartet Harkor, 1972
* Meditimefor flute and piano, 1977
* Petite Suite, suite for solo guitar, 1981(listed as a compulsory work in the International contest for Guitar in Belgrade, 1985) 1987 Botim
* TRANSANTLANTIQUES 1987 „Panorama de la musique contemporaine pour Guitare“ volume N°1 / Në vitin 1991, në Monako, Suita botim në CD Philip Loli.
* Sonata for guitar, 1984
* Fantasia in Si, for violin and guitar, 1985 Botim SHKK
* Prélude et étude for guitar, 1992
* Këmbanat arbëreshe Arberesh Bells for piano . (Preludium) for piano, 1993
* Etude No 1, for solo piano, 1993 for solo piano 1993
* Etude for percussions, 1997
* Këngë popullore, for solo guitar, 1998 Chansons et Danses Ehat Musa
* Dialogue perdu (‘Dialogjet e humbura’)for flute, trio strings, piano and tape, 2000
* Gurgullimë korale, electronic piece, 2000
* Prishtina blues for solo piano 2001 / publisher PEERMUSIC (Germany) –2008 / published CD “Blues album”, Marcel Worms, Neetherlands -2008
* Rêve nostalgique, electronic piece 2003 (commissioned bye ‘Amici della musica’- Cagliari)
* Song of Tana, for clarinet and piano, 2005
* Kuintet („Antigoneon“) për Fl, Cl, Vl, Fg, dhe Pf, 2005 (commissioned by ‘Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble’- WIEN)
* Le tombeau oublié for solo piano 2007
* Etude nr 2 for solo piano 2008
* Kuartet frymor për Fl, 2 Cl in B, dhe Fg. 2010 (First prize-Ministry of Culture in Kosovo2013)
* Pesë skica (Petite suite) për Vlc. Solo 2012
* IMPRESIONE (Meditime dhe Vallja) for flute and piano 2012
* Trois morceaux caractéristiques for Guitar 2018
* Three Albanian Folk Songs for Guitar Trio 2019
* Humoresques for Saxophone quartet 2020
Vocal and Instrumental works
* Zogu i diellit, për 2 corno, 2 trombones, c/bass, piano, batteria for two performers (ptti. t.mil., gng., timp.), soprano and choir (SATB), Lyricsi: Din Mehmeti 1981
* FLIJIMI, for soloists, choir and 3 kavallë, c/bass, tupan, tam-tam, teksti nga « Ifigjenia » e Euripidit, 1983
* ABC for tenor, choir, organo, piano, 1984
* "Lule e pavyshkur", cantata for choir and symphonic orchestra, 1988 lyrics Enver Gjergjeku (First Prize - RTV Prishtina, 1988)
* Canti tradizionali liturgici, (Kantatë vogël) for three soloists, kor, 2 flaut a becco, organo, timpani, 1993
* Afresk arbëresh III, for soloists, vocal octet(or choir), organo, piano for 4 hands, tape narrator, lyrics: Eqrem Basha 1993 (First Prize - SHKK, 1993)
* ICARE UBI ES, for mexosopran, choir, 3 timpani, gong, 2 piano, c/bass, soprano, lyrics: P.Ovidius Naso-Metamorphoses 8, 232 1987 ( Icare ubi es, for sopran – version 2009)
* MALLI i UDHETARIT for sopran, choir, 2 piano, Tape and narrator (Cycle: Afresk arbëresh III) 2008) lyrics: Eqrem Basha 2008
* ‘Un soufle de chagrin’ for Mexosopran, choir, saxophone quartet, 2008
* Kurr më s’do marrësh udhët e kurbetit for soloist, mixed choir 2008
* Laudate Dominum for solists, choir, 2 piano, percussions 2010 (First Prize - Ministry of Cultre 2011)
* Concerto Fantasy (cycle: Afresk arbëresh V) for violin and mixed choir (First Prize - Ministry of Culture 2012)
* Kukuzeliana for solo sopran, 2 violins and Female Choir, 2013
* Kurorë glëmbash for solo sopran, flaut, piano and choir /Afresk Arbëresh V/ 2014
* RËNKIM FUNEBËR for sopran, choir and string orchestra, lyrics: Ali Podrimja 2014
* "Vajtimi" for cello solo, piano and choir, 2015
* "Deti i varreve të hapura" for solo guitar and choir, lyrics: Eqrem Basha 2015
* “In A” (‘Di motra gushergjenda’) for 2 solo sopranos, 2 pianom xylophone dhe batterie) Lyrics: traditional 2017
Choral Works (A Capella)
* "Lament of the Sea" for mixed choir, traditional lyrics 2018
* Ulu mal të dal hëna, for mixed choir, traditional lyrics 2011
* Lagja e varfun (1968), lyrics: Migjeni 1968 – Botim ‘Collegium Cantorum’
* Sharaveli, Sharavata, for mixed choir, traditional lyrics 2011
* Te Deum, for mixed choir
* Një tokë, një kokë, for female choir, Lyrics: Fejzi Bojku, 1978
* "Xhike – Loke", for mixed choir, traditional lyrics 1982
* Lule gjaku, për kor mikst (First Prize in RTP for choral works a cappella, 1988)
* "O zembra ime ku vate", mixed choir, lyrics: from liturgical italian arbëresh singing 1993 (Cycle Afresk arbëresh II)
* AGNUS DEI for mixed choir 2007
Choral music for children's choir Fli vëllaçko, për kor fëmijësh teksti: Xhevat Beqaraj 1977 / Gjyshja, për kor fëmijësh e piano, 1977 / Gëzoni, për kor fëmijësh 1977 / Këngë punëtorësh, për kor fëmijësh teksti: Rushit Ramabaja 1977 / Pasaporta e dacit, për kor fëmijësh 1978 / Një tokë, një kokë, për kor fëmijësh teksti:Fejzi Bojku, 1978 / Harabeli, për kor fëmijësh dhe klarinetë bas, teksti:Qamil Guranjaku 1982 / Kur buzëqesh nëna ime, për kor fëmijësh 1982 / Agon një botë e re, për kor fëmijësh teksti: Eqrem Basha 1985 / Karkaleci për kor fëmijësh teksti: Rifat Kukaj 1982 / Varri i pionerit trim, për kor fëmijësh teksti: Rexhep Hoxha 1983 / Luante si qengj, për kor fëmijësh teksti: Vehbi Kikaj 1992
Solo Songs
* Udhëtimi, for soprano and piano, lyrics: Nebih Muriqi, 1969
* Kthimi, for mexosopran and piano, lyrics: Eqrem Basha 1993 (First Prize ShKK 1993 and Second Prize Festival of Vocal Music in Tirana, Albania, 1999)
* Arbëresh Song for Soprano and Piano 2011
Stage music
* Ifigjenia në Aulidë, directed by Fadil Hysaj 1983
* Venedikasja, regj. Faruk Begolli 1991
* Kufiri me atdhe,directed byTeki Dervishi 1993
* Kali i Trojës, directed byFadil Hysaj 1994
* Duke pritur Godonë, directed byFadil Hysaj 1995
* Othello, V. Shakespeare, directed by Liridon Cahani1995
* Unë nuk e solla Doruntinën, directed by Faik Ispahiu 1997
* Servisi i shpirtit, directed by Xhevat Qorraj 1997
* Karriget, E. Ionesco, directed by Fadil Hysaj 1997
* Pulëbardha, regj. Jeton Budima 1998
* Odisea Shqiptare, koreodramë, directed by Abi Nokshiqi 1998
* Kush më ka faj që jam shqiptar,directed byEnver Petrovci 1999
* Fluturimi përmbi folenë e qyqes, directed by Ilir Bokshi 2000
* Orestija directed by Fadil Hysaj 2003
Film scores
* Kohët e liga, 1997
* Dhimbja, 1997
* Fantazmat ladrojnë, 1998
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The behavior of water at hydrophobic interfaces can play a significant role in determining chemical reaction outcomes and physical properties. Carbon nanotubes and aluminophosphate materials have one-dimensional hydrophobic channels, which are entirely surrounded by hydrophobic interfaces. Unique water behavior was observed in such hydrophobic channels. In this article, changes in the water affinity in one-dimensional hydrophobic channels were assessed using water vapor adsorption isotherms at 303 K and grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Hydrophobic behavior of water adsorbed in channels wider than 3 nm was observed for both adsorption and desorption processes, owing to the hydrophobic environment. However, water showed hydrophilic properties in both adsorption and desorption processes in channels narrower than 1 nm. In intermediate-sized channels, the hydrophobic properties of water during the adsorption process were seen to transition to hydrophilic behavior during the desorption process. Hydrophilic properties in the narrow channels for both adsorption and desorption processes are a result of the relatively strong water–channel interactions (10–15 kJ mol–1). In the 2–3 nm channels, the water–channel interaction energy of 4–5 kJ mol–1 was comparable to the thermal translational energy. The cohesive water interaction was approximately 35 kJ mol–1, which was larger than the others. Thus, the water affinity change in the 2–3 nm channels for the adsorption and desorption processes was attributed to weak water–channel interactions and strong cohesive interactions. These results are inherently important to control the properties of water in hydrophobic environments.
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Drugs.com is an online pharmaceutical encyclopedia that provides drug information for consumers and healthcare professionals, primarily in the United States. It self-describes its information as "accurate and independent" yet limited to being "for educational purposes only and is not intended for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment."
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The Drugs.com website is owned and operated by the Drugsite Trust, a privately held Trust administered by two New Zealand pharmacists, Karen Ann and Phillip James Thornton. Operated on the IBM Cloud, Drugs.com provides information on some 24,000 drugs, was visited by 50 million users per month in 2021, and has a download time of one second.
The site contains a library of reference information which includes content from Cerner Multum, Micromedex, Truven Health Analytics, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AHFS, Harvard Health Publications, Mayo Clinic, and Animalytics (a veterinary products database).
Drugs.com is certified by the TRUSTe online privacy certification program and the HONcode of Health on the Net Foundation.
The Drugs.com encyclopedia contains drug information for consumers, a portal for drugs based on diseases, a health professionals database of drug monographs, a natural products database, and a poison control center. Drugs.com is not affiliated with any pharmaceutical companies.
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The domain Drugs.com was originally registered by Bonnie Neubeck in 1994. In 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, Eric MacIver purchased an option to buy the domain from Neubeck. In August 1999, MacIver sold the domain at auction for US$823,666 to Venture Frogs, a startup incubator run by Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin, best known for their involvement in LinkExchange and later Zappos.com. Venture Frogs sold the Drugs.com domain name to a private investor in June 2001, allowing Hsieh and Lin to focus on Zappos.com.
The Drugs.com website was officially launched in September 2001. In March 2008, Drugs.com announced the release of Mednotes — an online personal medication record application which connected to Google Health (On June 24, 2011, Google announced it was retiring Google Health on January 1, 2012).
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expect是一个自动化交互套件，主要应用于执行命令和程序时，系统以交互形式要求输入指定字符串，实现交互通信。
expect是一个自动化交互套件，主要应用于执行命令和程序时，系统以交互形式要求输入指定字符串，实现交互通信。
expect自动交互流程：
spawn启动指定进程---expect获取指定关键字---send向指定程序发送指定字符---执行完成退出.
expect常用命令总结:
linux expect详解
spawn 交互程序开始后面跟命令或者指定程序 expect 获取匹配信息匹配成功则执行expect后面的程序动作 send exp_send 用于发送指定的字符串信息 exp_continue 在expect中多次匹配就需要用到 send_user 用来打印输出 相当于shell中的echo exit 退出expect脚本 eof expect执行结束 退出 set 定义变量 puts 输出变量 set timeout 设置超时时间
linux expect详解
示例：
1.ssh登录远程主机执行命令,执行方法 expect 1.sh 或者 ./1.sh
# vim 1.sh
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh [email protected] df -Th
expect "*password"
send "123456\n"
expect eof
2. ssh远程登录主机执行命令，在shell脚本中执行expect命令,执行方法sh 2.sh、bash 2.sh 或./2.sh都可以执行.
linux expect详解
#!/bin/bash passwd=‘123456‘ /usr/bin/expect <<-EOF set time 30 spawn ssh [email protected] df -Th expect { "*yes/no" { send "yes\r"; exp_continue } "*password:" { send "$passwd\r" } } expect eof EOF
linux expect详解
3.expect执行多条命令
linux expect详解
#!/usr/bin/expect -f set timeout 10 spawn sudo su - root expect "*password*" send "123456\r" expect "#*" send "ls\r" expect "#*" send "df -Th\r" send "exit\r" expect eof
linux expect详解
4. 创建ssh key，将id_rsa和id_rsa.pub文件分发到各台主机上面。
linux expect详解
1.创建主机配置文件 [[email protected] script]# cat host 192.168.1.10 root 123456 192.168.1.20 root 123456 192.168.1.30 root 123456 [[email protected] script]# ls copykey.sh hosts 2.编写copykey.sh脚本,自动生成密钥并分发key. [[email protected] script]# vim copykey.sh #!/bin/bash # 判断id_rsa密钥文件是否存在 if [ ! -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa ];then ssh-keygen -t rsa -P "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa else echo "id_rsa has created ..." fi #分发到各个节点,这里分发到host文件中的主机中. while read line do user=`echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2` ip=`echo $line | cut -d " " -f 1` passwd=`echo $line | cut -d " " -f 3` expect <<EOF set timeout 10 spawn ssh-copy-id [email protected]$ip expect { "yes/no" { send "yes\n";exp_continue } "password" { send "$passwd\n" } } expect "password" { send "$passwd\n" } EOF done < hosts
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5. shell调用expect执行多行命令.
linux expect详解
#!/bin/bash ip=$1 user=$2 password=$3 expect <<EOF set timeout 10 spawn ssh [email protected]$ip expect { "yes/no" { send "yes\n";exp_continue } "password" { send "$password\n" } } expect "]#" { send "useradd hehe\n" } expect "]#" { send "touch /tmp/test.txt\n" } expect "]#" { send "exit\n" } expect eof EOF #./ssh5.sh 192.168.1.10 root 123456
linux expect详解
参考文档：https://www.cnblogs.com/yxh168/p/9028122.html
https://www.cnblogs.com/lisenlin/p/9058557.html
转载自 https://www.cnblogs.com/saneri/p/10819348.html
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HAMPSHIRE AND WEST SUSSEX HINDU CULTURAL SOCIETY (https://www.hwhindu.org) Hampshire and West Sussex Hindu Cultural Society(originally as Hampshire and West Sussex Hindu Samajam) was founded in 2012 by a group of enthusiastic people with the sole aim of preserving our age-old Hindu traditions. Ours is a non-profit voluntary organization dedicated to the principles of Hinduism. We are an organization which is At our community, we regularly conduct monthly Bhajans, where we sing devotional songs in all Indian languages. We also have a family get together every year. We organize religious and cultural functions, which includes celebration of festivals, lectures, music and dance performances by distinguished visitors and members of the local community on a regular basis to give our children and adults many opportunities to have a glimpse of the Hindu culture. We regularly participate in charity work and have worked alongside many charitable trusts in the past. All our kids are members of Balagokulam, where they learn to appreciate their cultural roots, learn Hindu values in an enjoyable manner and make good friends. They will also develop a sense of Sewa, Service to humankind. Our organization aims to promote inter-racial harmony and build a future generation appreciating Hindu values and traditions..
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☻ I wonder if you choke a smurf, what color does it turn.
☻Do chickens think rubber humans are funny?
☻What is the thinnest book in the world? The Things Men Know About Women.
☻Marriage is a three ring circus: an engagement ring, a wedding ring, and suffering
☻If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one?
☻Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? That’s how dogs spend their lives.
☻I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain. No pain.
☻A sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says "Sorry we don't serve food in here"
☻God made man and then rested. God made women and then no one rested
☻CNN News: Bush orders 15,000 FBI trained dogs to track down Osama. FBI awaiting further orders as one of the dogs is reading this
☻Crime doesn't pay...Does that mean my job is a crime?
☻I want to suck you… lick you. Wanna move my tongue all over you...wanna feel you in my mouth...yep, that’s how you eat an ice cream!
☻Do you ever notice that when you're driving, anyone going slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac?
☻I think drinking and driving is terrible. You always spill it when you change gears...
☻Aim for the stars, but first, aim for their bodyguards.
☻Two goldfish are in a tank. One says to the other, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
☻The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
☻What do you say to a woman with 2 black eyes? You don't, you've told her twice already!
☻I'm late for work because the train driver had an out of body experience and didn't come back for a day and a half.
☻What's the definition of suspicion? A nun doing push-ups in a cucumber field.
☻Why doesn't Jesus eat M and M's? Because they fall through his hands.
☻Q: How many men does it take to change a toilet roll?
A: We don't know. Never happens.
☻Q: What's diff between Michael Jackson and grocery bag? A: Ones white, made outta plastic and dangerous for kids to play with. The other you carry groceries in.
God made mountains, god made trees, god made me, god made you, oh well, we all make mistakes if I throw a stick will u go away?
Don’t make me mad today. I'm running out of places to hide the bodies there r lots of stupid people in this world. U made me realize it oh dear .it looks like u fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. hate me because your boyfriend thinks so hey-I am away right now so leave a message and go play in traffic mirrors cant talk and your lucky they cant laugh
I’ll be nicer when Ur smarter
Roses are red, violets are blue, God made me pretty, what the heck happened to you?
What is that thing on your head? It looks like a hairball from a mountain lion!!
You have the intelligence of a bucket of rocks
You have less backbone than a chocolate éclair
You have as much class as a lawn flamingo
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits! I will not take advantage of the handicapped!
You know, I do understand you! I have a way with dumb animals
If ugly were a crime, you’d get a life sentence
Is that your nose, or did you inhale a cantaloupe
They say Will Rogers never met a person he didn’t like, he obviously never met you!
Bitter and Cynical Away Messages
The difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know, and I couldn't care less.
If I seem to give a thing, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
He is YOUR God; they are YOUR rules, YOU burn in hell.
Nostalgia? Revenge is a form of Nostalgia right?
We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.
That's it, no more free will.
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90).
Due to circumstances within my control, tomorrow will be cancelled.
Due to recent cutbacks and until further notice, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Stop using Jesus as an excuse for being a narrow-minded, bigoted idiot.
I've given up the search for reality; now I'm just looking for a good fantasy.
Get your mind out of the gutter - it's blocking my view.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Insanity is the answer. I don't remember the question.
Definitions
Programmer n. - An ingenious device that turns caffeine into code.
Just Friends phrase - I don't just want you to mourn the loss; I want to remind you of it every day. I want you to suffer. I want you to envy. I want you to die slowly, a bit at a time. And I want you to smile and thank me for it.
Depression n. - Anger without enthusiasm.
Limericks and Poems
So now I know the things I know And do the things I do And if you do not like me so To heck, my love, with you.
But Hate is the verb that to me is superb, And Love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can Love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
Roses are red, Violets are blue. That's what the tell me, 'cause I'm blind.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I'll cry in anguish, "Mistake!! Mistake!!"
Now I lay me down to study, I pray the Lord I won't go nutty. If I should fail to learn this junk, I pray the Lord I will not flunk. But if I do, don't pitty me at all, Just lay my bones in the dorm hall. Tell my prof I did my best, Then pile my books upon my chest. Now I lay me down to rest, And pray I'll pass tomorrow's test. If I should die before I wake, That's one less test I'll have to take!
Quotes with attributes
"Today we will be having a test." "I'm ready! I pulled an all-nighter!" "You studied all night?" "Oh... ...you're supposed to study?" - MST3K
When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". WHATEVER!! What good is a dumb cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?
Good ... Bad ... I'm the guy with the gun.
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Work Related Away Messages
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what is wrong with it.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Sleep is actually a good substitute for coffee.
I can't be fired, slaves are sold.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating. One day, I shall be a sweet, succulent escargo of quiescence...until then, I practice.
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
I am currently occupied, give me a couple minutes to get frustrated and then I'll get back to you.
The hard I do immediately. The impossible takes a little bit longer.
Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must. I do what I get paid for.
General Away Messages
I'm drunk...I'm armed...I'm off my meds. You had better make your message really, really sweet.
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It is twice as large as it needs to be.
I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
Mind like a steel trap - Rusty and Illegal in 37 states.
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Hello, you have reached my automated answering service, your call will be answered in the order in which it was recieved, your call is number 5,293, please hold, your call is important to us
Hi, I'm probably here, I'm just avoiding someone I don't want to talk to. Leave a message and if I don't IM you back, well, what can I say?
"God is as real as I am." he assured me, and my faith was restored, for I knew Santa would never lie.
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it is time to get up.
Not many people know this, but last summer I worked as a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.
Evolution -- life's a niche, and then you die
The election season is officially underway, along with the traditional political food chain of information. The candidates say something, their staff explains what they meant, media pundits explain what they really meant, and the public bases its decision on the ensuing late-night talk show opening monologues.
"The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper."
I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to god!
Firefighter: At one point we decided to fight fire with fire... Well ...basically... your house burned even faster.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, have you considered becoming a guillotine operator?"
01001001 01100001 01101101 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 (this is binary code for the ASCII encoding "I am not here")
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes, because by then, he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever the hell you want to.
The rain, it raineth on the Just and the unjust fella. But chiefly on the Just because the Unjust steals the Just's umbrella.
That which does not kill me had better run pretty darn fast.
When life gives you a lemon, say 'Lemons? I like lemons. What else have you got?'
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the fuck did the ceiling go?!"
Money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy ANYTHING.
There are plenty more fish in the sea, but who wants to go out with a fish?
If you are the credit card company, I already sent the money. If you are one of my friends, you owe me money. If you are female, don't worry, I have plenty of money.
Tonight's weather, dark, continuing mostly dark tonight, leading to widely scattered areas of light in the morning.
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
Tech Support: "I need you to boot the computer." Customer: (THUMP! Pause.) "No, that didn't help."
You have reached the reverend my confession hotline. Please leave your sin, and I'll get back to you with a penance. Remember that a confession doesn't count unless it's a vivid, detailed, blow-by-blow description of the sin. Thank you.
Some people live life in the fast lane - I live in oncoming traffic.
My philosophy is a mixture of the three famous schools
-- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans - and all three can be summed up in my famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
It's is not, it isn't, and it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't ours either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
I'm not here; I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.
Random Quote: If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
That's all folks!!
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2022–2023 California floods
Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. The flooding resulted in property damage and at least 22 fatalities. At least 200,000 homes and businesses lost power during the December-January storms and 6,000 individuals were ordered to evacuate.
The floods were widely reported by media as an example of how climate change is increasing extreme changes in weather, especially cycles of precipitation and drought. Scientists interviewed by Los Angeles Times said that further study is needed to determine the connection and California has recorded similar events almost every decade since records started in the 19th century. Other scientists have emphasized that floods were caused by ocean warming, directly related to climate change. Scientist Kevin Trenberth declared that "the interaction between the warming ocean and the overlying atmosphere (...) is producing these prodigious rainfalls that have occurred in so many places around the world recently". Climate change is intensifying the water cycle. This brings more intense rainfall and associated flooding, as well as more intense drought in many regions. It has been both predicted by scientists and observed in the last years and documented by the IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment report). Before the rains started, California had been in an extreme drought.
Due to the storms, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on January 4, 2023. President Joe Biden then declared a state of emergency in 17 California counties on January 9, 2023. That same day, two lawmakers sent a letter urging President Biden to declare a state of emergency for San Luis Obispo County and Santa Barbara County. Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Santa Cruz, Sacramento and Merced counties on January 14. Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties were added a few days later to the declaration. Later, Ventura County was approved disaster relief. Biden surveyed the damage with Newsom on January 19.
Impacts
The storms causing the 2022–2023 California floods reached Nevada, Arizona, and Utah.
California
Over 40 state parks in California were completely closed in January, and one national park was also closed, Redwood National Park. Dozens of Amtrak trains were delayed, ran on modified schedules, or cancelled entirely due to the floods as well.
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland set a record for 24 hour rainfall at 4.75 in of rain on December 31, while San Francisco recorded its second wettest day with 5.46 in of rain. The Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line sustained major damage. US 101 was flooded in South San Francisco, California, while SR 84 was closed due to landslides and flooding in Fremont. This forced the Oakland Zoo to close until at least January 17. Flooding and road washouts were widely reported. Flooding was exacerbated by the series of storms as they exceeded the soil's capacity to soak up water.
A 2-year-old boy in Occidental died from his injuries in January after a tree fell on his family house. A weather station in Nicasio recorded a wind gust of 101 mph during what forecasts described a "bomb cyclone" on January 4.
On March 11, 2023, SR 84 between Portola Road and Skyline Boulevard was closed indefinitely due to damage from a landslide, resulting in the road buckling and leaving behind large cracks. Trocadero was severely damaged as a result of the storm. A shelter-in-place order was issued for the area around 555 California Street after glass panels started being blown off the side of the building.
Flooding shut down US 101 in Gilroy, as well as I-580 in Oakland. It was reported that trees and power lines had been downed by the storm with an Amtrak commuter train hit by a tree and derailed near Porta Costa, though the train remained upright and no one was injured according to officials. On March 21, a ground stop was imposed at San Francisco International Airport.
The North Bay was also severely impacted by flooding. In Novato, a levee along Novato creek broke, leading to severe inundations up to 8-10 ft deep. In total, 3.45 mi2 of fields and pastures in Novato were flooded, and SR 37 was shut down for a period of time. The Brazos subdivision of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad between Schellville and Novato was also temporarily shut down due to the tracks being underwater, and Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit had to run a replacement bus service between Novato Downtown and Novato Hamilton.
Sacramento Valley
A levee along the Cosumnes River broke in January, resulting in the SR 99 being flooded. Evacuations were ordered in Wilton. Several people were trapped in their cars and had to be rescued. Three people were killed from flooding on the roads. The levee failures were traced to a private property.
Wind gusts of over 60 mph knocked down trees and caused widespread power outages that affected over 500,000 SMUD and PG&E customers. On January 10, a brief EF1 tornado caused extensive damage to softwood and hardwood trees northeast of Milton. On January 14, a brief EF0 tornado near Clay damaged the roofs of two garages and uplifted a wall-less RV structure, which caused it to collapse. Two people were killed when trees fell on them due to the high winds. A total of five people died from the December-January storms in Sacramento County, making it the hardest-hit county in the state. The Sacramento Zoo closed on January 10 due to storm damage.
Owens Valley
Owens Valley also experienced flooding which resulted in Owens Lake being flooded for the first time in over a century.
Southern California
Evacuations were issued in January for Ventura County and Santa Barbara counties, including Montecito (which had experienced the deadly 2018 mudflows). Multiple highways, including I-5, SR 126, and US 101, were closed, and a sinkhole that swallowed two cars opened up near Chatsworth. The SoFi Stadium, which hosted the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship, experienced rain. In Los Angeles, Union Station's main concourse flooded. A waterspout moved ashore as an EF0 tornado in Carpinteria on March 21, inflicting minor damage to trees as well as about 25 homes in mobile home park and injuring one person.
A high-end EF1 tornado struck Montebello on March 22, damaging 17 structures were damaged, 11 of which sustained significant damage, damaging or flipping vehicles, and snapping trees and power poles. One person was injured. This was the strongest tornado to strike the Greater Los Angeles metro area since March 1983. SR 74 through the San Bernardino National Forest was closed.
Twelve fatalities occurred in San Bernardino County.
Central California
The Central Coast experienced widespread flooding in January. A flash flood outside of Paso Robles swept away a five-year-old boy who was on his way to school. He and his mother had exited their vehicle and rescuers were only able to reach his mother. After a seven-hour search, only one of his shoes was found. The main coastal rail line that connects the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles was closed down when a bridge at Honda Point within Vandenberg Space Force Base had to undergo several weeks of repairs due to the flooding that had eroded the earth that supports the bridge's footings. A section of the bridge over Sespe Creek near Fillmore washed away on January 10, preventing the movement of freight trains on the Santa Paula Branch Line. SR 33 was closed after a washout damaged the roadway. Several portions of the highway were also covered in muddy debris along with other local highways in Ventura County. The Santa Barbara Municipal Airport was closed due to flooding. The Salinas River filled above flood levels, resulting in road closures of bridges in Paso Robles and causing a levee to break near Salinas.
On March 10, the levee on the Pajaro River failed, triggering flooding and forcing nearly 2,000 residents to evacuate. Another breach was discovered March 13, though authorities believed that breach may have helped ease flooding as it gave the river another outlet. Experts said the levees had been weakened by poor material selection, earthquakes and rodent activity. In Soquel, about 450 people were stranded in their homes after a creek washed out the only road leading to their neighborhood on March 10. A water main break also deprived residents of access to clean water.
In the Central Valley, the flooding caused nearly 180 square miles of Tulare Lake to flood for the first time since 1997. In Tulare County, a levee on Deer Creek north of the town of Allensworth breached the night of March 17, forcing residents of Allensworth and nearby Alpaugh to evacuate. Officials said an individual had used machinery to deliberately breach the levee. In Merced, evacuations were ordered throughout the area because of an overflow at the nearby Bear Creek. In Bishop, the city exceeded its annual precipitation average by January 11 due to the floods. In Tuolumne County, a brief low-end EF1 tornado, the first tornado ever recorded in the county, uprooted trees and snapped power poles near Yosemite Junction on March 11.
The flooding is helping to spread a deadly fungal disease called coccidioidomycosis, or Valley fever. The California Department of Public Health said the 9,280 new cases of Valley fever with onset dates in 2023 was the highest number the department has ever documented. The Coccidioides flourishes due to the oscillation between extreme dryness and extreme wetness.
Nevada
Flood watches were issued for Northern Nevada in December. In parts of the Sierra Nevada, 7.5 in of snow fell in just one hour. Reno, Nevada recorded its third wettest day on record. The initial wave of storms in Nevada caused a fatality and $10 million in damage. In addition, 35,000 customers in the state lost power.
Arizona
Flooding from Oak Creek impacted the community of Cornville in Yavapai County, Arizona, on January 1 due to heavy rain hitting the area. Water from the creek rose to more than 8 feet, prompting flood warnings to be issued for the area. On January 2, Phoenix set a daily rainfall record of .43 in, with snow falling north of the suburbs.
Utah
The city of Draper, Utah, experienced flooding on the night of January 10 when heavy rains moved through the city. More than 30 homes were inundated as several inches of rain fell.
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The Vue Composition API: A Game-Changer for Vue.js Development
The Vue Composition API: A Game-Changer for Vue.js Development
Nov 3, 2023·
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With the release of Vue 3, the Vue.js framework introduced a set of new features designed to enhance the developer's experience and address the limitations of the Options API used in Vue 2. Among these features, the Composition API stands out as a flexible and powerful way to compose logic inside and between components. In this article, we'll explore the ins and outs of the Vue Composition API, discuss its benefits, and provide insights into how it can be used to build scalable applications.
What is the Composition API?
The Composition API is an addition to Vue's core functionalities that allows developers to encapsulate and reuse logic across components using a setup function. Unlike the Options API, which organizes code by options (data, methods, computed, etc.), the Composition API organizes code by logical concern. This means all reactive references, computed properties, and functions related to a single feature are grouped together.
Why the Composition API?
Before the Composition API, Vue developers relied on the Options API, mixins, and sometimes renderless components to share logic between components. However, these approaches had their drawbacks, such as namespace collisions with mixins and the boilerplate associated with renderless components.
The Composition API addresses these issues by providing a cleaner and more intuitive way to organize code by logical concerns, making components more maintainable and testable.
Key Concepts of the Composition API
1. The setup Function
The setup function is the entry point for composition logic in a component. It's executed before the component is created, once the props are resolved. This is where you define reactive state, computed properties, and methods.
import { ref, computed } from 'vue';
export default {
setup(props) {
const count = ref(0);
const doubleCount = computed(() => count.value * 2);
function increment() {
count.value++;
}
return { count, doubleCount, increment };
}
};
2. Reactive References with ref
ref is used to define a reactive reference to a value. When the value changes, any part of the application using this reference will automatically update.
const count = ref(0);
3. Reactive State with reactive
While ref is great for primitive values, reactive is used to create reactive objects.
const state = reactive({ count: 0, name: 'Vue' });
4. Computed Properties with computed
computed is used to define a piece of state that is computed based on reactive references and reactive state. It only re-evaluates when its dependencies change.
const doubleCount = computed(() => count.value * 2);
5. Watchers with watch and watchEffect
watch and watchEffect are used to perform side effects in response to reactive data changes.
watch(count, (newValue, oldValue) => {
// React to count changes
});
watchEffect(() => {
console.log(`The count is now: ${count.value}`);
});
6. Lifecycle Hooks
Lifecycle hooks in the Composition API are named after their Options API counterparts but are prefixed with on: onMounted, onUpdated, onUnmounted, etc.
onMounted(() => {
console.log('Component is mounted!');
});
Advantages of Using the Composition API
• Better Code Organization: Group related functionality together instead of spreading it across different options.
• TypeScript Support: The Composition API is designed with TypeScript in mind, offering better type inference and making it easier to build type-safe applications.
• Reusable Logic: Extract and share logic between components without the downsides of mixins or the need for extra components.
• Tree Shaking: Since you import only the features you need from the Vue package, unused code can be excluded during the build process, leading to smaller bundles.
Tips for Using the Composition API
• When starting with the Composition API, it can be helpful to break down your components into smaller, focused functions. This not only makes your components more readable but also facilitates the reuse of logic.
• Name your composition functions after the feature they provide (e.g., useUser, useCart) to clearly communicate their purpose.
• Leverage TypeScript to enhance your development experience with the Composition API. The explicit contracts and type checking will help prevent many common errors.
Conclusion
The Vue Composition API represents a significant step forward in the Vue.js ecosystem, offering a more efficient and organized way to build and manage Vue applications. It provides a powerful set of tools to better handle complex component logic, improve code reuse, and facilitate the integration with TypeScript. As the Vue community continues to embrace these new patterns, we can expect to see more robust and scalable Vue applications in the future.
Whether you are building a small project or a large-scale application, the Composition API is a valuable resource that can help streamline your development process and enhance the overall quality of your Vue code.
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Deep Dive to Mastering Frequency and Amplitude Settings
Introduction
The Essence of Frequency and Amplitude Settings
In the realm of performance enhancement and optimization, the intricate interplay of two vital components, frequency and amplitude, holds the key to unlocking a realm of benefits across diverse fields. In this comprehensive guide, we embark on an illuminating journey into the nuances of frequency and Amplitude Settings, shedding light on their pivotal roles, interactions, and the synergistic dance that fuels extraordinary outcomes.
Understanding the Dynamics of Frequency and Amplitude Settings
Deciphering Frequency and Amplitude Settings in Context
Frequency, measured in cycles per second or Hertz (Hz), signifies the number of oscillations a wave completes within a given timeframe. Meanwhile, amplitude denotes the peak magnitude of a wave’s deviation from its resting state. These elements combine to orchestrate a dynamic performance that influences a spectrum of processes.
The Science Behind Frequency and Amplitude Settings Interaction
At the core of the frequency-amplitude interaction lies resonance, a fundamental principle that triggers amplified vibrations and heightened effects when an applied force’s frequency aligns with a system’s natural frequency. Mastery of this synergy is pivotal for attaining optimal results across an array of applications.
The Role of Frequency in the Pursuit of Optimization
Frequency as a Catalyst for Performance
Frequency emerges as a driving force behind optimization in a plethora of contexts. From medical interventions to industrial endeavors, the deliberate choice of frequency parameters can amplify desired outcomes while minimizing unwanted consequences.
Exploring the Precise Frequency Range and amplitude settings
The quest for the ideal frequency range is akin to uncovering a treasure trove of possibilities. Extensive research and meticulous experimentation have unveiled specific frequency bands where processes exhibit peak efficiency and effectiveness. By navigating these domains, we unveil the potential for superlative performance.
Illuminating the Influence of Amplitude Settings
Unraveling the Influence of Amplitude on Outcomes
Although subtle in nature, amplitude plays a significant role in shaping outcomes. Manipulating amplitude can dictate the intensity and scope of effects, necessitating a careful equilibrium between potency and safety.
Identifying the Optimal Amplitude Levels
Attaining the optimal amplitude balance demands precise calibration. Striking this equilibrium ensures that a system functions within its limits, resulting in favorable results without succumbing to diminishing returns or potential hazards.
The Harmonious Interplay: Frequency and Amplitude
Synchronizing Frequency and Amplitude Settings for Enhanced Synergy
True optimization resides in the harmonious convergence of frequency and amplitude. Like a conductor orchestrating a symphony, aligning these parameters harmoniously amplifies the overall impact, thereby intensifying the efficacy of processes.
Illustrating Triumphs through Frequency-Amplitude Alignment
Tangible successes underscore the transformative potency of aligning frequency and amplitude. These real-world instances illuminate the substantial benefits achieved through shrewd parameter tuning.
Factors Shaping Frequency and Amplitude Settings
Navigating External Influences
Optimization’s landscape is intricately intertwined with external variables. Environmental conditions, contextual intricacies, and intricate system interactions converge to determine the optimal frequency and amplitude settings.
Navigating Inner Dynamics
Biological dynamics and individual diversities further compound the complexity of parameter selection. Accounting for these inherent nuances ensures tailor-made optimization that maximizes benefits while mitigating potential risks.
Overcoming Hurdles in Frequency-Amplitude Optimization
Common Pitfalls and Clarifications
The voyage toward frequency- Amplitude Settings optimization is not bereft of challenges. Recognizing and addressing common pitfalls and misconceptions are paramount for progress and positive outcomes.
Strategies for Precisely Tuning Parameters
Refining frequency and amplitude parameters necessitates a strategic approach. Iterative adjustments, insights gleaned from data, and continuous vigilance empower us to achieve the delicate equilibrium indispensable for optimal performance.
Tools and Technologies for Precision Adjustments
Cutting-Edge Instruments for Frequency-Amplitude Settings Control
Advancements in technology herald a new era of precision and control. Cutting-edge instruments furnish granular manipulation of frequency and amplitude, enabling real-time adjustments to maximize desired effects.
Software Solutions for Real-Time Monitoring and Calibration
Software solutions complement hardware strides by endowing virtual observatories for monitoring and calibration. These tools endow practitioners with real-time insights into system behavior, thereby facilitating informed decision-making.
Frequency and Amplitude Settings in Diverse Applications
Tailoring Medical Therapies for Patient Wellness
In the realm of medical therapies, frequency-amplitude optimization promises substantial breakthroughs. Tailoring settings to individual patient profiles has the potential to amplify treatment outcomes, mitigate side effects, and usher in a paradigm shift in healthcare.
Enhancing Efficiency and Safety in Industrial Spheres
Industries stand poised to reap significant rewards through optimized frequency and amplitude settings. From refining manufacturing processes to enhancing energy distribution, precision parameter tuning can augment efficiency and bolster safety protocols.
Amplitude Settings
Securing Long-Term Gains via Adaptive Settings
Dynamic Strategies for Frequency-Amplitude Harmony
The fluidity of numerous environments necessitates adaptive strategies. Embracing the concept of dynamic frequency-amplitude optimization ensures a consistent stream of benefits even amid rapidly changing circumstances.
Anticipating Future Trends: AI-Driven Excellence
The horizon unveils an exciting frontier in AI-driven optimization. Advanced algorithms and machine learning usher in the potential for unparalleled breakthroughs, fusing human expertise with artificial intelligence to stretch the boundaries of attainable outcomes.
Gauging and Quantifying Positive Outcomes
Metrics for Gauging Favorable Results
Embarking on the path of optimization demands tangible metrics to gauge success. Identifying and quantifying key performance indicators crystallize a tangible framework for evaluating the affirmative impact of frequency-amplitude optimization.
Establishing a Quantitative Paradigm for Triumph
The advent of a quantitative framework supersedes subjective evaluations, anchoring parameter settings to tangible benefits. This empirical approach solidifies the correlation between parameter calibration and measurable gains.
Navigating Ethical Contours in Frequency-Amplitude Optimization
Balancing Rewards with Ethical Duties
As with any potent tool, frequency-amplitude optimization emerges with ethical considerations. Striking a delicate equilibrium between reaping rewards and upholding ethical obligations is vital for the well-being of individuals and society at large.
Mitigating Risks and Instituting Precautionary Measures
Foreseeing potential risks mandates comprehensive awareness. The implementation of precautionary measures, robust risk assessments, and adherence to established guidelines collectively serve as safeguards against unintended consequences.
Summary: Unleashing the Potential of Frequency and Amplitude Settings
Essential Takeaways from the Voyage
Our odyssey through the intricacies of frequency and amplitude optimization unveils invaluable insights. Essential takeaways underscore the transformational potential of mastering these parameters, serving as a guidepost for unlocking unparalleled benefits.
Harnessing the Potency of Optimized Frequency-Amplitude Settings
The true prowess lies in harnessing optimized frequency-amplitude configurations. By capitalizing on their intricate interplay, we position ourselves at the threshold of innovation, poised to reshape industries and elevate human well-being.
Addressing Common Questions: Clearing the Air
Determining the Optimal Frequency Range
Optimal frequency ranges are diverse across applications, underscored by rigorous research and experimentation…
The Role of Amplitude Settings in Process Effectiveness
Amplitude exerts a substantial influence on effectiveness. Striking the right balance is pivotal to achieving desired outcomes while preserving safety…
Possible Health Risks Linked to High Amplitudes Settings
While high amplitudes can yield remarkable effects, they warrant judicious application to avert potential health risks…
Applicability of Frequency-Amplitude Optimization to Consumer Electronics
Indeed, the principles of frequency-amplitude optimization extend to consumer electronics,
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Morgan Pehme
Morgan Pehme (born May 5, 1978 in New York City ) is an American filmmaker and journalist.
Background
Pehme's father was journalist Kalev Pehme. On his paternal side, his grandfather, Karl Pehme, was a sculptor from Estonia. His grandmother, Guerel Oulanoff, was a pianist of Kalmyk descent.
As a child, Pehme achieved renown for his success as a chess player.
Pehme attended The Dalton School. He was a character in the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and was subsequently depicted in the film.
Pehme won the 1993 National Junior High School Chess Championship. He represented the United States in the Boys Under 12 section of the 1990 World Youth Chess Festival for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
His participation in the event led to him become one of the subjects of director Lynn Hamrick's 1996 documentary, Chess Kids, as well as Hamrick's 2011 sequel to the film.
Film
Pehme began his career as a filmmaker as an executive producer of the narrative film Exist (2004), directed by Esther Bell.
The next year, Pehme produced Nightmare, which he co-wrote with the film's director, Dylan Bank. Pehme and Bank were awarded the jury prize for Best Screenplay from the 2006 Austin Fantastic Fest. The film was released in the United States by IFC Films.
Pehme made his directorial debut with Nothing Sacred (2012), a fantasy horror film starring William Sadler, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Nahon, Eric Godon, Debbie Rochon, Naama Kates and Alan Barnes Netherton.
In 2017, Pehme co-directed, produced and wrote the Netflix Original documentary Get Me Roger Stone, which explores the life and career of conservative strategist Roger Stone, who played an integral role in Donald Trump's election as President of the United States. The film, which took Pehme and his co-directors Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank five years to make, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2020, Pehme again explored Trump's inner circle with Slumlord Millionaire, about White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. Pehme directed and produced the documentary with Daniel DiMauro as an episode of Dirty Money, a Netflix Original documentary series executive produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.
That same year, Pehme directed, wrote and produced The Swamp for HBO Documentary Films. The film explores the dysfunction plaguing the United States Congress, tracking three Republican members of Congress, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Ken Buck of Colorado, throughout 2019.
Journalism and Politics
Early in Pehme's journalism career, he served as a columnist and managing editor for The Queens Courier, a community newspaper.
Later, Pehme wrote The Brooklyn Optimist, a blog about Brooklyn. In September 2008, Pehme, a critic of Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez, was elected to represent a portion of Greenpoint, Brooklyn as a County Committee Member in the Kings County Democratic Party.
In 2011, Pehme was named one of City Hall's Rising Stars Under 40 for his work as executive director of New York Civic, a group founded by former New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern.
In 2012, Pehme was hired as editor-in-chief of the newspaper City & State, which covers New York politics. During Pehme's tenure, City & State won a number of New York State Press Association awards, including Best Coverage of Elections/Politics, 2013, for which he was personally recognized, along with Nick Powell, Jon Lentz and Aaron Short.
In 2015, Morgan Pehme was hired as executive director of EffectiveNY, a nonpartisan government watchdog group founded by businessman Bill Samuels. He also produced and co-hosted with Samuels the radio show "Effective Radio with Bill Samuels", which aired on AM970 in New York. New York Nonprofit Media named Pehme to its 2017 class of 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of the New York nonprofit world for his work at EffectiveNY.
Pehme is a former adjunct professor of mass communications, journalism, TV and film at St. John's University.
He has contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, HuffPost, The Hill, and The Daily Beast.
Pehme is an on-camera political analyst for PIX11. He serves on the board of advisors of the Museum of Political Corruption.
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The operating system variously known as ‘Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0’ or ‘European MS-DOS’, to avoid confusion with the better-known single-tasking MS-DOS 4.0, has the mildly irritating flaw that it doesn’t invoke the HLT instruction that stops the CPU when the system is idle. This has the effect that whenever the OS is run in a virtual machine, CPU usage of the host spikes to 100%, whether the guest is actually doing anything or not, inevitably leading to my laptop CPU fan revving up with an all-too-familiar noise.
There doesn’t seem to be a simple, obvious way to remedy this. Unlike the mainstream edition of the OS, there is not an idle interrupt to which one can hook a TSR which can invoke HLT on its own. Having studied (what I assume to be) the kernel idle loop in a debugger, there doesn’t even seem to be any room to squeeze in a HLT instruction by patching the kernel. Here it is disassembled:
0506:3DE0 0E PUSH CS
0506:3DE1 1F POP DS
0506:3DE2 FB STI
0506:3DE3 F6066105FF TEST BYTE PTR [0561],FF
0506:3DE8 74F8 JZ 3DE2
0506:3DEA E832FD CALL 3B1F
0506:3DED EBF1 JMP 3DE0
Is there a way to inject a halt instruction into the idle loop somewhere?
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Is it feasible (permissible?) to post the code of the idle loop? May give someone inspiration...
– TripeHound
May 26 '21 at 13:42
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Just to confirm, Vernon Brooks explicitly lists “no INT 28h or INT 2Ah function 84h idle callout”. May 26 '21 at 15:28
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How do you know that it can properly recover from a HLT? May 26 '21 at 20:19
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The not-retro answer: some virtual machines allow you to limit the maximum CPU time expended. E.g. in VirtualBox look for 'Execution Cap'. Or, less satisfactorily, your OS may allow you to put a limit on the virtual machine software, see e.g. CPULimit.
– Tommy
May 26 '21 at 20:41
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@WillHartung It's a closed loop around a memory location. The only way to flip that location is by an interrupt routine doing so (Using DMA would be way too obscure in a PC-XT environment). And each and every interrupt will after it's termination continue execution after a HLT. Exactly what the routine requires. But the test can not be simply replaced by a HLT, as it shoulc only leave the loop if an interrupt happened that changed the flag as well.
– Raffzahn
May 26 '21 at 21:04
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In place and without changing other code: No
Simply because there is no shorter encoding of that sequence - that is unless we rely on
• additional information how (and when) the tested byte changes
and/or
• how and when values set here gets reused or not
and/or
• certain register setup prior to this routine.
The basic issue here is that a HLT instruction will end/continue operation after any arbitrary interrupt was handled, but it's not said that every interrupt will as well set the flag byte at CS:0561h. All that do not set that byte should of loop back and halt again.
There is always the usual method of jumping out by replacing the test instruction by a call to some new routine, intended to whatever is necessary - like
HLT
TEST xxxx
RET
The 5 bytes of the TEST instruction is long enough to even hold a far call, so it can be located anywhere. This method has the advantage that all other code is untouched.
Possible Other Ways depending on code/workings outside the core loop:
Of course if it can be guaranteed that certain data is present, some instructions can be used for patching like
• if DS is already equalling CS when entered, then the PUSH/POP pair can be dropped and their space repurposed to add a HLT instruction
0506:3DE0 90 NOP
0506:3DE1 FB STI
0506:3DE2 F4 HLT
0506:3DE2 F6066105FF TEST BYTE PTR [0561],FF
0506:3DE8 74F7 JZ 3DE1
0506:3DEA E832FD CALL 3B1F
0506:3DED EBF1 JMP 3DE0
Likewise if it's guaranteed that DS is not used later on with the assumption of still having the same value as CS, they can be replaced by a segment override prefix freeing up a much needed byte for the HLT instruction.
• if DS gets reloaded afterwards (like in the function starting at CS:3B1Fh) without being uses first, the following patch might work:
0506:3DE0 FB STI
0506:3DE1 F4 HLT
0506:3DE2 2EF6066105FF TEST CS:BYTE PTR [0561],FF
0506:3DE8 74F6 JZ 3DE0
0506:3DEA E832FD CALL 3B1F
0506:3DED EBF1 JMP 3DE0
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"Or"... Or what??? Now I'm going to have to go into my HLT routine waiting for the next character read from your keyboard...
– Jon Custer
May 27 '21 at 13:30
• @JonCuster Well, you got me ... you got me thinking again, so here's a second possible patch :))
– Raffzahn
May 27 '21 at 19:10
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Very nice. And now I can get back to work again!
– Jon Custer
May 27 '21 at 19:19
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Eublemma scitulum
Eublemma scitulum, the grey eublemma, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Rambur in 1833. It is widespread in Africa and Asia.
Distribution
Algeria, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia and France,
Biology
The caterpillar is bright pink to reddish. Its prolegs are modified to a pair of large suckers for adhering to the substrate. Body is covered with a light silken web, which serves as a shield. Pupation occurs within this shield.
Caterpillars of the genus Eublemma are pests on several scale insects. The E. scitula caterpillar is a pest on Kerria, Anomalococcus, Lecanium, Ceroplastes, Pulvinaria species, Drepanococcus cajani, Saissetia coffeae, Saissetia oleae, Ceraplastes rusci, Didesmococcus unifasciatus, Cerococcus indicus and Coccidohystrix insolita.
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Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy and sale
The Phoenix Coyotes, a professional ice hockey team of the National Hockey League (NHL), and known as the Arizona Coyotes from 2014 until suspending operations in 2024, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after incurring several hundred million dollars of losses since their move to Phoenix, Arizona from Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they were known as the Winnipeg Jets. A bankruptcy court rejected a plan to sell the team and move it to Canada, and the team was purchased by the NHL. The NHL operated the team in Phoenix for four seasons while seeking a new owner. After several prospective purchases fell through, the team was finally sold in the summer of 2013.
Summary
In December 2008, the media reported that the Phoenix Coyotes were losing money at a high rate and were being funded by the NHL directly. The media reports were minimized by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, but secretly the NHL had taken over operations of the Coyotes. In May 2009, the owner of the team, Jerry Moyes, put the team into bankruptcy hours before receiving Bettman, who was to present a potential offer to purchase. Moyes intended to sell the team to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie, who intended to purchase the team out of bankruptcy and move it to Hamilton, Ontario, without being restricted by the NHL's rules on relocation.
From May 2009 until September 2009, hearings were held in Phoenix bankruptcy court to determine the fate of the Coyotes and the holding company. Two potential bidders for the team surfaced—Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Ice Edge Holdings, Inc.—but they did not put in bids for the team at the bankruptcy hearing. Instead, the NHL put in the only rival bid to Balsillie for the team, while they fought Moyes' plan to sell the team and move it to Hamilton against the NHL rules. Ultimately, the Phoenix court ruled that the team could not be sold to Balsillie, as the judge held that bankruptcy could not be used to subvert the league's rules. The NHL's original bid was also insufficient for the bankruptcy judge, since it did not treat Moyes and Gretzky as full creditors. Later, the NHL settled with Moyes with the league buying the team and assuming all debts.
After the sale, the NHL negotiated a temporary lease with the City of Glendale, Arizona, owner of Jobing.com Arena (now known as Gila River Arena). The NHL then proceeded to work with the two potential bidders, Reinsdorf and Ice Edge, to work out a deal with Glendale. Ice Edge signed a letter of intent to buy the team from the NHL, while Reinsdorf had won the approval of the City of Glendale. By the end of summer 2010, both bidders had failed to complete a purchase and dropped out. The NHL, which had threatened to move the team to Winnipeg for the 2010–11 season, agreed to keep the team in Glendale for the season, after Glendale agreed to fund its losses. The NHL publicly announced a deadline of December 31, 2010, for any purchase to keep the team in Phoenix, after which it might make plans to move the team. In December 2010, Chicago-based investor Matthew Hulsizer, along with several investors, was approved by the NHL to purchase the team and reached a lease agreement with Glendale. A deal was reached between Glendale and Hulsizer that involved the sale of bonds by the city to pay Hulsizer over $100 million against future parking revenues at the arena. The Goldwater Institute, a think tank and litigation center, announced that it would challenge the lease agreement in court. The threat led to the failure of the bond sale. Hulsizer abandoned his bid for the Coyotes on June 27, 2011.
For the 2011–12 season, Glendale set aside $25 million to ensure that the Coyotes would stay in Glendale for another season, while the NHL worked on arranging the purchase. In August 2011, a group headed by former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison was identified as a potential purchaser. Jamison's group intended to keep the team in Arizona. Another group, including past bidder Reinsdorf, emerged in September 2011. The City of Glendale intended to complete negotiations with one or the other by the end of December 2011, but no deal was forthcoming. In May 2012, the NHL announced a tentative agreement with Jamison's group and hoped to complete the sale "within weeks". In June, a lease agreement between Jamison and Glendale was reached, but a clause forbidding putting the agreement on the November Glendale municipal election ballot was rejected in court. If enough signatures were collected, the agreement's approval would have been up to Glendale citizens. In July, Glendale rejected petitions as being delivered 'late' and without enough signatures. The lease agreement was eventually revised and approved by Glendale in November 2012. On January 31, 2013, Jamison stated he would be unable to complete the sale of the Coyotes under the terms of the lease signed in November 2012.
In May 2013, a new group was formed to purchase the team. Renaissance Sports & Entertainment, (RS&E) which included investors who had made a previous offer, made a deal with the NHL to purchase the team for $225 million. The deal required an arena lease agreement with the City of Glendale. The NHL stated to the city that this would be the last potential sale to keep the team in Glendale, and made arrangements to move the team to Seattle, should a deal not be made. Ultimately, by a 4–3 vote in a July 2, 2013 City of Glendale Council meeting, the city agreed to accept a deal with RS&E. The deal kept the team in Glendale for a guaranteed minimum of five years, with a maximum lease going for over 15 years. The team would also change their name from the Phoenix Coyotes to the Arizona Coyotes in the process. On August 5, 2013, the NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the Coyotes to RS&E.
Warning signs
On December 8, 2009, during a press conference at the annual December NHL board of governors' meeting, the issue of the state of the economy was raised by reporters. The Phoenix Coyotes were reported to lose up to $35 million on the 2008–09 season. Asked to comment on Phoenix's loss, Bettman was quoted as saying "They're going to get through the season just fine." The Coyotes' President and COO, Doug Moss admitted that the team had lost a lot of money and was still losing money. He was not prepared to reveal the number of season-ticket subscribers that the team had: "We have never really revealed our season-ticket base ... it's too low, that's a number that's too low." It was revealed during bankruptcy proceedings that the Coyotes averaged 5,450 season tickets per season for the four seasons from 2005 to 2009.
The true state of the Phoenix franchise was not revealed, however. In the documents filed with the Phoenix bankruptcy court, the NHL stated that the league took official control of the team on November 14, 2008. The league then began advancing money to the club from league revenues, and made a loan to the club in February 2009, for a combined estimated total of $44.5 million over the full season. The league fired the Coyotes CEO Jeff Shumway and laid off 18 Coyotes employees. Moyes' documents filed with the court indicated that the team had lost $73 million over the last three years, and that the projected loss was $45 million for 2008–09. In the September 2009 bankruptcy hearings it was noted that an audit had shown that the team had never made a profit since moving from Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1996 and lost $54.8 million in 2008 alone.
On December 23, 2008, the Toronto The Globe and Mail reported that the Coyotes were receiving financial assistance from the league in the form of advances on league revenues. The Coyotes pledged all of their assets to New York company SOF Investments LP to cover an estimated debt of $80 million. The team had lost an estimated $200 million since 2001 and in recent years posted heavy losses, including $41.6 million in 2006–07, $37.3 million during the 2007–08 season, and $54 million in 2008–09. One of the team's owners, Jerry Moyes' principal source of revenue, Swift Transportation was also in financial difficulty. Television network ESPN reported that the league had become involved with the operations of the Coyotes and their revenues. The NHL apparently wanted to work with the city of Glendale which owns the arena and receives revenues from the team. ESPN also reported that Moyes was interested in selling his share of the team. Hollywood producer, and noted hockey fan, Jerry Bruckheimer was cited as a possible investor.
Bankruptcy filing
On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes' holding company, Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In a statement, Moyes announced that he had agreed in principle to sell the team to PSE Sports and Entertainment, headed by Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie, for $212.5 million. As part of the deal, Balsillie intended to move the Coyotes to Hamilton, Ontario. Although initial reports said that Balsillie was considering Kitchener as well, Hamilton already had an NHL-sized arena in place, Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre), and Balsillie was already in talks with city officials to secure a lease for the arena. Balsillie had previously made unsuccessful approaches to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators, with the intent of relocating either team to Hamilton.
Anyone who wanted to make a counteroffer had to exceed Balsillie's bid by at least $5 million. At Moyes' request, Balsillie agreed to post debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing of $17 million. Balsillie's efforts also started public relations efforts, including setting up the web site makeitseven.ca to build public support in Canada for his purchase and transfer of the Coyotes to Hamilton.
The announcement came as a surprise to the NHL and even to Coyotes staffers. Bettman had helped broker a deal that would have seen the Coyotes sold to Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. At the time of the announcement, Bettman was in Phoenix to present the deal to Moyes. Unlike Balsillie's offer, the Reinsdorf deal was to ensure the Coyotes stay in Arizona. Terms of the Reinsdorf deal were not disclosed, but The Sports Network's Bob McKenzie speculated that it was almost certainly less than the Balsillie offer.
The NHL responded by stripping Moyes of virtually all of his ownership authority (although he remained the owner in title). Bettman said that Moyes may not have had the authority to file the bankruptcy petition, and may not have even been in full control of the team by virtue of the massive financial assistance he'd received. Although it has been widely speculated that southern Ontario is big enough to support a third NHL team alongside the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators (despite the Buffalo Sabres and Detroit Red Wings being right on the doorstep of the region as well), Bettman suggested that it was not likely the league would approve any plan to move the Coyotes to Canada, and accused Moyes and Balsillie of attempting to "circumvent" league rules. He also reiterated that the NHL was committed to the Phoenix area.
Bankruptcy hearings
The first bankruptcy hearing was scheduled for May 7, 2009. Court documents submitted by Moyes cite thirty creditors, including Moyes himself for an amount in excess of US$103 million. TSN's Bob McKenzie said that Moyes was very receptive to Balsillie's offer because, as the team's largest unsecured creditor, the best chance of getting most of his money back was to persuade someone to buy the team out of bankruptcy. The league's position was that it was Moyes' fault that he paid himself so much money and that he was entitled to only $14 million of $103 million loss, which would have been the case if Jerry Reinsdorf's lower bid was accepted.
At the bankruptcy hearing, the NHL argued that it had been in control of the team since November by virtue of a proxy agreement with Moyes. The NHL claimed this agreement, and several others signed by Moyes, specifically barred Moyes from filing for bankruptcy. Moyes claimed that the agreement only gave the league voting rights, not outright control. Bankruptcy court judge Redfield Baum scheduled a second hearing for May 19 to determine who actually controls the team. However, Daly said that regardless of how the judge ruled, the league owners would have the final say in whether to allow the Coyotes to move. Daly repeated Bettman's doubts about Balsillie's bid, saying Balsillie was acting "in total disregard" for NHL rules.
At the May 19 hearing, Baum ordered the NHL and Moyes to settle the ownership question through mediation, while expressing skepticism for the NHL's argument that the proxy agreements gave it control of the team. He said that he needed to decide whether to allow the move to Hamilton before the franchise was sold. However, the NHL claimed there was no way it could reach a decision on whether to allow the move in time for the 2009–10 season. The day after the hearing, Balsillie spokesman Rich Rodier told Arizona Republic Coyotes beat writer Jim Gintonio that Balsillie was willing to keep the team in Phoenix for the 2009–10 season, provided that the NHL fund any losses.
Although the judge ordered mediation, none took place. In late May, Balsillie filed a formal application with the NHL to purchase the Coyotes and relocate them to Hamilton. Baum set up a tentative hearing to consider an auction of the team if the NHL Board of Governors rejected Balsillie's bid.
The other three major North American sports organizations filed amicus curiae briefs with the court supporting the NHL position. They argued that if Baum forced the league to move the Coyotes, it would "disrupt the business" of professional sports. New York's two senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, also wrote Baum to oppose the move on the grounds that a Hamilton-based team would do severe economic harm to the Sabres. According to the senators, 15 to 20 percent of the Sabres' revenues comes from fans in the area between Hamilton and Buffalo. Hamilton is only 45 miles from Buffalo, New York and is within the "protected N.H.L. markets" of both the Sabres and the Maple Leafs.
The NHL filed documents stating that four prospective buyers had filed applications with the league. All four intended to keep the Coyotes in Phoenix. These included Jerry Reinsdorf, Toronto Argonauts' co-owners Howard Sokolowski and David Cynamon; and John Breslow of Las Vegas, who was already an owner of 3% of the Coyotes. A fourth remained anonymous. The league stated that any franchise moved without the league's permission, such as moving it to Hamilton would render it valueless. "At most, the proposed transaction would transfer a collection of used hockey equipment — none of which could bear the NHL logo."
At a June 9, 2009 hearing, Judge Baum agreed with the NHL that the league is within its rights to demand a relocation fee. Balsillie lawyer Richard Rodier suggested that the league would set the fee as high as $100 million to dissuade Balsillie. Balsillie himself was quoted as saying that he was open to paying the fee, although his lawyers suggested that he would walk away from the deal if the fee is 'exorbitant.'
On June 15, Baum ruled against Balsillie's proposal, stating that the timeline imposed by Balsillie was unrealistic and did not provide enough time for the courts or the NHL to wade through the issues posed by the relocation. Baum also rejected the proposal in part due to the fact that Balsillie's offer did not include any relocation fee to the NHL, to which they would be entitled since southern Ontario is potentially a more lucrative market than Phoenix. In the ruling, the judge also dismissed claims made by Moyes and Balsillie's lawyers that the NHL was violating antitrust laws in not allowing the move. The ruling effectively ended any chance of the Coyotes moving for the 2009–10 season.
Baum's ruling did not rule out Balsillie as an NHL franchise owner. Balsillie indicated at the time that he would continue bidding on the team in spite of the failure of his first offer. The NHL indicated a desire to hold an auction in September to find a new owner for the team, indicating that the auction would be open to prospective owners who would keep the team in Arizona, and stated that at least four potential buyers had been identified. The league had also indicated a willingness to hold a second auction, open to relocation, if the team could not be sold in the planned September auction.
On July 9, the Court set two auction dates for the team. The first auction on August 20, would be a primary auction with the stipulation that whoever has the winning bid, must agree to keep the team in Phoenix for at least 5 years, after which they may relocate with league approval at any time. An undisclosed minimum bid must be met in this auction. Should this auction fail, the second auction on September 10, will be run with no minimum bid; in which the new owner will have the right and authority to move the team to another location at any time without league approval after the 2009–10 season. Balsillie stated that he was willing to keep the team in Phoenix for the time being and intended to bid in the August auction.
On July 29, the NHL Board of Governors met to consider the application of Balsillie to purchase the Coyotes and the relocation. The Governors voted overwhelmingly 29–1 against Balsillie (unanimously except for Moyes' representative). The Governors also voted to approve Reinsdorf as a potential owner. Daly stated that Balsillie was rejected under bylaw 35 of the NHL Constitution, which allows applications to be rejected to persons which the NHL believes are not of "good character and integrity." Balsillie responded in a filing saying that "the NHL has long tolerated indicted and even convicted criminals among its ranks", noting that moral grounds and questions of character have never been used "in the entire history of the NHL to reject any applicant."
The NHL also revealed another bid, by businessman Anthony Leblanc of Thunder Bay, Ontario to purchase the Coyotes, which they also rejected as 'incomplete' but encouraged Leblanc to pursue the bid. Leblanc's company, Ice Edge Holdings Inc. publicly revealed their bid with a letter of intent filed with the bankruptcy court. The club would bid up to $150 million for the team, and keep it in Phoenix, with up to five games played annually in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ice Edge also named Canadian businessman Daryl Jones as one of the principals in its group.
On August 13, 2009, Judge Baum ordered the NHL to hand over documents regarding the Coyotes' relocation. These documents were related to any potential expansion to Hamilton, and any relocation fees charged for any franchise moves by the NHL. Documents filed with the court included the previously secret NHL Constitution and also the section of the NHL Bylaws which spelled rules of relocation fees. Balsillie's lawyers filed the documents, claiming that sections of the Constitution violate anti-trust law and asked that the judge ignore the rules of the NHL on that basis. These became part of the public record and available on various web sites to download.
On September 6, 2009, it was reported by the Toronto Star that the NHL set a potential relocation fee of $101 million to $195 million to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton, while economics professor Andrew Zimbalist in a study conducted for James Balsillie valued the move at $11.2 million to $12.9 million. On September 7, 2009, Balsillie had reportedly sweetened his offer by US$40–50 million to buy out the lease of the Glendale Arena.
On September 9, 2009, it was reported that both Reinsdorf and Ice Edge Holdings had withdrawn from the bidding for the Coyotes, leaving only Balsillie and the NHL as prospective purchasers. It was announced on September 24 that Wayne Gretzky had stepped down as head coach.
On September 30, 2009, Judge Baum rejected both bids. This effectively ended any chance of a forced sale to Balsillie and relocating the Coyotes to Canada. However, the NHL's bid was criticized for its failure to repay Moyes and Gretzky, two of the largest creditors, though the league had a chance to improve its bid. While Balsillie's bid treated both as full creditors, the NHL promised Moyes only about $14 million of his claimed losses of $104 million, which would be shared with Gretzky who has a claim of about $22 million.
Sale to the NHL and failed purchases
On October 26, 2009, Jerry Moyes reached a deal to sell the Coyotes to the NHL for $140 million. On the deal, Daly stated "it remains the NHL's intention upon taking control of the club, to stabilize the club's operations and, as quickly as possible, to resell the club to a new owner who is committed to operating the club in the Glendale/Phoenix market". The sale was finalized on November 3, 2009. The price included $36.3 million already owed to the NHL, $80.7 million in secured claims and $11.3 cash going to the seller. $2 million went for professional fees and the NHL paid $11.6 million in unsecured claims, although not those of Moyes' family. The agreement also lowered a $30 million guaranty by Moyes to $15 million. If the team is resold within two years, the bankrupt estate will receive the net profit. The NHL agreed to pay the modified arena lease until June.
Since securing ownership of the team the league openly stated that it was in negotiations with Ice Edge Holdings, Leblanc's partnership of Canadian and Phoenix-area businessmen, but was rumoured to have resumed negotiations with Reinsdorf also. The Ice Edge bid, while planning to keep the team in Phoenix, also proposed to play five Coyotes home games in Saskatoon each season as part of a five-year plan to return the Coyotes to profitability.
A new prospective purchaser for the team appeared in late November 2009. Steve Stotland, a Montreal businessman, was reported to be teaming with undisclosed local investors to prepare a bid to buy the team. Stotland had previously been involved with the Washington Capitals and was interested in purchasing the Montreal Canadiens in 2000. Stotland attended the November 12 game between the Coyotes and Canadiens and met with team management.
In December 2009, the NHL announced that Ice Edge Holdings had signed a letter of intent with the NHL to purchase the Coyotes. Ice Edge would still have to negotiate a lease agreement with the City of Glendale, and get its ownership approved by the NHL Board of Governors.
That same month of December 2009, the NHL discussed the purchase of the Coyotes with True North Sports and Entertainment (TNSE), owners of the Winnipeg-based Manitoba Moose, as a back-up plan to move the team to Winnipeg with the understanding that the NHL would make all possible efforts to keep the team in Glendale. TNSE had been seeking an NHL team to fill its MTS Centre since 2007. The agreement became public knowledge in March 2010 when it was reported in the media that the league had negotiated an agreement-in-principle to sell the team to TNSE, in the event negotiations to keep the team in Arizona fail. (True North subsequently purchased the Atlanta Thrashers and relocated the franchise to Winnipeg for the 2011–12 season.)
By March 2010, the NHL had not finished the sale to Ice Edge. It was reported that Ice Edge had run into trouble securing sufficient financing although the group denied the claims. The NHL launched a lawsuit for $61 million against former Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes to recover $10 million in bankruptcy court costs, $20 million in losses for 2009–10 and $11.6 million owed to creditors. On May 10, 2010, the lawsuit was transferred from New York to Arizona. Moyes is planning to move for dismissal of the case. It was reported in December 2010, that the court is considering Moyes motion to dismiss the case.
On April 9, 2010, the City of Glendale announced that it had received two offers to purchase the Coyotes, with Memorandums of Understanding from both Ice Edge Holdings and Glendale Hockey (headed by Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf). The MOU's would both keep the team based in Glendale's Jobing.com Arena. Both groups would change the name of the team from Phoenix Coyotes to Arizona or Glendale Coyotes.
Reinsdorf's memorandum proposed a "community facilities district" that would sell bonds and collect revenue. The city would pay the NHL up to US$65 million in three-year increments – $21.6 million the first year, $21.6 million the second year and $21.8 million the third year. This was immediately objected to by the Goldwater Institute, stating that it placed undue risk on the City of Glendale and Reinsdorf took none of the risk. Ice Edge's proposal, which required annual fees of $5 million in parking revenues, was more acceptable to the Institute.
On April 13, 2010, the City of Glendale, at a weekly council meeting, approved Reinsdorf's proposal by a vote of 6–0 while rejecting Ice Edge Holdings' proposal 5–1. The agreement included a special tax district surrounding the arena, expected to generate $47 million annually from businesses in support of the team. The agreement allowed Reinsdorf the option to move the team after five years if revenues are not up to expectations. John Kaites, an attorney for Reinsdorf and a partner in the Glendale Hockey, LLC group has claimed the out-clause to be an "assessment period". Former Coyotes CEO Jeff Shumway criticized the deal, saying that the team would not have gone bankrupt if the same deal had been available two years earlier. Reinsdorf's bid, which will pay the NHL $65 million for the team, has to be approved by the league board of governors. After the vote, Bettman was quoted as characterizing the Glendale vote as a "terrific step" and that he anticipated that the league would have no problems in approving Reinsdorf's purchase, including the 5-year 'out clause'. Bettman declined to give a timetable for the purchase approval.
On May 7, 2010, The Globe and Mail reported that negotiations to finalize the details of the MOU between Reinsdorf and Glendale were going poorly and Glendale had sought out Ice Edge to return to negotiations. What is reported to be in dispute are the terms of the special tax district. The Arizona Republic reported that negotiations had resumed with Ice Edge, with Glendale removing its objection to guaranteeing $5 million in revenues from parking for the team. Scott Burnside of ESPN characterized the Reinsdorf deal as "dead", and that Glendale must agree to some conditions of the NHL's such as guaranteeing operating losses before any sale to Ice Edge. On May 10, it was reported that negotiations between Glendale and Ice Edge had broken down.
Glendale, which plans to cut its 2010–11 budget by $14.7 million through cost-cutting, faced an NHL-imposed deadline during the negotiations. The NHL could sell the team and move it if a deal is not done by July 1, 2010. At a May 11, 2010 meeting, Glendale City Council voted to extend the sales period by agreeing to fund the team's losses for the 2010–11 season (up to a maximum of $25 million) if the team is not sold by July 1. The NHL, which had drawn up a schedule with the team playing in Winnipeg, as a back-up plan, required the condition to continue the team in Phoenix. Daly appeared at the Council meeting, stating that the sale of the Coyotes is still expected to close by the end of June and the payments may never be needed. Glendale city manager Ed Beasley stated that both Reinsdorf and the Ice Edge group were still in the running to purchase the team. The decision also gave Beasley the authority to set up a 'Community Facilities District' around the arena. The District would collect fees, possibly including ticket surcharges and parking charges, that would be directed to the hockey club. According to the TNSE's Mark Chipman, Glendale wired the $25 million in funds to the NHL ten minutes before a 5 PM deadline set by the NHL on an unspecified date in May 2010, narrowly averting the transfer of the team to Winnipeg. The TNSE had a group of executives in New York negotiating with the NHL.
On June 4, 2010, Glendale announced that it had a new Memorandum of Understanding with Ice Edge. The new MOU had a new clause whereby Ice Edge can exit its agreement with Glendale. To retain negotiating rights with Glendale, Ice Edge was given ten days to provide legal assurances from its bankers showing it can borrow the money it needs and the $25 million fund for the NHL. Reinsdorf responded to the announcement by announcing that he was withdrawing from the bidding, saying "it was time to move on."
A lease agreement with Ice Edge was not finalized and negotiations between Ice Edge and the City of Glendale reached an impasse in July 2010. Ice Edge's financing of the Coyotes' purchase was an issue, and the city required financial statements showing Ice Edge could afford to purchase and run the Coyotes. Ice Edge delivered statements in June 2010 but these were considered unsatisfactory by the city. At the end of August, Ice Edge announced that it would focus its efforts instead on getting an ECHL team in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Although the team had a successful season, reaching 100 points for the first time to finish fourth in their conference, and earning their first playoff berth since 2001–2002, attendance remained poor. The NHL shook up the Coyotes' front office in July 2010. Moss who had been president and chief operating officer of the club since 2002 was let go, being replaced by Chief financial officer Mike Nealy who was promoted to chief operating officer. This was followed by the departure of vice-president Jeff Holbrook, who would be succeeded by former Phoenix Suns executive Jim Brewer in August 2010.
Failed sale to Matthew Hulsizer
In September 2010, it was reported that Matthew Hulsizer, the Chicago chief executive of options-trading firm PEAK6 Investments had reached a preliminary lease arrangement with the City of Glendale. His proposal would see Ice Edge have a minority interest in the team. Glendale Council received a briefing on the proposal on September 7, 2010. City council was hopeful of reaching a deal with Hulsizer before September 15, but according to Councilman Manny Martinez, the negotiations would not be completed and voted on by then. The date is the first date that the NHL can start billing Glendale for Coyotes' costs from the $25 million set aside by Glendale.
It was reported on September 17 that Hulsizer had deposited $25 million into the Glendale escrow account, as a sign of "good faith". Glendale declined to name Hulsizer by name, for confidentiality reasons. In its statement, Glendale stated "is moving forward with the prospective buyer for the purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes, subject to the negotiations and approval of the prospective buyer and the purchase price of the NHL." The statement was later clarified that Hulsizer put $25 million into escrow as a sign of good faith and that his funds were not to be used to pay the NHL's bills running the Coyotes.
On October 9, 2010, the Arizona Republic reported that negotiations between Hulsizer and Glendale were at an impasse. Hulsizer was reportedly pursuing a purchase of the team with the NHL first, without negotiating a lease to play in Glendale. Hulsizer has to negotiate a price that may or may not include paying for this season's NHL expenses. According to Glendale mayor Elaine Scruggs, "Glendale has done everything we can to negotiate with the latest buyer. It is truly out of our hands right now.".
On October 15, the Toronto The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that purchase negotiations between Hulsizer and the NHL had reached an impasse. According to the report, Hulsizer has demanded a discount on the $165 million asking price of the NHL, while the NHL is unwilling to lose money in the transaction, and that the NHL may increase the asking price if it has invested further money into the team. The Globe reports that Hulsizer's escrow account deposit came from an investment bank, and not from Hulsizer himself. According to an unnamed NHL governor, the NHL governors do not want the franchise to return to Winnipeg but will approve the move if the deal is not completed by December 31. That same day, Glendale released a statement on its web site announcing that the city had reached an agreement in principle on a lease with the Hulsizer group. Daly told TSN that "the next step will be proceeding to the NHL ownership approval process. We are hopeful this represents the beginning of the end of this long process."
Hulsizer attended the October 16, 2010 Coyotes' home game versus the Detroit Red Wings and discussed the team with general manager Don Maloney and coach Dave Tippett. He spoke publicly for the first time about the purchase stating that he had verbally agreed with the NHL on the purchase price: "Buying a hockey team is like buying a piece of art. You don't do it to make a lot of money. You do it because you love it." The agreement with Glendale is also an oral agreement and the agreement was to be discussed at Glendale council on October 19 behind closed doors.
Hulsizer attended a November 10, 2010 game of the Coyotes against the Blackhawks in Chicago. Although poor attendance at some games at Jobing.Com Arena had led to negative speculation, Hulsizer confirmed that the "process is moving forward" and that "something will be announced imminently." Some media speculation had stated that an escape clause with Glendale was a sticking point in negotiations. Hulsizer spoke to Fox Sports Arizona and he stated that the City of Glendale "has been excellent to work with." By November 23, 2010, the lease between Glendale and Hulsizer had not been discussed publicly by Glendale city council.
On December 6, 2010, Hulsizer met with members of the NHL's executive committee at the NHL owner's winter meetings. The executive committee approved Hulsizer as a potential owner. At the same time, the NHL again came to an agreement with TNSE for a possible purchase and move of the team to Winnipeg should the eventuality come to pass.
Under the announced agreement, the city of Glendale intended to buy back the parking rights to the arena from the Coyotes at a price of $100 million, and manage the arena at an annual cost of $17 million for the next five and a half years, (totalling $97 million) at which point Hulsizer has the option to buy the arena for $140 million. Glendale hoped to host the 2013 NHL All-Star Game, but the game was instead awarded to Columbus. The $100 million would be raised by a bond issue by the city. The lease would run until 2033, at which point Hulsizer could purchase the arena for $40 million. The Coyotes would make payments totalling $6 million annually to the city. Also under the agreement, the Coyotes would apply to the NHL to rename the team the "Arizona Coyotes".
Glendale council approved the lease agreement on December 14, 2010 by a vote of 5–2, with Bettman and Daly in attendance. The council was advised that the NHL would not allow the team to leave Phoenix for at least seven years. A controversial section of the agreement, allowing Hulsizer to vacate the agreement if the city defaults or if a lawsuit invalidates any or part of the deal was amended to require Hulsizer to give Glendale 120 days to negotiate. The possibility of a lawsuit was raised by the Goldwater Institute, over concerns that the deal is an unconstitutional subsidy and the $97 million for management fees is "grossly disproportionate to the fair market value" and potentially violates a "gift clause" in state law. The deal with Hulsizer is more expensive for Glendale than proposed agreements with past owner Jerry Moyes and more expensive than proposed agreements with Jerry Reinsdorf and Ice Edge Holdings.
The NHL deadline of December 31, 2010 came and passed. Daly indicated in comments to the media that the NHL intends to complete the sale to Hulsizer, and has not started any relocation process. On January 20, 2011, the Arizona Republic reported in an editorial, that Glendale was modifying the lease agreement to appease concerns of the Goldwater Institute, which had threatened to oppose the sale in court. The Goldwater Institute has not decided whether to sue Glendale or not. On January 26, 2011, Bob McCown, a Canadian nationally syndicated radio talk show host, reported that Glendale's bond sale had failed and that the city was going to hire a securities firm to sell the securities. The report was denied by Daly as "totally false." In February 2011, the City listed bonds for sale for a total amount of $116 million. The Moody's Investor Service, upon review of the bond issue and Glendale, downgraded the city of Glendale's debt rating.
As of April 2011, the bonds still had not sold. This was attributed to the possible lawsuit of the Goldwater Institute. Media has reported that the NHL will attempt to arrange alternate financing to keep the team in Phoenix. According to Daly: "We believe Goldwater has become irrelevant to the process. We do not expect Goldwater to change its position. We will have to move on without them." The Arizona Republic reported that the NHL sent Glendale a bill of $25 million to cover the Coyotes' $36.6 million in losses for the 2010–11 season. The bill was forwarded under the agreement that Glendale would put aside $25 million to cover the season's losses while the search for a new owner would continue.
The media speculated that Hulsizer had abandoned his effort to purchase the Coyotes and pursue the St. Louis Blues, a claim denied by his investment group. The Ice Edge group, which had at one time sought to purchase the team, then became a minority investor with Hulsizer's syndicate, informed Hulsizer that it was no longer interested in investing in the purchase of the Coyotes.
The NHL's backup plan to sell the team to True North Sports and return it to Winnipeg if an agreement could not be reached was rendered moot in May 2011, when the group instead announced a deal to purchase the Atlanta Thrashers and move that team to Winnipeg.
On June 27, 2011, the Phoenix Business Journal reported that Hulsizer had ended his bid for the Coyotes. According to the report, his group of investors did not want to go through another several months of negotiating with Glendale. According to the reports, Jerry Reinsdorf had re-emerged as a potential buyer for the club.
Goldwater Institute v. City of Glendale
In June 2009, the Goldwater Institute made a public records request to the City of Glendale for any documents pertaining to negotiations with potential new owners of the Coyotes. The city declined, and the Goldwater Institute filed a complaint with the Maricopa County Superior Court. In July 2009, the court ordered that Glendale must make all records of negotiations public. In August 2009, Goldwater filed a 'conditional objection' with the bankruptcy court over possible $15 to $23 million annual subsidies to Jerry Reinsdorf to inform the court that a potential sale to Reinsdorf under those terms would violate Arizona state law. Glendale released some documents to Goldwater, but not all, and Goldwater applied to the court in January 2010 to find Glendale in contempt of court. In response, Glendale filed a request for a protective order with the court and offered Goldwater access to view documents in camera.
When the proposed sale to Hulsizer and its lease agreement became public, Glendale filed studies to justify the purchase of parking rights at the Arena property and shared those with Goldwater. Goldwater wrote a letter to Glendale informing it that the proposed lease agreement appeared to violate Arizona's gift clause. In February 2011, the Goldwater Institute, in a public statement, called for Glendale to reconsider the proposed sale of bonds to finance the Hulsizer purchase, stating "the financial risk appears enormous and the transaction appears to violate the Arizona Constitution." The Institute had also found that one of the firms which had conducted the parking revenues analysis was being sued for "intentionally and fraudulently inflated event and attendance projections to inflate projected revenue and achieve an investment-grade rating" after a similar parking study in another city's issuance of bonds.
After the bonds were listed for sale with bond rating agencies, the Goldwater Institute wrote letters to those agencies, formally advising them of their belief that the bond sale violates Arizona state law, and that the Institute may file a lawsuit. The bonds did not sell immediately and on March 3, 2011, Glendale held a press conference on the lack of progress on the bond sale and to make a plea for public support. Mayor Scruggs asserted that "the Goldwater Institute is obstructing the city's ability to sell the necessary bonds". Media reports circulated that the City of Glendale was preparing to file a lawsuit against the Goldwater Institute alleging tortious interference with the bond sale and seeking up to $500 million in damages should the team leave Glendale. Goldwater president Darcy A. Olsen replied that any such action "would be frivolous and unsuccessful". Glendale Deputy City Manager for Communications Julie Frisoni confirmed only that a lawsuit was an option, but that it intended to work with Goldwater, and had contacted Goldwater board members, stating "the situation as it exists cannot continue without a resolution."
On March 8, Bettman and Daly traveled to Glendale to meet with city officials privately. The NHL attempted to arrange a private meeting with Goldwater, but Goldwater insisted on a public meeting. Bettman held a press conference, making it clear that the NHL was still committed to the sale, but that "I will not say today when the end is and I will not set a deadline, but at some point, we may have no choice but to begin pursuing our other alternatives." On March 15, 2011, the Goldwater Institute announced it would file a legal challenge against Glendale, on the grounds that the deal between Glendale and Hulsizer would violate the Arizona Constitution. On March 18, 2011, Daly took part in a Phoenix radio talk show to discuss the situation. He noted that Goldwater had been "effective" in stopping sales of the bonds, but that the NHL was working to find bond buyers "who are interested regardless of whatever litigation risk there might be from Goldwater."
On March 20, Hulsizer announced in an interview that he would agree to guarantee any short-fall in parking revenues up to $75 million. To ESPN, Hulsizer wrote that he had transmitted that to the Goldwater Institute in a letter. "The situation was stuck and we need to move forward. While we still believe the original deal is legal we wanted to make things simple." According to ESPN, the concession followed discussions among Arizona senator John McCain, former Arizona state attorney general Grant Woods, and officials with Goldwater. The following day, the Goldwater's Olsen announced that the Hulsizer guarantee did not change the Institute's view that the deal was still illegal under Arizona law. In an interview on radio, Olsen explained the Goldwater position. Hulsizer did not guarantee the bonds up to $75 million, but intended to back parking revenues up to $75 million over the 30-year lease. At $2.5 million per year, Olsen estimated that would be the parking revenues at the arena from concerts alone. The taxpayers of Glendale were not being offered any guarantee on the bonds. Glendale met in a public forum with Goldwater to attempt to end the impasse, but both sides did not change their positions on the possible deal.
2011–13: Failed sales to Jamison and Reinsdorf groups
After paying the $25 million for the 2010–11 season to the NHL, an agreement was reached between the NHL and Glendale for Glendale to pay another $25 million to keep the Coyotes in Glendale for the 2011–12 season. It was announced on May 6, 2011, two years after Jerry Moyes put the Coyotes into bankruptcy. Glendale Council in a vote of 5–2, approved the setting aside of another $25 million at a council meeting on May 10, 2011. Bill Daly spoke to the Council to state that the NHL remains committed to keeping the team in Arizona, whether it is with Hulsizer or another owner. Although the $25 million is technically an arena management fee, as the amount exceeds the NHL's costs of operating Jobing.Com Arena the payment is a subsidy for the team's losses.
In June 2011, the Westgate City Center development adjacent to the Jobing.Com Arena received notices of foreclosure. Part of the reason given for the foreclosure was the uncertainty around the Coyotes. The Center remained open, and occupancy rates continued to decline. The Steve Ellman companies attempted to reschedule debt on Westgate City Center and surrounding properties to prevent the Center from being sold to settle debt to lenders. Ellman acquired Westgate in 2006 by swapping his ownership in the Coyotes for Jerry Moyes' ownership share of Westgate. Ellman had moved the Coyotes to Glendale in 2005 after failing to get an arena built at the former Los Arcos Mall in Scottsdale. Two auctions were conducted for foreclosed Westgate City Center properties. One auction, on September 19, 2011, was for properties securing a $97.5 million loan from iStar Financial. The auction failed to sell at a reserve price of $40 million, and the 33 acre property became the property of iStar. A second auction was held on November 3, 2011 for properties securing a $202 million loan from Credit Suisse. No-one bid the $25 million minimum bid in the auction and Credit Suisse retained ownership of the properties.
After Hulsizer dropped out, the Phoenix Business Journal reported that Glendale and the NHL were negotiating with Reinsdorf and an unnamed group.
In August 2011, the Phoenix Business Journal reported that former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison was leading a group to purchase the Coyotes and keep the team in Arizona. The group arranged for exclusive negotiating rights. Jamison was president and CEO of the Sharks and its parent company, Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment, from 1996 until September 2010.
On September 22, the Arizona Republic reported that Glendale Hockey LLC, a group which include Jerry Reinsdorf, Arizona lawyer John Kaites and Tony Tavares, had entered into negotiations to purchase the Coyotes. David Leibowitz, the group's spokesman, confirmed that Kaites is the managing partner of the group. It represented the second time that Kaites and Reinsdorf had entered into talks to purchase the team. The Jamison group continued its interest in purchasing the Coyotes. In December 2011, Glendale mayor Elaine Scruggs publicly stated that the Jamison group was still working on the proposal, and that Glendale was waiting for Jamison and the NHL to conclude an agreement and present it to Glendale.
In December 2011, after no sale announcement had been made, the media openly speculated that the Coyotes could be relocated to Quebec City if the team fails to find a new owner to keep the team in Glendale in time for the 2012–13 season. A new arena is planned to open in 2015 in Quebec. The club would play in the Colisée Pepsi arena until the new arena is completed. After the realignment for the 2011–12 season was announced (which was rejected), commissioner Bettman noted that the new configuration of the league could accommodate relocations if any took place.
During annual discussions with the media at the 2012 All-Star Game in Ottawa, Bettman revealed that a third group was interested in purchasing the Coyotes. Neither Bettman or anyone with the City of Glendale would reveal the identity of the group. Two weeks later, on February 9, 2012, former Phoenix player Jeremy Roenick was revealed to have joined the Jamison group. According to Roenick, the group was interested in purchasing the team along with the Westgate Center.
On April 3, 2012, Elaine Scruggs, the mayor of Glendale, stated she would no longer approve of any further subsidy to keep the Coyotes in Phoenix and she who also seek the return of the $20 million paid to the NHL in the previous season, which is being held in escrow by the league. However, on April 24, the city of Glendale approved another $25 million for the 2012–13 season.
During the 2012 playoffs, ESPN and the Phoenix Business Journal both reported a tentative deal had been reached between the NHL and the Jamison group. According to The Globe and Mail, the Jamison group sought a continuation of the "facility management fee" paid by the City of Glendale at a rate of $16 million annually to operate the Arena over a 30-year lease. The Goldwater Institute released a press release on May 7, stating "We are looking forward to reviewing the details of the deal when they are made public. We hope the new deal complies with the law and protects taxpayers by requiring the private parties involved to bear any related costs." Before the fifth game of the second round of the playoffs, Bettman held a press conference at the Jobing.com Arena to announce a tentative agreement between Jamison and the NHL, subject to a lease agreement with Glendale.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal proposed continuing the facility management fee paid by Glendale, at an average rate of $14.5 million per year. The City of Glendale would've also continued to pay the debt service charge of $12.6 million per year for Jobing.Com Arena. The City's costs of $27.1 million were to be offset by anticipated Coyotes-related revenue of $14.2 million, according to projections from Glendale's city management department, leaving an annual deficit of $12.9 million to keep the team. The total cost to Glendale after the thirty-year term of the ownership deal would have been $271 million.
On June 8, Glendale City Council met to vote on the lease agreement with the Jamison group. The Goldwater Institute had attempted to have the vote postponed on the basis that the City of Glendale had not provided required documents to the Institute and the general public, but the trial judge refused to block the vote. The judge ordered Glendale to make its documents public. Council approved the lease agreement 4–2. During the meeting, Glendale City Council asked Jamison to name his investors, but Jamison declined. Gary Bettman also attended the meeting and noted that the NHL had extended its deadline of finalizing an agreement from May 27 to June 27.
On June 13, 2012, the Goldwater Institute filed two legal challenges to Glendale's vote to approve the lease. Goldwater's first filing wanted to nullify the vote on two points: one, that emergency approvals require five out of seven council members to pass; and two, that any deal by Glendale over $50,000 requires a request for proposal or invitation to local businesses to bid, suggesting that Glendale could find an arena manager at lower cost. Goldwater's second filing was for contempt of court for Glendale's not releasing documents outlining arena management performance standards and how the arena budget should be submitted, and documents pertaining to a non-relocation agreement with Jamison. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink ruled on Goldwater's legal challenges separately. Fink ruled that an 'emergency clause' in the agreement barring voters from referring the agreement was unconstitutional. Otherwise, Fink ruled that the agreement did not violate City of Glendale competitive bidding rules.
Immediately following the ruling, a petition drive was started. If 1,800 signatures supporting a referendum vote on the deal were collected, the agreement would be voted on as part of November municipal elections. The votes had to be collected by July 16, 2012. Several council candidates who opposed the deal called for a delay in signing the lease by City Manager Horatio Skeete. As well as putting the lease agreement up for referendum, Glendale citizens may put a 2.9% tax increase by Glendale on the ballot as well. Opponents only delivered a total of 1,568 signatures against the deal and delivered the petitions on July 12. The City of Glendale rejected the petitions on July 16.
During the summer and fall of 2012, the lease agreement was revised between Glendale and Jamison. Instead of first season payments of $17 million to Jamison, this was reduced to $11 million and penalties added if Jamison does not bring in at least 30 non-hockey events per year. The revised lease agreement was approved by the outgoing Glendale Council 4–2 on November 27, 2012.
The 2012–2013 NHL season resumed on January 19, 2013, the fourth season without an owner for the Phoenix Coyotes. On January 22, 2013 the Glendale City Council met for the first time with four new members, and failed to consider or discuss a new arena management agreement during the first three council meetings. Glendale City Attorney Craig Tindall resigned during an executive session on February 26, 2013, while Glendale worked without a permanent city manager, while facing a difficult budget process for fiscal 2014. On January 31, 2013, Jamison released a statement saying he would be unable to complete the sale of the team under the conditions of the lease.
Sale in 2013 to Renaissance
On May 25, 2013, the NHL approved the sale of the Coyotes to Renaissance Sports & Entertainment (RS&E), a group of Canadian investors headed by banker George Gosbee and Anthony LeBlanc, who had previously tried to purchase the team in 2009 as part of Ice Edge Holdings. The deal was contingent upon a lease agreement with the city of Glendale regarding the usage of Jobing.com Arena. The announced purchase price was $170 million, with $45 million provided by RS&E, $120 million lent by the Fortress Investment Group (to be repaid by the fee Glendale taxpayers are going to pay the team to run the arena), and an $85 million loan from the NHL.
By June, the ownership group had not yet been able to finalize a deal with the City of Glendale to play at Jobing.com Arena. Speculation began that the NHL would move the team to Seattle. Although the NHL refused to publicly set a deadline, the need for the NHL to finalize its 2013–14 schedule by earlier July, and Glendale's need to finalize its 2013–14 budget by July 1, established a tight time-frame to work-out a new deal to keep the Coyotes in the Jobing.com arena. Unless the NHL had chosen to put the team on hiatus, the tight schedule left only Quebec City and Seattle as possible options for relocation in time for the 2013–14 season; and indications were that Gary Bettman's preferred choice was Seattle.
With the NHL Board of Governors scheduled to meet on June 27, it was widely anticipated that unless Glendale city council announced that a deal to keep the team in Arizona has been struck, the NHL would relocate the franchise to Seattle with its home games to be played out of the 11,000 seat KeyArena at Seattle Center until a new arena was completed.
The Glendale city council was scheduled to meet on June 25, in advance of the scheduled June 27 NHL Board of Governors' meeting, and the NHL issued the warning that "No decision could be a decision", meaning that a new arena deal was required, otherwise the NHL would be forced to relocate the franchise. On June 25, Glendale's city council met and announced they would have a public vote to decide the issue on July 2.
On June 27, with no decision on a new deal with Glendale, the NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the Coyotes franchise to RS&E and set a July 2 deadline for the City of Glendale to reach an arena deal with the RS&E group, or the team would be moved.
Leading into the deadline vote, the NHL announced that Seattle's KeyArena would be an acceptable home for the relocated team if the City of Glendale could not reach a new agreement to keep the NHL franchise at Jobing.com Arena, while KeyArena confirmed that it was "holding dates" for the upcoming 2013–14 NHL season. In the late evening of July 2, Glendale City Council voted 4–3 to approve the lease agreement to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in the Jobing.com arena. The 15-year agreement pays the RS&E group $15 million yearly in "management fees" of Jobing.Com Arena. The league's Board of Governors formally approved the RS&E deal on August 5, ending the league's ownership in the club.
RS&E affiliated company IceArizona managed the Coyotes and Jobing.com Arena. The RS&E/IceArizona group was headquartered in Houston. The group was mainly composed of investors from the energy sector, including George Gosbee of Edmonton, Alberta. Two other investors, finance industry executives Anthony LeBlanc and Daryl Jones, had been involved in previous attempts to buy the team.
NHL vs. Jerry Moyes and other disputes
The National Hockey League filed a lawsuit against Jerry Moyes seeking to recover its costs and damages. It was revealed that the NHL lost $112.7 million in operating the Coyotes. The NHL had sued Moyes over the funds, but Judge Baum ruled against the NHL. The NHL can still appeal the decision. The Judge allowed the NHL to sue Moyes for legal fees. The NHL stated that it would continue to sue Moyes over contractual obligations as Coyotes' owner. On January 20, 2015, David Shoalts of The Globe and Mail reported that Baum had recommended to the US Court presiding that the NHL not get the full $145 million it was seeking, but could seek some smaller amount in damages. NHL Deputy Commissioner Daly stated that the NHL would appeal all aspects of the ruling.
The NHL reached a settlement with Wayne Gretzky in December 2013 for a reported $8 million.
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Create Shortcut to Open Google Chrome in Incognito mode
Google Chrome is an extremely popular browser that everyone uses and enjoys. This browser is built on a Chromium-based open project and provides a plethora of capabilities to its users. When using Chrome in normal mode, as with other browsers, a user’s browsing history, search history, data entered into forms, websites visited, and so on can be viewed by other users on the same system. If you do not want this to happen, simply open the browser in incognito mode and browse the web. However, opening the browser in normal mode and then switching to incognito mode every time can be inconvenient.
To avoid this, simply build a shortcut that launches the Google Chrome browser in incognito mode. When you double-click on the shortcut, the browser window will open in incognito mode. Alternatively, if you are certain that you will only use the browser in incognito mode from now on, you can simply edit the existing shortcut to always open the window in incognito mode.
In this article let us see in detail how to edit the existing shortcut and also the steps to create a new shortcut.
Method 1: To Create a New Shortcut
Step 1: Right-click anywhere on the screen, and a context menu opens as shown below
1. Select New
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Step 2: In the Create Shortcut window,
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Vehicle Dynamics
ME5670
Instructor: Ashok Kumar Pandey
Email: ashok@iith.ac.in
Class timing
Monday: 2:30 4:00 PM
Thursday: 4:00 5:30 PM
Date: 01/01/2015
Fundamental Definitions
Vehicle Dynamics
It concerns with the movements of vehicles on a road surface
Physical condition
Acceleration and braking, ride, and turning
Dynamic behavior
Forces on the vehicle due to tires, gravity, and aerodynamics.
Vehicle and its components are studied to determine forces
produced by the sources at particular maneuver and trim
condition
Objective
How the vehicle responds to these forces.
Representation
One mass
approximation
Located at its C.G.
For acceleration,
braking, and most
turning analysis.
Two masses
approximation
For ride analysis,
wheels are treated
as separate
lumped masses
Body mass as sprung mass.
Wheel mass as unsprung mass.
Vehicle Dynamics Interaction
Vehicle dynamics
Isolation
It implies the rejection of
disturbance
Separating driver from
the disturbances
Internally
generated
disturbance
Control
Engine vibration and noise
Externally
generated
disturbance
Aerodynamic interaction
(crosswinds, wakes, etc)
Road undulation
Forces/effects
Absence of disturbance
amplification
Path
Speed
Stability
Agility
Fidelity
Linearity
Vertical
Longitudinal
Lateral
Refinement
Ride
Subjective
Handling
Objective
Performance
Course Content
Vehicle Mechanics Forces under static and dynamic equilibrium.
Free body diagram of different vehicle components such as tire, braking, suspension,
chassis, car body, gear box, clutch system, power steering, chassis, car body.
Simple linearized rigid models of different components.
Dynamic stability and the vehicle performance under different operating conditions such
as
- understeering, neutralsteering, oversteering, and
- factors associated with the vehicle-terrain interaction.
Concept of vehicle ride comfort.
Introduction to random excitation and electronics stability controls.
Performance characteristics of a comfort vehicle ride.
Introduction to the development of one-dimensional vehicle driveline using different
softwares such as MATLAB Simulink/ADAMS/Carsim.
Introduction to advanced topics in the accurate modelling of vehicle dynamics
Nonlinear models considering large deformation and material nonlinearity.
Grading Scheme
Attendence: 10%
Assignments:15%
Mid Term: 30%
Project report: 15%
Final Term: 30%
References
1. Thomas Gillespie, Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics, SAE, 1992.
2. Dean Karnopp, Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and Control, Second Edition, CRC
Press, 2013.
3. Giancarlo Genta, Motor Vehicle Dynamics-Modeling and Simulation, World
Scientific, 2013
3. Giancarlo Genta and Lorenzo Morello, The Automotive Chasis- Volume 1 and 2,
Springer, 2009.
4. John C. Dixon, Tires, Suspension and Handling, SAE, 1996.
Herb Adams, Chassis Engineering: Chassis Design, Building & Tuning for High
Performance Handling, Brownian Dynamics, HP Trade, 1992
Softwares: Carsim, BikeSIm, ADAMS, SYSTEM MODELER/MAPLESIM, MATLAB
SIMULINK, SOLID EDGE/UNIGRAPHICS,
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admired, I trust, by succeeding generations of enlightened men, the graduates of our Universities.
Now, gentlemen, what is this University which they founded? The first thing which strikes me in trying to answer this query for you is that its founders avoided the question as to whether an University has simply to do with preparing its students by a liberal and humanistic education to become right-thinking men able to take clear views in regard to the daily problems of life which they will have to solve, or also with the imparting of professional knowledge. Nor do they seem to have touched the question whether an University, which has not within it the potentialities of becoming a local habitation for a permanent congregation of learned men, can ever concentrate within it the educational side of a people's life. Their thoughts seem not to have wandered back to the ancient Universities of Paris or Bologna, or to Oxford or Cambridge, or even to Universities of the German type; but they took for their model, an University, that of London, which confined itself. Medicine excepted, to the modest work of prescribing courses of study, for its students, and of effectively testing such students. They departed from that model in only one important matter to which I am about to refer, viz., the restricting of the study of Matriculated students to affiliated colleges. Their ends were essentially practical. They sought to form not a centre of instruction for all, but a centre for testing the instruction of all, and by this system of public examinations, to give "full development to the highest course of education to which the Natives of India, or of any other country, can aspire," and besides, by the division of University degrees and distinctions into different branches, to direct "the exertions of highly educated men to the studies which are necessary to success in the various active professions of life," and thus to diffuse useful knowledge, and to confer upon the Natives of India "vast moral and material blessings." Thus the practical ends in view in establishing the University are clear. But there are two matters in connection with it to which I would invite your attention. The first concerns the development of the organization of the University; the second, the supplementing by subsequent self-culture the courses of study which it encourages. I do this because I feel that you should think of these things and of how you can help to establish and settle your University system on lines which will better promote good and useful learning, and secure for its graduates as great an influence in the educational development of South India, as public
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The hour glass was a good way of measuring time. It was in use for hundreds of years. Fine sand trickles through a small hole in the glass from the top half to the bottom. When the top is empty the glass is turned over. Tournaments were timed by the turn of a glass.
Little written evidence exists to explain why its external form is the shape that it is. The glass bulbs used, however, have changed in style and design over time. While the main designs have always been ampoule in shape, the bulbs were not always connected. The first hourglasses were two separate bulbs with a cord wrapped at their union that was then coated in wax to hold the piece together and let sand flow in between. It was not until 1760 that both bulbs were blown together to keep moisture out of the bulbs and regulate the pressure within the bulb that varied the flow.
While some early hourglasses actually did use silica sand as the granular material to measure time, many did not use sand at all. The material used in most bulbs was "powdered marble, tin/lead oxides, [or] pulverized, burnt eggshell". Over time, different textures of granule matter were tested to see which gave the most constant flow within the bulbs. It was later discovered that for the perfect flow to be achieved the ratio of granule bead to the width of the bulb neck needed to be 1/12 or more but not greater than 1/2 the neck of the bulb.
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European CLO Fund Managers Seek Life in Listed Loan Funds: Credit Markets
Mutual funds are helping to fill the
gap left by collateralized loan obligations in Europe as
borrowers search for ways to refinance 200 billion euros ($267
billion) of leveraged loans. Vanguard Group Inc. and Fidelity Investments , the two
largest U.S. mutual fund companies, are leading a record $833
million of investment in Europe-listed loan funds. NB Global
Floating Rate Income Fund and Babson Capital Management LLC,
which traditionally invested in loans via CLOs, announced plans
to raise $382 million in the equity market to buy the debt. Hobbled following the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc. and unable to recover amid Europe’s sovereign
crisis, CLOs have withdrawn as the biggest loan investors. At
their peak in 2007, the funds purchased 62 percent of the debt
in Europe, according to Standard & Poor’s Leveraged Commentary &
Data. The securities raised 285 million euros this year compared
with a record 35 billion euros in 2007, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg. “Listed loan funds could be the new version of CLOs for
European investors,” said Joseph Lynch, a Chicago-based
managing director at Neuberger Berman Fixed Income LLC, which
listed NB Floating Rate Income Fund in an April IPO that raised
$507 million. “The CLO market is unlikely to come back in
Europe anytime soon.” Funding Hole As the “vast majority” of European CLOs wind down by
2015, the companies that depended on them for 61 billion euros
of leveraged loans due by 2015 might lose their source of
capital, S&P said in an Aug. 25 report. CLOs pool high-yield, high-risk loans and slice them into
securities of varying risk and return. “The question is what will replace CLOs in Europe,” said
Leland Hart, head of loans at BlackRock Inc. (BLK) in New York , the
world’s biggest money manager . “We like loan funds because they
give a very solid dividend and a high degree of income certainty
notwithstanding the recent debt crisis in the market. Given the
price of loans today, the appeal is pretty self-evident.” Elsewhere in credit markets, the extra yield investors
demand to hold corporate bonds worldwide rather than government
debentures rose 8 basis points to 277 basis points, or 2.77
percentage points, according to Bank of America Merrill
Lynch’s Global Broad Market Corporate Index. The extra yield investors demand to hold the top-ranked
portion of bonds backed by commercial mortgages jumped to the
highest since February 2010, according to a Barclays Capital
index. Credit Default Swaps Spreads on the BarCap CMBS AAA Super Duper Index widened 29
basis points yesterday to 323 basis points, or 3.23 percentage
points. Relative yields have climbed from 2.26 percentage points
since the end of July as investor concern has mounted that
Europe’s debt crisis will hurt bank balance sheets and derail
the faltering global economic recovery. William Lyon Homes missed its second bond interest payment
in two months as the homebuilder discusses reorganization with
lenders. Garden Ridge Corp. increased the discount at which it
will sell a $250 million term loan . The Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index, which
investors use to hedge against losses or speculate on
creditworthiness, fell 1 basis point to a mid-price of 146.3
basis points, as of 11:35 a.m. in New York, according to Markit
Group Ltd. The index typically declines as investor confidence
improves and rise as it deteriorates. Credit swaps pay the buyer
face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the
value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000
annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt. Loan Prices Fall William Lyon, the builder of single-family homes, didn’t
pay $7.5 million in interest due on Oct. 1 on its $138.8 million
of 10.75 percent notes maturing in April 2013, according to a
regulatory filing. The Newport Beach , California-based company
said it must make the payment by Oct. 31 to prevent a default. The S&P/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 index declined 1.14
cent to 87.02 cents on the dollar, the lowest level since
December 2009. The measure, which tracks the 100 largest dollar-
denominated first-lien leveraged loans, has dropped from 94.41
cents at the end of July. Garden Ridge, a retailer of home décor products, will sell
the loan to finance the company’s buyout by AEA Investors LP at
90 cents on the dollar, compared with 93 cents previously
proposed, said a person with knowledge of the transaction, who
declined to be identified because the terms are private. Leveraged loans and high-yield bonds are rated below Baa3
by Moody’s Investors Service and lower than BBB- by S&P. Debt Through Equity Fidelity made its first investment in a listed loan fund in
Europe earlier year by investing in Blackstone Group LP’s
Carador Income Fund Plc (CIFU) , which pays more than 10 percent
dividend yield, said Eugene Philalithis, a London-based money
manager at Fidelity. “Listed funds allow you to trade more frequently and fund
managers don’t have to worry about having to raise funds to meet
redemptions,” Philalithis said. “You are getting access
through an equity vehicle to buy debt instruments. Market
sentiment has an impact on share price but the underlying asset
value of these funds is what drives the longer-term
performance.” Carador and Greenwich Loan Income Fund Ltd. (GLIF) rewarded
investors with share price increases of 15 percent to 35 percent
this year, Bloomberg data show. That compares with a price
decline for bonds tracked by Merrill Lynch’s Euro High Yield
Constrained Index to 84 percent of face value from 94 percent. Tetragon, Henderson Shares of Tetragon Financial Group Ltd. (TFG) , a Guernsey company
traded on Euronext Amsterdam that invests in bank loans mainly
through equity tranches of CLOs, rose as much as 7.1 percent
today to $6.16, the biggest gain since Aug. 12. They have gained
36 percent in the past year while net asset value per share
increased 52 percent to $11.77. Henderson Diversifed Income Ltd.
rose 2.1 percent today to 73 pence, the biggest increase since
Aug. 22. In comparison, prices of European CLO equity rose about 8
percent this year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s
data. Issuance of bonds from CLOs in Europe fell to 10 billion
euros in 2008 and was zero in 2009. This year’s sole issuer
European Capital, a unit of Bethesda, Maryland-based based
American Capital , retained about two-thirds of an 858 million-
euro deal in June. Half of the $37.4 billion of loans for private-equity
funded buyouts were placed with institutional investors
including CLOs this year, compared with 58 percent in 2010,
according to Bloomberg data. Issuance of leveraged buyout loans
in Europe more than doubled from $16 billion in 2010. Growing ‘Very Quickly’ European companies acquired by LBO firms will struggle to
refinance more than 200 billion euros of debt as investors
eschew risky securities, according to a Sept. 28 report by Fitch
Ratings . CLO managers including Avoca Capital Holdings and New
Amsterdam Capital Management LLP may follow Babson Capital to
create loan investment trusts listed in stock exchanges ,
according to officials from the funds. “The market for listed credit funds is growing very
quickly in Europe,” said Miguel Ramos-Fuentenebro of GSO
Capital Partners International LLP, the investment manager of
Blackstone-owned Carador. “We believe there’s no reason why
loans shouldn’t suit a very large pool of investors.” New Amsterdam Capital Management LLP is considering
floating some of its assets as a way to grow the business
without having to issue CLOs, founding partner John Seal of the
London-based firm said. Avoca Capital Holdings won’t “rule
out” a similar vehicle, said Alan Burke, the Dublin-based chief
executive of Avoca Capital Holdings, which oversees 6 billion
euros. “We will see more funds being created to have shares
traded on stock exchanges in the next 12 months, probably
quicker,” said Burke. To contact the reporter on this story:
Patricia Kuo in London at
pkuo2@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Faris Khan at
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Papilio Podalirius. In May, frequenting gardens and open fields, but is rare, shy and very difficult to capture.
P. Machaon. In May, some years abundant, about ditches, on walls, and in dried fields.
Pontia Cratægi. At Midsummer. About three years since this butterfly was very abundant in this neighbourhood, flying about lanes, fields, and ditches; it appeared particularly fond of the alder-tree, and was very easy to capture : since that time two specimens only have occurred.
P. Brassicæ, P. Rapæ, P. Napi. All of them too common.
P. Daplidice. In April and May, and again in August, common in dry fields, flies very fast.
P. Cardamines. In April and May, in meadows by hundreds.
P. Sinapis. In May and June, frequenting moist places, in woods, rather rare.
Colias Edusa. In August and September, frequenting fields of clover saved for seed.
C. Hyale. In July and August, frequenting the same localities as the last, but is abundant ; it flies very rapidly.
Rhodocera flhamni. Common throughout the year.
Melitcea Artemis. In May and June, frequenting meadows near woods, not uncommon.
M. Delia. In June and July ; same localities, and equally common.
M. Cinxia. In June and July, in woods and meadows, scarce.
M. Athalia. From May to July, frequenting open places, in woods and meadows, in the vicinity of woods, not uncommon ; this is a very variable species.
M. Dictynna. In June and July, in the same localities as the preceding, but less common.
M. Matuma. In June and July, in woods and neighbouring meadows, scarce.
M. Lucina. In June and July, open places in woods, not common.
Argynnis Euphrosyne. In May and again in August, or the latter end of July ; common everywhere ; a variable species.
A Selene. In May and June, and again in August, abundant everywhere : last spring I captured a remarkable and beautiful variety, in which the black spots were united into bands or stripes.
A. Tomyris. A single specimen of this insect was brought me in July : I am not aware of the locality where it was captured.
A. Thalia. Its time is June and July : I have seen but a single specimen cap- tured in the immediate neighbourhood.
A. Aglaia. In June, July, and August, common.
A. Daphne. I once captured this splendid butterfly in a lane in the Saxon forest flying about an oak-tree.
A. Dia. In May and again in July and August, in the open parts of woods, not uncommon.
A. Ino. During the whole summer, in woods : two years ago it was very abun- dant, but is now rather less so.
A. Lathonia. Extremely common throughout the summer.
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Girotra was most recently CEO and Country Head of UBS in India managing its investment bank, commercial bank, markets, equity research and wealth management divisions. Previously, Girotra was Head – North India of Barclays Bank. Girotra began her investment banking career in London in the corporate bank at ANZ Grindlays. Girotra has appeared in Business Today's “25 Most Powerful Women in Business in India” for the past five years as well as Fortune India's “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” in 2014. Girotra holds a degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and received a gold medal for her master's degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
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many stories of horrible excesses to which these settlers were exposed, without the Colonial Government bothering itself much about the fate of these unfortunate outposts. In 1754 the great war, which was to settle the predominance in America, broke out. It lasted nine years and brought new sufferings to the German settlers in the frontier districts.
The terrible struggle, which was also carried on in Europe, ended by the Peace of Paris in 1763. It cost France her colonial empires in North America, that she had established and developed with enormous efforts and outlay of money. Moreover the French lost the West Indian Islands Granada, St. Vincent, Dominique and Tobago. England's magnanimity left France nothing but the two minute islets of St. Pierre and Miquelon, south of New Foundland, in the neighborhood of which the French sailors are allowed to fish, in order that they might supply their co-religiously with cod fish.
But England was not yet satisfied with these results. Constantly keeping in view the idea of becoming the sole mistress of the seas, it was incessantly busy destroying also France's maritime power. This desire was satisfied during the wars of all Europe against Napoleon I, in the two naval battles at Aboukir (July 1st, 1798) and Trafalgar (October 2 1st, 1805) both of which were won by England's greatest admiral, Nelson. On account of these defeats, Napoleon had to forego his intention of attacking his most hated enemies, the English, their own country, as he had no vessels left to transport his armies thither. With the battle of Trafalgar the French flag was driven from the ocean, and France, as a sea power, became a negligible factor for many years to come.
During the Napoleonic period England seized the opportunity to deprive another nation of its fleet and commerce: the Danes. Denmark had succeeded in obtaining a part of the world's trade, and, for its protection, had created a navy, small but efficient. During the Napoleonic wars Denmark remained strictly neutral, had however entered a so-called neutral confederacy with Sweden, Russia and Prussia. This confederacy had been formed to prevent England from searching vessels of the various neutral countries for contraband of war. Such a neutral alliance was so much the more necessary as England had repeatedly seized Swedish and Danish frigates, which were to prevent such search, and had taken them to English ports. To force Denmark's withdrawal from this confederacy and
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The Showroom
The Showroom is a not-for-profit art gallery in Marylebone, London, which displays site-specific works by emerging artists. The gallery presents four shows each year, a schedule that allows artists the time to develop and realise their work on site.
Established in 1983, the gallery was based at a site in Bethnal Green, East London. In 2008, the gallery relocated to a building in Marylebone, London, on Penfold Street, which was converted by Berlin-based architects ifau + Jesko Fezer.
Solo shows at The Showroom in the former East End space included Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Starling, Christina Mackie, Jim Lambie, Claire Barclay, and Eva Rothschild.
The Showroom receives fixed-term funding from Arts Council of England and other organisations and individuals. The director Gabriela Salgado was appointed in July 2022, when Elvira Dyangani Ose left to become director of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Previous directors were Emily Pethick, Kirsty Ogg, Kim Sweet and David Thorp.
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Consider the T-S diagram of a refrigerator unit. The working flid is R-22. The refrigerator operates between a low pressure of 0.60 bar absolute (measured in the evaporator) and high pressure of 18.0 bar absolute (measured in the condenser). Assume negligible pressure loss in either condenser (path 1 -> 2) or the evaporator (path 3-> 4). A throttle controls the pressure change between states 2 and 3. A perfectly insulated compressor provides the work for the cycle (Path 4->1). The quality of state 2 is 0.00 and the quality of state 4 is 1.00.
1) If the compressor is 100 % efficient, what is the temperature of state 1?
2) If the efficiency of the compressor was less than 100 %, the enthalpy at state 1 would be
a. Smaller
b. The same
c. Larger
than for a 100 % efficient compressor? Explain
3) What is the quality of state 3?
4) While the cycle is internally reversible, is the cycle plus surroundings completely reversible? Briefly explain.
5) Could you operate this refrigeration cycle if the outside temperature is 118°F? Explain.
6) On a particularly cool day, R-22 emerges from the condenser (state 2) at 36 °C (the pressure remains at 18 bar). What is the enthalpy of this sub-cooled liquid? (Give answer in terms of kJ/kg).
7) Cooling water at 25° C is used to facilitate heat exchange in the condenser (path 1->2). If the temperature of the cooling water can rise no more than 5° C, what is the minimum flow rate
(kg/min) of water that is necessary to completely condense the R-22? Assume that the temperature of R-22 at state 1 is 130° C and the pressure is 18 bar. Take state 2 to be a saturated liquid with a quality of 0.0 and a pressure of 18 bar. The flow rate of R-22 is 1.5 kg/min. For cooling water, you can estimate the change in the enthalpy as dh =CpdT, where Cp is 4.2 kJ/kg*K.
Summary
The question belongs to Chemical Engineering and it is about refrigeration unit. The unit operates at low pressure of 0.60 bar and high pressure of 18 bar. The questions range from the efficiency of the refrigeration unit, the enthalpy depending upon the efficiency, the quality of state, operating temperature of the unit at 118 F, etc. These questions have been answered in the solution in detail.
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out God; canst thou find out the perfection of the Almighty? It is more high than heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know?'
Will it be said, experience might also have shown to Israel a not ourselves which did not make for his happiness, but rather made against it, baffled his claims to it? But no man, as I have elsewhere remarked, who simply follows his own consciousness, is aware of any claims, any rights, whatever; what he gets of good makes him thankful, what he gets of ill seems to him natural. His simple spontaneous feeling is well expressed by that saying of Izaak Walton: 'Every misery that I miss is a new mercy, and therefore let us be thankful.' It is true, the not ourselves of which we are thankfully conscious we inevitably speak of and speak to as a man; for 'man never knows hows anthropomorphic he is.' And as time proceeds, imagination and reasoning keep working upon this substructure, and build from it a magnified and non-natural man. Attention is then drawn, afterwards, to causes outside ourselves which seem to make for sin and suffering; and then either these causes have to be reconciled by some highly ingenious scheme with the magnified and non-natural man's power, or a second magnified and non-natural man has to be supposed, who pulls the contrary way to the first. So arise Satan and his angels. But all this is secondary, and comes much later. Israel, the founder of our religion, did not begin with this. He began with experience. He knew from thankful experience the not ourselves which makes for righteousness, and knew how little we know about God besides.
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by Tara Kimball
The starter in the 2005 Dodge Neon is the core of the vehicle's starting system. Operating your car with a failing starter can leave you stranded and in need of the auto club. When your car struggles to start, determine if the starter is at fault and if so, replace it right away. Buy a new starter at an auto-parts specialty store and change it at home.
Step 1
Raise the hood of the car. Remove the negative cable from the battery with a wrench.
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Raise the car with a jack, holding it stable with jack stands. Locate the starter at the base of the engine compartment, near the driver-side wheel well. Remove the retaining nuts holding the cables on the starter and pull the cables from the posts.
Step 3
Remove the mounting bolts from the top of the starter body with a wrench. Support the starter while you remove the lower mounting bolts with a wrench. Pull the starter out of the engine compartment. Insert the new starter, positioning it the same orientation as the one you removed.
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Install the lower mounting bolts and tighten them with the wrench. Support the starter body while you repeat the process with the upper mounting bolts. Attach the cables to the posts and tighten the retaining nuts with a wrench.
Raise the car using the jack, then remove the stands. Connect the negative cable to the battery post. Lower the hood and test the new starter.
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80 He then rose to his feet and paced up and down the small room. Several times he went to the door and looked out in the direction where the women were camped. An uneasy feeling was tugging at his heart which he could not banish. He called himself a fool, blew out the candles, and threw himself down again upon the bunk. But he could not sleep. His thoughts were ever down the trail as he pictured those two women alone in the night. Perhaps more wolves had returned, for he knew that several packs were on the move of late. And if not wolves, there were creatures more to be feared where helpless women were concerned. It was most unlikely that men would be prowling around, he reasoned. But who could tell? The absence of those women must surely be known at Big Chance, and there were men there capable of any deed of villainy.
At length he sprang to his feet, pulled on his heavy outer jacket and cap, seized his snow-shoes, and ordering the dog to stay behind, he left the cabin, and hurried down the trail. It took him but a few minutes to come near the camping ground, where he moved most cautiously, peering keenly ahead. Although he approached most silently, the dogs scented his presence. They leaped to their feet and growled ferociously. Hugo paid little heed to the brutes, his attention being centred upon a lone figure huddled before the fire. Instinctively he realised that something was the matter, so stepping into the circle of light he rapidly approached. Marion saw him coming, recognized him at once, and with a cry of joy sprang to her feet. So overcome was she that she tottered and would have fallen had not Hugo leaped forward and caught her in his arms. Just for a few luxurious seconds he held her close, and
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Talk:List of helicopter prison escapes
Criteria for success / failure?
We could use a clarification on this. For example, the recent attempt at the prison in Quebec did get the prisoners out of the prison - only to be captured later - but we mark it as a failure. There are other cases on there that are marked as success when the prisoners were later recaptured; do we have a minimum time requirement before recapture in order for it to be called success? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
* The criteria for success should be whether an inmate was picked up from detention by helicopter, and was dropped off in a state of freedom, however brief that may be. This would constitute an escape by helicopter. For the escape on October 28, 2007, the inmate did NOT actually escape by helicopter, though he did escape. This should be marked as a failure. Runxctry (talk) 20:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
* It would perhaps make this clearer if a third icon, possibly yellow, could be introduced to indicate cases where the initial escape was successful, but the inmates were recaptured quickly? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:54, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
* Perhaps it would make more sense if the icons were replaced with a bit more explanation. Something like Success: the prisoners were recaptured weeks later or Failure: the helicopter was shot down after leaving the prison grounds, which would clarify both whether the attempt could be considered a success or failure in one word, and exactly how much of a success in a short sentence. See also the discussion below about the appropriateness of the icons. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* Based on the discussion below, I removed the helicopter icons a few minutes ago; they were somewhat goofy, and there was no justification for their use instead of the inherently clear words "Yes" and "No". I'd be less opposed to them, however, if they conveyed some more complex information (e.g. what is being discussed here), although in the balance I'd still be opposed to them. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 21:14, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* We could change the new "Succeeded" column to an "Outcome" column, whose contents could be words or phrases such as "Success", "Success but recaptured", "Failure", etc. Problem: if we start subdividing the incidents into more categories, it's going to be tougher and tougher to make a set of clean categories. For instance, if the inmate technically reached freedom but was captured five minutes later, is that "Success"? ... what about five days later? ... five years later? In the end I think I like Runxctry's solution: if the inmate is taken away by helicopter, and successfully lands and leaves the helicopter without being immediately confronted by law enforcement, then that is "Success"; anything else is "Failure". -- Dan Griscom (talk) 21:21, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* Thanks Dan Griscom . You make good points and I agree with 'keeping it simple.' We might start with the title... perhaps it should be renamed "List of 'attempted' helicopter escapes." - might make things easier. That way, the term 'successful' is clarified to mean 'successfully escaped by helicopter'. As the title stands, it could ambiguously also mean "Successful attempt" which is rather pointless - that's what the article is about. I think most people get this, but nothing wrong with adding clarity. BTW, looks like someone has classified the escape on 10/28/2007 as "unsuccessful" - I've since learned about the 'be brave' motto for making edits!
Helicopter icon
The icon, while amusing, makes this look like a children's book. The fact that we require a key for a simple 'yes/no' highlights how forced this is. It could also get messy should you have a 'partial success' value in the future. ed g2s • talk 12:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
* I disagree. I think the icons add a lot to the article. -- Esemono (talk) 12:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
* ^^^ " icon's " — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:13, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
* They look amateurish, and inconsistent with other articles. Paulbrock (talk) 12:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
* I agree with Paulbrock, although the adjective "cartoonish" came to mind when I first saw the article. Moreover, the symbols can't be parsed by Web crawlers, making the article less accessible to search engines. — QuicksilverT @
* Cartoonish, amateurish, childish, ultimately unprofessional. Esemono, you probably put a lot of work into making those icons, but ultimately, they contribute nothing more to the article that a simple X and Check or Y/N wouldn't add <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:58, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
* Not only the above, but they're also inconsistent with the design iconography used throughout the rest of Wikipedia. They should be updated to be consistent or replaced with a simpler Yes/No system. Foggalong (talk) 09:08, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* As much as I found it hilarious that there are success and failure helicopter icons on this article, I agree that it's a bit ridiculous - Wikipedia is meant to be a serious encyclopedia and it comes off as a joke more than anything. I don't think there's a rule in WP:NOT directly relevant to this, but the arguments for consistency and tone are valid, I think. A simple tick / cross would be better, and wouldn't require a key, the sole purpose of which seems to be to explain why there are fancy icons. Having said that, I'm not going to put in the effort to change it myself, so I guess rather than continue the discussion here someone should just do it. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:16, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* I came to this talk page specifically to complain about the silly helicopter icons. Yes, someone's good with graphical design, but designing your own Yes/No icon is not good UI design. Should be a simple "Yes" or "No". -- Dan Griscom (talk) 19:58, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* Oy, I love the silly helicopter icons. They're probably wildly inappropriate for Wikipedia, but, come on, if there's any article to laugh at yourself on, "List of helicopter prison escapes" certainly ought to be near the top. I mean, the very title of the article is so hilarious that — pardon, what's that? Okay, yes, I'll sit down. J♯m (talk | contribs) 21:02, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* Well, since seven commenters here didn't like the icons, as opposed to the one who did (plus one ambivalent), I changed the icons to simple "Yes" and "No". But, since then my edit as been anonymously reversed. Any thoughts? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 23:11, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
* I think we should delete those helicopter icons. People who have screen readers probably won't be able to read them. It introduces unncessary problems. Fangfufu (talk) 03:12, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
* Success / failures aren't even sortable... Fangfufu (talk) 03:14, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
* The reason given for the revert was "Undid revision 724044035 by Dtgriscom (talk), as the icon was much easier to read and view at a glance. It's not ideal, but it's better than yes/no. Possibly colour code boxes yes/no?". Yes, the icons were/are much more obvious, but that isn't useful as the rest of the information needs to be read for you to understand what those bright icons are talking about. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 03:23, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
* The removal of the icons was marked as vandalism too apparently? I'm confused why this is the case when the general consensus here is that they're bad for the article as a whole. Foggalong (talk) 16:30, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
* No it wasn't; it was just a revert. But, they missed the icons in the second table, so now we have two tables, one with icons and one without. I'm going to remove the icons again. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 16:57, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
* Done. Would someone with better table editing chops than me make the "Succeeded" columns sortable? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 19:17, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
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Add The Bridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D.)) to the list of fictional helicopter escapes (TV)
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* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. B E C K Y S A Y L E S 22:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Where are the helicopter icons?
The funniest thing I had ever seen on Wikipedia were these helicopter icons. And some sexually frustrated person removed them. Hope someone can take the time to put them back. Perhaps with an added 'yellow icon'. Amin wordie (talk) 07:35, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
* "sexually frustrated person"? That seems a little excessive.
* Anyway, if you would've bothered to check the talk page before you posted, you would've seen there was quite the discussion on the helicopter icons and that led to their eventual removal. If you have a valid reason for them to be brought back, please continue the discussion in that section. Otherwise, please leave the insults to youtube comments. --Bassmadrigal (talk) 18:44, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
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This page was mentioned in episode 26 of the Technical Difficulties podcast, first released 6 June 2013.[] Particular reference was made to the old success/failure symbols. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 22:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hey, I am encountering the same error over and over and I can’t find a solution for it.
My current plan for the workflow is at follow: New Item in Notion Database => Creates Folder in Google Drive => Creates Document in the new Folder in Google Drive => Link that Document with the Item in Notion
All the steps work fine, but on the last step I always get the following error:
The operation failed with an error. [400] body failed validation: body.properties.PSD.relation[0].id should be a valid uuid, instead `"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mz_ujDtFp
When I go on and take that link and try to link the Notion Item with the Google Doc it works just fine tho.
Does anybody have an idea on why this doesn’t work? Thanks in advance
Hey,
It looks like you are inputting a URL on a Notion relation property. URLs can’t be input in Relation properties, hence why the error message. There are 2 options based on what I see here:
1. Use a URL property in Notion to store the GDocs URL
2. Use an additional step before your Notion module. Create a database item in your related database, storing the GDocs URL there. Then, use the {{page id}} from that module to update your PSD relation property
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Rickinghall Inferior
Rickinghall Inferior is a civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. According to the 2011 census there were 233 males and 216 females in this civil parish, for a total population of 449. It includes the western part of the village of Rickinghall and is adjacent to the village and parish of Wattisfield. The old road from the market town of Bury. St Edmunds to the City of Norwich and the town of Great Yarmouth passes through the centre of the village but the new road, the A143, uses a by-pass to the East.
History
The parishes name Rickinghall Inferior means "The nook of Rica's People". The term " Inferior" means lower and refers to the fact that the parish is the lower counterpart of Rickinghall Superior. The parish appears in 2 entries in the Little Domesday Book under the name "Richingehella" in the year 1086 the Domesday Book recorded "2 villagers. 7 smallholders. 2 slaves. 22 freemen. 2 free men." in the parish. The church appears in a series titled " A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk", which is part of the British Museum's collection; it was acquired by the museum in 1870. However the work is not currently on display.
In 1868 The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland described the parish as "Rickinghall Inferior, a parish in the hundred of Blackbourn, county Suffolk, 7 miles S.W. of Diss, 5 W. of Mellis railway station, and a quarter of a mile S.W. of Botesdale, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is wholly agricultural. The road from Bury St. Edmund's to Norwich runs through the village. The tithes of the two parishes, Inferior and Superior, have been commuted for a rent-charge of £1,040; and the glebe contains 24 acres. The living is a rectory* consolidated with that of Rickinghall-Superior, in the diocese of Norwich, joint value £850. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient edifice with a circular tower, the upper part of which is octagonal. The parochial charities produce about £33 per annum. There is a National school. The Baptists and Wesleyans have each a place of worship. G. H. Wilson, Esq., is lord of the manor."
Church
St. Mary's Rickinghall Inferior is one of the few dozen extant round-tower churches in Suffolk. According to the 1870–72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, the church is "early decorated English" in style. The church has a tower which is circular below and octagonal above. It is a Grade I listed building. The Church is home to panels of Flemish glass, most likely from the 18th century, which depict the disciples at the Last Supper. As part of the millennium the church was given a new stained glass window, an image of Christ the Saviour of the World. In 2013 a guide to the church called " St Mary's Church Rickinghall Inferior" written by former churchwarden Jean Sheehan was published. The book has been published by 'Quatrefoil' a village group funded by the National Lottery established to specifically publish books about the history of the villages of Botesdale, Redgrave and The Rickinghalls.
Inside the church, there is a plaque commemorating excavator and archaeologist Basil Brown, who lived in nearby Rickinghall and who is best known for his discoveries at Sutton Hoo.
Housing
The 1831 national census recorded 60 occupied dwellings in the civil parish of Rickinghall Inferior. By 1901 this had risen to 81 occupied dwellings and 4 vacant dwellings. In 1961 it had risen to 101 occupied dwellings. The 2011 national census recorded 195 dwellings. There are 90 detached households, 68 semi-detached households, 28 terraced households and 9 flats. The 2011 national census, records that 108 households are deprived in some way, and 80 households are not deprived. English is the first language of 97.9% of households. 50 of the households are one person households.
Demographics
The first national census of 1801 recorded a population of 427 within the parish. The population of the parish fluctuates over the 110-year period of census data reaching an all-time low in 1931 when it reached a low of 290. Overall the population has increased since 1801. In the 2011 national census the population had increased by 5%. The civil parish now has a population of 449 with 233 males and 216 females.
The population density of Rickinghall Inferior is 0.6 ( number of people per hectare).
The 2001 national census records show that the number of people born in England and that live in Rickinghall Inferior as 356 or 92% of the population. In the 2011 national census the recorded number of people born in England and that live in Rickinghall Inferior as 423 or 94.2% of the population. The ethnic backgrounds according to the 2001 national census records show that 374 people of Rickinghall Inferiors 383 person population identified as 'White British', with the rest of the population being made up of 3 people each in the 'Other White' category ; ' Mixed White and Black (Caribbean)' and the 'Mixed White and Asian' category. By the 2011 census records show that 438 of the 449 population identified as ' White British'. with the rest of the population being made up of 5 people in the ' Other White' category ; 4 people in the 'Mixed White and Black (Caribbean)' and 2 people that identified as ' Black Caribbean'.
Industry
In 1831, occupations for males over the age of 20 were grouped by social status. This included 11 employers and professionals, 33 middling sorts, 63 Labourers and Servants and 12 that where classified as others. In the 1831 national census occupations where simplified into four occupational categories agriculture, manufacturing, retail and handicraft, and other. 75 worked in agriculture, 0 worked in manufacturing, 27 in retail and handicraft, and 17 in other. The other category covers capitalists, professionals, labourers outside agriculture and servants. The 1881 national census data records that agriculture as the most popular occupation in the parish of Rickinghall Inferior with 53 people working in agriculture. Domestic service or offices was the second most popular occupation with 23 people working in this industry. According to the census data there were a number of people without specified or unknown occupations 72 of whom were women.
The 2001 national census recorded that 165 people were in employment. Of that number 131 were in full-time employment and 34 people in part-time employment. However, this changed the 2011 census recorded that 200 people were in employment. With 138 people in full-time employment and 62 people who were in part-time employment.
Since the 1881 national census the most popular occupation has changed from agriculture to wholesale and retail trade ; it is the occupation of 34 people. The second most popular occupation is construction ; with 28 people working in the sector.
The 2011 census also recorded that the most popular method of travelling to work was driving in a car or van. For those who are not economically active ; 15 are full-time students ; 76 are retired ; 8 look after home or family ; 6 are long-time sick or disabled and 12 are unemployed.
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Adebabay Media is a platform the serves the people of Ethiopia without marginalizing by ethnic group, religion or individual ideology. Its headquarter is in Dalla, Texas, United States.
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Adebabay Media was established on January 19, 2011 as a blog by Kesis Ephrem Eshete. The reason behind its inception is to educate the people of Ethiopia within the country and in the diaspora about Ethiopian history, politics, religious and civic discourse. Today, Adebabay Media has outgrown the blog platform and airing programs in English and Amharic, such as, political analysis, book reviews, talk shows, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo celebrations and other social issues about Ethiopia and the rest of the world on YouTube and Facebook
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GRANT, Admr., Respondent, v. NIHILL, Appellant.
(No. 4,854.)
(Submitted September 15, 1922.
Decided October 19, 1922.)
[210 Pac. 914.]
Personal Injuries—Master and Servant—Vice-principals—Negligence—Complaint—Sufficiency—Inferences—Assumption of Bisk—Safe Place to Work—Padlure to Wa/rn.
Personal Injuries—Master and Servant—Safe Plaee to Work—Failure to Warn—Complaint—Sufficiency as Against General Demurrer.
1. Complaint in an aetion by a farm-hand for injuries sustained by being jolted from the platform of a plow pulled by a steam tractor when a rock got under the platform insecurely fastened, alleging, among other things, under a general allegation after setting forth the facts with relation to the unsafe condition of the platform, that the injury was caused solely by the carelessness and negligence of defendant employer, his agents and servants, in failing to provide a safe plaee to work in, to warn him of the hazardous character of his employment, etc., was sufficient as against a general demurrer, an objection to the introduction of evidence and motions for nonsuit and for a directed verdict.
Same—Negligence—Proximate Cause—Complaint.
2. In an action for damages caused by negligence the complaint must allege that the injury resulted proximately from the negligent act charged.
Same—Complaint—General Demurrer—Liberal Buie of Construction.
3. Under the liberal rule of construction of pleadings provided by the codes (sees. -9164, 9191), in determining the issues of law presented.by a general demurrer to the complaint or by objection to the introduction of evidence, matters of form as well as allegations which are irrelevant or redundant must be disregarded, ana if the pleading warrants recovery in any amount and upon any admissible theory, it will be sustained.
Same-—Complaint—Lack of Substance—Buie of Construction on General Demurrer—Inferences.
4. As against an attack on a pleading for lack of substance, and in the absence of a special demurrer or motion, whatever is necessarily implied in or is reasonably to be inferred from an allega1tion is to be taken as directly averred.
Same—Master and Servant—Assumption of Bisk.
5. By his act of entering into the service of his master the servant assumes all the usual and ordinary risks attendant upon his employment, not including risks arising from the negligence of the master, and he assumes these also if he knows oi the defects from w'hich they arise and appreciates the dangers which flow from them.
Same—Defective Implements—When Warning Unnecessary.
6. Where the dangers of an employment are visible so that a reasonably prudent adult of sound mind, though not an expert, could not fail to see and comprehend them, he is chargeable with knowledge and his employer is not under obligation to warn the employee of their existence.
Same—Assumption of Bisk—When Assumed, When not.
7. An employee who, with knowledge of the defective machinery with which he is required to work, continues in the employment upon assurance by the employer that the defect would be repaired, may do so for a reasonable length of time without assuming the added risk, unless the danger is so great that a reasonably prudent man would not have continued to work.
Same—Appreciation of Danger—Evidence—Sufficiency.
8. Beld, that the contention of plaintiff, who had admitted that he had discovered the defect in the steam plow which caused his injury, that he did not realize or appreciate the danger incident to his continuing to work with it, was not borne out by the evidence.
Same—Yico-principal—Question of Law.
9. Whether a coemployee aets as a fellow-servant or as a vice-principal under a given state of facts is a question of law for the eourt.
Same—Yiee-prineipal—How Question Determinable.
10. Superior position or authority alone does not necessarily make a coemployee a vice-principal, the question whether such person aets in the plaee of the principal being determinable by the inquiry whether he was intrusted with and authorized to’ perform a nondelegable duty, such as providing the employee with a safe place to work in or safe implements with which to work, required of the employer, the question of grade or rank being of no moment.
Same—Coemployee not Yice-principal, When.
11. Where defendant’s farm foreman had no authority to place the engineer in charge of a steam tractor, over plaintiff who operated the plow attached thereto, or to delegate to him the duty to repair the platform attached to the plow upon which plaintiff was working and the nature of the work the two were engaged in did not require one to be superior to the other, the action of the engineer in promising to get the necessary bolts with which to fasten the platform to make it secure was the action of a fellow-servant and not of a vice-principal.
7. Bepairs promised by master as affecting servant’s assumption of risk, see notes in 23 Am. St. Rep. 385; 119 Am. St. Rep. 434; 4 Ann. Cas. 153; 9 Ann. Cas. 1011; Ann. Cas. 1913C, 505.
Appeals from District Court, Fergus County; Jack Briscoe, Judge.
Action by Walton H. Grant, administrator of the estate of Peter Anderson, deceased, against Patrick Nihill. From a judgment for plaintiff and an order overruling defendant’s motion for new trial, defendant appeals.
Reversed, with directions to dismiss.
Messrs. Blackford & Himtoon and Messrs. Walsh, Nolan & Scallon, for Appellant, submitted a brief; Mr. J. G. Huntoon argued the cause orally.
The complaint is insufficient. Its averments are that the platform was insecurely fastened and was loose and likely to rock and tilt, and that the platform, while plowing was being done across rough and irregular land, tilted and pitched, and threw plaintiff therefrom. Nowhere does it appear that the tilting and pitching of the platform was occasioned by reason of the fact that the platform was insecurely fastened. In other words, it does not appear that the injury had any connection whatsoever with the negligent act complained of. To bring more pointedly into relief the defect that we are discussing, we assert that an averment such as the following should appear: “That on the twenty-fourth day of May, the platform, while the plow was running across rough and irregular ground, and by reason of its unfastened condition, tilted and pitched,” etc. (Fusselman v. Yelloiostone 7alley Irr. Co., 53 Mont. 254, Ann. Cas. 1918B, 420, 163 Pac. 473; EllingJionse v. Ajax Livestock Co., 51 Mont. 275, L. P. A. 1916D, 836, 152 Pac. 481; Stones v. Chicago, M. & St. P. By. Co., 59 Mont. 342, 197 Pac. 252; Markwrites v. Chicago, M. & St. P. By. Co., 59 Mont. 493, 197 Pac. 743.)
Thus, plaintiff avers “that plaintiff was not familiar with the work * * * and had no previous experience of the working or operation of such an outfit # * * ; did not possess sufficient knowledge to know whether or not the same was safe * * * ,” etc.
It is obvious that the pleader in making these averments was seeking to plead a breach of duty on the part of the master' in failing to instruct or warn the servant. There is no averment in the pleading anywhere that the master knew, or, in the exercise of reasonable care might have known, that the servant was inexperienced. It is only under these circumstances that the master is required to act. (Kelley v. Cable Co., 7 Mont. 70, 14 Pac. 633.) It is not necessary to instruct the servant regarding the machine if he understands it. (Mit
chell v. Boston & Montana Consolidated etc. Min. Co., 37 Moiit. 575, 97 Pac. 1033.)
It is not the duty of the master to warn a servant of dangers of which the master does not know, or to warn him of dangers of which the servant is aware. (Therriault v. England, 43 Mont. 376, 116 Pac. 581; Kuphal v. Western Montana E. Co., 43 Mont. 18, 114 Pac. 122.) It is elementary law that no matter how remiss the master is in the field of negligence, unless that negligence in some way contributes to the injury complained of, it is of no consequence. There must be a causal connection between the negligence alleged and the injury. (Bracey v. Northwestern Improvement Co., 4=1 Mont. 338, 137 Am. St. Rep. 738, 109 Pac. 706.) The negligence complained of must be the proximate cause of the injury. (Cummings v. Reins Copper Co., 40 Mont. 599, 107 Pac. 904.)
A servant assumes all the usual and ordinary risks attendant upon his employment, not including risks arising from negligence of the master, and he assumes those as well if he knows of the defects from which they arise and appreciates the dangers which flow from such defects. (Coulter v. Union Laundry Co., 34 Mont. 590, 87 Pac. 973; Fotheringill v. Washoe Copper Co., 43 Mont. 485, 117 Pac. 86; McCabe v. Montcma Central Ry. Co., 30 Mont. 323, 76 Pac. 701.) Actual knowledge of servant of danger is not necessary in order that he assume the risk. If the circumstances are such that a reasonably prudent man ought to have known of the danger, he will be charged with the knowledge. (Anderson v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co., 34 Mont. 181, 85 Pac. 884; Molt v. Northern Pac. Ry. Go., 4A Mont. 471, 120 Pac. 809.) In the case of an adult servant of sound mind and where the dangers are visible to a man of ordinary intelligence, there is no obligation on the master to warn the servant. (Masich v. American Smelting Co., 44 Mont. 36, 118 Pae. 764.) Actual ignorance of a particular risk does not relieve the servant of the imputation of having assumed it. He is bound to use his senses, and cannot allege ignorance of a hazard which is obvious to anyone of ordinary intelligence and understanding. (Sorenson
v. Northern Pac. By. Co., 53 Mont. 268, 163 Pac. 500.) An employer is not an insurer. His duty is discharged when he furnishes the appliances in general use for the same purpose and operated in the same way by reasonably prudent and careful men under like circumstances. (Wallace v. CMcago, etc. By. Co., 48 Mont. 427, 138 Pae. 499.)
Mr. S. P. Williams, Mr. Balph J. Anderson and Messrs. Wheeler & Baldwin submitted a brief; Mr. James H. Baldwin argued the cause orally.
It is settled law in this state that an employer owes a legal duty to his employee: 1. To use reasonable care to furnish him for the performance of the work required of him reasonably safe and suitable tools, machinery and appliances and also to see that the same are kept in proper repair and that this duty cannot be delegated to another so as to relieve the employer from liability for injuries sustained by the employee by reason of a failure to perform it properly. (18 Ruling Case Law, p. 737; Johnson v. Boston etc. Min. Co., 16 Mont. 164, 40 Pac. 298; McCabe v. Montana Central By. Co., 30 Mont. 323, 76 Pac. 701.)
2. To use reasonable care to provide a reasonably safe place in which the employee may perform his services and a failure to do so is actionable negligence. (Kelley v. Fourth of July Min. Co., 16 'Mont. 484, 41 Pae. 273; McCabe v. Montana Central By. Co., 30 Mont. 323, 76 Pac. 701; Domitrovich v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., 44 Mont. 7, 118 Pac. 760; Kallio v. Northwestern Imp. Co., Ml Mont. 314, Ann. Cas. 1915A, 1228, 132 Pac. 419.) A reasonably safe place presupposes such a condition as ordinary care, skill and diligence will secure under all the surrounding circumstances. (MorelU v. Tivohy Bros. Co., 54 Mont. 366, 170 Pae. 757.)
3. To warn the employee of danger unless it is known to and appreciated by the latter or so obvious that a reasonable man would have known and appreciated it, the principle being that if the employer has knowledge or information showing that the particular employment is from extraneous causes known to him hazardous or dangerous to a degree beyond that which it fairly imports or is understood by the employee to be, he is bound to inform the latter of the fact and put him in possession of such information. (Coleman v. Perry, 28 Mont. 1, 72 Pac. 42; Stephens v. Elliott, 36 Mont. 92, 92 Pac. 45.)
The complaint proceeds upon the theory that the defendant owed each of these duties to the plaintiff; that he failed to perform any of them; that as a result plaintiff was injured and that the breach of duty was a proximate cause of the injury of which complaint is made. It appears from the complaint, either by direct averment or by fair inference, that defendant owed a duty to plaintiff; that he failed to,perform that duty; that injury resulted to plaintiff from this breach of duty and that the breach of duty was a proximate cause of the injury. The conclusion is inevitable that the complaint states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and that the court was not in error in overruling the general demurrer thereto or the objection to the introduction of evidence.
While it is true that the defense of assumption of risk may be interposed by an employer in an action for injury suffered by his employee as the result of an extrahazardous condition due to a failure on his part to perform, one of his primary duties, it is essential to the making of that defense under the condition suggested that the employee not only knew of the thing from which the extrahazard or danger flowed, but also knew of and appreciated the increased hazards and dangers resulting therefrom or that they were so obvious that an ordinarily prudent person placed in the same circumstances must have known and appreciated them. (Osterholm v. Boston etc. Min. Go., 40 Mont. 508, 107 Pac. 499; Stewart v. Pittsburg etc. Copper Go., 42 Mont. 200, 111 Pac. 723; Alexander v. Great Northern By. Go., 51 Mont. 565, Ann. Cas. 1918E, 862, 154 Pac. 914; Sorenson v. Northern Pac. By. Go., 53 Mont. 268, 163 Pac. 500; Morelli v. Twohy Bros. Go., 54 Mont. 366, 170 Pac. 757.)
The employee may not set up his judgment against that of his recognized superiors; on the contrary, he may rely upon their advice, assurance and commands, notwithstanding many misgivings of his own. It by no means follows that because he could justify disobedience of the order, he is barred of recovery for injuries received in obeying it.. He is not required to balance the degree of danger and,decide whether it is safe for him.to act, but is relieved in a measure of the usual obligation of exercising vigilance to detect and avoid the danger. Especially when the act is one that could be made safe by the exercise of special care on the part of the employer, the employee may assume that such care will be taken. Again, it is a psychological truth that employees form a habit of obedience that overcomes independent thought and action depriving them of power to exercise the intelligence that otherwise would protect them. This principle applies in case the employee performs the service pursuant to assurance of the absence of danger as well as where the inducement takes the form of a command or order. (8 Ruling Case Law, pp. 701, 703; Stomne v. Hcmford Produce Go., 108 Iowa, 137, 78 N. W. 841; Forsman v. Seattle Electric Go., 58 Wash. 666, 109 Pac. 121; Gox v. Wilkeson Goal & Coke Go., 61 Wash. 343, 112 Pac. 231; Sorenson v. Northern Pae. By. Co., 53 Mont. 268, 163 Pac. 500.)
The duty to use reasonable care to furnish the employee with reasonably safe tools, machinery and appliances is closely related to the duty to furnish a reasonably safe place to work and is governed by the same rules. A servant to whom such duties is intrusted is a vice-principal and for his negligent act or omission in regard thereto the employer is liable. (26 Cye., p. 1326; Verlinda v. Stone é Webster Eng. Gorp., 44 Mont. 223-, 119 Pac. 573; Vanyi v. Portland etc. Mills Go., 63 Or. 520, 128 Pac. 830; Carnahan v. Chicago, B. & Q. By. Go., 102 Neb. 76, 165 N. W. 956.) The person intrusted with such duties is not a fellow-servant of the one injured because of his failure to properly inspect and repair. (26 Cye., p. 1332; Longpre v. Big Blackfoot Milling Co., 38 Mont. 99, 99 Pac. 131; 4 Thompson on Negligence, sec. 4928.) - Notice to the employee instructed with the duty to inspect and repair a defect in the machinery or appliances is notice to the employer. (Anderson v. Elder, 105 La. 672, 30 South. 120; Burch v. Southern Pac. Go., 32 Nev. 75, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 1166, 104 Pae. 225; McAllister v. Rocky Fork Goal Go., 45 Mont. 433, 123 Pac. 696.)
An employee who is temporarily occupying the position of a vice-principal is for the time being himself a vice-principal. (26 Oye., p. 1318; Day v. Chicago, etc. R. Go., 284 111. 534, 120 N. E. 480; Miller v. Tall Timber Go., 143 La. 269, 78 South. 555; Hitchcock v. Arctic Creamery Go., 170 Iowa, 352, 150 N. W. 727.) The accepted doctrine, therefore, is that in order to charge the employee with assumption of risk, the dangers and not the defects alone must be so obvious that a reasonably prudent man would have avoided them, that is to say, the true test for the determination of the question whether the employee did assume the risk is not to inquire whether he was aware of the defect which caused his injury but whether that defect rendered the peril of remaining in the service so imminent that he ought to have abandoned it. (3 Labatt’s Master & Servant, see. 1208; 18 Puling Case Law, 694, sec. 179; Alexander v. Great Northern Ry. Go., 51 Mont. 565, Ann. Cas. 1918E, 862, 154 Pac. 914; Kinsel v. North Butte Min. Co., 44 Mont. 455, 120 Pac. 797; Hollingsworth v. Davis-Daly Estates Copper Co., 38 Mont. 143, 99 Pac. 142.)
To the general principle that an employee by continuing in the service with knowledge of its perils is debarred from recovering for injuries resulting therefrom, there has come into general recognition an exception known as the doctrine of notice and promise to repair. According to this doctrine, if an employee complains to or notifies the employer of an apprehended peril, such as may be due to defective instrumentalities, and the employer promises to remedy the defect, the employee may continue in the service for a reasonable time, with a right to hold the employer liable in ease injury ensues. (18 Ruling Case Law, pp. 649, 696, secs. 142 180; 3 Labatt’s Master and Servant, see. 1197; Burch v. Southern Pac. Co., 32 Nev.. 75, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 1166, 104 Pac. 225; Cornell v. Great Northern By. Go., 57 Mont. 177, 187 Pac. 902; Stoutenbivrgh v. Dow Gilman etc. Co., 82 Iowa, 179, 47 N. W. 1039; Detroit Crude Oil Co. v. Grdble, 94 Fed. 73, 36 C. C. A. 94.)
ME. CHIEF COMMISSIONEE LENTZ
prepared the opinion for the court.
Plaintiff obtained a judgment for $15,000 for injuries received on May 24, 1917, from being run over by a traction plow which was operated on defendant’s farm near Moore, Montana. Defendant has appealed from the judgment and from an order overruling his motion for a new trial.
The complaint alleges, among other things, negligent failure on the part of the defendant to provide plaintiff with a safe place to work and failure to warn him of the hazards incident to his employment. Defendant’s answer admits the employment and the injury, denies the other material averments of the complaint, and as a special defense alleges that plaintiff assumed the risks incident to the employment.
The plowing outfit consisted of ten mold board plows pulled by a steam traction engine. Two levers were attached to each of the ten plows, making twenty levers in all. One lever was used in regulating the depth, and the other in raising the plow off the ground. In front of or over the plows, and resting on steel girders and stringers, was a wooden platform about three or four feet wide and ten or twelve feet long, in three sections, each section consisting of boards two inches thick resting in and on an angle iron frame and bolted to the steel framework below. The angle iron in which the boards rested extended around the entire outer edge of the board platform of each section and almost or quite flush with the upper surface of the boards. The individual boards of each section were attached together so that the wooden part of the platform if removed from the angle iron frame would have to come out as one piece. The wooden portion of each section was fastened to the stringers below by means of bolts, which, if in proper order, held the platform rigid. It was plaintiff’s duty to stand upon this platform with his back to the engine, and operate the plows by means of the levers regulating the depth and lifting the plows out of the ground while making turns or when otherwise necessary, and also to keep the plow greased and change the plow points. The engine was operated by one Harrison Boner, with the assistance of a helper who usually did the steering, and who acted under Boner’s orders. On the occasion of the injury, plaintiff, in making the turn at the corner of the field was lifting the plows from the ground by means of the levers, when he lost his balance and fell from the platform in front of or under the plows and was run over. He testified that a rock got under the platform and raised the wooden portion out of the angle iron frame seven or eight inches, causing him to fall beneath the plows.
Plaintiff further testified that he started to work for the defendant, Nihill, the fore part of May, 1917; that he was employed and assigned to work on the plow by one Bert Bar-rick, who was defendant’s foreman and manager; that he told Barrick he had had no experience with this kind of a plow, but was willing to learn; that he had formerly operated a disc traction plow, but had had no experience with the mold board variety of plow; that when he started to work Barrick spent several hours showing him how to regulate the levers and work the plow, and came out at different times afterward and showed him other things about running it; that Barrick told him Harrison Boner was to have charge of the outfit, and he would take his orders from Boner, and that thereafter Boner did give him orders, telling him when to go to work in the morning and when to quit; that he had operated the plow for about six days prior to the morning of the accident and had encountered no trouble with it; that, when he first started working, the ground was level and without rocks, but on the afternoon before the accident they began plowing in ground that was very rough and rocky; he had seen rocks underneath, but none large enough to tip the platform over; on that afternoon he first noticed that the wooden portion of the rear section of the platform was not securely fastened down; there were two bolts for the purpose of holding down the wooden portion of this section; on one of these bolts the threads were worn off so that the nut, which was on the under side, could not be screwed tight; the other was just a spike or little old bolt about the size of a twenty-penny nail, which, was not threaded and had no nut on it, and as a consequence, when running over the rough ground, the platform would not go steady, but worked up and down; that on the afternoon before the accident plaintiff told Boner to get some bolts and bolt the platform because it was shaky; that Boner said-the platform was all right, it was not anything to be afraid of, it would not come out, it would stay down in the frame and would not tip over; that Boner said he would have the foreman get some bolts, he (Boner) did not have any that would fit; they were all too big to fit the holes; that plaintiff was inexperienced and did not appreciate the danger and relied upon the statement made by Boner; that at all times while engaged upon said plow outfit he exercised due care for his own safety; that Boner said the next forenoon he had sent for bolts, and the foreman did not get the right size; that Boner did not try any bolts to see if they would fit; that the •foreman was “out there” about half an hour or so before plaintiff got hurt and “had some bolts”; that plaintiff was busy changing the plow points, and said nothing to the foreman about the loose bolts then or at any other time; that no bolts were placed in the platform before the accident; that at the time of the accident about 9 or 10 o’clock in the forenoon he was lifting the plows to make a turn at the corner of the field; he had lifted seven or eight plows, beginning at the front, and while he was standing on the rear section of the platform a rock two or three times the size of a man’s hat got under the end of the platform on which he was standing and lifted the wooden portion of it up, and he was thrown over backward beneath the plows and sustained the injuries alleged in the complaint.
Boner testified that immediately after the injury plaintiff announced that while he was starting to operate one of the levers a plow encountered an obstruction, causing another lever to fly up and strike him in the face, and that the blow knocked him off the platform. He denied that he had charge of the outfit or ever at any time gave orders to plaintiff.
Both Barrick and Boner testified that the matter of bolts was never mentioned to or by either of them, and both denied any knowledge of the alleged defect either before or after the accident. Barrick denied that he ever placed Boner in charge of the outfit or told plaintiff to take orders from him. He did testify, however, that nothing could go unless he (Boner) ran the engine, and “of course he [Boner], was the main man. ’ ’
There is nothing in the record to show that the defendant, Nihill, gave Barrick direct authority to place Boner in charge of the outfit or to place the plaintiff under Boner’s orders. Nihill testified that he did not give Barrick any such authority. The record further shows that Boner did some repairing on “the machinery,” and that he was the only one who actually did any repairing on the machinery. It does not appear whether this repairing was done on the plow or the engine, or both. There is some testimony in the record to show that, if anything went wrong, anyone on the outfit who knew how “was supposed to fits it.” The record further shows that Barrick was defendant’s foreman in his farming operations, with general authority to direct the work and to hire and discharge the émployees; that defendant was then operating four farms, consisting in all of about 4,700 acres. Three of these farms were not far from Moore, while the fourth was about five miles away. Barrick’s duties in superintending the work were such that he did not always visit each farm every day. He traveled in an automobile and tried to visit each farm every day. There is nothing in the record to show that defendant personally superintended any of the actual farming operations.
The first contention is that the complaint does not state a cause of action. The sufficiency of the pleading was attacked by general demurrer, by objection to the introduction of evidence, and by motions for nonsuit and for a directed verdict.
Besides the allegation of the employment and of the damages resulting from the injury, the material averments of the complaint are as follows: “I. * * * That plaintiff was not familiar with the work he was set to do, to-wit, the regulation depths, etc., of the plows; that he has never done such work before, and that defendant and his agents were familiar with said work and the hazards incident thereto; that plaintiff was put to work by defendant on the plows, regulating the depth thereof, and in so doing had to stand and work upon a platform immediately over the said plows; that the said platform was insecurely fastened over the said plows; that the said platform was insecurely fastened and was loose and likely to rock and tilt, making the footing of the plaintiff unsafe and hazardous; that plaintiff complained to defendant and his foreman about the condition of the said platform, and was assured by the defendant and his said foreman that the said plows and platform were in a perfectly safe condition, and that no harm or injury could befall him by reason of the then condition of the said platform and of said plow outfit;, that plaintiff was unfamiliar with the saíne and had no previous experience of the working or operation of such an outfit, and relied solely on the knowledge and ability of defendant and his foreman, ’ and believed implicitly in their statement that the platform and outfit were in all respects safe, and constituted a safe place for plaintiff to work.
“II. That the platform was an unsafe place for plaintiff to work, and plaintiff did not possess sufficient knowledge to know whether or not the same was safe or unsafe, and that plaintiff relied implicitly upon the statement of defendant and defendant’s foreman and agent that the said platform was a safe place upon which to work thereon; that on or about the said twenty-fourth day of May, 1917, the said platform, while the said plow was being drawn across rough and irregular land, tilted and pitched, and threw plaintiff therefrom and underneath the plows; that plaintiff had no opportunity to cry out; and that the plows were not stopped, but were dragged across plaintiff injuring plaintiff in his legs, arms, spine, and spinal column, and particularly. * * *
“IV. That said injury was caused solely by the carelessness and negligence of defendant, his agents, servants, and employees, in not providing a safe place in which plaintiff could work, and in failing to warn plaintiff of the hazards incident to his employment; that plaintiff was, at the time of his said injury, and at all times while engaged upon said plow outfit, exercising due care for his own safety, and in no ways contributed to his said injury as above set forth.”
It will be noticed that it is alleged that the platform was defective because it was likely to rock and tilt, and that this defective condition was due to the fact that it was insecurely fastened and loose. In paragraph II it is alleged that the platform, while being drawn across rough and irregular land, did tilt and pitch so as to throw the plaintiff off. Defendant contends that the court will take judicial notice that a platform or any piece of machinery will tilt and pitch while being drawn across rough and irregular land, and that it does not necessarily follow that, because the platform did tilt and pitch in going over rough or irregular ground, this was due to the fact that the platform was insecurely fastened or was loose; that, in the absence of some direct allegation that the tilting or pitching of the platform was caused or occasioned by its unfastened condition, the complaint does not state a cause of action. It will also be noted, however, that in the fourth paragraph the complaint contains the general allegation: ‘ ‘ That said injury was caused solely by the carelessness and negligence of defendant, his agents, servants and employees, in not providing a safe place in which plaintiff could work, and in failing to warn plaintiff of the hazard incident to his employment.” Plaintiff contends that this allegation is sufficient to establish the causal connection between tbe negligence alleged and bis injury.
To state a cause of action for damages resulting from negligence, tbe complaint, of course, must allege tbat tbe injury resulted proximately from tbe negligent act charged. In Ecclesine v. Great Northern R. Co., 58 Mont. 470, 194 Pac. 143, tbis court said: “Actionable negligence arises only from a breach of legal duty, and, to state a cause of action for damages resulting from negligence, it is necessary tbat the complaint disclose tbe duty, tbe breach, tbe resulting damages, and tbat tbe breach of duty was a proximate cause of tbe injury.”
Again, in Barry v. Badger, 54 Mont. 224, 169 Pac. 34, tbis court said: “It is elementary tbat, when the plaintiff seeks recovery for actionable negligence, bis complaint must allege facts showing these three elements: (1) Tbat tbe defendant was under a legal duty to protect him from tbe injury of which be complains; (2) tbat the defendant failed to perform tbis duty; and (3) that tbe injury was proximately caused by defendant’s delinquency. All of these elements combined constitute tbe cause of action; and if tbe complaint fails to disclose, directly or by fair inference from tbe facts alleged, the presence of all of them, it is insufficient, for it fails to state tbe facts constituting a cause of action.” Of like effect are the declarations of tbis court in Fusselman v. Yellowstone Valley Irr. Co., 53 Mont. 254, Ann. Gas. 1918B, 420, 163 Pac. 473; Ellinghouse v. Ajax Livestock Co., 51 Mont. 275, L. R. A. 1916D, 836, 152 Pac. 481; Stones v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co., 59 Mont. 342, 197 Pac. 252.
“In tbe construction of a pleading, for tbe purpose of determining its effect, its allegations must be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between tbe parties.” (Sec. 9164, Rev. Codes 1921.) “Tbe court must, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in tbe pleadings or proceedings which does not affect tbe substantial rights of'tbe parties, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.” (See. 9191, Rev. Codes 1921.)
In determining the issues of law presented by a general demurrer to the complaint or by an objection to the introduction of testimony, matters of form will be disregarded, as well as allegations that are irrelevant or redundant, and, if the allegations of the complaint warrant a recovery in any amount and upon any admissible theory, the pleading will be sustained. (Hurley v. Great Falls Base Ball Assn., 59 Mont. 21, 195 Pac. 599; Hicks v. Rupp, 49 Mont. 40, 140 Pac. 97; Wheeler etc. Mer. Co. v. Moon, 49 Mont. 307, 141 Pac. 665.) This is necessarily so for the reason that, under the practice established by the Code in this state, ambiguity, unintelligibility and uncertainty in a complaint must be taken advantage of by demurrer, pointing out specifically the particular defect relied upon, and, if this is not done, the defendant must be deemed to have waived such defect. (Secs. 9131, 9132, 9136, Rev. Codes 1921; Didriksen v. Broadview Hardware Co., 58 Mont. 421, 193 Pac. 63.)
It is equally well settled that, as against an attack for lack of substance, and in the absence of a special demurrer or motion, whatever is necessarily implied in, or is reasonably to be inferred from, an allegation, is to be taken as directly averred. (Woodward v. Melton, 58 Mont. 594, 194 Pac. 154; Gauss v. Trump, 48 Mont. 92, 135 Pac. 910; County of Silver Bow v. Davies, 40 Mont. 418, 107 Pac. 81; Willoburn Ranch Co. v. Yegen, 49 Mont. 101, 140 Pac. 231; secs. 9164, 9191, Rev. Codes 1921.)
In Gauss v. Trump, supra, this court, speaking through Mr. Justice Sanner, said: “Argumentative and inferential averments are, it is true, as obnoxious to good pleading as are conclusions of law, but their value is not the same. Copclusions of law, unsupported by the essential averments of fact, are always ineffective; but, as against an attack for lack of substance, the allegations of a pleading are to be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties (Rev. Codes, sec. 6566), and whatever is necessarily implied in, or is reasonably to be inferred from, an allegation is to be taken as directly averred (County of Silver Bow v. Davies, 40 Mont. 418, 107 Pac. 81). Where the inferential allegations of a pleading are not attacked by special demurrer or motion, as may be appropriate, we know of no modern authority which denies the right of the pleader to make proof under them.”
The pleading is objectionable for lack of definiteness and certainty, and a special demurrer or appropriate motion seasonably interposed raising that question would no doubt have been sustained. As against an attack for lack of substance, the complaint states a cause of action, and defendant’s objections to it were properly overruled.
Defendant further insists that his motion for a directed verdict should have been granted. He contends that the evidence adduced, taken as a whole, shows conclusively as a matter of law that the plaintiff not only knew of the alleged defect or dangerous condition, but that he also fully appreciated the danger, and, after acquiring such knowledge and with such appreciation of the danger, he voluntarily continued in the alleged dangerous situation whereby he was injured, and that he thereby assumed the risk; that he was not relieved from such assumption of the risk by the statements made to him by Boner, the engineer.
Keeping in mind the well-established rule that upon a motion for a directed verdict the court must deem every fact proved which the evidence adduced tends to prove, and that a case should not be withdrawn from the jury unless it follows as a matter of law that recovery cannot be had upon any view of the evidence, including legitimate inferences to be drawn from it (Koerner v. Northern Pac. R. Co., 56 Mont. 511, 186 Pac. 337), and also remembering the presumption of law that a person exercises ordinary care for his own safety (sec. 10606, Rev. Codes 1921), let us examine the record to determine whether it shows that plaintiff as k matter of law assumed the risk.
Several questions are involved: (a) Did the plaintiff know of the defective condition? (b) Knowing the defective condition, did he actually appreciate the danger, or should he, acting as a reasonable person, have appreciated the danger? If (a) and (b) are answered in the affirmative, then (c) was he justified m continuing to work in the dangerous situation under the promise of Harrison Boner, 'the engineer, to repair the defect and his assurance that there was no danger? In other words, if plaintiff was induced to continue working in the dangerous situation by the statements and promises of Boner, did this absolve him from the legal liability of assuming the risk? The answer to question (c) will depend upon the result of one further inquiry, and that is: (d) In the act of making these statements and promises, did Harrison Boner bear the relation of vice-principal to plaintiff, or was he a fellow-servant? In the solution of (d) several questions are involved. Was Boner created a vice-principal by direct authorization of defendant? If not, did the position in which defendant permitted plaintiff and Boner to be placed, the character and mágnitude of the work and the duties inherently devolving upon each, and the very nature and necessity of the situation created by defendant make Boner plaintiff’s vice-principal in the act of making the statements and promises upon which plaintiff relied?
A servant by the act of entering the service of his master assumes all the usual and ordinary risks attendant upon his employment, not including risks arising from the negligence of the master, and he assumes the latter as well if he knows of the defects from which they arise and appreciates the dangers which flow from such defects. (Sec. 7758, Rev. Codes 1921; Fotheringill v. Washoe Copper Co., 43 Mont. 485, 117 Pac. 86.) Here it will be noted that there are two elements, to-wit, knowledge of the defect and that which is of equal importance, an appreciation of the risk resulting therefrom.
Plaintiff, of course, admits that he discovered the particular defect which caused the injury before the accident, but he insists that he was ignorant and inexperienced, and therefore did not realize or appreciate the danger of continuing to work after the discovery, and that therefore defendant is liable for failing to provide him a safe place to work and in failing to warn him. This contention cannot be sustained. His statements that, when they got on rough and stony ground, the platform would not go steady, but worked up and down, and that he asked Boner to fix it, show that he did realize and appreciate that there was danger. What had previously caused the platform to raise up? It requires only ordinary intelligence to realize that in plowing among stones they will roll, and that a stone or anything else rolling beneath a loose platform may raise it up. When plaintiff testified that he relied upon Boner’s assurance that he would repair the platform, and that there was no danger, it was no hasty or inadvertent statement upon his part. The record shows that after plaintiff’s direct examination had closed and a recess had been taken his counsel asked for and was given permission to recall plaintiff to the stand to testify to this single point, and a fair interpretation of the record seems to show that one theory upon which the case was tried was grounded upon a promise to repair after discovery that the defect was dangerous, and thus relieving plaintiff of assuming the risk by continuing in the employment thereafter. If he thought the matter over and then asked for, received and relied upon assurances of repair which induced him to continue in an employment which he might otherwise have abandoned, he, of course, appreciated that there was danger. Actual knowledge of the risk is not necessary in order that he assume it. If the circumstances are such that a reasonably prudent man ought to have known of the danger, he will be charged with the knowledge. (Molt v. Northern Pac. R. Co., 44 Mont. 471, 120 Pac. 809.)
In the case of .an adult servant of sound mind, where the dangers of the employment are visible, so that a man of ordinary intelligence, though not an expert, could not fail to see and comprehend them, an employer is under no obligation to warn the servant of their existence. (Thompson on Negligence, see. 4061; Masich v. American Smelting Co., 44 Mont. 36, 118 Pac. 764.)
In Sorenson v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co., 53 Mont. 268, 163 Pac. 500, this court, speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Brantly, said: “It is true that actual ignorance of the particular risk will not relieve the servant; that his ignorance must be excusable; that he is bound to use his senses, and cannot allege ignorance of a hazard which is obvious to any one of ordinary intelligence and understanding; and that, though he does not appreciate the extent of the hazard or does.not know precisely the injury he may incur, the risk is his. (Bailey on Personal Injuries, 2d ed., sec. 376.)”
In 3 Labatt’s Master and Servant, section 1209, it is said: “On general principles, it is plain that, where there can be no reasonable doubt that a person in the servant’s position, who knew of the defect in question, must also have understood the resulting risk, it may be ruled as a matter of law that, for the purpose of the defense, his information was complete.”
But, conceding that plaintiff did know of the defective condition and appreciated the danger, if he was assured by the defendant that the defect would be repaired, plaintiff could continue in the employment for a reasonable length of time thereafter without assuming the risk, unless the danger was so great that a reasonably prudent man would not have continued at work. (3 Labatt’s Master and Servant, sec. 1197.)
So, likewise, the rule seems to be settled that a servant can rely upon his employer’s direction to do an act as being safe unless the danger is so apparent that one of ordinary prudence would observe it and would refuse obedience. (Cox v. Wilkeson Coal & Coke Co., 61 Wash. 343, 112 Pac. 231.)
In so far as giving notice of the defect to Barrick as foreman the alleged statement of Boner that he told the foreman to get bolts is hearsay, which was erroneously admitted over defendant’s objection. So that there is nothing properly in the record to show that either defendant, Nihill or Barrick, his foreman, ever knew of the defect, except plaintiff’s statement that Barrick “had some bolts” on the morning of the accident, and there is no showing that either Nihill or Barrick made any promise that it would be repaired. The only promise was that made by Boner, the engineer. Were the statements of Boner imputable to the defendant, Nihill, so as to make him legally responsible to plaintiff for them? In other words, was Boner’s promise to repair in legal effect the promise of the defendant? The solution of this problem depends upon the answer to question (d) above, as to whether Boner was a vice-principal in his relations to plaintiff or a fellow-servant.
Whether one acts as a fellow-servant or as a representative of the master under a given state of facts is a question of law for the court. (Yates v. McCullough Iron Co., 69 Md. 370, 16 Atl. 280; Donnelly v. San Francisco Bridge Co., 117 Cal. 417, 49 Pac. 559; Callan v. Bull, 113 Cal. 593, 45 Pac. 1017.)
Plaintiff earnestly contends that Boner was defendant’s vice-principal, and in that connection he lays much stress on the fact that Barrick, the foreman, had placed Boner in authority over plaintiff. But this is not the true test. Superior position or authority alone does not necessarily make him a vice-principal. In determining who is a vice-principal, the question is whether the person whose status is in controversy has been intrusted with, and authorized to perform, any nondelegable duty required of the master. The master’s liability in cases of vice-prineipalship does not depend upon who performs the duty, but upon the character of the act done or services performed, and the existence of the duty itself, there being certain duties which he cannot delegate to a fellow-servant, and absolve himself from liability for their nonperformance. It is not a question of grade or rank, and the employee’s place or grade of service is not material.
Whenever a master delegates to any officer, servant, agent or employee, high or low, the performance of any duty which really devolves upon the master himself, then such officer, servant, agent or employee stands in the place of the master •and becomes a substitute for the master, or, in other words, a vice-principal, and the master is liable for his acts or his negligence to the same extent as though the master himself had performed the acts or was guilty of the negligence. These nondelegable duties are, among others, that of exercising reasonable care to provide the servant with a safe place to work, reasonably safe implements and materials to work with, and with reasonably competent fellow-servants. This was the rule laid down in Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. Co. v. Moore, 29 Kan. 632. The same principle was announced in Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Baugh, 149 U. S. 368, 37 L. Ed. 772, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 914 [see, also, Rose’s U. S. Notes], and has been adopted as the rule of law in this state in Goodwell v. Montana C. Ry. Co., 18 Mont. 293, 45 Pac. 210, Gregory v. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co., 42 Mont. 551, 113 Pac. 1123, McAllister v. Rocky Fork Coal Co., 45 Mont. 433, 123 Pac. 696, and Morelli v. Twohy Bros. Co., 54 Mont. 366, 170 Pac. 757.
Plainly, then, Boner was performing a nondelegable act, i. e., the act of a vice-principal when he promised to get bolts and repair the defect and assured plaintiff there was no danger, since his act involved that of providing plaintiff a safe place to work.
The remaining question to be answered, then, is as to whether defendant .either directly authorized Boner to be his vice-principal in doing the acts in question, or, in the absence of direct authorization, defendant created a situation where authority was implied or the exigencies of the occasion devolved upon Boner the duties and authority of a vice-principal.
The record shows without contradiction that Barrick had no authority from defendant to make Boner his subforeman and place him in command over plaintiff or to delegate to him the sole duty of repairing. And from a careful review of the whole record we are unable to find where the general situation, the nature and magnitude of the work, required one of the two servants to be superior to the other, or that, under the particular circumstances of this case, the sole duty of repairing necessarily devolved upon one of them to the exclusion of the other. So far as the record shows, both plaintiff and Boner were men of ordinary intelligence. It does not appear that plaintiff was too ignorant or was forbidden to make the repairs if he had had bolts. No reason appears why plaintiff himself could not have asked the foreman to bring bolts instead of telling Boner. Barrick was present half an hour or so before the accident, and plaintiff said nothing to him about bolts. Plaintiff was at that instant working on the plow changing plowshares, and thus taking out and putting in bolts. The task of putting bolts in the platform could not have been very different from that of putting bolts in the plows. In order to prove a cause of action, plaintiff contends that, although plaintiff greased, ran, and operated the plows and removed the bolts from the points, the general situation created by defendant, the nature and magnitude of the work, caused the duty of fixing the platform to thereby devolve solely upon Boner. This contention cannot be sustained.
Rehearing denied November 22, 1922.
The record, taken as a whole, discloses that plaintiff and Boner were fellow-servants. Being a fellow-servant Boner did not represent defendant when he promised repairs and assured plaintiff there was no danger. Plaintiff assumed the risk, and the motion for a directed verdict should have been sustained.
We therefore recommend that the judgment and order be reversed, with directions to dismiss the complaint.
Per Curiam : For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment and order appealed from are reversed and the cause is remanded, with directions to dismiss the complaint.
Reversed.
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The Islas Marías is a small group of islands off the coast of Mexico’s Nayarit state, roughly 322 kilometers from the tip of the Baja California peninsula. The largest of the islands, Isla María Madre (or Mother María Island), was once a prison complex. It was abandoned after over a century of active use but was only left derelict for a short period of time, as the Mexican government set a plan into action for turning the former prison into a tourism destination.
A prison island complex
The small archipelago was converted into a prison complex that operated from 1905 until 2019. It was often referred to as the “tomb of the Pacific,” and because it was located on an island, it was nearly impossible to escape from.
Extreme isolation was the goal of prison complexes like Mother María Island, and all that most inmates had to look forward to was a 10-minute phone call every 15th of the month. Prisoners were rarely visited by family as the journey to the island was extremely difficult.
Different experiences for different inmates
The prison was separated between male and female inmates, and they were treated differently. The female area has been described as a “chicken coop,” with dirt floors, warehouse walls, and only five bathrooms to serve approximately 500 female inmates.
Male inmates had a much different experience. Some prisoners were allowed to live with their families in conditional freedom, earning the complex a reputation as the “prison without walls.” Male inmates could live in relatively good conditions.
Prisoners were occupied with forced labor while interred at Mother María Island. They farmed and harvested shrimp. They also harvested salt and tried to make different alcohols from the fruits found on the island. This all changed in 2006, when life at the prison became far more difficult.
Who was imprisoned there?
Then-President Felipe Calderón declared war against the drug cartels in Mexico in 2006, and Mother María Island became the prime prison complex to house those criminals. By 2013, the number of inmates reached as high as 8,000.
Before this reform, there were many recognizable prisoners held at Mother María Island. José Revueltas, a Mexican writer and political activist, was kept here during the 1930s after he was found to be working with the Communist Party. Nelson Mandela, the former South African leader, was held at Mother María Island for several years as well.
The prison closed in 2019 due to steep operating costs. It cost around $150 per day per prisoner, which was much higher than prison costs on the mainland.
Efforts to conserve the area
Not wanting the island to go to waste after the prison closed, the government put the Comprehensive Project Islas Marías into action. The plan included keeping the archipelago as a Protected Natural Area, installing the Environmental and Cultural Education Center, and finally opening the island to visitors.
They succeeded in having the area declared as a Natural Protected Area (ANP), and it was even recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Environmental and Cultural Education Center successfully opened. Nearly 150 children have passed through the center already.
Becoming a tourism destination
To increase visitors, the government intends to advertise the island much like Alcatraz in California. Buildings that were once home to prisoners have been reconstructed, and a church and museum have been erected to make the island more appealing to tourists.
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POLL-Oil to edge higher in 2018 as OPEC cuts help offset U.S. supply growth
* U.S. to remain major player for foreseeable future
* Venezuelan output decline, Asian demand growth to help offset U.S. supply
* For a table of crude price forecasts, click
Feb 28 (Reuters) - Oil analysts expect the price of crude to rise steadily this year but remain in a tight band dictated by U.S. shale output growth on one side and OPEC supply restraint on the other, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.
The survey of 37 economists and analysts forecast Brent crude would average $63 a barrel in 2018, slightly higher than $62.37 projected in the previous month's poll.
"OPEC's level of compliance (with agreed production curbs) and the pace of U.S. shale's output growth are likely to be the key fundamental price drivers in 2018," Ashley Petersen of Stratas Advisors said.
"Prices will likely be more volatile in 2018 than 2017, driven by whipsawing sentiment around the pace of U.S. growth."
U.S. oil production <C-OUT-T-EIA> could surpass 11 million barrels per day this year, with production already near a record above 10 million bpd.
"The U.S. has stolen the show somewhat," said Cailin Birch, an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
"That its oil market is dominated by a large number of uncoordinated, private-sector firms, many of whom benefit from lower production costs than producers elsewhere, means the U.S. will remain a major player for the foreseeable future."
Meanwhile, OPEC is closing in on its goal of reducing oil inventories held by industrial nations to their five-year average, figures from the group's head of research showed this month.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC producers led by Russia have agreed to cap output by about 1.8 million bpd in a deal running from January last year until the end of 2018.
Saudi Arabia last week said it hoped OPEC and its allies would be able to relax production curbs next year and create a permanent framework to stabilise oil markets after the deal expires.
"The supply deal remains a key uncertainty for the oil market. A transition of the deal is needed but not yet visible, with both an over-tightening and an orderly unwinding being potential scenarios," said Norbert Rucker, head of commodity research at Swiss bank Julius Baer.
Analysts said that without a smooth exit from the pact, global inventories may drop sharply and trigger a potentially damaging price rise.
Oil output in Venezuela, one of OPEC's larger producers, has dropped to its lowest in more than 20 years as the country grapples with an economic crisis, in turn helping curtail OPEC's supply beyond the group's agreed 1.2-million bpd commitment.
Growing demand from Asian economies, led by China, was expected to absorb part of the increase in U.S. supply.
"Rising global oil demand will be driven mainly by emerging markets, with non-OECD consumption rising by an average of 2.8 percent per year in 2018-19, which would be the fastest rate since 2013," the Economist Intelligence Unit's Birch said.
U.S. light crude is forecast to average $58.88 a barrel in 2018, up from $58.11 in the January poll.
(Reporting by Vijaykumar Vedala in Bengaluru; Editing by Amanda Cooper and Dale Hudson)
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Time Clock (Clock in and out) with flutter, also able to export data from an admin page, and export it to a PDF, with editing options from admin side
I am newer to flutter, and I am making an Employee Portal. I need to make a Clock in and out feature, and they need to be able to Clock in to a certain job, and I also need to be able to export the users time clock for that certain week to a pdf, please give me directions on how to do that..
sharepoint online – Need To Convert DOCX File To Latest To Manipulate XML on Client Side
My JavaScript-based web app uses the html-to-docx library file which produces a Word 2007 docx blob (zip archive), which is a compatibility mode version in today’s Word browser and desktop implementations.
I want to use the Text Effects feature in Word, and I already know that this requires that the document.xml becomes a far larger markup file after using Word to save the Word 2007 docx as the latest docx version. Once I get that latest docx version with larger xml file, I can use any zip file utility (JSZip, Pizzip) to open it, deserialize the XML and search the node I want, make edits, and so on.
Web searches for library code to run in client to achieve the 2007 docx=>latest docx do not show what I want (lots of stuff for Node that might work). I’m looking for strategies that I may be missing.
WordPress Theme not working properly on user side
Please give me some help…
I’m using the Newspaper WordPress theme. After I customize the theme It works and looks perfect for the admin’s browsers. But when I log in to another device. Its weird some content and theme do not appear to the user. What is the reason for that? What should I do?
Add more Google Apps to gmail side panel
I mean to add more Google Apps to show when I click on the Waffle icon in the right side panel of Gmail.
In particular, I want to add Groups.
I know I can do two other things:
1. The “+” button only allows for adding Add-ons, not other Google apps.
2. Reordering what is already there by click-and-drag.
but none of this is what I am looking for.
Is this possible? How?
Update Sharepoint List Item with Javascript Client Side Object Model
For the past days I’ve been trying, with no success, to establish a connection to a sharepoint list (https://mywebsite.com/sites/concasbkcu/Lists/list_teste/AllItems.aspx) and update its items with the follow code:
var siteUrl= 'https://mywebsite.com/sites/concasbkcu/';
var targetlistItem;
var itemID = 1;
function updateListItem() {
var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext(siteUrl);
var targetList = clientContext.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle('list_teste');
targetListItem = targetList.getItemById(itemID);
targetList.set_item('Title', 'Test Title');
targetList.update();
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(onRequestSucceeded, onRequestFailed);
}
function onQuerySucceeded() {
alert('Item updated!');
}
function onQueryFailed() {
alert('Request failed');
}
I tried calling this function on a html button, but it just doesn’t work…no error message is shown and the item doesn’t update at all. Can someone help me, please?
Regards!
key management – How to manage Encryption Key for Server Side Encryption in AWS S3
I need to encrypt personal data like email, phone number, etc. I am using AWS KMS for managing the encryption keys. This is the system that is already implemented is as follows:
1. All the existing data is encrypted using a worker which first generates a data key by calling the aws-sdk. This call returns the plaintext(decrypted data key) and the encrypted data key. This plaintext is then used to encrypt the data and then is removed from the memory.
2. Now whenever a new data key is generated, the encrypted data key is stored in a .json file and uploaded to AWS S3 bucket. This upload has Server Side Encryption enabled using a Customer Key. I store the path to this json file to the db table that keeps record of the active data keys.
3. Whenever I need to decrypt data, I get the json file from the s3 bucket which contains the encrypted data key. Then I call the decrypt function of aws sdk and retrieve the original data key which is then used to decrypt the encrypted data.
Now my question is:
How do I manage the customer key used in step 2 for the server side encryption of the s3 file upload. Right now I generate a random key for each data key and store this in the data keys table.
Is this a safe way to handle this key?
What is the general practice regarding using SSE-C keys? Should I keep a constant key for each data key instead of generating a new one?
any help is highly appreciated
Calculating a triangle’s angle & side length
Alright, hopefully an interesting one. I’m trying to make a program for the game Foxhole, where artillery uses azimuths and ranges between spotter, gun, and target in order to direct the artillery’s angle and range to the target.
This math involved in this is far above my head, and I’ve tried thinking it over with a pen and paper – but I’m making no progress, it simply exceeds my knowledge. Any help or formulas would be great!
Notes:
• I’m not sure my diagrams are accurate, but I did my best to try to
visualize the situation.
Process 1, simple:
1. The spotter measures his distance from target & his angle to the target
2. The spotter measures his distance from gun & his angle to the gun
3. An unknown formula is used to determine the gun’s angle and distance to target
4. The gun is aligned to the target, the gun is ranged, and the gun may fire onto the target
Here is an attempted visual:
Process 1
There is a second process we would like to do, which seems far more complicated than the process above.
Process 2, complex:
1. The spotter measures his distance from the land mark & his angle to a land mark
2. The spotter measures his distance from the gun & his angle to the gun
3. The spotter advances. The spotter measures his new distance from land mark & his new angle to the land mark
4. The spotter measures his distance from the target & his angle to the target
5. (Math is done)
6. The gun is aligned to the target, the gun is ranged, and the gun may fire onto the target
Here is an attempted visual:
Process 2
Thanks for looking
calculus and analysis – Making equal left and right hand side of the some equality
I think that there is a similar posts in here. But I don’t find right keyword.
My question:
After some calculations, I get equality. For a simple example:
$$list={a,b,c}=={1,2,3}$$
Can we extract $a=1,b=2,c=3$.
I want to make some calculations such as $a+b+c=?, D[a*c,x]=? $ e.t.c
What are the best options?
`list = {a, b, c} == {1, 2, 3};
Thread[{a, b, c} == {1, 2, 3}, Equal];
a + b + c
D[a*c,x]
smartcontracts – Can smart contracts be set up on a side chain or 2nd layer solution?
What is a smart contract?
Smart contracts go beyond the vending machine in proposing to embed contracts in all sorts of property that is valuable and controlled by digital means. Smart contracts reference that property in a dynamic, often proactively enforced form, and provide much better observation and verification where proactive measures must fall short.
Computerized devices that respond to the environment according to price signals or other contractual terms, customer preferences, and other states or events that are encoded in them or that they are encoded to respond to. Many smart contracts in the future may be programmed using a contract drafting language for specifying their event-driven behavior.
If a loan was taken out to buy that car, and the owner failed to make payments, the smart contract could automatically invoke a lien, which returns control of the car keys to the bank. This smart lien might be much cheaper and more effective than a repo man.
Smart contracts allow a new freedom of contract that is no longer possible, if it ever was, with traditional law.
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-idea-of-smart-contracts/
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
What is DeFi?
Being honest, its the new buzzword for selling your tokens to newbies for most of the projects. DeFi or Decentralized Finance in reality could be a term used for financial applications that use decentralized protocols.
Are smart contracts and decentralized finance possible with Bitcoin?
Yes
Is it theoretically possible for a side chain or second layer solution to utilize/implement smart contracts?
Smart contracts can be written using solidity for Rootstock (sidechain) and simplicity for Liquid (sidechain)
Is there is possibility that the ‘DeFi’ space eventually transitions to simply being a 2nd layer solution on the BTC network instead of on ETH?
Not sure if we should use the term “DeFi” for financial applications on top of a chain that is not decentralized, projects involving few people, governance tokens with most of the supply with VCs and devs.
Also any transition depends on market and people involved in Bitcoin projects. Honestly, lot of Bitcoin developers don’t get the appreciation they deserve for working on some of the projects. Example: Confidential transactions for Elements based sidechains, Oracles using discreet log contracts, Bisq, Joinmarket, Rootstock etc.
Lot of things are being done on Lightning Network. Its difficult to keep a track of everything happening in this space but recently saw this video for a project which provides a market place to incentivize people to seed torrents by paying with sats over the Lightning Network.
cookies – I have CSRF protection implemented server side, can I safely use `SameSite=None; Secure; HttpOnly`?
We have a web service where GET is always safe and all unsafe POST requests use single-use CSRF tokens. We have some cases where cross-origin domain would need to pass us POST request with data that should be used with currently active user session (top-level cross-site POST) so we need the session cookie while handling this request. The cross-origin is trusted and the request is signed with HMAC signature but the cross-origin doesn’t know and shall not know the session cookie value used by the user which is the reason we need the cookie from the browser. (In short the flow goes like this: we redirect logged in user to 3rd party service where user uses UI to select data items that get passed to us with details. We don’t know the credentials to the 3rd party service and they cannot know the session details of our service.)
We can currently get this to work with setting session cookie with SameSite=None; Secure; HttpOnly but I have three questions:
1. Does SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict offer any other protection but CSRF attacks? We already have CSRF token protection so we don’t need SameSite cookies for this.
2. I know that Google has published a plan to kill third party cookies which use SameSite=None; would our use of 1st party cookies be affected, too? I’d like to have a setup which would work in the future, too.
3. Is there any way to declare that we want SameSite: Lax plus allow 1st party cross-origin POST requests (that is, when browser location bar shows our domain, allow submitting the cookie always without the 2 minute hack that Chrome used to have when SameSite was not set at all)? We’re not interested in user tracking and would want to avoid stamped as such by the browser UI.
Basically I’m asking if SameSite=None; Secure; HttpOnly is safe to use safely both in sense of security and longetivity, or if there’s a better way to do this.
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File:High rise shopping mall in delhi.jpg
Summary
interior view of shopping mall in Janakpuri near District Centre,New Delhi
* Other information:
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