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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention/Archive 9 Visual editor's slothfulness is an editor retention issue Newer editors joining us now will be immediately confrnted by Visual Editor, rather than being "forced" to learn our traditional editing techniques. Visual Editor is slow. Appallingly slow. I've politely raised the issue at appropriate forums, and basically been told "Yeah, we know it's slow, but it's really hard to fix, and won't get much faster any time soon." If I was a new editor, I'd get sick of it and leave. Maybe that's just me, but it does bother me a lot. HiLo48 (talk) 04:11, 27 July 2013 (UTC) * I have a script that disables it. The only time I see it is when I'm logged into my alt accounts. With all due respect to the programmers who have worked very hard on it, I find it unusable and have similar concerns. I've been silent before now, hoping they would work the bugs out, but even with the bugs fixed I'm not very confident. Of course, I don't use WYSIWYG interfaces anywhere, so I have a bias against them and understand I'm the exception to that. At this point, I can't definitively say it will hurt retention, but that is a distinct possibility. Dennis Brown \| 2¢ \| WER 13:17, 27 July 2013 (UTC) * (Ha, you have socks, too? Is there a Denniszilla?) You don't need a script, you can disable it in your Preferences (better under Gadgets —> Editing than directly in the Editing tab IMO). But obviously that's not the first or even the fiftieth thing a new user's going to do, so I endorse the concerns. It is an editor retention issue. Bishonen \| talk 13:37, 27 July 2013 (UTC). * Pharmboy was my original name before 11/08, so I have that and Farmer Brown as alts, to round out my little sock farm. Dennis Brown \| 2¢ \| WER 17:17, 29 July 2013 (UTC) * I just want to agree with Dennis I think visual editor is not helping. I do agree (and its a finding in a lot of the research) that the wikicode system is off putting BUT visual editor is not user friendly IMHO-- Cailil talk 13:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC) * Visual Editor was intended to facilitate editor retention by being easier to use than Wiki markup. It has the opposite effect because it was implemented in main article space with inadequate testing. The inadequate testing is only secondarily an editor retention issue. We now have two forms of editing that are seen as user-unfriendly by different communities of users. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:03, 27 July 2013 (UTC) * I agree with Bishonen. Even on a 4Ghz quad core and using Google Chrome (which usually has the fastest Javascript) the VE is still horribly slow: it takes dozens of seconds at times for something to happen after a click. This has the potential to drive off more editors than anything else. Someone not using his real name (talk) 06:07, 28 July 2013 (UTC) * On a related note, I just noticed WP:VisualEditor/Default State RFC that seems to be directly relevant to what we are talking about here. (Thanks Kww for starting that.) ~Adjwilley (talk) 01:40, 30 July 2013 (UTC) * Thanks for the pointer there Adjwilley. I've added my thoughts, plus a pointer back to this discussion. HiLo48 (talk) 02:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC) * I've encountered the most problems with VE on Battleship (film). There the VE edits from IPs have constantly added nowiki tags, sometimes in useless places, like on apostrophes, and unwikilinked dozens of words for no reason. VE for my work computer resulted in a massive CPU spike, which was unbearable. It's failed from where i'm standing ツ Jenova 20 (email) 12:44, 30 July 2013 (UTC) * Commenting here as a watcher of the project, but someone who doesn't work on the VE team... yes, VE is pretty darn slow on large pages. But wikitext has its own pretty shockingly bad problems for newbies, problems that we tend to forget about or underestimate as people who edit markup regularly. As one data point I hope folks consider: "getting started" edits by non-autoconfirmed new accounts increased from 2,656 in June to 3,098 in July. In July, 67% of those newbie edits were with VE. While it certainly still is a beta feature with warts, it clearly is not presenting a huge hurdle to all new editors. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 07:27, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * While it may have driven some curious people to experiment with it, it's not keeping them; what data we do have says that it's dramatically driving new users away, at least in its current form. See meta:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/Results. Of course, some of that might just be bugs and slowness, but I think that it's a mistake to automatically assume that WYSIWYG editors are always easier to use. Those interfaces can be very complicated and confusing, too, especially (as in this case) when they're built on top of a legacy system and therefore have to encompass both all the diverse (and sometimes confusing) features of wikicode and the features people expect out of a visual editor. On top of this, simply having two methods of editing is itself going to be inherently confusing at times, especially when there will inevitably be some things that can only be accomplished via one method. A massive panel of buttons and a confusing interface may scare users away just as easily as wikitext -- it may even be inherently worse. And certainly as long as links to both editors are presented, the risk that someone will click the 'wrong' one after devoting the significant amount of time necessary to learn either may end up scaring many users away -- unless wikimarkup can be abolished entirely (which seems infeasible), it's reasonable to expect that the addition of the visual editor inevitably makes Wikipedia more complicated and intimidating to new users, not less. Or, in other words: As long as wikicode is still there, the visual editor can only hide it visually; it can't really make it easier to work with. And obscuring it like that is going to actually make many things harder and more frustrating for users who try to get started with the site using the VE. --Aquillion (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * Did you read the Limitations section of that report? My team spends pretty much every two weeks analyzing A/B test data. The truth is, they probably shouldn't have even bothered looking at this as if it was a controlled experiment. Between the minimal length in the test (we usually look at a week, this was three days!), errors in the browser blacklist, deployments of updates mid-experiment, and plain old bugs, the data is not a good testbed for the performance of VE with new users. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 04:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC) * Steven, you said that the edits went up in July 2013 compared to June 2013. Don't edits normally go down in July? What's the July 2012 to July 2013 comparison? I believe that we've been overall non-bot edits have been dropping by about 5% a year for a couple of years. It would be nice to know if we've started to stabilize there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC) Blocking of participants in this wikiproject? I used to post here on a regular basis, but stopped in January 2013 after one of my edits here was reverted twice. Since I have been blocked indefinitely at Wikipedia in the past I am always careful about who I hang out with - I would hate to go through this experience again. I don’t know if this happens on a regular basis on other wikiprojects, but I have noticed other participants in this project who have been blocked indefinitely: * user: Penyulap * user:Agent00f * user: ‎Banana Clock So is it a matter of this project being a magnet to my kind of wiki-rifraf, or is there something else at work here? XOttawahitech (talk) 22:51, 4 August 2013 (UTC) * I doubt that there is any connection between edits being reverted here and the blocking of the reverted editor. That's kind of a stretch...dot ya think? What's at work here is editors doing what they do. Ive been here since the beginning and have been watching. If there was a plot to retaliate against someone or some group of someones, I think I would know about it. ```Buster Seven Talk 04:25, 5 August 2013 (UTC) * I call Bullshit Buster! I have been hounded by petty little groups of peons here almost since day one. Some of them include admin that have either been de-bitted, blocked, or banned from my talk page. Because of NPA I can't go into much detail about it but only generalize. Wikipedia is full of petty little shits that have no life except to gang up and cyberbully new and controversial editors here. I have considered leaving the projects a few times but decided to grow some balls and fight back. As of today we are 6th in http://www.alexa.com/topsites but we may slide vastly if this bullshit continues. I used to fight in article talk pages and drama boards to get the material corrected but ran into walls of canvassed groups of these little shits that went on an on with their bullshit about wp policy and reverting my edits. Wikipedia is very flawed in many ways and bullying editors by these gangs is one of the major ones. The drama boards I generally find a total waste of space as they are haunted by admin that are very power-tripping, selfish, arrogant, and petty the same as far too many editors here. There are easy ways to fix the various problems but they would need to be done at a very broad community level.--Canoe1967 (talk) 10:44, 6 August 2013 (UTC) * Canoe, without some diffs it's hard to take your rant seriously, but all I can say is if you call someone a petty little shit, you shouldn't be surprised if they call you one in response and you get upset! Everyone knows the drama boards attract, well, drama, but you don't have to read them and as long as you work on articles, you can generally avoid it. There are a number of topics I just stay well away from now because, well, life's too short. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:01, 6 August 2013 (UTC) * @ Ritchie333, as a long term, frequent, participant on this page I am surprised to see you encouraging a newcomer (to this page) to post diffs here that may get them into trouble. Let’s be open about this project and who is behind it: just look at the contributers here and you will immediately see who sets the tone and who decides who is a plus to discussions here and who is not. XOttawahitech (talk) 12:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC) * Just to be clear, Canoe, by "being reverted here", I meant here> WikiProject Editor Retention. Editor Ottawahitech inferred there was a connection between participants being reverted from WER's talk page and then those same participants, in this project, getting blocked indefinitely. ```Buster Seven Talk 11:25, 6 August 2013 (UTC) * Of those, one is a sock, Agent joined to antagonize me only and was never a positive asset here (see contribs and his RFC/U) and then you have Penyulap, who is active at Commons now and is a mixed bag. On good days, I really enjoyed him most of the time but he eventually got too pointy/soapbox-ish for his own good. See his RFA and contribs. The two other than the sock had problems that started before WER was even founded. Dennis Brown \| 2¢ \| WER 13:46, 7 August 2013 (UTC) Please stop edit warring Please stop edit warring over the project page and discuss issues of the content of the project page here. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:59, 11 August 2013 (UTC) * It wasn't an edit war. An editor made a dramatic change to the page to remove all of their substantial (and positive) contributions to the page and I reverted it exactly once. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 19:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC) Retiring I'm retiring from coming within fifty miles of this failed project. Crap like this is not helping with editor retention in any way. This project's own guidelines say to "Nip aggressive conversation in the bud if it begins in your presence " but when I tried to do that on this very page I was not allowed to do so. This project is becoming a walled garden of whining, complaining, and personal attacks strictly cntrolled by a small cadre of users who seem very comfortable dictating rules as they see fit. Consider this editor as one who was made less happy with Wikipedia by this project. Reply to this and tell me what an asshole I am all you like, I won't be reading it and you won't be hearing from me here again. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:18, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * Thanks for participating. So you claim a retirement thread is aggressive and are bitching because I reverted your closing of the thread?. Hmmmm. You have no authority to close discussion on this project in that manner. There was nothing wrong with it. Was it accurate to say they are retiring, but have not done so? Perhaps, but if you are leaving because consensus determines these issues here and don't agree with that....I cannot stop you. But blame yourself and not others for your own actions.--Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 01:31, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * Um, what consensus determined anything? AutomaticStrikeout ? 01:47, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * None. There has been no discussion to close this thread. There is no aggressive behavior in the content to require closing.--Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 01:51, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * (aka Mark Miller), you were one of the main contributors to the development of WER when it was created barely a year ago. I can partly understand your concerns, but I must also concur with that the project today has already become a far cry from what it started out to be. IMO, it's now mostly yet another venue for people to air their gripes, and take more swipes at admins. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:09, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * I think Beeblebrox is holding a grudge and creating drama more than fixing anything by that biased closing. The project is still what it started out as, but when editors are allowed to discuss issues they may be controversial....the project page says that as well.However...I do think there are several discussions that defeat the purpose of the project. But this is still Wikipedia and not some random message board and we don't need moderators here.--Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 02:16, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * I won't comment on his closure, but I think is very brave to do anything at all in the current climate regarding admins. If some people try hard enough, he may be the next highly active admin to throw his toys out of his pram, and that would be a very sad day not only for the depleting corps of admin, but another failure for WER. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:22, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * @Beeblebrox: See my (perhaps TL;DR) post above. When are we going to have another 'admin cabal' beer together? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:44, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * The fact that this nascent project already has 7 archives seems to indicate that it's useful. If it's as "a venue for people to air their gripes and take more swipes at admins" so be it. Joefromrandb (talk) 15:46, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * Anything that exists so people can take swipes at admins serves only to further divide the community, which is not a useful purpose. AutomaticStrikeout ? 15:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * And denying people venues to express concerns is helpful how, exactly? Intothatdarkness 17:42, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * Expressing concerns is okay. Needless drama-mongering is not. There are far too many people who love nothing more than to have a reason to complain about the admins. AutomaticStrikeout ? 18:00, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * I'm actually quite disgusted each time I have a reason to complain about the admins. Joefromrandb (talk) 18:52, 2 August 2013 (UTC) * I tend to feel the same way, honestly. Intothatdarkness 19:02, 2 August 2013 (UTC) Doesn't matter if they are admin or IP editors. This is Editor retention, not contribution retention. We actually have a consensus to allow editor to discuss individual retention issues specific to individual editors. I agree with AutomaticStrikeout in more than spirit, but this project is about allowing retention issues to be discussed, regardless of the controversy. Labeling it "drama mongering" is, in itself "drama". Don't play into it. Address the issue and explain how this is not productive in your opinion but...we cannot shut down discussion because it looks melodramatic. How do we know when someone is right about an issue and if someone else calls it drama and everyone ignores the issue? I do feel that the continued claims of complaints about admin or other editors being drama is what really defeats editor retention. We are basically blowing off another editors concerns when we make those claims simply because we just don't care, or we just don't believe someone. It as helpful as TL:DR.--Mark Miller Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 19:06, 2 August 2013 (UTC) My 2c I've been so busy in real life, I really haven't been paying attention to what is going on here. Life is that way sometimes. I would disagree that the project is "admin bashing" just because it will mention the actions of an admin. If an admin can't take the heat of having their actions questioned, they need to drop their bits off at WP:BN. I can think of several admin that need to explain or be debitted, to be perfectly frank, but I don't dwell on it here. The majority of what we do here is talk about various ideas, and yes, VENT. I think that a little venting is a good thing and it is better to do it here than at the boards, where others can explain WHY something was done. It is a neutral area. I do try to steer conversations away from purely negative topics because that doesn't help anyone. But the fact is, some admin ARE bad for editor retention, just the same as some editors are bad for editor retention. They tend to make others leave. We can't solve all problems here, but they can be brought to light and maybe they can be discussed in an informal and positive way. The last two months here have only shown me that I need to be MORE direct with these individual/admin, invite them here to just talk and express concerns, but do so in a responsible and sensitive way. Pretending these issues don't exist is a fool's game. As an admin, I will be the first to say that there is a "code of silence" whereby admin are too quick to protect their own, and we are all guilty of it to one degree or another, which is one reason I want to reduce the separation between admin and non-admin by breaking up the tools a bit. It is also why I went out of my way when I first started the project to get lots of admin involved in this project. I like Beebs (and voted for him to be Crat at one time), and can't stop him if he or anyone else wants to leave, but he should realize that if you want a project to change, YOU change it by leadership, you don't just sit around and wait for it to change all on its own. We depend on admin to provide some leadership around here, not because the bit gives you magical knowledge, but because admin tend to be more experienced and have the tools to get things done. This project has no hard and fast rules, so no one is a victim of it. If you don't like something, you change it. Dennis Brown \| 2¢ \| WER 12:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia in 2021? In 2021, Wikipedia will be 20 years old. Thinking about the future—where we've been and where we're going—what will Wikipedia (the project) be like in 2021? What will Wikipedia (the community) be like in 2021? I'd like to know people's thoughts about the Wikipedia of the future. Thanks. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC) * My guess (and fear) is that a combination of factors will mean that Wikipedia is overrun with paid editors and POV warriors who have learned to abide by the letter of WP:CIVIL. There will also be a large group of social networking people who exchange barnstars and who discuss topics of interest. These groups will drive out good editors, and Wikipedia will decay. The factors leading to this depressing scenario (in no particular order) will include the visual editor and Flow, the growing popularity of Wikipedia, the growing recognition that winning an edit war can be highly beneficial (see BP and its talk page for one example), and the inability of the community to deal with obvious problems—what is needed is a group of admins who issue "shape up or ship out" notices (very neutral and polite ones, with no silly warning icons, but with teeth). Johnuniq (talk) 02:30, 7 August 2013 (UTC) * Paid editors, paid political operatives, conflict of interest editors, corporate spokespeople, CREWE, etc. will become so entrenched and hidden that the reader will be hard-pressed to find any important article that isn't sculpted and shaped to the customers wishes. Of course the reader won't know. The reader will still think Wikipedia is written by volunteers. But the volunteers will all have left...heartbroken. ```Buster Seven Talk 05:46, 7 August 2013 (UTC) , * YEP — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:34, 7 August 2013 (UTC) * I read the CREWE material. I, and I am certain I am not alone, have had to protect articles I have written against persons associated with article subjects. In spite of the fact that Wikipedia bows to no outside entities and we police ourselves, I have not always won against these people. I will, in all fairness, say I have run into people who agreed with Wikipedia's right to tell the truth, once I explained in edit summaries or talk pages that I used properly sourced material. If Wikipedia becomes overrun with the stuff mentioned in CREWE, it will be damaged, if not destroyed. I don't look for controversy, but sometimes subjects have legitimate negative information about them that must be written if Wikipedia is to be objective. Bill Pollard (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2013 (UTC) * If the culture of the English Wikipedia remains as it is in 2013, then Johnuniq's and Buster Seven's sad predictions are likely. (The culture may change in that time.) If their predictions come to pass, one reason will be the subculture of editors who whine about power-hungry admins interfering with content creators. This subculture makes many admins hesitant to issue the "shape up or ship out" notices. My own opinion is that "the community" is unable to deal with obvious problems because "the community" is elusive, and that paid editors and civil POV warriors should be dealt with either by the ArbCom or by a tier below the ArbCom (not currently in place). "Community consensus" doesn't work. Constant complaining about power-hungry admins doesn't help. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:05, 11 August 2013 (UTC) * Are you really implying Robert, that what you call "power-hungry admins" should be allowed to interfere as they will with content creators, and that scrutiny of their behaviour should not be allowed? Perhaps Johnuniq has a better handle on things when he says that the really damaging people on Wikipedia are those who come here, not write the encyclopaedia, but to social network while they put down the people who are here to write the encyclopaedia. --Epipelagic (talk) 22:43, 11 August 2013 (UTC) * I do not mean that power-hungry admins should be allowed to interfere with content creators. I will point out, first, that content creators do not always have problems with admins. Some editors who are excellent content creators do not allow themselves to be taunted into using foul language. I will point out, second, that, while I agree that there are power-hungry admins who are too quick to block, the constant complaints about the culture of admins make many admins hesitant to deal with problematical editors in general, including the editors who come here to social-network and the editors who come here as paid shills. I think that individual admins who are too quick to block should be dealt with. However, whining about admins in general will not, in the medium run or long run, benefit content creation. Hostility to admins in general and disrespect for admins in general will create an environment that is tolerant of the social networkers and the paid editors. Some admins should be dealt with and restrained or desysopped, but complaining about admins in general doesn't benefit the content creators, but the problematical editors. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:57, 11 August 2013 (UTC) * I don't know what this "whining" is that you keep referring to. If admins perform in a proper manner, complaining about it deserves to be called whining. But as a group admins do not and cannot perform in a proper manner, because the system they are trying to operate from is systemically flawed. These structural defects underlie much of the hostility and disrespect that admins receive. Good admins are as much the victims of these systemic failures as are good content builders. I'm wondering if you are misreading objective criticisms of the system and confusing them with whining? If you scan through the archives in the relevant notice boards you will find many threads where the systemic failings of the current system have been clearly set out. No remedy seems possible, since admins who do not want the terms of their adminship changed gather together and block any constructive proposals. --Epipelagic (talk) 03:22, 12 August 2013 (UTC) You know, I can't help but feel that there are things in this discussion that re-enforce one of my main contentions about the problems that Wikipedia seems to have. The RfA process is somewhat flawed. I do not understand why there is so much emphasis on content creation in the RfA process. Writing and administrative duties do not have very much in common at all. Why is it important that a admin candidate have written x number of articles or had y number of edits in mainspace? Someone who mainly writes in userspace, but does so in a positive and helpful manner, is, IMHO, a far better potential admin than someone who can crank out the content but has less than desirable people skills. If you make people who have as their strongest skill the ability to understand, motivate and unfortunately sometimes, to control, other people's behavior administrators, I think we would see far fewer "power-mad" administrators. Creative people frequently (not all of course) have issues dealing with other people. Having lived around highly talented musicians all my life, I know that those wrapped up in creativity frequently lack people skills. And of course, we must have those people here writing and doing it well. If we could only find a way that the people who are good at motivating motivate and let the the people who create create, we will have found ourselves a better system. Gtwfan52 (talk) 18:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC) * I think there might be a coming leadership problem. I saw a WP page that noted that over 50% of Admins have been inactive for at least 3 months (meaning 5 or less edits). I know one Admin who is noted to be the Director of a WikiProject and the last time he edited was in February 2013. And the page still says to direct all inquiries to him. That same article stated there were only 600+ active Admins on the English Wikipedia. * While I've run into a couple of Admins who I thought could have been more effective in the way they handled situations, it doesn't seem like 600+ is enough Admins to cover the disputes that emerge from the 4M+ articles, talk pages and policy pages of Wikipedia. I realize that this is the Talk Page about Editor Retention, not Admin Retention but it might be useful to survey the 700+ inactive Admins and see * Are they taking a break and planning to return, * Have they "burned out" on Wikipedia, and * What led them to quit as an active contributor (had they achieved what they wanted to achieve or was it a specific incident that soured them on WP) * It would also be useful to know the average time between becoming an Admin and becoming inactive. Are these long-time Admins who have moved on to other projects or editors who wanted to reach Admin status and quickly found out that it was more of a responsibility than they expected? * Just some issues I think WP has to consider for its long-term vitality. NewJerseyLiz Let's Talk 14:45, 17 August 2013 (UTC) Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds ArbCom case closed One banned, the other desysopped. Plenty of food for thought for this project, I think, given that both editors are pretty dedicated content contributors. Any ideas for ways of not allowing clownish behavior of long-term contributors to escalate to the level where they get nuked by ArbCom? Someone not using his real name (talk) 02:06, 15 August 2013 (UTC) * Are you talking about admins capable of defusing user problems with creative people skills? Being constructive is not part of the job definition for an admin on Wikipedia. The culture is geared more to applauding the adversarial admins who confront dedicated content contributors with knee jerk blocks and put downs. --Epipelagic (talk) 06:54, 15 August 2013 (UTC) * I'm an on and off contributor at Wikipedia but I've studied conflict and have tried to recently defuse a similar situation on WP. It seems like when the editor issues are ego, belligerence and a total deafness to constructive criticism, there is only change when the editor takes a Wikibreak (of at least a week) and comes back, resolved to put past grudges behind them. I think this doesn't happen often enough. I have told one editor that they are likely to receive a ban but he is so convinced of the rightness of his "cause" (since there is an appeal to higher, WP policies), that this just doesn't seem like a real possibility to them. He or she takes occasional breaks and they return less argumentative and caustic but it usually reemerges in time. * I think one of the worst problem with editors and Admins who are easily outraged, who lash out at fellow editors and who nurse personal grudges, is that they often have a "fan club" who attack anyone who tries to chastise the guilty party and calls for them to attack civilly. There is one misbehaving Admin I've seen who is surrounded by enablers who support every move she or he makes. I suggest that if an editor or Admin has a personal relationship with one of these "defenders" and that they let them know they aren't helping the situation, this might help things from escalating. NewJerseyLiz Let's Talk 14:27, 17 August 2013 (UTC) * I think disruptive but otherwise dedicated content contributors should realise that their content contributions are neither a licence for, nor a 'get out of jail free' ticket to be abusive; while admins should realise that the confidence demonstrated in them by the community at their RfA also includes behaving with maturity and responsibility and leading by example. It's a shame that such things have to escalate to Arbcom before they do realise that what they are doing is inappropriate, and if they finally land there, it's because they have been testing the the community's patience too glibly. At that stage, their fan clubs are of little help. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:11, 24 August 2013 (UTC) * Isn't it time to recognise that WP doesn't really care about retaining editors, only about attracting new ones? Eric Corbett 20:16, 24 August 2013 (UTC) * Possibly but then wouldn't that be an assumption based on only a handful of experiences? It seems to me that Wikipedia in general is interested in retaining editors, but who should be retained is always going to be an issue and a question not all will agree on. To me the question is always, will a block be a benefit to retaining others. Sometimes it is.-- Mark 20:21, 24 August 2013 (UTC) * "There is one misbehaving Admin I've seen who is surrounded by enablers who support every move she or he makes. " Just one? I could name multiple admins that fall into that category. Pumpkin Sky talk 00:56, 25 August 2013 (UTC) * Isn't the WMF obsession with new editors, rather than good editors (either by retention or by development), already generally recognised? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:37, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * Possibly. It's even a theory that I've supported for a long time and that's why I'm so keen to see quality rather than quantity of both articles and editors, and that's why I feel perhaps that some control over the way AfC submissions are processed is necessary. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:04, 27 August 2013 (UTC) New editor User talk:Hog1983 seems to be getting a hard time. Some on this project may wish to provide a little encouragement and guidance.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:48, 24 August 2013 (UTC) * I spent time reading through his Talk Page and it seems like he is getting more advice and hand-holding than any new user I've seen. Yes, he's erred and faced blocks, but people are there to explain what caused them and what he should do next. Liz Read! Talk! 02:12, 25 August 2013 (UTC) Random section break Well, Pumpkin Sky, although I've edited on WP on and off since 2006, it's only been since July that I've spent a lot of time here, enough to recognize the names of other users. Usually, and I think this is true for most casual editors, I worked in a solitary environment, doing rather non-controversial edits like typos, grammar changes and fixing dates. It's only since I've been looking at Wikipedia as an organization that I've tried to understand how users collaborate together (or don't). With approximately 40,000 active editors (5 edits over 3 month period) on en.wiki, there is bound to be conflict, it's a matter of setting long-term goals for WP and deciding what's necessary to achieve them. I read on one WP page that there are only about 2,500-4,000 very active editors (100 edits over 3 month period) on en.wiki so I think the priority is not just to a) attract new editors, b) retain very active editors but also c) change active editors to very active editors. I think a combination of all three approaches is called for but I don't hear much about strategies for the last factor. But maybe this is a conversation for another section/thread. Liz <b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 01:53, 25 August 2013 (UTC) * Hmm, that's not how I'd define active and very active, but eh. At any rate the number of editors who actually control or try to control goings is much lower. I'm curious what you think of the ideas stated here. Pumpkin Sky talk 02:02, 25 August 2013 (UTC) * Well, it turns out my guesstimates (and memory) were faulty and the numbers are somewhat lower. You can see the details at User stats on en.wiki.org. * As for the link you shared, I really am not up to speed on the history of WMF, the highs and the lows along the past 12 years, so it's difficult for me to evaluate whether or not they have reached their goals. One thing I have noticed is that I've gone back to some of the more important disputes over the past 9 years and even in 2004 there were editors saying how Wikipedia has strayed from its original purpose and was going downhill. I saw similar comments in 2006, 2009, 2011 and today. * It has something to do with the lifecycle of an online community member...you begin with casual involvement, decide to be more active, then the learning curve is steep as you try to master the policies and norms. Then comes a period of productive activity but, after a while, one encounters conflict and people with authority fail to live up to the expectations people have for them. Then, people who you met when you first began interacting with others get frustrated or bored and either retire or act out and are banned. The idealism you began with and belief in the project is now tarnished because, when you come down to it, Wikipedia is people collaborating and individuals can let you down, disappoint you, be hypocrites, take offense and be rude, be obstinate, flake out, in a word, be human beings working in a largely anonymous environment. Maybe Wikipedia then stops being fun and becomes "work". At this point you either a) decide to leave and put your efforts towards some alternative activity, b) go "deeper" into your commitment to WP/WMF or c) continue to edit on WP (usually within a niche field) without any illusions you might have had before that WP is a rational, bias-free, fair or noble project. * So, it's inevitable that ones relationship to work on WP will change over time and that there will be editor attrition, not only due to burnout but because of real life commitments taking precedence. But that doesn't mean that editor retention isn't a worthy pursuit it's just important to realize that, whatever is done, some people will leave. But it's crucial to listen to what they have to say about their experience on WP because while there might be disappointment, they often can spot problems that those who are too wrapped up in the busywork of editing, might not see. Hope this wasn't TL;DR. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 02:46, 25 August 2013 (UTC) * There's validity to what you say but it's not the whole story. It truly is worse now. Arbcom has lost it's compass, they don't arbitrate they just try to get reelected and as far as I'm concerned arbcom should be abolished. The crux here was all the mess from last year. It used to be possible to at least sometimes effect meaningful change and now you can't get squat done. Then there's the whole Raul FA Fiefdom mess--ugh, let's not even go there. The community is totally dysfunctional. I probably fall into your niche group. Pumpkin Sky talk 11:16, 25 August 2013 (UTC) * You have an insight to the workings of Arbcom that most of us don't. Perhaps one of the problems with the committee is that newly elected members weren't aware of what they were letting themselves in for. For one thing, I've heard it's a huge time sink, and for another, having met plenty of them in person, there are some who quickly got disenchanted with the whole thing, while they all have very different perceptions of their work there and that of the committee as a whole. Some Arbcom decisions leave the community hugely dissatisfied while other verdicts may be appropriate. There is a lot of other work that goes on that we don't even get to hear about. I can only criticise their public operations. What goes on on their mailing list might gain them a lot more respect - but we'll never know unless we become one. One thing is for sure, some kind of 'arbitration' body can't be thought away - what would it be replaced with? (and I think that's actually a rhetorical question). Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:03, 26 August 2013 (UTC) * Thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, this is all news to me. I've only recently begun following dispute resolution cases so I'm unaware of any previous ARBCOM decision-making. I was blissfully unaware as an IP editor. I was just talking about regular editors, staying or going, not ARBCOM. But I'm sure whatever controversy existed in the past is not written in any history of Wikipedia. * I do agree that it's inevitable there is some higher authority to serve as an ultimate arbiter of difficult and complex cases. I'd rather have a committee than put an individual in this position. And it's also inevitable that some decisions will not be popular. There is no way to settle some disputes without alienating some editors. Some will think you're too lenient, others will think you're being too tough. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 00:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * NO first time arb knows what they're getting into. It is a HUGE time sink. Plus it makes you a super target (something I'm the primo example of). What the public sees is only a fraction of what really goes on. Abolish arbcom--hell yes. It wouldn't be any worse than it already is. Pumpkin Sky talk 01:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * Arbcom's the worst "job" I ever had here, with the possible exception of checkuser, but then that was back in the dark days when Essjay and I were handling about 95% of the requests. That much checkusering turns you paranoid. I suspect the relevance of Arbcom to the average editor is about the same as what it's always been: zero, though I'm sure some arbs would try to argue otherwise. It can be worse, by the way; I don't think you were around for Quickpolls. Hello, by the way. Haven't see you around in a while. Mackensen (talk) 02:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * Hi Mac. Yea, long time no see. Lately I'm just wait for my Grace Sherwood FAC to finish and Sergeant Reckless to make GA. Pumpkin Sky talk 20:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * It is abundantly clear that many Arbcom decisions affect the way the average users think Wikipedia is run. Some decisions which Arbcom makes may appear to be asynchronous - it's why perhaps the committee appears to be too lenient in some cases and too strict in others. That said, decisions that result in blocking, banning, and desysoping may serve to reassure a greater community that their interests are being represented, while those on the receiving end of sanctions, especially those who have demonstrated excellent and prolific content work, will obviously not be happy with the result. There are the constant claims that the committee does too little to sanction admins and Arbs, but when they do there are of course the counter claims that they were wrong to do so. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:11, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * This is all why they need to apply consistent standards and they don't--they is why they are now so unpredictable. The Admin Protective Society is clearly more influential than it used to be. Admins get off scott free today for things they'd have been hammered for a few years ago. Pumpkin Sky talk 20:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC) lets make the wikipedia edit guideline exam I think we should create mini exams where one can self-test their knowledge of the different categories of Wikipedia guidelines. I tried to create such a thing but found myself woefully incompetent and 100% inexperienced at making tests. Thus far I've found 3 possible formulas: * to divide the questions over the guideline categories, * to describe a scenario and have the student multiple choice the correct response, * to have questions where one is to write-out a popular short hand like POV, NPOV, OR, ANI, 3RR The idea is that one can self-diagnose not knowing the guidelines. After completing the test, if you want to, you can post your score on your user page with a nice template. This will help other editors understand you. It gives the new editor a fair chance to impress us. We could actually tell them they did something right for a change. I want to (would like to) hear ideas for questions, which edit guidelines you consider to be most important and in what order. You get the general idea. Please help. :) <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:52, 26 August 2013 (UTC) discussion BITE seems to be a really hard one to learn. I would put that at the top, then Reliable sources, then the notability policy, then neutral point of view, then civility.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:52, 26 August 2013 (UTC) * Designing tests around the application of editing policies and guidelines would be remarkably difficult. First, I would argue that designing tests would be problematic as these principles change over time-- not substantially, but perhaps enough to make any one test less helpful than it ought to. Second, the application of policies and guidelines is highly situational, which means any questions would need to be pretty well-described. Even then, there are legitimate disagreement amongst editors about the application of policy and guidelines. One only needs to look over discussions currently happening at Talk:Chelsea Manning to see substantial disagreement over balancing WP:MOSIDENTITY and WP:COMMONNAME. There is also a difference in being able to answer test questions and actually judge real situations on your own without the benefit of a multiple-choice system. I, JethroBT drop me a line 06:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * See Wikipedia/Quizzes.—Wavelength (talk) 06:29, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * The first one shouldn't be hard. Most guidelines are obvious enough to guess the right answer. I would want at least the first test to be so easy that any long term editor would know all the answers. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:32, 27 August 2013 (UTC) help make up questions for the test * A new user has managed to enrage an administrator. Who is right? * A) The administrator * B) The user * C) Both * 4 million people showed up for an event but you cant find any news paper article or other usable sources. * A) The article topic doesn't meet notability * B) The article topic meets notability * C) The consensus between editors determines if the article should be created or not <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:52, 26 August 2013 (UTC) * Which resource is considered the most important? * A) Articles * B) Donations * C) New users * POV stands for: * A) Neutral Point Of View * B) Policy Of Views * B) Point Of View <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:32, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * your question here * A) * B) * C) Users History2007 and PiCo I have no idea why User History2007 not only retired but vanished and User PiCo announced today he had made his last post but this is terrible news for the project. They were both highly knowledgeable editors in the fields of Christianity, the Bible, history of Christianity, etc., who whatever their personal beliefs may be, are able to edit neutrally in controversial areas and fight off constant disruption to important articles in those areas by cranks and fringe theory pushers. Without History2007 and PiCo I fear the cranks will soon dominate. Smeat75 (talk) 18:48, 10 August 2013 (UTC) * In History2007's case, too many sockpuppets were a big issue. For both I think pov editing was another factor. Dougweller (talk) 09:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC) * A few weeks later, my prophecy has come true, in spades, with current frenzied attacks, I guess I can use that word here, on a whole range of articles to do with Jesus and Christianity, as discussed in the current AN/I thread. It is very sad that History 2007 and PiCo got so fed up with pov editing that they quit, they were invaluable, I wish I had never got involved in this area in wikipedia as it involves constant fights. I think the mechanism for dealing with POV pushers on these kind of articles is too weak and they should be dealt with much more quickly, basically as soon as you see someone who has had an edit reverted on an article about Jesus go to the talk page of the person who reverted and say "Why did you do that? Don't you know that the Bible says that Jesus was a flying spaghetti monster?" that person should just be topic banned from the subject area right then, not out of censorship, but because you can immediately see that they are not here to build an encyclopedia but wage what they imagine to be a brave battle against religious obscurantists. I could see instantly what was in store, fights all over the place, an/i discussions, long drawn out processes going on for months, at the end of it they will be indefinitely banned or topic banned, why not just do it to start with instead of wasting everyone's time and driving away knowledgeable, unbiased editors who have better things to with their time that deal with this sort of disruption by people who most of the time don't really know what they are talking about.Smeat75 (talk) 02:50, 1 September 2013 (UTC) A good deed Back in December of last year, a new WER member signed up with the comment,“It constantly strikes me how much more successful Wikipedia would be with just a little more encouragement between editors.” Each week since January 2013 a new EotW award has been presented, and a handful of WER members have, each week, visited the new recepients talk page to offer congrats. WP:Wer has almost 150 members who expressed interest in retaining editors. Can you imagine the editor goodwill and uplift if just 10% of our members reached out to the EotW each week? The weekly infobox announcing the current EotW is prominently displayed on the Project Page. Let them know that they are appreciated. Try it---You’ll feel good! ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 23:23, 26 August 2013 (UTC) * Thanks, <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven , I wasn't aware of EoTW. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 00:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC) * This weeks Editor of the Week is Editor . Stop by his talk and give him a "way to go". ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk ''' 17:49, 1 September 2013 (UTC) Reaching out to the past I have an idea that might be appealing to some of the members of this project. It doesn't need an organized committee or anything like that, but can be done by various editors working independently of each other. My idea is that you could try to reach out to retired editors who still have the "Email this user" function enabled and ask them if they might be interested in returning (obviously, don't bother someone who has made it clear that they want to be left alone). You could send out an email once a day or once a week or whatever you prefer, but it would be interesting to see how many editors we might get back this way. AutomaticStrikeout ? 16:17, 13 August 2013 (UTC) * This would be useful if (a) an editor has clearly indicated what change(s) at Wikipedia would cause him or her to return (or to consider returning) and (b) there is clear evidence of the desired change(s). * —Wavelength (talk) 16:55, 13 August 2013 (UTC) * No one asked me, but the reason I returned from being more-or-less retired & gone was that someone reached out & asked for my help in getting an article to FA quality. In other words, someone cared whether or not I contributed. So I'm back, in a modest way, trying to find & add sources to various articles. (Since I would read Wikipedia on a regular basis--despite everything, there are a lot of informative &/or well-written articles here--I was reachable, & making the occasional copy edit. If anyone bothered to ask for my help editing.) However, I am not going to make any edits I believe would be contested because (1) I'm jaded from dealing with the aggressive attitudes around here, (2) I believe a lot of the policies taken for granted here are obsolete or the product of people wanting to prove they are important -- & yes, I'm guilty of doing that -- & (3) I don't have the time to research & debate disputed content. -- llywrch (talk) 17:15, 12 September 2013 (UTC) Another editor lost through bullying I am deeply concerned to see one of the latest retirements,, a prolific contributor to classical music and opera. This is precisely what this project is designed to avoid happening. We can't afford to lose mature editors of this calibre. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * I assume the current arbcom case on "infoboxes" (which is full of frustrating aspects) is directly related to his retirement. I'm not sure if "bullying" is a reasonable description, but I think I know what you mean. Fwiw, here are links to his comments, evidence, workshop, and the Proposed decision FoF and Remedies that involve him (only the PDtalkpage has much further discussion about him). * I'm not sure what this project could have done to prevent his retirement, beyond getting involved in the infobox dispute/discussion years ago (which unless handled perfectly might just have sped the problem along, as "people taking sides" is exactly the problem that I assume you refer to by "bullying"). (And also this project would have had to helped with all other sources of frustration, because infoboxes are probably just the proverbial straw.) * Note that admin User:Ched has also retired (effectively) today (at least partially related to infoboxes). * Also (as a tangent) bcrat User:WilliamH retired yesterday (I'm not sure why). * Life is full of sadness. The only things that help are friends, art, and change (time, epiphanies, [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVwR0rw5fk alcohol]). –Quiddity (talk) 04:33, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * (EC) I agree that something needs to be done...some kind of intervention needs to be implemented. But, in this case you mention, it seems to have happened out of the blue. I've only glossed over some of the particulars, and I don't know where the bullying took place, but it seems like no one could have predicted a retirement. Maybe, had we known, we could have gone to the page or pages where the bullying took place and applied some "peer pressure" on the bully to tone it down. Bullies in real life usually stop bullying if most of the people in the vicinity say, "OK. That's enough. It's time to stop bullying." One of my early bad experiences was a "bully-fest". And what saved the day (and my WikiCareer) were some veteran editors that appeared and leveled the playing field. I wasn't alone with just my inexperience. Had they not shown up I too may have retired after only a short stay. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 04:50, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * The Smerus retirement is doubly disturbing, because one highly respected member of Wikipedia and British society,, and a prolific editor of classical music articles, also nearly retired not so long ago because of people's behaviour. Users need to realise that Wikipedia is not only all about soccer, video games, Anime, and Manga. Those who would like to see a reduction in the number of admins/crats, or indeeed the total abolishment of the admin/cratsystem need not worry about Arbcom or community desyoping, they seem to be getting their own way anyway. 05:59, 3 September 2013 (UTC)Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) * Most of the bullying here is done by administrators, which is why it can't be stopped. Reform of WP's governance is an urgent problem that very few care to address for fear of spoiling their chances at RfA. Eric Corbett 07:01, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * I have great respect for Smerus and said so, always, although we disagreed on topics. It looks to me like he resigned over the arbcom "findings" about him, which are not supported by the evidence. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * I doubt very much that most of the bullying is done by administrators, a few maybe (I certainly am aware of some), but the ratios and behaviours of admin/non-admin users is too disparate. Gang-bashing of admins by the community on the other hand, is a widespread phenomenon and just as silly as children who believe all teachers are monsters. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:53, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * That is overstated Kudpung.... there is some but not a lot of undeserved "gang-bashing" of admins by the community. But there are grievous inadequacies of the admin system which are deliberately and systematically sidelined by the admin community, who often seem more interested in preening themselves than facilitating content building on Wikipedia. Unless or until the admin community is willing to address those inadequacies they cannot expect much respect from the non-admin community. Personally, I feel ashamed of the admin community. --Epipelagic (talk) 11:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * The overstatement is this: ...there are grievous inadequacies of the admin system which are deliberately and systematically sidelined by the admin community, who often seem more interested in preening themselves than facilitating content building on Wikipedia. If you would like to see the system changed, you are welcome to start an RfC proposing your changes; as the number of editors far outweights the number of acive admins, you may well even garner support. Editors who simply make nonconstructive criticisms that are not founded on facts will not help to get things changed - indeed, due to heckling from the sidelines, interest in making reform to adminship has been lost in the past by smome editors. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:29, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * You have been around long enough to know that is not how it works at all Kudpung. The system has become Orwellian, and I do not understand why you have allowed yourself to become an apologist for it. --Epipelagic (talk) 22:05, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * I certainly have been bullied by one of the most notorious admins for pointing out that one of his decisions went against the majority view of the community. I was already to leave after Arbcom refused to answer my questions but someone else has taken the case back there. I'll see of Arbcom discover some willingness to reign Sandstein in, if not I'm off.--Peter Cohen (talk) 20:53, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * ArbCom don't appear to be addressing Sandstein in any of the current cases. I have had nothing to do with him but whenever I've noticed him he's been being an arse hole to someone. But perhaps that's a biased sample and I only get to see the very rare instance where he makes a poor call. If you have a good overview of his performance, are you in a position to construct a convincing case, with diffs, that might persuade the community to reign him in? If so, would you consider doing that and putting it before an RFC? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 21:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * Ah. I see you're discussing him at C&E. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 22:08, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * I did take him to AN/I a month or two back. He sabotaged things by saying that he was taking the issue to C&E and the thread got archived without being closed. Meanwhile Arbcom also decided to sit on their hands and so the C&E thread also got archived with no definite conclusion. My view is that rather than going quietly I can make it plain who has driven me away and this means that next time Sandstein's name appears people will remember. Too many good contributors just resign without pointing the finger. Basically I had a "clean record" until Sandstein slapped the Scientology warning on me. To the best of my knowledge I have never edited a Scientology article or taken part in a Scientology-related discussion but Sandstein wanted to play the same game on me as he had just played on The Devils Advocate for pointing out that he was acting against community opinion. I have no desire for my name to be associated with Scientology but Sandstein has done so because I questioned his judgment. There was a thread somewhere else (I think on a beaurocrat-related page) where other admins commented on how Sandstein goes ape-shit whenever one of them undoes one of his actions. If Arbcom and WMF aren't prepared to rein him in, then my view is that they deserve to preside over a dying project where all the useful contributors have upped and gone and only the game-players are left.--Peter cohen (talk) 22:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * Obviously it's your call; but if you think the guy is toxic - and there are a number of editors who do - getting him to return to article-writing full time for a year or two while he reflects on the way he respects people may be a better (and more satisfying) response that walking away. You needn't construct the whole case, you could open the RfC with what you know and invite others on AN or ANI to add to it. * He does a great deal of work here and is obviously well-intentioned so I can't see ArbCom really doing anything with him - they appear to rely on him to keep a lot of trouble at bay that might otherwise come flying back at them. * I don't have enough knowledge about him to support an RfC, but if you think that course might be fruitful, it's an option. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 00:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * From what I have seen, Sandstein seems indeed to have a seriously disturbed track record focused on draconian punishment. Can anyone point to cases where Sandstein has given content editors the benefit of doubt, or shown skill at applying alternatives other than draconian punishment? An RfC would be a waste of time. Admins and arbitrators have free reign on Wikipedia to abuse mere content editors as they will, and no admin or arbitrator in the history of Wikipedia has ever has their privileges removed for such abuses. If content editors don't like it, their only redress lies in their freedom to leave (as so many of the best do). --Epipelagic (talk) 12:11, 8 September 2013 (UTC) Smerus was one of the best music contributors that Wikipedia has ever had. Unfortunately he felt that the action of ArbCom’s AGK in asking for evidence against him (and me) — after the evidence stage of the case had finished — exposed him unfairly to attacks from members of WikiProject Quality Article Improvement. He was left with the familiar choice of deciding to defend himself by laboriously fighting it out diff by diff, opting to ignore the whole thing and do nothing, or simply leave. He felt the right choice was to leave. Klein zach 08:27, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * I agree completely that it was wrong that an arb asked for more evidence. I don't agree with "exposed him unfairly to attacks from members of WikiProject Quality Article Improvement." I am a member of the project and refused to say anything against him: "I have intentionally not supplied any evidence against (!) any editor, many of whom I respect, and still don't want to do that. (Was it a mistake? I am interested in understanding, not "remedies".)". - Other members provided evidence, not "attacks". He didn't leave then. The evidence was boiled down to a so-called "finding" which I consider unfair. He didn't leave then. A comment mentioned that "finding" as "succinct understatement", he left then. Fairness is missing, see yourself. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:44, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * I should feel sorry if the above were to be the last word on this topic and therefore have come back from the dead briefly to harry those who venture to speak in my name or pretend to identify my motives. Gerda of course would not be the first person to assume 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc', and like many of them she is wrong. I initially chose not to demean myself by answering a slew of attacks made on me, and charges levelled against me by an arbitrator, both of which took place after the evidence in the arb case was closed. I did not even know at the time I left whether both charges against me were determined or not. But on thinking it over last night, I realised that I shouldn't play games where the rules are arbitrarily changed, and that to argue about this was merely to lower myself to the level of my persecutors. Vale.--Smerus (talk) 13:18, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * Buster says above "I don't know where the bullying took place". You could have a look at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes/Proposed decision with enough links etc to supply several months' worth of reading material. This situation has been going on for years. Another user says above "Wikipedia is not only all about soccer, video games, Anime, and Manga". In the contentious field of Christian origins, Biblical scholarship, historicity of Jesus, etc., the two most valuable editors, History2007 and PiCo both recently retired, because, Dougweller says on this page, they got fed up with constant pov editing. These articles are under constant assault by a never ending stream of pov pushers, to try to keep fringe ideas picked up from internet blogs out of them is something that becomes almost a full- time job, trying to counter obvious trolls involves time-consuming, repetitious procedures that you have to spend ages gathering "evidence" for, and drag on for months or years. I completely disagree that the problem is caused by admins bullying, it is caused because the procedures for dealing with bullies and trolls are much too weak. They don't work, WP is failing to keep its best editors, at least in the areas I am familiar with.Smeat75 (talk) 13:21, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * That's because, writ large, Wikipedia doesn't give a shit about retaining its good editors. You notice that this only becomes about "retaining experienced editors" when one that particular editor considers valuable quits. In some areas, as Smeat75 points out, POV pushing is a major issue. In others, lack of admin competence is a major issue. I'm frankly more concerned by the loss of Ched, who was one of the few candid Admins out there. But whatever. There's far too much policy OWN for any real change to ever take place. Intothatdarkness 14:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC) I just want to say that I agree with Kudpung and Kleinzach that Smerus is a first-rate editor whom we can ill spare. I am dismayed to see him withdrawing in the face of recent developments. – Tim riley (talk) 17:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * Tim is right (as usual). Another sad day for Wikipedia. Edwardx (talk) 19:27, 3 September 2013 (UTC) * More than a sad day. While I think it's inadmissible to lose mature adult editors of social, academic, and professional standing who are able to contribute to traditionally important encyclopedic articles and bring them to FA, I find it absurd that they might allow themselves to risk being baited into issues that may either result in blocks, bans, or voluntary retirement. I've been provided with links, for example, to some of the discussions about the use of infoboxes in FA about composers; this took some time to read up, and although I did not read as I would when closing an official RfC, I do not recall detecting any actual consensus. Suffice to say that I had peer reviewed some of those articles and the issue of the presence or absence of infoboxes didn't even cross my mind. Any other editors who do great work for the project, both on, and especially off Wiki would also probably be best advised to avoid any controversies that would end in them being blocked, particularly bearing in mind the caveat that the Arbcom system might be flawed and that findings of the committee may possibly not always be appropriate under the circumstances, even if it means backing down from the bickering. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:33, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * Committed contributors are the most vulnerable of WP editors. Smerus didn't go looking for controversy. It came to him. Once the infoboxes started appearing on Wagner articles it was clear there would be trouble. I don't think it's reasonable to expect a serious principal contributor, one who has spent time developing high-level articles, to ignore unsatisfactory ancillary material placed directly on the same pages. Klein zach 05:34, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * Late to a lot more discussion than I have time to read, let's please look at facts of one example (and even before doing so I repeat they I have no plans to experience more of these, so will not add infoboxes to operas other than "my own"): * Götterdämmerung, an "infoboxes started appearing" because I ("bullying editor"?) thought that to look at real discussions would help the discussion of the arbcom case. Why was it "clear there would be trouble"? Was it "unsatisfactory ancillary material"? I think we had a fair discussion after Smerus reverted the infobox, his one and only edit to the article, where he was certainly not the "serious principal contributor, one who has spent time developing high-level articles". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * That's exactly right. It's hard to ignore it when a bullying editor pushing an agenda come what may plonks his tanks on your lawn. Okay – not truly "your" lawn, and we all recognise WP:OWN. But I wish the WP authorities would make better allowance for explosions, (minor, me judice) such as those for which Smerus was in the dock, provoked by uncolleaguely colleagues with no respect for, as Kleinzach says, the work of "a serious principal contributor, one who has spent time developing high-level articles". We need to change the whole emphasis of policing WP to encourage the constructive and punish the destructive. – Tim riley (talk) 19:11, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * Well said Tim... you have just articulated a rare voice of reason that will however get lost among the din of social networkers and admins preening themselves and moral crusaders clamouring for blocks, blood and dramah. Orphaned and disoriented by this chaos are the relatively few serious content builders here to write the encyclopedia. But that is just how it is now. There seems to be no possibility of change for the better. --Epipelagic (talk) 20:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * This is not just a subjective opinion that is shared by content editors. By any measure Wikipedia is in decline. Klein zach 03:11, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Evidence, Please. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:05, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Well, it's more complicated than that. (Isn't it always? May I ironically point out that reductionist descriptions can be misleading, this close to the infobox topic? ;) * The evidence: Active and New editor numbers. It's not dramatic, but the English and German Wikipedias have been experiencing a small slow decline for a few years, whilst most other languages are slowly (and a few rapidly) growing. * On the other hand, Yes, there is always going to be continual turnover, of people retiring/moving on/passing away/changing priorities/etc. * However, En.wiki does have a problem with incivility (unfriendliness) putting people off. There's a fair amount of abstract (and even specific) mudslinging in this thread, as a case in point. Most negativity isn't insightful or productive - or is phrased in a way that provokes argument rather than thought - I wish we'd all hesitate a little more often, before hitting "save" on an inflammatory post or reactionary reply. –Quiddity (talk) 05:45, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Hear, hear ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 05:53, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * It takes two people to have a fight. If Smerus was an innocent victim of bullying, nobody here would be talking about how he was provoked (so it's OK to get into a fight) or that he is a first-rate editor (so it's OK to get into a fight) or that others have done worse and got away with it (so it's OK to get into a fight) or that he owns the articles in question (so it's OK to get into a fight). * Nine Arbcom members support a finding that Smerus has degraded the quality of infobox discussions (with one oppose and one abstain), Eight Arbcom members support a remedy reminding Smerus to conduct himself in a civil manner. and there is currently a six to five split over indefinitely prohibiting Smerus from removing or discussing the addition or removal of infoboxes, with six votes needed for prohibition. At which point Smerus decided to leave Wikipedia rather than accept those quite reasonable restrictions. I hate to say it, but that action convinced me that he was never going to stop getting into fight with jerks and assholes. Yes, the jerks and assholes should be banned, but there are always new jerks and assholes to fight. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:30, 4 September 2013 (UTC) * Except that Smerus in philosophical mood had already talked of leaving as a result of infoboxes and metadata wars (and warriors) back on 16 June on Sphilbrick's talk page: User_talk:Sphilbrick/Archive_35#Infoboxes.... Scarabocchio (talk) 03:58, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * I'm chagrined to note that I did not respond to that post. In fact, the first time I recall reading it is today. That troubles me, it is not my nature to ignore posts on my talk page. It isn't that I read it and declined to respond, I missed it. It may or may not explain, but I note my next post starts "Sorry I burnt out." I do not know first-hand of the contributions made by Smerus, but I have seen enough references to know how sad this is.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:08, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * While it is unrelated (AFAIK) to the specific thread topic, I just received this note, which ruined my already sad day.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:39, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * While I have little knowledge of the Tea Party movement case, it may be that the treatment of the two users was similar. Here is one of the three posts that ArbCom sanctioned him for: . He was sanctioned for expressing his opinion, not for edit warring or breaking any specific rules. The "reminder to conduct himself in a civil manner" was perhaps reasonable, but the charge that he "degraded the quality of infobox discussions" had no basis in fact. (There was little or no quality in those discussions for anyone to degrade.) The 'remedy' meted out was disproportionate. It's possible that ArbCom wanted to punish two users from each side of the dispute to demonstrate fairness, but the scope of Smerus's involvement was much less than that of the other three parties. He shouldn't have been caught in the net. Klein zach 15:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * That encapsulates the case perfectly. I find Kleinzach's supposition that "ArbCom wanted to punish two users from each side of the dispute to demonstrate fairness" sadly convincing. Heigh ho! But let us press on, ladies and gentlemen, as best we can! Tim riley (talk) 16:48, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Another factor is the ridiculous use of WP:OWN. The people who drove Smerus away would complain about the analogy that tanks were parked on his lawn and start bleating about their favourite bit of policy or guidance or whatever it is. The thing is the policy should not be used to allow editors who don't give a fuck about a particular area of content to come and interfere with subject experts. Smerus has a music-related PhD, and has been published and given talks in music-related areas. It's perfectly legitimate for another big contributor in the area to argue in favour of a new way of presenting our content but not for a troublemaker to come in and try to foist his stylistic preference on us.--user:Peter cohen (User talk:Peter cohen) 20:47, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * "but not for a troublemaker to come in and try to foist his stylistic preference on us" * First, I'm not sure who "us" is. Second, I think you are implying a destructive intentionality where none exists. I have no doubt that there are some Editors who have an axe to grind but as an Editor who wandered in a topic area that was definitely owned by two other users (every edit by any other person was always reverted), I think that ignorance is more likely rather than the users being trolls. * After arguing about the value of my edits which were reverted, I ceded the territory to the other Editors who were acting as watchdogs. I don't know who knew the subject better but, basically, they cared more about it than I did as they responded to every edit that occurred and I didn't have that much invested. I can see where they might think I was a "troublemaker" who was upsetting their carefully crafted and protected articles but I really was trying to be helpful. For better or worse, an Editor can choose to maintain a vigilant watch over articles they care about or they can let go of control (or something that lies between those two stances). Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 21:47, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * We/Us are the editors associated with the various classical music projects and the troublemaker in this case is someone who has had two one-year bans at least one, if not both, of which followed ongoing disruption of our project and articles in the content of which he had no interest. I don't necessarily agree with what everything his opponents said but he was trying to impose a maintenance overhead on us when there was no willingness displayed to accept that overhead.--Peter cohen (talk) 22:57, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * I'm not committing myself to anything, but as Arbcom is the highest Wikipedia authority, what if any, is the process for appealing an ArBcom decision? Does anyone know without me having to wade through pages of blurb? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC) * Requesting amendment or, theoretically, appealing to Jimbo. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:30, 6 September 2013 (UTC) * Thans, that's what I thought. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2013 (UTC) I have a lot of respect for some arbitrators, but I do agree that the process itself is highly, highly flawed, and can often lead to findings that are excessively harsh and disproportionate to the issues, particularly as elections, combined with a long term off office, cannot guarantee all arbitrators will be good. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:18, 9 September 2013 (UTC) Carrying out our WER mission I think it's time someone step in and help out in the situation of User:Miss Bono. First read her entire talk page, and then this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:43, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * I am not going to retire, Kudpung, we have dropped this situation... I don't want to cause so much mess anymore. Thanks. <span style="font-family:'Arial',cursive"> Miss Bono [zootalk] 13:48, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Good to hear it Miss Bono. Hurrah! WER Works! ツ Jenova 20 (email) 14:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Also see behind the scenes WER efforts. It works! ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 15:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC) There's been a rash of people jumping ship recently, Ched's one, Nathan2055's another. Maybe it's something in the water or everyone's worn out from Infoboxes and Manning. I think we just need to remember that sometimes, Wikipedia isn't really that important, and taking the weekend off can work wonders. Have fun, people. Ritchie333 <sup style="color:#7F007F;">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F;">(cont) 17:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC) Now I am thinking about joining myself to WER to help others. Mmmm I don't know O_o. <span style="font-family:'Arial',cursive"> Miss Bono [zootalk] 17:41, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * It's not a bad idea. The more the merrier ツ Jenova 20 (email) 17:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * It's an excellent idea. I'm not an official member here, but I do drop by, and I help informally with editor retention when I can. I am simply "not a joiner of things". Fiddle Faddle 10:22, 6 September 2013 (UTC) * I think there is a big difference from taking a Wikibreak (especially if one edits on a daily basis) and "jumping ship". In particular, if one has been working all summer, through the Manning explosion of words, one needs to log off for a while. I usually find if I'm busy with other projects (like, uh, work), I return to work on something completely new, where I can see progress and stay away from the noticeboards. It reminds me of why I started editing years ago. And you know, if someone reverts me, I don't argue about it, I just move on. There is lots of work to be done. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 21:22, 7 September 2013 (UTC) * I could add that there are a lot of other things beyond wikipedia itself which can use a lot of work. I've been uploading a lot of older PD reference works relating to religion, philosophy, etc., up to commons today, with, honestly, several more such books waiting to be added. I've also been going over some more recent reference works. Guess what? We are still missing or have badly undeveloped content relating to several significant areas around here. Indigenous Australian and native American culture spring to mind most quickly here. One thing that I think might help a lot of people who get too caught up in some areas is to do what Liz says, and start on some other topic that interested them. I know WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles has been kinda dead for some time now, unfortunately, but I really do think that, for a lot of people, showing them some other things they could work on developing, maybe, at least sometimes, with sources readily available, like say on wikimedia commons, that might help provide some editors in trouble a few other ideas that they could work on for a while, particularly if they are caught in a major conflict somewhere else. John Carter (talk) 23:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC) The pantry is bare Lets all take a break from trying to figure out why editors are retiring left and right and do something to congratulate some fellow collaborator that you know or have worked with. For the first time this year the Nomination Page is empty. Editor of the Week is a recognition award for unsung heroes: editors who do excellent work in improving Wikipedia while typically going unnoticed. A recipient of Editor of the Week ideally has one or more of the following characteristics: ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 19:19, 5 September 2013 (UTC) * Writes or significantly expands articles on a regular basis. * Cleans up articles by, for example, adding sources, expanding citations with the necessary information, aligning prose with the manual of style, or improving the quality of the prose through copy-editing (such as making the text more concise and removing redundant wording). * Serves as notable voice of reason in discussions with other editors. * Performs behind-the-scenes work, not normally seen by the general community. * TY Editor Khazar2 for your timely 9/8 nomination. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 13:06, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * I can't think of any off-hand. Editors I've known productively in the past have disappeared. The only traffic left is increasingly back-biting. A sad few are left fending off the trolls. Increasingly little productive work goes on, either from the big names or the occasional contributors. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:39, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * And on that cheery note I added another name, who admittedly has gotten some recognition before, but at least in my eyes probably not as much as she's earned. John Carter (talk) 22:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC) * Thanks, John Carter. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 20:55, 9 September 2013 (UTC) Million Award Editors here may be interested in the Million Award, a new initiative to recognize editors of Wikipedia's most-read articles. It's a fun way to thank the editors who bring either core topics or high-demand pop culture content to GA and FA status, and to remind these editors of the literally millions of people their work serves. Do you know any editors who might qualify? Then give them one of these... ... today! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC) Seconds needed There are currently 3 editors nominated that require seconds to move into "the Q". ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 05:40, 19 September 2013 (UTC) The current Editor of the Week is an invaluable asset to Wikipedia through his excellent work. Drop by his page to congratulate him and consider an editor you feel would deserve to be Editor of the Week. 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The crystal structures and Raman spectra of aravaipaite and calcioaravaipaite Anthony R. Kampf, Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, William W. Pinch Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review 3 Scopus citations Abstract The original structure determination for aravaipaite, Pb 3AlF9(H2O), indicated it to be monoclinic, P21/n, with a = 25.048(4), b = 5.8459(8), c = 5.6505(7) Å, β = 94.013(3)°, V = 829.7(2) Å3, and Z = 4. Examination of additional crystal fragments from the same specimen revealed that some have a triclinic cell, P1, with a = 5.6637(1), b = 5.8659(1), c = 12.7041(9) Å, α = 98.725(7)°, β = 94.020(7)°, γ = 90.683(6)°, V = 416.04(3) Å3, and Z = 2. The topology of the structure is the same as that reported previously, but the structure refinement is significantly improved, with R1 = 0.0263 for 1695 observed reflections [Fo > 4σF] and 0.0306 for all 1903 reflections, and with the H atoms located. Twinning may be responsible for the original monoclinic cell or the two structures could be order-disorder (OD) polytypes. New X-ray diffraction data collected on a crystal of calcioaravaipaite, PbCa2Al(F,OH)9, showed it to be triclinic, P1, with a = 5.3815(3), b = 5.3846(3), c = 12.2034(6) Å, α = 91.364(2)°, β = 101.110(3)°, γ = 91.525(3)°, V = 346.72(3) Å3, and Z = 2. This cell is essentially identical to the reduced cell reported in conjunction with an earlier structure solution on a twinned crystal using the OD approach. Our study confirms the findings of the earlier study and significantly improves upon the earlier structure refinement, yielding R1 = 0.0195 for 2257 observed reflections [Fo > 4σF] and 0.0227 for all 2427 reflections. The structures of aravaipaite and calcioaravaipaite are based upon square-packed layers of F atoms on either side of which are bonded Pb atoms (in aravaipaite) or Ca atoms (in calcioaravaipaite) in fluorite-type configurations. These layers parallel to (001) serve as templates to which on both sides are attached AlF6 octahedra and PbF6(H2O)2 polyhedra (in aravaipaite) or PbF12 polyhedra (in calcioaravaipaite). The Pb2+ cations in these structures have stereoactive 6s2 lone-electron-pairs, manifest in off-center coordinations. The very different sizes of the Pb 2+ and Ca2+ cations yield fluorite-type layers with very different metrics, reflected in the a and b cell dimensions of the two structures; but more significantly, the lone-pair effect results in a very irregular template of F atoms peripheral to the fluorite-type layer in aravaipaite, while the F atoms peripheral to the fluorite-type layer in calcioaravaipaite are in a more regular, nearly planar array. As a result, the interlayer AlF6 octahedra and PbF6(H2O) 2 polyhedra in aravaipaite form a relatively open configuration, while the AlF6 octahedra and PbF12 polyhedra in calcioaravaipaite form a more tightly packed configuration containing no H 2O molecules. The Raman spectra of aravaipaite and calcioaravaipaite are consistent with the results of the structure studies, except that the spectrum of calcioaravaipaite exhibits the strong bands typically associated with OH stretching vibrations, while the structure refinement is most consistent with full occupancy of all anion sites by only F. Original languageEnglish (US) Pages (from-to)402-407 Number of pages6 JournalAmerican Mineralogist Volume96 Issue number2-3 DOIs StatePublished - Feb 1 2011 Keywords • Aravaipaite • Arizona • Calcioaravaipaite • Crystal structure • Fluorite-type layer structure • Grand Reef mine • Order-disorder structure • Pb 6s lone-electron-pair • Raman spectroscopy ASJC Scopus subject areas • Geophysics • Geochemistry and Petrology Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The crystal structures and Raman spectra of aravaipaite and calcioaravaipaite'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cite this	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Oracle : Joining strings in a recordset Created 09 March 2006 00:00 Sometimes for front-end applications it's useful to display a list of items to a user, but those items are stored as multiple records in a database table. This function takes a single field in a cursor and joins the values together into a delimited string. FUNCTION join_records(p_key_name IN VARCHAR2 ,p_key_val IN VARCHAR2 ,p_column IN VARCHAR2 ,p_table IN VARCHAR2 ,p_delimiter IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT ',') RETURN VARCHAR2 AS v_result VARCHAR2(4000); v_sep VARCHAR2(1); v_val VARCHAR2(4000); refcursor SYS_REFCURSOR; BEGIN OPEN refcursor FOR 'SELECT ' \|\| p_column \|\| ' FROM ' \|\| p_table \|\| ' WHERE ' \|\| p_key_name \|\| ' = :x ' USING p_key_val; LOOP FETCH refcursor INTO v_val; EXIT WHEN refcursor%NOTFOUND; v_result := v_result \|\| v_sep \|\| v_val; v_sep := p_delimiter; END LOOP; CLOSE refcursor; RETURN v_result; END; Usage: your_package.join_records('pk_col', '1', 'my_col', 'my_table') UPDATE : Stragg Function A much better way of doing this is described on Ask Tom. This is MUCH faster - the column is kind of hard to read so I've duplicated the necessary code here - note that I had no contribution whatsoever with this code. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION stragg(input varchar2 ) RETURN varchar2 PARALLEL_ENABLE AGGREGATE USING string_agg_type; CREATE OR REPLACE type string_agg_type as object ( total varchar2(4000), static function ODCIAggregateInitialize(sctx IN OUT string_agg_type ) return number, member function ODCIAggregateIterate(self IN OUT string_agg_type , value IN varchar2 ) return number, member function ODCIAggregateTerminate(self IN string_agg_type, returnValue OUT varchar2, flags IN number) return number, member function ODCIAggregateMerge(self IN OUT string_agg_type, ctx2 IN string_agg_type) return number ); CREATE OR REPLACE type body string_agg_type is static function ODCIAggregateInitialize(sctx IN OUT string_agg_type) return number is begin sctx := string_agg_type( null ); return ODCIConst.Success; end; member function ODCIAggregateIterate(self IN OUT string_agg_type, value IN varchar2 ) return number is begin self.total := self.total \|\| ',' \|\| value; return ODCIConst.Success; end; member function ODCIAggregateTerminate(self IN string_agg_type, returnValue OUT varchar2, flags IN number) return number is begin returnValue := ltrim(self.total,','); return ODCIConst.Success; end; member function ODCIAggregateMerge(self IN OUT string_agg_type, ctx2 IN string_agg_type) return number is begin self.total := self.total \|\| ctx2.total; return ODCIConst.Success; end; end; Usage: SELECT stragg(your_column) FROM your_table WHERE rownum < 10;	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Reider v. Thompson/Dissent Frankfurter Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER, dissenting. The problem presented by this case is whether a shipment which constitutes an organic transaction in commerce between a nonadjacent foreign country and the continental United States for every other aspect of the Interstate Commerce Act should be treated as such for purposes of § 20(11) of that Act, familiarly known as the Carmack Amendment. 49 U.S.C. § 20(11), 49 U.S.C.A. § 20(11). Since I agree with the answer given by the Court of Appeals I ought not to join in reversing its decision. That court's position is supported by this Court's view of the matter in Missouri Pacific R. Co. v. Porter, 273 U.S. 341, 344, 345, 47 S.Ct. 383, 384, 71 L.Ed. 672, read in the light of the criteria for determining what constitutes a shipment in foreign commerce. See United States v. Erie R. Co., 280 U.S. 98, 50 S.Ct. 51, 74 L.Ed. 187. To be sure, the precise question now here was not the issue in the Porter case. But what was there said as to the scope of the Carmack Amendment in relation to such commerce with a nonadjacent foreign country was relevant to the immediate question in the Porter case considered in its true aspect. In order to decide the precise question of that case the Court had to consider the regulatory scheme of liability under the Interstate Commerce Act in its entirety. The conclusion of the Porter case-that the Carmack Amendment does not apply to an unbroken transaction of commerce with a nonadjacent foreign country-carried the authority of the two Justices, Butler and Brandeis, who between them had had the most comprehensive experience with the working of the Interstate Commerce Act. As Judge Hutcheson indicated in his concurring opinion below, the answer to our problem is not to be had by taking words of the Carmack Amendment out of the illuminating context of the regulatory scheme of which they are a part. A legal faggot ought not to be broken into verbal sticks.	WIKI
Cobalt: Separating content distribution from authorization in distributed file systems Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Andrew Myrick, and Jason Flinn Abstract How should a distributed file system manage access to protected content? On one hand, distributed storage should make data access pervasive: authorized users should be able to access their data from any location. On the other hand, content protection is designed to restrict access; this is often accomplished by limiting the set of computers from which content can be accessed. In this paper, we propose a new method for storing content in distributed storage called Cobalt. Rather than grant access to data based on the computer that reads the data, Cobalt grants access based on the physical proximity of authorized users. Protected content is stored encrypted in the distributed Blue File System; files can only be decrypted through the cooperation of a personal, mobile device such as cell phone. The Cobalt device is verified by content providers: it acts as a proxy that protects their interests by only decrypting data when policies specified during content acquisition are satisfied. Wireless communication with the device is used to determine the physical proximity of its user; when the Cobalt device moves out of range, protected content is made inaccessible. Our results show that Cobalt adds only modest overhead to content acquisition and playback, yet it enables new forms of interaction such as the ability to access protected content on ad hoc media players and create playlists that adapt to the tastes of nearby users.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll cover priority inversion in process scheduling and how to avoid it. 2. Priority Inversion Priority inversion can happen in preemptive priority-driven scheduling of processes. Here, all processes have priorities, and the goal is to give precedence to those ranked higher. That means that no process should wait for another with a lower priority to be completed. Yet, that’s precisely what happens in priority inversion: a less important process can block a more important one. If the inversion is unbounded, this can lead to unpredictable and undesired behavior since the point of priorities is to guarantee that prioritized processes don’t starve or wait too long. 3. Examples Let’s say we have three processes: A, B, and C. Their priorities are: \[priority(A) < priority(B) < priority(C)\] Additionally, A and C use the same resource in their critical sections, which B doesn’t use. If A isn’t executing its critical section, and C gets ready to run, A will be pre-empted to make room for C, and if B gets ready while C is running, it will have to wait: No inversion This is in line with their priorities. However, if it’s running its critical section, A can block C: Short inversion This is a form of the priority inversion we can tolerate if A can complete its critical section fast. 3.1. Unbounded Inversion If B gets ready while C is blocked, we get an unbounded priority inversion. Since B doesn’t use the same resource as A, it’s ready to run immediately, so A gets pre-empted because it has a lower priority, and B takes control of the CPU. However, C can’t take the CPU from B since the required resource is locked by A. So, although C has a higher priority, it’s waiting for B as if it’s the other way around: Unbounded priority inversion This is a problem because it defeats the purpose of priorities. If it hadn’t been important to prioritize C over B, we wouldn’t have used a higher priority level for C in the first place. Additionally, C is made to wait because of an unrelated process: B doesn’t use any resource that C needs but can make it wait indefinitely. 4. Priority Inheritance There are several ways of avoiding this problem. We’ll explain the strategy called priority inheritance. In it, the process holding a lock over a resource inherits the priority of the highest-priority process waiting for that resource. We apply this rule only if the process with a lock has a lower priority than those waiting and only until it releases the lock. So, once C gets blocked by A, we temporarily increase the priority of A to that of C. That way, B won’t take the CPU from A since the new priority of A is higher. As a result, A completes its critical section and releases the lock with no interruption by B. Afterward, we restore the old priority of A: Priority inherinatce When A releases the CPU, C can take it over since its priority is higher than that of B. 5. Conclusion In this article, we explained priority inversion. It happens when a process with a higher priority waits for a process with a lower one. We can solve this problem with priority inheritance. guest 0 Comments Inline Feedbacks View all comments	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
User:SukhjinderPalSinghBhullar/sandbox Sukhjinder Pal Singh(Bhullar) (Punjabi:ਸੁਖਜਿੰਦਰ ਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ(ਭੁੱਲਰ),Born 10 March 1995) is a student of Computer Networking And Technical Support studying in St. Lawrence College, Ontario.He constructed different sites related to Punjabi culture and in Punjabi language like Punjabi Stories and Punjabi Blogger Templates.You can add him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter also.	WIKI
User:Dekubobo Tut tut Mark from MO. A person as intelligent as you should realize that language is irrelevent. Only thought truly makes up a lifeform, wheather it be sentience, cognitive, or independent. Why look on any grain of sand on any beach in the world and would would find (with microscopic image technology or super sight if one has such) that each one harbors its own life. Essentially, the universe is a beach. We are just one grain of sand on that beach. And the sea, is just what our universe has yet to expand upon. And to you Daylo from USA, saying God has to do with our doing incredible things and his actual involvement are two different things. We has no actual proof a Supreme being existed, and even if one did, would that not be a reason to assume an even Greater being created him, granting His unimaginable and unhindered powers to create, imagine, and explore? That would be almost as crazy as to say that there is other life out there, because we have no actual proof that life does. Maybe microscopic life, but that nearly on par as religion. Taking the tiniest sign and constructing a grand idea, write a few books, and soon you've got a following. Science and Religion both preach a gospel. Communication and substance equal truth, not words and ideas. But then Mankind didn't get where he is today by just touching himself and waiting for something to happen did he? -Brandon O'Farrill aka Dekubobo -comment posted on cosmic log at msn.com	WIKI
Talk:事業心 Additional Chinese definition? Can this also be translated as "dedicated (to achieving a certain goal)"? <IP_ADDRESS> 23:16, 3 December 2020 (UTC)	WIKI
I wanted to build an awesome place for people to discuss module specific issues, but I don't have any more time for this, and there are much better places to discuss Perl-related issues. I'd recommend asking your question on Stack Overflow or on Perl Monks. If you are looking for a Perl Programming tutorial or Perl-related news, I hope these links will serve you well. Posted on 2009-06-03 05:16:15-07 by mfeske exiftool csv file Hello everybody, ist it possible to use a csv file with source data for exiftool? For example: filename;comment1;comment2;copyright 123.jpg;haus;baum;micha 234.jpg;dorf;stadt;micha Greetings Micha Direct Responses: 10889 \| Write a response Posted on 2009-06-03 11:07:56-07 by exiftool in response to 10882 Re: exiftool csv file Hi Micha, If you can write your own simple Perl script to parse the file, then use can easily use the Image::ExifTool routines to do all the hard work, but the command-line application that is distributed with the libraries doesn't have this functionality. Another option is to load the file into a spreadsheet and reformat each line as an exiftool command, then export to text and run as a batch file. - Phil Direct Responses: Write a response	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Belizean cuisine Belizean cuisine is an amalgamation of all ethnicities in the nation of Belize and their respectively wide variety of foods. Breakfast often consists of sides of bread, flour tortillas, or fry jacks that are often homemade and eaten with various cheeses. All are often accompanied with refried beans, cheeses, and various forms of eggs, etc. Inclusive is also cereal along with milk, coffee, or tea. Midday meals vary, from lighter foods such as rice and beans, tamales, panades (fried meat pies), escabeche (onion soup), chimole/chirmole (soup), stew chicken, garnaches (fried tortillas with beans, cheese, and diced onion sauce or diced cabbage) to various constituted dinners featuring some type of rice and beans, meat and salad or coleslaw. In the rural areas meals may be more simplified than in the cities. The Maya use recado, corn or maize for most of their meals, and the Garifuna are fond of seafood, cassava (particularly made into cassava bread or ereba) and vegetables. Local fruits are quite common, raw vegetables from the markets less so. Mealtime is a communion for families and schools and some businesses close at midday for lunch, reopening later in the afternoon. Mestizo and Maya Regular deli items originally from the Mestizo culture that are now considered pan-Belizean include garnaches, fried corn tortilla smeared with beans and shredded cheese, tamales made from corn and chicken, and panades which can be thought of as a fried corn patty with beans or seasoned shredded fish inside and topped with pickled onions. The most famous Maya dish is called caldo. Tortillas, cooked on a comal and used to wrap other foods (meat, beans, etc.), were common and are perhaps the most well-known pre-Columbian Mesoamerican food. Tamales consist of corn dough, often containing a filling, that are wrapped in a corn husk and steam-cooked. Both atole and pozole were liquid based gruel-like dishes that were made by mixing ground maize (hominy) with water, but being the first much more dense used as a drinking source and the second one with complete big grains of maize incorporated into a chicken broth. Though these dishes could be consumed plain, other ingredients were added to diversify flavor, including, for example, honey, chiles, meat, seafood, cacao, wild onions, and salt. Several different varieties of beans were grown, including pinto, red, and black beans. Other cultivated crops, including fruits, contributed to the overall diet of the ancient Maya, including tomato, chile peppers, avocado, breadnut, guava, guanabana, papaya, pineapple, pumpkin, and sweet potato. Various herbs were grown and used, including vanilla, epazote, achiote (and the annatto seed), white cinnamon, hoja santa, avocado leaf, and garlic vine. Kriols Kriols in general eat a relatively balanced diet. The bile up (or boil up) is considered the cultural dish of the Belizean Kriols. It is a combination of boiled eggs, fish or pig tail, with a number of ground foods such as cassava, green plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, cocoa, and tomato sauce. In Belize, cassava is traditionally made into "bammy", a small fried cassava cake inherited from the Garifuna. The cassava root is grated, rinsed well, dried, salted, and pressed to form flat cakes about 4 inches in diameter and half an inch thick. The cakes are lightly fried, then dipped in coconut milk and fried again. Bammies are usually served as a starchy side dish with breakfast, with fish dishes or alone as a snack. Cassava pone is a traditional Belizean Kriol and pan-West Indian dessert recipe for a classic cassava flour cake sometimes made with coconuts and raisins. The Kriol fish seré is similar to a dish from the Garifuna culture, called hudut. There are two main types of hudut – one made with coconut milk, similar to the seré described above, but made with mashed half-ripe plantain. The other type does not use coconut milk and may best be compared to a spicy fish soup. Bos a pepa, a Belizean pepper sauce made from the hot habanero or the milder jalapeño, is sometimes added. Every single part of the coconut has some use: the dried husk for ornamental arts and for getting the fire going in a barbecue; the water as a refreshing beverage or as a mixer with alcoholic drinks; the meat grated for its milk for uses as described above, or in other preparations, like the distinctive coconut-flavored taste of Kriol bread and bun. Dukunu is a dish made with sweetened starch (usually cornmeal but can also be sweet corn wrapped and boiled in aluminum foil or a banana leaf. Cahn sham is ground or powdered sweetened parched corn. The dried grated coconut meat, after being mixed with water and the milk squeezed, provides the basis for many Belizean desserts. Like coconut pie and tarts, coconut crust (the grated coconut is sweetened with sugar and baked in a flour crust folded over like a patty), tablata, which is the grated coconut meat mixed with thin ginger slices, sugar and water, baked and cut into squares; there is also the version called cut-o-brute, which is made of chunks of coconut instead of the grated pieces; and then there is trifle, made with half green grated coconut, milk, flour, sugar, eggs, lemon essence, margarine and baking powder (similar to coconut cake); coconut fudge; and coconut ice cream. As noted above, fry jacks or Johnny cakes accompanied by fried beans with sausage or eggs make a common Belizean breakfast. Both the jacks and Johnny cakes are made from flour, but while the jacks are flattened and fried, the Johnny cakes are round fluffy savory biscuits, often topped by butter or a slice of cheese. Among the main staples of a Kriol dinner are rice and beans with some type of meat and salad, whether potato, vegetable, or coleslaw, seafoods including fish, conch, lobster, some game meats including iguana, deer, peccary and gibnut; and ground foods such as cassava, potatoes, cocoa and plantains. Fresh juice or water are typically served, occasionally replaced by soft drinks and alcoholic beverages (homemade wines made from berries, cashew, sorosi, grapefruit and rice are especially common). Typical desserts include sweets such as wangla and powderbun, cakes and pies, and potato pudding (pound). Usually to be seen on a breakfast table are specially made bread and bun (officially named after them), johnny-cakes and fry-cakes (also called fry jacks). In recent years Kriols have adopted foods from other groups as they have adopted theirs. Garifuna There is a wide variety of Garifuna dishes, including the more commonly known ereba (cassava bread) made from grated cassava or manioc. This is done in an ancient and time-consuming process involving a long, snake-like woven basket (ruguma) which strains the cassava of its juice. It is then dried overnight and later sieved through flat rounded baskets (hibise) to form flour that is baked into pancakes on a large iron griddle. Ereba is eaten with fish, hudutu (pounded plantains) or alone with gravy (lasusu). Others include bundiga (a plantain lasusu), mazapan, and bimacacule (sticky sweet rice). Popular ingredients There is a difference in the flavors of meats, such as turkey and chicken, from other countries because of differences in the diet of the animals being fed on local foodstuffs as opposed to imported grains. Belizean chickens in particular some allege compared to other chickens have an unusually rich flavor. Belizeans eat much more chicken and fish, than beef or pork. * Cassava * Cohune * Plantain * Banana * Habanero * Chayote (locally known as "chocho") * Allspice * Ginger * Callaloo * Escallion * Mangos * Breadfruit * Yam * Garlic * Black pepper * Dried and salted cod (locally known as "salt fish") * Salted beef * Thyme * Cow feet * Pig tail * Coconut milk * Coconut * Guava * Soursop * Passion fruit * Sugar cane * Ketchup * Onion * Brown sauce * Mamey sapote (locally known as "mahmee") * Calabash * Avocado (locally known as "pear") * Black bean * Kidney bean * Roselle (locally known as "sorrel") * Tamarind (locally known as "tambran") * Starfruit * Golden apple * Craboo * Jackfruit * Pineapple * Malay apple * Vinegar * Recado * Masa * Maize * Curry Popular dishes * Ceviche * Fry jack * Johnnycake * Conch fritter * Dukunu * Hudut * Bile up * Tamales * Curry chicken * Rice and beans - rice stewed with beans and coconut milk * Garnaches * Panades * Salbutes * Burritos * Brown stew chicken * Brown stew beef * Caldo * Escoveitch fish * Conch soup * Callaloo and saltfish * Cabbage and saltfish * Steamed fish * Cowfoot * caan sham (also casham or kasham) * Stretch me guts - taffy made with coconut water * Tacos * Meat pies * Jerk chicken * Kebab * Coconut rice	WIKI
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artemeia The result was d elete. - Mailer Diablo 01:34, 18 October 2007 (UTC) Artemeia * – (View AfD) (View log) Non-notable micronation "not recognised by any sovereign nation", formed last year. MER-C 06:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC) * delete per nom RogueNinja talk 07:24, 13 October 2007 (UTC) * Delete as non notable. 119 unique GHits on the name, none of which appear to be about the subject of this article. Nuttah68 10:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC) * Delete - This is a hoax. /Blaxthos 17:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC) * Delete as hoax. --Oakshade 21:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)	WIKI
MSQL Mini SQL (abbreviated mSQL) is a lightweight database management system from Hughes Technologies. History In 1993–94 David Hughes developed a network monitoring and management system called Minerva. The design of this system required a database management system to store its configuration and working data. To enable future portability, Hughes elected to use a Structured Query Language interface between the application and the database management system, despite the fact that at the time there was no free or inexpensive SQL database management implementation available. Hughes therefore developed a translation program which provided an SQL interface to the free Postgres DBMS (which did not use SQL ). This product was named miniSQL, or mSQL. In time it became clear that Postgres did not perform adequately on the low-specification systems used to run Minerva, so mSQL developed into a lightweight database management system in its own right, implementing a limited subset of the SQL standard, but performing well on minimally specified hardware. mSQL was the first low-cost SQL-based database management system. Combined with the free Linux operating system, the availability of relatively powerful low-cost PC hardware, and the development of World Wide Web standards and technologies, mSQL was an important factor in the early development of interactive, dynamic web applications, particularly in the period 1994–1997, after which it was increasingly supplanted by the more highly featured MySQL. mSQL had a large and widespread install base by the late 1990s. License Despite being offered in source code form, and being strongly associated with open source software, mSQL itself has never been offered under an open source license. mSQL is provided free for non-commercial use. A typical license for commercial use in 1997 would cost $170, compared to a "five-digit purchase price" for its full-featured competitors. Current status By 1996, development on mSQL began to stagnate and MySQL arose to fill that void. By 1999, MySQL had surpassed mSQL in popularity and today mSQL has less visibility. At this time the database system is more often licensed by other companies for use in their products than used by end-users directly. mSQL is actively maintained and developed primarily to support its licensees and internal use within Hughes Technologies products and projects. It is still provided under a license that allows its use free of charge for non-commercial, educational and charitable activities. mSQL 4.4 was released in October 2021. Host languages mSQL originally supported several host languages: * C, included with the software * Perl * Java via mSQL-JDBC * Delphi * Tcl * PHP	WIKI
Ma Ma (2015 film) Ma Ma (Ma ma) is a 2015 Spanish-French drama film directed by Julio Medem. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Magda is an unemployed teacher. She is diagnosed with breast cancer and battles the disease. This creates unexpected bonds with people close to her. Reception Screen Daily lauded the strong cast but the "schmaltzy script and uneven tone of the film conspire to upstage [Cruz´] performance".	WIKI
Graham Annable Graham Annable (born June 1, 1970) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator. He is the creator of Grickle, published by Alternative Comics, and one of the founders of the Hickee humor anthology (also published by Alternative Comics). Annable has created works for the television, film, video game, and comic book industries. Life and career Annable was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. After graduating from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, where he was classically trained as an animator, Annable ended up at LucasArts. He worked there for ten years, starting in 1994 on Full Throttle and ultimately as a lead animator on the cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police. In addition, Annable has done illustration and cartoon work for (among others) Chuck Jones, Nickelodeon, and Walt Disney Productions. His self-produced short animated films are also popular among YouTube watchers. Annable was employed as creative director at Telltale Games during their first year, and has continued working closely with them, later designing Puzzle Agent, amongst other titles. He moved to Portland to work as a story artist on Coraline. He co-directed Laika's 3D stop-motion/CGI animated feature film The Boxtrolls (2014) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Published work * Grickle (Alternative Comics, 2001, ISBN 978-1-891867-01-9) * Further Grickle (Alternative Comics, 2003, ISBN 978-1-891867-55-2) * Hickee (contributor) (Alternative Comics, 2003, ISBN 978-1-891867-42-2) * Hickee volume 2, #2 (contributor) (Alternative Comics, 2004, ISBN 978-1-891867-76-7) * Stickleback 2005 (Alternative Comics, 2005, ISBN 978-1-891867-80-4) * Project: Superior (contributor) (AdHouse Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9721794-8-5) * Hickee volume 3, #4 (contributor) (Alternative Comics, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934460-05-4) * Flight Volume Five: Evidence (contributor) (Villard Books, 2008, ISBN 0-345-50589-1) * Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (designer) (Telltale Games, 2010) * The Book of Grickle (Diamond Books, 2010, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>301) * Puzzle Agent 2 (designer) (Telltale Games, 2011) * Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths (First Second, 2018, ISBN 978-1-626-72561-4) * Peter & Ernesto: The Lost Sloths (First Second, 2019, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>720) * Peter & Ernesto: Sloths in the Night (First Second, 2020, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>309) * First Ever Graham Annable Doodle Collection (Odd Dog Entertainment, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7777257-0-9) * Second Delightful Graham Annable Doodle Collection (Odd Dog Entertainment, 2022, ISBN 978-1-7777257-1-6) * Eerie Tales From the School of Screams (‎First Second, 2023, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>036) Filmography * A Goofy Movie (1995) clean up artist: Phoenix Animation Toronto * Coraline (2009) storyboard artist * ParaNorman (2012) storyboard artist * The Boxtrolls (2014) co-director * Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) storyboard artist * Missing Link (2019) additional story artist * Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) story artist Awards * 2002 Harvey Award nominee for Best New Talent. * 2015 Academy Award nominee for The Boxtrolls.	WIKI
Schwarzach (Naab) Schwarzach (Nemanický potok) is a river of Czech Republic and Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Naab. It passes through Waldmünchen, Rötz and Neunburg vorm Wald, and flows into the Naab near Schwarzenfeld.	WIKI
Ekaterina (novel) Ekaterina is a 1993 novel by Donald Harington. Plot Ekaterina is an exiled Svanetian princess who arrives at an unnamed city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela, Pittsburgh. There, she gets a job teaching an introductory mycology class at a university. Meanwhile, she rents a room from a woman, Loretta, who lives there with her twelve-year-old son, Kenny, who immediately takes a precocious liking to her. She befriends the 12-year-old boy called Kenny who reminds her of two young pubertal boys she had relationships with in Russia, Islamber and Dzhordzha. Harington describes the attractive boy as a faunlet, a male counterpart to Vladimir Nabokov's nymphet in Lolita. After two months, the 27-year-old Ekaterina seduces Kenny and they have sex. During the course of their sexual relationship, Kenny, already a juvenile delinquent, steals contraceptives to avoid pregnancy. When Kenny confesses his sexual relationship with Ekaterina after being caught stealing car parts, his mother forces Ekaterina to leave. She settles in town called Stick Around where she befriends a woman named Sharon, who indirectly introduces her to a boy named Jason. Later, she engages Jason on his twelfth birthday by giving him an all-over massage in the bath while baby-sitting him. With the help of a novelist and improbable creative writing teacher named Ingraham, Ekaterina matures as a writer, eventually publishing not only a successful autobiography, Louder, Engram! (invoking Nabokov's revised autobiography, Speak, Memory), but also several works of fiction, one of which, a novel called Georgie Boy, becomes a bestseller, allowing her to move from "Stick Around," this novel's disguise for Stay More, the primal setting for all of Harington's novels except his first, The Cherry Pit, to a hotel in Arcaty, the novel's counterpart to the real Arkansas Ozarks town of Eureka Springs. In Arcaty, she meets young Travis Coe, another twelve-year-old boy, who moves into her luxurious penthouse apartment as her houseboy. After getting the lice out of his hair, Ekaterina invites Travis into her bed – just twelve days after they meet. Travis turns out to be a considerably more complex presence than his new employer has anticipated, and the relationship does not last. Ekaterina discovers that Travis was not a virgin and kicks him out, becoming obsessed with how he lost his virginity. Travis does go on to star in Hollywood's screen adaptation of Georgie Boy. Ekaterina also benefits by turning her investigation of the girl to whom Travis lost his virginity into a series of short stories that propel her fame further by being published in Playboy magazine. Ekaterina's relationships with pubescent boys constitute only one facet of this character's ingeniously layered life-story. Donald Harington’s writing is sometimes described as magic realism, but that term hardly begins to suggest the narrative pyrotechnics of Ekaterina, which the author has aptly described as not so much a tribute to Nabokov's Lolita as an apotheosis of it. Reception The book was reviewed by several news sources such as the Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, The Washington Post and The New York Times Kirkus Reviews said of the book: "Grand entertainment from an author who's beent too little known for tool long: perhaps this zany homage to Nabokov (especially Lolita) will bring deserved attention to Harrington (sic)'s impressive body of work" while Publishers Weekly said: "Ekaterina is an acknowledged homage to Nabokov, particularly to Lolita, and if it misses some of the Russian master's literary playfulness, it has many charms of its own...". Novelist D. M. Thomas at the Los Angeles Times also called the book " Superbly crafted, foxy, engaging, funny, joyous". Ekaterina also won a 1996 International Dublin Literary Award.	WIKI
Gestalt practice Gestalt practice is a contemporary form of personal exploration and integration developed by Dick Price at the Esalen Institute. The objective of the practice is to become more fully aware of the process of living within a unified field of body, mind, relationship, earth and spirit. The term gestalt comes from the psychological theory of the same name, which stressed that human perception was based on patterns. Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman later applied the term to a type of therapy which focused on experience and context. Dick Price's Gestalt practice was partially based on the Gestalt therapy which Perls and others created. Alan Watts, who was a mentor of Price, suggested combining practices from the cultures of East and West. Price took the writings of Nyanaponika Thera and Zen Roshi Shunryū Suzuki, abbot of the nearby Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, as sources of Buddhist meditation practice. Gestalt practice was the term Price used to describe his combination of these Eastern and Western traditions. This term distinguished the practice Price taught from both Gestalt therapy and Buddhist practice. Practice, not therapy Gestalt practice distinguishes itself as an awareness practice rather than a form of therapy because it does not purport to cure any psychological symptoms. Keeping with this distinction, it does not employ the roles of patient and therapist. Instead, it relies upon the interaction between two equal partners, namely an initiator of awareness work and a reflector. As Dick Price conceived of Gestalt practice, if a patient wants to do Gestalt work with a therapist then they belong in Gestalt therapy. However, some aspects of Gestalt practice are derived from the theory of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt practice incorporates some typical Gestalt awareness experiments borrowed from the Gestalt therapy model, along with eclectic techniques of meditation, physical exercise, environmentalism, contemplation, and spiritual practice. Inception Gestalt practice is an amalgam of awareness practices. Lao Tzu was one of the most significant Asian influences on Price. Otherwise, the primary influences on the development of Gestalt practice were Fritz Perls, Wilhelm Reich, Alan Watts, Nyanaponika Thera, Shunryu Suzuki, Frederic Spiegelberg, Rajneesh, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, and Stanislav Grof, as well as many other scholars who were in residence at Esalen Institute during the two decades that Price led the Institute. Price worked with Perls for approximately four years at Esalen, between 1966 and 1970. Then Perls told Price that it was time for him to start teaching Gestalt on his own. Price was impressed with the similarities between Gestalt and mindfulness meditation, which he used with insights from Eastern religions and altered state research to develop Gestalt practice. Modalities Gestalt practitioners teach mindfulness skills, using a wide variety of methods not limited by the psychotherapeutic model. All Gestalt practice techniques emphasize experience over analysis. Besides the standard Gestalt exercises that characterized Gestalt therapy, Dick Price widened the approach by incorporating novel techniques from such disciplines as meditation, shamanism, compassion practice, and spiritual contemplation. Thus, Gestalt practice became a personalized form of consciousness exploration beyond the limits of psychotherapy. A partial list of the modalities used in Gestalt practice includes the following: Gestalt practice work may involve the reporting of present awareness, and the integration of awareness through intrapsychic dialogue between aspects of personality. This kind of work, borrowed from Gestalt therapy, is often practiced as a shared experiment between two partners working together as a "dyad." Phenomenological techniques like these are based upon the belief that subjective experience is worthy of direct attention, without the interference of preexisting ideas or interpretations. Somatic awareness may be the focus of Gestalt exercises. Awareness of breathing is emphasized because it promotes the immediate experience of the body. Dramatic interventions, typical of body-oriented Reichian therapy or bioenergetics, generally are not used in Gestalt practice. However, an initiator’s awareness naturally may be directed toward areas of tension or holding. A scan of body feelings and sensations, similar to forms of Buddhist meditation can enhance awareness practice. And movement exercises such as tai chi, yoga, dance, art, hiking, chanting, singing, and massage may be used to integrate awareness of the body. Interpersonal relationship practices may be used in Gestalt practice to clarify communications, improve relationship skills, and enhance empathy. A neutral moderator may assist with interpersonal encounters, although this is not necessary, in keeping with the Gestalt practice principle of equality among participants. Dreamwork is a common Gestalt awareness practice, in which enactment and integration of dream elements are favored. An initiator of Gestalt dreamwork intentionally re-experiences their dream as if it were happening in the present. The initiator then assumes the role of various dream elements and enters into a dialogue with whatever is encountered in the dream. This approach is borrowed from the Gestalt therapy model. However, in contrast to Gestalt therapy, alternative sources of dream interpretation, including intuitive experiences are welcomed in Gestalt practice. Meditation practices, derived from many different contemplative traditions, may be used by Gestalt practitioners. Buddhism provides many useful models for mindfulness and compassion practice, and some of these have been adapted to complement the objectives of Gestalt practice. Taoism, as it was expressed by Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching, provides a non-judgmental backdrop for non-intervention with an initiator’s process, allowing whatever happens in a Gestalt work session to unfold naturally in the present moment. In addition, Taoism reinforces the reverence for nature that is typical of Gestalt practice. These techniques, and many others beyond the ambit of therapy, are regularly used in Gestalt practice, with the same objectives of enhanced awareness, spiritual growth, and respect for the natural environment. Deployment Gestalt practice is most often taught in groups, with an experienced reflector serving as group leader. However, after participants have learned the basics of Gestalt, they frequently choose to do awareness practice work together on their own, outside of a group, without a leader. In this way, a Gestalt practice group functions as the model for a Gestalt community. Gestalt practice, as Price conceived it, quickly evolves into a congregational awareness practice that transcends the confines of any meeting room. Price led Gestalt groups at Esalen for fifteen years until his death in 1985. His wife and collaborator at Esalen, Christine Stewart Price, carried on the Gestalt practice tradition by developing her own form of awareness practice, which she calls "Gestalt Awareness Practice" (GAP). Gestalt practice influenced many people at Esalen.	WIKI
The Seventh Room The Seventh Room (A hetedik szoba) is a 1995 Italian-Hungarian biography film based on the life of Edith Stein. Plot Edith Stein grew up in a devout Jewish family round the turn of the century in Breslau. Already at a young age she was interested in philosophy, which she later studied in Göttingen and Freiburg. When Edith converted to the Catholic faith, most of the contact with her family breaks off. In the 1920s, Edith Stein worked as a teacher at the St. Magdalena girls' school in Speyer. After the rise of the Nazis and the beginning persecution of the Jews put an end to her teaching activities, Edith joined the Discalced Carmelite order's convent in Cologne-Lindenthal in 1933, where she took the name Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce. It was difficult for her to acclimatise herself, but as a nun she found her personal fulfilment. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, she was sent to a conventn in the Netherlands. When the persecution of the nazi's increased, Edith was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber there in 1942. Cast * Maia Morgenstern - Edith Stein * Jan Nowicki - Franz Heller * Anna Polony - Sister Giuseppa * Elide Melli - Rosa * Giovanni Capalbo - Paul * Adriana Asti - Augusta * Jerzy Radziwiłowicz - Hans * Cintia Lodetti * Nella Ammendola - * Zsuzsa Czinkóczi - Dora * Ryszard Lukowski - Jakob * Jerzy Bińczycki * Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska * Fanny Ardant	WIKI
tiptoe around Verb * 1) To act very cautiously about something; to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue. * 1) To act very cautiously about something; to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue.	WIKI
Page:Cradle Tales of Hinduism .djvu/94 70 for the city of the Vidarbhas, each eager to win the hand of the Princess. But as the proud gods went, they overtook a mortal wending his way on foot, and his beauty and greatness, of mind as well as body, were such that they immediately determined to leave their chariots in the skies, and tread the earth in the company of this man. Then, suddenly alighting before him—for the gods know all—they said, "Nala! thou art a man to be trusted. Wilt thou promise to carry a message for us?" Nala, seeing four luminous beings appear before him, and hearing them ask him to be their messenger, answered immediately, "Yea! That will I!" and then, drawing nearer, he added, "But tell me first who are ye who address me? and what is the message, further, that I should carry for you?" Said Indra, "We are the Immortals, come hither for the sake of Damayanti. Indra am I. Here at my side is Agni, God of Fire. There is Varuna, Lord of Waters. And next to him stands Yama, destroyer of the bodies of men. Do thou, on our behalf, appear before Damayanti, saying, 'The Guardians of the World are coming to thy swayamvara. Choose thou, I pray thee, one of the gods for thy lord!'" "But," said Nala, "I myself am come hither with the self-same object. How can a man plead with the woman whom he loves on behalf of	WIKI
Page:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.djvu/933 914 to Yang's offer of a reward for his head. In 1641 Yang oolleeied a fleet at Y^n-yang to cut off his retreat eastward, bat Chang evaded him and by treachery succeeded in entering his headquarters at Hsiang-yang in Hupeh. Before Yang had got farther than j^ r\|f Sha-shih, Lo-yang had fallen, and out of sheer mortification he starved himself to death. No penalty was recorded against him, but Chang Hsien-chung, on taking Wu-ling, burnt his co£Bn. 2408 Yang Su :^ ^ (T. ^ ^). Died A.D. 606. Son of a Magistrate of F6n-chou in Shaosi under the Northern Chou dynasty. In 571 he earned the approval of the Emperor Wu Ti by a skilfully written draft for a proclamation. His Majesty remarked that with diligeoee he would compass both wealth and fame; to which Yang Su replied that he desired neither. He rose to take a prominent part in the political and military movements which placed Yang Chien upon the throne, and in his service conducted numerous campaigns against frontier kingdoms and internal opponents, for which he was ennobled as Duke. When the latter lay upon his death-bed, Yang Su ingratiated himself with the son, Yang Euang, by a timely hint respecting his father's condition, and was rewarded on that prince's accession to the throne by continuance of his high functions. His influence however with the new Emperor was of short duration; and finding himself neglected and in danger of degradation, he pined to deatli in the following year. He was distinguished by scholarly attainmenii and a love of study; yet according to the historians he made bis way by scheming and truckling, and shares in the disgrace of placing such a monarch as Yang Kuang upon the throne. See I/h ch^anp Kun^ Chu. Ui)» Tang Su-ytln tg ^ H (T. ^ 2J\| and jg ^). A.D. 1629- 1689. Graduated as Mn skik in 1652, and went as Magistrate to jK ^ Tung>miug in Shantung, a districi lately laid waste by the Yellow River. In three yean he re8k>red it to prosperity, and	WIKI
DISCOVER × How to Program a Honda Remote Key FOB Updated March 23, 2017 Replacement remote key fobs for Honda vehicles can be purchased from a dealership or online from websites such as keyless-remotes.com. Factory branded key fobs purchased from Honda dealers cost more but can be programmed by a Honda technician at the time of purchase. Key fobs bought online, however, can be programmed by the vehicle owner. Enter the vehicle after making all doors are closed with the ignition key and remotes to be programmed available. Insert the key into the ignition and turn the key to the "on" position. Press and hold either the "lock" or "unlock" button on the remote for one second. Release the button on the remote and turn the key in the ignition to the "off" position. Repeat this process two additional times. Turn the key in the ignition to the "on" position. Press and hold the "lock" or "unlock" button on the remote for one second and wait for the door locks to lock and unlock automatically. The cycling of the door locks indicate the vehicle has entered remote programming mode. If the door locks do not cycle, repeat all previous steps to enter programming mode before proceeding. Press and hold the "lock" or "unlock" button on the remote for one second. Release the button and wait for the door locks to cycle automatically indicating the remote was programmed successfully. Repeat this process for additional remotes that need programming, including older remotes that worked previously. Exit remote-programming mode by turning the key in the ignition to the "lock" position. Test each remote programmed by using it to lock and unlock the vehicle doors. Tip Perform all steps within five seconds of the previous step to make sure the vehicle enters and remains in remote-programming mode. Program all remotes to be used with the vehicle together, including reprogramming any existing remotes that functioned prior to entering remote-programming mode. Warning The steps provided are general instructions for programming key fobs for most Honda vehicles. Some vehicles require that the key fobs be programmed by a Honda technician. If the steps provided do not work with your vehicle, consult a Honda dealership for remote programming. bibliography-icon icon for annotation tool Cite this Article About the Author Stephen Ip has experience writing online professionally and his work can be seen in the Mac, iPhone and Digital Photography Channels. He works as a technical writer in the software industry. Ip received a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from the University of California, Irvine.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Dracula benedictii Dracula benedictii is a species of orchid found in Cordillera Central and Cordillera Occidental, Colombia. It was named in honour of Benedict Roezl the noted Bohemian collector, who discovered this species.	WIKI
How can TMSFMXLiveGrid slipping through finger? I use TMSFMXLiveGrid in my project.And I complie it to android.When I use my finger to slip TMSFMXLiveGrid'records,records can't moving. I want to know.How can TMSFMXLiveGrid'records slipping through finger?Thank you. Hi, you can enable this by setting TMSFMXLiveGrid1.Options.Mouse.TouchScrolling := True; I do this,but it dosen't work. Please note that touch-scrolling only works with single cell, row or column selection mode. Hi , I have enabled touch scrolling and am running it on Android with 4 columns and 35 records via live bindings to a fdmemtable but the responsiveness is slow an barely usable. Is there any options that can be used to help performance ? On Android, the FMX framework is generally slower than on Windows, macOS and iOS. There is unfortunately no additional setting to speed up performance. We have a different grid available in the TMS FNC UI Pack which has been redesigned to have a better performance on Android. Thank you, I will check it out else will try a tableview.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Patent Number: 6,253,841 Title: Vehicular air conditioner with passenger-operated inside/outside air double flow mode Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner has a blower unit having first and second inside/outside air switching doors, and an air conditioning unit having defroster and foot openings. The first inside/outside air switching door is operated to correspond to a set position of an inside/outside air switching lever. The second inside/outside air switching door is operated with an operation of an air outlet mode switching lever. When an air outlet mode in which air is blown from both the foot and defroster openings is set, the second inside/outside air switching door is set to an inside air mode position. Therefore, when the first inside/outside air switching door is set to an outside air mode position in this air outlet mode, only an inside/outside air double flow mode is set. As a result, a gap between a temperature of air blown from the defroster opening and a temperature of air blown from the foot opening is prevented from abruptly changing. Inventors: Obara; So (Kariya, JP), Ito; Koichi (Kariya, JP) Assignee: Denso Corporation International Classification: B60H 1/00 (20060101); B60H 001/00 () Expiration Date: 07/03/2018	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Theranos Is Abandoning Its Blood-Testing Labs and Attempting to Pivot Theranos was once among the most exciting startups in Silicon Valley. It got that way by telling everyone a story: Its technology was an alternative to the price tags, big needles, and gate-keeping doctors of traditional blood testing. Today, nearly a year after Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou published the first of many investigative articles into the company's struggles and lies, Theranos is changing its story. In an open letter to stakeholders published online, CEO Elizabeth Holmes writes that Theranos is closing its remaining clinical labs and wellness centers. This, she adds, will "impact" 340 employees in three states, Pennsylvania, California, and Arizona. The new plan is to focus on the miniLab, a new testing platform Holmes presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry in August. With this announcement, Theranos has completed its pivot from promising startup to a minor version of the testing giants it sought to disrupt. "We are fortunate to have supporters and investors who believe deeply in our mission of affordable, less invasive lab testing, and to have the runway to realize our vision."	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject ArbCom Reform Party program This does seem to be putting the cart before the horse. At present it is proposing to run a slate in an election without first revealing the program of that slate. I'd suggest going in the opposite direction, think through the changes that you'd like arbcom to make, then ask the candidates in the Arbcom elections what they think of your proposals and publish a voting guide based on the results. If you consider issues such as experience and competence as well as responses to your suggestions then you might wind up with an influential voters guide. Ϣere Spiel Chequers 07:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * Isn't the WikiProject ArbCom Reform Party/Bill of Rights the program? — Cup co 10:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * They aren't well thought out. No one has discussed them or thought about the consequences. IRWolfie- (talk) 13:37, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * The sum at the bottom of the Lee Resolution is wrong, but it's nothing a couple days couldn't fix. Have you seen the talk page? — Cup co 14:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * pogrom? me-fixed-it ;) Br'er Rabbit (talk) 13:50, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * Freudian slip :D That's what rolls out after the election. IRWolfie- (talk) 14:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC) We need to start somewhere. I started this page 49 hours ago and Wnt added the bill of rights as a proposal. By doing it this way (instead of me charging ahead with a more concrete proposal), you have the effect of being more neutral so that people can think of their own proposals and writing about that here. I think a few paragraphs about problems we want to correct (instead of saying exactly how we intent to do that) would be helpful. Count Iblis (talk) 17:38, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * While I respect that you only started the page 49 hours ago, perhaps you might have been well advised to develop it a bit more (in user space, for example) before you asked the community to deal with it. Right now, what you've presented is akin to buying a pig in a poke. Risker (talk) 19:11, 10 September 2012 (UTC) More descriptive name Why not just call this the "I'm Really Pissed About the Fae Case Party"??? That's exactly what it appears to be. ArbCom transparency is one thing. Establishing free speech rights is another thing. There might be some traction there. Retroactively changing the rules to provide cover for multiple account users or abusers is another kettle of fish. What's needed isn't more anonymity in editing, but less; not more accounts per anonymous user, but one account per user. Carrite (talk) 17:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * I've just skimmed the Fae case, and I can't see any parallels. Would someone please point those they think are the most egregious, beyond anonymity? — Cup co 17:31, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * In this version of the Bill of Rights, principles 2, 5, 9, and the second half of 10 are based on the Fae case. Wnt (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * I think that the Fae case is one of several where serious failings of ArbCom have occurred this year. It is a good thing to attempt to look at the causes of these failings, though they are, in my opinion, mostly due to having the entire body of the committee arbitrate on matters that only one or two of them have studied in detail. Rich Farmbrough, 02:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC). Questions for the author On this page, you make several references to the phrase "ArbCom system" or sometimes just "system." Sometimes you appear to be referring to a current "system" and sometimes to the "system" that would be put in place if your "party" succeeds in obtaining voting control of the ArbCom. In total, the term "system" appears seven times in nine sentences. I would like to know, what "system" are you talking about? The system of having an ArbCom in the first place? The process the ArbCom follows in deciding cases? Or in deciding what cases to accept? The number of votes required for different decisions? How recusals are counted? The actual principles used in deciding cases? (Such as some of the things Wnt has suggested on the "Bill of Rights" sub-page, although some of those items seem to be outside of the authority of the ArbCom to change or decide?) How "lenient" or "strict" to be with editors, admins, and/or sub-groups within those groups? How to deal with long-term contributors with "behavior issues"? What kind of sanctions should be considered, or not considered? Or something else? Or all or some of the above, and if some, which ones? (I'm not asking for the answers; I am mainly asking for the questions.) On a probably-related note, I notice that you have stated: "I think a few paragraphs about problems we want to correct (instead of saying exactly how we intent to do that) would be helpful." I would think so. Presumably that would include the portions of the "system" that you think need to be changed. Neutron (talk) 19:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * I'm referring to how ArbCom works in practice which includes all of the things you mention. There are quite a few problems with how ArbCom fucntions, I think the most important issue is the following. ArbCom lacks the ability to look into content issues. In some cases, content issues are at the core of the problems, while behavioral problems are caused by the diffuculties to address these when Admins intervene and the disputes escalates more. If such a case ends up at ArbCom, you can still only site diffs that point to behavioral problems. * E.g. in the Climate Change case, ScienceApologist said that if reliable peer reviewed sources say that the science is settled according to the consensus view, then Wikipedia should reflect this. But ArbCom's response at the time was that they cannot make any such rulings. There are some good reasons why that is difficult in the present set up; you don't want Arbitrators to get involved in editorial decisions. If we have a jury system, then content issues can be looked into without that compromizing the Arbitrators' editorial independence. One can also think about a compulsory and binding dispute resolution being ordered by ArbCom. * In the end the climate change case was conducted and decided in a very problematic way. E.g. Polargeo, an ESA scientist, ended up being topic banned because he broke down during the ArbCom case, and that breakdown was caused by the frustration of not being able to raise the relevant issues at hand. If ArbCom ends up making things worse (at least during and in the immediate aftermath of the case), you have to consider changing the system. * Note that I'm not arguing on the basis of me not liking the outcome of the case. If ArbCom had studied the relevant issues they could theoretically have come to some conclusions that I would not 100% argee with, but then that's not what I'm talking about here. The ArbCom elections can always deal with incompetent Arbitrators, but they cannot easily deal with the system itself not being up to task. Count Iblis (talk) 00:15, 11 September 2012 (UTC) Another question (or two) How, if at all, does your proposal for a "party" relate to the following two statements on your User Page: "Count Iblis rejects most of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. He just edits in any way he sees fit to improve Wikipedia. Whether such edits violate Wikipedia's policies is neither here nor there." and "Count Iblis does not recognize the validity of ArbCom rulings. He calls on all restricted editors to violate their restrictions and on all Admins to unblock editors who are blocked on Arbitration Enforcement grounds."? Is it your expectation that "members" of your party and candidates endorsed by your party would share these views? Neutron (talk) 19:54, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * I like to remove that statement about ArbCom, that's why I launched this initiative :) . Count Iblis (talk) 01:47, 11 September 2012 (UTC) Third question Count Iblis, are you now palling, or have you ever palled around with sanctioned editors? — Cup co 23:41, 10 September 2012 (UTC) * Yes, many of them, and with most of them I had strongly disagreed about editing issues. So, I guess I'm the opposite of the more typical cases where editing disputes escalate to personal disputes. Count Iblis (talk) 01:50, 11 September 2012 (UTC) New language added today I've taken a look at the new "Putting Wikipedia first" section that was added to the project page today. The fundamental thrust of it seems to be that arbitration cases should be decided in a fashion that puts the best interests of the encyclopedia first. I don't think you would find many arbitrators, or other editors, who would disagree with that broad sentiment, although there will always be disagreements as to how to implement it in particular cases. The section contains the assertion that for arbitration results to lead to the best outcome for Wikipedia articles, the arbitration system will need to be modified. This is fairly vague, which is understandable at this early stage in the life of the "Party," and will need to be fleshed out in more detail before anyone can say much about it. The section also suggests that the best interests of Wikipedia articles (as opposed to so-called "social aspects" of editing) should always come first, but then it concludes by suggesting that "a number of inalienable rights of editors ... should be recognized." These two points strike me as being in considerable tension with each other. Newyorkbrad (talk) 19:26, 24 September 2012 (UTC) * That section is badly written, has several errors or opinions disguised as facts, and seems to mostly express the opposite (and more sensible) viewpoint to that of the "party platform", before doing a volte-face at the end. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:30, 29 September 2012 (UTC) * I'll expand the section later today. The reason why one must recognize certain "inalienable rights" is to amputate the irrelevant social issues and make sure the focus is on editing articles. Otherwise one can make an issue about an editor who does something that is not a problem, even if it is actually good for maintaining articles here. An example could be William while under the CC restriction, notifying via his userpage about vandalized/compromized CC articles. The fundamental reason why this wasn't allowed, why he ended up blocked for two weeks was because of a social effect. William is/was a controversial editor and then you get all this brouhaha. * What ArbCom failed to do here was to be pragmatic, recognizing certain inalienable rights would have helped here. You then don't reduce certain perceptions of disruption, which is actualy a good thing as those perceptions are then caused by the social issues which should be irrelevant. Count Iblis (talk) 17:32, 29 September 2012 (UTC) * Your post ignores a much bigger issue surrounding WMC, namely the community and arbcom's failure to deal with the agenda-pushing wikilawyers he got in conflict with. Your "bill of rights" looks to be of far more benefit to editors like those, than editors like William. It frankly reads like the platform of a DICK liberation front. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:12, 30 September 2012 (UTC) * A jury system can allow ArbCom to look into more detail about who is pushing what agenda, and then make a better assement of who is behaving in an unreasonable way. In the current system, Arbitrators themselves look into the case and they only can consider behavioral issue, content issues are off limits as they need to stay away from content issues. * Note also that while there were always problems in the CC sector, William was able to deal with the problems. The global warming article became a featured article a long time ago, despite these problems. Things actually started to escalate and went out of the roof only much later in 2009 when the "agenda-pushing wikilayers" decided to challenge certain informal agreements reached in 2007 and decided to get adminstrative intervention to deal with what they perceived to be tag team editing by their opponents. A general sanctions system was imposed which did not work. That then led to the CC ArbCom case. * So, what doesn't work is to frame disputes in terms of only behavioral issues when the underlying issues are content related. By not addressing the relevant issues, tensions build up elsewhere and then you get bad behavior, but you can't diagnose the problem from that bad behavior alone. Count Iblis (talk) 02:58, 30 September 2012 (UTC) * If you're planning to give these juries authority to sanction people based on an assessment of agenda-pushing or wikilawyering, that's, er, interesting and you should put something in your platform about it. It seems to contradict other parts of your proposal, but what do I know. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:11, 30 September 2012 (UTC) * ArbCom wll be responsible for imposing sanctions. This has to be a transparant process, so that it is very clear why a sancion is imposed and what it is supposd to achieve. That will also make an appeal possible. In the current system, there is no appeal, what passes for "appeal" is a parole hearing. Also, what happens in the current system is that sanctioned editors are more likely to end up being wrongly sanctioned and thus more likely to have the desire to appeal. Then, because there is no appeal, that causes tensions to build up, causing even more problems. In the new system, the first judgement is more likely to be the right one allowing editors to move forward. Count Iblis (talk) The reform is long overdue I for one is happy to see the formation of the ArbCom Reform Party. I have been basically calling for the same reform as far back as 2008 Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2008/Candidate_statements/NWA.Rep in both of my previous ArbCom runs in both 2008 and 2011 Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates. Both runs ended due to controversial circumstances due to voter guide writers and power brokers wishing to prevent me from running. You have to ask the question, why are they scared to let my ideas be part of the election and the discourse? What are the clique/cabal afraid of?--NWA.Rep (talk) 01:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC) Who will be the candidates under the Reform Party banner? I read the mission statement and agree with a lot of the points. Is any of the folks who took the time to write the Reform Party platform willing to run for ArbCom?--YOLO Swag (talk) 04:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC) * A RFC will be posted asking editors to consider putting themselves forward as candidates. I'm unelectable because of the controversial statements I've made in the past. Count Iblis (talk) 15:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC) * That sounds great. I applaud you guys for doing this and am willing to do whatever I can to help.--YOLO Swag (talk) 23:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC) * I'm not sure that recruiting candidates is an appropriate use of an RfC, but I guess we will all find out together. Neutron (talk) 16:10, 26 October 2012 (UTC) Invitation RFC to join the Party Please consider joining the ArbCom Reform Party to contribute to the platform and/or to put yourself forward as candidate running for this Party. Count Iblis (talk) 19:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC) * In what way is this a request for comment? Seems more like you wish to use the RFC system to spam for this project. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC) * Indeed. Blatant spam. Abuse of the RfC system. WP:POINT much? Resolute 00:50, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * The whole point of joining the Party is to comment on the platform. All that we do on talk pages anywhere on Wikipedia is write up our comments. Everything here on Wikipedia is either a comment, a sysop action or an edit to an article. Count Iblis (talk) 01:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * No, I'm sorry, but this is nothing more than disruptive spam. RFC is not a tool for you to advertise. And that is what this is. It is not a good faith attempt to solicit legitimate comment. Resolute 02:41, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * Yes, you are right, this is enormously disruptive. How dare Count Iblis post an RfC drowning out all the other RfCs. This has angered a large number of Wikipedians and it has become a talking point on all of the social media. Even Piers Morgan tonight on CNN has been interrupted by CNN Breaking News about this disruption on Wikipedia. Count Iblis (talk) 02:49, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * Well, so far tonight you have abused RFC to post your POINTy spam and attempted to initiate a coup d'etat of ArbCom. I guess behaving like an ass is the cherry on top, eh? Resolute 02:53, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * There is no abuse of the RFC because asking for comments on the entire Party Program is what I'm asking. What is disruptive is you edit warring here to prevent the processes that were announced well in advance from going forward. You are in violation of WP:POINT by nitpicking about the RFC process perhaps not usually used for this and then taking disruptive action based that. I could just as well argue (correctly) that ArbCom is technically in violation of some of the fundamental Wiki-Policies and then put ArbCom on MFD. If I were to do that, I would be in violation of WP:POINT. Count Iblis (talk) 03:17, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * speedy close as disruptive misuse of RfC process. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * There is no disruption here, the RfC is about discussing the Party Program. Count Iblis (talk) 03:20, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * Agree with Count Iblis. I was not in favor of this "Party" concept at first, but recently ArbCom has drifted so far from reasonable actions that I have come around. An Rfc will allow for an open discussion of some very disturbing trends. And attempts to shut this Rfc down are a vio of WP:NOTCENSORED. Jus da fax 03:36, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * Thanks! Any comments you have about the program, suggestions for candidates (if you think you are electable, you can put yourself forward as part of this platform) are welcome. Count Iblis (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * Not censored applies to article content, it does act in defence of an abuse of process. And if there is a legitimate RFC to be had on ArbCom, then WT:ARBCOM (or perhaps a VP if you want a 'neutral' venue) is the place to formulate and hold it. Resolute 04:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * I have removed the RFC template as "Join my party" is not an RfC, it is canvassing. Please do not replace it, as this would be disruptive. Requests for Comment/Arbitration Committee is the appropriate venue for a discussion on the Arbitration Committee. Please feel free to edit that page and start the discussion. Elen of the Roads (talk) 15:09, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * The heading says "Invitiation RFC to join the party" and the opening statement says "Please consider joining the ArbCom Reform Party to contribute to the platform and/or to put yourself forward as candidate running for this Party. " and there is a section right above this one where the Count is discussing opening an RFC for the purposes of recruiting and another user saying that may not be such a hot idea, and when it turned out it wasn't he suddenly changes his tune and claims he was in fact opening a request for general comments on the party. That sir, is a lie. This reminds me very much of the saga of bullshit that had to be gone through over another ridiculous idea put forward by this same user. Arbcom Reform Party, I suggest you find yourselves another leader, one who is a little more thoughtful and honest. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:19, 8 November 2012 (UTC) * It appears support for this is rapidly drying up... Beeblebrox (talk) 02:23, 13 November 2012 (UTC) * Where is list of members of this Party? Is it Party of One? My very best wishes (talk) 06:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC) * So far as I can see, it is maybe a "party of two," as it seems to have two candidates running for ArbCom. I could say any number of things regarding this matter, how the candidates seem to be discussing their partisan agenda more than actually indicating anything about their qualifications and/or their relevant history regarding matters which are appropriate to ArbCom candidates, how this effort seems to be more about making back-door changes than displaying the transparentness the candidates themselves call for, and so on and on. Having said that, I think it is not unreasonable to raise some of the questions raised here, but it is one thing to raise questions and quite another to provide clear and direct answers or tactics, and, unfortunately, it looks to me like there is much more of the former than of the latter. John Carter (talk) 17:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC) Well that didn't work, did it? The two candidates from this party finished dead last in the Arbitration elections, with incredibly bad numbers. 132 support, 854 oppose. This project is a bad joke. As I noted above, CountIblis, the defecto leader of this outfit, has repeatedly engaged in WP:IDHT behaviors as well as out and out dishonest behavior such wasting the community's time with a run for ArbCom when he knew perfectly well he had no chance of being elected. It seems perfectly clear that he therefore ran soleley to get a free platform for recruitment for this project. Well guess what? You got some attention, but it does not appear to be the kind you were looking for. Note the lack of activity here during the election itself, as if the few users who did support this no longer wanted to be assosciated with it once this crank candidacies were announced. I suspect this project is dead, and none too soon if you ask me. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:27, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * I heartily disagree. I hope it continues: the presence of Wikipedia's equivalent of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in future ArbCom elections will liven things up. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:34, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * Let's not do this, okay? Newyorkbrad (talk) 19:41, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * Aww geez Brad, why do you have to be so much nicer than me? Maybe that's why everyone likes you so much. To clarify, I am not just trying to kick them when they are down, but rather to suggest that a more honest and open approach to reforming perceived flaws in the committee might have generated better reusults. But you're probably right, as usual. I'll let it lie. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:50, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * Beeblebrox, is it really necessary to dance on the grave? Count Iblis is taking this pretty hard. Whether you agree with his platform or not, he did devote a lot of time and effort to come up with this innovative concept and deserves credit. I suspect this is exactly the reason Brad is elected with the highest vote and your candidacy failed just like the ArbCom Reform Party. There is absolutely no need to gloat, no need to kick and bully people when they are down, no need to bait and poke Count Iblis to respond with incivility. This is not the sort of temperament I expect from someone who aspires to be an arb. Such cynical and immature behavior also does not help Wikipedia in terms of editor retention.--YOLO Swag (talk) 00:40, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * I do not think any non-admin candidate has a chance. This is like someone in US running for a president while not a member of a Democratic or Republican Parties. There is a Party already (no need to create another one), but this is party of administrators. It has very clear symbols of power (administrative tools), the members are elected at RFA, and this is a tenure position, unless they are trying to create their own factions. Just kidding. But I think Count deserved a lot of credit for taking part in these elections, responding to all questions, etc. Thank you, Count Iblis! My very best wishes (talk) 03:56, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * I think there are non-admins who do stand a chance, but it is definitely easier to become an arb if you are an admin. And that stands to reason, actually. When you look at the people elected, most of them have been long involved with mediation and dispute resolution efforts (even if just at ANI) for a long time. That is how you build the kind of profile that gets you elected to arbcom. Most people who take on that work while not admins get nominated to become one and usually pass easily. So in this respect, I believe the tools follow the right attitude. Resolute 14:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * Yes, I certainly agree. Just remember that Peter Principle is working. In wikipedia setting this means the following. The admin's duties are different from the work of an ordinary user. Therefore, most admins will not be really competent and will simply continue to do something they did as ordinary users. All work will be accomplished by a small percentage of admins who are really competent. However, all admins will continue holding their position, excluding cases when they are "super-incompetent". And so on. However, one should also look at "criticisms" of the theory, as usual. My very best wishes (talk) 15:42, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * A party is a group of people who stand for elective office on a common program and with a shared support base. On that measure we admins are very far from being a party - on most RFAs and RFCs the admins split in similar proportions to other editors. Occasionally you get a vote where some admins argue that a measure is impractical and if they are right other admins will disproportionately share their concern. But the general pattern of !voting is not what you'd expect if Admins were a "party". Incidentally the voters differentiated somewhat between the two candidates standing on this slate, there were several other pairs of editors who got much more similar results, though I suspect that if we knew who had !voted for whom we might see some overlap in support for these two and that some of the closer correlations were coincidences with quite big differences in who actually voted for and against them. My criticism of this initiative is that it didn't develop or market its reform program, the community was divided in this election, but it wasn't obvious to me where this Party stood on the big current governance issues. Perhaps a better route for the future would be to develop a voter guide, make it clear what your agenda is and where all the candidates stand with regard to it. If it turns out that your issues are the ones that the community cares about then you may well influence Arbcom. Ϣere Spiel Chequers 21:45, 20 December 2012 (UTC) If just 10% of the 132 supporters become active Party members, we'll have a much better chance in the next elections. One or two editors here with limited time can't get a lot done, with more people here, we can get more work done, take on board WereSpielChequers' advice and get more people to stand as candidates on behalf of this Party. Count Iblis (talk) 23:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC) * First, I'd advise against making the assumption that there were 132 supporters. 132 is both your supports combined, and surely some of those voted for both of you, so the maximum number that could be said to support the "party" is 45, but even that number is likely high, as I'm sure some voters just supported everyone or supported everyone except one candidate they opposed. The numbers do tell us something important, however: YOLO Swag did much better last year running as NWA.Rep, with more than double the support percentage (16.04% last year, just 7.51% this year). While it's impossible to make a definitive statement of what might have happened, I think it's pretty clear you both would have done better without each other and without the "party". Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 00:33, 4 January 2013 (UTC) * To that point, I specifically opposed both candidates because of this party. Absent it, I would have ignored both completely. Resolute 01:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC) * You can all do as you please, but then you shouldn't complain when ArbCom continues to make a big mess. Count Iblis (talk) 22:55, 4 January 2013 (UTC) * Maybe ArbCom will work well this year? You could at least wait a little further into the year than January 4th before assuming that we'll make a big mess, y'know.... Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:08, 4 January 2013 (UTC) * False dichotomy. Choosing the lesser of two evils is not an automatic endorsement of the evil that was chosen. And, as NYB notes, things can improve. Hopefully they do. Resolute 23:20, 4 January 2013 (UTC) * The fundamental idea of the Reform party is that the problem is with the structure, not so much the Arbitrators. Count Iblis (talk) 22:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC) * And the fundamental flaw in the party is the idea that deliberately creating a faction or cabal instead of using normal processes for attempting to change that structure is even remotely a good idea. (that and the fact that it is being run by dishonest people who are so comfortable with trying to "unsay" things rather than admit they were wrong, a quality we see all too often in real-life politicians) Beeblebrox (talk) 22:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC) RFC on the platform of the ArbCom Reform party for the 2013 ArbCom elections This is a RFC to ask Wikipedians about their opinions for a suitable platform for the 2013 ArbCom elections. Count Iblis (talk) 20:01, 4 October 2013 (UTC) Proposal 1: Don't use RFC as a means to spam for this party? Resolute 22:55, 4 October 2013 (UTC) * Unlike last year's RFC, this is strictly within the rules. I only have posted a RFC two or three times since I joined Wikipedia in 2004, so I could be forgiven to not know that inviting editors to join an open ended WikiProject about reforming the ArbCom is not allowed (it's not canvassing, because people are free to put forward what they think it's best and whatever the oputcome fo that would be is going to be put to the Wiki electorate). But this time I'm not asking people to join, I'm just asking people to comment and come up with suggestions for this WikiProject, which is precisely what RFC are meant for (it is a "Request for Comment" after all). * If you still have problems with this, I suggest you put the RFC template up for TFD. Count Iblis (talk) 23:40, 4 October 2013 (UTC) Comment on the WikiProject X proposal Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. 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Additionally, strength training can also improve bone density, joint health, and metabolism, making it an essential part of a balanced exercise routine. Types of Strength Training Exercises There are various types of strength training exercises that can be incorporated into a fitness regimen. These include bodyweight exercises such as push-ups, squats, and lunges, as well as resistance training using free weights or weight machines. Other options for building strength include using resistance bands or participating in activities such as Pilates or yoga, which utilize the body’s own weight for resistance. Implementing Strength Training Safely It’s important to approach strength training with proper form and technique in order to prevent injury. For beginners, seeking guidance from a certified personal trainer can be beneficial in learning the correct way to perform exercises and how to gradually progress in terms of weight and intensity. It’s also important to allow for adequate rest between sessions to allow muscles time to recover and repair. With consistent and safe implementation, strength training can be an effective tool for achieving lifelong fitness. Flexibility and Balance Exercises for Lifelong Fitness Flexibility and balance exercises are crucial components of lifelong fitness. These types of exercises help improve posture, reduce the risk of injury, and enhance overall physical performance. As we age, our flexibility and balance tend to decline, making these exercises even more important for maintaining a high quality of life. Some popular flexibility exercises include yoga, Pilates, and stretching routines. These activities help improve range of motion in the joints and muscles, making everyday movements easier and more fluid. On the other hand, balance exercises such as tai chi or standing on one foot can help prevent falls and maintain stability. Incorporating flexibility and balance exercises into your fitness routine does not have to be time-consuming or difficult. Just 15-30 minutes a few times per week can make a significant impact on your overall physical well-being. Additionally, many gyms and fitness centers offer classes specifically focused on these types of exercises, making it easier to get started on the path to improved flexibility and balance. Flexibility ExerciseBalance Exercise YogaTai Chi PilatesStanding on one foot Incorporating Variety in Exercise for Lifelong Fitness Incorporating variety in exercise is essential for achieving lifelong fitness. While sticking to a single type of workout may yield some results, it’s important to mix things up to challenge different muscle groups and prevent boredom. Variety in exercise also helps in preventing overuse injuries, as it allows the body to recover from the stress of repetitive movements. One way to incorporate variety in exercise for lifelong fitness is by trying out different forms of cardiovascular activities. Instead of solely relying on running for your cardio, consider adding cycling, swimming, or dance-based workouts into your routine. This not only keeps things interesting but also offers a full-body workout that targets different muscle groups. Additionally, incorporating strength training into your exercise routine is crucial for overall health and longevity. Switching up your strength training exercises every few weeks can help prevent plateaus and keep your muscles challenged. From using free weights to resistance bands and bodyweight exercises, there are plenty of options for incorporating variety in strength training for lifelong fitness. Remember, the key is to continuously challenge your muscles in order to see improvements in strength and endurance. Tailoring Exercise to Your Age and Abilities As individuals age, their exercise needs and abilities change. It is important to tailor exercise routines to accommodate these changes in order to maintain lifelong fitness. Older adults may need to focus more on flexibility and balance exercises to prevent falls and improve mobility. Strength training becomes increasingly important as muscle mass naturally decreases with age. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, adults should aim for at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, combined with muscle-strengthening activities on two or more days a week. However, this guideline can be adjusted depending on an individual’s abilities and limitations. READ Estimate Your Aerobic Fitness Using the Non-Exercise Model Incorporating flexibility exercises such as yoga and tai chi can help improve range of motion and reduce the risk of injury. Balance exercises like standing on one foot or using balance pads can also be beneficial for older adults. It is crucial for individuals to seek out guidance from fitness professionals who have experience working with older adults in order to create a safe and effective exercise program that is tailored specifically to their age and abilities. Exercise TypeRecommended Frequency Aerobic ActivityAt least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity Muscle-Strengthening ActivitiesTwo or more days a weeek Flexibility ExercisesRegularly, incorporating yoga or tai chi Tips for Staying Motivated With Lifelong Fitness Staying motivated with lifelong fitness is crucial for maintaining a consistent exercise routine throughout your life. Many people struggle with finding the motivation to exercise regularly, but there are several tips that can help you stay on track. First and foremost, it’s important to set realistic and achievable goals for yourself. Whether it’s aiming to walk a certain number of steps each day or increasing the weight you lift during strength training, having specific goals can keep you focused and motivated. Another tip for staying motivated with lifelong fitness is to find an exercise routine that you enjoy. If you dread going to the gym or participating in a certain type of exercise, it will be much harder to stay committed. Experiment with different types of exercises such as swimming, cycling, yoga, or dance classes until you find something that brings you joy and fulfillment. This will make it easier to stick to a regular exercise routine. In addition, surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals who prioritize fitness can also help you stay motivated. Joining group exercise classes or finding a workout buddy can provide accountability and encouragement. Being part of a community that shares your fitness goals can make the journey towards lifelong fitness more enjoyable and sustainable in the long run. Keeping these tips in mind can help you stay motivated on your journey towards achieving lifelong fitness through the right exercises. By setting achievable goals, finding enjoyment in your workouts, and surrounding yourself with supportive individuals, you can maintain a healthy and active lifestyle for years to come. Conclusion In conclusion, achieving lifelong fitness through the right exercises is essential for maintaining overall health and well-being. Understanding the importance of exercise for lifelong fitness is crucial, as it not only helps to improve physical strength and endurance but also contributes to mental and emotional well-being. Different types of exercises, including cardiovascular, strength training, flexibility, and balance exercises, offer diverse benefits that contribute to holistic health. Incorporating variety in exercise routines is imperative for preventing boredom and ensuring that all muscle groups are targeted. Additionally, tailoring exercise to one’s age and abilities is essential in preventing injury and maximizing the benefits of physical activity. Staying motivated with lifelong fitness can be challenging, but setting realistic goals and seeking support from friends or a fitness community can make a significant difference in maintaining consistency. Ultimately, lifelong fitness is achievable through a combination of dedication, commitment to regular physical activity, and understanding the individual needs of your body. By incorporating different types of exercises into your routine, staying motivated with tailored workouts, and seeking professional guidance when necessary, individuals can achieve lifelong fitness and enjoy a high quality of life throughout their years. Frequently Asked Questions What Is Lifelong Fitness? Lifelong fitness refers to the commitment to maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle throughout one’s entire life. It involves incorporating regular physical activity, healthy eating habits, and other wellness practices into daily routines in order to promote long-term health and well-being. What Are the 4 Types of Fitness? The four types of fitness include cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition. Cardiovascular endurance focuses on the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen-rich blood to the muscles during physical activity. Muscular strength refers to the amount of force a muscle or group of muscles can exert against resistance. Flexibility relates to the range of motion around a joint. Body composition is the proportion of fat and non-fat mass in the body. What Are Some Strategies for Lifelong Fitness? Some strategies for lifelong fitness include setting realistic goals for physical activity and nutrition, finding activities that are enjoyable and sustainable, incorporating a variety of exercises into workouts, seeking support from friends or family members, and being open to trying new forms of exercise. Additionally, it’s important to prioritize rest and recovery, manage stress levels, and maintain a positive mindset towards overall wellness.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
In Defense of Their Title, the Penguins Change Styles PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins were a puck-hogging, ice-tilting blur last spring, overwhelming opponents with an avalanche of shots and sustained offensive pressure that ended with the franchise’s fourth Stanley Cup. A year later, the faces in the lineup are largely the same. But the Penguins are going about their business in a much different way. The group that earned a 3-2 victory on Wednesday against an increasingly baffled Washington squad in the Eastern Conference semifinals spent most of the night comfortably buried in its own end. Pittsburgh blocked 24 shots while steering net-front traffic away from goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to take a three-games-to-one series lead as Sidney Crosby, the Penguins’ star and captain, watched in a suit while recovering from a concussion. “We win games different ways,” Coach Mike Sullivan said. “Some games we win blocking shots and killing penalties. Other games we win off our counterattack or power play.” In Game 4, the Penguins used a little bit of everything. Washington went 0 for 4 with the man advantage. Pittsburgh’s first goal came on a Patric Hornqvist breakaway set up by a beautiful stretch pass from Olli Maatta. The second came courtesy of a takeaway that ended with Jake Guentzel’s crossing pass smacking off Washington defenseman Dmitry Orlov’s skate and into the net. The third, a laser by Justin Schultz on the power play, gave the Penguins the lead for good. Throw in another spectacular performance by Fleury and a lockdown third period in which the Capitals managed to get only eight shots all the way to the net, and Pittsburgh is on the verge of eliminating Washington, the Presidents’ Trophy winner, for a second straight season and for the ninth time in 10 playoff meetings. Sullivan has preached speed since the moment he arrived in December 2015. Pittsburgh recovered from an early-season malaise to sprint through the 2016 playoffs, where it averaged 34.8 shots a game while allowing just 28. Having a skilled group that includes Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel and Kris Letang certainly helped. So did an influx of young legs. The Penguins incessantly skated and chased, poke-checked and darted. It allowed them to lead the N.H.L. in goals this season while posting the second-best record in the league even with Letang lost for the season in February, part of a rash of injuries along the blue line that forced Sullivan to mix and match. At 7-2 so far in the playoffs, the team playing a far more conservative brand of hockey. Pittsburgh is averaging 29.2 shots per game so far while giving up 37.3. Throw in the 22.6 shots the Penguins are blocking before they get to Fleury, and that is basically a shot a minute. Still, Pittsburgh has been firmly in control throughout the first three weeks of the playoffs. Fleury’s remarkable play certainly helps. So does the work of the men in front of him. And he knows it. “It was a hard game to play,” Fleury said after making 36 saves in Game 4. “They come hard, and they have good skill. I thought our guys stuck with it all game long.” The examples were everywhere. There was Hornqvist dropping to his knees to get in front of a shot in the first period even though he had been left hobbled after being drilled by a shot in Game 2. There was the 37-year-old Chris Kunitz backchecking and throwing his body around as if he were a decade younger. There was Alex Ovechkin, Washington’s captain, managing all of two shots while being held without a goal for the third straight game, then calling himself out afterward for his uninspired play. Even as the Capitals buzzed around, there was no panic in the Penguins. It was not always that way for the Penguins, who lost to a lower-seeded team in the postseason every year from 2010-14. It is the way now. “The competitiveness of this team, the desperation that the guys in this locker room showed out there,” defenseman Ian Cole said. If the Penguins can find a way to do it again over the next three games, they will be on to the conference finals and halfway toward a repeat as Stanley Cup champions. They are not getting ahead of themselves, especially without Crosby. Then again, the Penguins, whose stars used to be focused on style points, are playing with a serious amount of substance. “What I’ve really admired about this group of players that we have,” Sullivan said, “is just their compete level that allows them the opportunity to find ways to win games.”	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
The aim of the project “street light management using pc” is to design a system using which the ac loads (street lights) can be controlled through pc using the Arduino through which the power management can be optimized. The project is designed in such a way that the controller is interfaced to pc using serial communication technique. Serial communication is often used either to control or to receive data from an embedded microprocessor. In serial communication, the data is sent one bit at a time. Serial communication is a form of I/O in which the bits of a byte being transferred appear one after the other in a timed sequence on a single wire. Serial communication is commonly used in applications such as industrial automation systems, scientific analysis and certain consumer products. Here the serial communication is established between the pc and the controller by a line driver which acts as a voltage converter and the loads will also be interfaced to the controller through relays. Depending on the input received from the pc, the controller will perform the predefined task of turning on/off the loads. Here we will design the buttons to operate the loads. By clicking on these buttons the corresponding data will be passed to the controller serially. And an LCD will also be interfaced with the controller to display the status of loads. This project uses a regulated 5v, 500mA power supply. 7805 and 7812 three-terminal voltage regulators are used for voltage regulation. Bridge type full wave rectifier is used to rectify the ac output of secondary of 230/12v step down transformer. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS HARDWARE • Arduino (ATMEGA328) • LCD • RELAY • BULB POWER SUPPLY • Transformer : 12V step down • Filter : 1000uf/25V • Voltage Regulator : 7805 / 7812 SOFTWARE • Software tools used • Keil IDE,PROTEUS BLOCK DIAGRAM POWER SUPPLY BLOCK DIAGRAM \ Bill of Materials S.NoCOMPONENTSDESCRIPTIONQUANTITYlink 1Arduino UnoArduino UNO atmega3281https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-A000066-ARDUINO-UNO-R3/dp/B008GRTSV6 2relayrelay4https://www.amazon.in/Generic-unbranded-relay-module-optocoupler/dp/B00C59RNPE/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=B00C59RNPE&psc=1 3LCD 162 LCD 162 1https://www.thingbits.in/products/standard-lcd-16×2-display 4LED BulbsLED Bulbs4https://www.flipkart.com/philips-10-5-w-standard-b22-led-bulb/p/itm6749804877c27?pid=BLBE6GKGHDEYXBG2&lid=LSTBLBE6GKGHDEYXBG2NRCG1V&marketplace=FLIPKART&store=jhg%2Fyqn%2Ffeb&srno=b_1_10&otracker=browse&fm=organic&iid=c61eae6c-179d-494a-b36f-8e4ed9556166.BLBE6GKGHDEYXBG2.SEARCH&ppt=None&ppn=None&ssid=bvrkfdjjnk0000001632933560379 5laptoplaptop1https://www.amazon.in/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Business-Graphics-Platinum/dp/B0999BTTKZ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1632933668&refinements=p_89%3ALenovo&s=computers&sr=1-2 6BreadboardBreadboard1https://www.electronicscomp.com/gl12-840-points-solderless-breadboard?gclid=CjwKCAjwndCKBhAkEiwAgSDKQT8pZpDgWOcNPcG4vm5xkorj2j1NmHG7bI6YPNIZGlibrYrijf4AcBoCzdsQAvD_BwE 7Jumper WiresJumper Wires40https://www.flipkart.com/arduino-female-male-dupont-20cm-jumper-wire-40pcs-interconnect-electronic-hobby-kit/p/itmf8e5ezvkequ3h?pid=EHKF8DVBG9BXZHHH&lid=LSTEHKF8DVBG9BXZHHHUGSG9J&marketplace=FLIPKART&cmpid=content_electronic-hobby-kit_14498130132_u_8965229628_gmc_pla&tgi=sem,1,G,11214002,u,,,543116155366,,,,c,,,,,,,&ef_id=CjwKCAjwndCKBhAkEiwAgSDKQYwKr3euuMpKCLDJnf-2qgZAQRW2n8hnMZC3nTW73FEqy4E5LPx20RoCuUAQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!739!3!543116155366!!!u!297659526158!&gclid=CjwKCAjwndCKBhAkEiwAgSDKQYwKr3euuMpKCLDJnf-2qgZAQRW2n8hnMZC3nTW73FEqy4E5LPx20RoCuUAQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds Arduino uno This is the new Arduino Uno R3. In addition to all the features of the previous board, the Uno now uses an ATmega16U2 instead of the 8U2 found on the Uno (or the FTDI found on previous generations). This allows for faster transfer rates and more memory. No drivers are needed for Linux or Mac (inf file for Windows is needed and included in the Arduino IDE), and the ability to have the Uno show up as a keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc. Never fear for accidental electrical discharge, either since the Uno R3 also includes a plastic base plate to protect it! The Uno R3 also adds SDA and SCL pins next to the AREF. In addition, there are two new pins placed near the RESET pin. One is the IOREF that allows the shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. The other is not connected and is reserved for future purposes. The Uno R3 works with all existing shields but can adapt to new shields which use these additional pins. Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The open-source IDE can be downloaded for free (currently for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux). Single-Channel Relay Module Pin Description A relay is an electrically operated switch. It consists of a set of input terminals for a single or multiple control signals, and a set of operating contact terminals. The switch may have any number of contacts in multiple contact forms, such as making contacts, break contacts or combinations thereof. Pin NumberPin NameDescription 1Relay TriggerInput to activate the relay 2Ground0V reference 3VCCSupply input for powering the relay coil 4Normally OpenNormally open terminal of the relay 5CommonThe common terminal of the relay 6Normally ClosedNormally closed contact of the relay Single-Channel Relay Module Specifications • Supply voltage – 3.75V to 6V • Quiescent current: 2mA • Current when the relay is active: ~70mA • Relay maximum contact voltage – 250VAC or 30VDC • Relay maximum current – 10A Standard LCD 16×2 Display Wanna add an interface to your project? Use the 16×2 standard alphanumeric LCD display, they are extremely common and is a fast way to have your project show status messages. An LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an electronic display module and has a wide range of applications. A 16×2 LCD display is a very basic module and is very commonly used in various devices and circuits. A 16×2 LCD means it can display 16 characters per line and there are 2 such lines. In this LCD each character is displayed in a 5×7 pixel matrix. The 16 x 2 intelligent alphanumeric dot matrix display is capable of displaying 224 different characters and symbols. This LCD has two registers, namely, Command and Data. Command register stores various commands given to the display. The data register stores data to be displayed. The process of controlling the display involves putting the data that form the image of what you want to display into the data registers, then putting instructions in the instruction register. In your Arduino project, Liquid Crystal Library simplifies this for you so you don’t need to know the low-level instructions. The contrast of the display can be adjusted by adjusting the potentiometer to be connected across the VEE pin. General specifications Minimum logic voltage:4.5 V Maximum logic voltage:5.5 V Typical LED backlight voltage drop:4.2 V Typical LED backlight current:120 mA Supply current:2 mA Pinout PinSymbolFunction 1Vssground (0 V) 2Vdd5 V logic supply voltage 3Vocontrast adjustment 4RSH/L register select signal 5R/WH/L read/write signal 6EH/L enable signal 7-14DB0 – DB7H/L data bus for 4- or 8-bit mode 15A (LED+)backlight anode 16K (LED-)backlight cathode Final Code #include<LiquidCrystal.h> LiquidCrystal lcd(14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19); #define REALY1 3 #define REALY2 4 void setup() { lcd.begin(16,2); pinMode(REALY1, OUTPUT); pinMode(REALY2, OUTPUT); Serial.begin(9600); lcd.setCursor(0,0); lcd.print("STREET LIGHT"); Serial.println("STREET LIGHT CONTROL SYSTRM "); } void loop() { lcd.setCursor(0,1); while(Serial.available()) { char In=Serial.read(); if(In=='1') // RALAY 1 ON { digitalWrite(REALY1, HIGH); lcd.println("Light 1 ON "); Serial.println("Light 1 ON"); } else if(In=='2') //RALAY 1 OFF { digitalWrite(REALY1, LOW); lcd.print("Light 1 OFF "); Serial.println("Light 1 OFF"); } else if(In=='3') // Left { lcd.print("Light 2 ON "); digitalWrite(REALY2, HIGH); Serial.println("Light 2 ON "); } else if(In=='4') // Right { lcd.print("Light 2 OFF "); digitalWrite(REALY2, LOW); Serial.println("Light 2 OFF"); } else if(In=='5') // stop { digitalWrite(REALY1, LOW); digitalWrite(REALY2, LOW); lcd.print("light 1 2 OFF "); Serial.println("Light 1 2 OFF"); } else { } } } By Admin Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. 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Tineidae Last updated Tineidae Nemapogon granella01.jpg Adult European grain moth (Nemapogon granella: Nemapogoninae) from Graz, Austria Scientific classification Kingdom: Phylum: Class: Order: Suborder: Infraorder: Division: Superfamily: Family: Tineidae Latreille, 1810 Type genus Tinea Subfamilies and see text Diversity [1] About 357 genera and 2,393 species Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. Most of the tineid moths are small or medium-sized, with wings held roofwise over the body when at rest. They are particularly common in the Palaearctic, but many occur elsewhere, and some are found very widely as introduced species. Contents Tineids are unusual among Lepidoptera as the larvae of only a very small number of species feed on living plants, the majority feeding on fungi, lichens, and detritus. The most familiar members of the family are the clothes moths, which have adapted to feeding on stored fabrics and led to their reputation as a household pest. The most widespread of such species are the common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella), the case-bearing clothes moth (Tinea pellionella), and the carpet moth (Trichophaga tapetzella); the brown-dotted clothes moth (Niditinea fuscella) despite its name, preferentially feeds on feathers in bird nests. One remarkable genus is Ceratophaga , whose members feed exclusively on pure keratin in the form of the horns and hooves of dead mammals and even the shells of dead tortoises. Systematics Subfamilies and notable genera Some species also are listed; for others see genus accounts. Meessiinae Myrmecozelinae Tineinae Genera incertae sedis These fungus moths have not been assigned to a subfamily with a reasonable amount of certainty: Fossil record Related Research Articles Oecophoridae Family of moths Oecophoridae is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this. Gracillariidae Family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella. Brachodidae family of insects Brachodidae is a family of day-flying moths, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 135 species distributed around much of the world. The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not well understood. Acanthoctesia or "archaic sun moths" is an infraorder of insects in the lepidopteran order, containing a single superfamily, Acanthopteroctetoidea, and a single family, Acanthopteroctetidae. They are currently considered the fifth group up on the comb of branching events in the extant lepidopteran phylogeny. They also represent the most basal lineage in the lepidopteran group Coelolepida characterised in part by its scale morphology. Moths in this superfamily are usually small and iridescent. Like other "homoneurous" Coelolepida and non-ditrysian Heteroneura, the ocelli are lost. There are variety of unique structural characteristics. There are two described genera of these primitive moths. Catapterix was originally described within its own family but Acanthopteroctetes shares with it a number of specialised structural features including similar wing morphology. <i>Argyresthia curvella</i> Species of moth Argyresthia curvella is a species of ermine moth. It belongs to subfamily Argyresthiinae, which is sometimes elevated to full family rank in the superfamily Yponomeutoidea. It is commonly called apple blossom tineid, reflecting the fact that it was originally believed to be a tineid moth. <i>Monopis obviella</i> Species of moth Monopis obviella is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of Blabophanes, today treated as a junior synonym of the genus Monopis. M. crocicapitella was only separated from the present species in 1859, and is still frequently confused with it even by rather recent sources. <i>Tinea semifulvella</i> Species of moth Tinea semifulvella is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is widespread and common in much of western Eurasia, but seems to be absent from Portugal and the Balkans as well as the outlying islands. The nocturnal adults are on the wing around May to September, depending on the location, and are easily attracted to light sources. <i>Tinea pellionella</i> species of insect Tinea pellionella, the case-bearing clothes moth, is a species of tineoid moth in the family Tineidae, the fungus moths. It is the type species of the genus Tinea, which in turn is the type genus of the subfamily, family, as well as the superfamily Tineoidea. Its scientific name is derived from "tinea", a generic term for micromoths, and the Latin term for a furrier, pellionellus. <i>Niditinea fuscella</i> Species of moth The brown-dotted clothes moth is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of its genus Niditinea. <i>Erechthias</i> genus of insects Erechthias is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae, of which it is the type genus. The exact circumscription of this genus is still disputed, but it may encompass more than 150 species. Archinemapogon is a somewhat disputed genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Within this group, it belongs to the subfamily Nemapogoninae. It is apparently an extremely close relative of the type genus of its subfamily, Nemapogon, and some authors include it there. <i>Niditinea</i> genus of insects Niditinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae. <i>Trichophaga</i> genus of insects Trichophaga is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the moninate subfamily Tineinae. <i>Monopis laevigella</i> Species of moth The skin moth is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of the genus Monopis and its junior objective synonym Hyalospila. As with the common clothes moth, earlier authors frequently misapplied the name Tinea vestianella to the present species. <i>Tinea trinotella</i> Species of moth Tinea trinotella is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It was once used as type species of a distinct genus Acedes, but this is synonymized today with Tinea, the type genus of Tineinae, Tineidae and the superfamily Tineoidea. <i>Tinea</i> (moth) genus of insects Tinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the very first subgroups of "Phalaena", it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moths nowadays placed elsewhere. Prehistoric Lepidoptera Prehistoric Lepidoptera are both butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in comparison to other winged species, and tending not to be as common as some other insects in the habitats that are most conducive to fossilization, such as lakes and ponds, and their juvenile stage has only the head capsule as a hard part that might be preserved. The location and abundance of the most common moth species are indicative that mass migrations of moths occurred over the Palaeogene North Sea, which is why there is a serious lack of moth fossils. Yet there are fossils, some preserved in amber and some in very fine sediments. Leaf mines are also seen in fossil leaves, although the interpretation of them is tricky. Putative fossil stem group representatives of Amphiesmenoptera are known from the Triassic. Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus. The species is known only from Middle Eocene, Bartonian stage, Baltic amber deposits near the town of Palanga in Lithuania. Nikolai or Nikolay Jakovlevice Kusnezov, also spelled Kusnetzov, Kusnetsov and Kuznetsov was a Russian entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist, since 1910 was member of the Russian Entomological Society. Professor Kuznetsov was very important as a pioneer in the fields of insect physiology, Lepidoptera fauna of the Arctic (Siberia) and knowledge of fossils of Lepidoptera. <i>Ceratophaga vastella</i> species of insect Ceratophaga vastella, or the horn moth, belongs to the clothes moth family Tineidae and is noted for its larva's ability to feed on keratin from the horns and hooves of dead ungulates, and occasionally on dried fruit or mushrooms. Keratin, a protein which makes up skin, hair, nails and feathers, is extremely resistant to proteolysis by the enzymes from specialised micro-organisms such as fungi and bacteria. 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Talk:Bonnie Wright Number of actors playing in all films There are only 13 actors who appear in every Harry Potter film, not 14. I've changed the information to reflect that. Brendan OhUiginn (talk) 13:35, 11 August 2011 (UTC) Are you sure about that? IMDB lists 14 (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, Devon Murray, Josh Herdman, Geraldine Somerville) 2610:130:106:105:6DEE:A9E9:84B5:4CBB (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2018 (UTC) Ancestry Bonnie Wright has Irish grandmother on her mother side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-85Jh0IJ34 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkunreal93 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 20 February 2022 (UTC) Change of her last name Shes been married with guy named Andrew Lococo in March 2022 and her newborn baby boy was born couple months ago kind regards. 2001:4430:D083:629C:406D:DE4:6147:3E99 (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2023 (UTC)	WIKI
Page:Scientific Papers of Josiah Willard Gibbs.djvu/449 very interesting problem concerning molecules which differ only in their power of passing a diaphragm (see Nature for January 21, p. 272), seems only to require for its solution the relation between density and pressure for the fluid at the temperature of the experiment, when this relation for small densities becomes that of an ideal gas; in other cases, a single numerical constant in addition to the relation between density and pressure is sufficient. This will, perhaps, appear most readily if we imagine each of the vessels $$\text{A}$$ and $$\text{B}$$ connected with a vertical column of the fluid which it contains, these columns extending upwards until the state of an ideal gas is reached. The equilibrium which we suppose to subsist will not be disturbed by communications between the columns at as many levels as we choose, if these communications are always made through the same kind of semi-permeable diaphragm as that which separates the vessels $$\text{A}$$ and $$\text{B}$$. It will be observed that the difference of level at which any same pressure is found in the two columns is a constant quantity, easily determined in the upper parts (where the fluids are in the ideal gaseous state) as a function of the composition of the fluid in the A-column, and giving at once the height above the vessel $$\text{A}$$, where in the A-column we find a pressure equal to that in the vessel $$\text{B}$$. In fact, we have in either column where the letters denote respectively pressure, force of gravity, density, and vertical elevation. If we set we have Integrating, with a different constant for each column, we get	WIKI
Talk:Super Caló Not the same Rafael Garcia The wrestler and the football player are 2 different people. Removed Speedy Delete Tag This article whilst only a stub did assert notability and with a little bit of work now has its first reference. I have removed tag and placed a message regarding this at the Speedy proposers page at User talk:Kevin Green342243. -- VS talk 13:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC) * Where do you get the idea that there is a reference? I dont' see any references in the article. How about we put it up for AFD and see what happens? Is that fair? Homeboy Tame 01:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC) That just references his real name, and how do we know that web site is accurate? What proof is there that he is different than any other wrestler on the planet. * Sorry it seems there was some sort of lag on wiki computers when I put it up. Reference has now been readded.-- VS talk 02:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Up to you Homeboy Tame - put it up for AfD if your want to or spend a bit of time to add something meaningful to the article that will remove your doubts. My point is that it is not a speedy delete classification based on your tag. Let me know on my talk page what you do or prefer to do.-- VS talk 02:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC) * What is the "prod" option you mentioned? How does that work? Homeboy Tame 02:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC) * I have provided links to both Prod and AfD on your talk page (above) - however have another look at the article it seem to meets inclusion now based on another persons edits.-- VS talk 02:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC) It looks fine to me now. All I wanted was a little substantiation of notability and the titles held seems to establish that in my opinion. Homeboy Tame 02:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC) * Good - as you can see not putting it up for a Speedy does work. I'll send you a proper welcome with links so you can learn more about Wiki.-- VS talk 02:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Requested move Rafael García → Super Caló — He is currently listed under his real name but is always billed as Super Caló in wrestling, interviews and any other media apperances. So per WP:COMMONNAME I request he is moved to the name he's actually known as. Also Rafael Garcia without the í is a disambiguation page which makes his current location a little confusing MPJ -DK 13:50, 3 April 2010 (UTC) ✅ - You were 100% correct about the current location needing to be a disambiguation term. I carried out the move of the article and of the disambiguation page to their rightful locations. Feed back ☎ 16:58, 4 April 2010 (UTC)	WIKI
Page:All Kneeling (1928).pdf/33 After dinner she followed Aunt Susannah's instructions and melted into the conservatory. She knew her poems were being shown to the publisher. She stood still, staring at a plant with big heart-shaped leaves, bronze-green, centered and splotched with pink. Her heart thudded as if it would shake her to pieces. But when in answer to, "Christabel, child, where is thee?" she went back to the drawing-room and saw Susannah's beaming face and the bland benevolence of Talbot Emery Towne's, each with a pot of green and pink-splotched leaves floating in the air above it, she knew her poems were as good as published. The book appeared on a small select spring list: A Pilgrim in Palestine, by Lady Elizabeth Cook-Paynter; I Remember, I Remember, by Canon J. D. R. Wormsley; Ask Me No More, A Novel, by Caroline Trimmingham Wales; The Pot Beneath the Thorn Bush, by Eimar O'Sullivan, Stars and Wild Strawberries, by Christabel Caine Christabel Caine, Christabel Caine, Stars	WIKI
Page:The Folk-Lore Journal Volume 2 1884.djvu/273 Rh in Trinity College, Dublin, and when the game was quite unknown in a great part of Ireland. At the same time, they may have been introduced by some of the earlier settlers, and afterwards degenerated into the games mentioned above; but I would be inclined to suspect that the Irish are the primitive games, they having since been improved into cricket. At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive form, the wickets being stones set on end, or a pillar of stones; while the ball is often wooden, and very rudely formed. An old game called Crooky was formerly played at Portarlington, Queen's co. and Kilkee, co. Clare. Fifty years ago it was played with wooden crooks and balls, but about twenty-five years ago, or a little more, mallets were introduced at Kilkee; while subsequently the name was changed to croquet. I have heard it stated that this game was introduced by the French refugees that settled at Port-arlington. Another old Irish game was Duck-stone. A number of stones, one less than the number of players, were placed close together in a row; one player was told off to guard the stones on which smaller stones were placed. All of the players, except the guard, stood in a place about twelve or fifteen feet from the row of stones, and with their duck (stones) tried to knock off the smaller stones, which the guard had to replace as fast as possible, because if any of the small stones were off the duck-holders could carry in their ducks; but if all the stones were on, if one of the duck-holders tried to carry in his duck and he was tipped by the guard, he had to take the guard's place, who joined the duck-holders. Hurl was a very ancient Irish game, as we have many places called after it: such as, Killahurla, the hurlers' church; Gortnahurla, the field of the hurlers; Greenanahurla, the sunny place of the hurlers; this, however, is now generally corrupted into hurling-green. The hurling-green where the famous match was played by the people of Wexford against those of Cather (now divided into the counties of Carlow and Wicklow), and where the former got the name of yellow bellies from the colour of the scarfs they wore round their waist, is a sunny flat on the western side of North Wicklow Gap, on the road	WIKI
Feed people with senile dementia Some people with dementia may to refuse the foods or refuse to eat enough to stay healthy. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind: • Help him do enough exercise to whet your appetite • Ask a to be loved of the patient who prepares and serves her food • Reduce the distractions around of the food area, such as radio or television • Do not give foods that are too hot or too cold not very sophisticated or elaborate • If you have problems with the use of utensils, give the patient food for eat with your hand . It is important to try different foods. It is common for people with dementia to have a decrease in their senses of taste and smell, and this will affect the enjoyment of meals • Prepare easy-to-eat, high-quality meals Nutritional value . For example, bananas contain a lot of energy concentrated in little matter, they do not stain and they are easy to chew. Soy milk cheese or tofu is a good food that provides easy proteins to ingest and the avocado offers very high quality vegetable fat • Provide liquids that contain adequate nutrients. Vegetable juices, both vegetables and fruit, are a good way to avoid dehydration and to supply them vitamins and minerals . Avoid sugary industrial drinks or fruit nectars that, because of their high sugar content, only provide more thirst In the late stages of dementia, the person may have problems chew or swallow . Talk to your doctor about an appropriate diet. At some point, it is likely that the patient needs a diet of only liquids or soft foods to prevent a drowning . Unsuitable food Experts point out that the foods and beverages that should be excluded from the diet of people with senile dementia are the stimulants (such as coffee, cola, or foods that contain caffeine because they excite the nervous system; sugary foods (In the same way, sweets, cakes or any type of food too rich in refined sugar produces an increase in blood sugar that can make these patients uneasy), and alcoholic drinks (In addition to being a strong depressant of the nervous system, alcohol reduces the capacity of neurons by decreasing nerve impulses between them, which worsens this disease). Patients with senile dementia People with senile dementia may have difficulty with the language and the communication , nutrition, memory and personal hygiene. According to the specialists of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, the problems related to food arise both because of their tendency to do without meals , caused by forgetfulness or by a loss of the senses of taste and smell, as by a growing difficulty in swallowing or ability to swallow food. This type of patients, in addition to losing interest in food and water, have difficulty at control of the utensils so they are often unable to bring the food to the mouth . Video Medicine: Caregiver Training: Refusal to Bathe \| UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care (February 2024).	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Page:Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies Volume II.djvu/358 Rh receive me very obligingly. For in his earlier days he had known some of my people both at Court and in the field, and was of his own wish anxious to show me everything. So having led me to the King's bed-chamber, he did show me a phrase of writing by the side of the window on the left hand. "Look, Sir!" he cried, "read yonder words. If you have never seen the hand-writing of the King, mine old master, there it is." And reading it, we found this phrase, "Toute femme varie," writ there in large letters. I had with me a very honourable and very able gentleman of Périgord, my friend, by name M. des Roches, to whom I turned and said quickly: "'Tis to be supposed, some of the ladies he did love best, and of whose fidelity he was most assured, had been found of him to vary and play him false. Doubtless he had discovered some change in them that was scarce to his liking, and so, in despite, did write these words." The porter overhearing us, put in: "Why! surely, surely! make no mistake, for of all the fair dames I have seen and known, never a one but did cry off on a false scent worse than ever his hunting pack did in chasing the stag; yet 'twas with a very subdued voice, for an if he had noted it, he would have brought 'em to the scent again pretty smartly." They were, 'twould seem, of those women, which can never be content with either their husbands or their lovers, Kings though they be, and Princes and great Lords; but must be ever chopping and changing. Such this good King had found them by experience to be, having himself first debauched the same and taken them from the charge of their husbands or their mothers, tempting them from their maiden or widowed estate.	WIKI
Engen Petroleum Engen Petroleum is a South African oil company focusing on the downstream refined petroleum products market and related businesses. The company's core functions are the marketing of primary refined petroleum products and the provision of convenience services via an extensive retail network. Until 1990, it was part of Mobil. In 1993, it changed the brand name to Engen. The company is present in 7 countries and exports products to over 30 more countries, mostly in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. The company operates approximately 1,300 service stations in sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean Islands. A number of Engen's service stations are operated on a franchise basis. Today, Engen is active in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, Mauritius, Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company's Botswana business is listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the BSE Domestic Company Index. Ownership * Until 1990 Mobil South Africa * 1990-1996 Gencor * 1996 30% PETRONAS * 1998 100% PETRONAS * 1998-2017 80% PETRONAS and 20% Phembani Group * Today 74% PETRONAS, 20% Phembani Group and 6% Phembani-led Consortium Websites * http://www.engen.co.za Engen Petroleum * http://www.engenoil.com Engen Africa (outside South Africa)	WIKI
Solved Setting initial form values w/ CF and JavaScript Posted on 2004-09-26 8 238 Views Last Modified: 2013-12-24 Ok, this should be easy, but I have a way of making the easiest things the hardest. Now to the situation at hand. I am creating a coldfusion site to sell a product. For each product, the site admin needs to be able to edit item info. Right now I have the site set up to use the same page to both add and edit items. The form shows blank to add an item (this obviously works correctly), but should contain existing data for an item to be edited. This is where I am having problems. I am trying to set the value element of the input field on the forms. Here is my code; <cfif #url.a# eq "e"> <cfquery name="getItemInfo" datasource="ninaDB"> Select * From table Where item_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" maxlength="2" value="#url.i#"> </cfquery> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> document.theForm.item_id.Value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.item_id#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.Rname.Value = "<cfoutput>#getItemInfo.item_name#</cfoutput>"; document.theForm.Rcat_id.value = "<cfoutput>#getItemInfo.cat_id#</cfoutput>"; document.theForm.Rprice.value = "<cfoutput>#getItemInfo.price#</cfoutput>"; document.theForm.shipping.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.shipping#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.Rdesc_shrt.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.desc_shrt#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.Rdesc_long.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.desc_long#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.Rpicture_sml.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.picture_sml#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.Rpicture_lrg.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.picture_lrg#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.isSold.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.isSold#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.isListed.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.isListed#</cfoutput>; document.theForm.isFeatured.value = <cfoutput>#getItemInfo.isFeatured#</cfoutput>; </script> </cfif> url.a is the action variable that determines if the page is for adding or editing an item. In the source code for the page, the cfoutputs work correcting (displaying the contents of the variable), but I keep getting an error about a missing semi-colon, which I don't understand. I know this is an idiots question, BUT PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks, Josh 0 Comment Question by:dh2oing • 3 • 2 8 Comments LVL 17 Expert Comment by:Tacobell777 ID: 12156560 wow wow, you are mixing JS with CF, not a good idea in this case. Try <cfparam name="form.firstName" default="" type="string" /> <cfoutput> <form method="post" action=""> <input type="text" name="firstName" value="#form.firstName#" /> </form> </cfoutput> enter some data now submit the form you'll notice that the form is populated with the entry you put in there... this is good if there was an error and you wanted to display the data to the user again so he/she can correct it. Now for the edit same page <cfquery name="qData" datasource="yourdatasource"> SELECT firstname FROM yourtable WHERE (x = y) </cfquery> <cfset form.firstname = qData.firstName /> <cfparam name="form.firstName" default="" type="string" /> <cfoutput> <form method="post" action=""> <input type="text" name="firstName" value="#form.firstName#" /> </form> </cfoutput> There is an easier way to populate the form scope again, but we'll get to that when you understand the above concept... 0 LVL 17 Accepted Solution by: Tacobell777 earned 125 total points ID: 12156571 just incase you do not care about the above solution: <cfoutput> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> document.theForm.item_id.Value = #getItemInfo.item_id#; document.theForm.Rname.Value = "#getItemInfo.item_name#"; document.theForm.Rcat_id.value = "#getItemInfo.cat_id#"; document.theForm.Rprice.value = "#getItemInfo.price#"; document.theForm.shipping.value = #getItemInfo.shipping#; document.theForm.Rdesc_shrt.value = #getItemInfo.desc_shrt#; document.theForm.Rdesc_long.value = #getItemInfo.desc_long#; document.theForm.Rpicture_sml.value = #getItemInfo.picture_sml#; document.theForm.Rpicture_lrg.value = #getItemInfo.picture_lrg#; document.theForm.isSold.value = #getItemInfo.isSold#; document.theForm.isListed.value = #getItemInfo.isListed#; document.theForm.isFeatured.value = #getItemInfo.isFeatured#; </script> </cfoutput> make sure you have a ; at the end of each statement, and use ' around string values 0 Author Comment by:dh2oing ID: 12156624 I tried the second solution, but I still get an error: Expected: ';' Line: 22 Column: 45. (that is right after the '=' on the first document.form... 0 Use Case: Protecting a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Microsoft Azure is rapidly becoming the norm in dynamic IT environments. This document describes the challenges that organizations face when protecting data in a hybrid cloud IT environment and presents a use case to demonstrate how Acronis Backup protects all data. Author Comment by:dh2oing ID: 12156634 I am still a little confused on solution one offered above, what is the concept? I understand using the cf variable and bypassing the js. Should I just use a cfswitch statement to set the cf variables to "" for a new item or the existing data for editings? 0 LVL 17 Expert Comment by:Tacobell777 ID: 12156677 Value probably needs to be lowercase the concept of the solution is, that you post a form to itself, if there are any errors the form is populated again and the user can correct, the same form can also be reused for editing records... 0 LVL 9 Assisted Solution by:digicidal digicidal earned 125 total points ID: 12186416 Why not just put the logic in your form fields value attribute? Ex. <cfif #url.a# eq "e"> <cfquery name="getItemInfo" datasource="ninaDB"> Select * From table Where item_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" maxlength="2" value="#url.i#"> </cfquery> </cfif> <cfoutput> <input type="text" size="20" name="item_id" value="<cfif IsDefined('getItemInfo.Item_id')>#getItemInfo.Item_id#</cfif>"> ... </cfoutput> That way they are blanks if not defined, and filled if they are... if you want to provide default values just make the <cfif></cfif> a <cfif><cfelse></cfif> and put the default value in the second slot. Not sure this is the best solution, but it's definitely an easy one and will eliminate the Javascript entirely. This will slightly slow the server compile of the page (but caching will solve that on 2nd load), but it will actually make it slightly faster on the client side since the javascript doesn't have to fire... also this will work on browsers that have javascript turned off as well. 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U.S. and China May Be Headed for Mini-Deal on Trade This Week WASHINGTON — The United States and China could announce a limited trade agreement this week that would prevent President Trump’s planned tariff increase from going into effect this month and set rules around how China manages its currency, according to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official who has been briefed by both negotiating teams. Top officials from the two countries are meeting again this week to try to resolve a yearlong trade war that has dragged on amid disagreements over the types of provisions any pact should include. But as the clash begins to inflict economic pain on the global economy, negotiators from both sides seem increasingly focused on reaching a mini-deal that would resolve just a portion of the trade dispute. Myron Brilliant, the executive vice president and head of international affairs at the Chamber of Commerce, told reporters on Thursday that he was “hopeful” that a limited arrangement stopping a planned tariff increase on Oct. 15 would emerge from this week’s meetings. Mr. Brilliant, who recently spoke with both negotiating teams, added that a more comprehensive pact could be announced this week but that the scope of the deal would depend on what Chinese negotiators brought to the table. The Trump administration could also contemplate removing the threat of additional tariffs that are scheduled to be imposed in December or roll back some of the tariffs it has already levied on more than $360 billion of Chinese goods based on the package of offers brought by the Chinese negotiating team, he said. Such a limited arrangement would not constitute a full resolution and is unlikely to satisfy Mr. Trump’s demands that China change many of its economic practices, such as limiting state subsidies to its firms. The deal appears likely to repackage concessions that China has made to the United States in previous months and years — including an agreement reached on currency this year, before a falling-out between the countries in May brought progress to a standstill. Still, a limited deal — which Washington officials have begun referring to as an “early harvest” or a “confidence building” measure — could lower tensions between the United States and China and help to mitigate some of the damage that tariffs and other punitive measures have begun to take on companies on both sides of the fight. Considerations of a limited deal involving currency promises were first reported by Bloomberg. Mr. Trump said on Twitter on Thursday morning that he planned to meet China’s top trade envoy, Liu He, on Friday, raising speculation that a more limited deal might be at hand. “Big day of negotiations with China,” the president wrote. “They want to make a deal, but do I? I meet with the Vice Premier tomorrow at The White House.” The trade meetings come amid a growing recognition on both sides that the bilateral relationship has been headed in a troubling direction. Trade between the United States and China has slumped, dragging on both economies. In the United States, uncertainty about the prospect for future tariffs has discouraged businesses from making new hires and investments, an unwelcome development at a time of gathering economic gloom. “We can’t afford a further escalation of the trade war that will only accelerate the chance of a recession,” Mr. Brilliant said. “I am confident the U.S. administration understands the stakes here on that front.” Administration officials have denied that they are seeking any kind of “partial” or “interim” deal. Yet people familiar with their thinking say many are open to the possibility of an arrangement that would roll back some tariffs in return for Chinese agricultural purchases, stronger protections on intellectual property or other concessions. But they caution that it is unclear whether the president will ultimately agree to such an arrangement. Mr. Trump and his advisers are wary of being criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for making a deal that is too weak and giving up the leverage Mr. Trump has created with his tariffs. Announcing some kind of package of concessions this week might pave the way for a larger trade deal when Mr. Trump is next expected to meet President Xi Jinping of China in person, in November at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Santiago, Chile, Mr. Brilliant said. Other trade experts expressed support for a positive turn in relations, regardless of what an agreement would be labeled. “On eve of China trade talks, I welcome both sides making sufficient progress to forestall future tariff hikes and even some rollbacks,” Wendy Cutler, a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute and a chief trade negotiator for the Obama administration, tweeted on Wednesday. “Some call this a partial deal — but i call it announcements of tangible progress that gives momentum to the overall talks.” It is unclear whether the provisions that might be announced this week would be new, or how much they might change China’s economic actions. In meetings in February, China and the United States agreed to avoid devaluing their currency to make their products cheaper abroad and give their exporters an advantage, Chinese officials said in March. They also agreed to continue to comply with previous currency agreements among the Group of 20 countries, and disclose detailed information in accordance with standards set by the International Monetary Fund. But this and other agreements were put off in late April, when the Chinese changed the draft trade agreement and American officials accused them of reneging on a pact that was nearly complete. Since then, relations have steadily worsened. In August, the Treasury Department formally labeled China a currency manipulator after Beijing allowed its currency to weaken — a decline that many economists said was done in line with market forces. Since then, both sides have brandished a series of carrots and sticks in an attempt to pressure each other into a favorable deal. China resumed buying American agricultural goods last month, after ceasing its purchases to put more pressure on American farmers. Chinese officials also quietly dropped earlier public demands that any deal must immediately get rid of all of Mr. Trump’s levies, paving the way for a potential interim agreement. Mr. Trump said last month that he would delay a round of tariff increases from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15. Last week, he gave a green light for his administration to issue some licenses allowing American companies to supply goods to the Chinese telecom firm Huawei, which he previously put on a blacklist barring it from buying American goods. But other interim measures have ratcheted up the tension. The Trump administration announced on Monday that it would add 28 more entities to that blacklist, including some of China’s leading artificial intelligence firms. On Tuesday, the State Department announced visa restrictions for Chinese officials accused of involvement in human rights abuses. Many uncertainties remain in the trade talks. In particular, China has appeared unwilling to make many of the more significant changes to its economy that the Trump administration has demanded, including restraining its subsidies to state-owned firms and allowing for the flow of data across its borders. Mr. Brilliant said on Thursday that China’s promises on intellectual property still revolved around “20th century” issues, like copyrights for movies and software, rather than “21st century” issues involving the use of data. He said that while there could be an announcement on intellectual property this week, it appeared that more fundamental concerns about China’s treatment of technology would not be addressed.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
User:Octopushugz/sandbox i want to explore suttie's modern relevance possible. maybe explore his contribution to the gay rights in london at the time. the gay left magazine. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-angus-suttie-1492588.html http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/suttie-angus-1946 https://libcom.org/library/gay-left-socialist-journal-produved-gay-men http://www.gayleft1970s.org/search/search.asp?zoom_and=0&zoom_cat=-1&zoom_page=1&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_query=collective&zoom_sort=1 https://news.yale.edu/2017/09/13/evolution-british-studio-pottery-explored-new-exhibit Although the thing that Suttie is mostly known for is his unique hand-built ceramics and playful aesthetic but his social work should also be of note. Suttie was one of many contributors of the London based journals know as Gay Left. These journals brought the discussion of gay social issues and oppression, and bring to the for front the modern day struggles of people in the gay community. These men and women are the reason why today were are offered the rights we enjoy. We are standing on the shoulders of giants but much is still needed to be done and we can only take men like Suttie as examples and continue that discussion of oppression and general social injustice. (erased "those" in struggle of those people) Lots of first person "we", not objective <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC) Although Suttie life ended in 1993 due to complications caused by HIV, his legacy as a potter is not forgotten. His work is still selling and being presented in art shows to this day. The most recent show "Things of Beauty Growing': British Studio Pottery" the newest exhibit at the Yale Center of British Art. The show brings together almost 150 ceramic works of art from around the world, with the goal of exploring the evolution of the ceramic vessel over the past 100 years.	WIKI
Peverell Park Peverell Park was a cricket ground in Plymouth, Devon. The ground was located close to Plymouth Argyle's home ground, Home Park. Plymouth Cricket Club initially played at Beacon Park, but by 1924 the pitches there became unavailable for cricket, necessitating the club to find a new home venue. Land was acquired from a farm and work to level and lay turf began, with this being completed in time for the 1925 season, complete a pavilion which cost £365. The ground was shortly thereafter incorporated into Central Park, with the cricket ground quickly becoming one of the most prestigious cricket venues in South West England. Devon first played minor counties cricket at Peverell Park in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. For the first eight years of its existence, the ground was known to have a seven-metre height difference sloping from one side to the other; this was addressed between the end of the 1933 season and the start of the 1934 season, when it was levelled; it was noted that the outfield was soft and slow after these works. The original pavilion was adjudged to be inadequate by 1937, with a replacement being constructed according to a design by Plymouth city architect E. G. Catchpole. This was completed at a cost of £4,000 and was opened in August 1938 by Lionel Palairet. The pavilion was only used for one year prior to the Second World War and was requisitioned during the war as a makeshift school for the next eight years. Peverell Park later hosted one List A cricket match in the 1972 Benson & Hedges Cup, when the Minor Counties South played Somerset. Somerset's Richard Cooper made 95 in a low-scoring match. Devon intermittently played minor counties cricket there until 1975, playing twenty Minor Counties Championship matches there. In the grounds later years, Plymouth Cricket Club struggled with its financial upkeep. In 1993, plans were announced to turn the ground into a wider sporting complex, followed by further plans in 1997 for the construction of a leisure centre. Neither of these came to fruition. With increasingly dilapidated facilities and the constant threat of eviction, Plymouth Cricket Club vacated Peverell Park in 2009, moving to the old United Services Ground at Mount Wise. The ground has since fallen into disrepair and the pavilion has been demolished.	WIKI
시간 제한메모리 제한제출정답맞힌 사람정답 비율 1 초 128 MB175529.412% 문제 A robot has been sent to explore a remote planet. To specify the path the robot should take, a program is sent each day. The program consists of a sequence of the following commands: • FORWARD: move forward by one unit. • TURN LEFT: turn left by 90 degrees. The robot remains at the same location. • TURN RIGHT: turn right by 90 degrees. The robot remains at the same location. The robot also has sensor units which allows it to obtain a map of its surrounding area. The map is represented as a grid of M rows and N columns. Each grid point is represented by a coordinate (r,c) where r = 0 is the north edge of the map, r = M-1 is the south edge, c = 0 is the west edge, and c = N-1 is the east edge. Some grid points contain hazards (e.g. craters) and the program must avoid these points or risk losing the robot. Naturally, if the initial location and direction of the robot and its destination position are known, we wish to send the shortest program (one consisting of the fewest commands) to move the robot to its destination (we do not care which direction it faces at the destination). You are more interested in knowing the number of different shortest programs that can move the robot to its destination, because we may need to send different sequences as interplanetary communication is not necessarily reliable. However, the number of shortest programs can be very large, so you are satisfied to compute the number as a remainder under some modulus, knowing that something you learned in classes called the Chinese remainder theorem can be used to compute the final answer. 입력 The input consists of a number of cases. The first line of each case gives three integers M, N, and the modulus m (0 < M, N <= 1000, 0 < m <= 1000000000). The next M lines contain N characters each and specify the map. A '.' indicates that the robot can move into that grid point, and a '' indicates a hazard. The final line gives four integers r1, c1, r2, c2 followed by a character d. The coordinates (r1, c1) specify the initial position of the robot, and (r2, c2) specify the destination. The character d is one of 'N', 'S', 'W', 'E' indicating the initial direction of the robot. It is assumed that the initial position and the destination are not hazards. The input is terminated when m = 0. 출력 For each case, print its case number, the modulus, as well as the remainder of the number of different programs when divided by the modulus m. The output of each case should be on a single line, in the format demonstrated below. If there is no program that can move the robot to its destination, output -1 for the number of different programs. 예제 입력 1 3 3 100 ** .. 1 0 1 2 E 4 4 100 ** .. .. ... 1 1 1 3 N 4 8 100 ***** ...... ...... ******** 1 0 1 7 E 0 0 0 예제 출력 1 Case 1: 100 -1 Case 2: 100 2 Case 3: 100 4	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
来自http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bsd.html Gentoo + BSD Note This page should be considered historical for all practical purposes. Please see the official Gentoo/BSD pages. I would really like to be able to play with OpenBSD's PF, or FreeBSD's jail, but I'm rather fond of Gentoo and portage. Right now anybody wanting to play with portage on a bsd has a lot of work to do before getting started, since we don't have stage-1 tarballs. I still don't have a stage-1, but this text and attendent files comprises a small start along the road to generating one. This guide has sections for and . Gentoo OpenBSDInstall OpenBSD The first step is to install OpenBSD. I downloaded their tiny little boot iso, burned it onto a cd, and booted from it to do an ftp install onto a spare hard drive. (A spare partition would suffice, as well, and grub will boot an OpenBSD partition just fine.) OpenBSD has two separate sources of information about how to perform an installation: the FAQ and the i386 directory. Note You can now download a modified OpenBSD-3.4 iso from my obsd directory. You can start the normal OpenBSD installer from this iso by typing "sh install" once the system has finished booting from the iso. Moreover, if you include the "site34" package during the installation you will get portage and the necessary associated tools installed for you (and you can then ignore the part of the Portage section below that talks about downloading the necessary tarball). You will still have to add the portage group and users, however, and you should probably also replace the /etc/make.profile directory with a symlink to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86obsd-1.4/. If you've never installed a BSD before, you might find the partitioning/slicing to be a bit confusing. I wouldn't recommend using a production hard drive! If you need to repartition a drive using OpenBSD's fdisk, you'll really want to do so using Cylindar/Head/Sector mode. My suggestion is, if you can't devote an entire drive to the installation and you must repartition, that you first take a look at a linux system using OpenBSD's fdisk so that you can see the pattern. In general you want a partition to end on a cylindar boundary (meaning that H and S should be their respective maximums), and you have to be careful to ensure that the partitions don't overlap (which is why it's simplest to work in C/H/S mode). Once you successfully reboot into your new OpenBSD system, you need to add a portage user and group: # groupadd -g 250 portage # useradd -g 250 -u 250 -s /sbin/nologin -d /var/empty portagePortage Since we didn't start from a stage-x tarball, we need a way to get portage onto the system. I've assembled a tarball that contains portage and necessary dependencies: python, bash, bzip2, rsync, and GNU versions of make, patch, sed, and tar (all of which have a "g" prepended so that they don't conflict with the BSD versions): # cd / # ftp http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/obsd/obsd34/gentoo-obsd34.tgz # tar xvzf gentoo-obsd.tgz At this point you should have a modestly functional portage. Let's see if it works: # emerge info # emerge sync (If "emerge sync" suggests that you need to upgrade portage, you probably don't want to do it right now. Some custom tweaks to portage were necessary, and you'll have to recreate them if you update.) You'll also want to satisfy the glibc dependency: # echo virtual/libc sys-libs/glibc >> /var/cache/edb/virtuals # emerge inject sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2 Now you can play! Dependencies are a mess, since the OpenBSD base system provides quite a bit that needs to be properly enumerated. Portage does work, however: # ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/nano/nano-1.2.1.ebuild merge # nano -w /etc/make.conf Some files can be found in my obsd directory. Gentoo FreeBSDInstalling FreeBSD The first step is to install FreeBSD. I downloaded their 5.1 disk 1 iso, burned it onto a cd, and booted from it to do a "minimal" cd install onto a spare hard drive. (A spare partition would suffice, as well, and grub will boot an FreeBSD partition just fine.) FreeBSD has adequate installation instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook. If you've never installed a BSD before, you might find the partitioning/slicing to be a bit confusing. I wouldn't recommend using a production hard drive! Fortunately, the FreeBSD fdisk and bsdlabel tools are fairly intuitive. I just used fdisk's and bsdlabel's defaults. Once you successfully reboot into your new FreeBSD system, you need to add a portage user and group: # echo 'portage:*:250:root' >> /etc/group # pw useradd portage -g 250 -u 250 -s /sbin/nologin -d /nonexistent (Thanks to Greg Lewis for the pw command above! Note, editing /etc/password will not work! See "man 5 passwd".) Notes from Timm Helbig: 1. For people with SCSI Hardware that plan to use the entire system for BSD: Turn on the "support for DOS > 1GB Disks" option. Otherwise FreeBSD will not boot after Installation. At least for my system this was true. I know that for grub, this options should be turned off. 2. An "emerge info" on FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not work. The error message is: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.3" not found. Simply add a symlink to the existent libutil.so.4, ln -s /lib/libutil.so.4 /lib/libutil.so.3, and everything is fine. 3. "emerge info" does not report the System uname. This is because /bin/uname is not available. It is installed in /usr/bin/uname. Simply add a symlink to it. But "emerge info" still does not report the correct Gentoo version and tells "glibc unavailable". Portage Since we didn't start from a stage-x tarball, we need a way to get portage onto the system. I've assembled a tarball that contains portage and necessary dependencies: python, bash, rsync, and GNU versions of make, patch, sed, and tar (all of which have a "g" prepended so that they don't conflict with the BSD versions): # cd / # ftp http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/fbsd/gentoo-fbsd.tgz # tar xvzf gentoo-fbsd.tgz At this point you should have a modestly functional portage. Let's see if it works: # emerge info # emerge sync (If "emerge sync" suggests that you need to upgrade portage, you probably don't want to do it right now. Some custom tweaks to portage were necessary, and you'll have to recreate them if you update.) You'll also want to satisfy the glibc dependency: # echo virtual/libc sys-libs/glibc >> /var/cache/edb/virtuals # emerge inject sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2 Now you can play! Dependencies are a mess, since the FreeBSD base system provides quite a bit that needs to be properly enumerated. Portage does work, however: # ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/nano/nano-1.2.1.ebuild merge # nano -w /etc/make.conf Some files can be found in my fbsd directory. The "profiles", and various portage directories come from the Gentoo-BSD team. Notes 1. There's a great deal that needs to be done before portage is fully functional on the BSDs. I modified portage.py so that it accepts {Open,Free}BSD as a supported ostype (I just copied the relevant stanza for Darwin). I also edited ebuild.sh to use some GNU tools; after the "unalias -a" line I added aliases for tar=gtar, patch=gpatch, make=gmake, and sed=gsed. These changes need to be added to portage in a much more sane way than I have done so far. 2. For the moment, we need an openbsd-sources ebuild that downloads the OpenBSD sources and provides a boatload of dependencies. (The long-term fix is to break the bsd-sources package into smaller and better controlled pieces so that users can pick-and-choose what parts of BSD and GNU userland tools and kernels that one wants to use, but one thing at a time!) There is currently a [free]bsd-sources ebuild which can be found in my fbsd directory. 3. Using GNU tools for portage is really a hack; we should be able to support BSD tools, too. Also, I've disabled sandbox because it doesn't compile on a BSD system. It shouldn't be hard to port, but the work needs to be done. For more information on proposed portage changes to better facilitate the BSDs, see the resources of the gentoo alt page. 4. We need a version of baselayout for the BSD systems. It should be possible to use the BSD init with our scripts, but I don't believe that anybody has had the time to work it out just yet. 5. A great many of our ebuilds will have to be patched to build on the BSDs. (In fact, although the portage dependencies for OpenBSD built without difficulty, both gsed and gmake required patches, liberally stolen from the FreeBSD ports tree, to compile on FreeBSD.) Have fun! -g2boojum-	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Robert Burrows (politician) Sir Robert Abraham Burrows, KBE (17 March 1884 – 14 August 1964), was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician. Background Burrows was born the son of Miles Formby Burrows, Esq., JP, Lancs. and Gertrude Dawbarn. He was educated at The Leys School, Cambridge. In 1911, he married Eleanor Doris Bainbridge, great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge. Sir Robert and Lady Burrows had two sons and two daughters. In 1937 he was awarded a knighthood in the New Year's Honours. In 1952 he was awarded a KBE in the New Year's Honours for services to the disabled. Burrows is, through his granddaughter Nikki Williams-Ellis (née Burrows), the great-grandfather of Princess Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Career Burrows was Chairman of Lancashire Associated Collieries. He was Chairman of Directors, Remploy Ltd. In July 1947, as Chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Burrows presented a display of flowers in the shape of a "large heart" at Crewe railway station as a "personal tribute" to farewell Princess Elizabeth, her fiancé Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth who were leaving for Scotland aboard the Royal Train. Through their mutual involvement in the National Association of Boys' Clubs, Burrows enjoyed "direct contact and friendship" with the Duke of York, (later George VI) who occasionally stayed with Burrows at his Bonis Hall home in Prestbury, Cheshire. Political career Burrows was Liberal candidate for the Leigh division of Lancashire at the 1923 General Election. He hoped to regain a seat lost to Labour in 1922 when his Liberal predecessor finished third. He was unsuccessful but managed to claim second place. He did not stand for parliament again. Electoral record He served as a Justice of the peace for the County of Lancaster. In 1940 he served as High Sheriff of Cheshire.	WIKI
MACS3 The MACS3 Loading Computer System is a computer controlled loading system for commercial vessels, developed by Navis Carrier & Vessel Solutions. Prior to October, 2017 it was offered by Interschalt maritime systems GmbH, and before 2007 - by Seacos Computersysteme & Software GmbH. MACS3 consists of computer hardware and a range of software, which aim to minimize the operational load while loading a vessel, and to prevent any hard limitations from being breached. Design principles The software architecture and user interface of the MACS3 Loading Computer System are designed according to the standard ISO 16155:2006 Ships and marine technology - Computer applications - Shipboard loading instruments, and to the following Rules and Recommendations: * 1) DNVGL Class Guideline DNV-CG-0053 : Approval and certification of the software of loading computer systems * 2) ABS Guidance Notes for the Application of Ergonomics to Marine Systems * 3) BV Rules for the Classification of Steel Ships, Pt C, Ch 3, Sec 3 "COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS" * 4) IACS Recommendation on Loading Instruments (No 48) * 5) IACS Unified Requirements (No E27) Cyber resilience of on-board systems and equipment Beside proprietary mxml format, MACS3 (as well as StowMAN planning tool from Navis) does support EDIFACT formats (implemented according to the Ship Message Design Group (SMDG) recommendations ) and Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) standard for Load List and Bay Plan Software structure The software of MACS3 Loading Computer System includes the MACS3 Basic Loading Program, performing functions of Categories A and B according to the ISO 16155:2006 and (optionally) a range of, performing functions of Category C: * PolarCode Basic Module * BELCO Container Management Module * DAGO Dangerous Goods Modules * StowMan Stowage Planning * SEALASH Lashing Module * MIXCARGO General Cargo Module * RoRo Module * Crane Operation Module * Bulk Carrier Modules * Tanker Modules * BallastMAN Ballast Water Exchange Module * Voyage History * DastyMAN Damage Stability * Online Program (Tanks Online) The system runs under Windows 10 Professional 64Bit. MACS3 Basic Loading Program MACS3 Basic Loading Program is designed for all ship types (containership, tanker, Bulk carrier, general cargo, RoRo, Passenger ship) in accordance with the unified IACS Requirement L5 "Onboard Computers for Stability Calculations". It is approved by all leading classification societies: LR, ABS, DNV, BV, ClassNK, KR, CCS. MACS3 Basic Loading Program performs: * Ship stability and strength calculations, covering all pertinent international regulations like e.g. IMO A.749 * Numerical and graphical results for metacentric height GM, trim, heel, draft, shear forces, bending moments and torsion * Metacentric height GM check against various approved GM requirement curves * GZ curve for dynamic stability * Automatic wind pressure calculation * Automatic ballast tank optimization * Tank plan with visual editing * Optional online measurement of tank levels and draft (sold separately) * User interface with tabbed main window for multiple views, all fully customizable * Screen and print reports in PDF, HTML and XML formats MACS3 Basic Loading Program supports client–server software architecture for distributed cargo management and allows the complete loading condition (containers, tanks, general cargo and constant items) to be stored in a single compressed mxml-file, making it very easy for you to exchange loading conditions between ship and office. BELCO Container Management Module BELCO enhances the MACS3 Basic Loading Program with easy-to-use container management features, enabling to create the valid Stowage plan for container ships. It works with high level of integration into MACS3.NET, so any changes to the container cargo are immediately reflected in the MACS3 stability and strength calculations. The results of the MACS3 and BELCO can be displayed simultaneously at any time. The MACS3 screen and print reporting in PDF, HTML and XML formats is also fully available to BELCO. Data Features: * Verified Gross Mass (VGM) functionality * Variable container sizes * Wide range of information per container: ISO 6346 (both old and new) and custom types, weight, ports of loading/discharge/final/transshipment, operator etc. * Calculation of vertical, transversal and longitudinal centre of gravity for each container * Full UN EDIFACT/BAPLIE support (BAPLIE 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and 3.1) * UN LOCODE database * Port rotation with date/time and quays Cargo Handling * Efficient pre-stowage and pre-discharge functions, bay-, row-, tier- or port-wise * Visual editing of reefer positions and hot areas * Loading/discharge list * Plan view * Fully functional layer view * Fully functional single page view * Top view with various criteria * Block shift * Multi-step Undo * Hatch-cover handling * Symbolic presentation of pier * Result table with free selection of row/column criteria, including sub-rows, sub-columns and subtotals On-the-fly and combined checks: * Visibility (IMO and Panama Canal) check with blind sectors in relation to trim/draft change * Segregation of Dangerous goods, * Restows, * Lashing forces, * Lashing inventory, * Stack weights (maximum stack weight according to the shipyard, as well as 20' stacks weights in holds according to the Classification Societies), * "Flying" containers, * Reefer plug positions, * Hatch cover clearance, * Compatibility of container types with ship design, * Load and destination locations according to the UN Locode databases and to the Port Call List, * Overdimensions, * Handling instructions and Loading Remarks (like "away from boiler", "on-deck-only"), * Container numbers, * False empties, etc. Visualization * Multiple bay views with individual settings * Visualization of hatch covers and tweendecks * About 150 different container criteria for visualization and statistics * Up to 12 information areas with text per container * Containers can be coloured by a variety of criteria, e.g. by port of discharge * Multiple colours per container * Longitudinal section and top view with tanks, holds, containers and visibility lines * Commodity list with possible restrictions * Realistic 3D view – both Helicopter and Personal (Walking) modes DAGO Dangerous Goods Modules * Checks the fulfilment of the stowage and segregation requirements imposed by the latest version of the IMDG code (DAGO Part I) * Includes a database of dangerous goods with all relevant information from the IMDG code and the Emergency Schedules (EmS) (DAGO Part I) * Unlimited number of dangerous goods both per container and per ship * Company-specific blacklists of IMDG classes and UN numbers * CFR 49, list of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) goods * Takes orientation of reefer containers into account * Fire Fighting and Safety Plan (DAGO Part II) * Medical First Aid Guide (MFAG) (DAGO Part III) StowMan Stowage Planning * Stowage planning for on board use * Import and export of container data in text files or EDIFACT / BAPLIE, export of MOVINS, COARRI, COPRAR SEALASH Lashing Module * Calculation of forces in container securing systems according to the rules of the classification societies LR, ABS, DNV, BV, ClassNK, KR, CCS. * Following lashing notations are supported: Route Specific Container Stowage (RSCS and RSCS+ for both long haul voyages and limited short voyages, taking into account the weather forecasts) of DNV; CSSA and CSSA-R for ClassNK; Voyage- and Weather-dependent Boxmax (V, W, L) notation for LR; Unrestricted and Worldwide for BV; CLP and route-specific CLP-V Notation for ABS. * Modelling of several internal and external lashing systems, checking the physical possibility to lash * Calculation of lash forces per stack, with exceeding values in red * Flying hints show exceeding lashing forces for containers * Calculation of maximum weight of an additional container * Visual lashing mode * Lashing equipment inventory * Check of available lash eyes * Main parameter table MIXSTOW 3D and Steel Coil: General Cargo, Ro/Ro and Ferry-Modules * Manages all kinds of cargo: trailers, single parts, homogeneous surface cargo * Definition of polygon shaped cargo * Visual arrangement of cargo with drag-and-drop * Automatic displaying of the documents, associated with single cargo units * Visual alignment of centres of gravity * User-extendable cargo types library (with cargo geometry definition) * Lane/SECU-Loading, Top-loading, Multi-Loading in areas, Side-View-Loading * Free rotation of cargo * Loading checks (load capacity, dangerous cargo, overlapping, hit testing) * Cutting stock optimization for available stowage area * Zooming/scrolling, meter- and frame- rulers and grids Crane Operation Module * Simulates a crane operation in single or combined mode * Visual presentation of the reach and the safe working load in a top view * Ballasting using heeling tanks in shift tanks mode * All relevant stability and strength criteria can be supervised during simulation * Logging of crane motion and results Bulk Carrier Modules * Bulk strength for calculation of longitudinal strength in flooded condition according to IACS rule 17 * BULKLIM checks load limitations depending on the structure of the double bottom given by the class * LoadMan for optimization of cargo in holds and loading / discharging sequences * Grain Program for calculation of grain stability and reports, e.g. according to the National Cargo Bureau (United States of America) Tanker Modules * Proven Ullage Report including ASTM table based volume correction * Vessel experience factor and cargo history * Dangerous goods data base (IBC, CHRIS Code) printout of substance information page, cargo segregation and compatibility check * MFAG code and EMS integration, emergency simulation and easy links to the information relevant for the actual loaded cargo BallastMAN Ballast Water Exchange Module * BallastMAN manages a ship's ballast water exchange on the high seas in accordance with IMO Resolution A.868 (20). * Sequences of tank emptying and filling can be completely planned and executed, thus making sure that the exchange is carried out both safely and efficiently. During Planning Stage BallastMAN determines the fastest and safest sequence, continually calculating stability and longitudinal strength. During Execution Stage BallastMAN monitors the tank levels online, issues instructions when to operate pumps and valves and warns if a crucial deviation from the plan is detected. * BallastMAN creates the Ballast Water Reporting Form required by U.S. Coast Guard / NBIC, AQIS and New Zealand Voyage History * Pre-calculates the changes in stability during a voyage resulting from the consumption of bunker * Graphical and numerical history and reports DastyMAN Damage Stability Calculation * Deterministic damage stability calculation using the lost buoyancy method * Required damage conditions as laid down by the classification society are calculated automatically when cargo or bunker has been changed * The calculation results are checked against the appropriate IMO criteria, e.g. IBC-code, SOLAS Online Program * HSMS (Hull Stress Monitoring System) interface * Interfaces to a wide range of tank automation systems * Recurring automatic update of loading condition by the current tank readings * Each tank may be switched online or offline individually Market Penetration The onboard loading computer MACS3 is being used in a wide range of container vessels, multipurpose vessels, bulk carriers, tanker vessels, roro vessels and passenger vessels. Its ship library includes more than 7,500 ship profiles. For the container vessel segment, MACS3 holds a share of approximately 65%. The MACS3 loading computer software has been in use for training purposes since 1999. Initially only available to Germany naval schools, it is now also deployed at European and Chinese maritime universities.	WIKI
Ampeloglypter ampelopsis Ampeloglypter ampelopsis, the grape cane girdler, is a species of flower weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae.	WIKI
Clearing Autocomplete value when restrict=False Hi, I recently stumbled on the restict option of Autocomplete. I desire to utilize this to allow users to add regular expressions to match numerous items at once. After they enter their selection, I desire for the autocomplete object value to be an empty string. If, in a python callback, I set the value of the Autocomplete instance to an empty string, I’ll envoke the callback. To avoid this, I remove the callback, clear the string, then add the call back back again. (is there a better way to do this in general?) The problem, when I set restrict=False on the auto-complete object and I select a completion (rather than un-restricted text), the callback is called twice even though at the time of clearing the ‘value’ there are no callbacks on the object. This only happens when: • restrict=False • my option is in the completion list Here is a bokeh server example that illustrates this: from bokeh.plotting import figure, curdoc from bokeh.layouts import layout from bokeh.models import AutocompleteInput def add_cb(obj): def hello(attr,old,new): print('hello', attr, old, new) obj.remove_on_change('value',this_function) obj.value='' obj.on_change('value',this_function) pass this_function=hello obj.on_change('value',hello) completions=['Apple','Pear','Banana',''] a=AutocompleteInput(title='Restricted',completions=completions,restrict=True) b=AutocompleteInput(title='UnRestricted',completions=completions,restrict=False) add_cb(a) add_cb(b) l=layout([a,b]) curdoc().add_root(l) If you type “Dog”, for example, in the ‘Unrestricted’ Autocomplete box, the call back is performed once: hello value Dog If you type “Apple”, however, in the ‘Unrestricted’ Autocomplete box, the call back is perfomed twice: hello value Apple hello value Apple Typing Apple in the ‘Restricted’ callback works as expected. Ultimate desire, clear the contents of the autocomplete object without invoking the second call back --which in my cases toggles the selected value off. Thanks, I have to confess the code above does not make sense to me. In the callback for obj you are setting its own value, and this is genarally not a thing to do. I think you mean to clear the other callback? But if so, I think you are actually over-complicating things by making this “callback factory” function add_cb. I would just make two separate callback functions that do whatever they need to do (e.g. if they fire with an empty value, just return early or whatever is appropriate… that is also IMO simpler than temp adding/removing callbacks). Also I cannot reproduce what you are seeing with latest Bokeh 2.4. Are you using an older version? You should always always include version information in any support question about any piece of software. Hi Bryan, Thanks for the quick response. What I truly want: • User inputs value • Server processes value • Autocomplete value is now empty and ready for the user to add another value, otherwise they need to clear out the value. So what is the best way to clear the value of the Autocomplete object? Justin On Bokeh 2.4 your code above does exactly that as far as I can tell. If you are using an older version, then the solution is to upgrade. As for the approach, personally I would probably just check and return early for an empty string at the top of the callback, rather than bothering with the temporary add/remove. Hi Bryan, I’ve updated to Bokeh 2.4.0, but still see the issue. I’ve re-written the code to try and be explicit with what my observation is, while also taking your suggestion to bail out when there is an empty string: from bokeh.plotting import figure, curdoc from bokeh.layouts import layout,column from bokeh.models import AutocompleteInput,Div def add_cb(obj): def hello(attr,old,new): if new=='': return print('Calling cb on {name} with attr={attr}; old={old}; new={new}'.format(name=obj.name,attr=attr,old=old, new=new)) obj.update(value='') div.text=log() pass obj.name=obj.title obj.on_change('value',hello) pass from io import StringIO import sys stdout=StringIO() #comment this line to see standard log sys.stdout=stdout def log(): return """<h2>My Log File</h2> <pre> {} </pre>""".format(stdout.getvalue()) def standard_hello(attr,old,new): print('standard_hello',attr,old,new) div.text=log() pass completions=['Apple','Pear','Banana'] div=Div(text=log(),width=400,name='my_div') a=AutocompleteInput(title='Restricted',completions=completions,restrict=True,placeholder='Type Apple, see one log message') b=AutocompleteInput(title='UnRestricted',completions=completions,restrict=False,placeholder='Type Apple, see two log messages') c=AutocompleteInput(title='Standard',completions=completions,restrict=True,placeholder='Backspace to clear last selected value') add_cb(a) add_cb(b) c.on_change('value',standard_hello) l=layout(column([a,b,c]),column(div)) curdoc().add_root(l) • create Autocomplete instance with restrict=False • clear the value at end of callback so user does not have to do that themselves • while app is running type in a valid completion • observe the call back get invoked twice with the completion value • in my case 4 times since I get the callback when clearing the value. The way I use bokeh widgets is to artificially give them a state. So I track all selected values that an object has. If a user wants to de-select an item, they simply type it in and I note that they no longer want to see ‘Apples’. So when it gets called twice, I can never properly capture any values. (I am aware of Multichoice and will probably utilize it more in the future.) Justin Hi Bryan, I am able to get desirable behavior by modifying this js line: if (!this.model.restrict) { to else if (!this.model.restrict) { So If I am not mistaken, then there is no need to change_input if the first condition succeeds, that is I although restrict is False, I still selected an item in my completions list. If you agree, I can submit a bug report and or change request. Thanks, Justin Let’s start with an issue. I think if possible it will be a clearer demonstration if the example is pared down to just the one widget with restrict=True and a simple non-closure callback. Sure, but you mean restrict=False? That is where I have the issue. Yes, apologies, I just mean in general that an MRE should only contain the broken case (whatever that is) Issue created: Perhaps my use case is unique, however, I think my proposed fix is an overall improvement. Thanks, This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
The tag has no wiki summary. learn more… \| top users \| synonyms 0 votes 1answer 20 views Refactoring closures/anonymous functions in PHP Is it possible to refactor the anonymous function out of code like this: function foo($path, $callback) { $callback(); } $app = array('a', 'b', 'c'); foo('vehicle/:id', function() use ($app) { ... 1 vote 1answer 105 views Validate field based on another field using additional database I have a simple form, which contains two fields, the first field is just a select and the second field contains a value, which needs to be checked with the help of the first field. I have found a ... 2 votes 1answer 54 views Is there a good reason to use a closure instead of a for loop in this case? I'm using Laravel 4; the models in question extend Eloquent. I've got a relationship between two models, listing and photo. I'm compiling a collection of listings that do not have any corresponding ... 3 votes 1answer 493 views Factory classes vs closures in Zend Framework 2 Is it better to use factory classes or closures in Zend Framework 2, and why? I know that closures cannot be serialized, but if you return them from Module#getServiceConfig(), this will not affect ... 1 vote 1answer 102 views Refactoring comparision/operators blocks to DRY up and reduce C.R.A.P level I set out to make a small project around a bounch of classes that return generators (php 5.5). The main motivation for the small project was to expand on my TDD journey, fiddle with generators and ... 0 votes 1answer 588 views Parallel cURL Request with WRITEFUNCTION Callback I'm trying to limit my cURL responses as suggested in these posts:Retrieve partial web page and PHP CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION doesn't appear to be working. The idea is to limit the response to 4000 ... 2 votes 1answer 242 views No closure support in PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 I just realised that a bit of PHP doesn't execute correctly on one server, but it does on another. They're both running Ubuntu 10.04 with PHP PHP 5.3.2 (PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) ... 1 vote 2answers 497 views Do PHP closures not have access to parnt function parameters? I've been writing some code for PHP 5.3, and I wanted to do something similar to the code I'm showing below. I expect this code to print 'hellohello', but it prints 'hello' instead, and an error. It ...	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
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Tudor Ciuhodaru Tudor Ciuhodaru is a Romanian medical doctor and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party since 2019. Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present In parliament, Ciuhodaru has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (since 2019) and the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (since 2022). He was previously a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2019–2020) and the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (2020–2022). In addition to his committee assignments, Ciuhodaru has been part of the parliament's delegation for relations with India. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).	WIKI
freeswitch/libs/xmlrpc-c/unix-common.mk 83 lines 2.8 KiB Makefile # --makefile-- <-- an Emacs control # The including make file must define these make variables: # # SHARED_LIBS_TO_BUILD: List of the shared libraries that need to be # built -- just the basic library names. E.g. "libfoo libbar" # # SHARED_LIBS_TO_INSTALL: List of the shared libraries that need to be # installed -- just the basic library names. E.g. "libfoo libbar" # # SHLIB_SUFFIX: Shared library filename suffix, e.g. "so". # # MAJ: Library major version number, e.g. "3" in file name "libfoo.3.1" # # MIN: Library minor version number, e.g. "1" in file name "libfoo.3.1" # # LDFLAGS_SHLIB: linker (Ld) flags needed to link object files together into # a shared library. May use $(SONAME) for the soname of the library. # Include -lc if appropriate. # # LADD: Additional linker flags (normally set on the make command line). # # INSTALL_DATA: beginning of shell command to install a library file. # # DESTDIR: main installation directory # # LIBINST_DIR: directory in which to install libraries, relative to DESTDIR. # # LN_S: beginning of shell command to make symbolic link (e.g. "ln -s"). # # CXXLD: beginning of shell command to link, e.g. "g++". # This make file defines these make variables that the including make file # can use: # # SHLIB_CMD: a command to build a shared library for C linkage # You can use this in a rule to build a shared library # SHLIBPP_CMD: Same, but for C++ linkage # Including make file must contain a rule to build each library file # (e.g. libfoo.3.1) # This make file provides these rules: # # install-shared-libraries: install all shared libraries and the necessary # symbolic links. # SONAME is to be referenced by $(LDFLAGS_SHLIB) in the rule to make # a shared library (in common.mk). I.e. $@ is the name of the shared # library file. # SONAME is the name of the library file being built, with the minor # version number cut off. E.g. if we're building libfoo.so.1.2, SONAME # is libfoo.so.1 . SONAME = $(@:%.$(MIN)=%) SHLIB_CMD = $(CCLD) $(LADD) $(LDFLAGS_SHLIB) -o $@ $^ SHLIB_LE_TARGETS = $(call shliblefn, $(SHARED_LIBS_TO_BUILD)) $(SHLIB_LE_TARGETS):%:%.$(MAJ).$(MIN) rm -f $@ $(LN_S) $< $@ .PHONY: $(SHLIB_INSTALL_TARGETS) .PHONY: install-shared-libraries SHLIB_INSTALL_TARGETS = $(SHARED_LIBS_TO_INSTALL:%=%/install) #SHLIB_INSTALL_TARGETS is like "libfoo/install libbar/install" install-shared-libraries: $(SHLIB_INSTALL_TARGETS) $(SHLIB_INSTALL_TARGETS):%/install:%.$(SHLIB_SUFFIX).$(MAJ).$(MIN) # $< is a library file name, e.g. libfoo.so.3.1 . $(INSTALL_SHLIB) $< $(DESTDIR)$(LIBINST_DIR)/$< cd $(DESTDIR)$(LIBINST_DIR); \ rm -f $(<:%.$(MIN)=%); \ $(LN_S) $< $(<:%.$(MIN)=%) cd $(DESTDIR)$(LIBINST_DIR); \ rm -f $(<:%.$(MAJ).$(MIN)=%); \ $(LN_S) $(<:%.$(MIN)=%) $(<:%.$(MAJ).$(MIN)=%)	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Common health issue What Causes Pink Eye In Adults? Home Remedies For Pink Eye. pink eye Pink Eye ( Conjunctivitis) Pink eye is a usually occurring eye infection in children as well as adults which is caused by the allergens and irritants that are bacteria and viruses. A virus such as a coronavirus causes the common cold and COVID-19. Its treatment depends on the specific causes and also includes the ye drop, ointments, pills, water flushes, and also comfort care. Pink eye is redness or the inflammation of the conductive, the clear tissue that lines the inside surface of your eyelid and also the outer coating of your eye. It helps to keep your eyelid and eyeball moist. Pink eye can occur in one or both sides of the eyes. Pink eye that occurs in both eyes is usually caused by a virus. What Causes Pink Eye In Adults? The pink color of the eye happens when the blood vessels in the membrane covering your eye become inflamed by making them visible. The cause of inflammation are: 1) Viruses Viruses are the most common cause of pink eye or conjunctivitides such as the common cold or COVID-19 are among the viruses that can cause pink eye. 2) Bacteria It is also the common type of bacteria that causes bacterial conjunctivitis which includes staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenza, Streptococcus pneumonia, and also the Pseudomonas aeruginous. 3) Allergens that include molds, pollens, or other substances that cause allergies. 4) Irritating substances such as shampoos, cosmetics, contact lenses, dirt, smoke, and poor chlorine. 5) Sexually transmitted infections could be caused by viruses or bacteria. 6) Foreign bodies in the eye. 7) Blocked or incomplete opening of tear ducts in the babies. Home Remedies For Pink Eye? Pinkeye, which medical term known as conjunctivitis usually resolves within 2 weeks without any kind of treatment. In the meantime, home remedies may relieve inflammation, redness, and also itchiness. Some of the home remedies for pink eye include; 1) Use A Cold Compress Pink eye causes inflammation around the eye that can be irritating and also painful. Using cool and damp compress aid in reducing inflammation and soothe the eye. How to use a compress: • Soak a clean washcloth in warm or also in cool water. • Wring out water • Place the damp washcloth over the eye and leave it for few minutes. • Remove the washcloth from the eye and also wash your hand immediately People should reuse the washcloths before laundering them in hot water as this can spread the infection. 2) Damp Cloth Clean People who have bacterial pink eye color feel a thick discharge, pus that is leaking from the eye which is affecting. Pus dries quickly, forming a crust with the edges of the eyelids in which the people have difficulty opening their eyes, especially in the morning after the pus has had time to sit and harden overnight. Use a warm, damp cloth to remove pus around the eye as well as in lashes. 3) Eye Drops Lubricating eye drops or natural tears can soothe burning as well as irritation of the eye. Eye drops can also help to reduce the symptoms of any kind of pinkeye in which aid to flush out the allergens, irritants, and discharge. 4) Pin Relieving Medications Some over-the-counter medications can help to reduce the symptoms of pink eye. NSAIDs such as ibuprofen can help with pain relief as well as inflammation. Allergy medication can also relieve the symptoms of pinkeye if the cause is allergy. These medications include : • antihistamine tablets • mast cell stabilizers • topical eye drops containing antihistamines 5) Avoid Touching The Eye Touching or rubbing the eye can make the symptoms of pinkeye worse which can also mean it takes longer to clear up. If a person needs to touch their eyes, they can touch them by washing their hands thoroughly both before and afterward. Some types of pink eye are contagious, so to avoid transmitting the condition to others and also to avoid reinfection, a person should use new towels each day and change pillowcase and sheets frequently. Avoid wearing contact lenses until the symptoms have gone away in order to prevent further irritation. Treating Different Types of Pink Eye Doctors often prescribe antibiotics in order to treat pink eye whereas the antibiotic will only help with the pink eye that is caused by the bacteria and will not treat pinkeye if it is caused by virus or allergy.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Showing posts with label Selection Sort Algorithm. Show all posts Showing posts with label Selection Sort Algorithm. Show all posts Thursday, May 7, 2020 Selection sort algorithm And Its Examples This Chapter will help to learn about Selection sort algorithm And Its Examples inmany languages like python, c, Java. Selection sort algorithm And Its Examples Selection sort algorithm And Its Examples Selection sort algorithm न्यूनतम या अधिकतम Element को अनसोल्ड Array में खोजने और फिर Sort किए गए एरे में अपनी सही स्थिति में रखने के विचार पर आधारित है। Let Assume An array A[7,5,4,2] Ascending order में क्रमबद्ध करने की आवश्यकता है। सरणी में न्यूनतम Element अर्थात् 2 के लिए खोज की जाती है और फिर उस Element से बदली जाती है जो वर्तमान में पहली स्थिति में स्थित है, अर्थात 7 अब remaining unsorted array में न्यूनतम तत्व को दूसरे स्थान पर खोजा जाता है, और इसी तरह आगे भी। Steps For Selection sort algorithm void selection_sort (int A[ ], int n) { // temporary variable to store the position of minimum element int minimum; // reduces the effective size of the array by one in each iteration. for(int i = 0; i < n-1 ; i++) { // assuming the first element to be the minimum of the unsorted array . minimum = i ; // gives the effective size of the unsorted array . for(int j = i+1; j < n ; j++ ) { if(A[ j ] < A[ minimum ]) { //finds the minimum element minimum = j ; } } // putting minimum element on its proper position. swap ( A[ minimum ], A[ i ]) ; } } At ith iteration, elements from position 0 to i-1 will be sorted. "Selection sort algorithm" "Selection sort algorithm" Time Complexity For Selection sort algorithm element from the array N से न्यूनतम तत्व को खोजने के लिए,N-1 तुलना की आवश्यकता होती है। न्यूनतम तत्व को उसकी उचित स्थिति में रखने के बाद, एक Unsorted Array का आकार N-1 कम हो जाता है और फिर N-2 Unsorted Array में न्यूनतम खोजने के लिए तुलना की आवश्यकता होती है। Therefor (N-1)+(N-2)+.........+1 = (N.(N-1))/2 comparisons and N swaps result in the overall O(N^2) complexity of . • Selection Sort Program In C ++ // C++ program for implementation of selection sort #include using namespace std; void swap(int xp, int yp) { int temp = xp; xp = yp; yp = temp; } void selectionSort(int arr[], int n) { int i, j, min_idx; // One by one move boundary of unsorted subarray for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++) { // Find the minimum element in unsorted array min_idx = i; for (j = i+1; j < n; j++) if (arr[j] < arr[min_idx]) min_idx = j; // Swap the found minimum element with the first element swap(&arr[min_idx], &arr[i]); } } /* Function to print an array / void printArray(int arr[], int size) { int i; for (i=0; i < size; i++) cout << arr[i] << " "; cout << endl; } // Driver program to test above functions int main() { int arr[] = {64, 25, 12, 22, 11}; int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); selectionSort(arr, n); cout << "Sorted array: \n"; printArray(arr, n); return 0; } • Selection Sort Program In Python # Python program for implementation of Selection # Sort import sys A = [64, 25, 12, 22, 11] # Traverse through all array elements for i in range(len(A)): # Find the minimum element in remaining # unsorted array min_idx = i for j in range(i+1, len(A)): if A[min_idx] > A[j]: min_idx = j # Swap the found minimum element with # the first element A[i], A[min_idx] = A[min_idx], A[i] # Driver code to test above print ("Sorted array") for i in range(len(A)): print("%d" %A[i]), • Selection Sort Program In C // C program for implementation of selection sort #include void swap(int xp, int yp) { int temp = xp; xp = yp; yp = temp; } void selectionSort(int arr[], int n) { int i, j, min_idx; // One by one move boundary of unsorted subarray for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++) { // Find the minimum element in unsorted array min_idx = i; for (j = i+1; j < n; j++) if (arr[j] < arr[min_idx]) min_idx = j; // Swap the found minimum element with the first element swap(&arr[min_idx], &arr[i]); } } / Function to print an array */ void printArray(int arr[], int size) { int i; for (i=0; i < size; i++) printf("%d ", arr[i]); printf("\n"); } // Driver program to test above functions int main() { int arr[] = {64, 25, 12, 22, 11}; int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); selectionSort(arr, n); printf("Sorted array: \n"); printArray(arr, n); return 0; } • Selection Sort Program In Java class SelectionSort { void sort(int arr[]) { int n = arr.length; // One by one move boundary of unsorted subarray for (int i = 0; i < n-1; i++) { // Find the minimum element in unsorted array int min_idx = i; for (int j = i+1; j < n; j++) if (arr[j] < arr[min_idx]) min_idx = j; // Swap the found minimum element with the first // element int temp = arr[min_idx]; arr[min_idx] = arr[i]; arr[i] = temp; } } // Prints the array void printArray(int arr[]) { int n = arr.length; for (int i=0; i<n; ++i) System.out.print(arr[i]+" "); System.out.println(); } // Driver code to test above public static void main(String args[]) { SelectionSort ob = new SelectionSort(); int arr[] = {64,25,12,22,11}; ob.sort(arr); System.out.println("Sorted array"); ob.printArray(arr); } } Sorting Algorithm : - Bubble Sort Algorithm And sorting program in different language bucket sort Algorithm In Hindi And Its Examples Counting sort Algorithm in hindi and Its Example Heap Sort Algorithm In Hindi and its examples Insertion sort Algorithm And Its Examples Merge Sort Algorithm In HIndi And Its Examples Quick Sort Algorithm And Its Examples in hindi	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Page:Jardine Naturalist's library Entomology.djvu/184 178 of the Coleoptera destitute of abdominal ganglia; 1, 1, lobes of the anterior or cerebral ganglion; a, a, optic nerves; b, b, eyes: 2, posterior cephalic ganglion; 3, prothoracic ganglion, emitting two pair of nerves on each side, 3′; 4, mesothoracic ganglion, sending off two pair of nerves, one, 4′, for the wings, the other, 4′′, for the middle legs; 5, metathoracic ganglion furnishing four pair of nerves, the anterior, 5′, for the hinder legs, the others, 5′′, for the first segments of the abdomen; 6, ganglion representing the ordinary abdominal series; besides the two medullary cords, 6′ 6′, which run in a straight line to the extremity of the body, it sends out on each side five pair, 6′′, distributed among the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth abdominal segments; d, d, mandibular nerves; e, e, nerves of the antennæ. Fig. 2, nervous system of the caterpillar of Sphinx Ligustri, a few days before becoming a chrysalis. 1, cerebral ganglion, 2, posterior do., 3, 4, 5, 6, thoracic ganglia, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, abdominal ganglia, o, o, o, system of transverse nerves, more distinctly seen in fig. 3, in which 3, 4, 5, represent the three thoracic ganglia, a, a, central nervous filet, b, b, b, b, nerves furnished by this filet, c, c, c, c, nervous threads separating from the preceding nerves, and which, by uniting when they reach the ganglion, constitute the central thread. Fig. 4 is a delineation of the nervous system in the chrysalis of Sphinx Ligustri, thirty days after its change, showing the much greater state of concentration it has already attained. The posterior	WIKI
5 Replies Latest reply on Mar 28, 2010 2:25 PM by waterdad568 How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k graphictank2010 Level 1 Hi im trying to compress my swf file to 50k from 350k does anyone know how to do it, ive tried exporting the file as a movie then importing it as a video into a new file, im lost please help • 1. Re: How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k Harry Kunz Level 4 Have you tried reducing the JPEG quality in the publish settings and clicking the "compress" option. • 2. Re: How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k Ned Murphy Adobe Community Professional & MVP I doubt you'll be able to compress it much without removing content that you can load dynamically. If you search Google using "Flash compress swf" you'll find some info, including a resource that says it can compress an swf up to 70%, but that is still not going to get you your 50K. • 3. Re: How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k ramion1313 Level 1 It would be good to know what elements you're using in your movie and how you animate them : Vector images, bitmaps, sounds, motion tweens, shape tweens, stop frame etc ? Oh and also what Flash version you're using and what version of the flash player you're going to export in because the performances are different too! Here are some tips for inside your movie: - as earlier said, you can set up the compression level for the bitmaps within Flash. If you can compress all your images with a proper bitmap software like Photoshop before you import them into Flash it's even better - if you are using vector images, try to reduce the number of their points using the "smooth" tool (at the buttom of the tool panel once the black arrow is selected) - regarding animations, motion and shape tweens are less "heavy" because they require less keyframes. If you can remove some keyframes and simplify your animation, that would obviously help - use symbols. If you have the same object repeated several times, convert it into a symbol so that you are in fact using instances/duplications of the same symbol. - not sure if you have sounds but if you do, you can also try to change the export settings for them they are probably other things but these ones are the ones I remember off the top of my head! Good luck • 4. Re: How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k graphictank2010 Level 1 Hi i done my artwork in photoshop and saved as a web resolution 72dpi, the stage is only 160 x 620pixels then i have a few layers with timelines only lasting for about 10seconds, space invaders flying behind text, no sound or music i tried exporting as a movie and then importing the movie into a new flash stage and then resave it which it did bring down to 52k but they cant see it when they load it onto there website, im just lost dont know how to compress it. • 5. Re: How do i compress my swf file from 350k to 50k waterdad568 Level 3 Dpi is for printing, try optimizing your images to smallest visually acceptable kb size before importing into Flash. http://webopt.com/ or similar. I believe Photoshop also has a native image opitmizer. I hear not as good as the above though, or other third party image optimizers.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Net Service Names and the tnsnames.ora File The installation process creates a tnsnames.ora file on each node. This file acts as a repository of net service names. Each net service name is associated with a connect identifier. A connect identifier is an identifier that maps a user-defined name to a connect descriptor. A connect descriptor contains the following information: • The network route to the service, including the location of the listener through a protocol address • The SERVICE_NAME parameter, with the value set to the name of a database service Note: The SERVICE_NAME parameter that you use in the tnsnames.ora file is singular, because you can specify only one service name. The SERVICE_NAME parameter is not the same as the service_names database initialization parameter. The service_names database parameter defaults to the global database name, a name comprising the db_name and db_domain parameters in the initialization parameter file. When you add service names using SRVCTL or Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, it lists additional cluster-managed services for the database. The tnsnames.ora file is located in both the Grid_home/network/admin and Oracle_home/network/admin directories. By default, the tnsnames.ora file is read from the Grid home when Oracle Grid Infrastructure is installed. With Oracle Clusterware 11g Release 2 and later, the listener association no longer requires tnsnames.ora file entries. The listener associations are configured as follows: • DBCA no longer sets the LOCAL_LISTENER parameter. The Oracle Clusterware agent that starts the database sets the LOCAL_LISTENER parameter dynamically, and it sets it to the actual value, not an alias. So listener_alias entries are no longer needed in the tnsnames.ora file. • The REMOTE_LISTENER parameter is configured by DBCA to reference the SCAN and SCAN port, without any need for a tnsnames.ora entry. Oracle Clusterware uses the Easy Connect naming method with scanname:scanport, so no listener associations for the REMOTE_LISTENER parameter are needed in the tnsnames.ora file. For example, after you create the database, to add a second listener, listening on port 2012, use a command similar to the following command to have the database register with both listeners on startup: SQL> alter system set local_listener='(DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.0.61)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.0.61)(PORT=2012))))' scope=BOTH SID='OCRL1'; See Also:	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
The individual armies were nowhere near as strong as the Bolsheviks united army and therefore, in battles the whites would always loose. The Peasants believed that if the whites did take over then they would not do a very good job. They believed that the whites would take away the land that they gained in 1917 and so they would not give the Whites any support. Without this In the military, if one member of a group fails or does not follow the Mongols rules for their soldiers, the whole group is executed (Doc. 2). All in all the Mongols are veracious killers that have no remorse for what they do. Finally, Mongols wanted to People who expressed negative thoughts about Peter's decisions were often executed before they had a chance to gain followers and rebel against the Tsar. The Streltsy, bushy musketeers and pike men, Russia's first professional soldiers, were often found at the receiving end of harsh sentences. Peter the Great was bad in that he was very cruel to the people of Russia. He heavily taxed everyone, so the serfs had to pay taxes for themselves and their owners. In His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia. * I believe the event that actually triggered the revolt was the battle of Poitiers and Crecy. The peasants resented the noble’s failure to use them in the fight against the enemy and felt less fear of them as the knights lost prestige in the defeats. That is when all that anger from being demoted every time really built up and shot The other people were middle class people, who were more educated and wealthier than the worker class, but still minor against the tsar. Nicholas II wasn’t a good ruler: he avoided important decisions, neglected the importance of the policy and suppressed any resistance. He tried to crush any fears of a revolution by entering a war and consequently uniting his country, but his war tactics weren’t glorious. Russia’s people, the ones who accepted the life for many years, started to stir up, for example workers were striking, but their actions were brutally wiped out. As long as the tsar had his army he was unconquerable. The first reason was that the Whites were disunited. They were a coalition of different enemies of the Bolsheviks (Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, Tsarists, army officers angry at Brest Litovsk, and nobles whose land had been given to the peasants). In fact, all these different groups hated each other! They were disunited and their armies were thousands of miles apart – Generals Yudenich and Deniken attacked Russia from the west, Admiral Kolchak from the east. This meant that Trotsky could co-ordinate his forces much better, and fight his enemies one at a time. The war was a large mistake for the Tsar. Although Russia obtained some successes at the beginning, they were facing one of the most advanced military powers in the world and were being led by incompetent Generals as well as being badly equipped Nicholas II made a grave error, when he fired the military commander and took command of the army. This was a mistake in the fact that he had no military experience whatsoever and from then on, the Tsar was seen as responsible for every failure and defeat that Russia suffered. It saw the loss of 200,000 men and around 15 million peasants were enrolled in the army from the farms. This would lead to the army losing their faith in the Tsar which was extremely vital, for as long as the army remained loyal to the him, they were able to put down any threat of revolution however, the poor conditions eventually led to them refusing to fire upon rioters. As it was them who started the protest which turned into a revolution and also they were the ones behind the mutiny of the troops. However, the military was having many problems such as the war was going horribly wrong with many casualties, poor commanding from officers and limited military resources and equipment. The peasants were doing the fighting and the dying. So this could be a small contributing factor to the fall of the Romanov's on several different reasons. Firstly the tsar did not help the peasants personally, but instead leave the burden to the prime ministers when they cannot rule like a democracy today. The main reasons for why the Reds won the Civil War the geographical factors affecting the war, support for the Bolsheviks and the Red Army and crucially were the leadership of Trotsky. The first reason why the Reds were able to win the Russian Civil War was down to the superior leadership skills of Trotsky compared to the Whites. Using strategic propaganda tactics and superb military leadership, he commanded the Red Army into victory. The first reason why the Reds had such a better leader was the way he chose and commanded his army. This was firstly by very strict military discipline.	FINEWEB-EDU
"I know how to program, but I don't know what to program" There is a recurring theme I see with novice developers. They've put in their time to learn the basics of a programming language or two and they feel pretty comfortable doing programming exercises, but they don't know how to apply what they've learned. It usually comes in a phrase similar to "I know how to program, but I don't know what to program." The responses are typically "do programming challenges", "contribute to an open source project", or "make a game." Binaural Beats with Java Learn how to generate binaural beats using Java. A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves are heard dichotically, that is one through each ear. For example, if you wear a pair of headphones and one side is playing a 440Hz tone and the other side is playing a 450Hz tone you will actually hear a third tone that is the difference of the two frequencies. Your brain will interpret the difference between 440Hz and 450Hz and you will hear a third tone of 10Hz. Desktop Notifications in Python with Libnotify Libnotify is part of the Gnome project and built on top of the Gnome library. Python has bindings to Gnome and we will take advantage of them to create desktop notifications. We can set the text, images, urgency, and create custom buttons in our notifications. Libnotify is a small and simple library and is a good place to start if you have never done any Gnome/Gtk programming. These examples will walk through all the options available.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Damien Chazelle Shoot for the Moon It was the story of any given afternoon in Hollywood: a pair of experienced producers meets a sizzling young director over a concertedly casual lunch. The producers, emissaries from a major studio, initiate ritual courtship — brandishing the keys to a virtual village of filmable, prefab intellectual property. The director need only take his pick from the lot. It was 2014, and the director, Damien Chazelle, had recently debuted his second film, “Whiplash,” which was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three. He listened politely as the producers, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner, eventually pitched what would become his unlikely new film — “First Man,” an adaptation of James R. Hansen’s definitive 2005 Neil Armstrong biography of the same name. Mr. Chazelle was initially skeptical; previous efforts to bring the first man on the moon to the multiplex had sputtered over the years, and the director hadn’t thought much about the pioneering American astronaut since elementary school. But the idea planted a seed in the back of his mind. Its fruit, starring Ryan Gosling (reuniting with Mr. Chazelle after “La La Land”) and Claire Foy (“The Crown”) as Mr. and Mrs. Moon Landing, will debut Oct. 12. The three are in some ways a crew of misfits. For one thing, neither Mr. Gosling nor Ms. Foy was actually born in the land of liberty (he’s Canadian, she’s British). And Mr. Chazelle’s earlier films have earned him a reputation as a spirited decoder of compulsive artistic genius, not as a caretaker of national mythology. But “First Man,” a meditation on collective ambition and individual sacrifice, has more in common with that early work than one might expect. “Although it’s very different from an artistic achievement, I think the moon landing, for me, has a similar effect, because it’s such a poetic, symbolic moment that we all get to experience,” Mr. Chazelle said, joined by Mr. Gosling and Ms. Foy for a phone interview last month. “But, of course, the reality is we’re not fully experiencing it — the ways in which so much failure and cost had to precede that success story, the darker underbelly of the mythology,” he continued. “And I think it was learning about that stuff that actually gave me a fuller appreciation of just how insanely brave and courageous they all were.” Here are edited excerpts from the conversation: Damien, I have to ask: Why outsource these jobs to a Canadian and a Brit? [Laughter] DAMIEN CHAZELLE Wait, they’re Canadian and British?! [More laughter.] The short answer is, for reasons that are hard to describe, there almost never was a moment where I didn’t see Ryan in this role. When I met with him about it, that was actually our first time meeting — we hadn’t worked on “La La Land” yet. But all during “La La Land,” Neil, and Ryan as Neil, were in the back of my mind. With Claire, it was really hard for me to figure out who could do [Mr. Armstrong’s first wife, Janet] justice. It’s so specific, especially if you look at the archival footage, the little bits of interviews of her. So I never would have expected that a British person would have been the one to do the role. But I was a big fan of Claire’s from “The Crown” and I [met with her and saw] her do her interpretation of an interview of Janet’s that just blew me away. Very quickly, it became obvious to me who had to play the role. Ryan, how do you personify someone who is literally a postage stamp, someone generations of Americans have grown up with and have their own ideas about? RYAN GOSLING Well, Jim Hansen’s book was really incredible. He was a close friend of Neil’s, so that was an important tool. But really I’ve never had more help on a film. Neil’s sons [Mark and Rick Armstrong] were very involved, I had the opportunity to meet Janet before she passed away. Neil’s sister, June, childhood friends, co-workers. Both his and Janet’s legacy were very important to a lot of people, and the insights that they shared about both of them were invaluable. Claire, the movie kind of proceeds on two tracks: one following Neil in the sky and the other following Janet at home with the children and the other astronauts’ wives. How did you see her role in the larger story of putting a man on the moon? CLAIRE FOY I don’t think that she felt that she was doing anything for the moon landing except supporting Neil. But she also knew that he could take care of himself, that it wasn’t her job to take care of him. They had this understanding between the two of them that was quite equal, I felt. So I think Jan really had her own life and she wanted to live that life fully. She had no intention of kind of living half a life because her husband was constantly putting his life in danger. The death from cancer of the Armstrongs’ young daughter, Karen, becomes an unexpected catalyst in the film. Was that bereavement, which is not widely known, always a part of the story you wanted to tell? CHAZELLE Like most people, I never knew Neil had lost a daughter, let alone right before he joined NASA. Many of the people Neil worked with never knew anything about it — both he and Janet were somewhat private individuals and didn’t advertise their emotions. So the question became: What happens to you as a human being when you’re trying to process that kind of grief and are not processing it the way that, from a modern perspective, one would be advised to process it? You’re just kind of letting it fester inside you. It did seem that, in some ways, that could be the thing that, without his even knowing it necessarily, drove him to keep pushing these boundaries and eventually wind up on the moon. And obviously it also becomes a question of what happens to a marriage when it goes through that loss. So that became sort of the guiding dynamic for the movie. GOSLING When you talk to his boys, they talk about how he just had a ferocious appetite to know why things work. He was an engineer at heart and they described him as a human Google. I can only imagine, when you’re faced with such a tragedy, it seems like such a basic human instinct to want to find meaning in that. And since that type of loss is something that it’s hard to find answers for on Earth, it seemed like it was certainly possible that he might also be searching for answers in the universe. That’s not something that he ever said directly, but I was encouraged by his sons’ and Janet’s reaction to the screenplay, because it seemed that they felt that was a possibility as well. [Spoiler alert: If you don’t want to know about a key event that happens later in the film, skip the next question.] The scene where Neil throws Karen’s bracelet into the crater — tell me about that. The rest of the film is meticulously naturalistic, and then it takes this bold, conspicuously ahistoric leap. CHAZELLE Well, the idea for it did actually come from the historical record. Not that there’s a specific record of an object he left behind on the moon of Karen’s, but the parameters around it — we do know that Neil went off for about 10 minutes by himself, without being on comms or transmitting anything, to stand by this crater. And we know he brought at least one or two personal items that he did not disclose what they were. People that were close to him, specifically his biographer Jim and Neil’s sister, June, who Ryan and I spent some time with up in Ohio, hypothesized that he may have very well brought something that reminded him of Karen that he left on the moon. But of course it’s not something that Neil ever confirmed or would confirm, and in a way I guess that makes it even more beautiful to me, the idea that he would kind of keep that with him and, I would imagine, Jan, and no one else. There’s been some controversy over the fact that the film doesn’t show the precise moment when the American flag is planted on the moon’s surface, although the flag is shown on the moon after the fact. How aware were you of the current political atmosphere while you were making the movie? CHAZELLE It certainly wasn’t intended as a political statement, even though some have interpreted it as such. To me, the whole point of doing the movie was to focus on the things we didn’t know and we didn’t get to see that happened on the moon. We wanted to try to really focus on Neil’s subjective emotional experience and just see things through his eyes. Everything else had to be kind of alluded to in a more elliptical way. The movie makes you feel the cost that was paid to put a man on the moon. And of course the big question that follows from that is “To what end?” I wonder if you feel like you ever got close to an answer. CHAZELLE One thing Mark Armstrong mentioned that really sort of spoke to me was this idea that if you’re going to judge the moon landing on the basis of the rocks that were brought back, or the experiments that were done there, or the things that have been done on the moon since, then yeah, you do have to ask, when you look at the enormous cost and sacrifice of life, “Was it worth it?” But there’s this whole other less tangible side. The inspiration and sense of hope it gave to people all over the world. The motivation it gave to an entire generation that was taught that the impossible is possible. I think the enormous symbolic weight of it is hard to overstate. What I find so poignant and beautiful about the moon landing is that on one hand, from a physical standpoint, it is this almost arbitrary goal — people walking on this barren surface and then returning home. But as a moment of humanity, and displaying what humanity is capable of, there’s maybe nothing that can ever top it.	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Toonen v. Australia Toonen v. Australia was a landmark human rights complaint brought before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) by Tasmanian resident Nicholas Toonen in 1994. The case resulted in the repeal of Australia's last sodomy laws when the Committee held that sexual orientation was included in the antidiscrimination provisions as a protected status under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). In 1991, Toonen complained to the Human Rights Committee that Tasmanian laws criminalising consensual sex between adult males in private were a violation of his right to privacy under Article 17 of ICCPR; distinguished between people on the basis of sexual activity, sexual orientation and identity in violation of Article 26; and meant that gay men in Tasmania were unequal before the law. As a result of his complaint, Toonen lost his job as General Manager of the Tasmanian AIDS Council, because the Tasmanian Government threatened to withdraw the council's funding unless Toonen was fired. On 31 March 1994, the Committee agreed that, because of Tasmania's law, Australia was in breach of the obligations under the treaty. In response, the Commonwealth Government passed a law overriding Tasmania's criminalization of gay sex, Australia's last sodomy laws. The Toonen decision has subsequently been referenced by the committee and by other treaty bodies in making rulings. Sodomy laws in Australia Australia inherited the United Kingdom's sodomy laws on white colonisation after 1788. These were retained in the criminal codes passed by the various colonial parliaments during the 19th century, and by the state parliaments after Federation. Following the Wolfenden report, the Dunstan Labor government in South Australia introduced a "consenting adults in private" defence in 1972. This defence was initiated as a bill by Murray Hill, father of former Defence Minister Robert Hill, and repealed the state's sodomy law in 1975. The Campaign Against Moral Persecution during the 1970s raised the profile and acceptance of Australia's gay and lesbian communities, and other states and territories repealed their laws between 1976 and 1990. The exceptions were Tasmania and Queensland. Male homosexuality (i.e., sodomy) was decriminalised in South Australia in 1975, and in the Australian Capital Territory in 1976, followed by Victoria in 1980, and New South Wales and the Northern Territory in 1984. In December 1989, Western Australia similarly decriminalised private sexual acts between males by passing the Law Reform (Decriminalisation of Sodomy) Act 1989, which went into effect in March 1990. The states and territories that retained different ages of consent or other vestiges of sodomy laws later began to repeal them: Western Australia did so in 2002, and New South Wales and the Northern Territory did so in 2003. Tasmania decriminalised sodomy in 1997 following the High Court case Croome v. Tasmania. Background to the case In 1991, Nicholas Toonen, a gay activist, challenged two provisions of the Tasmanian Criminal Code: Sections 122(a) and (c), and 123, which criminalized all forms of sexual contact between consenting adult men in private, arguing that their continued existence in the Criminal Code of Tasmania had a profound and harmful impact on many Tasmanian people by fueling discrimination, harassment, and violence against gay and lesbian Tasmanians. According to Toonen's submission to the committee, the laws: "empower Tasmanian police officers to investigate intimate aspects of his private life and to detain him, if they have reason to believe that he is involved in sexual activities which contravene the above sections. He adds that the Director of Public Prosecutions announced, in August 1988, that proceedings pursuant to Sections 122(a), (c) and 123 would be initiated if there was sufficient evidence of the commission of a crime." Although in practice the Tasmanian police had not charged anyone under Section 122 with "unnatural sexual intercourse" or "intercourse against nature", or under Section 123 with "indecent practice between male persons" for several years, Toonen argued that because of his high-profile activism, his activities as an HIV/AIDS worker, and his long-term relationship with another man, his private life and liberty were threatened by the continued existence of these laws. He additionally argued that the laws restricted him from "openly exposing his sexuality" and publicizing his views on law reform as this would have been "prejudicial to his employment", contending that the Sections "created the conditions for discrimination in employment, constant stigmatization, vilification, threats of physical violence and the violation of basic democratic rights." Toonen further complained that Tasmanian "figures of authority" (such as members of the Lower House of Parliament; municipal councillors; clergy and the general public) were known to openly make derogatory remarks about gays and lesbians, including statements such as "representatives of the gay community are no better than Saddam Hussein"; "the act of homosexuality is unacceptable in any society, let alone a civilized society"; and "you are 15 times more likely to be murdered by a homosexual than a heterosexual". Some had further suggested that all Tasmanian homosexuals should be exiled to an uninhabited island or be subjected to compulsory sterilization. This, claimed Toonen, constituted a "campaign of official and unofficial hatred" against gays and lesbians, and made it difficult for the Tasmanian Gay Law Reform Group to disseminate information about its activities and advocate the decriminalization of homosexuality. Complaint Toonen alleged that Sections 122 (a) and (c) and 123 of the Tasmanian Criminal Code violated articles 2(1), 17 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights because: "(a) they do not distinguish between sexual activity in private and sexual activity in public and bring private activity into the public domain. In their enforcement, these provisions result in a violation of the right to privacy, since they enable the police to enter a household on the mere suspicion that two consenting adult homosexual men may be committing a criminal offence. Given the stigma attached to homosexuality in Australian society (and especially in Tasmania), the violation of the right to privacy may lead to unlawful attacks on the honour and the reputation of the individuals concerned." "(b) they distinguish between individuals in the exercise of their right to privacy on the basis of sexual activity, sexual orientation and sexual identity, and" "(c) the Tasmanian Criminal Code does not outlaw any form of homosexual activity between consenting homosexual women in private and only some forms of consenting heterosexual activity between adult men and women in private. That the laws in question are not currently enforced by the judicial authorities of Tasmania should not be taken to mean that homosexual men in Tasmania enjoy effective equality under the law." The remedy requested by Toonen was the repeal of these provisions. Decision regarding admissibility of the complaint In considering the admissibility of the complaint, the Committee determined that the author (Toonen) could be deemed a victim within the meaning of article 1 of the Optional Protocol, and that his claims were admissible ratione temporis (within the temporal jurisdiction of the committee). The communication was declared admissible on 5 November 1992. Australian federal and state response In its response, the federal government of Australia conceded that Toonen had been a victim of arbitrary interference with his privacy, that he was personally and actually affected by the laws challenged by him, and that the laws could not be justified on public health or moral grounds, but noted that the government of Tasmania denied that he had been the victim of a violation of the Covenant. The federal government noted that, while the state pointed out that no prosecutions or investigations had been made under the relevant Sections since 1984, the risk of prosecution or investigation remained. The government of Tasmania argued that the retention of the Sections in question was justified and partly motivated by an effort to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the state, and that the laws were further justified on moral grounds; the federal government did not accept either claim, noting that laws against homosexuality in all other parts of Australia had been repealed, and that discrimination on the basis of sexuality was unlawful in three of six Australian states and the two self-governing internal Australian territories. The federal government requested the committee's guidance in interpreting whether sexual orientation could be subsumed under the term "... or other status" in article 26, requiring examination of the issues of: * whether Tasmanian laws drew a distinction on the basis of sex or sexual orientation; * whether Toonen was a victim of discrimination; * whether there were reasonable and objective criteria for the distinction; and * whether Tasmanian laws were a proportional means to achieve a legitimate aim under the Covenant. Decision The Committee found that adult consensual sexual activity in private is covered by the concept of "privacy", and that Toonen was affected by the continued existence of the Tasmanian laws, which continuously and directly interfered with his privacy, despite their lack of recent enforcement. The Committee noted that "the criminalization of homosexual practices cannot be considered a reasonable means or proportionate measure to achieve the aim of preventing the spread of AIDS/HIV", further noting that "The Australian Government observes that statutes criminalizing homosexual activity tend to impede public health programmes by driving underground many of the people at the risk of infection." The Committee found that the Sections did not meet the "reasonableness" test in the circumstances of the case, and that they arbitrarily interfered with Toonen's right under article 17, paragraph 1. As regards the guidance sought by the Australian government as to whether sexual orientation may be considered an "other status" for the purposes of article 26, the Committee found the reference to "sex" in article 26 is to be taken as including sexual orientation. The Human Rights Committee therefore found that the facts before it revealed a violation of articles 17, paragraph 1, juncto 2, paragraph 1, of the Covenant. The author was entitled to a remedy under article 2(3)(a) of the Covenant, and the opinion of the committee was that an effective remedy would be the repeal of Sections 122(a), (c) and 123 of the Tasmanian Criminal Code, and requested a response from the Federal government in 90 days. Appendix to the decision Committee member Bertil Wennergren submitted an appendix to the decision, in which he disagreed with the committee's view that it was unnecessary to consider whether there had also been a violation of article 26 of the Covenant. In his opinion, a finding of a violation of article 17, paragraph 1, should rather have been deduced from a finding of violation of article 26. Wennergren argued that the criminalization of certain behaviours under Sections 122(a), (c) and 123 of the Tasmanian Criminal Code must be considered incompatible with article 26 of the Covenant (a) made a distinction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and (b) criminalized sexual contacts between consenting men without at the same time criminalizing such contacts between consenting women, thereby setting aside the principle of equality before the law, in violation of article 26: "The discriminatory criminal legislation at issue here is not strictly speaking 'unlawful' but it is incompatible with the Covenant, as it limits the right to equality before the law. In my view, the criminalization operating under Sections 122 and 123 of the Tasmanian Criminal Code interferes with privacy to an unjustifiable extent and, therefore, also constitutes a violation of article 17, paragraph 1 ... I share the Committee's opinion that an effective remedy would be the repeal of Sections 122(a), (c) and 123, of the Tasmanian Criminal Code." Result In response to the Tasmanian Parliament's refusal to repeal the offending laws, the Federal government passed the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, legalising sexual activity between consenting adults throughout Australia and prohibiting the making of laws that arbitrarily interfere with the sexual conduct of adults in private. In 1997 in the case of Croome v Tasmania, Croome applied to the High Court of Australia for a ruling as to whether the Tasmanian laws were inconsistent with the Federal Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act. The Tasmanian Government repealed the relevant Criminal Code provisions after failing in its attempts to have the matter struck out. According to Nick Poynder in a public lecture presented at Monash University's Castan Centre for Human Rights Law in Melbourne on 28 April 2003, the committee's views are "widely published and carry significant moral and persuasive authority": "There is no doubt ... that the UNHRC's views in Toonen v Australia, that Tasmania's anti-homosexual laws were in breach of Article 17 of the ICCPR ... led directly to the enactment by the Australian Parliament of legislation rendering those laws ineffective." According to Justice Michael Kirby, in a speech given on the 2004 bicentenary of Tasmania, the changes in law resulted in Tasmania becoming "one of the most enlightened" Australian states: "Early leadership was given by the Tasmania Police. It was followed by the Health Department, concerned to respond strongly to HIV/AIDS. An education reference group was established to turn around earlier policy and to combat homophobia in Tasmanian schools. Soon a programme was instituted to remove sexuality discrimination entirely from Tasmanian law and official practice. Tourism Tasmania even dedicated resources to promoting the State as a place friendly to gay visitors. For those who knew the whole history, this was truly a story of amazing Tasmania. Whereas in 1988, support for decriminalisation of homosexuality in this State had been 15% below the national average, by the time decriminalisation occurred in 1997, it was 15% above the average. Indeed, it was reportedly higher in Hobart than in Melbourne or Sydney." This case law Toonen v. Australia is also referred to by the Declaration of Montreal, and a report of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on sexual orientation and gender identity.	WIKI
Page:Siberia and the Exile System Vol 2.djvu/152 136 with the support that the stirrups might afford. Fortunately the trail that we followed was at first fairly good, the weather was not very cold, and we succeeded in making a distance of twenty miles without a great deal of suffering. We stopped for the night in the small log village called Lómi, on the bank of the Shílka, slept on the floor of a peasant's house, in the same room with two adults and five children, and Saturday morning, after a breakfast of tea, black bread, and cold fish-pie, resumed our journey, with fresh horses and a new guide. The weather had cleared off cold during the night, and our thermometer, when we climbed into our saddles, indicated a temperature of eight degrees below zero. The bodies of the horses were white and shaggy with frost, icicles hung from their nostrils, and they seemed as impatient to get away as we were. With our departure from Lómi began the really difficult part of our journey. The trail ran in a tortuous course across a wilderness of rugged mountains, sometimes making long detours to the northward to avoid deep or precipitous ravines; sometimes climbing in zigzags the steep sides of huge transverse ridges; and occasionally coming out upon narrow shelf-like cornices of rock, high above the dark, ice-laden waters of the Shílka, where a slip or stumble of our horses would unquestionably put an end to our Siberian investigations. That we did not meet with any accident in the course of this ride to Kará seems to me a remarkable evidence of good luck. Our horses were unshod, and the trail in many places was covered with ice formed by the overflow and freezing of water from mountain springs, and then hidden by a thin sheet of snow, so that it was impossible to determine from the most careful inspection of a steep and dangerous descent whether or not it would afford secure foothold for our horses. Throughout Saturday and Sunday we walked most of the time; partly because we were too nearly frozen to sit in the saddle, and partly because we dared not take the risks of the	WIKI
User:Shahroozal/sandbox Don't Close Your Eyes is a FNaF Style survival horror video game developed and published by Shahrooz Alimohammadi. It's about a girl with amnesia who finds a note from herself which informs her about the demons that are trying to hunt her as she sleeps. She has to stay awake the whole night and prevent her death. Don't Close Your Eyes received positive reviews from YouTubers and Users of itch.io, who praised its originality in the use of drawing in a horror game. The game was the top second popular game on itch.io for the week ending May 12, 2019, and the game became the subject of numerous popular "Let's Play" YouTube videos. Plot You find yourself in a bed with a note from your past self telling you that you have amnesia. But there is something else. There are 6 doors in your room and a huge window to the outside. Two moons are shining in, giving your room a calming yet creepy mood. Your eyelids are getting heavy. It's like someone's forcing you to close your eyes. You feel helpless as sleep crawls under your skin. "It's okay, just go to sleep" you hear in your head as if someone's whispering it in your ear. But no one's there... Suddenly the light beside you goes out! As you look in the darkness of your room, you notice that one of the doors starts to open! This game contains many jumpscares and stressful situations.	WIKI
Netherlands at the 1900 Summer Olympics The Netherlands first competed at the Summer Olympic Games at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Medalists Additionally Netherlands competitors won gold medals in Rowing for the Mixed Team. In the final Netherlands team switch coxswains to unknown French boy to reduce weight. Swimming The Netherlands had 4 swimmers compete in 1900. Drost won a bronze medal; two others made their event finals but did not medal. Archery 6 Dutch archers competed in the first Olympic archery competition. The Netherlands did not win any medals in the competition. None of the names of the Dutch archers are known. They competed only in the Sur la Perche à la Herse and Sur la Perche à la Pyramide events, though whether all six competed in both or if any or all competed in only one is also unknown. Fencing The Netherlands first competed in fencing at the Olympics in the sport's second appearance. The nation sent one fencer. Rowing The Netherlands had 3 boats, all from the Minerva Amsterdam club, compete in the first Olympic rowing competitions. They won 1 medal of each color. Because the unknown cox in the coxed pair final was a French boy, the gold medal is often credited as a mixed team medal rather than a Dutch one. Sailing The Dutch had one boat in the first Olympic sailing competition. The Dutch team competed in both races of the 3–10 ton class, winning silver and taking 4th. They also competed in the open class, but did not finish. Shooting The Netherlands' first Olympic appearance included competing in the shooting events. Dutch shooters competed in the military pistol and military rifle sets of events.	WIKI
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinn and Chapman The result was Speedy delete as a hoax. Hut 8.5 21:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC) Chinn and Chapman * – ( View AfD View log Stats ) Completely unsourced orphan with no indication of notability Rob van vee 08:13, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 11:19, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 11:19, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Comment The subject of this article is not the songwriting partnership of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, though its Infobox is presenting Associated acts of those others. AllyD (talk) 11:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Delete (possible CSD: I am finding no evidence of any such band. The names match those of the 70s writing partnership, the second sentence is lifted from the City_Girls article, and the Infobox is presenting bands with no visible association to this particular subject. Lacking all references, this falls under WP:BLP and possibly CSD G2/A11. AllyD (talk) 11:36, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Speedy delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND, and in fact, is this actually a hoax? It's not just that it's unsourced and there are no sources to be found... what are the chances of the two members having exactly the same names as the famous 1970s British glam rock writing/production partnership? And what do their names have to do with the names of two neighborhoods in Miami? Even if the band exists, there is literally nothing from which to construct even the basis of an article. Richard3120 (talk) 21:28, 23 May 2020 (UTC) * Speedy Delete - it meets the CSD criteria. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 11:26, 24 May 2020 (UTC) * Delete per Richard3120. This article looks like a hoax. There are two well-known musicians named Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, the same names as the members of this band, but they don't appear to be the same people as the band described in this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:20, 25 May 2020 (UTC)	WIKI
Lawrencium Lawrencium Lawrencium Symbol Lr Atomic Number 103 Atomic Mass (262) g.mol −1 Discovered by Albert Ghiorso in 1961 Chemical Properties of Lawrencium Group Actinides Melting point 1627°C, 2961°F, 1900 K Period 7 Boiling point Unknown Block f Density (g cm−3) Unknown Atomic number 103 Relative atomic mass [262] State at 20°C Solid Key isotopes 262Lr Electron configuration [Rn] 5f14 7s7p1 CAS number 22537-19-5 ChemSpider ID 28934 ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database What is Lawrencium? • Lawrencium with atomic number 103 is represented in the periodic table with the symbol ‘Lr’ • It never occurs as a free element in nature it was created by accelerating sub-atomic particles that have been surrounded by a circle. So that there is sufficient energy to destroy an existing atom and create a new atom. • Lawrencium is a radioactive transuranic element that is synthesized from californium. Uses of Lawrencium • Lawrencium is of not much use due to its radioactive nature. • They are purely used for scientific research only. Properties of Lawrencium • Lawrencium is of not much use. They are purely used for scientific research only. • Isotopes of Lawrencium are radioactive. Its isotopes have a half-life of eleven hours and it is the longest-lived super-heavy till date. • Among all isotopes of Lawrencium, only 12 isotopes are known with mass numbers 252, 262 and 266. Certain Facts About Lawrencium • It was discovered in the year 1961, on February 1991. • It is actually an actinide in spite of its position in the periodic table that should be a transition metal. Practise This Question Rutherford's alpha particle scattering experiment eventually led to the conclusion that	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Galen Merriam House The Galen Merriam House is a historic house at 102 Highland Street in Newton, Massachusetts. This $2 1/2$-story wood-frame house was built in the 1840s, apparently for Galen Merriam, a Boston coal merchant. The mansion house features elaborate Italianate styling, including brackets in its eaves and on its porch, which wraps around three sides of the house. It also has peaked windows in its gable ends, in a more Gothic Revival style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.	WIKI
Talk:NYNEX Still exists Useless trivia, perhaps, but FYI ... NYNEX as a legal entity still exists, and is the parent company of the still existing Verizon New England, Inc.. NYNEX, in turn, is wholly-owned by Verizon Communications. The NYNEX name is not used by Verizon in its marketing campaign. It exists now only as a corporate legal and tax entity with Verizon's corporate structure. --CPAScott (talk) 15:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Awesome, dude! !Bandita Chinchilla (talk) 03:20, 22 January 2009 (UTC) HQ Photo While the photo used in the article is of the building formerly occupied by Nynex, the building itself was much different prior to MetLife moving in. Is there any prior photos of the building that show the Draconian exterior that would be better suited? Tim Wochomurka (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2019 (UTC)	WIKI
Mon. Feb 26th, 2024 Backflow Prevention Devices Backflow prevention devices are essential components of plumbing systems, ensuring the safety and integrity of our water supply. Understanding how these devices work and why they are necessary is crucial for homeowners, business owners, and anyone who wants to maintain the highest water quality standards. Water is necessary for life, and we rely on it for various activities. Unfortunately, it can become a severe health danger if not controlled and contained appropriately. That is why backflow protection devices are essential. Backflow prevention devices are essential for water distribution systems to be safe and reliable. These tools are designed to stop contaminated water from flowing backward, keeping our drinking water pure and secure. Understanding how these devices work and why they are essential is important for everyone concerned about the quality and safety of their water. 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One commonly used device for backflow prevention is the Reduced Pressure Zone (RPZ) assembly. This device utilizes a complex system of check and relief valves to prevent backflow effectively. The check valves only allow water to flow in one direction, effectively blocking any reverse flow. In case of excessive pressure, the relief valve opens to release the excess pressure and prevent damage to the system. The RPZ assembly is typically used in high-risk situations with potential contamination, such as in commercial and industrial settings. 4. Importance of Regular Maintenance: Backflow prevention devices play a vital role in maintaining the safety and integrity of our plumbing systems. They are designed to prevent the contamination of our clean water supply by stopping the reverse flow of water or other substances into the main water lines. However, like other plumbing equipment, these devices can wear out or become damaged over time, so regular maintenance is crucial. To find problems and guarantee that backflow prevention devices work correctly, certified personnel should do routine inspections and testing. By being proactive, issues can be avoided before they become expensive to fix or pose a health risk. One of the fundamental reasons why backflow prevention systems require regular maintenance is to ensure their effectiveness. These gadgets might suffer from wear and tear over time, resulting in decreased performance. Regular maintenance ensures that your backflow prevention devices perform fully and protect your water supply. 5. Compliance with Regulations: Compliance with regulations is a crucial aspect of any industry, and the plumbing sector is no exception. Regarding backflow prevention devices, it’s essential to understand that they are not just suggestions or recommendations; local plumbing codes and regulations often require them. These regulations exist for a reason – to safeguard public health and maintain the integrity of the water supply. Municipalities and water authorities take these regulations seriously and enforce them to ensure that the water flowing into homes and businesses is clean and safe to use. Backflow prevention devices play a vital role in preventing the contamination of drinking water by keeping any unwanted substances from flowing back into the main water supply. By following these standards, you not only safeguard your well-being and the well-being and prosperity of your family, but you also add to the general prosperity of your area. You should respect this commitment. Summary Backflow prevention devices are vital components of plumbing systems that safeguard the safety and integrity of our water supply. These devices ensure that our drinking water is safe and risk-free by blocking the reverse flow of tainted water. For the people who esteem the quality and well-being of their water, understanding how these gadgets work and why they are vital is fundamental. Backflow prevention devices can be installed and maintained to benefit from a pure and safe water supply for all our needs. If you want to learn more about Piping System Repairs, click the link provided.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Talk:Beech forests of Europe Source UNESCO's article for the site, coordinates recalculated to decimal form by Google maps. --ϒpsilon (talk) 20:39, 27 December 2017 (UTC) * The title of the article is really long. Don't "ancient" and "primeval" mean the same thing? So at least one of those words could be dispensed with. How about just "Beech Forests of Europe"? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:55, 27 December 2017 (UTC) * Yes, I was thinking about shortening the name (the one currently used is UNESCO's name for the site) but couldn't decide what to call it. --ϒpsilon (talk) 05:04, 28 December 2017 (UTC) * I think either "Beech Forests of Europe" or "European Beech Forests" would do. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:11, 28 December 2017 (UTC) * ✅ --ϒpsilon (talk) 05:36, 28 December 2017 (UTC) 2021 extension In the 2021 conference, the Beech forest site was extended to cover 94 forests in 18 countries, that's 16 more components than is listed here. Nevertheless, as of 31 July 2021, the documents on their site talks about 37 nominated forests to be included but doesn't specify which of those were listed and which weren't. Probably best to check back in a couple of weeks or so. As a side note, as the creator of the article and the other UNESCO articles, I should really find the time and motivation to dig up a line or two from Wikipedia for each of the sites to make the article a bit less listy... --Ypsilon (talk) 19:55, 31 July 2021 (UTC)	WIKI
Page:American Journal of Psychology Volume 21.djvu/304 292 painter whose work (oil paintings, Ol is German for oil) has struck me in the Louvre, and also of a particular Flemish friend: two days previously I had seen in the hospital a Dutchman with a very similar name. In short, turn which way I would, all parts of the dream stubbornly refused to associate themselves with anything but Netherland topics, the analysis of which resolutely led in only one direction. (3) A patient, a woman of thirty-seven, dreamt that ''she was sitting in a grand stand as though to watch some spectacle. A military band approached, playing a gay martial air. It was at the head of a funeral, which seemed to be of a Mr. X; the casket rested on a draped gun carriage. She had a lively feeling of astonishment at the absurdity of making such an ado about the death of so insignificant a person. Behind followed the dead man' s brother and one of his sisters, and behind them his two other sisters; they were incongruously dressed in a bright grey check. The brother advanced ^like a savage" dancing and waving his arms; on his back was a yucca tree with a number of young blossoms''. This dream is a good example of the second of the three types mentioned above, being perfectly clear and yet apparently impossible to fit into the patient's waking mental life. The true meaning of it, however, became only too clear on analysis. The figure of Mr. X veiled that of her husband. Both men had promised much when they were young, but the hopes their friends had built on them had not been fulfilled; the one had ruined his health and career by his addiction to morphia, the other by his addiction to alcohol. Under the greatest stress of emotion the patient related that her husband's alcoholic habits had completely alienated her wifely feeling for him, and that in his drunken moments he even inspired her with an intense physical loathing. In the dream her repressed wish that he would die was realised by picturing the funeral of a third person whose career resembled that of her husband's, and who like her husband, had one brother and three sisters. Further than this, her almost savage contempt for her husband, which arose from his lack of ambition and other more intimate circumstances, came to expression in the dream by her reflecting how absurd it was that any one should make an ado over the death of such a nonentity, and by the gaiety shown at his funeral not only by all the world (the gay air of the band; her husband is, by the way, an officer in the volunteers, while Mr. X has no connection with the army), but even by his nearest relative (the brother's dancing, the bright clothes). It is noteworthy that no wife appeared in the dream, though Mr. X is married, a fact that illustrates the frequent projection on to others of sentiments that the subject himself experiences but repudiates.	WIKI
Mount Mitoku Mount Mitoku (三徳山), is a mountain located in Misasa, Tottori Prefecture. Mount Mitoku has an elevation of 900 m. Mount Mitoku was known from ancient times as a place of both religious significance and scenic beauty. The mountain is home to Sanbutsu-ji, a historically significant temple designated an Important Treasure of Japan in 1952. Etymology The name of Mount Mitoku in Japanese is formed from two kanji. The first,, means "3\|three" and the second, means "virtue". Santoku (三徳) therefore refers to the three primary virtues of Buddhism: wisdom, renunciation, and judgement. Mount Mitoku was historically also written as 三美山 (Santoku) in Japanese,, meaning three and meaning beautiful, but the pronunciation remained the same. Geography Mount Mitoku was formed from a volcanic eruption approximately 15 million years ago in the Pleistocene period. The layers of granite and other conglomerates at the base of the mountain were transformed by a volcano into large pyroxene deposits. Mount Mitoku eroded over time by wind and rain. Erosion on the southern side of the mountain created steep cliffs of 40 m to 60 m. Two rivers emerge from the slopes of Mount Mitoku: the Kotori River, which forms a deep valley, and one small unnamed river. The steep slopes of Mount Mitoku have created three waterfalls: namely, the Fudō, the Mahebi, and the Ryūtokuin. As the waterfalls are located deep in the primeval forest of Mount Mitoku, they are inaccessible to hikers. Flora Mount Dōgo features outstanding examples of numerous trees, including the: * Shiba chestnut * Oak * Kousa Dogwood Transportation Mount Dōgo can be accessed by bus from the Kurayoshi Station on the JR West Sanin Main Line. The mountain can be accessed from the bus stop at the entrance at Sanbutsu-ji, 40 minutes from Kurayoshi Station. The ascent to Sanbuts-ji is very steep, and entrance to buildings in the temple complex are a 40 to 50 minute hike from the foot of the mountain. Surrounding area Mount Mitoku is 4.5 miles from the Misasa Onsen. Areas to the east and south of Mount Mitoku are mountainous, deeply forested, and sparsely populated.	WIKI
The Health Benefits of Hemicellulase by Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM Published on , Last Updated on The hemicellulase enzyme breaks down hemicellulose, which is a type of cellulose and a key component of the cell wall in all plants. Different forms of plant hemicellulose include glucans, galactans, xylans, mannans and pentosans. Common fiber-rich breakfast cereals, for example, have a large amount of hemicelluloses (2 to 12%). Hemicellulase is needed to break down these fiber-rich components, and because it is not produced naturally in the human body, we rely on microorganisms that live in the human digestive tract to produce it for us. The hemicellulase enzyme has the ability to take non-cellulose polysaccharides (long chains of sugars) we eat and convert them into usable constituents. Hemicellulase, which is crucial for the breaking down of fruits, vegetables, and many grains is required to break down the “hard” hemicellulose carbohydrates, which are known to slow digestion and the absorption of various nutrients. If we eat large amounts of plant material but do not have enough hemicellulase, we get a very limited prebiotic intake. These prebiotics are composed of smaller indigestible saccharide units that serve as fuel for various types of probiotics (good bacteria) resident in the digestive tract. How Does Hemicellulase Work? Hemicellulase possesses the distinct ability to boost this prebiotic activity. Specifically, common hemicellulose carbohydrates found in the food we eat every day, (hydrocolloid gums, galactomannoglucans, pentosans, betaglucans) are actually added to things like ice cream and dairy products. For this reason, it is important to provide your body with a prebiotic boost by taking a supplement containing hemicellulase. Hemicellulase is a fairly complex enzyme, and there are different permutations of hemicellulase. Different types of this enzyme have been used for different purposes in food technologies, particularly for its ability to enhance the quality of dough, as well as produce fruit juices and alcoholic beverages. In fact, it is a commonly-added enzyme in the production of wines, as the enzyme helps strip away the unwanted compounds from the skins of the grapes that might change the taste of the wine. Although plants make hemicellulases for growth and development, most of the commercial interest is in the enzymes produced by microorganisms. The Health Benefits of Hemicellulase 1. May Reduce Candida Some research suggests that an increase in this enzyme can help prevent and reduce yeast infestations such as Candida. This is perhaps related to the fact that the cell wall of candida is composed of hemicellulose. Again, as hemicellulase digests hemicellulose, it may help in reducing Candida. 2. Better Digestive Capacity with Aging Taking digestive enzymes such as hemicellulase can counteract the net loss of enzymes that occurs with aging, whether due to a loss in pancreatic production of enzymes or a change in beneficial flora in the gut. Research supports this. In Japan, scientists have confirmed that intestinal enzyme output showed a gradual decrease with age. Individuals 65 years and older were tested, and women, in particular, were found to have the sharpest declines in enzyme health. [1] 3. Improves Overall Health Animal studies suggest that supplementing with hemicellulase in feedings helps not only increase nutrient digestibility but also betters performance and boosts food conversion ratio. [2] One 2005 study published in the Animal Science Journal found that hemicellulase could boost overall health. Hemicellulase enzyme supplements were given to chickens, and their subsequent nutrient utilization, performance, and digestion capacities were analyzed. It was found that the animals given enzymes grew faster, had decreased abdominal fat and energy content of the diet was improved by the mixed enzyme. Ash-retention (related to the processing of free radicals and the alkalinity in the body) was increased by adding hemicellulase to the diet. This offers proof that hemicellulase has a synergistic effect on the performance and health in animals. More research on humans is needed within the scientific realm. How to Read the Units of Measurement for Hemicellulase This enzyme is measured in HCU (Hemicellulase Unit). The FCC has determined that one Hemicellulase Unit (HCU) can be defined as activity that will produce a relative fluidity change of 1 over 5 min in a locust bean gum substrate at 40oC and pH 4.5. The FCC notation stands for Foods Chemical Codex, and is a division of USP (United States Pharmacopeia). It sets standards for ingredients. In the case of enzymes, FCC is a standard assay used to accurately determine the activity of enzymes. The current compendium is FCC VI. Where Can I Find The Best Source of Hemicellulase? VeganZyme® contains a 100% vegan form of hemicellulase produced by the natural fermentation process of Trichoderma reesei. It comes from all vegetarian, non-GMO sources, is kosher certified, gluten free, made in the USA, contains no animal product and is completely suitable for vegetarians and vegans. VeganZyme is the most advanced full-spectrum systemic and digestive enzyme formula in the world and is free from fillers and toxic compounds. This formula contains digestive enzymes, which help digest fats (lipids), sugars, proteins, carbohydrates, gluten, fruits and vegetables, cereals, legumes, bran, nuts and seeds, soy, dairy, and all other food sources. VeganZyme may also be used as a systemic enzyme blend to break down excess mucus, fibrin, various toxins, allergens, as well as excess clotting factors throughout your body. References (3) 1. Ishibashi T, Matsumoto S, Harada H, Ochi K, Tanaka J, Seno T, Oka H, Miyake H, Kimura I. [Aging and exocrine pancreatic function evaluated by the recently standardized secretin test]. Nihon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. 1991 Sep;28(5):599-605. Japanese. 2. Monica Parvu. Research on the action of bacterial hemicellulase on the barley-based diets used in poultry feeding (PDF). Institute of Biology and Animal Nutrition. 1996 April. 3. Tetsuo Kunieda. Identification of genes responsible for hereditary diseases in Japanese beef cattle. Animal Science Journal. 2005 November 19. vol.76 issue 6, pages 525-610 DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2005.00300.x. †Results may vary. Information and statements made are for education purposes and are not intended to replace the advice of your doctor. Global Healing Center does not dispense medical advice, prescribe, or diagnose illness. The views and nutritional advice expressed by Global Healing Center are not intended to be a substitute for conventional medical service. If you have a severe medical condition or health concern, see your physician. • Clarence You say that “hemicellulose, which is a type of cellulase”, I think you mean that it’s a type of CELLULOSE. And then you say that the FCC defines enzyme activity, well FCC is the Federal Communications Commission, so I doubt they do that. With these kind of major oversights and blunders, I wonder about the reliability of all the other information. • DagobahRider The only question of reliability has to do with your eyesight. Did you happen to see where it says, “The FCC notation stands for Foods Chemical Codex, and is a division of USP (United States Pharmacopeia)”? • Ven Can you please explain how the hemicellulase doesn’t also break down the long-chain sugars in your meals into simple sugars which will spike your blood sugar and just end up feeding the candida? Also, since not all of the candida will be killed, the dead candida (now converted into simple sugars) will invariably end up becoming a food source for the surviving candida, how is this a benefit? Wouldn’t a healthy balance of gut flora provide the same digestive functions as well as keep candida in check? • Jan It might be but getting rid of candida can be tricky and not all solutions are one size fits all. I always looked at enzymes as a potential tool in the toolbox but not the absolute and only solution. You’re right, and it was my experience, that balanced gut flora was very helpful. 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Express, Inc. (EXPR) Gets Massacred as Rival Retailers Brace for Impact InvestorPlace InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Express, Inc. (NYSE: EXPR ) is having a midweek crisis, falling 25.6% as of this writing after reporting second-quarter earnings. EXPR analysts were hoping for 17 cents per share on $521 million in sales. Instead, investors were treated to per-share earnings of 13 cents on revenues that declined 6% year-over-year to $504.8 million. Investors reacted in traffic-clogging volume (more than 13 million as of now vs. an average 1.7 million), as if to say "do you feel good about yourself, Express??" The answer is a resounding "no," as CEO David Kornberg set off his company's earnings release with "I am disappointed with our second-quarter performance as sales and earnings were below our guidance, reflecting challenging store traffic." 7 Healthcare Dividend Stocks for Quality and Security Kornberg attributed the dismal performance of EXPR in Q2 to a "lack of clarity," but believes Express' fall assortment will not fall victim to the same headwinds: "Our fall assortment is more cohesive across our wearing occasions, clearly identifying the important trends, and we are aggressively pursuing several marketing initiatives focused on driving new customer acquisition and retention. In addition, we are pleased with our overall inventory position as we begin the fall season. Our overarching priorities remain unchanged: presenting our customers with a strong assortment, increasing customer acquisition and brand loyalty, enhancing gross margin as we benefit from our IT initiatives, and maintaining inventory discipline while reducing expenses." All in all, comparable sales were slashed by 8% year over year (they actually increased by 7% in the year-ago quarter), and the all-important area of online sales took a 7% dive, bringing in a mere $70.1 million. The company's merchandise margin dipped 2% as markdowns increased ahead of the chillier fall season. Fading Hope for EXPR Stock But really, contrary to Kornberg's statements, the fall season for EXPR looks ugly already. The company's EPS estimates of between 9 cents and 15 cents are less than half that of the analyst consensus, and its "negative high single to low double digits" prediction for comp sales are a huge disappointment for a company that grew comp sales by 6% in Q3 2015. The full-year picture doesn't look any better. Per-share earnings of $1 to $1.14 pale against previous estimates for $1.46. The routing of EXPR stock is foreboding for retail stocks. Just look at the SPDR S&P Retail (ETF) (NYSEARCA: XRT ), which is down half a percent today. Or to the three remaining retailers to report earnings: PVH Corp (NYSE: PVH ), Guess?, Inc. (NYSE: GES ) and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF ). The three are down today by 0.5%, 6.2% and 2.6%, respectively. As of this writing, John Kilhefner did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. More From InvestorPlace GameStop Corp. (GME) Looks for a Power Boost The 10 Best Small- and Mid-Cap Stocks to Buy Now 7 Stocks the Smart Money Loves … Or Hates The post Express, Inc. (EXPR) Gets Massacred as Rival Retailers Brace for Impact appeared first on InvestorPlace . The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
7 Healing Practices: Being active in your cancer treatment and outcomes. By Nancy Hepp, MS, CancerChoices Program Manager and Lead Researcher, with contributions from Miki Scheidel, CancerChoices Co-Founder and Creative Director. We expect that you’ve already heard that you should eat better, exercise more, get enough sleep, manage your weight, stop smoking, and other similar advice from your doctor and others. Did you know that being active in your wellness by building these practices and habits can improve your outcomes with conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, and immunotherapy? Your ability to recover from surgery, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy is typically better if you have better nutrition, more muscle mass, less excess body weight, no tobacco use, and fewer disruptions to hormone balance, blood sugar levels, and immune function. Not only are these goals “good for you” in an abstract sense—they may make your life better in ways that you will notice during and after cancer treatment. Shorter hospital stays after surgery. Less sleep disruption. Less fatigue. Less pain. And all without the side effects and the high price tags that many medications have. Your survival after a cancer diagnosis is also affected by these habits and practices. A better diet, more exercise, better sleep, and better stress management are all linked to longer survival. Even your response to conventional treatments can depend in part on your health status. The composition of your microbiome—your personal collection of microbes living on and in your body—may influence how well you respond to immunotherapy, for example.1-5 What you eat has a direct and rapid effect on the composition of your microbiome. Exercise, smoking, obesity, and stress are also linked to your microbiome. You can be active in your wellness after a cancer diagnosis, starting with 7 Healing Practices. These are known to improve outcomes including survival, risk of recurrence, or symptoms and side effects from cancer or its treatment. Many directly influence your body terrain—your internal environment of hormones, inflammation, blood sugar, oxidation, microbes, and more—which is tied to cancer growth and spread. At the center of these practices is Exploring What Matters Now. When diagnosed with cancer, your insights related to this exploration may be your best guide to the treatments you wish to take, your priorities in life, and how you want to live. Once you have some clarity with what matters now for you (although your answers may shift over time), you can start looking at the other six practices. As Co-Founder of CancerChoices Michael Lerner advises, “Do what you are drawn to. No practice is healing unless it feels healing.” The CancerChoices website offers a description of each of these practices, the evidence supporting them, and what experts recommend. We provide tips and links to trusted resources such as apps and groups and websites for making changes to support you as you begin and maintain changes. For some practices, such as Sleeping Well and Managing Stress, we describe therapies that can help you achieve these practices. If you’re not ready for change now, we’ll be there later without any judgment whenever you are ready to begin or if you stumble a bit after getting started. You’re in the driver’s seat. We’re ready to navigate for you. At your time and pace. Explore the 7 Healing Practices and the rest of the CancerChoices website for information, supports, and guidance on navigating the world of conventional, complementary, and self care for cancer. REFERENCES: 1. Aghamajidi A, Maleki Vareki S. The effect of the gut microbiota on systemic and anti-tumor immunity and response to systemic therapy against cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Jul 22;14(15):3563. 2. Hu Y, Li J et al. CAR-T cell therapy-related cytokine release syndrome and therapeutic response is modulated by the gut microbiome in hematologic malignancies. Nature Communications. 2022 Sep 9;13(1):5313. 3. Wang F, He MM et al. Regorafenib plus toripalimab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a phase Ib/II clinical trial and gut microbiome analysis. Cell Reports. Medicine. 2021 Aug 27;2(9):100383. 4. Baruch EN, Youngster I et al. Fecal microbiota transplant promotes response in immunotherapy-refractory melanoma patients. Science. 2021 Feb 5;371(6529):602-609. 5. Hopkins AM, Kichenadasse G, Karapetis CS, Rowland A, Sorich MJ. Concomitant antibiotic use and survival in urothelial carcinoma treated with atezolizumab. European Urology. 2020 Oct;78(4):540-543.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
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Girawali Observatory IUCAA Girawali Observatory is an optical astronomy observatory run by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India. The Observatory is located about 80 km from Pune, off the Pune Nashik Highway in Girawali. History The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) felt the need of an optical telescope for observation, research, training and for the University community. Therefore, a proposal was made to set up a medium-sized optical telescope, preferably close to the IUCAA campus in Pune. The University Grants Commission provided funding for the project. A contract was signed with the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) of the United Kingdom, which gave the contract to the Telescope Technologies Ltd of Liverpool, UK. The telescope was installed, calibrated and handed over to the team at IUCAA on 14 February 2006. The Observatory was formally inaugurated and the Telescope dedicated to the Astronomy community by Prof. Yash Pal on 13 May 2006. After a phase of performance and science verification, the Observatory was opened for regular observations in November, 2006. Location The observatory is located near Junnar, 80 km from Pune City, off the Pune Nashik Road. It is located close to Girawali Village and is on top of a small hill that is part of a Reserved Forest. Telescope The main 2m telescope at IGO is made up of a primary mirror of 200 cm with f/3 and a secondary mirror of 62 cm with f/10. It has 1 direct and 4 side Cassegrain ports with an uncorrected field of view (direct) of 6 arcminute radius. IFOSC The IUCAA Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (IFOSC) is the main instrument available on the telescope's main Cassegrain port. IFOSC employs an EEV 2K x 2K, thinned, back-illuminated CCD with 13.5 micrometer pixels. The spatial sampling scale at the detector is 44μm per arcsecond giving a field of view of about 10.5 arcminutes on the side. In addition to ultraviolet, blue, violet, red, infrared imaging and photometric capabilities, IFOSC offers a range of grisms with resolutions ranging from 190 to 3700 covering the wavelength region of 350–850 nm. Long slit, slitless, multislit and Echelle (with cross-disperser) modes are available offering a wide range of observational possibilities. IFOSC's capabilities are further enhanced with imaging polarimetric as well as spectropolarimetric modes with a reduced field of view of about 2 arcminute radius. A calibration unit provides a set of lamps for flat field and spectral calibration. A set of five narrow band filters of 8.0 nm FWHM, are also housed in the calibration unit. These are particularly suitable for local and red-shifted H-alpha studies, having nominal central wavelengths of 656.3, 660.3, 664.3, 668.3 and 672.3. PI-CCD The Princeton Instruments CCD (PI-CCD) camera is mounted on one of the side ports. The camera employs a 1340x1300 pixel, thinned, back-illuminated E2V CCD. The 20μm pixels give better spatial sampling than IFOSC. A set of Ultra-violet, Blue, Violet, Red, Infrared filters identical to those used in IFOSC is available for this instrument. A summary of the instrument parameters are given below: * Pixels: 1340 x 1300, 20μm square * Image Scale: 97μm per arcsecond (0.2 arcsecond per pixel) * On chip binning: 2x2 * Single Pixel Full Well: 300ke * Dynamic range: 16 bits This sensor can operate with a 14-bit ADC and still achieve the same full well. The full well is the total electrons per count, so in this case the gain is ~4.6. The downfall with running this CCD in this config is the 2x2 bin. You must set it up to run with an attenuation if trying to run in other speeds and binnings. Observation and Science This Observatory is unique in setting aside time specifically for training as well as observational proposal from Indian Universities apart from astronomical observation. The observatory is available for astronomical observations from October to May in two proposal cycles of four-month duration each. The IGO-TAC is responsible for allocation of approximately 60% of the observing time. Director's Discretionary Time as well as time for Targets of Opportunity, Training Programmes, Observatory projects, Maintenance and Compensation will constitute the remaining 40% of the time.	WIKI
Talk:North Brother Island Light Untitled Merge this with North Brother Island, East River. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC) I disagree with merging. While this page may be light, it is part of a larger Lighthouses_in_the_United_States,Lighthouses in New York Template and other lighthouses projects. Merging it with a non-lighthouse page make that significantly more confusing. Ahwiv (talk) 14:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC) It's also defunct and should be in a section of the template that says "closed and unused lighthouses" rather than mixing them up with the ones that work. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:22, 6 December 2012 (UTC) Many lighthouses on lighthouse lists are defunct. Most use the USCG Historian's list of Historic Light Station Information, hence the templates. It's for an encyclopedia, not a travel or city guide Ahwiv (talk) 00:39, 7 December 2012 (UTC) If this lighthouse is, in fact, defunct (can anybody confirm?), shouldn't the article somehow say so and reflect that status? Pylon (talk) 15:24, 27 March 2013 (UTC) Please add dates I would like to know when the lighthouse was built, when it was automated, and whether it is still operational. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:42, 20 January 2023 (UTC)	WIKI
Talk:Gasparilla Pirate Festival/Archive 1 Merge with Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla I don't see any reason for a separate article about the Krewe of Gasparilla. Besides questions of notability, the organization is so inexorably connected with the events of Gasparilla that there's nothing new to say in its independent article. I don't think there are any details there not already mentioned here, but if there are, I'd move them over to this article after the merger. Any thoughts, anyone? Zeng8r (talk) 15:21, 10 February 2012 (UTC) * Since nobody voiced an opinion either way, I'm doing the bold thing and merging the articles. It'll be a very easy task, since there was only a sentence or two worth of info in the TMKG article that wasn't already stated in the main Gasparilla entry. Zeng8r (talk) 11:29, 20 May 2012 (UTC) Re Removing Gasparilla.com as a link. Dear Zengr8 - As the holder of the United States Federal Trademark for "Gasparilla" REGISTERED 1/20/2009, Gasparilla Corporation and Gasparilla media's website http://gasparilla.com (Owned by the Federal Trademark registrar Stephanie Sims) should be listed as an external link on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasparilla_Pirate_Festival for the Gasparilla Pirate Fest (and any other pages that refer to the Gasparilla Parade, Gasparilla Event, Gasparilla Pageant. The link: http://sessums.net/gasparilla/ is a commercial website and really only provides a countdown clock wich has no value to the reader. The "Gasparilla Pirate Festival - Official Site link" is also a commercial site which offers goods for sale as well as tickets to the events. Gasparilla.com provides an events calendar, latest news about the event, the Gasparilla krewes, the area and the parades that are Gasparilla. No other site does this in the fashion that we provide. We respectfully request that you stop removing our legitimate and Trademark Protected link from this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GasparillaMedia (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 May 2014 (UTC) Stephanie Sims would be most pleased to speak with ANYONE who believes that her Federal Trademark for Gasparilla does not afford her the right to have her site(s) listed as a reference to anything at all to do with Gasparilla. CALL:<PHONE_NUMBER> — Preceding unsigned comment added by GasparillaMedia (talk • contribs) 21:17, 18 May 2014 (UTC) * I suggest that you take a look at Wikipedia's policies regarding advertising, conflicts of interest, and external links. You seem to misunderstand the purpose of Wikipedia. It's an online encyclopedia, not a collection of links or the "things to do" section of the Tampa Tribune. (See also the "What Wikipedia is not" page.) * The link that you added is not the official site of the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Yes, tickets are sold at the official site run by Ye Mystic Krewe, but it's mentioned in the guidelines that official links should be listed. Other commercial sites are usually to be avoided, however, especially if it's the owner or an associate of the owner doing the adding. The trademark issue really has nothing at all to do with it. * Please don't take this personally; it's just Wikibusiness, as the policies listed above are pretty much set in stone. If you'd like to stick around and contribute. you'll find that this article and other Tampa-related articles could use some TLC from local editors. And you're right about the uselessness of the Gasparilla countdown clock link, though. I'll remove it now. Zeng8r (talk) 00:42, 19 May 2014 (UTC) Unfortunately your information is incorrect. The Gasparilla Pirate Festival website is not run by Ye Mystic Krewe at all, and neither is the sessums.net page. http://gasparillapiratefest.com/ is owned and operated by Eventfest Inc. (http://www.eventfest.com/)the promoter of the Gasparilla parade not the owner of the event or the Trademark. Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla's one and only website is: http://ymkg.com/ - Which is NOT listed by This WikiPedia article. Gasparilla.com is not associated with the Tampa Tribune at all, so I am unsure where you are getting any of your information. We do own the Federally protected Trademark for "Gasparilla" We do Produce The "Gasparilla Pageant" (Another link you seem to have a problem with and keep removing). and we work with Ye Mystic Krewe just as does EventFest. How Sessums.net's countdown clock was deemed link worth by your editing staff here at WikiPedia and the two other major websites and organizations that have ownership of the event and it's actual name are not worthy, defies any kind of common sense - wikipedia sense or not. - Please reconsider your official stance, as we are not interested in arguments, only inclusion as the rightful owner of the website and the Federal Trademark. We are not asking for anyone else to be removed, only that Ye Mystic Krewe (The originator and holder of the 110 years of tradition, and ourselves as the holder of the Trademark be included. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GasparillaMedia (talk • contribs) 17:59, 21 May 2014 (UTC) * Did you click and read any of the links to Wikipedia policies that I mentioned above? (The links are in blue text.) You still don't seem to understand the purpose of this website or how it works. Wikipedia has no "editing staff", people just come along and create or improve articles according to an agreed-on set of principles. I'll summarize the policy that applies to this situation. Wikipedia has decided that it's NOT a commercial site, so anything even remotely resembling self-promotion or advertising is strictly regulated and policed by all users. That's why someone attempting to add a link to their own commercial website is a big no-no. The one exception to that rule is that the official website of the subject of the article should be listed. No, the link in this article doesn't go to the website of YMKG, it links to the official website of the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, which is the subject of this article. I don't know who added that link to the countdown clock, but it's gone now, so that's a moot point. * And trademarks have nothing to do with this. Speaking of which, repeatedly insisting that you own "Gasparilla" made me wonder how anyone could trademark a celebrated name that's been commonly used for over 100 years. So I did a quick search, and I discovered that you actually own the trademark to "Gasparilla Calendar", as seen here. Again, this makes no difference in deciding whether or not to include your link in this article. However, I have to say that your disingenuous misrepresentation doesn't help your cause very much. Zeng8r (talk) 14:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC) I think that you have shown your research capabilities to be lacking sir. If you do a proper search for the Trademark "Gasparilla" you will find this at the United States Patent and Trademark Office: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:x7irvz.2.5 I think you should do complete due diligence before publicly calling someone disingenuous. We own several Trademarks and have every right to insist on not having our rightful links removed from any site that refers to our Trademark protected properties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GasparillaMedia (talk • contribs) 14:19, 23 May 2014 (UTC) * All right, so you have a trademark on using the word Gasparilla for a calendar and for "entertainment in the nature of beauty pageants". You implied and continue to imply that you are the official holder of the "Gasparilla" name when that is clearly not the case. But, to be honest, that issue really doesn't factor in this discussion. Again, this article is about the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, so according to Wikipedia policy, the official link should be listed in the external link section. Others must be evaluated according to the external links policies that I've referenced above, and it's extremely problematic for the owner of the site in question to add it themselves. --Zeng8r (talk) 16:17, 23 May 2014 (UTC) * I'll add a third opinion if I may. Zeng8r is quite right that external links are (or should be) pretty heavily scrutinized in Wikipedia articles. Official websites are generally considered acceptable. The www.gasparillapiratefest.com site is the official one according to the City of Tampa's own website, so it's an acceptable link, whatever its faults. Gasparilla.com is a fine site, but I really don't see what it adds here, and it doesn't really meet the criteria of generally acceptable links or even links to be considered. I support the removal of this and other non-official commercial sites from the article.--Cúchullain t/ c 16:57, 23 May 2014 (UTC) Again? Last night, User:Rsessums deleted the discussion above that started with an explanation of why an external link to a minor event with "Gasparilla" in the title shouldn't be included in the article and devolved into a spurious claim of "ownership" of the Gasparilla name. Right afterwards last night, IP User:<IP_ADDRESS> tried to put that very same deleted link back in the article. What a weird coincidence, huh guys? Zeng8r (talk) 10:41, 16 September 2015 (UTC) ---added by Rich Sessums--- This looks like it might be more of a personal vendetta and not really necessary to include such detail and/or Stephanie's name. Do you have a problem with her or with me? BTW: sessums.net/gasparilla is NOT a commercial site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsessums (talk • contribs) 11:17, 16 September 2015 (UTC) Thank you all for keeping Wikipedia accurate. As such, I am adding to that effort by telling you that user GasparillaMedia has NO affiliation with myself and the federal trademark mentioned here. He was a person, at the time of this edit and discussion series he instigated, who was attempting for a few short months to manage my web site, Gasparilla.com and saw profit in trying to bully here, again by trying to cloud the article. In corporate life and with regard to all things web related, he walked the plank years ago. - S. Sims — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:50, 16 September 2015 (UTC) First of all, please do NOT remove talk page discussions or portions thereof, especially comments that were made by other users. See WP:TPO for details on that guideline. * Secondly, please do not assume bad faith by other users. While I'll admit to be a little annoyed that someone (or multiple someone) has/have repeatedly tried to slip the same link into this article over the past several years, the issue is really not personal; it's just Wiki-business. Nobody is passing judgement on you, your organization, or the event, and nobody mentioned anybody's name except for you in your comment above. The simple problem is that the link you added (again) does not belong in this article per Wikipedia's policies regarding external links, which was explained above last year and can be read in its entirety right here: WP:ADV. Zeng8r (talk) 19:36, 16 September 2015 (UTC) First: I wish there were away to remove the initial comments that this other user made back in March of 2014, as they were not correct. He had no right to make claims about myself or my properties, and that is why I asked for assistance in removing them. They are erroneous and irrelevant and I wanted help to clean them out, as it is embarrassing to me personally. Secondly: I did try to add a hyperlink, as I noticed other non-official pages had hyperlinks. I thought mine could be included, also, as theirs are (i.e. Film Fesitval, Gasparilla Race, Arts festival). Thank you. I realize that this occurred last year, but it was only brought to my attention a few days ago.I appreciate your help. Gasparilla Beauty Pageant, again Again, Wikipedia is not to be used for promotional purposes. (See above for exhaustive discussions.) The pageant might be a fine event, but it does not get much (if any) independent media coverage, even locally. A search at the Tampa Bay Times website (which doesn't have a great search feature, I must say) doesn't find a mention of the pageant in the first 100 articles listed, but it does return multiple hits for the road race, the film festival, the arts festival, and the music festival. Those are listed individually, but the pageant is best lumped in with the "changing lineup of smaller events" phrase that covers the myriad of other events which also use the name. --Zeng8r (talk) 10:48, 27 October 2017 (UTC) External links modified Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified 3 external links on Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes: * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120607034055/http://gasparillapiratefest.com/history.shtml to http://gasparillapiratefest.com/history.shtml * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20151007033059/http://www.abcactionnews.com/sports/sports-blogs/palma-ceia-country-club-hosts-long-time-event-rich-in-tradition to http://www.abcactionnews.com/sports/sports-blogs/palma-ceia-country-club-hosts-long-time-event-rich-in-tradition * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120221161954/http://tampabayonline.net/gaspar/history.htm to http://tampabayonline.net/gaspar/history.htm Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:00, 11 October 2017 (UTC) Proposed merge with Sant'Yago Knight Parade I've been working on this and other Gaspar and Gasparilla-related articles for a long time, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't enough independent content at Sant'Yago Knight Parade to justify keeping it as a separate article. Any information that is not already in the relevant section of this entry should be transferred over and the Knight Parade article changed into a redirect page, imo. Thoughts? Zeng8r (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC) * I went ahead and completed the redirect, as this is the busiest week of the year for this arr-ticle (see what I did there?) and the redirect proposal banner could be confusing to casual Wiki-readers, imo. However, I'd be happy to help un-combine the articles if someone figures out a way to expand the Knight Parade entry with good sources. Even with my quite extensive collection of Tampa history books and resources, I couldn't find enough additional info to make it work. Zeng8r (talk) 01:16, 25 January 2018 (UTC)	WIKI
Worries mount as cybersecurity agency struggles amid shutdown \| TheHill The partial government shutdown has furloughed nearly half the staff of a new cybersecurity agency, dealing a major setback to protecting vulnerabilities in federal infrastructure. Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and lawmakers fear the shutdown, now in its 20th day, could have both short- and long-term effects, hurting the new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) efforts to get off the ground and potentially pushing existing talent out the door. Cyber experts say foreign adversaries could try to take advantage of the shutdown now that fewer resources are working to thwart them. The administration officially launched the new agency, which replaced the department’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), late last year. Cyber officials had celebrated in November when President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE signed a bill renaming the cybersecurity division after the legislation lagged in Congress for months. But now former DHS officials say efforts to get the agency to full capability are stalled, with about 43 percent of CISA staff currently furloughed, according to planning documents, and the remaining staff likely focused on keeping basic security programs up and running. “There’s so much work behind the scenes that still needs to be done to really fulfill the promise of this new agency,” Suzanne Spaulding, the former head of the NPPD, told The Hill. Spaulding, an adviser for cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks, said one of the goals of establishing the CISA was to find ways to better address both cyber and physical threats to infrastructure, and that work is likely still in its beginning stages. While she believes that staff remains in place to deal with the most pressing security concerns — such as preparing for the upcoming Super Bowl and being on standby in case of a major cyberattack. However, she warned that enemies of the U.S might take advantage of the shutdown: “If I were a bad actor, this would be a very tempting time to do some mischief.” Christopher Krebs, the head of the CISA, said at an event in November after Trump signed the bill into law that officials would create a two-year plan called “CISA 2020,” which he described as a “two-year roadmap that’s going to get this organization … to full operating capability.” “This is more of a groundbreaking than a ribbon-cutting,” he said at the time, signaling that a good amount of work needed to be done to get the agency fully operational. But all signs point to that plan being put on the back burner, until Trump signs a new bill to fully fund DHS. The official spokespeople for the agency were unable to comment for this story. When contacted, CISA’s chief spokesman sent an automatic email saying he would “not be able to return or emails or telephone calls until I return to duty upon conclusion of the funding hiatus.” He did not answer specific questions on how the shutdown is affecting the CISA rollout. Danny Toler, the former acting assistant secretary for DHS’s cybersecurity and communications office, said CISA is losing “critical momentum” during the shutdown to get its initiatives up and running. “You don’t just pick up immediately necessarily right where you left off, you have to catch back up to that point and move on from there,” Toler said. He also described this as a “critical juncture” for the CISA as it determines what kinds of responsibilities it takes on within DHS. “So it’s not just a matter of the day-to-day operations which continue to operate, but those more strategic initiatives which are more core to the long-term cyber health are impacted through periods like this,” Toler said. The shutdown’s impact on cybersecurity has also caught the eye of lawmakers. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHouse committee heads demand Coast Guard Academy explain handling of harassment allegations Hillicon Valley: House panel subpoenas 8chan owner \| FCC takes step forward on T-Mobile-Sprint merger \| Warren wants probe into FTC over Equifax settlement \| Groups make new push to end surveillance program House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas 8chan owner MORE (D-Miss.) questioned in a statement Tuesday whether the CISA is still monitoring federal networks to guard against potential attacks. Rep. Robin KellyRobin Lynne KellyTo combat domestic terrorism, Congress must equip law enforcement to fight rise in white supremacist attacks Democratic lawmakers support Bustos after DCCC resignations Here are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment MORE (D-Ill.), the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s IT subcommittee, said Wednesday that the shutdown is hurting the federal government’s ability to attract and retain top cyber and information technology staff. “How can we ever hope to recruit or maintain IT talent when hardworking government workers are told: ‘sorry, you aren’t getting paid, but you still need to come to work’ or ‘sorry, but no paycheck this week because of politics?’ ” she said in a statement. “Large private sector companies never say this to their employees and these are our competitors when it comes to IT talent recruitment.” Stewart Baker, the assistant secretary for policy at DHS under former President George W. Bush, pushed back on how big of an impact the shutdown is having on the agency’s start, saying several of the CISA’s programs were already operating under the NPPD. He also noted the administration could begin redefining what kind of staff is considered essential over time, allowing them to bring back more employees to carry out more of the longer-term work if the shutdown does continue to drag out. But Baker said the lack of pay could be the final push for cybersecurity staffers at the department, who could likely earn larger salaries and benefits working in the private sector. Trying to attract cybersecurity talent has been a major struggle for the federal government, and a report issued in October found that the gap in the cybersecurity workforce is at 498,000 for the U.S. alone. “It cements people who are thinking about leaving,” Baker said. “They say, ‘Well this may be a good time to leave because I may not get paid and nobody cares.’ ” View the discussion thread. 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15th Century Dublin The border war between the citizens and the Irish of the neighbouring mountains was carried on with great fury during this and the succeeding reigns. - In 1402, John Drake, the provost, led out a strong party against the O'Byrnes, whom he defeated with a slaughter, as some writers say, of 4000 men, but according to others of 400, and compelled them to surrender the castle of Newcastle-MacKynegan. - In 1410, the lord-deputy made another incursion into the territory of the O'Byrnes, but was forced to retreat in consequence of the desertion of a large body of his kernes; and in 1413 the O'Byrnes gave the citizens a signal defeat and carried off many prisoners. - In 1431, Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, made an incursion into the vicinity of Dublin, defeated the troops sent out to oppose him, and carried off much booty; but the citizens having collected a fresh body of troops, pursued the enemy the same evening, attacked them unawares, and routed them with great loss. The city was much disturbed, about this time, by the contentions between the Kildare and Ormonde families. - To decide one of their disputes, in which Thomas Fitzgerald, prior of Kilmainham, had accused the Earl of Ormonde of treason, a trial by combat was appointed at Smithfield, in Oxmantown; but the quarrel being taken up by the king was terminated without bloodshed. - The mayor and citizens, having taken part with the Fitzgeralds in these broils, and grossly insulted the Earl of Ormonde, and violated the sanctity of St. Mary's Abbey, were compelled to do penance, in 1434, by going barefoot to that monastery and to Christ-Church and St. Patrick's cathedrals, and craving pardon at the doors. In 1479, the fraternity of arms of St. George, consisting of thirteen of the most honourable and loyal inhabitants in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and Louth, was formed by act of parliament, for the defence of the English pale: the mayor of Dublin was appointed one of the commanders of the force raised in the city; the fraternity was discontinued in 1492. A bull for the foundation of a university in the city was published by Pope Sextus in 1475, but was never carried into effect. When Lambert Simnel claimed the crown of England, in the beginning of the reign of Hen. VII, his title was recognised in Dublin, where he was crowned in Christ-Church, in the presence of the lord-deputy, the lords of the council, the mayor, and all the citizens; after the ceremony was concluded, he was carried in state to the castle, according to the Irish custom, on the shoulders of Darcy of Platten, a man of extraordinary stature. - On Simnel's defeat at Stoke, the mayor and citizens made a humble apology to the king for the part they had taken in the affair, pleading the authority and influence of the lord-deputy, the archbishop, and most of the clergy. - Their pardon was granted through Sir Richard Edgecumbe, who was specially deputed by Henry to administer the oaths of fealty and allegiance to the Irish after the insurrection: this officer entered Dublin on the 5th of July, 1488, for the fulfilment of his mission, and embarked for England at Dalkey, on the 30th of the same month, after having successfully accomplished the objects for which he had been deputed.	FINEWEB-EDU
Talk:Animal (TV series) CGI Effects? I was watching the Monkey episode and I cant help to this this was partially created using CGI. Is that accurate or ? 2601:601:8280:D840:3500:DEAE:5F91:D8C5 (talk) 04:21, 23 March 2022 (UTC)	WIKI
Consumer Sector Update for 12/18/2019: WYNN, GIS, FCAU, WMT, MCD, DIS, CVS, KO Top Consumer Stocks: WMT: +0.02% MCD: +0.06% DIS: -0.34% CVS: -0.11% KO: -0.04% Top consumer stocks were mostly lower pre-bell Wednesday. Stocks moving on news include: (+) Wynn Resorts (WYNN), which was gaining more than 3% after saying it agreed to extend Matt Maddox's contract as chief executive officer through 2022. In other sector news: (+) General Mills (GIS) was up more than 1% after it reported fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings of $0.95 per share, up from $0.85 during the year-ago quarter and beating the Capital IQ consensus forecast of $0.88. (-) Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU) and France's Peugeot confirmed their merger plan, creating a combined entity will have annual unit sales of 8.7 million vehicles and a turnover of almost 170 billion euros ($1.90 billion), according to a joint statement. Fiat Chrysler was down more than 1% recently. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Interacting with a Workflow How do I interact with a workflow process instance once it is running? K2 provides an API which allows programmatic access to workflow instances that are in motion. If you have a task assigned to you as part of a workflow process, you will have a task sitting in your worklist. In K2 you dont physically have a task in your worklist. There is a task in the system and you have access to it. K2 handles concurrent access. The default mechanism is first come first serve. The concept of slots is used to handle complex routing scenarios with ease. using(Connection con = new connection()) { con.Open(“blackpearl server”); WorklistItem wli = con.OpenWorklistItem(“serial no”); // WorklistItem.Actions[0].Execute() will perform the selected action on the task and complete it! } A WorklistCriteria can be sent to the OpenWorklist() method on the Connection object allowing filters on a huge Worklist to help it perform better. ClientEvents correspond to Human Tasks and a Worklist item. The Task has to be completed to end this ClientEvent in the workflow process and allow it to proceed to the next event. You can also re-assign tasks, push tasks back in to work Queues and move the process execution from one state to another. All this functionality is supported through the APIs. Published by jeylabs Are you ready to Transform your Enterprise? www.jeylabs.com One thought on “Interacting with a Workflow %d bloggers like this:	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Talk:Bryce Zabel Chickflix (talk) 04:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC) Attempting to fix the page with requested changes. Perhaps whoever flagged this could explain what is so wrong with it (it doesn't sound like an "advertisement" to me, but more like a biographical narrative). Anyway, some of us who know this guy's work will give it a shot. There's lots of articles, but it feels insulting to have that flag so I'd like to get it fixed to your satisfaction. Thanks! Film critic? This guy is listed in the American film critics category. From his article, it doesn't seem like he qualified. I am tempted to remove the category but I'll give a grace period for comment. Jason Quinn (talk) 18:56, 24 February 2009 (UTC) Career as early as 1980? His career appears to have started earlier than this page or IMDB have indicated, as seen in this 1980 clip from Newsbeat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjXVQpi52WE This may also be the film criticism that Jason Quinn was looking for, above. Felicity4711 (talk) 03:41, 23 December 2012 (UTC) External links modified Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified 5 one external links on Bryce Zabel. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes: * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100910062804/http://www.stellarprods.com:80/ to http://www.StellarProds.com * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080101135120/http://bztv.typepad.com:80/newsviews/2006/07/blackbeard_sail.html to http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2006/07/blackbeard_sail.html * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080101135115/http://bztv.typepad.com:80/newsviews/2005/11/poseidon.html to http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2005/11/poseidon.html * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20040730214120/http://zabelmedia.com:80/ to http://www.ZabelMedia.com * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081008073313/http://instanthistory.net:80/ to http://www.instanthistory.net Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 00:12, 10 November 2016 (UTC) External links modified Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified 5 external links on Bryce Zabel. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes: * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.stellarprods.com/ * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080101135120/http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2006/07/blackbeard_sail.html to http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2006/07/blackbeard_sail.html * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080101135115/http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2005/11/poseidon.html to http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2005/11/poseidon.html * Corrected formatting/usage for http://zabelmedia.com/ * Corrected formatting/usage for http://instanthistory.net/ Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 00:37, 27 July 2017 (UTC)	WIKI
ISSN: 2155-3289 eISSN: 2155-3297 All Issues Volume 12, 2022 Volume 11, 2021 Volume 10, 2020 Volume 9, 2019 Volume 8, 2018 Volume 7, 2017 Volume 6, 2016 Volume 5, 2015 Volume 4, 2014 Volume 3, 2013 Volume 2, 2012 Volume 1, 2011 Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization March 2021 , Volume 11 , Issue 1 Select all articles Export/Reference: Fault-tolerant control against actuator failures for uncertain singular fractional order systems Xuefeng Zhang and Yingbo Zhang 2021, 11(1): 1-12 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020011 +[Abstract](2396) +[HTML](640) +[PDF](424.52KB) Abstract: A method of designing observer-based feedback controller against actuator failures for uncertain singular fractional order systems (SFOS) is presented in this paper. By establishing actuator fault model and state observer, an observer-based fault-tolerant state feedback controller is developed such that the closed-loop SFOS is admissible. The controller designed by the proposed method guarantees that the closed-loop system is regular, impulse-free and stable in the event of actuator failures. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method. Decoupling of cubic polynomial matrix systems Peizhao Yu, Guoshan Zhang and Yi Zhang 2021, 11(1): 13-26 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020012 +[Abstract](1964) +[HTML](682) +[PDF](351.1KB) Abstract: The decoupling of polynomial matrix system is to diagonalize its system matrix. In this paper, decoupling problems for cubic polynomial matrix system are considered. The decoupling conditions for a class of cubic polynomial matrix systems are derived under strict equivalence transformation. By using linearization, isospectral decoupling method for cubic polynomial matrix system is proposed. To be specific, necessary and sufficient conditions of isospectral diagonalization for nonsingular cubic polynomial matrix are given. These results are extended to singular cubic polynomial matrix. Solving processes are given to obtain isospectral diagonal cubic polynomial matrix for nonsingular and singular cases. Finally, illustrating examples are provided to verify the main results. On the GSOR iteration method for image restoration Mehdi Bastani and Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh 2021, 11(1): 27-43 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020013 +[Abstract](2456) +[HTML](615) +[PDF](1515.36KB) Abstract: In this study, we present a generalization of the successive overrelaxation (GSOR) iteration method to find the solution of the image restoration problem. Moreover, an improved version of the GSOR (IGSOR) method is also given to solve the proposed problem. Convergence of the GSOR and IGSOR methods are investigated. Three numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the methods. On the bang-bang control approach via a component-wise line search strategy for unconstrained optimization M. S. Lee, H. G. Harno, B. S. Goh and K. H. Lim 2021, 11(1): 45-61 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020014 +[Abstract](2799) +[HTML](652) +[PDF](569.23KB) Abstract: A bang-bang iteration method equipped with a component-wise line search strategy is introduced to solve unconstrained optimization problems. The main idea of this method is to formulate an unconstrained optimization problem as an optimal control problem to obtain an optimal trajectory. However, the optimal trajectory can only be generated by impulsive control variables and it is a straight line joining a guessed initial point to a minimum point. Thus, a priori bounds are imposed on the control variables in order to obtain a feasible solution. As a result, the optimal trajectory is made up of bang-bang control sub-arcs, which form an iterative model based on the Lyapunov function's theorem. This is to ensure monotonic decrease of the objective function value and convergence to a desirable minimum point. However, a chattering behavior may occur near the solution. To avoid this behavior, the Newton iterations are then applied to the proposed method via a two-phase approach to achieve fast convergence. Numerical experiments show that this new approach is efficient and cost-effective to solve the unconstrained optimization problems. Piecewise quadratic bounding functions for finding real roots of polynomials Djamel Aaid, Amel Noui and Özen Özer 2021, 11(1): 63-73 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020015 +[Abstract](471) +[HTML](19) +[PDF](818.24KB) Abstract: In this paper, our main interest is to create/ construct a new useful and outstanding algorithm to obtain roots of the real polynomial represented by \begin{document}$ f(x) = c_{0}+c_{1}x+...+c_{i}x^{i}+...+c_{n}x^{n} $\end{document} where coefficients of the polynomials are real numbers and \begin{document}$ x $\end{document} is a real number in the closed interval of \begin{document}$ \mathbb{R} $\end{document}. Also, our results are supported by numerical examples. Then, a new algorithm is compared with the others (writer classical methods) and this algorithm is more useful than others. Maximum and minimum ranks and inertias of the Hermitian parts of the least rank solution of the matrix equation AXB = C Sihem Guerarra 2021, 11(1): 75-86 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020016 +[Abstract](1698) +[HTML](606) +[PDF](345.18KB) Abstract: In this paper we derive the extremal ranks and inertias of the matrix \begin{document}$ X+X^{\ast}-P $\end{document}, with respect to \begin{document}$ X $\end{document}, where \begin{document}$ P\in\mathbb{C} _{H}^{n\times n} $\end{document} is given, \begin{document}$ X $\end{document} is a least rank solution to the matrix equation \begin{document}$ AXB = C $\end{document}, and then give necessary and sufficient conditions for \begin{document}$ X+X^{\ast}\succ P $\end{document} \begin{document}$ \left( \geq P\text{, }\prec P\text{, }\leq P\right) $\end{document} in the Löwner partial ordering. As consequence, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the matrix equation \begin{document}$ AXB = C $\end{document} to have a Hermitian Re-positive or Re-negative definite solution. Improving whale optimization algorithm for feature selection with a time-varying transfer function Mohammed Abdulrazaq Kahya, Suhaib Abduljabbar Altamir and Zakariya Yahya Algamal 2021, 11(1): 87-98 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020017 +[Abstract](3682) +[HTML](914) +[PDF](2599.31KB) Abstract: Feature selection is a valuable tool in supervised machine learning research fields, such as pattern recognition or classification problems. Feature selection used to eliminate irrelevant and noise features that adversely affect results. Swarm algorithms are usually used in feature selection problem; these algorithms need transfer functions that change search space from continuous to the discrete. However, transfer functions are the backbone of all binary swarm algorithms. Transfer functions in the current formula cannot provide binary swarm algorithms with a fit balance between exploration and exploitation stages. In this work, a feature selection approach based on the binary whale optimization algorithm with different kinds of updating techniques for the time-varying transfer functions is proposed. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, three of each chemical and biological binary datasets are used. The results proved that BWOA-TV2 has consistency in feature selection and it gives rise to the high accuracy of the classification with more congruent in the convergence. It worth mentioning that the proposed method is proved advance in performance over competitor optimization algorithms, such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and firefly optimization (FO) that commonly used in this field. A density matrix approach to the convergence of the self-consistent field iteration Parikshit Upadhyaya, Elias Jarlebring and Emanuel H. Rubensson 2021, 11(1): 99-115 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020018 +[Abstract](2386) +[HTML](514) +[PDF](555.47KB) Abstract: In this paper, we present a local convergence analysis of the self-consistent field (SCF) iteration using the density matrix as the state of a fixed-point iteration. Conditions for local convergence are formulated in terms of the spectral radius of the Jacobian of a fixed-point map. The relationship between convergence and certain properties of the problem is explored by deriving upper bounds expressed in terms of higher gaps. This gives more information regarding how the gaps between eigenvalues of the problem affect the convergence, and hence these bounds are more insightful on the convergence behaviour than standard convergence results. We also provide a detailed analysis to describe the difference between the bounds and the exact convergence factor for an illustrative example. Finally we present numerical examples and compare the exact value of the convergence factor with the observed behaviour of SCF, along with our new bounds and the characterization using the higher gaps. We provide heuristic convergence factor estimates in situations where the bounds fail to well capture the convergence. A PID control method based on optimal control strategy Hong Niu, Zhijiang Feng, Qijin Xiao and Yajun Zhang 2021, 11(1): 117-126 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020019 +[Abstract](1986) +[HTML](605) +[PDF](342.11KB) Abstract: A PID control method which combined optimal control strategy is proposed in this paper. The posterior unmodeled dynamics measurement data information are made full use to compensate the unknown nonlinearity of the system, and the unknown increment of the unmodeled dynamics is estimated. Then, a nonlinear PID controller with compensation of the posterior unmodeled dynamics measurement data and the estimation of the increment of the unmodeled dynamics is designed. Finally, through the numerical simulation, the effectiveness of the proposed method is vertified. Dissipative control for uncertain singular markovian jump systems via hybrid impulsive control Hui Lv and Xing'an Wang 2021, 11(1): 127-142 doi: 10.3934/naco.2020020 +[Abstract](1827) +[HTML](540) +[PDF](424.91KB) Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of dissipative control for a class of uncertain singular Markovian jump systems. Different from the traditional control strategy, a derivative gain and impulsive control part are added in the proposed controller. A linearization approach via congruence transformations is proposed to solve the feedback design problem. In addition, the derived results contain \begin{document}$ H_{\infty} $\end{document} and passive control as special cases. 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Venezuela's 5th minimum wage hike in a year shows its economy is collapsing On Sunday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro raised the country’s minimum wage by a whopping 50 percent. But it wasn’t much of a surprise — the country has already raised the minimum wage four times in the past year alone, in an attempt to adapt to a crippling inflation crisis that has caused the price of basic necessities like food to skyrocket to astronomical levels. Maduro announced that he was hiking the monthly minimum wage to 40,000 bolivars, which amounts to just US$12 on the black market, where most people buy dollars because they don’t have access to official exchange rate dollars. The minimum wage has now risen by a cumulative 322 percent since last February. Venezuela’s economy has been in a tailspin since a drop in global oil prices in 2014, and its explosive inflation — the highest in the world — is showing no signs of letting up. The International Monetary Fund estimates that the country’s inflation is expected to rise 1,660 percent this year and 2,880 percent next year. Just to get a sense of how much that defies the region’s trends, if you exclude Venezuela, inflation in Latin America is expected to increase by less than 7 percent in 2017. Proponents of free market capitalism have been eager to point to Venezuela’s disaster as the latest proof that socialism is a guarantor of economic ruin. But the reality is considerably more complex. Setting aside the fact that some leftist policymaking experiments in South America like Bolivia are faring quite well, Venezuela’s woes are due to a confluence of factors, ranging from the country’s destructive addiction to oil to shortsighted monetary policy — factors that can’t simply be dismissed as vices of socialism. The country is suffering from huge shortages in food, medicine, and electricity, which has triggered upheavals ranging from widespread looting of stores to disruptions in the school year for millions of children. If someone wants to try to find alternatives to publicly subsidized stores that are running low on goods, buying an item like flour on the black market can cost an entire month’s pay for minimum wage workers. Analysts say the latest increase in minimum wage doesn’t come close to keeping up with the rate of inflation, meaning that it won’t raise the minimum wage to a rate that’s easy to actually live on. And as Alejandro Velasco, a scholar of Latin American history at New York University, points out, it won’t provide a boost to the millions of workers who are employed in the informal economy — businesses that are off the books and unburdened by government regulation. The inflation crisis has made the everyday use of cash incredibly difficult. When Velasco visited Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, last fall, it took about 10 100-bolivar bills — the country’s largest-denomination bill — to simply buy a cup of coffee in a shop. He saw long ATM lines as people constantly sought out more cash to buy the most basic products needed to get by. But in order to deal with the cash crunch, ATMs had a daily allowance, which wasn’t very high: He says it came out to around the price of about six cups of coffee. In December, Venezuela announced that it expects to print six new bank notes, worth between 500 and 20,000 bolivars, to ease the cash crisis. It also announced a plan to pull 100-bolivar notes from circulation — both because the currency has basically become worthless and in order to try to crack down on the untaxed shadow economy. However, the deadline for them to be decommissioned has been delayed until later in January, and it’s unclear exactly what status they have at the moment. Suffice it to say, using money in Venezuela at the moment is not easy. There are several reasons Venezuela is where it is today. The first one is tied to the plummeting of global oil prices since 2014, which wreaked havoc on the country’s economy. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and that feature has long been at the core of its economic well-being. Since the early 20th century, its economy has experienced booms and busts based on how much oil could be sold for on the global market. Between about 2004 and 2014, global oil prices skyrocketed, and gave Venezuela the biggest sustained oil revenue windfall it has ever received. Under the socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez, the government used the surge in revenue for ambitious social spending that invested heavily in education, health, and anti-poverty programs. But oil is as much a curse as it is a gift for many countries, and Venezuela is a prime example of it. It relied entirely on oil exports to drive growth and did little to invest in domestic production. Instead, it relied on imports for many of its most basic goods and services. So when oil prices plunged, so did Venezuela’s economy, which had put all its eggs in one, well, barrel. Velasco believes Chavez’s model of socialism that he implemented during that era of the oil boom exacerbated the country’s oil dependency. “His system of nationalizations and regulations really strangled the already meager productive apparatus of Venezuela,” he explains. He says the problem isn’t socialism per se, but rather “petro-socialism”: The real gains that marginalized Venezuelans saw through increased social spending were ultimately undermined by a refusal to generate sources of growth other than oil. Chavez’s spending regime also left the country acutely vulnerable to emergency. Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School, notes at the New York Times that Chavez’s government failed “to put money aside for a rainy day but instead, over-spent and quintupled the public foreign debt.” When the price of oil fell, it left the government “with no savings and no access to financial markets because of over-indebtedness.” Chavez’s bid to make Venezuelan democracy more participatory has caused the state to pour huge sums of resources into election campaign seasons since the turn of the millennium. Every year and a half or so, some kind of referendum or election on a regional or national level takes place, and the government tends to spend fortune on the campaigns surrounding it. This wasn’t in and of itself a cause of the crisis, but rather was symptomatic of the lack of government discipline that helped set the stage for it. The response of the government to the decline in oil prices has made the situation worse. As the country was rocked by lower oil prices, imports dropped, and people used their money to chase after fewer and fewer products with increasingly marked-up prices. So the government printed out more money to ensure people had enough money in their pockets. But ultimately the combination of the huge increase in the money supply and the sluggish rate of imports has fueled inflation further. Velasco’s perspective on the current Venezuelan crisis is that it’s the latest manifestation of the country’s old addiction to oil — one that’s surfaced before under other governments, not just socialist ones. “The problem isn’t ideology — it’s dependence,” he says.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Weblogic 10.3.5: WLST in Embedded Mode Weblogic 10.3.5: WLST in Embedded Mode In embedded mode, you instantiate the WLST interpreter in your Java code and use it to run WLST commands and scripts. All WLST commands and variables that you use in interactive and script mode can be run in embedded mode. This example illustrates how to instantiate the WLST interpreter and use it to connect to a running server, create two servers, and assign them to clusters. package wlst; import java.util.; import weblogic.management.scripting.utils.WLSTInterpreter; import org.python.util.InteractiveInterpreter; /* * Simple embedded WLST example that will connect WLST to a running server, * create two servers, and assign them to a newly created cluster and exit. * <p>Title: EmbeddedWLST.java</p> * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004</p> * <p>Company: BEA Systems</p> */ public class EmbeddedWLST { static InteractiveInterpreter interpreter = null; EmbeddedWLST() { interpreter = new WLSTInterpreter(); } private static void connect() { String user="user1"; String pass="pw12ab"; String url ="t3://localhost:7001"; Environment env = new Environment(); env.setProviderUrl(url); env.setSecurityPrincipal(user); env.setSecurityCredentials(pass); Context ctx = env.getInitialContext(); interpreter.exec ("connect('"+user+"','"+pass+"','"+url+"')"); } private static void createServers() { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); buf.append(startTransaction()); buf.append("man1=create('msEmbedded1','Server')\n"); buf.append("man2=create('msEmbedded2','Server')\n"); buf.append("clus=create('clusterEmbedded','Cluster')\n"); buf.append("man1.setListenPort(8001)\n"); buf.append("man2.setListenPort(9001)\n"); buf.append("man1.setCluster(clus)\n"); buf.append("man2.setCluster(clus)\n"); buf.append(endTransaction()); buf.append("print ‘Script ran successfully ...’ \n"); interpreter.exec(buf.toString()); } private static String startTransaction() { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); buf.append("edit()\n"); buf.append("startEdit()\n"); return buf.toString(); } private static String endTransaction() { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); buf.append("save()\n"); buf.append("activate(block='true')\n"); return buf.toString(); } public static void main(String[] args) { new EmbeddedWLST(); connect(); createServers(); } } Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs90/config_scripting/using_WLST.html 2 comments: 1. I get an error saying the CompatabilityMBeanServer is not initialized properly when I try to connect. I am running a JDeveloper Integrated weblogic server. The wlst.cmd script works fine just can connect when running through Java from within an Eclipse project. Any ideas ? ReplyDelete 2. Can you help for a script to export a customization files wiht wlst embedded like your example but for a Customization File. Tanks ReplyDelete ForgeRock IAM : OpenDS (Open Directory Server). Importing LDIF files The most efficient method of importing LDIF data is to take the OpenDJ server offline. Alternatively, you can schedule a task to import the ...	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Taare Zameen Par/archive1 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page. The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 20:30, 14 November 2010. Taare Zameen Par * ''Nominator(s): Ω pho is I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it is now up to FA standards, especially after the recent copyedit. I normally only focus on TV articles, but after watching such an amazing film, I felt it deserved a high-quality article. Ω pho is 00:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * When people cite DVDs, they normally cite which minute of the footage it occurred in, don't they, in the same way as in book pages.. Or do they expect people to scan through the whole making of?? Newspapers need to be italicised, and the books in the further reading aren't in yyyy-mm-dd like the rest. Is the fact that about 35% of the cites come from the behidn the scenes DVD make it a primary source? YellowMonkey ( new photo poll ) 00:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I have never seen any article or FA specifically cite minutes on a DVD. I have fixed the book dates, and am currently working on fixing the newspapers. And yes, the DVD's are arguably a primary source. Ω pho is 01:26, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I have made all the newspapers italics. Ω pho is 01:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * There was an article a few months ago that failed for different reasons, that cited minutes in the DVD, It was about a certain UEFA Champions LEague final. There have been others YellowMonkey ( new photo poll ) 08:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * And there have been many more that don't. Ω pho is 14:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * As of now, I've added in timestamps for the first half of the commentary. Ω pho is 03:27, 22 October 2010 (UTC) * I have finished the timestamps for the commentary, and am almost finished finding the times for the Making of. Ω pho is 04:45, 25 October 2010 (UTC) * Done. Ω pho is 22:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC) * Comment - one double redirect (Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth), no dead external links or dab links. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:35, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I could not locate it. Ω pho is 01:26, 21 October 2010 (UTC) Comments * Nice to see the new Rupee symbol, but you use both the symbol as well as "Rs." Please be consistent and use only one. * Done. Ω pho is 17:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * I think the first paragraph of the lead devotes too much text to name people who worked on the film. I don't think the name of the visual effects studio, claymation artist, and lyricist are too important for the lead. * Since this was the first time claymation has been used in a Bollywood film, I think the claymation artist is important. The lyricist also won an award for one of the songs. Ω pho is 17:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Instead concentrate more on the plot. For one thing, I don't think the film is about the relationship between the two, but rather is a portrait of the boy. Right? * Done. Ω pho is 17:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * The last sentence of the lead is very vague (you need to read the Slumdog section to make sense of it); could you probably combine it with the previous sentence to make your point clearer? * Done. Ω pho is 17:42, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Can the plot be condensed into a tight 3-4 paragraphs? It's a little rambly now, with the short, stubby paragraphs and the names of all those famous dyslexic people etc. Don't go into too much detail. * Better? Ω pho is 17:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Woah, you quote eleven people for their positive reviews in the critical reception section! (including two from the Beeb, and Kashyap.) Since they all mostly say the same thing, you think you can cut down to just 5-6 uniquely worded reviews? Further, have the positive reviewers offered any words of complaint against the film? It might be useful to add that info in the negative reviews paragraph. * Done. Ω pho is 00:27, 27 October 2010 (UTC) * If successive sentences in the same paragraphs are referenced by the same citation, you don't need to cite every sentence, just the final one. (especially in the Children section). * Done. Ω pho is 22:04, 25 October 2010 (UTC) * India uses British English, so per WP:TIES, color should be colour, authorizes should be authorises etc. * I went through and corrected any instances in the text I could find. However, I wasn't sure what to do with quoted instances, so I left them as originally written. Ω pho is 04:52, 22 October 2010 (UTC) * I'm surprised there is no mention of the "3 into 9" sequence being a rip-off of a Calvin & Hobbes strip. * Thanks for the heads up. Blogspot is not a reliable source, but I'll check for a mention elsewhere. Ω pho is 14:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I couldn't find any reliable sources for this. Ω pho is 23:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * Was the film influenced by the Truffaut film The 400 Blows? (The plots of the two films are very similar...) * I couldn't find any reliable sources for this. Ω pho is 23:46, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * You can add a pic of Aamir Khan to the article. * He is already in the critical response section. Ω pho is 14:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * Oh, yeah, silly me.—indopug (talk) 06:54, 22 October 2010 (UTC) * My only real worry: why haven't the two psychiatric journal articles on the film in the Further reading section—"Wake up call from 'Stars on the Ground'" and "Taare Zameen Par and dyslexic savants"—not been used as sources in the article? Without them, the article fails WP:FA? criteria 1b and 1c. —indopug (talk) 08:35, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I'll look into that later today or tomorrow. Ω pho is 14:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I read the articles, and in my opinion they can only work towards the response section as "scholarly reaction" or something similar. I will work on that later today. Ω pho is 15:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I added these to a Scholarly response section. Ω pho is 23:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I also used some of the other Further Reading to make a Public Response section. Ω pho is 04:27, 22 October 2010 (UTC) * I believe all the concerns have been addressed. Ω pho is 01:53, 1 November 2010 (UTC) * I'll revisit this in a few days, in the meantime, could you review the issue of the repeating refs for consecutive refs? (for eg, ref #3)—indopug (talk) 04:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC) * Sorry, thought I had gotten all of them. I've gone back through it and correct the remaining ones. Ω pho is 04:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC) * Have all your concerns been addressed? Ω pho is 17:26, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Comments: * For an example of an FAC that cites where in the video that an source occurs, see Featured article candidates/Dustbin Baby (film)/archive2 right below this. For the number of cites you have to various videos, this is a good idea, it's equivalent to page numbers. If the video being used as a source is short (under 5 minutes, say) then it's not needed, but I'm assuming that a commentary on a movie is longer than 5 minutes. * I'll work on that later today or tomorrow. Ω pho is 14:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * What makes http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/ a high quality reliable source? And it should be linked on the first occurrence in the references, not the second as currently occurs. * Formerly known as IndiaFM, it has been mentioned by CNN and The Economic Times. It was also recognized by PC World as "Best Indian Entertainment website". Their "about us" page is here. Ω pho is 15:51, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * Additionally, both MSN and Yahoo! hired Bollywood Hungama to provide content for their Indian sites, as noted here. Ω pho is 15:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * I corrected the linking. The link is now in the first ref instance instead. Ω pho is 18:53, 22 October 2010 (UTC) * Current ref 8 (Aamir bends the rules) lacks a publisher. * Fixed. Ω pho is 17:54, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * What makes http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1694 a high quality reliable source? * It started off in print but moved to online. It has a main editor and a smaller editor staff listed here. It also won a Qantas Media Award for "Best Feature Website" in 2009. Ω pho is 18:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * What makes http://www.merinews.com/article/jai-ho-oscars/15712036.shtml a high quality reliable source? NOte http://www.merinews.com/aboutus.jsp which calls it "India's First Citizen Journalism News Portal". * Removed it. Ω pho is 18:06, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Current ref 57 (http://web.archive.org/web/20101021140448re_/http://in.ibtimes.com/articles/20090114/taare-zameen-par-aamir-khan-slumdog-millionaire.htm Taare Zameen Par…) is broken in both the webarchive and regular versions. * Removed it. Ω pho is 15:40, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * What makes http://www.glamsham.com/movies/scoops/09/jan/13-taare-zameen-par-boy-in-slumdog-millionaire-010904.asp a high quality reliable source? * Removed. Ω pho is 18:18, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Likewise http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/46245.html? * Removed. Ω pho is 18:18, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Current ref 80 (Khan, Atta) lacks a publisher * Fixed. Ω pho is 17:54, 23 October 2010 (UTC) * Otherwise, sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC) * Leaving these last out for other reviewers to decide for themselves. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:05, 28 October 2010 (UTC) * Comments * I want to know, in the first paragraph, what the title means, in English. * Fixed. Ω pho is 18:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC) * UTV Home Entertainment released a DVD for Indian audiences in 2008. A few years later Walt Disney Home Entertainment released an international edition DVD titled Like Stars on Earth, marking the first purchase of distribution rights for an Indian film by a global company. * There is no such thing as a "few years" between 2008 and November 2010. A "few" might range from two to four and passibly stretch as far as five, but to describe a period of one-and-a-bit as a few is not appropriate. Besides which, a little research will surely give you a precise date! * Amandajm (talk) 12:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC) * Fixed. Ω pho is 18:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC) * Not fixed! Give us a real date. Disney gives the date of release as 1-12-10. The only problem with this is that this date appears (to me) to be in the future. However I believe there is some strange American custom of putting the month before the year in numerical dates. So whether this date should be read as 1st December 2010 or 12th January 2010 I am at a loss to know. But I am almost sure that a little research would give you a better answer than "later". Amandajm (talk) 02:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC) * This article is written in British English, not American English. The Disney release date is detailed farther down into the article. The lead serves as a summary, and does not require every detail. Since the Disney version was released in three different regions on different dates (one in 2009, and two in 2010), I feel it would be too much unnecessary information. If you want a more specific phrasing, perhaps "Less than two years later" would work? Ω pho is 04:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) * The problem that I mentioned with reading the date doesn't relate to a date in your article. It's the date ofn the Disney webpage. * Givn what you said here, I think that "later" or "less than two years later" is fine. Amandajm (talk) 06:47, 11 November 2010 (UTC) * Oh. I think I understand what you mean. The date listed on the Disney website is using American English, and means January 12. This is for the Region 1 release, which Disney released second. Anyways, I have changed the sentence to "less than two years later". 15:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC) Support All my concerns have been addressed.—indopug (talk) 19:57, 13 November 2010 (UTC) More than three weeks up, no consensus to promote, and I don't see a spotcheck for WP:V or WP:COPYVIO; please bring the article back in a few weeks. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 20:14, 14 November 2010 (UTC)	WIKI
Page:Agreement relating to Malaysia (1963).djvu/3 of the United Kingdom of an Act providing for the relinquishment, as from Malaysia Day, of Her Britannic Majesty's sovereignty and jurisdiction in respect of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore so that the said sovereignty and jurisdiction shall on such relinquishment vest in accordance with this Agreement and the constitutional instruments annexed to this Agreement. Article V * The Government of the Federation of Malaya will take such steps as may be appropriate and available to them to secure the enactment before Malaysia Day by the Parliament of the Federation of Malaya of an Act in the form set out in Annex E to this Agreement for the purpose of extending and adapting the Immigration Ordinance, 1959, of the Federation of Malaya to Malaysia and of making additional provision with respect to entry into the States of Sabah and Sarawak; and the other provisons of this Agreement shall be conditional upon the enactment of the said Act. Article VI * The Agreement on External Defence and Mutual Assistance between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the Federation of Malaya of 12th October, 1957, and its annexes shall apply to all territories of Malaysia, and any reference in that Agreement to the Federation of Malaya shall be deemed to apply to Malaysia, subject to the proviso that the Government of Malaysia will afford to the Government of the United Kingdom the right to continue to maintain the bases and other facilities at present occupied by their Service authorities within the State of Singapore and will permit the Government of the United Kingdom to make such use of these bases and facilities as that Government may consider necessary for the purpose of assisting in the defence of Malaysia, and for Commonwealth defence and for the preservation of peace in South-East Asia. The application of the said Agreement shall be subject to the provisions of Annex F to this Agreement (relating primarily to Service lands in Singapore). Article VII * (1) The Federation of Malaya agrees that Her Britannic Majesty may make before Malaysia Day Orders in Council in the form set out in Annex G to this Agreement for the purpose of making provision for the payment of compensation and retirement benefits to certain overseas officers serving,	WIKI
All Components You are on the site of the Kendo UI Wrappers for React suite which contains wrappers for the Kendo UI for jQuery widgets. To explore the brand-new set of Kendo UI for React components which are built from the ground up, go to the Kendo UI for React suite. Charts Overview The Charts package is a set of components for building common chart types. Installation All components that you reference during the installation will be present in the final bundle of your application. To avoid ending up with components you do not actually need, import from the package only the desired component. 1. Download and install the package. npm install --save @progress/kendo-charts-react-wrapper 2. Once installed, import the desired component from the package. import { Chart } from '@progress/kendo-charts-react-wrapper'; The package also exports the following individual components: • Sparkline • StockChart 3. You are required to install one of the Kendo UI themes to style your components. Dependencies The Charts package requires you to install the following peer dependencies in your application: • @progress/kendo-ui In this article	ESSENTIALAI-STEM

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