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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-2)
In this lesson, the students will analyze Sequoyah's mother's behavior and the effect it had on Sequoyah. We learn in Chapter One that Sequoyah's mother is an alcoholic. As a very young child, he tried to take care of his mother, worried when she was hung over, and suffered the consequences of her behavior. He becomes who he is, in part, because of his mother's decisions. Students will look at his mother's behavior and see how it affects his specific actions. Students should also consider what role Sequoyah had in his own behavior.
Class Discussion: What is the first line of the book? What has caused Sequoyah's unhappiness? What do you think Sequoyah sees as the turning point of his life? What does Sequoyah tell readers about his mother? How did Sequoyah get his scars? What job does his mother get? Who is with Sequoyah...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 11-12.1
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Treating Resistant Cases of Alopecia Universalis
Shadi Khawadeh
TLDR Combining platelet-rich plasma therapy with prostaglandin-F eye drops can significantly regrow hair in alopecia universalis.
In the document, the author discusses the treatment of alopecia universalis, a severe form of hair loss, by combining platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy with prostaglandin-F eye drops, which are typically used as anti-glaucoma medication and have the side effect of promoting hair growth. The study involved an 18-year-old female patient with an 8-year history of alopecia universalis who had not responded to any other treatments. After six sessions of the combined PRP and eye drop treatment, significant hair regrowth was observed, which was documented with photographs. The treatment was also found to be safe, with no systemic side effects except for some abdominal cramps. Encouraged by these results, the treatment was also applied to cases of androgenic alopecia, where it showed superior outcomes compared to PRP alone.
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A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy dance events this weekend in the New York metropolitan region. * denotes a highly recommended event. Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. 'FOREVER TANGO' Better than Viagra, and for all ages, too. Luis Bravo's ''Forever Tango'' features sultry and comical dancers and first-rate musicians in a show, extended through Nov. 28, that is both tacky and transcendent. Tonight (and Tuesdays and Thursdays) at 8; tomorrow (and Wednesdays) at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 239-6200. Tickets: $45 to $85 JENNIFER DUNNING | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Vodafone lifts profit view as customers ditch wifi for mobile
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone (VOD.L), the world’s second-largest mobile operator, has raised its full-year earnings forecast for the first time in recent history, as customers switch to using more mobile data on their smartphones rather than looking for wifi. The increase came as the company reported a 13 percent rise in first-half adjusted core earnings to 7.4 billion euros ($8.7 billion), comfortably ahead of market forecasts. Vodafone is benefiting from growth in mobile data and higher take-up of its broadband services following heavy investment in both its mobile and fixed-line networks. It sees full-year earnings rising 10 percent, up from 4-8 percent previously. “The strategy is working,” Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said on Tuesday, adding Vodafone now covered almost 100 million homes with next-generation infrastructure in Europe. The company added 1.2 million broadband homes in the first half, more than rivals Orange (ORAN.PA), Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), BT (BT.L) and Telefonica (TEF.MC), Colao said. Faster networks, improved coverage and bigger data allowances helped to boost average revenue per user in its four biggest European markets. “Customers are increasingly using mobile networks rather than wifi given the improving quality of our 4G and 4G-plus networks and our more generous data allowances,” Colao said. The usage of wifi versus cellular had declined for the first time, by around 4 percentage points, he said. At 1545 GMT, Vodafone shares were up 5.2 percent, after touching a three month high of 228.45 pence. INVESTING in CONVERGENCE A growing trend among customers to take fixed-line broadband and mobile services from the same provider is also boosting growth for Vodafone, which is the biggest challenger to former monopoly providers in markets such as Germany. “We see convergence, with true fiber with gigabit speeds, becoming more of a competitive case,” Colao said. “Vodafone is investing in that area, (but) others are also investing.” It has recently announced a 2 billion euro investment in fiber connections in Germany and a partnership with CityFibre in Britain to improve its fixed-line position. Analysts, however, speculate a broader tie up with cable firm Liberty Global (LBTYA.O), which has already combined with Vodafone in the Netherlands, would make sense. Colao said the German investment did not preclude a possible deal with Liberty, which owns the Unitymedia cable network in the country. “If an opportunity arises to do something with Liberty we will look at it,” he reiterated. “(But) there’s no reason for waiting and not doing the right thing because one day maybe something might happen.” UBS analysts, who rate the stock a “buy”, said earnings were benefiting from solid top-line trends and cost savings. “Almost every geography was notably ahead versus consensus for second-quarter organic service revenue growth, particularly Germany ... and Spain,” they said. Organic service revenue - which strips out the impact of acquisitions, disposals and currency moves - rose 1.7 percent in the six months to end-September, although the deconsolidation of Vodafone Netherlands and foreign exchange movements resulted in a 4.1 percent dip in total revenue to 23.1 billion euros. Vodafone said its increased full-year forecast, which implies core earnings of 14.75-14.95 billion euros, reflected stronger-than-expected underlying revenue growth in Europe and a later-than-anticipated launch of a new entrant in Italy. It said free cash flow would come in above 5 billion euros, rather than its previous view of around 5 billion euros. Free cash flow was 1.3 billion euros in the half against a 100 million euro outflow a year ago when the company was battling fierce competition in India. Vodafone agreed in January to combining its Indian unit with Idea Cellular IDEA.NS to create a market leader to take on new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm. Vodafone said on Monday it would sell its mobile phone masts in India, owned separately from its Indus Towers joint venture, to American Tower Corp (AMT.N). Colao said he was continuing to explore options for its 42 percent stake in Indus Towers. ($1 = 0.8559 euros) Editing by Louise Heavens and Mark Potter | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984
STAT. 3223
"$20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1982, and $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988". (e) Section 4008(a)(2)(C) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to 42 USC 6948. implementation assistance) is amended by striking out "and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1982" and substituting "$10,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, and $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988". "(f) UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS.—(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subtitle I (relating to regulation of underground Post, p. 3277. storage tanks), $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988. (g) Section 4008 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to Federal assistance for certain programs) is amended in paragraph (4) of subsection (f) (relating to assistance to States for discretionary programs for recycled oil) by striking out "and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1983" and substituting ", $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1983, and $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988". (h) Section 5006 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to 42 USC 6956. Department of Commerce functions) is amended by inserting after "1982" the following "and $1,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988". (i) Section 2007 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to 42 USC 6916. criminal investigators) is amended by adding the following new subsections at the end thereof: "(e) CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator $3,246,000 for the fiscal year 1985, $2,408,300 for the fiscal year 1986, $2,529,000 for the fiscal year 1987, and $2,529,000 for the fiscal year 1988 to be used— "(1) for additional officers or employees of the Environmental Protection Agency authorized by the Administrator to conduct criminal investigations (to investigate, or supervise the investigation of, any activity for which a criminal penalty is provided) under this Act; and "(2) for support costs for such additional officers or employees. "(f) UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS.—(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subtitle I (relating to regulation of underground storage temks), $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988. "(2) There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of Grants. the fiscal years 1985 through 1988 to be used to make grants to the States for purposes of assisting the States in the development and implementation of approved State underground storage tank release detection, prevention, and correction programs under subtitle I." (j) There is authorized to be appropriated for purposes of section 2210)) of this Act $500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1987. (k) Section 4008(a)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended 42 USC 6948. by adding the following new subparagraph after subparagraph (C): "(D) There are authorized— "(i) to be made available $15,000,000 out of funds appropriated for fiscal year 1985, and "(ii) to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1986 though 1988, $20,000,000 for grants to States (and where appropriate to regional, local, and interstate agencies) to implement programs requiring compliance by
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Is Chipotle's Stock Better Than This Peer?
We think that Chipotle Mexican Grill‘s stock (NYSE: CMG), currently is a similar pick compared to Texas Roadhouse’s stock (NASDAQ: TXRH). Chipotle’s stock trades at about 5.8x trailing revenues, compared to around 1.8x for Texas Roadhouse. Does this gap in the companies’ valuations make sense? We believe so. Chipotle has recorded higher revenue growth and a better growth in operating margin over the last three years. However, there is more to the comparison, which makes Chipotle and Texas Roadhouse similar bets at these valuations. Let’s step back to look at the fuller picture of the relative valuation of the two companies by looking at historical revenue growth as well as operating income and operating margin growth. Our dashboard Chipotle Mexican Grill vs Texas Roadhouse: Industry Peers; Which Stock Is A Better Bet? has more details on this. Parts of the analysis are summarized below.
1. Revenue Growth
As both companies’ fiscal year ends in December, its ongoing FY is 2021. If compared on the basis of the past three years, Chipotle is better than Texas Roadhouse in revenue growth. Chipotle’s revenues have gained by a rate of 10.2% over the last three FY’s. On a comparable basis, Texas Roadhouse’s revenues rose by the rate of 3.3% over the last three FY’s. Further, for the most recent quarter (Q3 2021) Texas Roadhouse saw a better revenue growth with revenues rising by 37.7% YoY, while Chipotle’s rose by 21.9%.
2. Margins
Chipotle’s Operating margins were 10.6% in the last twelve month period, a positive 4.6% change compared to the last three FY’s. In comparison, Texas Roadhouse’s Operating margins were 7.9% in the last twelve month period, a positive 2.4% change compared to the last three FY’s. FCF margins for both companies are similar at 13.3% for Chipotle compared to 13.5% for Texas Roadhouse.
Risk
Chipotle has a better debt position, with debt as % of equity of 0% vs 17.8% for Texas Roadhouse. Chipotle has slightly more cash cushion, with cash as % of assets of 18.3% vs 17.9% for Texas Roadhouse.
The Net of It All
While Chipotle’s trailing revenue multiple stands higher than that of Texas Roadhouse, it has seen better growth in revenues and operating margins compared to Texas Roadhouse. A consistent rise in revenues and operating margin makes Chipotle more expensive and justifies a higher P/S ratio of 5.8x vs Texas Roadhouse’s 1.8x. We believe at current valuation both companies have similar expected returns over the next three year period and thus are comparable bets currently.
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February is Black History Month, and in honor of that, we decided to look back at some of the black and African American men and women who helped to shape the industry of nursing. Their strength, and unyielding determination in the face of prejudice and systemic racism to provide medical care and save lives helped shape the profession into what it is today. Here’s a deeper look at some of their contributions.
Harriet Tubman’s name on this list may surprise you. She’s famous for her work on the underground railroad helping slaves escape to freedom, but she was also a nurse. She worked in Washington, D.C. Freedman’s Hospital for a time and from there spent some time as a community nurse and teacher in Beaufort, South Carolina before ending up in Fort Monroe, Virginia where she was matron of a hospital there during the Civil War. She never received compensation for her nursing work during the Civil War, but her life’s calling to tend to the sick and ailing stayed with her until she died. In 1908, the Harriet Tubman Home for the Elderly was built and there she nursed and cared for others until her death.
Betty Smith Williams
Co-founder and former president of the National Black Nurses Association, Betty Smith Williams has spent her nursing career primarily as an educator and a leader. She was the first African American to teach at the university level in the state of California. She went on to become the Assistant Dean for UCLA’s School of Nursing, Dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Founding Dean for the American University of Health Sciences’ School of Nursing.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American to become a licensed nurse in 1879. Before coming a nurse, she worked in a hospital for women and children under many different roles eventually coming to work as a nursing assistant. Her experiences with discrimination in the public sector did not cause her to leave nursing, but to instead focus her skills elsewhere. So, she went to work as a private nurse, where she earned a positive reputation, and in 1908 she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
Estelle Massey Osborne
As the first African American nurse to earn a master’s degree, Estelle Massey Osborne later became president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and worked to create a relationship with the American Nurses Association (ANA) which was white members and not welcoming to African American nurses. She later served as a board member of the ANA, and as of 1982 an annual scholarship in her name was established to help a black nurse achieve a master’s degree in nursing.
James Derham was born a slave in Philadelphia, and went on to become the first African American to have his own medical practice. His practice was in New Orleans, and he was a nurse and a doctor.
Mary Jane Seacole
Mary Jane Seacole, a Jamaican woman was awarded the Order of Merit after her death by the Jamaican Government and is affectionately known as the Black Briton to the United Kingdom. She was an author and a nurse. Her memoir “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” describes her extensive travels, and how her nursing skills were adamantly refused in London on the grounds of racism. She went on to nurse soldiers during the Crimean War, and treated many during a cholera epidemic.
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor was born into slavery, and found herself a refugee behind Union lines during the Civil War as a young teen. She found the first black regiment in the U.S. Army and worked as a nurse, and taught literacy. She wrote her memoir, largely focusing on her time as an army nurse just a decade before her death.
Jesse Sleet Scales
Born in Ontario, Jesse Sleet Scales graduated from Provident Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago in 1895 and went on to be the first African American public health nurse in the U.S. Her first public health job as a nurse was in New York, where she visited the homes of African Americans suffering from tuberculosis. Her work in this was submitted for publication in the American Journal of Nursing.
Adah Belle Samuel Thoms
Adah Belle Samuel Thoms was the only black woman in her graduating class in 1900, and went on to be the Supervising Surgical Nurse and Acting Director of New York City’s Lincoln Hospital and Home. She became president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, and her advocacy work directly led to the full integration of black nurses in WWII. She was also the first ever to receive the Mary Mahoney Award.
Martha Minerva Franklin
Martha Minerva Franklin, frustrated by the blatant racism and hospital employment rejections sent letters to fellow black nursing graduates to learn more about their experiences in other cities. As a result of her outreach and networking, she co-founded of the National Association of Colored Graduates. Later she worked in New York public schools as a nurse before retiring and leaving the city.
Hazel W. Johnson-Brown
Hazel W. Johnson-Brown was the first African American female general in the U.S. army. Her role primarily as a nurse educator, she also became the first black Chief of the Army Nurse Corps. When she retired from the military, she did not retire from nursing. She was a leader with the ANA, and a teacher at the George Mason University’s Center for Health Policy.
Above, there were several mentions of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. That association no longer exists. However, the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) was founded in 1971 and is very active. It now has over 200,000 nurse members in 115 chapters. They’re active in their communities providing healthcare services to their communities, organizing conferences for continued education, and career fairs. | FINEWEB-EDU |
The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Imitation in Animals
IMITATION IN ANIMALS. This is a somewhat technical phrase used in zoology to designate the fact that certain kinds of animals have acquired, by the gradual process of natural selection, a resemblance to other animals, which are said to be “imitated,” although, of course, no effort to become like them is consciously made. This is one of the two principal phases of what is called “protective resemblance” the other being an acquired and protective likeness to some vegetable or inanimate object that causes it to be overlooked by its enemies; this second phase is termed “mimicry,” and is described under that head. While the advantage gained by mimicry is that the animal is either overlooked altogether, or else mistaken by its enemy for something of no value to the latter, that gained by imitation is that the animal is avoided by predatory kinds because it is mistaken for something harmful or at least distasteful. The methods by which, according to the theory of Darwin and his followers, these conditions are matured are explained in the article ; but it should be said that other, or at any rate modified, views of the method have been advanced by other and later writers.
The most widely quoted and typical case of apparently advantageous imitation is that of the South American heliconid butterflies which are evil-smelling creatures so distasteful to both monkeys and birds that they are very rarely if ever eaten, and hence fly about in the
sunshine as carelessly as if they knew they were safe. Now, in the same situations are found butterflies of an entirely different family (Pieridæ) that have none of the inedible qualities of the heliconids, and they, too, fly about freely and are rarely if ever caught, or attempted to be caught by creatures that prey on butterflies, although both are rather clumsy fliers. The conclusion then seems logical that the pierids are getting benefit from their masquerade, however it may have come about. Similar cases of imitation among butterflies may be found in all parts of the world, in some groups a whole genus affecting a more or less close imitation of another genus or family, and elsewhere only a single species in a genus approximating some unrelated form; furthermore, cases occur where the female alone of a Species will imitate another species, whereas the male acquires no such resemblance; this seems to follow the rule, so widely illustrated in all classes of animals, that nature provides for the preservation of the female far more carefully than for the male, who in the inferior ranks of life at least appears to be of little or no importance after he has performed the duty of fertilization.
Many notable illustrations of our theme may be gathered among the insects of the United States. A conspicuous one is the case of one of our large butterflies of the genus Basilarchia. All the species of this genus, with one exception, are dark-colored, with a light border containing blue spots round the margins of the wings, as in the common “mourning cloak”; the single exception is Basilarchia hipparchus, which has a tawny brown color, diversified by black bands and marks. This brown basilarchia almost exactly copies our very common milkweed butterfly (Anosia plexippus). Here there seems no adequate motive for, or advantage gained by, the apparent imitation, and it suggests when it is closely studied various difficulties in respect to the whole subject
But not all cases of this adaptation are confined to resemblances between two insects or other creatures of the same class. A certain butterfly becomes an almost precise duplicate of a dragon-fly; spiders in both North and South America take the form of ants, and a well-known small black wasp of our own country is so ant-like that it is called the cow-ant or velvet-ant. Few town-bred persons go into the country in summer without mistaking for a hummingbird one or other of the big hawk-moths that poise on whirring wings before flowers very much after the manner of the bird, which is scarcely larger. These and similar cases are ruled out by some thinkers on the ground that they are not imitations but cases of parallel development. Many kinds of insects imitate the stinging, and therefore dreaded, tribes of bees and wasps, including flies, beetles and so forth. One common American fly (Volucella) “imitates the honey-bee so closely that one would hesitate to handle it even after being told that it is harmless”; and it profits by the deception to lay its eggs inside of hives. Other flies copy bumblebees so closely as to be remarkable, and they imitate their habits as well as their form and colors, “The drone-fly, for example,” says Metcalf,
“which imitates a honey-bee, has the same kind of buzzing flight, and when standing occasionally teeters its abdomen up and down, as is characteristic of the bees and wasps. Some of these mimicking flies even protrude and withdraw the tip of the abdomen, as does an angry bee or wasp,” threatening to use a sting it does not possess.
Hints have already been given that scientific men are not agreed on the interpretation of all these phenomena, or the causes of them. An attempted discussion of the many questions involved is not possible here. Those who care to go more deeply into the matter should read the evidences and arguments in the books of such men as A. R. Wallace, H. W. Bates. Thomas Belt, Fritz Müller, S. H. Scudder, Lloyd Morgan, W. Bateson and others. A brief and excellent discussion of the matter will be found in ‘Animal Coloration,’ by F. E. Beddard (London 1892), where many good references to other sources are given. | WIKI |
Man using earplugs to protect his hearing before a concert.
Earplugs can be beneficial if you’re subjected to loud noises, such as, something as simple as a spouse who is snoring, or a lawnmower in your backyard, or going to a concert at an arena. Bringing down the sound level is how earplugs can help in the first two circumstances. In the last circumstances, they decrease the sound levels plus help protect your sanity (and maybe your relationships) by permitting you to get a good night’s sleep. But are your ears being damaged by these protectors?
Why Utilize Earplugs at All?
It’s a pretty simple argument for wearing earplugs: Properly used, earplugs can help protect your hearing by reducing your direct exposure to excessive decibel levels. Maybe you’ve observed that your hearing seems different when you leave a loud venue, for instance, a football game with a loud crowd, and you may also experience symptoms of tinnitus. Those small hairs are bent by this type of noise exposure and that’s why this occurs. It often goes away within a day or two, because the hair cells have recovered.
But if you’re subjected to excessive decibels regularly, say you work on a construction crew or at an airfield, the audio assault on those tiny hair cells is unrelenting. Instead of bending and then recovering, the cells are damaged permanently. Inside each cochlea, there are about 16,000 of these tiny hair cells, but up to 50% of them can be destroyed or at least damaged before you would see the different in a hearing exam.
How Might Your Ears be Injured by Wearing Earplugs?
With all that, you’d think that using earplugs would be an obvious choice with regards to protecting your ears. But if your exposed to loud noises on a day to day basis, this seems even more obvious (like on the job or with the previously mentioned snoring partner), over-the-head earmuffs or noise-reducing (but not completely stopping) headphones are a better choice. Earplugs aren’t well suited to everyday use but are a smarter choice for one off occasions like a concert or sporting events.
Why? For one, earwax. So that they can protect themselves, your ears produce earwax, and if you’re constantly wearing earplugs, more earwax will be generated, and you’ll probably jam it in with the plugs. This can cause problems like impacted earwax, which can trigger tinnitus and other hearing concerns.
Ear infections can also be the result from overuse of earplugs. If you continually use the same pair, and you don’t clean them properly from use to use, they can become breeding grounds for bacteria. Ear infections are, at a minimum, a painful annoyance. If neglected, in the worst cases, they can cause an ear infection.
How Can You Make Use of Earplugs Safely?
Whether it’s a good night sleep or safeguarding your hearing, there’s still a formidable positive to using earplugs. Using them in the right way and using the most appropriate kind is the key to success. Foam earplugs are the least expensive, which is helpful because you really should not reuse them, the cushy, porous material is a germ’s haven. Wax or silicone earplugs are reusable, but you need to keep them clean, wash them with warm water and mild soap to clean them, and you shouldn’t put them back in your ears until they’re thoroughly dry. Accumulation of moisture can cause mold and bacteria so store your earplugs in a well ventilated place.
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Talk:SS Normandie/Archive 1
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11:35, 5.Aug.2005, DEF
* the "Normandie" has at full speed trouble with heck vibrations from the screws. It was rebuilt in winter 1935/36 and fitted with new designed 4 bladed screws in 1938. now the vibrations reduced.
* also from 1936 the French line plans to build a little greater sister ship to the Normandie, planed name was "Bretagne".
year scrapped?
The inset table says 1946; the article text says 1947. Which is it? --Super Aardvark 20:47, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
* the ship was sold for scrap on October 3rd 1946, as seen on the French article, i think it took more than 3 months to completely sissaemble the remaining of the world's biggest ship, hence 46-47. JP Belmondo 01:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
gross register ton
This is a good article. One note should be added to clarify that a ship's tonnage is a volumetric quantity, and not a weight measurement. The equivalent of a ship's weight would be displacement, which is the weight of water the ship "displaces".
Wiki should have a seperate article, or have a link to the TON article. Gary Joseph 22:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
The saboteur that doomed her
The Wiki article on Prohibition-era gangster Albert Anastasia says that it was him that ordered the ship burnt as a part of his scheme to help Lucky Luciano (then jailed), and that it was his brother Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio that carried out the sabotage. Is this true? If it is I think it should be included in this article.
Veljko Stevanovich 14. 4. 2006. 23:55 UTC+1
* i think the 2005 TV documentary talked about a simple accident not sabotage (if i can remember), it is possible this theory was created to explain "rationally" a simple unbelievable event which led to the destruction of a mythic ship (it always happen with tragic trivial ends), don't you think?. JP Belmondo 01:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
* Several credible sources agree that Luciano ordered the sabotage (the online Encyclopaedia Britannica, for one - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350578/Lucky-Luciano); therefore, I will include it in the main article. Even if it's not true, it's a theory with enough of a following to at least warrant a mention. Ravenclaw (talk) 10:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
* All theories of sabotage are unlikely. They were examined at the time, and even in the early days of US participation in World War II, all persons investigating her loss concluded that it was a series of blunders that did her in. As more than one person has said (and I misquote), "If stupidity is an adequate reason, there is no need to invoke conspiracy." The list of errors runs something like this: (1) Kapok life preservers were stowed in the main salon, together with other flammable materials. (2) A torch was used in the salon to cut away some lamps. (3) The fire watchers required to be stationed near such operations were absent. (3) The shield normally used to surround the work area had been damaged, so a makeshift was used. (4) Sparks from the cutting operation ignited some of the life vests. (5) The work crew tried to extinguish the flames by pulling the burning vests out of their bales, but only succeeded in spreading the fire. (6) The water supply for the fire mains had been disconnected for the conversion process, so the New York Harbor Fire Department (that's probably not the correct name, but it's good enough for right now) was called in. (7) The fire boats poured in approximately 6000 tons of water to extinguish the flames. (8) That relatively small amount of water was sufficient to give the ship a dangerous list, as it brought some open ports under water. (9) The ship's pumps were inoperative, again because of the conversion, so there was no way to rid the ship of the incoming water. The rest, as they say, is history. Add to this series of missteps a great deal of command confusion, divided responsibility, and just plain lack of understanding of the characteristics of the ship, and you have a pretty good argument against sabotage. All this was reviewed by the US Congress in 1942, and everything I have written here has been taken from the report of the Senate committee. (Senate Document 1422, 77th Congress, 2d session)
* While we are at it, I feel constrained to point out that the Senate breathed a sigh of relief that is still almost audible. When they realized that a mere 6000 tons of water could cause her to capsize (well, at least trigger the event); that she was not compartmented; that the Navy did not really know what to do with her, as she had been found unsuitable for other uses and was being converted to a troop carrier only as a last resort; and now they proposed to send 15000 or so men across the Atlantic on such a vessel, the Senators, in the constrained language of their institution, concluded that it was "inadvisable to use the vessel for a transport." PKKloeppel (talk) 00:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
* By the way, I support the idea of merging the Normandie and Lafayette articles. Her only voyage as Lafayette was across the harbor as a hulk on the way to the junkyard, and the fire that destroyed her was the only notable event while she carried that name. I have to point out, however, that I had to search the index under Lafayette in order to find the Senate report dealing with her loss.
video of Normandie (amateurs should check this) !
The TV documentary I was refering to in the article was actually broadcated in July 2006 in both the Swiss channel TSR 2 (July 16th) and the French public channel France 3 (around the same period).
"A bord du Normandie" definitely worth a look (here you can read the synopsis; check rare once-thought-lost color photographies and watch the doc on VOD).
There is also the free trailer page w/its player.
And this is the direct link for the free trailer (Windows Media Player compatible). mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/lba/extraits/FTD/LBA-FTD-03092-ext350.wmv (unfortunately this URL is based on the MMS protocol which is not supported as an external wikilink, so this video must be downloaded -don't ask- and uploaded on a public server)
Swiss channel's sumup "En mai 1935, le mythique paquebot Normandie quitte Le Havre pour effectuer son voyage inaugural vers New York. Monument de technologie, joyau artistique des années 30, le Normandie retrouve vie dans ce documentaire grâce à des images en couleurs de grande qualité miraculeusement retrouvées par les auteurs de ce documentaire. Un film délicieusement rétro, qui offre une bouffée d'air du grand large !"
JP Belmondo 00:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Turbo electric propulsion
Can a source be provided to confirm the maximum power output of the Normandie's at 200,000 SHP? All sources I have read state 160,000 SHP. This includes a souvenir issue of "The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder", June 1961, issued to commemorate the completion of the ss Canberra and reprinted in the book "SS Canberra" by Neil McCart (Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1983). To quote, with reference to the Canberra; "Her power per shaft- 42,500 S.H.P.- also slightly exceeds that of the French pre-war liner Normandie, whose turbo-electric machinery was rated at 160,000 S.H.P. on four screws". The following also needs clarification; The Normandie did not have "asychronous turbo engines"- she had asynchronous electric motors powered by alternators which were driven by steam turbines, ie a typical turbo electric plant. The turbine is the actual engine, the motor is the transmission. I doubt that the turbines are the largest ever built, either in physical dimensions or actual size- many power stations would have turbines much more powerful and larger, and there were liners and naval ships with more powerful turbine installations. It is possible the electric motors are physically the largest ever built (this needs to be confirmed), although those on the USS Lexington and USS Saratoga were more powerful. What exactly in the Normandie was 6.50 x 8.00 x 6.00 m, and what is a "single dimension"? --Dashers 10:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
* The four Alsthom (France) asynchronous turbo engines, generating 160,000 shp/118 MW (200,000 shp/147 MW at maximum power), are still the biggest engines ever built worldwide, with a 6.50 x 8.00 x 6.00 m single dimension.
For her propulsion, Normandie had 4 synchronous motors feeded by 4 turbo alternators (ie synchronous générators) while cruising at full speed during summer. In winter season, the speed was reduced and only 2 turbo alternators where used. The synchronous motors were "asynchronous motors synchronised". The starting procedure was : turbine at low speed 607 rpm, alternator's overexcitation, overvoltage (6kV) to obtain max torque from motor in asynchronous mode. At 60 rpm, motor was excited and ran in synchronous mode. Next increasing the turbine speed at 2430 rpm and the motors at 243 rpm, Voltage was reduced at 5.5kV. Normandie was designed for an "economy" power of 132 000shp and a nominal power of 160 000shp miscalled "surchage/overload". An extrapolation of the speed (knots)/ motor (rpm) based on the first trials on Glenan speed base (May 1935) led us to a power of 200 000shp at 243 rpm. In fact the first propellers have 3 blades and generate a lot of vibration. This problem was solved in april 1936 with the four blades propeller (diameter :5,03m pitch:5,80m). Unfortunatly, theses propellers limits the speed under 30 knots. In february 1937, the French line decide to upgrade the boilers and change the propellers. With a powerplant in "super surcharge" mode and the new four blades propellers (diameter :4,84m pitch:5,38m), Normandie win again the blue ribbon (03/23/1937). USS Lexington / Saratoga had 8 induction motors (2 motors by shaft) and were more powerfull. It's a different technology for a different aim. Normandie was the most powerfull liner, and today QM2 have (only) 157 000shp. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Brittany Ferries Normandie
Just thinking that there should maybe be a link to the article on the MV_Normandie in the article, but I'm loath to add it without consulting for fear of stepping on toes. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that she was named after the liner WelshMatt 14:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
* If you can find the reference that says it was named after this Normandie, by all means add it; otherwise it would be safer to assume it was named after Normandy. As for treading on people's toes, I wouldn't worry - virtually no one edits this article (despite how much it needs it). John.Conway 08:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok, just taken a look at the Brittany Ferries website and they say she's named after the region. Fair enough - I can only assume the article I found a while ago had got a tad confused. WelshMatt 13:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Recent TV Documenrtary S. S. Normandy
i am trying to locate the source of a documentary on TV, perhaps in Sep-Oct 2006 re: the building and history of the S. S. Normandy - I want to send the VCR, if available, to an old friend of mine who worked on the Normandy for many years it the dining facilities.
Any help will be appreciated. E. H. McAvoy<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
* I don't suppose this was A&E's Floating Palaces? That was a few years back. Enigma3542002 04:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
British Rival
removed" british rival" from this clause "...designed by Alsthom, which later worked on the British rival Queen Mary 2". QM2 was not a contemporary of Normandie. The phrase sounds dramatic, but is inaccurate.Gary Joseph 03:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Refloating the Normandie
The article mentions that refloating of the Normandie was the largest maritime salvage effort to date. It was conducted by a joint venture composed of the US Navy and the civilian salvage firm Merrit-Chapman & Scott (see Wikipedia link on them), under the overall command of then Captain (later Vice Admiral) Edward Bernard Manseau, USNA 1922.
A naval engineering training film was made (post WW2 perhaps?) documenting the ship, the fire, the capsizing & the refloating effort - all with the intention of teaching new officers and men how NOT to sink a ship when fighting shipboard fires. I saw the film when I was in Navy OCS in 1969, and was tickled that it mentioned by name Captain Manseau - my great uncle, now interred in Arlington Cemetery. JMBrouillet 22:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Not a Commercial Success?
She was the most popular ship of the 30's! How was she not a success? (Well possibly cause she was only at sea from '35 to '40.) Mg rotc2487 01:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
* And sailed less than half-full most of the time. I don't know what "most popular ship of the 30's" is supposed to mean, but it certainly wasn't in terms of passengers. John.Conway 09:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
* According to several sources I've seen, indeed the RMS Queen Mary was more popular overall. However, one source claims that more movie stars took the Normandie, yet others say the Queen has her fair share. Enigma3542002 03:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
First Class Dining Doors On Brooklyn Church
Previous submissions and even other texts incorrectly say that the First Class Dining Room Doors were installed on a church in Brooklyn. This is not the case since the doors were 20 feet tall. On researching this, the 10 medallions that were attached to the giant doors were removed and installed on four doors at the church in Brooklyn. Whatever happened to the two 20-foot door structures I have yet to figure out. They would need to find a 20 foot tall entry way to fit into. I made changes and added information on this. The 10 medallions were re-arranged and placed on pairs of doors at two entrances to the church. The descriptive words that appeared below each medallion were not attached to the medallions and thus do not appear on the church doors. My guess is the giant doors with descriptive text went to the scrap yards. Does anyone know otherwise? rickster77 10 July 2007
* I'm the one who took the first pic and added the info. The source I was using was an architectural guidebook to Brooklyn. The article in it from which I got the info was really about churches, not pleasure ships, so I'm not too surprised that little aside turned out to be only partially correct.
* My guess for the doors is scrap yard as well, although if you haven't sussed out their ultimate destination already with your diligence, I'm guessing it's information that's been lost to history.
* Also, new topics on a talk page typically go at the bottom of the list, not the top. Ford MF 21:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
...Thank you for explaining the format and moving it to proper order. My apologies. It's true that other sources, including at least one cruise ship book, say the Normandie's dining room doors were installed on the church. rickster77 10 July 2007
"An innovative line"
In the Influences section, what exactly does this line refer to:
"Marin-Marie gave an innovative line to Normandie, a silhouette which was since used in each and every following ocean liners including the Queen Mary 2"
I can't for the life of me think of any "innovative line" that would have been used in every following ocean liner - however I did not want to outright delete this since I've no idea what the original writer is talking about. -- Kjet 18:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Interior photos
Does anyone have any fair-use or better free use pics of the Normandie? Especially the interior... It would be great to showcase the dining room, as this was one of the most talked-about features. Enigma3542002 03:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Lafayette?
Is it correct to begin referring to the ship as the Lafayette? When would the name change have taken effect? Certainly, the "Normandie" lettering had been removed prior to the capsize, but the new name had not yet been applied. Surely the new name would take effect when the renovations were complete and the ship was recommissioned. Harry was a white dog with black spots 19:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice article!
Shouldn't it be a GA, or an FA or something? Gatoclass (talk) 13:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
More sources and a merge
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships has an extensive article on this ship as the USS Lafayette (AP-53) here. The plus side of this is that the text and photos are public domain and may help to fill this article even further. I would suggest that the USS Lafayette article be merged into this one as it is just a stub. --Brad (talk) 05:00, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
* Support. This has happened so many times before. Regardless of conversion, they were the same ship. Merge this article. Also, to nom, I suggest a slight better formatting of this proposed merger, it was quite hard to find on the page. --SteelersFanUK06 ReplyOnMine! 21:48, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
* Well, apparently the merge suggestion was ignored and the other article was filled out way past stub status. I removed the merge tag. --Brad (talk) 00:31, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Caption Edit
Removed "arrives" from "The Normandie arrives in New York harbor in the 1930's, greeted by a Douglas DC-3 airliner." in the photo showing the ship. The ship is in the Hudson River, just off Lower Manhattan with her bow pointed south. She could not be arriving, but leaving.Gary Joseph (talk) 04:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I did it.
I merged USS Lafeyette and the Normandie together to make one article. I wasn't logged on when I merged it, but I did. You can thank me now and delete the page (Lafeyette page) now. Ahoskinson 95 (talk) 23:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
* Cut and paste merge is not what we were looking for, so I reverted you. An admin needs to merge the two together to preserve the page history under the GFDL. I'll take care of it later.-MBK004 23:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
* This merge has been on there for 5 months or so, feel free to put up the tag again if needed. SynergyStar (talk) 03:56, 11 September 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Air Cleaners
Mechanical air cleaners can include tabletop and floor models .
As well as larger filters that operate in conjunction with central heating an air conditioning systems. They come in two general types filtered and ionizers. Mechanical filters, also known as HEPA filters, are generally more effective than ionizers. HEPA filters are known for being the most efficient mechanical filters.
for removing particles that can be breathe deep into your lungs. They draw air from a room through a series of filters, then expelling clean air back into the room.
Many air cleaners need to be cleaned. The way you can do that is by easily grabbing a disinfecting wipe or by simply wetting a towel with water and soap.
If your filter is very dirty it can get moldy and nasty. But again that depends on how dirty your filter is. Some filters can be less dirty than thought of.Filters trap pollen, animal hair, dust, dust mites, mold spores, and many more.
People never realized that there can be many benefits for haven an air filter.
Many can also produce carbon filters to reduce the amount of room odors. HEPA filters are less effective at removing gasses than the particles in the air.
Now let’s talk about Ionizers, they are portable devices that charge particles floating in the air so that they stick to walls, floors, drapes, etc. They do that to remove them from the air you breathe. The problem with Ionizers is that they only move them away (stick them to places).
Meaning if you bump Ito a place that the particles are stuck to they will be released back into the air. Ionizers don’t really try hard enough to remove gases from the air. Ventilation and source control are superior for gasses. Many Ionizers can emit ozone meaning it will most likely add to air quality problems in your home.
We know, we know plants bring in a lot of decoration from the outdoors into your home. Although it looks nice the soil from your plants can most likely provide a breeding ground for microorganisms that will wind up in your air. Some things that look nice and harmless can have its own twist. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Rh bodily faculties, which sends the blood dancing in a cheerful current, little known to the dull monotony of common hours. Evelyn saw the moonlit glades disappear one after another, as he dashed on, careless of the many obstacles that opposed his speed; but the horse which he rode was forest bred—and it is strange with what fearless sagacity these animals thread their native paths.
At length Evelyn dropped the reins; and leaping to the ground, led his docile follower quietly along, that he might be cool previous to the coming pause. The narrow path suddenly opened upon a little glade, the smallest heath-blossom of which was visible in the flood of clear moonlight which rested upon it. It was the dell of Rufus's stone, around which some dozen dark figures were congregated; but an occasional laugh, and the sound of animated discourse, gave an almost unnatural cheerfulness to the place.
Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls—the dungeon, sudden and silent as the grave, beneath their feet—the worm-eaten tapestries mouldering on the walls, and many a dark stain on the time-worn floor,—were formed by the Venetian noble in the | WIKI |
John Facenda
John Thomas Ralph Augustine James Facenda (August 8, 1913 – September 26, 1984) was an American broadcaster and sports announcer. He was a fixture on Philadelphia radio and television for decades, and achieved national fame as a narrator for NFL Films and Football Follies. Through his work with NFL Films, Facenda was known by many National Football League fans as "The Voice of God".
Early years
Facenda had six brothers and six sisters. His father was an immigrant from Italy who went from Portsmouth, Virginia, to help with building the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia while his wife and children remained in Virginia. Facenda attended Roman Catholic High School in Center City, Philadelphia and then later Villanova University but dropped out.
Radio and television work
In 1948, Facenda became an anchorman at WCAU-TV (which was then Philadelphia's CBS television affiliate), a role that he held until 1973. While there, he began the station's 11 p.m. newscasts.
Among Facenda's writers was John Du Bois, a noted newsman with the Philadelphia Bulletin and County Press.
NFL Films
One night in 1965, Facenda went to a local tavern, the RDA Club, which happened to be showing footage produced by NFL Films. He enjoyed the slow-motion game sequences that were already an NFL Films trademark and would later recall:
"I started to rhapsodize about how beautiful it was. Ed Sabol, the man who founded NFL Films, happened to be at the bar. He came up to me and asked, 'If I give you a script, could you repeat what you just did?' I said I would try."
Thus began Facenda's association with NFL Films, one that would continue until his death. Facenda narrated many highlight films during his career with the company. His dulcet baritone was the perfect match for the highly dramatic nature of the footage he narrated, and earned him the nickname "The Voice of God". Probably one of the best-remembered (and most frequently-quoted) examples of Facenda's NFL Films narration is something he never actually said: "the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field" was a quote sportscaster Chris Berman made up, mimicking Facenda's voice when he said it. Steve Sabol, son of Ed, claimed that "John may have made a game seem more important than it was because he read lines with a dramatic directness." Bob Costas called Facenda's voice "one of the most remarkable instruments in the history of broadcasting."
Facenda was at the pinnacle of his style in 1974's "The Championship Chase" with his recitation of "The Autumn Wind", a football poem written by Steve Sabol, personifying fall weather:
The Autumn wind is a pirate Blustering in from sea With a rollicking song he sweeps along Swaggering boisterously. His face is weatherbeaten He wears a hooded sash With a silver hat about his head And a bristling black mustache He growls as he storms the country A villain big and bold And the trees all shake and quiver and quake As he robs them of their gold. The Autumn wind is a Raider Pillaging just for fun He'll knock you 'round and upside down And laugh when he's conquered and won.
The poem and its accompanying theme music have become an anthem of the Las Vegas Raiders. It is also known as the "Battle Hymn of the Raider Nation".
Speaking style
To this day, Facenda's speaking style remains the sound most closely linked with NFL Films, and, in some ways, football narration itself. The style is frequently emulated, often in a parodic manner, in contemporary sports news, advertising, and even other sports-themed entertainment (for example, Green Day's music video for the 1999 song "Nice Guys Finish Last"). Similarly, Facenda's voice is so closely associated with the NFL that in July 2006, Facenda's son filed a lawsuit against the NFL, claiming that Facenda's voice was used without permission in an NFL Network program promoting the video game Madden NFL 06.
A room in the internet virtual Professional Football History Museum is called "The Facenda Audio-Visual Room" in Facenda's honor.
Facenda narrated a documentary on Notre Dame Football in 1982 titled "Wake Up the Echoes", one of the few times he put his voice to something that wasn't NFL-related (although it was NFL Films-produced). A few months prior to his death, Facenda narrated the season highlight film for the 1983 Miami Hurricanes, which won the first of the school's five national championships in a 19-season span (1983-2001).
End of anchorman career
In the early 1970s, rival WFIL-TV adopted the Action News format based on the news broadcasts heard on Top 40 radio stations and heavily influenced by tabloid newspapers. Brief coverage was given to almost every event happening in town. WCAU's ratings collapsed, and network executives decided that they needed a younger anchor to complement the 60-year-old Facenda. In 1972, 27-year-old Judd Hambrick was brought in as co-anchor. With the first wave of baby boomers entering broadcasting, Facenda decided to step down and make way for the next generation. His last newscast as anchor for WCAU was on March 23, 1973. Many viewers were upset over the loss of Facenda, and his retirement failed to improve ratings. (Part of the decline of WCAU's ratings can also be attributed to rival KYW hiring Jessica Savitch as one of its primary co-anchors in 1972.)
After stepping down as anchor, Facenda continued to work for WCAU in various capacities as a narrator, program director, and host of special reports. He was co-anchor for the station's coverage of Pope John Paul II's visit to Philadelphia in 1979. For many years, he was also the familiar voice of the John Wanamaker Department Store's Christmas Light Show. In 1983, he narrated the NFL Films production of "Frontiers and Beyond", the tour documentary of the rock band Journey. Twelve days before Facenda died, he was presented with the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Philadelphia chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Facenda was named Person of the Year by the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia in 1971 and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1992.
Death
Facenda died of cancer on September 26, 1984, at the age of 71.
In 1986, Facenda was posthumously honored with the Ralph Hay Pioneer Award. In 2021, Facenda was honored again by the hall with the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Making him and Joe Browne the only two people to be given two separate auxiliary honors by the hall. As of 2024, neither have yet to be fully inducted in Canton as well. | WIKI |
Twitter tweaks its app—yet again
Remember the "Moments" tab on Twitter's app? It's gone now, replaced by an "Explore" section that combines trending topics, and a bit of those Moments collections of popular stories, and the app's search function. Between the lines: When Twitter released Moments in October 2015, it was supposed to be the next big thing on Twitter, a way for users to follow the biggest news stories on the social network. But it didn't make a huge splash among users. And now Moments has been demoted from having its own tab. What it means: This is yet another attempt by Twitter to make it easy for users to discover all the news and interesting content in one place. Twitter is undeniably filled with interesting and important tweets for its users, but finding them has been a challenge. Other attempts have included the "While you were away" feature and the injection of tweets from people the user doesn't follow (but may want to). | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Harvey, Louisiana
Harvey is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Harvey is on the south side (referred to as the "West Bank") of the Mississippi River, within the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The majority-minority population was 20,348 at the 2010 census, down from 22,226 at the 2000 census. The 2020 census determined 22,236 people lived in the CDP.
History
During the French colonial era, the first owner of this land was Jean-Baptiste d'Estrehan de Beaupre, royal treasurer and comptroller for the French Louisiana colony. He established a plantation here. He used his slaves to dig the ditch that would become the Harvey Canal, cutting south from the banks of the Mississippi River to the back of Bayou Barataria, to provide better access.
Years later, d'Estrehan paid German settlers in the area to work on widening the ditch; they used wooden shovels. He paid them with small parcels of land located downriver in Mechanicsham, now the city of Gretna. D'Estrehan built his home where the ditch met the river banks, naming the settlement "Cosmopolite City".
Harvey was founded as a company town at its founding, developed by Joseph Hale Harvey (born March 7, 1816). During this time, Joseph Harvey would rename Cosmopolite City after his family surname. Harvey's wife, née Louise Destrehan, was a great-granddaughter of Jean Baptiste d'Estrehan. She was the daughter of Nicolas Noel d'Estrehan and granddaughter of Jean Noel Destréhan.
Harvey and Destrehan initiated construction of the canal locks leading to the Mississippi. Their son, Horace Harvey (c. 1860-1938), carried on development of the canal and its surroundings.
Geography
Harvey is located east of the Intracoastal Canal on the Mississippi River, at coordinates 29.89111°N, -90.06917°W. It is bordered to the east by Gretna, to the west by Marrero, to the southwest by Woodmere, and to the north, across the Mississippi, by New Orleans. The closest highway crossing of the river is the Crescent City Connection 4 mi northeast of Harvey.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Harvey CDP has a total area of 18.3 km2, of which 17.0 sqkm are land and 1.3 km2, or 7.16%, are water.
Demographics
According to the 2020 United States census, there were 22,236 people, 8,119 households, and 4,756 families residing in the CDP. At the 2019 American Community Survey, there were 21,054 people living in the CDP. According to the census of 2010, there were 20,348 people, 7,544 households, and 5,160 families residing in the CDP.
In 2020, the racial and ethnic makeup of Harvey was 43.65% Black or African American, 29.18% non-Hispanic white, 0.29% Native American, 6.53% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 3.62% two or more races, and 16.72% Hispanic and Latino American of any race. The racial and ethnic makeup was 34.2% non-Hispanic white, 51.6% African American, 0.2% Native American, 4.9% Asian, 4.1% some other race, 1.3% two or more races, and 9.5% Hispanic or Latino American of any race in 2019. In 2010, the racial makeup of the CDP was 43.5% White, 41.1% African American, 0.4% Native American, 6.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.6% some other race, and 2.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.4% of the population. From 2010 to 2020, the population and diversification of the CDP has reflected state and nationwide demographic trends of African American, Asian, and Hispanic and Latino growth.
For the period 2012-2016, the median annual income for a household in the CDP was $37,058, and the median income for a family was $52,173. Male full-time workers had a median income of $40,205 versus $32,500 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $22,344. About 17.4% of families and 21.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.4% of those under age 18 and 19.4% of those age 65 or over. By 2019, the median household income was $41,559 and 16.6% of the population lived at or below the poverty line.
Government and infrastructure
The Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice operates the New Orleans Metro Office in Harvey.
The United States Postal Service operates the Harvey Post Office.
Education
Harvey is within the Jefferson Parish Public School System, which has its headquarters in Harvey.
West Jefferson High School is the sole zoned public high school in the Harvey CDP. A portion of Harvey in the south is zoned to John Ehret High School, and a portion to the northwest is zoned to L. W. Higgins High School.
Some residents are zoned to Gretna Middle School in Gretna, and some are zoned to Marrero Middle School in Marrero.
Woodland West Elementary School is in Harvey. Ella C. Pittman Elementary School is in Marrero, adjacent to Harvey and serving portions of Harvey. Other schools outside of Harvey serving portions: Gretna Park and McDonogh #26 in Gretna, Cox Elementary in Timberlane, Collins Elementary (formerly Ames) in Marrero. Woodmere Elementary in Woodmere is nearby, but its attendance zone does not cover the Harvey CDP.
Public kindergartens:
* Harvey Kindergarten Center
In regards to advanced studies academies, residents are zoned to the Gretna Academy.
Helen Cox High School was in Harvey until 2023. Previously Homedale Elementary in Harvey served portions of the city. In 2012 Homedale Elementary closed. A plan called for Homedale students to be rezoned to McDonogh 26 Elementary in Gretna.
Private schools
* St. Ville Academy for High School Preparation
* Homedale School
* St Rosalie Elementary School
Jefferson Parish Library operates the Jane O'Brien Chatelain West Bank Regional Library in Harvey. The 35000 sqft facility opened in 1990 and is the largest public library in the West Bank of Jefferson Parish.
Notable people
* Zaila Avant-garde, winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee
* Ja'Marr Chase, wide receiver in the NFL. Currently playing for the Cincinnati Bengals.
* Patrick Connick, the District 84 Republican state representative, practices law in Marrero and resides in Harvey.
* Fats Domino, rock and roll singer and pianist
* Girod Jackson III, former state representative for District 87 in Jefferson Parish; contractor in Harvey
* Patrick O'Neal Kennedy (plaintiff in Kennedy v. Louisiana)
* Greg Monroe, NBA player
* Laremy Tunsil, NFL player, currently playing for the Houston Texans.
* Ebony Woodruff, Democratic member since 2013 of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 87, resides in Harvey. | WIKI |
KF Vllaznia Shkodër
Klubi I Futbollit Vllaznia Shkodër, commonly known as Vllaznia is an Albanian football club based in the city of Shkodër. It is the association football branch of the Vllaznia Sports Club, which was founded on 16 February 1919. It is also the oldest club in Albania which means it is the first club created in Albania. The club have competed in every edition of Kategoria Superiore since 1930, which is the top tier of football in Albania, besides in the 1956–57, 1961–62 and 2018–19 football seasons.
Vllaznia is one of the most successful football clubs in Albania, having won nine Kategoria Superiore titles, eight Albanian Cups and two Albanian Supercups. They have only been relegated from the Kategoria Superiore three times in 1956 due to a disqualification, in 1961, and for the last time in decades in 2018.
The club's ground has been the Loro Boriçi Stadium since it was built in 1952, which is named after former Vllaznia and Albania national team captain. In 2016, the stadium was rebuilt into modern all-seater at the cost of €17 million, and it now has a capacity of 16,022, making it the second largest stadium in Albania.
Background
Football was introduced to the city of Shkodër in 1908, when a Maltese priest, Father Gut Ruter, brought a football into the city, which is considered to be the first time football was played in the country. The first football club formed in Albania was Indipendenca Shkodër, which began operating in 1912 under the guidance of founder Palokë Nika, who was also the captain of the team. The first football game organised in city took place in October 1913 between Indipendenca Shkodër and the occupying Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy. It was the first time a football team composed of Albanians had played foreigners, making it the first international game to ever take place involving an Albanian team, as well as being the first 90-minute football game to be played with two 45 minute halves in the country. Indipendenca Shkodër lost the game 2–1, with the captain Palokë Nika scoring the only goal for the home side.
Early history
Following the rise in popularity of football in the city, this prompted Palokë Nika along with other sportspeople in the city to form a club that would cater for many sports including football and on 16 February 1919 the Vllaznia Sports Society was formed. Vllaznia is a concept in Albanian culture often translated as "brotherhood;" it refers to loyalty to one's fis (clan, tribe). They played games against other Albanian teams, notably playing KF Tirana in their first ever game in October 1920. The club also played international games, the first of which was against the occupying Italian troops on 23 May, who beat Vllaznia 1–0. Later in the year for Albanian Independence Day on 28 November Vllaznia organised another football game against an Italian selection again, this time losing 5–1. The club's first game outside of Albania was played on 31 August 1922 in Montenegro against FK Lovćen Cetinje, a match which they lost 4–0. The club would continue to play domestic friendly games until the creation of the Albanian Football Association in 1930 and the start of the Kategoria e Parë in the same year.
Championships of World War II
During the peak of World War II, between the years 1939 and 1942, Albanian Football Association organized three championships, in 1939, 1940 and 1942. According to all information gathered in years from Albanian and foreign historians, players and veterans who lived these events, clear evidence proves the existence of these championships at that time, as well as the existence of three trophies given from Albanian Football Association officials themselves. One must not forget that 1942 Albanian Superliga had a nationwide participation – the first and the only one so far involving teams from both countries as Albania and Kosovo. KS Vllaznia won one such championship whilst KF Tirana won the other two championships in 1939 & 1942. This would update the championship trophies won by these clubs to respectively 10 and 26 at the present time.
After years of silence, Albanian Football Association have appointed a dedicated commission with 5 members, which is involved in gathering enough evidence in this regard. And finally, after a significant amount of evidence has been produced, it has been given an official date, when Albanian Football Association intend to officially recognize these 3 championships in their next General Assembly, to be held in February 2013.
In 1958 the club was renamed "KS Vllaznia". In the European Cup for Champions 1978/79 they beat Austrian team Austria Wien (who went on to the semifinals) 2–0 at home but lost 3–4 on aggregate. In the Cup Winners Cup of 1987/88 they reached the Round of 16 after beating Sliema Wanderes from Malta in both games (aggregate 6–0). In the 2001/2002 UEFA Champions league qualifying they beat KR Reykjavik from Iceland 2–1 in Reykjavik and 1–0 in Tirana with two goals from Klodian Duro. In next round KF Vllaznia were eliminated by the Turkish club Galatasaray 2–0 in Istanbul and 1–4 in Tirana. German Uli Schulze, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner with 1. FC Magdeburg in 1974, was appointed as new coach in summer 2006. He was later replaced by Mirel Josa who is currently at his third spell coaching the team.
2000s
In the 2000s, Vllaznia went through changes. In 2003 the President of Vllaznia, Myftar Cela, was shot in Montenegro. The President was loved by every Vllaznia fan due to his generosity and his love for the team. After Cela died, a group of businessmen gathered to help the team.
In 2006, an Albanian businessman, Valter Fushaj, became Vllaznia President. Since then he has been criticized by the fans for corruption and not wanting the best for the team.
In the 2009–2010 season Vllaznia went through some rough changes; having to change 3 coaches and also replace players. Vllaznia dropped to the bottom of the table, and having been criticized by the fans, Vllaznia went through some bad times.
On 17 April 2010, Vllaznia won 3–2 against Skënderbeu Korçë but the result was changed to a 2–0 loss for Vllaznia. This was because the player Ansi Nika wasn't on the team roster but was picked for the team anyway. This led to protests by the fans, making accusations that the Vllaznia staff and the President Valter Fushaj specifically did it for bribing reasons.
GEA Sport Era
Roberto Nava, the president of GEA Sport SA, bought 50% of KF Vllaznia and in July, Nava negotiated with Napoli to loan Sebastián Sosa on a one-year term in Shkodër. After successful negotiations with Napoli, Nava went on to buy Sebastián Rodríguez from Almería and Giorginho Aguirre from Corona Brasov.
Vllaznia were relegated from the Albanian Superliga in the 2017/18 season, a club that suffered their last demotion almost six decades ago in the early 1960s.
However, during the 2018/19 season, the team managed to gain promotion to the Superliga while also being crowned champions of the Albanian First Division (the second tier of Albanian Football), beating second-placed Erzeni to the title by a whopping 12 points.
In the 2019/20 season, Vllaznia finished eighth in the Superliga. They were then placed in the relegation play-off final against KF Besëlidhja Lezhë, but won 3–1 to secure their status as a top-flight club for another season.
The 2020/21 season saw Vllaznia jump up the table and have a very successful season, finishing on an impressive 66 points and securing a second-place finish that booked them a spot in the Europa Conference League Qualifiers. Teuta, the team that won the league, beat Vllaznia on goal difference.
Vllaznia also secured European football in the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons. In the 2023/24 Europa Conference League Qualifiers, they played the highly successful Northern Irish club Linfield F.C., but lost 3–2 on aggregate.
Stadium
The home ground of the club is called "Loro Borici". The name comes from one of the club's and Albania's greatest footballer to ever play, Loro played with some of the biggest teams at that time, with Roma and Lazio. The striker was known for his goalscoring abilities which he displayed in the Serie A after he left Vllaznia in the 1930s.
Loro Boriçi stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Shkodër, Albania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Vllaznia Shkodër. The stadium holds about 16,000 spectators and was reconstructed in 2001. It is named in honour of Loro Boriçi, famous player in the 1940s and 1950s. It is also the second largest stadium in Albania behind the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana which seats 19,600.
In October 2014, Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania, promised the reconstruction of the stadium, which was last renovated in 2001. He said that the stadium will be with a renewed capacity of about 20,000 spectators.
On 3 May 2015, construction works officially started, bringing the stadium to a renewed capacity of 17,500 seats.
During the 2015–16 Albanian Superliga season, Loro Boriçi Stadium was under re-construction, therefore Vllaznia used Ismail Xhemali Stadium in Pukë at the beginning of the season and then switched to Reshit Rusi Stadium in Shkodër for much of the season.
Fans
Vllaznia is one of the most popular and recognised teams amongst Albanian football fans in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia. The Ultras group of Vllaznia are known as 'Vllaznit Ultras' and were the first official ultras fan base in Albania who were created in 2005. They have strong ties with other Albanian Ultra groups such as the Ultras Guerrils who support KF Partizani Tirana and Armata E Veriut of FK Kukësi. It is known that Vllaznit Ultras meet up with opposition fans to greet each other before and after a game. Vllaznit Ultras are not just present in the football scene, they also attend Vllaznia's basketball matches to show their full support and love for Vllaznia at any sporting level. Fans of Vllaznia have always attended matches in high quantities, but in recent years the number of fans attending games has decreased due to the poor management and loss of confidence in the team. In the last 3 seasons the team has made a good performance in the league pretending for the title and also winning two Albanian Cups. This good performance has risen the passion and confidence among the fans, which has grown the number of fans in the stadium. They have ties with Ultras Beveren, the supporters of Belgian team Waasland-Beveren
Despite the low number of fans at Vllaznia's football games, they have recently turned up in strong numbers for the clubs basketball team, BC Vllaznia, due to their outstanding form in the past few years, having won the 3 Albanian Basketball League championships from 2014 to 2016.
Rivalries
Vllaznia's all time enemies are KF Tirana who are the most successful side in Albanian football. Both teams had been the only two in Albania to not have been relegated from the top tier of Albanian football, until on the final match day of 2017, where both sides fought out who would survive and go down in front of a full crowd (Vllaznia 0–0 Tirana), Tirana were relegated. This rivalry is known as the "All-time Albanian derby". The rivalry is mainly in existence because both sides were the first two football teams to be found in Albania, where Vllaznia was found in 1919, whilst KF Tirana was found in 1920. Another reason why this rivalry potentially exists is due to the historic popularity between these two sides. Vllaznia and Tirana were the only sides in Albania to have never been relegated in the Albanian Superliga, they both hold 78 official seasons and 81 unofficial seasons (including three unofficial championships during World War II) in Albanian top flight football going into the 2016-17 Albanian Superliga season.
Both ultra groups, the Vllaznit Ultras and Tirona Fanatics are known for their fierce rivalry in the stands and off the pitch, which was shown in a match played in Loro Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër on 11 September 2014. During this game there was a lot of tension which began in the second half of the game. The game was interrupted when Tirana's fans started throwing bottles and other objects to show their anger towards the referee's decisions. Late on, Tirana grabbed an equaliser through Ervin Bulku to level 1–1, and this sparked a huge brawl between the fans. Tirana fans ran onto the pitch and seemingly started throwing chairs and bottles at Vllaznia fans. From then on Vllaznia fans started attacking Tirana fans inside and outside of the stadium. Vllaznia's fans gave an official statement on Vllaznia's official Facebook page where they stated that what Tirana fans did was seen as an embarrassment and an insult to people of Shkodra and Albanian football, therefore action was needed. Amongst some of the injured people was Tirana's president, Refik Halili who was hit by a fan of Tirana with a stone. Vllaznia fans were given a 10 match ban from attending home games, whilst Tirana were given 15.
Vllaznia has a fierce rivalry with Flamurtari Vlorë too. This rivalry dates back to the 70s when the two sides were the best teams in Albania. This is also the rivalry between the main clubs from the north and the south of Albania. This game is one of the most attended matches in Albanian football. The relations between fans of the clubs in and out of field are rude and supporters usually have troubles and violence.
Other derbies include the North Albanian derbies against Laçi and Kukësi. Laçi fans insist that the North Albanian derby is between Laçi and Vllaznia, whereas fans of Kukësi believe it is between Kukësi and Vllaznia. However history suggests that Besëlidhja Lezhë and Vllaznia were the most popular Northern Albanian sides decades ago.
Honours
* Kategoria Superiore
* Winners (9):1940*, 1945, 1946, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1991–92, 1997–98, 2000–01
* Runners-up (11): 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1947, 1949, 1974–75, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2008–09, 2020–21
* Kategoria e Parë
* Winners (2): 1957, 1962
* Runners-up (1): 2018–19
* Albanian Cup
* Winners (8): 1964–65, 1971–72, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1986–87, 2007–08, 2020–21, 2021–22
* Runners-up (8): 1938–39, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1985–86, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2009–10
* Albanian Supercup
* Winners (2): 1998, 2001
* Runners-up (4): 1992, 2008, 2021, 2022
KF Vllaznia Shkodër statistics in Kategoria Superiore
Since the Kategoria Superiore began in 1930, KF Vllaznia have played 1991 Superliga matches, scored 3181 goals and conceded 2053. The club has collected so far 2638 points, won 911 games, drawn 470 and lost 612. The club's goal difference is -106 and the winning difference is +1128.
Records
* Biggest ever home league victory: Vllaznia Shkodër 8–0 Flamurtari Vlorë – 6 February 1999
* Biggest ever home league defeat: Vllaznia Shkodër 0–4 Dinamo Tirana – 25 September 2010
* Biggest ever away league victory: KF Laçi 1–7 Vllaznia Shkodër – 18 December 2004 / KF Tirana 0–6 Vllaznia Shkodër - (1947) kf apolonia-KF VLLAZNIA 0-6 18.04.2021
* Biggest ever away league defeat: KF Tirana 5–1 Vllaznia Shkodër – 28 February 2004
* Biggest ever European home victory: Vllaznia Shkodër 3–0 🇧🇦 Široki Brijeg – 15 July 2021
* Biggest ever European home defeat: Vllaznia Shkodër 0–4 🇹🇷 Trabzonspor – 14 July 2007
* Biggest ever European away victory:🇲🇹 Sliema Wanderers 0–4 Vllaznia Shkodër – 30 September 1987
* Biggest ever European away defeat: 🇹🇷 Trabzonspor 6–0 Vllaznia Shkodër – 8 July 2007
Albanian records from September 1997
KF Vllaznia in Europe
As of 20 July 2023.
* QR = Qualifying Round
* 1R = 1st Round
* 2R = 2nd Round
World & European Rankings
(As of 3 August 2023)
List of managers
* 🇦🇱 Palokë Nika (1920s)
* 🇦🇱 Ibrahim Dizdari (1945)
* 🇦🇱 Ernest Halepiani (1946)
* 🇦🇱 Skënder Jareci (1964–1965)
* 🇦🇱 Xhevdet Shaqiri (1966–1979)
* 🇦🇱 Medin Zhega (1980–1982)
* 🇦🇱 Ramazan Rragami (1982–1985)
* 🇦🇱 Astrit Hafizi (1985–1988)
* 🇦🇱 Ramazan Rragami (1988–1990)
* 🇦🇱 Astrit Hafizi (1990–1995)
* 🇦🇱 Sabah Bizi (1995)
* 🇦🇱 Hysen Dedja (1996–1998)
* 🇦🇱 Vasil Bici (1998–1999)
* 🇦🇱 Ramazan Rragami (1999–2000)
* Derviš Hadžiosmanović (2000–2001)
* 🇦🇱 Astrit Hafizi (2002)
* 🇦🇱 Hysen Dedja (2002)
* 🇦🇱 Ramadan Shehu (2003)
* Derviš Hadžiosmanović (2003–2004)
* 🇦🇱 Vasil Bici ( - 6 March 2005)
* 🇦🇱 Agim Medja (6 Mar 2005 - Jun 2005)
* Derviš Hadžiosmanović (Jul 2005 - 5 October 2005)
* 🇦🇱 Hysen Dedja (5 Oct 2005 - Jun 2006)
* 🇩🇪 Ulrich Schulze (Jul 2006 - 13 November 2006)
* 🇦🇱 Mirel Josa (13 Nov 2006 – 8 March 2008)
* 🇲🇪 Derviš Hadžiosmanović (8 Mar 2008 – Jun 2008)
* 🇦🇱 Agim Canaj (Jul 2008 – 2 March 2009)
* 🇲🇪 Derviš Hadžiosmanović (2 Mar 2009 – Jun 2009)
* 🇦🇱 Hasan Lika (Jul 2009 – 4 October 2009)
* 🇦🇱 Roland Luçi (4 Oct 2009 – 22 December 2009)
* 🇦🇱 Edi Martini (22 Dec 2009 – Jun 2010)
* 🇲🇪 Mojaš Radonjić (Jul 2010 – 26 October 2010)
* 🇦🇱 Mirel Josa (26 Oct 2010 – 25 October 2011)
* 🇦🇱 Elvis Plori (Oct 2011)
* 🇦🇱 Rudi Vata (25 Oct 2011 – 10 April 2012)
* 🇦🇱 Armir Grimaj (10 Apr 2012 - Jun 2012)
* 🇦🇱 Shpëtim Duro (Jul 2012 - 20 December 2012)
* 🇦🇱 Artan Bushati (20 Dec 2012 - Jun 2013)
* 🇦🇱 Agim Canaj (Jul 2013 – 9 March 2014)
* 🇦🇱 Samuel Nikaj (Mar 2014)
* 🇲🇪 Derviš Hadžiosmanović (9 Mar 2014 - Jun 2014)
* 🇮🇹 Baldo Raineri (Jul 2014 - 3 March 2015)
* 🇦🇱 Luan Zmijani (3 Mar 2015 – 27 September 2015)
* 🇦🇱 Armir Grimaj (27 Sep 2015 – 9 January 2016)
* 🇦🇱 Armando Cungu (9 Jan 2016 - Oct 2017)
* 🇦🇱 Ernest Gjoka (Oct 2017 – May 2018)
* 🇦🇱 Ervis Kraja (May 2018 - Jun 2018)
* 🇦🇱 Hasan Lika (Aug 2018 - Mar 2019)
* 🇦🇱 Agim Canaj (Mar 2019 – Jul 2019)
* 🇲🇰 Mirsad Jonuz (Jul 2019 – Jun 2020)
* 🇦🇱 Hysen Dedja (Jun 2020 – Aug 2020)
* 🇩🇪 Thomas Brdarić (Sep 2020 – Mar 2022)
* 🇦🇱 Elvis Plori (Mar 2022 – May 2022)
* 🇦🇱 Mirel Josa (May 2022 – Mar 2023)
* 🇦🇱 Auron Miloti (Mar 2023 – Apr 2023)
* 🇲🇰 Goce Sedloski (Apr 2023 – May 2023)
* 🇦🇱 Migen Memelli (Jun 2023 – Oct 2023)
* 🇲🇰 Qatip Osmani (Oct 2023 – Apr 2024)
* 🇩🇪 Thomas Brdarić (Apr 2024 –)
Notable players
* Hamdi Salihi
* Xhevahir Sukaj
* Vioresin Sinani
* Armando Vajushi
* Bekim Balaj
* Elseid Hysaj
* Rudi Vata
* Loro Boriçi
* Admir Teli
* Gilman Lika
* Erjon Vucaj
* Edon Hasani
* Dodë Tahiri
* Armando Cungu
* Palokë Nika
* Edi Martini
* Luan Zmijani
* Armir Grimaj
* Ramazan Rragami
* Elvin Beqiri
* Paulin Ndoja
* Amarildo Belisha
* Suad Lici
* Medin Zhega
Women's team
A women's team was created in 2013. When three time Albanian champion KF Ada Velipojë disestablished their women's team, the whole team moved to Vllaznia and formed a new women's section. The team then won the 2013–14 Albanian women's football championship and competed in the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League. Vllaznia was the first Albanian team draw or win a match when they beat Faroes side KI 2–1. UEFA considers them as a successor team and credits Ada's results to them. | WIKI |
Talk:List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP (PPP)
Corruption of data?
The numbers present do not accurately reflect what's in the linked source. They differ in a way that suggests some kind of automated process gone awry. For example, the article lists $208.957 billion as the GDP (PPP) of Brazil, while the source gives that same figure exactly once, for the GDP (PPP) of the Dominican Republic. There's a similar issue where the source's number for Chile is given as Mexico's. The numbers in general just look wrong, and given those two major errors it seems there's a good chance that any number of them could be incorrect.
these numbers are grossly inaccurate. Panama's GDP per capita is 2x what is listed, as per the source they list.
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I think this should be the List of Latin American AND Caribbean countries.
There should be another column for per capita measures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
There is no relation between the data of the two columns. Venezuela's GDP PPP is 369,324 million dollars, and their population is around 30 million, the country's GDP per capita PPP should be much lower than 17,951 dollars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:54, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
The World Bank has data on the GDP of Cuba. Should it be included?
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD/countries/WZ?display=default
Allthenamesaretakenwtfwikipedia (talk) 02:02, 25 September 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Rh eye-case is called Ophthalmotheca, the antennæ-cases, Cerathecæ, &c. The length of time insects pass in this stage of their existence varies from a few days to nearly two years. Each species, however, has in general a definite period assigned it from which there is no material deviation, unless under very peculiar circumstances. Perhaps the most general duration is from two to four weeks, but, even in the same species, this depends upon the season of the year, for a pupa which would disclose the perfect insect in a few weeks during the summer, will frequently lie dormant throughout the entire winter. Unless a provision of this kind obtained, it is obvious that many insects would infallibly perish from being brought into existence at a time when it is impossible to find the means of maintaining life. The immediate cause of this prolongation of their quiescent condition is to be found in the effects of the winter's cold, the more remote one in the wise ordination of providence. Artificial heat, as has been already stated in a former volume, will mature the perfect insect and make it burst from its prison at any period of the year; and, in like manner, artificial cold will retard its birth. From these considerations, it is obvious that the evolution of the imago depends on the evaporation and assimilation of the fluids, and this takes place in a more speedy or tardy manner, according to the greater or less degree of heat to which the pupa is exposed; it does not, however, happen that pupæ of the same species, placed in precisely the same circumstances, | WIKI |
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Ancient Alphabets in Polynesia (E. Tregear), 20, 353.
Aryo-Semitic Maori (A. S. Atkinson), 19, 552.
Aryo-Semitic Maori: Reply to A. S. Atkinson (E. Tregear), 20, 400.
Barata Numerals (J. T. Thomson), 5, 131.
Barat or Barata Fossil Words (J. T. Thomson), 11, 157; 12, 223.
Bird Moa and its Aliases (T. White), 27, 262.
Celtic Origin of the English Vowel Sounds (C. J. Abraham), 1, 125 [2nd ed., 73].
Ceremonial Language (E. Tregear), 27, 593.
"Dierectus," Etymology of the Word, in Plautus (F. W. Haslam), 20, 429.
Horse, The: a Study in Philology (T. White), 35, 211.
Hypnotism, A Phase of (E. Tregear), 29, 83.
Kerns and Serifs (R. C. Harding), 29, 95.
Latin Place-names (H. Belcher), 19, 507.
Latin, The Middle Voice in (H. Belcher), 22, 1.
Maori and Indo-European Languages, Analogy between (E. Fairburn), 3, 313.
Maori Language, with Remarks on the Reform of English Spelling (J. C. Crawford), 18, 46.
Maori Nomenclature (T. H. Smith), 25, 395.
Maori Numeration (E. Best), 39, 150.
Moa and Toa—the Bird and the Tree (T. White), 32, 344.
"Moa": Notes on the Word "Moa "in the Poetry of the New-Zealanders (J. W. Stack), 7, App. xxviii.
Name for a Spider, A (E. Tregear), 32, 298.
Names of Places, their Origin and Meaning (J. Bates), 13, 440.
Native Names for Places (T. White), 32, 347.
Oceanic Languages, Comparison of (C E. Fox), 39, 464.
Orthography of Maori Language (J. C. Crawford), 1, 40 [2nd ed., 444].
Philological Study in Natural History, A (T. White), 34, 135.
Polynesian Words, Curious (E. Tregear), 23, 531.
Track of a Word: the Maori Noun Mata (E. Tregear), 19, 482.
Whence of the Maori, Philological Considerations on the (J. T. Thomson), 6, App. xxv.
Abrotanella, Remarks on the Genus; with Descriptions of New Species (T. Kirk), 24, 418.
Acæna huttoni, a New Rosaceous Plant (R. Brown), 16, 382.
Acianthus and Cyrtostylis, Fertilisation of (T. F. Cheeseman), 7, 349.
Additions to Flora of N.Z. (J. Buchanan), 15, 339.
Additions to the Flora of N.Z. (T. F. Cheeseman), 14, 299; 15, 298; 16, 409; 24, 409; 28, 534; 33, 312.
Algæ, Chatham Islands (F. von Mueller), 6, 208.
Algæ, Chatham Islands (J. Agardh), 3, 213; 6, 208.
Algæ, Classification of (R. M. Laing), 18, 299.
Algæ, Fresh-water, collected in Dunedin District during the Summers of 1896–97 (J. S. Tennant), 31, 748.
Algæ of N.Z., Fresh-water (W. I. Spencer), 14, 287; 15, 302.
Algæ of N.Z.: their Characteristics and Distribution (R. M. Laing), 27, 297.
Alisma plantago found in N.Z. (W. Colenso), 27, 401.
Aloe and Prickly Pear, Two Peculiar Introduced and Naturalised Plants of South America (W. Colenso), 26, 323.
Alpine Flora of N.Z. (J. Buchanan), 14, 342.
Ammophila arundinacea and Elymus arenarius, Directions for Raising and Spreading (J. C. Crawford), 5, 111.
Amphibromus, Discovery in N.Z. of; with Description of a New Species—A. fluitans (T. Kirk), 16, 374.
Ancient Relations between N.Z. and South America (H. von Jhering), 24, 431.
"Ancient Relations between N.Z. and South America": Remarks on Dr. von Jhering's Paper (K. Mueller), 25, 428.
Andreæa, N.Z. Species of the Genus; with Descriptions of New Species (R. Brown), 25, 276.
Antipodes Island, Botany of (T. Kirk), 23, 436.
Aralia lyallii (T. Kirk), 17, 293.
Aseroe rubra (W. L. Buller), 25, 302.
Ashburton, Plants naturalised in the County of (W. W. Smith), 36, 203.
Asplenium japonicum, a Fern new to the N.Z. Flora, Discovery of (T. F. Cheeseman), 22, 448.
Asplenium umbrosum, Remarkable Variety of (T. Kirk), 23, 424.
Asteliads, N.Z., with Descriptions of New Species (T. Kirk), 4, 241.
Astelia, Veronica, and Celmisia, New Species of (L. Cockayne), 31, 419.
Atropis and Triodia: Occurrence in N.Z., and Descriptions of New Species (T. Kirk), 14, 378.
Auckland District, Naturalised Plants of (T. F. Cheeseman), 15, 268.
Auckland Isthmus and Takapuna District, Flora of (T. Kirk), 4, 228.
Auckland, North of: Plants observed during a Visit (T. Kirk), 1, 140 [2nd ed., 84].
Auckland Province, Botany of Northern Part of (T. Kirk), 3, 166.
Auckland Province, Plants found in Northern District of (J. Buchanan and T. Kirk), 2, 239.
Australian Plants, Finding of Two Hitherto-unnoticed: Erythræa australis and Alisma plantago (W. Colenso), 27, 401. | WIKI |
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To make sure that your GUI classes don't depend on Controlify to load, all controller handling is done in a separate class, namely the ScreenProcessor, that is registered in Controlify's pre-init entrypoint.
Making a screen
Before we get to handling a Screen, first we need to make an example screen:
public class MyAmazingScreen extends Screen {
public Button button1, button2;
public MyAmazingScreen() {
super(Component.literal("My Amazing Screen"))
}
@Override
protected void init() {
this.addDrawableWidget(button1 = Button.builder(..., btn -> doButton1Action()).build())
this.addDrawableWidget(button2 = Button.builder(..., btn -> doButton2Action()).build())
}
public void doButton1Action() {
System.out.println("This is a really cool button!");
}
public void doButton2Action() {
System.out.println("This is also a really cool button!")
}
}
In this basic example, there is a screen with two buttons that execute a function upon pressed. Even without a custom ScreenProcessor, this screen will work well out of the box.
However, we can enhance the experience using shortcuts using the GUI Abstract Actions 1 and 2 provided in the Controlify bindings.
To do this, we need to add create said ScreenProcessor.
Creating a ScreenProcessor
public class MyAmazingScreenProcessor extends ScreenProcessor<MyAmazingScreen> {
public MyAmazingScreenProcessor(MyAmazingScreen screen) {
super(screen);
}
@Override
protected void handleButtons(Controller<?, ?> controller) {
super.handleButtons(controller);
// handle binds and other button actions here.
// THIS IS ONLY CALLED WHEN VMOUSE IS OFF
}
@Override
protected void handleVMouse(Controller<?, ?> controller, VMouseHandler vmouse) {
// do what you want here, called every tick only if vmouse is enabled
}
@Override
protected void handleTabNavigation(Controller<?, ?> controller) {
super.handleTabNavigation(controller);
// handles the vanilla tab widget found in the create new world screen
// called regardless of vmouse state
}
@Override
public void onWidgetRebuild() {
super.onWidgetRebuild();
// called after the Screen#init() method
}
@Override
protected void render(Controller<?, ?> controller, GuiGraphics graphics, float tickDelta, Optional<VirtualMouseHandler> vmouse) {
// called after the screen has rendered.
}
@Override
public VirtualMouseBehaviour virtualMouseBehaviour() {
// specifies how the vmouse should be used in this screen.
// options are: DEFAULT, DISABLED, ENABLED, CURSOR_ONLY
// DEFAULT allows the user to turn on/off, and is off by default.
return VirtualMouseBehaviour.DEFAULT;
}
}
If a custom processor is not provided for a screen, the parent class ScreenProcessor is just used. This provides the basic functionality for controller operation for screens. You can choose to completely override this functionality, or extend from it using super calls.
The above screen processor doesn't actually do anything, so let's add some functionality:
public class MyAmazingScreenProcessor extends ScreenProcessor<MyAmazingScreen> {
public MyAmazingScreenProcessor(MyAmazingScreen screen) {
super(screen);
}
@Override
protected void handleButtons(Controller<?, ?> controller) {
super.handleButtons(controller);
if (controller.bindings().GUI_ABSTRACT_ACTION_1.justReleased()) {
// remember, we made this button public.
// screen is a field in ScreenProcessor
screen.button1.onPress();
}
if (controller.bindings().GUI_ABSTRACT_ACTION_2.justReleased()) {
screen.button2.onPress();
}
}
}
In the above example, I removed most of the methods and just left handleButtons, then added a simple if statement to check if the bindings were pressed, then told the button to press. You could even use your own bindings using BindingSupplier that you learnt about in the other wiki page.
Attaching the ScreenProcessor
There are two ways to attach a processor; you can do it through a mixin, or the registry.
Using the registry
Inside of the pre-init entrypoint, add the following code...
@Override
public void onControlifyPreInit(ControlifyApi controlify) {
// ...
ScreenProcessorProvider.REGISTRY.register(
MyAmazingScreen.class,
MyAmazingScreenProcessor::new
)
}
Using Mixin
You can make your screen implement the ScreenProcessorProvider interface which does as it says on the tin.
@Mixin(MyAmazingScreen.class)
public class MyAmazingScreenMixin implements ScreenProcessorProvider {
@Unique private final ScreenProcessor<?> processor =
new MyAmazingScreenProcessor((MyAmazingScreen) (Object) this);
@Override
public ScreenProcessor<?> screenProcessor() {
return this.processor;
}
}
Make sure to not initialise the processor inside the getter function, as it could be ran multiple times per tick.
It is not inherently bad to mixin into your own classes, so don't feel that this in an 'improper' way. However using the registry is probably better. This method is useful when adding processors to vanilla screens, where you have easier access to fields and functions with @Shadow that you can pass into your processor.
Using ComponentProcessor
The screen processors work great for handling global actions within the screen, but don't provide any way to control the interaction behaviour of individual GUI components. This is where component processors come in.
For the example, we will create a processor for the vanilla button widget. For all intensive purposes, all we need to know about AbstractButton is that it has an abstract onPress() method:
public abstract class AbstractButton implements GuiEventListener {
public abstract void onPress();
}
Now we create our component processor:
public class AbstractButtonProcessor implements ComponentProcessor {
@Override
public boolean overrideControllerNavigation(ScreenProcessor<?> screen, Controller<?, ?> controller) {
return false;
}
@Override
public boolean overrideControllerButtons(ScreenProcessor<?> screen, Controller<?, ?> controller) {
return false;
}
@Override
public void onFocusGained(ScreenProcessor<?> screen, Controller<?, ?> controller) {
}
}
Notice how both the 'override' methods return boolean. The return value dictates whether or not the corresponding screen processor methods are ran. This processor doesn't do much, so let's add the functionality to run the onPress() method.
public class AbstractButtonProcessor implements ComponentProcessor {
private final AbstractButton button;
public AbstractButtonProcessor(AbstractButton button) {
this.button = button;
}
@Override
public boolean overrideControllerButtons(ScreenProcessor<?> screen, Controller<?, ?> controller) {
if (controller.bindings().GUI_PRESS.justReleased()) {
button.onPress();
return true; // override - now ScreenProcessor#handleButtons will not run
}
return false; // nothing happens! screen processor runs as usual
}
}
Here we added a constructor so we have access to the button, removed the unneeded overrides and added yet another quick binding check to press the button. Again, this can be switched out for your own binding that you created in the other wiki page.
The use case of a component processor shown above will actually not behave any differently to if it wasn't there. This is because if there is no component processor, GUI_PRESS will just emulate the enter key, which buttons already handle for. However, it is always best to have explicit compatibility to not rely on emulation.
Attaching a ComponentProcessor
You attach a component processor no differently from how you attach a screen processor. You have two options: the registry, or a mixin.
Using the registry
Inside of the pre-init entrypoint, add the following code...
@Override
public void onControlifyPreInit(ControlifyApi controlify) {
// ...
ComponentProcessorProvider.REGISTRY.register(
AbstractButtton.class,
AbstractButtonProcessor::new
)
}
Using Mixin
You can make your component implement the ComponentProcessorProvider interface which does as it says on the tin.
@Mixin(AbstractButton.class)
public class AbstractButtonMixin implements ComponentProcessorProvider {
@Unique private final ComponentProcessor processor =
new AbstractButtonProcessor((AbstractButton) (Object) this);
@Override
public ComponentProcessor componentProcessor() {
return this.processor;
}
}
Make sure to not initialise the processor inside the getter function, as it could be ran multiple times per tick.
Using button guides
The screen now fully works with a controller, but it is not clear what buttons press what on your screen. This is where the button guide API comes in; you can easily add binding previews to buttons.
To add a button guide, we need to modify our screen processor and add an override for the onWidgetRebuild method. Since this runs after our buttons have initialised.
public class MyAmazingScreenProcessor extends ScreenProcessor<MyAmazingScreen> {
// ...
@Override
public void onWidgetRebuild() {
super.onWidgetRebuild();
ButtonGuideApi.addGuideToButtonBuiltin(
screen.button1,
bindings -> bindings.GUI_ABSTRACT_ACTION_1,
ButtonRenderPosition.TEXT, // renders beside the text
ButtonRenderPredicate.ALWAYS
);
ButtonGuideApi.addGuideToButtonBuiltin(
screen.button2,
bindings -> bindings.GUI_ABSTRACT_ACTION_2,
ButtonRenderPosition.TEXT, // renders beside the text
ButtonRenderPredicate.ALWAYS
);
}
}
If you want to use a custom binding, remove the 'builtin' suffix and replace the lambda with your BindingSupplier.
More examples
If you want to see some more advanced examples, have a look at the Controlify source in your IDE. The following packages will be very helpful:
• dev.isxander.controlify.screenop.compat
• dev.isxander.controlify.mixins.feature.screenop.vanilla
• dev.isxander.controlify.mixins.compat | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
ὠθέω
Etymology
Possible Greek relations, even if ruled out by Beekes as highly unlikely, are the verbal present form, the participle and the nouns ,. The lemma could be an old lengthened grade of one of the underlying roots. Compare, only used with a negative particle, and.
Taking in account Avestan vādāiiōi (“he may push back”) and Sanskrit ávadhīt (“he killed”) as well as Hittite ḫuett-tta(ri) (“to draw, pull”), Beekes constructed a root, whence an iterative. Mark that also seems to be cognate to 🇨🇬, and thus to.
Others have proposed 🇨🇬 as cognate.
Verb
* 1) to push | WIKI |
Talk:2002 Mecca girls' school fire
It's Girls' School, not Girl's School!!
Bad grammar. Someone fix please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I pretty much rewrote half the article to make it more readable and improve grammar. Elecbullet (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC).
This Article is Offensive to Islam, Inshallah
Fatwa on everyone! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Really? How so? You can't just issue a fatwa on people without explaining what was done that was wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:15, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
* Trying to decide if this is 1) a person making a joke, 2) an anti-Muslim bigot trying to make Muslims look bad, or 3) a Salafist who honestly believes that's the correct course of action.
* In the event that it's the latter; "Offensive to Islam," you say? Buddy, if you really want to associate the entire Islamic religion and the billion plus people who follow it with the murder of schoolgirls (MUSLIM schoolgirls, no less), then it's no skin off my nose. But don't complain the next time a newspaper cartoon in Denmark says all Muslims are terrorists, either. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
* <IP_ADDRESS> is just a useless asshole with nothing better to do. Fuck him.DemocracyOverTheocracy (talk) 16:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
* Want to talk about offense to Islam? How about these mutaweenie murderers calling themselves Muslims in the first place? That's about as offensive as it gets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4F00:2CCA:A4CB:7B0A:4790:D0DB (talk) 09:40, 24 May 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 21.djvu/438
envy, no wrath, no malignity will vex him. With his birth he will also receive the five transcendent faculties, as well as the acquiescence in the eternal law, and, once in possession thereof, Nakshatrarâgasaṅkusumitâbhigña, he as a Bodhisattva Mahâsattva will see Tathâgatas equal to the sands of seventy-two rivers Ganges. So perfect will be his organ of sight that by means thereof he shall see those Lords Buddhas, which Lords Buddhas will applaud him (and say): Well done, well done, young man of good family, that after hearing this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law which has been promulgated by the spiritual proclamation of the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., thou hast studied, meditated, examined, minded it, and expounded it to other beings, other persons. This accumulation of thy pious merit, young man of good family, cannot be burnt by fire, nor swept away by water. Even a thousand Buddhas would not be able to determine this accumulation of thy pious merit, young man of good family. Thou hast subdued the opposition of the Evil One, young man of good family. Thou, young man of good family, hast victoriously emerged from the battle of mundane existence, hast crushed the enemies annoying thee. Thou, young man of good family, hast been superintended by thousands of Buddhas; thine equal, young man of good family, is not to be found in the world, including the gods, with the only exception of the | WIKI |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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This page contains answers to many frequently asked questions. If you have a query please feel free to contact us, as the answer to your question is sure to help others too.
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What is a dietitian?
A registered professional, trained in the science of nutrition and diet therapy, qualified to work in areas that require nutritional assessment and counselling. A dietitian may work in a variety of settings ranging from clinical, community nutrition and sports or medical representatives to the food industry, research and education. Effective nutritional management strategies, based upon current scientific evidence, are used to help individuals or groups to improve their health through nutrition.
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What is the difference between a dietitian and a nutritionist?
A dietitian is trained specifically in the use of diet therapy to help combat various disease states. In New Zealand every practicing dietitian has to be registered with the Dietitians Board in New Zealand and is protected by an act in Parliament. In order to qualify for registration applicants must have completed a three-year Bachelor of Consumer and Applied Science or a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Nutrition, a 15 month postgraduate diploma in Dietetics, consisting of lectures, supervised practical placements, examinations and a supervised practicum programme. Each dietitian is committed to a professional code of practice and fulfilling continuing education requirements.
A nutritionist has usually completed a degree in Human Nutrition or Science, or has training in science, nutrition, biochemistry, and medicine or sports physiology. Alternatively they may not be trained at all, as there is no specific qualification or registration legally required. Most reputable nutritionists in New Zealand should be enrolled on the register of Nutritionists set up by the Nutrition Society of New Zealand.
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How can I improve my calcium intake when I’m not in the habit of drinking milk?
Ask yourself first if it is just a habit or due to allergy or intolerance. If it is just that you’re not in the habit of drinking milk then making milkshakes with trim milk and fruit (such as banana, peach or berries) or Milo® for a snack after school or work should help.
If you are intolerant to cow’s milk then calcium can also be found in calcium enriched rice or soy milk and used in cooking and snacks.
My two year old chews meat and then spits it out the meat fibre. Is he getting enough iron?
Probably not as the meat needs to be swallowed. Young children have deciduous (baby) teeth not steak knives in their mouths. Try offering softer versions of meat such as pate, mince or diced casseroled meat.
I’ve told by husband he needs to diet and lose weight but he won’t listen. What can I do?
You can’t change other people’s behaviour only your own. The word ‘diet’ often makes people think they have to eat less, when in fact they just need to learn to eat more healthy foods in the appropriate quantities at the right times. Rather than nagging him, buy lower fat foods, encourage exercise, offer plenty of non-alcoholic drinks and lead by example. Concentrate on the things he does well and as his self-esteem improves you will notice positive changes in everything he does.
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My four-month old baby wakes at night. Should I introduce solids now?
Often mothers lose confidence in their ability to produce sufficient breast milk to meet the needs of their growing baby but they shouldn’t. Breast milk is the very best start you can give your baby so continue to feed on demand until your baby is 6 months old. Then slowly introduce cereals and fruit offering one new food at a time every 4-5 days.
Do I need to take Vitamin C pills to stop colds?
There is no cure for the common cold. Irrespective of age most of us need only 30-40mgs of Vitamin C each day. One kiwifruit contains 65mgs. So if you eat two raw fruits and have a serving of raw vegetables each day, you’ll take in more Vitamin C than you can absorb.
My elderly mother is underweight. Should I add cream to her porridge?
The answer is ‘no’ as she needs to build up muscle, not fatty deposits in her arteries. Increase her energy intake by offering low fat high protein foods such as milkshakes, milk puddings and more in-between snacks such as salmon sandwiches or mini muffins. Offer scrambled egg or low fat cheese for breakfast and she will soon be better. Also encourage her to do some weight bearing exercise as this has been found to be just as effective at building muscles in the elderly as it is for children.
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High carbohydrate or high protein? Which diet is best if you want to lose weight?
Both methods result in weight reduction. However a high protein diet over time can be injurious to your health. High protein diets tend to be higher in saturated fat and sodium risking your heart health. As these diets rely on very low carbohydrate intakes they lack dietary fibre essential for a healthy bowel. High protein diets generally exclude bread and cereals, root vegetables and some fruits so they can be difficult to maintain when you are out socially.
On the other hand a diet based on carbohydrates that are low in GI, with moderate amounts of low fat protein rich foods can be eaten every day as part of normal healthy eating plan. In this way, if combined with regular exercise and plenty of fluids, you need never feel as if you are on a diet. If you would like to know the specific quantities of carbohydrate and protein that you need to achieve results then talk to us or your local dietitian.
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I’ve been on lots of diets in the past. I can be “good” for a while and then I relapse. Any ideas on what I should do?
Stop “dieting” and look at what you eat and when? Try to eat healthy meals regularly.
When you label food as being “good” or “bad” then you tend to do the same with labeling your self. You are not a “good” or “bad” person based on the food that you eat but on who you are.
All food is “good”. A packet of crisps would be a meal to those who are starving. At the moment the crisps may be less appropriate for you because you are carrying more fat than your system is able to process. Put simply you need to stop eating high fat foods for a while so that your body can catch up.
In the meantime keep a diary of your fluid and food intake and exercise each day. Make sure that you honestly record everything including the extra foods that you pick at and you will soon see a pattern of behaviour emerge. Are you skipping main meals in favour of higher energy in-between meal snacks? For personal assistance contact us or your local dietitian.
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How to send email using gmail in PHP Laravel 7.x and 6.x?
July 7, 2017 | Category : Laravel PHP
Laravel is very popular framework of php in todays. Laravel is famous because they provide several goods things like MVC, routing, mail etc. In this article we will learn how to send email using SMTP driver. Laravel 5 provide several drivers options like SMTP, Mail, SendMail and services supported include Mailgun, Sendgrid, Mandrill, Amazon SES, etc.
So, here i will let you know how to send email from your gmail account using smtp driver. Laravel provide configuration file for email. you can see that file here : config/mail.php , you can also make change manually but laravel is smart so they provide .env file for configuration as like bellow:
.env
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=addYourEmail
MAIL_PASSWORD=AddYourEmailPassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
You can simply configuration here as above env variable. now i are going to provide simple example so add new route in your route file as like bellow added.
routes/web.php
Route::get('send-main', 'HomeController@sendMail');
Next, i will added new sendMail() in HomeController like as bellow i added, here in this method we write code of send email with title. So let's see bellow controller method.
Controller Method:
public function sendMail()
{
$data['title'] = "Test it from HDTutu.com";
Mail::send('emails.email', $data, function($message) {
$message->to('aatmaninfotech@gmail.com', 'Receiver Name')
->subject('HDTuto.com Mail');
});
dd("Mail Sent successfully");
}
At Last, we need to create email blade file in emails folder of view. So if you have't created "emails" folder then create and create new email.blade.php file, put bellow code:
resources/views/emails/email.blade.php
<h1>{{ $title }}</h1>
<p>Thank you</p>
Now, we are ready to run above example....
I hope you found your great solution... | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:MandyKelly/EInstruction
eInstruction produces interactive classroom tools and educational technology. It is based in the United States.
History
eInstruction was founded in 1980 by by Dr. Darrell Ward, who pioneered the use of student response systems in education with the creation of a hand-held "clicker" system called CPS™ (Classroom Performance Systems). In addition to Classroom Response Systems, eInstruction works with educators providing professional development and training opportunities across the globe. It has offices in Denton, Texas; Columbia, Maryland; Scottsdale, Arizona; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Paris.
2006: EXAMVIEW
In 2006, eInstruction aquired FS Creations, creators of EXAMVIEW. Together, CPS and EXAMVIEW offered a platform which is intended to help educators to incorporate textbook publisher question banks into their lesson plans, quizzes, and tests, and allows for real-time assessment and feedback.
2008: INTERWRITE
In 2008 eInstruction acquired GTCO and introduced the INTERWRITESchoolPad and INTERWRITEPAD wireless interactive tablets. 2008 also brought with it the integration of EXAMVIEW, CPS, and INTERWRITEWORKSPACE software. This integration brought together three key elements of teaching: content, instruction, and assessment. (Also see formative assessment).
2009: eICommunity and Cornerstone
The eI Community™ is an online resource center open to all, where teachers can find and share educational resources and discuss best practices together. Also, the eI Cornerstone Education Suite was launched. Cornerstone is an administrator tool (enterprise based) which allows monitoring and analyzing student performance data, distributing content and assessments, and centrally managing district technology.
Awards
The INTERWRITEMobi® was recently honored with a 2009 Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning magazine. The product was featured in the December Awards issue. | WIKI |
Are you at risk for diabetic retinopathy?
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For most of us, our eyesight is not the first thing that comes to mind when we think about diabetes. But actually, diabetes is the leading cause for new cases of blindness among American adults.1
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common eye complication in diabetic patients, affecting more than 8 million Americans age 40 and older. 2That’s because increased blood sugar in diabetic patients can easily damage the tiny blood vessels in the retina, the part of the eye that captures and sends images to the brain. When these vessels are damaged, it can result in blood and fluid leakage in the retina, closure of the blood vessels or formation of new vessels over the retina’s surface—all of which can inhibit your vision and cause vision loss.3
Because its initial symptoms are very slight or even unnoticeable, diabetic retinopathy often goes undiagnosed until it’s too late. However, it can be detected during an annual comprehensive eye exam. When your eye doctor dilates your eyes, he or she can check your blood vessels for signs of damage.3
Your doctor can then track changes and abnormalities between visits and refer you to your primary care physician if necessary. In addition to getting a dilated eye examination, it’s important to tell your eye care provider if you notice any changes to your vision, including:
• Blurry, double or cloudy vision
• Pain or pressure in one or both eyes
• Trouble with peripheral vision
• Floating or flashing lights
• Dark spots4
While there is no cure for diabetes or diabetic retinopathy, proper medication, close monitoring of blood sugar levels, a healthy diet and regular exercise help manage this disease and reduce the likelihood of vision-related complications.
1. “Diabetic Retinopathy Data and Statistics”, National Eye Institute, November 19, 2020, https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/outreach-campaigns-and-resources/eye-health-data-and-statistics/diabetic-retinopathy-data-and-statistics.
2. “Americans in the Dark on Diabetic Retinopathy Symptoms, Risks, Survey Finds”, American Society of Retina Specialists, October 29, 2020, https://www.asrs.org/sections/member-news/5097/Americans-in-the-Dark-on-Diabetic-Retinopathy-Symptoms-Risks-Survey-Finds.
3. “Diabetic retinopathy”, Mayo Clinic, June 24, 2021, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetic-retinopathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20371611.
4. “Diabetic Retinopathy: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment”, American Academy of Ophthalmology, September 14, 2021, https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-diabetic-retinopathy. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Great Kyz Kala
The Great Kyz Kala is a large fortress in the ancient city of Merv, now in Turkmenistan. The fortress belongs to the köshk or kushk type: an earthen building built on a raised platform, with exterior wall formed of large vertical engaged columns (a series of octagonal half-columns) having the aspect of large corrugations. These fortresses are equipped with internal palatial rooms, often decorated. It occupied an area of 1569.84 m2.
The construction date is rather uncertain, with some authors arguing for an early 6th to 7th century date, attributing it to the Sasanian Empire (224–651). It is also attributed to the 8th/9th century CE, corresponding to the Umayyad or Abassid period.
The Great Kyz Kala was an elite palatial suburban residence, perhaps meant for the use of the governor of Merv. It remained in use until the Seljuks as a function room.
A smaller fortress nearby is the Little Kyz Kala. | WIKI |
Journal of Discourses/Volume 20/Discourse by Elder Orson Pratt
It is with pleasure, brethren and sisters, that I rise before this small assembly to address them upon such subjects as may be put into my heart. However much learning and information may be in the possession of a speaker it does not matter, God is able, by his Spirit, to make use of the most unlearned, if they will but seek unto him, and have faith in him, that he can speak through them to the edification of the people who hear. We have a vast amount of information which the Lord has revealed from on high in different periods of the world's history, as well as in our own day; information that is of the greatest importance to the human family; information that has relation to our eternal happiness and welfare in the world to come, if we can but obtain enough of the spirit of truth to impart that information to our minds.
We, Latter-day Saints, are living in a peculiar age of the world; we are called by the Almighty, by new revelation. We have not taken this name upon ourselves, it is a name the Lord gave by direct revelation through the prophet and seer, Joseph Smith. The Lord spoke to him, as he always did to those who were sent forth to build up his Church On the earth; hence, this Church has not been built upon the opinions of men, neither upon the learning of men, neither upon the doctrines and covenants of men; but in the very beginning, before there were any Latter-day Saints, or true Church, the Lord gave a revelation regarding the time when the Church should be organized. A few had believed, a few had repented, a few had been baptized for the remission of their sins, and a few had been confirmed, by the laying on of hands, for the gift of the Holy Ghost. They were organized into a Church by commandment, and on the same day that they were thus organized, the Lord pointed out the duties of the members, and also of the officers of the Church. It was also revealed that in the Church of the living God there should be inspired apostles. We did not assume the apostleship ourselves, we did not pick up this information in and of ourselves, but the Lord gave revelation respecting it. And, indeed, there is not one doctrine believed in or practiced by the Latter-day Saints, but what the Lord our God has given revelation upon that subject or that doctrine. In the first place, before the establishment of the Church, the Lord intending to set up his kingdom again on the earth, made preparation for it by raising up a boy—a young man, unlearned in the schools of theology. This youth was inspired from on high. God sent his holy angels to minister to him, and gave him power to bring forth a sacred record of a branch of the house of Israel, a record, in other words, of a remnant of Israel, who inhabited the great western continent. Their records were brought forth by this boy, this young, unlearned, uneducated youth. He did not attempt to establish the Church while translating those records. This was the first duty required at his hands—namely, to translate from the plates of gold, which he discovered, by the aid of an instrument, called the Urim and Thummim. This sacred instrument was used in ancient times to inquire of the Lord. This young man continued the work of translation from the autumn of the year 1827, until 1829, as time and circumstances would permit. He was a man whose father was in poverty, and consequently a portion of his time had to be occupied by himself in laboring to obtain the necessary comforts of life; but he, after some two years and a half, succeeded in finishing and printing the record, a record which contains about 600 pages. After this record was translated, and the manuscript placed in the hands of a certain printer in Palmyra, State of New York, and after it had been printed, and the Lord had prepared all things, he then gave commandment to this young man to organize the Church, that is, to establish the Latter-day kingdom spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, on the earth, and gave the name by which the same should be called—namely, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
In regard to our forms of Church government, we are also guided by written and printed revelations. We were not left to ourselves, to conjecture, or merely to base our opinion, in regard to what the various duties of the officers of the Church are, but the Lord did distinctly point out the duty of an apostle, telling us that that was one of the officers of the Church, that it is his duty to receive revelation—to receive communications from the heavens, as the apostles did in ancient times, and to administer in all of the ordinances of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and to regulate the Church and watch over the same, and to administer in all spiritual things. The Lord also pointed out the duties of Elders, and of the lesser priesthood. Now we should not have known anything about, what is termed, the "lesser priesthood," if it had not been for new revelation. We read about two priesthood in the Bible; one was called, the "higher priesthood" the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek; the other was called, the "lesser priesthood," or the priesthood after the order of Aaron, the Levitical priesthood, some would term in. But we knew nothing about these things only so far as the Lord revealed them. There were none to take us by the hand, and say to us, "we have the priesthood of the Church, we can teach you what the duties of the respective officers are," but these things had to be learned anew.
The Lord did not see proper, at the first, to give us the fulness of the authority that he afterwards revealed. He gave us the lesser priesthood. And how did he do it? It was not on the earth. You might have searched all the various Christian churches, built up among all the nations, and you could not have found among any of them, what is termed, the "lesser priesthood," after the order of Aaron, and yet we are told, in the Jewish record, (the Bible,) that the priesthood of Aaron is an "everlasting priesthood," that it was intended to be continued while the sun and the moon should endure —that is, when men were acknowledged sufficiently worthy, to have that priesthood on the earth. It has never died out. It has been in the heavens all the time. Death takes no authority of a divine nature, from any human being, when it is once conferred upon him, if he is faithful until death; consequently there were persons in the heavens who held that priesthood, but no one upon the earth, no one that ever pretended to have it, among the Christian denominations. And the Jewish people, who pretend to have the Levitical priesthood, rejected and do still reject the true Messiah, consequently, their priesthood is null and without authority, and they could not, therefore, administer baptism, for the remission of sins, as John the Baptist did, the forerunner of Christ, who held that priesthood.
There was no other way, therefore, for this priesthood to be established again on the earth, only for it to be sent down from heaven; and the Lord did this. Without it, all of our ministrations would have been in vain. We could not have officiated, without some kind of authority, or priesthood. How did the Lord restore it? In answer to humble, solemn prayer, before the Church arose, the Lord sent his angel, John the Baptist, to two of his servants, namely, the translator of the work, and also the scribe who was writing from his mouth. This angel came, and laid his hands upon their heads, and ordained them, unto the same priesthood which he himself held. They were also instructed, by that angel, concerning the nature of the duties of that priesthood. They were told that they should baptize the people, as John did in ancient times, for the remission of sins, but they had no power, by this priesthood, to lay their hands upon baptized believers, that they might receive the Holy Ghost; that authority did not belong to the lesser priesthood, but required a greater power than the Levitical priesthood, to administer that divine ordinance, for he baptism of the Holy Ghost. Therefore these persons could, as yet, only baptize in water; but they sought diligently, knowing from the Bible, and also from the Book of Mormon, which they were translating, that the laying on of the hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, was a sacred and holy ordinance, and that without it, the Church could not be organized on the earth. Knowing this, they pleaded before the heavens, that God would condescend to give them a higher priesthood, that would enable them also to administer in those higher Gospel ordinances. The Lord heard their prayers, and three heavenly personages were sent to them. What authority did these three angelic personages hold? They held the apostleship. They were the ancient apostles, Peter, James and John, three of the most conspicuous of the ancient apostles. They were sent as ministering angels. They also conferred upon them the apostleship. The apostleship holds this higher priesthood, after the order of Melchizedek, a priesthood greater than that of Aaron; and hence, when they received the apostleship, or this divine authority, they were commanded to call the baptized believers together, and lay their hands upon them, and confirm upon them the gift of the Holy Ghost.
In this way the Church was organized, on the 6th day of April, 1830, in Fayette, Seneca Co., New York, or rather began to be organized, for there are many things besides these first principles of the Gospel I have named, that are essential duties necessary to be practised amongst the people of God. After they were thus organized and confirmed by the laying on of the hands, and became members of the Church, then it became necessary, that there should be other officers, as leaders, and guides, and persons, holding different authority, to administer in their respective callings, among the people and hence, deacons, teachers and elders were given, and after a while bishops. Now, we had but little knowledge of the duties of bishops. We knew what the sectarian religionists expressed, in regard to bishops, that they were to administer principally in spiritual things, but the Lord gave us altogether a different view of this subject, from what we had learned from sectarian religion. He gave by revelation, the duties of bishops, that, they were to hold the presidency of the Aaronic priesthood, that they were to administer in all temporal things, and not spiritual things only, And finally other officers were pointed out, from time to time, as the Church increased and among these, the Lord had told his servants, about a year before the organization of the Church, that there would be Twelve Apostles appointed, and that the Lord should designate to them, who these Twelve Apostles should be. These Twelve, in due time, were called and ordained, by the commandment of the Almighty, and they also had their duties specified by revelation. Their duties were more particularly, to see that the gospel was preached to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, upon the face of our globe; first, to carry it to the Gentile nations, and after we had completed our mission to the Gentiles, then our calling and duties would be to the house of Israel scattered in the fo[u]r quarters of the earth.
We have been now almost one half a century, in fulfilling the first part of our duty, namely, in publishing the Gospel to the gentile nations.
We have sought diligently, year after year, to publish glad tidings of great joy, to all the different peoples on the face of the earth, so far as the governments, and the laws of the respective governments, of these nations would permit the Gospel of the Church of Christ, to be established amongst them. We have sought diligently, therefore, to perform our mission to the Gentiles. We have not gone to the house of Israel, because that was not the commandment. We were commanded of the Lord our God, to preach to, the Gentiles first, to warn them, to testify to them that their times are nearly fulfilled; and that then the Gospel of the kingdom should be turned from among them, and transferred over to the house of Israel. We have been faithful, I believe, in England, in Wales, in Scotland, in Ireland, and upon the Continent, among the European nations, so far as their laws would permit, and also among the various States of the American union, and in the British dominions, the Canadas. And we have tried to be faithful in carrying out our testimony also to the British Colonies in India; and also in the Southern portions of Africa; and also at Gibraltar, and in South Australia, and New Zealand and in all those various countries, trying to warn the Gentile nations, concerning that which the Lord; our God is beginning to do here on the earth. Having established his kingdom, he offers it first to these Gentile nations, if they will receive it; and when they shall account themselves unworthy of the kingdom, unworthy of eternal life, unworthy of the message which God has sent to them, and shall persecute his servants and his people all the day long, and shall close up their sanctuaries, their Churches, their chapels, their meeting houses, and their places of worship against this message, and when it can no longer find place among them, so as to bring them to a knowledge and understanding of the truth, the Lord will, after a while, designate by revelation, and say unto his servants, "It is enough. You have been faithful in laboring in my vineyard, for the last time;" for it was the decree of heaven, that this shall be the last time, that he will labor in his vineyard. It is the eleventh hour, the last warning that will be given to the nations of the earth, first to the Gentiles, and then to the House of Israel.
When they shall render themselves unworthy of this great and joyful message, that has been presented to them, the servants of God will, as I have already stated, have it revealed to them, to confine no longer their mission to the Gentiles; but they will receive a commission from the Almighty to go to the scattered remnants of the House of Israel, wherever they may be located.
The American Indians are the descendants of a remnant of the tribe of Joseph with a mixture of the descendants of one of the kings of Israel of the tribe of Judah; hence, Judah and Joseph are mixed together, and God will send his servants among them, and they will receive the records of their fathers. They will believe in those records, which their forefathers kept by inspiration, and believe in the revelations that are contained therein. It is their Bible, the same as the Old and New Testaments are the Bible of the Jews, that lived at Jerusalem.
They, the Indians, will not reject it, but obey it, and practically receive it, and become a powerful branch of the House of Israel. The servants of the Lord will also be sent to the Jews, some of whom are here in London. Some are mingled with the various nations of Europe. Many hundreds of thousands of them are in Asia and among all nations. These Jews must be warned, when we get through with the Gentiles; and they will begin to believe in Christ, according to the prophecies, that are contained in the Stick of Joseph. They will begin to believe in the true Messiah and gather unto their land, the land of Palestine; and there will be many of the people of Israel, that are scattered upon the Isles of the sea,—on the Pacific Isles,—who will receive the work; and the Lord will perform in their midst, miracles, and signs, and wonders, and make bare his arm, just as is prophesied by Isaiah in bringing about his covenants to the House of Israel. And he will make bare his arm very differently from what he has done among the Gentiles; for among the Gentiles, he has, it is true, healed the sick; he has opened the eyes of the blind; he has caused the tongue of the dumb in some instances, to sing; and he has healed them of various diseases; and there has been a certain degree of the power and gifts of the ancient Gospel, manifested as in ancient times, among the ancient Gentile Churches. But I do not call this the making bare of the arm of the Almighty in so great fulness as it is predicted in the Jewish record, the Bible. It is making bare his arm in some small degree. And we have great reason to be thankful, when he does hear the prayers of his servants, when he does heal those who are sick, when he does show forth his power as in ancient times, in these spiritual gifts and blessings, which belong especially to the Gospel of his Son. But when I speak of the Lord making bare his arm in the eyes of all the nations, I have reference to that what which is predicted in this book, called the Bible, when the waters will again be divided, and Israel will go through dryshod, as they did in ancient times. When the great deep will have a highway cast up through the midst of it and Israel will pass through it dryshod. When I mention about the Lord making bare his arm in the eyes of all the nations, I have reference to that tremendous power, that is specified by the Ancient prophets, which will be made manifest before all people, all governments, nations and countries upon the face of the whole earth. Israel will return with power. Will God be with them when they return? He will. He will go as literally before their Camp, as they go out from among the nations, as he did in ancient times when he brought them out from that one single nation of the Egyptians. Then there was a display of great power, great signs, great wonders. The Lord condescended to talk with men from heaven. He descended upon Mount Sinai and his voice was heard, like the voice of thunder, by the numerous multitudes of Israel that were gathered at the foot of the mount.
Upon that mountain he manifested his power by causing it to tremble exceedingly, his lightnings and thunders were seen and heard and therefore this was making bare his arm in very deed; and from that day to this, Israel when scattered among the nations, and when they wish to speak of the greatness of their God and magnify his great and holy name, still refer to the signs and wonders that were wrought in delivering their fathers from the land of Egypt, in dividing the waters of the Red Sea. They still refer to the cloud they saw over their camp by day, and to the shining of the flaming fire by night. They still refer to the numerous revelations, given to them while they so sojourned forty years in the wilderness. They still refer to the waters of Jordan which were divided, as they went into the land of Palestine.
But that was only a display of the power of the Almighty before the nations that were in that immediate vicinity. There is a day coming when this will be manifested over all the face of the earth, when the Lord God shall organize the camps of Israel among the various nations and bring them home to their own lands.
Ezekiel, the prophet, being filled with the spirit of inspiration, and looking forth by the power of that spirit to that time when they should be brought back and assembled into one body, in the wilderness, says that the Lord should plead with them face to face, like as he plead with their fathers in the wilderness and the land of Egypt. (See Ezekiel xx.) So we see there is a day of power coming, and day of wonders and a day of mighty deeds, when the power of the Lord, in great judgment, will be upon the nations of the wicked; and also when his glory shall be upon his covenant people who shall be restored to their own lands. The message with which we are now entrusted is a part of the great and last warning message to the nations of the earth, first to the Gentiles, and last to the house of Israel. And when we get through warning the Gentiles, the proclamation which the Lord has given us, shall be delivered to Israel in the islands of the sea and among the various nations; and they shall gather home to the land of their inheritance. Then Jerusalem shall be redeemed and a temple established upon its former foundation in the holy land. Then the nations of the earth will see a fulfillment of our words. We have told them for the last forty-nine years that the Lord God had commenced a work to prepare the way before the face of his coming, to prepare a people to endure his presence, to gather his people from the four quarters of the earth into one, in order that they might be prepared against the day when the veil of eternity shall be rent, and the voice of the Lord shall be heard unto the ends of the earth. Then they shall behold a fulfillment of our words, they shall then know of a surety, if they do not before, that there is a God in this work, that he has commenced a proclamation and message for the last time, to prepare the way before the face of the coming of his Son from the heavens.
But before that great day shall come, let me foretell, before this people, that which they may look for, that which will most assuredly come to pass, and that which will eventually cause their ears to tingle, and the sound thereof will cause them to tremble exceedingly, namely, the judgments that are decreed by the Almighty, to be poured out upon the nations of the Gentiles, that do not repent.
While this message is going forth, in your midst, it is a time of comparative peace, it is a time when the Lord our God is granting unto you the proclamation of mercy, and has given you peace in your homes, peace among yourselves; no civil wars are raging in your midst, though there are some foreign wars that occasionally disturb the peace of the people; but the Lord has been specially favorable to the people of this island, while the proclamation has been sounding, during the last forty-three years in your midst. But this will not always continue. You may be assured, that there is a change coming as you may be assured of the fulfillment of anything that has ever been spoken, by the mouth of the ancient servants of God. A change is coming over the political affairs of these nations. Great Britain will not escape. What will be this change? There will be various causes that will bring it about. One change will be this, which you, without being prophets, can by a little reflection, understand for yourselves. You know that England, for many years past, has been the great manufacturing nation for the whole world. They have looked to you for your manufactures and such merchandize has been carried unto all parts of the earth; and this has kept your workmen and poor people employed. They have had abundance to do the most of their time. You have sent forth a vast amount of your manufactures to the continent of America, to the people of the United States, but the scene is changing; for any person, with a little reflection, can see that the change is already beginning to come, and that too very readily. The nations, to whom you have exported your products, are beginning to manufacture for themselves. This cuts off the trade with Great Britain.
The American nation is beginning to manufacture for themselves, and not only themselves, but they are actually sending their manufactures to this little island; and the people here are beginning to purchase American goods and manufacture in preference to their own. This cuts off in your country a great many of the manufacturing establishments, and you have a surplus population, of many millions, thrown as it were out of employment, who can scarcely get sufficient to sustain themselves from day to day. Is this state of things going to get better? No, it will not, there may be prosperous times for a short season, but they will soon pass away; and such times are coming, such as this nation has not experienced, neither they, nor their forefathers for many generations.
I might go on and tell you many things, in relation to the consequences of people being thrown out of employment. I might portray it, but I do not wish to harrow up the people, in regard to this matter. You yourselves can see, that when people are pinched, for the want of bread, for the want of clothing, for the want of the necessary comforts of life, and are driven to desperation, you can judge for yourselves what must be the state of things that will ensue. I have no need to portray them. But I would say to the Latter-day Saints who have been taught these things for many years, gather out from this nation. And inasmuch as we have pointed out the way of escape and shown you that the Lord has provided in regard to these matters, for all that will believe in him, and repent of their sins, and obey the gospel, do not be dilatory, do not be slack, do not be extravagant in your expenditures, but strive to lay up means, and so far as you possibly can, by being faithful, and serving the Lord your God, gather out from these countries; for a day of great tribulation is coming, a day of desolation, a day wherein the Country will be revolutionized, wherein the poor and the afflicted, and the needy, will contend earnestly for the lives of themselves, and their little ones, instead of seeing them perish by hundreds and thousands in the streets. And inasmuch as such a day is coming, Latter-day Saints, it would be far better for you, to be out of the country, than in it. And would to heaven we could Sound this message, not only to the Latter-day Saints, but to every good, upright, honest-hearted soul, throughout Great Britain. That they might take warning, and escape, before the terrible time shall come.
Now let me point out some other things which will occur, before the coming of the Son of Man. The Lord has a controversy among all the nations of the Gentiles. He has sent to them a warning. He has sent his servants to prophesy to them. He has sent them to preach and bear record of the truth. He has sent them to call upon the nations to repent, both high and low, rich and poor, religionist and non-religionist, priest and people, for all of them to repent and receive the Gospel in its fullness, and not only to do this, but to gather out from these nations. Will they hear? They will not. We know they will not; but this does not justify us in being slack in delivering our message. We have a responsibility placed upon us, and that responsibility we must fulfill, whether the people hear, or whether they forbear, we must warn them, so that they shall not have any excuse, when the tribulations shall come which I have named.
The Lord, therefore has a controversy among them, the same as he had with the Egyptian nation, with this difference, that the Egyptians did not have the same length of time to consider the message which you have. They only had a few days, and if they would repent and receive the word which Moses and Aaron delivered to them, well and good; and only a short time, a very few days were allowed them to decide this matter. You have had a portion of a whole generation. Your times are not quite yet fulfilled, and hence you have had the privilege to consider it from your childhood up to middle age, and some of you from middle age to old age, to see whether you will receive the latter-day message which God has sent or not. How, the consequences will be, if you receive it, you will save yourselves by fleeing out from the midst of this nation. You will save yourselves and your children temporally speaking as well as spiritually. On the other hand, if you do not receive it, the Lord, who is long suffering, will, after he has borne with the people all the day long, withdraw his servants from your midst. When that day shall come there shall be wars, not such wars as have come in centuries and years that are past and gone, but a desolating war. When I say desolating, I mean that it will lay these European nations in waste. Cities will be left vacated, without inhabitants. The people will be destroyed by the sword of their own hands. Not only this but many other cities will be burned; for when contending armies are wrought up with terrible anger, without the Spirit of God upon them, when they have not that spirit of humanity that now characterizes many of the wars amongst the nations, when they are left to themselves, there will be no quarter given, no prisoners taken, but a war of destruction, of desolation, of the burning of the cities and villages, until the land is laid desolate.
That is another thing that will come before the coming of the Son of Man.
What about my own nation—the American nation? What can I say more than I have said in times that are past? They have had a great desolating war; a war between the North and the South in which many hundreds of thousands were destroyed. This war was foretold twenty-eight years before it took place; the very place where it should commence was marked out by the Prophet Joseph Smith, that young man of whom I have spoken. By him it was designated that the revolution should commence in South Carolina, and it did so. By him it, was pointed out that this war would be great and terrible, and it came to pass although twenty-eight years intervened, before it commenced. These revelations and prophecies have been published by hundreds of thousands and circulated in your midst here in Great Britain. The people are not altogether ignorant about, these matters; they have been forewarned. But what about the American nation. That war that destroyed the lives of some fifteen or sixteen hundred thousand people was nothing, compared to that which will eventually devastate that country. The time is not very far distant in the future, when the Lord God will lay his hand heavily upon that nation. "How do you know this? inquires one." I know from the revelations which God has given upon this subject. I read these revelations, when they were first given. I waited over twenty-eight years and saw their fulfilment to the very letter. Should I not, then, expect that the balance of them should be fulfilled? That same God who gave the revelations to his servant Joseph Smith in regard to these matters, will fulfil every jot and every tittle that has been spoken, concerning that nation. What then will be the condition of that people, when this great and terrible war shall come? It will be very different from the war between the North and the South, Do you wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed and manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease, for a time, among the American nation. Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture, there will be too much blood-shed—too much mobocracy—too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon that land? They will leave their farms and they will remain uncultivated, and they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus will they go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation, now consisting of some forty millions of people, will be wasted away, unless they repent.
Now these are predictions you may record. You may let them sink down into your hearts. And if the Lord your God shall permit you to live, you will see my words fulfilled to the very letter. They are not my words, but the words of inspiration—the words of the everlasting God, who has sent forth his servants with this message to warn the nations of the earth. The Book of Mormon contains many of these predictions. This book has now been printed forty-nine years, and the prophecies contained in it are being fulfilled with great rapidity; and every prediction yet in the future, recorded in that book, will be fulfilled literally, according to the words that are spoken. The Lord our God has already destroyed two great and powerful nations that once occupied the western hemisphere, because they fell into wickedness and would not repent. We have a record of this. The first nation he brought upon that hemisphere, were a people from the Tower of Babel. They were led by the hand of the Lord. They were located upon the north wing of that continent, and they became a great and powerful nation. They inhabited the land for some sixteen or seventeen centuries after they came from the Tower of Babel. But the Lord made a decree, when he first led them forth to that land, that if they or their descendants should fall into wickedness, and would not repent, that he would visit them with utter destruction. He did so. About 600 years before Christ, that great nation were entirely swept off by the judgments of Almighty God, and their bones were left bleaching upon the plains and mountains of that land—left unburied by the numerous armies that went forth slaying and being slain, and another colony was brought from Jerusalem in their stead, being a remnant of the tribe of Joseph. The same decree was passed respecting one branch of that colony, that was made regarding the first nation. Said the Lord to them, "Inasmuch as you keep my commandments, you shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as you keep not my commandments in the land, you shall be destroyed from the face thereof." That was literally fulfilled. After living upon that land till nearly the close of the fourth century of the Christian era, they fell into wickedness and were destroyed, with the exception of a few who went over to the opposite army.
And the Lord also made a similar decree, recorded, too, in the same book, in regard to the present great populous nation called the people of the United States. They must perish, unless they repent. They will be wasted away, and the fullness of the wrath of Almighty God will be poured out upon them, unless they repent. Their cities will be left desolate. A time is coming when the great and populous city of New York—the greatest city of the American Republic, will be left without inhabitants. The houses will stand, some of them, not all. They will stand there, but unoccupied, no people to inherit them. It will be the same in regard to numerous other cities, or, in the words of the Lord, "I will throw down all their strongholds, and I will execute vengeance and fury upon them, even as upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." It will all be fulfilled. But there will be a remnant who will be spared. It will be those who repent of their sins; it will be those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and are willing to obey his commandments, willing to hearken to his voice, willing to be baptized for the remission of their sins, willing to be born of the spirit, or receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, willing to walk uprightly and honestly with all men, and justly one with another.
These and these only will be spared, for it is the decree of Jehovah; and this is not all. We have thus far, only told you that which will take place upon the people of Great Britain, upon the European nations, and upon the people in the United States. But great tribulations will also be among all of the nations of the earth, who will not repent. They will be wasted with various judgments; but the heathen will be spared longer than these Gentile nations who have had the scriptures in their midst, but would not obey them.
You have had the Bible multiplied by millions of copies, and circulated in almost every family. You can read it at your leisure. You can see the glorious light of truth, recorded in these prophecies, in these doctrines, in these heavenly and holy principles, and yet in the face of all this light, knowledge, truth and divine revelation, you reject the servants of God, reject the ancient Gospel, when it is preached in its fulness, refuse to repent of all the iniquities and abominations into which the nations are fallen.
It is because of this, of the light that the nations have in their midst, which they will not receive that the Lord will visit them first; and when he has visited and overthrown them, he will lay his hand heavily upon the heathen nations in Asia, and also those who are in Africa, and they will be visited with severe judgment, but they will not be utterly destroyed. A portion of the heathen nations will be redeemed. Why? They will see the power and glory of God that will be manifested among the tribes of Israel, who will be gathered out from their midst and return to their own land. They will see the glory of God manifested as in ancient times and they will say, "surely Jaggernaut is no longer my God." "Surely I will not worship crocodiles, nor serpents; neither will I worship the sun, or the moon, for there is a God manifested among that people, Israel, who is worthy of the natures and attributes of a God. I will cast my Gods to the moles and bats, and I will worship the God of Israel. Then will be fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, "then shall the heathen know that I the Lord am God." And it will come to pass, after that period, when Jesus shall have raised all the righteous from their graves, that he will descend with all the hosts of heaven accompanying him, and will stand upon the Mount of Olives, and he will go out of Jerusalem, and the Jews will go out to the mount to meet him and will acknowledge him as their Messiah and King;and then it shall come to pass, that the heathen nations will also more fully recognize him as the true and only God. Then will be fulfilled that which is written in the last chapter of Zachariah, that every nation round about Jerusalem, shall come up from year to year, to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, at Jerusalem, and also to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. There will be a great many of those solemn assemblies and feasts that were commanded in ancient times, that will be re-established in the midst of Israel when they shall return. And the Lord Jesus will be there. His Twelve Apostles who wandered about with him, while he was in the flesh, will be there; and they sit upon twelve thrones, and assist our Lord and Savior in judging the twelve tribes of Israel. But Jesus will have a throne as well as these twelve disciples. Where will be his throne? A temple is to be reared in ancient Palestine where it formerly stood. Ezekiel saw it in vision, and he describes the building of that house when it shall be complete, and he saw the glory of God coming by the way of the East, and this glorious personage entered through the East Gate of that temple, and entered into the temple; and Ezekiel, being full of the Spirit of God, was picked up and carried into that court, where Jesus had entered, and he heard a voice speaking unto him, Behold, the peace of my throne, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and they shall no more defile my name, but I will dwell will [with] them for ever.
This will be a glorious period. It will be a time when all will know who the true God is, and who is commissioned to speak in his name, and to declare his truths among the people—if we do not find it out before. If we will not repent of our sins; if we will harden our hearts, that the Spirit of God has no place within us, to reveal to us the truth, we shall know then who it is that will be saved. We shall know then, that there is a Lord God, and that he is in the midst of Israel, and his throne is among them, and he will reign over the house of David, and all Israel, for ever and ever. Do you not suppose that the Twelve Apostles, who were with him, who suffered persecution, and finally the most of them were martyred—do you not suppose that they will have thrones? John the Revelator saw the thrones of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God; and he says, they will sit upon these thrones as judges. So there will be twelve thrones built, when the temple of God is built in Jerusalem, beside the throne of the Messiah, for these twelve men to sit upon, when they shall come forth from their graves to reign as kings, and to eat and drink at the table of the Lord. "What?" some might exclaim, "eat and drink after the resurrection from the dead? Yes, did not Jesus eat and drink with his disciples after he came forth from the tomb? He did. He ate the broiled fish and the honeycomb, in their presence. Immortal beings can eat if they choose to do so. Hence it is written, "You that have followed me in the regeneration," meaning these twelve disciples, "inasmuch as you have followed me in the regeneration, you shall sit upon twelve thrones and shall eat and drink at my table, and you shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel." That will be better than to be judged by imperfect mortals. Men who are called here to be judges are not always perfect in their judgment. They err; the best of them, the wisest of men may err in their decisions. But not so with these great judges that come forth out of the tomb, raised to immortality, clothed with light as with a garment, purified and made white before God. Their minds are full of intelligence, and it beams forth from their countenances, and they know how to judge by the Spirit that is upon them, and their decisions will be in righteousness.
How pleasant it would be to walk into one of those beautiful rooms that will be constructed in the temple of our God at Jerusalem, and behold the beautiful table spread, on which the luxuries of our earth shall be served to those immortal beings, and then to see the Master, the great King, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings rise up and minister to his disciples; wait upon them; setting them an example. He that is immortal and as far above mortality as the heavens are above the earth, condescending to administer to their happiness. Would not this be delightful? Who, that has any desire for holiness, and purity, and honesty, and virtue in his heart, would not be enraptured at the thought of having the privilege of being an invited guest, to go in, even if you did not sit down to the table; to see them when they were partaking, with their Savior, of this feast? And these will be the men that will be with Jesus when he descends upon the Mount of Olives, after the graves of the just have been opened. In the resurrection, they will come forth immortal, eternal, clothed upon with the fulness of that glory that pertains to the celestial kingdom. They will also reign as kings and priests here on the earth. To some of the raised Saints there will be given ten cities to rule over. To others there will be given five cities to rule over, according to their works here in this life. All will not have the same power. All will not have the same rule. The Twelve shall have twelve thrones—one throne each, to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribes will need judging, during the whole thousand years they live on the earth; they will need judges in their midst, to make manifest unto them that which is important for men, and women, and children, to know.
These twelve men who are appointed to judge these twelve tribes of Israel cannot be as it were the judges over all the earth at the same time. They cannot be everywhere present at the same moment, and hence there will be other judges, other men of God, those who are accounted Worthy in the sight of the Most High. Hence we read in the revelations of St. John that he heard them singing a new song, a glorious song. About what? Their future glory and their future happiness and their future home, Where? On the earth. What? People in heaven singing about coming to the earth? Yes. When it is redeemed it will be a glorious mansion, it will be a glorious world, it will be worth living on; and it will be sanctified, and the knowledge of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the deep. All beings will have knowledge. All people will have understanding. They will comprehend the things of God, and perform them. The Lord will make this earth one of the most glorious habitations, inasmuch as the people will prepare themselves for it, one of the most glorious habitations that can be given to men. It will be peopled by immortal beings throughout eternity. But before that it will have to die. The earth will have to pass away the same as our bodies do, and the dust thereof be mingled in a chaotic form. But that same being who organized the earth will again speak, and eternity will again hear his voice, and the materials of our earth will come together again, and when it unites them in one, and forms them into a world, it will be a glorious world, a habitation for immortal beings; for kings and for priests, and for those that have been faithful to the end. They will dwell upon it, and the generations of their children will dwell upon it, till they become sufficiently numerous to need another creation. What generation? Generations do you say, Mr. Pratt? Do you mean to say that these immortal beings are going to have posterity? I do. I mean just what I say. Those who are accounted worthy to inherit this earth, when it shall be made heavenly, celestial beings will people the earth with their own offspring, their own sons and their own daughters; and these sons and these daughters which will be born to these immortal beings, will be the same as you and I were before we took these mortal tabernacles. Now do you understand it? How were we then? Perhaps some stranger present may ask, "What position did we occupy before we took these mortal tabernacles? We were in the presence of God the Eternal Father. We were with our Elder Brother. Who is he? The scriptures say that he was Christ. The scriptures say that he was our Lord and Savior Jesus "the first born of every creature." Indeed! Does that mean his birth in the stable? No. Do the scriptures really say that? Yes. Who are the others that were born? It was all the human family, who were once in the celestial kingdom from whence our spirits came, when they took possession of these mortal tabernacles. As Jesus came down from the Father, being the eldest of the family, and took upon him a mortal tabernacle, even so have his brethren and sisters come from the same region of glory, and have taken upon them mortal tabernacles to follow in his footsteps, if they will. As he was with the Father, before the foundation of the world was laid, so were we, and all the rest of the human family. I don't mean this flesh; these bones, I do not mean the mortal part of man, but I mean that being that is within these flesh, and bones. I mean that being that feels, that reflects, that thinks, the being that is godlike in its nature, inasmuch as it keeps the commandments of God. That is the being that lived, before these mortal tabernacles were framed. We were there when the foundations of the earth were laid. We were numbered among those sons of God, whom the Lord speaks of to the patriarch Job. "Where wast thou, speaking to Job, when I laid the corner stone of the earth, when all the sons of God shouted for joy, and the morning stars sang together?" Job where were you at that time? He was among them; he was there, perhaps he did not remember it, any more than we do. This is a principle that was taught in ancient times. God is the Father of our spirits, God is the author of all the intelligences, that have ever come into this world. He begat them. He is called the Father of Spirits. Have we to become like him? What is the promise Latter-day Saints? What is the great promise made to all Saints, ancient-day Saints, as well as Latter-day Saints? The promise is that they shall become like him. In what respect? Like him with an immortal body. He will purify these vile bodies of ours and fashion them after his own body, cleansed from sin and prepared to dwell in his presence, having immortal bodies of flesh and bones as our Savior has; and if there is no end to the increase of our Savior's kingdom, there will be no end to the increase of the kingdom of his younger brethren. Here then, we see the propriety of what I, a little while ago, stated, that this earth will become a habitation of immortal beings and there shall be no more death nor sorrow, for the former things have passed away and all things have become new. They will spread forth and multiply as the stars in yonder heavens or as the sand on the sea shore, that cannot be numbered by mortal man. These offsprings will be spirits, not bodies with flesh and bones, till they have proved themselves as we have done, when they shall be sent upon a new earth, and receive tabernacles the same as we have done, and if they are willing to keep the laws of God, as the Saints keep the laws of God, they will also be redeemed, and there will be a mansion prepared for them, namely, the world that is erected for their habitation. Thus creations will be multiplied upon creations, a universe of worlds will be constructed for the kingdoms of our God, all becoming or being subject to him that sits upon the throne, who sways his sceptre over all worlds and dominions, and we in connection with him will reign upon thrones and in our mansions, that are given unto us. Hence, says the Apostle Paul, the man is not without the woman in the Lord, neither the woman without the man. People may think they can get a fulness of celestial glory, without having a wife. They may think so, but they will be mistaken. The Lord our God ordained that the male and female should be united for eternity. A marriage covenant for time alone, is not the order of heaven. God designed that man and woman, being immortal beings, should be each others companion, husband and wife, while eternal ages shall roll around, and to enjoy all that is intended for them in the eternal worlds. This is the object that the Lord had in view. These marriages that are celebrated by the gentile nations are well enough in their places. They do very well for those who have no knowledge of the truth. They do well enough for those who have no knowledge of the Gospel. They are human marriages, or, in other words, marriages performed by human authority, marriages that are necessary in human governments, or governments established according to human laws, but all such marriages, and institutions, and ordinances will crumble away, with human governments, and after the resurrection they have no force. But that which is of God will endure forever and ever. Marriages that are ordained of God are eternal. What he has joined together never can be plucked asunder, if the two persons shall remain faithful to their covenants, and faithful to the Lord their God. Hence eternal marriage was ordained by him for the purpose of multiplying intelligent beings after we leave this world. No marriage in the next world. This is the world for all ordinances as well as the ordinance of marriage. If you want to be baptized, do it here. No such thing as being baptized for yourselves in that world. If you want to be confirmed, have it done here, for there is no confirming there. If you want to partake of any of the ordinances of the Lord our God, this is the place for us to attend to them. Hence it is written, that they neither marry nor give in marriage in that world. Why? Because it is supposed that people will have secured to them, in this life, all that pertains to their future exaltation and glory; and if that thing be neglected here, such place themselves in a condition not to occupy the fullness of the glory, ordained before the foundation of the world, to be given to the sons and daughters of the Most High. Amen. | WIKI |
– What You Need to Know Migraine
Migraine is often referred to as a pulsating or otherwise a throbbing pain in half part of the brain. It can cause a hindrance in doing daily life activities – what’s more, it can sabotage an individual’s normal life activities to a significant extent. Unfortunately, a lot of people have this condition.
Some people might experience an aura during or before the headache occurs. The aura may involve flashes or blind spots as visual disturbances, and others like tingling sensation on one face side or in the arm or leg resulting in difficulty to speak. 12% of the US population has an incidence of migraines.
The Signs and Symptoms of Migraine
• Pain that occurs on only one side of the head, however, can occur all over the skull
• Pulsating or throbbing pain in the head
• Light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, smell sensitivity
• Vomiting and nausea
The Causes of Migraine
Migraine is a multifactorial condition, which means it has no single cause. Most of the time, people develop the condition as a result of prolonged stress, changes in their sleep cycle, poor dietary choices, smoking, and others. In most cases, people who have a family history of migraines tend to develop migraines at some point in their lives. Caffeine withdrawal can also be a triggering factor for people who are used to consuming caffeinated items and beverages, such as coffee.
The Treatment Options for Migraine
For migraines, NSAIDs in the form of painkillers such as acetaminophen, naproxen, and ibuprofen are normally given to individuals. Moreover, people who experience nutritional deficiency are counseled and are recommended to take nutritional supplements to fight any deficiency causing the condition. Intake of water in sufficient amounts helps to relax the patient experiencing the condition. Stimulus control and avoidance of triggering factors come in the treatment line of the condition.
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Learning anatomy/Oral cavity
Anatomy
The teeth (singular: tooth) are made up of parts shown below.
* Crown
* Enamel
* Dentin
* Neck
* Gingiva
* Pulp cavity
* Pulp
* Root
* Cementum
* Root canal
* Periodontal ligament
* Nerves and blood vessels
* Alveolar bone
* Jaw
* Maxillae
* Mandible
Function
The teeth function to chew food. The types of teeth are the incisors, canines, premolars, and molars. Incisors cut the food. The canines grip the food. The premolars and molars (from Latin: mola = grindstone) grind the food. A baby has 20 teeth, but they are not visible until they erupt through the gingiva (gums) and an adult has 32 teeth. Maxillary (upper) teeth and their associated periodontal ligament are innervated by the superior alveolar nerves, branches of the maxillary division, termed the posterior superior alveolar nerve, anterior superior alveolar nerve, and the variably present middle superior alveolar nerve. The teeth help us speak.
Anatomy
The parotid, sublingual, and submandibular glands are major salivary glands. The other ones are minor salivary glands.
Function
The salivary glands make saliva. Saliva travels through ducts and then into the mouth.
Saliva
Saliva has alpha-amylase which breaks down starch and lingual lipase which breaks lipids. Saliva also cleans the mouth.
Anatomy
The lingua (tongue) is made up of the base (root), body, and apex.
Function
The lingua helps in speech. Saliva helps taste the food. The chemicals from the food travel from the lingual papillae to the taste buds. The lingua and saliva from the food bolus. It gets sent down the pharynx.
Air
The mouth is also a passage for air. | WIKI |
Paul Stalder
Paul Stalder (20 January 1930 – 7 May 2014) was a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. | WIKI |
Cognitive training and Bacopa monnieri: Evidence for a combined intervention to alleviate age associated cognitive decline
Med Hypotheses. 2016 Oct;95:71-76. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.09.002. Epub 2016 Sep 7.
Abstract
As the elderly population grows the impact of age associated cognitive decline as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia will increase. Ageing is associated with consistent impairments in cognitive processes (e.g., processing speed, memory, executive function and learning) important for work, well-being, life satisfaction and overall participation in society. Recently, there has been increased effort to conduct research examining methods to improve cognitive function in older citizens. Cognitive training has been shown to improve performance in some cognitive domains; including memory, processing speed, executive function and attention in older adults. These cognitive changes are thought to be related to improvements in brain connectivity and neural circuitry. Bacopa monnieri has also been shown to improve specific domains of cognition, sensitive to age associated cognitive decline (particularly processing speed and memory). These Bacopa monnieri dependent improvements may be due to the increase in specific neuro-molecular mechanisms implicated in the enhancement of neural connections in the brain (i.e. synaptogenesis). In particular, a number of animal studies have shown Bacopa monnieri consumption upregulates calcium dependent kinases in the synapse and post-synaptic cell, crucial for strengthening and growing connections between neurons. These effects have been shown to occur in areas important for cognitive processes, such as the hippocampus. As Bacopa monnieri has shown neuro-molecular mechanisms that encourage synaptogenesis, while cognitive training enhances brain connectivity, Bacopa monnieri supplementation could theoretically enhance and strengthen synaptic changes acquired through cognitive training. Therefore, the current paper hypothesises that the combination of these two interventions could improve cognitive outcomes, over and above the effects of administrating these interventions independently, as an effective treatment to ameliorate age associated cognitive decline.
MeSH terms
• Aged
• Animals
• Bacopa / chemistry*
• Brain / drug effects
• Brain / metabolism
• Cognition / drug effects
• Cognitive Dysfunction / prevention & control*
• Cognitive Dysfunction / therapy*
• Glutamic Acid / metabolism
• Hippocampus / drug effects
• Hippocampus / metabolism
• Humans
• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Memory / drug effects
• Models, Theoretical
• Phytotherapy*
• Plant Extracts / pharmacology
• Rats
• Synapses
• Up-Regulation
Substances
• Plant Extracts
• Glutamic Acid | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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12 "Not exactly," said the Medical Man. "There are balloons."
"But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement."
"Still they could move a little up and down," said the Medical Man.
"Easier, far easier, down than up."
"And you cannot move at all in Time. You cannot get away from the present moment."
"My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface."
"But the great difficulty is this," | WIKI |
Magdalena Skipper
Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and the editor-in-chief of the journal Nature. She previously served as an editor of Nature Reviews Genetics and the open access journal Nature Communications.
Education
Skipper obtained a bachelor's degree in genetics at the University of Nottingham. She completed her PhD in 1998 at the University of Cambridge, where she worked in Jonathan Hodgkin's lab investigating sex-determination systems in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Career and research
After completing her PhD she joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. She briefly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, working on the notch signaling pathway of zebrafish in gut development.
Skipper joined Nature in 2001 as an associate editor for Nature Reviews Genetics. During her editorship she interviewed several high-profile scientists including Anne McLaren, Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. In 2002 she was appointed chief editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, and was promoted to associate publisher in 2008. She serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at the University of Oxford. Skipper worked briefly as Director for Scientific Communications at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle.
In 2018 she worked with Nature and Estée Lauder Companies to launch a global award for women in science. She became the first woman editor-in-chief of Nature in its 150-year history in May 2018, when she succeeded Philip Campbell. She has stated that she intends to ensure that science is reproducible and robust, as well as doing more to support early-career researchers. | WIKI |
Talk:Payyannur Pavithra ring
Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon
This article was created for WikiProject India/Events/Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon. --Prof TPMS (talk) 00:34, 26 January 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
Electric Buses, Quiet Tires, and More Car News This Week
The official start of summer is around the corner, which means it’s about to get pretty warm for us here in the US. So it’s appropriate that we were all about electric stuff this week. We wondered why electric buses haven’t quite hit the big time yet, and how to eliminate tire noise to make electric vehicles super stealthy. We also took a deep look at a local political skirmish in the Bay Area over bike-share, which in part hinges on whether a bicycle is the same as an electric bicycle. Toasty! Plus, we rode along with an autonomous delivery startup that wants to breach the tricky divide between the curb and your doorstep—with robots—and played with Hot Wheels. It’s been a week. Let’s get you caught up. Stories you might have missed from WIRED this week Meet Blitz, the 16-year-old retired member of the Tempe, Arizona, Police-Mounted Unit, who is helping Waymo teach its robot vehicles how to recognize and react to equine vehicles. Eventually, Waymo told a local Arizona news station, its autonomous vehicles should slow down and swerve away from horses. Stay safe out there, Blitz! The number of years legendary Jaguar design director Ian Callum held his position, before stepping down this week. (He’ll say on as “design consultant,” so don’t expect Jaguars to sprout horns or anything like that.) Last summer, we spoke to Callum about the all-electric I-Pace, which, he said, proves Jaguar is still “about performance, agility, and driving.” News from elsewhere on the internet Essential stories from WIRED’s canonBack in 2017, Tesla unveiled its electric semi. The company was far from alone. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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362 sect. He spent much time at parties, both grave and gay; went frequently to the theatre in spite of the remonstrances of his friends, took private lessons in dancing and in playing on the flute."
After prosecuting his medical studies in Edinburgh, he made a thorough tour of Scotland at the close of the session of 1795, and returning to England went at once to Göttingen, "where, along with his medical studies, he took lessons in drawing, dancing, riding, and music, in all of which he made rapid progress. He was passionately fond of horsemanship, and there were no feats in that art too daring for him to accomplish."
In 1797 his uncle, Dr. Brocklesby, died, leaving him his house, library, collection of prints and pictures, and fifty thousand dollars in money, which enabled him to pursue his inquiries with greater facility, and in the beginning of 1800 he commenced the practice of medicine in London. In 1801 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and he conducted its journal along with Humphrey Davy, then Professor of Chemistry. The first year he gave thirty-one lectures, and afterward sixty, which were published in 1807, in two quarto volumes, under the title of "A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts," a work which, notwithstanding its obscurity both in language and in thought, is rich in original and ingenious views, and of inestimable value to the student of physics and the mechanic arts.
It was in May, 1801. when Dr. Young was twenty-eight years of age, that, reflecting on the experiments of Newton, he was led to the discovery of a law which "appeared to him to account for a greater variety of interesting phenomena than any other optical principle that had yet been made known." This was the law of the Interference of Light, which he explained on the principle of the undulatory theory. This theory had been long before propounded by Huyghens and Hooke, but Dr. Young revived it, gave it greater precision of form, and first proved that it accounts for luminous phenomena which can be explained by no other known hypothesis. His views were developed in Nicholson's Journal for 1801, in the following propositions: | WIKI |
Nouakchott raid (1976)
The raid on Nouakchott in June 1976 was a significant military operation carried out by the Polisario Front, a Western Saharan guerrilla group, against the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott. Led by their leader El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, the Polisario forces aimed to overthrow the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah.
Prelude
In early June 1976, a force of several hundred Polisario guerrillas, led by El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, embarked on a raid from their rear base in Tindouf, Algeria. The convoy consisted of approximately a hundred vehicles, including several Berliet-Algerian trucks loaded with ammunition, communication equipment, fuel, and supplies. They were equipped with heavy weaponry, such as 120mm mortars and 110mm recoilless Russian cannons. Surprisingly, there were also "anti-aircraft ramps," although these were not utilized during the raid.
The main objective of the raid was to reach Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, which had been left practically undefended as most of the country's armed forces were stationed far to the north. The Polisario forces planned to launch an attack on President Moktar Ould Daddah's residence.
Initial skirmishes and raid
The Polisario convoy was spotted by a Mauritanian pilot on June 5, near the town of Zouérate, which led to the Mauritanian forces realizing the true objective of the Polisario's raid. Responding swiftly, Mauritanian forces, under the command of Lt.-Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif, sent 400 troops to intercept the Polisario before they could reach Nouakchott. Despite Mauritanian efforts, the Polisario guerrillas reached the outskirts of the capital on June 8.
On the morning of June 8, the Polisario forces managed to shell the grounds of President Ould Daddah's residence for approximately 30 minutes. However, due to the absence of the element of surprise and reinforced Mauritanian defenses, they had to retreat.
Casualties and aftermath
The retreat of the Polisario forces was met with fierce resistance from Mauritanian troops, particularly near the settlement of Bennichab on June 9. Hundreds of insurgents were killed in the ensuing battle. Notably, the raid resulted in the death of Polisario's Secretary-General, El Ouali, and his military deputy, about 100 kilometers north of Nouakchott. Polisario forces suffered over 200 casualties, and almost an equal number were taken as prisoners. On the Mauritanian side, four soldiers lost their lives, and around ten were injured during the raid. | WIKI |
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Aegisub
For binaries and general information see the homepage.
The bug tracker can be found at http://devel.aegisub.org.
Support is available on the forums or on IRC.
Building Aegisub
Windows
Prerequisites:
1. Visual Studio 2013 (Express edition is good enough) or the Windows 8.1 SDK (command line builds only).
2. A recent DirectX SDK
3. Yasm installed to somewhere on your path.
There are a few optional dependencies:
1. msgfmt, to build the translations
2. WinRAR, to build the portable installer
3. InnoSetup, to build the regular installer
All other dependencies are either stored in the repository or are included as submodules.
Building:
1. Clone Aegisub's repository recursively to fetch it and all submodules: git clone --recursive git@github.com:Aegisub/Aegisub.git
2. Open Visual Studio from the VS2013 Native Tools Command Promp using devenv.exe /useenv (required for the build system to be able to find nmake.exe for building wxWidgets)
3. Open Aegisub.sln
4. Build the solution.
5. Copy the contents of an existing Aegisub install into the aegisub/aegisub/bin directory (not strictly required, but you'll be missing a lot of functionality otherwise).
For actual development work you will probably want to mostly use the "Debug-MinDep" configuration (which disables building most of the projects), as the dependency checking is pretty slow.
License
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씨
Noun
* 1) seed, kernel
* 2) semen
* 3) woof, weft
* 4) part of speech
* 5) prime
* 1) prime
Etymology 2
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Noun
* 1) sir or madam; Mr. or Ms.
* 2) lineage; surname
* 1) lineage; surname
Usage notes
Applying this honorific directly to a surname is considered rude or a way of indicating that the addressee is a social inferior. As a mark of respect, it should follow either the full name or just the given name.
In an organization, using means the referent has no job title, and it is not appropriate even when the title is minor.
Etymology 3
Short for and.
Interjection
* 1) shit
Usage notes
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= Introduction
Decimal is a standards-compliant arbitrary precision decimal floating-point type for Ruby.
It is based on the Python Decimal class.
The current implementation is written completely in Ruby, so it is rather slow.
The intentention is to experiment with this pure-ruby implementation to
define a nice feature-set and API for Decimal and have a good test suite for its
specification. Then an efficient implementation could be written, for example
by using a C extension wrapper around the decNumber library.
The documentation for this package is available at http://ruby-decimal.rubyforge.org/
The code is at http://github.com/jgoizueta/ruby-decimal/
== Standars compliance.
Decimal pretends to be conformant to the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification
and the revised IEEE 754 standard (IEEE 754-2008).
= Examples of use
To install the library use gem from the command line: (you may not need sudo)
sudo gem install ruby-decimal
Then require the library in your code:
require 'decimal'
Now we can use the Decimal class simply like this:
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> 0.3333333333333333333333333333
Decimal() is a constructor that can be used instead of Decimal.new()
== Contexts
Contexts are environments for arithmetic operations. They govern precision, set rules
for rounding, determine which signals are treated as exceptions, and limit the range
for exponents.
Each thread has an active context that can be accessed like this:
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 28
The active context can be globally for the current thread:
Decimal.context.precision = 2
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 2
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> 0.33
Decimal.context.precision += 7
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 9
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> 0.333333333
Or it can be altered locally inside a block:
Decimal.context do
Decimal.context.precision = 5
puts Decimal.context.precision
end -> 5
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 9
The block for a local context can be passed the current context as an argument:
Decimal.context do |local_context|
local_context.precision = 5
puts Decimal.context.precision
end -> 5
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 9
A context object can be used to define the local context:
my_context = Decimal::Context(:precision=>20)
Decimal.context(my_context) do |context|
puts context.precision
end -> 20
And individual parameters can be assigned like this:
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 9
puts Decimal.context.rounding -> half_even
Decimal.context(:rounding=>:down) do |context|
puts context.precision
puts context.rounding
end
Contexts created with the Decimal::Context() constructor
inherit from Decimal::DefaultContext.
Default context attributes can be established by modifying
that object:
Decimal::DefaultContext.precision = 10
Decimal.context = Decimal::Context(:rounding=>:half_up)
puts Decimal.context.precision -> 10
Note that a context object assigned to Decimal.context is copied,
so it is not altered through Decimal.context:
puts my_context.precision -> 20
Decimal.context = my_context
Decimal.context.precision = 2
puts my_context.precision -> 20
So, DefaultContext is not altered when modifying Decimal.context.
Methods that use a context have an optional parameter to override
the active context (Decimal.context) :
Decimal.context.precision = 3
puts Decimal(1).divide(3) -> 0.333
puts Decimal(1).divide(3, my_context) -> 0.33333333333333333333
Individual context parameters can also be overriden:
puts Decimal(1).divide(3, :precision=>6) -> 0.333333
There are two additional predefined contexts Decimal::ExtendedContext
and Decimal::BasicContext that are not meant to be modified; they
can be used to achieve reproducible results. We will use
Decimal::ExtendedContext in the following examples:
Decimal.context = Decimal::ExtendedContext
==Rounding
Results are normally rounded using the precision (number of significant digits)
and rounding mode defined in the context.
Decimal.context.precision = 4
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> 0.3333
puts Decimal('1E20')-Decimal('1E-20') -> 1.000E+20
Decimal.context.rounding = :half_up
puts +Decimal('100.05') -> 100.1
Decimal.context.rounding = :half_even
puts +Decimal('100.05') -> 100.0
Note that input values are not rounded, only results; we use
the plus operator to force rounding here:
Decimal.context.precision = 4
x = Decimal('123.45678')
puts x -> 123.45678
puts +x -> 123.5
Precision can be also set to exact to avoid rounding, by using
the exact property or using a 0 precision. In exact mode results
are never rounded and results that have an infinite number of
digits trigger the Decimal::Inexact exception.
Decimal.context.exact = true
puts Decimal('1E20')-Decimal('1E-20') -> 99999999999999999999.99999999999999999999
puts Decimal(16).sqrt -> 4
puts Decimal(16)/Decimal(4) -> 4
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> Exception : Decimal::Inexact
Decimal.context.precision = 5
puts Decimal('1E20')-Decimal('1E-20') -> 1.0000E+20
puts Decimal(16).sqrt -> 4
puts Decimal(16)/Decimal(4) -> 4
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3) -> 0.33333
There are also some methods for explicit rounding that provide
an interface compatible with the Ruby interface of Float:
puts Decimal('101.5').round -> 102
puts Decimal('101.5').round(0) -> 102
puts Decimal('101.12345').round(2) -> 101.12
puts Decimal('101.12345').round(-1) -> 1.0E+2
puts Decimal('101.12345').round(:places=>2) -> 101.12
puts Decimal('101.12345').round(:precision=>2) -> 1.0E+2
puts Decimal('101.5').round(:rounding=>:half_up) -> 102
puts Decimal('101.5').ceil -> 102
puts Decimal('101.5').floor -> 101
puts Decimal('101.5').truncate -> 101
==Special values
TODO
==Exceptions
TODO
==Numerical conversion
By default, Decimal is interoperable with Integer and Rational.
Conversion happens automatically to operands:
puts Decimal('0.1') + 1 -> 1.1
puts 7 + Decimal('0.2') -> 7.2
puts Rational(5,2) + Decimal('3') -> 5.5
Conversion can also be done explicitely with
the Decimal constructor:
puts Decimal(7) -> 7
puts Decimal(Rational(1,10)) -> 0.1
Converting a Decimal to other numerical types can be done with specific Ruby-style methods.
puts Decimal('1.1').to_i -> 1
puts Decimal('1.1').to_r -> 11/10
(note the truncated result of to_i)
Or with a generic method:
puts Decimal('1.1').convert_to(Integer) -> 1
puts Decimal('1.1').convert_to(Rational) -> 11/10
Conversion is also possible to Float:
puts Decimal('1.1').to_f -> 1.1
puts Decimal('1.1').convert_to(Float) -> 1.1
And with GDAS style operations:
puts Decimal('1.1').to_integral_value -> 1
The conversion system is extensible. For example, we can include BigDecimal into it
by defining suitable conversion procedures:
Decimal.context.define_conversion_from(BigDecimal) do |x, context|
Decimal(x.to_s)
end
Decimal.context.define_conversion_to(BigDecimal) do |x|
BigDecimal.new(x.to_s)
end
Now we can mix BigDecimals and Decimals in expressions and convert from Decimal
to BigDecimal:
puts BigDecimal.new('1.1') + Decimal('2.2') -> 3.3
puts Decimal('1.1').convert_to(BigDecimal) -> 0.11E1
Note that the conversions are defined in a Context object and will be available only
when that context applies. That way we can define conversions for specific purposes
without affecting a program globally.
As another example consider conversion from Float to Decimal, which is not defined by
default because it can be defined in different ways depending on the purpose.
A Float constant such as 0.1 defines a Float object which has a numerical value close to,
but not exactly 1/10. When converting that Float to Decimal we could decide to preserver
the exact numerical value of the number or try to find a simple decimal expression within
a given tolerance. If we take the first approach we can define this conversion:
Decimal.context.define_conversion_from(Float) do |x, context|
s,e = Math.frexp(x)
s = Math.ldexp(s, Float::MANT_DIG).to_i
e -= Float::MANT_DIG
Decimal(s*(Float::RADIX**e))
end
Note that the conversion we've defined depends on the context precision:
Decimal.local_context(:precision=>20) { puts Decimal(0.1) } -> 0.10000000000000000555
Decimal.local_context(:precision=>12) { puts Decimal(0.1) } -> 0.100000000000
== More Information
Consult the documentation for the classes Decimal and Decimal::Context.
= Decimal vs BigDecimal
--
EXPAND-
++
Decimal solves some of the difficulties of using BigDecimal.
One of the major problems with BigDecimal is that it's not easy to control the number of
significant digits: while addition, subtraction and multiplication are exact (unless a limit is used),
divisions will need to be passed precision explicitly or they will loose an indeterminate number of digits.
With Decimal, Context objects are used to specify the exact number of digits to be used for all operations:
Decimal.context.precision = 10
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3)
Contexts are thread-safe and can be used for individual operations:
puts Decimal(1).divide(Decimal(e), Decimal::Context.new(:precision=>4))
Or use locally in a block without affecting other code:
Decimal.local_context {
Decimal.context.precision = 3
puts Decimal(1)/Decimal(3)
}
puts Decimal.context.precision
This allows in general to write simpler code; e.g. this is an exponential function, adapted from the
'recipes' in Python's Decimal:
def exp(x,c=nil)
i, lasts, s, fact, num = 0, 0, 1, 1, 1
Decimal.local_context(c) do |context|
context.precision += 2
while s != lasts
lasts = s
i += 1
fact *= i
num *= x
s += num / fact
end
end
return +s
end
The final unary + applied to the result forces it to be rounded to the current precision
(because we have computed it with two extra digits)
The result of this method does not have trailing insignificant digits, as is common with BigDecimal.
--
EXPAND+
++
= Roadmap
* Version 0.3.0: Implement the remaining of GDA functions
* Complete documentation (README sections on special values & exceptions, etc. and method descriptions.)
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Rebuttals
Mar 15, 2021 5:39 pm
Since the COVID vaccine rollout, more people have been eligible to receive the vaccine. However, not everyone chooses to get one. I have heard many reasons (aka excuses) from my patients who are vaccine hesitant.
Most come from people who are highly intelligent, and claimed that they will receive the vaccine but not yet. While I am not trying to force people to get vaccinated, I wanted to hear their side of the story and also ask that they hear mine.
In this article, I want to address common vaccine concerns that have been posed and my rebuttals to help those facing the same issue.
“The vaccine was developed too quickly. I don’t trust it.”
Usually when I hear this, this concern is very easy to address. The mRNA vaccine technology has been under development since 1985; that is over 35 years of research. The reason for this technology was to create a more streamlined, efficacious vaccine; several different diseases were being targeted using the mRNA vaccine technology including flu, Ebola, CMV, and even cancer. There was a lot of interest in mRNA technology particularly when it came to the flu vaccine—at best, the traditional flu vaccine was 60% effective, but there were years where efficacy skirted 10-20%1.
It was hypothesized that mRNA vaccines would be more efficacious than traditional vaccines. With the looming threat from SARS-CoV-2, there was urgency to create a vaccine that would prevent more deaths; it was a race against time. Currently in the United States, over 534,000 died; this is more than those killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam Wars combined. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 675,000 people in the United States; we are headed in that direction. So why was a vaccine rushed? So that more lives can be saved. The mRNA COVID vaccine demonstrated >95% efficacy in clinical trials; this is a chance to end the pandemic. Now that we have 3 efficacious vaccines. We won the lottery! Let’s cash in.
“I am worried about the safety profile of the vaccines.”
The news media had really highlighted adverse events seen with the COVID vaccines: anaphylaxis, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), de novo autoimmune diseases. It is the job of the reporter to present unbiased information and to report stories that the public should know. I address this issue by letting patients know that they should view news media report like how doctors view medical literature. Doctors may raise an eyebrow at “case reports”, but we put more weight in “meta-analyses” and “randomized-controlled trials”; these are much more powerful resources to allow us to practice evidenced based medicine. While these “case reports” are interesting, they must be evaluated in the context of the denominator, meaning how many patients in general would develop these kinds of reactions anyways without vaccination and how is the rate different compared with other agents?
The most common concern was anaphylaxis. With the mRNA vaccines, anaphylaxis occurred in 2.5-11 cases per one million doses. In general, anaphylaxis occurs in 1 out of 10,000 people annually; the recent FDA review of anaphylaxis showed anaphylaxis rates for acetaminophen and ibuprofen: 0.52% of patients with adverse events to acetaminophen have anaphylaxis (5 out of 10,000), and 1.2% for ibuprofen 1.2% (1 out of 124)3. Yet, acetaminophen and ibuprofen are over the counter medicines. Knowing background rates of adverse events will help to put things into perspective; one allergist in our community proclaimed, “We can treat anaphylaxis, but we can’t always treat COVID19!” Other patients have worried about Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS). The CDC estimated 1-2 cases GBS per 100,000; a few published studies noted that COVID19 itself can cause GBS, The Italian registry cited rates of GBS increased due to the virus. Northern Italy reported a 2.6 fold increase with 4.7 cases per 100,000 infections3. Only a handful of cases of GBS following millions of COVID vaccinations had been reported, much less than normally expected following any vaccination.
The final safety concern that patients worry about is that the vaccine might cause sterility; it is amazing how many times my 50–60-year-old patients express this concern. Really?!! You want to have another baby at this point in your life although your youngest is in college and you had complained to me throughout the years how much grief your kids caused you and how much they cost you? After making a mental note to talk to them about pregnancy planning, I informed them that during the Pfizer study, there were people who got pregnant after they received the vaccine. My concern is sterility with COVID19 infection, not the vaccine. The possibility of sterility due to the virus is being investigated. ACE2 receptors are found in testicular cells. Orchitis is a recognized complication from COVID19; testicular damage can be caused by direct viral invasion or from secondary immunological/inflammatory response4. It is being studied whether COVID19 can cause testicular damage and infertility in male patients. I think the men who were concerned with vaccine induced sterility were thinking about erectile dysfunction which can be multifactorial, including stress. I gave them my rebuttal, when you take away the stress and fear of getting COVID19, performance is enhanced. Most safety concerns patients have about the COVID vaccine can be addressed by looking up the stats, trusting large numbers and not relying on case reports.
“The vaccine will flare my disease.”
Many things can flare autoimmune diseases (e.g., sunlight, tobacco, infections). The most common reason for flares, though, is stopping medications. At the beginning of the pandemic, many patients avoided taking their medicines fearing the medicines will increase their risk for getting infected and dying from COVID19. They flared. Flares are a theoretical risk with the COVID vaccine as the vaccine is designed to activate the immune system to produce antibodies. Do we hesitate to vaccinate patients because they might flare? Absolutely not; we have recommended the flu vaccine, pneumonia vaccines, and shingles vaccine to all patients because the risk of contracting disease is so much worse than the risk of vaccination induced flares. We can treat flares!
“The vaccine is a tracking device. It will turn me into a zombie and control my thoughts and actions.”
Yes, this was an earnest concern expressed by a patient, but before this patient voiced it, he whispered, “Do you think the election was stolen?” Trying my hardest to hide my disbelief, I was relieved I was wearing a mask and face shield for more than one reason. I informed my patient that I am not going to bring politics into what I think is right for his health. It is my duty and under the Hippocratic oath that I do my best to keep him healthy and avoid harm. The vaccine is safe and efficacious. If someone wanted to track us, they are doing so with our cell phones and through web searches we conduct on the internet. Alexa and Siri are listening to our conversations regularly. To avoid being tracked, one would need to live “off the grid.” The vaccine would be a very inefficient way to track people; we have the census for that! I also introduced to him the idea that perhaps social media and whatever news platform he had been watching is already turning him into a zombie by controlling his thoughts to believe such information.
With research studies showing that people who have been vaccinated, have less risk for getting and transmitting COVID19, the CDC have relaxed guidelines. Vaccinated people can be around other vaccinated people without wearing a mask, even in enclosed areas. I visited my 89-year-old mom with my vaccinated siblings this past weekend for lunch inside her house. She was grinning from ear to ear.
My mom’s soup had never tasted this good!
References:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates.html
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2020.09.021
Brain. 2021 Mar 3;144(2):357-360. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa444.
World J Urol. 2020 Apr 21: 1–2. doi: 10.1007/s00345-020-03208-w
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1892 Derby by-election
The 1892 Derby by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 24 August 1892. The constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
Vacancy
Under the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The by-election in Derby was caused by the appointment on 18 August 1892 of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir William Harcourt as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Harcourt had been a Member of Parliament for the constituency since an 1880 by-election.
Candidates
The Liberal Party re-selected Sir William Harcourt to defend the seat.
Henry Farmer-Atkinson stood as an independent candidate. Farmer-Atkinson had been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Boston from 1886 until the 1892 general election.
His candidature was described by contemporary sources as "a meaningless candidature", "absurd", and "erratic".
The Conservative Party did not contest the seat. The executive committee of the Derby Conservative Association passed a resolution on 20 August resolving to take no part in the contest and disclaiming Farmer-Atkinson's candidature.
Campaign
Harcourt arrived in Derby on Monday 22 August, two days before the poll, and addressed a meeting that evening. He delivered two speeches at the works of the Midland Railway Company on Tuesday 23 August. It was estimated that 40 per cent of the electorate worked for the Midland Railway.
Farmer-Atkinson arrived in Derby on Monday 22 August. He addressed a meeting at Derby Drill hall that evening. His canvass was described as "crazy". | WIKI |
Which is stronger lyrica or tramadol
When it comes to managing chronic pain, there are several medications available in the market. Two such medications that are commonly prescribed are Lyrica and Tramadol. Both these drugs work differently and have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. However, the question remains: which one is stronger? In this article, we will compare Lyrica and Tramadol to help you understand which one may be more effective for your pain management needs.
Lyrica
Lyrica, also known as Pregabalin, is an anticonvulsant medication that is used to treat nerve pain caused by conditions like fibromyalgia, neuropathy, and spinal cord injury. It works by reducing the number of pain signals that are sent out by the nerves in the body. It is available in capsule form and can be taken orally.
Advantages of Lyrica
• Effective in treating nerve pain
• Reduces the frequency of seizures in people with epilepsy
• Does not cause drowsiness or dizziness in most people
Disadvantages of Lyrica
• Can cause dizziness, dry mouth, and blurred vision in some people
• Can cause weight gain
• May interact with other medications
Tramadol
Tramadol is an opioid medication that is used to treat moderate to severe pain. It works by binding to the opioid receptors in the brain and reducing the perception of pain. It is available in tablet form and can be taken orally.
Advantages of Tramadol
• Effective in treating moderate to severe pain
• Can be used for both acute and chronic pain
• Does not cause drowsiness or dizziness in most people
Disadvantages of Tramadol
• Can cause dizziness, nausea, and constipation in some people
• May cause addiction or dependence if used for a long time
• May interact with other medications
Which is Stronger?
Both Lyrica and Tramadol are effective in managing pain, but they work differently. Lyrica is more effective in treating nerve pain, while Tramadol is more effective in treating moderate to severe pain. Therefore, the answer to which one is stronger depends on the type and severity of pain you are experiencing.
When to Use Lyrica
If you are experiencing nerve pain caused by conditions like fibromyalgia, neuropathy, or spinal cord injury, then Lyrica may be a better option for you. It is also a good option if you have a history of seizures since it can help reduce the frequency of seizures.
When to Use Tramadol
If you are experiencing moderate to severe pain caused by conditions like arthritis or cancer, then Tramadol may be a better option for you. However, you should only use Tramadol under the guidance of a healthcare professional since it can cause addiction or dependence if used for a long time.
Which Is Stronger Lyrica Or Tramadol
Lyrica and Tramadol are both effective medications for managing pain. However, they work differently and have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. The choice between them depends on the type and severity of pain you are experiencing. It is important to discuss your pain management needs with your healthcare provider to determine which medication may be more effective for you.
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Category talk:Swedish comics artists
Merge?
I think this category should be merged with Category:Swedish cartoonists. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 12:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
* I don't see the need. Cartoonists are a different thing to comics artists and this category has enough entries already to seem viable (with plenty of potential for expansion). It is also part of a broader pattern of categories (see Category:Comics artists by nationality) which is a solid, well-established and useful categorisation. (Emperor 18:08, 2 October 2007 (UTC))
* But none of the artists featured there are cartoonists, but not comics artists. (Bruno Liljefors is primarily a fine artist.) 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 22:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
* I'm not 100% sure I understand. Are you saying that none of the cartoonists in the Swedish cartoonists category are actually cartoonists? Or are you saying none of the people in this category are actually comics artists? If the latter all of the entries state clearly at the top that they are Swedish comics creators/artists at the start which seems rock solid for their inclusion here (a lot having worked on The Phantom). Also Liljefors article says "He also drew some sequential picture stories, making him one of the early Swedish comic creators" which would qualify him for this category. I don't know enough about Swedish cartoonists to comment on whether the various articles should be in there but if there are any that shouldn't either remove them or find some other experts on this and put your heads together and come to a consensus. If there is a broader issue (or you want a second opinion - as I am unsure how many people watch this category) feel free to ask on the comics project talk page. (Emperor 22:56, 2 October 2007 (UTC))
* What I'm trying to say is that "cartoonist" is an ambiguous title, and all or most people in the Category:Swedish cartoonists are primarily comics artists. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 13:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
* OK thanks for clarifying. Cartoons are fairly well understood in this regard and the Swedish version is in line with others (e.g. Category:British cartoonists) and I had a look through the Swedish cartoonists category and there are certainly people there who fit the bill but wouldn't fit here properly. I think your best bet is to go through that category and remove the comics artists from there (and add them in here if necessary) - I largely think the problem is one of mis-categorisation rather than it being a bad category (so human error rather than a need to do anything with the categories - as it stands I'd not support a merge). Worth dropping a note into the talk pages if you re-categorise things as it might be they do qualify but the entry needs clarification. (Emperor 14:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC))
* Okay, I should do that. Also "cartoonist" is often used as a synonym to "Comics artist". I could go through all cartoonists, though, and see who would fit better into the (single panel) cartoonist category. Many on the list have done both comics and cartoons, as well. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 14:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
* But that isn't how we use cartoonist here - there are indeed people who fit in both and some who are one and not the other. Although there is crossover the distinction works on other cartoonists by nationality so should be fine here. If there are any concerns it can be raised on the Comics Project talk page. (Emperor 14:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)) | WIKI |
RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Mil-Homens, Dalila A1 Rocha, Eduardo P. C. A1 Fialho, Arsenio M.YR 2010 T1 Genome-wide analysis of DNA repeats in Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 identifies a novel adhesin-like gene unique to epidemic-associated strains of the ET-12 lineage JF Microbiology, VO 156 IS 4 SP 1084 OP 1096 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.032623-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2080, AB Members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are respiratory pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Close repetitive DNA sequences often associate with surface antigens to promote genetic variability in pathogenic bacteria. The genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315, a CF isolate belonging to the epidemic lineage Edinburgh–Toronto (ET-12), was analysed for the presence of close repetitive DNA sequences. Among the 422 DNA close repeats, 45 genes potentially involved in virulence were identified and grouped into 12 classes; of these, 13 genes were included in the antigens class. Two trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAA) among the 13 putative antigens are absent from the other Burkholderia genomes and are clustered downstream of the cci island that is a marker for transmissible B. cenocepacia strains. This cluster contains four adhesins, one outer-membrane protein, one sensor histidine kinase and two transcriptional regulators. By using PCR, we analysed three genes among 47 Bcc isolates to determine whether the cluster was conserved. These three genes were present in the isolates of the ET-12 lineage but absent in all the other members. Furthermore, the BCAM0224 gene was exclusively detected in this epidemic lineage and may serve as a valuable new addition to the field of Bcc diagnostics. The BCAM0224 gene encodes a putative TAA that demonstrates adhesive properties to the extracellular matrix protein collagen type I. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis indicated that BCAM0224 gene expression occurred preferentially for cells grown under high osmolarity, oxygen-limited conditions and oxidative stress. Inactivation of BCAM0224 in B. cenocepacia attenuates the ability of the mutant to promote cell adherence in vitro and impairs the overall bacterial virulence against Galleria mellonella as a model of infection. Together, our data show that BCAM0224 from B. cenocepacia J2315 represents a new collagen-binding TAA with no bacterial orthologues which has an important role in cellular adhesion and virulence., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.032623-0 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Nightlife (talk show)
Nightlife is an American syndicated half-hour late-night talk show hosted by comedian David Brenner that aired weeknights from September 8, 1986, to June 19, 1987. Produced by Motown Productions in association with King World Productions, the show was filmed in New York City and featured a house band led by Billy Preston.
Background
In February 1986, at the annual National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) conference, Nightlife was pitched as a late-night alternative to NBC talk shows The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. David Brenner was a frequent guest and regular fill-in host on Tonight, much like another comic, Joan Rivers, whose own talk show debuted a month after Nightlife. But whereas Rivers angered Carson by planning her show without consulting her mentor, Brenner spoke with Carson about his plans and received his blessing. Brenner said "there's no animosity between me and them." The syndicated Nightlife, produced by Motown Productions in association with King World Productions, premiered on September 8, 1986, on 102 stations, approximately one-third of which were ABC affiliates.
Format
Nightlife was unique among late-night talk shows of the era in that it was a half-hour program, not a full hour. Brenner dressed more casually than other hosts, wearing sweaters instead of suit jackets. The show often opened with a comedy sketch rather than a traditional monologue. A notable exception came on October 17, 1986, when Brenner gave an extended monologue through two commercial breaks and until the closing credits. Reports indicated that none of the scheduled guests showed up, but Brenner's publicist claimed that the monologue was intentional. The show's house band was Billy Preston and the Nightlife Band. Preston, who appeared in the billing – Nightlife starring David Brenner with Billy Preston – was the first African-American music director of a national television talk show. New York radio personality Dan Ingram was the show's announcer.
Ratings and cancellation
In its first two months on air, Nightlife averaged a 2.4 rating. A November 1986 Broadcasting article said that the show had "gotten lost in the shuffle over the Carson and Rivers shows." November ratings fell to a 1.9, and by January 1987, David Smith, associate director of programming at Katz Communications, said that Nightlife would probably not return for a second season. King World and Motown Productions announced in April that they will complete the show's 195-episode commitment, though it was not officially cancelled for another two months. The final original episode of Nightlife aired in June, with reruns continuing through August.
Brenner told TV columnist Gary Deeb that when ratings "didn't go through the roof" in the first month, many stations then decided to move the show from the more desirable 11:00 p.m. – midnight time periods to the middle of the night. Brenner added that King World "started cutting our budget and started making us do a lotta pre-taped shows – and you could see the handwriting. I mean – it was more than handwriting – it was chiseling on the wall." King World head executive Michael King said the talent pool of available guests was "somewhat of a problem. But we weren't up against Joan Rivers for the most part. We were up against the last half-hour of Carson or the first half-hour of David Letterman." Ultimately, King argued, "the public just didn't want to tune into David every night". In a 2009 interview with The Trentonian, Brenner said that Motown and King World "ended up not liking to work with each other, and so they didn't care that the ratings were good, that the show was great and all that -- all they cared was to get away from each other. So you could say that I became the child of divorced parents". | WIKI |
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Messrs. Methuen's Announcements 7 others. It will also contain the best work of many other novelists whose names are household words. Each book will have a portrait or frontispiece in photogravure, and the volumes will be produced with great care in a style uniform with that of ' The Library of Devotion.' The first volumes will be : A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH LYRICS. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. By Jane Austen. With an Introduction by E. V. Lucas. Two Volumes. VANITY FAIR. By W. M. THACKERAY. With an Introduction by S. Gwyn.v. Three Volumes. EOTHEN. By A. W. Kinglake. With an Introduction. CRANFORD. By Mrs. GASKELL. With an Introduction by E. V. Lucas. JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Bronte. With an Introduction by R. Bayxe. Two Volumes. Zbe ILtttle (BuiDcs. Pott Svo, cloth 35. ; leather y. 6d. vet. NEW VOLUME. SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY. By B. C. Windle, M.A. Illustrated by E. II. New. Uniform with Mr. Wells' ' Oxford' and Mr. Thomson's ' Cambridge.' Fiction A NEW DEPARTURE IN PUBLISHING. Messrs. Methuen contemplate a very interesting experiment in publishing. They are about to issue at Sixpence, under the general title of ' Methuen's Library of Fiction,' stories by some of the best known writers of the day. A few books will be reprints, but most will be new works hitherto unpublished in book form. A considerable number of Sixpenny Editions of old books have already been issued by various publishers, but in no case has the work of an author of high repute been published in the first instance at that price. This Messrs. Methuen will attempt, and the first book thus published will be by E. W. Ilornung. Mr. Robert Barr and Mr. Cuthffe Hync will follow, and later will be published books by Mr. Baring Gould and others. In some cases the same book will be published simultaneously both at Sixpence and at a higher prire. Mi I. Methuen recognise the inevitable tendencies of an age of cheap literature. The theatre has its stalls and its pit, the railway its fir.^t and its third classes : so the novelist | WIKI |
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The patient’s presentation and history:
This young 13-year-old Northeastern girl was brought to Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, Teynampet, Chennai, by her parents for treatment of a painless swelling involving the right side of her lower jaw that had been present for over a year.
Her parents had not taken this slowly developing swelling seriously for a very long time and had neglected going to a doctor. It was only when it had grown to a very large size that they decided to seek medical help for their daughter.
Search for a good surgeon:
They had approached many hospitals throughout India, including premier surgical centers in other metropolitan cities, but had been turned away because of the extent of the lesion in her mandible. It was only after many months of futile search that they were finally referred to Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital in Chennai for management of their daughter’s condition.
Initial visits with Dr SM Balaji:
Dr SM Balaji, Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeon, examined the patient and ordered extensive investigations including 3D axial CT scans. Radiographic studies revealed the presence of an odontogenic keratocyst in the right side of the mandible, which involved both the ramus and the body of the mandible. It had spread so extensively that it had completely breached through the cortical bone of the ramus of the mandible into the soft tissues surrounding it.
Dr. Balaji explained to the patient and her parents that except for the condylar region, the right side of the mandible would have to be completely removed because of the extent of the lesion. He further explained that the mandible would then be reconstructed using a titanium plate with costochondral rib grafts obtained at the same surgery. The parents were in full agreement with this treatment plan and the patient was scheduled for surgery.
Obtaining Rib Grafts:
After the successful induction of general anesthesia, two costochondral rib grafts were harvested from the patient. The incision was then closed in layers after a Valsalva maneuver demonstrated absence of perforation into the thoracic cavity.
Reconstructive Surgery:
A right sided mucogingival flap was then raised and reflected down to the vestibular sulcus. The flap was reflected until the affected areas involving the body of the mandible was exposed. An extraoral incision was then made at the region of the angle of the mandible and dissection was carried down to the ramus. The bone in the affected regions was extremely soft and friable.
A hemimandibulectomy was then performed with complete removal of the affected segment of the mandible. Reconstruction of the mandible was then performed with use of the costochondral rib grafts and the titanium plate. The incisions were then sutured close and the patient recovered uneventfully from general anesthesia.
Postoperative Period:
The patient and her parents expressed their thankfulness to Dr SM Balaji before being discharged from the hospital.
Surgery Video | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 12
Category:African-Italian-Americans
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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 15:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Delete—ridiculous over-categorization. Make a bloody list if you think this is so important, but not a category. I personally would like to see all race/ethnic people categories go, but even if some are to stay, this one should be considered over the line of necessity and relevance. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete per Postdlf Honbicot 23:33, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Listify, and categorise these people to category:multiracial people. — Instantnood 06:43, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete. The people involved can simply be both in the "African Americans" category and the "Italian Americans" category. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 11:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete. Better categories would be "People of Italian descent" and/or "People with African heritage" and "American people." These hyphens make it trickier. -Willmcw 23:50, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose This is a valid category. This is an ethnic group largely unknown to many Westerners but that doesn't make it any less important or relevant. Italy established large colonies in Africa in the early 20th century and moved hundreds of thousands of Italians to the African continent. Those Italians, in turn, intermarried with African natives, particularly Ethiopians, Eritrians, and Somalis, and formed their own distinct cultural identity, an amalgam of Italian and African. Many of their progeny subsequently emigrated to the United States. It's no less a valid category than Polish-Americans or Italian-Americans or African-Americans. Someone researching African Italian-Americans may wish to find this sort of information. (And I believe the correct punctuation for the ethnicity is African Italian-Americans, not African-Italian-Americans.) David Hoag 06:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* It's just not a prominent cultural identity, as you yourself have stated by saying that it's "largely unknown to many Westerners." We are talking about African-Italian-Americans here. Trying to argue that it's a cultural group on par with the notability of African-Americans as a group is completely meritless, and even Polish-Americans have distinctly documented histories and distinct neighborhoods in America. There are no African-Italian-American festivals, identifiable neighborhoods, advocacy groups, cuisines...but there certainly are of Italian-Americans, et al. Make it a list article and annotate the ethnicity of the listed people, but a category is uncalled for. Postdlf 06:54, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Could you tell a bit more about Italian Africans, say, their history in Africa, emigration to the United States, and how many are in different countries? Thanks. — Instantnood 06:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* Keep. What's the matter? This category distinguishes people of both African and Italian Americans from African and Italian Americans. Furthermore, to specify is better than not to specify, and the interest of one reader will be disappointed if he wants to find people of such mixed descent. Furthermore, there is no harm stressing on such facts. Such unique combinations, such as African-German Americans, etc should be created, individuals highlighted in such unique category, and kept. Furthermore, this category is a sub-category of African Americans and Italian Americans. It brings out and highlight the colour. For example, Category:Macanese people, a subcategory of Category:Eurasians, which is in turn a sub-category of Multiracial people. Take me as one of such avid readers. I'm a mixed breed myself, after all. Mr Tan 15:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* delete why is the mix so important? Move the people back to African American and Italian American or make new categories Americans of xxx descent, xxx-American is a label which we should not place on people unless they actually use it personally. Arniep 18:12, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete as per nominator. RedWolf 03:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete, per Postdlf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calton (talk • contribs) 06:40, 15 November 2005
* Keep. If the decisions is to delete, listify and group the people under category:multiracial people. — Instantnood 08:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
* Keep. I agree with Mr. Hoag, this is a perfectly valid category. — Clevelander 01:17, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete, per nominator. --Vizcarra 12:47, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
* Delete These people are Americans. Let's leave it at that. Osomec 15:07, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Japanese World War II people to Category:Prominent Japanese figures from World War II
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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 15:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Note: I have moved this request from Requested moves to here. The original request and a vote from WP:RM is below: —jiy (talk) 23:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Japanese Wold War II people is a category that could be applied to any person from Japan involved with WWII, from the children making rations to Hirohito. I think the name is rather un-Encyclopedic. Sukiari 23:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC) What about moving the category to something that makes more sense in English, like "Japanese people involved in World War II"? Sukiari 02:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC) Understood.Sukiari 22:07, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose. It is standard. Category names which make assertions of prominence are deprecated. Only notable people should have articles, and therefore there will not be articles about every child involved in the war. CalJW 05:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per CalJW. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per the other voters. Honbicot 23:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per above Hiding talk 15:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* It would have to be done with more than just this category; the "[nationality] [war] people" category name is standard across all wars. If you want to gather a list of all categories that would be affected and propose a rename, by all means, do so. But it shouldn't be done just for this one. Postdlf 06:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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Rename Category:U.S. Representatives from Alabama, Category:Members of the U.S. House from Maryland, et al
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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 15:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
The above are two examples of the naming scheme used for subcategories in Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. This was put up for renaming a few months ago or so, but failed without consensus being reached. I am proposing that all of these be renamed, to reduce ambiguity and to remove the abbreviation of United States, to Category:United States Congressional Representatives from Alabama, where Alabama would be replaced with each state's name. This would be along the lines similar to what Category:United States Senators from Alabama (again, replacing Alabama with other states' names) was renamed to. -- tomf688 {talk} 16:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose. Rename instead to "U.S. Representatives from X", per below nominations. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose. Considered as an a abstract, maybe. But a long list of long titles for categories at the end of a bio becomes just clutter. Use "U.S. Representatives from" as outlined below. Lou I 23:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Hmph, didn't even see the one below. -- tomf688 {talk} 04:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose. SEWilco proposed a system over at Category talk:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives some time ago that I think was the best solution. I'll repost it below, and I suppose if in the ensuing discussion there's broader support for it, then we standardize that way instead.
* to — Reason: expand abbreviations.
* to — Reason: expand abbreviations, use similar phrasing.
* to — Reason: expand abbreviations, use similar phrasing. Avoids confusion with other meanings of "Representative" such as "U.S. representative from France" when meaning is "Trade representative from France to the United States".
* to — Reason: expand abbreviations, use grammar most compatible with other phrasing.
* We're good? The Tom 06:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* I supported the SEWilco's proposal there, and I support it here. Hiding talk 15:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose Gah. This obsession with expansion of abbreviations is just plain nuts, IMO. The only proposal I would support is changing all to "U.S. Representatives from X". older≠wiser 15:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Avoiding abbreviations is already a tenet of the category naming conventions. If you wish to question its applicability for this debate, you should question its applicability for all debates. The Tom 18:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Yes, I do indeed doubt the usefulness of such an arbitrary rule adapted with little debate (that I'm aware of) from the general naming conventions. That rule, I believe, phrased as "avoid abbreviations" was only relatively recently re-interpreted as meaning "abbreviations should be eliminated in all cases and without exception". Turning easily understood, unabiguous common abbreviations into lengthy, awkward, ugly phrases is just plain stupid, IMO. older≠wiser 20:58, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* I concur. Postdlf 04:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* It is actually rooted in the Manual of style, which states something along the lines of when listing countries, do not abbreviate the United States. My understanding is that it only applies when categorising by country. Hiding [[User talk:Hiding|talk]] 12:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* If you can find such a reference in the MoS, please share it. The only justification that I see cited in discussions on this page is "avoid abbreviations" which is from the MoS, but is not country-specific. older&ne;[[User talk:Bkonrad|wiser]] 13:07, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the United States. (for example "France and the United States", not "France and the U.S."). Manual of Style Hiding talk 13:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* These U.S. Representatives categories are not "in a list of countries," nor is the MoS addressing categories in that quote. Postdlf 14:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* A category when categorising by country is a list of countries, that's how the category pages display, hence the MoS guidance being adopted here and at Naming conventions (categories), thus my making this cite when asked by User:Bkonrad, was in support of my point that the expansion of country abbreviations, to my understanding, only applies when categorising by country. I am not seeking to insert such an argument into this debate, my intention was merely to correct what I perceived as misunderstandings of the expansion of abbreviations. Hiding talk 15:54, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks for the reference. I think it is a stretch to go from not using "U.S." in a list of nations (which is quite understandable) to having to always expand the abbreviation. The applicability to categories in which multiple nations would be listed side by side is also OK IMO. But to arbitrarily require it for all categories doesn't make much sense to me. older≠wiser 17:47, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose, and I agree completely with Bkonrad that this recent predilection for expanding acronyms needs to be reviewed.- SimonP 01:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Um, I don't know what happened to my original nominations, but the issue at hand was cleaning up four category titles that were out of sequence with the remaining 46. Can we please address these four before diving into the issue of the total set? I'm working on clearing out Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and it would help a lot to have uniform category names. Thank you. jengod 22:00, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* Category:Members of the U.S. House from Maryland >> Category:U.S. Representatives from Maryland
* Category:Members of the U.S. House from Minnesota >> Category:U.S. Representatives from Minnesota
* Category:Members of the U.S. House from Kansas >> Category:U.S. Representatives from Kansas
* Category:U.S. Congressmen from Wisconsin < > Category:U.S. Representatives from Wisconsin
* On edit: Ahhh...I see a separate category was created and the conversation drifted here. Anyway, the larger issue is not my concern at the moment, just the baby issue. (That said, the obsession in this section with U.S. >> United States is not really useful and I oppose it being the be-all,end-all guideline for category naming conventions.) Thanks again. jengod 22:03, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
* My obsession isn't with the name (not that I really have any obsession), but with the description. I created these "U.S. Representatives from X" originally, but on afterthought it would seem that "U.S. Representative" is far too vague, and needs another descriptive word. -- tomf688 {talk} 00:01, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Xtreme Football League players to Category:XFL players
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The result of the debate was Rename. Martin 19:38, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
XFL does not stand for "Xtreme Football League", the XFL article says explicitly that the X does not stand for anything in particular; therefore, this cat should be renamed. Anthony 15:21, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support Mayumashu 12:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:NPOV
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The result of the debate was Rename. Martin 22:36, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Rename to Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view, or something similar. Self-reflect and do not use abbrev. Radiant_ >|< 11:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support; good idea to spell out the topic area. Courtland 00:47, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Natives of Edinburgh to Category:Edinburghers
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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 14:52, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I must say that I have strong misgivings about this trend for renaming categories from, for example Category:Natives of London to Category:Londoners. The former makes it crystal clear that only people born in the city are eligible. From now on these cats are going to become absolutely packed with all kinds of people who only lived in the city for part of their life. Some people may end up being categorised to a dozen different places. Anyway, since this seems to be the trend, I would like to bring to your attention to a tidy-up issue. A few weeks ago someone manually renamed Category:Natives of Edinburgh to Category:Edinburghers. Being an Edinburgher myself (even though my mother gave birth to me in her home burgh in the west of Scotland, making me not a "Native of Edinburgh"), I did not mind too much, but the old category is still floating about uncategorised with a couple of biographies in it. As Category:Glaswegians is long-standing, and Category:Aberdonians and Category:Dundonians are proposed below by a fellow contributor to the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board, I though it was a good moment to tidy-up. Delete and Move. Mais oui! 09:50, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Object, while I don't particularly like the term "native", several cities have rather unknown adjectives so using those in cat titles would encourage misfiling. Radiant_ >|< 10:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree, this is the commonly used term for people from Edinburgh and should be kept as per Category:Londoners. Leithp (talk) 10:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree - Mayumashu 15:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Why do we want people by city subcategories at all? Why not listify? An annotated list would be more appropriate for cities and federal states because the relationship of birthplace, workplace, vacation home, place of death, etc., could be clearly stated. Why is it not enough to categorize by nationality? Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* in the case of many people, they identify more with their city then with their county, province, and i would guess state too. in the end, why not have it both ways as cities almost always lie within one state, provincial, county, or other regional jurisdiction and are therefore effective sub-cats -Mayumashu 03:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* And how are these local categories limited to people who "identify more with their city," as opposed to those whose association was relatively insignificant? And might it not be more important to the city to list off the notable people associated with it, than the city is to many individuals? Postdlf 23:26, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* they re not limited to just people who identify true, i admit i made a poor point there. the other benefit again is that they provide solid sub-cats for long lists of people categorized by state - i admit here too there is a problem though that if you don t know what city they re from (and for that matter what state) then navigating the system is problematic. actually, i think i ve come around quite a bit to your line of thinking on this User:Postdif but i not sold and it seems clear the majority of users prefer having the cats as opposed to the lists -Mayumashu 02:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support per arguments below The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Natives of Aberdeen to Category:Aberdonians and Category:Natives of Dundee to Category:Dundonians
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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 14:50, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Rename both as has been sugguested on the Scottish Wikipedians board to less bulky name as is near norm with people of city categories where the city name has commonly used adjectival form -Mayumashu 05:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree, as per above. Leithp (talk) 08:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Weak Rename I have strong misgivings about this trend for removing the word "native". In doing so, you are actually changing the whole nature of the category, by including lots of people not born in the city.--Mais oui! 09:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Object, while I don't particularly like the term "native", several cities have rather unknown adjectives so using those in cat titles would encourage misfiling. Radiant_ >|< 10:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* I wouldn't say that they are unknown, certainly not in Scotland. Leithp (talk) 10:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Comment Aberdonian and Dundonian (and Glaswegian) are very well-known and widely-used adjectives. Edinburgher is not quite so popular, but still in very wide use.--Mais oui! 11:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. If there're enough people to stick in a category and the city is notable enough to merit a category, then I believe the term for the city's residents is thereby notable enough for usage. "Aberdonian" is really no more difficult to puzzle out than "Surinamese" The Tom 05:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support - in fact I was the one who raised this. Either we are consistent, and get rid of entries like "Category:Novocastrians" or "Category:Glaswegians" or we use these. "Edinburgher" is not in wide use IMO (I live there), but Dundonian and Aberdonian certainly are. NB, by the by, I gather Kurt Cobain would be an "Aberdeenian", since that's what people from that other Aberdeen are called! --MacRusgail 17:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree Catchpole 12:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Spider-Man comics
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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:48, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
There is already a page for this at Category:Spider-Man_titles.
* delete, it's obsolete. --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 17:30, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:U.S. Congressmen from Wisconsin to Category:U.S. Representatives from Wisconsin
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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:42, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
To bring it in line with 46 other categories in Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. jengod 03:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree We will still have the disagreement about the name (US vs United States, etc.) but at least they will be the same for all states. Ditto for next 3 renames... Lou I 15:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Comment These should be put together under an umbrella using cdfu. pfctdayelise 04:12, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per past displeasure with the current naming system. See also my comments to tomf688's proposal further up the page. The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support older≠wiser 16:00, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support this merge. Putting aside the naming convention debate, here we have two categories meaning the exact same thing. One needs to be merged into the other. And, since 46 other categories do not use "U.S. Congressmen", then merge into the "U.S. Representatives" one. It is less populated, but I volunteer to do the work involved. HollyAm 05:03, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. -- tomf688 {talk} 00:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Members of the U.S. House from Minnesota to Category:U.S. Representatives from Minnesota
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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 14:41, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
To bring it in line with 46 other categories in Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. jengod 03:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per past displeasure with the current naming system. See also my comments to tomf688's proposal further up the page. The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support older≠wiser 16:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support, see above, Lou I 12:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support rename per nom. HollyAm 05:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. -- tomf688 {talk} 00:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Members of the U.S. House from Kansas to Category:U.S. Representatives from Kansas
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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 14:40, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
To bring it in line with 46 other categories in Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. jengod 03:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per past displeasure with the current naming system. See also my comments to tomf688's proposal further up the page. The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support older≠wiser 16:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support see Wisconsin above, Lou I 12:59, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support rename per nom. HollyAm 05:08, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. -- tomf688 {talk} 00:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Members of the U.S. House from Maryland to Category:U.S. Representatives from Maryland
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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 14:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
To bring it in line with 46 other categories in Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. jengod 03:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. Postdlf 23:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Oppose per past displeasure with the current naming system. See also my comments to tomf688's proposal further up the page. The Tom 06:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support older≠wiser 16:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support see Wisconson above, Lou I 13:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support rename per nom. HollyAm 05:09, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
* Support. -- tomf688 {talk} 00:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Weekly Wikipedia collaborations
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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:34, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Redundant with Category:Wikipedia collaborations. Talrias (t | e | c) 02:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Concur, merge. Radiant_ >|< 10:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
* Weak keep - Not all collaborations are weekly, so it isn't entirely redundant. I am unminded as to the importance of the distinction though. Hiding talk 15:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Don't you think it might be overcategorisation if we have a category for weekly/monthly/fortnightly collaborations? Talrias (t | e | c) 21:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
* Thta's not the point to hand though, is it. With regards to the actual point, that of a seperate category for weekly collaborations, I don't really have a mind either way, as already stated. Therefore I see no need to delete, since it may be of use to some people. Weekly collaborations turnaround quicker, so maybe it makes sense to highlight these within the category structure. Are you so sure it is unneccessary? Hiding talk 14:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
* Merge - SoM 13:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Squishy
fake squishies
Keep This is a big thing with the kids here right now. But it needs more details on how to distinguish between the original ones and the knock-offs flooding the market. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FirstMatter (talk • contribs) 11:12, January 23, 2018 (UTC)
* Not up for deletion, but if were that would certainly not be a very convincing argument. And I don't think the .article needs to add anything about distinguishing between real ones and counterfeit ones. Meters (talk) 10:32, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
fake squishies again
some people have stated that the harmful chemicals in fake squishies can cause cancer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 09:02, February 3, 2019 (UTC)
* And what would you like us to do with that? A vague, unsourced statement that unknown people have made a claim? Meters (talk) 10:32, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
* Some countries did test them. They did find harmful chemicals and banned them. FirstMatter (talk) 08:10, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
* What is a "fake squishie" anyway? According to the article there are many manufacturers.--Nø (talk) 08:59, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Requested move 1 June 2021
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 14:45, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Squishy (toy) → Squishy – The target of redirect Squishy was changed from Products produced from The Simpsons to this page in Special:Diff/935682153. If this page is the primary topic for the term "squishy", then this article should be moved to Squishy instead of having a primary redirect from Squishy to this page. It seems like this subject is the primary topic.
* Subjects "squishy" may refer to
* the subject of this page
* Products produced from The Simpsons
* no further results from a
If consensus determines that this subject is not the primary topic, then Squishy should be converted into a disambiguation page. ~ (t, e | c, l) 14:18, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
* Reason for primary topic of this subject
* The subject has a standalone page while Products produced from The Simpsons only has a section.
* "Squishy" is only an alternative name of Products produced from The Simpsons.
* Pageviews (last month):
* Squishee: 53; Squishee: 18
* Squishy (toy): 1205; Products produced from The Simpsons: 2366 (page includes other subjects) – A weak to neutral argument, but the number for the latter is unlikely to be high enough to challenge the primary topic status of this subject.
* Wikipedia:Primary topics in WP:TWODABS situations – Essay.
* Support, as noted, the fictional beverage does not normally use this spelling, and a hatnote is sufficient. 162 etc. (talk) 15:06, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
* Convert into disambiguation page This does not feel like a word with a clear primary topic. Malleability (i.e. as with clay) could also be a potential search if someone searched for "squishy".ZXCVBNM (TALK) 22:28, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
* Support, also wouldn't be oppose to DAB at base name if there are suitable entries.--Ortizesp (talk) 03:30, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
You should make a giant spider squishy
you should make a giant spider squishy on halloween <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:57, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
And a mummy giant squishy
And a mummy giant squishy <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
And a giant ghost 👻 squishy
And a giant ghost squishy <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Rochedale Rovers FC
Rochedale Rovers are a semi-professional football club which plays at Underwood Park in Priestdale, Queensland, Australia and competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland with junior teams competing in both Football Queensland and Football Brisbane competitions.
History
In November 1972, local resident Tommy Vance placed an advertisement in the local paper looking for people interested in forming a soccer club on a small field behind the historic Glen Hotel at Eight Mile Plains.
In 1973, Rovers started their first ever game with a dominant 4-0 victory over Redlands United, all four goals coming from the boot of Darren Byrne.
From the start, local business identities came forward to help, including the late Graham Hogg of Graham Hogg Real Estate, Brian Fitzgibbon of the Glen Hotel and John Beerling from Galeprufe Garages.
Within a few years the club had leased land at Underwood Park and with the help of a small army of volunteers had developed three fields (fenced and floodlit), a canteen, office and showers.
In the late 1970s a brick clubhouse was built with grandstands, full playing amenities, canteen and sports bar, at the time being one of the best facilities in Queensland.
In 2019, the original clubhouse was demolished to make way for a start of the art clubhouse based around the design of the original featuring the new Tom Vance and Keiran Cooper Grandstands and a full length verandah (extending the seating capacity to 500+) as well as a spectacular entrance way, top floor canteen and bar facilities.
Beneath the grandstand, which overlooks the main field, are modern changing rooms and storage facilities.
To date, Rochedale have collected six Premierships (1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2017), six Championships (1985, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2019) and have produced three internationals in Jon McKain (Socceroos), Chris O'Connor (Olyroos), and Luke Brattan (Under20s).
Former players turned professional include Shane Huke, Tim Smits, Matt Mundy, James Donachie and Steve Fitzsimmons.
Of teams still active, only Lions, Bardon Latrobe and Brisbane City have won more Premierships.
Silverware
Premierships: 1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2017
Runners-up: 2011, 2009, 2006, 2005, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991
Championships: 1984, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2019
Runners-up: 2012, 2010, 2006, 1998, 1992, 1991 | WIKI |
Anxiety: The Stress That Never Stops
Updated October 5, 2022 by BetterHelp Editorial Team
Introduction
Have you ever found yourself chewing your nails before a big test, or facing butterflies upon the sight of your crush? These are normal anxiety responses that many face on a regular basis. On average, most people spend less than an hour worrying. However, those with Generalized Anxiety Disorder can spend five hours or more each day worrying about various relationships, events, their surroundings, and even the anxiety disorder itself.
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, currently, 18.1 percent of US citizens between 18 and 54 are living with an anxiety disorder. However, few seek help for worry of what others may think. It is likely that many still don't believe Anxiety disorders to be a legitimate mental illness. This, coupled with the stigma towards mental illness in general, can contribute to people not seeking treatment. Anxiety disorders are distressing and debilitating. Symptoms often start small, like slight mood changes, but they always have the potential to develop into persistent fear, insomnia, isolation, and more.
What Is Anxiety Disorder?
We Understand That Anxiety Can Be Overwhelming
A generalized anxiety disorder is not just periods of prolonged worry. Anxiety sufferers are sometimes told that stress will go away on its own. However, where stress is helpful in some situations and serves the biological purpose of survival, an anxiety disorder causes repetitive and prolonged worrying, panic, fear, and other physical symptoms. The chronic anxiety seems to never end. There are many different types of anxiety. For example, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD for an abbreviation is one of several anxiety disorders. Those with Generalized Anxiety Disorder experience symptoms daily. Their anxieties are distorted and unrealistic, and GAD sufferers are not affected by any one stressor. Everyday stresses such as finances and health can lead to severe discomfort and often muscle tension. They can have trouble sleeping or maintaining relationships because of the anxious thoughts.
Social Anxiety, on the other hand, is brought on by social situations such as gatherings, work, or school. One often avoids contact with others for fear of humiliation. Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) usually presents in one of two ways. The first is speaking to others, public speaking, etc. The second involves more specific fears such as using public bathrooms or eating in public places.
Thirdly, Panic Disorder can arguably be one of the most debilitating anxiety disorders. It is characterized by recurrent panic attacks that come on unexpectedly and seem to have no apparent cause. Those suffering from the disorder frequently experience heart palpitations, shortness of breath, terror, chills, and the fear that one is dying. These episodes often occur multiple times a day and can even take place while the sufferer is asleep.
What Is Anxiety Really?
Anxiety is a serious mental illness affecting one in thirteen people worldwide. In North America, ten percent of citizens suffer from this mental illness. Many equate anxiety with stress; however, there is quite a difference. While stress in most people is short-lived and often solvable, anxiety plagues the lives of individuals on a daily basis.
These feelings of anxiety are more than the butterflies when you meet your date, and can lead to painful ulcers of the stomach lining if not treated promptly and properly. Anxiety in patients frequently raises blood pressure, makes it difficult to breathe, and causes problems with sleep. Anxiety Disorders are diagnosed by constant feelings of dread, persistent troubling thoughts, difficulties in a social situation, compulsive behaviors, isolation, trembling, panic attacks, and difficulties concentrating.
As noted above, there are many different types of anxiety. Those are a few of the most prominently recognized anxiety disorders. However, these disorders include GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder), SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder), Panic Disorder, Specific Phobias, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).
How To Tell If You Or Someone You Know Is Suffering From Anxiety?
It can take some time to make a diagnosis of a generalized anxiety disorder. As discussed above, all humans experience some form of anxiety or worry in their day to day lives. When faced with an important decision or problem, it is natural to get a feeling of anxiety and uncertainty, or even fear. However, these anxieties are minor and soon pass.
Most people are able to work and engage in social activities, even if they have experienced anxiety. However, for those with an Anxiety Disorder, the anxiety plagues them to a point that can affect their quality of life and even their physical and mental health. Those with Anxiety frequently feel overwhelmed, uncertain, fearful, and stressed. This anxiety can even become debilitating, with some sufferers secluding and neglecting themselves, on top of the physical exhaustion and degradation of the disorder itself.
Those with anxiety can suffer from persistent worrying thoughts throughout the majority of their week, persisting six months or longer. Anxiety disorders impede one's ability to retain stable relationships and live an enjoyable life. It can lead sufferers to be tense and easily startled.
Symptoms also include feelings of dread, irrational fears, anxiety in social situations, insomnia, extensive self-consciousness, compulsions, and consistent self-doubt. As well, persistent invasive negative thoughts can impair one's ability to concentrate, make decisions. One of the most noticeable symptoms of Anxiety Disorders is panic attacks.
While Anxiety is a mental illness, it comes with a host of debilitating physical symptoms as well. These can include muscle tension, dry mouth, sweaty palms and/or feet, night terrors, night sweats, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, numbness, dizziness, headaches, nausea, and frequent indigestion which can lead to ulcers. Also, many with Anxiety suffer from significant restlessness and have trouble sitting still or calming down. Trembling and twitching is common as well.
How Can You Take Anxiety Into Your Own Hands
The first step to bettering oneself and managing anxiety is to learn more about it, so you're on the right track. Do a little research for yourself, learn more about why you're feeling the way you are. This in itself may help to subdue some anxiety. For example, did you know that anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses across the world, and millions of people suffer from GAD symptoms?
Surprisingly, anxiety is more common in developed countries than those which are still developing. More people in these developing countries exhibit GAD symptoms while experiencing anxiety. Currently, the United States is considered to be the most anxious country in the world, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Anxiety disorders affect more than 18 percent of adults in the country. Additionally, generalized anxiety disorder comes along with many long-term risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure problems.
Keeping this new knowledge in mind, one can take the next steps towards taking anxiety into their own hands. Getting a grasp on one's anxiety is no easy task, however with practice and willpower there are methods that can help ease the symptoms of your anxiety that don't involve any sort of doctors or medicines at all. The first one being calming your breathing.
When individuals become anxious, it is common for breathing to speed up and even become difficult. This can lead to dizziness and can worsen anxiety as a whole. One method of controlling breathing is often called "Square Breathing." Upon signs of anxiety, it is important to focus on your breaths. First, breath in slowly through your nose, counting to four in your head. Hold that breath for another count of four seconds before releasing the breath slowly out through your mouth counting to four again. Pause for one last count of four before repeating with a breath through your nose.
Not only can this help you focus and calm your breathing, but as well, it becomes hard to focus on much more than both breathing and counting. This in itself can help to subside the initial thoughts which provoked the anxiety, to begin with.
How To Speak Up
We Understand That Anxiety Can Be Overwhelming
Even with self-help strategies, dealing with anxiety alone can be difficult. This becomes even harder without the support of those that you love and those whom you know you can trust. While many fear the stigmas held towards anxiety, a support group is an incredible resource to have, especially when struggling to overcome anxiety. Keep in mind that you are not alone and that there is help.
A good starting place can be family or close friends. Ultimately, these people are here to help and support you. Sometimes, family and friends may not be available and a support line may be a better alternative.
Adolescents may be more comfortable using technology or a TEENLINE. It can be as simple as texting "TEEN" to 839863. You can be connected to speak to a teen anytime between 6:00 pm-9:00 pm PST. Or call their phone lines 800-TLC-TEENS, open until 10:00 pm PST. You can even email or speak on their message boards.
Many sites offer help for those who feel they have no one else to speak to. One of these is BetterHelp. Before a big test, after an argument with your friend, or if you're just stressed. They can help to advise you, make recommendations, and simply be a listening ear. More affordable and convenient than any in-person therapy, BetterHelp lets you talk to your counselor through, online chat, as well as video or voice call.
Ultimately the most important thing to remember for anyone with anxiety is you are not alone and help is available. It is important to reach out and get help. No one ever has to be or feel alone.
For Additional Help & Support With Your Concerns
Speak with a Licensed Therapist
The information on this page is not intended to be a substitution for diagnosis, treatment, or informed professional advice. You should not take any action or avoid taking any action without consulting with a qualified mental health professional. For more information, please read our terms of use. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Outler)/Book I/Chapter IX
* Concerning the hatred of lessons, the love of play, and the fear of being whipped, noticeable in boys; and concerning the inconsistencies of their parents and masters.
O God my God, what miseries and derision did I now experience, when obedience to my teachers was imposed upon me, as is proper in a boy, in order that in this world I might get on and excel in oratorical arts, which should serve to the "praise of men," and to deceitful riches. Next I was put to school to learn lessons, in which I (poor wretch) knew not what use there was; and yet, if idle in learning, I was flogged. For this method was commended by our forefathers; and many, passing the same course before us, framed for us weary paths, through which we were compelled to pass; multiplying toil and grief upon the sons of Adam. But, Lord, we found men that called upon Thee, and we learnt from them to think of Thee as well as we could, as of some great One, who, though hidden from our senses, couldst hear and help us. For, as a boy, I began to pray to Thee, my aid and refuge; and broke the fetters of my tongue to call on Thee, and I used to ask Thee, though small, yet with no small earnestness, that I might not be flogged at school. And when "Thou didst not hear me, though not to my folly" (Ps. xxii. 2, Vulg.), my elders, yea, my very parents, who yet wished me no ill, laughed at my stripes, my then great and grievous ill.
Is there, Lord, any of courage so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense affection (for a sort of doggedness will in a way do it); is there any one, I ask, who, from a cleaving devoutly to Thee, is endued with so great a courage, that he can think as lightly of the racks and hooks and other tortures (to be delivered from which, throughout all lands, men call on Thee with extreme dread), laughing at those by whom they are feared most bitterly, as our parents used to laugh at the tortures we suffered as boys from our masters? For we feared them no less; nor prayed we less to Thee to escape them. And yet we used to sin by not writing or reading or minding our lessons as was demanded of us. For we wanted not, O Lord, for memory or capacity, whereof Thy will gave enough for our age; but our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But the trifling occupations of older people are called "business"; but those of boys, being really the same, are punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men. For will any of sound judgment approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing at ball, I made less progress in studies, which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more odiously? and what else did he, who flogged me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I, when beaten at ball by a play-fellow? | WIKI |
The Medicity
How to become a competent Laparoscopic surgeon
laparoscopic surgeon: surgical innovation, the demand for proficient laparoscopic surgeons continues to rise. In India, finding the best institute offering comprehensive Best Laparoscopic Training Institute in India becomes crucial for aspiring surgeons. A leading center not only provides basic laparoscopic training courses but also specializes in advanced hands on laparoscopic training in india tailored for gynecologists, general surgeons, and urologists.
The essence of effective laparoscopic training lies in hands-on experience, and reputable institutes in India prioritize this aspect. These centers offer FMAS and DMAS programs that ensure a thorough understanding and expertise in laparoscopic techniques.
Gaining proficiency in laparoscopic surgery requires more than theoretical knowledge; it demands practical exposure and guidance from experienced professionals. Hands-On Laparoscopic Training Centre understand this necessity, offering a blend of theoretical learning and extensive practical sessions.
For gynecologists seeking specialized laparoscopy training, these institutes provide dedicated courses, equipping them with the latest techniques and procedures. Additionally, they cater to general surgeons and urologists, providing tailored courses to enhance their laparoscopic skills.
Before we dive into the details, let’s start with the basics:
What is Laparoscopic Surgery?
Laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive surgical technique that involves making several small incisions, typically less than one centimeter in length, through which specialized instruments and a camera are inserted. The camera provides a high-definition view of the surgical site, allowing the surgeon to see inside the body and perform the procedure without the need for a large incision. The small incisions reduce the amount of trauma to the body, leading to less postoperative pain, faster recovery times, and fewer complications.
What Does it Take to Become a Laparoscopic Surgeon?
Becoming a laparoscopic surgeon requires a significant amount of education, training, and hands-on experience. It is a highly specialized field that requires expertise in both surgical technique and the use of advanced surgical equipment.
Here are the steps you need to follow to become a competent laparoscopic surgeon:
1. Hand-eye coordination: Laparoscopic surgery requires excellent hand-eye coordination. The surgeon must be able to manipulate instruments with precision and accuracy while looking at a video monitor rather than directly at the surgical site. This requires a great deal of practice and training to develop the necessary skills.
2. Spatial awareness: Spatial awareness is another important skill for laparoscopic surgeons. The surgeon must have a good understanding of the three-dimensional anatomy of the surgical site and be able to navigate the instruments through a limited field of view. This requires a great deal of practice and experience.
3. Instrument handling: The laparoscopic surgeon must be skilled in handling the specialized instruments used in laparoscopic surgery. These instruments are long, thin, and delicate, and require a great deal of finesse to manipulate. The surgeon must be able to use the instruments with precision and accuracy.
4. Camera manipulation: The laparoscopic camera is a critical component of the surgery, as it provides the surgeon with a view of the surgical site. The surgeon must be able to manipulate the camera with precision and accuracy to ensure a clear and detailed view of the surgical site.
5. Teamwork and communication: Laparoscopic surgery is a team effort, and effective communication is essential. The surgeon must be able to communicate effectively with the surgical team, including the anesthesiologist, nurses, and surgical assistants. The team must work together seamlessly to ensure a successful surgery.
6. Knowledge of anatomy and physiology: Laparoscopic surgeons must have a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology. They must be able to identify and navigate the structures of the surgical site, as well as understand the physiological effects of the surgery.
7. Decision-making and problem-solving: Laparoscopic surgery can present unexpected challenges, and the surgeon must be able to make quick decisions and solve problems as they arise. This requires a great deal of experience and expertise.
8. Patience and attention to detail: Laparoscopic surgery requires a great deal of patience and attention to detail. The surgeon must be able to work slowly and methodically to ensure that each step of the surgery is completed correctly.
9. Adaptability: Laparoscopic surgery can be unpredictable, and the surgeon must be able to adapt to changing circumstances. This requires flexibility and the ability to think on one’s feet.
10. Continuous learning and improvement: Finally, laparoscopic surgeons must be committed to continuous learning and improvement. They must stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and technologies and continually strive to improve their skills and knowledge.
Becoming a competent laparoscopic surgeon requires a range of essential skills and techniques, including hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, instrument handling, camera manipulation, teamwork and communication, knowledge of anatomy and physiology, decision-making and problem-solving, patience and attention to detail, adaptability, and continuous learning and improvement. Developing these skills takes years of training and experience, but with dedication and commitment, anyone can become a skilled laparoscopic surgeon. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Nahida Sobhan
Nahida Sobhan is a Bangladeshi diplomat. She is the first female diplomat representing Bangladesh in the Middle East as she became Ambassador to Jordan on 21 February 2020. Earlier, she served as the director general of the UN Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Education
Sobhan completed her SSC from Agrani Girls' School in 1984 and HSC from Holy Cross College in 1986. She holds a bachelor of arts (honors) and a master's degree in English literature from the University of Dhaka in 1992 and in 1994 respectively. She was trained in public international law at The Hague Academy of International Law in Netherlands. She also obtained a diploma in international relations from the Institute of Public Administration in Paris, France. She is equally fluent in French, English and Bengali.
Career
Sobhan is a career foreign service officer, belonging to 15th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) foreign affairs cadre. She served in various capacities at Bangladesh missions in Rome, Kolkata and Geneva.
Personal life
Sobhan is married and has a son, and a daughter. | WIKI |
John Burger
John Burger (April 10, 1916 – January 11, 2005) was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer.
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Burger served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and became a lieutenant colonel. He graduated from Goodland High School. Burger received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1935 and his law degree from University of Minnesota Law School in 1938. He was an educator and management consultant for the Dale Carnegie Institute and worked at General Mills. Burger lived in Long Lake, Minnesota. Burger was a lawyer and accountant. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives as a Republican from 1983 until 1990. Burger died in California of pneumonia. | WIKI |
FHSST Biology/Contents/Index/ES/Ecosystems
Chapter 1: Ecosystems
* 1) Biospheres, biomes and ecosystems
* 2) Resources
* 3) Biotic (living) and Abiotic (non-living) resources
* 4) Nutrient cycles
* 5) Energy flow within environments | WIKI |
Benefits of Zinc Supplementation
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Zinc is one of the most crucial elements found in the human body. It is a micronutrient that is required for the body’s healthy functioning. For example, Zinc gets absorbed in the small intestine and is essential for a variety of metabolic processes, including DNA and protein synthesis. It is necessary for cell growth as well as for supporting the body's immune system. And is found in several meals, including cereals, chicken, meat and seafood 1
Zinc deficiency has no distinct symptoms; however, it can cause growth retardation, diarrhoea, baldness, glossitis, nail dystrophy (thin and brittle nails), impaired immunity, and hypogonadism in males. Zinc deficiency is more common in people who suffer from malabsorption, malnutrition, alcoholism, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Supplements are often used to treat zinc deficiency. These supplements are also prescribed to help treat diarrhoea, age-related macular degeneration, upper respiratory infection (URI), wound healing, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 2.
Loss of appetite, and reduced immunological function are symptoms of zinc deficiency. Hair loss, diarrhoea, delayed sexual maturation, impotence, hypogonadism in men, and eye and skin diseases are also symptoms of zinc deficiency in more severe cases. Lack of zinc can also result in loss of immunity, poor sense of smell and taste, increased stress reactions, reduction in protein synthesis, incomplete digestion, leaky gut, impaired fertility, stressed adrenal glands and also low thyroid function 9.
Thus it is recommended to supplement Zinc on a daily basis.
Benefits of Zinc Supplements:
To understand the nature of zinc and how it helps, a number of studies have been undertaken. These studies also tried to answer the question of whether zinc supplementation can actually aid with diseases. Here are the conclusions of myriad studies undertaken:
1. Diarrhoea:
Randomized controlled trials using zinc supplementation in children with diarrhoea reported an 18% reduction in diarrhoea symptoms as compared to individuals who did not take the supplement 3
2. Respiratory Illness:
Zinc supplementation significantly reduced the severity of respiratory illnesses 4
3. Skin Issues:
Zinc is a common element in skin care treatments that cure ulcers, diaper rash, and haemorrhoids. Vitamins A and E, as well as carotenes and zinc, are deficient in patients with chronic leg ulcers. In these patients, increased dietary intake may have an effect on the time required for wound healing 5. Zinc supplementation has also been shown to aid in wound healing in a few trials.
4. Oxidative stress disorders:
Having antioxidant properties, Zinc has also been known to work effectively against oxidative-stress disorders 6. Both zinc and antioxidants may help to slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and vision loss, presumably by reducing cellular damage in the retina, according to research 7. Zinc may lower the severity and length of cold symptoms by directly reducing rhinovirus growth in the nasal mucosa and suppressing inflammation 8.
Why are Zinc Supplements Necessary?
While food sources of zinc abound, sometimes the gut can’t properly digest or break down the mineral and absorb it. This is why someone who eats a zinc-rich diet might still show signs of deficiency and need additional supplementation. In this case, improving digestive function & supplementing with Zinc may be needed. Additional support for Zinc can be beneficial to correct & prevent its deficiency.
Typical doses range from 10 to 15 mg of Zinc daily with Copper to balance it 10. Zinc reduces the amount of copper your body absorbs, for that reason it is recommended to have copper along with zinc supplements 11.
Speciality of iTHRIVE Essentials Zinc Defense:
iThrive Essentials Zinc Defense makes it easy to get your daily dose of zinc. It provides 15 mg of Zinc Methionine Sulfate with copper to balance it. It is unnecessary to take an additional supplement to maintain copper levels in the body because iThrive Essentials Zinc Defense is already fortified with copper. Our supplement is bioavailable and hence can be absorbed easily. This is a gentle, chelated, and well-tolerated form of zinc.
References:
1. https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ja8KAAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=UlArCbvuEq&sig=d6GUC2RfewftCpS4pj-b4ALmNaw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820120/#:~:text=Zinc%20is%20an%20essential%20micronutrient,increased%20risk%20of%20zinc%20deficiency
3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18245424/
4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17545379/
5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10491041/
6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32828910/
7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16625532/
8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15496046/
9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16632171/
10. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Zinc-HealthProfessional/#en74
11. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26085547/
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Glenn v. Marbury/Opinion of the Court
On the 23d of August, 1866, an order of injunction was issued restraining the defendants 'from collecting or taking any proceedings to collect or enforce from the complainant the payment of moneys for or an account of his stock in said company, or assignments or calls thereon, either by sales of stock or otherwise, and from making any assessments upon the complainant in respect to or on account of his said stock, and also injoining and restraining the said company, its directors, agents, and servants, from pleading, using, or applying the property, funds, effects, and credits of the said company to or for any purposes or objects other than the regular and legitimate express and transportation business for which the said company was organized, and from carrying out or fulfilling the agreement with Benjamin Ficklin, mentioned in said bill, or any similar agreement with any other person, and from selling any of the shares of said stock held or owned by the complainant until the further order of this court.'
The express company, on the 20th day of September, 1866, having previously appeared and filed its answer in the Reynolds suit,-executed to John Blair Hoge, J. J. Kelly, and C. Oliver O'Donnell a deed assigning and conveying to them all the estate, property, rights, and credits of the company, of every kind and wherever they might be, including moneys payable to the company, 'whether on calls or assessments on the stock of the company,' or on notes, bills, accounts, or otherwise. The deed was made on certain trusts, among others, that the trustees should permit the express company to remain in the possession and use of all the property conveyed or assigned, except debts, claims, and moneys payable, until November 1, 1866, and thereafter until the trustees should be requested by one or more of the creditors secured by the deed, and whose debt or debts should then be due, to take possession of the assigned property; the trustees, however, to take possession at any time, if requested by the company's board of directors. The trustees were required by the deed to proceed without unnecessary delay 'to collect all the debts, claims, and moneys payable, which are hereby granted or assigned.'
On the 31st of December, 1866, the court appointed a receiver of the money, property, and effects of the express company, 'with all the powers, rights, and obligations usual in such cases, subject to the control of this court, until the affairs of said company be fully and finally closed up.' He was ordered to execute and file, before entering upon his duties, a bond, with sureties to be approved by the court, of $20,000, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as receiver of the funds, property, and effects of the express company. It was further provided in the order appointing the receiver as follows:
'That upon the execution, approval, and filing of said bond the said receiver shall be vested with all the estate, real and personal, as well as all the money, notes, accounts, assessments due on stock or other securities, or rights in action of the said National Express & Transportation Company, as trustee of such estate and property, for the use and benefit of the creditors of said company, and of its stockholders and others who may be interested in the same, with all the powers, rights, and authority of a trustee appointed by this court, or acting within its jurisdiction and control.
'Such receiver shall have all the powers and authority which ordinarily belong to such trustee, and the said defendants, as well as all other persons who may have the possession or control of any of the money, books, property, effects, or things in action of the said National Express & Transportation Company, and especially John Blair Hoge, John J. Kelly, and C. Oliver O'Donnell, the trustees named in a pretended assignment referred to in the complainant's petition, are hereby required to assign, transfer, and deliver to the said trustee, on being notified of this order, all such money, property, notes, bonds, estate, real and personal, so in their hands or under their control, and they are also required to execute and deliver all deeds, conveyances, releases, transfers, or acquittances that may in any wise be necessary to place any or all of said property or effects so in the hands or under the control of the said receiver, and they and each of them, on being required, shall make all discovery and furnish all information which the said receiver may require in relation to any or all of the property, business, or transactions of the said company.
'The said receiver will proceed to collect all the property, money, and effects of the said National Express & Transportation Company, and convert the same into money, and he will also ascertain the amount of the debts and liabilities of the said National Express & Transportation Company, and, after payment therefrom of all expenses, including counsel fees and costs, with such compensation as the court may allow him, will, from thme to time, apply the funds so received and obtained by him in the satisfaction and discharge of the debts of the said company under the orders of this court.
'And if there shall be any sums due upon the shares of the capital stock of the said company the said receiver will proceed to collect and recover the same, unless the persons from whom the said sums may be due shall be wholly insolvent, and for this purpose may prosecute actions at law or in equity for the recovery of such sums in his own name, as receiver or otherwise, as he may deem best, and shall apply the maney so received under the order of this court to the satisfaction and payment of the remaining debts of said company, as well as the legal and necessary expenses of the due execution of this trust, including a reasonable compensation and commission to himself for services on this behalf, and also including such necessary and reasonable fees and costs as may be necessary in maintaining, prosecuting, or difending any suit or suits which it may be necessary to prosecute or defend in order to the full execution of this trust.'
The receiver gave the required bond, and it was approved by the court on the 12th of January, 1867.
Reynolds having died, Washington Kelley, a stockholder, was permitted to become a party plaintiff, and, with the leave of the court, filed August 20, 1870, an amended and supplemental bill. The receiver reported to the court, December 11, 1880, that he had not been able to obtain possession of any of the company's effects, except two freight cars; and that so far as he could ascertain, in all the states where the company did business, its property and effects had been attached by its creditors. This report being made, 'on motion of the defendants John Blair Hoge and J. J. Kelley,' the order appointing the receiver was vacated, annulled, and set aside, the receiver discharged and exonerated, the injunction dissolved, and the suit dismissed.
On the 4th of December, 1871, W. W. Glenn, suing on behalf of himself and all other creditors of the express company, filed his bill in equity in the chancery court of the city of Richmond against that corporation, and its officers, and against the trustees named in its deed of September 20, 1866. The object of that suit was to collect the assets of the company, including the amounts due from the subscribers of its stock. The proceedings in that cause are fully set out in Hawkins v. Glenn, 131 U.S. 319, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 739. It is only necessary now to state that in the progress of that suit an order was entered December 14, 1880, sustaining the validity of the deed of assignment of September 20, 1866, removing the surviving trustees named in it, with their consent, and substituting in their place John Glenn, who was clothed, by that order, 'with all the rights and powers, and charged with all the duties, of executing the trusts of said deed to the same effect as were the original trustees therein;' Glenn, however, not to take possession of the property covered by the deed until be gave bond, with security, for the faithful discharge of his duties as substituted trustee. He gave such bond January 3, 1881, and it was approved by the court.
By the same order a call and assessment of 30 per cent. of the par value of each share of stock was made upon stockholders, who were required to make payment to John Glenn, substituted trustee. By a decree entered July 21, 1883, it was adjudged 'that John Glenn, trustee, on the payment to him within six months from the date of this decree, by any of the subscribers to the stock of the defendant company, or by any other person claimed to be liable on account of said stock, of twenty-five per centum of the original amount of said subscription, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, from thirty days from the date of this decree, with any costs incurred heretofore or by said trustee in any suit brought by him heretofore, or which may hereafter be brought before tender of said twenty-five per cent. under this decree, to recover of such stockholder or other party the amount for which he may be responsible on said stock under the decree in this cause, shall execute a receipt therefor to operate as a full acquittance and discharge of all persons on account of such subscription, both of the original subscribers thereto and of any assignee thereof.' By another order, made March 26, 1886, in the circuit court of Henrico county, Va.,-to which the cause was removed in 1884,-an additional call and assessment of 50 per cent. of the par value of each share of stock was made upon stockholders, who were severally required to pay the said amounts hereby called for and assessed to John Glenn, he being 'authorized and directed to collect and receive said call and assessment, and to take such prompt steps to that end, by suit or otherwise, and in such jurisdictions, as he may be advised.'
Marbury, it is admitted, was an original subscriber for 100 shares of the company's stock, for which he received a certificate, paying 20 per cent. only on his subscription. The object of the present suit is to recover from him the sum of $5,000, by reason of the above call and assessment of 50 per cent., with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum from March 26, 1886, the date of the order making such call and assessment. He pleaded that he never was indebted, and did not promise as alleged; that the plaintiff's cause of action did not accrue within three years before the commencement of this suit; that the chancery court of the city of Richmond had no jurisdiction to render the decree of December 14, 1880; and that the plaintiff, as trustee, had no right to sue in the court below in his own name or otherwise.
At the trial below the court refused to instruct the jury, at the plaintiff's instance, that this action, having been brought within three years after the decree, in the circuit court of Henrico county, Va., of March 26, 1886, the plea of limitation constituted no defense. It also refused to instruct the jury, at the instance of the plaintiff, that the decree of July 21, 1883, in the Virginia court, constituted no defense, and did not relieve the defendant from liability for the assessment made by the order in that court of March 26, 1886; and, upon the motion of the defendant, the jury were directed to find, and in accordance with that direction returned, a verdict for the difendant, on which judgment was entered.
Upon appeal to the general term the judgment was affirmed upon the authority of Glenn v. Busey, 5 Mackey, 233, where it was held, in a case similar to the present one, that Glenn could not maintain an action in the court below in his own name as trustee.
Since the decision in Hawkins v. Glenn, 131 U.S. 319, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 739, and Glenn v. Liggett, 135 U.S. 533, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 867, the only questions open for consideration in the present case relate to limitation and to the right of the plaintiff to bring this action in his own name as trustee.
It is not disputed that the time prescribed by the statutes in force in the District of Columbia for the bringing of suits like the present one is three years from the accruing of the cause of action. The defendant contends that liability upon his subscription of stock could have been enforced, by the receiver appointed by the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia in the Reynolds suit, at any time after the 12th of January, 1867, on which day the receiver's bond was filed and approved by the court; and that, as more than three years elapsed, after that date, and while the Reynolds Case was pending, without suit being brought against him, he is protected by the statute of limitation. We are of opinion that this position cannot be sustained. The order of December 31, 1866, in the Reynolds suit was not, in any proper sense, a call or assessment on the company's stock. Nor was it equivalent to one. The deed of September 20, 1866, assigned and transferred to Blair, Kelly, and O'Donnell, trustees, among other property, all moneys payable 'on calls or assessments on the stock of the company;' and the order of December 31, 1866, in the Reynolds suit vested in the receiver, as trustee, 'assessments due on stock,' and directed him to proceed in the collection and recovery of 'any sums due upon the shares of the capital stock of the said company.' But nothing was due from subscribers of stock until a formal call or assessment was made by the company, and no call or assessment could be made by the trustees named in the deed of September 20, 1866, or by the receiver in the Reynoids suit. Glenn v. Macon, 32 Fed. Rep. 7.
In Hawkins v. Glenn, the court said: 'By the deed the subscriptions, so far as uncalled for, passed to the trustees, and the creditors were limited to the relief which could be afforded under it, while the stockholders could be subjected only to equality of assessment, and as the trustees could not collect except upon call, and had themselves no power to make one, rendering resort to the president and directors necessary, or, failing their action, then to the courts, it is very clear that the statute of limitations could not commence to run until after the call was made.' See, also, Scovill v. Thayer, 105 U.S. 143, 155. If the court, in the Reynolds suit, had intended to make a call for the payment in full of all subscriptions of stock, it would have used language different from that employed in the order appointing the receiver. It is clear that no action could have been maintained by the receiver in the Reynolds suit, in respect to unpaid subscriptions, except to compel the payment of sums due on formal calls or assessments if any, made by the company prior to the institution of that suit. For these reasons, the defense based upon limitation cannot be sustained. And in conformity with Hawkins v. Glenn and Glenn v. Liggett, we hold that limitation commenced to run, in favor of the present defendant, only from the order in the Virginia court making the call or assessment on subscribers of stock. Glenn v. Williams, 60 Md. 93, 122, 123.
The other question, as to the right of the plaintiff, in virtue of the authority conferred upon him by the Virginia court, to bring the present action in his own name as trustee, is a more serious one. In Tiernan v. Jackson, 5 Pet. 580, 597, Mr. Justice STORY, speaking for the court, said that 'the general principle of law is that choses in action are not at law assignable. But, if assigned, and the debtor promises to pay the debt to the assignee, the latter may maintain an action for the amount against the debtor, as money received to his use. Independently of such promise, there is no pretense that an action can be sustained.' After referring to some adjudged cases, which he said were distinguishable from the one then before the court, he proceeded: 'They are either cases where there was an express promise to hold the money subject to the order of the principal, or there was an implied promise to pay it over as it was received to the use of a particular person. The express promise to pay to order bound the party, and excluded any claim for a lien, and any defende for want of privity between him and the holder of the order. The receipt of the money for the use of any particular person necessarily implied a promise or obligation to hold it in privity for such person.'
In Pritchard v. Norton, 106 U.S. 124, 130, 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 102, Mr. Justice MATTHEWS, delivering, judgment, said: 'Whether an assignee of a chose in action shall sue in his own name or that of his assignor is a technical question of mere process, and determinable by the law of the forum; but whether the foreign assignment, on which the plaintiff claims, is valid at all, or whether it is valid against the defendant, goes to the merits, and must be decided by the law in which the case has its legal seat. Whart. Confl. Laws, §§ 735, 736.' And in New York Guaranty & Indemnity Co. v. Memphis Water Co., 107 U.S. 205, 214, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 279, the court, speaking by Mr. Justice BRADLEY, said: 'We have lately decided, after full consideration of the authorities, that an assignee of a chose in action, in which a complete and adequate remedy exists at law, cannot, merely because his interest is an equitable one, bring a suit in equity for the recovery of the demand. Hayward v. Andrews, 106 U.S. 672, 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 544. He must bring an action at law in the name of the assignor to his own use. This is true of all legal demands standing in the name of a trustee, and held for the benefit of cestuis que trustent. Besides the authorities cited in that case reference may be made to Mitf. Eq. Pl. 123, 125; Willis, Eq. Pl. 435, note g; Adair v. Winchaster, 7 Gill & J. 114; Moseley v. Boush, 4 Rand, 392; Doggett v. Hart. 5 Fla. 215; Smiley v. Bell, Mart. & Y. 378; and the English and American notes to Ryall v. Rowles, 1 Ves. Sr. 348, and to 2 White & T. Lead. Cas. Eq. (Ed. 1877,) pp. 1567, 1670.'
The right which the express company acquired by the defendant's subscription to its capital stock was only a chose in action. It passed by the deed of September 20, 1866, to the trustees, Blair, Kelly, and O'Donnell, but subject to the condition that a chose in action is not assignable so as to authorize the assignee to sue at law, in his own name, unless the right to do so is given by a statute, or by settled law, in the jurisdiction where suit is brought. This is the well-established rule of the common law, and the common law touching this subject governs in the District of Columbia. If the trustees named in the deed of 1866 had sued in this District for sums due upon calls or assessments on stock, they must have sued in the name of the express company for their use, unless the stockholders expressly promised to pay them, or unless such a promise could be implied as matter of law. There was no such express promise by Marbury, although he concurred in the assignment made by the company to those trustees.
But it is said that stockholders must be presumed to assent to every lawful disposition made of its property by the corporation. When this point was made in Glenn v. Busey, 5 Mackey, 243, it was fully met by Mr. Justice Cox, speaking for the court. After observing that a stockholder in a corporation holds a double relation to it; that, in his capacity as debtor, he has not promised to pay to the company's order or to its assignee, but to the company only; and that as stockholder he would not be held to have given more than the general authority to the corporation to deal with its property,-he said: 'If we go further than this, we must hold that the mere fact of being a stockholder in a corporation makes his indebtedness a negotiable one, even against the terms of his agreement with the company and the intention of the parties. Thus, if a stockholder borrowed money from the company on his sealed bond, the agreement would be that as his bond is a part of the assets of the company, and he has generally and impliedly assented to the assignment or negotiation of its property, as it may think best, ergo his bond may be negotiated like a promissory note. But this reasoning would not stop at corporations. It would apply equally to partnerships. Each member of a partnership is the agent of all, and all the others are the agents of each, and all or each would have authority to settle debts by the assignment of property of the firm. If, then, one becomes indebted to the firm on an open account, the firm, on the principles before mentioned, could assign or negotiate the debt, and so give the assignee a right of action in his own name. In such action the plaintiff, after stating the original indebtedness and its assignment, which would make a demurrable case, would only have to supplement it by an averment that the debtor was a member of the firm who made the assignment, and his case would be complete. It is hardly necessary to say that this would be a novelty in the law of contracts and actions and pleadings, for which not a semblance of authority could be found.'
Is the question as to the right of the trustee Glenn to bring this suit, in his name, any different by reason of the fact that the Virginia court made the call or assessment in question, substituted the plaintiff as trustee in the place of Blair, Kelly, and O'Donnell, removed, and both authorized and directed him to collect and receive such call or assessment, taking steps to that end by suit or otherwise, and in such jurisdiction as he might be advised? We think not. Undoubtedly, the express company having refused or neglected to make the necessary call or assessment, a court of equity could itself make it, if the interest of creditors required that to be done. In other words, as said in Scovill v. Thayer, 105 U.S. 143, 145, and repeated in Hawkins v. Glenn, 131 U.S. 335, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 739, 'the court will do what it is the duty of the company to do.' See, also, Glenn v. Williams, 60 Md. 93, 113, 114. But the making of the call or assessment by the court, for the company, does not, in the absence of some statutory provision on the subject, change the rule that a demand upon the stockholder to meet a call or assessment, by competent authority, must be enforced in the name of the person or corporation holding the legal title to the stock subscription, and to whom the promise of the stockholder was made. There is no reason why the trustee Glenn could not have sued in the name of the company; for, as said in Hawkins v. Glenn, concurrring with the supreme court of appeals of Virginia in Hamilton v. Glenn, 85 Va. 901, 905, 9 S. E. Rep. 129: 'As this corporation, notwithstanding it may have ceased the prosecution of the objects for which it was organized, could still proceed in the collection of debts, the enforcement of liabilities, and the application of its assets to the payment of its creditors, all corporate powers essential to those ends remained unimpaired.'
We concur entirely in the views expressed by Mr. Justice Cox, speaking for the court, in Glenn v. Busey, where will be found a careful and elaborate discussion of this question. In harmony with the decision in that case, we hold that the present suit cannot, consistently with the principles of the common law,-which is the law, upon this question, for the District of Columbia,-be maintained by the plaintiff in his own name, as trustee. We are aware that a different rule obtains in some jurisdictions where the common law has been modified by statute or by a settled course of decisions, but we are unable to hold that the law of this District is otherwise than has been indicated in this opinion.
Judgment affirmed. | WIKI |
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//
// Copyright (c) 2012-2014 The ANGLE Project Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
//
// RenderStateCache.h: Defines rx::RenderStateCache, a cache of Direct3D render
// state objects.
#ifndef LIBANGLE_RENDERER_D3D_D3D11_RENDERSTATECACHE_H_
#define LIBANGLE_RENDERER_D3D_D3D11_RENDERSTATECACHE_H_
#include "common/angleutils.h"
#include "libANGLE/Error.h"
#include "libANGLE/SizedMRUCache.h"
#include "libANGLE/angletypes.h"
#include "libANGLE/renderer/d3d/d3d11/renderer11_utils.h"
#include <unordered_map>
namespace std
{
template <>
struct hash<rx::d3d11::BlendStateKey>
{
size_t operator()(const rx::d3d11::BlendStateKey &key) const
{
return angle::ComputeGenericHash(key);
}
};
template <>
struct hash<rx::d3d11::RasterizerStateKey>
{
size_t operator()(const rx::d3d11::RasterizerStateKey &key) const
{
return angle::ComputeGenericHash(key);
}
};
template <>
struct hash<gl::DepthStencilState>
{
size_t operator()(const gl::DepthStencilState &key) const
{
return angle::ComputeGenericHash(key);
}
};
template <>
struct hash<gl::SamplerState>
{
size_t operator()(const gl::SamplerState &key) const { return angle::ComputeGenericHash(key); }
};
} // namespace std
namespace rx
{
class Framebuffer11;
class Renderer11;
class RenderStateCache : angle::NonCopyable
{
public:
RenderStateCache();
virtual ~RenderStateCache();
void clear();
static d3d11::BlendStateKey GetBlendStateKey(const gl::Context *context,
Framebuffer11 *framebuffer11,
const gl::BlendState &blendState);
angle::Result getBlendState(const gl::Context *context,
Renderer11 *renderer,
const d3d11::BlendStateKey &key,
const d3d11::BlendState **outBlendState);
angle::Result getRasterizerState(const gl::Context *context,
Renderer11 *renderer,
const gl::RasterizerState &rasterState,
bool scissorEnabled,
ID3D11RasterizerState **outRasterizerState);
angle::Result getDepthStencilState(const gl::Context *context,
Renderer11 *renderer,
const gl::DepthStencilState &dsState,
const d3d11::DepthStencilState **outDSState);
angle::Result getSamplerState(const gl::Context *context,
Renderer11 *renderer,
const gl::SamplerState &samplerState,
ID3D11SamplerState **outSamplerState);
private:
// MSDN's documentation of ID3D11Device::CreateBlendState, ID3D11Device::CreateRasterizerState,
// ID3D11Device::CreateDepthStencilState and ID3D11Device::CreateSamplerState claims the maximum
// number of unique states of each type an application can create is 4096
// TODO(ShahmeerEsmail): Revisit the cache sizes to make sure they are appropriate for most
// scenarios.
static constexpr unsigned int kMaxStates = 4096;
// The cache tries to clean up this many states at once.
static constexpr unsigned int kGCLimit = 128;
// Blend state cache
using BlendStateMap = angle::base::HashingMRUCache<d3d11::BlendStateKey, d3d11::BlendState>;
BlendStateMap mBlendStateCache;
// Rasterizer state cache
using RasterizerStateMap =
angle::base::HashingMRUCache<d3d11::RasterizerStateKey, d3d11::RasterizerState>;
RasterizerStateMap mRasterizerStateCache;
// Depth stencil state cache
using DepthStencilStateMap =
angle::base::HashingMRUCache<gl::DepthStencilState, d3d11::DepthStencilState>;
DepthStencilStateMap mDepthStencilStateCache;
// Sample state cache
using SamplerStateMap = angle::base::HashingMRUCache<gl::SamplerState, d3d11::SamplerState>;
SamplerStateMap mSamplerStateCache;
};
} // namespace rx
#endif // LIBANGLE_RENDERER_D3D_D3D11_RENDERSTATECACHE_H_ | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Secret Wars (toy line)
Worth mentioning
Is it worth mentioning that neither Daredevil nor Hobgoblin nor (I think) Baron Zemo were involved in the comic book story that these action figures were based upon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C08C:A6F0:21C:B3FF:FEC3:2572 (talk) 13:22, 11 March 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
US not seeking to reopen Iran nuclear deal, envoy says
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States is not seeking to reopen or renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal but hopes to stay in it to fix its flaws with a supplementary agreement, U.S. non-proliferation envoy Christopher Ford said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday to seek stronger measures to contain Iran, but Trump refrained from committing to staying in the 2015 nuclear deal and threatened Tehran with retaliation if it restarted its nuclear program. “We are not aiming to renegotiate the JCPOA (nuclear deal) or reopen it or change its terms,” Ford told reporters on the sidelines of a nuclear non-proliferation conference in Geneva. “We are seeking a supplemental agreement that would in some fashion layer upon it a series of additional rules - restrictions, terms, parameters, whatever you want to call it - that help answer these challenges more effectively.” Macron said he spoke to Trump about a “new deal” in which the United States and Europe would tackle the outstanding concerns about Iran beyond its nuclear program. “If we were able to meet that challenge of bringing our partners together ... President Trump made it clear that his decision not to renew the sanctions waivers would be revised, and that is where I hope we are now today,” Ford said. Asked if Macron had saved the JCPOA in talks with Trump, Ford said: “I hope the JCPOA has been saved in the context of the challenge that President Trump set for us, of trying to remain within the deal but in the context of moving forward with our partners on an approach that stands a pretty good chance of turning what was in effect a temporary postponement ... into a more enduring answer.” Some diplomats have expressed concern that reopening the Iran deal could undermine Trump’s talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump has said could take place in May or June. But Ford said fixing the flaws in the Iran nuclear agreement would provide a model for other deals, including one with North Korea, which should aim for complete, irreversible and verifiable dismantlement of any nuclear threat. “They (the North Koreans) have given us very hopeful and interesting signs that it may be possible to negotiate towards that end. We are determined to pursue that as best we can and make sure we have an enduring solution ... in ways we think the JCPOA did not do,” Ford said. Reporting by Tom Miles, Editing by Catherine Evans, Editing by William Maclean | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
INQUIMAE 12526
INSTITUTO DE QUIMICA, FISICA DE LOS MATERIALES, MEDIOAMBIENTE Y ENERGIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Stability and Structure of Sodium Caseinate Emulsions
Autor/es:
M. L. HERRERA; C. HUCK IRIART; R. J. CANDAL
Lugar:
Campinas
Reunión:
Congreso; 21ra Reunión Annual de Usuarios del LNLS; 2011
Institución organizadora:
Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotrón
Resumen:
Most dispersed multiphase systems are thermodynamically unstable per se and thus require stabilization. In the food industry, actually stabilization of emulsions is obtained by the addition of proteins. Sodium caseinate is widely used as an ingredient due to its functional properties, which include emulsification, water and fat-binding, thickening and gelation. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of sodium caseinate or sugar concentrations and fat phase composition on the stability and structure of emulsions formulated with a concentrated from fish oils, sunflower or olive oils as fat phase. The main mechanism of destabilization in a given formulation depended on NaCas concentration. Emulsions formulated with 0.5 and 1 wt.% NaCas destabilized mainly by creaming. For the 2 wt.% NaCas emulsion, both creaming and flocculation mechanisms, were involved while for emulsions stabilized by 3, 4 or 5 wt.% NaCas the main mechanism was flocculation. When trehalose was added to emulsions, the rate of destabilization was markedly lower. The 5 wt.% NaCas emulsion did not flocculate during a week at 22.5°C. Its back scattering remained unchanged during storage showing a great stability. This sample remained fully turbid and in the liquid state. SAXS patterns for emulsions formulated with 0, 20 or 30 wt.% trehalose, 10 wt.% CFO and 5 wt.% NaCas were analyzed at 8°C. As was expected addition of sugar diminished the intensity of the signal since electron density of aqueous trehalose solutions increased with concentration and therefore there was less contrast. Values of q were 0.241, 0.248, and 0.252 nm_1 for emulsions with 0, 20, and 30 wt.% trehalose, respectively. Some aqueous phase components such as hydrocolloids proved to stabilize emulsions because they increase viscosity. The slightly increased of q values with trehalose addition might suggest that trehalose had an effect further than viscosity changes since the aggregation state of the protein changed with the aqueous phase formulation. These results were in agreement with the small particle size found when trehalose was added to aqueous phase. Changes in fat phase did not affect q values. However, patterns had different intensities and shapes. A deeper analysis of the scattering curves would provide more information about the internal organization of casein micelles.
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January 11, 2019
Anemometer from a DC motor project
Materials:
Arduino Uno
Small dc motor
Anemometer wind catcher piece (to attach to motor)
Breadboard
16×2 LCD QAPASS, i2C address: 0X27 (Any 16X2 LCD is suitable)
Jumper Cables are necessary
Female to male jumper cables(for i2C LCD)
Code:
/*
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ReadAnalogVoltage
*/
// Include Wire Library for I2C
#include <Wire.h>
// Include NewLiquidCrystal Library for I2C
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
// Define LCD pinout
const int en = 2, rw = 1, rs = 0, d4 = 4, d5 = 5, d6 = 6, d7 = 7, bl = 3;
// Define I2C Address – change if reqiuired
const int i2c_addr = 0x27;
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(i2c_addr, en, rw, rs, d4, d5, d6, d7, bl, POSITIVE);
// the setup routine runs once when you press reset:
void setup() {
// initialize serial communication at 9600 bits per second:
Serial.begin(9600);
// Set display type as 16 char, 2 rows
lcd.begin(16,2);
}
// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {
// read the input on analog pin 0:
int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
// Convert the analog reading (which goes from 0 – 1023) to a voltage (0 – 5V):
float voltage = sensorValue * (5.0 / 1023.0);
float voltage10000 = sensorValue * (50000 / 1023.0);
float windspeed = voltage * 27.20;
// print out the value you read:
lcd.setCursor(1,0);
lcd.print(windspeed);
Serial.println(windspeed);
}
Wind Tunnel Project Link:
https://wisrd.org/aerodynamics/
About the Project:
The wind tunnel project run by Molly, Myles, Reid and Jackson requires a wind speed measurement so that accurate testing can be conducted. Rather than buying an anemometer, we chose to use a dc motor with an anemometer attachment to get a voltage readout which could be converted to wind speed. The anemometer attachment was 3d printed by someone for the project. The goal was to be able to display the wind speed without having a laptop attached, so I used a 16X2 LCD. The LCD used in the project is an i2C LCD which offers the same capability as a normal 16X2 except with 4 pinouts instead of 16. Normal 16X2 LCDs also work fine for this project. The LCD is wired to a breadboard which is then connected to the arduino. It is possible to wire the LCD directly to the arduino, however female jumper cables will be necessary.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darrell Gaiennie
The result was delete. --Core desat 01:24, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Darrell Gaiennie
* – (View AfD) (View log)
No information can be found about this particular person on the internet. Also, there is no proof that he is widely accreditted by his peers, or any evidence that he has won any major awards. Hence the article does not satisfy WP:BIO. Kylohk 09:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
* Agreed - I can't see any sources whatsoever for the claims in the article. Delete Tony Fox (arf!) 20:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
* Speedy delete per all above. GreenJoe 20:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
* Comment what were the "groundbreaking scientific theories?" --Infrangible 03:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
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Windows 7 Function Keys.
There are 12 function keys(F1, F2, F3, .., F12) located at the top of the keyboard.
Depending on the operating system(OS) of the computer, the behavior of function keys vary.
Here you can learn about some of the general uses of Function keys in Windows 7 (works on other versions of Windows too). Function keys may be used in combination with keys like “CTRL”, “SHIFT”, “ALT” or “Fn in laptops” to get desired results. For example, Alt + F4, Ctrl + F4, Shift + F10, etc.
NoteAlt + F4 means while keeping the Alt key pressed, press the F4 key .
Sample keyboard
F1: It is used to open the help area in many programs.
F2: This key is used to rename selected files, folders, shortcut icons, etc. To rename a file, folder, or shortcut icon, select the file or the folder by clicking on it then press F2, now you can edit the name using the keyboard.
F3: F3 is used to open search in many programs. It opens search in windows explorer. Pressing F3 will open search form to search the currently opened page in browsers like internet explorer, chrome, or mozilla firefox.
F4: This key opens your previously visited pages in internet explorer in a dropdown. In MS Word, it repeats the last action.
Using Alt + F4, you can close any running program which is currently displayed. In windows explorer, pressing Ctrl + F4 will show previously visited locations in a dropdown. Ctrl + F4 closes the currently opened tab in internet explorer, mozilla firefox, and chrome web browsers.
F5: It is used to refresh the computer screen. It also reloads the currently displayed page in a web browser.
F6: Pressing F6 moves the control around the structure of the currently displayed program. In web browsers, it moves the cursor to the address bar. It is similar to the Tab key
Functuon keys
F7: Pressing F7 opens the spell checker in OpenOffice.org writer and MS Word.
F8: While starting a windows PC, pressing F8, opens the windows PC in safe mode or displays other modes of startup.
F9: No general uses on a windows PC.
F10: It is used to focus on the menu bar of the currently displayed program. Alt key can also be used for this.
Shift + F10: It opens the context menu. Right click also opens the context menu.
F11: It switches the browser display area between fullscreen and normal screen modes.
F12: This key opens developer tools in internet explorer and chrome web browsers.
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Sixtus Lanner
Sixtus Lanner (12 May 1934 – 13 July 2022) was an Austrian farmer, engineer, and politician who served in the National Council of Austria as a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Lanner served in parliament for a total of 25 years from 1971 until 1996. Lanner was also the secretary-general of the ÖVP from 1976 to 1981.
Described as a Bauernbua (peasant-boy) from the Tyrolean Unterland, Lanner was a staunch advocate for rural affairs, and has been described as the "father of rural life" in Austria. Lanner was regarded as an influential member of the ÖVP.
Early life and education
Lanner was born on 12 May 1934 in village of Oberau in Wildschönau, Tyrol. His father was an alpine farmer, while his mother was the local postmaster. Lanner and his three siblings grew up on their parents' farm, with Lanner working as a farmhand. When Lanner decided to attend higher education at the age of 20, he was an alpine farmer with just an elementary education.
Beginning in 1954, Lanner attended the Higher Federal College for Alpine Agriculture in Seefeld in Tirol, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he attended the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), receiving a Diplom-Ingenieur later that year. Lanner attended the University of Illinois in the United States from 1960 until 1961, when he returned to Austria to study at the Vienna University of World Trade, graduating in 1963. Concurrently, Lanner was working on his PhD in soil science at BOKU, which he received in 1964. After completing his education, Lanner worked as a commercial and agricultural engineer.
Political career
Lanner's political career began in 1963, when he gave a speech at a conference for the Austrian Chambers of Agriculture. In 1971, Lanner was elected to the National Council of Austria as a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Lanner served in parliament for 25 years, retiring in 1996 after the 1995 Austrian legislative election. In 1974, Lanner represented Austria in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Lanner was a high-ranking and influential member of the ÖVP. From 1969 until 1976, Lanner was the director of the Österreichischer Bauernbund, and he also served as the head of the Department of Agricultural Policy and Integration. From 1976 to 1981, Lanner was the secretary-general of the ÖVP, serving under party chairmen Josef Taus and Alois Mock. From 1976 until 1982, Lanner was also the vice president of the European Union of Christian Democrats, and from 1987 until 1992, he was president of the Agricultural Commission of the Council of Europe. In 1988, Lanner chaired the Austrian National Committee for Rural Areas, and in 1992, he chaired the East-West Committee of the Council of Europe for Rural Development.
In 1996, Lanner wrote a book called The Pride of the Farmers.
Throughout his career, Lanner was known for his advocacy for Austrian agriculture, and he was regarded as "one of the most prominent representatives of the farmers and rural areas". Lanner also advocated for digitization and decentralization.
Personal life and death
Lanner's wife Angela died in 2017. They had three children together. Lanner was a close friend of Heinz Fischer, the former president of Austria and member of the opposing Social Democratic Party of Austria.
Lanner died in Tyrol on 13 July 2022. Karl Nehammer, the chancellor of Austria, stated that Lanner was a "connecting politician who always put the common ground in the foreground and therefore enjoyed the highest reputation across party lines". Lanner is buried in his hometown of Oberau. | WIKI |
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364 creature." At such times the black-cocks are so absorbed that they become almost blind and deaf, but less so than the capercailzie: hence bird after bird may be shot on the same spot, or even caught by the hand. After performing these antics the males begin to fight: and the same black-cock, in order to prove his strength over several antagonists, will visit in the course of one morning several Balz-places, which remain the same during successive years.
The peacock with his long train appears more like a dandy than a warrior, but he sometimes engages in fierce contests: the Rev. W. Darwin Fox informs me that at some little distance from Chester two peacocks became so excited whilst fighting, that they flew over the whole city, still engaged, until they alighted on the top of St. John's tower.
The spur, in those gallinaceous birds which are thus provided, is generally single; but Polyplectron (see fig. 51, p. 397) has two or more on each leg; and one of the Blood-pheasants (Ithaginis cruentus) has been seen with five spurs. The spurs are generally confined to the male, being represented by mere knobs or rudiments in the female; but the females of the Java peacock (Pavo muticus) and, as I am informed by Mr. Blyth, of the small fire-backed pheasant (Euplocamus erythropthalmus) possess spurs. In Galloperdix it is usual for the males to have two spurs, and for the females to have only one on each leg. Hence spurs may be considered as a masculine structure, which has been occasionally more or less transferred to the females. Like most other secondary sexual characters, the spurs are highly variable, both in number and development, in the same species.
Various birds have spurs on their wings. But the Egyptian goose (Chenalopex œgyptiacus) has only "bare obtuse knobs," and these probably shew us the first steps by which true spurs have been developed in other species. In the spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis, the males have much larger spurs than the females; and they use them, as I am informed by Mr. Bartlett, in fighting together, so that, in this case, the wing-spurs serve as sexual weapons; but according to Livingstone, they are chiefly used in the defence of the young. The Palamedea (fig. 38) is armed with a pair of spurs on each wing; and these are such formidable weapons, that a single blow has been known to drive a dog howling away. But it does not appear that the spurs in this case, or in that of some of the spur-winged rails, | WIKI |
UCLA outscored 48-17 in blow out loss to Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Tyler Huntley had 327 total yards and four passing touchdowns as Utah defeated short-handed UCLA 48-17 on Friday night. The Utes (5-4, 2-4 Pac-12) snapped a four-game losing streak and are one win away from becoming bowl eligible. UCLA (4-5, 2-4) was without starting quarterback Josh Rosen due to a concussion sustained last week against No. 12 Washington. He did not travel to Salt Lake City and his absence was obvious as the Bruins were held to 249 total yards. Rosens 339.1 passing yards per game ranks fourth in the nation. Redshirt freshman Devon Modster made his first career start. Neither teams offense look particularly coherent in the first half, but Utah exploded in the third quarter to put the game away. The Utes scored on their first three drives of the second half after leading 17-10 at halftime. Utah running back Troy McCormick caught a 75-yard touchdown on a wheel route on the first play of the third when a UCLA defender ran into a receiver. Zack Moss, who finished with career-highs in rushing yards (153) and attempts (23) and scored two touchdowns, took a handoff 20 yards for a score after a straight arm to a linebacker to go up 31-10. Huntley iced it with a 13-yard touchdown pass to an uncovered McCormick to take a 38-10 lead with 8:20 left in the third. Huntleys four touchdown passes matched a career high. Utahs running game had been pedestrian during its losing streak and several players had requested more attempts. They got it with season-high 50 rushes 41 between Huntley and Moss against the worst run defense in the nation. UCLA entered allowing 307.13 rushing yards per game. Modster completed 8 of 12 passes for 103 yards and a touchdown before being replaced by freshman Matt Lynch in the fourth. The Bruins were held to 12 first downs and converted 3 of 12 third downs. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Doris Darlington
Doris Albertha Darlington (died 25 June 1998) was a Jamaican Maroon who owned a food shop and later a liquor store in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s and 1960s. This site provided the initial space for her son Coxsone Dodd to begin playing music for customers, a practice that eventually led to his founding Studio One and becoming one of the island's key musical forces. When her son was away buying records to play on the sound system, Darlington set up and ran the sound system herself, and thus can be named one of Jamaica's first sound system operators, and a force in the development of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. Darlington also ran a record store in Jamaica, was often present at Studio One recording studios and involved in producing music in the early 1960s.
Darlington was nicknamed "Nanny" after the famed female leader Nanny of the Maroons.
Biography
Darlington was a descendant of the Jamaican Maroons, communities descended from escaped Africans who fought for and established free communities in the Jamaican interior. In the 1950s she owned a food shop whose customers were interested in hearing the latest R&B tunes from the US. Her son Clement "Coxsone" Dodd began to meet this need with a turntable, an amplified sound system and a collection of records, and eventually the space expanded into a bar with a canteen in the back at which Darlington would cook. However, whenever Dodd went on trips to purchase music, he would leave Nanny in charge of the show, running the technical and creative side of the Downbeat sound system. This made her "the first female sound system operator".
Dodd later said of her contribution to music that "She is the founding mother of everything, for without her nothing would’ve happened". Dodd also named one of his sublabels D. Darling after her. Darlington also ran the record store, Music Land, in Spanish Town, Jamaica. (Some sources describe her as running a record store called Muzik City, which is also associated with Coxsone Dodd).
Production career
Darlington was often present at Studio One recording studio, and sometimes took an active role from at least 1961 to the early 1990s, when she was listed as producer on George Faith's 1992 album Just the Blues. The bulk of her credits are from the early 1960s, when she produced a small string of rocksteady, Jamaican rhythm and blues and jazz singles. | WIKI |
Rasbokil Church
Rasbokil Church (Rasbokils kyrka) is a medieval church located north-east of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden. It is part of the Archdiocese of Uppsala (Church of Sweden).
History and architecture
The church appears to have been preceded by an earlier church, possibly a wooden church, and stones from an earlier building have been incorporated into the presently visible building. The current church was built at the end of the 15th century or around 1500 and has retained its original appearance largely unchanged. During the 18th century most of the windows were enlarged and the vaulting of the church repaired; at that time the frescos were also covered with whitewash, only to be uncovered and restored during a renovation in 1909-10 under the guidance of architect Sigurd Curman. A window was also made in the north wall of the church in 1870. The church is one of very few medieval churches in Sweden which has never been substantially rebuilt or altered.
The church is constructed of fieldstone with decorated brick gables. It has a yellow exterior with details painted whitem and the steep gable roof has a covering of shingle. The church has a simple floor-plan consisting of a single nave with two sections of star-shaped vaults, followed by a choir of equal width with a ceiling supported by a rib vault. The design is typical for countryside churches in Uppland built during the Middle Ages. The vaults were decorated with frescos probably during the 1520s by an anonymous workshop sometimes referred to as Rasbokilsmästaren ("the Rasbokil master"). In comparison with other church frescos in Sweden, some of the frescos have unusual themes, including e.g. depictions of the family trees of Jesus and Mary. The frescos have been described as being of "distinguished quality".
Most of the church's furnishings date from the time after the Reformation. These include the pulpit, which is from 1648 and given as a gift to the church by Colonel Jurgen Schildt after his homecoming from the Thirty Years' War. The altarpiece is also from the 17th century; its top part with a painting was restored in the 1930s after its Baroque frame was found in pieces in the belfry of the church. The decorated door of the church porch dates from the reign of King Gustav III of Sweden and the organ is from 1829. | WIKI |
Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1791)/Christian Love
Let men of high conceit and zeal, Their fervors and their faith proclaim; If Charity be wanting still, The rest is but a sounding name.
Patient and meek, she suffers long, And slowly her resentments rise; Soon she forgets the greatest wrong, And soon forgives her enemies.
She drives all malice from her breast, To ill suspicions ne'er gives way; <10> But ever hopes and thinks the best, And as she thinks, is apt to say.
She envies none their better state, But makes her neighbours bliss her own; Nor vaunts herself with mind elate, But still a modest air puts on.
Her neighbour's infamy and ill, To her no entertainment give; She's pleas'd to see him prosper still, And still in good repute to live. <20>
This is the Grace that reigns on high, And brightly will for ever burn: When Hope shall in enjoyment die, And Faith to intuition turn. | WIKI |
ISSN: 1813-0410
Author : Basim Abdulwahhab Qaddoori, Yasir
Study of Toxicity, Immunological and some Cytopathic Effects of Vibrio cholerae supernatant
Yasir Basim Abdulwahhab Qaddoori
journal of kerbala university, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 95-100
Crude Vibrio cholerae extract was produced by centrifugation and filtration then the amount of protein was estimated by Folin- lowry method and was found equal to 550 microgram/ml. Extract activity was set by infant suckling mouse method. Toxicity was determined by measuring LD50 and was found equals to 57microgram/ml. Rabbit Anti-bacterial extract antibodies was titrated by precipitation method and the result showed that the titer is 40. Ouchterlony double immunodifussion test between several dilutions of the crude bacterial extract and rabbit antiserum showed positive results in 1/40 and 1/80 of the extract dilutions. The cytopathic effect of extract on mice hearts was also studied by injecting number of mice with 55 and 27.5 microgram/ml concentration of the crude extract and it showed that it has no certain effect on this organ. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Can penguins fly?
Penguins are a part of class Aves, but anatomically they cannot fly. Penguins are indeed birds, and they also bear wings, but can penguins fly? The thing is the wings of the penguins have been evolved by the time to swim and roar in the water rather than to operate in the air.
When in water, penguins can swim almost fifteen to twenty miles in an hour. As they are made for swimming, penguins spend much of their time in the water. According to bird specialists, the penguins spend seventy-five percent lives in water.
Similar to birds, penguins also lay eggs, and they raise their young ones on land by feeding them regurgitated food.
Why did penguins stop flying?
Penguins lost their ability to fly almost centuries ago, and scientists do have an answer to what is the reason behind quitting flying. Research says that for those birds that were becoming experts in swimming, their bodies were becoming too heavy to fly.
However, to justify only one aspect of why they quit flying. Though flying would make their life much more comfortable, for example, the march of Emperor penguins will reduce from weeks to days if they can fly.
Similarly, to hide from predators like leopards and seals would be much easier if they were able to fly. Then what are the reasons behind swimming rather than flying?
According to scientists, some birds who were able to fly were becoming experts in swimming, and eventually, they lost their ability to fly. Deep diving provided them with plenty of food instead of flying for several miles and then to search for food. The adult emperor penguin can hold their breath for up to 20 minutes and can easily swim at the same time for catching the food.
Also, those birds that can fly and dive both at the same spend much energy. It also supports the idea of why penguins quit flying. The conclusion is penguins are right flippers and swimmers but not flyers.
Why can’t penguins stop flying?
All of us think about this one single question at some point in our lives, and that is “Can penguins fly?”, “why can’t they fly” and stuff like this. Penguins are birds, so why don’t they fly?
Penguins are birds, but they are flightless. They have wings that are not made for flying. Instead, they are for swimming. They inhabit all the southern hemisphere, particularly Antarctica. The wings of the penguins are like flippers, and therefore they are well-adapted to live in water rather than in air.
Actually, penguins in water are actually flying just like birds do in the air. Their feathers are specially designed, which can trap air in their wings and protect them from the cold water.
As penguins are well-adapted for water, they spend most of their lives in the water. However, their flipper-like wings help them swim efficiently; they also help them maintain their balance while they are tap-dancing on the land.
Penguins look very cute while they walk; however, they cannot walk fast. If they want to move quickly, they glide on their bellies. The movement is known as “Tobogganing.”
Okay, so even penguins have flippers instead of wings, but they can still not fly. Scientists believe that unlike other birds that prey to many land animals, and more prominent bird species, the penguins didn’t have such predators to drift away from.
So, therefore these birds worked on polishing their swimming abilities rather than flying. As they are dependent on seas and oceans for their diet, so it was more important to swim rather than to fly.
Can penguins fly? No, they cannot because their cute, bulky bodies won’t let them. Notably, the largest penguin, the Emperor penguin, is unable to fly with such small wings and massive bodies.
So, technically they have been smart over all these years, as they have selected a wiser option to swim instead of flying.
Can penguins fly short distances?
Penguins are flightless birds. It does not matter whether the distance is short or long; it cannot fly. Why? Because they have sharp, flat, and tapered wings, which are best for swimming and not for flying. Unlike hens and ducks, penguins have more massive bodies and much shorter wings with a type of feathers that are very dense, and they stick to their bodies to provide better insulation from the colder weather.
Can penguins fly in the water?
Technically, yes! If you watch them swimming in the water, it is much more similar to a flying bird. Therefore this saying goes as a metaphor that penguins fly in the water because their swimming resembles very much to a flying bird.
Can penguins fly in the air?
Penguins cannot fly in the air. They do have wings, but they are not designed for flight. Their wings resemble the flippers which we wear while scuba diving, and they use them efficiently for swimming. Therefore, penguins cannot fly in the water.
Can penguins fly underwater?
While penguins swim in the water, their swimming looks like some bird is flying in the water. So they cannot operate in the air, but they can fly in water somehow. What they are doing is swimming, but it appears like they are flying.
Did penguins ever fly?
No, they cannot fly, though they are birds. They belong to the class Spheniscidae and the subclass Impennes. They are a part of the class “Aves,” but they are not meant to fly. Instead, their wings evolved for swimming and not for flying due to their habitat and weather demands.
Is there any penguin that can fly?
No, there are no such penguins that can fly. Not even the smallest penguin species are able to fly. Their body weights and tapered wings do not allow them to fly, not even for short distances.
Do penguins have wings?
Penguins are birds, and according to that classification, they have wings as well. But, their wings do not resemble other birds; they don’t appear like hawks or pigeons. They are bulky and have very flat wings that are capable of swimming but not flying. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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C# WPF Tutorial – MessageBoxButton
A WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) MessageBoxButton is an enumeration that specifies the buttons that are displayed in a message box. The possible values for a MessageBoxButton are:
• OK
• OKCancel
• YesNo
• YesNoCancel
These values are used as the parameter for the MessageBoxButton property of the MessageBox class, which determines which buttons are displayed in the message box.
For example, if you set the MessageBoxButton property to YesNo, the message box will display “Yes” and “No” buttons. The user’s response to the message box can be retrieved using the MessageBoxResult property, which returns a value indicating which button the user clicked.
This allows you to take appropriate action based on the user’s response. For example, if the user clicks “Yes”, you could save the changes they made, and if they click “No”, you could discard the changes.
Here is an example of how to use the MessageBoxButton property in WPF code:
// Open a message box with "Yes" and "No" buttons
MessageBoxResult result = MessageBox.Show("Do you want to save your changes?", "Save Changes", MessageBoxButton.YesNo);
// Check the user's response and take appropriate action
if (result == MessageBoxResult.Yes)
{
// Save the changes
// ...
}
else if (result == MessageBoxResult.No)
{
// Discard the changes
// ...
}
In this example, we use the MessageBox.Show method to display a message box with the text “Do you want to save your changes?” and the title “Save Changes”.
C# WPF Tutorial – MessageBoxButton Example
We set the MessageBoxButton property to YesNo, which causes the message box to display “Yes” and “No” buttons. When the user clicks one of these buttons, the MessageBoxResult property returns a value indicating which button was clicked.
We can then use an if statement to check the value of the MessageBoxResult and take appropriate action based on the user’s response.
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List Of Communicable Diseases And Their Prevention Pdf
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The novel coronavirus. Preventing and controlling the spread of disease is at the heart of much public health work.
Communicable Disease
Viruses are very small infectious agents. Viruses invade cells in your body and use components of those cells to help them multiply. This process often damages or destroys infected cells. A viral disease is any illness or health condition caused by a virus. Read on to learn more about some of the main types of viral diseases:. Not all viral diseases are contagious. But many of them are.
NCBI Bookshelf. Peter F. Edemekong ; Ben Huang. Authors Peter F. Edemekong 1 ; Ben Huang 2. Communicable diseases are illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria that people spread to one another through contact with contaminated surfaces, bodily fluids, blood products, insect bites, or through the air.
Communicable Disease Service
Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about. Communicable diseases are illnesses that can spread from person to person or from an animal to a person. These diseases can spread through a variety of ways, and common types of communicable diseases include foodborne illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases, insect-borne illnesses and vaccine-preventable diseases. The epidemiology program also conducts communicable disease surveillance. In public health, surveillance is the continuous collection and interpretation of health data to help serve as an early-warning to help prevent the spread of illness in the community.
A non-communicable disease NCD is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease , autoimmune diseases , strokes , most heart diseases , most cancers , diabetes , chronic kidney disease , osteoarthritis , osteoporosis , Alzheimer's disease , cataracts , and others. NCDs may be chronic or acute. Most are non- infectious , although there are some non-communicable infectious diseases, such as parasitic diseases in which the parasite's life cycle does not include direct host-to-host transmission. NCDs are the leading cause of death globally.
The mission of the Bureau of Communicable Disease BCD is to prevent and control designated communicable diseases and illness in Alabama. BCD consists of the following divisions:. Effective June , the Notifiable Disease Rules Chapter have been updated, please review to ensure you comply with them. A Synopsis of the Rules Revisions is available for easy reference. This list of Alabama Notifiable Diseases and Conditions contains the names of the diseases and conditions, the Public Health division to notify, the required notification time frame, and a link to information related to investigations and cases for each disease and condition. Arboviral diseases includes West Nile virus , Zika virus , and other Arboviral diseases. Toggle navigation.
Local health departments are required to report some 80 communicable diseases to the California Department of Public Health as part of the disease.
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Communicable diseases spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person. The spread often happens via airborne viruses or bacteria, but also through blood or other bodily fluid. The terms infectious and contagious are also used to describe communicable disease. In this section, learn about coordinated efforts to combat a few of the most serious communicable diseases on a global level.
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TABLE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. Disease. Signs & symptoms. Incubation. Communicability. Prevention. Chicken symptoms. There is no long term.
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In the first study session, you learned about the basic concepts in the transmission of communicable diseases.
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Talk:Don't Waste Your Time (Kelly Clarkson song)
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In my investigation to find proof behind the release of this single, I have come up empty handed. Unless a source is name, I feel that this article most definitely should be deleted.
(Tastyfreeze43 22:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC))
* Here's the proof... Steveweiser 23:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
* Is DWYT only being released a single in the U.K.? Danielh8675 22:01, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The Video is out!!
Hey the video is out bit I don't think the single is released yet Anyway Here's the proof I think the fairytale she was talking about was Sleeping Beauty. Munnkey 13:02, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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Talk:Lake Edward Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
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* The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Lake Edwards Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota → Lake Edward Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota – Significant available references, including the United States Census Bureau and Crow Wing County's website name the township without the extra "s". ACME Mapper, Bing Maps, and Google Maps all show a lake in the eastern part of the township as "Lake Edward" or "Edward Lake". Backspace (talk) 18:07, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
* Why not just Lake Edward Township, Minnesota? Vegaswikian (talk) 02:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
* Standardization? Just check all of the other townships in the county (or just about any other county). Backspace (talk) 10:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
* No, the county should only be added if the township name is applied to multiple townships in the state. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
* I would be a little more worried about "is" than "should". It's a bit less subjective. That would leave it as the sole "odd man out", not only in Crow Wing County, but probably the entire state of Minnesota as well. I am aware that there are cases in other states/provinces where this does not appear to hold, but generally, I think that it is standard practice. Backspace (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
* The standard practice with Minnesota townships has been to use Township, County, State. For consistency, this one should remain that way too. Omnedon (talk) 17:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for chiming in. I actually have the authority to move this page myself, but since it's not something that I normally do, and I wasn't immediately aware of how to do it, I just defaulted to asking an administrator. I notice that you do maps. I think that we need a new one for Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, which I recently edited. Backspace (talk) 19:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
* According to WP:USPLACE, the convention for minor civil divisions such as township is made on a state-wide basis. If the convention for Minnesota is to always include the county, we should follow that. Jafeluv (talk) 11:24, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
* Support. I see that the USGS, US Census, etc. identify the township as Lake Edward. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 10:14, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
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Mechanical behavior of alternative multicrystalline silicon for solar cells
: Orellana, T.
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Freiberg, 2013, V, 257 S. : Ill.
Freiberg, TU, Diss., 2013
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-117455
Englisch
Dissertation, Elektronische Publikation
Fraunhofer ISE ()
Abstract
The usage of more inexpensive silicon feedstock for the crystallization of multicrystalline silicon blocks promises cost reduction for the photovoltaic industry. Less expensive substrates made out of metallurgical silicon (MG-Si) are used as a mechanical support for the epitaxial solar cell. Moreover, conventional inert solar cells can be produced from up-graded metallurgical silicon (UMG-Si). This feedstock has higher content of impurities which influences cell performance and mechanical strength of the wafers. Thus, it is of importance to know these effects in order to know which impurities should be preferentially removed or prevented during the crystallization process. Solar cell processing steps can also exert a change in the values of mechanical strength of processed multicrystalline silicon wafers until the fabrication of a solar cell.
Bending tests, fracture toughness and dynamic elastic modulus measurements are performed in this work in order to research the mechanical behavior of multicrystalline silicon crystallized with different qualities of silicon feedstock. Bending tests and residual stress measurements allows the quantification of the mechanical strength of the wafers after every solar cell processing step. The experimental results are compared with theoretical models found in the classical literature about the mechanical properties of ceramics. The influence of second phase particles and thermal processes on the mechanical strength of silicon wafers can be predicted and analyzed with the theoretical models.
Metals like Al and Cu can decrease the mechanical strength due to micro-cracking of the silicon matrix and introduction of high values of thermal residual stress. Additionally, amorphous silicon oxide particles (SiOx) lower the mechanical strength of multicrystalline silicon due to thermal residual stresses and elastic mismatch with silicon. Silicon nitride particles (Si3N4) reduce fracture toughness and cause failure by radial cracking in its surroundings due to its thermal mismatch with silicon. Finally, silicon carbide (SiC) and crystalline silicon oxide (SiOx) introduce thermal residual stresses but can have a toughening effect on the silicon matrix and hence, increase the mechanical strength of silicon wafers if the particles are smaller than a certain size.
The surface of as-cut wafers after multi-wire sawing presents sharp micro-cracks that control their mechanical behavior. Subsequent removal of these micro-cracks by texture or damage etching approximately doubles the mechanical strength of silicon wafers. The mechanical behavior of the wafers is then governed by defects like cracks and particles formed during the crystallization of multicrystalline silicon blocks. Further thermal processing steps have a minor impact on the mechanical strength of the wafers compared to as-cut wafers. Finally, the mechanical strength of final solar cells is comparable to the mechanical strength of as-cut wafers due to the high residual thermal stress introduced after the formation of the metallic contacts which makes silicon prone to crack.
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Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng
Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng (born 15 April 1963) is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kuching since 2017. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese from 2015 to 2017.
Early life and education
Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng was born on 15 April 1963, in Sri Aman, Sarawak, to Joseph Poh and Geraldine Poh. The oldest child in the family, he has two sisters, Irene and Doreen, and two brothers, Raymond and Norman. From 1970 to 1975, Poh attended St. Joseph's primary school. He then continued his studies at St. Joseph's Secondary School from 1976 to 1982. He and his family converted to Catholicism between the years 1979 and 1980. After becoming a Catholic, Poh joined the school's club, Young Christian Students, the Legion of Mary, and St. Joseph's Cathedral's altar servers.
Ordination and ministry
The parish priest of the church Poh attended at the time, Fr. Josef Wassermann, greatly inspired him due to his commitment and dedication. In 1982, Poh decided to enter the seminary at St. Peter's College Major Seminary, Kuching. During his years as a seminarian, he learnt to master and speak few languages of natives such as Bidayuh, and Iban. At the age of 25, Poh was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting on 31 July 1988.
In 1996, Poh obtained a Licentiate in Missiology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy. He returned back to Kuching and served as parish rector for four years at St. Ann's Church, Kota Padawan. Poh then became the director of the Commission for Vocations and also served as Spiritual Director of the Commission for Youth.
Poh also worked as Chancellor of the archdiocese, Member of the College of Consultors, Professor of Missiology, and Spiritual Director of St. Peter's College Major Seminary. Besides serving as assistant parish rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral, Kuching, he also coordinated the archdiocesan commission on mission and evangelisation. In 2001, he studied Mandarin at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan.
Poh was officially appointed parish rector of the cathedral in 2012. In 2015, he earned a Doctorate in Ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana, United States.
Poh has spent much of his priesthood guiding members of the Church through the youth ministry. He has spent nearly 20 years ministering to youths and is passionate about youth ministry.
Auxiliary bishop of Kuching
On 9 July 2015, Pope Francis appointed Poh as auxiliary bishop of Kuching and titular bishop of Sfasferia. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 September 2015 from Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock with Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting and Bishop Julius Dusin Gitom, serving as co-consecrators.
Archbishop of Kuching
On 5 March 2017, Poh was appointed Archbishop of Kuching by Pope Francis to succeed Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock who resigned for early retirement. He took canonical possession of the diocese and was installed on 20 March 2017. | WIKI |
The Concept Cars Gleam, but Executive Dread Clouds the Frankfurt Auto Show
FRANKFURT — Car executives are paid to be optimists, but behind the pomp and salesmanship at the Frankfurt International Motor Show this week lurked an unmistakable sense of angst. The talk among industry insiders at the show, one of the auto industry’s biggest events, reflected the existential threats that carmakers face. The European and global auto markets are in decline. Carmakers are betting their futures on electric vehicles whose marketability is untested. Manufacturers are under intense public and regulatory pressure because of the role that vehicles play in climate change. The global trade war has disrupted supply chains. Even auto shows are under threat. Many manufacturers scaled back their presence in Frankfurt this year or skipped the show altogether. Companies like Toyota and Fiat Chrysler decided the benefits didn’t justify the millions of euros it takes to put on a display. “It’s an unprecedented situation we are in,” said Wolf-Henning Scheider, chief executive of ZF Friedrichshafen, a German transmission maker that has an extensive network of factories in the United States, Europe and China. Mr. Scheider noted that carmakers must invest vast sums in electric vehicles and autonomous driving at the same time they are coping with a trade war. “All these at the same time is new,” Mr. Scheider said in an interview. The Frankfurt show was as good a place as any to find out how auto executives plan to survive the tsunami. Here are some of the main takeaways. Protests by environmental groups were especially intense this year, as carmakers increasingly take the blame for climate change. Volkswagen alone accounts for more than 1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, according to the company’s own calculations. This week Greenpeace activists stood on the roofs of S.U.V.s on display at the Frankfurt exhibition grounds with signs that chided, “Climate Killer.” The militant group Attac planned to blockade streets and bring traffic to a standstill on Saturday, the day the show opens to the public. Carmakers are desperate to show that they get the message. Ola Källenius, chief executive of Daimler, said in Frankfurt that the company’s Mercedes-Benz factories will be carbon neutral next year. Volkswagen is producing its ID.3 electric sedan with wind and solar energy, and offsetting any additional emissions by financing a project in the rainforests of Borneo. At an event this week to unveil the ID.3, guests were handed bamboo forks to eat hors d’oeuvres. “We’re serious,” Herbert Diess, the Volkswagen chief executive, said during a debate with Tina Velo, a leader of Attac, who questioned the company’s commitment to the environment. But carmakers still make most of their money from fuel-thirsty S.U.V.s. Nicolas Peter, chief financial officer of BMW, said the industry couldn’t solve its image problems with public relations alone. “We have to do the right thing,” he told a small group of reporters on Tuesday. Carmakers are operating on the assumption that tensions between China and the United States won’t be resolved soon. They are rethinking their supply chains and moving production closer to customers so that fewer goods have to cross borders and be exposed to tariffs. That applies to software as well as hardware. Mr. Scheider of ZF said that, for security reasons, autonomous driving technology developed for the United States has to be kept out of China and vice versa. “That is a risk, that these two regions drift apart,” he said. Forced to choose, many companies would have to pick China. It has become by far the biggest car market, and several executives said they expected it to keep growing despite a recent decline in sales. Mr. Scheider pointed out that rates of car ownership were still low outside the major cities. “I’m pretty confident the Chinese market will grow continuously,” he said. A slew of mainstream carmakers unveiled battery-powered cars in Frankfurt that will sell at prices within reach of middle-class households. The most important new product at the show is easily the ID.3, a four-door hatchback that Volkswagen said would be the first in a line of affordable battery-powered vehicles, including an S.U.V. and a minivan. Honda unveiled an electric vehicle known simply as the E, and BMW showed an electric version of its popular Mini. Including incentives available in the United States, Germany and other countries, the end price of these vehicles should be 30,000 euros ($33,000) or less. Because electric cars have fewer moving parts and require less maintenance, the cost of ownership may be lower than for a conventional car. But no one knows yet whether these vehicles will be popular enough to justify the investment and allow carmakers to meet European Union fuel economy targets that take effect next year. Carmakers that fail to deliver average fuel economy of 57 miles per gallon face draconian fines. Regret is written on the faces of auto executives’ faces when they say it, but the age of the internal combustion engine is slowly coming to an end. “One is amazed at what can still be achieved with the internal combustion engine,” said Markus Schäfer, the head of research and development at Daimler. He added, however: “Of course the main focus is on electrification.” Mr. Schäfer told a small group of reporters that Mercedes did not plan to develop any more internal combustion engines after it finished the rollout of a new four-cylinder motor, which is underway. “That is the last,” he said. But battery-powered cars are likely to be less profitable for carmakers, which tend to operate on thin margins to begin with. Most make their own gasoline or diesel motors. They must buy batteries from suppliers like LG Chem of South Korea, Panasonic of Japan or CATL of China, which will keep a big chunk of the profits. Batteries for electric cars have made rapid progress in the last decade, dropping in price and delivering more juice per pound than even a few years ago. The latest generation of the Renault Zoe can travel 395 kilometers, or 245 miles, on a charge, more than double the range of the first generation, which went on sale in 2012. “In less than a decade, we already have done huge progress,” Gilles Normand, senior vice president for electric vehicles at Renault, said in an interview. “You can easily imagine what’s going to come in the next 10 years.” Thierry Bolloré, the chief executive of Renault, said that the company was working on a €10,000 ($12,000) electric car. “We have a clear estimate that this is reachable, absolutely, and still make money,” Mr. Bolloré said during a news conference Tuesday. Others are more pessimistic. The prevailing lithium-ion technology will probably reach its limits in five years, Mr. Schäfer of Daimler said. Further progress will rest on new technologies such as solid state batteries, which will weigh less and be easier to cool but are not yet ready for mass production. “We need a quantum leap in the technology,” Mr. Schäfer said. Some companies will adapt to new technologies, but some won’t be able to invest enough to stay competitive. Mergers would be a way out for weaker companies, but those have proved difficult. Mr. Bolloré of Renault said in Frankfurt that there was no effort to revive the aborted deal with Fiat Chrysler. “We are not talking to each other,” he told reporters. “The offer was on the table. It’s no longer on the table. That’s it.” Mr. Bolloré added that he regretted the merger hadn’t worked out. The coming shakeout may be most brutal among suppliers, particularly smaller companies far down the industry food chain that supply specialized parts for combustion engines. “Every downturn, there is a consolidation that takes place,” said Derek Jenkins, a former Mazda and Volkswagen executive who is senior vice president of design at Lucid, a California company that plans to begin producing a luxury electric car at the end of 2020. Lucid, backed by Saudi investors, is an example of the start-ups challenging the established carmakers. “Brands disappear,” Mr. Jenkins said in an interview. “That will happen in the next downturn cycle.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Jackson – Java JSON Processor
JSON stands for Java Script Object Notation. JSON is a format for efficient transfer of data across Platform. To manipulate JSON in Java, we have many processors. One of such JSON processor in Java is Jackson. Jackson is a high performance JSON processor. Reading, Writing and modifying contents is made easy in Java using the Jackson. Jackson provides with classes and methods to perform these operations. There are so many programmers who want to learn and implement a JSON program in Java. This is a step-by-step guide to read from and write into a JSON file from Java using Jackson.
JSON & Jackson
JSON is based on Java Script. JSON works well with objects. These two factors shall be the spear-head for JSON to gain entry in to the web world, where interoperability is the key to sustain. Since it resembles a JavaScript object, we can use functions like eval() to create or parse the JSON values. In the JSON web site, it is claimed that,
JSON is built on two structures,
• A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array
• An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence
Reference : http://www.json.org/
The JSON, as it is evolving in to a giant in this new web world, where it is used from simple AJAX response to RESTful web services, we must also look into how the programming languages handle and generate these files. Jackson easily fits into this requirement. Jackson has capability to read and write into a JSON file from Java, and most stunningly it is capable of creating a JSON from a Java object and read a JSON file back into a Java object. Jackson is packaged in to a jar file which contains all necessary data required for using JSON. We shall discuss about a couple of important classes and its methods to write and read a JSON file in Jackson.
How to read a JSON fil?
Reading a JSON file is far simpler in Jackson. All we need is the Jackson-all-1.8.5.jar file. Let us take a simple JSON file as below and see how Jackson processor is able to read from it.
<strong>CountryFile.json</strong>
{
"Name":"United States of America",
"Capital":"Washington, D.C.",
"States":["California","Maryland","Florida"]
}
This JSON has two kinds of data in it. One is a simple data where key values are present and the other is an array data. The Name holds a string value, the Capital holds a string value and the States hold multiple values in it. Let us create a simple Java method named readJSON() to read this file.
In the Jackson library we have a class named as ObjectMapper. This class holds almost all the important methods required for reading and writing a JSON file. This ObjectMapper class has the method readValue(). This method takes various parameters. Typically it takes the file name and the Java collection into which the JSON file must be mapped. Since the data in the JSON are all key value pairs, Map collection would be a better candidate to hold the JSON values in Java, so for this method we shall pass our CountryFile.json as a file and Map.class as our collection. So the code shall look as below.
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
Map<String,Object> userData = mapper.readValue(new File("CountryFile.json"), Map.class);
As this line executes, the data from the JSON would have been mapped into the userData object. As this is a map, to get the values from it, we can use the entrySet method.
Set mySet = userData.entrySet();
An iterator can be used on this mySet to get each value that is stored inside the file as object which we can use it for processing further.
for (Iterator iterator = mySet.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
Object object = (Object) iterator.next();
System.out.println(object);
}
Now we have successfully read the values from the JSON file and printed it.
Write a JSON file
Let us try to create and write a JSON file from Java. Since all the data are key value pairs in JSON, we shall have our data in a Map and try to write it. So first we will create a map and populate the data into it.
Map<String,Object> country = new HashMap<String, Object>();
country.put("Name","United States of America");
country.put("Capital", "Washington, D.C.");
Set states = new HashSet();
states.add("Florida");
states.add("Maryland");
states.add("California");
country.put("States",states);
In this above snippet, we have created a Map named country and added values to it. Moreover we have also created a Set named as states and added values to it.
To write a map into file all we require is the ObjectMapper class and the writeValue() method of it. The writeValue() method takes two parameters namely the object that must be written and the name of the file in which the data must be written.
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.writeValue(new File("CountryFile.json"), country);
On execution the above line we would be getting JSON file created as CountryFile.json and all our data written into it.
It is important to note the all the values in the map was written as key value pair in the JSON file. The value was written as multivalued element in the JSON. This way we can make use of various methods of the Jackson library to create/read different kinds of elements in the JSON file.
So the final output file would look like,
CountryFile.json
{
"Name":"United States of America",
"Capital":"Washington, D.C.",
"States":["California","Maryland","Florida"]
}
Full code
package demo.jackson;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
public class JacksonDemo {
public void writeJSON() throws Exception {
Map<String,Object> country = new HashMap<String, Object>();
country.put("Name","United States of America");
country.put("Capital", "Washington, D.C.");
Set<String> states = new HashSet<String>();
states.add("Florida");
states.add("Maryland");
states.add("California");
country.put("States",states);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.writeValue(new File("CountryFile.json"), country);
System.out.println("**success***");
}
public void readJSON() throws Exception {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
Map<String,Object> userData =
mapper.readValue(new File("CountryFile.json"), Map.class);
Set mySet = userData.entrySet();
for (Iterator iterator = mySet.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
Object object = (Object) iterator.next();
System.out.println(object);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args){
try {
JacksonDemo myPgm = new JacksonDemo();
myPgm.writeJSON();
myPgm.readJSON();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Conclusion
We have discussed how to read and write JSON from Java using the Jackson processor. Don’t sit back and assume that this is all Jackson can do, we have just now hit the tip of an iceberg, there are lots of things to explore inside the Jackson, which offers multiple varieties to process JSON files.
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Bad Breath
If you work out strenuously, sweat profusely, and shower rarely, you will wind up having body odor. Similarly, if your mouth is constantly working, which it is, and bacteria is allowed to grow because you aren’t taking necessary steps to keep your mouth clean and healthy or you engage in behavior that encourages bacteria to grow, you will wind up with bad breath, also called halitosis.
Bad breath can be caused by a number of factors, germs and bacteria being first among them. Germs from food particles and the surrounding environment will grow in your mouth and metabolize unless eliminated. Germs attach themselves to the teeth and gums and develop on your tongue, where they produce what are called volatile sulphur compounds (VSC). VSCs cause a release of gas that can be a major contributor to foul-smelling breath. Fortunately, there are easy steps you can take to keep your breath fresh and minimize the development of halitosis-causing bacteria. Here are five simple ways you can get rid of bad breath.
• Brushing and flossing. You know you should be doing this every day anyway to maintain healthy teeth and gums, but brushing and flossing can also be the best way to get rid of the food particles that evolve into the bacteria that cause bad breath.
• Tongue scraping. Our tongues are breeding grounds for bacteria and voracious collectors of food debris, dead cells, and toxins. These are the same substances that produce VSCs on your teeth and gums. Tongue scraping can help eliminate halitosis by reducing the VSCs on the tongue that lead to bad breath.
• Don’t smoke. Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, and a wide array of health problems, including tooth decay and gum disease. It also makes your breath stink. The chemicals in tobacco cause offensive smelling compounds to develop in saliva. Tobacco can also reduce saliva production. Saliva helps keep your mouth clean by removing food particles that can cause bad breath. If your mouth is not producing enough saliva (a condition called xerostomia, commonly known as dry mouth), then it can’t do its job effectively.
• Rinse mouth often. As noted, washing away bacteria-causing food particles is a key to oral health and the prevention of bad breath. Supplement the job your saliva is trying to do by rinsing your mouth out frequently with water or an alcohol-free mouthwash.
• See your dentist regularly. Even with meticulous oral hygiene practices, bacteria can still develop in our mouths and cause problems such as bad breath. Regular visits to your dentist for cleaning can have a more thorough and longer-lasting effect on your oral health and help keep your breath fresh.
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Front Robot AI ; 8: 652685, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1266693
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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has brought the world to a standstill. Healthcare systems are critical to maintain during pandemics, however, providing service to sick patients has posed a hazard to frontline healthcare workers (HCW) and particularly those caring for elderly patients. Various approaches are investigated to improve safety for HCW and patients. One promising avenue is the use of robots. Here, we model infectious spread based on real spatio-temporal precise personal interactions from a geriatric unit and test different scenarios of robotic integration. We find a significant mitigation of contamination rates when robots specifically replace a moderate fraction of high-risk healthcare workers, who have a high number of contacts with patients and other HCW. While the impact of robotic integration is significant across a range of reproductive number R0, the largest effect is seen when R0 is slightly above its critical value. Our analysis suggests that a moderate-sized robotic integration can represent an effective measure to significantly reduce the spread of pathogens with Covid-19 transmission characteristics in a small hospital unit.
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Euro Surveill ; 26(18)2021 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1220035
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We describe four SARS-CoV-2 re-infections with a B.1.351 variant in 2021, in healthcare workers (HCWs) previously infected in 2020, before detection of this variant in Europe. Cases live in France, near the border with Luxembourg, where variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 circulated. All work in the same hospital unit where a cluster of COVID 19 with B1.351 variant occurred, affecting patients and HCWs. Before the cluster onset, HCWs used surgical masks, as per recommendations. After cluster onset, HCWs used FFP2 masks.
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Chirurgia (Bucur) ; 115(6): 798-806, 2020.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1000770
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Microthrombi formation in the pulmonary circulation is one of the main pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for the unfavorable respiratory evolution of CoViD-19 patients. Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) anticoagulant therapy is a major pillar of treatment. But sometimes LMWH causes severe complications that can result in death. This is a retrospective, descriptive study, covering September 2020 and presenting 3 cases of severe hemorrhages followed by death in COVID-19 anticoagulated patients in therapeutic doses with LMWH in the hospital units of origin. Patients had hematomas of the rectus abdominal muscles and hemoperitoneum (2 cases) respectively hematoma of left gluteal muscles (1 case). The 2 patients with hematoma of rectus abdominal muscles were operated. The death occurred between 1-4 days after hospitalization.
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Clin Microbiol Infect ; 26(12): 1658-1662, 2020 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-753742
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OBJECTIVES: Environmental surfaces have been suggested as likely contributors in the transmission of COVID-19. This study assessed the infectivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) contaminating surfaces and objects in two hospital isolation units and a quarantine hotel. METHODS: SARS-CoV-2 virus stability and infectivity on non-porous surfaces was tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Surface and air sampling were conducted at two COVID-19 isolation units and in a quarantine hotel. Viral RNA was detected by RT-PCR and infectivity was assessed by VERO E6 CPE test. RESULTS: In laboratory-controlled conditions, SARS-CoV-2 gradually lost its infectivity completely by day 4 at ambient temperature, and the decay rate of viral viability on surfaces directly correlated with increase in temperature. Viral RNA was detected in 29/55 surface samples (52.7%) and 16/42 surface samples (38%) from the surroundings of symptomatic COVID-19 patients in isolation units of two hospitals and in a quarantine hotel for asymptomatic and very mild COVID-19 patients. None of the surface and air samples from the three sites (0/97) were found to contain infectious titres of SARS-Cov-2 on tissue culture assay. CONCLUSIONS: Despite prolonged viability of SARS-CoV-2 under laboratory-controlled conditions, uncultivable viral contamination of inanimate surfaces might suggest low feasibility for indirect fomite transmission.
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COVID-19/transmission , Fomites/virology , Hospitals, Isolation/statistics & numerical data , Housing/statistics & numerical data , Microbial Viability , SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification , COVID-19/virology , Humans , RNA, Viral/isolation & purification , Surface Properties , Temperature
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Long-term experiment
A long-term experiment is an experimental procedure that runs through a long period of time, in order to test a hypothesis or observe a phenomenon that takes place at an extremely slow rate. What duration is considered "long" depends on the academic discipline. For example, several agricultural field experiments have run for more than 100 years, but much shorter experiments may qualify as "long-term" in other disciplines. An experiment is "a set of actions and observations", implying that one or more treatments (fertilizer, subsidized school lunches, etc.) is imposed on the system under study. Long-term experiments therefore contrast with nonexperimental long-term studies in which manipulation of the system studied is impossible (e.g. Jupiter's Great Red Spot) or undesirable (e.g. field observations of chimpanzee behavior).
In physics
The Oxford Electric Bell has been ringing at Oxford University since 1840, although there is some reason to believe it may be 15 years older.
The Beverly Clock at the University of Otago has been running since 1864.
The pitch drop experiment has been running at the University of Queensland since 1927.
In botany
The William James Beal Germination Experiment has been running since 1879. It is the oldest on-going experiment in botany. It is scheduled for completion in 2100.
The Godwin Plots experiment at the Wicken Fen reserve in Cambridgeshire, England, has been running since the 1920s and explores the differences between areas of vegetation which are never cut, and respectively all four, three or two years and every year.
In agricultural research
Long-term experiments test the sustainability of different farming practices, as measured by yield trends over decades. Examples include the Park Grass Experiment at Rothamsted Experimental Station (1843–present), the Morrow Plots (1876–present) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Sanborn Field at the University of Missouri (1888-present), the Magruder Plots (1892–present) at Oklahoma State University, Auburn's Old Rotation (1896–present), and the Haughley Experiment (1939–1982?).
Experiments at Rothamsted showed that "grain yields can be sustained (and even increased) for almost 150 years in monocultures of wheat and barley given organic or inorganic fertilizer annually". These results show that practices considered unsustainable by some advocates of sustainable agriculture may preserve "the ability of a farm to produce perpetually", at least under some circumstances. But even if crop diversity in space or time (crop rotation) and organic inputs are not always essential to sustainability, there is abundant evidence from Rothamsted and elsewhere that they are often beneficial.
An experiment in alpine pasture has been ongoing in Switzerland at Schynige Platte from the 1920s looking at the human effect on the alpine environment.
The Haughley Experiment was noteworthy as a rare example of a long-term experiment in organic farming without external inputs of nutrients. After about 30 years, however, it was decided to start importing manure. There is some disagreement whether a "decline in relative yields from the organic section" was due to a depletion of soil nutrients.
Various short-term experiments have used legumes (in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia) as a nitrogen source, but good short-term yields do not prove the system is sustainable. The problem is that release of nitrogen from soil organic matter can make up any shortfall of nitrogen from legumes for a decade or more. The Old Rotation showed that nitrogen from legumes can balance nitrogen removed in a harvested crop over the long term. A key point is that the nitrogen in the legumes was not removed, as it would be with a soybean crop, but was plowed under as a green manure. In the Old Rotation, the green manure was grown during the winter to supply nitrogen to a summer crop (cotton); this would be less practical in colder climates.
Long-term agricultural experiments that have been started more recently include the Long-Term Research on Agricultural Systems experiments at UC Davis, started in 1993.
In microbiology
At the UK Centre for Astrobiology within The University of Edinburgh and at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine with the German Aerospace Centre, Charles Cockell and Ralf Möller established the "500-Year Microbiology Experiment" that started in July 2014 to study the loss of viability of desiccation-resistant bacteria over long periods. The experiment involves the study of vegetative bacteria (the extreme tolerant cyanobacterium, Chroococcidiopsis sp.) and spore-forming bacteria (Bacillus subtilis).
The experiment comprises two oak wooden boxes containing duplicate samples, to be kept at the University of Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum. Every two years for the next 24 years, and thereafter every 25 years for the next 475 years, triplicate samples of both organisms contained within glass ampoules will be opened and the number of viable cells enumerated. The first time point was taken in 2014, and the last is intended to be taken on 30 June 2514. Within each box, the experiment is duplicated into a reduced and non-reduced background radiation experiment, with one set of samples being kept in a lead box to cut back background radiation, allowing the impact of radiation in combination with desiccation on viability to be studied over long periods. It was motivated by a desire to understand how microbes survive desiccation in deserts, rocks, permafrost and their potential survival in space. The destruction and pathways of degradation of biomolecules will also be studied. In addition to the core experiment, there are a variety of samples including dried agar plates and endoliths for investigation over long periods.
One of the wooden boxes was delivered to the Natural History Museum on 27 February 2015, and will be curated within the cyanobacterial collection.
In evolutionary biology
The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE), a study in experimental evolution initiated by Richard Lenski, has been underway since 1988 for more than 70,000 generations. Experiments with the evolution of maize under artificial selection for oil and protein content represent more years, but far fewer generations (only 65).
The domesticated silver fox, an ongoing breeding program since 1959 with dramatic results.
The "Dark Fly" experiment started by Syuichi Mori (Kyoto University) in 1954 studies evolution of common fruit fly reared in a constant dark room for 57 years (over 1400 generations). In 2012, the third successor of the experiment, Naoyuki Fuse, performed the full genome sequencing of the strain, and reported around 5% alterations from the wildlife strain.
In ecology
The US National Science Foundation supports a number of long-term ecological experiments, mostly in ecosystems that are less directly affected by humans than most agricultural ecosystems are. See LTER. Within the UK the Ecological Continuity Trust works to promote and secure the future of long-term ecological experiments, maintaining a register of experiments where treatments have been applied for a minimum of six years.
A number of other areas, sometimes called involuntary parks, can be regarded as long time ecological experiments, because they have been abandoned by humans and returned to near-feral condition. These include areas abandoned for political reasons, such as the Korean Demilitarized Zone, or environmental contamination, such as the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone.
In medicine and psychology
The Framingham Heart Study has been running continuously since 1948.
The Grant Study at the Laboratory of Adult Development in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is conducting a longitudinal study of human adult development, by following two groups of individuals as they age (268 Harvard graduates and 456 males from inner-city Boston). The study has been ongoing since 1937 and is currently the longest running study of adult life ever conducted. | WIKI |
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David and the giants began to hack and hew each other and they fought with clubs and bows until night. David cried: “I believe in the high and holy cross of Maratuk,” and took his sword and cut both their heads off. He bound their hair together and hung them across his horse like saddle bags and their tongues furrowed the ground like a plough.
David rode away with their heads and had already traversed half the way when he saw approaching him, riding between heaven and earth, a rider, who called out to him! “Do you think you have conquered the giants Schibikan and Hamsa?” The rider sprang behind David and struck at him with a club. He crawled under the saddle and the club struck the stirrup and tore it loose, and it fell to the ground. David sprang out from under the saddle and cried: “Bread and wine, as the Lord liveth!” and swung his club over his enemy. The enemy dodged the blow, but his hair fell away from his face. David looked and recognized Chandud-Chanum; she had disguised herself and had come to meet him.
“O shameless woman!” David said. “You would disgrace me a second time.”
They rode together into Chandud-Chanum’s city. They arrived and dismounted and called Chandud-Chanum’s father. David said to him: “Will you give me your daughter for a wife?”
Her father said: “I will not give her to you. If you will marry her and live here, I will give her to you. If you must take her away, I will not give her. How can I do otherwise? I have enemies all around me; they will destroy my city.”
And David said: “I will marry her and stay here. I will not take her away.”
So they were married and celebrated the wedding, feasting seven days and seven nights.
The time passed by unheeded, and when nine months, nine days and nine hours had passed, God sent them a son.
And David said to Chandud-Chanum: “If this child is mine, he must have a mark—he will show great strength.” They put the child in swaddling-clothes, but instead of bands they bound him with plough-chains. He began to cry and stir in his cradle and the chain snapped into pieces.
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MySQL Load balancing
MySQL Load balancing
MySQL load balancing
Load balancing is essential when 1 database cannot sufficiently process the requests and we want to distribute the load across multiple databases that are part of group replication.
MySQL on Azure VMs
This option falls into the industry category of IaaS. With this service, you can run MySQL Server inside a fully managed virtual machine on the Azure cloud platform.
The load balancing and high availability must be designed and maintained by us.
1. Enable group replication.
Assume – member 1 =IP1 and member 2=IP2
2. Changes to the config file:
• # General replication settingsgtid_mode = ONenforce_gtid_consistency = ONmaster_info_repository = TABLErelay_log_info_repository = TABLEbinlog_checksum = NONE
log_slave_updates = ON
log_bin = binlog
binlog_format = ROW
transaction_write_set_extraction = XXHASH64
loose-group_replication_bootstrap_group = OFF
loose-group_replication_start_on_boot = OFF
#loose-group_replication_ssl_mode = REQUIRED
#loose-group_replication_recovery_use_ssl = 1
# Shared replication group configuration
loose-group_replication_group_name = “0b7989f4-146c-4ef3-812b-3825f0db4428”
loose-group_replication_ip_whitelist = “IP1,IP2”
loose-group_replication_group_seeds = “IP1:33061,IP2:33061”
# Single or Multi-primary mode? Uncomment these two lines
# for multi-primary mode, where any host can accept writes
#loose-group_replication_single_primary_mode = OFF
#loose-group_replication_enforce_update_everywhere_checks = ON
# Host specific replication configuration
###Each member should have unique id####
server_id = 1
###Change to IP2 when configuring 2nd member###
bind-address = “IP1”
report_host = “IP1”
loose-group_replication_local_address = “IP1:33061”
3. Restart MySQL
• sudo systemctl restart mysqlsudo systemctl status mysql
4. Install the replication plugin and set the user and password for the replication channel
• CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_USER=’replicator’, MASTER_PASSWORD=’password’ FOR CHANNEL ‘group_replication_recovery’;INSTALL PLUGIN group_replication SONAME ‘group_replication.so’;
5. Bootstrap and start the replication only for the 1st member
• SET GLOBAL group_replication_bootstrap_group=ON;START GROUP_REPLICATION;SET GLOBAL group_replication_bootstrap_group=OFF;
6. For rest of the members just start replication without bootstrap:
• START GROUP_REPLICATION;
7. Once group replication initial testing/setup is done, change mysql config to ON. This will ensure, DB joins the group when it is restarted
• loose-group_replication_start_on_boot = ONsudo systemctl restart mysql
8. Configure proxies
1. There are different proxies available in market – HAProxy, ProxySQL, MySQL router. Each has its own set of features.
2. ProxySQL does not need 2 different ports to be configured
3. Let us go through the steps to set up MySQL router – 1 port to send the requests for read/write and 1 port to send the requests for reads in round robin fashion
1. Install MySQL client and router. Usually this is done in the same machine that has the application running.
2. Change the config file and start the router.
• cd /etc/mysqlrouter
• nano mysqlrouter.conf
• bind_address = 0.0.0.0:3306bind_port = 3306destinations = IP1:3306,IP2:3306routing_strategy = first-availablebind_address = 0.0.0.0:3307
bind_port = 3307
destinations = IP1:3306,IP2:3306
routing_strategy = round-robin
• mysqlrouter –version/etc/init.d/mysqlrouter start
3. Connect to the router using port 1 for read/writes. The router in turn will connect to the primary/master DB.
4. Connect to the router using port 2 for reads. The router will connect to the secondary DBs for read requests.
Azure Database for MySQL
This option is a fully managed MySQL database engine based on the stable version of MySQL community edition.
Let us see how we can achieve the same balancing in Azure MySQL.
1. Create read replicas – 1 for each secondary database where you want to route the read requests to. This can be easily done using Azure portal or CLI.
2. Replica creation using CLI:
• az mysql server replica create –name ngreplicaserver –source-server ngmysqlserver –resource-group ngresourcegroup
• The read replicas can be created in the,
1. Same region as the primary/master DB
2. In the paired region for maximum disaster recovery
3. In any of the universal regions regardless of the primary DB region
3. Connect to primary/master for read/writes
4. Connect to read replicates for reads.
5. Note that if there are multiple read replicas and we want to load balance the reads to these replicas, ProxySQL must be configured in a VM.
Conclusion
As we can see MySQL PaaS greatly reduces our effort for load balancing the MySQL requests.
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phuongtqh 06-09-2008 12:58 AM
RHEL5 just recognize 2GB after upgrade to 8GB RAM
Dear linux's users,
I installed RHEL5 on Fujitsu Siemens Server TX600 S3 with 2GB RAM. I have just upgraded to 8GB RAM.
After upgraded, I checked in BIOS,and saw 8GB RAM. But the RHEL5 just recognize 2GB RAM.
Some information:
# dmesg | head -4
Linux version 2.6.18-8.el5 (brewbuilder@ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:15:21 EST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
# head -1 /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2053072 kB
[root@db ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2004 1878 126 0 2 449
-/+ buffers/cache: 1426 578
Swap: 4094 0 4094
Anybody experienced with this problem, please help me.
Thank you in advance.
jtshaw 06-09-2008 01:12 AM
If you are using the 32bit version of RHEL5 you will need to using the kernel-PAE (Physical Address Extension) kernel to get 8GB of RAM I believe. Also check your grub config to make sure it did put a hard coded mem line in when you did the initial install that is telling it to only use 2GB.
If your using the x86-64 kernel then PAE shouldn't be necessary.... but still check for the mem arguement in your grub config.
phuongtqh 06-09-2008 06:52 AM
Hi Jtshaw,
Thank you very much for your reply. Here is my grub config:
# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server-base (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I didn't see any line concerned with hard coded mem line.
I think at least RHEL5 must recognize 4GB. Are there any config files about memory setting?
Vit77 06-09-2008 08:15 AM
As a variant, append mem=4096M to the end of kernel line of grub.conf.
Has the size of memory changed?
Another advice: check your kernel for CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y.
linux4shakir 09-09-2009 10:38 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jtshaw (Post 3178872)
If you are using the 32bit version of RHEL5 you will need to using the kernel-PAE (Physical Address Extension) kernel to get 8GB of RAM I believe. Also check your grub config to make sure it did put a hard coded mem line in when you did the initial install that is telling it to only use 2GB.
If your using the x86-64 kernel then PAE shouldn't be necessary.... but still check for the mem arguement in your grub config.
Hi,
the same problem is with me.I have RHEL 5 32bit server, i have upgrated its memory from 4GB to 8 GB but it showing arround 4GB as i have paste the output below.
as you suggest to using kernel-PAE, but i am not able to using kernel-PAE as i dont have RHEL 5 licence version. and this package is not available in my linux box. can you help me in this...As i am new to linux can u tell me step by step.
[root@IONDELVM33 ~]# head /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3894208 kB
MemFree: 150144 kB
Buffers: 144864 kB
Cached: 2932124 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 1744268 kB
Inactive: 1854244 kB
HighTotal: 3014592 kB
HighFree: 25176 kB
LowTotal: 879616 kB
Thanks in advance,
Shakir
johnsfine 09-09-2009 11:12 AM
That is a strange amount of memory being reported in /proc/meminfo. It is more than you would expect if you don't have PAE support in your kernel but far less than the total ram you think you have installed.
Maybe the restriction is some redhat licensing issue. I don't know anything about redhat licensing. Do you depend on redhat support? If so, maybe you need to ask them this question, rather than ask LQ. If not, then you may be better off switching at least your kernel and maybe your whole install to Centos.
But first, I think you should verify that the problem is not in the BIOS or motherboard. For that, you should post the BIOS physical RAM map. If it hasn't been so long since the last boot that the log overflowed, you can see that map with
Code:
dmesg | less
Notice the OP posted the beginning (the useless part) of the map. We need to see the whole thing (all those lines tagged BIOS-e820) to know whether the issue is in the BIOS/motherboard vs. in Linux.
chrism01 09-10-2009 02:40 AM
I think you'll find this informative.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6571
If you don't have RHEL license, you should (iirc) still find the PAE option on the install DVD.
Also, (as you REALLY should) try to keep up with security etc updates by either
1. buy a license
OR
2. get Centos (free equiv)
johnsfine 09-10-2009 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 3676894)
I think you'll find this informative.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6571
That page explain the virtual memory limits per process. But the question was about the physical memory limits for the whole system.
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If you don't have RHEL license,
On reread, I think I misunderstood that detail in Shakir's post. I misread that as not having the right version of the RHEL license, but I guess it does mean not having any RHEL license at all.
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you should (iirc) still find the PAE option on the install DVD.
Notice the value quoted
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MemTotal: 3894208 kB
Few, if any, motherboards can allow MemTotal that high with a 32 bit non PAE kernel. So more likely, Shakir already has a PAE kernel installed. Then something else is wrong which prevents use of the full 8GB of ram.
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Also, (as you REALLY should) try to keep up with security etc updates by either
1. buy a license
OR
2. get Centos (free equiv)
I don't understand why anyone would run unlicensed RHEL. Was the install DVD available somewhere / somehow that much easier than downloading and burning a Centos install DVD?
I think the free support any Centos user can get in this (Red Hat) subforum of LQ is better than the support redhat users pay for. If I'm wrong about that, maybe buying an RHEL license is a good idea. I think switching to Centos is a better idea. Struggling with any license issues in RHEL is pointless. It isn't that hard to switch to Centos.
chrism01 09-11-2009 02:15 AM
Re unlicensed RHEL; typically one of 3 scenarios
1. user had the 30 day free trial and never upgraded after 30 days expired
2. DVDs get passed around like anything else
3. user has license for prod servers, but not for dev/test ... it happens.
Generally I'd go Centos, but for a serious user (ie commercial or org) might be worth having licensed RHEL for more obscure stuff; think kernel panics for example. Also, speed of response.
Of course there's always the corporate rule that you must have official support.
Mistoffeles 09-14-2009 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by johnsfine (Post 3677168)
Few, if any, motherboards can allow MemTotal that high with a 32 bit non PAE kernel. So more likely, Shakir already has a PAE kernel installed. Then something else is wrong which prevents use of the full 8GB of ram.
I am pretty sure no 32-bit OS can see memory above 4GB without PAE extensions, regardless of what motherboard they use. Depending on the way the memory banks are set up in phuongtqh's computer, this may be another hurdle in the hardware that is limiting him to just 2GB rather than giving him the full 4GB. If it were not a server I would guess he is eating all his high memory (below 4GB) with video cards, but most servers don't support dual cards (it would take two 768MB-1GB cards to use up that much).
Regardless, you must use PAE or 64-bit to use more than 4GB of RAM, there are no exceptions that I know of to this, it's just not possible to do it on a vanilla (non-PAE) 32-bit OS.
Personally, I would never use PAE again. There are enough silly games going on inside Intel's CPUs already without adding another whole layer of smoke and mirrors (remember segmented addressing on early x86 CPUs?).
Edit: Also try running MemTest (64-bit of course) to see if the 8GB reported in the hardware is actually available and working.
johnsfine 09-14-2009 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Mistoffeles (Post 3682612)
this may be another hurdle in the hardware that is limiting him to just 2GB
The 2GB problem belonged to the OP who left this thread a year ago.
The new question, last week (from another poster who seems to have left the thread) was a very different problem (though I can see how a beginner might think it similar enough to justify asking in the old thread).
I think no more help is required here until someone requests some.
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1. Make sure you have a modern, sane Ruby install. The best way to install Ruby is to use RVM from https://rvm.io/
2. Install the ruby gem bundler
gem install bundler
3. Install the necessary gems for the site. At the root of the site directory, run
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Publishing the site
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Morton’s Neuroma
What is it?
Morton’s neuroma is a benign growth on the nerve that runs between the metatarsal bones and supply sensation to the toes. Most commonly, Morton’s neuroma develops between the 3rd and 4th metatarsal heads. When the growth gets compressed, between the metatarsal bones, it causes pain. Typically, the pain is on the ball of the foot and may radiate to the ends of the toes. “Nervy” symptoms such as shooting, tingling, burning, or zapping are common.
This condition usually develops because of microtrauma to the nerve. This microtrauma happens because there is not much space for the nerve to pass between two metatarsal bones (on either side of the nerve), the ground (underneath the nerve), and the deep transverse ligament (on top of the nerve). Add compression and pressure to an already small space and you have a recipe for Morton’s neuroma. Compression is added by tight or pointed footwear, heeled footwear, overpronation, generally wide feet, hammer toes and bunions (makes shoes tighter).
Diagnosis can be made clinically based on history, symptoms and in-clinic testing. Findings can be confirmed via imaging such as ultrasound or MRI.
So how do you treat it?
Firstly, it is best to talk to a foot specialist such as a chiropodist about your condition. You will be guided through treatment using conservative treatments first, then progressing based on how the foot responds. The goal is 80-100% resolution
Conservative treatments include general rest, activity modification to avoid aggravating activities, footwear changes to wider fitting shoes, and custom foot orthotics with metatarsal pads.
If conservative measures fail, there are injection therapies which are quite effective. Typically, cortisone injections are used first. Cortisone is a potent anti-inflammatory that can be injected into the area 1-3 times based on how symptoms react to the first injection.
If cortisone does not help, denatured alcohol injections are a logical next step. These injections are performed weekly for 4-7 weeks. Alcohol concentrations vary from practitioner to practitioner between 4-20%. The lower concentrations minimize risk of post-injection pain, so many practitioners opt to use 4% concentration. The goal of the alcohol injections is to gradually desensitize the nerve and reduce the size of the neuroma. These weekly injections are continued until complete resolution or until they are no longer making improvement.
If all treatments up to this point have failed, then surgery should be considered. There are two commonly performed surgeries. 1 – a neurectomy. A neurectomy is the surgical excision of the neuroma. Lasting side effects include numbness to the toes the nerve supplies (usually 3rd and 4th). The other surgery performed is a deep transverse ligament transection. In this surgery, the nerve and neuroma are left in tact. Instead, the deep transverse ligament is cut, which gives the nerve more space so it is no longer irritated. As with any injury, surgery should be considered last resort as there is higher chance of post-op complications such as infection and prolonged healing.
I hope this was an informative review of current practice guidelines on treating morton’s neuroma. If you have any pain on the ball of the foot, be sure to contact a chiropodist for an assessment and treatment.
This blog was written by Jake Cahoon and is not necessarily the opinion of The Footcare Centre.
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Buffett's Berkshire bought $2.07 bln BofA stock since mid-July, has 11.9% stake
By Jonathan Stempel
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa.N has spent $2.07 billion on Bank of America Corp BAC.N shares since mid-July, after winning regulatory permission to increase what was already its largest common stock holding other than Apple Inc AAPL.O.
In a regulatory filing on Tuesday night, Berkshire said it paid $337 million for about 13.6 million Bank of America shares between July 31 and Aug. 4.
It has purchased about 85.1 million of the bank's shares since July 20, giving it a total of 1.03 billion shares, or 11.9%, worth $25.8 billion as of Tuesday's close.
Berkshire is the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender's largest shareholder. It also invests in several other banks, including Wells Fargo & Co WFC.N and JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N
Buffett's assistant did not immediately respond on Wednesday to a request for comment. Bank of America did not immediately respond to similar requests.
In April, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond approved Berkshire's application to boost its Bank of America stake as high as 24.9%, more than twice the usual 10% limit for investors, according to a Richmond Fed spokesman.
Berkshire would have to file to become a bank holding company to increase its stake beyond 24.9%.
Buffett began investing in Bank of America in 2011, purchasing $5 billion of preferred stock plus warrants to buy 700 million common shares, at a time many investors worried about the bank's capital needs.
Berkshire exercised the warrants in 2017 and sold preferred stock to cover the cost.
Adding Bank of America shares helps Berkshire reduce its cash stake, which totaled $137.2 billion on March 31.
The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate is also spending $4 billion to acquire some gas assets from Dominion Energy Inc D.N, and may have repurchased billions of dollars of its own stock.
Berkshire is expected to report second-quarter results on Saturday.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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The result was keep. JForget 00:37, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Emily Benn
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STRONG DELETE Fails all wiki criteria for includes. No notability. Promotional page. Editing done by SPA --WikiKing2012 (talk) 20:40, 3 August 2009 (UTC) Delete If every candidate standing for parliament was to have a wiki page - the site would be overloaded and its credibility destroyed. Just because she's standing does not mean she is notable for inclusion. --WikiKing2012 (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- - SpacemanSpiff Calvin‡Hobbes 21:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Comment: this nomination was incomplete (missing steps 2 and 3). It is fixed now. Tim Song (talk) 21:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Keep Passes the basic criteria. The JPS talk to me 21:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Keep legitimate Candidate for a national parliament, several secondary sources Wefa (talk) 21:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Actually, this is exactly the situation we have with US congressional candidates. Furthermore, Benn is not *any* candidate - she secured the nomination of a major party (indeed, the current majority party). Wefa
* (Oh, and while we are at it, WikiKing2012, would you please stop "voting" multiple times? It is annoying and confuses the casual reader.) Wefa (talk) 21:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
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* Weak keep. Mere candidacy for Parliament is not a claim to notability, nor is a famous grandfather. However, holding the record for youngest Labour Parliamentary candidate is. Even so, the article needs heavy pruning to lose its promotional tone. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 21:12, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
* Keep a major party candidate for a national legislature should be regarded as notable if they win formal nomination or whatever the procedure may be. In the campaign, they'll have as much coverage as the winner, and that's almost always enough for the GNG. DGG (talk) 03:43, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
* Keep as per above arguments. --Merovingian (T, C, L) 21:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
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How to Wire a Security Camera
Wiring a security camera does not require a professional; if you are handy with some basic tools, you can learn how to wire a security camera. A security camera uses three connections; the camera power, which includes a positive and negative wire, and the camera signal. Siamese cable has three wires; the camera signal coax wire and two power wires, which are red and black. The camera signal cable requires a RG-59 BNC connector on each end. Your camera came with a power supply which looks something like a cell phone recharger. The camera power supply cord will be cut in half and connected to the power wires on each end of the Siamese cable.
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Separate the power wires from the coax wire on each end of the Siamese cable.
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Strip the coax with the coax stripper and install a BNC connector on each end of the coaxial cable, using your RG-59 crimping tool according to the instructions which came with the BNC connector.
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Cut the camera power cord in half. Split both ends of the power cord a few inches and strip all four wires about ½ of an inch. Strip the ends of the Siamese cable power wires about ½ of an inch.
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Connect the power supply wires to the Siamese cable power wires on one end using the insulated butt splice connectors and crimp them with a standard wire crimp tool.
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Connect the camera power cable to the other end of the Siamese cable power wires the same way you did in the previous step.
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Connect your camera to the Siamese coax through the BNC barrel, plug the power cable into your camera and plug the camera power supply in. Connect the Siamese cable coax to your video monitor or video recorder and ensure you have a signal. Wrap the wire and insulated butt splice connectors about one inch past the connectors with electrical tape to protect them from corrosion. Wrap the BNC barrel, connectors and wire with electrical tape the same way. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Enhancing Your Yamaha MT-09: A Comprehensive Lighting Upgrade Guide
The Yamaha MT-09 is a popular choice among motorcycle enthusiasts due to its powerful engine, agile handling, and aggressive styling. One area where owners often seek improvements is in the lighting department. Upgrading the lighting on your MT-09 not only enhances the bike's aesthetics but also significantly improves visibility and safety during night rides. This article will guide you through the various lighting upgrade options for your Yamaha MT-09.
Why Upgrade Your Lighting?
Stock lighting on many motorcycles, including the Yamaha MT-09, can be inadequate for night riding or adverse weather conditions. Upgrading to modern Yamaha LED lighting systems offers several benefits:
- Increased Visibility: LED lights are brighter and provide a clearer view of the road ahead, helping you to spot obstacles and hazards earlier.
- Enhanced Aesthetics: LED lights give your bike a modern, sleek look that complements its aggressive design.
- Energy Efficiency: LEDs consume less power compared to traditional halogen bulbs, reducing the load on your bike's electrical system.
- Longevity: LED lights have a longer lifespan, meaning less frequent replacements and maintenance.
Types of Lighting Upgrades
There are several types of lighting upgrades you can consider for your Yamaha MT-09:
Headlights
Upgrading to LED headlights is one of the most impactful changes you can make. LED headlights offer superior brightness and a more focused beam pattern, ensuring better illumination of the road.
Tail Lights
Integrated LED tail lights not only improve visibility for vehicles behind you but also enhance the bike's rear appearance. Many options come with built-in turn signals for a cleaner look.
Turn Signals
LED turn signals are brighter and more noticeable than stock bulbs, making your intentions clearer to other drivers. They also add a touch of modern style to your bike.
Auxiliary Lights
For those who frequently ride in low-light conditions, adding auxiliary LED lights can provide extra illumination. These lights can be mounted on the handlebars, forks, or engine guards.
Recommended Lighting Upgrades for Yamaha MT-09
Here are some top recommendations for lighting upgrades on your Yamaha MT-09:
- LED Headlight Kit: Look for kits that offer easy plug-and-play installation. Brands like Philips and Cyclops offer high-quality options.
- Integrated Tail Light: Brands like Motodynamic and TST Industries offer integrated tail lights with built-in turn signals for a sleek look.
- LED Turn Signals: Consider sequential LED turn signals from brands like Rizoma and Custom LED for better visibility and aesthetics.
- Auxiliary Lights: Denali and Baja Designs offer powerful auxiliary LED lights that can significantly enhance nighttime visibility.
Installation Tips
While many lighting upgrades are designed to be plug-and-play, here are some general tips to ensure a smooth installation:
- Read the Instructions: Always start by reading the manufacturer’s instructions to understand the installation process.
- Check Compatibility: Ensure that the lighting upgrades you choose are compatible with your Yamaha MT-09 model year.
- Use Proper Tools: Gather all necessary tools before starting the installation to avoid interruptions.
- Test Before Finalizing: Test all new lights before fully securing them to ensure they work correctly.
Upgrading the lighting on your Yamaha MT-09 can greatly enhance your riding experience by improving visibility, safety, and style. Whether you're replacing your headlights, tail lights, turn signals, or adding auxiliary lights, the investment in high-quality LED lighting is worthwhile. Follow the recommendations and tips in this guide to make your MT-09 stand out and ride safer.
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