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Do the fans think he's Kyut? | WIKI |
•No serious adverse events occurred, and the human challenge study model was shown to be safe and well tolerated in healthy young adults.
•Word Health Organization (WHO) warns of a rise in cases.
The world's first "human challenge" trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to the coronavirus has found that symptoms had no effect on how likely an infected person is to pass the disease on to others.
The findings underscore the difficulty in preventing community infections as the Word Health Organization (WHO) warns of a rise in cases.
The research project, run by Open Orphan with Imperial College, London, showed that among the 18 participants that caught COVID-19, the severity of symptoms, or whether they developed symptoms at all, had nothing to do with the viral load in their airways.
The viral load, or tendency to shed the virus, was measured by two methods known as focus-forming assay (FFA) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).
"There was no correlation between the amount of viral shedding by qPCR or FFA and symptom score," the researchers said in paper published by scientific journal Nature Medicine.
The Imperial trial exposed 36 healthy young adults without a history of infection or vaccination to the original SARS-CoV-2 strain of the virus and monitored them in a quarantined setting.
Since two volunteers were found to have had antibodies against the virus after all, they were excluded from the analysis. Slightly more than half of them contracted the virus.
No serious adverse events occurred, and the human challenge study model was shown to be safe and well tolerated in healthy young adults, the research team had said earlier this year. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Rafael Ábalos
Rafael Ábalos (born 12 October 1956) is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House. | WIKI |
There are few songs that have had as big of a reach as the nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb has had. Nearly everyone knows the lyrics from the time they were in preschool, and the catchy tune can be plucked out on the piano by just about anyone, trained pianists or not. However, what’s lesser known, is the true story that inspired the famous song.
The Story is About a Student Who Actually Did Have a Little Lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale was a school teacher in New Hampshire. She was shocked one day to see one of her students, Mary, bring along her pet lamb with her to school. Apparently, the small animal was too much of a distraction for all of the children in the class, and Sarah was forced to turn him out until class was finished.
The loyal pet lamb stayed near the schoolhouse the rest of the day. When school was finished, he bounded back into Mary’s arms for safety and comfort, having missed his loving caretaker. The schoolchildren wanted to know what made the lamb love Mary so dearly, so they asked their teacher. She told them it was simply because Mary loved him and was always kind to him. Sarah used Mary’s relationship with her lamb as a chance to get a moral across to the children. Show love to others and they will show love back to you.
From Poem to Song
Later, after the rhyme was published in 1830, composer Lowell Mason took the words written by Sarah Hale and turned them into the song we all know and love. The last two verses of the song are not as popular as the first two, but they express what Sarah Hale was trying to teach her students.
“Why does the lamb love Mary so?
Mary so, Mary so?
Why does the lamb love Mary so?”
The eager children smile.
“Mary loves the lamb, you know,
Lamb, you know, lamb, you know,
Mary loves the lamb, you know,”
The teacher did reply.
And now you know, Mary really did have a little lamb, and he loved her so!
Explore more children’s literature here. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Single Sign-On between Joomla (PHP) and a custom JSF / JSP login (JAVA)
Single sign-on (SSO) is a method of access control, that enables a user to authenticate once, and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems. Well in my case, the task i have given is to authenticate a user in a PHP and a JAVA (Web) system simultaneously.
My PHP web application is the well known Joomla CMS, and my JAVA web application is based on JSF and custom built. After some thinking and research I found several resources which are worth reading (JOSSO, OneSign ), but i couldn’t take any help from them, mostly those SSO frameworks are complex ( yeah 🙂 I couldn’t understand ) and aimed on a general pourpose and most of them are not for free.
So yeah I thought of doing some Hack to joomla and also make some changes in my Java web app’s authentication method. After talking with some of my geeky Friends (Sandaruwan and Anjana). I came up with two approaches. both are involved in handling the cookies manually up to certain extent.
The 1st approach is (Which i didn’t try and had to give up due to the reason that I am using JSF as the web application framework) to log-in to the Joomla site and after loged in to Joomla create a random named temp file in the server (possibly in /home/secrets with 777) with the user-name (if a valid log in) and set a cookie using set_cookie(“name”,$filename) and direct to a jsp page to do the java side authentication.
in this JSP, page read the secret file name from the cookie and read the file from the http server in-order to take the username of the loged-in user. By passing this to the authentication method of the java web app, the java side also can be authenticated.
yup it is pretty simple, but i had to give it up mainly because I use JSF. if I do the user authentication in the above way in the java side. I cannot add the user object to the FacesContext which will be used by my other java side components. so even though i log in. later on in other jsf pages my loged user cannot be found. (Shortly my java login process is not happening according to the JSF implementation procedures.) and secondly i had to give up this method because my Project manger didn’t like the idea of saving temp files in the server. 🙂
So the Second and the method which i have implemented is, automating the Joomla log-in process by making an http request to the http server from my JSF backing bean. and set the PHP cookie manually via Http Servlet response.
before i explain this method more broadly i have to mention about two nice tools which helped me to monitor the http requests and response.
Apache TCP Monitor
Live Http headers (FireFox ad-on)
Architecture
Implementation
There are two different scenarios.
1. User can visit teh home page of the joomla site 1st and the PHP Cookie is already set.
2. User visit the Java site PHP Cookie is not available.
Since anyhow we are using the java login form for the username and password in put. the Signing in for both sites will be done from the java side. (If its the PHP side same problem with the JSF session)
I created a link in the joomla home to the JSF login form. and made the joomla login form invisible to the user.
<form action="/joomla/index.php" method="post" name="login"
id="form-login" >
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_user" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="login" />
<input type="hidden" name="return"
value="aHR0cDovL2xvY2FsaG9zdC9qb29tbGEvaW5kZXgucGhw" />
<input type="hidden"
name="4c8b847e06d9cfc211c7c0547d8b0e82" value="1" />
</form>
I removed the input text fields for username and password but kept the four hidden fields as shown above. it is very important to keep these hidden fields hence, when login, joomla is checking for these randomly generated (generated in the server and dynamically added to the form) values. to remove the visible input text fields you have to hack in to thejoomla template.
Now there is no login form in the Joomla home (not invisible). Once you click the Login Link the user will be forward to a java (JSF) login form and asked to insert the username and password. these values are taken in to the Backing bean (Normal JSF procedure). and make the JAVA side authentication.
If the user is authenticated, what you have to do is make two UrlConnection to the HTTP server in order to authenticate Joomla. the 1st UrlConnection is to read the main page (or the page where joomla has its dynamically generated Login form)
you have to read four hidden fields in the form and take them to variables and create a request string, and make the 2nd request to the same page (Due to Joomla’s design pattern). you should not forget to send the cookie that you received with the 1st request. Once you did this you are authenticated in thephp side too. The next step is adding the cookie to the HttpServletResponce. (Make sure u set the path of the cookie.. I had to debug for hours forgetting that part 🙂 )
The above mentioned is the 1st scenario if there are no cookies in the client side (if the user haven’t requested the home page ofjoomla). the 2nd scenario is if the user has a cookie, then when ur making the request u have to get the cookies from the HttpServletRequest and append it to the request header. Simply what you have to do is get all the cookies and append them. the rest of it is same.
So that’s it.. you’re authenticated in both web apps. With the post i will attach the Java Source code i used to do this task.
Joomla Auth Source Code
5 thoughts on “Single Sign-On between Joomla (PHP) and a custom JSF / JSP login (JAVA)”
1. Nice blog !!!
my query is:
is it possible that JAVA SSO code can directly talk to PHP code with modifying JAVA SSO into PHP SSO ?
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1. yes thats’ possible, the thing with me was that I used the joomla CMS and i had little control over joomla login module. but if the PHP code is entirely urs, this is not a problem.
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2. Hi Nuwan!
I’m trying to put your solution to work here, but after the execution of your java class, my joomla’s initial page still the same after a refresh. I mean, the links that only logged users see, don’t appears.
I’m not sure what exatcly should happened, but I can see your java class reading the fields, setting the cookies… seems all goes fine, but seems the php side continues not logged.
Can you cast a light here? What must I do after executing your code?
thank you.
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Template:Oslo sensors
* Siemens/Plessey AWS-9 long range air search radar
* Racal DeccaTM 1226 surface search radar in I band
* Kongsberg MSI-90(U) tracking and fire control system
* Raytheon Mk 95; I/J-band search and track radar for Sea Sparrow
* Medium frequency Thomson-CSF Sintra/Simrad TSM 2633 combined hull and VDS active sonar
* High frequency Terne III active sonar | WIKI |
Uduak
Uduak is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Uduak Amimo, Kenyan journalist
* Uduak Archibong, Nigerian nurse and academic
* Uduak Isong, Nigerian scriptwriter and producer
* Christy Uduak Essien-Igbokwe (1960–2011), Nigerian musician and actress
* Ezekiel Uduak Akpan, Nigerian kidnapper convicted in the killing of Iniubong Umoren
* Joan Uduak Ekah (born 1980), Nigerian sprinter | WIKI |
Abriola
Abriola is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Anzi, Calvello, Marsico Nuovo, Pignola, Sasso di Castalda, Tito. | WIKI |
Heinz van Haaren
Heinz van Haaren (born 3 June 1940 in Marl, Province of Westphalia) is a Dutch former football midfielder. | WIKI |
INTL Auto Air Conditioning Compressor
some precautions in using auto air conditioning in summer
Time: 2015-06-27
Summer is hot and rainy season, but also automotive air conditioning much help when. Especially private cars, air-conditioning in summer is inseparable. Automotive air-conditioning with manual adjustment and automatic adjustment two kinds. The former air-conditioning control panel with a temperature adjustment knob is actually a variable resistor, and temperature sensing resistor installed in the evaporator composed of a series circuit, this group of circuit resistance will change when the temperature changes, so as to engage or disengage the compressor electromagnetic clutch. For example, when the evaporator temperature falls to a specified low, this group of the circuit will be separated from the electromagnetic clutch of the compressor, the compressor stops working. When the temperature rise time and join the clutch of the compressor resume operation.
This manual adjustment of air conditioning only in accordance with the selected mode of operation within a certain range, not random according to the temperature inside the ambient air quality regulation.
You do not need to manually adjust the automatic air conditioning, automatic control of the circulating air and the temperature inside, keep the air quality inside the car when the outside air quality changes. The system can automatically control the temperature, wind speed and air flow mode. As long as the pre-set temperature, and wind speed and air flow mode is set to "AUTO" (auto) mode, the system will automatically select the location of the outlet and wind speed, and at any time to make adjustments according to changes in the environment.
Air-conditioning refrigeration and air main function is the function, which is common sense. Also features air conditioning as well as defogging. In the rainy season the road, in front windshield prone to fog a content of water gas composition, because mist generated in the case of the car all doors and windows are closed, when the inside temperature is higher than the temperature of the glass outside, the water vapor will glass inner condenses into a white mist. Severe fog obscured the driver's line of sight, holding a towel on the glass kept wiping also really troublesome, very convenient. Then simply press the A / C switch to start air conditioning, then start the fan, press the defogging switch, the air outlet steering windshield, mist attached to the windshield will soon disappear. In addition, the air conditioning control panel has several buttons are used to change the air flow direction, you can select the upper body or foot blows. There is also a "cycle" button, press this button compartment air only for internal circulation, all the doors and windows closed when the air conditioning cooling efficiency will not suffer, you can save energy. Over time, however, the air inside will be more turbid, not only hypoxia and unsanitary, so not a long time or stop state suitable for "loop" function.
Clean air conditioning cooling effect is good or bad and condenser fins related. Always remove dust from the condenser fins on, you can borrow at a wind blowing compressed air maintenance condenser. In addition, the evaporator is directly facing the car hair, the cleanliness of its intake is directly related to the occupant's health. Pay attention to time to replace the air filter, air filter inlet air conditioning filters, usually installed in the position of the engine compartment near the windshield under. If a long time without replacing the air filter, dust adsorption of the above will be more and more, and there may be air conditioning fan inlet compartment, affect the health of occupants. Cars, air-conditioning effect is generally more than 1.3 liters displacement basically possible, but some one liter or 1 liter minicar, because of the small engine power caused by the air conditioning effect is not ideal, and even air conditioning going and water boiling occurs phenomenon, especially in the hot summer day. Therefore, use of air conditioning in the summer thing to note are the following:
First, if the engine due to increased air conditioning load cause the water temperature is too high, to suspend use of air conditioning, until the water temperature is normal.
Second, when you want to avoid parking in idle condition to use air conditioning in the summer high temperature for a long time, because the air conditioning can not be effectively cooling systems susceptible to high temperature and pressure loss of the ring. Parking open air for long life safety crew is also a threat, because car exhaust fumes may be inhaled carriage poisoning people.
Third, when the vehicle is parked in the open air inside cause a high temperature, which should open the door to let hot air escape, and turn on the air to disperse the heat. Then close the doors and windows, in order to improve efficiency.
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SQL MAX Tutorial
The MAX command is used to find the maximum value in a given result set. It is frequently used with the GROUP BY command.
Example 1 (no aggregation)
-- Works in PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle SELECT MAX(dollar_amount) as highest_payment FROM rent_payments;
rent_payments table
id tenant_id payment_date dollar_amount
1 1 3/1/2018 2000
2 2 3/2/2018 1500
3 3 3/1/2018 1800
4 4 3/3/2018 1900
5 1 4/2/2018 2000
6 4 4/2/2018 1900
Query results
highest_payment
2000
Example 2 (with aggregation)
-- Works in PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle SELECT payment_date, MAX(dollar_amount) as highest_payment FROM rent_payments GROUP BY payment_date;
rent_payments table
id tenant_id payment_date dollar_amount
1 1 3/1/2018 2000
2 2 3/2/2018 1500
3 3 3/1/2018 1800
4 4 3/3/2018 1900
5 1 4/2/2018 2000
6 4 4/2/2018 1900
Query results
payment_date highest_payment
3/1/2018 2000
3/2/2018 1500
3/3/2018 1900
4/2/2018 2000
Explanation
We are finding the MAX value of dollar_amount for each unique value of the payment_date column. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Williams House and Associated Farmstead
The Williams House and Associated Farmstead is a historic farm property in southern Madison County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of St. Paul, at the end of County Road 172. The main house is a $1 1/2$-story log structure, fashioned out of hand-hewn timbers fitted together with dovetail joints and concrete chinking. The property includes a barn, smokehouse, chicken house, and privy, all of which were built around 1922–25. The house was built in 1935, and is locally unusual for the late date for the use of log construction to build a pioneer-style house.
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. | WIKI |
Talk:Edward II of England
Lead image
Which of the following two images should be the lead image?
The two have switched around a bit, with B used for a few years before A. A has been used for roughly a year or so. There was no discussion to replace B. I prefer B, but happy to let others decide. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 14:48, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
* I much prefer Option B for the following reasons:
* It has been through the GA and FA processes, both of which would have verified its licensing and use in the article.
* Option A currently does not have the correct licensing for the US, which means its use in the article right now is questionable.
* Option A is of poorer in terms of quality/clarity.
* Option is vertically long, so it looks awkward both in the infobox and in preview when hovering over a link.
* Personally, I find Option B more aesthetically pleasing.
* Unlimitedlead (talk) 12:24, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
* It's been five days and all the current participants (a whopping two users) have expressed support for option B. Thus, I will change the lead image to that and any further objections may be raised here. Unlimitedlead (talk) 03:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
I also find option B more appropriate, especially with point 3 in mind. Super20020917 (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Additional Source for ‘Controversies’ Section
I think we can add a source or even a sentence about Edward's possible survival after 1327 from Kathryn Warner's (herself with a Wikipedia page) books "Edward II: An Unconventional King" and "Long Live the King?" Geographynerd101 (talk) 11:43, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
* Go ahead and add it, . Be Bold! —GoldRingChip 18:30, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Caernarfon??
Why would an English king be referred to by the Welsh spelling, instead of the English spelling, Caernarvon? English is pronounced properly. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:10, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
* Caernarfon is the English spelling, although it's valid to point out the variant, especially if it was much more common in the past. Google ngram seems to back up both points: the present name is valid but so was the previous one. — Llywelyn II 04:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Edward I of England which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:46, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Mistaken revert
Aside from improved formatting, the additional points are all entirely valid and helpful to the reader for additional context. Was this just a kneejerk revert? or do the provided sources not include the additional detail and need to be corrected to something more accurate? Either way, reverting isn't the way to fix the problem. (Sorry the 'dubious' note on my edit was mistaken: That was from another article I'd been working on recently.) — Llywelyn II 04:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Blue Gray Championships
The Blue Gray Championships was a men's and women's open international tennis tournament was founded in 1949. Also known as the Blue Gray Invitation the tournament was first played at the Montgomery Country Club, Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It was played annually until 1978 as an individual competition when it was discontinues. In 1984 it was revived as team only competition called the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic that is still active.
History
The tournament was conceived by Jack Bushman the President of the Southern Lawn Tennis Association. In 1949 he established the event was based upon the Sugar Bowl Tennis Championships. This tournament was to be played before the Blue–Gray Football Classic was being held and first occurred in 1950. The main difference between this event and the Sugar Bowl tennis event, it was to be an open international tournament for college (university) players rather than junior players. The inaugural winners of the singles events were Jack Tuero (men) and Elinor Shaw (women). The tournament also featured doubles events.
The championships were held at the Montgomery Country Club from inception until 1968. In 1969 he moved location to Huntingdon College but was not held that year. In 1973 it moved the Lagoon Park Tennis Center before moving to the O’Connor Tennis Center during the last few editions all of were in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1978 the event was discontinued as an individual competition, however exhibition events under the brand name the Blue Gray Invitation continued to held. In 1983 the format for the tournament was a changed to become team only competition to be played as a lead up event to the NCAA Championships. In 1984 the first edition of the rebranded Blue Gray National Tennis Classic was held.
Finals
Notes: Where a runner up is not shown or the score sections have been blanked.
Women's singles
(incomplete roll) | WIKI |
GenServers and Memory Images — A Match Made in Heaven
My current project, Inject Detect, is being built with Elixir and makes heavy use of Martin Fowler-style Memory Images. After working with this setup for several months, I’ve come to realize that Elixir GenServers and a Memory Image architecture are a match made in heaven.
Let’s dive into what Memory Images are, and why GenServers are the perfect tool for building out a Memory Image in your application.
What is a Memory Image?
In my opinion, the best introduction to the Memory Image concept is Martin Fowler’s article on the subject. If you haven’t, be sure to read through the article.
For brevity, I’ll try to summarize as quickly as possible. Martin comments that most developers’ first question when starting a new project is, “what database will I use?” Unfortunately, answering this question requires many upfront decisions about things like data shape and even usage patterns that are often unknowable upfront.
Martin flips the question on its head. Instead of asking which database you should use, he suggests you ask yourself, “do I need a database at all?”
Mind blown.
The idea of a Memory Image is to keep the entire state of your application entirely within your server’s memory, rather than keeping it in a database. At first, this seems absurd. In reality, it actually works very well for many projects.
I’ll defer an explanation of the pros, cons, and my experiences with Memory Images to a later post. Instead of going down that rabbit hole, let’s take a look at how we can efficiently implement a Memory Image in Elixir!
Backed By an Event Log
The notion that a Memory Image architecture don’t use a database at all isn’t entirely true. In Inject Detect, I use a database to persist a log of events that describe all changes that have happened to the system since the beginning of time.
This event log isn’t particularly useful in its raw format. It can’t be queried in any meaningful way, and it can’t be used to make decisions about the current state of the system.
To get something more useful out of the system, the event log needs to be replayed. Each event effects the system’s state in some known way. By replaying these events and their corresponding effects in order, we can rebuild the current state of the system. We effectively reduce down all of the events in our event log into the current state of our system.
This is Event Sourcing.
We can implement this kind of simplified Event Sourced system fairly easily:
defmodule State do
def get do
state = InjectDetect.Model.Event
|> order_by([event], event.id)
|> InjectDetect.Repo.all
|> Enum.to_list
|> Enum.map(&(struct(String.to_atom(&1.type), &1.data))
|> Enum.reduce(%{}, &State.Reducer.apply/2)
end
end
Each event in our event log has a type field that points to a specific event struct in our application (like SignedUp), and a data field that holds a map of all the information required to replay the effects of that event on the system.
For example, a SignedUp event might look like this when saved to the database:
%{id: 123, type: "SignedUp", data: %{"email" => "user@example.com"}}
To get the current state of the system, we grab all events in our event log, convert them into structs, and then reduce them down into a single state object by applying their changes, one after the other, using our State.Reducer.apply Elixir protocol that all event structs are required to implement.
While this is a fairly simple concept, it’s obviously inefficient. Imagine having to process your entire event log every time you want to inspect the state of your system!
There has to be a better way.
GenServer, Meet Memory Image
Memory Image, meet GenServer.
Rather than reprocessing our entire event log every time we want to inspect our application’s state, what if we could just keep the application state in memory?
GenServers (and Elixir processes in general) are excellent tools for persisting state in memory. Let’s refactor our previous solution to calculate our application’s state and then store it in memory for future use.
To manage this, our GenServer will need to store two pieces of information. It will need to store the current state of the system, and the id of the last event that was processed. Initially, our current application state will be an empty map, and the last id we’ve seen will be 0:
def start_link, do:
GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, {%{}, 0}, name: __MODULE__)
Next, rather than fetching all events from our event log, we want to fetch only the events that have happened after the last event id that we’ve processed:
defp get_events_since(id) do
events = InjectDetect.Model.Event
|> where([event], event.id > ^id)
|> order_by([event], event.id)
|> InjectDetect.Repo.all
|> Enum.to_list
{convert_to_structs(events), get_last_event_id(events)}
end
This function returns a tuple of the fetched events, along with the id of the last event in that list.
When get_events_since is first called, it will return all events currently in the event log. Any subsequent calls will only return the events that have happened after the last event we’ve processed. Because we’re storing the system’s state in our GenServer, we can apply these new events to the old state to get the new current state of the system.
Tying these pieces together, we get something like this:
defmodule State do
use GenServer
import Ecto.Query
def start_link, do: GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, {%{}, 0}, name: __MODULE__)
def get, do: GenServer.call(__MODULE__, :get)
def convert_to_structs(events), do: Enum.map(events, &(struct(String.to_atom(&1.type), &1.data))
def get_last_event_id(id, events) do
case List.last(events) do
nil -> id
event -> event.id
end
end
defp get_events_since(id) do
events = InjectDetect.Model.Event
|> where([event], event.id > ^id)
|> order_by([event], event.id)
|> InjectDetect.Repo.all
|> Enum.to_list
{convert_to_structs(events), get_last_event_id(id, events)}
end
def handle_call(:get, _, {state, last_id}) do
{events, last_id} = get_events_since(last_id)
state = Enum.reduce(events, state, &State.Reducer.apply/2)
{:reply, {:ok, state}, {state, last_id}}
end
end
At first this solution may seem complicated, but when we break it down, there’s not a whole lot going on.
Our State GenServer stores:
1. The current state of the system.
2. The id of the last event it has processed.
Whenever we call State.get, it checks for new events in the event log and applies them, in order, to the current state. The GenServer saves this state and the id of the last new event and then replies with the new state.
That’s it!
Final Thoughts
Building a Memory Image in Elixir using GenServers is a match made in heaven. When working with these tools and techniques, it honestly feels like solutions effortlessly fall into place.
The Memory Image architecture, especially when combined with Event Sourcing, perfectly lends itself to a functional approach. Additionally, using GenServers to implement these ideas opens the doors to building fast, efficient, fault-tolerant, and consistent distributed systems with ease.
While Memory Images are an often overlooked solution to the problem of maintaining state, the flexibility and speed they bring to the table should make them serious contenders in your next project. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Dreamspinner Press
Financial issues section needed
It would be great if someone with better knowledge / access to appropriate npov sources would update the article with information regarding the company's failures to pay its authors their royalties. This has been ongoing for months and is allegedly affecting vendors as well. User:U193581
→Yes, especially since many authors have been pulling their books off stores and republishing them either through another imprint or their own. CVance1 (talk) 17:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
Herbert Büchs
Herbert Büchs (20 November 1913 – 19 May 1996) was a Lieutenant General of the German Air Force and a former Luftwaffe staff officer in Nazi Germany's Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) during World War II. As second adjutant to General Alfred Jodl with the rank of Major he is notable for being present in the conference room when the 20 July plot bomb exploded in 1944.
Biography
Büchs was born in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where he graduated from the Catholic secondary school in 1933. He then studied economics at the Universities of Graz and Munich. He joined the air force in 1935 and became a fighter pilot. In 1939 at the outbreak of World War II he was an operations officer and in June 1941 he flew a Junkers Ju 88 during Operation Barbarossa and his right arm was injured by machine gun fire. On 1 November 1943 he was appointed as a General Staff Officer with the Wehrmacht Operations Staff at Adolf Hitler's headquarters. He briefed him on the air war at daily situation conferences and on one occasion had to report the loss of 300 aircraft.
In July, 1944, Büchs was injured by the briefcase bomb planted by Claus von Stauffenberg in a failed assassination attempt on Hitler. He recovered from his injuries. In 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Americans. He was released from custody in 1948.
In June 1946 he provided testimony as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials. He then worked in civil engineering on projects in the Middle East and in 1957 rejoined the military and became an aerial tactics instructor at the Bundeswehr Staff College. He later rose to be deputy director of Leadership on the Air Force Command Staff and Chief of Staff of the Federal Armed Forces Operations Staff. | WIKI |
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Etymology
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Etymology
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Småland
Småland is a province (landskap) in Götaland, with more than 700,000 inhabitants. The forested inland is popular getaway for Swedes as well as foreigners.
Regions
The name Småland means the small lands. The lands, or sub-provinces, were Finnveden, Värend, Njudung and others.
Småland is divided into three counties: North-western Jönköping County, south-western Kronoberg County, and eastern Kalmar County (including Öland).
Jönköping County
* — One of the most well preserved traditional wood towns in Sweden.
* — The biggest city in Småland is located on the shores of lake Vättern. Known as "Sweden's Jerusalem".
* — Known for polkagrisar (peppermint candy) and the Andrée Museum (of a balloon expedition to the North Pole)
* — An industrial city once known for its furniture manufacturing.
* — Known for the morass Store Mosse National Park and the Old West-themed themepark High Chaparral.
* — Known for the morass Store Mosse National Park and the Old West-themed themepark High Chaparral.
Kalmar County
* — Famous for its pop festival.
* — Famous for its medieval castle, where the Kalmar Union was founded in 1397.
* — Centre of "Glasriket" (the realm of glass), Småland's historical glassworks, whereof several are still active today.
* — A coastal town with a nearby archipelago.
* — Home of Astrid Lindgren and seat for the Astrid Lindgren's World theme park.
* — Tjust is a traditional province dominated by the port town of Västervik, known for Lysingsbadet, one of the largest camping and bathing areas in the Nordic countries.
Kronoberg County
* — Seat of Kronoberg County, the episcopal see of the Diocese of Växjö, and home to the main campus of Linnaeus University.
* — Town close to lake Bolmen surrounded by deep forests.
* — The first IKEA store, and birthplace of Carl Linnaeus.
Understand
Småland is a very hilly province, with deep forests, abundance of lakes but with poor and rocky soils. Except for the Baltic coastline, Småland has a continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. Its northern and western parts contain highlands, and have a climate which is more similar to that of northern Sweden than its surroundings.
Due to the limited opportunities for farming, Småland was not united like other Swedish provinces, but was rather divided into several minor political units collectively known as the small lands, and hence the name Småland. When incorporated into Sweden, they were merged into one province.
Until the 17th century Småland was a border province between Sweden and Denmark, and the stage for several wars and civil uprisings. Småland's poor soils have forced waves of emigration, not least during the 19th century, when many inhabitants left for North America. During the 19th century the Free Church movement grew strong in Småland, especially in the area surrounding Jönköping, giving it the nickname "The Swedish Bible belt". In modern times, Småland is known for entrepreneurship, with glass manufacturing as well as the world-famous furniture retailer, IKEA.
The stereotype of the Småland people being frugal, hard-working and pious has to some extent been formed by writers such as Astrid Lindgren (see also Astrid Lindgren tourism) and Vilhelm Moberg.
By plane
In Småland, there are airports at Jönköping, Växjö and Kalmar. International travellers can use the Copenhagen airport and connect by train.
By train
* SJ runs high speed trains between Malmö and Stockholm, some going from Copenhagen. They stop at Nässjö and Alvesta, where there is transfer to local trains.
* SJ also has trains between Gothenburg and Kalmar.
* Öresundståg - Trains from Copenhagen, stopping at Malmö, Lund, Alvesta, Växjö ending in Kalmar.
By bus
FlixBus from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Västervikexpress from Stockholm and Gothenburg.
By train and bus
* Öresundstag — Trains Malmö-Alvesta-Växjö-Kalmar
* Jönköpings Länstrafik — around Jönköping
* Länstrafiken Kronoberg — around Växjö, buses only
* Kalmar Länstrafik — around Kalmar
By car
The larger roads E4 and E22 both head in a north-south direction; E4 through the western part of Småland and E22 by the eastern coastline. The intermediate area lacks major highways but have a web of smaller country roads.
See
* Astrid Lindgren tourism: Astrid Lindgren was one of the world's most successful writers of children's books. Many of her stories are set in or near her native Vimmerby, which has now a theme park: Astrid Lindgrens värld. Some of the film settings can be found nearby.
Do
Småland has deep forests, hard to find anyway closer to the middle of Europe. They have great opportunities for outdoor life. In summer there are several major music festivals; including Emmabodafestivalen, focusing on electronic and indie music, and This is Hultsfred. The southernmost of Swedens large winter ski resorts is Isaberg Mountain Resort next to Hestra when following national road 26 from either Gislaved or Jönköping
Eat
Kroppkakor is a traditional dish, most popular along the eastern Småland coast. They are best described as potato-dumplings, about the size of a tennis ball, with filling made of pork and onion. They are served with lingonberry jam, butter and cream. It is similar to the dish palt, which is popular in Norrland, but contains some other ingredients.
Sleep
The countryside contains many old farmhouses and cabins for sale or rent.
Go next
* Öland, Sweden's second largest island, is just a bridge away from Kalmar.
* Gotland, Sweden's largest island | WIKI |
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John Brown was an avid abolitionist in the 1800s, making abolishing slavery his main goal in life. Throughout John Brown’s years, it can be seen that he had always had a different viewpoint than most and his viewpoint stood until his execution. John Brown was executed because of his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia where he, and 21 men, took over the armory and killed 5 people, keeping several others captive. This essay describes his motivation for the Raid on Harpers Ferry, including his childhood where a reader can see his sympathetic mindset, his adulthood and planning of the raid, and how he was described during the raid. In this essay, there is a different light shed on John Brown’s actions and motivations.
John Brown often wrote letters to correspondents. In one letter to Harry Stearns, Brown writes about his life growing up and how it impacted him. From this source, a reader can see how John Brown’s early life led up to his abolitionist views and how his personality traits as a child lead to his actions as an adult. Brown originally lived in Connecticut, but when he was four years old, his father decided to relocate to Ohio.
When John Brown first arrived in Ohio, he was afraid of the Native Americans that lived there, but later came to befriend them. Brown was curious as a child and chose to watch the Native Americans, where he was able to acquire some of their language. His father learned deer skin dressing from the Native Americans and taught Brown the same skill. A reader can see that John Brown was not discriminatory towards people who are different. Brown embraced the differences, such as language and race, because with differences came learning for him, such as dressing the skins.
When John Brown was six years old, he went to school where he learned basic manners and discipline. Brown was not a scholar, he enjoyed being outdoors where he was free to do as he pleased. Later in life, Brown chose to read older history books and the Bible because they lacked the modern bias of the time. In John Brown’s early years, he placed high sentimental value on little things. Brown was given a marble by a Native American boy and when he lost it, he was devastated. Other periods of mourning came after his pet bobtail squirrel ran away and after his sheep had died. Brown, as a child, is observed to have high emotional attachment to objects and those strong feelings can be carried into adulthood. He is highly emotional in his actions and is not persuaded away from them easily
Brown describes himself as liking the rougher types of play and lying. These personality traits could be shown in his adulthood. Brown’s raid was an aggressive on to most, but to Brown, the massacre was necessary to end things. Although he thought the raid was necessary, Brown despised battle. John’s mother died and his father has to leave for war. It was then that Brown was able to grow as a person, he saw the effects that was had and vowed to never participate, accepting the fines for avoiding the draft instead. This is also when he became prominent in his abolitionist views.
John Brown stayed with a family that had a male slave around his age while his father was away. Brown was treated well whereas the other boy was poorly clothed, slept in poor conditions, and beaten before Brown’s eyes. “This brought John to reflect on the wretched, hopeless condition, of Fatherless and Motherless slave children: for such children have neither Fathers or Mothers to protect, & provide for them.” Brown realized at an early age that slaves, mostly child slaves, had no voice to stop the madness. They had no one to look out for them, so John wanted to take it upon himself to fight. After all, the child slaves were comparable to Brown; no father or mother for protection.
John Brown had many correspondents over the years to gain followers in the antislavery movement, one of those men being Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave that played a major role in the abolitionist movement because of his life devotion to truth and justice during the slavery period. John Brown and Douglass had met in 1847, but continued correspondence until Brown was executed.
They were true friends in constant contact when they were in the same towns, and often Brown stayed with Douglass by paying a fee for living with him. They talked a lot about John Brown’s plan of action to have slaves freed to the border states. One line out of this recollection by Douglass stands out. “They were to be well armed, but were to avoid battle or violence, unless compelled by pursuit or in self-defense.” This remark is interesting because it shows that John Brown is not a man looking for violence, just justice for slaves. Many times Brown is referred to as a murderer, heartless and cruel. How could a man seen as vicious devise a plan avoiding bloodshed?
Throughout this entire selection, Frederick Douglass talks highly of Brown, never describing malicious intent. Brown goes on to tell how the plan was failing because of the lack of supplies, people, and funds. Through this, however, Brown was able to acquire men to fight on his side. At one point, Brown stayed at Douglass’ house and wrote letters to men and drafted a new constitution that he wanted his men to sign. Douglass recounts Brown devising a plan of attack on Harpers Ferry in another conversation.
Douglass thought Brown’s plan was a suicide mission, but was not able to change his mind about it. Brown wanted the battle against slavery to end at any cost, including him and his men’s lives. Douglass decided that he would not go with Brown to the raid, knowing that it would end by death in battle or execution. This was the last conversation between John Brown and Frederick Douglass.
The raid on Harpers Ferry occurred on October 18, 1859. Brown’s plan was to gain control over the armory that was there and later arm the slave of the town to help them take over. During the raid, John Brown had captured several men. One of those men, John E. P. Daingerfield, wrote what happened to him on the night of the raid, and wrote interesting viewpoints of John Brown during the raid.
Daingerfield started by describing how he was captured. When men with weapons approached him, he insisted that he would leave to go home, but he was inevitably taken prisoner. The prisoners were kept together in the engine room and allowed to converse with “Captain John Smith,” which is what the men referred to Brown as. John Brown and his men had captured the armory, leaving the townspeople defenseless. As the townspeople attempted to attack, Brown’s men shot back at them, but not a single prisoner was harmed. Daingerfield talked to Brown in the nighttime when the fire ceased and said, “I found him as brave as a man could be, and sensible upon all subjects except slavery.” The lack of sensibility talked about comes from Brown’s willingness to die over slavery.
Daingerfield talks about Brown telling his men not to shoot at unarmed men. Brown’s intention of the raid was not to slaughter people in the town, but gain means to fight for the abolitionist cause. Brown admitted to treason against the United States, which made some of his men retract their support. Brown, throughout all of the questioning by Daingerfield and the officers attacking him, was calm in his responses. This is what leads people to believe he was a cold-hearted murderer, but his calmness came from his will to end slavery. Brown accepted the consequences that he knew were coming, never faltering from his judgement or plan.
Later in the battle, the armory was infiltrated and Brown was struck several times by a sword. He took several blows to the head, but managed to live and be captured and taken to jail. During his trial, Daingerfield was a witness and talked about Brown’s actions during the trial. “I have never seen any man display more courage and fortitude than John Brown showed under the trying circumstances in which he was placed.” Brown did not fight back after his sons being killed, he did not harm the men of power of which he held prisoner, and he stood up for what he believed in.
John Brown was an abolitionist man who seized the Harpers Ferry armory that ended in five people’s deaths, several captives and death of his own men, and the execution of himself. Brown was a sentimental man who, after witnessing mistreatment of slaves as a young man, grew to lead a fight for the abolitionist cause. John Brown is seen in people’s eyes as an aggressive murderer with psychological issues leading to the death of innocent men. Through this essay, he is portrayed in the eyes of other people. Brown was aggressive, but aggressive in the fight for equality of people and the death of the men were only of those attacking his men. Brown did not have psychological issues, he merely believed in his own plan in a battle that was ultimately going to end in bloodshed of him and his men. John Brown was a man fighting for a cause that was not his own, but that he made his priority in life.
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Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament
The Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the Sun Belt Conference. The winner of the tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. After Coastal Carolina University hosts the competition in Conway, South Carolina, in 2019, the tournament will move to a neutral site, Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, AL, from 2020 to 2024.
Tournament
The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is a ten team double-elimination tournament held annually at various sites in the Sun Belt Conference region. The bottom four seeds play a one round single elimination play in game. The six teams with the best conference record at the end of the regular season earn automatic berths in the tournament. After the play-in round, the remaining eight teams will play 2 four team double-elimination brackets with a single elimination championship game between the bracket winners. The division winner with the best conference record will be seeded #1 and will play the lowest remaining seed from the play-in round. The winner of the other division will receive the #2 seed (regardless of overall conference ranking) and will play the higher seeded play-in game winner. The champion of the competition receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
History
The tournament started in 1978 as a four team double-elimination tournament.
In 1979 the tournament expanded to include six teams but still remained double-elimination.
The tournament expanded again in 1980 and included seven teams.
In 1981 the conference was divided into divisions and the top two teams in each division made the tournament, returning it to a four team double-elimination format. It remained that way through 1985.
In 1986 the conference retained the division format but expanded the tournament to include the top four teams in each division, making the tournament an eight team double-elimination tournament.
In 1987, the conference returned to the a four team double-elimination format.
The tournament format was changed again in 1988 when it expanded to include the top three teams in each division, now making it a six team double-elimination tournament. In 1995, the conference dropped the division format but kept the tournament format as a six team double-elimination tournament through 1998.
In 1999, the tournament expanded to an eight team double-elimination format. The format was a double bracket round robin in 2011-2012.
In 2017, the Conference expanded the field to 10 teams, with the bottom four seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round before the standard eight team double-elimination bracket.
By school
As of July 1, 2022, there are 14 schools in the conference that competes in baseball. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Wikiatholon/Rules
Welcome to Wikipedia:Wikiatholon/Rules. The premise of this competition is for Wikipedians to showcase their skills over five categories, in much the same way that athletes compete in a Pentathlon.
Points system
There are no bonus points in the Wikiatholon. Every DYK, GA, FA, and everything else that earns participant's points are awarded equally.
Featured articles
* You must declare your Wikiatholon participation if you review another participant's FAC.
Featured pictures
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Featured portals
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Did you know?
* Articles with at least 5kb (that is, 5120 bytes) "readable prose size", whether expansions or new articles, are worth 2 points.
* Points are granted after the article has actually been featured on the main page. Merely being approved by a reviewer does qualify the entry. If a hook is being held for a specific date after the end of the round and you need to claim the points, talk to the judges.
* Articles are eligible for DYK through being newly created, newly expanded fivefold, or newly promoted to GA status. We follow the same rules as DYK.
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* Points are earned for performing peer reviews, not for responding to reviewers' concerns or nominating articles for peer review.
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Etymology
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Dependency on de novo protein synthesis and proteomic changes during metamorphosis of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina
Yue Him Wong, Shawn M Arellano, Huoming Zhang, Timothy Ravasi, Pei-Yuan Qian
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
16 Scopus citations
Abstract
Background: Metamorphosis in the bryozoan Bugula neritina (Linne) includes an initial phase of rapid morphological rearrangement followed by a gradual phase of morphogenesis. We hypothesized that the first phase may be independent of de novo synthesis of proteins and, instead, involves post-translational modifications of existing proteins, providing a simple mechanism to quickly initiate metamorphosis. To test our hypothesis, we challenged B. neritina larvae with transcription and translation inhibitors. Furthermore, we employed 2D gel electrophoresis to characterize changes in the phosphoproteome and proteome during early metamorphosis. Differentially expressed proteins were identified by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and their gene expression patterns were profiled using semi-quantitative real time PCR.Results: When larvae were incubated with transcription and translation inhibitors, metamorphosis initiated through the first phase but did not complete. We found a significant down-regulation of 60 protein spots and the percentage of phosphoprotein spots decreased from 15% in the larval stage to12% during early metamorphosis. Two proteins--the mitochondrial processing peptidase beta subunit and severin--were abundantly expressed and phosphorylated in the larval stage, but down-regulated during metamorphosis. MPPbeta and severin were also down-regulated on the gene expression level.Conclusions: The initial morphogenetic changes that led to attachment of B. neritina did not depend on de novo protein synthesis, but the subsequent gradual morphogenesis did. This is the first time that the mitochondrial processing peptidase beta subunit or severin have been shown to be down-regulated on both gene and protein expression levels during the metamorphosis of B. neritina. Future studies employing immunohistochemistry to reveal the expression locality of these two proteins during metamorphosis should provide further evidence of the involvement of these two proteins in the morphogenetic rearrangement of B. neritina. 2010 Wong et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)25
JournalProteome Science
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 25 2010
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Biochemistry
• Molecular Biology
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Homopolar motor
A homopolar motor is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles, the conductors of which always cut unidirectional lines of magnetic flux by rotating a conductor around a fixed axis so that the conductor is at right angles to a static magnetic field. The resulting force being continuous in one direction, the homopolar motor needs no commutator but still requires slip rings. The name homopolar indicates that the electrical polarity of the conductor and the magnetic field poles do not change (i.e., that it does not require commutation).
History
The homopolar motor was the first electrical motor to be built. Its operation was demonstrated by Michael Faraday in 1821 at the Royal Institution in London.
In 1821, soon after the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Humphry Davy and British scientist William Hyde Wollaston tried, but failed, to design an electric motor. Faraday, having been challenged by Davy as a joke, went on to build two devices to produce what he called "electromagnetic rotation". One of these, now known as the homopolar motor, caused a continuous circular motion that was engendered by the circular magnetic force around a wire that extended into a pool of mercury wherein was placed a magnet. The wire would then rotate around the magnet if supplied with current from a chemical battery. These experiments and inventions formed the foundation of modern electromagnetic technology. In his excitement, Faraday published results. This strained his mentor relationship with Davy, due to his mentor's jealousy of Faraday's achievement, and is the reason for Faraday’s assignment to other activities, which consequently prevented his involvement in electromagnetic research for several years.
B. G. Lamme described in 1913 a homopolar machine rated 2,000 kW, 260 V, 7,700 A and 1,200 rpm with 16 slip rings operating at a peripheral velocity of 67 m/s. A unipolar generator rated 1,125 kW, 7.5 V 150,000 A, 514 rpm built in 1934 was installed in a U.S. steel mill for pipe welding purposes.
Principle of operation
The homopolar motor is driven by the Lorentz force. A conductor with a current flowing through it when placed in a magnetic field which is perpendicular to the current feels a force in the direction perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the current. This force provides a torque around the axis of rotation. Because the axis of rotation is parallel to the magnetic field, and the opposing magnetic fields do not change polarity, no commutation is required for the conductor to keep turning. This simplicity is most readily achieved with single turn designs, which makes homopolar motors unsuitable for most practical applications.
Like most electro-mechanical machines, a homopolar motor is reversible: if the conductor is turned mechanically, then it will operate as a homopolar generator, producing a direct current voltage between the two terminals of the conductor. The direct current produced is an effect of the homopolar nature of the design. Homopolar generators (HPGs) were extensively researched in the late 20th century as low voltage but very high current DC power supplies and have achieved some success powering experimental railguns.
Building a simple homopolar motor
A homopolar motor is very easy to build. A permanent magnet is used to provide the external magnetic field in which the conductor will turn, and a battery causes a current to flow along a conducting wire. It is not necessary for the magnet to move, or even to be in contact with the rest of the motor; its sole purpose is to provide a magnetic field that will interact with the magnetic field induced by the current in the wire. One can attach the magnet to the battery and allow the conducting wire to rotate freely while closing the electric circuit by touching both the top of the battery and the magnet attached to the bottom of the battery. The wire and the battery may become hot if operated continuously.
Examples
* Railgun
* Ball bearing motor
* Magnet | WIKI |
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The couple, both doctors, met while studying for final exams in college.
Upon Closer Examination, It’s Love
Dr. Simriti Kaur Chaudhry, the daughter of Dr. Harvinder K. Chaudhry and Dr. Jairaj S. Chaudhry of Chester, N.Y., was married Saturday to Dr. Neeraj Hasmukhlal Panchal, the son of Pravina H. Panchal and Hasmukhlal G. Panchal of Oakdale, Calif., at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Pandit Nikhil N. Trivedi, a Hindu priest, performed a Hindu ceremony. On Friday, Giani Dildar Singh, a Sikh priest, presided at a Sikh ceremony at the home of the bride’s family. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Thomas Twisden
Thomas Twisden or Twysden may refer to:
* Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, (1602–1683), English lawyer, judge and politician
* Sir Thomas Twisden, 3rd Baronet (1668–1728), British politician and lawyer | WIKI |
Restores the states of x87 FPU, MMX, XMM, YMM, and MXCSR registers from memory.
Syntax
extern void _xrstor64(void *mem, unsigned __int64 rstor_mask);
extern void _xrstors64(const void *mem, unsigned __int64 rstor_mask);
Arguments
mem
A memory reference to FXSAVE area. The 512-bytes memory addressed by the reference must be 16-bytes aligned.
rstor_mask
A bit mask specifying the extended states to be restored.
Description
Restores the states of x87 FPU, MMX, XMM, YMM, and MXCSR registers from memory. The xrstor64 intrinsic maps to XRSTOR64 instruction, and the xrstors64 intrinsic maps to XRSTORS64 instruction. See the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual for information on how the instructions differ.
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YouTube shooter was vegan blogger who accused site of discrimination
An Iranian-born woman who blogged about veganism had railed online about dictatorship and accused YouTube of limiting viewers of her videos before opening fire at its California corporate headquarters, wounding three people and killing herself .
San Bruno police on Wednesday were investigating why Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, of San Diego, opened fire with a handgun on Tuesday at the company owned by Alphabet 's Google. A review of her postings online in Persian and English showed glimpses of resentment and anger at the video-sharing company.
"BE AWARE! Dictatorships exist in all countries. But with different tactics. They care only for short term profits," she wrote on a website called NasimeSabz.com, which translates as "Green Breeze" from Persian.
"I am being discriminated. I am being filtered on YouTube. I am not the only one," Aghdam said in an English language video on YouTube before her channel was deleted on Tuesday.
A man was in critical condition and two women were seriously wounded in the attack at an outdoor patio at YouTube's Silicon Valley headquarters, which employ about 2,000 people. Police said Aghdam seemed to have chosen victims at random.
The shooting came in the midst of a particularly intense phase of the United States' long-running debate on gun rights, following the killing of 17 students and educators at a Florida high school in February. While mass shootings have become a regular occurrence in the United States, they are rarely carried out by women.
Writing in Persian on her Instagram account, Aghdam said she was born in the Iranian city of Urmiah and that she was not planning to return to Iran.
"I think I am doing a great job," she wrote. "I have never fallen in love and have never got married. I have no physical and psychological diseases. But I live on a planet that is full of injustice and diseases."
Warning from family Californian media reported that Aghdam's family had warned authorities that she could target YouTube prior to the shooting. The San Jose Mercury News Quote: d her father, Ismail Aghdam, as saying he had told police that she might go to YouTube's headquarters because she "hated" the company.
Efforts to reach her relatives by phone were unsuccessful.
Her family in Southern California recently reported her missing because she had not been answering her phone for two days, police said.
At one point Tuesday, Mountain View, California, police found her sleeping in her car and called her family to say everything was under control, hours before she walked onto the company grounds and opened fire.
A survivor of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Parkland, Florida, weighed in on the YouTube incident on Wednesday.
"The YouTube HQ shooting is proof that this is NOT just schools," Jaclyn Corin said on Twitter Wednesday. "Our country has a GUN problem. End of story."
Gun rights advocates have argued that more armed guards and citizens could prevent mass shootings.
YouTube has long faced complaints about alleged censorship on its site, and says it attempts to balance its mission of fostering free speech while still providing an appropriate and lawful environment for users.
In some cases involving videos with sensitive content, YouTube has allowed the videos to stay online but cut off the ability for their publishers to share in advertising revenue.
Criticisms from video makers that YouTube is too restrictive about which users can participate in revenue sharing swelled last year as the company imposed new restrictions. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Work with data files in Azure Notebook projects
Data is the lifeblood of many Jupyter notebooks, especially notebooks used for data science. With Azure Notebooks, you can easily import from a variety of sources into a project, and then use that data from notebooks. You can also have notebooks generate data that's stored in the project, which you can then download for use elsewhere.
The Data menu within a running notebook also provides Upload and Download commands, which work with files in the project as well as temporary files for the current notebook session.
You can also use code within a notebook to access a variety of data sources directly, including files within a project. You can also access arbitrary data by using commands in a code cell. Because such data is stored in variables within the notebook session, it won't be saved in the project unless you use code to specifically generate project files.
Working with code in data is best experienced within a running notebook itself: for that purpose, refer to the Getting to your data in Azure Notebooks sample notebook.
The remainder of this article provides details on project-level file operations.
Import data
You can bring files into a project from the project dashboard, or within a running notebook using either the Data menu or a command such as curl.
Import files from the project dashboard
1. In the project, navigate to the folder where you want to import the files.
2. Select the Upload command, then either From URL or From computer and project the necessary details for the data you want to import:
• From URL: Enter the source address in the File URL field and the filename to assign to the notebook in your project in the File Name field. Then select + Add File to add the URL to the upload list. Repeat the process for any additional URLs, then select Done.
Upload from URL popup
• From computer: Drag and drop files into the popup, or select Choose Files, then browse to and select the data files you want to import. You can drop or choose any number of files, of any type and format because it's up to the code in the notebook to open the file and parse its data.
Upload from computer popup
3. Once imported, files appear on the project dashboard and can be accessed within notebook code using relative pathnames to the containing folder.
Import files from the File menu in a notebook
1. Within a running notebook, select the File > Upload command:
File Upload menu command within a notebook
2. In the dialog box that opens, navigate to and select the files you want to upload. You can select any number of files of any type. Select Open when done.
3. In the Upload status popup that appears, select a Destination Folder from the drop-down list:
• Session folder (~/ ): Uploads files into the current notebook session but doesn't create files in the project. The session folder is a peer to the project folder, but doesn't persist after the session ends. To access session files in code, prefix the filenames with the relative path ../.
Using the session folder is helpful for experimentation and avoids cluttering the project with files you may or may not need on a long-term basis. You can also upload files to the session folder that have identical names to files in the project without causing conflicts and without having to rename the files. For example, say you have one version of data.csv in the project already, but want to experiment with a different version of data.csv. By uploading the file into the session folder, you can run the notebook using data in the uploaded file (referring to it in code using ../data.csv) rather than the data in the project's file.
• Project folder (/project): uploads files into the project where they can be accessed using relative pathnames in code. Uploading a file to this folder is the same as uploading a file on the project dashboard. The file is saved with the project and is available in later sessions.
Uploading fails if you try to upload a file with the same name as one that already exists in the project. To overwrite a file, upload the new file from the project dashboard instead, which gives you the option to overwrite.
4. Select Start Upload to complete the process.
Create or import files using commands
You can use commands within a terminal or within a Python code cell to create files within both the project and session folders. For example, commands like curl and wget download files from the Internet directly.
To download files in the terminal, select the Terminal command on the project dashboard, then enter suitable commands:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petroleum101/figures/db46e7f48b8aab67a0dfe31696f6071fb7a84f1e/oil_price/oil_price.csv -o oil_price.csv
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petroleum101/figures/db46e7f48b8aab67a0dfe31696f6071fb7a84f1e/oil_price/oil_price.csv -o oil_price.csv
When using a Python code cell in a notebook, prefix the commands with !.
The project folder is the default folder, so specifying a destination filename like oil_price.csv creates the file in the project. To create a session file, prefix the name with ../ as in ../oil_price.csv.
Create files in code
When using code that creates a file, such as the pandas write_csv function, pathnames are always relative to the project folder. Using ../ creates a session file that's discarded when the notebook is halted and closed.
Export files
You can export data from the project dashboard or from within a notebook.
Export files from the project dashboard
On the project dashboard, right-click a file and select Download:
Download command on project item context menu
You can also select a file and use the Download command (keyboard shortcut: d) on the dashboard:
Download toolbar command on project dashboard
Export files from the Data menu in a notebook
1. Select the File > Download menu command:
Data Download menu command within a notebook
2. A popup appears that shows the folders in the session; the project folder contains the project files:
Data Download command popup in which you select files and folders
3. Select the boxes to the left of the files and folders you want to download, then select Download Selected.
4. The notebook prepares a single .zip file containing the selected files, which you then save as you normally do from your browser. The notebook creates a .zip file even when you download a single file.
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Figure 1: The SCANT method. A. Fine needle aspirates are taken in the clinic, subjected to repeated barcoding and imaging which allows for detailed analysis of sparse patient samples. B. This technology is enabled by novel barcoded antibodies which allow for repeated application of antibodies followed by removal of the fluorophore component signaled the location of each individual antibody/protein on the sample.
In the course of treating cancer, oncologists are keenly interested in understanding the molecular features of their patients’ tumors: to know what specific proteins are present, which growth-promoting pathways are active, and therefore what the optimal treatment(s) for each patient might be.
One common method of obtaining samples from patients tumors is called a fine needle aspirate (Figure 1A), where a thin needle is inserted into the biopsy site and tumor cells are removed for analysis. This method has several advantages: firstly, due to the small size of the needle it subjects the patient to less pain and less medical risk, secondly, it can more easily be performed in an outpatient setting and thirdly, results from the biopsy can typically be more rapidly obtained.
In an effort to further expand the usefulness of fine needle aspirates beyond single protein assays, CSB scientists have developed an approach called “SCANT”, which uses antibody-DNA conjugates to efficiently “cycle” through the detection of multiple proteins of interest, dramatically expanding the number of targets that can be analyzed from a single fine needle aspirate (Figure 1). With this method, it is possible to obtain both more information from patient samples with relatively few cells, as well as to probe cancer pathways in far greater depth than currently occurs for routine biopsy samples in the clinic.
Figure 2: Single Cell Analysis Workflow for patient biopsy samples. Tumor cells from the biopsy are gently separated into single cell clusters and then transferred onto glass slides and prepared for SCANT cyclic imaging. Following staining, a neural-network artificial intelligence (A.I.) algorithm identifies both host cells and tumor cells, including their boundaries, allowing measurement of the key target proteins across multiple cycles of imaging.
Utilizing this technology, the team from CSB analyzed the PI3-Kinase (PI3K) pathway (a growth-promoting signal commonly found to be important in many cancers) in patients who were participating in clinical trial of a new breast cancer combination therapy that included a PI3K-inhibitor. Using the SCANT method, preliminary results in a small group of patients fine needle aspirates showed that many of the key signaling proteins expected to be altered from treatment indeed had measurable differences detected by SCANT. These preliminary results provide a rationale for further testing of the method in clinical trials and with potentially other pathways. These tools offer the hope of transforming fine needle aspirates into a key tool for guiding the selection and measuring the response of patients to targeted treatments in cancer therapy.
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Giedt RJ, Pathania D, Carlson JCT, McFarland PJ, Del Castillo AF, Juric D, Weissleder R
Single-cell barcode analysis provides a rapid readout of cellular signaling pathways in clinical specimens
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Nose Piercing
Nose piercing is a common practice in many cultures for various reasons. For some cultures, this practice is simply for ornament, while for others it is for religious practices. Initially in America, this practice was for subcultures and was seen to be associated with minority youth. In the 1990's, nose piercings were specifically associated with ethnic minorities. Today, this practice has spread beyond this group in America and worldwide it continues to be used for a myriad of reasons. Despite being widespread, this piercing is still associated with negative connotations. For example, in a survey done in the hospitality industry, 81% of hiring managers stated that piercings and tattoos affect their perception of the candidate negatively.
Pre-Columbian
Nose piercing can be dated through Pre-Columbian and colonial times throughout North and South America. Numerous status ceremonies are carved into the North Temple of the Great Ballcourt at Chichin Itza. One of these processions is a nose piercing ceremony that is depicted on the North Temple vault. Rather than depicting sacrifice, the common theme of the temple's carvings, the central figure is shown aiming what most likely is a bone awl to pierce the figure's nose. The ritual of the nostril piercing signified the elevated status of this figure. His place in society is symbolized by his nose piercing. Similarly, nose piercing signified elevated status in Colonial Highland Maya. The two prominent lords, Ajpop and the Ajpop K'ama, of the K'iche were pierced through the nose at the pinnacle of an elaborate ceremony. Similar to a crowning of a king, the nose piercing was to show their new found leadership of the K'iche. In Yucatan, explorers Oviedo y Valdes, Herrera y Tordesillas, Diego de Landa, and Jeronimo de Aguilar all noted different nose piercings that they observed in Mayans and other cultures in Yucatan in general. They reported that different stones could have different meaning within each civilization. In addition, they believed the different placement and size and shape of beads could denote the specific society the person came from. The Toltecs were believed to have piercings through the ala of the nose that was ordained with a bead. While the Mayans pierced through the septum and consisted of an oblong bead rather than a spherical.
Central Australia
In Central Australia, nose piercing was central to the development of a boy to a man. The Arunta's, an aboriginal tribe in Central Australia, rite of passage for a boy. The rite of passage began with dancing ceremonies and developed into the boy moving to the men's camp and learning to hunt. The boys are usually between the ages of eleven and thirteen. The women at first throw the boy into the air and then is handed the men to throw him into the air to symbolize the boy belonging to the men from then on after. The boy learns to hunt larger animals that requires a tactful skill set that was not needed for smaller game. After some time, the boy's nasal septum was pierced and inserted with a bone by his father or grandfather to flatten his nose according to aesthetics. Likewise, girls' symbol of coming of age was a nose piercing, but was done by her husband after marriage. Culturally, the piercings signified the social status of the individual and their right to access other ceremonies. For women, it displayed their ability to acquire a husband. For the husband it displayed is ownership and right to his wife. For men, it presented the boy now as a man and his place is society with men. He no longer belonged to the children and the women who raised him. In addition, he now had the right to ceremonies such as circumcision and subincision and an elevated position in society. | WIKI |
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simply wondering, in his own heart, how many of these doomed men had wives and children, and whether they would feel as he did about leaving them. It is to be confessed, too, that the naïve, off-hand information that he was to be thrown into jail by no means produced an agreeable impression on a poor fellow who had always prided himself on a strictly honest and upright course of life. Yes, Tom, we must confess it, was rather proud of his honesty, poor fellow, not having very much else to be proud of;—if he had belonged to some of the higher walks of society, he, perhaps, would never have been reduced to such straits. However, the day wore on, and the evening saw Haley and Tom comfortably accommodated in Washington,—the one in a tavern, and the other in a jail.
About eleven o'clock the next day, a mixed throng was gathered around the court-house steps,—smoking, chewing spitting, swearing, and conversing, according to their respective tastes and turns,—waiting for the auction to commence. The men and women to be sold sat in a group apart, talking in a low tone to each other. The woman who had been advertised by the name of Hagar was a regular African in feature and figure. She might have been sixty, but was older than that by hard work and disease, was partially blind, and somewhat crippled with rheumatism. By her side stood her only remaining son, Albert, a bright-looking little fellow of fourteen years. The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market. The mother held on to him with both her shaking hands, and eyed with intense trepidation every one who walked up to examine him.
"Don't be feard, Aunt Hagar," said the oldest of the men, "I spoke to Mas'r Thomas 'bout it, and he thought he might manage to sell you in a lot both together." | WIKI |
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Removal of salt, as from water or soil. Also known as desalting.
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The power plant and the desalinisation plant have polluted the air and the water.
We used to rely on groundwater, but because of the drought, we are going with desalinisation and we have a project under construction to get water to Nizwa and its interior.
Other opportunities included the massive upgrade of the Mass Rapid Transit System (which will double in size in the next 10 years), water desalinisation, a new 3000-seat theatre complex and sewerage.
Desalinisation and activated sludge process technologies are also discussed at length.
As a result, the Government has been able to defer the first stage of a costly desalinisation plant and an aquifer storage and recovery scheme.
Ce rassemblement qui se tiendra du 20 au 23 mars 2014 a , reunira des decideurs africains qui prendront part a des rencontres et des conferences, autour de 5 thematiques centrales, a savoir : le diagnostic et perspectives de la strategie de l'eau, la desalinisation de l'eau de mer, la gestion et traitement des eaux usees (non conventionnelles), la collecte et traitement des eaux pluviales et, enfin, l'introduction des energies renouvelables dans les systemes d'irrigationCet imposant evenement, dont le choix de l'invite d'honneur est porte sur les Emirats Arabes Unis (EAU), est ouvert au grand public.
Analysts say Saudi Arabia plans to boost renewable energy use as a way to pare back on oil consumption used for domestic desalinisation and power plants, potentially saving 523,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day over the next 20 years. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
May 20, 2018
• What we have here, is a failure to communicate…
Capturing Form Submissions – Part 1
Something that as frustrated me for some time is the fact that to capture form posts in PHP, we have to rely on the the POST or GET superglobals and how much a black hole those variables seem to be. Well, black hole isn’t really the best description, as we know where the data is coming from (hopefully) and what it’s going to be (should), but it just seems like I just can’t get a handle on a way that is easy to manage. Really, the longer I develop, the more I hate dislike arrays in general (strange statement for someone that uses a TON of them and HATES the fact that C# can’t do associative arrays.)
However, yesterday I stumbled upon an idea that might make like much easier and, although, it’s not a perfect solution, I think I found a good start:
So the idea is to create a data object that has all the possible post submission variables and then have a function designed to throw an exception if something is received that is not expected.
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Opipramol
Opipramol, sold under the brand name Insidon among others, is an anxiolytic and tricyclic antidepressant that is used throughout Europe. Despite chemically being a tricyclic dibenzazepine (iminostilbene) derivative similar to imipramine, opipramol is not a monoamine reuptake inhibitor like most other tricyclic antidepressants, and instead, uniquely among antidepressants, acts primarily as a SIGMAR1 agonist. It was developed by Schindler and Blattner in 1961.
Medical uses
Opipramol is typically used in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and somatoform disorders. Preliminary studies suggest that opipramol shows potential clinical significance in the treatment of severe sleep bruxism.
Contraindications
* In patients with hypersensitivity to opipramol or another component of the formulation
* Acute alcohol, sedative, analgesic, and antidepressant intoxications
* Acute urinary retention
* Acute delirium
* Untreated narrow-angle glaucoma
* Benign prostatic hyperplasia with residual urinary retention
* Paralytic ileus
* Pre-existing higher-grade atrioventricular blockages or diffuse supraventricular or ventricular stimulus conduction disturbances
* Combination with monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
Pregnancy and lactation
Experimental animal studies did not indicate injurious effects of opipramol on the embryonic development or fertility. Opipramol should only be prescribed during pregnancy, particularly in the first trimester, for compelling indication. It should not be used during lactation and breastfeeding, since it passes into breast milk in small quantities.
Side effects
Frequently (≥1% to <10%) reported adverse reactions with opipramol, especially at the beginning of the treatment, include fatigue, dry mouth, blocked nose, hypotension, and orthostatic dysregulation.
Adverse reactions reported occasionally (≥0.1% to <1%) include dizziness, stupor, micturition disturbances, vigilance, accommodation disturbances, tremor, weight gain, thirst, allergic skin reactions (rash, urticaria), abnormal ejaculation, erectile impotence, constipation, transient increases in liver enzymes, tachycardia, and palpitations.
Rarely (≥0.01% to <0.1%) reported adverse reactions include excitation, headache, paresthesia especially in elderly patients, restlessness, sweating, sleep disturbances, edema, galactorrhea, urine blockage, nausea and vomiting, fever, collapse conditions, stimulation conducting disturbances, intensification of present heart insufficiency, blood profile changes particularly leukopenia, confusion, delirium, stomach complaints, taste disturbance, and paralytic ileus especially with sudden discontinuation of a longer-term high-dose therapy.
Very rarely (<0.01%) reported adverse reactions include seizures, motor disorders (akathisia, dyskinesia, ataxia), polyneuropathy, glaucoma, anxiety, hair loss, agranulocytosis, severe liver dysfunction after long-term treatment, jaundice, and chronic liver damage.
It could also cause headache.
Overdose
Symptoms of intoxication from overdose include drowsiness, insomnia, stupor, agitation, coma, transient confusion, increased anxiety, ataxia, convulsions, oliguria, anuria, tachycardia or bradycardia, arrhythmia, AV block, hypotension, shock, respiratory depression, and, rarely, cardiac arrest.
Since no antidote for tricyclic antidepressant overdose is known, its treatment remains largely supportive. Removal of the drug should be facilitated by vomiting or gastric lavage. Cardiovascular function should be monitored continuously for at least 48 hours. Arrhythmias should be treated on a case-by-case basis with an appropriate pacemaker and correction of metabolic irregularities, particularly electrolyte imbalances. Respiratory failure should be managed by intubation and artificial respiration. Convulsions should be managed with anticonvulsants (typically diazepam), while monitoring for any worsening in CNS depression. Hypotension can be treated by assuming the corresponding recovery position, by increasing plasma volume with saline infusions, or by pressors, such as adrenaline or dobutamine.
Interactions
Opipramol can be co-prescribed with other psychiatric drugs, such as antidepressants, anxiolytics and antipsychotics, in which case it can interact with them. Most problematic interactions are generally additive or synergistic, such that, when drugs are combined, their effects intensify, which usually manifests as an increase in side effects, but can also be dangerous, depending on the drugs involved.
While opipramol is not a monoamine reuptake inhibitor, any irreversible MAOIs should still be discontinued at least 14 days before treatment. Opipramol can compete with other TCAs, beta blockers, antiarrhythmics (of class 1c) and other drugs for microsomal enzymes, which can lead to slower metabolism and higher plasma concentrations of these drugs. Co-administration of antipsychotics (e.g., haloperidol, risperidone) can increase the plasma concentration of opipramol. Barbiturates and anticonvulsants, on the other hand, can reduce the plasma concentration of opipramol and thereby weaken its therapeutic effect.
Pharmacodynamics
Opipramol acts as a high affinity sigma receptor agonist, primarily of the σ1 subtype, but also of the σ2 subtype with lower affinity. In one study of σ1 receptor ligands that also included haloperidol, pentazocine, (+)-3-PPP, ditolylguanidine, dextromethorphan, SKF-10,047 ((±)-alazocine), ifenprodil, progesterone, and others, opipramol showed the highest affinity (Ki = 0.2–0.3) for the guinea pig σ1 receptor of all the tested ligands except haloperidol, which it was approximately equipotent with. The sigma receptor agonism of opipramol is thought to be responsible for its therapeutic benefits against anxiety and depression.
Unlike other TCAs, opipramol does not inhibit the reuptake of serotonin or norepinephrine. However, it does act as a high affinity antagonist of the histamine H1 receptor and is a low to moderate affinity antagonist of the dopamine D2, serotonin 5-HT2, and α1-adrenergic receptors. H1 receptor antagonism accounts for its antihistamine effects and associated sedative side effects. In contrast to other TCAs, opipramol has very low affinity for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors and virtually no anticholinergic effects.
Sigma receptors are a set of proteins located in the endoplasmic reticulum. σ1 receptors play key role in potentiating intracellular calcium mobilization thereby acting as sensor or modulator of calcium signaling. Occupancy of σ1 receptors by agonists causes translocation of the receptor from endoplasmic reticulum to peripheral areas (membranes) where the σ1 receptors cause neurotransmitter release. Opipramol is said to have a biphasic action, with prompt initial improvement of tension, anxiety, and insomnia followed by improved mood later. Hence, it is an anxiolytic with an antidepressant component. After sub-chronic treatment with opipramol, σ2 receptors are significantly downregulated but σ1 receptors are not.
Pharmacokinetics
Opipramol is rapidly and completely absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. The bioavailability of opipramol amounts to 94%. After single oral administration of 50 mg, the peak plasma concentration of the drug is reached after 3.3 hours and amounts to 15.6 ng/mL. After single oral administration of 100 mg the maximum plasma concentration is reached after 3 hours and amounts to 33.2 ng/mL. Therapeutic concentrations of opipramol range from 140 to 550 nmol/L. The plasma protein binding amounts to approximately 91% and the volume of distribution is approximately 10 L/kg. Opipramol is partially metabolized in the liver to deshydroxyethylopipramol. Metabolism occurs through the CYP2D6 isoenzyme. Its terminal half-life in plasma is 6–11 hours. About 70% is eliminated in urine with 10% unaltered. The remaining portion is eliminated through feces.
History
Opipramol was developed by Geigy. It first appeared in the literature in 1952 and was patented in 1961. The drug was first introduced for use in medicine in 1961. Opipramol was one of the first TCAs to be introduced, with imipramine marketed in the 1950s and amitriptyline marketed in 1961.
Generic names
Opipramol is the English, German, French, and Spanish generic name of the drug and its INN, BAN, and DCF, while opipramol hydrochloride is its USAN, BANM, and JAN. Its generic name in Italian and its DCIT is opipramolo and in Latin is opipramolum.
Brand names
Opipramol is marketed under the brand names Deprenil, Dinsidon, Ensidon, Insidon, Insomin, Inzeton, Nisidana, Opipram, Opramol, Oprimol, Pramolan, and Sympramol among others. | WIKI |
Stratton, Administrator, et al. v. Wilson.
(Decided May 9, 1916.)
Appeal from Oldham. Circuit Court.
1. Husband and Wife — Antenuptial Contract — Alimony—Public Policy. — An antenuptial contract providing for the payment of alimony upon separation and obtaining á divorce by the parties contemplating marriage, is against public policy and void.
2. Contracts — What Contracts Courts Will Not Enforce. — If the consideration for a contract be partly legal and partly illegal, the courts will not enforce a promise based upon it, as the illegal part of the consideration vitiates the entire contract and renders it unenforceable; but if several promises, some of which are legal and some illegal, be all based upon one entire consideration which is legal, the law will enforce the legal promise while dej nying relief in proceedings to enforce the illegal promises.
3. Husband and Wife — Antenuptial Contract. — Marriage is the primary consideration for promises made in an antenuptial contract, and when some of such promises are legal while others are illegal, the former will be enforced regardless of the illegality of the latter.
4. Husband and Wife — Antenuptial Contract. — Where in an ante-nuptial contract it was stipulated that the prospective wife should be paid upon the death of the prospective husband the sum of $25,000.00; and it was further stipulated that in case the parties separated and obtained a divorce from each other, th§ husband .would pay his wife the sum of $10,000.00 in lieu of all alimony, the promise to pay the alimony, although illegal, will not render that part of the contract to pay $25,000.00 in lieu of all interest in his estate, illegal.
5. Husband and Wife — Antenuptial Contract. — Although there may be an antenuptial contract between husband and wife, this will not deprive the widow of the right to occupy the homestead until such time as the estate may be distributed and settled.
6. Executors and Administrators — Allowance for Services. — Courts should exercise a reasonable discretion in making allowances to personal representatives and their attorneys, but where personalty is distributed in kin'd, the allowances should not be as much as where the assets are collected, debts paid, and other labors performed by the administrator in looking after and winding up the estate. In each instance the representative and his attorney should be allowed a reasonable compensation for the services performed, and the judgment of the court in fixing these allowances will .not .be. disturbed on appeal 'unless there has been a plain abuse of discretion upon the part of the trial court.
7. Executors and Administrators — Allowance for Services. — The facts of this case examined and considering the amount of the property involved and the services rendered, an allowance to the personal representative of $6,055.00, and to her attorney a fee of $1,000.00 were not excessive.
ALEXANDER SCOTT BULLITT, WILLIAM MARSHALL BULLITT and KEITH L. BULLITT for appellants.
DAVID & DAVIS and D. H. FRENCH for appellee.
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Thomas
Affirming, on appeal and cross-appeal.
The questions presented for determination on this appeal grow out of litigation to settle and distribute the estate of Wilton A. Stratton, who died intestate on October 18, 1913, at Los Angeles, California, but domiciled at the time in Oldham county. Previous to 1912, the decedent had lived for a great number of years in the city of Louisville, and in the spring of that year he purchased a country home near Crestwood, in Oldham county, where he made his home for the rest of his life. He was married to the appellant, who was then Miss Julia Eschmann, on February 24, 1913, the wedding taking place in the city of New York. On the 18th day of February preceding the marriage, the parties signed and executed the following contract, omitting signatures :
“This Agreement made and entered into this 22d day of February, 1913, by and between Wilton A. Stratton, party of the first part, and Julia Eschmann, party of the second part, both of Oldham county, in the State of Kentucky.
“Witnesseth: That whereas the said first and second parties are about to enter into a contract of marriage, and whereas it is desired between'them to settle and adjust all property right or claims between them arising out of said proposed marriage, and whereas the said party of the first part, Wilton A. Stratton,-wishes to make provision for said- Julia Eschmann in lieu of dower or distributive share of his estate, both real and personal, and whereas said parties have agreed between themselves upon a provision for said second party, Julia Eschmann, and she has agreed and binds herself to accept same in lieu of any and all claims upon the estate of said Wilton A. Stratton during his life, or after his life should he die before her.
“Now, Therefore, this contract and agreement between said Wilton A. Stratton, party of the first part, and Julia Eschmann, party of the second part.
“Witnesseth: That the said Wilton A. Stratton hereby agrees and binds himself,- his heirs, administrators and assigns to pay to the -said Julia Esfehmann upon his death, if she survives him, she then being his wife, the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars out of his estate in full settlement of any and all claims of dower or distributable share of said estate, real and personal, and should said'Julia Eschmann die before .said Wilton A. Stratton, then nothing shall be paid to her heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and he further binds himself that if at any time after the solemnization of said marriage, he and said Julia Eschmann should become separated or divorced, he will pay to her upon such divorce being obtained by either of them the sum of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars in full of any and all claims said Julia Eschmann might hold against him for alimony, or maintenance, or attorneys’ fees in any such divorce proceedings.
“The said Julia Eschmann agrees to accept said sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars upon the death of said Wilton A. Stratton in full settlement of any and all claims she might have as his widow for dower or distributable share of his estate, or should she become divorced from him at any time to accept said sum of ($10,000.00) dollars above set forth in full settlement of any and all claims for alimony or maintenance, or attorneys’ fees.
“Said Wilton A. Stratton furthermore agrees and binds himself during the continuance of the marital relationship between him and the said Julia Eschmann to provide for her a good and comfortable living, so long as she lives and resides with him, but should she abandon him for any reason and refuse to live with him, then his responsibility from the time of said abandonment or refusal to live with him shall be limited to the sum of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars above provided for, and only upon the conditions there provided for the payment of said ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars.
“In Testimony Whereof, witness the signatures of said first and second parties, the day and year above written. ’ ’
The contract was executed in duplicate but each party was not delivered a copy until the day they left Louisville for New York, which was the 22nd of February; and thus, although the contract had been signed by each of them on the 18th, it bears the date of actual delivery.
Briefly stated, the circumstances under which the marriage was agreed to and the contract executed, are these: Neither party had ev.er been married. Mr. She was then and had for some considerable time immediately previous, been employed by Mr. Stratton as housekeeper at a salary of $35.00 per month. He was not in the best of health and to regain and repair it he concluded to take a trip abroad. He seems to have become very much pleased with the services of Miss Eschmann, not only as a housekeeper but in her attentions to his personal welfare as well, and he desired that she attend him upon his contemplated trip. To avoid any grounds for suspicion or scandalous gossip, he conceived the idea of marrying Miss Eschmann before starting on the trip and suggestecl it to his cousin and personal friend, Edward T. Farmer, but at the time Stated that he would be unwilling to enter into the marriage unless there could be an understanding between himself and Miss Eschmann as to property rights growing out of the marriag-e. The deceased at that time was worth something like $230,-000.00, thirty thousand dollars of which was real property situated in Jefferson and Oldham counties, and the remainder was personal property, almost the entire portion of which consisted of solvent bonds and corporation stock, each being a well-paying investment.
The first conversation with Farmer concerning the proposed marriage occurred about February 7, of that year, and the subject was further discussed between them some four or five days thereafter. On the 17th day of February the matter was discussed by the three, Stratton, Farmer, and Miss-Eschmann, and the terms of it, as afterwards incorporated into the writing, were each and all agreed to and the writing drawn up and subscribed by the parties the next day as we have stated, but not delivered until the 22nd. The attorney who drafted the contract, Mr. John'J. Davis, realizing that Miss Eschmann should be apprised of the extent of the property of her contemplated husband, went to the home of Mr. Stratton on the 19th day of February, and there fully informed her of the amount of the property which Mr. Stratton owned; and, as the attorney states, of her rights in and to such property as surviving widow. To this she replied: “I didn’t know that he had so much or that I was entitled to so much,” whereupon the attorney replied: “Well, you know it now. The marriage has not been consummated and there is nothing that you couldn’t withdraw from at this time,” whereupon she replied, “It is too late. I have already signed the contract. I signed too quick.” The marriage was after-wards consummated as we have stated, and the trip abroad was made lasting until some time in October. Upon their return they did not come direct to their home but proceeded to the city of Chicago, where a stop of a few days was made, after which they went to Los Angeles, California, where, on October 18, the death of the husband occurred. The only heir at law of the decedent is the appellee, Mrs. Ada Stratton Wilson, who is the only child of a brother of the deceased. After the death of her husband, the appellant as his widow, returned to the Orestwood home and has since occupied it, in the meantime qualifying as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband.
The litigation in which the judgment was rendered from which the appeal is prosecuted, consists of several separate suits and proceedings concerning the estate, all of which were consolidated in the court below, and for the purpose of this opinion, it is not necessary that they be either separately stated or noticed. The chief controversy between the parties and the storm center of this litigation is, as to the validity of the ante-nuptial contract which we have herein copied, the widow contending that she is not bound by it, and that she is therefore entitled to her distributable' share of her husband’s estate as though no contract was made; while the heir is insisting that the contract is valid, and was at the death of the decedent in full force, and the widow is, therefore, entitled to but $25,000.00, the amount named in the contract. This latter view is the one taken by the trial court, and from the judgment so holding the widow has appealed.
In the court below there were three grounds urged by the widow as to why the contract is not binding upon her, .they being: (1) That the contract is void on its face; (2) that before signing it she was not aware of the value of the estate of her future husband, and that she was therefore induced by this fraudulent concealment to place her name to it and to agree to its terms, and, (3) that the contract after their marriage was orally rescinded by herself and her husband before his death.
We will consider these in the reverse order. As to the third ground stated, without passing on the question as to whether this character of contract can be orally rescinded, it is sufficient to say that there is no evidence of any character of a rescission, except the testimony of the widow, which is manifestly incompetent under section 606 of the Civil Code of Practice. This is so apparent that counsel for her did not mention it in the argument of the case, nor does he refer to it in his brief. We, therefore, do not deem it necessary to give this contention further consideration.
As to the second ground urged against the contract, it cannot he denied hut that it is the settled rule that the prospective wife, in contracts of this character, in order to be bound thereby, should, before entering into the contract and at that time, be apprised “of the nature and extent of her prospective husband’s estate and the value of.her marital rights therein which she by its terms is surrendering.” Tilton v. Tilton, 130 Ky., 281. Other cases in point are: Daniels v. Banister, 146 Ky. 48; Redwine v. Redwine, 160 Ky. 282, and Gaines v. Gaines, 163 Ky. 260. These cases very properly hold that such a contract to be binding on the prospective wife must be free from , fraud, misrepresentation, deceit or concealment; but they do not go farther than this. The fact that the contract had been signed before the appellant had been placed in possession of all the facts, cannot militate against the validity of the contract, provided all the facts were freely and fairly stated to her before the marriage was consummated. Up to that time nothing had occurred to which any of the provisions of the contract could attach, and all that was necessary for the status of the parties to remain as it was then, was a refusal to marry. It was not neces-' sary, even that the signed contract providing for the payment of alimony, should be destroyed. Appellant by her action, in subsequently marrying the deceased, plainly manifested her willingness to accept the provisions of the contract, and this, too, after she had been informed as to the extent of her prospective husband’s estate, as well as what would be her rights as his widow if no contract was entered into. This, we conclude, effectually disposes of the second contention.
The first ground urged against the validity of the marriage contract presents a more serious question and will require from us a more extended consideration. This contention is based upon the insistence of counsel for appellant that all of that portion of the contract' providing for the payment of alimony, should a separation of the parties occur after marriage, followed by a divorce, is absolutely void, and that this void stipulation invalidates the entire contract. At the threshold it may be conceded, and indeed is conceded by counsel for appellee, that the stipulation as to alimony is void, as the law will not permit parties contemplating marriage to enter into a contract providing for, and looking to, future separation after marriage. This principle of law appears to be well settled and is supported by an unbroken line of authorities. Those from this court are: Gaines v. Poor, 3 Met., 503; Loud v. Loud, 4 Bush, 453, and Evans v. Evans, 93 Ky. 510.
The rule so announced is but a manifestation of a long settled policy of the law, to the effect that it is beneficial to society that the marital relation should not be disturbed or its happiness marred, but that it should be upheld and encouraged, and that the parties to it should not be led into the breaking of its vows by the allurements of any stipulations .which they may enter into before marriage. So the question is: What effect does the stipulation as to alimony, which is conceded to be void, have upon the other stipulation for the payment of $25,000.00 upon the death of the husband, in lieu of all other interests of the widow which she would otherwise obtain from his estate, and which stipulation is conceded to be valid?
The rule is, if there is a single promise based upon a single consideration and both of them are void, the contract is wholly unenforceable; but where the consideration is valid, and several promises are based upon it, some of which are legal and others illegal, so that they may be separated, the legal ones will be enforced while those which are illegal will not, and the illegality of the latter will not prevent the enforcement of the former. So, in Volume 9, Cyc. 564, we find it stated:
“Where an agreement founded on a legal consideration contains several'promises or a promise to do several things, and some only of the things to be done are illegal, the promises which can be separated, or the promise so far as it can be separated, from the illegality, may be valid. The rule is that a lawful promise made for a lawful consideration is not invalid merely because an unlawful promise was made at the same time and for the same consideration. Thus if the terms of a contract in restraint of trade can be construed divisibly as to the limits, it may he valid-as to the limits which are reasonable, although other limits imposed are excessive, unreasonable and void.”
This conrt has approved the text in the following cases: Brown v. Langford, 3 Bibb 497; Swan v. Chandler, 8 B. Mon. 97; Collins v. Merrell, 2 Met. 163; Kimbrough v. Lane, 11 Bush 556; Averbeck v. Hall, 14 Bush. 505; Bugg v. Holt, 29 Ky. L. R. 1208; McLane v. Dixon, 30 Ky. L. R. 683; Smith v. Corbin, 135 Ky. 727; Newport Rolling Mills Co. v. Hall, 147 Ky. 598.
A few references to what this court said in some of the cases referred to will serve to illustrate the rule as adopted in this State. In the Kimbrough case, it is said: “And it is equally well settled that if any part, however small, of the entire consideration of a contract be vicious, the whole contract is void.” And in the Averbeck case, it is said: “It is well established that if a contract, the consideration of which is an agreement to impede, hinder or defeat the administration of the criminal or penal laws, is- void as against public policy. It does not avail that, in this instance, there is a sufficient consideraton, independent of this vicious agreement, to support the contract. A part of the entire consideration being vicious, the whole contract is void.” In the still later case of Newport Rolling Mill Co. v. Hall, supra, this court quoting with approval from other of the cases, supra, said:
“The general rule is that if the obnoxious feature of a contract can be eliminated, without impairing its symmetry as a whole, the courts will be inclined to adopt this view as the one most likely to express the intention of the parties; but if the good and bad are so interwoven that they cannot be separated without altering or destroying the general meaning and purpose of the contract, the good must go with the bad and the whole contract be set aside. In Smith v. Corbin, 135 Ky. 727, it is said:
“ ‘In other words, it is a well known rule of law that where there are contained in the same instrument distinct engagements or covenants, by which a party binds himself to do certain acts, some of which are legal and some illegal, the performance of those which are legal may be enforced, although the' performance of those which are illegal may not.’
“In Brown v. Langford, 3 Bibb. 497, the court said:
“ ‘Where there is a condition or covenant to do several things, a part of which is against the common law and the rest lawful, the condition or covenant will be void as to so much as is unlawful, and good for the residue. But this does not hold where a part of the consideration is unlawful. There is no question- but that a promise founded upon several considerations, one of which is vicious, is void; and the same principle requires that a covenant should be held to be so if the consideration be in part affected with turpitude.’ To the same effect is McLane v. Dixon, 30 Ky. Law Rep., 683; Averbeck v. Hall, 14 Bush 505; Collins v. Merrell, 2 Met. 163; Swann v. Chandler, 8 B. Mon. 97.
“We are disposed to the view that this contract may be treated as a severable one, and that the objectionable clause may be stricken from it without affecting the validity of the remainder of the contract. The clause in question does not particularly concern the consideration specified in the contract, and it is generally in reference to contracts in which a part of the consideration is illegal that the courts have ruled that the entire contract was tainted. Where a part of the consideration upon which the contract rests is vicious, the courts as may he seen from the cases cited will not undertake to separate the good consideration from the bad, but will discard it as a whole.”
It then becomes necessary to determine what constitutes the consideration for the two promises made by the prospective husband and found in this marriage contract. The two promises being, to pay the appellant in the event of a separation and divorce the sum of $10,000.00 in lieu of all alimony, and to pay her $25,-000.00 in the event of the death of her prospective husband in lieu of all interests in his estate. That the marriage was the consideration for these two promises, there can be room for hut one opinion. In volume 21 Cyc., page 1246, it is said: “Marriage is a good consideration for antenuptial, settlement of property on the intended wife. It has been said indeed that it is not only a valuable consideration, but a consideration of ‘the highest value.’ ” This text is supported by numerous authorities from almost every State in the Union and in England, as well as by many text-writers upon the subject. The cases from this court so holding are: Forwood v. Forwood, 86 Ky. 114; Sanders v. Miller, 79 Ky. 517; Mallory v. Mallory, 92 Ky. 316. This being so, it would seem under the rule, supra, .that as the consideration of marriage in the instant case is an entire, as well as a valid one, the conceded legal promise to pay $25,000.00 based upon it, should be upheld and enforced, notwithstanding the associated' illegal promise to pay alimony which is based upon the same valid consideration. Indeed, there is no escape from this conclusion unless the facts of this case are to be differentiated in some way from those in the cases supra. We have given unsparing pains to the investigation of the authorities, not only those herein given, but the ones to which counsel refer us as well, and we fail to find in any of them any justifiable grounds for making a distinction between the facts therein and those here.
As we view the authorities, the error, to our minds, in the contention of counsel for appellant lies in the fact that he confuses the promises in the contract with the consideration therefor. In other words, he insists that the two promises found in the contract, the one being legal and the other illegal, as we have found, constitute the consideration for the marriage contract, which, as we have seen, is contrary to all the authorities, including the opinions of this court. As illustrating this, he strongly relies on the opinion of this court in the case of McClane v. Dixon, supra. In that case, Mc-Clane, a white man, was living in a state of concubinage with a negress named Motina Dixon. By him she had given birth to some illegitimate children, and he was about to be proceeded against in a bastardy proceeding to provide maintenance for the children. It is shown that at this juncture he entered into a contract with the mother to support the children and at his death make provision for them in his will, provided, however, the mother of the children would continue to live with him as theretofore. He failed to make the provision for the children in his will as agreed, which it was claimed was to be a house and lot worth $800.00, and his estate was sued to recover the value of the house and lot. But this court, denied the plaintiff the' right to recover, not because the agreement■" to provide for the children was illegal, but because a part of the consideration for the promise to make the devise upon which the suit was based, was illegal, in that it contracted' for the continued existence of unlawful relation between the plaintiff and the decedent. The opinion was proper and in perfect accord with the rule herein stated. If, in that case, the consideration for the promise had not been tainted with the worst form of illegality, there would have been no obstacle in the way, as far as the contract was concerned, of rendering judgment in favor of the plaintiff. But, as we have seen, we are dealing with no such case. The consideration here has been entirely executed, which in some jurisdictions materially affects the case, even should the rule contended for by appellant’s counsel be applied. Re Appleby, 10 L. R. A. (N. S.) 590, and authorities therein cited.
It must also not be forgotten that the contract under consideration not only contained two promises on behalf of the future husband, but they related to entirely separate and distinct events; the events to which the illegal promise related never occurred and there has been no occasion to invoke the aid of the court to enforce it. The event, however, to which the other promise related, has occurred, and its enforcement is sought in this suit. Many of the authorities relied upon for reversal had under consideration only the enforcement of the illegal promise therein, which was similar to the one here, and of course, the courts in this instance, denied the relief which was demanded, just as we would if the stipulation as to the payment of $10,000.00 alimony was before us in proceedings wherein either of the parties was seeking to enforce it. This is particularly so as to the case of Neddo v. Neddo, 56 Kan. 507, upon which considerable stress is made in appellant’s brief. Moreover, in the case of Re Appleby, supra, the antenuptial contract had in it a stipulation referring to future separation, it being as follows:
' “ Provided always, and this promise and covenant is made with the reservation, that in the event said marriage does not take place, or said party of the second part shall not be my husband at the time of my death, or in the event at the time of my death the parties signing said Exhibit A. are not living together as husband and wife * * * then all and every claim and right on the part of said party of the second part to demand or receive said annuity or take any benefit under this agreement or in my estate shall thereupon and forthwith cease and be of no force or effect.”
The provision was being made by the contemplated wife for the future husband and it was to be an annuity of $10,000.00.
There was as much of an inducement for the wife in that case to bring about such a state of affairs as to cause a divorce, and thus save to her estate the annuity of $10,000.00 for the life of her husband, as there is in this case (as argued by appellant’s counsel), for the deceased (Stratton) to be guilty of conduct causing a separation and thereby save 'to his estate $15,000.00. However, in disposing’ of this feature of that contract the court very pertinently said:
“The second proposition of appellant is that the antenuptial contract was void, because it tended to induce a separation between husband and wife. This contention is founded upon that part of the contract, repeated in the will, wherein it. was provided that if, at the death of Mrs. Appleby, appellant should not be her husband, or in the event they ‘shall not then be living together as husband and wife,’ any and all right to the annuity shall ‘cease and be of no force or effect.’ It is elementary that contracts which, tend to induce a separation of husband and wife are, upon the same principle of public policy which discountenances contracts in restraint of marriage, utterly void and of no force or effect. There is but one voice in the decisions upon this question. Cartwright v. Cartwright, 22 L. J. Ch. (N. S.) 841; H.............................. v. W............................., 3 Kay & J. 382; Brown v. Peck, 1 Eden 140; Randall v. Randall, 37 Mich. 563; Boland v. O’Neil, 72 Conn. 217, 44 Atl. 15; Hutton v. Hutton, 3 Pa. St. 100. But the contract under consideration does not bring the case within this principle. A broad view of its provisions will nut justify or warrant the conclusion that its purpose was to facilitate, or that it tended in any measure to induce, a separation of the parties. On the contrary, it is clear that its purpose and tendency was to induce continued cohabitation as husband and wife. Appellant was firmly obligated to comply with the contract in this respect, and a failure forfeited the annuity. It was not incorporated in the contract to furnish the wife, upon some whimsical or capricious notion, induced, perhaps, by a condition of not unusual occurrence, a family jar, not ordinarily of long duration, an excuse to separate from her husband. The contract held out to her, as in many of the cases cited by appellant, no pecuniary or other inducement to bring about a separation. Causing one would result in no benefit or advantage to her. The result would in such, an event only increase the chaiity fund to which she devoted her estate.
. “It is unnecessary to enter into an extended discussion of the authorities upon this subject. Many analogous eases are found in the books, but the decisions all turned where the contracts were held void, upon the construction of the particular language and phraseology of each. The case of Re Hope Johnstone (1904) 1 Ch. 470, is an instructive one, and may be referred to. In that case, Hope Johnstone, the husband, conveyed certain property in trust for the benefit of his wife for life, ‘or so long as she shall continue the co-habiting wife or widow. ’ It was there contended that this was an inducement to separation, and hence void; that a separation would result beneficially to the husband; and that he could, by improper treatment of the wife, bring about a separation and reap the benefit of his wrongful conduct. The court brushed these arguments aside and sustained the contract. The case is squarely in point.”
The character of contract with which we are dealing is a favorite of the law and will not be held invalid for trifling or technical. reasons. Wherever they are fair and free from fraud and concealment, the courts delight to enforce them when it can be done by reconciling the facts under which they are executed with the well recognized rules of law governing the execution and validity of contracts. Hence, it is stated in 21 Cyc. page 1242: “Such settlements have long been favored by courts of equity, provided that the rights of third persons have not been infringed.” And, in the notes to the ease of Becker v. Becker, 26 L. R. A. (N. S.) 858, upon this and other points considered in this case, it is said:
“Marriage is a sufficient consideration to support an antenuptial agreement, either (between the immediate contracting parties or third' persons. Indeed it is ranked as among the most valuable of considerations, although distinguishable from other valuable considerations in that it is not capable of being reduced to a value which can be expressed in dollars and cents, and also in that, after the marriage, the status cannot be changed by setting it aside, rescinding, or canceling it, and hence the parties can not be placed in status quo. Therefore sound policy requires the enforcement of contracts entered into prior thereto and which induced the marriage. Lloyd v. Lloyd, 2 Myl. & C. 192; North v. Ansell, 2 P. Wms. 618; Mitford v. Mitford, 9 Ves. Jr. 87; Corsbie v. Free, Craig & Ph. 64; Burridge v. Row, 1 Young & C. Ch. Cas. 583; Turner v. Warren, 160 Pa. 336, 28 Atl. 781; Metz v. Blackburn, 9 Wyo. 481, 65 Pac. 857; Barnes v. Barnes, 110 Cal. 418; 42 Pac. 904.
“It is a.rule of law éstablisbed at an early time that, in the interpretation of covenants, they will be construed to be either dependent or independent of each other, according to the intention and meaning of the parties and the good sense of the case, and technical words will be construed according to such intention. So, where a covenant goes only to part of the consideration on both sides, and a breach of such covenant may be paid for in damages, it is 'an independent covenant, and an action can be maintained for the breach of the covenant on the part of the defendant without avering performance in the declaration. This rule is enforced with great liberality as to covenants contained in marriage settlements, and such covenants will be held to be independent rather than dependent, unless the clear language of the contract requires a contrary holding, at least where, to hold that the covenant was dependent would be to defeat the right to the performance of an antenuptial marriage settlement, the primary consideration of which was marriage.”
We have read with great care and interest the brief of counsel for appellant, manifesting as it does, great earnestness and zeal in behalf of his client to the effect, that the provision in the contract under consideration, for alimony, being void, vitiates the entire contract, but we must confess that he has failed to convince us with his views. On the contrary, we are constrained to the conclusion that the trial court in holding the stipulation for the payment of the $25,000.00 to the appellant as the widow of her deceased husband in lieu of all other property in his estate, is the correct view of the law as applicable to the facts found in this record.
By the judgment, the court allowed to appellant as administratrix certain items which are contested by cross-appeal prosecuted by appellee. The matters thus drawn in question by the cross-appeal are: A credit for poultry feed amounting to $40.05; one paid to Otto Breen for taking care of the home place at Crestwood, $115.00; bill of costs paid to the clerk of the Oldham circuit court, $29.20; $800.00, which is alleged to be a balance of some express checks carried by the couple on their trip abroad, and which were made payable to Mrs. Stratton before their departure; $2,000)00, being the amount of a draft which had been ordered by the husband to be sent to the wife at Chicago and made payable to her; $6,055.00 as commission allowed to her as administratrix, and $1,000.00 allowed to her as attorneys’ fee. There is also complaint on the cross-appeal that the court refused to charge the appellant as administratrix with rents for the homestead during the time that she has occupied it since her husband’s death.
As to the first three of these items it is sufficient to say, that, as we have stated in the beginning, there has been much bitter and protracted litigation between the appellant and appellee • concerning the estate of Mr. Stratton. Even the right' of the appellant to administer upon his estate is questioned and was bitterly fought. There is a total absence of harmony or kind feelings existing between the parties. The trial court was fully aware of all of this and with the entire record before him he made the allowances in question, and we are not disposed, especially in view of their comparative insignificance, to question his ruling in this particular.
As to the item of $6,055.00 for commissions, section 3883 of the Kentucky Statutes provides, that the allowance to a personal representative shall not exceed five per cent, on the amounts received and distributed by him. It is further therein provided, however, that allowance may be made to him for extraordinary services in the discharge of his duties in attending to, and administering the estate in his hands, but such allowance shall not exceed the amount of a fair compensation “for the time occupied and expenses incurred in protecting, attending to, collecting, and settling such estate, and five per cent, on all amounts received and distributed.” This court has held in a number of cases that where the property was distributed in kind, and the administrator was put to no trouble or comparatively none, he should not be allowed the maximum sum of five per cent, of the value of the property thus distributed. (Stanberry’s Admr. v. Robinson, 16 Ky. L. R. 309; Fidelity Trust & Safety Vault Co. v. Watkin’s etc., 19 Ky. L. R. 957; Gar v. Ray, 20 Ky. L. R. 1697; Glover v. Cheek, 24 Ky. L. R. 1281; Reed v. Reed, 23 Ky. L. R. 2186; Clark v. Young, 24 Ky. L. R. 2395). It was furthermore held in these eases that heeanse the personalty was distributed in kind, it did not necessarily follow that the personal representative should not he allowed anything for his services, hut that in such cases the court should make a reasonable allowance to him to he governed by the facts of each case. In the Glover case, supra, there came into the hands of the personal representative for actual distribution, only $52,797.09. Bequests in the will were satisfied by the transfer to the devisees, shares of the capital stock of .certain corporations. There was also some litigation concerning the estate, but this court determined that the personal representative should be allowed $5,000.00, which was nearly ten per cent, of the amount which actually came into his hands for distribution. To have allowed five per cent, on the entire amount of personal property belonging to the decedent would have amounted to much more than this.
In the Stanberry case, • supra, there came into the hands of the personal representative stocks and bonds of the value of $213,924.28, which he distributed in kind, and the court made him an allowance for these services the sum of $6,000.00, which, upon appeal to this court, was affirmed.
The allowance complained of here is substantially the same as that in the Stanberry case, although the amount of the property involved is not quite so large. In view of these decisions and the size of this estate,-’ after reviewing the record, we are not inclined to dispute the correctness of the judgment of the court in fixing this allowance.
As to the attorneys’ fee, what we have said will largely apply to it. Matters of this character are necessarily left largely to the discretion of the trial court. That the appellant was entitled to have a reasonable attorneys’ fee allowed to her can not be questioned, and without further elaborating this opinion we are not disposed to criticise the action of the court below in fixing this fee at $1,000.00.
As to the two items of ’ $800.00 and $2,000.00, the proof shows that these sums were given to the appellant by her husband, and although it might have been the expectation that they would be consumed in paying the expenses of their trip, still there is nothing to show that, he intended or expected that his wife should account, to bim for any of this money upon their return, or that lie had any other purpose in view than to divest himself of these sums and to vest his wife with absolute •ownership therein. We are acquainted with no law whereby the wife should be charged by her husband’s estate with money which he may have advanced to her in his lifetime, in the absence of some kind of understanding’ to that effect.
As we have seen, the only person interested in this estate, besides the widow, is the appellee, whose home is in the State of Oregon. The statutes provide that the widow shall have a right to occupy the homestead of the deceased husband until allotment of dower, homestead, or the estate is otherwise distributed. We are not inclined to the opinion that, because there was an antenuptial contract, the widow was thereby deprived of this right given to her by the statutes. The effect of the contract is to limit the estate which the widow, as one of the distributees of decedent, may take in her deceased husband’s property. It does not affect any other right which she may have as widow. Moreover, as the only other interested person in the estate of the decedent was a non-resident and lived a great distance from the homestead, and it being' necessary to the preservation of the property that it should be occupied and looked after, all of which was beneficial to the heir, we are not disposed to permit the latter under such circumstances to charge the widow with rent when her occupancy was beneficial to the property which was inherited by the heir.
It results, therefore, that the judgment on both the appeal and cross-appeal should be, and it is .affirmed.
.Whole court sitting. | CASELAW |
Category:Private Practice (TV series) characters
This page contains a list of all regular characters from the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice. | WIKI |
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comment how to shutdown a linux machine, including the root password, in 1 line?
@simon: This will make the password appear in the shell history file, which is not recommended! I suggest you put history -d $((HISTCMD-1)) && before that code, to ensure that line doesn't appear in the history file. So, the final command should be history -d $((HISTCMD-1)) && echo '[PASSWORD]' | sudo -S shutdown now.
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comment What media (music and video) players are there?
@scouser73: apparently they still make nightly builds available here, but I'll write a warning on the post.
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comment What media (music and video) players are there?
Since this a community wiki and @user18027 didn't respond, I went ahead and edited it. Feel free to re-edit if you don't agree with my revision.
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comment What media (music and video) players are there?
@ulidtko: no, there's Gnome Media Player, which is a different project.
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comment Wanting to start development for Ubuntu (and most Linux distributions in general), which is suitable? Python or Vala?
@dv3500ea: actually, "I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python." Not that I necessarily agree, I don't see how isn't OOP integrated with Python. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
This post has been migrated and imported into different systems over the years, I have not had a chance to format this post manually so it may be hard to read but I have left it here as a reference.
So I am sitting here late at night and I registered a few swedish .xyz domains that contain characters åäö. For example you may have the domain for horse in swedish, häst.xyz, this domain is actually written as xn–hst-qla.xyz. Now I wanted to create a temporary catch-all page for these swedish domains until I can build a site for them. What I did was to get the domain name as a variable which I echo in the title and body of the page using the following server variable:
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
this works ok but for domains with äåö it will output the weird looking punycode which is not really seo or user friendly. To solve this we can use the idn_to_utf8() function in PHP which takes the punicode and converts it to UTF-8 characters which will show the åäö characters. For my site I also wanted to make the first character upper case so I used the ucfirst() function. My page ended up looking like this.
<html><br></br>
<head><br></br>
<title><?php echo ucfirst(idn_to_utf8($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])); ?> - Coming soon!</title><br></br>
</head><br></br>
<body><br></br>
<center><br></br>
<br/><br></br>
<br/><br></br>
<br/><br></br>
<h1><?php echo ucfirst(idn_to_utf8($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])); ?></h1><br></br>
</center><br></br>
</body><br></br>
</html>
That takes care of that. Now the opposite function of idn_to_utf8() is the idn_to_ascii() function. This will take the åäö characters and convert them to the punycode.
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O.A.R. discography
This is the discography for American rock band O.A.R.
Song appearances
* O.A.R. performed the theme song for the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. During a two-hour special that aired on December 11, 2005, they provided a street-side concert, including a live performance of "So Much", the Extreme Makeover Home Edition theme, in front of the newly redesigned Los Angeles Free Clinic.
* In 2006, O.A.R. Performed at the MLB's Home Run Derby at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Singing "Love and Memories" and other titles.
* In 2006, the band's song "Love and Memories" was featured in the movie She's the Man.
* In June 2007 the band's songs "Wonderful Day" and "One Shot" were used extensively by ESPN during its coverage of the 2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and College World Series; "This Town" was similarly used in 2008
* In 2008, their song "Love is Worth The Fall" was featured on the deluxe edition soundtrack for the film Twilight. The song was also released as an iTunes single.
* On Oct. 16 2011, the songs "Heaven" and "Wonderful Day" were played during "iGenius," a documentary about the life and death of Steve Jobs which was hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters.
* On March 28, 2015, the WWE used the song "Peace" as part of a tribute to fan Connor "The Crusher".
* ESPN has used "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker" as an introduction to its coverage of the World Series of Poker.
Album appearances
Compilation name (year, song title)
* Bonnaroo 2003 (2003, "Risen")
* National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2005 (1997, "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker")
* Rock For Relief (2006, "James")
* Mixclusives: Volume 6 (2006, "Love & Memories")
* The Target Red Room Volume: 5 (2006, "One Shot (live)")
* Kyle XY Soundtrack (2007, "Wonderful Day")
* Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur (2007, "Borrowed Time")
* For the Kids Three (2007, "Itsy Bitsy Spider")
* Serve2: Fighting Hunger & Poverty (2007, "Dareh Meyod" [*version from Live from Madison Square Garden])
* Serve4: Artists Against Hunger & Poverty (2009, "Lay Down" [*version from Rain or Shine)
* Twilight (soundtrack) (Special/Deluxe Edition) (2009, "Love Is Worth The Fall")
* Music For Action: Best of Bonnaroo (2010, "Delicate Few" [*version from Bonnaroo 2005]) | WIKI |
What is DNS?
The operation of the modern Internet is absolutely amazing when you think about all the nuances that contribute to it. Some estimates state that the average internet user accesses 89 websites per month all with a few taps of the keyboard or mouse button. How do all these devices know where to go when you type a web address into the browser’s search bar, and where does Google find out what sites its search engine is getting data from? The answer to such questions is a universal database called the DNS.
WHAT IS DNS?
DNS stands for Domain Name System, and it is basically a registry or phone book of every domain name in the internet. The DNS records the creation of domain names and what IP addresses are associated with those domains. When you tell your browser to bring up a website, your computer asks the DNS what IP address it needs to find that website. When a domain changes its assigned IP address, the DNS tells the rest of the internet about the change, ensuring users can continue to find it. The Domain Name System is a program and has no single identifiable point, the numerous servers that facilitate internet operations continually run the DNS to keep web traffic flowing.
What does Domain Name mean?
Most people know domain names as web addresses or website names. If a domain is the virtual tag that servers use to find specific web data, then the domain name is what you would type into your address bar, i.e. example.com. We know websites by domain names, our computers and the servers that support the internet know websites by their IP address. The DNS connects us with our machines by matching domain names with their associated IP addresses.
What is an IP Address?
An IP, or Internet Protocol, address is a number that is assigned to any device that is connected to a network through internet protocol software. Essentially it is how devices identify each other when they communicate through the internet. IP addresses change whenever a device ends its connection with a network, but the system that maintains a network always has a list of IP addresses that it assigns to any device that connects to it. Without an IP address that other devices can recognize, a device effectively does not exist on the internet.
Do I have to interact with these systems?
For the most part, the average user does not need to directly interact with DNS or Internet Protocol functions. These systems are monitored by official organizations throughout the world and perform their functions automatically. If you ever want to view DNS information related to your website then you can ask your hosting service to provide you with the appropriate statistics.
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Camera Obscura On Wheels Hits The Open Road
A camera obscura is a very simple device. Consisting of a dark chamber, with only a pinhole to let light in, it focuses an image on its inside surface. If you want to take a permanent copy, it’s as simple as installing a photosensitive film inside and managing the exposure time. Sounds like a normal camera, right? The difference is the scale — a camera obscura is large enough that humans can stand inside and view the image. Usually, they are large stationary rooms. [Physics Girl] took the show on the road by building a camera obscura out of a rented box truck.
The optics of the camera obscura project an image upside-down.
The basic concept is a great one – hire a box truck, and cover the rear opening with cardboard. Cut a small hole in the cardboard, and you’ve created a camera obscura on wheels. The video does a great job of explaining the optical principles behind what’s happening, and there’s even experimentation around how to change the exposure level and focus through modification of the aperture.
The only downside to viewing a camera obscura on video is that you can’t appreciate the resolution and detail visible in real life. Trust us though, it’s better than any HDTV on the market today.
The rolling camera obscura makes for a great experiment which requires little more than some cardboard, tape, and a sunny day. It would be great fun to execute as an educational activity at a school or makerspace. Once you’ve tackled that, perhaps consider the digital version. Video after the break.
[Thanks to Baldpower for the tip!]
19 thoughts on “Camera Obscura On Wheels Hits The Open Road
1. Wow! That’s a fantastic idea! Also, the resolution is higher than any HDTV is because its using light from real objects in much the same way your eyes do, it would have even better resolution if our wetware cameras had a higher “pixel” density. This would be a great set for a music video!
1. It is more like the size of the “blur circle” on the screen or sensor that is produced by any point source. The optimal hole size for the rental truck – assuming f = 2.5m or about 8 feet from door to screen, and green/yellow light – is 2.3mm if I did it right. This will be really dim but much sharper than the images in the video. The F-ratio in this case is about 1000.
1. See also “disc of confusion” and calculating things like the hyperfocal length.
I found it all really clicked with me once I started thinking about individual rays of light and for any given starting point, how many places could it project onto (so, for objects at given plane, if it’s further away or a smaller aperture then both will reduce the disc of confusion)
1. ““Consisting of a dark chamber” incredible! A camera obscura is a dark chamber. Learn something every day :-) I guess they don’t teach Latin in school anymore. ”
Hell they barely teach English anymore, why would they teach Latin?
2. The city of Edinburgh has a large tower housing a camera Obscura that looks over the city. The building also houses a collection of optical illusions and holograms (including a holographic microscope which you can look through which is pretty cool).
3. You’ll need to secure that heavy roll up door in place before moving the vehicle! The wooden doors usually weigh a few hundred pounds when you combine all of the panels. So bear that in mind when fouling the door to stop it moving. Nothing like having the door roll back down a couple panels and then you hit the brakes. Tends to send the door out the top of the tracks and “Murphy” usually sends it at a slight skew that bends tracks to junk.
You’ll get to pay for the door & tracks, plus any damage it caused to the cargo box.
4. There was an episode of the Bloodhound Gang on 3-2-1 Contact where the Bloodhound gang gets kidnapped and put in the back of a box truck and they use a pinhole in the back of the truck to make a camera obscura to figure out where they are being taken.
5. I live in an attic apartment in a historic district. There is a beautiful church just across the way. In the morning the sun rises behind its steeple. Its really quite beautiful. This summer my air conditioner was struggling to keep up with the heat so I foiled over my windows and view. One morning laying in bed trying to awaken in the darkness….I looked over and noticed a small hole in the foil of one window had light beaming through….as my eyes followed it I received a great surprise….
There on my floor…
ALL around the bright sunbeam penetrating my darkened room….
The entire cathedral roof laid out in such detail that I could see each the detail of each rooftile.
I realized immediately “camera obscura”….sadly I am no davinci and my tracing of the image did it no justice
Imagining the first time someone else had allowed a single beam of light to sneak passed only to find an entire worlds image carried with it…….
Hundreds of years late……I still enjoyed my petit eureka!
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PORTSNAP.CONF(5)
PORTSNAP.CONF(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual PORTSNAP.CONF(5)
NAME
portsnap.confconfiguration file for portsnap(8)
DESCRIPTION
The portsnap.conf file controls where portsnap(8) fetches ports tree snapshots from, which RSA key should be trusted to sign the updates, and what directories should hold the compressed and live ports trees.
A line of the form
SERVERNAME=portsnap.example.com
specifies the source from which snapshots should be fetched. This is equivalent to the -s server option to portsnap(8), and will be ignored if the command-line option is used.
A line of the form
KEYPRINT=0123456789abc ... 456789abcdef
(64 characters in total) specifies the SHA-256 hash of the OpenSSL public key file belonging to an RSA keypair which is trusted to sign updates. This is equivalent to the -k KEY option to portsnap(8), and will be ignored if the command-line option is used.
A line of the form
WORKDIR=/path/to/workdir
specifies the directory in which portsnap should maintain its compressed snapshot of the ports tree. This is equivalent to the -d workdir option to portsnap(8), and will be ignored if the command-line option is used.
A line of the form
PORTSDIR=/path/to/portstree
specifies the directory in which portsnap will create the live ports tree from its compressed snapshot via the extract and update commands. This is equivalent to the -p portsdir option to portsnap(8), and will be ignored if the command-line option is used.
If more than one line of any of the above forms is included in portsnap.conf then only the last one will take effect.
A line of the form
INDEX INDEXFILE DESCRIBEFILE
will instruct portsnap(8) that the specified INDEX file is generated from the specified describe file distributed by the portsnap server.
Finally, a line of the form
REFUSE foo bar
will instruct portsnap(8) to ignore parts of the ports tree with paths starting with foo or bar, which are interpreted as extended regular expressions by egrep(1). This will result in those parts of the tree not being updated in the compressed snapshot when the fetch and cron commands are used and not being extracted when the extract command is used (unless a specific path is passed to portsnap(8)), and if those parts of the ports tree are present they will not be updated when the update command is used. Unlike the other options, the parameters in REFUSE lines accumulate and all such lines are considered.
Note that operating with an incomplete ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results.
Any lines not of the above forms will be ignored.
FILES
/etc/portsnap.conf
Default location of the portsnap configuration file.
AUTHORS
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
January 30, 2005 FreeBSD | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Broadview Developmental Center
The Broadview Developmental Center was a psychiatric hospital built in 1939 near Broadview Heights, Ohio, United States. Constructed under the Works Progress Administration as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, it functioned as a Veterans Administration Hospital until 1966 when it was sold to the state of Ohio. The Broadview Developmental Center was then converted into a psychiatric hospital, and remained open until 1993 when the prevailing opinion on mental health shifted from institutional care to community-based care, and the hospital lost its funding. The building was demolished in 2006, except for its newest portion, which was kept as the city of Broadview Heights' city hall and recreation centre.
Broadview Veterans Administration Hospital
The hospital originally opened in 1939, under the control of the United States Veterans Administration. While it performed traditional functions by caring for the numerous veterans of World War II, it also served as housing for victims of tuberculosis. Because the disease was highly contagious, most infected persons were separated from the general public. They were often entered into sanitaria such as Broadview, where they could be cared for without threat to the at-large population.
Designed to be self-sufficient, the campus included a full cafeteria and kitchen, dental offices, a beauty shop, and a chapel. It also included small cottages on the property, where patients who required less supervision were housed. Separate wards were built for children and maternity patients. This minimized contact between patients and the outside world, thus reducing risk of infection. Most of the staff had offices on campus.
With the discovery of Streptomycin in 1946, the usefulness of these facilities began to wane. The antibiotic proved a potent treatment for tuberculosis, significantly reducing the risk of widespread contagion. This limited Broadview Hospital's use to the federal government, which sold the facility to the state of Ohio in 1966.
Broadview Developmental Center
The state government promptly converted the hospital into a institution for people with developmental disabilities. There were multiple court cases that found allegations of abuse, including Collyer v. Broadview Developmental Center and Nicoletti v. Brown. A DOJ investigation into the conditions at Broadview Developmental Center, as well as Cleveland and Warrensville, found numerous issues, including overuse of physical and chemical restraints, lack of legally required training programs, and deficiencies in medical care. This likely contributed to the hospital losing its ICF/MR certification. The administration applied for a four-year extension which was granted. Broadview Developmental Center, the most recent closure, could not maintain ICF/MR certification. Legislation was introduced in 1989 to keep the center open for four years till 1993 to obtain Medicaid certification.[www.equipforequality.org/publications/cipp_final.doc]
The center closed, and the residents were transferred to other developmental centers or to community-based programs in 1993.
Abandonment/Deinstitutionalization
The building was abandoned almost immediately. Large amounts of medical and office equipment were left within, personal artifacts belonging to former staff and patients, and numerous filing cabinets filled with patient records. The abandonment caused a large amount of controversy, as the majority of former patients had been released to community-based organizations (most residents did not have any family what so ever), and all records of their treatment, progress, and illness have been lost in the subsequent clean-up and renovation.
Broadview became a popular target for vandalism, and also attracted paranormal investigators as rumors began to surface that the facility was haunted by former patients. Its windows were boarded and the city erected a chain-link fence to keep out would-be explorers. General Assembly voted to sell Broadview Center to the City of Broadview Heights. In the Broadview closure, the local County Board of MR/DD, Cuyahoga County, developed the community alternatives, and community outcomes were improved. In the Broadview closure, parents were active stakeholders in a state-sponsored Oversight Committee, and they helped to establish the criteria for what was needed to support their son or daughter in the community. It remained in this condition until 1995, when the general Assembly voted to sell Broadview Center to the City of Broadview Heights. The city of Broadview Heights purchased the Developmental Center from the state of Ohio for $750,000. The city tore down many of the outlying structures including the cottages, and built a new police station on the grounds. The building was partially renovated and transformed into a community center with an indoor swimming pool and recreational facilities. During the renovation, city inspectors discovered a significant asbestos threat, forcing a temporary delay in construction while the hazardous substance was removed.
Transition and Community Living
The transition plans for residents of Broadview were highly individualized. The resident and his or her family/guardian were involved in the service plan development. The Cuyahoga County Board worked in conjunction with the staff at the institution. A resident or family member/guardian could refuse a prospective placement and request another one or have the option of transferring to another institution. After establishing the criteria for what was required to meet client needs, Broadview asked for a Request for Proposals from the community to develop services to meet specific needs. It took almost two years to move all residents to the community. A majority of the residents went to new eight-bed Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF/IID) that were created at that time. Another large number of residents went to congregate living dwellings, operated by community vendors, with six or fewer beds. Four areas identified as being the hardest services or needs to fill in the community are:
* 1) transportation – in addition, the providers complain that they don't receive adequate reimbursement for this service;
* 2) dental;
* 3) maintaining quality direct support staff; and
* 4) insufficient quantity of some specialty support staff, such as physical and occupational therapists.
Demolition
After the building was cleared of asbestos, further city construction projects were approved for the community grounds. The grounds adjacent to the Broadview Developmental Center, which is home to Broadview Heights' city hall (since 1999) is maintained. The Broadview Developmental Center was scheduled for demolition in early 2001, but financial troubles in the city government forced delays. A no-interest government loan was secured in 2003 and the demolition process began in early 2006. The city plans to expand the recreation center, and develop the campus into a center for municipal government. | WIKI |
Eskild Dall
Eskild Dall (born 8 January 2003) is a Danish footballer who plays as a forward for FC Fredericia in the Danish 1st Division.
Career
Dall started his career with Dutch top flight side Ajax. Before the second half of 2021–22, he was sent on loan to AGF in Denmark. On 10 April 2022, Dall debuted for AGF during a 2–2 draw with FCN. | WIKI |
Hyperpigmentation cityskinclinic
WHAT IS HYPERPIGMENTATION?
Hyperpigmentation is a very common and harmless skin condition that gives rise to darker patches of colour on the skin.
WHAT CAUSES HYPERPIGMENTATION?
Hyperpigmentation is caused by an increase in melanin in the skin. Melanin is the naturally occuring pigment that gives our skin, hair and eyes their colour. There are several triggers that can increase the amount of melanin produced in the skin. The most common is sun exposure followed by hormones, age and inflammation.
HOW DOES IT AFFECT THE APPEARANCE OF YOUR FACE?
There are different types of hyperpigmentation that give rise to different appearances on the skin. The three main types are:
Age or sun spots are small dark patches of pigment on the face caused by sun exposure. They’re most commonly found on sun-exposed areas like the face, neck, chest, hands and arms.
Melasma is the most common type of hyperpigmentation and it appears as larger patches of pigment that develop mainly on the forehead, cheeks, lips and nose. It is thought to be caused by a combination of sun damage, hormonal changes and heat. It can also occur in pregnant women when it is triggered by pregnancy hormones. When it arises in pregnancy, it’s called Chloasma.
Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is caused by injury or trauma to the skin which when it heals leaves flat dark spots behind. It is very common in acne sufferers but can also be caused by skin damage from dermabrasion, laser treatment and chemical peels.
HOW TO PREVENT DARK SPOTS, MELASMA & OTHER CAUSES OF HYPERPIGMENTATION
As with most things in life, prevention is better than cure. Hyperpigmentation is no exception and even if you require treatment, it’s important to follow a few precautions to prevent it from coming back again. Sun damage is a major cause and so sun protection is essential. Protecting your skin with sunscreen and avoiding direct sun exposure will prevent sun or age spots as well as reduce the risk of melasma. Even in cases where it is caused by trauma such as in post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, sun exposure can darken the hyperpigmented patches.
Where hyperpigmentation is caused by hormonal imbalance caused for example by the oral contraceptive pill, it may be possible to change medication and prevent this from developing. Good control of acne can help prevent post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Avoiding harsh skin agents and not squeezing or popping spots will also help reduce the risk of this. It’s also important to consider that post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation can be caused by the inappropriate use of chemical peels or lasers on the skin. This is especially important to consider in skin of color where brown and black skin is particularly sensitive to post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. As such it is essential to only have these treatments performed by qualified medical practitioners.
HOW TO TREAT HYPERPIGMENTATION
There are a number of ways to treat hyperpigmentation and which one depends on the severity and your treatment goals. Professional in-clinic treatments for hyperpigmentation typically involve chemical peels or laser therapy. These procedures are effective but patient selection is important and they require a course of treatments. It is especially important for patients with skin of colour to seek an experienced medical professional as these treatments can sometimes trigger post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.
Prescription skincare remains the mainstay of treating hyperpigmentation. These treatments when prescribed correctly are as effective as in-clinic treatments but with less downtime. Hydroquinone remains regarded as the most effective topical agent for reducing hyperpigmentation. This product reduces excess pigment and stabilizes the pigment reducing cells. Often results can be seen as early as 4 weeks into treatment. It is however only available under strict medical supervision and can only be used for a limited period. At-home professional skin treatments such as Obagi Nu derm and Obagi-C contain hydroquinone and are the most popular skin systems for treating moderate-severe hyperpigmentation and skin ageing. Tretinoin is a prescription retinoid that is also effective in treating mild hyperpigmentation, acne, and skin ageing. Glutathione is another treatment available in clinical settings but also without prescription which is also hyped up as a potent hyperpigmentation treatment. Whilst in some cases it may work over a period of time, there is no robust clinical evidence that shows this consistently and there is some doubt as to the longevity of the results.
For very early or mild signs of hyperpigmentation, there are a number of over the counter treatments that can help. Look for products containing Arbutin, Azelaic Acid, Kojic Acid, Retinol and Vitamin C. These products can help even out skin tone over time and may improve the quality of your skin overall.
For more info:
Check out our website for more information about our virtual hyperpigmentation clinic. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Willem Paerels
Willem Adriaan Paerels (15 July 1878, Delft – 10 February 1962, Eigenbrakel) was a Dutch-Belgian painter. He painted in the style of impressionism, fauvism and expressionism.
Biography
Paerels worked in his father's upholstery shop from an early age, but left for Brussels in 1894 and decided to become a painter. He trained himself and in 1898 he joined the artist group "Le Labeur". Until 1912, he also regularly spend time in Paris, where he was mainly inspired by the French Impressionists. In addition, the influence of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard also became visible in his work, and after 1906, after visiting an exhibition in Ghent, of Fauvism. In this style, he quickly made a name in this style and together with painters such as Rik Wouters, Ferdinand Schirren and Edgard Tytgat, he was counted among the Brabant fauvism. He exhibited at the Vie et Lumière and La Libre Esthétique societies and at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, among others.
During World War I, Paerels returned to the Netherlands and worked mainly in Scheveningen. In 1919, he settled back in Belgium. In the 1920s and 1930s, he made several trips, including to Greece, Italy and southern France. His later work is considered expressionist. Paerels became best known for his harbour views, but also painted landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and still lifes.He also made posters and designed sets.
Paerels was married to Hélène Moulaert, daughter of tone poet Raymond Moulaert. In 1930, he had himself naturalised as a Belgian. In 1955, he was awarded the Order of Leopold. He died in 1962 in Braine-l'Alleud, near Brussels, at the age of 83. His work can be seen in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch and the Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, among others. | WIKI |
The next start-up hubs
A growing number of startups are being created across the country — and they're cropping up outside of the top innovation hub cities. That's according to new data released today by TechNet and the Progressive Policy Institute. Why it matters: Political and economic dynamics are forcing companies and investors to pay more attention to business activity in middle America, where many workers feel left out of the booming economies of the coastal cities (think San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, New York and Boston.) Following the recession, start-up formation stalled outside of the big tech hubs like Silicon Valley. But activity has picked up over the past two years, with midwestern cities gaining momentum. Data: TechNet / Progressive Policy Institute Report; Map: Lazaro Gamio / Axios The findings: Almost half (48%) of new start-up growth is happening outside of the 35 largest metro areas. Top 10 emerging start-up hubs: Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham, Worcester and Philadelphia. Cities to watch include Nashville, Cleveland, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Detroit. In 2014, companies in their first 5 years created 2.2 million jobs, while firms older than 5 years created 450,000 jobs. New startups could create one million new jobs per year nationwide. "Start-up activity has burst out of the tech hubs and is really spreading across the entire economy," PPI's Michael Mandel, who conducted the study, told Axios. "You're starting to see the new green shoots come up in a lot of areas." What to watch: Local and state level officials are looking for ways to encourage more start-up growth in midwestern regions, including tax incentives for homegrown companies and helping boost access to capital. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Impedance spectroscopy analysis inspired by evolutionary programming as a diagnostic tool for SOEC and SOFC
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@Article{Drach:2016:SSI,
author = "Zohar Drach and Shany Hershkovitz and
Domenico Ferrero and Pierluigi Leone and Andrea Lanzini and
Massimo Santarelli and Yoed Tsur",
title = "Impedance spectroscopy analysis inspired by
evolutionary programming as a diagnostic tool for
{SOEC} and {SOFC}",
journal = "Solid State Ionics",
volume = "288",
pages = "307--310",
year = "2016",
note = "Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on
Solid State Ionics SSI-20",
ISSN = "0167-2738",
DOI = "doi:10.1016/j.ssi.2016.01.001",
URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167273816000047",
abstract = "Impedance spectroscopy (IS) is an effective tool for
the analysis of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid
oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) performance. The
challenge using this characterization tool lies within
the analysis method. Impedance spectroscopy genetic
programming (ISGP) is a novel analysis technique for
impedance spectroscopy data. The ISGP uses evolutionary
programming techniques for finding the most suitable
distribution function of relaxation times (DFRT). This
approach leads toward a better analysis of impedance
spectroscopy results as compared to other analysis
tools such as equivalent circuits or deconvolution
techniques. In this work, SOFC and SOEC were examined
during operation by IS measurements and the results
were analysed using ISGP. The aim of this work is to
show examples of DFRT models which reflect the physical
processes occurring during the operation. It is
demonstrated that despite the low impedance (in the
mOmega range) and the narrow available bandwidth, ISGP
can provide consistent DFRT models.",
keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Impedance
spectroscopy, Solid oxide electrolysis cell, Solid
oxide fuel cell, Distribution of relaxation times",
}
Genetic Programming entries for Zohar Drach Shani Herskovici Domenico Ferrero Pierluigi Leone Andrea Lanzini Massimo Santarelli Yoed Tsur
Citations | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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eant ${antflags} $(use_doc)
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use doc && java-pkg_dojavadoc dist/docs/api
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Myriel Davies
Myriel Irfona Davies (5 March 1920 – 20 December 2000) was a Welsh peace activist. After an early career as a telephone operator, she joined the United Nations Association – UK during the 1956 Suez Crisis, later serving as their deputy director and London regional secretary until 1988.
Biography
Myriel Irfona Davies was born on 5 March 1920 in Swansea to Sarah Jane (née Jones) and Congregational minister David Morgan, and educated at Whitland Grammar School (now Ysgol Dyffryn Taf School). During her early career, she was a telephone operator, working for the General Post Office in Carmarthen and Shrewsbury, the latter where she worked as chief telephonist until her marriage to journalist and socialist Max Davies in 1952, and later at the London location of the Selfridges department store.
Davies became part of the United Nations Association – UK in 1956 while the Suez Crisis was taking place. Subsequently, she became their London chapter's campaigns officer and regional secretary, and the nationwide association's deputy director, holding the latter two positions until 1988. Davies, who was known to be "a Christian of conviction", became a deacon in 1968, served as secretary of Radnor Walk Independent Church, Chelsea, London, in 1982 until her death, and served as president of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1994.
Davies believed in nonviolent action and individuality, and emphasized the ideas of disarmament and peace when discussing Christian issues as Union of Welsh Independents president. She also appeared on such media outlets as BBC Radio Cymru and S4C as an expert on issues through a United Nations lens. T. Hefin Jones said that "she always [spoke to the media] in a balanced and thorough way" and also described her as "an outstanding speaker whose conviction made a profound impression on her listeners." Davies was a speaker at the 1989 Conference of Professions for World Disarmament and Development. Among her travels were a visit to South Africa months after the end of apartheid and personal observations of malnutrition in Bangladesh and poverty in Greece.
Davies was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1978 New Year Honours in her capacity as regional officer of the United Nations Association's London chapter. She was made an honorary member of Gorsedd Cymru in 1983. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
From 1978, Davies lived in St Clears. She was fluent in Welsh. Her elder brother Herbert Myrddin Morgan was a chemist based in St Clears.
Davies died on 20 December 2000. She was cremated and interred in Gibeon Chapel Cemetery, Bancyfelin. | WIKI |
RESTful webservice using Jersey
Here I am going to give an example on how REST webservice works.
The most important concept in REST is resources, which are identified by global IDs — typically using URIs. Client applications use HTTP methods (GET/ POST/ PUT/ DELETE) to manipulate the resource or collection of resources. A RESTful Web service is implemented using HTTP and the principles of REST. Typically, a RESTful Web service should define the following aspects:
The base/root URI for the Web service such as http://<host>/<appcontext/contextpath>/<url pattern>/<resources>.
The MIME type of the response data supported, which are JSON/XML/TEXT/HTML etc.
The set of operations supported by the service. (for example, POST, GET, PUT or DELETE).
Methods
HTTP methods are mapped to CRUD (create, read, update and delete) actions for a resource. Although you can make slight modifications such as making the PUT method to be create or update, the basic patterns are listed as follows.
HTTP GET: Get/List/Retrieve an individual resource or a collection of resources.
HTTP POST: Create a new resource or resources.
HTTP PUT: Update an existing resource or collection of resources.
HTTP DELETE: Delete a resource or collection of resources.
Prerequisites
Eclipse, JDK 1.6, JAX-RS jars 1.8
1. create dynamic web project in Eclipse
2. Download JAX-RS for REST jar bundle and put the below jars into lib directory under WEB-INF/lib directory
REST webservice example using Jersey
3. Now create domain or model object for Book. Here I have put @XmlRootElement for easy marshalling and unmarshalling using JAXB.
package in.sblog.rest.model;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement
public class Book {
private String id;
private String title;
private String author;
private String description;
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
public void setTitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
public String getAuthor() {
return author;
}
public void setAuthor(String author) {
this.author = author;
}
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
public void setDescription(String description) {
this.description = description;
}
}
4. create singleton using enum for data provider because I am not using database here for CRUD operations.
package in.sblog.rest.dao;
import in.sblog.rest.model.Book;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
public enum BookDao {
INSTANCE;
private Map<String, Book> booksMap = new HashMap<String, Book>();
private BookDao() {
Book book = new Book();
book.setId("0001");
book.setTitle("Java Example");
book.setAuthor("Soumitra");
book.setDescription("Love to learn Java");
booksMap.put(book.getId(), book);
}
public Map<String, Book> getBookModel() {
return booksMap;
}
}
5. create BooksResource class for business logic.
Resource Class: class is a plain old java object (POJO) and is not restricted from implementing any interface. This adds many advantages such as reusability and simplicity.
Annotations: They are defined in javax.ws.rs.*, which are part of the JAX-RS (JSR 311) specification.
@Path: This defines the resource base URI. Formed with context root and hostname, the resource identifier will be something like http://localhost:8080/rest/service/books.
@GET: This means that the following method responds to the HTTP GET method.
@POST: This means that the following method responds to the HTTP POST method.
@Produces: Defines the response content MIME type such as plain/text,application/json,application/xml etc.
package in.sblog.rest.resources;
import in.sblog.rest.dao.BookDao;
import in.sblog.rest.model.Book;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;
@Path("/books")
public class BooksResource {
@Context
UriInfo uriInfo;
@GET
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public List<Book> getBooks() {
List<Book> books = new ArrayList<Book>();
books.addAll(BookDao.INSTANCE.getBookModel().values());
return books;
}
@GET
@Path("book/{id}")
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public Book getBook(@PathParam("id") String id) {
Book book = BookDao.INSTANCE.getBookModel().get(id);
if (book == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("Book not found for this Book Id: " + id);
}
return book;
}
@GET
@Path("count")
@Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String getCount() {
int count = BookDao.INSTANCE.getBookModel().size();
return String.valueOf(count);
}
@POST
@Path("add")
@Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public Response addBook(final Book book) {
Response response;
if (BookDao.INSTANCE.getBookModel().containsKey(book.getId())) {
response = Response.noContent().build();
} else {
response = Response.created(uriInfo.getAbsolutePath()).build();
}
BookDao.INSTANCE.getBookModel().put(book.getId(), book);
return response;
}
}
6. You need to direct all the REST requests to the Jersey container by defining a servlet dispatcher in the application’s web.xml file. Along with the Jersey servlet, we need to also define an initialization parameter indicating the Java package that contains the resources.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>rest</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>in.sblog.rest.resources</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/service/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Now we need to test the REST service so create the following classes
7. Create Constant class which holds all the constants used in this application
package in.sblog.rest.utils;
public final class Constant {
private Constant() {
throw new InstantiationError("Error!");
}
public static String REST_BASE_URL = "http://localhost:8080/rest/service";
public static String REST_BOOKS_URL = REST_BASE_URL + "/books";
public static String REST_GET_BOOK_URL = REST_BOOKS_URL + "/book/";
public static String REST_GET_COUNT_URL = REST_BOOKS_URL + "/count";
public static String REST_ADD_NEW_BOOK_URL = REST_BOOKS_URL + "/add";
public static String REST_ACCEPT_TEXT_PLAIN = "text/plain";
public static String REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_XML = "application/xml";
public static String REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_JSON = "application/json";
public static String REST_REQ_ACCEPT_PROPERTY_KEY = "Accept";
public static String REST_REQ_CONTENT_TYPE_PROPERTY_KEY = "Content-Type";
public static String REST_METHOD_GET = "GET";
public static String REST_METHOD_POST = "POST";
public static int REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_OK = 200;
public static int REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_CREATED = 201;
public static int REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_EXISTS = 204;
}
8. Create java class with main method which invokes the REST services.
package in.sblog.rest.test;
import in.sblog.rest.model.Book;
import in.sblog.rest.utils.Constant;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
public class RestTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
/**
* get all Books
*/
URL booksURL = new URL(Constant.REST_BOOKS_URL);
HttpURLConnection booksConn = (HttpURLConnection) booksURL
.openConnection();
booksConn.setRequestMethod(Constant.REST_METHOD_GET);
// booksConn.setRequestProperty(Constant.REST_REQ_PROPERTY_KEY,
// Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_JSON);
booksConn.setRequestProperty(Constant.REST_REQ_ACCEPT_PROPERTY_KEY,
Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_XML);
if (booksConn.getResponseCode() != Constant.REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_OK) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed! HTTP Error Code: "
+ booksConn.getResponseCode());
}
BufferedReader brBooks = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
(booksConn.getInputStream())));
String books;
System.out.println("Books.... \n");
while ((books = brBooks.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(books);
}
booksConn.disconnect();
/**
* get total Books count
*/
URL countURL = new URL(Constant.REST_GET_COUNT_URL);
HttpURLConnection countConn = (HttpURLConnection) countURL
.openConnection();
countConn.setRequestMethod(Constant.REST_METHOD_GET);
countConn.setRequestProperty(Constant.REST_REQ_ACCEPT_PROPERTY_KEY,
Constant.REST_ACCEPT_TEXT_PLAIN);
if (countConn.getResponseCode() != Constant.REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_OK) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed! HTTP Error Code: "
+ booksConn.getResponseCode());
}
BufferedReader brCount = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
(countConn.getInputStream())));
String count;
System.out.println("Total Books.... \n");
while ((count = brCount.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(count);
}
countConn.disconnect();
/**
* get book details for a given book id
*/
String id = "0001";
URL bookURL = new URL(Constant.REST_GET_BOOK_URL + id);
HttpURLConnection bookConn = (HttpURLConnection) bookURL
.openConnection();
bookConn.setRequestMethod(Constant.REST_METHOD_GET);
// bookConn.setRequestProperty(Constant.REST_REQ_PROPERTY_KEY,
// Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_JSON);
bookConn.setRequestProperty(Constant.REST_REQ_ACCEPT_PROPERTY_KEY,
Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_XML);
if (bookConn.getResponseCode() != Constant.REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_OK) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed! HTTP Error Code: "
+ bookConn.getResponseCode());
}
BufferedReader brBook = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
(bookConn.getInputStream())));
String book;
System.out.println("Book details.... \n");
while ((book = brBook.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(book);
}
bookConn.disconnect();
/**
* add new book
*/
Book b = new Book();
b.setId("0002");
b.setTitle("REST Example");
b.setAuthor("Soumitra");
b.setDescription("REST Webservice");
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Book.class);
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
jaxbContext.createMarshaller().marshal(b, stringWriter);
System.out.println("stringWriter: " + stringWriter);
String input = stringWriter.toString();
// String input =
// "{\"id\":\"0003\",\"author\":\"Soumitra\",\"title\":\"REST Service\",\"description\":\"REST Webservice\"}";
URL addBookURL = new URL(Constant.REST_ADD_NEW_BOOK_URL);
HttpURLConnection addBookConn = (HttpURLConnection) addBookURL
.openConnection();
addBookConn.setDoOutput(true);
addBookConn.setRequestMethod(Constant.REST_METHOD_POST);
addBookConn.setRequestProperty(
Constant.REST_REQ_CONTENT_TYPE_PROPERTY_KEY,
Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_XML);
// addBookConn.setRequestProperty(
// Constant.REST_REQ_CONTENT_TYPE_PROPERTY_KEY,
// Constant.REST_ACCEPT_APPLICATION_JSON);
OutputStream addBookOuput = addBookConn.getOutputStream();
addBookOuput.write(input.getBytes());
addBookOuput.flush();
if (addBookConn.getResponseCode() == Constant.REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_EXISTS) {
System.out.println("Content already exists!");
} else if (addBookConn.getResponseCode() != Constant.REST_RESP_HTTP_STATUS_CREATED) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed! HTTP Error Code: "
+ addBookConn.getResponseCode());
} else {
System.out.println("Book succesfully added.... \n");
}
addBookConn.disconnect();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
That’s all. Thanks for reading.
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Jack Arnold (director)
Jack Arnold (born John Arnold Waks; October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American film and television director, considered one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films. His most notable films are It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
Early years
Arnold was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Russian immigrants. As a child, he read a lot of science fiction, which laid the foundations for his genre films of the 1950s.
He hoped to become a professional actor and in his late teens he enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included Hume Cronyn, Betty Field and Garson Kanin. After graduating he worked as a vaudeville dancer and, in 1935, began getting roles in Broadway plays. He was acting in My Sister Eileen when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and he immediately enlisted as a cadet for pilot training.
While Arnold intended to become a pilot, a shortage of planes meant he was temporarily placed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he took a crash course in cinematography. He then became a cameraman and learned the techniques of filmmaking by assisting Robert Flaherty on various military films. After eight months with Flaherty, he became a pilot in the Air Corps. While stationed at Truax Airfield at New Rochelle, New York, he met Betty, who would later become his wife.
Career
Following the end of World War II and the end of Arnold's term of service, he formed a partnership with an air squadron buddy, Lee Goodman, to form a film production company. Their new company, called Promotional Films Company, made fundraising films for various non-profit organizations. He also continued acting on stage during this period, in plays including a revival of The Front Page, and played opposite Bela Lugosi and Elaine Stritch in Three Indelicate Ladies.
By 1950, after his documentary films had received more exposure, he was commissioned to produce and direct With These Hands, a documentary about working conditions of the early 20th century. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Arnold directed a number of 1950s science fiction films. The best known of these, It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and sophisticated scripts. The Incredible Shrinking Man is considered his "masterpiece," a fantasy film with few equals in intelligence and sophistication, notes author John Baxter. While all the films display a "sheer virtuosity of style and clarity of vision."
Arnold's main collaborator at Universal Studios was producer William Alland. Revenge of the Creature (1955) was Clint Eastwood's debut film.
Arnold also made some non-sci-fi films, mostly Westerns. His best Western is often considered to be No Name on the Bullet (1959), about a town frightened to hysteria by the arrival of a gunman who never reveals who he is after or why. The film was shot in color and CinemaScope and was later restored from the original negative for airing on the "Grit" digital broadcast channel.
He also worked in England as the director of the influential anti-nuke satire, The Mouse That Roared (1959), in which Peter Sellers played three roles, one of them in drag. His later films included Hello Down There (1969), Black Eye (1974), the British sex comedy The Bunny Caper aka Sex Play (1974), Boss Nigger (1975) and The Swiss Conspiracy (1976).
Arnold began his television career in 1955 with several episodes of Science Fiction Theater. He went on to direct the long-running television series Perry Mason and Peter Gunn. He also directed episodes of such television shows as Nanny and the Professor, Alias Smith and Jones, The Fall Guy, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Wonder Woman, Ellery Queen, Mr. Terrific, Mr. Lucky, and The San Pedro Beach Bums, as well as the TV movie Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980).
Death and legacy
Arnold died of arteriosclerosis in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 75. Later that year, the UCLA Film Archive held a tribute "Jack Arnold: The Incredible Thinking Man" film festival which screened a number of his films. The Archive also produced and screened a bio-documentary about his life, The Incredible Thinking Man. | WIKI |
3 Top Growth Stocks That Are a Fantastic Long-Term Value
The last year or so has been tough going for growth stocks, but the last few months have been especially brutal. With the Federal Reserve poised to start hiking interest rates, the market's appetite for fast-growing companies has completely soured. Many stocks have crashed like it's the 2000 dot-com bubble bursting all over again.
That doesn't mean these investments are toast, though. On the contrary, high-quality, fast-growing businesses look downright cheap now, considering their long-term prospects. Three that look like especially good values right now are Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), and Doximity (NYSE: DOCS).
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Shopify: A top democratizer of e-commerce
The Great Resignation continues to hit corporate America hard. In Jan. 2022, 4.3 million people quit their jobs (the record monthly number was 4.5 million from Nov. 2021), and many of these folks are starting their own businesses. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, new business applications continue at a near-record pace.
This isn't simply a product of employee frustration being taken out on their employers. Internet technology has reached a point where it's easier than ever for many people to start their own gig. Shopify has been a massive player in this space with its suite of software to help small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs manage all aspects of an e-commerce operation.
As the effects of the pandemic wind down, Shopify's growth trajectory is slowing. But its official (albeit nonspecific) guidance for 2022 is quite noteworthy: Revenue growth is expected to slow from the 57% rate logged in 2021, but it will continue to handily outpace the double-digit percentage growth of the e-commerce market overall.
As of this writing, Shopify stock is down over 70% from its all-time high and has given back all of its gains since the pandemic started. That's right: Even though the e-commerce trend accelerated over the last two years, a simple look at Shopify stock would imply the company has coughed up all of its progress in helping the world bring businesses online -- except the exact opposite has happened. The company is stronger than ever and nowhere close to being done innovating on behalf of its users.
Initiatives to watch in the next couple of years include Shopify's work on its Fulfillment Network to help small businesses provide the same kind of order-delivery services that helped make Amazon a success. Other more niche capabilities include a platform to help businesses sell NFTs directly to customers.
And all this will cost money, which means the 24 times trailing 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is a little deceiving. Basically, based on forward profit estimates, this isn't exactly a cheap stock (it trades for 97 times one-year forward earnings estimates).
Nevertheless, Shopify has proven it can be highly profitable, but it's choosing to aggressively invest those profits to promote further expansion -- both for itself and for the millions of small businesses that have grown to rely on its services. I'm a buyer and rooting for Shopify and the democratization of the retail industry.
Applied Materials: New chip equipment for a new era of chip manufacturing
The semiconductor industry is booming right now because of a global shortage of chips. The pandemic and supply chain issues are only partly to blame. These tiny but mighty building blocks of computing technology are undergoing a revolution as they find themselves in everything from cars to home appliances to industrial equipment. Annual industry sales totaled $556 billion last year, and some outlooks (including that of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger) say that figure will reach $1 trillion by the end of this decade.
A lot more chips will need to be manufactured every year to accommodate this secular growth trend, but this explosion in chip manufacturing will be fueled by companies like Applied Materials (AMAT from here on). You see, AMAT -- along with peers like Lam Research and ASML Holdings -- dominates the field when it comes to developing and selling the machines used to fabricate chips. As chip manufacturers gear up to increase their production capacities and countries worldwide look to bring some production closer to home to withstand future supply disruptions, AMAT is likely to be a big winner.
In fact, management said on the lastearnings callthey believe global fab equipment spending could reach $100 billion in 2022, up from the roughly $65 billion in 2021 and the previous record of about $60 billion back in 2018 (before the U.S.-China trade war started to take a toll on the industry).
Granted, as this is a form of manufacturing, AMAT's business is likely to be cyclical going forward. Sales and profits will ebb and flow as customer demand for equipment changes each year depending on the construction/expansion of facilities. Nevertheless, the company expects strong double-digit percentage revenue growth this year and another year of growth in 2023, based on initial planning from its chip fab partners. After getting pummeled as of late, the stock trades for just 18 times trailing 12-month free cash flow and doles out nearly all of its free cash flow every year via dividends and share repurchases.
AMAT looks cheap right now if you're searching for a long-term growth story from the semiconductor industry.
Doximity: Making life easier for medical professionals
Healthcare is one of those industries almost everyone agrees could use a serious makeover. The cost of obtaining care has been rising for years, and healthcare professionals are strapped for time because of an aging U.S. population. Suffice to say, patients and care providers are in need of help.
Computing technology is beginning to shake things up in the medical field, and Doximity is just one example of how that's happening. Think of Doximity as a type of social network app but on steroids. Often compared to Microsoft's LinkedIn, key features keep medical professionals up-to-date on the news, help them stay in touch with other care providers, and provide a marketing platform for the industry.
But this is more than just social interaction. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a serious deal, but Doximity allows doctors to find and refer patients in a HIPAA-compliant format. Users can make outbound voice and video calls to patients or send and sign digital documents. And a new feature, physician schedule management, is coming via Doximity's acquisition of small software provider Amion.
Telemedicine -- care provided in a virtual format via phone or web-based video -- isn't going away as the pandemic winds down. Doximity is emerging not only as a capable solution but also as an intriguing growth story. Though the stock's first year since its initial public offering (IPO) in summer 2021 has been tenuous (shares are down over 60% from their all-time high and back to where they made their public debut), financial results have been fantastic. Revenue grew 78% to $250 million through the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2021, and free cash flow was $76 million (good for a 30% free-cash-flow margin).
That makes Doximity a rare company that's generating both rapid sales growth and very healthy profit margins. After waiting on the sidelines since the IPO last June, I'm ready to pounce. Shares trade for a premium 66 times trailing 12-month free cash flow, but that could prove to be quite a bargain if the company continues to expand at the rate it has been for a few more years.
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Dominating vast swathes of Mesoamerica from the 14<sup>th to the 16<sup>th century, the legendary Aztec civilisation continues to fascinate scholars to this day.
The rich Aztec culture is well documented by archaeological evidence, and has been immortalised by the accounts of Spanish conquistadores. But none of their practices are described in more vivid details than that of bloody human sacrifices conducted at their temples.
Although the stories told by the Spaniards may have been exaggerated, excavations at the Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) and other temples in the region in the past decades have indicated that human sacrifices were indeed at the heart of the Aztec belief system.
Many studies have been published over the years, attempting to shed light on the purpose of these rituals and how they shaped Aztec society and culture.
Diana Moreiras, PhD candidate at The University of Western Ontario and Vanier Scholar, has now embarked on a project to better understand who the subjects sacrificed by the Aztecs were and where they came from, analysing skeletal remains at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan and the Templo R of Tlatelolco (also in Mexico City).
"I am intrigued by the possibility to use isotope analyses to provide new insights on the Aztec society, and to look at the human sacrifices which were at the core of their state religion and world view. Sacrifices were integrated into every aspect of their society, it was part of rituals, geopolitics and warfare practices and was even integrated into their trade and market systems", Moreiras told IBTimes UK.
"Finding information about the individuals who were sacrificed will help humanise them. Archaeologists often focus on the rituals themselves or on what the priest did and they forget to look at human sacrifices from the perspective of the sacrificial subjects".
Archaeologists who have previously excavated Templo Mayor and Templo R say that Aztec sacrificial practices may have been very diverse.
Many scholars had interpreted Aztec human sacrifices as the ritualistic killing of prisoners of war, but it wasn't until the Templo Mayor Project started in the late 1970s that they found that other people had been sacrificed, including women and children.
Both war and religion were pillars of the Aztec society and it's likely that sacrifices were conducted for spiritual reasons but also to deter anyone who deigned to challenge the authority of the Aztecs.
"Specific individuals were chosen for a specific god, and killed during specific ceremonies, so these sacrifices did have a religious connotation. But we can also see in the way the Aztecs were acquiring sacrificial subjects and showcasing them at the Great Temple that it was a way for them to show off their power and dominance as they were conquering Mesoamerica", Moreiras explained.
The complexity and heterogeneity of Aztec human sacrifices is evident when you take a closer look at the human remains left at their temples. At the Templo R, archaeologists have found the remains of men and children. They were disposed of with a wide range of burial practices – some were placed in ceramic urns and some buried directly under the ground.
Some of these sacrifices appear to have been a one-time offering to the Aztec god of rain and wind, Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl. Researchers have proposed that this sacrifice was associated with a drought that took place between 1454 and 1457 AD.
"These subjects were offered to the god of rain, to appease him and ask for the rain to come. Tlaloc is known to have had little helpers (including Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl) to control the rain. These helpers were known as the Tlaloques. One hypothesis is that some of the children were sacrificed as personifying those little deities", Moreiras pointed out.
At the Templo Mayor, archaeologists have discovered offerings for the two main gods represented, Huitzilopochtli the god of war, and Tlaloc, the god of fertility and rain. There again, both adults (men and women) and children were sacrificed. All experienced different kinds of post-mortem treatments – some were decapitated while others were made as skull masks or had once been displayed as Tzompantli (head rack) skulls.
Moreiras thinks that learning more about the origins and identity of the people who were killed will help improve our understanding of Aztec sacrificial practices. By identifying if people who were sacrificed during a specific ceremony shared similar traits for instance, it might be possible to shed light on why they were chosen and what the meaning of the rituals may be.
Letting isotopes speak
As part of her project, the bioarchaeologist is conducting a range of stable isotope analyses to get a clearer picture of the sacrificial subjects' life history.
This is a well-established method in the field of environmental and earth sciences but it wasn't until later that researchers realised its potential in the field of archaeology and bio-archaeology.
"With isotope analyses, I am investigating two aspects. First, where the sacrificial subjects originated from, whether they moved in their lifetime and if they were part of Aztec society. Second, I also look at what their diets were like, which can point to their origins and socio-economic status", Moreiras said.
In particular, she is currently conducting oxygen isotope analysis to find out where people were drinking their water from - a method she hopes will help her identify whether some of the sacrificial subjects were foreigners. At present, she finds that most of the people were residents of the Basin of Mexico before their sacrificial deaths but it's likely that others will prove to come from further away.
"Some subjects might have come from nearby areas to participate in rituals that would have been part of the Aztec religion and world view. But it's possible that I'll also identify some sacrificial subjects from other parts of Mesoamerica, who may have been war captives, or offered as tributes to the Aztecs, or some could have been slaves traded as part of their market system. This project will help us get a more holistic view of who the sacrificial subjects were and it will allow us to appreciate once more the complexity of human sacrifices", the bioarchaeologist concluded. | FINEWEB-EDU |
What Are Grasshopper Adaptations?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Apr 8, 2020 11:07:00 PM ET
Grasshoppers rarely stay put for long; thanks to their large wings and powerful hind legs, they can escape the grasp of predators and travel great distances in short periods of time. Grasshoppers have some of the strongest legs of all insects in the world, which come in handy when they need to move quickly. They also have large wings that facilitate travel and long, sensitive antennae that help them seek out food and navigate through various environments.
The hind legs of grasshoppers give them the ability to jump nearly 1 meter at a time, which is roughly 30 times their body lengths. The equivalent to that feat is the average human covering a half-length football field in one jump. Grasshoppers do have the ability to walk with their short, stubby front legs and large hind legs, but they walk slowly and travel much more quickly jumping and flying. Grasshoppers are equipped with a large, broad pair of flat and colorless wings, which gives them the ability to lift off the ground at a moment's notice and launch high into the air. Once airborne, grasshoppers can use their long antennae to sense and smell food from quite a distance away. Their antennae also enable grasshoppers to sense moisture, which is critical for insects living in dry and arid desert climates. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
An Extremely Modern Help Guide Web Hosting
Anyone who wants to make a website for public access must pick a web hosting service. An internet hosting services are an organization that offers users by using a server to save data and make their website available on the net.
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1875 was the Hungarian National Museum. Here is a working study was published as a monograph on pókfaunáról already mentioned, which appeared in 1875 , 1877, and 1878 , and with his own hand illustration presented. The three-volume work was all the more easily abroad also known as the author of the first and the second volume is written in Hungarian and German. The book pages of text into two columns. The first was in Hungary, the other German. The third volume is written in English, German is a summary only appendix. The work bilingualism was of great importance, because until then the scientific treatises usually appeared in German. | WIKI |
Liao Zhongkai
Liao Zhongkai (April 23, 1877 – August 20, 1925) was a Chinese-American Kuomintang leader and financier. He was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party (KMT–CCP) United Front in the 1920s. He was assassinated in Canton in August 1925.
Early life
Liao was born in 1877 in San Francisco and received his early education in the United States. He was one of twenty-four children. His father Liao Zhubin, who had five wives, was sent to San Francisco by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Returning to Hong Kong in 1893, at the age of sixteen he studied at Queen's College from 1896. He married He Xiangning in 1897. He then went to Japan in January 1903 to study political science at Waseda University. In 1907 he went to Chuo University to study political and economic science.
In politics
Liao joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1905 upon its founding and became the director of the financial bureau of Guangdong after the founding of the Republic of China.
In the early struggles of the party, Liao Zhongkai was arrested by Guangdong strongman Chen Jiongming in June 1922. After Chen's defeat Liao became Civil governor of Guangdong from May 1923 to February 1924, and then again from June to September 1924. During the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party cooperation period, he was appointed to the Kuomintang Executive Committee.
When the KMT was reformed in 1924, he was named the head of the Department of Workers, and then Department of Peasants. Later he became Minister of Finance of the southern government, seated in Guangdong. When Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing in March, 1925, and Liao was one of the three most powerful figures in the Kuomintang Executive Committee, the other two were Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin.
Death
Liao continued his belief in Sun's policy after Sun died, including one of the key policies of maintaining close relations with the Soviet Union as well as the Chinese Communist Party, which was strongly opposed by the KMT right wing. Liao was assassinated before a Kuomintang Executive Committee meeting on August 20, 1925, in Guangzhou, when five gunmen riddled him with bullets from Mauser C96s as he stepped out of his limousine. Suspicion for the act fell upon Hu Hanmin, who was then arrested. This left only Wang Jingwei and the rising Chiang Kai-shek as rivals for control of the Kuomintang.
Liao and He Xiangning had a daughter, Liao Mengxing, and a son, Liao Chengzhi. The latter had four sons, Liao Hui being the eldest. Anna Chennault is his niece. | WIKI |
Continuous forces are more effective than intermittent forces in expanding sutures Academic Article uri icon
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• SUMMARY: While both intermittent and continuous forces are commonly used to expand sutures, it remains unclear which force is most effective. Using nickel-titanium (NiTi) open coil springs (50 g) and 3 mm long miniscrew implants (MSIs) for skeletal anchorage, intermittent and continuous forces were used to expand the midsagittal sutures in 18 New Zealand white juvenile male rabbits, 11 weeks of age, for 29 days. In the intermittent group, expansion forces of 50 g were delivered for 5 days (on) and paused for 1 day (off); the on/off cycles were repeated five times. Expansion forces of 50 g were delivered for 29 consecutive days in the continuous group. Longitudinal biometric and histomorphometric analyses were performed to evaluate sutural separation and bone formation using implanted tantalum bone markers and fluorescent bone labelling, respectively. Multilevel modelling procedures were undertaken to compare the groups and time intervals. Continuous forces produced significantly greater overall sutural separation (1.3 mm) than intermittent forces (0.8 mm). Although they were delivered over a period of time 86 per cent as long, intermittent forces produced only 61 per cent of the sutural separation of continuous forces. Between days 7 and 17, continuous forces resulted in significantly greater mineral apposition and bone formation rates than intermittent forces. Intermittent forces produced approximately 59 per cent as much mineral apposition and 61 per cent as much bone formation as continuous forces. Due to greater sutural separation and bone formation, continuous forces provide a more effective approach for separating sutures than intermittent forces.
author list (cited authors)
• Liu, S., Kyung, H., & Buschang, P. H.
citation count
• 34
publication date
• August 2010 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The preform is surely an post made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, commonly known as PP Peel. It is usually manufactured using a form on an injection system, which is consequently blown into a container for delicious or non-delicious liquids (water, sodas, milk, alcohol, oils, detergents, personal treatment) on a blowmoulding system.
In practice, what comes from the machine is a check-pipe shaped object having a threaded, finished neck that is certainly then transformed into a personalised container used to distinguish a particular brand.
The preforms are used both by businesses working in the creation of packaging for alternative party businesses, and through industries that carry out all phases of creation on-site, from development of these PET articles to bottling of the finish product.
The technological characteristics from the machines and moulds used to make the preforms are very important, because they determine fundamental factors including:
* creation speed,
* item quality,
* energy usage,
* process expenses,
* regularity of upkeep.
Also, given the amount of customisation required by companies within the drinks sector, customisation from the preforms to acquire created-to-measure packaging is more and more of central importance.
Design of the preform is a fundamental stage, simply because a number of aspects that characterise the bottle are dependent on this short article:
* General excellence of the container
* Wall structure and base density
* Decline in weight
* Neck width
* Dimension and look of the line
A lower bottle density comes with an impact on material savings and, obviously, on creating the finished box lighter in weight, however it is always necessary to take into consideration its power and the sort of contour around be acquired. It really is essential to study the customer’s needs carefully, in order to set up an effective creation process.
Another factor that should not be underestimated is form of the bottle throat. This component can also be made lighter and customised, further optimising the standard and characteristics in the container.
Lastly, those accountable for designing the preform must have the ability to satisfy even clients who want special storage containers, as an example large size, stackable, with asymmetric shapes, ideal for hot liquids.
To obtain containers with your specific technical characteristics the role of the preform developer is of fundamental importance.
PET Lightweight: environmental protection and cost savings
Lightening the weight of containers is a pattern in the industry that must definitely be followed in order to remain competitive available on the market.
This will not mean giving up the standard of the Bottle Seal Liners, on the contrary, because of increasingly advanced technologies, the effectiveness of the packaging is guaranteed even if the density is less.
Companies within the meals sector are increasingly turning in the direction of eco-lasting methods and, as a result, they are searching for bottling options having a lower ecological impact. PET lightening is unquestionably a considerable stage forwards in this regard, as well as offers advantages for businesses in terms of lower costs and improved earnings.
Changing to lighter in weight, smaller packaging indicates utilizing much less PET and also this gives a conserving in components, clearly, but additionally a conserving in dangerous pollutants due to a reduction in the number of carry vehicles in blood circulation and less voluminous finished products.
Much less usage of raw components and much more sleek logistics are elements that also result in lower costs, bringing a boost towards the company spending budget.
This new strategy, that is of advantage to businesses in the Meals & Beverage industry and also to all those utilizing PET packaging, could be ineffective when it fails to produce containers with characteristics which will fulfill customers.
As soon as the preform style phase it really is essential to take into account the weather that will make the PET box ideal for the company that might be utilizing it.
A slimmer, lighter bottle must:
* Protect the contents
* Offer a saving in sources during production
* Optimise storage space and transport
* Give good sensations for consumers (appearance, regularity, safety)
* Hold the lowest possible effect on the surroundings
Mixing ecological sensitivity using the effectiveness of industrial procedures is the reason why the real difference nowadays. It is actually required to marketplace products that show clients the company’s dedication to safeguarding the weather, while nevertheless sustaining quality and communication standards.
Packaging is one from the primary protagonists in all these points and, therefore, the production of PET preforms has to be performed using technologies that ensure benefits for both companies as well as the finish consumers of meals and beverages.
Economic advantages: below are a few examples. As well since the benefits for your eco-system mentioned previously, it really is required to anxiety the financial benefits deriving from new technologies placed on producing Bottle Preform.
The key aspects that can cause cost savings and increased benefits are:
* Lower preform weight
* Lower energy needed
* Much less upkeep
* Much less manpower
* Greater creation
To get a much better comprehension of how lightening of preforms can bring about advantages for businesses, we give a number of examples, already dealt with within the article “PET lightweighting: the best way to safeguard the effectiveness of bottles”, which relate with 3 kswpvl brands: San Pellegrino, Coca-Cola, Nokia.
By lightweighting its bottles, San Pellegrino has accomplished a conserving of around 850,000 lbs of PET each year and Coca-Cola Company has stored 650 plenty. The need for much less material and optimisation of carry has also resulted in the two businesses have retained large amounts of income in their profiles.
Nokia, in the other hand, has reduced the packaging on its items, halving using PET and resulting in 5,000 much less trucks per year around the roads.
This has transformed into advantages for that environment and also for the profiles in the company, which includes earned hundreds of million Euros because of this operation.
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Tusa, Sicily
Tusa is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region of Sicily, located about 80 km east of Palermo and about 120 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,248 and an area of 41.0 km2.
Tusa borders the following municipalities: Motta d'Affermo, Pettineo, San Mauro Castelverde. | WIKI |
Talk:Wind power in Vermont
Issues to resolve
I see a few problems with this article.
The opening sentence refers to 46 MW of installed capacity, and is sourced by this article. However, that is a suppliers page, so ought to be used with caution, and supported by other places. It doesn't say that there are 46 MW installed. It says there are 6 installed, and 40 under construction. That sums to 46, which is acceptable math if the Sheffield site is now operational. The source is from 2008, so it is certainly possible that it is now operational, but that source does not support the claim. A better source is this which does refer to 46 MW.
The article goes on to state that Sheffield is operational, but the reference is this, which is not found.
The lede states that "The first megawatt turbine in the world was installed at Grandpa's Knob, in Vermont, in 1941". The source support the date and the size, but I was unable to see a claim that it was the first of that size.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 00:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
* In fact, there is 119 MW capacity installed and generally operating (the blades of one of the eleven 550-kW Zond turbines in the 1996 Searsburg project was destroyed by lightning in 2006 and was not repaired, I think, and another of those turbines collapsed in a hurricane in 2008 – The US Geological Service lists its capacity as 0.55 MW rather than 6 MW).
* The Searsburg expansion (which would be the first in a National Forest and is currently being held up by a lawsuit) would add another 30 MW. Kerberos (talk) 19:31, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Remove dead proposals
There are no wind farms in the pipeline in Vermont as of last year, so I have removed all the "proposed" farms from the table and the chart. This article was pretty outdated. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
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24 Golpes (purp.), guzes (sang.), and oranges (tenné,), are occasionally to be met with in examples of foreign heraldry.
The Bezant, Plate, and Fountain are always represented fiat; the others in relief, and must be shaded accordingly.
A Roundle may also be blazoned of a fur; and is sometimes, though very rarely, charged.
., or, as the name implies, are drops, which, like the roundies, are distinguished by their tinctures.
Fig. 98 might be blazoned as Argent, guttée de sang, or guteé gules.
VARIED TINCTURES OF FIELDS AND CHARGES.
Fields are not always blazoned as of a simple tincture; sometimes the surface of the shield consists of a kind of pattern, on which the charges are placed. These patterns are formed by the lines representing the ordinaries and subordinaries, and from which they derive their names.
Paly means that the field is to be divided into an even number of pales, specifying the number. Thus the shield represented in the margin would be blazoned, ''Paly of six, arg. and ax''. | WIKI |
Make Alexa Speak a Message Received via MQTT
These instructions assume an OpenHAB2 configuration with Mosquitto MQ enabled and working. However, HUE emulation must not necessarily be installed and configured since these instructions use a different binding. Furthermore, there is no need to install any TTS engine (ie: from Paper UI → Add-Ons → TTS) since the Amazon Echo itself will be used as the TTS device. These instructions partially synthesize the official Amazon Echo Control Binding documentation.
The Amazon Echo Control Binding since version 2.3 supports text-to-speech and thereby outdates hardware solutions. To make the Amazon Echo speak a message received on a given MQTT following, perform the following steps:
• Install the Amazon Echo Control Binding via the OpenHAB2 user interface (Paper UI → Add-Ons → Bindings → Amazon Echo Control Binding).
• Log-in to your Amazon Alexa account by navigating to http://alexa.amazon.com and browse the menus to Settings → Devices (select your device) → Serial number and jot down the serial number for the next step.
• Create a things file at /etc/openhab2/things/echo.things with the following contents:
Bridge amazonechocontrol:account:AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME "Amazon Account" @ "Accounts" [amazonSite="amazon.com", email="AMAZON_ACCOUNT_EMAIL", password="AMAZON_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD", pollingIntervalInSeconds=60]
{
Thing AMAZON_ECHO_NAME AMAZON_ECHO_NAME "Alexa" @ "Living Room" [serialNumber="AMAZON_ECHO_SERIAL_NUMBER"]
Thing flashbriefingprofile flashbriefing "Flash Briefing Technical" @ "Flash Briefings"
}
and replace the following placeholders:
• AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME - a descriptive name for your Amazon account,
• AMAZON_ACCOUNT_EMAIL - the E-Mail used to login to your Amazon account,
• AMAZON_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD - the Amazon account password,
• AMAZON_ECHO_NAME - a descriptive name for the Amazon echo device,
• AMAZON_ECHO_SERIAL_NUMBER - your echo device serial number obtained from the previous step.
• Browse to your OpenHAB2 web interface with the following path /amazonechocontrol/account (ie: http://openhab2.home:8080/amazonechocontrol/AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME) where AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME is the descriptive name of the account from the echo.things file created in the previous step.
• Create the file /etc/openhab2/items/MQTTSay.items with the following contents:
String MQTTSay_String { mqtt="<[mosquitto:alexa/say:state:default]" }
String EchoTTS "Text to Speech" {channel="amazonechocontrol:echo: AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME: AMAZON_ECHO_NAME:textToSpeech"}
and replace the placeholders that must match the settings in /etc/openhab2/things/echo.things:
• AMAZON_ACCOUNT_NAME - a descriptive name for your Amazon account,
• AMAZON_ECHO_NAME - a descriptive name for the Amazon echo device
• Create the file /etc/openhab2/rules/MQTTSay.rules with the following contents:
rule "Make Alexa say an MQTT message"
when
Item MQTTSay_String received update
then
EchoTTS.sendCommand(MQTTSay_String.state.toString())
end
Finally, restart OpenHAB2.
For testing, tail the OpenHAB2 log file (usually, placed at /var/log/openhab2/openhab2.log and then from a different machine, use mosquitto_pub to send a message to the MQTT server, ie:
mosquitto_pub -h MQTT_SERVER_HOSTNAME -t 'alexa/say' -m "Program me daddy\!" -v
where:
• MQTT_SERVER_HOSTNAME is the hostname or IP address of the MQTT server.
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Travelling salesman paths on Demidenko matrices
Eranda Dragoti-Cela*, Vladimir Deineko, Gerhard Woeginger
*Corresponding author for this work
Research output: Working paperDiscussion paper
Abstract
In the path version of the Travelling Salesman Problem (Path-TSP), a salesman islooking for the shortest Hamiltonian path through a set ofncities. The salesman hasto start his journey at a given citys, visit every city exactly once, and finally end histrip at another given cityt.In this paper we identify a new polynomially solvable case of the Path-TSP wherethe distance matrix of the cities is a so-called Demidenko matrix. We identify a numberof crucial combinatorial properties of the optimal solution, and we design a dynamicprogram with time complexityO(n6)
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages18
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2020
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Mathematics(all)
Fields of Expertise
• Information, Communication & Computing
Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)
• Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)
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Rosemaries That Delight the Eye and the Nose
I WAS bitten by the rosemary bug a few weeks ago at DeBaggio Herbs. It was a chilly day in Chantilly, Va., with mist so heavy it wanted to be rain, and the greens and grays of the rosemaries, with their spiky needles and their little flowers, ranging from powdery blue to deep blue to white, tugged at my heart. I bought a golden rosemary, Rosemarinus officinalis Golden Rain Joyce DeBaggio, which Thomas DeBaggio named after his wife. He grew it five years ago from a sport, an oddball growth that shows up, thanks to some mutation, in a regular plant. In this case, it was a branch with yellow needles poking out from a green rosemary. Mr. DeBaggio simply cut off the branch and rooted it in some potting soil. Then he made cuttings from the mother plant. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
TwitCasting
TwitCasting is a livestreaming service operated by Moi Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. In early 2013, TwitCasting was developed as a way to use the Twitter feed to stream content from smartphones directly onto a user's channel. As of July 2021, it had over 33 million registered users. As of March 2020, it had the most monthly active users among livestreaming apps in Japan, according to App Ape Lab analytics.
History
On February 3, 2010, TwitCasting Live for iPhone was launched and linked with Twitter. On April 6, 2011, TwitCasting Live for Android was launched. In February 2012, after a company split, the operating company was changed from Sidefeed Co., Ltd. to Moi Co., Ltd. In May 2013, Moi Co., Ltd. raised ¥64.8 million from East Ventures and Masao Itō (User Local CEO), and in June 2014, $5 million from Sinar Mas Group and East Ventures. In September 2015, the number of livestreams exceeded 200 million.
On February 18, 2018, "TwitCasting Kiitos", a function that allows listeners to support the planning of live broadcasters, was released, In December 2018, the service had over 20 million registered users. In April 2018, TwitCasting began accepting virtual currency.
In April 2019, a comprehensive license agreement regarding the use of copyrighted works of Nintendo Co., Ltd. was concluded. A gameplay commentary app TwitCasting Games was released on August 8, 2019. A screen sharing function for PC was released in July 2020.
In March 2021, TwitCasting began broadcasting anime with titles from the Show by Rock!! series. ''Show by Rock!! Stars!!'' attracted over 200,000 viewers. In October of the same year, the first movie began broadcasting on the service, Sumikko Gurashi: Tobidasu Ehon to Himitsu no ko.
Overview
Livestreaming on the service is possible from iPhone and Android devices as well as PC. Facebook and Twitter can be used to notify followers about the livestream. The streaming method can be selected from a video livestream and a radio livestream (only audio is distributed but a still image is displayed on the screen). Registration and login are required for streaming and commenting. However, logging in is not required to watch a livestream.
Registration is possible via syncing a Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram account.
Controversies
The company and other livestreaming services have been criticized for numerous incidents of users livestreaming criminal or malicious acts in order to get viewers, and responded by suspending users for their behavior.
In 2018, the National Police Agency reported that TwitCasting had the fifth highest number of child users who had been crime victims on social network services, after Twitter, Himabu, LINE, and Marin Chat (now ORCA). | WIKI |
@halcyon Interesting client! I tried to run it but ran into a few issues on PHP 7.2. I didn't want to register on yet another website so here is a list of things I ran into:
* notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halc Assigning array values this way throws a warning and will return an error on later PHP versions.
* notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halc Does no sanity checking and will emit a notice when the response does not match expectations.
* notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halc eval asking for trouble. You don't want to do that.
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@nvsr I'm back from holidays and had a look at those problems but I have questions.
- This is the standard form of assigning a value to a associative array,isn't it?In which way should I do it if not in this?Using array_push() would only make sense for numbered arrays.
- Which form of sanity checking do you think I need at this point?First checking that $response exists and is an array,then checking that for ['html'] and so on?Or do you mean something else?
@halcyon welcome home! I hope you had a great vacation.
* The prefered way to setting associative array values is $arr['foo'] = "bar"
* Checking whether the response matches what you expect should do the trick!
@nvsr I don't see a real difference between $parameters[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = http_build_query($data); and $arr['foo'] = "bar";.As key I use a constant instead of a string and as a value I use a function instead of a string but both should be fine as far as I know.Can you please further explain where you locate the error?
For the second problem,I see what you mean and will do that.
@halcyon interestingly it seems that those constants were not defined when I ran the code. Oddly enough I do have curl enabled so I'll look into it some more after I get home from work.
@nvsr cURL option constants should be set by PHP automatically.You can find a list of them here: php.net/manual/en/function.cur
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See the SEP entry about Pythagoras : from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE, and the entry on Pythagoreanism :
Pythagoreanism is the philosophy of a group of philosophers active in the fifth and the first half of the fourth century BCE :
Many other sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century thinkers are labeled Pythagoreans in the Greek tradition after the fourth century BCE. [...] There are nonetheless a number of thinkers of the fifth and fourth century BCE, who can legitimately be called Pythagoreans, although often little is known about them except their names. The most important of these figures is Hippasus [from Metapontum fifth-century BCE].
But we have to recorc also :
Aristoxenus (ca. 375- ca. 300 BCE) is most famous as a music theorist and as a member of the Lyceum, who was disappointed not be to named Aristotle's successor. In his early years, however, he was a Pythagorean, and he is one of the most important sources for early Pythagoreanism.
This shows us that the school was "alive and well" during Aristotle's time (384–322 BCE).
Thus, I think it is not correct to speak of "collapse of his school". | FINEWEB-EDU |
Jets hang on to keep Browns winless
CLEVELAND — The New York Jets, forecast to be one of the worst teams in the NFL before the season began, are on a roll they want to continue as long as they can. Quarterback Josh McCown threw two touchdown passes in the second half on Sunday and the Jets won for the third time this season by beating the winless Cleveland Browns 17-14. Kevin Hogan, who replaced rookie DeShone Kizer at quarterback after halftime, gave the Browns (0-5) their first lead of the season on a 21-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end David Njoku with 9:23 left in the third quarter. Njoku made a leaping one-handed catch to haul the ball in and give Cleveland a 7-3 lead. The Jets (3-2) regained the lead, 10-7, before the quarter ended when they cashed in an interception by cornerback Morris Claiborne, who returned the ball 28 yards to the Browns’ 13-yard line. Two plays later, McCown tossed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins. “It was a really good throw by Josh,” Seferian-Jenkins said. “It was a fade route. The guy was playing inside presence. Josh and I have been working on that route all week. He put it up perfectly. I thought something was wrong because it was so open. I thought the play stopped, but I’m glad it didn’t.” The Jets expanded their lead to 17-7 with a 97-yard drive early in the fourth quarter, capped off by a 24-yard touchdown pass from McCown to wide receiver Jermaine Kearse. The drive began deep in Jets territory because the Browns decided to go for it on fourth-and-1 rather than attempt a 20-yard, game-tying field goal. Hogan connected with running back Duke Johnson on a 41-yard touchdown pass with 1:49 remaining to cut the margin to three points, but the Jets recovered the subsequent onside kick and ran out the clock. Browns head coach Hue Jackson has a decision to make before the Browns play the Texans in Houston next Sunday; stick with Hogan, who gave his team a chance, or go back to Kizer. The game was scoreless until Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 57-yard field goal for the Jets on the final play of the first half to cap a six-play, 32-yard drive. It was the Jets’ first scoring opportunity of the game. “I was just doing my job,” Catanzaro said. “The snapper and holder did a great job and the protection up front did a great job. We knew it was going to be a tough battle on the road.” Prior to that, the Browns, a reflection of being 0-4 when the game began, squandered four excellent scoring opportunities. The Browns started a drive at the Cleveland 43 with eight minutes left in the first quarter and moved to the Jets’ 3 in 13 plays, converting three third downs along the way. On third-and-goal from the 3, however, a botched pitch from Kizer to running back Isaiah Crowell was recovered by Jets linebacker Freddie Bishop at the Jets 17. It was one of the plays that led to Kizer being benched. “I was frustrated, for sure,” Kizer said. “My job as quarterback here is to do whatever I can to help win and it’s tough to do that when you aren’t in the game due to poor performance.” The Browns penetrated to the Jets’ 32 the next time they got the ball, but then two penalties pushed them back to the Jets’ 47. That drive ended with rookie Zane Gonzalez missing a 52-yard field goal wide left. Another takeaway by the Jets thwarted Cleveland’s next scoring drive. The Browns, behind the strong running of Crowell, moved to the Jets’ 4, but they came up empty again when Jets safety Marcus Maye intercepted a pass intended for tight end Seth DeValve at the New York 2. A kick wide left from 39 yards by Gonzalez with 31 seconds left the next time the Browns had the ball led to a Jets’ field goal before halftime. “I yanked the first one a little bit,” Gonzalez said. “The other, I felt like I hit it better. The wind pushed it a little bit left. Two kicks should have been made. It just sucks. “Everybody has a day you want to forget. That’s today, obviously. My teammates have all the faith in the world in me. A loss by three points — that sucks extra bad.” Hogan finished the day 16 of 19 for 192 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Kizer was 8 of 17 for 87 yards, no touchdowns and an interception. McCown was 23 of 30 for 194 yards, two touchdowns and one pick. NOTES: Jets QB Josh McCown began the game with his first two-game winning streak as a starter since 2004 when he was with the Cardinals. He extended that to a three-game winning streak. ... Former Browns LB Demario Davis leads the Jets with 55 tackles after making six on Sunday. ... WR Kenny Britt was inactive for the Browns with groin and knee injuries after starting the first four games. ... Browns LB Jamie Collins missed his third straight game with a concussion. The Browns have given up 31, 31 and 17 points in his absence. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Discover the Benefits of Hemp Extracts: Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, and CBD Isolate
As interest in the therapeutic potential of hemp-derived products increases, the market has flourished with a wide selection of products featuring different hemp extracts: Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, and CBD Isolate. While all three extracts are derived from the hemp plant, they each offer unique compositions and properties that cater to a variety of preferences and needs.
Navigating this ever-growing world of hemp-derived products can be overwhelming, especially for those new to the wellness potential of hemp. That's why we have crafted this comprehensive blog series to guide you through the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between the various types of hemp extracts. Our goal is to help you understand the intricacies of Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, and CBD Isolate extracts while empowering you to make informed decisions about which products are best suited for your unique wellness journey.
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A thorough explanation of the three main types of hemp extracts, their origin, and what distinguishes them from one another:
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Full Spectrum hemp extract contains all the naturally occurring compounds within the hemp plant, including cannabinoids (such as CBD and THC), terpenes, and flavonoids. This type of extract closely mirrors the natural composition of the hemp plant and typically has trace amounts of THC - usually below the federally legal limit of 0.3%.
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CBD Isolate is the most refined and purified form of hemp extract, containing only the CBD molecule. All other compounds, including other cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids, are removed during the extraction process. This type of extract is ideal for users seeking a THC-free product that solely delivers the potential therapeutic benefits of CBD.
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An in-depth look into the theory of the Entourage Effect and its potential relevance when choosing between Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, and CBD Isolate products:
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The Entourage Effect is a theory suggesting that the various compounds within the hemp plant work synergistically to produce a more significant therapeutic effect than they would individually. According to this theory, the natural balance of cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids may create an enhanced experience for users compared to using CBD in isolation.
2. Full Spectrum and Broad Spectrum: Potential Synergy
Full Spectrum and Broad Spectrum hemp extracts both contain a range of compounds, which may contribute to the Entourage Effect. These two types of extracts provide users with access to the diverse cannabinoid profile of the hemp plant, which may offer a richer and more dynamic experience than using only CBD Isolate.
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CBD Isolate does not contribute to the Entourage Effect, as it contains only one cannabinoid - CBD. While this type of extract may provide more targeted results for users solely interested in CBD, it may not provide the same potential synergistic benefits as Full Spectrum or Broad Spectrum hemp extracts.
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Terpenes and flavonoids, found in Full Spectrum hemp extracts, are organic compounds that contribute to the unique aroma and flavor profiles of hemp plants. These compounds also have potential therapeutic attributes that may further enhance the benefits of Full Spectrum Hemp-Derived CBD products.
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Summary:ASTERISK-16004: Call transfer from Voicemail or Queue Application result Asterisk to crash. (SIP REFER)
Reporter:Alexander Nazaruk (anazaruk)Labels:
Date Opened:2010-04-22 22:23:12Date Closed:2011-06-07 14:01:06
Priority:CriticalRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Channels/chan_sip/Transfers
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Environment:Attachments:( 0) gdb.txt
( 1) thread_.txt
Description:Polycom and Linksys SIP phones result same crash.
1. Dial voicemail or queue.
2. While checking voicemail or being in queue, put call on hold and dial another extension from the same IP phone.
3. Pick up the phone on another extension you dial.
4. Push transfer button.
IP phone will send SIP REFER message to asterisk witch will result asterisk to CORE.
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It only crashes when you trying to transfer Voicemail or Queue to Extension.
While trying to transfer extension to Queue or Voicemail it will not crash.
Other call transfers work fine. (ext to ext or ext to PSTN number out SIP)
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Removed inline backtrace - pabelanger
Comments:By: Paul Belanger (pabelanger) 2010-04-22 23:05:19
Your backtraces are optimize out (see below)
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Thank you for your bug report. In order to move your issue forward, we require a backtrace from the core file produced after the crash. Please see the doc/backtrace.txt file in your Asterisk source directory.
Also, be sure you have DONT_OPTIMIZE enabled in menuselect within the Compiler Flags section, then:
make install
after enabling, reproduce the crash, and then execute the instructions in doc/backtrace.txt.
When complete, attach that file to this issue report. Thanks!
By: Alexander Nazaruk (anazaruk) 2010-04-23 02:57:18
please close this bug. I have figured it out.
Thank you
By: Paul Belanger (pabelanger) 2010-04-23 08:08:36
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Senawang-NSE Road
Senawang-NSE Road, Federal Route 243, is a dual-carriageway federal road in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is a main route to North–South Expressway Southern Route from Senawang.
It starts at Senawang interchange of the North–South Expressway Southern Route and ends at Senawang.
History
The section between Senawang-NSE interchange and Senawang-Federal Route 1 interchange used to be a part of the Kuala Lumpur–Seremban Expressway before being decommissioned to a federal road after the expressway which formed the North–South Expressway Southern Route was extended southwards. In 2012, this section was gazetted as a Federal Route 243.
Features
At most sections, the Federal Route 243 was built under the JKR U4 road standard, with a speed limit of 70 km/h.
The entire length of this road is located within the district of Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
List of interchanges
* I/C - interchange, I/S - intersection RSA - Rest and service area, L/B - layby, BR - bridge | WIKI |
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As a result, it's not advised to take a medicine in this course while on a rigorous low-carb diet plan. weight loss. The bottom line There is no weight-loss medication that conveniently makes individuals slim. These medicines all have prospective negative effects and also a lot of are not extremely reliable. While GLP-1 analogues like liraglutide as well as semaglutide show promise, they are incredibly costly as well as, like all weight-loss medicines, they just help as long as you take them.
That's why also the finest weight reduction medicine can just be an optional complement to nutritional as well as way of life treatments. That's why this piece of advice is number 18 out of 18. It may be a practical addition for some individuals, but the recommendations higher on the list is what can make the greatest distinction, by much.
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In one sense, slimming down can be as simple as moving more and consuming less. For some individuals it is that easy. Nevertheless, the legislations of thermodynamics can't be broken: If you ingest fewer Calories than you use up, you will certainly drop weight in time. Yet for other individuals, moving even more and also eating less do not have the very same rewarding results.
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Homeostatic Settlement This appears extra complicated than it is. The thinking is that the body has a set point for body weight, and attempts to change weight provoke compensations to counter those efforts. Below's an easy example: People who introduce workout right into their everyday regimen in an effort to slim down are frequently discouraged by the slow-moving speed of weight loss (weight loss efforts).
Hormones The neuroendocrine system (brain, central nerves, hormones) plays an essential function in the law of appetite and also satiety - fat cells. Eating provokes the release of lots otherwise thousands of hormonal agents from the mind, intestine, pancreatic, liver, and also various other organs, developing an abundant mix of signals that affect sensations of hunger and also satiation.
Although some individuals think that high-fat diets benefit hunger control, fat is the weakest macronutrient at generating satiety and raising its own oxidation. resistance training. True high-fat diet regimens deplete muscle and liver glycogen, leading to the loss of water molecules that are generally saved with glycogen. Water loss, not fat loss, discusses the majority of the quick weight reduction that occurs in the onset of such diet programs.
If you choose to attempt to reduce weight, make changes that you can deal with for the long haul - long term. Shannon Wright for NPR Shannon Wright for NPR If you select to attempt to drop weight, make modifications that you can live with for the long run. Shannon Wright for NPR If you have actually ever before attempted to slim down and also found the pounds won't come off conveniently or they come right back you are not the only one.
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Some variables are within our control, however numerous are not. Comprehending exactly how this works might make you look a lot more kindly on your body (blood sugar). We will not inform you just how to reduce weight or whether you even need to. Yet we will certainly give you five realities concerning biology. Your metabolic rate is the procedure whereby your body converts the food you eat into power.
Researchers don't recognize every little thing about why that is. However they do understand that component of that variation concerns the structure of fat versus muscular tissue in your body. It likewise differs by gender men have faster metabolisms because they have more muscular tissue on their bodies and also it slows down as we age.
When you shed weight, your metabolic rate slows, in component through straightforward physics. "Calorie shed is in some sense symmetrical to your body weight," claims Kevin Hall, elderly scientist at the National Institute of Diabetic Issues and also Gastrointestinal and Kidney Illness.
Hall says metabolic process seems to imitate a spring: The even more effort you put into slimming down, the more you can extend that springtime out that is, lose weight. But if you let up the stress on the spring by stopping whatever consuming and exercise routine helped you shed weight your metabolism will certainly bounce back and you'll gain back the weight you lost.
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This indicates that whatever changes you make to your diet plan or physical task need to be maintained up completely to avoid weight reclaim. Right here's one more diabolical adjustment that takes place when you drop weight: Your hormones transform in methods that modify your cravings. While a great deal of different hormones are associated with cravings, one of them is leptin, which is released by fat cells and also primarily informs your mind when to eat and when to stop eating.
It's simply hormonal agents. For most individuals, workout is a minor gamer in weight loss.
What's even more, people have a tendency to utilize workout as a justification to allow themselves eat more (weight loss plateau). When that takes place, they often tend to eat even more calories as a "incentive" than they burnt at the fitness center. Or they may compensate by collapsing out on the sofa as well as relocating much less the rest of their day.
Simply don't do it so you can "make" an item of delicious chocolate cake. There are lots of documented benefits to exercise that have absolutely nothing to do with fat burning, including far better state of mind, better rest, reduced anxiousness and also far better blood glucose levels. What's even more, some proof suggests that if you do a large amount of physical task, your resting metabolic rate could slow down to make up though this is still a concept.
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A great deal of what we understand about how people keep fat burning over the long run comes from the National Weight Control Computer Registry, a data source of individuals throughout the U.S. who have actually shed at the very least 30 pounds and have maintained it off for at the very least a year. The No. 1 thing these people share: They report working out daily for about a hr generally.
One of the most popular type of exercise among this group is strolling, states Dr. Holly Wyatt, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical University, who studies individuals on the computer system registry. She says these long-term weight-loss maintainers additionally do a great deal of resistance training as well as other tasks (weight loss plateau).
Many individuals assume that to keep weight off lengthy term, they need to eat much less for life. strength training. Also those on the National Weight Control Windows registry seem to think so they report consuming approximately about 1,400 calories a day. However a current research reveals that this isn't always real. That research study, released in the journal Excessive weight, checked out people that had actually shed a standard of 58 extra pounds as well as had actually maintained it off for approximately nine years.
But because their weights were steady, that implied they were additionally consuming 2,500 calories a day about as much as they used to consume when they were larger. The factor they could eat in this manner and not get back the weight in spite of now having slower resting metabolic process? They were now working out method greater than when they were larger.
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Or you might decide to attempt to reduce weight anyway. If you do, take into consideration reconsidering your objective. Rather than attempting to look like a magazine cover design, maybe focus on modifications that make you really feel healthier. "Those kinds of changes that you make then come to be incentives in their own," Hall claims.
To shed even more weight, you require to either boost your physical task or reduce the calories you eat. Using the same technique that functioned initially might keep your weight loss, yet it won't lead to more weight loss.
Less than 1,200 calories a day might not suffice to keep you from constant appetite, which raises your threat of overindulging. Lots of people ought to work out half an hour a day, almost every day of the week. Yet individuals trying to shed weight ought to exercise more often than that or increase the strength of workout to burn even more calories - whole foods.
The strategy, which has actually verified preferred online, is designed to assist you lose weight securely and also keep it off. The secrets to success: make realistic adjustments to your diet and also exercise that can end up being a component of your normal routine the ideal way to reduce weight is to make long-term adjustments to diet and also exercise that cause a consistent price of fat burning purpose to lose weight at around 0 - muscle mass.
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When you stop the routine, you're most likely to go back to old habits and restore weight.
You're adhering to a healthy and balanced weight-loss plan and focusing on diet, exercise, appropriate rest, and also proper supplementation. Yet your weight continues to be the very same. But there are medical conditions that make it difficult to reduce weight. Frequently when this happens, there's a surprise wrongdoer such as tension or prescription medications. Or possibly you're eating foods with concealed forms of sugar.
If your body's inner processes aren't functioning properly, that can have a widespread effect on various other physical features including your capacity to drop weight. If you believe you may have any of these problems, speak to your physician regarding exactly how to far better handle them so you can obtain your weight-loss on track.
It can be really tough for people with hypothyroidism to reduce weight. They might additionally experience exhaustion, slowness, trouble focusing, depression, muscle pain, and serious PMS. 3. Persistent stress and anxiety as well as depression Stress and anxiety causes the release of a hormonal agent referred to as cortisol, which influences several processes throughout the body. If you are dealing with persistent anxiety, anxiousness, or sorrow, the result is frequently high, prolonged degrees of cortisol, which can cause health and wellness concerns such as a depressed immune system, raised high blood pressure, and enhanced stomach fat.
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Hormonal modifications The only point constant about hormones in a female's life is that they alter. If you're experiencing signs and symptoms of menopause, these natural hormonal changes might make it extra challenging for you to lose excess weight (medical advice).
Sleeping Too Little, Or As Well Much Sometimes we placed on weight for surprising reasons. One out of 4 Americans doesn't get sufficient rest - weight loss mistake.
Those results also suggest a connection between weight gain and also obtaining more than 9 hrs or less than five hrs of rest. Once more, individuals who rest less have a tendency to really feel tired, making exercises less most likely.
On the various other hand, people sometimes consume when they're actually dehydrated. weight loss surgery. So quenching your thirst prior to taking a bite is not a negative idea. It's also much better to get to for a glass of water than a sports drink, soda, or caramel latteany beverage with calories will affect your diet regimen, yet with water there's no need to worry.
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Consolation
Consolation or consolement is the act of offering psychological comfort to someone who has suffered severe, upsetting loss, such as the death of a loved one. It is typically provided by expressing shared regret for that loss and highlighting the hope for positive events in the future. Consolation is an important topic arising in history, the arts, philosophy, and psychology.
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* Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere— and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.
* Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (written between 1812 and 1814; Published July 1814).
* CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
* Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* Before and after fundamental medicine offers diagnoses, drugs, and surgery to those who suffer, it should offer consolation. Consolation is a gift. Consolation comforts when loss occurs or is inevitable. This comfort may be one person's render loss more bearable by inviting some shift in belief about the point of living a life that includes suffering. Thus consolation implies a period of transition: a preparation for a time when the present suffering will have turned. Consolation promises that turning.
* Arthur W. Frank, The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live (2009), p. 2.
* I am much indebted to the good christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
* Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 535.
* For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
* Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881), p. 380.
* It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon.
* Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (1989) YouTube video of the lecture.
* Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.
* Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution.
* Love is not consolation, it is light.
* Simone Weil; as quoted in Simone Weil (1954) by Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin, p. 47.
* Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.
* Simone Weil, "Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417. | WIKI |
Capillary Arteriovenous Malformation Syndrome
Blood vessel carrying red blood cells
Capillary arteriovenous malformation syndrome (Cap-AVM) is a genetic syndrome caused by variants in the RASA1 (p120-RAS GAP) gene. The incidence is one in 100,000 individuals. The feature that defines Cap-AVM is abnormal blood vessels (capillaries) in the skin that may appear as small red spots in the skin. Individuals may also develop arteriovenous malformations, which are abnormal connections between the veins, arteries and capillaries. These malformations can cause a number of different health problems depending on their location. Patients with Cap-AVM may also have a higher risk of developing cancer.
What are some of the features and symptoms of Capillary Arteriovenous Malformation Syndrome?
• Capillary malformations
• Abnormal bleeding
• Headaches
• Seizures
• Limb overgrowth
• Heart failure
What is the age at diagnosis of Capillary Arteriovenous Malformation Syndrome?
The age at diagnosis varies. It occurs when clinical features appear and testing is done to confirm the diagnosis.
How is Capillary Arteriovenous Malformation Syndrome treated?
Treatment is focused on the specific symptoms and may involve a team of doctors with different specialties like dermatology, orthopedics and cardiology.
What types of cancer are individuals with Capillary Arteriovenous Malformation Syndrome at higher risk of developing?
• Skin cancer
• Lung cancer has been reported
• More research is needed to learn about cancers in patients with Cap-AVM.
Other types of RASopathy syndromes:
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El Nino 101: What everyone needs to know: Braun
LONDON (Reuters) - If you have never heard the term “El Nino”, you might have been living under a rock. The common informed person is probably somewhat aware that we are amidst a record-setting El Nino, and rumors of a possible switch to La Nina later this year have also danced into the public’s ear, particularly those with an interest in commodity markets. But comprehension of such a scenario, and what it may mean, is quite difficult without an understanding of what El Nino and La Nina actually are and why they exist. These topics always spark interest and curiosity amongst people worldwide, but actual clarity is often missing. This is a time when a return to basics becomes admittedly refreshing. One very important thing to remember from the start is that both El Nino and La Nina are naturally recurring climatic events. They are not “storms”. Chaotic weather is not the guaranteed outcome. They are not a product of climate change. And there is certainly no conspiracy involved. Both El Nino and its counterpart, La Nina, are part of a larger-scale climate pattern known as El Nino-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. ENSO is based on the variation of both sea surface temperatures, or SSTs, and air pressure tendencies in and around the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The equatorial Pacific is split into 4 regions, named "Nino" regions, over which SSTs are monitored. One region, Nino 3.4, is the location in which scientists have found the best linkage between SSTs and climate patterns. Therefore, the SST anomaly in the Nino 3.4 region ultimately defines which phase of ENSO is present (tmsnrt.rs/1Ql4kqs). The requirement to classify an El Nino or La Nina event is that SSTs in the Nino 3.4 region must be at least 0.5 degree C above or below the long-term average temperature for roughly six or seven consecutive months, at the minimum. The warm phase of ENSO is known as El Nino and the cool phase is La Nina, so therefore by definition, the two events could never occur simultaneously. ENSO-Neutral conditions are said to be present when the SSTs are neither significantly warmer nor cooler than average (tmsnrt.rs/1Ql6bvz). ENSO’s existence owes to the ever-dynamic global circulation patterns. Because of the cyclic nature of the oceans and the atmosphere, ENSO operates on a semi-regular scale as well. And the cycle is always in progress. On average, ENSO undergoes a full cycle every two to seven years. La Nina and El Nino events occur every three to five years and reach peak strength between October and March when SSTs across the equatorial Pacific are the warmest. There has been roughly the same amount of El Nino and La Nina events since modern records began in 1950, but La Nina can span over three years, while El Nino typically does not last more than one year. There is no long term bias for either in recent decades (tmsnrt.rs/1Ql7rik). Basic ocean and atmospheric circulation set the scene. Cold waters deep in the equatorial Pacific move eastward towards the Americas, causing the upwelling, or surfacing, of these cool waters off the coast of Peru. Once reaching the surface, easterly – from the east – trade winds along the equator carry the surface waters westward towards Asia. During its journey, the waters are warmed by the sun’s direct rays. Upon arrival at the western basin, the waters sink back down to the ocean floor, restarting the cycle. One of the biggest signs that an El Nino or La Nina event may be in the works is when trade winds and pressure tendencies over the Pacific Ocean are disturbed from their normal state. Air pressure and winds directly impact one another, but to ask which comes first presents a “chicken or egg” dilemma. Air tends to flow from high to low pressure. So when the pressure is higher near Tahiti relative to that in Darwin, Australia, this creates a strong easterly flow in the equatorial Ocean. Since the default state of trade winds near the equator is already easterly, the trade winds are amplified, blowing towards the west much more strongly than usual. In this situation, the cold waters churned up off the west coast of South America are hurried westward along the equator faster than normal, displacing and cooling down the solar-warmed waters in the Nino 3.4 region. This process is known as La Nina, or the cool phase of ENSO (tmsnrt.rs/20Znh76). El Nino happens in the opposite way. If the Darwin-Tahiti pressure tendency is reversed, and air is forced to move eastward and oppose the easterly trade winds, the trade winds will slow or even reverse in direction if the force is strong enough. When the trade winds slow or reverse, they push back on the cooler ocean waters trying to make their way westward from South America. Because the distribution of the cool waters is significantly lessened, equatorial waters become somewhat stagnant, and are essentially left to bake in the sun. This results in the ENSO warm cycle, or El Nino. Therefore, if a close eye is kept on the trend in trade winds and air pressure over the tropical Pacific Ocean, and El Nino or La Nina event is often highly detectable, sometimes more than several months in advance. Warmer waters favor the presence of low pressure and convection, or the development of thunderstorm activity. This allows for some ENSO-based seasonal weather predictability around the globe. The wet pattern is focused where the ocean waters are relatively warmer. Therefore, La Nina often brings floods to Southeast Asia and Oceania and drought to the Americas, as eastern Pacific waters are cooler. El Nino frequently presents the reverse effects (tmsnrt.rs/20ZpKi7). In North America, ENSO modifies the jet stream, which carries and distributes weather patterns from west to east. Warmer winters are generally expected during El Nino since the jet stream takes on a more southerly track, fighting off Arctic air domination. But the high-amplitude, northerly track that the jet stream takes on during La Nina winters allows for frequent Arctic air intrusions in Canada and much of the United States, often resulting in colder winters. The loss of southerly flow removes the source of warm, moist air over the southern United States, sometimes inducing severe drought from California to Texas. However, this is a highly simplified view of global weather impacts, and should only be used as a general guideline. Several more small- and large-scale climate patterns are always at play and at least one or two years can always be found in history where the ENSO mould was broken, and the weather effects were completely opposite of what was expected. Editing by David Evans | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Heterodontosaurus/GA1
GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''
Reviewer: 2604:2000:B949:A000:91A6:C9B7:837E:EFD1 (talk · contribs) 20:56, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
This article meets the criteria needed to become a "good article"; it's well written, factually accurate, and cites a large number of reliable sources. Based on the guidelines set by Wikipedia (Reviewing good articles), this page is a good article. 2604:2000:B949:A000:91A6:C9B7:837E:EFD1 (talk) 20:56, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
* Thanks, no comments at all? Any nitpicking is appreciated, since we'll take this to FAC afterwards. FunkMonk (talk) 01:44, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
* Per WP:GAREV, only registered editors are allowed to open and conduct GA reviews. Unfortunately, that means that this review cannot proceed, and is being closed, with the nomination returned to the GA reviewing pool. 2604:2000:B949:A000:91A6:C9B7:837E:EFD1, I would like to suggest that you register and get an account, but also that you gain a few months of editing experience before you attempt your next review with that account. (It is the rare article indeed that has no typos or grammatical issues, and I see no sign that it was checked for close paraphrasing, words to watch, image licensing, or that the article accurately represented its source material.) Not that I have any reason to doubt the authors, but that the reviewer needs to check all of the good article criteria. Sorry, FunkMonk; this will have to wait for a qualified reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:06, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
* Nothing to be sorry about, I'd prefer a review with suggestions over a rubber-stamp pass. FunkMonk (talk) 04:12, 30 January 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
Nakayama Racecourse
Nakayama Racecourse (中山競馬場) was built in 1990 in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, for horse racing and up to 165,676 spectators.
Physical attributes
Nakayama Race Course has two grass courses, a dirt course and a jump course.
The turf's outer oval (外回り) measures 1840m (1 1/8 miles + 97 feet) with 1600m and 2200m chutes, and the inner oval (内回り) measures 1667m (1 mile + 189 feet) with a 1400m chute. Races can be run on the "A Course" rail setting (on the hedge), the "B Course" setting (rail out 3 meters), or the "C Course" setting (rail out 7 meters).
1000m, 1400m, 1800m, 2000m, 2500m and 3600m races run on the inner oval, while 1200m, 1600m, 2200m, 2600m and 4000m races run on the outer oval. 3200m races run on the outer oval first, then the inner oval.
The dirt course measures 1493 meters (7/8 mile + 278 feet), with a 1200m chute.
The jump course is unique because several different configurations can be used. In all races, horses must drop and climb over steep embankments at the rear of the course. One configuration contains the two most difficult jumps on the course, and is used only a few times a year, particularly for the Nakayama Grand Jump and Nakayama Daishogai races.
Track records
Source：レコードタイム表 (Record time table) -> 中山競馬場 (Nakayama Racecourse)
* † Reference Time.
* Last updated on April 14, 2024. | WIKI |
OnSetAllocationSizeC event/delegate/callback
Filter:
Pascal C++ (Lib) C++ (VCL) C++ (.NET) C# VB.NET
CBFSFilter See also
Overview
This callback is called when the OS or the application needs to set the allocation size of the file.
Declaration
[Pascal]
property OnOnSetAllocationSizeC : TCBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC;
TCBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC = procedure(Sender : TObject; FileName: TCBString; var AllocationSize: Int64; var UserContext: pointer; var HandleContext: pointer; var ProcessRequest: boolean) of object;
type TCBString = {$ifdef UNICODE}UnicodeString{$else}WideString{$endif};
[C++ (Lib)]
typedef void (*CBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC)(CBFSFilter* Sender, LPWSTR FileName, __int64* AllocationSize, PVOID* UserContext, PVOID* HandleContext, LPBOOL ProcessRequest);
[C++ (VCL)]
typedef void __fastcall (__closure *TCBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC)(System::TObject* Sender, TCBString FileName, __int64 &AllocationSize, void* &UserContext, void* &HandleContext, bool &ProcessRequest);
[C++ (.NET)]
public delegate void CBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC(CBFSFilter^ Sender, String^ FileName, Int64% AllocationSize, IntPtr% UserContext, IntPtr% HandleContext, bool% ProcessRequest);
[C#]
delegate void CBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC(CBFSFilter Sender, string FileName, ref long AllocationSize, ref IntPtr UserContext, ref IntPtr HandleContext, ref bool ProcessRequest);
[VB.NET]
Delegate Sub CBFSFltSetAllocationSizeEventC(ByVal Sender As CBFSFilter, ByVal FileName As String, ByRef AllocationSize As Long, ByRef UserContext As IntPtr, ByRef HandleContext As IntPtr, ByRef ProcessRequest As Boolean)
Parameters
• Sender - reference to the class that called the delegate/event handler
• FileName - name of the file
• AllocationSize - the size of the space, allocated for the file. This size in most cases will be larger than the actual file size.
• FileContext - the placeholder for the application-defined data, common to all concurrent file operations on the file
• HandleContext - the placeholder for the application-defined data, local to each opened file handle
• ProcessRequest - specifies, whether the request must be passed further to the underlying filters and the file system
Description
This callback is called when the OS or the application needs to set the allocation size of the file.
Read more about contexts.
AllocationSize is usually larger (and much larger) than the size of the file data. This happens because some file operations first reserve space for the file, then start writing actual data to this file. The application should track such situations and avoid re-allocating file space where possible to improve speed.
Error handling
See Error handling topic for detailed information about how to report errors, which occur in the event handlers, back to CBFSFilter.
See also
OnSetAllocationSizeN | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:BikeDog
About the one they call BikeDog
BikeDog (born 1964) is a cool guy, awesome guy, and assumed relative of this user. He relys on many userboxes, and loves cycling. His favorite bands and musical artists include Andrea Bocelli, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, and Nickel Creek.
Userboxes
Other
I have a lot of userboxes, just like my assumed relative. Hope you like me. Please like me. I like you if you like me. If you hate me I hate you. If you love me that's creepy so I'll like you. I'm new. Please like me. | WIKI |
User:Dudemanfellabra
About Me
I've been a member of the English Wikipedia since March 2008. I am an active member of WikiProject NRHP and also do a lot of work related to WikiProject Historic Sites (largely inactive).
My main content creation consists of researching the history and progression of the Meridian and Lauderdale County area in Mississippi, and I have contributed a lot to the city's article and articles related to it – the most prevalent of which are listed below. I also do a lot of work with heritage registers, having been a key contributor to the List of Mississippi Landmarks, List of Michigan State Historic Sites, List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations, and List of National Monuments of Ireland. I helped create and help to maintain Infobox NRHP and Infobox Historic Site.
I also operate a bot, User:NationalRegisterBot, which periodically queries all articles linked from lists under the scope of WP:NRHP and dumps various information to its user subpages. The data produced by this bot is then used by various scripts to automate or semi-automate the tallying and upkeep of articles about NRHP listings. Most of this progress data can be found at WP:NRHPPROGRESS, and several county-level maps are generated from the data on that page. I have also made several scripts for non-NRHP/historic sites purposes, all of which are listed below.
Another project I have worked on is the ConvertAbbrev family. This template family, though a work in progress, is meant to make backdoor operations of Wikipedia easier by allowing abbreviations and long names to be used interchangeably (i.e. if a template needs ISO abbreviations for something, the template can use ConvertAbbrev to allow a user to simply type what comes naturally instead of having to remember those cryptic identifiers.) The template family consists of databases of abbreviations that I (and some others) have entered in by hand through many hours of work.
NRHP
* Updating NRHP pages:
* Finish rewriting Template:Infobox NRHP/doc at User:Dudemanfellabra/AltSandbox.
* Update WP:NRHPMOS, WP:NRHPHELP, WP:NRHPFAQ
* Try to use Module:Sort and Sort list to make a timeline out of the dates in Infobox NRHP
* Create University of Southern Mississippi Historic District (possibly Campus of the University of Southern Mississippi) using NRHP nomination.
* Develop University of Southern Mississippi article.
* Create/expand articles about National Register of Historic Places listings in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
* Create Meridian Senior High School and Junior College (probably better titled Meridian High School)
* Create Meridian Waterworks Pumping Station and Clear Water Basin using NRHP nomination (started here)
* Create United States Sugar Crop Field Station using NRHP nomination (started here)
* Monitor unassessed NRHP articles (currently ).
* Monitor infoboxes needing cleanup (currently ).
Historic Sites
* Create articles about Mississippi Landmarks.
* Database of information here
* Merge registers at WP:HSITES into Template:Designation.
* Convert some registers from list of heritage registers into WP:WLM standard row template format to allow scripts/bots to update them.
ConvertAbbrev
* Update 3166-1 to account for changes since first created.
* Add support for ISO 639-3 codes.
* Possibly expand/rename to include all ISO standards.
* Work on more ISO 3166-2 integration.
Scripting
* Create a script to generate a list of not-fully-illustrated counties sorted by how many images are outstanding.
* Convert former NHL lists to use row templates after the row template itself has been updated.
* Create a script to tag images used in NRHP lists (possibly other registers?) with the NRHP template on Commons using the methods in this CORS example. (requested by )
* Possibly add in a check to CommonsCat script (and above) for coordinates to avoid errors while tagging/adding photos, as suggested by here.
* Add feature to CommonsCat script to look in linked article for image(s) that may not be included in the table.
* Learn from these two scripts and possibly modify Progress Page script to automatically update maps.
Images
This page shows all the images I have uploaded, including historic postcards from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History's Cooper Postcard Collection.
Before I knew about Commons, I uploaded several pictures to the English Wikipedia (that have since been moved to Commons), and they do not show up in my gallery. Those images are displayed below.
Articles
To see a detailed breakdown of my editing activity, look here (may take a while to load). A full list of articles I've created can be found here. A list of the most notable articles that I've created (as well as as few that I didn't create but contributed a lot to) are listed below. Blue question marks denote DYKs, and green plus symbols denote good articles.
Sandboxes
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox – Catch-all sandbox; test edits, storage, etc.
* User:Dudemanfellabra/AltSandbox – Use if sandbox contains an upcoming project.
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox1 – Variation of POTD template that is less space-needy
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox2 – My custom main page
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox3 – Use if I need a place to test template code
* User:Dudemanfellabra/NRHP – Sandbox dedicated to work on NRHP-related things
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Test – Place to dump code produced by scripts
Scripts
* NRHP/Historic sites-related
* User:Dudemanfellabra/UpdateNRHPProgress – Automatically updates the NRHP Progess page
* User:Dudemanfellabra/NRHPProgressHistory.js – Extracts historical data from the NRHP Progress page
* User:Dudemanfellabra/NRHPmap.js – Generates SVG output from the NRHP Progress page
* User:Dudemanfellabra/NRHPstats.js – Tabulates number of sites and percent of sites illustrated/articled on an NRHP county list
* User:Dudemanfellabra/AssessNRHP.js – Assists in assessing/tagging unassessed/untagged NRHP articles
* User:Dudemanfellabra/ReorderNRHPlist.js – Automatically renumbers NRHP county lists after addition/deletion of rows
* User:Dudemanfellabra/AddCommonsCatLinks – Automatically finds matching categories on Commons and adds them to lists of monuments
* Other
* User:Dudemanfellabra/diffs.js – Script for showing times between diffs
* User:Dudemanfellabra/vector.js – Other Javascript code
* User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox.js – JS sandbox for testing code
* User:Dudemanfellabra/vector.css – CSS code | WIKI |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 169/Issue 2180/A Memory of the Thames
blithe sun flamed high o'erhead, And from his radiant quiver Ten thousand burnished shafts had flung On hill, and mead, and river.
We sallied from the quaint white inn, And trimmed our dainty boat That by the bridge in dimpled shade Rocked jauntily afloat.
Then pushed we to the wide main stream, But soon were fain to stray Where Patrich's scant and slender brook Scarce winds a doubtful way.
'Twixt mazy banks we forced our keel O'erhung with hawthorn bushes, And here through writhing water-weeds, And here through waving rushes.
What spoils those bowery shores must yield What wealth of scent and hue! Posies that mocked Hyperion's beams, And shamed th' ethereal blue!
We pulled the loosestrife's crimson spikes, The floating lilies white; We pulled the sceptred bulrushes, The marsh-stars golden bright.
Nor less, the woodbine's clustered crowns, And spines of meadow-sweet With trailing bronze of bryony In careless union meet.
We pulled the bearded clematis in tangled garlands twined, And azure-eyed forget-me-nots, Each oozy marge that lined.
Gay sprite! in flushed exultant mirth, I seem to see you yet, Holding the bloomy prize aloft In both hands wringing wet.
The murmurous throb of sunlit wings Made musical the day, Like sound of stir in silver chords Touched by an elf at play.
And racing swallows fleet and shrill, With chirp of tireless glee, Skimmed rippling stream, or darted high — Not happier than we!
Anon some fluttered water-hen Made off with plashy shambles, Or bright-eyed warbler of the copse Skipped nimbly through the brambles.
The minnows flashed, in startled troops, Full many a shining side; And so we wandered, till we reached Fair Loddon's ampler tide:
Fair Loddon's ampler tide, that ran Darkling in willowy shade, Where scarce, in latticed verdure lost, A truant sunbeam strayed.
By pebbly slope, by moss-clad bole, How sweet the watery swirl! How fair the willow's pensile sprays Half emerald and half pearl!
On, on, 'neath leafy cool arcades I tugged the dripping oar, Till Thames again our flower-decked skiff On his broad bosom bore.
We turned the prow. And Wargrave's lawns Astern slant trim and green; We pierced the lock, where Shiplake's church Peers through its sylvan sheen.
What recked we that the westering sun Had dipped his ruddy lamp? Or of the steam-white mist that showed A warning finger damp?
The latest swallow from the stream By this had disappeared, And faint in windless twilight calm The beetles' hum we heard.
Her borrowed moisture now to earth The just air reconveyed, And dropped a liquid crystal sphere On every grassy blade.
Now tranced beneath a glimmering sky Each feathery elm-top slept, And, one by one, big bashful stars From heaven's hushed spaces crept.
I poised the sculls; you held the strings; We lingered face to face. We spoke sweet words. Ah, would we might That sacred hour retrace!
You asked of me a little thing; I vowed — no matter what. That vow is still inviolate; Believe me, will you not? | WIKI |
[SVN] Revision 784 (HTML)
Allan Odgaard allan at macromates.com
Sat Apr 30 08:45:48 UTC 2005
On Apr 29, 2005, at 19:42, Kumar McMillan wrote:
>> The names used in the HTML language are the same as in HTML (PHP).
> as I recall, the only reason Mats made the HTML/CSS/etc (PHP) syntaxes
> was to work on a separate color scheme for PHP html pages. Now with
> themes and scoping, we can probably delete the HTML (PHP) and CSS
> (PHP) plists in favor of HTML and CSS plists, right?
The CSS (PHP) is already gone. The HTML (PHP) is a bit different from
HTML (Basic) in that it only highlights all known (lowercase) tags and
known (lowercase) arguments.
There are other subtleties, like more SGML stuff in HTML (Basic) and
markup of invalid ampersands and angle brackets, but that's easy to
merge. The thing about tags is not.
I think Mats wanted to also do an XHTML bundle/syntax, and that's
probably (IMO) what the HTML (PHP) should evolve into. Having the
syntax only markup correct (XHTML) tags/arguments is very nice, but not
very practical for all-around use (e.g., try to open
~/Sites/index.html).
I can extend the firstLineMatch so we can get to the DOCTYPE and choose
syntax like that. I suggest changing the syntax to something like:
“lineMatch[n]”, where n can be a number, a range (0-3), or maybe even *
for “all lines”.
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Ida of Louvain
Ida of Louvain (died around 1300) was a Cistercian nun of Roosendael Abbey in the 13th-century Low Countries who is officially commemorated in the Catholic Church as blessed.
Life
Ida was born into a well-to-do family in Leuven, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium). At the age of 22 she felt a religious vocation but her father was a worldly man who would not accept this and subjected her to various forms of ill-treatment to discourage her. Despite parental disapproval, she first dedicated her life to God as an anchoress, and later became a nun in the recently founded Cistercian Abbey of Roosendael (the Valley of the Roses) in what is now Sint-Katelijne-Waver. One historian has described her as adding "éclat" to the monastery. The only contemporary record of her life is in a series of letters by her confessor, a priest named Hugo.
Legend and veneration
Ida died with a reputation for sanctity and came to be considered a saint. She was said to have experienced stigmata and mystical graces. These included miraculous visions and corporeal encounters with appearances of the infant Jesus, where she would hold him, bathe him, play with him and dress him. She was beatified for her piety and humility. Her official commemoration, granted by Pope Clement XI in 1719, is April 13. | WIKI |
User:Adaptordie/sandbox
Virginia Courtauld
Lady Virginia Courtauld (born Virginia Periano; born in [there are different birth years out and about on the Internet) was a progressive liberal and philanthropist, along with her husband, Sir Stephen Courtauld, in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, during the 1950s and 1960s. Her humanitarian efforts promoted culture, education, and racial equality. She was the daughter of Ricardo Peirano, an Italian shipping merchant, and Rosa Balint, a Romanian peasant. She had two older brothers, Riccardo, Junior, and Enrico.
Wikipedia is about providing information from sources, which I did not do (well, most all of my source material at the moment is from your book and Wiki doesn't like one-source articles) and is also about having links/connections to other information. With that in mind, I didn't haven't mentioned her marriage to Paulo Spinola. He isn't famous enough to be mentioned in Wiki; however, the 1st Marquess of Balbases Spinola family is. I didn't know if that was his line as well.
Oh Wiki also only likes "facts", so they would frown on mention of Vlad the Impaler - which is sad because I could do a link!!! =)
They also like noteworthy, so that's why I framed/narrowed the time period because that seems like the noteworthy period. One of the tricky balancing acts of building a page for Ginie would be that it needs to be different from Stephen's; otherwise, the Wiki editors would consider it duplication. So what would she have been noteworthy for on her own?
'''Anyway, this was just to show you that, yes it can be done, and you do have your sources that could be readily used to build the page. One of your children could also build it, if that's the type of thing they are interested in doing.'''
You can create an account and build the page in your sandbox, like I did here. My graduate advisor had several of us receive training from Wikipedia (they have an 'education' program) about how to build and write pages and sections as well as revise certain information.
The Old Craft Hall was restored to its former glory. The project achieved Lady Virginia’s request in her Will to use La Rochelle as “a venue for conferences either of a public, national, international or educational character”.
Article Evaluation
My selected topic is the impact of Roxane Gay's book, Bad Feminist in regards to current popularization of the term, bad feminist, with the feminist movement. I read the Bad Feminist article as well as the Reactions section in the Feminism article. While I will be adding a section to the Bad Feminist article, it was important for me to read the other article as it provides the context and background.
While the Bad Feminist article has drawn from many sources, much of the text are direct quotes from those sources. I just re-read Pillar Three and I think that the article is quite weak in this area because of that, especially in the two paragraphs that discuss the reviews of the book. I think that the article could be improved if those two paragraphs had fewer direct quotes and more text that was in one's own words. It could also benefit from some transitional words or phrases, as currently it just slings out: review A said this, review b said this, review C said this.
I've moved to looking at a third article, Roxane Gay, as there is a brief subsection about her books there. I expected the main article, the book's, to contain quite a bit more information than the subsection in the Roxane Gay article; however, much of the information is the same. The primary additional information in the book's article focuses on the criticism her book received.
In regards to the guiding questions for this assignment: The Talk page indicates that this article was a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, with most of the initial work done by one person in 2015. The Talk page also indicates that this article is within the scope of two areas: WikiProject Literature and WikiProject Women Writers. Both rate the article as a stub-class. The article has not received a rating on the importance scale from the former and a low importance rating on the latter.
* · The information in the article is relevant.
* · What distracted me, as already mentioned, is all of the direct quoting and sentences thrown into the article with little cohesion.
* · The article is neutral. All of the links for the citations work.
* · Not all of the facts are referenced (for example, the publication history).
* · The sources are appropriate and reliable; depending on one’s world view, some would argue that the sources are not neutral ones.
* · The information is current.
* · My plan to add a subsection about the impact of the book and the popularization of term, bad feminist, will address a missing part.
The history reveals that most of the work for this article was done in 2015 and 2016, with some organizational revision being done during the summer of 2017. Since most of the content was added two or more years ago and there is little about how the term is being widely used today, my subsection will be useful.
We have not yet discussed this topic in class; however, in class, when we express our thoughts, we do not usually include our sources, as is done here. That's likely because we are not only about facts, but about opinions and voices as well.
Youth Activism in the 21st century
Youth activism continues to take place in the 21st century at local, regional, national, and international levels. Youth activists today use technology and social media to share their message. This makes it easier for a local or regional protest to gain national and international recognition. Additionally, a local or regional protest may, in fact, be focused on inequity or oppression in another part of the world.
2001
Since 2001, various legislation in the United States, commonly known as DREAM, has been proposed to help undocumented migrant youth and young adults who arrived as children. In 2012, President Obama authorized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has a similar purpose. United We Dream is an immigrant youth-led community established in 2015. In collaboration with other activist groups, they have coordinated four campaigns: #RIGHT2DREAM in 2012; #WECANTWAIT in 2014; and END OF 287G IN HOUSTON and PROTECT IN-STATE TUITION IN TEXAS in 2017.
2007
In 2007, Jazz Jennings gained national attention in the United States at the age of 6 when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters on 20/20 about being a transgender girl. Also, in 2004, she and her family founded the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation, whose mission includes financial resources for homeless transyouth in need, education, and advocacy. In 2014, Time magazine included Jennings on their list of most influential teenagers in the world.
2010
In 2010, the Student/Farmworker Alliance worked with Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve work standards for migrant workers in Florida.
Also, in 2010, student activist groups successfully campaigned for Nike to improve standards for their workers in Honduras. Their slogan was an effective play on words of Nike's slogan: Just Pay it.
2011
Heather Jarvis is a youth activist who co-founded SlutWalk with Sonja Barnett. SlutWalk's core principle is that women should be able to wear whatever they choose without being harassed. SlutWalks have occurred in numerous countries.
2012
While Malala Yousafzai has been an activist for female education, initially in Pakistan, since 2009, support for her cause reached international levels after she was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 because of her activism. Since then, Yousafzai has established a non-profit organization and received the Nobel Peace Prize. She also was the catalyst for a United Nations campaign for children's education world-wide.
While there has been controversy associated with the KONY 2012 documentary video, it nonetheless became a viral sensation, in part, due to activist college students and teenagers.
2013
While the Black Lives Matter movement is not entirely a youth activist group, its founders were three young women who established it in response to the acquittal of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American. Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) was also established, but it limits participation to those aged 18 to 35. These two groups have worked together, and with others, to protest police killings of black people. Unlike BYP 100, Black Lives Matters has become an international movement with chapters outside of the United States
When the Ukrainian president presented a drastically reduced budget for fighting AIDS, Liza Yaroshenko, then aged 14, addressed the parliament, asking them to veto that budget. As of 2017, Yaroshenko was still continuing her awareness campaign online.
2016
While the causes of the Flint Water Crisis have been determined by independent investigators, the crisis is not yet resolved as work to replace the corroded water lines is slightly more than one third completed, with 7,750 of more than 22,000 lead-contaminated water services lines to replace. n 2016, Flint resident Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny, aged 8, wrote President Obama to bring to his attention the public health crisis caused the Flint Water crisis. President Obama accepted her invitation to come to Flint. In April 2018, Governor Rick Snyder announced that water quality is "within the standards" and the lead level doesn't exceed federal limits. This has resulted in the termination of a free bottled water program. Since then, Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, continues to work to improve the lives of youth in her community. Not only has she, in collaboration with Pack Your Back, raised more than $27,000 to provide thousands of bottled water since the government program was stopped, she has also raised money to provide 800 seats for under-served children to see Blank Panther and crowdfunded to send Flint youth to see A Wrinkle in Time. Prior to these fundraising endeavors, she first worked with Pack Your Back to fill 1,000 backpacks for Flint students.
At age 7, Bana al-Abed started using Twitter with her mother's assistance to share her experiences living in Aleppo, Syria. Al-Abed has become a world-renowned youth activist, publishing a memoir in 2017 and receiving the Asian Awards' Rising Star of the Year award in 2018.
2018
The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has resulted in not only some Stoneman Douglas students becoming youth activists for gun control legislation, but has also spurred a nation-wide resurgence of youth activism, including school walkouts. A group of Stoneman Douglas students also founded the advocacy group Never Again MSD. Never Again MSD led March for Our Lives. "Never Again" is also one of the group's hashtags, with the slogan having its roots as a resistance rallying cry during the Holocaust and is used by the Jewish Defense League. | WIKI |
How to cleanly superpose ScrollableViews in Android
In order to implement a navigation bar ala Facebook I have the following layout configuration:
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<!-- This is the Lower Layer hosting the navbar -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<!-- ListView representing the navbar -->
<ListView
/>
</LinearLayout>
<!-- This is the Top Layer hosting the Content -->
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<!-- This is where the View of the Content will be injected -->
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>
So the basic idea is that when I want to open the navbar I just shift the TopLayer to the right and the navbar will be revealed. Now this works well and I can interact with the navbar's ListView in order to navigate through the application, as far as the view that gets injected inside the TopLayerisn't a ScrollableView(like another ListView, a ScrollViewor a WebView).
For instance, when the TopLayeris a WebViewinstance, I can't scroll and interact with the navbar's ListViewbecause it is the WebViewthat gets scrolled (althoough I shifted it to the right).
I guess it's not trivial to superpose many ScrollableView's but I hope there are hacks to overcome these issues.
Thanks for your help!
EDIT
By the way, this is how I am shifting the TopLayerview (using TranslateAnimation):
TranslateAnimation translateAnim = new TranslateAnimation(0.0F, mListView.getWidth(), 0.0F, 0.0F);
translateAnim.setDuration(..);
translateAnim.setFillAfter(true);
mTopLayerView.startAnimation(translateAnim);
Answers
According to my app - Android UI Patterns (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.groidify.uipatterns), there are 2 sample implementations of Facebook navigation and animation, this is:
Can you take a try if it works.
Turns out the problem was not due to superposing ScrollableViews or anything but to the fact that when using TranslateAnimation the logical position (ie: not visual) of the animated view is still bound to its original position. Thus when I thought I was clicking on the navigation's item, I was in fact interacting with the ContentView that I thought has moved.
Now I am using ObjectAnimator which fixes this issue and it works very well. I only have to assure the compatibility with Pre-Honeycomb devices (I am thinking of using NineOldAndroids for this matter. If someones knows any other alternative to fix this properly using the old animation API, feel free to answer this question).
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Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to the non-violent struggle against the system of racial segregation known as Apartheid in South Africa. On August 5, 1962, he was arrested by the police and sentenced to life imprisonment. He refused to be released to remain consistent with his principles. After 27 years in prison, he was released on February 11, 1990. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully ending the apartheid regime.
Mandela had a deep sense of his mission: to achieve freedom not only for himself, but also for other men. He states in his autobiographical work “Long Walk to Freedom” (1996): ”for to be free is not only to cast off one’s chains; it is to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”. And also “What matters most is not so much the fact that we have lived. It is the difference we have made in the lives of others that will determine the meaning of the life we have led.”
Nelson Mandela had a big heart. His goal was not only the liberation of his oppressed black brothers, but also his fight for the oppressing white minority: “The oppressed and the oppressor are both dispossessed of their humanity. When I walked through the prison gates, that was my mission: to free both the oppressed and the oppressor. “(Long Walk to Freedom)
Our hero firmly believes in the goodness of man. In a letter to his wife Winnie, August 1, 1970, he states, “There will always be men of good will on earth, in every country, even in ours.” And again in his autobiographical work already quoted, he adds: “I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity.. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”
Mandela’s personality is characterized by great fortitude imbued with optimism and humility:
“Character is measured in difficult situations, a hero does not bend even under the harshest of circumstances.” (Long Walk to Freedom)
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” Thoughts for Myself: The Authoritative Book of Quotes (2011)
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” | FINEWEB-EDU |
GPS Secrets
There’s a lot of information to find — technical information, diagnostic information, and more.
Let’s begin our tour of the secrets of GPS units.
Hidden Secrets
Most electronic devices contain hidden diagnostic screens or setup menus that are used by the manufacturer to diagnose faults and possibly remedy them. GPS receivers are no different, but because of their limited number of buttons, numerous complicated keystrokes are often needed to access such menus so that users don’t accidentally find them.
You are unlikely to get any tech support for any of the undocumented features of your GPS unit, and these screens offer plenty of opportunity to cause problems and mess up your unit. Take care and don’t make any changes unless you are sure of what you are doing.
If you do make changes, take the following precautions:
Make a note of the changes you are making — that includes any new settings and their original values.
Don’t make too many changes at once. Better still, make one change at a time.
If the unit appears worse after the change you made, undo the change immediately.
If the unit doesn’t allow you to reverse a change, you will have to reset the device.
Garmin Secret Screens
I show you the secrets that are specific to GPS units from Garmin. Icover the older units, including the GPS III and III+, all the way up to the modern eTrex and Geko lines. I also include some specialized units, such as the Forerunner, which is designed to be worn on your wrist for hands-free outdoor activities, and the iQue, which is a combination GPS and Palm PDA.
Hard Resets
A hard reset wipes out all the data in your GPS and returns the unit to its initial factory settings. If you’re having trouble with your unit and a soft reset doesn’t help, a hard reset may be your only recourse.
Most of the hard reset sequences are complicated, to ensure that you don’t press them by accident. Some of these key combinations require an extra hand, or another person, to assist you.
To confuse the issue further, different models of GPS use different terms for a hard reset. Several models call it a master reset, for example.
The iQue 3600 is an exception. In this case, a hard reset wipes out all data on the iQue, but leaves any GPS-related data present.
Soft Resets
A soft reset is a way to erase all the data in your GPS’s memory and restart the system. Any settings you’ve changed are kept, but any waypoints, routes, or other data is deleted. You might want to do this when you’re having problems with your unit. A soft reset isn’t as destructive to the settings as a hard reset, so if you’re trying to fix your unit, you should try a soft reset first.
Only the Garmin iQue 3600 and Forerunner models have a soft reset feature. On the iQue, a soft reset deletes all the volatile memory, but any data saved in applications is retained.
Warm Resets
The warm reset feature is unique to the iQue 3600. It’s less dangerous than a soft reset, because it is the equivalent of booting a PC and reloading the applications. Memory management on handheld devices isn’t as good as on a desktop PC, and periodic warm resets help to solve problems and speed up operation. This type of reset can be useful for solving operating system issues with the unit. To perform a warm reset on the iQue, press RESET and SCROLL UP.
Full GPS Resets
The full reset is another function unique to the iQue. This reset wipes out all GPS data on the unit, but only GPS data. The PDA data remains intact. To perform a full reset on the iQue, press the RESET, ESC, and DateBook keys simultaneously.
Diagnostic Screens
The diagnostic screens on many GPS units give you access to an array of information about the unit. The screens available vary depending on which unit you have, but most of them will tell you the version of the firmware you’re running and the battery voltage. Some will also tell you the temperature of the unit.
Autolocating
Most units make the autolocate function a default feature. he autolocate feature deletes previous satellite data (the almanac) and downloads new data. It can sometime be very handy to force the GPS to download the almanac and “rediscover” where it is in the world. Some devices, such as the Garmin iQue 3600 and Geko, have an autolocate function that’s plainly accessible to the user. Others have the feature, but it’s hidden.
Magellan Secret Screens
Magellan is the other primary manufacturer of GPS units other than Garmin. Almost all GPS units come from one of these two manufacturers. The different types of Magellan units have very different hidden screens, so I discuss them in separate sections.
Magellan Meridian Series
One of the most popular ranges of Magellan GPS units is the Meridian. This handheld GPS receiver is bigger and heavier than the Garmin eTrex, but it has a larger, easier-to-read LCD screen.
There are two types of secret menu for the Meridian: boot time screens, which you activate when you switch on the unit, and a secret menu that you can access while the unit is already running.
Magellan 300/330
The Magellan 300 was probably one of the first GPS units to hit the mainstream GPS market — many were sold, and if you go to geocaching events you will see plenty still in use.
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been made use of by Becquerel in his investigations of infra-red radiations.
15. Relationship between the Spectrum of an Element and that of its Compounds.—In the present state of our knowledge we cannot trace any definite relationship between the spectrum of a compound body and that of its elements, and it does not even seem certain that such a relationship exists, but there is often a similarity between different compounds of the same element. The spectra, for instance, of the oxides and haloid salts of the alkaline earths show great resemblance to each other, the bands being similar and similarly placed. As the atomic weight of the haloid increases the spectrum is displaced towards the red.
It is in the case of the absorption spectra of liquids that we can most often discover some connexion between vibrations of a complex system and that of the simpler systems which form the complex. The most typical case in this respect is the effect of a solvent on the absorption spectrum of a solution. A. Kundt, who initiated this line of investigation, came to the conclusion that the absorption spectra of certain organic substances like cyanin and fuchsin were displaced towards the red by the solvent, and that the displacement was the greater the greater the dispersive power of the solvent. This law cannot be maintained in its generality, but nevertheless highly dispersive substances like carbon bisulphide are always found to produce a greater shift than liquids of smaller dispersion like water and alcohol. In these cases the solvent seems to act like an addition to the mass of the vibrating system, the quasi-elastic forces remaining the same.
Dr J. H. Gladstone, at an early period of spectroscopy, examined the absorption spectra of the solution of salts, each constituent cf which was coloured. He concluded that generally but not invariably the following law held good: “When an acid and a base combine, each of which has a different influence on the rays of light, a solution of the resulting salt will transmit only those rays which are not absorbed by either, or, in other words, which are transmitted by both.” He mentioned as an important exception the case of ferric ferrocyanide, which, when dissolved in oxalic acid, transmits the rays in great abundance, though the same rays be absorbed both by ferrocyanides and by ferric salts. Soret has confirmed, for the ultra-violet rays, Dr Gladstone’s conclusions with regard to the identity of the absorption spectra of different chromates. The chromates of sodium, potassium and ammonium, as well as the bichromates of potassium and ammonium, were found to give the same absorption spectrum. Nor is the effect of these chromates confined to the blocking out simply of one end of the spectrum, as in the visible part, but two distinct absorption bands are seen, which seem unchanged in position if one of the above-mentioned chromates is replaced by another. Chromic acid itself showed the bands, but less distinctly, and Soret does not consider the purity of the acid sufficiently proved to allow him to draw any certain conclusions from this observation.
In many of these cases the observed facts might perhaps be explained by dissociation, the undissociated compound producing no marked effect on the spectra. In 1872 W. N. Hartley and A. K. Huntingdon examined by photographic methods the absorption spectra of a great number of organic compounds. The normal alcohols were found to be transparent to the ultra-violet rays, the normal fatty acids less so. In both cases an increased number of carbon atoms increases the absorption at the most refrangible end. The fact that benzene and its derivatives are remarkable for their powerful absorption of the most refrangible rays, and for some characteristic absorption bands appearing on dilution, led Hartley to a more extended examination of some of the more complicated organic substances. He determined that definite absorption bands are only produced by substances in which three pairs of carbon atoms are doubly linked together, as in the benzene ring. Subsequently he subjected the ultra-violet absorption of the alkaloids to a careful investigation, and arrived at the conclusion that the spectra are sufficiently characteristic to “offer a ready and valuable means of ascertaining the purity of the alkaloids and particularly of establishing their identity.”
We can only briefly refer to an important investigation of Sir William Abney and Colonel E. R. Festing, who examined the infra-red absorption of a number of substances. We may quote one of the principal conclusions at which they arrived:—
“An inspection of our maps will show that the radical of a body is represented by certain well-marked bands, some differing in position according as it is bonded with hydrogen, or a halogen, or with carbon, oxygen or nitrogen. There seem to be characteristic bands, however, of any one series of radicals between 1000 and about 1100, which would indicate what may be called the central hydrocarbon group, to which other radicals may be bonded. The clue to the composition of a body, however, would seem to lie between 700 and 1000. Certain radicals have a distinctive absorption about 700 together with others about goo, and if the first be visible it almost follows that the distinctive mark of the radical with which it is connected will be found. Thus in the ethyl series we find an absorption at 740, and a characteristic band, one edge of which is at 892 and the other at 920. If we find a body containing the 740 absorption and a band with the most refrangible edge commencing at 892, or with the least refrangible edge terminating at 920, we may be pretty sure that we have an ethyl radical present. So with any of the aromatic group; the crucial line is at 867. If that line be connected with a band we may feel certain that some derivative of benzene is present. The benzyl group shows this remarkably well, since we see that phenyl is present, as is also methyl. It will be advantageous if the spectra of ammonia, benzene, aniline and dimethyl aniline be compared, when the remarkable coincidences will at once become apparent, as also the different weighting of the molecule. The spectrum of nitrobenzene is also worth comparing with benzene and nitric acid. In our own minds there lingers no doubt as to the easy detection of any radical which we have examined,. . . and it seems highly probable by this delicate mode of analysis that the hypothetical position of any hydrogen which is replaced may be identified, a point which is of prime importance in organic chemistry. The detection of the presence of chlorine or bromine or iodine in a compound is at present undecided, and it may be well that we may have to look for its effects in a different part of the spectrum. . The only trace we can find at present is in ethyl bromide, in which the radical band about 900 is curtailed in one wing. The difference between amyl iodide and amyl bromide is not sufficiently marked to be of any value.”
The absorption spectra of cobalt and didymium salts also offer many striking examples of minor changes produced in spectra by combination and solution.
Apparatus.—Spectroscopes may be divided into two classes: prism spectroscopes, with angular or direct vision, and grating spectroscopes; the former acting by (q.v.), the latter by diffraction or interference. Angular prism spectroscopes are the commonest. Such an instrument consists of a triangular prism set with its refracting edge vertical on a rigid platform attached to a massive stand. The prism may be made of a dense flint glass or of quartz if the ultra-violet is to be explored, or it may be hollow and filled with carbon bisulphide, -bromnaphthalene or other suitable liquid. Liquid prisms, however, suffer from the fact that any change of temperature involves a change in the refractive index of the prism. The stand carries three tubes: the collimator, observing telescope and scale telescope. The collimator has a vertical slit at its outer end, the width of which may be regulated by a micrometer screw; in some instruments one half of the slit is covered by a small total reflection prism which permits the examination of two spectra simultaneously. At the other end of the collimator there is a condensing lens for bringing the rays into parallelism. The observing telescope is of the ordinary terrestrial form. The scale telescope contains a graduated scale which is illuminated by a small burner; the scale is viewed by reflection from the prism face opposite the first refracting face. The power may be increased, but with a diminution of intensity, by using a train of prisms. Steinheil made an instrument of four prisms, each of which had, however, to be set in the position of minimum deviation by trial. In Browning’s form the setting is automatic. The dispersion may be further increased by causing the rays to pass more than once through the prism or prisms. Thus, by means of a system of reflecting prisms, Hilger passed the dispersed rays six times through one prism, and, by similar means, Browning passed the rays first through the upper part of a train and then back through the lower part. Compound prisms are also employed. Rutherfurd devised one made of flint glass with two crown glass compensating prisms; whilst Thallon employed a hollow prism containing carbon bi-sulphide also compensated by flint glass prisms. In direct vision spectroscopes the refracting prisms and slit are in the observing | WIKI |
History of the Kitchen: The heart of the home?
The kitchen, though we’d have a hard time recognizing it now as such, began as the edge of the hearth, which was responsible for all of the light and heat in a home in antiquity.
The hearth was necessary for heat, light, and cooking, so the “kitchen” in a home was more or less tucked into the corner of the main room, and because the hearth was the sole source of heat and light for most families, it served as a meeting place and big focal point for families. This was true for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
The functional, bare bones idea of a kitchen persisted until metal stoves were able to made, which allowed a much greater level of control over the fire, and allowed the kitchen to start becoming a separate room. Then in the 19th century, through industrialization, more new products hit the kitchen than ever before, in a relatively tiny period of time. This, coupled with the establishment of the modern middle class (which also meant no servants to run the kitchen) who lived in more modern housing in cities and suburbs, rather than farm houses, led to the need for a convenient kitchen that one person, usually the woman of the house, could run.
In the 1920s, we really have the early example of the modern kitchen, in that the kitchen was a tiny room (half of the size of even a modest, current day kitchen) with the bare bone essentials, like a simple sink, an oven, a kettle, and possibly an icebox (the precursor to the refrigerator – basically a box kept cold by a large chunk of ice). There was very little ornamentation and decoration in these kitchens: they were strictly for preparing food and washing dishes. In the 20’s, cabinets were still free standing pieces of furniture; they had yet to be integrated into the walls.
With electricity and indoor plumbing becoming more readily available, kitchens became more streamlined and efficient; with the rise of “Taylorism” (a streamlining process for factory layouts for increased worker efficiency – a precursor to Ford’s innovations with assembly lines) being applied to kitchens, more attention was being paid to efficiency in kitchen layouts and storage options.
Beginning in the 1930’s, people were tired of working in a cramped, drab kitchen space. Sizes of new kitchens increased and tiled floors became popular (much less drab but still easy to clean).
Fitted cabinetry was becoming more popular; cabinets that took up a whole wall and were custom-fitted to individual kitchen were replacing freestanding cabinets, although in the 1930’s not everyone had updated their cabinets yet. Like the new cabinetry, refrigerators were replacing ice-boxes, but by no means did everyone have a refrigerator in their kitchen in the 30’s. The refrigerator looked liked a minifridge you see today in college dorms, with curved legs like on an antique bathtub:
The drab walls or all wood color schemes of kitchens built before the 30’s were being spruced up with more interesting, decorative colors. The idea of a kitchen as simply a place to cook and clean was changing into a place where the family would hang out, and maybe even eat. But these ideas were far from being implemented in many kitchens.
The advent of World War 2 in the early 40’s greatly slowed down peoples’ interest, concern, and time for kitchen innovation or design. But immediately following the war, the housing boom in American suburbs urged advertisers to advertise images of what people should expect their kitchens to look like, cementing the evolving ideas of a kitchen into peoples’ minds. Consumer culture was really starting to take shape. Demand for industrial, electronic, labor-saving devices such as toaster, refrigerators, and blenders really ramped up in the 40’s. The built-in kitchen (fitted cabinetry) was essentially universally adopted at this point, with the space freed up by integrated cabinets and countertops, plus the still increasing size of kitchens, there was more space than ever to actually eat and socialize in the kitchen. Formica, invented twenty years prior, began to become a popular countertop surface.
The 1950’s took the trends of the 40’s and cemented them into the minds of middle class consumer families: consumers wanted all of the modern conveniences (people before had somewhat resisted seeing ‘time saving’ appliances as necessary), they wanted their kitchen to look like what they saw in fashion magazines, and they wanted their kitchen to be a social focal point, like a diner or soda bar. Fitted cabinetry was not a trend anymore, it was what you had to have in your kitchen, and people wanted their cabinets painted brightly (light blue and pink were popular colors). The 50’s saw lots of chrome edges on both furniture and appliances. Refrigerators began to take on their modern shape:
The dishwasher became popular in the 50’s, but was an extreme luxury: only the wealthy purchased dishwashers. Bright dayglo colors with lots of chrome was the norm in design; formica was even more popular than in the previous decade for countertops.
There were two competing kitchen theories in the 1960s: one was the natural evolution of the 1950s kitchen, with colors like tangerine and fuchsia replacing the bright pinks and blues of the 50s and bold stripes and flower patterns on walls and furniture. The second theory of design was a space age aesthetic: some people in the 60s designed with what they thought life in the future would look like (we are going to cover this in a future post):
The 1970s did away with the bright colors of the 50s and 60s, instead favoring earthy colors. As with the 60’s, the 70s was another decade in which people more and more saw appliances as a need for their kitchen, and less of a luxury. Flower patterns (think flower power) were extremely popular. Formica became the most prevalent countertop material; formica was seen as a symbol of modern life.
The 1980s seemed like a decade for cramming as much as possible into the kitchen: homebuilders over-filled kitchens with cabinets. The microwave was gaining in popularity: 1 in 5 kitchens now had a microwave. Wood paneling was in vogue. Extractor hoods, to act as a vent over the stove, were improved to the point where an open floor plan (combining the dining room and kitchen) was possible without making the whole house smell like food, but this concept wouldn’t take off completely until the 90s. The extractor hood made kitchen design in apartments easier, as well.
The 90s was a decade in which huge steps towards our modern kitchens were made. The clutter of the 80s was abolished, and the innovations in open-plan kitchens really started to pay off. Some people began designing and building their their kitchens to join with dining and living spaces, moving the family back into the kitchen even more; the mother/wife was no longer the sole inhabitant in most kitchens; the kitchen as the center of the home was coming back, as in the days of the hearth. The island was becoming a popular choice for kitchens as both a place to prepare food and socialize. Formica remained a popular choice for countertops. White was the most popular color choice, both for cabinets and for appliances. Everyone had a microwave.
The 2000’s saw an increase in the popularity of islands, and their expansion. Islands now had their own sinks, even! Refrigerators were made in all chrome, and the side by side refrigerator became more popular. The open plan design was used even more than in the 90s, with kitchens sharing a room with dining rooms, and even living rooms, either completely open or with a partial wall.
And so where do we find ourselves, in the middle of this decade, in 2014, when designing or planning a kitchen renovation? We have gone through the evolution of the modern kitchen and now find ourselves in the present, with the past 90 years of kitchen design pushing us forward. We can design according to trends, just going with what everyone else seems to be doing or expecting this decade. Or we can take the best out of the past 90 years; we can fuse the stark functionality of the 1920’s with the open, airy floor plans of today to make a kitchen that is both functional and beautiful. Armed with a better understanding of how kitchens have been made, and why they were made that way, we can make the best kitchens yet, while never forgetting the simple functionality that still resides in a modern kitchen as much as it did when people cooked by the light of a humble hearth. We have come full circle, from the homey, family-centric hearth, to simple, efficient kitchens, to now, when we can incorporate both into our new kitchens.
We like idea of the island the replacement of the hearth: the island is fairly simple, but functional, and it is a great central meeting place, not just for cooking activity, but for people to stand around, look at each while they talk, and maybe even eat off of.
The best design, the best products, and the best innovation in kitchen design are all yet to come. We are excited to be alive and working in 2014, which will be the most interesting and creative year yet. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Ce que j'appelle oubli
Ce que j'appelle oubli (What I call oblivion) is a 2011 novel by Laurent Mauvignier.
Plot summary
The book is constituted of only one huge sentence telling the story of a young man killed by watchmen in a supermarket because he drank one can of beer without paying for it. It is based on a real story which happened in Lyon in December 2009.
It is told as a monologue by a narrator whose identity is not explained but who tell the reader that he knew the dead man and his brother.
Theatrical adaptations
The book was adapted several times on theater, one of them in 2012 by Denis Podalydès for the Comédie-Française. An online representation with the same actor was performed in March 2021 during the closing of the theater due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the online program named Théâtre à la table.
It has also been adapted for contemporary dance by Angelin Preljocaj in 2013. | WIKI |
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Which Queen Elizabeth is this named for? Set theorist (talk) 06:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
* I found the answer here: - it's the Queen Mother. Set theorist (talk) 06:39, 3 June 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Rh ALMAGRO, Diego (al-mah'-gro), soldier, b. about 1468; killed in July, 1588. He was one of the Spanish conquerors of Peru, who, in company with Francisco Pizarro, overthrew the magnificent empire of the Incas, which at the time was rent by civil war. His energy in forwarding supplies to Pizarro, who had penetrated to the interior of the country, was such that the latter was enabled to prosecute the campaign to a successful issue. In 1535 he stormed Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas. He was extremely severe with his captives. Nevertheless, his habitual manners were so winning and courteous that he was very popular with his own soldiers. He had a quarrel with Pizarro about the rich spoil of the Incas' palaces, and Almagro was defeated, captured, and strangled to death.—His son, Diego, was born in 1520, and died in Peru in 1543. His mother was an Indian of Panama, but Charles V. had him legitimated in 1528, and placed iiim under the care and protection of an old officer named Juan Herrada. After his father's death young Almagro was imprisoned for some time, and as soon as liberated he resolved to avenge his father's execution. In company with Herrada and others, he attacked the house of Pizarro and killed him, 25 June, 1541. Then Almagro was pro- claimed governor of Peru, and went with troops to subdue some towns that would not recognize his authority; but Vaca de Castro routed him in the plain of Chupas and took many prisoners, among them Almagro, with all the principal promoters of the plot, who were court-martialed and executed.
ALMOGUERA, Fray Juan de (al-mo-gay'-ra), seventh archbishop of Lima, b. in Cordova, Spain, 18 Feb., 1605; d. in Lima, Peru, in 1676. He was the confessor of King Philip IV., who proposed him, on 17 Feb., 1659, for archbishop of Arequipa, Peru. The recommendation was adopted by the pope, and F'ray Juan de Almoguera was consecrated in February, 1661. He promoted many useful undertakings, and remained in Arequipa for some years, till he was translated to Lima, where he died. He is the author of "Instruceion de Sacerdotes" (1671), which the inquisition attempted to suppress.
ALMON, John, English journalist, b. in Liverpool, 17 Dec, 1737; d. in Boxmoor, 12 Dec, 1805. He became a printer and pamphleteer, and was engaged in 1761 as a writer for the "Gazetteer," and, after the production of " A Review of Mr. Pitt's Administration," he enjoyed the favor of the leaders of the opposition and established himself as a publisher. He was the confidant of John Wilkes, wrote or edited many political tracts, and in 1784 established in London a newspaper called the "General Advertiser," which proved unsuccessful. He was tried in 1770 for selling a reprint of a letter of "Junius," and in 1786 for a libel. Among his numerous publications was "The Remembrancer," a monthly collection of papers relating to American independence (London, 1775-'83), which is one of the chief sources of historical information regarding the revolution. His last published works were " Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes" (1797), and the "Correspondence of the late John Wilkes," with memoirs of his life (1805).
ALMONTE, Juan Neponiuceno (al-mau'n-te), Mexican statesman, b. in Valadolid, Mexico, in 1804; d. in Paris, 20 March, 1869. He was the reputed son of the priest Morelos, the famous partisan chief, who was shot in 1813. His youth was spent in the United States, where he secured an excellent education, supporting himself the while. Returning to Mexico he entered upon a military career, and was chosen by Santa Anna one of his aides-de-camp, in which capacity he served in the Texan campaign against Gen. Houston, being made prisoner with his chief at the battle of San Jacinto (1830). On regaining his liberty he was made secretary of state by the Mexican president, Bustamente. In 1840 he showed great courage in quelling a revolt in the province of Urrea, but was deprived of office by a revolution that followed, and forced to support himself by lecturing. He was subsequently appointed minister at Washington; but when the annexation of Texas was resolved upon he demanded his passports, protesting at the same time against that measure. In 1845 he was a candidate for the presidency of the republic of Mexico, but failed; and afterward, on the elevation of Paredes to power, lie was appointed, first, minister of war, and then ambassador to Paris, He was on his way to France when he heard, at Havana, of the return of Santa Anna to power, upon which he immediately returned to Mexico, and, joining Santa Anna, took part in the war against the United States, distinguishing himself at the battles of Buena Vista. Cerro Gordo, and Churubusco. After the war he entered the ranks of the liberal opposition, and for the second time became a candidate for the presidency, but again without success. He was, however, appointed Mexican minister at Paris, which office he held at the period when President Miramon was overthrown by Juarez (1800). He returned to Mexico with the French expedition in 1802. Juarez protested against his presence in the French camp, and demanded that Almonte should be delivered up to him ; but the French commander refused, and shortly afterward a proclamation was issued by Gen. Taboada, declaring Juarez deposed, and Al- monte invested with supreme power in his place. He found himself, however, unable to organize a government ; and Gen. Forey, on his arrival in Mexico, annulled Taboada's decree, and announced to the Mexicans that they were free to choose a new government. After the decisive victory of the French arms. Almonte became one of the triumvirate to whom they intrusted the management of affairs in Mexico, assigning him the foreign department and the finances. He was appointed lieutenant of the empire by Maximilian in April, 1804, and some weeks later marshal of the empire. He adhered to the fortunes of his imperial patron throughout his short reign, and, when Maximilian was executed, he fled to Europe, spending his last days in exile.
ALMY, John Jay, naval officer, b. in Newport, R. I., 25 April, 1814; d. in Washington, D. C, 16 May, 1895. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1829, and rose to be commodore, 30 Dec, 1809, and rear-admiral 24 Aug., 1873. He was retired in July, 1870, after fifty-six years and eleven months of service. As midshipman and lieutenant he cruised all over the world in the old sailing navy, was at the surrender of Walker and his filibusters, commanded the "Fulton" in the expedition to Paraguay, was at the siege of Vera Cruz and the capture of Tuxpan during the Mexican war, and at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1861-62. As commander he had charge successively of the gunboats "South Carolina," "Connecticut," and "Juniata." While in command of the "Connecticut" he captured four noted blockade-runners with valuable cargoes, and ran ashore and destroyed four others. As captain he commanded the "Juniata" which was in the South Atlantic squadron, until 1867, and was then assigned to the Brooklyn navy-yard, then the signal corps, and after a cruise in the Pacific was retired, 24 April, 1877. | WIKI |
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